YuGiOh 5D's: Reverse of Arcadia

by Colossal Fighter GX

A war 5000 years in the making is about to surface. With time running out, a girl named Margret Spires must retain her stolen memories and join the Signers to battle the undead guardians of the Netherworld. Let's make some Magic! (Chapter 49 fixed, but grammar errors still present.)

3. A Web of Deceit: Part 2

YuGiOh 5D's: Konami

(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 him."

Kenichi Matsuda: 5-Digit

?: Seed245445

Victor: Seed245445

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Ken: Now that the Fortune Cup's over and done, everything's gonna be just peachy, right? WRONG? Three things happened on Reverse of Arcadia: First, we were chased out of the KaibaDome by a herd of crazed news-reporters. Secondly, some weird guys in bathrobes were plotting to take over the world or something. And lastly, I'm caught in a life-and-death duel against another wierdguy in a bathrobe, who used a dangerous Dark-Tuner monster, which uses negative numbers to bring out the more dangerous Dark-Synchro monster! Looks like this shadow-drone, or whatever he calls himself, is about to fan the flames, now on YuGiOh 5D's!"

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YuGiOh! 5D's

Reverse of Arcadia

Ride 2: A Web of Deceit

Part 2: Banes of Exist

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Inside the top floor of the construction site, Kenichi was facing a creature never before spawned from the earth: a Dark-Synchro monster.

"Alright, Mystery Man!" Ken said, "I got questions and you'd better answer them!"

"I answer to no one who is not a Signer!" the shadow-drone laughed.

"What are you planning to do to the Satellite?" Jason demanded.

"If he wins the duel, then I'll tell you everything."

"Hypocrite!" Ken coughed.

"But Signer or otherwise, you are no match for the power of darkness! and I'll prove it to you by playing the (5D's)(1) Dark Tuner-Infernal(8/0/1000)! When it's used for a synchro-summoning, 1000 points are burned out of your life-points!" the moment the dark-tuner reappeared, it pounced onto Ken, making him scream from the burning blue blazes.

Ken: 2700

Drone: 4000

"Hang in there!" Jason called.

"The only thing hanging on is his life points! I place one card face-down and end my turn," a reverse-card appeared on the drone's side of the field.

"It's my move!" Ken started this turn, "I activate Wildfire's special ability: by removing 2 Fire monsters in my graveyard from play, you take 1500 points of damage!" Ken placed both Rose and Inferno in his blazer pocket, "Feel the heat! Go, Reign of Terror!" Wildfire Dragon flapped its wings, unleashing wave after wave of fire. The shadow-drone braced himself for the damage. Small parts of his dark cape burnt from the cinders.

Ken: 2700

Drone: 2500

"That should do for now," Ken concluded.

"My turn!" the drone drew, "First I activate one of my face-downs, Backfire!" he opened up one of his reverses, "Next I activate the spell-card, Thunder Crash! This handy spell destroys every monster on my field, and gives me 300 points for each one!" lightning struck from the sky again, making new holes in the celing. The lightning crashed and took the fire-demon with it.

Ken: 2700

Drone: 2800

"Then the effect of Backfire activates, inflicting 500 points of damage to you whenever any of my Fire monsters were ever destroyed!" the drone's trap hurled a fireball at Ken. The Fire Go-Getter shielded himself with his duel-disk.

Ken: 2200

Drone: 2800

"Why would he destroy his own monster?" Jason wondered.

"Because during the end-phase, if (5D's)(2) Burning Behemoth(-5/2000/1600) was ever destroyed by a card effect during the turn, it come back from the grave! And in return, it destroys one of your monsters, and deals 200 points of damage to your life points for each level! Hope you like your dragon-meat well-done!" reviving from a pool of molten lava, the burning demon reappeared (ATK: 2000). The dark-synchro vomited a projectile ball of magma which exploded along with Wildfire Dragon on contact. The scorching remains of the dragon rained over Kenichi.

Ken: 600

Drone: 2800

'Shoot! I didn't see that coming!' Kenichi cursed in his mind.

"We sense your fear; it grows like waxing night," the shadow-drone teased, "Like my monsters, the Dark Signers will always win!"

"Dark Signers? Is that who you are?" Jason asked surprised.

