I'd like to thank Cyber Commander for giving me the go-ahead on this project, and to congratulate him on another well-done fanfiction.

I'd also like to thank my good friend Rachel, known here as Ruin Queen of Oblivion, for helping me with my ideas, and letting me use her cards.

Now its time for my own Shadowchasers fanfiction, the enemy this time is the mysterious Post-Modern Prometheus, who is that? Well, you'll just have to find out later.

I apologize for taking so long to do this, but I've been busy.

While the fanfic takes place around the same time as season of 5D's, I'm going to stick with the original Speed World card.

Okay, now that that's over with, lets move on to the fanfiction itself.

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SHADOWCHASERS:

THE POST-MODERN PROMETHEUS

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A SPIN-OFF OF SHADOWCHASERS

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CHAPTER 1:

YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN WAR…

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Oh hi, is this thing on?

My name is Zoe Thompson, when this all started for me, I was a recent graduate of a High School in the town of Columbia Missouri. I was just making my way home from school when I saw something unusual; one of my fellow students was getting mugged.

Not that would be unusual, but the muggers themselves where unusual. They looked more pig-like than anything, and honestly, that scared me. Then all of a sudden, a strange woman approaches them, and challenges the apparent leader to a duel, she beat him in 5 turns.

When she notices me, I'm pretty shaken up, after I tell her that I had seen them like that, she seemed interested. And offered to take me to meet some people in St. Louis, I agreed to at least go.

At the same time, one of her associates was dueling as well.

In Downtown St. Louis, not too far from the Arch, a guy on a Duel Runner chuckles to himself as he manages to avoid the police chasing him. He's carrying a box of money and jewels under his arm, having just robbed a nearby jewelry store, and was about ready to head back.

A normal person would look at him and just see your average human, with a little bit tanned skin, but nothing special. But if you were Aware, you'd see that he was in fact a Dark Elf, one of a local tribe of Dark Elves.

"Hey punk, you wanna explain what your doing?" A woman's voice says from nearby, and a pitch black Duel Runner pulls up next to him. "I'm pretty sure your Tribe's Matriarch wouldn't be too thrilled to see one of you glorified house husbands stealing."

The Dark Elf growls, that was a major insult against male Dark Elves, and he didn't look happy, getting a glance of the woman behind the visor, he notices the mark. "Okay then, Shadowchaser, what are you gonna do about it?"

"Same thing we always do, if I win, you're under arrest," the Shadowchaser says. "Name's Tasha, of the St. Louis Shadowchasers, you got a name?"

"Sorell Acrrar," Sorell grumbles, and activates his duel disk while Tasha does the same.

"Duel mode engaged, autopilot standing by," a computerized woman's voice says from the Duel Runners.

"LET'S DUEL!" They say in unison.

(Tasha: 8000) – (Sorell: 8000)

"I'll go first," Tasha says, and draws a card. "And I'll start with one card face down and summon Mad Lobster (1700/1000) in attack mode!"

A fiendish looking lobster appears, clicking its large pincers together.

"And that's it for my turn," Tasha finishes.

Sorell draws a card, and their speed counters rise to 1. "I'll place a card face down as well, and summon Witch's Apprentice (550/500 + 500)!"

A young spellcaster with red hair, and wearing a witch's outfit and carrying a broom appears.

"Yeah, yeah, I know how that card works, now all dark monsters get 500 attack points, too bad its not nearly strong enough to destroy my monster," Tasha says.

"I'll end my turn then," Sorell says.

Tasha draws a card, and their speed counters rise to 2. "Okay then, I'll summon Speed Warrior (900/400)!" She says, and a stream-lined warrior appears. "Mad Lobster, attack his Apprentice!"

The lobster charges forward, and moves to smash through the apprentice, but she moves into defense mode, and the attack bounces off.

"What how'd that happen?" Tasha demands.

"Sorry, but I activated my trap card, it's a little thing called Nightmare Networking, this card works on low level dark monsters, and not only switches them to defense mode, but prevents them from being destroyed as a result of battle," Sorell explains.

