Chapter 19: Take Down Tops! It's Time to Revolt!
Declan frowned to himself as he thought about the report Tsukikage had given him about the events of the previous night.
The Council had demanded that he and Reira stay and protect them, just in case Obelisk Force breached the inner chambers.
They had.
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A trio of Obelisk Force soldiers burst through the doors. "We've found them! The leaders of this pathetic world!" one cheered.
Declan stood and watched as his younger brother armed his Duel Disk. "First you'll have to go through me," His voice quavered, but held a note of iron resolve.
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The silver-haired man gazed fondly at the corner where Reira slept, hugging his stuffed teddy bear.
On the subject of siblings . . . His thoughts turned to a particular event Tsukikage had recounted to him.
"Kisara," he muttered to himself. "I hoped I'd never have to see you again . . . . sister,"
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Jean-Michael groaned, clutching his head in his hands. "How did it all go so wrong?" he lamented. "I lost half my force in that attack last night. And now the prisoners have taken over the trash facility. God knows what happened to Gallager," he lamented.
"At least Obelisk Force is gone," one of his subordinates tried to cheer him up.
"For now. But they'll be back. I can't use my trump card now, mind-controlling Security won't do anything. Yuya Sakaki vanished before I could install that rage inducer in his head, so he's unreliable. And Selena vanished into the Commons to boot! All I have left is half of an army, Sergey and that Yuzu girl," he groaned, glaring down at his chessboard.
The pieces were arranged in an endgame. The white queen that represented Yuya and the bishop that was Yuzu were gone. The white king - himself - was hiding behind three pawns with a rook - Sergey - guarding them.
The black pieces were all over the board, but they all added up to his loss.
The Security Chief fumed, sweeping his hand back to knock the board over - and froze.
The white knight.
It was at the other end of the board, separated from his other pieces.
"My knight," Jean-Michael muttered to himself, a smile slowly spreading across his face. "That might just work," Sheer, determined resolves twinkled in his eyes. "I'm not done yet,"
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Melissa soared into the air in her helicopter, which stationed itself above the course. "Well, everyone! I don't really know what went on last night, but it's morning now and time for the semifinals of the Friendship Cup!" she declared.
In the control room, buttons were pressed and two massive holograms appeared.
"So, everyone! Get excited, because right now it's Shinji Weber versus Sergey Volkov!" the commentator grinned.
The garage was silent as Shinji glared at his opponent. The pit crew, scared of both competitors, were doing everything they could to keep away from both.
"I know who you are and who you're working for, Sergey," Shinji spat.
"Congratulations," the cyborg rumbled.
The purple-haired Duelist mounted his D-Wheel. "I'll show you exactly why I call this baby The Stinger,"
Sergey smiled with a snort, climbing onto his own, larger vehicle. "Then I'll show you why I call my D-Wheel My Foe's Despair,"
Shinji snorted, but paused, remembering what Shun had told him.
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"if you always assume that everyone you meet is your enemy, soon enough everyone will be," Shun frowned at him, before turning and walking away.
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"Listen," Shinji started. "I know that we're on opposite sides now, but we don't have to be. If we work together, we can change this city for the better," he suggested. "Whaddya say? Will you help me?"
Sergey glared at him. "No,"
The boy shook his head in despair. "Well, no one can say I didn't try,"
Sergey wordlessly started his D-Wheel and drove onto the circuit, Shinji's lighter, faster bike nipping at his heels. "Here come our competitors! Shinji the radical revolutionary who -"
"For the last time, I'm not a terrorist!" Shinji interrupted her, screaming up at the copter.
"Right, fine. Just warn me before you blow something up, okay?" Melissa asked, and the boy fumed.
"And the mysterious heavyweight Duelist, Sergey!" Melissa gestured to the emotionless man riding the other D-Wheel.
The Commons booed and the Tops were impassive.
Shinji opened his mouth, but paused, recalling how badly he had messed up things with Shun. "Are you with the Tops?" he asked Sergey.
The man silently nodded.
"Why?" Shinji continued.
There was no response.
The boy wanted to continue, but was interrupted by Melissa. "Riding Duel!" she declared. The light turned green. "Acceleration!"
