The Critical Pendulum

by reminiscent-afterthought

[spoilers for ep 127, AT post-127] Leo's plan hadn't been the only one. The four bracelet girls still searched for their precious someone. Yushou still believed in the boy he called his son. And Zarc...Zarc too searched for something, the same something he'd been searching for all along.

2. take your places

The Critical Pendulum
2: take your places

The glass of their prisons shattered like a star shower, and they'd barely had the chance to back away when it happened. Rin wound up with a bleeding palm – but that was a small price to pay. They were out. And the egotistical doctor had left them their decks and Academia-issued duel disks, so they were quick to interrupt. The duel split: Zarc versus the four girls, and Akaba Leo versus his sons –

Until Leo decided he wouldn't allow that intrusion, and carded Reira before anyone could move to stop him.

'Bastard,' Reiji hissed.

'He was only a replacement for Ray,' replied the Professor, unconcerned. 'We don't need him…with the resurrection of my daughter so close.'

Not one of those girls could imagine considering the Professor as their father, not even Selena who'd grown up at Duel Academia. Things that had confused her before now made sense – but still, there were more important people in her life, in all her lives.

They surrounded Zarc, and the four on one duel commenced.