Yu-gi-oh
No Limits
By Kevin Jones
Turn 3-To the Tops
I laid down trying to get a little rest. It was not working. I was in the back of a UPS truck, with my only company being some large crates by the door, I didn't want to know was in them. Suddenly my worries were interrupted by the stop of the truck. I quickly but quietly ran to the back of the truck like I was told and listened in so I would know when I was out of the danger zone.
"Who you delivering for?" A heavy voice from the outside said, I wondered if it was someone who would look inside the truck if he felt something was off with my "escort's" story and if so, was he big enough to be able to throw the crate and me with it. "It's for Mr. Camilo." Said the driver, he said it loud enough for the whole city to hear. "I should probably see for myself, we've had a lot of trespassers sneaking in threw trucks like this." Though it only lasted a few seconds I quickly imagined what would happen, when he looked behind the crate and found me, but it wasn't to be. I heard a beeping noise and saw a red light by the corner of my eye and then I heard a deep giant chuckle, the man couldn't have been more than 2 feet away. "What a surprise more crap from the Middle Ages, that Camillo must be trying to remember his childhood." Once again I heard loud heavy footsteps this time leaving the truck. "As far as I'm concerned everything checks out, you can go ahead." I heard another beep this one from outside and the large brown truck went back on its course heading up towards the Tops district.
About an hour passed in silence before I heard the driver say. "It's time." I took a deep breath and said "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 than 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 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. 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 rock song by some guy named Adam Lambert 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 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 and found the light switch I flicked it 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 in 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. 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 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 high 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 partner." "Fine I can see where that makes sense but why did I get you and not one of my Elemental hero's, you know the guys I've used more than once."
Don't get me wrong when tuner's like Debris Dragon are used correctly they can really make turn a duel around but tuner's like Debris Dragon present several problems. First of all its revival effect only works for weak monsters like Kuriboh or Turbo Synchron, second you can only bring these monsters back in attack mode so getting a monster on the field with low attack and high defense is pointless, and you can't even activate their effects. Third of all I can only Synchro summon a dragon type monster so getting out a high level anything else is impossible also getting out a high level anything is impossible because none of the other Synchro material monsters can be level 4 so for my deck I can only use this card to Synchro summon Stardust Dragon, if my opponent has a card that negates the Synchro summon but keeps the monsters on the field I'm screwed, and I'm going to need at least 3 monsters to do the Synchro summon. Bottom line is that this monster may have been useful against Scott Truman but if that situation had been in any way different I would have been screwed.
"Hey they assigned me so that way I'd be able to fade in and out easier." 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."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. "Bad dream woke me up, probably something I ate." "Yes well this is officer Sadusky and Officer 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 Benigni, 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, which is true before Sadusky said.
"Yeah well on less you've got something useful to 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 the assembly you hipped everyone up about I didn't think it was right and chose to cut him a deal, he got to go to the assembly and he helped me grade papers." "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 a 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." "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 than 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 Debris Dragon'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 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." "I didn't ask for one." "Trust me on this, now would you like Ketchup or Mustard." I could tell he had rehearsed this, which brought up the interesting questions of why did this guy rehearse, 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 when I should get there.
Not sure what to think of all this I took 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 and 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 Benigni its 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 with common sense I decided to play along until I returned to intelligent land. "Profesor Benigni 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 to take over the city." "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. 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 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's make 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 got 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 one seem mediocre and you can't think of anything else can you." I looked away trying to pretend there was 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 to Secaucus to Manhattan at 4:00 o clock. If you come I'll get to you the Tops."
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 are "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." SaidBenigni, 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 time made me feel like a puppet and 2 the street vendor from earlier was standing next to him in a FedEx 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 a small yelp. Benigni took a deep breath and stepped towards an open FedEx 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 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, than 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 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 jail time?" Benigni got silent, Arnold got a worried look on his face and Debris Dragon just kept looking back at the 3 of us, it was safe bet he didn't fully understand the situation.
After that I stepped into the truck and sat myself with my Duel Board across my legs behind the crate as the back of the trucked automatically closed. It took about 20 minutes before we made it to the entrance, then another 20 before we reached the small dropped. When I slid into the space where the wall and the road were Arnold started saying something. I turned my head towards Arnold and he got the message. "I don't care about what you have to say, now get out of here before you get us both caught. He drove away and I fashioned myself into a squat and closed my eyes so I could calm my nerves.
