YAY! Another chapter! I'm so happy I got this one done since this is my favourite episode in 5Ds! Sorry if it's long but I like it :)
Everyone, if you want to see a picture of Roxas, go to my bio and visit the website that's in bold. I was bored at one point so I've drawn him. Also partly, this took a while because it was my 19 birthday on the 1 of July!
I won't be doing the next chapter for quite a while sadly but please give me reviews for this! Enjoy!
Chapter 6 – A Blast from the Past Part II
Yusei and Roxas were staring at the two dragons that Jack had Synchro Summoned, which were Red Dragon Archfiend and Yusei's Stardust Dragon. Roxas thought with concern. 'That's Stardust Dragon? It's beautiful than the card image Jack showed to us... I hope you can get out of this Yusei...'
Yusei was staring at Stardust Dragon with happiness about seeing him again, but he was slightly worried that he might not see Stardust ever again. 'Stardust...' Jack shouted out, "When I offered to give you back your precious Stardust Dragon, you should have just taken it and run back home to the Satellite. But no, you just have to prove that you can hold your own with the master of faster!"
Yusei's Turn
Yusei replied, "I'm gonna do more than hold my own Jack". Yusei draw his next card from his deck and declared, "It's my turn! I summon Shield Warrior to the field in defense mode!" A Celtic looking warrior with a long narrow shield appeared on the field, it was all blue because it was in defense mode.
Shield Warrior - ATK 800 DEF 1600 LV3 Warrior / Effect - EARTH
During damage calculation, in either player's turn: You can banish this card from your Graveyard; monsters you control cannot be destroyed by this battle.
"And next I also switch my Junk Warrior to defense mode!" Junk Warrior went into a defensive position and turned all blue. "With that done I'm placing one card face down, it's your move old buddy".
Jack's Turn
Jack 6SC
Yusei 6SC
"Leaving both monsters in defense mode? You gotta get aggressive if you wanna win, but then again I shouldn't be surprised, you never were much of a fighter". Jack then drove in the opposite direction and he went behind Yusei. Jack declared, "Haven't you learned, Yusei? You can't just coward and hide and hope to survive and here's proof! Red Dragon Archfiend can wipe out all of your monsters in defense mode! So say goodbye to your little friend! Go Absolute Powerforce!"
Red Dragon Archfiend used his talons of fire to wipe out Yusei's monsters that were in defense mode. Jack started laughing and said, "Seriously Yusei, didn't you learn anything back in the school yard, with those mean, mean bullies will come around and threaten you with your little shot pals for your lunch money? What did not fighting back ever get you? A black eye and an empty stomach that's what".
Jack continued on his rant. "Didn't you sneak out of the Satellite to get even with me? I mean if you came here to throw down or whatever, why are you acting like that scared kid from the playground?" Yusei thought on what his answer to Jack's question. 'It's called Strategy'. Jack continued by saying, "Well now you got no monsters on the field, Stardust Dragon can swoop right in and attack you directly! Hope this doesn't hurt too much". Yusei looked at Stardust Dragon. "Sure you don't".
Stardust Dragon breathed out an elemental breath and used his most attack called Cosmic Flare. Yusei grunted at the pain of the attack and his life points and Speed Counters were lowered. Yusei was losing control with his duel runner, but he regained control of it.
Yusei - 500 4SC
"So the monster that used to be yours, the one you came here to get back from me is now the one taking you down! I'm sure if you have a thought that this would have happened you never wanted to crawl out of that dump you call home!"
Yusei's Turn
Yusei - 500 5SC
Jack - 1900 7SC
"What are you waiting for Yusei? You do know it's your turn right? How come you haven't made a move in two laps? Thinking of giving up?" Yusei drawn his card and answered, "Not a chance! I summon Sonic Chick in defense mode!" The same pink chick from the first duel appeared on the field but this time, it was running alongside Yusei.
"Just like back at school, you waste all your time hanging out with chickens!" Yusei replied, "Well at least I know this chicken isn't going to double-cross his best friend and then scurry away in the middle of the night, in fact this chicken sticking around for the long hull. Now I place a card face down, you're up!"
Jack's Turn
Yusei 6SC
Jack 8SC
Jack accelerated his duel runner so that he was a bit closer to Yusei. "Let me ask you something Yusei, how do you think this duel of ours is going to end? Let's kill ourselves and say that you actually have a chance at outdueling me and let's say you somehow managed to win, then what are you gonna do? You haven't really thought this little revenge fantasy through have you? Well let me tell you what is gonna happen! You're gonna lose this duel and then I'm gonna press a little button on my runner at which point an entire Security Team will arrest you and ship you off to the Satellite. So much for revenge, and speaking of you losing, Red Dragon Archfiend attack Sonic Chick!"
