Yuya's Treat

by Fenghuang0296

It's the perfect storm as forces converge on Fusion Dimension. The Lancers are backed up by powers and allies new and old alike, but will it be enough to take down Leo Akaba once and for all? And is he even the biggest threat? AU from episode 63 onwards. Rated T for occasional profanity and mature (violent) themes.

6. Odd-Eyes Vs Red-Eyes! New Friends Divide

Chapter 6: Odd-Eyes Vs. Red-Eyes! New Friends Torn Apart!

"So, you're from the Xyz Dimension?" Declan raised a curious eyebrow. "Yep," Flare nodded, keeping her guard up. Something about the silver-haired young man unnerved her and she didn't trust him yet.

"And you came here seeking help for your home while hoping to get revenge on Academia?" Declan continued. Once again, Flare nodded. "Then it sounds like we have a common enemy and similar goals," the man surmised. "I suppose we do," she reluctantly nodded. "Me and my team are the Lancers. We came from Standard Dimension after discovering the fate of the Xyz Dimension at Academia's hands, hoping to prevent our own home from meeting a similar fate. We are here in Synchro in hopes of acquiring powerful allies to aid us in this goal," Declan emotionlessly informed her. "Gee, could you be more dispassionate?" Flare snorted.

"Council?" Declan turned to the Executives. "Would it be possible to enter this," he paused and cast a piercing look at the girl, who shivered under his gaze. The dragon inside her growled at him, but she silenced it, retaining her composure. "Flare, into the tournament?"

"Of course, naturally. She can Duel in the next battle. We'll simply have to disqualify the previous entrant. It won't be hard, we were debating whether or not to allow him to compete regardless," the head replied. "But why?"

"I wish to see if she has the strength necessary to assist my efforts in the war. The strength she demonstrates in this Duel will be a good indicator of that. She will face Yuya Sakaki, correct?" Declan asked for clarification. "Hold up, hold up, who says I'm gonna let you make all my choices here?" Flare demanded, rounding on him. "This is the leading council of the Synchro Dimension. If you wish to acquire aid for your home, you first need to prove your strength to them by competing in the Friendship Cup. This is your best option," he explained.

"I see," Flare responded. "And you should be happy to be duelling somebody like Yuya Sakaki. He is a strong and impressive duelist. If you can put up a reasonable fight against him, even should you lose, it will be impressive. And I may find myself having to make a request that you join the Lancers," Declan thought aloud.

"Whoa, who says I'm gonna join your little club?" Flare narrowed her eyes and flared her nostrils. "We share a common enemy and a common goal. It is only logical to work together. But first, you must prove yourself worthy," Declan asserted. Flare set her angular jaw and stared him down. "I've never heard of this Yuya Sak-who-ki before, but I'll show you worthy. And I'll damn well give you a run for your money too," Flare growled. "Where are we going to Duel?"

X

"You want me to Duel here? On a goddamn motorbike?" Flare demanded. "Well, if you're as good as the top brass seems to think you are to put you in the competition this late, it should be no problem for you, little girl," the member of the pit crew crouching over her front wheel sniggered. Flare growled at him, then noticed exactly where he was. "How do you make this thing go?" she questioned. "Turn the dial on the left of the dashboard," the pit crew member autonomously responded, before looking up in shock. "No, wait!"

"You mean this one?" Flare grinned, turning the dial. The black motorbike jerked forwards, bodily pushing him and throwing him away across the garage. "Ooh, sorry!" Flare sarcastically smirked at him.

She heard footsteps approaching, and turned to see a boy in a white biking suit with green and red hair enter the room. "So, you're Yuya Sakaki?" Flare asked.

Yuya nodded, gulping. In her black leather riding gear, with her flame-like red hair, her brash vocal demeanour, and the fact that there was a pit crew member on the floor a few metres away, Flare looked very intimidating.

Flare became aware of this seconds after Yuya did. "I'm not sure why they gave me this butt-ugly thing. I'd have preferred a nice shade of red," she snorted with an obscene gesture, trying to break the ice.

It worked, and Yuya chuckled. "Oh, okay. So, I think we got here early. It looks like we've got a few minutes until we have to get on the course,"

"True," Flare agreed. "So, you're one of the Lancers from a different dimension, right? Yuya Sakaki?"

"How do you know?" Yuya was surprised. "Declan told me," Flare brushed it off. "So you know what happened to Xyz Dimension?"

At this, a dark look came over Yuya's face. "Academia . . . what they did was unforgivable. Yuto and Shay told me all about it," he growled. "How do you know?"

