AN: First two to other fanfics you might want to check out: The first is Pendulum of Connections from Imagine97, a re-write of Arc-V like Bonds of Pendulum, except from the very beggining and it uses OC characters!
Number two is The Greatest Duelist of All Time from Wumbo the marvelous, this one has only one chapter, and revolves around the main character travelling trough the Yu-Gi-Oh animes, while dueling people with a stupid deck and ridiculous amounts of anime luck.
Doesn't seem like much, I know, but could potentially end up hilarious!
Also, please stay until the end of the chapter for an important announcement.
Yusaku´s POV L1 Shoichi´s house
"Ah, it´s finally finished!", Shoichi breathed a huge sigh of relief. We spend most of the day working on getting around the programming of the Action Dueling and It was even more complicated than I thought, whoever invented this must have been an expert programmer.
"Then I should send a message to them and get them over for another practive run.", I said and did it, "Well, now that we´ve cracked the code, it should become easier to replicate this."
"Yeah, I hope though that Yuya and Mayoi didn´t actually need to duel any KOH.", Shoichi said. For your interest, we did deactivate all Kinds of Messaging technology we had so that we wouldn´t get distracted by the Knowledge of Ai being on the line in a duel. And considering that I unexpectedly (and unwillingly) possed allies they may have pulled out their stronger members.
"Good thing, there are never too many customers on wednesdays in the Café.", then, suddenly, the doorbell started ringing.
"Hm? But they couldn´t have come this fast...", I noted as I opened the door, I could see that pink-haired and tanned student from school, but I don´t remember his name, what could he want from us?
"Well, hello, Yusaku Fujiki or should I say, Playmaker?", he said.
"What?!", I exclaimed, I almost slammed the door shut, but I needed to question why he was here and how we found out.
"This guy, knows it as well?", Shoichi ran to the door as well, "Did those two-"
"Yuya Sakaki and Mayoi Miyabino didn´t betray you, I found it out in quite an-", he said.
"Get to the point.", I interrupted him, "What do you want from us?"
"Oh, I was just wondering, did you complete replicating the Action Duel System? With Solid Vision and all?"
"Wait, are you Hyacrosea?", Shoichi guessed.
"Yes, I am. And I´m here to challenge you to a Little testing of your system. Just Crossover. You can use that dummy deck I´ll use mine. In front of the house, right here.", he demanded.
"Do we have any options?", Shoichi asked.
"This is very troubling, but... no. And we have no time to search for it either.", I answered.
"Oh, I could reveal it to anyone at any time.", he clarified, "It doesn´t matter if any passer-by´s notice. My master just told me to reveal my knowledge to you and make you freak out about it. Dueling you is my personal wish."
"But you seem to do this a little reluctantly.", Shoichi noted, which I didn´t notice, "I don´t know who your master is, but you don´t actually want to fight us, do you?"
"That´s correct, but don´t bother starting to play the noble and pure hero now.", he said coldly. ,"let´s get on with it." Shoichi and I went out of the house, me carrying the back-up duel disk with the Action duel System. First, People from another World try to Help me and now we have someone, mysteriously knowing my identity, perhaps it was a mistake to shut him down when he was about to reveal his methods, but there is not turning back now.
Action Field:on
Crossover
"DUEL!"
Chihiro Himegeki (4000lp) vs Yusaku Fujiki (4000lp)
"*sigh* I set five cards and end my turn.", my opponent said and gathered his first Action card from a platform a bit higher above the ground, while I simply scanned the area for the closest one. So the platforms did become Solid, even though I merely gave my duel disk a Software update.
"My turn, draw. I summon Hoshiningen(ATK:550-1050) who gains ATK from his own effect. I activate Tornado to target the set card on your very right, then I chain Chain Strike and use Mystical Wind Typhoon as chain Link three on your middle card. (Chihiro LP:4000-3200)", the destroyed cards were Dust Tornado and Draining Shield, "Now I attack directly."
"I use Magic Cylinder!", he countered.
"I use the Action Spell Avoid on my own monster and prevent the damage. I set one card and end my turn.", I said. The card I set was Sparks, to fool him into wasting a destruction card on it.
"My turn, draw! I use my face-down Raigeki Breal to discard my Action card and destroy Hoshiningen. Then I normal summon Chiron the Mage (1800)", he then gathered another Action card and so did I, "I dicard that Action Spell and destroy your face-down... Seriously? I know you Try to look like a bad duelist, but Sparks of all cards? Well, not that it matters. Chiron, attack directly!"
"I discard Sphere Kuriboh to Switch him into Defense." (DEF:1000)
"Hmph. I activate the Action Spell Discard, which takes yours away. Guess I should´ve used it earlier."
So he either 1. Does not take this 100& seriously 2. Initially planned to save this hand destructrion for latter or 3. Is too nervous and makes mistakes.
Maybe I can exploit 1 and 3 against him if they are the case, but first both of us immendiately went for our Next Action card. At this point, all cards from grounded platforms are picked and I will need to jump on the higher ones to continue collecting.
But I´m not sure how solid these copied platforms are, so I´ll refrain from that for now.
"My turn, draw. I use Cup of Ace.", A coin with the millenium eye (representing heads) and puzzle (representing tails) appeared as Hologramm which fortunately landed on heads, letting me draw two cards. "I set one card face-down and activate Timidity to prevent you from destroying it."
"My turn, draw! I use the Action Spell High Dive on Chiron- "
"I use No Action to negate that."
"Then I just put him into attack Position and summon Gogogo Golem! (ATK:1800) Attack!"
"I use Blazing Mirror Force!"(Yusaku LP:4000-2200 Chihiro LP:3200-1400), I countered.
"Then I end my turn, after picking up this Action card.", he said, grabbing one from the ground, It seems that I overswaw one, "And at the start of your turn, I use Crush Action to destroy any Action card you may get."
So if only a limited amount of them would spawn, and provided I am physically fit enough (unfortunately not the case) or should my monster be sufficient rides (unfortunately not the Case either), I could pick up all of them and practically ban them for the rest of the duel. I should Keep this in my head for future strategies.
"Regardless of that, I now summon Neo the Magical Swordsman and take away the rest of your lifepoints." (Chihiro LP:1400-1600=0)
WINNER: Yusaku
"Usual Protagonist luck.", he grumbled.
