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Fanfic Chapter 143: The Sins of the Father Pt 1: The Dark Forbidden One
Episode Basis: Burying the Past Pt 1
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! While the others relived moments from the past and Joey had a semi-intimate conversation with Mai, Noah isolated Mokuba and led him to what he said was the exit. It was but before Mokuba could exit, Noah forcibly inserted himself into Mokuba and he emerged in Mokuba's body. But it's not all bad news. Working together, Yugi and Harold combined their magical artifacts and were able to break through the illusions of the past and get everyone together, everyone except Kaiba that is.
Kaiba walked though the streets of the virtual Domino. Any fool could've seen that it was never Noah's intention to set us free…
"Here it is," Noah said showing a set of large oak doors. "Once you step through those doors, you'll wake up in the real world in your original bodies."
Noah said that those doors would take us to the real world but it was just another trap. However, I can't worry about small fish right now, I have bigger fish to fry, namely taking down the man behind all this madness: my step-father, Gozaburo. He stopped in front of the Kaiba Corp. building and looked up. "I bet that old fossil is sitting in my office right now. I've taken him down once before and I'll do it again!"
Joey furiously drop-kicked a can and almost nailed Amara in the head in the process. "That twerp double-crossed us again! I knew we shouldn't have trusted him"
"Hold on, Joey, we can't go rushing into things," Yugi argued. "We need a plan."
"I already have a plan: shake that kid upside the head until he shows us the way out."
"Sounds like a good plan to me," Duke agreed.
"Time out, you two," Tea said. "Have you forgotten that Kaiba and Mokuba are missing too? We can't leave until we find them."
"So once again we risk our necks for Kaiba's ungrateful hyde? Nyuh-uh, no way, Jose." Joey crossed his arms.
"Joey, I know you don't like Kaiba but what about Mokuba?" Serenity lobbied. "He doesn't deserve this." That softened Joey up.
"This is my fault," Yugi said inwardly to Yami.
"Not necessarily, Yugi," Yami replied. "You believed there was still good inside Noah, there's nothing wrong with that."
"But… he turned all of our friends to stone! He pitted Kaiba and Mokuba against each other. Then he trapped us in our own memories. How can there be good in him? I can't believe how ignorant I was"
"Noah's acts of rage are fueled by anger deep inside him. You might still be right, but we can't expect him to change immediately. Perhaps his father's betrayal will make him realize that."
"Maybe, but…"
"I don't mean to change the subject," Amara said. "But what about Gozaburo? He's going to pull a Matrix on the entire world!"
"Our best bet is to find a way to escape," Yugi said.
"And then what?" Duke asked.
"Then we can tell others about Gozaburo and they can stop him," Yugi suggested.
"But who's going to believe us?" Serenity asked.
"Guys, isn't this all circumstantial?" Harold asked. "We need to escape first but we don't know how and the only one who does know how is Noah," Harold pointed out.
"So… the creep… tell… how… exit…" Tristan's comment was interrupted severely by monkey chatter.
"Tristan, I couldn't understand any of that," Duke said. "You're almost all chimp now." Tristan let out a horrified squeak.
"Yugi, look out behind you!" Yami quickly took control of Yugi's body and jumped out of the way as a monster suddenly appeared and tried to skewer Yami-Yugi. Yami relinquished the body to Yugi.
"What is that thing?" Serenity asked.
"Skull Knight #2 (1)," Amara said. Two more like the first one appeared and the monster kept on multiplying until there were about a dozen of them.
"There's a whole team of them!" Tea cried.
Several green reptile warriors appeared. "Lizard Soldiers (2)," Yugi identified. A bunch of humans in colorful armor also appeared.
"Oh great, Command Knights (3), just what we don't need?" Harold activated his Armlet's shield and plowed it against one of the Lizard Soldiers. But it stood firm. "I guess my Armlet doesn't have as much power as it does in the real world. Now what?"
Yugi drew a card from his deck saying, "It worked before. I summon Curse of Dragon (4)!" A skeletal dragon appeared. "Curse of Dragon, attack Skull Knight!" The dragon breathed fire and incinerated a bunch of the Skull Knights.
