***I just wanted to let you guys know that I recently got a full-time permanent job so I won't be able to update as often as I used to. To make up for that, I'll spend an entire month working on a certain story while making the chapters decently sized. The schedule will be as follows for the first few months.***
The remainder of July: Neo Duelist Kingdom
August 1 - 31/2016: Ben Tennyson's Five Nights at Frannie's
September 1 - 30/2016: Nuka's Redemption
October 1 - 31/2016: Kami's Avatar of the Omniverse (Red Lantern)
November 1 - 18/2016: Star Wars: Duelist Kingdom Saga
November 19 - 30/2016: Break
December 1 - 23/2016: Of Masks and Signers
***Anyways, I hope you guys like the story concept. I've been wanting to do a story like this one for a LONG time now.***
***I don't, nor will I ever, own Totally Spies or Yu-Gi-Oh!***
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" = Normal Speech
"Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" = Thinking
"Dragon Master Knight!" = Yelling
(Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon!) = Card Stats
Invitation to a Tournament: A Kaiba Steps out of the Shadows!
On a dark and stormy Friday evening, Seto Kaiba was resting in his penthouse in Beverly Hills as he finished up some work he had to do. He often goes there with his brother, Mokuba Kaiba, whenever their old penthouse in Japan needed to be renovated. Having an indecisive interior decorator could be such a hassle sometimes.
"Almost as much of a hassle as running a big company. I swear, there are days that I hate owning a large company like Kaiba Corporation. All of this headache inducing paperwork." Seto thought bitterly to himself.
It wasn't all bad. He still had plenty of free time to play Duel Monsters and use simulators to plan out new strategies he could use to try and defeat his arch rival, Yugi Moto. Plus he still had time to spend with his little brother, Mokuba.
As Seto finished up the last of his paperwork, his mind wandered to his adopted sister. She attends High School here in Beverly Hills, but he knew for a fact that her life was in no way any easier than his. Sure, she didn't have to worry about the stresses that come with running a big company like Kaiba Corp., but she had to work for an organization known as WOOHP.
Seto wasn't stupid. He and Mokuba both knew that she was working for a top secret government Spy Agency, but acted ignorant of her true job for her sake, knowing that she could lose her position as a spy if her secret got out.
"And Lord knows what would happen then." Seto thought with an anime bandage throbbing on his left temple as a headache formed.
"SETO!"
The eldest Kaiba brother looked up to see his little brother, Mokuba running in with a panicked expression on his face. In fact, he looked almost as if he'd seen a ghost.
"Mokuba, what's wrong?" Seto asked.
"It's our sister! I just got a call from the hospital, and they have her there being treated for many serious injuries! She was ambushed!" Mokuba explained through his panic.
"She was ambushed?!" Seto asked before thinking "Impossible! She's a very well trained spy! There's no way she could be taken down so easily, unless…"
Seto suddenly shot up and grabbed his suitcase. It contained thousands of rare and powerful cards as well as his Duel Disk, and he had a feeling he was going to need it. He turned to his little brother, knowing he'd need him to hold down the fort.
"Call back the hospital that our sister is staying in, and let them know I'm on my way, now!" Seto ordered.
Mokuba nodded in affirmative and began to dial the number for the hospital on his PDA. Seto headed for the door where the limousine was parked, knowing he couldn't walk or take his motorcycle in a storm as bad as this.
"Take me to Bev Hills Clinic as fast as possible." Seto said to the driver.
"Right away, mister Kaiba." replied the driver.
The driver soon started off for the hospital going just above the speed limit, knowing that his client must've been worried about something, even though he wasn't showing it. As they drove on, Seto took a second pendant that looked like a Duel Monsters trading card out from under his shirt. He opened it to reveal a photo of the girl that was adopted into his family, only the picture was taken three years ago.
The girl had dark skin like someone who lived in Africa or India, shoulder length black hair, and bright brown eyes. She was smiling and laughing as a younger Seto Kaiba was busy giving her a noogie in this picture.
