Chapter 8: Syd is Vicious
It was night in New Domino City and in a Alleyway Jack was with Carly hiding behind a corner of a wall.
"Question, did anyone try to sell you any Duel Runners lately?" The female reporter asked. "No." Jack replied. "That's an odd question, why do you ask?"
"I'm trying to crack a story." Carly replied.
A flashback scene.
Jack was having coffee at his favorite shop with Carly.
"Apparently there is some kind of oragnized gang running around and stealing Duel Runners, I'm actually surprised you don't anything about this." Carly explained in a whispering tone. "So anyway according to my sources Secto Security has no leads meaning they don't know anyone so they're all embarrassed so they're keeping hush-hush, currently the theory is that someone is selling the Runners on the black market but so far nothing has been found yet."
"Very interesting." Jack said looking interesting in the case.
"I'm staking out a dealer ship tonight, want to tag along?" Carly asked.
End of flashback.
"Look." Carly whispered as she and Jack noticed some men running from afar.
Across were Runners in a shop then the men started snatching them and cutting wires all them drove off the Runners.
Carly took some snap shots of the men just then Jack drove pass her.
"Wait, Jack!" She called in shock.
The men were on driving on the bridge. "Hah, hah, that was easy!" One of the men chuckled. "Hey, YOU!" Jack called out.
Jack drove off another bridge above the men. "Didn't your mommy tell not to take that isn't yours!?"
The Master of Faster landed his Runner behind the men.
One of them took out a gun. "BACK OFF!"
Then one of the men got in front of Jack. "Don't do it, I said stop it!" He ordered but the armed man fired his gun at the Runner that other man was running damaging the engine.
This caused the man to fall off his runner and roll on the road which Jack stopped.
"Hah, I guess we're down a member." The armed thief chuckled driving off with his other men.
Jack ran over to the man. "Hey, are you alright, why did you save me?"
The man wouldn't move and he didn't speak Jack bended down but then car drove and stopped by him.
"Jack." It was Trudge gazing down at the Former Champion and the knocked out man.
"Trudge...there was..." Jack began to say until Trudge bend down seemingly recognizing the man. "Kaz, hang in there buddy!" The Chief looked up at the Former Champ angrily. "What did you doing here, What's going on, what happened to my officer?"
"This guy is an officer?" Jack asked in surprise.
Time passed.
Yusei, Crow, Sam, and Triton arrived the hospital with Jack, Carly, and Trudge.
Trudge grabbed Jack by his shirt in anger. "Do you want know what you did Atlas, you put an good officer in coma and blown a very important case!"
"What was Kaz even doing with them my sources told you guys had no leads at all." Carly said calming down the Security chief.
Trudge shrugged off Carly's hands. "Argh, that's what we wanted the rumor, we wanted Syd to feeling comfortable we wanted to him to think he was getting away with it, Syd and his grunts are the little fish so we're seeing the big fish are, we need to know where money leads to and who's controlling the Black Market so Kaz went undercover, he spend months pretending to be one of them, getting closer to Syd, gaining his trust, gathering info, and putting the pieces."
"So he was your only inside guy? Crow asked. "Without him your case goes cold?" Triton then asked.
"Pretty much we still need..." Trudge stopped as soon Yusei noticed Jack was taking a Synchro Monster from top of Kaz's Deck.
"I'm going to borrow this card." Jack answered taking the card and putting his pocket.
"Borrow for what?" Trudge asked getting really concerned. "Don't mess things that you already have."
"Jack, let's just call it day!" Carly declared insistly. "Yeah, don't do anything dumb!" Crow added seriously.
Jack stopped and glanced at his friends with a determined look. "Don't worry, this my mess and I'm going to clean it up."
"That's a first." Triton mumbled.
The next day.
Felecity the mysterious Ninja girl and also Yusei's fan was at Martha's making lunch in kitchen with her.
The Ninja girl was making chicken noodle soup and Martha took a sip using a spoon. "Tasty, the kids will love it."
At Duel Academy.
Akiza was watching Leo duel against Dexter along with Sly, Luna and other students.
Leo fell on his knees in defeat as his life point meter went down to zero.
"Yeah, I won again!" Dexter cheered excitedly.
"This stinks I blew it again!" Leo complained.
"Leo, you did your best just keep practing." Ms Barrlett said calmly.
"Once again he blew it." Luna said with sigh.
"(Leo isn't going to be a pro if he keeps this up.)" Sly thought with a grin.
Akiza then noticed roses were next to her which surprised her. "Ooh!"
"Sorry, miss Akiza, I didn't mean to startle you." Francis said with a chuckle. "Anyway these are for you."
