2 years since the attack on Standard
Yuya loved riding duels. More than action duels? Never, but he still loved riding duels. Instead of action cards there were speed spells and speed counters. The thrill of accelerating as the duel started, the feeling of beating your opponent to the first turn. Yuya especially loved the sweet taste of ice cream that Yugo was forced to pay for when he lost. Even now Yugo and he clashed in another duel.
"I got it! Yuya yelled as he drew his card." He sent Yugo a smile before he called out his intentions. "I am setting my scale!"
"For the love of Ra!" Yugo cursed, "You always have another scale to set!"
Yuya continued unperturbed. "I am placing Performapal Turn Toad scale 3 and Performapal Trump Witch scale 4 as my scales." The two monsters rose into the air. A three and four shining below them.
Yugo looked on confused. "Why would you do that? You can't summon anything!"
Yuya laughed, "I activate Pendulum Shift and with it I can target one pendulum card and change its scale to any number from 1 to 10. I change trump witch to 10!" The number below the witch changed from 4 to 10 much to Yugo displeasure. "I can now summon monsters from levels four to nine simultaneously. Sway, the pendulum of my soul. Draw an arc of light across the ether. Appear now my faithful monsters! Pendulum summon! Stargazer Magician and Odd-Eyes from my extra deck." The two monsters appeared in a burst of light. "I now normal summon Performapal Spikeagle in attack mode." A small eagle joined the two monsters. "Now I am fusing my Odd-Eyes and my Stargazer Magician with the help of my Trump Witch." The witch sent out a flurry of suits and both monsters rose into the air. "Wielder of mysterious powers, become the bright light in the eyes of the dragon! Fusion Summon! Come forth! Arcane dragon wielder of ancient magic! Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Yuya's new monster slammed onto the field. "Now I activate my Spikeagle's effect. I can choose one monster on the field. When it battles this turn it inflicts piercing damage! I choose my Rune-Eyes! Now battle! Attack Bi'an, Earth of the Yang Zing!" The monster was obliterated as Rune-Eyes shot his arcana beam. Yugo's life points dropped to 2600.
"When my monster is destroyed, I can special 1 Yang Zing back in defense mode. I Summon Bixi, Water of the Yang Zing!"
"I attack again," Yuya yelled and Rune-Eyes shot another beam this time lowering Yugo's life points to 1600.
"I once again special summon a monster but in attack this time. I summon Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing!" A shadowy dragon appeared. "Yuya, you only have one more attack and your eagle will not be able to beat the next Yang Zing that comes out!"
"I activate the effect of Turn Toad. I can switch the attack and defense of one monster on the field. I change the attack and defense of Taotie." Yugo could only watch in shock at his attack when to 0. "Rune-Eyes finish this duel! Attack!" The majestic dragon shot his final beam obliterating the monster and Yugo's remaining life points. Yuya slowed his duel runner and waited till Yugo's D-wheel was done smoking and he caught up.
"Your pendulum monsters are way too overpowered." Yugo complained for the thousandth time. Every time they are destroyed they come right back."
"Hey now, your Yang Zings do the same thing." Yuya responded trying to hold back his laughter. Yuya and his group had meet Yugo a few months back. Yusei asked if the three of them would like to learn about riding duels, this world's specialty. Reiji and Gongenzaka had politely refused. Reiji was more concerned working with Yusei on Fortune, hoping to bring its technology back to standard. Gongenzaka's reason was more simplistic. He simply did not believe in moving while dueling. In the end, only Yuya took his offer. When Yusei was preparing to teach Yuya, Yugo appeared pleading for Yusei to take him as his pupil. In the end Yusei taught them both and the both successfully earned their dueling license.
"My Yang Zings, only allow me to special summon one monster back to the field. One monster!" Yugo continued, drawing Yuya out of his thoughts. "You, however, can bring back up to five! Then, you just synchro with them all. It's ridiculous!" Yuya only laughed at his friend's discontent. Unlike most people in this dimension, Yuya had only a precious few tuner monsters given to him by Yusei and Akiza after his riding duel training. It was a gift for his achievement, or so he was told. Over the two years he had been here, he had met the signers. All of them had been alerted of the dimensional drifters and they visited when they were able, which was once in a blue moon. Rua and Ruka were a year or two older than Yuya and they enjoyed talking with him about his home world. Yuya was especially interested in the spirit world that Ruka described. Jack and Crow had been…interesting to meet. They were always fighting but Yusei assured him they were good friends. Finally the three met Akiza, Yusei's friend. Jack had muttered something along of likes of "with benefits," but Yuya was clueless to what he meant. In the end, the meeting between the dimension traveling trio and the signers was a success, well as successful as a meeting could be.
