Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Reverse of Arcadia ❯ Chapter 2: Blast from the Past – Old Memories, A Team’s Bond ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

“Hey! You’re up!” Crow says as I finish putting on our gang’s uniform – a fur lined vest over a tight black tank top and leather straps around my upper arms. “’Bout time too. You’ve been asleep forever! Man those security jerks really piss me off sometimes. They hate us duel gangs so much! They even took our decks!”
“I know Crow. You don’t have to remind me, I was there remember?” I say to him. I shake my head but smile. I rarely complained. It’s not that I had nothing to complain about – all of us living here in Satellite have plenty to complain about – it’s just that I couldn’t really. It may have been our team’s leader who found me a few months ago; a scared and confused girl with no memory of who she was or where she came from, but it was Crow who let me stay at his place. I was in his debt.
“Heh, heh. Yeah. So how about you ‘n’ me go over there and get them back?”
“Crow!”
“C’mon Io-chan you know you wanna. Besides how are we gonna duel with the others if we don’t have our decks?”
I sigh heavily. The redhead did have a point. “Fine, I’ll help get the cards, but don’t come crying to me if we get caught,” I say good-naturedly.
Crow lets out a whoop of joy. “Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I’ve got something I need to give you.” He went over to one of the bookcases and pulled a box off the shelf. After rummaging through its contents, the redhead hands me a Sector Security uniform. “I only have the one so you wear it.” I wanted to protest, Crow was always much better at sneaking around than I was. He had more experience anyway. But knowing him, he wasn’t going to back down so easily. “Here you can use this to open the storage room. I’ll distract the guards so all you have to do is sneak in and get our stuff. I’m going ahead so let me know when you’re ready.”
I sigh again as Crow rushes out. Putting the key card aside I quickly start changing into the pilfered uniform. I just hoped my hair was long enough now to hide the criminal marking on my cheek. I nervously brushed a hand along the laser etched brand that resembled an unequal sign. Once I had the figure hugging one piece suit on and had the gloves and boots adjusted properly, I headed over to the Daedalus Bridge.
“’Kay, I’m set Crow,” I tell my redheaded teammate.
“Great!” he said as he surveyed my appearance. I fought back the blush that was sure to be popping up any moment now – the suit really did leave nothing to the imagination. “I’ll go distract the guards. You sneak in once I’ve got them outta the way.” I nod and Crow runs off to the storage facility.
“Hey you Security jerks!” I hear him shout as I duck out of sight. “I looks like you’re just wasting time standing around like that!”
“You’re one of those duel gang punks from yesterday!” one of the guards yells back, “What are you scum doing here?!”
“How are you doing?” Crow jeers, “Still got those bruises we gave you?”
“You little punk! Get back here!! I said hold it!”
I stifle a giggle as I watch my teammate rush by followed by two guards. I don’t waste another second and dash straight for the now unguarded storage building. I swear these guys are such pushovers! There were only a handful of guards roaming the halls and none of them paid me any attention, all because of that uniform Crow swiped! I made a mental note to thank him. I was in and out of the building in less than three minutes. Yeesh just how stupid can these morons get?! I smile to myself as I leave the area, thrilled that I was able to get a few extra cards and one of their own duel disks as well. You never know when extra stuff would come in handy, especially in the B.A.D area these days.
“Hey took you long enough Io-chan!” Crow says as I enter our home.
“Be happy I got your deck back at all, Crow!” I say in mock anger, handing him his cards. “At least you got some fun out of jerking their chains.”
“Heh, heh. Those losers never knew what hit ‘em! Nice job Io-chan!” He began shuffling through his cards. “Oh man! It’s all messed up! I’ll have to rebuild my deck from scratch!” Crow whined. I gave him a sympathetic look. To a duelist, our decks are a piece of our hearts and souls. I wouldn’t be too happy if someone was messing with my deck either.
“Iolanthe-nee!” a boy about ten or eleven called, running into the house, “Let’s have a duel!”
“Go ahead and duel Itsuki, Io-chan,” Crow said not bothering to look up from the cards he had strewn all over the bed. “It’ll make him feel better. You know how worried he gets when you’re taking so long.”
“I was not!” Itsuki pouted.
“Hey! It’s not nice to lie!” my teammate reprimanded. “’Nee-chan’s taking so long! Is nee-chan okay?’” he parroted.
