Yu gets handcuffs around his wrists before being tossed into the back of a van before getting squished Sawatari, then Shinji, and then Crow while Yuya, Rei, Misaki, and Serena walked into it by themselves.
"This can not get any worse," Yu said pushing the others off as the door to the back of the van off him. "What were you guys even thinking?"
"Well, we thought that we could find some guy in this dimension that could help us with taking down Academia. I think we found a suitable candidate. No doubt from the hard work of the Great Shingo Sawatari!" Sawatari said with a cocky attitude.
"Sawatari. I'm glad that you and Serena found someone… But how are we going to get out of prison?" Rei asks as Sawatari thinks about it for a second before realising the position that he was in. "Of course you didn't think this through. This is bad though. What do we do?"
"Well this isn't the first time that I've been in there. So we're going to get out the same way as we did last time."
"By dueling the warden? Sorry to bust your chop, Yu but Tyler isn't the warden anymore. He got fired after losing to you. Also dueling the warden is now forbidden thanks to one of the Tops, you won't get a chance." Crow states. "Did you honestly think that lightning strikes twice?"
"No. I was just thinking of a way to get out. How about we stage a riot as soon as we get?" Yu thinks out loud. "We don't have much choice here."
"We're going to need to catch them off guard. You honestly think that's going to work?" Misaki asks as the van stops. "Better not do anything reckless."
"I won't." Yu said as he takes out his deck and extra deck and puts it into his container. The van doors were open as everyone was dragged into the Facility. Once they saw Yu walk in, everyone cheered. "Heyo everyone! How are you guys!?"
"Yu has quite the audience. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel since this is prison." Yuya said with a faint chuckle.
"Who knows. Just roll with it." Serena said as everyone got out of their handcuffs and were stripped of their duel disks but were allowed to keep their decks. Once everyone was accounted for, Yu punched a guard in the face, taking his duel disk before jumping backwards towards one of the jail cells making sure that none of the guards catch him off guard.
"Hey!" The guards activate their duel disks as three of them surround Yu.
"Duel!"
Yu - LP 4000
Guard 1 - LP 4000
Guard 2 - LP 4000
Guard 3 - LP 4000
"Give yourself up!" The first guard yelled out. "My turn! I summon Vigilante Zeni! (Lv 4, 1600 Atk) I activate his effect! I can make this card's attack 0 and special summon a Level 3 or lower Vigilante monster from my hand! Come forth, Vigilante Garter! (Lv 3, 800 Atk) I tune the Level 3 Vigilante Garter with the Level 4 Vigilante Zeni! Tear apart the dark fog of twisted doubt and unravel the truth! Synchro Summon! Come forth! Level 7! Sniping Heiji Type-0! (Lv 7, 2400 Atk) My turn is over."
"You can beat them!" A prisoner said with excitement.
"Show us more of your awesome dueling!" Another yelled out.
"Yu! Beat them!" The voice sounded familiar as it turned out to be Gongenzaka.
"He's in here as well? Then I can't afford to lose. My turn, draw! I activate Millenium Ring and Millennium Rod's effects! I can set them Pendulum Scale with these two monsters! I, using Scale 1 Millenium Ring and Scale 9 Millenium Eye, I set the Pendulum Scale! With this, I can summon monsters Levels 2 through 8 at the same time! Guided in this world, break the dimensional shift and create a new future! Pendulum Summon! Come forth my monsters! Psychic Prodigy (Lv 4, 800 Atk), and the phantom dragon with dichromatic eyes, Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon! (Lv 7, 2500 Atk) Next I summon Tuning Supporter! (Lv 1, 100 Atk)"
"Pendulum! Pendulum! Pendulum!" The crowd cheers as Yu bows down irritating both the guards and Serena who was held back by some of the guards.
"Focus Yu! This isn't the time to be messing around!" Serena said making Yu pale.
"Well then! I'll show you all more! Battle! Psychic Prodigy attacks the first guard! His effect allows me to attack directly!"
