Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - An Alternative Universe

by HereICome

In another universe Aoi Zaizen is the main focus. Aoi is trying to move on from a difficult past while having to deal with everyday issues. Duels take place within LINK VRAINS which hides many secrets including links to Aoi's past. Despite this, Aoi wishes to keep away from the network. Two paths will collide which begun in the past. With help/ideas from Romadrox8975.

2. Chapter 2

Turn 1

Aoi LP: 4000 Hand: 4

Spider LP: 4000 Hand: 4

"I shall start!" Aoi yelled.

"A Speed Duel…." Blue thought as it watched from within the duel disk.

"I summon Larkspur Knight!" A purple knight emerged with a green sword.

Larkspur Knight ATK: 1900 DEF: 0 Light/Cyberse/LVL 4

"Cyberse?!" Blue said.

"Leave it for now." Aoi replied.

"Cyberse? So I was right to duel you!" Spider replied.

"I use its effect! I can draw two cards!" Aoi drew two from her deck. "Next I send one to my graveyard. Now I set a card and end my turn!"

Turn 2

Aoi LP: 4000 Hand: 3

Spider LP: 4000 Hand: 4

"I shall be paid quite well once I take your Ignis and delete you! Draw!" Spider said.

"How do you have Cyberse cards?" Blue said. Aoi ignored it.

"I summonCopper Spider!" An orange spider made of the material emerged.

Copper Spider ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Insect/LVL 1

"Copper allows me to summon Brass Spider from my hand!"

Brass Spider ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Insect/LVL 1

"And now!"

"Here it comes." Aoi said to herself.

"I set Brass and Copper!" A portal appeared with different arrows. "The summoning conditions are two Spider Monsters! Go, Link Summon!" Both Monsters shot into the Link Portal. "I Link Summon, Link 2, Titanium Spider!" The Monster was summoned in the left extra monster zone.

Titanium Spider ATK: 1000 Dark/Insect/LINK 2/Down, BR

"Now I use Copper and Brass' effects! When they leave the field for a Link Summon, I can summon another copy of each to the zones my Titanium Spider points to!" Both Copper and Spider appeared back on the field, now linked to Titanium.

Copper Spider ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Insect/LVL 1

Brass Spider ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Insect/LVL 1

"Next when they are linked to Titanium, Spider gains 1000 attack each. That's a further 2000 attack!"

"What?" Aoi said.

Titanium ATK: 3000

"Now I set a card… now, BATTLE! Titanium Spider attack Larkspur Knight!" Titanium launched metal string which trapped Larkspur and destroyed it.

Aoi LP: 4000 – 2900

"Now Titanium's effect! I tribute a Spider it points to during my Battle Phase… to attack once more! And the attack increase remains even if I tribute my other Spiders!"

"What?!" Aoi said.

"If he attacks even once, we will lose." Blue said.

"Stop stating the obvious!" Aoi said.

"I tribute Brass and now your Ignis is mine!" Brass disappeared and Titanium launched another string.

"Go the Trap Cyberse Bloom! I negate all damage from battle and gain a token for each 1000 damage I would've taken! That's three if you can't count!" Aoi had a shield form around her as three purple petals emerged on her field in defence.

Bloom Tokens ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Cyberse/LVL 1 X 3

"Fine! I end my turn!" Spider replied.

"When Larkspur is destroyed, I can add one card from my graveyard! I add Cyberse Nimph! Before you ask, this card was sent to the graveyard when I use Larkspur's first effect!"

"It matters not." Spider calmly replied.

Turn 3

Aoi LP: 2900 Hand: 3

Spider LP: 4000 Hand: 2

"I draw! I banish Bloom to destroy all Tokens on my field and you take 200 damage for each!" Bloom was removed from play as Spider took 600 damage.

Spider LP: 4000 – 3400

"I summon Cyberse Nimph!" A pink fairy appeared.

Cyberse Nimph ATK: 500 DEF: 200 Light/Cyberse/LVL 2

"When summoned I draw a card and if it's a Cyberse Monster, it can be summoned but it cannot attack!" Aoi drew and smirked at it. "I drew Viburnum Witch and now I summon her!" A witch who wore a white rope with a golden wand. She had red hair and rabbit ears.

Viburnum Witch ATK: 2000 DEF: 200 Dark/Cyberse/LVL 5

"Your Cyberse Monsters seem to focus on high attack…" Blue said.

"Yes, quicker to defeat the enemy." Aoi replied.

"I'm not the enemy!" Spider said. "I'm just an average guy trying to get paid!"

