The scene is showing two people dueling in the middle of a volcanic area. One of them was a red-haired youth in his sixteens, he was wearing longer green pants, and a colorful jacket over a black and orange shirt, he had a chromne black triangular duel armor in his chest that had a crimson 'T' symbol in the center of the armor. The other one was a blond-haired youth in his early nineteens, he was wearing a white duel armor.
"Here I go, Barone!" The red-haired youth said as a shadowed monster was above him.
"Bring it, Bashin Dan!" Barone replied to his friend and rival as he had another monster above him as well.
"This is the finale, go!" The shadowed monster attacked the other one and destroyed it.
Barone - LP: 700-0 x2 - Lose
Dan - LP: 1 x0 -Win
"I lost." Barone admits his defeat.
"I won, so I gain the ownership of those cards." Six cards flew out of Barone's Extra Deck's compartment and landed on Dan's right hand as he took another six cards out of his Extra Deck's compartment as well and pointed them at the sky.
"It was a hard journey, but we finally managed to get the duel energy required to activate this fortress of hope and salvation. Appear! Fortress of the Gods!" Dan threw the twelve cards that flew into the sky as each one unleashed a different monster that were surrounded by a circle that had a different constellation designed on them. A few seconds later an earthquake shook the whole area as a gigantic construct began to emerge from the lava of the volcano.
"So that is the Fortress of the Gods." Dan said as the twelve constelation circles descended to the fortress that was fully charged with duel energy.
"We are finally at the end of the road." Barone said as he was staring at the fortress as well. "I have lost this duel, so you won the right to pull the trigger, Dan."
"Yeah, I know." Dan nod to Barone's words and turned himself to the Fortress of the Gods.
"Fortress of the Gods, I will pull the trigger! So my wish is that the world is saved from it's destruction." Dan shouted out his wish to the Fortress of the Gods as he heard a voice coming from the fortress.
"I see, I see..." Dan's expression looked very sad when he said that. "I don't just pull a trigger. I become it." His body suddenly started to glow in rainbow as he was about to become the sacrifice.
"No..." A girl with long purple hair started to despair at this revelation.
"There must be another way!" Barone wanted to find another way. "You can't die yet! This world needs people like you to follow upon the new era that you've helped us move on from!"
"Sorry, Barone." Dan apologized to his friend as the glow grew brighter as his duel armor vanished. "But this must be done, otherwise this world alongside the lives living in will be destroyed. I will leave this world in your hands"
"Bashin Dan!" Barone screamed as he was forcefully taken from the volcanic zone by the ejection system while screaming the name of his best friend and rival.
'Sorry, Mai.' A single tear fell out of Dan's left eye. 'This is the only way to protect your's and everyone's future.' With that Dan's world went blank as he became the sacrifice to grant the wish of salvation upon the world.
"Daaaannnn!" The girl let out a scream of despair at her loss as she broke down from the deep sadness that she never felt before and fell on her knees.
So the world was saved from it's demise thanks to the efforts and sacrifice made by Bashin Dan.
Chapter 1 - Brave! Siegfried Apollodragon
It was a normal night at Maiami city. That was until a light fell from the sky to the ground that revealed the same youth that passed away.
(Next morning)
"Yuya!" A tomato haired kid was being pursued by a pink haired girl who had a paper fan in her left hand. "Get back here and let me hit you!"
"I'm sorry, Yuzu!" Yuya apologized to Yuzu as he just dodged a hit from her fan. "I didn't meant to say it!"
"How dare you say that I am not a lady!?" Yuzu yelled as she was pursuing Yuya.
"I am really, really sorry!" Yuya ran as he wasn't paying atention to the surrounding in front of him.
"Yuya, wait!" Yuzu tries to harn her friend to no avail as he trips on something or in this case someone.
"Huh?" Yuya said when without realizing he had tripped on a person that had red hair, he was wearing longer green pants, and a colorful jacket over a black and orange shirt who was uncounscious.
"That hurt." Yuya complained as he took a quick glance at the person who he tripped on.
"Are you alright?" Yuya asks the uncouncious red-haired youth if he was fine, "What's wrong!?" and saw that the red-haired youth was unconscious on the floor.
"What is a person doing sleeping in the middle of the street?" Yuzu arrived and asks while Yuya got up.
"I have no idea, Yuzu." Yuya answers Yuzu's question. "But we can't just leave him here, let's take him to the duel school." With that, Yuya and Yuzu proceeded to carry the red-haired youth to their duel school.
(At You Show Duel School)
Yuya and Yuzu arrived with the unconscious red-haired youth that they were carrying at You Show Duel School, a duel school where their student's learned how to coordinate with their monsters and how to entertain their audiences in Action Duels.
"Welcome! Yuya onii-chan, Yuzu onee-chan!" Yuya and Yuzu were greeted by a small group of three little kids.
One of them was a blue-haired boy.
The last one was a red-haired girl.
"Hello, Tatsuya, Ayu, Futoshi." Yuya greets them back.
"Who is that person?" Tatsuya took notice of the red-haired youth that was being carried by Yuya and Yuzu in their shoulders.
"What happened to him?" Futoshi asked Yuya as he and Yuzu carefully placed the red-haired youth on the bench.
"We found him like this on the floor when we were on our way here." Yuzu answerd Futosh's question as Yuya snorted a bit at her answer.
"You mean, I tripped on him while you were chasing me with that dangerous fan of yours Yuzu." Yuya corrected Yuzu's statement with a deadpan face.
"What was that Yuya?" Yuzu asked Yuya in a sweet smile while holding her paper fan in front of him.
"Nothing, nothing!" A scared Yuya wavers his arms to try to make Yuzu forget why she was chasing him down in the first place.
(A few minutes later)
"Uhm..." The red-haired youth showed signs of waking up.
"Yuya oniichan, Yuzu onee-chan!" Ayu called out to Yuya and Yuzu. "He's waking up."
Everyone gathered around the red-haired youth who just opened his brown eyes, just to see a tomato-haired boy alongside a pink-haired girl and three little kids.
"Where am I ?" The red-haired youth asked where he was and took a seat.
