Pikatwig: So… 151st story.
KKD: *claps* Congrats, aibou. You got a lot down and still counting.
Pikatwig: Yeah. So… onto the franchise of 151. ...my interest in Yu-Gi-Oh has gone from 'not at all' to 'casual'.
KKD: For some, that's better than nothing.
Pikatwig: As I mentioned in the other Yu-Gi-Oh story we wrote, I did try to get into Zexal but reruns of it stopped. ...and Sean told me it's probably better I don't start there since its protagonist is dumber than various Digimon leads.
KKD: ...that's pretty dumb. ...bet he's not as dumb as the idiot straw hat pirate captain from One Piece.
Pikatwig: Which your interest of matches my interest of Ryu Orb. Surprised you haven't gone and started calling it other names.
KKD: You know what…? ...I haven't thought of any. But if you have any wacky suggestions, let me know. Best I could think of on the spot was Ichi Kaizoku or Uno Dinero… not the best at making parody names of some shows.
Pikatwig: Anyway… I can't remember why I thought this premise up, but I thought up this premise of something that would bring the protagonists together in a situation similar yet different to Bonds Beyond Time. And, yes, include the leads of the next three seasons… even if not fully.
KKD: Just don't get me started with Vrains. Didn't see the show, but based on the new card type, it feels like the entire game has to be rewritten, and it's scaring away both newcomers and veterans alike.
Pikatwig: Which is ironic given the theme of the season is "don't give up even if things get tough".
KKD: Very ironic. Seriously, you could simplify it better for people to get.
Pikatwig: Well… bit of an advance apology to those who like that season, the cast of Vrains will be the least important of the six to this plot.
KKD: I'm fine with that. In all honesty, I'm only familiar with the first three incarnations before dropping out.
Pikatwig: I think I know a bit about the other two seasons to write this, so… yeah. As for continuity, set after the original, GX, 5D, and Zexal have ended. Arc-V and Vrains will both still be on their adventures as this happens.
KKD: Alright.
Pikatwig: But the focus will be a bit more on GX and Arc-V to a lesser extent.
KKD: Ok, I guess I can buy that.
Pikatwig: Let's go ahead and start.
Disclaimers: Neither author owns the rights to anything in this story apart from original content. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains are owned by Konami and their respective owners.
The scene opened up on a small boat where a young man with brown hair in a red and black school jacket, blue jeans, and red and black sneakers looked at a small journal that had various comments about places he had been to, as well as notes about what he was doing.
'It's been five years since I left Domino City and Duel Academy. Time really flies after you've traveled the world and experienced so many things it has to offer. Not to mention all the different duelists I've faced over that time. ...as well as that one time traveler and meeting Yugi proper."
"That sure was a unique experience…" a female voice commented.
The male glanced up and saw the ghostly image of a female humanoid monster with one green eye, one orange eye, hair split between purple and white, and an outfit that left little to the imagination.
"Wonder if anybody will believe that I did encounter people from the future…"
"We'll see, Jaden. For now, I suggest you focus on preparing yourself…"
Years later, we cut to see a much more futuristic city, zooming in on one of the larger buildings to see a man with black spiked hair with some golden yellow highlights wearing a blue jacket over a black shirt, black pants, brown boots, and for the moment wasn't wearing gloves, his violet eyes staring off to the city horizon as the sunlight glistened off the yellow mark under his left eye. He then heard his phone begin to ring and swiftly picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Yusei, where are you?! You were supposed to be back an hour ago!"
"Sorry…" Yusei apologized as he began to walk towards a red motorcycle of sorts, "I was just making sure things were calm and-
"You do remember that there haven't been any problems in this city for years, right?"
"You can't be to careful, Akiza. We've been at peace for some time and still trouble has shown up. Anyway, I'm on my way back now."
Back in the present, Jaden arrived at an island and hopped off the boat with a relaxed smile. He began to roam around the grounds where the reunion was being held as signs and banners were held up for the returning students.
"Good to see this place again…" Jaden commented with a fond look.
"I noticed you're the only one here in red. Everyone seems to be in yellow or blue…"
"Never cared for the promotion to Ra Yellow. I just felt that red was a cooler color…" Jaden responded.
"That and you wanted to stay away from others after everything that happened with me…"
"Yea…"
He then heard various people began to cheer about something and turned to see another boat arrive and somebody get off of it.
"It's the original Duel Queen of Obelisk Blue!"
"Alexis-sama!"
The returning students cheered as Jaden saw a familiar blonde came walking down a ramp from a ship, wearing the iconic white and blue female Obelisk school uniform, and she simply smiled a bit and waved to the crowd.
"We love you Alexis!" came cheers from both male and female students.
Alexis just waved back and smiled before noticing the amount of students gathered to cheer for her. She simply continued forward off of the boat and, after a bit, noticed Jaden was standing by himself. Jaden smiled as he waved and got her attention.
"Hey, Alexis. Been a long time," Jaden said with a smile.
"Jaden! Great to see you again," she smiled as she rushed over and hugged him, surprising him a bit, but he accepted and returned the hug.
The other students watching gasped in shock before they began to glare at Jaden. None of them were pleased at the sight of the hug, but they soon shrugged it off.
"So… how have you been?" Alexis asked after she stopped hugging Jaden.
"Alright. I did miss you guys, but I've had fun traveling," Jaden smiled.
"I see. Well, as long as you're happy…" Alexis smiled.
"...wanna hang out?" Jaden asked.
"Sure. I don't see why not," Alexis responded before she walked forward and led Jaden around the area
'...heh. I don't think I ever noticed how attractive she is…' Jaden thought before he followed.
Alexis turned back and saw the crowd of people begin to follow them a bit.
"You still called a Duel Queen?" Jaden asked.
"Yeah. Even dueled Yugi-san once. He just narrowly beat me in his match, but then again, who could say they defeated the King of Games himself?" Alexis commented.
