Yu-gi-oh
No Limits
By Kevin Jones
Turn 3-To the Tops
I've got to take a deep breath and calm down… it's not working.
I'm in the back of a UPS truck; with my only company being some large crates by the door; I don't-
What the, we've stopped.
I quickly but quietly run to the back of the truck like I was told and I've got 1 ear open so I know when I'm out of the danger zone.
"Where's the usual guy?"
A heavy voice from the outside said, I wonder if it's someone who will look inside the truck if he feels something is off with my "escort's" story and if so, if he's big enough to be able to throw the crate and me with it.
"Caught the flu," Said the driver, he said it loud enough for the whole city to hear.
"Don't take this the wrong way but I think I'll take a look inside, we've had a lot of trespassers sneaking in threw stolen trucks like this."
Oh crap, I can hear his heavy footsteps banging down and shaking the whole truck as he gets closer and closer.
I can hear his deep, heavy breathing; he can't be more than a few inches away from me.
"There anybody in here, no, fine then."
Once again I hear loud heavy footsteps, this time leaving the truck.
"As far as I'm concerned everything checks out, you can go ahead."
I can hear a beep coming from outside the truck… sounds like the large brown truck is back on its course heading up towards the Tops district.
…
About an hour passed since the encounter with, what I guess was a guard. It's been a quiet hour but the truck has stopped and the driver is now looking at me.
"It's time."
"I know, and I'm ready."
…
Perhaps I should start from the beginning, or at least sum up the beginning. This whole thing started when a true American hero, or at least as far as I'm concerned, Scott Truman and I duked it out in a duel. It was close but he got the better of me, and within several hours I heard a voice that sounded like a combination of a little kid and a lizard.
That night it was revealed to me that apparently this game is real and people like me "have a power that separates you from most of society" I then had to stick my hand in an orb of light and then found my dorm room trashed; the culprit then challenged me to a duel.
Turns out, it's a creepy little girl who didn't like to lose, however unlike most sore losers, when she loses she then proceeds to destroy Central Park. I then found a small odd looking key chain that was flinged from her pocket during the duel.
When I got back to the school I went into my room, put my mattress back on the frame and tried to get some sleep.
When that didn't work I moved my hand over and turned on the radio next to my bed.
I played with the dial looking for something to listen to till I eventually settled on some late night talk show from Los Angeles.
According to the host it was 1:30. I did the math in my head and figured it must be around 4:30 here in New York.
I didn't feel tired in the least; I wasn't quite sure what to think either. I laid there barely listening to the show thinking about just how much I didn't know. When the show ended at about 2, 5 Eastern Time, They started playing some old pop song by some washed up loser named Justin Bieber when I started to hear humming.
It wasn't static from the radio, it wasn't even from the radio, and it sounded like it was coming from the other end of the bed. I slowly moved my hand by the floor and felt around for a wrench that was on the floor. After everything that happened I wasn't taking any chances.
I slowly inched over to the other end of the bed making sure that, other then the radio, all I could hear was the humming.
It was too dark for me to see what it was so I took a deep breath and swung down with everything I had in me, I fell off the bed and landed face first on the ground.
"What the hell." I said under my breath.
I moved my hand up and down until I found the light switch; I flicked it on and saw the strangest thing yet. There right in front of me was a 4 foot tall, white dragon. It had a long tail, big head that if you looked at it from the top appeared it the shape of triangle. Because of this it had a pointed snout and a horn coming out of the back of its head with 2 more from the sides of its head for a total of 3 horns. Then it hit me. Before it could say anything I pulled out my deck, searched, and there it was both the dragon in front of me and the dragon on the card were the same.
"You, you're Debris Dragon." With its long right claw it continued to rub its head where the wrench hit it.
"That's my species name, my names Aero."
"Aero?"
"It's a family name it's short for Sharp Aero but everyone just calls me Aero."
There was no doubt, the voice sounded like an 8 year olds but with a bit of reptilian in it, almost like an accent.
"Why'd you hit me with a wrench?" He said with an obvious wine in his voice.
"Why did I, why is there a 4 foot tall dragon in my room!"
"Hey, hey, hey I was assigned to you."
