Chapter 1: A strange Traveler
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Light shone from above as I walked through the streets. This place was different, different from the pristine front of this city, and different from my home too.
I wasn't sure how I knew that, I just had the feeling that it was different. The buildings were run down and garages were broken open, appearing as if this was a slum but I knew that there was a far worse place, the true slums.
The throbbing in my right forearm had made me go here, it was a pressure to go here that I followed, since I didn't know anything else and I felt as if I had to be here. I come upon a large plaza where duels took place but my eyes widened as I saw it. A woman clad in a dark, long coat was standing before a burning ocean of flames, a huge dragon seemingly made of black plants with red, petal like wings covering it's wings and the back of it's neck.
One of the vines on the dragon lashed out toward the defenseless duelist facing her and before I knew what I did a card landed on my Duel-Disk. "Negate attack!" Shouted my body before the attack was blocked by the trap I hastily had thrown in, in a manner that was definitely not considered according to the rules. I skidded to a halt before the duelist who had collapsed by this time.
"Get out of my way girl, or do you wish to end like that moron?" Asked the woman who wore a complicated looking, white porcelain mask on her face and a Duel-Disk in whinered on her arm.
"I won't let you hurt him more! Duel Monsters is a game that is meant to make fun! Not to to hurt other people!" I protested, Duel monsters, that I just felt, was extremely important to me, but it was also important on a different way than just what I felt, it was all I had.
"Does that mean you would even challenge me, the Black Rose? How foolish of you kid." Stated the woman arrogantly, shuffling her deck, not letting her decline.
"I am not just a kid, because I am gonna kick your ass!" I declared angrily, activating the Duel-Disk on my arm which extended a energy-field for my cards and opened up for my deck.
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Neutral POV
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Duel: ? vs. Black Rose Witch
8000 LP / 8000 LP
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"Duel!" Shouted the two duelists after drawing five cards each.
"I begin!" Announced the self proclaimed witch, drawing a sixth card.
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BRW: 8000 LP, 6 cards
Turn 1
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"I start out easy, I summon one card in face-down defense-mode and set two cards face-down, your turn." Declared the hooded woman and the girl frowned.
"Alright, I draw!" She announced, drawing her own sixth card.
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Turn 2
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"I begin by activating Pot of Greed! This allows me to draw two additional cards!" Declared the girl before drawing her cards, having stuck the card into a slot at the back of her card holder. "Good, it's time I show you a advanced summoning method you surely don't know!" Declared the girl, holding up two cards. "The Pendulum swings, hearts are connected by it and so shall the powers of thy my trusty monsters! I play into the Pendulum Zone: Qliphort Stealth with Scale 1 and Qliphort Scout with Scale 9!" She declared and a pair of pillars of light appeared behind her and two monsters raised into the air there.
"What kind of nonsense is that? And what do you want to do with this?" Asked the masked woman confused, she never saw something like this before in her life.
"Simple, now with the scales set I can Pendulum Summon any number of monsters from my Hand or Pendulum monsters laying face-up on my Extra Deck, so now I Pendulum Summon Qliphort Cephalopod and Qliphort Shell in attack mode!" She declared and two monsters appeared out of a sparkling portal above her and between the pillars.
Both monsters appeared to be some kind of seashells, rather large ones at that and were floating in front of their mistress. (Qliphort Shell, Earth/Machine, Level 4, 2800 → 1800 → 2100 Atk/1000 Def.) (Qliphort Cephalopod, Earth/Machine, Level 7, 2800 → 1800 → 2100 Atk/1000 Def) Since they were Special Summoned their levels are reduced to four and their Attack Points to 1800, but that is a small set-back since I my Qliphort Stealth has the Pendulum Effect to make all my monsters gain 300 Attack Points." Explained the girl and the 'Witch' frowned, not understanding what that meant.
"Next I activate the Pendulum Effect of Qliphort Stealth, I can do this since he is in the Pendulum Zone. By paying 800 Life Points I can add 1 monster of the Qli-Archetype to my hand and I decided to add 1 Qliphort Stealth." Explained the girl, adding the monster to her hand.
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"Now I Normal Summon him by sacrificing Qliphort Shell and Qliphort Cephalopod!" Declared the girl and a transparent monster with a airjet like form and a golden piece in the middle that was visible appeared before her. (Qliphort Stealth, Earth/Machine, Level: 8, 2800 → 3100 Atk/1000 Def.)
"I now activate the effect of Qliphort Stealth: If he is summoned by sacrificing a Qli-Archetype monster I can return 1 card to the hand of it's owner, so say good-bye to your face-down monster!" Declared the girl and the witch cursed under her breath, she was defenseless now. "Now direct attack against her Life Points!" Declared the girl and didn't see the older womans smirk.
"I activate my trap card! Mirror Force!" Shouted the self proclaimed 'Witch' before the infamous counter trap revealed itself. "If my opponent declares an attack I can target the monster and then destroy all monsters in open attack position on his side of the field!" The beam that was shot from the monsters hit the transparents shield of Mirror Force, which threw it back and destroyed the mighty monster.
"Since my Pendulum Zone monsters are treated as Spell Cards for the moment they weren't destroyed. Furthermore, when a Pendulum monster leaves the field it is moved to the top of the Extra Deck instead of being send to the Graveyard." Explained the girl while putting the monster there as well.