"What do you mean?", Shoichi asked.
"Well, Yuya is from a different World, right? In my original World, you and him are the main character of a fictional work."
"That is absurd...", I muttered.
"Unfortunately, we can´t deny that possibilty.", Shoichi said.
"Well, until our next duel.", he said, pressing Something on his duel disk that made him dissapear in golden light, leaving us with these bombshells of information
Mayoi´s POV at Den Academy
The first thing I noticed when returning from Link VRAINS was a strange pain in my side. It must have been Castel´s blast, and now that all the rage and adrenaline from earlier is dissipating, I am starting to feel the wound. Fortunately it only was scratches and small scars.
"Thank got, I´m not having a 100% accurate gunshot wound...", I muttered and then hoped that nobody heard me. Then I heard the school bell ringing. Lucky me, pretending everything is like normal for another few classes would have been impossible.
But first, I rushed to the boys bathroom. Is Yuya lying unconciously in there? But ouside of the girls bathroom, I already could hear a few students talking about what happened in Link VRAINS. And it´s all my-
"Since the crowds is too busy currently can I ask you something?", Ignis/Ai asked.
"No time for tha-", I wanted to answer, but it wasn´t necessary to check up on Yuya as he excited by himself, "Yuya!"
"About that...",...it was Yuto´s expression he was wearing, I hope Severin does have the power to save him.
"Let´s talk about it somewhere else.", he said. We excused ourselves by our teachers, but it doesn´t really matter now, we left the School and we both received a message from Yusaku, telling us to go to Kusanagi´s house for a test run of the new Action Dueling System.
I quickly sent a message to Mom that I would arrive at home later, assuming nothing happened to her while dueling in Link VRAINS... better scratch that thought, we´ll find out soon enough and I can´t tell her about those injuries from the duel.
"Well at least that... but how are we going to tell Yusaku this?", I wondered.
"We have no option but to move on and simply tell him.", Yuto said.
"You´re also worriying about your Charisma dueling mom, aren´t you? But if we understood Revolver correctly, then they are just trying to unearth some Kind of seventh AI.", Ignis, "I don´t think you have to Fear Link VRAINS completely being destroyed."
"That sounds unusually caring for you.", Yuto noted.
"Well, uh... It´s just because her pessimism would be bad for me right now, that´s all!", Ignis claimed, "But, uh Mayoi, would you consider me a friend?"
"Yeah. Kind of.", I answered.
"But isn´t he just a program?", Yuto said.
"Well, but he´s one of these advanced programs that act similar to humans, so he can be one",I said.
"Don´t ruin that Moment for me Yuto!", Ignis told him, "By the way, are we calling me ´Ai´ or ´Ignis´? Ignis sounds much cooler, but ´Ai´ can make puns with the other name!"
"Let´s stick to what Revolver has revealed to us.", Yuto suggested.
"Alright. But if Ai´s true name is Ignis and the one that Revolver´s skill is from is named Tenebrae, are all of them named after the latin translations of Duel Monsters attributes?", I wondered
"Perhaps. We should discuss this with Yusaku when we arrive.", he said. So fast forward trough Yusaku´s Special route to where we arrived at his house and... we see a guy dissapearing in Gold light.
"Who was that?", I asked.
"Ah. your trademark lack of suprise. Good to see it´s still there."
"Come in. We shouldn´t talk about it outside.", Kusanagi said and told us what exactly happened. Before getting to any of the events that happened to us, we connected our duel disk to Kusanagi´s Computer, which would serve to download the Programm onto My and his originak duel disk.
Since it didn´t replicate the System instantly, we started exchanging what happened to us.
"WHAT?!", All three of us gasped, (even me, this carefree and unsurprised attitude will probably not last forever)
"So let me get this straight. That pink haired dude came here to confuse you by telling you that he knows your true identity, he challenges you to an Action duel, somehow the platforms are solid enought to be stepped on even though you don´t have the proper hardare and then he tells you he knows because he´s from a world where you and Yuya are fictional characters?"
"And he didn´t blackmail us yet. We are just living in fear of Damocles´ sword for now. And about our disks being able to create solid Vision, we don´t know how it worked, but since most of our duels will be done in Link VRAINS anyway ", Kusanagi said.
"Wait, but I should probably have told you earlier, but Yuto and I had a duel on the street before meeting you for the first time, so if there were any passersby that saw his unknown cards...", I admitted.
"Well, we can´t undo that, but it is unlikely that he saw you and made all he told us up on the fly.", Yusaku said.
"You have no Problem with-?", Yuto said in disbelief.
"While I would have liked to hear this earlier from you two, we have to care about a much bigger Problem now.", Kusanagi said.
"Yeah, about that- first the bad News then the info we learned.", I began telling them how Revolver could use the Action Field Self-Insert, that he could Control the data storm, and his power to erase the VRAINS bit by bit.
"... That is very troubling.", Yusaku said, with a distressed look on his face.
"And to what we´ve learned: Apparently the incident of 10 years Ago was an experiment to Research some Kind of supernatural card creating power, named Card Creation Energy or CCE for short.
Apparently SOL has Something to do it, he also said something about Original Knighs of Hanoi, implying that the first attacks actually were a inside Job by SOL.
Also there are seven AI´s and Ai is a part of them, but his name is actually Ignis. Revolver has destroyed five of them and used this Selective Ultimate Protection to destroy everything in Link VRAINS, but the seventh one. Revolver used a skill named Whirlwind Gate, which allowed him to copy Yuya´s Version of Storm Acces, which gave him two very strong new cards,
and oh- it seems Hanoi has acces to the remaining cvyerse cards as well.", I took a depp breath and continued, "And then there´s-"
"Save it up for later.", Kusanagi interrupted me, "Let´s conduct the Action Dueling test in the Basement. We cleared it up for that. If this story continues any further, we might be too devastated for that.", I looked around the room and he was right, everone seemed to be in a pretty bad mood.
"Regardless of that, there is one thing we have to tell you.",Yuto said, "Yuya tried using that power, and when he lost... he disappeared from our consciousness."
