"Speaking"
*Noises*
"Thoughts"
Café Haru, the next day (17:34 PM)
"Everyone! Here I go!" Blue Angel cheered happily to her fans on the outside watching. Within the Café most people were watching the Duel that was being broadcasted, it of course starred the Idol of Link VRAINS, Blue Angel, and her opponent was just a random person.
"Get ready! This is the finale!" she said winking to the audience, as Matoyia manning counter, while Hiroshi, Sora and Yui, who still had her cast on, and two crutches by her chair were watching the Duel, "Finish him Blue Angel!" Hiroshi cheered, a lot more than usual, being the quiet one of the group.
"Wow! I didn't know you were such a big fan of hers..." Sora said, mildly surprised, "Either that, or he just likes here because she reminds him of an Anime girl!" Yui joked, making Hiroshi go quiet and blush, "S-Shut up..." he muttered.
"Trickstar Holly Angel will attack you directly!" Blue Angel shouted, as her ace monster, created a whip, which had a red ball, like that of a wrecking ball, and whipped it out at her opponent. This took the rest of her opponent's LP, which was at 300 before the attack.
"And that's that..." Matoyia said, "That's the end!" Blue Angel said winking to the audience once again. "Now you all behave until my next live show! See ya! Bye bye!" she said, and with that she sailed off on her D-Board, as they were having a Speed Duel.
"Wow she's amazing..." Hiroshi said, "Yeah, but I think Go Onisuka could take her, he still is No. 1 as a Charisma Duelist..." Sora muttered, crossing his arms, "You do know, that only means popularity right?" Matoyia said slyly, "Then if that's true, shouldn't Playmaker or Codebuster be No. 1? They are quiet popular these days." Yui said, as she looked up something on her tablet.
"But you need to be registered as a Charisma Duelist for that, I mean sure Codebuster is a Charisma Duelist, ranked fourth..." Hiroshi said, "So why hasn't he moved up… You'd think he would since he beat Go..." Yui said, but then received a glare from Go's fan, Sora.
"True… but can't the Charisma Duelist choose to stay where they are..." Matoyia said, half lying, as being Codebuster's alter ego, he had received an email, that said, if he wanted to move up to 3rd position, he declined, as he rarely did Duel in public, unless it was a Hanoi knight, which he had taken down 3 more in secret.
"I also think that being a Bounty Hunter, that may set his popularity off track a bit..." he added, "Still though, since he has Duelled Go and won, you'd think Blue Angel would be next for him to go against?" Hiroshi said, just dreaming about the day his female idol and one of his male idols Duelling… then he decided to think of what their virtual children would look like…
"They'd name a boy Code Angel..." he muttered out loud, confusing the other three. "Okay..." Matoyia awkardly said, "But I think Codebuster would go after Playmaker, from the videos I've seen, it looks like he wants to Duel Playmaker!" he said.
"That would be amazing to watch!" Yui said excited, "It would, just think two amazing Duelist, giving us an amazing Duel with their Cyberse Decks!" Hiroshi said, picturing it. "Well, we won't know if that will happen..." Sora said, making Hiroshi feel down.
"Speaking Duels, did you hear about the Mysterious Duelist?" Matoyia asked, hoping to change the subject, "You mean NoPlayer? Doesn't he take cards from Duelist?" Yui asked, "And is said to finish his Duels like in the blink of an eye?" Sora added.
"That one?" Matoyia said, as this morning, he did quick search up on NoPlayer, to see if he could out anything else on him, from watching his Duel, he knew that he used a Machina Deck, which had Link Summoning and Synchro Summoning incorperated into it, but that was about it. So he asked his friends just now, to see if they anything else turned up, turns out they knew just as much as him.
"Well all I know..." Sora said, peeking his interest, "Is that he must be a coward!" Sora finished, making Matoyia nearly slip over, but he managed to recover discretely. "What was I expecting from Sora, he calls everyone but Go Onisuka a coward..." Matoyia thought. As he recalled Sora called Codebuster a coward when he first showed up as a Charisma Duelist… Matoyia didn't talk to him for a few days after that.
"Well, I suppose I should make my way home..." Yui said, picking up her crutches and standing up on them, "I'll see that she gets home..." Sora said, also standing up. "Bye guys..." Matoyia said, as the two walked… well, one slowly made their way out of the store.
"Do you think Codebuster will Duel Blue Angel?" Hiroshi asked Matoyia, "Maybe..." he said, as he too pictured the Duel between him as Codebuster and Blue Angel… then for some reason, he pictured their kids.
"Whoa! Where did that come from?" he thought in shock, "I know she's hot, but I thinks she like three years younger than me… I prefer woman, not girls..." he added… blushing... "What's with the blush?" Hiroshi asked, "Errr... Coming Asuka!" he yelled, quickly making his out back... where Asuka walked past him confused, "What's with him?" she asked confused, but Hiroshi just shrugged...
Zaizen's Residence, (just after Blue Angel logs out)
Within the place a sphere of light was slowly vanishing, and within the disappearing sphere was Aoi Zaizen in her school uniform still, as she was in fact Blue Angel. "You've logged out." her Duel Disk told her, making her open her eyes.
"I hope he watched that..." she thought sitting up, then made her way into the kitchen and grabbed a bottle from the fridge and then sat down on the sofa near a window, where the bustling sounds of the city could be heard, but this also gave her an amazing view of the sunset.
Which she slowly saw disappear, "It'd be nice… for brother to love me again." she muttered to herself, as she was talking about her brother, Akira Zaizen, who now a days, just spent his time working.
Sure he did it to ensure they never had to go back to the life they had before, but she'd like him to pay her more attention, this was mainly the reason for her becoming Blue Angel, well that and a book…
"What else can I do to gain his attention beside Dueling as Blue Angel?" she thought, as Akira most likely knew about her being Blue Angel, which she hoped, "Cooking? No, I haven't been taught to do that, I'd probably burn something." she thought.
"Get a boyfriend? No… They'd only be with me for a job or something, they wouldn't truly love me..." she frowned at that thought. As that was mainly the reason people approached her, for a job at SOL Technologies for when they finished school, or the new Duel Disk that came out, they weren't cheap.
"The only thing that would work is Dueling..." she said out loud which made her think about something else, "Brother has been trying to catch Playmaker for that AI thing he's got, maybe if I could Duel him for it, and win, I could give it to Brother, and he may pay more attention to me!" she thought smiling.
"Or better yet, beat Codebuster and his new Deck, that way brother would see me as a person that can be depended on..." she thought thinking about the Bounty Hunter, but her thoughts trailed back to Playmaker, having gained a some-what crush on him for saving her virtual life back then…
"I do it! I'll beat both Playmaker and Codebuster!" she declared gazing out the window…
Café Nagi, (30 minutes later)
The mobile truck was hidden from sight, and within the truck was Yusaku, Ai and Shoichi with him typing into the computer, "Unbelievable. It's impossible..." Shoichi said, "What is?" Yusaku asked, this made Shoichi hit a button, making a picture of a girl with brown bob cut hair, wearing the female school uniform of Yusaku's school.
"This is Aoi Zaizen, 16 years old, Sister-in-law to Akira Zaizen, the Security Manager of SOL Technologies..." Shoichi read, "As well as Blue Angel's true identity." he added, "Oh really?" Ai asked.
"So?" Yusaku asked nonchalant, "Do you notice anything about her uniform?" Shoichi said, shocking Ai, who realised it, but Yusaku still didn't, "Wow. Still can't see what's in front of your nose." he joked. With this Yusaku focused hard on the picture and also realised, "She goes to my school." Yusaku said.
"Exactly. "Yusaku, I thought that if you get to know her..." Shoichi went to explain, "… You can get information for us." he said, "Mostly about your lost memories and my brother from the Zaizen of SOL Technologies..." he finished.
"But that's impossible..." he said leaning back on his chair with a grin, "Why is it impossible?" Ai asked, "You do know we're talking about Yusaku right?" Shoichi said to the AI, "Could you imagine. Yusaku trying to talk to a girl?" he said, trying to not laugh.
"Yeah, this will be impossible..." Ai agreed looking away from his captor. "I'll have you know that I can." Yusaku said, slightly blushing, "Please. You were lucky that Aito actually wanted to be your friend, you have to actual try and be her friend." Ai said, making Shoichi smirk more.
"See. Impossible. Impossible impossible. Totally impossible Not possible. Never possible." he went on with Ai laughing at this, "I show them..." Yusaku thought annoyed, but deep down… he was nervous, as this would be the first girl he actually talked to…
Café Haru, Third Story, (22:34 PM)
Within the building still up and on his computer was Matoyia, he was staying up as late as he could, not that it mattered, as it was his day off tomorrow, along with the next day, so he could sleep in and do anything, hence why he was doing what he was doing now before that.
"Let's see who Blue Angel really is..." he said to himself as he was within SOL Technologies's systems, going though the accounts of the people that used Link VRAINS, a few minutes later he found what he was looking for.
It was a picture of a girl with brown bob cut hair, "Aoi Zaizen!? Akira has a little sister?!" he said a bit shocked by this, but then he read more on her, "Oh! Sister by marriage between their parents, who died on the day of their anniversary in a car crash..." he read, a bit said by that, yet another family losing parents.
"I knew she was younger than me as Blue Angel..." he said to himself, "Well honestly, I actually thought Blue Angel in real life was a 30 year old anime nerd or something..." he thought, then shuddered at the thought.
"I don't really need much from her or Akira, as I'm already in SOL without being detected..." he said, and with this he got out of the system, and turned off his computer.
"That will be all for now, time to sleep in..." he said yawning, and with that he got into bed and fell asleep… "Maybe I can Duel her… just once..." he mumbled in his sleep…
Den City High School, the next day, (13:06 PM)
Sitting down on a circular stone bench near a hedgerow was Yusaku, watching as students walked by, with his Duel Disk raised up. "So it's possible?" Ai asked, his voice being turned down just so the other students didn't hear him.
"Honestly, I didn't think you had a thing for picking up girls." it added, "I don't." Yusaku said, "Anyway, school is full of people who are dressed the same, so it makes it harder to tell them apart-" Ai said.
"Just hurry up and find her." Yusaku retorted, "Fine. Let me see..." Ai said as he started to scan individual girls strolling by, they didn't match, so he narrowed his eye, "Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope." he said, but suddenly he spotted her, just on the other side of the fountain, walking somewhere.
"Found her!" it said, making Yusaku look at his direction, he too spotted her, so he got up and followed at a safe distance. A few minutes later, they were inside the school building, at the third level, which mostly held the club rooms.
"Wow! By combining the data of each of her parts, I'd classify her as beautiful." Ai said to Yusaku, "Stay quiet and keep watch." Yusaku said back, suddenly Aoi then stopped, turned to a door to a room, opened it and walked in.
Yusaku then walked up to the room she walked into, and was mildly surprised at what the door read "Duel Club?..." he said to himself, reading from the plaque on the door, "Fujiki!" Naoki said, making him turn to greet not only him, but Aito, who was being dragged by Naoki.
"Naoki. Aito. What are you doing here?" Yusaku asked, "I'm a member of the Duel Club!" Naoki gloated, "As for Aito, I ran into him on my way in, and decided that he'd be perfect for the Club, as we're looking for members." he explained, "But-" Aito went to say.
"So what are you doing here with your Duel Disk?" he said, cutting Aito off, "Well..." Yusaku went to explain, "Oh, I know! You came to join the Duel Club like Aito!" Naoki rushed to say.
"Me? Duel Club?" Yusaku said actually surprised, "Oh, I didn't know this room was the Duel Club." he quickly said, "Stop playing dumb!" Naoki said grinning, "This place isn't for a loser who has no interest in Link VRAINS!" Naoki said, "Well… if you excuse me-" Aito said, trying to leave, but was caught in Naoki's arm again.
"But you said you wanted to join!?" Naoki said, looking at Aito, "I don't think he ever said that..." Yusaku thought, looking at the nervous Aito. Suddenly the door opened, revealing a boy with glasses and a flat nose.
"What's the ruckus, Shima?" the boy said, "I can hear you from inside." he added, "P-President! I'm sorry." Naoki said bowing, "But it's their fault-" he went to say, "It's fine. New Applicants are always welcomed." the boy said looking over Yusaku and Aito
"Please come in." he said walking back in, "No, wait..." Yusaku went to say, but- "Okay! Thank you!" Yusaku said, the real one was shocked but it was actually Ai, mimicking his voice, "How dare you..." Yusaku... The real one said glaring at his Duel Disk, as Naoki walked through the door, dragging Aito with him.
A few moment later, Yusaku was standing up front, along with Aito, with a sour looking Naoki, "I'm freshman Yusaku Fujiki." he said then bowed, "Freshman Aito Haru..." Aito said nervously, then did a shaky bow.
"I'm Hosoda, Club President." the boy now named Hosoda said, "I'm Tanaka. Second year." Tanaka, a small boy with red hair in a short pony tail. "I'm also second year. Sato." Sato, a large boy with thins glasses on said. "I'm freshman Suzuki." Suzuki, a tall boy with an egg shaped head, with brown hair that framed it said.
"I'm freshman Zaizen," Aoi said, "Say, do you want to see the new Duel Disk?" Sato asked, lifting his arm up to reveal the new Duel Disk. "Oh! The version with an AI that supports you during a Duel." Yusaku said, veining interest, "Hey! I already showed you my Duel Disk!" Naoki yelled at him.
He then went to rant at Yusaku more, but the door opened again, to reveal AnDru Plast, his sister AnDra and Ayano.
"Oh what are you three doing here?" Hosoda asked, "I hear Naoki Shima was a member here..." AnDru said, looking at Naoki, "You forgot to pay me for fixing your Duel Disk!" he reminded the boy.
"Oh right!" Naoki yelled, he then quickly reached into his pocket and took out the 1000 yen for AnDru, who took it, "Are you perhaps interested in joining the Duel Club?" Hosoda asked, "No not-" AnDru went to say, but he noticed Yusaku and Aito.
"Oh Yusaku, Aito, what are you doing here?" he asked, generally surprised. At this Noaki snorted, "I got them to join!" he gloated, "But I-" Yusaku went to say, "Oh really, then if you're joining, I think I'll join too!" he said, "Then I'll join!" AnDra said hugging her brother from behind. "Me too." Ayano said.
"Anyways, you sure know a lot about the new Duel Disk." Aoi said to Yusaku, "Only because Shima keeps bragging about it." he said back to her, "But he's not the only one with it..." he added, this made Naoki feel unspecial now, "Hey! I never said I was only one that had it! Stop trying to make me look bad!" Naoki yelled at him.