Akiza was astonished. "Oh thank you."
Meanwhile Jack was downtown gathering info on Syd and his gang into shopping booths.
Jack went to talk to a mysterious shopkeeper with brown dark hair. "Do you know where I can sell some Duel Runners."
"Depends on where they came from." The mysterious brown dark haired man replied with a creepy grin. "I think they fell off the back of a truck maybe." Jack replied who was getting a piece of gear from a box next to him.
"What a shame, I might know someone who can take them off your hands." The creep shop man replied. "So how much would that info be to you?"
Jack looked at the shop man. "I say about 10 percent."
"That's sounds about right, give me a sec." The dark browned haired man said giving to former Champ a piece of paper though he didn't turn to look at him. "You didn't get this from me."
"Of course not." Jack said taking the paper and walked away.
The mysterious shop then took out a cellphone as soon Jack wasn't around.
"Yeah." A man's voiced answered on his cell. "Its me I got someone digging around, I send him your way, make sure to give him a warm welcome." the mysterious browned haired man replied.
A short time Jack was walking down an alleyway.
"That slime ball's info said there should be a door here somewhere, something isn't right." Jack said getting concerned.
Suddenly 5 men surround him one of them was wielding a pipe.
"We were told someone was getting info on us." One of them answered with a chuckling sinisterly. "That ain't bad for your health when we knock you down!" Another said.
All the men charged at Jack but he successfully knocked them down first. "Now take me to the guy in charge of this little circus."
"How's about we take you down first?" A browned spiked haired man asked as he leaped from behind and slammed Jack with a pipe.
Jack was knocked out cold.
Time passes.
He began to hear voices.
"Is he ok?" Yuesi asked.
Jack began to open his eyes.
"He's moving." Crow answered.
"His eyes mostly." Triton stated.
They weren't alone Carly, and Trudge were there too.
Jack sat up straight with a bandage wrapped around his head. "Ugh, where am I?"
"I told you not to do anything dumb." Crow scolded.
Just then Trevor arrived.
"Hi, Trevor." Yusei said.
"Sorry, I couldn't get here sooner I just wrapped up a duel when Yusei called." The mysterious hat guy man answered rubbing the back of his head with his hand.
"I'm glad you're alright I was so worried!" Carly exclaimed cupping her hands.
"I remember the face of the Huckster that set me up, maybe he can lead me to Syd." Jack explained.
"What are you talking about, there's no getting to Syd!" Crow exclaimed impatiently. "You're not a officer either!" Triton spatted.
"I think they mean is that someone shouldn't anything reckless without a plan." Trevor answered. "No offense, Jack."
"None taken." Jack said quietly.
"Listen, I'm sorry what I said early I can undestand you want to help but you don't know what you're getting into, this guys Syd is a dangerous customer, you're lucky however most guys end up like Kaz." Trudge said with a warning.
Jack remembered Kaz's runner being shot. "How is he, is he ok yet?"
"Of course he is, he's just not woken up but he's tough as they come." Trudge answered.
Crow raised his fist. "Knock it off pal, stop playing cops and robbers just leave Security."
Jack got out of his bed and walked away. "Uh, where are you going? Crow asked.
"Let him go." Yusei said. "But Yusei..." Crow began to say. "Come on, you know Jack acts like this when he gets into a dignity kick, he becomes immune to common sense." The Signer Leader said.
Jack then took off his Bandage.
Later that night a few men were loading up engines in a truck.
"That's last of them Gus." One of the men said.
All the men broad on the truck and the driver Gus was the same shop that gave Jack the fake info.
Just as Gus and his men were about to drive off Jack appeared on front of them. "Real, cute prank you played this afternoo."
"What's the matter, did you not get enough?" Gus asked looking out his window and the two men got off the truck.
"Take me to Syd, now!" Jack ordered as he opened the door to the driver's seat and grabbed at Gus.
Just then highlights shined.
Jack turned around. "Heh, heh, I ain't taking you to Syd, but you can play with some of his friends." Gus chuckled.
One of the chuckled then had a realization look on his face. "Hey, aren't you Jack Atlas?"
"This guys used to be fancy champion." One of the other men answered in realization. "Well, let's show him our respect!" A 3rd man added.
Soon all of them got off their runners and charged at Jack but he knocked them out again but was got knocked by a thug from behind.
"Aw, he gunked out already." A flat haired man complained in dispointment. "That didn't last very long." Another said.
They all got back on their Runners and drove away.
Jack began to get up as two duelists drove in front of him and one of them had Felicity riding with them.
Meanwhile
Gus and his men made it to the hideout which was a big cargo boat.