So that´s what the drawback of using this energy was... but maybe, "But wait! When I was about to give up on the duel, well there was this other supernatural Person, besides the dark Sagess that gave me a powerful card to win the duel and promised me to somehow Try and save Yuya, if I took part in his Experiment to see how Revolver would react.", I intervened. Then Yusaku let out a deep sigh: "How did this turn from fighting Cyber criminals to... this?"
"Beats me.", I, Ignis and Kusanagi said in unison.
"But we have to Keep on with our fight! Think of 3 three things, three things to return home, three things to live and... three things to defeat the enemy!", I said and suddenly everyone went silent for a moment. Wait, why did I just Imitate Playmaker´s three things speech pattern?
"These words...", Yusaku muttered, "Have you ever said them to someone in an importan Situation?"
"Huh? Not sure, don´t think so! I just tried to imitate your own three things catchphrase, to lift up the mood!", I said, but I´m not sure myself about it.
It was at this time that the Transfer of the Action Dueling Software to te other duel disks was finished.
"...Then let´s take a break from this discussion and look if it worked.", Yuto said.
We all went into Kusanagi´s cleared up basement, which was a lot bigger than Yusaku´s house on its own.
"We should conduct our testing the following way: First it stars as as a duel between me, Mayoi and Yuri and all of us but him activate crossover then after two Action cards have been activated, Shoichi will join to see if the Intrusion System will work. I will share the field and life points with Yuri", Yusaku explained.
"Why him?", Ignis complained.
"Because I said so.", Yusaku answered, "Fortunately, since somehow we also replicated the Solid Vision with Mass System we will not need to enter Link VRAINS."
"Then let´s begin.", I said.
"DUEL!"
Field spell:on
Crossover
Mayoi (4000lp) vs Yusaku and Yuri (4000lp)
Each of us raced for the first Action Card and Yuri instantly used his: "I activate the Action Spell Summon and summon Ancient Gear Golem without Tribute!"
"But didn´t you play a different deck last time?", Yusaku asked.
"Oh yeah, did I really forgot to mention my Honor Student deck? Apparently I can still use that.", he answered, "I´d like to save up Starve Venom and Predaplant for the really important duels with actual stakes. Unless maybe a rematch with you."
"Then we have five decks and four People in one, if Yuya isn´t gone forever, that will be very practical.", an akward silence followed, "Too soon?"
"Eh, probably yes", Yuri said and picked up an Action Card from the ground, "I set three cards and end my turn."
"My turn, draw! I summon Figurobe and get PitchFreak (ATK:1700-0) from my deck! With his reduced ATK I can activate Inferno Reckless Summon and get two more! I mill triple KnighTrap and wipe out your whole backrow!"
"Two of them were Ancient Gear Tank and inflict 600 points of damage now! (Mayoi LP:4000-3400-2800) I knew that bluff would work!", Yuri smirked
"Then I use the 0 ATK Freak and FiguRobe as Link Material fro DestrucTalon."
"No scary Poem this time?"
"Nope. Not in the mood right now.", I answered bluntly.
"What a shame. I was starting to like them."
"I can give you a scary chant for Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem.", Yuri offered.
"Nevermind. Let´s continue with the duel."
"I then activate Fusion Pressure. I use Katastrofusion to fuse the remaining monsters and one KnighTrap as additional material to summon HorReaper ScytHeart. (DEF:2600) Via Fusion Pressure´s effect, I choose to make her immune to card effects.
I banish Katastrofusion alongside PitchFreak, KnighTrap and PsycHex as additional material, I summon HorReaper Beserkatana and decide to give him PitchFreak´s ATK and DEF as boost(ATK:1900-3500 DEF:1700-2300)"
"I use the Action Spell Power Taker to give the boost to Ancient Gear Golem instead!", Yusaku countered. (Golem ATK:3000-4700 DEF:3000-3600 Beserkatana ATK:3500-1900 DEF:2300-1700)
"That´s my call to Action.", Kusanagi said.
Intrusion Penalty:2000 points (Kusanagi LP:4000-2000)
"Since he intruded, is he unable to be attacked until he gets a turn?", I asked.
"Pf, dunno, just Try it.", Yuri said, as Kusanagi picked up an Action Card.
"Before that, I set one card face-down. Now DestrucTalon, attack Kusanagi, SctHeart heals me by the damage! (Kusanagi LP:2000-668 Mayoi LP:2800-4132) Now Beserkatana, attack directly!"
"I discard Sphere Kuriboh and change you monster into Defense Position.", Kusanagi countered.
"Then I end my turn.", I said.
"And I begin, Draw!", Kusanagi said, "I activate Two copies of Mooyan Curry and increase my own LP. (Kusanagi LP:668-868-1068) Then I use Ritual Foregone (Kusanagi LP:1068-68) to summon Hungry Burger (ATK:1800)"
"I´m suprised it´s not a Hotdog.", Yuri joked..
"Hey, that´s what I wanted to say!", Ai said.
"Regardless of that, I tribute set one monster using my Hungry Burger and end my turn."
"I begin by Normal Summoning Draconet and with its effect I summon Bittron from my deck. I use my own Inferno Reckless summon and summon two others. Then I activate Cyverstorm."
"There goes Shapesnatch.", Kusanagi sighed.
"But not ScytHeart and DestrucTalon."
"But none of my attacks can be stopped this turn. And I use my three Bittrons to summon Powercode Talker. First, I attack DestrucTalon with Ancient Gear Golem."
"I discard ShaMask to nullify the damage."
"Then I attack Shoichi with Draconet. (Kusanagi LP:68-1400=0) And attack HorReaper ScytHeart with Powercode Talker and by tributing the Draconet he points to his ATK doubles. (2300-4600) Now ScytHear tis destroyed."
"In the future, if you duel under the ´Super Team Power´-Option, ScytHeart can be pretty handy, by healing Yusaku and Yuya & Co.", Kusanagi pointed out.
"And if they duel under Battle Royal Light, couldn´t they, hypothetically speaking, as a last Resort, attack Yusaku and drop his life points to zero to prevent my opponents from taking them? They don´t seem to have a duel program taker in their duel disk.", Ai wondered.
"No. These programms would work anyway, it doesn´t matter who defeats me. Also, I set two cards and end my turn."
"Then it´s my turn again! Draw!"
"Wait, I should Try Something out-", Kusanagi said being about to activate his duel disk.
