Blue Destiny
Copyright information: Yugi-oh, the title and characters are all owned and copyrighted by Kazuki Takahashi, and Weekly shonen jump publication. Viz, and 4-kids are owners of the manga and anime of Yugi-Oh. Upper Deck and Konomi are owners of the trading cards and video games. All likeness to persons living or dead is purely coincidence.
Author's Notes: Finally Chapter 8, and coming up 9. Ah…I can't wait to see the reaction the latter gets.~_^
Side Note: // -// indicates messages via the computer. (Atk/Def) for the cards.
I should note that I'm using the names from the original version of the show and comic. So here's how they are set up. Yugi Moto =Yugi Mutou, Tristan Taylor =Hiroto Honda, Téa Gardner =Anzu Mazaki, Joey Wheeler =Katsuya Jonouchi, Duke Devilin =Ryuji Otogi, Seto Kaiba =same, Mokuba Kaiba =same, Maximillion Pegasus = Pegasus J. Crawford.
Chapter 8: First Duel
The game screen lit up brightly as a new prompt came on, //Chose card deck, or place custom made deck online.//
DragonTamer15: //Since you're Battle City info is still up I figure you can use your deck to duel me. That is if you're not afraid to loose…//
SetKai: //Are we going to talk, or duel Gwen, because you're wasting my time. //
DragonTamer15: //Temper, Temper, Set. Don't go letting your blood pressure rise to high. It's not healthy for a boy your age… //
SetKai: //And I suppose the old man that you pass off as an assistant told you about that, right.//
DragonTamer15: //Donovan's not old! At least he's got a better grip on reality…//
SetKai: //And I'm sure something else as well…//
DragonTamer15: //Sick Bastard! You'll pay for that one! //
SetKai: //Who say's I was thinking anything like that. It's your mind not mine Scotts.//
DragonTamer15: //Fine! Have it your way! But when I beat you, you'll be singing a different tune. Although I'm going to have to plug my ears, for fear of going deaf. //
SetKai: // I'm surprised you haven't gone mute with all the running at the mouth you seem to do. //
Seto waited for a reply but the computer suddenly began to whirl and click as he saw a new prompt screen that indicated that Gwen had already prepped her deck. His fingers flew over the keyboard and brought up the old Battle City files, and downloaded his own decks stats. Then, with a push of the Enter key, he was set.
DragonTamer15: //Rock, Paper, Scissors for it. //
Seto chose rock; Gwen took scissors thinking that he would go after paper first. She was wrong.
DragonTamer15: // Second to go then, huh. Fine by me, Battle City rules, much more complex and more fun to beat you at your own game. Life points at 4000. Game start. //
Seto looked at his hand and smiled, right off the bat he had some pretty decent cards. Mechanical Chaser, a Gemini Elf, Negate attack, his crush card, virus cannon, and Cyber Jar. Drawing got him Raigeki, and he decided that it could come in handy. Seto set Cyber Jar (900/ 900) face down and set Negate attack face down. He had never seen Gwen's deck, so he wasn't sure exactly what she had in there. He knew she said they were spirit cards, and dragons, that he could deal with, he just wasn't sure of the traps.
For her first hand, Gwen had pulled, Darkfire Dragon, Wingbeat of Giant Dragon, Black Land Fire Dragon, and Troop Dragon, and Sapphire Dragon. When she drew she had to smile, Final Flame wasn't all that powerful but it was a good card. Gwen countered, placing a Black Land Fire dragon on the field (1500/800) and set a magic card Final Flame on the field.
Now let's see what you have hiding under there, Kaiba, Gwen thought smirking as she ordered her dragon to attack.
was stupid. I thought you were better then this, Gwen. //
What?!! She watched in horror as the card flipped up to reveal the Cyber Jar, which promptly exploded taking her dragon with it. DAMN! Okay fine then, he wants to play hard ball, then I'll up my game too.
