It was a typical day for the Fudo and Clark siblings as they were all hanging out together like they usually did at the Clark household. However, one day was different, as the mailman came to deliver mail to their homes, and there appeared to be a package delivered at the Clark household with Tony's name on it, and where, of course, it would be involved with an adventure.
"So, we're watching the clouds instead of watching TV?" Tony complained.
"Yeah, I like to watch the clouds..." Felicity said as she had joined them outside. "I like being outside, even if my parents aren't very outdoors people."
"Oh, great." Tony groaned.
Felicity frowned towards Tony.
"Sorry about Tony, Fliss," Lee told the cousin of the Fudo siblings. "He's a bit of a spoilsport at times."
This made everyone laugh while Tony glared in offense.
Tony was about to say something until he got a text from his parents. "Hey, Mom, just sent me a text message... Apparently I have a package."
"We better find out what it is." Marc said.
They soon all got up off the ground and came into the house.
Tony sat on the couch and opened up his package to see that it was a gift and there was a card that came with it. "'Use these wisely, even if you are a mortal, I trust you will handle these with care well into your journey with your friends and family'," He then tossed the card over his shoulder and opened the box to see it was a card album with certain cards inside of them. "Amazing."
"Trading cards?" Felicity wondered.
"Not just any cards, Frenchy," Tony told her as he grinned at the collection. "Cardfight Vanguard."
"I wonder who sent them?" Estelle said as she picked up the card that was on the package.
"Maybe it was an old heirloom from Grandpa." Megan suggested.
"I doubt it." Marc replied.
"Ooh..." Estelle's eyes sparkled in inspiration like an anime. "It's from Drell... He actually found a mission for Tony... This makes me think of Dad's story of when he first met Yugi Moto and those other people in Domino City."
"But it says mortal human." Vincent said.
"Well, the Clarks are mortals..." Estelle replied.
"Or are they?" Felicity replied mysteriously while scrunching up her eyes.
Tony decided to see which Clan he got. The others followed Tony as this seemed important and they met in his bedroom.
"According to this, I'll be with Aichi Sendou." Tony told the others.
"Who's that?" Felicity asked.
"Someone from Japan." Tony said.
"Japan, huh?" Akito and Estelle replied.
At the Fudo house...
Akito knocked on the door of his father's home office and soon got an answer. "Dad, I know we can't bother you at work, but I have a question about Japan, do you know anyone named Aichi Sendou?"
"Yes, I do," Atticus said. "His destiny is kind of 50:50 on both sides of good and evil when his power comes in."
"So, is he a friend or foe?" Akito asked nervously.
"A friend, but just know that power can overtake some people." Atticus said.
"Thanks, Dad." Akito replied before leaving again.
"Glad to help, son." Atticus smiled to his younger son.
Akito soon went to inform the others about what he learned.
"Okay, how do we get to Japan?" Tony asked. "It's like a zillion miles away from here!"
"That, I don't know." Akito said.
"Can't we use magic somehow?" Felicity asked. "I mean, is that not what Drell does for us since our parents are too concerned about their own money?"
"Ah, parents, they never use money on anything good." Tony scoffed.
Tony's cards started to glow.
"Uh, Tony?" Estelle spoke up.
"Not now, I'm thinking." Tony told her.
"Don't you interrupt my girl!" Lee glared before smiling. "What is it, Estelle?"
"Tony's cards are glowing." Estelle pointed out.
"They are?" Tony asked before looking at his Cardfight Vanguard cards.
Estelle nodded as the cards glowed.
"Somehow, we have our answer." Vincent said.
Tony soon brought his cards and where the first card he brought out glowed the brightest.
"Is this good or bad?" Felicity panicked. "Is this good or bad? I don't know, I don't know!"
"This is good." Akito said.
"Okay, thank goodness..." Felicity breathed in relief. "I guess we have an adventure ahead of us."
