Episode 28: Law and Order

An unknown person is walking through a pure, almost glowing, white hallway. The person is a young man. He is wearing a partially unbuttoned white overcoat, with a large collar, and with a white shirt under it. He also has white pants. His hair is yellow and flares backwards at a 45 degree angle. He has yellow eyes. He steps up to a large doorway. The doors automatically swoosh open and he steps in.

He is in a nearly empty, white, large room. There is one piece of furniture in the center, a white bed with a man in it. The person walks up to the bed and kneels in front of the man. The man looks very old, frail, and weak. He is bald and appears to have his skin receding into his skull. The first person says, "My Lord, I am here. What can I do for you?"

The old man slowly raises his head and looks at the other man. He says weakly, "Ma'at…thank you for coming."

The man, apparently named Ma'at, says, "Anything for you my Lord."

The old man struggles to say, "As you-," the old man stops to cough, "as you probably know, there is a dark force rising. A dark force that-" he coughs again, "that threatens the Order. We have taken it upon ourselves to guard the Order." He coughs once more. "That is why we are the Guardians of Order."

Ma'at says, "Yes, of course Lord Themis."

The old man, apparently called Themis, continues, "In the recent months the dark force has gathered more and more power. No longer is Chaos the only threat to Order, but now this dark force is also." Themis coughs. "I lie here on my death bed due to this destruction of the Order, and I make a request of you." He coughs again.

Ma'at says, "Anything my Lord, just tell me and I will do it. I am your loyal servant."

Themis says, "You are more than just that. You are my greatest follower, you are the son I never had." He coughs once more. "And now I assign onto you the great duty of vanquishing the darkness that threatens both the Order and I. You will be equipped with the Grand Deck of Order and the powers to manipulate Order. Do your best. I know you can help restore order to this world." He coughs again. "Now go, I have spent too much energy on this conversation. You know what to do."

Ma'at stands up and says, "Of course Lord Themis. You can trust me. I will protect Order just as I swore to when I first became a Guardian. I will crush the darkness that plagues this world. I will return Order." Ma'at bows and leaves the room. Themis lies back down.

Ma'at exits the room and walks down the hallway. He continues walking until he makes it into another white room. He steps into the center of the room and says, "Activate Protocol One, authorization code Ma'at Alpha Seven."

An electronic female voice says, "Authorization code excepted. Activate Protocol One, Guardian Initiative." A beam of light comes out of the ceiling and covers Ma'at. Ma'at's skin begins to glow. Ma'at floats a couple inches into the air. A golden light appears around Ma'at's left arm and consolidates to form a glowing, golden Duel Gauntlet. Ma'at is slowly lowered down and the light turns off. The computer says, "Protocol One initiated. You now posses the powers of Order and the Grand Deck of Order. Good Luck on your mission, Guardian Ma'at."

Ma'at looks at his arm with the Duel Gauntlet and says, "I won't need it. Order is on my side."

Yuni and Brutus are walking through Domino City. Brutus is bragging, "That was just awesome how I managed to beat Sly. Ha! He thought he could beat me by weakening my monsters, ha! I sure showed him."

Yuni, looking annoyed, says, "For the hundredth time Brutus, yes you did."

Brutus apologizes, "Sorry, I'm just so psyched that I beat that guy."

Yuni says, "Well, if you want to compete in this tournament, you better stop holding on to past victories and start looking for a future one." Yuni waits for a response, but doesn't get one. He looks to the side and sees Brutus isn't walking alongside him anymore. He looks back and sees Brutus standing frozen in mid-stride. He waves in front of Brutus' face and says, "Hello? Brutus?" Yuni looks around and sees that it is as if time is frozen. People everywhere are frozen in the middle of everyday activities. There is a sudden flash of light and Yuni is standing in what looks like a void of white and light. All of the people are still there, still frozen the same way, but there is a strange grey aura around all of them. Yuni on the other hand has an aura that swirls gold and dark purple. Yuni thinks, What's going on here!?

