Yusei Fudo was working hard on his Duel Runner. It was nearly complete, just a few more missing compartments and data files and it would be done.
He wiped the sweat off his brow with his hand before looking at the frame work of the up and coming dueling motorcycle. He frowned as he looked at, it recalling bitter events. How could Jack Atlas, one of his closest friends and someone he even considered a brother, steal his previous duel runner and his beloved Stardust Dragon card? He always trusted Jack even when the Enforcers fell apart. He Crow, and Jack were still great friends, so how could he do this? Why would he do that?
It was then time that he decided to go take a break and head outside. It was a beautiful night in the ruined city of the Satellite. He had decided to take a stroll a few hundred meters away from where he was working. As he walked the more clouded his thoughts became so he decided to go up to the roof of a nearby building to clear his head. But thinking about what was Jack doing at this very moment in the city made him angrier. Before long he was looking at the twinkling night sky with nothing but anger in his eyes.
After walking for a few minutes, his head began to clear up and the thoughts of anger slowly dispersed. Yusei inhaled deeply to calm his rage down. Glancing up to the sky, he was able to catch a slow moving shooting star. He chuckled a bit; it still reminded him about Stardust Dragon. It was a bitter feeling recalling about his stolen card, but under that shooting star he swore that he would get his dragon back and settle things with Jack.
Yusei blinked. Something was quite right… was the shooting star becoming… bigger?
'Wait a second! It's heading towards here!?' Yusei realized as he noticed the falling object becoming larger and seeming crashing fast towards his direction.
He needed to get out of here soon, so he would have to go race for his Duel Runner and get out of the blast radius—
Yusei was horrified to see the meteor descending quickly down on his workshop and desperately ran towards his Runner. His mind knew that he wouldn't make it, but his body wouldn't listen to him and kept on running desperately.
But no matter how much he wanted it to change, his danger and survival instincts overwrote the entire body and made Yusei freeze as the large sized meteor crashed into the hidden workshop. Yusei looked on with terror for half a moment before the shockwave knocked him out into the nearest wall.
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"… Uhhh…" Yusei groaned as he felt a splitting headache. His mind started collecting itself together before he remembered what had happened: he was trying to save his duel runner.
The black haired man stood back up, feeling more sore than injured thankfully, and he quickly made his way back towards his hidden workshop—where now there was nothing but a smoking crater.
'Oh no, my duel runner,' Yusei thought as he raced toward the proximity of the meteor crash. As he neared the wreckage of his workshop, his expression turned to pure horror as he looked at what was before him. His duel runner was melting into a puddle of molten metal and rubber and most of his stuff was destroyed or burning. Luckily his deck and duel disk wasn't a part of said wreckage because for a duelist, his cards were the most important thing for him to have.
He had spent years picking up scrap, avoiding sector security, and paying off shady dealer for parts with most of his savings… gone by a cruel twist of luck.
However, fate had something else in store for the man from Satellite. As Yusei glanced over at the "meteor" his shock did not stop.
In front of him was not a meteor of rock or stone, but a giant red and blue robot.
"This can't be happening!" Yusei cried out much to his dismay, temporarily forgetting about his duel runner as he looked at the robot, despite the flames and dirt, the bright red and blue colors on the bulky robot were still vivid and clean. Then Yusei noticed something laying on the ground, it was a large glowing red sword.
"What…" Yusei muttered in awe as he took a step closer to the fallen thing. "What are you? A robot?"
Just as he said those words, Yusei noticed that something was glowing from inside the chest plate of the bulky humanoid-looking robot. It was glowing faintly before it died down. Yusei wondered what that was until he heard sounds coming from the robot. He stepped back in panic, falling on his back as he saw the robot move, and become active. The lights coming from his eyes shining to life as if it was being put back online despite falling from heights unimaginable without a so much as a dent!
"…" The robot, seemingly back online, stood up, made all lights around him glow especially two symbols on his front shoulder that looked like a robotic face, and was towering over Yusei more than he ever thought possible. The robot was huge, and it looked down over towards its sword. However[,] for the first time in his life, Yusei was paralyzed with fear as the robot took back up his blade – making the black haired man fear for his life – but then he saw the blade become part of him and was put away.
The robot's glowing, electronic blue eyes turned to Yusei's cobalt eyes. For a second, the world was still as the two different beings stared down each other.
Yusei found himself sweating, but something, an inner question that was burning through his fear, came out of his mouth. "Who are you?"
"I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots." The sheer surreal situation made Yusei's mind overload. The Robot understood him? More so it answered him in an electronic version of his language? How advanced was this robot – what was this robot? The sword it had definitely meant that it was prepared for battle. "…May I ask who you are?"
"I…I…" Yusei was at a loss for words because the robot had spoken in his language fluently. Not only that, it was the way he carried himself, the way his mannerisms looked, was way too organic to be a complete machine. "I am Yusei, Yusei Fudo."
"I have a question to ask you Yusei, is this planet Earth?" The robot asked, surprising Yusei as to why it would ask such a question.
