YuGiOh 5D's: Konami
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Flashback
Distant Communication
(Person 1/ person 2) "In unison/in unison"
(5D's) "This symbol indicates the card is created by yours truly. All rights go to me."
(Digit) "This symbol indicates the card is created by 5-Digit. All rights go to me."
Kenichi Matsuda: 5-Digit
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"Oh, come on, what gives!"
Our first episode opens back in some garbage dump some where in the Satellite. After how the Crimson Dragon appeared at the final chapter of our last story, it interfered with the broadcast Rally and his friends were watching, so Nervin tried to fix it, by slamming his fist against the TV! "We're in the middle of watching maybe the most important duel ever and you just stop working? You call yourself a television? Come on, work already! Puh-leeese!"
"Man, what a piece of junk," Rally argued.
"Well, we did find the thing lyin' around in this junkyard," Blitz added.
Suddenly, the television bleeped and turned back on, "Aha, it's back!" Nervin replied.
"Aaaand it's official! We have a new champion!" the MC on TV shouted, "The crown has been passed on to Yusei Fudo!" on the screen, they can hear the crowds chanting 'Yusei! Yusei! Yusei!'. Every one of the holographic screens around the stadium skyline showed his face, but he doesn't appear to be happy or surprised; his expression was rather closed. He was pinned down by a triple spotlight as he stands on the track. He looked around at the stands, and at the camera.
"You gotta be kiddin' me, we missed the ending of the duel?"
"Aw, man."
"Am I hearing what I think I'm hearing?"
It started to dawn on them; Nervin looked startled, Tank gripped Nervin's shoulder in front of him. Blitz gasped, and Rally looked the most shocked of all...
"They're all chantin' Yusei's name!" Tank said.
"So this means that he- he beat Jack?" Rally added.
With a high-five in the air, Nervin, Tank and Blitz, did a victory dance! Rally is still staring at the screen, completely stunned.
"Oh yeah! Sweet!"
"That's what I'm talkin' about babyyyyy!"
Rally stared for a bit more, then suddenly lit up, "...This is awesome!"
YuGiOh! 5D's
Reverse of Arcadia
Ride 1: A Web of Deceit
Part 1: The Curtains od Darkness
At the stadium, beneath the huge holographic projection of Yusei's head, the reporters that came for the championships were in a flurry. Among them, Carly Carmine, the gawky journalist with the yellow vest and the thick spiral glasses, snaps a few photos before speaking into the camera, switching it to video. By the way, the glasses make her look extremely geeky, if not a little bit crazy.
"Uh, I'm standing in Domino Stadium in Domino City-, uh, I mean, obviously Domino Stadium is in Domino City-"
The nerd was then pushed aside by an attractive-looking blond haired woman in a red jacket over a white shirt, and a purple skirt. Now, she seemed rather more professional. She even has her own mic and cameraman, "Ready? Angela Rains here, reporting for WDGK at the Fortune Cup finale, where Fusei Yudo has stolen Jack Atlas's championship crown-!"
"Hey, Angela," Carly butted in, "one journalist to another, his name's not Fusei Yudo, it's Yusei Fudo!" Angela just laughed.
"I hate to break it to ya, Carly, but a blogger is not a journalist," that made Carly fume, "So tell me, how many hits a day is that little website of yours getting?"
"Thousands... of millions!" Carly stammered.
"I doubt that," Angela laughed again, "Well, Carly, I'd love to talk down to ya some more, but I did enough of that in high school! See ya! I got an interview to score!" with that, she and her cameraman dashed away, with Carly following...
Meanwhile, Yusei watched a couple of paramedics load Jack onto a gurney, and cover him with a blanket before wheeling him away, "Don't worry, Mr. Atlas is going to be fine. We just need to get him to the clinic for some routine tests," They began to wheel the stretcher away, "Oh, and congratulations, kid."
'Jack...,' Yusei thought, 'What did you see in that light?'
("Hey Satellite, how'ja do it?")
