A/N This story is one year old today (23rd November) Thank you all so far for your readings/views/etc. Thanks to Rom for his help so far as well.
"Ugh my head…" said Yuzu. Ray was also holding her head.
"What was that…?" Ray added.
"This stuff just took a whole new level of weird, I'm outta here." Kaiba said.
"Wait Seto! We need you!" Kisara pleaded.
"I'm going to fix this duel disk. We need to get the duel disks working now the faulty chip has been removed." Kaiba replied.
"Well Reiji can help!" Kisara said.
"I don't work with spoilt brats." Kaiba replied as he walked out the room. Reiji pushed up his glasses. He went to the side and took Masumi's deck and the now non-working parasite.
"I shall scan these elsewhere." he said. "Is there another place I can work?"
"Ye-Yeah, across the hall." Kisara replied. Reiji departed.
"So what on earth was that?!" Yuzar said. "You two… spoke weirdly?!"
"Yeah… I've done that before." Yuzu replied. "I've spoken quite a few times when I didn't mean to…"
"Whatever that voice said... it said we were sisters?" Ray added. "Is this that angel thing?!"
"Yeah." Yuzu replied. "I was barely able to remember the words I said when it begun, but now… this thing seems to be getting stronger. I remember everything I just said."
"I felt something as well." Yuzar said. "A cold feeling…. Ray, you… I mean whoever that was, said that I must be stopped as a dragon…"
"There's still much we need to learn about." Yuzu said. Ray went up to Yuzar and gave him a hug.
Reiji
Reiji was sat at a desk and running scans on the Parasite Fusioner Card. He was also running a scan on the parasite monster.
"No way…" Reiji thought as he looked at a computer. "This is Real Solid Vision? Academia can build something like this?! They can brainwash people through the same system as dueling?" Reiji heard a bleeping noise come from his duel disk. He looked at it with urgency.
Fusion Dimension Energy Detected
"My scanner is picking up the energy…. it's not Kaiba's Fusion Monster as this is rigged for big energy readings… it can't be…?"
Kaiba
Kaiba was inside the duel disk signal room and was looking around.
"That girl blocked the signal from cutting out… and she stopped our duel disks from working without that chip! I just need something to replace it…. that's it!" Kaiba thought. "I just need to build a new version of the chip! I built a prototype before that girl came! I don't need this Academia's help!"
Domino Outskirts
Marinna walked through the portal as the last member of Ritual invasion to arrive. There stood before here was everyone including Serena and Gloria doing the Academia gesture.
"Ok!" Marinna yelled. "Soldiers, not everyone will have been turned into a card! Go and turn all those non-dueling people into cards! Anyone with duel disks must have been turned into a card by now. The dueling arenas are stopped as well, they have no means of defence, there are no excuses now!"
"YES MA'AM!" the Obelisk Blue students all shouted as they all ran off.
"Serena, find Yuzu and Ray."
"Yes ma'am." Serena replied as she ran off. Marinna looked at Gloria and her other Field Commanders.
"Right, time to build our base." Marinna took a card from her pocket and played it. A green tower begun to form as everyone except Marinna looked impressed. The tower formed with an Academia logo on the front.
"Real Solid Vision never fails to disappoint me." Gloria said.
A little while later, the team were inside. The bottom floor had computers around the whole floor. Staff from Academia had arrived to monitor the CCTV. Marinna was sat on a golden throne in the middle.
"From here we should see everything." Marinna said. "Our CCTV drones are out, we won't miss anything."
"What about finding Yuri?" Gloria asked.
"He'll turn up. We need to take out the Lancers first; taking out anyone of them will send a big message to the rest that they stand no chance." Marinna replied.
"Kaiba shouldn't have a duel disk, he should be a card."
"He should but I doubt he is." Marinna replied. "He's too smart to have not figured it out, especially since we lost Masumi now."
"No worries, we can track his Fusion Cards we gave him."
"Yes, and he'll be our first target." Marinna added. "But he might've found a way to use the duel disk with the Professors son helping him. He might have got his duel disk working." Marinna swung around on her throne and there was a group of six Field Commanders before her. Gloria walked down and made it seven.
