"WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE LEAGUE SEASON! ARE WE EXCITED?" The announcer yelled from his floating platform. Down below in the arena side stands the crowd was cheering wildly, the din they made white noise from his position.
"GREAT! Now here to begin the ceremony is the man himself, MAXIMILLION PEGASUS!" There was a puff of smoke as the man appeared in all his glory, red suit immaculate, little black bow done just so. He lifted a glass in toast.
"Hello Duellists and fanatics alike! I proudly announce that the competition this year is fierce, with my company now sponsoring a Duellist for the first time. I welcome my daughter, Ebony S Pegasus-Crawford, ESP to the stage!" The man spoke with a joyous voice. There was a flash and green lightning as the next figure appeared on stage. She was an inch taller than Pegasus, her short, shoulder-length blonde hair tipped black. Her clothes were a black collared shirt, white blazer with the Industrial Illusions logo on the pocket, red tie loosely done, her grey jeans showing wear and studded Converses tied the whole look together with her skull beanie atop her head. She opened her piercing green eyes and began to speak.
"G'day all! I'm ESP, the famed illusionist, daughter of Pegasus-Crawford. I'm glad to be here, to introduce the new kind of summoning and rules with the exhibition match tonight!" The girl waved at the crowd as she spoke. They were cheering even louder when she finished talking, her Australian twang the most famous in the world.
"THE EXHIBITION MATCH IS BETWEEN ESP AND CHAAAAAZZ MANJOUME!" The announcer called. Chazz emerged onto the arena, his black ankle-length trench coat covering his dark purple turtleneck, charcoal slacks and black leather combat boots.
"BLACK THUNDER! WOO!" The girls in the crowd screamed. Since his graduation, Chazz had become a famed duellist and financial assistant, often publishing accurate and researched economical predictions.
"Let's get this over with, Peg-Craw." Chazz said. Ebony shrugged as they both activated their duel disks.
"DUERU!"
"I've got A, I go first! Let's start by drawing." Ebony drew her card, a gleeful smile spreading over her face.
"I summon Ultimate Axon Kicker by fusing my Pandaborg and Genetic Woman from my hand!" The monsters that were fused were a robotic panda and a cheeta-covered woman with robotic claws. The large monster to arise from the fusion portal was an Archfiend, or so it looked. It had great white horns and skeletal features, with no flesh, pure energy could be seen pulsing through its clear synthetics.
"I'll chuck these two down. Your move!"
ESP- 4000
CM- 4000
"Right, well I activate Double Summon. I'll play my Twin Sword Marauder, sacrificing him to summon Castle Gate in defence mode!" The knight was only briefly summoned before changing to a gate with bright red doors to guard Chazz.
"I'll throw this down and end."
"DRAW!" Ebony yelled. She looked at her card and smirked.
"This is all over, Manjoume. No matter what you have down, you're about to lose. I'll attack your Gate with my Kicker!" The monster moved forward and swiped the doors clean through, Chazz taking piercing damage.
ESP-4000
CM-3700
"Now I can sacrifice my powerful Kicker for something a little more personal. I tune with the world of light to summon this, MY PSYCHIC LIFETRANCER!" The monster was met with a small boy in blue armour and green hair. He disappeared, the large monster morphing into a smaller, humanoid shape. The light settled to reveal the beauty of the summoned creature.
"THIS IS IT! THE SYNCHRO SUMMON! ESP SACRIFICED A TUNER FROM HER HAND WITH THE MONSTER ON FIELD TO SUMMON THIS ONE!" The announcer called.
"You can't attack, what's the point?" Chazz called.
"This! I have four monsters in my grave. Lifetrancer, if you don't mind, has a special ability. I'll be removing from play my Mental Seeker to gain 1200 life points."
ESP-5200
CM-3700
"Now I can play my first face-down, Psychic Shockwave-The Hundred Watts! Now Lifetrancer, let's do some damage! I remove from play my three other monsters to cause both of us 1500 damage for each!" Lifetrancer became engulfed in a green ball of electricity, Chazz huffed.
"Mystical Space Typhoon!" Ebony smirked.
"Hah! No. Let's do this, Psycho-Sematic damage! Now any card that would otherwise destroy or negate the dealing of effect damage is destroyed, at the cost of 200 of my own life points." Ebony watched with a gleeful grin as Lifetrancer continued to gather energy, the lightning bursting and wiping both players out.
ESP- 500
CM- 0
"That is a TTK. Try again another day, Manjoume." Ebony walked up and shook Chazz's hand, the youth still shaken that this girl, three years his junior, just wiped him clean with effect damage. After a few moments, Pegasus came down clapping.
"Well done, both of you. I look forward to hearing the results of this year's competition. Until then, Ebony, take us home." Pegasus spoke in a slightly distant tone, his eyes looking tired. Ebony nodded and a green light enveloped the two, taking them out of the arena, literally in a flash. Chazz and the entire crowd were left without words.
Far away in the land beyond San Francisco, there was a large facility. This was Industrial Illusions, the hulking mass of steel ever shuffling, the rooms never quite in the same place. Deep in the offices sat a man in a red suit talking with a person in black armour.
"So you begin the tournament next week as a wild card. Play well, Haou. Ebony has great faith in you to bring this Construct to an end. I mean it. Do not let her down." Pegasus' voice was stern as he eyed the masked stranger, his eyebrows knitting into a frown seldom seen.
"I will do what I can, sir, but ending the Construct could be difficult. Especially as I only have dark powers." The stranger spoke simply, their voice altered by the metal of the armour.
"Then find the others, six in all. Bring them back here and we shall discuss this later." Pegasus said as the stranger stood to leave.
Hey everyone, welcome to my GX story! I really look forward to expanding this in later Dark Secrets Volumes, but for now I will explain a few things:
1) I like mixing names. EG: Chazz Manjoume. I grew up knowing Manjoume as "Chazz" but "Manjoume" sounds cooler than "Princeton".
2) I like to stick to the official decks of characters. IE: The ones used in the animes.
3) There are synchro monsters by this point, though only few have them.
4) Any non-synchro monsters from 5D's series will appear. This should have been known from DSV1.
5) The major monsters will be fused to humans in the story. (Like Yubel and Jaden, Lifetrancer and Ebony)
6) Though these monsters are fused to humans, they can still operate as separate beings.
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