"You work for Hanoi!" Aoi hit back.

"I just work for whoever hires me!" Spider replied.

"I'll take your data memory which will lead me closer to Hanoi!" Aoi said.

"Not even that other hero Playmaker can get close to them! They live in the shadows and they will find you if they want you… not the other way around!" Spider replied.

"I'm no hero!" Aoi firmly put. "I'm not a good person, they cannot be a hero!"

"Not a good person….?" Blue said.

"Leave it. Now I use Viburnum's effect! When she's summoned I can target a Monster on my field and double its attack until the End Phase! I double Viburnum!" Viburnum glowed in white as she doubled her attack.

Viburnum Witch ATK: 4000

"Now go Viburnum!" Viburnum picked up her wand and slammed into Titanium Spider. The spider slowly cracked up before being destroyed.

Spider LP: 4000 – 3000

"Now Nimph attack his Cooper!" Nimph slammed into Cooper, destroying it with ease.

Spider LP: 3000 – 2500

"Go my Trap, Call of the Haunted! I return Titanium!"

Titanium Spider ATK: 1000 Dark/Insect/LINK 2/Down, BR

"He returned his Link Monster?" Blue said.

"He's planning a bigger Link Summon next turn." Aoi said as she ended her turn. Her Viburnum returned to its normal attack.

Viburnum ATK: 2000

Turn 4

Aoi LP: 2900 Hand: 3

Spider LP: 2500 Hand: 2

"This is your end! I draw!" Spider yelled.

"He's yet to use his Skill…" Aoi said to herself.

"Skill? Speed Duel? What is all this?" Blue said.

"It doesn't matter." Aoi replied.

"Now I use my Skill!" Spider said. "Eight Straight! I banish eight cards and for each Spider Monster, you take 300 damage!"

"Just do it!" Aoi said.

"Fine! I shall banish four first!" Four cards appeared before Spider. "Very good! I got Informer Spider, Ground Spider and Mother Spider! That's three!" The cards became energy which hit Aoi one by one. She yelled as she took the damage.

Aoi LP: 2900 – 2000

"For the rest!" Four new cards appeared. "Oh look Brass Spider, Cooper Spider and Mother Spider! 900 more damage again!" Aoi braced herself as she took the hits once more; she shielded her face as the damage hit around her D-Board.

Aoi LP: 2000 – 1100

"Now I play the Spell Spider Magic! I target Spider Monsters which are removed from play and summon them X the amount of Link Markers one Spider Link Monster has! Their effects are negated."

"He set this all up." Blue replied.

"Return once more my Spiders!" Both Spiders returned next to the centred Titanium.

Copper Spider ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Insect/LVL 1

Brass Spider ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Insect/LVL 1

"I Link Summon once more! Summoning conditions are three Spider Monsters! I set all three! All three Monsters shot into the circuit. "Appear with the hardest of metals! Tungsten Spider!" A sliver spider with red markings and eyes appeared before Spider in the left EMZ.

Tungsten Spider ATK: 2500 Dark/Insect/LINK 3/BL B BR

"Tungsten allows me to summon one Link Material from my graveyard! Return Titanium!" Titanium was summoned to the bottom-right of Titanium.

Titanium Spider ATK: 1000 Dark/Insect/LINK 2/Down, BR

"When a Monster is Special Summoned to Tungsten's arrow…. you take damage equal to that Monsters attack!"

"A 1000 more damage?! But that leaves us with 100?!" Blue said. Titanium became energy for Tungsten who unleashed a dark web at Aoi, knocking her off the D-Board.

Aoi LP: 1100 – 100

"Aoi!" Blue yelled. The AI shot out of the duel disk and became the blue beam. It reached down to Aoi's arm and wrapped around it.

Blue pulled its self back up, dragging Aoi back onto the D-Board. Aoi recovered as she took a breath in and looked at the blue AI which was back in the duel disk.

"You saved me?" Aoi said.

"Well even though you've not communicated with me doesn't mean I would let you fall?" Blue replied with her arms crossed.

"I could've used my whip to save myself but….. thank you none the less." Aoi replied.

"How sweet…. not as sweet as when I defeat you. On the turn I use this Tungsten Spider's effect I cannot attack…. My turn ends!"

"Your chances of winning are 5%... I cannot see how you can win this." Blue replied.

"5% is better than 4…. don't rule me out until I'm out!" Aoi yelled.

Turn 5

Aoi LP: 100 Hand: 3

Spider LP: 2500 Hand: 1

"Draw!" Aoi yelled.