"Zaizen's brother is a big shot at SOL Technologies." he further added, "So they gave it to us first before releasing to the public!" he said, but a soft glare from Aoi silenced him from shock and fear. With Ai he was chatting up Aoi's Duel Disk Ai.
"Hey, new model! How goes it?" it asked, "Hello." her AI said back in a female voice, "Ah good. Always make sure to greet me like that." Ai said, "I don't know what you mean." it said back, "You have no social skills..." Ai said annoyed. "Unable to comprehend." it said, making Aoi alert to this, making Ai shocked and closing his eye.
With her now looking at Yusaku's Duel Disk, it reminded her of Playmaker's one, "A Card insertion-type Duel Disk?" she said to Yusaku, "Yeah." he said to her, "The same kind as Playmaker's." she said, with this making Yusaku go quiet, nervous that she was onto something.
"Seriously right?" Naoki said walking up to them, "I think he's copying Playmaker." he sneered, "But why does Playmaker use an old-type of Duel Disk?" he asked, "Well, for one thing, the cards you put in, they don't require you to upload them into the Cloud." AnDru explained.
"Still it's so sad that he's behind the times. At least Codebuster upped his game when the new one came out!" Naoki said, making AnDru flinch at that name, having a run in with the bounty hunter last night, not that anyone knew though.
"Could you show me your Deck?" Aoi asked Yusaku, with this also peeking AnDru's interest, "She must want to know if I'm Playmaker..." Yusaku thought, "Now that's rude Zaizen. You don't asking people about their Decks" Hosoda said.
"After all, A Deck is a Duelist's life!" he added, "No, it's fine. Take a look." Yusaku said, reaching into his pocket, and retrieving 'his' Deck. He handed it to Aoi, who looked through the cards, one by one, as though looking for a mistake, "Thank you." she said, about to hand the Deck back, when-
"Cutting in!" Naoki said, snatching the Deck from his, "Let me take a look!" he said, going through the Deck, and to tell the truth he was generally surprised. "Wow! What a good Knightmare Deck!" he said going through the cards again. AnDru then peeked over his shoulder to look at that. "Good deck here Yusaku, but why don't you Duel?" AnDru asked.
"I do sometimes, but not very much." Yusaku lied, not that they knew, "Shima! That's rude!" Hosoda said, "As a Duelist, it's bad behaviour, to look throught another's Deck without permission!" he added, making Naoki feel bad.
"Alright fine! Sorry..." Naoki said, handing the Deck back, "Thank you." Yusaku said, internally smirking, "Good thing I always carry a Dummy Deck on me..." he thought, as if he only had his real Deck on him, which had Cyberse monsters, people like Aoi, or AnDru would figure out he was Playmaker.
At first the Deck was just random cards, but Shoichi pointed out that people would tell that he made it like that on purpose, so he had to buy new cards, that were up to date, hence Knightmare being a choice.
With this, everyone then took a sit, with Hosoda standing at front, "First, let's check the Speed Duel rules." he said, with this AnDru put his hand up, "Yes AnDru." he said, "The first main difference between it and Master Duels is that Speed Duels only have 3 Main Monster Zone and 3 Spell & Trap Zones." AnDru answered.
"Yes, what are the other differences?" Hosoda asked, "You only start with 4 cards each!" AnDra said raising her hand after saying that, "There's also no second main phase after the battle phase!" Tanaka said.
While they talked Yusaku was staring at Aoi from behind, "Ai is right… she does look beautiful..." he thought but was shocked at what he fought, this made him shake his head of those thoughts, he didn't have time for something like that.
"Right, now that we've talked about a Speed Duel, we can have a quick demonstration!" Hosoda said, making them all confused. "Zaizen, did you talk to your brother about that thing?" he said, making her frown slightly.
"Yes..." she said, she then reached into her bag and brought out a USB, "My brother has created a Speed Duel format for us to practice on..." she said holding the USB up, shocking most, but not Yusaku and AnDru.
"So we get to practice Speed Dueling?!" Naoki yelled, "Yes, so who would like to go first?" Hosoda asked, with this Naoki practically jumped from his chair, reached into a storage cupboard and brought out two VR Headset.
Upon seeing it, Yusaku flinch, but he didn't show it… Aito on the other hand, was visibly shaken by the sight of it. "I volunteer to go first!" Naoki said, "Great, but who will your opponent be?" Hosoda asked.
With this Naoki did a quick scan of the room, first he eyed Yusaku, but then he remembered his Deck, which was better than his, so he was out, then he looked at AnDru, but he then remembered that he told him he won 64 times against his boss, so he too was out.
Then his gaze landed on Aito, who was shaking in slight fear, Naoki seeing this, thought he had spooked him, so he thought he could showcase going against a weaker Duelist, "Aito!" he said, shocking Aito.
"M-Me!?..." Aito stuttered out, with this alerting Yusaku to his friend's behaviour, "Yeah! Come on!" he said walking over to Aito, who started to move back, "N-N-No! I don't e-e-even have a D-Deck!..." Aito panicked to say.
"So, we've got rental Decks!" Naoki said, then just as quick, fitted the headset over Aito's eye… who had instantly froze the second it was on him. "See, it's fine, now let's-" Naoki said grinning, his eyes closed, unaware that Aito was petrified now.
"Aito?" Aoi asked, with this making everyone concerned for the young boy, but said boy was experiencing something that he hoped to never experience again.
"You lose! You lose! You lose!" a robotic voice within Aito's mind repeated, each time it repeated, he twitched and shook, and hyperventilated.
"Hey… Aito..." Naoki said waving his hand in front of the distress boy, "What's wrong?" he asked as he touched his shoulder, "GET AWAY FROM ME!" Aito suddenly yelled out, yanking the headset off, and throwing it at Naoki's face, who recoiled and fell over, shocking everyone.
"Ow! What's the big deal-" Naoki yelled getting up but froze when he saw Aito, now in a corner, curled into a ball, and rocking back and forth, "I don't want to lose! I don't want to lose! I don't want to lose!" Aito muttered as tears fell from his eyes.
This had made the others shocked at this, no one more than Yusaku and Ai, "I don't believe it… He's-" he thought, "Someone take him to the reception!" Ayano shouted, making them snap out of their thoughts of shock.
"Right." Yusaku said, as he made his way over to Aito, "I'll help." AnDru said, also making his way over to Aito, the two then picked up Aito by a shoulder, and hulled him together on their shoulders. "I think we should end the meeting now..." Hosoda said, and everyone agreed at this.
"Let's go." Yusaku said, with AnDru nodding, with this, AnDra and Ayano held the door open and the two, holding Aito made their way to the reception area, "Honestly Shima. Why did you do that?" Hosoda scolded.
"Hey! I didn't know that he'd react like that!" Naoki defended, "But still what do you think could such a strong reaction like that?" Sato said, making them think.
With Yusaku and the others, they were trying to calm Aito down, but it wasn't working, "Poor guy..." AnDra said sad for Aito, who still silently muttered "I don't want to lose...", "Something terrible must have happened involving a headset..." AnDru said concerned for the guy he was carrying.
"Must have..." Yusaku muttered, but on the inside he was still surprised, "I still can't believe it… Aito Haru… is a victim of the Lost Incident..." he thought, it made sense to him, why Aito didn't have a Duel Disk, or didn't Duel anymore, like he said he didn't in a long time. And the reaction with the headset made it all clear to him.
"Let's hurry so we can call his family!" Ayano said, "Right!" the two boys said, as they then walked slightly faster…
Café Haru, Second Story, (10 minutes later)
Currently with Matoyia, he was in the Living Room, with a headset on, as he was in VR Royale. VR Royale was a MMORPG, that could connect with Link VRAINS, it was kind of like Link VRAINS, but it had many other feature or maps and games to play and explore.
Within one of them, which was a battlefield was Matoyia, dressed in military armour, he was lying down, looking through the scope of the Barrett M98B, he was aimed at an unexpected enemy.. "And..." he muttered pulling the trigger, with this causing the bullet to escape at high velocity and hit the unexpected target… Right in the head.
This killed the other player in the game, "Heheheh…" Matoyia laughed as he got 2000 points for that headshot, then went to reload. "Watch your 11!" Sora yelled laying down next to him and firing his gun, which was a H&K MP5SD3, downing an enemy.
"Right!" Matoyia, as he reloaded, *Beep! Beep* Suddenly his Duel Disk went off, "Hold on..." he said, moving back down into their bunker, where he checked on his Duel Disk, which told him that the phone in the real world just rang.
"Gotta go!" he told Sora, who nodded and made his way over Yui, who was also playing with them… but she was fine as she somehow found a flamethrower and was burning opponent's left and right.
"Bye!" he said as he logged out, with this, he took off the headset, and made his way over to the home phone, it had a miss call, so he called the number back. "Hello?" a voice said on the other side.
"Hi. The phone just rang and I was wondering who it was?" he asked, "Oh! Does Asuka Haru live with you?" the voice asked, "Yes..." he said, wondering where this was going. "I'm the receptionist of the Den City High School!" the voice explained, making Matoyia freeze up, this probably concerned Aito.
"What's… wrong?" he asked, "Can you tell me who this is first?" the receptionist asked, "Matoyia Guriddo, room-mate to Asuka Haru..." he gritted out, wanting her to get onto the subject.
"Ah! Well, since you know her, could you tell her that Aito seems to have suffered a panic attack!" they said, shocking him, "Is he alright!?" he asked, "He's seems to have calmed down, but he's in no state to continue school for a while. Do you think you or Asuka could pick him up?" they asked.
"Sure! I'll be there as fast as possible. Bye." he said, putting the phone down, with this, he quickly put his shoes on, grabbed his car keys and made his way downstairs, Asuka was out back and saw him in a rush.
"Matoyia?! What's the rush!?" she asked, making Matoyia stop, he turned and she saw his look of concerned and worry, "Aito suffered a panic attack." he said, shocking her and making her gasp. "I'm going to pick him up." he quickly said, as he rushed outside, and made his way into his car, which was a Subaru Levorg, red in colour.
He got in, started it up, reversed out slowly and drove away, leaving Asuka to stare at where he went to. "What happened to my baby brother..." she whimpered out, tears threatening to spill down her face…
Den City High School, (45 minutes later)
Within the reception area was Aito, curled into himself on the floor, with Yusaku staying near him, AnDru had wanted to stay, but he insisted he go back and tell the teacher about what happened with Aito, he reluctantly agreed to this and left with AnDra and Ayano.
He had been told by the receptionist, that someone was coming to collect Aito and take him home, he thanked them, and continued to watch over Aito, "So Aito was part of the Incident like you?" Ai asked, since it was only them and Aito in the place.
"Must be. Why else would someone react like that..." Yusaku said, as he continued to stare at the traumatised Aito, "True… This must be reminding you about it as well." it said, "Yeah..." Yusaku said, thinking back to that time.
"You lose..." he mumbled, remembering the words that were etched into his mind, "I don't want to lose..." Aito said weakly, like he had been doing for the past 50 minutes. "Poor kid..." Ai said feeling said for the boy.
"There must be something we can do?" it said, for a while neither of them could of anything, but then Yusaku realised something, "Hey Aito..." he said, "I don't know if you can hear me, but I want you think of 3 things..." he said, remembering the voice of the person that gave him hope during that time.
"Three.. Three things to live. Three things to go home to. Three things to defeat the enemy..." he said, and with each thing, Aito slowly stopped shaking, but he still wasn't right in the mind just yet. "T-T-Three… things?" he mumbled out slowly.
"Hey it worked!" Ai said, "Huh?..." Aito said looking down at the Duel Disk, shocking the two, "Err... I mean… "Idiot" is a prohibited word." it said, like that of many other AI's "What is-" Aito went to stay, but suddenly the door opened, and rushing in was a man of 19 with spiky pale blonde hair with light green tips.
"Aito?" the man asked frantically. "Sir! Please sign in!" the Reception, a middle aged woman said, "Sorry..." the man said, but then noticed Aito and a boy with blue and pink hair. "Aito!" he shouted, walking up to them, with each step Aito started to tear up.
"Matoyia!" Aito cried out, standing up and hugging the man, who returned it, "Shhh… it's okay..." he said to Aito, rocking him back and forth, "Must be his brother..." Ai whispered, "Maybe..." Yusaku whispered back.
"Right… shall we get you home?" Matoyia asked, "Wait." Yusaku said, making Matoyia look at him, "Oh! Are you the one that stayed with Aito?" he asked, "Yes. My name is Yusaku Fujiki." Yusaku introduced himself with a bow.
"Oh! Your that friend Aito told me about!" he said, remembering Aito talked about the guy he said was staring at him, but was now his friend.
"And I'm Matoyia… Matoyia Guriddo." Matoyia introduced himself, he would've bowed, but he had his hands full with hugging Aito. "Guriddo? Your not his brother?" Yusaku asked, "No. I'm room-mates with him and his sister Asuka." he explained, making him nod in understanding.
"Thanks for that, from what the receptionist told me over the phone, Aito was having a panic attack, but he seems to have calmed down significantly..." he said looking at Aito, who was still hugging him.
"So… Thank you!" he said, holding out his left arm for a handshake, "It's fine, anyone would do the same." Yusaku said, reaching out to accept the handshake, with his right arm, where his Duel Disk was on.
"Whoa! I thought you'd have the new one like everyone else these days." Matoyia said, "Why replace something if it still works?" Yusaku explained, "True… anyways, let's get you home..." he said to Aito, who nodded into his shoulder.
"Bye Yusaku! Stop by anytime at Café Haru!" he said leading Aito back outside. "He seems nice." Ai said, "I think I just figured something out..." Yusaku said, as when he got a look at Matoyia, and heard him speak…
It reminded him of someone, someone who was after him for the AI, "Codebuster..." he muttered, shocking the Ai, "You mean that's the shooter in real life!?" Ai yelled, but he instantly muted him, "Who was that?" the receptionist asked, walking in wondering who that was.
"That was me." Yusaku lied, "I was trying a change my voice to something irritating..." he added, making Ai glare at him, "Payback..." Yusaku thought inwardly smirking. "Oh, well seeing that Aito has gone… you can go back to class now." she said.
"Okay." he said, and with that he turned and left, still keeping Ai muted…
With Matoyia… (10 minutes later)
Within the car, it was quiet, he had turned the radio off the minute he had started driving from home, too preoccupied with Aito's safety to listen to his favourite songs. "What happened?" he asked, he would've asked a few minutes earlier, but he was driving, and now that he was in traffic, he may as well do something to pass the time.