"I was there," she simply replied. The boy stiffened, before compassionately looking up at her. "You were? Oh gosh, I'm so -"

"Save it," Flare cut him off. "I wasn't there at the time. I was at my family's holiday house out of town," She humourlessly chuckled. "That probably saved my life,"

"Oh," Yuya gulped. "Not that it helped much. Obelisk Force scoured the countryside for any refugees. It was only a matter of time until they found me and my father," Flare sighed" turning away and slumping over her D-Wheel.

The boy gulped, but felt he had to ask. "What . . . happened?"

X

"Open up, Xyz scum!" a voice yelled from outside the locked door. "Come and get what's coming to you, you little rats!" another jeered.

Flare looked at Dr. Abakir, the elderly scientist arming a Duel Disk and placing his Deck into it. "Sweetheart," he started. "Go, escape. I'll distract them," he commanded. "Dad . . . no. We can escape together, surely," Flare gulped.

"Sweetheart. You and I both know I'm not getting out of this alive. You're the important one, you're the living embodiment of everything I've ever wanted, ever done,"

He snatched up a folder of papers and gave it to her. "Take this. It's everything I know about you and your capabilities, your powers. If our world's going to be saved, it's not going to be an old man in a labcoat who does it. It's gonna be you,"

"But . . . ." Flare trailed off. "The world needs you more than I do, honey," Dr. Akabir solemnly told her, and turned to face the front door. "Go up to the second floor and escape through the fire escape. Take the car, oh, uh . . here are the keys," The man gave her a keychain with three keys dangling from it and pushed her towards the stairs leading up to the second floor. "You need to go before they see you,"

Flare paused, indecisively looking between her father, the polished mahogany door and the staircase. As she watched, cracks began to appear in the door's wooden panelling. "It's now or never," her father whispered, and that made her decision. She pulled her father into a final hug, before turning and dashing up the stairs. Flare flattened herself in a doorway, out of sight, and waited.

Seconds later, there was a massive crash. "Oh, look, it's a pathetic old man," a soldier snorted.

"Oh, oh, he's wearing a Duel Disk!" another jeered.

"Does he honestly think that someone like him can stand up to us?" a third snorted.

"Talk is cheap, youngsters," Dr. Abakir disapprovingly told them, and Flare knew he was raising his Duel Disk in a challenge. "Huh. The old man kinda reminds me of the Professor," one of the soldiers commented.

"Naah. The Professor's way more powerful. I'll put five bucks on me beating him within as many minutes," the third rolled his eyes. "Well, you old piece of scum? Duel!"

Every time the soldier scored a hit on her father, Flare winced and her jaw tightened. Finally . . . "Go, Ancient Gear Ultimate Bite Hound Dog! Destroy that old fool's pathetic drum dragon!"

As she heard the soft moan of her father collapsing, something in Flare snapped. She screamed, arming her Duel Disk and charging around the corner towards her tormentors. "What the hell kind of goddamn sons of bitches do you bastards think you are? I'll make you pay . . . no. I'll damn well make you suffer for everything you've done!"

Ten minutes later, she stood over the last surviving member of the soldier trio. He was lying on the floor, frantically trying to escape the lethal black dragon that hovered behind her. "No! Stop! Please! I surrender! Please, have mercy!"

"Mercy?" Flare gave a harsh bark of laughter, the reflected light from outside making her orange pupils look like they were on fire, and in that moment the cowering soldier couldn't tell whether he was more afraid of the dragon or its monstrous controller. "I'll show you the exact same amount of mercy you showed my father, bastard! Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon! Finish this!" The dragon rose into the air and opened it's maw wide, and the soldier screamed as crimson fire engulfed him.

Flare breathed heavily as her Duel Disk - her weapon - powered down.

Three uniformed faces, frozen in expressions of fear, stared back up at her.

X

Flare pulled something from one of the spare compartments of her Duel Disk and held it out behind her. It was a yellow card, and the card bore the image of an elderly, balding man with wisps of white hair wearing a lab coat lying on the floor. "Obelisk Force wanted him. I don't know why, but I damn well knew that if there was any chance," She turned back to Yuya, and the boy could see wild, burning, passionate anger in her orange eyes. "Any chance at all of getting him back to how he's supposed to be, I'm gonna need this. But in the meantime, I'm gonna do everything I can to save my city - no. Save my entire world. And if possible, I'll raze Academia to the ground while I'm at it," she growled, before taking a deep breath and composing herself.