“Wah, Crow’s a big meanie!” the boy wailed, obvious crocodile tears starting to fall from his brown eyes. He then ran back out of the house.
“Hey! C’mon!” Crow called, “He’s such a little kid.”
“That’s because he is you dummy!” I shoot back. “I swear you’re as bad as he is sometimes, Crow.”
“Hey! I’m fifteen you know!” I couldn’t help but laugh.
“So am I, but I don’t act like a little kid.”
“I’m not…” Crow let out an exasperated sigh, “Fine. Just get out there and duel the kid I really need to fix my deck.”
“Hey,” I say, placing my hand on his shoulder, “You may be a kid sometimes, but I wouldn’t be here without you and the guys.” Crow blushed as red as a Mystic Tomato and I let out a tiny giggle before heading out after Itsuki.
I found the kid just outside our house. “Ready for that duel, squirt?” I ask.
“Yay!!” he yells happily, “Gimme all you got!!”
“Just don’t complain if I win, kiddo.”
The duel was over in less than two minutes. Itsuki was still learning after all and some of the better cards were hard to come by in this part of Satellite. “Iolanthe-nee you’re way too good for me!” His words may have been ones of complaint, but the smile on his cute little face spoke volumes.
“Hey not too shabby, Io-chan. You’ve really gotten some good skills there,” Crow says from the doorway. “Here, I found this with my deck. It’s not mine so you can have it.”
“Thanks Crow,” I say as he hands me a pink trap card. I give it a quick glance and smile. It may have been a practically ancient card – it’d been around for decades – but it was still a good one! “It’ll come in real handy!”
“Oh yeah!” Crow piped, blushing again, “I almost forgot! Yusei’s been lookin’ for ya. He said something about his D-Wheel so I’m guessin’ he’s somewhere around the old highway.”
“Thanks Crow, you keep working on your deck and I’ll see what he wants.”
“Sure thing, Io-chan.”
I wave and say goodbye to the boys and head for the slums, stopping by our team’s hideout along the way so I could change out of the uniform. There’d be big trouble for me if any of the other gangs caught me wearing a Security uniform like this. Once I was again clothed in my black tank, skinny jeans, and fur lined brown vest, I made a bee-line to the old highway. Sure enough, Yusei was there working on his D-Wheel as always.
“Hey Yus!” I call, catching his attention.
“Iolanthe!” he said, looking up, a warm smile on his face. “That prototype D-Wheel I’ve been saving for you works pretty good now.”
“That’s great!” I say, happy to finally be able to ride along the rest of the guys. Not that I didn’t mind sharing a ride with any of them. They were all great guys, always looking out for me and each other. The fact that they were all good looking was an added bonus, I mean who wouldn’t like to ride a motorbike with a good looking guy right?
“Wanna test it out?” the spiky haired boy asks, reading my mind.
“You bet!” I say.
“I’ll get it ready,” he says, “Go change into this.”
I grin as I take my riding suit and helmet and dash off to an abandoned building near by. A tiny bit later, I’m straddling the seat of my very own set of wheels.
“It’s still got a few bugs so don’t go to nuts out there ok?” Yusei says.
“Yes, Dad,” I say jokingly as I flip down my visor. I almost let out a squeal at the engine’s purr as I rev her up. I was in seventh heaven as I released the brakes and my D-Wheel speeds off along the ruined asphalt. Two minutes later I returned to Yusei, an enormous grin still plastered on my face.
“It went well, I take it,” he says, returning my smile with one of his own.
“Runs like a dream!” I say happily.
“I’m glad to hear that. It’s still not ready for turbo dueling, but you shouldn’t have any trouble with just riding it for now.”
“Thanks again Yusei,” I say, “You’ve been a great help!” I yank off the helmet and give him a great big kiss on the cheek. The spiky haired boy sputtered as he blushed almost as much as Crow had earlier. Damn the boys were so cute when they got like that. “I’m going to check up on Crow. Would you mind keeping her here for a bit more?” I ask.
“Not at all, Iolanthe,” Yusei replied, “I’m always happy to help you in anyway I can.”
I smile gratefully, blushing a bit myself.