"… A headset..." Aito answered, looking out the window weakly, this made Matoyia grip the steering wheel tighter, as he had been told by Asuka, when they were younger and they first meet, that apparently the police report, that she was allowed to see at the time, said that when they found the children, they also found VR Headsets.
Meaning that was main item used during their time during the Lost Incident, "How did it get on your head?" he asked, he only guessed that he had worn it, but he wouldn't do it voluntary if it led to this reaction.
"Naoki Shima…" Aito said, "Well, I don't think he knew about you personally, so please don't blame him… Your sister will do that!" he joked, but Aito didn't respond, so he decided to change the topic.
"So that was your friend Yusaku huh?" he said, talking about the boy he meet, and who seemed to have helped calm him down, "Yeah..." Aito said, "Well what did he say to you?" he asked, "… Three..." Aito went to say, but he suddenly fell asleep.
"Hmm?" Matoyia said, glancing at him quickly and notice him asleep now, "Poor kid..." he said, "This will most likely set his progress back a bit." he added. "But it shouldn't matter, I have plenty of money to help him through this..." he said, reassuring himself.
The rest of the trip was in silence, as one of the occupants was asleep. Now back home, he parked the car, turned it off, got out, and got Aito out, locked it and carried him as he was quiet light. As he walked up the stair carefully, he heard no noise from the restaurant part, meaning Asuka must have closed up early.
*Knock knock* he tapped the door to the second story of the building, as he had his hands full to open it, he then heard scrambling, a second later, a crazed Asuka yanked the door open, and practically yanked Aito from his grip.
"Oh Aito..." she said hugging him, "He's asleep..." Matoyia whispered, she nodded and made her way to Aito's bedroom, and put Aito to bed, she then walked out and shut the door carefully, and made her way into the living area.
"What caused the panic attack?" she growled out, "Some guy Naoki Shima, put a headset on him..." he explained, with this making her tighten her hands into fist, "But I don't think he meant to cause this, so don't swear on your life to strangle the poor boy." he told her.
"Kay..." she gritted out, loosening her fist, "But still, this will set him back a bit, and he was doing so well..." she said putting her head in her hands, "I know… And I'm going to make sure he can get through this..." he said, as he brought her into a hug…
Zaizen's residence, (17:01 PM)
"Welcome home, Aoi." A robotic maid said to Aoi, as she stepped out the elevator leading into her home, "Your brother can't come home today due to work." it told her, but no reaction from her, as she was used to such a thing.
Not that it mattered, as she was still thinking about the panic attack Aito Haru had experienced, right in front of them. "Why did a headset cause such a reaction from him?" she wondered thinking back to what he kept muttering, "I don't want to lose... Is losing that bad for him?" she thought,
She decided to distract herself with TV, so she sat down, threw her school to one side, pressed a button of the electronic coffee table thing, and leaned back as the TV turned on… where she saw her brother on TV.
"There are rumours that SOL Technologies initiated the Duel between Go Onizuka and Playmaker." she heard a reported say, this alerted her, she didn't think SOL would go that far for what they wanted.
"Ask our PR Department." Akira said quickly from the TV and made to leave, "Is this a new business strategy?" another reported asked, "No comment." he said, "Will the next match be Blue Angel vs Player or is Codebuster involved?" another asked, this peeked her interest at her virtual ego being mentioned.
"No." Akira said, and this made Aoi turn the TV off, lean back and sigh, "Why not?" she asked herself.
Later on, she was now on her bed, busy staring at the ceiling, suddenly her phone rang and she looked at who called.
"Brother?" she said surprised, then excepted the call, which created a video call where Akira was staring at her "Aoi." he said, "Evening. I saw you on the news." she said, "Why are you unhappy?" he suddenly asked, throwing her off.
"Eh?" she said confused, "How long will you pretend to be an idol?" he asked, "Well..." she went to say, but he then cut her off, "Speed Duels are dangerous. I only gave you that USB program, just so you could show your fellow club members and yourself how dangerous they are, and they would stay out of them." he said.
"If you make a mistake during one, you may die." he added, "Please stop immediately." he said, "… Yes, brother." she said.
"I'm only saying this because I care about you. Understand?" he said, "I understand, Brother." she said, "Listen, no one must find out about you being Blue Angel." he added, "I know..." she said, "Just think of my position." he added, "Yes, Brother." she said, and with that she ended the call.
With that, she just went back to staring at the ceiling, "I just want my brother to know that I can hold my own out there. That he doesn't need worry so much. So he can come home early..." she thought.
Then she remembered from the TV, about Blue Angel against Playmaker or Codebuster being involved, this made her sit up, "I'll do it for you, Brother." she said, making up her mind. She then slipped her Duel Disk onto her wrist, the one for Blue Angel.
"Into the VRAINS." she said, closing her eyes as the data sphere appeared around her…
Hanoi's base, (a few moment later)
"Is it ready?" Revolver asked, as standing before him was Baira, Faust and Dr Genome, with Valcry, Vire, Talon and Ares at the side, with Spectre by his right.
"Here Revolver." Baira said as appearing in her hand was a sphere of data, it had a dark eerie aura to it, "The Another virus..." he said holding the data in his hand, "Tested?" he asked, "Yes. The prototype of our virus works. Along with it's removal program for it." Faust said.
"It's DNA was most lovely to redesign!" Dr Genome said with joy, "So that's the virus that put your sister in a coma?" Valcry asked walking closer to look at it in Revolver's hand, who let her. "Yes… That despicable virus is the reason I'm even here with you lot." Talon spat out.
"And like we want you here..." Ares said, this caused him and Talon to glare at one another, with Vire smirking at this, "Ah! Such hate!" Vire hissed out happily, then turned to Revolver, "Have you picked out the next victim for it?" he asked, and this made Talon glare at him at the next part, making him grin.
"Hmm… who would be a perfect candidate for us to use?" Revolver said, "How about her?" Spectre said, looking at the screen behind them, making them all look at it and see 'her' that he was referring to…
Link VRAINS, (same time)
Riding on the Data Storm stream on her D-Board was Blue Angel, smiling as she did, suddenly a screen appeared in front of her, an invitation to a Duel. "Blue Angel, will you Duel me?" a boy asked on the screen.
"Pass!" she said waving the screen away, but another took its place, "Blue Angel will-" a handsome looking boy went to asked, "Pass!" she said swiping his screen away too… only for another to appear, this time the guy looked like a creep, "Pass!" she said swiping it away before the guy could say a thing.
"If I can defeat Playmaker, or Codebuster, then my brother will know that I can hold my own..." she thought, up above as she travelled along was Frog and Pigeon, who were now back.
"Look! It's Blue Angel!" Frog yelled, "Roll the camera!" he said to Pigeon who cooed to affirm this, as they got closer she notice them, "Hi!" she cheered, then jumped off her D-Board and landed on a data structure that was under development.
"Everyone, I'm here!" she cheered, making the crowd in the Square Plaza to cheer, at the Café Haru, Second Story, Matoyia was watching this, "Blue Angel back already? She usually takes a few days off before Dueling again." he said to himself.
"You there! And you over there! Watch!" she yelled, as near a mobile truck, standing outside it was Shoichi and Yusaku, who was eating a hotdog.
"I declare that I, Blue Angel will Duel Playmaker and win!" she announced, shocking most people, "And if he wants to, I'll have time to Duel Codebuster!" she added, further shocking them, mostly Matoyia, but he then smirked.
"Hey Asuka!" he yelled, "What?" she yelled back from Aito's room as she was watching over him as he slept, not wanting him to wake up.
"Could you wake Aito up? I think I have a way to cheer him up!" he said as he looked at his Duel Disk.
"What is it?" she asked, "Just make sure your watching Link VRAINS in there! Into the VRAINS!" he yelled as he was covered in the data sphere.
Blue Angel vs Playmaker or Codebuster!" a woman in the Plaza said excited, "Awesome! When?" a guy asked, as Yusaku continued to eat his hot dog, not even going to bother Dueling her, there was nothing to gain, and she wasn't Hanoi.
"Come out, Playmaker! Codebuster!" Blue Angel yelled, hands on her hips, "C'mon! I know your watching you too!" she said as Yusaku finished his meal, again still not moving, "Accept my challenge!" she said.
"Now why is she fired up for?" Shoichi said, "Duel her! Get it over with." Ai said, "I refuse." Yusaku said, "One: I only approached Aoi Zaizen to get a lead on my stolen memories..." he said, not knowing he was secretly lying to himself and was blushing, but it was faint so the two near him didn't see it.
"Two: I only fight the Knights of Hanoi, or anyone who will get in the way of that, this will eventually include Codebuster, but I hope to avoid that for as long as possible." he said, "And three: Blue Angel isn't Hanoi." he finished. "People will end up calling you a coward for this." Ai pointed out.
"So? What they think doesn't affect me at all." he said.
"Playmaker, Duel me!" she yelled again, from Hanoi's base, Revolver had watched the entire thing, and was smirking, "Now this is getting interesting." he said.
Blue Angel was looking about, hoping to spot Playmaker approaching, while this happened she could hear the MC rant on about the Duel that she hoped to take place would be bigger and better than Playmaker vs Go Onizuka.
"Listen, call me if-" Frog went to say, but he heard the sound of a D-Board approach, alerting her and everyone watching, "Oh?" Frog said, looking at the direction the sound came from, when he saw him.
"It's Codebuster!" the MC yelled out as the camera panned over to Codebuster, who was in fact approaching Blue Angel.
"Codebuster vs Blue Angel?" Hiroshi cheered from his apartment, "My dream is coming true!" he gleefully yelled, suddenly Codebuster shuddered for some reason. "Blue Angel!" he said as he jumped off D-Board, somersaulted, and landed next to her, arms out as he stuck the landing.
"Good job! 10 out of 10!" she said clapping for him, "Thank you..." he said, "Now you must know why I'm here?" he said smirking, causing her to smile, "To Duel right?" she asked, making the crowd go quiet for his answer.
"Yes." he answered, making the crowd cheer loudly, "As a Charisma Duelist, I can never back down a challenge from a fellow Charisma Duelist." he said, "That's great! Can we start now?" she asked jumping on the spot.
"Sure! After you..." he said bowing and leaning to one side, wanting her to go first, like a gentlemen would do for their date… This thought made Matoyia, inside Codebuster to blush. "What the hell was that?" he thought to himself. Now there will probably be fan art of him and Blue Angel, not if he had anything to do about it.
"Thank you!" she said with a giggle, she then walked off the edge, where her D-Board caught her, Codebuster then followed her lead, where his caught him too.
"This is it folks! A Duel of the century is about to start!" the MC shouted, "Codebuster, using his new Deck has beaten Go Onizuka in a friendly Duel! Can he pull another win from Blue Angel?!" he asked.
From their home, Aito was now awake, still under the effect of his stress, but he was now watching the Duel that was about to take place, "See honey? He wants to make you happy again!" his sister said hugging him as he watch.
"Okay! Here we go! Everyone!" Blue Angel cheered. Codebuster smirked, "Let's give these people a show they'll remember for a long time!" he said.
"Speed Duel!" the two shouted, drawing four cards each.
Blue Angel's LP: 4000
Codebuster's LP: 4000
Turn 1
"Ladies first!" she said winking at the audience, "To start with, I activate the Spell, Terraforming!" she said, "This let's me add a Field Spell from my Deck to my Hand!" she said as she took the card that ejected itself from her Deck.
"Then I activate the Field Spell, Trickstar Light Stage!" she said, as the card appeared on the field, "When this card is activated, I can add 1 Trickstar monster from my Deck to my Hand!"
"The Trickstar I added is Lilybell, and with her effect when added to my Hand, other than drawing it, I can Special Summon her!" she said, waving her hand over the card, making a twintail pink haired fairy to appear. For each twin tail there was a white Chinese puffs to contain some of it. She wore a set of red earphones that was connected to golden tiara with what appeared to be a ribbon that looked like a pair of bunny ears. She wore a layered red, white and black dress with puffy shoulders. On her chest was the Trickstar symbol which appeared to be a crimson heart that looked to be shaped as a skull without the lower jaw and on her back she had a set of fairy wings. In one hand she was carrying a big gold, blue and red bell on the end of a wand. Under her right eye, which were blue was a small red tattoo. She was Summoned to the Middle Main Monster Zone in Defense.
Trickstar Lilybell: LIGHT, Level: 2 [Fairy/Effect] ATK/800 DEF/2000
"Then I Normal Summon Trickstar Cardina!" she said waving her hand over the new card, and now appearing from a burst of golden powder was a new fairy, she had upwards ponytail that was swirled, she had brown eyes with a yellow tattoo under the right side of her face on her cheek. She wore a beautiful golden yellow-white-black dress, and brown-yellow striped stockings. Like Lilybell, she also but two twin fairy wings on her back, and she had the same symbol as Lilybell, but it was smaller, and around her neck. In one had was a yellow megaphone. She was Summoned to Right Main Monster Zone.
Trickstar Cardina: LIGHT, Level: 4 [Fairy/Effect ATK/1800 DEF/400
"And then when she's Normal Summoned, I can add 1 Trickstar card from my Deck to my Hand!" she said adding another card to her Hand.
"Come out! The Circuit of dreams and hope!" she cheered, as sparks flew from her and into the air, this caused the Link Portal to appear.
"Arrowheads confirmed! The Summoning conditions are 2 Trickstar monsters!" she said, "I now set Lilybell and Cardina in the Link Markers!" she said, as the monsters turned into twisters, with Lilybell hitting the Bottom Left and Cardina the Bottom Right, turning them red.
"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Link 2 Trickstar Holly Angel!" she said as a young woman, who had long pale brown grey hair, that curled at the end, she also had pure blue eyes, and on the left side of her face a blue heart tattoo. She was wearing golden -blue headphones with blue heart shapes on either end covering the ears, she also had a golden ring on top of her head. Like the other two, she had two twin fairy wings. She wore a frilly blue-white-black-golden dress, with a long coattail that was cut out in the middle that resembled a heart, with puffy shoulders, black frilly armbands with white long arm gloves, and purple-golden striped stockings, along with golden high-heels with a red gem fitted into each one, on her upper chest, above her bust was the Trickstar symbol. She was Summoned to the Extra Monster Zone to Blue Angel's Left.
Trickstar Holly Angel: LIGHT [Fairy/Link/Effect] ATK/2000 LINK/-2, LMs: ↙↘
"She took the one on the Left." Codebuster gritted out, "Most people go for the Right, but I set myself apart from everyone by doing this sometimes." she explained.
"Now I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Linked Rebirth!" she said, "After I Link Summon, I can Special Summon 1 monster from my Graveyard to a Main Monster Zone a Link Monster I control points to!" she said. "I bring back Cardina!" she said as Cardina appeared in the Middle Main Monster Zone in ATK.
