Hey guys! It's me again! Donjusticia (Dawn-WHO-Stiss-EE-uh)! Back again with another requested Arc-V fix! But before I begin, let me start by making a poignant observation:
Donjusticia Observation #1: The vast majority of Arc-V fans, for some inexplicable reason, seem to absolutely loathe the brain parasites.
Now I must ask you all, why? Why is there so much hatred for these, WONDERFUL and huggable insectile brain-eating creatures that, as Epsilon Tarantula would say, would totally make great pets!? I mean, think of everything The Doktor and his brain parasites gave us! For one, the brain parasites gave us Wind Witch – Crystal Bell…
WW – Crystal Bell: You're welcome everyone!
they gave us Lyrical Luscinia Strong Independent Black Woman Who Don't Need No Man…
LL – Independent Nightingale: I WILL MURDER EVERYTING YOU LOVE! Also I am basically just tribute fodder for "The Tyrant Neptune" now.
And let's not forget the EXQUISITE character development we got from all the bracelet girls!
Bracelet Girls: *Moaning like zombies* BRAINS!
So stop complaining about the brain parasites guys! Can't we all see that these bugs deserve a chance? *holds up a tiny brain parasite who looks upon the audience with six big round puppy dog eyes* Don't these guys deserve just a little love?
Literally the entire fan base (with the possible exception of Epsilon Tarantula): NO!
WELL I AGREE! *Feeds the brain parasite to his pet cat*
Brain Parasite: OH WHAT A WORLD! WHAT A WORLD!
And so, not surprisingly, this series is going to see A LOT of chapters aimed at "fixing" the whole brain parasite debacle. One request in particular caught my attention.
Nox Descious: …fix everything regarding the parasites…
Ok then!
The Most Efficient and Effective Way to "Fix Everything Regarding the Parasites"
"Professor-Sama! Professor-Sama!" Herr Doktor exclaimed with glee as he entered the professor's throne room with an armful of blueprints in his hands.
"What is it now, Doktor?" Leo Akaba groaned as The Doktor interrupted another perfectly good evening with another of his hair-brained schemes.
"I have really done it this time!" the pale old man cackled as he spread his blueprints out in front of the professor. "With my new plan to implant tiny brain-munching insects into each fragment of your daughter, nothing will stop us from completing the Arc-Area project!"
Leo narrowed his eyes at the blueprints, which very clearly showed that The Doktor did indeed plan on letting a tiny insect munch on his daughter's counterparts' brains.
"Why exactly are you proposing we do this? Or for that matter, why do you think I would actually go along with this?" Leo snapped at the crazy kook.
"The way I figure it is this!" The Doktor explained (and yes, as I have explained before, that is indeed this guy's name. First name: The, second name: Doktor), "We're probably gonna be attacked by the Lancers eventually, so naturally, I figured that instead of doing something as stupid as doubling or even tripling each girl's guard detail, we would leave the girls wide open for capture, and HOPE that they manage to defend themselves while having the exact same cognitive capabilities as a mindless drone! ISN'T IT BRILLIANT!?"
Leo Akaba stared at his "most brilliant scientist" in disbelief.
"Oh yeah." He sarcastically replied. "Let me show you just how wonderful I think your plan is!"
This is how Leo demonstrated his appreciation of The Doktor's plan:
First: He took each blueprint and crumpled them all into a gigantic paper ball.
Second: He tore that gigantic paper ball into individual shreds of paper.
Third: Using plaster and glue, he molded each shred of paper into a gigantic piñata which he filled with candy before letting Sora have at it.
Fourth: Once Sora had finished mauling the brain-parasite blueprint piñata, he proceeded to gather up each individual fragment of Paper Mache before tossing each piece into a furnace burning at 1000 degrees Celsius.
Fifth: Once the furnace had cooled down, he gathered up the ash, put it in a blender, mixed in some milk and protein powder, blended the mixture together, force-fed the shake to The Doktor, carded The Doktor after he had finished, and then proceeded to repeat steps one through four with The Doktor's card.
