Part 1: Chapter 10 – Not Prepared to Handle This

Shinji had been silent for the rest of the time after Mita had spoken briefly with him. As they walked towards the foreboding elevator entrance leading to the depths of the underground, Shinji contemplated the words the officer had spoken to him.

"If you really want to help the Commons, you will come with us."

What had she meant by that? Why was Security of all people interested in helping the Commons? They were the ones who were oppressing the Commons under the orders of the Tops. Was this some weird psychological trick, a way to cleverly manipulate him into being quiet and submissive?

Together, they entered the small elevator before the male officer, Santiago, pressed the button to go down. Once the doors had closed and they began the slow descent, the two officers looked at each other before nodding their heads. Letting go of Shinji, Shinji was surprised to see the dimly lit elevator suddenly become illuminated with white light, before a small heron-shaped mark materialized in the air in front of them.

Gasping with shock, Shinji jumped back against the wall of the elevator. "What the heck's going on here?!" He shouted at the officers.

The officers turned their backs to him and began removing their helmets. Blazing through their heavy armor, Shinji noticed the same white heron mark glowing against their backs.

"It's nice to finally get out of these things." Mita sighed, popping a few muscles on her back and shoulders as she stretched out, letting her red ponytail fall over the back of her neck.

"You're sure you did it right?" Santiago asked, twisting his neck around as he removed his own helmet.

"Relax, Geuvarra," Mita replied, rolling her eyes. "I practiced a couple times and Ruri helped me out with this one."

Shinji had no idea on what was going on.

"Practice…Ruri…" He shook his head, unable to make any sense of it. "…I don't care if you're officers!" He yelled. "If you two don't tell me what's going on…right now…I'll…!"

"Listen, kid." Santiago snapped. "There's not a whole lot you could do against us, even if you weren't handcuffed. We've only got a couple of minutes to talk with each other in private before we reach the underground, so if you want to stop Roger and his regime, I suggest you shut your trap and pay attention!"

"What are you talking about!?" Shinji sputtered in disbelief.

"This mark we created," Mita pointed at the heron mark hovering in the air, "…is currently masking this conversation and every one of our actions. If Roger is watching us or listening to us, he'll only get feed of us standing around while quietly waiting to reach the bottom."

"I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT!" Shinji snarled. "Why is Security interested i-?"

"JUST SHUT UP AND WE'LL TELL YOU!" Mita roared, three times louder than Shinji, making him shut his mouth like a clam and back up against the wall. Mita smirked at Shinji's response. "See, we can shout too."

"Thank you, Mita." Santiago replied, pushing her to the side. "It's always a pleasure to hear your shrill voice."

"Hey… was that sarcasm?" Mita whined. "Because I'm pretty sure that was pure sarcasm."

"It was one-hundred percent heartfelt." Santiago replied dryly. "Anyway," he turned to Shinji, "before we get any more interruptions, you should know that you and the Commons are not the only ones interested in change. You're right about something, Shinji: this city is a mess, and it is in desperate need of fixing. But we are not going to fix this city for the better if a bunch of rabble-rousing Commons mass together and start venting their hatred against the Tops and Security. Contrary to what you might believe, they are not your enemies."

Shinji stared back at Santiago with skepticism. "And what makes you think I'd believe that?"

"I know you're smarter than how you're acting," Mita replied, looking down at Shinji with a mixture of disapproval and pity, "but you've got so much anger that's been bundled up inside, that you refuse to see the reality of the situation. So you're just creating a quick and easy villain you can hate…a.k.a. the Tops and Security…without considering every aspect of the problem."

"Really?" Shinji sneered, disgusted by Mita's condescending, oh-so-smarter-than-thou police-officer tone. "Because last time I checked, I think I had it pretty well figured out. Commons like me get oppressed by Tops who send Security out to do their bidding!"

"And where do you think Security comes from?" Mita asked, sounding like a school teacher who was slowly losing her patience. "You think we just spawn from police stations, ready made in our suits and ready to arrest people the Tops don't like?" She waved around her hands, indicating both herself and Santiago. "I came from a family of twenty people who all had to work at something just so we could eat every week! Heck! You should see Santiago's house! He lives with his family, extended family, and their extended family! You can't imagine how much of a blessing it was to his home when he successfully became a Security Officer who could provide a decent income for them!"

"Of course I could have settled down as a share-cropper." Santiago shrugged.

"But then you wouldn't have met me." Mita quipped, punching Santiago in the shoulder.

"So what!?" Shinji protested, throwing his hands into the air, "Are you saying that every single member of Security is a Common? Why should I care about that even if it were true!? It would only mean that you people betrayed us, and are now nothing but dogs for the Tops, just like Jack Atlas…and Yuya!" He clenched his fists and glared at them. "I'm making no deals with Tops dogs who've sold their souls for riches!"

Mita burst out laughing at Shinji's comment. Even Santiago nearly let out a laugh as a huge smile crept over his handsome face.

"You think we're rich!?" Mita guffawed, wiping a tear from her eye. "Santiago gives EVERYTHING he earns to his family's gas and grocery bills! Do you have ANY idea how much he's given up!? He could have been one of the best… no…THE BEST D-Wheeler in the freaking world! You hear me!? THE ENTIRE FREAKING WORLD! He seriously could have smacked Jack Atlas on his posh rear end, and he certainly could have beaten an insensitive scrub like you!"

"Maybe not Jack Atlas." Santiago mumbled, looking a little uncomfortable.

"YOU ARE THE FREAKING BEST D-WHEELER IN HISTORY, MR. ACCEL SYNCHRO, DELTA ACCEL SYNCHRO…whatever the heck other Accel Synchro stuff you figured out!" Mita roared. "I've seen you arrest an entire gang of delinquent duelists by yourself, so don't you be selling yourself short!"

She advanced on Shinji, towering over him with her immense height. "We're people too, Shinji! People with hopes and dreams! Fact of the matter is, most of us have had to make sacrifices. Most of us have been tied down. I would have loved to become an Olympic swimmer, or a voice actress, or maybe even an artist, but with the income I'm earning right now…that's just not happening!"

"And yet somehow you managed to find just enough cash to punch all that metal jewelry into your face." Santiago smirked.

"Point being," Mita continued, ignoring Santiago's comment, "that you've got the wrong idea about who we are! How can you expect to be a champion of the people, if you don't even know the people you're fighting for?"

"I do know who I'm fighting for!" Shinji roared back. "I have Crow, and Damon, and Tony, and Amanda, and Frank, and Tanner, all those people! They've been oppressed for too long by people like you, and I'm going to fight for these people my way! I'm not going to fight against the Tops by selling my soul to traitors like you!"

"And what do you know about the Tops?" Santiago interrogated, stepping forward. "Do you have any idea how much oppression they're going to and have already faced?"

Shinji opened his mouth, staring blankly at Santiago with an utterly confused expression on his face. "Oppression? Tops?" He gaped. "What nonsense is this!?"

"What do you know about directive Alekhine's Gun?" Mita asked, folding her arms.

"Should I really care about it?" Shinji snarled.

"It refers to a chess move," Mita explained, brushing off Shinji's outburst, "a chess move designed to put pressure on the opposing player by stacking two rooks in front of a Queen in a straight line."

"And how does this…?" Shinji began before Mita cut him off.

"Directive Alekhine's Gun is designed to do the same thing: it's designed to place overwhelming pressure on a powerful threat by recruiting every able-bodied individual as a city defender. You've already seen this directive in action earlier today. Roger already has control over almost one hundred percent of City's Security, and now he's using them to forcefully recruit every last person he can into his own personal army, including the Tops."

Shinji stared at Mita and Santiago in disbelief. "Why would the Chief of Public Security be conscripting Tops? Doesn't he work for them?"

"That changed just yesterday," Santiago replied, "though you wouldn't know about it with the way Roger has handled the media." He rubbed his forehead. "I still find it hard to believe myself, but somehow Roger managed to plant a device that allows him to control a person's mind in the brains of every single Security officer."

"I'll bet he did it during that stupid mandatory physical examination." Mita growled bitterly. "I can't believe I let them put me under so they could, quote on quote, 'run some tests.'"

"Once it became clear that his position was threatened by the Executive Council," Santiago continued, "he moved quickly. Literally overnight, every last one of us became his slaves. In a matter of minutes, he managed to overrun the Executive Council and every other party that stood in his way, and gain absolute control over the government. Now that a new threat has challenged his power, it looks like he's not going to rest until he has control over the hearts and minds of every last citizen."

Shinji's ears perked up, hatred gradually giving way to curiosity. "What threat are you talking about? Was it me when I made that speech? Or is someone else standing up to Roger?"

"That's what we're here to talk to you about." Mita replied. "Make no mistake, Shinji. The rebellion that you spoke of, a bunch of Commons rising up and putting a boot to the face of the Tops, that wouldn't have solved anything. If anything, it would have made Roger's work even easier once the Tops practically begged him to become a dictator in order to gain protection from an unruly mob."

She stepped forward. "But we've met someone who can do more than offer up symbolic resistance. She not only has the power to crush Roger and free this city from his regime, but a plan to replace this regime with a better government."

"What government?" Shinji asked, looking up at Mita with a mixture of curiosity and incredulity. "Who is she?"

Mita smiled. "You'd never believe it, but she's a fourteen-year-old girl named Ruri Kurosaki."

Shinji blinked, wondering where he had heard the name before. Suddenly, in a flash of recognition, Shinji was able to connect the name, "Kurosaki," to the Xyz-using duelist who had mercilessly crushed the duelist, Dennis Macfield.

"Shun's sister?" Shinji gasped. "You're following Shun's sister!? How!? Why!?"

He didn't know where to begin. Wasn't she captured, according to Shun and Dennis's story? How did she end up here? Why would anybody follow her?

Santiago seemed to understand some of Shinji's questions. "I was hesitant myself." He explained, turning around to show Shinji the mark on his back, "but ever since I joined her cause in order to bring order back to this city, I've been sharing in her thoughts. She has big plans for us. Plans which, if they were successfully carried out, could mean us building a city where there were no Tops, no Commons, and no need for Security! It's hard to describe, but...now that I've begun working with her, it's almost like my…faith in her is increasing."

He turned back around to face Shinji, standing proudly at his full height. "I made an oath to defend this city against any domestic threat, including my superiors. And with Ruri's leadership, I know I can do just that!"

Shinji stared back at Santiago and Mita, a calculating look coming over his face. "So where am I placed into this? Why are you so interested in me?"

"Your voice can be a powerful asset in bringing about true change." Mita explained. "You've already shown your leadership skills during your duels in the Friendship Cup. Ruri wishes to extend to you the offer to become a leader in the revolution, only this time, it's going to be a true revolution, not just a violent purge against the Tops. If you join us, Ruri and her supporters can give you the power to overthrow Roger before he permanently cements his control over the city. You'll become a hero, and you, Crow, Damon Lopez, Tony Simmons, Frank, Amanda, Tanner, and millions more Tops and Commons will be free to build a better city."

