Ray and Yuzar made their way down the stairs of the old underground arena. The two were determined to find their fellow Ritual Dimension citizens.
The two reached the first main room and they saw the missing people. They were all in-hiding. The missing people all looked at the two and it seemed their hopes had been answered as Yuzar appeared.
"Yu… Yuzar?" said one.
"Why are you here?" another added.
"He's wearing a duel disk?" a third person said. Ray went closer to Yuzar's ear.
"Yuzar, you need to be the hope to these people. You're an idol to them." Ray advised.
"Yeah. " Yuzar replied. "Look people, this is a very, very long story and I know you're all scared… so am I but we need to get you out of this place and into a place of safety."
"What's happening?" a male said as he approached. It was Bandit Keith.
"Bandit Keith?!" Ray replied. "I thought you were in prison?"
"This Academia attacked everywhere! We escaped while they were busy!" he replied as he cracked his knuckles. "Now how do I get a piece of them?"
"Us as well!" said two voices at once. It caused Ray to have a minor shiver down her back. It was the Paradox Brothers.
"You as well?!" Ray said in disgust. Ray being kidnapped by the two of them was still fresh in her mind.
"We as well-"
"Are looking for revenge!" the two said one after each other.
"So you know of the other dimensions?" Yuzar said.
"It's all those losers in blue could brag about." Keith said. "Now what is the "great" Yuzar going to do about it?"
"We have a plan with Kaiba." Yuzar said. "We can take you all to another dimension which is safe. We need to get you all to Kaiba Corp."
"Out there?"
"No way!" said the two brothers.
"That's annoying…." Ray said.
"Look Academia is going to attack here as well!" Yuzar said.
"You showed them the way?!" Keith shouted.
"We came to save you!" Ray replied. "Now you can either rot in here and wait to be turned into a card, or you can come with us to safety! We also have some extra duel disks for you guys to fight back if you wish!"
"Now that's speaking my language!" Keith replied. A brief moment of silence fell. During that time, the sound of a robotic stomping could be heard coming from outside.
"What's that?!" Ray said as everyone looked upwards to the roof.
A giant robotic fist burst its way through the roof, scaring everyone inside. Everyone looked in shock as a Chaos Ancient Gear Giant could be seen.
"What on earth is that?!" Yuzar questioned.
"Everyone, get out of here!" Ray said.
"Don't need to ask me twice!" said Keith as he ran right past Ray and Yuzar without looking back.
"That's the wrong way!" Yuzar yelled.
"We need to get the rest out via the emergency escape." said Ray. "There's one which leads to Kaiba Corp."
"Good, take them that way! I will hold them off!" Yuzar replied.
"Yuzar!"
"Ray, get everyone to Kaiba Corp. I hid the extra duel disks just outside of the building." Yuzar said.
"No! I'm not leaving you!"
"Ray…!" Ray looked on disgruntled but then she smiled.
"Fine… I know you can look after yourself." she said confidently. "Just make sure to get back, ok?"
"I will! Now go!" Ray ran off as Yuzar prepared for whatever was about to come.
Ropes were thrown into the hole which the Monster had made and many Academia students appeared on the roof. Each one slid down the ropes and landed. Another rope was thrown down and it was Gloria Tyler.
"Well… sorry about making this dump more of a dump!" Gloria said. "And you must be Yuzar, hello!"
"I presume you're an Academia higher-up?" Yuzar asked. "I thought I would be dueling that purple-haired boy?"
"Well we were able to locate you without him for once!" Gloria said. "Now where is the angel?"
"Ray? She's gone!" Yuzar replied.
"Gone?" Gloria looked at her soldiers. "Search everywhere!"
"Yes ma'am!" said the soldiers as they ran off to search. Only Yuzar and Gloria were left in the room.
"So then, let's get down to business!" Gloria said.
"Yes!" Yuzar replied. "I won't go back to Academia with you!"
"That's a shame; the Professor would like a famous duelist like you!" Gloria said.
"No chance!"
