Pre - World Racing Grand Prix The Pre - World Racing Grand Prix , also known as Road to Destiny in the dub , is the third arc in the series that goes from 65 to 98 . It also included Team 5D ' s first match in the World Racing Grand Prix . This arc uses the opening FREEDOM and the ending - OZONE - ( in the dub it uses Hyper Drive ) . 6 months after the fight with the Dark Signer s , peace returned to New Domino City , and Yusei , Jack and Crow are preparing their Duel Runner s for the World Racing Grand Prix that takes place a year later . As they work on their Duel Runners , Trudge and Mina enter and tell them about a mysterious person called Ghost , who is making people crash . However Crow realizes they want them to help and makes them leave . Later , they learn Trudge was injured and rush to the Hospital . When Yusei asks Trudge what happened , Trudge tells him to not use Synchros against Ghost . Afterwards they decide to go after Ghost . As Yusei is searching , Ghost shows up and challenges him to a Turbo Duel . Although Yusei destroyed " Wise Core " with " Turbo Booster " , Ghost used the effect of " Wise Core " to Special Summon " Meklord Emperor Wisel " . After Yusei played " Stardust Dragon " , Ghost used his Meklord Emperor to absorb it , calling Wisel a " Synchro Killer " . Despite this , Yusei eventually gets it back with " Synchro Material " , and with the help of the Mark of the Dragon , Synchro Summons " Majestic Star Dragon " and wins the Duel . However Yusei Jack and Crow , are shocked upon the realization that Ghost was just a robot . Yusei begins to worry if a new threat is about to come forth . Yusei goes to Duel Academy to stop Leo , Luna and their classmates from being expelled by Rudolph Hiettman , winning with the cards the classmates gave him ( Sly also wanted Yusei ' s Stardust Dragon , but he never acts upon this in the series ) . Crow Duels an old man on the agreement that if he wins , he has to come live with Martha and the others . Bashford is defeated and it is revealed he once had a son ( whom he gave " Kid Junk " to ) , but he was so caught up in his work that his Mother and Son left him . As he tears up , Crow persuades him to live with them , and he is then seen making a Dragon statue . Jack ends up in a argument with Crow that leads him to try getting a job , but he is unsuccessful and fired each time . After Carly tells him about Garamo and how he swindles people with fool loans , Jack challenges him to a Duel , betting his " Red Dragon Archfiend " and Duel Runner on the line . Marco ( whom had been robbed , and feels people like himself can ' t Duel ) tries to suade Jack into paying the one token loan so they ' re removed from his field , but Jack refuses . Using " Zero Hole " and " Smile Kid " , Jack is able to defeat Garamo . After this , Jack returns Marco ' s Deck and rips apart the contracts , saying to keep following his dream . In the end , Jack still was unable to get a job . As Luna , Dexter and Leo walk through a forest , Luna enters a trance ( for unexplained reasons ) and leaves the group . Once she regains her senses , she steps on a twig and is attacked by an evil spirit , but Haley intervenes , playing " Heavy Storm " to destroy it . He then introduces himself and offers Luna to come to his house due to it not being safe out in the open in the forest . Haley eventually senses danger , and mistaking Leo for a bad guy , starts a Duel with him . Yusei later shows up and gets into the house , discovering a room full of people who were turned into cards , as well as finding Luna . After Haley is defeated by Leo , Claire shows up saying Leo was only trying to protect his little sister as well . Haley feels remorse for his actions and apologizes to the twins . Luna then gives him a card that looks like Claire . After this he and Claire disappear , and following this the house vanishes , and all of the people Haley had imprisoned are set free . When Leo wondered what was going on , Yusei reveals that Haley didn ' t realize he was already dead , and that his strong feelings to protect Claire kept them there , and that he started imprisoning those who he thought of as a threat . Yusei is later kidnapped by a group who want him on their team for the World Racing Grand Prix . When Yusei refused , the car he was in was controlled to go into the ocean , but Akiza breaks the back of the truck off with her Psychic Powers , which lets them both escape on his Duel Runner . Yusei then Turbo Duels against a Mysterious Turbo Duelist , who forces him by saying if he stops the bomb in his Duel Runner will go off . As they Duel , Yusei can tell this person isn ' t like the people who tried to kidnap him , commenting that they ' re having fun . It is then revealed that