Chapter 76; sneak attack, Miles vs Aurora and Evelyn
Miles walked into his parents' house with the food he brought. He was greeted by his sisters who had also come to visit their mother, as well as Amy who was more lively than Miles remembered.
"Mom?" he said in surprise "how come you smile? I haven't seen you smile since dad left".
"I saw him Miles".
"What?!"
"He came to visit via projecting an image of himself with his powers. He is perfectly well and the tide of the war is turning towards the good guys".
"That's perfect! That means that soon enough.."
"No" Aurora cut him off "they are still a long way from winning".
"He will be gone longer than we hoped" Evelyn said.
"Damn" Miles said worried "I know he will be ok but what about us? How will we escape the press and the fans who demand his return?"
"Miles!" Luna said in happiness as she ran to hug her adoptive brother.
"Hey there princess" he said picking her up and hugging her "how was school today?"
"Fine" she said as her smile disappeared "but my classmates won't leave me alone. They keep asking about daddy and one also said that he is a coward who hides cause he knows his time as a king is coming to an end".
However the next moment she smiled again "but I know daddy will soon return and those kids will have nothing to say after that. I'm sure of it".
"Of course he will" Miles said smiling as he put her down "there is no way he'd lose to his evil variant."
"It is scary though. From what he told us when he came into our heads that other time, that variant is relentless. And his army is much bigger than the rebellion's" Aurora whispered.
"Maybe. But he is ruling with fear. Our Sonic, amongst the many things he is, is an inspiring figure. He will easily get others to follow him and the rebellion" Amy said confidently.
"And let's not forget dad bested him once already in a duel" Evelyn added.
"Yeah. His whole deck is known to Sonic perfectly. But still.." Amy said getting serious.
"What?" Miles asked curious.
"If the multiverse is built based on the same reality but each dimension has something different about it… what happened in the warlord's dimension? The darkwings are the evil versions of the blackwings. And the only time the darkwings appeared in our dimension was a little bit after Sonic and I got married. Sonic succumbed to his darkness and his deck manifested into darkwings."
"Could that mean that the warlord is basically a variant of our father that succumbed to his darkness and never broke free from it again?" Miles said thinking.
"Maybe… but if that's the case how come he isn't dark Sonic? Sonic turned dark every time he succumbed to his darkness" Amy said remembering those dark times.
"Well I don't think it really matters. Dad knows how to beat this deck".
"It's not that simple Miles" Amy said seriously.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you know the passage from the art of war by Sun Tzu?"
"What passage?"
"If you know yourself and know your enemy you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. And if no know neither yourself nor the enemy you will succumb in every battle" Amy explained.
"Ok that sounds interesting and all but what does that have to do with dad and lord Sonic?"
"Your father knows himself perfectly. But he has no knowledge about the warlord's origin. Knowing just the deck is not enough. The warlord tried to shoot him before the duel ended. So our Sonic falls currently into the second part of the passage. For every victory gained he will also suffer a defeat. I'm not talking of course about the war itself. They have won most battles because they know how to fight the warlord's army. But your father will eventually have to face him one on one. Which makes this final confrontation highly dangerous. They have met thrice on the battlefield and look what happened. Sonic beat him in the duel but almost died, then tried to kill the warlord with explosives arrows and now the warlord has turned them into ticking timebombs according to what happened yesterday – and in case you wonder how I know he came in my head before you children came to explain why he had to leave so suddenly – and when they collided in the spirit world, Sonic destroyed a big part of his army without any casualties on the side of the rebellion but the spirit world was destroyed".
"So unless dad manages to learn more about the warlord he will never truly have the upper hand?" Aurora asked Amy.
"I'm afraid so."
"I see" Miles said "But still we need to give him some credit. He defeated the warlord in a duel according to the rules. And with the rebellion by his side he has bested him already so many times and will best him again and again. He will win for sure and return safe and sound. And I will finally be able to rest and stop taking challenges all day".
"I'm not exactly sure about that" Amy said.
"Why?"
"Your father said that when we have Knuckles disguise himself as him and appear in public, he should say that he is thinking of retiring. I know Sonic very well and I know he would never speak of retirement as a duelist unless he was seriously considering it".
"What? He can't retire. He is the best. If he does… if he does… I will take his place. Ι.. I can't live up to his legacy… I'll never be as good as he is" Miles said trying to process the new info.
"What are you talking about Miles?" Evelyn said "you have been doing an amazing job so far. In spite of the press and the fans demanding our father appears again in the pro circuit you have managed to gain their respect as a duelist and the love of the fans. This is under these circumstances a preview of what your era as a king will be like".
Miles was in total shock. Him? The duel king? He had gotten so used to seeing his father being the invincible duel king that he never considered that he would have to one day succeed him due to him being number 2.
