Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-VRAINS! Special Chapters!

by ThePLOThand

To celebrate my story's milestones, this will be a collection of special One-shot duels! Most recent Special: Yuya, Futaba and Roget from Arc-VRAINS! vs Yasuhiro Kirifuda, Shota Hanamura and Ibuki Ichiyanagi from Sudden Adventure!

1. Our last duel

AN:There´s a plural What other specials are there going to be? Find out more after reading the chapter.
For those who haven´t read my other fanfic, this is a chapter where three characters from my first and cancelled fic, Sudden Adventure and my second and much better fic, Arc-VRAINS duel in a 3v3 WRGP-style duel. This serves as a One-year anniversary Special and to give Sudden Adventure a more dignified send-off.
PS: You should totally listen to some epic music while reading it, it makes the duels even more epic!

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Jonny´s POV L1

I was just trying to prevent Yuto from knowingly walking into his doom of being absorbed by Yuya, as I and my friends suddenly disappeared from the scene.
But perhaps, I should tell you a little bit about us three first.
1. We are Jonathan "Jonny" Smith, Cathy Yamamura and Mike Cardwright

2. One day, all of us were teleported into the Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V anime, literally in the midst of doing normal everyday activities

3. Each of us played very casual and bad decks until we joined LDS, where I got a Kaiju deck, Cathy got a Hand-Artifacts-Traptrix deck and Mike received a Monarch deck.

4. The duel with Yuto was supposed to prove that we had the power to change Destiny.

5. I have knowlege of the Arc-V anime, up until episode 77

And now we we were teleported away without warning yet AGAIN. The surroundings were some kind of mystic cave.

"Geez, not again.", Cathy muttered, "Okay whoever brought us here, show yourself right-"

"She´s behind us.", Mike said. We turned around and saw some kind of tall light blue fairy.

"Are you whoever brought us here?", I asked.

"Indeed. My name is Valia and I was bringing you into this world so you could avoid a great danger.", she said.

"And preventing Yuya from being absorbed by Yuto goes against that? And why tell Yuto about his fate? And why didn´t you tell us sooner or prepared us or-", I began to ramble.

"It was a mistake.", Valia answered.

"A-what!?", Mike wondered.

"This time, I am preparing you and telling you instantly. But not about your entrance, but about your removal from this adventure."

"So we get forced into this for NOTHING!?", Cathy shouted.

"I am deeply sorry, but since I am very much able to reconsider my choice of envoys, I will replace you with ones better suited to move the course of events into a beneficial direction."

"That´s unfair! We-"

"Do you not wish to return home?", Valia asked, "Because I cannot guarantee for that, if you stay in this universe any longer. Whether you woud have stayed trough my decision or outherwise, you might be trapped in that World forever. Your probability of succes is too low for my liking, and I´ve only recently realized that."

"But... I´m not gonna let this adventure go to waste!", I declared, "At least give us some kind of challenge to prove ourselves!"

"Are you sure about staying in that world? Have you even formed any bonds outside of this trio?"

We all fell silent, I looked at Cathy and Mike. Somehow they wanted to continue our "Sudden Adventure" just like me. But it IS true, we just dueled and didn´t do much besides that.

"Maybe in a different reality you will succed, but not in this one. But I will allow your suggestion. I will bring three duelists from another universe and you will have to face them under a special type of rule. If you do well enough, I might change my mind."

"Really?", Cathy said excitedly, Instead of answering however, Valia wordlessly summoned our challengers from a glowing white portal, we saw three people in school uniform, one of them being a tanned guy with two Spikes of pink hair, some guy with blue and pink hair and a girl with white hair.

"Urghh... why am I teleported away again and-", he turned over to the girl and the boy, "Why are YOU TWO here!?"

"Excuse me, but I have brought you three here for a special occasion.", Valia said, "You may be an enemy of the other two, but would you mind joining together as a team for one duel?"

"What kind of occasion? Explain.", the pink/blue boy said.

"You will duel those three as a team, but not under normal tag team rules. It will be under what 4 of you should know as "WRGP rules.", where you will duel one-on-one, and after a player has lost, the next player will take over using their teammates card on the field, while the winning player continues with their field and current life points."

"Okay! I´m ready, who´s gonna go first?", the white-haired girl said.

"But why should we accept?", the blue/pink Guy asked once more.

"You won´t remember this encounter either way.", Valia said, "you will be sent back to your world after this duel is over, with no time passing. It will neither do harm or good."

The girl sounded like she didn´t want to play anymore because of that, but said, "But I´ll go first!"

"Are you sure? I´m your enemy in your home world, shouldn´t I be the first?", the pink-haired boy said

"I don´t think that matters.", the other boy said, "We won´t remember this anyway as this strange woman said. And what are the names of our opponents?"

We quickly exchanged names, learning that the white-haired girl was named Mayoi Miyabino, the pink-haired and tanned Guy was Chihiro Himegeki and the dual-color guy was Yusaku Fujiki, Making me think that he actually is a future Yu-Gi-Oh!-protagonist.

"However there will be two other special rules involved due to my three challengers origins.", Valia said.

"Are you kidding me?", Mike said.

"For one thing, during the duels of Mayoi and Yusaku the Action Field Crossover will be active."

"That´s a suprise.", Cathy said, "But as future lancers we have no Problems with Action Duels!"

But she was for some reason reluctant to use Action Cards in her previous duels. And I don´t buy that it was out of pure confidence in her own skills, she didn´t really make me believe that lie.

"The second one is that all summons of the extra decks will be restricted in a certain manner.", Valia continued.

"But how?", Cathy asked. Oh yeah, Cathy is the only one to really use her extra deck, barring the leftovers I had from my Lightsworn Deck and some other cards, though Kaiju´s are the main focus of it.

"There will be an additional Monster Zone, the "Extra Monster Zone", in which only Extra Deck Monsters can go and you only can summon in those zones. There are ways to bypass that, but you will learn about that when Mayoi, Yuya or Chihiro use the appropriate cards."

"Wait, so you three are from Yuya´s World?", Mayoi asked.

"Wait, you know Yuya? How the-", Mike asked, but he was too confused to complete his question.

"Oh, it´s a weird story, but-", she began, but was interrupted by Valia.

"I don´t think they need to learn, so can you start with the duel "

"Then I will go first.", Mike declared, "I have no problems with the restricted extra deck and can even lock them out of that one zone, so I should go first."

"You can choose the next duelist once a loss happens. Let´s begin the duel for your continued journey!"

"DUEL!", Mayoi and Mike exclaimed.

Action field:on

Crossover

Mayoi Miyabino (4000lp) vs Mike Cardwright (4000lp)

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Mike´s POV L2

"I will let Mike begin.", Valia said and both of us immediately collected the first nearby Action Card, after all ,as long we´re not exhausted, there´s no reason not to use this weapon.

"I start with Domain of the True Monarchs,which, as Long as I have no Extra deck and and a Tribute summoned monster while you don´t, you can´t summon from the Extra Deck.", I explained.

"But that way you won´t learn how we circumvent the summon limit.", she pointed out.

"I don´t need to know if I can prevent you from summoning anything! I summon Eidos the Underworld Squire! (ATK:800) I use the Third effect of Domain to reduce Erebus the Underworld Monarch´s Level by two!
And I summon him in Addition to my normal summon thanks to Eidos´ effect! Royalty of Netherworld, use your weaponry to put your foe´s army into disarray!
Come forth, Level 8, Erebus the otherworld Monarch!(ATK:2800) Erebus effect now allows me to send The Prime Monarch and Pantheism of the Monarchs to the graveyard to Shuffle a Random card from your hand into your deck!"

Unfortunately it was her Action card that burst into bubbles.

"So Action Cards cannot be shuffled into the deck and are destroyed. Yuya never mentioned that. Guess it doesn´t happen often.", she said.

"How do you actually know Yuya?", I asked nd to calm down Valia I added ,"It won´t stall our duel for too Long, I promise!"

"Well, one day he suddenly appeared in our world to help us fight a certain group of criminals.", she said.

"So it´s like with us. Only we appeared in an alternate version of Yuya´s World.", I said.

"And because we apparently aren´t good enough as duelists-", Cathy added looking over to Valia, "We are having this last duel to prove that we are worthy of this "Sudden Adventure". But don´t even think about Holding back!"

"She´ll probably notice. And say that our victory doesn´t mean anything.", Jonny muttered.

"So that´s the purpose of this duel. Are you connected to someone named Dark Sagess?", Yusaku asked Valia.

"Or Dusktopia?", Chihiro added.

"I am not connected to either of those beings and know nothing about their missions.", Valia claimed, but I´m not so sure. Not that we are going to find it out or anything.

"And I continue as promised! I banish Pantheism to reveal three copies of March of the Monarchs and add one to my hand. I activate it right away! Now Erebus cannot be targeted or destroyed by card effects!"

"But she can still take it of your field by other ways! Don´t underestimate her!", Another Voice said.

"Who was that?", Jonny wondered.

"That was Ignis, my dueling AI, I was wondering when he would start commenting. Just ignore him."

"How mean! Someone tell him to apologize!"

