Turn 1

Mina LP: 4000 Hand: 5

Euridice LP: 4000 Hand: 5

"I shall start!" Mina said. "I play Terraforming! I can add a Field Spell from my deck! I add and play Magical Meltdown!"A red circle spun around the two. "First when activated I can add Aleister the Invoker to my hand. Now I summon him!" A white roped magician appeared with a long staff. Aleister the Invoker ATK: 1000 DEF: 1800 Dark/Spellcaster/LVL 4

"As I expected child."

"What?!" Mina replied.

"I know about your Shaddoll-Invoked deck! I prepared this deck specially!"
"You're just a creepy old woman; I reckon you're making this all up! Clearly you learnt all this from Roget!"

"You can keep denying this child, but you're just locking away the truth!" Euridice replied.

"Whatever, I use Aleister's effect! When summoned, I can add the Spell Invocation to my hand from my deck. I set two cards and end my turn!"

Turn 2

Mina LP: 4000 Hand: 3

Euridice LP: 4000 Hand: 5

"My move!" Euridice drew. "I as well use a Field Spell! PSY-Frame Circuit!" Halve of Euridice's field changed from the red circle to a green and yellow circuit field. Electricity flowed across it.

"Go my Trap! Shaddoll Core! It's treated as an Effect Monster!"

"Wait right there! I use PSY-Framegear Epsilon from my hand! When you activate a Trap, I can Special Summon this along with PSY-Frame Driver from my deck!" A golden spiked robot appeared along with a devilish looking male in a blue and golden jacket. He had electricity flowing across him. PSY-Framegear Epsilon ATK: 1500 DEF: 0 Light/Psychic /Tuner/LVL 2

PSY-Frame Driver ATK: 2500 DEF: 0 Light/Psychic/LVL 6

"A Normal Monster… big deal?" Mina replied.

"Might want to wait before you speak child, Epsilon negates your Trap's activation!"

"What?!" Mina watched as her Trap was shocked to pieces.

"Next via my Field Spell, when I Special Summon a PSY-Frame Monster, I can Synchro Summon with them! I tune level two Epsilon with level six Frame Driver!"

"This can't be good…." Mina said to herself as Frame Driver went through the green rings.

"I Synchro Summon! Appear level eight, Psy-Framelord Omega!"

6+2=8

A robotic male figure appeared with Epsilon attached to its back. It was charged with static.

Psy-Framelord Omega ATK: 2800 DEF: 2200 Light/Psychic/Synchro/LVL 8

"I told you I had a counter! Now Omega, wipe out that Aleister the Invoker!" Omega charged forward with a fist filled with electricity and slammed into the Monster, wiping it out.

Mina LP: 4000 – 2200

"I set a card and end my turn. So Mina, the daughter of Makoto and Academia's high-ranking Doctor, I know about how your mother died and how you and your father went crazy over her death!"

"Don't say her name… don't even think about her!" Mina replied.

"Oh yeah, you show no signs of remorse of your father though? He and his creepy little parasites."

"All of this is from Roget, that snake… you know nothing about me!"

"Oh…. here's something you've never told anyone before…."

"Like what?!" Mina shouted back with her fist clenched.

"You're just a scared little teenager, fighting for a power she knows she can't control! You know you'll die, and you're whole life will go down as pointless!" Mina clenched her fists and shook her head.

"No! That's all false!" Mina denied.

"Fine, deny it all you like."

"What about this… Your brother, Sayer Divine!"

"Oh? What about him?" Euridice replied.

"Well Security killed him, didn't they?! Roget told me about before coming here! Four years ago when Arcadia was founded, before the Tops accepted this place, Security raided and took your brother as prisoner. You escaped and were able to continue his plans! Security soon dumped his dead body back on your doorstep as proof!"

"You little scumbag… at least my brother died with honour…. I shall teach you!" Euridice replied.

"Ha, you're just as weak as I thou-!" Mina stopped as she heard Euridice laugh. "What is it?!"

"I don't care about my brother! Him dying was great as it allowed me to take over!" Euridice said. "Thanks for the happy memories!"

"You're nuts…!" Mina said disturbed.

"From you, that's a compliment!"

Turn 3

Mina LP: 2200 Hand: 3

Euridice LP: 4000 Hand: 3

"My move! I draw!" Mina declared.

"I use Omega's effect! I banish this card and a card in your hand until my next Standby Phase." Omega disappeared and a random card in Mina's hand lit up.

