Welcome to the new version of Lightning Hunter, I'm sorry for the bad news and I did not like the results of the first series, because when I started it I did it fast not thinking about how much it affected the quality of the original (Due also to the problem that I was moving).

The first chapters of that version are a disaster in some things and the plot is everywhere, in this new version things will be different, this time I have a plot and take old elements of the first.

Without further delay we will start the chapter.

Also, Thanks and the sky for the idea and concepts, and help me writting this series.


Chapter 1: The first Thunder.

"He can't be here, not now!" The man in the white robe said in a low voice and at the same time, evidenced by the tone l, he was terrified, there was no way out except to hide in an alley and pray that person would not find him.

The man was a Knight of Hanoi, a group of known cyberterrorists who sought the destruction of Link Vrains in their search for the ignis.

The man put his hand on his chest, taking a deep breath in order to try to calm down, things were not going well as his other eight companions made him think they would when they went hunting for more duelists that had Cyberse cards.

"Damn it all, he will not have all of us!" The man observed the bracelet he wore on his left arm that was known as a duel disc, a device that allows the user to use it to be transported to Link Vrains and at the same time contained his deck of cards.

He then heard a noise from above and by pure impulse poked his head out, his expression of pure terror grew even worse when he discovere his unconscious partner haning by a rope that connected above one of the buildings that was in the alley.

The scared man gave a blood curdling scream, falling to the ground, he yelled at the top of his lungs "WHAT THE DEVIL IS HAPPENING!?" His companion disappeared immediately in particles.

When he was able to regain rational thought, the Knight of Hanoi tried to disconnect quickly but it was not possible, the hunter was already here and there was only one way to act at this time.

"You'll have to beat me first." The knight was ready to fight against the figure shining in the was a sound and the street began to shine with intensity, the hunter who was as fast as a lightning had jusr caught another prey.

"Incredible." A girl said from inbetween one of the buildings, "They were all finished so quickly." Two orbs surrounded her which were actually cameras that recorded everything.

Her avatar consisted of a red body jumpsuit with shoulder pads that joined to create an armoured chestplate, in addition to contrasting long black hair, she also used a visor that surrounded her eyes that was interconnected with two objects in her ears.

She was a well-known journalist for Link Vrains, her name was Techglitch and she was determined to discover the in what happened 10 years ago in the Lost Incident, so she could seek justice for the victims but now she is trying to decipher who one of Link Vrains' anonymous heroes is fighting against the knights of Hanoi.

She watched a shadow, leave the alley where the Knight of Hanoi was standing. "With this I can show Link Vrains one of our saviors." The girl had her comrades ready to record everything but there was something wrong with them. "Oh no, now what? What's happening?"

The cameras were being surrounded by static and then they exploded, someone had hacked them and gotten rid of all the information that she had about this day.

"Oh come on, really, why is this happening to me?"

She was exclaiming that she could not record anything and a lot but was more frustated is that the hunter was not there anymore, and them Glitch Tech scream. "When i will have you Lightning Hunter!"


(Residence O'Hara: Den City)

She opened her eyes, again she was forced to wake up from bed when she felt her arm was caught. She didn't have to see who was the cause of his discomfort, she already knew who was behind it "Maria, you came back into my bed without permission."

The dark-skinned short-haired girl she spoke to was in deep sleep just as she was in every morning.

The concious girl, named Yuritzi just sighed and with all the calm that she had she could withdrew her hand without bothering the girl of the same age. Before being able to get out of bed completely, she saw Maria tremble from the cold and swiftly clothed her with the bed sheets.

Ever since she was a child she never stopped sleeping with her and even when they were imprisoned in the dark days she could not get away from Yuritzi.

The girl finally got out of bed and entered the bathroom of her room, looking into the mirror revealing the girl had long white hair, with her left eye hidden by the long bang on her forehead. Although she slept the necessary eight hours she was still tired.

"You don't have anyone else, you let them get lost in the flames and now you only have her and Miguel." She said herself in the mirror as she did each morning. She rubbed her right arm subconsciously, it still had the same scars and burns from all those years ago. Tears sprang from her eyes. "It'll be soon, don't worry, I'll do everything possible to find our freedom."

She started to prepare the bathtub wanting to spend a good time there, like some twenty minutes or so, after which she would start to dress.

Someone knocked on the door of her room. She spoke. "Wait a second, I'm just finished dressing up, Miguel."

"I just wanted to ask you if Maria is in your room?"

"Yes."

The man sighed behind the door and it was not hard to imagine him massaging the forehead. "When you finish dressing please, take her out of your room."

The door opened and revealed Maria's body in Yuritzi's hands in a bridal position still wrapped in her sheets.

Miguel received his sister in hand, "Thank you." The dark-skinned, short-haired adult affirmed.

Walking out the girl was dressed in her Den academy school uniform, wearing a jacket that had its sleeves rolled up, dark pants and shoes. Her white shirt was not tight at the top and she did not wear a tie, she did not wear the typical girl's outfit but the male version because she could not bear to wear the girl's because it made her uncomfortable.

Also after her last experience, she hated wearing skirts.

Yuritzi opened the door to Maria's room, Miguel laid her on her bed and then sighed in relief at seeing her sister's sleeping face.

"She looks tender while she sleeps." Miguel said, taking her cheeks and kissing her on the forehead.

Yuritzi looked to her wrist, on it was her old model grey circular duel disc, to check the time. "I still have time before school, SOL has already sent us the message." She watched Miguel and he nodded.

The man took her by the shoulder as both of them left the room. They both didn't like talking about their business in front of Maria, even if she was sleeping. After leaving, they went to a new room in the small four-room apartment which Miguel called the command center.

Miguel focused on the computer and then thrust his fingers, Yuritzi giggle with the gesture, he had even stick his tongue out with that silly face he was doing.

"Mr. Kryan sent you one last message after you went to sleep." By pressing a few keys Miguel put the message up so the girl could see it.

"He is again grateful that you have completed another mission." Miguel said in a continuous dry mocking tone "Your payment will be received in the next 12 hours of the day and you'll have a personal meeting for your new assignment."

Yuritzi had a weak smile at the mocking tone of her companion and in a low tone of voice spoke "Miguel, remember that he is one that paying us."

"Yes, I know, but, that guy is so formal that it is boring."

"He's an adult Miguel, he has to be formal and boring."

"Hey, I am too." Miguel protested. But Yuritzi just shook her head knowing full well that he was not fully grown at all on this ten years.

Kryan was the only connection they had to anyone outside their little family. He was the intermediary of SOL technologies at the time Yuritzi had started to work as a bounty hunter, although she did not do it for the money, she did it to find the whereabouts of the children of both incidents that happened 10 years ago.

Although SOL's intermediary did not know her true identity; He only knew her as Lightning Hunter.

"Then we'll talk about the elephant in the room or rather the hero in the room." Miguel said in a playful tone, the duelist knew what he was referring to.

"Yes, Miguel, you've already shown me that video 70 times." She was lying, she had not seen it 70 times, it was 83.

Excited, Miguel couldn't contain himself. "Did you see those moves they made? They defeated that Knight of Hanoi as if he were nothing and that monster they used." His fanboy mode was shown. "That monster reminds me of the Grindman or the Megazord."

Yuritzi could only smile at the innocence of the adult.

What do you think about those cyberse monsters? Are they better than your monsters?" The adult man asked excitedly, "I say those monsters are better than yours."

The girl crossed her arms, annoyed by the comparison.

The adult man just scratched his head while laughing. "It's just my opinion."

"If I had to compare Cyberse cards, his are similar to mine, even with the same Link spam strategy." The duelist said, even though it bothered her the fact that he was so similar, she could not help but be amazed at his ability. "But if I had something to criticize, it was his skill."

"What do you mean?" He asked interested in the answer.

"A skill like that... It's too situational and at the same time it's just having the luck to have a Cyberse monster that fits the strategy you want to perform." The duelist explained, "But in truth, even I would have a skill like that, something like having an option in desperate situations, of course."

The man nooded. "Ohhhhh, I understand."

"I have to go now, I'll try to get there as soon as I can." Yuritzi said holding her backpack and then opening the door.

"Can I ask you for a favor?" Yuritzi stopped and listened. "The therapist tells me to try to make Maria do other activities that are not just chores or cooking, try to put her in an activity with other people and I thought that if you could..."

"What?"

"Teach her how to play Duel Monsters again." Miguel scratched his cheek, he knew what he had asked was impossible. "It's just a silly idea, you don't have to do it..."

The duelist held her hand out on the wall, lowering her head and not looking at Miguel. The adult knew that he shouldn't ask that question, Maria has already lost a lot because of that game.

"I'm sorry." Even with the apologies, the girl left.


(Link Vrains: Unknown)

"This is boring." A voice was heard in what seemed to be some distant temple, it was from a girl who then yawned loudly because of boredom. "Do we really have to wait here every time we come to this place?" She said to the other person in the place.

"Be quiet." In a calm tone the other person spoke, you could tell that his tone of voice that he was irritated from hearing her so much. "Also, why do you always have to come to our meetings?"

The woman smiled as if she were possessed by a demon that came from hell itself. "I have to be here to protect you, Sir, as one of your knights I decided to be your shield."

The person who grumbled to the girl was Revolver, the leader of the knights of Hanoi, the organization in charge of destroying all cyberse cards and destroy Link Vrains to get the ignis, a special set of Ai. He was a man who wore a mask that had a collection of four dots which formed the barrel of a gun on it that covered his face, he had spiky red hair and he was wearing a white jacket, which was adorned with green tubes connected between his shoulders.

The person who followed him was a woman, better known as Oblivion the knight who came from hell itself and who survived oblivion itself. She wore a dark cape on her back that contrasted her white body armor, her shoulder pads were green, she also had a visor that hid her eyes and long dark hair that had white highlights near her chin. She had a duel disk very different from the one used by Revolver, it was an old normal black model that had a purple color in its center.

Their wait was soon over, because the person waiting was already there. However, they weren't too pleased because what materialized was a screen that showed a person sitting on a throne in the shadows accompanied by another person.

Revolver and Oblivion watched the screen somewhat unhappy that their affiliate had not shown up. The first to speak was obviously the leader of the knights of Hanoi. "Again, hiding in your false illusion of superiority, Emperor. Why can't you face me man to man?"

Revolver and that man known as the Emperor were not on good terms, there was always discord with them every time they met.

Revolver's comment earned to growl from the man standing beside the throne, who had sharp red eyes and messy sliver hair and was dressed in pure white armour with a sword holster at his side. Lifting up his hands which were covered by fingerless gloves, sharp black nails which looked like claws were bared, ready to slash at the leader's throat.

"You'll do well to speak of the Emperor in that way, the stars predicted to troubled day ahead for you. I see why now." As this whole argument was gaining steam, the Emperor himself did not look like he gave a single s ***, a glimmer of light revealed the existence of a razor blade he was busy playing with.

"To tell you the truth, I think I can speak for the both of us when I say we do not mind a stupid prediction." Oblivion spoke, stubborn as always and with a smile that made the emperor's man grunt. "And of course, it means much less coming from a guardian dog. Far less than if it was the "Emperor."

That was enough to let the Emperor's dog snarl and reveal his sharp teeth. Oblivion loved to see the dog stick his teeth out, just seeing him upset meant that these meetings were worth it.

It looked as if war was about to break out. However, the Emperor was not about to let blood be spilled, no, not yet "Alois." The dog's head moved so quickly that it could have snapped in two "Our esteemed guest has wished to speak to me, we shall facilitate that request." Another growl reverberated around the room as hellhound was forced to drop his arms and retreated back to the side of his master.

"Make it worth my time and make it quick, I've got a meeting to go to."

"I want to know what you plan to do when we in Hanoi execute our final plan will you oppose us in any way?"

The emperor drummed his fingers rhythmically against his throne. "We just found something interesting from SOL Technologies and Hoelle is interested in locating it, I already have one of my men in charge of keeping it secured, tonight."

The group that the Emperor commanded was simply called Hoelle, a group of virtual criminals that was in charge of doing the dirty work for Hanoi. The alliance with the knights of Hanoi is to help them maintain a low profile link Vrains that allows them to be away from the surveillance of Sol technologies.

"We will see when the time comes, that will be all for now, inform me of any warning." Revolver began to slowly dissolve into pixels before he fully left Hoelle's base.

Before Oblivion disappeared, she had to say goodbye. "We'll see you later, dog, remind him so your owner does not forget to feed you." Leaving the Emperor's dog annoyed again.

"My Emperor, you don't seriously intend to work with those lowlife, do you? The stars are not in their favor, their only fortune is misfortune." The dog said as soon as the Leader of the Knights of Hanoi had left.

The Emperor didn't look awfully concerned, instead he had returned to trimming the loose ends of his hair "Exactly, Alois. The only thing in his future is misfortune, and we will control that aspect of his fate. The show is only just starting, the puppets are still being tied up, and all it takes is to kick the door in."


(Den Academy)

A young student was sent to the dumpster abruptly by two bullies, he was a young student who was only trying to go to school but was attacked by them to take his money. One of the students took his shirt and this time the threat was more serious.

"Give us everything you have and we don't anything more. Actually, I have a better idea, we try to do more damage, I hope you choose the second option." The bull took a blade making his torment much worse. "Your choice."

"Enough is enough, leave him alone." A voice rose in his defence, appearing was a girl with crimson hair, wearing the uniform of Den Academy. A uniform with a dark jacket and a skirt, in addition to black stockings on her legs, her eyes were green and she was not happy with the suffering he was doing to the young man.

"And what would you do to stop us?" The student released the boy and played with his knife trying to scare the girl. "We are two and we have the advantage that we are taller, besides that we have your little friend, what can you do you?"