Shinji fumed. "We'll settle this with our cards,"
Sergey maintained a steady pace, but Shinji shot ahead, the Stinger shooting through the gates and preparing to claim the first turn -
A clamp with a steel cord shot from Sergey's D-Wheel, clamping onto Shinji and pulling him backwards. The jerk caused his engine to stall inches from the gate, and as Shinji desperately tried to jumpstart his engine, Sergey passed him and claimed the first turn.
As he did, the Stinger roared to life and Shinji chased after his opponent, drawing his opening hand.
"And somehow, despite Shinji's lead, Sergey takes the first turn!" Melissa narrated.
"I Normal Summon Kozmo Farmgirl from my hand," Sergey commanded, and the brunette riding a robotic dog appeared next to him, charging down the course.
"And it looks like Sergey has a new Deck to boot! How interesting!"
"I Set one card and end my turn," Sergey commanded.
"My turn! Draw!" Shinji commanded.
The man looked over his hand and grimaced. "While I control no monsters, I can Special Summon Bee Force - Piercer the Target from my hand!" The multicoloured bee arrived. "Now, I Normal Summon Bee Force - Pin the Hit!" Shinji continued. His tiny Level 1 bee arrived. "I Set one card and end my turn!"
"My turn. Draw," Sergey commented. "I activate the effect of my Kozmo Farmgirl. By banishing her I Special Summon a Kozmo with a higher level from my hand. I Summon Kozmo Forerunner,"
Farmgirl vanished, and a large, bulbous spaceship with V-shaped wings and a long tail appeared. 2800 ATK.
"Now, I play Tuning. I add Steam Synchron from my Deck to my hand, then send the top card of my Deck to the Grave," Sergey intoned. "I add Steam Synchron to my hand, and immediately Normal Summon Steam Synchron from my hand,"
A squat, black train-like machine appeared with two half-lidded blue eyes. 1300 ATK.
"Battle. Forerunner, attack Piercer the Target," Sergey commanded. Shinji gulped as his bee was destroyed, knocking him to 2600 LP. "Steam Synchron, attack Pin the Hit,"
"I activate my Trap, Bee Force Nest. By targeting a Level 2 or lower Bee Force monster I control when it's targeted for an attack, I negate the attack and Special Summon another monster with the same name from my Deck! Appear, another Bee Force - Pin the Hit!"
A second tiny bee appeared, and the hive that represented the Continuous Trap sprayed a wall of honey, blocking Steam Synchron's attack. "I end my turn," Sergey declared.
"My turn! Draw!" Shinji barked. "With me, Commons! We will use our own strength to overthrow the Tops right now!"
The stadiums shook with their response.
"I play my Continuous Spell, Bee Force Swarm! Once per turn, if I control two or more 'Bee Force' monsters, I can Special Summon a Bee Force from my Deck! Appear, another copy of Piercer the Target! Now, I tune my Level 4 Piercer the Target to my two Level 1 Pin the Hits!" Shinji commanded. Four rings, two stars. 4 + 1 + 1 = 6.
"With those wings, whip up a blast! With that stinger, cut open the path to truth!" the duelist commanded. "Synchro Summon! Come, Bee Force - Voulge the Attack!"
"In an amazing repeat of his first Duel, Shinji Summons his ace monster! But will it measure up to Forerunner?" Melissa demanded. 2500 ATK.
"I play my Action Spell, Power Surge! Voulge the Attack's ATK increases by 500 until the end of the turn!" Shinji commanded. Voulge glowed with power and energy as his ATK became 3000. "Battle Phase! Voulge! Attack Kozmo Forerunner!" His bee charged the spaceship.
"I activate Steam Synchron's effect. I can use it and other monsters I control as Synchro Material for a Synchro Summon during my opponent's turn," Sergey commanded.
Steam Synchron's pistons pumped and steam whistled, before it changed into three rings. Forerunner became seven stars, which added itself to the rings. 3 + 7 = 10.
"Arise, Leo, the Keeper of the Sacred Tree!" Sergey chanted, and a thunderous roar shook the field as a great white and gold lion appeared. 3100 ATK.
Shinji paled and cursed, searching for another Action Card. But he couldn't find one. missing the timing, and Voulge returned to his field. "Turn end!" he hissed.