Shinji carefully considered their words, glancing at the elevator. He could see that they had nearly reached the bottom.

"And what makes you think I can trust ANYTHING you two have said?" Shinji growled.

"We figured you'd say that." Mita shrugged.

Santiago stepped forward, pulling a pair of cards from his pocket and handing them to Shinji. Cautiously, Shinji took them from Santiago and examined them, eyes widening with confusion as he did. The first card looked like a fairly normal Insect-Type monster, but its label read, "Dark Tuner," something that Shinji wasn't familiar with.

The second card was a deep black like an Xyz Monster, but instead of black-and-gold Stars on the left side of the card, it had a set of ten dark blue stars on the left side and a label reading, "Dark Synchro" over the card text.

"Earthbound Disciple Geo Ah-Muzen-Cab?" Shinji asked, staring at the card in growing perplexity. Reading through the effect, he let out an involuntary gasp. The card was powerful…very powerful.

"We'll be arriving at the labor facility soon." Santiago sighed. "Some of Ruri's representatives will be coming to free the Commons in the Underground Labor Facility before Roger manages to recruit you all into his army. Perhaps you'll be convinced when you see them in action.

"That," he pointed to the two cards Shinji had been given, "is a special gift for you. Should you join our cause, both those cards will bond with you and become an instrument for bringing about revolution."

"We're here." Mita warned, putting on her helmet.

"Which means we're gone." Santiago sighed, slamming down his own helmet while indicating Shinji ought to hide his cards.

Just as they came to a stop, Shinji pocketed his cards while Santiago erased the mark in the air before the marks on each of their backs rapidly faded away. Giving Shinji a rough shove, they forced the still confused boy into the facility.

"Report to registration at once." Santiago growled in a robotic voice, indicating a line of shabbily-dressed laborers. Nodding his head, Shinji obediently began shambling towards the line of dispirited workers as Mita and Santiago exited the facility up the elevator shaft.

Strangely, while Shinji could feel the immense atmosphere of despair and defeat from the inhabitants of the facility, he felt strangely confident as he felt the two cards resting inside his pocket.

"Take heart, everyone," he whispered, clenching his fist with determination. "You will all soon be free!"

"INTRUSION PENALTY!" Emma's bike announced as a surge of electricity coursed through Emma's body, making the old woman grimace as her Life Points dropped to 2000.

"You okay?" Kiryu called, looking concerned.

"I'm fine, Junior!" Emma snapped, yanking a card from her hand. "Nothing like a little electric shock to get the old pacemaker going! And speaking of heart attacks, I'd like to see you keep your composure after this, little lady! I start by activating the magic card, Styx Riders!"

A holographic magic card appeared to Emma's field as the gang of duelists dodged around the obstacles on the track-way. On the picture of the magic card, a swarm of demonic motorcyclists who looked like a cross between police officers and biker gangsters rode along a raging black river flowing across a flaming landscape that looked exactly like Hell.

"Here's how it works, in case you've never heard of it!" Emma sneered, "For the rest of this turn, I can't attack with monsters whose Levels are higher than five, but you, on the other hand, don't get to activate cards or effects in response to the activation or effects of any of my Stygian cards!"

"Stygian?" Rin asked.

"And I just keep getting reminded of how old I am." Emma frowned. "Yes little lady, Stygian! The cards we used to use before all this Goyo stuff became mainstream." She sighed before taking a card from her deck and placing it in the graveyard. "Its second effect allows me to send one Stygian monster from my deck to the graveyard in order to Special Summon a Stygian monster from my hand! I send the Level four monster, Stygian Street Patrol to the graveyard for this effect, so you can say hello to this loose cannon!" she laughed, slapping a card onto her bike. "You have the right to remain silent… PERMANANTLY! Send her back into the ground where she belongs! Stygian Gun Slinger!"

Roaring through the opening of a blue portal, a demonic police officer riding a flaming black motorbike raced onto the track-way, kicking up asphalt and firing a pair of revolvers into the air while laughing like a maniac. The demon had a bright red afro and handle-bar mustache, wore a pair of thick sunglasses, and had a pair of ram horns curling over the sides of his head. Cocking his pistols at Rin, the demon smiled confidently as a holographic indicator appeared and showed an ATK of 800.

Level Limit Area B began glowing with orange light the second Emma's monster was summoned. In an instant, the same orange aura of light surrounded Stygian Gun Slinger, forcing him into defense position while a holographic indicator showed a DEF of 1900.

"Stupid Magic Card." Emma muttered. "I can't believe Security's still using it! That thing helped more criminals get away than it allowed us to capture!"

"It's still your turn." Kiryu reminded Emma, pulling up alongside her bike.

"Quiet Junior, I was getting to that!" Emma coughed.

"My name's not Junior." Kiryu grumbled, pulling back a little ways.

"It is when I'm pissed!" Emma snapped. "Now then… where was I… oh yeah! Stygian Gun Slinger's effect still activates! Since it was summoned, I can Special Summon one Level four or lower Fiend-Type Monster from my hand, but I can only use this effect once per turn! So come on out! Let's double our fire-power with a second Stygian Gun Slinger in defense mode!"

A second biker joined Emma, riding alongside her and her other Stygian Gun Slinger in a V-shaped formation.

"But don't even think I'm close to done yet, missy!" Emma roared, "I next banish the Stygian Street Patrol in my graveyard, in order to Special Summon the Level one monster, Stygian Tracker!"

A scrawny demon riding a smaller bike appeared to Emma's field. Its helmet looked like an oversized skull with a blinking police light on top and a pair of glowing eyes that shone like spot-lights. On the front of its bike, a large light shone like a flashlight while the rear of the bike sported antennae and radio equipment. Leveling a high-tech pistol with a laser targeting system, the demon snarled at Rin while a holographic indicator appeared and showed an ATK of 600.

"Stygian Tracker doubles any effect damage you take!" Emma explained, "And since you can't negate any of my Stygian Monster's effects thanks to Styx Riders, you're about to take a whole lot of damage unless you pull over, release the hostage you have at the back of your bike, and prey to whatever gods you believe in that your soul will find rest!"

"Emma!" Rin called back, sounding like she was in deep agony.

"What was that!?" Emma barked. "Are you surrendering!? Pull over and make a complete stop right now if you are!"

"Emma, Kiryu… I-…" from her position, Yuzu noticed a tear drop drip from Rin's chin. Keeping her face hidden from the new contestants, Rin clenched both her fists and continued to address them, not slowing down despite Emma's warning.

"Look… Emma…" Rin began, "…you're making a mistake. I don't want to hurt you or anyone! Especially not you or Kiryu!"

Kiryu looked over at the Earthbound rider. There was something strange about her. Something in what she was saying. It was almost like she… knew them.

"If you really don't want to hurt anyone then pull over!" Emma shouted. "Show me you're not just another mindless demon I have to put down!"

Yuzu saw light come from Rin's marks. Throwing back her head, Rin suddenly let out a condescending laugh.

"Sorry, darling…" Rin snickered. Yuzu's eyes widened when she heard her voice. She could still hear Rin speaking, but there was a second voice that had synchronized with Rin's own voice, one that sounded more suave and male. "…but we can't be ending the duel just yet! What sort of ending would that make! No…" she laughed some more, "…such a fabulous duel deserves a fabulous conclusion! And what a treat it is to duel against servants of my best friend, Quetzalcoatl! Why my dear, it would be absolutely rude to not give you fine duelists the glorious ending you deserve! So no… Emma dear. Let's not ruin the beauty of this moment with such a BORING conclusion!"

Emma's face darkened. "That's not the voice of someone who's free from possession." She growled. "You leave me no choice, demon! Get out of her soul or I'll make you leave!"

Rin gave a violent cough in response, head almost slamming against the hood of her bike as she did. "Stop it… Yene…" Rin weakly groaned in her normal voice. "Just help me… protect Yuzu… for now."

"You leave me no choice." Emma sighed, stretching her hand towards her monsters. "I activate Stygian Gun Slinger's effect! Once per turn, I can change the Level of one Level five or lower Fiend-Type monster I control to one in order to inflict damage to my opponent equal to the difference between its new Level and original Level times one-hundred! I reduce Stygian Gun Slinger's own Level to one in order to inflict three-hundred damage to you! And with Stygian Tracker on the field, that damage is doubled! Go! Roulette Rogue!"

"Hang on Yuzu!" Rin called as Stygian Gun Slinger loaded a round of bullets into his revolvers before spinning the cartridge around and leveling both weapons at Rin. Rearing up on her back wheel, Rin zoomed forward, before spinning the body of the bike around, shielding herself from the hailstorm of bullets that poured from Stygian Gun Slinger's pistols as the gang of bikes zoomed past her. Slamming her front wheel back onto the ground, Rin pressed down on the accelerator, looped around, and managed to retake the lead as her Life Points dropped to 2400.

As Rin passed by Kiryu, Kiryu's eyes suddenly widened when he caught a brief glimpse of her face. He stared down at the biker's bike, trying to identify who she was, but he couldn't place any familiar names or faces. And yet… Kiryu had the sinking feeling that he somehow knew her.

"I activate the effect of my second Gun Slinger!" Emma declared, "I reduce its Level to one in order to inflict six-hundred more damage to your life points! Roulette Rogue!"

Rin let out a war cry as she once again pulled a wheelie in order to shield herself and her passenger from the bullets. As her Life Points dropped to 1800 from Gun Slinger's furious onslaught, she once again looped around and passed by Kiryu's bike. Kiryu was ready for her this time, and took a good hard look at the face beneath the helmet. Time seemed to slow down as he recognized her… a girl he would sometimes see when he visited Yugo at the orphanage.

"No!" he gasped, "Rin?"

His train of thought was suddenly interrupted when he noticed he was nearing a large Organ Pipe. Swerving to the left, he nearly ran into Emma's monsters as he swerved to avoid the obstacle.

"Hey! Watch it!" Emma scolded, moving her own bike to the left to avoid a collision.

"I'm sorry!" Kiryu gasped, steadying his bike.

"Just watch the road and I'll take care of the rest!" Emma ordered, pulling another card from her hand. "Now that I've changed the Levels of my monsters, it's time for me to execute my real plan! Level Limit Area B prevents any Level four or higher monsters from attacking, but Level three monsters are free to have at it! I Normal Summon the Tuner Monster, Stygian Security from my hand!"

Through a blue portal, a small reptilian demon with a pair of bat wings, a police light on its head, and a megaphone in its hand appeared to Emma's field. Holographic indicators showed an ATK of 100 and a Level of one.