"I dueled him once. I can't remember which of us won, but it was fun nonetheless," Jaden recalled and chuckled as he got out his Winged Kuriboh card and the two smiled at it.
"That little card has got you out of a lot of tight jams, Jaden. Where would you be without it?"
"Who knows," Jaden shrugged.
Back in the future, we see a woman with red hair and currently wearing a pink dress, white slippers, and green necklaces and earrings, staring at the door and waited for someone before hearing somebody walk over
"Yusei late often?" a young woman with teal hair and golden eyes while wearing a pink top and white short shorts, currently walking barefoot.
"Yea… he is. I love him a lot, but he does like to run off and leave me alone…"
The woman with teal hair sat next to the redhead, sighing a bit as they just got comfortable.
"Akiza-san?"
"Yeah Luna?"
"I was wondering if you're happy being married to Yusei."
Akiza leaned forward, looked towards some pictures that lined the walls, seeing many pictures of herself and Yusei throughout the city.
"Yes. Even if he is late at times, I love him too much to stay angry for too long," Akiza smiled.
The two then heard a knock at the door and Luna looked towards the door as if to indicate she was asking who was at it.
"And not him. He never knocks," Akiza sighed.
Luna walked over to the door and opened it up, "Hi."
The person who came to the door was a girl with black hair, circular glasses, wearing a white and blue striped long-sleeved shirt, an orange vest, blue jeans and a pair of blue sneakers.
"Carly!" Akiza smiled.
"Hey Akiza. Luna-chan," Carly greeted.
"Long time no see," Luna smiled.
Carly sat down in a chair and took off her glasses.
"...I can't be the only one who thinks the lenses look almost like a spiral of sorts, right?" Luna asked.
"I get that a lot," Carly sighed, cleaning her glasses a little.
"So… Alexis, I heard recently you got a new version of a card. What was it, Mass Hypnosis? I saw a vid about it and I was curious," Jaden questioned.
"You mean this?" Alexis asked as she got out the card, "Got a bit of special training before I went up against the King of Games and decided to give this card a try."
"Define special training."
"Well… I mean that I found this hypnotist who was also a duelist and she trained me to use some hypnosis themed cards alongside my current deck. It was a bit odd at first, but it's pretty cool," Alexis said with a smile.
Jaden simply blinked a bit, a bit confused, "I thought you had a bad experience with that stuff seeing… y'know. Society of Light and all."
"I kind of kept thinking about hypnosis sometime after that and while it was bad, especially for that time with the purpose, I ended up growing a bit fond of hypnosis…" Alexis admitted.
Jaden's eyes briefly flashed orange and teal as he looked at Alexis, checking to make sure there wasn't anything off about her. After a few seconds, though, he didn't sense anything off about her and his eyes returned to normal.
"Well at least that was your own choice…" Jaden figured.
Alexis simply smiled a bit as the two friends ended up eventually arriving at an empty arena.
"Heh. Wonder why they have an arena…" Jaden, jokingly, asked.
"So the returning students can show how they improved," Alexis commented.
"...what do you say you and I have a duel for old time's sake?" Jaden offered.
"I'm down with that. Ready to get your game on?" Alexis smiled.
"You bet. I'll show you how much I've grown in the past five years."
"And I'll show you how my training with these cards helped me become a stronger duelist!"
As the two got onto the arena and began to set up, though, two people roamed towards the arena, one being male with green and red hair while wearing a red shirt under a white, gold, and red jacket used as a cape, green cargo pants and red shoes, and the other one a female with purple hair, wearing similar colors with a red, gold, and white jacket over a black shirt, red skirt and black shorts, as well as brown boots.
"Wait… where are?" the male with green hair asked.
"...I think we're at the Duel Academy. ...I think. It looks kind of… different…" the girl with purple hair noted with unease as they saw Jaden and Alexis getting ready for their duel, "Huh? ...wait. I thought I was the only one in Slifer Red."
"...huh?"
"I'll explain in a minute…"
Meanwhile, in the future, Yusei continued to drive on through the streets of the city, looking somewhat confused as the constructed highways that were mainly designed for both traditional vehicles and duels on the road now had elements of a non-futuristic looking city.
"Okay… what kind of construction is going on with these roads?" Yusei muttered as he looked at a road sign that read 'Neo Domino City ¼ Mile, Satellite 4 Miles, Heartland 6 Miles'. Yusei looked at the sign again, "Wait… 'Heartland'? There was never a town with a name that silly, especially not one so close to the Satellite."
Yusei shrugged a tiny bit and got back to revving up his motorcycle when suddenly, a loud yell of "OI~!"
Yusei ended up falling off of his motorcycle and looked up to see a kid that couldn't be more than 13 years old with black and magenta hair in strange spikes, wearing a red vest over a lavender and teal shirt, white pants with orange flames, and black shoes currently riding some kind of hoverboard.
"Hey kid! It's not safe for you to be in the middle of the road! MOVE!" Yusei yelled.
"Well sorry, but I'm late for school, and I need to get there as fast as I can!" the kid yelled.
"It's almost 9:00! What school would be open at this time?!"
"Oh. Thanks for the tip, old guy!" the kid yelled before he turned around and headed off
Yusei gave the kid an annoyed look before he noticed the kid's hairstyle and then proceeded back onto his motorcycle, "What is wrong with that kid's hair?"
-LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! We have our first duel of our returning graduates ready to happen!- an announcer happily declared, -On the left side, you know her, you love her, she's the top female of her year, she's currently learning a style known as hypno dueling, and she has proven capable of making an attempt at the title of King of Games, give it up for the Duel Queen of Obelisk Blue, ALEXIS RHODES!-
The gathered crowd cheered wildly as Alexis took the stage and waved to the crowd.
"WE LOVE YOU!" various people in the crowd yelled.
"ROCK ON, DUEL QUEEN!"
"SIGN MY CARDS!"
"PUT US INTO A TRANCE!"
