Duel 2: Mechanizations, Dragons, and... Aliens?

One week after the creation of the SOS Brigade, and a lot strange had happened, sure, but we had yet to encounter any aliens, time travelers, or espers. I mentioned that I enjoyed my life being boring, and that had not changed.

Why did it have to be me?

I tried to find the will to turn around in the hallway and leave the school, but my feet continued to carry me towards the clubroom. Haruhi had picked up various things laying around the school to liven up the room. A couple of shelves and filing cabinets adorned the right wall, and more chairs surrounded the long table, as well as a book shelf to the left. I frowned, Maybe Haruhi did think of other people. I turned my attention back to the table to see Nagato reading calmly as usual, no expression on her face. "Yo," I said calmly.

She looked up momentarily from her book and placed a finger on her glasses, pushing them up to the bridge of her nose, "Hello... Kyon."

Emotionless, this one.

I walked in and sat across from Nagato, resting my chin on the palm of my hand, "Watcha reading?" She held up the book he was reading. I could tell it was about robots and aliens just by looking at it. Perhaps that explained her current behavior. "Seems like something Haruhi would be interested in."

Nagato didn't respond. What was with her?

Mikuru Asahina timidly stepped into the room in a maid outfit. Now what I couldn't understand is how Haruhi got her to wear the damn thing. She walked in one day with the outfit and declared loudly that Asahina-san was to wear the outfit at all club meetings. For some odd reason... she had complied.

The door to the club room slammed open, shaking almost the entire school grounds, "Your fearless leader has arrived!! We've got a lot to do today. Brigade members number 1 and 3!" Haruhi shouted, pointing to me and Asahina-san, "You're coming with me to the computer lab next door, we're gonna get a computer."

Well, this is beginning to ROYALLY suck.

As we walked to the Computer Clubroom, Asahina-san was looking over her deck. Peering over her shoulder, I saw that she ran a Plant/Fairy Deck. Fitting for her.

As we entered the room, Haruhi shouted, "We, the SOS Brigade, are in need of a computer!"

"Hm..." One of them said, probably the leader, then replied with, "No. We're already using them."

"Well, we're willing to steal it if necessary."

"Okay," Another one said, "We'll let you have a computer..."

He pulled out a deck of Duel Monster cards. Oh no.

"... if you can beat me."

"Fine." Haruhi complied.

"Meet me at the back parking lot of the school."

As the two walked for the back parking lot, Asahina-san and I followed.

The two stood at opposite sides of the parking lot. This was going to get ugly.

"Well, for the sake of the computer..." Haruhi started.

"Let's Duel!" they yelled.

Computer Club LP: 4000

SOS Brigade LP: 4000

Computer Club's turn.

"I draw," The member began, "I'll summon Ancient Gear Soldier! Attack Mode!"

A mechanical man that looked like it had been through a bunch of wars appeared, followed by a hologram saying ATK: 1300.

"Then, I'll set two cards face down," the member said, as two giant hologram cards appeared, "and end my turn."

Haruhi's turn.

"Draw!" Haruhi yelled, "I'll summon X-Head Cannon! In Attack Mode!"

A larger, modern blue robot appeared, with a hologram saying ATK: 1900.

"And now, I'll attack Ancient Gear Soldier!" Haruhi yelled, as the X-Head Cannon fired two cannons on its shoulders, aimed at AGS.

"Trap Card! Hajiro!" The member reacted, as a card lifted, morphing into what appeared to be some kind of armor. "Attack Guidance Armor!"

Attack Guidance Armor: AGA is programmed to attach to a target and redirect one attack to that target.

"You wouldn't attack a girl..." Haruhi asked, "... would you?"

"Yes, I would. And I will! Guidance Armor, Attach to Haruhi Suzumiya!" the member declared.

As the armor attached to Haruhi, the X-Head Cannon's blasts missed AGS. Swiveling to Haruhi, it blasted her.

SOS Brigade LP: 2200

"That was easy," The member commented. "My turn. First, I summon Ancient Gear Knight!"

Another old robot with what appeared to be a lance and a shield appeared, along with a hologram saying ATK: 1800.

"And next, I activate Double Summon!"

Double Summon: DS allows you to normal summon one more time in the same turn.

"Now, I release Ancient Gear Soldier and Knight..." the member continued, "... to summon Ancient Gear Golem!"

The Soldier and Knight suddenly fall apart, fusing their body parts together to become a mechanical Giant. The ATK hologram of this monster is 3000.

"However, since I'm merciful, I'll end my turn." the Member said.

"Big mistake. Draw," Haruhi drew a card, "Then I'll play two Dark Cores!"

"Two? I only have Ancient Gear Golem..."

"Now, by discarding my Z-Metal Tank and Y-Dragon Head from my hand, I'll get rid of both Ancient Gear Golem..." Haruhi smirked when that giant mech faded away, "... and X-Head Cannon."

As X-Head Cannon did the same, the member yelled, "WTF? X-Head was your monster! What are you doing?"

"Next, I'll remove Z-Metal Tank and Y-Dragon Head from my graveyard to summon... Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Envoy of the Light!"

A bright light glowed behind her, fading into a massive, large, impressive version of Blue-Eyes White Dragon. ATK Hologram: 3000.

"Cracking mad!" the guy yelled in horror.

"I'm not done yet. Activate Return from the Different Dimension!" Haruhi declared.

Return from the Different Dimension: At the cost of half your life points, this card can bring to the field all monsters removed from play.

SOS Brigade: 1100 LP

As X, Y, and Z return to the field, Haruhi smirks, then yells, "X, Y, Z! Combiner Mode!"

