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Bakura and Malik continue their duel. Bakura summons Ra, but Malik uses the Delight In Pain Trap card to reduce the attack strength of all the sacrificed Monsters to 0, and increase his Life Points by that amount. This means that Ra would be summoned into play with 0 attack strength.

In the Ship, Anzu knocks on Yugi's door, telling him that Bakura's gone missing.

Bakura has no use for a God with a 0 attack strength, so he sacrifices it to summon another Monster, and special summons several others. Malik keeps eyeing his Raise Dead that he took from Bakura because of the Exchange card.

Anzu and Yugi look for Bakura, and find that he is definitely on the top of the Battle Ship.

Malik uses Raise Dead to bring Ra to the Field, and activates Ra's final ability. He can pay all but 1 of his Life Points to increase Ra's attack and defense strengths by the amount paid, making Ra attack and defense each 8549.

Malik attacks, finishing off Bakura, but the true Malik takes the opportunity to "jump" into Anzu's mind. Meanwhile, Bakura's body is gone. However, he's still somewhere in Yugi's mind, due to the essence that he put into a piece of the Puzzle when it became broken before Battle City.

The finals would take place at the Kaiba Corporation Duel Tower, named Alcatraz.

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At the bottom of the sea, a giant ship rises from the sea floor. Just as Alcatraz is in sight, the Battle Ship starts to veer from its main course. The pilot struggle to regain control, but they cannot. Somehow, the Ship is doing it on its own.

The quickly drop to the ocean, skimming it. Then, a young boy shows himself on the monitor of the Battle Ship. His name is Noa, and he knows Kaiba very well.

At that time, an immense fortress rises from the waves, and takes the Battle Ship into it.

Once in the ship, almost everyone in the ship is "convinced" to leave the Battle Ship and make way into the fortress... at cannon point.

In large room at the end of a corridor, Kaiba and the rest find a group waiting for them...

...the Big Five. They explain how they were caught in the Virtual World for a year before Noa lent them a hand. The group is then taken into the Virtual World and sent to tropical forest, and run into several illusions...even another Kaiba.

The Big Five takes this opportunity to state that they will be using the Deck Master System in this world, using the "virtual" Kaiba and the General of Impenetrable Defenses in a duel. Each player uses a Monster as their Deck Master, which have special effects. The General uses its effect to destroy the illusionary Kaiba's Ultimate Dragon. When a player's Deck Master is destroyed, he or she loses the game.

Yugi and company are forced to play in this twisted world.

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All of those in the room are quickly dropped through holes that appear in the floor. They are all placed in various areas around the Virtual World.

Jounouchi gets trapped in a castle.

Shizuka finds herself near a lake.

Anzu is in a mountain wilderness.

Kaiba and Mokuba find themselves in a forest.

Honda and Otogi are somewhere inside of a large mansion.

Yugi appears in a swamp, where a Deepsea Warrior rises from the water. It is Big One, and has chosen the Deepsea Warrior as his Deck Master, becoming it in this world. The Big Five has trapped them for vengeance, due to losing their bodies. They are going to take the bodies of the losers.

Yugi accepts the challenge, and creates a deck with a list of cards that scrolls past him. He scrolls through his deck, but doesn't know which to choose. However, Kuribo jumps out. Though Yugi didn't count on it, he relies on Kuribo as his Deck Master. They then begin the Duel.

The rest of the visitors walk around, trying to find out just where the hell they are.

Back in the duel with Yugi, the Deepsea Warrior uses low-attack strength Monsters with effects.

In the mansion, Honda and Otogi can't find an exit -- so the decide to make one.

And in Anzu's case, she's chased by Cyclopses.

Kaiba and Mokuba find a door. When they open it, they are taken to a vision of their memories when they were at the orphanage.

Yugi decides to take the initiative in attacking, but the Deepsea Warrior uses its Deck Master ability. When a Monster of his is attacked, he can sacrifice two Monsters to diretly return that attack back at the opponent.

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As Yugi and the Warrior's duel continues, Yugi tries to get the upper hand, by even by doing damage, the Warrior can Special Summons Monsters.

Kaiba and Mokuba stand in front of the orphanage. They are taken back to the memories of then -- their mother had died, and their father was unable (or unwilling) to care for them. Thus, he left them at the orphanage.

One day when the Chess World Champion, Gozaburou Kaiba, decided to donate the prize money to an orphanage, the young Kaiba asks Gozaburou to be his father -- over a game of chess. Gozaburou accepts.

That was the time that made Kaiba's smile disappear from his face forever. Mokuba tries to stop the game, but as Kaiba states, it's just an illusion that Noa is showing them. There is nothing they can do to stop it.

Back to Yugi and the Warrior. He keeps using weak Monsters with effects. Yugi has to find a way around the Reflector Hole ability of the Warrior.

Honda and Otogi finally find their way out -- but it turns out to be a castle. They agree to search for Shizuka, who is being chased by a Charing Swordhorn Beast. They jump off a balcony to stop the Beast.

Yugi takes a gamble, but is hit by the Reflector Hole again.

Anzu has been abducted by the Cyclopses, and is taken to a cave.

The Warrior's number of Monsters keep returning and growing each turn. Yugi's in trouble.

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