Title:

PokeDuel

Summary:

Yugi, Bakura, & Seto Kaiba get reincarnated, unaware they are just pawns in an endless cycle. Zorc is back & eager to play another game with the Pharaoh. A small region tries to boast tourism by allowing special cards in their official Pokemon Battles. Meanwhile Digimon pour into the world through portals opened by Team Rocket. Yaoi Furry Spanking, Happy Fluff / Gore

Edit:

Changed the Timeline and moved the story to an original Region so I could have more freedom with the gym leader battles and so that Red and Blue from the original Pokemon Games could be used as the rivals.

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Chapter One: They live amongst us

"Welcome back to Pocket Monsters Daily, for those of you just now joining us we have with us today a very special guest. Descendant of the inventor of the Pokeball, heir to the Kaiba Corporation, and named Pokemon Champion in five regional tournaments, the one and only Seto Kaiba"

"A pleasure to be here Mr. Wong" despite his words the skilled 16 year old trainer appeared more bored then pleased. However the Dratini draped over his shoulders appeared ecstatic as its head turned in every direction, examining the stage and the audience looking out at them.

"Now, Mr. Kaiba, is it true that it's thanks to you Giovanni was able to legalize his trading cards into the tournament of the Millennium Islands?"

"The rumors would be correct. I invested a good bit of money into Giovanni's campaign as well as personally designed the Duel Disk system that has been in use for the past 3 years. I even designed the upgraded model that has been authorized for official use in this years tournament and of course the necessary gym battles needed to qualify. Hopefully the obvious success of these upcoming tournaments will cause the other regions to see reason and agree to the next phase of Pokemon battles"

"For those of you who don't know" Mr. Wong smiled at the camera "Pokemon are physically manifestations of data, how that came to be is a mystery thousands of years in the making. Pokeballs are used to scramble that data to safely and conveniently store these creatures. Giovanni, the gym leader of Viridian City, went one step further and created cards that carry a code or program that affects Pokemon. These cards, with the help of Mr. Kaiba's Duel Disk system, have been used in unofficial battles between trainers since their creation. Mr. Kaiba would you care to demonstrate?"

Not answering Kaiba stood revealing the 'Duel Disk' attached to his left arm. It was a circle near his elbow with a blade attached to it going along the length of his forearm. The blade had 5 slots for cards on top and five more slits inside it for cards to be placed. The circle itself had six shrunken PokeBalls embedded into it and a holder for a deck of cards near the body. Another holder was facing the hand. It was the 'graveyard' for cards no longer in play.

"Dartini" Kaiba spoke to his Pokemon and the blue serpent jumped off his shoulder and got in a fighting position. Its eyes narrowing in an attempt to look dangerous but only managing to increase its cuteness factor. Kaiba pulled out a card from his deck and put it on one of the slots. A beam of data shot out from the disk onto the Dartini and materialized as a sword floating next to it. The young serpent quickly curled its tail around the hilt of the blade as it materialized and the moment it was stable swung it about with the grace of the finest dancer. This all happened in less then a moment.

"The card holds the program and is relayed through the Pokeball" Kaiba explained "Different cards contain different effects. You can give your Pokemon upgrades such as weapons, armor, power ups, healing during a match, even" Kaiba placed down another card on the disk and the Dartini erupted into red light, growing and mutating until a Dragonair stood in its place still holding the sword "Evolving the Pokemon to the next Stage, unfortunately it is only temporary. It only last as long as the card is in play" taking all the cards off the disk the Pokemon instantly erupted back into light and there floated the cute little Dartini.