"Yuya and I found you unconscious in the middle of the street, so we have brought you here." Yuzu answered his question. "And for where you are, you are at You Show Duel School."
"You Show Duel School?" The red-haired youth asked as the others fell in Anime style.
"Did I say something wrong?" The red-haired youth believed that he said something that he shouldn't had.
"Our school isn't recognized by anyone at all." Yuya said as he sulked a bit. "But I won't give up on making my father's dream to duel to make people smile!"
"Who are you people?" The red-haired youth asked to the people that were around him.
"My name is Sakaki Yuya, but you can call me Yuya." The tomato-haired boy introduced himself as Yuya.
"And my name is Hiiragi Yuzu, so who are you?" The pink-haired girl who said that her name was Yuzu asked for the red-haired youth's name.
"My name is..." The red-haired youth tried to say his name, but.
"...I don't remember." The red-haired youth said as he put his hand behind his head.
"Does he has amnesia?" Yuzu asked the others as they didn't know what to make of this situation.
"But he has a duel disk with him, so he is definitely a duelist." Yuya pointed at the duel disk that was on the youth's left arm that was crimson.
"Duel disk?" The red-haired youth said with a confused look as he took a look at the object in question.
"Perhaps there is some personal information about you on the disk." Tatsuya points out to the red-haired youth. "After all, a duel disk is the most vital object that a duelist needs for their daily lives."
"You should try to turn it on." Ayu suggests. "It must have something on you."
"How do I turn this thing on?" The red-haired youth asks them since he doesn't remember how a duel disk works.
"Let me do it." Futoshi pressed the on function that showed a screen.
Duel Disk ID Number - 504948060151
Name: Bashin Dan
Age: 14
Occupation: Duelist
Favorite foods: Curry
Likes: Dueling
No further information available
"So you name is Bashin Dan." Yuya said the red-haired youth's name who is revealed to be Bashin Dan as he looked at Dan's duel disk's screen.
"That was it? No adress at all?" Dan who had just figured out his own name from the data that was available in his duel disk said as he was a bit shocked at the lack of any relevant information asides from his name and age. That was until his head started to hurt a bit.
"Are you alright?" Yuzu asked worriedly for Dan because she noticed that he was on his own without nothing but his clothes and duel disk.
"Yeah. I have remembered the basics of how to take care of myself, but nothing about my past." Dan managed to remember a few things that he was capable of doing asides from dueling, that is.
"But it doesn't say where you live." Tatsuya pointed out as he saw that there was no adress of where Dan lived.
"Wait, if you don't have a place to stay, then you can stay at my house if you want." Yuya offered himself to let Dan live with him. "You can stay with us until you remember where you live."
"You are seriously allowing a stranger like me stay at your home?" Dan asked surprised by Yuya's casualty. "I don't want to trouble your family."
"Yes. You don't seem to be a bad person, Dan." Yuya says with a goofy smile. "You won't be any trouble for me and mom."
"Thank you, Yuya." Dan thanked his new friend for giving him a place to stay. "I really thank you for doing this for me."
(Later at Yuya's house)
"Dinner was delicious, mom." Yuya praised Yoko's dinner.
"Thank you, Yuya." Sakaki Yoko thanked Yuya for praising her food and turned to Dan. "How about you, Dan-kun?"
"The food was delicious, but I feel bad about making you work harder because of me, Yoko-san." Dan apologized to Yuya's mother as he bowed his head a bit.
"You don't need to be so polite, Dan-kun." Yuya's mom casually said to Dan. "You are not bringing us any trouble by staying with us."
"Dan! Let's go to our room." Yuya went to his room with that he was sharing with Dan.
"Alright, thank you for the meal once again, Yoko-san." With that Dan went to the room as well.
"How about we duel right tomorrow, Dan?" Yuya suggests while taking a good look at his cards.
"Sure." Dan agreed to have a duel against Yuya as he was also looking at his deck. "I need a duel in order to see if I can remember something."
"We will have an Action Duel at You Show tomorrow after school is over." Yuya states as he was looking forward to show Dan how Action Duels worked. "Why didn't you enrolled in our school?"
"I didn't want to create more troubles for you than I alredy have, Yuya." Dan at first couldn't believe how Yuya and his mother had welcomed him to their house so easily. "And I don't know if there are people looking for me at the moment."
"That is true..." Yuya understands how Dan was feeling about all of this. "There could be people who are worried for you and are perhaps searching for you."
"But what is an Action Duel?" Dan changes the subject and asks Yuya about Action Duels since he doesn't know what those were. "I recalled a few things about dueling but that is not in my memories at all."
"You see, an Action duel is..." Yuya explained to Dan how duelists could actualy interact with their monsters throught the Real Solid Vision technology produced by the Leo Corporation in order allow duelists to grab cards that were laid down on the field to expand their possibilities.
"The possibilities of those Action Cards are amazing, but... that is also something very bad." Dan states as he noticed the biggest flaw behind Action Cards.
"What do you mean?" Yuya, who was confused, asks Dan about what was so wrong with Action cards.
"From what you just told me, it seems that most duelists around here, rely too much on them." Dan says as he imagined every single duelist always searching for Action Cards instead of trying to learn from their own mistakes to improve themselves.
"But isn't that a good thing?" Dan shook his head in response at Yuya's words.
"Yuya. The fact that people tend to rely on them, dulls their skills as a duelist because they shouldn't be relying on something convenient that just happens to be there when instead, they should improve their own dueling skills so that they don't have a need to grab an Action Card at the worst time just to see that the card wasn't what they need."
"I think that you are exagerating a bit, Dan." Yuya dismisses his friend's opinion about Action cards.
"With the new Pendulum Summon at my disposal, I will find more possibilities to entertain people during my duels." Yuya says as he dreams of becoming the greatest entertainment duelist with the use of Pendulum Summon.
"Pendulum Summon?" Dan asked as he tells Yuya about the summoning methods that he recalled. "As far as I remember the summoning methods are Normal Summon, Special Summon, Fusion Summon, Ritual Summon, Synchro Summon, Xyz Summon."