the threat to his Duel Runer was a bluff . The person takes off their helmet . She says her name is Sherry and planned to take Yusei as well , but considered this a meet and greet and then continued the Duel with Yusei . As they continued the Duel , Sherry revealed her reason for participating in the tournament , which was to get revenge due to her family being murdered by Iliaster . The Duel ends with no result due to the interference of the people who tried to kidnap Yusei ( Akiza also materialized " Stardust Dragon " to save Sherry from the falling truck ) . Yusei begins to think about what he Duels for . Troubled by Ghosts power , Yusei trys to find a way to Duel without bringing out a Synchro Monster , but Jack calls off the match , saying they have to fight with their Synchros . Later in the day , Lazar greets the World Racing Grand Prix participants and states what will happen . After a Duelist busts in on his Duel Runner and wrecking havoc , Akiza stops him with " Black Rose Dragon " . The guy leaves , but Primo decides to go after him . As Yusei and the others go after him thinking he ' s Ghost , they ' re stopped by a a mysterious Duelist who says Yusei cannot defeat Ghost as he is , unless he surpasses his own limitations . Curious , Yusei Duels him , only to find out there ' s an even greater Synchro known as Accel Synchro . Wanting understand what Yusei feels , Akiza decided to become a Turbo Duelist , passing the test required for it and getting her license . Jack goes after a Criminal by the name of Syd who hurt Kazuma . After Lester s tablet arrives on earth , he enrolls at Duel Academy to get closer to Luna as a ploy to get her to Turbo Duel against him . Although Leo and Luna take him on using their Duel Board s , they ' re defeated , with Luna saved by her Duel Spirits and Leo saved by the Crimson Dragon ( Luna also feels something in her heart for reasons not explained ) . Upon their defeat , they learn that nobody at their school seems to know Lester and his mansion vanished . Yusei , Jack and Crow recall previous events , including Yusei ' s encounter with Sherry , and Vizor performing Accel Synchro . Bruno eventually washes up on shore , so Yusei and the gang take him in . Yusei bonds with Bruno very quickly , and they get to work on a program for their Duel Runner engines , only to find out it was stolen while they were sleeping . Yusei and Bruno decide to hack in to the database to figure out the person that matches the blue print left on one of the ramen . To get through they must get through a Duel , which Crow and Jack failed , but Bruno figures out the way and wins the Duel . After matching the print , it is revealed to be Lazar . Tracking Lazar to a factory , they go inside . Meanwhile Lazar hands over their program to Primo , who uses it to power up an army of Ghosts . While the program is put in them , Primo decides to stall Yusei by programming a Duel Robot to face him that knows his tactics . After the program finished downloading , Primo had the Ghosts leave and started a countdown for the place to explode , and then departed through a portal . Yusei manages to beat the robot in time and escape with Lazar . Jack is arrested by Sector Security after being accused of crashing other people . After talking with Mina and Trudge , a flashback is shown of Jack practicing his Dueling . After the match Crow is annoyed that he didn ' t use " Trust Guardian " . Jack claims " Red Dragon Archfiend " should be used from the heart and that being protected by a weak Tuner doesn ' t suit his aesthetics . This aggravates Crow more who tells him it isn ' t about his aesthetics but for the team . Yusei then tells Jack that indulging in individual plays won ' t win the WRGP , causing Jack to quit the team and leave . After the Flashback , Crow questions Jack what did he do , to which Jack says he didn ' t do a thing . After a bit , Crow ' s emotions get the better of him and he accuses Jack , leading Yusei to grab Crow telling him to stop . While in jail , he is let out by a small bot , and recovers his Duel Runner and Deck . He catches up to Impostor Jack and the two have a Duel . Jack is shocked that the impostor has " Red Dragon Archfiend " , as there should only be one of its kind . He is then defeated and sent into the ocean . Carly manages to find out that there were two Jacks and show Yusei and Crow . After getting to where Jack crashed , they found his " Trust Guardian " Tuner monster . As Fake Jack causes mischief , Yusei and Crow point out he isn ' t Jack ( Crow also displays remorse for what he said to the real Jack , wanting his forgiveness ) , and after attacking them , the real Jack ( who was kept in a secret cave with a visual helmet on that let him see the things going