"Miles this would happen one day even if the multiversal war wasn't in play. Both your father and I are not getting any younger. This game is for the young and hungry. The era of our royal league will soon come to an end" Amy said in a serious tone.
Miles felt the idea of being the duel king suffocating. How would the fans accept a new champion if the old one retired undefeated?
"I need to take a walk" he said and went to towards the door "I'll be back soon" and walked out.
Immediately after walking out he was cornered by fans who kept asking about Sonic. Getting angry and not caring at the moment he rudely berated them for stalking him and his family and then kept going.
"How can I ever replace my father?" he wondered in silence "I know I'm never gonna be as good as he is and I accept this… but will the world accept it?" he thought as he kept walking trying to clear his head.
MEANWHILE
Back in the warlord's headquarters Amy was explaining her plans in detail.
"Those sound very… fascinating. But I find them hard to work cause side approach is just not my style. I want to overwhelm him" lord Sonic said while rubbing his chin.
"You can never overpower him. Like it or not there are some truths in the rumor that he is the strongest in the multiverse. This is why you need to…"
The door then opened and two girls walked in furiously.
"Mom this has gone far enough we need to talk!"
"I'm pretty sure I already grounded you two. Go back to your room now!"
"No! You need to listen to us! We've wasted 4 months doing nothing while 999 grows in power and is still out there!"
"Not this again! I already told you that he will be taken care of when the time is right."
"When the time is right?! Yeah sure! Easy for you to say when you spent 4 months sitting and crying all day!"
"What did you just say young lady?! Apologize to your mother right now!" lord Sonic said angry.
"No dad! Evelyn is right! Our mother has done nothing to help avenge our brother! We're mourning him too but we want 999 to suffer now!"
"That's it you ungrateful brats!" Amy screamed in rage. Her daughters, her own flesh and blood, even if it was not exactly the case, calling her an uncaring mother made her furious "Slave!" she screamed.
A variant of Sticks walked in and bowed without looking at her masters in the eyes.
"How may I help madam?" she said with a small bit of fear in her voice.
"Escort my daughters back to their room and make sure they stay there!"
"Yes madam. Right away" she said and took the girls by the wrists dragging them along.
When they got to the twins' room, Sticks escorted them in and then got back out and locked the door leaving the key on the lock. She then walked away.
"I can't believe our mother thinks espionage shit will avenge our brother" Aurora said laying on her bed.
Evelyn didn't respond. She was packing clothes into their backpacks.
"What are you doing?" Aurora asked her.
"We're leaving."
"What?!"
"If our parents are just gonna stay here like losers and try to outsmart 999 fine by me. But I plan to strike him where it will hurt the most!"
"You mean his family?"
"Yeah!"
"But that's impossible. Daddy said we can't get to dimension 999 due to the aura of the dead lunar dragon from there. And even if we could our brother's murderer has locked the dimension down".
"I have a way around it".
"What?!"
"I stole a wristwatch and took a sample of our father's blood after a battle. I took them to the lab and managed to alter the portal created slightly. We can enter even a locked dimension now!"
"Excellent! Let's take it to daddy and show it! We can just march into dimension 999 and capture 999's family".
"Yeah and then what? You think dad will kill them? Of course not. He plans to first capture 999 and force him to witness his family's death. I won't wait that long! I will avenge Miles right now!"
"And what will happen once we find his family if we ever do that is? You don't want to bring them here. What will we do? Travel across the multiverse until we find the rebellion's headquarters and kill them in front of 999?"
"I don't know ok?! We'll plan as we go. I won't just sit here and wait while 999 is still out there after what he has done!"
Aurora approached Evelyn and took her by the shoulders.
"I loved Miles too ok? But what you plan to do is crazy. Enter an unknown dimension just by ourselves and try to find his family? What if we get caught?"
"We won't!" Evelyn screamed in anger shaking her sister's hands off "and don't you dare tell me you loved Miles! You didn't love him like I do!"
"Like you do?! He is dead! He is dead and you need to accept it! I want 999 to suffer just as much as you do! But that doesn't mean we should be reckless!"
"Fuck you then sister! I'm leaving to avenge him!"
"Our parents…"
"THEY'RE NOT OUR PARENTS!" Evelyn screamed in rage and pain, dropping to her knees trembling. Aurora knelt beside her.
"I know it Eve. I know we are adopted. And I know you saw Miles as more than a brother. Please. Let's just be patient and show the wristwatch to mom and dad."
"No. I'm done waiting and I'm no longer their daughter" she said activating the wristwatch and successfully creating a portal.
"This one doesn't have the problem with crossing it unless you are the one who opened it. So what will it be sis?" she said.
"….. fine. I'm coming with you. I can't lose you too".
"Good. Let's go" she said and they both walked into the portal.
They found themselves in an alley. After changing clothes to go unnoticed they left the alleyway and started walking down the street with many strangers looking at their direction.
