Yu-Gi-Oh! DS

Episode 1

He woke up in a foreign bed. He seemed to be alone, so he sat up, and was about to go and explore, see where he actually was. But the instant he set his foot on the floor and put weight on it and he collapsed with a thud. He heard commotion outside the room he was in, and a red, or rather orange-haired boy came running, two other boys behind him. Or, they were teenagers, 16 or 17 maybe, he thought. "Where am I, who are you, and how did I get here?" he asked in rapid succession.

"We were going to ask you 2 of those questions ourselves," the orange-haired boy answered. He had some weird markings on his face, but he paid no further attention to them. One of the boys, with black hair with orange and yellow highlights, started talking.

"Before we judge each other too quickly, let's get some names sorted. What's yours?" he asked. The man on the floor hesitated.

"Kaij. My name is Kaij," he said as the boy who had spoken helped him onto the bed again.

"Good, my name is Yusei, this over here is Crow," he said, motioning towards the orange-haired boy. "And this is Jack," he said looking towards the final boy, who had blonde spiky hair. Jack merely snorted. "We found you lying unconscious last night, with a rather trashed motorcycle next to you."

Kaij reacted instantly. "My bike! Where is it?" although he remembered not to stand up this time.

"It's in the garage; it has a very interesting engine, although the framework is completely trashed. Although we didn't dump it yet, until you allowed us to." Crow replied. Kaij was obviously distressed by this message.

"Can I see it? I want to see if at least some of it's salvageable."

"Sure." Crow walked over to him. "Ready Yusei? 3, 2, 1, up!" he shouted as he and Yusei helped Kaij to his legs.

"Thanks guys." Kaij said as they walked down to the garage. The sight was better than what Kaij had hoped for. "Oh, this is nothing special. I can fix this. But probably not with this leg, it hurts like hell. I have a feeling that it's broken."

"Sounds likely" Crow muttered. But then something caught his eye. Or rather, something didn't catch his eye. "Hey, where's your duel disk? You don't seem to have a duel system on your D-wheel either."

"Duel disk? D-wheel? Duelling? What are you guys talking about."

Crow looked like he had swallowed something unpleasant. "You mean... You don't know what duelling is? Either you've got amnesia, or you come from the past or something."

"Hey Crow, maybe the thing about from the past isn't totally unlikely. Remember we saw these weird lights just before he appeared? And the distortion that was around as he appeared?" Yusei said, before asking Kaij something. "What's the last thing you remember?"

"I remember everything."

"What was the last thing you did before arriving here?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't tell you that. It would put my own safety at risk." But then again, if they think I'm dead now... "Ok, forget that. I'll tell you." Kaij took a deep breath. "I am – or was, if your theory is correct – an assassin. I was assigned to blow up a research facility where they were working on developing new holograph technology for a new card game, called Yu-Gi-Oh!" Yusei and Crow looked gobsmacked. Even Jack started to pay attention.

"Yu-Gi-Oh!..." Crow muttered. "That's the duelling we were talking about. It's a card game that's around, what, 30 years old now? And it's survived this long? Incredible..."

Yusei broke in. "We knew it was old, but we didn't know how old... How old are you, Kaij?"

"24."

"What year was it when you blew up the research facility?"

"1996, if I recall."

"It's 2027 now, so this game has survived for..."

"31 years..." Crow continued. "Incredible."

Yusei spoke again. "So, Kaij, did you ever learn the rules of the game before you were assigned to blow up the facility?"

"No."

"Wanna learn? It can be vital to be able to duel these days."

"It seems childish... But sure, if it's that important."

"We'll start with the basics. Jack, would you mind constructing a simple deck for Kaij so he can try it?"

Jack just grunted and walked off.

"Good." Yusei took out his own deck. "This is the main part of duelling, the deck. A deck usually consists of 40 cards, but some can be made up of up to 80, but 40 is the optimal number. A basic deck consists of 4 different types of monster, although there are other types, but we'll save them for later..."

Meanwhile, Jack had wondered off into the back room, where the gang kept all their spare cards, and started making a basic deck for Kaij. He decided to build it up around normal monster cards, and a few basic effect monster, and also a few spells and traps. He considered adding Synchros, but decided against it, thinking it might be a little too complex for a beginner like Kaij. When Jack walked back into the garage, he found Yusei and Kaij waiting for him, each with a duel disk. He threw the deck to Kaij. "Show me what you can do!" He shouted to him.

Kaij and Yusei both slotted in their decks. They were ready. "Duel!" They both shouted.

Kaij - 4000
Yusei - 4000