"Leave some for the rest of us, Yugi," Amara said. "I summon Vampire Lady (5)!"
"Now it's my turn," Joey said. "Axe Raider (6), attack!" The barbaric warrior immediately engaged in battle with the Command Knights.
"Go, Gold Chronos Warrior (7)!" Harold commanded.
Meanwhile, Noah in Mokuba's body walked towards the command center, the door that Yami-Marik was trying to get into earlier. "It's good to be back in the real world again," he said. "And Mokuba's body was a perfect fit. Now I can proceed with my own plans and stop my father from accomplishing his." He entered the central command center. "I'll destroy the central computer that allows the virtual world to thrive. That way, I'll get rid of my father, Seto, as well as Yugi and all his friends. And it will be Mokuba's body that will help me do it." He used the computer to access the satellite.
Kaiba entered the building and rode the elevator. Emerging onto the penthouse office, he had a brief flash of when he was little and offered his virtual program idea
As expected, Gozaburo was sitting in the office chair. "Haven't you heard of knocking?" He asked.
"You taught me business, not manners," Kaiba retorted.
"True enough, have a seat," he offered. "It's time to have a father-to-son chat."
"Sorry, not interested. It's over, Pops."
"On the contrary, it's just beginning." Moving a chess piece, a screen lowered and showed the duel between Yugi and his friends and the monsters. "Your comrades are about to fall before my incredible monsters and your brother is far away from you." Out of the corner of his eye, Kaiba saw a Cosmo Queen (8) destroy Yugi's Curse of Dragon, the resulting explosion throwing Yugi into the air and away from the others. Serenity and Duke quickly went to go get him while Amara summoned her own Cosmo Queen to stop it.
"Look, Old Man, I'm going to say this once and once only: release us now before I really get upset!"
Gozaburo laughed, "You haven't changed a bit, Seto, but I have a more civilized way of settling our differences. Do you remember the chess game we had when we first met? You beat me, a surprise to me. I propose a rematch."
Kaiba grunted, "Oh please, why would I want to play chess with someone who couldn't even beat me when I was a kid?"
"First of all, it's the only way to free yourself and your friends. And second of all, whoever said I was talking about chess? I propose a different challenge."
"What kind of challenge?"
"It's a game you're quite fond of: Duel Monsters."
"You can't play with my life!"
"You toyed with me when you stole Kaiba Corp. away from me, so it's only fair that I return the favor."
"Why do you have to beat me in a duel just to get rid of me?"
"Because getting rid of you isn't good enough any more," Gozaburo said getting up from his desk. "I want to humiliate you the way you humiliated me and the best way to do that is to beat you at your own game just as you beat me at my own game. So are you going to accept or back down?"
"I've never backed down from a challenge! Let's duel!"
"There, the satellite is almost reprogrammed," Noah muttered as he inputted the last commands. The satellite began to turn.
A fierce rumble shook the floating fortress.
Yami-Marik blasted his way out of the hangar with the Millennium Rod. "I'll find the Pharaoh even if I have to tear this entire place apart!" He raised the Millennium Rod over his head and released its energies destroying machinery.
In the control room, the lights suddenly dimmed. "No," Noah cried. "The power's been cut before I could finish my work, I have to work fast to bring the back-up systems online!"
In the cargo bay, the clamps holding the blimp down were deactivated.
"We're free," a Kaiba Corp. officer told Roland. "We can take off."
"We can't take off just yet," Roland argued. "Not until the return of Mister Kaiba and the other passengers."
Ishizu heard all this and knew what was going on.
Kaiba and Gozaburo had adjourned to the arena, the same arena where Kaiba first dueled Yugi. Only this time, Gozaburo had taken Kaiba's spot and Kaiba had taken Yugi's.
"I'll tell you what, to make it fair, we won't use Noah's silly little Deck Master System. We'll duel the old fashion way."
"Not that it'll matter, I'll still defeat you!"
"Big talk, care to back it up? Let's duel!"