"I hate to say this boss with more people poking around lately, I think its time we ditch New Domino City."
"Good call, besides I think this crummy city has more Duel Runners for us to take." Syd replied who was nearly balled.
Just then a door was busted opened.
Jack Atlas, then a Felicity jumped on top of his Runner.
"Who is that little pipsqueak?" Gus asked confused.
Then Triton and Trevor arrived.
"Who are those two?" Gus asked again. "How did you guys find us?!"
Jack pointed at the hunkster. "You lead us straight here?"
Gus gasped and searched around his shirt using his hands then felt something on back of his shirt's neck. "A trasmitter, you mean when you were grabbing me..."
Syd was furious. "HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID!"
"I...I'm sorry boss." Guy apologized.
"Leave this losers to us, let's get them boys!" A smalled oranged haired man declared.
Syd took out his gun then a Ninja shard knocked his weapon out of his hand while Jack drove down with Trevor and Triton.
"Game is up, Syd!" Trevor proclaimed. "I connected Security and given them this location!" Jack added. "They'll be here any minute with bells ringing." Triton finished.
Gus gritted his teeth.
"Heh, heh, I guess that's it, I give consider this waving my white flag!" Syd proclaimed with a chuckle.
This shocked his gang.
"However proposition, how's about a duel before our guests arrive?"
"You're challeging me?" Jack asked confused. "That's right, however this ain't no ordinary duel, here you got to play by Syd's rules." The Gang leader explained.
Soon Jack and Syd were on conveyor Belts.
"We'll duel on these two conveyor belts, when we lose life points we'll move closer to the trash compacter, run out of life points then fell into the trash compacter and you go, that won't feel too good." Syd explained with a chuckle.
"You're daff!" Jack stated with digust.
"Look I'm not going to bend your arm or anything, if you're too scared then you're too scared, so are you scared?" Syd asked sinisterly. "Hah, don't make me laugh, I accept your duel." Jack said with a straight face.
Jack and Syd then had chain belts attached to one of their ankles.
"Alright, we're buckled in and ready to ride, there isn't any stopping until one of us goes over." Syd explained again. "Better hope you still got it, Champ!"
"I'm sure he does." Trevor said with a straight face.
"LET'S DO THIS!" Syd and Jack both proclaimed in unison.
Syd: 4000
Jack: 4000
"Time for me to take out the garbage, Jack!" Syd declared.
"We'll see about that!" Jack proclaimed drawing from his deck. "I summon Mad Archfiend!"
Mad Archfiend Level 4 Attack 1800
"Next I play a facedown and end my turn."
"I'm up then!" Syd declared as he drew from his deck. "Heh, heh, I summon Assault Wheel in attack mode!"
Assault Wheel Level 4 Attack 2300
"2300 attack points." Jack said looking a bit surprised.
"That's right, Assault Wheel is going to use every last of them, also it's ability allows Mad Archfiend to cower in Defense mode." Syd stated.
Mad Archfiend was struck by Assault Wheel's big tire.
"Whenever Assault Wheel attacks a Monster in Defense the difference is directly dealt to you as damage." Syd explained.
Mad Archfiend was destroyed.
Jack: 1700
"Heh, heh, hey Atlas, I got a joke for you, what's tall and white that's going to be dumped into the trash...YOU!" Syd joked as he and men laughed.
"Hey Atlas, how does it feel to go from Champ to chump?" Gus asked with amusing smile.
"I wouldn't be joking around if I were you cause I'm getting warmed up." Jack said with confidently. "Whatever you say, by the way Assault wheel loses all of its attack until the Stand by Phase of my next turn." Syd explained. "So that's it for me but I set two cards facedown, oh you might want to do something now."
"Thanks for the reminder I draw." Jack declare drawing from his deck. "When you got monsters on your field while I got none, I can Special Summon Vice Dragon from my hand, but when I summon it like that its attack and defense points are cut in half."
Vice Dragon Level 5 Attack 2000-1000
"Next I play the Polymerization Spell Card, I fuse Big Piece Golem and Medium Piece Golem in my hand in order to form, Multiple Piece Golem!"
Multiple Piece Golem Level 6 Attack 2600
"I'm not done yet I summon Archfiend Intercepter!"
Archfiend Intercepter Level 4 Attack 1400
"Multiple Piece Golem attack!"
"That ain't going to happen, I activate the trap: Nightmare Wheel, not only does this card prevent your monster from attacking but it can't change battle mode, but that ain't the best part during each of my stand by Phases, you take 500 points of damage." Syd explained.
"That assumes if you have a next Stand By Phase, Vice Dragon attack!" Jack declared.
