"Ugh… what happened?" Miles asked aloud as his vision slowly began to refocus and his body coming back to life to tell him he was lying down on the ground. He slowly got to his knees and stretched a little. "Leo? Luna? You guys here?" he asked as he stood up and began to walk. But after 5 steps he felt something tug at him nearly making him trip on himself. "What the…!' he asked as he reached down to his feet and felt something chaining him to the ground "how did this happen? What's going on?' he asked himself as his mind began to get clearer. He remembered that he was at the arcadia movement having dinner with his brother and sister, waiting for Jaden. "Ok then something happened to Leo and I went to check and then… nothing" he said recapping to himself. Then, since he couldn't simply walk, he looked around the room he was in. It was empty and metal great with barely enough light to make out the structure of the room
"Oh good your awake" Miles gasped as he began to sway his head from side to the next trying to find who said that. "Quit looking, here I'll turn on the lights" the lights blared on, making Miles cover his eyes as they readjusted. Now that he had some better light he could make out some things he couldn't before, like the duel field he was standing or the duel disk that was right next to his feet
"Who are you? And where's my brother and sister!" he demanded as a screeching noise echoed through the room making Miles sneer and cover his ears till it stopped
"Don't you raise your voice at us and please cooperate were only here for some tests"
"Test?" he asked as he brought his hands back down to their original position
"Yes as it would seem you have been deemed a potential recruit for our movement" he said uncaringly through the intercom
"So for that you haul me away from my family and also from what I guess drugged me!"he yelled out and pieced together that being drugged was the only explanation as to why Leo and him knocked out during dinner
"You seem pretty smart for a kid so I think you can piece together your own answer to that. So without further a due, I see you brought your own deck. If you so wish you can use that or the pre made deck in the duel disk but either way please pick it up" Miles crossed his arms and shrugged as he looked around and found a couple cameras on looking everything in the room, he looked at one in the top corner of the room and glared at it
"And what if I say no and just yell till someone finds me?"
"Oh I was hoping you'd ask something like that and I will now ask you to look to your leg braces" Miles looked down to his feet and saw the sides of locks begin to blink then send a powerful shock up Miles legs, making him tremble to the ground till it stopped. "Oh sorry guessed I should have given you a better warning" he said sarcastically as Miles reached for the duel disk and got back on his feet.
"Good we've come to a understanding now…" he said as a target rose from floor of the field "…please summon a monster and attack the target" Miles did as told and put his deck into the duel disk and drew. He summoned out a personal favorite of his, elemental hero Sparkman and aimed him at the target
"Sparkman attack…" he began to say then looked at the camera and pointed to it "…that camera" then his Sparkman flew the camera and attacked with a bolt of lightning, which of course, to him, didn't do any physical damage but did blind it.
"What the you little…" he began to say as Miles got down to his feet and quickly tried to pull the braces off by force in a futile effort. "…take this!" then another surge of electricity went through the braces, this one being worse since all four of his limbs were connected to the braces. A surge of energy pierced through his body, nearly reaching his heart, as he stayed crouched to the ground for a second or two till his heart rate died down
"You can't do this to a person" He said standing up, nearly falling down because his legs to still felt a little wobbly from the jolt.
"Oh but we are, and if you'd cooperate I wouldn't have to do that" he said as Miles was able to stand firm for the time being and looked at the camera again "Now if you please…" he said bringing Miles attention to the target again.
"No, I'm not doing this. I demand to talk to Sayer right now!"
"Our leader? He told us personally to put you in here"
"What?" Miles said, shocked because Sayer actually came off as a nice guy.
"Oh yes and your probably wondering where your brother and sister are right now aren't you?" Miles then quickly looked serious at the camera and yelled out
"WHERE ARE THEY!" with the echoed press of a button a scream ran through the room that made Miles gasp
"Leo…"
"Leo!" he heard another voice say as thump followed after her voice
"Luna!"
"Yes it would seem that your younger brother is dueling our leader and quite frankly he isn't doing too well. So here I'll make you a deal, get these tests done and I will personally take you to them. Heck I might even ask our leader to make sure your brother isn't completely hurt" that hurt Miles even more then the volts he was just dealt, the fact that his brother was in danger and he couldn't get to him. He had no choice but to do what this man said, it was the only way that he might even see his brother and sister again.
He flicked on his duel disk and the Sparkman reappeared on the field
"Sparkman attack the target!" the purple and gold hero rushed to the target and punched it, sparks flying off him as he did. To his surprise, there was actually a little crack in the middle of the target.
'What the… silent swordsman didn't say anything about me having physic powers?' Miles thought as the sound of writing went through the intercom
"Huh you definitely have some minor form of physic power, though you might not be expressing all of it do to those shocks I gave you… a bad on my part" he said as Miles glared at the camera
"Listen I don't care, am I going to go to my siblings or not?"
"Oh you thought that was the only test, oh no If you remember I said 'tests' plural meaning more than one" he spelled out, making Miles even more mad, he hated when people treated him like he was some kid. "Now prepare yourself, Nate come in" then came, from a door that seemed like it was just another piece of the grey metal walls, a boy with a shaved head and wearing black that looked about Miles age maybe a year or two older with a duel disk on his arm. "This is your opponent, he will push you to your limits to show us what power you have"
"But I don't have any power, what happened just now was a coincidence!" he tried explain but was fallen on shallow ears.