"So that did you mean back then, but still, they won't get past my next monster." Declared the 'Witch' while her opponent frowned.
"The game is only over after the last card is played, I set one card face down and end my turn." Explained the girl while putting down a card and end my turn." Explained the girl and before her appeared a face-down card.
"Very well, my turn!" Shouted the witch, drawing another card.
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BRW: 8000 LP, 5 cards
Turn 3
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"I summon Twilight Rose Knight in attack mode!" Announced the young woman and before her appeared a small, light blue haired woman with a dark purple armor, sword and white cape. (Twilight Rose Knight, Dark/Warrior/Tuner, Level: 3, 1000 Atk/1000 Def.)
"Through his effect I Special Summon my Mystic Tomato as well!" Declared the woman and the plant monster appeared next. (Mystic Tomato, Dark/Plant, Level 4, 1400 Atk/1100 Def.) "And now I shall show you the true horror of facing me! I tune in my Mystic Tomato level four with my level three Twilight Rose Knight to to Synchro Summon my mightiest monster!" Declared the witch as her two monster went to work.
Her knight turned into three stars that proceeded to form green, ring like gates through whom her tomato flew. It turned transparent and four stars were visible before they aligned in a row. "Loneliness fuels the flame, black rose rises into bloom, the darkness shall smithen all those who opose us! Synchro Summon!" Shouted the witch and flames crashed from the pillar of light nearly scorching her opponent.
"Level seven! Black Rose Dragon!" She declared and the gigantic dragon appeared behind it's mistress out of the pillar, spreading it's wings before giving a roar to the heavens. (Black Rose Dragon, Fire/Dragon, Level: 7, 2400 Atk/1800 Def.) "And now my dragon destroy her! Direct attack!" Shouted the 'witch', not bothering to activate her dragons effect since that would be a waste anyway.
"You are not the only one with a trap! I activate Negate Attack! And once more it will stop your dragons rampage!" Shouted the girl, the blue cap she wore flying off from her head as the flames hit the protective barrier before her which stopped the attack instantly. "And now your Battle Phase is over as well, so what do you do?" Asked the girl and her opponent frowned, that was surprising.
"I end my turn, even if you resurrect those weaklings their own effect won't let you defeat my dragon." Commented the witch and gave over the turn.
"Alright, but don't you complain about this, Draw!" She shouted and drew her card.
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Turn 4
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"Perfect! I activate the Pendulums power! I Pendulum Summon Qliphort Shell, Qliphort Cephalopod, Qliphort Stealth and from my hand Qliphort Monolith!" Announced the girl and the four monsters appeared, but with one of them being not normal.
(Qliphort Monolith, Eart/Machine, Level 5, 2400 → 2700 Atk/1000 Def.) Her eyes widened as she saw that, she just summoned four monsters that, together, could cause her masses of damage! "And next I think I should show you my own advanced summoning!" Declared the girl and a portal looking like a galaxy appeared before her.
"The powers of my Level 4 Qliphort Shell and Qliphort Cephalopod unite and bring forth the force from beyond a black hole! Built the road and open the gate to the Overlay Network!" She announced as Qliphort Shell and Qliphort Cephalopod vanished into the portal. "Rank 4! Number 39: Utopia!" Announced the girl and a explosion blinded the witch for a moment.
As she could see again a new monster had taken the place of the first two, a tall humanoid with a gold and white body and the letter 39 on it's chest as well as wide wings while two spheres of light orbited the monster apparently like satellites. (Number 39: Utopia, Light/Warrior/Xyz, Rank 4, 2500 → 2800 Atk/2000 Def.)
"But I am not yet finished, I have another monster waiting to appear! Utopia! Open again the gate and bring forth power of chaos Xyz!" Announced the girl as another portal appeared and her monster vanished into it. "Chaos Evolution! Rank 4: Number C39: Utopia Ray!" Shouted the girl and from the portal appeared "Utopia" once again but now he was red colored and had had three instead of two spheres of light orbiting it. (Number C39: Utopia Ray, Light/Warrior/Xyz, Rank 4, 2600 → 2900 Atk/2000 Def.)
Now the witch was getting cold feet, this didn't sound good. "And next comes yet another special Xyz Summon, by discarding 1 Rank-Up-Magic card I can use 1 "Utopia" Xyz monster to Xyz Summon a much stronger dragon than yours!" She shouted, discarding a card from her hand while the monster disappeared, yet again, into a portal.
"Ninety ninth Number, take flight into destiny and open the last portal! Xyz Summon! Rank 10: Number 99: Utopic Dragon!" Shouted the girl and out of the portal appeared a large yellow dragon with silver armor and wings of yellow energy. Orbiting it were now four spheres of light instead of three. (Number 99: Utopic Dragon, Light/Dragon/Xyz, Rank 10, 4000 → 4300 Atk/2000 Def.)
"Damn." Cursed the woman as she saw how bad it was for her. Her dragon stood no chance at all and her Life Points little more in that regard. She looked at her face-down card, a card she couldn't use since her dragon wasn't a plant monster.
"Utopic Dragon! Show that gigantic rose who is the true dragon! Utopic Force Breath!" She declared and her dragon unleashed a golden flame that engulved the once feared dragon, destroying it in one go.
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BRW: 8000 → 6100 LP
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"Next is Qliphort Monolith! Direct Attack!" Shouted the girl and the monolith like monster shot a beam at her, making her flinch but it lacked the destructible power her monsters had.