Guard 1 - LP 4000 → 3200
"So? That was only 800 damage! Most you doing is 1000 this turn!"
"That's what you think! I activate Psychic Prodigy's effect! I can summon a Level 4 or lower monster from deck I summon Bolt Hedgehog from my deck! (Lv 2, 800 Def) Then immediately after, I can Synchro Summon! I tune the Level 1 Tuning Supporter and Level 2 Bolt Hedgehog to the Level 4 Psychic Prodigy! Pure white dragon with unblemished wings! Descend upon the battlefield with the speed of light and slash apart every enemy in your path! Synchro Summon! Appear now, Level 7! Clearwing Fast Dragon! (Lv 7, 2500 Atk) I activate his effect! I can negate your monster's effect and lower it to zero attack points until the end of the turn! Vanishing mirror! (2400 → 0 Atk) Battle! Odd-eyes Phantom Dragon attacks Sniping Heiji! Phantom Spiral Flame!"
Guard 1 - LP 3200 →700
"Then Clear Wing Fast Dragon attacks you directly! Velocity Edge!"
Guard 1 - 700 → 0
"I end my turn with that. 1 down. Two to go."
"My turn! Draw! I summon Jutte Lord! (Lv 4, 1600 Atk) I activate its effect! I can special summon Jutte Knight! (Lv 2, 700 Atk) I activate his effect! I change Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon into defense position! (2500 Atk → 2000 Def) I tune the Level 4 Jutte Lord to the Level 2 Jutte Knight. Capture them with the ranging fangs of the beast! Synchro Summon! Level 6! Goyo Predator! (Lv 6, 2400 Atk) Battle! Goyo Predator attacks Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!"
"Clearwing Fast Dragon effect! I negate your monster's effect and lower it's attack to zero! Vanishing Mirror!" Yu calls out. (2400 → 0 Atk)
"You can use it during your opponent's turn!?" The security guard exclaimed.
Guard 2 - LP 4000 → 2000
"My turn… Draw! I target Clearwing Fast Dragon with Sasumata Gardna's effect! It loses 500 attack and then I can special summon this monster! (Lv 3, 2000 Def) I do it again!" (2500 → 1500 Atk) Next I summon Jutte Knight! (Lv 2, 700 Atk) While I can't do anything… I tune the two Level 3 Sasumata Gardna and the Level 2 Jutte Knight! Synchro Summon! Appear, Goyo King! (Lv 8, 2000 Def) I end my turn."
"Well then! My turn! Draw! Pendulum Summon! Appear my monster servants! Psychic Prodigy (Lv 4, 800 Atk) and Hyper Synchron! I make Psychic Prodigy Level 1! I tune the Level 7 Clearwing Fast Dragon to the Level 1 Psychic Prodigy! The pulse of the king now forms a line here! Witness the power of the rumbling heavens! Synchro Summon! Appear my soul's white light! Level 8! Red Dragon Archfiend! (Lv 8, 3000 Atk) Next! I tune the Level 7 Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon to the Level 4 Hyper Synchron! Larger than the sun itself, indestructible beyond human understanding! The being before this universe itself! Synchro Summon! Level 11! Star Eater! (Lv 11, 3200 Atk)"
"Hell yeah! There's no way that Yu can win!" Sawatari calls out as Yuto looks at the scene with Gongenzaka. That's when Yuto notices something behind Yu.
"Yu! Look out!" Yuto calls out to his twin.
"Huh?"
*THUD
The Human
By: NexusMC
Chapter 17: Escaping Prison
"Eurgh!" Yu said as someone had bashed his head forcing him to fall to the ground. Everyone stared to see it was a prisoner holding a brick.
"Hey! What are you doing!?" Yuya yells out as the prisoner lets himself out of the cell shocking everyone as he reveals a police badge.
"A narc!?" Crow exclaims."So we're not safe from snitches."
The guards came and congratulated the narc before taking out batons and started to beat Yu from all areas as his friends couldn't help but watch, unable to help their friend. After a good solid 5 minutes, the guards dragged Yu's motionless body through the facility into a dark room, presumably solitary confinement.
