Yu-gi-oh
No Limits
By Kevin Jones
Turn 17- Stalin's Endgame
"You all now see me as I truly am. For decades now I have created puppets that I control with my seeds, each one allowing me to have influence over different parts of this world. I was part of Congress the year they began to use Satellite Sectors in cities. You've heard of the Rescission that happened about 30 years ago that was caused by bad housing loans well I'll have you aware you are looking at the woman responsible for selling most of those loans. That war we had with Iraq that now has the Middle East in ruins was caused when I gave false information about weapons of mass destruction. Chernobyl, decided to do that one night when there was nothing on T.V. And of course my favorite, when a young psychic named Sheldon Johnson from Canada began dating a girl who convinced him he could start a movement to get revenge for the people with abnormal ability's are looked at, although I don't know where he came up with names for himself like Divine and Sayer."
"But How, you're, you're a brain in a jar, how is thit even possible?"
"All in due time Chase, all in due time.
Ivanov
"First things first I play Card of Sanctity, now we both draw until we have 6 cards in our hands."
This is insane, this entire time, pulling the strings is something out of cheap old sci-fi movie, even now there's a deck attached to the jar, that's getting smaller as cards are moved via mechanical hands on to some kind of holder arranged in front of it.
"Well draw."
"Why would you play a card that helps me as well as you?"
"Simple, in order to use this next card you must have a full hand, I play The Mind of a Psychic!"
There's no way this is happening, there's a light coming from the card she just-
"Where are we?"
Wait a minute that was Damon's voice... Damon, Kai and Tony, but how?
"Weren't we just tied to chairs a second ago?"
Kai's right were not in a big silver room with a duel arena in it now we're in a field with some snow and there's nothing to be seen for miles, wait a minute some one's coming.
"Who's that... guy's I know this sounds crazy but that looks exactly like Calm, Silent Gusta."
Toni's right, that is Calm, Silent Gusta but instead of being in shorts and a cloak, she's dressed up like a girl from the 1950's.
"I sure was pretty was I not?"
Ivanov, "What do you mean?"
"Very simple Mr. Rhodes in order to explain to you what is going on I am showing you my memories. That was me when I was all your ages, 15. I was the prettiest girl in my village, porcelain skin, long legs, oh god I still miss it, you know no one ever found the green hair scary, my mother had it to, she taught me about my powers and how to control them, granted I was more concerned about things like boys, music, you know teenage stuff, that was until 1 day."
Suddenly the girl's face shows shock, she begins to run and runs right through Kai, with that we all turn around to see what looks kind of like a building burning.
"Now where are we?"
Toni's right we're no longer in that field but we're in a burnt building... yeah definitely this must have been a house once upon a time and it looks like it caught on fire and-
"No, no, nooo!"
"I remember this day as if it was yesterday."
The younger Ivanov is on her knees, and she's crying uncontrollably with her hands in her face.
"I'd had been in town when a fire started, my parents were killed leaving me all alone in the cold with nothing but my tears and the ashes of my home."
The scenes changing again now were in a room- wait it's changing again. Now what's she trying to show us?
"The next few weeks were practically a blur, I went from neighbor to neighbor, and though I was quite popular when my parents were alive I soon realized that people only liked the look of me, everyone knew what I and my mother could do. The people I stayed with saw my family as the nice monsters. At that time my powers were ruled by my emotions. I was in a dream state and couldn't control my powers as they found ways to get out and place seeds inside the minds of the people who took me in. They would trip, they would suddenly burn themselves, and one woman even began to cough up blood.
"Witch!"
"Monster!"
"Get out of my house."
All these voices I can tell there all directed at her.
"It only took a month before there was only 1 house left."
It's black, like when she had her Shadow Realm Field Spell in play.
"The next week I have banished from my mind, let's just say the last man in our town wasn't known for treating woman well."
It's still dark but there's light... yeah there's a candle resting on a nightstand, and, and it looks like there's a girl lying naked on a bed crying.
