YuGiOh 5D's: Konami
(5D's) "This symbol indicates the card is created by yours truly. All rights go to me."
Sarah Lyrtle: Seed245445
Victor: Seed245445
Within the dark, a glowing spider mark, having lost two of its legs, have returned to it.
"It seems the flies have escaped the spider's web," the figure in the black and blue smirked.
"For the moment, Kalin, yes," the one in red grinned, "But this was just a test to see if the satellite was truly worthy of our efforts. Remember that our web is wide and strong, the spider's bite swift and merciless. It's not the venom we need to change, but the prey," his chuckled echoed across the darkness.
All was quiet in the streets of Damon. The only thing breaking the silence was the sound of an engine. Lurking across the streets was an acid-green vehicle in the shape of a snake's head. Inside was a woman in a purple riding suit. Her snake-based helmet hid the strands of blond hair billowing in the wind.
"Another street-duel in the textbooks, eh, Victor?" she referred as such to the screen hanging on the roof of the vehicle.
"Aren't you worried about what happened back there?" the computer known as Victor asked, "You saw what happened while the dueled; and what he said about-"
"That's just a bunch of theatrics just to get attention," the woman noted, "Besides, we dodged a major bullet in 2012. There's no end of the world coming soon."
But without knowing, something slithered in the back of the vehicle. A small and slender shadow rose up, revealing to be a black snake with glowing lines running across its body. It slowly opened its mouth, revealing its sharp drooling fangs; and in one quick motion it snapped it head against the woman's' jugular, earning an audible gasp from her. As quick as it bit her, the snake retracted and retreated back to its hiding place.
A pair of green flashed behind the visor as the rider suddenly swerved and drove the opposite direction.
"Sarah, what is it? What's going on?" Victor asked, with no reply from the woman, "What's going on? Sarah? Sarah?"
YuGiOh! 5D's
Reverse of Arcadia
Ride 3: Venomous Plot
"SKREEEEEEEE!" came the sound of a mighty rose-red beast. It towered over its latest victim as it reared its head, and unleashed a stream of burning petals. The prey and everything around it exploded, leaving a hail of said petals floating to the ground.
In a single command, the beast was called back to a cloaked figure, taking the form of a small card in their open hand. After, the figure dropped to its knees, feminine gasps being heard as if she ran a marathon. Her psychic powers were taking a toll on her. The more she duels, the more power she uses, and the more stamina is used up. Despite all that, she somehow managed to feel a presence behind her, "I thought I told you to stay home."
A small shadow emerged from the corner of an alleyway, revealing a small 11-year-old boy. He had short brown hair, with a bang covering his right eye. He was wearing a brown hooded vest over a white shirt, and matching pants with gold trimmings on them. His small mouth was sucking on a lollipop, "I'm sorry, Sis, but someone has to look after you."
"I didn't ask to be looked after, Rico! I don't need help!" the young woman struggled to get up, only to be dropped back down. The boy known as Rico ran to help her, trying to help her up by grabbing around her waist. That was when a flood of memories rushed through her mind:
Flashback:
Akiza could hear tiny, rapid footsteps running up towards her. She turned her head to see Rico Burst grasping tight on her skirt, "You have to stop what you're doing, Sis!" he cried, "Look, I know it's hard, but you gotta realize that hiding from everyone doesn't help any! Just show everyone how great you are! It'll pay off! I promise!"
Having this mark doesn't make you a witch, Akiza, it makes you special!" Yusei Fudo assured, "I know other people don't see that, and I know it hurts; but when you get angry at them, you're only hating yourself! The pain you feel from that mark is shared by me as well. It's trying to bring us together, to strengthen us! I don't understand it yet, but this pain is somehow uniting us! We have to figure out what it wants, Akiza; but first you must realize that you're not alone! That we're connected, we're all connected! We're all going to have to make a choice. We're going to have to band together in order for this to all make sense! Embrace your dragon; it's beautiful! Just like you are under that mask."
Rico, quickly recovered, lunged back behind Akiza, wrapping his small arms tightly around her waist, "No! Stop fighting, Akiza! It's over! The dragon inside you was never meant to destroy!" but his pleas fell on the deaf ears of the possessed Black Rose.
...End Flashback.
"NO!" was all it took then an unseen force knocked Rico away from Akiza and onto his bottom, "Oh! I'm sorry, Rico! It was as accident! They just... escaped from my body!"
"It's okay. You didn't mean it."
"And since when do you care about others' well-being, Black Rose?" an female's echoing chuckle caused Akiza to turn to another person wrapped in a cape.
"Who are you?" Akiza demanded.