"Wait you were assigned to me, what that's supposed to mean!"
"Simple all duelists who go through inclaim get assigned a Spirit Partner."
"Fine, alright fine, I can see where that makes sense but why did I get you and not one of my Elemental hero's?"
"What's wrong with me?"
He sounded like that question got on his nerves.
"Well for starters, I only used you once and second wouldn't someone like Voltic or Stratos make more sense instead of tiny dragon who can't even handle a wrench?"
"Hey! First of all, that hurt, second, I'm no push over and third, I'm here because I can fade in out and out of sight easily!"
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"Simple right now you can see and touch me right, well, when there are other people in the room only you can see me and if anyone is about to touch me they'll go right threw me."
I was about to say something else when I heard a heavy knock on the door.
"Mr. Rhodes, the police are here to see you," the voice sounded like Principal Dewint.
"Oh crap." Aero now fully on his feet jumped under the bed.
"I thought you said you would turn invisible!" I quietly yelled.
"That's what they told me but I don't want to find out what happens if their wrong."
I rolled my eyes and went to the door.
Outside were 2 cops and in the middle was Head Master Dewint.
"Good Morning Mr. Rhodes, what are you doing up?" Said the old man, he was trying to remain calm.
"Bad dream woke me up- probably something I ate."
"Yes well this is Detective Sadusky and Detective Tate," he paused for a moment, "Have you heard about the odd black clouds that showed up in central park yesterday."
I put on a blank stare to try and hide my sudden fear.
"Yeah on the news why?"
"We have reason to believe that you were in the area of central park when this, incidence was reported." Said Tate, there was something familiar about her, and she gave me the same get away feeling that I had while I was in the park.
"Why are you guy's asking me this at 5 in the morning?"
"Because they'd like to convince everyone to stay quiet before this turns into more than a story and starts a panic." We all looked to the right to find Professor Moretti, of all people, standing in front of us.
"Robert what are you doing here?"
"Me, getting up at about 4:30 on Sunday morning is a tradition."
"The man's right I've found him wandering all over the school around this time for years." Said Dewint, I was about to also agree, before Sadusky said.
"Yeah well on less you've got something useful to tell us go away."
"Actually I have something very useful to say." "Then what?"
"2 days ago I found the boy had smuggled his deck into class, since he most likely only had it with him because of the assembly you hyped everyone up about I didn't think it was right to punish him then so I to cut him a deal, he got to go to the assembly and he helped me grade papers yesterday."
"Yeah well how do we know you're not just covering for him?"
"And what reason would I have to help the boy?"
While the loud one finally had nothing to say Tate scanned the skinny man with her pair of cold blue eyes, she then turned her head and gave me the same visual inspection, she was only making me feel more nervous.
"I believe the old man," she said.
"Oh come on, how does this not seem off?"
"I've been doing this longer than you have; I know when I'm barking up the wrong the tree. Now it's almost a quarter after 5 and we've been doing this all night, now I'm done.
Sorry for disturbing you Mr. Rhodes, and until this is over it is probably best you don't leave the city."
I nodded and the 2 officers and Principle Dewint walked off leaving me and my new favorite teacher alone in the hallway.
"Why'd you do that?"
"I believe the term is thank you."
"Right, thanks but still why'd you do that?"
"Meet me by the Hamburger stand at the corner of 67th street and 3rd Avenue at noon, I will be able to tell you everything then, until then get some rest, I have a feeling you're going to have a long night.
…
"Don't fall asleep."
"If you don't shut up I'll put you to sleep, the hard way."
Don't get me wrong, I tried to get a little sleep, but come on if you had to go through what I've had to go through you probably wouldn't sleep either. Good news was Aero's yakking was keeping me awake.
"What do you think he meant by "I have a feeling you're going to have a long night"?"
"I don't know yet, now shut up were here."
"I don't see him."
I stayed quiet, looked around and didn't see him either.
"Here's your Hamburger kid," said the vendor.
"I didn't ask for one."
"Trust me on this, now would you like Ketchup or Mustard."
I could tell the tall young, green eyed vendor had rehearsed this, which brought up the interesting questions of why this guy rehearsed this order, who told him to rehearse this and how do I fit into all this, until I get my answers I have to give one myself.
