Slim: took you long enough
Jim: yeah well you wern't helping so shush!
Slim well thaks to all who read this fanfic
Jim: yeah i'm trully greatfull
Slim: enjoy!
Race 3: Rebirth of the rider
D day has finally come and Yusei was simply not happy about this, she had to put the whole medical world on stop for the next few days just so she can show those slithering sakes that no one and I mean no one messes with her kids, not even the law. Yusei was currently in the balcony of her pent house looking at the scenery, oh who am I kidding she was looking at the gray fog of contamination that the city was currently emitting. Yesterday she wanted to tell Tanner, Blister and Connor (the bar tender man I don't know his name so I made him one) but she just didn't know how and the fact that Crow was here was making it even more difficult to spill the beans but Connor got the memo unlike her two brothers.
FLASHBACK
"Uhm, I need to tell you three something but it's between the three of us" Yusei was nervous but she needed to say this "I need to become the ri…"
The door to the bar was slammed open, Crow jumped down the flight of stairs and took a seat in the bar and finally slamming his head against the counter top, everybody in the room sweat-dropped until an old man came in right behind him.
"What's wrong with the kid Yanagi?" Tanner asked pointing at deflated Crow
"Oh nothing other than Jack Atlas coming to say hello" as the name Jack Atlas was mentioned Tanner took Crow by the arm and stampeded out the door leaving a dumbfounded Yusei behind, she needed to say something important and he just left her with the words in her mouth, couldn't the heated rivalry they had for one and another could wait a few couple of seconds
"Well I'll be on my way to I have to take the boat today if I want to get to the Satellites on time, latter" and with that Blister was also gone, by this time Yusei's eye had now developed a twitch
"So the riders going to be reborn again isn't she?" Connor asked as Yanagi gasped in amassment
"No ones seen that legend in two years!" Yanagi had tears in his eyes by now but Connor ignored them and pressed a small button on the bottom of the countertop revealing a secret passage way beneath the bar, Connor was the first to go down helping both Yanagi and Yusei through the old unexplored passageway. When they came to a halt Connor flipped a switch on and waited for the lights to begin to slowly come back to life after two years, in the middle of the room stood the figure of a bike but gray mantels were concealing its true identity; Yusei took a step forward o the forgotten bike and took the gray mantel off slowly.
Her eyes widened at the site of a sleek red bike, her bike completely repaired, the scars of Nazca long forgotten and with new gadgets attached, like a brand new duel disk system, Yusei began to cry at the site and ran over to hug Conner with all her might.
"I knew medicine wasn't your thing, mechanics and racing somehow fits you better so don't waste this opportunity and bring me back the golden crown of the dethroned 'King'" he told her as he rubbed soothing circles on her back, Yanagi somehow got the message because he was so happy to meet this missing legend he fainted on the floor
END OF FLASHBACK
Back to the present, multicolor fireworks adorned the sky just above the turbo duel arena, millions of fans came out to see the chosen gladiators, I mean duelist, fight for the right to be called the king of games. In Yusei's eyes she just saw a crowd eager to see whom will fall on to the asphalt hardest, she scoffed at the sight and made her way in to one of the lounges where she quickly rearranged herself into a black jumpsuit with red flames on the sides. She sighed for what seemed to be the third time today when she looked at the black helmet, which concealed her identity to everybody but herself. She looked at it and memories and emotions of the past began to flood her system trying to drown her, but as she began to reminiscence a knock on her door told her it was time for the opening ceremony, she swiftly secured the helmet and made her way to the arena clad in all her black glory until the daylight struck her like a train, man she was such an office bat, Yusie made a mental memo to get out of the OR more often but it was a good thing that she somehow installed a mute option into her helmet otherwise the sound of the roaring crowd would have made her deaf in a matter of seconds. Yusei ignored the rest of the people around although she did pay close attention to both Jack and Crow whom seem to have no idea who she was but the shocked looks on everybody's faces made it clear that everybody in the stadium was amazed to see the Sultan 'himself' in all 'his' glory after being said to be dead for more than 2 years, she was getting even more upset and the fact that everybody in the dome began making fun of Crow just because he was from the Satellites; the people of Neo Domino were about to hear the most colorful speech that they ever heard she thought they were going to have to censure it but an Aztec like man beat her to the microphone and gave out a heart warming speech, she was going to take that into account latter on in the duels, that's when the pictures of the contestants came out on the screen.