Consecutive Intrusion not possible
"Well, it would be too op otherwise.", Yuri said, "I normal summon Ancient Gear Wyvern and search Hunting Hound with the effect! Double Summon lets me summon the Hound instantly! I attack with Gole-"
"I special summon ScytHeart back, by using back to the frontlines!" (Mayoi LP:4132-2032)
"And to show of another of my monsters, I activate Flash Fusion! Ancient Giant, Dragon that soars trough the heavens, Mechanized attack dog, become one now and demonstrate your tremendous power! FUSION SUMMON! Come forth, Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem! (ATK:4400) Now attack directly!" (Mayoi LP:2032-4400=0)
WINNER: Yuri and Yusaku
Well, that was a terrible performance of me, even If I had no luck with Action Cards.
"Hey, couldn´t you have won, if you had played more offensively instead of bringing out ScytHeart in Defense Position?", Ignis asked.
"Maybe, but this was just a test duel, there is no need to rush and I wanted to try ScytHeart out, because as Kusanagi said, it could be useful in the future.", I excused myself.
"Now we know that the System is working, we can go back to our discussion from earlier. Anything we don´t know yet?", Yusaku asked.
"There is one thing I want to know.", Yuri said, "There was this pink-haired guy that wanted to bring Yuya into the duel club, right? Could they have been the same person that challenged you?"
"So, Chihiro Himegeki is from another world? Then we should join the duel club to confront him or to just know what he´s up to!", I suggested.
"So it´s like the saying ´be close to your friends, but even closer to your enemies´. Since Yuri has a dummy deck just like Yusaku and you were presumably known for using the HorReaper archetype, you could sneak in there relatively unconspiciously. That is if that boy indeed was Chihiro Himegeki", Shoichi said.
"I think it was the same Person who offered Yuya to join alongside them.", Yusaku said, "perhaps we should give this type of strategy a shot. I should also look after a programm to take other duel programs, because we could have potentially taken his Whirlwind Gate Program. I only had a converting program that absorbed Ai- I mean Ignis into a duel programm, though Revolver might be able to protect his skills against a stealer program.
"And you should probably visit a card shop to improve your decks, we shouldn´t try to use the card-game superpowers that made Yuya dissapear again. Wherever he is right now."
I wonder if we will be able to avoid the power of CCE forever.
"Good point. Even though I feel like we have to use them someday.", I said, "And Revolver said that the origin story of Ingis would make us reluctant to defend you. But we couldn´t stand there all day and listen."
"It probably was a bluff.", Ignis said.
"I wonder...", Yusaku muttered, "If you two have nothing left to say, you´re free to return home now. Tomorrow, we´ll join the duel Club and then we will stock up our decks. I and Shoichi have to delete the footage of your duel from the Internet."
"In that Case, until tomorrow.", Yuto said.
L3 Futaba´s POV
It was mental torture.
All I saw and what anyone could have seen from the duel was the moment it started, then every feed showing it was cut off. When it ended a large chunk of Link VRAINS scenery was missing leading everyone, including me to believe that they lost.
Thankfully, for safety reasons all Charisma Duelists logged out, meaning that I didn´t have to force myself trough any duels.
When I logged out of Link VRAINS, there was nothing I could do but break into tears- that is after I returned home from my managers´s Office-, which is where I usually enter Link VRAINS for my professional duels from.
Mayoi was all I had, and if her parents were alive, the whole family taking her place would be the only difference.
However, you´re not here to listen to a single mother lamenting and you know already that she didn´t die, (unlike me at the time), but with all I said, I was only relieved beyond Imagination, when she sent me that message, although waiting for her return remained painful. And, yes, I was worried about Yuya as well.
So around 45 minutes later, when both of them came back from the duel experiment, I had to pull them in for an embrace .
"Hurgh! And I thought Academia´s training was harsh!", the Yu-Boy said.
"Ouuch! I mean- I know Link VRAINS is half destroyed, but didn´t you see us winning?", Mayoi said.
"You won!? How should I know, when all outsiders could see was the beginning of the duel and the destroyed aftermath? I was worried sick about you two, five or whatever! You could have died for all I knew!", I said.
"Oh... well you see... let´s go inside first.", Mayoi said.
"So, what did exactly happen in your duel against Revolver?", I demanded after returning to the insides of my house and Mayoi began telling me the whole story.
"So Hanoi has dirt on SOL, as expected. That´s why the feed was cut off", I concluded, "But now, people believe that the heroes of Link VRAINS have been defeated by Hanoi."
"However there is something else.", Yuya said and told the rest of the story.
"So there is a superpower that can create cards, Yuya used it, but it backfired and now he is not part of you conscience anymore, but there is another being that might rescue him.", I summarised.
"Yeah, but what can we even do? It´s practically hopeless.", Mayoi said.
"We have to keep on fighting, there is no other way.", Yuto said.
"Leave it to me. I should know best how to cheer her up.", I told him and went to Mayoi´s room with her.
"And what are gonna do?", Mayoi asked.
"We are going to talk, but first, we´ll duel."
"I don´t think a card game will solve my problems right after causing them."
"Oh, you will notice why I am doing this afterwards.", I said, "But it won´t be a normal duel.", I said, "It will be your deck, against mine, as well as the Subterror and Anti deck. Under the same mode as you duel against Revolver. Just with three opponents. And I may draw anything I want."
"So it´s Training, to prevent another loss, but I wasn´t even a full loss-"
"If it was, I would be a part of this battle now. But for now just humour my seemingly useless method."
Mayoi (12000lp) vs Futaba (each deck 4000lp)
"I start with the Subterror deck. I Search for Fiendess with Hidden City, then summon her, flip her face-down, summon Speleogeist, Umastyx, Phospherglacier and Ultramafus.
Hidden City Flips up glacier who send Electromagnetic Turtle to the grave. Glacier then Flips himself face-down again.
Then I take a turn with the Anti deck. I use Double summon to summon Jowgen and Des Wombat and equip both with Moon Mirror Shield whilst activating Prohibition and declaring Raigeki. Your turn."
"My turn, draw.", Mayoi said,concentrating on how she is going to duel 3 decks with the perfect hands. Instead of thinking about he earlier failure, she´s got her mind on something else. My plan is starting to work already, but it is not over yet "I use Twin Twister discarding KnighTrap to destroy both Moon Mirror shields."