"I'm coming, Alex! You're going to be just fine!"
***At Beverly Hills Hospital…***
"This just hasn't been my year. Well, more accurately, it hasn't been a very good six months." a girl in a hospital bed thought bitterly.
Alexandra Kaiba, otherwise known as Alex, hasn't been having the best of luck in her spy career these past six months. Her performance on missions has dropped drastically, and she keeps making several mistakes that lead to the bad guys almost getting away. This caused Jerry and even her two former best friends, Sam and Clover, to seriously doubt her abilities as a spy.
Then this new spy girl in-training known as Brittany comes along and shows her up at every mission, making her seem like an even more expendable life. And her so-called "friends" didn't seem to want anything to do with Alex anymore, preferring to hang around Brittany more and more. So, Alex did the most reasonable thing she could think of at that time.
She quit!
That's right. If her friends and WOOHP didn't want anything to do with her anymore, then why should she stick around at a place where she's clearly not wanted. So to supplement with her free time, Alex has been hanging around the darker part of town and using her spy training to put a stop to the growing number of gangs that have been on the rise recently.
She still remembers how she got stuck her by fighting against the bosses of a powerful and dangerous gang known as the Scornful Scorpions.
***Flashback Start…***
In an abandoned warehouse, Alex was standing in front of an injured mother and her six year old child. And in front of her were at least fourteen armed thugs, each with different types of weapons in hand. The only thing the thugs had in common was the black scorpion tail tattooed on their faces.
"Ey, goil, din yo mama ever teach ya not ta mess wit other people's business?" one of the thugs asked.
"Didn't your mothers ever teach you not to pick on defenseless families with small children?" Alex shot back.
"Den maybe we should mess wit you instead!" snarled an angry Scornful Scorpion.
As the mother and her child ran to get help, the scorpions attacked. Thanks to her Taekwondo training, Alex managed to easily knock out many an unarmed gang member. Unfortunately, these guys didn't become a powerful gang just through the use of their fists. Many of them were armed with all sorts of weapons. Knives, chain links, even handguns.
Alex knew the odds were stacked against her, but she wasn't about to let that stop her. She punched, kicked, chopped, and blocked her way through the enemy lines. Pretty soon, all members of the Scornful Scorpions were lying unconscious on the ground.
Alex was barely standing as she panted due to exhaustion, and had many injuries of her own. Her forearms were covered in cuts from knives, she was bruised in various areas, and she knew she had a couple of cracked ribs. There was also a bleeding cut on the right side of her face. She sighed in satisfaction, knowing that these creeps wouldn't be bothering anyone else ever again. When suddenly…
*KA-BANG!*
Alex gasped in pain as she felt something pierce her flesh through her back. Having heard the gunshot, she knew that she'd just been literally shot in the back. She just barely managed to turn around as the blood flowed from her back, and saw who her attacker was.
It was a buff man who looked to be between the ages of twenty eight and thirty three. He had olive skin, a well muscled upper body like that of a luchador, auburn hair, and pupiless amber colored eyes. The man only wore a pair of black Gi pants, and a golden chain necklace around his neck. He also had medical tape wrapped around his forearms and feet, and a large black scorpion tattooed on his upper body; an arm and pincer on each arm, the abdomen and legs on his torso, and the tail wrapping around his back with the stinger at the base of his throat.
The man laughed a cruel laugh as he walked toward Alex, the grin never leaving his face.
"Well, well, well. I must say, that was a very impressive performance on your part, little girl. To have fought off fourteen of my lowest ranking operatives with no help… I almost want you as one of my foot soldiers!" he said holstering the gun he'd brought.
"Who… who are you? What do you want?" Alex growled, struggling to stay conscious.
"From you? Nothing. In fact, I didn't even want anything from that mother or her child." the man answered. "I may lead a criminal organization, but even I have morals. Unlike some of the slime balls you may have fought before, I don't intend to allow innocent people to get caught in the crossfire of my plans."