"How can we serve you ma'am?!" they all said in unison.
"Until we locate the rest of the Lancers, you are to stay here." Marinna said. "We don't want any traps set by the Lancers to hit us."
"Ma'am." said a staff member who was monitoring the CCTV.
"Yes?" said Marinna as the throne turned around.
"Seto Kaiba has been found. Kaiba Corp tower, bottom floor." he replied.
"Good." Marinna turned once more to her team. "This is where Academia makes it mark. Now going by my calculations I ran and our intel based on their decks, Ando, you are a perfect match to duel Kaiba." Marinna looked at a male who wore a purple jacket with golden buttons. He had brown hair.
"I shall make you proud." Ando replied.
Kaiba Corp
Reiji ran to the Lancers and the Ritual allies in the other room, he ran in panic.
"Reiji? What's wrong?!" Yuzu said.
"Academia… is here!" Reiji said.
"But Seto is down there?!" Kisara looked terrified.
"Yes, he will be on the bottom floor." Yuzar replied.
"Let's go!" said Ray.
"Wait!" Reiji blocked the entrance. "Going out without a duel disk is insane. The only way to defend yourself is with a duel disk. Until Kaiba sorts out the duel disk problem, you three must remain." Reiji said.
"Fine, I shall go find Mieru and Gongenzaka!" Yuzu said.
"No!" Reiji said. "They will return if they haven't been turned into cards!"
"I'm not going to leave them!" Yuzu said. "They dealt with them before!"
"And now they will have intel on them now, they are probably already cards! They're expendable now we have Kaiba." The room fell silent.
"Ex….pen….da…ble…" Yuzu stuttered with her wrists clenched. "No more." she mumbled.
"What did you say?" Reiji asked.
"NO MORE!" Yuzu swung her fist right into Reiji's gut. Reiji collapsed to his knees. "I will not abandon them! Not under any circumstance! It's over Reiji; you no longer call the shots!"
"So now what?" Kisara asked as Reiji couldn't even speak.
"You three have to hide. I will alert Kaiba." Yuzu said. Yuzu left the room and Reiji could only look on in pain.
First Floor
Kaiba held a chip in his hand. He had done it. He took out his black duel disk and placed the chip inside before sealing it shut. He placed his deck in and it powered up.
"Now no-one shall get in my way!" Kaiba exclaimed with a boastful tone. Yuzu appeared at the door and Kaiba turned around in a paranoid manner. "Who's there?!"
"It's me!" Yuzu said.
"You… what's happening?!" Kaiba replied.
"Academia has invaded! They'll be here soon I expect! Do you have more of those chips?"
"Yes, I built enough for ten people." Kaiba said.
"Okay, Ray and Yuzar will need them. And Kisara?"
"Kisara doesn't duel, no." Kaiba replied. "I will go there now, and I shall defeat any of these scumbags who reach me."
"Listen Kaiba, you've seen what they can do." Yuzu said. "Don't underestimate them."
"They should be the ones who fear me." Kaiba replied.
"Fine whatever, they need protecting upstairs. I asked them to hide somewhere. I need to meet with my friends who are out there."
"You mean the fat one and the silly little girl? Do what you need to do, Kisara is the most important person for me to protect. My brother is still away." Kaiba said.
The two made it out of the room and were on the bottom floor. Before they could go elsewhere, there was a figure in the hallway.
"Who are you?! Kaiba yelled.
"My name is Ando, and I'm a Field Commander here in Ritual!" he replied.
"Field Commander?" Yuzu said.
"Cute. How about you go back to where you came from and play with your make-believe titles!" Kaiba hit back.
"Oh Mr Kaiba, I will be turning you into a card no doubt! I've read your intel notes, you're a dragon user like me." Ando said.
"I shall duel him." Yuzu said.
"No. This geek is mine." Kaiba replied as he stood in front. "Anyone with that fashion sense needs a good beating."
"Fine." Yuzu said with haste. She cautiously made her way around Ando and to the exit.