"I´ll place them on bottom of the Anti Deck (Anti Deck LP:4000-3500-3000)"
"KnighTrap will destroy Hidden City. I summon MadMace (ATK:1800) and attack Jowgen. (Anti Deck LP:3000-1400) I use Horrible Fusion to Combine MadMace and another KnighTrap into Widowire. This KnighTrap will destroy Prohibition.
I Link Summon RessurecTalon and revive Wire´s materials. I banish Horrible Fusion from my graveyard to fuse MadMace, KnighTrap and RessurecTalon into CronuScythe.
I banish all 5 Monsters from my graveyard to destroy all Subterrors, but... Umastryx. I link summon my Second RessurecTalon and bring back all of CronuScythe´s Link Materials. I set one card and end my turn"
So she has succesfully reduced my field to one face-down Subterror Umastryx and one Des Wombat. I could have prevented all of this by banishing Electromagnetic Turtle, but I prefer to save up that card for later. If there will even be a later in this duel.
"My turn, draw. I use Dark Hole to destroy everything. I summon HorReaper FiguRobe and summon VooDoll from my deck."
"I use Solemn Strike to negate that! (Mayoi LP:12000-11200)", looks like her fighting Spirit Returned.
"But I have Instant Fusion (Futaba´s Charisma Deck LP:4000-3000) to summon CrimiNail. I fuse him and PirAnchor into another copy of itself with my Horrible Fusion. I banish PirAnchor for CrimiNail´s effect. (Mayoi LP:11200-10400) And PirAnchor´s effect lets me draw a card. I use That Grass Looks Greener. With a Decksize difference of 54 to 34, 20 new cards will be sent to my graveyard.
But before using any of them, I use the CrimiNail on my field to summon RessurecTalon, reviving CrimiNail and PirAnchor. I use Talon and PirAnchor as material for DestrucTalon. I banish PirAnchor for the revived CrimiNail´s effect. (Mayoi LP:10400-9600) I draw another card.
I banish Katastrofusion alongside CrimiNail and PsycHex and FiguRobe from my Graveyard to summon CrusaDoom. I use the revived Criminail for my own 2nd copy of RessurecTalon."
"But you cannot- oh you´re planning to summon RuthlesSage.", Mayoi deduced, "Wait no. You can´t Fusion summon with only two materials, it has to be VirgIron or Something like that."
"Yes. I use Soul Charge to revive VooDoll and PirAnchor from my graveyard. (Futaba´s Charisma Deck LP:3000-2000.) I banish another Horrible Fusion from my graveyard to Combine them. Evil Puppet, Chain of the cursed ship and Vampire-reviver, fuse into the Ultimate attacker! FUSION SUMMON! Come forth, Level 6, HorReaper VirgIron!"
"Wait, this silly sounding chant...", Mayoi realized.
"Yes. that was your first summon chant. When was it again that you´ve first made it up?"
"That would be on my 12th birthday... Mom, Can we end this duel and go straight to the talking? Wait a sec, THAT was what you wanted with that duel! Now that I´ve concentrated on how to defeat three decks with the perfect hand, my head isn´t clouded with thought about my meaningless victory anymore and I can think straight again!"
"Basically, yes. And it looks like it worked perfectly.", I said.
WINNER: None
"So, Mom, during the duel, before all of this supernatural stuff happened, I began to think about 10 years ago.", she then stopped trying to hold back tears.
"It´s okay. Let it out.", I said, putting my arm around her.
"Well, *sniff* this whole incident 10 years could have Something to do with some Kind of inhumane CCE Experiment that SOL did and *sniff my other parents worked at SOL, so what if-", she then broke into tears, unable to finish her sentece.
"You´re afraid they have Something to do with it?"
Mayoi nodded. I could Try to sugarcoat it and completely deny the possibilty, but Mayoi is too Old to be swayed by that. And the precise cause of that accident was that Sojiro fell asleep while driving, so they potentially exhausted themselves completely for that Project.
On top of that during Hanoi´s first attack which also happened 10 years Ago, I clearly remember Mayoi being in a fight against a Knight. But regardless of all that I have to find Something uplifting to say.
"Don´t worry too much. If you continue this fight against Hanoi you will probably reach the truth, and if not, remember that Sojiro and Wakaba always loved you, so they can´t be complete monsters. Think of everything good they did."
"Yeah, probably, but... what will happen if-", she began.
"Link VRAINS won´t get taken down so easily. And I will find another Option, besides Charisma Dueling, even if it will be very hard.", I reassured her.
"I´m okay now. Somewhat at least. I need to talk about this with Yuto as well."
L4 Yuto´s POV
While Futaba was talking with Mayoi, we just went into our room.
"So, what are we gonna do now? Except for not giving up, obviously.", Yugo asked
It seems we have to wait whether Yuya ever returns.
"You know, I wonder what happened with Odd-Eyes and him. Considering they don´t like that SMILES!-stuff", Yuri wondered.
Wait, they don´t?
"Oh yeah, only I and Yugo know and we both apparently told our dragons that Odd-Eyes should tell it Yuya himself. Looks like that backfired.", Yuri said.
That explains why would create Dragon´s Rejection to use against Smile World,but why would they have a dislike for it in the first place?
"Perhaps he was just a bad entertainer? I dunno, somehow he must have given it a bad name. Did Clear Wing go into Detail?", Yuri answered.
"He said something about being forced to fight and noone caring about what happens to them -like getting destroyed- and that Zarc at least tried to protect them.", he answered.
"But cards get destroyed in duels all the time! They have to deal with that!", Yuri said.
But what if we at least showed care for that? Would that make it better?
But before we could get into a debate about that, we found ourselves in the realm of the Dark Sagess.
"It seems you didn´t heed my advice on this card creating power.", the Dark Sagess greeted us. I didn´t have any reply to that, but Yuri did.
"Well, now you may as well tell us more about CCE, so we can at least know how to use it, without dying by Fading into nothingness! Also, who is this Severin Guy that will try to save him?", he asked appearing next to me.
"Severin!?", she gasped.
"And who is this Severin in the first place?", Yugo demanded, also appearing next to me.
She hesitated, but then responded: "I will tell you, but only if his attempts to save Yuya succeed."
"And why aren´t you trying to save Yuya yourself?", I demanded.