The girl smirked and showed her cell phone, in there were pictures of those students attacking others and many of their past crimes. "Everything you did, I already had time watching you two punks and I can send those images to the director in mere moments so leave him alone. "

Both students looked at each other and then started laughing like crazy, no matter what the girl would do to them.

"Run now and do not stop. Go!" The girl said to the student who was on the floor, he responded quickly and ran, the punks stopped laughing and took the boy again, the girl in reply used her cell phone to try beat them.

The students observed the smirk of the girl. "What an idiot, she's going to pay." They ran to her, ready to attack, the girl started to run but stopped when she saw a figure had appeared, surprising her.

The figure threw a card to one of the students who followed it and hit him in the forehead, falling to the ground because of the impulse of the blow, the other student stopped "Who the hell are you and why do you defend this fool." The punk said to the figure that ended up being Yuritzi.

She did not have to speak to make her presence known and make them afraid, only with her look that hid rage, but did not stop making them creeps.

"What the hell, I'm not afraid of you." The punk who was still standing charged directly to her to hit her in the face.

"Be careful, they are dangerous!" The redhead said but Yuritzi stayed there.

Yuritzi dodged the blow, surprising the redhead and immediately grabbed the punk's arm, slamming his face into the wall next to him as she took his arm and began to press on it.

"Who the devil are you?" The punk asked as he felt the pressure Yuritzi made on his arm.

She did not answer, she did not have to waste her time on someone like him, he was just a bully who hurt others, she had no reason to talk to him. While this was still happening the first punk got up and took the red-haired girl by the neck, ready to use his knife.

"If you want to act like a heroine, leave my partner and everything will be fine." The bully threatened Yuritzi, he had the knife very close to the girl's neck, a false move and she could pay the consequences, it was something she could not let it happen.

"Go to the hell!" The redhead said stomp the foot of the punk with force and so that the knife did not hit her neck by accident, she used her two hands so that it did not reach her neck.

Yuritzi took the moment and used the punk that she had grabbed to throw it against the other when the girl had left.

Both was on the ground and was ready to get up again to counterattack but the redhead took a second cell phone. "If you remember as I said before I can send everything necessary about you two and also how you tried to attack us, I'll give you two options, clear enough?" The redhead girl said.

The girl already had in the number for the police in case they tried to do something. "First option, get away from the place while you can before the police arrive." The girl used her fingers counting to the number two. "Go away and face the consequences of your actions with the director, there are no other options. "

Annoyed they had no other option but to fulfil what the girl said, they left.

The girl sighed in relief when those punks left, what she could do now is watch her savior. "I should thank you, without you I would not have survived those gorillas."

"You handled the situation well, next time you call the police and do not meddle." Yuritzi said as she turned to leave, trying not to see the girl in the face.

In response, the girl grabbed her by the arm, trying to present herself appropriately. "But I have not even presented myself , my name is Akatsuki Fujiota, I'm a school reporter." She said with a smile. "What should I call you-" She stopped and noticed that somehow Yuritzi had managed to slip out of her hold and was gone.

"How rude, she didn't even say goodbye." The girl sighed, she had to go to class quickly because it was about to start, she took her cell phone that she had thrown at the previous bullies and ran away not wanting to lose her class hours.


(Hours later: Link Vrains)

A man played with a some form of metal object, he was waiting for someone in a restricted area of Link Vrains. This person worked for SOL Technologies and was in charge of giving the missions to Lightning Hunter. He wore a blue suit and red tie over the top of a white button-up shirt, alongside black dress shoes. His hair is long and is not tied back being black going down the right side of his back with the left side of his face cupped. His eyes were green and somewhat hidden.

A lightning bolt fell near him but he was only calm as the dust dissolved, the hunter who was as quick as a lightning had appeared. Her appearance used a grey helmet with a black glass visor that can easily break if it suffered great impact. She also had a dark blue jumpsuit that had robotic armour that surrounds the chest area shoulders that connects to her arms, a long belt with an h in the center and equipment in it. Finally, her legs are equipped with knee pads that connect to the leg and a scarp on her legs.

"You arrived on time Lightning Hunter, I was already worried that you did not come on time."

The man said and the hunter only nodded, while Yuritzi was Lightning Hunter it was the same as in real life. She did not like to interact much with other people and much less talk to them.

The man materialized a card with data and then threw it at the hunter. "Your pay is there, in addition to the information of your next mission." The hunter kept the information on her duel disk.

"Your next mission is fighting and recovering an object for SOL technologies, in the locations they indicated to you." The man explained, "If you successfully complete this mission, this will be your 49th mission that you have successfully accomplished, maybe you can even to get promoted. "

"I'm not interested in being promoted, I'm just here for work." A lie to protect her true intentions. After making her acclamation the huntress disappeared once more just as she had appeared in front of him, just like a lightning bolt.

The man smirked. "I do hope you are careful, Lightning Hunter."


(Link Vrains: Main Square.)

"Another afternoon I have spend fixing these things..."

TechGlitch was in the middle of repairing the destroyed cameras that were hacked and deactivated in her last encounter with Lightning Hunter, she wasn't happy about this, it was too difficult to deactivate the program that the hunter used to deactivate them and even more it would take her all afternoon to repair it.

"Even with all my recognition as a Link Vrains journalist I still have to endure the fact that I can not have more beautiful and advanced things."

Someone had just materialized behind her. "You would be more recognised if you didn't go to investigate conspiracy news about the Knights of Hanoi or the heroes of Link Vrains." She sighed at hearing who it was, this was a person with an avatar of Toad called Frog, who also came accompanied by another person with a pigeon avatar called Pigeon.

"First, they are not conspiracy theories and second, I do not do it to generate money or easy visits to my blog, I'm more interested in discovering the secrets of Link Vrains." TechGlitch affirmed while crossing her arms. "Also, I'm not interested in covering the Charisma duelists. "

"You should do it right now. It's the special tournament that was ruined two days ago after that Knight of Hanoi destroyed the place and Playmaker appeared, maybe you can have something exclusive for your blog."

TechGlitch pouted remembering that Frog had gotten that exclusive to him when shadowing the duel of Playmaker. "If I remember everything well, you took away that moment of glory."

"But if I'm correct in remembering it you were late for the place, little rookie and we took your place." Pigeon spoke rubbing his chin while the girl looked away sweating in shame, it is true that she had fallen asleep all afternoon.

Frog crossed his arms. "If you want girl, we can try to cover this together, you know as a coverage of the main event between the two, what do you think of the idea?"

TechGlitch thought about the idea for a second, the only thing she had to do all afternoon was try to repair all the program by herself, maybe this time she could postpone it to leave for the luxury of enjoying an afternoon off and maybe something interesting would happen .

"Alright, since I have nothing to do and my blog needs more visits." TechGlitch replaced her broken cameras with new ones.

"Are you sure about this, Yamamoto-Kun?" Pigeon asked his boss.

"We're only helping another partner, journalists must be united among us to survive in this hostile world." Yamamoto made an epic pose which Pigeon and Tech Glitch found really stupid.

"This will be a long day." Tech Glitch sighed but things could be interesting this time.


(Elsewhere in Link Vrains: A nearby rooftop.)

"After the public appearance of Playmaker and the datastorm that appeared throughout Link Vrains, I took the liberty of creating your own D-board and installed it last night on your duel disk." Miguel communicated from the command center to Lightning Hunter. "The D-board will help you out of situations with greater security and you don't have to worry about any problem."

"Thanks, any other novelty you've created?" Lightning Hunter asked?

"I have not finished the stealth program yet, you'll have to wait a bit more unfortunately."

"It was my only option to avoid fighting on this mission, but I will try to do what I can with what I have and not to be discovered is my first objective."

Miguel noticed something interesting while observing the data of the mission. "Lightning Hunter that part of Link Vrains seems strange to me, there is not as much activity in it that zone, nobody has reported there for ages, it's almost like a ghost zone."

"I'll be careful, thanks Miguel."

The huntress watched the horizon and spotted her objective, a derelict building that could fall at any minute, she didn't know why it was still there but she had to somehow discover what was there and deliver it to SOL Technologies.

...

Meanwhile some blocks near the main square where the tournament was organized. Many people were gathered, so many people with their avatars of all kinds met to see all the Charisma Duelists gathered in one place.

Pigeon took photos of the place while holding Frog by his head. "So many young duelists wanting to duel against one of the five best Charisma Duelists." Frog said as he took a deep breath.

"Do not you think it's a bit of an exaggeration to show off that way, Frog, who says that any of these newbies can't beat the Charisma Duelist?"

Frog and Pigeon began to laugh frantically, the girl did not understand why they did it.

"Did I say something funny?"

Frog quickly explained to the inexperienced Tech Glitch. "The Charisma Duelists are very powerful people in this part of Link Vrains, the five of them are considered the top five duelists for years in a row."

Pigeon continued explaining: "They are the people who are constantly confronting new opponents all the time to show their place in the weekly ranking, always improving and every day, training with new adversaries."

Tech Glitch was shocked by what the reporters said: "I always thought they were kind of petty, you know spoiled children and those things."

Frog rubbed his chin, noticing something about the girl. "Tech Glitch, you're not a duelist, right?"

The black haired girl scratched her head and smiled, "I'm not a duelist, I'm not very good at duels because my passion has always been journalism." The girl smiled. "Although it's pathetic because I'm always trying discover about the heroes of Link Vrains. "

Frog laughed with pride. "I see you chose the path of real reporters like me." Frog's frantic laughter returned and Tech Glitch again did not know how to react.

While all of them interacted, the show was about to begin as the Charisma Duelists made their main presentations. It was started first by Go Onizuka who arrived like a titan in what was a wrestling arena that materialized in the middle of the square, when he fell towards the arena he took a wrestling belt and picked it up, showing it off like a champion.

"GO ONIZUKA IS HERE !" Go shouted at all the spectators watching him.

"Woah." Tech Glitch said surprised.

"That's Go Onizuka, the number one duelist of Link Vrains and one of the most popular, of course after Playmaker." Frog said

Just then in his arena, Go Onizuka felt the ground began to tremble but the he was not fazed by this whatsoever, even when the arena split in two and a huge crystal materialized in the middle leaving the viewers astonished.

"What's going on, Frog?"

Frgo laughed. "The 3rd highest ranked Charisma Duelist of the system has come onto stage."

Go Onizuka began to smile when she saw the crystal. "Now you have your dramatic entrance, get out of there and duel me!" The crystal began to break and from this a new person emerged.

"You don't have to ruin my dramatic entrance." The person behind the crystal spoke. Her avatar was that of a Roman centurion but modernized, since she had the same skirt and the helmet covered her entire head as well as hiding the vast majority of her face except for the purple hair that came out from behind her head. The armour's design and composition was like a frozen crystal with a white layer that came out from her back.

"She's Crystaline, the gelid duelist, the number 3 after Blue Angel." Frog said surprising Tech Glitch one more time.

"I have no interest in dueling with you Go Onizuka, I already have another person with whom I have to fight first."

Go Onizuka smirked and crossed his arms. "Blue Angel is not here and this is just a presentation duel, we are not playing for our ranks this time."

"What kind of story does Crystaline have with Blue Angel?" Tech Glitch asked Frog.

"No one knows very well but since she arrived a year ago, she has only been demanding that, a worthy duel with Blue Angel."

"Interesting, all of them are always that competitive." Tech Glitch said, observing the people around her as she enjoyed the Charisma duelist's presentation. "No wonder so many people enjoy it." However, the girl stopped when a certain group of people grabbed her attention.

They didn't look like the normal kind of viewers, they were people wear green cloaks with flames on it. Underneath there a set of broze armour barely visible from this distance and they were also wearing a white half mask that was covered in black designs.

"I think I remember those clothes... Of course! I had already read about them." The girl remembered everything, those clothes were familiar because she had reminded him of a conspiracy post in Link Vrains that was dedicated to upload unknown images.

"I'm sorry, Frog. I need to leave." The girl ran saying goodbye to the frog and Pigeon.

"Where do you think she's going?" Pigeon asked and Frog just shrugged his shoulders not knowing what to answer.


The way Lightning Hunter had entered the building was not easy, she had to resort going through the roof to the passage with the help of a program that would allow the reduction in protection of the primary building and the main door. Although the building seemed to have been abandoned, a strong defensive program was present, even Miguel had to comment on the matter.

"Whatever it is here, I understand why SOL Technologies wants it, what is with this level of security?" Miguel said as he also detected something much stranger. "There is something else here, quite strange, some kind of signal that interferes a lot with my program."

"We will continue as we have planned." The hunteress said.

She walked down the dark corridor of the long building, nothing seemed dangerous at the time, it is not as if she was afraid, she had already trained for this kind of situation.

Then there was movement of a life, a door had opened, she ran back through the place where she came from and across other corridors until she reached an abandoned door at the end of a huge hall that, unlike others, was not full of doors.

"Miguel, are you watching this?"

"No, I do not know what is happening at the moment." "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't have an answer, nor have I been, No, I've been, no, I've been, but why not. " The static now invading the communication between both of them made him hard to make out..

"Miguel, are you there?" At one point Lightning Hunter's voice broke when she could not hear her partner. It was obvious that she could get hurt and she wasn't going to deal with the increasingly dangerous situation here any longer.

Before turning around, the door began to glow, she swore for a second that the door was talking to her for some reason. She started walking towards it, as if her conscience had been lost.

She held her hands over the door and they start to shine, and then the door swung open up. It was a secured bedroom, with miles of cables that were connected to the entire room at a single specific point, a barrier that looked like it had something in it.