"Yes. Yes this is Earth." Yusei slowly said as he stood back up, his eyes never looking away from the mechanized giant in front of him.
The robot looked up to the night sky "Then I have made it here after all."
The Earthling had so many questions that he couldn't find himself asking. Why did the robot ask what planet they were on? What the heck are the Autobots? Why did he have a sword? And so many more questions, but his brain seemingly focused more on the fact he had said 'arrived'. Arrived? Planet Earth? … Wait a second…
"Are you… an alien?" Even Yusei couldn't quite believe what words he was speaking.
It was the only way to describe such a robot. A being that fell from space yet looked so technologically advanced yet sentient. Yusei always assumed that intelligent life outside would have at least been organic, not metallic. But his mind couldn't find reason as to how a gigantic Robot fell from the sky without even denting, and was now speaking to him fluently as if he was an actual being.
Optimus looked back down at Yusei. "… Yes…. Yes, I believe so in your terms."
Was Yusei going crazy? Was he dreaming? He had first lost his duel runner (Which at this moment he still had completely forgot about in favor of the sentient life in front of him.) now he was talking to a robot, a giant robot alien that has a giant sword equipped to itself.
It was at this moment, familiar sounds of sirens brought Yusei back down to earth.
"Tch! Sector Security!" Yusei cried out. At this he turned around and recalled that his duel runner was completely destroyed.
The human felt the earth shake a little behind him and saw Optimus glancing over to the broken duel runner. His optics seemed to scan the broken vehicle.
"Small but necessary." Optimus said before the Autobot's entire body compacted, while Yusei watched in wonder as the large body transformed into his broken duel runner!
However, instead of the white and dull red color scheme, Optimus had taken the form of Yusei's duel runner with a brighter, more vivid red color with blue accents instead of white.
"Did you just turn into my duel runner?" Yusei managed to say, once again in awe at the situation. How could a giant robot nearly three times his size turn into his bike? This was all moving far too fast for him.
"It is complicated to explain." Optimus' voice still came out despite him looking exactly like Yusei's duel runner making Yusei even more flabbergasted than he thought was possible. "But know that it would not be wise to reveal myself in such a manner. We must leave."
Yusei felt lost as he the duel runner open up by itself as if to invite him. The lost man now looked to the floor where he noticed his helmet, while dirty, was still intact from the crash. Still, he had to focus on what would happen if Sector Security was to find him right now, and despite all that was happening, the last thing he needed was going to jail.
The raven-haired man felt a little uneasy, especially more so after getting on Optimus and finding out that he was now exactly like his duel runner. It unnerved him to say the least since his real duel runner was currently on fire and beyond recognition, and yet an alien robot had somehow transformed into something even less than half its size in a matter of seconds and copied every single detail as if it was child's play!
Yusei shook his head and booted up the system by linking up his duel disk up to Optimus and felt a surge of power unlike his previous duel runner produced. It seemed chaotic yet calming, like two separate energy signatures combining peacefully. Not to mention, instead of the usual card symbol, it was replaced with a red face that Yusei saw was one of the glowing red symbols on its shoulders. In fact now that he looked again. There was that symbol again etched to the side of one of his arm rests.
"Right. Let's get out of here." Yusei managed to tell himself as he found out that Optimus was already far more efficient than his almost complete duel runner. Despite that, it still felt like his regular duel runner from all his practice runs with it. This all felt so surreal, as his body repeated what he had done to his own duel runner, yet his mind was screaming that this was not his duel runner. When he opened up the throttle, he noticed that unlike most machines the input he was giving it was about half of what he would put into his original duel runner, but it was producing the same output as his old and destroyed duel runner if the input was doubled. He would have to find out why in a once he got to the hideout.
He needed to get back at the hang out and rest a bit. This was all too much for him.
Little did he know, just as he rounded a corner, a certain sector security guard came into view and decided to follow the crab-headed duelist.
In a far and unknown place, one silent being opened his eyes
"Oh? What wakes you up old man?" A cocky and arrogant male voice chided.
"Come on Primo, give Jakob a break. Those old gears probably have to crank sometime." A younger voice came out with a sarcastic tone.
The old and silent member of this group activated something, revealing a screen.
"What's eating you up?"
The being stood up and walked towards a pedestal of the strange but technological advanced room they were in.
"There is a large spike of moving X-Energy in the Satellite that was never there before in previous records," said the formerly silent member of the trio explained whose name was Jakob.
"X-Energy?" The one none as Primo asked with actual surprise in his voice.
"Yes, similar to Ener-D that powers us all and eventually brings forth our own doom. However this energy is more purified than Ener-D and does no disappear as easily."
"So X-Energy is a different form of Ener-D?" The younger voice asked.
"Correct Lester, but this amount of X-Energy ended up puncturing the time stream and enter into this era. And what we had found was far less than what just appeared than when we found it in…"
They all remained silent.
"But when we first found that, Z-One told us that –" Primo started before being cut off.
"Primo. Go the Satellite and hunt down this massive source of X-Energy with extreme prejudice!"
"I will! For the Grand Design!" Primo stated as he silently left the room.