Author's note: I'm just going to post this as a reminder every time there is a Duel, but cards highlighted in bold are not actual Yugioh cards.
Chapter 14: Fighting the Orichalcos.
As soon as the train derailed, Gohan flew towards the Pharaoh and Tea. By the time he caught up with them, he found an elderly man, a young girl and a wolf by their bodies. They confirmed that the two had survived the fall, and allowed Gohan to stay with them. Later, they awoke, and after being introduced to their hosts, the old and wise Ironheart, the young girl Chris and the fierce and loyal wolf Skye, also meeting Android 16 again, they were taken to another location where, supposedly, you could look for a soul that you have lost.
The Pharaoh, upon reaching this Valley of Lost Souls and hearing Ironheart's instructions, descended into the Valley itself. Gohan and the rest could only look as he braved other vengeful spirits to get to the Stone Circle in the center of the Valley. During that time, Gohan conversed with Android 16 about what happened in the Cell Games, which also featured Ironheart and Chris thanking him for saving the world. Android 16 noted that Gohan seemed to have gotten a lot stronger since then, with Ironheart immediately making the connection to what he called 'the Gift of the Beasts', claiming that he too had received the same power boost the Dark Magician Girl had given Gohan.
Android 16, upon request, told the story of what happened after the Cell Games: he found himself reconstructed in the same area where Cell was fought, only now the landscape was healed. After wandering for a few days, he met Ironheart and his party, and joined them. They were cautious at first after hearing about who he was, but they soon came to accept him due to his inherent benevolence and love for life.
Just after 16 finished, the Seal of Orichalcos appeared on the Stone Circle. Ironheart informed them this is the Pharaoh's test: if he cannot overcome the darkness within him, he will be trapped in the circle forever. Eventually, the Seal disappeared, and he ran over to the center, holding what appeared to be Yugi in his arms.
Later, something else happened. Gohan didn't know what, but Android 16 started getting aggressive, saying that an abomination to life was approaching. Not just one, but two. Ironheart identified exactly what the beast was: the same thing that he fought against during the Battle of Atlantis so many years ago when he waged war against "the evil lord Dartz". Two of those monsters had appeared, and upon Ironheart's request, Gohan immediately flew towards the Pharaoh to assist him in the upcoming battle. Spirits appeared to block his path, among them, spirits of Raditz, Nappa, Dodoria, Zarbon, the Ginyu Force, Frieza and the Spice Boys. Gohan just blasted each one with a Masenko and continued onward.
He reached the Pharaoh just as the Seal of Orichalcos descended, announcing that he wouldn't fight alone. Ironheart then informed them as the two monsters conjured up two more monsters that the spirits of Atlantis would help them, but they cannot act alone, so monsters would need to be summoned. They were then shown a vision from the past of a battle, most likely the Battle of Atlantis, where Ironheart, Chris and Skye were fighting.
The Pharaoh started his turn by summoning the Fusion monster Chimera, the Flying Mythical Beast and attacking one of the two brown monsters with it, while Gohan played his Galick Gun beforehand on his turn as he was the first of the human/Saiyan hybrids to go, after which he followed suit with summoning Crane School Warrior (1000/500) and sacrificing it to summon Twin Sister of Light, which in turn summoned Twin Sister of Darkness, both having 1500 ATK, setting a card after this. He then attacked his 400+500 monster with the former, but after this happened, it got revived, now a 900+500 ATK monster, so he instead switched his second monster to Defense position. His summoner, which was at 3400 LP, revealed a card known as Surprise Attack from Beyond, attacked Twin Sister of Light with his monster, which got destroyed, and reincarnated with 1400+500 ATK, after which it attacked again.
