Episode 27: Light Vs Shadows, A Clash of Virtues

"Now everyone, this is what we've been waiting for all day long!" shouted MC, as another break of 20 minutes took place between the last duel and the next one "Since Syrus Truesdale declined his place in the next duel, Roland moves on to this last duel!" the crowd began cheering, as Rolan and Rafael entered from their respective entrances "Climbing back to glory, showing us his real strength and skill, we have the former champion Rafael!" the crowd went even wilder in screams, as Rafael was getting back to official tournaments, he began waving his hand to the crowds, getting them to burst in even more excitement "And, challenging this time, a newcomer that has impressed us with his aggressive tactics, let's hear a warm welcome to Roland!" said Mc, as Roland simply stood there, with his arms crossed while people cheered him "Let's see who's fit to win this tournament!"

Back in the shadows of the Dome, Reginald simply stared at the duel field with an evil grin in his face "Yeah, let's see who will face the power of the beasts." said Reginald, as he was standing and holding a wine cup in his left hand, as it showed the reflect of Mina, tied up by her hands and legs, unconscious "This will make a great souvenir Rafael, I guess it's time for the sacrifice to take place." he then began to head out, at the balconies in the Dome, looking at the field "How foolish, all these people will soon see what fear is all about. My plan will be accomplished, there's no obstacle now." he thought, as he took out his deck from a case with a T mark in it "After all, with these four cards in my power right now, the ones that can beat me are far away, I will succeed this time, accomplishing my destiny." he began smiling, showing off his teeth, as he was about to drink some wine from his cup. He turned back to see an Archfiend Soldier and a Cyber Archfiend "Take her to the marked point soldier; make sure to be ready for my signal." he said as the soldier disguised as a man, taking Mina away with him; Reginald turned to the cybernetic monster "You, make sure the machine is connected correctly and don't let anyone see you. Using the main reactor will allow me to open the gate, slowly, but with nothing to stop the progress." the mechanical monster then disappeared in the air.

Rafael approached Roland to shake hands, which Roland declined coldly "Look, I don't know what happened to you," said Rafael looking serious at Roland "but you've got to let go the past and move onwards." Roland then got angry at Rafael saying that.

"And let my family sealed away in the shadows? Yeah, brilliant!" he replied angered, as he was turning his back on Rafael.

"Wait, what?" asked Rafael surprised upon hearing that "What do you mean?"

Roland simply turned back as he reached his position; readying his duel disk "My family was sent to the Shadow Realm by that monster of Reginald…" he said trembling "I won't allow him to get away with this without a punishment! I will get revenge on him!"

Rafael readied his deck too, while staring at Roland "Roland, I can't say I know how you feel, but revenge is something a paladin will never choose." he said, trying to throw some sense into Roland "I have unfinished business with Reginald myself to protect the world, let me take care of it for you!" Roland didn't reply, as his duel disk was already running "It seems that this duel will be the one to say what will happen." replied Rafael turning on his duel disk.

"Let's duel!" shouted both contenders, as their life points mark appeared.

Back in the seats, Alan and Emily kind of got an idea of why Roland acted like that, looking at the duel field. Sara simply looked at the duel field, a bit worried. Moments later she felt a strange wave surrounding the arena, as some kind of shadow energy was surrounding it "Sara, is there any other way out?" asked Alan concerned to his twin sister

"Unfortunately no." she replied looking down "Rafael will have to beat Reginald once more if we want to get out of here…in one piece."

Yusei got a bit confused about their conversation "Sorry to drop in like that, but why are you saying that?" he asked.

Sara took in a deep breath and answered him back "The fiends are moving, they're activating some kind of barrier around the dome; if we want to get out of here, Reginald will have to be beaten in the next duel." Yusei then looked around, seeing nothing out of the common; still he decided to believe in Sara, as he knew of her powers now.

Roland 4000 LP, Hand 5; Rafael 4000 LP, Hand 5

"I'll start this show myself!" shouted Roland getting his card "Time for some history lesson to a veteran paladin like you. What happens when light itself cannot defeat evil?"

Rafael simply got curious of what Roland tried to say, but he somehow knew what he was trying to get to "Then Light would have to look for power and support in darkness, not evil necessary but for a balance to result of it." Roland then smiled, laughing a bit.