They were soon all suddenly teleported away and soon in Japan outside of a shop where people were playing trading cards with like in old-fashioned Yu-Gi-Oh.
"Whoa." The teenagers said.
"一体何が起こりました?!" Akito asked before cupping his mouth. "私はちょうど日本語を話しましたか?"
There was soon a blast from Akito's own magic.
"Testing... 1, 2, 3... Cinnamon buns... Cinnamon buns!" Akito called out before breathing in relief. "Oh, good, English."
"What did you say in Japanese?" Tony asked.
"I wondered where we were, then I asked why I was speaking in Japanese." Akito translated himself.
"Ohh." Tony said.
They soon went inside of the little shop to see what was going on. A blue-haired teen boy seemed to be playing his cards against a brown-haired boy.
"Could that be him?" Tony asked.
"It's likely." Felicity replied.
"You guys wanna watch the fight?" A purple-haired girl who was a cashier asked them.
"Yes, please." Estelle said.
"It looks like a good one." The purple-haired girl smiled to them.
"You seem nice." Felicity smiled back to her.
"Thank you," The purple-haired girl replied. "My name is Misaki."
"Nice to meet you, Misaki." Megan smiled.
Felicity saw a cat on the counter and stroked its fur gently. The boys looked intense about their card fight.
Tony walked over to take a closer look as he was very excited to be apart of this. 'If only this could be like Yu-Gi-Oh.' The black-haired boy thought to himself.
"Tony, don't stand so close, you'll hurt your eyes." Marc advised.
"It's a card fight, not a TV, Marc." Tony rolled his eyes.
"Oh, right." Marc said.
The blue-haired boy seemed to be thinking long and hard about his fight with the brown-haired boy.
"Looks like they're having fun." The blonde boy smiled.
"No doubt," Misaki replied. "It's a good fight."
"Aichi Sendou and Toshiki Kai," An olive green-haired boy with glasses folded his arms with a smirk. "Naturally they'd the ones enjoying Vanguard the most right now."
Tony's eyes seemed to show him something that the others couldn't see.
"No organize in you defense at all.. Amazing!" The blue-haired boy told his opponent. "You're truly something, Kai."
"And you've become strong throughout your journey as well, Aichi, but..." The brown-haired boy replied as he took out one card from his hand. "I'll pulverize you with one final blow!"
'This is intense.' Tony thought to himself.
"RIDE THE VANGUARD!" The brown-haired boy told the blue-haired boy.
"Here it is!" The blonde boy gasped. "Kai's trump card!"
"What's his trump card?" Felicity asked.
"Flames of Apocalypse." The blonde boy told her as Kai played that very card to burn everything to ash.
Tony's eyes soon showed him a battlefield.
"Dragon Overlord!" Kai yelled out.
Tony rubbed his eyes as he couldn't believe them while everyone else simply saw a basic game of cards. 'W-What's going on?" He thought to himself in bewilderment.
Aichi gasped about the card placement. Even the cat looked concerned.
"Again..." Aichi said as he seemed to be in a burnt down battle ground. "Again the Planet Cray..."
"Aichi, what's going on?" Tony asked.
"Huh?" Aichi looked over to him. "Who are you?"
"I'm Tony, and I would like to know what the heck is going on here?!" Tony exclaimed as they were on the battlefield.
"Well, this is a special ability I have," Aichi replied. "I'm not sure how to explain this, but be careful, Flames of Apocalypse has just been played."
"I'll be careful." Tony said.
Someone soon emerged from the flames in front of them.
"Blaster Blade...?" Aichi muttered nervously.
"Why are you nervous?" Tony asked him. "Isn't he your Vanguard?"
"He is, but I don't understand what's happening in this zone." Aichi told Tony.
"What I don't understand is how am I seeing this?" Tony asked.
"I'm not sure myself," Aichi replied. "You must have some sort of gift of sight." he then gasped slightly as Blaster Blade came up to him.