Gohan played Shrink, cutting the monster's attack in half and activated a Special Ability of Twin Sister of Darkness; Black Hole, firstly by discarding a card and forcibly switching the other Twin Sister to Defense mode; he could halve the attack of all attacking monsters, bringing the attacking monster's ATK to 425, and if the ATK fell below 750 (1000 if the monster was a LIGHT attribute, 500 if the Monster was a DARK attribute), that monster was "devoured", meaning that the attacking monster is sacrificed and Gohan gains Life equal to the monster's ATK at the start of the Battle Phase, adding up to a total LP count of 5900. On top of which, if the monster can be Special Summoned due to an ability, that particular ability is negated until the start of the controller's next turn.
The Pharaoh, by that point, had tried activating Fissure to get rid of his assailant, but it only came back stronger at 1900+500 ATK. Gohan's opponent's monster also came back with the same stats. Gohan played Card of Sanctity, giving him up to 6 cards in his hand after which he tried summoning his Lesser Mystic Totem of Healing (0/2500), while his Galick Gun had gained 500 from Crane School Warrior, 1500 from his Sisters, 750 from the Pharaoh's Gazelle and 700 from his Berfomet, the last two having been used as Fusion Material for Chimera, bringing it to a total of 3450. He switched his Twin Sister of Light into Attack mode and activated one of its Special Abilities: Burning Light. First, he discarded a card, then forcibly switched his other Twin Sister to Attack mode, then the Attack of one Monster was decreased by 1000 (2000 if the Monster was DARK, 500 if the Monster was LIGHT) and, due to the monster being DARK, had its attack decreased to 400. The Twin Sister of Light attacked and destroyed it, bringing the summoner down to 2300. The monster was then reincarnated with an ATK of 2400+500, after which Gohan played a face-down card.
The Pharaoh, who had lost Chimera and brought back Gazelle, had just used Mirror Force to destroy his opponent's monster, but it got reincarnated with the same stats as the one facing Gohan. The latter one attacked again, but Gohan activated his face-down Kunai with Chain, using its effect to switch the monster into Defense position. Upon taking his turn, Gohan received a total of 3000 Life Points due to there being six monsters total in play for a grand total of 8900 points, and played Pot of Greed, gaining 2 cards, then Enemy Controller, changing the monster facing him into Attack position. He then played his Twin Sister of Light's ability, weakening it by 2000 points to get it down to 900, and then his Galick Gun fired, destroying the monster and dealing a fatal 2550 damage to the summoner, knocking him out of the game. He then ended by switching his Twin Sister of Darkness to Defense mode.
By that point, the Pharaoh's Gazelle was destroyed, and replaced by the Obnoxious Celtic Guardian. Gohan, knowing that he couldn't let him drop out of the game, activated his Life Transfer magic card to give his partner the 2500 Life points acquired from the Healing Totem, for a total of 4800 Life Points. The remaining summoner targeted Gohan with Swords of Revealing Light and attacked the Celtic Guardian with the 2400+500 creature, bringing him down to 3200 LP, but not destroying the monster.
After this, the Pharaoh and Gohan were shown more of the Battle of Atlantis, more specifically how the battle was playing out. The Duel then continued with the former passing and taking another 1500 damage to have 1700 LP remaining. Gohan then drew exactly what he needed: the Eye of Timaeus. First, he used Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy the Swords of Revealing Light that were stopping him from attacking, then next was the Magic Card Sister's Unity, turning his Twin Sisters into one monster with 2500 ATK and DEF, and then came Timaeus itself. Gohan immediately fused him with his Sisters to create Sisters' Twilight Dragon, with 3000 ATK and DEF.
The Dragon looked like Timaeus, but with the Twin Sisters standing back to back on his back, with one half of him shining and one half of him being partially hidden under a black haze. "I now activate the Special Ability of my Dragon!" Gohan began. "When I discard two cards, it weakens your monster by 2000 Attack points, 3000 if your monster is DARK attribute, but 1000 if it is LIGHT, and if the Former Attribute monster's strength falls below 1000, the Latter Attribute below 2000, and everything else below 1500, it is devoured."
