A/N: I OWN NO PART YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS!
Chapter 68: The Past Events
Third Person POV
"With Team 5Ds down to their last duelists, the World Racing Grand Prix final is reaching its climax," the MC called.
'Why did Crow leave Yusei a synchro monster? Since it's a synchro, it will just become food for my Meklord Emperor Granel and Yusei will be sent to hell. If that's even possible for angels,' Jakob thought
"Crow's move is foolish," Lester mocked over the com.
"Ignore Lester, Jakob and focus on Yusei. Yusei is the real threat," Primo told their leader.
"You're overestimating Yusei," Lester commented.
. . .
In the booth with Team 5Ds, Akiza wondered, "Why would Crow summon Black-Winged Dragon?"
"I'm not sure, after what happened to Red Nova Dragon," Bruno answered. "If Black-Winged Dragon is also absorbed by that thing, it will all be over."
Crow was placed in an infirmary with Jack and Trudge looking at him. "I hope Yusei uses his card well," Trudge commented.
. . .
'I know why Crow left Black-Winged Dragon to me. Throughout all the hardship we've experienced in this tournament, we didn't fight with our individual decks. We fought using three decks,' Yusei thought on the duel field. With him at 4000 life points and Jakob at 12,000, Yusei drew his card to begin his turn. "I summon Wave Wall (Attack 0/ Defense 2000) in defense mode. I then set two cards face down and end my turn," he declared. He looked at Crow's dragon. 'You can count of me, Crow.'
"Though you know the path of their destruction, you still think you can win with synchro monsters. You're pitiful and I will make you disappear," Jakob comments and drew his card. "Meklord Emperor Granel, attack Black-Winged Dragon!"
"I activate the effect of Wave Wall! Since I control a synchro monster, I can negate your attack," Yusei defended. "And let's not forget, since Granel is five monsters being treated as one, it can only attack once."
"Since my Meklord Emperor monster didn't destroy your monster that it attacked by battle, I can activate this: Attack Cannon! So by releasing Granel Attack, I can destroy your pathetic synchro," Jakob fought.
"I activate another card Crow left for me. Shadow Impulse! With this, I am able to summon a synchro from my extra deck with the same level and type as the synchro monster just destroyed, but its attack becomes zero and its effects are negated," Yusei retorted. "And I choose Stardust Dragon (Attack 2500/ Defense 2000)."
"Don't get too conceited for surviving the attack. Your bonds are to be destroyed by Granel anyway," Jakob told him. "Regardless of how much it struggles, an ant cannot defeat an elephant. An elephant will not recognize a small existence like an ant passing by. Team New World are the elephants trying to change history, while you, Team 5Ds, are just ants who can do nothing but pass by." Yusei glared. "I summon Granel Attack 3 (Attack 1800/ Defense 0). Now since I have four speed counters, I activate the Speed Spell- Silent Burn! This inflicts 300 points of damage to you for each monster that didn't attack. Feel the power of an elephant!" Yusei's life points fell to 2800 and Yusei swerved a bit from the force of the assault, but regained control. "Had you crashed there, you would have spared yourself further pain that awaits you. I set one face down and end my turn."
"I'm not going to give up against you trying to change history. I'll keep fighting no matter what," Yusei vowed.
"That is foolishness as far as I'm concerned. There is no hope for you. I will show you what the future is like," Jakob told him. The Infinity symbol on Jakob's mouth cover lit up and a larger infinity symbol appeared in the sky while the Signers' Marks of the Dragon all lit up as well.
"Why is Jakob showing them that?" Lester asked shocked.
"Jakob, stop now!" Primo ordered.
The symbol in the sky activated and Team 5Ds' minds are transported elsewhere.
. . .
They find themselves on what appeared to be another world. "Where are we?" Leo wondered.
"I don't know," Akiza responded.
"I've seen this scene before…" Yusei muttered. They looked below them to see Duel Monsters sealed in stone slabs in a red wasteland.
"This looks like a graveyard," Jack commented.
Suddenly, Akiza spotted something. "Hey! Is that…?" she stopped as they saw the rings from the center of New Domino's bridge networkr.