"Of course. Light and dark are two sides of the same coin, so it's only natural that the darkness has its own protectors. And pretty soon, the world as you know it will be destroyed."

"So that vision was true?" the Satellite gasped, referring to the vision from that battle with Yusei and Jack.

"That's right! The Dark Signers possess a power that will erase your mark and everything you hope to save with it!"

"We'll see about that!" Ken interrupted and started his turn, "I activate the spell Pot of Greed!" he drew twice, "Next I activate the continuous-spell, (Digit) Discard Discharge!" the spell created giant tripod equipped with a large triple-barreled gatling gun. Each of the three barrels were color-coded orange, green or purple, "With this bad-boy out on the field, I just have to throw away a card from my hand, and you have to do the same! But there's more: depending on the type of card you tossed, you get hit with one of its 3 special-abilities!"

"What?"

"Now take your pick!" after Ken discarded (Digit)(3) Spell Bane(2/100/1500) from his hand, the shadow-drone sent a card to his grave as well, which happened to be Inferno Flame Emperor, "Alright; since Inferno Flame Emperor is a monster card, you take damage equal to half its ATK points!" Discard Discharge clicked and rotated until the orange barrel was on top, as its name described, it discharged a large burst of fire, hitting the shadow-drone dead-on.

Ken: 600

Drone: 1450

"Lucky shot," the drone growled, "But you're still wide-open and at the mercy of my Burning Behemoth."

"Then I better set up some defense. By sacking (Digit)(4) Attack Bane(2/1600/500) from my hand, I can special-summon (Digit)(5) Defense Bane(2/500/1800) from my deck," the monster Kenichi conjured became a notorious-looking, super-deformed fairy. It floated at half the height as Ken stood. He floated with wings sculpted in rock, and hid behind a shield of obsidian metal (DEF: 1800), "That should end my turn for now."

"Then it's on to me, then," the drone started his turn, "I play my own Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw 2 more cards! Now I equip Blazing Behemoth with Big Bang Shot!" the demon's molten arms were replaced by sheen cybernetics (ATK: 2400), "Now he can inflict piercing damage!"

"And with the little amount of life-points Ken has, if Behemoth attacks, then it's game over!" Jason said.

"Blazing Behemoth! Take out this mortal and send him to the shadows!" the demon roared as it flew savagely, ready to sink its claws into Defense Bane.

"I play my face-downs, Draining Shield and Emergency Provisions!" Ken's reverse flipped over and Defense Bane's shield was replaced by a silver, mechanical shield. The dark-synchro's claws clashed against the Bane's new defense, "And after this trap is played, not only is your attack is negated and my Bane is safe, I also get the same amount of life-points as your monster's ATK points! And with Emergency Provisions, I get an additional 1000 points!"

Ken: 4000

Drone: 1450

"I place one card face-down and end my turn," the drone said annoyed.

"Awesome! Now Ken's back on top!" Jason mused.

"It's my move," Ken drew, "I summon (Digit)(6) Trap Bane(2/1500/100) in ATK mode!" another bane, this one thoroughly clothed in a black cape, appeared on the field, "And now he's tuned with my Defense Bane!" Trap Bane was encircled by Defense Bane's synchro-gates while Ken chanted:

"The light shines down from the heavens to protect me, become the shield that will illuminate my path! Synchro Summon! Shine, (Digit)(8) Ultimate Bane Type:A(1800/2100)!"

Out of the synchro-jet came another Bane monster, twice as large as the previous Banes. It wore a shiny royal-blue armor with a white cape. A red 'A' was engraved in it (ATK: 1800), "Now, this knight-in-shining-armor got a special-ability that will get rid of that big bad behemoth for good! You see, when Ultimate Bane Type: A is synchro-summoned, "I can automatically destroy it, along with up to 2 spell/trap cards! So I think I'll destroy that face-down card you have along with Big Bang Shot! And when that epuip-spell is removed from the field, your Blazing Behemoth gets blasted to the Different Dimension!"

"Don't think so! I activate the trap, Destruct Potion!" after the drone activated the reversed face-down, the behemoth disappeared, "By destroying my Blazing Behemoth, its ATK points get absorbed into my life-points!"