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BRW: 6100 → 3400 LP
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She staggered back, she was down to less than half her Life Points and there was still something coming. "Qliphort Stealth! Direct attack!" She commanded again and another beam of destructive power lanced out, causing even more damage to her.
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BRW: 3400 → 1100 LP
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She flinched, now it was really annoying to her. "And with a face down card I end my turn." Explained the girl, setting the last card in her hand with this action.
"Alright, Draw!" She shouted, heavily sweating at the moment.
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BRW: 1100 LP, 4 cards
Turn 5
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"Yes! I activate Monster Reborn! This card allows me to bring back a monster from the Graveyard and I use it to Special Summon Black Rose Dragon!" She announced and her dragon appeared again behind her, triumphantly until it lay eyes on the opposition and it's owner could swear the dragon shrunk back at the glare.
"Your dragon can only destroy my weakest monster, what is he gonna do? Kill my Utopic Dragon with a thousand cuts?" Asked the girl with a quirked eyebrow, apparently not knowing the effect.
"Wrong, my dragon has a Special Effect! If he is Special Summoned I can destroy all cards on the field! And then I still have a Normal Summon! Go my dragon! Destroy her defenses with your rose tornado!" Shouted the 'witch' but frowned when her opponent smirked.
"I activate the counter effect of Number 99: Utopic Dragon! Once per turn I can negate the effect of a monster, spell or trap card by removing one Xyz Material, my dragon has four as of now. Oh, and the card get's destroyed, just saying." Smirked the girl as her dragon created a sphere of energy around himself before expanding it.
The sphere hit the tornado of black petals and they pushed against each other for a moment before the sphere overwhelmed the tonado, destroying it's origin. "No, Rose Dragon!" Shouted the woman, shock written all over her face as she saw how her last possible way to continue this duel was taken away from her. There was no way she could wither down the onslaught that was coming, she had only one high defense monster on her hand and no traps aside of the one on her field.
She also didn't have Pot of Greed, not even in her deck, and none of her monsters could stop the three 2000+ monsters from defeating her. It was a bitter realization, but she at least wouldn't go down without at least doing something. "I summon one face-down defense monster and end my turn." She said, placing the monster on her side of the field.
"Alright, my turn, draw!" Shouted the girl, initiating what both knew would be the last turn of this duel.
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Turn 6 (Last Turn)
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"Qlipthort Monolith! Destroy her face-down monster!" Commanded the girl and her monster shot it's laser, revealing Botanical Lion to be the face-down card but it's 2000 Defense Points didn't stand a chance. "Go Number 99: Utopic Dragon! End the duel with Flame of Utopia!" Commanded the girl and her dragon answered with a roar before breathing a bright flame from it's mouth, hitting the woman.
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BRW: 1100 → 0 LP
Duel Over
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As the flames died away due to the duel ending the two stood there fore a moment, starring at each other. "What are you waiting for? Laugh at me, you defeated me after all." Asked the the 'witch' now sounding much less aggressive, more subdued since losing in this manner.
"Why should I laugh at you? I am angry because you hurt someone but if you stop it you can do whatever you want. I have better things to do anyway than trying to 'befriend' you by means of 'superior firepower'. I mean, defeat doesn't mean friendship necessarily, right?" Asked the girl, her now revealed, long blonde hair a stark contrast to her outfit.
Her opponent frowned, the behavior was just... strange. Her clothes weren't normal either, she wore a blue pair of dungarees, a white t-shirt, yellow sneakers and a toolbelt around her waist. The blue cappi had held her hair in it, being rather large and her Duel-Disk was a small, portable computer-like device on her arm able to produce a strange energy field.
"And what exactly would be so important?" Asked the witch, deciding it would be better to find out what the motif of this girl was who had those strange but powerful cards.
She turned to her, her greenish blue eyes not betraying a joke, before answering: "Regaining my memories." That stunned the woman as the girl seemed frown. "But why did I have this feeling I should go here? Now it's gone and I still don't have answers." Muttered the girl while her opponent couldn't help but wonder what that meant, did a amnesiac just beat her in a duel, like a noob?
"Are you trying to tell me you have Amnesia? How do you duel then?" Asked the self proclaimed witch despite herself, she was rather shocked to hearing that the girl that curbstomped her strongest monster, twice no less, had amnesia, therefore she lost her memories.
"Uh, yeah? I know everything necessary, ask me something about Duel Monsters, I know it. But about myself? I only know my name is Hikari, Hikari Naxyz. Everything else is blank." She explained, not bothering to hide her name from the woman before her who seemed content with just standing there, she had her own pride and honor, she wouldn't attack.
"I see, and still you stepped in to protect this mongrel? Just so?" Asked the witch and Hikari frowned at her, which didn't look menacing at all.
"Just so? If I am not mistaken you were somehow doing actual damage with a hologram! What was that anyway? A Shadow Duel?" Asked Hikari less than enthusiastic about this, making her opponent blink for a moment.
"You don't know what a psychic duel is? Seems your really just a child." Commented the witch and Hikari narrowed her eyes, huffing.
"Yeah? And you are just a teenager!" Accused the girl, pointing her finger at the opponent who blinked, that was a new insult.
