Aurasoul hugging Ai tightly: Hello everyone and welcome to Vrains! I give a shout out to 0713MM for helping me type this story along with letting me use his OC Glacies and I don't own Vrains just my OCs.
Rai: Wait again?
Aurasoul: Like I said I'm moving it along especially now that Vrains is over dear lord that ending...
Miho: Right... Well everyone enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 9
"Thank you come again."
Rai smiled waving goodbye to his last customers of the day that had just left the shop before he sighed frowning putting up the closed sign as he then began cleaning the counter and couldn't help but think back to what Faust had told him.
"Revolver is him."
He quickly shook his head slamming his fist on the counter. "It just has to be a mistake he wouldn't do that not to me and especially not to Miho." He muttered. "But what Faust said-!"
*ZZZT*
"Aaah!"
Rai cried out in pain, clutching the back of his head. "My head! Why did it?!" He hissed. Just now this sensation...
Miho grumbled rubbing the back of her head as she typed at her computer in SOL Technologies, Kitamura not there at the moment. Ugh! My head has been on pins and needles since last night! Just what is this reaction all about?! She thought annoyed.
She then looked to see Kitamura walking back a smug smile on his face which made her blood boil. And seeing this guy all high and mighty is making it worse! Taking credit for purging Genome, Baira, and Faust! This guy really ticks me off. She thought annoyed.
"Chief Kitamura!" One of the workers suddenly spoke.
"What is it? Say whatever you want." Kitamura smiled.
"The AI Duelist Squad is vanishing one after another!" The worker replied.
"What?" Kitamura questioned shocked.
Miho looked at the screen seeing the signals of each of the AI duelists going out. With those three gone it could be the work of Beelzebub and maybe even Revolver! She thought, before lowly hissing in pain. And along with this pain…
Miho and Rai walked to the outlook of the Stardust Road seeing Cafe Nagi truck and Yusaku sitting at a table sipping a drink as Kusanagi and Ai talked. "Hey you guys." Miho voiced.
"Oh you managed to find us." Kusanagi remarked with a smile.
"When you mentioned the Stardust Road it was easy to find." Rai chuckled. "A friend of ours lives near it."
"Eh? You mean at that building over there?" Ai asked, pointing at the home.
"Yeah that's it." Miho nodded with a smile. "We would all go see the Stardust Road at night all the time when we were younger we still do sometimes."
"Yeah you two." Rai snickered.
"Rai hush!" She hissed flushing, making Rai snicker. Even Ai snickered at Rai's remark.
"Then maybe that last customer was him. He said that it would be his last time coming. Something about moving." Ai replied. The two blinked surprised at this looking at one another.
"Did he tell you about him moving somewhere?" Rai questioned.
"No. Nothing." She frowned, worried. She then sighed, taking a seat at the table. "This is just getting more odd. First the AI duelists being taken out, and now this."
"Eh? AI duelists have been defeated?" Kusanagi questioned surprised.
"Left and right LINK VRAINS may seem safe on the surface but no doubt." Miho frowned.
"It must be Revolver." Kusanagi frowned.
"Him? But didn't he run away?" Ai replied.
"No. Revolver isn't the type to run away there must be a reason why he hasn't appeared." Yusaku countered.
*ZZZT*
Miho and Rai winced as Yusaku and Ai gasped by the sensation they felt. "What's wrong?" Kusanagi asked worried.
"We're fine but." Rai frowned, looking at Yusaku.
"Yusaku, you felt it too?" Ai asked.
"Yeah. What was that weird feeling?" Yusaku questioned.
"Did something happen?" Kusanagi asked.
"I felt something strange just now." Yusaku replied.
"Strange how?" Miho questioned.
"Because he has Link Sense." Ai replied.
"Link Sense?" Rai questioned, looking at Miho who shrugged.
"We should thoroughly check LINK VRAINS." Yusaku spoke.
Revolver, Spectre, and Beelzebub appeared in front of the bodies of the three commanders. "The die has been cast." Revolver spoke.
"Losing these three is a serious blow. I lost them because I was focused on Playmaker, but I have no time for sentimentality they've become the foundation to fulfill our plan."
"Yes Revolver-sama." Spectre nodded.
"Your plan you mean." Beelzebub only replied.
"But we still don't know Playmaker's identity." Spectre reminded. "Is that fine?"
"This plan must succeed even if it costs me my life." Revolver said. "I'll eliminate anyone who interferes, no matter who!"
Beelzebub looked at Revolver as he said this a frown on his face.