The End.
Okay, okay, so this is not the actual chapter (though it certainly would fix many cringe-worthy aspects of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V). But, as I have learned from your MANY brain-parasite related fix requests, this is indeed something people probably wish would have happened to one degree or another. However, this series is not "Venom's Quest." Much as I like parodies, I am going to TRY to take this seriously. And so, here is the ACTUAL request we will be tackling today:
Shimmering-Sky: Fix the Rin vs. Yugo Duel to where Rin's free from the parasite after that one attack!
*Assumes serious face* Okay, Sky. Here you go.
Episode 117 Fixed: Liberation
"WIND WITCH – CRYSTAL BELL, ATTACK!" Rin ordered before her massive Fusion Monster let forth a storm of dark wind.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Yugo screamed as Rin's new monster obliterated his dragon before knocking his bike from the tower. Even as the reality of Rin's transformation seemed to sink in, Yugo could not believe what was going on!
It was impossible! It could not be happening! Everything about this was wrong! Rin would never-…!
CRASH!
The force of his impact with the ground caused Yugo to groan with pain. Gasping for breath, he attempted to crawl forward, the cracks in his helmet causing his vision to become partially obscured. Reaching out to where he thought his bike must have been, Yugo suddenly gasped in shock when his hand bumped against the vehicle he and Rin had spent so much of their life working on.
Or at least…what was left of it.
"Rin?" Yugo gasped, unable to believe what she had done. "RIN!" he bellowed as he tore off his helmet to behold the total destruction of their life's work. The beautiful bike that the two had poured so much of their love, sweat, blood, and tears into now was a smoking mess of metal, scratched and chipped paint, and popped rubber.
"Why did you do this, Rin!?" Yugo bellowed in agony as his friend slowly descended to where the wreckage of his bike lay, stepping over broken fragments as if they were nothing more than trash to her. "How could you have forgotten how much our D-Wheel meant to us!?"
"It is your turn now." Rin replied in a brain-dead monotone, not even hesitating for a moment to consider Yugo's question. "You have no monsters and only four-hundred and fifty life points left. Hurry and finish your turn so I can finish you."
Yugo stared back at her in disbelief. It could not be Rin! That cold, heartless machine that was addressing him was unlike anything he had known Rin to be. It had to be some sort of trick, or hologram, or illusion!
"HURRY UP!" Rin barked in an angry voice all too familiar to Yugo who had endured many of her angry tirades.
Yugo desperately wanted to believe that the person standing in front of him really wasn't Rin, but there was too much evidence showing that she was indeed the orphan he had grown up with for his entire life. She had Rin's very unique deck and what's more, her strategy exactly matched the strategy of Rin's. She had demonstrated intimate knowledge of his own deck and strategies that even the cleverest of imposters could not have copied. So why was she acting like this? Why had she become this cold and ruthless? And why, of all things, had she scraped her excellent Synchro-based strategy in favor of that Fusion monster and its disgusting bug attachment?
As Yugo stared upon Rin and her strange monster, the answer came to him. Her Fusion Monster looked like something that she could have created from her monsters had she ever chosen to learn the Fusion Summoning technique, but something about that Parasite Fusioner, which had latched onto her monster, something about the way it was…feeding on her monster, caught his attention.
Rin had never placed that card in her deck, and she never would have placed it in her deck. It didn't fit her strategy in any way. Someone had planted it inside her deck.
"That thing…it's controlling you…isn't it." Said Yugo, looking Rin in the eye.
Rin stared back at him stone-faced, unmoving, her dead silence giving Yugo all the proof he needed.
"If that's the case, then I am not giving up on this duel until I've shattered that fake Crystal Bell to pieces! Just you wait, Rin! I will do everything in my power to free you! ORE NO TURN!"