'This has to be a lie,' Yusei thought, trying to convince himself.
Primo, Jakob, and Lester then appeared before them. "You shall be shown the truth of the future," Jakob told them.
"Is this the future of New Domino?" Yusei asked.
"It all began with synchro summons," Jakob informed as the scenery changed to a few years previous. At the appearing time, the city was brighter and in working order. There were a number of floating structures above the city; a number of turbo duelist shown on a road all synchro summonings; in an arena for ground dueling, a hologram of a cowgirl held up Naturia Leodrake while other duelists all around her raised their synchro monsters too. "Both the world and dueling had evolved and people became more obsessed with dueling. Synchro summoned even became a synchro for this town." Duel Academy was show where a teacher was explaining synchro by pointing to a projection showing Plaguespreader Zombie and Marauding Captain being used to synchro summon Ally of Justice Catastor. "At this time, duel runners and synchro summons grew rapidly, both of which were linked to Ener-D. The Ener-D's rotation speed continually increased as the world evolved, but the evolution was too quick."
Lester laughed. "The evolution was indeed incredible," he stated and kept laughing.
"Shut up," Primo told the younger member.
Suddenly an army of Meklord Emperors appeared and the people in the city all looked up in surprise. But the Meklord Emperors then started attacking and destroying the city. Leo pointed below to where Lester was visible, running with his mother and father.
"That is his memory of this age," Lester told them. Below Lester and his parents were struck by a blast from one of the emperors. Lester survived, but his parents were killed.
The scenery then changed slightly and Primo said, "This is my memory." In the memory, Primo was with a girl inside a destroyed building, both of them armed. Afer a Meklord Emperor Granel passed, they both shot at it, doing some damage. They looked at each other in triumph, but then the building is shot at the girl is killed. Primo cried out loud and the Meklord Emperor appeared in front of him and the man shot at the robot in anger while Team 5Ds watched in horror.
"The greed of humanity had finally reached its peak," Jakob explained. "At that time, the Ener-D suddenly became uncontrollable as it reacted to the greed. The Ener-D went bersrk and caused explosions all across the world."
"No way! Ener-D wouldn't go out of control again," Yusei refused to believe.
"I am telling the truth. I will show you my memory of the world that had been destroyed by humanity's foolishness," Jakob stated as the scenery shifted in a destroyed world. The visionary Jakob was dressed in rags and walking through the destroyed city, devoid of any other people. The present day Jakob continued, "I was the chosen one, although I didn't know if it was through luck or misfortune. As the only survivor, I wandered around, but nobody could hear my voice."
'This isn't the future. The angels wouldn't allow it,' Yusei thought. 'If this happened, it would only be because demons got their way.'
. . .
Team 5Ds all snapped out of the vision as they appeared back in present day. "Will synchro summoning really lead to that world?" Yusei wondered quietly. "No, it won't. I won't believe it will."
"Are you trying to escape fate?" Jakob asked.
"You're lying about synchro summoning causing that future. I know you are," Yusei accused. "Angels wouldn't allow a future like that to happen unless demons got their way like they're planning to do today."
"That kind of ignorance is what led to the destruction," Jakob commented.
"We can decide the fate of the future ourselves," Yusei told him.
"Jakob, think more closely to what Yusei just said. He said demons are planning on making a future like that if they get there way today," Primo called.
Jakob looked at Yusei. "What do you mean when you're speaking about the demons plans?" he asked.
"Brehnam told us this a while back. He wasn't planning on helping you create a utopian society at all. He's been using you so on this day called the Day of Darkness he and all of demon kind can make this world into the vision of the King of the Underworld," Yusei explained. "The Day of Darkness is today and why it got so dark so quickly. Right now, the sun has gone dark and demons have more power than ever. They aren't planning on helping you achieve the future you think is best; they're planning on making the Earth like the Underworld. Where humans are slaves and tortured by demons, where depression and despair control everything. It's that world angels try to keep from happening and it's the world that you saw that if angels have any ability to stop they will. So, Jakob, unless the angels were wiped out which is near impossible, then that future is impossible to have unless demons get their way today. They're using the power of you and the power of which you are creating to destroy the world and they will then turn it into the Underworld. I'm surprised none of you were able to tell Brehnam's true intentions by now."