"We call this temporary evolution 'digivolving' and we've taken it to the next logical phase" he held up a monster card that had a picture of a white dragon with blue eyes. Smiling as he throw it down on the Duel Disk the people in the audience gasped and the camera was forced to zoom out as the cute little Dartini transformed into that massive dragon "there are special rare cards that allow Pokemon of the same type to digivolve into them. These cards vastly increase the Pokemon's power as well as unlock new attacks" pushing down on one of the Pokeballs on the disk the dragon turned into a flash of red light and was pulled through the Duel Disk back inside the Pokeball "Equipment like that cards and digivolutions are placed on the top of the blade were magic and tarp cards are kept inside. You cannot have more then five cards equipped to your Pokemon according to the rules and no more then five spell or trap cards on the field either"

"The only flaw with the Duel Disk is that as a result of the data on the cards being channelled through the Pokeball we have not yet perfected battles which use more then one Pokemon per trainer, but we're looking into it"

"Amazing" Mr. Wong clapped "Now as a personal treat for our audience you're each going home with your own personal Duel Disk as well as a starter deck courtesy of Kaiba Corp"

Yugi sat wiggling in front of the tv, the binders that held his cards beside him and many of the cards were spread out in front of him as he rebuilt his deck for the hundredth time that week. The binders kept the cards safe in plastic sheets and were organized by type: Spell cards, trap cards, armor cards, weapon cards, and digivolution cards (the last binder was the thinnest as such monster cards were so rare he had very few in comparison to the others).

In all he had hundreds of cards but only one Pokemon. His Gastly was floating around the room chuckling for some reason. He found it years ago... or should he say the Gastly found him. Back when Yugi was little he got lost in the ruins near Domino City. His older brother was always telling him off for exploring that place but most of the kids in town liked to hang out there. As expected Yugi got lost and after a few hours this Gastly showed up and started chasing him. Okay it was more like following but ghost Pokemon could be terrifying at first glance. Eventually Yugi got too tired of running and the Gastly just floated there next to him for awhile. After realizing it wasn't going to eat him he let the ghost lead him out of the tunnels but then it refused to leave. It just kept following him everywhere. When Yugi got home and his brother saw the Gastly he gave the small boy a Pokeball and the Gastly popped right in without hesitation.

There were a few Pokemon activists out there who thought 'imprisoning' Pokemon in Pokeballs and having them battle one another was wrong but obviously they never meet Gastly. He loved to fight and could be a real brat about it, mocking his opponents by laughing at them or making faces. He also loved his Pokeball and would pop himself in there whenever he got bored or sleepy. That was the only time he was in the Pokeball usually as Yugi liked having him follow him around. Gastly was good company.

There was a saying Yugi heard from a few of the trainers that came to town "Spend enough time with a Pokemon and you'll start to make sense of their gibberish" that was definitely true of Gastly. Yugi could guess pretty well what Gastly was trying to say when he repeated his species name over and over again like most Pokemon do... and right now he was making fun of him for constantly messing with his cards.

Yugi couldn't help it, he was so excited. He was going to be ten in a few days, finally old enough to challenge a gym and set out on his own adventure.

He held up his favorite card by far and smiled. 'The Dark Magician' it was a digivolution card, or a monster card if you prefer. Written on it were the requirements and abilities of the card. It could only be used if the Pokemon was a Ghost, Dark, or Psychic type. It gave the Pokemon tremendous power and two attacks. 'Dark Magic Attack' which was a burst of purple energy that did amazing damage and 'Staff Strike' which was far weaker but took your opponent off balance for a moment.

The power of the cards meant very little if you didn't know how to use them. You had to be strategic in their implementation just like with ordinary attacks. Dispite being too young to be a legitimate trainer Yugi often battled those that came to challenge the gym leader of their city. They saw him as a nice warm up or a bit of fun before a serious match. Sometimes they used cards or had a more traditional fight. Cards more often now that they were officially in the tournament but it used to be kind of rare with legitimate trainers as they wanted practice for the gym leader; Although cards with unofficial trainers who were too young or just didn't care about gym battles was practically always with cards going all the way back to when they first came out on the market. It didn't matter as either way Yugi usually won, putting much egg on the older trainers faces.

Putting the Dark Magician down in the 'must have' pile for his deck he picked up another card 'Magical Hats'. It was a trap card that hide your Pokemon in one of four large hats. The Pokemon stayed hidden until the opponent either found him or you choice to leave the hat (generally for a surprise attack). It was also good if your Pokemon was injured as you could safely use a healing spell card without your opponent's knowledge or add more armor. Or better yet set up traps in the other hats.

