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"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities." -Author Clive Barker
Chapter Twenty One: To Infinity and Beyond
Jaden groaned as Jesse laid a wet washcloth over her eyes and forehead. She had just dueled against some scientist named Eisenstein. While she had beaten the scientist, the results had not been to pleasing to the people who had watched the duel itself.
"It has to be illegal for Bastion to be THAT naked in front of anybody."
Jasmine laughed as she patted her friends head. "Well, it could be worse."
Alexis turned to her old friend and raised an eyebrow. "Just how could it get worse?"
Mindy chuckled awkwardly. "He could not have been ripped?"
There was silence for a few minutes before Jaden screamed in horror. "I JUST GOT MENTAL PICTURE!"
Yusei gave a shifty look before patting her mother on the arm. "You really are traumatized, huh Mommy?"
"He is to die in his sleep in a most horrid nightmare, Nightmare on Elm Street style."
Akiza sighed from her spot on Jim's lap. "Mommy, this isn't the worst thing that has happened. Remember when you, Uncle Axel, Aunt Maka, and the others stole the Clown from the Happy Burger?" (1)
Everyone turned to Jaden and Axel with questioning looks.
"Axel, don't you dare."
Axel smiled. "Fine, I won't tell them how last summer we stole a ceramic clown from the local Happy Burger and how it scared you when you saw it."
"I will demote you, I swear I will." Jaden growled. Axel just shrugged.
"… So Jaden, you're afraid of clowns?" Atticus chuckled. He was met with a pillow to his face.
"Subject change, NOW!" Jaden hissed.
Crow adopted a thoughtful look. "Where's Uncle Aster?"
Thank you Father, for giving me Crow. Jaden sighed. "I gave him some clues as to who took his Father. He took it quite well when I told him."
"I WILL KILL YOU AND KILL YOU AND KILL YOU!"(2) Aster screamed at his father's kidnapper as he attacked him relentlessly.
The kidnapper was none other than The D, his adoptive father and fellow Pro Duelist.
"Jaden, when you say that he took it well, you mean he went on a murderous rampage, right?" Jesse drawled.
"Yep!" Jaden seemed to have recovered from her trauma by now.
Sartorius snarled as he paced in his room. As it turned out, his 'other-side' had woken up and given the keys to the Satellite to Aster and Jaden. He needed those keys!
He stopped before a smirk appeared on his face. Aster could wait for now. The person he needed was Jaden, and he knew just the person to take care of the little princess.
"A One-Turn Kill should suffice."
Jaden couldn't help but shiver as she finished tucking Carly into bed. She felt as if the evil that was lingering over the Academy was moving.
Axel kicked down the door to the children's room, but he saw that Jaden already felt what was happening.
"Whoa." Jaden said in dull surprise.
"Sorry." Axel shrugged.
"Did you really have to kick down my door, Brodie?" Jaden pinched the bridge of her nose.
"I said I was sorry, milady." Axel stressed.
That's when Jesse, after hearing all of the noise and thinking that his family was in danger, came charging in. Then he saw the damage that was done. "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOOR?"
Jaden pointed to Axel. "He did it, and he'll fix it."
Jaden shivered as she walked back from her small trip to the school nurse that morning. Overnight, because of the broken door, Yusei and Akiza had gotten a sinus infection that turned into ear infections for both of them. (3)
Jaden narrowed her eyes and tightened her grip on the bag straps as a certain royal stepped out of the brush.
"You are not Prince Ojin. What are you exactly?"
'Prince Ojin' smirked. "I could never fool you, my old foe. I am the Light of Ruin, dear Lady Zytah."(4)
Jaden paled. "How do you know my, I mean, my sister's true name?"
The Prince chuckled coldly as he brought up a Duel Disk. "Shall we settle this like civilized people, by old friend?"
Jaden handed the bag of medicine to Winged Kuriboh before taking out her own deck and shuffling, eyes covered by shadows.
"You will not proceed with your plan, Ruin!" Jaden's voice seemed to change as she raised her head, her eyes were now a silvery-blue color with a slit pupil.
Ojin smirked once again. "Are you using the abilities of your brother, or of another source? No matter. Only the Haou can truly seal me away!"
"You are not the true source, just a mere puppet." Jaden hissed icily as a blue mark of a claw holding a heart appeared on her arm. She then flashed a white bordered card that was titled Stardust Dragon, but the picture on the card was missing. "Do not act so high and mighty you insolent little worm."
Ojin was taken aback slightly.
"Since I'm the Queen around here, I'll go first. Draw!" Jaden looked at the card she drew. " I summon Elemental Hero Sparkman [1600/1400] in Attack Mode!"
The lightning hero appeared on the field, a hard glare was evident underneath his visor. "I'll set a card face-down and end my turn."
Ojin drew a card. "I set a card face down. Not I activate Trap Booster, so by discarding Satellite Cannon to activate Call of the Haunted from my hand and Special Summon Satellite Cannon [0/0] from my Graveyard."
Jaden, or rather the Duel Spirit possessing her, grit her teeth. "Next, I activate Inferno Reckless Summon to Special Summon two more Satellite Cannons [0/0 each]."
Ojin smirked. "Now, I activate Charge, giving each Satellite Cannon 2000 ATK. So I'll just attack and destroy Sparkman with 1 Satellite Cannon and have the other Satellite Cannons attacks you directly!"
Stardust Dragon now had 1600 Life Points, but activated a card before the third could attack.
"I activate Hero Spirit, which reduces Battle Damage to 0, since an Elemental Hero I controlled was destroyed in battle."
After damage calculation, the Attack of all 3 Satellite Cannons became 0, but during the End Phase, each "Satellite Cannon" gains 1000 ATK.