"This part of my stay there I will never forget, that man, Anton Ivanov, had just finished with me for the night, only that night I chose to strike back, I scratched him against his face, I even remember a little of his cold blood dripping down on to my face. After that he grabbed me by the neck, and said. How dare you stupid bitch! I knew it was a good idea to set that house fall of freaks a blaze, my only regret was that you weren't there and now I'm stuck with you and I can't even find a single use for you! He then through my head against the wall and slapped me on the back. I can still remember just lying there for almost an hour, crying, my parents were dead, the entire town was probably in on it and here I was the slave of the wicked monster who planned it! Luckily very soon it would all be a memory."
The things this woman had to go through, but the way she said memory, before it was like she was reading something out of text book, but that, that right there, I have a feeling it gets worse from here.
"That night was exactly 90 years ago and we are now only a few minutes away from the exact moment my powers first ever reached their maximum."
The sun is now up illuminating a tiny concrete room with no more than a bed, night stand and a window, but the sun, this isn't morning, the way the sun looks it's almost looks like noon.
"I didn't know why at the time but a little bit after midnight I stopped crying, I no longer felt sad and to be honest I haven't been sad since."
She's off the bed now and putting on some rags which I assume are her clothes.
"I want you all to stay up here until I give my signal to come down the stairs, believe me you'll know it when you hear it."
She's walking down the stairs now and every things quiet.
"Chase what is going on here?"
"I don't Kai, either way what happened to you guys?"
"Well after Ivanov put up that shadow around us this doorway opened up and I decided to go through it." Says Tony, I can tell this is probably the story the other 2 have to give me as well.
"After that," starts Tony again, "I was walking around the school for like 20 minutes when I suddenly saw Vanessa in the distance."
The other 2 are nodding to this.
"At first I thought it was a trap but then I heard her yell that she and her Grandfather had been captured and that she was bait for all you but when I got up to her everything went black."
"Ivanov probably did all this to stop you guys from-"
"Ahhhhh!"
"That's the signal guys let's move," that was a young girl screaming. Were all running down the stairs as fast as we-
"Oh my God," says Damon.
Ivanov is on her knees next to a dead body
"At first I was scared at the sight, Ivanov had a bullet in his head and an old army pistol in his hand."
She's now running outside and we chose to follow her, its quiet out here, normally you'd expect there to be people out and about but there's nobody, the entire town is silent. Ivanov is running towards another house, she opens an unlocked door and runs in only to creep back out with a look of pure terror on her face.
"It was the same story with each house, everyone was dead one way or another, and there was no reason for it, no logical answer until..."
The scene has changed again; this time it looks like we're in the town square with Ivanov just standing in the center.
"There all dead, all dead, everyone, men, women, children, all the people who casted me away, all those who probably knew what Mr. Ivanov wanted to do and may have even helped him do it and now there all dead."
Her face, she's now got this sickly smile on her face, almost like, she's still freaked out by it but she's happy about, she's even starting to laugh, loudly.
"It was me, all these people are dead because of me, isn't it great Mom, all these years you told me to never let my powers get out of control, but from the looks of it letting my powers go was able to avenge you, what do you have to say about that, well, what do you have to say about that! Oh yeah you can't say anything about that, why because your nothing but ashes now."
"Fascinating thing trying to talk to the dead, and the laughing, you all may find it cruel but if you think about it I was justified after all my parents did die because people refused to embrace our abilities."
The scenes changing again, this time I think were in a city, I can tell were in Russia by the looks of the buildings but I can't tell- wait a minute, were next to a big bronze statue of a guy on a horse, wait a minute there's some writing on it. It looks like it says Petro Primo Cathirina Secunda MDCCLXXII... wait a minute I know this statue.
"Guy's we're in Saint Petersburg."
"Correct, after I took care of all the people in my old village I made my way to Saint Petersburg, I spent about a year there using my powers to get my own apartment, food and money. I used to have lunch practically every day here by The Bronze Horseman, I always dreamed of what it would be like to be in the big city, and it was greater than I could ever imagine but if you all look to your left you'll see why my dream changed."
To our left it's the younger Ivanov, she's wearing expensive looking clothes complete with sunglasses while leaning against the side of the statue eating a sandwich.
"Excuse me Natasha Kolenkhov."
"That's right my name wasn't always Ivanov."
"How do you know my name?"
"My employer has been watching you for quite some time. He knows what you've been doing here and with a little digging we were able to find out all about you and where you came from."
