I was walking around the Wonder Quartet field finding some more Pendulum statue cards for my ante pile in case the others are able to find me, I looked up at a random screen with a sign saying that the cameras are having technical difficulties
'Something must have happened to make the audience miss the show' I pulled out my duel disk and decided to call Reiji Akaba 'I hope he isn't busy right now'
Back at the stadium most of the audience are not happy that the duels aren't being displayed on screen. Heck even Nico was crying waterfalls that he isn't doing his job because the cameras went blank on him
"What do you think has happened out there?" Masumi questioned
"I don't know" Yaiba replied before looking to Sally "what do you think Sally?" he asked to his fellow LDS duelist but got no answer "Sally?"
The other Synchro duelist was quiet, she was actually feeling scared that the screen went blank... but then she remembered something and pulled out a card from her uniform which revealed to be the Fighting Spirit spell card and then she remembered the words of her best friend
'Take this card and show it to Mrs. Akaba if something feels wrong to you'
She then stood up, surprising Masumi and Yaiba, and went to the halls searching for the lady of Leo Corps.
"Sally wait up!" the two aces followed her trying to see what's wrong with the girl
The LDS Students stopped upon seeing You Show Duel school being stopped by security and conversing with Henrietta Akaba that her son Riley can easily beat their duelist in the finals
"Mrs. Akaba!" Sally shouted as she went past the guard and was in front of the lady making Reira hold his bear tightly at the sudden closure of the girl in front of him
"Ara, Sally-san" she then saw the young duelist present the Fighting Spirit card "so Jason-san wanted you to be part of it huh?"
The others blinked at her words to which the lady caught on "my son, Reiji-san, told me that Jason-san wanted to bring an eliminated duelist from a past round back in the championship" she said surprising them "I was against the idea at first, but seeing how determined the boy was at his decision... I agreed"
Sally nodded gratefully and ran passed the lady in haste to meet Jason and see that he was alright
"Wait you mean to say is Jason convinced you to follow his condition!?" Yaiba blinked in disbelief
"What was that baka thinking for talking back to you?!" Masumi shrieked with wide eyes
Henrietta smiled "if you want to know why, then you will have to wait back at your seats and for the finalists to return in the arena"
I placed my duel disk on my arm readying myself as I walked back to the lava area of Wonder Quartet 'so the Fusion duelists are here?' I sighed dejectedly 'just great... I hope that the other candidates can survive them'
But then I heard screaming, I looked at the direction of the sound and saw violet lights, feeling troubled I ran to the area
And saw a horrifying sight...
The fusion duelists were smiling in glee at defeating the youth division duelists into submission and after that... they were turned into cards!
I felt my anger rise at the display of arrogance and was about to jump in until I heard a voice
"MATTE KORA!"
I looked to see a white motorbike enter the battlefield and got wide-eyed at seeing a duel disk being activated on the vehicle
The mystery duelist pulled out his card "when my opponent declares a direct attack, I can special summon Speedroid Menko!"
Speedroid Menko (Lvl:4 ATK:100)
"I activate it's monster effect making all my opponent's monsters will be placed in DEF mode!"
Double Ancient Gear Hunting Hound (Lvl:5 ATK:1400-DEF:1000x3)
Triple Ancient Gear Hunting Hound (Lvl:7 ATK:1800-DEF:1000x3)
"Kuso!" one of the Fusion duelists clenched his fist "then I end my turn!"
"Just who are you anyway!?" another of the Fusion duelists shouted
"I'm Yugo" the bike duelist declared
"Yugo?" the third Fusion duelist questioned "then you're an ally?!"
"My name is Yugo!" the duelist shouted in anger before riding his bike accelerating faster towards a rock shaped like a ramp "Ore no tan!" he drew his card and looked at it "I summon the tuner monster Speedroid Tri-Eyed Dice"
Speedroid Tri-Eyed Dice (Lvl:3 ATK:300)
Yugo then made a jump to the air "now I tune my level 3 Speedroid Tri-Eyed Dice with level 4 Speedroid Menko" he then drove down on the side of another building as the Synchro summon was made
3+4=7
"Dragon of the wind, spread your wings in the sky as you enter the battlefield!" Yugo chanted "Synchro summon! Clear Wing Synchro Dragon"
Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (Lvl:7 ATK:2500)
'Synchro dragon...?' I gaped at seeing the Sychro monster 'then again... there was the Yuto with his Xyz dragon, so I should have expected another version'
The Fusion Duelists were scared at seeing the Synchro monster but one of them thought Yugo would lose thanks to Double Ancient Gear Hunting Hound's effect but Yugo smirked at their attitude catching them off guard
"When a level 5 or higher monster activates their effect, my Synchro Dragon negates that effect and destroys the monster!" he declared "Dichroic mirror!"