"Holly Angel's effect!" she cheered, "When a Trickstar is Summoned to a Zone she points to, you take 200 damage!" she said with a smirk and wink at him, Holly Angel then created her weapon, which was a vine whip with a spiked red ball at the end. She then whipped it around and hit Codebuster with it. Codebuster's LP: 4000 – 200 = 3800.
"Then Light Stage's effect deals you an additional 200 damage" she added, as a beam from Light Stage hit Codebuster, 3800 – 200 = 3600 (Codebuster)
"Then Holly Angel gains ATK equal to the damage you took from a Trickstar monster's effect!" she said, Holly Angel's ATK: 2000 + 200 = 2200.
"Then I set two cards and end my turn!" she said as two cards appeared than faded. "Your up Codebuster! Show us what you got!" she said winking back at him. "As its ending, Holly Angel's ATK returns to normal!" she said, 2200 = 2000 (Holly Angel)
Blue Angel's Hand x 0
Turn 2
"My turn! I draw!" he said drawing his card, "Since I activate the Continious Spell, Weirware Uploading!" he said. "Cardina's effect!" Blue Angel cheered, "Each time you activate a Spell or Trap and she's on the Field, you take 200 damage!" she said, Cardina then yelled into her megaphone, and the sound waves hit Codebuster, making his eardrums ache. 3600 – 200 = 3400 (Codebuster)
"Then Light Stage deals you an additional 200 damage!" she said, as a green sparkly beam from Light Stage also hit Codebuster, 3400 – 200 = 3200 (Codebuster)
"Now Holly Angel gains the damage you took from Cardina!" she said, 2000 + 200 = 2200 (Holly Angel)
"Blue Angel hammers away at CodeBuster's LP!" the MC cheered, "Once per turn, with Uploading's effect, when I control no monsters or only Weirdware monsters, I can add 1 Weirdware monster from my Deck!" he said as he took the card that he selected from his Deck.
"Now since you control more cards than me..." he said, "I can Special Summon Weirdware Portgate from my Hand or Graveyard along 1 other Weirdware monster from the same location!" he explained.
"From my Hand I Summon it and Weirdware Duo-ble!" he said, now the first to appear was four hexagonal plates in a row, then they split off a bit, the centre of each opened, and a different part appeared. 2 were the arms with the portals being at the wrist, the hands had three fingers in a triangle formation. 1 was a chest, but on the other side were 6 flat panels in taking the shape of two wings. The last piece, which was slightly bigger, went flat, on bottom side a spin top like UFO saucer part, and the upper part was a connection point, this connected to the chest, that made a head appear, which has a single light green eye. And the arms connected to the chest part, the overall colours were green, light green and some dark green. It was Summoned in the Left Main Monster Zone.
The second one appeared was in one piece, this was Duo-ble, and like the other Weirdware monsters, it was cybernetic, it was a dark red, and orange, it had two spiked up shoulders, and it's area was wider… as the monster itself had two heads, but one was sideways, connected on the shoulder. It also had two sets of arms, but the second lower one were two small beam cannons. Both heads both only had 1 eye on their black screen, one on the normal head was yellow, and the one of the side was orange. It was Summoned to the Middle Main Monster Zone.
Weirdware Portgate: LIGHT, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/500 DEF/1400
Weirdware Duo-ble: FIRE, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/1200 DEF/600
"Two monsters already?" Blue Angel said amazed, "Then I Normal Summoned Weirdware Installer!" he said as Installer appeared in the Right Main Monster Zone.
Weirdware Installer: EARTH, Level: 2 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/600 DEF/1300
"Installer's effect! Once per turn, I can set 1 Spell or Trap from my Deck!" he said as a card appeared face down, then faded. "Appear! The Shining Circuit that will decide my Fate!" he yelled as a light formed in his right hand, making a Link Portal appear.
"Arrowheads confirmed! The Summoning condition is 1 Level 2 or lower Weirdware monster!" he said, "I set Installer in the Link Marker!" he said as Installer turned into a beam of energy of it's colour, and hit the Bottom Right Link Marker, turning it red.
"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Link 1 Weirdware Repeater!" he said, as appearing from the Link Portal, was dark blue flattish cybernetic bug. It was circular in shape, and within the middle, which was exposed was a gear, which was rotating anti-clockwise. It had 6 stubby legs, 3 on either side, and at the front where its head was a curved head, it had a black screen, and on it were 5 yellow eyes. It was Summoned to the Extra Monster Zone to Codebuster's Left.
Weirdware Repeater: EARTH [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/800 LINK/-1, LMs: ↘
"Again! The Shining Circuit that will decide my Fate!" he yelled as the Link Portal appeared again. "Again!?" Blue Angel yelled in slight shock.
"The Summoning conditions are 2 Weirdware monsters!" he said, "I now set Duo-ble in the Link Marker!" he said with only that monster turning into a orange energy beam, however what he said confused everyone.
"But you said two?!" Blue Angel said to him, "True but since Duo-ble was linked when used as Material, it counts as two!" he explained as Duo-ble's beam split into two, one hit the Middle Left, and other the Middle Bottom, turning them red.
"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Link 2 Weirdware Virus Buster!" he yelled as Virus Buster appeared, being Summoned into the Middle Main Monster Zone that Repeater pointed to.
Weirdware Virus Buster: FIRE [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/1900 LINK/-2, LMs: ⬅⬇
"Then I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Element Booster!" he said, playing a card, the picture was that of a monster silhouette, around it were the six attributes for Duel Monster, the silhouette had an aura the same as one of the attributes.
"Cardina's effect!" Blue Angel said, 3200 – 200 = 3000 (Codebuster), "Then Light Stage!" she added, 3000 – 200 = 2800 (Codebuster) "Then Holly Angel's effect!" she said, 2200 + 200 = 2400 (Holly Angel)
"She's picking away his LP!" Ai said, "Since I used a monster as material to Special Summon a monster from the Extra Deck, that had the same Attribute, I can make the Summoned monster gain ATK equal to Duo-ble's!" he said shocking her. "Duo-ble had 1200 ATK, meaning Buster gains that until the end of the turn!" he said. Virus Buster's ATK: 1900 + 1200 = 3100.
"Now I activate Portgate's effect!" he said, "Since it's linked to Buster, once per turn, I can relocate it to an un-used Main Monster Zone!" he said, this caused Portgate to disassemble, then move into the Right Main Monster Zone and assemble again.
"By doing this, I can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Weirdware monster from my Deck!" he said, "So now I Summon Weirdware Ventilator!" he said as Ventilator appeared in the Zone that Portgate was in before.
Weirdware Ventilator: WIND, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/1000 DEF/1200
"Once more!" he yelled, shocking everyone as once again the Link Portal appeared, "The Summoning conditions are two Weirdware monsters!" he said,
"I now set Ventilator and Portgate in the Link Markers!" he said, making the mentioned monsters turn into twisters, with Ventilator hitting the Bottom Left, and Portgate the Middle Bottom, turning them red.
"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Link 2 Weirdware Voltage Conductor!" he said, as now appearing from the portal was a somewhat tall and thin Weirdware monster, the colour on it was a dark purple, on its arms which were bulky and barrel shaped were 2 long transparent tubes, there were two similar to them on its back, but spaced out. It fingers were thick and they hollow and tube like. It's legs were doubled jointed, but the heel was spiked and sticking out. It's eyes were narrowed and orange, on its chest was a glowing core.
Weirdware Voltage Conductor: EARTH [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/1600 LINK/-2, LMs: ↙⬇
"Three Link Monsters!" Blue Angel whispered out amazed, "I set one card!" he said as a card appeared face down. "Battle! Virus Buster attacks Cardina!" he ordered as Buster charged up a beam from it cannon.
A beam from the cannon shot out and hit Cardina, destroying her with an explosion, making Blue Angel recoil from the blast. Blue Angel's LP: 4000 – 1300 = 2700. "He's taken the lead!..." Aito whispered out as he watched, smiling, this made his sister smile.
"I end my turn!" he said, "With it ending, Element Booster's effect ends..." he said, 3100 = 1900 (Virus Buster) "And Holly Angel's ATK returns to normal..." Blue Angel said gritted out, but the audience didn't notice it. 2400 = 2000 (Holly Angel)
Codebuster's Hand x 0
Turn 3
"Don't panic, this is just a minor set back..." she thought, looking back at Codebuster, who was still calm and silent. "My turn! I draw!" she drew her card.
"I Normal Summon Trickstar Lycoris!" she said waving her hand over the card, making a new Trickstar appear. She had dark long hair that was black-red, with a short ponytail that was in a strange red-pink tip crown thing. She also had a set of headphones like the others, and they matched her colouring. She had ruby like eyes with two small red tattoos on either cheek which were just hidden by her air, and like the others she has two twin fairy wings. Her dress was red-white-black, with long white gloves, brown-white striped stockings and red and brown boots. The skirt of her dress was bizarre, as it had two under layers to it, the first was streamer like, and the second was just wires with a red ball at the end of them. Carried in her left hand was red hilt-guard sword, and she was Left Main Monster Zone.
Trickstar Lycoris: LIGHT, Level: 3 [Fairy/Effect] ATK/1600 DEF/1200
"Then I activate the Trap, Gift of Greed!" she said, shocking Codebuster, "You now draw two cards!" she said, with this, Codebuster drew two cards, the second it happened- "Lycoris's effect!" she said, "Each time you add cards to your Hand, you take 200 damage per card!" she said.
With this causing Lycoris to point her sword at Codebuster and release a beam at him, "Sorry, all is fair in love and war!" she said, making him smirk, "Your right, as now I activate Voltage Conductor's effect!" he said, shocking her.
"When I'm about to take damage from an effect, I can negate that damage!" he said shocking her further, Conductor then lifted it right arm, where air started to be sucked in, this also sucked the beam that was going to hit Codebuster, the tubes on its arms and back then glowed orange.
"Then until the end of the turn, I can target it or a monster it points, which is none, so I target I Conductor, and it gains 1000 ATK until the end of the turn!" he said, Conductor's ATK: 1600 + 1000 = 2600.
"Since I took no damage from that, Light Stage doesn't activate..." he said smirking, making her grit her teeth, which only he saw. "Fine! Ruin the show for everyone!" she said sounding annoyed, but instantly smiled, "Just kidding!" she cheered, confusing him.
"I now activate the Trap, Trickstar Reincarnation!" she said, as her second face-down flipped up, "All cards in your Hand are banished!" she said, as the cards in his hand burst into particles, shocking him, "Then you draw the same number of banished cards!" she added, he then drew two cards.
She grinned again, "You know what happens, Lycoris now deals you 200 damage for every card you added to your Hand!" she said as Lycoris did the same thing, this time it hit its mark. 2800 – 400 = 2400 (Codebuster) "Now for Light Stage!" she added, 2400 – 200 = 2200 (Codebuster) "Damn it!" he swore.
"Now Holly Angel! Holly Blessing!" she cheered, 2000 + 400 = 2400 (Holly Angel)
"Then I banish Reincarnation..." she said, as her Duel Disk told her it was now banished, "This let's me Special Summon a Trickstar from my Graveyard!" she said, "I Summon back Lilybell!" she said as Lilybell appeared in the Middle Main Monster Zone, that Holly Angel pointed to.
"It's happening again!" Ai said, "So that's what she does, pick off the opponent's LP." Yusaku said to himself, "Holly Angel deals you 200 damage since it now points to Lilybell!" she said, 2200 – 200 = 2000 (Codebuster) "Then Light Stage again!" she added, 2000 – 200 = 1800 (Codebuster) "Once more! Holly Blessing!" she added. 2400 + 200 = 2600 (Holly Angel)
"What a performance! Blue Angel's Holly Angel now has the power to take out the rest of Codebuster's LP!" the MC cheered, making Aito frown at this, he wanted Matoyia to win. "Battle! Lilybell will attack you directly!" she said.
Lilybell then rang her bell as she charged at Codebuster, just tapping him on the shoulder with hit, but it still hurt. 1800 – 800 = 1000 (Codebuster) "Now her effect along with Holly Angel's and Light Stage!" she yelled excited.
"First Light Stage!" she said holding a finger up, 1000 – 200 = 800 (Codebuster) "Then Holly Angel!" she added, holding a second finger up, 2600 + 800 = 3200 (Holly Angel) "And then since Lilybell dealt damage to you, I can add a Trickstar monster in my Graveyard to my Hand!" she said adding Cardina, as she was the only one in there.
"It wasn't worth it Codebuster! Better luck next time!" she said winking and swirling about on her Board, expecting him to react or do something, but he didn't. "Holly Angel now attacks Repeater!" she ordered flashy.
This caused her ace monster to lift her weapon above her, swing it around, until it got enough momentum, and let it loose at Repeater, who was then destroyed in a huge explosion. "And that's game folks!" she cheered to the crowd, waiting for the Duel Disk to tell her that she won…
But it never did, "Huh?" she said confused, "You should really pay attention..." a voice called out from with the smoke of the explosion, shocking her, she looked back and saw Codebuster just soar through. 800 = 800 (Codebuster)
"Before you go off wondering how, I activated the Trap, Damage Denser!" he said as a face-down flipped up, shocking her, "That's the card you used against Go!" she yelled stunned.
"Correct! I know how your Deck works, basically everyone does, with what all your showcasing it for us!" he said, but what he said bugged her, her face showed it briefly in annoyance, but only he saw, which confused him.
"Anyway, damage after I activate it is reduced to 0!" he explained, "He's still in this..." Aito said amazed, he honestly thought he was a gonna lose.
"I end my turn with a face-down!" she said as the card appeared then faded. "With it ending, Holly Angel's ATK returns to normal..." she said, 3200 = 2000 (Holly Angel) "So does Conductor's ATK!" Codebuster added. 2600 = 1600 (Voltage Conductor)
"Even if you still survived, it's clear to everyone who gonna win this! Right folks!" she asked the audience, with them cheering "Blue Angel!" as the victor to them. "They sure do jump to conclusions humans do..." Ai muttered, "That's just humans for you, we like to know what going to happen, but we never do..." Yusaku muttered back, making Shoichi nod. "Now let's see how he gets out of this." Shoichi said.
Blue Angel's Hand x 1
Turn 4
"Great… Some corner I've gotten myself into..." Codebuster thought, as he soared along, something was bugging him about the duel, not with the cards, but with his opponent, he then soared to be even with her, with her looking at him.
"Something wrong? Or are you just wanting to give up?" she mocked lightly, "Why are you wanting so much attention for?" he asked, and this threw her off guard and trip over her own feet, "What?!" she whispered out, like he had uncovered something about her.