Vice Dragon flew towards the Duel thief.
"That's so fast, I gotta another trap: Wonder Decoy, when you attack a monster on my field, this trap lets me gain control one of your monsters." Syd explained with a smirk. "Red Rover, Red Rover, send that Intercepter Demon right over!"
"Jack's monster is being used against him." Triton stated in shock.
"Yes, this guy is one tough cookie." Felicity commented. "Yes, but Jack won't lose that easily." Trevor said looking confident.
"This monster's ability will come in handy, everytime you come at me this guy will deal you 500 points of damage." Syd explained. "So are you going to come at me still?"
Jack gritted his teeth in frustration.
"That's what I thought, like what my grandma called a real wimp, speaking of wimps, how is Kaz, is he enjoying his nap?" Syd asked remarkely amused.
This made Jack angry. "You creep, for that remark I'll take the 500 points of damage, go Vice Dragon!"
Vice Dragon fired a stream of energy at Assault Wheel.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, you'll end up like Kaz, so enjoy your monster's special ability!" Syd said with a laugh.
Intercepet swung a ball of energy at his former owner.
Jack: 1200
"You're so close to the end my has been friend." Syd added remarkly.
"Maybe so, but you are too." Jack stated.
Syd lost his Assault Wheel.
Syd: 3000
He opened his eyes with a sneaky smirk.
Felicity noticed this. "(That has a smirk on his face, it doesn't look good.)"
She elbowed Trevor's arm. "Yes, Syd has a smirk he must have a trick up his sleeve." the hat guy replied quietly noticing the look on the leader's face.
"(Actually champ, I won't be cause my conveyor belt stopper so if I lose I'll be just fine.)" Syd thought.
"Let us hope for your sake that Sector Security gets here before I defeat you, I end my turn." Jack stated.
"Ha, ha, ha, do you really think Sector Security is really going to show?" Syd asked with a laugh. "If you do then you and your friends are dumber then I thought!"
"What is that?" Jack asked looking concerned.
"This can't be good." Triton said.
At the docks Yusei, Crow, Carly, and security arrived there.
"Where is this factor?" Crow asked seeing nothing.
"According to the coordinates Jack said, it should be in front of us." Yuesi answered.
"Its not." Crow said looking around.
Trudge got out of one of the Security cards. "Pier manifester there should be a huge Tanker here."
"If the boat isn't here then where is it?" Carly asked.
"Wait, you're telling us that we're on a boat?" Jack said in shock.
"Now we're out to sea too!" Triton exclaimed.
"Oh my." Felicity added clearly shocked.
"That's right, this is the Syd luxury cruise line, try to relax and enjoy yourselves, also don't think too much that this is a one way trip." Syd answered. "Let's continue, I draw!"
He drew from his Deck. "Its time to activate Nightmare Wheels effect during each of my Stand-By-Phases you take 500 points of damage."
The Nightmare Wheel spun around on Multiple Piece Golem.
Jack: 700
"Now I summon out the Tuner monster Cannon Wheel to the field!"
Cannon Wheel Level 2 Attack 500
"Infuriating." Jack grumbled.
"Aw, don't get all upset, this is how I do things, that's my nature I mean so what if I stole your Intercept Demon at least I using what I'm taking." Syd stated with in mockery tone.
4+2=6
"I Synchro Summon: Combat Wheel!"
Combat Wheel Level 6 Attack 2500
"Guess what happends when Cannon Wheel is used for Synchro Summoning, it dishes out 500 points of direct damage." Syd explained as a specter of Cannon Wheel appeared beside his owner and drained Jack's life points.
Jack: 200
"Ha, ha, ha, you're almost out on the end of the line, next stop is smashville!" Syd remarked with a laugh. "This had been a real blast champ, it really has, now Combat Wheel is going to take out Vice Dragon!"
Combad Wheel fired out bullets like a machine gun.
"I activated the Nightmare Archfiend trap, this lets me release Vice Dragon then Special Summons three Nightmare Tokens on your field." Jack explained.
Three look alike Nightmare Tokens appeared on Syd's side.
3x Nightmare Tokens Level 6 Attack 2000
"A narrow escape, you're just stalling, I activate the Spell: Block Dug out, when the combined levels of on my field are greater then the combined levels of your monsters on your field, you can't attack." Syd explained. "So thank you for giving me three Level 6 monsters."
"You're welcome!" Jack answered drawing from his deck and looked at what he drew. "I summon Sinister Sprocket!"
Sinister Sprocker Level 1 Attack 100
"Now that's out on the field, I can tune Sprocket with Level 6 Multiple Piece Golem in order to Synchro Summon: Chaos King Archfiend!"