Yugi also like to give Gastly a digiberry, like the ones his brother grew in the back, to wear before a battle that way if things got drastic Gastly could recover health quickly during a fight without taking up a card slot. It took a few seconds to lay down a spell card then remove it once it was activated and lay down another card. Seconds could be vital during a match. You had to be quick with your cards, your orders, and your strategy well keeping an eye on your Pokemon. Battling with Duel Disks was much harder though it should make it easier. It definitely made the battle funner for all involved as you got to be more then a cheerleader for your Pokemon.

Yugi finally settled on his deck, again, and shuffled them before sticking them in the deck holder of his blue leather PokeBall belt. He practically always wore that along with the old model Duel Disk he had on his left forearm. The old model could only hold one Pokeball at a time so if you were someone that actually had all six Pokemon on your person, as was the official limit, you had to switch out the Pokeball in the disk. It also didn't have the blade so cards were placed placed on the disk itself, leaving no room for a deck or a graveyard. Also the old model didn't keep track of the cards you used during a battle so some people were tempted at cheating. Yugi caught some people laying down the same spell card more then once. Once a card is used or neutralized ('destroyed' is the term even though no harm actually comes to the card or the program within it) your supposed to take it out of the game. The new Duel Disk actually keeps track of each card played. Each card is marked with a serial number, no card has the same number. The new model reads that code so you can't play the same card twice unless you have multiple of that card in your deck. The old model doesn't do that. You can even whisper in your attacks and your Pokemon will hear you through the PokeBall. Although must people just shout at the Pokemon themselves that was still a great feature, especially for sneaky cards like 'Magical Hats'. Another thing the new model does is it has a built in PokeDex. Under the arm has a screen you can flip up to reveal the buttons but largely it is voice activated with over a thousand registered Pokemon and can record info if you find a new one.

Yugi was really hoping, and begging, his brother got him the new Duel Disk system for his birthday. He had been researching it like crazy since they announced it, even before he knew the old model wasn't allowed in official battles.

Sighing Yugi put the cards we wasn't going to use in their appropriate binders and put them back into his backpack. He needed his cards for when he caught new pokemon. Who knew what type they'd be or what cards would be best for them. Right now his 60 card limit deck completely revolved around Gastly.

The belt was one of the few pieces of real clothing he had on along with his boxer briefs, an undershirt that stopped just above his belly, a pair of fingerless gloves and socks, and a five inch long screen on a leather wristband. The whole set worked with a series of micro projectors that digitally synthesized programs into solid objects or could convert solid objects into digital information to be stored inside the computer in the watch. It was basically a portable PC. Nearly anything could be transformed into data and stored inside the device. It was the same general principal PokeBalls ran on. You could even create programs that could be given physical form in the real world. Of course those programs weren't real so they could only exist as long as the projectors of the watch were sustaining them and you couldn't synthesize overly complex things like Pokeballs, the cards, chemicals, medication, or food (you could make digital food for the taste but it wasn't real so the body couldn't absorb anything from it. It would just disintegrate into meaningless data when consumed. One good thing about that was you could eat all the cake you wanted without getting fat but it didn't quite taste the same as real cake. Some health nuts claim it can give you cancer but that can be cured with about a month's worth of pills and one doctor's visit to get the prescription) but that's what the storage feature was for. Nearly anything could be digitized and put inside the watch. Real things were just more expensive and more complex so they took up more memory space.

The large pocket of the backpack was where you could digitize items to store them and resynthesize many of them into being where the smaller pockets on the sides and front could actually be used to hold items. The undershirt and boxers were used to create outfits around your body. The clothes were never real but they still felt like it and measured themselves perfectly to fit. No matter who much your body grew or changed the clothing programs would always be a perfect fit so you never had to buy new clothes, besides underwear. Yugi actually had tons of different outfits programs in his watch but he needed to tell the watch which set of undergarments he was wearing so it could sink up to them and project his desired outfit. You never had to worry about washing clothes as first most of your clothes don't actually exist and are just projects and your real garments, extra pairs of underwear and such, could be stored inside the watch as well. Anything stored inside was run through filters and any dirt and such was instantly put in the 'Recycle Bin' to be permanently deleted at your discretion. It didn't instantly delete it because someone might actually want to store a special type of soil or what other people would consider garbage for research purposes. Then you had to move it out of the Recycle Bin and into a different folder.