Several screens materialized in the room, she could not see anything but the shadow of a man. "Welcome stranger, I'm just the recording of a man already dead. Not everyone can get here so easily, if you could, it means your heart and your mind follows the network."

The huntres just looked, did not know what to think about all this situation, everything was confusing.

"Whatever has happened to you, I take all the blame, horrible people have destroyed twelve innocent lives for the sin of greed and I let you go through that hell for not act on time."

the hunteress was paralyzed at hearing the last part; to what was this person referring? Who was it? What did he know about the lost incident that happened 10 years ago and most importantly, what would this person know about their parents?

So many things clouded her mind that she could not understand.

"If you are one of them, one of those lost souls, I can not assure you that things will be easy with what I will be giving you." While the screen spoke several pedestals stood in front of the cyberse duelist. "I am giving you the work of my life, your sword. "

Lightning Hunter observed what was on those pedestals, Cyberse cards similar to those used in herdeck yet these were slightly different, the difference was that some Link Monsters. "It is impossible that there are still Cyberse cards, only Playmaker and I have them in all of Link Vrains." She used her dueling disk to scan them all and added them to her dueling disk.

She also noticed something else, she had also obtained two new programs, it was two skills, she recognized them because the skill was used in the speed duel by duelists. "Lightning Wings and Lightning Access? The second seems to be incomplete but the first is normal."

"If you've already installed the programs, although the second is a powerful weapon, it's not complete and can not be used until it's completed." The screen said, then the barrier opened revealing something new. "She's just a component of something much more important. she will help you to find the others. "

The screens then stopped, ceasing to speak completely.

Lightning Hunter was approaching a small being that reminded her of the ai that Playmaker had gained but this ones color was different, it was grey but with blue stripes on its body, it had a hoop above it head that separated a tiny part of it body and when it opened its red eyes it just watched Lightning Hunter.

"You are,my partner then." The figure approached the hunteress and looked her directly in the eyes and crossed its arms and put its hand on its nonexistent mouth, it wondered why the huntress used that helmet.

"I want to know who you are, this object here bothers me."

When it touched her helmet, it was de-engraved, revealing the face of the huntress, dhe did not have white hair as in real life, but she had black hair and a red lock at the entrance of her hair, her eyes were red alike .

The hunter reacted immediately, "Why the hell did you do that!? I did not give you permission for that and you should never do that." The hunteress said trying to cover her face "Not once can someone discover my identity."

The ai did not seem to listen to her, it was more focused on observing her thoroughly, even memorizing her face and hair. "Apparently you are a human female, interesting I have never met one or someone of your kind."

The huntress found it strange that Ai had never talked to another human being. "Have you never talked to your creator?" The Ai shook her head to the question, however what caught the attention of the hunteress was that the artificial intelligence was looking around as if it were a girl excited for a guy to see her

The hunteress stepped in to ask another silly question. "How old are you?"

"I don't have an age like you humans, not that I know of."

"Not that you know of?" The hunteress asked, she could understand a bit of the ai's issue, she also had no idea about her past. "You do not remember at least who is your creator or when you were created and also I think you do not know who the man on the screenis, is that correct? "

"I do not know who the recording is or why it is hidden, I do not remember anything."

The ai watched the screens and the huntress had planned to ask if she knew anything about the Lost Incident but she would be wasting her time with those details.

"I only know three important things that resonated in my mind while I was in stasis." The ai proclaimed, opened her palm and formed a three with her fingers. "1. I am half of someone, an important part of that person and at the same time not, although I have no knowledge of who this person is. "

The hunteress still heard something enigmatic about the whole thing while watching the ai lowering other fingers. "2. My memories are not important until the time is right and all the pieces are complete."

The last of her fingers was down. "3. I must find a worthy companion, someone who understands the injustices of their past and forge together a future for the twelve people who suffered the same fate."

If everything was already complicated, everything the Ai said just made it into a puzzle with millions of pieces and even more when the three reasons that the ai showed off, that reasoning was familiar. She had to know if this Ai had something to do with that person.

Having compassion for artificial intelligence, she understood what was happening. "I can understand what you are going through, I am not someone who has a clear past and can not understand the origin of the scars that the past caused us." She listened before the hunteress materialized her helmet again.

"I think maybe our past is connected in some way, that's why I promise you that if you fight by my side I'll help you recover your memories, but only if you promise to fight by my side to discover our past. "

Lightning Hunter gave her hand to the Ai for her to take, not knowing the concept of promises or shaking hands, she did not understand anything because of her lack of human understanding. "I'm sorry but I do not understand what you want to say to me. "

"When humans make promises or contracts with ourselves, we always shake hands to accept them."

"Interesting, humans are more expressive beings than what my state was showing, I am more interested now in knowing more about you." She said, "Can you also promise me to teach you about your culture?"

The duelist nooded and was that was when the ai gave her hand. "Then I've made a contract with a human."

"While we're here in Link Vrains I'm not a human and you do not refer to my gender in real life, I'm just a hunter called Lightning Hunter."

"Understood, Lightning Hunter."


"I'm sure I've already seen those men before, but I do not remember the group that they belong to, obviously it can not be knights of Hanoi." Tech Glitch watched the masked men talking while she was observed from a corner where they could not see her. .

"If only I could know what they're talking about." The girl was saying. She put her chin on a garbage so she can hear up to the ceiling and listen to the conversation from above. "Well, I already have a way to do it."

The reporter jumped into the trash can and then propelled herself to the ceiling, then did a pirouette and was on the roof, positioning herself in a position where she was not visible to the eyes of those men.

"Time for the show." She sighed as she activated her cameras to shoot photographs of the suspects. Shd shoot one of the three men that were there, of course she did not use flash as it would be detected and she was trying to be discreet with the movement of her cameras.

Only if she had been more discreet...

She felt something press against the backside of her head and it was there when he spoke. "You must be real stupid if you got here and thought you would get away clean?" Tech Glitch turned around and looked into his eyes with the rifle stuck just in front of her own eyes. The rifle was huge and standing beside him was another person

The one with the gun was a teenager small enough to even be Tech Glitch's brother, standing at only 5'6. He was wearing a green military uniform with a fur coat of a similar colour while wearing a peaked cap with an H-shaped coin in the center of it. He had hetrochromatic eyes of red and blue which helped to distract from the two piercings in his lips. Finally, his hair was green with the right side long enough to reach his shoulder and the left short enough to be stuck under the cap.

The person next to him was a girl wearing a geisha-like outfit, her kimono was a purple pink colour the sleeves of whuch were long while the lower half of the kimono looked like a skirt, it was decorated by some small slats, her legs had black stockings while she wore platform shoes, finally, she had long purple hair and blue eyes.

However, the main thing that Tech Glitch highlighted, was that the girl was taller than the soldier.

"You ran your luck last time, meddlesome swine." The boy with a Machiavellian smile was about to release the trigger. "Last word-"

He was stopped by the uncontrollable laughter of Tech Glitch who just kept laughing, making the little soldier lose his temper. "Who the hell do you are!? Thinking you can laugh at me in that way?!"

"Sorry! Your height! It's really too much for you to intimidate someone! To tell the truth how could you fear a little criminal like you?" The girl said not being able to contain her laughter.

The girl next to him tried to calm him by patting him on the back. "I do not think she really means what she says, Deus, it's just the fear that makes her speak that way."

The boy bit his lip. "A normal person would be terrified of seeing me Winstra! Even more so when I have my gun."

Thd girl now reveallled to be called Winstra tried to calm him down. "You're scary, even now that I look at you, I'm even having chills right now." She pretended to be terrified and tried to shake but that only hurt the little man's fragile pride even more.

Tech Glitch took her chance and used one of her orb cameras that returned to her, quickly she increased the power of the flash and blinded them both momentarily with a photo, giving her time to escape, away from them.

"Damn! She slipped out of my hands! Take care of her you imbeciles." The other members immediately reacted to Deus's order and went to Glitch Tech.

The girl photographed them all as she ran and then said goodbye to all of them. "I can't play with all of you guys anymore but thanks for the information, I will not take long to call SOL technologies and get them to stop whatever you're planning."

She was quite sure that she would not be caught but unfortunately she was stopped by one of the shots out of Deus' rifle that was not a bullet but a rope tied with two balls that caused her to stumble to the floor.

Immobilized, she tried to escape, but was restrained on the floor by her captors easily

"You thought we would let you leave so easily? Little fool, we're not for games. "He was approaching her, with his Machiavellian smile that would've scared anyone." Now, why don't you become our decoy?"

The girl was in trouble as she watched the men gathering in front of her. Deus standing at the front

"Those four little limbs were made for dancing! Fulfil their purpose and then decay off into the pits of hell!" The General cackled as he continued "We, the soldiers of the Emperor, will take our rightful position. The Emperor has decreed it and so it shall be! So! The worthless swine who oppose us, lay your lives on the line! Submit all of yourself with a triumphant war cry!"


In the main Link Vrains square, everyone had met to watch the duel between Crystaline and Go Onizuka, all the spectators looked amazed at the incredible tactics that both duelists used. It even earnt the attention of the charisma duelist Blue Angel who watched from inside one of the buildings.

It was a small room where other charisma duelists met and watched the duels that were occurring. Blue Angel was a girl who had very long blue hair which reached her chest and was tied into two long twintails with blue ribbons. Her eyes and eyebrows were also blue and she had a green clover tattoo on her right cheek. She wore a blue choker and pink heart-shaped winged earrings. Her outfit consisted of a white sleeveless shirt with a blue necktie. Underneath, she wore a blue and pink dress with wing-shaped frills, and dark blue thigh-high socks.

"What do you think about Crystaline?" Her companion asked. She wore a different avatar just like a girly girl but with a gothic touch, her hair was pink with four ponytails in her hair, she wore a bra with a smiling skull in the shape of a heart while wearing a yellow jacket and a red skirt that combined with her black stockings that had a drawing of the legs of a hood in addition to her two boots of different colors. This was in addition to a red cape that worked like a hoodie and wss connected to a skull emblem on her chest.

Blue Angel raised her eyebrow and looked at her companion. "What should I think about her?"

"I don't know, it's just she claims to be your rival or something like that." The girl said as she held Blue Angel by the neck and stretched out her hand. "Just imagine how incredible it would be to know the reason her interest in fighting with you, an epic duel. A show between rivals to show who is the best!"

Blue Angel just rolled her eyes, what the pink-haired girl was saying was awkward because she didn't have any interest in fighting with the proud Crystaline. But it also crossed her mind that this would be an interesting challenge.

The Charisma duelist took the hand of her companion off her shoulders. "Again, she's not someone in which I am interested in dueling. If you are so insistent on having me doing it then why don't you duel her yourself? As the fifth strongest duelist in the ranking It's your duty, Pink Reaper."

Pink Reaper pouted, a little annoyed by the comment of Blue Angel, then shook her head, stretching out her arms and in a childish voice screamed "I could never fight without my dear Duke, we are united and inseparable twin souls."

Pink Reaper was known as the beautiful grim reaper for her tactics and how she handled herself in duels because of the graceful and beautiful tactics she would employ. But the mysterious thing about her, is that she didn't like to fight alone, she preferred to duel with her partner in Link Vrains, the fourth best duelist and her boyfriend Duke the masked duelist.

"Ah, I had forgotten that you did not like to fight alone." The charisma duelist commented returning to observe the screen.

The ongoing duel between both Charisma duelists was close, both showed great strength and dexterity with their movements. The audience that watched them shouted with emotion at this kind of dueling.

Go Onizuka had in his field his ace monster, Gouki the Great Ogre with two cards face down on his field while he had 1300 life points. Things were not so bad for him but his life points were still less than his opponent's. She had 2100 life points and two dragon-type monsters made of ice on her field with attack points of 2400 and 1900, plus a field spell card that froze the side where the Winter Duelist was.

"You can do it Go Onizuka!" One of the people in the audience was shouting the name of the Link Vrains idol.

"Show him your power Crystalline!"

One teenager followed the last comment: "Show him, the power of the freezing dragon, Crystaline !"

Crystaline smirked with the latest comments, her ability to entertain the audience was ridiculous. "Apparently I'm stealing your thunder Go Onizuka." The duelist stretched out her hand and then closed her fist. "How does that makes you feel, Number 1 duelist?"

Go Onizuka for a moment gritted his teeth but he did not stop feeling intrigue and emotion, he was even delighted to respond to the duelist. "Don't be insolent with someone superior to you Crystaline, remember why we are here in the first place."

"Sure! To excite the audience by giving the best of ourselves! Our power struggle and who has the guts to demonstrate their ideals with everything." The duelist put her hand on her chest; the public shouted her name when they heard her speech and then Crystaline raised her fist. "But I will be the one who shows the guts to achieve my dreams, the audience is mine!"

The audience shouted once again the name of the gladiator duelist. "CRYSTALINE YOU CAN WIN!"

Go Onizuka couldn't allow it to end this way, it would be a humiliation as a duelist to be defeated by the person in rank number 3, even if it was a show duel and not something serious in which he could risk his title but still he had to prove his worth.

He pointed out to her. "Crystaline! Once again I reiterate that you are talking rubbish!" He struck his fist to his proud heart. "I will show you that I have the guts and the determination to face whatever comes my way and I will show you in this turn."

"Whoa! There you are you annoying plagues!" A voice was heard from above, disconcerting both duelists.

"Who the hell are you to interrupt us?" Go said loudly, "Show yourself and I'll show you what I'm capable of."

A series of consecutive explosions happened near where the duel was taking, destroying nearby buildings causing people to run in panic.

"What the hell is going on?" Crystaline shouted as the monster holograms disappeared. Because of the confusion that was going on, she did not know how to react and because of that she couldn't dodge the fragment of concrete that had shot out at her.

