Meals were the only time Silver and Akiza were ungagged. "Akiza, I'm scared."
"Don't worry Silver." She said "Our Dads will rescue us, we just need to han in there." Silver swallowed the knot in his throat and nodded.
"All right you two, you talk or eat, which one?" A cloaked man said. They quickly stopped talking and ate what little food they had received.
Later that night Akiza had fallen into uneasy slumber. Silver lay on the concrete, unable to sleep from the pain his newest bruises afforded. He just wept silently. Suddenly there was a crash and banging. Akiza woke with a start and looked around for the noise. It was echoing all through the warehouse, making placement of the sound impossible. Suddenly the crashing sounded different and a huge fireball flew through the room and hit a runner parked on the far side, the runner was crushed from the force. A second later the reactor engine overheated and exploded, sending an inferno towards the kids.
The last thing they heard before the inferno reached them was someone yelling, then a figure made of spare junk materialized in front of them, seemingly absorbing the fire. When it was over, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow glowed brilliantly, then vanished. Silver and Akiza turned to see Mike and James, side by side in front of their runners, their duel disks out about to challenge the thugs to a team duel. They watched as it began.
LP
James/Mike 8000
Thugs 8000
"Mike, I think I'll give you the honor of going first." James said.
"My pleasure." He snarled. I discard a monster and special summon Dark Grepher in attack.
A man with black skin and red eyes wielding a greatsword in one hand rose from the ground.
Dark Grepher
Dark
Warrior
Lv.4
ATK/1700
DEF/1600
You can discard 1 Lv.5 or higher dark monster to special summon this card. Once per turn you can discard one dark monster to send 1 dark monster from your deck to the graveyard.
"I now summon Cross Porter and use his ability to get Neo Spacian Dark Panther from my deck." As he said this, a machine in red plating appeared.
Cross Porter
Dark
Warrior
Lv.2
ATK/400
DEF/400
"Then I activate Dark Grephers effect, by sending Dark Panther to the grave, I can discard Plaguespreader Zombie from my deck. And since I now have exactly three dark monsters in my grave I summon Dark Armed Dragon!"
A massive black dragon covered in blades and black as night rose behind him.
Dark Armed Dragon (aka. DAD)
Dark
Dragon
Lv.8
ATK/2800
DEF/1000
This card cannot be normal summoned. It can only be special summoned by having 3 dark monsters in your graveyard. You can remove a dark monster in your grave to destroy 1 card on the field.
"Now I set a facedown and end my turn!"
James turned to Mike. "Changed your deck I see."
Mike nodded. "With my newest card I kinda had to."
"Enough dilly dallying!" The first grunt said "I activate Seal of Orichalcos!"
A green ring with a symbol resembling two "Star Trek" logos inverted on each other appeared and circled them, throwing up a wall of green fire.
Seal of Orichalcos
This Spell Card is impervious to negation, destruction, and removal. Increase the ATK power of all your monsters by 500 and treat them as DARK Monsters. You control a back row of monsters that cannot be attacked while a monster is in the front row. The soul of whichever Duelist loses this Duel is forfeit to the winner.
Next I set a facedown and summon Exiled force in attack!
A group of soldiers appeared, rising from the ground. Upon arriving, the seal of Orichalcos showed on their foreheads.
Exiled Force
Earth(Now dark)
Warrior
Lv.4
Sacrifice this card to destroy a monster.
"Now, Exiled force, destroy Dark Armed Dragon with kamikaze strike!"
The soldiers rushed forward.
"Not quite!" Mike yelled. "I activate Solemn Judgment, I pay half my life points to save DAD and destroy you card!" Exiled force shattered just before it reach the dragon.
LP
James/Mike 4000
Thugs 8000
The man grunted. "I set a facedown and end my turn."
James smirked. "My turn!" I set a card facedown and Summon D.D. Assailant in attack. A gender negotiable figure in white armor and red scarf wielding an absolutely massive sword with glowing runes running down the blade appeared out of a vortex.
D.D. Assailant
Earth
Warrior
Lv.4
ATK/1700
DEF/1600
When this card is destroyed in battle, remove both monsters from play.
"I activate Dark Armed dragons effect, by removing Dark Panther, I destroy your facedown!" DAD raised one of its arms and its blade grew to massive proportions, it then slashed the facedown, shattering the facedown Sakeretsu Armor. "Now, Dark Armed dragon, Attack!" It opened it's mouth and a jet of black fire shot out and hit the first lackey, who laughed after the damage was done.