"Well, anyway. Take this, as a kind of prize for defeating me but don't make any illusions, next time we duel you will lose." Explained the woman, throwing a card toward the girl who blinked, wondering about this but she already resummoned her dragon and flew, literally, away on it.
"Well, that was cool." Commented Hikari as she looked down onto the card. Twilight Rose Knight, a level three Tuner. "Why do I get the feeling that I will meet her again?" Muttered Hikari as she flipped the card over, then she noticed something: On the back of the card was a name written in Katakana. "Akiza Izinski? Is that her name?" Asked Hikari before shaking her head.
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While Hikari left the scene after making sure the man was alright, Akiza stood atop a nearby building, observing her. "Sayer-sama, did you receive the data from the duel?" Asked Akiza, speaking into a telephone she had.
"Yes I did, this girl intrigues me. Good idea to give her the card with the GPS transmitter." Answered the man on the other side of the link, he sat in what appeared to be a control room of some sort and had been observing the entire duel from there.
"I doubt though that she is a Psychic duelist, if she had any powers her amnesia would have made them uncontrollable." Remarked Akiza as she starred after the girl who looked around as if trying to decide where to go. She blinked as she saw her flinch through the binoculars she used before turning around and running. "Sayer-sama, do you have any idea what is going on?" Asked Akiza confused since this was a most confusing behavior.
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Elsewhere
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While the Arcadia Movement was investigating this most strangest of duelists so did also another faction in the city. "Director Goodwyn! Just now the Ener-D reactor was nearly overheating! More than ten times the amount of energy that mister Atlas would produce with his Red Dragon Archfiend!" Shouted a over excited scientist over the video link to the cities mayor.
"I think I know what card did it. I send you the time of when it clashed with a Signer Dragon, tell me if it is the same time." Instructed the man while he had one of the Tag-Team duel, flying eyes follow her discreetly.
"It- it is the same time! Whatever happened there, it was a monster with much more power than the dragon of a Signer!" Reported the overexcited man, getting closer to the camera than was actually necessary.
"I see, then it isn't a Signer Dragon but something else. Sigzix, I will send you the Duel-Disk signature, monitor any duel that is done with it." Ordered Goodwyn before closing the connection to the, probably, mad scientist.
"Mister Goodwyn, shall I send someone after her to find out whether she is a Signer or not?" Asked his right-hand-man, Lazar, bowing with his usual smirk on his face.
"Not yet, let us see where she goes." Answered the man and leaned back, seeing as how she was approaching a certain garage.
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Hikari walked up to a rather old looking D-Wheel in green, she was surprised as it appeared only slightly damaged but rusty.
"Hey kid, what are you doing there?" Asked a voice behind her and as she turned around she found a man with short, brown hair with a white t-shirt and green jacket over it standing there.
"Is that your D-Wheel mister?" Asked Hikari curiously, surprising the man.
"Yes, but I don't use it anymore. Why do you ask?" Asked the man confused about all this, what would the girl want from it anyway?
"Could I have it? I have the feeling that I could need it later." Answered Hikari, she wasn't lying anyway, it was her honest feeling that made her come here in the first place, just like the feeling that made her come and ultimately duel the Black Rose Witch, or Akiza as she now supposed that she was named.
"Yeah? How old are you kid? And do your parents know that you are out here?" Asked the man, leaning slightly against a nearby wall in a relaxed manner.
"Don't know, and I don't even know if I have parents." Answered Hikari truthfully making the man blink in confusion but she already knelled down to investigate the damage from time and what she assumed was a mild crash.
"Kid, are you saying you have amnesia but you want to repair a D-Wheel? That is crazy." Stated the man, not sounding scolding, more concerned as he went over to her.
"I can't remember anything about myself but I am sure I was good at mechanics, at least I think so. I can tell you each and every part from memory if I wanted to and how to improve them. Honestly said, I think I could even combine it with my Duel Disk instead of this hard disk version there." She stated, pointing to the still installed Duel Disk part of the motorcycle.
He frowned at her but sighed, he couldn't feel any lies from the girl, he doubted she was a good liar to start with. "Name's Blister, if you want you can stay over at my apartment for the moment. The D-Wheel, you can have it but make sure you make it properly." Stated the man and she grinned a 10 Terrawatt smile at him.
"You got it Blister-san!" She said before standing up, punching her right fist into her left hand in determination and the adult male sighed, going over what replacement parts he had for that thing, she would need a lot of scrap metal to change the chassi, so much was sure. The motor was fine, though he supposed he could help her built a better one.
Damn that soft spot for little children he had.
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Hikari found herself a rather strange wanderer. Half the time she spent outside the apartment in whom she for now lived with Blister in was spent working on the D-Wheel, the rest on wandering rather aimlessly around and finding parts or cards.
This was another of her aimless wanderings. She had somehow found her way to the tops area of the city, those really high built areas where the truly rich were living. Hikari hadn't dueled for some time now, her steps hadn't brought her to any particular duels.
As she was just about to turn a corner she run into someone, falling onto the person who gave a grunt of pain. "Leo are you alright?" Asked a voice and as Hikari sat up she found herself starring at a pair of children around her own height, probably her age as well.
"Yeah, hey watch where you're going!" Complained the one she had run into, a boy she realized from his voice. He also wore a light blue jacket over a darker blue t-shirt. His apparent twin sister on the other hand wore a pink jacket with a red t-shirt. The boy had a ponytail that was rather short while his twin had a pair of pigtails. Boy and girl, apparently.
