Author's Note: This chapter was simply a blast to write. I greatly hope that I've depicted Carly's dark side in a way that's it's never been shown before.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, and the character of Raven is the creation of sammycrusinix.

Chapter 11: Carly's Revenge

Very slowly, Carly began to regain consciousness. Her short-term memory began to replay the events of that night. The last thing Carly remembered was her defeat to the Skeleton Knight, and being hurled through the window of Rex's office. Not to mention the phone call from her boss telling her she had been fired. Carly's memory seemed to end there. She couldn't remember actually hitting the pavement, but she had to assume that she did. So far the afterlife was proving to be a lot darker than Carly had ever imagined. Then she realized her eyes were still closed.

A somewhat familiar voice began to gently call out. "Carly? You awake yet Carly?"

Carly finally opened her eyes. The place she was in looked to be some sort of abandoned building illuminated only by the light of the moon coming in through the large open window in front of her. Carly soon realized she was on the ground sitting against a large wooden crate. Floating directly in front of her was an entity that appeared to be a young woman with short blonde hair and gold eyes. On the sides of her head were two long narrow black bat-like wings, and on each side of her face were two small red triangular marks. Her skin had a yellow tint and glowing through the hair covering her forehead was a large golden eye-like symbol. Her outfit consisted of a pair of black high-heeled boots that went up past her knees and a skimpy black swimsuit-like garment with a two-piece yellow dress with a skirt that was open in front.

It took a moment for Carly to realize just who this young woman was. "Fortune Fairy Hikari?"

"Oh, that's my old name." the duel spirit replied. "I'm called Fortune Lady Light now. I'm glad you're finally awake. Are you feeling okay?"

"What's going on?" a confused Carly asked. "What happened to you?"

"Took you long enough to finally wake up." Another voice complained. "I was starting to get board."

Carly looked to her left to where the voice was coming from. It was another young woman with purple skin and long purple hair. She had a pair of wings on the sides of her head that were like Light's and she wore an almost identical outfit. The only difference was that the dress parts of the outfit were purple instead of yellow. The woman had a red marking on her right cheek and a large purple eye-like symbol shined through the hair covering her forehead.

"Ann?" a surprised Carly asked.

"Get with the program, will ya? I'm Fortune Lady Dark now." The insulted duel spirit informed her. "You must've hit your head when you landed."

"There's no need to be so rude to the poor girl." Another voice cut in. "Especially since she's just been through a horrible ordeal."

Carly looked to her right, and sitting on another crate sipping what looked to be a glass of red wine was another young woman with blue skin and very long blue hair. Like Light and Dark, she had a pair of black wings on the sides of her head and a blue version of the outfit the other two Fortune Ladies were wearing. A single red mark went across her face over the bridge of her nose and a blue eye-like symbol shined on her forehead. Despite the transformation, Carly recognized the duel spirit as Fortune Fairy Swee. Though she quickly realized that the duel spirit probably went by a new name.

"Uh, you're Fortune Lady Water now, right?" Carly guessed.

"Very good Carly." Water confirmed. "You're catching on very well."

Carly looked to Water's right and saw another member of the newly evolved Fortune Ladies lying on her stomach atop a stack of wooden crates with a board expression on her face. She had short green hair and skin, and aside from the head wings and green version of the outfit worn by her sisters, she had two red triangular marks on her cheeks and a green version of the glowing eye symbol that was on the foreheads of the other Fortune Ladies. Carly recognized her as the grown version of Fortune Fairy Hu.

"And you're Fortune Lady Wind, right?" Carly identified.

"Yep." Wind confirmed. "How's it going, Carly?"

"Hey Carly!" a voice called from behind, startling to reporter.

Carly turned around to see the evolved form of Fortune Fairy Hu standing behind her. In addition to the other shared traits of her sisters, her skin was reddish-pink and she had a pair of red fang-shaped marks on her cheeks. Her long red hair was tied into a braided ponytail with a black ribbon at the end.

"Jeez you're skittish." The duel spirit snickered. "The name's Fortune Lady Fire now, by the way."

"Honestly, are you ever going to grow up?" Water complained to Fire as she took another sip from her glass.

"And are you ever going to get that stick out of your ass?" an irritated Fire shot back. "Loosen up, why don't ya?"

"That's quite enough, you two." A voice interrupted.

Carly turned around to see the evolved version of Fortune Fairy Swee approaching. The expression on her face was far sterner than Carly remembered.

"You must be Fortune Lady Earth now." Carly assumed.

"Correct." Earth confirmed as she pushed up her glasses. "Nice to see you awake, Carly."

