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PS 11 – The Girls
In Duel Academia, after Yusho, Asuka, Kaito and Yugo arrived they separated. Kaito went to save Kurosaki's little sister, Ruri; Asuka and Yusho went to confront the Professor, and Yugo went to save Rin. It wasn't part of the plan, however, since the beginning he hadn't been honest and fair with her. He basically let her get kidnapped by Yuri! He dueled against a sun guy with a strange sense of fashion and managed to defeat him with Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon. He hadn't expected to see Rin again and hadn't thought what could happen if they did saw again, but receiving a kick in the stomach was not it. Damn it! He forgot how strong she was!
"Yugo!" shouted a pretty green haired girl, his counterpart's best friend Rin, "You're late! What took you so long?!"
"Rin—!"
He was going to say something, but the girl's tears stopped any word from leaving his lips.
"I've been waiting for so long," she said, suddenly looking directly at Yugo, "I was so worried about you."
"Rin…" said Yugo who felt like the worst scum of Earth. Giving her a somewhat fake smile and trying to conceal his true feelings he said, "I'm sorry I took so long."
She just throwed herself into his arms.
Yugo was really the worst.
After she calmed down, the questions started right away.
"Do you know what's going on? Where the hell are we? I have been in this room since they kidnapped me—"
"I'll explain on the way, do you have your deck?"
"Yeah, it's the only thing keeping me from death by boredom. I don't have a duel disk—"
"No problem, we'll get you one!" He took her hand and went out of the room running down the stairs.
"Yugo! What's going on?!"
He updated Rin about everything on the way to the port. Going to the school grounds was a suicide mission with just the two of them. He knew the rest of the Lancers were coming and with them hopefully also his brothers.
Luck was on his side because he found them in a less frequently used dock.
Looks like everyone is here, thought Yugo. The first people he searched for were his brothers, who were all here.
We're almost there!
Yuto saw his missing brother with a girl accompanying him running in their direction. Seems like he couldn't help himself and went to save Rin, thought Yuto fondly of his brother. If Kaito managed to reunite with them, all of Zarc and Ray's parts would be together.
"Yugo!" said Yuya, "Are you okay?" After all, they were still at enemy territory.
"Don't worry, Yuya" he said. "Nothing can stop me!"
"Nothing?" said Rin, "What about that wall the last time we tried to use the D-Wheel back in—"
"Ah!" shouted Yugo, "Don't listen to her, Yuya. She's crazy."
"Excuse me?!" now said an angry Rin, "Who the hell are you calling crazy?!"
Yugo and Rin were about to fight and although there was no one around in the distance and no cameras close to them, they needed to be quiet.
"Guys!" said Yuto catching their attention, "We need to be quiet. We're still in Academia."
"Sorry Yuto," said Yugo.
"Sorry," said Rin with a little blush. She let herself go with their usual banter. Now that she was calm, she looked at the rest of the group. She didn't recognize anyone, maybe just her counterparts…? Yugo explained to her the situation, but it was still strange seeing people with the same face as her. She wasn't the only in that boat as she saw the Yugo's look-alikes; an emo kid, a happy kid and a more familiar face…
"You!" shouted Rin even angrier than before.
"Hey! Rin, we need to be quiet," said Yugo next to her.
"He's the bastard who kidnapped me from the Synchro Dimension!" she said pointing at Yuri.
"Oh, nice to see you again, Rin" said bastard stated calmly.
"What do you mean by that?!" Rin was really mad and getting closer to Yuri. "I'm going to give you the worst beating of your miserable life, you little—!"
"Wait!" said the tomato colored Yugo, "Yuri is on our side!"
"Then he's lying!" she said back. Rin was going to say something else when Serena interrupted.
"Hey! You need to calm down and let it go for now."
"What?!" said Rin with an incredulous voice, "How do you expect me to just let it go?!"
"Because I was a duelist from Academia too," said Serena, "and that little guy over there—" she was pointing at Sora, "—was too. We all did some things we're not proud of while we were there. Right now, we're doing what we can to mend all of it, and we have more important things to do than fight between us."
