Yugioh 5D's: Konami/Kazuki Takahashi
(A/N): "Don't forget to read my new Soul Eater story, The Mazaku Chronicles!"
Yusei: "Have you ever had tat moment when the past caught up to you hard and fast? Well, that's the case last time on Reverse of Arcadia. After causing these strange lines to shoot from the ground, Kalin revealed that he was one of the Dark Signers, evil counterparts out to destroy the world. What's more shocking was when my friend Magic suddenly appeared, after over two years of since she went missing. Along with Jack and Crow, we were all part of The Enforcers, a group of vigilantes liberating the Satellite one district at a time. Then, as Kalin and I dueled, I had to go through the actual damage that one of his Shadow Drones inflicted before; and with a giant burning claw hovering over my head, things are gonna get a lot worse! Is there any chance I could survive my 'best friend's' upcoming onslaught, find out, NOW!"
YuGiOh! 5D's
Reverse of Arcadia
Ride 11: Dark Signs
Part 3: Terror from Beyond the Grave
"Yusei! The power of my Infernity Archfiend is going to send you to the netherworld forever!" Kalin rejoiced as the giant hand from the fiend's seal drew closer to his hated opponent.
"Well, The power of your monster is no match for the ability of my Scrap-Iron Scarecrow! 'Cause when this trap is played, it cancels out your attack," Yusei declared as the metal scarecrow appeared barring the fiery hand from getting to Yusei. Kalin, by the way, frowned at that, "And then once it repels your attack, I get to place it back in my hand."
'Good move Yusei," Jack said to himself, "but you're gonna have to be great to beat Kalin…'
'Now that was a close one," Crow thought relived, "And I know it's gonna be closer because Kalin was never one to pull any punches...'
Suddenly, he hears a pair of small footsteps scampering towards him. The redhead turned to see a girl with curly purple hair reaching the top of the trash pile he was standing on. He knew immediately who that person was...
"Magic!" Crow ran up to the girl, but was reluctant, "Wait, hold on... First, do you know my real name?"
Magic's response was, "...You don't even remember it, You grew up with the name crow."
"So it is you!" Crow realized "But why did you decide to come back all of a sudden?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out..."
"Yusei, try to keep up with me, will ya'?" Kalin cracked as he reversed a card onto his field, "Hmph! And please, play something new for a change, okay? I like surprises. And I hope you do, too, because this face-down isn't just some old trap we've been using since grade school, like that 'Scarecrow' of yours! I upped my game; have you?"
"Don't need to. My deck... has never let me down."
"Well there's a first time for everything."
'I sure hope he's wrong...' "It's my turn!" Yusei drew his next card. 'And boy, was he wrong!' "You know, I like to do things the old-fashioned way, Kalin! So I think I'll play a favorite of mine: Junk Synchron!" the Signer's favored orange-armored tuner appeared, "And with him out, I get to re-summon a monster from my graveyard and add him to the field. So I'm gonna summon out another oldie-but-goodie: say hello to my Speed Warrior!" Speed Warrior returned next to Junk Synchron, then the two aligned, "And while we're playing 'Yusei's Greatest Hits', why don't we hit up a classic! I tune Junk Synchron with my Speed Warrior in order to synchro-summon Junk Warrior!" Junk Synchron pulled the cord and turned into three green rings and Speed Warrior into two stars. The stars lined up in the tunnel of rings, while Yusei chanted:
""Clustering stars will call upon a new force. Become the path its light shines upon. Synchro Summon!"
"Junk Warrior, let's rev it up!" the larger junk monster appeared (ATK: 2300).
Kalin smirked, "Not bad, but way too predictable!"
"Well how's this for predictable: I activate my trap Shard of Hope!" Yusei's continuous trap depicted a brightly-glowing green diamond, "Now if you take damage, I get to draw a card; and if it's a trap, I get to activate it! And with your monsters in attack mode, it looks like that damage is gonna come sooner rather than later!"
"Heh. Don't be so sure, Yusei! I still have my trap in play!"
Magic: 'Maybe Kalin's right. He could still trigger the effect of that Depth Amulet trap. All he has to do is throw away a card from his hand to negate Junk Warrior's attack. And he has two cards to spare!
Crow: "If you would remember. we've dueled next to Kalin long enough to know the only thing he hates worse than a losing hand is an empty one. He would never risk his hand just to stop Yusei's attack-"
'Unless that's his plan...' "Time to see what he's up to! Junk Warrior, attack!" Junk's gauntlet glowed for a Scrap Fist attack. Junk Warrior flew towards the beast with its jet pack ready to punch the dog. But then, Kalin discarded a card from his hand.