"Yes, don´t you know what happens when sentient AIs get mistreated?", Mayoi said, and it sounded like she was 100% serious... but let´s not focus on that.

"Aaaaanyway, I have to end my turn now.", I said, turning the attention back to the duel. The rest of my hand was Zaborg and Thestalos in their normal forms, not really much I could do.

"My turn, draw! I use Foolish Burial to mill HorReaper KnighTrap, now Dominion gets destroyed since he hit the graveyard without being destroyed!"

"It was to good to be true.", I sighed, "But now I can banish something to revive Prime in monster form."

She jumped onto some higher platforms to get another Action Card and answered: "But will you do that? I use Horrible Fusion!"

"They´s not gonna pull out the way to summon multiples from the extra deck?", Jonny gasped.

"This lets me fusion summon a HorReaper Fusion Monster, using monsters from my hand or field! I use MadMace and Amnesimaniac! Tortured Souls of no memory or sanity! Use your spiritual remains for the reckless warrior of darkness! FUSION SUMMON! Come forth, Level 5, HorReaper BeserKatana!" (ATK:1900)

"But in the anime, only creepy people get decks like these, don´t they?", Cathy asked Jonny.

"It would certainly be an unusual one if she´s a character in one.", he answered.

"Wait, so you are from a world where Yuya´s adventure is a piece of fiction?", Mayoi said, "That´s just like Chihiro! Only we´re on different sides usually."

"These similarities just keep appearing.", I muttered, "So, how are you going to take down Erebus with your monster?"

"First, the effect of MadMace grants my Fusion the ability to deal piercing damage and AmnesiManiac negates the effect of March. And with BeserKatana´s effect I can banish any of the three reapers in my graveyard to attack again."

"And how will you increase the ATK of your monster?", I said, though even if she has the right card, with the Action speel Overpass in my hand I can stop it, though just to be sure, I did run next to a platform with an Action Card, as did Mayoi.

"I activate Horrible Brutality, this card Acts like a Limiter Removal to my HorReapers! (ATK:1900-3800) I attack you directly! And with the Action Spell Mini Push he gains 100 ATK and you can´t avoid the damage! (ATK:3800-3900) Beserker Slice!"

"I use the Action Spell Overpass! This swaps our attack points!", I countered and took the card from the platform

"I use No Action! And from the platform next to that Crush Action! Now you can´t defend yourself with Action Cards for the rest of this turn! The attack continues! (Mike LP:4000-2900) I banish AmnesiManiac-"

Is this the end already? And why did two Anti-Action Card Action Cards have to be next to each other? But maybe I can do one last thing for my next partner at the very least.

"Wait a sec! You´ve won, I won´t try to cheat, but can I revive Prime Monarch after the final attack hits?", I asked Valia weakly.

"In the original WRGP that worked for Crow, he could use Urgent Tuning to summon Blackwinged Dragon after being defeated by Granel!", Jonny pointed out.

"Of course I´ll allow it, but if you want to continue, you should avoid suffering further one-turn kills.", Valia answered.

"There is one other thing that I should mention to Mayoi,", Yusaku intervened, "You could collect all of the remaining 15 Action cards on this field to ban Action cards for the next duel, allowing neither player to use it. They have served you well during this duel and you probably don´t need more of them."

"There is another rule you should be aware of, If a duel ends so does the current turn, meaning that Beserkatana will be banished due to Brutality´s drawback, leaving you with only the card in your hand to defend yourself.", Valia revealed.

"Then I will just declare a direct attack with BeserKatana. (Mike LP:2900-3900=0)", Mayoi said.

"I will banish Domain to revive the Prime Monarch. Sorry for leaving only this card and a negated March." (DEF:2400), I apologized

WINNER: Mayoi Miyabino

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Cathy´s POV L3

I didn´t expect the first duel to go down this easily. It was shocking, in a discussion way back in the Arc-V world Jonny said, that we were playing very competitive decks and that some cards even had better effects than their real-life counterparts.
But luck or the Heart of the Cards doesn´t seem to be on our side.

"I´ll go next. We shouldn´t wait for their Limit circumvention whatever. And I only need one monster from the extra deck at a time.", I said.

"But don´t refuse to collect Action Cards like you usually do. In this duel we have to be pragmatic and do everything we Can t win.
It might make the difference between victory or defeat. If this is the same Crossover as the anime, then there should only be various helpful Action Cards on it and no negative cards.", Jonny told me. Ah, yes Action cards, however my confidence in my skills/a hatred against them isn´t my reason to refuse them at all, but I have no time to worry about that.

"Again sorry-", Mike said, but I interrupted: "It can´t be helped, maybe I can pull out a rank 5 monster with Prime. And I just I don´t need dozens of Extra Deck Monsters on the field."

"Yeah, maybe if I only lasted longer to find out how they would get multiples onto the board, but no use in complaining. Let´s get on with it!"

"Alright, Mayoi, let´s duel!"

Cathy Yamamura (4000lp) vs Mayoi Miyabino (4000lp)

"As this isn´t the first turn in the overall duel, you may draw.", Valia said.

"Then I draw! I start with Pot of Duality, instead os special summoning this turn, I add one card from the top 3 to my hand! Out of Artifact Scythe, Sanctum and Maxx C; I choose Sanctum!
I summon Traptrix Myrmeleo (ATK:1600) and add Traptrix Traphole Nightmare to my hand. I set four cards and attack directly!(Mayoi LP:4000-2400) And by getting this Action card I end my turn.", good the card wasn´t to far away and I didn´t need to exert myself, meanwhile Mayoi obtained another card leaving 13 on the field.

"My turn, draw! I activate Go to Hell and add HorReaper GravediGloves to my hand. I summon it! (ATK:1400) I discard the Action spell to summon two Tokens (DEF:0)", she then ran to another platform for an Action Card, perfect opportunity to use mine.

"I use Takeover Action to steal that card!", I countered, leaving only 12 of them on the field. The card I stole was Avoid, and before continuing her turn, she ran straight for the next card, "And before you do anything with those Tokens, I activate Artifact Sanctum to summon Sycthe from my deck! (ATK:2200) Since Scythe was summoned outside of my turn you cannot Special Summon from the Extra deck this turn!"

"She can lock out the extra deck too? Now Mayoi can´t Link Sum-", the AI said.

"Be quiet, we´re not supposed to help them.", Yusaku said an muted his programm.

"So this way to summon Extra deck Monsters into zones besides the EMZ is called Link Summoning. How could this possibly work?", I though out loud.

"However, I´m not done yet! I Special summon HorReaper PitchFreak (ATK:1700) and use his effect to "pitch" one HorReaper from my deck!"

"Not gonna take a chance, I negate that with Traptrix Traphole Nightmare!"

"Then I end my turn.", she said. Looks like we Can pay curbstomp back with curbstomp!

"My turn, draw! I summon Maxx C (ATK:500) and turn The Prime Monarch in attack Position (ATK:1000) and then attack GravediGloves with Scythe! (Mayoi LP:2400-1600) C and Prime take out the Tokens! And now for an exact finish with Myrmeleo!"

"I don´t think so! I use the Action Spell Last 1, meaning that exactly one of my life point remains! (Mayoi LP:1600-1)"

"Let´s hope this doesn´t go like it usually does in Yugioh when a character has less than 1000lp...", Jonny sighed. The rest of my backrow was Artifact Fingis, Moraltach and Begalltach. I have two other Maxx Cs in my hand. I didn´t use any of last turn because she wouldn´t conduct a whole lot of Special summons anyway. And Instantly Mayoi got another card into her hand, how is she this fit?

"I end my turn, by overlaying The Prime Monarch and Artifact Scythe into Artifact Durendal! (ATK:2400)"

"I use the Action spell Lock out, to prevent Durendal´s effect from activating this turn! My turn, draw! I activate Fragile Rebirth, which revives a monster, but destroys it as soon as the effect is used!"

"But I discard Maxx C to draw for every Special Summon!"

"I revive PitchFreak and mill Katastrofusion! Katastrofusion banishes itself and two fusion materials for a HorReaper monster monster! I pick GravediGloves and PitchFreak!
Dark Cloth, covering the sinful hands and doomed commoner, join Forces to become the pained scoundrel! FUSION SUMMON! Come forth, Level 4, HorReaper CrimiNail! (ATK:1800) Nail´s ability lets me banish PitchFreak to inflict 800 damage"! (Cathy LP:4000-3200)"

"I´m not an expert on card design, but I´m pretty sure most decks either focus on effect OR battle damage.", I said.

"If you think that´s a strange gimmick you should wait for my deck.", Chihiro commented.

"And now, it´s time to Link Summon! The summoning condition is one HorReaper Fusion Monster, I set the Link Marker with HorReaper CrimiNail! pained scoundrel, make way to the necromancing Vampire! Come forth, Link 1, HorReaper ResurrecTalon! (ATK:666 Marker: Bottom-left)"

"You promised to explain as soon as it happens.", Mike said, turning to Valia.

"Any monster fitting the conditions, as long as it is face-up can be sent to the graveyard to summon the monster. Any kind of extra deck monster can be summoned into the zone a monster points to. They also cannot exist in defense position", Valia replied.