Yugi answers, I have no clue. I've seen a lot of crazy things, but this almost tops anything. Maybe we should take a look around, we might get some answers.

Yuni starts to walk through the void. As he travels through it, he sees the same thing everywhere, frozen people with grey auras. After a while of searching Yuni sees movement in the distance, he runs towards it. As he gets closer he can tell that it's a duel. There are two people, one is Ma'at, the other is a person dressed in a black cloak. Ma'at has a gold aura and the other person has a black aura. Yuni thinks, That's a Disciple of Darkness, and he's dueling someone!

Ma'at shouts, "Now my monster, attack him directly and show him the light!" A large monster made of light shoots a beam at the disciple and reduces his life points to zero. Ma'at shouts, "Now you will pay for destroying the Order! I banish your soul!"

The disciple shouts, "No! You can't do this to me! No!"

Ma'at shoots a beam of light at the disciple. The beam of light flies through him, as it does the disciple passes out, and his aura stops emitting.

Yuni demands, "Who are you!?"

Ma'at turns to Yuni and studies him. He says with disgust, "I was not expecting to see one of your kind here. You must be a member of the Society of Chaos."

Yuni looks confused and thinks, How does he know about the Society? He then says out loud, "I am an ally of the Society. What does it matter to you and how do you know?"

"I am Ma'at. I am a Guardian of Order and I have come to destroy those who spread darkness across the land. Those of the likes of you. And in this void, only those who embrace darkness can move."

"There must be some kind of mistake, the Society of Chaos works to stop darkness too. They don't spread it."

Ma'at says angrily, "They do not seek to eliminate it, they only seek to control. A Guardian of Order seeks to protect the Cosmic Balance of Order by destroying darkness. Your kind might as well support darkness by not trying to destroy it."

"But you can't destroy darkness and keep the Balance, the Balance comes from a balance of both light and darkness. With out one, the world would fall into total chaos!"

"I can see you have been brainwashed like all the others of your kind. Enough of this nonsense. We'll settle this with a duel! And don't you think about denying, you are trapped in this little void of mine until you duel me."

Yuni raises his arm with his Duel Gauntlet, and says, "Finally, something I can agree with. Let's do this."

Yugi asks, Are you sure you want to do this? You saw what he did to that one guy. What if he does it to you?

Yuni answers, It doesn't matter, we're stuck in this strange void, there's nothing we can do except duel him. Yuni looks straight at Ma'at and says, "I'm ready when you are."

Ma'at says, "I looks forward to punishing you."

Yuni activates his Duel Gauntlet and shouts, "Duel on!"

Ma'at holds his Duel Gauntlet to the sky and a beam of light comes down and cloaks his arm. The light dissipates and a deck box is attached to his special Duel Gauntlet. The computer voice says, "Official World of Duel Tournament duel now commencing. Yuni Oha: 614 points vs. Ma'at: 1257 points. Scanning decks…decks accepted. Commence dueling."

Ma'at draws and says, "I'll take the first move! I summon Soldier of Order (Light/Level 4/Warrior/Effect/ATK 1800/DEF 1000)." Ma'at's monster looks like a knight, completely clad in white armor, trimmed with gold. All of the seams in the armor reveal that below the armor is a body of light. "When I summon this card, I can send two light monsters from my deck to the graveyard. I'll send two more copies of Soldier of Order. Now by returning two light monsters from my graveyard to my deck, I can special summon Master of Order (Light/Level 8/Fairy/Effect/ATK 2800/DEF 2300)." A monster of similar appearance to the last appears on the field, except it has angelic wings and glows a radiant gold. "Master of Order increases the attack of all light type monsters I control by 500 (Master of Order ATK: 3300) (Soldier of Order ATK: 2300). Since I control two light type monsters, I can now special summon Guardian of Order from my hand (Light/Level 8/Warrior/Effect/ATK 2500/DEF 1200) (ATK: 3000). Now I set a card and end my turn (Ma'at's hand: 2)."