Emma extended her hand towards her monsters. "I tune the Level one Stygian Security to my two Level one Stygian Gun Slingers and Synchro Summon!" Roaring forward, Emma's two Stygian Gun Slingers raced forward while Stygian Security zipped past them before morphing into a single green ring of light. Enveloping the two Stygian Gun Slingers in its light, the two monsters faded away into an orange outline of themselves before transforming into a pair of white spheres while Emma began her chant:

"Lone rider of the lawless hell, take justice into your own hands and become a hero for the defenseless! SYNCHRO SHOKAN! Ride into battle! Level three! Stygian Street Vigilante!"

In an explosion of dynamite, Emma's monster soared through the air before landing on the lane in a sleek, cherry-red-and-black motorbike with feminine pink highlights, wicked metal spikes protruding from the body and wheel rims, and red-hot chains wrapped around the coal-black tires. The rider of the bike was a female demon with a pair of long goat horns protruding from her forehead, fiery red hair flowing from the right side of her head while the left side of her head was shaved and covered in tattoos, a black bandana around her nose, chin, and mouth, spikey black leather armor, and a crimson red demon tail. Whipping out a long chain with a spike at the end, she began twirling the weapon above her head like a lasso while a holographic indicator appeared and showed an ATK of 1300.

"Just like we practiced Kiryu!" Emma called. "I now activate Street Vigilante's effect, I can discard any number of Fiend-Type monsters from my hand in order to increase its ATK by 200 for each monster discarded with this effect! Let's do this, Kiryu!"

"Mom, there's something that…" Kiryu protested.

"Focus on the duel!" Emma interrupted. "Don't let the Earthbound get into your head! The only way to help this girl out is to get rid of whatever spirit is possessing her, even if it means killing her! It's what your father, Kiryu Senior, would have done for her!"

Kiryu looked over at Emma and back at Rin before looking down at his cards, the cards his hero… no… his father, Kiryu, had given him. He'd had no future as an orphan boy living in the slums until the legendary duelist and Marshall of Satisfaction Town had saved him and adopted him as his own. When he lost Kiryu, Emma and her husband, Enoch, were the ones who later took care of him. Even if that rider was really Rin, the last thing he could do now was let his family down! For the sake of his family, and for the sake of Rin, he had to stop whatever demon was possessing her!

Kiryu pulled three cards from his hand and displayed them to the other riders.

"I send the Fiend-Type monsters, Infernity Bishop, Infernity Avenger, and Infernity Sniper to my graveyard in order to increase Stygian Street Vigilante's attack power by six-hundred!"

Three monsters appeared to Kiryu's field before sinking into the graveyard. Infernity Bishop looked very much like a church clergyman, with a white beard, black and orange armor, a white apron, and a large book in his hand. Infernity Avenger looked like a miniature undead cowboy with two pistols in his hands and a large cowboy hat over his head. The third monster, Infernity Sniper, looked like a ghostly Mexican rifleman wearing a Dia de los Muertos mask over his face, a large black sombrero over his head, a semi-transparent grey-and-orange poncho, and several belts of sniper ammunition over his chest and shoulders. In his hands, he carried a large Sniper Rifle with a massive suppressor at the end.

"The rest of you worthless maggots better do the same!" Emma barked to the other Security officers, "My deck might be outdated, but I know Security still runs Stygian Security! So cough em up!"

From the control room, Roger considered Emma's demand. Deciding that Emma's victory against Rin would work to his advantage, he pressed a button on the control panel. "Do as she says." He ordered, "Assist ex-officer Grayson in powering up her monster, and prepare to take down both her and Kiryu after she defeats the Dark Signer."

"I send Stygian Security from my hand to the graveyard!" an Officer with the label, DC-468 declared.

"I send Battle Fader to the graveyard!" another officer labeled DC-467 joined in.

"Holding Legs." DC-289 contributed. Three other officers, DC-837, 237, and 019 each held up their own cards.

"Holding Arms."

"Stygian Street Patrol."

"Trap Eater."

Once each of them had made their contributions, Stygian Street Vigilante let loose a mighty roar as her ATK rose to 3100.

"With Road Blocker 3 on the field, you can't activate any Magic or Trap Cards when we attack. Go! Stygian Street Vigilante!" Emma ordered, "Attack her Synthphonist Snare Drummer!"

Stygian Street Vigilante began swinging her chain into the air before launching its spikey end towards Rin's petit monster.

"Synthphonist Oboist's effect!" Rin countered, holding out her hand. "If a monster declares an attack, I negate the attack and can then reduce the Level of one of my monsters by one!"

Leaping forward, Synthphonist Oboist projected an electric shield in front of herself and Snare Drummer, blasting back Street Vigilante's chains the moment they made contact and administering a mild electric shock to Emma's monster.

"Crap nugget on a biscuit with… ERG!" Emma growled, slamming her fist against her bike.

"I'll next use my monster's effect to reduce my Snare Drummer's level to one." Rin continued, ignoring Emma's frustration.

"Well I'm not done either, missy!" Emma barked, throwing down her last card. "I activate the continuous Magic Card, Pure Earth!"

A new magic card appeared to Emma's field. From its face, an immense amount of white light radiated outwards, nearly obscuring its picture, which depicted a crimson, dragon-shaped mark suspended in a pillar of light. As the Magic Card activated, both Rin and Yuzu began groaning with pain.

"Here's how it works." Emma explained. "I start by targeting my monster, Stygian Street Vigilante."

Street Vigilante began glowing with white light before the same crimson dragon-shaped mark depicted on the card appeared over her back.

"Now as long as my monster is on the field, if you would summon a monster with a negative Level, or Summon a Level ten or higher DARK monster, I can negate that summon and banish both that monster and Pure Earth! In addition, the player who summoned that monster has their Life Points halved! So go ahead and call in your Disciple! I'd just love to watch that thing burn!" She nodded her head to Kiryu. "She's all yours now. Remember your training, and like Jack says, DO NOT HESITATE!"

"I won't." Kiryu resolved, placing his hand on top of his deck. "BOKU NO TURN!" he declared, ripping a card from the top of his deck.

"INTRUSTION PENALTY! TWO-THOUSAND LIFE POINTS!"

Kiryu quickly shrugged off the Life Point loss and proceeded with his turn.

"I'm sorry, Yugo." He silently prayed, "Please forgive me. I promise that whoever did this to your friend will pay!"

He quickly skimmed through the cards in his hand, a grim expression coming over his face. "I can't attack her with Oboist on the field." He thought to himself. "And any of the Level four or higher monsters I summon will be switched to defense mode thanks to Level Limit Area B. That means that the only way to end this is with effect damage."

"I activate the Magic Card, Infernity Deal!" he began, slapping down a spell card. "This card enables me to send one Infernity monster from my deck to the graveyard, in exchange for being allowed to draw one card, however, my entire hand will be sent to the graveyard during the End-Phase of this turn." A card popped out of Kiryu's deck, which he quickly transported to the graveyard. "I send the monster, Infernity Bomber, to my graveyard in order to draw one card!"

As Kiryu drew his card, a large zombie-like man with long hair, a moustache, barrels of gunpowder strapped to his shoulders, and bundles of TNT in each hand descended into his graveyard, giving out a slow, deep, and mischievous laugh as he did.

"I next set the card I just drew, and summon Infernity Necromancer from my hand!"

A ghostly, skeletal monster dressed in a ragged purple cape descended to Kiryu's field. Stretching out its bony arms, it pulled down its hood, revealing a skeletal face that looked like a Ram skull with green hair.

"Infernity Necromancer's effect switches it to defense position when it is Normal Summoned." Kiryu explained as Necromancer crossed its bony arms over its chest. A holographic indicator appeared to show a Level of three and a DEF of 2000.

"Next," Kiryu continued, jumping over an open hatchway, "Since I control an Infernity Monster, I can Special Summon the Level one Tuner monster, Infernity Ghost from my hand!"

Kicking up a cloud of dust, Infernity Ghost slowly materialized to Kiryu's field. In terms of appearance, the monster looked like a ghostly cowboy with a ragged hat and cape, torn shirts and jeans, and worn out cowboy boots. Its body had wasted away to a skeleton and its skull had a tomahawk sticking out of the cracked forehead. Inside its skull eyes, a pair of miniature candles illuminated the interior of its skull, giving it the appearance of a glowing jack-o-lantern. A holographic indicator showed an ATK of 0.

"Now to finish this!" Kiryu declared, extending his hand towards his monsters. "Since I have no cards in my hand, Infernity Necromancer's effect activates! So say hello to Infernity Sniper!"

Infernity Necromancer raised its hands to the air before throwing back its head and letting out a ghostly shriek. From the depths of a graveyard portal, Kiryu's Infernity Sniper rose to the field before tipping its hat to Rin.

"It's time to banish the demon possessing you!" Kiryu declared, "I tune my Level one Infernity ghost with my Level three Infernity Necromancer and my Level three Infernity Sniper!"

Infernity ghost pulled out a rotten harmonica and began playing a forlorn melody before morphing into a ring of green light. As the ring enveloped Kiryu's other monsters, the sound of the harmonica could still be heard playing in the background as Kiryu began his summoning chant:

"Ghost of the infinite void, uncloak yourself from mortal gaze and walk the earth once more! SYNCHRO SHOKAN! Hit your mark from a mile away! Level seven! Infernity Des Sharpshooter!"

In silence, Kiryu's Synchro Monster descended to his field, holding a large black cowboy hat over his face while hefting a massive tri-pod-mounted sniper rifle over his back. His clothing constantly flickered from a ghostly dust gray to a night-sky black. Underneath his hat, Yuzu could make out the lower jaw of a skull, black hair with Indian feathers tied into the braids, and a hollow skull-eye that blazed with fiery light. Gently setting his tri-pod to the ground and covering himself in his cape, Infernity Des Sharpshooter eyed Rin through the scope of his Sniper Rifle before a holographic indicator appeared to show a DEF of 1500.

"Now to call in my second ace monster!" Kiryu declared. "I start by activating the effect of the Infernity Ghost in my graveyard! If I have no cards in my hand, I can banish this card from my graveyard in order to Special Summon one Infernity monster from my graveyard! Return to the field now!" Kiryu commanded, "Infernity Necromancer!"

Infernity Ghost briefly appeared to Kiryu's field before dissolving away in a fit of ghostly laughter as a graveyard portal opened up from the ground in front of Kiryu. From the depths of the portal, Infernity Necromancer rose to Kiryu's field in an aura of blood-red light.

"Next is Infernity Necromancer's effect!" Kiryu declared. "I use my monster to Special Summon Infernity Bishop from my graveyard!"

Infernity Bishop rose the field before holding out his hand towards Rin as if commanding her to depart.