"When I said I upped my game, I wasn't just talking about the cards in my deck Yusei. I got a whole new strategy. Depth Amulet cancels you attack!" the Drak Signer chuckled as Depth Amulet's barrier retaliated against Junk Warrior's attack.
"Guess Kalin's got some new tricks up his sleeve!" Yusei admitted.
"Well this next move, might just make you disappear!"
"Oh, great, what now?"
"Something new!" Kalin started his turn, "I sacrifice both my monsters to summon a whole new kind of creature! After all, one good tuner deserves another! I advance-summon (3) Dark Tuner-Nightmare Hand(10/0/0)!" the two Infernities merged together into a multicolored portal giving way to an amorphous black-and-violet humanoid, an emerald crest formed like a giant eye (ATK: 0). It stared at Yusei silently.
"But with a Dark Tuner on you field-"
"You guessed it! Its special-ability lets summon another monster directly from my hand. And this one won't be some ancient relic I used back in high school!"
"What is it?"
"He goes by the name, (1) Infernity Dwarf(2/800/500)!" a short, squat dwarf clad in green overalls over a white shirt and grey trousers appeared from a dark portal, wielding a flaming battleaxe (ATK: 800), "He may be tiny, but as the saying goes, big things come in small packages! And it's never been more true than now, 'cause I'm tuning 'im with my Nightmare Hand in order to perform a Dark Synchro-Summon!" Nightmare Hand spread its arms, and purplish darkness spread from it as it reduced to glowing contours. Ten stars emerged from it; the Dwarf recoiled in fear and was then engulfed in the shadows. The stars surrounded the poor, defenseless Dwarf and embedded themselves in his chest. He was then reduced to outlines, too, eyes wide and pained. A few of the stars disappeared, and the Dwarf started glowing.
"When the shadows are devoured by even darker shadows, the curtain pulls back and reveals... a world without light!"
The dwarf then dissolved into several dark stars, blue lightning sparking between them.
"You're no match for the power of my dark deck, Yusei! Now, prepare to meet the shadows of the netherworld! I summon... (4) One Hundred Eye Dragon(-8/3000/2500)!" Slowly, one purple eye opened within the darkness. Then two more, another three, four, five... the baleful, horrific eyes just continued to open until ninety-nine stared out... finally, the largest of all opened, glaring straight into Yusei's eyes as the darkness faded to reveal the hideous Dark Synchro. The creature then broke from its cocoon of darkness to be revealed as a black dragon with as the names suggests, one-hundred eyes all over its body all glowing a deathly violet (ATK: 3000), "When One Hundred Eye Dragon is face-up on the field, it can gain the special abilities of all the dark-attribute monsters in my graveyard."
Carly: "Uhh, Jack? What is that?"
Jack: "Bad news for us."
Magic: "Has Kalin been had that card in his deck?"
Crow: "No, he didn't. And after all the duels I've been a part of, neither has anyone else."
Kalin smirked, "If you think he looks tough now, just wait 'til you see him in battle! One Hundred Eye Dragon, attack!" The dragon turned around and fired a huge purple bam at Yusei's Junk Warrior.
"I play my trap card, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow-!"
"That's the move I was expecting you to defend with!" the Dark Signer laughed, "I guess old habits are hard to break! Perhaps my dragon's special abilities will help you turn over a new leaf!"
"Abilities?"
"That's right; my dragon can now activate the ability of any monster in my grave. And I think we'll start with... INFERNITY BEAST!" Kalin shrieked as a faint image of the beast appeared in the dragon's main eye, causing it to roar with power, "Due to the ability of my Beast, or should I say Dragon, if I have zero cards in my hand, which I do, you can't activate any spells or traps!"
The metal scarecrow got electrocuted, went back into the card and went back face-down, 'He wanted to get rid of your cards!' Yusei exclaimed mentally.
"Now then! Let's try that attack again, shall we! Go, Infinity Sight Stream!" the dragon spewed out a stream of negative black-and-violet energy. Junk Warrior was engulfed in the blast and there was still plenty left for Yusei. When the blast cleared, his runner was doing crazy near-horizontal donuts backward.
"Hey Yusei, is that some kind of new dance craze?" Kalin cackled at Yusei's misfortune, until he regained control, "Now hang on tight. I wanna make sure that you stick around for this! After all, I've been *dreaming* of this day for years, Yusei, and now I get to deal you a little justice, you backstabbing traitor!"
"But Kalin-"
"But nothing, Yusei!"
Yusei: 2600 (4)
Kalin: 4000 (5)
"If that's the way it's gonna be... I draw!" Yusei started his turn, "I summon (5) Rockstone Warrior(ATK: 1800/1600) to the field in DEF mode!" a bulky humanoid made entirely of rock appeared, gaining a blue aura.
