Yu - Gi - Oh ! Capsule Monsters - Episode 001 " Getting Played " is the first episode of the miniseries " Yu - Gi - Oh ! Capsule Monsters " . Summary . The episode starts with Yami in a strange armor - like chestplate walking through a dark , misty area . . . pillars either side of him . A shadowy being with many arms chases after him . The force of the dream makes Yugi fall out of bed , crashing to the floor . " ( scene change as Yugi leaves home for school ) " As he walks past the Game Shop , Yugi notices it ' s closed and thinks that his Grandpa ( who is apparently on a " secret " mission in India ) should have been home by then as his flight was supposed to have arrived in the night before . " ( scene change to Joey playing a game of chance ) " " ( scene change to the school ) " Tea and Yugi are playing a new game called Capsule Monsters ( a game where they use Duel Monster characters , yet seem to forget the names of the monsters they actually play in their Duel Monster decks ) Tristan walks up . . . Tea offers he place in the game before she gets her butt kicked ( as she puts it ) Joey runs into the classroom , very excited as he won 4 tickets to India . . . the gang processed to make fun of him . As they walk along after school , Téa Gardner has a bad feeling about the trip and complaining to herself about wanting just a normal trip without magic and dangers etc . The Pharaoh interrupt her thoughts asking if she ' s ready to go . Tristan and Joey make a stupid song and dance about it all . " ( scene change to the airport ) " Joey brought everything . . . A pilot comes to take them in their own private plane , which then takes off . " ( scene change to flying over forests and a river ) " Yugi notices that Tea is enjoying herself when they suddenly have " minor engine trouble " . . . and crash . Tristan and Joey agree to go exploring , Yugi and Tea reluctantly following . the gang comes across and unconscious blonde - hair man . After he awakes , the man has a bandana fall from inside his jacket . Yugi recognizes it to be his grandpa ' s . The man reveals that he ' s a colleages of Solomon ' s , and that Solomon is currently missing . He also mentions his name is Dr . Alex Brisbane and takes the gang to a pyramid where Solomon Moto disappeared . " ( scene change to the gang and Alex walking in the forest ) " Yami appears in spirit form to Yugi , stating how he thinks the whole situation is too coincidental . They arrive at the Pyramid . " ( scene change to infront of the Pyramid ) " Alex explains to the gang that the pyramid was built for Alexander the Great . They enter the pyramid and Joey complains about the trip is turning out bad , stopping just short of being impaled by spikes springing out from the floor . They scoot their way around the traps and arrive in a small room with 2 stairways . Alex states to Yugi that this was the last room he saw Solomon . A flashback shows how the 2 split up . Alex went up stairs and arrived at some door with a weird lock to it but couldn ' t open it , so he returned to the previous room . When he arrived , Solomon was nowhere to be seen . Alex then went down the other stairs to try and find his colleage , only to find just the bandana . The gang agrees that Solomon MUST be in the pyramid somewhere . They come across a map - like imaging on the floor of a massive room . As Joey steps on one of the tiles of the map , he falls through it in a big flash of green light . Yugi notices that the map looks like something he ' s seen before and Alex says that the pyramid is meant to contain some ancient game . Yugi decided to go into the game to rescue his Grandpa and Joey , Tea and Tristan agreeing . Yugi tries to talk them out of coming , but they tell him not to bother . They then pull Yugi onto the map and all disappear . " ( scene change to inside a forest ) " The 3 appear out of nowhere , falling onto a path in a forest and find they ' re all wearing a strange armlet and belts . As they ' re walking along , Yugi finds a strange , carved rock and notices there ' s a lot of them about . Just as Yugi is about to touch it , the gang is attacked by 3 Gokibore . Yugi recognizes them ( not from Duel Monsters , of course . . . but from the Capsule Monsters game ) and Yugi is separated from the others as they ' re attacked by another giant insect , a Kamakiriman . As Yugi calls out for Tea and Tristan , Joey ( up on a cliffedge ) hears him . He calls for Yugi but is taken by Kurama . Yugi jumps into a lake to escape the Kamakiriman that is chasing him while Tristan and Tea , still being chased by the Gokibore s , duck into a small cave in a cliff side , only to eventually land head - first in the sand on a beach . As they ' re wondering about the beach , Tea notices Happy Lover and Thunder Kid monsters , also with their heads stuck in the sand . The 2 seem friendly enough . " ( scene change to Yugi , wandering in the forest , calling for Tea and Tristan ) " He ' s attacked by the Kamakiriman again , changing into Yami to leap out of the way and hand - planting over one of those weird shaped rocks . The rock suddenly explodes in a flash of light , summoning forth a Celtic Guardian ( whom now Yugi seems to know the name of . . . ) Celtic Guardian defends Yami from the beastly insect as Yami starts to realise that they ' re inside of a Capsule Monsters game . The Celtic Guardian pledges his loyalty to Yami for the length of this game , turning into a green light and going into the armlet that Yami is wearing , a capsule popping out of it afterwards that Yami takes .