Yuni looks stunned. He thinks, He just pulled out two mega powerful monsters on his first turn! This guy's good!

Yugi says, Well we have no choice but to duel better.

Yuni draws. "You duel well, but I'll just have to duel even better. I activate Cyber Sage Transcendence! This ritual spell card allows me two tribute monsters who's total levels equal seven or more from my hand or field in order to summon a Cyber-Tech Sage from my hand. I tribute the Cyber-Tech Magician in my hand and summon Cyber-Tech Sage (Dark/Level 7/Spellcaster/Ritual/ATK 2800/DEF 2500)!" Two torches appear on either side of an alter on the field. A beam of light shines down onto the alter and a silhouette appears in it. The figure steps out of the light. It looks reminiscent of Cyber-Tech Magician, but older and wiser. "When I summon Cyber-Tech Sage, I can draw a card. My Cyber-Tech Sage also has the ability to make its name count as Cyber-Tech Magician, which means I am allowed to activate this, the Cyber-Tech Spellbook of Superiority! This card let's me make the attack of a Cyber-Tech Magician monster I control become equal to the attack of your strongest monster (ATK: 3300). Now go Cyber-Tech Sage, attack Guardian of Order with Cyber Magic Mastery!" Cyber-Tech Sage launches a beam of dark magic at Ma'at's monster, destroying it (Ma'at's LP: 3700). "I set a card and end my turn (Yuni's hand: 3)."

Ma'at draws. "You have shown you have teeth, but it's not enough. You, along with all of your kind, will fall. I activate Growth of Order. This spell allows me to draw a card for each Order monster I control, which is two." Ma'at draws two more cards. "I activate Preparation of Order. This card allows me to discard a card, such as my Soldier of Order, in order to send two more Order monsters from my deck to the grave, like my other two Soldiers of Order. Now I activate Surge of Order. This card tributes all monsters I control in order to destroy all monsters you control!" Ma'at's two monsters turn into balls of light, the two balls explode and destroy Yuni's monster. "Also I can add one Order monster from my deck to my hand. I add Supreme Dragon of Order - Eunomia. I return my Soldier of Order and my Master of Order to my deck in order to special summon Supreme Dragon of Order - Eunomia (Light/Level 10/Dragon/Effect/ATK ?/DEF ?)!" A ball of light appears on the field. The ball starts to fluctuate and slowly take a long thin form. That form starts to consolidate and becomes a semi-serpentine dragon. At first the dragon is made of only light, but then white armor with gold trim begins to form around it, almost completely encasing it, except for several gaps in the armor. "This is the most powerful of all the monsters of Order, and it will be your undoing. It gains 1000 attack for every Order monster in my graveyard, which I have four of (ATK: 4000). Now, Eunomia, attack this Chaos scum directly and help restore Order, go Force of Order!" Eunomia launches a beam of light energy at Yuni.

Yuni says, "I won't give up that easy, I activate Cyber-Tech Boot-Up! This trap allows me to summon one level four or lower Cyber-Tech monster from my hand. I special summon Cyber-Tech Gardna (Earth/Level 2/Warrior/Effect/ATK 0/DEF 2000), which has an effect that allows me to negate one of your attacks once per turn!"

Ma'at chuckles and says, "You think that can stop me? I activate the effect of my dragon, since its battling a monster, I can return an Order monster from my graveyard to my deck in order to return your monster to your hand. It may reduce my monster's attack by 1000 and stop me from winning this turn, but it is worth it. Go, Subjugation of Order!" A brilliant light is emitted from Eunomia and when the light goes away Yuni's monster is gone (Eunomia's ATK: 3000). "Now continue your attack, Force of Order!" Eunomia unleashes its attack again. This time it hits Yuni (Yuni's LP: 1000). "You're almost finished Chaos scum, I end my turn (Ma'at's hand: 1)."