"Third," Kiryu continued, "I activate the effect of my Infernity Des Sharp Shooter. In exchange for not being able to attack for this turn, I can target one Infernity Monster in my graveyard and Special Summon it! I choose to bring back the Level one Tuner monster, Infernity Avenger!"

Infernity Des Sharp Shooter pulled out a charm made entirely of bones and crow feathers. Throwing the charm to the ground, he opened a portal in the ground from which Infernity Avenger flipped out before grinning at Rin with a pair of soulless eyes.

"And last but not least," Kiryu declared, "I activate the effect of the Infernity Sniper in my graveyard! If it is in the graveyard while I have no cards in my hand, I can Special Summon it and inflict three-hundred damage to my opponent, but it's banished when it leaves the field. Return once more, Infernity Sniper!"

Infernity Sniper rose from the graveyard before posing next to Kiryu's four other monsters. Removing a single golden bullet from one of its belts, it quickly loaded its Sniper Rifle, aimed it at Rin, and shot at her before she could react.

Rin grimaced as the Bullet nearly knocked her off balance and reduced her Life Points to 1200.

"Rin!?" Yuzu screamed, struggling against her chains.

"I'm okay!" Rin barked, "You stay where you are and let me concentrate!"

"I tune my Level one Infernity Avenger with my Level four Infernity bishop and my Level three Infernity Sniper!" Kiryu declared, already moving on with his turn. Letting out a maniacal cackle, Infernity Avenger morphed into a single ring of green light before enveloping Kiryu's monsters as Kiryu began another summoning chant:

"Omniscient dragon of the ever-expanding void, bathe your fangs and claws in the vast emptiness, and smite your prey with the power of non-existence! SYNCHRO SHOKAN! Materialize now! Level eight! Void Ogre Dragon!"

A deep black-and-red portal opened above Kiryu's bike before Kiryu's Synchro Monster descended to the field and assumed a kneeling position as Level Limit Area B forced it into defense position. Despite its defensive stance, Kiryu's dragon was still an intimidating sight to behold. Its smooth scales were a shiny blood-red crimson and it had large ruby spheres over its wrists, joints, legs, and chest. Its head was narrow and sported a pair of large ears while its feet and claws were enormous. A holographic indicator appeared and showed a DEF of 3000.

"Even if I can't attack with my monster, I can still activate its effects." Kiryu explained. "Once per turn, if I have no cards in my hand, I can negate the activation of an opponent's Spell or Trap Card and destroy it. So basically, whatever that face-down of yours is, it's useless to you now."

Rin laughed in response.

"He's a clever boy!" said Rin, talking to herself in her altered voice. "I must say that these duelists are MUCH more entertaining than those pitiful Security Officers,"

"Enough… Yene." Rin replied in her normal voice.

"Oh forgive me, darling." Rin chuckled in her altered voice, "I meant only to compliment the lad's top notch dueling skills." She laughed some more. "But don't worry… I'll leave the two of you alone for now."

"Who are you!?" Kiryu called, suddenly becoming very angry. "Why are you possessing her!?"

"It's still your move." Rin retorted in her normal voice. "Continue with your plays or end your turn."

Kiryu looked devastated. He seemed to hesitate as his arm hovered over his Duel Disk, seemingly unsure of what to do next.

"She's right, Kiryu!" Emma called. "We've gotta continue with our plays! We can't afford to let that demon inhabit her any longer! Don't let it get into your head! Whoever that girl was, she isn't the same person anymore! The only thing we can do now is free her from her bondage!"

A tear trickled down Kiryu's cheek as he clenched his fist with determination. "Yes…" he grimaced, "…I have to do this. I'm sorry… Rin… Yugo… Miss Kimura." Swiping away a tear with one hand, he extended his other hand towards his monsters.

"Infernity Des Sniper's effect activates!" he roared. "Once per turn, if I have no cards in my hand, I can banish one monster on my opponent's side of the field and inflict damage to my opponent's LP equal to its Level times one-hundred! I choose to target Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel in order to inflict eighteen-hundred damage with the combined effects of Infernity Des Sharpshooter and Stygian Tracker!"

Infernity Des Sniper loaded a bullet into his Sniper Rifle before leveling the barrel of the massive weapon at Rin's Kneeling Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel. Exhaling through his teeth, he stared through the scope while slowly squeezing down on the trigger.

Before he could fire, Rin had extended her hand towards her own monster.

"Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel's effect!" she declared, "Once per turn, during either player's turn, I can negate the effects of one card on the field for each Tuner used in my monster's Synchro Summon until the end of the turn! Since two tuners were used in the Synchro Summon of Marvel, I choose to negate the effects of Infernity Des Sharpshooter and Stygian Tracker! Go Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel! Synthphonic Shock and Awe!"

Spreading out her hands, the lights on Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel's face lit-up before a holographic screen materialized over her face. Sweeping through the screen with her eyes, she aligned a pair of holographic targets at Infernity Des Sharp Shooter and Stygian tracker before letting out a rapid burst of harmonized sound from her instruments, and knocking back both Kiryu and Emma's monsters.

"Nani!?" Kiryu exclaimed, as his effect was suddenly negated.

"The heck was that!?" Emma snarled, shaking out her ears. "You alright Kiryu!?" she barked.

"I'm fine!" Kiryu snapped, frustrated that he hadn't managed to stop the demon. What would Kiryu senior say to him if he saw him now?

"We sure won't be fine if we can't bring down that monster!" Emma barked.

"I'm on it!" Kiryu called back. There was nothing he could do now, but if all went well, he would be able to defeat Rin's monster with his face-down card.

"Turn end!" Kiryu called, looking over at Emma. "I'm sorry, mom. I let us both down."

"This duel aint over yet!" Emma countered. "If these bozos don't finish this girl off, then I sure as heck will on my next turn!"

"Take care of them." Roger ordered from behind his desk. "Once the rest of the Dark Signer's Life Points are eliminated, turn your attention to those two so-called Phoenix Guards."

"My turn!" an officer with the label, DC-468 declared. "I normal Summon Jutte Lord to the field, and use its effect to Special Summon Jutte Fighter to my field!"

A pair of monsters appeared to DC-468's field. The first one was a tall man with a painted face and a jutte in his hand. The second was a shorter man with glasses and a smaller jutte in his own hand.

"I next tune my Jutte Lord and my Jutte Fighter together in order to Synchro Summon Goyo Catapult in defense position!"

In a burst of white light, DC-468's monster landed onto the field with a heavy thud. Goyo Catapult was a broad warrior wearing thick blue, robotic armor, a helmet with a visor, an arm cannon, and a second large cannon strapped to his back. Letting out a mighty grunt, DC-468's monster leveled his cannon at Rin while Holographic indicators showed a DEF of 2800.

"Goyo Catapult's effect activates!" DC-468 declared. "I send the monster, Sasumata Guardna, from my hand to the graveyard, in order to inflict six-hundred damage to your Life Points! And with Stygian Tracker on the field, that damage is doubled!"

"Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel's effect!" Rin declared, I negate the effect of your Goyo Catapult and Void Ogre Dragon!"

"Not so fast!" Kiryu countered, extending his hand towards his trap card, "I activate my counter trap card, Infernity Barrier! If I have no cards in my hand and I control a face-up Infernity monster, then I can negate the activation of your monster's effect and destroy it!"

As Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel blasted a wave of sound and wind at Goyo Catapult and Void Ogre Dragon, A pair of shimmering force-fields appeared over the two monsters. The second Marvel's effect came in contact with the force fields, the waves of sound were blasted back and redirected towards Rin's own monster.

"Then I activate my own Counter Trap!" Rin declared, "Synthphonist Performance! If I control a Hypersonic Synthphonist monster on my side of the field, I can negate the activation of an opponent's card or effect, and shuffle that card into the deck! I choose to negate the activation of Infernity Barrier!"

Surging with electricity, the instruments on Marvels back seemed to expand in size as segments detached from the instruments and hovered in place before the piece all became connected with bridges of solid electricity. Letting loose a mighty blast of sound from her instruments, Marvel knocked back the sound waves from her own effect, sending them flying straight into Kiryu's own trap, and forcing him to shuffle the card into his deck.

"Not again!" Kiryu groaned.

"Synthphonist Marvel's effect resolves normally!" Rin continued, "Synthphonic Shock and Awe!"

Leveling her instruments at Goyo Catapult and Void Ogre Dragon, Hypersonic Synthphonist smiled before blasting both monsters with a mixture of sound waves and electricity.

"Finally." Rin added, "I activate Synthphonist Performance's second effect. If this card is in the graveyard, I can banish it from the graveyard to set 1 Synthphonist Magic or Trap card from my deck, but that card cannot be activated this turn." Snagging a card from her deck, she proceeded to set it to her field.

"I set one card face down. Turn end." DC-468 growled.

"My turn!" an officer with the label, DC-467 declared. I summon the Level three Tuner monster, Tune Warrior, from my hand!"

A robotic monster with red armor, radio antennae on his head, and a pair of plug-in arms appeared to DC-467's field.

"I tune my Tune Warrior to Goyo Defender in order to Synchro Summon! Come forth! Goyo Catapult!"

A second Goyo Catapult appeared to the field in defense position.

"Goyo Catapult's effect!" DC-467 declared. "I send Kiribi Lady from my hand to the graveyard in order to inflict six-hundred damage to your Life Points!"

"Marvel effect!" Rin declared. "Negate the effects of Goyo Catapult and Stygian Tracker! Synthphonic Shock and Awe!"

DC-467 shielded his eyes as his monster's effect was negated. "I was counting on you doing that!" he sneered. "I now activate the Magic Card, Goyo Arrow, and equip it to Goyo Catapult!"

A small mini-gun appeared over Goyo Catapult's cannon arm before strapping itself over the robotic appendage.

"Since Marvel can only activate its effect once per turn, I am free to do this!" he declared, "I activate Goyo Arrow's effect to inflict six-hundred damage to your Life Points!"

"I activate my face-down!" Rin countered, "A second Synthphonist performance!"

As Rin's trap resolved, Marvel sent another blast of sound and electricity into DC-467's Goyo Arrow, blasting the mini-gun to dust and forcing the officer to return his card to the deck.

"Performance's second effect!" Rin declared, "I banish it from my graveyard in order to set another Synthphonist Spell or Trap Card from my deck!"

"Turn end!" DC-467 grumbled.

"My turn!" an officer with the label, DC-289 declared. "I equip my Goyo Defender with Goyo Arrow! Effect activate!"

"Synthphonic Shock and Awe!" Rin countered, "I negate the effect of your Goyo Arrow and Stygian Tracker!"

"Then I equip a second Goyo Arrow to my second Goyo Defender!" DC-289 snarled. "Effect activate!"

Rin ducked as a spray of bullets whizzed past her head, reducing her Life Points to 900.

"I next set three cards face-down and end my turn!" DC-289 concluded.