"After my duel with Yuya, I did mention that I blocked external influences, didn´t I? Severin is one of them-"
"Just one?!", Yugo exclaimed
"-at least one of the affected ones that I know of. He will probably take the Chance to challenge him to a duel before ´saving´ him and block out my influences, while doing so, making that impossible for me. Not that I won´t attempt it regardless."
"And, since Mayoi told us about Severin looking like Yavix The Disgraced Nightmare and Revolver mentioning Yavix, a card named Dark Sagess and Destiny Hero Dusktopia, I assume that there is one being looking like each of these cards, one of them being the Master of probably-Roget and Chihiro Himegeki. Which means that ´Dark Sagess´ isn´t your real name and that this empowered version of Fujiki´s deck isn´t your real deck either, is it?", Yuri deduced.
"You remember that pink-haired guy´s name?", Yugo asked.
"Ignore what he said and answer us.", Yuri demanded.
"You are correct. But now that you have seen CCE´s drawbacks first-hand, you know why shouldn´t use it, do you?"
"Yes. And Severin didn´t Call it CCE, but D.E., do you know anything about that?", I asked.
"You mean short for Duel Energy?", she guessed the acronym´s meaning, "That would be an alternative name, but I never heard it."
"I don´t think she´s lying.", Yugo muttered.
"Now we know that you´re having secrets, other than the reason we were sent here in the first place, and know why we shouldn´t try to cheat at duel monster with superpowers. Can we leave? It doesn´t seem like we´ll get an answer.", Yuri asked.
"However, I will reveal your real purpose, once Yuya returns.", she said and we were back in our room. Some time passed and Mayoi knocked on our door.
"So uh, did your mother manage to lift your spirits?", I asked akwardly.
"Yeah, we had a duel and then we talked about everything.", she answered.
"A duel? How did that help?", I asked a little bit confused.
"she added rules to make it even more difficult, Making me concentrate on Something other than our bad Situation, and used my first summoning chant for one of her Fusion summons and then we stopped to talk about everything.", she answered.
"Usually I would comment now on how weird Girls can be, but this is really something else.", Yugo said, "Perhaps the plan needed to be this strange for someone like her."
Well if it worked for her, then there´s no Problem.
"But that doesn´t matter! I want to talk with you know, about, uh, my life I guess, because I really didn´t do that with anyone remotely close to my age for the last ten years.", I remember that she was aware of her own weirdness and that she was a loner, but I didn´t imagine it would be that bad.
"A-alright, sure tell me what you need to.", I said.
"Well, where to begin? I wasn´t always a loner, but ten years ago, I was friends with another girl named Yukari Chiebukuro, but when my first parent, Wakaba and Sojiro Midoriya died and Futaba Miyabino took the place of my legal guardian,
I had to move to Den City with her because when she started with her career as Charisma Duelist and moving closer to SOL techs location was beneficial for that, or Something like that at least. I think , her manager required it, I´m not 100% sure, but it definetly wasn´t avoidable.
Anyway that resulted in me and Yukari loosing contact. I did have a few friends other than Yukari across the years, but none of them really lasted for long.
Futaba used to play different horror-themed decks, from Rank-down Gimmick puppet, to Vampires and even at an age when this would be the last thing you wanted to do, I always played the same deck as her, altough my ´act´ was different."
"So that´s what you had to go through."
"Yes, also I said that this short ´three things speech´ I did at Kusanagi´s house was only to emulate Playmaker´s pattern, but I did say those words exactly ten years in a faint memory, but I didn´t fully remember it earlier."
"Then Playmaker isn´t the only Person with missing memories from 10 years Ago!"
"Ten years, why did so many important things happen during that one year?", Yuri wondered.
"Seems so. I am also afraid that my first parents were somehow at least partially responsible in this cruel card creation Energy Experiment that Revolver hinted at, but we will find that out by pursuing the fight against Hanoi."
"Then you have a personal reason to be Playmaker´s ally.", I noted.
"Yes. And last, but not least, I need to duel you. But not a rematch of my HorReaper deck against your Phantom Knights. I will use my original deck from 10 years Ago!"
"And why that?", Yugo wondered.
"You still have those cards?", I asked.
"Yes. My last duel was against Yukari and I´ve locked it away after our last Meeting and actually planned to only take out the day I meet her again, but as a Symbol of not shying away from learning unpleasant truths about my pasts, I will use it again! Maybe I could have phrased this better, but you get what I´m trying to say, right?"
"I don´t know how that serves as a symbol, do any of you?", Yugo asked.
"I don´t know that much about symbolism either, to be honest.", Yuri said.
"While I´m not sure about the symbolic part, I accept your challenge regardless."
Yuto (4000lp) vs Mayoi (4000lp)
"I´ll take the first turn.", she said, "I use Dark Fusion to fuse Elemental Hero Necroshade and Elemental Hero Sparkman into Evil Hero Hellheaven. (ATK:2000)"
"Ohhh, that´s an evil version of Elemental Hero Darkbright! I remember summoning Starve Venom in an Evil Hero deck, before I got my much stronger Predaplant deck!", Yuri said.
"So you liked those darker archetypes even before you started living with Futaba. And Yuri seems to get quite excited about this.", I said.
"Hehehe, Yuri sounded like a Little kid!", Yugo laughed.
"I definetly didn´t sound like that!", he claimed.
"Well, she was a friend of my parents before, I only didn´t play the same archetype as her, also I end my turn. And Yuri is excited about this card?"
"Yeah, he was. And my turn, draw!.
I Search for The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots with Reinforcement of the Army. I normal summon it (ATK:200)and Special summon a Second one by its own effect. I Link summon Cherubini Black Angel of the Burning Abyss with them. (ATK:500)
I activate Cherubini´s effect to sent Fragile Armour to my graveyard and increase his ATK by 1000 (Cherubini ATK:500-1500). Fragile Armour banishes itself and I discard Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak to draw a card.
I set one card and since I have no trap cards in my graveyard, Phantom Knights of Shade Brigandine summons itself. I activate Phantom Knigths of Shadow veil on shade Brigandine (DEF:300-600)
Then I activate Castle of the Phantom Knights to revive Shadow Veil as Level 4 Monster.