"My turn. Draw," Sergey growled.
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"Do it!" Jean-Michael commanded. "Summon your ultimate monster!"
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"As you wish," Sergey nodded. "I play Kozmo Force. All monsters I control and in my hand are treated as Kozmo monsters until the end of the turn," he said.
"So?" the younger Duelist questioned.
"I now activate Kozmo Dark Planet's effect in my hand!" Sergey's face, moments ago impassive, was suddenly alive with energy. "By banishing Kozmo monsters from my hand or field whose total levels are equal to or exceed ten, I Special Summon it to the field. So I banish my Level 10 Leo, Keeper of the Sacred Tree! Behold, my ultimate monster!" Sergey commanded in a state of utter euphoria.
The lion roared, and was replaced by - nothing.
"Eh? Where is it?" Melissa asked after a few seconds, then paused as a great shadow was cast across the entire city, suddenly reducing the morning sunlight to night.
"Look up!" Sergey shouted, pointing to the sky. "Look up, peons, and tremble! Tremble at the power of my Kozmo Dark Planet!" he commanded.
As one, every single person in the city looked upwards, craning their necks from windows and rushing out onto the streets.
"Oh my -" A quiet whoosh was heard as Melissa fainted.
Kozmo Dark Planet was a massive round black spaceship, high in the sky and so massive that it blocked out the sun. Its plasma energy cores bathed the city in green light, and the many spires extending from either end did their best to hide the blue sky for miles around. A Solid Vision pop-up displayed four thousand ATK.
"Behold!" Sergey shouted. "Kozmo Dark Planet! Destroy that insect! Dark Plasma Blast of Infinite Obliteration!"
The ship swivelled until it was pointed directly at the tiny insect beneath it, and a massive, long cannon emerged. "Fire!" Sergey commanded, and his monster obeyed, unleashing a hellishly destructive blast of green energy that obliterated the Synchro monster and punched a charred, smoking hole straight through the highway. Shinji's LP was cut to 1100.
"Behold, the instrument of your doom, Shinji Weber! Behold, the reason that your rebellion is fated to death!" Sergey commanded.
"We will never give up!" Shinji responded. "We will never surrender! We are the Commons, we stand as one! And no matter how small the chance may be," Shinji paused, and the cry echoed throughout the entire City as a million voices roared as one.
"WE WILL NOT LOSE!"
"Whatever. I end my turn," Sergey snorted.
"My turn! I draw!" the Commons duelist declared. "I don't care if I lose this Duel, I don't care about the traitor Jack Atlas or the Friendship Cup! No matter how many times we are defeated and pushed down, we will never stop! And eventually, we will win! I Set a monster in face-down Defence Position and set one card! Turn end!"
"Pathetic. My turn, draw. I Normal Summon Kozmo Goodwitch," Sergey commanded. A tall female fairy with green skin and a glowing green beam sword appeared. 1800 ATK.
"Kozmo Dark Planet! Destroy that face-down!" Sergey commanded. The face-down Lyric the Royal Musician was obliterated in an instant by the incredible green energy blast of death.
Shinji cursed. There were no Action Cards in sight.
"Goodwitch! Attack directly! Defeat this fool!"
The fairy charged and swung its sword towards the Duelist's face. Shinji ducked, and his LP were reduced to zero.
"This isn't the end!" Shinji shouted up at the cameras as his D-Wheel's autopilot guided him back to the Duel Palace. "Commons, listen to me! We have waited long enough! Our revolution starts now! Security will fall, the trash facilities will be taken and we will capture the Duel Palace! Everyone, work as one and we cannot fail!"
Melissa, who had just regained consciousness, gulped. "This might be bad,"
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Shinji's words were heard all over the city. "You go, Shinji," Crow grinned at the screen showing his friend. "You're right. It's time to make our move,"
"I'll come with you. I'm getting bored and you'll need all the help you can get," Sora offered. "Thanks, but someone needs to stay and keep an eye on the kids," Crow shook his head.
"I will do that. I can't leave anyway as long as Security and Jean-Michael are around," Selena decided.