"My turn!" an officer with the label DC-837 declared. "I Normal Summon the Level four monster, Vigilante Zeni, from my hand!"

Through a blue portal, a monster similar in appearance to Jutte Knight, but with wilder black hair, and a coin strapped like an eye-patch over his eye, appeared to DC-837's field.

"I next activate the effect of Vigilante Zeni!" DC-837 continued. "I reduce its attack to 0 in order to Special Summon the Level three Tuner Monster, Vigilante Garter, from my hand!"

Next to Vigilante Zeni, a small robot with a white face, police lights, and small clamps appeared to the field.

"I tune these two monsters together to Synchro Summon! Come Forth! Level seven! Sniping Hazy Type 0!"

A large robotic warrior with green armor, a jutte in one hand, and a small wrist cannon connected to a long tube appeared to DC-837's field. Leveling its Cannon at Rin, a holographic indicator showed an ATK of 2400.

"I activate my monster's effect!" DC-837 declared. "By sending Assault Gundog from my hand to the graveyard, I can target and destroy one card you control and inflict four-hundred damage to your Life Points!"

"Three points to you!" Rin snarled, "I use Marvel's effect to negate Sniping Hazy Type 0 and Stygian Tracker's effect! Synthphonic Shock and Awe!"

"Counter trap!" DC-289 countered, "Solemn Judgment! By paying half my Life Points, I can negate your monster's effect and destroy it!" he grimaced as his 2300 Life Points were brought down to 1150. "Go! Solemn Judgment!"

"I activate my third and final Synthphonist Performance!" Rin countered, blasting DC-289's trap back into the deck. Lowering her instruments at Sniping Hazy and Stygian Tracker, Marvel let loose yet another storm of sound and electricity at the two monsters, negating both of their effects. "I will now banish Synthphonist Performance in order to set another Synthphonist Magic or Trap Card from my deck!"

"But it is as you said." Roger grinned. "That was your last Performance. Finish her off now." He ordered.

"I set one card face-down and end my turn!" DC-837 finished, setting down a copy of Destruct Potion.

"My Turn!" an officer with the label, DC-237 declared. "I will start by activating three Wave-Motion Cannons."

A trio of three massive green cannons, which looked vaguely like tea-pots, appeared to the officer's field.

"Whoa!" Kiryu involuntarily exclaimed. "Isn't that a little overkill?"

"It's not for her." Emma grimly replied. "They're already getting ready to betray us once the disciple is taken out."

"My Wave-Motion Cannons cannot be activated during this turn." DC-237 explained. "But this can. I equip my Goyo Defender with Goyo Arrow! Effect activate!"

"Good for you!" Rin snarled, "How about I just give you six-thousand points for effort and activate Marvel's effect… AGAIN! SYNTHPHONIC SHOCK AND AWE!"

Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel blasted DC-237's Goyo Arrow and Emma's now very frazzled Stygian Tracker with another volley from her instruments.

"Then I will activate a second Goyo Arrow!" DC-237 continued, "Effect activate!"

Rin let out a little yelp of agony as a spray of bullets grazed her shoulder, reducing her Life Points to 600.

"Turn end." DC-237 concluded.

An older looking officer with the Label, DC-019 rolled up.

"This is the last time you stop us." He declared, "My turn… draw!"

"Is that you, Officer Harrison!?" Emma gawked, "Earthbound Gods you sound awful!? What the heck did Roger do to you!?"

Ignoring Emma's comment, the officer continued with his move.

"I Normal Summon Vigilante Zeni, and use his effect to Special Summon Vigilante Garter! I next use these monsters to Synchro Summon! Come forth! Sniping Hazy Type 0!"

Another large robotic warrior appeared to the field before levelling its wrist cannon at Rin.

"I next send Pursuit Chaser from my hand to the graveyard in order to activate Sniping Hazy Type 0's effect!"

"Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel's effect!" Rin declared, "I negate the effect of Sniping Hazy Type 0 and Void Ogre Dragon! Synthphonic Shock and Awe!"

DC-019 nearly fell off his bike as his monster was blasted by Marvel's effect.

"Trap activate!" DC-837 declared, "Destruct Potion! I destroy Sniping Hazy Type 0 in order to increase my Life Points by its attack!" he smiled as his Life Points rose from 2300 to 4700.

"At this time, Sniping Hazy Type 0's effect activates!" DC-019 declared. "If it is destroyed, I can Special Summon its Synchro Materials! Be revived! Vigilante Zeni and Garter!"

DC-019's monsters reappeared to his field through a pair of black portals.

"And now… since you've already used Marvel's effect, I tune Zeni and Garter together to re-summon Sniping Hazy Type 0! Come forth my monster!"

In a flash of light, a second copy of Sniping Hazy Type 0 appeared to his field.

"Effect activate!" DC-019 declared, "I send Gate Blocker from my hand to the graveyard in order to destroy your Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel and inflict eight-hundred damage to your Life Points!"

"Rin!" Yuzu shouted, struggling to get out of the chains so she could help.

"Continuous Trap activate!" Rin countered, "Synthphonist Ensemble! Since Void Ogre Dragon is out of commission, I can freely activate this trap without worrying about its effect. Furthermore, when successfully activated, I target one Synthphonist monster I control in order to Special Summon a Synthponist Monster from my deck whose Level is the same as the targeted monster! I target my Synthphonist Oboist in order to Special Summon Synthphonist Bassoonist from my deck!"

Through a portal of blue light, Synthphonist Bassoonist appeared to Rin's field, hefting a pair of large Bassoons on her back as she did.

"The monster summoned by this effect is treated as an effect monster, and gains its effects." Rin continued.

Sparkling with electricity, the bassoons on Synthphonist Bassoonist's back pointed forward like a pair of cannons before sprouting several antennae which sparkled with electricity. Her eyes began glowing with white light, and her metallic hands expanded until they displayed little holographic screens in their center.

"It doesn't matter." DC-019 coughed, "Sniping Hazy Type 0's effect resolves now, destroy her monster!"

"Synthphonist Bassoonist effect!" Rin countered, "If a monster I control is targeted by a card or effect, I can negate the effect and reduce Bassoonist's Level by one!"

Sniping Hazy Type 0 fired a stream of coins at Rin's Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel. In response, Synthphonist Bassoonist shot a stream of lightning from her two bassoons, which intercepted the coins and blew them to dust before they could hit Marvel. Once Bassoonist had taken care of things, a holographic indicator appeared and showed her Level drop to three.

"We're still not done yet." DC-019 coughed. "I activate the continuous Magic Card, Goyo Fine!" he hacked again as he slapped the card onto his Duel Disk. "Here's how it works… I begin by targeting your Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel. While this card is on the field and I control a Goyo Monster, during the End-Phase of each turn you can either tribute both this card and your monster, or pay five-hundred Life Points. So choose!"

Rin glared back at the officer. "There is no choice." She growled. "I pay five-hundred Life Points to keep my monster on the field."

She grimaced as her Life Points dropped to 100.

"With that…" she gasped, "…your turn is finally over."

"Turn end." DC-019 agreed. "Go ahead and do your turn. With the field we have, there isn't much you can do."

Rin didn't seem to hear him. She had placed her hand on top of her deck and paused as if deep in thought.

"Rin?" Yuzu asked, wondering if she had given up. Looking at the opposition, it didn't look good. Security had managed to completely lock them out of attacking between the effects of Road Blocker 3 and Ring of Magnetism. Even if Rin negated the effects of one or both of those cards, Level Limit Area B locked down her ability to attack with high-level monsters, and security still had Goyo Checkpoint forcing them to pay Life Points for every attack and plenty of other face-downs they didn't even know about. To make matters even worse, almost every player had a way to inflict effect damage to their Life Points, not to mention DC-019's Goyo Fine. Even if Rin managed to make it this turn, it was unlikely she would survive another round of assaults from the other players.

Rin, however, was barely even thinking about this.

"Please…" she begged internally, "…I don't want to hurt them… not like with the Obelisk Force."

"This is war, darling." A voice in her head replied, "Do you really think there will be no casualties? Do you think what you did to those Academia monsters was wrong?"

Rin grimaced in pain. "I understand that this is war." she agreed. "I accept that those soldiers had to be stopped… but… these people… Security can't control their actions… and… Emma and Kiryu… I know them!"

The voice seemed to consider her words.

"Very well, darling." The voice replied, seemingly whispering in her ear. "Let me share with you a little secret, one that far predates the existence of this very city. This duel that you created, this… conflict between friend and foe… it is governed by a set of ancient laws, laws with the power to summon and destroy even gods."

Rin's eyes widened as she felt power course from her marks and into her veins. She could feel that power right now. Somehow she knew that she had the potential to do just the things her spirit had said.

"Among these ancient laws is the law of the victor." The voice continued, "Put simply, it states that the fate of the loser shall be determined by the winner. While the Signers and Phoenix Guard will most certainly use this law to destroy us… in quite an ironic twist of fate… you could be the one to show mercy with this law!"

"Then it's… possible… to not kill them?" Rin panted, sweat beading on her forehead.

"Rin?" Yuzu asked again. Her counterpart had frozen, doing absolutely nothing as the time for their turn ticked away.

"Has she given up?" Roger contemplated, glancing back at the turn clock. If she didn't make a move soon, then she'd lose her turn and pretty much forfeit the duel at this point.

"You value their lives, Rin." The spirit whispered, "And I am not one to deny such… poetic… desires to spare their lives! Come, Rin. Let us not be in conflict with one another. I have made up my mind. Your desires, your hopes, your dreams, these are… beautiful to me. I wish to give you the ending you desire… nay… the ending you CRAVE with a burning passion! Together… we can accomplish everything your heart yearns to achieve!"

Rin wiped some tears from her eyes, feeling as if someone's strong and tender arms had enveloped her body in a warm embrace. "Then… you can help me? I won't have to hurt them?"

"Pain is an integral part of human experience." The spirit replied. "But yes. They shall be unharmed. It will all be according to your will."

Rin nodded her head in gratitude before glancing at the field. "First… I'll need to actually win. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"If you're thinking it's time to call in a disciple, then yes."

Rin grinned. "Exactly."

"Wonderful!" the spirit gushed. "It will be a true delight to lend you more of my powers. But which shall it be? Which servant can grant you your victory now?"

"I was thinking of making it quick." Rin replied, swerving to avoid some oncoming obstacles.

"Geo Kelpie?" the spirit inquired.

"Geo Kelpie." Rin agreed.

The spirit let out a little chuckle. "That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! But… how are you going to pull it off? You'll need a particular Dark Tuner if this is going to work."

Rin felt her power grow as it coursed from her veins. She had used a lot up when she had tried to save Yuzu, but she could feel it slowly returning. "Lend me your power… one more time!" she murmured with her eyes shut. "Let me fulfill my mission!"