-And now, on the right side, the lone Slifer who proved that even if you're in that dorm you have skill, the Nomadic Duelist, the Savior of Duel Academy, here he is, JADEN YUKI~!-
People did cheer for Jaden, but it was nowhere near the amount of cheers that Alexis had got.
"He's going to be going down, no problem. You got this, Alexis-sama!" one fan cheered.
"Show him who's boss, Duel Queen!" another fan cheered.
"Hypnotize him into serving you like the Queen you are!" another fan yelled.
Jaden didn't let the comments get to him as he gave a smile towards Alexis, "Lex, I'm looking forward to another fun duel with you!"
Alexis smiled as she got her deck ready and gave her own smile at Jaden, "Same here, Jaden. Let's see how much stronger you've gotten!"
"Do you recognize either of them?" the boy with green hair asked.
"...I think I recognize the girl in blue. I think… not totally sure. Boy in red there? Never seen him in my life," the girl told him.
-Duelists, are you ready?!-
"YEAH~!" the crowd cheered.
-Then let's…-
"Get your game on!" Jaden and Alexis said in perfect unison.
(J: 4000; A: 4000)
"Ladies first, Lex," Jaden smiled.
"Thank you. I'll draw," Alexis nodded, taking her sixth card, "Alright. I'll start by summoning Cyber Tutu in Defense Mode. I'll set down two cards and then end my turn."
Before Alexis, a girl with pink hair and dressed in a skintight magenta and cyan ballerina-style suit took the field while two facedown cards appeared behind her.
(Cyber Tutu - Lvl 3; ATK: 1000; DEF: 800)
"Well, seems familiar so far, Lex. But I look forward to seeing how things play out. My turn!" Jaden declared as he pulled out a card, "I'll start off with a classic, Elemental Hero Avian!"
A man covered in green feathers, looking very much like a superhero, appeared before Jaden.
(Elemental HERO Avian- Lvl 3; ATK: 1000; DEF: 1000)
"Next, I'll activate Hero's Power. This will increase Avian's Attack Points by 500 points," Jaden announced.
(Elemental HERO Avian- Lvl 3; ATK: 1000-1500; DEF: 1000)
"And with that, I'll send him to attack your Cyber Tutu!" Jaden yelled with a smirk.
Avian flew forward as he reeled his clawed fist back, aiming towards Cyber Tutu and let out a loud screech
"Not a good move. I play a trap card!"
One of the cards behind Cyber Tutu flipped up to reveal a defensive shield that had angel wings on it.
"Cyber Angel Hope let's me deflect any attack at any of my Cyber Girl monsters, and send it back at you!"
A pair of angel wings appeared near Cyber Tutu that then blew a large gust of wind towards Avian, causing him to get sent flying backwards and smack right at Jaden.
(Jaden: 4000-2500)
"Not bad, Lex. I guess I'll just set a card facedown and end my turn," Jaden said with a slight shrug.
"That's what you get for challenging the Duel Queen!" one fan yelled.
"I'll go next. I'll summon Blade Skater in Attack Mode!" she shouted, summoning a blue skinned woman dressed in violet on ice skates with blades in her arms.
(Blade Skater - Lvl 4; ATK: 1400; DEF: 1500)
"And now I play a Spell Card. Cyber Boost! This will let me summon another Cyber Girl as long as I have at least one other Cyber Girl on my field, and I choose Etoile Cyber!" Alexis announced.
A redheaded girl was summoned to the field with blue skin and wearing a red skintight suit with ribbons around her arms.
(Etoile Cyber - Lvl 4; ATK: 1200; DEF: 1600)
"I'll set another card facedown. Your turn."
"Ok. I draw!" Jaden proclaimed and smiled to the card he drew, "Now I'll play Elemental Hero Sparkman in Defense Mode."
In response, a blue and gold armored man took the stage as lightning shot around him.
(Elemental HERO Sparkman - Lvl 4; ATK: 1600; DEF: 1400)
"Next I'll play Double Summon! With this, I can summon another monster, and I'll summon Elemental Hero Clayman in DEF mode!"
A golem made of clay took the field it before kneeling down by Sparkman.
(Elemental HERO Clayman - Lvl 4; ATK: 800; DEF: 2000)
"I throw down a facedown! Your turn, Lex," Jaden said.
Alexis couldn't help but giggle a little as Jaden looked confused.
"Huh? What's so funny?"
"Just… haven't heard you say that in such a long time. Feels nostalgic."
Jaden gained a very faint blush on his face with surprise over the comment.
"Really? Well… I'm kind of feeling nostalgic dueling you…"
"Yeah… been a long time."
"Well… I wanna see what new tricks you've got. So why don't you go ahead and show me what you got?"
Alexis gained a small smirk as she set her fingers on her deck, ready to draw her next card, "You're gonna wish you hadn't asked. I'll draw!"
She looked at the card she drew and gave a smirk, "Alright. Now I'll summon the Spellcaster Monster Cyber Magician in Attack Mode!"
Suddenly, a brand new monster took the stage, revealing itself to be a woman who appeared to be a gymnast with pink hair, and blue eyes wearing a skintight gymnast outfit that was mostly red and silver, but it also had elements of a magician such as her hat being similar to Dark Magician girl's but in red and silver, a staff that had ribbons at the end, pointy ears, and had a pair of fairy-like wings on her back that were mostly silver with teal veins.
(Cyber Magician; Lvl 4; ATK: 1500; DEF: 1500)
"A magician? Not what I would've expected from you," Jaden admitted.
The crowd suddenly went into a loud cheer over the appearance of her new monster.
"Wow… can barely hear myself think…" Jaden muttered.
"You, think? It's hard enough to talk to you over your own ego sometimes, but you actually thinking would make it harder."
"...shut up, you…"
"Next, I'll play a Spell Card, Call of Magic! This allows me to call a Fairy type monsters to the field. I call upon Freya, Spirit of Victory!"
The monster in question was a silver-haired cheerleader in a dark blue and pale blue outfit with rose-colored pom poms as she leaped up and cheered.