Yusei's thoughts were broken by the hecklers shouting at him.
("We know you cheated, pal!")
("Who's to say your friend there didn't cheat, too? Huh?")
("Hey! Come to think of it, I hope he's sucking through a tube right now!")
("You think you're one of us now? Well you're not!")
("Get outta here, punk! And take that street-rat with you!")
("Enjoy it while it lasts, ya loser!")
"Yusei!" the Satellite turned to see Jason and the others running towards him.
"Hey, guys. Everyone okay?"
"We're fine, but you're about to face a brand new enemy..." Yanagi cried, gesturing to a barricade, behind which a crowd of clearly excited reporters stood, "The Media!" the barricade was sent crashing down as the reporters all surged forwards.
"They're loose!" Leo cried out.
While Yusei and the others braced for a publicity pummeling, Tanner and Kenichi arrived, each pushing along either Yusei or Jason's duel-runners.
"We'd better hurry on up and accelerate!" Ken replied.
Everyone ran like hell as the stampede got closer.
Meanwhile, up in Goodwin's private tower...
"Yusei and Epsilon are running away!" Lazar complained, still freaked out, "Is that okay? What even happened at the end of that duel? What was that strange light all about? Does it change anything? Is it okay that Jack lost?"
"Who won and who lost is not important," Goodwin replied calmly, the Vice-Director confused, "What's important is that the stars have finally begun to align. Soon, they will become one. That's the only thing that matters right now!"
"Goodwin!" the Director looked behind him to see a young 20-year-old woman about to descend down a flight of stairs. She had dark, almond-colored skin. Her auburn hair was tied up in a ponytail. She wore a metallic-silver duster, over a black leather top fitting perfectly above her stomach, and a matching leather miniskirt. They also matched with her elbow-high fingerless gloves and knee-high boots. The most intimidating feature was her steel-cold blue eyes. Right now, she doesn't look too happy.
"If I remember correctly, I was too get my rematch with Jason Hutchins," she replied acidly, "I don't see that happening. What's going on?"
"Ah, Miss Kaiba. You must mean Subject D-5: Epsilon," Goodwin said, calmly, "I guess everyone forgot about some WildCard match, when they would rather witness the King battling instead," he turned back to the crowds below, "Oh well; some other time, perhaps."
"You know what? No!" Isis hurried down the steps and stomped towards the Director, with a peeved look on her face, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! I did not lose an unofficial late-night turbo-duel, waited four days up on an ivory tower, watching a lame Duel Monsters that I opened, just to let some Satellite slip through my fingers now! Do you hear me?"
"I'm sure he'll turn up sooner or later," Goodwin kept his calm composure, "Until then, you just have to be patient."
Meanwhile, the reporters camped outside on the track. Most of them became impatient, especially Angela, "Well this is a dead end. Come on, boys; let's go find Goodwin."
But unbeknown to them, Yusei, Jason and the gang made a clean getaway right under their noses. Because they were traveling along an underground tunnel beneath the KaibaDome.
"Where are we," Dexter asked.
"This is an abandoned service tunnel," Tanner answered.
"A guy like me knows these things. That, and the Jacks' Flush told me."
"I have no idea what happened to you in that light, but I'm just thrilled that you won the tournament!" Yanagi said.
"I knew you could do it, Yusei!" Leo cheered, "You're the best duelist I've ever seen! You're, like, my hero!" Dexter nodded in agreement.
"Forget the tournament. Remember, the whole thing was just a setup on Goodwin's part," Tanner reminded the group, "Let's not forget, the only reason Yusei and Jason agreed to duel was 'cause Goodwin captured his friends... Until we figure out what the whole story is, we should lay low at the Jacks' hideout. Leo, Luna and Kat should probably come and stay with us, too."
"Yay! This will be like a sleepover!" Katherine replied ecstatically, "N-E-K-O, that spells sleepover!" Gabriella laughed a bit.