As I enter the B.A.D area, I catch a familiar head of short silver hair. “Kiryu!” I call, happy to see our team’s leader and my boyfriend of two weeks. It was almost love at first sight all those months ago when he found me wandering around the ruined city. I was drawn to his silver hair, it somehow felt familiar and safe to me then. In fact it still does. It took all this time for me to work up enough courage and tell him of my feelings. It was actually a good thing I waited so long, ‘cause it gave him time to really get to know me, even if I didn’t know who I was myself.
“I heard about what happened yesterday,” he said frowning, “Those bastards didn’t hurt you did they?”
“I’m fine. They didn’t lay a finger on me!” I say in protest. I was a big girl; I could take care of myself now. All my other teammates had been teaching me how to duel and surprisingly enough it came to me as if I’d been dueling all my life.
As much as I may love and adore him and the others, I didn’t need them babying me every step of the way. “I’m just as good as you guys, so why don’t you let me help you Kiryu?!”
“Iolanthe!” he started. He sighed before speaking again. “Alright. I can’t tell you not to go dueling without sounding like a jerk. You can help, but I don’t want you getting reckless.”
I grin like a Cheshire cat and promptly kiss him on the lips.
“I-I-Io!” he stutters, fearful someone from one of the many rival gangs may be watching. Yeesh, guys and their need to feel macho all the time.
“Can’t I say thanks to the guy I love?” I ask jokingly.
Kiryu sighs, but smiles. Gods I love it when he smiles like that, it just makes me melt when it’s aimed at me. “So you ready to clean up this town, Io?” he asks.
“What do you think?” I shoot back, still grinning. Finally a chance to continue what I do best, helping my team put all the scum in Satellite in their place. When Kiryu and I became a couple, he’d been making me stay back at the hideout more and more often. I appreciated the fact that he cared enough about me to want to keep me safe, but one could only stand arranging and rearranging their deck for so long.
“I want to duel you to make sure you can handle our next rumble. If you beat me, I’ll let you come along and help, but if you don’t…”
“Yeah, yeah, I know,” I grumbled, “I’ll stay with the kids.”
“Then show me what you’ve got!”
“Don’t cry if I kick that sexy butt of yours!” I retorted, readying my deck and duel disk.
Ever the gentleman, Kiryu let me go first. I drew a card from my deck and surveyed my hand. Not too bad. Not great, but a good enough start. “I’m placing one card face down,” I say laying a trap card on the field and summon D.D. Survivor in attack mode.” A man in a tattered tan cloak appeared in front of me. I smile at the memory of when I first got that card. It was the very first one Kiryu had ever given me. “Your turn, Kiryu.”
“Not bad,” he says as he draws a card. “I’m activating a spell.” Sure enough he lays down a green card “Allure of Darkness!” I watch as he draws two cards and removes a Baron of Fiend Sword from play. “I’ll activate another spell, Soul Taker!” I cringe at that, for my beloved D.D Survivor vanishes to the graveyard before my eyes.
“Not going to go easy on your sweetie are you?” I say.
“You asked for this Iolanthe,” he says, all business now. “I’m summoning Pitch-Black Warwolf in attack mode. Attack her life points directly!” I wince as a werewolf like creature appears then slashes at me with its sword, taking 1600 of my life points with that attack. “I’ll place a card face down and end my turn.”
I pout as I draw a card. “Hmph. I’m activating a spell, Heavy Storm!” I shout. An enormous gust of wind whips around us and sweeps our face down traps off the field. “That activates my trap!” I crow as my Statue of the Wicked trap is sent to the graveyard. A small statue of a snake like figure appears where my D.D Survivor had been. “But that’s not all,” I say smirking. I’ll activate this spell too, Enemy Controller!”
“What?!” Kiryu says obviously not expecting that.
“I’m switching your wolfie to defense mode! Now my statue’s gonna put that puppy down! Attack!” The Warwolf gave out a howl as it was destroyed and sent to the graveyard.
“Darn you’re good,” Kiryu says in admiration.
I smile, grateful for the praise. “I’m placing a monster in defense mode and one card face down. That’s it for my turn.”
“I’m summoning Emissary of the Afterlife in attack mode,” my boyfriend announces. “Now attack her statue token!” I grunt as 600 of my life points were shaved off. “Your turn Iolanthe.”