Red Dragon Archfiend used his Absolute Powerforce attack once again but on Sonic Chick, but somehow it was deflected. "Too bad buddy, your little chicken's special ability will get chopped by the power of my Red Dragon Archfiend. Remember, it can wipe the field clean of any monsters you have in defense mode. I told you Yusei, you have to get aggressive, like this!"
Sonic Chick was about to turn in flames, but somehow the flames were gone. Roxas and Jack were confused by this action. "Always sticking aren't you Yusei?" Yusei looked at Jack. "It's what I do best! I'm just surprised you didn't remember this classic from back when we dueled for fun". A trap card then appeared next to Yusei. It shows someone's hand pressing a button from a remote with an explosion on the background.
Remote Revenge - Normal Trap
Activate only by negating an opponent's card effect that would destroy a monster you control. Destroy all face-upAttack Position monsters your opponent controls.
Jack replied, "Oh yeah! You're Remote Revenge trap card! I forgot you had that!" Yusei replied, "It seems there's a lot you forgot about Jack, so here's a little refresher course on what this trap can do. First it deflects your attack, but that deflection's just the beginning once it does that, it destroys every monster on your field in attack mode and aren't both your dragons in attack mode? So how's that for getting aggressive?"
Sonic Chick then turned white and burst into flames, then the flames was about to shoot towards Red Dragon Archfiend until Jack replied, "You have a thing with revenge, don't you? Too bad for you, just like your attempt to get revenge on me, this attack is gonna fail miserably 'cause Stardust Dragon is taking one for the team!" The flames hit Stardust and then seconds later, it was disappearing in a sparkle.
"That's what Stardust Dragon's special ability is, if you active a card with the power to destroy all my monsters, Stardust Dragon can save all the others by sacrificing itself. How does it feel knowing that you destroyed your favourite beast? So much for Stardust Dragon, but I guess it had to go down like that not if a Red Dragon to stay on the field. Hey does that remind you of another situation Yusei? Think about it, this is like how I had to step on you in order to escape the Satellite".
Jack then grabbed two cards from his hands and declared, "Now I place two cards face down and with that done, I think I'll bring back MY Stardust Dragon so you can get another peek at it for old time's sake. Now take a long hard look Yusei, because after this duel you're never going to see it again!"
A big white flash appeared on the field and the same light blue dragon came out of it. Jack then said, "Maybe you'll even get another chance to destroy the very beast you're trying to win back from me. You know Yusei, with friends like you, who needs enemies? And with both dragons back on my field, it looks as though this battle of ours has come full circle hasn't it?"
Yusei was grinning slightly to himself. "Actually, not quite Jack" Jack had a slightly confused look on his face. "I activate my trap card, Harmonia Mirror!" A girl with a mirror appeared on the field, the reflection on the mirror showed Stardust.
Harmonia Mirror - Normal Trap
Activate only when your opponent Special Summons a Synchro Monster except by Synchro Summon. Take control of that monster.
"Check this out! Because you just summoned Stardust Dragon to your field, using a method other than the usual Synchro Summon, I can use the power of Harmonia Mirror to get Stardust fighting on my side instead! Welcome back, old friend!" Stardust's reflection turned white and Stardust disappeared then reappeared to Yusei's side on the field.
"That's no biggie, it's like I said earlier I don't need it. I was merely using it to try and make this duel more interesting". Yusei replied, "Well you did Jack and now I'm gonna rev things up with MY Stardust Dragon!" The light blue dragon appeared onto its rightful owner's field.
"Not bad Yusei, maybe you have learned a thing or two since our days together in the Satellite. So now we've got Red Dragon Archfiend versus Stardust Dragon in a fight to the finish!" Both dragons turned to each other and roared at each other, ready for battle.
"Looks like we finally get a chance to see whose dragon is mightier Yusei" Yusei replied, "And you'll finally get the chance to see the duelist that I've become. Remember that talk you gave, after you beat me in our last duel?"
2 Years Ago
All of Yusei's friends were shocked at Yusei's loss and Rally questioned, "Did he just lose?" Jack went closer to Yusei. "He did and do you know why our friend just lost? Because his deck has no balance and without balance, one cannot be a complete duelist, but you already knew that, don't you Yusei?"
Present
"Well I didn't want to admit it but you were right that day, those words hurt but they taught me a valuable lesson". Jack replied, "Oh really Yusei? And what did they teach you?" Yusei answered immediately. "That in order to be the best I can be, I have to believe in the power of every card in my deck and ever since that day, I thought about that duel we had over and over again, trying to make new strategies and combinations that I would never thought possible".