"Something's up. Why are they all looking at us?" Aurora 111 said worried.
"Ignore them just keep walking" Evelyn 111 shut her down.
Suddenly they were approached by a stranger with a duel disc.
"Oh my god the king's daughters. I'm a big fan. Can I get an autograph? Also when is your father returning to the game?"
"Excuse me?" Aurora 111 said surprised.
"I think you are mistaking us for someone else. Have a nice day" Evelyn 111 said pretending very well. Leaving the confused stranger behind, they kept going.
"What was that?" she admitted surprised.
"So strange. King's daughters?" her sister responded.
At that moment they walked in front of an electronics store and on the front were some TVs and all played the same show. A show discussing the absence of Sonic from the professional circuit.
"They're talking about 999. That means…"
"We did it. We made it!"
"Well we got lucky. I packed resources for a long journey" Evelyn commented.
"All we have to do now is find out where the king" she said almost spitting at the same time "and his family lives".
"You don't know where the king lives?" a stranger said surprised.
"No. We're actually tourists who came from far away to challenge him" Aurora 111 lied.
"Aren't you his daughters?"
"No. We're actually their doppelgangers. We get confused for them a lot. So um.. where does he live again?"
The stranger looked at them in suspicion but eventually let it go and told where Sonic's house was. The twins took the bus there after stealing a wallet from an unsuspecting passerby and made it in Sonic's neighborhood.
"So far so good" Aurora 111 said "now I think it's 3 more blocks ahead then right and we're there. You ready for this Eve? Eve?"
Evelyn 111 however wasn't listening. She had just seen Miles 999 who was still walking around aimlessly thinking about the future chance he would become the duel king. Evelyn 111 just stood there in plain sight, her senses dulled. The love of her life was right in front of her. She attempted to walk towards him but was pulled by Aurora and hid behind a car.
"Have you lost it? What are you doing?!"
"It's Miles."
"I know. But that's not our …"
"Don't you fucking say the word brother!" she said trying to whisper.
"In any case this is Miles 999. The son of Sonic 999. Remember what he did?"
"Yes. He killed Miles".
"Exactly. This is the perfect opportunity. If we can subdue him we can capture the entire family without having to fight all of them".
"Y-yeah. Let's follow him".
"Don't get confused sister. This Miles is the son of our Miles' murderer. You came here seeking revenge. It was your idea. Now you can finally have it".
"Yes. Yes. Let's go" she said as they started tailing Miles.
The latter had no idea he was being followed. After a few minutes of walking he entered the local enclosed dueling field. He remembered the time he dueled his father there back when he was an amateur in dueling. It felt like eons ago.
"Can I really become the duel king? Why can't uncle Tails take the title? Or my mother? Anyone more experienced than me" he thought as he walked through the place.
Suddenly the door behind him was slammed shut allowing light to only enter through the glass ceiling. Miles turned around and saw Aurora and Evelyn standing there.
"Jeez. You scared me. If you wanted to talk about what mom just said all you had to do was ask".
"Talk to you? Please. The time for talking is over! It is time for revenge!" Aurora 111 said.
"Revenge? What are you talking about Rory?" he asked her confused.
"What did you call me?!"
"Rory. Your nickname. That's what me and our friends call you".
"Oh. I see" she said smiling with an evil smile "you are mistaking me for my 999 variant".
Miles' eyes bulged from the shock.
"You're not my sisters! You're variants from the multiverse!"
"Exactly! And we have arrived to exact our revenge for the death of our brother at the hands of your dad!"
"You are the warlord's daughters aren't you?" he said while thinking hard trying to find an escape route.
"A-adopted" Evelyn said stuttering. She couldn't think anymore. Miles was right there. What did it matter to her if he was a variant of the one she knew?
"Look I'm sorry for what happened to your brother. But he tried to kill my father what should he have done let himself get killed?"
"Don't' try to talk yourself out of this. Your father will pay for what he did! And you will be the key to our revenge. You and the rest of your family!"
"Yeah I don't think so!" Miles said activating his duel disc.
"Please. You think you can fights us?" Aurora 111 taunted him.
"Yes".
"You're funny. Very well! 2 on 1. You take the first turn and then I take my turn then you again and then eve. Hope I'm clear. Normal life points, normal starting hands".
"Agreed" Miles said.
"O-ok" Evelyn said.
"DUEL!" all 3 said.
"I'll start this. I activate the spell card double summon. I can now summon 2 monsters this turn. I will start by normal summoning mekk-knight orcust girsu! When girsu is summoned I can send an orcust or world legacy monster from my deck to my graveyard".
"I use effect veiler to negate the effects of girsu" Aurora said.
"Very well then I shall activate the spell card called by the grave. It banishes veiler and negates her effect."
"Damnit!"
"I send orcust harp horror to the graveyard. Then I activate the other effect of girsu. If I control no other monsters I can special summon one world legacy token on each field in defense mode".