"Oh really and who may I ask are you?"
I am Special Agent Cate Blanchett of the U.S.S.R Secret Police."
"So you guys are real, personally I thought you guys were about as real as those stories that of Stalin sending people off to Siberia for disagreeing with him."
"I don't know about that but I can insure you that I am a genuine agent of the secret police."
"Fine than but that still doesn't answer the question about what he wants with me."
"Mr. Stalin would like to meet with you tomorrow at noon time for a lunch meeting."
"What for?"
"He would like to discuss a more practical use for your powers other and then chicken sandwiches."
"And give me one good reason why I should agree to this meeting?"
"Try to place a seed in my mind."
"What?"
"Place a seed in my mind, and see what happens."
Ivanov, or Kolenkhov as her real name seems to be, removes her glasses and stares deep into the eyes of the black haired soviet agent.
"Ah, my head!"
She looks like she's in pain and she's got her hand held tightly against her head.
"Hurts don't it; tonight at 7 there will be a train leaving from here to Moscow, after that you will be escorted to your lodgings and than to the lunch in, understand?"
Before Kolenkhov has a chance to answer the woman walks away into the crowd of people.
"Now technically I could of just not have gone, and if I needed to leave the country, well, I'm sure you all realize I could have gotten out of the country easily but I was power hungry and knew Stalin could probably give me what I wanted, so by noon time the next day..."
The scene has changed again, this time were in a large conference room filled with old portraits and other antiquities of Russia. The floor is Marble and the walls are deep crimson red color. In the middle of the room is a long mahogany looking table with gold legs covered with food but there are only 2 people seated at the table, Kolenkhov and Former leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.
"Chase what do you know about this Stalin guy?"
"Well Kai from what I know about him he was basically a monster. For over a decade he kept the country scared. If you didn't agree with him you were either shipped off to Siberia or were killed."
Stalin looks it to; I mean he's a big guy with a large mustache and grey hair.
"You are probably wondering how it is I know about you?"
Say's Stalin in a deep serious voice.
"Not really, the only reason I'm here is because you've trained your private little group of monkeys to resist my powers."
"You think I trained them; no that was all Lenin, personally I believe the best way to control people is with an iron fist but what you can do, what you did, I knew I had to have you the minute I saw what you did to your village."
"And how did you know it was me, scratch that why on earth would you all even know about my little town, when I got to Saint Petersburg I couldn't find any on the mass suicide of my village."
"For years I was watching your mother, waiting for the right time to take her, unfortunately every time I sent in anyone to retrieve her she merely placed her seeds into people's minds. In fact she received her psychic training from the top experts at the time only for her to escape and hide for 30 years."
"And now you think you can use me as a replacement, comrade."
"Exactly, I was going to give up when a new spy in your village arrived to find it full of dead bodies. I've spent the past year looking for either you or your mother and now that I have you I'm not letting you go."
By this point Stalin has gotten out of his chair and has walked across the table and now has his arms on Kolenkhov's shoulders, interestingly enough the more Stalin talked about killing and spying the more, almost, erotic his voice sounds.
"O.k. so you want me to be your super weapon against the Americans, what do I get out of this."
Stalin is now walking towards a desk next to the table he then takes a Folder off the desk and places it on the table in front of Kolenkhov. He opens the file revealing several photographs of her.
"Do you see these, we have many pictures of you and all of these seem to show you using your powers on people and what face do you have in each of these pictures, pleasure. You like the idea of being able to control people, to make them your puppets and to use this to get whatever you want, you and I are the same the only difference is I have what you need. You promise to lead to my armies when it comes time for the world to bow down to me and I promise to make you the most powerful women on the planet."
"When do I begin?"
The scenes changing again, this time going through more scenes than before.
"Oh god the next 30 years for me were amazing. I had the top training this world had and even after Stalin died a few years later his successors understood that I was becoming the greatest weapon the KGB had but I still couldn't gain the power I had the night I killed my village until the day of April 26, 1986, now does anybody know what horrible thing happened that day?"
"Chernobyl," answers a scared Tony.