"But I guess that's the thing. I want revenge, sure, but I can't let that desire consume me. My first goal has to be restoring Heartland City to it's former glory. And to do that, I need the other two dimensions, the ones Declan called Standard and Synchro, to help. According to Declan, if I win this tournament and prove my strength, I can get the Council to help me," she explained.

"I get it," Yuya nodded. "I want to make everyone smile with my Duelling, but you want to make sure there's still people left who can smile," he realised. "I guess so, yeah. But what about you? Why did you come here?" Flare questioned.

"A friend of mine, Yuzu. She was taken by someone from the Synchro Dimension. She's here somewhere, and I have to find her. And I'm going to change this broken city while I'm at it," Yuya resolved, clenching his fist. Flare peered at him, and nodded with a smile. "If anyone else said something like that, I'd laugh in their face. But you," she shook her head and grinned. "There's just something about you that makes me believe that somehow, sooner or later, you really will change the world, Yuya Sakaki. I can tell you have the potential," she nodded and grinned. "The potential," Yuya nodded to himself. "Yeah, so use it," Flare reiterated.

"Oi! Greenie, you're on in two!" someone hollered. "Minutes?" Yuya asked in surprise. "Yep!" they retorted. Yuya gulped. "Oh crud. Where's my helmet?" The boy crouched down, searching for his missing helmet. Flare shook her head, then looked in surprise as she saw a sculpted blue crystal drop out of Yuya's jumpsuit and hang from his neck. "What's that?" she asked.

Yuya passed and spotted his pendant. "Oh, this? Nothing special. It's just a pendulum my dad gave me, to help remind me of him,"

"You sure that's all there is to it? Something seems odd about it," Flare frowned, moving closer. Yuya finally realised his helmet was on his D-Wheel and donned it. "Yeah? Like what?"

Flare donned her own helmet and bent down to get a closer look. "Like there's a crazy huge amount of untapped power, hidden potential, that it holds. It's a weird thing I have, but I have a good sense for how much potential people and sometimes objects have," She paused. "And I've never seen anything quite like this pendant,"

Yuya remembered the week before, and the days before that, when his penulum had somehow created first Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, then Beast-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, and most recently of all Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon. Not to mention he was pretty sure it was somehow responsible for the transformation of his old Odd-Eyes Dragon into Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and his seemingly infinite stream of Pendulum Performapals that were always perfectly suited to the task at hand. "You think you might be able to tell me more about it?" he asked, hopeful for answers. Flare shrugged. "No promises, but maybe,"

In an instant Yuya was pulling it off his neck. He offered it to her. "I've gotta get on the course, and I want it back by the end of the Duel, but see if you can pick up anything or whatever," he smiled at her, and she nodded with a grin, before he mounted his bike and sped off. "Wait . . It doesn't work like that!" she hollered after him Flare shook her head. "That boy's too trusting for his own good," she snorted to herself. "But . . . maybe that's not a bad thing?" she wondered, before taking a closer look at the pendant.

Suddenly, it shone with a brilliant light, blinding and deafening the girl.

X

When she came to, she was floating in some kind of maestro trom of red and blue mist. The red was mostly condensed around her, while the blue was everywhere else. "Wha - where am I?" she demanded, before a silhouetted figure appeared before her. "This must be returned to Yuya Sakaki, at once. He needs it," they demanded, before pausing. "You are not like other humans. There is something fundamentally different about you. Who are you?"

Flare paled. This - thing, who or whatever it was, knew. "That's none of your business," she harshly snapped. "I see," it responded. "You sensed this object's potential, and Yuya Sakaki gave it to you in the hope that you could tell him more about it, correct?"

"Yeah, exactly, but how do you know that?" Flare frowned. This being obviously knew far too much for her own liking. Far too much. "I will grant you as much of the aid that you seek as I can, but tell Yuya this. All will be revealed in time," it decided.

X

The next thing Flare knew, she was back in the garage, and it seemed like barely a second had passed. Suddenly, she felt extremely queasy inside, like something was shifting somewhere inside her. The girl gulped and leant on her D-Wheel for support, breathing deep and waiting for the sickening sensations to pass.

Barely a second after they finally abated, a crew member hollered at her. "Hey, girlie! You're up!"

"Right!" Flare nodded, mounting her bike and revving the engine. "Autopilot stand by," the machine told her, and she nodded. "Let's do this," she grinned as the D-Wheel autonomously carried her out towards the starting line.

"And his opponent!" Melissa shouted from up in her helicopter. "Another mysterious entrant, who is possibly an alien! Give it up for the mysterious Flare!" she cheered. Flare fumed. "What the hell does she mean, alien? I'm from another dimension, not another planet,"

She pulled up and turned to Yuya. "Alright, Sakaki," the girl grinned. "We can agree that our goals and motivations are the same, right?"