The effect set out Vorse Raider (1900/1200), Gemini Elf (1900/900), Dark Gremlin (1600/1800), Spear Dragon (1900/0), while his hand received one Blue Eyes White Dragon, Mirror force, Judgeman, Mountain, Flute of Summoning Dragon, and Lord of D., and Magic Jammer. Meanwhile on Gwen's side of the field her cards are Petite Dragon (600/700), Lizard Solider (1100/800) both set face down, then she placed Baby Dragon (1200/700), Koumori Dragon (1500/1200) in attack, and Dark Elf (2000/800) in defense. In her hand she held Dragon Rage a trap that allowed her to inflict damage to Kaiba's life points directly, Fushi no Tori, After Genocide, Yamata Dragon, and Susa Soldier, Remove trap, Swords of Revealing Light, and her own Negate Attack.
Seto started his turn by drawing Shadow spell, and set it, then attacked Gwen's Dark Elf with his Gemini Elf. He proceeded to attack with Vorse Raider vs. Koumori Dragon, and then hit her Baby dragon with Dark Gremlin, and finished with Spear Dragon against her face down Lizard Solider, which inflicted direct damage to her life points.
Kaiba: 4000
Gwen: 2100
SetKai: //That was pathetic. And you call yourself a duelist?!//
DragonTamer15: //Hold on, we're just starting.//
Gwen drew Firegrass (700/600) and then summoned her Troop Dragon (700/800) in defense. Kaiba had to chuckle at her pitiful attempt to save her life points. Gwen also set her Dragon's Rage and Remove trap, and ended her turn. She hoped he would come after her Troop Dragon with his Spear Dragon, that way she could use her strategy against him. Gwen smiled, and thought, Okay Kaiba, lets see you get out of this.
Seto grinned thinking; Does she honestly think she can win this.
He attacked her Troop Dragon with his Spear dragon, wiping out another 1100 points from her LPs.
Kaiba: 4000
Gwen: 1000
DragonTamer15:// Thanks I needed that! //
Automatically she special summoned her second set of Troop Dragon, and summoned her Sapphire Dragon from her hand. Then she activated her Dragon's Rage trap card. Gwen sent her Sapphire Dragon to attack his Spear Dragon. Seto activated his Negate Attack, only to have Gwen chain it with her Remove Trap. Seto watched as his points dropped. But he was still far ahead of her, as she set one card face down.
Kaiba: 2100
Gwen: 1000
He drew Remove trap. Seto then summoned his Lord of D. (1200/1100) and used his Flute of summoning Dragon to bring out the first of his Blue Eyes White Dragons. First thing though, he used Remove Trap to get rid of the continuous trap she had up. He attacked her Troop Dragon with his Gemini Elf, and she activated Negate Attack, blocking him. Seto's eyes slipped over to the clock to see the time of the Duel, they had less than ten minutes to finish. Suddenly his computer squealed loudly, "There's a problem. Someone's blocking me."
"Well then try harder, upload the loop program," Seto barked at her. The only reason he'd agreed to this duel in the first place was due to the viral bomb and the fact that it was keeping Gwen from actually tampering with his download. He knew that the computer geeks she hired would have a hard time combating his system, so he had no worries there. "I'm keeping Scotts busy right now. The less time she spends working with those moron techs, the better for us."
"You think?" the computer replied sarcastically, but Seto ignored her. Gwen drew pulling out Pot of Greed which she activated, giving her Polymerization and Goblin's Secret Remedy, and she had just summoned her Yamata Dragon (2600/3100) and activated the Goblin's Secret Remedy. She also set her Swords of Revealing Light, forcing him to not attack for three turns.
Kaiba: 2100
Gwen: 1600
She attacked with her Sapphire Dragon first, knocking out his Lord of D., and then used her Yamata Dragon against his Gemini Elf.
Kaiba: 1000
Gwen: 1600
DragonTamer15: // Not so smart mouthed now are you. Hahahaha.//
Seto just had to smirk. He drew Change of Heart and then summoned his second Blue Eyes, then waited. He knew Gwen wouldn't risk an attack, but he set his Magic Jammer just in case and set his Mountain Field card. Then ended his turn. Gwen chuckled thinking she had the duel in the bag. And activated her Swords, she smirked thinking; It's going to be over very soon. Less then three minutes and he's going to loose everything! Seto activated his Magic Jammer, discarding Mechanical Chaser, blocking the Swords. She quickly summoned her Fushi No Tori, and activated her Final Flame, bring him down by 500.