"Well, I can't see around the bend." She pointed out to defend herself as she stood up, offering her hand to help him up.
"Alright, good point." Admitted the boy as he took her hand and stood up. "I'm Leo, and this is my sister Luna. Who are you?" Asked the boy, Leo, as Luna just sighed since he was a bit rash.
"Hikari, Hikari Naxyz. I am not from around here, at least I think that I am not." Explained Hikari and for a moment this settled into the minds of the twins apparently if their dumbfounded faces were anything to go by.
Then Leo snapped out of it. "You are a girl?!" Shouted Leo shocked and Hikari removed his spit from her face since he had been in her face, they stood right before each other!
"Well, yeah? I just prefer practical over impractical, what is wrong about that?" Asked Hikari and the twins gave her a look, she knew she was tomboyish but that was just how she was, something she was sure this was how she was.
"Bu- but Luna doesn't wear boys clothes either!" Protested Leo and she gave him a look for that one.
"Isn't it my business what I wear? And who says I must wear the same kind of clothes as your sister because I am a girl?" Asked Hikari with a frown, she liked her clothes, besides the point that she didn't have any other clothes anyway.
"Calm down you two, she is right there Leo." Tried Luna to stop the two of them from starting a fight. "Anyway, you said you 'think' you are not from around here? What do you mean with that?" Asked Luna, turning to the girl, she noticed powerful Duel Spirits in her deck, and they were happy with her.
"I have lost my memories a few weeks ago, I know all technical things like reading, how to duel or even built D-Wheels, but nothing one could call memories at all." She explained to them and both were taken aback by this, until Leo seemed to get a idea.
"You are a duelist? Then I challenge you to a duel as compensation for running into me!" He challenged her, pointing at the amnesiac duelist and technician.
"Stop Leo! I am sure she has better things to do than duel you." Reprimanded Luna her brother, it was rude to do so!
"I don't mind actually, I was just wandering around following this strange feeling I had for a while now." Explained Hikari, she had long since come to the decision that this feeling drove her to important, or at least interesting, meetings or items, like those motor components she had found.
"Alright! Then let's go to our hose there is a lot of space and the last guy with amnesia I duelled regained his memories afterward!" Called Leo and Hikari chuckled as she followed him and Luna sighed at that.
"He is quite a handful, isn't he?" Asked Hikari with a grin and Luna couldn't help herself to chuckle at that, she was right in that regard.
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They ultimately found themselves at a large garden that was part of Leo and Luna's home. Leo had his personalized Duel Disk, built by a young man with a criminal mark, on his arm and Hikari had her Duel Disk activated.
"Alright! Let's get on!" Shouted Leo enthusiastically since he had a duelist to duel with again.
"Wait a second, I have an idea. How about we make a extra rule for this duel?" Asked Hikari and Leo listened up now, this was interesting.
"Yeah sure, what do you have in mind?" Asked Leo, eager to get a interesting duel running, to try and use what he learned in his last duel.
"Well, my idea was that we each would draw two cards instead of just one each Draw Phase. How about it?" Asked Hikari and Leo couldn't help but smirk.
"Alright! Let's go!" Shouted Leo and Hikari chuckled as she heard that.
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Hikari vs Leo
8000 LP/8000 LP
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"I start! Wroom!" Shouted Leo, drawing two cards.
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Leo, 8000 LP 7 cards
Turn 1
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"I summon Morphtronic Celfon in attack mode!" Declared Leo and before him appeared a yellow handy that quickly morphed into a robot with part of the display becoming a kind of wings. (Morphtronic Celfon, Earth/Machine, Level 1, 100 Atk/100 Def)
"When Morphtronic Celfon is on the field in attack position I can roll a six sided die and then draw cards equal to the roll. Then I can special summon 1 "Morphtronic monster" that I drew." Explained Leo and instead of a animation of a die the numbers on the monster itself.
It finally stopped at four and Leo drew cards of that number. "Alright! I summon Morphtronic Magnen in Defense-Mode!" Declared Leo and before him appeared a grayish blue magnet with red ends in the typical horseshoe shape. (Morphtronic Magnen, Earth/Machine, Level 3, 800 Atk/800 Def.)
"As long as my Magnen is on the field you can't choose any other monster on the field." Explained Leo while a electric current went through his monster as if to show it's magnetic power. "I end my turn!" He declared grinning and Hikari wondered what that was all about.
"Alright, my turn!" She shouted, drawing two cards.
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Hikari, 8000 LP 7 cards
Turn 2
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"With the scale number 1 Qliphort Stealth and the scale number 9 Qliphort Monolith, I am setting the Pendulum Scale! With this I can Pendulum Summon once per turn any number of monster between Level 1 and Level 9." She explained before drawing a card from her hand. "Next I activate the Spell-Card Pot of Greed, through this I can draw two additional cards!" She explained and drew two more cards.
"I Pendulum Summon the Level eight Qliphort Shell and my Level seven Qliphort Disk and Qliphort Cephalopod!" She declared and the three monsters appeared before her. "Due to their effects they all lose Attack points until they have only 1800 points left and their levels are reduced to Level 4." Explained Hikari as the three monsters shrunk slightly.