"Nevermind, I'll ask you after I win..." he muttered zooming along, "My turn!" he said "I draw!" he drew his card, he flipped it and saw what it was, "Damn!" he thought, as what he drew was Weirdware Restoration Plant, it was a good card, but not in this situation.
"Unless..." he muttered, he had a card in his Extra Deck that could help him, but he was hoping to save it for when he Duelled Playmaker. "I now activate the Field Spell, Weirdware Restoration Plant!" he said, playing the card he drew.
"Now all Weirdware Link Monsters gain 500 ATK for every monster they point to!" he explained, (Virus Buster) 1900 + 500 = 2400.
"Then I activate the Spell, Weirdware Imprint!" he said, with the card appearing on the field, the image it had was that of Rewire's soul, going into a new monster, most likely a Weirdware monster.
"Now appear! The Shining Circuit that will decide my Fate!" he yelled, causing the Link Portal to appear. "Arrowheads confirmed! The Summoning conditions are at least two Weirdware monsters!" he said.
"I now set the Link 2 Virus Buster and Link 2 Voltage Conductor in the Link Markers!" he said, this caused his two Link Monsters to turn into energy beams of their colours, and each then split, the two from Virus Buster hit the Middle Top and Middle Bottom, while Voltage Conductor's hit the Bottom Left and Bottom Right, turning them red.
"4 Link Markers!?" Blue Angel said shocked, as were many others, "Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Appear, Link 4! Weirdware Terabyte Trojan!" he yelled, with this causing the Link Portal to enlarge, to make room for the monster to get out of it.
Now appearing was a new Weirdware monster, which was a humanoid at the top, but had the lower body like that of a centaur. The colour scheme was brass yellow and orange. It had two sets of arms, the upper set, were large and bulky which had three thick triangular fingers, that were hollow and barrel like, they were closed together at the moment, to make the hands look like blasters, which they were. The lower set had actual hands, with the digits being sharp, and carried in each hand was a mace like weapon, on one end of each was a silver spike. For it's legs, the rear set had 3 silver talon claws on each foot, where as the front set only had two of these. For it's head in was elongated at the back, and the black screen had 4 purple eyes, two above the other two, on either side of it's was what appeared to look like horns, but they were actually turrets. It was Summoned to the Left Extra Monster Zone.
Weirdware Terabyte Trojan: DARK [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/2800 LINK/-4, LMs: ↙⬆⬇↘
"That monster looks awesome..." Aito muttered, his mouth a gap in happiness. "Trojan's effect!" Codebuster said, "For every Link Monster used to Link Summon it, it gains 400 ATK!" he said, Terabyte Trojan's ATK: 2800 + 800 = 3600
"Then Restoration's effect!" he said, "Once per turn, when I Link Summon a Weirdware Link Monster using Weirdware Link Monsters, I can Special Summon those monsters to a Main Monster Zone the new one points to!" he explained.
"I Summon back the two that were used as Link Material!" he said, as Virus Buster appeared in the Middle Main Monster Zone, while Voltage Conductor was now in the Left Main Monster Zone, back in the same Zones, but now Trojan pointed to them.
"Then Trojan gains 500 ATK for everyone monster it points to, along with Virus Buster!" he said, 3600 + 1000 = 4600 (Terabyte Trojan), 1900 + 500 = 2400 (Virus Buster)
"Then I set a card!" he said as card appeared face-down in the last Spell and Trap Zone he had left. "Battle! Trojan now attacks Holly Angel!" he ordered, with this making Trojan bring its upper set of fingers together, with energy gathering in the barrels of them.
"Now so fast! I tribute Lilybell..." she said as Lilybell burst into particles, "To activate the Trap, Trickstar Abyss Alysumm!" she said, "This card remains face-up until the end of the turn!" she said, "Now until the end of the turn I activate this card, I can banish 1 card for as many Trickstar monsters I control!" she said, "First I banish Gift of Greed!" she said, her Duel Disk told her it was now banished.
"This then let's me inflict 200 damage to you for every face-up Trickstar card in control!" she said, as a pink beam struck out of the Trap, and made it's way over to Codebuster. "Conductor's effect!" Codebuster yelled, as Blue Angel expected this. With this the damage he would've taken was reduced to 0.
"Then Conductor gains 1000 ATK!" he said, 1600 + 1000 = 2600 (Voltage Conductor) "I knew you'd do that, so now I banish Lilybell, to inflict another 600 damage to you!" she said.
Her strategy was genius, she would try and get just enough damage into him, just to make sure he was still clinging in, then she would activate her Skill, and this combined with Lycoris, would ensure her victory…
That was her plan, but- "Trojan's burrowed effect from Conductor!" he said, shocking her, "What?!" she screamed out, "If you wondering how Trojan gained Conductor's effect, it's thanks to Imprint's effect!" he said.
"The Weirdware Link Monster that used Weirdware Link Monsters as Material gain their effects for the rest of the turn!" he said, this caused one of Trojan's charging cannons to stop, and then absorbed the second beam from Alysumm, "Then I make Virus Buster gain 1000 ATK!" he said, 2400 + 1000 = 3400 (Virus Buster)
"Then I activate Trojan's second burrowed effect from Conductor!" he said, "When a monster it points to gains ATK, I can inflict the differences in its current and original ATK onto you as damage!" he explained shocking her.
The arm cannon that absorbed the beam, then shot a red beam at Blue Angel. "The difference is 1500!" he added, as the beam hit her, 2700 - 1500 = 1200 (Blue Angel) "The battle continues!" he said, "Not so fast again! I activate my Skill, Trickstar Fraud!" she said as her pink parts of her clothing glowed.
"I send 1 Trickstar card in my Hand to the Graveyard!" she said sending the Cardina she added with Lilybell's effect, "Then you must draw until you have 3 cards!" she said, shocking him, he then drew 3 cards, but kept his surprise at one of the cards he drew.
"Now Lycoris deals you 200 damage for every card you added to your Hand!" she said smiling, as Lycoris pointed her sword at Codebuster, "Then Light Stage will deal you another 200 damage!" she added, as a beam from the Field shot out, and combined with the one from Lycoris.
"It's over!" she said smirking, "It is... For you that is!" he said making her gasp, his eyes shadowed out by his helmet, "You just gave me the card I needed." he said grinning, what he said confused her.
"From my Hand I activate the effect of Weirdware Filter!" he said revealing the card. "When I'm about to take damage from an effect, I can reveal this card..." he said revealing the card, "That damage becomes 0" he said as the beam suddenly dissipated right before it hit him. "Then Filter is Special Summoned!" he said.
This caused a water blue Weirdware monster to appear, it was rather small, and round, it didn't have arms or legs, but in place of these were cylindrical canisters, with silver vents on them, there were filters, it had camera lens for an eye, it was Summoned to the Right Main Monster Zone.
Weirdware Filter: WATER, Level: 2 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/1000 DEF/400
"No way..." she said stunned, that she gave him the chance the get that card. Now there was nothing she could do, "Trojan's effect!" he said, "Since it points to at least one monster, any monster it battles loses ATK equal to the original ATK of one monster its points to!" he said.
"I'll pick Conductor, so Holly Angel loses 1600 ATK!" 2000 – 1600 = 400 (Holly Angel) With this the beams from Trojan's upper arms finally finished charging and were released and struck the Angel down, she screamed as she was destroyed, taking the rest of Blue Angel's LP. 1200 – 4200 = 0 (Blue Angel)
Codebuster: WINS
Blue Angel: LOSE
"Unbelievably folks! Codebuster, after stopping so much effect damage, has come out the victor!" the MC cheered, making everyone cheer, having watched an amazing duel.
"So that's a strategy of his, double his monster's effects..." Yusaku said, "A dangerous strategy for his opponents..." Ai said, agreeing with him on that was a strategy.
With the Duel now over, the audience started to disperse, with Codebuster and Blue Angel, they were now back were they started. "What an amazing Duel!" she said, "Thanks, you were a tough opponent..." he said, rubbing his neck, the damage he was dealt from those effects were actually pretty painful.
She ignored it, as she then thought back to what he said just before he drew his card, "What did you mean? That I need attention?" she asked. "Oh..." he slowly said, "Well… Everyone has a reason for doing something… Go duels for fame and money, but the money he gets goes to an orphanage." he said, "I Duel for money, but its too help a close friend of mine." he said, not naming Aito.
"Playmaker duels to fight off Hanoi..." he added, "But you… What do you duel for besides attention?..." he asked, and this made her go quiet, "I don't have to answer that!" she defensively said.
"Alright… Just try and think of another reason to duel, beside attention..." he said, but stopped when he heard a wail from something, he quickly turned behind him, where he stared into the dark abyss of the construction area, the origin of the wail, "What's wrong?" she asked. But he didn't reply… as he was busy listening for the wail
"Did you not hear that?" he asked, "Hear what?" she asked confused, "I heard something in there… it was like wailing..." he said, "I didn't hear a thing..." she said, worried for him, even if he did beat her. "Hmm, maybe my tech is bugging out..." he said, "I'm off now. See Ya!" he waved goodbye
With that said, he quickly logged out. "Hmph! Who is he to decide what I should duel for!" she huffed out, "Blue Angel! That was amazing!" Frog said, as he and Pigeon had been following them the entire time.
"But listen, now that's it over, call us over if Playmaker shows up..." he said, then with that, Pigeon flew them off to somewhere else. With this, she was left to herself, giving her the feeling of her real life.
"What an amazing Duel! Such a shame that Playmaker hasn't shown up!" a voice to her left said, she looked in that direction and saw someone approaching from the construction area, this man wasn't there before, so she thought he was hiding all this time.
What he wore was a white business suit, that sort of reminded her of the Knights of Hanoi, at this she became defensive, "Who are you? A Knight of Hanoi?" she asked, but he didn't answer.
"Hello. Duelling world's idol, Blue Angel." the man said, he then suddenly started to move forward, but his feet didn't move an inch to do this, he quickly made his way over to her, and from her perspective, the area got darker, and the man got bigger. He suddenly passed right through her, turning into data, shocking her.
Your passion towards Playmaker. As well as your skills against Codebuster…" he said, as he suddenly appeared to her right, she saw, and tried to move back, he suddenly appeared behind her. "… has deeply impressed me." he finished as she turned to face him.
"I'm a fan of yours." he said "A passionate fan." he added, "Stop! You're obviously lying!" she said, "I'm not lying." he said, as he suddenly appeared underneath… this caused her to close her legs, "All I want, is just for you to defeat Playmaker." he said, getting bigger.
With this, he appeared behind her, materialised a dark purple card in his hand, and threw it at her back, she heard it whizzed towards her, turned to meet it, but it hit her. "That card will open a door deep within your heart. A key that frees your hidden desires." he said.
"Good luck." he said, and with that, he receded backwards, fading out as he did, with him gone, her view went back to normal, unaware of the changes in her Duel Disk or Deck. She spaced out, "What… Am I doing here?" she asked herself… She couldn't for the live of her, remember what just took place… if anything even took place.
"I better go, Brother will be ringing soon..." she said, then logged out…
Hanoi's base (5 minutes later)
"I must say Spectre, that was quite the performance." Vire hissed out, "Thank you." he said, then turned to Revolver, "I hope this plans out like you hope Master." he said, "Hopefully, if she can put Codebuster on the ropes, forcing him to bring out a strong monster, she must be good, Codebuster may be equal or stronger than Playmaker. And this Duel will determine that." Revolver said.
"And should she fail, we have a back up plan ready..." he said, looking at the virus removal program, at this Talon scowled, "What's bugging you now?" he asked turning to Talon, "Its just… that Blue Angel reminds me of my sister… before the incident." he muttered.
"If you knew her real identity, it may help you get over that small fact..." he said, bring up a holopad, which Talon read from, "Zaizen's little sister?!" Talon suddenly growled out, he knew for a fact that name was associated with SOL, his view on them using Blue Angel quickly shifted.
"That's better..." he said, then turned back to Spectre, "By the way..." he said, "Did you happen to hear anything where you were?" he asked, "Are you meaning what Codebuster must have heard? No." Spectre replied, he was just as confused, when Codebuster glanced back at his direction, nearly blowing his cover as he approached them.
"He said he heard something wailing, like that of a monster maybe?" he said to himself, "Speaking of a monster..." Vire muttered, making everyone look at him that was in the room, which was of course Revolver, Spectre, Ares, Valcry and Talon.
"During my Duel against Playmaker, he and the Ignis talked about something involving the Data Storm, which happened to be a monster, that seemed to have attacked them before." he said.
"Really? A monster?" Valcry asked, she knew that the Data Storm contained unknown monsters, but she didn't think that they could do anything. "Yes… And because of that..." Vire said, bring up a map, which seemed to have weather patterns, but they were for Data Storms.
"I've gone through the frequency of the Data Storms… notice anything about these three?..." he asked grinning, as three individual data screen enlarged, "These were all during Playmaker's Duels..." Revolver answered.
"Yes… and if you see closely..." he said, then brought up a video for each Data Storm, that was active during Playmaker's Duel, then brought up a smaller video of Playmaker during his Duels, the second his LP hit 1000 or less…
"They're moving?" Ares said, as they all watched as the Data Storms in the videos start to move, heading towards Playmaker. "Correct." Vire said, "So the monster is also strong enough to control the direction of a Data Storm." Revolver muttered.
"What could this mean for us?" Spectre asked, "Nothing… I have no use for this monster, If it can do this, I don't want something that could rebel against me..." Revolver said, "Continue this study… if you'd like to." he said to Vire.
"Yes sir..." he said bowing, "I believe that is all for now..." he said, then he logged out, "Still, if we did have that monster, it could turn the tide for us..." Ares said to himself, then he to logged out…
"Later..." Valcry huffed out, she also logged out, "Same!" Talon said, also leaving, "And what of you Vire?" Spectre asked, "I'm going to stay a bit longer, try and figure out a way to catch this beast from the Data Storm." he answered.
"Alright, bye for now." Spectre said, logging out, just leaving Vire to himself, he then closed everything he had showed them, but left one video up, it was from Playmaker's Duel against him, and was focused on the Data Storm approaching.
He suddenly paused it, as he suddenly caught glimpse of something with the Data Storm, a dark shadow on the side, "What are you…?" he said to himself…
Den City High School, the next day, (7:56 AM)
It was the following morning of Blue Angel vs Codebuster, and the students were still talking about it, within the crowd was Yusaku, just minding his own business, but was also worried for Aito, who hadn't shown up today.