"Yeah, it is a new summoning method that I created a few days ago, althought I still don't know how I did it." Yuya revealed about how he created Pendulum Summon during his duel against Strong Ishijima when he was in a serious pinch.
"But are you really sure that I should be here?" Dan asked with a few doubts if it was alright for him to stay at Yuya's house. "Don't get me wrong Yuya, but with me around you will have one more mouth to feed."
"You don't need to worry about it." Yuya answered Dan. "You are almost like another simbling to us, even though we only met you a few hours ago."
"Thanks, Yuya. I really apreciate it what your family is doing for me." With that Dan and Yuya went to sleep.
(Next Morning)
Beep...Beep...
"Five more minutes..." A sleepy Yuya answered the alarm.
Beep...Beep...
"Yuya, wake up!" Dan told Yuya to wake up. "You are going to be late for school."
"Oh no!" Yuya fell out of his bed and jumped downstairs.
"Yuya sure gets up fast." Dan says as he replaces his pajama with his yesterday's clothes. "I wonder what we will do today."
(7 hours later)
"Yuya onii-chan!" Tatsuya, Ayu and Futoshi called Yuya as he and Yuzu were leaving the school grounds.
"Hey, guys!" Yuya greeted three kids and Dan, who were waiting for Yuya and Yuzu's classes to be over.
"Were you finally able to Pendulum Summon?" Futoshi asks Yuya if he had finally became capable of Pendulum Summon.
"I am going to try it out today against Dan." Yuya declares his intention of dueling Dan. "And if we duel, you may recall a few things from your past, right?"
"I hope so..." Dan replied as he wanted to remember who he was.
"Then, let's go!" Tatsuya said as we began to head forwards the duel school. They were about to leave when a few darts were heading straight to Yuya's face, that was until Dan caught them before they landed on Yuya's face.
"Who did that?" Dan asked as he saw a person with a banana peeled hair who had the uniform of Yuya's school as well, the most noticable thing about the banana peeled boy was the badge in the jacket's neck.
'LDS ?' Dan wondered to himself what those letters on the badge meant.
"Who are you?" Yuya asks the newcomer for his identity.
"I am Sawatari Shingo. The greatest duelist that LDS has to offer." The banana peeled youth introduced himself as Dan was aware that this person was too overconfident about his dueling skills.
"What do you want with us?" Yuzu asked what Sawatari wanted from them as Sawatari's gaze fell on Yuya, which made Dan a bit suspicious about his intentions.
"I have been a fan of yours ever since you used that...what was it called again?" Sawatari pretended to not know about Pendulum Summon as the others except for Dan who saw through his act, didn't believed him at all.
'Why is this guy lying?' Dan privately thought to himself as Yuya was a bit flustered from the fake compliments that were given to him by Sawatari. 'Even if I don't remember, I can still tell when someone is lying to me in the face.'
Sawatari keep lying to them as he invited Yuya and company to visit LDS's facilities, who Dan now knew the LDS meant Leo Duel School, the best Duel School in the entire world.
The visit was somewhat an interesting experience for Dan as he saw that LDS had different level of courses for almost every summoning method except for Pendulum, but Dan was not interested in those, unlike his new friends who were trying to check their competition.
(LDS's Duel Court)
Everyone entered LDS's court to see three people over there.
"You're here, Sawatari-san." One of them greeted Sawatari.
"Those boys are also your fans." Sawatari lies to Yuya as he points out to his three stooges. "Would you mind showing them your Pendulum Cards?"
"S-sure..." Yuya under the pressure that he needed to satisfy his fans, was about to take his cards Pendulum Cards to show them, when Dan suddenly grabs his shoulder.
"Don't show them the cards, Yuya." Dan warned Yuya. "I have an bad feeling about this."
"How so?" Yuya wonders in confusion. "They are my fans, so I can't keep them waiting."
"I can tell that something is missing here." Dan knew that something was seriously wrong here as his instincts were crying out loud.
"What's the deal with you?" Sawatari was annoyed at Dan for interrupting him in the middle of his business.
"Since when the four of you became Yuya's fans?" Dan turned to Sawatari and asked him when they became Yuya's fans.
"Weren't you listenning to me?" Sawatari said as he silently called Dan a moron. "As I said before, I became Sakaki Yuya's fan when I witnessed his Pendulum Summon."
"Then why didn't you show yourself to Yuya before?" Yuya had told Dan about what happened the day after he won his big duel against some Strong guy. The duel school was sudenly filled with a lot of so called appliants, who it turned out that they were only interested in learning how to Pendulum Summon rather than apply for the school and left when they learned that Pendulum Cards were required to have in order to Pendulum Summon. They even went as far to call Yuya a cheater, which disgusted Dan to no end as he didn't considerd them to be true duelists at all.
"They have been people like you that are only interested in Pendulum cards, rather than the person himself, so don't even bother to lie." Dan gave Sawatari a serious look.
"It's true, I am really Sakaki Yuya's fan!" Sawatari's mask was slowly coming off.
"In that case, you should know the answer to this easy question." Dan decided to bait Sawatari into admiting that he knew nothing about Yuya.
"Bring it on." Sawatari fell for Dan's trap. "I will give you a flawless answer."
"Who was Yuya's opponent during that match?" Dan asked Sawatari the easiest question because almost everyone who heard of Pendulum Summon knew that Yuya had used it for the first time against the Pro Duelist Strong Ishijima.
"I think tht his name was... Strong Ishijima!" Sawatari answers a Dan makes a no, no with his fingers.
"I think that you mistook him for Soichiro Nagumo, right?" Dan uses the name of another Pro Duelist that he saw in one of Yuya's posters in order to decieve Sawatari into changing his answer.
"Dan. Wha-" Dan put his hand on Yuya's mouth so that he wouldn't say anything about it.
"Don't say anything." Dan whispered to Yuya. "If he calls my bluff, then he passes as your fan, otherwise..."
Yuya understood right away what Dan was trying to do and said nothing else.
"R-Right! The name of his opponent was Soichiro Nagumo!" Sawatari's re-corrected his answer and was meet with silence. "What did I say wrong?"