Rin looked directly at Serena, a bizarre experience because it was her face, but the calm in her eyes make her shut it up for now. After everything was over, she was going to beat Yuri for kidnapping her.
"Fine, a truce for now."
Yugo was relieved Rin calmed for now because between her and his brother (even if it was Yuri), he was going to pick his brother's side.
"Now that we are all calm," said Reiji, "we need a plan of—." He cut himself off when he sensed something approaching them. Everyone got in battle position ready for an ambush.
"Wings of Rebellion," said a voice from behind the cargo in the harbor.
"To fly again in freedom," said Yuto back, "they are allies."
And allies they were; behind the cargo appeared the forms of Edo, Kaito, Kurosaki and an unknown girl no one had seen before. Her appearance gave her away as Kurosaki's little sister, Ruri, after everyone saw her resemblance to Yuzu, Serena and Rin.
"Really, with all the noise you're making it's a miracle Academia hasn't captured you yet," said Edo.
"Edo!" said Yuya, happy to see his friend again.
"Kurosaki, how are you feeling?" said Reiji, "Yuya told us what happened back in the XYZ Dimension."
"A little something like that was nothing," said Kurosaki.
"Yes, and that's why you were unconscious for almost two days," said under his breath Sawatari, but a look from the taller guy made him shut up.
"I'm glad you're—" started to say Yuto when he was suddenly cut off.
"Yuto!" said Ruri, "You're really here too!"
"Hey, Ruri," said Yuto whose smile turned a little sad, "I'm sorry it took so long to find you."
"Umm," she negated with her head, "I'm glad you and my brother were careful about it and continued to fight for our freedom. Brother told me the war is over back home."
"Yes," said Yuto, "but I wasn't much use in that either…"
"Everyone who fought to make it end, has a part in it," she said without any room for debate.
"Ok," conceded Yuto.
Ruri went over to him.
"I'm happy to see you again," she said and then leaned on the boy's face to give him a kiss on the cheek.
"Ruri!" shouted Kurosaki, "What are you doing?!"
Yuto hadn't been expecting it at all and his face turned as red as Yuya's hair, his mouth opening and closing like a fish.
"Ah, young love," said Edo, even though he wasn't much older than the rest of them.
"I know," said Crow, "Yuya, why are you blushing for?"
"I'm not blushing!" Yuya was definitely blushing because he thought of Yuzu and him when seeing the kiss.
"Eh? Yuzu too," said a laughing Sora pointing at her.
"I'm not!" she was blushing too thinking the same thing as Yuya.
Tsukikage and Gongenzaka thought it was cute. Kaito was softly laughing and trying to calm down Kurosaki. Reira didn't understand what the fusing was about. Reiji was a little sad, although he didn't want to admit it, looking at Yuya. Serena was unimpressed; she wasn't interested in boys. Sawatari and Yugo were laughing out loud with Rin scolding them (What are you? 6 years old? Control yourselves!), while she thought the kiss was endearing. The first thing she did to Yugo was kick him so maybe she could learn something from her, she looked the most kind out of all her counterparts.
"Yuto, want us to leave you two lovebirds for a bit?" said Yuri giving him an innocent smile.
"Shut it, Yuri!" he just said. His brothers were never going to let him forget the kiss.
Reiji coughed to get everyone's attention.
"Well, now that everyone is here, we need a plan of action."
"Can't we just go, throw the door down and challenge them all to a duel?" asked Yugo.
"That's stupid," said Yuri and before Yugo could say anything, "the Professor has planned for all of you coming here."
"What do you mean?" asked Kaito.
Yuri had everyone's attention now.
"Don't you all think it was a little too easy to save Ruri and Rin?" said Yuri. "The Professor wanted them to be rescued, then he could capture all four girls at the same time. Even if Academia had been able to capture Yuzu back in the city, we could have been able to save her quickly too."