"Ketchup."
The young vender moved the burger down slowly, looking every few seconds at me to make sure I was watching. When he pulled off the bun I noticed 2 things, A this was not a real Burger and B, there was a note actually glued to the burger and it read.
"Sit on the bench until 12:30; which is when I should get there."
Not sure what to think of all this I took my, now smothered in Ketchup, fake burger and sat down on the bench for a good 20 minutes before a man wearing dark sunglasses, a brown fedora, jeans and wearing a tan jacket zipped all the way up sat down next to me.
He pulled a vibrating cell phone out of his pocket and started speaking in Spanish.
The disguise was ridicules, the Spanish sucked, and his accent and mustache were unmistakable.
"Professor Moretti, it's ok I'm not being followed." Then he looked at me with a confused look and said.
"Santo queue me hand confounded con okra persona."
I rolled my eyes cause he was actually suppose to say Santo que me han confundido con otra persona, which means I am sorry you have me mistaken for someone else.
Knowing that I wasn't going to get out of this using common sense I decided to play along until I returned to intelligent land.
"Profesor Moretti su bien que no estoy siendo seguido." He continued talking to me while making it look like he was talking on a cell phone in Spanish for about 10 minutes. In English we basically said.
"Chase It is not worth taking a chance, for now we speak in Spanish."
"Professor what's going on here?"
"You have gotten yourself in the middle of a conspiracy that involves the takeover of the entire world."
Oh Christ, I thought, but I said, "How's that?"
"That girl you dueled yesterday, and yes I know all about that is a member of a group called SMERSH."
"Wait, wasn't that the name of the bad guys in From Russia with Love?"
He chuckled and responded with. "They were also the most mysterious branch of the Soviet Union. They over saw the deaths of many spies as well as people of interest. When the Soviet Union ended back in 1991 they vanished."
"Probably cause the new the Russian government didn't want people's tax dollars going to a group of murders."
He ignored this and went on. "I, as well as the young man who gave you the burger, belong to a group called the Silver Cloak-"
"I know." He looked at me with genuine confusion this time.
"That silver pin you ware has been the symbol of the, supposedly, secret conspiracy examination group known as the Silver Cloak. You guys have been examining groups in this city for Decades; making sure they aren't hiding anything that dangerous, honestly I always thought of you guys as a joke, but apparently you guys may have actually found something."
"Yes well we know little else, which is why we've decided to help you get your answer in exchange for getting information on SMERSH."
"What makes you think I'll help you, scratch that, what makes you think I care and that I don't just think you're a crazy old Man?"
He chuckled and said. "Because I know you, you're a miserable unhappy young man who only finds Happiness in dueling, why do you think that is?"
"I've got a thing for card games?" I said this sarcastically. "Not really, your to intelligent for this place and the only thing that interests you is puzzles, and now you've got one that makes every other thing else in your life seem mediocre and you can't think of anything else can you."
I looked away, trying to pretend there was no truth in that statement.
"Tell you what, when you're willing to admit to yourself that you want nothing more than an answer to this riddle meet me by the ferry station that connects Secaucus to Manhattan at 4:00 o clock. If you come I'll get you to the Tops."
"How does the Tops District fit into all this?"
"If you show up later I'll explain."
If you're confused about what the Tops are allow me to explain. Now a day's most cities are divided into 3 sections depending on social class.
First is what's called a Satellite sector, that's where all of the people who society deems as "Trash" get sent.
Next there's the actual city where all the "normal people" can be found and finally there's the Top's sector.
Talk to anyone at Dewint and most likely they live in, basically, a house on top of a building. It's essentially the way the rich keep themselves from having to deal with reality so needless to say I have never been nor have any desire to go to the Tops, well until now.
…
"Ahh, I knew you couldn't resist." SaidMoretti, I felt awkward for 2 reasons. 1, he knew I'd show up and the fact that he seemed to know about everything that has happened up to this point made me feel like a puppet and 2 the street vendor from earlier was standing next to him in a UPS uniform.