Yu could barely move as he laid on the wooden bench for a bed. He didn't know how long he was in there as all he tried to do was recover his strength which was hard considering the conditions of the room. He slept for as long as he can until he heard two voices in the background.
"Yu! Shun! Are you here!? Say something!" The voice was that of a boy, most likely Yuto due to the familiarity with Shun. "Shun! There you are! Have you seen Yu anywhere here?"
"I-I'm here Yuto…" Yu tries to say faintly. "I'm held up in one of these cells."
"Unfortunately I haven't seen any of them." Kurosaki said making another voice sound upset.
"Where could he be? He's in solitary confinement, right? Unless… No way." It was Avery sounding distressed. "You don't think that they… Oh Yu!"
"They didn't kill him, Avery. I just have a feeling that he's here somewhere. *Thud* Did you hear that?" Yuto questions as he now hears light taps.
"That's Yu!" Avery exclaims with relief as she follows the sound of the taps to a door and opens it revealing a struggling Yu trying to get up as Avery bends down comforting Yu. "Yu! Oh my goodness! I didn't know that you had these many injuries on you! Those monsters! I'll make them pay!"
"I'm fine sis. Nothing that time can't fix." Yu said while Kurosaki and Yuto help him up. "Thank you, guys. So what's the exit strategy? How are we going to become escapists?"
"There is some kind of pipeline that Crow is meeting one of his friends at. We're going to go there while the guards are busy with other stuff." Yuto explains pulling Yu to the exit at a constant speed. After getting rushed by guards, the four meet Gongenzaka and eventually meet with the others in the pipeline.
"Man. You took quite the hell of a beating. I'm surprised that you're still standing." Crow states bluntly. "I'm not sure if you can make it through all of that water."
"I'll make it. I'm not going to hold you guys back for just a little pain." Yu said before dropping into the water feeling immediate pain. All of his bruises he had felt like bullets and he could barely move his muscles to barely reach the surface of the water to breath as someone pulls him a bit more up.
"D-Dennis?" Yu barely mutters.
"You should always try to be the tough guy, Yu. You need to learn when to take a pause on it. What's going to happen to Serena when her white knight kicks the bucket? Or Rei. Or Rio. Or your little sister!" Dennis asked.
"I heard that! What the hell does that suppose to mean!?" Serena said before starting to swim.
"We don't want you hurt Yu. Take it easy." Rei said.
"You've done a lot for us. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for you." Rio continued.
"We need you, big bro. After all. You've changed everyone's lives. Maybe stop carrying a big burden on your shoulders." Avery states.
"Perhaps you guys are right."
"Good boy. Now let's get you somewhere so that you can rest up." Dennis said as he easily pulls Yu towards the land with everyone else as a shining bright light blinds everyone and a figure stands next to the light.
"Daer me, what do we have here?" The figure said with everyone looking at him. "I heard that a Duel tournament was taking place inside the Facility. Did I mistake it for a swim meet?"
"Impossible…" Misaki had a face of complete shock when she saw the figure's face. "He's…"
"My apologies, I should have introduced myself first. I'm the person responsible for maintaining order in this Neo Domino City, the chief of the Security Bureau, Jean-Michel Roget. We finally meet, everyone. Yu. Looks like the guards gave you the proper care that you deserved."
Yu tried to respond but his lungs were flaming and couldn't muster a word as everyone was handcuffed with Real Solid Vision and shoved back to a prisoner transport vehicle. The group had just escaped before being caught almost immediately.
"Damn it! I'll never see the kids again like this!" Crow cursed.
"Don't give up, Crow. We might still have a chance." Misaki whispered before hearing a painful cry coming from Yu. The guards were beating him in order for him to stand up as his legs could barely muster any strength.
"Stop it! You're hurting him! Can't you see that he's injured!?" Rei yells out.