(Freya, Spirit of Victory; Lvl 1; ATK: 100; DEF: 100)
"What are you planning…?" Jaden muttered.
"You'll see in due time. I'll set one card face down. Your turn," Alexis said with a confident look.
"Ok then. I'll draw!" Jaden proclaimed as he got out a card. He looked at his current hand and then smirked a bit, "Now tribute both Sparkman and Clayman to summon an old friend!"
Alexis just smiled as she realized what Jaden's plan was.
Sparkman and Clayman both vanished into a sphere of light and energy, launching into space before flying right back down.
"Neo Space has a brand new hero! And his name is Elemental Hero Neos!" Jaden declared, summoning from the sphere up a muscular figure in silver with red, blue, and black accents with green eyes and a yellow gem on his forehead, blades coming out of his arms and forehead.
(Elemental HERO Neos; Lvl 7; ATK: 2500; DEF: 2000)
"Sugee…" the boy with green hair muttered.
"Well, make your next move if you want to, Jaden. Just know that you run the risk of ending the duel if you don't play wisely," Alexis confidently, yet almost playfully, told him.
"Trust me, I'm aware of that, Lex. But first, let me activate another card, Neo Space!" he called out as the field around them got covered in a rainbow field of sorts, "Now if you remember Neos' little trick, I'll be doing a good ol' fusion trick. Now I'll fuse Neos with the Neo Spacian Air Hummingbird from my hand by sending both back into my deck."
Suddenly, the ghostly image of a humanoid red hummingbird with white wings from its back appeared before it and Neos became lights in their respective colors before merging.
"Through Contact Fusion, I Fusion Summon Elemental Hero Air Neos!" Jaden declared, as Neos appeared in a mostly red color scheme, apart from a spot on his face, now resembling Air Hummingbird with golden talons for hands and the same white wings coming out of his back.
(Elemental HERO Air Neos; Lvl 7; ATK: 2500; DEF: 2000)
"And just as a precaution, I'll summon Neo Spacian Aqua Dolphin," Jaden added, summoning a humanoid dolphin with blue skin, and a peach underside with red gems peppered all over it.
(Neo Spacian Aqua Dolphin; Lvl 3; ATK: 600; DEF: 800)
"Elemental Heroes… the name rings a bell, but I can't place where from," the girl with purple hair admitted.
"I'll set one card face down and end my turn," Jaden announced.
"You're old tricks, Jaden. Nice and all, but it makes you seem a bit too easy to predict. Well… you asked to see some of my new tricks, so I guess I will show them," Alexis commented as she drew her next card, "First, I'll tribute Blade Skater and Etoile Cyber to summon a new, but old monster, White Night Queen!"
In response, a blue-skinned woman with dark blue hair, yellow eyes, and covered in clothing made of ice and a white cape appeared.
(White Night Queen; Lvl 7; ATK: 2100; DEF: 800)
"...wait… why do you still have that?" Jaden questioned.
"Never lost the card, so why not keep it?" she responded before she pulled another card from her hand, "Next, I'll play Pot of Greed so I can draw two more cards!"
She drew the two cards and smiled, "Alright. Now, I'll play Cyber Recovery. This allows me to bring back one Cyber Girl that had been sent to the Graveyard, and I'll bring back Etoile Cyber!"
The monster then spawned back onto the field as Jaden looked to the monsters on the field.
"I end my turn."
"Alright. I draw!" Jaden declared, drawing, "Now I'll summon Elemental Hero Wildheart!"
The monster summoned this time looked like a tribal warrior with a long black ponytail, a massive sword, tribal garb, and some red tribal markings on his face.
(Elemental HERO Wildheart; Lvl 4; ATK: 1500; DEF: 1600)
"Why don't you just surrender to the Duel Queen already?!" one fan yelled.
The fans started to jeer at him as Jaden looked at his deck for a moment.
"Ignoring them…" Jaden responded, "I'll send Aqua Dolphin to attack Freya!"
"You can't. If there's another Fairy monster on the field, then Freya can't be attacked. And, by the way, with Feya on the field, White Night Queen gets an extra 400 Attack and Defense points," Alexis said with a relaxed smile, "You see why I kept that card?"
(White Night Queen; ATK 2100-2500; DEF: 800-1200)
"Fine then, Aqua Dolphin will change his target to Cyber Tutu!" Jaden yelled.
"And I play a trap in response! Shift! With this card, I can change positions of my monsters. I'll swap Cyber Tutu and Cyber Magician's positions!"
"Then I play this Spell Card! Hero's Strength! This will increase Aqua Dolphin's Level by two and increase his attack points by 1000 Attack points as long as I pay 100 Life Points and another Elemental Hero loses those 1000! Wildheart, give Aqua Dolphin your strength!"
(Jaden: 2500-2400)
(Neo Spacian Aqua Dolphin; Lvl 3-5; ATK: 600-1600)
(Elemental HERO Wildheart; ATK: 1500-500)
"And now, I play another Trap!" Alexis declared as a card depicting a pocket watch swaying with a spiral appearing in the center of the swaying pocket watch, having captured the attention of a female monster who had spirals in her eyes, "This is called Watch of Spirals. If a monster attacks a monster I control that is of a lower level, this watch negates their attack and I can activate one of two effects. Either I gain control of that monster to aid my Cyber Magician as long as she and the Watch of Spirals remain in play, or I can send your monster to the GY and grant their Attack and Defense Points to my Magician. Since my side is already filled, Aqua Dolphin is going to the Graveyard!"
Cyber Magician giggled and then smacked Aqua Dolphin upside the head.
(Cyber Magician; ATK: 1500-3100; DEF: 1500-2300)
"Well… that didn't work…" Jaden muttered.
"You think?"
"Still your turn."
Jaden looked at his deck for a moment and then at Alexis' other monsters.
"No way you can keep all of them safe! Air Neos, attack Cyber Tutu!"
Air Neos flew in and managed to hit Cyber Tutu with a powerful punch, causing her to explode in pixels.