Flare and Sparks rode on the Data Stream looking around LINK VRAINS. "Well everything seems to be fine." She remarked.
"On the surface but no doubt something is going on." He frowned.
"We should keep"-
*BZZT*
"Aaah!" They cried out.
They swerved on their D-Boards before quickly gaining back momentum. "Ow that really stung!" She hissed, clutching the back of her head.
"Ugh… No doubt this shows there is something going on here." He winced, rubbing his head.
"What's wrong with you two?" Playmaker questioned, riding next to them.
"Nothing to worry your head over." She replied, rubbing her head still.
Playmaker frowned then noticed glowing lights flying by. "What are those? Fireflies?" Ai questioned.
"Follow them!" Playmaker spoke.
They quickly turned their D-Boards to follow the fireflies but saw they made a turn to the buildings they quickly jumped off and jumped few buildings to go after them to an alleyway. "Finally they stopped." She muttered.
"Are they taking a break?" Ai questioned. "Or is there something over there?"
"Only one way to find out." She remarked, about to use her Program.
"Hey!" They looked up to see Ghost Girl above them. "Leave them alone." Ghost Girl told them.
"Oh you again." Ai spoke.
"Ghost Girl." Sparks smiled.
"Good to see you Sparky." Ghost Girl smiled.
"Again with the Sparky." Flare muttered with a sweatdrop, as Ghost Girl jumped down.
"Why are you here?" Playmaker questioned.
"I received a tip that something is happening in LINK VRAINS." Ghost Girl told them.
"Tip?" Playmaker questioned.
"And since you three are here, that means it wasn't a false tip." Ghost Girl noted.
"What are those fireflies?" Ai questioned.
"They're guides for finding treasure." Ghost Girl told them. "They find and tell me about interesting items."
"That program is unfair just like you." Ai replied.
"But wouldn't that be the same for Flare's program?" Ghost Girl smirked.
"I resent that." Flare deadpanned.
"And these are reliable partners." Ghost Girl added.
Sparks gave Flare a look she nodded activating her program allowing her flames to go to where the fireflies were. "Well they did find something that's for sure." She remarked.
"Up ahead is dangerous you should log out." Playmaker told Ghost Girl.
"You're planning to steal my treasure they say the greater the danger, the greater the rewards." Ghost Girl said.
She typed on her duel disk and her fireflies formed a portal before going inside. "See you." Ghost Girl said, before jumping in.
"Let her investigate while we stay here." Ai said.
"Our goals and Ghost Girl's are different." Playmaker replied.
"Let's go then." Sparks said.
The three then jumped in following Ghost Girl under LINK VRAINS as they walked. "There's a sewer in LINK VRAINS?" Playmaker questioned.
"It's to put away unnecessary data." Ghost Girl replied.
"With how much data they use on this place there would have to be unnecessary data along the way." Sparks remarked.
They then reached a diverge of two paths. "Two paths. What should we do?" Ai questioned.
"Well right or left we have to split apart." Ghost Girl remarked.
"Let's decide with a game." Ai suggested.
"Good idea! That's why you're Playmaker's AI." Ghost Girl praised.
"Well you two play your game I'll be taking left." Flare said, walking.
"Eh? You aren't gonna join in?" Ai questioned.
"I'm not one for games. Never had the patience for it." Flare shrugged, taking the left path.
"Honestly you just don't like games in general." Sparks sighed amused with a shrug, following his twin.
"Oh shut up!" She snapped.
The two walked forward both silent until Flare spoke. "You know things are becoming a mess." She muttered.
"You mean because we're in a sewer?" He asked.
"Be serious Sparks." She scowled. "I mean it Baira, Faust, and Genome, Uncle Kiyoshi, the Knights, Ryoken, Yukiko it's all a big mess that doesn't make any sense."
He was silent not saying a word a frown on his face when he saw a shape coming from the water. "You saw that?" She spoke with a frown.
"Yeah I did keep an eye out." He replied.
"I know." She nodded.
"Flare, Sparks."
The two looked up to see Playmaker walking to them. "So you guys took left too." Sparks remarked.
"Yeah." Ai remarked before pouting and crossing his arms. "Stupid game of Ghost Girls…"
"It was rigged from the start, Ai." Playmaker told him. Ai anime fell and spoke "No fair"!
"See this is why I don't play games with her." Flare scoffed, glancing at Sparks. "And I don't know how the heck you get along with her."
"She's really not that bad once you get to know her." Sparks chuckled.
