A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF YU GI OH 5DS OR THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER! ALL RIGHTS GO TO KONAMI AND THE ASTRONAUTS!
Chapter 4: Space Capsule
They walked for a bit in the somewhat dark woods. The woods almost seemed unending as they walked through it. However, Luna then noticed something in the distance. "What's that?"
They looked to see what appeared to be a pole with four large, square lights on top of one another. They walked over to it. Paul pressed the pressed the top light and the four lights lit up red before going back to white. He then pressed the third one down and it turned blue. He pressed the button and it lit up red before all going back to white.
"So it's code you have a figure out," Akiza realized.
"And considering the third one down lit up blue when I touched it, I would say that is the first one to go with," Paul agreed. He pressed that one again before pressed the top one, then the one just below that, and - being the last one - the one at the bottom. All four lit up before they turned and saw an astronaut by some appearance standing directly in front of them.
It darted in one direction before disappearing for a second. It then reappeared a good distance away, but not too far from easy view. They each darted after it by instinct. It went to the left as they got close enough and ran for a couple feet before teleporting to another place. This continued for another few minutes until they found themselves near the pole and buttons again. They saw the strange man in the distance and continued to follow.
Eventually, they came to a break in the woods where the tracks continued to with a station over to the far side. The man kept running, though, before disappearing again. They slowed down when there was an explosion over to the side and a giant, spaceship like ball came out of the ground. The astronaut man went under its light and disappeared.
"Should we go in that thing?" Leo asked.
Paul thought for a moment. "I say we do," he answered.
"Have you gone insane?!" Crow retorted. "We don't know what'll happen."
"As I said in the plane, Yusei had the abilities to make his stories a reality," Paul responded. "When someone other than him entered them, they could only last there until after they read his story about it. Once that was done, they'd be brought back to normal reality. That's what he told me anyway. If this is so, this is just a story that's been brought to reality and even if we enter the ship and leave for a second, we will be brought here once we read the story."
"I agree with Paul," Akiza stated. "The same thing happened with the other story - 'Sap' - remember?" Leo and Luna nodded. Jack and Crow gave a small huff or groan before they walked towards the shining light from underneath the ship.
They walked underneath the light before finding themselves teleported into the ball. The windows were darkened so there was no way to see out for a moment.
The sound of it taking off was heard. The windows then allowed to be seen out of and they saw them passing by clouds. They reached to the outer atmosphere when the lights outside turned bright for a moment. When it dimmed the slightest bit, the was a light at the end of what seemed like a warp tunnel of some kind.
All of them seemed in awe, though Paul was more serious and seeming as if in thought. Suddenly, the light brightened again and blinded them for a moment. When it dimmed, they found themselves surrounded in stars and a nebula not too far off. There were hundreds of ships like the one they were in spotting the entire area.
"Wow…" Luna muttered.
Paul turned and walked to a bench. A compartment opened that showed a paper inside it. The others walked over. "It's another one of Yusei's stories," the detective told them. He began to read it:
"Fangs"
The beast had fangs, but was heavy and slow. So when it saw the light in the sky, it waited thinking the light would go out like the others before it. When it did not, the beast stood rose up on its legs and went to the place where the fire was still burning.
As the orange light died, another took its place. This one was blue, a bright and pure blue that the creature had only seen along the edges of the stars. The beast showed its fangs and the light vanished.
A moment later, the light appeared again between two distant trees. The beast wanted to go home, but could not ignore the light. So it chased deeper into the forest.
When the light stopped, it did so in a clearing of trees. The beast entered the circle, feeling no fear. The trees turned towards the beast pointing at it like needles, but the tops of the trees lowered and dug into the ground. The trunks and roots were raised into the air and closed around the beast like walls.
As the ground disappeared, the beast realized it would never use its fangs again.
Paul put it down and they heard young Yusei's voice, "Get out of my room, Travis!"
"Stories. Stories. Always with the stories," the familiar man's voice commented seeming annoyed.
"Get out!" Yusei ordered again.
"I read the 'Fangs' one. I liked the beast. At least he gets to leave this goddamn place," Travis commented.
The light then flashed again and they found themselves in a small hut with the story on a bench and a defaced magazine on the ground. Leo looked at the magazine cover. It read:
ABSTRUSE TALES
America's Finest Science Fiction!
January 1964, 40 cents
Featuring "Yellow Hills of Mars" by Douglas Spaulding
Plus: Julian West, Michael Arden, Clarence Carlisle, and many others!
And the defacement on the cover was written in red marker and said: GAYLORD!
"Do you think Travis made that defacement?" Akiza asked.
"It is possible," Paul answered.
"But the date for this magazine is 1964," Crow commented.
"That's a long time ago," Jack added.
"Perhaps. But it is possible the family has just had the magazine for quite some time," Paul reasoned. "But we can bear that in mind for now." They nodded and went to head on the rest of the path to the small town.