Yu-Gi-Oh! Dimensions: Daisuke EX-Tralude
The birth of a madman who wanted nothing more than to destroy the world nearly succeeded in his plan by gaining a forbidden power regular humans are not meant to wield…
"Now! Hadron Collider, give me the power to destroy this meaningless planet!"
This same man with corrupted values towards life and death, all would have gone his way until…
'The Dichromatic Dragon who controls the boundary between heaven and hell,
who transcends light and darkness as if it were a phantasm, appear by my side!'
"Transcendendent Overscale Pendulum Summon!"
"Transcendent Odd-Eyes Purgatorial Phantasm Dragon!" Yuji chants as his monster appear from the boundary between heaven and hell, a giant dichromatic-eyed dragon with red and blue orbs around its body and wings appear by Yuji's side.
Suddenly, the confidence he once had when he nearly had the destruction of the world in his grasp, suddenly faded away into nothing…
"No..." "I had this duel won, how can this be?" Daisuke is starting to panic as he realizes his end is near.
Now it seems as though the hero of the story will finally defeat the evil madman and save his world from total destruction to protect his friends, family, and loved ones…
"Daisuke, you said you were going to destroy everything just for fun, am I correct?" Yuji calmly asks Daisuke a question, but he is silent. "Now this requiem that is currently playing shall reach its crescendo, as Transcendent Odd-Eyes Purgatorial Phantasm Dragon attacks you directly!" Transcendent Odd-Eyes Purgatorial Phantasm Dragon prepares to attack Daisuke and end this duel, suddenly the monster makes four copies of itself surrounding Daisuke, as Yuji and his friends hold out their hands signaling Yuji's monster to attack. "Transcendent Phantasm Flare Strike!" Says Yuji and his friends as Transcendent Odd-Eyes Purgatorial Phantasm Dragon fires its flames towards Daisuke (Daisuke: 1000 - 0)
These moments kept ringing throughout the mind of the fallen Daisuke Akaba, as he drifted into the void of darkness after being defeated by the intrepid hero, Yuji Ishino. In the real world, years have passed, Yuji and Akane have a family with a brash yet caring daughter named Selene Hatanaka, and a newborn son named Yujiro Ishino, but where Daisuke is: time does not revolve or change, space stays in place in a lifeless void, there is no light, just pure complete darkness.
"Damn Yuji Ishino, that bastard ruined everything!" Daisuke yells out into the void of space where nobody can hear him, maybe Daisuke doesn't really know why he's even here instead of resting in peace. "I had everything in place to take over the world, and destroy everything." "It just wasn't enough…I should have used that 'Psychic Girl' as a sacrifice, what was her name again?" He then mentions a flaw in his plan, when he sacrificed Takumi Hamaguchi (the stepbrother of Fuyuko Hamaguchi) to the Hadron Collider, but then he mentions a particular 'Psychic Girl'.
"From the research I've spent time on without having to deal with that weak and worthless Yui by my side, everything should have been a success, the dead brat Takumi should have had latent power dwelling inside of him, but I was wrong." "I had all of the power I needed, however: I truly misjudged the darkness and it ended up controlling me and corrupted my perfect mind." Daisuke does admit that some parts of his plan and using the energy emitted by the Collider corrupted his mind and gave him power beyond his understanding.
Then suddenly Daisuke remembers something: a vision pops into his clouded mind. It is a vision of one of Yuji's friends, the aforementioned Psychic Girl: Rie Inukai.
"Rie Inukai… An untapped gold mine of psychic power, all of that girl's power would have been mine, however, it is all for nothing now, what's the point in trying to redo a mistake that has no bearing on my future and in my soul?" Daisuke then remembers that Yuji's friend Rie had psychic powers, due to his power: he sensed that she wasn't normal compared to the rest of Yuji's friends, but then a voice rings into Daisuke's head...
"Foolish Daisuke, must you always give up on your plans?"
Suddenly a celestial voice rings into Daisuke's mind, catching the usually calm scientist off guard. "Who the hell are you?" "How do you know my name?" Daisuke then questions who is speaking to him in this lifeless void of the darkness.
"You had it all, and yet: you still misunderstood the forbidden knowledge you received by me in your little foolish experiment!"
The mysterious voice then belittles Daisuke, while mentioning how he essentially failed in his Hadron Collider experiment to gain forbidden power and knowledge. "What the hell do you know, you damn bastard?!" Then Daisuke gets frustrated, but then realizes he can't do anything about this.
