Descendants of the Stars! AstroGear Appear!
"What do you think about this, Kusanagi?"
"I don't find any suspicious codes or programs so far."
"If the Knights of Hanoi are involved, it will be hard to detect their codes."
As Yusaku and Kusanagi got their full attention on the computer screen I was groaning in the chair beside them. After I learned from Yusaku – apologies, Playmaker – that Vrains didn't actually have a duel tutorial I was forced to logout and wait while they dissected my Duel Disk. It's not a fun experience and in fact, it might be the worst joke that fate could play on me at the moment. Playmaker was against teaching me from the beginning and it took a huge amount of begging to get something out of him, if they begin to suspect me for being connected to a cyberterrorist organization, whatever deal I might have had with him would be over in an instant.
"I think we found something, Yusaku!" My eyes widened at this and I walked over to them. There was no way I could stay at the side at get eaten by curiosity, but even so it's not like I could understand anything that the computer screen was showing. "There appears to be an outside hard drive connected to the Duel Disk."
"You mean like a chip?"
"Oh no." I groaned and reached out to grab my Duel Disk. "Before I came here, I was put into a hospital where one of the doctors put a chip on my disk." I explained to them while also pointing at the entrance where the little device was located.
"And he did this without telling you the purpose of this chip?" I could literally feel the doubt in every single one of Yusaku's words, but still tried to shake it away.
"He told me that the purpose of this chip was to check on my vitals to make sure my situation doesn't get worse while I'm logged in. For instance, yesterday I was logged in when the Knight of Hanoi attacked and if it wasn't for the chip logging me out due to the increasing of my heartbeat, I would have most likely lost my account."
"Let's see it then." Kusanagi pulled the chip of my Duel Disk and suddenly a message appeared on the computer screen, saying that the data was no longer available. "So, the duel tutorial was part of the chip's programming."
"I'm sorry." I whispered to them and sat back down. I can't believe that I let myself be tricked, even less that the person who lied to me was, a doctor!
"Don't worry about it. I will keep the chip for now to try and decode it, but you can take your Duel Disk." Kusanagi told me.
"We shouldn't bother with a chip while the Knights of Hanoi are roaming into Link VRAINS." Yusaku protested. He did have a point, but I was more worried about the nature of the chip. Could the Hanoi influence have reached even this city's hospitals?
"Don't worry, I will keep an eye out in case the Knights of Hanoi show up." Kusanagi turned away and put my chip into his computer. "I will take care here, you two should go now, there's school tomorrow."
"Um, I don't actually go to school-! What?" I pulled myself back against the chair at the confused expressions that both Kusanagi and Yusaku were giving me.
"Nothing, it's just… surprising to hear that you don't go to school." Kusanagi pointed out.
Right, usually kids that don't go to school are either very poor, or bad kids that have a high probability to end up doing something illegal. I don't look poor, so they must be thinking that I'm a criminal!
"No, no, it's not like you think!" I shouted and crossed my arms into an 'X'. "I had graduated 8th grade and woke up in this city just yesterday, so I didn't have time to go look for school!"
And even if I had the time, there are no documents on me to prove my identity. If we also add that I'm here with no parents, place to stay, or money, I wouldn't be allowed, or be able to attend any of the schools in this town!
"I'm leaving then." Yusaku finally said and walked past me, opening the truck's door. He turned back and my eyes meet with his. Knowing that he was staring at my eyes was so embarrassing~ "Good luck Kusanagi."
…Oh, he was actually looked at Kusanagi. I sighed and pressed my head against the chair, the sound of a door closing echoed through the closed space of the truck as Yusaku left us. All that remained afterward was just the sound of Kusanagi pressing the keyboard at an incredible pace. Hmm, now that Yusaku had left, maybe I should do too, after all, I was the stranger in the group, yet I overstayed my welcome.
"That's interesting."
"What's interesting?" I asked Kusanagi and then quickly closed my mouth. He wasn't talking to you, dummy, why did you have to ask that?!