"Crystaline!" Shouted Go Onizuka who immediately jumped at her, knocking her out of the impact zone.

The crystal duelist smirked. "We didn't get to end our duel and then you ended up saved me, very dishonourable to tell the truth." The charisma duelist said in a mocking tone rising from the ground and reaching out to Go Onizuka to also help him get up off the ground .

Even with the tone of the crystal duelist, Go thanked his oponent. "We'll still have time to duel again, for now let's just take care of the audience."

"Aww, what a beautiful display of comradery, it's sickening that it is happening before my own eyes." The voice again was heard but this time the owner was revealed, coming out of a dark tornado that when dispersed showed Deus and the other members of Hoelle.

Crystaline was the first to comment, "So you're the knights of Hanoi? You don't look like the images."

Deus took his cap and put it on his chest, that comment was hurtful for him. "Unfortunately silly girl, we are not knights of Hanoi, we are something very different from them." He showed his malevolent smirk but it didn't do anything to scare away both charisma duelists .

"I don't care who you are but if you disturb one of my duels again, I will personally take the time to show you the exit door!" The Gouki duelist cracked his knuckles in his own attempt to intimidate them.

But those words did not intimidate Deus and his troop of Hoelle's soldiers.

"We are not here to intimidate you, what we want is to send a message and wait for the true heroes of Link Vrains."

That last comment annoyed Go Onizuka.

Crystaline looked confused and asked, "Wait for the true Link Vrains heroes? What are you up to?" Then Winstra came out with the captured Tech Glitch behind Deus; the journalist was tied up by her hands by ropes of energy. Crystaline raised her eyebrows. "What are you doing with that girl?"

Deus placed his cap back on and took Tech Glitch by the neck. "Nothing interesting really, we'll just use it as bait next to-" Deus was soon cut off and began to yell in pain when Tech Glitch bit his hand.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN MY EPIC MOMENT?!" The General tried to get her to take her mouth from his hands, when that wasn't enough, even Winstra had to interfere and pull Deus away by the stomach so that Tech Glitch would stop hurting him.

"Deus are you okay?" Winstra asked and at the same time tried to calm him down so that he would not feel pain, almost like a mother looking after her child.

Both Charisma duelists felt quite confused by what they just saw and even somewhat insulted by the attitude of Deus.

"Don't underestimate them, charisma duelists, they are not as clumsy as they seem, they are dangerous people." Tech Glitch said and as a result Deus tighten the energy ropes around her hands much more.

"She talks too much." Deus sneered "The swine should stay silent and let the professionals talk."

"What do you want?" Go Onizuka asked.

"Men! What is our mission?" For someone who was clearly smaller than average, Deus' voice was booming and sent chills to all who heard him.

"Absolute Extermination! You should not save a single enemy! I do not want any of those tiny worms to escape, you understand? There's only one thing left to do, live up to our namesake and create hell!"

The general's expression twisted into a cruel smile as his pupils slitted, and if that was not obvious enough of his sadistic joy in the situation, the way he moved his hands was almost as if he were directing a symphony of destruction.

The two duelists were cornered by the sheer amount of men that Deus had brought with him. Both of them entering defensive position, each one protects the other's back.

"I expected to fall in a more proud way but I will be pleased to have fought alongside the highest ranked Charisma Duelist." Crystaline said with a smile on her face. "The only thing I regret was not being able to defeat you when I had the time."

Go smiled as well, but did not agree with her on that. "Save your sentimentality for later and defeat them first! Then we'll settle our debts later".

"I agree with that".

"Soldiers prepare the recordings, I want all Link Vrains to find out." The soldiers materialized several cameras.

The General of Hoelle moved into position so that the cameras could record his presence and broadcast it throughout the network, so it would show all over the external screens of Link Vrains. He had to give his message to all those who opposed them.

"To all of Link Vrains! We present an interesting proposal for you today!" He said with his Machiavellian smile inducing fear in those who watch the recording.

"But first! See how your little charisma duelists are crumbling before our strength in numbers!" The scene changed to Go and Crystaline showing their fight against the numerous soldiers of Hoelle facing them; That sowed fear in the masses.

"No less than a week ago the Knights of Hanoi infiltrated and spread fear in your hearts! But we are different..." The screen flipped back to Deus, showing him with his hand raised to the sky. "We are here to destroy them!"

"All you have to do for your salvation is give us your heroes that you pin your hopes and dreams on, Playmaker and Lightning Hunter! Come here or we will detonate several bombs in different places of Link Vrains!"

The screens show the different locations in which the bombs had been planted.

"That's his plan... He wants to end them before they are a threat and I'm sure he also wants to get the information they have in their positions." Tech Glitch thought."They want the Ai that playmaker have!"

The devilish Machiavellian laughter was heard and with his fingers Deus fashioned a gesture similar to a gun, pointing it at his own head. "So come heroes of Link Vrains! Or the whole system will be finished!" He said, firing the trigger as the screen goes blanck.


Watching the whole situation Miguel tried desperately to communicate with his partner. "Yuritzi, don't leave me here! What the hell is going on?" Miguel did everything possible to try to know what was happening in Link Vrains, the situation worsened. "Please, don't be a big mess."

Just then, his little sister came to the door of the command centre to check how he was, she was dressed in a Kuriboh pyjamas, with a hoodie that included the eyes and all. She knocked on the door to get his attention.

Her brother noticed by the third knock that she was watching him, he detached his gaze from the screens for a moment. "Maria, you've finished watching your shows."

Her brother said that in sign language, this had been going on since Maria was six years old, she was deaf due to the experimentation that was done in her while she was with Yuritzi in that hell that left her like that. In the time after her brother and Yuritzi discovered that she had suffered from this situation, the three made sure to learn sign language.

With his hands he said * I'm sorry you have to see the cries of your little hysterical brother, it's nothing serious at the moment. *

Maria asked him. * Can you explain why you were screaming, has something happened with Yuritzi? *

The man shook his head, he didn't want his little sister to worry. He used his hands again to communicate with her. *Don't worry, nothing's happened, Yuritzi is on another mission, you can watch TV again.*

The girl held her brother by his shirt, her face showing her melancholy was an attempt to get an answer. It left the man feeling sorry for her but he had to do everything possible to not tell her, nervously he tried to look away but his sister took him by the face, forcing him to look at her.

Oh no, that look that would make even the person with the coldest heart be thawed by her beautiful tenderness.

An alarm was starting to sound from the computer, alerting the male; saving him from having to give some explanation. He answered it quickly and it was Yuritzi communicating from Link Vrains.

"Good to see you're fine Lightning Hunter," the adult said; having his sister behind the chair also observing the huntress.

Both siblings were surprised when they saw the Ai that was in Lightning Hunter's duel disk. "Yuritzi, how did you get that AI?"

"It's a rather short story that is related to the work we received from Sol that will explain later when I disconnect."

"Humans can then have two names, both inside and outside of this virtual reality, impressive." Zero said with astonishment in her voice upon hearing about it and then watching the screen that was transmitting to Miguel and Maria.

"Whoa, you two are the second and third humans I've see in a day, this is so exciting! It's hasn't been even a day since I woke up!"

"There will be more later, but now just be quiet and let me talk to them." Lightning Hunter told the Ai.

Observing the screen again, although the reaction was obscured by her helmet, she couldn't help but be surprised to see Maria there. "Why is she up at this time and in the command room?" She stated with concern and with her overprotective attitude.

"Nothing bad happened to her, she just came here because she was worried." Miguel claimed to change the subject later. "Did you find out about those guys who attacked Link Vrains main square?"

"I just left the site I was at now, I'm not aware of anything, send me everything." The huntress said, she was surprised to see the recordings of the incident and Deus' speech that was broadcast.

The recording was stopped in this part of Deus' speech: "Playmaker and Lightning Hunter come here! Or we will detonate several bombs in different places of Link Vrains."

"It's a trap Lightning Hunter, they'll still activate the bombs if you go."

"And at the same time if I'm not going we'd be at full certainty of them activating it." Lightning Hunter said, "I won't take the risk of them hurting others and if these people want me, I'll confront them to find out who they are."

Miguel did not know what to do, he knew he could not change his partner's opinion. "Hunter, this is risky, could we not wait for Playmaker to arrive?"

"I've been fighting the knights of Hanoi for some time, I can deal with them." Lightning Hunter claimed. She knew how worried her partner was even when he could act immature he knew the great concern he felt towards her.

The Ai was interested in how Miguel reacted and took note of the new feeling that he expressed.

"You know I'll come back, I couldn't leave you two alone and much less leave Maria alone with you." The huntress said to Miguel and then switched to her hands to communicate with Maria.

Miguel still concerned about his friend.

* What I'm doing now is a dangerous thing, I know we don't talk about this much with you because we're afraid you'll worry too much. * She kept hoping that the girl would understand better.

Maria's reaction was expected, she smiled at both her brother and Yuritzi and then began to express herself. * I'm not worried, I'll always know that you'll be fine and even though my brother is worried, I know he thinks the same about you. "

She stopped for a moment to give a thumbs up, Yuritzi knew what it meant, she could only smile. "Because I know you are the strongest person I know and you will always get ahead."

"Maria." Miguel murmured surprised with his sister.

Decided, Lightning Hunter continued. "I'll talk with SOL later and we'll talk about my resignation after all this is over."

Miguel nodded, knowing what he had to do. "I wish you good luck, Lightning Hunter."

The huntress turned off the screen and watched the first wave of data storm she could use to take her straight to her new target. But before that, the Ai commented.

"Why you didn't hear out your fellow humans? At least the adult looked worried about you."

Lightning Hunter chuckled at the innocence of the Ai, she still had a lot to learn. "Humans are complicated beings, I could not even understand myself at the beginning." The words of the huntress only left the Ai with more questions but not it was time for answers, they had to take action.

The huntress jumped and materialized a blue and grey D-board, which she put on the datastorm and raced off to her targets.


Go Onizuka was exhausted, it was difficult for him to sustain himself due to the large number of Hoelle duelist with whom he had already duelled. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, he had already defeated 25 of them and there were still more soldiers in front of him. You could also say the same about Crystaline who inhaled strongly, she only had in mind that she and Go had the same number of soldiers defeated.

"You're already tired, number 1 charisma duelist, keep it up or I'll have to beat all of them myself and steal the glory." Crystaline was tired but still ready to continue fighting.

"Don't believe I'm done, I'm just taking another breath to keep going."

Winstra and Deus watched from above the scene, the smaller commander was smiling, almost interested in applauding their efforts but that would give them too much hope that they wouldn't be eliminated. "Aww, their show of camaraderie is quite flattering."

The diabolic smile returned again. "Very strong I must admit, that's why I must show you the power of one of Hoelle's commanders in person and crush all your hope, disgusting charisma duelists." Deus opened his fist before them and then pressed it hard into his chest. You shall be the first to suffer the power of Deus!"

Crystaline and Go Onizuka looked at each other, both smiled smartly even as they were exhausted from fighting.

Go Onizuka was the first to take a step and be ready to speak. "I be-" Before he could finish the sentence, he heard the sound of lightning in Link Vrains.

All of Hoelle's soldiers were disoriented by the sound of the impending lightning that struck the ground where they were.

"Be careful! Something's coming!" One of the soldiers alerted the other men to come out of the line as the lightning that fell directly to the ground caused an electromagnetic wave to affect the duel disk of all Hoelle's soldiers.

"Deus!" Immediately Winstra protected the teen by creating a shield of energy. A program capable of protecting both from the electric wave. "Are you okay, Deus?" The girl took the little one by the head and looked to see if he had hurt himself.

"I'm fine, you're making me look bad again." The teen said with a slight blush of embarrassment on his cheeks.

"What happened?" The number one charisma duelist asked, seeing all of Hoelle's soldiers were reviewing their duels discs "Why are not you fighting again?"

"Turn off the duel function on your duels discs, you can not fight until the next time you disconnect." A voice was heard but you could not see the person speaking.

The charisma duelists tried to see where it came from.

Crystaline spoke, "Is it Playmaker?"

Go replied: "No, the voice is too distorted to be Playmaker." He narrowed his eyes to try to discover where that person was.

Tech Glitch was able to get up after the beam deactivated the elective ropes that held her captive.

Then she activated her cameras and smiled at the sky, she knew who was responsible for such action.

"You finally appeared Lightning Hunter." The reporter said.

Another bolt of lightning fell to the ground this time in front of the charisma duelists that covered their view becuase of the discharge of the rays.

Crystaline watched in amazement as the beam dispersed and watched the figure of Link Vrains' hunter, rising from the ground, just staring at both of Hoelle's commanders.

"That's Lightning Hunter?" The charisma duelist said in amazement.

Deus smiled in a sadistic fashion, seeing that one of his expected opponent had arrived. He expected to scare Lightning Hunter but only got the attention of the Ai who was at her side.

"Lightning Hunter, something happened with the face of this little human." She asked curiously, Deus bit his teeth at the comments but could not lose his cold and calculating attitude in front of the huntress.

"I told you to stay in the duel disk, it's dangerous if they see you with me."

"Yes, but remember that you are also my partner, we must face this together." The AI replied.

The General of Hoelle took a few steps to look at the face of the hunter. "Lightning Hunter, we were waiting for you for a while, why the delay?"

The huntress did not answer and insted turned her head to look at Hoelle's soldiers around her. "You brought all these lackeys for some reason or reasons to say so."

"Explain to me then, what would our plan be?"