Turn 1
Gloria LP: 4000 Hand: 5
Yuzar LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"Let's begin with this with the Field Spell Amazoness Village!" The room turned into a sandy jungle. Wooden huts appeared around the two duelists. "Now I summon out Amazoness Paladin!" A woman in white robes appeared holding a sword.
Amazoness Paladin ATK: 1700 DEF: 300 Earth/Warrior/LVL 4
"Paladin's attack rises by 100 for each Amazoness Monster on my field!"
Paladin ATK: 1800
"And my Field raises Amazoness Monsters attack by 200!"
Paladin ATK: 2000
"I set a card and end there!" Gloria said.
Turn 2
Gloria LP: 4000 Hand: 2
Yuzar LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"Then I'm up! Draw!" Yuzar declared. "Appear Ancient Wanderer!" A cloaked individual with a shadowed face appeared. Only his white eyes showed.
Ancient Wanderer ATK: 1200 DEF: 800 Dark/Warrior/LVL 3
"When he is the only Monster on my field and summoned this turn, I can Special Summon another Ancient Monster from my deck and you can draw a card! Appear Ancient Magician!"A tall magician in purple robes appeared. She had a golden broach on her black hat which connected to the robes .
Ancient Magician ATK: 1000 DEF 700 Dark/Spellcaster/LVL 4
"Fool! Giving me a free card!" Gloria said as she drew.
"Go Ancient One Ritual!" Yuzar showed his Ritual Spell. "I need to hit level seven or higher! I tribute my two Monsters!" Both of Yuzar's Monsters shot into the sky and a blue beam appeared.
"It's here." Gloria thought.
"I call upon my loyal dragon! Appear Ancient One Ritual Dragon!" A giant blue dragon spun around on the field. It had a long green tail with glowing dark blue orbs around its body. It had a scaly body with bright yellow eyes. It had spikes run down its back.
Ancient One Ritual Dragon ATK: 2500 DEF: 2200 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 7
"Via Ancient Magician, when it's used for a Ritual Summon, I can draw a card! Now I attack!" Ancient One charged up a blue ball in its mouth. It fired it at the Amazoness.
"Go Amazoness Onslaught!" A Continuous Trap was played by Gloria. "I can bring out an Amazoness from my hand during the Battle Phase and it gains 500 attack until the end of this turn! Come Amazoness Queen!" A blue haired warrior appeared on a throne. She held a long sword.
Amazoness Queen ATK: 2400 DEF: 1800 Earth/Warrior/LVL 6
Queen ATK: 3100
Paladin ATK: 2100
"Fine but Ancient One wipe outs your Paladin!" The dragon destroyed Paladin with ease.
Gloria LP: 4000 – 3600
"Fool!" Gloria replied. "If an Amazoness battled while Onslaught is on the field, the Monster which battled it is banished!"
"No!" Yuzar yelled as Ancient One was wiped away in an instance.
"I hope 400 measly lifepoints was worth it!" Gloria replied. "And via Amazoness Village, when an Amazoness is destroyed in battle, I can bring out another Amazoness from my deck with a level equal or less than the destroyed Monster! Appear a second Paladin!"
Amazoness Paladin ATK: 1700 DEF: 300 Earth/Warrior/LVL 4
Paladin ATK: 2100
"Damnit! Not only did I lose my dragon, she replaced her Monster!" Yuzar thought. "I set one card and end my turn!"
Turn 3
Gloria LP: 3600 Hand: 3
Yuzar LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"I draw!" Gloria said with a smirk.
"Why are you happy? Is it that you're dueling a champion?" Yuzar gloated.
"Oh please, your dueling medals and trophies are irrelevant!"
"Oh really? Does the military not give out medals? Are you not trying to make a utopia via dueling? Aren't you a higher-up within Academia? Surely you show things off like I do?"
"There's a difference! This is fighting for real! I'm doing things which will change the world forever!" Gloria hit back.
"And you're saying that my awards are meaningless? Or Kaiba's? Though we use dueling for different methods, we've both had to put in training to reach where we are. I know I need to keep improving to one-day even duel Kaiba, yet along beat him! You and the other soldiers seem to think that you're superior in all aspects, you're not!"
