Yu-gi-oh
No Limits
By Kevin Jones
Turn 10- Gold plates and Blackwings
Vanessa made sure to stay in the center of the crowd. She was afraid if security saw her, they might ask her why she wasn't in school and then she'd be back where she started.
She's hoping that by wearing jeans, a Navy Blue Sweat shirt and Seattle Mariners cap, she won't draw attention to herself.
"Coney Island Beach, I guess this means I'm close."
She pulls a piece of paper out of her shirt pocket and carefully unfolds it and looks at the instructions her grandfather wrote for her.
According to her grandfather she was only a few blocks from a Italian restaurant called The Golden Plate.
She thought back to last night. After telling her Grandfather about Chase and Damon she got an answer she never expected.
He believed her, as insane as the story sounded he still believed it to be true, in fact he said he might be able to help. He wrote down instructions and promised he'd take care of distracting her parents and the rest was up to her.
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The Golden Plate isn't a very large restaurant, nor does it look very nice. The gold on the sign is faded and for a minute Vanessa thought she saw a live rat on the window sill, but this was the address her Grandpa gave her so this has to be the place.
She walks in to a loud, crowded, cramped dining room with waiters going in and out of the kitchen faster than race horses; apparently, she's hit the lunch rush.
She quickly seats herself at a table in the corner and looks at her instructions on what to do next.
"Ask for Toni", are the last 3 words on small piece of stationary. She carefully scans the room, Toni could be anybody.
"What'll it be Ms?" The question nearly makes Vanessa jump out of her seat.
"Easy there, I just need to know what you want."
Vanessa looked at the young waiters name tag, Sam, so this isn't the guy.
"Um, may I speak to Toni please?"
He stares at her a moment, very intensely and perplexingly.
"Sorry kid she's in school right now, which is where I'd imagine you should be as well."
Vanessa's face turns red and she looks like she's about to panic.
"Listen I can explain-"
"Save it, you're not the first the kid who's played hooky because you need to see Toni. Head over to the board walk over by the beach and wait till about 3. That's usually where and when Toni duels, she'll probably be running a Blackwing deck."
"Thank you."
"However I'd recommend you order something. You look like you haven't eaten in a while and if you're in trouble with someone they'll spot you out easily with that kind of a nervous look on your face.
"People could be watching me!" The words flew around in Vanessa's brain like a moth mesmerized by a flame. Why would they want to watch me? They probably already know that Chase in the Facility but what if they don't? Then they might think that we split up as part of a plan or something and if whoever they have watching me finds it necessary they might just- oh god what have I gotten myself into?
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Vanessa's fear had turned to boredom. She has spent the past 2 hours sitting on a bench watching the waves go back and forth. It didn't matter if she looked to her left or to her right no one who was dueling used Blackwings, she wasn't quite sure what kind of cards Blackwings were but she was sure none of the Holograms she saw were Blackwings.
"Hey carrot top!"
A startled Vanessa is now looking at a short girl with short black messy hair, brown eyes, and an upside down triangle with rounded edges facility mark on her right check.
"Me?"
"Yeah you; are you Rudy Goldman?"
"No."
"I am!"
Another voice came from the right of them; this one belongs to a tall young man who could easily squash both girls with his massive arms.
"Rumor has it you're the one who snitched me out to the principal," says the skinny girl.
"So what if I am; you're the one who ruined the school pep rally the other day," Says the muscular boy.
"Big deal our Foot ball team sucks anyways."
"Shows how much you know!"
"Oh yeah, prove it."
"I don't play Foot ball against girls."
"Fine, then do you duel?"
"A little bit, why?"
"Well way I figure it football's all about strategy so surely a smart and strong football quarterback can beat a little computer nerd such as me."
"Fine then, if I win you have to turn yourself in for every other offense you've done, and in the impossible event I lose I promise never to snitch on you or anybody else ever again."
"Sounds good to me, now let's duel!"
Mystery Girl
"Lady's first."
"Ok, I summon Blackwing Mistral the Silver Shield (ATK: 100/DEF: 1800) in defense mode and end my turn."
"Wait, did she just say Blackwing?" Vanessa says to herself.
Rudy
Some first move, but don't worry I'll make sure mine is much more interesting. I activate the spell card Double Summon, which allows me to normal summon twice this turn and I think I'm going to use my first summon to bring out Alien Shocktrooper (ATK: 1900/DEF: 800) and my second summon for The 13th Grave; (ATK: 1200/DEF: 900) Now Shocktrooper destroy her bird with Alien slash!"
The 4 legged alien monster ran and sliced right through the small shielded black bird and the skeleton was next.
"Now 13th Grave go in for a direct (4000-4000)! Hey why didn't you lose any life points?"
"Simple when Mistral the Silver Shield is sent from the field to the graveyard all the damage from your next attack becomes 0."
"Ok ,so you made one smart move but if football's taught me anything it's that Defense is useless without offense, now let's see if you can use offense!"
Mystery girl
"You want offense, you got offense! I play Black Whirlwind, now when I normal summon a Blackwing I can add another one with less ATK points straight to my hand, next I summon Blackwing Shura the Blue Flame, (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1200) now attack, Alien Shocktrooper!"
"Wow, you aren't very smart because in case you haven't noticed Shocktrooper is 100 points to high."