Lightning Hunter analyzed the situation, raising hhrr left hand and three fingers. "1: What is obvious tp anyine with a brain is that you brought them to create fear in your enemies. However, what is quite ironic is that someone of your stature couldn't possibly be intimidating, even when dressed as a General of the Second World War. "

Again the commander of Hoelle was annoyed by the comments of his height. The ai again saw the adverse reaction of the General of Hoelle.

"I see...This Human is easily irritated by the comments about his size, another rather interesting thing about your species, Hunter." The kept that information in her notes.

"2: You tried to use all these lackeys to not only make the charisma duelists look bad." Lightning Hunter pointed to Go and Crystaline.

"He just wanted to use us as pawns for his games." Go Onizuka said while clenching his fists, swearing that if he got his hands on that dwarf he would take care of him.

"I would say more than bait, Charisma Duelist Go Onizuka, although I would have liked to enjoy humiliating you and your colleague but the biggest issue is not that." She smiled at the angry face of the charisma duelist number 1. "Continue Lightning Hunter."

"As I said, you also wanted to use them to get to me, which would required me to face enough of them to tire me out and make it easy for you to deliver the final blow." The huntress said. "In my personal opinion, it's a rather stupid mistake to underestimate a duelist, you do not know what their strength is and to hope that fatigue is your key to victory is foolish. "

"You are human, clearly the fatigue would end you, even before you get to me."

"Another mistake on your part, is to assume that I am a human being."

Deus found everything the huntress said to be like the delusions of a crazy person. "Don't think for a second that you can scare me."

"3: Again going back to the fear factor, you thought that if you could at least defeat me or Playmaker before at least one of us arrived, that would make the fear grow in one of us and that would grant them an easy victory. "

Deus and Winstra began to applaud Lightning Hunter.

"Really, the data we had about you, they hit the nail on the head when they revealed that you are not someone you can trust too much." Hoelle's General affirmed, applauding for a final moment and revealing his diabolical and devilish gaze. "We're losing too much time in this nonsense, let's start this battle now!"

The huntress agreed, activating her duel disk. "Then it will be a Speed Duel !" Deus responding by smiling.

Both then shouted while the DataStorm threw them into the air. "Speed Duel !"

Winstra placed her hand on her chest, with a look of concern for her partner. "Please take care of yourself, Deus."

Amazing! So this is a Speed Duel! Is it quite similar to when you did it Go Onizuka?" Crystaline asked but didn't get a response from the other charisma duelist because he was thoughtful after not doing anything against the General of Hoelle, he observed the sky of Link Vrains thinking that there was another new rival to face.

"Lightning Hunter and Playmaker, don't think that I will just be an observer, I will defeat you soon." He thought decidedly on his new rivals.

Lightning Hunter's ai analyzed the flow of data that passed them by and was filled with astonishment to see how incredibly strong it was. "This wasn't designed by a human, it is impossible that they could have done something as complex and mysterious as this."

Lightning Hunter too interest in her partner's response "Do you know the origin of this data stream?"

"I don't know, but whoever designed something as complex as this must be a genius."

In another nearby part of Link Vrains someone had materialized in one of the buildings near the square. This was the Link Vrains hero that had defeated the Knight of Hanoi who was tormenting Link Vrains with a Cracking dragon a few days ago.

And next to him, was the Ai that he had obtained that same day, behaving as usual. "ACHOOO !" He sneezed and wiped his face. "I'm going to suffer a cyber cold."

"You're an Ai, why did you sneeze?" Playmaker asked.

"Oh, it's true. We get them all the time." The Ai scratched his head. Playmaker moved his gaze to the datastorm between the buildings, it had already reached the time for the duel.

"Are we going to face them now?" The ai asked, Playmaker shook his head.

Returning to Hoelle's commander, he surfed comfortably on the purple data with his own black D-board. His skill stood out against the style of the huntress, showing off with a smirk. "How about this Hunter? Whoever arrives first at that building will have the first turn, what do you say?"

"Understood!" The huntress nodded. She began to gain confidence to move swiftly with the D-board, even besting the General with her speed for a moment, successfully managing to gain the first turn.

"You got that easily." The ai commented.

Lightning Hunter later realized something, as the ai had said it was too easy, as if he had let her overtake him. The huntress then looked behind her, the diabolical smile of her opponent had come back again.

"I thought you were better than that, but you let me down Lightning Hunter, Winstra! The bombs!" Hoelle's General pointed his finger at the nearby buildings that Hunter was passing.

"Understood Deus!" Winstra pressed a button on her duel disk biting her lips, the button armed the bombs connected to the aforementioned buildings.

The buildings collapsed around the Cyberse duelist before she could even attempt to dodge them. Meanwhile the small male jumped from his D-board and started running through the pieces of buildings, dodging each piece skilfully and gracefully, coming out totally unharmed.

"I won!" He said going back to his D-board and this time winning the genuine first turn, having first arrived at the building he had chosen while Lightning Hunter came after him, having just survive yet she remained calm.

Deus materialized the first four cards in his hand and observed with a smile on his face, pressing one of his cards. "From the winged flames of hell appears the cursed toy of the same demon, Infernal Puppeteer Lucifer!" [Hand 4-3]

In the field a puppet materialized. The face was broken into quarters and coming from the multiple holes adorning it, you could see there were flames pouring out of it, the stings holding the puppet in place were close to being severed and were on fire as well.

Infernal Puppeteer Lucifer 0 ATK / 0 DEF / Fire / Level 4 / Fiend / Effect

"When Lucifer is summoned for the first time in my turn, it allows me to add to my hand a Spell or Trap card." He took the card from his deck [Hand 3-4]

From the inside Deus' duel disc, the voice of a normal Ai of anybody was heard. "Excellent play Master Deus, proceed with the following game plan specified to this situation."

"Well said Ai." Deus laughed.

"Only one monster in attack mode and with 0 attack points." The Ai commented. She scratched her head thinking about what he would do with it.

"That monster is a decoy and its only purpose was to add that card to your hand." The huntress explained better. "It is obvious that there is more to his strategy."

"Well said Lightning Hunter, because I'll show you how I'll get my victory." He yelled as he raised his finger like a gun and aimed it to the sky.

"What is he going to do?" The Ai asked.

"Link Summon." The huntress replied.

"Come forth!" The commander shouted as out of his finger a flare of fire shot out to the sky creating a square portal. "The circuit of the burning flames that will be forged with the cries of agony of our enemies! "

"Arrowhead Confirmed!" The commander sang. "The summoning condition is at least one Infernal Puppeteer Monster! I set Infernal Puppeteer Lucifer in the link Markers. "

The puppet became a blaze and flew to the arrow below the portal, causing it to shine in an intense red. The commander of Hoelle continued to sing his demonic song to call his creature.

"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Come forth Link 1! Infernal Puppeteer Zeltron! "

From the portal materialized this monster that had its face nearly fully broken, instead there was fire consuming the missing pieces. The stings holding the puppet in place were close to being severed, only one of the strings was actually taut making the monster lopsided.

Infernal Puppeteer Zeltron 0 ATK / Fire / Link Markers: Bottom / Fiend / Effect.

"I leave three cards face down and finish my turn." The cards materialized and then disappeared, becoming invisible to the eye. [Hand 4-1]

"Good work Master Deus. An accurate and excellent play of a duelist from your skill level."

"Two monsters with 0 attack, a rare strategy coming from a duelist who uses the fear factor to scare his opponents." The Ai commented.

The huntress noticed something strange about the Ai. "According to what you told me you did not have any memories of your past when you woke up but why do you seem to know about duel monsters?"

"The state of stasis in which I found myself allowed me to analyse Duel Monsters and to play and learn about them so I am very familiar with them."

The Ai knew more than she expected, Lightning Hunter was grateful that it wouldn't a bother in the duels. She took the card on top of her deck [Hand 4-5]

She took two cards from her hand. "First, I will start by discarding a card from my hand in order to activate the effect of my Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder Tiger so that he can be summoned to the field." The first card was sent to the cemetery and then she crashed her Thunder Liger on her duel disk. [Hand 5-3]

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder Tiger 2000 ATK / 1000 DEF / Light / Level 5 / Cyberse / Effect

The monster was a mechanical tiger, its primary colour was grey and its eyes were red while on its back it had two rocket launchers to shoot at its enemies. The beast roared with intensity as it rose to its mistress' field.

"Then I will summon to my field Cyberse Jaegers: Hunter Swordsman." She Took another card from her hand and put it on her disk [Hand 3-2]

Cyberse-Jaegers: Hunter Swordsman 1500 ATK / 1000 DEF / Earth / Level 4 / Cyberse / Effect.

This one was a robotic samurai who had two Katanas made of pure energy, for attire they had ancient samurai armour with metal shoulder pads and the sheaths of their swords on their hips, in addition to a straw hat on their head that hid their red eyes.

The huntress continued. "When I make a normal summon of a Cyberse monster in my field while I do not have a monster in my extra monster Zone I can summon Cyberse Jaegers: Quick Bunny from my graveyard."

Cyberse-Jaegers: Quick Bunny 300 ATK / 300 DEF / Light / Level 1 / Cyberse / Effect.

The new monster was a robotic rabbit with long legs that he used to jump towards his opponents, it had a pretty face that was partly blue while its ears were yellow.

"Cyberse-Jaegers ? You have Cyberse monsters just like Playmaker." Deus said astonished by the new cards that the huntress summoned. "It seems interesting but they are not strong enough to fight my Puppeteers, isn't that true AI?"

"Exactly Master Deus, your opponent will have no chance without a strong strategy on his side."

"He has something planned, it would be a bad idea to start your attack on this turn without knowing what kind of strategy we are facing." The Ai reported, the huntress' chuckle won Ai's gaze. "Why are you doing that?"

"You have a lot to learn yet." Lightning Hunter said.

But before she could even finish speaking, the duelist continued her turn: "I will leave a card face down and start my battle phase." [Hand 2-1] The card materialized and then disappeared.

"The effect of Hunter Swordsman is activated, when I enter the battle phase all my Cyberse monsters gains 300 attack points." The swordsman raised his weapons causing an aura to surround the lion and him.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder Tiger Atk: 2300

Cyberse-Jaegers: Hunter Swordsman Atk: 1800

Cyberse-Jaegers: Quick Bunny Atk: 600

"I'll start attacking your Link monster with my Hunter Swordsman first." The swordsman took a huge leap and with both swords was ready to cut the puppet in two.

"Zeltron's effect is activated! First, this card can't be attacked, the target becomes me! Then that triggers the second effect! Allowing me to summon an Infernal Puppeteer monster from my deck to the field for each free marker, I summon Infernal Puppeteer Asmodeus."

Infernal Puppeteer Asmodeus 0 ATK / 0 DEF / Fire / Level 4 / Fiend / Effect

Asmodeus was a lanky puppet with disproportionate arms and legs in comparison to its rather small torso, which was set ablaze in a sea of yellow flames.

"That won't matter because you will still take the damage!" The Ai commented surprised by the move.

"Wrong, because of Master Deus' next move." Deus' ai said.

He smiled as one of his face-down cards opened. "I activate my Continuous Trap card Infernal Guard." The card had Infernal Puppeteer Lucifer defending another with a shield made out of fire. "When a monster in my Main monster zone is destroyed in battle, I don't suffer any battle damage."

Swordsman destroyed Asomdeus in pieces while the puppet was consumed in flames and shouted in an infernal omen, while a shield surrounded Deus.

"But Hunter still has another attack, so with this one we could damage you severely."

"So, why don't you try? If you're so confident?" Deus said in a defiant tone.

"That's part of the plan, I attack your Link Monster with my Thunder Liger." The tiger roared and approached the infernal puppet.

"Due to the effect of my monster the attack is directed towards me instead." The tiger changed direction and with his claws managed to do damage directly to the commander of Hoelle.

Deus LP: 4000-2300 = 1700

"My next attack! Go Quick Bunny!"

The rabbit jumped straight into Deus, but this time the General was ready to react. "By discarding Infernal Pupeter Levianthan from my hand I can cut the damage I receive from a direct attack in half." [Hand 1-0] Stings began to ensnare the Rabbit, but that did not prevent him from suffering damage.

Deus LP: 1700-300 = 1400

"Impressive, in your first turn you managed to hurt him enough to lower more than half of his life points with your monsters." Zero-Q said.

"I finish my turn." Said the huntress.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder Tiger Atk: 2000

Cyberse-Jaegers: Hunter Swordsman Atk: 1500

Cyberse-Jaegers: Quick Bunny Atk: 300

On the other side, Tech Glitch was recording the duel, transmitting it all over Link Vrains while she was on her own D-board on another data storm.

"Amazing, Lightning Hunter is winning the duel." Tech Glitch said excitedly.

The Charisma Duelists on the other hand were more pensive and skeptical. "Everything is too easy." The number one Charisma Duelist said.

Crystaline nodded, concurring with GO "I think he's planning something, he hasn't even activated his other facedowns, it's as if it's part of his plan." The duelist then observed Deus' partner. "She doesn't even seem concerned about her partner, not as much as before." The girl thought. "They must be planning something."

Just then, more Hoelle soldiers appeared in front of the Charisma duelists, about ten soldiers had came to corral them. Both charisma duelists were in a bad situation.

"Did you really expect us to forget about you two?" Winstra said to both of them, "Now if you are so good please stay still and wait for your accounts to be eliminated."

Hoelle's soldiers were aiming with their duel discs, both duelists could not fight anymore because their duel discs were useless at the moment, it was at the last second that Winstra switched her attention in one of the buildings, the soldiers followed her equally.

"Playmaker!" Said the member of Hoelle with a smirk on her face. "You're in time for the party." The Link Vrains hero fell from the building and sure enough, the other Charisma Duelists were gawking at him.