"Yusei? I dunno how, but I was able to see inside that weird light," Luna said softly, with fear in her eyes, "I saw you guys dueling, and... I saw the Satellite being destroyed!" Yusei knew what he was talking about. He saw the same thing as well, "That was the future, wasn't it."
"I have no idea," Yusei replied, "But if that was some kind of vision of the future, then we have to stop it from happening!"
Luna looked worried; she looked at her right arm and laid a hand over her Sign, "What is a Signer."
That was when Yanagi stepped in, switched to full-lecture mode, "Allow me, Luna! I can tell you everything there is to know! But before I explain what a Signer is, I'll hafta give you some back-story, by thrilling you with tales of my numerous archaeological adventures around the world!"
Back at the Kaibadome, the reporters waited impatiently behind a wall of guards for Goodwin to exit his tower. And Carly peeked out of the crowd.
"Uh! I'm getting all nervous and stuff. What kind of question should I ask Goodwin? Ah!" the blogger snapped, "I'll consult my fortunetelling deck! That oughta give me some kind of clue," Carly took out a deck and took a card out of it to look at. It was a normal-monster that is a cute little yellow fairy with big eyes and wings in her hair, on the background of a sun, "Okay, so 'Today is all about being super-happy. So if you're worried about something, don't be; just keep moving forward, and everything will be fine!' Well! That's good to know!"
The elevator door opens, and Goodwin, Lazar, and Kaiba were besieged with questions as the guards try to keep order...
("Is that giant dragon a monster card?")
("Come on, people, step back!")
("What happened inside that light?")
("Mr. Goodwin! Mr. Goodwin?")
...One of them being Angela Rains, of course, "A lot of fans are questioning the legitimacy of Yusei's victory since they didn't see the final move being played!"
"Here's what I can tell you..." Goodwin smiled, "during the final duel, our holographic system experienced a hiccup of sorts, making it so that we couldn't display the visuals. However we can confirm that Yusei was, in fact, the victor. All other details will be released in the coming days."
"What can you tell us about the new champion? Who is he? What's his story? Where's he get his clothes?"
"You'll have to ask Yusei yourself; we don't really know that much about him."
Meanwhile, Carly struggles her way through the crowd, crawling through the forest of legs in the crowd.
"What about Jack Atlas? How is he taking-"
But she finally managed to make it to the front, "Mister Goodwin? Uh..."
"I was in the middle of asking a question!" Angela snapped.
"Eh, uh, when that big dragon appeared during the final duel, it, uh, it looked like Yusei's arm was glowing or something. Did that glow on his arm have any connection to the giant dragon?"
Goodwin narrowed his eyes, needless to say he was not happy about the question. So he answered innocently, "Hm. His arm was glowing, you say? I'm afraid I didn't see that. Perhaps the sheen of his runner was reflecting the sunlight into your eyes."
"N-no, i-i-it was kinda-"
"Why are you asking irrelevant questions?" Angela protested.
"I saw something-"
"We'll be releasing an official statement concerning the duel later on," Lazar said, "Right now, Director Goodwin has matters to attend to, so please, let us through."
"But...! I have more questions!" but the anchorwoman couldn't have been prepared by crowds herded back to form a walkway for Goodwin to exit, with the reporters still asking questions. As he makes his exit, Goodwin ominously glared at Carly; she needs to be silenced.
("Great. Looks like we've got nothing juicy for the six o'clock slot.")
("Well, there's still Jack Atlas.")
("Oh, right, him.")
"Beat ya there!" Angela said dashing through the other reporters to the exit.
("Huh? Hey! Wait for us!")
Carly was left standing alone, but she had bigger fish to fry, and is stoked! "Goodwin dodged my question! That means I'm onto something! Better not let it slip through the cra-," but it was hard not to, since she slipped up and went flying, "Aaaaahh!"
Later, Carly was driving down the freeway in a little yellow car. She was looking at a holographic billboard or something that displays information on several random duelists. Suddenly, a beeping sound was heard, and Carly pressed the button on her video-phone.
