I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh 5ds or any of its characters.
I was going around the corner to enter the northern slums when I was rammed in the side by a large wooden crate. It landed on me and broke when both it and I hit the ground.
"Sorry!" came a young woman's cry from nearby. "I didn't see you there. Let me help you up." A moment after I'd pushed the remains of crate off of me a small hand attached to a slender arm reached towards me. I grabbed hold and let the young woman help me get back on my feet. My eyes rose with me, taking in the sight of brown work boots, a blue work dress with a darker blue shirt beneath it, and then I got to the face. By Obelisk the face… I saw warm, wide eyes on a sweet young face, their grey hue offsetting the light brown color of her hair. Or maybe the eyes had a tint of gray? The only problem with the face was that it was turned to look away.
"Thanks," was all I was able to say. All the girl did was look down at the sad, pathetic remains of the crate.
"They're going to take that out of my paycheck, you know. Now I have to go get another one to bring to the sorting line." she told me, still not having looked at me. I suddenly noticed that I was still holding onto her hand.
"Sorry about that," I said as I pulled my hand back. "Is there anything that I can do to help?"
"Other than not getting in my way next time, no, I don't think so." she closed her eyes and shook her head as she sighed.
"So, you work at the plant?" I asked nervously, trying to get her to at least look at me.
"Yeah, but I just got the job and I really can't mess this up. I need to pay rent on my new place because my old one was torn up by a duel gang full of drunkards. The whole lot of the duel gangs out here are a bunch of cowards and idiots, only caring about themselves and never stopping to think about what they do to us regular folk." she huffed. I was suddenly thankful that she hadn't yet looked at me and I quickly hid the disk on my arm behind my back.
I extended my right hand towards her, "Well, my name's Wilhelm. Its real nice to meet you Ms. - "
"Anna, my name is Anna. and its a pleasure to meet you too, Wilhelm." she shook my hand, finally looking at me. The sweet smile on her face left me speechless.
"Out of curiosity, Anna, what duel gang was it that wrecked your home?" I asked.
"Black'n'Blue. They got drunk one night and got the idea in their heads that my personal style matched their color scheme, and so therefor I could be persuaded into favors for them." Anna turned her head, the sweet smile suddenly turned into a deep frown and her eyebrows furrowed with rage.
"I hope they weren't successful, ma'am," I said, a thought of vengeance occurring in my head.
"They almost were. I got out a window when a neighbor warned me that they were coming. They wrecked the place, though, and I can't go back in there to get a few personal effects." Anna sighed. "But I'll be fine, everybody in Satellite has to relocate at some point."
"Ma'am, if I came looking for you, would you mind telling me where I could find you?" I said, my idea taking a more complete form.
She flashed a smile at me, "So long as you don't get in my way again you can try the docks. People know me there, and if you happen to run into me again then I might tell you more."
"Then I'll be out of your way. See you later, Anna." I said as I started backing away, still making sure to hide my disk from her as I walked towards the old highway.
When I got there Yusei was working on a light blue Duel Runner that looked like it had been made out of junk for a frame.
"What's that?" I asked.
Yusei got off the ground and wiped his hands on a rag, his spiky hair bobbing, "Its my prototype, but I'll need some help to figure out how to get the duel interface to work."
"I can help out with that, and you know that. But before I can help you with that I need an idea of the speeds that the cards and the system will be enduring to keep the cards on." I smiled.
Yusei smirked, "You're just looking to ride the thing."
I laughed, "You know me too well."
"Get on then, its ready to go." he motioned towards the seat of the Runner. I swung my leg over the body of the frame and sat down.
"Woah!" I said. "This thing feels like an old couch!"
"Comfortable and worn in just right." Yusei grinned. "Well, what are you waiting for? Get going!"
I revved the engine and took off down the old highway. It surprised me the amount of speed that the runner accumulated so quickly, the wind in my hair was beginning to whip my face so much that it was difficult to steer. I slowed down and cruised the rest of the way around the course. Finally, I got back into to the ramp that I used to get onto the old highway in the first place.
"Two things," I said, desperately trying to tame the mess that my hair had become in the wind. "That course is decrepit and not taken care of at all. If we're going to be test driving the runner out here we'll need to clear it a little bit."
Yusei chuckled, "And the second thing?"
"We get some safety gear, a riding suit, or at least a helmet and a jacket." I said. "I can get us a helmet pretty easily, and I should be able to sync it the the runner once we get the duel systems working, but I have no idea where we'd get the jacket."
"Let me see what I can do about that. Did you get a good feel for the winds that'll rail against the cards?" he asked.
"More than I would have liked to, but yeah. Bring it by my place some time. I've recently acquired a spare blade that we could probably use." I replied.