"Yuzu!" Kaiba yelled. He took a card from his pocket and threw it at Yuzu who caught it.
"What's this?" she said as she looked at the card. It read "Sphere Kuriboh".
"You'll need it. And remember to come back; you still owe me a rematch"
"Of course." said Yuzu. She looked once more at Ando.
"Don't worry angel, Serena will find you soon." Ando said. Yuzu ignored him and ran off.
"LET'S DUEL!" Kaiba and Ando yelled at the same time.
Turn 1
Ando LP: 4000 Hand: 5
Kaiba LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"Time to prove that you're a nobody! I play the Continuous Spell Future Fusion!" Ando said.
"Future Fusion?" Kaiba replied.
"I show you a Fusion Monster from my extra deck then I send the materials needed for its summon to the graveyard from my deck! Take a look at this dragon, one which will pummel any other! Five-Headed Dragon!" Ando showed up the card from his extra deck and Kaiba was shocked.
"A 5000 attack and defence Monster?!"
"Yes Mr Kaiba, that is only the start!" Ando replied. "You can surrender to avoid an embarrassing defeat of course."
"Ha, I feel sorry for you. You could've used those seconds to say something good, not the rubbish you just said." Kaiba calmly put.
"Oh I can't wait to turn you into a card! My monster will be Fusion Summoned to the field during my second Standby Phase after this cards activation!" Ando said.
"So I have to wait? Very disappointing. A true duelist would've got him out by now." Kaiba said.
"I send five Dragon-Type monsters from my deck to the graveyard! I send Infernal, Cave, Dodger, Spear and Handcuffs Dragon all from my deck! Now I play the Spell Polymerization to Fusion Summon! I fuse two Luster Dragons!" Two of the same blue dragon spun in the Fusion whirlpool. "I Fusion Summon First of the Dragons!" A long tailed purple dragon appeared.
First of the Dragons ATK: 2700 DEF: 2000 Dark/Dragon/Fusion/LVL 9
"This card cannot be destroyed by card effects and it can only be destroyed in battle by a Normal Monster!"
"No big deal." said Kaiba. "My Blue-Eyes is a Normal Monster!"
"Oh I know that Mr Kaiba." Ando replied. "I play one more Spell! Swords of Revealing Light!"
"That card?!" Kaiba said.
"I see this card exists in this dimension as well… well you will know its effect then!" Several swords made of light energy fell from the sky and landed in between the two duelists.
"I can't attack for three of my turns." Kaiba replied. "Still, you've used up your entire hand. Not a wise move."
"We shall see. I end my turn!"
Turn 2
Ando LP: 4000 Hand: 0
Kaiba LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"Stalling isn't going to work on me! I draw!" Kaiba yelled. "I start by using Ancient Rules! This allows me to Special Summon a Normal level five or higher Monster from my hand! Appear my Blue-Eyes!" The mighty white dragon burst on the field in all its glory.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Light/Dragon/LVL 8
"Not bad, but you can't attack me either way Mr Kaiba." Ando said.
"All it will take is one card to remove your Spells, and then it's over for you." Kaiba replied as he set two cards.
Turn 3
Ando LP: 4000 Hand: 0
Kaiba LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"I draw! And now my Future Fusion Spell is just one Standby Phase away from summoning my Dragon! I Special Summon Shield Dragon in defence!" A brown dragon with shields for a chest appeared.
Shield Dragon ATK: 0 DEF: 3000 Dark/Dragon/LVL 8
"I can summon this from my hand without tribute providing I control a Fusion Monster!" Ando replied.
"You're stalling again?!" Kaiba said with impatience.
"So what if I am?! This Dragon is just in case! I end my turn!"
Turn 4
Ando LP: 4000 Hand: 0
Kaiba LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"I will beat those stupid swords! I draw!" Kaiba yelled. "Got it!" he thought as he looked at his newly drawn card. "Go Twin Twister! This will wipe out your Swords and Future Fusion Cards! I discard my White Stone of the Ancients as a cost! NOW BE GONE!" Two hurricanes appeared and shot forward at Ando who was waiting.
