Animaniacs 5D's – Negative World Race

Episode 1 – Together We Ride

"Wait, I have to get a license to ride a Duel Runner?" Yakko asked. Yusei and Yakko speed down the highway, Crow and Lillian right next to them as they moved down the road. Stone poked his head out of Carly's window, smiling as he turned to Yakko, "Oh yah, you came from a different world." he said, "To Turbo Duel, you first need to prove that you know what you're doing. Thus the license is proof of that."

"Don't worry Yakko, your testing class isn't for another few days!" Yusei told him. "But I heard those classes are hard!" Lillian said, "I wish I could take that class, but I'm not eligible until my 18th birthday!"

"Which is?" Yakko asked. "Next week, I was planning on using the dorm to have my party. I defiantly didn't count on graduating this early!" Lillian told him. "Ah don't worry about it, we'll just use the shop to throw you a party, how about that?" Crow offered. "We'll as long as you're paying for the decorations…" Lillian began, and Crow turned to her with half laden eyes. "On second thought…" he said, and everyone laughed as they all raced towards the garage.

"Just how did he beat our sister?" O-Kay asked as he slammed his fist against a desk. "Why are you asking me?" Báoshi asked as he tuned up his overly large Duel Runner. "Because she decided that instead of listening to me rant and yell, she wanted to go on a shopping spree!" O-Kay shouted, "That's why she's not here to ask!"

"Look I told you to get us cell phones but noooo!" Báoshi said. "I can easily just dump you back into the shadows where I found you!" O-Kay threatened. Báoshi simply growled at his brother, the threat not going unnoticed. "I'll just have to take him out during his lessons." O-Kay said and turned, "You two!" he shouted, and pointed to a light blue cat sitting atop a white and blue dog. The cat simply filed her claws as the dog simply lay there, nearly asleep. On the cat's left arm, she wore a gauntlet with a deck slot attached to it, and the rest of the Duel Disk was securely strapped to the dog's collar and a harness that held the lights of a Duel Runner. She also had a silver helmet on her head, shaped for her long pointed ears, "I want him sent to the shadows now, find him and finish him!" he said. The cat simply smiled, "Finally, a chance to do something." she said. The dog slowly stood up as she put her file away, shifting to grab his ears like bike handles. "Let's do this!" she said, and with a growl, the dog took off, racing quickly out the garage door.

[Cue Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's Opening Theme.]

"Ok, ease into it and turn!" Yusei told Yakko as the toon drove his Duel Runner. Yusei stayed on the back of Yakko's Runner as the toon practiced. "Ok, good, now let's try to take that at a higher speed!" Yusei told him as they came to a stop. "I appreciate you teaching me to ride a Duel Runner Yusei, and for the new speed spells." Yakko said as they exited the Runner. "No problem," Yusei said, "I've also got a few things for you as well." The man reached into his jacket pocket, bringing out three cards, "I'm not sure how you're supposed to use these, but here they are!" Yakko took the three cards from him, and looked to them, "Hey!" Yakko called out, "That's me again! And my siblings!" The three cards he held in his hands were fusion monsters, very special ones. Each of the monsters was level 8, and they each had royal titles, King Yakko Warner, King Wakko Warner, and Queen Dot Warner. "The trouble is, I don't see a card in your deck that you can use to summon them, maybe you can find more by Turbo Dueling!" Yusei said, "Akiza and I will keep our eyes open in stores for other cards that can help you as well. Crow has decided to check the Satellite, so he'll be gone a couple of days."

"Thanks Yusei!" Yakko said, and turned just in time to see a trail of smoke coming their way. "Huh?" Yakko asked as the two of them saw a cartoon dog with a cartoon cat race up to them and turn, skidding into a stop, "Yakko Warner, we challenge you to a shadow duel!" she said. "Rita? Runt?" Yakko asked as Yusei twitched in defense. The black shadows quickly spread from under the dog, enveloping the two of them in the darkness, "Yakko, quickly, give me your gauntlet!" Yusei said, and pulled his own off. "Right!" Yakko said, and removed the gauntlet, handing it to Yusei, who promptly put it on. Rita (the cat) quickly hissed, "This is between the toon and us!" she said. Yakko quickly jumped onto the Duel Runner, sitting behind Yusei as he started up the machine, "I'll be your opponent today!" he said. Yusei quickly pressed a button on the console, "DUEL MODE ENGAGED!"said the bike, "AUTO PIOLET DISABLED!"