"The chip appears to be directly connected with LINK VRAINS even if it's not connected to your Duel Disk." Kusanagi pointed out, why that was interesting I had no idea, but still shook my head to make it look like I understand because why the heck not! "It appears to be sending data to something or someone within LINK VRAINS."
"Do you know who?" I turned toward the screen, if it was the Knights of Hanoi then…
"I try to track its signal, but whenever I reach a certain point, the system would close itself. It's some sort of a protective mechanism, it will take a long time to break it."
"So there's no way to know where it's transmitting to?"
"It goes to the deepest parts of LINK VRAINS, but beyond that, I'm unable to pinpoint an exact locations."
"Deepest parts of LINK VRAINS? Do you mean some sort of underground?" Because I and Playmaker dueled in the canalization…
"No… This is a mostly unused area within LINK VRAINS. Back when the Data Winds blew through the network, it was said to be an area where the monsters that resided within the data would appear. Of course, now that the Data Storms have reappeared, it's possible that someone has begun to use it again."
"Shouldn't we check it out if there's such a possibility? It might be the Knights of Hanoi's hiding place." Of course, if we did something like that, we would need Playmaker here in order to duel them…
"If monsters can truly materialize within that area, then the Knights of Hanoi would have probably been decimated." Kusanagi answered.
"Oh…"
"It's getting late, you should probably head home."
"I don't actually have a place to go back to." I answered honestly and put on my Duel Disk. "The only place I could stay at would be the hospital, but now that I know that they lied to me, I don't think it's a good idea."
"Oh… I don't know what to say about this."
"I should probably start to look for an accommodation." Not that anyone would give to a not-studying, not-working, and moneyless girl a room to live in. "Do you think anyone would give me a hotel room for one thousand and eight hundred yens?"
Kusanagi looked at me for a moment and then shook his head. Well, yeah, no one would give a hotel room for eighteen dollars that made sense, sandy. As bad as that might sounds, I will have to sleep on a bench until I'm able to find myself a place to stay. Which is convenient, because the truck is parked in a part, right next to several benches.
"Would you mind if I stay here for a bit longer?" I asked Kusanagi. "At least until the sun sets?"
This was a crazy request because I have always been taught not to stay up late, as bad people appear most often during the dark part of the day. But I couldn't ask Kusanagi to let me sleep in his truck… he and Playmaker already did too much for me by accepting to help me train even though it wasn't connected to their main task. To ask for more in this situation would be showing ungratefulness and selfishness!
"Of course, I don't mind." Even as he said that, Kusanagi didn't turn away from the screen to look at me; decoding this chip must be really important for him.
"Thanks."
I'm embarrassed to say that, but it took less than five minutes to get absolutely bored out of your mind in this truck. It was so bland and everything that Kusanagi did was to stare at the screen most of the time. I began to desperately look around for anything out of the ordinarily, even a small black down on the white wall would be enough to entertain me a bit, but nope. I had nothing on myself either, only some money and my Duel… Of course, I had my Duel Disk!
"Would it be a problem if I log into LINK VRAINS?"
This time Kusanagi stopped typing and turned toward me. Did I say something wrong or bad? Maybe they wouldn't want me to log into LINK VRAINS for the time being because they fear that I would unravel Playmaker's secret. It would make sense for them to think like that for a strange they just met a few hours ago, but then Kusanagi smiled at me and replied:
"Of course no, you are free to do as you wish."
"Thanks, Kusanagi!" I exclaimed in joy before raising my Duel Disk.
When my logging into the servers finished, I found myself in the middle of a city's street with huge crowds of avatars all over the place. There were some among them that were dueling, but most were there just to chat or watch the server news on the big screen.
"Let's finish this! TurboGear Motor Warrior, destroy Overtex Coatls!" I heard someone shouting and looked up, only to see as a red robot pashed over my head and slammed its claws into another black pterodactyl monster.