The Synchro dragon's wings flared with light and destroyed Double Ancient Gear Hunting hound into pixels and thanks to the Ancient Armageddon gear on the field the controller takes damage equivalent of the ATK points of the destroyed monster
"Then my Dragon gains the original ATK points of the destroyed monster"
Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (ATK:2500-3900)
"And finally with my Synchro Cracker spell card" the Synchro duelist reached for his card "by returning my Synchro monster to the extra deck all monsters with lower ATK on my opponent's field will be destroyed"
As the card effect was declared the Fusion duelists were now out cold thanks to the spell card as they lost the duel, When Yugo asked that the last survivor was okay the person was so scared that caused mental trauma and ran away
"Aah mou!" Yugo groaned "not even a thank you for saving his life"
"Don't blame the guy" I said while making myself known to Yugo for him turn toward me "seeing people turned into a card can make anyone not think straight"
"Well at least there's someone that will help me understand what's going on here" he huffed at finally meeting someone without getting into trouble
We went to the ice area of the Action field as I explained that he was in a different, Standard, dimension where different summoning methods are used; be it Fusion, Synchro or Xyz along with the newly added Pendulum method and then I told him next is that he was in the middle of a tournament and he looked like my friend Yuya Sakaki
"Well that explains the duelists I beat when they said Yuya Sakaki to me" Yugo nodded
"Yeah I almost mistook you for him when you showed me your face from lifting that visor" I smiled while looking at the night sky "I told you my story, tell me yours"
Yugo told me about his home called New Domino City where dueling was done by vehicles called duel runner, it was a peaceful place before it split into 2 places: Tops and Commons, there was a bit of inequality at first before the Hero, Yusei Fudo, of said city was able to make it stable and made the place fair once again
"Wow, that's... just wow" I blinked like an owl "you must be facing some rough problems before the place got stable again"
"Hai" Yugo nodded "after I got my license for my dueling career... my friend was kidnapped by a person that looked like me" he then pulled out his Synchro card "I was lost in guilt for not saving her until my dragon glowed and guided me to a ruined city and I saw my look-alike before we clashed with our dragons but then I was forced to run away"
I placed my hand on his shoulder getting his attention "why don't you get some sleep and I'll take the first watch in case those jerks show up again
"Thanks" he then yawned "I've been wandering around the place aimlessly for the day and a nap does seem nice" he went to the side of his duel runner "wake me up if you see anything strange"
I looked at the distance, now alone in my thoughts I try to piece the things together with what I know already
'If Yugo's friend was that important, then what kind of plan did the mastermind of the Fusion dimension made for creating a duel war' I grabbed my head in frustration as the dimension topic escalates 'oh this dimension stuff is starting to give me a headache!' I groaned 'I just hope Sally comes here soon...'
Sally was in the forest area of Wonder Quartet, she was growing more worried that she might not be able to reach him
'Please be okay Jason...' she thought but blinked at realizing that her her duel disk was on her arm 'I can't believe I forgot that!' she then used it to call him
I was keeping lookout for the blue Fusion duelists, I turned to Yugo as he slept next to his duel runner 'I hope Sally's okay' just then the duel disk in my pocket vibrated 'that must be her right now' I pulled it out to see her name on the screen
I placed it on my ear and said "Sally?"
"Jason!" her voice spoke loudly "are you okay?!"
"Yes, I'm fine" I rubbed my ear from her loud voice "where are you?"
"I'm in the forest area of of the Action field, but I seem to be close to the ice area soon" she hummed
"Good, keep going forward" I nodded "because I have to tell you something important"
"Is it about the moment when the screens suddenly turn blank?"
"Yeah" I nodded "and also, if you see people wearing blue uniforms and strange masks... hide and quietly sneak away from them"
"Are they dangerous?" she questioned
"Yes" I replied "and you can't face them alone, because they will do whatever it takes to win"
"Right" Sally understood "I'll be careful"
"Please do" I said worriedly before ending the call and sighed "I just hope that luck will be with her for the moment..."
"Getting worried huh?" Yugo's voice suddenly spoke from behind me
"Gah!" I jumped before turning around to see the Syncro duelist yawning "when did you wake up?"