"Looking at your extra deck… you still do not have any Link Monsters which can help…" Blue said.

"I'll work out a way!"

"Pathetic. Even your own AI knows you're screwed!" Spider yelled.

"She's not my AI and I don't need your comments!" Aoi said.

"You don't even have a Skill…." Blue said.

"Enough!" Aoi yelled. "I haven't been into LINK VRAINS for a very, very long time! Ok!"

"Please let me help you!" Blue replied.

"I said-"

"I know what you said and you're wrong!" Blue said firmly. "You need my help so stop being a brat and let me help!"

"You have an attitude?" Aoi said surprised.

"I said we had free-will, that means I have feelings and you've been treating me like thrash! And my life is at risk if you lose this and I don't wish to die here! Now get a grip and let me help you!" Aoi smirked, impressed at Blue's persistence.

"Very well, do what you need to do." Aoi calmly said.

"Finally!"

"It's useless!" Spider said.

"Just watch!" Blue went into the duel disk and it begun glow with blue. Aoi then glowed blue.

"Cyberse…. CONNECT!" said Blue as Aoi begun to see streams of data and binary codes.

"What… what is going on?"

"I told you that I was born from you…. so you and I share the same code!" Blue said.

"Code?" Aoi replied. A shockwave knocked Aoi back into reality. "What was that?"

"New powers!" Blue said. Aoi looked at she could see streams of data that she couldn't see before.

"What…. what happened?"

"You can now see the truth depths of the network!" Blue said. "I've opened your eyes."

"What…what is that?!" Aoi said as a hurricane was near the duel lane.

"That's a data storm! LINK VRAINS appears to use it… but that's much bigger!"

"Data storm?!"

"They come from Cyberse…. our original world! Somehow the people who built this place… gained our material!"

"What? So the data storm is a part of LINK VRAINS as well?" Aoi said.

"No! It seems Spider hasn't noticed it…. it must be here for another reason!" Blue replied.

"And…. my skill?" Aoi said.

"That's your skill!" Blue said as she pointed. "The data used from our world can connect to our original world! Your skill is Storm Access… you can gain Cyberse Link Monsters from it!"

"What? Monsters?" Aoi replied.

"Yes! We were making a peaceful world until it got attacked! We were making friends… people to belong to our world…. they all disappeared!"

"Wait, he'll over hear us?" Aoi said. "He works for Hanoi; do you want him to hear this?"

"It's fine, we're connected and I'm talking to you from within your mind, he can't hear me… just don't repeat what I said." Blue said.

"Very smart…. I maybe misjudged you." Aoi said.

Maybe"…." Blue said, unimpressed.

"Let's not push it." Aoi replied.

"Whatever…. regardless the data can link back to our world… when they were deleted our friends became data….you can reach into that data and they'll become your cards!" Blue replied.

"I have to go into that… storm?!"

"Scared?" Blue said, teasing.

"Cheeky…" Aoi said. "Fine!"

"Stop talking to yourself and hurry up!" Spider yelled.

"Okay Spider, but first…..!"Aoi rode the D-Board closed to the data storm.

"Where are you going?!" Spider yelled.

"So I go just in it?" Aoi said.
"Yeah." Blue said.

"Fine, here goes everything!"

"I hope we don't die in this." Blue said. Aoi entered the storm and vanished, surprising Spider.

The moment Aoi entered she felt a massive current of wind, she shielded her eyes as she established on the board. Her short hair waved around in the storm.

"Here we go…. Skill activate! Storm Access!" Aoi's wrists begun to glow as her right eye changed into a mixture of yellow and blue as code went across the pupil. "I see something!"

"Grab it!" Blue yelled. Aoi's hand reached the centre and picked up a glowing card. She grabbed it as she exited the storm while reappearing before Spider. Aoi shut her eyes as she reopened them, her eye back to normal.

"Hacking your way out of this duel will do nothing! You can't log out!" Spider said.

"I didn't!" Aoi yelled. "First I play Monster Reborn! Return Larkspur Knight!"

Larkspur Knight ATK: 1900 DEF: 0 Light/Cyberse/LVL 4

"Now! I set Larkspur,Nimph and Viburnum in my Link markers!" The circuit opened. "The summoning conditions are at least two Cyberse Monsters! Go my Monsters!" All three flew into the markers. "Link Summon! Appear Link 3, Ex-Code: Exia!" A tall robot begun to appear. It was white and blue which stood on its two legs. It held a long spear with a sword in the other. One hand had a shield built on the top of the hand. It was summoned in Aoi's right hand EMZ.