Ken: 4000

Drone: 3850

"And now Backfire dishes out 500 points of damage, since a Fire monster was destroyed on my field!"

"Darn it! that last move was for nothing!" Ken dismayed, "Now he can summon that behemoth at the end of my turn!"

"Your pathetic attempt to destroy the darkness has failed. You haven't done anything this turn but delay your fate. My Blazing Behemoth rises once again!" the fiery demon returned (ATK: 2000), then the shadow-drone drew his next card and started his turn, "Blazing Behemoth! Attack that non-signer!" the creature spewed a spray of fire at Ken. Kenichi screamed out as he took the full brunt of the attack.

Ken: 2000

Drone: 3850

The red go-getter ended up falling to his knees.

"Don't give up just yet, Ken!" Jason said.

"Don't you worry about me..." Ken huffed as he picked himself up, "If this is how he wants to play, I say bring the pain!"

"Be careful what you ask for!" the drone said, "Because we are the strength of the dark shadows, born of the great eclipse! And soon, your world will be enveloped in that eclipse!" the drone sets a card face-down and concluded.

"We'll see about that!" Ken drew his next card...

"Yes we will, right now! I activate the (5D's) Meteor Broadside trap card!" the drone flipped another face-down, "Now you take 400 points of damage times the level of one monster on my field! And since Blazing Behemoth is level-5, you take a full 2000 points of damage! Say goodbye!" Blazing Behemoth hovered upward charged its molten wings, making the blaze.

"By removing Trap Bane from my graveyard, I can negate a trap's effect and stops it in its tracks!" after Ken pocketed Trap Bane, a transparent version of the monster itself appeared and flew right through the Blazing Behemoth, forcing it to lose concentration and descend to solid ground.

"You're only delaying the inevitable!" the drone said impatiently.

"Am I? I activate a spell card; Spellbook inside the Pot!" both duelists drew thrice, "Now I activate the spell Discard Discharge on my field!" Ken discarded (Digit)(7) Damage Bane(1300/1300) while the drone discarded Burning Land, "Now, since you threw away a spell, I can destroy one card on your field, namely your Blazing Behemoth!" the gatling rotated until the green barrel was on top. It fired a beam of green light the pierced through the behemoth's chest and destroyed it.

"That will do you no good," the drone said, "Blazing Behemoth will only return at the end of your turn. And any monster you have by then will be destroyed and you'll take damage for each level it has."

"That's why I activate Monster Reborn, to bring back an old friend of mine!" a giant decorated ankh hovered over Ken. It flashed with blinding light before being replaced by the crimson-armored dragon (ATK: 2900), "Now I activate his special-ability, by removing a Fire monster from my graveyard from play, you take 1000 points of damage! Reign of Terror!" after pocketing Attack Bane, the dragon unleashed another wave of flames.

Ken: 2000

Drone: 2850

"So what! I still have plenty of life-points to spare! You dragon can't attack since it activated its special-ability! And on your next turn my Blazing Behemoth will send you to the scorching lava-pits of hell!" the shadow-drone laughed, "Face it, mortal; it's over!"

"Yeah it is! So now I activate the quick-play spell, Forbidden Chalice!" Ken reveled a spell card depicting a white-robed woman holding a grail.

"Forbidden Chalice? No! Not that!"

"With Forbidden Chalice a monster on the field has all of its special-abilities negated. But in return, it gives the same monster 400 ATK points!"

"And it's more than enough to power up my dragon and take you out!" Ken pointed out.

Wildfire Dragon: (ATK: 3300)

"Wildfire! Take out his life-points!" the dragon roared and swung its armored-plated tail at the shadow-drone, smacking him square in the chest slamming him onto the shadow-barrier. The drone groaned as the flames died down and the barrier disappeared.

Ken: 2000

Drone: 0

Kenichi ran to the drone, grabbing him by the collar. He dazedly shook his head, and his hood slips off, revealing a head of dark-brown hair.

"Rise and shine, Sleeping Ugly! You said you'd answer some questions; now spill!"

"Spill what...?" The man groaned. He winched and rubbed his shoulder, "Who are you? What happened?"

"Stop 'effing around and tell me why-"

"Uh, Ken? You might wanna see this," Ken released the man and went to Jason's side.