I overlay my monsters into Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon and use its effect twice on Hellheaven. (DRXD:2500-3500-4000 Hellheaven ATK:2000-1000-500)
I attack you monster with Dark Rebellion (Mayoi LP: 4000-500)"
"However, Hellheavem destroys Cherubini with his effect, even though Dark Rebellion is saved by Castle´s and Cherubini´s effect also Cheribini can send your Castle to the Graveyard to protect himself. And If you had attacked with Cherubini first, then you would have had an OTK regardless of thhat.", Mayoi pointed out.
"Yes, but I´ll not do that, after all this duel isn´t about winning. And who knows that you don´t have a card in your hand to stop this?", I said, "I end my turn."
"In that case I draw and activate Dark Calling to banish Necroshade from my graveyard and Wildheart from my hand to summon Evil Hero Netherworld Necromancer (ATK: 1900) Then I activate my field spell Skyscraper 3 Villain´s HQ! I attack your Dragon with Necromance and the HQ doubles his ATK! (Necromancer ATK:1900-3800 Yuto LP: 4000-2600)"
"Villain´s HQ, what an interesting addition to the other two Skycrapers. And that one, by the way is the evil version of Elemental Hero Necroid Shaman."
"But Dark Rebellion remains on the field because he was summoned with a Phantom Knights monster while Castle is on the field!"
"The I use the other effect of my Villain´s HQ! I destroy Netherworld Necromance and swap him out for Sludge Bomber! (ATK:1900)"
"Evil Mudballman. Although the original only had the condition that he could only be Fusion Summoned on his effect text."
"It´s untouchable, reflects and doubles damage, as long as it is the only monster on her field! That´s crazy! You need to draw that Volcanic Queen she gave us!", Yugo panicked.
"Have you forgotten that this isn´t about life or death, which is the reason why Yuto decided not to preform an OTK?", Yuri said.
"Says the nostalgia Guy.", Yugo said.
"My nostalgia about Evil Heroes doesn´t make that argument Hypocritical at all!", Yuri argued.
"My turn, draw! I activate Upstart Goblin! (Mayoi LP:500-1500) Now I release Evil Hero Sludge Bomber and summon Volcanic Queen to your field! (DEF:1200) I leave it on your field, because if you can´t pay the cost..."
"My turn, draw! I´l change Volcanic Queen to attack Position (ATK:2500 ) so you can´t do anything with piercing damage and take the 1000 damage from her effect! (Mayoi LP:1500-500)"
"If you have another bad draw the next turn, it´s over.", I said and drew, "But it won´t matter because I Rank-up Magic Phantom Knights Launch to evolve Dark Rebellion into Dark Requiem! I detach Dark Rebellion from Requiem to take Queens attack points! (Dark Requiem ATK:3000-5500 Volcanic Queen ATK:2500-0) I attack Volcanic Queen with Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon! (Mayoi LP:500-5500=0)"
WINNER: Yuto
"*sigh* my record is starting to get bad, but as long as it aren´t life or death duels, I won´t complain for now.", Mayoi said. "Also, since before the duel you let me tell you a lot about my personal life even though we only know each other for a few days-"
"To be fair, this *is* quite the unique situation and you and your Mother allowed us to live here, so I can´t ask for more-", I said.
"Still, I need to allow you to do the same in return. Surely there must be something on your mind, given this ´unique situation´", Mayoi said.
"Let me think about this with Yugo and Yuri.", I said.
So, what should we tell her? She´s insistent on returning the favour of listening to her life´s story.
"Uh, maybe what´s going on with the Dragons?", Yugo suggested.
"Rather not, it´s too complicated and we don´t get everything either.", Yuri said.
Then how about the Odd situation we´re in right now? With the whole 4-souls thing, it will be complicated, once this whole Adventure is over.
"That´s a little bit more Fitting.", Yuri said.
"So, uh, I told you that we weren´t always in the same Body, I only began sharing it with Yuya a while Ago and the same happened with Yuri and Yugo a while later. And then we all became one, but that whole stuff was connected to this ruthless duelist named Zarc and this interdimensional war and well, it´s gonna end up weird once we return.", I said.
"Wow. You totally didn´t sound akward.", Yuri said.
How do you expect me to sound? This whole thing IS akward!
"Huh, well-", she began.
"It´s fine, I was just a listener for your story as well!", I said hastily.
"You´re trying to avoid thinking about it, don´t you? Even though aside from being thrust into this Adventure, we´ve been given time to sort this out.", Yuri chided.
"That just sounded incredibly unusual for you.", Yugo said arkwardly
"As I said, I do have to try and say helpful stuff because I´m stuck with you, potentially for all of eternity! And we need to find a way to deal with somehow once we return!", Yuri argued.
"If you change your mind, just tell me.", Mayoi said, "But now, we should do some practice duels with the Ancient Gear deck, because tommorow, we´ll confront Chihiro Himegeki in the duel club!"
AN: Before my usual talk, let's start with the announcement! The 1st Anniversary of Arc-VRAINS is pretty Close, and I wanted to celebrate this with a Special! What this Special will be, you ask?
Remember Yugioh Arc V Sudden Adventure? While I did go back on my promise of continuing it, I want to give it a better send-off, which means that the Special will be: Mike (who plays Monarchs), Jonny (who has a Kaiju Deck)and Cathy (Who's using H.A.T.) from Sudden Adventure vs. Chihiro, Mayoi and Yusaku, in WRGP style in a one-shot-duel!
Why not Yuya?
Considering how he is 'temporarily dead' at the moment, it feels a little bit inappropriate and I think it would be better to have the other side consist of non-Arc-V duelists, also Chihiro as a RL-to-Anime Person, just like them would be very interesting.
Be excited for Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-VRAINS! Special Chapter,
(which will be posted as a pure VRAINS fic, just to let you know it.)
But completely unrelated to that, my Sea Scales archetype has appeared in two other fanfics besides this one, the first is Signs of Renewal from Donjusticia and the 2nd one is Cross-VRAINS from OPFan37, I think I recommended the two already, but I though I'd let you know that I shared my concepts with other authors, both are modified, In Donjusticia they are slightly nerfed and adjusted to Master Rule 3, while in Cross-VRAINS the mass-self banishing concepts is expressed in a very different way.
And now finally to me talking about what I wrote!