Kaiba: 500
Gwen: 1600
Gwen glanced at the timer, less then two minutes left, and she waited to see what he was up to. Kaiba drew a card, his Dark Clown, and activated change of heart's pulling her Sapphire Dragon to his side of the field, then he directly attacked Gwen's life points sending her down to zero.
Final
Kaiba: 500
Gwen: 0
Gwen's face fell, she lost! She lost to this fake! He'd been toying with her the whole time, letting her think she had the lead, and then he pushed her into a hole. She wouldn't tolerate it! He was going to loose, she'd see to it. Seto Kaiba would wish he'd never beaten her. Gwen screamed at the computer, "How the hell did he do that! I had him! I HAD him! That son of a…Well no matter he won't figure out the code to stop the bomb."
Her fingers swiftly maneuvered over the top of the keyboard, a skill she'd picked up years ago. Smiling she rest the timer, and dropped it to 15 seconds. Seto watched as this happened, and gritted his teeth. She was nothing but a cheat, and a sore loser. Gwen Scotts was a spoiled brat that needed a spanking, something that seemed to be long over due. The counter started up again as a new message appeared on screen. The annoying dancing Toon Blue Eyes was back and this time he had on a top hat, red bow tie and a can. Seto couldn't help but cringe at the sight. Gwen, meanwhile, smiled happily. Oh she may have lost, but she'd make sure he would too.
DragonTamer15: //Okay, you won, and I keep my word. I'm giving you a clue to defuse the bomb, but you have…15 seconds. So think fast! It's all about the money. //
Seto stared at the message. What is she babbling about? All about the money, it made no sense to him.
DragonTamer15: // I would give you the right code, but you'll have to give me something in return. //
SetKai: //I 'll take my chances. I know how you think…//
DragonTamer15: // Fine have it you're way But I'll feel so bad to have your lovely computer AI come down with a rather nasty virus. After all what goes up must come down. //
Seto thought a moment, and closed his eyes. She's playing games here. All about the money and what goes up must come down. Money, she's thinking of something of value. So what's valuable to her? My card for one, but she wouldn't set it up so easily, so it has to be something else, something to do with real cash. What was it about this city; it was built on a hard history of money. Makes sense that they would name it Venture. When it was new Venture's big thing was about small business, and that's what Blue Destiny was at one time. So what's really important to a new business...?
He glanced over at the timer, ten seconds remained. Think, the key to a business is stock. The more you have the more money you gain, so she must be thinking of stocks. Venture thrives on its stocks, and Blue Destiny has the best in the city. A stock market goes up and down, it rises and falls so that must be the key to the comment she made. And what is a stock market but a venue to play a game and win or loose. And when you play a game you're taking a gamble that you'll win it, same as with the stocks. Stocks rise and fall, just like a dragon when it flies. For Gwen everything's a game, including the stock market. To her this whole thing is a chance. It's all a big…I know it!
RISK, he typed it into the small box on the bomb, and the timer stopped at the number 3. Seto smiled an arrogant grin, he'd won. The timer stopped and he glanced over at the small screen that was set up to monitor his AI's progress. Ten percent more and he'd have what he needed.
SetKai: // You loose again Scotts! You're nothing but a hack. You could never call yourself a real duelist. You're worse then the dog Jonouchi. You'll never beat me, and don't even think of calling yourself a Dragon Duelist. It would be an insult to the cards. //
In her office Gwen read the last part of his comment, and screamed with rage. How dare he even tell her that! No matter what, she was going to bring him down. Even if it meant screwing up her own systems! She typed in a new code and Donovan, who had been watching her carefully, saw a glint of malice come into her blue eyes. She grinned at him saying, "Boom!"
"System under attack in five seconds," the voice from the data system stated dully, and Seto sat up. He'd defused the bomb, this couldn't be happening.