I smirk again as I draw another card. It wasn’t the best card in my deck, but it’ll work just fine. I flip over my face down monster and watch as three cards from my deck are removed from play. That’ll teach you not to pick on your girlfriend!  Kiryu shouts as 800 of his life points are shaved away. God I love my Lady Assailant! “For my next trick, I’ll summon this lovely! I’m counting on you D.D. Warrior! Attack his monster!” The redheaded woman attacked the wraith taking 400 of my life points, but thanks to her special ability, both monsters were removed from play. Now Lady Assailant attack him directly!” The scantily clad girl shot a fireball at him, causing him to cry out as he took 1500 points of damage. Yes! I was in the lead! “Your turn,” I say.
“How’d you get so good so soon?” he asks, impressed.
“I had great teachers,” I say truthfully.
Kiryu blushes slightly as he begins his turn. “I’m summoning Newdoria in attack mode.” I cringe again. Suddenly a sharp pain came to my head. That card seemed familiar somehow, though I didn’t remember seeing it before. I had a feeling that I was in trouble in spite of the monster’s weaker attack strength. “Newdoria attack Io’s Lady Assailant!” I hear my koi grunt as he lost 300 more points. “Did you think I’d make a suicide move for no reason,” he says smirking, “Thanks to Newdoria’s special skill, your monster’s going down with him!” Sure enough, my poor Lady Assailant of Flames vanishes from the field with a bloodcurdling scream.
I sigh as I begin my turn. “I can’t do anything but place a monster in defense mode. That’s it for my turn.”
“How about this?” he says smirking. “Allure of Darkness!” he shouts as he activates the spell. I watch as a Vorse Raider is removed from his hand. “I summon Headless Knight in attack mode!” Another sharp pain to my head and a sudden flash of silver hair and a headless suit of armor enters my mind. Why were these monsters so familiar? “Get rid of her face down monster!” I sigh as the armored creature slashed through my face down card and sending my D.D. Scout Plane to the graveyard. Well at least I didn’t lose any more LP. “That’s it for me.”
I smile and say, “I’ll summon my Banisher of the Radiance in attack mode. Banisher, tell that knight to join his head!” The winged fairy type creature attacked and the fiend was removed from play. Kiryu gave me an admiring look. “Your turn,” I tell him
“I’m activating Gold Sarcophagus and remove one card from my deck for two turns,” he announces. What are you up to, koi? “Next I’m summoning another Pitch-Black Warwolf in attack mode and place down two cards. Try to get past that, Io.”
“You’re on,” I say, rising to my boyfriend’s challenge. “You’re going to just loooove this, Soul Exchange!”
“What?!” he exclaims.
“I’m gonna use your monster as a sacrifice for this bad boy. Come forth Mobius, the Frost Monarch!” A giant armored creature surrounded by ice appeared before us.
“Oh no!” Kiryu cries.
I continue to grin as I go on with my turn. “Moby be a dear and get rid of those nasty traps of his.” My silver haired love groaned as the cards were destroyed. You’re lucky Moby can’t attack right now, so I’m ending my turn.”
He frowned. “There’s nothing I can do, so go ahead and get this over with Io.”
I raised an eyebrow, but accepted his sudden morose mood. “I’m summoning another D.D. Survivor in attack mode. Okay guys take him down!” I really felt guilty attacking my boyfriend when he was totally defenseless like that. I shut my eyes not wanting to see his face as the backlash from the holo systems hit him. “I’m sorry,” I say forlornly.
“Hey! There’s no crying in Duel Monsters!” he shouts at me, “You’re good. Real good so, stop apologizing!”
I nod and place down a trap card before handing the duel over to him.
“Don’t worry, I’m not gonna hate you if you do beat me,” he says with his usual cool bravado. “I’m placing two cards face down then end my turn.” A single trap was on his side of the field while a monster was in lying in defense.
It was stupid for me not to risk it while Kiryu only had 1350 life points left. I took a breath and steeled my heart for this next brutal attack. “Moby,” I say solemnly, “attack his monster!” The poor second Headless Knight didn’t know what hit it. “I win,” I announce, though I wasn’t too happy at all about this. “D.D. Survivor, attack Kiryu!” My monster obeyed, obliterating the last of my koi’s life points.
“Whoa!” Kiryu shouts in awe. “You actually did it, Io. You went and beat me!”
“I’m sorry,” I say again. I know too well men never really did take losing to a girl too well.