"Please! You're just delaying the inevitable!"
"Tell it to my face-down! You're up!"
"Well, not that it matters, but now you can attack me next round since my Depth Amulet is all out of power!" Kalin's trap dissolved due to being his opponent's end-phase, "Or you can just keep sitting there while I kick your tailpipe all over the Satellite!"
'Kalin's right. Even my Stardust Dragon can't take on that hundred-eyed thing. I've never seen him duel like this!'
Kalin glanced back, aware of Yusei's scrutiny.
"How did he lose sight of our goal?" the Signer muttered, "I've got to find out what made the duelist who used to be my best friend decide to change his path... Kalin, please tell me why you turned on all of us!"
Kalin scoffed, "I needed to free the Kalin you held back!"
"That's a lie. I only tried to help my friend... because... you changed."
"Pfft. You changed first," he turned from Yusei, "We could've controlled the whole city. It was just the four of us back then... Jack, you, me, Magic and Crow? We were going to use our decks to clean up the Satellite. Or don't you remember!" he lectured, "We took on every duel gang in the City, locking them into duels with grappling hooks so they couldn't get away. Crime was down. People felt safe. The Satellite was a place you could call home! Every day was a different battle, a different duel. This was a war! A war for our homes, families, and friends, and we were winning! One by one, the duel gangs gave up! They couldn't handle the four of us-our decks or our dueling. One by one, the streets were safe again; one by one, people were learning that the Satellite was our city, and we were going to do what Security couldn't. One by one, they believed. Until there was only one left..."
And yet another page from Margret's past had been unlocked...
Flashback...
2 years ago...
It had been a year since The Enforcers ventured through the Satellite to liberate the districts from the duel-gangs. They had many adventures and also made a few allies.
On a smoggy sunny afternoon, the Enforcers, along with two new additions, one man with dark-blonde hair with an arm tattooed with 'Light-Judge', another with spiky red hair with 'Darkness-Punisher' tattooed on his arm. All seven entered the Maximus Disrtict for one final mission to defeat The Bombers. Though appeared to be bare and empty, the town was actually littered with several spies...
"Pee-ka-boo! I see you!" the leader challenged.
In response, many gang members came out of hiding. They all red tones, with rust-red vest-jackets and leather helmets with goggles. They came from everywhere from the buildings to the ducks to the rooftops. The Enforcers were surrounded.
"Don't look now, guys, but I think they got us surrounded," Crow stated the obvious.
All Kalin did was chuckle, "These're the odds I like! After all, where's the fun if there's no challenge to it? Let's duel!"
All seven Enforcers activated their disks and ran in separate directions. The Bombers ran forward from their hiding places and engaged them.
"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe..." Crow captured four Bombers with four different cables, "Catch a duelist by the toe..."
"And if it hollers, let 'em go, 'cause Twin Sword Marauder's joining the show!" Jack's monster attacks and destroyed the opponent's Goblin Attack Force, as well as the rest of his life-points, destroying his duel-disk. Jack yanked back his grappling chain, twirled it, and lassoed the next one of the Bombers that's been running behind them, "Gotcha! Hook, line and sinker!"
Meanwhile elsewhere, Kalin won a duel and his opponent's duel-disk exploded. As he pulled his chain back, he pulled the duelist with it, and the Bomber comes flying down the stairs disk first, "Nice catch!"
Up on the rooftops most of the remaining Bombers were defeated, courtesy of Yusei and Magic. They were now facing the Bomber's leader.
"Looks like your gang's finished, Gushizawa."
"Well I'm a one-gang-army, 'pal'," the leader barked.
"Then I guess it's time you and me went to war. There's no escaping this battle now!" Yusei threw his grappling chain and it fastens squarely around the Gushizawa's duel-disk...
But all the leader did was chuckled and he grabbed hold of the cable, "You seriously wanna war? Well now you've got a 'tug-of-war'!" still pulling on the chain, he ran toward the edge of the building, yanking Yusei after him, "Don't worry if you don't know the rules!"
"Hold up!" Yusei cried; magic tried to pull him back by his waist.
"You'll get the hang of it!" Gushizawa leap to the next rooftop, leaving Yusei on the edge, "Don't fall!" he yanked on the grappling chain, causing Yusei to get pulled from Magic's grasp and over the railing, flying across the gap between the rooftops. Yusei grabbed the chain, hoping to pull himself across, except the leader of the Bombers took off his duel-disk.
"There's no card...for THIS!" Gushizawa tossed his disk over after Yusei, leaving the Enforcer with nothing to keep him from falling.