(G: 4000)
(K: 4000)
"I'll go first," Gozaburo volunteered. He drew his sixth card. "I play the magic card Painful Choice. What it does is…"
"I know what it does," Kaiba snapped. "You show me five cards in your deck and I choose one and add it to your hand. The others go straight to the graveyard."
"And I have a feeling that these five cards should look familiar to you. After all, you've faced them before." Five cards appeared in front of Kaiba. They all were monster cards and the pictures made them look like a set.
Kaiba recognized them, he recognized them only too well.
The cards were the five pieces of Exodia the Forbidden One (9).
"Draw your last pathetic card!" Kaiba said forcefully.
"My Grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba. But it does contain..." He held up a card that looked like a giant head. It matched the other four cards in his hand. "Exodia, the Forbidden One!"
"No! It can't be!"
"Yes. I've assembled all five special cards, all five pieces of the puzzle!" Yugi laid all five cards on the table. A pentacle-star formed and a black portal appeared on Yugi's side of the field. A giant gold-armored monster with broken chains on its arms and legs stepped out of the portal.
"It's not possible!" Kaiba gasped. "Nobody has been able to summon him!"
"Exodia... GOD FLAME!" Exodia unleashed a gigantic energy blast that destroyed all three of Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons at once. The shockwave almost knocked Kaiba off the platform.
"That's right, Seto, I know all about your history with this monster so that's why I was sure to include it in my deck."
Kaiba shook off the memory. "That's ancient history! Anyway, I'm about to send four pieces to the graveyard." But something was nagging at Kaiba's brain. Even basic Duelists know that possessing all five pieces automatically makes the holder the winner. Gozaburo must have known this so why did he choose to play Painful Choice to get them? He pointed at the right arm, "I choose Exodia's right arm (10)."
"Fine, then I'll set a monster in defense mode and end my turn. It won't be long before you're hearing me say checkmate," Gozaburo said laughing.
Back in the control room, the lights were restored as Noah activated the reserve power. "There, now to finish reprogramming the satellite." He looked at a side monitor which showed Yami-Marik destroying stuff. "I must stop him before he cuts all the power. My security drones should take care of him."
"Where are you, Pharaoh?" Yami-Marik called out. Nothing answered him. "This place is bigger than some pyramids," he grumbled. He heard a motor sound behind him and turned to see over two dozen of the robots that he defeated earlier appeared behind him. He chuckled, "Well, looks like I'll get to have some fun after all." Yami-Marik charged forward and removed the dagger from the Millennium Rod and stabbed it in the camera lens. The droid still fired its laser but it was aimed upward. Yami-Marik leapt off just as a piece of the ceiling fell on the robot. Yami-Marik assembled the Millennium Rod and slammed it on the ground. Little explosions of dark energy destroyed several of the drones. Yami-Marik rushed in between two who fired their lasers and ended up destroying each other. He leapt over the rest and landed behind them. As the droids struggled to turn around in the hallway, Yami-Marik aimed his Millennium Rod at them. "Feel the power of the shadows!" A shaft of shadow energy fired from the rod and destroyed, if not heavily damaged, all of them. "Someone obviously is trying to prevent me from finding the Pharaoh. Fine, then I'll go find them instead! And make their life a living nightmare!"
"How did he destroy all of them?" Noah wondered. "Oh well, it doesn't matter, they served their purpose in giving me enough time to reprogram the coordinates of the satellite."
"Satellite coordinates reprogrammed," the computer voice reported. "Satellite set to fire in thirty minutes."
"So long, fools," Noah bid good-bye and left.
"All right, the coast is clear," Joey reported. The kids hurried into an alleyway with Duke and Amara carrying Yugi who was still dazed from being batted by a monster with over 2800 attack points.
"Are those things coming back?" Serenity asked worriedly.
"No, they're long gone," Joey replied.
Just as a Lizard Soldier appeared behind them. They screamed. More Lizard Soldiers started appearing.
"Joey, I hate it when you're wrong," Amara said.
"Let's hurry up and beat it," Yugi said struggling to stand on his own.