"Fine, I'll end my turn," Tasha growls.

Sorell draws as their speed counters rise to 3. "Fine, I summon this, my Drillago (1600/1100 + 500)!" He says, and a strange machine covered with drills appears. "Now, I switch Witch's Apprentice into attack mode, and I'll destroy your Speed Warrior with her!"

The young witch fires a blast of magical energy, and the warrior shatters.

"Now Drillago's effect allows it to attack directly when all your monsters have over 1600 attack points, so go Drillago, direct attack!" Sorell commands and the machine rushes at Tasha, its drills turning rapidly.

"Go trap card, Gravity Bind!" Tasha counters, and a wave of energy covers the field, stopping Drillago in its tracks. "Thanks to this card, all cards with over 4 levels can't attack."

"Fine, I end my turn," Sorell growls.

(T: 7850) – (S: 8000)

Tasha draws a card as their speed counters rise to 4, glancing at her hand she can see a small bit of black hair growing. Gotta get a grip on me, can't get out of control now, she thinks, looking at her hand. "Okay then, I will summon Eagle Eye (1300/1200)!" She says, and a large eagle with a golden mask appears. "I can't destroy your Drillago yet, but I can at least deal some damage to your life points, Eagle Eye, attack his Witch's Apprentice!"

The eagle dives down, and slashes through the monster.

"Mad Lobster, you do the same!" Tasha continues, and the lobster pinches the apprentice. "And I'll place one card face down, your move."

(T: 7850) – (S: 7200)

Sorrell draws as their speed counters rise to 5. "I play my Angel Baton speed spell!" He says, and draws two cards, then discards one to his graveyard. "And now, I summon my Jinzo-Returner (600/1400 + 500)!" He says, and a small Cyborg that slightly resembles the infamous Jinzo appears.

"Yeah, but it's still too weak to destroy my monsters," Tasha points out as they turn down another street.

"Doesn't Matter, Jinzo-Returner can attack directly, so I'll do that!" Sorell commands and the small Cyborg fires a burst of dark energy at Tasha, and her speed counters fall to 4.

"I activate my trap card; go Des Counterblow, so now your monster is destroyed!" Tasha counters, and the Cyborg shatters.

"Yes, but now thanks to his effect, I can special summon a Jinzo from my graveyard!" Sorell says.

"But you don't have a Jinzo in your grave…" Tasha starts, and then remembers Angel Baton, and the tall imposing figure of Jinzo appears.

"Sure, he'll be destroyed as soon as I end my turn, but I don't plan for him to last that long, I sacrifice him to summon one of the best monsters in my Deck, Jinzo-Lord (2600/1600 + 500)!" Sorell says, and Jinzo grows larger, having a third eye thing, and long tentacle-like appendages growing out of its back. "And now, I activate its effect, which destroys all face up traps on the field, and you lose 300 for each one!"

Nightmare Network, Gravity Bind, and Des Counterblow all shatter, and Tasha's speed counters fall to 3.

"And it's your move now Tasha, lets see what you can do," Sorell finishes.

(T: 5550) – (S: 7200)

Tasha draws, her speed counters rising to 4 while Sorell's rises to 6. Great, I can't use this card because it's a trap, I'll have to think of something else, she thinks. "Fine then, I switch my two monsters to defense mode, and set another monster, your move."

Sorell draws, and his speed counters rise to 7, while Tasha's rise to 5. "Okay then, I'll summon Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650 – 400)!" he says, and a sea-serpent like monster appears, carrying a trident.

Why would he do that? So far he's only used dark monsters, a monster that works to summon a light type wouldn't help him at all, Tasha thinks.

"I'll have Jinzo – Lord, take out her Mad Lobster with your Advanced Psycho Shockwave attack!" Sorell commanded and the Cyborg blasts through the lobster creature. "Drillago, your turn, take out her Eagle Eye!"

The bird lets out a squawk, and shatters.

"Now Witch's apprentice, take out her face down monster!" Sorell commands and the apprentice sends a spell at the hidden monster, only to have it rebound and hit Sorell.