"Right," Yuya nodded. "If you win, will you carry with you my dream of restoring my home to the glory it once held?" Flare demanded.

"You bet I will, as long as if you win you'll carry my hope of using Duelling to make everyone smile with you!" Yuya agreed. Flare extended her hand and her friend grasped it firmly. "Then it's settled! This Duel is in good fun only! May the best Duelist win!" Flare agreed.

"What's this? Our two Duelists have struck up an immediate friendship? How impressive! Truly, this perfectly displays the spirit of the Friendship Cup! The City is united! We are all one!" Melissa cheered.

"Oh, here. You should take this back," Flare offered Yuya the pendant, but he shook his head. "After the Duel, remember?"

"Okay," Flare shrugged.

"If everyone's ready, let's begin! Riding Duel, Acceleration!" Melissa declared, and the two D-Wheels sped off.

"Who ever gets through the first turn gets the first move!" the commentator reminded them, and Flare raised her eyebrows. "Oh really? Come on, baby," she coaxed her D-Wheel. "I know you can give me more speed than that,"

The two Duelists drew their hands, and Flare jumped in surprise. "What the hell happened to my cards?" she demanded in shock. "Is something wrong?" Yuya asked, concerned, and swerved over. "Wait, why do you have Pendulum Cards?"

Flare blinked in confusion, holding up her new yellow-and-green Pendulum Monster Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon. "Is that what this is?"

"Yep!" Yuya nodded. "Just watch what I do, it'll be easy!" he grinned, zooming ahead and taking the first turn. "My turn!" he declared. "I Normal Summon Performapal Skullcrobat Joker from my hand!" A cartoonish black jester appeared, laughing madly. "When Skullcrobat Joker is Normal Summoned, I can add one Performapal, Magician or Odd-Eyes monster from my Deck to my Hand! I choose to add," Yuya paused. It had to be something that could show Flare how to Pendulum Summon. She said that she was from the Xyz Dimension, maybe he should Xyz Summon?

"I add the Scale 8 Dragonpit Magician!" he decided, adding it to his hand. "Now. Watch closely, Flare, and I'll show you exactly what to do!" he shouted. "On it!" Flare replied. "Using the Scale 1 Stargazer Magician, and the Scale 8 Dragonpit Magician, I set the Pendulum Scale!" Twin pillars of light appeared behind him, and his two magicians rose into them as a crystalline 1 and 8 appeared beneath them. "When I have the Scales set at one and eight like this, I can simultaneously summon any number of monsters whose levels are between the scales, meaning any number of monsters with levels two to seven!" he declared in excitement. "Now, I Pendulum Summon! Swing, pendulum of souls! Draw an arc across the ether!" A massive version of his pendant appeared and began to swing back and forth. Flare was amazed, as was everyone else in the crowd. "I Pendulum Summon! Appear, my monster! I summon Performapal Silver Claw!" A silver wolf appeared next to Skullcrobat. "And now, I overlay my Level 4 Silver Claw with my Level 4 Skullcrobat Joker! Fangs formed from pitch-black darkness, to fight those who are foolish enough to oppress it! Descend now! Xyz Summon!" the boy declared. "Rank 4! Dark Rebelllion Xyz Dragon!"

The massive black dragon roared. Flare blinked in surprise. "Whaddya know, he has a copy of the same monster as that Yuto guy did," she recalled, remembering the purple-haired boy from the school she had gone to. As she thought of her school, she felt the sadness begin to rise and bubble in her chest. Forcing it back down, she shook her head and focused on the Duel. "I set a card and turn end!" Yuya commanded.

"Alright then! My turn, I draw!" Flare commanded, taking her card. "Great, it's another one of those freaky Pendulum things . . . wait," She paused, looking at the cards. "Yuya said that when he set the Pendulum Scale at 1 and 8, he could summon monsters levels two to seven . . Does that mean?"

She selected two cards for her hand and placed them on her Duel Disk at the edges, the same way Yuya did. "Using the Scale 3 Gemini General and the Scale 8 Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon, I set the Pendulum Scale!" A tall, bearded man in a military uniform appeared in one of her twin Pendulum pillars, with a crystal 3 beneath him, and a serpentine black dragon with small limbs, thin wings, a long tail and glowing red eyes in the other with an 8 beneath him.

"What's this? The opponent can use Pendulum Summoning too? How incredible!"

