DISCLAIMER: Yu-Gi-Oh! was created by Kazuki Takahashi.

Turbo Duel. That's the Duel that evolved in the world of speed. Some time ago, a group of Turbo Duelists bearing legendary birthmarks saved New Domino City from a threat born from a possible future. They were called Team 5D's. When the threat ended, and the city was brought back from the brink of destruction, the group went about their own ways, but their accomplishments forever made them legends in New Domino City...

Lawton felt sweat rolling down his face as he sped his stolen Duel Runner through the streets of New Domino City, all while sirens blared behind him. It had taken months, but finally, he had made his escape from prison, along with a few compatriots of his. Unfortunately, now he'd found himself being chased by the New Domino City Police Department. Worse, he and his allies had been forced into a Turbo Duel Battle Royal by the police, and the others had all been defeated and rounded up, with himself all that was left.

Nervously, Lawton looked down at his display screen. He had a mere 1000 Life Points left, and if he hit 0, his Duel Runner would stop, meaning the police would have him. Glancing behind him, he saw the one officer hot on his trail with a single monster, Shining Angel, on the field in attack position, had 2750 Life Points. Looking down at his hand, he saw nothing that could turn the tide of this Duel...so Lawton opted to cheat instead, grabbing a pair of Trap Cards from under his sleeve and replacing them with two Monster Cards in his hand.

"I set five cards face-down!" Lawton declared, placing most of his hand in his Duel Disk's Spell/Trap Zone and causing holograms of them to appear around his Duel Runner. "Next, I Normal Summon Gatling Ogre (800/800)!" Slapping his remaining card in the Monster Zone, it created the image of an ogre with much of its body replaced with machine parts, most notably a gatling gun in its midsection. "Gatling Ogre's effect: By sending Set cards in my Spell/Trap Zone, Gatling Ogre inflicts 800 damage to your Life Points for each one!" With this, Lawton gleefully removed all the cards he'd just set face-down and sent them to the Graveyard, causing Gatling Ogre to open fire on the officer chasing them.

"Sorry to disappoint!" the officer hollered, discarding a card from his hand to cause a hologram of a fuzzy fairy to appear before him, taking the shots before vanishing. "During either player's turn, I can discard Hanewata (200/300) to reduce all effect damage taken this turn to 0!"

"Grr, what kind of police officer uses whimpy Fairy-type monsters, anyway?!" Lawton roared in annoyance as they sped through an intersection. "Turn end!"

"You want something a bit more intimidating?!" a female voice demanded, just as another officer turned in from the intersection. Her field had two Machine-type monsters present: The citron-coloured Crystron Citree (500/500), and the amethyst-coloured Crystron Thystvern (1500/1500).

"Officer Ikenami!" the male cop who'd been chasing Lawton greeted, saluting as he backed off. "He's all yours!"

Aoi Ikenami smirked before turning back to Lawton. "My turn! I tune my Level 3 Crystron Thystvern with my Level 2 Tuner, Crystron Citree!"

"A Synchro Summoning?!" Lawton demanded as Crystron Citree's body began glowing bright green, its body erupting into a pair of green rings for Crystron Thystvern to begin flying through.

"Brilliant ametrine, shimmer and sparkle with the life-giving might of water!" Aoi chanted. "Empower the graceful machine! Synchro Summon!" Crystron Thystvern let out a mighty roar as its body vanished, leaving a trio of stars behind as a brilliant line of light shot through them and the rings. "Arise, Crystron Ametrix (2500/1500)!" The light faded, revealing a tall, dark purple robot standing in place of the two monsters that were once there. "Battle! Crystron Ametrix, destroy Gatling Ogre!" With this order, Ametrix leaped up into the air and threw both feet out, kicking Gatling Ogre hard enough to cause its holographic body to explode into bits of data.

"NO!" Lawton cried as his Life Points hit 0, his Duel Runner stalling and slowly coming to a halt. Within seconds, he was surrounded by the police. With a low growl of defeat, he slowly raised his hands over his head, allowing the officers to take him into custody.

Ikenami let out a sigh of relief as the officer who had been tailing Lawton came to a halt alongside her. "Officer Ikenami. Always a pleasure to watch you in action."

Aoi narrowed her eyes. "Cadet Hikaru. Would you mind telling me why YOU were chasing a wanted fugitive without back-up?"

Yudai Hikaru blushed a little, removing his helmet to let his spiky blond hair with pink bangs get some air. "We were on a training exercise when the break-out happened, and we all split up to deal with them, so-"

"At ease, cadet," Officer Ikenami interjected, smirking. "You did a fine job. Keep this up, and you'll find yourself with officer status sooner than you think. Just remember: Next time, at least TRY to wait for another officer to join you."

Yudai nodded. "I'll try, ma'am."

"Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, I believe you're expected elsewhere right now?" Aoi asked. "Weren't you going to meet with a family member after training today?"

Yudai's face told the story: He'd completely forgotten. "Oh...right. Wataru. He'll be staying with me for a little while since his parents are on a business trip. He's waiting for me at the new Duel Park near Tops."

"Better get going then," Ikenami insisted, Yudai giving a quick salute before putting his helmet back on and speeding off toward Tops.

He's actually getting surprisingly good, Aoi considered, watching Yudai leave. It may be necessary to test him soon...

Yudai looked ahead as he saw the Duel Park come into view. Soon enough, he spotted his target: His cousin, Wataru Hikaru, in all his lime-haired glory. However, as he got closer, he watched as a young man closer to his own age approach Wataru aggressively. He was wearing a long black leather jacket and a jet-black Duel Disk, and had slicked-back red hair. In fact, as he came to a halt at the edge of the park, it was clear the man wasn't Japanese at all.

American? Yudai considered, getting off his Duel Runner as Wataru took notice of him, running as fast as he could toward his older cousin. Guess I'll find out...

"Yudai!" Wataru cried, running to the cadet's side. "Save me, Yudai!"

The young man who had apparently been verbally harassing him scoffed at this. "Hey, are you going to run to the nearest police officer every time you have a problem?! Be a man!"

Well, he speaks Japanese well enough, anyway, Yudai noted.

"He's my cousin," Yudai explained, removing his helmet. "And I'm merely a cadet. Now, what exactly seems to be the problem, mister...?"

The man in the black jacket slapped his own chest. "I am Darren King, top Duelist of my hometown! I came to this city looking for better Duelists, but so far, all I find are children using low-Level monsters like this brat!"

Cadet Hikaru's eyes narrowed at this comment. "Is there something wrong with low-Level monsters I'm not familiar with?"

"Duelists should use high-Level monsters with immense power to overwhelm opponents!" King answered, his tone becoming aggravating to Yudai. "Low-Level monsters are for children!"

"Is that so?" Yudai asked, reaching back to detach his Duel Disk from his Runner and placing it on his arm. "My deck primarily consists of Level 4 or lower monsters. If you think your approach to Dueling is so correct that it allows bullying children, then you wouldn't mind proving it in a Duel with me."

Darren scoffed, clenching a fist. "You'll eat those words before the sun sets, 'Cadet'! I'll even let you have the first turn!"

"Fine by me," Yudai replied, walking over toward the center of the park as he and Darren slid their decks into their Duel Disks, their cards being shuffled. "Wataru, watch from the sidelines."

"Okay!" Wataru exclaimed, running over to the side of the park as his cousin prepared to Duel his bully. "Get him good, Yudai!"

"DUEL!" the two duelists shouted, drawing their opening hands of five cards each.

"My turn! Draw!" Yudai called, drawing his sixth card and looking over his current hand before deciding on his opening move. "Under current rules here in New Domino City, we cannot Normal Summon monsters face-up in defense position! Therefore, I set one monster face-down!" Setting a card on his Duel Disk, he watched as a hologram of a face-down card set horizontally appeared on the field. "Then I set one card face-down in the Spell/Trap Zone! Turn end!"

"Hmph!" Darren scoffed. "You talk big about showing how my way is wrong, and now all you do is cower behind defenses?! I'll teach you to waste my time!"

Hikaru smirked, surprising Darren. "If you think you can, come and try."

Darren grit his teeth, pulling a card free from the top of his deck. "My turn! When my opponent controls a monster and I don't, I can Normal Summon my Level 5 Power Crusher (2100/0) without a Tribute!" Slapping his own monster card to his disk, King caused a large, muscular purple and orange Fiend-type monster to appear on the field opposite of Yudai's set monster. "Battle! Power Crusher, attack Yudai's face-down monster!" Power Crusher leaped across the field and smashed both hands into the back of the face-down card, blowing it to bits...only for the pieces to reform face-up as a rather cute-looking marshmallow-like monster appeared and bit down on Power Crusher's arms with surprisingly long and sharp teeth. "What the-?!"

"Too bad, but the monster you attacked was Marshmallon, a monster who cannot be destroyed in battle!" Yudai explained with a confident grin. "Furthermore, Marshmallon's effect has been activated: If it's attacked, and was face-down at the start of the Damage Step, the attacking player takes 1000 damage!"

Darren growled lowly as his Life Points dropped to 3000 before raising a spell card from his hand. "I active Double Summon, allowing me to conduct two Normal Summons instead of one this turn! Now, I Normal Summon Gene-Warped Warwolf!" Darren slapped a second monster card to his disk, creating the image of a four-armed werewolf to appear next to Power Crusher. "Turn end!"