1+6=7
"This is for you, Kaz!"
Chaos King Archfiend Level 7 Attack 2600
Syd's Nightmare Wheel was destroyed since Multiple Piece Golem was gone. "You managed to destroy my Nighmare Wheel by getting ride of Multiple Piece Golem!"
"That was just beginning!" Jack proclaimed.
"I have feeling this is it for Syd." Trevor said observing.
"When Sinister Sprocker is used to Synchr Summon a Dark Synchro Monster then I can use its Special Ability to destroy one face up spell or trap." Jack explained. "I hope you weren't attached too much to your Dug Out Spell!"
Syd's Spell was destroyed.
"Looks like you got nothing to hide behind now!"
"Yeah, that's what you think cause I activate Combat Wheel's ability, by sending one card to graveyard, it gains half of the attack points of all the monsters on my field." Syd explained as his Synchro Wheel gain energy from the three Nightmare Tokens.
Jack gritted his teeth.
"This is going to be crushing blow champ, its nothing compared to the crushing once you lose, my Combat Wheel is unstoppable!"
Combat Wheel Attack 2500-5500
"Cause of its ability you can't attack any other monster on my field, there is nothing you can do Atlas!"
"I despise punks like you, you think can take whatever you want and hurt whoever you want to, not anymore!" Jack remarked.
"That's right!" Triton cheered. "Go Jack Atlas!" Trevor added with cheer and rising his arm up.
Felicity leaped up with joy. "Go Jackie!"
Jack gritted his teeth but kept his focus. "Chaos King Archfiend attack!"
"Hah, you're sending your monster on a long trip to doomsday conlusion course!" Syd said with a smirk.
"Not quite, Chaos Archfiend is going to be just fine, whenever it goes into battle it switches your monster's attack to its Defense points." Jack explained.
Combat Wheel Attack 5500-1200
"What, you mean he's going to win?" Syd asked in shock.
"That's right, its going to win." Jack replied as Chaos Archfiend sliced through Combat Wheel with its flaming arms.
Syd: 1600
"That's not all, when Combat Wheel is destroyed due to its own ability all Nightmare Tokens on your side are destroyed, and because of Nighmare Archfiend tokens special ability you take 800 points of damage for each one destroyed." Jack explained.
The three Nightmare Archfiend tokens were destroyed and formed ball of energy that blasted at Syd's stomach and knocked on his back.
Syd: 0
The conveyor belt Syd was on began to move. "Hah, wrong again Champ, my conveyor belt will stop so I ain't going over."
The stopper broke and Syd fell in the trash compactor. "The Stopper broke!" One of his men exclaimed.
Syd nearly fell in but was hanging by his chain.
"Come here you baby!" Jack shouted as he picked up Syd by his shirt and tossed him aside onto three of this men.
"That's it, time to trash this guy and his friends too!" One of them declared angrily.
Soon Security along with Yusei, Carly, and Crow arrived.
They busted the down the doors.
Yusei noticed Jack carrying two guys.
Felicity knocked one of the men out using her foot.
"Triton did martial art kick right into a grunt's stomach while Trevor did karate chop on one last man's head.
"Hey, you guys what took you so long?" Jack asked tossing the two men on the ground with others.
"Did you take out all these guys by yourself?" Carly asked astonished. "Not just me, Trevor, Felicity, and Triton helped me out." Jack answered with a grin.
The next day.
Jack went to see Kaz who finally woke up.
"This belongs to you." The former champ said giving back the officer's Chaos King Archfiend.
"Its because of that I was able to win." Jack stated.
"I gotta say it was great thing for what you and your friends did catching Syd and his gang." Kaz praised seeing only Trevor and Triton. "Speaking of which, where is Felicity?"
"Oh she had to go to do some cooking with Martha." Yusei answered.
"Anyway someone had to, since your lot couldn't." Jack stated. "Aw, lay off." Trudge said with a chuckle. "Thanks to info on the tanker we were also to make more 20 arrests which simply crippled the Black Market." Kaz explained with a grin.
"Glad we can help." Jack said returning the grin. "Yeah." Triton said doing a thumbs up. "Same here." Trevor added with a smile.
"So after I heal up later, how's about we settle in a Turbo Duel?" Kaz asked. "How about you two?"
"I would be honored." Trevor said rising his hand. "Me too someday." Triton added confidently.
"That includes me too." Jack acknowledged. "Just tell one of us when to meet, and the place to have our Turbo Duel."
Kaz nodded. "You got it."
Jack, Trevor, Kaz, and Triton raised their fists.
End of chapter.