Everyone around me began to cheer like crazy as some riding one of those crazy boards flew around the buildings and waved at the crowd. His appearance was like that of a robot with red mechanical arms and legs. His eyes were dark purple, and his hair was blue with a huge spike-like forelock with yellow side spikes. He wore a red bodysuit with white tiger-lines at the sides and an extension at the backside which made it look like a longcoat. There were also three spikes on his shoulders and one on each knee.
I wasn't really interested, about this duelist, though. What caught my attention wasn't the avatar's look, but the name of his monster. First there was my BrioGear, then there came the NitroGear I saw online and now there is TurboGear too, and if what Kusanagi said was true, this guy might be a big deal. He jumped off his board and made a backflip, landing in the middle of a crowd, as you would expect, I went after him.
Pushing through the crowd of people – most of which were probably some fan girls - wasn't the easiest task out there. Asking them to move didn't work, since they were all yelling too loud to hear me, and if I tried to somehow push myself forward, they would all push me back. Everything I managed to achieve was learning his username from the fans' yelling. It was Rocketeer. Yeah, I'm not kidding.
My attempts to reach this guy ended up being pointless, as I spent at least ten minutes there and the crowd wasn't getting smaller. With a deep sight I turned around and left the crowd. Since the chip was now in Kusanagi's hands, I couldn't get into the tutorial either, so all I had to do was walk around and probably try to befriend someone.
"Hmm, where should I go now?" I asked myself, while looking my surroundings.
Without realizing what I was doing, while I tried to find some sort of map (Something that every game has nowadays.) I accidentally selected to be moved to a different server and was trying to get back ever since. Problem's that I didn't remember the name of the city server. I had so far visited a volcano server, a mountain server, even a server dedicated toward the Great Wall of China. My current locations was some, mostly abandoned city district. The buildings' windows were broken and the people around here didn't very friendly…
"Hey!"
I stopped and looked around, seeing someone behind a corner to wave in a different direction before walking inside an abandoned house. Of course this was none of my business, until I saw someone in a very familiar white attire, running into the abandoned house.
"A Knight of Hanoi…" I muttered to myself.
What should I do now, there were Knights of Hanoi, but I didn't have a way to call Playmaker at the moment. My instincts told me to just log out, but my mind was saying to follow the Knight and try to learn what their group was going to do next.
Following the promise I made to help Playmaker, I ran toward the abandoned house, stopping only when I reached the half open door. I hide behind the wall and peeked inside, the Knight wasn't there, but voices could be heard from the second floor.
I walked inside the house and headed up the stairs, as I did the voices became clearer, they were having a conversation about someone.
"So, when is that guy going to show up?" A voice asked.
"Be patient, after our last attack both SOL and Playmaker are on our tail, so we have to be more careful than ever." The other responded.
I hide behind the door, leading toward the room in which the Knight and the other player were chatting, pressing my ear against the surface to hear them more clearly.
The voice continued. "I heard that he had risen through the leaderboard and many users' and staff members' eyes are on him."
"I see, so thanks to him we are now having a wider reach. Revolver would be pleased to hear those news."
"I don't know, it's often very hard to tell with his constant poker face and serious voice. But back to our talk about security, I think we should get a different place to meet next time."
Strangely, while listening to them, I began to feel something hot against my ear. A strange heat seemed to be coming from that room and I had to move away from the door because of how uncomfortable it became to…
BOOM!
"Hyyyaaaa!"
3rd POV
After the Knights of Hanoi realized that someone had followed them, one of them quickly hacked the coding of the wall and door behind which Proxy was hiding and turned them into explosives. The explosion itself wasn't very strong because that would surely catch someone's attention, but it was strong enough to throw Proxy away and slam her into the wall at the other end of the floor. She lied there, defenselessly, and filled with pain from the sudden attack.
"Ever since that Playmaker began to show up, everyone began to think that they could take on our group by themselves." The formally dressed Knights of Hanoi stepped forward, staring down at the fallen girl. "Pathetic."
Proxy winched and raised her hand to log out of LINK VRAINS. She pressed the button and waited for the white light to take her back to the real world. Nothing happened.
"Aww, she wants to go back home to mommy." The second Knight of Hanoi, who wasn't wearing a uniform taunted her.