"CARLY! Where are ya? I sent ya out for coffee two hours ago!" she wasn't surprised to receive a call from her boss from the Daily Duel.
"Sorry, but something important came up!"
"What could be more important than my caffeine fix?" he shouted.
"Well, sir- I found a big scoop!"
"You're an intern, interns don't look for scoops! They make copies and fetch coffee! Don't bother comin' back ta the office, kid, you're fired!"
"Fired! But I'm not even paid!" Carly complained, "Just gimme a chance, Mr. Pitts, this story I'm chasing is huge!"
"Yeah? What is it?"
"A Conspiracy At the Fortune Cup. This one might lead all the way to the top!"
"Are you talkin' about Goodwin?" Pitts wondered out loud, "Never liked the guy. Bring back some dirt on him and you might still have a job waitin' for ya!"
"I'm on it, Mr. Pitts!" Carly ended the call. Now she switched the video to the Fortune Cup's last duel, "Time to see if I saw what I thought I saw. Please be there, please be there... Ah! There it is!" she made it to the par where Yusei's arm was glowing, "Yusei's arm is definitely glowing! Goodwin tried to feed me that sheen-in-sunlight bit, but he's definitely covering something up! And I'm gonna figure out what it is. Carly Carmine is gonna crack this case wide-open! Heeheeheehee..."
"Duel disk signals detected. In fifteen yards, turn left," the computer screen showed a radial graph marked with compass points; middling close and at eleven o'clock, a blip appears. Within a few moments, Carly could see a street duel on the pavement beneath the freeway.
"I've spent the last five years of my life blogging about street duels," she narrated, "Angela's become a real reporter for the biggest station in New Domino City. (Meanwhile, I'm living out of my car.) But that's over! I'm gonna get to the bottom of this story and then, Mr. Pitts is gonna make me a front-page reporter! Look out world! Carly Carmine is comin' atcha full-speed!" that is, if not for the gas running completely empty, stopping Carly Carmine in her tracks, "That is, once I fill up my tank..."
Meanwhile, in the darkest corner of the Satellite, a drop of water fell into a pool. A hulking figure started stiring. Nothing was described about him, except for the night-black, red-striped robe glistening from the only source of light, a five-pronged candlestick.
"So. Goodwin has gathered his precious Signers and summoned the Crimson Dragon," his dark voice mused, along with two more cloaked figures around the table, one yellow and the other blue.
"I think it's time we make our presence known. We must lower the curtain of shadows on Domino City. Like the great Bard said, 'What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.'," his eyes glowed a ominous violet, raising his hand to reveal four spiders within it, "The dawn of the spider has come! And soon, it shall cloak this world in darkness," the four spiders scurried from his hand, shooting threads of web upwards. The three cloaks laughed evilly as the arachnids climbed out of sight...
After taking Dexter, everyone else went to Blister's hideout. Yanagi hummed tunelessly as he draws something on a piece of paper, while Yusei, Jason and the others gathered around.
"Now, bear in mind that I'm not an artist and I only saw it the one time, but, the Dragon's Seal looks something like this!" after finishing, he held up the picture, showing a red marking in the shape of an arching dragon.
Yusei recognized the mark, especially the end, "The tail!"
"What is it? What about the head?" Leo asked.
"Look," everyone gasped Yusei showed them his sign, which look like the tail from the drawing.
"That looks just like it! Hey Luna, let's see your mark!" Luna pulls up her sleeve and revealed the claw burned into her skin, "Oh..."
"So Luna's mark looks like the claw thingy," Katherine stated, looking back at the drawing, "But what does it all mean, nya?"
According to legend, the Crimson Dragon's head, wings, hands, legs, and tail were split into five parts, and then sealed away as marks on the original Signers," Yanagi lectured, "The marks were then passed down through the generations."
"But right now we only know about four Signers," Tanner pointed out,"So how was the Crimson Dragon summoned if only four of them were gathered?"