Crow looked between the two Fusians, and nodded. "I'm trusting you, Selena. Sora, you go east and get everyone together. Keep them organised and take Security down. I'll go north and do the same. Knowing Shinji, he'll take over the trash facility and get going from there. It's time to take back the City,"
"Hell yeah," Sora grinned.
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Jean-Michael blanched. "No! Get Security out there and quell this rebellion! I won't let this happen now!"
"Sir, we barely have two hundred active officers and only fifty in reserve. That's barely enough to guard the Tops districts, let alone keep the Commons in line," his assistant reported.
Jean-Michael fumed. "Get half of them guarding here and the rest guarding the Duel Palace. Mobilise the reserve and send them between the two locations as they're needed," he commanded.
"What about the Tops districts?"
"What about the Tops districts!" Jean-Michael demanded. "Everyone who's anyone is here or at the Duel Palace, and anyone who isn't someone doesn't matter! And relegate ten Duel Chasers to be my escort! I'm going to the central power core and I'm taking the captive with me!"
"Sir!"
"Also, call Sergey. Tell him that it's time to take care of Jack Atlas,"
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Declan smiled at his younger sister, Kisara. He had been only eleven, and she was eight at the time. His father had told him that she had just been adopted, and he was to be nice to her and play with her.
"Let's have a Duel!" Kisara had immediately cheered.
"Alright," Declan smiled. "But be prepared to lose,"
It hadn't been easy - White Spirit Dragon had wrought havoc on his Dark Contract cards - but Declan ended it, attacking her Defence Position Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon with his D/D/D Oracle King D'Arc whose ATK was boosted to 4400 by the effect of United We Stand, as he also controlled D/D/D Dragonbane King Beowulf, who allowed D'Arc to deal piercing battle damage.
Despite having been blown backwards by the attack, Kisara was laughing and smiling. "That was fun! We should Duel again!"
And they did, Declan remembered, time and time again. Sometimes she won, but they both knew that he was the stronger Duelist between them.
Two years after she had arrived, when she was ten and he was thirteen, their mother adopted Reira. Despite their friendly rivalry, they both had radically different views on the new arrival. It was obvious from the start that Reira was nowhere near as strong a Duelist as either one of them. While Declan was protective and took the child under his wing, Kisara was scornful towards him. She saw him as a lesser being due to his lack of strength.
Slowly, their friendly rivalry became less friendly and more bitter. Declan could not understand why Kisara was so intolerant towards Reira, and Kisara failed to comprehend why Declan 'wasted' so much of his time on what she saw as a cause so lost, it had never been found in the first place.
Their parents were of no help either. Declan's mother saw Reira as a lab rat, his unique psychological condition a fascinating experiment. Leo, on the other hand, basically decided that Reira was his wife's problem and ignored him as best he could, providing him with food, clothes, housing and cards and having little else to do with him.
But he doted on Kisara. Declan's sister was an absolute daddy's girl and Leo held her in the highest regard. The boy never could figure out why.
Until he snuck into his father's laboratories and witnessed something horrible. He had been performing experiments on his sister.
And she loved it.
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Declan couldn't help but think back to that day.
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Fourteen years old, Declan watched. His face was a mask of horror, looking at his eleven-year-old sister through a thick pane of glass as she stood inside a large half-sphere-shaped room. She was dressed in nothing but her undergarments and her Duel Disk, and had electrodes wired to her body. Several were on her back and shoulders, but there were more on her arms, legs and face.
Their father was in a side-room, separated with reinforced glass, and there were several cameras all aimed directly at Kisara. He was looking at several screens and read-outs, checking that every single one was operating. Declan watched in silence as he gave her the thumbs up. "We are ready! Unleash your full power! Let's see exactly what you can do, my sweet!"
"You got it, dad!" Kisara grinned, and armed her Duel Disk, drawing five cards. "I play Polymerization! I fuse my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand!"
Leo's eyes widened as the readings spiked. "That's it! That's perfect, my sweet! Keep going!"
Kisara's eyes glowed like blue spotlights and her hair rose into the air as a circle of white energy appeared around her feet. "I call you, my ultimate monster! Fusion Summon! True and perfect embodiment of my self!" Kisara clapped her hands together, white energy surging up her forearms and towards her shoulders as they met. Three identical white dragons appeared, and were sucked into a Fusion vortex that appeared on the ground with Kisara standing directly in the centre of it, as a three-headed silhouetted appeared. "This feels so great!" his sister cheered, then continued. "Awaken, revitalised ultimate power! Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" she commanded.