"That was my Marshmallon, so you lose 1000 life points, and it can't be destroyed!" Tasha says.

(T: 5550) – (S: 6200)

"Fine, I end my turn," Sorell says.

Tasha draws a card as her speed counters rise to 6 and Sorell's rise to 7. Marshmallon will buy me some time, but I need to think of something fast if I'm gonna win this, this card will help when I get the final component to my best monster, she thinks. "Okay then, I place one card face down, and it's your move."

Sorell draws a card. "Okay then, I sacrifice my Witch's Apprentice to summon this, Machine King (2200/2000 + 300)!" He says, and a large machine appears. "Unfortunately, I can't do anything else right now, your move."

Tasha draws again, and her speed counters rise to 7 and Sorell's rise to 8. "Okay then, I summon this monster, Junk Synchron, which lets me special summon from my graveyard, Speed Warrior!" She says, and a cute, orange plated warrior appears, followed by the speedy warrior. "And now, I'll activate the Speed Spell known as Downgrade Draw, so I can pay 500 life points to lower the level of one of my monsters by 1, and draw a card, so I target Junk Synchron," she says, and draws a card.

"That won't do you any good," Sorell points out.

"Yeah, we'll see, I play Summon Speeder, so I'll special summon to the field my Clown Zombie (1350/0)!" She says, and a bizarre clown appears, carrying a scythe.

"I fail to see the point of all this," Sorell says.

"Here's what the point is, I tune together Junk Synchron and Marshmallon!" She says, and the two monsters fly up, turning into stars. "To summon the strongest monster in my deck, go, JUNK WARRIOR (2300/1300 + 2250)!" She says, and a purple metallic warrior with two lenses for eyes, and a jet pack appears.

"4550 attack points!" Sorell says in shock.

"That's right, and it's more than enough to take out your Jinzo – Lord, Junk Warrior attack with Scrap Fist!" Tasha commands, and the warrior punches through the machine, lowering Sorell's speed counters to 7. "One card face down, and it's your move."

(T: 5550) – (S: 4350)

Sorell grudgingly draws as their speed counters rise to 8 apiece. "I activate the speed spell, Speed Fusion!" He says.

"Fine, what are you going to summon?" Tasha asks.

"I fuse together these two monsters, Machine King on the field, and Queen Machine in my hand!" Sorell says with a laugh.

Queen Machine? I've never heard of that card, what on earth is he summoning? Tasha thinks.

"By fusing together these two monsters, I can summon a monster all machines revere as a God..." Sorell says, and a huge machine sitting in the lotus position, with eight long arms and optical sensors emerges from the swirling vortex. "I summon, MECHANICLES THE DIGITAL DEITY (3500/1000 + 500)!"

"Okay, so it's impressive, but it's not nearly enough to take out my Junk Warrior," Tasha says.

"Hmm, that's true, I'll place one card face down, and end my turn," Sorell says.

Why didn't he attack my Clown Zombie? Tasha thinks, and draws, their speed counters rising to 9. "I'll switch Clown Zombie to defense mode, and set another monster, Junk Warrior, attack Mechanicles, Scrap Fist!" She commands, and the warrior charges forward at the monster.

"Sorry, but I activate my trap card, go DNA Surgery!" Sorell counters and his trap card activates. "And I'll use this card to turn all monsters on the field into machines!"

Clown Zombie becomes more metallic, while Junk Warrior doesn't really change much.

"And Mechanicles gains another 1000 attack points!" Sorrel says, and the mechanical god's attack rises to 5000.

"Oh no, that means my Junk Warrior..." Tasha says in surprise.

"Will be destroyed" Sorell says, as the machine blasts through the warrior, and his attack falls to 4500.

"Fine, I'll place this card face down, and it's your move," Tasha finishes with an animalistic growl.

(T: 5100) – (S: 4350)

Sorrel grins as he draws a card, this wasn't going to take much longer, and this card would do it for him as their speed counters rise to 9. "I equip Mechanicles with the Equip Speed Spell Crushing Light, so now my machine deals damage even when your monster is in defense mode," he says.