Yuni thinks, It doesn't matter what I do. This guy just beats down whatever I do. Luckily for me, I have a plan in motion. I should be able to take down his ultimate monster. Yuni draws a card and says, "The effect of my Cyber-Tech Sage in my grave allows me to banish him, along with his ritual, Cyber Sage Transcendence, in order to special summon a Cyber-Tech Magician from my graveyard (Dark/Level 7/Spellcaster/Effect/ATK 2500/DEF 2100)." A portal opens and Yuni's signature monster emerges from it. "Now I activate Cyber-Tech Spellbook of Overpowering! I can only equip this card to a Cyber-Tech Magician monster. If I'm loosing, his attack doubles, if I'm winning it halves (ATK: 5000). I have my Cyber-Tech Magician attack your Supreme Dragon of Order - Eunomia. Finish this off with Cyber Magic Attack!"

Ma'at questions, "I know you must not be smart, if you follow the path of Chaos, but why would you think that you would win when you can only inflict 2000 points of damage?"

Yuni answers, "Because of my effect. If Cyber-Tech Magician battles, he negates the effect of the monster he battles. Go, Effect Sealing Magic!" Cyber-Tech Magician attempts to cast its spell.

Ma'at laughs. "How amusing! You don't know how dumb of you that was! If a monster attempts to negate the effect of my monster, that monster has its effect negated and your monster is destroyed! Go, Protection of Order!" Cyber-Tech Magician casts its spell, but a barrier of light surrounds Eunomia and the spell rebounds and hits Cyber-Tech Magician, destroying it.

Yuni exclaims in his mind, No! This can't be! In order to win, I needed that monster! I don't know what I can do now.

Ma'at says, "Well, how interesting. It would appear that this Cyber-Tech Magician of yours is what your deck is based off of, but it would appear that my monster is the perfect counter to it. It is as if I was meant to crush you. Now are you going to stand there all day, or are you going to end your turn so I can rid this planet of the disorder you cause?"

Yuni quietly says, "I end my turn (Yuni's hand: 3)."

Ma'at says, "Very good. Time to destroy you! Supreme Dragon of Order - Eunomia, ready your attack!" Ma'at's dragon charges a beam of energy.

Yuni falls onto his knees and thinks in horror, This is it. He attacks me and I lose. I have nothing I can counter with. Goodbye Yugi, it's been a pleasure sharing my body with you.

Yugi, also sounding depressed, says, Likewise. I can't believe after everything we've been through, it ends like this.

Ma'at continues, "Now Eunomia, launch your-" A look of shock crosses Ma'at's face. He has a vision. He sees Themis lying in his room of white. He is violently coughing and convulsing. The vision instantly stops. Ma'at shouts, "Lord Themis, no!" He looks at Yuni and says, "You got lucky Chaos scum. I don't have time to take your soul. I'll come back for you later." Ma'at vanishes.

The duel computer says, "Ma'at has left the duel field, meaning he forfeits. For the effort he put up, Yuni Oha is awarded with 100 points for a total of 714 points. Ma'at has gained zero points for forfeiting for a total of 1257."

The strange void created by Ma'at vanishes leaving Yuni in the real world. He is still kneeling on the floor, but he is exactly were he was before time stopped. Time resumes and Brutus says, "Hey Yuni, why are you kneeling on the floor like that?"

Yuni doesn't answer. He thinks, If I can't beat that guy, how am I supposed to beat Oblivion? Yuni pauses for a second and thinks, And what if everything I'm doing is wrong? What if what Ma'at said was true? What if Chaos really is the wrong path?

Yugi says, Come on Yuni. You may have gotten lucky this time, but thinking like this isn't going to help you next time you meet that guy. Keep your faith and I know you will do what is right and you will beat him next time, and I know that you will meet again. Now get up, and get over it.

Yuni slowly stands up. A tear runs down his face. He thinks, I don't know, I just don't know.

Brutus says, "Hello? Earth to Yuni."

Yuni takes a deep breath and says, "Sorry Brutus. I was out of it for a second. What were you saying?"