"You are just such a fool, it seems I must reveal myself to you then…"
Then in the corner of Daisuke's eye: an unusual event happens in the distance: light comes together to form a body, a feminine-Esque individual appears in front of Daisuke. A pure white-haired (as bright as the light itself) woman with similar facial features to Daisuke (and some similarities to Daisuke's sister Ray Akaba), in an angelic robe with four black and white wings protruding on her back, was this mysterious woman, a fallen angel in the void of darkness?
"My name is Izanami Akaba, one of the Gods of the Heavenly Dimension."
Izanami then reveals herself to Daisuke, while Daisuke remembers the name of Izanami since he read alleged rumors of a former god named Izanami, however it was forgotten to time... "Izanami?" "A God?" "Akaba?" Daisuke is slow to put the pieces together after hearing what Izanami told him. "A long time ago, I heard of a god named Asura, the God of the Heavens and one where her name was really Izanami; but it was lost to time.." "What brings you here, Lady Izanami?" Daisuke, knowing that he's standing near a literal Goddess in Izanami, gave and formally addressed her in proper respects.
"I've witnessed many things in my millennia of serving the universe and the dimension, you were reckless with the gifts you received from me." "You were supposed to find a way to protect the world and not destroy it!"
Izanami apparently mentioned how Daisuke was supposed to protect the world and the dimension, but something must have happened to prevent that from happening. "What do you mean?" Daisuke then wonders what Lady Izanami meant by what she said.
"Your Hadron Collider experiment was meant to awaken your latent powers and protect the dimension, but you sacrificed an innocent child and his blood tainted the energy within the device, and the God of Destruction, Ragnell corrupted your mind, and fed you lies and wanting to destroy the world and wanting to kill Yuji Ishino."
Izanami then tells him the truth regarding his Hadron Collider experiments and how they were supposed to be for good rather than the destruction of the world. "Ah, what's the damn point telling me about it now, Lady Izanami?" Daisuke questions why Izanami revealed the truth to him about what was actually supposed to happen in his experiments.
"Hold on…"
Then Daisuke noticed something in what Izanami mentioned about how Takumi's blood tainted the energy gained in the Collider and this God of Destruction Ragnell.
"Ragnell? I slightly remember that name, once the sacrifice happened and I received my powers: a voice in my head; not like yours Lady Izanami mentioned how I had to use this power I had to kill Yuji Ishino and his friends and kidnap his mother and sister, that bastard!" Then he starts to put the pieces together regarding the truth of everything Izanami has told him and then something starts to shine in his tattered lab coat pocket.
"What's going on here?" He then picks up his Chronogear deck and notices it's shining.
"Daisuke, I am willing to give you a second chance at life and to alter things to as if things were the same, but everything that happened that involved you will be erased; however, the individuals that were there will not have their minds wiped. So eventually you will have to explain everything to them and hope they believe you."
Then Izanami gives Daisuke a choice to be revived and redeem himself after all of the atrocities he has done and all of the family's he has ruined with his experiments.
"I will also revive the boy named Takumi Hamaguchi, as a way to right the wrong that you have committed."
She also mentions how she will revive Takumi, and then she suddenly starts to mention the 'void elephant' of the room: Daisuke's glowing deck.
"Lady Izanami, what is going on?" Daisuke believes that he is going to lose his Chronogear deck and Izanami then calms him down, by putting a hand on his glowing deck.
"In order for you to be redeemed in the eyes of the duelists in the world: you must let go of this Chronogear deck as they were the main link of you being manipulated by Ragnell. I'll give you a deck that you once used before in the past, maybe you can put it into good use once again."
After Izanami says this to reassure Daisuke, her hand moves away from his deck, and now he sees that Chronogear - Armor Jet Dragon has been replaced by Metalfoes Vanisher, and he remembers something about this particular card.
"Metalfoes, huh?" "I haven't used this deck since the old Duel Academy days at Denshu City, the real name of Den City, a long, long time ago." Daisuke starts to reminisce over his past with his old Metalfoes deck. "But then things went out of control once I lost in that Championship matchup against Zarc. That was when he used 'Evenly Matched' on me…" Then, he mentions how the nostalgic times of his early duel career were ruined by someone using an overpowered card to defeat him.