"Nate begin" and with that the boy almost robotically turned on his duel disk and got into a stance Miles just stood there
"Hey Nate is it? If you get me out of these shackles I'll give you a reward." Miles bargained as Nate just drew out his hand, not even acknowledging his plea "I got a nice runner, a good computer… my dad's the governor he could get you anything" Miles bargained even more, only throwing in his dad at the end because he was desperate. In truth he never really liked telling people of his father's job, if he did they'd treat him differently. Nate glared over at Miles and began to open his mouth
"Nothing you say will make me stop. Now draw or I'll take the first turn!" He commanded Miles who only shook his head as a response
"No, I don't want to do this"
"Your loss"
Miles: 4000
Nate:4000
Nate said as he glanced at his cards and decided his move "I set one monster face down and I'll set two cards face down then I'll activate from my hand Hinotoma! Inflicting 500 points of damage to you" then five fireballs appeared behind Nate as Miles crossed his arms
"I'm not going to duel you and if you think that a little blinding holograms rushing toward me will change my mind then your mistaken" Nate grinned as he commanded his spell to go forth and deal it's blow. Miles stayed confident that nothing would happen and stood still, till he felt the Heat coming off them.
"Oh shit" Miles got out before one after another the fireballs hit him, each more painful than the last. Miles had fallen straight on his butt as the pain he was dealt resonated throughout his body as Nate chuckled
"As you can tell they were fairly real, don't worry you're not burning though… I held back a little" He said in a cocky town as Miles struggled to get back on his feet, he didn't believe it. There were actually people who could turn duel monsters and spells real
"Well done Nate and Miles I would like to remind you of who your fighting for" then another scream from Leo went through the room making Miles even more fearful that Leo was getting seriously hurt. Nate chuckled as he looked at the camera
"Hey doc can you tell Sayer to go all out on him, that might make him duel" he suggested. Miles gasped then something inside him snapped, and his rage began to boil to the surface
"You leave them alone!" He said as he flipped on his duel disk and quickly drew out his hand and revealed a card "I'll start by playing the field spell Fusion gate!" then a green grid appeared on the field as Miles continued his move "Then I play E-hero stratos and activate his effect, where I get to bring any one hero monster in my deck and put it in my hand" he said as Stratos appeared on the field and he scavenged his deck for his hero "Then I activate Fusion gate and fuse Stratos with the hyabusa knight in my hand and also fuse the ice edge in my hand with my wildeheart to summon out E-Hero's Absolute zero and great tornado!" then the four monster fused creating a vortex where the two Heroes emerged out of
E-Hero Great Tornado (atk: 2800 def: 2200)
E-Hero Absolute Zero (atk: 2500 def: 2000)
Nate stayed unmoved as he revealed on his facedowns
"I activate Trap hole and destroy your Absolute Zero" Then a hole appeared under the hero and destroyed him. Miles only grined
"Not the brightest guy are you? I activate absolute zero's effect, where when he'd destroyed your monster go to the graveyard" Then in a burst of arctic breeze his monster disappeared leaving him wide opened. "Oh but that's not all, I activate the last card in my hand Miracle fusion and fuse one more time wildheart and ice edge to form E-Heo gaia!" then from another vortex came the earth shattering Gaia who stood next to Absolute Zero
E-Hero gaia (atk: 2200 def: 2600) Nate seemed unmoved as Miles declared his attack and with both his monsters making quick work of Nate.
Miles: 4000
Nate: 0000
Nate stood there unmoved as the holograms died down
"Nate you can leave" The doctor said as Nate just waved it off and left the room. When he was gone, Miles looked at the camera once again
"Ok test's' are done, now I want to see my siblings!" he demanded as the doctor said nothing. He waited there for a couple seconds expecting him to say something back to him like he had already did numerous times. "Hello did you hear what I said! Get me out of these chains and bring me to my brother and sister!" he demanded again as a screeching noise echoed through the room making miles wince in pain as he covered his ears. Once it ceased the doctor's voice returned
"Patience is a virtue, and hope that little hit of the microphone will tell you to stop asking me that" the doctor said annoyed as Miles uncovered his ears and looked at the camera again but raised his hand and flicked it off. He was starting to get really pissed about all this and was starting to lose his normal calm nature
The doctor growled then order another two members to come in and duel him to get a better reading on his power, since Nate wasn't able to really push him. Miles groaned as he reactivated his duel disk
"You're going to run out of members eventually, and realize that I don't have powers" The doctor took this as a challenge and said into the intercom
"Oh will see about that…"
Within the next hour or so Miles dueled at least 30 or so members, all said to be very talented duelists but not good enough to go more than a couple turns with Miles. The doctor began to get more and more angry with each of the member's losses, at one point he even made Miles use the pre-made deck but it made little to no difference. At this point he didn't even care about measuring power, he just wanted to hurt him now.
Miles on the other still kept his goal in mind, get out and find Leo and Luna. When the last duelist exited the room Miles laughed as he looked up at the camera
"Is that it? Because this isn't challenging at all" The doctor growled as he positioned his finger over his button to shock the living hell out of Miles. But he halted himself and remembered something he read on the file he was given before testing Miles. It said a member in the movement knew him
'Why physically hurt him when I can emotionally derail him?' he asked himself as he moved his hand to another button and pressed it. Down by the field one of Miles leg shackles fell off. Miles gasped then smiled as he looked back up at the camera
"Given up?"
"Far from it, but I will hold up with my deal if you beat one more opponent. Beat him and you'll see your siblings again" Miles confidently looked forward and turn on his duel disk one more time
"Deal now bring him out!" he said eager to get out of here already. The doctor laughed as he called someone to bring his opponent down. It only took a minute or two for him to get there "Prepare yourself you little twit!"
"Psh if this guy's like the other I bet he'll be beaten by the 4th turn, 6th tops" Miles gloated as the doctor told his opponent to come in. When the door opened, Miles gasped and went wide eyed. That jacket, that hair, that academy duel disk, it was him, his mentor, his best friend…
"J-Jaden?"
Wow 3 in one month… I'm actually surprised