"Sorry I didn't get to introduce myself before, I'm Arnold." He extended his arm, I lifted mine and when I looked him straight in the eye he froze up and uttered a small yelp. Moretti took a deep breath and stepped towards an open UPS truck.
"All things set aside here's the plan; Arnold over here has been given a uniform and a fake Name tag. You will hide here in the back of this truck behind this crate, in one of the entrance tunnels you'll find a small drop that goes about 4 feet, hide there until about Midnight, then a guy we know will hack the security computer and freeze all the cameras. It probably won't take more than 10 minutes before security realizes what has happened so don't get off you're Duel Board for anything understand?"
"I got it; don't worry but one question, if something goes wrong what's keeping me from being sent to the Facility?"
Moretti got silent, Arnold got a worried look on his face and Aero just kept looking back at the 3 of us, it was safe to say that the little dragon didn't fully understand the situation.
After that I stepped into the truck and sat myself with my Duel Board laid across my legs behind a crate as the back of the truck automatically closed.
It took about 20 minutes before we made it to the entrance, then another 20 before we reached the small drop.
…
The drop is big enough for me to squat behind but I don't think I'll be able to last down here anymore then I have to.
As I look Arnold just seems to be staring at me.
"Now would be a good time for you to leave."
"Right, and good luck, and remember that hot dog stand is my day job so if you need any help you can probably find me there."
"I'll remember that; now get out of here before you get us both caught."
He's now dashing towards the truck. He quickly turns the truck back on and is now driving off.
"I'm still not sure what exactly anything that's happened has to do with the Tops, well I don't believe what Moretti thinks this whole thing relates to the Tops. According to him there are people here in the Tops who are planning to take over the world using genetically modified children. Bear in mind I think this is pure bull shit, but the symbol on the key chain is the same as the logo you would see as you enter the Tops so I might be able to find some kind of a clue here.
…
"Chase, wake up chase your Duel Disk is blinking."
I guess I was able to fall asleep after all, and from the looks of it Aero's right, my disk is blinking.
"I guess they figured out a way to give me a sign."
I throw my Duel Board up and proceed to jump over onto the road. I connect my Wrist Dealer with my Disk, attach my disk to the cord which is attached to the board and with that I get on.
"Chase, are you sure about this?"
"Not really."
…
We've been riding around for about several minutes, or in Aero's case flew around for several minutes, person-
"Chase, where are we going?"
I pull the key chain out of my pocket.
"We need to figure out where 22Z north is."
"Well where's that?"
"Don't know, I haven't seen a single marker to tell us if were even still in Manhattan."
"Wait a minute then how do we get out of here?"
"We look for something we haven't seen yet."
"Sector Security, Manhattan Branch, Chase Rhodes pull over!"
What the hell? Wait a minute, I know that Security Agent with the Runner!
"Detective Sadusky!"
"Bingo! Like Tate said, give you a little time and you'll come straight here."
"What would make her think that?"
"Forget that! We got a go faster before he catches us," said Aero, obviously he's panicking.
I'm pushing down on the accelerator as fast as I can. Even though going to fast could over heat the board the alternative is worse. Let Sector security catch me and get expelled, lose my chance at figuring all this out, and probably my chance of just about anything else.
"So you'd rather run, fine, I'll take care of that."
"Duel mode on."
That was my disk just now. Oh crap, I've heard rumors that back when Turbo Dueling started Sector Security developed a computer virus that could hack a Duel Disk and force you into a Duel with the idea that your runner or board would stop upon losing or not being able to duel.
"Well Mr. Rhodes, you've proven you can lie and sneak past Security, let's see if you can Duel!"
"Chase what do we do, if you lose we're going to the Facility!"
I pick up my hand and place it over my deck. "Then I won't lose."
Sadusky
Chase SPC: 0 Sadusky SPC: 0
"Alright then, non-criminals first, I summon Assault Dog in Attack mode. (ATK: 1200/DEF: 800) Next I'll set one card facedown and end my turn."
Chase
Chase SPC: 01 Sadusky SPC: 01
"Oh I can just imagine that thing using me as a chew toy!"
"Debris Dragon, shut up!"
"I set one monster and one card face down and end my turn!"
