Leo and Luna are my FAVORITE 5Ds characters and the anime didn't give them much screen time because they were kids. Poor twins...

DISCLAIMER: The Synchro Chant for Gaia Knight is from Colossal Fighter GX's fic, I think it works best here but I promise I don't take credit for it. I'll try to be careful not to be unoriginal. Go read Colossal Fighter GX's fanfics, they're great. *grin*

NOTE: I uploaded Chapter 6 to this one on April 29, 2013, but I can't promise I will update again any time soon. I have been busy lately and writing chapters is a bit tiring. I have been working on bits and pieces of chapters near the end of the fanfic but I will be careful and try to write up the next set of chapters soon. After finding two or three people favorite my story, I feel responsible for not letting them down. Also, I apologize for the fact that Chapter 4 is now below Chapter 5 – I didn't realize I could update a chapter and delete the old Chapter 4(which was incomplete) for the new one, so it got shuffled. Next time, that won't happen. Enjoy this part!

Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds: Stardust Guardian

A fic by King Dragun

Chapter 9: Machine Duplication

"This is nuts!" shouted Sabrina as the bikes were gaining on her. "I'll never shake 'em!"

"Here! Over here!" cried a voice. Sabrina saw a kid with teal hair waving his arms.

Should I trust him? thought Sabrina. Well, any port in a storm...

She followed the kid into the alley and saw that the bikes passed by, not noticing her.

"Phew," said Sabrina, getting off of the Duel Runner. The boy came up with a girl who looked like him save for the hairstyle - his was tied back in a knot while hers was in two short pigtails.

"Looks like Sector Security was hunting you," said the boy.

"Yeah, loooooong story," murmured Sabrina, rolling her eyes. "Why did you help me anyways?"

"You don't seem bad," said the boy, smiling broadly. "I'm Leo and this is my sister Luna."

"Twins, right?" asked Sabrina, smiling. "I can tell."

"Yes," said Luna. "Leo, should we trust this woman? She's got that mark. Remember when daddy fired the gardener when he found the mark on his cheek last week? She's a crook!"

"Ah, don't mind my sister, miss," said Leo, rubbing his neck and laughing. "She's overprotective."

"Am not!" shouted Leo. "I'm just keeping you safe because I'm responsible for you since mom and dad are away on a business trip!"

"It's okay, my name is Sabrina," said Sabrina, shaking their hands. "I admit that I did spend time in the clink, but it's because those cops are big a- er, never mind!" She liked these two already. They reminded her of Rally. "Look, I've gotta get out of here." She went to her bike.

"Hold up!" said Leo, rushing up.

"Here we go again..." sighed Luna.

"At least hang out at our place until the Securities stop searching for you!" said Leo. "Our folks are away on a business trip and we could use some adult company around, it's boring just talking to Dex and my Facebook friends all the time."

Sabrina looked around. "I guess. Do you live here?"

"We live in the Tops," said Leo. "That's where the middle class live here in the city. It's in the South District, just a short ways from here."

"I'll take you up on the offer," said Sabrina, hearing her stomach growl. "I need some food anyways, I haven't eaten since last night and I'm starving!"

Sabrina was quite impressed. Leo and Luna lived in a penthouse in the South District of New Domino City. She was amazed at the stark contrast between the Tops and Satellite. There was even a giant backyard pool.

"Hey, Sabrina!" said Leo, after the three had eaten a very delicious lunch. "You must be a duelist, right? You have that Duel Runner."

"Yeah, I guess," said Sabrina.

"So how about a duel?" asked Leo eagerly. "Come on, I bet you're good at dueling!"

"Leo! Stop bothering her!" shouted Luna. "She's probably got bigger things to do than duel you! It's bad enough we shared lunch with her, if we get caught by Sector Security for housing..."

"Oh, c'mon Luna! Stop being such a ninny!" shouted Leo back. "I haven't had a good duel since that time I battled Dex last weekend and..."

"And he kicked your butt," sighed Leo. "You're not exactly the greatest duelist."

"You just watch, Luna!" said Leo angrily. "I'm going to get a chance to duel my idol, Jack!"

"You know Jack Atlus?" asked Sabrina, interrupting their argument.

"Uh huh!" said Leo. "I'm his biggest fan!"

"He's got an entire corner of his bedroom as a personal shrine," muttered Luna, sighing.

Sabrina went over to the duel runner parked in the hallway and opened the hood. "Duel Disk disengaging." She slid it on and turned around, grinning. "Sure, I'll duel you, Leo. It'll be a good time waster while I wait for the buzz to get off my back."

