/I do not own Pokémon or Yugioh! Feel like I need to put a disclaimer here, lol... anyways, this is my first Actual Story(tm)! I hope it's not... quite as trashy as I think it might be./
He was winning, but that was only natural. The dark spirit had coaxed and coached Diva into doing his bidding, until eventually he'd been able to corrupt his soul and turn him dark as the spirit's own heart. Diva was a childish fool, he thought with a sadistic grin on his face. Thinking he could create a peaceful utopia with hatred in his own heart? How quaint.
And now the dark spirit, who called himself in this form Dark Diva, was facing down the last of his enemies still standing- the vessel of the passed Pharaoh. But what was that vessel supposed to do against him? Without Atem, this boy Yugi Muto was useless. He'd be given up to the darkness as every other creature had within minutes.
However, it did frustrate him slightly- Seto Kaiba had redirected an attack meant to end the miserable life of the vessel to himself, obsessed with bringing the long-gone Pharaoh back from the grave. And Yugi still stubbornly held onto his last remaining Life Points, refusing to let an attack get in to end him.
"I send Clear Kuriboh to the Graveyard so I won't take any damage!" The annoying pest made that move as he spoke, reducing Dark Diva's monster's damage to zero.
But Dark Diva sneered- he and Yugi both knew Crimson Nova Trinity's attack wasn't done. "That's not good enough, Yugi! Crimson Nova Trinity can still cut your Life Points in half!"
He heard a satisfying cry of pain as his attack connected. Yugi activated Clear Kuriboh's other effect- but it was too late. Dark Diva felt himself becoming stronger as the little boy that reminded him too much of the one he hated most faded. He began to speak, Dark Diva could see his mouth forming words- but whatever he had to say, it was too late. The monstrous creature's mouth twisted into a sick grin as he watched Yugi begin to buckle and fall.
And then that grin was dashed by a horrid golden light. "What? NO!" Dark Diva cried. He saw that beast, that THING, emerging from the light. With a new strength, one no earthly human could have held. "THE PHARAOH HAS RETURNED?!"
Atem gave him one of those frustratingly cocky smirks the duelist was known for, before drawing a card himself. And then he summoned the ONE MONSTER from his deck that could beat Dark Diva's Crimson Nova Trinity... Mahad... Dark Diva snarled. Not again! NOT AGAIN!
That Pharaoh was going to banish him to the darkness again, and this time the dark spirit knew it would be permanent. But he couldn't let that happen. HE COULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN.
Crimson Nova Trinity was destroyed of course, and Dark Diva could feel his body ripping and tearing apart from the rules of his own game- but he had a last ditch plan to save himself and he sure as fire wasn't just going to take this. "PHARAOH!" The beast yelled, struggling a bit with his words from the pain. Atem actually seemed slightly surprised he hadn't immediately been destroyed, but still refused to speak to him, which angered Dark Diva even more. "PHARAOH, THIS IS NOT MY END! I will NOT allow it to be! I may not be able to plunge THIS WORLD into darkness, but I can still cause despair in ANOTHER!"
He called upon the power of the Plana and the Quantum Cube one last time, feeling them fading, but not enough that he couldn't at least pull this off! If this worked, he could still pull off his ultimate revenge, and more importantly save himself from this abysmal fate!
"GOODBYE PHARAOH!" Dark Diva shouted at his old enemy. He erupted into a laugh- THIS would be the end! "I will sacrifice the remaining power of the Plana to save myself from destruction! And I will destroy YOU TOO, PHARAOH!"
The shocked look on Atem's face was intoxicating. Dark Diva grinned, and did exactly that, ripping through the power of the Plana to activate one last effect, that would end his reign of shadows in this world and begin it anew in another. And it would END Atem, this Dark Yugi, once and for all!
"GOODBYE!" He said again, before releasing that power.
It hurt, it hurt so much.. but he did not scream. As his body was now torn to shreds, he laughed. For he knew HE was getting the last laugh.
HE WON.
The world would be freed of its darkness. It would seem everything had returned to normal in just a few minutes of how it had been before. People returned from where they had vanished into the darkness, becoming whole again with not much clue of what had happened. The only people who had truly known anything were those watching the KC Tournament duels that day, and even they were mystified to what had truly happened.
However, there were some people still missing. Mokuba cried out in distress suddenly, sending Roland to his side immediately. "Sir, what is it?" The Kaiba Corp employee asked, sounding more worried than he probably meant to be.
"Big bro... he's not down there!" Mokuba cried. Roland couldn't stop him as he hopped down to the platform his brother, Yugi and Diva had been dueling on. "And Yugi's gone too! BIG BRO!"
He looked around desperately, but there was no Seto Kaiba to be found. What had happened to him? "BIG BRO?!"
"Sir!" He turned to see a few more of Seto's men coming onto the platform. "Yugi Muto's friend group has disappeared as well!"
Mokuba had told the men to watch for Yugi's friends as well just in case, and now his eyes widened in fear. What could this mean? "You can't find them anywhere?" He asked, hearing his own voice crack.
The men spoke into their earpieces, waited a moment, and then one of them solemnly shook his head. "No, sir. Kaiba Corp sensors don't see them anywhere in the city. There is a possibility the sensors are on the fritz..."
Though Mokuba knew from him trailing off this was just an attempt to make the boy feel better. But Mokuba knew the truth- Yugi, Seto, all of them were gone. Diva had done something to them.
Wait, Diva...
"What about Diva! You know, the guy Seto and Yugi were dueling!" Mokuba tried. "Can you find him anywhere?"
Another pause, waiting for a response from someone on the other end of the earpiece. And then another shake of the head.
Mokuba was at a loss now- it was hard to process. Seto was gone. Just like that, gone. Probably forever. He sank to his knees, the world spinning. This wasn't just like a kidnapping, or his brother disappearing to duel Yugi or something like that. His brother was gone...
He was interrupted by Roland tapping him on the back. "Sir... I hate to interrupt you, but we found this where Diva has been standing mid duel."
And there in Roland's hands was the Quantum Cube. It appeared to be active- but instead of being a bright orange like it should have been, it was an almost dead-looking whitish color. It felt ice cold to the touch. "What should you have us do with this Cube, sir?"
It took Mokuba a moment to process a response to that question, his mind still quite in shock from the sheer impossibility of his big brother being gone. But eventually he said, "We need to study it. And see if there's any way to bring them- to bring Seto back..."
Because there had to be a way. Mokuba knew there had to be. Seto couldn't be gone. He couldn't be, he just had to have been sent somewhere else.
He was still alive...
Right?
/And that was the end of the Prolouge! No Pokémon this time around, this was just to introduce our particular plot and give you a chance to jump ship now if you hate my writing style with a particular passion. But if you're still here and in for the ride, we're going to be seeing our first look at the Pokémon world really soon! Look forward to it, lads!/