The woman pulled back her cloak and raised both her arms: her left equipped with a duel-disk and the other showing a glowing mark in the shape of a lizard, "I am a shadow-drone. And I am sent here by my master to defeat you!"
"No!" Rico scampered to Akiza's side, standing between her and the cloaked woman, "Akiza doesn't want anything to do with you! If you want a duel, then you have one right here!"
"You?" the woman scoffed, "It's way past your bedtime, little boy. Go home. This is an adults' affair."
"I'm not moving from this spot! I won't let you hurt her!" Rico sounded determined.
The woman sighed, "Very well. But you have been warned."
Both players activated their disks and drew five cards.
"DUEL!"
Rico: 4000
Drone: 4000
Just then, massive purple flames surrounded Rico and the Shadow-Drone into a circle.
"What's going on?" Rico asked bewildered, "Why did all those flames just shoot up like that?"
"This is to ensure that no one escapes from this shadow-duel," the drone answered, "And once you lose, you will be swallowed by the dark abyss. And soon, the Black Rose will follow!"
"I won't let that happen!" Rico started the duel, "I summon Scrap Beast in ATK mode!" the first monster Rico conjured appeared as a wolf made completely of scrapmetal (ATK: 1600), "Then I place 3 cards face-down and end my turn!" three reverses appeared.
"Then it's my turn," the shadow-drone drew, "I summon (5D's)(1) Poisoning Snake(2/1200/600)," a pitch-black snake with glowing orange lines running across its back appeared (ATK: 1200), "And now I end my turn with 2 face-down."
'Why would she leave her monster vulnerable like that?' Rico wondered, '...Oh well, if I destroy it, it won't matter.' "I summon (6) Card Trooper(3/400/400) in ATK mode!" a small red robot on treads appeared, equipped with two arm-mounted blasters and a glass bubble covering his vulnerable head, "Next I activate his special ability: during the turn, by sending up to 3 card from the top of my deck to the graveyard, it gains 500 ATK points for each card that was discarded!" after removing 3 cards from his deck, Card Trooper gained 1500 ATK points.
Card Trooper: (ATK: 1900)
"Scrap Beast! Attack Poisoning Snake!" The scrapmetal wolf pounced on the serpent and snapped it in two with its jaws.
Rico: 4000
Drone: 3600
"By destroying Poisoning Snake you activated its special ability," the drone said, "Now your monster loses 600 ATK and DEF points," the remains of the snake changed into smaller versions and sunk their fangs into the wolf's hard exterior, releasing venom into it.
Scrap Beast: (ATK: 1000)
"Attack her directly, Card Trooper!" Rico's second monster attacked with a rapid barrage from its blasters. The glowing shells bounced off the shadow-drone and knocked her to the ground.
Rico: 4000
Drone: 1700
"What just happened just now?" Rico wondered due to Card Trooper's attack actually damaging the opponent.
"Don't worry about me," the woman got up, "In fact, you should be worried about yourself. Because by activating my Damage Condenser trap, I can summon a monster from my deck with the same ATK points as the damage I just took! So by discarding 1 card from my hand, I get to summon my (5D's)(3) Poisoning Viper(6/1900/900)," a large black serpent, that was twice as large as the Poisoning Serpent, appeared with purple lines on its back (ATK: 1900), "And that's not all; since I took damage, I can special summon the (5D's)(4) Dark Tuner-Vice Viper(8/0/0) that's in my hand!" yet another black serpent appeared, having sharp horns crowned on its head, and blood-red markings on its back (ATK: 0).
'Dark Tuner?" Akiza wondered, watching from the sidelines.
"I'll remove a card of my own: Noisy Gnat! This increases Card Trooper's level by 1!"
Card Trooper: (Lv: 4)
"Now I tune my Scrap Beast along with my Card Trooper to synchro-summon..." Rico waited for his two monsters to combine, but nothing happened, "Uh, to synchro-summon..." still no response, 'What's going on? Why isn't Scrap Dragon common...? ...Wait a minute!'
Flashback...
"I wanted to see you before the tournament starts. I want to talk to you about something..." Rico finally met him at the intersection, "I know you're about to face Divine. And I want you to use this..." he rustled into his vest pocket and pulled out...
"Scrap Dragon? But I can't just take your card-"
"Are you kidding me? I just want you to borrow it to beat Divine!" Rico placed the card into Jason's hand, "And I want it back after the duel, okay?"
"Well, okay..."
...End Flashback.
"Oh, no! I gave Scrap Dragon to Jason during the Fortune Cup today!" Rico grimly realized.