"I just threw you a bluff and you fell for it." Dan said with a cold tone as Sawatari had 'Busted' written all over his face. "The fact that you didn't called my bluff and know the name of his opponent just proves that you are not Yuya's fan at all."
Dan then points at Sawatari's stooges.
"I am also sure that those three are not Yuya's fans either." Dan added as the stooges had a pale look in their faces.
"Is that true?" Yuzu asked Sawatari with a bit of a shock at this revelation. "Why did you lie to us?"
"It was a mistake. Please, we were just curious about how you Pendulum Summoned, so I had promissed them that I would get Sakaki Yuya here to show them the Pendulum cards so that we could prove that you didn't cheat." Sawatari made up another lie as he pleaded Yuya to show thm his Pendulum Cards to them. "Can you show us the cards as a sign of trust? It will be your fan for real this time."
"Do you really think that you're decieving anyone with that act?" Dan asked in disbelieve as he was pretty sure that no person inside this dueling court would ever believe in this liar after everything he said to them earlier.
"Dan." Yuya turns to Dan, "I know that you have good intentions, but I really want to believe in them." and say as he took and showed his Timegazer Magician and Stargazer Magician to Sawatari, who in turn betrayed Yuya's trust by snatching them right away.
"Hahaha! What a fool!" One of the stooges laughed at Yuya for being fooled by Sawatari's act.
"Your friend even warned you and got the truth out of Sawatari-san, but you still didn't listen!" Another stooge laughed at Yuya.
"Yuya..." Yuzu saw how horrified Yuya was by this betrayal.
"So my feeling turned out to be right." Dan said as Yuya was still in shock from being stolen and betrayed like that. "These guys were only after Yuya's Pendulum cards from the start."
'There should be cameras over this dueling court, so why isn't the security doing anything to interfeere?' Dan privately thought as he came to realize what was amiss all along. 'Unless...this was a trap made by LDS from the start, since they couldn't take the cards from Yuya in a clean way.'
"It is not like I am not a tyrant who just steals, so we will make a trade." Sawatari took a bunch of cards from his pocket and threw them at Yuya, who was still in shock.
'They're low level monsters.' Dan thought as he saw each card that were throw to the ground. 'He is clearly mocking with Yuya!'
"These cards aren't worth the trade." Dan stated as Sawatari didn't seemed to care at all.
"Weak cards as those suit weaklings like Sakaki Yuya and his cowardly father." Sawatari insulted Yuya and his dad.
"Take back what you said about dad!" Yuya was mad, so was I because he had the gal to insult his cards after disrespecting them like that.
"Give them back..." Dan said with a serious tone.
"What?" Sawatari and the stooges pretended that they didn't get what Dan was talking about.
"Give back the cards that you've stolen from Yuya!" Dan's expression became a fierce one that scared the people around him, even Reiji who was watching from the monitor room, although he did a good job in hiding it from Nakajima who just trembled a bit from fear.
"I will not forgive you for what you did." Dan's killing intent was clearly shown.
"W-who are you?" Sawatari finally asks for Dan's name.
"My name is Bashin Dan." Dan introduced himself as he activated his crimson duel disk revealing a black duel blade. "I will be your opponent!"
"This is my battle!" Yuya complained to Dan as he did't want him to butt in his fight.
"That guy just mocked his cards after he threw them mercelessly at you." Dan points at Sawatari. "He also mocked your trust even after you decided to show him the cards instead of not doing it so like I said earlier." Dan finishes with a determined look.
"Someone's got a big mouth for a nobody who is only following Sakaki like a good dog." Sawatari had recovered from his fear and said.
"I could say the same about you." Dan remarks Sawatari for being a hipocryte. "You just showed us what kind of person you really are just as soon as you got what you were after, you're nothing but a lowly thief who probably doesn't know how to duel."
"Dan." Yuzu said.
"In that case... I will show you what happens when you mess with Sawatari Shingo." Sawatari turned to the goons. "You know what to do."
"Yeah!" They activated the action field known as The Prision of the Dark Tower as Yuya and the others were trapped in the top floor of one of the towers.
"What are you doing!?" Nakajima yelled from the control room. "You should be delivering those cards to us instead of using them!"
"Let them be." Reiji calmly said to Nakajima. "This way we can test the Pendulum cards that Sawatari aquired."
"Since this is an Action Duel, guys!" Sawatari said to the stooges as they chanted the chant that Yuya told Dan yesterday, but he really didn't want to chant something in this kind of situation.
"...Duel!" Dan and Sawatari finished as the Action Cards fell to the field.
Dan - LP: 4000 x5
Sawatari - LP: 4000 x5
"I will go first!" Dan took a quick look at his hand and formed a plan. "I will set one monster and two cards face-down and end my turn." Dan concluded his turn as he took a look at the others who were trapped above.
'I must summon a monster that will allow me to reach them.' Dan thought of defending for now.
"Hahahahaha. What a pathetic move." Sawatari boasted as Dan didn't show any reaction.
Dan - LP: 4000 x2
Sawatari - LP: 4000 x5
"Let me show you how a real turn is made." Sawatari boasted with an arrogant tone.
"My turn, Draw!" Sawatari draws his card, "I..." he touches a specific card in his hand before stopping, "Who's this? I'm in the middle of something good!" he questioned the voice that was coming through his Duel Disk.
"I told you not yet." A cool voice replies to him as Dan managed to hear it despite their distance.
"Fine...In that case I will summon Lightning Board !" A darts board appeared as Sawatari hopped on to it and flew off to a specific location which was to find an Action Card.
Lightning Board - (LIGHT/ Thunder/ ATK: 1400 / DEF: 1200 / Level 4/ Effect)
'Who was he talking to just now?' Dan wondered why Sawatari didn't played the card that he was about to play until that voice from his duel disk that stopped him from doing so. 'Great, not only I am fighting in his house, but he is also getting help from someone outside that might be spying my hand.' Dan decided to place the cards in his hand in a way that could not be seen by LDS's cameras.
"You're not going for an Action card?" Sawatari asked in hopes that Dan would fall into his trap.