"What is going on here?" Carly demanded to know. "How is it that the six of you have grown through a major growth spurt all of a sudden?"

"Don't you think there are better questions for you to ask? Like how is it that you survived that fall and ended up here?" Water pointed out. "Or how it is that you can see without your glasses?"

Carly looked at her reflection in a shard of glass that remained on the large window. She really didn't have her glasses on. Yet she could see just as well as if she had them on.

"What the hell is happening?" an overwhelmed Carly wondered. "How is all this possible?"

"It's all thanks to Lady Aslla piscu." Earth explained.

"Who?" Carly asked.

"It turns out that we've had a friend that we didn't know about." Light explained. "One you've always had a connection to. It's because of that connection that you're able to see and hear us."

"And now that she's fully awakened, we've all reached our full potential." Water added.

"So where is this special friend of our?" Carly asked.

"Check your deck and see for yourself." Wind replied.

Carly pulled her deck out of the duel disk that was still on her left arm and began to look through it. In addition to the transformed cards of the Fortune Ladies, there were several new cards had never seen or even heard of before. One of them stood out instantly. It was a high-level effect monster that looked like a strange shadowy hummingbird rising out of a hole in the ground with blue flames. Orange lines adorned parts of its body, and on the side of its head and was visible were three orange circles that seemed to serve as eyes.

"Earthbound Immortal Aslla piscu?" Carly read aloud as she looked at the name of the card.

"That's her." Fire confirmed. "And thanks to her, you're not only still alive, we're all powered up."

"That includes you too, Carly." Dark smirked. "So, what do you want to do now?"

It was all a lot for Carly to take in. But as she got over the shock, she noticed that she felt somehow energized. There was some kind of power running through her veins, and whatever it was felt great. Carly felt like she was on top of the world at that moment. And it was then that Carly realized something. All her life she had gotten the short end of the stick. She was always picked on. By her boss, by Angela, and by almost every other kid she knew growing up. But now things had changed. Now she had power.

A grin came to Carly's face. "Alright girls… let's go get some payback."

Jack drove around the city looking for Carly. Earlier he had gone back to Carly's apartment to try and talk to her. He felt he had to apologize for how he had reacted earlier. But when he got there, Carly wasn't home. The door was unlocked, so Jack went inside to wait for her. After a few hours though, Jack felt a strange sensation running through his left arm. He wasn't sure what it was, but it had given him the feeling that something bad had happened to Carly.

After driving around the city for hours, Jack was having no luck finding where Carly had gone. He didn't even know where to start looking. Eventually Jack saw no other choice but to go to City Security and ask for help. But when he got to the building, he glanced down at the ground on the way through the door and noticed a very familiar pair of glasses. Jack picked them up. There was no mistake. They were Carly's.

Jack suddenly got a very bad feeling. He wasn't sure that asking Security for help was such a good idea. For all he knew, they probably had something to do with Carly's disappearance. Jack rushed back to his D-Wheel and took off. If Carly was going to be found, he was going to have to do it himself.

After leaving the abandoned building she had been dumped at by Aslla piscu, Carly had found that she was on the outskirts of the city. The night was still young and she had a long walk ahead of her. As Carly crossed the street, she saw a D-Wheel approaching her. It had a single light on the front, and the front wheel was attached to a pair of long silver rods. The rider was a heavy-set man with a thick brown mustache and a black leather jacket. He had a vertical yellow line on his left cheek, indicating a run in with the law, and on his head was a black helmet with a single silver spike on the top. Deciding that having a D-Wheel would be a much better option than walking, Carly decided to see if she could convince the biker to hand it over.

"Come on out, Fortune Lady Earth!" Carly commanded with a grin as she placed Earth's card in her duel disk.

The eldest of the Fortune Lady sisters appeared wielding a sort of scythe-like staff. After twirling the staff above her head with both hands, Earth swung the weapon down and caused a stream of spikes to erupt from the ground and go towards the biker. The biker quickly brought his vehicle to a screeching halt. Carly approached with Earth.

"Apologies, sir. But I'm afraid I must ask you for your vehicle." Earth told the biker. "My mistress requires transportation."

Terrified, the biker screamed and got off his D-Wheel, running away off into the night. Earth vanished after Carly put her card back into her deck. Carly got onto the captured D-Wheel and took off towards the city. She was amazed by how quickly she seemed to get the hang of riding the vehicle.

"Pretty badass ride you found." Dark remarked, as she appeared to fly alongside Carly. "So who're we going after next?"

"First we're going back to my place." Carly replied. "I can't exactly get payback wearing this old outfit."