Declan's eyes widened. He had never seen that monster before. No one had. Leo shrieked. "Yes! Perfect! This is your power, use it! Draw it out as much as you can!"
"You got it, dad!" Kisara's voice suddenly had a strange echoing quality to it, as though three versions of her were speaking at once, just out of sync with one another. Her entire body glowed white as the silhouette of her dragon swooped from the massive vortex and through her body, which was shining like a white sun.
Declan watched in horror, for the first time in four years realising the truth of what his sister was.
Things were never the same since.
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That was four years ago. A year afterward, Leo Akaba had vanished.
And Kisara had gone with him. At first, Declan had wondered if he had forced her, but now he knew she had come willingly.
The man shook his head. The past could not be changed. Declan had made his choice and Kisara had made hers. That was a fact.
So why did he wish so badly that he could have the beloved sister of his childhood back?
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"Well done, #007," Gong grinned at the ex-Security, who saluted with a smile.
"It's incredible! We own the trash!" Megan exuberantly grinned, before sheepishly pausing. "That sounded better in my head," she agreed.
"It is an impressive feat," #007 agreed. "But that's no name. I'm Kei, Kei Satsu. And that's how history will remember me. Kei Satsu, the man who changed Security,"
"You'll go down in the history books for sure," Shinsei nodded.
"You all deserve it just as much as I do," Kei assured the Lancers. "Probably more so,"
"Eh. I don't care for being remembered. I just want to make sure things work out right," Flare shrugged.
"Speaking of that," Kei looked at her strangely. "Is there any reason you have my officers digging through the trash, searching for cards?"
"None of those cards should be wasted," Flare darkly frowned. "No card deserves to be put in the trash,"
"Alright," Kei gulped. He found the dragon-like girl intimidating and would happily do whatever necessary to appease what he feared to be a very dangerous being.
Their conversation was interrupted by the elevator pinging. Shinji was thrown out, and they hastily closed. The elevator rose back up as fast as it could.
Shinji picked himself up and looked around. Kei immediately rushed towards him. "Sir! We are honoured to have you here, sir!"
"Not you again," Shinji groaned. "Don't tell me you're still going on about Tops stuff,"
"No sir! I have taken control of the trash facility in preparation for our revolution!" Kei proceeded to recount the events of the previous night.
By the time he was done, Shinii nodded in approval. "Well done, I'm impressed. But we can't rest on our laurels, there's no time to lose. We have to completely defeat the remnants of Security and take the Duel Palace! Then things will be as they should be,"
"Yes sir! Everyone, get ready!" Kei shouted. His voice echoed through the facility. "It's time!"
"That's right! It's time to go take what's ours! Equality!"
The dozens of ex-Security Kei had routed responded in kind. They had known this was coming, and there wasn't a single person who wasn't ready. "Sir!"
A/N
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Original cards;
Bee Force Swarm
Continuous Spell
Once per turn, if you control 2 or more 'Bee Force' monsters, you can Special Summon a 'Bee Force' monster from your Deck. You cannot activate this effect if you control a monster that is not a 'Bee Force' monster.
Kozmo Force
Normal Spell
All monsters in your hand and that you control are treated as 'Kozmo' monsters until the end of your opponent's next turn. You can banish this card from your Graveyard, add one 'Kozmo' monster from your Deck to your hand.
And now the revolution's really getting underway. Go Shinji! :)
On that note, I decided to (finally) give Duel Chaser 227 an actual name; Kei Satsu. This is a pun on 'keisatsu', the Japanese word for 'police'. If he gets a canon name, I'll change it, same as Selena Gomez and Yugo Hyuri.
And reviews! Wonderful, glorious reviews! Thank you all so much!
Sorry, Balmung, I've already decided that Atem is the god of Standard Dimension. I'm kinda tossing up between Yubel and The Gentle Darkness for the god of Fusion.
Shattered-Rebellion, thank you so much, that is exactly what I needed to hear. :)
Peace! Really! :)