"You set up the duel's conditions from the start, so it is most likely that most of the Action Cards in this field are traps and the usefull ones are in places that you programmed them to be." Dan said as Yuya and the others who were in the tower made angry expressions.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Sawatari shamelessly lied as he kept looking at the programed map that described which Actions Cards were laying on the Action Field prepared in advance on his disk's screen.
"Battle! I will attack his face-down monster that is most likely a cowardly weakling with Lightning Board!" Sawatari declares as Lightning Board fired thunder bullets that aimed for my face-down monster.
"I activate the Trap, Brave Cylinder!" Two cylinders appeared as the first one captured the thunder bullets that came out of the second one straight to Lightning Board and Sawatari. "This card does not only stop your attack, but it also inflicts damage to you equal to the attack of the monster whose attack was negated."
"Crap!" Sawari didn't had time to find an action card as the lightning bullets hit him.
Sawatari - LP: 4000-2600 x5
"I will set a card face-down and end my turn." Sawatari set a card face-down and declared the End Phase.
'If I had a Brave on the field, he would have taken more damage.' Dan privately thought as he wanted to give more damage to Sawatari's LP. 'Right now I should focus on rescuing the others before the guy who is giving instructions to Sawatari decides to use them as shields to prevent me from dueling properly.'
"During your End Phase I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Cosmic Cyclone! I pay 1000 LP to banish that card you just set." A cyclone appeared and made the card that Sawatari had just placed leave the field which was a Breakthrough Skill trap as the later grunted.
Dan - LP: 4000-3000 x2
Sawatari -LP: 2600 x 4
"My turn. Draw!" Dan drew his card as he took a quick recap of his current situation.
'Not only he knows where all the Action Cards are, but he is also getting help from someone who seems to now what he is doing.' Dan took a card from his hand and started to chant.
"Sun! Give form to the mighty dragon that will guide me to victory with it's brave wings." Dan chanted as his face-down monster card was covered in flames. "Appear, Level 6 - Siegfried Apollodragon! I will tribute my facedown monster as the cost to the Tribute Summon." The flames dissipated from the card that was face-down as it became a ligh orb that grew up and went behind Dan as a Red Dragon emerged from it and made it's appearance on the field.
Siegfried Apollodragon - (LIGHT/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 2300 / DEF: 1800 / Level 6/ Effect)
"So this is Dan's Ace monster." Yuya said as he and the others saw Siegfried Apollodragon.
"That's an impressive dragon." Tatsuya said.
"That dragon is giving me the shivers!" Futoshi said while dancing from the tower.
"Amazing!" Ayu said.
'Acording to the rules, if I don't play a card in a minute, my turn will end, but if the others are still in danger I won't be able to focus at all, so I will save them first even if it costs me the turn.' Dan privately though as he made his decision to save Yuya and the others before focusing on taking out Sawatari.
"Siegfried Apollodragon, let's go!" Dan ran to Siegfried Apollodragon's back as he jumped and rided on it's back as the dragon took flight and went forwards the place where Yuya and the others were trapped.
"What is that kid doing?" Nakajima asked from the control room for Dan's actions.
"He is rescuing the hostages." Reiji cleverly points out Dan's real intentions to Nakajima.
"But wouldn't he waste his turn by losing time like that?" Nakajima, who still doesn't understand why Dan would rescue his friends instead of taking this duel as the main priority, asks Reiji for the answer.
"Under normal circumstances, it would be foolish to throw a turn like that." Reiji affirms Nakajima's statement as he raises his glasses with his fingers. "But if he rescues them now, he won't have to take a risk in case that they are to be used against him as human shields by Sawatari if gets into a troublesome situation."
"In other words, it's better to waste a turn now than doing that at a later point where the duel is at the climax." Nakajima understood what his boss's words meant.
"I came here to help." Dan says as he arrived at the top of the tower where Yuya and the others were trapped. "You three grab my back in a line of three, while Yuya and Yuzu will be carried in Siegfried Apollodragon's claws."
"Claws?" Neither of them had the time to answer as Dan allows the three kids to grab his back as they were suddenly taken by the dragons claws and screamed a lot during the fast ride to the ground.
"That was the worst ride that I ever had..." Yuya was a bit dizzy from the wild travel.
"Thank you for saving us, Dan." Yuzu thanked Dan for recuing them.
"You can thank me later after I get Yuya's Pendulum cards back from Sawatari." Dan says to Yuzu as a voice comes from both his and Sawatari's duel disk.
Time out: A minute has passed, so the turn is moved to the opposing player.
"Hahaha, since you were wasting your time saving your friends,the time limiter ended your turn." Sawatari and his stooges were laughing at Dan for saving his friends instead of dueling.
"That's cheating!" Ayu said as the other kids were insulting Sawatari as well.
"Sawatari Shingo you are a coward!" Yuzu yelled with her paper fan in her hands as she stepped the solid ground alongside Yuya and the others.
"I could have dealt him some damage this turn, but you guys were more important than winning." Dan reasures them as he didn't care if Sawatari was mocking his decision. "Yuya, keep the others safe while I deal with Sawatari in case that your 'other fans' try to pull something."
"Very funny, Dan." Yuya said as he laughed. "Leave it to me."
Dan - LP: 3000 x2
Sawatari - LP: 2600 x5
"My turn! Draw!" Sawatari drew his card.
"I tribute my level 4 Lightning Board to activate the Spell, Release Trade!" Sawatari states as he released his monster. "With this I will add the Level 5 Stargazer Magician from my deck to my hand!" Sawatari revealed one of the stolen Pendulum Cards to everyone.
"Stargazer Magician!?" Yuya gasps in shock.
"The second one of my Pendulum cards." Sawatari mocks Yuya.
"What does he mean by the second one ?" Futoshi asks.
"It means that he already has both of them in his hand." Dan answers the unspoken question. "He already had the other one during his first turn."
"How did you know?" Sawatari asked Dan with a bit of surprise.
"You didn't do a good job of hidding it, but you stopped for some reason when you were about to use the card during your first turn." Dan didn't revealed that Sawatari was getting instructions from someone else, yet.