"Yugi, you're still… attack," Tristan said between monkey chatter. But the gist was understood. Tea looked at Yugi concerned.
"This isn't my real body, remember? Just like you're not really inside a robot monkey. We have to hold out long enough to find Noah and get out of here. Let's do it!" Yugi, Joey, Harold, and Amara stood in between the Lizard Soldiers and their friends. All four of them summoned a monster and sent it into battle.
Yami-Marik burst into the control room. "Whoever set those things on me must be in here. What's this?"
"Satellite set to destroy fortress in twenty-eight minutes."
Yami-Marik burst into laughter.
Noah silently rode an elevator to the stop. Even as he was riding in it, the floating fortress itself was rising to the surface.
"Yes, and now you're going to give Kaiba Corp. to me, right, Father?"
"YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE AND YOU FAILED! NOW I'M TAKING OVER!"
"No, Father, all I need is a little more time."
"YOU'VE HAD PLENTY OF TIME! NOW I'M GOING TO FINISH WHAT YOU AND THE BIG-5 COULDN'T!"
Father will regret not giving me Kaiba Corp., Noah thought. It's time I left those fools behind for good.
Mokuba ran up to him and slapped him a couple of times. "Get a hold of yourself, your father betrayed you. Don't tell me you're going to join his side after what he did to you!"
Mokuba was a fool to think he could trust me. Noah exited the elevator to an awaiting helicopter.
"I just realized something," Mokuba said. "You can't escape with us because you don't have a body." Noah paused. Mokuba was obviously smarter than he was at his age. "But I bet Seto could make you a body."
"Make me a body? You would… do that?"
"Yeah, Kaiba Corp. has all kinds of technology experts, so something like that should be an ease. Besides, we're family and family has to look out for one another no matter what."
What's wrong with me? Noah wondered as he boarded the helicopter. Why can't I get these images out of my mind?
"We're family and family has to look out for one another no matter what."
"Look out for each other no matter what."
"No matter what."
"My God," Noah gasped. "What have I done?" Noah got out of the helicopter and ran back down to the control room. "Mokuba's right, family does look out for each other. And Mokuba… and Seto... are both my family!" He ran into the control room.
And stopped dead in his tracks.
The control board was damaged beyond repair, looking like a lightning bolt hit it. "What did this… that intruder must've destroyed it with that rod of his!" Noah looked at a monitor that showed Yugi, Joey, Harold, and Amara battling Gozaburo's monsters.
"Black Luster Soldier (11), attack!"
"Go, Axe Raider!"
"I summon Thunder Nyan-Nyan (12)!"
"And I'll attack with D.D. Warrior Lady!" The four monsters engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Gozaburo's monsters.
"I have to get Seto and his friends out of there!"
"I'll set a card face-down and summon Vorse Raider in attack mode," Kaiba announced. "Vorse Raider, attack his face-down monster now!" Vorse Raider threw its weapon.
Exodia's right arm appeared briefly before being destroyed.
"Why did you set Exodia's right arm on the field?" Kaiba asked. "Now, Exodia is entirely useless to you!"
"Don't be so sure," Gozaburo said drawing a card. "I play the magic card Contract with Exodia! This magic card can only be activated when all five pieces of Exodia are in the graveyard. By giving up 2000 life points…"
(G: 2000)
(K: 4000)
"It allows me to summon the all-mighty Exodia Necross (13)!" A darker version of Exodia appeared. "Checkmate, Seto."
"You seem to have forgotten something: your Exodia Necross only has 1800 attack points while Vorse Raider has 1900."
"Exodia Necross, attack his Vorse Raider with Flame of the Dark God!" Exodia Necros started to glow with dark energy. Vorse Raider threw its weapon and clashed with Exodia Necross's fist.
(G: 1900)
(K: 4000)
But to Kaiba's shock, Exodia Necros wasn't destroyed!
Gozaburo chuckled, "Exodia Necross can not be destroyed by any monster in battle plus it gains 1000 attack points whenever it engages in battle."
