"Attention duelists, the duel between Seto Kaiba and Sunset Shimmer is about to begin!"

Seto Kaiba and Sunset Shimmer got ready. This time, the bleachers were jam-packed, and there was nary an empty seat to be found. The spectacle sport that was the average game of Duel Monsters was about to begin when suddenly Yugi and Joey burst through the doors.

Joey panted heavily. "Nyehhh...I think we made it Yugi,"

"Oh, hello Yugi. Hello idiot with blond hair," Kaiba said. "You're just in time to watch me kick ass at card games. I suggest you take a seat. Oh wait, there are none, because you arrived late,"

"Okay, do you really have to be this much of a jerk, Kaiba?" Sunset Shimmer asked.

"I don't know, do you have to follow people around who barely even acknowledge your existence? Because you seem to do that a lot," Kaiba responded.

"Seriously, Kaiba, do you really have to be this much of a douche?" Yugi asked as he held Joey back.

"Not really. I just find it fun," Kaiba said. "So are we dueling or what? I have better things to do today," Yugi and Joey climbed up the stairs to the bleachers to be with their friends.

"Let the duel begin!" Pegasus announced.

Seto Kaiba and Sunset Shimmer each started the duel with 8,000 Life Points.

"I'll go first!" Kaiba drew a card. "First I set one card face down and summon Trixie Lulamoon in attack mode!"

Trixie, the pony version of her anyway, materialized in front of Kaiba, donned in full stage magician garb, with 2,500 Attack Points.

"So you're summoning other duelists to fight for you? What's the matter? Too scared to duel for yourself?" Sunset Shimmer taunted Kaiba.

"If I was going to summon another duelist to fight for me, I wouldn't choose Trixie. I'd choose a real duelist instead, like Yugi," Kaiba said.

"Hey! The Great And Powerful Trixie shall not be slandered like this!" Trixie objected from the bleachers.

"I end my turn!" Kaiba declared.

"It's my turn!" Sunset Shimmer drew a card and saw that she now had a couple of pony cards in her hand. "Huh. I summon Celestia The Alicorn Princess in attack position!"

Princess Celestia shimmered onto the field in front of Sunset Shimmer with 3,500 Attack Points.

"Hey, I thought only I got to summon Princess Celestia!" Kaiba objected. "I thought that was an unspoken rule or something!"

"I thought you didn't care about the rules, Kaiba boy," Pegasus said.

"Well, I...uhh....umm..." Kaiba stammered.

"Enough of this! Celestia, destroy Trixie now!" Sunset Shimmer commanded.

Princess Celestia fired a beam of white light at Trixie on the field, when Kaiba flipped over his face-down card.

"I reveal my trap card, Negate Attack!" Kaiba shouted. Celestia's beam of light fizzled out of existence inches away from Trixie's face.

"Well, there's nothing else for me to do, so..." Sunset Shimmer gestured toward Kaiba.

"It's my turn!" Kaiba drew a card. "Since I'm the president of the world's largest gaming corporation, I get to special summon anything I want. So I summon Obelisk the Tormentor!" Nothing happened. Had there been crickets in the gymnasium, everyone would've heard them chirp. Sunset Shimmer stifled a laugh.

Pegasus sighed and placed his thumb and index finger on the bridge of his nose. "Kaiba boy, there are two things wrong with that statement. First, you can't do that, and second, you don't even have Obelisk in your deck,"

Kaiba flipped through his deck. "Hmm...you're right. But it doesn't matter anyways. I'll just sacrifice Trixie Lulamoon in order to tribute summon Nightmare Moon to the field!"

A dark swirling portal came into being behind Trixie on the field, and a massive chariot piloted by Nightmare Moon and pulled by bat-winged ponies came out of the portal and ran Trixie over, dissolving her into shards of light. Nightmare Moon had 5,000 Attack Points. The gymnasium lights flickered as Nightmare Moon and Kaiba laughed manaically.

"Nightmare Moon? How did she come back?" Twilight Sparkle asked exasperatedly.

Marik turned to Yami Bakura, clutching his head with both hands. "Oh, we are so [EFF]'d Bakura!"

"Calm down, Marik," Yami Bakura reassured him. "When the time comes, I'll beat Kaiba in a card game, he'll be sent to the Shadow Realm, and then we can split a bottle of champagne and celebrate our victory,"

"I still think we're [EFF]'d," Marik said.

"And then, once we kill Yugi, we're going to rename this show to Bakura-Oh, and it shall be amazing," Yami Bakura added.

"What, not Marik-Oh?" Marik questioned.

"No, we're renaming the show to Bakura-Oh. Think about it, who would want to watch a show called Marik-Oh?" Yami Bakura said.

"I would!" Marik said.

"Of course you would," Yami Bakura responded.