"That's Playmaker?" The crystal duelist murmured and then crossed her arms.

"We're here to take down all of you once and for all!" The Ai on Playmaker's duel disk declared, pointing out at all of Hoelle's soldiers at the same time.

"Really? From what I see, we will finish you easily." The soldiers were quickly able to corner Playmaker.

Ai shrugged, maybe he shouldn't talk too much. "Be silent and leave this to me." Playmaker activated his duel disk.

The vigilante duelist was not entirely alone either, behind the soldiers, Blue Angel appeared also wanting to join the fight. "I guess this is the second time I have to help you save your butt Playmaker."

"Blue Angel." Crystaline muttered annoyed at her future opponent "I should be the one there." She thought as she bit her lip and mussed about her helplessness as she noted that her duel disk still didn't work.

"Another Charisma Duelist, that is a surprise, but you will not be enough to stop us either." Winstra affirmed "Soldiers! eliminate them, I have other issues to attend to." The commander dismissed them as the soldiers cornered everyone, things weren't going well at all.

Returning to the duel, Deus began his next turn, taking another card from his deck and watched it smiling [Hand 0-1]. "I summon Infernal Puppeteer Belphegor."

This monster had its face totally broken, fire consumed practically the whole body. The stings holding the puppet in place were severed and the monster lay on its back with only the hands visibly moving.

Infernal Puppeteer Belphegor 0 ATK / 0 DEF / Fire / Level 4 / Fiend / Effect.

"When Belphegor is summoned to the field I can add to my hand an Infernal Puppeteer from my deck." [Hand 0-1]

"Reappear! My circuit!" The portal appeared in the sky "Arrowheads confirmed!"

The commander shouted spreading his hands. "The summoning conditions are at least two Infernal Puppeteer monsters, I set both monsters on my field in the link Markers." Both creatures turned into flameballs that passed through the Bottom and Bottom Right arrows.

"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Come forth Link 2! Infernal Puppeteer Setral!"

This monster shared many similarities with the card that came before it. It had its face nearly fully broken, the fire was attached as armor on its arms and upper body. The stings holding the puppet in place were fully severed, the monster was lying on the ground only its torso showing.

Infernal Puppeteer Setral 0 ATK / Fire / Link Markers: Bottom, Bottom Right / Fiend / Effect.

"Your second Link Monster." The Ai commented "Again, it only has 0 attack points."

Lightning Hunter opened a second screen on her dueling disk, in which she could observe in more detail the effects of Deus' new monster. "As I expected, it is similar to its first Link monster but its effects, although similar, are more dangerous."

"Master Deus, the time is to proceed with the second phase of the plan." The ai in Deus' duel disk said.

Lightning Hunter's ai took interest at the dynamic , she asked Deus a question, "I see you listen a lot to that Ai, why is that?"

Deus smirked then narrowed his eyes at her. "Because we humans are imperfect, but not you AI. While we are fragile you do not get sick, we can't keep information like you that you have an unimaginable capacity for and we are mortal beings that can end up dying. "

Both partners listened intently with interest, Zero was somewhat enigmatic while the huntress found those words familiar.

"We in Hoelle believe in the superiority that you possess as the beings who deserve to inherit this world." Each time his smile was more distorted, he even embraced himself. "It's fascinating how we created such perfect beings yet we were so stupid to give them limitations. "

"What exactly do you mean?" Zero questioned.

Deus smiled and raised his arm, offering it to the ai. "I could tell you more, of course if you two would be interested in joining us, you could discover more about who you are destined to do be, you could even to become the most powerful beings on this planet under the guidance of the Emperor."

"Just think about it, Lightning Hunter, you're not a human being either according to your proclamations and you fight for beings that are not your race,. Deus said. "Next to that Ai you could stand on top of this world as a new race, it could be the new ruling class, what do you say? "

"I'm not interested and continue with the duel." The hunter said in a tone without any interest whatsoever.

Outraged by the words, Deus didn't understand the reasons for that decision. "Do you know the opportunity that you are declining?"

The commander gritted his teeth at the arrogance of the Cyberse duelist. "I'll make you pay for that offense, rejecting a deal with Hoelle can only be repaid with humiliation. Once per turn, Setral gains 200 points of attack for each Infernal Puppeteer in my graveyard."

Infernal Puppeter Setral ATK: 1000

"Only a thousand attack points, it is not powerful enough to damage any of our most ferocious monsters."

Lightning Hunter thought something different from her partner: "He has a different plan."

"Then I activate its second effect! By banish Infernal Puppeteer Lucifer from my graveyard I take control of a monster with 1500 attack points or less until the end of my next turn. I take control of your Swordsman!" The puppet's strings slinked out of the torso and was about to take control of the samurai until...

"I reveal my face-down, Cyberse Urgent Link Summon!" The Trap card was revealed, it had several Cyberse monsters escaping from an infernal beast attack on the Link Gate. "When a Cyberse monster is targeted by the effect of a monster on my opponent's field I can perform a Link Summon during my opponent's turn! However, I can only use Cyberse Monsters. "

"Come forth." The duelist stretched out her hands to the sky while creating a lightning bolt and with it opened the portal "The circuit that will bring the doors of freedom to those who are lost in the dark !" She screamed.

"Arrowheads Confirmed!" Lightning Hunter sang. "The summoning conditions are 3 Cyberse monsters, I set Cyberse Jaegers: Quick Bunny, Thunder Tiger and Swordsman in the Link markers." All the creatures became energy rays and came out towards the Right, Left and top arrows.

"Circuit Combine! Link Summon Come forth! Link 3 Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder-Code Talker! "

Lightning Hunter's Link Monster was a robot with grey armor and a golden crown with three points on his forehead, he also carried a shield in his left hand which was made of energy and in his other hand he carried a huge dark axe, when he appeared in the field his eyes shone green and he roared loudly.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder-Code Talker 2300 ATK / Light / Arrows: Bottom Right, Bottom Left, top / Cyberse / Link

"Incredible, that's one of the monsters you got, Lightning Hunter." The Ai said in amazement at seeing the metal robot positioned next to its owner.

"As your monster has more attack than 1500, I can not use the effect of my Link Monster." Even with his monster's effect negated, Deus laughed. "But that doesn't mean I can't activate my Skill." In his hands a set of strings wove around his fingers.

The ground in Vrains began to crack and from the fire below arose two huge hands of wood from the ground destroying the buildings around it. The huntress almost fell off her D-board but because of the force of the destruction.

"Incredible that's your skill." The Ai said, she also noticed an interesting detail, focusing in on Deus' hands: "You must be controlling them with those threads in your hands."

"Observe with your own eyes, your monsters Lightning Hunter." Deus said mockingly.

The Ai and the huntress watched as her new monster was caught by the invisible threads that connected from the huge giant hands.

"He's playing with our monster as if it's nothing." Said the companion of the hunter.

"When my skill is activated I can destroy a monster on your field and at the same time cause damage equal to your monster's original attack points."

"Oh no, we're out of defense."

"Pay the consequence." He extended his hands while flames consumed the invisible threads. The monster that had only just been summoned was burned alive until it was only ashes floating in the datastorm's wind. Some of the flames came to strike the Cyberse duelist, who covered herself with her hands while the ai took the form of an eye on her duel disk.

"Arghhhh." The flames consumed her entire body, the harsh memories of 10 years ago came back. The day the flames consumed everything she wanted to protect.

"Please don't leave me alone." She heard that voice again, her conscience snarled.

Lightning Hunter LP: 4000-2300 = 1700.

"I attack directly with Setral!" The puppet's strings slithered round Lightning Hunter's body before quickly ensnaring the huntress, the torched flames digging into her body.

Lightning Hunter LP: 1700-1000 = 700

Things did not end because Hoelle's General revealed another of his face-down cards, which had the design of an Infernal Puppeteer's soul being consumed by flames. "I'll activate my Trap card, Blazing Deprivation, which allows me to banish an Infernal Puppeter from my graveyard and cause 500 points of damage to my opponent.

He eliminated Leviantha from his graveyard and the puppet's soul in flames attacked the hunter who was desperately trying to cling to her D-board, while the flames consumed her entire body. Deus Started to laugh maniacally at the suffering.

Lightning Hunter LP: 700-500 = 200

"You could have accepted my offer and had everything you ever desired, but now you shall lose everything, melting upon your pyre! Hahahahha!"


Tech Glitch watched helplessly as one of Link Vrains heroes was consumed by the flames of her opponent's card. She placed her hand on her chest, feeling concern for the damage she would have suffered after that devastating effect.

"Lightning Hunter has suffered a devastating blow to his life points, dear spectators." She spoke to her cameras. "We have to hope for the best for him, things still have not ended."


(Command centre.)

The companions of Yuritzi heard Tech Glitch, Miguel pressed his fist while looking down not wanting to see the state his partner was in. He felt a weight on his shoulders.

When he turned his head, he found that it was his sister's hand and when he saw her face, he did not feel absolute fear for the situation, instead he felt calm as she began to speak with her hands. * She can't lose, I say with certainty that she will find the way to succeed, she always does.*


(Duel.)

As the flames had ended and once the smoke had cleared, it revealed Lightning Hunter sat on her D-board, the fire had left her quite weakened while she tried everything she could to take a breath after that damage.

She got up and check the Ai on her dueling disc. "Did you suffer damage?" She said in a worried tone.

The Ai came out of the dueling disk in the state of eye she had taken to protect herself. "It was close, if that damage had hit me directly then who knows what would have happened to me?" The Ai said, watching as her partner recovered from the damage. "But still, you took the brunt of it, are you okay?"

The Cyberse duelist nodded, putting herself in defensive position, crossing glances with the General of Hoelle.

He only laughed when he saw how the cyber duelist tried to stand up. "I could almost feel sorry for you... Key word. Almost, You are being stupid for giving up the offer that Hoelle has blessed you with."

"Then you and I have a pretty different definition of being stupid."The hunter answer again won Deus's scorn.

"And you still challenge me? What makes you and Playmaker believe that they are better than Hoelle?" Deus shouted, "Your sentient Ai? The fact that you have special types of cards that not everyone has? Yet all you do is waste them."

Lightning Hunter pressed her fists, her partner even noticed, another interesting note about her human partner she had to learn.

"You do not know what you're talking about, leave your stupid ideas aside and stop talking nonsense that you do not understand." The Cyberse duelist pointed towards Deus, even with her voice-impaired you could tell how upset she was. " Don't talk about me or Playmaker in that way as if you knew us! Don't speak for us and compare us with your damn ideology. "

Deus raised his eyebrows at how the duelist spoke to him.

"And I do not give a damn about your organization! If I have to crush them together with the knights of Hanoi I'll do it! If you try to harm a single person in Link Vrains, I'll take care of putting a brake on their nonsense."

"Now let's go back to the duel." The hunter affirmed.

Deus gritted his teeth, the worse part was that the speech of the huntress was heard by all Link Vrains thanks to the cameras of Tech Glitch.

He gritted his teeth again and continued his turn. "For the Emperor, kill my puppet-" The duelist was stopped by the huntress.

"I activate the second effect of my Trap card, which allows me to recall one of the used graveyard materials when I do not have monsters in the extra monster zone but with its effects negated and I must destroy it at then end of this turn." The tiger returned to the field.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder Tiger 2000 ATK / 1000 DEF / Light / Level 5 / Cyberse / Effect

The commander of Hoelle rubbed his lips, he couldn't continue his direct attack because his monster has less attack than her monster. "I finish my turn."

"Well done Lightning Hunter !" The journalist shouted.


(Command centre.)

Both siblings raised happy hands that their partner survived this turn. Then they embraced very strongly, that even for a moment Miguel left Maria with no air because of how hard they hugged each other.

Worried about his sister he pulled out quickly. "I'm sorry, little sister." He scratched his head while laughing.

His sister made an "Ok" sign but the poor girl was without air and couldn't stand up.


(Duel.)

The Ai sighed. "We were lucky that your Trap had that second effect."

"Still the duel is not over, he still has a monster that can not be defeated with an attack and I'm worried about his last Tap card." Lightning Hunter said, narrowing her eyes at the Link monster, then watched her deck.

The Ai looked at what she was doing. "Is this what you humans call a destiny draw?" She said, marvelling at the concept. "I had heard of this when I was in stasis mode, humans use it when it is the last resort."

"The last card has yet to be played and it will decide the conclusion of this duel, a miraculous return that can save any duelist."

Different to what the ai thought, it was not just a desperate draw, it was already planned, she just needed the necessary card to win, she put her hand on her deck. She just had to think about three important things in her head, three reasons to win this duel, she had to stop thinking for a moment and just concentrate on those three reasons.

"One. I can't let anything stop me, there is so too much I can sacrifice in this duel and a single false move could end everything." She felt a spark in her head.

"Two. Miguel will be left alone and if Miguel is left alone, Maria too. Not only Maria but those to whom I will avenge, those souls that I leave will no longer be able to have the dignified rest that they deserve, the eleven will never be able to have their rendezvous. "

The spark that she imagined each time became more unstable and at the same time from her hand, her companion noticed that it was filled with electricity.

The Ai was amazed at such a feat. "Incredible, you can connect with your deck."

"Three. If this isn't something useful, people will die and if I don't move, I can not fulfil my promise and see the way of the stars for my new future. "The duelist thought as the sparks that she imagined grew and became lightning.

"This is not a simple destiny draw, this is my Lightning Draw!" She thought as she took the card from her deck, at that moment a lightning bolt fell to link Vrains while her entire avatar was electrified. [Hand 1-2]

Deus was surprised by such action and murmured "What did you just do?"

"The key to my victory lies in my next move." The huntress raised her hand to the sky, while her suit began to generate static.

