H4CKZ0R DR4G0N – B10-KN1GH7W1NG

"Justiciar Dragon! Justice Wave attack! Destroy the Ethernet Cable!" Justiciar Dragon opened its mouth and roared, a shockwave emerging. As it struck the Ethernet Cable, it was obliterated. Hack screamed as the real damage of Shiho's dark miasma flowed throughout the battlefield, pounding into her small body.

Hack: 4000 LP-900 LP

"As you can see, Hack. I have no reason to quit this duel now."

"You don't know that you've done, you fool." Hack glared at him, her azure mark of the dragon glowing brightly. "Now I won't feel bad what happens to you."

"Bring it on, then!"

"I intend to!" Hack drew a card from her deck. "My turn!"

Shiho: 400 LP SPC 0-1
Hack: 900 LP SPC 4-5

"I set one card facedown! Next, I'll summon one of my most versatile creatures, the Hackzor Dragon!" Hack's monster appeared to the field, growling, with the blue hue of Defense mode surrounding it. "And with that, I'll end my turn!"

"You were wise to summon that monster in defense mode! My turn!"

Shiho: 400 LP SPC 1-2
Hack: 900 LP SPC 5-6

"Justiciar Dragon! Eradicate that dragon with Justice Wave attack!" As with before, Justiciar Dragon roared, and the sheer power of its cry obliterated the Hackzor Dragon.

"Now you've done it."

"Done what?"

"Sealed your doom. My turn!"

Shiho: 400 LP SPC 2-3
Hack: 900 LP SPC 6-7

"I activate my facedown trap card, Hack Back! This allows me to target one "Hack" monster in my Graveyard and special summon it, equipping this card to it!" Hack called as her Graveyard started glowing. "Think of it like the "Hack" version of Call of the Haunted! And I'm bringing back my Hackzor Dragon!"

"Big deal. I destroyed that monster once, I can do it again!"

"Not this time! See, I knew you'd immediately destroy my Hackzor Dragon! That's why I had this planned!" Hack pulled another card from her hand. "I summon the White Hat Hacker!"

"White Hat Hacker?" Shiho watched as a rather weak, white-hatted being appeared, armed with a laptop. "How's he going to help you?"

Hack smiled. "You'll see. Because of Hackzor Dragon,once per turn, when I normal summon or special summon a "Hack" monster, I can special summon another one from my hand! And the monster I'll be special summoning, is my Black Hat Hacker!"

Shiho watched as another monster appeared, dressed in solid black with a firearm and a smartphone. Over the intercom, Adachi's voice boomed into Shiho's ear. "Don't let this kid distract you. He's just a little punk!"

"I'm not gonna let him distract me!"

"I hope you guys realize," Hack interjected, "that I can hear you, and I'm a girl."

"You're a girl? You dress like a boy and you keep your hair under a sweater hood, there's no way to tell!" Shiho shouted.

"Did it ever occur to you that that was by design? I don't exactly want to have a public profile, you know."

"Huh. No, no it did not."

"That's what I thought." Hack snickered. "Boys."

"Get on with it!"

"Very well! When my Black Hat Hacker is summoned to the field while I control a White Hat Hacker, I can special summon my Grey Hat Hacker from my deck! And now, with these three monsters assembled, I can begin the descent of your Dragon and the rest of your Life Points! I tune my level one Grey Hat Hacker to my level one Black Hat Hacker and White Hat Hacker, as well as my level 4 Hackzor Dragon!"

Shiho watched as the single level star of the Grey Hat Hacker flew out as it vanished, flying high into the sky as the other three monsters on Hack's field clustered together. A glowing green Synchro ring descended from where the level star was and surrounded the three monsters as they faded away, leaving six level stars. The level stars aligned in a straight line, as a beam of bright green light pierces through all of them and expands to the innermost edge of the Synchro ring.

"Behold, as the might of technology meets with the dragons of old! Mythoi are the driving force of our lives, and now, let them fuse with the future! Synchro Summon!" The light faded away, leaving a dragon that has been fused with technology, the appearance of which almost seems like armor. "Appear, now, Bio-Knightwing Dragon!"

Bio-Knightwing Dragon is a level 7 EARTH attribute Dragon-type Synchro monster with 2200 Attack points and 0 Defense points.

"Bio-Knightwing Dragon? Agh!" Shiho looked down as his Azure Mark of the Dragon glowed in intensity. "So this is it. Your Signer Dragon!"

"Sure, let's go with that." Hack pulled a card from her hand. "I've summoned my monster in defense mode, just to be safe. But I'll be activating my dragon's special ability! I can discard this Hack Bug \\ Trojan from my hand in order to inflict damage to you equal to its level times 100!"

Adachi and Sasuke watched in shock as Hack Bug \\ Trojan appeared for a brief moment, before being absorbed into Bio-Knightwing Dragon. Shiho, however, was smiling. A strange power was surging throughout Hack's dragon, before a sound echoed through the track. "You've got mail!"

An explosion surrounded Shiho as Hack laughed. She had won, and there wasn't anything these so-called Azure Signers could do now! But as the smoke cleared, she realized she had thought prematurely.

Shiho: 100 LP

"What? How could you have possibly survived that?! My monster had a level of six, you should have taken six hundred points of direct damage!"

"You're right, I would have. If not for the timely activation of this trap card, the Equipped with a Riot Shield trap card! This continuous trap allows me to half the damage I would take from a card effect once per turn as long as I control a WATER monster!" Shiho explained. "Thus, when your six-hundred-point email arrived, this card, this anti-virus, you could say, was here waiting, and reduced the damage I would take to three hundred, leaving me with one hundred live points!"