"That's correct. You see, when the Elemental, Destiny, and Evil Heroes appeared, the fiends were their only enemies. However, with the passing of time a new enemy appeared, joining forces with the fiends, the Worm Clan." Rafael knew Roland was talking about history of the Spirit World, he was now completely sure about it "The Worm Clan was powerful and they began an invasion that most monsters could not face. Under the command of the leaders of the upper-world monsters, an order for a new experiment was issued, the creation of machines that could counter this worms that appeared to be unbeatable…"

"The Allies of Justice…" said Rafael, getting nervous.

"Exactly. Now let's welcome one of their first creations, come forth, Ally of Justice Cyclone Creator!" said Roland, as a machine bird-like creature appeared on his side of the field, shrieking with a mechanical voice "Next I set two cards and activate my Creators Special ability, which by discarding a card allows me to return spells and traps on the field equal to the tuners on the field. I return one of my cards, which happens to be Treasure Map, activating it to get two more cards." said Roland as his card returned to the hand and he drew his new cards "I end with another face-down."

"Then I go now, I will summon Dragoon Commander to the battlefield!" said Rafael, as his human warrior with dragon scale armor jumped in the field, swinging a sword with him "When summoned successfully, I can add a Dragon-type monster from my Deck to my hand or Special Summon a "Dragoon" monster to the field from my Hand, but for now I'll search for a Dragon." said Rafael getting a card from his deck then shuffling it "Time to attack Commander! Strike down that machine!"

"Don't underestimate me! Activate Waboku Trap Card!" replied Roland, as his monsters were protected by a barrier. The moment Roland said those words, Rafael couldn't help but remember his last duel with Jack, realizing he really underestimated him "With Waboku any damage and battle destruction is cancelled this turn."

"Then I end by placing two cards face-down. Your move." said Rafael, setting a Dimensional Prison and a Mirror Force.

"Activate trap card!" shouted Roland, revealing his card "DNA Transplant, make all monsters on the field Light attributed!"

"This can't be good!" replied Rafael nervous, as a light orb was shot from a doctor's machine, infusing the Light attribute to every monster in the field.

Roland 4000 LP, Hand 5; Rafael 4000 LP, Hand 4

"My turn! I summon forth, Ally Salvo in attack mode!" said Roland, as a mechanical sphere with holes allowing its nucleus to be seen appeared floating in the field "Time for tune up!"

"Oh no, this won't be good." replied Rafael

"I tune up my Ally of Justice Cyclone Creator with my Ally Salvo to Synchro Summon my Ally of Justice Catastor!" said Roland, as a machine spider-like creature appeared in the field, with a blaster eye in its head, standing slowly and mechanically "Now Catastor, fight and destroy!" said Roland, as the machine first launched a blue beam towards the Commander to identify it, until it turned red and launched a powerful blaster that destroyed the Dragoon in seconds "You know that any non-Dark monster that fights against my Catastor is destroyed without damage calculated and it will happen to all your face-up monsters."

"Yeah I know." said Rafael a bit nervous "But I can still find a way to win."

Roland simply looked serious "I en my turn in that case."

"Here I go, first I activate my Mystical Space Typhoon to get rid of that annoying trap card of DNA!" said Rafael as the typhoon blew up the doctor monster as well as its machine "Next I summon forth my Dragoon Swordsman in attack mode!" said Rafael, as his reliable dragoon appeared in the field "With him here, I can Synchro Summon using monster in my hand, but they will get removed from play instead of going to the graveyard. I tune up my Dragoon with my Axe Dragonute to Synchro summon" he said, as the monsters joined in a piercing light beam that turned dark colored "to Synchro Summon Dragon Lord-Dragoon Assassin!" said Rafael, as a dragoon monster armored with black patterned armor and the tools of an assassin landed in the field, a level 7 Dragoon Synchro monster with 2400 attack points and 1700 defense points "When my Dragoon is synchro summoned, I can get rid of a face-down card in the field, like your remaining trap card!" added Rafael, as the Dragoon threw a knife at it, revealing a Mirror Force that was destroyed, annoying Roland "Now let's get into business. My assassin is a dark Attributed monster, which places Catastor in a great dilemma. Attack now Assassin! Shadow Sneak!" he said as the Dragoon disappeared in shadows, reappearing behind Catastor and slashing through its armor, destroying it in seconds "I end my turn like that." Roland simply began to smile, as his field was clear yet again, worrying Rafael.