A token appeared on both aurora's and evelyn's fields as well as Miles'.
"Now I set the link markers with my 2 monsters! Circuit combine! Link summon! Appear! Lib the world chalice blademaster! I use lib's effect. I can set a world legacy spell or trap from my deck to my backrow. I set world legacy succession. I then activate succession and revive orcust harp horror. I then normal summon forth aleister the invoker! I use his effect to add the spell card invocation to my hand! I then set the link marker with him! circuit combine! Link summon! Come forth link 1 salamangreat almiraj! I then once again set the link marker with almiraj! Link summon! Come forth secure guardna! I now set the link markers with all of my monsters! Link summon! Rise! Apollousa bow of the goddess!"
Back in Miles' house Amy and the 999 variants of Aurora and Evelyn were eating when they were invaded in their minds by Sonic.
"Amy, girls!"
"Sonic?" Amy said.
"Dad?" Evelyn asked.
"My mark reacted to something from back home. One of your ace monsters has hit the field".
"What?"
"But why would your mark react to it?" Aurora asked.
"The mark is warning me about danger! Call the others, find out who is dueling and go help them!"
"On it dad" Aurora said picking up the phone.
Miles was thinking deeply.
"Ok. I got this far. Apollousa has 3 negates cause of her 2400 attack points but I need more. If I use the effect of harp horror I will be locked into dark monsters. That means I have to do this first".
"I will now activate the spell card invocation. I banish aleister and secure guardna from my graveyard. The magician controller of the elements and the cyberse protector. Now become one and invoke the beast of light! Fusion summon! Appear! Invoked mechaba!"
"Impressive. A good control board for a first turn. Too bad me and my sister will be dismantling it. Right eve?"
Evelyn didn't react. She was just standing staring almost adoringly at Miles.
"Eve wake up!"
"Huh what?"
"Get yourself back to reality. We're in the middle of a duel here!"
"R-right".
"Weird" Miles thought "why is the variant of Evelyn out of focus? Whatever the reason I need to try and use this to my advantage if possible".
"I now use the effect of invocation in my graveyard to shuffle it back to my deck and add back to my hand aleister from the banished zone. Next I special summon crusadia reclusia to my zone apollousa points to. Next I activate the effect of harp horror in the graveyard. By banishing it I can summon forth orcust knightmare from my deck. I now set the link markers with knightmare and reclusia! Circuit combine! Link summon! Appear! Galatea the orcust automaton! I banish next knightmare to use its effect and send orcust cymbal skeleton to the graveyard! Next I will return harp horror to my deck to use the effect of galatea and set an orcust spell or trap card like the field spell orcust babel. I activate babel. Now I will perform a special xyz summon!"
"Like what? And with what materials? Αll you control is a fusion and 2 link monsters. No 2 of the same level" Aurora 111 teased him.
"I don't need 2 of the same level for this. I build the overlay network with my galatea!"
"What?!" Aurora said in shock.
"A link monster used to perform an xyz summon?" Evelyn said in shock as well as awe.
"I xyz summon with my one monster dingirsu orcust of the evening star!"
Dingirsu appeared in a majestic fashion causing Aurora great horror.
"What is this thing?! No such card has even been seen across the multiverse!"
"My father isn't the only one who has been empowered by the lunar dragon multiple times".
"Fine! It won't matter! You will still lose!"
"When dingirsu is summoned I can attach a banished machine monster like my orcust knightmare to my dingirsu as a material. And now for the finishing touch. I activate the spell card monster reborn to revive cymbal skeleton. I now set the link markers with dingirsu and cymbal skeleton! Circuit combine! Link summon! Manifest! I:P masquerena!"
"Hmph. Even this annoying monster. Very well. We will still win."
"I end my turn with a set card".
"My turn then. I draw! I summon forth sky striker ace raye!"
"Sky strikers?! My wife's deck! Looks like I'm lucky" Miles said knowing exactly how to combat it.
"I enter the battle phase! Raye! Attack masquerena!"
"I use the effect of cymbal skeleton in the graveyard! Because I have babel out his effect is a quick one. I remove it from play to summon forth dingirsu back from the graveyard! Next dingirsu's effect activates."
"Go ahead. Attach a monster".
"Oh but that's only one of his 2 effects. I am using the other one. I can send a card you control to the graveyard with the other one. And this is the effect I choose!"
"Oh no!"
Raye was struck down by dingirsu.
"Why wasn't I able to activate raye's effect?"
"You can't. You don't have the opportunity. Dingirsu doesn't target. Once you declare that his effect can resolve that's that".
"Damn. Fine. I got the quick play spell card sky striker ejection. If a sky striker monster is sent to the graveyard I can revive a sky striker warrior monster from my graveyard. Raye returns to the field. But there is more. Do it sis!"
