Bonds Beyond Dimensions.
A Yu-Gi-Oh! My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Crossover
Five ponies sat, looking desperately at their enemy. Discord was laughing hysterically at the ponies' failures. He had managed to turn each pony completely away from their element, corrupting each one.
Except for Twilight Sparkle.
The lavender pony began to fear the worst. The elements of harmony were nowhere to be found. No way would she be able to convince her friends to snap out of their delusional states. It would take a miracle to turn this situation around, or at least get her friends back.
Discord began to relax, still laughing, however his laugh was turning more childish than evil, if anything.
"Oh this moment will be very memorable, I wish I had a camera." He said, eyes watering from all his laughter.
Twilight could only respond with an angry look.
Fluttershy responded harshly to his attitude with a little attitude of her own.
Pinkie Pie, who now despised laughter, said "What's the big idea pal? You shouldn't be talking for such an ugly thing!" The comment didn't even faze Discord.
"Agreed, as a friend of mine once told me 'you look like a pile on mish-mash of everything but the kitchen sink.'" Rarity added, her temper also getting the better of her.
Discord responded to their comments "Oh, everypony, you all talk so big for such losers, after all I did win. Oh how I do so love games, more importantly winning them!"
Finally Twilight mustered up the courage to speak and asked, "But why Discord? Why would you do this to our friendship, and more importantly to the ponies of Equestria?"
Discord opened his mouth to begin his explanation, but was soon interrupted by an explosion of light that seemed to rip through space. The ponies turned around to see what had happened. A strange light beamed from behind the ponies a few feet away from them.
"What's going on? What did you do Twilight?" knowing her power, Discord would expect a spectacle such as this one coming from Twilight, especially after returning her horn.
"I'm not doing anything!" Twilight answered. She had to yell to get her voice through the loud, explosion-like sound. Discord was dumbfounded. What could possibly be causing this ripple of light to appear out of nowhere?
The light began to grow larger, forming a circular shape. A portal? Discord thought.
Then something emerged from the portal. A dragon. Not the typical dragon one may see roaming the world of Equestria. This was a deity, and Discord could feel its power but was unable to remember what it was exactly. He felt it's power match his, maybe even surpass it.
It finally revealed itself. A dragon of flames painted in a crimson coat. They all sat in awe at the majestic view of this dragon emerging from a tear in space.
The Crimson Dragon .Discord recognized it, and he stopped laughing. This was bad, for him at least. The Crimson Dragon was an ancient deity with incredible power. Older than Equestria itself, there was no way Discord could take on this powerful creature.
The ponies were unable to comprehend what was happening. They were beyond bewildered.
As the dragon finally made its way out of the wormhole, everypony saw somepony riding the dragon. A dark blue unicorn.
Control panels and high-powered electronic devices of the future were just part of another typical day for Yusei. He stepped on an auto walk, which took him to a security door across the brightly lit hallway. Along the way he grabbed his lab coat from his locker located just behind the auto walk. Yusei stepped off and approached the door. Many locks and pass identifications marked the door, as would be expected of a research facility loaded with technology that could probably destroy the world if they fell into the wrong hands.
Yusei removed his ID card from his back pocket, slid it through an identification machine. The scanner recognized Yusei's ID and asked for him to enter his employee number. However this was completely different from his ID number.
Yusei punched in the code, then his ID number. Both had to be memorized and not written down anywhere for security reasons. Then another scanner the size of an ordinary pencil emerged and pointed at Yusei. It asked for Yusei's eye. He bent down and let the retinal scanner scan his eye. It picked up his eye signature and finally recognized the Employee as Chief in command: Yusei Fudo.
Yusei entered a sterile, white room. He greeted his fellow professors. Despite being higher in rank he didn't like to think he was above them. Yusei approached one professor in another white labcoat
"We're ready to begin chief." The professor said.
"Please, call me Yusei." He smiled. The professor smiled back, seeming to approve of his statement. As Yusei made his way towards the plexiglass window acting as a blast shield in case of accidents. Behind the window was a very large room nearly 60 feet deep. Other research rooms surrounded this coliseum-like room.
Yusei could see the other leaders of their research teams standing at the window. They were all working on the same project, an interdimensional matter transporter. With this device, people and supplies can be transported exponentially faster to other places around the world. Yliaster was the organization working on this technology, and courtesy of them, researchers were able to get a head start. However recent tests have shown that transporting anything the size of a small pear works. Transporting a person… well that's a different story that may end in disintegration and lawsuits.