The Projectors in the hands could be used to synthesize programs into your hand or touching it. You could create a bike or even a small boat where you wanted by holding out your hand and the program would become solid right in front of you. Real items could not be taken out of storage from those projectors but again that was what the backpack was for.

There was even an App store in the watch where you could buy new programs and games. You could get on the internet, watch movies and tv shows, do pretty much anything a PC could do including storing your Pokemon inside a digital environment for them to enjoy. You literally carry your PC with you everywhere. The watch and the undergarments cost a lot of money it's true but it's cheaper in the long run then buying real things and is far more convenient.

Yugi had been buying programs like crazy on his watch (Clothes, rope, tools, junk food) in preparation for when he would leave home. He looked at his watch and scrolled down with his finger. All the information was separated by tabs and organized by folders he created for them. He pushed the folder labelled 'snacks' and held out his open palm. A bite sized candy bar materialized in the hand and Yugi popped it into his mouth. The taste reminded him a little of a chocolate covered strawberry but not really. It was a cheap program he bought years ago but it still tasted good.

Savoring the taste he went to the 'My Apps' tab on the screen before clicking on the 'Games' folder. He smiled pushing a vampire hunting game called 'Blood Lust' where you were a half vampire killing off hundreds of different species of vampires. It was an RPG and the creators said it would take about 12 years to get through all the special side missions and content. Most Role Playing Games were like that nowadays. They took forever to make but they were so worth it. After that he opened up a few comics on his tablet.

After that Yugi considered deleting his book programs for such. Just the solid projections as the text itself might come in handy. It seemed odd to generate books when you could just read them on a screen (you couldn't even save your place in solid books) but that's just how Yugi's teacher was. He probably would have liked to take it a step further and used books made out of PAPER, that needlessly kills trees! Thinking on it Yugi figured the man must be worried his students would be playing on their tablets if he allowed them to use them in class... which may be a legitimate fear.

Seeing as it was still raining pretty heavily he had no desire to do anything outdoors. So he just did a million and one things on his watch.

"Yugi!" Called a voice over the intercom "Get down here for a second"

Yugi turned off the game he had gone back to playing and made the long trip out his room and down the stairs. He lived in a six story shop called "Devlin's Trainer Dynamics". It sold Pokeballs, PokeChow, digiberries, healing potions, cards, and pretty much anything a trainer might need. It was a 'family owned' shop that had several locations but this was the biggest store and Yugi lived on the top floor with his older brother.

Their parents died in a car crash and so Duke had been raising Yugi on his own. Yugi barely even remembered their parents but Duke tried to counteract that with lots of stories about them.

Duke had been running this store and the company (along with Yugi) since he was 16 and doing a pretty good job of it. There was just one issue. He was weird.

Yugi made it to the bottom of the stairs and walked over to the counter were his brother was standing organizing trading cards to be sold separately. He made good money buying booster packs then selling the cards individually. He'd been doing that since the cards came out, long before they were permitted in office battles.

Yugi studied his brothers clothes. As per usual he was wearing tight fit jeans with a girly top that showed off his abs and sweetbands on his upper arms. He also had an earring of a miniature Pokeball handing from a chain and lots of black jeweler: bracelets, rings, a choker, necklaces, the works.

Many of the girls thought he was cute and many of the guys mistook him for a girl. He's just how he liked to dress, strangely. Yugi couldn't really talk with his hair. It was spiky with a lot of it and in three different colors (blonde, black, and red) but he couldn't help that. His hair was naturally that strange. He didn't dye it or put gell in it dispite what people thought. It just stood up like that on it's own. As for the color he just couldn't figure it out and Duke wouldn't let him dye it to look normal. It really didn't make sense as both his parents and Duke and all the way back to his great great great great great, and a million other"greats", grandparents (if the picture of the store founders on the wall was any indication) had really dark black hair. Then their was the fact they all had tanned skin where Yugi's was unusually pale. Yugi suspected he was adopted, from gypsy witch aliens, but Duke swore they were blood related... even had a blood test done to make Yugi shut up about it but if the boy was really a gypsy witch alien then the government would be covering up the test results... saying that got him a smack upside the head and an order to stop being so paranoid.