As Yugo began his turn, Rin processed everything that was going on in a dream-like state. In truth, had Rin been cognizant enough to think about her situation, she would hardly have classified most of the impulses governing her every action as a coherent thought. Indeed, most of them were not even her own.
"Eat, breathe, fight, duel, breed, kill, win!" the inner-voice urged Rin on as she continued the duel, its own desires and impulses drowning out any of her fatigued protests. In the back of her mind, Rin vaguely thought she could recall resisting the call of the voice when it had first entered her mind, but that seemed so long ago. Now she had learned to sleep, to float, to rest, to let the voice and impulses guide her every action and word. It was almost blissful to be free of the responsibility of thinking, to find solace and pleasure in obeying each of the voice's impulses.
So why was she feeling something like a twinge of panic now? Why did she feel like she needed to run…no…to fight herself!? To stop herself from doing what she was doing!?
"CRYSTAL WING SYNCHRO DRAGON, ATTACK!" The voice of Yugo called, as he directed his new dragon to destroy her monster.
The voice of Yugo was so familiar! It felt like he was calling to her! Calling for her to break free!
But still the voice and impulses came.
"Activate effect! Preserve our life! Destroy that dragon! Win this duel!"
Like water flowing down the directed pathway of a channel, Rin felt her muscles moving to comply with the commands of the voice.
"I activate Crystal Bell's effect to copy the effect of Clear Wing in your graveyard!" She felt herself scream back, determined to protect herself. To protect THEIR life. To win the duel.
"It won't work!" Yugo countered, "Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon can negate the effect of your monster and destroy it!"
Why was he fighting so hard? Didn't he know he couldn't win!? He only had four-hundred and fifty lifepoints left! Why didn't he give up!?
Why had she given up?
"ACTIVATE EFFECT! PRESERVE OUR LIFE!" the voice screamed.
Again, the hideous feeling of her muscles acting of their own accord overwhelmed her once again. Once again, she felt some invisible force twist her face, mouth, tongue, throat, and arms into saying and doing things she wasn't sure she wanted to do.
"I activate the effect of Parasite Fusioner! Destroying it to prevent Crystal Bell's destruction!"
It was pointless for him to continue resisting. She had tried to resist, but it was all in vain. So why was he still fighting? Why?
Why?
"CRYSTAL WING ATTACK!"
Why?
"SURVIVE! KILL! WIN!"
WHY!?
Crystal Wing smashed into her monster, shattering it to pieces before the shockwaves sent her flying backwards.
WHY!?
Rin felt her head crashing against the ground, the impact forcing the tiniest amount of clarity in her scrambled mind for just a little bit.
Why?
"RIN!" Yugo called, rushing over to where she had landed. She could recognize him for who he was now. He was her friend! He had come to save her! He was not letting anything stop him from doing that!
"RIN!" He called again, cradling her body in his own. She wanted to hug him back. She wanted to reassure him that she was alright now, that his efforts weren't wasted. But…but…
"ACTIVATE EFFECT! REVIVE US! FUSE US! DESTROY THE BOY! WIN THE DUEL!"
Rin quickly, shoved Yugo away.
Yugo was a fool. Why had he thought he could save her? Didn't he know that she could no longer resist the voice? The urges? The all-powerful and all-consuming will that overrode her own?
Once again, Rin felt the muscles contorting against her will.
"W-when Crystal Bell is destroyed…its…its effect…a-activates…"
Slowly, like a hollow puppet, her arm reached out towards her Duel Disk.
"STOP IT!" she heard Yugo's voice urge. "FIGHT IT!"
Fight? What a strange idea. Didn't he know there was no point in fighting?
"REVIVE! FUSE! KILL! WIN!"
All of Yugo's resistance was pointless. He could never have won this duel. And all because she couldn't resist. All because she had given up. The thought caused her arm to pause.
"REVIVE! FUSE! KILL! WIN!" The voice insisted, pushing her arm forward against its will.