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(Shell 2800 → 1800 → 2100 Atk)
(Disk 2800 → 1800 → 2100 Atk)
(Cephalopod 2800 → 1800 → 2100 Atk)
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"But this isn't bad because I have something planned! I overlay Shell and Disk in order to built the Overlay Network!" She announced as the two monsters vanished into the galaxy like portal appearing before her. "Bring forth the force from beyond a black hole! Built the road and open the gate to the Overlay Network! Xyz Summon! Rank 4: Number 39: Utopia!"
She chanted and before her once again appeared the mighty warrior from her previous duel. (Number 39: Utopia, Light/Warrior/Xyz, Rank 4, 2500 → 2800 Atk/2000 Def.) Leo's eyes widened as he saw her pull four summons out of her ass at once!
"Go Cephalopod! Destroy his Magnen!" Commanded Hikari and her monster shot a laser beam at the magnet shaped robot who exploded violently. "And now Utopia! Attack his Celfon!" Shouted Hikari and her other monster brought the sword it carried to bear on Leo's attack position monster that promptly was destroyed.
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Leo: 8000 → 5300 LP
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He coughed as he found himself now standing against two powerful cards, neither of them of any known types that he knew. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn." Explained Hikari while the cards appeared before her before vanishing again.
"Alright, my turn!" Shouted Leo, drawing two cards.
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Leo 5300 LP, 8 cards
Turn 3
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"I activate Monster reborn and revive my Morphtronic Celfon!" Declared Leo and his monster returned through his Spell Card. "Next I activate his effect to once again a die! Let's see what we get!" Shouted Leo and after a second the number stopped at 2 and he drew. "Alright! I summon another Morphtronic Magnen!" Declared Leo and the second monster appeared, this time around in attack mode.
"Your monsters are still far too weak, and as far as I can tell they aren't Tuner monsters." Stated Hikari with a frown, that made no sense, not only because of that but because, even if Leo had Xyz monster, he wouldn't be able to summon any with a level 1 and a level 3 monster, and there were a very limited number of level 4 Synchro monster.
"That is no problem, I have still my normal summon to do!" He declared and lay the card onto his Duel Disk. "I normal summon Morphtronic Remoten!" Declared Leo and before him appeared a tan colored remote before morphing into it's attack mode. "And this monster is a Tuner!" Declared Leo before the three monsters jumped into the air for the summon.
"I tune my Level 1 Morphtronic Celfon, my Level 3 Morphtronic Magnen and my Level 3 Tuner Morphtronic Remoten for a Synchro summon!" Declared Leo as the three monster aligned for the advanced Extra Deck summon.
"Docking strength with courage to protect the world's peace! Synchro Summon! Envoy of love and justice, Power Tool Dragon!" Declared Leo as the Level 7 monster appeared behind the young boy. It was a huge dragon-like machine with yellow armor and silver body.
He had a gigantic screwdriver on his left arm and a showel instead of a right hand, in blue. (Power Tool Dragon, Earth/Machine, Level 7, 2300 Atk/2500 Def.) "And my Power Tool Dragon has also a effect: Once per turn I can choose 3 Equipment spells from my deck and show it to you. Then a random card is chosen from it and added to my hand. The rest is shuffled back into my deck." Explained Leo and held up three cards.
Before Hikari appeared three cards, Double Tool C&D, Power Converter and Power Pickace. Then light surrounded them one after another, picking up speed before it stopped at Double Tool C&D. "My Double Tool C&D it is! I equip Power Tool Dragon with Double Tool C&D!" Shouted Leo as his dragon got a pair of new updates.
His left arm screwdriver was replaced with a huge drill and his right tool was replaced with a circular saw. (PTD 2300 → 3300 Atk.) "During my turn the equipped monster, which can only be a "Power Tool Dragon" or a Morphtronic monster with level four or higher, gains 1000 attack points. When it is your turn though you can't attack any other monsters." Explained Leo and grinned since that was rather nice.
"Go Power Tool Dragon! Attack her Qliphot Cephalopot!" Called Leo and his monster reeled back it's left arm and struck with his drill.
"I activate the effect of Number 39: Utopia: I can remove 1 Xyz Material to negate a attack!" Declared Hikari and her monster absorbed one of the spheres and jumped in front of the weaker monster and blocked successfully the attack, stopping the mechanic dragon in it's tracks.
"Well, I just put two cards face-down and end my turn!" Explained Leo, the two cards appearing before him.
"Alright, my turn!" Shouted Hikari, drawing her cards (PWD: 3300 → 2300 Atk)
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Hikari: 8000 LP, 3 cards
Turn 4
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"I begin by pendulum summoning Qliphort Disk and Qliphort Carrier!" Announced Hikari as two monsters appeared before her, as usual the strangely seashell like look remained by both. (Qliphort Disk, Earth/Machine, Level 7 → 4, 2800 → 1800 → 2100 Atk/1000 Def)(Qliphort Carrier, Earth/Machine, Level 6, 2400 → 1800 → 2100 Atk/1000 Def)
Leo's eyes widened at her just bringing out another two monsters. "Sorry but this won't stay the same! Because I overlay Level 4 Qliphort Disk and Qliphort Carrier to built the Overlay Network!" Shouted Hikari before the two newly summoned become zipping balls of light before disappearing inside a portal.