"Oh, how sad. She probably wanted to be a hero like that bastard Playmaker, but instead got blow up." The first one mocked her, and turned toward his partner. "Let's have some fun with her and then bring her to Revolver."
"I heard that he had some sort of new program and needed a guinea pig to test it on."
And while the Knights of Hanoi continued to discuss their options, a sense of dread overtook Proxy's senses. She was completely at the mercy of two cyberterrorists with no way to logout, run or call for help. Her eyes were filled with despair, as she uselessly crawled back against the wall behind her.
"Sounds good enough." The knights finally reached to an agreement, and turned toward their prey.
"Come here, you little squit." The knight reached to grab Proxy, and she turned her head away, closing her eyes tightly.
"Seriously, is there anyone you bastards wouldn't hurt?" The knights of Hanoi froze on the spot, as a new female voice echoed through the corridor.
Hearing the new voice, Proxy halfway opened one of her eyes. A golden right formed on the ground below her and a body began to slowly raise from the floor. The knights gasped and took a step back, creating some distance between them and the new intruder, a female avatar in a white outfit with a hood to hide her face and a pair of glowing metal wings floating behind her back.
"Who the heck are you?" One of the Knights asked.
"I'm just a simple everyday angel guardian who is about to kick your ass for threatening this girl." The user replied.
"Angel Guardian? You look more like a complete weirdo!"
"I thought that the Knights' weakest attribute was dueling, but your insults are times worse."
"You little… If you want so much to be crushed by the noble power of Hanoi, then be my guest!" The knight exclaimed, raising his Duel Disk to indicate that he was up for a challenge.
The girl raised her left arm as well, showing her Duel Disk. It was an old model requiring physical cards, but its appearance was significantly different the usual version. The main body was still white, but now it was diamond shaped with a blue gem on the top, outlined by a green line.
"Now, now, you should refrain from using insults. You will only embarrass yourself further that way." The knight gritted his teeth at the girl's mocking attitude. "But fine, I will be generous enough to give you the first turn. Your only turn."
"We will see who's going to laugh at the end!" The knight yelled back.
"DUEL!"
『Unknown Duelists LP: 4000 Hand: 5 (VS) KoH LP: 4000 Hand: 5』
"Perfect!" The knight exclaimed, looking at his cards. "With this hand, I will completely crush you! First, I play Foolish Burial to send Cracking Dragon from the Deck to my Graveyard!"
'Cracking Dragon…' Proxy thought, watching from the side. Wasn't that the name of the monster that almost killed her during her first visit in LINK VRAINS?
"Second, when my opponent controls no monsters, Hack Worm (LV.1, ATK: 400) can be Special Summoned by its own effect. Afterward, I Normal Summon Jack Wyvern (Lv.4, ATK: 1800)!"
Two limbless beast covered in metal with glowing green outlines and two orbs holding their wing-like features appeared in the Knight's field.
"Next, Jack Wyvern's effect's allows me to banish my two monsters to Special Summon my Cracking Dragon (LV.8, ATK: 3000) from the Graveyard!" The Knight declared.
Both monsters disappeared from the field and a giant limbless metal beast appeared in their place, its sole summoning being enough to demolish the walls and ceiling to make space for its body. Proxy's eyes widened, she recognized the monster as the one that deleted the accounts of every other avatar that it attacked.
"But I'm not done! I play DDoS Attack and target Cracking Dragon! Then, I send two more copies of DDoS Attack to inflict a combine amount of 1600 damage to you!"
The dragon opened its mouth and fired a stream of fire toward the girl, prompting her to cover her face with a hand.
『Unknown Duelist LP: 4000 - 3200 - 2400』
"I set a card." Knight of Hanoi pressed the last floating card, putting it on his field. "Do you see now, why the likes of you have no chance of defeating us?!"
"Because of a big dragon?" the girl titled her head to the side, then a little smirk formed on her face "I promised to beat you in a single turn, and I'm going to hold true to this promise! Draw!"