"Wow, really?" cried Leo. "Let me get my disk and deck, I'm gonna blow you away!"

Luna held her forehead. "Why does he always embarrass himself in front of me?"

Leo and Sabrina faced off in front of the pool. "All right folks, it's the champion Leo versus the challenger, Sabrina!" cried Leo as he shuffled his deck and put it into his disk, which he fumbled with. "Uh... technical difficulties, folks! We'll be on soon!"

Luna groaned. "Does he always do this?" asked Sabrina.

"Yeah," said Luna. "Try to ignore the commentary."

Leo finally got his disk on straight and activated it. "Who will be victorious? We all know the answer to that, folks! It's LEO!"

Sabrina laughed as she activated her disk and the two drew their opening hands. Let's see what this modified deck of mine can do, she thought.

(Sabrina: 8000)

(Leo: 8000)

"The champion goes first!" said Leo, drawing a card.

Well, he is a boy, I don't think he'll learn chivalry until he's entered puberty, thought Sabrina.

"Leo sets a monster and a face-down card!" said Leo, playing the cards before him. "And he turns it over to the champion!"

Sabrina drew a card and giggled. "Two can play that game... ahem..." She lowered her voice to emulate an emcee. "The challenger plays the field spell, Secret Village of the Spellcasters!"

The backyard pool was suddenly transformed by magic into a forest clearing with houses built on the treetops and in the tree trunks. Sunlight poured through the branches and made the place glow with an arcane aura.

"Now, from this point on, only those who control Spellcaster monsters will be able to use Spell Cards," said Sabrina dramatically. "And since Sabrina's deck is packed to the gills with those wizards, she can use spells... but can the champion?"

Leo gasped. "Oh no, a frightening development! The champion is well known for his machine monsters, so he's locked down!"

"LEO!" cried Luna. "You just blew your entire deck theme to your opponent! You'll NEVER be a pro duelist if you make stupid mistakes like spoiling your deck strategy!"

Machines, eh? Sabrina played another card. "Next up the challenger summons one of her spellcasters, Gemini Elf!" The twin elf women appeared. (1900/900) "The challenger than activates the magical ark known as the Gold Sarcophagus! She takes a card from her deck..." She took a card. "And slips it into the gold coffin, which is out of range for two turns! When those turns vanish, she'll get the card into her hand!" She then put a card down. "She sets a card and then orders her Gemini Elves to take out the face-down monster!"

The twin elves fired their magical beams from their hands at the face-down monster. It flipped up and showed itself - a giant skateboard which took the blast.

"Leo has completely defended the attack!" laughed Leo. "Thanks to his Morphtronic Boarden!"

"Leo, it was face-down when it was attacked," said Luna in disgust. "It can't use its special ability to protect against destruction in battle if it's face-down."

The magic had already vaporized the board while Luna was talking.

"Oh man, the challenger slipped up!" said Leo. "What now?"

"That's the champion's decision," said Sabrina. "Sabrina ends her turn."

Leo whipped a card off of his deck. "A slight slip-up! The champion will make a grand comeback!" He looked at the card and grimaced. "Leo sets another monster and ends his turn."

Sabrina drew. "The challenger is beginning to wonder if this champion is all he's cracked up to be." She played a monster. "She summons the tuner monster, Krebons!"

A cackling noise was heard as a weird thin jester with yellow and purple clothing emerged from nowhere. His eyes looked like digital symbols and he had a toothy grin. (1200/400) I could synchro summon now, but then the two spells in my hands would be dead weight as I wouldn't have any spellcasters! "Gemini Elf attacks again!"

The elves vaporized a slingshot.

"There goes Leo's Morphtronic Slingen!" said Leo in shock.

"And now Krebons attacks the champion directly!" said Sabrina.

The jester cackled and juggled cubes made of light, throwing them at Leo, who shielded himself. (Leo: 6800)

"With that, the challenger ends her turn," said Sabrina, grinning. "It seems she's got the champ in a tight spot, because in one more turn, her Sarcophagus will give her the card she needs to make this champion her bi- I mean, pansy."

"That's what they all think!" said Leo fiercely as he drew a card. "But Leo didn't claw his way to the top of the dueling championships by sheer luck, folks!"

Luna sighed. Why did I have such an egotistical twin brother?

Leo grinned. "Yes! The champion has a good draw, folks! He plays it! Morphtronic Radion!"