(Alexis: 4000-2500)
"I'll set one card facedown. Your move."
"Not bad, not bad at all," Alexis admitted as she stretched a little, "Well, time to get ready for a trick that has gotten the whole world in amazement."
"Be careful. I think this girl is getting a powerplay ready."
Alexis took a moment to slip out of her boots, causing the crowd to cheer loudly, the Duel Queen wiggling her toes while the crowd cheered.
"...am I missing something here?" Jaden cluelessly asked
"You'll see," Alexis smiled as she drew a card, "First off, I'm clearing Air Neos out! White Night Queen, attack!"
The royal monster sent out a flurry of ice crystals at Air Neos.
"No you don't! I play the spell Contact Out!"
This caused Air Neos to be covered by a light before splitting into his components, the blast missing them as a result.
(Elemental HERO Neos; Lvl 7; ATK: 2500; DEF: 2000)
(Neo Spacian Air Hummingbird; Lvl 3; ATK: 800; DEF: 600)
"Wow. Not a bad play," Alexis admitted.
"Thanks…"
"But now for that trick I mentioned. I'll activate this Ritual Spell called Fetish's Might," Alexis declared, showing a teal bordered card with the image of a Dark Magician Girl showing off her curves and feet in a way that was attracting other monsters, "My mentor showed me this trick to allow me to Ritual Summon a special monster. Thus, I'll use this card's power on my Cyber Magician. Ok, girl, let's show them what they wanna see!"
Cyber Magician giggled as she slid off her shoes, revealing her toes to the audience as her suit turned into a set of violet and cyan armor, her helmet coming off to let her hair flow out in a wavy style while turning pink and flowing to her hips, gaining a golden necklace around her neck with a pearl pattern, and a symbol of bare feet on her right arm positioned in a way to let her reach and kiss it.
"Presenting one of my new ace monsters, Foot Fetish Magician Girl!" Alexis declared.
(Foot Fetish Magician Girl; Lvl 11; ATK: 4000; DEF: 2600)
The crowd cheered even louder than before as the magician waved to the crowd.
"Yea~! The Queen brought out one of her aces!"
"She's amazing as always!"
"Show that guy how great you two are!"
"I love this card!"
"...what?" Jaden blinked.
"...I don't get it…" the girl with purple hair in the crowd admitted.
"Same," the boy with green hair added.
"I'll end my turn here. Give the crowd a moment to admire her and let you think of something," Alexis smiled. The magician flew by the crowd and began showing off for the crowd.
Jaden blinked a bit more as he drew his next card, "So… why are you barefoot now? This doesn't make much sense…"
"Just how my mentor trained me to duel when we trained together. She was pretty adamant about this. But, uh… not sure how you can win here. Nobody's ever managed to beat this magician, not even I could figure it out. Only reason I lost the match with the King of Games was because he managed to banish her from the game until he dealt the final blow," Alexis explained.
"So, you're saying it's impossible, huh?"
"Pretty much. Sorry."
"Well… I like to make the impossible, possible! I play Card of Sanctity! You know how this goes, both players draw up until we have six cards!"
Both of them drew up to fill their hands accordingly. Jaden gave a small smirk at his deck and Alexis gave a somewhat confused look at some of the cards she had.
"Perfect! First, I'll summon Neo-Spacian Grand Mole, then I'll fuse him with Neos and Neo-Spacian Dark Panther!" Jaden declared.
(Neo-Spacian Grand Mole; Lvl 3; ATK: 900; DEF: 300)
A mole with drills on its shoulders and the ghost of an armored panther appeared before they and Neos merged into one in a large cloud in the sky.
"Now, appear! Elemental Hero Nebula Neos!"
Neos appeared with dark green armor and drills like Grand Mole, but he also got mechanical wings and darker skin with spiky 'hair'.
(Elemental Hero Nebula Neos: Lvl 9; ATK: 3000; DEF: 2500)
"I now play the Spell Card, Nebula Charge! For one turn only, I can boost Nebula Neos' attack by 2100 points!"
(Elemental Hero Nebula Neos: ATK: 3000-5100)
"Now, attack the Magician Girl!"
Nebula Neos then flew in towards the Foot Fetish Magician Girl. She tried to stop Nebula Neos, but it was no use as the Hero shoved his drill through her.
(Alexis: 2500-1400)
"HOW DARE YOU!" several people in the crowd yelled, many of them hating him for what he had done.
"Here we go…" Jaden muttered before somebody threw a bag of popcorn at him, "Hey!"
"You big meanie! Why did you go and hurt the cute magician?!"
"She was just defending the Duel Queen!"
"You're nothing but a plebeian not worthy of standing before the Duel Queen!"
"KNOCK IT OFF!" Alexis yelled at the crowd, "It's all just part of the duel and it's not over yet!"
The crowd calmed down and almost went silent as Alexis turned towards Jaden, "Sorry that happened to you, Jaden. I seriously can't control my fans at times."
"It's cool, I guess. Now then… I'll throwdown a face down and end my turn. Nubla Neos' attack points turn back to normal now that I've ended my turn. Your move, Lex."
(Elemental Hero Nebula Neos: ATK: 5100-3000)
"In that case, I'll play Machine Angel Ritual! I'll tribute both Etoile Cyber and Cyber Prima from my hand to Ritual Summon!"
With that, the two monsters in question became orbs of light and flew into the air before they merged into a sort of golden grid.
"I Ritual Summon, Machine Angel Vrash!"
Thus, from the light, appeared a very majestic woman wearing purple and pink with a golden ring behind her, almost making her resemble the Hindu deity Vishnu.
(Machine Angel Vrash; Lvl 10; ATK: 3000; DEF: 2000)
"Oh boy…" Jaden muttered.
"You'll regret challenging the Duel Queen!"
"Prepare to get destroyed!"