"Well, we sure didn't expect this!" Rita said to Runt. "Shall we?" she asked, to which the dog simply nodded, a wicked grin steady on his face. "Alright then, if we win you both get stuck here!" she said, and a light purple track appeared, stretching and turning in the same manner as the road. Yusei simply responded with the roar of the engine of Yakko's Duel Runner. "Fine, we'll start things off!" Rita said and pushed a button on Runt's collar, "ACTIVATING SPEED WORLD 2. READY, SET, DUEL." the computer said, and Runt took off, the tires of Yakko's Duel Runner squealing as the bike raced off. "They have the advantage here!" Yakko said to Yusei as they trailed behind a little. "That's alright, Duel Runners are faster than dogs!" the man said, only to have Runt make a break for it, taking the first turn before Yusei could get there. "That's a cartoon dog, remember?" Yakko asked. "Right, Negative Plates!" Yusei said to himself.

"Our draw!" Rita called out as she pulled her first card. "We summon the 'Animal Friend, Ursa Cub' in defense mode!" she called out. The small bear that appeared floating along Runt seemed cute, but had large metal claws strapped to its front paws. [Animal Friend, Ursa Cub is a level 2 beast type monster with 800 ATK and 300 DEF. When this monster battles another monster who's DEF is higher than the ATK of this card, the defense monster is destroyed after damage calculation.] "Next we lay one card face down and call it a turn!"

"We've got the green light!" Yusei called out as he drew his card, and one speed counter lit up for both of them, "I summon Skippy Warner to the field from my hand!" Yusei called out, and the little brown squirrel flew out of a vertical portal, racing along the Duel Runner as if he were flying. Yusei and Runt both took a sharp turn, following the road and quickly taking right hand turn at a fork in the road. "Wow, this is cool!" the little squirrel said as he looked down, feeling the rush of the speed. Yusei smiled happily, "Next I can send one card from my hand to special summon Marita Warner to the field, but because of that, I can't use her ability to special summon Flavio." Yusei called out, and out came the large pink hippo. "Count em!" Yakko called out from behind the driver, "Five stars plus one star makes a synchro summon!"

"That's right Yakko!" Yusei called out, and let the squirrel jump into the air, "From two come one, and from one comes power, I synchro summon, Queen Angelina Warner!" Skippy let the color fade from him, his outline shatter into the ring of light. Marita followed suit, entering into the ring, and letting the color fade from her. Suddenly she erupted into a cluster of five stars, each one lining up and bursting into a large beam of light. From that light, Yakko's mother, the beautiful queen emerged, taking flight using the wings on her back and her three fairies at her side. "With Angelina's skill, I can return one monster in my graveyard to my field!" The three fairies sped up, forming a portal a small distance in front of their queen. She flapped her wings once, and reached into the portal, "I return, Skippy Warner, in defense mode!" Yusei called out as the small squirrel was gently pulled from the portal. He quickly turned around, and curled into a ball, fading to a dull blue color. "Next I can attack with Queen Angelina Warner, use Pixy Pummel!" Yusei called out, and the queen pointed her finger, causing the trio of fairies to dash toward the little bear. The three of them slammed into the monster, shattering it and dropping Rita's and Runt's LP down to 2800 and removing one speed counter. "We activate our 'Bear Snap Trap' trap card, and lock your queen into defense mode." Rita called out. [Bear Snap Trap is a trap card that switches a monster on your opponent's field that declared an attack into defense mode. That monster cannot switch battle positions and looses 300 DEF at the beginning of every standby phase.] "Ugh!" Yusei grunted and pulled the last cards from his hand, "I lay three cards face down and call it a turn."