A giant transistor radio appeared and suddenly did a Transformers stunt, parts of it splitting off and turning into arms and legs. Soon a robot made of the radio parts was standing before Leo. (1000/900)

"And while it may seem like a dumb move because Radion is weak, its special ability activates, giving Radion and all future Morphtronics a whopping eight hundred attack points!"

The radio robot waves its antenna and static was heard. (1800/900)

"Leo orders Radion to attack Krebons!" said Leo. The robot blasted a sonic wave of static at the psychic jester.

"Not so fast!" said Sabrina. "Sabrina knows the effects of her monsters and uses Krebon's special ability! By paying some of her life force..." Energy flowed from Sabrina's body. (Sabrina: 7200) "She can protect her tuner from attack!"

A glowing shield flung up around Krebons and deflected the sonic blast.

"The champion is shocked!" said Leo. "Sabrina doesn't know when to quit! Could this be a new rising star in the dueling world?"

Luna groaned, trying to keep her opinion to herself.

Leo sighed. "The turn is over, the champion concedes to Sabrina to take her turn."

Sabrina grinned and drew a card from her deck. "The challenger's Golden Sarcophagus has finally granted her the card she put in it." She took the card from her pocket and grinned, then set it in her disk. "She sets it down and then activates the spell card Fissure to destroy Leo's lone monster on the field, Morphtronic Radion!"

A giant tremor rocked the village as a giant crack formed in the ground, ripping open under the robot and making it fall into the bottomless crevice.

"And now the champion is defenseless!" said Sabrina. "Gemini Elf attacks him directly!"

Leo screamed as the elves cast their spell on him and hit him with bolts of lightning. (Leo: 4900)

"Krebons takes another shot at the champ as well!" announced Sabrina. Leo was pelted with the light cubes from the jester again. (Leo: 3700) "Smug in her guaranteed victory, the challenger ends her turn." She crossed her arms dramatically.

Leo fretted and drew a card. "The champion is in a very tight spot, folks, but he's not a quitter! He summons another Morphtronic, Morphtronic Boomboxen!"

A larger radio, a boom box radio model, appeared, and did its transformation skit, becoming a red robot with one of the speakers on his head. (1200/400)

"Leo knows that a Synchro monster is coming up, so he tries to suicide his Boomboxen against Krebons!" The robot launched a wave of sonic booms at the jester.

"Sabrina is not going to let her tuner go down that easily!" shouted Sabrina. "She uses its effect again!" More energy siphoned from her to the jester and the shield rose up again. (Sabrina: 6400)

Leo laughed. "Leo gets another crack at it because when Morphtronic Boomboxen is in attack mode, his special ability let's him attack TWICE!" Another blast of sonic waves flex from the Morphtronic robot.

"Sabrina can keep doing this all day, everyone!" said Sabrina, paying another life point cost to make the shield fly up again. (Sabrina: 5600) "And now she ensures that this doesn't happen again with her deadly trap card... SKILL DRAIN!" She flipped up the card.

Leo gasped. "No way!"

Sabrina grunted as energy flew from her body. (Sabrina: 4600) "By paying a thousand life points, she negates every effect of every monster on the field as long as this trap is in play! So now the champion cannot use spells OR monster effects!"

"This is a terrifying turn of events!" shouted Leo. "Everyone knows that Leo's Morphtronics need their effects to be good! This could be the end! He ends his turn."

Sabrina drew a card and shook her head. These cards aren't helping. Oh well. She silently waved her hand and Gemini Elf vaporized the Boomboxen robot and Krebons pelted Leo with light cubes once again. (Leo: 1800) "And now the challenger tunes her Krebons to her Gemini Elf to create one of the guardians of the Secret Village, who doesn't need magical effects to be strong!"

Krebons melted into two stars of light which formed the green column around the elves, which turned wireframe and then split into four stars.

"Divested stars form a gallant hero! Become the steed that will be the guide on his forgotten journey! I synchro summon... Gaia Knight, Force of Earth!"

A loud whinnying was heard, followed by hoof-beats. A blue horse in barding carried a blue armored warrior with a red lance and blue shield onto the field. (2600/800)

"With that, Sabrina ends her turn," said Sabrina.

Leo drew a card. "This is bad, folks. Leo's in a tighter spot than ever! Without spells he can't get rid of his opponent's monsters, and without monster effects, his Morphtronics are useless!" He drew. "Unless... he remembers something! Gaia Knight is a WARRIOR. not a Spellcaster!"

Sabrina suddenly realized what she had done and face palmed. "Whoops."