"Just a few seconds ago" he groaned "that voice was pretty loud"
"Tell me about it" I rubbed my ear again "I can still hear the ringing in my head"
"Why don't I take watch this time?" the Synchro duelist said "you look like you need rest"
"Yeah" I nodded "with what's happening now, a bit of shut would be good for me" I looked at Yugo "wake me up when you see her okay"
"How would I know if it's her?" he blinked
"Blonde hair and a star clip on it" I described her
"Thanks" Yugo nodded
I lied down on the ice floor and looked at the starry night sky 'please be safe Sally'
Sally was now calm after talking to his boyfriend but the worry still lingered in her as she walked toward the ice part of Wonder Quartet
She saw some figures ran close and hid behind a chunk of ice as they got into view, her eyes widen as their appearance upon seeing them closely
'They're just like Jason described' she blinked before hearing their conversation
"Man that Yuri is a scary person" one of them wiped his helmet feeling relieved at getting away from said person
"You can say that again" the second agreed "I'm just glad that he has a job to do, otherwise we'd be carded"
'Carded?' she blinked in surprise
"No kidding" the last one nodded "anyway, let's find Sora and see if he has distractions from his objective"
The group ran fast in finding their Fusion companion with the mission they were briefed earlier
Sally breathed out a bit feeling her anxiety rise a bit, never had she felt such tension in her before
'Not the time to get distracted' she shook her head 'I have to find Jason!'
Yugo looked around as he kept look out for Jason's friend, he then crossed his arms to think a bit
'Man, who would've thought that my home was a seperate dimension from this one' he shook his head 'then again, their history is identical to ours with the Duel Monsters and all'
He opened his eye to see a figure running toward him, he narrowed his eyes to see blonde hair and a star clip
'That must be her' Yugo went to Jason and nudged him awake "wake up Jason"
I groaned and sat up "you saw someone?" I rubbed my eyes
"Sally's here"
I became alert and the sleep in me left, I stood up only to be tackled back down again
"Jason!"she shouted happily as I groaned from the pain in my back "you're okay!"
"Yeah" I forced a smile and patted Sally's head calming her down "And I have to explain you what's happening right now"
I explained the secret Reiji told me about alternate worlds relating to ours about dueling and my endeavors when the screen turned blank
Suffice to say, Sally gaped in disbelief, she was blinking at me slowly trying to process everything what I just told her
"Is she going to be okay?" Yugo questioned
"She'll be fine" I replied "you should go now, you are still looking for your friend right?"
The Synchro duelist nodded before hopping on his Duel Runner and sped off
'Good luck Yugo...' I looked at the guy's back as he went before turning to my best friend 'I hope you can get back to your senses soon'
It took a short while but Sally was now able to come back as she shook her head from what I just said
"I can't believe it..." she muttered "different worlds with a specific summoning method"
"I know it's hard to believe Sally" I pulled her up "but right now we have to move" I looked up to see the sunrise "who knows when those guys will find us"
"That would be right now" an unknown voice spoke
We turned our heads around to see the guys Reiji described me when I asked about the trouble and their appearance, the only thing that made them different from each other were the different colored gems on their helmets
"Who are you guys anyway!?" I demanded still feeling my anger at them for carding the youth division of the tournament
The group only smirked as they activated their duel disks
"We are the Obelisk Force" one of them answered not losing the smirk "and it's our job to stop obstacles from interfering with Sora"
'So Sora's words of being an ego maniac is finalized' I balled my hands tightly before to my best friend "Get up Sally, we're dueling them"
"Are you sure?" she gulped feeling nervous right now as we activated our duel disks "you did say they are dangerous"
"If we don't beat them" I turned to her "we'll never get back to the stadium...ever!"
"Duel!"
Obelisk Red LP: 4000
Obelisk Green LP: 4000
Obelisk Yellow LP: 4000
Sally LP: 4000
Jason LP: 4000
"Ore no tan!" Obelisk Red smiled as he pulled a card from his hand "I summon Ancient Gear Hunting Hound"
Ancient Gear Hunting Hound (Lvl:3 ATK:1000)
"Battle!" he then pointed at me "attack him directly!"
The monster dashed forward and pounced me
Jason LP: 4000-3000
I groaned as the pain was still on me 'these jerks are begging for it!'
"Hey!" Sally called out "you can't attack on the first turn!"
"This isn't a duel little girl" Obelisk Yellow smiled darkly "it's a battle"
Sally balled her free hand tightly and she suddenly remembered Jason's words about them at his first sighting of the group
'To disregard people like they were nothing...' she trembled in anger 'it's unforgivable!'