"Our draw!" Rita called out, and another speed counter appeared. Suddenly the road split down the middle, Rita and Runt taking a high path while Yusei and Yakko swerved in and out beneath them. "We summon the Animal Friend, Kanga-Roo!" she called out. [Animal Friend, Kanga-Roo is a level 4 Beast type monster with 1800 ATK and 200 DEF.] The large animal was a Kangaroo with black fingerless gloves and a large crocodile scaled vest and Australian hat on. "Kanga-Roo has a special ability that lets us special summon the monster 'Animal Friend, Kid-Roo' from our hand." A much shorter kangaroo appeared with no hat and a blue vest on. Its stats appeared as level 2, 600 ATK and 250 DEF. "And thanks to his own special ability, we can special summon, 'Animal Friend, Bell Hopper'." [Animal Friend, Bell Hopper is a level 3 beast type tuner monster with 1600 ATK and 1000 DEF.] A slightly large white rabbit appeared, six shining silver bells strapped to his sides and a helmet that was shaped just like a church bell. "With this we can tune all of our monsters together, bringing forth our most powerful monster!" Rita called out. The three monster lifted into the air, Bell Hopper spreading into the three rings that surrounded the others, "We synchro summon 'Animal King, Lionhead'!" The giant Lion stood only on his back legs, quite similar to a man. The large arms showed massive strength and a fluffy blond mane signified elegance. On its head it wore a large English crown, a golden breastplate adorning his chest with a large red cape hanging from his shoulders. [Animal King, Lionhead is a level 9 Beast type synchro monster with 3000 ATK and 2500 DEF. Once per turn, you may select one card on your opponent's field and destroy it.] "We select your queen and destroy her!" Rita called out and her Lionhead let loose with a powerful blast of magic from his hands. "I activate the trap card 'Bouncing Around'!" Yusei responded and a trap card showing the three Warner siblings bouncing off of the ground in front of the tower was shown, "With this card I can negate you ability and switch my monster into defense mode!" Queen Angelina quickly ducked, and fly high into the air, causing the magic blast to sail right by her. She came down on her tail, and bounced around a few times before falling back into place with her arms crossed, letting her color fade to a dull blue. "Nice move!" Skippy congratulated. "Thanks!" Yusei responded and turned back to the road, "Heh, talking to your cards must have taken some getting used to." Rita growled angrily, "Let's go Lionhead, attack with Wild Claw Strike!" The monster quickly turned, lunging towards Queen Angelina, only to turn quickly and slash at Skippy instead. "Oh, I forgot to mention, Lionhead can deal half of the difference between his ATK and your DEF to you as damage!" Skippy crossed his arms over his face as the large clawed paw came down, smashing him to pieces. The shards came down, raining on Yusei and Yakko as their LP dropped to be even with Rita and Runt's. One of their speed counters disappeared as well. "Next we lay two cards face down and call it a turn!" Rita announced emptying her hand of cards just as the two tracks came back together.

"Our turn!" Yusei called out and drew his card. One more speed counter showed up, bringing them both to two, "With these two speed counters, I can use the speed spell, 'Wheel of Morality'!" The giant colorful wheel, emerged from the card, twelve slots on it numbered one through six in a random order, "First I spin this wheel, and whatever number it lands on is the number of cards I can draw from my deck." The wheel began spinning quickly, and Yakko found the nostalgia in it all, "Wheel of Morality; turn, turn, turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn!" he said with complete boredom. The wheel spun quickly, landing finally on a bright blue space that read 6, "Looks like I get to pick up the maximum number of cards." Yusei said, and grabbed six cards from his deck, sliding them into the hand holder on his gauntlet, letting them spread out in a fan formation. "Next I can summon Bobby Warner from my hand, and due to his special ability, I can throw one card in my hand to the graveyard in order to special summon Pesto Warner from my deck." Yusei announced. The two birds appeared, wings spread out and soaring high, "It's been a while since we could fly!" Bobby said. "Yah, it feels good!" Pesto agreed. "Now, I can Synchro Summon again!" Yusei shouted. Pesto flapped his wings hard, soaring to the sky with Bobby and the queen following closely. Pesto burst into the one ring needed, and engulfed both of the other monsters, "From three comes one, and from one comes great cosmic might, I synchro summon, Stardust Dragon!" The blue dragon emerged, spreading its wings wide as it let out a mighty roar. "You brought Stardust Dragon?" Yakko asked, "That's not all I brought." Yusei said, "But I'm going to have to use your friends for this."

"Uh, ok!" Yakko said in shock. "Thanks." Yusei said, "Next I activate the Graceful Revival trap card, this lets me bring back Bobby Warner from the graveyard!" Bobby once again spread his wings, flying alongside Yusei and Yakko, "I can use his ability again, sending one card from my hand to special summon Squit Warner from my deck then I use the speed spell 'Song Break'!" [Song break is a speed spell you may activate if you have 1 or more speed counters, turn one non-tuner monster on your field into a tuner monster until the end of the turn.] "I turn Bobby Warner into the tuner for this turn."