"And how can you be so certain of this?" Jakob asked.
"First of all, he told it to Era and I to our face quite a while back," Yusei began. "Second of all, he's a demon. What did you expect?" Jakob gave a thoughtful expression but said nothing. Yusei drew his card to begin the duel. "First I summon Mono Synchron (Attack 0/ Defense 0) and use its effect to change the level of Wave Wall to 1. Now I tune Wave Wall with Mono Synchron. Clustering hope will open the new speed's horizon. Become the path its light shines upon. Synchro summon! The power of hope, synchro tuner, Formula Synchron (Attack 200/ Defense 1500). Our bonds will open the path to a better future. I tune Stardust Dragon with Formula Synchron. Clustering dreams and hopes will open the door onto evolution. Become the path its light shines upon. Accel synchro!" He disappeared for a moment before appeared again above a pulse wave. "Be born, Shooting Star Dragon (Attack 3300/ Defense 2500)! Next I activate Shooting Star Dragon's effect. With it I can check the top five cards on my deck for tuner monster and then shuffle it. And for every tuner monster I draw, I can attack one time." The full Mark of the Crimson Dragon appeared on his back and he drew the cards. He revealed them and saw he drew all five. "I drew five, Jakob. And that means I can attack five times." Shooting Star Dragon attack Granel Attack 3 to start.
"I use the effect of Granel Guard to redirect the attack to Red Nova Dragon. And since Red Nova Dragon has 3300 attack points, it will destroy your monster," Jakob played.
"Not quite, I activate Synchro Striker Unit! This raises its attack to 4300," Yusei fought.
"Due to Granel Carrier's effect, I can prevent Red Dragon Archfiend from being destroyed once per turn," Jakob defended but he still took damage and his life points were lowered to 11,200 and the attack of Meklord Emperor Granel became 14,700.
The second Shooting Star Dragon attacked Red Nova Dragon, destroying it. Both Jakob's life points and the attack of Granel fell to 10,400. The third attacked Granel Attack 3 and the fourth went at Granel Top dropping the opposing team's member to 4100. And the final Shooting Star Dragon attacked Meklord Emperor Granel Infinity destroying it along with Granel Guard and Granel Carrier while leaving Jakob's life points with 3900.
"I set two face downs and end my turn," Yusei finished while the effect of Synchro Striker Unit caused Shooting Star Dragon to lose 800 attack points, lowering it to 3500. Yusei sped ahead so his duel runner was beside Jakob's. "This is our power towards the future. Synchro summon and Accel Synchro summon have stopped Yliaster's ambitions."
"Are you sure you see to see my future that badly?" Jakob asked. "Thanks to you, my field is now reduced to burnt land." That reminded Yusei of the wasteland from the future vision. "Not to worry." Lester and Primo quickly joined him. "Aporia will fix that."
"Aporia? What is that?" Yusei asked.
"Lester, Primo, and I are three beings that strive towards justice and bring hope into this world. The time has come for us to become one," Jakob explained vaguely. The infinity symbol over his mouth glowed followed by a larger one lighting up the sky again. Then the ones over Lester and Primo's eyes glowed as well. Jakob ejected and flies towards an infinity symbol.
Lester and Primo's bodies merge into Jakob's. His face now bears the three infinity symbols from Jakob's mouth, Primo's right eye, and Lester's left eye and form into a mask as the body changed form. As soon as the transformation was complete, the mask disappeared.
Yusei looked up in surprise as the new person came down while Lester's duel board and Primo's duel runner drove up alongside Jakob's duel runner. The three vehicles glowed and transformed before combining to create a new duel runner. The new person came down and parts of his body opened and revealed connection ports. An array of wires are sent from the duel runner and connected into the man and combined with his new vehicle and he fired his cards into their slots on the runner.
"Who are you?" Yusei asked in shock.
The new man opened his eyes and said, "I am Aporia, the Guardian of Despair."