"Chase, wake up chase your Backpack is blinking." Half continues I opened my backpack and found my Duel Disk blinking. "I guess they figured out away to give me a sign." I threw my Duel Board up and proceeded to jump over onto the road. I connected my Wrist Dealer with my Disk, attached my disk to the cord which was attached to the board and got on. "Think this will work?" "Don't know."
We road, or in Debris Dragon's case flew, around for several minutes before he got agitated. "How much longer till we reach the top?" I pulled the key chain from my pocket and said. "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, Mr. Rhodes pull over I moved my head back for a split second and instantly realized who it was.
"Detective Sadusky!" "Bingo like Tate said give you a little time and you'll come straight here."
"What would make her think that?" I said to myself. "Forget that we got a go faster before he catches us!" Said Debris Dragon.
I pushed down on the accelerator as fast as I could. Even though going to fast could over heat the board the alternative was 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, Hough, well I'll take care of that."
Suddenly I heard a noise come from my Duel Disk.
"Duel mode on."
I cursed under my breath; I had heard rumors that back when Turbo Dueling started Sector Security developed a computer virus that could hack Duel Disks and force you into a Duel with the emphasize 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 were going to the facility!" I picked up my hand and placed in a slot on my dealer and said. "Then I won't lose."
Sadusky
"Alright than 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) "Ah 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!" (3200-3000) As one dog fell to the ground, I suddenly saw another one jump out of nowhere. "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.
(3000-2600)
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 and it was 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!" I watched helplessly as my Hero was crushed by his dragon (4000-3500).
Chase
Chase SPC: 05 Sadusky SPC: 05
"Come on Deck give me something." I said to myself and was glad to see my prayer answered. "I summon Shield Warrior 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." I said to myself.
"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 was now going slower than mine, but I still wouldn'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 (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 him into 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 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 cause I Synchro Summon (1+1+4=6) 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 himself. (2600-2400) "Also thanks to Ebon Arrow's effect you lose life points equal to Handcuffs Dragon's original Defense points (2400-600)! 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 didn't have time to respond, I could tell my duel board was over heating, I needed to win next turn or the board would literally blow up.
"Looks like I won't lose after all."
"Here it comes." I thought to myself
"I send a level 3, a level 4, and another level 4 to the graveyard in order to special summon Montage Dragon, and guess what he gains 300 ATK points for the combined level of all 3 monsters I just discarded, (ATK: 3300-0), 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!"
Turbo Warrior stood his ground as the massive energy blast headed straight for him, meanwhile a small devilish smile developed on my face. (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 got a frightened, look on his face which told me he had 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 I can send it to the graveyard and have Montage Dragon count as a Synchro monster till the end phase." Sadusky watched helplessly as a strange white Dragon appeared, flew towards and was then absorbed by Montage Dragon. "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 went straight for each other. Montage fired bursts of energy from each of its 3 heads but Turbo Warrior dodged every blast with true grace, ending it by slashing threw all 3 necks at once. (600-0)
Winner: Chase Loser: Sadusky
"See yeah never!" I sped off convinced I was home free, in fact, in the distance I could even see what appeared to be an exit, then I heard a blood curtailing scream.
I looked back and saw Sadusky heading faster and faster after me. "Wait your Runner stopped how is it going so fast?" He didn't answer but from what I could see his face was completely blank and his eyes had turned pure white, and worst of all he was coming straight for me.
I sped up, even though by this point I could feel the heat radiating off my board as its systems began to overheat. I knew the entire board if would explode if I kept up like this but he was getting closer and closer, all I needed to do was make it to the exit.
I bit my lip and made a sharp turn right, almost flipping over in the process.
I suddenly found myself outside and in the air in front of a large house with a swimming pool in the front.
As I started to come down, I heard a familiar sound. I looked and saw Sadusky's runner go up in the air as well. He got close enough to touch me, but he missed my arm and grabbed the cord connecting my disk to my board.
"No let go!" Suddenly the board exploded.
Sadusky screamed again as his arm caught on fire, He then went over the side of the building, and I didn't see this cause then fell into the pool. Now normally you'd think this was a good thing, but there's one catch, I can't swim.
When I hit the bottom I couldn't think a clear thought as I slowly lost oxygen. My back was hurting, I couldn't breathe, my legs were burnt, also I'm not Religious, I don't even believe in god, but as things got dark I saw what looked like an angel heading right for me.
Next time: Turn 04-The Angel and the Demon
The young boy tried to run, but found him being pulled towards her by a large appendage like shadow. He screamed for help and out of fear as he got closer, and with that the young boy was gone.