Yugo's long winded rant was drowned out as his bike screen lit up with an incoming call. He clicked the accept button and Yusei's face appeared. "Good afternoon Yuya, are you busy?"
Yuya shook his head. "No, Yugo and I just finished our practice, what do you need?"
Yusei checked the watch on his wrist before continuing. "Reiji and I are trying to finish up some tests on dimension rifts. Jack and Crow have yet to report back, so we are moving ahead of schedule to prepare for any conflict."
Yuya's voice wavered. "Do you really think they would attack? Nothing has happened for nearly 2 years. Why would they attack now?"
Yusei shrugged. "Building an army, training recruits, making more equipment. I doubt they were simply waiting for no reason. Reiji hypothesizes that one of their main transporters may have been damaged or destroyed and that is why they were delayed. Like I said we have to be ready for anything."
"Then you have to teach me Accel synchro as soon as possible," Yuya pleaded. "We would be ready for an invasion if there were two of us with that ability."
Yusei only rubbed his temples, "I will teach you when you are ready. The state of Clear Mind is extremely difficult to achieve and controlling your D-Wheel while doing so is even more difficult. I was twice as experienced as you were on a D-Wheel before I even attempted Accel Synchro for the first time." Yusei only laughed at Yuya's grumblings. "Look, at least I didn't refuse to teach you. Just wait a while longer, alright? I am confident you will be ready soon." Yuya flashed Yusei and smile of appreciation. "Alright, I will see you two at the tops in 30 minutes. Don't be late." The screen fizzles out and Yuya turned back to Yugo who was still talking.
"Calm down Yugo," Yuya smiled. "Let's head back to the Tops, Yusei said he wanted to meet us there in half an hour and I'd rather not be late." Yugo muttered something under his breath, but jumped onto his duel runner and the duo sped off. They rode in comfort, talking about strategies and wondering what Yusei wanted. The flickering of lights alerted them to two other duelists. A small screen appeared on Yuya's duel runner, they were challenging Yuya and Yugo to a pair duel. A quick glance revealed it was two duelists that were always bugging Yuya. They wanted his pendulum cards for themselves. Yuya glanced to his clock, 3:10, 20 minutes till they had to meet Yusei. Yugo nodded to Yuya. Yuya pressed the accept button on the screen and immediately a duel lane opened and the four bikes slid into the correct lane. Soon they were on the track and the four accelerated to the first corner. Yuya's bike may have been made by Yusei himself, but it was the not the fastest and Yugo shot past everyone and took the turn.
"Riding duel acceleration!" The four cried out.
"My turn!" Yugo yelled. I summon, Suanni, Fire of the Yang Zing." A red dragon appeared and roared as it glided next to Yugo. "I set one card and end my turn."
Yugo-4000/Hand-3
"My turn", Richard yelled and drew. "I summon the Fabled Raven. I activate his effect, I can discard one card to increase his attack by 400 and his level by one. The card I discard is the Fabled Lurrie." He did so and Raven glowed increasing its level to 3. "When Fabled Lurrie is discarded I can special summon it from the grave. Come back Fabled Lurrie!" A small bat-like child appeared next to Raven. I am tuning my level 1 Lurrie with my level 3 Raven! Synchro Summon! The Fabled Unicore!" A white unicorn burst into the field galloping next to the man. "I set one card and end my turn."
Richard-4000/Hand-3
"My turn, draw!" Yuya yelled out. Looking at his hand he nodded. "I am setting my scales." Timegazer magician and Stargazer magician rose into the air and above Yuya, a pendulum began to spin. "Now I can summon monsters from level 2 to level 7 simultaneously. Sway, the pendulum of my soul. Draw an arc of light across the ether. Appear now my faithful monsters! Pendulum summon!" A hole opened above Yuya and three lights jumped out. Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, Performapal Kaleidoscorp and Performapal Skimmer Skeeter appeared. Odd-eyes and Skimmer in attack and Kaleidoscrop in defense. "I set one card and end my turn."
