Yugioh 5D's: Konami/Kazuki Takahashi

A/N: "Hey, before we begin, there's something I want to get off my chest. I've been thinking of starting a new story featuring Jason at a various Duel Academy. Hint is, I'd pictured it as a GX/5D's fic with a bit of Rosario+Vampire reference (I know a tad bit of it, but I alwats get the jitters whenever I try to read the manga or watch the anime (P.S. I've never watched the anime for that reason(no, this won't be a crossover))). I'm pathetic, aren't I? Anyway, I figured I'd give this new story a shot. That's where all y'all readers come in: all I need are some OC characters (and maybe a few story ideas while you're at it) and I'll put it together. You should be expecting it soon if possible. I'll be counting on you. Okay, without further ado, on with the chapter!"


Yusei: "Strange things happened one after another during the last few weeks since I left the Satellite: a strange mark appeared on my arm after I fought Jack , I saw a vision of my home being destroyed when I battled Jack again? And now I went back home only to find out that a friend I thought I lost is out to get me! What else could go wrong? Find out now on Reverse of Arcadia!"


YuGiOh! 5D's

Reverse of Arcadia

Ride 10: Dark Signs

Part 2: Once an Enforcer; Now an Avenger


"What's going on?" Yusei wondered, looking around the fiery walls in confusion.

"What's going on is that you're going down," Kalin Kessler answered, "I'll pummel you into the shadowy depths of the Netherworld," he chuckled evilly.

"The Dark Signers got to you," Yusei stated.

"No, I'm not a puppet. I'm one of the guys that pull the strings," Kalin raised his right arm, his Mark of Shadows glowing brightly, "This right here is the real deal. Not like that mark you dueled back in Domino City. He was just a pawn in our little game; we caught him, and others like him, in our web... so to speak." Kalin said.

"So you're a Dark Signer!" Yusei realized, ''This must be what Goodwin was talking about.'

Flashback...

"Because you are strong and selfless, Yusei. The Dragon knew you would not run from a challenge, or from the darkness that is coming... And this darkness is dangerous; it will take on many forms. Maybe a stranger, or a friend. But you will know, for they will have the Mark of the Shadows."

"Wait; Mark of the Shadows?" Jason gasped, "You must mean those Dark Signers!"

"Yeah; and I dueled one of their drones who had a mark that glowed like a spider!" Yusei added.

"Then the first battle of this war has already been won," Goodwin said, "Just as you were chosen to protect the light, they choose to protect the darkness. They will stop at nothing to stop you.

...End Flashback.

Goodwin's words echoed through Yusei's mind.


Meanwhile, Crow searched for some way to enter through the fire and join Yusei, but to no avail.

"Oh, man. What is that thing? I gotta get a better look at it," he turns and rode to the top of a pile of trash, shooting up into the air at the edge, landing, and zooming to the edge overlooking the duel. He exclaimed as he can now see the picture formed by the huge outline of a giant, "I may have a better look at it now, but I still have no idea what that giant glowing neon thing is! ...Okay, this is sorta... freaky..."

Just then he heard a whirring sound from the air. Crow looked up and saw a helicopter and in that helicopter was a familiar face, the world freezing around him...

'Jack?'

'Crow!' the former King exclaimed, then looked over to where the fires were, "Who's that down there with Yusei? Pilot! Take us lower!" He ordered. The pilot did as he was told and went lower to get a better look at the person that's next to Yusei.

"Jack? What's he doing here?" Yusei asked. Kalin looked up to see the former King in the helicopter as well.

Jack was shocked to see who it was. "No way! Is that who I... think it is…?"

"I gotta take us back up! It's too dangerous at this level!" The pilot said moving the helicopter up.

"Was that Jack Atlas?" Kalin cackled uncontrollably, "THIS! IS GREAT! With Jack, Maggie and Crow here we'll all be back together again!"

"What?" Yusei exclaimed.

"Impossible!" Jack stated.

"Did he just say-?" Crow proclaimed.

"That's right! It's good to see you again, Magic!" the other looked to where Kalin looked; and emerging from a piece of large debris came a girl with purple hair.

"Magic?" Yusei exclaimed, "She's here?"

"You surprised? I bet you never thought you'd see her or me again! And to think, you and I used to be so close," the Dark Signer snickered, "Well in case you were wondering after all these years... Yusei, no, I haven't forgiven you for betraying our friendship. "

"Kalin, you betrayed us when you took things too far!" Yusei said alarmed.

"I didn't take things far enough!" Kalin snapped, "Because of you, and your weakness!"

Jack, Crow and Magic (whose lost memories were gradually sinking in) were thunderstruck.

Yusei was resolute, but his voice betrayed regret, "...But I have no choice."


"Jack, what's going on?" Carly Carmine, who was with Jack at this time, said, "It seems like you know that guy down there with Yusei. Who is he?"