Roland 3800 LP, Hand 5; Rafael 4000 LP, Hand 2

"It's time to get things harder for you in that case." said Roland getting his card "You got rid of Catastor easily, but don't expect to do so with my best card." said Roland as he showed off his Shadow Hero in his hand "I Special Summon my Shadow Hero to the field in defense mode!" he said, as the hero humanoid jumped to the field, protecting itself with its shield "Then I summon my Ally of Nullfier for my tune up!" he said as the red machine appeared and then joined the hero in an energy beam "To protect justice and life! Fight to let justice prevail in the world! Shadow of honor and strong-willed warrior! Synchro Summon! Warrior of the dark, Shadow Avenger Gandor the Dark Crusader!" the improved version of the Shadow Hero jumped to the battlefield, ready to fight and surpassing the Dragoon "I hope you're ready for this, because I activate my spell card Heavy Strom to destroy every single spell or trap card in the field!" shouted Roland, as a powerful wind current began blowing until it turned into a tornado that picked Rafael's traps and destroyed them in seconds "You're defenseless now, Gandor, attack the assassin!" said Rolan, as the avenger jumped in the mid air and landed with a swift single fist strike that crushed the Dragoon into debris, ending Rafael's last line of defense "What will you do now, leader? You have no monsters, no trap cards, while my ace is here and it returns every time it is destroyed. This duel is as good as mine now that I have the field advantage."

"Not so sure about it." replied Rafael confident "True, you may have the advantage right now, but for how long? I can still change the tides to my favor."

"I wish to see that." replied Roland, anxious to end the duel.


While looking at the duel, Goodwin was still surprised Mina hasn't returned. He asked Lazar to do something more "Lazar, it appears Mr. Reginald won't be coming. Tell Trudge to get a handful of Sector Security officers and tell them to wait for an order."

Lazar simply smiled, as he knew Reginald would be in troubles now, but enjoying it "it will be done Mr. Goodwin. But what do we do about Mina? She hasn't returned after all."

Goodwin closed his eyes and turned to Lazar opening them again "Send officers to look for her. She may be in danger now." both were caught off-guard when ZigZix appeared back in the hologram, quite worried.

"Mr. Goodwin, the strange lectures are appearing again! I thought that last time they were showing off because of the God Cards, but they are not connected to them in the end!"

"To what then?" asked Jack, curious about it.

"I'm not sure; the reactor is spinning and spinning like crazy!" replied the professor worried "If it doesn't stop, at this rate in 3 hours…"

"…There will be another incident." added Goodwin, as saying to ZigZix to calm down and avoid saying unnecessary things. He then turned to Lazar "Tell your men to look for Reginald and capture him, he's behind this."

To be continued…


Rafael: Next time, on Yugioh 5Ds Paladins of Light…

Rafael: Roland, we're getting out of time! If you keep going at this rate…
Roland: What? The world will end? Many have said it and nothing has happened.
Rafael: Fine then. It appears I'll have to go full force against you. There are lives at stake.
Roland: I don't care anymore! My life has no meaning to me now!
Rafael: Roland, you still don't get it, but maybe when this duel is over you will. I can't let down everyone now.

Rafael: This and more next time in Yugioh 5Ds: Paladins of Light, Episode 28: Haunting Memories, Reginald's Scheme is Revealed!

Reginald: It's time to put my plan in action! No one can stop me now!


New Cards of the Day

Dragon Lord-Dragoon Assassin, Warrior type, Dark, Level 7, Atk 2400, Def 1700
This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Synchro Summon. This card type is also treated as Dragon-type. When this card is Synchro Summoned, you can destroy oe face-down card on the field. When this card battles a face-down monster, destroy the monster immediately without flipping it up. While this card is in your graveyard, you can select one monster in your opponent's side of the field, this effect can only be used once per Duel. As long as this card is in your graveyard, each of your opponent's End Phases reduce the selected monsters Attack by 700.


Calling a day off with the Allies of Justice. Roland will posssibly get a deck change if I don't get good ideas for it. I'm also open to any suggestions regarding the Ally of Justice archetype for those that know well about the card game, I would be more than thankful for any help with it, use either the PM or the review system for your suggestions with them.

Until next time guys and thanks for reading another chapter!