"Aichi Sendou... My Vanguard..." Blaster Blade came toward the teen boys to warn them about something. "At this moment, the Planet Cray is collapsing into an abyss."
"Wait, what?!" Tony gasped.
"Collapsing?" Aichi asked his Vanguard nervously.
"We leaders have gathered in need to awaken The Messiah... Our savior..." Blaster Blade told them both.
"But if that's true, then who sent me a deck of Cardfight Vanguard cards?" Tony asked.
"Who are you?" Blaster Blade asked him.
"My name is Tony Clark," Tony replied. "I'm from SouthDale, it's a town in America."
"So, is the Messiah you're looking for...?" Aichi asked.
"If The Messiah were to be awaken, maybe then Cray and the Planet Brandt would-" Blaster Blade replied.
"Whoa, Blaster Blade!" Aichi told him. "Tell us! You say collapsing, and what Messiah? A savior?"
Tony felt very confused over what was going on. "I have absolutely no idea what's going on!" He exclaimed.
The scene seemed to change instantly.
"This isn't helping!" Tony complained.
"Kai's card must be playing against him." Aichi said to Tony.
"Against him?" Tony asked.
"That's what we do in card fights..." Aichi sighed. "You have a lot to learn, kid."
"Man, I hate learning, but alright." Tony groaned about that.
The others wondered what was going on with Tony on the outside as he looked spaced out more than usual.
"Hello? Tony?" Vincent spoke up as he waved his right hand in front of Tony's eyes.
"It's like he's a mindless zombie." Estelle commented.
"You haven't lived in Southdale long enough," Marc joked before he saw Tony was still out of it. "Hmm... There does seem to be something wrong with him though."
"And his eyes seem to be a different color." Felicity said.
Akito poofed up a magical thermometer and put it in Tony's mouth. "Let me test this..." he then said. "I doubt it's anything like Pony Pox or the Feather Flu."
"Those are things?" Marc groaned about the fantasy world since he was a boy of science.
"Yep." Akito nodded.
Soon enough, the card fight ended and Tony woke up.
"Good, he's alive." Megan sighed.
"What just happened?" Tony held his head as he looked around, then saw the thermometer in his mouth and spit it out. "And why was that in my mouth?"
"We were trying to find out what was going on with you," Felicity said as Akito checked the thermometer. "You were zoned out."
"I was?" Tony asked.
"Yeah, we couldn't even talk to you," Estelle said. "It's like when you fall asleep in class, only you were dead or something."
"This is very strange," Akito said as he looked at the magic thermometer. "According to this, Tony appears to have an ability called the PSY Qualia."
"PSY Qualia?!" Tony asked.
"Yeah, it allows the person to see into a card battlefield and see it through the cards eyes and also allows them to see how the battle will end," Akito said. "It can even let the person talk to Vanguards from the planet called Cray."
"I have PSY Qualia?!" Tony asked out of shock.
"Hm... That explains why you spaced out." Akito diagnosed like a magic doctor.
"So, what did you see?" Marc asked his younger brother.
"It was weird," Tony explained. "I was with Aichi in this fiery battle ground and Blade Blaster was right in front of us and talked about Kai, and that Planet Cray was collapsing into an abyss."
"What?!" The group gasped.
"It's true!" Tony told them. "I saw it right before my eyes! Aichi could see it too!"
"He must have PSY Qualia too." Akito guessed.
"How can I have this though?!" Tony asked. "I'm a normal mortal, I'm not magic like you guys!"
"Hmm..." The other Clark siblings wondered about how this could be possible since they didn't know about it either.
"Drell must know." Estelle said.
"Should I get him?" Akito asked as he brought out the warlock summoning spell from his father.
"How long have you had that?" Tony asked.
"Dad gave it to me in times of emergency," Akito replied. "You never know when we might need it."
"Well, go ahead and use it." Estelle told her twin brother.
Akito took a deep breath and soon recited the spell to summon Drell for them so he could answer a very big question for them.