"And in case you haven't noticed Blackwing Whirlwind allowed me to add a Blackwing to my hand and the one I added was Kalut the Moon Shadow and by sending him off to the graveyard I can increase Shura's ATK power by 1400 (ATK: 1800-3200) (4000-2700) but it's not over yet because when Shura destroys one of your monsters I can special summon Blackwing-Gale The Whirlwind. (ATK: 1300/DEF: 400) Now Gale attack his bag of bones! (2700-2600)
Rudy
"Not bad, but not good either, I play Ancient Rules which allows me to special summon Red Eyes Black Dragon straight from my hand!"
Both girls watch as a large malevolent looking Dragon appears in front of them, it's most notable feature, its teeth.
"Next I play the continuous spell card normal revenge. Now since I have 2 normal monsters in my graveyard and since you control 2 monsters I can attack them both! Now Red Eyes Black Dragon Inferno Fire Blast on both monsters! (4000-2300) "Now then, make your final move because after it fails you're going to be in detention so long you won't have time to duel."
"We'll see about that."
Mystery girl
"I play Against the Wind! Now for the small cost of 1300 life points (2300-1000) I can add Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind back to my hand! Next I summon Blackwing-Blizzard the Far North (Level: 2ATK: 1300/DEF: 0) now when Blizzard is summoned I can special summon Shura the Blue Flame (level: 2)!"
The chubby Seagull lands on the girls black duel disk, reaches its beak into the graveyard and in a burst of light the large blue bird returns to the field.
"Sadly my Shura's going back to the graveyard but don't worry because now a new birdie's coming to play! I tune Blackwing-Blizzard the Far North and Blackwing Shura the Blue Flame," the pudgy white seagull flies high into the air with blue and black bird man close behind. As Blizzard reaches its maximum altitude it turns into 2 large green rings, Shura now flies through them turning into 4 shinning stars and with the wind circling around it, (2+4=6) "I synchro summon, Blackwing Armed Wing (ATK: 2300/DEF: 1000)!"
The new bird on the field appears more human than bird and also this one has a gun.
"Looks like you screwed up, you should have returned Kalut the Moon Shadow because then you would've had enough ATK points to take out my Dragon."
"I'm not done yet because now since I control another Blackwing I can special summon Gale the Whirlwind straight from my hand! And guess what he's got a special ability to. Now I can halve the ATK and DEF points of your overgrown lizard!"
With no sign of fear the small purple bird flies up to the big black dragon and with a flap of its wings weakens the dragon to a level even it could fight at. (ATK: 1200/DEF: 1000)
"Now Blackwing Armed Wing shoot that dragon down, (2600-1500) Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind direct attack, (1500-200) now who's got to make their final move count.
Rudy
"Let's see you get past this defense, I play Scapegoat which gives me 4 Sheep Tokens in defense mode." (ATK: 0/DEF: 0)
Mystery girl
"With pleasure because you see when Armed Wing attacks a defense position monster all the damage gets deducted straight from your life points! Now Black Wing Armed Wing, Winged shoot!" (200-0)
Mystery Girl: Win Rudy: Lose
"You tricked me you're not a bad duelist at all!"
"I didn't trick you, I am a computer nerd, and you on the other hand are nothing but a dumb football player."
"Ok that's it I don't care if you're a girl!"
The large angry school boy is now running towards the girl. She stands still and when he gets close enough she punches him right in the stomach, as he goes down she lifts her leg and kicks him in his right temple, needless to say, he hits the ground with a thud.
"Now get your sorry ass out of here, while I'm still in a good mood."
Now no longer feeling like a big strong football player and now more like a weak puppy, Rudy scurries off, to shocked to say anything. The girl turns around to see that the red head is still here only now with her mouth gaping wide open.
"You're still here?"
"You duel Blackwings!"
"Yeah so?"
"You just got out of school!"
"Yeah so?"
"I know this is going to sound like a weird question but is your name Toni?"
"Who wants to know?"
The ginger sprints up and is now right in the girls face, she then grabs her hand and starts shaking it like a water pump.
"I'm Vanessa and I need your help, do you know how to hack into Public Security maintenance Bureau?"
"Hold on a sec there… Vanessa," Toni yanks her hand away from Vanessa only to realize it has now turned red from her grip, "let's step into my "office"."
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Within minutes the 2 girls are in an apartment over The Gold plate.
"So before we head to my room how did you find out about me?"
"My Grandfather plays cards with your Grandfather, I think."
She then gets up extremely close to Vanessa's face and closely examines it for a minute or 2 before walking back, and sitting herself down on dirty old red recliner.
"Your Wilfred Aaronson's Granddaughter, aren't you?"
"How'd you guess?"
"Don't take this the wrong way, but you like him."
"Oh no I get- never mind that, listen I need your help."
"Fine then, get talking."
Retelling the story to Toni didn't take much longer than with her Grandfather however Toni didn't seem to listen and it made Vanessa feel embarrassed when her story was finished.
"So let me get this straight you couldn't keep your nose out of some guys business and now he and another guy are in the facility."
"Basically, but what's done is done and now I've got to get them out, can you help me?"
"Well that all depends."
"Depends on what?"
"Depends on how you want to get them out."
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I hate The Facility! Day 2 sucked, everything I do is monitored and controlled even when I pee for god sake! Also it isn't very fun taking a shower with 10 other guys, each one- what the hell? There's an alarm going off and the cell door just opened!
"Chase what's going on?" Asked a dreary eyed Damon.
"I think we just found our way out of here."
Next Time: The escape
"You sure about this Chase?"
"No not really but we can't bet it all on this power outage."
Kai looks at me skeptically.
"My friend you got guts. If you make it, meet us at this Toni girl's house."
"Don't worry I have bad habit of keeping my ass out of too much trouble."
After hearing that Kai takes a deep breath and says, "I think we're a little too late for that."