"As you desire!" the spirit exclaimed, slowly fading from Rin's mind. The second the voice faded away, Rin felt an immense surge of power build up within her body as her marks radiated intense green light. Even the green markings on her bike began glowing as her power grew.

"ORE-SAMA NO TURN!" She proclaimed in a godly voice that sounded like two individuals speaking rather than one. Lifting her hand from her deck, an aura of darkness built up over the palm of her hand before she placed her fingers on her deck. "Dark draw!"

In a violent gust of cold wind, Rin ripped a card from the top of her deck, smiling as she did.

"Our victory is at hand!" Rin proclaimed in her godly voice. "First… I activate the effect of Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel in order to negate the effects of your Road Blocker 3 and Pure Earth! Synthphonic Shock and Awe!"

Merging the instruments on her back together in a cluster of twin cannons, Marvel let loose a wave of sound and electricity which slammed against Road Blocker, causing the robotic wall to short circuit. Smoking slightly, the wall folded in on itself while detracting its spikes, till the road ahead of her was clear. Spinning around, Marvel next aimed her cannons at Emma's pure earth, letting loose a second volley of sound and electricity which caused the light of Emma's Spell Card to dim.

"Now that Road Blocker 3 is gone, the effects of our Field Spell Cards return!" Rin proclaimed. "I'll start by using Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel's second effect! Once per turn, I can Special Summon 1 Level four or lower Synthphonist Monster from my hand or graveyard. So be revived! Synthphonist Flutist!"

Pirouetting onto the Duel Field, Rin's flutist rose from a graveyard portal before posing next to her other monsters. Above her head, the score counter showed her speed counters rise from zero to one. Roaring with delight, Rin slammed down on the accelerator, and sped forward

"Next!" Rin declared, "I activate the effect of my Synthphonist Orchestra! Once per turn, I can Normal Summon one Synthphonist Monster! I choose to Normal Summon Synthphonist Snare Drummer!"

Sparking with electricity, Snare Drummer's drum expanded while her fingers sprouted a set of drum-sticks.

"Snare Drummer effect!" Rin proclaimed, "I change the Levels of my monsters to one!"

"Here it comes!" Emma warned. "It looks like she's going for another Synchro Summon!"

Typing out a command on her computerized Snare Drums, Synthphonist Snare Drummer, pressed one final key on her snare drums before holographic indicators showed the Levels of herself, flutist, oboist, bassoonist, and Marvel drop to one.

"Now it's time!" Rin gasped, seeming to burst with excitement as she extended her hand towards her monsters. "Since Pure Earth is gone, there is nothing that can stop me from doing this! I tribute my Synthphonist Oboist and Flutist in order to advance summon! Come forth! Level Eleven! Dark Tuner Chaos Charybdis!"

The entire track-way suddenly flooded with water, washing under the tires of Rin, Emma, Kiryu, and Security's bikes. In the space between Rin and the other pursuing vehicles, a circular set of demonic teeth rose from the depths of the water, roaring with the voice of a million sea-monsters. In the center of its mass of teeth, a holographic indicator appeared and showed an ATK of 0.

Rin turned her face towards her opponents, light blazing from her eyes, marks, and mouth till she looked like a jack-o-lantern.

"When Chaos Charybdis is successfully advance summoned, I can banish all Magic and Trap Cards my opponent controls!"

"What!?" Kiryu exclaimed, surprised she had a Dark Tuner that powerful.

"Stay focused!" Emma admonished. "We're not beaten yet!"

Sinking into the stream of water, Chaos Charybdis opened its demonic jaws even wider, creating a vast whirlpool which began sucking all of Security's Spell and Trap Cards into its maw.

"I banish Level Limit Area B, DC-578's face down, Goyo Checkpoint, Ring of Magnetism, Pure Earth, DC-468's face down card, four Goyo Arrow, DC-289's two face-down cards, three Wave-Motion Cannon, Goyo Fine, and DC-019's face down card for a total of seventeen Magic and Trap Cards!" Rin proclaimed with glee. "But that's only the beginning!" she laughed, "There's still so much more for me to do!"

"Rin?" Kiryu exclaimed, staring at Yugo's friend like she was a complete stranger. She had definitely never acted like this. She might have done some regular trash-talk during her duels against Yugo, but she had never acted like a deranged lunatic.

Rin extended her hand towards her monsters. "No more holding back! I Dark Tune my Level eleven Chaos Charybdis with my Level one Synthphonist Snare Drummer, and my Level one Synthphonist Bassoonist and Dark Synchro Summon!"

"Brace yourself!" Emma roared, "It's coming! Her disciple!"

With a final demonic roar, Chaos Charybdis exploded into a cluster of elven spheres of white light, creating a tidal wave, which engulfed the screaming bodies of Snare Drummer and Bassoonist. In front of Rin, the water blackened as a ring of nine pitch-black spheres of light crackled beneath the surface with a surge of black electricity. Throwing her hands into the air like a mad-woman, Rin began her summoning chant:

"From the depths of the abyss no light can break free! Rise up now from the shadowy depths to spread your shadow to the surface world! DARK SYNCHRO!" Rin thrust her hand towards her opponents as a pillar of darkness erupted from the depths of the water, spreading a wave of cold air as it did. "Level negative nine! Earthbound Disciple Geo Kelpie!"

From the depths of the pillar of darkness, Rin's new monster appeared to the field. Its long flowing hair was a dark black with tangled bits of green seaweed. Her eyes glowed with intense white light, while her mouth grinned with long jagged teeth that looked like an angler-fish's teeth. Her body was a deep blue color and was dotted with little orbs of light over its surface. She wore little clothing but a pair of crab shells over her breasts, and a golden net over her arms and shoulders. Her lower body was the tail of a large sea-serpent with massive purple fins and spike-tipped scales. Resting on a large, choral-covered chariot, she commanded a team of four sea-creatures that looked like a cross between a demonic horse with glowing red eyes and fish fangs, and the rear half of a large fish. All over her body, patterns of indigo lines glowed with ghostly light. Leveling a whip at her team of sea-creatures, the monster urged her steeds forward while a holographic indicator showed an ATK of 2800.

Roger's eyes widened. "This is just like Sergey!" he gasped.

"Chaos Charybdis' effect activates!" Rin proclaimed, picking up speed as her Speed Counters rose to two, "If it is used as a Dark Synchro Material, I can increase the ATK of all monsters I control by three-hundred for each of my opponent's banished cards until the end of this turn! With seventeen banished Spell and Trap Cards, Stygian Street Patrol, Infernity Ghost, and Infernity Sniper, that makes a total of twenty banished cards for an attack boost of six-thousand!"

The eyes of Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel and Earthbound Disciple Geo Kelpie began glowing with black light as a dark aura of energy formed around their bodies and Geo Kelpie's ATK rose to 8800 while Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel's ATK rose to 9300.

Kiryu gasped at the immense ATK increase.

"Keep focused!" Emma warned, "We can still win if we're careful!"

Kiryu looked back at Emma and nodded his head. "Right!" he agreed, bracing himself for the attack. If they played things right, he'd be able to win the duel.

"Geo Kelpie's effect now activates!" Rin continued, "Since it was Dark Synchro Summoned using three monsters as Material, I can Special Summon 1 Level -6 or higher monster from my Extra Deck or graveyard. Rise from the depths, Level -4, Earthbound Disciple Geo Mermaid!"

Flipping through the air like a dolphin, Earthbound Disciple Geo Mermaid landed to Rin's field before barring her shark teeth at Rin's opponents.

Rin laughed as her Speed Counters rose to three and she increased her velocity even more. "I now switch Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel to attack position and proceed to the Battle Phase! Go! Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel! Destroy Stygian Tracker!"

"Not happening!" Emma barked. "While Stygian Street Vigilante is on my field, the only monster you can target for attacks is her!"

"As if that matters." Rin laughed. "I'll instead attack your Stygian Street Vigilante! Go Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel! Soul powered harmonic wave!"

Placing her hands to her diaphragm, Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel rose from the ground before tossing back her head and letting loose an immense volley of intense harmonic sound, which sent ripples across the water and caused the entire track-way to vibrate. Despite the power of Marvel's attack, however, Stygian Street Vigilante bravely charged forward, holding a shield with a demon-face out in front of her.

"Stygian Street Vigilante's effect!" Emma barked, "If she would be destroyed, I can banish one Fiend-Type monster from my graveyard instead! I choose to banish one of my Stygian Gun Slingers!"

"You'll still take the damage." Rin retorted.

"Not if I can help it!" Kiryu countered. "I activate Infernity Deal's graveyard effect! If I have no cards in my hand, I can banish this card to negate one instance of effect or battle damage and change the damage to zero!"

With a mighty roar, Stygian Street Vigilante charged forward, catching Marvel's attack in her shield and racing forward, completely unscathed.

I still have another attack!" Rin countered. "Go my Geo Kelpie! Crush her Street Vigilante! Torrential Stampede!"

Barring down on Stygian Street Vigilante, Rin's monster cracked a whip, sending her steeds racing towards Emma's monster. In comparison to Rin's massive Dark Synchro Monster, Emma's monster looked like a guppy charging headlong into the jaws of a shark.

"It's over." Rin grinned. "You've lost."

"Not if I can help it!" Kiryu countered, extending his hand forward. "I activate another effect from my graveyard! Say hello to Infernity Bomber!"

A ghostly image of Kiryu's Infernity Bomber materialized to the field. Wearing a mischievous expression on his face, he lit a match against his moustache before lighting the sticks of dynamite in his hands.

"If you declare an attack against one of our monsters while this card is in my graveyard and I have no cards in my hand…" Kiryu explained, "…I can banish this card in order to increase the ATK of the attacked monster by the total ATK of all other Dark Monsters we control! With Stygian Tracker's six-hundred attack, Infernity Des Sharpshooter's twenty-four hundred attack, and Void Ogre Dragon's three-thousand attack, that's an attack boost of six-thousand! Enough to destroy your monster and your Life Points!"

"I can still increase her attack with Speed World Mach 2's effect." Rin countered.

"True, but even if you did…" Kiryu grimly replied, "…the battle would only end in a tie, meaning your monster would be destroyed while we could negate Vigilante's destruction."

"Then I have no choice but to do this!" Rin growled. "Since you activated a monster effect, I activate Earthbound Disciple Geo Mermaid's effect! Once per turn, if my opponent activates a monster effect, I can negate that effect and inflict damage to the owner's Life Points equal to the attack of the monster! Go! Geo Mermaid! Abyss Song!"