'I wonder, what did he mean when he said he'd have to use my friends for this?' Yakko asked himself. "Next, I synchro summon, Pasadena Slappy!" Yusei called out, and out came the old grey squirrel, sitting comfortably in a red Corvette with the engine roaring, "I missed this car."

'I didn't know I had that.' Yakko thought to himself in surprise. "And we activate 'Howling Resonance'!" Rita called out. [Howling Resonance is a trap card that you can use when your opponent synchro summons, that player cannot synchro summon for the rest of the turn.] "Hm." Yusei grunted, "Pasadena Slappy lets me draw one card from my deck when she's synchro summoned, now I call it a turn!"

"He, heh!" Rita laughed as she drew her card, "We activate our trap card, 'Violent Outburst'! This card destroys every card you have on the field, too bad you already have your Stardust Dragon out on the field, you might have been able to stop us with your Starlight Road!"

Yusei smiled happily, "You really think so?" he asked, causing Rita so look confused, "I activate the 'Splash of Color' trap card!" [Splash of Color is a trap card you can activate when two or more of your cards have been targeted by the same ability, Negate that ability and destroy that card, then you may special summon one 'Shining Toon Dragon' from your side deck into face-up attack mode.] "Now not only are my cards safe from harm, I can special summon the Shining Toon Dragon to my side of the field!" Yusei told them, and the dragon with the rainbow wings launched through the portal, taking flight into the sky and circling back to come to Yusei's side. "Next I can use Shining Toon Dragon's ability and destroy your monster!" Yusei shouted, and the dragon let lose a large colorful blast of energy from its mouth, the energy slammed into Lionhead and shattered him. Rita hissed angrily, "We get to search our deck for a speed spell thanks to that little stunt. Next we summon 'Animal Friend, Night Hawk, from our hand." she called out, and out came a small hawk wearing a cape and breast plate as he spread his wings. [Animal Friend, Night Hawk is a level 4 winged-beast type tuner monster with 1500 ATK and 1500 DEF.] "Next we use the speed spell, 'Hunting Pack'." Rita continued. [Hunting Pack is a speed spell that you can use when you have three or more speed counters, sacrifice any number of speed counter to special summon one Pack Token (Level 1 EARTH Beast ATK 500 DEF 500) to the field for each speed counter sacrificed this way.] "We're going to sacrifice all three of our speed counters and summon three Pack Tokens." Rita shouted and up came three grey wolf looking creatures, "Next, we can use them to synchro summon a new monster, behold, 'Animal Queen, White Tigress'!" The monster that emerged was a white Siberian tigress. She also stood on her back legs like an amazones woman, a silver chest plate and roman looking codpiece and large leg guards. Her claws were almost an inch long as she growled towards Yusei, "And with her comes the power to deal half of her attack to you as damage!" Rita said just as the Tigress' stats showed up; Level 7, 2800 ATK and 1800 DEF. A spear of light appeared next to the tigress, and with a quick grab, she hurled it towards Yusei and Yakko. It slammed into the ground in front of them, kicking up dirt and taking their LP down to 1400. When they emerged, it almost looked as if Shining Toon Dragon was watching Stardust, waiting for something. "Next we attack your Stardust Dragon!" Rita called out. "And we Accel Synchro summon!" Yusei shouted, and raced off towards the portal, vanishing in a flash of light.

Yakko instead found himself tumbling across a hard ground, slamming hard against the ground and then what he thought was a wall. "Ow!" he said as he slowly lifted himself up. He opened his eyes, finding a heavy fog blocking all from view, "Yusei?" he asked out loud. The fog quickly cleared, just and just as fast, Yakko found himself not in front of a wall, but rather in front of a large stone plaque. "What the…?" Yakko asked, and looked up, finding a pair of large green eyes in a black space behind the tablet, "Who…who are you?" he asked. "I have many names, but only few forms." the creature said. The voice was deep, and sounded more like a growl than anything else. "That doesn't answer my question!" Yakko countered. "Find the three!" the creature said, "Three dragons, three keys. Give them their names and set me free."

To Be Continued…

End of Episode 1