Alexis simply exhaled before she looked towards her monster, "This duel ends here, Jaden! Since Vrash was Special Summoned, all Fusion Monsters you control are destroyed, and you take 1000 points of damage for each one destroyed! So say farewell to Nebula Neos, Wildheart, and Air Hummingbird."
A large blast of energy formed in Vrash's hands before she launched it at Nebula Neos as well as Wildheart and Air Hummingbird.
"...okay, it's official, I hate Ritual Summoning now…" Jaden said as he saw he had no way to stop this attack.
The attack collided with all three, causing them to explode, and the force of the explosion nearly knocked Jaden off of where he was standing.
(Jaden: 2400-0)
The crowd cheered in amazement as Alexis waved to the crowd.
"Good game, Jaden," she said as she walked over to him.
"You too, Alexis. I had fun," Jaden smiled.
"So… were you impressed by my new tactics?" Alexis curiously asked.
Jaden blinked for a moment before he recalled something he said to her in the past and smiled.
"Huh?"
"Impressed? I think I'm in love," he cheekily responded.
Alexis faintly blushed before she remembered when he said that in the past, gave a soft giggle, and then responded, "You're sweet. Too bad I had to crush you."
The two just laughed a bit as the crowd continued to clap for them and they turned and waved to them.
Meanwhile, Yusei had stopped his bike when he came to an unfamiliar fork in the road and sighed a bit. He eventually turned to the right road and decided to go down it before he hit a dead end.
"You… have got… to be kidding me!" Yusei yelled in agitation, "Fine! I'm just walking!"
He groaned, walking his motorcycle down another road before he just started to walk.
"Yuma, where are you?!" a girl yelled.
The girl in question had hair that was in two shades of blue reaching her back while wearing a teal and white sailor fuku uniform, black stockings and brown shoes. She eventually saw Yuma was asleep on a bench.
"Yuma, wake up!" she shouted, smacking Yuma across the face, "You'll be late for school!"
The boy simply continued to sleep and rolled onto the ground, leaving the girl with an annoyed look.
"Yuma!" she yelled again, but he kept snoozing away. She gave an annoyed growl at him as she got out a paper fan before smacking him upside the head.
"OW! What was that for?!" Yuma yelled as he got up.
"I just said you'll be late for school, you idiot!"
"No. I met some old guy who told me the time was 9:00."
"Yuma, it's not that late. It's already 7:50AM!" She shouted, pointing to a clock that indeed said 7:50, but the clock suddenly appeared to distort, the hands suddenly shifting to be 9:00, "What the…?"
"That was weird…"
The two then heard a loud zooming sound, turning to see two people riding motorcycles, but what surprised them was that they were dueling.
"What the…?" they both said.
"Now, I tune my Level 3 Tuner Monster Junk Synchron with my Level 3 Injection Fairy Lily and my Level 4 Aurora Wing! With the power of the stars, I call forth this monster from its resting place as a guardian! I Synchro Summon, Leo, The Keeper of the Sacred Tree!" the one duelist shouted as his three monsters merged to form a giant armored lion with a plant-like body having petals for a mane.
"...Synchro what?" they both asked.
The two looked greatly confused as to what was going on before a small light began to shimmer on Yuma's Duel Disk.
"What now?"
"I don't know what's going on, Rio!"
Yusei continued to walk when his Duel Disk began to gain a small light, making him look at the disk in confusion before he noticed the sky was slowly starting to grow darker and darker...
"Where is she…?" Jaden muttered as he stood and awaited Alexis to finish talking to some fans so that they could hang out.
As he waited, some people walked past him and glared at him. Jaden just exhaled a bit as he took out his Winged Kuriboh card.
"...maybe coming here was a mistake…"
"I wouldn't say that, Jaden," Alexis said as she walked over to him, "I'm happy that you're back and I'm sure any of our other friends who are here are happy you're back."
"Yeah, I guess," Jaden figured.
"Hey, chin up. We had a great duel and we're back together, right?"
"Yeah, that was fun to watch," a male voice said.
The two looked confused before turning to see the two kids who watched them earlier. The boy with green hair ran over to them, but ended up tripping and falling onto Jaden and Alexis.
"*groans* Yuya… watch where you're going…" the girl sighed.
"Sorry…" the boy, Yuya, apologized.
Jaden simply sighed before he noticed some of his and Alexis' cards got knocked down in the fall, looking at them with a look of fear as he quickly picked them back up. Alexis soon picked some of her own back up and then handed one of Jaden's back to him. He simply smiled before he picked up another card.
"Wait… 'Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon'?" Jaden questioned as he looked at a card depicting a red and gold dragon, but the card had more text than before, and had the colors of both an Effect Monster and a Spell card.
"Oh, that's mine," Yuya quickly informed.
"Here," Jaden said as he handed the card back to Yuya.
"Say, I don't think we've seen either of you here before," Alexis noted, "This is meant for a reunion; why're you two here?"
"I just wanted to say your duel was really entertaining. As an Entertainment Duelist, I enjoy seeing other people make such exciting duels," Yuya informed.
"Thanks," Jaden smiled, "I always like to experience awesome duels, myself."
"But still… why are you two here?" Alexis repeated.
"He just wanted to say that. We just ended up here all of a sudden," the girl informed.
Alexis simply nodded before she gave a look at the girl, "...have we met before? You look very familiar… but I can't place it."
"I'm not sure…"
"Oh… I think I know your name… hold on, let me think…" Alexis told her. She looked at the purple haired girl for a moment, thought it over and then sighed, "...Celina?"
The girl sighed and then looked at Alexis with a somewhat annoyed look, "Close. It's Serena."
"Name confusion happen a lot?" Jaden checked with Yuya.
"Like you wouldn't believe…" Yuya said with a look that clearly said there was a long story.
"So… are you two in the Slifer Red dorm? I didn't know they changed uniforms that much," Jaden questioned.
"Well, I attend the You Show Duel School, but I don't know about her," Yuya informed.
"I… was in Slifer Red. ...are we really at Duel Academy right now?" Serena asked.