'Interesting, I'm going up against the reaper Shira, this'll be fun' Yusei smirked to herself as she began to leave the stage but not before seeing the spectators mouth out the word Sultan, she scoffed and gave them a pace sing but it wasn't for them it was for the children back in the hospital probably watching her, watching the Sultan.
Private lounge
Well that was embarrassing, Leonardo's duel against Greiger was an absolute failure; yes she already knew that Leo was posing as his sister to get a chance to duel Atlas and yes she already knows whom Leo and Luna are yeez they were her patients at one point after all, she wasn't even paying attention when the loony cop was dueling the only thing she knew was that Crow pulled an unbelievable win from behind, but she paid close attention to how Akiza dueled against the phony knight in disguise, there was something different about her something no one has ever bother to look at and it was eating the poor child inside out but the real question was what could it be?
She didn't ponder on it for to long because it was already her turn to go out an duel, she took out her deck and flipped over the first card revealing a gorgeous silver dragon with tarred wings, yellow eyes and ferocious fangs; she has many good and bad memories with this card she closed her eyes and calmed herself.
'Ready for this partner' she said
'I was born ready Yusei' the reptile answered her
She laughed a little and got on her red duel runner and began to test it out, with a loud roar of the engine Yusei was already off on the track before she knew it, she couldn't hear the roar of the crowd or the MC announcing her she could only hear the sound of the wind against her body and the feeling of being the fastest thing on two wheels, she had to admit she missed that.
"Watch closely Jack, this is history in the making" Rex said as Yusei took the next curve at top speed
Jack could only stare at the screen in complete awe as his hero took every curve of the track with surgeon like precision and accuracy, Jack was a complete fan of the Sultan ever since 'his' first race back in Tokyo not only had 'he' beaten a world champ but also 'he' did it with a junk of a bike, from then on he went on to become just like 'him' strong, cold and ruthless on the track. Jack looked at the palm of his hand 'and I got everything I ever wanted, but at what cost', it cat him friendships and bonds but if the Sultan could rise up from the ashes why couldn't he? Jack looked once again at the screen and saw that the duel already started without t him and saw that his all time hero was already in the back of the duel and that 'he' was dueling none other than Hunter Pace, he clasped his hands together and smiled there was no way that his hero would loose to someone like hunter Pace, no way he paid close attention o the tv unaware that Rex himself was smiling with him.
"Yeehaw! Come on Sultan your supposed to the fastest thin alive (sound familiar) why don't you come over here and show me if you still have it in you to more that 25 miles per hour", hunter mocked
'he's just asking for it' for the last part of the duel Hunter has been ranting on about how he's the fastest, the strongest and the one to take Jack Atlas down, well to bad there's another kid on the block and her name happens to be Yusei Fudo 'next turn he goes down'
"I end my turn" a males voice said, Yusei obviously wired her helmet so she'd sound like a boy she wasn't stupid one wrong move and the media will eat her alive.
"My turn, ah yeah! It's over now sultan after I see you off with a permenat bang I'm going after Jack then I'll be booth the sultan of speed and the king of games thanks to acceleration draw I get to daw two card from my deck and I'll let you look at one of them" Hunter snered as he allowed her to peek at his hand she had to keep herself from gasping at what she saw "I play end of storm!"
"What!" Jack roared as his idol was being hit with none stop lightning
"And now that that's over I think I'll remove one skull flame from my graveyard and summon Supersonic skull"
"If he takes this attack it's over" Jack yelled as he jumped of his seat making Rex look at him strangely
"He? Oh the Sultan, yes if this attack connects he'll not only loose the duel but his title as well" Rex sighed as he saw the predicament Yusei was in but he also remembered the words she told Jack when she did Jack's medical exam "you've mastered this game at the age of six, you took down pro's on your first day, you made it seem as if this game was only for geniuses, so stand up and show this man that no one messes with the sultan!"