“Stop apologizing already,” he says smiling and pulling me into a hug. “I’m proud of ya, Iolanthe! You’ve really grown these past months!”
“R-Really?” I say, trying my best not to cry and let the guilt get to me.
“Yeah. You’ll kick some serious butt at the rumble tomorrow. Then again what could I expect? You’re my girl after all.” I blush profusely and squeak as he pulls me into one heck of a heated kiss. “Go get some rest. I want you to be in top shape tomorrow,” he says when the need for air breaks us apart. I can only nod and blush, feeling week in the knees from my boyfriend’s passion.
When I’m able to think clearly, Kiryu unwraps his arms from around me. “We’re almost there,” he says excitedly, “soon all of Satellite will be ours and then we can really start cleaning up this place!”
“I know,” I say smiling, just as anxious myself. I couldn’t wait to get started on fixing this sick caste system that developed after the disaster that split the city.
“You go let Crow know about tomorrow, and get straight to bed Io.” He gives me a quick peck on the lips before heading off to our hideout.

“Crow !” I call as I enter our shared home.
“Hey, just in time, Io-chan,” my housemate says, “I just finished fixing my deck.”
“Good, I just wanted you to know I saw Kiryu. He says our next rumble’s tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow huh? Alright! Crow ‘the Bullet’ is gonna show ‘em a thing or two! How about you, let me guess the boss is making mind the kids again right?”
“Nope.” I say grinning widely. “I managed to convince him to let me help this time.”
“Convince him? Uh… do I even wanna know?” he asks blushing a bit.
“Relax, Crow,” I reply chuckling, “I just beat him in a duel.”
“No… way!! Seriously?!” I nod, my grin growing wider. “That’s awesome, Io-chan! I didn’t think any of us could ever beat Kiryu. Wow! Well, anyways, I’m glad you’re coming with us. We sure could use the extra help against these guys. You go ahead and get plenty of rest.”
“You too,” I say smiling before heading to my room.

The next day…
“You ready?” Crow asks when I come into the kitchen.
“Yep,” I answer, grabbing a package of cup ramen. “So who are we up against this time?” I ask while I wait for the noodles to cook in the now practically ancient microwave.
“Team Black ‘n’ Blue,” my redheaded friend replies. “We’re supposed to meet the others over at their hideout.”
We eat our breakfast in relative silence, both of us too revved up for idle conversation. Once all our noodles were gone, Crow dashes out of the house. I shake my head quickly throwing away the discarded packages before following my overexcited friend.
A little while later we arrive at the rival gang’s hideout. Kiryu glares at us slightly. He never did like waiting much. “You’re late,” he says more to Crow than to me. It’s good to be the leader’s girl sometimes. “Jack and Yusei are looking for our opponents. They’re hiding in this building somewhere. We’re gonna crush every one of them! Watch out for their leader, I’ve heard he’s pretty tough, but I can take him. You two don’t get beat until this area’s ours! We’ll be one step away from conquering all of Satellite once we do. Jack and Yusei are checking the basement. I’m going to check upstairs. Iolanthe and Crow, you two check around here. I want you two to duel with all you’ve got!”
My boyfriend then ran towards and up the stairs. “Let’s do this,” I say, “I’ll go this way you go over there,” I say pointing to the right side of the hall.
“Got it!” Crow replies, “Be careful Io-chan!”
“You too,” I call back as I head down the left side.
Sure enough I found one of he punks hiding among a pile of wooden crates. Our resulting duel was over in a flash. I double checked the remaining piles of kipple and found no other opponents hiding in the rubbish. I dash back over to the other side with the intent of helping my housemate. However Crow didn’t seem to need it. He was an awesome duelist in his own right after all.
“Io-chan, you go help the boss check up stairs,” the redhead says, “I stay down here in case we’ve missed any of those punks.”
I nod and give him a ‘thumbs up’ before heading to the next floor. As I reach the top stair I hear a crash. I dash over to the source to see my boyfriend sprawled out on the floor, one of the rival gang members looming over him. What the?! There’s no way one of these scumbags could have beaten Kiryu! No way in the abyss!
“Iolanthe!” my silver haired koi shouts, noticing me.
“Oh, she your girl?” the punk sneers. “How about you dump this loser and hang with a real man, sweet cheeks? I bet you ‘n’ I can have a load of fun.”