"Correct, when I said before that I caused Chernobyl because there was nothing on T.V., well that is not entirely true. You see the night before the melt down was the 36th aninverersy of my slaughter of my village and every day since I've tried to master that power once again but to no success, so to keep my mind off things I decided to look for something to watch on T.V., I couldn't find anything so I decided to leave it on a news special on the Chernobyl Power Plant. While watching I tried something, I focused all of my mental energy onto the area around the plant and at exactly midnight someone did this another person did that and the plant went up."
"So saying it was a nuclear meltdown was a cover up."
Says Tony as the scene changes again, this time we're in a bedroom, a pretty good sized one to and sitting there on a bed was a now much older Kolenkhov eating a bowl of ice cream.
The door just swung open, several men are now positioning themselves around the room with a short man with a black hair and a suit on walks through the door.
"Good afternoon Comrade Gromyko, how may I be of service to you?"
"Don't give me that shit Kolenkhov, it was you who caused the meltdown at Chernobyl wasn't it?"
This man's loud and angry but still Kolenkhov is just sitting there practically ignoring him.
"I haven't done anything, but a true tragedy it is."
"Oh shut up, we've recovered security camera footage, the night shift people hard at work when suddenly everyone begins acting strangely, doing dangerous things and the next thing you know innocent people are either dying or have no power, only someone who could make people stop working, do dangerous things and then cause their own deaths could have caused this and there's only one person on earth who could do all that, you!"
What the, she's laughing, loudly, like she did when she realized she killed everyone in her town.
"OK than I admit it, last night I was able to use my powers to control people who I didn't even know existed and it made me realize why it's taken me so long to be able to do something like that, I absorb power, like a sponge and water I absorb the energy being emitted from people who have super natural powers, oh god if I were to have a constant stream of energy for the next year we could have the whole world in our hands."
"Our hands or yours?"
"What you think I'm in it for myself?"
"Even if you are still dedicated to The Soviet Union I still can't put a blind eye to what you've done, we're going to tell the public that it was an accident, it won't help matters much but it has less of a chance of causing a panic than revealing you to the world, soon you shall be no more than a memory."
"You'd never kill me, I'm too valuable to you."
"Correction your abilities are valuable to me."
With that there are now doctors walking into the room, I know this because there all geared up for a surgery.
"What are you doing."
"All I need is your brain, your soul belongs to the devil."
"So now you all know, but before they cut my head open I placed my entire consciousness inside the mind one of the surgeons. I lived the next few years as this surgeon, she had a husband, a son and I gave birth to her daughter, then when the time was right I found the lab where my brain was being held. It was just sitting there hooked up to some computers. I knew it would be hard to know longer have a body but I knew that if nobody realized I was still alive I would be able to get close enough to the smartest researchers in the nation without anyone getting suspicious. Then when the Soviet Union fell me and some new "friends" came to the United States where I met a man who built life size puppets, very realistic, through his talents I was able to build bodies that allowed me to manipulate many more."
Now we're in a giant room with a bunch of kids dueling, and it looks like there inflicting real damage to each other.
"And these are some of our top students."
Who was, wait a minute that's that Sayer guy from the pictures in Toni's room. Yeah he's walking across the room next Kolenkhov, now she looks exactly like she does now, or what her puppet looks like anyways.
"And this is our star pupil Ms. Aki Izayoi, soon to be participating in the Fortune Cup."
I don't believe this, this women has killed god knows how many people over the years and here she is shaking hands with one of the most famous duelists on the planet.
"As you can see by the arm around the girls shoulder Sayer was very friendly towards his followers, with this girl in particular I think he may have been a little too friendly, but when the Arcadia Movement fell and Sayer died many of his now emotionally unstable followers fell into my hands, unfortunately I never did get my hands on that Izayoi girl. It's probably a good thing that Sayer was absorbed by what were called the Dark Signers, it saved me the trouble of killing him myself."
The scene has changed again, now everything is dark, except for 4, I guess you'd call them windows around us, each one has Kolenkhov with somebody... wait a minute in one it's Abigail, in another it's Mortimer and in the other to its Damon and a much younger Scott Truman.