"I Pendulum Summon!" Flare declared. "Swing, pendulum, in the eye of the dragon! Display my victory for the world to see! Appear, my monsters! Level 4! Red-Eyes Retro Dragon! And Level 7! Behold, the true flare that sets fire to the night! Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon!"

Her two dragons appeared on the field in a flurry of flame. Retro with his 1700 ATK, and Black Flare with a solid 2400. Not enough to beat Dark Rebellion's 2500.

"Story of my life," Flare groaned. "One hundred ATK too little . . . wait," she realised, looking at her Pendulum Scale. "I activate Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon's Pendulum Ability! Once per turn, I can make all Dragon-Type monsters I control permanently gain 200 ATK!

Parabola roared and spat a blast of fire at the two dragons on the field, lending them it's fire to make the crucial difference. "Now, I activate Gemini General's Pendulum ability!" Flare decided, and the old man began performing some kind of spell. "I can target one Gemini monster I control and it is treated as having been Normal Summoned, meaning it gains its effects!" Black Flare's body surged with crimson fire and he roared in excitement. "Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon! Attack Dark Rebellion! Flaring Stream of Destruction!" The dragon swooped in and dive-bombed it's rival, obliterating it in a burst of flame and dealing Yuya 100 damage. "I activate Black Flare's Gemini effect! If he battles and isn't destroyed, I inflict damage to you equal to his original ATK! 2400!"

Yuya frantically dodged as Black Flare launched a torrent of flame at him, decreasing his Life Points to 1500. "Sorry about that! Oh, and this too!" Flare added. "Red-Eyes Retro Dragon! Knock 'em dead!" she commanded, and the smaller dragon with it's 1900 ATK went to deal the final blow.

"Oh wow! Could this be it for Yuya? Defeated in a first-turn-kill?" Melissa gasped.

"No! I activate my trap, Performapal Pinch Helper! Once per turn, when a direct attack is declared, I can negate the attack and Special Summon a Performapal from my Deck with effects negated!" Yuya shouted as his face-down revealed itself. "I summon Performapal Thunderhino!" A rhinoceros with a top hat and a love heart on the end of it's tail appeared, and Retro reluctantly went back to Flare's field. The Tops in their luxury grandstands nodded in approval. "Perhaps we misjudged that boy. He was facing the King, after all, so perhaps he just never got the chance to show his potential,"

"Shoot," Flare groaned. "Turn end,"

"My turn! " Yuya declared. But before he could even draw his card, he felt something throb inside him. "What the -" Yuya gasped, before something changed, an aura of evil surrounding him and paid shooting through his body. He screamed, hunching over and pressing himself against the D-Wheel.

"Uh, what's going on? I think we might need a medical team out here?" Melissa requested, but then Yuya straightened up. "I'm fine!" he barked up at her, his voice changed to become harsher, more malevolent. "Uh, okay? Go on, then," she encouraged. "Very well," he hissed.

Flare blinked. "Yuya? You alright?" she asked in surprise. "I draw," was his only response. She and her monsters edged towards him on her bike. "You sure? You don't look very all right," she commented, looking at him in concern.

In an instant, he turned and snarled like an animal at her. Flare flinched at the sight of his glowing red eyes, and swallowed, breathing in deep as she felt the dragon within her respond to his challenge. The girl quelled her anger, but by then Yuya had shot ahead and snatched an Action Card from midair. "I activate my Field Spell, Sky Iris!" he shouted, slapping the card into his Duel Disk. A bright, arcing rainbow of haphazard colours appeared over the field. "I activate Sky Iris' effect! By destroying one card I control, I add Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon from my Deck to my hand! Say goodbye, Stargazer Magician!" he commanded with a snort as his card was destroyed. "And now I play my Action Spell card, Wavering Eyes," he hissed. "I destroy as many Pendulum cards on the field as possible, and activate an effect for each destroyed!"

A maelstrom of evil energy swept through the Pendulum Zones, and Flare gasped as Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon and Gemini General were destroyed. Flare watched in surprise as they went to her Extra Deck, not her Graveyard. "Does that mean I can summon them back with a Pendulum Summon?" she wondered.

"First I inflict five hundred damage to you," Flare flinched as a bolt of energy hit her D-Wheel, causing it to spark wildly, and sapped 500 of her Life Points, "then I can add one Pendulum Monster from my Deck to my hand. Come, Timegazer Magician," a card slotted itself from Yuya's Deck, "and finally, I banish one card on the field! Say goodbye to that Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon!"

