The Party Gets Crashed
"Hack complete. Let's crash this party. Wahahaha!" A sleek black Duel Runner blasts through the glass dome and descends towards the duel track. "You guys don't know what hit you!"
"What the hell?"
"Who is that?"
"I am your doom!" The duelist crashed to the ground and electricity passed between him and the track. "I've hacked into this game. And now I will destroy you both! It's my turn!"
Mateo: 1900 LP SPC 3-4
Yusei: 2300 LP SPC 5-6
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP SPC 12
"I activate my Speed Spell – Soul Exchange! In fact, I activate two of them from my hand! This is a lovely little spell card that lets me select one monster you control and I can use it as a tribute for a monster I summon that requires tributes." The mysterious duelist called as a glowing outline traced itself around both Mateo and Yusei's Shooting Star Dragons. "The only cost to this is two Speed Counters each and that I cannot attack this turn."
Mysterious Duelist: SPC 12-8
"Now I release both Shooting Star Dragons in order to summon the mighty Van'Dalgyon, the Dark Dragon Lord!" The mysterious duelist threw his hand up into the air as both Shooting Star Dragons coalesced in a glowing rainbow orb and then flattened onto the track. In a flash, it turned black, and then morphed into the shape of a large dragon, before its color faded in as a large black dragon with red energy coming from between his scales, and dark blue crystals forming within its skin. "Wahahaha!"
"Don't get over-cocky! It's my turn!"
Mateo: 1900 LP SPC 4-5
Yusei: 2300 LP SPC 6-7
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP SPC 10-11
"I summon Fortress Warrior in Defense Mode! I'll set one card facedown and end my turn!"
"My turn, then!" The mysterious duelist replied. "Draw!"
Mateo: 1900 LP SPC 5-6
Yusei: 2300 LP SPC 7-8
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP SPC 11-12
"I command my mighty Van'Dalgyon to attack Mateo Yurigaya directly!" Van'Dalgyon rears its head back and roars, before rushing forward with a dark burst of flame wrapping around its hand. Just before it would strike Mateo, a blur of metal connected with Van'Dalgyon with a very loud crunching sound. "What?"
"Aha! Excellent timing, Yusei!"
"I activated my Scrap-Iron Scarecrow. This card lets me negate one attack of yours per turn and then I can set it back facedown on the field." Yusei countered as the Scrap-Iron Scarecrow reintegrated itself into the card and set itself back on the field.
"Ah. No matter. I have other means to achieve my goals. For I activate the speed spell Speed Spell – Energy Burn! If a monster I control had his attack negated, I can pay three Speed Counters and inflict half of that monster's attack as damage!" The electricity that is being generated by the mysterious duelist's Duel Runner arcs out along the duel track and strikes Mateo.
"AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" Mateo screamed as the electricity coursed through his Duel Runner.
Mateo: 1900 LP-500 LP
Mysterious Duelist: SPC 12-9
"Mateo! Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good." Mateo responded after a moment, still breathing heavily. "Just a bit of zap."
"This can't be good." Luna muttered.
"Biggest. Understatement. Ever." Leo replied.
"Don't worry. Yusei will think of something." Crow looked over to the twins, and then back to the duel arena as Mateo, Yusei, and the Mysterious Duelist sped by.
"I hope so."
"I play one card facedown and end my turn!"
"Alright. It's my turn! Draw!"
Mateo: 500 LP SPC 6-7
Yusei: 2300 LP SPC 8-9
Mysterious Duelist 4000 LP SPC 9-10
"I'm gonna place two cards facedown on my field." Mateo placed two cards in his spell and trap card zones. He grabbed a card from his hand. "I summon Dragonic Synchron in defense mode!"
"Dragonic Synchron, eh? Intriguing that you actually have a defensive side."
"Hey. I may be the Master of the Duel Tracks, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to play it safe." Mateo replied. "I end my turn!"
"Wahahaha! It's my turn!" The mysterious duelist drew a card from the top of his deck.
Mateo: 500 LP SPC 7-8
Yusei: 2300 LP SPC 9-10
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP SPC 10-11
"While I truly wish to eliminate Yurigaya first, so long as he has Dragonic Synchron on his field, such a thing will be impossible." The mysterious duelist stated.
"Jack, what's the effect of Dragonic Synchron?"