Yuya-4000/Hand-1
"Draw!" Frederick called out. "I play the spell card, double summon, now I can normal summon twice this turn. I summon R-Genex Accelerator. While this card is on the field, I can special summon any genex monster added to my hand. I use my second normal summon to summon Genex Undine. When Genex Undine is normal summoned I can send one water monster to the grave to add Genex Controller to my hand. Therefore I can special summon Genex Controller." A small metal monster landed on the field. "I now tune my level 4 R-Genex Accelerator with my level 3 Genex Controller. Synchro Summon! Windmill Genex!" A large green machine with a fan in the middle of it crashed to the field. "This card gains 300atk for every facedown spell and trap card, thus his attack rises to 2900." The machine's fan began to whirl loudly and its attack rose. "I set two more cards and end my turn." The fan spun faster increasing Windmill's attack to 3500.
Fredrick-4000/Hand 1
"Draw!" Yugo called out. Now that all players had gone, attacks could now be declared. I activate the continuous spell card Yang Zing Prana!
"I activate the effect of The Fabled Unicore," called Richard, "while we have the same amount of cards in hand I negate all your card effects." Unicore rushed forward and destroyed the spell card.
Yugo growled at his mistake but continued, "I set one monster and change Suanni to defense mode. With that I end my turn."
Yugo-4000/Hand 2
"I draw," Richard smirked. "I activate foolish burial and send Fabled Kushano to the grave. Now I use the effect of Fabled Grimro. I can discard it to add Fabled Krus to my hand. Then, I activate the effect of Fabled Kushano from my grave. I can discard one card to return it to my hand. I discard Fabled Krus and get back Fabled Kushano. Next, Krus's effect activates, when I discard it I can special summon one Fabled monster from my grave. I special summon Fabled Grimro to the field."
Yuya was trying to keep track of all of his effects. He had Unicore and Grimo on field, and 3 cards in hand, one being Kushano.
"I summon Kushano, then I discard The Fabled Catsith to special summon The Fabled Chawa." The two monsters jumped onto the field while a light shone above Richard. "When The Fabled Catsith is discarded I can select one face-up card on the field and destroy it." The light shot forth and cut through Odd-Eyes. Yuya grabbed Odd-Eyes and placed it into the extra deck. "Now I will tune my level 4 Grimo with my level 1 Catsith. Synchro Summon! Fabled Ragin." A man with wings of a bat rose up. "When Fabled Ragin is summoned, I can draw cards until I have two in hand. I draw two cards and I set one." With another card Windmill's attack increased to 3800. "Now I am tuning my level 5 Fabled Ragin with my level 3 Kushano. Synchro Summon! Fabled Valkyrus." The beast landed on the field. "Now Unicore attack Skimmer Skeeter!"
"I activate the effect of Skimmer Skeeter!" Yuya yelled only to realize his error too late.
"You feel for it! I activate the effect of Unicore and destroy your Skimmer Skeeter!" Unicore rushed forwards and ran over Skimmer Skeeter destroying it. "The best part is I still have two attacks. Valkyrus attack Kaleidoscrop!" The scorpion tried to avoid but was easily crushed. "Now Unicore attack directly!" The unicorn charged and smashed into Yuya for 2300 points of damage. "I end my turn."
Yuya-1700/Hand-1
Richard-4000/Hand-1
"My turn, draw." Yuya smiled as he looked at his draw. "Here it is! I activate my facedown trap stun! Traps can no longer be activated this turn and Windmill loses 300 attack."
A lightning storm appeared above ready to strike any trap card.
"Next I will pendulum summon! Sway, the pendulum of my soul. Draw an arc of light across the ether. Appear now my faithful monsters! Pendulum summon!" The rift appeared once more and 4 beams of light dropped down. I summon Odd-Eyes and Kaleidoscrop from my extra deck as well as Performapal Hammer Mammoth and Performapal Mammoth Splash from my hand!"