The Ai understood what would be the next movement of the duelist just by observing how her avatar generated energy. "Are you going to use your Skill?"

"I activate my skill, Lightning Wings! This activates when I do not have a monster in my extra monster zone and at the same time my life points are lower than my opponent's and are below 1000." A lightning bolt fell on the datastorm, generating enough energy to make Deus cover himself.

Hoelle's General had wide eyes "What kind of power is this? Is it possible that this is the power of that the Ai's have, that Lucifer has spoken to us about all this time?"

"This allows me to summon a Cyberse Link monster from my graveyard whose attack is at least 2000 attack points!"

Where the lightning fell, an electrified tornado formed and from this Thunder-Code Talker came out with a new color in its now white armor and what appeared to be a new equipment on its back that when activated seemed to have wings.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder-Code Talker 2300 ATK / Light / Arrows: Bottom Right, Bottom Left, top / Cyberse / Link.

Deus finally deciphered it. "That was part of your plan, all the time, right?" He said. "That's why you used that trap on my turn, you knew you could use that skill later."

If the commander of Hoelle saw the smirk that the cyberse duelist had at the same time, he would become even more irritated than he already is. [Hand 2-1]

The huntress put her hand on her chest. "My deck is a part of my soul, this isn't due to mere luck, it is my deck's response to when I was in danger."

"I summon Cyberse-Jaegers: Lone Wolf to the field." The duelist declared, placing a new card to her duel disk. [Hand 1-2]

A futuristic cybernetic wolf that has electrical circuits that connects with his entire body and at the same time has a viewfinder on his face emerged onto the battlefield.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Lone Wolf 1200 ATK / 900 DEF / Light / Level 3 / Cyberse / Effect.

"The effect of Lone Wolf allows me to add a cyberse monster with an attack of 1000 or lower to my hand."

Once again the duelist declared another link summon: "The circuit that will build the road to freedom arises again!" The portal again emerged: "Arrowheads confirmed! The summoning conditions are at least two Cyberse-Jaegers monsters! I set Thunder Liger and Lone Wolf in the link markers! "

Both creatures became rays of energy that passed in the left and bottom markers of the portal.

"Circuit combine! Link Summon! Come forth Link 2! Cyberse-Jaegers: Fast Gunman! "

A new monster came out of the portal, unlike the other mechanical beasts of Hunter, this was a beast of an advanced class, a trench coat raided in its pectoral area, there were white boots that went to well with his faceplate that hid his face. In addition to both ray guns that he had in his hands.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Jaeger: Fast Gunman 1300 ATK / Light / Arrows: Left, bottom Cyberse / Link

"When a Link monster is special summoned I can summon directly from my hand, Cyberse-Jaegers: Aprentices to the field, in the Link markers of Fast Gunman."

This was a small boy who wore a rivet similar to Fast Gunman, but wore a scarf that covered his mouth in addition to his clothes being blue and he wore shorts.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Aprentices 400 ATK / 900 DEF / Light / Level 2 / Cyberse / Effect.

"Then I activate the effect of Fast Gunman. By sacrificing a monster in its link marker, it allows me to destroy one of your cards face down on your field, I will sacrifice Aprentices." Aprentice descended from the field and Gunman pointed to Deus' remaining face-down card destroying it completely .

The commander of Hoelle grit his teeth. "You'll still have to deal with the effect of my Link monster, Lightning Hunter." You could tell from his voice that he was getting desperate.

"Hunter, it's true, even with your two monsters, the effect of his monster will protect him." The Ai said.

"Don't worry, I already have a plan." The huntress said, her words were more interesting to the ai, as to how she could get out of this. "I activate Thunder-Code Talker's effect! By destroying my Fast gunman in its bottom Left marker, Thunder-Code Talker will gain attack points equal to the destroyed monster's original attack, Energy Recharge!"

Fast Gunman disappeared and with it the wings of Thunder-code talker were opened generating enough energy in them.

Thunder-Code Talker ATK: 2300 + 1300 = 3600

"When a Cyberse monster is destroyed on the field, I can summon my Cyberse-Jaegers: Static Pidgeon from my hand to the field." [Hand 1-0]

A small blue cybertnet pigeon emerged in the same monster zone as the sacrificed Gunman.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Static Pidgeon 200 ATK / 200 DEF / Light / Level 2 / Cyberse / Effect.

"I start my battle phase. Destroy his monster my Thunder-code!"

"I will not allow it! I activate the effect of my Infernal Puppeteer. Since I'm targeted for a direct attack I summon two Infernal puppeteers to Setral's Link Markers." The commander of Hoelle shouted "Good try, Lightning Hunter! But in the end it was all worthless."

"You talk so much about how you and your group want to spread fear to the people of Link Vrains but look at how desperate you are right now." The huntress said in a mocking tone that drove Hoelle's General crazy.

That pushed all the buttons of the commander of Hoelle that made him explode with rage. "I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE SCARED, YOU ARE MAKING A DESPERATE ATTACK."

The Ai was the one who noticed and then looked at the hunter. "The second effect of Thunder-Code Talker can negate the effect of a card, that's why you wanted to make sure you eliminated his trap first with Gunman."

The commander of Hoelle was paralyzed with the last statement. "What?! That can't be possible."

"I activate the second effect of Thunder-Code Talker! I sacrifice Static Pigeon in its Link Marker and with it I can negate the effect of a card on the field that had been activated until the end of the turn, Electromagnetic Pulse! "

Pigeon was sacrificed and with his wings Thunder-Code Talker sent electromagnetic waves through the field that made the infernal puppet stop and become immobilized.

Infernal Puppeteer Setral ATK: 0

"End his life points! Thunder-Code! Thunder Ultimate Slash!"

The robot raised his axe and with a quick movement sped towards the puppet, Deus was immobilized to the realization that he couldn't do anything to defend himself.

"DEUS!" That voice was that of Winstra who was approaching with her own D-board to save her companion, with her active duel disc she created a great light that obscured the sight of the huntress.

"What is this?" The Ai covered her eyes with the intensity of the light, Lightning Hunter's dueling disc disconnected and the holograms disappeared "It forced the duel to end..."

The hunter for a moment watched the figures of Winstra and Deus disappear. But then the light generated an electromagnetic pulse that caused the D-board to disappear.

"We are falling Hunter!" The Ai yelled.

If hunter knew someone was going to help her, this was the last person she expected it to be, "I'm coming." It was Tech Glitch mounted on her D-board, taking her by the hand to save the duelist from being absorbed by the strength of the datastorm.

Tech Glitch sighed and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her available hand. "You owe me big time for saving you, Link Vrains hero."

"Pay attention!" The huntress screamed.

When Tech Glitch did as the huntress had instructed her to do she saw a Data storm tornado, which had generated in front of them. "AHHHH!" The Link Vrains' reporter then also began to scream.

"Hunter, is this human being a good example of stupidity?" The Ai affirmed at the worst possible moment.

"Now's not the time Ai!" The huntress screamed. The first thing she did was get on Tech Glitch's D-board, take her by the waist. "Damn, if that tornado hits us, we'll suffer damage, hold on to me." The girl nodded and grabbed the chest of the huntress.

The plan of Lightning Hunter was to jump to one of the buildings and use her whip to reach one of the windows. The difficult thing was that the whip could hold them but the time wasn't likely to be long enough and she had to do something before that data storm hurt the three.

"Hunter whatever your plan is, there is a 95% chance that it will end in failure." Hunter just ignored her companion's observation.

"Here's a new lesson about humanity, we do not rely on numbers, we make crazy movements and we hope it works, or rather, if you do not move, you die."

Fulling committing herself, the huntress jumped on the elusive datastorm, having the hope that she could grab the ledge of a building with her whip, the duelist clung to the building even though her left arm was holding onto the screaming Tech Glitch, while her left arm was trying cling to the front building. It was too much for her to handle and they fell with all possible speed.

The Ai noticed how fast they were falling. "Again, Hunter, we are falling too fast and it is possible that we fall because your hand will not resist enough." And the Ai was right because Hunter could not resist, Hunter was falling directly to the floor of Link Vrains. "The fall will not kill us but it will hurt a lot."

"Are we going to die?" Tech Glitch screamed.

"No, but maybe the fall will cause some of you to become disabled."

"Ehhhh, I do not want to be disabled so young."

Lightning Hunter grasped hold of Tech Glitch so she would not suffer the full brunt of the impact, if at least one of them would have to suffer damage it would be her. She heard a great star and someone came out of the datastorm and at full speed was approaching them.

The Ai noticed the new figure on a D-board. "Who is that?" She asked, the huntress already knew who that person was.

Playmaker raced at full speed and as he reached a nearby building he stuck out his hand, pulling the huntress and the reporter out of the air but still dangling them loosely because of how heavy it was to carry both.

With a great pull Playmaker was able to bring both of them onto his D-board with Tech Glitch landing on top of Lightning Hunter, the red haired girl murmured from the experience and her face was in front of the hunt of the huntress. Not knowing what to do in the situation, she started laughing uncomfortably. "I'm sorry, turns out I did not save you. Ahahaha. "

"I understand, you did what you could and I could not thank you more." The huntress said making Tech Glitch smiled with gratitude; It only lasted a few seconds when the cyberse duelist took her in the face. "Now please, I need to talk to Playmaker."

Tech Glitch got up and Lightning Hunter alike, she checked her partner in her dueling disc; she was dizzy. "Do you feel good?" asked the huntress.

Zero tried to massage her head and replied, "What do you humans call this feeling?"

"It's called dizziness, it's something common for humans to suffer when we're in conditions like that."

The ai was amazed with that detail. "And how do you solve it?"

"We vomit or we hope it leaves us."

The ai noted again what the hunter said, another detail more to the list of things learned from the human race.

After all that the cyberese duelist turned to Playmaker. The Cyberse duelist walked towards him, raised her hand so that he would squeeze it as gratitude, he accepted and they looked each other in the face

The first to break the silence was Playmaker's ai that was connected to Playmaker's disk. "Ok, it's time to tell us, where the hell and how did you get those cyberse cards." He watched the duelist and pointed with his finger. "We will not leave here until you tell us. "

Zero was interested in the new Ai that was similar to her. "You are also an Ai like me, interesting... I did not expect to meet someone similar to me." The ai waved her hands excitedly. "This day gets more and more exciting..."

"Be silent, we are talking."

"Interesting you have a name, maybe you'll think about giving me a proper one later." The lightning Ai said.

Lightning Hunter went back to the important issue. "If you're here, I guess you took care of Hoelle's soldiers?"

Playmaker nodded. "I can't take all the credit, I had some help." At that same moment, another 5 people appeared on the roof. It was the five best Charisma duelist in Link Vrains.

They were Go Onizuka, Blue Angel, Crystaline, Pink Reaper and next to the pink haired girl her was her boyfriend, the last remaining top 5 Charisma Duelist Duke. He was clearly one of, if not the tallest amongst them. He also looked to be giving Go a run for his money in terms of visible muscle mass. Next to that he had an almost ghostly pale complexion that seemed to go quite well with what he was wearing. It was a rather complicated attire that stood out to the more simplistic designs of the other Charisma Duelists. It included a blue suit and long coat, thigh high grey boots and a black cape with red insignia on it to compliment the noble appearance it gave him, part of the reason that he used the name Duke. His hair was sliver and framed his face perfectly, with the rest of his bags being pulled back by a black ribbon. Around his face there was also a golden domino mask. He applauded the two vigilantes as he saw them

The cordial Duke was the first to speak with the heroes of Link Vrains. "Good work Lightning Hunter and Playmaker! You did a great act of courage in facing this new group."

"Let's leave the formalities for later! I'm here to face them, come on Playmaker! Duel me now! "Go Onizuka roared to both Link Vrains heroes." And then I'll face you Lightning Hunter, after I finish Playmaker. "

"I'm not interested." Playmaker turned around but without first observing the cyberse duelist. "Maybe another time, Lightning Hunter, we can talk more calmly." The huntress nodded and then the duelist jumped off the roof to disconnect.

"Then, I guess that it'll be only you, Lightning Hunter, let's have this fight." Go turned to watch the huntress.

"Your duel disk will still not work for another two hours and even then I would not fight with you, but all of you did a good job in taking care of the Hoelle soldiers." The huntress said, afterwards a lightning bolt fell on her and she vanished, leaving the other duelists and the Link Vrains reporter covering themselves due to the huge light.

When the light ended, they saw the hunter was already gone.

"Who was that person?" Pink Reaper mentioned surprised.

"That's Lightning Hunter, one of the Link Vrains heroes and I do not think he's a human being." Tech Glitch said winning the eyes of the five Charisma Duelists. "That's what I heard, did any of you not see my transmission?"


(Command centre.)

Yuritzi left the hidden room in the command centre, sighing and placing her hand on her chest, it had been a long day. Maybe she'll take a bath after she reports to Sol.

"YURITZI!" Miguel shouted, when the duelist turned around, both siblings had already thrown her on the ground while hugging her. "Good thing you're fine, piruja." Miguel said, when he and Maria watched the duelist on the ground, who was presently running out of air.

They got up quickly from the ground and apologized, Yuritzi did not stop completely; she sat on the floor while stretching her back, as if the damage she received in the duel was not enough.

"Interesting, humans can have two names." The Ai in her duel disk spoke; Then she turned her head to observe the siblings. "It's a good thing to see more humans too, are you also Lightning Hunter companions?"

Yuritzi got up from the floor and then sat down in one of the chairs.

Maria nodded and smiled at the Ai, Miguel spoke for both. "It's a pleasure to meet even an Ai program, my name is Miguel and she is my sister Maria." The younger sister waved her hand excited to meet her.