Dwayne Peters was a young man with a fairly average life. At the age of twenty-one, he moved from his small hometown to Neo Domino in order to attend a business college. To support himself, he took a part time job as a valet at one of the city's finest eating establishments, the Gilded Goose. The hours weren't the best in the world, but the pay was good. And it was an easy job, if not a little mind numbing. Every evening he'd see the same sort of rich snobs with more money than they probably deserved come in to eat and he'd park their cars.

That particular evening was shaping up to be just like all the others. That is until Dwayne saw someone pull up on a D-Wheel. It was a fairly large black and silver model with dual exhaust. The rider was a young woman, a little short but fairly attractive. Her long dark hair ended in sort of a diamond shape. She had on a tattered black hood and cape with a black t-shirt that showed her midriff, a short black skirt, elbow-high black gloves and knee-high black boots. As the young woman dismounted, Dwayne couldn't help but notice that her ash-grey eyes seemed somehow crazed.

"Excuse me, could you park my ride somewhere near the front?" Carly requested with a pleasant smile. "I'm not going to be here long, I'm just meeting a friend."

"Uh, yeah. Sure thing." Dwayne replied as he walked over to the cycle.

"Oh, and if you take that thing for a joyride I'm going to make you regret the day you were ever born." Carly warned, still with a pleasant smile.

Dwayne took a big gulp. He wasn't planning on taking the vehicle for a ride. That wasn't the sort of thing he did. Plus his boss had told him that the guy who had the job before him did that on a regular basis and warned Dwayne that if he were ever caught doing that, it'd be his ass. Still, Dwayne was going to make sure that the D-Wheel wasn't even going to get a scratch. He somehow got the vibe that its owner would make good on her threat.

Carly looked around the dimly lit restaurant for Angela. She knew for a fact that Angela would come to the Gilded Goose on that particular night of the week with a date. Sure enough, Carly found Angela sitting at a table in the corner with a slender man in a bad suit with dark hair who looked to be in his late forties. Carly recognized the man and smirked. He was the owner of the T.V. station Angela looked at.

The vengeful reporter placed three cards into her duel disk. "Dark! Fire! Wind! Let's tear this place up!"

The three Fortune Ladies appeared and took off into the room, causing the restaurant patrons to panic. Fire cackled as she threw a fireball at the lobster tank, causing the glass to shatter and its entire contents to pour out onto the floor. With a wave of her staff, Wind sent a strong gust through the right side of the room that turned over every table it hit. By then, most of the people ran out past Carly screaming. Before Angela and her date could get away, Dark came over at lightning speed and cut the table down the middle with her staff.

"Don't move, Blondie." Dark told Angela.

Fire came over and saw the hairpiece slip off the head of Angela's date. "Nice rug, dude!"

"Hey Carly, do we need to take Angela's date too?" Wind asked with indifference.

"Nah, he can go." Carly replied as she walked over.

Taking the opportunity, Angela's older date ran off as fast as his legs could carry him. He seemed to completely forget about both Angela and his hair.

"Guess the rumors I heard about you banging your station owner were true." Carly remarked to Angela. "I'm actually not all that surprised."

"Carly, what the hell is this?" a very freaked out Angela asked.

"This is payback, Angela." Carly told her. "Payback for all the times you treated me like trash."

"Hey, let's cut off her head and mount it on your D-Wheel." Fire eagerly suggested to Carly, causing Angela to cringe.

"Not a bad idea, little sis." Dark chuckled.

"Whatever." Wind shrugged.

"Oh no, I want to enjoy this." Carly told them with a wide grin. "We're going to take Angela on a little trip."

In all the time he had worked at the Gilded Goose as a valet, Dwayne had never before experienced a night like this. He was practically trampled by a stampede of panicked restaurant goers who all went for their keys and got their own cars. Dwayne had absolutely no clue what was going on, but he figured it had to do with the young lady who's D-Wheel he had just parked. He knew from the start that there was something not quite right about her.

Carly came walking out of the restaurant with what looked like a large bag made from on of the establishment's tablecloths. "Excuse me, could you get my D-Wheel? I've got a lot to do tonight."

"No problem." Dwayne replied with a suspicious eye. "What's in the bag?"

"Oh, I couldn't finish dinner and they were out of the normal doggy bags." Carly explained.

"Okay…" Dwayne replied as he went to go get the motorcycle. He stopped when he heard what sounded like a muffled voice coming from the bag. "What was that?"

"What was what?" Carly replied innocently as she kicked the bag with the back of her foot.

