The Rise and Fall of History II: Opposing the Present

by Medigo

The world of dueling has reached its climax. Many stories have been told through these cards, and the final story brought everyone together. People are united and yet, an unknown world suffers in their shadow. The fallen one returns in the midst of their peace, pursued and still a stranger to those around. There is not much time to save both his home and his friends.

80. Intermission

Intermission: Annex 090.5

"It's a good thing we didn't strip this place bare." Said Marie Celeste as she did an inventary on a place that did not use to be hers; the castle headquarters of the synchro guild. "Your men might have robbed of us a good fallback. Which we will need now that you lost your portal and our pendulum user." The most important asset within this compound was located at the lowest level. She and several associates were heading there last. "I should remind you that you were there too, when that happened. It was your decision to retreat." Ichirou was for once without praise for his partner, as the losses his guild incurred were not slight. "How was I supposed to know those abnormalities would show up?" December and January kicked her out of her own tower, destroyed all her equipment. Every guild fighter that tried to stop them only got beaten down. "Besides, I did not hear you offering a counterproposal. Well it wont matter once we finish the tests. The Cubics might have gone wild, but we have plenty of other powers to try. Soon we'll be able to reclaim the gate.. and my world."

"So you still wish to return?" The XYZ-duelist chuckled. "Of course! This outdated world might be your home, but I'd rather die than spend another week here. At least the Circle has tech that almost makes up for what we lost." The two walked into the elevator and rode it all the way down. "But can you use it? Can you use their portal?" Down there they would find Vesper's control room, and her version of the timeline-crossover machine."There is nothing I cannot get into. Especially when I got a good look into their more advanced systems anyway." Marie tapped the side of her visor. "Soon I'll have all the data I need to make it work." She needed just a few more minutes to transfer all their data to her network. "Well, even if that wouldn't work. We could request the assistance of the synchro guild. A few of their members should still be roaming out there. We could ask half of Vesper.. or Cassius." Ichirou smirked as he produced the card with Aarons face on it; his soul card. "The last thing we need is to reverse the digitalization process. Just consider yourself lucky that you don't have a counterpart in the other world, Ichirou. Or else we would have required you to.."

"Wait. No that can't be right." Marie stuttered as she read an incoming message on her dueldisk. "What the heck?" Her visor confirmed the data. "A problem?" Ichirou inquired. "According to the latest calculations of this base's mainframe, the dimensional matrices have been growing out of alignment and are becoming unstable!" She yelled. "That sounds less than optimal." Ichirou assumed. "That's putting it mildly! These are the same signs that the Circle detected, but theye weren't as strong then! The only way this makes sense is if the decay of the other worlds has been accelerated!" That explanation Ichirou could understand. "Is there a chance that the readings could be wrong?" And he was getting worried too now. "No. This is not a malfunction and its certainly not a coincidence. At this rate we're going to have to finish the superfusion project in a week! And that's based of the most positive projections!" The guilds did not even have full control of this country yet, let alone the whole world. "But if it is just the other world, wouldn't it be better to give up on it? We can still rule this world." Ichirou did not hear anything about dangers to this timeline. "I told you already I wont.."

The elevator stopped, they arrived at the lowest level. "What?" But they weren't the first ones to arrive. As soon as the doors opened, they realized someone was there. "Are we having difficulties?" The woman asked with a strangely uneven pitch. "That.. it can't be.." Ichirou involuntarily trembled when he heard that voice. "D..Dame Phoebe? You survived?" Marie shook her head. There in front of them sitting in Vesper's old chair, was the old leader of the fusion guild. Blue paint ran down the right side of her face, staining the white of her dress. Both eyes glowed a deep red. "I did, MC. And I am feeling better than ever!" She spun a card underneath hwer finger: Starve Venom Fusion Dragon. "And it looks like we need to pick up the pace, and start bringing our power to the globe! I say we start.. right now! Aha..heeheeh.. ahahah!"