Chapter One: The Destroyers
In another part of town, Yugi Muto was sleeping soundly in his bed when a glowing white portal opened up in one corner of his room. Out of the portal stepped a young man who looked similar to Pharaoh except for his more orange-tan skin clad in a sleeveless black shirt, blue pants with blue boots at the bottom, a short blue cape, and black belts with silver studs around his neck and waist.
The teen quickly stepped up to Yugi and gently shook him by the shoulder. "Yug? Yugi, wake up!" he whispered urgently.
Yugi stirred and slowly opened his eyes. He gazed up at the teen tiredly and murmured, "Spencer? Wha…"
"Yug, I'm sorry that I woke you, but we've got a problem," Spencer said. "Susiros and Resheph are back in your world."
Yugi bolted up in bed, fully awake after getting that shock. "What?"
"And what's worse, they've apparently been here for a little less than a week."
"WHAT? Why would you only find out about this now?" Yugi cried, throwing his blanket off of him.
"Because the bakas decided to use the very first portal to other worlds, the one that's all the way up in space," Spencer replied, rolling his eyes. "Practically no one uses that one anymore because of the custom portals, so we only check on who's going in and out of it once a week or so. Of course, after this we're going to start monitoring even that one 24/7, but…" He shook his head.
Yugi snapped his fingers and changed his PJs into his white shirt, blue jacket, blue pants, and white and black shoes, with a blue belt around his neck. He quickly grabbed the Millennium Puzzle from his desk and slipped it over his head. "Do you know where they are now?"
"Unfortunately I haven't been able to sense them out quite yet, but I have been able to sense something else that's rather interesting: There's apparently another couple of people in town who've got the stereotypical superhero powers on them."
"The stereotypical superhero powers?"
"You know-super strength, super speed, impenetrable skin…those kinds of powers. I haven't been able to determine quite yet if they're connected to those two knuckleheads or not, but I think it's safe to say with them around that the answer's a definite 'yes'. C'mon, I'll take you there."
Spencer and Yugi snapped their fingers and transformed into thousands of gold and blue sparks which soared through the window on Yugi's roof and out into the streets of Domino.
The showers of sparks landed down in the darkened Domino shopping district and transformed back into two human beings. The two looked around to see that they were standing in front of a jewelry store named Houshu Jewels. Like most of the other stores, its windows were darkened and only the street lights slightly revealed the display of beautiful jewelry within them and the sign which read Closed. This store, however, had one major difference: its front door had been kicked down and an alarm inside was blaring.
From inside, the two suddenly heard footsteps dashing towards the door. They quickly ran to the side of the building and peered around its corner to see two men dressed entirely in black and wearing ski masks over their faces come out of the store carrying sacks which, the heroes assumed, were filled with jewelry.
"C'mon, man, let's get outta here," one of the masked men whispered to his companion. The two started slowly running away, weighted down by their large loads, with the other guy crying out in delight, "We're gonna make a fortune off of these!"
"We gotta stop them," Yugi whispered to Spencer.
The two stepped out of the alley and were about to start a chase when they suddenly saw two people dash up lightning-fast in front of the crooks, forcing them to stop. One was a guy with neatly cut brown hair wearing a black leather body suit which looked like it was straining to stay together due to his large muscles, dark blue gloves, a blue utility belt, and dark blue leather boots. The other was a buxom girl with flowing blonde hair that wore a similar but sleeveless black suit, dark blue gloves that went to her elbows, a slimmer blue utility belt, and knee-high dark blue boots. Both had black satin masks over their eyes.
"Those are the guys I sensed out!" Spencer whispered to Yugi.
"But if they're stopping those crooks, then maybe they're not connected with Susiros after all," Yugi whispered back.
"Maybe, but just in case, let's see what they do."
The two ran back into an alleyway and peered around the building corner to observe the supers and crooks.
"Who the heck are you?" one of the criminals said, his voice revealing how shell-shocked he was.
"We are The Destroyers," said the guy in a deep, commanding voice.
"We live by one rule," the girl said. She pounded her fist into her palm. "Get the criminals and give them no mercy!"
The crooks snapped out of their initial shock at hearing that and tried to run around the black-clad supers, but the two zoomed like black blurs around and right back in front of them, stopping them dead in their tracks.
"Not so fast, you two," the man said. He picked one of the guys up by his shirt collar and flung him like a rag doll right through the display window of a nearby store, shattering its glass into thousands of pieces.
The other guy stared in horror at where his buddy had been flung. The distraction let the girl grab him by his throat and lift him right off of the ground.
"Air…" he gasped out. "Air…"
The female heroine only tightened her chokehold on him. "Bet you regret what you just did now, hmm?" she mocked him. "Well too bad it's too late for ya!"
Yugi gasped in horror as the two black-clad supers laughed at the man's agony. Spencer cried out, "By the gods…they're just petty mortal criminals! They deserve to be punished, sure, but not killed!"
Just as the criminal's eyes were starting to roll back into his head, however, the hidden heroes suddenly heard a loud rip nearby. The two supers suddenly vanished, sending the guy collapsing onto the ground. He sat up and gasped heavily for breath while his comrade slowly climbed out of the display window, slightly cut from being flung through it.
"Dude," the guy in the street panted, "let's get outta here…"
"Agreed," the other guy said, limping over to his pal. "And if I ever get an idea like this to steal for some cash again…please slap me."
The two started walking down the street, holding each other up and leaving their sacks of jewelry on the ground.
"Who on earth were those guys?" Yugi cried out.
"Not as good as they'd seem, that's for sure," Spencer replied. "C'mon, let's get back home; you need sleep and I need to keep trying to sense the two bakas and apparently those two new thugs out. We'll call the others about this in the morning."
"Right," Yugi nodded. The two transformed back into thousands of sparks which soared up and back off towards the Game Shop.