A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF YU GI OH 5Ds! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS! THE ONLY THING I OWN ARE MY OCS!
Chapter 21: Time Skips- Part 2
"That's some dragon. Know where I could score one?" a boy with brown and and in a red coat asked staring at the masked man and Stardust Dragon.
"Jaden Yuki, calm, cool, and collected to the very end. Now perish!" the masked man said. Stardust Dragon fought to try to stop itself. "Destroy him!" the man ordered.
The dragon roared as its mind was overrun by the man's power. It fired at the boy, Jaden, and Neos. It hit Neos nearly destroying the duel monster.
"Neos!" Jaden called. The leftover attack hit him and he was sent into a pile of crumbled debris.
"Now finish him!" the man commanded.
Stardust Dragon reluctantly did so. Just as it was about to hit, the Crimson Dragon stopped the attack. From the flames of the dragon came Yusei.
Yusei looked up. "Stardust!" he exclaimed.
"Yusei! How you followed me back in time, I do not know. What I do know is that it means nothing for you and Jaden. If you don't perish by my hand, the hands of time will do you in," the man said.
"Hands of what?" Jaden asked. The man laughed turning around.
"Wait, stop!" Yusei called.
The masked man drove off and disappeared in a flash of light. Jaden and Yusei stared at the spot where he disappeared for a moment. Eventually though, Yusei got off his runner and helped Jaden to his feet. Yusei got up to the roof from the pile of debris followed by the boy in the red jacket. Jaden sat down to the right of Yusei.
"You took quite the hit there. Are you okay?" Yusei asked.
"I'm all good. Just a few scratches," Jaden replied.
"You're a tough kid. So you're Jaden. That's what he called you, right?" Yusei asked.
"Yeah," Jaden asked. "That man called you Yusei, right?" The Signer nodded. The boy turned to the duel runner. "That's quite the ride you got there. Looks like something from the future."
"It is," Yusei responded.
"It is? What do you mean 'it is'?" Jaden questioned, uncertain.
"He means as he says, Jaden. Yusei is from another time," a spirit, Baron, answered. Yusei was a bit shocked to find he could see and hear this spirit
"Another time? Quit messing with me. Besides, how would you guys know?" Jaden asked.
"We know because like you, Yusei has a gift," Yubel, another spirit, answered as she appeared.
"A gift that connects them to the world of duel monster spirits," Baron continued.
"I think they mean this mark," Yusei explained to the slightly confused Jaden.
Jaden looked at the Signer and saw the mark on his arm. "Well looks like we have something new in common, don't we, Yusei?" Jaden asked.
"Yes, Jaden. Now tell me how this got started with you and the masked man," Yusei said.
"Some classmates of mine kept reporting their duel monsters cards were getting snatched. I went looking for the thief and found you know who," Jaden explained.
"Listen, Jaden, I know we just met but believe me when I say we need to stop this man. Because if we don't life as you know it…" Yusei paused as if looking for the right word before continuing, "won't be as you know it. My time, your time; it will change. And it's not a change for the better."
"Wait, are you saying you want me to team up with you two to take this dude down?" Jaden asked excitedly pulling a fist in front of his face.
"Yes, Jaden," Yusei answered.
"Okay, but how are we going to take him down? I mean, the dude split," Jaden asked.
"He moved back in time. Probably to the time where he makes his big move and changes history and alters the future forever," Yusei replied.
"Whoa, whoa. What do you mean 'changes history and alters the future'?" Jaden asked. He pulled out a laptop from his bag. "History hasn't changed. Here, I'll show ya. Let me check out the Domino City database and pull up a newspaper article that'll prove to you that history has…" he paused for a moment before continuing, "Completely changed!" They froze for a moment as they saw the article.
The title line: "TRAGEDY AT THE TOURNAMENT! PEGASUS MISSING!" and underneath that was: "Is Duel Monsters Over?"
"And not for the better," Jaden added, "Why is this guy doing all of this?"
"I don't know, but he's doing it as we speak," Yusei replied.
"Well, as long as I have…" Jaden started but when he pulled out his card, the picture vanished. "Neos is gone!"
They looked around hearing crumbling noises. A tower fell in front of them, luckily not hitting the duel runner. "And it's happening here too. Your era and time is crumbling away. First your duel monsters cards, now everything else," Yusei commented calmly but alert.
"What do we do now, guys?" Jaden asked.
"Now we move," Yusei said.
"Where?" Jaden asked.
Yusei and Jaden got on the Signer's runner. They drove off with the Crimson Dragon taking them further into the past.