I have to admit that I initially planned for Mayoi to utter the three things catchphrase in the last chapter, (me and my big mouth about extra effort) though ironically, saying it in front of Yusaku is probably better for the story anyway.
And in this chapter we have 4(!) duels, though all make some sort of sense,
Chihiro as real world person would want to duel the Protagonist if given the chance,(while also the dummy decks way more screentime than they have a right to)
Yusaku and co would want to test out if the Action Dueling system works and Futaba and Yuto wanted to calm down Mayoi in a unique way.
and Mayoi wanted to symbolize her resolve to confront her potentially unpleasant past.
Though the last 2 kind of make fun of the 'duel as a solution to everything'-trope a little, they still do achieve their purpose in the end, and what are your thoughts on the fact that Yuri cann use the honor student deck?
I gave Yuri the ability to do so, because otherwise he'd just be handled the Subterror or Anti-HorReaper deck and this little piece of pure plot convenience wouldn't really make too much of a difference in the long run, because that deck will only appear in mini-duels anyway.
However, I'll go a tiny bit different about the fact that the Solid Vision System works on Yusaku's duel disk.
And on a duel writing note, the combo Futaba made to summon all Subterror's from her hand is heavily simplified.
Plus, I brought the overemphasized summon chants for this weird Little yugioh-ish, Mother-Daughter ,oment, because I think having them once or twice in an important moment can actually be good. (let's hope I don't overuse them anyway) The next chapter will cover the aftermath of the duel from the antagonists side.
And some funfacts for you:
-Shadow Veil really is a spell that only increase DEF in the anime
-Rank-Down Gimmick Puppets is what Mayoi would have played, if I didn't get the permission from OPFan37 to use HorReapers
Plus, some unrelated to this chapter, the thoughts behind my fanfic-effects:
- the eratta to Chimerafflesia were done, just to make their effects more anime-style.
- the ones for Castle Link and Vanity's Emptiness are based on how I initially misremembered their card effects. Even though I was aware of their actual effects when I decided to change them
-Firewall Dragon and Aurora Draw are the only ones that resulted from my unwillingness to go back and edit a duel (so far), but of course, misrembering its actual effect played a role in it, and I just as of writing this noticed that I have to edit his summoning ability and add him to the fanfic-effect list *sigh*
-As said before, Octostretch is a buff, because IRL he is pretty terrible, same goes for Destroy Ogre and Bowhopper, where I used the IRL instead of the anime effect.
-Double Arms and Card of Sanctity are nerfs of the original, but for COS I used the IRL effect because it reflects the Sea Scales archetype's theme suprisingly well.
- the four Dragon's fanfic effects are connected to the plot (obviously)
-Solemn Strike and Scolding were edited the way I did so they could work better under the 4000lp of anime duels. Scolding's 'halve twice' clause is a reference to how some card that required you to halve your LP in the anime, required a 2000 payment (half of the anime starting LP count) in Real Life, especially cards from Zexal, like Photon Kuriboh
I felt I had to this type of explanations on them sometime and now to the QOTC and Review Responses: (Why are all chapters from 9 onwards getting exactly 2 reviews?)
QOTC: Which is your favorite of these 4 duels?
Unknowedz:
I know that I didn't portray Odd-Eyes as the most kind character. But keep in mind that everything that happened in the original Canon of Arc-V happened before the start of this fic. Odd-Eyes had to put up with the canon's egao-Yuya that always forced his beliefs unto others and couldn´t really do anything about it, so it makes sense for him to be this way.
But don't worry, the Dragons will learn the errors in their ways too.
D3lph0xl0v3r: And then there's people that sympathize with the dragon´s suffering and/or losing their Brothers. I didn't got many reviews, but this polarizing nature was also fully intended.
Original HorReaper Stuff from OPFan37:
Horrible Return
Normal Trap
Effect: Special Summon one "HorReaper" from your GY that wasn't sent there via destruction, it gains 500 ATK.
HorReaper MadMace
Level 4, Dark, Fiend, Effect
ATK:1800
DEF:1200
Effect: If this card is sent to the GY without being destroyed, target one "HorReaper" monster you control; it gains the ability to deal piercing damage.
HorReaper PirAnchor
Level 1, Dark, Fiend, Effect
ATK/DEF:0
Effect: If this card is banished by or for a "HorReaper" monster's effect, draw one card.
OC-cards:
Discard
Action Spell
Effect: Discard one card from your opponent's Hand.
Summon
Action Spell
Effect: Summon one monster without Tribute.
Power Taker
Action Spell
Effect: When your opponent's monster would gain ATK/DEF, one monster you control gains it instead.
Evil Hero Hellheaven
Level 6, Dark, Fiend, Fusion, Effect
ATK:2000
DEF:1000
Material: Elemental Hero Sparkman+ Elemental Hero Necroshade
Effect: This card can only be Special Summoned with "Dark Fusion" and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card deals piercing damage, but when this card battles, you can change ist Battle Position afterwards to increase its ATK and DEF by the ATK of the monster it battled. When this card is destroyed, destroy all monsters your opponent controls.
Evil Hero Netherworld Necromancer
Level 6, Dark, Fiend, Fusion, Effect
ATK:1900
DEF:1800
Material: Elemental Hero Wildheart+ Elemental Hero Necroshade
Effect: This card can only be Special Summoned with "Dark Fusion" and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. Once per turn you can destroy one Monster on either player's side of the field and Special Summon any monster from the GY to either player's side of the field.
Skyscraper 3- Villain's HQ
Field Spell
Effect: When an "Evil Hero" Monster you Control attacks an opponents monster with more ATK/DEF than its own ATK, double the attacking monsters ATK during damage calculation. During your Main Phase 2, you can destroy one "Evil Hero" monster you control and Special Summon one "Evil Hero" monster with a different name from your Extra Deck, treating this as a Fusion Summon with "Dark Fusion".
Evil Hero Sludge Bomber
Level 6, Dark, Fiend, Fusion, Effect.
ATK:1900
DEF:3000
Material: "Elemental Hero Bubbleman"+ "Elemental Hero Clayman"
Effect:This card can only be Special Summoned with "Dark Fusion" and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. While you control no other monsters this card is unaffected by card effects, cannot be destroyed by battle and your opponent takes twice the battle damage you would take.