"But it has to have some kind of good effect to make up for it´s summoning restriction, its low ATK and the fact that it only gives one Bonus summon.", Mike concluded.

"One last question before she reveals her monster´s effect", I said, "Have you somehow made our opponents a little bit luckier to make it less likely for us to win and stay in the adventure?"

"Of course she would.", Yusaku chimed in, "If she considers sending you on this sission a mistake, then she would only change her mind if you win a duel she considers impossible for you to win."

"I hate to say it, but Yusaku has a point.", Jonny said.

"Now to my card! RessurecTalon will revive CrimiNails Link Materials, but I cannot fusion summon with that exact number of fusion materials for the rest of this turn.", she then went on to pick up the Next action card. Now there are only 10 left and she walked further right to the next Action Card spot after that.

"If we don´t use all of our advantages to the fullest then your victory will be meaningless, so don´t expect me to refuse Valia´s help! I send Horrible Fusion to the graveyard with PitchFreak and then discard my action spell to summon Tokens with GravediGloves and pick up the Next Action Card right away!
I banish Horrible Fusion from my graveyard to fuse Gloves, PitchFreak and one Token!
Cloth covering the sinful hands, unreal effigy and doomed commoner, use the remainder of your mortal soul to form the ultimate punished Maiden! FUSION SUMMON! Come forth, Level 6, HorReaper VirgIron! (ATK: 2500) I now can banish CrimiNail, PitchFreak, MadMace, GravediGloves and KnighTrap to inflict 2500 points of damage to you! Tears of-"

"Not so fast! One card I drew with Maxx C was Effect Veiler now you can´t inflict damage!", I countered.

"Then I enter the Battle Phase! I activate the Action Spell Discard-", then she turned to Valia, "I would consider it lucky if the Action Spell got discarded. And if the next one I pick would increase attack points.", she then turned to us, "I hate doing this, but if it raises the difficulty..."

"So... let me get this straight, you duel without honor for the sake of helping a complete stranger?", Jonny summed it up.

"Since she might be doing more good than harm, it´s not actually honorless, but rather stepping out of a comfort zone.", Ignis said, "But geez, this duel has doubled its weirdness faster than I´d ever have imagined. Why can´t you just fix all Problem with a snap of you fingers?"

"Have I ever confirmed that I was manipulating her card? And all my powers only affect this will have to get lucky on your own", Valia said.

"So, she didn´t do it?.", Mayoi wondered, but the Action Spell got Chosen by the duel disks randomizer anyway.

"Then I´ll discard that Action Spell. Go ahead.", she of course went for the next one right away.

"*huff*, this is more exhausting than it seems, but- I attack your Maxx C with VirgIron!"

Crap, if she gets something that boosts her monster by more than 1200 then I´m done for and Jonny has to duel all three of them. However most Action Cards are pretty far from my current position, now I need to really run too! In fact, I headed into the same direction as her, if I can get it instead, she will have no Chance to get a No Action or something! However, she is way faster than me, and I´m tiring out too fast, why did I keep this a secret?!
With Mayoi way ahead of me, I collapsed.
Yes, the reason why I never bothered collecting Action Cards unless they were really close, was my poor health which I kept secret from my friends, even in this adventure to save an unknown world, because I would eventually just be left behind to do nothing and of course, because I did underestimate it at the same time.
But why am I telling you? You came here for this 3 vs 3 duel, not to hear my life´s story.
Then I woke up, feeling better all of a sudden.

"Wha- what´s going on?", I mumbled.

"What´s going on?! You collapsed, you could have died, if Valia didn´t have healing powers in this cave!", Jonny said with tears in his Eyes.

"Why did you never tell us?!", Mike cried.

"Well, the obvious reasons, being ashamed of it, thinking I would be left behind while you get to join the lancers and underestimating by how much it would matter.", I answered weakly.
Mayoi let out a huge sigh of relief, being visibly terrified by what just happened: "If someone died again with me being unable to do anything about it, I wouldn´t have known what to do... I just used Power Lance on VirgIron and continued the attack without realizing at first, what just happened."

"That means, my life points are at 1200 now. Since I´m healedm let´s continue! We don´t want to leave this Adventure just yet!", I solemnly declared.

"Really? Are you sure?", Jonny asked worriedly.

"Yes, don´t you want to continue too? Even if previously all we did was take part in duels and not form bonds with anyone else, we can change that, if- no, WHEN we win our Second Chance!", I answered with determination, "And thanks for healing me, Valia."

"I did what was necessary. Don´t forget, my concern that you would not make it safely trough this adventure was part of the reasons I decided to Remove you from this. And testing whether you´d be fit for it, was the reason for dropping you off at a point where Shun Kurosaki would challenge you.", Valia explained, "And I did not cure your condition, that is not part of my abilities"

"Then it´s still my turn. I banish the Second Horrible Fusion to fuse all of my monsters into CronuScythe. (DEF:2000) I banish two of his fusion materials and destroy Artifact Durendal. Your turn.", Mayoi continued.

"My turn, draw!", I have 8 cards now and I´ll use them to turn this around!, "I use Heavy Storm to destroy all of my face-down cards and summon all of the Artifacts! Come forth, Moralltach (ATK:2100) Fingis (ATK:1900) and Beagalltach (ATK:1400) I normal summon Fire Hand (ATK:1600)", Maybe summoning all in attack mode is a bit reckless, but I have to take that risk and start an All-Out attack!, "I set 4 cards and go for the last action card."

"Seriously? After collapsing?", Chihiro gasped.

"I said "go" not "run".", I bluntly responsed as I walked a few meters and picked up a card from the ground, "Well, it´s good enough. I use Double Potion to give us bot 800 life points (Mayoi LP:1-801 Cathy LP:1200-2000)"

"I´ll pass on them.", Mayoi said, "And I´m a bit tired myself."

"Can´t blame you. But if that´s the case I overlay my Fire Hand and Traptrix Myrmeleo into Traptrix Rafflesia (DEF:2500) I set one last card and destroy CronuScythe with Moralltach and attack directly with Fingis!" (Mayoi LP: 802-1900=0)

WINNER: Cathy Yamamura

"Yes! A first victory!", all three of us celebrated.

"So, who´s Next of you?", I asked.

"I want to.", Chihiro said, "Since you are in a situation very similar to me. I want to see you fighting Spirit and learn about you. Typical Yu-Gi-Oh! stuff, even if I won´t remember it. And from a strategical point of view, Yusaku could deal easier with any leftover cards I might have."

"Fine by me.", Yusaku answered.

"DUEL!"

Cathy Yamamura (2000lp) Chihiro Himegeki (4000lp)

"My turn, draw. So just like me you were dragged into an anime world and you want to stay in this adventure, even though you haven´t formed any sort of bond with anyone and don´t have any special memories? Sounds almost like a bad fanfic."

"And to make it worse, only Jonny watched this show, I and Mike initially only had some bad decks made out of cards we still had, but didn´t you want to learn all of that trough the card game?", I argued.

"Then I´ll do just that. I activate the spell Tidal Loss to banish Sea Scales Sage and Amazoness from my deck. I activate the spell Tidal Resurface, which allow me to Special summon one banished Sea Scales Monster and simply place another one the field without banishing. The summoned of my two banished monsters will be Amazoness! (ATK:2600) Her effect will now banish EVERYTHING I control!"

"No way! First I chain the last Maxx C to draw cards and then I use the effect of Rafflesia! I detach Myrmeleo to use Traptrix Traphole Nightmare from my deck and destroy her! You´re right about your deck being way crazier than being able to deal lots of burn AND battle damage! Too bad I saw trough it!"

"Do you think I didn´t know about you possibly having another one of those in your deck or backrow? And remember Sage (ATK:150) still hits the field anyway.
I normal summon Sea Scales Sagess, who can banish everything to rearannge the top of my deck!", I would have had comething to stop it, but I have the feeling thats such a card should be saved up for comething more dangerous, "And since Sage was banished alongside everything on my field he gets to banish Rafflesia face-down!"

"Fine by me. Because Now I activate Wonder Xyz to overlay Beagalltach and Fingis into my Second Durendal! Thanks for clearing out the Extra Monster Zone."

"Then I activate Cosmic Cyclone! I pay 1000 life points and banish a spell or trap card. (Chihiro LP:4000-3000) I pick the middle one!"

"Do it. You obviously have a more dangerous card than that."

"It´s already much more intense than my duel.", Mike complained.

"Have you forgotten your stakes?", Yusaku asked.

"Perhaps trying to see the fun parts of duel monsters is how they deal with this heavy situation.", Mayoi suggested.

"Since I have a banished Sea Scales Monster, I can Special summon Sea Scales Priestess! I use her effect to place the banished Sage on my field!"

"Draw number two! And I activate Divine Wrath to discard one card and negate your Priestess. And I still have three more cards to counter you with!"

"Even a counter to this? I use Card of Sanctity, which banishes my hand, field and graveyard to draw two cards!"

"That´s crazy! And didn´t the anime-?", Jonny gasped.