But now the team had Yusei who was a recent addition. Everyone's confidence soared through the roof. Knowing the son of the highly renown Dr. Fudo gave everyone a morale boost. Or perhaps it was just wherever Yusei stepped confidence soars. Everyone felt this effect during the situation with the Machine Emperors. Yusei himself doesn't know of this effect.
"Yusei, did you get the news?" one chief said over the communication link between the rooms.
Yusei responded "Roger that, we're ready to begin, let's get started."
Lights flashed, gears turned, and electricity ran through the room, not just through circuits, but through the professors and engineers watching this machine go. Yusei just stood there smiling, but suddenly he began to feel a throbbing pain in his forearm.
What, this again?He thought. Yusei hasn't felt this pain in months, not since the Crimson Dragon reclaimed its marks from the signers. Then more pain shot throughout his body.
It felt as if he was struck by lightning. He fell to the ground in pain. Everyone rushed to help him.
"Sir! Are you ok?" one professor said.
Groaning, Yusei said "Yeah… I'm fine, I need to step out for a while…" He walked briskly toward the exit. He stepped outside to the brilliantly lit city known as Neo Domino City. The city was a marvel. Running on infinite energy from Momentum, the city did not sleep.
Yusei looked up at the city and looked at its features. Skyscrapers, long intersecting highways looping infinitely, Ancient Fairy Dragon…
Wait, Ancient Fairy Dragon?Yusei was dumbfounded. The pain finally went away.
"Yusei, the Crimson Dragon needs you yet again." Ancient Fairy dragon said.
Yusei didn't argue. He had learned to trust in the intentions of the Crimson Dragon.
"What will you have me do?" he asked.
"A world is in peril. Its warriors of harmony are on the brink of failure. You are the only one strong enough to bring them back up from the ground so that they can continue fighting." Ancient Fairy Dragon said.
Yusei felt honored that the Crimson Dragon would choose him for this mission. "But what of my friends?" He asked.
"They will not be coming. Do not worry they will be safe no matter what happens. I simply do not wish to interrupt them from their lives." Ancient Fairy Dragon responded.
But it's ok to interrupt me, he thought. "Very well, I accept this mission."
Ancient Fairy Dragon waved for one last thing. Suddenly all six signer dragons appeared, each putting their claws over Yusei. He felt the marks of all five of his friends combine to make the completed mark of the Crimson Dragon. Feeling it form, he took off his labcoat and donned his blue duelist jacket with orange shoulder and elbow pads for when he rode on his D-Wheel.
The dragons vanished into a veil of light, only to let the Crimson Dragon emerge. It slowly descended in front of Yusei. He stood there with a confused look. What does it want him to do?
He began to walk towards it. His breath was taken, he had never seen it this close before. He put his gloved hands on it. It did not respond. Then Yusei jumped and grabbed on to it's back. Then the Crimson Dragon finally responded.
It took off into the air creating a wormhole of some sort, flying towards it with Yusei on its back. Yusei barley flinched, he was in awe as he saw the full beauty of Neo Domino City shrink before him as he ascended into the air.
A voice called out. "Do you have your deck?"
Not knowing where it came, he responded "Yes, but do I need my D-Wheel also?"
"No you do not. Not where you are going." After that Yusei sat still as everything around him darkened. Neo Domino City vanished, and his mission began.
"Wake up." a majestic voice called out, "We are nearing our approach." Yusei's eye's opened slowly. He thought he was still dreaming, but he wasn't. He was still on the mission that the Crimson Dragon assigned him.
Yusei was still very confused over the vague information the Crimson Dragon gave him. Warriors of harmony? Brink of failure? A different world apart from ours? All these questions were ringing through his head.
"Do not worry," the majestic voice said again, "all questions will be answered when we arrive. Just know this: the world which we are going exists in a different dimension apart from yours, and apart from the spirit world of duel monsters. Certain rules apply, and you may change a bit, physically."
Great more questions. He thought, but as long as all the questions would be answered when they arrive. He looked around and saw the same dark void, and the Crimson Dragon.
He remained silent.
A light appeared, and then the dark tunnel they were in began to flash. Yusei assumed that they were almost where he needed to be. He closed his eyes yet again and prepared for whatever lied ahead.
"But why Discord? Why would you do this to our friendship, and more importantly to the ponies of Equestria?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
Before he could mutter anything, he was interrupted.