Crow: "Yusei!"
Jack: "Yuse!"
Magic: "Yusei! No!"
Yusei was free-falling closer and closer to his end, until a grappling chain fastens around Yusei's wrist, dangling him from the first rooftop by the arm; Yusei saw that he was saved by Kalin Kessler!
"Magic! Go get the leader and take him out!" Kalin said.
"Right!" Magic jumped the rooftop to catch up with Gushizawa.
"Hang on Yusei!" Kalin called to him, "I'll get you out of this!"
...End Flashback.
The Kalin of 'now' chuckled, "How ironic! To think that I saved you that day, and now all I wanna do is send you to the netherworld! I was such a fool! But I'm wiser now!" the Dark Signer started his turn, "I play the speed-spell, Power Baton! You know all about speed, don't you, Yusei? After all, you were awfully quick to betray me! And with this spell, I can choose a monster from my deck and send it to the graveyard," a card popped out from Kalin's deck, "then my Dragon gets a nice little treat. All of those extra attack points that I just sent to the graveyard are transferred to him. And I choose my (2) Infernity Destroyer(6/2300/1000)! I think its ATK points CFGX just advertised to the readers should definitely do the trick!" he then placed the card into his graveyard slot, "Now it's been a while since I cracked open a math book, but I'm pretty sure that now my Dragon has enough power to send you and your deck to the shadows!" he cackled as the dragon then glowed with power.
One Hundred Eye Dragon: (ATK: 5300)
"Now for your pleasure, the main event! I activate, Hundred Eye Dragon's special ability: he gets the power of the Dwarf in my graveyard, so all of the battle damage that would normally be absorbed by your monster is dealt to you as damage!" the dragon's main eye blinked open and revealed the dwarf's spirit inside, "Ah! It's just so hard to find good defensive help these days, isn't it! Prepare to meet the shadows, Yusei, because this game is over!"
"Nothing's* over 'til I say it is!"
"Ever the optimist!" Kalin's runner skidded sideways, "Now, One Hundred Eye Dragon, attack!" the dragon unleashed a gigantic fuchsia fireball at Rockstone Warrior, shattering it in the flames, "Finally I'll get my revenge for what you did to me that night, Yusei!"
"Not today! Rockstone's got special abilities himself, and all of your battle damage is canceled!" the fragments of Rockstone Warrior hovered around Yusei and his runner, creating a protective barrier; the flames passed around it.
But that only allowed Kalin to cackle even more, "I should be thanking you, Yusei! After all, you're here to duel another round; that's another chance for me to toy with you before I send you to the netherworld! I told you that rainy night that I'd get you back. Now look; you're down to your last two cards! You couldn't take out a Kuriboh, let alone my Hundred Eye Dragon! You're finished! Hahahahahahaha! Just like before! Remember? I had your fate in my hands-!"
"I remember!" Yusei snapped, "That day... you saved me. What happened? Tell me, what happened to my best friend?"
"What 'happened' is I'm not the same sap I was back then!"
Flashback...
As Kalin strained to hold Yusei up, the rail began to give way, bending under his weight. Both Enforcers yell as Yusei falls further and Kalin tried to stay on the roof. He was now hanging halfway off the roof, one hand on the broken railing, the other reaching out with the duel disk and chain, and his legs still on the roof. The aluminum railing starts to give even further, the metal itself ripping apart.
"Kalin! Listen, that rail won't hold us! Just let go, you hafta-"
"No... way! Yusei, we're bro's! If you fall, then I'm falling with you! Now quit... hangin' around and climb!"
"...Thank you..."
"Save it!"
It was really an effort at that point to keep hanging on to Yusei...
...End Flashback.
"You were right, I should've let you fall! And now I'm gonna make up for it! So I activate another of my dragon's special abilities! Now he gets Destroyer's power!" One Hundred Eye's main eye now revealed Infernity Destroyer's soul, "That allows him to burn 1600 points of damage into your life-points! And trust me when I say that the damage you'll take from this attack is nothing compared to the damage I've been carrying around all these years because of you!" the dragon shot a huge purple fireball at Yusei obscuring his vision...
Flashback...
Finally, Kalin, with the combined effort of Crow and the two new reinforcements, managed to pull Yusei up to the rooftop with them.
"You need to go on a diet, Yusei," he grunted, "You've been eating too many eggwiches!" for a moment they all sat there, breathing heavily.
"Thanks, man," Yusei panted, "I owe ya'!"
Kalin laughed; panted, but laughed.
Meanwhile, Gushizawa was in big trouble. His gang was defeated, and he was now in Magic's mercy of her magician. There was only one ting left fot him to do: run like a girl!"
