CHAPTER 13:Twins of a Mind and Spirit

Last Chapter:The duel was over and something unnatural is happening somewhere else at the same time.

-Park-

"Are you sure that you're alright?" A blue haired boy asked. The boy was no more than 4 feet and and had a red jacket with a grey undershirt, and he had matching pants with the red haired boy.
"Y-Yeah... I'm alright..." The red haired boy replied in a weak voice. This boy was shorter than the blue haired boy and instead of a matching jacket, he was wearing a blue jacket. Everything else he was wearing was similar to the blue haired.
"Come on Slash... I don't want you to collapse for the 3rd time this week." The blue boy mentioned.
"Like I said, I'm fine Mike. Let's continue the duel..." The red haired, named Slash replied. "Well... No. I'm not gonna keep on fighting for your health. After all, you are not normal." Mike mentioned.

Slash and Mike were twins. Even though they don't look like it, they are. One thing that's special about this pair, is that Slash claimed that he can "hear the spirits". While Mike said that he has Photographic Memory, meaning that he can observe any dueling strategy, and fight it's weakness and he can use some of the moves to his dueling. That's why Slash duels with his twin brother, Mike duels him once, then after the duel, he says whats good about Slash's playing style and whats wrong with it.

"Okay..." Slash replied. The twins walked around a bit and decided to watch the duel of Playmaker and Blue Angel. Both of them were shocked (mostly Mike, because of Playmaker's dueling style.) and went to the center of the city.

-Mindo, Cubix and Yusaku-

"Hey! Your eyes-!" Everyone looked into his eyes. His eyes looked like they don't belong to a normal human.
"Yeah. I can see monsters when I have these eyes." Jaden replied.
"... All monsters?"Yusaku asks. Since he was curious to the concept.
"Well-" Jaden was cut off by a customer knocking on the van. And then Kusanagi turned off all of the gadgets, then proceeded to serve the customer.

"Hello! Can I help you?" Kusanagi helped the customer and then the duelists got out of the van and sat down outside.
Yusaku proceeded to eat something, while Cubix tried to figure out the info given by Jaden, and Mindou (who was back to normal) looked at the cards that came from absolutely-nowhere.

-Slash and Mike-

The 2 reached their destination and by the time they got there, they were hungry. "Oh no... I'm hungry..." Slash mumbled out loud. "Yeah... Me too..." Mike agreed. "We don't have any snacks, too..."
Slash noticed the food truck and suggested to buy some food from the truck. And so they did. And they saw the 2 siblings, along with Yusaku, then they made eye contact.
"Um... Hello." Slash greeted the person behind Codelinker.
"Hi there! Do you like to duel?" Mindou asked the red haired boy. And Cubix overheard that question and immedietly sweatdropped.
'Mindo... Why do you have this attitude?' Cubix thought. And Yusaku stays silent.

"Well, yes. I do." Slash replies towards Mindo. "In fact, me and my big brother do. But only to each other."
"Oh, okay then..." Mindo mummbles.
"Sorry about that." Cubix apologizes towards the red haired boy, and he seemed that he wants to talk with him a bit more.
"Wait, you said that you duel, but only with your brother?" "Um, yes... I do. I didn't duel anyone else other than my brother for a while..."
"Where is your brother though?"
"He's there" Slash points towards his brother at the distance and he noticed and ran up, probably wondering what's taking so long.
"Hey. Why are taking so long?" Mike asks.
"Well-" Slash looks at the blue-spiky haired teen and then stares at him for a bit. 'That person looks like Playmaker...' After looking at him, he approached him.

"Um... Why do you look like Playmaker?" Slash asks.
Yusaku stays silent, while Mike yells in his mind:'WHY DID YOU ASK THAT TO A RANDOM PERSON?' And Mindo and Cubix scream in their heads:'Please don't tell him.'
And the response is simple. "No, I'm not."
"Oh. Sorry for asking that..." And then the twins walked away and then all of a sudden...

Slash collapsed.

The 2 siblings and Yusaku approached and him and Mike and then he mumbled out:"Please...help..." And then time stopped entirely. The only people who weren't affected were the ones around.
"What's happening?" Yusaku asked and looking around to see nothing is moving.
"I don't know!" Mindo replied to the so called the logical question.
"You know what's happening, right?" Cubix asks the blue haired boy.
"I-I-I don't know! This is the first time I've seen something like this!" Mike replied.
"So... Slash and Mike Hikarui... The Boy of the Spirits and the Boy of the Minds..." A mysterious voice booms in the air.
"Who are you?! What did you do with my little brother?!" Mike demanded the source of the mysterious voice. As soon as he screamed that, a dark figure appeared near him. "Don't worry..."
"You monster! What did you do to him?!"
"Defeat my little minion... Then she will give you his cure... She's in the VRAINS..."
"-!"