A tear opened in time and space, fuelled by the energy in the air, and swallowed up Flare's ace dragon. "Black Flare!" she gasped in shock. "Using the Scale 4 Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and the Scale 8 Timegazer Magician, I set the Pendulum Scale," Yuya emotionlessly declared as he activated the two cards in his hand.

"I Pendulum Summon Stargazer Magician and Dragonpit Magician from my Extra Deck," he continued. The two appeared next to Performapal Partnage with 2400 and 2700 DEF respectively. "Now, I overlay my Level 5 Stargazer Magician with my Level 5 Performapal Partnaga and Xyz Summon," Yuya decided, and his monsters overlaid into a swirling Overlay Network portal. "Fiendish destructive beast, appear from the netherworld. Be reborn amid destruction to take revenge upon your foes! Appear! Rank 5! Dark Revenge Chaos-Xyz Dragon!"

The monster looked like Dark Rebellion had been to an all-you-can-eat buffet on steroids. A body rippling with muscle and leathery wings as black as night that eclipsed the sun, with glowing red eyes and 3000 ATK. Flare paled.

"Oh wow! What an amazing monster!" Melissa gushed. "That is frightening," Tsukikage responded.

"I activate Dark Revenge's effect! By using one Overlay Unit, I target one monster you control, it's ATK becomes zero and then Dark Revenge gains that ATK!" Yuya shouted as his dragon roared, sucking the life out of Red-Eyes Retro Dragon and increasing it's ATK to 4900 as her monster's dropped to 0. "I . ." Flare cut herself off, desperately searching for an Action Card. Luckily, there was one nearby, and she pulled it from midair, scanning the card text. It was exactly what she needed. "Dark Revenge! Attack Red-Eyes Retro Dragon and crush her into the dirt! Thunderstorm Revenge Disrespect!"

"I play the Action Spell, Miracle!" Flare commanded. She felt the dragon inside her roar, and she roared with it, unleashing a guttural, primal cry that echoed through the stadium. "My monster cannot be destroyed and battle damage I take is halved!" Just as a white shield enveloped Retro, Dark Revenge unleashed it's breath attack, the black energy passing around Retro and aimed straight at Flare.

In an instant, she leapfrogged off the back and, clutching the seat, jumped into the air, pulling her bike with her as the deadly energy passed beneath her with inches to spare. Flare pulled herself back onto her bike, completing a full flip and landing on it's wheels. She looked back at the three-meter deep chasm the attack had carved into the racetrack. "Are you trying to goddamn kill me?" she demanded as the attack registered, reducing her Life Points to 1050. "If it wins me the Duel, yes! I end my turn," Yuya snorted, his glowing red eyes staring into her soul.

"My turn! Draw!" Flare shouted, and streaks of crimson fire highlighted her card as she pulled it from her Deck. "Perfect! I play Summoner's Art! This allows me to add one Level 5 or higher Normal Monster from my Deck to my hand! I add another copy of Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon!" she shouted, adding her new Pendulum monster to her hand.

"This Pendulum stuff ain't so hard," she snorted, holding out the two remaining cards in her hand "Using the Scale 2 Legendary Black Crystal, and the Scale 8 Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon, I set the Pendulum Scale!" Parabola returned to the Pendulum pillars of light, and was joined by a transparent black crystal encrusted in a chunk of floating ground.

"Now, I Pendulum summon! Swing, pendulum, through darkness and light! Write my triumph across the sky!" Flare chanted as a flaming wormhole opened between her Pendulum Scales. "Be revived from my Extra Deck, Gemini General!" The Spellcaster waved his hands in the air triumphantly as he emerged from the portal. "And brilliant arcing dragon with blood-red eyes, Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon!" Flare declared as the serpentine dragon reappeared with a triumphant roar. Their 1200 and 2400 ATK was revealed.

"I activate Gemini General's Gemini effect! By using my Normal Summon for the turn on him, I trigger his effects!" The spellcaster's cloak flashed golden. "Therefore, by sending him to the Graveyard, I can Special summon a Gemini monster from my Deck. Appear, Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon!" Flare commanded as her ace returned to the field.

"Now, I overlay my level 7 Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon with my Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon! Be reborn on the war-torn plains! Xyz Summon!" Flare commanded, as an Xyz vortex of red shades sucked her two monsters in, before inverting. "Arise as the armoured victorious dragon! Rank 7! Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon!"

Her favourite Xyz monster appeared, two white Overlay units orbiting it to Dark Revenge's one. But its 2800 ATK wasn't enough to counter Dark Revenge's 3000. And if that monster used its effect on Flare Metal, she'd lose the Duel. She needed a way to get rid of it before she ended her turn. The Red-Eyes Parabola in her Pendulum Zone would boost Flare Metal enough to make things even stevens, but if she was going to overpower it, she'd need an Action Card.

