The Touch
Prologue: The Cybertronian Decks
Hello again, GX fans! This story you are about to read is based in part on the US cartoon drawn in anime style which led me to enjoy the Yu-Gi-Oh cartoons, "Transformers." I had been thinking of yet another alternate timeline to Episode 95, but this alternate ending wouldn't be a happy one. What I needed in order to do the story was the proper inspiration for different decks for Jaden Yuki and Zane Truesdale. These decks would be based on perhaps one of the greatest grudge matches in animation history… The Transformers Generation 1 grudge match between Optimus Prime and Megatron. And so, the story of the Cybertronian decks begins.
Disclaimer: Peach Wookiee doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Transformers. If she owned the latter, the travesty of a movie made by Michael Bay never would've occurred. She also doesn't own "The Touch" by Stan Bush, for which this story is named…
Warning: This story will contain a major character's death. Please don't hate me, because I love this character and am shedding tears as I do what I'm about to do…
In the game of Duel Monsters, there are several decks that have gained the status of legendary. One deck is that of Yugi David Muto, who carries the Dark Magicians. Another legendary deck is that of Joseph Aaron Wheeler, who holds the Red Eyes Black Dragon. But there are two decks in Duel Monsters that are actually part of a story begun with another legend. These are known as the Cybertronian decks. The Cybertronian decks hold machine monsters, but these go beyond what you've seen before. In fact, the monsters in these decks were supposedly locked in battle millions of years before the legendary Atem was born. The Cybertronian decks are so called because the machine creatures in these decks hailed from a planet called Cybertron.
The story begins on Cybertron…Four million years ago, on the planet Cybertron, there lived a race of living, feeling machines called the Transformers. Among these groups were the Autobots, a group that wanted merely to live in peace and the Decepticons, a group that wanted nothing more than to conquer planets and plunder them for their resources. Though the Autobots didn't want to fight, they felt that they had no choice but to fight the Decepticons. The Autobots were led by Optimus Prime who, in his transformed Earth form, looks like a red semi-truck/lorry, while the Decepticons were led by Megatron who, in his Earth form, transforms into a gun.
Eventually, the Autobots felt they had no choice but to leave Cybertron and they hoped that the Decepticons would not follow them. However, the Decepticons wouldn't let their adversaries leave their home planet and chased them across the galaxy. The Decepticons caught up with the Autobots, boarding their ship, and the ship crashed down on prehistoric Earth. Four million years later, the ship reactivated its dormant inhabitants and the two sides began their fight anew. The Decepticons were intent on draining Earth of its resources and enslaving or killing the humans, and the Autobots could not let that happen. The Autobots vowed to protect and live in harmony with the humans and stop the Decepticons.
This story is part of an old cartoon series. Perhaps it was the creator's good fortune that Maximilian J. Pegasus loved the cartoon, because the creator of Industrial Illusions made the characters of the show and its later movies into cards for his highly successful game, Duel Monsters. He made two distinct decks, one being the Autobot deck, populated with the peace-loving robots; the other deck, the Decepticons deck, populated with the martial race of robots. At an amateur dueling contest about one year after Yugi Muto retired from dueling, Pegasus offered the two decks as a prize to whoever won. The winner of that contest was Zane Brian Truesdale. Zane was 8 years old at the time and though he had his own deck that he loved very much, he treasured the two decks he now possessed. He decided to keep the Decepticon deck for himself, while he gave the Autobot deck to his six-year-old brother, Syrus.
As the years passed, Syrus chose his own deck as Zane had chosen his. However, each boy kept their Cybertronian decks close to them, mainly because the decks were so cool to them. Perhaps they one day dreamed of using the decks together in battle, but sadly, the day they dreamed of would never come. Instead, another young man would pick up the Autobot deck in Syrus's place to fight his brother who in real life had turned to the way of the Decepticons. And on the day that another young man took the Autobot deck, the original holder met the fate of Optimus Prime…
And that is the end of the prologue. I hope you enjoyed the explanation of the Cybertronian decks. This will be a story that makes you cry, but I hope that doesn't prevent you from reading and enjoying it. Until next time, everyone, read and review.