"After using my many connections I was able to create a new place dedicated for training psychics, The Arcadia Boarding School where I decided to be known simply as Principal Ivanov, a name taken from the hand who allowed me to become what I am now. I trained the first batch of students and they helped train the next set. Like dogs I was able to teach them commands to do whatever I want, they no longer had contact with their families, any memory that didn't serve my purpose was erased, I think some of them may have even seen me as a parent while I was absorbing their energy waiting for the night that I would have enough power to control every human on this planet!"
Were back, back in the training room where I've been dueling her... it, all the restraints have been removed from everybody, Vanessa is still being controlled and she's still holding the gun to her head, all the duel holograms are still here and according to the clock above the jar that whole thing took only a minute.
"What just happened and what was that light just now?"
"Simple Mr. Aaronson, I just showed our little friends the truth about me, I was afraid to show you for fear you might get a heart attack."
"Why would you care if an old man dies?"
"Simple Chase I want as many people as possible to feel the end of the world. Here we are, Stalin's ultimate plan for a new world controlled by one being is about to be completed and the only people who can stop me are probably too afraid to do anything."
"You're wrong."
"What was that Chase?"
"I said you're wrong! Hundreds of people are dead by your hand and I refuse to let it go on! This world isn't ending, not while I'm still here."
"Don't you fear what I can do? After all 3 of you are trembling, 1 is my mind controlled servant with a gun to her head and the last one is an 70 year old fat man, why on earth don't you fear me?"
"Because you're a monster and I refuse to let a monster like you live!"
It's laughing again.
"This is brilliant but come on, what do you think you are some kind of knight in shining armor. You're nothing but a creepy, pessimistic, spiky haired little boy who pushes everyone away and would like to see no more than everyone around him disappear burn so do you possibly think you can do?"
"Finish your turn and I'll show you!"
"Very well then, now I activate the effect of The Mind of a Psychic I can special summon a Psychic type Synchro monster who has his level reduced by 1 from my graveyard and I'm going with Daigusta Eagles (ATK: 2600/DEF: 1800) (7-6) now Daigusta Eagles destroy his Sparkman psychic flying Gust!" (1200-200)
"That's right Bro stand perfectly still like you did just now with your angry face."
"Damon I am still your principal and I know you now fear me more than ever before."
"I admit I feel sorry for everything you had to go through as a kid but what you're trying do now is evil and I believe that Chase can stop you!"
"Very well than I set card face down and end my turn."
Chase
"My draw! I send my level 1 Tuningware from my hand to the graveyard in order to special summon Big One Warrior! (ATK: 100/DEF: 600) Now I summon The Tuner Monster Debris Dragon." (ATK: 1000/DEF: 2000)
"That's right Ivanov... Kolenkhov... Detective Tate... you know what forget what your name is because now that I'm here I can special summon a monster with 500 or less ATK points from our graveyard so long as I negate it's effects!"
"I assume this little dragon is your spirit guide."
"Yup and now thanks to his effect I can revive the Tuningware I just discarded (ATK: 100/DEF: 300) and bring him right back!"
"So a level 4 baby dragon, a level 1 guy with a big red 1 on his face , and a little round orange robot with a frying pan on his head, I'm sorry but you still can't do anything."
"Actually I can; do you remember my Gaia?"
"Elemental Hero Fusion monster can't be summoned from the graveyard."
"True but there materials can. Gaia requires 1 Elemental Hero monster, my Burstinatrix, and 1 Earth monster, my Quillbolt Hedgehog and when I control a face-up Tuner Monster it can be special summoned straight from the graveyard!"
"4 monsters at once!"
"That's right Kolenkhov you can't beat the power of us, the ultimate Hero-Synch Deck!"
"Now I tune my Debris Dragon, Big One Warrior, Tuningware and Quillbolt Hedgehog!"
Debris Dragon flew like a bullet into the air and as it spread its wings it dematerialized and turned into large green rings. At that moment Big One Warrior, Tuningware, and Quillbolt Hedgehog jumped into the air and dematerialized into 4 bright stars that fashioned themselves equally within the rings (4+1+1+2=8)and with a burst of light, "I synchro summon Stardust Dragon (ATK: 2500/DEF: 2000)!"
"Ah your ace monster. The legendary Stardust Dragon, I saw it at a tournament called the Fortune Cup almost 23 years ago and now here I am one turn away from slaughtering it."
"Not a chance."