"I guess he's still suffering from his panic attack" he surmised in his head, "Sigh… This is worse than I thought." Ai muttered, "What?" he asked the AI, "You're getting hammered on the net." it explained, going through all the comments on the Playmaker fan page… Where the fans were technically no longer fans at the moment.
"Is Playmaker a chicken? Disappointed he didn't except the challenge. A true Duelist accepts all challenges." it read out in different pitches, hoping to annoy his friend/ally/captor. "Also one about 'At least Codebuster was man enough for Playmaker!'." it added.
"That's enough." Yusaku said, slightly irritated, "Oh my! Are you mad?" it said, "You actually care!" it added, looking sly as it said this, "Are you feeling hurt-" it went to say, but then Aoi Zaizen approached from Yusaku's left. "Quiet! She's here." he whispered to him.
When the two meet, they stopped, "Yusaku Fujiki right? Good morning." Aoi said, "Y-Yeah. Good morning..." he said back, lowering his arm, allowing Ai to see the, to him 'hot dumb AI', "Hey new model! How goes it?" it asked.
"Humph! Stop acting like we're friends!" her AI yelled out, it's response shocked the Ignis, "Huh? It didn't act like this yesterday… Somethings off here..." it thought suspiciously, "How's Aito?" Aoi asked, as the two started to walk again.
"He had calmed down after a while, then his sister's room-mate came and picked him..." Yusaku explained, this suddenly made him think back to the guy that came, "Matoyia Guriddo… are you really Codebuster?" he thought, but then he suddenly snapped out of it, he had something to do right now, seeing that he had an opportunity.
"Why did you join the Duel Club yesterday?" Aoi suddenly asked, before he could ask his question, "Because..." he went to say… nothing really, he had no intention to join the Club… he blamed Shima for that.
"Don't say it's because you love to Duel." she quickly said, sounding a but annoyed, "What Shima said yesterday about your brother..." he went to ask, "Heh! You too, huh?" she said, confusing him.
"Can I get the new Duel Disk first? Or "Can I get a job at SOL when I graduate?" she said, "Those are the only reasons people approach me." she added, "I..." he went to say again, "Don't even try." she snapped out quickly, stopping.
"My brother doesn't trust me..." she said, this time sadden, instead of annoyance. And with that last comment she suddenly ran off, leaving him behind, "What was that about?" AnDru Plast said approaching from behind.
"AnDru Plast. Good morning." he quickly said turning to greet the guy… as well as his sister and their friend Ayano, "What's with her?" AnDra asked, "No idea?" Yusaku lied, "Well, anyways, what did you think of the Duel yesterday?" AnDru asked.
"It was alright..." he answered, being truthful, and it also gave him insight into a strategy of Codebuster's, "That Terabyte Trojan was amazing!" AnDra cheered, throwing her hands into the air, "You said it… Such a shame Playmaker didn't duel Blue Angel..." Ayano said.
"Yeah..." AnDru said, a bit duller, as by mentioning both, he quickly thought back to his Duel against that hacker guard, taking that damage still bugged him, but Codebuster and Playmaker seemed fine when they took damage… At least mentally.
"Something wrong?" Yusaku asked, while he may not be able to tell if someone is troubled emotionally, he could at least tell by facial expressions. "N-Nothing. See ya in class." AnDru said, then he too ran off a head.
"Hey, wait up!" his sister and Ayano yelled in unison, running after them, "Hey Yusaku, I need to talk to you about-" Ai tried to respond, "Be quiet!" he suddenly said, ticking the Ignis off, "Fine! Suit yourself." it huffed out...
Café Haru, (10:34 PM)
"Closed?" Mars said, in his usual attire, seeing that he had the day off, he decided to visit Asuka and Matoyia, but the sign on the locked door said otherwise, "Strange… They're usually open at this hour, and day as well..." he added in his head.
He then brought out his phone and dialled a number, a few moments later, the other side picked up, "Hello?" the voice of one Matoyia Guriddo answered, "Hey Matoyia, listen, I'm outside of the Café, but its closed..." he said staring at the building.
"Hold on, I'll be right down..." Matoyia said, then quickly hanged up, leaving him to himself, a few minutes later, he saw Matoyia come out the back, meaning he came from upstairs, he unlocked the front door, and locked it behind him.
"What's up?" he asked, "Not much. So why is the Café closed?" Mars asked, "Oh..." Matoyia said slowly, "Can we go somewhere?" he said, "Sure. Where to?" he asked, he said he wanted to go to the plaza. And so they made their way there, in which he told him what happened yesterday.
"Aito had a panic attack!?" Mars shouted, clearly shocked, he had meet the young boy, to him he seemed normal, a bit quiet, but he just played that off, "He still hasn't recovered properly, so Asuka decided to shut the shop down until he's better, so she can take care of him." he said.
"What about you?" he asked, "It was my day off, but I decided to help Asuka with Aito, but then you called, so she sent me away..." he told him, "Oh..." Mars said, the rest of their walk they walked silence.
When they made it to the plaza, they found a vacant bench to sit down, "So what did you think of the Duel yesterday?" Matoyia asked, "Not bad… It was a good show." Mars answered truthfully, he had found the Duel impressive, more so on Codebuster's side, Blue Angel basically did what she always did, which was kind off boring to him.
"That new Link Monster he summoned was impressive, not many can get out a Link 4 monster." Matoyia said, "It would be interesting if Blue Angel adapted her style, Codebuster knew she would just spam damage after damage after-" Mars said, but then noticed his friend seems off a bit.
"Hey Mars..." Matoyia said, "Yeah?" he said confused, wondering where this was going, "Do you ever wonder what she Duels for? Blue Angel I mean." he asked, "Just attention probably, but maybe she has another reason for it, one the people just don't know about..." Mars answered truthfully, he didn't really do a search up on Blue Angel, Spectre did that, and all he knew from him was that she was Akira Zaizen's little sister.
"Still nobody is that selfish to Duel just for attention, Go donates his winnings to the orphanage he grew up in, he told me that..." Matoyia lied, not that Mars knew, "Playmaker fights off Hanoi, for some sort of grudge I guess..." he added, making Mars wonder why was Playmaker targeting Hanoi.
"Codebuster… Well no one knows what he Duels for besides money…" he finished, "At least he's not Blood Shepard..." Mars muttered, with Matoyia agreeing with him on that. "I wouldn't worry about it for now… Let her do what she wants..." Mars said, "I guess. Still bugs me though..." he said…
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"So what now?" Matoyia asked, "Hmm… VR Royale?" Mars suggested, "You played that too?" he asked, "Yeah, so what do you say, go back to my place and just go in?" he said, "Sure. I've got my Duel Disk…" Matoyia said back as they both got up, and made his way to his place.
And just in the distant, like a few yards away from the bench they sat on was Cafe Nagi, where Shoichi saw them walk off, "*Phew* I thought he had tracked us down..." Shoichi thought, as yesterday after Yusaku finished school, he told him what happened that day.
Like how he believed that Aito Haru, the friend he had made, was another victim of the Lost Incident, and that he may have found out who Codebuster was in real life, he gave a name, Matoyia Guriddo, so he did a search to find out who he looked like, just in case he appeared out of nowhere.
"Still who was that with him?" he thought, looking at the taller man of the pair walking off, "I feel like I've seen him from somewhere." he muttered to himself, trying to recollect…
Den City High School, (13:57 PM)
Lunchtime had just about finished, so Yusaku, like many others was now back in his Classroom. As he walked up to his seat, "Hold up!" Ai shouted slightly, luckily not drawing attention to him or Yusaku, "Idiot! You're too loud!" Yusaku whispered to the AI, "A Knight of Hanoi has appeared!" it said to him. "What?" he said back.
He then quickly turned around, bumping past AnDru, "Hey! Where are you going?" he asked, as many people turned to Yusaku as he left, "I remembered that I left my Notepad in the Library." he said back as he left the room.
"But he hardly uses his Notepad..." he muttered suspiciously...
Within Aoi's class, they had just started about 5 minutes ago, "The relationship between the lens of a cat's eye and quantum mechanical algorithms..." the teacher droned on, Aoi who was taking notes, suddenly received a call.
She picked it up and saw she got a text… from- "I'll duel you right now – Playmaker." she read in her head, "… was advocated by German physicist Professor Werner in 1974-" the teacher said but stopped as Aoi raised her hand.
"I don't feel so well. Can I go to the infirmary?" she asked, "Oh sure..." the teacher said, then she lefted just as quickly….
Back with Yusaku, who had made a quick route to the Library, to ensure people who saw him go in there would believe his alibi, was now in the Duel Club room, which was empty aside from him.
"Deck Set!" he yelled placing his Deck into his Duel Disk, "Into the VRAINS!" he said as the sphere enveloped him… as this happened, on the roof, a similar sphere was enveloping Aoi, who was knelt down…
Link VRAINS, (5 minutes later)
Now just walking about was Playmaker looking for the Knight Ai talked about, "Where is the Knight of Hanoi? These are the correct coordinates right?" he said to Ai, but froze when he spotted her, Blue Angel, above on a building top.
"Blue Angel!? What are you doing here?" he asked, thinking she must have tricked him into coming like Go did with his disguise, "So you finally made your decision to challenge me." she said, confusing him.
"What are you talking about?" he asked, "Enough! Stop playing dumb." she said back, "Playing dumb?" he said confused, "You're the one who invited me here." she explained, surprising him, "But I-" he went to say, but then looked down at Ai.
"Is this your doing?" he asked, "Yep!" it said happily, "You lied and tricked me!?" he yelled annoyed, "Why would I lie to you, there is a Knight of Hanoi… right in front of you!" it yelled, shocking Playmaker at who it was referring to, the only person other than him here, Blue Angel.
"Even though it's faint, I sense Hanoi's influence in Aoi Zaizen's Deck." it explained, "I tried to tell you, but you were angry that she left-" it said, "Quiet." he shouted at his Duel Disk, "But why would she join Hanoi for?" he asked, "Who knows. They could be using her to get to you. But all I know is that you need to defeat her, after all, you said you'd defeat all of Hanoi." it said.
"Fine! I accept your challenge now!" he shouted to her, playing along for now, "Then let's begin!" she cheered, her mood instantly changing, at this a stream of Data flew by, their D-boards then appeared, each jumping onto their own one…
VR Royale…
"Take 'em out!" a player ordered and they and their friends tried to charge at a group, this group only had two people, which was both Matoyia and Mars, dressed in combat armour, Matoyia armed with his trusty sniper rifle, and Mars was just throwing grenades left and right.
"There's too many!" Mars roleplayed, which many people did, as was the purpose for the game, "Just keep throw-" Matoyia went to shout back, but his Duel Disk beeped, along with Mars's and everyone else's.
"Time out!" one of the enemies said, everyone agreed and checked their Duel Disk's having received a text. "Blue Angel vs Playmaker is about to start!?" a random player screamed excited, causing the others to get excited.
"What do you want to do?" Mars asked his friend, "I say we get out and watch properly..." he answered, then turned to the people that were shooting at them before, "Let's come back to this." he said to them, and they nodded, and instantly everyone logged out…
Link VRAINS…
"C'mon, everybody!" the MC cheered, making the crowd stop to watch as the large screen on the outside displayed Blue Angel and Playmaker on their D-Boards. "A Duel for the century, Blue Angel vs Playmaker is about to finally begin! Yeah!" he cheered.
"Blue Angel has already duelled Codebuster, and while she still lost, it was an amazing Duel none the less." he added, this excited them, all except for Shoichi who was shocked at this. "Yusaku! Why is he Dueling Blue Angel for?" he asked himself, then went to shut up shop to help his friend, but was stopped by a gathering line of people.
"Excuse me? 1 Hot dog, small fires and a coffee please." a woman asked, "Same!" the person behind her asked, "Y-Yes. Coming right up!" he quickly said, and then started to cook for them.
Back in Mars's apartment, both he and Matoyia were sitting down of Mars's sofa and watching on his large tv. "This is gonna be good." Mars said smirking, "Still wonder why Playmaker agreed to Duel her now?" Matoyia asked himself, as he discreetly activates his Drone from his Duel Disk, to record the play by play for later. "Probably Codebuster maybe..." the first said back, "Now let's see if she can be useful..." Mars thought grinning.
"Speed Duel!" the two they were watching shouted, drawing four cards each…
Blue Angel's LP: 4000
Playmaker's LP: 4000
Turn 1
"Okay! Here I go, everyone!" Blue Angel cheered out, ""My turn!" she yelled, taking the first turn.
"I activate the Field Spell, Trickstar Light Stage from my Hand!" she said, waving her hand over the card, "Ah! The card she used against Codebuster!" Ai said, "Quiet." Playmaker said, "When activated, I can add 1 Trickstar monster from my Deck to my Hand!" she said, as the card she choose was added to her Hand.
"Now since I added it to my Hand instead of drawing it, I can Special Summon it! Appear! Trickstar Lilybell!" she said as Lilybell appeared in the Right Main Monster Zone.
Trickstar Lilybell: LIGHT, Level: 2 [Fairy/Effect] ATK/800 DEF/2000
With that she took a pause, "Are you watching Brother..." she thought with hope, "Unlike my Duel against Codebuster, I promise to win against Playmaker." she added looking back at Playmaker.
"Now I Normal Summon Trickstar Cardina!" she said, as Cardina appeared in the Left Main Monster Zone.
Trickstar Cardina: LIGHT, Level: 4 [Fairy/Effect] ATK/1800 DEF/400
"Is she going with the same strategy she used against me?" Matoyia thought bored, she could at least do something new for someone like Playmaker. Mars shook his head, "Will she ever learn, she's as clear as glass with her strategy..." he muttered, also bored, hopefully Playmaker would make the Duel interesting...
"When Normal Summon, her effect activates and let's me add 1 Trickstar card from my Deck to my Hand!" she said as another card was added to her Hand.
"But hold on now! I'm still not done!" she said, "I now activate Lycoris's effect from my Hand!" she yelled out, "I return Cardina back to my Hand and Special Summon her!" she said as Cardina returned to her Hand and Lycoris appeared in the Middle Main Monster Zone.
Trickstar Lycoris: LIGHT, Level: 3 [Fairy/Effect] ATK/1600 DEF/1200.
"Now next up is the Spell, Trickstar Vision!" she said with a wink as she held the card, "I can Special Summon Cardina from my Hand by negating her effects and halving her ATK!" she said Cardina's appeared back in the Right Main Monster Zone. Cardina's ATK: 1800 = 900.
"And then we both draw a card!" she added, drawing her card, then Playmaker drew his, which made her smile, "If you watched yesterday, then you should know that my Trickstars are about to put on a show for everyone!" she said.