LP
James/Mike 4000
Thugs 5200
The man kept laughing. "Now I get to summon Gorz, Emissary of darkness!"
A man in black armor and a red cloak, long blades coming from his wrists and a large black visor keeping his long crimson hair up holding a large, futuristic sword appeared out of the black flames.
Gorz the Emissary of darkness
Dark
Fiend
Lv.7
ATK/2700(now3200)
DEF/2500
When you take damage from your opponent and have no cards on your field, you can special summon this card on your opponents turn. Then activate one of these effects based on the kind of damage:
Battle: Special summon 1 Emissary of Darkness token. Its ATK/DEF are equal to the damage you took.
Effect: Inflict the same amount of damage to your opponent.
Another monster that looked like a color inverted version of Gorz appeared.
Emissary of darkness token
Light(now dark)
Fairy
Lv.7
ATK/2800(now 3300)
DEF/2800
Both monsters gained the seal on their visors.
"Your kids' cards serve me well." The man said. James groaned. Two monsters with 3200 and 3300 attack. "I could destroy them with DAD, but I think Mike has other plans, so I'll wait and see where this goes." He thought. Aloud he said, "I set two facedowns and end my turn!"
The second Grunt went. "I activate Polymerization! By discarding Black luster soldier and the Light Hex sealed Fusion as fusion substitute, I summon Dragon master knight!" Mike gasped; James leaned over and showed him his facedown.
The Blue-eyes Ultimate dragon appeared above them, a man in blue and gold armor riding its center head, The seal on the heads of all three dragons and the warrior.
Dragon Master Knight
Light (now dark)
Dragon
Lv.12
ATK/5000(now 5500)
DEF/5000
This card gains 500 ATK for every dragon on the field.
"Now, Gorz, Attack his Dark armed Dragon!"
"I active Radiant Mirror force!" James said. "When you have at least three monsters on the field and attack, this card destroys all of them!"
The figure went to attack the dragon, but a golden light flared, growing till everything was shrouded in light, when it faded in a cascade of sparks, only James's and Mikes monsters were on the field.
"Fine!" The man said I pay 800 lifepoints to activate premature burial to revive Dragon Master Knight and end my turn."
LP
James/Mike 4000
Thugs 4400
"I draw!" Mike said. "I activate monster reborn! I revive Polar Star Spirit Drokkalfr!
A pink wispy fiend with a ball and chain tail appeared out of a circle of light.
Polar Star Spirit Drokkalfr
Dark
Spellcaster
Lv.5
ATK/1400
DEF/1600
When this card is normal summoned, add 1 polar star monster from your deck to your hand.
James stared at it "Mike, what is that thing? I've never seen anything like that before." He turned to mike and was shocked to see his left eye glowing pink, in place of the pupil there was a pink mark that resembled the dragon claw signer mark. "Mike, what the hell?"
Mike glared at the two Chosen. "I'm not letting these bastards hurt our kids. I plan on ending this NOW! I play Star burst! By paying 500 Lifepoints Dark Grepher becomes a Lv.3 monster! Now I tune Drokkalfr to Dark Grepher and Cross Porter!" His eyes close and he started chanting
When the doors to the past open, An ancient god opens his bag of tricks.
With absolute power he will create a humorous path to victory! Synchro Summon! Descend Polar God King Loki!
The monsters used for the summon turned into stars and vanished through the roof. A moment later the roof bent and sagged as if a great weight were on it, eventually it split open and a huge man with green skin descended to alight on the field. The monster had a golden belt that supported a purple dressing of some sort and large banner on the front. A purple chest plate and huge frilly shoulder coverings with orange plates covering them and a pink plate behind the neck. A large black beard adorned his face and his head had a strange looking hat.
Polar God King Loki
Dark
Spellcaster
Lv.10
ATK/3300
DEF/3000
Once per turn, if your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card when this card declares an attack, you can negate that card's activation and destroy it. If this face-up card on the field is destroyed by your opponent's card (either by battle or by card effect) and sent to the Graveyard, you can remove from play 1 Polar Star Spirit Tuner monster during that turn's End Phase to Special Summon this card from Graveyard. When this card is Special Summoned this way, you can select 1 Trap Card in your Graveyard and add it to your hand.
James heard whimpering behind him. He turned to see Silvers signer mark glowing like the sun. apparently it was reacting with the polar god.