With that, the last summoner's monster's attack dropped from 2900 to 0 and left the field, giving Gohan the same number of Life Points. He then attacked directly with the Dragon, destroying the other opponent, after which the Seal vanished.
Gohan, feeling that the Pharaoh would be able to use Timaeus again now that he had passed the trial before this battle, returned the card to him. After bidding everyone farewell, the two of them, along with Tea, continued onwards. After a while, they ran into Tien and Chiaotzu, who were training in that area at the time, and they decided to accompany the three of them for a while. Later, a KaibaCorp Jet was seen flying over, and three Dragons, Timaeus and Hermos included, were carrying it on their backs. Eventually, the aircraft was set down at a location not too far from where everyone else was, and the five of them not only met up with Joey and Tristan carrying a soulless Rex Raptor, but also the Kaiba Brothers.
Bad news came as all of them boarded a KaibaCorp helicopter that was with the plane: the company had been bought by Dartz. However, there was a turnaround when Kaiba mentioned that he had sent people to the Museum that contained Professor Hawkins' research. They eventually contacted him and uploaded the images, but not finishing before they were cut off. The images, as a result, were not of good quality and they had to go to KaibaCorp headquarters as a result.
Landing there, they were met by Professor Hawkins, Rebecca, Duke, Bulma and Vegeta. After the landing, a time machine appeared, and out came Trunks in his mother's Saiyan Battle Armor. After greeting everyone and informing them of his success in taking down not only the Androids, but also the monster Cell of his time, he was informed of the new threat facing the world.
Trunks volunteered his abilities on the spot, but Tea and Tristan thought they would need more help and so decided to contact the police. Tien, thinking something was off, decided to accompany them, taking Chiaotzu and Trunks along as well, while the Pharaoh, Kaiba and Gohan broke into KaibaCorp and Vegeta grudgingly stood guard over Bulma, Duke, Joey, Mokuba and the Hawkins family.
Inside KaibaCorp, Gohan defended Kaiba and the Pharaoh from hostile monsters, and also with remote help from Rebecca and her hacking skills, they reached their target without much incident. After a while though, Dartz himself seemed to overload the machine and challenge the three of them to Duel. He immediately asked, upon seeing Timaeus summoned, how his eye was, a question that apparently infuriated the dragon so much that it attacked. It was revealed around that time that Dartz owned the Paradius organization; an organization that owned a small piece of every company in the world.
Meanwhile, the talk with the police force wasn't going well, as they had been corrupted by Dartz, and Tien, Trunks and Chiaotzu were forced to fight them off along with a summoned monster, the same one that the Pharaoh and Gohan fought. Tea and Tristan were forced to flee, and ran into Joey in the streets, running in the opposite direction. One thing led to another, and the Seal of Orichalcos descended from the sky, signifying that a Duel was underway. At one point, Kaiba, the Pharaoh and Gohan fought off more of the monster summoners, the Orichalcos soldiers, using Critias, Timaeus and the Super Saiyan form respectively.
Gohan took to the air after dealing with the Soldiers, and was the first to find Joey dueling: he looked beaten, yet unwilling to back down. Mai was also there, but soon after, the Seal closed in on Joey's opponent. Knowing there might be another Duel right around the corner, Gohan told Joey to hold off on Dueling until he got back. He planned to restore Joey's strength with a Senzu Bean, yet by the time he got the beans (only three) from the cat Korin, he began to sense the dark energies that accompanied the Seal of Orichalcos. Gohan sped back to his friend as fast as he possibly could, but he was too late; the Seal had descended, locking Joey and Mai inside.
After a few minutes, where surprisingly Mai seemed to be undergoing a change of heart as she couldn't bring herself to attack her then defenseless opponent, the one thing Gohan didn't want to happen occurred: Joey fainted from exhaustion and the Seal closed in around him. With that, though, the former could sense that the dark powers in Mai were dissipating, and she herself realized that she had given up things truly valuable in favor of following 'a madman who promised her power' and promised that Dartz would pay.