"Yep, the very same school set up by the one and only Seto Kaiba," Jaden told them.
"...who?" both Yuya and Serena questioned.
"Seto Kaiba. You know… Greatest duelist next to Yugi Moto? Leader of Kaibacorp, strongest user of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon deck... guy who founded this academy." Jaden explained.
"...the Duel Academy I attended was founded by a person called Leo Akaba," Serena informed.
"...who?" Jaden and Alexis questioned.
"Wait a second… Yuya, come here a moment," Serena requested.
The two walked a short distance away from Jaden and Alexis to try and talk by themselves for a bit.
"Okay, this doesn't make any sense. I've never heard of a Seto Kaiba or a Yugi Moto once in my life," Serena began.
"Same here… though Yugi Moto does sound a little familiar..."
"You don't think we landed in another dimension that's parallel to the one I'm from, do you?"
"But… aren't there only supposed to be four dimensions?"
"Yeah. This is clearly the Fusion Dimension, but… isn't at the same time?"
"I'm a little worried about those two…" Jaden whispered to Alexis.
"Why's that?" Alexis checked.
"Because they clearly don't know some things that are pretty common knowledge…"
"Yea, that is a good point. They don't even seem to be from here…"
Suddenly, though, there was a loud thunder clap and everybody looked to see the sky was covered in dark clouds.
"Oh come on!" one person in a yellow uniform yelled.
"It was just getting good!"
Suddenly, both Jaden's and Yuya's Duel Disks began to shine with lights, getting the attention of their friends before what looked to be a door made of lights appeared before them.
"...no… I-Impossible! I thought that we got rid of it forever…" Yubel worriedly said.
'Relax. We destroyed those guys in the past. Don't worry about it…' Jaden thought.
However, the group looked up into the sky to see that the lightning was continuing and it looked like it would keep getting worse.
"Hmm… I'm going to be going and seeing what's up," Jaden said as he began to approach the door of light.
"...be careful," Alexis told him.
"Trust me, I'll be fine," Jaden assured as he went through the portal.
"I'm going," Yuya told Serena.
"Then I'm going with you," Serena told him.
"No. Stay here and make sure everybody stays safe. I'll handle this."
"...alright. But if I end up finding Yuzu here, I'm telling her you left," Serena said in a teasing tone.
Yuya simply chuckled a bit at the joke before he headed through the door of light.
Jaden saw that he was now in what looked to be some sort of arena under a night sky that seemed to go on endlessly.
"Wow…"
"Jaden?"
Jaden turned around to see Yusei having wandered in.
"Hey, Yusei! Long time no see! How's the future been holding up since the last time we met?" Jaden smiled, the two shaking hands.
"Pretty good. I actually got married and Neo Domino City is at peace."
"Congrats, man," Jaden smiled.
"How are things between you and Alexis?"
"Well… we're back on speaking terms after my little nomadic journey finding duels, and things are going well. Why ask?"
Yusei gained a calm, yet coy, smile and slowly walked away, "Reasons."
"Can't tell me?"
"Nope. Future is like a movie. Why spoil the fun?"
"Jaden?" Yuya asked as he walked over.
"Who's this?" Yuesi asked.
"I'm Yuya Sakaki and I'm an Entertainment Duelist!"
"Yusei Fudo and I'm a Turbo Duelist!"
"OI~!"
"Oh no…" Yusei muttered.
Suddenly, Yuma rushed into the arena and looked around with an amazed look, "This is so cool!"
Yusei gave an annoyed sigh and then got noticed by Yuma.
"You, old man! What's the idea of telling me it was 9:00 when it was still early in the morning?!" Yuma yelled as he began to weakly slap Yusei.
"...who's the kid?" Jaden asked.
"My name is Yuma Tsukumo! I'm going to become the King of Games someday! I'll be even greater than Yugi Moto!" Yuma declared, stopping his weak attack on Yusei.
"You? Greater than Yugi? Like that's gonna happen. I've had the honor of meeting Yugi himself and you wouldn't even be a spark to the sun that he is in our world!" Yusei told Yuma.
"SHUT UP OLD MAN!" Yusei angrily yelled.
"Yeah… I don't think you'd be capable of beating Yugi…" Jaden muttered.
"Seriously, who's this Yugi?" Yuya questioned.
The three all turned to Yuya in confusion/surprise and Yuya simply blinked a bit.
"You don't know who the very first King of Games is?!" Yusei proclaimed.
"He doesn't know who Seto Kaiba is either…" Jaden added.
"Even I know who he is!" Yuma proclaimed.
"Well pardon me if I don't come from the same dimensions you guys hail from!" Yuya yelled before he quickly covered his mouth.
"Huh?"
"It goes much further beyond different dimensions…" a voice proclaimed.
The four looked up to see a young man wearing a dark blue uniform, the jacket acting as a sort of cape to show his black tank top, he had wildly messy hair that looked like it was mostly black with violet trim along with golden yellow bangs, and most notable was the upside down pyramid puzzle with the Eye of Horus hanging from a chain around his neck.
"Yugi!" Yusei yelled.
"Not quite…"
"Then… the Nameless Pharaoh?" Jaden asked.
"Atem, technically," he responded.
Regardless of the mistake, the four newcomers looked up in awe at his direction.
"Why did you bring us all here?" Jaden asked.
"And where's Yugi?" Yusei questioned.
"We are currently in a realm between your timelines and dimensions. A realm where time has no bearing… which is important for the mission I require of you. Something has been destabilizing the stability between the timelines, putting all of our worlds at great risk. You probably have noticed things out of the ordinary such as locations being merged together, time not flowing like it should, dark clouds covering the sky…"
The four gave nods in response.
"This is a result of time being destabilized and, if we do not stop it, everything will collapse and then nothing will be left."
"So… why bring us together, Atem-san?" Yusei questioned.
"The villain responsible for this can be stopped if we duel them. However, only one of you can be sent to stop it. As I was incapable of locating Yugi, I decided to find the next four great dueling heroes. And from each of your timelines, you all have managed to do many great things. So, we will have a tournament to find the strongest among you four to find the strongest of you so that we can stop the villain responsible. Any questions?"