"It's Invocation." Mina said as she revealed it. She placed it into the banished zone of her duel disk. "But now you're defenceless…." Mina thought. "Unless she wants me to think that…. damn this woman…. she's got my head all mixed up…"

"Mixed up? Yeah, I do that a lot." Euridice replied.

"STAY OUT OF MY HEAD YOU WITCH!" Mina shouted.

"No that title belongs to Aki." said a smug Euridice.

"I will rip that tongue from your mouth after I beat you! I use El Shaddoll Fusion to Fusion Summon from my hand! I fuse Shaddoll Falco and Shaddoll Dragon! Appear before me, El Shaddoll Winda!" A green haired female in a purple outfit appeared on top of a dragon. It seemed to be its tamer.

El Shaddoll Winda ATK: 2200 DEF: 800 Dark/Spellcaster/Fusion/LVL 5

"I use Falco and Dragon's effects! When they're sent to the graveyard via a card effect, they each can use their effects! Falco allows me to Special Summon it face down!" A purple bird appeared then disappeared as it was set. "Next Dragon allows me to destroy a Spell or Trap. I destroy your Field Spell!"

"Cheeky!" Euridice replied as her Field Spell was destroyed. "How about this! My Trap Skill Drain! Yes it costs me 1000 lifepoints but now all Monsters effects are negated on the field!"

Euridice LP: 4000 - 3000

"You know about Winda's effect which limits us to one Special Summon a turn… annoying. Whatever, I attack directly!" Winda shot forward and the dragon slammed into Euridice.

"I use PSY-Framegear Beta effect to summon it from my hand along with another Driver from my deck to destroy the attacking Monster then end the Battle Phase! I'm five steps ahead!"Two Monsters quickly emerged and Winda was wiped out in a bright light.

PSY-Framegear Beta ATK: 700 DEF: 0 Light/Psychic/Tuner/LVL 2

PSY-Frame Driver ATK: 2500 DEF: 0 Light/Psychic/LVL 6

"Since this effect works from the hand, it's unaffected by Skill Drain." Euridice replied.

"I… end my turn." Mina begrudgingly said.

"Now since its part of the same effect, PSY-Frames are now banished." Euridice's Monsters departed from the field.

Turn 4

Mina LP: 2200 Hand: 0

Euridice LP: 3000 Hand: 2

"Since it's my Standby Phase, Omega returns to my field along with your banished card."

"How kind…." Mina said with annoyance. "At least now Skill Drain will stop it using that effect again." Mina thought.

"You really need to stop thinking, I can hear you!" Euridice said.

"Well hear this!" Mina smirked at Euridice.

"….Rude girl! I play the Continuous Trap Brain Hazard! I Special Summon a banished Psychic Monster!"

PSY-Frame Driver ATK: 2500 DEF: 0 Light/Psychic/LVL 6

"And this is where you lose! Attack her set Monster Driver!" Driver shot forward and punched the set Falco. The Monster was destroyed. "And now…. end her Omega!" Omega shot forward at lightning speed to hit Mina.

"I play my set Quick-Play Spell! I play Scapegoat!" Four Sheep Tokens emerged in defence.

"That?!"

Sheep Tokens ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Earth/Beast/LVL 1 X 4

Omega wiped out one of the tokens and Mina smirked as she escaped defeat.

"Frustrating, I end my turn. How pathetic you need to rely on stupid sheep to save you."

"Say's the woman whose cheating!" Mina hit back.

Turn 5

Mina LP: 2200 Hand: 1

Euridice LP: 3000 Hand: 3

"You might be able to read my mind… but that means nothing if you can't stop me! I'm taking the dragons and the angels! I draw!"

"We'll see." Euridice said. "There's nothing in your hand or extra deck which is threatening me."

"Oh there is, you just don't believe in my skills! I play Invocation! This allows me to Fusion Summon with Aleister the Invoker in my graveyard with PSY-Framegear Epsilon in your graveyard… but I guess you already knew that!" Euridice looked nervous.

"I said you can't win!"

"And I say different! I Fusion Summon Invoked Mechaba!" A knight on a chariot emerged.

Invoked Mechaba ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100 Light/Machine/Fusion/LVL 9

"I use Pot of Desires to banish facedown ten cards from my deck to draw two new ones!" Mina drew her two cards and smirked.

"This Academia has powerful cards…."

"What have I just drawn?" Mina said.

"What?! Just some cards which won't help!"

"Just as I thought… you're not an actual mind-reader!"