"I use the effect of sky striker ace Roze in my hand!" Evelyn said.
"Sky striker ace Roze?!" Miles said in horror as this card didn't not exist in dimension 999.
"I can summon Roze to the field with her effect because a sky striker monster was special summoned".
"I don't know what it does so I shouldn't let it resolve" Miles thought "I use the effect of apollousa to negate Roze's effect by lowering apollousa's power by 800!"
"No matter!" Aurora said "I still have another attack cause Raye was revived. Raye attack masquerena!"
"I activate the effect of orcust knightmare in my graveyard! by banishing it I can send a machine monster from my deck to my graveyard and enhance the power of a monster on my field by the sent monster's level multiplied by 100. I sent world legacy world spear! It's a level 8 so masquerena goes to 1600 overpowering raye!"
"Damnit! In this case I will use Raye's effect! I tribute her to link summon a sky striker monster!"
"I use apollousa's effect to negate it!"
"Right where I want you! I activate the spell card forbidden droplet! By discarding 2 cards I can negate apollousa's end masquerena's effects and halve their attack! Apollousa goes down to 400 and masquerena back to 800. Now with raye effect I link summon sky striker ace hayate! I use hayate to attack apollousa!"
"Aaah!" (Miles LP 6900)
"Since hayate has successfully attacked I can send a sky striker spell to my graveyard. I send sky striker mobilize engage! I now use my hayate to link summon sky striker ace kagari! With kagari's effect I take back engage! Now I will use engage to add sky striker mecha modules multirole, then since 3 spells lie in my graveyard I get to draw 1 card. And what a card. I activate sky striker mecha widow anchor. I use it to negate dingirsu's effect and steal it for the turn. Last but not least I set the link markers with kagari and dingirsu! Circuit combine! Link summon! Rise! Predaplant verte anaconda! I use its effect! By paying 2000 life points" (Aurora 111 LP 6000) "I can send a fusion card from my deck to my graveyard! I send fusion destiny!"
"Fusion destiny?!" Miles said in surprise.
"I use its effect to send destiny hero dasher and destiny hero celestial to the graveyard. The hero angel of the sky and the hero dashing towards the inevitable destiny! Now become one and invoke forth the envoy of destruction! Fusion summon! Rise destiny hero destroy phoenix enforcer!"
"Destroy phoenix enforcer?! What is this thing?!" Miles uttered in horror.
"Your undoing! You're lucky I can't attack again. But I can still use its effect. I destroy it to destroy your mechaba!"
"Oh no!"
"Oh and by the way. When my enforcer hits the graveyard I can resurrect a destiny hero monster in my end phase. I end my turn by using multirole's effect to re-set my widow anchor from the graveyard. Now like a phoenix rise again my monster!"
"Ok. I draw" Miles said "so far so good I'm not dead and just 1 monster isn't quite the setup but its effect is really annoying. At least since it's in the main monster zone her set card cannot activate until she decides to use its effect" he thought to himself "Looks like it's time to use my shaddolls" he said activating a card.
"I activate the spell card shadoll fusion! I can use it to fusion summon a shaddoll monster. Since you control a monster that originated from the extra deck I can use monsters from my deck as materials. I send my effect veiler and reshaddoll wendi from my deck to my graveyard! The spellcaster of the light and the psychic girl of the wind. Now become one and awaken the fairy of demise! Fusion summon! Appear el shaddoll construct!"
A giant puppet-like monster appeared behind Miles causing his opponents to flinch.
"Now the effects of my 2 monsters activate. My construct sends a card from my deck to my graveyard and wendi summons a shadoll monster in defense mode face down"
"I discard ash blossom to negate the effect of wendi" Evelyn intervened.
"What are you doing?! You had ash blossom and used it on wendi instead of the fusion?!" Aurora screamed at her
"Wha.. I.. I didn't…"
"She had ash blossom and misused it so hard? What's with her?" Miles wondered.
"Well now you used it so wendi is negate and I send shaddoll dragon to the graveyard with construct's effect. And since Shaddoll dragon hit the graveyard your set card is going with it!"
"No!" Aurora yelled as her card was destroyed.
"Now to get rid of your monster! Construct destroy the enforcer!"
"I use my enforcer's effect! I can choose one card on each field and destroy it! I destroy your ip masquerena!"
"Well at least it's out of the way" Miles said.
"For now. But once again I use its graveyard effect so once you end your turn it will revive like the phoenix it is!"
"Damn this is annoying" Miles said.
"Fitting for a ruler's daughter's right sister?" Aurora said.
Evelyn was lost though. Her mind had started drifting into insanity. Miles was right there. Why were they even dueling? All she wanted to do was drop out of the duel and kiss him.
"Evelyn wake up!" Aurora screamed!
Evelyn didn't respond.
"My love" she whispered.
"Evelyn!" Aurora screeched as loudly as she could managing to bring her sister back to reality.