"To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure. From what I've heard from the Duel Tracks, when it gets attacked and it is in defense mode, it negates the damage, but allows you to summon a monster." Jack replied. "As far as I know, Mateo, here is the only duelist to use Dragonic Synchron."
"I activate my equip speed spell Speed Spell – Big Bang Shot! This card can only be equipped to a monster as long as I pay two Speed Counters per turn, but requires 4 at initial activation!" The mysterious duelist called out as he activated the spell card. "This card increases the equipped monster's attack by 400. So I equip it to my Van'Dalgyon, the Dark Dragon Lord! Attack Yusei's Fortress Warrior!"
Mysterious Duelist: SPC 11-7
"I activate my Scrap-Iron—"
"Fortunately not! My facedown is the trap card Trap Stun! This means that all trap cards on the field, both active and facedown, are immobilized until this end phase!" The mysterious duelist chided.
"Damn! Well. At least I have the effect of my Fortress Warrior, which allows it to negate its own destruction once per turn!"
"True, but my Big Bang Shot gives my Van'Dalgyon the ability to inflict piercing battle damage!" Van'Dalgyon roared, and then charged at Fortress Warrior, drawing the bow given to it by Big Bang Shot, as energy from Van'Dalgyon passed into the arrow head as Fortress Warrior raised its platform as a large shield to defend from the arrow. Van'Dalgyon fired the arrow and it lands in the center of Fortress Warrior's platform, as dark energy blasts around the shield and hits Yusei, followed very quickly by a blast of electricity.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Yusei screamed as electricity blasted through his body.
Yusei: 2300 LP 300 LP
"Yusei!" Leo and Luna cried out as their friend was zapped with a large amount of electricity.
"Oh, no!"
"Yusei!"
"I'm okay! This is gonna be pretty hard to win, isn't it?"
"I'd say so, yeah! Hey, I have an idea! I need you to summon a level three monster this turn!"
"I got just the thing! It's my turn!"
Mateo: 500 LP SPC 8-9
Yusei: 300 LP SPC 10-11
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP SPC 7-8
"I summon Tricular in defense mode!" Yusei exclaims as he lays the card on his Duel Disk. "I hope you know what you're doing, Mateo."
"Me too."
"Wahahaha!" The mysterious duelist cackled. "It's my turn! Draw!
Mateo: 500 LP SPC 9-10
Yusei: 300 LP SPC 11-12
Mysterious Duelist: 4000LP SPC 8-9
"I activate my facedown spell card, Speed Spell – Scapegoat! I can pay 4 Speed Counters to summon 4 Goat Tokens to my side of the field!" Mateo called as his field became crowded with small, multicolored sheep. "As it isn't my turn, I can use this card without hindering the summoning of my turn."
Mateo: SPC 10-6
"Measly sheep tokens? Is that the only defense you can muster? Wahahaha!" The mysterious duelist laughed maniacally. "Due to my Big Bang Shot, I have to pay two Speed Counters to keep it equipped to my Van'Dalgyon."
Mysterious Duelist: SPC 9-7
"Van'Dalgyon, attack one of Yurigaya's Sheep Tokens!"
"He… He's gonna lose!"
"No. He isn't. Look!"
Just as Yusei reached to activate Scrap-Iron Scarecrow, Mateo pressed a button and threw his hand forward as his other facedown activates. "I activate the trap card Dimensional Prison! This card can only be activated when your monster attacks, and it is removed from play!"
"What?" The myserious duelist demanded as Van'Dalgyon is absorbed with a roar into a portal that tore itself between Mateo and the mysterious duelist. "No!"
"Now that Van'Dalgyon is gone, we don't have to worry about it. And we can end this one hell of a lot faster!" Mateo called as he revved his engine and sped up even faster around the track.
"That was an excellent play, Mateo!"
"Thank you."
"Grah! I set one card facedown! This ought to hold you at bay!"
"Then it's my turn!" Mateo places his hand on his deck and closes his eyes, as Yusei turns to look at him. He, too, closes his eyes.
Whatever it is that you need, Mateo. You'll draw it. I know it.
Mateo draws his top card and his eyes open. He smiles as he spins around and starts driving backwards, slowing down to keep the mysterious duelist just behind him. He glances at the card, and his gaze switches back to the mysterious duelist with a very determined expression.
