"Now let's do this," Jaden said. Yubel was given the signal to start the distraction. She shot a blast in the middle of the city. People screamed. "Nice job scaring them off Yubel. That's right everyone, keep running and don't look back."
"I hope this scares off Pegasus and that way he won't be crushed by that building," my grandfather said while staring at me. I looked over and smiled. He smiled back.
"Right, then him and the future of Duel Monsters will be safe," Yusei said.
"I think not," the mysterious man said. The man drove his duel runner violently into the centre of the city and stopped. Yugi, Yusei and Jaden stared at him preparing for a duel. I stayed on the sidelines and kept safe.
"You listen here, we know what you're up too and we're not gonna let it happen. Got it," Yugi said. "So why don't you make it easy on yourself and go back to wherever it is you came from."
"Where I came from is why I'm here. Perhaps it's time...we get acquainted," the man took his mask off. "The names Paradox"
"Paradox..." Yusei said.
"I doubt that you've heard of me. In fact I'm very much certain that you haven't. After all I don't come from any of your eras in time. I come from the future," he explained.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Yusei said.
"Forget it, he's just trying to get in your head," Jaden said.
"We don't care about your back story. We just care about keeping out world safe," Yugi said.
"Oh is that so," Paradox said. He then laughed. "Too bad, nobody thought to keep me safe. Or those I loved. And now I will finally have my revenge. I will rid the world of all my pain a suffering. That is why I am here. Because I've realised something about this game you love so. This Duel Monsters. The world will be a far better place without it. The monsters, the spells, what good has come from it?"
"I've heard just about enough from you," I butted it. Everyone looked towards me. "A wise man once told me that any good can come from the game. Even if evil arises, it's Duel Monsters that keeps the world safe. What about the confidence in humans and friendships that builds from the game? I for one wouldn't have met my best friend because of it. I wouldn't have been allowed to study at Duel Academy to learn more about the game." Yusei, Jaden and Yugi were shocked at what I said. Yugi smiled.
"Sweetness, you went to Duel Academy too Wendy?" Jaden said. I nodded with a smile.
"Nice words Wendy. Couldn't have put it better myself. Where did you learn that from?" he asked. I gasped. "Oh um...my grandfather once said that to me." Paradox laughed.
"Wendy how lovely it is to see you. I've heard so much about you. Should I let loose who your grandfather is?" he smirked. I gasped.
"N-No...p-please don't," I pleaded.
"Then I suggest you shut your mouth!" he yelled at me. I gasped and sunk my head down.
"Wendy..." Yusei whispered. He growled. "So that's why you're here. To rid the world of Duel Monsters"
"That's correct. Once and for all," Paradox said.
"Not on our watch you're not," Yusei said.
"You senseless dolts, don't you see, instead of trying to stop me, you four should be trying your best to help me. I told you, where I come from is the reason why I am here. Where I come from is a doomed future," Paradox said. Yusei gasped.
"No, our future is a bright one," he said.
"It's not. It is a desolate place. So desolate, that I could no longer bear to see it with my own eyes. I took to wearing a mask and it was through this filter that I finally began to see why things had ended this way and the answer was Duel Monsters. So what better way to destroy this file is by travelling back to the beginning and not letting it spread? Time travel is an easy feat. But where there is a will, there's a way. And there was a will," Paradox said.
"But don't you realise, you're not just wiping out Duel Monsters but people too. You're destroying everything and everyone ever touched by the game," Yusei said.
"Of course I realise that Yusei as a matter of fact that's what I'm looking forward to the most," Paradox said. He's happy that he's destroying people's lives.
"You're one sick puppy," Jaden said.
"Maybe the games not perfect but it's created more good things than bad," Yugi said.
"And another thing, the future isn't written yet, there's still time for things to change," Yusei said.
"Well then, seems we have a difference of opinion. Since I doubt anymore words will settle our impasse, perhaps we should seek to settle it another way," Paradox said.
"If you're saying you wanna duel, bring it on Paradox," Yusei yelled.
"Fine then, I think it fitting to destroy the three of you with the very cards that you try to save," Paradox said back. His futuristic duel runner made a few changes and flew into the sky.
"Paradox, get ready to get your game on," Jaden said. I noticed Yubel was behind him. Yusei mark glowed and he raised his arm in the air.