The man looked down at a thug who was still clutching a bloody machete in his hand before kicking the downed thug and knocking him out before continuing.
"Unfortunately, some of these idiots like to use what little power they do receive from me to pick on the weak and poor. It's why I relocated the more pure agents I have away from this part of Beverly Hills."
Alex tried to listen to what this man was saying, but it was difficult when you're bleeding out from a bullet to the back. Her vision was slowly beginning to fade, but she refused to lower her guard in case of a surprise attack. But the man standing before her seemed to have no intention of fighting back.
"Relax, child, I have no intention of fighting a weakened opponent. I prefer to fight my enemies without the use of cheap tricks. That shot to the back was nothing more than a scorpion's sting without the venom. I've already called an ambulance, and they're on their way to bring you in for medical treatment."
The strange man turned around and began to leave. Alex tried to give chase, but her knees buckled and she fell to the ground. She gnashed her teeth as she silently cursed her powerlessness.
"We'll meet again very soon, little girl. So you'd best remember my name. Kuro Doku."
As Alex's eyes closed, her last thought was about the translation to this man's name.
"Black… Venom…?"
***End Flashback…***
That was the last thing Alex remembered before waking up in this depressing hospital room. There were medical bandages wrapped around her arms and chest, which she could tell had been operated on to fix her ribs, and there was also an IV bag hooked up to her. There was also a sterilized cotton pad on the side of her face where she'd been slashed by that knife.
Alex sighed. She knew that her brothers had most likely been notified of her being in the hospital, and the last thing she wanted was for either of them to worry about her.
"And yet, here I am causing everyone grief wherever I go." Alex thought bitterly.
She was interrupted from her thoughts by a gentle knock on the door.
"Miss Kaiba, you have a visitor." said a nurse as she walked in with Seto close behind. "I'll just give you two a little privacy. Just know that visiting hours are over in an hour, mister Kaiba."
"Thank you, nurse Cindy." said an understanding Seto.
The nurse left for a while so that Seto could speak with his sister. He pulled up a chair and sat next to Alex's hospital bed, trying to contain his emotions. True, his sister has always been a fast healer, but that didn't stop him from worrying.
"Hey, Alex. How're you doing?" Seto asked in an attempt to break the ice.
"As good as anyone can feel after getting in a fight that bad, I guess." Alex replied. "Where's Mokuba?"
"He's back home. I told him I'd bring him over to visit tomorrow, because right now, you and I need to have a little talk." Seto explained.
Alex just closed her eyes and let her head sink deeper into her pillow. She knew this was coming.
"Why did you try to take on a crime syndicate without backup?" Seto asked. "You could've called WOOHP for assistance, or even Sam and Clover, so why didn't you?"
"Why would I want to call on people who clearly don't want anything to do with me?" Alex asked bitterly.
Upon seeing her brother's confused face, Alex began to tell her everything that's happened to her over the past half year. Suffice to say, Seto was definitely angry. He couldn't believe the two girls who had stuck with his sister through thick and thin just up and left her for some greenhorn who knew nothing about being a real spy!
Now, while Kaiba at least understood his sister's reasons for going it alone, he didn't necessarily approve of her doing so. And he needed to voice his concerns about this whole situation.
"Alex, I can't say I blame you for going all solo on everyone, but dealing with a gang such as the Scornful Scorpions on your own was nothing short of reckless. What if you had gotten killed during that fight?" Seto asked in an attempt to reason with his sister. "Think of Mokuba for a minute here! If something bad were to happen to you, he would be crushed!"
These words helped Alex to snap back to reality. Nothing mattered more to her in the world than her two brothers. And like Seto, she too would do anything to protect the ones she loves. But causing Mokuba's little heart to break was not anywhere on her bucket list, and it took Seto having to lecture her about this whole thing to help her realize the unecessary recklessness that was a part of her actions.