"Will do. I just need to tighten a few bolts and see how the Runner took to the speeds, see how much of it was worn down and stuff. You know the drill." Yusei picked up a wrench.
"Yeah, I do. Later, man."
"Later."
I walked into the planning room in Enforcer HQ, "Kalin, I have a target."
My white-haired leader looked up from his planning table, "Really? It just so happens that I do as well. Maybe we'll get lucky and we'll have the same one."
"Black'n'Blue, sir," I said. "I have reason to believe that they're involved in activities unbecoming of gentlemen and officers." I stood in my best attempt at military attention, my hands clasped behind my back and my chin up as though I were speaking to a superior officer. Thankfully, Kalin humored me.
"The suspicion of a lone Enforcer is insufficient to warrant a turf war, Sergeant Jernigan. You're lucky that others have reported such activities from them as well. As Enforcers of the public peace and well-being it is our duty to relieve them of their command. We attack tomorrow at dawn. Make the rest of the unit aware. Dismissed." Kalin saluted me, a stern look on his face that I knew would dissolve into laughter the moment that I left the room.
Through my faux-military exterior I smiled and saluted back, then I walked out of the room. As I had suspected, Kalin immediately burst into raucous laughter, but I was thankful that he played along with my eccentricities. He was a great friend.
I walked back home and found Crow outside, playing with Itsuki and Annie, Itsuki's little sister.
"Sergeant Crow, report for duty outside the headquarters of Team Black'n'Blue tomorrow at dawn. The Enforcers will relieve them of their command." I said with a smile on my face.
Crow picked up on my enthusiasm for the turf battle, "Will do, Wil. See you there. Why the happy face, though? Normally you hate turf battles."
"I found a good cause to fight for." I said as I walked into my home and sat at my desk, turning on the computer that I'd built from spare parts around the scrap yard. I had just started pulling down my screwdrivers to disassemble the Security disk as Crow walked in.
"What sort of good cause do you mean?" Crow smiled wryly.
"Good enough. I found evidence suggesting that members of Team Black'n'Blue were responsible for activities unbecoming of gentlemen." I said, pulling out the disk from its hiding place.
"So you met a girl who was unhappy with them?" Crow said with the same wry smile, now a smirk, on his face.
"That has no bearing on the matter at hand, Crow. Now leave me alone so that my disk will be ready in the morning. Go home and get some shut-eye." I allowed myself to become absorbed in my work, typing notes into my computer.
"Alright, alright. See you then, buddy." Crow said as he walked out the door.
"Get the kids home to their parents!" I yelled out behind him. Finally, I was alone to do my work. Carefully I removed the gems on the security disk, both the one on the body and the one on the blade. I looked carefully for anything that seemed out of place. Almost immediately I found a chip on the wirings of what was beneath the gem on the blade. I took care in removing it, making sure that I wasn't damaging it with a pair of tweezers and a knife that I always keep as sharp as I can. The odd chip lay on my desk, filled with perhaps fathomless potential, so I let my curiosity take over. I started cracking it open, then I pulled out a converter that allowed me to connect the chip to my computer for programming.
Numbers and data filled my monitor in a blur. Doing my best to read the program I could tell that I'd found the right piece. I started cracking on what it was that made the chip work the way it did. Silently I swore to myself, the chip was configured for the current KC standard model, which was what the Security disk was a variant of. I sighed, knowing this was going to be a long night of coding to get it configured for my disk.
I was awoken by somebody shaking me awake.
"Come on and wake up man, we're going to be late!" Crow said. Weary, I lifted my head from where it lay in my arms on my desk. In front of me lay my academy disk, newly improved with the virus chip. I'd also replaced the armband with the one from the Security variant, mine was getting old and had trouble working, and then I improved the overall OS of my disk before setting the gems back in place and falling asleep. The disk I'd cannibalized, however, was still sprawled across my desk in pieces. I grabbed my disk and ran out the door after Crow, putting it on and loading it with my deck as I went.
Kalin was waiting for us when we got there, "You two are late. What's your excuse Wil? As I recall you were the one who wanted this in the first place."
I raised my left arm, bearing my disk, "Tech improvements, sir, a new weapon against the enemy."
"Better be good, then. Jack and Yusei are already out looking for opponents. The sorry little Skull Servants are all in here, so we'd better crush them all. Got that?" Kalin stared in my direction hard.
"Yes, sir!" I said.
Kalin started rushing upstairs, "First to find the boss gets first dibs on taking him down!"
"Alright," Crow said once Kalin had gone upstairs. "We'll handle this floor. Start looking for cowards." I nodded.
It was just after I'd turned left that I saw a red cap poking out from behind some crates. I kicked the crates, "Come on out and duel me, you swine!" A man in a fleece-lined hoodie and a red baseball cap jumped out from behind the crate.
"I wasn't really scared of a weakling anyway. You're on!" he said.