Why!? Why had she given up!? Why wasn't she fighting!? Had Yugo given up on her!?
"DON'T DO WHAT IT SAYS! I BELIEVE IN YOU! YOU'VE NEVER GIVEN UP BEFORE!" Yugo insisted.
Rin let out a scream, painful memories of her struggling throughout her entire life flooding her mind.
There she was, struggling to stay on her feet in the dingy orphanage with barely enough to eat.
There she was, with hardly a coin in her pocket, and the dream to win the Friendship Cup.
There she was with Yugo, scrimping and saving, salvaging and sacrificing, all to make their dreams come true.
She had never given up then. Why did she have to give up now!?
"REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE!" The voice chanted, and immediately Rin suddenly felt like her brain would explode, so intense was the pain that came from denying the will of the inner voice. Her arm was quivering with the resistance, ready to give up and give in once again, when suddenly, Yugo was by her side again, holding her as if he recognized her struggle.
"You're doing it, Rin!" Yugo's voice encouraged, "Fight it! Don't let it control you!"
Yes…fight!
"REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE!"
A scream exploded from Rin's mouth as a new flood of pain overcame her body. So this was the price of resisting the voice. Pain. Pure and unadulterated pain. Despite her desire to overcome the control, she could still feel the voice compelling her, warning her of more pain and suffering if she resisted. She would be ripped apart, destroyed, maimed, torn into bloody pieces, crushed beyond recognition if she continued to deny the impulses. She knew she could not resist forever. She had to end the duel!
And so she did.
"I special Summon Wind Witch – Winter Bell from my graveyard!" Rin bellowed, allowing herself to obey the call to revive her monsters.
"RIN! NO!" Yugo called out in agony.
"I will also…s-s-summon…P-P-P-Parasite Fusioner…" she braced herself, knowing what had to be done.
"REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE! REVIVE!"
"…in…in…IN ATTACK MODE!"
Rin slammed the parasite card onto her Duel Disk in battle position, even as the voice screamed in protest. Standing across from her, Yugo seemed to understand what Rin was planning to do.
The voice seemed to understand as well.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! FUSE! FUSE! FUSE! FUSE!" it screamed, raking Rin's body with renewed waves of pain and agony. But even as Rin buckled under the oppression, deep inside, she could feel a new emotion coming from the voice.
Fear.
And that fear, the knowledge that the voice was not invincible, gave her streangth.
"BATTLE PHASE!" Rin screamed in agony, "PARASITE FUSIONER! ATTACK CRYSTAL WING SYNCHRO DRAGON!"
Now it was the parasite squirming forward against its will. Even as the voice screamed in protest, it was too late. The monster had to obey her order! IT was the one who had no choice!
On the other side, Yugo seemed to hesitate as the bug charged towards his monster.
Now it was her turn to encourage him, to give him the strength he needed to do what needed to be done.
"ATTACK ME!" Rin begged, finally feeling wholly and completely in control of herself, "END THIS!"
Yugo stared back at Rin, a tear trickling down his cheek as he nodded his head and stretched his hand towards his monster.
"CRYSTAL WING SYNCHRO DRAGON! ATTACK!"
"NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The voice screamed one last time as Yugo's monster annihilated the parasite in a single blow, immense shockwaves lifting Rin's body off the ground as her Life Points dropped to 0.
Rin blinked as her body floated through the air before crashing roughly to the ground. When she stopped rolling, she closed her eyes with exhaustion.
Finally. The voice was gone. Finally, there was silence.
Everybody give a round of applause to Tiny Brain Parasite Tim for his excellent performance in this story!
Tiny Brain Parasite Tim: *Gives a dignified bow before crawling away to ruin the next Yu-Gi-Oh spin-off*
Thank you everyone once again for reading! And have no fear all of you who submitted requests, Sky and I are working on your requests as I type, so you can expect them to appear fairly soon. And so, without further ado, let's move on to some responses to your reviews!