"That's not all!" Kaiba slammed another card onto his play area. "I also activate the field spell Total Eclipse Of The Duel, raising Nightmare Moon's Attack Points and lowering Celestia's by 1,000!"

A holographic moon rose behind Kaiba, casting a shadow across the entire battlefield as Nightmare Moon's Attack Points rose to 6,000 and Celestia's plummeted to 2,500. Celestia's eyes widened, but she continued to hold her ground.

"What kind of Duelist Kingdom crap is this?!" Yugi interjected.

"Sunset Shimmer, just attack the moon!" Joey shouted.

"I'll get back to you on that, Joey!" Sunset Shimmer shouted back.

"I like yelling!" Marik yelled.

"Marik, keep it down. People here will think you're weird," Yami Bakura said.

"Ignore me!" Marik blurted out, as Yami Bakura sighed in exasperation.

Kaiba extended his hand towards Sunset Shimmer. "Now, Nightmare Moon, destroy Princess Celestia!"

Nightmare Moon shot a purple bolt of lightning from her horn at Celestia, shattering her and lowering Sunset Shimmer's Life Points to 4,500.

"That ends my turn!" Kaiba said.

"It's my turn!" Sunset Shimmer drew a card. "I summon Cheerilee in defense mode!"

Cheerilee shimmered into being in front of Sunset Shimmer, bouncing happily until she saw just who she had to go up against. When she saw Nightmare Moon, her eyes widened as she crouched down and covered her face with her front hooves, trying to make herself as small as possible. Cheerilee sported a respectable 2,000 Defense Points.

"I guess...that's it?" Sunset Shimmer said.

"It's my turn!" Kaiba drew a card and began to laugh. "You're finished! I activate my Sealed Away spell card, sending Cheerilee to the Graveyard!" Cheerilee shattered into shards of pink light and sailed over to Sunset Shimmer's Graveyard. Kaiba extended his hand towards Sunset Shimmer again. "Now, finish this Nightmare Moon!" Nightmare Moon shot another blast of purple lightning from her horn directly at Sunset Shimmer, her Life Points dropping to 0 as she staggered backwards.

"Looks like Kaiba boy wins again," Pegasus said.

Kaiba shrugged. "That wasn't even a challenge. But I guess when you're Seto Freakin' Kaiba, it just comes naturally,"

During the next duel between Joey and Aria Blaze, Mokuba burst through the gymnasium doors and ran up the bleachers to Yugi and his friends.

"Yugi! Yugi!" Mokuba tripped on one of the bleacher's steps. As he lay there, panting, he tried to recount what he saw. "Shadow...game...your...grandpa,"

"Whoa, whoa, slow down Mokuba!" Yugi said, as Mokuba got back up and his panting faded. "Now, tell us what happened,"

"Yugi, Seto challenged your grandpa to a duel, and then it turned into a Shadow Game! It seemed like he was possessed by something evil!" Mokuba said.

"He didn't happen to come upon any Millennium Items recently, did he?" Yugi asked.

"No, I think this was different. His eyes were red, with green irises and purple fire coming out of his tear ducts!"

Spike gasped. "We know a guy like that!"

"Wow, what are the odds?" Yugi asked rhetorically.

"Yugi, I think Kaiba's being possessed by the spirit of King Sombra, who must have been sent to the Shadow Realm when we blasted him with the Crystal Heart. This is really bad," Twilight Sparkle said.

"Makes about as much sense as everything else that's happened," Yugi said.

"The plot thickens!" Tristan added.

"Oh, and one more thing, about your grandpa..." Mokuba reached into his pocket, pulled out the card containing Sugoroku's soul, and handed it to Yugi.

"Grandpa!" Yugi called out to the unchanging card.

"Yugi! Hey, how's it going?" Sugoroku responded.

"Grandpa, how did this happen?" Yugi asked.

"Well, it all started when I was born..."

"No, I mean how did you get your soul trapped inside a trading card again?!" Yugi clarified.

"Oh, that. Yeah, turns out dueling someone possessed by the King of Shadows isn't a smart idea. I wouldn't recommend it," Sugoroku said. "Hey Yugi, who's your girlfriend over there? The one with the purple skin,"

Both Yugi's and Twilight's cheeks turned bright red. "Twilight Sparkle is not my girlfriend, okay Grandpa! She's just a princess from another dimension who needs our help!"

"Princess from another dimension, eh? Never thought I'd have royalty for in-laws, but..."

"Grandpa!" Yugi objected.

Sugoroku laughed. "Alright, I'll stop. But please hurry up with the whole rescuing me from this trading card thing, will you?"

"I'll get to that later, Grandpa," Yugi placed Sugoroku's card inside one of his coat pockets.

"Now I'm blind. Hooray!" Sugoroku said.

Author's Note

It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have