Breathing in through her gills, Earthbound Disciple Geo Mermaid let out an ear-splitting shriek which knocked back the ghostly form of Infernity Bomber before extinguishing the fuses on his Dynamite Sticks. Getting up from the ground, Infernity Bomber shook his fist at Geo Mermaid before noticing she was no longer standing in front of him. Looking around with a confused expression on his face, he was suddenly ambushed when Geo Mermaid leaped up from the water beneath him, before pulling a match from his pocket, dropping it into one of his gun-powder kegs, and rapidly leaping off his back. With a momentary expression of horror coming over his face, Infernity Bomber exploded in a raging inferno, which slammed against Kiryu and his bike while reducing his Life Points to 1200.

"Kiryu!" Emma called, voice cracking with concern.

"Your next!" Rin proclaimed, "The attack goes through! Even if you banish a monster now, you cannot save your Life Points! Go my servant! Torrential Stampede!"

"Mom!" Kiryu called, tears leaking from his eyes as he steadied his bike.

"Focus on the duel!" Emma ordered with all her might. "I might be out, but you'll still have a turn! You have to finish this, Kiryu! Don't let her hurt anyone else!"

Letting out a mighty war-cry, Stygian Street Vigilante flung her chain at Geo Kelpie, embedding it into the hide of one of her massive steeds. Pulling herself up from the bike, she escaped just in time as the rampaging steeds smashed her bike to scrap metal. Clambering onto one of the angry steed's back, she yanked her weapon from the hide of the creature and flung the end of her chain at Geo Kelpie. With a flash of one of her massive arms, Geo Kelpie caught Street Vigilante's chain in her hands before pulling the stunned demon warrior up to her face where she bit down on the head of Emma's monster.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Emma screamed, half from fury and half from fear as the rampaging steeds neared her bike. However, instead of trampling her like she expected, Rin ordered her monster to stop. In confusion, Emma looked up just in time to see Geo Kelpie fling out her whip and strike Emma in the chest, causing the woman to fly backwards as her Life Points were reduced to 0.

"Mom!" Kiryu screamed in agony, as he watched her nearly fall from her bike from the force of the attack. Fortunately, while it looked like the whip had left a cut in her chest, she managed to stay on her bike as it rapidly slowed down and came to a complete stop.

Kiryu sighed in relief, but his solace was only temporary.

"Earthbound Disciple Geo Kelpie's second effect activates!" Rin declared, extending her hands to her opponents. "If one of my opponent's takes Battle Damage, I can inflict effect damage to my opponent's Life Points, equal to the damage taken! Since Emma took fifty-seven hundred points of Battle-Damage, that means that the rest of you will take fifty-seven hundred points of effect damage! Go! Geo Kelpie! Torrential Wrath!"

Rearing up her fleet of steeds, Geo Kelpie let loose a demonic shriek before the front hooves of each of her monsters slammed into the water, letting loose a mighty tidal wave, which struck against Kiryu and all the other officers, reducing their Life Points to 0.

Rin zoomed away at break-neck speed as the duel concluded, disappearing from sight in a flash.

"WHAT INFORMATION HAVE YOU MANAGED TO GET ON HER!?" Roger roared. "WHO IS SHE!?"

"We have her information right here!" one of the surveillance officers hastily replied, sending a file to Roger's computer. "She's an orphan without a last name. Her given name is Rin. The last time she was seen, she had taken up residence in an orphanage run by a Miss Kimura." An image of a run-down building appeared on Roger's screen. In front of it, a friendly looking woman with brown hair, glasses, and a white apron stood behind a group of small children.

Roger grinned when he saw the image. "Send a team of officers to the orphanage right now. I believe that every single individual there could make a wonderful contribution to the defense of the city. Especially if they're defending against a familiar face!"

He turned to his computer, and pressed another button on the control panel. "How is our guest, Yuya doing?" he asked.

"We've managed to contain him." An officer replied. "He's putting up quite a struggle, but it's useless right now. Do you want us to plant the chip into his brain to quiet him down?"

"Unnecessary." Roger replied. "I'd prefer to have him coherent for now. He will act as my perfect leverage against a particular Dark Signer."

Despite the defeat he suffered, for the first time today, Roger felt like his plans were coming through.

He picked a black Queen from his chess board and twirled it around in his hand. "Now don't think I've forgotten about you, Ruri." He grinned. "I already have big plans for a very important person in your life. Not to give away any spoilers, but I'm afraid Shun will regrettably be losing his next duel!"

Kiryu let out a groan as he came to. Looking around, he found his bike a few feet away from him along with nine other bikes and their riders scattered about.

Shakily, Kiryu got back to his feet, surprised that he was alive, much less able to stand up. Wasting no time, he rushed over to a Security Officer and pressed his finger to the officer's neck. To his relief he felt a pulse, meaning that the officer had only been knocked out. Racing over to the other officers, he began feeling each of their necks, and discovered the same thing.

Kiryu took off his headband and rung it out, letting a trickle of sweat and sea-water splatter onto the soaking-wet track-way. "Why hadn't she just killed them like all the other disciples tried to? She was definitely possessed, and yet… somehow she seemed like she maintained a level of control. Could Rin still be in there? Was she still fighting against the control of the Earthbound?"

Kiryu was interrupted in his thoughts as Emma Grayson slowly pulled over next to him, clutching at her wounded chest as she did.

"Mom!" Kiryu gasped, relieved to see she was still, relatively, okay. Rushing over, he examined the wound on her chest. The whip had made a clean cut through the armor and into the skin, but the wound wasn't too deep, only slightly worse than a large paper-cut.

"I'm okay." Emma grunted, rubbing her chest. "Stupid thing just knocked the wind out of me. My own worn-out body did more damage than that thing did."

Kiryu sighed in relief before looking over at the officers. "Should we help them?"

"Are they alive?" Emma inquired.

"I checked their pulses, and their still breathing." Kiryu confirmed.

"Then we leave them where they lie." Emma replied. "They'll be fine. Roger will send a squad to pick them up eventually. We've got bigger problems to deal with."

Raising her mark up to her face, she began speaking into it.

"Kazama! Kazama! Where are you!" she barked, "This is Emma Grayson! Kiryu and I have just had an engagement with a powerful Earthbound Disciple!"

"Emma!" a male voice called from the mark. "What are you doing here!? I thought you and Kiryu were over in Crash Town fighting against the Gatling Ogres!"

"It's Satisfaction Town," Emma barked, "and Enoch, Buck, and Phoebe can handle that gang. I came here with Kiryu after I learned that Roger had allowed Sergey to participate in the Friendship Cup! I thought that was bad enough, but apparently there's something bigger going on here! There's a girl with a mark we've never seen before! A whale-shaped mark, not the usual spiral mark we keep getting from our good buddy, Yuu."

"You didn't get the news then!?" Kazama hastily asked.

"What news?" Emma called.

"I just received word from Jack Atlas." Kazama explained. "I didn't want to believe it, but I've spoken with Aki and apparently it's true."

"What's true!?" Emma snarled.

"Dark Signers." Kazama explained. "He's finally created new ones!" There was a long pause. "Don't tell me you were dueling this girl just now!"

"Well… what was I supposed to do!?" Emma sputtered, "On the off chance this crazy chick was a Dark Signer, did you expect me to just let her summon her god and watch the souls of thousands of people get offered as a sacrifice to that monster!?"

"I know you couldn't have known." Kazama replied. "But we can't be rushing into this! There's still a lot we don't know! We don't know how many Dark Signers there might be or how many disciples they've managed to recruit. We can't be risking any more Phoenix Guard until we've gathered our forces, we've lost too many already!"

"And where are our forces!?" Emma barked. "Where's Lizette? Where's Natsumi? Where's Stephan? Heck… where's that little kid, Jeremiah? Where are all these people!?"

"Aki is gathering everyone she can to the Nazca lines." Kazama explained. "She's already met Bakari there. Apparently he… what was the phrase he used… felt tremors in his own dimension and decided to visit the Nazca Lines in order to see if he could exorcise the spirits dwelling within them. As for Lizette, I sent her to find the other Phoenix Guards in this dimension so I could send them to the other dimensions and get help from our comrades in Xyz, Standard, and Fusion. She's already found Natsumi, and by a stroke of luck, she ran into a few of our other allies. Adeel and his brother, Semal, have come to this dimension from Standard, and Lydia and her friend, Joho, have come from Fusion. They'll be gathering at the Friendship Cup Stadium before I send them all off to the other dimensions to recruit our other allies."

"So that's it then!?" Emma roared, "We're just gonna sit around and wait for the others to show up while who knows how many Dark Signers run rampant through the city! Don't tell me that Jack Atlas actually agrees with this!"

"How tough was that disciple you fought?" Kazama asked, "As in… on a scale between the weekly occultist who doesn't know what the heck he's doing and Sergey Volkov, what was this girl's power level?"

Emma grimaced. "She was close to Sergey Volkov." She muttered, "But… I still don't think… darn it I HAD to stop her, Kazama!"

"It took sixty of us just to stop Sergey!" Kazama reminded Emma. "How do you think any one of us, with the exception of the Signers, is going to stand up to an actual Dark Signer!? You and Kiryu are lucky to be alive at all!"

"It's not about staying alive, Kazama!" Emma roared, "I've lived a good life! The last thing I want to do is waste it by letting a bunch of demon possessed humans destroy the world!"

"We don't even know the identity of the girl!" Kazama replied.

"Uhm… Mom?" Kiryu began.

"We hardly know anything!" Kazama continued.

"MOM!" Kiryu bellowed.

Emma pulled her face away from her mark and glared down at Kiryu. "Oh come on Kiryu!" she groaned, "Can't it wait!? I'm on the…" she flailed her arm around helplessly, "…thing! SO anyway!" she hollered back at her mark.

"I KNOW WHO SHE WAS!" Kiryu hollered.

"What!?" Emma and Kazama exclaimed in unison.

"That girl… I knew her." Kiryu weakly responded. "It's her, mom. That girl I introduced you to at the orphanage. She was Rin!"

FEATURED ORIGINAL CHARACTERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

Name: Santiago Guevara / Original concept by: Donjusticia / Deck: Unrevealed / Allegiance: Dark Signers / Status: Active

Name: Mita Takeda / Original Concept by: Donjusticia / Deck: Unrevealed / Allegiance: Dark Signers / Status: Active

Name: Emma Grayson / Original concept by: Donjusticia / Deck: Stygian / Allegiance: Phoenix Guard / Status: Active

Name: Kiryu Kyosuke / Original concept by: FanOfKings / Deck: Infernity / Allegiance: Phoenix Guard / Status: Active

FEATURED FANFIC CARDS

Security's Monsters

Road Blocker 3/ WIND/ Level 7/ Machine/ Effect/ ATK 0/ DEF 3500/ Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by tributing 1 "Road Blocker 2" you control. Cannot be destroyed by battle. The effects of your opponent's Field Spell Cards are negated, also, your opponent cannot activate Field Spell Cards. Other monsters you control are unaffected by the effects of your opponent's Spell/Trap Cards. Monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects. If a monster you control attacks, your opponent cannot activate Spell/Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step. Your opponent cannot target any monsters you control for attacks except this one.