Yudai looked over the field, observing Darren's monsters, and reflecting on the past turn. "...A Power Deck, one that focuses on getting monsters with high attack power summoned to the field quickly."

Darren furrowed his brow. "Your point?"

Hikaru looked Darren in the eye, seemingly glancing into his soul. "Your deck and strategy...It's not unlike the Turbo Duel King, Jack Atlas, is it not?"

King felt his voice temporarily caught in his throat as he was about to reply, but quickly recomposed himself. "...It's true. I admire him and his power, such that I decided to emulate it. And why shouldn't I emulate the King? Even my name is King! And a true King in Dueling crushes all opposition with overwhelming power!"

"You're not a King yet," Yudai pointed out. "And blindly attempting to emulate one will not a great Duelist make you."

Darren felt his face heat up as he ground his teeth together harder and harder with each passing moment. "If you think you know what will, by all means, demonstrate!"

Yudai nodded, pulling a new card free. "My turn! I activate the Spell card, Photon Veil!" Yudai held the spell up, along with three monster cards: Watapon, Shining Angel, and Hoshiningen. "I must shuffle 3 LIGHT monsters from my hand into the Deck, and then add 1 to 3 Level 4 or lower LIGHT monsters from my Deck to my hand! If I add 2 or more monsters, they must have the same name!" Discarding Photon Veil to the Graveyard, Yudai then placed the monsters in his deck, which the Duel Disk then shuffled. "I choose to add 3 Watapons (200/300) to my hand!" Hikaru immediately pulled the three Watapon cards from his deck, then placed them all on his disk, causing all three pink cotton puffs with eyes to appear on the field in defense position. "Watapon's effect: When it's added from my deck to my hand, I can then Special Summon it!"

Darren laughed. "You summon your puffballs at your own peril! When my opponent Special Summons a monster, I can discard 1 card to Special Summon Chaos Hunter (2500/1600) from my hand!" King then smacked a card down onto his disk, causing his whip-bearing female Fiend in blood red armour to appear.

Damn, Yudai thought. The strategy I was going to use now won't work here. I'll have to hold off attacks until I draw the card I need to make this work...

"Reverse card, open! Marshmallon Glasses!" Yudai called, his face-down card flipping over to reveal a spell card. "While Marshmallon is in my Monster Zone, my opponent cannot target monsters other than Marshmallon for attacks! Turn end!"

"My turn!" Darren roared, smiling at the card he drew. "I Normal Summon Lancer Archfiend (1600/1400)!" An armoured fiend with twin lances appeared next to Chaos Hunter on the field. "Battle! Chaos Hunter, attack Yudai's Marshmallon!"

"Huh?!" Wataru exclaimed, confused. "But Marshmallon can't be destroyed in battle! Why attack it?!"

King smirked deviously. "Lancer Archfiend's effect activates: Once per turn, when a monster I control declares an attack targeting a Defense Position monster my opponent controls, during this battle, if the ATK of the attacking monster is greater than the DEF of the Defense Position monster it battles, the difference is inflicted as Battle Damage!"

"What?!" Yudai demanded, unable to do anything to defend himself as Chaos Hunter's whip actually pierced through Marshmallon's body to strike him, reducing his Life Points to 2000.

"Yudai, hang in there!" Wataru called from the sidelines. "Don't let him win!"

Darren chuckled as Yudai recomposed himself, his opponent's gaze cast downward. "Turn end! Yudai, on my next turn, Chaos Hunter will attack again, and your remaining Life Points will drop to 0! None of your weak, low leveled monsters can stop that!"

Yudai slowly looked up through his pink bangs into Darren's eyes, surprising his opponent with his confident grin. "...I wonder about that."

Darren's eyes widened in shock. "Y-You can't! You can't make a comeback from this!"

"A word of advice," Yudai replied, placing a finger over the top card in his deck. "Power comes in all forms, and all monsters, big and small, can be powerful."

Deck, respond to my wishes...! Yudai prayed.

"My turn! Draw!" Yudai shouted, drawing the top card and glancing at it. He smiled at the image of the two hands locked together on the spell card, but quickly drew a monster card from his hand and placed it on the Duel Disk. "I Normal Summon The Calculator (?/0)!" A small red robot with a video screen for a head and several buttons like those found on a calculator on its chest appeared on the field. "The Calculator's effect: The Calculator's ATK is the combined Levels of all face-up monsters I control x 300!"

Darren watched as The Calculator hit the buttons on its chest to make "8 x 300 = 2400" appear on its screen. "Even with that much power, it can't defeat my Chaos Hunter!"

"I now activate my spell, United We Stand!" Yudai yelled, playing his spell card as a glowing aura enveloped The Calculator. "The monster equipped with this card gains 800 ATK and DEF for each face-up monster I control!" The Calculator hummed with power as the spell increased its ATK and DEF by 4000, electricity running violently throughout its body.