Sadusky
Chase SPC: 02 Sadusky SPC: 02
"Oh don't tell me I have you on the ropes already, Now Assault Dog attack!"
The large snarling K-9 ran towards the facedown card, as the monster materialized the dog tried to take a bite, take a bite of concrete that is.
"What the hell!" He said. (4000-3200)
"Oh don't tell me you fell for the old set a powerful defender as bait for a relatively weak attacker." I mocked while My Elemental Hero Clayman resumed his defender stance (ATK: 800/DEF: 2000).
Chase
Chase SPC: 03 Sadusky SPC: 03
"Alright then I summon Elemental Hero Lady Heat in Attack Mode, (ATK: 1300/DEF: 1000) now attack, Heat kick!" (3200-3100)
As one dog fell to the ground, there's another one jumping onto the field.
"Oh my, I guess you didn't know when Assault Dog is destroyed by battle I can special summon another one straight from my deck."
"I'll set one card facedown and call it a turn."
With that a large ball of fire came out of Lady Heat's crown and went right through Sadusky.
"What the hell was that?"
"Oh my I guess you didn't know when I end my turn Lady Heat inflicts 200 points of direct damage for each Hero I control.
(3100-2700)
Sadusky
Chase SPC: 04 Sadusky SPC: 04
"Annoying little criminal aren't you. Now I tribute Assault Dog in order to Advance summon Handcuffs Dragon (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1800)."
A sickly serpent with a giant metal cuff where its mouth should have been is now on the field, and it's heading straight for Lady Heat.
"Now Handcuffs Dragon attack the little fire princess, dragon lock!"
"Oh no you don't I activate the trap card Scrap Iron Scarecrow!"
"And I Counter with a trap called Wiretap now your Scarecrow, gets shuffled back into your deck!"
Damn it, all I can do is watch helplessly as my Hero is crushed by his dragon (4000-3500).
Chase
Chase SPC: 05 Sadusky SPC: 05
Come on Deck give me something… I think I've got something.
"I summon Shield Warrior (ATK: 800/DEF: 1600) in Defense Mode! Next I set one card Face down and that's it!"
Sadusky
Chase SPC: 06 Sadusky SPC: 06
"Humph, looks like now you're playing Defense, now Handcuffs Dragon destroy his warrior!"
That's right; just keep doing what I need you to.
"Next I remove 4 of my speed counters to inflict 800 points of damage to you for every speed spell in my hand and guess what; I have 2 (3500-1900).
Even though Sadusky's large grey runner is now going slower than mine, I still won't be able to get away till I win.
Chase
Chase SPC: 07 Sadusky SPC: 03
"Alright then I got the green light! I summon Turbo Synchron, (Level: 1/ATK: 100/DEF: 500) now Turbo Synchron attack, Turbo Speed fist!"
"Didn't they teach you anything at that school, 100 can't destroy-"
"True but thanks to his effect Turbo Synchron switches your Dragon in to defense mode and I can special summon a monster whose ATK points are less than the damage I take! (1900-200) Next I summon Kuriboh (Level: 1/ATK: 300/DEF: 200) in attack mode!"
"You summoned a puff ball with wings, sorry kid but you're still screwed, no matter how many puff balls you summon!"
"Don't you dare doubt the power of my monsters especially because I activate Urgent Tuning!"
"Uh oh I have a bad feeling about this."
"You should because thanks to Urgent Tuning I can Synchro Summon during the battle phase, so guess what that means!"
Turbo Synchron revved up his engines and shot like a bullet, when he stopped he turned in to a green circular finish line and a dematerialized, Kuriboh and Clayman flew threw and with a burst of light, (1+1+4=6) I synchro summon Turbo Warrior in ATK mode!" (ATK: 2500/DEF: 1500)
"Next I activate the trap card Ebon Arrow!"
"Wha, what's that do?"
"Simple, now Turbo Warrior loses 500 ATK points till the end phase,(ATK: 2500-2000) but now you're going to lose life points equal to the difference between their attack and defense, Turbo Warrior Axle Slash!"