Security's Spell Cards

Goyo Checkpoint/ Spell/ Continuous/ While you control a face-up "Goyo" monster, your opponent must pay 1000 LP to declare an attack.

Goyo Fine/ Spell/ Continuous/ Activate only if you control a face-up "Goyo" monster. Target 1 monster your opponent controls. While that target is face-up on the field, your opponent must pay 500 LP during the End-Phase of each turn, unless he/she tributes that monster and this card instead with this effect instead.

Emma Grayson's Monsters

Stygian Gun Slinger/ DARK/ Level 4/ Fiend/ Effect/ ATK 800/ DEF 1900/ If this card is Normal or Special Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Fiend-Type Monster from your hand. (You can only use this effect of "Stygian Gun Slinger" once per turn). Once per turn, you can target 1 Level 5 or lower Fiend-Type Monster you control: Change that target's Level to 1, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent's LP equal to the difference between that monster's original Level and current Level X 100.

Stygian Tracker/ DARK/ Level 1/ Fiend/ Effect/ ATK 600/ DEF 100/ Double any effect damage your opponent takes. If this card is destroyed by battle, you can Special Summon 1 "Stygian" monster from your deck.

Emma's Extra Deck

Stygian Street Vigilante/ DARK/ Level 3/ Fiend/ Synchro/ Effect/ ATK 1300/ DEF 800/ 1 Fiend-Type Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuners

Your opponent cannot target monsters you control for attacks except this one. You can discard any number of Fiend-Type monsters from your hand: Increase the ATK of this card by 200 for each card discarded with this effect. If this card attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent's LP. If this card would be destroyed, you can banish 1 Fiend-Type monster from your graveyard instead.

Emma Grayson's Spells

Styx Riders/ Spell/ Normal/ For the rest of this turn, you cannot attack with monsters whose Levels are higher than 5, also, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to the activation or effects of a "Stygian Card." Send 1 "Stygian" monster from your deck to the graveyard: Special Summon 1 "Stygian" monster from your hand.

Pure Earth/ Spell/ Continuous/ Target 1 monster you control: While that target is face-up on the field, if your opponent would summon a monster whose Level is -1 or lower, or would summon a DARK monster whose Level is 10 or higher, you can banish this card: Negate the summon of that monster, and if you do, banish it. Then, you can halve your opponent's LP.

Kiryu's Monsters

Infernity Ghost/ DARK/ Level 1/ Fiend/ Tuner/ Effect/ ATK 0/ DEF 0/ If you control an "Infernity" monster, you can Special Summon this card, from your hand. If this card is in your graveyard while you have no cards in your hand, you can banish this card from your graveyard: Special Summon 1 "Infernity" monsters from your graveyard. (You can only use this effect of "Infernity Ghost" once per turn).

Infernity Sniper/ DARK/ Level 3/ Fiend/ Effect/ ATK 1300/ DEF 1000/ If you have no cards in your hand, you can Special Summon this card from the graveyard, and If you do, inflict 300 damage to your opponent's LP. If summoned this way, banish this card when it leaves the field.

(Original concept by FanOfKings).

Infernity Bomber/ DARK/ Level 4/ Fiend/ Effect/ ATK 800/ DEF 2000/ / If this card battles a monster while you have no cards in your hand, destroy that monster and this card at the start of the Damage Step. If your opponent attacks a monster you control while this card is in your graveyard and you have no cards in your hand, you can banish this card from the graveyard: Increase the ATK of the monster being attacked by the Total ATK of all other DARK monsters you control until the end of the Damage Step.

Kiryu's Extra Deck

Infernity Des Sharpshooter/ DARK/ Level 7/ Fiend/ Synchro/ Effect/ ATK 2400/ DEF 1500/ 1 DARK Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuners

Once per turn, if you have no cards in your hand, you can target 1 monster your opponent controls. Banish that monster and inflict damage to your opponent equal to the Level/Rank of that monster x 100. This card cannot attack during the same turn you activate this effect. During a turn in which this card did not attack, you can activate this effect: Special Summon 1 "Infernity" monster from your graveyard. (You can only use this effect of "Infernity Des Sharpshooter" once per turn).

(Original Concept by FanOfKings. I hope you don't mind the buffs I gave to your original cards.)

Kiryu's Spells

Infernity Deal/ Spell/ Normal/ Send 1 "Infernity" monster from your deck to the graveyard: Draw 1 card, but discard you hand during the End-Phase of this turn. If you would take damage while this card is in your graveyard and you have no cards in your hand, you can banish this card: that damage becomes 0.

Rin's Monsters

Synthphonist Flutist/ WIND/ Level 3/ Psychic/ Gemini/ Tuner/ Effect/ ATK 800/ DEF 1000/ This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is a Normal Monster on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

Once per turn, during either player's turn, if the level of 1 or more of your monsters changes due to a card effect, you can activate this effect: Draw 1 card.

Synthphonist Oboist/ WIND/ Level 4/ Psychic/ Gemini/ Tuner/ Effect/ ATK 1200/ DEF 1800/ If this card is used as a Material for a Synchro Summon, you can target 1 monster you control: That target cannot be destroyed by battle. This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is a Normal Monster on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

If a monster declares an attack, negate the attack, and if you do, you can reduce the level of 1 monster you control by 1 (Min. 1).

Synthphonist Snare Drummer/ WIND/ Level 2/ Psychic/ Gemini/ Effect/ ATK 900/ DEF 300/ This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is a Normal Monster on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

Once per turn, you can declare a level from 1-3: The levels of all monsters you control become the declared level until the end of this turn.

Synthphonist Bassoonist/ WIND/ Level 4/ Psychic/ Gemini/ Tuner/ Effect/ If this card is used as a Material for a Synchro Summon, you can target 1 monster you control: That target cannot be targeted by your opponent's card effects. This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. While this card is a Normal Monster on the field, you can Normal Summon it to have it become an Effect Monster with this effect.

If a monster(s) you control is targeted by a card or effect, you can negate that effect, and if you do, you can reduce this card's level by 1 (Min. 1).

Dark Tuner Chaos Charybdis/ WATER/ Level 11/ Aqua/ Dark Tuner/ Effect/ ATK 0/ DEF 0/ If this card is tribute summoned successfully, you can activate this effect: Banish all Spell/Trap Cards your opponent controls. If this card is used as a Dark Synchro Material for the Dark Synchro Summon of a Dark Synchro Monster, you can activate this effect: Increase the ATK of all monsters you control by 300 for each of your opponent's banished cards, until the end of this turn.

Rin's Extra Deck

Hypersonic Synthphonist Marvel/ WIND/ Level 9/ Psychic/ Synchro/ Tuner/ Effect/ ATK 3300/ DEF 3300/ 1 Synchro Tuner + 1 or more "Synthphonist" monsters

Monsters destroyed by battle with a "Synthphonist" monster are shuffled into the deck instead of being sent to the graveyard. Once per turn, during either player's turn, you can target cards on the field, up to the number of Tuners used in this card's Synchro Summon: Negate the effects of those Targets until the end of the turn. Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Synthphonist" monster from your hand or graveyard.

Earthbound Disciple Geo Mermaid/ WATER/ Level -4/ Fish/ Dark Synchro/ Effect/ ATK 1600/ DEF 2000/ 1 monster with a Level – 1 Dark Tuner

Once per turn, if your opponent activates a monster effect, you can negate the activation of that effect, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent's LP equal to the ATK of that monster. If a face-up monster you control destroys an opponent's monster by battle, you can banish that opponent's monster from the Graveyard: Inflict damage to your opponent's LP equal to the Level of that monster X 200.

Earthbound Disciple Geo Kelpie/ WATER/ Level -9/ Sea Serpent/ Dark Synchro/ Effect/ ATK 2800/ DEF 3000/ 1 or more monsters with a Level – 1 or more Dark Tuners

If this card was Dark Synchro Summoned using 3 or more monsters as Materials, you can activate this effect: Special Summon 1 Level -6 or higher monster from your Extra Deck or graveyard. If your opponent takes Battle-Damage, you can activate this effect: Inflict damage to your opponent's LP equal to the damage he/she took.

Rin's Spells

Speed World Mach 2/ Spell/ Turbo Field/ The Player who reaches Checkpoint 1 first takes the first turn. You can activate 1 other Field Spell Card in addition to this card. Cannot be destroyed by card effects. (This effect remains even if this card's effects are negated). Each time a player draws a card(s) or Special Summons a monster(s), (other than with the effects of this card), that player places one of his/her own Speed Counters on this card (Max. 12). (The Player who goes first cannot place more than 4 Speed Counters on this card for their first turn). If a player takes damage, that player loses 1 of his/her Speed Counters for every 1000 Points of Damage he/she took. During either player's turn, you can remove a number of your own Speed Counters from this card to activate 1 of the following effects based on the number of Speed Counters removed. 1+: Increase the ATK or DEF of 1 monster you control by 100 for each Speed Counter removed for this effect. 2: Increase your LP by 500. 4: Halve the damage you take from 1 battle or card effect. 6: Draw 1 card. 8: Destroy 1 card on the field. 10: Negate the activation of a card or effect, and if you do, destroy it. 12: Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your Hand, Deck, Graveyard, or Extra Deck ignoring the summoning conditions.

(Still daring people to make this ridiculous card.)

Synthphonist Orchestra/ Spell/ Field/ You can Normal Summon 1 "Synthphonist" monster in addition to your Normal Summon/Set. Each time a card(s) is returned to the Deck, place 1 "Synth" counter on this card. Once per turn, you can remove any number of "Synth" counters from this card: Special Summon 1 "Synthphonist" monster from your Deck whose Level is equal to the number of counters removed. If this card would be destroyed, you can remove 1 "Synth" counter from this card instead.

Rin's Traps

Synthphonist Ensemble/ Trap/ Continuous/ Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to the activation of this card or its effects. Target 1 or more "Synthphonist" monsters you control: Special Summon 1 "Synthphonist" monster from your hand, deck, or graveyard whose Level is equal to the total Level of the targeted monster(s). If the monster Special Summoned by this effect is a Gemini Monster, it is treated as an Effect Monster and gains its effects. If this card, or the monster summoned by this card's effect leaves the field, banish both this card and the monster summoned by this card's effect.

Synthphonist Performance/ Trap/ Counter/ Activate only if you control a "Hypersonic Synthphonist" Synchro Monster. Negate the activation of a card or effect, and if you do, shuffle that card into the deck. You can banish this card from your graveyard: Set 1 "Synthphonist" Spell/Trap Card from your deck to your Spell/Trap Card Zone, but that card cannot be activated this turn. (This is a Quick Effect. You can only use each effect of "Synthphonist Performance" once per turn).