Space Battleship Bakuro
Author's Note: Titled after Space Battleship Yamato, and inspired by NASA's DART mission. Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS series.
Summary:
A group of extraordinary people come together to save Goha City from a falling elementary school from outer space!
After a child sent satellites flaming towards Earth, and Fusion-carrying meteors landed in the backyards of every Botan, Riku, and Katsu, one would hope Goha Corporation could come up with a smarter stellar defence initiative than "Let's crash a spacecraft into this asteroid and see what happens!" But with Goha Yuo captaining the fleet, the safety of mankind easily took ancillary importance to his delusions of grandeur.
His aim to ram said spacecraft into said inoffensive asteroid to test whether it could alter the asteroid's path in the event more dangerous space debris fell to Earth and disrupted his machinations…was both crazy on paper and crazy in practice. Common sense dictates you don't create a problem when there isn't a problem.
But who had the foresight to foresee the debris from that crash might snowball into a threat itself?
Maybe everybody?
Normally, his plans were better thought-out. Yet the humiliation of being taken down six pegs (and the inexplicable flashbacks troubling him as of late) impeded his decision-making ability.
The*Beauty Romin hit him with her Miracle Beauty Problem-Solving Beam!
It'd be one thing if the smaller pieces of the asteroid were the obstacle. It was a wholesale crisis since the space junk knocked Goha Space Elementary out of the thermosphere, and Goha Space Elementary was now the peril on a collision course with Goha HQ!
All Yuo achieved was set Goha back a ton of money pre-empting the pre-emptive strike he ordered, giving a bunch of cosplaying cretins an excuse to suit up and claim credit for saving the world.
Yuo also spent resources hiring the Newspaper Club at Goha 7th Elementary as his new propaganda team to salvage Goha Corporation's reputation. Conveniently for the Goha President, even a legitimate publication whose motto was "Reveal the truth to as many people as possible!" could be bought to spread his lies.
Lead editor Bakuro, promoted to Goha Press Secretary to dupe the media.
Ace interviewer Masaru, aggressively reporting on the wrong threads of the story.
Scoop photographer Nico, helping herself to the opposing narrative's least flattering angles.
"A minor malfunction Goha's technicians are fixing. No risk to the community."
"Online sludge meant to distract from scandals involving Goha's critics."
"Explosion in the sky? What explosion in the sky?"
Tough-as-'roids journalism, hijacked in sycophantic praise of Yuo's empire of evil!
For those citizens concentrated on living through the falling space school and not concentrating on the PR fallout, they had the combined genius of Ohdo Yuga and Saionji Neiru on their side. Between KGC's riches and the support of Mutsuba Heavy Machinery, the Space Operations Duel Squadron, and the four other Goha siblings, Yuga and Neiru were able to assemble the ultimate space superweapon!
Breaking: The Duelists of Justice were heading into orbit!
Goha Space Elementary was in the middle of its slow descent when the heroes' warship established visual.
"It's crumbling apart!" Luke, one of the two crew members not in costume, shouted.
"Gururururu!" The*Guruguru flailed his claws.
The*Princess Asana stepped in front of The*Cavalry Rangers. "It's time, then."
"Yes, to activate my LADYBUG OBLITERATION ROAD!"
"That again?" The*Professor Gakuto sweatdropped. "The painful names never end!"
"Fine, Professor Gakuto!" The*Yugaman capitulated. "Tiger, power up the HYPER ENGINE VAST VULCAN!"
"You don't have to tell me twice! Feel it with your spirit…MY BREATH!" The*Jushin Tiger smashed her fist on the button.
The wave-motion cannon at the bow of the ship whirred to life. Blue plasma sufficient to black out (more like destroy) Goha City if directed through Haven was sucked into its rumbling barrel. The barrel inside the gold shachihoko's mouth, targeted directly at the plummeting space station!
Yuo, Doll, and the Newspaper Club watched the moment of truth on Sixross. They had the best seats to watch the looming cataclysm.
It was a tricky rope for Yuo to tightrope: It was critical the Duelists of Justice and his brothers and sister succeed or he'd have no empire left to run, yet they were just so noble about it, the integrity of it drove him to anger!
"Ignition sequence complete! Energy levels maximum!" Goha Alien #1 signalled. "Prepare to fire at lightning speed!"
"Thrusters disengaged, schwer! Trajectory?"
The*Masked Advisor M reviewed her scan. "All clear! Awaiting attack authorization!"
"Steady! We only get one shot! On my mark!" Yuga calculated the necessary distance they'd need to be from the base before blowing it up.
Goha Space Elementary came closer.
And closer.
And closer.
"Uh, Yuga?" Romin panicked.
"Yuga-kun!" Gakuto panicked louder.
"Steady!"
Mimi gulped.
"Gururururu!"
A second sooner than Yuga's math, Luke barged in next to Yuga and seized command.
"FIRE THE LASER!" He pointed, the suddenness of his interference provoking Mimi to discharge the weapon prematurely.
Blue light swallowed Goha Space Elementary, enveloping it in an incandescent globe. Although Luke's gaffe made them miss the timing, his careless tumble across the controls overrode Schwer's previously entered bearings and tipped their vessel, compensating for the difference by utter accident.
The laser disintegrated the deadly school into the vacuum of space.
"Dang it! My stuff was in there!" Yuo only now just realized.
Nico snapped his picture. "The evil face of the President of Goha Corporation who is in the grips of a meltdown…I'll help myself to it, thank you very much!"
"Excuse me? Can you give us your assessment on the resolution of the debacle you caused?" Masaru held his microphone to Yuo's mask.
"Hey! You three work for me!"
"Incorrect. We work for the fair people of Goha City. 'Reveal the truth to as many people as possible!' That's our motto!" Bakuro advertised.
Yuo shook Doll.
Yuga looked at Sixross on the screen and wondered how Yuo was taking it.
In space, no one can hear you scream.