"His name's Kalin," Jack answered, "He's from the Satellite. We used to all duel together. He was one of our closest friends."

"That guy was your friend?"

Meanwhile, these unexpected turn of events allowed Crow to look back...


Flashback...

He was out scouting in another city district, when he was ambushed by a group cape-wearing thugs. One duel was all it took to beat him into submission as he slumped against the wall.

Crow: 4000

Thugs: 16000

one of them walked up to him and chuckled, "So didja really think you could defeat us all by yaself, Crow? Heheheh!" a kick to Crow's chest kept him down, "Well you were wrong! "

"Not cool...!" he wheezed.

"Take a message to your friends: the Fleet District belongs to the Magicians," another thug insisted, "and that is *not* gonna change anytime soon."

"And let 'em know *this* is what happens to duelists who challenge us!" a third kicked Crow's duel-disk right off his arm, sending it skiing across the floor.

The redhead groaned, "Was that necessary?"

"Just be glad we don't take your deck, loser!" a fifth thug (presumably the leader) appeared, staying unnoticed in the shadows. Just by the way he was chuckling, he signaled the other four to deal the final blow; and Crow knew it couldn't be good.

"Come on, guys, let's talk this out. I'm sorry I came to your turf and challenged your authority..." he then snickered, "Heheh. And if ya believe that, I got a high-rise penthouse in Domino City I'd like to sell ya!"

That seemed to tick them off, fore one of them grabbed his shirt, and slammed him oto the wall face-to-face, "Ya like magic, Crow? 'Cause we're about to make you disappear for good! No one's gonna save you. No one even knows where you are; this hideout is secret."

Crow grinned, "Oh, *really*."

The thugs then heard beeping sounds. They looked over to Crow's smashed disk and spotted a blinking red bulb in the middle.

"What is that?" they asked.

"Answer him, what is that? Some kinda detonation device or somethin'?"

Crow kept chuckling smugly, "It's a transmitter."

"What's it 'transmitting, *buddy*?"

"It's transmitting our location!"

"Whaddaya guys think? We should scram, right?"

As crow kept giggling, the wall on the right exploded, pelting them with debris. The three thugs ran for cover, the forth releasing Crow and joining them.

The leader had only one idea who it could be.

"They're here; The Enforcers!"

The Magicians peered through the clearing dust in dismay as four menacing silhouettes can be seen in the doorway they just blew through the wall. The four Enforcers leap into action; quicker than the eye can see, they were out of the doorway and into the warehouse in different directions. The power from the fluorescents on the ceiling shut off, leaving everyone in darkness. One thug was then making his retreat when he's headed off by a swift shadow who dashed over the crates above, cloak streaming behind, and jumped down in front of him. He could only see his duel disk; the rest of him remains in shadow.

"You're not leaving, are you? The fun's just about to start," after activation his duel-disk, the shadow pulled out a chain, swinging it expertly in his right hand and letting it fly; it attaches to the thug's duel disk; the shadow hooks it into his own. It now connected the two duelists at their disks, "The loser's duel disk is destroyed, and until we have a winner, no one's going anywhere."

"Who are you?" he received his answer as the clouds outside pull back to reveal the moon. Its light revealed the shadow to be none other than Yusei Fudo.


Elsewhere in the warehouse, another shadow flung a folded duel disk through the air for Crow to catch.

"Got it!" as the redhead popped his disk into place on his arm, the thug that kicked him ran for cover. He stopped short when a metal cuff fastened around his duel-disk. He looked back to see Crow is at the other end of his chain, fastening it to his own duel disk and activating it, "And now I got you too!"


Another ran as fast as his feet could carry him, until he ended up in a corner, sniveling in fear and the forth shadow loomed closer and closer.

"You people ought to be ashamed of youselve," Margaret Spires stepped out of her shadow, "You abused the authority of Endymion and used its power for evil. It's time to take that power back!" she captured her own prey with her chain.


Another thug ran for the back of the warehouse, where a third shadow got in the way. He stepped out of the shadows to be presented as Jack Atlas; his powerful presence stopping the thug in his tracks.

"I can't let you leave without thanking you for taking care of my friend. We were worried about him," he spoke in deadpan sarcasm, "So please... allow me to express my heartfelt gratitude!" he twirled a chain he took from his pocket and caught the thug with it, sending him flying toward him.


Preparations completed, it was time for the Enforcer's ancient ritual of elimination: a duel!

"It's my move! I summon Speed Warrior in attack mode!" Yusei's silver skater appeared (ATK: 900).


"Let's dance! Allow me to introduce you to Blackwing - Bora the Spear!" Crow's avian warrior flew down with his spear in hand (ATK: 1700).