"What the hell did you do Scotts?" He glanced over at the download screen, he had three percent left, but time was running out as a new counter appeared on screen and blipped the count down. He had to shut it down, and fast, but Seto didn't know what type of attack Gwen was setting up, and he didn't have time to scan it. He scowled, Their might not be much of a chance for his system, but he could at least save the AI program, even if it meant he'd loose all the files that he collected. His finger lingered over the keys to abort the download, but for some reason he just couldn't push them. He was waiting for the last possible second. Maybe there was a slim chance the AI would finish before the timer ran out.
On her screen Gwen saw the same timer, and her finger was nearly upon the Enter key. She was smiling sadistically, and her mind was singing, I'm going to kill Seto Kaiba. I'm going to kill Seto Kaiba. Yes I'm going to kill him, and then I'll have everything I've ever wanted.
Donovan noticed her humming, and the wild look that had come into her eye. "Gwen what are you doing?"
She turned and grinned at him like a jackal, showing all her teeth, and giggled, "I'm going to blow him up, Donovan. I'm going to show him that he can't beat me."
"What do you…" He glanced at the program on screen and realized what it was. Four years before he'd seen the two people who created this program working on it late at night. He asked them what it was, and the man, who was Gwen's brother, had explained.
"It's a special last defense bomb. Think of it this way Ed, it's like a last chance. You're pinned to the wall, and there's no way out. You have a grenade in your hand, and there's no rescue squad coming. You're enemy is before you, and you know he will win if you let him get away. He's gonna kill you no matter what. You're as good as dead. So you pull the pin, and say a pray."
"But what does this bomb do?" Donovan had asked him, and Gwen's brother looked out the window, as if wishing he didn't have to tell him.
"It destroys the entire computer system. Erases all files, every last one, it kills all the computers, and those with any net service to us. Puts a virus in there so toxic that it over works the insides of the computers and melts them. That's what it does."
"Is there anyway to stop it?" Donvan had asked back then, and Gwen's brother nodded.
"There is, it's a pass word, but you have to keep it to yourself…"
Donovan looked at Gwen, there was a frightening intensity to her face. She hated to loose, he knew this, but this was going beyond just getting a card back. She was falling back into the darkness that she'd slipped into when…Donovan shook his head. He couldn't think of that, not now. He had to stop her before she destroyed her own company.
"Gwen, stop!" he yelled, and pulled her away from the computer. Three seconds remained, and Gwen grabbed at him, yelling for him to stop. To not stop the program, to not end it, not right now!
"Donovan, don't! Don't shut it down. HE NEEDS TO BE SLAUGHTERED!!!"
"Not by sacrificing your own company Gwen," Donovan told her and spoke into the head set that he jacked into the computer. "Tiamat."
Donovan let out a relived sigh when he saw the counter delete itself from the screen. He sat back in the chair, and tossed the head set onto the desk. He closed his eyes and rubbed his brow, it had been close, too close as a matter of fact. He was just thinking this when he heard a sob, and glanced over by Gwen who had thrown herself on the couch, and was bawling.
"Gwen," Donovan said softly, coming over to her and petting her head. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't!"
She slapped his hand away, and said in a horse voice, "Get the hell away from me. I thought you were my friend, Donovan. I thought you understood why I needed to do this! But you're nothing but a liar and an ass! If you at all gave a damn about my brother or his friendship, you'd have let me use that program. Now Kaiba has our files. You just better damn well be prepared to deal with him, if he finds out more then he needs to know."
"Gwen, he's only a boy…"
"I don't care," Gwen stated loudly. "If he finds my weakness, I need to get rid of him. Permanently."
Seto watched as the counter ended its count down, and then let out a light sigh when it deleted itself from his screen. It was just then that his computer made a noise to catch his attention. She'd finished her download, and was now scanning over the files that they had secured.
"I think I found something, that you will really be interested in seeing," she said and pulled up a file. Seto leaned forward and read it, and his eyes went wide. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, but if it was true then he was going to need to take a trip to LA. It was a partial document on a small plane, and notes on the side that read, And to think Dad actually owned this.
"You're right, this is interesting," he said to the computer and smiled. The puzzle that was Gwen Scotts was about to unravel, and he was the perfect person to put the pieces in order and find the big picture.
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Extra Note: Sorry for the late update. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow to add chapter 9.