"Why?" asked Kurosaki, "Why go to the problem of capturing the four of them months ago if he was going to let them go?"
"The original plan changed after dear Serena's escape. Time's running up and he still doesn't have them all," said Yuri. "For example, if Academia had managed to capture Yuzu, Serena would still be missing. Knowing the Professor wants Serena, we wouldn't let her get involved in the fight. Right now, with all of them free, they'll come to him because they'll want to stop him."
"Then we should send them back to the city—" started to say Sawatari.
"No way!" said Serena.
"I'm not leaving!" said Yuzu.
"I'm staying to fight!" said Ruri.
"Try it and I'll punch you in the face!" said Rin.
"—or they can stay, the more the merrier," finished Sawatari, scared of all of them.
"Ruri…" started to say Kurosaki.
"No, brother, you all have already done so much. Now is the moment to stop it for good." With that it was decided the girls were going to stay.
"You think there's a trap somewhere?" asked Reiji.
"I don't think there's a trap, I know they have traps and places ready to ambush us all," said Yuri.
"That sounds like Academia's way of planning," said Edo with Sora nodding in agreement.
"Exactly, what they don't know is that we already know what they have planned," said Yuri giving them all a malevolent smile, "and we can fight fire with fire. Basically, I'm thinking of three places we need to take down at the same time, thus three teams. These places are: the Main Training Room in the west side of the school where the stronger duelists are and serve as the main force of the army; the System Room up in the north side where they control all systems related to the duel disks of everyone inside the school, and finally the Main Lab close to the Throne Room where I'm sure they are keeping the controls for the ARC Machine."
Everyone was a little impressed with Yuri's information. Sora and Serena didn't have that much clearance to know all of this.
"I didn't know the System Room was in the north side?" said Edo, "Is it the building close to the Osiris dormitories?" His clearance was a little higher than Sora and Serena's.
"Exactly that one," said Yuri, "it's the most faraway place of all the ones I just told you and has a medium level of security; the team which goes there must be fast and sneaky. They'll need to destroy the room to disable all of the school's duel disks, that way no one can duel."
"But doesn't that include your duel disk too, Yuri?" asked Yuya.
"Don't worry, when that happens the students will not be able to duel either," said Yuri.
"Why are we attacking the main forces?" asked Crow.
"To keep them busy and stop them from going to the Standard Dimension," said Yuri.
"What?!" said almost everyone from Standard.
"A way to make the girls comply with the Professor's orders. Recently, they have been retiring the forces from XYZ and bringing them back here to prepare for the next attack." Yuri didn't mention they had already done an attack there before, he didn't want them to get distracted.
"It's true," said Edo sadly, "after eliminating whatever remained of the Rebellion back in XYZ, my next mission was to go to the Standard Dimension."
"How could they?" asked Yuzu under her breath.
"Also, if we are going to attack Academia head on, they will serve as reinforcements. We need a big team with the best duelists who can distract them. Basically, that team is a decoy."
"I have a question related to the Main Lab," said Edo, "how do you know it's there? I know you're a member of the special squad of the Professor with a high rank, possible even higher than mine, but I don't think even you have that kind of clearance."
"You're right," said Yuri, "I don't and that's why I believe the Main Lab is there. Not even teachers have access, only scientists. That part of the school doesn't have much in regard to guards, it's more of trespassing all security systems to enter."
"What about Akaba Leo?" asked Reiji, "Where is he?"
"The Throne Room," said everyone from Fusion.
"You said that before too," said Yuya, "is it really a throne room?"
"It's his office," said Sora, "but he does have a throne there, so everyone just calls it like that."
"Kind of reminds me of someone," said Sawatari looking from the corner of his eye at Reiji.
"I want to go there," said Reiji, "I came all the way here to confront him."
"Yuzu told me my dad came here to talk with him, so I'm going there too," said Yuya.
"Fine," said Yuri, "we can divide in four teams then. The Main Lab is closer to the Throne Rome either way, we can join you guys after we finish there."
"You're going to the Main Lab?" asked Yuya.