"Crusader of Endymion, come forth!" a heavily armored wizard appeared (ATK: 1900).


"It's my turn! And I summon Mad Archfiend!" Jack's bony demon was spawned (ATK: 1800).


As for their leader, he knew the battle was already lost. He was attempting to escape until...

"What's the matter?" a fifth shadow approached, "You feeling left out?"

"Wh-who are you?"

The shadow stepped into the moonlight and identified himself as none other than Kalin Kessler (back then, he wasn't corrupted as a Dark Signer), "I'm the guy who's gonna bring you down. You and your fake-magician friends have been making life miserable for people in the Fleet District. Your hocus-pocus days of terrorizing these people are over!" Kalin lassoed his own opponent and activate his disk, "Shall we?"

"You're gonna regret this!"

"Riiight..."


"Junk Warrior, attack with Scrap Fist!"

Yusei: 4000

Thug: 0


"Now to finish you off! Blackwing Armor Master, attack!"

Crow: 3300

Thug: 0


"Explosive Magician! End this now!"

Magic: 2100

Thug: 0


"Exploder Dragonwing's got some hurt he'd like to give you!"

Yusei: 3900

Thug: 0


As each magician lost their duel-disks began to spark and then explode, short-circuting them.

"Dark Eradicator Warlock, attack!" the leader growled, the spellcaster advancing.

"It won't do much good against my "Hate Buster" trap card!" Kalin's Archfiend General leap into the air and fired a crescent of light at Warlock, which was neatly destroyed. The leader was flung backward to the ground and his lifepoints sunk to zero, destroying his disk.

Kalin: 4000

Leader: 0

"And, presto! This duel's over! I'll be taking that Fascination Badge from you, thank you very much," Kalin walked over to the magician and ripped something from out of his cape; it was a small button marked with a giant yellow triangle with smaller triangles at the corners, forming the Arcana symbol; that object was known as a Leader Badge. Each duel-gang leader has one and by surrendering that item they surrendered control of their gang and control of their district, "Now why don't you make like a rabbit and disappear!" Kalin turned and his friends were joining him from their different corners of the warehouse, "Nice job, Crow. Sorry you had to be the bait."

"Next time don't delay the surprise entrance so much."

"You got it!" They raised their fists together for a five-way fist-bump, "That gang was the last of them," he took out a map and spread it across a nearby table; it was a map of the Satellite, different sections blacked out. Kalin took out a marker and covered up another part of the map, "Done! The Fleet District is officially safe, thanks to the Enforcers!" the other four Enforcers looked at their leader as he smiled serenely; their mission was done...


...End Flashback.

...But time flies by; fore Yusei now faces his best friend still snickering, "Something funny?"

"We had fun, way back in the day, didn't we? Didn't we, Magic? Didn't we, Crow? And Jack? Didn't we have a blast! But now that's all gonna end!"


"So, uh, I'm guessing you aren't exactly friends anymore," Carly guessed, "What happened?"

Jack started to explain, "...When I was growing up, Satellite was a rough place. Rougher than it is now. Every district was overrun by duel gangs. In order to survive, you found friends. You stuck together, and you laid low. I had Yusei, and Crow, and Magic, and Kalin. They were my friends; we hung out together. We looked out for each other, and for everybody else in our district. And then one day, Kalin decided he was done laying low. He decided it was time to fight back."

"At first our only goal was to make our district a safe place to live. But then Kalin got ambitious. He decided we needed to rid the Satellite of all the duel gangs. Since then Kalin inspired us. He taught us to believe in ourselves. He showed us that we have the power to change our situation. And that we could control our own destinies... I guess you could say he was our leader. At the time, we would've followed him anywhere. Things were going great. Satellite's districts were starting to become safe. But then... Kalin took things too far..."


Back to Yusei and Kalin...

"You never should've betrayed me Yusei!"

"You had to be stopped Kalin."

"I was trying to make Satellite a better place! Did you really think that Sector Security had our best interests in mind?"

"Well no, but…"

"They needed to fall like the duel gangs! Satellite needed to be ours and ours alone! But the past is ancient history, let's start talking about your future! I'm gonna send you to the Netherworld!" Kalin said darkly as he revved his runner and sped past Yusei, then turned around and sped past him again. "C'mon let's duel!" Yusei reluctantly started his engine and sped off to catch up with him.

"Kalin, what happened to you? How did you become a Dark Signer?"

Kalin just cackled, "Are you scared, Yusei?"

"...No!" Yusei toggled his handles and sped off after him.

"We will, of course, be dueling in the field spell: Speed World!" Kalin yelled pressing a button on his runner.

"DUEL MODE, ENGAGED. AUTOPILOT STANDING BY."

The words 'DUEL MODE' appeared on both screens and the screens then showed the playing field and their speed counters. An aura shot out of both duel runners.