(EN: 1800-2800)
Gozaburo may think his monster can't be destroyed but he's mistaken. "I summon Spirit Ryu (14) in attack mode then I reveal my trap card Burst Breath. By sacrificing my Spirit Ryu, I'm able to destroy all monsters on the field with less than 1000 defense points." Explosions raked Exodia Necross.
But it remained.
"It's still standing, but how?"
"It seems an explanation is in order. Each of the five pieces of Exodia that I sent to the graveyard gives Exodia Necross different abilities. The right leg of Exodia (15) prevents Necross from being destroyed by magic cards, the left leg (16) does the same for trap cards, the left arm (17) prevents it from being destroyed by monster effects, the right arm gives it the ability to gain 1000 attack points for every battle, and finally the head of Exodia (18) prevents Exodia Necross from being destroyed by monster attacks."
Kaiba couldn't believe it, "The five pieces of Exodia are strong even in the graveyard! That means I can't destroy Exodia Necross with monster, magic, or trap cards."
"You might as well give up."
"You should know that I never give up," Kaiba declared. "I set one card face-down and switch my Vorse Raider to defense mode."
There was only ten minutes left before the satellite was to attack. Noah was in the pod room working feverously to warn the others. "I have to work fast," he muttered as he typed commands into a computer. "Hello, can anyone hear me?"
Yugi and his team had just destroyed another wave of virtual monsters when they heard Noah's call, "Can you all hear me?"
"That's Noah!" Yugi realized.
"Get down here so I can give you the virtual butt-kicking of a lifetime," Joey threatened.
"Where are you anyway?"
"I'm in the real world in Mokuba's body!"
Everyone gasped. "Why that slimy little son of…" Amara began but calmed herself before she could finish that thought.
"Listen, there's no time to explain, you are all in great danger! A satellite is set to destroy the fortress in less than ten minutes! You must escape there before you're all destroyed!"
To Be Continued
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Skull Knight #2
Level: 3
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1000
DEF: 1200
(2)
Name: Lizard Soldier
Level: 3
Type: Dragon
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1100
DEF: 800
(3)
Name: Command Knight
Level: 4
Type: Warrior/Effect
Attribute: Fire
ATK: 1200
DEF: 1900
(4)
Name: Curse of Dragon
Level: 5
Type: Dragon
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1500
(5)
Name: Vampire Lady
Level: 4
Type: Zombie/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1550
DEF: 1550
(6)
Name: Axe Raider
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1700
DEF: 1150
(7)
Name: Gold Chronos Warrior
Level: 5
Type: Warrior/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1900
DEF: 1900
You can Special Summon this monster if "Blue Chronos Warrior" and "Red Chronos Warrior" are both on the field. Sacrifice all three monsters to summon 1 "Father Time"
(8)
Name: Cosmo Queen
Level: 8
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2900
DEF: 2450
(9)
Name: Exodia the Forbidden One
Level: 7 (Total number of stars on all five cards)
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: X
DEF: X
(There's a rumor going around the Yu-Gi-Oh! forums that it's ATK and DEF are both 5000. However, it really doesn't matter seeing as how having all five cards gets you an automatic victory).
(10)
Name: Right Arm of the Forbidden One (Exodia's Right Arm)
Level: 1
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 200
DEF: 300
(11)
Name: Black Luster Soldier
Level: 8
Type: Warrior/Ritual
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 3000
DEF: 2500
(12)
Name: Thunder Nyan-Nyan
Level: 4
Type: Thunder/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1900
DEF: 800
(13)
Name: Exodia Necross
Level: 4
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1800
DEF: 0
(14)
Name: Spirit Ryu
Level: 4
Type: Dragon/Effect
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1000
DEF: 1000
(15)
Name: Right Leg of the Forbidden One (Exodia's Right Leg)
Level: 1
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 200
DEF: 300
(16)
Name: Left Leg of the Forbidden One (Exodia's Left Leg)
Level: 1
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 200
DEF: 300
(17)
Name: Left Arm of the Forbidden One (Exodia's Left Arm)
Level: 1
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 200
DEF: 300
(18)
Name: Exodia the Forbidden One (Exodia's Head)
Level: 3
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1000
DEF: 1000