"What?!"
"Wake up! We're in the middle of a battle!"
"Just leave me alone!"
"What do you mean leave you alone?! Focus on the duel!"
"I said leave me alone! I don't want to do this!"
"Excuse me?! This whole sneak attack was your idea!"
"You are the reason you two came here?" Miles said trying to figure out what was going on.
"Yes it was. I mean you are. I mean… aaaaaaahh!" she screamed grabbing her head.
"What the hell is wrong with her?" Miles thought in shock "regardless it's still my turn".
"Continuing my turn!" he declared causing the twins to shift their focus on him again "since the number of monsters on your field changed I can re-declare my attack. El shaddoll construct attack verte anaconda!"
"Unfortunately for you I won't take damage. Anaconda will be destroyed as per your monster's effect before you enter the damage step".
"That is true. Now to deal with the other issue. Your destroy phoenix enforcer is too annoying to let resolve again. I summon my aleister the invoker. With his effect I add invocation to my hand. Next I set the link markers with my 2 monsters. Circuit combine! Link summon! Appear! Cross sheep. Next the effect of my construct kicks in. I can add back a shaddoll spell or trap like my fusion to my hand. I then use the spell card invocation. I fuse together construct and wendi. The fairy of demise and the psychic girl of the wind. Now become one and unleash the beast of darkness! Come forth! El shaddoll apkalone! Next cross sheep's effect is activated! Since I fusion summoned I can resurrect a monster! I resurrect my dingirsu! And now his effect kicks in sending the multirole to the graveyard!"
"Damn!" Aurora said angry.
"Now I activate the spell card monster reincarnation! I discard mekk-knight orange sunset to the graveyard to add apollousa back to my extra deck. Now I set the link markers with my cross sheep dingirsu and apkalone. Circuit combine! Link summon! Rise once again apollousa bow of the goddess!"
At that same moment Aurora 999 and Evelyn 999 were nearing the dueling field looking for Miles. Sonic chose that very moment to invade their minds again.
"Aurora Evelyn!"
"Dad?" they both said at the same time.
"The monster that hit the field was apollousa! It was just summoned again I felt it! Miles is in danger!"
"Our brother?!" they both said out loud.
"Go find him fast! I'll let your mother know!"
The twins looked at each other and immediately started calling Miles' name again.
Back in the dueling field Miles was about to end his turn with one final effect.
"My apkallone's effect activates. I can add a shaddoll card from my deck to my graveyard and discard one card. I add my naelshaddoll ariel and immediately discard it. Now for her effect. Since it hit the graveyard via a card effect I can banish 3 cards from the graveyards! I banish your 3 destiny heroes!"
"No! You can't!"
"I just did! Now I set a card and end my turn!"
"Go Evelyn! Crash him!"
Evelyn once again didn't react. She was staring at Miles in adoration and a little bit of lust. When Miles realized it he got creeped.
"Stop staring at me like that and make your move".
"Why are we fighting my love?"
"Excuse me?!" he said stepping back in surprise "Your love?"
"Evelyn snap out of this!" Aurora screamed "this is not the Miles we know!"
"Miles" Evelyn said adoringly.
"You… you are in love with your own brother?!" Miles said realizing in shock she was hallucinating him to be Miles 111.
"We are not siblings! Why do you keep listening to your parents?!"
"What is she saying?" Miles asked Aurora 111.
"Miles 111, the one your father killed is our adoptive brother!"
"But wait… so… if he was the son of lord Sonic… you two were adopted by him?!"
"Yeah. And my crazy sister fell in love with him".
"Love yes" Evelyn said while looking at her cards "yes this is why. I'm dueling to express my love"
"Well then duel! We can still win!"
"I draw! I will show you my love how much I love you! I activate the spell card toon table of contents. I add a copy of it and use it. Then I will repeat this process one more time and add toon cyber dragon to my hand. Now I summon it!"
"Damn. You're trying to go for chimeratech megafleet dragon by using my apollousa as material. But this is also the perfect time to activate my trap card shaddoll schism! I banish apkalone and dragon from my graveyard to fusion summon!"
"Yes my love let our cards dance in a cyclone of emotions!"
"She has lost it" Miles thought.
"Let me shower you with my emotions. I activate cosmic cyclone! I pay 1000 LP" (Evelyn LP 7000) "to banish your trap and cause the effect to fizzle".
"Oh no! I can't lose apollousa. I activate the effect of my orcust cymbal skeleton. By banishing it I can resurrect dingirsu and once its revived toon cyber dragon is sent to the graveyard.
"Such a tango of cards. Let's dance more Miles"!
"Evelyn wake up! This is Miles 999! The son of your Miles' murderer!"
Evelyn's face froze and she started trembling.
"My Miles… damn you!" she screeched.