"This one´s a little bit different. And now I use the drawn Ritual Spell Birth of the Tidal Dragon!"

"I detach an overlay unit from Durendal to make you destroy one spell or trap instead!"

"I choose the one on the very left.", he answered.

And it was a second copy of Artifact Fingis, which will summon itself in Defense Position and prevent all effect damage this turn. And since I just summoned an Artifact from my hand I Special summon Artifact Imago (DEF: 1400) who will prevent all battle damage this turn."

"However, even without Valia helping me, the Heart of the Cards was still on my side! I use Restauration of Rites to add Birth from my graveyard back to my hand. And I use it again! I Shuffle two banished Sea Scales monster to Ritual summon a Level 2 Ritual monster from my deck!"

"You know, it´s kind of funny how many non-link summoning techniques we are seeing here.", Jonny commented.

"Dragonic Sister/Show us your power and ne-/ver be forgotten! RITUAL SUMMON! Level 2! Come forth and guard me! Sea Scales Ritual Dragon! (DEF:3400) But it´s not over yet! After being succesfully Ritual Summoned, she has to be used as a Link Material!
Dragonic Brother/ return all favors you got / and soar through the sky!
LINK SUMMON! Link 1! Come forth and Show your strenght! Sea Scale Link Dragon! (ATK:1600 Marker: Down) When he is Link summoned, I get to revive Ritual Dragon at his Link Point!"

"It´s as if there was a Ritual and Link Dimension now. And he basically got two strong monsters trough one singly card.", Mike said.

" I activate the effect of Ritual Dragon! For each banished card this turn you lose 450 life points WITHOUT taking damage. Those were, the two cards from Tidal Loss, Sage and Sagess, then the face-down from cosmic cyclone, the four cards in my graveyard and upstart goblin from my hand! And even better, whether you have a way to defend yourself or not; Link Dragon will increase my life points by the POTENTIAL life loss! (Chihiro LP:3000-7500)"

"Then it will stay "potential"! I negate your effect with Solemn Strike by paying 800 life points! (Cathy LP:2000-1200 Chihiro LP:7500-8300)", I countered.

"My Ritual Spell Can banish itself face-down instead if my monsters would leave the field without banishing. Then Ritual Dragon will take out Artifact Imago. I end my turn."

"My turn, draw! I may have given you some extra life points by putting up more of a fight, but you have special summoned five times. Giving me five cards to take that Dragon of yours out! My first Move is too detach an overlay unit from Durendal to reshuffle them!"

"I chain the effect of Ritual Dragon! All my cards are banished, but since Link Dragon was one of them Durendal´s effect will be negated and he will be banished face-down! And Link Dragon can return himself into the extra deck to put all other cards back to the field!"

"Oh, my hand wasn´t that bad. And I overlay Artifact Fingis and Moraltach into Adreus Keeper of Armageddon! (ATK:2600) I detach an overlay unit to destroy your Dragon!"

"I´ll rather let her leave the field on her own terms and effect!"

"Then I normal summon Ice Hand (ATK:1400) and set two cards. Both of my monsters attack directly. (Chihiro LP:8300-6900-4300) Your Move."

"I draw and unfortunately pass."

"It seems like his luck ended... unless.", Jonny muttered.

"I normal summon Traptrix Dionea (ATK:1700) and revive Myrmeleo in Defense Position with her. I attack directly with Adreus! (Chihiro LP:4300-1700)"

"Since I took damage while not controlling anything, I Can special summon Gorz the Emissary of Darkness (ATK:2700) and since that was battle damage I get a Token with equal ATK. (ATK:2600)"

"Argh, I fell for it. I set another card and end my turn."

"My turn, draw! I use Tidal Last Stand, by shuffling up to three banished Sea Scales or Tidal cards to my deck, I draw that many cards. I choosse the Remaining Amazoness, Tidal Resurface and Priestess! It all depends on this...", he too a deep breath and then drew,"First, I use Localized Trunade to clear your backrow! And Raigeki to clear out your monsters. I set a monster, turn the token into Defense Position and attack you directly! (Cathy LP:1200-2700=0)"

WINNER: Chihiro Himegeki

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Jonny´s POV L4

"I hope I´ve done enough.", Cathy said.

"Yes, If this goes like it usually does in Yu-Gi-Oh!, then I´m at least going to beat him to duel Yusaku, so don´t worry", I said with confidence.

"But he was even luckier than Mayoi, those draws on his last turn were just too good.", Mike said.

"Hey, he can´t be the only duelist with the Heart of the Cards on his side!", I said.

"There is one thing I should tell you.", Chihiro said, "While you want to at least finish this adventure, I wouldn´t say the same thing about mine. I´ve been forcefully dragged into this by someone else and if I could return to my world at any time, I would do it.
And in fact, the name Chihiro Himegeki was just a fake name that I´ve given myself to separate my real self and the one stuck in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. My real name is Emmanuel Richter, funny enough my last name is the german word for judge, Considering how I will judge whether you continue or not."

"So we´re in these worlds under similar conditions, but think differently about it. were you sent there alone?", I asked.

"Yes. Perhaps that´s the reason. And the last thing I did, was have some stupid banter with my sister, so if that was the last Memory of my home...", he said.

"Then do it, how they always do in anime. Don´t give up."

"We´ll see if that´s enough. DUEL!"

Jonathan Smith (4000lp) vs Emmanuel Richter (1700lp)

"My turn, draw! I use Terraforming to get the field speel Kyoutou Waterfront and activate it! Then I activate my continous spell The Kaiju Files and set two cards. I activate The interrupted Kaiju Slumber which destroya all monsters!"

"M face-down card Sea Scales Saviour is banished when it leaves the field and I Can add a card that is banished face-down to my hand!"

" It won´t be of much use.
Slumber doesn´t just destroy monsters it also summons a Kaiju to each field. I bring Gadarla (ATK:2700) to your field and Radian (ATK:2800) to my field. Since two Kaiju´s have been summoned the Files gain two Counters (Files KC:0-2)
Two cards were sent to the graveyard and Kyoutou also gains two Counters (Kyoutou KC:0-2)
I remove one of the two Counters from each to Special summon a token with Radian´s effect. (ATK:2800) Then I use the effect of Kaiju Files to replace Gadarla with Gameciel. (ATK:2200) Now both spells gain the two Counters back. I attack Gameciel with Radian! (Emmanuel LP:1700-1100) Then the Radian Token attacks directly! (Emmanuel:1100-2800=0)"

WINNER: Jonathan Smith

"That´s the payback for these STUPIDLY lucky draws that beat Cathy and Mike. And now, time for the last one.", I said.

"I really wonder why I did question your motivation when I won´t even remember these events, but I have faith in you three that you could succed.", Emmanuel/Chihiro said, I think I will refer to him as Chihiro, after all, I don´t know anything about his true self.

"There are three reasons why I, inspite of these circumstances will give it my all. 1. I have a feeling we will remember this someday, even if that may not happen instantly. 2. I never hold back in a duel and 3. This has been said before, but your victory won´t count if we don´t use 100%.", Yusaku said.

"Oh, and that´s his catchphrase in the anime.", Emmanuel/Chihiro added. Huh, so he IS a Yugioh Protagonist.

"And now for the final duel that will decide everything.", Valia said.

"DUEL!"

Jonathan Smith (4000lp) vs Yusaku Fujiki (4000lp)

Action Field:on

Crossover

"My turn, draw! Since you control a Kaiju-", he began.

"What!? You have them too?", everyone, except for Mayoi and Valia gasped.

"I can Special summon Radian the Interdimensional Kaiju from my hand! (Kaiju Files KC:2-3) I usually have this card to get rid of monsters with strong protection effects, but in this Scenario-"

"Before you do anything with it, I use Kaiju Trap Hole! If my opponent has Kaiju´s on their field, they lose all attack and can´t use their effects for one turn! (ATK:2800-0) and if you are the original owner of that Kaiju, all cards that can gain KCs on my field gain them (Kyoutou KC:2-3 Kaiju Files KC:3-4) and I can place a Kaiju Spell or Trap card from my deck face-up on the field! I choose Kaiju Capture Mission! Looks like it was ME who benefited from the shared Kaiju!"

"I still got to summon a free monster. I normal summon Cyverse Converter and use its effect to change Radian´s type into cyverse!
Then, since I only control cyverse type monsters, I Special summon Backup Secretary.", then he picked up his first Action card. Oh, right they´re here again!,
Then I use One-time Passcode to summon a token (DEF:2000). Show yourself, circuit leading towards the future! The summoning condition is one normal monster!
I set the Link Marker with the Passcode Token!
LINK SUMMON! Come forth, Link 1, Link Spider! (ATK:1000 Markers: Down) Then I Link summon again! This time I use the cyverse-type monsters Radian and Cyverse Converter to summon Honeybot at Link Spiders arrow! (ATK:1900 Markers: Left, Right.)
Link monsters Can also replace as many materials as they have arrows! I use Honeybot and Backup Secretary as Link Material to summon Gaia Saber the Lighting Shadow! (ATK:2600 Markers: Left, Down, Right) Then I use Gaia Saber and Link Spider as a Link material for Firewall Dragon! (ATK: 2500 Markers: Up, Down, Left, Right) Then I use Soul Charge!"