"I've proven all my predictions are right so far!" Euridice hit back.

"Hm…. then why can't you name them? You did well to disguise it and you almost had me fooled… but you looked just so slightly nervous a second ago… someone who had that power wouldn't have done that. I also now know you're wearing an earpiece deep in your ear!"

"Lies!"

"So why are you emitting a small frequency!" Mina showed off her Academia duel disk and a signal was shown. "When you was blabbing, my duel disk was scanning you… I'm Academia's duel disk creator... of course I kept some goodies to myself!"

"Smart girl!" Euridice said. "But you still can't stop what's coming… my source is very clear!"

"Fact your source can't even tell me the cards in my hand make me think somehow he or she isn't very good!" Mina shouted. "I play Raigeki to destroy all your Monsters!" A thunderclap came down and wiped away the two PSY-Frames.

"There's nothing in my hand…!" Euridice thought.

"I don't need to be a mind-reader to know what's going on in your head!" Mina smugly said. "I send Aleister the Invoker from my hand to the graveyard so Skill Drain doesn't affect it. A Fusion Monster gains 1000 attack!"

Invoked Mechaba ATK: 3500

"Damn you!" Euridice said.

"Time to die! MECHABA END HER!" Mechaba charged forward on his chariot and hit Euridice in the stomach, sending her across the storage floor.

Euridice LP: 3000 – 0 Mina Wins

Mina walked forward with a huge smirk on her face as she held her duel disk over Euridice. The duel disk begun to glow.

"Don't do it Mina!" said a female voice. Mina looked around.

"Who said that?!" Mina replied. "Why do you sound like…."

A blonde-haired woman in battered clothing ran over to Mina, Mina's body begun to feel numb.

"No… Mom?!" Mina said.

"Mina… don't do this. I'm here now." Mina's mother appeared and quickly came to comfort Mina.

"You're dead… this is a trick!" Mina said as she distanced herself from the female.

"Is this a trick?" The female placed her hand on Mina's cheek and it felt real.

"There's… there's heat from your hand…. you're real!" Mina said as she embraced her mother.

"I've missed you too….. but I feel… cold." Mina's mother said.

"What?" Mina said. "I'll hug you to make you feel warmer." Mina tightened her grip. As Mina did, she could feel her Mother's body getting less. "Mom…?"

Mina slowly looked up…. her mother smiled at her as the body she was hugging turned to soot and Mina was now looking at dirt on the floor.

"MOM! COME BACK!" Mina's vision changed to a white light.

"She's gone Mina!" said a male voice.

"No… you're wrong!" Mina looked on and her vision became hazy. She could see a bombed house with rubble all around and people panicking.

"Mom! Mom!" a young girl cried out. "Where is she?!" People were all ignoring the girl and she was terrified.

"Enough!" Mina shock her head as she cleared the vision from her head. "That was a long time ago! Where's my mother?!" Mina's vision changed back it and it took her a minute to readjust to the room.

"That Fusion war looked nasty!" Euridice said. Mina was on the floor, on her knees as Euridice was being flanked by Minerva and Raito in their white outfits.

"What… what was that?!" Mina said.

"Just my power!" Raito said. "I can make you see things you wish to see!"

"And I can crush them!" Minerva said.

"You put me in a dream world!" Mina tried to get up but was chained to the floor.

"Nice try!" Euridice said smugly, repeating the tone Mina used. "We know you work for Security, we'll let them come to free you…. and once they do… that chain will explode. Have a nice last few minutes of your life!" Euridice said as she left with her two students.

Mina looked behind her and tried to shake her ankle chain off, but to no avail.

Aki Yuya

"So… you're the test subject?" Aki asked Yuya.

"And who are you?" Yuya said as his red eyes glowed bright.

"I'm the one who'll put you back on that table!" Aki replied as she activated her red duel disk.

"Very well, I'll take you out as well." Yuya grinned.

Yuzu Ruri

Yuzu and Ruri were now heading to the test room and turned a corner. There they saw on the floor was Mercy. The two girls rushed to her and saw that she was badly beaten but still awake.

"What happened?!" Ruri said.

"The Black Rose… Witch…." she said.

"Black Rose Witch?!" Yuzu said in surprise.

A/N

Thanks to Rom as ever and thanks for the new favourites and follows.

Royal2 – Yuya will return to normal once the effects of the injection wear off.

Samueljoo – No, Aki is here since she also has access to security feeds.

ThePLOThand – Maybe once full EGAO is here :P

Guest – Thanks!