"Nice speech…." Gloria said. "But we are superior! Do you know how much training we put in? My fellow comrades being turned into card while I remain….! I deserve this, they weren't good enough!"
"I don't know how you were raised or what this Academia taught you, but just to abandon your friends because they lost is disgusting!"
"What do you know?" Gloria yelled. "I play Polymerization! I'm fusing my Queen and Paladin! Appear before me Amazoness Empress!" Gloria's Fusion Monster floated in front of her.
Amazoness Empress ATK: 2800 DEF: 2400 Earth/Warrior/Fusion/LVL 8
Empress ATK: 3000
"Now I equip Empress with Magnum Shield!" Empress gained a golden shield in her other hand. "This Monster gains attack equal to her defence!"
"What?!"
Empress ATK: 5400
"5400? That's nuts…." Yuzar said to himself.
"Now end this Empress!" Gloria yelled as her Fusion Monster went in for the kill.
"It might be impressive but it's not good enough! Go my Trap, Ritual Crossing! This negates your direct attack and then I can add a Ritual Monster from my deck with attack pointes with less than the difference in our lifepoints!"
"Our difference is 400… you can't have a Monster with that little attack?"
"But I do!" Yuzar said as he held out another Ritual Monster. "It's my Ancient Knight of Beginning with zero attack!"
"Whatever! I set a card!"
Turn 4
Gloria LP: 3600 Hand: 0
Yuzar LP: 4000 Hand: 3
Yuzar drew his card. "I play Ancient Retrieval! I add Ancient One Ritual back to my hand from my graveyard and then I can draw once more!"
"How very dull!"
"Well not for me! I play Ancient One Ritual by banishing Ancient Magician and as you saw before, I can draw yet another card by using Ancient Magician! I Ritual Summon Ancient Knight of Beginning!" A black knight in rusted amour appeared. He lacked a right arm
Ancient Knight of Beginning ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Warrior/Ritual/LVL 1
"Ancient Knight of Beginning's effect! I banish it to bring back an Ancient Ritual Monster from my graveyard or banished zone! Return Ancient One Ritual Dragon!"
Ancient One Ritual Dragon ATK: 2500 DEF: 2200 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 7
"Luckily for you Ancient One's main effect only works when it's Ritual Summoned." Yuzar explained. "But he does gain 300 attack for each level five or higher Monster you control in your grave and field!"
Ritual Dragon ATK: 3100
"Now I'm playing my Twin Twisters to wipe out your Field Spell and your Equip Spell! I send AncientBoost to the graveyard as a cost!"
"Well then I use set card now! I play the Quick-Play Spell Amazoness Call! I take an Amazoness card from my deck and either send it to the grave or add it to my hand. I add Amazoness Helper to my hand!"
"Fine but Twin Twister still wipes out your two cards!" A hurricane appeared and wiped out the Field Spell and the Equip. The Death-T arena returned.
Amazoness Empress ATK: 2800
"Now ATTACK!" Yuzar commanded. His dragon powered up an attack and fired it.
"Go Amazoness Helper!" A small black female appeared with a dagger in defence position.
Amazoness Helper ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Earth/Warrior/LVL 1
"When I'm attacked, I can summon out Amazoness Helper. The attack is directed to her and once per turn she can't be destroyed in battle!" Ancient One's blue burst struck the girl but she remained.
"Damnit." said Yuzar. "I end my turn!"
Turn 5
Gloria LP: 3600 Hand: 0
Yuzar LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"Draw!" Gloria yelled. "I play Fusion Recovery! I add back a Polymerization and a Monster from my graveyard which was used as Fusion Material! Return Amazoness Queen!"
"Ugh… fine, Ancient One loses attack points since it's no longer in your graveyard."
Ritual Dragon ATK: 2800
"And now… I play Polymerization once more! I fuse my Empress and Queen!"
"Another one?!"
"Appear my Amazoness Ultimate Ruler!" A fair-skinned woman in with a golden breast plate appeared. She wore a crown and held a sword which had many different gems fused within.