"You'll never kick me out of my turf!" As he went for the doorknob, Jack Atlas kicked open the door from inside and in doing so whacked the gang leader right in the face. He was down for the count, looking quite embarrassed to be felled so easily after all that.
"Way to go, Jack!" Crow called.
"Now that's the last of them," Jack gave a thumbs up, given one back to everyone else.
Moments later, they all gathered together, and gave each other a seven-way fist bump.
"TOGETHER FOREVER!"
Later, they blacked out the last district on the map, signaling their last accomplished mission.
"Guys! That's it! We did it!"
"Crow's right! We're the top duelists in the Satellite!" Kalin said.
"There's no one left!" the blond stated.
The one with the spiky black hair was never much for words, so he just nodded.
"Guess we'll be fighting ourselves now."
Everyone then laughed out loud at Jack's statement.
Yusei: "That'll be the day!"
Jack: "I got Yusei first!"
Magic: "Ha! Nobody makes a move on Yusei but me!"
"Then it looks like we gotta find ourselves a new enemy!" Kalin threw the blacked-out map in the air, letting it blow away in the breeze. Everyone kept laughing, celebrating the day the Enforcers liberated the Satellite...
...End Flashback.
"And when I did, you turned your back on me!" Kalin growled as the giant fireball exploded onto Yusei. Forcing Yusei to ski his runner across the fiery walls, "I could have given you everything! But you were too scared!"
Yusei: 1000 (4)
Kalin: 4000 (6)
Crow: "Yusei! Come on! You can make it! Keep riding!"
Kalin cackled bloody murder as he watched Yusei trying to steady his runner. The Tail Signer was riding through a world of blinding violet fire, moaning with pain, and then re-emerged, riding on the side of the wall. With a yell of effort, he lifted the front wheel of his runner and landed back on the field, shedding clinging fire off of himself and his runner. He weaved a bit after landing and raced back after Kalin.
"I just wish I knew why you changed!"
"Don't you get it yet, old friend?"
"No!"
"Then I guess I'll have to spell it out for you! You knew the only way the Satellite could be ours was if we eliminated every threat! We were a team until you convinced Crow ,Jack and Magic to try and take me down! So I took it upon myself to take on the only enemy that remained- Sector Security. I couldn't let them ruin everything we had accomplished! So I did what I had to do, until you stopped me that night!" Kalin sulked on that last sentence, remembering every gruesome detail form a long time ago, "You let me fall hard and fast, and now I'm here to make good on my promise..."
"You were blinded by your dream," Yusei stated, "And now that I know you duel to destroy, I'm takin' you out!"
"You're wrong... 'cause your days of dueling are about to end!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
DUEL-MON DATABASE
(1) Infernity Dwarf
Stats: [Warrior/Effect] Level 2 ATK/800 DEF/500
Attribute: DARK
Description: While you have no cards in your hand, during battle between an attacking monster you control and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of the attacking monster inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent.
(2) Infernity Destroyer
Stats: [Fiend/Effect] Level 6 ATK/2300 DEF/1000
Attribute: DARK
Description: While you have no cards in your hand, when this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, inflict 1600 damage to your opponent.
(3) Dark Tuner-Nightmare Hand
Stats: [Fiend/Dark Tuner] Level 10 ATK/0 DEF/0
Attribute: DARK
Description: When this card is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 Level 2 or lower DARK monster from your hand or Graveyard.
(4) One Hundred Eye Dragon
Stats: [Dragon/Dark Synchro/Effect] Level -8 ATK/3000 DEF/2500
Attribute: DARK
Description: 1 non-Tuner monster - 1 Dark Tuner monster
In order to Special Summon this card, subtract the Level of a Dark Tuner monster from the Level of 1 other monster you control; the value must equal the Level of this card.
This card gains the effect(s) of all DARK monster in your Graveyard. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, select 1 card from your Deck and add it to your hand.
(5) Rockstone Warrior
Stats: [Rock/Effect] Level 4 ATK/1800 DEF/1600
Attribute: EARTH
Description: You take no Battle Damage from battles involving this card. When this attacking card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, Special Summon 2 "Rockstone Tokens" (Rock-Type/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0). These Tokens cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon.
Jack Atlas: "Let me follow you up on the next chapter of YuGiOh 5D's! Yusei's duel with Kalin continues as Yusei brings out his Stardust Dragon! But can it be enough to slay Kalin's dark dragon? And even if Yusei manages to destroy it, is there an even deadlier monster waiting in the earth? Next time on Reverse of Arcadia! Dark Signs: Part 4! Yusei, kick this turbo duel into overdrive!"
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