"I have clearance until some level there," said Yuri, "after that it'll be about hacking our way in."
"Then, I'm going too," said Rin, "I'm pretty good at trespassing systems and I still don't trust you."
"Serve yourself," he said back.
"I'm going to accompany you too," said Gongenzaka, "I'm more of a defense duelist, so I can gain time if we encounter some resistance there."
"Sounds good to me," said Yuri, "three is enough for this team."
"I'm going to the System Room," said Ruri, "my abilities will be better suited there. I'm not much of a hardcore duelist."
"I'm going with you," said Kurosaki.
"No, brother," said Ruri, "we both know your skills will be best used against the main force, I'll be okay."
Kurosaki was about to protest when Sora got in the way.
"I'll go with her," he said, "I'll protect her with my life, Kurosaki."
They looked at each other for a moment until coming to an understanding.
"Well, I'm going against the Main Force," said Sawatari, "a great duelist like me will be of great help there."
"I think Sawatari," said Reiji, "it'll be better if you go to the System Room."
Sawatari was about to protest, but Kurosaki interrupted him.
"You'll go to the System Room."
"You can't tell me what—!"
"Can you come with us?" said Ruri with a beautiful smile, "I will feel safer if you accompany us."
"Well… if you insist" said Sawatari with a little blush.
She's good, thought Rin impressed.
Wow! She managed to convince Sawatari with just one look and a few words, thought Yuzu.
"Yuzu, where will you go?" asked Yuya looking at her.
She thought about it a little, remembering the last time they were together during the battle royal in Maiami City. They split up and never saw each other again until now.
"I'll go with you to fight the Professor," she said, "I know it will be dangerous, but we're going to do this together." Yuya smiled at her relieved she was accompanying him.
"It's probably best if the girls are separated," said Yuto, "Serena, you'll have to join the team that's going to battle the Main Force."
"It's okay," she said, "I wanted to go there."
The teams ended up being like this:
Team Throne Room: Yuya, Yuzu, Yuto, Reiji and Reira
Team Main Lab: Yuri, Rin and Gongenzaka
Team System Room: Ruri, Sora, Sawatari and Tsukikage
Team Main Force: Yugo, Serena, Kurosaki, Kaito, Crow and Edo
"Are you sure I shouldn't be in the Main Force?" asked Yuto to Yuri.
"Yeah, the Professor is a really good duelist, if you are to fight him you'll have a better chance of defeating him if it becomes a two-to-one or three-to-one duel. Also, he may have an Obelisk Force unit with him, you will need to defeat them too," explained Yuri.
"Don't worry, Yuto" said Kaito, "with the team we have, it's more than enough." Two former members of the Resistance, a semifinalist and a finalist of the Friendship Cup, a former member of Academia nowadays a member of the Lancers and the former Supreme Commander of Academia. Yeah, they were more than enough.
"We need code names," said Yugo.
"Why?" asked Yuri.
"If we go there saying "Team System Room", everyone will know where we are going," he explained. Yuri was impressed by the idea.
"Then, how about Team Yuzu, Team Serena, Team Rin and Team Ruri?" said Yuya. "It's something easy to remember."
"That sounds good Yuya," said Yuto, "but how about naming them after each girl's dimensions, if we use their names, everyone will now where they are."
Yuya blushed because he hadn't thought of that. Now the teams were:
Team Standard: Yuya, Yuzu, Yuto, Reiji and Reira
Team Synchro: Yuri, Rin and Gongenzaka
Team XYZ: Ruri, Sora, Sawatari and Tsukikage
Team Fusion: Yugo, Serena, Kurosaki, Kaito, Crow and Edo
"With this it may even confuse them," said Reiji, "they'll think the teams are conformed by people of that dimension."
"Aw," pouted Yugo, "I wanted my team to be called like my summoning method."
"It's horrible for me," said Yuri, "I'm in the Synchro Team."
Yugo was going to start a fight with him when Yuya got his attention.