"Enough joking around." Playmaker told them as he walked past them. Before either could make a comment, the water erupted in front of Playmaker making them gasp as a large digital like monster appeared out of the water.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ai freaked. "Scary monster!"
Flare grew wide eyed as she saw the monster raises it's claw hand. "Playmaker watch out!" She yelled.
Swiftly she pushed him out of the way as the monster swung its claw hitting Flare and crashing her to the wall. "Ack!" She cried out.
"Flare!" Sparks yelled.
"You alright Flare?!" Ai called out to her, concerned.
"Flare…" Playmaker spoke softly.
"Ugh I'm fine." She grunted, standing. "Playmaker go on ahead, me and Sparks can take care of this thing."
"Right." Playmaker nodded.
"Eh?! Are you serious?!" Ai yelled shocked.
Flames circled around Flare while static circled Sparks. "She is." Sparks stated deadly. "Now go." Playmaker nodded, then proceeded to run ahead.
Ghost Girl walked to the center seeing the large orb.
"So this is the core of LINK VRAINS's reprocessing system?" She wondered.
She sent out her fireflies at the orb allowing her to see the data within in once she did she gasped. "This amount of energy is crazy! Lots of energy are entering the reprocessing system! Why? What's happening?!" She said shocked.
Then she saw her fireflies to another entrance she quickly moved to get a closer look and gasped to see someone walking forward.
"What do we have here? Some snooper?"
"Revolver." Ghost Girl frowned, backing away slightly. Revolver observed Ghost Girl carefully. "I'll have you know I just got lost I'll leave right away."
Ghost Girl collected back her fireflies and went to leave but a gate appeared in front of her making her gasp.
"Sorry, but you've seen too much as is." Revolver told her. "I cannot allow you to leave."
"As expected!" Quickly Ghost Girl went to another exit, but it was sealed off like before making her gasp. "It's pointless." He told her.
"Then what will you do after you capture me?" She questioned.
"You want to leave that badly?" He asked.
"Because if I stay with you, I think I'm in trouble." She replied.
He smirked. "You'll help me tune my deck and if you win this duel, I'll let you go." He said.
"I see not a bad offer, but I'll pass." She said.
Ghost Girl jumped off on her D-Board seeing the other exists closing. "I have to log out." She remarked, pressing her duel disk but saw she couldn't.
"You can't log out from this area." He told her, on his own D-Board. "Ready to duel?"
"I guess I have to duel." She frowned.
"SPEED DUEL!"
"Well that takes care of that thing."
Flare and Sparks stood over the heavily torn body of the monster before it digitized. "Although I think you went a bit too far." Sparks hummed.
"Oh, don't you pull that you were just as bad as me besides it helped me blow off some steam." She shrugged. "Now come on we have to catch up with Playmaker the pain is coming back again."
"Yeah I felt it too let's hurry." He nodded.
The two then quickly ran heading down to where Playmaker went.
Ghost Girl started her turn summoning Marionetter and setting two cards. I'd never thought I'd battle Revolver here but to let people know what's happening I must win! She thought.
Revolver manages to summon Topologic Bomber Dragon and about to use its effect but Ghost Girl, Special Summoned Kunquery to stop both Topologic Bomber's attack and negate its effect forcing Revolver to end his turn. Something is no doubt happening in LINK VRAINS. She thought, before speaking. "What are you going to use all that energy for?"
She frowned. The Hanoi are planning something terrifying. She thought, pulling up the data she gained. I came here for a treasure hunt, but I didn't expect this.
Suddenly she gasped upon seeing a particular part of the data as she looked at it shocked. "What?!" She gasped, looking at the sphere. Someone is inside it?!
"Hoh? Taken notice of the person inside that sphere?" Revolver questioned.
She glanced at him before she suddenly remembered Flare and Sparks and grew wide eyed. "Don't tell me…" She began, before looking at Revolver. "Tell me the one that's in the sphere it's Flare and Sparks' little sister isn't it? The one you and the Hanoi kidnapped." Revolver sighed.
"No point in playing avoid." Revolver mused before his lips curved into a somewhat dark smile. "Yes, it was me." She couldn't help but scowl. "So, you kidnapped her for this did you?" She demanded.
"So, what if I did?" Revolver frowned deeply.
She clutched her hand tightly. "Well since I do owe Sparky, I should pay him back by helping him and Flare get their little sister back." She replied.
"Humph! Try if you can!" Revolver shot back.
Flare and Sparks quickly ran down the corridor and saw Playmaker in front of them.