The four monsters landed on the field. "Next I use Performapal Mammoth Splash's ability. I can send both Mammoth Splash and Odd-Eyes to the grave to Fusion summon one monster that requires these monsters without the use of polymerization. Dual-colored eyed dragon. Become one with the blizzard behemoth and give birth to a new power! Fusion Summon! Come forth, ferocious dragon with luminous feral eyes! Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" A feral dragon landed on the field and roared.
"Now I activate the effect of Kaleidoscorp! I can target one monster I control and it can attack all special summoned monster my opponent controls. Now battle, Hammer Mammoth attack Genex Undine! In addition, when my mammoth attacks all my opponents spell and trap cards are returned to their hand."
"What?!" Both Richard and Fredrick screamed as their face downs were returned to their hand. Now Windmill had only 2300 attack. Mammoth then smashed Undine lowering Fredrick's life points to 2600.
"Now, Beast-Eyes attack Unicore!" Beast-Eyes charges and with nothing to defend it Unicore was destroyed and Richard lost 700 life points. "Beast-Eyes effect, when it destroys a monster it inflicts damage equal to the beast type monster uses as a material. Mammoth Splash had 1900 attack" Beast-Eyes breathed flames over Ricard dropping his life points to 1400. "Now Beast-Eyes attack Valkyrus." The dragon charged again and the results were the same. "Now effect activate!" Once again flames hit Richard sending his lp to 0. As his bike spun out and disappeared from view, Yuya turned his attention to Fredrick. "Beast-Eyes attack Windmill Genex!" Fredrick stared at the charging beast. He had 2600 left. After some quick math he realized he would have no life points to spare after the attack.
"NOOOO!" The dragon crushed his Windmill inflicting him with 700 points of damage. Then the breath of fire came and burnt the rest of his life points away. As the other opponent disappeared in a cloud of exhaust Yuya and Yugo pulled next to each other.
"I didn't even get to do anything." Yugo complained. "You took the spotlight for yourself!" Yuya stuck his tongue out at Yugo's childish behavior.
"So what you are really saying is that I did all the work," Yuya countered leaving Yugo too shocked to think of anything to say anything. He was saved when both their duel runners got an incoming call. Yuya immediately looked at the clock. 3:45. Yuya felt the dread sinking in his stomach. "Well, better get this over with," Yuya sighed as he clicked the accept call button.
"Where are you?" Yusei asked. Yusei rarely yelled, but his stern voice had that effect to give you shivers. Yuya quickly apologized.
"Sorry Yusei. Those punks I told you about challenged me to another duel. I defeated them, but it took too much time for me to get back. I apologize for not showing up." Yuya held his head in shame but looked back up as Yusei sighed.
"It's fine. I wanted to update you on the dimensional status. Reiji and I were doing some scans and we were alerted to a possible breach point. The area is quite weak to dimensional vibrations, so I would like for you and Yugo to check it out. I will arrive as soon as I can to help you out with tests. Can you two manage on your own for now?"
Yuya nodded. "We can handle it."
Yusei gave a small smile. "Alright, I am counting on you two. The coordinates are X-158 Y-627 on the dueling highway 005, see you soon." The screen faded to black and Yuya and Yugo sped off to the designated location.
"You think anything will happen?" Yuya asked as they drew near the point of dimensional weakness.
"No, nothing ever happens. We show up, take some tests, and then leave. I don't know why we even do these- WHAT THE HELL?!" Yugo stopped mid-complaint as a wormhole opened before them. Both Yuya and Yugo slammed on the breaks to avoid falling into the rift. They stared at the swirling hole as a figure appeared from within it. Soon the figure came through and landed gently. They looked to the pair of riding duelists who were staring in shock. They were garbed is Obelisk Force attire and had an Academa Duel disc strapped to their arm.
Yuya's eyes had widened considerably as he saw who it was. I was like a dream.
"Yuzu? Is that you?"
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Sorry for the cliffhanger. I could have pressed this chapter a bit further but Leon's story will explain most of it. I rather not have the readers rereading old information. Feel free to comment on what you thought of the chapter or the story as a whole. The next chapter will focus on Leon, I hope you enjoy it.
As for the review regarding Shun's cold treatment to Selena. I will agree that he would not be too harsh because she looks so like Ruri. On the other hand, if you found someone that looked almost exactly like a friend and/or family member but with a completely different attitude, how would you react?