A vortex of light in the sky opened up, tearing the space around it. A dragon of flames revealed itself.
The Crimson Dragon. Discord thought.
The Crimson Dragon made its way to the ground where the ponies and Discord stood. A blue unicorn with a spiked mane and streaks of its mane highlighted yellow jumped off the dragon. The unicorn was wearing a blue jacket that seemed to have orange shoulder pads. The unicorn also had a small rectangular shaped box right above its flank.
The Crimson Dragon flew off into the portal, leaving the blue unicorn behind.
They all stared quietly. An awkward silence lasted for nearly 5 minutes. The ponies blankly stared at the mysterious unicorn.
Discord however, made his way forward and stood over the blue unicorn, giving an awkward stare as if observing him.
Then finally, silence broke.
"Umm, hello there, I'm Yusei Fudo," the blue unicorn said "I was sent here by the Crimson Dragon to help somehow."
Yusei still attempted to make sense of the situation. He saw ponies, and some weird dragon-like thing. The ponies specifically caught his attention.
Ponies? Yusei still didn't understand anything going on.
"I'm sorry but, what are ponies doing here?" Yusei asked.
The five ponies behind the strange creature all gave him faces of confusion. Then a yellowish pink maned pony spoke out.
"What do you mean 'what are ponies doing here?' This is Equestria! HELLO, this is a land of ponies?" she said.
Yusei was still piecing all this together. Why had she yelled at him? Was it something he said?
Then a lavender pony stepped up, "Fluttershy, shush! I'm very sorry my friend is rude, but she has a point, don't you know everypony here is a pony?"
"…What?" Yusei asked. Then he remembered something he heard, Certain rules apply, you may change, physically. "wait a minute…"
Yusei quickly ran to the nearest puddle. What he saw in the reflection nearly made his eyes pop out of his skull. I'M A PONY?
He struggled to maintain his cool. It made sense to him finally. World of ponies, humans don't exist in this world and apparently can't, so he was changed to a pony. It still seems like his hair and jacket was intact though, and more importantly his deck was too.
Then it was Discord's turn.
"Yusei Fudo? What kind of name is that?" Discord mocked. Yusei turned around, ignoring the comment.
"I'm looking for some people… some ponies…" Yusei remembered another thing, warriors of harmony. It seemed vague but he took a shot at it.
"Gee well there are ponies everywhere in this world, that narrows it down to…oh I don't know…EVERYPONY." Discord mocked Yusei yet again, but still didn't affect him.
"I'm looking for some ponies called warriors of harmony?"
Discord's eyes widened, and began to laugh hysterically. He pointed to the five battered looking ponies behind him "Those are your warriors for ya!"
Yusei didn't understand, they were just ponies, but in his own experiences he learned not to underestimate anyone, or in this case anypony.
"Is this true?" he asked them.
The lavender pony answered him "yes, but we are not necessarily warriors. This harmony you speak of has six elements. I am Twilight Sparkle,"
Twilight Sparkle? Yusei recalled a time his friend Aki gave him a silly name ending in Sparkle. He fought back the urge to laugh hysterically next to the strange creature. Oh boy I wonder what the rest of their names are. He thought.
"I represent the element of Magic. I believe you've met my friend Fluttershy."
"Yes, the welcoming committee." He said
"Well believe it or not she is the element of Kindness…"
"Wait, really?"
"Yes but trust me she is normally very kind." Yusei cocked a brow and shrugged his shoulders, taking her word for it.
"What are the other elements, if I may ask?"
Twilight pointed to Rarity. Yusei saw the purple maned pony stare a dirty look at him.
"MY DIAMOND!" she yelled.
"Yes well this is Rarity, element of Generosity." Twilight began to blush. This situation would be much easier if they were acting like their normal selves.
Next Twilight went on to her orange coated friend.
"Hello thar, and must ah say that's one heck uva hairdo ya got thar, looks real nice!" Applejack bit her lip.
Yusei could easily see right through her lie, and couldn't help but feel insulted. Feelings aside he said "Let me guess, something with Honesty right?"
Twilight's face was more purple than it normally was. "Yeah… and this is Pinkie Pie, element of Laughter."
"GRRRRRRRRRRRR" Pinkie pie growled angrily as Twilight gave herself a hoof to the face.
"Lovely, what's the last one?" Yusei asked.
"That would be Rainbow Dash, element of Loyalty…" Twilight said.
"And where is she?"