Sighing, Alex looked back at her brother.
"You're right, Seto. I wasn't thinking straight." Alex said, shame written clear on her face.
"It's alright, little sister. I probably would've done something even more reckless than you if I were in your place." Seto assured. "But, tell me, what do you plan to do now that you're no longer a spy for WOOHP?"
"I'll just become a tournament duelist."
Seto looked at his sister to see a determined look on her face. He knew that she was fairly skilled in Duel Monsters, just like him, but could she really become a tournament level duelist?
"Don't give me that look, bro. I know what you're thinking. But you taught me everything you know about how to play Duel Monsters, and I've been taking part in a few minor tournaments in my spare time. Trust me, Seto, I can become a Duelist as great as you!" Alex declared.
In response to this, Seto just got up from his chair and began to make his way to the door. Alex became downtrodden as she thought that her brother didn't think she had what it takes. Seto stopped with his hand on the doorknob.
"Don't try to become as great as me." he said. "Become even greater than me."
Alex looked up to see her brother smiling at her. She smiled back, knowing that she had the full support of her family now.
"Rest up, kiddo. You've got a tournament to enter when you get out of here, and I expect you to bring your best deck, because your opponents aren't going to pull any punches!" Seto instructed.
Alex nodded with a grin on her face that was similar to a certain spiky headed tri-colored duelist back in Japan.
"You got it, bro! No way am I gonna lose!" Alex proclaimed.
And with that, Seto bid his sister farewell and headed off for home. He needed to get in touch with Pegasus, as he had a feeling that something big was going to go down.
***Two Months Later…***
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, duelists of all ages, welcome back to the final match of the United States Regional Championship tournament!"
Alex was now in the final stretch of a tournament that her brother had entered her in, but this wasn't a beginner level tournament. No, this one was a tournament that showed that you're in the big leagues. Her opponent was a Dinosaur Duelist who uses Dinosaur-Type monsters to destroy his opponents. He had Gilasaurus and Hyper Hammerhead on his field, currently, while Alex had no monsters and one face-down card on her field.
Alex was behind by six hundred Life Points while her opponent had an even thousand Life Points left. These next moves could be their last.
"Okay, let's see what I got." Alex said, drawing her next card.
She looked at it, and smiled as she knew it would help.
"I summon Tiger Axe in attack mode!"
A monster card appeared on her field, and a monster that looked like a humanoid tiger wearing armor and wielding an axe appeared on her field. It roared in challenge as he stared down at the enemy.
(Tiger Axe: [Beast-Warrior|Normal] EARTH/ Level 4/ ATK; 1300/ DEF; 1100)
"And I'll lay this card face-down for later." Alex said as a face-down card appeared on her field.
"And it looks like contestant Alex has chosen to use a Tiger Axe card! How will she use it? Let's find out!" said the announcer.
"You'll have to do better than that to beat my Dinos, little missy!" Alex's opponent said arrogantly.
He drew his next card, and released a boisterous laugh.
"Today just ain't your day, kid! I sacrifice Gilasaurus and Hyper Hammerhead to summon my mightiest beast; the Super Conductor Tyranno!"
The man's two monsters were engulfed in a hurricane before a green colored Tyrannosaurus Rex that looked like he could pass off as Mecha Godzilla's cousin, appeared on his field. He roared so loud, you could hear it all the way from Canada.
(Super Conductor Tyranno: [Dinosaur|Effect] LIGHT/ Level 8/ ATK; 3300/ DEF; 1400)
***In Canada…***
A mercenary by the name of Deadpool was busy enjoying a nice big enchilada when he heard a roar that made him look towards America.
"Is someone playing Jurassic Park on a surround sound speaker system with the volume all the way up?" Deadpool asked the audience.
Okay, enough fourth wall breaking for one chapter.