The dragon looked up only to find itself too late to save itself. (2700-2500)
"Also thanks to Ebon Arrow's effect you lose life points equal to Handcuffs Dragon's original Defense points (2400-700)! Next I set one card facedown and its back to you. (2000-2500)
Sadusky
Chase SPC: 08 Sadusky SPC: 04
"I refuse to lose to this criminal!"
I don't have time to respond to that, I can tell my duel board is close to overheating. I need to win on the next turn or the board might literally blow up.
"Looks like I won't lose after all."
Oh crap, what does he means by that?
"I send a level 3, a level 4, and another level 4 to the graveyard in order to special summon Montage Dragon!" Oh crap, giant, purple, 3 headed dragon, not good.
"And guess what Montage Dragons ATK points are the combined level of all 3 monsters I just discarded times 300, (ATK: 3300/DEF: 0), next I activate the effect of the Handcuffs Dragon in my graveyard, equipping him to Turbo Warrior and lowering his ATK points by 1800, now Montage Dragon attack with Power Collage!"
The giant, purple Dragon fired a multi-colored beam of energy that would incinerate anything, well almost anything. (200-200)
"What the Hell?"
"Simple, for starters Turbo Warrior isn't affected by the effects of level 6 or lower monsters, like your deformed lizard. Second, I took my shield Warrior from before out of play making Turbo Warrior indestructible and third I activated my Spirit Force trap card which sets all my battle damage to 0."
He's got a frightened look on his face which tells me that he's finally figured it out.
"You, you had this planned from turn 1, didn't you?" "Took you long enough, I've dealt with Sector Security before, I know all about Assault Dog, Handcuffs Dragon, Wire tap, and Montage Dragon, I knew all your moves before you even made them and I believe it's time for the final move."
Chase
Chase SPC: 09 Sadusky SPC: 05
"Now then because I have 9 speed counters I can activate the speed spell Synchro Coat, now because you control a monster that shares a type with a Synchro monster I have in my Extra Deck I can send it to the graveyard and have Montage Dragon count as a Synchro monster till the end phase."
Sadusky's watching helplessly as my Stardust Dragon appears and is now flying towards Montage Dragon, bursting into a white veil around its victim.
"I send Stardust Dragon to the graveyard, now Montage Dragon counts as a Synchro Monster and guess what, when Turbo Warrior attacks a level 6 or higher Synchro Monster that Monsters attack points are halved (3300-1650). Now Turbo Warrior Axle Slash."
The 2 monsters are heading straight for each other. Montage fires bursts of energy from each of its 3 heads but Turbo Warrior's dodging every blast with true grace, ending it by slashing threw all 3 necks at once. (700-0)
Winner: Chase Loser: Sadusky
"See you never!"
Alright, I've beaten this guy, which means his Runner's shut down, plus I can see an exit up ahead which means- what the hell? I think I just heard Sadusky scream.
I know I shouldn't but I have to glance-
"Wait your Runner stopped how is it going so fast?"
Sadusky's Runner is now going faster than before, but his face, it almost, it almost looks like he's dead and he's, he's heading straight for me.
I've got to speed up, even though by this point I can feel the heat radiating off my board as its systems begin to overheat. I know the entire board might explode if I keep this up but he's getting closer and closer, all I need to do is make it to the exit.
I bite my lip as I make a sharp turn right and… up I go.
I suddenly find myself outside and in the air in front of a large Tops building with a swimming pool in the front.
As I start to come down, I hear a familiar sound. It's Sadusky and he's, he's driving his Runner into the air as well. He's now close enough to touch me, but he's missed my arm and now has the cord connecting my disk to my board in his hand.
"No let go!"
The Boards exploded!
Sadusky's screaming as his arm catches on fire. He's now flying over the side of the building, as I, oh no I'm heading straight for the pool!
I've got to hold my breath and think of something because I can't swim.
Ah! I've hit the bottom and I can't think a clear thought as I slowly lose oxygen. My back's hurting, I can't breathe, my legs and right arm are burnt, and, no way, there's just no way, there's, there's just no way, but in front of me, I think I see an Angel.
Next time: Turn 04-The Angel and the Demon
The young boy is now trying to run away, but he finds himself being pulled towards the girl by a large appendage like shadow. He's screaming for help as he gets closer and closer and closer, and with that the young boy is gone.