on with his impostor self and Yusei and Crow ) cannot take it anymore and breaks free from the devices that were on him . Catching back up to the Fake Jack , they have a rematch , with Jack managing to win with " Majestic Red Dragon " . Following the impostor ' s defeat , they realize he was just a robot . After going to where Jack had been taken after their Duel , it is empty . Lyndon finally comes home to fix a the clock he broke , but after a wrong choice of words , Zora lashes out at him , which prompts him to leave until Crow stops him . He offers Lyndon a Duel to which he accepts . Lyndon finds his real feelings through the match and wins , shortly before going to fix the Poppo Clock . Following a letter from Barbara , Yusei comes to Crashtown to rescue Kalin ( who went there to die ) . To face Kallen , Yusei becomes Malcolm ' s sensei , gaining his trust by performing a one turn 3 kill with " Nitro Warrior " , " Armory Arm " and " Junk Barrage " . After defeating him , Yusei is betrayed by Barbara and sent to the mine . Although Kiryu tells Yusei to leave him be , Yusei knocks him out and takes him with him anyway . After a brief bicker , they arrive at a grave full of Duel Disks . Kalin believes this to be his fault due to sending the people to the mind when he Dueled them . They discover that West and Nico snuck Yusei ' s Duel Runner so they could escape , but Lawton arrives , refusing to allow that . Yusei gets into a Turbo Duel with Lawton while Kiryu , Nico and West go back into the mine tunnel . As Yusei gets pushed into a corner due to Lawton ' s Gatling monsters , Kalin , Nico and west end up in a different mine , where Nico and West Reunite with their father and then try to escape with Kalin . As they try to escape in a mine cart , one of Lawton ' s men places a card on their Duel Disk , causing the collar around Nico and West ' s fathers ' neck to send shocks around his throat , but Kiryu stops this . Eventually they run near a dead end in the mine , but Nico and Wests Father jumps down to press the lever down , which enables the incomplete track to come together . However he ends up falling to his death . As Nico and West cry , Kallen tells them not to , as their Father was trying to show them what it meant to live . Kiryu himself then gains the will to keep living . After catching up to Yusei and Lawton , Lawton takes out a TNT bomb and detonates the area , sending Yusei and Kiryu down a canyon pit , while West and Nico are knocked out . After Lawton comes back to Crashtown with West and Nico tied behind his Duel Runner , Malcolm realizes he ' s been betrayed due to Barbara scheming with Lawton , but is unable to do anything due to being tied up . Meanwhile Kiryu laments that he couldn ' t protect anyone , but after getting one of the Duel Disks in the Graveyard , he resolves to get Nico and West back , with Yusei assisting him . As Barbara and Lawton force the people to Duel so others go to the mountain due to there not being enough people , Yusei and Kalin arrive , and begin a Duel against Lawton to free the town . However the match is briefly interrupted near the end because of Barbara , but he is still defeated by the effect of " Infernity Gunman " when Kalin catches up to him while Jack and Crow assist in stopping Barbara and save Nico and West . Kalin decides to stay in Crashtown ( now renamed to Satisfaction Town ) with Nico and West , and Barbara and Lawton are arrested by Sector Security . Later , Sherry is seen forcing a man of a company to tell her why they were after her card . Although he says they were after it , he reveals that they were simply ordered by another company and don ' t know who they are . Sherry suggests to Elsworth that they use the super computer in Sector Securitys building to analyze her card . To ensure there are no one interfering , they cause a fake bomb threat to get everyone out . However they still run into Yusei and Bruno . As Yusei Duels Elsworth , Bruno goes after Sherry . Although Elseworth summons " Driven Daredevil " , Yusei is able to counter and win with " Stardust Dragon " and " Space Jump " . As Sherry is about to finish Bruno , his eyes glow red and he overpowers her . Instead of finishing her , he takes her card from her and puts it in the machine , offering his help . As the card is being analyzed , Yusei catches up and the three are sucked to another place , where they ' re then analyzed by something . Returning back to their world , Sherry is unconscious and Elseworth departs with her . As Yusei and Bruno wonder what they saw in the light , Yusei wonders if it has anything to do with Iliaster . As Crow visits Pearson s grave , a flashback is shown in which Pearson is trapped in a fire under some logs . He tells Crow to take care