"Ore no tan" Obelisk Green drew his card "I summon Ancient Gear Hunting Hound"
Ancient Gear Hunting Hound (Lvl:3 ATK:1000x2)
"When my opponent controls a monster on the field, I can inflict 600 points of damage"
His monster's mouth opened and breathed out fire hitting Jason directly as his lifepoints deducted
Jason LP: 3000-2400
"Ore no tan" Obelisk Yellow called drawing his card "I summon Ancient Gear Hunting Hound and use it's effect to inflict 600 points of damage"
This time though the effect went to Sally instead of Jason as the covered herself from the flames that struck her
Sally LP: 4000-3400
'So they attacks the first turn and then slowly have their targets struggle in fear during the duel' Jason thought after seeing the Obelisk Force play style 'they must've thought that after defeating the Youth division, the rest of us are just easy pickings in their minds' he frowned at them 'BIG MISTAKE!'
I turned to Sally and she looked me before nodding
"It's my turn, I draw!" she looked at her hand 'I got my strategy to cut off good chunk of lifepoints from one of them' she then looked around the area and spotted an Action card before running toward and picked it up "Action spell, Monster Effect Stopper! I can negate a monster effect this turn" she pointed at the Ancient Gear hounds "so you won't stop me from my attack!"
She then sends a card to her graveyard "by sending 1 card to the grave I can special summon Quickdraw Synchron"
Quickdraw Synchron (Lvl:5 ATK:700)
"Since there is a tuner monster on my field I can special summon Quillbolt Hedgehog from my grave"
Quillbolt Hedgehog (Lvl:2 ATK:800)
"And lastly I summon Sonic Chick"
Sonic Chick (Lvl:1 ATK:300)
"I now tune level 5 Quickdraw Synchron with level 2 Quillbolt Hedgehog and level 1 Sonic Chick"
5+2+1=8
"Warrior of unimaginable strength, destroy the barriers with your fists!" Sally chanted "Synchro summon! Junk Destroyer!"
Junk Destroyer (Lvl:8 ATK:2600)
"Junk Destroyer's effect activates!" she called "when Synchro summoned, it can destroy cards depending on the number of non-tuner monsters used in a Synchro summon"
"NANI!?" the Obelisk force shrieked as they stepped back
Sally pointed at the Ancient Gear Hounds "destroy those two mutts with tidal sweep!"
The Synchro monster blasted them away leaving the third, which was targeted by her Action card, alone in the field
"Battle!" she pointed at the remaining Ancient Gear monster "destroy that hound with fist of ferocity!"
Junk Destroyer moved forward and punched the monster sending it flying towards Obelisk Yellow hitting him hard sending the guy skidding against the ice floor as his lifepoints depleted
Obelisk Yellow LP: 4000-2400
But the Synchro duelist didn't stop there, she ran around the field and found an Action card in front of her
"Action Spell, Second Strike!" the card revealed itself on her field showing a picture of Maurauding Captain and Freed smiling as Ms. Judge held a circle in one hand with a piece of paper with a number 2 and a sword on it "I pick a monster on my field and it can deliver a second attack!"
"Huh!?" the Obelisk force shouted in disbelief
'Lucky you Sally' I smirked 'that Action card is pretty rare to find'
Junk Destroyer dashed forward and punched Obelisk Yellow up to the sky with all four fists connecting on his body
Obelisk Yellow LP: 2400-0
The guy hit the ground and was now out cold
"B-bakana!" Obelisk Red stammered "a duelist from standard beat us?!"
"Don't underestimate us you egomaniacs!" I snarled and drew my card 'I need to use the Xyz and keep my full power a surprise at the moment'
I pulled out a card from my hand "I summon Heroic Champion-Double Lance!"
Heroic Champion-Double Lance (Lvl:4 ATK:1700)
"With Double Lance summoned on my field" I called "I can special summon another Double Lance from my hand or grave in DEF mode"
Heroic Champion-Double Lance (Lvl:4 DEF:900)
"Now he has two level 4 monsters" Obelisk Green spoke
"Masaka!" Obelisk Red realized
"You better believe it!" I grinned "but before I do that, I activate my monster's effect again special summoning my last Double Lance in my hand"
Heroic Champion-Double Lance (Lvl:4 DEF:900x2)
"And lastly I activate Double Summon Spell from my hand" I said sliding the card in my spell/trap slot "summoning Heroic Challenger-Spartan"
Heroic Challenger-Spartan (Lvl:4 ATK:1600)
'Four level 4 monsters?' Sally thought before her eyes widen in realization 'he's using the same tactic when he dueled me back in round 1!'
"I now overlay my 2 level 4 Double Lances and build the overlay network!"
The two monsters changed into bronze streamers and went into a galaxy portal before exploding
"Champion of light, enter this battle and fight the enemy with your sword!" I chanted "Xyz summon! Heroic Champion-Excalibur!"