"Let go of me!" Serena yells out as well while being restrained by two officers. "Where do you think you're taking me!?"
"Please do not worry. We will treat you kindly." Roget had a cold smile on his face as several lights shone on them from a helicopter that was slowly descending. Two men dressed in white uniforms and wearing visors stepped out and talked to Roget making him look even more annoyed. His mind was heavy and his vision was blurry. Yu didn't know what happened next as he passed out.
The next thing that he knew, there was yelling. Lots of yelling. Yu opened his eyes to see Akaba Reiji, Reira, and Tsukikage in what seems to be in the room of a high ranking council.
"I don't think you quite understand. We're not the invaders. Academia are the ones. We came here in order to protect this dimension from them. Akaba Reiji even said so before!" Yuto yells out.
"It's Security's duty to protect this City, not yours. We do not require your assistance." Roget declares.
"I highly doubt that, judging from your subordinates' subpar dueling skills. That and you also had to result to cheap tactics like what you did with Yu…" Rio said as she sees that Yu had opened his eyes a bit. "Yu!"
"Hey~ How's it going?" Yu coughs out before looking at the figures with eyes as big as plates. "The high council!?"
"Yu Nishkiyama. Always have to have something to do with you." One of them said. "If you are our allies, we would like you to prove that to us."
"Prove it? How do you propose?" Avery comments.
"Participate in the Friendship Cup." Reiji suddenly states.
"The Friendship Cup!?"
"That's what the Executive Council is aiming for. To have the Lancers participate in the tournament and display their skills as Duel Soldiers there." Reiji explains.
"So we're going to have to dance for you guys? That's not really cool." Avery mutters with an annoyed expression on her face.
"Don't tell me… the rest of us will participate as well? I can actually enter the City's largest Duel Tournament, the one I've heard about for so long?" The man named Tokumatsu said with his eyes widened.
"I personally would like you to enter as well. After all, you were the catalyst for the formation of the Friendship Cup." A councilor said.
"I… was the catalyst?"
"Ten years ago, your arrest led the Commons youth to revolt against us. In order to control that situation, the Duel Chasers were formed. However, disorder only increased as we enforced greater control. Ultimately, we came up with a Duel Tournament to promote harmony between the Tops and Commons, the Friendship Cup. The winner earns the honor of being a shared King for both Tops and Commons, just like the current King, Jack Atlas."
"What shared King are you talking about!? I'm not entering this tournament! I refuse to put on a show for the Tops!" Crow spats out.
"I know how you feel, but if we enter, Frank and the others can see that we're doing well. We have no choice but to put up with this for now." Misaki states as Crow thinks about it before nodding.
"Alright! Now I can finally fulfill my promise to the children!" Tokumatsu cheers.
"Yosh! In this case, let's fire up the audiences of the Synchro Dimension with our Entertainment Duel, Yuya!" Sawatari said with excitement.
"You look excited given our circumstances Sawatari. Right now shouldn't be the time for cheering like that." Yuto comments.
"More importantly, we have to find Yuzu soon…" Yuya said.
"Oh? Yuzu Hiiragi is indeed your comrade?" Roget said with a sense of interest.
"You… Don't tell me… that you captured Yuzu!" Yuya sounded extremely pissed off.
"She hasn't been arrested. She's an important Duelist who's also participating in the Friendship Cup after all."
"Yuzu is entering the Friendship Cup!?" All of the Lancers called out with surprise.
This was indeed surprising for them but Misaki was curious how it had happened before suspecting that Yugo probably had something to do with it.
"If you're worried about her, I can let you see that she's doing well." Roget let out a small smile before looking at Yu. "Yu Nishikiyama. You're indeed powerful and your duel with the warden almost cost me everything… Although your time will not come yet. I have a proposal that I would like to make to the council. If you do this, I'll consent to their participation in the Friendship Cup."
"A proposal? And what would that be?"
"Every year, on the eve of the Friendship Cup, the King carries out an exhibition match. How about letting him serve as the opponent?" Roget said pointing at Yuya.