"It's 100 points to weak, how on earth could you possibly hope to defeat me with it!"
"Simple, I play the spell card H-Heated Heart increasing Stardust's ATK points by 500; (2500-3000) Now Stardust Dragon Cosmic heated blast!" (500-100)
"I set 1 card face down and it's back to you."
"Not quite I activate my face down card Metaphysical Regeneration. Now because it's the end phase I gain 1000 life points for every Psychic-Type monster sent to my graveyard this turn. (100-1100)
Kolenkhov
"My draw. First things first I activate the effect of Teleport, I pay 800 life points (1100-300) in order to summon Destructotron, (ATK: 1600/DEF: 400) next I summon Life Gusta (ATK: 700/DEF: 500) and finally I play the card Emergency Teleport allowing me to special summon 1 level 3 or lower psychic monster from my deck and I select myself The Mind Master!" (ATK 100/DEF: 200)
The jar is now floating in the air, revealing it not to be a jar but it looks like it's actually a robot, a tiny robot with mechanical hands.
"What are you up to now?"
"Simple, like Calm, Silent Gusta Mind Master is based on me, thanks to my own influence of course and now you're going to witness the premiere of my final body!"
Instead of becoming a ring the robot flew into the air while its top part begins to open causing all the liquid inside to spill on the floor. The giant robot and what looks like a midget wizard with green hair dematerialize and the 6 stars place themselves in the form of a Hexagon around the brain. They are now flying towards the brain and are going inside it causing a burst of light and while giving off a feeling of evil-
"I synchro summon and become the Psychic Lifetrancer."
(ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000)
She's a human now; well she looks kind of like a human. The entire right side of her body is mechanical except for part of her exposed face which, like the rest of her, has pale sickly looking green skin. Her jet black colored hair goes down till about her knees which is wear a tattered blue dress also ends. Now her hand is levitating in front of her with the cards she has in play resting in a similar position to a duel disk resting on her robotic arm.
"What have you done?"
"Simple really, my new world will not be without fault. All I need is someone born with power like yours who will become strong enough to overthrow me. After tonight my brain will be too busy to sense anything other than the survival of the seeds within people so with the body of a duel spirit I will be able to control you all while the spirit of this particular Duel Monster protects me."
"You still can't stop my Stardust."
"True but at this moment I activate my special ability! I remove from play Calm, Silent Gusta from my graveyard in order to increase my life points by 1200! (300-1500) Next I play the spell card Psychokinesis allowing me to pay 1000 life points in order destroy your Stardust Dragon." (1500-500)
"Oh no you don't I activate Stardust's effect, I tribute him in order to negate his destruction!"
"Which leaves you open for a direct attack from me, now be hold your death!"
An orb of black energy is heading straight for me.
"I play Scrap-Iron Scarecrow negating your attack and resetting itself onto the field ready for next turn!"
"In which case I play Mystical Space Typhoon destroying your Scrap-Iron Scarecrow and with that I end my turn which if I remember correctly your Stardust now returns to the field."
Chase
"Stardust Cosmic Flare!"
"Sorry but remember my Life Gusta, well guess what now that you're attacking I can remove it from play to make me indestructible by battle until the end phase." (500-400)
"I play Magical Mallet; I shuffle my entire hand into my deck and draw cards equal to the cards I ditched."
Now what? There's only 4 minutes left and she's now stronger than ever... what if I try-
"Whatever your thinking won't work, you can't attack anymore I've memorized every card in your deck and you only have 1 possible combo that stands any chance of stopping me but your too afraid to use it."
"What's that?"
"Assault Mode Activate, why if you were to use that card you'd have a monster stronger than anything I've got in my deck but you know what it does. You know that I created that card to absorb your energy and you also know that you're not strong enough to survive it, after all you've barely been able to stand all game long and I bet that the card that you've had set since turn 1 is Assault Mode Activate which forces me to ask you what's taking you so long?"
"I end my turn!"
"What do I do she's right. Right now it's taking all my strength just to keep my feet up so the last thing I should do is risk a card that might just zap me on the first turn."