"Are you going to stand there all night, or are you going to duel?" the shadow-drone asked impatiently.
"I... I end my turn for now."
"And I will start mine," the drone drew her next card, "And I summon (5D's)(2) Poisoning Serpent(4/1400/700)!" a black, green-lined reptile no bigger than the viper but taller than the snake appeared (ATK: 1400), "And now I combine it with my Dark Tuner-Vice Viper!" the so-called dark-tuner disappeared, releasing eight stars, and sinking into the serpent. It screeched before it exploded and four black stars circled over the shadow-drone.
"What are these dark stars for?" Rico questioned.
"Unlike your synchro-monsters that were combined from others monsters, mine feed off each other to form negative energy!" the drone answered, "When the shadows are devoured by even darker shadows, the curtain pulls back and reveals, a world without light! I call upon the (5D's)(5) Dark Serpenterror(-4/2200/1000)!" the stars created a torrent of black energy and released a more powerful monster. Spawned from the gates of darkness came a giant serpent, with a woman's abdomen in the middle. Its violet-scaled back was lined with ominous crimson marks as it slithered on its belly (ATK: 2200), "And now my Serpenterror shall make a meal of your Card Trooper!" on command, the humanoid snake dragged itself quickly and caught the Card Trooper in its mouth. It tossed the robot into the air before letting it fall into its gaping mouth, swallowing it whole. A large bulge could be seen coming down through the serpent's neck where the remains of Card Trooper would be.
Rico: 2200
Drone: 1700
"When Card Trooper is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, I can draw 1 card!" Rico drew once from his deck.
"And now to get rid of that beast of yours! Poisoning Viper, attack!" the viper spat out a mess of acid, It splashed all over Scrap Beast, melting its hide into nothing.
Rico: 1300
Drone: 1700
"I shall end my turn," the drone concluded.
"Then it's my turn!" Rico drew, "I summon (7) Scrap Chimera(1700/500) in ATK mode!" the next scrap monster summoned was a winged lion with a snake for a tail, "When this monster's summoned, I can special-summon another Scrap monster from my graveyard! So I revive Scrap Goblin!" another Scrap monster, this one a small metal creature made with various metal parts, especially a camera for a chest, appeared (ATK: 0), "And now I'll tune him with chimera to synchro-summon, Scrap Archfiend!" this time, the process worked as the goblin's synchro-gates surrounded the chimera as Rico chanted:
"Scraps of metal of a new allow! Become the fearsome demon formed into one! Synchro-Summon! Bespawn, (8) Scrap Archfiend(2700/1800)!"
The light cleared and a more powerful Scrap monster appeared, in the form somewhat similar to the Summoned Skull (ATK: 2700), "Now, Scrap Archfiend! Attack Serpenterror!" the archfiend roared and charged at the dark-synchro."
"I activate Negate Attack, and cancel this battle!" the shadow-drone activated her reversed trap; the metal fiend was intercepted by a barrier and was forced back.
"I'll end my turn, then," Rico said.
"On to me, then!" the drone started her next turn, "I activate my face-down, Spirit Barrier! Now I won't take damage in battle, so long as there are monsters on my field! Next, I summon yet another Poisoning Serpent!" another black-scaled, green-lined snake appeared (ATK: 1400), "Next, I activate the Shrink spell card, and reduce Poisoning Viper's ATK power by half!" the viper shrunk to half its size.
Poisoning Viper: (ATK: 950)
"Does that monster lower a monster's power when it's destroyed?" Rico asked disquieted.
"You're starting to catch on," the drone grinned, "When my Viper is destroyed, 800 ATK points are taken out of the monster that battle with it. The same goes to my Serpent, draining it with 700 more. Now attack!" the two smaller serpents slithered their way across the field and sunk thier fangs into the Archfiend, draining a majority of its power before disappearing into pixels.
Scrap Archfiend: (ATK: 1200)
"And now Serpenterror will deal the final blow to Scrap Archfiend! Terror Venom!" the dark-synchro monster spewed an steaming purple acid on the fiend, cherishing its painful roars as it corroded into oblivion.
Rico: 300
Drone: 1700
"And now you have 300 life-points remaining!" the shadow-drone sneered, "And Serpenterror has a piercing ability; so even if you place a monster in DEF mode, my serpent will bypass its defenses and swallow you whole, along with the rest of your life-points!"
'And Rico doesn't have monsters with nearly enough DEF power in his possession!' Akiza grimaced, 'If he doesn't make a move on his next turn, it's all over!'
