Chapter 11: Evil Is Golden
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A massive series of explosions wracked the city blocks. Three armored men marched forward, blasting everything in sight. People hurried, but many were not so lucky. One of the three, clad in shining golden armor with large blade on both of his arms, cleaved a man in half, his blood splattering the ground. Another swipe of his arm impaled a woman through her back.
The second man turned his black armored arm and fired a steel claw from it. The weapon grabbed one of the fleeing civilians at the base of his skull. It snapped closed, murdering him. From his other hand, the robotic looking man fired several rays of energy into the surrounding buildings.
The third, also a cyborg like the second, fired a twin barreled blaster from his arm, detonating the ground beneath several people either killing or seriously injuring them. "Where are they," the third cyborg growled in a clearly synthesized voice.
"Calm yourself Deviot," the gold man commanded, "they will come. For now enjoy yourselves."
"Venjix," Deviot turned to the black cyborg, "want to kill a few more while we wait."
"How about a little competition?" the shadowborg chuckled.
Back at Hayley's Duelspace
Tommy had just finished explaining the future of the power rangers RPM when the glimmering gold figure of the Sentinel Knight appeared. "Rangers, Signers," he called, "there are attacks all over New Domino City. You need to mobilize."
The knight turned and extended his hand towards a computer terminal. A map appeared on the screen and almost twenty red dots marked the map in different locations.
"I have informed the rangers in the field," the Knight continued, "the ones near these locations are already on their way."
"We'll take care of it," Tommy and Andros said together while standing from their chairs.
"I'm going too," Yusei agreed.
"Us too," Leo jumped up and pumped his fists in a fighting motion.
"You need to stay here," Yusei ordered. "We don't know what we are up against."
"We are Signers too Yusei," Luna defended, "this is our fight too."
"Yusei is right kids," Tommy agreed, "you will fight with us, but not today. Understood?" Both Leo and Luna sighed in defeat.
Both of the children were ready to retort, but Hayley cut them off. "I could actually really use your help here." She placed a hand on both Leo and Luna's shoulders and smiled her sincerity.
"If that's settled," Udonna whispered, "it seems we have work to do."
Back at the battlefront
Venjix fired, detonating an old building and killing all of the people who could have been inside. Blood ran through the smoke and fire into the littered street.
Two shots fired, hitting the shadowborg in the back. He stumbled, but was mostly unharmed. He turned, as did Deviot and the golden armored man. Two men in almost military uniforms marched forward with their guns drawn. "You are under arrest by order of the Silver Guardians!" the darker skinned man called, but it was clear in his voice he did not expect or truly want a surrender.
"Leave them to me," the gold armored man said calmly. His blades glistened gold under the blood.
"Why should you have all the fun?" the more comical looking cyborg jeered. Wes laughed looking at the Shakespearean coil around his neck.
"Do you really expect this to be difficult Erik?" he asked with a smirk. Deviot lunged and Wes fired, hitting the cyborg square in the chest.
"Power Rangers," the gold man began, "your blood will be wasted if I have to kill you. Join us."
"Not a chance," Erik growled, aiming for the only exposed part of the stranger, her gleaming green eyes.
"Pity," he responded. He moved rapidly, ready to slice the two in half. A strong kick landed on the side of his head. The armored man fell, leaving his attacker standing. Thick black hair billowed down his back. He was dressed in a white trench-coat and a blue and white striped shirt. A locket hung around his neck in the shape of a duel monsters card.
"I think," the newcomer smiled, "a duel is in order if you plan to take us. You are in our world. Play by our rules."
"Or what?" Venjix roared.
The stranger raised his arm so his sleeve would fall, revealing what appeared to be a Morpher with the head of a white dragon as its surface. "Or we destroy you and don't give you a chance to fight back."
The gold man chuckled, halting Deviot and Venjix in their tracks. "Fine young one. We will duel you all three on three, but you do not have the skills of your older brother. You are no threat to me Mokuba Kaiba."
Mokuba smirked, donning his duel disk, "I guess we'll just have to see. Don't think I don't know what you are VILLAIN." He spat and put emphasis on the last word causing the armored man to chuckled.
"Don't you know Mokuba? I am a HERO."
"Time for, Time Force!"
"Quantum Power!"
The two rangers morphed and stepped beside Mokuba. "You are no hero," Wes shouted. He pressed a button on his Chrono-Morpher and a duel disk appeared on his hand, though it looked more futuristic than the ones used by the citizens of New Domino City.
"Not that your opinion matters much," Erik smirked inside his helmet, "we are taking you in regardless."
The machinery on Venjix and Deviot's arms transformed into their own sinister looking duel disks. "So three on three for you Rangers to think its fair."
"I'll let you take the first move Kaiba," the gold man said coldly.
"Fine I draw," Mokuba called taking his opening hand.
Erik, Wes, and Mokuba: 24,000
Stranger, Venjix, and Deviot: 24,000
"I will set a monster face-down in defense mode and set two cards as well. That's all for now."
"Then I'll go," the gold man announced and drew his card. "I summon the Marauding Captain in attack mode. Now his effect allows me to summon another warrior from my hand. I'll choose the Marauding Captain." Two blond haired warriors appeared, each with 1200 atk points. "As long as I control Marauding Captain, you cannot select another warrior monster I control as an attack target. Since I control two, you cannot attack me. Cut his face-down to ribbons Captain." One warrior attacked. A dark furred koala appeared on Mokuba's field and absorbed the blow.
"You attacked my Des Koala. When he is flipped, you take 400 points of damage for every card in your hand. Right now your team is holding fourteen cards. That equals 5600 and you take 600 more since my Koala had more defense than your Captain's attack."
Stranger, Venjix, and Deviot: 17,400
"I'm not done yet. I activate my face-down card, Shrink. This halves my Koala's attack until the end of the turn. (1100-550) Now that his attack is so low, I can activate my trap card. Go Crush Card Virus! With this active, for the next three turns, every card in your hand and that you draw with more than 1500 attack points is automatically destroyed."
The gold man smirked and sent three of his cards to the graveyard. Deviot send all five of his cards and Venjix sent two. "Since you sent my Elemental HERO Bladedge to the graveyard I can activate this quick-play spell from my hand, Touch of Evil. This card allows me to summon my true form to the field. Come forth, Evil HERO Malicious Edge!" A hole opened in the ground and a tall man in black armor rose. He had three razor-blades extending from each of his hands. "Malicious Edge can now attack you directly since I had not ended my battle phase."
The dark wolverine rip-off ran forward and slashed Mokuba's stomach with his blades. An intense pain went through the younger Kaiba brother and he fell to one knee. "So I was right about you Bladedge. You really are an Elemental HERO."
The golden armored man chuckled, "Not quite boy." His armor melted away until he was a match for the twisted bondage demon on the field. "I am an Evil Hero."
A/N: I guess the cat is finally out of the bag. This duel will be concluded soon, but now that you know about Bladedge, lets see if you can figure out the other people involved already in this story.