"I activate Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon's Pendulum effect! Once per turn, I can increase the ATK of all my dragons by 200!" Flare Metal's ATK boosted to 3000. Even stevens.

Her D-Wheel rocketed ahead, but the pummelling it had taken during the Duel was beginning to tell and a ominous rattling noise could be heard from the engine. "Flare Metal! I need your help! Help me find an Action card to boost your ATK!" Her dragon eagerly roared in response, setting off in search of an appropriate card. Throughout all this, Yuya waited impassively, not even trying to prevent her from getting the card she needed. "Can he even hear me?" Flare wondered, but then Red-Eyes roared to signify that he had found the right card. "Pass it over!" the redhead called, and her dragon gave her the card. "Battle Phase! Go, Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon! Attack Dark Revenge!" Flare commanded. "Flaring Stream of Metal Destruction!"

Her dragon obliged and unleashed his breath attack, which Dark Revenge met in equal force. "I activate my Action Spell! Double Amplify! Red-Eyes' ATK increases by the difference between his current ATK and his original!" Parabola cheered from the Pendulum Zone as Flare Metal's ATK boosted to 3200, it's breath attack overpowering its opponent's and obliterating it. "Hell yeah!" Flare cheered, but Yuya's cruel, sadistic voice interrupted her. "Dark Revenge's final effect," he said.

"Huh?" his opponent asked in surprise.

"When he is destroyed, the owner of the card that destroyed him takes damage equal to the ATK he had when destroyed," Yuya told her. "Wait, what?" Flare demanded in shock as a phantasm of the destroyed dragon appeared in front of her and smashed into her D-Wheel, cutting away her last 1050 Life Points. The beaten-up machine had finally had enough and broke apart at this final blow, it's wheel brackets collapsing and it's body turning on its side, leaving Flare lying on the tarmac with her leg underneath the bike chassis. The Duel Disk that had broken away from the machine beeped.

"And it's settled! Yuya wins after the most incredible Duel we've seen yet! But maybe we should get someone to check up on Flare," Melissa suggested.

Yuya slowed his motorbike to a halt and blinked, the red light dying. "Huh? What happened?" he asked in confusion, before registering the sight of his friend trapped in the wreckage of the motorbike. "Flare!" he gasped, leaping off his bike and dashing towards her. "Oh, now you care," she snorted as he reached her and started to pull the lightweight remnants of the chassis off her leg. "Are you alright? What happened? Did you crash?" he asked as she picked herself up and made sure nothing was broken.

"You tried to fricking kill me!" Flare snapped. "What the hell?" But she paused as she registered the expression on Yuya's face. "Oh no," he breathed, his face white as a ghost. "It happened again, didn't it?"

"What happened?" Flare asked with a frown. "I lost control and went crazy," Yuya breathed. "That's one way of putting it," Flare nodded, still angry. "Here. Obviously you need it," she tossed his pendulum back, and he caught it. She took a deep breath and quelled the dragon inside her. "I'm so sorry," Yuya sighed. The girl blinked, realising the situation he was in. She moved over to her Duel Disk, and pulled a card out of it. "Here, take this," she offered him the card.

The boy blinked. "Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon? No, I can't. This is your card. You need it,"

Flare chuckled. "No, Yuya. I need these Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragons," She revealed two more copies of the same monster from her Extra Deck. "Ever since Academia invaded, I tracked down as many extra copies of my cards as possible,just in case something happened and some of them got destroyed. I've got enough spare cards to rebuild my Deck three times over. While I do need my own Flare Metal, one of my spare copies is another story," she grinned, and Yuya accepted the card. "Was it my necklace that gave you those Pendulums?" he asked out of curiosity. The redhead shrugged. "Probably,"

"And despite how heated their Duel was, our two competitors end it on good terms!" Melissa smiled.

"Hey, when you get to wherever the losers go, see if you can find Gongenzaka Nobuto," Yuya advised his new friend. "He's a friend of mine who lost in the first Duel. Tell him you know me and he'll stick right beside you,"

"Loser! Over here!" a couple of bodyguards called. "Alright, alright, I'm coming," Flare snorted, quickly making sure that all of her cards were still there. "Don't forget our deal, okay?" she told him as she walked away. "I'll do everything I can for your home. See you around, Flare," Yuya grinned. "You too, Yuya,"

"Well," Melissa grinned, "after that high-stakes incredible Duel, it's almost time for the last match of the day! Get excited, everyone, because next up we have Dennis MacField versus Shun Kurosaki!"