"Grr!" Hack pulled her final card from her hand. "I set one card facedown and end my turn!"

"My move, then!" Shiho drew a card from his deck.

Shiho: 100 LP SPC 3-4
Hack: 900 LP SPC 7-8

"Justiciar Dragon! Use Justice Wave to obliterate Hack's dragon!" Justiciar Dragon opened its mouth and roared, the shockwave headed directly for Bio-Knightwing Dragon. Hack laughed.

"We'll see who's getting obliterated! I activate my trap card Anti Anti-Virus! This trap card allows me to target one Machine monster I control and either half all battle damage I take from this battle, or prevent it from being destroyed this battle! I'll choose the latter, since my monster is in defense mode and your monster does not deal piercing battle damage!"

The shockwave struck Hack's monster, but enhanced by the Anti Anti-Virus, it was left undestroyed. "Fine."

Shiho glanced at the Bio-Knightwing Dragon card on the screen. He looked down at his hand and saw a card that would be just right. "Hmm. I'll set these two cards facedown and end my turn."

He's at the ropes. If I draw a monster, I could end this now! Although… I could attempt to eradicate him with his own monster! I just need the right card… Hack thought to herself. Here goes! "My turn! I draw!"

Shiho: 100 LP SPC 4-5
Hack: 900 LP SPC 8-9

Perfect. This Speed Spell! This is exactly what I need! "I activate my spell card, Speed Spell – Control, Alt, Delete!"

"Control, Alt, Delete?"

"That's right! And with this spell card, I can do two things, all at the cost of eight speed counters total! First off, at the cost of six speed counters, I can make all monsters on the field Machine-type until the next End Phase!" Shiho watched in horror as his dragon cried out, its scales being replaced with metal. Soon, his dragon was a machine, however Bio-Knightwing Dragon was unfazed. "Of course, my dragon is already considered part machine, so he's unaffected! Next, I can pay an additional two speed counters in order to special summon a monster from my Graveyard, and I'm choosing my Hacker Component – Ethernet Cable!"

Hack: 900 LP SPC 9-1

Here it comes! Shiho thought to himself. If she takes the easy way out, this duel is done for me! But if she falls into my trap, I'll have her on the ropes!

"Here goes! I tribute my Ethernet Cable in order to use my Bio-Knightwing Dragon!" Hack called as her Ethernet Cable disintegrated, the energy of it flying into her dragon. It started to glow, as a monitor on its chest started loading. Once the bar was full, waves of light exploded from the dragon. "Instead of inflicting you with damage, I came up with an even greater victory over you! When you control a Machine-type monster when I activate Bio-Knightwing Dragon's special ability, I can choose to take control of that monster!"

"What?!"

"That's right! Your Justiciar Dragon is mine!" Hack laughed as Justiciar Dragon's eyes were filled with psychedelic lights as it floated from Shiho's field to Hack's. "Sure, my dragon can't attack this turn when I use any of its effects, but yours can. I may not have any WATER monsters in my Graveyard, but I do have a 2600 Attack beatstick with your name on it! Justiciar Dragon! Attack! Justice Wave!"

"Sorry to disappoint, Hack, but I've got a surprise up my sleeve!" Shiho activated one of his facedown cards. "I activate Protective Custody!"

"Protective what?!"

"My Protective Custody can only be activated when you control a WATER monster that I am the original owner of! It allows me to regain control of that monster," Shiho continued, "and switch it into Defense mode!"

"No way!" Hack watched as Justiciar Dragon, once again, changed sides of the field, this time switching into Defense mode. "So you're telling me that you were planning on me taking your monster to win?"

"It was a gamble, all right. If you had used your Bio-Knightwing Dragon's special ability to inflict damage to me, it would have been all over." Shiho admitted. "But even you couldn't pass up the opportunity to deal the most amount of damage, and now that my dragon is back on my field, he has 4600 attack once again!"

"Not that it matters, he's in defense mode!"

"We'll see. My turn! Draw!" Shiho drew a card from his deck.

Shiho: 100 LP SPC 5-6
Hack: 900 LP SPC 1-2

"It's all over, Hack!"

"I don't think so!"

"Maybe you don't, but I do! Activate facedown trap card!" Shiho called as his card activated. "Zero Gravity!"

"Zero Gravity? But with that, you could…"

"Change the battle positions of all the monsters on the field? You're goddamn right I can!" Shiho called. "Sure, it's not an "Azurian" card, but it works perfectly in this deck. And now our monsters are switched into Attack mode!"

"No!"

"Justiciar Dragon! Use your Liberty Flame to obliterate Hack's Bio-Knightwing Dragon!" Justiciar Dragon roared in agreement, as it opened its still metallic mouth. Golden flames blasted out like water in a water fountain, and they enveloped Bio-Knightwing Dragon. It cried in protest before being destroyed, smashing Hack for 2400 points of real damage, causing her to scream in pain.

Hack: 900 LP-0 LP

As her Life Points reached zero, the dark miasma that struck her began to take hold, filling her body with the dark energy. In a moment, she had been infused with darkness, and was now the ally of the Azure Signers. Shiho and Hack brought their vehicles to a halt, and she looked over to him.

"What do we do now, Shiho? You have gathered us. The four Azure Signers." Shiho nodded and looked over to Adachi and Sasuke, who had just arrived. He looked back to Hack.

"I think it's time we start our battle with the Crimson Dragon."