"Yugi look what I got you" Duke held up a plastic bag straight from the store filled with undergarments of the boy's favorite cartoon.

Yugi blushed, completely mortified and snapping his head from side to side to make sure no one was in the store. Luckily with the weather being so bad it had been a really slow day. The only person in the store was a very wet Bakura and Yugi suspected Duke had sent him out to get the undies in the first place. Duke could hardly of went out and bought them himself well manning the store.

"Store these in your watch will yeah" Duke smiled handing the boy the undies

"R-right" not even opening the package Yugi shoved them in his backpack and digitized them.

"And be sure to thank Bakura since he went to all the trouble of getting those for you in this weather" HE KNEW IT

"Thank you Bakura" Yugi did his best not to glare

"Duke said you'd like them" Bakura sweet dropped

Yugi sighed again at his own misplaced rage "I do but you really didn't have to go to all the trouble"

"It was no trouble really" Bakura smiled "I'm used to walking around in this kind of weather" that remark reaked of bad omens for Yugi's dry lifestyle.

Bakura was a 15 year old trainer from Fuchsia City, the Kanto region. He had come to Violet City to battle the gym leader and got beaten pretty severely. He'd been here for a little over a week training to take on the gym leader again. He made friends with everyone almost the second he arrived. He was a likeable guy if a bit meek. Duke really liked him and Yugi guessed he did to. He was more Duke's friend.

"Like to stay for dinner?" Duke smiled "Yugi's making grilled fish eyes with lemon custard" Bakura turned green not understanding it was a joke. Of course with how odd Duke was people must figure he ate all kinds of weird things.

Yugi smiled at Bakura with a decision to put him out of his misery "I'm making fried eel with Saffron Rice"

"No fish eyes with lemon custard?" Duke sniffed

"You'll eat what I give you" Yugi pretended to snap angrily and stormed back upstairs. He ideally fiddled with his watch, turning on the optional holographic interface so he got a bigger screen. The screen was just a projection of light being bent until it was solid. It made it easier to do things but not all, or most, Watches had projectors for holograms built into the glass screen as they were expensive. Duke was always complaining about how much time Yugi 'wasted' on his watch. Even saying stuff like it was going to short out and that he needed to have real clothes incase it happened or he'd be running around in his underwear. It was just an old wives tale that it could short though.

'Maybe I am just a little too dependent on technology?' the thought crossed his mind but shrugged it off. They were in a Golden Era of the Digital Age so of course he'd be taking advantage of it... that's a lot of 'ofs' for one sentence.

Shaking his head he went into the community kitchen located just a few chamber's down from his room. It was the largest and best supplied and Duke had put a large table in there for convenience. The Devlin family was once massive so they needed all these rooms and chambers back then but now it was just Yugi and his brother. It was a lot of wasted space. Duke had been talking about turning it into a hotel for trainers and moving both himself and Yugi into one of the largers, more self contained, chambers. It was a smart idea really, as long as Yugi got a door to his room. Selling trainer gear at a place that housed trainers was just good business sense.

Yugi finally decided to stop daydreaming and get started on dinner.

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A/N: Freakishly long Summary

This story takes place right after 'Red' from the first Pokemon game becomes Champion of the Kanto Region. Now he is traveling the world. In this universe Ask Ketchum is the son of Red and has yet to be born as Red himself is still a kid. Red's rival Blue is Gary Oak's father. Both Red and Blue will make appearances as Rivals to Yugi, Bakura, and Seto.

The Region this story takes place in is a small chain of seven Islands that is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Allowing Card Battles in their legitimate tournament was a gimmick to try and draw in more trainers.

These special cards are used in Pokemon Battles affect the Pokemon's code through their typing, primary or secondary. As long as Pokemon have certain characteristics the cards will work on them. Example: Charizard is a secondary dragon type. That means even though he is a fire / flying Pokemon he has the characteristics of a dragon type so Dragon cards will still work for or against him.

