Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds or any characters from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Franchise. I do own any OCs I make, but most will be likely be minor characters (used to fill certain roles and no more). I make no money from this fanfiction as it is a tribute to a fandom I really like and want to play around in. If you see this on a paid site, please note that someone has plagiarized me and let me know so I may take steps to prevent fines or whatever. Also, I will be using the Japanese names, so if you're only familiar with the English, 4kids swapped two names: Blitz is Nerve and Nervin is Blitz.
This all started because I got inspired by a Vampire Yusei. My muses latched on and won't let go. I need to put Pain of an Angel on pause anyway to get the Gx and 5Ds mangas because I feel those will be good sources of ideas for that series. So, since my muses are obsessed with Yusei lately - and I refuse to force them and invite writer's block - I'm starting a new story to get it out of my system because it's all I can focus on right now anyway. Other rewrites will still happen, just haven't be hit with a strong enough spark of inspiration yet.
FYI, this is dark. Not my usual style of writing, but hey, let's see how I do. This first chapter is my take on the events of Zero Reverse - lots of death and destruction. Each scene, each death in the scenes, is important. It's pretty obvious who these people are, even if only Dr. Fudo, Yusei, and Kiryu are outright named.
Now without further adieu, let's begin this new adventure. (It's only been 3 days since inspiration struck, and I have the entire Fortune Cup Arc plotted out, with the Dark Signer Arc started. My muses love the idea.)
Dr. Fudo knew there wasn't much time left before the Momentum Reactor went critical. He could only hope Rex got away with the Dragon Cards safely. He had one last thing to do before he could rest…
Pressing the button on the supply chute-turned-escape pod, the scientist took one last look at the 10-month-old child in his arms. His son had taken his first steps just yesterday and now Dr. Fudo wouldn't have the chance to see tomorrow with his boy. At least he could ensure Yusei saw the sun rise again… With one last mournful glance, he closed the chute's pod and sent it off. He'd fiddled with the controls to ensure it would open as soon as it reached its destination. There was a quickly-scrawled note tucked into Yusei's onesie - written so whoever took him in knew his son's name, date of birth, and blood type in case of emergency. It was all he allowed himself time for. Every second was a second closer to death, and he refused to allow his son's life to be cut short.
The moment the shuttle left was the moment the explosion happened. Dr. Fudo heard it go off, but didn't bother moving. His son would live. He could die in peace.
-Altered-
A woman with sunset orange hair ran with her 8-month-old son in her arms, trying desperately to stay ahead of the wave of collapsing buildings. Something had happened at the Momentum Research Facility. Something bad. The explosion that went off rocked the very earth under her feet and now the destructive wave of (oddly slow-moving) energy was causing buildings to collapse along the leading edge - and disintegrating them after a few dozen feet. She refused to be caught. She refused to let her son die before he had a chance to truly live. But the wave was catching up and exhaustion would slow her down soon. She saw a crack in the ground - just large enough to place her baby into - and hoping against hope, she put her little crow inside and shoved a flat piece of debris over top with a larger piece on top of that in hopes it would provide enough of a buffer to save her son. She looked back at the approaching wave and knew - this was it. She refused to be afraid. She had used her last moments to give her son the best chance she could - she had no regrets about dying so he could live. The wave caught up and she knew no more.
-Altered-
The dog knew danger was coming. The pup his humans had would never outrun it. He was faster, much faster. The pup's dam and sire weren't coming back - that was a certainty. The danger would claim them soon, if it hadn't already. It was up to him to keep the only pup in his small pack safe from harm. He grabbed the toddling pup by the back of the thing his humans called a "shirt" like he would the scruff of a proper pup - human pups were so strange - and ran, fleeing the danger, the wrongness of the air. His humans' pup was now his pup. He would protect the slate-haired male pup with his life. After he put enough distance between the wave of wrong he would find a den for the pup to sleep in. Good thing his pup was old enough to know the strange call-sound other humans got his attention by. Humans were so strange. Why they needed such strange sounds to call an individual was beyond him, but at least "Kiryu" could inform other humans of his call-sound. It was much easier to use scent, body motions, and simple sounds to convey messages. Then again, humans were also so blind. Maybe he could teach his pup proper means of talking now.
-Altered-
A blonde-haired man and woman hid in the basement of their home, their son - barely a year old - between their huddled bodies. They could only hope the basement was enough protection from the deadly explosion that destroyed the Momentum Research Facility. They lived too close to even hope to escape - all they had time to do was run to the basement with their little prince. They heard the sounds of destruction followed by an eerie quiet and breathed a sigh of relief. They survived. Little did they know, the radioactive energy left behind would create a sickness that they wouldn't come out of, forcing them to leave their little prince behind. The strange birthmark on their infant son's right arm glowed red briefly before settling, preventing the large amounts of radiation already infecting him from stealing his life away too.
-Altered-
A part of Neo Domino City was ripped away from the rest when Zero Reverse occured. Many died that day from the explosion. Many more died from the mysterious illness that swept through the island - now called the Satellite - in the next weeks. Satellite was placed under quarantine to prevent the sickness from reaching the rest of the city. Not everyone became sick, but those that did had an 80% survival rate. At first officials were relieved the sickness wasn't too deadly - and then the first side effects appeared. Satellite remained under quarantine despite the sickness ending. After all, myths were supposed to stay that way. And those who survived the sickness seem to have become myths brought to life. It was the birth of the Altered Humans.
And that's the prologue of my new story Altered. There's going to be a pre-canon arc, and I'm quite sure this will become heavily canon divergent. We will even be exploring the time of the Enforcers at some point. I don't know how many pre-canon arcs I will have yet, but there will be at least two - Zero Reverse Aftermath and Enforcers. The Enforcers is the only dub name I will use (aside from Dr. Schmidt, again) because the team name fits my plot better than Team Satisfaction this time. This is gonna be dark - but so much fun too. I think my bloodthirsty Inner Amazon is feeding my muses this time. About time I found a way to let her have fun without actual violence...