***Back with Alex…***
Alex didn't look all that impressed. Sure, it was a rare and powerful card, but her brother's got like twenty copies of it. She knows its abilities inside and out.
"And Alfred has just summoned his most powerful monster, the Super Conductor Tyranno!" said the announcer.
"Oh no. what-EVER shall I do?" mocked Alex.
"You won't be laughing for long, kid! Tyranno, let's take this championship! DESTROY TIGER AXE!" Alfred commanded.
The cybernetic monster roared in acknowledgement as it charged at Tiger Axe. But Alex wasn't worried.
"Sorry, Alfred, but I don't think so!" Alex said.
"What do you mean?" Alfred asked.
"I'll show you. I play my Trap Card, Spellbinding Circle!"
Alex's card flipped up and a magical circle appeared around the dinosaur monster's waist, keeping him from moving even an inch.
"No, my Tyranno!" cried Alfred.
"And now, I'll chain my trap card with my face-down Kunai with Chain!" Alex declared.
A large kunai blade attached to a chair appeared in Tiger Axe's hand. He then twirled it a few times, then threw it at the Super Conductor Tyranno. It struggled as it was squeezed by the chains, but couldn't break free.
"It acts as an equipment card, raising my Tiger Axe's attack power by five hundred points!" Alex explained.
(Tiger Axe: [Beast-Warrior|Normal] EARTH/ Level 4/ ATK; 1300 + 500 = 1800/ DEF; 1100)
"And now that your turn's over, I'll proceed with my own." Alex said, drawing a card.
She looked at it, and her smirk was one that said 'you're now thoroughly screwed'.
"I activate the spell card, Shield & Sword! Switch all monster's attack and defense powers!
Both monsters fizzled out for a moment before going solid again as their attack and defense powers changed.
(Tiger Axe: [Beast-Warrior|Normal] EARTH/ Level 4/ ATK; 1800 - 700 = 1100/ DEF; 1100 + 700 = 1800)
(Super Conductor Tyranno: [Dinosaur|Effect] LIGHT/ Level 8/ ATK; 3300 - 1900 = 1400/ DEF; 1400 + 1900 = 3300)
"And now, I'll give Tiger Axe a little power boost using three copies of Invigoration!" Alex said, playing her three cards.
Tiger Axe roared as his power raised a great amount.
(Tiger Axe: [Beast-Warrior|Normal] EARTH/ Level 4/ ATK; 1100 + 1200 = 2300/ DEF; 1800)
Your Dinosaur's not so tough now, is he?" Alex teased before giving the order. "ATTACK!"
Tiger Axe rushed at the weakened monster with his axe poised to strike. With a mighty leap, Tiger Axe slashed the Super Conductor Tyranno in half, destroying it and winning the duel for Alex.
"Sorry to say, but your Tyranno's now extinct!" teased Alex.
Alfred groaned as he accepted defeat.
"Beaten by a fleabag."
"Let's hear a big round of applause for Alex, our newest champion!" exclaimed the announcer.
The crowed went wild while Alex punched the air in victory. But it looked like things weren't over yet.
"We have a special treat for you tonight, folks. Here to present the championship trophy are the head of Kaiba Corporation and the creator of Duel Monsters themselves; please put your hands together for Seto Kaiba and mister Maximilian Pegasus!"
The crowd once again went wild as the two aforementioned people arrived from a secret compartment in the floor. Pegasus held the trophy while Kaiba was holding a Duel Monsters deck in his hand. Both looked to be proud of Alex for her accomplishment.
"Congratulations!" Pegasus said, presenting Alex with the trophy.
"Indeed. You've certainly earned it." Kaiba added, presenting Alex with the deck.
"Uh, thank you. Thank you both, very much." Alex said as she accepted the trophy and deck.
"And, as Regional Champion, we invite you to a new tournament that I am hosting at Duelist Kingdom!" Pegasus informed.
***To Be Continued…***
I hope you guys like it. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea or not. And please remember my current update schedule that I placed above.