"Wha-", Oh, I remember Rafael using that card in DM and there it only made the summoned monsters unable to attack and you only lost 500 lp for each... And the Action Card I collected was only Miracle...

"I summon Link Spider at Firewall´s Link Marker whiel putting Honeybot and Gaia Next to them. I revive Radian and Backup Secretary in Defense Position. (Yusaku LP: 4000-1500) I use Set Rotation to set Cynet Universe on your field and Castle Link on mine. This does not count as being destroyed by card effect, therefore Kyoutou cannot protect itsel.
I use Castle Link´s effect to swap the positions of Link Spider and Firewall Dragon. Now since he has three mutual Links.", that must be link arrows pointing back and forth, " I can sent your Capture Mission, The Kaiju Files, and the Radian Token back to the hand.", yea that´s actually possible, "Now I use Link Spider, Backup Secretary and Radian as a Link Material for Powercode Talker! (ATK:2300 Markers: Left, Bottom-left, Right)",
his monsters from his point of view are arranged this way, from left to right: Powercode Talker, Gaia Saber, Firewall Dragon, Honeybot.

"Geez, you´re deck is crazily strong.", I muttered, but at least only Firewall and Powercode still have the ability to attack.

"I attack your Radian with Powercode Talker and Tribute the Gaia Saber he points to to double his ATK! (Powercode Talker:2300-4600)"

"I use the Action Spell Miracle to protect him and halve the damage! (Jonny LP:4000-3100)"

"I use the Action Spell Cracked Stone to destroy it anyway! Now Firewall can attack directly!", however, I dediced an Action card was not necessary.

"Huh, why is he not going for one? The next isn´t far away!", Mayoi wondered. I just revealed my face-down card right before the attack hit, in typical dramatic
Yu-Gi-Oh!-fashion (hey, I had to use that chance!), and as the smoke cleared I began to explain: "You have made a really cool series of plays, but even you aren´t immune to making mistakes. I activate my Graydle Parasite!"

Oh, did I forget to mention that I was using Graydle Kaiju´s and not just the pure version?

"Now, since you are attacking directly I can Special summon Graydle Eagle (ATK:1500), Go ahead and see what happens.", I challenged him, but then Yusaku did Something no Yu-Gi-Oh!-character has ever done, he tapped something on his duel disk and read the effect of my card.

"Since when can you do that in the anime?!", I gasped.

"In the series I got sent into, you can apparently do that anytime.", Chihiro said.

"Interesting. Not even I was aware of that.", Valia said.

"So you will be able to take control of my monsters, if I destroy it by battle or monster effect."

"And there´s probably a green and red one too, for traps and spells! And quick get Powercode Talker off the field, If he can take it and summon another monster, we´re done for!", Ignis panicked.

"In that case, I will not attack and enter Main Phase 2. Now I use Powercode Talker and Honeybot as Link Materials for another Gaia Saber the Lightning Shadow."

"Yes! With only a 100 ATK difference he needs to bring out strong monsters of his own to deal a lot of damage!"

"But first-", he collected another Action Card, by hopping onto Gaia Saber and flying to a higher platform. Right, by riding your monsters you can ingnore the physical requirements, but my Kaiju´s are too huge to Move around in here

"You know, I´m suprised and relieved these touchable hologramms work perfectly.", Ignis sighed.

"Wait, what?", I said.

"Yeah, we just copied the software from Yuya´s duel disk, dunno why the Hologramms still are touchable.", he said.

"I´m not sure if that will be as safe in my world as it is here, you´re helping with, aren´t you, Valia?", Yusaku asked.

"Yes, indeed.", she answered.

"Geez if most of her powers weren´t restricted to this realm, there really would be no need for us.", Mike muttered.

"I wonder if Action Cards that are on a higher platform are better, but first: My turn, draw! And now, take me up Eagle!", It felt weird to grab the slimy bid legs, but it was suprisingly easy to fly him. And the card I picked up was: Double Draw, it would let both of us draw two cards, but for now, I´ll refrain, from using it
"I set a card and activate Kaiju Files again, and I flip up Cynet Universe! This may increase the power of your monsters (Firewall Dragon ATK:2500-2800 Gaia Saber ATK:2600-2900), but I use its effect to Shuffle Radian back into my deck.
Then I banish the interrupted Slumber to add Kumongous to my hand! Now, tell me, what else Can your Firewall Dragon do?"

"It has an effect that lets me Special summon any monsters from my hand, if a monster it points to leaves the field. That is all."

"Then I tribute your Firewall Dragon and summon Kumongous to your field (ATK:2400 Kaiju Files KC:0-1) Now Graydle Eagle, attack into it!"

"I use the Action Card Choice of Miracle! I choose for no monster to be destroyed by this battle! (Jonny LP:3100-2200)"

"No! He could have stolen it, and then replaced it with a better one!", Cathy commented.

"In that Case, I set one other card and-", should I use double draw?

"Use whatever you have before he negates it!", Mike yelled. That´s right! He´s using every free Second to make the most out of a powerful tool like this, I can´t waste time thinking whether to activate cards!

"I activate the Action spell Double Draw! Two different players get to draw two cards! Of course, that´s you and me!"

"I use the Action spell, Crush Action! You won´t get another one for this turn. And if I keep collecting as long as you play-",

"I use Owner´s Seal! Kumongous gets back to me! But I replace him with Files´ effect! I choose Gameciel! (DEF:3000 Kaiju Files KC:1-2) Them I use the Spell Counter Overflow! This doubles the amount of counters on my card! (Kaiju Files KC:2-4) I end my turn!"

"*sigh*, we weren´t able to get all remaining Action Cards on this field. But of Ccurse, flying akwardly on this Dragon, wasn´t really the best strategy for that.", Ignis complained.

"I don´t think Yusaku was in the mood for running around as fast as he could, because, you know-", Mayoi said.

"And flying on Gaia Saber is probably still better than that.", Chihiro said.

"Those were my reasons.", Yusaku said.

"No Third one?", I joked.

"This "catchphrase" as Emmanuel put it, comes from a person giving me courage ten years Ago, I should avoid overusing it if I can to preserve its meaning.", Yusaku said. I think Chihiro coughed something like "Yeah, definetly not overused", but I´ll return my focus to the duel.
We both ran for an Action card in the middle between us and we both grabbed it at the same time, trying to pull it out from the others hand. It was just as ridiculous as it sounded

"Seriously? Card Tug-o-War?", I said.

"It´s ridiculous, but I never give less than 100%!", Yusaku declared, geez that guy had a suprisingly strong pull. If Action Cards could be teared, that card would be in two pieces at this point

"Why didn´t you switch directions the moment we ran into the same direction?", I asked.

"There is just one reason: If I managed to get it, you wouldn´t be able to get Something like No Action easily, forcing you to rely on the face-down cards and Gameciel´s effect!", he said, but in the end I snatched it.

"I use the Action Spell Encore! And I reuse... Crush Action!"

"What? But what if-", Mike began.

"Action Cards can be used by both players. They aren´t just able to get ME out of a pinch, they can be used by both players. And considering he´s a Yu-Gi-Oh! protagonist..."

"So you are trying to grab the rest in this turn?", Cathy asked.

"Yes. And at the very least I want to stand right next to the last card!", I said.

"So, Yusaku?", Ignis asked.

"I will not stop or help him.", he answered, "My turn, draw! I use my own Raigeki!"

"Negate with Gameciel! (Kaiju Files KC:4-2)", I countered and grabbed one doomed action card.

"I summon Draconet and use its effect to summon a Level 2 or one normal monster from my deck.", he continued.

"Not gonna let you either!" (Kaiju Files KC:2-0), I countered again and grabbed two doomed action cards during that time, "So, how many and where?"

"You won´t have much time to think! I use Enemy Controller to him into attack Position! (ATK:2200) I attack him with Gaia Saber! Lightning Shadow Impaler!"

"I use my face-down card!", I said as I ran towards another Action card, "Mirror Force!", that card helped us three to survive an OTK against Shun Kurosaki, and this time it will Help us to win the whole fight!

"I end my turn.", Yusaku said.

"*huff*, not gonna take more risks", I said and picked up the Action card

"Now he´s tired, because Gameciel was to huge to ride on."

"Are you sure?", Yusaku asked me, "You don´t seem to have the same physical problems as your previous partner. Has the earlier incident made you more reluctant to collect them. And you still have the Option to walk towards it and do Something to prevent the time Limit from running out in case it takes too Long."

"I´m no loophole abuser.", I said, "And don´t give me tips, it will make our victory wor-."

"It won´t be worthless.", Valia intervened, "You turned out to be strong after all. If you win, I will let you continue this Mission."

"Really?", Cathy and Mike asked.

"Yes. But you´ve not been impressive enough to make a loss forgivable.", she said coldly.

"ch. Fine. I Shuffle Kumingous back into my deck with Cynet Univers and I reveal my face-down Kaiju Capture Mission and gain a counter my turning Gamecial face-down. (Capture Mission KC:0-1)"

"I will activate my Action Spell, Last Escape, this turn, if our Life points are about to hit Zero, they will be doubled before the subtraction."