Amazoness Ultimate Ruler ATK: 3500 DEF: 2000 Earth/Warrior/Fusion/LVL 10
"Regardless, Ancient One gains more attack!" Yuzar said.
Ritual Dragon ATK: 3400
"It matters not! When Ultimate Ruler is Fusion Summoned, you take damage equal to the strongest Fusion Material! Take 2800 damage!" Ultimate Ruler pointed her sword at Yuzar and dashed forward. The female slashed across Yuzar's chest and sent him down to his knees in pain.
Yuzar LP: 4000 - 1200
"I use her other effect! It gains 500 attack for each other Amazoness on my field!"
Amazoness Ultimate Ruler ATK: 4000
"Damnit…" Yuzar thought as he looked at his hand.
"Now go Ultimate Ruler! Slay the dragon!" Ultimate Ruler gripped her sword and slashed Ancient One's neck. An explosion occurred which sent Yuzar against the wall.
Yuzar LP: 1200 – 600
"Who needs Yuri; I'll beat you all by myself! Just like I did to that Lancer!"
"Lancer?" Yuzar questioned as he walked back.
"Yeah! That puffy haired little girl….. I was the one who turned her into a card!" Gloria said.
"Mieru?! That was you?!"
"That was her name? Then yeah, yeah I WAS!"
"How dare you!" Yuzar said as he gripped his fist. "You disgust me!"
"Thing is, she didn't even put up a great fight!" Gloria replied with a gloating tone. She closed her eyes and smirked.
"That's it!" Yuzar yelled as Gloria looked at him. Yuzar's eyes had gone full blue with a dark aura appearing around him.
"Er….." Gloria said as he had just realised her error.
"Why do you look scared? I thought Academia wanted me?" Yuzar said. "Now I shall bring the same pain to you!"
Turn 6
Gloria LP: 3600 Hand: 0
Yuzar LP: 600 Hand: 2
"DRAW!" Yuzar drew the card with a delightful smirk on his face. "Now this is an interesting development! I use the Ritual Spell, Ultimate Ancient Offering! I Special Summon Ancient One Ritual Dragon from my graveyard!"
Ancient One Ritual Dragon ATK: 2500 DEF: 2200 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 7
"And now it's tributed! I can Ritual Summon a level ten or higher Ancient Ritual Dragon Monster from my deck!"
"WHAT?!" Ancient One Ritual Dragon disappeared in a bright blue light.
"When the treacherous angels are resurrected, the supreme dragon king of pride will appear and destroy his former enemies! Appear now my evolved form! Ancient King Ritual Dragon!" A white dragon with golden amour around its body appeared. It had blue wings with black stripes.
Ancient King Ritual Dragon ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 10
"I caused the Ritual dragon to summon his evolved form?!" Gloria said with a paniced look.
"Yes you did. But you won't need to worry about being turned into a card, I'll turn you into ash! When my evolved form is summoned, I destroy all Special Summoned Monsters on the field except Ancient King! And for each one destroyed, Ancient King Ritual Dragon gains 800 attack!"
"No!" Gloria said as her two Monsters were destroyed before her.
Ancient King Ritual Dragon ATK: 4600
"Now I shall end this! Ancient King Ritual Dragon, reign down!" The dragon unleashed its wings and created an energy ball. "FINAL JUDGEMENT!"
"How did I mess this up?!" said Gloria. All she could do is watch the attack get closer and closer. The blast sent Gloria against the wall at full impact.
Gloria LP: 3600 – 0 Yuzar Wins
Gloria watched as Yuzar seemed to snap back to normal. He looked around with confusion. However Gloria didn't care about that, her body was glowing. She knew she was going to be sent back to Academia. She gritted her teeth and then quickly disappeared.
"What… happened?" Yuzar questioned. He looked to where Gloria was standing and she was gone.
Airport
Yuzu and Kisara had landed at the Domino Airport to wait for Mokuba to return from his business trip from Egypt. The airport however was not a calm place. Everyone except Yuzu and Kisara were hiding away due to the threat of Academia. Yuzu and Kisara had made sure people remained locked in the airport to avoid the invasion. News of the invasion travelled fast across Domino.