"Lycoris's effect! Since you added a card to your Hand, she deals 200 damage for every card you added!" she said as Lycoris waved her sword at Playmaker, shooting at beam at him, making him flinch. Playmaker's LP: 4000 – 200 = 3800.
"And then Light Stage's effect!" she added, "Since a Trickstar monster dealt you damage, you take another 200 damage!" she cheered, as a green beam from the Field Spell hit him as well. 3800 – 200 = 3600 (Codebuster)
"She's whittling us away like she did Codebuster." Ai said, "And now that everyone is here! I'm going all out for today!" she cheered, "Already?" Playmaker said, as he knew what card she was about to bring out.
"Come out! The Circuit of dreams of hope!" she shouted, as sparks flew from her hand, shot into the air, causing the Link Portal to appear. "Arrowheads confirmed! The Summoning conditions are 2 Trickstar monsters!" she said.
"I now set Lilybell and Cardina in the Link Markers!" she said with her two monster turning into twisters, Lilybell hit the Bottom Left, while Cardina the Bottom Right, turning them red. "Circuit Combine!" she yelled.
As this happened, Akira was watching from work, "Why is she rebelling against me?" he said to himself, while Damien watched by his side, internally smirking, just waiting for the virus in Blue Angel to be released.
"Link Summon! Appear, Link 2! Trickstar Holly Angel!" she shouted as Holly Angel now appeared from the Portal, and travelled with her, she was Summoned to the Extra Monster Zone to Blue Angel's right.
Trickstar Holly Angel: LIGHT [Fairy/Link/Effect] ATK/2000 LINK/-2, LMs: ↙↘
"She went with the right one this time..." Matoyia thought, "I then set two cards face-down and end my turn!" she said waving her hand over the last cards in her card, that then appeared bigger on the field, then faded.
Blue Angel's Hand x 0
Turn 2
"You're up Playmaker!" she said, "Now I can really show you why my Trickstars are so charming!" she added with a wink to him, "My turn! I draw!" Playmaker shouted drawing his card.
"Due to Lycoris's effect, each time you add a card to your Hand, you take 200 damage!" she said as Lycoris aimed her sword at Playmaker, who was hit by another beam. 3600 – 200 = 3400 (Playmaker) "Then Light Stage's effect!" she added, another beam hit him, 3400 – 200 = 3200 (Playmaker)
"And then Holly Angel's effect! Since a Trickstar monster's effect dealt you damage, she gains ATK equal to that damage!" she explained, but he already knew from yesterday. Holly Angel's ATK: 2000 + 200 = 2200.
"She sure acts all cute and innocent, but she really just pokes and pokes." Ai said, shifting his eye left and right. "This is the same strategy she used against Codebuster yesterday, she slowly shaves away at the opponent's LP, while Angel's ATK increases." Playmaker said to himself.
"I Normal Summon Draconnet from my Hand!" he said, as Draconnet appeared in the Middle Main Monster Zone with a cry.
Draconnet: DARK, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/1400 DEF/1200
"When Draconnet is Normal Summoned, its effect let's me Special Summon a Level 2 or lower Normal monster from my Hand or Deck in Defense!" he said as card ejected from his Deck, "I Summon Bitron!" he said, placing the card he got onto his blade, making Bitron appear in the Right Main Monster with a cute cry.
Bitron: EARTH, Level: 2 [Cyberse/Normal] ATK/200 DEF/2000
"Here I go! Appear! The Circuit that leads to the Future!" he yelled, throwing his none Duel Disk arm out, as sparks flew out of it and caused the Link Portal to appear. "Arrowheads confirmed! The Summoning condition is 1 Normal monsters." he said.
"I now Set Bitron in the Link Markers!" he said as Bitron turned into a twister and hit the Middle Bottom, turning it red. "Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Appear Link 1! Link Spider!" he shouted as Link Spider emerged from a cluster of red energy, and was summoned to the Extra Monster Zone to his right.
Link Spider: EARTH [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/1000 LINK/-1, LMs: ⬇
"Now for Link Spider's effect! Once per turn, I can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Normal monster from my Hand to the Zone that it points to!" he said, "I Summon a second Bitron!" he said as a second Bitron appeared in the Right Main Monster Zone again in Defense.
"He seems to have a recurring strategy..." Matoyia pointed out, as Mars agreed, already thinking of away to deal with it, should he come to face Playmaker.
"Arrowheads confirmed!" Playmaker yelled, "The Summoning conditions are 2 Cyberse monsters!" he said, "Again!?" Blue Angel cried out, getting a sense of deja vu from her Duel with Codebuster.
"I set Draconnet and second Bitron in the Link Markers!" he said as the monsters headed straight for the Link Markers around the Portal, Bitron hit the Middle Left, and Draconnet the Middle Top, turning them red.
"Link Summon! Appear Link 2! Link Bumper!" he shouted as Link Bumper appeared and was placed in the Right Main Monster Zone that Spider pointed to.
Link Bumper: EARTH [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/1400 LINK/-2, LMs: ⬅⬆
"Arrowheads confirmed again!" he said causing the Link Portal to appear again, shocking most, except for the Knights of Hanoi watching, both in VRAINS and outside of it, along with Matoyia and AnDru at school, who was next to Naoki watching the Duel.
"You know what's coming out right?" Mars asked, "Yep! Decode Talker time!" Matoyia joked, "The Summoning conditions are at least 2 Effect Monsters!" Playmaker said, "I set the Link 1 Link Spider and Link 2 Link Bumper in the Link Markers!" he said as the two Link Monsters turned into twisters, with Bumper's splitting into two. These two hit the Bottom Left and Bottom Right and Spider the Middle Top.
"Circuit Combine! Link Summon! Appear Link 3! Decode Talker!" he yelled as his ace Link Monster appeared in the Extra Monster that Link Spider was in before.
Decode Talker: DARK [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/2300 LINK/-3, LMs: ↙⬆↘
"I can't wait to crush that monster..." Mars thought smirking at the thought of destroying the Code Talker, if he Duelled Playmaker that is.
"Battle! Decode Talker attacks Holly Angel!" he ordered as Decode summoned his sword and charged at the Trickstar Link Monster.
"Not gonna happen! I activate the Trap, Trickstar Reincarnation!" Blue Angel yelled, shocking Playmaker as her face-down card flipped up, "Now all cards in your Hand are banished!" she said, shocking Playmaker, but some people could tell something was off with this.
Playmaker's entire Hand burst into particles, "Then you draw cards equal to the number of banished ones!" she added.
He then drew 4 cards, as that was how many that were banished, "You know what happens now. Lycoris's effect deals you 200 damage for every card you added to your Hand!" she said slyly, once again Lycoris aimed her sword at Playmaker, who was once again hit by a beam from the weapon. 3200 – 800 = 2400 (Codebuster)
"He did that on purpose, meaning he's going for Storm Access." Matoyia thought, "Then Light Stage's effect!" she yelled, 2400 – 200 = 2200 (Codebuster) "Man she's really going after our LP..." Ai said, "No, she was after something else." Playmaker said.
"Then Holly Angel's effect!" she said, as Holly Angel glowed red, 2200 + 800 = 3000 (Holly Angel) "She had more ATK then Decode!" Ai yelled out in shock. "And to make it better, Decode doesn't stop attacking!" she added as Decode got closer.
"I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Security Block!" Playmaker shouted out, "Now Decode Talker isn't destroyed in battle this turn, and no damage is dealt to either of us!" he said, as a blue shield stopped Decode's attack, who was thankful for this.
"Knew that would happen..." AnDru muttered to himself, "Too bad! I activate the Trap, Trickstar Scatter!" she said as her second face-down flipped up. "When a Trickstar monster battles, one monster you control is destroyed!" she said. A beam from the trap card shot out and hit Decode, who recoiled and then exploded, shocking everyone...
"No way! She took out Decode Talker!" Mars yelled out, with Matoyia equally shocked at this, that was the first time Decode Talker was destroyed in any way, sure Playmaker's duel against Vire had Decode leave the field, but Playmaker did that on purpose, the opponent actually managed to destroy it for once.
"So much for that…" Ai said, "Don't underestimate me." Blue Angel said, as they soared past… Unaware that a woman dress like a sort of ninja with silver and purple hair was hiding in the shadows and was watching the Duel.
"What's next? You aren't really challenging me like Codebuster did." she mocked, "Since you destroyed a Cyberse Link monster with a card effect, I can Special Summon this card from my Hand in Defense! Appear! Salvagent Driver!" Playmaker said.
Appearing now in the Middle Main Monster Zone was a biker, dressed in yellow and white and black, riding a hi-tech like motorbike as it rode the data winds.
Salvagent Driver: LIGHT, Level: 6 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/2200 DEF/2100
"I end my turn!" he said, "And that means Holly Angel's effect ends." she said back as the Trickstar Link Monster powered down, 3000 = 2000 (Holly Angel)
Playmaker's Hand x 2
Turn 3
"She sure is putting pressure on us." Ai whispered, "Nevermind that, do you sense it? Hanoi's presence is getting stronger." Playmaker said.
"My turn! I draw!" she yelled drawing her card… But suddenly gasped as she felt a strange pulse of dark energy, not realising it came from the card she just drew. "What was that? Did you see that?" Matoyia asked Mars, "Yeah. But I don't know what happened." Mars said, lying about the second part. "She just drew our card, meaning it's about to begin..." he thought smirking.
"That's it, Hanoi's card." Playmaker said, "I banish the Trap, Trickstar Reincarnation from my Graveyard to activate its effect!" she said shaking herself awake slightly, "This lets me Special Summon 1 Trickstar from my Graveyard!" she said.
"I chose Lilybell!" she said as Lilybell appeared in the Right Main Monster Zone on her side of the Field. "And now I'll have Lilybell attack you directly with her effect!" she said as Lilybell rang her bell at Playmaker, pushing him back with the shock waves, he screamed as he fell of his board. 2200 – 800 = 1400 (Playmaker)
"Then Light Stage deals you 200 damage!" she added, 1400 – 200 = 1200 (Playmaker) "Ah! I'm falling!" Ai screamed, not caring that Playmaker was also falling… Selfish. As he fell, Playmaker suddenly grabbed onto a ledge, stopping his fall, his D-Board however kept going, which made him shot a beam from his hand and connect to his board, making him appear back on it.
"Now since Lilybell dealt you damage, her effect let's me add 1 Trickstar monster from my Graveyard to my Hand." she said looking back at Playmaker first, then doing just that.
"Then I end my turn!" she added, with a wink.
Blue Angel's Hand x 2
Turn 4
"She didn't play the card from Hanoi? Why?" Ai said, "Is it strategy? Or is it… That's she still in control perhaps?" Playmaker said, "My turn! I draw!" he said drawing his card. "Lycoris's effect! You take 200 damage for every card you add to your Hand!" she said back to him. 1200 – 200 = 1000 (Playmaker)
"Now his LP is 1000!" Matoyia said, shocking Mars at what this meant, "Light Stage's effect!" she shouted, 1000 – 200 = 800 (Playmaker)
Back in Hanoi's base, a screen with a Data Storm was shown, as Revolver kept it up, as he wanted to confirm Vire's theory, which turned out to be correct as the second Playmaker's LP reached 1000, the Data Storm on the screen started to move to Playmaker's location, "What monster could be strong enough to do that?" Revolver asked himself.
"And then Holly Angel's ATK increases!" she said, 2000 + 200 = 2200 (Holly Angel)
At this she was smiling "Are you watching Brother? I can win this!" she thought looking back at Playmaker, who seemed to be panicked, "He can't get out of this! Meaning I, Blue Angel have defeated Playmaker!" she thought.
As this happened, Akira watched, suddenly thinking back to his past, involving him and Aoi, and how he spent most of his time, trying to succeed and support the both of them, with him taking most of the blunt of any suffering the two would have taken. While he reminisced, Damien watched the Duel.
"She seems to be fine, she didn't use our card, but it should at least be affecting her..." Damien thought, he looked back at Akira who was still unfocused, "If he notices anything off with her, he may try and stop the Duel..." he added, then typed into his notepad. "Well he can't now!" he thought grinning as he had just disabled any chance of the operators from interfering.
Back to the Duel, Playmaker was just watching Blue Angel, for any sign of a problem, a problem did show up, in the way she was now standing, a bit hunched and looked a bit weak, to her, she thought her two cards were spinning around each other. Then she started to shake on the D-Board.
"She acting off, Hanoi's card must be getting to her." Playmaker said, "What's wrong with her?" Matoyia asked as he noticed that Blue Angel was now shaking on her D-Board.
"I Normal Summon Defect Complier!" Playmaker said as a small device like monster appeared, in looked somewhat like his Duel Disk, but it was grey in colour, and there was a card slot part at the bottom, and on the top appeared to be an aerial of some sorts. It was Summoned to the Right Main Monster Zone.
Defect Complier: LIGHT, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/DEF: 1000/1000
"Then I activate Salvagent Driver's effect!" he said, "By discarding a Spell from my Hand, I can Special Summon a Cyberse from my Graveyard!" he said, "Resurrect Link Bumper!" he said as a cable from Salvagent Driver's motorbike shot backwards, created a dark portal and pulled Link Bumper out, who was placed in the Left Main Monster Zone.
This caused Blue Angel to snap out of her trance, "I'm Blue Angel!" she reminded herself, while this happened a Data Storm approached, "Hey! You do remember right?" Ai asked Playmaker. "Yes. But with the risk of meeting that monster..." he said, but then looked back at Blue Angel, who appeared to be fine at the moment.
"It may be our only hope." he said, with this he springed boarded his D-Board and made it sail pass her and into the Data Storm. Now within the Data Storm, Playmaker was looking about, "It's nowhere..." he said, "Great… Either way, let's get a new card!" Ai said.
"Right!" Playmaker said as he raised his none Duel Disk arm, where Data was now gathering… But then they heard something, "Huh?" they looked around, making the data stop and disperse, suddenly they saw it, the shadow of the monster had shown up… and there appeared to be a growing ball of dark red energy gathering near what they thought was it's mouth.
"IT'S GOING TO SHOOT US!" Ai screamed as the monster finished charging it's attack and fired a huge torrent of dark red energy at them…
Back outside, Blue Angel was waiting for him to come out, her Duel Disk had told her that he was in the progress of using his Skill, "I can't believe it… He was using my effects on purpose to shave away his own LP, he wanted this to happen-" she said to herself, but was cut off when a huge beam coming from the Data Storm appeared and sliced across a district of towering buildings, a second later, they exploded, shocking everyone at this.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Naoki screamed in his classroom, "Shima! What are you screaming for?" the teacher scolded him, "S-Sorry!" he said being quiet as he watched the screen on his notepad, with AnDru shocked at what he has seen happen. "Did Playmaker do that? And what kind of monster is he trying to get?" he thought.