"You are right! The cards have chosen me, the most individual to hold them." Sawatari braggs and shows the other Magician in his hand as well.
"Timegazer Magician!?" Yuya once again said in shock at the revelation of his other stolen card.
"You are no chosen one." Dan objects Sawatari's brag to the latter's shock. "You only stopped from using that card because you are being given instructions, even as we are speaking."
"What?" Everyone, except for Sawatari and his stooges, gasps in shock at what Dan just revealed.
"You!" Dan speaks out loud to make sure that his voice reached Sawatari's duel disk. "I know that you are giving instructions to Sawatari Shingo. So stop pretending that you are not listening and show yourself! Unless you are a coward of a duelist to face your own battles!"
"..." Reiji said nothing from the control room as he had an unreadable expression.
"Does he really think that you will respond, president?" Nakajima saw that Reiji was more silent than usual. "President?"
"Sawatari, place the duel disk's comunications volume at maximum." Reji orders Sawatari to raise his speaker's volume.
"What?" Sawatari whispers to Reiji from his disk. "Is that really necesary?"
"Just do it before the deal is off." Reiji cooly says as he not amused by Sawatari questioning him after coming this far.
'What's gotten into the president?' Nakajima thought as he was watching Reiji's unusual behavior. 'Did he just answered out of pride as a person?'
'This is no longer a matter of just learning about Pendulum, but it is now a matter of pride as a duelist. And as a duelist I will answer it, otherwise, how will I stop that man's ambition if I don't fight my battles.'
"Unfortunantly, I cannot be there myself at the moment, so I will give guidance to Sawatari Shingo during the remain of this duel." A voice that came out from Sawatari's disk spoke to Dan, suprising the others except for Dan, Sawatari and his stooges even further.
"Who is that?" Yuya asks as he, Dan, Yuzu and the three kids do not know Reiji's voice.
"The puppet master has decided to grant us an audience." Dan says with a cautious tone.
"For now, let's continue the duel." Reiji said. "Sawatari, follow these instructions."
"I set the Scale 1 Stargazer Magician..." Reiji begins to order Sawatari as if he was the one over there.
"I-I set my Scale 1 Stargazer Magician..." Sawatari followed Reiji's order like a good dog by revealing the stolen card. The card's low half was green like a Spell card, while the higher half was orage with two red on the left and blue on the right colored jewels with a number underneath them in each side between the orange and green halves.
"No way... to think that someone other than me..." Yuya didn't want to believe that someone apart from him could use the Pendulum Summon.
"...and the Scale 8 Timegazer Magician..." Reiji gave another order to Sawatari.
"...and my Scale 8 Timegazer Magician..." Sawatari followed Reiji's lead once again as he reveals the other card.
"...to set the Pendulum Scale!" Reiji and Sawatari finished at the same time as Sawatari set the stolen cards into his blade.
The word PENDULUM appeared in Sawatari's duel blade as the magicians came out of the blue pilars that showed up and went up to show the number 1 and 8.
Stargazer Magician - (DARK/ Spellcaster/ Pendulum/ Scale 1/ ATK: 1200 / DEF: 2400 / Level 5/ Effect)
Timegazer Magician - (DARK/ Spellcaster/ Pendulum/ Scale 8/ ATK: 1200 / DEF: 600 / Level 3/ Effect)
"One question?" Dan interrupted Reiji's great moment.
"What is it?" Reiji asks while being a bit annoyed at the sudden interruption. "We're in the middle of something important."
"Do you need the both Pendulum cards on the field to use the Pendulum Summon?" Dan wanted to know if that was the case.
"Yes." Reiji confirmed Dan's suspicion.
'I could just use my face-down card, Sagitta Fire to destroy 1 of those cards and interrupt the summon, but... I really want to see it.' Dan privately though as he wanted to see Pendulum Summon.
"Do you still have any questions ?" Reiji asked as Dan shook his head in response.
'Show me, what Pendulum Summon is.' Dan was about to find out how this Summoning Method works.
"Pendulum Summon!" They say at the same time once again as three lights went out of the portal created by the magicians.
"Level 5! Power Darts Shooter !" A orange robot came out.
Power Darts Shooter - (EARTH/ Machine/ ATK: 1800/ DEF: 700/ Level 5/ Effect)
"Level 6! Rocket Darts Shooter !" The second monster was a pink robot.
Rocket Darts Shooter - (EARTH/ Machine/ ATK: 1900/ DEF: 100/ Level 6/ Effect)
"And finally, Level 7! Ultimate Darts Shooter !" The last monster was a cobalt blue robot who appeared as the trio stood behind Sawatari.
Ultimate Darts Shooter - (EARTH/ Machine/ ATK: 2400/ DEF: 300/ Level 7/ Effect)
"I did it!" Sawatari boasted as he was taking a good look at his monsters that were summoned through Pendulum Summon, "Now that I've mastered Pendulum Summon, I have no need for you anymore!" and points at Dan.
"You're kidding, right?" Yuya was still in denial as Sawatari laughed.
"Ok." Reiji was pleased that his experiment worked.
'Now to finish him off, I will have Sawatari activate Power Darts effect to raise Ultimate Darts ATK by 600, then activate Resurection of the Dead to bring it back and launch a full attack.' Reiji thought as he saw Sawatari's cards. 'Victory has been assured.'
"I activate Power Darts Shooter effect!" Reiji declares as Sawatari was about to do the same.
"I activ-" Sawatari tried to to play as he was instructed.
"In response to the Special Summon of those monsters, I activate the Quick-Play Spell Sagitta Fire !" Dan interrupted Sawatari as the image of thousands of arrows covered in fire coming out of a volcano were shown on the Quick-Play Spell. "I will choose to trigger this card's first effect which allow me to destroy all Special Summoned monsters whose ATK are 2000 or less!"
"What!?" Everyone including Reiji said as a rain of fire arrows landed upon Power Darts and Rocket Darts, destroying them both.
"With this, I got rid of those other troublesome monsters." Dan said as he just ruined Reiji's victory, not that he knew, of course. "Now what will you do, puppetmaster?"