At the same time Aurora 999 and Evelyn 999 were walking past the stadium and heard the scream.
"Was that just now.." Aurora said.
"My scream?" Evelyn completed her thought.
They immediately run to the closed doors and barged in. The sight they witnessed was unlike anything they had ever experienced before. Miles was dueling them.
"Miles? What is going on?" Evelyn 999 asked in disbelief.
"Rory Eve get out of here! These 2 are your dimension 111 variants! The daughters of lord Sonic!"
"Adopted" Aurora 111 interfered.
"What? But how?! How did they get here? Dad has made sure the dimension is invasion-proof".
"We tampered with a wristwatch. We used it to come here".
"But why did you come alone?" Miles said surprised when he heard this "you had a perfect chance to win this war".
"My crazy sister has it. She chose to keep this to herself! It's the only one in existence".
"Hang on a minute. Did you say earlier that you both used it?!" Evelyn 999 said in surprise remembering that the wristwatches could normally only be used safely by the wearer.
"That means…"
"Shit" Aurora 111 said realizing what they were thinking.
"If we can take the wristwatch we can fight by the rebellion's side!" Aurora 999 said "let's do this then" she declared ready to activate her duel disc and join the duel.
"No need Rory. I can handle them."
"What? Two versus one?"
"The Evelyn variant is insane. I'll make quick work of her."
"Your father killed my love! He killed you! I will make you pay!" Evelyn 111 screamed.
"Woah. So my variant is a psycho. That's nice to know" Evelyn 999 deduced.
"I'll call Marianna to come here fast" Aurora said texting her.
"I summon forth sky striker ace roze. I use her to link summon. Come forth sky striker ace hayate!"
"That card again!" Miles said annoyed.
"Hayate! Blast that monster of his feet!"
"AAAAh!" (Miles LP 5400)
"Since my monster successfully attack I can send a sky striker card to my graveyard like my engage! Now I enter my main phase 2 and use my hayate to link summon kagari! I use her effect!"
"That's far enough! My apollousa loses 800 attack to negate kagari!"
"Then I will go from kagari to shizuku and set 4 cards. Next my shizuku's effect activates!"
"Apollousa again negates that effect!"
"Damnit!"
"She played this turn so badly" Aurora said having seen Marianna duel so many times with sky striker and thus knowing there was more to the deck than set 4 and pass the turn.
"Time to finish this! I draw! I activate my favorite spell card! Lightning storm!"
"What is that?!" Aurora said in shock having never heard of it.
"As I said earlier my father isn't the only one who has been empowered by the lunar dragon! I can destroy either all your monsters or all your set cards! I select set cards!"
"NO!" Evelyn 111 yelled as her backrow was destroyed.
"She had 2 widow anchors and never used them!" Evelyn 999 said looking at the duel data through her disc.
"You ruining everything!" Aurora 111 screamed in anger as well as terror.
"I now activate the spell card pot of avarice! I return aleister, mechaba, ip masquerena, galatea and lib to my deck and extra deck and draw 2 cards. I activate the field spell magical meltdown. Thanks to its effect I add aleister to my hand. I summon it and use his effect. I add invocation to my hand from my deck. I set the invocation in the same column as your shizuku and summon mekk knight purple nightfall to this column! By removing him from play for the turn I can add a new mekk knight to my hand! I select mekk-knight blue sky! Thanks to his effect I can add mekk knight red moon to my hand. Now I set the link markers with blue sky and aleister! Circuit combine! Link summon! Appear! Mekk knight of the morning star. I use his effect by discarding world legacy memory to add another copy of world legacy succession! I now summon the red moon and use his effect. By banishing blue sky from the graveyard I can destroy shizuku!"
"Damnit!" Evelyn screamed on the verge of tears unable to think anymore.
"Hold it! You destroying Shizuku triggered raye in my graveyard!"
"Not quite my apollousa lose her last 800 attack to negate raye's effect! You have nothing left!"
"This can't be!"
"I set the link markers with red moon morning star and apollousa! Circuit combine! Link summon! Appear! Borrelsword dragon! Now to end this! I activate my spell card invocation! I use it to fuse aleister and the fallen roze! The magician controller of the elements and the maiden who dons armor to fight! Now become one and invoke once again the creature of light! Fusion summon! Appear invoked mechaba! I then use my invocation's effect! By returning it to my deck I can return the banished aleister to my hand!"
"So close yet so far. You can only beat one of use with your current lineup."
"Then it's a good thing I have this final card to use. I activate the spell card burial from a different dimension! I return the banished orcust knightmare, orcust cymbal skeleton and harp horror to the graveyard!"
"No way! You can use the orcusts again?!"