In this Pokemon do not forget an attack after they learned it, it's like martial art skills and doesn't really make sense that they could forget. HMs do not need to be taught to a Pokemon as they are separate abilities and attacks certain Pokemon know naturally. TMs on the other hand do need to be taught. Additional attacks can be gained temporarily through cards and only with the aid of cards can a Pokemon pull them off.

The permanent evolution of some Pokemon works differently in this then the game. Pokemon that required you to trade them to evolve, or you had to be in a certain place at the right time, now evolve with the use of stones or leveling up well holding an Item. Best Example would be the Eevee evolutions. You get an Espeon with a Moon Stone, Umbreon with a Dusk Stone, Leafeon with a Leaf Stone, and Sylveon with a Shiny Stone. You get a Glaceon when Eevee evolves well holding an Ice Sharp.

Getting Pokemon to higher levels is a really difficult and slow progress as most wild Pokemon are level 5 or lower in any region. It is very rare for a wild Pokemon to get to level 20. Pokemon higher then that are EXTREMELY rare in the wild though they do exist. Wild Pokemon in the Digital world can achieve much higher levels, even going past level 100, as that is a very brutal world.

The gang will go back and forth between the Digital world and the Pokemon world through portals that will be explained later. Just know this planet is not Earth and Humans are not native to it.

The government of the Pokemon world is highly tied to the Pokemon Tournaments. The world capital is 'Nut Prime' which is a single city with no gyms and is not part of any region. As it is neutral ground it is where they house the Pokemon World Tournament as well as the United Regions. Unlike other Tournaments you didn't earn the right to participate by winning Gym Badges. You can only enter it if you had beaten the Elite Four from at least one Regions of the planet. It is a Tournament composed entirely of Champions. If you win the World Tournament then you get the chance to battle the Elite Four of Nut Prime and then face their champion. In this world Gym leaders do a lot more then fight trainers looking to compete in the Tournament. They are political figures, owning a great deal of land and passing laws in their territory. They are higher ranking then lords. Each Region also has a council of four 'kings' or 'queens' who ruled together called the 'Elite Four'. The United Regions keep a balance like a global government made up of the Champions of each Region. The Elite Four of the World Tournament are, like Gym leaders and other Regions Elites, actually nobles who were born into their titles. Those who beat the World Tournament on Nut Prime, their Elite Four, plus the previous world Champion are made the chairman of the Council of Champions with the Elite Four being their advisers. So basically the King of this world is determined by who's the best at Pokemon Battles.

Digimon and Pokemon are the same thing but many Digimon refuse to admit that (Digiracist!). The barrier between the Digital world and the mortalverse had been heavily fortified by the Digidestined thousands of years ago. It was intended to prevent the two worlds from crashing into each other as they nearly had on multiple occasions. Although all these Digimon were fine, normally if a Digimon somehow manages crossing that barrier their code gets scrambled along with their brains. It's so bad they can only speak through subtle differences in the name of their species, even though Digimon can and do talk normally, and they also loss the ability to turn into eggs after their death. They are, however, much harder to kill though just as easy to injure. The suffix "mon" at the end of a species name is nothing more then a Digimon being polite. You use it for the species not a person's name (few Digimon have names but some do). Not using it is the greatest insult in their culture to the point even a Digimon's most hated enemy will still be addressed as "mon"... but most don't use it when addressing a Pokemon, That's how much they hate them. They hate them because they fear that scrambled code is something that could easily happen to them if they were ever unfortunate enough to fall through the barrier between worlds. The scramble is permanent and passed on throughout generations though if a Pokemon tried hard enough they can learn to speak their code, effectively their DNA, can never recover.

Humans are not native to this planet, although they don't know that. This is not Earth but rather a planet called Nut after the Egyptian goddess of the sky. These humans only know of Earth as a religious belief. These people worship the Egyptian gods, with added myths with roots in Japanese legends, but believe when you die your soul is taken back to Earth. If someone says "What on Earth" it's more along the lines of "what in heaven's name".