"Mokuba won't know about any of this…." Kisara said.
"Well we can't risk Academia knowing." Yuzu said. As Yuzu finished her sentence, the loud stomping of an Ancient Gear Golem could be heard. Yuzu and Kisara hadn't checked up on Kaiba Corp so they didn't know what this sound was. They looked around in panic.
"What is that?!" Kisara said as several Ultimate Ancient Gear Golems appeared with smaller Ancient Gear Monsters around the airport.
"ACADEMIA ARE HERE!" Yuzu yelled. The crowd in the airport all begun to panic while Yuzu and Kisara didn't know what to do. To make matters even worse, a helicopter appeared with many students zip-lining down. The students circled around the building smirking. Yuzu looked around.
"Damnit! We have no duel disks for them to use!"
"Come out, quietly!" said a male student. A distant noise however took everyone's attention. It was Mokuba's flight.
"Mokuba!" Kisara yelled in freight. An Ancient Gear went into grab the plane as it was coming into land.
Within, Mokuba was looking around in shock. The pilot was battling to avoid being grabbed.
"What…. what is this?!" Mokuba shouted. On the ground, Yuzu had an idea.
"HOLD ON MR KAIBA!" the pilot yelled as he continued to fly the plane around to avoid the hands of the Monster.
"MOZARTA, Queen Knight: The Pendulum Warrior, I need you!" Both Monsters were summoned and went straight into action.
Queen Knight was able to jump up and wipe out many Ancient Gears thanks to a powerful energy created from her sword. Mozarta launched up to the plane and unleashed her powerful sound wave attack to destroy the Ancient Gear attacking the plane. The sound wave wiped out the Monster, the plane was now free.
"What on earth was that?!" Mokuba said. As he looked forward, the plane was now heading towards the ground with little time to pull up.
"BRACE YOURSELF MOKUBA!" the pilot added as he battled to bring the plane up.
"MOZARTA!" Yuzu yelled. Mozarta was able to surround the plane in energy and slowly but surely she was able to land the plane on the ground. Inside the plane, Mokuba and the pilot breathed a sigh of relief.
"What on earth is happening?!" Mokuba said. "What has Seto been doing?!"
"Annoying!" said a student! "CARD THEM ALL!"
"Kisara, go into the plane, I'll deal with these and evacuate the people into the plane!"
"Okay Yuzu!" Kisara replied as she waited for Yuzu to take action.
"I play the Field Spell Melodious Light Show!" Thanks to Real Solid Vision, the airport had lightened up and begun to blind everyone except for Yuzu. The students were forced to shield their eyes.
"DAMNIT! RETURN BACK TO BASE!" A student said. Many of the students hit their duel disks and disappeared.
The Field Spell effect ended and Yuzu looked around with delight, each one of the students had left.
"Okay! Everyone get to the plane!" Yuzu said. Everyone quickly ran out of the airport and into the plane that Kisara was now in along with Mokuba.
"WAIT!" One last student emerged after clearing his eyes. Yuzu and one person was left in the room. It was an old man in overalls.
"Go away!" Yuzu said.
"No!" the student replied. "I shall turn the old man into a card!"
"A card? Like the rest?" said the old man. "Not going to happen! I won't allow you to terrorise my home!" The old man got out a deck. "Would you mind if I borrowed your duel disk." he asked.
"I can duel him, you get to the plane!" Yuzu said.
"I'm not sure if you know who I am but I need to do this!" the old man said. Yuzu nodded and handed her his duel disk. "This won't take long!"
"Yeah, bring it!" said the student.
Turn 1
Old Man LP: 4000 Hand: 5
Student LP: 4000 Hand: 5
"Ooh.. nice hand. I place Upstart Goblin to give you 1000 more lifepoints and I can draw a card!"
Student LP: 5000
The old man drew his card and smiled at it. "Well would you look at that. I drew all five parts of Exodia!"
"Exodia? What's that?!" said the student. He looked at his duel disk and it read "LOSE"
"Kids these days…. not knowing the classics. It gives me an automatic win!"