I growl in disgust. Why is it that these morons always think that we girls are like them, too stupid to think for ourselves. “Why don’t you go back to the trash can you crawled out of, slime ball!” I yell, readying my deck.
“You’ve got good taste there buddy,” the punk says to my boyfriend, “I like ‘em feisty. Say honey, how ‘bout you ‘n’ me duel since you’re itching for it. You win, you get to keep your man, but if I win, I get you. That fair enough for ya babe?”
I narrow my eyes and glare my best death glare at him. “Bring it, babe,” I sneer back.
“Heh, heh. Get ready to be my girl, sweet cheeks.” He puts his deck into the duel disk.
As expected, I wipe the floor with that creep and his pathetically weak deck. “Grr!!” he snarls, “Take your stupid boyfriend and get out of here! Our boss’ll take care of you anyway!” He runs off before either of us can really let him have it.
“Sorry, Io,” apologizes Kiryu as I help him up.
“It’s ok,” I say relieved he wasn’t hurt too badly, just his pride by the looks of it.
“That little punk snuck up on me and got the drop on me before I even knew what was going on. You finish checking the building, I’m gonna give that punk what I owe him!”
“Kiryu…!” I call, but my koi is gone before I even finished saying his name. I sigh, and pray that he doesn’t cause too much trouble for himself. His judgment always seemed to suffer when his temper flared like that. I then headed up to the third and final floor.
As I began inspecting the kipple littering the floor, I hear someone call to me from the other side of the hall.
“Are you from the other team?” they ask. I turn to see a little kid emerge from one of the abandoned rooms. “So everyone else lost then? Well, that means you made all the way to the leader, me.” I blink incredulously at the boy. This little kid who looks like he hadn’t even passed fourth grade yet is their boss?! I was about to brush him off and tell him to skedaddle out of there when he takes out a duel disk.
“You can’t be serious!” I say, desperately trying to stifle the giggling, “There’s no way I’m going to duel a grade-schooler!”
“I’m not going to let the team down. So you’re going to have to duel me nee-chan,” he says determinedly.
I sigh heavily seeing no other way out of this. “Fine kid,” I say, “Just don’t start crying for your mommy when things get too rough.  This is big time dueling you’re messing with.” God I hated sounding like a bully, but this twerp had to learn that life wasn’t all fun and duels. Too bad it was going to be the hard way.
“I’m gonna go easy on you nee-chan since you look like a nice person. Let’s use a special rule. Instead of one, we each draw two cards each draw phase, ok?” I nod and insert my deck.
The boy was a sneaky little runt. He didn’t show his true talents until I had almost completely wiped out his life points, but still, I beat him. If only he hadn’t waited so long to get serious he just may have won the duel instead of me.
“That was fun nee-chan,” the kid says, a big smile on his face. “You’re way better than me. I was only being the leader ‘cause I beat everyone else… but I really don’t wanna be the leader anymore you can be leader nee-chan. I just hope they’re not too mad at me for letting them down. I’m gonna go home now nee-chan. Let’s have fun again next time! Bye!”
I can’t help but smile at the kid’s cute behavior as I watch him walk past me and down the stairs. Jack and Crow come up to me as the kid leaves. “Hey Io-chan!” the redhead shouts, “How’d it go?”
“No problems here, Crow,” I say cheerfully. “I just kicked their leader’s butt.”
“All right! That’s our girl! Y’know, I have to admit I was a bit nervous, what with all that talk about leader being such a bad ass.” I wondered if I should tell them these goons were being led by a kid barely out of diapers, when Crow suddenly figured it out for himself. “I don’t believe it! Don’t tell me that kid we just passed was their leader!”
“Ok, I won’t,” I said laughing.
Our spiky blond haired teammate just frowned. “You shouldn’t judge a duelist by their age,” he said sternly, “only their skill matters.” It would be just like Jack to say something like that. Though I do wish he’d lighten up sometimes. Yeah he’s had it just as hard here as the rest of us, but everyone deserves to have a bit of fun now and then. “You really should try to remember that, Crow. Especially in the B.A.D. area.”
“Yeah, yeah. I know Jack,” my housemate replies, “Dueling’s what made us what we are. Let’s go get Yusei and Kiryu so we can head back to the hideout.” Jack nods and starts heading back down to the lower floors.