"Me!?"
"Why him?" Yu questions taking a deep breath.
"From what I've seen, he's the one most adept at the bizarre summoning method called Pendulum. Plus, as an Entertainer, I'm sure his clash with the King will result in a marvelous spectacle that will enthrall the audience."
"I see. Yes, that's fine."
"In that case, please lead the participants to their quarters and give Yu Nishkiyama some medical attention. As for Yuya Sakaki, escort him to the pit area."
"H-Hey! Where are you taking everyone!?" Yuya cried out after seeing everyone being taken away.
After that exchange, Yu was given proper care as many of his wounds had gotten infected with pus but due to how advanced in the medical industry that the Tops had, Yu was able to move a tiny bit just in time for Yuya's duel against Jack Atlas. The figure was familiar as he was the one overseeing his duel against the warden of the Facility.
Jack to Yu's eyes was definitely skilled. Not only was Jack a talented Duelist, he was also excellent at controlling the flow of the Duel, since he basically had Yuya move according to his wishes the whole time. It was kind of hard to watch when looking at Yuya's point of view, but the way that Jack entertained the crowd from the attacks that Yuya had launched at him. Whoever ended up facing Jack Atlas in the final match was sure going to have a hard time.
When Red Dragon Archfiend Scarlight came out, Yu took out his normal Red Dragon Archfiend and its evolved form, Red Nova Dragon. Indeed it was peculiar but his memory self-had told him to think nothing of it, and so he has. Then Jack said the words that really dug in deep to Yuya.
"You said it yourself; an Entertainment Duel. However, your duel is nothing more than self-satisfaction; far from true entertainment!" Jack yelled out loud.
Those words sounded like Jack looking down on Yuya, but Yu felt like it was different. It was like Jack could see something in Yuya that he was acting like a really harsh and stern teacher teaching his students how to fix the biggest problem that they had. It all had to do with the mindset of Yuya and how he took it.
While Yu did worry about his friend, he was mostly focusing on the fact that he couldn't escape nor see any of the other Lancers until the tournament starts. So Yu sits down on the bed and takes out his deck and the package he got from his dream self and opens it before having his eyes opened wide. "Oh my god. This might change everything."
Woop. Yu got destroyed by something known by many as police brutality. Rest in pieces. That basically breezed through everything in the Facility like meeting Tokamatsu and other such by just throwing him into Solitary confinement. But to be fair, Kurosaki was in there because he was a straight up rebel but at least helped in some way when it came to the escape. Yu was basically dead weight at this point which is just... Wow. But to be fair, I wanted this to be a tiny bit more realistic then it should've been. I should've honestly done more but then I struggled with finding a way to do something substantial inside the Facility as Yu has been given a huge amount of respect when it came to the prisoners and able to duel his way out against Warden. This should've pissed off Roget as he was probably the one that made Tyler the Warden and probably gotten some kind of bullshit through it. But... I made Tyler a warden out of random bullshit because years ago me is a stupid retard.
How the Friendship's games going to work is going to be... interesting. Yu is going to be facing Sergey which means that he will not be able to duel with Yuya, Crow, Gongenzaka, Shinji, and others. But with the additions of Rei, Avery, Rio, and Yuto, there are not enough FILLER duels so I have to double the cast from 16 to 32 which means that I'm going to have to get QUITE creative in how the next duels are going to go. Also, I need to think for a way to have my own spin.
Then I just realize something. Next month is the anniversary of when I first posted the first episode of The Human and 18 chapters later, 45 Favorites and 41 Follows, 43 reviews, and I say to this that... It's been fun. My mind has been destroyed trying to be creative and school has been a dick to me but. I hope that you guys are enjoying this story as I'm writing it. I know for a fact that the previous chapters had a lot of errors and illegal moves but... it shows that I have improved as both a writer and a duelist.
With that being said, this is NexusMC signing off for almost the rest of the year. I hope you guys enjoy the holidays. That being said, this is goodbye until next year. Stay classy.