"It's my turn!" Rico shouted as he drew his next card, "First I activate the trap, Call of the Haunted, to bring Scrap Archfiend back from the graveyard!" the scrap-iron demon returned from the graveyard (ATK: 2700), "Next I activate my other face-down, Graceful Revival, and return Scrap Goblin as well!" the scrap-tuner appeared beside the archfiend (ATK: 0), "And now I combine them together for a synchro-summon!" as the two monsters rose, the Scrap Goblin disappeared and left three synchro-gates to surround Scrap Archfiend; the demon dematerialized, leaving seven stars aligning:
"Scraps of metal of a new allow! Become the twin hydra made into life! Synchro-Summon! Go, (9) Scrap Twin Dragon(3000/2200)!"
The geyser of light erupted and and thousands of dirty metal pieces came swirling around. They connected to one another and soon formed into an enormous dragon with two heads. It roared as it came out of the synchro-column (ATK: 3000), "I place one card face-down and activate Scrap Twin's special-ability! By destroying one card one my field, he can return up to 2 card on the opponent's field to their hand! Say goodbye to your Serpenterror!" after slapping a card onto his disk, Rico's recent face-down was shattered, and Scrap Twin Dragon unleashed a double-barrage of hurricane and literally blew away the dark-synchro, as well as the Spirit Barrier trap card.
"My monster!" the drone cried.
"Scrap Twin Dragon! Attack directly with Scrap-Twin Cannon!" the dragon fired a pair of energy blasts which spiraled around each other and collided with its impended target, knocking her to the ground in a giant explosion.
Rico: 300
Drone: 0
With the duel over, the barrier surrounding them vanished. Rico ran to the fallen drone and removed her hood, revealing a short blond hair, as well as a criminal-mark of two long triangles falling under her right eye. When he searched for the lizard mark on her arm, he couldn't find it. He had to assume it disappeared.
"We have to get moving, Rico," Akiza said, placing her hood over her head, "Judging from the amount of noises made, Sector Security may come over to investigate."
Rico nodded and followed his sister to escape the scene. Unbeknown to them, they were already under watch, by a black snake with green glowing lines, coiled around a gutter-pipe. But that was not all that was spying...
Deep within an unknown room, someone else kept a watchful eye on the two, her lizard mark glowing brightly, "It seems I have to test the Black Rose's power some other time," a smile curved across her beautiful face.
Morning...
Dawn broke over the Damon area of the Satellite. It was that early of morning that Yusei, Jason and Kenichi returned to the Jacks' Flush's hideout.
Tanner was the first to know as he looked up from a laptop, "Hey. Where'ja run off to last night? I was startin' to get worried."
"Good morning to you too, Bolt," Kenichi joked, "There were some really weird guys in bathrobes outside and we followed them."
"What happened?" Tanner stood up, "Did he challenge you to a duel?"
"Yeah. And he was being controlled by a group called the Dark Signers," Jason noted.
"Did you say 'Signers'?"
"He had a mark," Yusei held up his right arm which bear his Mark of the Dragon, "And it glowed like mine, but it was in the shape of a spider..."
In a dark office in the Public Security Maintenance Bureau, Rex Goodwin watched the footage from Yusei's Duel, observing coolly as a shadow-drone summoned Frozen Fitzgerald. With a sigh, he turned the footage off and the screen faded to black, "So they've finally made their move."
A holoscreen appears with a mysterious figure silhouetted on it. Appears to be wearing a black suit jacket over a lighter shirt, "The Dark Signers may present a problem."
"Yes, but they're nothing we can't handle, my old friend," Goodwin replied, "If they want to fight me, well... they'll get more than a battle, they'll get a war!"
Later...
Back at the Satellite the cultists in black cloaks continued to preach, attracting small crowds of bystanders.
"People of the Satellite, the hand you have been dealt in life is not your fault! Lay blame on New Domino City and its Crimson Dragon!"
"For the Crimson Dragon will only push the people of the Satellite down further! Listen to the words we speak today if you want a better life!"
"The strength of the dark shadows will rescue you all! It will release you from this despair you call life!"
"Believe my words and follow us; rise up as brothers!"
"We can dispel the pain of poverty; we can take away your troubles forever!"
Above the crowd, that web appears again. Strings of web descend onto each person's neck, "You shall fight the Crimson Dragon!"
"WE SHALL FIGHT THE CRIMSON DRAGON! WE SHALL FIGHT THE CRIMSON DRAGON! WE SHALL FIGHT THE CRIMSON DRAGON!"
Back at Sector Securities' Headquarters, Carly Carmine was being held inside a waiting room, gazing at a holographic newspaper article. Today's headline: "Yusei's a FRAUD?"