"Well Yusei, actions speak gladder then words, so let's just see what that deck of yours is capable of". Yusei replied, "You got it Jack and with Stardust Dragon on my field, the skies the limit!" Jack started laughing for a while and asked, "Let me guess this straight, now that you got Stardust on your side, you actually think you have a chance at beating me? Well you don't, I'm the best. You can never defeat me, no matter how many Stardust Dragons you have on your field you got that? Now bring it on!"
Yusei's Turn
Yusei 7SC
Jack 9SC
Yusei drawn a card from his deck. "I've got the green light!" Yusei looked at the card he drew and looked at Jack who was just beside him. "And I activate my speed spell, Silver Contrails!"
Silver Contrails - Speed Spell
Activate while you have 5 or more Speed Counters. Select 1 WIND monster you control. Increase its ATK by 1000 during the Battle Phase of this turn.
"Now because Stardust Dragon is a Wind Attribute monster, he gets a power boost!"
Stardust - 3500 ATK
"It's time our beasts tussle, Stardust, ice his Red Dragon Archfiend! Go Cosmic Flare!" Stardust opened his mouth and shot out an elemental breath onto Red Dragon Archfiend. But suddenly, Yusei's and Jack's right arms started to throb with pain. Incidentally, it wasn't just Yusei and Jack, Roxas also felt this same pain on his right arm.
Roxas held his right arm to try and release some of the pain, but it didn't help it. 'What's going on? Why is my arm hurting like this? This is worst than grabbing the Sword of Chaos...' Then what Roxas saw next almost made his body paralyzed in shock, on his right hand side, he sees a see-through version of Sonic looking at the duel.
"S-Sonic? Is that you? How come I can see you?" Sonic looked away from the duel and looked at Roxas. "I'm afraid I don't know that, however, I get the feeling that something big is about to happen and next time, talk with your thoughts". Roxas decided to continue watching the duel, even though his right arm is hurting and he can somehow see Sonic.
Yusei and Jack noticed their arms in pain as well and Yusei shouted out, "What's going on? Why is my arm hurting? What is this?" Stardust's Cosmic Flare attack failed since Red Dragon Archfiend didn't disappear. Yusei was surprised by this and Jack said, "Sorry Yusei, better luck next time". Instead of Red Dragon Archfiend disappearing, Yusei's Sonic Chick got destroyed. "What happened to Sonic Chick?"
Synchro Deflector - Normal Trap
Activate only when a face-up Synchro Monster you control is selected as attack target. Negate the attack and destroy the monster with the lowest ATK your opponent controls.
Jack answered, "My Synchro Deflector trap card happened. With this trap card, I can reflect an attack against a Synchro Monster and then use the energy to vaporise the monster on your field with the fewest attack points. And now that you've attacked, the effect of your Silver Contrails speed spell wears off, which means your Stardust Dragon loses its precious power boost".
Stardust Dragon's original attack power was shown on Yusei's visor. "Well it's still my turn Jack and I'm far from done, so next from my hand, I summon Ghost Gardna in defense mode!"
Ghost Gardna - ATK 0 DEF 1900 LV4 Warrior / Effect - DARK
When a face-up monster you control is selected as an attack target, you can change the target to this card. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, 1 face-up monster your opponent controls loses 1000 ATK, until the End Phase.
"Trying to protect your little dragon are ya?" Yusei declared, "I place two cards face down, you're move Jack!" Yusei arm started to throb again as well as Roxas' arm.
Jack's Turn
Yusei 8SC
Jack 10SC
Jack drawn his card from his deck. "Time to end this, Yusei!" While Jack drawn his card, his arm throbbed in pain. But Jack ignored it, despite the pain. "I think Red Dragon Archfiend wants to attack Stardust Dragon. Let's go, Red Dragon Archfiend, tear that Stardust Dragon apart! Go Scourging Crimson Flare!" Red Dragon Archfiend was about to hit Stardust in the chest, but something was in the way.
"Hey Ghost Gardna! Down in front!" Yusei replied, "Ghost Gardna's special ability allows it to draw your monster's attention and become the target of your attack, so Red Dragon Archfiend won't be attacking Stardust this time around and after it gets destroyed..." Jack interrupts Yusei and says, "Yeah, Yeah I know, I watched you use Ghost Gardna plenty of times back in the Satellite and this is the part where you tell me how. When Ghost Gardna gets destroyed, it can lower the attack points of one its opponent's monsters by 1000 until the end of the turn. Did you seriously think I didn't know that was coming?"