"Your twisted time crusade stops here," Yusei said. The Crimson Dragon was behind him. "Let's rev it up." I then noticed a figure that looked similar to Yugi beside him. He said something to him. That must be the Pharaoh that my grandfather has said about him, from the Millennium Puzzle around his neck. The puzzle flashed and out came the Pharaoh. I gasped at the thought of being about to meet the spirit that was with my grandfather for years.
"I just have one thing to say to you Paradox, it's time to duel," he said. He voice sounded like my grandfathers in the future. Just then my forehead started to glow. I gasped and quickly covered it. The glow...seemed to look like an eye. The eye or ra! How is that possible?
"Let's go," they all said. They raised their arms and activated their duel disks.
"Yeah, beat him to a pulp guys," I yelled still with my hand on my forehead. Jaden gave me thumbs up, and Yusei and my Yugi smiled. It feels weird addressing my grandfather by his first name. Yusei looked at me with concern. Since Jaden and Yugi were looking the other way, I slowly let Yusei see what I was holding back. He gasped. I put my hand over my forehead again and nodded at him. Paradox looked over at me and snickered.
"You think you can escape your power Wendy?" He said. I gasped. "Well think not. That power is with you always." I let my hands off my forehead as the Pharaoh and Jaden gasped.
"That's the eye of ra! Only people who can control the Egyptian Gods have this mark. But how?" The Pharaoh asked. "But that means...Wendy...are you...somehow related..."
"Yes Pharaoh, I am related to Yugi," I said. He gasped. I saw the spirit of my grandfather appear with a shock.
"You also know of me?" he asked. I nodded.
"When I said my grandfather said those words, what I mean is, the guy you have shared a body with for years said that to me, when I first started learning Duel Monsters. I was 4 years old," I said with a smile. I thought that this was the time to tell him. Both the Pharaoh and my grandfather were speechless. The Pharaoh smiled.
"I'm sorry Wendy, but we must start this duel. We'll talk a little more after this," the Pharaoh said.
"What makes you so sure that you'll win?" Paradox asked.
"Because of the belief in the heart of the cards," I said smiling. The Pharaoh smiled back at me.
"Well put," he said. Paradox groaned.
"I'll go first," Paradox said. I stared at him, preparing for what was going to happen. I just hope the boys can beat this guy. After all, I know their decks quite well. And I think I'll start by activating the field spell Malefic World." He activated the field spell and out came this darkness. We all gasped. It fused with the power of his duel runner and the scenery changed. It was...kinda pretty.
"What just happened?" Yusei said in awe.
"Malefic World. Now instead of drawing a card during my draw phase, I'm allowed to add a random Malefic monster from my deck directly to my hand. Next, I'll send Cyber End Dragon from my extra deck to the graveyard, which means Malefic Cyber End Dragon now appears," Paradox exclaimed. A large black version of Cyber End Dragon appeared. I gasped and walked back a little.
"Hey, does anyone know what this Malefic thing is all about?" Yusei asked.
"It's not something it's the type of deck I use. The type from the future. One of the very advantages of time travel," Paradox said.
"Jaden did you see how he just summoned the Malefic version of that dragon?" Yusei said.
"Aha, just by banishing the regular version of Cyber End Dragon to the graveyard. That's all it took," Jaden said.
"In other words, by destroying a monster good version it could give life to its bad. It seems Paradox truly does only see the dark side of Duel Monsters," the Pharaoh said.
"Yes Yugi and I'm going to use it to defeat you all," Paradox said. "But, let's not get ahead of ourselves. I end my turn with one facedown"
"Listen Jaden, Yugi, we know what's at stake here. Our friends, our very future, it all hangs in the balance; it all hangs hinges in the duel. It's true. We may have all just met and we may not know each other's duel styles and strategies, but even so, right now, we have to fight as one. All out skills, all our past experiences, let's use them, let's focus all of them to this one common cause," Yusei said. Jaden and the Pharaoh smiled.
"Agreed Yusei and I think that you should be the one to start us off," the Pharaoh said. Yusei smiled and nodded.
"Right, here we go," Yusei drew a card. "First I play the spell card Reincarnation of Hope. By sending two monsters to the graveyard now we can draw a monster card later."
"Fool, don't you realise there won't be a later for you or your friends," Paradox said.