"Hey, we're forgetting about Jason, right?" Ken said, holding up Jason's arm carrying his own mark. Though Jason was concerned.
Luna suddenly seemed to faint, her knees buckling. Yanagi caught her quickly, looking down at her with worry.
"Luna, what's wrong?" Leo asked.
"It's nothing," she answered weakly, "I... mm, I'm just a little tired or something."
"Well, that's understandable," Tanner said, "we've all had a crazy couple of days. Let's try to get some rest."
Luna, lolling over, takes one last glance at the dragon's seal...
Meanwhile, Jack Atlas, the former Master of Faster, laid motionless in the hospital; while outside his room, Mina Simmington paced restlessly, waiting for him to wake up.
'Mr. Atlas, I hope you're going to be all right,' she prayed.
Outside the hospital, more reporters arrived to see Jack, but were blocked off by more security.
("No dice. They're not letting anyone in.")
("Maybe we can climb the building and sneak in through a window.")
"I'm waiting right here until they come out!" Angela said.
But unbeknown to them, Carly Carmine was driving by, about to take a head start ahead of them.
"Here's my chance to get ahead of these jerks!" she giggled.
Came twilight, in a bleak, industrial area of New Domino City, crowds were gathered around three men in strangely familliar black cloaks.
"The Crimson Dragon has come to Domino City!" one of them shouted, "It has come to spread despair and oppress us all!"
"The people of New Domino City must take a stand together!" the second called, "The Dragon will try to tempt you with promises of fame and fortune!"
"Ignore its whisper and follow us down the virtuous path!" the third announced, "Only by denying the Dragon's call can we truly be free!"
As the passersby listen, they didn't notice as slender white threads come down on them from above, and a little web takes root on the back of each of their necks. Above, in the foggy sky, a huge web can be seen.
Later that night, all was still. All was calm. The streets of New Domino were silent.
But that peace was stalked by shadow. Silently, a pair of men walked the streets to the Jacks' Flush compound. They stopped outside, both garbed in a black cloak, their faces veiled by the shadows of their hoods. One of them pulled back his sleeve to let a purple mark in the shape of a spider shine on his forearm.
"The time, has come..."
Inside the compound, most of the company were asleep, all except Jason, who was looking at the drawing of the dragon seal.
"So you're awake too, huh?"
Startled, he quickly turned back to see Yusei, who was also awake, "Oh. Well, I guess so."
"Y'know, I wasn't going to say anything before, but your Sign, it's not like the others," the Tail Signer defined, "Do you knoe anything you're not telling us?"
"...Yusei, something happened to me today at the Fortune Cup..." but suddenly, both his and Yusei's Marks glowed brightly.
"My mark's never felt like this before!" Yusei winched, rolling up is sleeve for a better look at his Mark, "It feels like it's trying to warn me of something! Like there's a darkness or evil lurking!"
Their instincts told them to look out the window, where the spotted the two cloaks staring right at them, 'Who is that? Maybe he's the fifth Signer...' Jason thought.
The two Satellite's ran downstairs and out the door, and saw each cloak swish around a corner.
"Jason! You go this way, I'll go that way!"
"Right!" both Signers ran into opposite streets.
Jason ran down a long alley and around another corner. Soon, the Signer beheld a large building, halfway under construction. It had floors, but only frames for walls. He entered the building and soon made it to top floor. He was looking around when he hears the suspicious individual's footstep and whirls around. What he saw took him by major surprise.
"Ken?" Jason gasped, "What are you doing here? And what's with that glowing spider on you arm?"
"Okay, first of all, your little chat with Yusei woke me up, and I I followed you and Yusei straight here," Kenichi retorted, "And second... what are you talking about?"
"He meant me," both boys snapped their heads to the double voice and saw one of the cloaked figures step out of the shadows. The cloak chuckled.
"You must be the one whose arm I saw glowing!" Jason said to the stranger, "Are you another Signer?"