Uh-oh and my Clown Zombie has no defense points… Tasha thinks she had to think of something fast.

"Now Mechanicles, attack her Clown Zombie!" Sorrel commands, and the mechanical deity blasts the zombie clown as Tasha's speed counters drop to 5. "And with that, I end my turn.

(T: 600) - (S: 4350)

Tasha draws a card and her speed counters rise to 6, and Sorrel's rises to 10. "I place this card face down, and I summon Tune Warrior (1600/200)!" She says, and a robotic warrior appears. "And that's it for my turn."

"That's all? Pathetic," Sorrel says, and draws a card as his speed counters reach 11, and Tasha's reach 7. "Well, I guess its time to finish you off, Mechanicles, attack Tune Warrior, Digital Divine Magic!"

The machine deity fire its magical blast at the robotic warrior, but something suddenly stops it.

"Go trap card, Justi-break!" Tasha counters, and electricity courses through the machine, and it explodes.

"Fine, I have to end my turn there," Sorrel says with a growl.

Tasha draws a card as her speed counters rise to 8 and Sorrel's max out at 12. "I summon this monster, my Atlantean Pikeman (1400/0)!" He says, and a fish warrior carrying a spear appears. "Now I play the speed spell, grave Synchron, so I'll tune the Junk Warrior and the Clown Zombie in my graveyard to summon my second Junk Warrior (2300/1300 + 1400)!"

The warrior appears a second time, and Sorrel cringes.

"Wait, we can make a deal, I can offer you so much," Sorrel says.

"Nope sorry, not interested, Junk Warrior, Pikeman, attack him directly with Junk Fist and Spear of Atlantis!" Tasha commands, and the warriors smash through Sorrel.

(T: 600) – (S: 0)

"Fine, you win Shadowchaser," Sorrel growls as his Duel Runner shuts down.

"Sorrel, you are under arrest for robbery," Tasha says, and takes out a jewel and Sorrel vanishes. Tasha leaves the box nearby where the police would be able to find it, and takes off towards home.

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The headquarters for the Saint Louis Shadowchasers is two floors of an apartment complex in downtown. Tasha parks her Duel Runner alongside two others in the garage, and takes the elevator up to the top floor.

"You made it back in one piece, I see," another one of the Shadowchasers, a young woman with long red hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a white tank top and skirt with a black coat over it. "Got who you where going after then?"

"No, lost him after I got caught in a duel with a Dark Elf thief," Tasha says, brushing her long black hair back. "Dana, where did Karen say she was going?"

"Columbia I believe, she just called, she's on her way back, she'll be here momentarily," Dana says. "Apparently she picked someone up over in Columbia, she's going to want to talk with Jalal, possibly taking some new girl on as an apprentice."

"Well, that should be interesting, a new girl here," Tasha says. "It'll be nice to have someone new around here."

If you haven't figured out, they're talking about me, at this point I was still considering whether or not to become a Shadowchaser, but the idea was starting to excite me.

I don't know if I believe in fate, but I am attempting to figure out exactly why this all happened. Perhaps fate is real, or perhaps it was a series of coincidences that got me into the Shadowchasers. Either way, by the time we got to St. Louis, I had made up my mind.

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."-Leon Trotsky.

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Speed Fusion and Grave Synchro were or will be used in Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's.

Crushing Light was made by my good friend and fellow author, Ruin Queen of Oblivion.

Mechanicles, the Digital Deity and Queen Machine was made by Cyber Commander.

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Speed Spell – Downgrade Draw

Spell Card

This card can only be activated when you have 6 or more speed counters. Pay 500 life points, and decrease the level of one monster on the field by 1, then draw a card.

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Okay, that's it for chapter 1, sorry I didn't get this out sooner.

Next chapter, Dana is up for her first duel, and she's facing off against a dangerous opponent, but what shall happen? Find out in chapter 2, "Not everything that can be counted counts."