"Well right now I'm summoning Junk Synchron and because I was able to summon him, now I can summon a level 2 or below monster to my field from my graveyard. Sonic Chick, fan your feathers in defence mode. Next I'll play Quillbolt Hedgehog's ability from my graveyard. An ability that since I have a tuner monster already on the field, allows me to summon my hedgehog straight to the field. But it won't be around for long. Nor will any of my other monsters, atleast not in their present form, cause I'm tuning them all together. Just as Yugi, Jaden and I are combining our might, these three have no combined theirs. I summon forth, the Synchro monster, Junk Gardna," Yusei said.
"Synchro what?" the Pharaoh said. I snickered.
"Pharaoh, by sacrificing any monsters with an equal level of six, one being a tuner monster, Yusei is allowed to combine the monsters to create a type of monster called a Synchro Monster by Synchro summoning those monsters together," I stated. "It's a form of special summoning a high level monster in the future." Jaden and the Pharaoh took in what I had to say.
"I didn't get that, but I like it," Jaden said. "Too cool"
"I place two cards face down and end my turn," Yusei ended.
"How truly pathetic, if that's the best you can do then you all might as well give up here and now. You decks are no match for mine. Not since I snatched Yusei's Stardust Dragon," Paradox said. Yusei groaned. "It's my move. And with it I'll show you a beast with true might. I send Rainbow Dragon from the deck to the graveyard, which as you saw before I can summon Malefic Rainbow Dragon." The scenery changed and out came a different version Rainbow Dragon. The scene changed back to Malefic World.
"How dare you! Leave my pals card out of this," Jaden yelled. Well that is Jesse's card.
"Why do you think I was time hopping in the first place? So I could collect the cards I would need to destroy Pegasus. Until that time comes, I'll use them to destroy the three of you. Malefic Rainbow Dragon, attack. Spectral Surge," Paradox said. The dragon attacked.
"I activate my Junk Gardna's ability and with it, your dragons about to be switched into defence mode," Yusei said. The attack was stopped and switched into defence mode.
"Fine then, you stopped one of my Malefic Dragons but as you recall I have two out," Paradox said. "Malefic Cyber end Dragon attack." It attacked Junk Gardna and Yusei was flown to the ground on his back.
"Yusei," I yelled.
"Are you okay?" the Pharaoh asked.
"Say something pal," Jaden said. Yusei slowly got up.
"I'm alright," he said. His life points weren't though.
"Well you won't be when your life points run out because in a Malefic duel you don't just lose the match you lose your soul," Paradox said. Lose their souls? If that happened then my grandfather would die and I wouldn't exist. But since I haven't faded away they don't lose. Right? Yusei stepped up.
"I play Junk Gardna's second ability. When it's destroyed, it switches one of your monsters into defence mode and next I play the trap Miracles Wake. This allows me to wake up a monster my graveyard that was destroyed this turn," Yusei said. Junk Gardna came back into the field. "I'm sorry; I lost us some points there."
"Don't be sorry Yusei," the Pharaoh said.
"Totally, you just fended off attacks from two super tough monsters. Way to go," Jaden commented. I smiled.
"Yeah Yusei, your move was great," I said.
"Thanks guys," Yusei said. "I did my best."
"Against a deck that is staked with the best cards throughout all of time that's all we can do and that's what we're going to have to keep doing to win this duel," the Pharaoh said. Yusei and Jaden nodded. I smiled and what he said. My grandfather really turns out to be like him.
"In my time travels I've listened into your past pep talks. But that was by far the most pathetic. I place a card face down and end my turn," Paradox said.
"Well alright then it's my turn to take a crack at ya. Here goes," Jaden said drawing a card. "Yusei cool if I piggy-back off your play?" Yusei nodded. "Well alright, then I play this, Polymerization now fuses Junk Gardna with Elemental Hero Neo's that's in my hand. This is a first, two monsters from different times teaming up together as one. Here comes the best of both worlds, Elemental Hero Neo's Knight." I gasped. Two cards from different times fusing together was amazing. "Now Elemental Hero Neo's Knight gets a supercharged power up equal to half the attack points of Yusei's Junk Gardna. And you better believe I'm going to put that power to good use. So charge Neo's Knight. Vanquish that Malefic Cyber End Dragon." It attacked and destroyed the dragon. "Oh and uh by the way, Neo's Knights ability allows him two attacks in one battle."