"Kalin, talk to me!" Yusei pleaded, "What happened to you!"

"! It's a little late in the game tryin' to play catch-up, Yusei! What's done is done! And there's no going back! The only thing left to do is for me to defeat you!"

"So... what happens to me if I lose this duel? Do I become one of you?"

"Not quite. But you will be consumed. You'll be immersed in the shadows of the netherworld."

"That's not going to happen. I'm going to put a stop to you and save the Satellite!"

"LET'S DUEL!"

Yusei: 4000

Kalin: 4000


"Mina, can you get their play by play on the monitor?" Jack asked.

"Yes. I can do that. I just need to lock on their frequency." Mina said pressing a few buttons on the helicopter. Then three hologram screens showed up. One showed Yusei and Kalin on their runners, one showed the playing field, and the third showed their life points and speed counters.


Crow pressed a few buttons on his runner. The screen showed the playing field, their life points and speed counters, "Yusei, be careful…" he muttered.


"Let's go!" Yusei declared.

"Yes... time to begin this thang! Time for the Enforcers to ride again!" Kalin laughed maniacly as he drew his sixth card, "My turn! I summoned (1) Infenity Beast(3/1600/1200), "And now that I've got 'im on the field, I think I'll play one card face-down and end my turn! Come, Yusei! I've been looking forward to this duel for a very, very long time! Don't let me down! Gimme everything you've got!"

"You asked for it!" Yusei started his turn, "I summon Speed Warrior in attack mode!" Yusei's speedy skater appeared, "And during the battle phase of this turn, Speed Warrior's attack points are doubled!"

Speed Warrior: (ATK: 1800)

"Speed Warrior, move in and send that Beast of his to the pound!" Yusei ordered. The skate warrior skidded over to the beast and was about to kick it.

"Not so fast, Yusei! I play the trap,Depth Amulet!" Kalin countered revealing his face-down showing an amulet with jewels and a scythe like blade on the bottom of the jewels, "By discarding one card from my hand, I can negate your monster's attack!" a barrier formed around the beast and Speed Warrior's Hypersonic Slash was intercepted, Hahahahahahaha, looks like you're still playing the same old cards! I expected more, Yusei!"

"Oh, yeah? And how've you changed up yours, Kalin?"

Kalin chuckled, "You'll find out soon enough!"

"Hmph! Well in the meantime, I'll play two face-downs and end my turn!" Yusei set his reverse-card as he and his opponent raced around a curve in the giant's blazing design.

"My move then!" Kalin drew his next card, "And from my hand I'm summoning (2) Infernity Archfiend(4/1800/1200)!" a tall, skeletally thin purple-skinned demon with four amber eyes, clad in a grey shroud appeared next to his beast, "And now, Infernilty Beast, take out his Speed Warrior!" the dog puffed up its disturbingly-inflatable cheeks, breathing fire and incinerating Speed Warrior.

Yusei: 3300 (4)

Kalin: 4000 (4)

"Careful Yusei. Don't spin out of control." Kalin warned mockingly as Yusei's runner smashed into and grinded against the wall of purple flames, ""The powers of the shadows really suit me. Duels are more exciting when I can dish out real pain!"

Yusei got his bike back under control and drove back into the center, resolute.

"In fact I like it so much, I think I'll dish out some more! Infernilty Archfiend, attack Yusei directly!" Kalin's field raised its hands in front of it and created a red seal. That same seal appeared ten-times bigger, hovering above Yusei. This will not bode well.


Jack: "Yusei!"


Crow: "Hang on, pal!"


But their cheers fell on deaf ears over Kalin's deranged laughter as a giant blazing hand began to descend from the seal, grasping for Yusei. The Dark Signer's laugh intensified as it got closer and closer to solid ground, "Hey Yusei, here's a helping hand! Too bad the only one it's going to help is me! Now prepare to be absorbed into the netherworld!"

TO BE CONTINUED...


DUEL-MON DATEBASE

(1) Infernity Beast

Stats: [Beast/Effect] Level 3 ATK/1600 DEF/1200

Attribute: DARK

Description: If this card attacks while you have no cards in your hand, your opponent cannot activate Spell or Trap Cards until after the Damage Step.

(2) Infernity Archfiend

Stats: [Fiend/Effect] Level 4 ATK/1800 DEF/1200

Attribute: DARK

Description: When you have no cards in your hand and draw this card, you can reveal it to Special Summon it. When this card is Special Summoned, if you have no cards in your hand, you can add 1 "Infernity" card from your Deck to your hand.


Crow: "Here's the preview for our next chapter! Just when Yusei thought things couldn't get any worse, Kalin summons a monster with the power to attack him from his graveyard! How's our hero supposed to get out of this one? Next time on Reverse of Arcadia: Dark Signs: Part 3! See ya' next time!"

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