"Playmaker!" Sparks called. Playmaker turned to face the approaching Flare and Sparks.
"Flare, Sparks." He spoke.
"You guys are ok!" Ai said, relieved.
"Of course just a little bruised." Flare assured, rolling her shoulder.
Sparks looked ahead of them.
"But it seems this is a dead end." He remarked.
"Just as I thought." Playmaker frowned. "She tricked us to go this way on purpose."
"I swear that woman." Flare muttered, before she suddenly grew wide eyed. "Guys move back!"
The floor of the corridor began got crack shocking them as they moved back a bright light shined below as a hole formed. "What just happened?!" Ai questioned shocked.
"Some sort of abnormality." Flare frowned, looking below.
"And a very dangerous one at that." Sparks remarked.
"Let's go." Playmaker said, jumping down.
"I knew you'd do this!" Ai yelled. Flare and Sparks followed Playmaker down quickly running to see the light.
"What is that?" Playmaker questioned.
"That's where Ghost Girl went!" Ai yelled. They quickly ran to the sealed exit and were shocked to see Ghost Girl dueling Revolver.
"Isn't that!" Sparks gaped.
"Revolver!" Playmaker gasped.
"But why is he dueling Ghost Girl?" Flare questioned.
They watched as the duel progress and saw now Revolver's LPs were at 200. "His LP are under 1000." Flare frowned.
"Which means he'll activate Storm Access." Sparks paled.
Then they saw the data stream coming out from the sphere and both Flare and Sparks winced.
"So it was coming from the sphere this pain." Sparks muttered.
Revolver activated his Skill gaining the Link monster Topologic Trisbaena and using its effect to destroy Ghost Girl's facedowns and attacking her directly resulting her LP down to 0.
"Ghost Girl!" Sparks yelled. Ghost Girl screamed as she hit the wall above them before falling in front of them. "Ghost Girl! Hang in there!" Sparks yelled.
Ghost Girl winced slowly turning to face them.
"F-For a professional I'm pathetic." She winced.
"Hold on we'll save you!" Playmaker yelled.
"This is more important this treasure." Ghost Girl countered, raising her duel disk. A firefly with the data flew out flying in Playmaker's duel disk. "You must take that data out of here." Ghost Girl told them. "Like you said something is happening in Link VRAINS and worse of all." She looked at Flare and Sparks with a wince. "The Hanoi are using your sister to do it." She told them.
"What?!" Flare gasped.
"Y-Your sister is in the sphere being used to power it." Ghost Girl told them weakly.
"No way." Sparks gasped. Then Ghost Girl glowed red and began to disappear making them gasp. "Ghost Girl!"
"Be careful of Revolver he has a terrifying card-" Before Ghost Girl could finish she disappeared her data going to the sphere. "Ghost Girl!" Sparks yelled.
"The way she vanished was horrible!" Ai yelled. Revolver flew and landed in front of them making them look up. "You're late Playmaker." He remarked.
"Revolver what did you do to Ghost Girl?!" Playmaker demanded.
"She became the foundation to save the world." Revolver told him. "She won't come back."
"Foundation? Just like our little sister? Just like Yukiko?!" Flare demanded glanced away, but kept the corner of his eye contact with Flare, Sparks, and Playmaker.
"...Yes." He replied.
"Why you!" Flare growled.
"Just what is your plan here?!" Sparks demanded.
"The Tower of Hanoi has already activated and if you want to stop this game you must defeat me." Revolver told them. Then the tentacles from the sphere hit the ceiling causing it to crumble making them gasp Revolver getting on his D-Board. "Revolver! Wait, Revolver!" Playmaker yelled.
"We gotta get out of here!" Ai yelled.
"Tch! He's right!" Sparks scowled. Playmaker and Flare still clutched the bars shaking angrily. "Flare we have to go!" Sparks yelled.
"Playmaker you too!" Ai added. Playmaker tched at Ai's words, but allowed Ai to log him out.
"Flare!" Sparks yelled. Flare looked at the sphere grinding her teeth before following Sparks the two logging out.
The three came out of the room in the truck of Cafe Nagi.
"Kusanagi-san!" Yusaku voiced.
"Yusaku, Miho, Rai look!" Kusanagi said. The three looked at the screen and gasped seeing seeing a tower erupt from the ground forming in a massive shockwave much to their shock.
Aurasoul: And there you have it.
Yusaku: So we finally reached this part.
Aurasoul: And and it'll be done soon enough so please read and review everyone.