GodX:
Great chapter I have been following Yu-Gi-Oh! Since the first season I I totally agree that there are many disappointing episodes in each season especially ZEXAL and Arc V, i have two requests the first one is after yuzu was defeated by Julia in episode 10, she get comforted by yuya and ask him to teach her pendulum summon which he accept and during first lesson her ace monster along some others become pendulum monsters also if possible please make the relationship between them better due to these PRIVATE lessons. my second request is yuya and yuzu find ruri instead of shay in episode 119 then yuya defeats her which permanently destroys the parasite inside her, she ask him about Yuto then he tell her about their permanent fusion which makes her hug him tightly in sadness but thanks him for saving her, if possible make a time skip where yuya father tells him that he defeated Leo and that rin and Serena are saved so zarc won't be revived but yuto can't be separated from yuya which leads him to be paired with both yuzu and ruri (favorite arc V girls), I hope you accept these requests.
I'm glad you enjoyed the first chapter! As far as your requests go, could you pick just one for us to start with? Also, keep in mind that I will not be writing any M-rated things in this series so…none of that Yuya, Yuzu, Ruri threesome thing if you please.
Nox Descious:
Ooooooooooooooh My! I like this! I like this a lot! Finally we can get the ARC V that all us angry fans want one episode at a time! I'd ask you to fix everything regarding the parasites, but we both know that's pointless because 1, I already did that with my story, and 2, I'm pretty sure dozens of other readers have already commented something related to the parasites.
So Hmmmmmmmmmmmm what could I recommend?
Oh Yeah! I have two ideas!
First of all! The biggest thing I hated about the Xyz Dimension ARC was how Edo Phoenix magically turned on a dime and embraced the power of Egao. It's not an epic fight and its not decent character development if the motivations behind why they switched sides are WEAK! It's the literal definition of forced! I'm thinking the best idea to fix that would be to give Edo a more developed reason as to why he even joined Academia in the first place and to get him to join Yuya's side and leave Academia WITHOUT the power of Egao! So yeah! Fix Yuya vs. Edo please!
Number 2: What in the world was up with Yusho? Can we even believe how pointless of a character arc he had? The show was building up to his confrontation with Leo Akaba for so long and yet we were denied that because he just took a back seat and let Yuya and Reiji duel Leo Akaba for him because Potatoes!
Yusho vs Leo ALONE! One on One! Private confrontation with Leo Akaba where they just talk in private like old friends, and then duel! Perhaps you could reveal that Yusho knew all along that Yuya had a piece of Zarc's soul inside of him and tried to fix that by raising him right and keeping him on the right path with his Egao philosophy, and then Leo argue back that if Yusho knew he should have killed him when he was a baby. Then Leo defeats Yusho and Yuya arrives just in time to see Leo card his father. Yuya goes berserk and duels Leo. Then all hell breaks loose when both Yuri and Reiji intrude into the duel and they get involved. THEN Yuya defeats Yuri and absorbs him. THAT is how you set the stage for Zarc's arrival!
So yeah! Fix it please! Thank you!
And I say the brain parasites have been fixed! Thank you so very much for the review! Which request would you like completed first?
thetiger39:
As Ritual Summoning and females in general need a way better showcasing in the Yugioh series, can you edit episode 113-114 where instead of Kaito, Asuka duels and wins against Dennis?
Yep! In fact, I'm working on the duel right now!
Shadow:
There was no real reason for that episode to be fixed, episode 99 was great the way it was. However, can you edit episode 123 where you have Yuri explaining his backstory to Asuka. Specifically, since we see him Awaken for a short time in that episode, maybe you can explain when Zarc fully possessed him, or in episode 132 or 133, see if you could paint Yuri in a more tragic light, possibly telling Yusho that he's already too far gone, that he can't be saved. Another can be in episode 135, where you can have when Yuri accepts his defeat against Yuya, sort of add stuff on it, maybe Yuri telling Yuya that he actually wanted to lose for a long time, but never could, and have him thanking Yuya for finally defeating him, stating that he was freed from Zarc's torment which screwed up his mind
Thank you very much for the requests, but could you narrow it down to one request?