'He had a counter against Pendulum Summon...wait a second." Reiji carefully read Sagitta Fire's other effect and came to a sudden realization. 'He could have used that effect to destroy one of the Pendulum cards and interrupt the Pendulum Summon.'
"So that was why you asked me earlier if there were required to have both Pendulum cards in play in order for the summon to happen..." Reiji's voice came once again from the puppet's disk.
"You've noticed it, huh?" Dan made a small grin at Reiji's statement.
"Why didn't you destroy 1 of those cards with Sagitta Fire's second effect instead of destroying the summoned monsters?" Reiji asked as he wanted to know why Dan made such a careless move. "You would have prevented the Pendulum Summon if you had chosen to destroy any one of those cards."
"To be honest with you, I just wanted to see how Pendulum Summon looked like." Dan answered Reiji, surprising him as he revealed his reasons to do so. "I didn't like the idea of making things too easy, because I just recently recalled how to duel, so I wanted to take a risk."
"Recalled?" Reiji couldn't believe that the person who made such a great move told him that he was trying out a combo during this kind of situation.
"I kinda of loss my memory, so I am starting to recall how to duel from the parts of me that still remembers." Dan admited of his amnesia to everyone around him.
'How powerfull was he when he still remembered?' Reiji didn't want to believe that a duelist like Dan had lost his memories. 'I want to find out more about this Bashin Dan.'
"Can you just proceed to the duel?" Dan didn't want to listen to any further dialogues as Sawatari only had 20 seconds until the time limiter ended his turn.
"In that case, I activate Resurection of the Dead to bring back Rocket Darts Shooter." Reiji ordered Sawatari to bring back the previously destroyed monster.
"I activate Resurection of the Dead to bring back Rocket Darts Shooter!" Sawatari just followed Reiji's comand once again, unaware of how stupid he looked while doing it at each passing second as he revived Rocket Darts Shooter.
Rocket Darts Shooter - (EARTH/ Machine/ ATK: 1900/ DEF: 100/ Level 6/ Effect)
"Battle! Ultimate Darts Shooter attacks Siegfried Apollodragon!" Ultimate Darts Shooter destroyed Siegfried Apollodragon.
Dan - LP: 3000-2900 x2
"Next, Rocket Darts Shooter will attack you directly!" The pink robot fired missiles at Dan, who didn't tried to find an Action card.
Dan - LP: 2900-1000 x2
"I will end my turn." Sawatari ended his turn as Reiji didn't responded any further. "Let's get real here, I have a monster with 2400 ATK and another with 1900. You, on the other side... have no cards on the field and you are low on LP, so give up.
Dan - LP: 1000 x2
Sawatari - LP: 2600 x0
'This feeling...' Dan thought as he was feeling something that was amiss for a while. 'This wind, this pain, the thrill, this is a duel!'
"Give up?" Dan asked as his stance became a determined one. "As long as we duelists believe, we will always draw the trumph card to turn any duel around."
'What's with his fighting spirit?' Reiji thought as he saw Dan's determined look.
"My turn. Draw!" Dan took a look to see that he drew something good. "A Brave has come." Dan's serious expression became a pleased one when he saw the card he drew.
"First of all I activate the Continuous Spell, Burning Meteor!" The image of a Crimson meteor falling down as a small dragon is seeing flying in the middle of it is revealed.
"Then I use the Spell, Ressurection of the Dead to bring back Siegfried Apollodragon back to the field." The ground bursted in flames as Apollodragon rised from those same flames.
"And now I summon the main star of today's duel. I summon the quality 4, Bal-Rhinos!" A red rhino with 2 cannons in it's back appeared on the field along side Siegfried Apollodragon. The Brave card was fully red colored instead of the usual orange of a monster card.
Bal-Rhinos - (EARTH/ Beast/ Red Brave/ ATK: 1400/ DEF: 900/ Quality 4/ Effect/ Brave Boost - 400 ATK)
"How do you expect to beat me with that weakling?" Sawatari mocked Bal-Rhinos who grunted in response.
"Although I don't remember who I used to be and my opponent's." Dan ignored Sawatari's blunt remark about Bal-Rhinos as he speaks to the later." I can easily tell that you are nothing but a fake duelist."
"How dare-" Dan's stare prevented Sawatari from saying anything else.
"You needed someone else to guide you during the duel, so my opponent was never you in the first place, but the person behind you!" Dan declares as Sawatari gasped.
"I Brave Bal-Rhinos with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan attached the Brave card on the top right of Siegfried Apollodragon's card as Bal-Rhinos's body glowed in red before disappearing, leaving his cannons behind that went to Apollodragon's back as the wings disapeared in the same glow as the cannons attached to it's back.
Siegfried Apollodragon - ATK: 2300-2700 / Level: 6-10 /Red
"Brave!" All expectators including Reiji and Nakajima were surprised at the revelation of Brave.
"Sir, a great amount of energy is coming out of that monster!" One of the workers informed Reiji through the comunications channel.
"What is this trickery!?" Sawatari didn't understood what was going on.
"This is a Brave, an alternate type of fusion between 2 monsters that combines a Brave with another monster on the field to become a Braved monster." Dan explained a bit about Brave. "The original ATK of the braved monster is increased by the value of the Brave Boost, it's effects and the Quality are stacked to the Braved monster, although the Quality only increases the Level."
"It is not the same as Fusion Summon?" One of Sawatari stooges in the peanut gallery asked Dan if Brave was the same as Fusion Summon.
"No. A Brave Fusion is on another level as it grants new powers to the monster that becomes a Braved monster, it even has some amazing features that Fusion monters do not possess." Dan replied to the stooge.
"New powers?" Reiji asked to himself from the control room.
"Battle! I Target attack Ultimate Darts Shooter with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan declares the Target attack. "I activate Bal-Rhinos effect when Braved!"
"An effect when Braved?" Reiji asked once again from the control room.
"When I declare attack with a monster that is Braved with Bal-Rhinos, I can draw 1 card and destroy 1 of my oponnent's monster with the same or less ATK than this card! I destroy Rocket Darts Shooter, Bal shoot!" Dan drew a card while Siegfried Apollodragon fired a crimson laser from his cannons destroying Rocket Darts Shooter.