With Mars and Matoyia, both were still in shock at what they had seen, "What kind of monster can do that with one attack?" Matoyia muttered slowly, "No idea..." Mars said, as he then thought back to what Vire talked about yesterday. Just then a frenzy of beams from the Data Storm appeared, destroying the surrounding buildings with ease. "Could it be... that monster?" he thought.
"What's going on?" Akira asked as the operators were now busy at work, "It seems to be coming from the Data Storm that Playmaker is currently inside, "Playmaker? Is he trying to tame the beast that he's trying to get with Storm Access?" he asked himself, while Damien watched in awe at the destruction the monster in the Data Storm was wrecking. "Such power!" he thought grinning.
Back with Playmaker, who was in fact still live, having just barely dodged, and was still barely dodging the next lot of beams from the monster, "Crazy monster! This is the thanks we get for trying to free you!" Ai snapped at the shadowed monster, but all he got was a roar from it.
"Do something!" it screamed at Playmaker as the monster charged another beam, it was released… But the aim appeared to ahead of Playmaker, "It's smart enough to aim ahead!" Playmaker yelled shocked. As the beam got closer, both he and Ai closed their eyes and waited for the beam to hit…
…
…
But it never came..." Huh?" Ai said, opening it's eye, along with Playmaker and they shocked to see that a new monster, having appeared out of way, was blocking the attack with a shield. "Look! A new monster came to save us!" Ai cheered as the beam finally stopped.
"This could be good..." he said, then went back to using his Skill, where data started to gather again, but most was coming from the new monster, who was still blocking more beams from the first monster.
"Seize the winds, Playmaker!" Ai shouted, "Storm Access!" he yelled, now holding the complete, with the second monster about to vanish into the card, not before splitting the Storm apart, letting them escape, while the first monster roar and travelled away.
"Playmaker has used his Skill now!" Blue Angel's AI told her, as Playmaker landed near her, the two then tried to over take the over, but Blue Angel pushed him away.
"Appear! The Circuit that leads to the Future!" Playmaker yelled, sparks flying from his hand, into the air and making the Link Portal appear. "Arrowheads confirmed! The Summoning conditions are at least two Cyberse monsters!" he said.
"I now set the Link 2 Link Bumper and Salvagent Driver in the Link Markers!" he said as the monsters in question turned into twisters with Salvagent Driver hitting the Middle Bottom, Bumper's split into two, and they hit the Middle Top and Bottom Right, turning them red.
"Circuit Combine!" he said as yellow data started to gather, forming a new monster, "Link Summon!" he said as the data got bigger, "Appear Link 3! Encode Talker!" he said as a data frame of the new monster was created and now being filled in with colour.
Now appearing was a new Code Talker, but this one had a yellow lining on it's actual body, which was similar to Decode's, also the Armor was a pale white-blue, and the orbs on it was yellow. And in its right hand was a shield, coloured the same as the monster's armour, but had a glowing yellow cross at the centre, it also had spikes on it. It gave a warrior's cry as it was Summoned to the Extra Monster Zone to Playmaker's right. And it pointed to Defect Complier.
Encode Talker: LIGHT [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/2300 LINK/-3, LMs: ⬆⬇↘
"A new Code Talker!?" Matoyia yelled, while Mars did a spit take, having gotten thirsty and grabbed his drink, but was also shocked at what had just happened, "There's more than one?!" Mars thought in shock, awe, and annoyance at this.
"He actually did it, This was all Playmaker's design, the entire time… That means he wasn't under any pressure, he just faked it..." she said to herself sad at this discovery.
"Battle!" Playmaker yelled, alerting her to this, "Defect Complier now attacks Lilybell!" he said as a swirling green beam from Complier made its way over to Lilybell. "Then from my Hand, I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Frontline Disturbance!" he said. This made a screen appear on Blue Angel's Duel Disk.
"So that's what you going for! You're trying to lower Holly Angel's ATK by Lycoris's DEF of 1200, to make her become 1000." she deduced, "But won't happen, I won't lose this Duel!" she shouted determined.
"I now activate my Skill, Trickstar Fraud!" She said, "Oh no! That skill, while Lycoris is on the field!" Ai yelled, "I discard 1 Trickstar card during your turn." she said sending Cardina to the Graveyard. "And now you draw cards until you have 3!" she said.
"You have 0 cards, so draw 3!" she demanded, he then did what was asked, "You only have 800 LP, so you take 600 damage from Lycoris's effect!" she said as Lycoris then aimed her weapon and released another beam at Playmaker. "Then Light Stage deals you another 200 damage!" she added as a beam from the Field Spell shot out and joined Lycoris's one.
"I did it! I defeated Playmaker!" she cheered… A little too early, "Are you really sure about that?" he asked, shocking her, "Defect Complier's effect! Once per turn, effect damage become 0!" he said as a shield appeared over Playmaker from Complier. When the beams hit the shield, they instantly dissolved.
"Then a Defect counter is placed on Complier!" he added, Defect Complier's Counter Count (Defect): 0 + 1 = 1. This caused a 1 to appear on Complier's screen.
"Damage… Becomes… 0..." she got out in shock, as this eerily reminder her of what Codebuster did with that Filter Weirdware monster. This angered her, "I'm not out of this yet! I still have one more card left!" she said, swiping over the card to activate it…
… This was a mistake, as a second wave of darkness hit Blue Angel, paralysing her, "There it is again!" Matoyia said watching, "That last card was Hanoi's." Playmaker said, "This is bad..." Ai muttered.
"I-I… I-I-I'm..." Blue Angel mumbled to herself, "A Knight of Hanoi!" a voice yelled within her head, at this she seemed to go back to normal to the public view, but on the inside, she was now a different person.
"Don't!" Playmaker yelled, "I… Send Dark Angel, from my Hand… To the Graveyard… To… Activate her effect." she said pressing to confirm the action, but then the second that happened, she was enveloped by dark electricity and screamed in pain, alerting most watching.
"What the hell is going on?!" Matoyia yelled, utterly confused know, unaware Mars had a dark grin on his face. "She actually used it." Ai said as Blue Angel went stiff, "What did Hanoi do to that card?" Playmaker asked himself.
"Now..." Blue Angel said in a dark tone, "By sending Lilybell to the Graveyard, Defect Complier's attack changes to another monster." she said eerily as Lilybell burst into particles.
"Now attack Holly Angel!" she shouted, "Then the monster that's now being attacked gains the tributed monster's ATK!" she said, 2200 + 800 = 3000 (Holly Angel)
"Due to Frontline Disturbance's effect, since Lilybell left the field, one monster I control gains a Disturbance Counter." he said, "I target Encode Talker!" he said, Encode Talker's Counter count (Disturbance): 0 + 1 = 1.
"Pointless. Utterly pointless!" she yelled enraged, "Holly Angel has the higher ATK! You lose Playmaker!" she screamed out, turning to him a bit crazed.
"Now Encode Talker's effect activates!" Playmaker shouted, "Once per turn, when a monster it points to battles a monster with higher ATK, that monster is not destroyed and no battle damage is dealt to me!" he said. As the beam from Complier was suddenly cancelled out, this made Blue Angel grit her teeth in annoyance.
"Then until the end of the turn, if that effect was resolved, I can target Encode Talker or a monster it points to, and it gains ATK equal to your battling monster's ATK!" he said, "I pick Encode Talker!" he added. Encode Talker's ATK: 2300 + 3000 = 5300.
Upon this she suddenly started yelling her lungs out, in pain, frustration, who could tell… "It's getting bad! If this keeps up, she's take serious mental damage!" Ai said, "I know!" he said, he then faced her, feeling terrible about what he was about to do next for some reason.
With Akira, he seems to be panicked at the state of his little sister's condition, "Hurry! Cut the circuits!" he ordered as Blue Angel continued to scream, putting many off from watching, the those that continued to watch were shocked.
"I activate Complier's effect! I remove 1 Defect Counter from it..." Playmaker said, 1 – 1 = 0 (Defect Complier) "Then target 1 monster I control, with it being Encode Talker, and it then gains 800 ATK!" he said as Blue Angel's screaming got stronger. 5300 + 800 = 6100 (Encode Talker)
A few seconds later, she suddenly stopped screaming, and collapse onto her board, "Hurry!" Ai yelled at him, "I know!"
"Do something! Do anything! I'll take full responsibility for this!" Akira yelled at the operators, who were suddenly blocked from doing anything else, "We can't! There's a system error!" one shouted, frustration Akira into slamming his hand on his counter, while Damien got a dark grin, which no one notices.
"Now Frontline Disturbance's effect! By removing all Disturbance Counters from Encode Talker Holly Angel lose ATK equal to Lycoris's DEF!" he said, 1 = 0 (Encode Talker), 3000 – 1200 = 1800 (Holly Angel) There was no response from Blue Angel.
"Time to end this! Battle! Encode Talker, attack Holly Angel!" he ordered, as a secret sword from the bottom of Encode unsheathed, who then swung the now shield sword over his head, and charged at Holly Angel…
"She's crying..." Playmaker thought in shock as he stared at the downed Blue Angel, where he suddenly noticed tears freely flowing down her face. "No! I need to do this!" he snapped himself back to normal.
"Final Encode!" he yelled as Encode roared a cry, slicing Holly Angel in two so fast, where he landed on the floor, while Holly Angel exploded still in the air, the explosion hit Blue Angel, whose air came undone, and her wings fell apart… Blue Angel's LP: 4000 – 4300 = 0.
Playmaker: WINS
Blue Angel: LOSE
End of chapter 7
Sorry about the cliff-hanger… even though all that watch the show know what happens next, but this chapter has exceed 23,000 words… So I'll cut it off here.
Also the reason I changed Yusaku's Dummy Deck was that it was poorly built, and Aoi is probably smart enough to know that's its a fake, as well as AnDru, hence why I updated it.
Also it had already been pointed out in earlier chapters, that Aito is the OC victim of the Lost Incident, not Matoyia. Some fan commented about wanting Matoyia to meet his Ignis, but that won't happen as he's not the victim, so once again, it's Aito.
OC cards
(Codebuster)
Weirdware Portgate
LIGHT, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/500 DEF/1400
If your opponent controls more cards than you: Special Summon this card from your Hand or Graveyard, and depending where this card is Special Summoned, Special Summon 1 other "Weirdware" monster from the same place this card was Summoned from. If this card is linked to a Link Monster, apply this effect: Once per turn, move this card to an un-used Main Monster Zone on your side of the Field, Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Weirdware" from your Deck to the Zone this card was in before.
Weirdware Duo-ble
FIRE, Level: 3 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/1200 DEF/600
While this card is face-up on the field: The first battle or effect damage to your opponent of every turn is doubled. You can only activate this effect once per turn. While this card is linked to a "Weirdware" Link Monster, apply these effects: 1) Once per turn, when that Link Monster battles a monster with higher ATK: double it's original ATK, but battle damage is halved. 2) If you use this card as Link Material: It's treated as 2 Link Material.
Weirdware Filter
WATER, Level: 2 [Cyberse/Effect] ATK/1000 DEF/400
Should you take damage from an effect while this card is in your Hand: Reveal this card, and if you do, reduce that damage to 0 then Special Summon this card. Should you take damage from a battle or card effect while this card is face-up on the field: Gain Life Points equal to that damage instead. If this card is linked to a "Weirdware" Link Monster, apply this effect: Once per turn, when should you take damage from a effect your opponent activated: (Quick Effect) Target the Link Monster this card is linked to, the damage becomes 0, then make the monster gain ATK equal to the damage you would've taken from that effect.
Element Booster
Quick-Play Spell
Activate this card only if you Special Summon a monster from the Extra Deck, using a monster with the same Attribute as the Special Summoned monster. The Special Summoned monster gains ATK equal to the original ATK of the monster with the same Attribute used as Material until the end of the turn.
Weirdware Imprint
Normal Spell
Activate this card before you Link Summon a "Weirdware" Link Monster. If a "Weirdware" Link Monster(s) is used as Link Material to Link Summon a "Weirdware" Link Monster: that monster gains the original effects the Link Monster(s) used as Link Material. When a "Weirdware" Link Monster is destroyed: Banish this card from your GY; draw 1 card x that monster's Link Rating, but then send cards from the top of your Deck equal to the amount of cards you drew with this effect. You can only activate each effect of "Weirdware Imprint" once per duel.
Weirdware Repeater
EARTH [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/800 LINK/-1, LMs: ↘
1 Level 2 or lower "Weirdware" monster
When this card is Special Summoned: Target 1 "Weirdware" card in your GY: Add it to your Hand. You can activate the following effects once per turn: 1) Should the monster this card points to be destroyed: (Quick Effect) Special Summon back that monster. 3) After the monster this card point to destroys a monster: that monster can declare a second attack.
Weirdware Voltage Conductor
Cyberse, Link, Effect, EARTH, ATK/LINK: 1600/-2, LMs: ↙⬇
2 "Weirdware" monsters
During either player's turn, should you take effect damage from a card effect: (Quick Effect) you can negate that damage, and if you do, target this card or a monster this card points to: It gains 1000 ATK until the end of the turn. If a monster this card points to has ATK higher than it's original ATK: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the difference in that monster's original and current ATK. You can only activate each effect of "Weirdware Voltage Conductor" once per turn.
Weirdware Terabyte Trojan
DARK [Cyberse/Link/Effect] ATK/2800 LINK/-4, LMs: ↙⬆⬇↘
2+ "Weirdware" monsters
This card gains 400 ATK for every "Weirdware" Link Monster used to Link Summon this card until the end of the turn this card was Summoned. This card gains the following effect, depending on the number of monsters this card points to: 1+) Once per turn, when this card attacks a monster, that monster loses ATK equal to the original ATK of 1 monster this card points to. 2+) If this card destroys a monster by battle: Inflict 400 damage to your opponent for every monster this card points to. 3+) Once per turn, for every card this card points to: Target up to that many cards you opponent controls, destroy them.. Should this card be destroyed by battle, tribute 1 monster this card points to instead.
(Blue Angel)
Trickstar Abyss Alyssum
Normal Trap
Tribute 1 "Trickstar" monster you control to activate this card. This card remains face-up until the end of the turn you activate this card. You can banish 1 card for every "Trickstar" monster you control at any time for the rest of the turn this card is activated. Each time a card is banished by this card's effect: Inflict 200 damage to your opponent for every face-up "Trickstar" card you control.