"Darkness coalesces to form a fighter for freedom. Oppressors! Imperators! They challenge you but destroy them without mercy with your darkness coated, rebellious fang! Xyz Summon! Rank 4: Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon!" Chanted Hikari before from the monster appeared a wicked looking dragon that was the opposite to her name. It was purple in color, had glowing lines and sectioned wings.
It's red eyes starred at Leo who stepped back, fearfully. (Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Dark/Dragon, Rank 4, 2500 → 2800 Atk/2000 Def.) "And now I can activate my dragons effect, just like Utopia I need to sacrifice a Xyz Material and can then activate it. This particular effect is in fact so powerful that I need to remove two units!" Declared Hikari and the two spheres were absorbed into her dragon while she discarded the overlay'd monsters.
The wings of the dragon then opened at the downward tips, purple Lightningbolts forming around the dragon. "I can select 1 monster on your side of the field and reduce it's Attack Points by half, then add the same amount of points to the Attack Points of my dragon." Explained Hikari and without waiting for her command her dragon shot the effect at Leo's Power Tool Dragon, enveloping it in it.
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Power Tool Dragon: 2300 → 1150 Atk
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon: 2800 → 3950 Atk
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Leo's eyes grew wide as his monster begun to appear to shut down. "No! Power Tool Dragon! Stand up!" Shouted the boy shocked how his ace was so easily overwhelmed.
"Sorry Leo-kun, but when machines are hit by lightning they will shut down generally." Joked Hikari before pointing at the monster. "Go Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon! Attack his Powertool Dragon with Rebellion Fang!" She commanded and her dragon roared as if in answer before shooting forward, energy gathering in the horn beneath his chin.
"Quick Spell Reverse! Limiter Removal! This card doubles the Attack Points of all Machine monsters on my side of the field!" Declared Leo as his dragon begun to power up again, lightning still surrounding him and a bit jerky.
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Power Tool Dragon: 1150 → 2300 Atk
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"Still my dragon is more powerful! Go Rebellion! Destroy his robot dragon!" Shouted Hikari and her dragon impacted with Leo's who blocked with his equipment spell who then got destroyed, protecting his monster.
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Leo: 5300 → 3650 LP
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"Not so fast! Power Tool Dragon can stop it's own destruction by sacrificing a equipment spell that is equipped to him!" Declared Leo, sweating since this was a bad thing, a really bad thing.
"Then I just continue! Go Utopia! Messiahs blade!" Commanded Hikari before her other Xyz Monster jumped upward before bringing his sword down, cutting Leo's monster in half.
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Leo: 3650 → 3150 LP
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Leo staggered back, wincing as he passed past the halfway mark in LP. "And don't forget! I still have my Qliphort Cephalotpod!" Announced Hikari before her final monster hit Leo with a laser beam, causing direct damage to his Life Points.
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Leo: 3150 → 1350 LP
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"I end my turn." Explained Hikari and Leo breathed through, with her Xyz monsters she had pretty much taken down his entire strategy in one go.
"Alright! My Draw!" Shouted Leo, sweating bullets since this was a bad situation for his victory chances.
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Leo: 1850 LP, 6 cards
Turn 5
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"I summon Morphtronic Radion in Attack Mode!" Declared Leo and on his field appeared a black and yellow radio that then morphed into a small robot. (Morphtronic Radion, Earth/Machine, Level 4, 1000 Atk/900 Def.) "As long as Radion is on the field all of my Morphtronic monsters gain 800 Attack Points for the time he is in Attack position." Explained Leo and his monster powered up considerably. (Morphtronic Radion: 1000 → 1800 Atk.)
"It might be powerful now but my weakest monster had more attack points." Pointed Hikari out to the boy who grinned at that.
"That might be but I activate a trap card that I waited to activate! Morphtronic Bind!" Shouted Leo and the trap flipped open, showing Morphtronic Celfon behind a raster grid of light on it's artwork. "Now none of your monsters with level four or higher will be able to attack or change their position!" Declared Leo grinning, missing the frown on Luna's face.
"Since I can't do more, I end my turn." Explained Leo, confident that he had settled the duel now so that he could bide his time until he got an idea.
"Alright, my turn draw!" Explained Hikari, drawing two cards.
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Hikari: 8000 LP, 3 cards
Turn 6
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"Leo-san, I must admit that this combo would give many duelists pause since most monster with over 1800 attack have level four. But there is something you haven't realized about my Xyz monster." Explained Hikari and Leo blinked at that, confused
"Xyz monster are the opposite of Synchro monster, they have no level but instead a Rank, therefore effects that target monsters based on their Level have no effect on Xyz monster." Explained Hikari and realization dawned on Leo's face as he now understood what she meant, in other words Xyz monster were treated as level zero!
"Before we go into the finale I activate a Spell-Card: Pot of Riches!" Declared Hikari and a card with a rather voluptuous pot with a face on it appeared before her. "This card allows me to return three Pendulum monster either from my Graveyard or from top of the Extra Deck, to my Main Deck and shuffle it. Then I draw two cards." Explained Hikari and returned the three Pendulum Monster she used previously as Xyz Material and discarded them afterward.
"Next I activate Pot of Greed, that allows me to draw another two cards." Explained Hikari, drawing again. "By Pendulum Summon I summon Qliphort Stealth in Attack Mode!" Declared Hikari and the half invisible monster appeared before her. (Qliphort Stealth, Earth/Machine, Level 8 → 4, 2800 → 1800 Atk/1000 Def.)