"I am a shadow drone! And if you seek the truth," the cloak held out his duel disk, "...my master says you must duel me for it!"
"A duel?" Jason felt his person for his deck but couldn't find it, "Oh man, I forgot it at Blister's place!"
"You should always keep you deck with you at all time, Jase," Ken remarked, holding out his own disk, "Oh well, better go and take care of this for ya!" the go-getter walked forward and confronted the stranger, "So how about it, Mr. Cloak-and-Dagger?"
The drone laughed, "You are no Signer! Dueling you will be a waste of time! This affair is none of your business!"
"I'm making it my business!" Kenichi activated his duel-disk and slotted in his deck.
"Hmph. Everybody's a tough-guy. Alright, have it your way," the drone activated his disk as well and inserted his own deck. Both players drew five cards.
"LET'S DUEL!"
Ken: 4000
Drone: 4000
The shadow-drone brandished his glowing spider mark, as a wall of purplish flames sprung up behind him and spreads around the dueling field in a circle.
"Whoa!" Kenichi flabbergasted, "Something tells me that this isn't part of the duel!"
"It plays a huge role in this duel; as well as your fate!" the drone's smile widened, "You and I have been offered up by the light, and placed inside the energy ring of the eternal shadow. I'm afraid there's no turning back, now."
"Are we gonna duel, or talk in riddles all night?"
"You asked for in," the shadow drone drew his sixth card, "I summon (5D's)(1) Blaze Beetle(3/1500/200) in ATK mode!" the monster he played was a hercules beetle made out of molten rock. Its wings ignited when they were spread out from under its shell, "Now I set three cards face-down. And during the end-phase, you take 300 points of damage!" after three reverses appeared, the insect spat out a ball of fire. Ken shielded himself with his duel-disk, but it didn't prevent the searing burning the attack caused.
Ken: 3700
Drone: 4000
"Why did that hurt just now?" Ken wondered aloud.
"It's like when Divine and Akiza duel!" Jason deducted.
"This barrier we are in brings the duel to life!" the shadow-drone said, "Every card you play and every hit you take becomes real! And when you lose, heheh, I'm sure you figured it out already."
"That's not good," Ken drew his card, "But if activate my spell Lightning Vortex, it won't be a problem; because when I send a card from my hand to the graveyard, I can destroy all monsters on your side of the field!" after discarding one card, several bolts of lightning ripped through the cealing and obliterated the beetle, "Now, by removing Magna Drago from my graveyard from play, I can special-summon (2) Inferno(4/1100/1900) onto my field!" a small flame ignited, slowly growing larger until it was the size of a human person. It opened its frightning blue eyes, and cackled maniacally, showing many decayed human skulls stuffed in its mouth (ATK: 1100), "Next, I summon the tuner-monster, Rose, Warrior of Revenge!" a red-headed kunoichi in a black jumpsuit appeared next to Inferno (ATK: 1600), "And now I tune her with Inferno for a synchro-summon!" the warrior levitated and transformed into four synchro-gates. Surounded by those rings, Inferno changed into four stars. A geyser of light erupted from the ground as Ken chanted:
"From the ashes a new flame ignites, behold the power that burns hotter than the sun! Synchro-Summon!"
"Put 4 and 4 together, and you get a level-8 Wildfire Dragon!" when the light faded, a red, crimson-armored dragon roared (ATK: 2900), "And with no monsters on your field, he's free to attack directly! Go! Burn a hole through his life-points with Nova Blast Stream!" the dragon unleashed a stream of blazing fire...
"I activate my trap card, Call of the Haunted! Now my Blaze Beetle returns from the infernal depths in ATK mode!" Blaze Beetle returned to the field from the graveyard.
"The only thing you did was made you bug a target!" Wildfire Dragon continued its attack.