"… She kind of flew away, and kind of abandoned us…a bit."
"Of course," Yusei responded, "What's going on here, why are the Elements of Harmony in complete disarray?"
Discord stopped rolling on the floor from laughter and gave him the answer "I have them!"
"What do you mean?"
Twilight answered him "His name's Discord. He's an evil entity that ruled Equestria many years ago until he was encased in a stone prison. He broke free, stole the elements, and corrupted my friends."
Yusei finally pieced it together. Warriors of harmony are actually elements of friendship, and the friends that embodied these elements were corrupted and without friendship they cannot reawaken the elements. These ponies were the ones Yusei needed to pick back up from the ground, so they can fight again.
He turned to Discord. Discord chuckled.
"I've been sent here to stop you." Yusei said.
Discord seemed rather enthusiastic in this turn of events. "I know who you are, Yusei Fudo, savior of Neo Domino City and signer of the Crimson dragon."
Everypony was shocked at this comment, even Yusei. "How do you know so much?" he asked Discord, his voice taking on a serious tone.
"My body was stuck in the stone prison, but not my spirit. I was weakened and wasn't strong enough to break free. My spirit wondered the universes for years, including yours. And I must say, I was especially interested in your situation. The way you defeated all your opponents in the Grand Prix, the Three Emperors of Yliaster and Z-one was an incredible feat, and all by yourself I might add." Discord took a strange turn in an attempt to flatter Yusei, but he saw through Discord's tricks.
"Wrong. I had friends to helped me, and I wouldn't have gotten where I am without them." he responded, his voice increased in volume.
Twilight didn't understand what was going on, but from what she heard she could tell Yusei has been through a lot, and was incredibly committed to his friends. Discord was disappointed at the statement.
"Oh friends," Discord pointed to the five ponies "look where friendship brought them, they could not defeat me at my game with their friendship and I will soon emerge victorious!"
Yusei thought hard. He heard the word game in his sentence.
"Discord, I'm guessing you like to play games." Yusei said.
Discord stopped laughing and looked at him with a grim smile "Why yes I do, what do you have in mind?"
Yusei took advantage of the fact Discord knew so much about Neo Domino City. "I'm sure you're familiar with the game of Duel Monsters.
He laughed grimly "Of course I am, I even managed to collect some of the most powerful cards during my time in your world."
"Excellent," Yusei said "then I challenge you to a Duel!" The mark of the Crimson Dragon on Yusei's flank lit up to life. Yusei looked at his flank. Why is my mark on my butt? He wondered. Then he looked around. Everypony had marks on their flanks, just not glowing like his.
"That's an impressive cutie mark," Discord said, "you better hope the power of the Crimson Dragon is with you during this duel, because I assure you, you will not beat me."
Twilight and the ponies were sitting silent. They could not comprehend what was happening, but Twilight couldn't believe what she was seeing. One colt standing up to a deity of chaos, she would try her best to pay close attention.
Applejack spoke up "Uhhh Twi, what's goin' on?" she asked hoping she knew.
Twilight answered her to the best of her ability "Honestly, and I mean it, I don't know but I'll try to keep you girls updated on what's going on."
They all sat there in silence again. Whatever was going on Twilight hoped it was in their favor. Perhaps this was the miracle she was looking for. She couldn't help but feel a morale boost. It happened right around the time Yusei came in.
Discord waved his arm, laughing manically. Two duel discs spawned around his forearm and Yusei's foreleg.
"Let the games begin!" Discord announced, still laughing. He smirked as his deck spawned within his deck slot on his duel disk.
"I'll show you Discord, it's the bonds of friendship that gives me my strength, and even though I don't know anypony here it's the bond that these 6 friends share that will get me through this." Yusei's passion got through Discord, as well as Twilight.
"Wait, Yusei," Twilight said, "I don't understand…"
"Twilight, don't worry, I will get you and your friends out of this." Yusei's words cut through Twilight like a sword.
"Awwww shucks, Yusei ah know y'all can do it." Applejack said.
Yusei saw right through her lie "I will Applejack."
"Ah know, dint ah say that?"
"Did Applejack say it, or did compulsive liar sitting over there say it? Because it means differently coming from Applejack." In many ways he was right and Applejack knew it.
"You are very confident Yusei. Too bad I have to crush that confidence." Discord said.
"Enough! The time for talk has ended." Yusei responded. At that moment they both yelled simultaneously. "DUEL!"