"Yes! I banish harp horror to summon from my deck a copy of knightmare! Now with my knightmare and my dingirsu I link summon another copy of galatea! I now use the effect of cymbal skeleton banishing it to summon back dingirsu and with dingirsu's effect I attach the banished harp horror to the graveyard. Finally I will use the effect of knightmare to send a machine to my graveyard and power up a monster on my field by 100 times its level. I send gizmek orochi the serpentron sky slasher!"
"Woah this is new!" Aurora 999 said in admiration.
"Orochi's level is 8 so my galatea powers up by 800. Finally I banish 8 cards from my deck to resurrect my gizmek orochi!"
"This can't be! The combined attack of these monsters with using borrelsword's effect of double attack is 16050 points!"
"Exactly! It's over! Go my monsters! Attack my opponents and end this duel!"
"AAAAHHH!" (Aurora 111 LP 0 Evelyn 111 LP 0)
"Quick get them!" Aurora 999 yelled as she tackled her defeated variant.
Miles immediately followed and tackled Evelyn 111 to the ground. They landed in an uncomfortable position but he had no time to think about it. He grabbed her right hand and tried to remove the wristwatch.
"Let go of it!" he warned her.
Evelyn 999 also arrived to help Miles but the moment she got close Evelyn 111 activated her duel disc and a part of it turned into a small blade. She quickly cut Evelyn 999 who dropped to the ground grabbing her grabbed leg in pain.
"Eve!" Miles screamed in horror.
Evelyn 111 taking advantage of the element of surprise and Miles' diverted attention, tried to stab Miles in the chest. Miles jumped back in order to dodge. This gave Evelyn 111 the chance to rush to save her sister from Aurora 999. She tried to stab Aurora 999 in the back but the latter saw it coming and jumped away. The 111 twins then made a run for it. Miles and the 999 twins chased after them but just before they exited the dueling field, they heard a car hit something and two thuds. Horrified they ran out and saw Marianna exiting her car in panic.
"Aurora, Evelyn! No! How did this happen?!"
Miles and the 999 twins approached her. When she saw them she looked at them and then the dead 111 twins who she had accidentally hit with the car.
"Wha… what? What is going on? How are there two of you girls?"
"These were our variants from dimension 111. The warlord's home dimension".
"What?! How? Sonic said he locked the dimension down".
"They found a way around it. Thankfully they didn't share the info" Miles said as he pulled her into a hug to calm her down.
"Wait. The wristwatch" Evelyn 999 said as she proceeded to check the body of the dead Evelyn 111.
"Damnit!" she yelled in frustration "it broke. Her hand was run over by the wheel of the car".
"Oh no. We had one chance to help dad and now we lost it" Aurora said disappointed.
"It's ok" Miles said "at least we're safe. Let's go home. Load the variants in the car. We need to make them disappear."
"Yeah" Marianna agreed.
Ten minutes later they were all back in Sonic's house. Amy hugged her kids so tight they felt they would pop. Afterwards they all summoned their ace monsters at once to signal Sonic to come. He appeared this time as a projection. However just like before only Amy could touch him. Miles theorized it was because she was once a singed one. Afterwards they told him everything that transpired. Once they finished he took a moment to think about it.
"Are we sure that the warlord won't discover this knowledge of entering locked dimensions as well?"
"Yes dad. The Evelyn variant tampered with the wristwatch on her own. She was in love with the variant of me you killed and therefore sought personal revenge. From what they said they didn't get along well with the warlord and his wife. So it is safe to assume they won't try to invade this place."
"I see. That's good. Now I can get back to helping the rebellion without having to worry about the enemy going for you all."
"It's just sad that we didn't get the wristwatch" Aurora said still frustrated "we could have joined you and help the rebellion win".
"Or even better, have the rebellion relocate here so it would be basically invincible" Evelyn added as she thought what they could accomplish.
"I would not accept you guys joining the war. It is nothing like we've encountered before. It's better for you to stay here safe".
"I guess" Amy said.
"Anyway I gotta leave. We have a council meeting in 10 minutes to see what we're going to do now that the threat here is over."
"Wait dad" Miles said "Mom said that you are considering retirement after all this over because you suggested we have Knuckles use it as a reason you are not in the pro circuit. Are you really considering it?'
"…Yes son. As much as I love dueling I cannot continue anymore after this. Once I'm back I will pass the torch and the title onto you."
"But… I can't replace you. They won't accept me."
"Do you duel for their acceptance?"
"No but.."
"Then there is nothing to consider anymore. From what you told me you dueled incredibly today. You are already more than enough qualified to succeed me son. I know you will be a great duel king. And you don't need to replace me. All you have to do is be the best of you".
Miles smiled and felt more relaxed.
"Thanks dad. Good luck."
"Thanks Miles. Goodbye everyone".
They all bid their goodbyes and Sonic opened his eyes to find himself back in his room. He got up and exited the room going up towards the council room. He felt relieved that his family was safe. But it was only the beginning of a new day for the multiverse. And what was to transpire only hours later even Sonic could not expect.