"Two attacks?" Paradox said. Neo's Knight flew past and destroyed Rainbow Dragon.
"You're not so tough," Jaden said.
"Let's see if you're smiling after this. I play the trap Malefic Tune. Now since a Malefic monster has been destroyed, I get to draw two cards from my deck," Paradox said.
"Fine then I play four cards face down and end my turn," Jaden finished.
"Jaden that was awesome," I said. Jaden smiled and gave me a thumb up.
"Nicely played Jaden, you have to tell me, where you learnt to duel with such heart and passion?" the Pharaoh said.
"A little place called Duel Academy and believe it or not I usually skip class," Jaden said.
"The same place Wendy learnt to duel?" the Pharaoh asked. I giggled.
"Actually Pharaoh, I learnt from you, uh...Yugi," I said with a smile. The Pharaoh snickered.
"Well I bet Yugi is a great teacher," he said. The eye of ra was still glowing on my forehead.
"He definitely is," I said with another smile.
"Enough with the talk, it's my turn," Paradox said. But instead of drawing I'll use my field spell to add a random Malefic Monster to my hand. Excellent, now I have all that I need to win this right at my fingertips. The future will soon by cured of the Duel Monsters play. I send Stardust Dragon from me extra deck to the graveyard; now rise up Malefic Stardust Dragon." It can't be; Yusei's card.
"My Stardust..." Yusei said. "Paradox you snake, what have you done to it?"
"I've simply introduced it to the power of the Shadow's and there's more to come. Next I summon Malefic Parallel Gear. Now Parallel Gear, tune with my Malefic Stardust Dragon."
"What?" Yusei and I said.
"You two are not the only ones here who can Synchro Summon. Behold, as the shadows drip down through the cracks of time, and witness how the darkness pulls together to create pure evil. I Synchro Summon, Malefic Paradox Dragon," Paradox said. I lightly screamed as my hair was pushed back from the wind that the summoning created. Out came a black dragon.
"Not good," Jaden mumbled.
"And next I'll activate its special ability. You see since I Synchro Summoned I'm allowed to bring back a Synchro Monster from my graveyard straight to the field. So rise once more Stardust Dragon," Paradox said.
"Two dragons again," Yusei said.
"That's right Yusei and now Paradox Dragon reduces that attack points of Jaden's monster by the attack points of the monster just revived. So Neo's Knight, power down," Paradox said. The monsters power decreased to 700 attack points.
"Neo's no," Jaden said.
"I would say you three put up a fight only you didn't. Malefic Paradox Dragon, destroy Neo's Knight." It attacked.
"I play a trap, Hero Barrier. Thanks to this, since I have an Elemental Hero out on my field, I can negate your attack," Jaden said.
"Well done," the Pharaoh complimented.
"Nice move," Yusei said.
"I wouldn't be so sure. I play the trap Malefic Claw Stream. Since Malefic Synchro monsters on my field, I'm allowed to destroy one of your monsters." It destroyed their monster.
"I'll see your trap and raise it with one of my own. Elemental Mirage. Now when there's an Elemental Hero on my field was destroyed with an effect, I can bring it back. Return to battle Neo's Knight," Jaden said.
"A perfect counter," the Pharaoh commented. Jaden winked and saluted the Pharaoh.
"Oh, I just figured it would have been rude of me to let you go without a monster out there with ya," Jaden said.
"Thanks, and you can count on me to put Neo's Knight to good use," the Pharaoh said. Here we go. The legend himself. The Pharaoh that my grandfather would always tell me about is about to make his turn.
"I'm sorry Yugi but even your best won't be good enough here," Paradox said. Everything he said made me rage beyond belief. "Not so long as I have Stardust Dragon. Because due to Malefic Paradox Dragon's ability, your monsters attack points decrease by Stardust Dragon's attack points."
"This is all my fault," Yusei said.
"Stardust Dragon is your card, but you're not controlling it. Atleast not yet," the Pharaoh said.
"What do you mean?" Yusei asked.
"Next I'll place two cards face down to end my turn," Paradox said.
"Then it's my move now, so get ready," the Pharaoh said.
"Very well. Let's see what you've got, King of Games," Pharaoh said. I breathed out. He can do this. He is a powerful duellist.