"I flip summon Gameciel and then-", I looked at the cards in my hand, Avoid, and Graydle Impact, not much I could do with, I do have Kaiju´s with more than 3000 attack and could use Kaiju Files to get them on board, but with his luck in Action Cards, I don´t want to lose a tool for negation, but what if he didn´t get a good Action Card as his Next one and I waste a Chance to defeat him?
Am I seriously considering Yu-Gi-Oh!-Protagonist luck while deciding about my strategy?
Aaaaand while I was thinking, he already collected the next one.
I took a deep breath and said: "I´ll assume you got a good Action card, which means- I attack directly with Gameciel! (Yusaku LP:1500-3000-800) I activate Graydle Impact and in the End Phase, I add Graydle Alligator to my hand!", I could have gotten rid of my own Avoid by negating Gameciels attack, but what if I need the protection again.

"He didn´t block it. Did he get a bad one, or is it because Last Escape would allow him to survive anyway or because Gameciel would negate it?", Mayoi wondered.

"Were you seriously just trying to predict Yusaku´s luck?", Chihiro asked.

"Bad thing, because now we´re gonna win!", Ignis said.

"If your last draw is lucky!", Cathy said.

"My turn, draw! I use Aurora Draw! Since my hand is empty I draw two cards!"

"I nega- wait a sec- the counters!", I realized, "All this time, I wondered whether I should replace Gameciel or not, I forgot that Kaiju Files doesn´t gain counters from flip summoning!"

"Damn it! Are we going to lose?!", Mike yelled.

"First, I Special summon Link Slayer (ATK:2000), since I don´t control monsters. Now I summon Cyverse Gadget (ATK:1400) who can revive Cyverse Converter. And now, for my final Link Summons! Show yourself, Circuit towards the future! Messenger Knight of new age, use your blade to parry it all! The summoning conditions are two or more effect monsters! I set the Link Markers with Cyverse Converter, Gadget and Link Slayer! LINK SUMMON! Come forth, Link three, Decode Talker! (ATK:2300 Markers: Up, Bottom-left, Bottom-right) Since Gadget was sent to the graveyards I can summon a token, but I Immediately use it to Link summon Link Spider!
Due to Link Spider being located next to his marker, just like Gameciel, he gains 1000 attack points! And there´s still Cynet Universe! (ATK:2300-3300-3600)"

"Yeah, even a stylish little poem!", Ignis cheered.

"Attack Gameciel! Decode End!", Decode talker got ready to swing his blade, but-

"I use Avoid! Your attack is negated!"

"By tributing Link Spider, I can negate a card that targets Decode Talker! Decode parry!", Gamecial was about to dodge with suprising Speed for his size, but Decode Talker simply threw his sword to the side in advance, shattering the giant monster. (Decode Talker ATK:3600-3100 Jonny LP:2200-1300)

"I end my turn."

"My turn, draw! I summon Graydle Aligator (ATK:500) and destroy it together with your Decode Talker thanks to Graydle Impact! I set a card my turn.", I had walked to another card, which turned out to be Acceleration, a card used to negate effect damage. Not the best, but...

"So you absolutely don´t want me to have a monster? Then let´s see, what this Destiny Draw holds! I summon Cyverse Wizard (ATK:1900) I use the Action Spell Bi-attack on him! (ATK:1900-3800)"

"So you weret lucky with the Action card, but in other ways than I expected, summoning Something with Graydle Parasite won´t do anything.
I was foolish to think I could predict your luck, or rather,of course it would fail the moment I relied on you having it."

"Are you surrrendering?"

"Does it matter, whether I go out with honor or not? My Action Card was for effect damage and the face-down is Graydle Split, which is equally useless in this situation. And with all those mistakes I made..."

"I see. Cyverse Wizard. Attack directly. (Jonny LP: 1600-1900=0)"

WINNER:Yusaku Fujiki

"DAMMIT!", I screamed, "Me and my stupid mistakes! If I had only-"

"Hey, don´t worry. You just don´t get to have an Adventure in an anime World.", Chihiro said, "You are still alive and have your friends. Live goes on. Just not in Arc-V."

"He´s right, Jonny.", Mike said, "You made some mistakes during the duel, but didn´t you say something about Yusaku not being immune to misplays either?
And as Chihiro/Emmanuel said, we didn´t really lose anything. We still have us. And an entire life. It just went back on its original path."

"Yeah, don´t be glum about it. At least we had an amazing duel before it ended. I never had any kind of game that was this exciting.", Cathy added.

"And to be fair, you really couldn´t have predicted Decode Talker.", Mayoi said, "Too bad, WE will forget about this. Unless the loss is only temporary, just like Yusaku predicted. Why was that again?"

"You´ll find out in case our do memories actually do return.", he just said.

"But if we meet again, and I have my awesome body back, We should duel again! But in a huge tag duel with everyone playing at once! And you want to see our version of Yuya as well, right?", Ignis said.

"That would be at crazy duel. But it would be a lot of fun. Thanks everyone.", I said.

"Have you forgotten about me?", Valia said.

"Oh, so you did soften up and all those tears were for nothing?", Ignis asked. His wording is a mood killer, but he sounded hopeful, which was nice of him in a weird way.

"No. You will have to return, now.", Valia answered.

"Not even some last moment to say goodbye to the people from Standard?", Cathy asked.

"No.", Valia answered.

"But there´s one request I have to make!", Mike barged in, "At least let us keep the decks when we return! And the memories! Please!"

"Fine, your decks will appear next to you when you return. Looks like I softened up after all, just in a different way than expected."

"In that case, goodbye, until the day we meet again.", Cathy and Mike said their goodbyes as well and we all stepped trough the Portal.

-the End-

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AN: And here we have the Special, which depending on Arc-VRAINS´ success it could be the first of many, but before I explains that, I´ll give you a small speech and as I usually do in Arc-VRAINS, talk about my writing decisions.
It was a few years Ago that I found this side, ironically it wasn´t my Intention to look for great fanfics, I was searching for fanmade cards for Eita Kyuando´s Quiz archetype, because I found it to be a very interesting one. While looking for it, I stumbled over a three-shot fanfiction called Q,Q,Q!, written by Kim-Chang-Ra, which was the first fic I read on this site,
at that time, as I was young and just looking for nice duels to read, the first fanfic that interested me beyond that was Dragonfanatic10s Secret of Summoning, unfortunately this is deleted. Brandon Kanbara, the OC-main character was called Gary-Stu by a reviewer, but at that time I,
A. Didn´t know what that was and B. He was cool enough for me, my point is that this was the author who kept me on this site.
Now, from rephrasing the special thanks section from my profile to something a little bit different, I want to mention the 3 biggest influences on my writing style:

1. OPFan37, there is no secret in that, I even use an archetype from Arc-VOC and my fanfics have similar concepts to that one.

2. NoxisZero, I wasn´t an avid Reader of Fighting for our Future, but your Author´s note from Chapter 10 really spoke to me and it is the reason why I never bothered following the canon VRAINS storyline for Arc-VRAINS. I hope one day, you will be able to continue writing your story, if you are still around here.

3. nightshroud96, maybe you are in the minority with your opinion on the 4 dimensional Dragons, but you have given me interesting ideas, that I will use in my own story. I hope you find the courage and motivation to write your own story one day.

And for the final part of the speech, a small "Ode to fanfiction", because all the great fanfics I´ve Read on Yu-Gi-Oh! are the reason why this is my No.1 favorite Franchise. And it´s just fun to see all these stories, that for one reason or another never would be Official.
And to thank a specific writer, Indecisive-san, your fanfic has taught, no convinced me not to judge books by their cover, because while Rule 63 (don´t confuse it with 34) might throw of a lot people, me being one of those, I still really like your story, and while I was sceptical of Arc-VOCs concept as well, this is on a different Level of "Did expect bad, but I liked it after all"
Maybe it´s too small for some people, but I didn´t want to drag it out forever, but before I talk about my writing, Special mentions go to ThatLoneAvenger and CorrinetheAnime, my 2 short-term Beta-Readers, Unknowedz, the most frequent reviewer of my story as well as
SSJGamerYT, Nowe712, darkblade2814 and dinosaurdactyl, the four people that both followed and favorited my old story, It wasn´t a good one in my eyes, but I hope this send-off satisfies you.