Leo laughed. "Without a spellcaster, Leo can use spells again, so he uses the one he drew, Heavy Storm!" The gale force wind ripped through the village and destroyed it, bringing them back to the penthouse. Sabrina's face down Skill Drain and Dimensional Prison also exploded as did Leo's Creature Swap. "And now that Skill Drain is gone, Leo's Morphtronics are no longer helpless again!"

Luna blinked. I think we found someone dumber than my brother!

"Okay, that was clever," said Sabrina. "But can Leo bring out a Morphtronic that can stand up to Gaia Knight's lance?"

Leo smiled as he played Monster Reborn. The ankh appeared and, surprisingly, Gemini Elf was revived on Leo's field.

"Why do you want that?" asked Sabrina.

"The champion takes advantage of this by stealing Gaia Knight with his Creature Swap!" said Leo, playing his card. Gemini Elf and Gaia Knight switched places. "Then he orders his new warrior to attack the Gemini Elf!"

The knight charged and impaled the elves, shattering them.

"He plays a monster face-down and a card to end his turn!" said Leo as the cards appeared before him. "Yes! Champion Leo is back!"

Sabrina drew and grimaced. Oh great, NOW I get Dark Magician! I can't summon him because he needs two tributes! "Sabrina plays Terraforming to get her second copy of her Secret Valley and ends her turn, knowing that using it now would shut her down since she has no spellcasters."

"Leo flip summons his second Morphtronic Boarden!" said Leo, flipping his monster. The skateboard appeared again and shifted into a robot. (500/1200) "Leo then orders Gaia Knight and Boarden to attack her directly!"

Sabrina braced against the lance stabbing into her and Boarden ramming her. (Sabrina: 1500)

Luna gasped. Is Leo actually going to win?

"Yes, Leo has the challenger on the ropes!" said Leo, punching the air. "He places another face down and turns things over to the challenger for her possibly final turn!" A back row card appeared next to the first one.

Sabrina sighed and shook her head. I deserve to lose this duel. I should have known better than to Synchro Summon Gaia Knight before putting another Spellcaster on the field. She drew a card and smiled as she saw what it was. I'm glad I didn't use Secret Village again, or I'd be boned.

"Enough commentary," said Sabrina. "Leo, the champion, is no more. I play my OWN Heavy Storm!" The winds erupted again and shattered Leo's two trap cards.

"AGH!" cried Leo. "Those cards might have saved Leo's life!"

"And now I take back Gaia Knight with this card, Brain Control!" said Sabrina, playing it. "I pay eight hundred life points..." (Sabrina: 700) "And take control of Gaia Knight until the end of my turn." Gaia Knight galloped back to Sabrina. "And now I destroy Boarden and since he's only got five hundred attack points..." said Sabrina, giving a malicious grin as Gaia Knight charged forward.

Leo gasped. "No! This cannot be! Leo, the Champion..."

"Defeated," said Sabrina as Gaia impaled Boarden and destroyed him.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAH!" cried Leo, shielding himself from the shrapnel. (Leo: 0)

The disks deactivated as Leo fell to his knees. "Leo... what has become of our champion?!"

Luna got up. "Leo, cut it OUT! You LOST! AGAIN!"

"Hey, leave him alone, Luna," said Sabrina as she approached them. "He was clever and almost won. I was an idiot to do the Synchro Summon because I didn't wait until I had another spellcaster to keep the lock and he drew a lucky draw in Heavy Storm, breaking my lock. To be honest, I should rework the deck a bit." She looked at her cards and sighed.

Leo got up and brushed himself off. "Thanks for dueling me, Sabrina! It was fun!"

"And crazy," said Sabrina, grinning.

"You know, I bet you'd do awesome in the Underground Arena that they have in the Daimon Area!" said Leo.

"Not that again," said Luna. She turned to Sabrina. "He thinks there's a witch in the arena."

"It's true!" snapped Leo. "Me and Dexter were discussing it on chat! The Black Rose usually haunts that place and summons creepy monsters that whip the opponent's buttocks!"

Maybe I could investigate this Black Rose witch, thought Sabrina. I don't know where Yusei is, probably still hunting down his dragon card, and I have no leads.

"It's just a rumor, Leo!" said Luna. "Sure, some female duelist is winning all the duels there but it's not a witch! Besides, we'd get in trouble if we went down there, kids aren't supposed to be there!"

"Don't worry, I'll be your escort," said Sabrina. "I want to see this witch myself."

"All right!" said Leo. "Together, we can take her down!"

Luna face palmed. Now our guest is following my dumb brother. Oh well...

[To be continued...]