"6400 ATK?!" Darren hollered, feeling fear creep into his mind as The Calculator squared off with Chaos Hunter.

"Battle!" Yudai ordered. "The Calculator, attack Darren's Chaos Hunter!" The Calculator spread its arms out, high voltage passing between its hands, before channeling it into a massive lightning bolt that flew out and stabbed into Chaos Hunter, obliterating her into tiny data bits as Darren looked on in horror, his Life Points hitting 0.

"...H-How...?" Darren demanded. "How could you...with such low-Level monsters?"

"It's as I said," Yudai explained as the holograms faded with the Duel's end. "Power comes in all forms. If you turn your nose up at monsters just for their Level, you might be missing out on something special. If you really plan to become King someday, you should try to remember that."

Darren didn't say anything, simply watching as Hikaru turned and walked away. Feeling that saying anything now would ultimately be pointless, he himself made an about-face and took his leave in his own direction, this loss forever etched into his soul.

"Way to go, Yudai!" Wataru cheered, high-fiving his older cousin. "Nobody can defeat the future Officer Hikaru!"

Yudai smirked. "Thank you. Now that that's out of the way, we should head for home. I've got your cot set up for you in the living room."

"A cot?" Wataru asked, baffled. "Yudai, that's not the sort of thing you set up for family to sleep in!"

Hikaru chuckled, rolling his eyes at this behaviour. As he did, though, he couldn't help but hear the sound of a rather feminine giggle coming from his Duel Runner. Walking over to check on it, he was confused as to what was laying in the seat: A Duel Monsters card, sitting face-down.

"What the-?" Wataru inquired. "Did you drop one of your cards, Yudai?"

"I don't think so, but..." Yudai started to say before reaching down to pick up the card. Turning it over, he saw it was a Fairy-type Synchro Monster wearing a teal-coloured dress. He read the text along the top. "...'Neo-Fairy Teal'?"

Wataru scratched his chin in confusion. "Doesn't sound like any card I've ever heard of."

"Yeah..." Yudai muttered, hesitantly placing it in the Extra Deck slot of his Duel Disk before plugging said disk into his Duel Runner. "...Come on, we're going home."

This Chapter's Fan-Made Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards

Power Crusher
Card type: Monster
Attribute: DARK
Types: Fiend/Effect
Level: 5
ATK/DEF: 2100/0
Effects: If your opponent controls a monster and you control no monsters, you can Normal Summon this card without Tributes. If you do, this monster's Normal Summon cannot be negated.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: ...That's right. I didn't get enough punishment writing a one-shot of Yu-Gi-Oh!, I had to make a full fanfic. To explain what I mean by punishment, let me explain this to you: Writing duels is REALLY HARD. You have to keep track of so many details that now, when I close my eyes after working on the fic, all I see are numbers. lol

Here's the basic method I have, though, for anyone who might be interested in writing Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfiction: First, I plan out the duel itself. Basically, I have a file in Notepad that's just each player's turn, their current Life Points, what they do in each turn, the effects of what they do overall, and it goes until one player beats the other one. Of course, to do this, I also have to have made notes as to what kinds of cards each Duelist has, which I made full lists of in Google Docs. And, by the way, when writing these fics, Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikia is your best friend. lol Anyway, once the actual duel itself is planned out from start to finish, then and only then do I start writing it out in story format. And once that's done, then I fill in everything else that I want to happen within that chapter in terms of the story and the character interactions. So, in short, it's a long and hard process, but it results in as close to a recreation of the general events and flow of an episode of the show as can possibly be achieved.

...So yeah, with that out of the way, welcome to the new Yu-Gi-Oh! fic. lol As told in the story itself, this takes place a few years after the end of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. I wanted to do 5D's because it was my favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! series (no, seriously, I actually liked the season that gave us Card Games On Motorcycles the best), and other than seeing alternate universe versions of some of the characters in Arc-V, we never got to see any kind of follow-up on Yusei or the other characters after the show was over, and I thought that was a damned shame. Even Jaden got to come back for the movie, after all. And yes, in case you're wondering, we WILL be seeing more past characters from 5D's like Lawton return later on, as well as maybe the return of certain concepts showcased in previous Yu-Gi-Oh! seasons. Also, just getting this out of the way now, I'm using MOSTLY names and terminology from the English dub of the show, but I'm not excluding any events that were left out of the dub. If it happened in the original version of the show, it happened here. Likewise, I'm not using any of the changes to the characters that were made by 4Kids, so don't expect to hear Yusei saying "Let's rev it up!" when he shows up later on.

Anyway, be sure to check in next time as Yudai is tested by his superior, Aoi Ikenami, using the best means she has: A Turbo Duel! Ja né!