Kolenkhov
"I draw, hm what to do, what to do! Right now I don't have enough ATK points to defeat your Stardust Dragon nor do I have a card to get rid of it for a turn; Looks like it's going to be another face change. I activate my effect removing from play Psychic Commander to increase my life point by 1200. (400-1800)Now I play Psychic Fusion allowing me to fuse myself with another Psychic in my deck!"
"No card is that powerful!"
"Correct, in fact I now have to take damage equal to the ATK points of the monster in my deck and I'm going with Genetic Women forcing me to have to take 1700 points of damage (2600-900) now allow me to introduce you to my newest form!"
I don't like this. Her voice just now became deeper and deeper and her body is transforming, becoming bigger and bigger.
"Now do you see me as a god! As you can see I can be whatever I want to be rather it is as human as Psychic Lifetrancer or as monstrous as The Ultimate Axon Kicker!"
(ATK: 2900/DEF: 1700) She's huge; she's practically pushing the walls apart! She has giant green and yellow wings with green claws and a giant green and yellow tail that could probably crush us all in a second, she also has bones for hands as well as her face all protruding from a spine that goes over her entire torso covering a bright green sphere which is giving off energy throughout the entire body, and in the center of this orb is the brain of this monster, thinking of all the horrible things it wants to do.
"Not as good looking as my other body but perfect for destroying your Dragon. Now die!"
Its coming straight for Stardust, even with his efforts there's no way for him to stop this thing... I have to; even if it kills me I can't let her get away with this!
"I play the trap card Assault Mode Activate, now I tribute Stardust Dragon and special summon Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode!" (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500)
"I stop my attack."
I did it, I got Stardust into his strongest form. Now all I have to do is make it till next turn and this duel is-
"Do you hear that everyone? That is the sound of a school bell. Why you may ask? Well because it is now midnight which means I am now complete!"
"But you said that while you were dueling Chase you couldn't use your powers except in specific situations!"
"My dear Damon you don't think after all these years I haven't mastered the art of lying. Now all of you watch as I end this world and replace it with a new world, my world to be exact."
I can feel it, she's absorbing all the energy from this duel, were out of time!
"It was a valiant effort Mr. Rhodes but I fear you failed."
"Not quite I've still got one card to play!"
"This isn't a card effect Mr. Rhodes this is my power."
"And this is a shadow game which means were not battling with cards we're battling with spirits and since you're now a duel spirit Stardust can negate you with a little thing called Assault Sanctuary!"
"Hah, you don't have enough energy to pull it- what, what is this?"
As Stardust bursts into shining stars the stars go after the monster and are eating her away causing the body of the giant monster that was Kolenkhov to begin to vanish while she screams in agony- wait a minute I just heard another scream. Vanessa... of course not only is Stardust destroying Kolenkhov but all of her seeds to.
"You, you, you are an abomination!"
"So says the monster, what you had to go through when your parents died is horrible but what it has turned you into is no more than a monster who craves nothing out of life except power and now-"
"Chase! Chase! Chase!"
…
"Chase, Chase, Chase, wake up honey."
That voice, where's it coming from? It's so soothing and calm almost like- There's no way, just no way.
"Mom, is, is that you?"
"Yes dear, I'm so delighted I get a chance to see you all grown up."
"Does that mean I failed and I'm, well you know."
"No dear you're not dead, not by a long shot, just a little to close the spirit world, so I decided to take advantage of the situation. Oh look at you so grown up, your definitely your Father's son."
"I miss you mom."
"I miss you to Chase, but it's not your time yet and let's hope it's not for a long time. Goodbye Chase."
"Wait Mom, please no don't go!"
"You still have a greater destiny in this world and remember keep your friends close for soon you must face The Wicked One."
"Wait Mom! Mom! Mom! Don't go Mom, Mom!"
"Easy Chase, easy we're not in danger anymore."
I'm awake, my visions a little blurry but I recognize the voice and the orange smudge in front of me, it's Vanessa.
"Where are we?"
"We are in the coolest van ever."
Whelp it looks likes Toni's happy, Kai and the old man are also here sitting in office chairs next to a wall full of monitors. It looks like we're almost in a security office, you know like in movies when you see like 3 guys with a box of donuts watching a bunch of monitors but I definitely feel it moving a little.
"Well look who's awake."
The black haired man who spoke is in front us standing next to a blond haired women in front of the driver and passenger seat.