'Rex' it was almost as if she could have heard Rex's encoureging words making her step her game up 'your right I'm Yusei Fudo I won when the odds were stacked up against me, lets see if the Sultan still has it in her to pull out a miracle'
"My move, I draw and I'll kick things into high gear by playing shift down" she yelled everyone in the audience gasped but she just drew her two cards "next I summon nitro synchron and with him I call back quiltbolt hedgehog from the great beyond and summoning the give or take trap card"
By the time she did this everybody in the hole stadium was just plain confused unless you were real duelist like Crow, Jack, Akiza, Tanner and Yanagi.
"Huh?" was all Hunter could say as he looked at his reflection glowing from Yusei's helmet
"Don't worry if you don't get it I'll let my dueling do the talking" she said coolly "now I tune my level 2 nitro synchron with my level 5 quiltbolt hedgehog in order to summon Nitro warrior and thanks to that I can activate gap storm"
"it's over thanks for playing Hunter" Jack said as he knew now what was about to happen he looked at his long lost hero on last time before closing his eyes with satisfaction "end him"
"With pleasure" Yusei said to no one in particular "now that I activated a trap on my turn nitro warrior gets hooked up with 1000 points and after nitro attacks he can turn any monster from deffence to attack mode such as your junk synchron and attack again"
"Wait, this isn't how its supposed to turn out" Hunter yelled at Yusei
"Bye bye Hunter thanks for playing, nitro warrior attack dynamite crunch!" she yelled as her monster came out from behind and delivered the wining blow.
Everybody watched as Hunter's life points went down to zero all of them cheering as they had witnessed the glorious return of the renowned legend the sultan of speed, Yusei lifted one arm into the air as she did a victory lap around the track.
"History in the making don't you think so Jack?" Rex asked him as he saw how Jack completely ignored him to watch with triumphant eyes how the sultan did 'his' victory lap once he looked at Rex his eyes were ablaze and a fire of confidence swept both him and jack
"Never doubted it for a minuet" he answered
"That was awesome!" Crow hollered as he threw both his fists up in the air
"you mean to say it was thrilling!" Leo high fived Crow while Luna just sat there in complete awe
"Medicine was never your thing Yusei the track was the only thing that made you like this" Tanner whispered to himself but he was loud enough for Yanagi to hear him
"Indeed it is" he answered softly
"So that's the demon of the track, the sultan himself," Akiza said as she watched Yusei in all her glory
"Indeed it is and he will be our greatest challenge ever" a mysterious dark voice said from behind Akiza 'I won't let you win so easily Goodwin just you wait and see.'
As Yusei came to a stop Hunter was picking himself up from the asphalt with his head bowed in shame.
"I don't get it you were in the ringer, you were as slow as a turtle and still you managed to win against me, how?" Hunter asked Yusei whom just got off her bike and sat right next to Hunter
"Its true tat in this particular duel I wasn't at my fastest but sometimes you have to learn when its time to slow down and analyze your next move, that's what I always do and what I'll keep on doing" Yusei got up and offered hunter a hand
"Hmph, next we meet in the asphalt track I'll be another duelist and another rider, till then Sultan" Hunter bowed and was on his way
"Till next time Hunter" she whispered
The crowd kept roaring even after she left the track, she missed that, the adrenaline of the match, the heat of the battle the calm after the storm, if medicine wasn't for her dueling was and always will be, as she returned to her lobby she changed into a turtle neck dress that ended a little above her knees and her lab coat and headed to Rex's private quarters where she was welcomed by the sight of Jack's eyes shining brightly as he saw a re-run of her battle, Yusei couldn't help but blush at the sight but quickly recomposed herself.
"Enjoying the show" she said as she sat net to Jack at first he just stared at her but then offered her a kind smile "something good happen?"
"Yeah" he said as he allowed her to do his daily check up
"Mind telling me then" Yusei pushed further as she checked his pulse
"I was reminded why I duel" he said
"And that would be" she wrote down the symptoms in her board
"For my mother" those simple words made Yusei stop what she was doing as her whole image of Jack Atlas had been broken in just five seconds by three measly words.