Ex-Code: Exia 2500 ATK / Cyberse / Link 3/Water / Arrows: Bottom Left, Up, Bottom Right

"There it is!" Blue said.

"Now I summonAlchemilla Dancer!" Dancer was summoned to the bottom left linked zone. It was a green maiden with a long green dress.

Alchemilla Dancer ATK: 1200 DEF: 200 Light/Cyberse/LVL 3

"Exia gains 500 attack for each Monster linked with it! Plus you take 500 damage for each!"

"What?!" Spider felt a burning pain as he suffered damaged.

Exia ATK: 3000

Spider LP: 2500 - 2000

"Now Exia!" Exia lifted up its sword and slashed Tungsten in half.

Spider LP: 2000 – 1500

"Still can't beat me this turn!" Spider said.

"Yes I can! First Dancer, attack his Titanium!" Dancer spun around and slammed into the second Link Monster, wiping it out.

Spider LP: 1500 – 1300

"Now for Alchemilla's effect! I can tribute her when she's linked to allow that Link monster to attack once more!"

"NO!" Spider said. Alchemilla disappeared.

Exia ATK: 2500

"Exia lost attack… but it's more than enough to end you!" Aoi said. "Exia Final Slash!" Exia slammed into Spider directly with its sword, sending the man flying off his D-Board.

Spider LP: 1300 – 0

As Spider fell off, Aoi looked worried.

"He's going to be forced to log out since he fell from the duel!" Aoi said.

"Leave that to me!" Blue shot out of the duel disk as Spider fell. Blue circled the man quickly and returned to the duel disk. As Spider got closer to the ground, he logged out.

Real World - Jin Home

"So you found… nothing?" Aoi said to Jin who was working on the data.

"No… as soon as he lost… information within his memory regarding Hanoi had begun to be deleted." Jin said.

"No way… so they somehow hacked… his mind?" Aoi said.

"It seems so… they live in the shadows, it's to be expected." Jin said.

"Do we have anything?" Aoi asked.

"One small piece…. it appears he met with a Hanoi member… in a house near here!"

"Near here?" Blue said. "Wait… when are you going to tell me everything you know?"

"Not now." Aoi said firmly. "Well… we know our next place!"

….

"What is this place?" said Spider… he dangled from the ceiling, ironically like a spider. It was a dark room and tried to see what was happening.

"We're disappointed in you." said a voice. The figure stepped out from the shadows.

"Revolver?!"

"You're lucky…. we were able to stop any vital information from leaking out by removing it from your records." Revolver said smugly as he walked around the trapped Spider.

"Why am I here….?!"

"You know why." Revolver said. "You were sloppy… you left a trail for them to follow…."

"I'm not a Knight… you can't do this!" Spider said with panic.

"Yes you're a hireable bandit… but you let us down and that can't go unpunished." Revolver replied.

"What are you going to do?! Delete my account?" What… what are you? You're going to kill me?!"

"Killing is messy and asks too many questions… you'll return to the real world… just… not as you once were." Before Spider could reply, Revolver clicked his fingers and Spider disappeared. "Enjoy having every memory you ever have had wiped!" Revolver smirked as he walked off.

A/N

Thanks for favourites and follows! Thanks to Rom for his cards below. Aoi is using a Cyberse Beatdown deck, Yusaku cards will be used for her as well along with Yusaku himself at a time. Her monsters are a mixture of Trickstar flower theme and other creatures.

ZarcEternal – Thanks and will be all revealed in soon chapters! Clue is from Hanoi Project obviously, became friends from that.

Aoi OC Cards

Cyberse Nimph ATK: 500 DEF: 200 Light/Cyberse/LVL 2 - Made by Romadox8975

When this card is summoned to the field you can again draw card from your deck and if this is a Cyberse monster you can summon it to the field but it cannot attack this turn.

Ex-Code: Exia 2500 ATK / Water / Arrows: Bottom Left, Up, Bottom Right / Cyberse / Link 3/- Made by Romadox8975

2+ Cyberse Effect Monsters

Gains 500 ATK for each monster it points to. When this card attacks a monster on the field, for each monster that is linked with this card you can cause 500 damage to your opponent.

Larkspur Knight ATK: 1900 DEF: 0 Light/Cyberse/LVL 4

When this card is summoned, draw two cards then send one to the graveyard.

When this card is destroyed, you can add one card from your graveyard to your hand.

Alchemilla Dancer ATK: 1200 DEF: 200 Light/Cyberse/LVL 3

When this card is linked to a Link Monster, you can tribute this card and that Link Monster can attack once more this turn.