Now to my writing, why did I choose the WRGP System? Writing a 3v3 duel would be even more complicated and I wanted to get this out on the 27th or 28th of March, the day I published Arc-VRAINS, or last updated Sudden Adventure, for anniversary reasons; and while my duels can be complex, I actually write these scripts in the same breath as the chapter itself, of course I do know who I let win beforehand, and a few cards that will appear, but Writing it spontaneously is more fun to me. Not that I don´t put some effort in my story
And just aside, Artifact Fingis is an OC card featured in Sudden Adventure, named after Latin for "you imagine" and I thought, "Hey, why not create an Anti-Battle Damage counterpart of it?", and so Artifact Imago was created, named after the latin Word for Idea, sorry for not having a 100% accurate meta-deck reconstruction.
And you might come to realize that some cards didn´t work in this duel like they do in the anime or real life, that´s because I modified their effects for my fanfics, not all of them because I think they should be better or have a restriction.
Plus, I should tell you that in my Arc-VRAINS, Yusaku has received Link Monsters in a different order.
And since I said that I like to improvise, yes the Action Card Tug-o-war between Jonny and Yusaku was 100% improvised, so were his misplays in the final moments. Maybe I should have gone those few steps and edit them out, but I was putting myself trough the stress of getting it out on a certain date for once, though I probably won´t repeat that ever again, including for the other special duels.
Cathy´s collapsing was something that was vaguely hinted at in Sudden Adventure, which would have lead to her encountering one of the three people (as they were initially supposed to be) that brought them into Arc-V, while she was unconcious, I know I couldn´t bring every idea that was floating around in my head at some point during the active time of Sudden Adventure into this one-shot, but I somehow wanted to bring this one into it, even if it didn´t turn out to be some brilliant deconstruction of Action Dueling´s physical requirements.
Before I go over the whole multiple Specials thing, here are ideas that very well could have been used in Sudden Adventure, had it gone on longer:

-at least one of those three beings would play a Tramid deck, another one a Cubic deck, I can´t remember what the 3rd would have gotten. Each would have been encountered in a moment of danger

-being eliminated from the Championships before the city-wide Battle Royal started, they would have been part of a Special force, that should intervene once the Obelisk Force attacked, they would have gained the following new decks: Jonny-Nekroz, Cathy-Tellarknights Mike-Shaddols

-they would have had dimensional counterparts, with the Fusion Counterparts playing Pepe decks, those counterparts also had absorbed the Synchro and Xyz one, before the beginning of the story

-Academia in general would have had acces to some really OP anime cards, like Nibelings Treasure

-The Lancers would be a way bigger team, with the following ones added: Mieru, Michio, Teppei, Hikage and Eita, of Course the people who were carded in Canon would have been saved. Eita would have been curious about the dissappearing feeds and have gone to verify the situation on his own during the battle Royal

-We would have had a duel of: Cathy´s and Mike´ s and Fusion Counterpart, vs Cathy, Mike, Eita and Mieru

-Jonny would have intruded in the same duel as Yugo

-the fusion counterparts would have had ways to teleport the originals to their location, in which they would force the counterpart to duel them so they could absorb them more easily.

-During the Synchro Arc, Team Taiyou would have appeared, using Random mish-mash decks, Taro would have dueled Cathyy using a combination of the anime card, Equivalent Exchange and Flower Stacking to destroy her deck

-During the Synchro Invasion, the trio would have tried to free the tournament losers that were sent underground

-Jonny would have dueled and lost against his Fusion Counterpart, the absorbtion would have sent him on a rampage, but in a 1 vs Multiple duel against the other Lancers, Hikage would have used a Ninjitsu card to giva a ninja the combined ATK of all monsters on the field, defeating him with over 10000 damage, causing him to split back into four, our group might have exploited this concept to split Yuto and Yuya

-The Xyz and Synchro counterparts would have intruded in the Yuri vs Yugo duel, with Xyz quickly summoning Castell the Skyblaster Musketeer to get Starve Venom of the field (kinda like what Kaito and Edo did, but actually going against the enemy) and stop them from becoming one.

-In the Xyz Arc, we would have found out there is another faction going up against Academia, with Yugi, Kaiba and Joey being part of that.

-the ceremonial duel would have been: Yuzu, Yuya and Gongenzaka vs Jonny, Mike and Cathy; though I´m not quite sure, whehter I would have reused the WRGP style for that.

Maybe you think these ideas are stupid, but If you like some of them, sure you can write reboot of Sudden Adventure, just PM me about it.
I won´t reboot it myself; If I were to write another fanfic besides Arc-VRAINS, it would probably be a Danganronpa fanfiction and my next
Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic will be the Sequel to Arc-VRAINS. Yes, when I finish it, I will give it a Sequel! It won´t be the most obvious kind of Sequel however.
Oh, and after this chapter you will find a sheet of all OC-cards and changed card effects, I Can at least do that much for you.
And I should tell you, that while I mostly use the TCG translations, if a fan translation is what I first used in a story (like Cyverse) or what I remember better (like Avoid) then that will be what I use for the fanfic.

Now, let´s start with the "Why?" of me doing multiple Specials, the reasons are not completely simple, but they are:

-Getting more Reviews for Arc-VRAINS. Sounds like I´m just craving online fame , but If I get it, I do want to be deserving of it. Many people probably won´t even see my story, because it is only shown in the Crossover section, resulting in fewer reviews, so having a pure VRAINS fic as my special would give it a Little more exposure.
And I can hardly improve my story if only a few people are telling me their opinion on it. Also, I will be spending 1/3 of my time I use for writing, on the actual chapters, Fixing older chapters, and making plans for the future of it after releasing chapter 15, I´m no Hypocrite after all-
And I´m gonna pick up the Search for a for a Beta-Reader again.

-I like writing duels, it´s the best part of Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfiction. The Specials don´t restrict me to what´s going on in my story, thus allowing me to do something different than usual.

-To celebrate my achievements. Recently, three different fanfics writers, Romadrox8975, and then the Sky, so maybe I´m better than I think. While having to huge of an ego is definetly not going to Help me as a writer, I don´t want to consider myself a piece of garbage either.

Now to the "When?" off the other Special chapters. I will release after a certain Milestone, which will be:
100 Reviews, 100 Favorites, 100 Followers, and 10000 views (I currently have 13,496 views, so the Next one will be at 20000) and for each anniversary, but I will not pressure myself again to release it on the exact date. And I might post an additional one for special occasions and
I´m not gonna goof around with those (except once, but I promise I will keep it at that) as well as two others for the ending of Arc-VRAINS, one being a duel which I unfortunately couldn´t make happen in my story´s canon, and a 6v6 duel, whose contestants will be kept secret until the release.

And finally to "Who?" and "What?", these will be the duels you can expect at each Milestone:

At the next anniversary: The othe three OCs from Sudden Adventure, Ibuki Ichiyanagi (who netdecks the yugituber Alikaey´s Solitaire. dek ), Shota Hanamura (who uses Super Quantums) and Yasuhiro Kirifuda (Who uses the Ryozanpaku Star theme, but broken) vs Futaba Miyabino (a Charisma Duelist with an even stronger HorReaper deck.) Yuya (telling you why he isn´t in this Special, would be spoilery) and Roget (Yes, he´s in Arc-VRAINS too, it´s not a spoiler, because I openly confirmed it when a reviewer was asking me)
(I will reserve the WRGP style duels for the anniversaries.)

When I reach 100 Reviews: Hotaru (Who is the original user of HorReapers from Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-VOC) vs Mayoi.

for the next 20000 views, there will be a Tag duel between the canon versions of Spectre and Emma vs their Arc-VRAINS version.

for 100 Follows: Chihiro in a Battle Royal with other fanfic characters that use the Sea Scales archetype, currently, there is Ibuki Ichiyanagi (Sorry for him having the same name as that one OC from Sudden Adventure) from Signs of Renewal and All/Nothing from OPFan37´s Cross-VRAINS

For 100 Favorites: Ruri (the version from Donjusticia´s Signs of Renewal) and Yoruno Genryu(from Indecisive-san´s Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V:Hidden Power) in a Tag Duel against Yuto and Futaba from Arc-VRAINS.

As a Special Occasion, and the only time, I´ll use it lightly: Yuri vs Valentine (From Valentine Uchu´s Arc V Shipping collection) I will try to release it on Valentine´s day, so I will write it some time beforehand

You may ask, why are almost all of them containing OCs from other authors? Because A. They let me.
B. It´s a (probably unique) way to say thank you to them for their awesome stories.
C. Emma and Spectre at this point in my story have a different deck that in Canon (Emma having her first duel in the upcoming Chapter 15) unlike other characters and
D. I don´t want any matches to happen in here that are physically possible in Arc-VRAINS, and that includes the canon cast of Arc-V apart from Roget and the Yu-boys(the one Ruri is not the same as in canon), even if the chances for that are very low.

Last, but not least, as with Arc-VRAINS, there will be QOTCs, and for the specials there will always be three:

QOTC1: How many Specials will there be? My personal guess is seven, but what do you think?

QOTC2: Did you expect the Outcome of this duel?

QOTC3: Which of the announced specials are you the most interested in?

PS: I will notify every person I mentioned in this chapter of its release.

To the OC-stuff in Arc-VRAINS: (HorReaper Support in italics was created by me, otherwise by OPFan37)

HorReaper CrimiNail

Level 4, Dark, Fiend, Fusion, Effect

Type:Fiend

ATK:1800

DEF:400

Materials: 2 HorReaper monsters

Effect:

Once per turn, you can banish one HorReaper Monster to inflict 800 Points of damage to your Opponent.

HorReaper KnighTrap

Level 4, Fiend, Dark, Effect

ATK: 1400 DEF: 1300

If this card is sent to the graveyard without destruction, destroy one spell and trap card on your opponents field.