"Activating traps is useless now! And I equip Loki with James' United we stand! So for each monster on our field Loki gains 800 attack!"
Loki
ATK/5700
Mike eyes had a malicious look to them with the glowing and all, but the rest of his body said that despite the danger to everyone involved, he was having fun, and a lot of it. "Now, Dark Armed dragon, I offer Dark Grepher to you so you can destroy his dragon again!"
DAD shot a stream of black fire at the Dragon Master knight, which countered with a triple attack from each head, but it was overwhelmed and was struck by all four attacks and shattered.
"Now, Loki, finish this now!" Mike yelled. Loki raised his hand and a massive amount of dark energy was sucked into his fingertips. So much, in fact that James could feel the air drop to below freezing. The darkness was then channeled into a single finger, which it pointed at the two, then fired. There was a huge explosion that threw James off his feet and into the Orichalcos barrier, he slammed his back and fell to the ground, which was now covered in ice. He got shakily to his feet to see a crater in the concrete where the two had stood. There was nothing left of them except a duel disk with the bloody limb still inside, up to the elbow anyway.
The seal faded and Silver and Akiza ran to their parents, hugging them and telling them how much they missed them. As much as James tried to pay attention he could only stare at the hole. He looked up at Loki, who didn't vanish with the other cards, but rose into the clouds. James turned to Mike, "What was that?"
"A Polar God." He said, his eye returning to normal. "It wasn't simply a hologram, or psychic powers, it was the real deal. Like Silvers power. Except Loki does it on his own."
James just stared. "You-you killed them."
Mike shrugged, "They would have died anyway, their own stupid card." James just grunted. He freed himself from Siler and walked to the crater, He looked through the deck until he had found a number of cards from Silvers deck,, then returned them to him. Going back he found the Orichalcos card and tried to tear it, but couldn't. He walked over to mike and handed it to him. "Tear this thing, will you?"
Mike tried, but as much as he strained, it wouldn't budge. They even resorted to putting it in the afterburner of Mike's runner, still nothing. They gave up and James started talking to Mike again. "I felt something coming from Loki, that cards not good man, I could feel more darkness in that one card than anything else I'd ever felt."
Mike shrugged again. "Eh, just 'cause it's dark doesn't make it evil you know." Some people would say your powers are evil just because they don't understand them. My powers may be dark, but If they keep me and anyone near me from harm, I don't think that's evil."
"Wait, what do you mean keeps you from harm?"
"Well one time Me and Akiza were riding, and I activated the flight mode on my runner, unfortunately it malfunctioned, sent us strait to earth a 100mph. Next thing I knew the runner had stopped dead in midfall, but the entire system was down. Then we slowly dropped the rest of the way. Akiza later said my rune eye was acting up when it happened."
"Rune eye?" James asked.
Mike said nothing, but his left eye flashed pink before returning to normal. "There are three polar gods, not true gods, but immensely powerful monster spirits that enter our realm at will. There are three chosen humans to wield the rune eyes, much like the signers. They offer protection to the wielder and are proof that they are emissaries to the polar gods, which are Loki, Thor, and Odin, from Norse mythology."
"So, in theory it would protect you from the Orichalcos?" James said.
Mike laughed. "Not likely, it would save my body from harm, but not my soul."
James turned to look at Silver and Akiza. Silver had picked up the Orichalcos card and as James watched, the mark on his arm glowed and the card glowed in his hand before bursting into flames that didn't seem to harm him at all. James stared in wonder, then smiled and shook his head. "Signers. Hey Mike, I guess we have to bring the kids along after all, Silver seems to be the only one who can destroy those things." Mike nodded his acknowledgement.
Silver turned to Akiza. "Hey! Did you hear that? We're going!" Akiza smiled, then stared behind Silver, pointing. Silver turned to see the last Chosen, walking to his Dad with a gun. "NO!" He shouted and drew a card. Not even bothering to look, He raised the card. "Stop him!" He said.
A woman in black leather and a mechanical arm, holding a glowing shortsword appeared and rushed the man. He turned and fired at D.D. Warrior lady, but she took the hits and kept coming, slashing him and rending him open, his scream was cut short though as a rift opened inside the gaping wound and caused him to fold in on himself, disappearing into the void. The woman looked over her shoulder and winked at Silver before following the man, closing the portal.
Shortly after that, they decided it was best if they left. So James and Mike climbed on their runners and Silver and Akiza found their stuff and got on their hoverboards, and together they raced out into the night.