Mateo: 500 LP SPC 6-7
Yusei: 300 LP SPC 12
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP SPC 9-10
"I pay two of my Speed Counters to activate my Speed Spell – Mystical Space Typhoon! This allows me to destroy one spell or trap card on the field besides Speed World 3, and I'm choosing your facedown card!" Mateo throw his hand forward again as a gale of wind obliterated the mysterious duelist's facedown card, which opens slightly to reveal what it was, the trap card Discord. "Alright! The stage is set!"
"Whatever you're gonna do, Mateo, let's do it now!" Yusei called. Mateo nodded, and span back around, speeding up again.
"I'm gonna tune all seven monsters on this side of the field together! That's right! Level 2 Dragonic Synchron tunes my four level 1 Sheep Tokens, Yusei's level 2 Fortress Warrior, and Yusei's level 3 Tricular!" Mateo called, throwing his hand into the air towards the monsters as Dragonic Synchron's level stars floated out of its body, leaving a fading glowing outline of Dragonic Synchron in its wake. After flying up, the level stars formed into two sparkling green rings, and the other six monsters flew within the rings, ready for the Synchro Summon.
"Poisoned skies and darkening galaxies, a whole universe full of feasts ripe for the picking! Illuminate the path of destiny!" The monsters within the Synchro rings turned into their level stars, and aligned themselves in a straight line. A green burst of energy pierced all nine level stars, and expanded to the edges of the rings, before flying up towards the sky. "Synchro Summon!"
"I've never felt a Synchro Summon so powerful!" Luna called over the force of the summoning.
"Consume! O mighty Star Eater!" The green light faded away, leaving nothing.
"W… Where's your monster?"
Mateo smirked and pointed up to the sky. Yusei and the mysterious duelist look up, along with the other Signers, as an unimaginably large dragon appears, visible through the atmosphere as it makes its way in, the rest of the holographic creature wrapping itself around the entire earth a few times. Yusei looks up at it in awe, as Mateo speeds up even further.
"H-how can you have a monster so large?"
"Well, it is the Star Eater, after all. Did you expect it to be small? However, if it makes you feel any better, it isn't overly strong for its size."
"Four thousand attack points seems pretty strong to me!"
"Yes, but you're forgetting my Dragonic Synchron."
"What?"
"Of course! It only makes sense that it would benefit Dragon-type monsters in some sort of way, given its name!" Jack exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" Akiza asked.
"When Dragonic Synchron is used to Synchro Summon a level 9 or higher Dragon-type Synchro Monster, it gains 800 original attack points!" Mateo stated. "And since it's increasing the original attack, my Star Eater's effect to make it unaffected by card effects is ineffective!"
"That's impossible! How could I have not foreseen this?"
"Star Eater! Attack him directly! Consume!" Star Eater roared, and then descended upon the Duel Arena. It passed through the glass roof without breaking and opened its mouth as it crashed to the ground around the mysterious duelist.
"Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!"
Mysterious Duelist: 4000 LP 0 LP
All the holograms faded, and Mateo slows down so that he is at the same pace as Yusei as they made a victory lap as the mysterious duelist crashed. The other Signers ran over to the wreck as Mateo and Yusei finished their lap. Mateo and Yusei both got off their Duel Runners and ran over to the wreck. They grabbed the arms of the mysterious duelist and pull him out of the wreckage and lie him down as emergency crews rush forwards with fire extinguishers to put out the flames.
"Are you alright?"
"You don't know what you have done." The mysterious duelist said weakly. "This 'dark force' you are afraid of? It's already here. But there are more dangerous foes here. Ones who have orders to destroy Yurigaya."
Yusei looked to Mateo before looking back to the mysterious duelist. "What is this 'threat?'"
"Wa ha ha… ha…" The mysterious duelist makes a noise as if he were powering down, and falls limp. Mateo looks to the other Signers before taking the mask he was wearing to reveal a blank, robotic face.
"Well. That's not terrifying at all."
"Jack?" Yusei looked to his friends. "Crow, Akiza, Luna, Leo… You might want to stay in the city for a while."
"I agree." Jack replied. "Do you have room back at the garage?"
"Of course." Yusei nodded. "I've even got room for you to stay, Mateo, but you may have to keep your Duel Runner elsewhere."
"Not a problem. It looks like we have work to do." Mateo replied. But whoever it is that wants me dead… I have a bad feeling about this…