Red Dragon Archfiend - 2000 ATK
Yusei replied, "Well did you know this was coming? I activate a trap card! Counterattack Beacon!"
Counterattack Beacon - Normal Trap
Activate only when your opponent's monster destroys a monster you control by battle. Target monster you control gains 500 ATK until the End Phase. Conduct battle between the target monster and the previously attacking monster (other effects cannot be activated during this battle).
"It activates when one of your monsters attacks one of mine and manages to destroy it in battle. Once this trap card activates, it not only gives one of my monsters 500 more attack points, it forces that same monster to attack even though it's not my turn".
Stardust - 3000 ATK
"Very interesting, so now Stardust has more attack points then my dragon". Yusei replied, "That's right Jack, can you see where this is going? Stardust Dragon, atta-" When Yusei said 'attack', his arm and Jack's arm started to throb with pain again, including Roxas' arm. "Attack!" Yusei continued his attack on Red Dragon Archfiend, but Jack had different plans. "Not bad Yusei, but not bad is not good enough! Not when I've got my Prideful Roar trap card!"
Prideful Roar - Normal Trap
During damage calculation, if your monster battles an opponent's monster with a higher ATK: Pay Life Points equal to the difference in ATK; your monster gains ATK equal to the difference +300, during damage calculation only.
"For the low cost of 1000 life points, I can give Red Dragon Archfiend 1300 more attack points!"
Jack - 900
Red Dragon Archfiend - 3300 ATK
"It's show time!" Red Dragon Archfiend and Stardust Dragon attacked each other with their elemental breath attacks. But somehow, the breath attacks were combined like they were connected. When the two attacks were combined, Yusei, Jack and Roxas' arms throbbed with immense pain.
Unlike Yusei and Jack, Roxas' arm suddenly started to glow a crimson colour. Roxas looked at his right arm on where the pain was coming from and found out that there was a mark on his arm. It looks like a wind swirl, but it has spikes coming out of it, mostly from the top right hand corner. From the look of it, the spikes kind of resembles the quills of a hedgehog.
"W-What's this?" Roxas stared at his mark for a while, despite being in immense pain. Then Roxas looked at Sonic beside him thinking, 'Does Sonic know anything about this? This mark kind of resembles something I know... But what?'
The mark appearance wasn't the only strangest thing that happened to Roxas, what also happened was that his Extra Deck slot on his duel disk started glowing. 'Huh, this is similar to the glow that changed my spells to speed spells... but what's different about this one is that it's coming from the Extra Deck instead'. Roxas picked up what was glowing and it was two cards glowing white. A few seconds later, the white glow died down showing two Duel Monsters cards with a white boarder.
The one on the left showed a machine with two jet-like wings, a wide body, a talon like hand and has a long drill for a weapon. Roxas recognised the machine as the Egg Dragoon that Sonic destroyed, when he was a werehog.
The card on the right showed a dragon Roxas has never seen before. Its body was coloured cobalt blue, but as the body reaches the tail, it become silver and on its head, it has red, black and blue horns that are shaped like Sonic's and Shadow's quills. Its head is rounded like Red Dragon Archfiend and it has green eyes. The wings it had were long and narrow and bat looking, however the main part of the wings were quill shaped. On the end of the tail, it has rings wrapped onto it.
'Wait a minute... these are Synchro monsters! How did I get these? And what's this dragon? I've never seen this card before!' Roxas looked at Sonic and talked to him by thoughts this time. 'Sonic, do you know what this mark is and what this dragon is?' Sonic looked at the new Synchro Dragon card. "No, I don't know what's going on either but after this duel, we'll find out together". Sonic then gave Roxas a thumbs up in agreement and Roxas continued watching the duel.
The combination attack that Stardust and Red Dragon Archfiend used against each other, started to expand. Then it exploded giving out a huge white flash. After the white flash, streams of crimson-coloured fire started to appear on the field and it appears that Stardust wasn't destroyed.
"What's going on? That attack should have destroyed Stardust Dragon! Red Dragon Archfiend has more attack points, it's more powerful!" To answer Jack's questions, a monster card of Yusei's was shown beside him.
"Shield Warrior? You can't play that card! I sent that to your graveyard!" Yusei replied, "Which is just where its special ability can activate! All I gotta do is remove it from play and then I can use its power to save a monster from being destroyed! But don't worry Jack, your dragon's attack still hits me for 300 life points and I'm pretty sure Prideful Roar's effect wears off after an attack, so Red Dragon Archfiend is back to its original power level".