『Turn 2 [Unknown Duelist] LP: 2400 Hand: 6』
The girl took her sixth card and glanced at it for a moment before putting it behind the other cards in her hand, a sign that she already had everything she needed in order to win.
"First, to take care of your cards, I play the Quick Spell - AstroGear Schwert Platzen!" The card showed a white knight slamming his sword into the ground, which exploded upon the impact. "With its effect, I banish AstroGear Lammabschließen from my hand to send your set card to the Graveyard!"
AstroGear Schwert Platzen (Spell) Quick-Play
Target 1 card your opponent controls: Banish 1 "AstroGear" card from your hand; send the target to the GY. (Quick Effect): Target 1 "AstroGear" monster you control: Shuffle this card from your banished zone into your deck; that monster gains the following effect:
Your opponent can't target this card with card effects.
A white halo came out of the girl's spell card and flew through the set card, cutting it in half. The knight took a step back and gritted his teeth in anger.
"But that's not all!" the girl exclaimed and raised her left arm, a stream of energy forming into ball around it. "The effect of AstroGear Lammabschließen activates when banished, banish your Cracking Dragon until the end of this turn!"
AstroGear Lammabschließen
Level: 4/Attribute: LIGHT/Type: Beast/Effect
ATK: 1700/DEF: 1500
Effect: You can tribute this card, then target 1 LIGHT monsters in your GY; Special Summon it. If this card is banished: You can target 1 monster on the field; banish it until the End Phase.
"My Cracking Dragon?!" The Knight couldn't do anything, but look in shook, as the girl threw the sphere toward his monster, forcing it to disappear from the field.
"A-Amazing!" Proxy exclaimed. She had no idea what effects the Cracking Dragon, but she had witnessed it in action once, so she did know that it was a very strong monster.
"Next, I activate AstroGear Sakrosankt Zertreten!" The girl played another card which showed a white alien sanctuary. "When it's activated, I can Special Summon my banished AstroGear Lammabschließen!"
On the field appeared a large white dog with armor-tough skin that gave it a robotic appearance. The beast had no ears, nose, or tail. Its teeth were large and stick out of his mouth, which was black with blue lines. Finish its look was a single crack in the middle of its head where its glowing blue eye was located.
AstroGear Sakrosankt Zertreten (Spell) Continuous
When this card is activated: You can Special Summon 1 of your banished "AstroGear" monsters. If a LIGHT monster you control inflicts battle damage, gain that much LP. Once per turn, while this card is banished: You can Normal Summon 1 LIGHT monster in additation to your Normal Summon this turn.
"Now, AstroGear Lammabschließen attack him directly!" The girl pointed toward the Knight. Her monster obeyed and opened its mouth, unleashing an ultrasonic blast, so strong that it send the opponent, flying backward.
『KoH LP: 4000 - 2300』
"When a Light monster I control deals you damage the effect of AstroGear Sakrosankt Zertreten will give the same amount to me." The girl continued, a white halo formed over her head and showered her in light.
"Damn you!" The Knight of Hanoi hissed.
『Unknown Duelist LP: 2400 - 4100』
"Following this, will be the effect of AstroGear Beistand from my hand."
A small white robot with giant sword-shaped jets on its shoulders and blades for legs jumped over the girl's head. The new monster had a large head without mouth, only two glowing green eyes and a set of headphones.
AstroGear Beistand
Level: 3/Attribute: LIGHT/Type:Machine/Effect
ATK: 800/DEF: 700
Effect: During your Battle Phase, if an "AstroGear" monster you control attacked this turn, you can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, that monster gains ATK and DEF equal to this card's original ATK and DEF, and can attack a second time during this Battle Phase. If a LIGHT monster you control would be destroyed while this card is banished (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon this banished card, and if you do, that monster you control can't be destroyed by this battle or effect.
"If an AstroGear monster I control battled this turn, I can Special Summon Beistand from my hand and give its attack values to my attacking monster, along with a second attack!"