Snores were then heard; both the Ai and the siblings turned to see that Yuritzi had already fallen asleep in the chair because of the tiredness.

Miguel smiled. "I'll bring a sheet for her."


(Hanoi Base.)

The members of the Knights of Hanoi observed on a screen the duel that Lightning Hunter had with the General of Hoelle; Among them was Revolver and Oblivion plus three new people accompanying them, among them an old man and a young man named Spectre who was the right hand of Revolver.

"Another reckless and desperate hero has shown up." The old man said, shaking his head.

"What do we do about this, Master Revolver? Both Playmaker and this new subject Lightning Hunter are Cyberse users." Spectre said.

"I want to take care of the new one, Revolver, you take care of Playmaker." Oblivion said putting her hand on the screen. "This guy seems to be interesting."

A new voice was heard. "Easy daughter, you will soon get into a duel with him." That person was called Poison, he wore a similar suit but he had a gas mask and a backpack that connected to his glove.


(School)

"Oi…" Yuritzi felt a stubby finger press into her face, she grimaced in her sleep as the person poked again "Oi. Schmidt. Wake up." Yuritzi still didn't stir, wanting a few more blissful moments of ignorance before having to slug through school again "Schmidt, someone wants to talk to you!" This time the person shook her and startled her awake, with a fire behind her eyes.

"Who the hell do you think you are?!" Yuritzi exploded, twisting the person's arm behind their back to their yelps.

Said person was a rather large boy with green hair named Naoki Shima "Give! Give! Give! I wasn't trying to do anything! Someone asked me to wake you up!" It was then that Yuritzi mellowed out and her eyes flicked to the two girls that were standing beside each other and watching the situation unfold.

One of them was that red haired girl from the day before. Akatsuki if Yuritzi remembered correctly, she was dressed in the normal school uniform that the girl beside her had on as well.

The other girl was roughly 5'6 in height with her hair being predominantly purple that was overall quite a long length that went down to her midback with it spiking up slightly at the bottom. Her eyes were both blue. Finally she wears two silver rings on her left hand. Her skin is also tanned, which made her stand out slightly amongst other students.

"So, you were in my class the whole time? I can't believe I missed you." Akatsuki said in disbelief that she could miss someone that was hiding in plain sight "I still don't know your name…" She said, deliberately leading Yuritzi on in the conversation.

However, Yuritzi didn't reply, having this may eyes on her was making her anxious. If this was Link Vrains then she mightn't have had a problem but real life was a different story. She froze on the spot and didn't speak, leading Akatsuki and the other girl to raise their eyebrows "Riko." The redhead elbowed the girl next to her "Your turn."

The girl named Riko suddenly pounded the table, making everyone in the class jump at the sudden explosive noise "A'right! Tell us your name! We ain't got all day!" She said in a headstrong and forceful fashion. However all that did was succeed in frightening Yuritzi even further.

Akatsuki was about to pull her friend back but then someone's voice broke the tension "Oi! Plagues! Quieten down will ya?! Some of us are actually trying to do other things during our break!" The voice belonged to a small light green haired male with two piercings in his lower lip and one in his eyebrow. He had yellow eyes and one of his canines was sticking out of his mouth. With a huge sigh he turned his gaze back to the book he was reading "The Consentes Dii"

"Did you really have to do that? Takao?" That came from the person sat beside Takao, a girl that had long pink hair tied back into two separate low ponytails and similarly pinkish red eyes.

"Pftt. They can do what they want, I'm just trying to focus on my studies, Akemi." Takao responded off-handedly, to the girl who simply nodded.

Recovering from that, Yuritzi then saw another group of three people sitting not too far away from them.

Two of them looked to be enjoying themselves, happily chatting away between themselves while the remaining person looked as if the gates of hell had opened.

"That guy stood no chance! You should've seen it, Haruka!" The first of the two males said, cracking his knuckles while giving a large grin. Even though he was sat down, Yuritzi could tell that he was probably very tall and from the way the uniform was constricted around his body, he was probably very muscular. His hair was brown and very spiky, with him having to wear a bandana in order to prevent it from getting into his eyes. His visible eye was red and noticeably around his right eye was a black eyepatch.

"I just knew you would win! You always do, Seung!" Haruka yelled excitedly. She was a girl with hair that was predominantly black that was quite short, going to just above her shoulders with black bangs that cover her left eye that acted as a fringe. Her eyes, just like Akemi's were both pink. "What do you think, Yury?"

That question was directed to the second male, who was lounged across the table, which made Yuritzi think of him as a giant considering that the table was quite long and this person had his feet dangling off the side. Unlike many other students, he wasn't wearing the full regulation school uniform, with a red scarf replacing the tie and a pair of black gloves covering his hands. It was either from contempt, the fact he was sleeping or that he just didn't feel like it, the person named Yury didn't respond.

"Are you done gawking at everyone else now?" Riko moaned tapping her foot impatiently "We still don't know your name and I'm not in the business of waiting about for the rest of my life!" Yuritzi was still anxious about speaking, especially with the purple haired girl eyeballing her furiously.

"Hey, hey, Riko." Akatsuki said, patting Riko's shoulder, trying to calm down the headstrong beast "Let's not intimidate her any more, kay? We're not going to get anywhere by doing that."

Riko sighed heavily and folded her arms, puffing out her cheeks "Normally works when Mom does it on Dad…" She mumbled.

"I just wanted to thank you for what you did the other day." Akatsuki said, holding out her hand to Yuritzi and smiling "And I can't necessarily do that without knowing who you really are."

"Schmidt…" Yuritzi found herself saying subconsciously "Yuritzi Schmidt." Realising what she had done, she clasped her hands over her mouth.

"Hmm. That's a nice name." The reporter said, deciding to ignore the other girl's reaction.

"You remind me a lot of Fujiki, Schmidt." Naoki said, coming back into the scene rotating the arm that Yuritzi had crushed behind his back.

"Who?" The three girls said at the same time.

Naoki stuck out his finger and pointed to a teen with electric blue spiky hair and pink highlights who was presently asleep "His name's Yusaku Fujiki and he reminds me a lot of you. Always sleeping and he never speaks to anyone. Well except for me of course!" Naoki posed proudly "It must be my natural charisma!"

"Oh do shut up!" Takao erupted again, making Naoki squeal despite the other's small stature "You're about as interesting as a brick wall and about as vapid as a vacuum!"

"W-will do! Nakamura!" Naoki yelped as the three girls' sweatdroped at the large male's antics, each laughing nervously.

Yuritzi then looked towards where Yusaku was sleeping 'Yusaku Fujiki. They think I'm like you? They don't know the half of it.'

Just then, the door to the room swung open and the teacher came through with another student in tow. "Alright settle down! As you can see we have a new student joining us today." The teacher then looked over their shoulder and gestured for the new student to come forward.

He was a male standing at about 6'2 with relatively pale looking skin and long blue hair, with one part of it running down to his back while the other half cupped around the right side of his face, hiding his right eye to a certain extent, both of said eyes were gold in colour "Ich heiße Kaspar Zichon und ich bin sechszhen jahre alt." The long blue haired teen said in a moderately heavy German accent.

As he looked around the class to the blank stares he quickly noticed his mistake "Scheiße! Sorry! I forgot, I'll start that again." He said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head "My name is Kaspar Zichon and I'm 16 years old." His accent was still quite heavy and the formation of his words was sluggish, indicating that he likely wasn't as proficient in Japanese as he was in German. "I'm Japanese but lived in Germany for a few years, so I have a tendency to slip back into the language. My parents were German too so it's kinda my natural tongue."

It wasn't his multilingualism that Yuritzi found odd, no, it was his resemblance to a certain Intermediary of SOL Technologies that was the odd thing for her 'Is it me or does he look like Mr Kryan?'

"I hope that all will go well between us!" Kaspar smiled happily.


(Sol technologies.)

On top of a rooftop Kryan observed the digital sun, Lightning Hunter appeared behind him; in her usual way of entering with a lightning bolt. The SOL official did not even have to turn around to know who it was. "Y'know, There's this story I was told when I was younger, It's about a lost wandering soul, burdened by their past as they were forced to go through a horrible experience. They were determined to help the others that were also involved in this incident, they even started to become friends with one of them that they had found."

The huntress listened to the story but her Ai did not know who the man was or why he spoke that way; she wanted to ask, but Hunter ordered her to be silent.

"In the end, this person formed a partnership with an outside party who was willing to help them achieve their goal. However, after a while they got cold feet and decided to tender their resignation with the outside party, ending their partnership. Unfortunately, when trouble came knocking and with no one around to help her, her debt was collected. "

Kryan did not stop observing the virtual sun, she understood his story. "Take care Mr. Kryan, it was an honor to work with SOL even if this was for a short time." Lightning Hunter disappeared again.

"You've gotten yourself into the mouth of the wolf, Lightning Hunter."


Lightning Hunter OC cards:

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder Tiger 2000 ATK / 1000 DEF / Light / Level 5 / Cyberse / Effect

Monster Effect: Discard a Cyberse monster from your hand and directly summon this card to your field. If this card is destroyed by card effects, you can decrease the monster's attack with your opponent's biggest attack by 200 by the number of Cyberse monsters in your graveyard.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Quick Bunny 300 ATK / 300 DEF / Light / Level 1 / Cyberse / Effect.

Monster Effect: When you make a normal summon of a Cyberse monster to your field while you have no monsters in your extra monster Zone you can summon this card to the field from your hand or graveyard.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Hunter Swordsman 1500 ATK / 1000 DEF / Earth / Level 4 / Cyberse / Effect.

Monster Effect: When the battle phase is about to start all the Cyberse monsters in your field that is in attack mode gains 300 attack points. If this card is used for a Summon link, the link monster gains 200 attack points for each material that was used to summon it.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Thunder-Code Talker 2300 ATK / Light / Arrows:Bottom Right,Bottom Left, top / Cyberse / Link

Monster Effect: You can sacrifice up to one or more monsters on the arrow links of this card and at the same time you can make this card win attack equal to the attack points of the destroyed monster. Once per turn you can sacrifice a monster in the Link Marker of this card and deny the effect of a card.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Lone Wolf 1200 ATK / 900 DEF / Light / Level 3 / Cyberse / Effect.

Monster Effect: If this card is normal summon in your field you can add a cyberse monster with less than 1000 attack points to your hand.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Jaeger: Fast Gunman 1300 ATK / Light / Arrows: Left, bottom Cyberse / Link

Monster Effect: When sacrificing a monster in one of the link markers of this card you can select a face-down card in the trap and magic zones of your opponent, destroy it.

Cyberse Urgent Link Summon.

Trap Card.

Card Effect: When a monster in your field is affected by a card from your opponent, you can make a summon link from your extra deck. When you have no monster in your extra deck zone you can summon a material that you used to summon your Link monster.

Cyberse-Jaegers: Static Pidgeon 200 ATK / 200 DEF / Light / Level 2 / Cyberse / Effect.

Card Effect: When a cyberseer monster Jaegers leaves the field, summon this card to your field.

Deus:

Infernal Puppeteer Lucifer
Level 4, Fiend, FIRE, Effect, ATK/DEF (0/0)

When this card is summoned for the first time during your turn, you can add one spell or trap card from your deck to your hand. When this card is banished add one Infernal Puppeteer from your deck to hand.

Infernal Puppeteer Belphegor,
Level 4, Fiend, FIRE, Effect, ATK/DEF (0/0)

When this card is summoned for the first time during your turn, you can add one Level 4 'Infernal Puppeteer' monster from your deck to your hand.

Infernal Puppeteer Leviathan,
Level 4, Fiend, FIRE, Effect, ATK/DEF (0/0)

By discarding this card from your hand to the graveyard, you can reduce the damage taken by a direct attack by half. You can only use the effect of 'Infernal Puppeteer Leviathan' once per turn.

Infernal Puppeteer Asmodeus
Level 4, FIRE, Fiend, Effect ATK/DEF (0/0)

When this card is banished from your graveyard as a result of a card effect, you can activate one of the following two effects. 1) Target one monster your opponent controls with less than 1000 attack points, take control of this card for the next two turns, that card can't attack for the during of this effect. 2) One monster you control gains the attack points of half the total attack points of the monsters on your opponent's field until the end of the turn.

Infernal Puppeteer Zeltron
1 Infernal Puppeteer monster with 0 attack points
Link, Fiend, FIRE, Effect, ATK (0) Link Markers: Bottom

This card cannot be attacked, the target changes to a direct attack on you. Up to the number of free link markers this card has, you can summon one Infernal Puppeteer from your deck to the marker. The target of the attack changes to that monster.

Infernal Puppeteer Setral
Link 2, Fiend, FIRE, Effect, ATK (0) Link Markers: Bottom and Bottom Right

This card cannot be attacked, the target changes to a direct attack on you. Up to the number of free link markers this card has, you can summon one Infernal Puppeteer from your deck to the marker. The target of the attack changes to that monster. Once per turn this card can gain 200 attack points for each Infernal Puppeteer in your graveyard.

If you noticed that Yuritzi is more active in this version and does not have her communication problems so much, it is not something that I will show in this chapter, since she can only communicate with trusted people, like Miguel and Maria, because they are like her family.

Also decide to change the origin of Yuritzi and Zero-Q, something more different from the original plan. Also, no, there are not twelve children of the Lost Icident (Do not worry I will explain it with more details when we get to other chapters.)

If anyone is interested in knowing this detail about Hoelle. Originally they were thinking about the original story to appear after chapter 14 but in this story, because I wanted to introduce more character to the world of vrains, I decided to introduce them at the beginning.

Thanks and the sky for everything.

Romadrox out.