The three monsters combine into a single monster: "XYZ-Dragon Cannon!" ATK Hologram: 2800

Haruhi, smirking, then yelled, "Blue-Eyes, XYZ! Attack his life points! One Turn K-O!"

"X-Caliber Barrage!" XYZ fired X-Head's cannons.

"Thunder Burst Stream!" Blue-Eyes fired a blue lighting fireball.

"Trap Card Hajiro!" The member reacted, "Confusion Shaft!"

Confusion Shaft: One monster attacks another.

Both attacks hit the other monster.

SOS Brigade: 0 LP

Well, it was entertaining, seeing Haruhi put up a fight.

Back in the Computer Club room...

"So, we keep the computer. Sorry." The member said, sympathetic.

Haruhi grinned.

Oh crap.

She grabbed the hand of the club leader and pulled Asahina-san closer.

The next sound I heard was Asahina's 'Kya!!!!'

Currently, the club leader's hand was in a place I'm sure Asahina would rather not have it.

If I kept blushing at the rate I was going, I was sure to end up like those poor saps with nose bleeds.

The click of a camera brought me out of my thoughts, and I was surprised to see Haruhi taking pictures of the leader groping her chest. I was gonna kill her.

"NOW!" Shouted Haruhi cheerfully, finally pulling a crying Asahina. My eyebrow twitched when he continued, "If you don't give me one of your computers, I'm going to mail these pictures of you molesting our poor moe club member."

Asahina was moe?

"No!" shouted the leader, standing up and jumping for the camera that Haruhi was holding above his head, "That's no fair, you forced us to molest these poor girls!"

Damn that sounded cheesy, these guys played way too many H games.

"Hmm, I don't know about that," said Haruhi skeptically, "From where I'm standing, it looks like the whole club wants to gang rape this girl!"

Why was I doing nothing to stop this sad excuse for blackmail?

"Kyon, you get to set up our website!"

"Why me?"

"Because you do nothing but stand around in the club room, you need to help the SOS Brigade! You were there when I created it. If I were to die, you would have to take my place as Brigade Chief."

Maybe when pigs fly.

"Another phenomonan, the flying pig!"

Wait, did she just... Never mind.

Nagato-san stood and shut her book. She looked at me for a good long moment, "What?"

She set the book down on the table and looked back up at me, "I'm lending this to you," she said simply, emotionless as always, "Please... read it."

"Okay..."

Needless to say, I was surprised at what I found in the book, instead of Nagato-san's bookmark, it was a small folded piece of paper. When I opened it up I wasn't expecting what I found.

Kyon,

Meet me tonight at the nearby park. Second bench from the entrance.

Nagato.

Well, this is beginning to get somewhat interesting...

On my way home my thoughts invaded my mind, did Nagato-san really have a crush on me, or was this something else entirely? It was hard to tell with her sometimes, and I didn't hang out with her too often, it was mostly the crazy girl that ended up dragging me around. Then again, it would make sense since Nagato-san was always the silent type. After changing into jeans and a shirt I talked to my mom and told her I was going to see a friend of mine at the park. She kind of smirked, which made me uneasy, "Okay," she said gently, "Just be back by ten."

It was then that my little sister bounded into the room with a huge grin plastered on her face, "Kyon's got a girlfriend!" she shouted loudly.

My eyebrow twitched and I decided to leave him to his own imaginitave devices.

The park was quiet to say the least, and the sun was setting quickly. It was getting close to winter, so it was slightly chilly outside. I shivered lightly and pulled my arms together, trying to ignore the goosebumps that popped up on my skin.

"Kyon-san."

I turned to the emotionless voice and saw Nagato walking towards me, slowly yet deliberately. "Nagato-san," I said politely.

"I suppose you're wondering why we're here."

"So what did you want to tell me?" I asked curiously.

"I am a humanoid interface."

The fact that she said it like I should understand it made me uncomfortable, like it was simple as E=MC2, or x=ab.

Like it was a fact I should have come to on my own, "What your kind would call an alien."

"An alien?"

This was a surprising development. Haruhi would definately get a kick out of this.

She continued as if my confusion were simply a second handed matter. "The integrated thought entity controls me. Originally, when Earth was created, it held no interest to the Integrated Thought Entity, but with time humans evolved into a bipedal species capable of amounts of intelligence. Eventually, some humans from an area known as Egypt discovered the ability to call upon life-forms from an unknown dimension in bouts known as Shadow Games, catching the Integrated Thought Entity. The planet was observed for some time in the hopes of gathering new data, though humans never actually broke out of the autoevolution process. Five years ago, an incident occured on this Earth, a fluctuation in data the likes of which has never been seen before."

Simply impossible.

Ridiculous.

"At the center of this incident was the card game, Duel Monsters. Eventually another incident happened, which involved Haruhi Suzumiya. We began to observe her. Humans are never able to influence the data around them, the simple fact that Suzumiya-san is capable of this is a reason to observe her."

"So you're saying he is an evolutionary leap or something? That's ridiculous, how do you expect me to believe something like this?"

She continued, "For a reason unknown to the integrated thought entity, Suzumiya-san chose you."

"Chose... me?"

"It is unknown whether this will play a factor in future events. However, something else of concern happened very recently after she appeared at North High."

"And that something would be...?"

"The Light Envoy."

"Haruhi's card...?"

Yuki Nagato nodded.

"Suppose I believed you, why did Haruhi pick me? And what the hell am I supposed to do."

Nagato pushed her glasses up on the bridge of her nose, "The Light Envoy is an unknown factor in this matter, but your involvement is undeniable."

I didn't expect the quiet bookworm types were this crazy.

Next Chapter: A new member, and a new challenge.