"So… what was the deal with those Synchro things?" Yuma asked.
"...Synchro what?"
"Yea, unless you've seen them before, I'm not surprised," Yusei sighed, "They are a group of monster cards that are summoned through tributing tuner monsters and the required number of monsters whose total levels equal the level of the Synchro monster."
"They are native to the timeline that Yusei Fudo is from, given the explanation. That aside, Yusei and Jaden are from the same timeline where those monsters exist. Yuma and Yuya, on the other hand, are from another one. Well… to be more accurate, they should be. Something happened that caused Yuya's point in time to get fragmented into four dimensions. This should explain why Yuya is familiar with Synchro monsters, as well as others the rest of you aren't aware of and explain why he doesn't know who Yugi and Kaiba are."
The others nodded and looked at the sky to see there appeared to be stars that lined up in a straight line, but then split up into what appeared to be two lines.
"The stars represent the two timelines we are all from. The bottom one is Yusei's and Jaden's, while the top one is Yuma's and Yuya's."
"Pretty…" Yuma smiled.
"...are you sure this kid is a hero?" Yusei asked
"SHUT IT, OLD MAN!"
"I am NOT that old!"
"Oh yea, says the guy who is clearly the oldest here!"
"Best of luck, Jaden," Yuya sighed as he extended his arm to shake Jaden's hand.
"You too, Yuya," Jaden told him as he accepted the hand shake.
Pikatwig: Well… that was a long first chapter.
KKD: Yea… but it was worth it.
Pikatwig: So… thoughts on the chapter?
KKD: It was pretty good all things considered. Yea, we used a lot of OC cards in that duel, but for one focusing on anime rules with someone real-legal cards, I'd say it turned out great.
Pikatwig: Yeah, it's cool. As for why it is we're mainly going off of the anime, well… more iconic imagery of the characters. And, for the record, I haven't watched any of the shows and he stopped after 5D.
KKD: Which wasn't properly finished…
Pikatwig: Neither was GX.
KKD: Why can't we get nice things?
Pikatwig: Rumors have it that GX was canceled because of complaints of how dark Season 3 was and 5D ended because the Japanese companies who own the rights to the anime sued 4Kids for $1.4 million for whatever reason. The latter stopped because they legally couldn't finish it.
KKD: Talk about a pain in the butt.
Pikatwig: 5D has a big mess of stuff from behind the scenes. There was a cult in Japan that was undergoing police investigation and they needed to rewrite the villains to be from the future, Carlie's Japanese VA was found out to be a member of the group and got fired, Akiza's Japanese VA wanted time to focus on her marriage so she got demoted, Konami higher ups forced Jack to become a good guy because of how well his cards were selling in real life...
KKD: Wow…
Pikatwig: It's about as bad behind the scenes as Power Rangers Lost Galaxy was.
KKD: Sheesh.
Pikatwig: So… what do you think of how the future of 5D was, as we showed it here?
KKD: Honestly, I think it's a nice one all things considered.
Pikatwig: And for the GX setting?
KKD: Really good. Nice to see Jaden and Alexis again.
Pikatwig: For those who read the GX story we posted earlier this year will recall some of the elements from that. We just put them in here to give a nod to that. These two stories aren't connected.
KKD: That story was given the pretense that several characters were altered to exist in the GX timeline similar to how they were altered for the dimensions in Arc-V, but that's a story for another day.
Pikatwig: Yeah. Also… the Arc-V English theme is really catchy.
KKD: Never heard it.
Pikatwig: I'll show you.
-One Viewing Later-
KKD: ...Eh. It's nothing too special. I've heard much better raps… but it's certainly better than Overly Obnoxious.
Pikatwig: Alright.
KKD: Just saying.
Pikatwig: Onto favorite parts. ...gotta say that I can't pick one. There were several nice moments that I liked all throughout the chapter that it's hard to pick just one.
KKD: I personally liked the duel we came up with, and anything with Jaden and Alexis.
Pikatwig: Yeah, I think they make a nice pair.
Random Voice: What about the canonicity of Jaden and Yubel?!
Pikatwig; That whole thing makes no sense and is being ignored for the story.
KKD: It's a little tricky and convoluted. Heck, I saw all of GX bar season 4, and even I still don't get it. Seriously, they almost pulled a retread of Yugi and Atem with Jaden being some other worldly prince in Season 3.
Pikatwig: Writer of the series mentioned in an interview that it was done because he felt like Jaden's personality wasn't good enough. He said something along the lines of "he wouldn't be able to stop the original villain of the first series and needs to change a bit". Something like that.
KKD: I get that, but some of Jaden's heart, character-wise, kinda got lost with that shift. I mean it just came right the heck outta nowhere!
Pikatwig: From what I've read… I can see your point. Plus, it kind of made him lose his friends and stuff. His last battle with Yugi set him right, as Bonds Beyond Time can show, but yeah. And, as I mentioned, rumors abound about parents complaining about the dark tone GX took for its third season ended up making it no longer air in North America.
KKD: Sheesh, I know Yu-Gi-Oh! has a habit of incorporating dark elements, but only with season 3 do they realize how crazy it can get? ...Then again, with how much of a downer that season was, and how Jaden got brainwashed in the end, I can see why.
Pikatwig: Plus how much 4Kids censored things.
KKD: …
Pikatwig: I watched their dub of Pokemon and Sonic X, so I know how they do things. Heck, speaking of the latter, during their adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2… they say Maria survived her gunshot wound that killed her in the games.
KKD: ...what? You serious?
Pikatwig: I am not kidding.
KKD: Let's move on… don't wanna get a headache… anyway, this was a pretty decent chapter to write, and I look forward to writing more.
Pikatwig: Same here. Well… guess it's time to wrap up.
KKD: Jaa ne.
Pikatwig: Just Live More.