Yusei - 200
Jack got irritated with Yusei, since he couldn't destroy Stardust. Jack drawn his card and angrily shouted, "I can still finish you... with a speed sp-" But as he was about to activate his card, his right arm throbbed in pain like before. Jack grunted in pain. 'Not again...'
Yusei's right arm also throbbed in pain and from the sound of it, it was the worst pain he had so far. "What is with this pain in my arm? What keeps causing it?" Yusei gasped at the sight on what appeared on his arm, it was a crimson coloured mark like Roxas', but the mark was different. Yusei's one looks like an old tribal mask that has a face onto it, but the shape looks like a tail of a dragon.
"What the- Why is my arm glowing?" Jack also gasped at his right arm since he's got a mark on his right arm too. His mark looks like a pair of wings. "Hey Yusei, you doing this?" The crimson flames that have been on the field, started to flow into one line. On one part of the line, a yellow light appeared. The crimson stream shot up to the sky, then slowly, the flames created a tail and a pair of wings.
Yusei looked up at the new flame appearance. "What is that?" Jack shouted out, "What kind of trick is this Yusei? What are you trying to pull?" The flames formed a dragon and then the dragon roared loudly. Yusei's and Jack's eyes started to glow the same colour as the dragon. The dragon roared loudly again, this roar made Yusei's and Jack's runner lose control. It wasn't just their runners, the whole duel arena shook like an mild earthquake.
"Whose dragon is that? I teach you to play tricks with me! I activate a speed spell, End of Storm!"
End of the Storm - Speed Spell
Activate only while you have 10 or more Speed Counters. Destroy all monsters on the field and inflict 300 damage to each player for each of their destroyed monsters.
Yusei shouted out, "What are you thinking? We gotta stop!" Jack shouted back, "No way Yusei!" Yusei didn't want anyone to get hurt. "Alright fine, but I think we're going to regret this! I activate my trap card!" Beside Yusei showed a trap card, but before he could explain what its effect was, his runner and Jack's were spinning out of control.
The dragon that was made out of flames roared out once more, but the roar didn't shook the ground, instead it cut out the power of the Kaiba Dome. The flaming dragon then escaped out of the Kaiba Dome and a few seconds later, it was flaring away until there was nothing left of it.
Roxas managed to hold on to one of the seats since that dragon showed itself. When the dragon disappeared and the dust settled, Roxas then jumped out of the stands and went out to the track to find Yusei. "Yusei? Yusei? Where are you?" Roxas was calling for a while, but soon he saw the Yusei Go on its side and it looked a little roughed up; Then he saw Yusei sitting next to his runner.
Roxas ran closer to Yusei and asked in a panicky tone, "Yusei, are you alright?" Yusei said nothing for a while, but he raised his head with his eyes shut tight. "Ahh! It burns!" Yusei opened his eyes and looked down on his glowing mark on his right arm. He took off his glove and pulled his sleeve up a bit to get a better look at it.
"Where did this come from?" Yusei looked at Roxas thinking he might know an answer, but then Yusei noticed the mark on Roxas' right arm. "I have no idea what's going on Yusei, but it seems that you and I have the same problem". Both Roxas and Yusei heard Jack from a distance, that's when Roxas and Yusei noticed the mark on Jack's right arm.
"So it's not just me!" Yusei looked at Jack. "Jack, what's going on?" Yusei started to get up and held the mark with his left hand. Jack then gave a small realisation reaction to seeing Yusei's mark. "Do you know what this is Jack?" Jack was silent for a moment, then with this silence, Yusei thought he might know. "You do, don't you?"
Jack was standing there, he didn't say a single word since he saw Roxas and Yusei's marks. Yusei spoke up, "Jack, say something man! What's going on?" While Yusei was talking, all of their marks stopped glowing except for Yusei's. The glow died down showing the shape of what was glowing, instead of bright red, it became almost black.
A bright light was shown on Roxas and Yusei and it interrupted Yusei's questions. It was Sector Security. A man spoke from a megaphone. "You are in violation of Code 36B, which states that no residents of Satellite may enter New Domino City. By order of the Social Maintenance Department, we are placing you under arrest: Do not try to run, we have you surrounded".
Yusei then looked at Roxas with worry, but Roxas said quietly to him. "We'll get through this together Yusei and find out what these marks are. That means we have to go to the Facility together, besides even if they confiscate your our decks, I can get it back in a second". Both Roxas and Yusei agreed to get into the van, ready to go into the Facility.
I'm guessing you know what Roxas' mark is? It's Shadow's logo. Well what do think of the chapter and of Sonic Boom Dragon? It was hard to describe him but I like it now. Please review.