"But he won't stay long and Qliphort Cephalopod will join him because I sacrifice them to summon Apoqliphort Skybase in Attack Mode!" Declared Hikari, bringing out the heavy guns of her Deck. From the summoning portal that was formed by the sacrifice of the two Special summoned monsters appeared a huge fortress that was, like all other of her monsters, levitating above their heads.
(Apoqliphort Skybase, Earth/Machine, Level 9, 2900 → 3200 Atk/2500 Def.) Leo's eyes widened, he had known that Hikari had a deck full of monsters above level four that would shrink down to that level when Special Summoned, but now she used a Normal Summon for once and brought out the really heavy gun!
"Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon! Destroy his Morphtronic Radion! Rebellion Fang Strike!" Shouted Hikari and the dragon roared before skidding forward and impalling the monster through the chest, destroying it.
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Leo: 1350 → 650 LP
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Leo groaned as he saw it coming, his defense was down. "Apoqliphort Skybase! End this duel with a direct attack!" Commanded Hikari and the monster suddenly fired lasers from everywhere before they converged on Leo, causing a direct attack damage that eclipsed what he still had.
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Leo: 650 → 0 LP
Duel Over
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"Leo are you alright?" Asked Luna as her brother stood back up, groaning slightly.
"Yeah, I am alright but man, even with the new cards I couldn't beat her." Muttered Leo a bit depressed but Hikari come over to him.
"Hey, don't take it badly Leo-san, I had a bit of a unfair advantage through my Pendulum Summoning Deck and Xyz monster. That strategy at the end was rather good though not perfect." Explained Hikari, trying to cheer him up a bit.
"Thanks! Say, where did you get those cards anyway?" Asked Leo, looking at the strange Duel Disk the girl used together with her equally strange deck of special monsters.
"Sorry I don't know, I had them already when I woke up and no one seems to know this kind of monsters." Explained Hikari and Leo let his head hang depressed, he couldn't use the new dueling way!
"Hey, how about we talk a bit more in the house? It would surely be better than staying out here." Suggested Luna and the two nodded, following her into the house. Once more Hikari didn't notice a small, floating machine that had followed her so far.
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In a certain tower that once housed Seto Kaiba and now houses someone with at least the same size of Ego.
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"So Zigzix, in other words the dragon she summoned in this duel is the Signer Dragon? And there was also a mark for a moment?" Asked Goodwyn, having seen the mark partially after the girl summoned Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon.
"Yes mister Goodwyn, the same wavelength as Red Dragon Archfiend. The thing though is that there was a second wavelength from that summoning, both were ridiculously strong." Explained the scientist, standing with his report in the office of his boss instead of being in his laboratory.
"I see, any reaction from Luna?" Asked Goodwyn, interested to hear whether the other suspect had any reaction at all in that duel.
"Sadly no sir, it seems the reaction was triggered by the highly energetic energies released by the summoning of Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon. It is rather fascinating, the last recorded time such energies come to be from ordinary dueling was from Yugi Muto, the late king of games, when he summoned the egyptian gods. It even eclipsed the first professional reading of Ener-D from the summoning of Rainbow Dragon."
Explained the Scientist and was about to rumble on about this when Goodwyn raised his hand to stop him. "It is enough professor. We now know at least that she is a Signer. Do you think with her data, the data from Yusei and the data from Jack, that you can locate the others?" Asked Goodwyn and Zigzix nodded quickly, knowing this translated to "Shut up and tell start being useful" in Goodwynnish.
"Yes sir." With that he left quickly, nearly running over Lazar in the process.
"Mister Goodwyn, I have the information about Pendulum summoning and Xyz monster you wanted." Reported Lazar, carrying a datapad with him.
"Good, is it enough?" Asked Goodwyn, smiling slightly at the thought.
"Yes, we were able to find many cards appearing in our databases, presumably to make us think they were there the whole time. We can print them if you want. Interesting cards by the way, but Xyz monster don't seem compatible with Synchro monsters so much because they don't have levels. Pendulum Summon though, that is a different story. Shall I propose to create custom cards for mister Atlas?" Asked Lazar with a raised eyebrow, looking to Goodwyn.
"Yes do that, and send also a pair of custom cards to each Signer suspect with the invitation." Ordered Goodwyn and Lazar scrambled away to do so.
Goodwyn smiled, this was going all according to his plan.
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So here stops the first chapter. Before anyone asks, I use a Deck Editor on my handy that has a 'Test Draw' function, so it is random what Hikari draws. The entire deck is packed with cards from different series after 5Ds, naturally including Number 39: Utopia and, as you saw, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon. How she come into possession of those and other cards is still a secret but here a hint: She isn't from the 5Ds time.
As you see Goodwyn also messes up a few decks with the introduction of custom Pendulum Monsters but for now the Xyz summon is unique to Hikari. And don't worry, there will be also some Synchro monsters in this deck. Card count of the Deck is 47, 6 Effect monster, 20 Pendulum Monster, 11 Traps and 10 Spell Cards. She has 22 cards in her Extra Deck, 19 Xyz monster and the rest... well I won't tell you.
For those who ask about the Qli Archetype, I found out only after I assembled the deck that you can't Special Summon anything but Qli monster when there is one of them in the Pendulum Zone. For the sake of this fanfiction this part of their Pendulum Effects is removed.