Heroic Champion-Excalibur (Rnk:4 ATK:2000)
"I now overlay my level 4 Spartan and Double Lance to build the overlay network again!"
The remaining monsters changed into streamers and wen into the galaxy portal before exploding
"Xyz warrior of light, let your presence be a sign wonder and be the hope of battle" I chanted "Xyz summon! Number 39: Utopia!"
Number 39: Utopia (Rnk:4 ATK:2500)
Now the remaining Obelisk Force stepped back in fear at seeing the obstacle of their first attack in the Xyz dimension
"U...UTOPIA!?" Obelisk Red shouted in disbelief
"Bakana!" Obelisk Green pointed an accusing finger at me "are you from the Xyz dimension?!"
"I'm not answering that question" I replied smugly before raising my arm "I now activate Excalibur's effect! By using 2 overlay units the ATK is doubled"
Heroic Champion-Excalibur (ATK:2000-4000)
"Battle!" I pointed at Obelisk Green "finish him off using heroic crush!"
Excalibur pulled out his sword and moved forward delivering a downward slash sending the Fusion duelist back from the shockwave of Excalibur's attack
Obelisk Green LP: 4000-0
"Now Utopia" I said calling to my second monster "attack that last Obelisk force directly!"
Utopia pulled out his 2 blades and readied himself to attack but then Jason spoke out
"I activate Utopia's monster effect!" he called "I use one overlay unit to stop his attack"
The Xyz monster stopped just as when the overlay unit vanished
"What was the point in doing that!?" Obelisk Red shouted
"To activate my quick-play spell Double or Nothing!" Jason smiled sliding the card into his duel disk "when a monster's attack stopped it attacks again with the ATK doubled!"
Number 39: Utopia (ATK:2500-5000)
"5000 ATK!?"
"Now Utopia" Jason pointed at the last Obelisk duelist standing "finish him with rising sun slash!"
Utopia did just that as he flew upward before diving down delivering the attack directly sending Obelisk Red flying back and skid against the ice floor
Obelisk Red LP: 4000-0
Jason: WIN
Sally: WIN
I sighed in relief at finally getting back at them for carding the Youth division, I looked to Utopia and saw he was in gratitude for defeating the Obelisk force before disappearing
Sally went next to me and looked down at the fallen Fusion duelists
"What do you we should do with them?" she questioned
"We can confiscate their duel disks while Reiji and Mrs. Akaba gets info from them about the mess their making"
She nodded at that, but before we could do anything... a bright light suddenly appeared
"What the!?" I raised my arm blocking the light
"Where did the light come from?" Sally followed as she covered her face from the sudden brightness
But when the light disappeared, the Obelisk Force was gone
"That's just great..." I crossed my arms "our only chance on finding out the secret of their carding ability... slipped away"
"Well not everything is lost" Sally stepped in front of me "there is still a chance that we can meet the other Lancers after this"
I calmed down "you're right" I smiled at her "let's go find them"
As we started walking a random direction, I looked up to see that the sun was up in the sky I then checked my duel disk to see that it's 9 A.M.
'Time's almost up' I turned to my best friend "Hey Sally"
"What is it Jason?" she blinked
"While we're looking for the other Lancers, why don't we find some food?" I suggested
As I finished my sentence, Sally's stomach growled causing the girl to blush in embarrassment
"I'll take that as a yes then" I smiled warmly "let's go to the jungle area,I saw some fish in a waterway while I was searching for Pendulum cards earlier
"Let's go!" she grabbed my arm and ran to the said area "I was so worried about you that I didn't pack food for us!"
"Alright, alright" I smiled "we'll find it and eat"
Author's Notes:
Hi everyone readerk10 here and finally updated this story, sorry if I made you wait but I've been feeling woozy from what story I should update after sometime now
I've watched the end of Arc-V series and was sorely disappointed at the end and it left questions to me and others about the whole show. But the point of it was simple enough: connect people through dueling by using the Pendulum method
If I had to compare this to another anime... it would an equivalent to the Sword Art Online series
Both of them share the following mechanics; they focus on a simple plot and change on a certain part in the series (Arc-V: connecting people through duels with the Pendulum summon, SAO: virtual online gaming and level up to win and leave the game world), not to mention that drama only went up when a person's life is the ante
Don't get me wrong, their entertaining but the flaw is that they just couldn't see the pacing of their story and end up suddenly changing it if it's close to a conclusion
But thankfully I'll be filling some gaps to, at least, make it more believable to you and answer some questions you had about the anime (at least I hope so...)
Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter
OC card;
Second Strike
Action Spell
Effect: during the battle phase, choose one monster on your field and it can attack a second time