"Amazing…" said Yuzu as the student teleported away in horror.
"Now let's go." said the old man. He gave the duel disk back to Yuzu and both made their way to the plane. From within the plane Kisara looked stunned.
"Mr Mutou?!" Kisara said. Yuzu entered into the plane after the old man. She looked at Kisara.
"Who's that?" Yuzu asked.
"Sugoroku Mutou, a famous game designer and one of the most loved people in Domino. He and Kaiba are good friends. I'm glad he's safe."
Fusion Base
Within the base, Gongenzaka and Masumi were tied up to chairs in an empty room. The two had tried to escape but the ropes were Real Solid Vision, strong enough to hold them.
"Not again!" Masumi said as she tried to wiggle free.
"Don't panic, we will get out of here!" Gongenzaka said.
In the main base room, Marinna was on her commander chair and watching the two via CCTV on the big screen. Gloria Tyler walked up behind her with a disgruntled face.
"So, what are you going to do with them?" Gloria asked.
"We can easily read their minds." Marinna said. "We will do that and then turn them into cards."
"Fine." said Gloria in a stern tone. She walked off, Marinna went after her.
"You're annoyed at me?" Marinna said in a quiet tone. "I would've thought by tweaking your duel disk data to send you here and not back to Academia would be welcome. Now you won't be punished."
"I wouldn't have been turned into a card either. I've earned a second chance and now you take that away from me! Academia will know I lost and not been sent back!"
"As if I wouldn't stop that data from being sent away. I don't want you being punished."
"You can't decide that!" Gloria yelled.
"I can't leave you alone Gloria!" Marinna replied. "You know that I hate seeing people in my squad… my friends suffer! I'd hate to see you separated from Grace! And I would hate myself if that happened while you was under my command!"
"I know but you know I'm a soldier, I knew from the first time I joined the Academy what my duty was." Gloria looked resentful and could not look Marina in the face. "When we return, I'll tell the whole truth….If something happens to me... take care of Grace... Thanks ..."
A/N
Thanks to Rom as ever, including Ancient One King and last paragraph. And yes about that cameo and Exodia (also Rom's idea), of course if you read carefully, you will find that Solomon/Sugoroku and his shop appeared in 22!
Thanks for reviews. Also a quick thing I never said. Ancient One has 2200 DEF since the dragons all have something different about them in the anime.
Rom OC Card
Yuzar
Ancient One King Dragon ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500 Dark/Dragon/Ritual/LVL 10
Monster effect: When this card is Special Summoned you can destroy all the Special Summoned Monsters that are on both fields and this card gains 800 points for each destroyed monster. When an opponent Special Summons a monster, it is destroyed.
O.C Cards
Yuzar
Ancient Wanderer ATK: 1200 DEF: 800 Dark/Warrior/LVL 3
When this summoned card is the only Monster on the field, you can Special Summon one Ancient Monster from your deck. Your opponent draws a card. You can only use this effect once per turn.
Ancient Retrieval/Spell
Add one "Ancient One Ritual" Card from your graveyard to your hand and then draw one card.
Ancient Knight of Beginning ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Dark/Warrior/Ritual/LVL 1
You can tribute this Monster and Special Summon one Ancient Ritual Monster you control from either your graveyard or one that is banished.
Ultimate Ancient Offering/Spell
This card is also treated as Ancient One Ritual
Special Summon one Ancient One Ritual Dragon from your graveyard or that is banished. Immediately after, tribute it and Special Summon one level ten or higher Ancient Ritual Dragon Monster from your deck. (This is treated as a Ritual Summon)
Gloria
Amazoness Helper ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Earth/Warrior/LVL 1
When you are attacked, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. This card becomes the attack target. Once per turn this card is not destroyed in battle.
Amazoness Ultimate Ruler ATK: 3500 DEF: 2000 Earth/Warrior/Fusion/LVL 10
When this card is Fusion Summoned, inflict damage to your opponent equal to the Monster with the highest ATK that was used as Fusion Material.
This card gains 500 ATK for each other Amazoness Monster on the field.