"So that's when it all started to go down the drain, I'm sorry that I betrayed you for power, Metalfoes: I won't forsake you all no more." And then he clutched his deck in his hands as a joyful smile appeared on Daisuke's face, not one of evil and malice: but one of nostalgic happiness.
"Now Daisuke Akaba, are you ready to be reborn in the world you once wanted to destroy? Are you ready to redeem yourself among the ones you've pushed away for power?"
Izanami then asks Daisuke if he was ready to be reborn into the world as a redeemed individual, and Daisuke as a more determined person and ready to repent for his actions nods his head yes.
As Izanami prepares to send Daisuke back into Den City: a bright light envelops Daisuke and he disappears. Eventually, Daisuke appears back in Den City: a few years into the future, older and wiser, with nothing to his name except his Metalfoes deck and his memories intact, while also gaining the power to foresee the future. So Daisuke then starts to search for his estranged sister, Ray Akaba. Eventually, the two reunite but Ray is still apprehensive over accepting her brother's apology after everything he's done and explains everything that has happened to him since his defeat and how he had an epiphany and ran into Izanami.
"In short Ray, I have repented for my sins that I have done." "And I would like to repair our family relationship, just you and me: not our insane father." After Daisuke calls his father insane: Ray then realizes how much he's changed, usually, he would defend his father and all of the things he has done. Ray takes a bit of time to respond and then she leans towards Daisuke hugs him and she starts to cry.
"I accept your apology, Daisuke… I just want to make sure that your life ends up better than how things used to be." Ray, while crying, accepts Daisuke's apology. "It's a new age, you know Daisuke. Things have changed in the dueling world and around town as well, but there are some weird things going on in this thing called Link Vrains." She then tells Daisuke about how much things have changed since he lost to Yuji, Daisuke is slightly confused about Link Vrains, since he was gone during the advent of Link Summoning and Link Vrains.
"Link Vrains?" He then asks Ray to talk more about this new thing, and She obliges and starts to explain what it is. "Link Vrains is a virtual reality area that duelists use to hang out and duel people in, but it isn't some type of idiotic 'Metaverse' where people just go there and make money." Ray talks about how Link Vrains is extremely different compared to Real Solid Vision, Daisuke seems interested in this new thing he hasn't known about.
"So I'll go ahead and check out this Link Vrains thing, Ray. Eventually, I'm going to find Yuji Ishino…" After saying this: Ray confronts Daisuke over him trying to find Yuji. "I hope you aren't planning on killing him, if you are: I'll stop you." She then threatens to go after Daisuke if he tries to harm Yuji. "No, I'm not going to harm Yuji or his little ragtag band of friends, that ship has sailed." Daisuke reassures that he isn't going to harm Yuji.
Then Daisuke uses some money he had leftover in a savings account to buy himself a home and then a few weeks pass as his home is filled with all of his old tech, a Vrains headset, he also ends up with a new outfit: a grey blazer with a white dress shirt and khaki pants. He's also found himself a girlfriend: Tatsuki Kishino from Spring Star Duel School, a classmate of Yuji and Haruka. Eventually, he prepares himself and puts on the Vrains Headset.
"Ok, here goes." Daisuke powers on the headset and prepares to say the logon phrase. "Into The Vrains!" After saying this: Daisuke is transported into the world of Link Vrains, his outfit changes into a neo cyberpunk version of his outfit with black hair and white highlights (a literal inverse of his grey and blue hair).
"I guess in this world: I will call myself…Izanagi!"
Daisuke, now named Izanagi in this world, heads off into this new frontier of dueling and runs into a particular group of characters. Two girls (one with blue hair, and one with blonde hair with purple streaks), and a menacing guy with a white futuristic lab coat reminiscent of Daisuke's old lab coat.
"Now ladies, give up that Data core if you value your lives or I will kill you both!" The mysterious man threatens the two girls by saying he's going to kill them. "Selene, we have to stop this guy before Hanoi gets this chip and the only thing we have to do is Duel!" The blue-haired girl then tells the blonde-haired girl named Selene that they should try and defend themselves by dueling.
"Seems like we're on the same page Aoi. Let's take down this creep!" Selene then challenges the Hanoi agent to a duel. As Daisuke watches the duel happen: he mentions something about Selene that reminds him of someone. "So that bastard… I mean Yuji did hit it off with that girl Akane it seems?"
"She has the same Fire that Yuji had all those years ago…"
~To Be Continued in Yu-Gi-Oh! Linked Dimensions~