"Not quite! Now I activate Inferno Reckless Summon!" the drone played his second reverse-card, "Since I special-summon a monster to the field, I can summon two more copies from my deck!" two more beetles appeared (ATK: 1600x2), "And since there's another Fire monster on my field, your attacks can't get through!" the attack was halted as soon as the insects huddled together and formed a vortex of flame.
"I set 2 face-downs and end my turn," two reverse-cards appeared on Ken's field.
"It's my turn, then," the shadow-drone drew his next card, "I sacrifice 2 of my Blaze Beetles to summon something even more powerful! I advance-summon, (5D's) Dark Tuner-Infernal(8/0/1000)!" two of the three monsters formed into a multicolored portal, and that formed into a living deity of blue flames (ATK: 0).
"Dark Tuner?" Ken wondered.
"Yes! Now, Dark Tuner-Inferno, use your power to extinguish the light by absorbing the energy of Blaze Beetle! Let the dark shadows rise!" the dark flame extinguished and released 8 stars. The stars plunged into the Blaze Beetle's hide. Ken and Jason can hear it screech in agony before it changed into outlines. The stars combined with each other, vanish, and reappear as five black stars.
"The stars turned dark! What's going on?" Jason asked.
"The light is being consumed by the shadows!" the drone answered, "Whereas you mortals combine your monsters to make them more powerful creating positive energy, my monsters feed off one another and absorb each other to create negative energy!"
"Wait a minute! I heard about negative ions, negative mass, even negative numbers," Ken said, "But i'm sure there ain't such thing as negative energy!"
"Don't be too sure! Negative energy is very real! The monster I'm summoning is a negative level-5!"
"What?" Jason and Ken shouted simultaneously.
The shadow-drone spread his arms apart as the stars spun faster, generating a jet-black column of light in the center. The drone chanted
"When the shadows are devoured by even darker shadows, the curtain pulls back and reveals... a world without light!"
The torrent erupted and expanded the arena, releasing a monster of an entirely different variety. It took the form of a large gargoyle-like creature. Its molten, obsidian skin had was riddled with many cracks, revealing red-hot magma like blood flowing through its veins. Its giant wings ignited fire as well as the tip of its tail. Its giant claws glowed white like burning metal. Slowly fire exhales from its maw as it stared at its opponent with its glowing red eyes, "Come forth, my (5D's) Burning Behemoth(5/2000/1600)!"
"A Dark-Synchro Monsters? How am I supposed to beat that?" Kenich exclaimed.
Unbeknown to neither Jason of Kenichi, the duel was being monitored atop of a neighboring building. The darkness masked a large, capsule-like vehicle in the shape of a gasping snake's head.
The scout was wearing a poison-purple riding suit, masked by a helmet shaped as a green snake head with a black visor. The duel was being monitored on a screen hanging from the roof of the vehicle, "Are you getting all of this, Victor?" the rider asked in a feminine voice.
"All current and preceding data is being recorded," said a computerized voice, "The only information I couldn't get is on this so-called Dark Tuner/Synchro cards. Do you supposed he cheated?"
"If he did, their disks would've noticed it there and then. And if there is more than one card like that out there... then I want to be the next person in line to get it."
DUEL-MON DATABASE
(1) Blaze Beetle
Stats: [Insect/Effect] Level 3 ATK/1500 DEF/200
Attribute: FIRE
Description: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, your opponent cannot attack any FIRE monsters other than this card. During the End-Phase of your turn, inflict 300 points of damage to your opponent.
(2) Inferno
Stats: [Pyro/Effect] Level 4 ATK/1100 DEF/1900
Attribute: FIRE
Description: This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 FIRE monster in your Graveyard from play. When this card destroys your opponent's monster and sends it to the Graveyard as a result of battle, inflict 1500 points of damage to your opponent's Life Points.
"Hiya! This is Ken Matsuda! While dealing with this new Dark-Synchro, that creep-in-a-cloak deceided to tell us exactly what's going on! What's this big battle between light and darkness all about? Next time on Reverse of Arcadia: A web of Deceit: Part 2! Time to turn up the heat!"
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