"I didn't reach this level at Academia because my skills were as bad as yours! Shield Dragon's effect allows me to negate a card effect during your turn!"
"WHAT?!" Kaiba's Twin Twister finished before it could reach Ando. "Fine! I play a Trap!" Kaiba replied. "Blue-Eyes Energy! If I control a Blue-Eyes Monster, you take damage equal to halve its attack!" Blue-Eyes glowed and the energy formed into a beam in front of the dragon. It shot forward and hit Ando which sent him across the hallway.
Ando LP: 4000 – 2500
"I end my turn and due toWhite Stone of the Ancients, if it was sent to my graveyard this turn, I can Special Summon a Blue-Eyes Monster from my deck! Appear a second Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Blue-Eyes White Dragon ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Light/Dragon/LVL 8
"No Ritual Summon? Or a Fusion? You know we had to give you that power to trust us. It's a kind gift, and this is how you pay us?" Ando said.
"Well you made a grave mistake in boosting my arsenal Academia scum!"
Turn 5
Ando LP: 2500 Hand: 0
Kaiba LP: 4000 Hand: 1
"This is your end! I draw!" Ando yelled. "You failed Seto Kaiba! This is now my second Standby Phase after using Future Fusion, which means my dragon can come out to play! I FUSION SUMMON!" All five dragons which were sent as Fusion Material spun around in the Fusion whirlpool. "Appear my almighty beast! Five-Headed Dragon!" A yellow bodied dragon appeared with five different heads. Each one displayed a different coloured head which seemed to belong to another dragon.
Five-Headed Dragon ATK: 5000 DEF: 5000 Dark/Dragon/Fusion/LVL 12
The dragon stared down at Kaiba and he looked slightly nervous. However, Kaiba was ready.
"Well all my stalling seems to have worked!" Ando said in a gloating manner. "You failed Mr Kaiba! Five-Headed cannot be destroyed by Water, Fire, Earth, Dark or Wind Monsters!"
"Just go!" Kaiba yelled.
"Very well! But first I play this! The Continuous Spell, Continuous Defence! This prevents all Continuous Spells from being destroyed! You have to destroy this first! Did you really plan to remove my Future Fusion from the field to wipe out my dragon?!"
"Well it was an option before, but I don't plan to beat you in such an easy way now." Kaiba replied.
"Your life energy is going to be so satisfying to capture!" Ando yelled. "Five-Headed Dragon! GO!" Five-Headed powered up an attack in each of their own mouths and soon a beam was formed together. The beam fired forward and wiped out Kaiba's first Blue-Eyes. Kaiba was forced to shield himself from the explosion.
Kaiba LP: 4000 - 2000
"I end my turn and I switch First of the Dragons into defence!" Ando said. "Now my Swords of Revealing Light will come to an end at the end of your turn, but that will be too late for you!"
Turn 6
Ando LP: 2500 Hand: 0
Kaiba LP: 2000 Hand: 1
"I have had enough of your smack talk, I will let me dueling end you instead! DRAW!" Kaiba looked at his hand and begun to laugh manically. "You really thought you were something! You've had three turns and my lifepoints are still 2000! You're pathetic!"
"I passed all my exams, did my training I-"
"I don't care about your dumb training! This is the real world and all that stuff is nothing compared to real life experience! I had to work from the bottom to become number one, and I will show you that same strength I needed to get to that rank! Whoever threatens my brother or Kisara, will be torn down piece by piece! I play a set card, my Trap Ritual Substitute! I pay halve of my lifepoints to banish a Ritual Spell from my deck, then this card becomes that Ritual Spell! This effect cannot be negated so your Shield Dragon is useless."
"Whatever."
Kaiba LP: 2000 - 1000
"I banish Chaos Form and now this card becomes that card! I banish my Blue-Eyes from my graveyard and I Ritual Summon, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon!" Kaiba exclaimed as the field became a portal and it showed a great blue dragon. His whole body looked like armour and emitted intrinsic rays of light
Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon ATK: 4000 DEF: 0 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 8
"It's irrelevant."