The voice dissappeared and time restored to normal. Yusaku and the 2 siblings looked around and to see Mike with the unconsious Slash and looked shadowed.
"It's gone..." Mindo mummbled out loud.
"Hikarui..." Cubix and Yusaku adressed.
"...I know that I met you 3 for the first time, but I need someone to keep watch of my little brother." Mike demanded the 3 bystanders.
"I understand. I'll keep watch over your little brother." Cubix replied.
"Thank you, but I never got your names."Mike said.
"I'm Cubix Yukishino. This is my sister, Mindo Yukishino." Cubix mentions as he points towards himself and Mindo.
"I'm Yusaku Fujiki." Yusaku mentions his own name.
"I guess you know mw and my little brother then..."
"I'll link a camera with your avatar!" Mix mentions.
"Who are you?" Mike asks.
"This is Mix and Thunder, our AIs." Mindo mentions the 2 AIs and shows the duel disks they're in.
"Alright then... I'll go now..."
Mike brings out his duel disk, and it was the new duel disk that SOL Technologies made. Speaking of SOL Technologies...

-?-

Revolver was with DarkSuperior and was looking at a screen, the display was the place where most people log in. Revolver asks DarkSuperior on the so called special plan that DarkSuperior thought, after seeing some of the special interactions with Codelinker and Playmaker.
"Believe me, even if we fail this will work, and it will speed up on the goal on finding the Ignis."

-Mike-

"Into the VRAINS!"
Mike logs in and turns into a slightly taller and his jacket upgrades to a slightly more themed jacket (one with a cyber design) and wore wrist bands and gains special shoes.

And after changing into his avatar, he was in the view of DarkSuperior and Revolver and then, time stopped the same way it did with the real world. Mike looked around and saw everything stopped, but he sighed as for him, this was kind of a good thing.

"Are you relieved?" A female voice asked and the source of the voice appeared.
It was a very tall woman (taller than average) and she has a fake 3rd eye attached to her forehead. Along with that, she also had a short dress and has a long skirt, almost covering all of her legs and her shoes where pure black.
"I can't believe that you still treat others like that..."
"You! Are you the so called minion of that monster?!" Mike points towards the woman.
"Oh, what huge spirit you have, but let us move to a place where no one can bother us... I know that you are very popular around here." The woman snaps her fingers and then both the woman and Mike were teleported to an unknown part of the VRAINS. It looked barren, and not a lot people reside there, even though it looked like a big city.

"Here, we can duel to the extent. Be free, as much as you like...!" As soon she said that, time unfroze and the signal of the camera that Mix inserted in Mike's avatar started to catch up and in the real world, Yusaku, Cubix, and Mindo saw what Mike was seeing.

"What happened?" Mindo asks. The 2 teens turned and theorized that that woman was the servant of the mysterious voice and used some sort of special software (that was from Yusaku).

"I will revive my little brother! Me, Red Mind! I will defeat you!" Mike, or Red Mind mentioned to the woman.
"Now, ket us begin with this special duel! But not just any special duel..."
"What are you saying? Are you talking about a Speed Duel? I could easily win in there." Red Mind replied.
"Hmnhmn...! Not that little one! I'm talking about an Action Duel!" "'Action Duel'?! What is that?!"Red Mind asks.

"'Action Duel'..." Yusaku repeats. While Mindo gets sort of dizzy and Cubix looks towards her and asks of she is fine. "I'm-I'm fine! Don't worry about me, worry about Red Mind's duel!"
Cubix continued to watch, and Mindo wondered. 'What just flashed in my mind...? It looked like... Me... but different... Maybe he just had the same taste as me... But why though...?'

"Don't worry! You'll see what is this special duel!" The woman replied.
"Let's get on with it then! I'm gonna pound you!" Red Mind said.
"Then...! 'Action Field:Cyber Space' activate!"
As soon as that was said the space started changing into an even more advance space and then an orb appeared and the AIs mentioned:"Action Cards have been dispursed." And then the duel begins.

"Let's duel!"

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