"But Yugo," said Yuya, "your team name kind of sounds li—"
"Don't say it, Yuya!" shouted Yugo. The triplets had a pact, if someone else (different from the three brothers and without any kind of interference from Yuri and Yuto) were to mention the similarity between his name and "fusion", Yuri had free reign to mention it again. If the fusion duelist noticed Yuya's sentence, he would never let him live it down. Unfortunately for Yugo, Yuri's face got a contemplative expression and managed to deduce down the rest of Yuya's sentence. Yuto also understood what Yuya was about to say.
"No way!" shouted Yuri back, "This is priceless! Thanks a lot, Yuya!" He then started to laugh out loud.
"No! Yuya, how could you betray me like that?!" he asked Yuya who laughed too.
"Yuto! Stop them!" he asked/demanded his older brother next.
"Guys, stop," he said with a somewhat serious face until he let out a little chuckle.
It made the other two laugh again.
"Shut it, cabbage head!" shouted Yugo.
"Cabbage head?" said Yuri, "Take it back, banana hair."
"What?!"
"It kind of looks like that," said Yuya with a smile.
"Well, look who's talking tomato head!" said Yugo back.
They started a discussion about their respective hair styles, Yuto decided to intervene before it got out of control.
"Stop!" he shouted, managing to catch their attention.
They all looked at him and the three of them said:
"You shut it! Eggplant!"
The three looked at each other and started to laugh once again, with Yuto joining them.
The four of them forgot about everyone else and were suddenly in their own world. The others could not keep up with them. They look like brothers, was the thought that was passing through more than one mind.
"Guys!" said Yuzu drawing their attention, "Are you finish? We have a world to save."
"Sorry," said Yuto for all of them. In that moment, it just felt like he had his family back. Hopefully, no one would think too much about it.
"Well…" said Sawatari a little surprised about their interaction, "let's get moving!"
"Wait!" said Yuri and looking at Reiji told him, "Maybe I should give you a basic map of the school grounds, that way you can find the Throne Room faster."
"That's a good idea," said Reiji.
Yuri was about to transfer the plan to Reiji's duel disk when Rin interrupted.
"Hey! Why just them?" she said, "It would be better if we all have the map. That way if we get separated, we'll meet at the closest location."
"Ok, I'll give it to you too," said Yuri.
Everyone was lining up to receive the map when Yuto called Yuya to the back of the group to tell him something. The only ones who didn't receive the map were Edo, Sora, Serena and Yugo. The ones from the Fusion Dimension already knew the place and Yugo didn't want to receive anything from Yuri. The rest of his team had the map, so it wasn't a problem. By the time Yuya and Yuto returned with everyone, Team Synchro had already left. The other teams departed as well, and everyone was on his way for their own missions.
Author notes
Everyone is here!
The brothers are not being inconspicuous xD It's curious Yuri never called Yugo "fusion" in the manga. I suppose Yugo got tired of it and dueled Yuri to make him stop. I think if it really bothers Yugo, they don't use it much, to respect his feelings.
Everyone gets to meet/see everyone involved in the final battle (and we know all our main cast). Time's ticking and they have to prevent an invasion to Standard, so the talk's cut short.
Just to clarify something, Rin/Ruri see Yugo/Yuto as their anime counterparts and these two couples, along with Yuya/Yuzu, were pretty much romantic by the last season... at least that's how I interpreted it. Ruri kissed Yuto because in a life or death situation, you do things you never had the chance before, as you don't know if you'll live to see them another day. Hence the kiss. As a side note if they survive the battle, she's going to properly confess her feelings. Keep in mind, the boys have always looked at Rin/Ruri/Serena as Yuzu, so no romantic relationships with none of them. Either way, romance was never a main aspect of this story, the main element is family love.
Also, you may notice some of my own headcanons there hehe
This chapter and the next two are my favorite ones and the ones which inspired this whole story :D
If anyone has questions don't hesitate to ask, I'm happy to clarify stuff. In my mind everything is crystal clear hahaha