"Not with this Equip Spell! Blue-Eyes Amour!" Chaos Max had energy form around its body. The amour was the same colour of a normal Blue-Eyes Dragon. "This prevents Blue-Eyes Chaos Max from being affected by card effects! And if the Blue-Eyes Monster is higher than level five, it can switch the Monster it attacks into defence if it isn't already. Then its defence becomes zero!"
"No way!"
"You thought your school was good? You clearly didn't account for me well enough!" Kaiba laughed as he pointed towards Ando. "It's immune to Swords of Revealing Light and because of its effect, it deals double piercing damage!" Chaos Max flew high into the air and locked on to Shield Dragon.
"No… but all my work on my Five-Headed Dragon?!"
"You misjudged me and your Monsters! END THIS!" Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX unleashed a powerful dark blue beam at Shield Dragon.
Shield Dragon DEF: 0
Shield Dragon was quickly destroyed. Ando was sent flying upon impact.
Ando LP: 2500 – 0 Kaiba Wins
"If you're one of the best Academia can offer, you have no chance against me." Kaiba said as he walked off. "You can keep coming and coming, but you will never take me or my loved ones."
"I never claimed I was one of the best….! Academia has much, much better duelists then me!" Ando's weakly replied. "Soon… Academia will get you all!" Ando's disappeared via his duel disks teleport function.
Academia Ritual Base
Marinna was sat on her chair and looking at the map of the Ritual Dimension. She was watching the heat map which showed the Academia students in blue dots with the others in red. There was a counter of the amount of Ritual civilians carded and the amount of her army sent back to Academia.
"Fifty carded within a two hours, not bad at all." Marinna said.
"Ma'am." said a worker. "We have our first defeat."
"Who?!"
"On your screen now." Marinna looked up and it showed Ando being teleported away.
"No!" Marinna said as she got up. "Ando lost?! But his strategy was near-flawless! And now he'll be turned into a card back at Academia as punishment… he hasn't done enough to earn a second chance." she said saddened.
"Don't worry about him." Gloria said as she walked in to the main base room. "He knew the risks, plus he failed to live up to your expectations."
"Regardless, that's one Field Commander down out of six… we can't risk another." Marinna said.
"We would have a new Field Commander in Yuri if we found him." Gloria replied.
"Yes." Marinna replied. She hit a blue button as she sat back down. "This is Commander Marinna, this is a message to all Field Commanders. Your job right now is to find Yuri. Repeat, your job is to now find Yuri."
"Good idea, and you'll request more Field Commanders from Academia to be sent here? We can hunt the Lancers and Yuri." Gloria said.
"No." Marinna said.
"Why not?! The Lancers will now be able to regroup without us dueling them!"
"And you know I need to test them all first… I won't risk the lives of the others without me testing them."
"This is a big risk Marinna! The Professor might not like it!"
"Yes but he trusts me, for now. Anyway, our scans haven't found the Lancers yet. Give it time; we will work out how to bypass any protection Reiji gave them."
Mieru Gongenzaka
Mieru and Gongenzaka were now hiding in a dumpster. They had heard from Yuzu to hide via their duel disk communications.
"I the man Gongenzaka should not be here!" he said. "I should be fighting!"
"Yuzu said that she wasn't sure how many are coming." Mieru replied. As Mieru finished her sentence, she could hear marching. The two Lancers looked at each other with fear.
Alleyway - Other Side of Domino
"Damnit. My duel disk is broken." Yuri said to himself. Yuri had awoken to find himself in an empty alleyway, he had no idea what had happened.
"How did I get here?" Yuri thought. Images of Mina ran through his mind. "That girl!" Yuri said. "She must've sent me here… wherever "here" is." Yuri walked and continued to look confused. His Starving Venom glowed from within his pocket.
A.N
Thanks to Rom for the Kuriboh line and the idea. So yeah, thanks again for the support over the year.
Royal2- He was sent by Mina to Ritual.
Guest – The other dragon boys will be found out when we return to Synchro. Not much longer in this arc left.
Samueljoo – Yuzu and Serena will see each other and Yuzu will notice her change in attitude, she's not brainwashed though.
OC Cards soon