Yu-Gi-Oh!: Death Race 5D's
Chapter 1:
The Beginning
A/N: I've been wanting to do a 5D's "parody" on the 2008 movie, Death Race, for some time now, but I was having difficulty with combining the movie's death races with 5D's turbo dueling, and which characters to use, and admittedly, I'm still having issues with both, so if anyone has any ideas that they would like to share, that would help a lot. Don't know how many chapters this will be, but it possibly won't be any more than ten, but that could easily change. This will be rated M. So, as always, if you're under the ages of 18 to 21, I highly recommend that you do not read this, and only do so at your own risk. With that said, let's get to it. I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!: 5D's, nor do I own anything related to the cast and story of the characters of Death Race; they both are owned by their respective creators.
In the near future, there was a shift in the air that was felt by the entire world. The most influential and powerful city in Japan - Domino City - suffered a horrific and tragic event, now known across the world as The Zero Reverse incident. Scientists were trying to harness an unstable and uncontrollable power, that went overload, causing a cataclysmic and catastrophic surge of pure energy that split the mainland in two. Publicly known as a horrible, natural disaster, only those of a higher state in power knew the truth.
Reo and Aiko Fudo, the lead scientist and his second, also his wife, were removed from the project when they had warned the government of the project's unstable properties and had been replaced by the Goodwin Brothers - Roman and Rex Goodwin, colleagues and at one time, friends with the Fudo's. The Japanese Government, in their "infinite wisdom" became mad and hungry for what kind of wealth and power this Ener-D project was going to bring them, if proven to be successful, and they were not above using the Fudo's friends to overthrow and overrule said project; especially, when the lead scientist was against it.
Against the government's warnings and threats, the Fudo's had to try to convince the brothers to stop the project before it was too late; unfortunately, however, testing had already begun, and the reactor went critical, just as Reo and Aiko had predicted. The reactor was going into meltdown, and if it wasn't stopped, the whole island of Japan could've been wiped off the face of the Earth. With the brothers in the wind, there was nothing stopping the reactor from exploding and taking all of Japan with it. Knowing what had to be done, Reo ordered his wife to take their infant son, and try to get as far away as they possibly could, while he went to reduce the blast radius, knowing full well that he wouldn't survive. Despite her husband's command, she stayed by his side, telling him that she had left their son in the care of their babysitter, Martha, and that they started this project together, and was only fitting to have them end it as well.
Knowing that his wife was right, and that their son was in good hands, he only needed to look into his beloved's teary eyes to know what they wanted to say to each other. No more words needed to be said between the two brilliant and intelligent scientists. Acting quickly, they were just able to bring the blast radius to take away only half the city, and prayed and hoped against all possibility that their son - Yusei Fudo - would make it out alive. In their last moment together, they shared one, final kiss, before everything around them turned white.
In a single instant, half of Domino City was engulfed in a powerful explosion that ripped away the most heavily damaged structures of the broken city, and formed it into a lonely island. Husbands separated from wives. Mothers from their children. Families figuratively and literally torn apart in the aftermath. Thousands upon thousands were killed. Even more were injured, and then there were those little few that escaped through the cracks, and just disappeared. The city was in mass panic, mourning, fear, and most importantly, anger. The people were in distraught and in terrible pain, and they needed a figure; someone - a person, or persons to blame for this tragedy, and the government had the perfect scapegoats. The very people that started the Ener-D project, and to those very few who knew that they had not only ended the project, but saved as much of the city as they could: Reo and Aiko Fudo.
Their names were slandered across the world for being the masterminds behind this catastrophe, and only a handful knew the truth and the reality of what really occurred. Martha, a family friend and the Fudo's caretaker was one of the very few people who knew the truth; that the Fudo's were good, generous people, and that they would never had acted in a such a manner. Unfortunately, for her and the young, infant Yusei, they were in the minority of the event. Most of the city's populace didn't have a problem with blaming the people that had started this whole thing. And who wouldn't, if they didn't know the couple as well as Martha, and few others had? It was a logical assumption; albeit the wrong one. Martha knew that the young boy would suffer through a hardship that very few would understand, and even fewer could comprehend, or live through. If only she knew the gravity of the coming events in Yusei's life...
In the aftermath of Zero Reverse, there was a change in political power. Having revealed themselves from the shadows, the Goodwin Brothers had risen from the ashes of Ener-D, and had climbed to the top of now what was called New Domino's political structure. But anyone who knew the gravity and the power that they held, knew that they had been "placed" at the top of the "food chain", and hadn't earned their new titles. Rex headed the more political issues with the city, whereas as Roman would deal with the more rugged and criminal aspects of the city's activities. In time, the city began to rebuild. And came together to restore itself beyond its former foundations, and in a few short years, New Domino was officially christened.
However, there remained the issue with the separated island, now referred to as the Satellite from the general populace. What was to be done about it, and the people that called that placed their new "home"? Would they be rescued and returned to their families back home? Or would they be forgotten, left to wander wartorn, apocalyptic ruins, of the once great city? Before the government of the city could come up with a sufficient answer for all, the Goodwins had another idea.
Crime in the city had gone to a new high, and the city's one prison, dubbed only as the Facility, was becoming overwhelmed and overcome with the various inmates. So, in order to remedy the situation, and to house all the criminals of both Satellite and New Domino, a new Facility would be built, and located on the secluded island, with enough room to house all occupants within. But there would be a twist, in order to weed out the most dangerous of these criminals, instead of giving them a chance for freedom, and to wreak havoc on the city again, a new "tradition" would be added into the criminal system.
The most dangerous and unpredictable of the Satellite's and New Domino's inmates would compete in unsanctioned and deathly Turbo Duels. The winner of five "Death Duels", as it was called would be able to regain their freedom, and rejoin public society. These "duels" or "races" would be featured on the island - Satellite itself - essentially becoming this new "Facility"; accomidated to fit the needs and requirements of these devastating and deathly "games". The only catch, that only the new Goodwins and members of the board knew, was that the races would be rigged so that NO ONE would be able to escape with their lives. The inmates would forever be their playthings and entertainment. At first, the board was hesitant to using their own people, even criminals, for public entertainment, but when the Brothers had told the board that they would undoubtedly gain gross amounts of money from this enterprise, their views on the matter immediately shifted, and in less than twenty-four hours, the petition was signed to create these "Death Duels", or "Death Races" as many had begun calling them was born.
A/N: That's all for chapter one. Just a little short to give you guys an idea of how these "Death Races" come to be. The other chapters will be more broad in scope, especially, the dueling/racing chapters, so that should be challenging and fun to write. Just so were clear, if it wasn't clear before, this will be an AU story, so characters may not be who they are in the anime, but I will do my best to keep them in character as much as I possibly can. Updates will be sporadic as always, and try to be patient; I'm still having trouble with how to handle the duels/races, and which characters I want to use besides the obvious, and like my other stories, this will be a Yusei x Akiza story. Until next time, peace.