Horrible Fusion

Horrible Fusion:

Normal Spell

Fusion Summon one "HorReaper" Monster from your Extra deck using monsters from your Hand or field as Fusion materials. You can banish this Card from your graveyard to Fusion summon one HorReaper Monster from your extra deck, using Monsters on your field as materials

HorReaper MadMace

Level 4, Dark, Fiend, Effect

ATK:1800

DEF:1200

If this card is sent to the GY without being destroyed, target one HorReaper monster you Control; it gains the ability to deal piercing damage.

HorReaper AmnesiManiac

Level 2, Dark, Fiend, Effect

ATK/DEF:?

This card gains 100 ATK for every banished HorReaper card and 100 DEF for every Horrible card in the graveyard. If this card is sent to the graveyard without destruction, negate the effects of 1 face-up card.

HorReaper BeserKatana

Level 5 Dark Fiend

ATK:1900 DEF:1700

Fusion Materials: 2 HorReaper Monsters

When this Card destroys a Monster by battle, you can banish one HorReaper from your graveyard ;this Card can attack again

Horrible Brutality

Quick-Play spell

This turn, double the ATK of every HorReaper Monster you Control, but banish all Monsters affected by this card effect at the end of this turn.

HorReaper GravediGloves

Level 4, Dark, Fiend, Effect

ATK:1400 DEF: 1300

Once per turn, you can discard one card to special summon two HorReaper tokens (Level 1, Fiend, Dark, ATK/DEF:0), they cannot be tributed for a tribute summon,

HorReaper PitchFreak

Level 4, Fiend, Dark, Effect

ATK: 1700 DEF: 600

If you control a HorReaper Monster you can special summon this card from your hand. If this card is summoned, send HorReaper or Horrible card from you deck to the graveyard.

Katastrofusion

Normal Spell Card

(this Card is always treated as "Horrible" Card)
Fusion Summon a "HorReaper" Fusion Monster by banishing Fusion Materials from your field or graveyard. You can banish this Card from your graveyard to Fusion Summon a "HorReaper" Fusion Monster, by banishing materials from your graveyard.

HorReaper ResurrecTalon

Dark, Link, Fiend, Effect

ATK:666

Marker: Bottom-left

Material: 1 "HorReaper"-Fusion Monster
Effect:
If this Card is succesfully Link summoned Special summon it´s Link Materials Fusion Materials, from your Graveyard or your banished Zone.
You cannot Fusion summon a Monster with that number of Fusion materials during this turn.
If this Cards summon is negated Special summon it´s link material from your graveyard, also your opponent cannot use the Card that negated this Cards summon for the rest of the duel.

HorReaper VirgIron:

Level 6, Dark, Fiend, Fusion, Effect

ATK:2500

DEF:1900

Materials: 3 HorReaper monsters

Effect:

When this Card is Fusion summoned, you can banish any number of "HorReaper" monsters from your Graveyard; inflict damage to your Opponent equal to the number of Monsters times 500.

Last 1

Action Spell

If a players life points woud become zero, they become 1 instead

Discard

Action Spell

Discard one Random card from your opponents hand

HorReaper CronuScythe

Level 7, Fiend, Dark, Fusion, Effect

ATK:2200 DEF:2000

Material: 3 HorReaper Monsters

When this card is fusion summoned successfully, you can banish a number of HorReaper Monsters from your graveyard to destroy that number of cards -1

Double Potion

Action Spell

Two players of your choice gain 800 Life Points

Tidal Loss

Normal Spell

Banish two Sea Scales Monsters from your deck.

Sea Scales Sage

Level 1, Sea Serpent, Water, Effect

ATK:150 DEF:150

If this card is banished alongside all cards you control; banish a card on the field face-down.

Sea Scales Amazoness

Level 1, Water, Sea Serpent, Effect

ATK: 2600 DEF: 2600

When this Card is summoned or flipped face-up; banish all Card you Control

Sea Scales Sagess

Sea Scales Sagess

Level 1, Water, Sea Serpent, Effect

ATK/DEF: 50

You can banish all cards you control (min 2)and if you do, choose any card from your deck and put it on top of your deck. If you have a banished Sea Scales or Tidal card you can special summon this card from your hand

Birth of the Tidal Dragon

Ritual Spell

Return from your banished Zone, Sea Scales Monsters whose number is equal to the Level of a Sea Scales Ritual Monster from your deck or banished Zone to ritual summons that Monster.
If a Sea Scales Monster or Tidal Card you Control (face-down Card can be revealed), would leave the field without being banished, while you Control a Sea Scales Link and Ritual Monster, you can banish this Card from your graveyard face-down instead

Restauration of Rites

Normal Spell

Add one Ritual Spell from your graveyard or your banished cards to your hand

Sea Scales Ritual Dragon

Level 2, Water, Sea Serpent, Ritual, Effect

ATK: 1600 DEF: 3400

This Card must first be special summoned by the effect of Birth of the Tidal Dragon or Sea Scales Link Dragon. When this Card is Ritual Summoned; immediately after this effect resolves, Link summon Sea Scales Link Dragon from your extra deck, using this Card as link material. You can decrease the life Points of your opponent by the number of Card that were banished this turn times 450; this effect can only be used once during your turn.
During your opponents turn, if your Opponent activates a spell trap, or a Monsters effect, you can banish all Cards you Control and if you controlled Sea Scales Link Dragon when this effect was activated that Cards activation and all of its effects are negated and the Card is banished face-down.
Sea Scales Link Dragon cannot be destroyed by battle and you take no battle damage from battles involving it.

Sea Scales Link Dragon

Link 1 , Water, Sea Serpent, Link, Effect

ATK: 1600

Marker: Down

Material: Sea Scales Ritual Dragon

When this Card is Link Summoned, you can Special summon its Link material back to the field to a zone this card points to. If this card alongside Sea Scales Ritual Dragon is banished, you can send this Card back to your extra deck instead, place immediately all Cards that left the field back on the field after they do so. If your opponets would lose life Points while you Control Sea Scales Ritual Dragon you gain that many life Points.
Sea Scales Ritual Dragon cannot be destroyed by battle while it is in defense Position and you take no piercing damage from battles involving it.

OC stuff not yet in Arc-VRAINS

Mini Push

Action Spell

One monster you Control gains 100 ATK and battle damage it deals cannot be avoided

Artifact Fingis

Level 5, Light, Fairy, Effect

ATK/DEF:1900

You Can set this card as a spell in your spell/trap zone, if this card in your spell/trap zone is destroyed, special summon it from your graveyard. If this card is special summoned during your opponents turn, you take no effect damage for the rest of the turn.

Fragile Rebirth

Normal Spell

Special summon one monster from your graveyard, but destroy it, if it activates an effect.

Lock out

Action Spell

Target one monster on the field, It cannot use its effect in Response to this card and cannot use them for the rest of this turn.

Tidal Resurface

Normal Spell

Choose two banished Sea Scales Monsters, place on in a possible monster zone on your field and special summon the other

Artifact Imago

Level 5, Light, Fairy, Effect

ATK/DEF:1400

You Can set this card as a spell in your spell/trap zone, if this card in your spell/trap zone is destroyed, special summon it from your graveyard. If this card is special summoned during your opponents turn, you take no battle damage for the rest of the turn. If you special summon an Artifact Monster,(Quick-effect) you Can special summon this card from your hand.

Tidal Last Stand

Normal Spell

Shuffle up to three banished Sea Scales or Tidal cards into your deck to draw that many cards.

Sea Scales Saviour

Level 1,Water, Sea Serpent, Effect

ATK/DEF:1000

If this card leaves the field, banish it. If this card is banished, you Can Add either player´s face-down banished cards to the hand.

Kaiju Trap Hole

Normal Trap

If your opponent controls a Kaiju; All Kaiju-monsters they Control lose all of their ATK and they cannot use their effects. If your opponent is the original owner of a Kaiju on the field when you activate this card, you Can place once Kaiju spell/trap card from your deck face-up on the field and put a Kaiju Counter on every card on the field they can be placed on.

Cracked Stone

Action Spell

If a cards destruction was prevented, destroy it, this destruction cannot be avoided.

Double Draw

Action Spell

Two players of your Choice draw 2 cards

Counter Overflow

Quick-play spell

Target one card with Counters you Control, double the amount of each type of Counters it has.

Power Lance

Action Spell

Your Monsters can deal piercing damage this turn

Fanfic effect changes:

The Prime Monarch

Revival is a quick-effect

Card of Sanctity

Like IRL, but banishes from the graveyard too

Solemn Strike

You pay 800 life points

Kyoutou Waterfront

Doesn´t matter from where a card is sent

Kaiju Files

You only don´t gain a Counter from Flip- or Normal summoning Kaiju monsters

Firewall Dragon

Can return anything to the hand, and linked monsters Can leave the field in any way to trigger the 2nd effect

Castle Link

First effect Can only affect the Extra Monster zone, but the 2nd effect Can affect any 2 Link Monsters on the same players field

Aurora Draw

Doesn´t need a Meklord on the field