He looked at the cards Jason fanned out in front of him, but didn't find anything special in the deck, "I don't see anything special."

"Exactly. His dark-tuner and dark-synchro monsters are gone. I couldn't find them anywhere."

"Now that you mentioned it..." Ken looked back at the man, "That glowing mark he had disappeared too. What's going on?"

"I don't like this. We'd better get back to Yusei and back to the others."

"Right," the two left the site, but not before Ken took one of the drone's cards.

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Atop of another building, the snake-rider reviewed all that happened.

"All data from this duel has been stored to the Duel-Mon database," the computerized voice said, "But strangely, the data on the so-called dark-tuner/synchro has disappeared."

"Did it? That really is strange. Oh well, we'll just call it a night. Let's go," the rider turned on the engine and went on her way, "Another street-duel in the database."

But unknowingly, a small black snake snuck inside the duel-runner, its venom-green eyes glowing ominously...

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(1) Dark Tuner-Infernal

DARK/Pyro/Dark-Tuner/Level 8/ATK: 0/DEF: 1000

Description: When this card is used for a Dark Synchro-Summon, and was sent to the graveyard, inflict 1000 points to your opponent.

(2) Blazing Behemoth

FIRE/ Fiend/Dark-Synchro/Level -5/ATK: 2000/DEF: 1600

Description: In order to Special Summon this card, subtract the Level of a Dark Tuner monster from the Level of 1 other monster you control; the value must equal the Level of this card. When this card is destroyed by a card effect and sent to the graveyard, you can special-summon it during the End-Phase of the turn. Then, destroy 1 monster your opponent controls and inflict damage equal to the level of the destroyed monster x200.

(3) Spell Bane

LIGHT/ Fairy/Tuner/Level 2/ATK: 100/DEF: 1500

Description: You can discard this card from your hand to special summon one "Trap Bane" from your deck. If your opponent activates a spell card while this card is in your graveyard, you may remove it from play to negate and destroy it.

(4) Attack Bane

FIRE/ Fairy/Effect/Level 2/ATK: 1600/DEF: 500

Description: You can discard this card from your hand to special summon one "Defense Bane" from your deck. If your opponent declares an attack while this card is in the graveyard, you may remove it from play to negate the attack and have the attacking monster attack another one of your opponent's monsters. If your opponent does not have any other monsters on the field the controlled monster can attack directly.

(5) Defense Bane

EARTH/Fairy/Tuner/Level 2/ATK: 500/DEF: 1800

Description: You can discard this card from your hand to special summon one "Defense Bane" from your deck. If your opponent declares an attack while this card is in the graveyard, you may remove it from play to negate the attack and have the attacking monster attack another one of your opponent's monsters. If your opponent does not have any other monsters on the field the controlled monster can attack directly.

(6) Trap Bane

DARK/Fairy/Effect/Level 2/ATK: 1500/DEF: 100

Description: You can discard this card from your hand to special summon one "Spell Bane" from your deck. If your opponent activates a trap card while this card is in your graveyard, you may remove it from play to negate and destroy it.

(7) Damage Bane

WATER Fairy/Tuner/Level 3/ATK: 1300/DEF: 1300

Description: If you control no Spell or Trap cards, you may discard this card from your hand and draw one card. If your opponent activates an effect that inflicts damage to your life points (except battle damage) while this card is in your graveyard, you may remove it from play to switch the damage you would have received to your opponent's life points.

(8) Ultimate Bane: Type A

LIGHT/Fairy/Synchro/Level 2/ATK: 1800/DEF: 2100

Synchro-Requirements: one 'bane' tuner + one 'bane' non-tuner

Description: When this monster is synchro summoned, destroy it along with up to 2 spell card(s) or trap card(s) on the field. If you opponent activates a spell card, trap card, or monster effect while this card is in your graveyard, you may remove this card from play to negate and destroy it. During your draw phase you may skip it in order to send this removed from play monster to your graveyard.

Rico: "Hi! This is Rico Burst! On the next chapter more shadow-drones lurk the night! Now I'm gonna have to fight one of them without my Scrap Dragon! Next time on Reverse of Arcadia: Venomous Plots!"

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