of the kids , and entrusts his Disk and Blackbird to him . After this , Crow takes notice that his Duel Runner is acting strange . Bruno figures out that there is a circuit in his Duel Runner that is making it function oddly . Mina and Trudge then come by and speak to Crow in private . They tell him that they found out that there was someone Dueling Pearson around the time of his death . Showing the photo the card is " Blood Mephist " . Mina states that long ago , there was a time when people were researching cards , and some of them could cause real damage . Crow realizes the card killed Pearson due to real damage . Hoping to find out about Pearsons killer , he goes to visit Bolger . Bolger states he will only tell Crow the truth if he beats him in a Duel . Bolger also adds in that he knows Crow has " Black - Winged Dragon " and if he wins , Crow must hand it over . As the two Duel , Bolger manages to seal away Crows Blackwing s effects for a time , as his Deck is a White Wing Deck which specializes in countering Blackwings . After Bolger Synchro Summons Blood Mephist , Crow is in shock upon the realization that Bolger killed Pearson . As " Blood Mephist " attacks , Crow takes real damage and his Duel Runner suffers as well . Crow begins to doubt he ' s carring on Pearson ' s will , but seeing the kids cheering him on , he expresses that he wants to protect their feelings and Person ' s will that was entrusted to them . After saying this , his Birthmark glows , and shortly after , " Black - Winged Dragon " is unlocked from the circuit that was causing his Duel Runner trouble . After summoning it , Jack says it ' s the Signer s 5th Dragon . Exploiting " Black - Wing Dragon " with one of his Blackwings , he creates a loop to keep weakening " Black - Winged Dragon " until its feathers are entirely black . Using its effect , its ATK restores while weakening " Blood Mephist " by the same amount . Bolger is then defeated , and feels remorse for his actions . Visiting Pearsons Grave , Crow vows to keep carrying his will . Bolgers company then assists in helping Yusei and the gangs Duel Runners so they go faster . Crow is unsure , feeling the company ' s in trouble because Bolger isn ' t there , but Rick says they hold nothing against Bolger , as he was a good person who truly loved the Duel Runner from the heart and told them to help Yusei and the others . As Leo and Luna come to the Shack , they ' re surprised to see Yusei and the others in new clothes . After Leo asks what 5D ' s stands for , Jack says it ' s for the Marks of the Crimson Dragon , which Yusei adds their bonds were called together by the Crimson Dragon . Although Leo says he doesn ' t have one , Jack says he is still included with them . Putting their hands together , Yusei says they ' re now Team 5D ' s . Later as Crow takes a final lap , he crashes into Breo . Andre decides to Duel Yusei , if Yusei wins he will call everything even . Yusei agrees and they begin their Duel . While Dueling , it is revealed that Team Unicorn was putting on an act so they could see Yusei ' s strategy . As Andre corners Yusei with the power of his beast monsters , Yusei turns it around with " Stardust Dragon " , but before he can use Speed World 2 s effect to deal damage , the Duel is called off due to the timer running out . Later , Crow is deeply touched by the kids affection for making him a banner , and goes to practice on his Duel Runner . However his Duel Runner crashed , and because his shoulder is injured , the Docter states he can ' t participate in the World Racing Grand Prix , which upsets Crow . As Akiza offers to take Crows place , Crow gets upset saying she doesn ' t understand his feelings and runs off . Despite being upset at the decision , he is later seen helping her practice and says his feelings and the children ' s are passed on to her . The World Racing Grand Prix then starts . The first match is Team 5D ' s vs Team Unicorn . Although Jack goes first , he is defeated by Andre . Akiza also tries take Andre on , but she is also defeated due to using " Wicked Reborn " to reduce her Life Points to 0 so she could leave " Stardust Dragon " in Yusei ' s hands . Yusei is left at a serious disadvantage ; for if he does not defeat all 3 members of Team Unicorn , Team 5D ' s will lose . Even with the disadvantage , Yusei manages to defeat all 3 of them , resulting in their victory . As Team 5D ' s celebrate their victory , Sherry comes over and the group talk about Iliaster . Eventually Bruno begins to feel stressed and goes outside . Encountering a kitty , his head begins to hurt and he yells in pain . The next day Yusei Jack and Crow go watch Team Unicorns match with Team Catastrophe , only to be shocked at seeing both Jean and Andre crashed .