"The attack still continues!" Sawatari panicked as Siegfried Apollodragon fired another laser and went to one of the locations that he had on his duel disk and grabbed a card before the laser connected.
"I activate the Action Spell, Evasion! Your attack is negated." His monster avoided the attack to the banana peel's relief.
"It's useless." Dan's words destroyed Sawatari's last ray of hope. "Target attacks cannot be negated and the battle phases involving one can't be skipped once declared!" The laser turned around and destroyed Ultimate Darts Shooter.
Sawatari - LP: 2600-2300 x0
"Nice try, but I still have LP and I will finish you in my next turn." Sawatari began to bragg overconfidently.
"There won't be a next turn for you." Dan calmly said as he wasn't done yet. "Continuous Spell Burning Meteor's effect activates! When a Braved monster destroys another monster in battle, the original controller of that card takes damage equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster when it was destroyed. To make this simple enough, you will take 2400 points of damage." Dan declares as Ultimate Darts Shooter's fragments started to fall upon Sawatari.
"It's a lie, lie, LIE!" Sawatari tries to deny his defeat has he is slammed to the ground by his former Ace monster's fragments.
Sawatari - LP: 2300-0 x0 - Lose
Dan - LP: 1000 x1 - Win
The action field vanished after the result was declared and Dan went to Sawatari.
"Now hand over the cards that you stole from Yuya." Dan demanded to Sawatari who was still on the floor.
"As if I would hand you over my cards! I will take yours instead, get him guys!" Sawatari stepped away from Dan and ordered to his stooges who had smirks in their faces as they started to approach Dan with the intention of stealing his deck while giving him a lesson.
"Right!" The three Stooges said as they were looking forwards to give Dan a beating.
"Dan!" Yuya yelled in worry for his friend as the first stooge threw a punch at him, which would have landed if Dan hadn't caught it. "Huh?"
'Good thing that combat was also included in my memories.' Dan privately thought as the stooges in front of him were a bunch of weak cowards.
"Pathetic cowards." Dan muttered as he proceeded to beat the stooges with a ridiculous ease to Sawatari's terror as his body began to tremble in a fear that was increased for each step that Dan gave as he was coming closer amd closer until he was a feet away from him with his knuckles cracked.
"Hand them over now." Dan ordered him as Sawatari fainted from fear to his amazement.
'Not only a poor ignorant, but also a poor coward indeed.' Dan privately thought as Yuya and the others went to him as he took the stolen Pendulum cards out of Sawatari's Deck.
"Here you have them, you should be more carefull next time someone asks to see your stuff." Dan handed over the cards to Yuya who smiled upon getting them back.
"Thank you, Dan." Yuya thanked Dan before placing the stolen cards back into his deck.
"We need to recover those Pendulum cards and adquire that Brave card that he is carrying with him." Nakajima said as he was about to order LDS's security team to move in.
"There is no need for that. We already got valuable data about the Pendulum Summon, but much as I am intriged by this Brave mechanic, I don't see the need to resort to violence at the moment." Reiji stops Nakajima from taking reckless actions.
"Understood sir." Nakajima replies to Reiji.
'Most importantly, who is this Bashin Dan?' Reiji was more curious about the unknown factor that just appeared before him. ' Could he be one of his men?'
"We should leave this place as quickly as possible." Dan made the suggestion to Yuya and the others.
"Why? The duel just ended and we still have to see the remaining facilities." Yuya asks as Dan smacks his head in response. "Ouch, what was that for?"
"Did you aready forgot about the voice from earlier!?" Dan was surprised at Yuya's easygoing attitude, he knew that Yuya was a very trusting individual, but this trustfull ? "From the start, this was a trap from LDS in order to get your Pendulum cards and Sawatari was only a pawn in the long run, so they might send in reinforcements to steal your cards if we stay here any longer."
"The kid is clever." Nakajima said as Reiji was a bit impressed that his trap was easily figured out.
"If that is true then, it was all a trap from LDS from the start." Yuzu gasps in realization at what Dan was stating.
"And that is why we should get out of here and fast." They all escaped from LDS's building without knowing that someone else asides from Reiji saw the duel.
"A Brave, huh? It seems that guy is more interesting than this school's so called best duelists." He said that pointing at the knocked out Sawatari and his stooges while eating a candy. "This is going to be fun."
OC cards.
Siegfried Apollodragon - (LIGHT/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 2300/ DEF: 1800/ Level 6/ Effect)
This card can Target attack 1 monster your opponent controls.(Target Attacks cannot be negated, changed to another target and the battle phases involving them can't be skipped after the attack is declared) If this card destroys a monster in battle while Braved, destroy 1 monster your opponent controls.
Brave Cylinder - Normal Trap
When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Target the attacking monster; negate the attack, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to it's ATK. If you control a Brave card on the field, add the Brave's Brave Boost as damage.
Sagitta Fire - Quick-Play Spell
Apply 1 of the following effects:
● Destroy all Special Summoned monster(s) on the field whose ATK is 2000 or less.
● Destroy 1 Spell or Trap card on the field, the card will be destroyed even if there is another effect preventing it's destruction.
Bal-Rhinos - (EARTH/ Beast/ Red Brave/ ATK: 1400/ DEF: 900/ Quality 4/ Brave Boost- 400 ATK/ Effect)
Brave Cost: Level 5 or higher monster.
Once per turn, you can destroy 1 card on your field and if you do draw 1 card.
[When Braved]: Once per turn: When this card attacks; Draw one card from your deck and destroy 1 opposing monster whose ATK is equal or less than this card's ATK and that monster cannot activate it's effects.
Burning Meteor - Continuous Spell
Braved Monsters can only leave the field by battle destruction. When a Braved Monster destroys a monster in battle, deal the ATK of the destroyed monster as damage to your opponent when it was destroyed.
For those who are wondering. Cardfight Vanguard G Reborn is still being written, so don't be worried if you think that it's on HIATUS. The next chapter of that fic should be here in a few days.