Stardust Dragon drew a card. "I activate Polymerization, fusing Elemental Heroes Avian and Burstinatrix from my hand to form Elemental Hero Flame Wingman [2100/1200]. Now I'll be the one who attacks, and I attack a Satellite Cannon with Elemental Hero Flame Wingman."
Ojin went down to 2900, but Satellite Cannon's effect activated. Since Flame Wingman is a monster below Level 8, Satellite Cannon was not destroyed in battle.
"I set a card and end my turn. Your move!"
Ojin drew a card. "Brace yourself, foul beast! I activate Union Attack, giving 1 Satellite Cannon the Attack of the other 2 Satellite Cannons [3000/0], but if the monster affected by Union Attack attacks, you do not take Battle Damage, and no other Attack Position monsters I control can attack."
Satellite Cannon attacked and destroyed Flame Wingman, with Union Attack allowing Jaden to take no Battle Damage. During the End Phase, 2 of the Satellite Cannons gained 1000 ATK [2000/0 each] while the last Satellite Cannon's ATK became 1000.
Stardust drew a card. "Alright, I activate Miracle Fusion, so by removing from play Elemental Heroes Flame Wingman and "Sparkman" in my Graveyard, I get to Fusion Summon Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman [2500/2100] in Attack Mode. I also activate his effect! Shining Flare Wingman's ATK increases by 300 for every Elemental Hero monster in the Graveyard; so with 2 Elemental Heroes in my Graveyard, his ATK becomes 3100. Now go!"
Shining Flare Wingman attacked the Satellite Cannon with 1000 ATK, destroying it and leaving Ojin with 800.
Ojin drew a card, chuckling as he did. "I activate Debris Station and send my other two Satellite Cannons to the Graveyard to Fusion Summon Satellite Laser Balsam [0/2000, whose ATK becomes 3000, since it was summoned with Debris Station's effect. Next, I'll just activate Book of Moon to switch Shining Flare Wingman to face-down defense position, then, I'll attack!"
Stardust Dragon sighed as her Life Points dropped to 700 and Jaden took control again. "This is the final turn, Ojin! I activate Dark Hole and destroy all the monsters that you have on the field!" Ojin braced himself as his Satellites were destroyed. "Next, I play Monster Reborn and bring back my Shining Flare Wingman and then play my face down, Foolish Burial! So, I'll send Level Eater to the Graveyard and decrease my own monster's level by one! Now, I summon the Tuner Monster, Key Mouse!"
Ojin's eyes widened. "What on earth is a Tuner?"
Jaden smirked. "You'll see. I now tune my Level 1 Key Mouse with my now Level 7 Shining Flare Wingman in order to Synchro Summon the guardian of my dearest daughter!"
Green rings appeared as the monsters lined up and became eight stars.
"Prepare yourself, for the servant of the Crimson Dragon! Clustering hopes will become a new shining star! Become the path its light shines upon! Synchro Summon! Take flight, Stardust Dragon!"
A shining white dragon appeared in a burst of bright light, but the light was one of a gentle feel and not a searing burn like the Light of Ruin.
"Next, I equip Stardust Dragon with Silver Wing, just in case you try to pull something!" Stardust roared as her wings grew larger and glowed with an awesome power.(5)
"Alright Stardust, free the Prince from the maw of suffering and pain! Cosmic Flare!"
With that final attack from Stardust Dragon, the Light of Ruin fled from its current host and back to its main one. Ojin screamed as Stardust blew him a few yards away, leaving a rather pleased dragon.
"I thank you, old friend." Jaden nodded to the dragon, which nuzzled her in return and returned to her card.
"My Prince!" Jaden turned to see Linda, the Prince's assistant running towards the battle field.
"He is alright. He's free from the force that caused him to give up the Satellite keys."
Linda looked over at a rather stoic Jaden and shivered. This caused Jaden to raise an eyebrow.
"I am NOT part of those little white-washers so don't worry." At this point, Jaden put on a pair of sunglasses. "For I am The One, and I shall free your mind."(6)
Chibi: Hello all! My Fall Break has started up so when I'm not working on a project or at work, I'll be updating as much as possible. Good news is I have some new stories up! I got a Gurren Lagann/Pokémon crossover that has 2 chapters up and a Songfic/Drabble series about the 5Ds crew that is canon to this series and may contain spoilers, so please read over it if you have the time. It details what happens after Bruno's death in 5Ds and the effect it has on everyone, especially Yusei, how they help Yusei deal with the death, and what their lives come to in the end. Anyway, to all Cyber Heroine fans, I will be updating that story within the coming week. Just don't expect much out of me on Black Friday.
Also, got a poll up and running for the 'Of Red' version of the 10th Anniversary movie so vote! I got the plots all planned out for each scenario! Top 2 will be the story lines used! I will be redoing to poll with this update so if you voted before, please vote again. I am sorry for any inconvenience.
Anyway, we got two more chapters after this and then we get to Part 2: Heroine of Red.
References:
(1) That's 70's Show, Episode 'Fun It' Fez-Black*Star, Hyde-Soul, Donna-Maka, Jackie-Jaden, Randy-Kid
(2) Team Fortress 2-Heavy quote. Gotta love the RED Squad.
(3) This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, minus the broken door. 2:30 AM visit to the ER anyone? I'm better now though!
(4) Yes, to all Final Fantasy fans, this is the Al Bhed way to spell Jaden
(5) Yes, I realized what this relates to after I looked over the chapter, but no, Stardust cannot use Shining Finger… Maybe Elemental Hero The Shining *gets hit*
(6)Yes, Jaden thinks she is Neo from the Matrix right now. Her brain gets a little rewired after letting a spirit use her body AKA she gets OOC and may go on a rampage of sorts. It depends on the spirit really.