Sinking into Ruined Shadows:
I'm indifferent on this, because if Yuzu hadn't gone through the inter-dimensional bleh, Yuuya probably would've never gone to the Xyz Dimension and met the Resistance, which is an arc I absolutely loved.
But request: I think that Ruri should've snapped out of the Parasite influence just for a bit. Can you modify 124 so that she actually attacks Serena before the Parasite takes hold again? Thanks!
(aw, everyone's working on it but me! *cries*)
I'll just have Selena start flirting with Yuto, thus causing Yandere Ruri Mode to kick in.
Epsilon Tarantula:
Let me see here...What do I desire from this? Hmm...
Aha! I DESPISE, LOATHE, HATE, AND (insert other words that indicate dissatisfaction) that Yuzu never dueled ONCE during Season 3, and that Selena's situation with the brain parasite lacked...emotion.
What I desire is to see an alternate scenario for Episode 115, where Yuzu gets to duel a brainwashed Selena, you know, put up a fight, trying to figure out what's going on. The fact that she just floundered like a dead fish annoyed me, as did the idiocy of the Lancers during the capture scenario. I wish to see the episode modified so that the Lancers managed to see through the trap somewhat, so that Yuzu is able to duel Selena instead of just getting her wrist mangled (I'd love to say Standard Female Grab Area, but it wasn't EXACTLY that...).
So yeah. Yuzu vs Selena, Episode 115.
As for this chapter, I like it! It ends the Yuya and Yuzu seperation plot thread, and it would've made the Xyz Arc have more 'oomph' to it, since Sayaka and Allen can at first think that Shun and Yuto were successful in saving Ruri...only to learn that Yuto is gone and Ruri is still locked up in a tower, having her brain eaten by a bug.
Sky is working on your request as we speak! And thank you very much for the review!
mcdinh:
Huh. Well, I do agree that some of the Yugioh Arc-V episodes could've been A LOT better because some of them didn't give off our satisfactions or expectations throughout the series. I personally am not sure if episode 99 should be "fixed", but I do like how you wrote this so that it would bring out a stronger bond between Yuya and Yuzu. In fact, it turned out great.
Oh, I do have a request if you would like to hear it. Otherwise, I hope you update soon!
How's this for a quick update? And yes. Sky and I are working on your request.
nightshroud96:
I wonder if "fixed" chapters could be hilarious parodies of them or is that just separate.?
Honestly ARC-V, as much as I loved it the most have some things that bothered me
Such as wasted opportunity with they could have added Meklords countering all summoning mechanics of the extra deck
Or how things didn't go so well with each of the 4 Heavenly Dragons(For example.. egao-ed Odd Eyes..)
I would tell which episodes that should be "fixed" but probably later since there is too many(and also I am lazy)
Any parody requests ought to be submitted to my comedy series "Venom's Quest." Although I LOVE writing parodies, I want this series to be just an eensie bit more serious, unless of course you REALLY feel like an episode would have been improved if it had more comedy in it.
Shimmering-Sky:
*The sound of Faith fangirling can be heard in the distance*
I noticed. It's been distracting me all evening as I've tried to write this thing! Also, thanks for your help!
CorinnetheAnime:
Haha, this was good. It really showed the strength of Yuya and Yuzu's bond and support for each other, even if they were to face death. Such loyalty and devotion, that is what love truly is. *proceeds to quote 1 Corinthians 13*
Either way, good jon with the first "fix". :)
Thank you very much Corinne! I'm glad you liked it!
Until next time, this is Donjusticia, finishing up this sentence before inserting an obligatory period.