. . .
Yugi and his grandfather, Solomon Muto, stood at the Domino City Duel Tournament. Looking around at all the excited duelists.
"This certainly is a good turn out," Solomon said.
"And it's no wonder why. The rumor is Pegasus himself will be here today," Yugi said.
The sound of a helicopter could be heard and everyone looked up. The helicopter landed and Pegasus stepped out.
"Greetings, everyone. It's wonderful to see you all but probably not nearly as wonderful for you to see me. So please, enjoy my splendor," Pegasus said. People cheered loud.
On top of a building, the masked man stood. He growled, "And enjoy your last moments, Pegasus." His final name was dripping with such a venomous hate that it could kill the chairman if it were possible.
The three dragons flew over top the buildings as the clock hit noon. "Dragons!" people called out in amazement.
"Boy, my laser eye surgery sure makes those duel monsters holograms look real," Solomon said.
As the dragons hit the buildings and they crumbled away, Yugi said, "I don't think those are holograms, Grandpa."
"Move it," a man said as he push Yugi and Solomon in separate directions.
"Yugi!" Solomon called.
"Grandpa!" Yugi responded as he tried to push his way back from the running crowd.
"It's my worst fear. I've been upstaged," Pegasus said. He heard the crash of the building behind him. "Oh no, the building," he cried as it landed on top of him.
As the minutes to hours passed by, Yugi woke up among the ruins. He looked around to find he was the only survivor. He noticed his grandfather's bandana and ran to it to pick it up before he screamed his grandfather's in sadness.
He heard a laugh from above and looked at the top of a building. "At last my work in complete! It took some doing but history is now forever changed. Changed so that duel monsters is no more!" the man exclaimed.
Yugi looked at him confused. Suddenly, though, a light caught his eye. He looked at it and just as he did, a red, fiery dragon slipped out of the light and enveloped the frightened Yugi.
The Crimson Dragon flew above a roof top. Yugi was thrown out and Yusei and Jaden skidded to a stop on their runners. Yugi rubbed the back of his neck that had hit the corner of a concrete molding.
"Hey, are you okay?" Jaden asked running up to him followed by Yusei. The young boy kneeled next to the legendary duelist.
Yugi back away but Yusei said, "It's okay, Yugi. You're safe now."
"Where am I? Is my grandpa okay? Where's Pegasus?" Yugi asked. He looked and noticed everyone standing below them as if nothing had happened. "Wait, was that all just a dream?"
"I'm afraid not," Yusei replied following Jaden's lead in kneeling next to him.
"Here's the deal, bro, it's not where you are but when," Jaden said.
"We've taken you back in time. Back to just before those dragons blasted this place," Yusei informed and looking at Yugi once again.
Jaden looked at his card. "Look, Neos is back!" he exclaimed happily.
"Who are you guys?" Yugi asked in confusion and shock.
"My name's Yusei Fudo," he introduced.
"And I'm Jaden Yuki," Jaden finished with a happy, confident tone.
"Yusei and Jaden. I'm Yugi Muto," he introduced.
"Oh, there's no need to tell us who you are; we know," Yusei said.
"You do? How's that?" Yugi asked.
"Cause we're from the future. It's no big whoop," Jaden replied calmly.
"What?" Yugi responded.
"Okay, I guess it's kind of a big whoop. Bottom line though, we're here to save the world," Jaden said.
"That masked man you saw… he has to be stopped. Like you, we've seen what happens if he's not," Yusei told the King of Games.
"This guy looks like he's made it his mission in life to take down Pegasus," Jaden said.
"But why?" Yugi asked.
"We don't know that just yet but we do know that if he takes down Pegasus, the duel monsters world he created…" Yusei trailed off.
"It goes with him. Along with everything that sprang from it. Like schools, cities, people, you name it," Jaden finished.
Yugi looked down and muttered, "Oh man."
"But it doesn't have to be that way," Jaden told him. "That's why we're here."
"If we work together, we might be able to stop this maniac," Yusei said. "Will you help us?"
Yugi's head sprung up and looked at each of them with a determined face while he stood up followed by the other two. "That guy hurt my grandpa and it also sounds like he's trying to hurt the game I love. So I'm more than willing to help you in any way that I can," Yugi agreed. "Let's make this guy sorry that he ever messed with us."
"Glad to have you on our side," Yusei commented.
"Try ecstatic! We've got the King of Games in our corner! Now let's do this," Jaden exclaimed happily and confidently.