Though this series is not a romance there will be some love stories from time to time (and very occasionally rape scenes). Those will not be permanent relationships (how can they be when the stars are traveling all the time from city to city for gym battles and through the Digital world). Be aware that on this world practically everyone is bi, it is rare for someone to be strongly attached to only one gender. Although most still marry opposite genders same sex marriages are far more common then today's era and not thought of as odd by anyone. In fact people who only like one gender are considered the odd ones. Even with that I'm gay so be advised to what kind of relationships the boys will lean to.

Seto Kaiba, Bakura, and the Pharaoh have been reincarnated and will be travelling together. Other characters from the Yugioh franchise will make appearances as well but will not play a large role beyond being reoccurring or even one shot Characters. This story will mostly focus on the three destined ones and their split personalities (No Kaiba doesn't have one. It must be so lonely in his head. He is a sorcerer in addition to being a Pokemon trainer in order to compete with Zorc and The Pharaoh).

In this Yugi Mutou was a reincarnation of The Pharaoh Atem (I'm not sure if that was canon). In my story something went wrong with the creation of the puzzle and instead of awakening the memories of the person who solves it, as it was intended to, it split the memories of all the past lives into a single but separate entity. That entity will then be trapped inside the puzzle. That will happen again when our Future Yugi solves it and ONLY he can solve it because on some level he remembers creating it (To insure other people won't solve it the puzzle as a curse on it which usually results in the death of whoever tries unless they are the Pharaoh's reincarnation). The flaw even goes so far as to jumble up those memories of the entity which holds all the memories of all his hundreds of reincarnations (not all and not even most of the reincarnations found the puzzle and so their destiny went unfulfilled). How this gets jumbled up is random so the Pharaoh may recall glimpses of his other lives as well as his first and Yugi Mutou's life. The Pharaoh is based a little on the anime version, Season Zero, and even has some elements of LittleKuriboh's Yugioh Abridged. He is arrogant, ruthless, sadistic, willing to kill anyone who might get in the way of his overall goal but his goal is ultimately the safety of the planet. He also has a major love of games and makes outrageous bets on them. Such as gambling people's lives and sometimes even their souls in Shadow Games. He is an Anti-Hero but he is a Hero at his heart. Yugi is now Yugi Devlin. Duke Devlin (Yugi's older brother) is not a reincarnation but a very distant descendent who was named after the founder of a company. The original Duke built many companies but only one survived all this time (His company has survived the fall of governments, the movement of continents, and all this time remained in the family. This was only possible as a result of human technology at the time and our adaptability. However most records of the store's history are lost). Devlin's Trainer Dynamics are only found in cities with gyms and usually their only competitor being the local 'Mart'

Seto was born into the Kaiba family (not adopted) and yes he is both a reincarnation as well as a descendent of himself (my explanation is his soul is tied to the family line and how that happened will be explained later). He has two younger brothers (twins but not identical) and a baby sister. Both his parents are alive and come from old money. This new Kaiba is a jerk because he is far more intelligent then the people around him and can't help looking down at them, not because of any trauma. The Kaiba family is not related to Past Seto's adoptive father but they kept the name because Seto did in the show and they are descended from that Seto. The old Seto Kaiba from the show created Pokeballs at some point near the end of his life. After he died his company abandoned the practice of card game protectors as people were more interested in having real monsters battle and focused on producing Pokeballs. They even organized the first Pokemon tournament.

As for why Bakura has the same name I'm not even going to try to justify that because at the end of the tv series there were like a dozen Barukas and they all had the same name. He WILL be embodied with the evil spirit of Zorc but that will happen in chapter two so I won't spoil it. Zorc is based a lot off LittleKuriboh's Yami Bakura. Ryo Bakura will be fighting for control of his own body throughout the story and he will fail at times. He will not only hear Zorc whispering to him at all times but be aware of what the evil Zorc does well in control of his body, unless Zorc doesn't want him to know but Zorc seriously enjoys fucking with Bakura's head. Zorc is the main reason this story is rated so high, though I don't think it will be often he's going to do some pretty nasty things (Such as murder, rape, and the wearing of his victim's entrails. Sometimes all at the same time but I'll try not to go into too much detail about how gruesome it is)

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Next Time: Prepare for Blood

Zorc's arrival , Yugi is given the Pieces of the Millennium Puzzle