"W-what?!" the two Knights looked at each other, and then back toward the girl before them. She was smiling! This duel was as good as won for her, there was nothing they could do, no effect they could use to stop this final attack.
The little robot landed on AstroGear Lammabschließen's back and transformed into a jetpack. The beast threw its head forward and let out a loud cry, charging head first into the knights.
AstroGear Lammabschließen, ATK: 1700 + 800 - 2500
"Finish them, AstroGear Lammabschließen!"
"Nyyyyyaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" Proxy watched in awe as the monster hit its targeted and an explosion soon followed, destroying the rest of the hallway.
『KoH LP: 2300 0』
『Unknown Duelist LP: 4100 - 6400』
『Winner: Unknown Duelist』
After the duel ended and the smoke settled down, the two Knights were both down, with the girl standing over them alongside her monsters and holding her Duel Disk's blade aimed at them.
"The two of you are under arrest." She told her with a victorious smirk and pressed a button on her Duel Disk. A ball of lightning shot onto the Knights of Hanoi, locking their bodies from moving and blocking their ability to log out. After making sure that these dangerous hackers were secured, the girl turned back toward Proxy.
"Y-you were amazing!" The girl in white jumped back in surprise as Proxy was staring at her in awe. "You defeat them in one turn, this was so cool! How did you learn to duel this way?!"
After a few moments, the girl in white put a hand under her mouth and giggled at the reaction. The comments and questions that Proxy was throwing her way were all compliments and flattered her.
"I'm sure that one day you will become a great duelist yourself." The girl in white stated, catching Proxy by surprise. "The gears of your destiny are already set in motion. Just follow them."
"Um… what?"
The girl just smiled and waved. A white circle formed around her and the Knights of Hanoi, their bodies consumed by a white light. Within moments, the hallway was all but empty, with the only person remaining there being Proxy herself.
"Gears of Destiny?" She repeated those words, trying to process what they truly meant. She didn't believe that destiny was something that could be predetermined, but she felt that the girl in white meant something else with those words. Was it an invitation? Or a warning that Proxy was already involved in something that she still had no understanding about?
She had no idea what to think anymore, who to trust, all she knew was that there were things connected to her, and it made her nervous. All those recent events made her feel like the center of attention and she never liked that feeling. She hated when everyone else's eyes were on her, it made her nervous, but most importantly; it made her scared.
Now that the building was empty and she no longer had anything to do here, Proxy moved downstairs and opened the door to leave. But she didn't expect that there could be another person at the other side, just about to walk inside.
"Rocketeer?!"
Indeed, the duelist she watched a few hours ago was now standing right in front of her, his expression showing that he was just as surprised to see her - or anyone else for that matter - as she was. Though unlike Proxy, Rocketeer was able to quickly regain his composure.
"Ha-ha! Yes, are you the one who send me the anonymous message to duel?" He asked her, but his eyes were looking somewhere else, searching for something. "I never turn down a challenge, but girl, this is a pretty weird server to choose for that."
"Ah, s-sorry." Proxy took a step back and shook her head. "I didn't call you. T-there were Knights of Hanoi hiding-! They must have targeted you!"
"Really!?" He recoiled in fear and turned his head from side to side. "I never thought that they would try to come after me!"
"Y-yeah, b-but someone defeated them before you came, so it's all fine!" Proxy reassured him.
"Someone beat the Knights of Hanoi? Do you mean Playmaker?" Rocketeer asked her curiously.
"N-no!" Proxy shook her head. "It was a girl. I didn't watch her name, but she was dressed in white, and was great! She beat them all in a single turn!"
"I see… Um, I apologize in advance for the question, but why are you here then?"
"I-I saw the Knights of Hanoi and stalked them to here, b-but they found me and…" Proxy looked down in embarrassment, she couldn't confess that they cornered her, less so to someone she didn't ever know. "A-anyways! I saw your d-duel a while ago. I wanted to say 'hi' and… well, I noticed that you have a Gear deck too, so…"
"Wait, wait, wait." He viciously shook his arms in from of Proxy, further scaring the already frightened girl. "Are you a fan of Blaze Rose?"
