Hello and welcome to my Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds fanfic. This is one of a group of 'alternate anime universe' stories which retell the story of the World Championship Nintendo DS games, Stardust Accelerator, Reverse of Arcadia and Over The Nexus. I played those games and loved them to death. I recently bought the Wii game, Duel Transer.

If you go over to the site of King Dragun, you'll find an older Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic I did back when I was a member of , "Sister of Anansi." This was a spin-off of Cyber Commander's "Mandate of Heaven" story. The main characters were three young girls; Diane Arachne, Brigit Anderlee, and Giselle Wagnis, as they battled the Egyptian God Cards and destroyed the Seal of Orichalcos for good. Luckily, Cyber gave me license to use his story setting and used the chapters where Diane had visions to create his characters for the sequels.

"Mandate of Heaven" was one of the later stories in Cyber Commander's "Yu-Gi-Oh Jr." series, which was created before 5Ds was even the glimmer in a writer's eye. "Soul of Silicon" was written just as 5Ds was coming out so he added in the Synchro Monsters near the end.

However, this is a different story. When I first started these stories, the characters were a mind wiped Diane, Brigit and Giselle. However, I realized that Yu-Gi-Oh Jr. characters are outdated. (I had tried to remake Sister of Anansi like Cyber remade his story "Yu-Gi-Oh: The Thousand Year Door", but found it boring and frustrating.) So this is a compromise.

DISCLAIMER: I have no rights to any of the characters which are exclusive to the games; they are the property of Konami and Konami alone.

Another reason I decided against using the D.M.G. gang for these stories (after several drafts) was because of Diane's deck. She uses a Guardian Deck with Guardian Elma and the Butterfly Dagger. However, recently the Butterfly Dagger - Elma was banned because of the combos very unscrupulous people used with the Dagger and Gearfried the Iron Knight to horde spell counters. This is one of the reasons that I decided on a Spellcaster deck for the character of this story. Dark Magician is semi-unique but I doubt Yugi will mind if I use his monsters. Besides, the main character's name is based on two characters so it was either Psychics or Spellcasters, and Psychics would get her in trouble in the sequel which has the Arcadia Movement involved.

Anyways, since this story takes place in an alternate reality of Season One of the 5Ds anime, the regular Speed World will be used. In the games you created a deck which doesn't allow any Spells but speed spells to be used, so any turbo duels in these stories won't use normal spells. However, they will use copycats of spells similar to the ones used in Ruin Queen of Oblivion's Shadowchasers fanfic(which requires additional costs in addition to having the required number of speed counters) to simulate the Speed Spell versions of normal spells that the game uses. (Yes, the games use Speed Spell versions of normal spells like Fissure.)

All rules of dueling will be according to the official card game, including 8000 Life Points instead of 4000 that the anime STILL insists on using for ZeXal! Enjoy this short prelude before the show.

Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds: Stardust Guardian

A fic by King Dragun

Prologue

In a stadium in a city called New Domino City, a fast and furious type of dueling was underway. Two motorbikes were dashing around the track. One was a white ring-framed model being ridden by a man with blonde hair. The other was a normal bike with modifications, being ridden by a red-haired man with red facial hair.

Sadly, the battle was not in the red-haired rider's favor.

"Synchro Summon... Red Dragon Archfiend!" cried the blonde rider as rings of energy erupted into light and a shadowy creature emerged, a tri-horned dragon with a wicked jaw and demonic eyes. Its skin was the color of a bruise.

"Amazing!" said the emcee. "Jack's just summoned his ace in the hole!"

"Red Dragon Archfiend, end this!" shouted the blonde rider. "Absolute Power Force!"

"NO!" cried the other rider as the tri-horned demonic dragon blasted a stream of unholy fire at his Duel Runner, eradicating the rest of his life points. He spun out of control and crashed, but crawled out and brushed himself off. He threw his helmet to the ground in a rage. "DAMMIT!"

"So amazing, so brilliant!" cried the emcee. "Once again, Jack Atlus has successfully defended his title of Turbo Dueling Champion yet again! Can he be beaten?"

The blonde rider looked to the cheering crowds. "Who's the Master of Faster? Who rules the duels? Who's the most powerful Turbo Duelist in New Domino City? I am, Jack Atlus, and I'll challenge ANYONE who says otherwise!"

"Jack! Jack! Jack!" chanted the crowd.

"Pathetic," murmured a shadowy figure. She put a hand to her head. "Yes... I'm making sure that the Stardust Dragon is safe. No, he hasn't used it yet. He prefers his demon dragon." There's a pause. "Yes, the Prodigy has been extracted from Goodwin's care and is now in Satellite. It won't be long before Yusei's glee club finds her. Once she's found, it's only a matter of time..."

"We'd better make sure that the others are okay too. I heard that Tormentor's Banekin has already fallen under the care of Sayer... he's still in his coma and won't wake up until our plans come to fruition. That fool thinks he can brainwash a powerful link to the Spirits."

"As for the Raslayer Kin, well, she's safe. She met the Banekin a while ago when the Enforcers were still in force." The figure looked to Jack making his victory lap and chortled. "I can't believe that this idiot used to be a slum rat. Don't worry, that girl is back in her foster home in Crash Town. She'll move to New Domino City once the Dark Signer crisis is over."

"All is falling into place..."

[It begins...]