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A/N

In regards to Flare's flashback . . honestly, I didn't know I could write like that. Also, I'm not sure how many people noticed, but Dr. Abakir has a similar name to Professor Leo Akaba. That's because I created Abakir as a sort of Xyz-Dimension counterpart to Akaba.

And yes, because Yuya ran out of cards in his hand, I turned Wavering Eyes into an Action Card.

And and yes, I created a fanonical evil evolution of Dark Rebellion. I know that if and when Dark Rebellion gets his own evolution (which, given Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon, will probably happen) it probably won't be 'Dark Revenge Chaos-Xyz Dragon' but I took some cues from the relations between Clear Wing and Crystal Wing and did my best to figure out how to apply the same principles to Dark Rebellion. So, think of Dark Revenge as a Utopia Ray V equivalent of sorts.

Dark Revenge Chaos-Xyz Dragon

Rank 5/DARK/Dragon/ATK:3000/DEF:2300/Xyz/Effect

2 or more (max. 5) Level 5 monsters

You can also Xyz Summon this card using a Rank 4 Dragon-Type Xyz monster as Xyz Material. Once per turn; You can detach one Xyz Material from this card, then target one monster your opponent controls; it's ATK becomes 0, and if it does, this card gains ATK equal to the lost ATK. These changes last until the end of the turn. If this card is destroyed; Inflict damage equal to the ATK this card had on the field when it was destroyed to the player who destroyed it.

Red-Eyes Parabola Dragon

Level 7/DARK/Dragon/ATK:2400/DEF:2000/Pendulum

Pendulum:

8

Once per turn, you can target any number of Dragon-Type monsters on the field, those targets gain 200 ATK.

Monster:

The offspring of the legendary beast with red-eyes, can this new dragon's power surpass that of his father?

Gemini General

Level 4/LIGHT/Spellcaster/ATK:1400/DEF:1000/Pendulum/Gemini/Effect

Pendulum:

3

Once per turn; You can target one Gemini Monster you control that is a Normal monster; that monster is treated as having been Normal Summoned and gains it's effects.

Monster:

This card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the Graveyard. If the card is a Normal Monster on the field, you can Normal Summon it to make it become an Effect Monster with this effect;

You can send this card to the Graveyard; and if you do, Special Summon one Gemini monster from your hand, Deck or Graveyard. It is treated as an Effect monster and gains it's effects.

Legendary Black Crystal

Level 1/DARK/Dragon/ATK:300/DEF:400/Pendulum/Tuner/Effect

Pendulum:

2

Once per turn, during either player's turn; You can Special Summon this card from your Pendulum Zone in Defence Position.

Monster:

If this card would be placed face-up in the Extra Deck, send it to the Graveyard instead.

So, what did everyone think of the Red-Eyes Pendulum support I created? Yes, you read right. Legendary Black Crystal is a Pendulum Tuner. Which is fair because it's effect makes it go to the Grave, and even if it didn't, it's Level 1 so it can't be Pendulum Summoned anyway. And yes, that does imply that Flare will get at least one Synchro monster during her time in Synchro Dimension . . . but I can't decide whether to create an original Red-Eyes Synchro or run with the Gemini thing and give her Black Brutdrago. Anyone have any ideas?

And Shun Vs. Kurosaki. I messed with all the other Duels, and replaced the unimportant characters with Shinsei and Flare, but that one just went too perfectly for me to change. Anyway, review responses!

Death, maybe you should pick up a rulebook.

Corinne, the point is that the Duels will be different. The only reason I'd keep them the same is if there's some massive significance to exactly what happened, like in episode 102 when Yuya summons Odd-Eyes Rebellion against Kite . . . or Declan's Duel against Jean-Michael in Ep 99, because . . . . I have no idea how else I could possibly set up an amazing combo like what Declan did there. I'll probably have to make that pretty much the same.

But I digress. Keeping them the same's boring anyway. XD

Peace!

UPDATE: Okay, so Dark Rebellion has a canon evolution now, 'Dark Requiem Xyz Dragon'. Like I said before, think of Dark Revenge as being like Utopia Ray V while Dark Requiem is Utopia Ray Victory, when Dark Rebellion is Number 39: Utopia.

I'll say this right now. As of right now, I am not changing the Duel in this chapter so Yuya summons Dark Requiem, not Dark Revenge. I perfectly tailored the situation so that even though Flare defeated Yuya's evil monster, she still lost the Duel. I might reconsider when Dark Requiem is printed, but until then, Dark Revenge stays as he is.