"Why would Angela do it?" she shouted furiously, "There's not one credible source in this entire article! How dare she smear Yusei like that! She's gonna wish she never wrote this!"
"Be quiet in there!" someone yelled from outside the door, "Hey, you wanna talk? Save it for the interrogation room."
I-interrogation? ...Well, I still have you. Let's see what my Fortune Deck says now..." Carly sighed, pulling out her Deck and drawing a card from the top, "'Super pinch'? So what... you're telling me, is that this is gonna be a bad day? Uh, duh, I'm stuck in jail, I lost my story, and now Angela's plastering the headlines with lies! What else, what else are you gonna try to tell me, huh?"
"Listen up in there!" the person opened the door and shouted, "I said be quiet!"
SLAM!
"I need a get-out-of-Sector-Security-for-free card!" Carly wailed.
Meanwhile...
The final scene alternates in one of the bedrooms of the Arcadia Movement. A beautiful young woman fluttered her eyes open, letting her bright amber eyes adjust to the light.
"Guess you're feeling better now, huh, Magic?"
The girl moved some of her violet-colored hair from in front of her eyes, and smiled to see her friends, "Oh. Liquid. Okita. Good morning. What happened?"
"After we found you lying on the track yesterday, we got kinda worried," Liquid said, "If that's what you're like on the very first day, I can't say the future's looking good for you..."
Magic cheeks turned red. She then wanted to hide under the covers from sheer embarrassment.
"I'm very pleased that you're now feeling alright, though," Okita replied, "So, Magic, am I right that you are to start your training today?"
"Umm... yes?" Magic answered meekly.
"Then we'll meet you in the arenas when you're ready," after Okita and Liquid left, Magic was left in bed to wander in her mind. Just what was that episode she fell into back at the KaibaDome? She knew something was not right. She has to find out, And she has to find out today...
DUEL-MON DATABASE
(1) Poisoning Snake
DARK/Reptile/Effect/Level 2/ATK: 1200/DEF: 600
Description: When this card is destroyed as a result of battle and sent to the graveyard, the monster who battled with this card looses 600 ATK points.
(2) Poisoning Serpent
DARK/Reptile/Effect/Level 4/ATK: 1400/DEF: 700
Description: When this card is destroyed as a result of battle and sent to the graveyard, the monster who battled with this card looses 700 ATK points.
(3) Poisoning Viper
DARK/Reptile/Effect/Level 6/ATK: 1900/DEF: 900
Description: When this card is destroyed as a result of battle and sent to the graveyard, the monster who battled with this card looses 800 ATK points.
(4) Dark Tuner-Vice Viper
DARK/Reptile/Dark-Tuner/Level 8/ATK: 0/DEF: 0
Description: This card can be Special-Summoned from your hand when you take battle-damage.
(5) Serpenterror
DARK/Reptile/Dark-Synchro/Level -4/ATK: 2200/DEF: 1000
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. This monster inflicts piercing damage.
(6) Card Trooper
EARTH/Machine/Effect/Level 3/ATK: 400/DEF: 400
Description: Once per turn, you can send up to 3 cards from the top of your Deck to the Graveyard. This card gains 500 ATK for each card sent to the Graveyard, until the End Phase. When this card you control is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, draw 1 card.
(7) Scrap Chimera
EARTH/Beast/Effect/Level 4/ATK: 1700/DEF: 500
Description: This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster, except for the Synchro Summon of a "Scrap" monster and all the other Synchro Material Monsters must also be "Scrap" monsters. When this card is Normal Summoned, you can select 1 "Scrap" Tuner monster in your Graveyard and Special Summon it.
(8) Scrap Archfiend
EARTH/Fiend/Synchro/Level 7/ATK: 2700/DEF: 1800
Synchro-Requirements: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Monsters
(9) Scrap Twin Dragon
EARTH/Dragon/Synchro/Level 9/ATK: 3000/DEF: 2200
Synchro-Requirements: 1 "Scrap" Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
Description: Once per turn, you can select 1 card you control and 2 cards your opponent controls. Destroy the one you control and return the two your opponent controls to the hand. When this card is destroyed by your opponent's card (either by battle or by card effect) and sent to the Graveyard, select 1 non-Synchro "Scrap" monster in your Graveyard, and Special Summon it.
Magic: "Um, hello. It's me, Magic. I'm not so comfortable doing previews, but next time, I'm about to undergo a regiment to become a full-fledged Arcadia member. I also get to duel one of their best as well. I'm getting butterflies just thinking about it! Next time on Reverse of Arcadia: Training Day! Time to make some magic!"
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