"Blaze Rose? No, I'm not a fan or hers and I don't know for her either, why are you asking?"
"It's a long story, but basically because both of us were given our decks by the same teacher she thinks that we are destined to be rivals and has been trying to harass me into dueling her ever since she made it as a Charisma Duelist."
"Oh…" Proxy could understand why he would be worried about such questions, to be harassed into doing something sounded awful. "I actually said that because… Um, well… I'm a beginner and I have a Gear deck as well!"
"Ha, Seriously!?" Proxy jumped as Rocketeer put his hands on her shoulders and began to laugh. "Didn't they teach you how to duel, when they gave you your deck?"
"No one gave me this deck, I obtained it on my own." That was basically a lie, she had no idea how it came into her possession nor why. "But now, I'm at a complete loss about what to do with it, I'm not a trained duelist."
"So… You came to ask to be my protégé? We don't even know each other!"
"That's not it…" Proxy had to shake her head furiously, Playmaker was her mentor, and turning away from him to get training from this guy would be like betraying someone from her point of view. "I-I just… Um, my name is Proxy, it's nice to meet you."
"And now you are getting this conversation into a completely different direction."
"S-sorry, I… I have just never spoken with someone popular before and… I-it's nervous."
"Oh, is that so?" Rocketeer smirked playfully, causing a slight blush to form on Proxy's face, despite her being a virtual avatar. "You know what? What would you say about joined me on my private server for a bit?"
"Um… why?" Proxy asked him, she was still cautions around new people.
"Well, since you and I both use the Gear series, I figured that it would be nice of me to give you a few tips, etcetera."
"Then I won't mind spending some more time online, but I have to log out soon."
"Then why don't you come visit my server tomorrow?" Rocketeer suggested. "We will be able to spend more time and I will be able to tell you more things at once."
"I don't have much to do tomorrow… Ok, we can follow this idea instead!"
"Great! See you tomorrow then."
"Bye!"
A sphere of light consumed Proxy's body and she disappeared from the server. Despite his new friend logging out Rocketeer remained at the ruined house for a few more moments. His eyes stared at the building and his warm smile dropped a little. The Charisma Duelist's right arm clutched into a fist before he logged out as well.
A/N: Whelp, another chapter done! To be honest, I didn't expect this one to be written for a month or two, but well, yesterday I saw the greatest thing ever and that encouraged me to write the whole chapter in a few hours. For those of you who wonder what got me into the mood (and who don't I guess) it was the reveal of Advent Skull Archfiend/Advent Demon! A motherfucking Summoned Skull retrain! My monster favorite monster ever was not forgoten by Konami and got support in the holy year of 2018! And it's part of the 20th Anniversary Pack!
This happiness, I'm so happy! I will be building a Summoned Skull Deck once again! And I swear to the gods, Advent Skull Archfiend will appear in this story! He will appear! And he will be great like his predecessor!
*DEEP BREATH*
Now that my fanboying is finally behind (OMG THEY REALLY MADE A SUMMONED SKULL RETRAIN!) I will address the reviews.
ScalchopWarrior: Ok, given that we both know who that was, I probably deserve the swears, but I believe that this chapter makes up for the last one. Other than that, thanks for pointing out my mystake, I believe that I corrected it.
ThePLOThand: I put you second because, well, your review has something in commont with Scal's. Well, that's why Roxy is there, to make Yusaku more, UGO-protagonistic.
Ninjacya321: Don't worry, the story won't end here. There will be at least 15 chapters before we even get to Playmaker raiding the SOL Data Bank, and there is a lot more after than. Thanks for your constructive critism, I'm not an expert on Card Text writting (ironic given how long I've been making cards), so thanks for pointing that out!
Thanks to everyone for reading this chapter and remember. ADVENT SKULL ARCHFIEND IS REAL AND MY BOY SUMMONED SKULL GOT SUPPORT! SUMMONED SKULL DECK 2018 IS GOING TO BE A THING!
Diabolic Tracer out!