"Don't worry the Vans on auto driver. Now my name is Special Agent Roy Mustang F.B.I and this is my partner Special Agent Riza Hawkeye."
I suppose there trying to seem friendly. I mean the guy looks exhausted, and the woman's pretty attractive but I'm not being fooled.
"Where's Damon, Abigail and all the other kids in that school?"
"They are now beginning, what will be the long process, of being reunited with their families. Ideally there should be enough agents there by now to keep track of everyone. Your Damon friend decided to stay behind and help keep track."
"How can I be sure they aren't going to be experimented on by the government?"
"We don't have enough money. From what your friends here have told me Ivanov was funded by the Russians well guess what the Russians don't owe China a billion dollars, so don't worry if we could we probably would but we can't so now we're probably going to spend months figuring out who these kids live with, so on the behalf of the United States Mr. Chase Druid Rhodes Thank you for leaving the government with its biggest people placement crisis since the illegal Mexican issue from the beginning of the century."
"Roy!"
"Druid?"
"Kai don't ask."
"Ignoring my partner's rudeness Mr. Rhodes we are all in your debt-"
"Save it I did what I had to do."
We've stopped.
"Well everyone this is where you all get off."
We all get up and walk out in the cold October air in front of the Golden Plate.
"Oh yeah and Rhodes."
I turn around to look at Mustang.
"Considering everything we've been told about you I have a feeling I'm probably going to have check in on you every once in a while, just to give you the heads up."
Before I have a chance to say anything he closes the door and the van is now driving off.
"Why do I have a feeling I missed an interesting car ride."
"Sure did that Mustang guy is a weirdo, but I guess we're a little weird."
Kai's does have a point.
"Plus I didn't mind having that Hawkeye lady to look at either."
Once again Kai has a point.
"Whelp I guess I better get out of here, I need sleep."
"Where do you think you'll go?"
"Ah Vanessa don't worry about me I know a few guys who probably wouldn't mind putting me up for a few nights. Oh yeah and try finding a bar called The Pit Stop good chance if you guys are looking you'll find me there or someone who will lead you to me. Later."
With that Kai gets on his Duel Runner and rides off. I wonder if I will ever see the guy, can't say I wouldn't mind running into him again, well at least for a duel.
"Yeah I best be heading off to bed to. You guys should come over sometime, I'll see if I can score you something good to eat."
"Really."
"You bet Vanessa, well at least until my parents and little brother get home next week."
And there goes Tony. I'm not going to miss her but I will miss the food from her restaurant.
"I'll go pull the car up, and Mr. Rhodes I'd like to personally thank you."
"For what?"
"For giving an old man one last adventure."
He's happy; the only problem being is that now I'm alone with Vanessa.
"So it's over then isn't it."
"Yup, believe it or not we saved the world."
"Well than I guess I'll see you Monday."
"Wait, what?"
"Don' you remember, I said I would be starting at Dewint Academy next week, well guess what next week is in 2 days."
"So in other words I'll see you Monday."
"Bingo- well there's Gramps. See you Monday."
They both wave as they drive off. I'm starting to get a bad feeling that I'm going to be stuck with this girl for a while.
"That was amazing Chase we saved the world!"
"Debris Dragon what did you do?"
"Hello I got out Stardust."
"No you were the tuner I had in my hand, even with you I still probably could've figured out a way to get out Stardust. It was Big One Warrior, who saved the day, you just happened to be in my hand."
"Ha ha very... wait a minute your keeping that black Duel Runner?"
"Of course, what am I suppose to say, sorry I borrowed your Runner to help save the world."
"Well-"
"Catch me if you can."
I've got to say this thing is fast.
"There I caught up."
Not fast enough.
"Still it's amazing we had a life or death adventure, beat the bad guy, saved the day, and plus we still get to see Vanessa. Chase are you ignoring me!"
"Debris Dragon."
"What?"
"The shadows aren't done with me yet are they?"
"... Probably not."
Next time: The Next Day
"You were always street trash Chase and now I'm going to get rid of you with a card that has unlimited power!"
"Wait a minute there's no way you could have that card!"
"I do and I by sacrificing my 3 monsters I can summon a card with power equal to that of the gods!"