Against his better judgment, Dwayne went to go get the D-Wheel. In moments he had pulled the vehicle up to the door.

"Thanks very much." Carly told Dwayne as she mounted the vehicle, placing her large sack on her lap as best she could. "Oh, and if I were you, I'd forget you ever saw me."

Dwayne watched as Carly zoomed out of the parking lot. As she left, he swore he could hear a muffled scream. Dwayne considered calling the cops but decided against it. Whoever that girl was, he didn't want to tick her off. And he felt real sorry for the next poor sucker who did.

Rex tied the string of his red dressing gown and prepared to settle in for a quiet evening. Jack had once again run off, but it was of little consequence. Just as Rex sat down and was about to continue a book he had started reading, the Skeleton Knight appeared before him.

"What is it?" Rex asked with a sigh.

"A small problem, brother. I caught someone sneaking around your office earlier tonight." The Skeleton Knight explained. "She saw a bit of the plan."

"Did you eliminate her?" Rex asked.

"Of course." The knight replied. "But you might want to call someone in to fix your office window. Not to mention clean up a small mess in front of the building."

Rex frowned and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Why must you always use such brutish methods to get things done? We are trying to be discrete, you know."

"It's nothing that can't be swept under the rug. Especially with the resources at your command." Skeleton Knight pointed out.

"I suppose it doesn't matter." Rex replied as he got up from his chair. "I think it's time we stopped playing around, brother. We must carry out our plan tomorrow."

"Are you sure that wouldn't be rushing things?" Skeleton Knight asked.

"The preparations have already been completed." Rex revealed. "And Yusei and his friends are growing too suspicious."

"The boy does have a lot of his father in him." Skeleton Knight chuckled.

"Perhaps a bit too much." Rex responded. "That's what made him the perfect tool for getting rid of the triad. But I've been starting to think that we should've just let him and his friends die with everyone else on Satellite."

"We owed him something Rex." Skeleton Knight reminded him. "After all that we did, even if it was for the greater good, we still owed that boy something."

"That's been your mistake Rudger. You've been letting your guilt get to you." Rex told him coldly. "We need to let go of the past in order to save the future."

Carly entered the office of her former editor and chief, Mr. Pitts. Her former boss was busy with paperwork. The only source of light in the room was from the lamp on his desk.

"Hey chief." Carly greeted, causing her former employer to look up from his work.

"Damn it Carly! I told you that you're through here!" Mr. Pitts bellowed. "Now get the hell out of here before I…"

Before Mr. Pitts could finish his threat, Carly placed a card in her duel disk and summed Fortune Lady Dark. The second eldest of the Fortune Ladies quickly moved in and sliced the news editor's desk in half. Mr. Pitts froze in terror.

"Don't move, Fatso. Otherwise I'll take that extra weight of yours off with me blade." Dark warned with a grin.

"Uh, did I say that you were fired Carly?" Mr. Pitts asked in a high voice. "Forget what I said about that. Take all the time you want with that story on Atlas. Take a month for all I care."

"Too late, boss." Carly told him. "I all the time I've worked for you, you've treated me like a glorified assistant, never once giving me a chance. Well I've had it! So now it's time for you to get what you deserve."

"Please don't kill me." Mr. Pitts begged with tears in his eyes.

"Oh, I'm not going to kill you." Carly assured him. "Not yet, anyway. We're all going to have a little party first. Nothing big. Just you, me, that bitch Angela, and the man who broke my heart."

The hour was growing late, and Jack was having no luck finding Carly. Searching the city on his own wasn't getting him anywhere. He needed help, and there was only one group of people he could turn to. But just as Jack was about to call Yusei, another call came in on the screen. When Jack answered, the screen showed that it was an audio call only.

"Who is this?" Jack demanded to know.

"Hi Jackie." Carly's voice greeted over the line. "I hoped you'd be out riding tonight. It took me forever to find the frequency for your D-Wheel's COM system."

"Where the hell have you been?" Jack asked.

"Just out doing stuff." Carly innocently replied. "If you want to find me, I'm at the place where we had our first date. I'll be waiting for you, darling."

With that, the line went dead. Jack had no idea what was going on, but he knew that there was something wrong with Carly. The woman he had just spoken to didn't quite sound like the woman he knew. But whatever was going on, Jack knew where Carly was. It was the place that held that little carnival they went to. Jack turned and headed straight for that location as fast as his D-Wheel could go.

Author's Note: Once again, this chapter was an absolute blast to write. I've actually been looking forward to it for most of the story. And if those of you thought this part of the story was nuts, wait until you see the confrontation between Carly and Jack.

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