Five-year-old Jaden Yuki woke up in the middle of the night. He thought he spotted something moving in his bedroom closet.
As he got up from his bed and walked towards his closet, the little tyke heard something from behind his door.
Did he hear something about darkness and a king?
When he opened the door, his room exploded with light—
"Aaah!?" Jaden sat up fast from the—sand? Why was he on sand?
"Guys?!" The Slifer Red Ace looked around, but soon spotted a familiar hairy sphere planted on the ground. Jaden yanked the upside-down Winged Kuriboh off the sand. The little creature expressed gratitude for the act by nuzzling up to the teen like a flying puppy.
The talented duelist laughed before looking around. He wasn't that smart with maps, but he thought deserts, forests, and arctic tundras weren't within walking distance with each other.
"Wait! I can feel you again!" Jaden smiled as he held the small spirit in his hands before realizing something. "So does this mean we're back in that one place? But there's more light here... three suns? So it's not the same place... but waaaayyyy better!"
The brunette looked around before he remembered he wasn't the only one who came here. "Hey, where's everybody?"
Winged Kuriboh cooed and flew towards the forest area. It didn't take long for the brunette to follow his lead.
As Jaden followed Winged Kuriboh's lead, he took in the many weird and bizarre sights of the area. The boy couldn't help but feel excited! This is what his five-year-old self dreamed off: adventure across an unknown land!
Jaden went ahead of his floating friend and climbed up a nearby boulder. As he did so, he saw past the trees and saw many more bizarre sights as flying trees, floating isles, and yellow clouds up in the sky.
"This place is amazing!" Jaden cried out as he threw his hands out in the air.
"Ah! Sir Jaden!" The brunette recognized that formal sounding voice and looked down to see Honest walking towards them. "It is fortuitous that we are within the same area."
"Four-what-now?" Jaden repeated before he looked around the angel spirit. "Where's Wilona and Alexis?"
"Here!" A half answer/half grunt answered. Jaden and Winged Kuriboh spotted Wilona carrying Alexis on her back. It seemed like unlike everyone else, Alexis was unconscious. "I can't believe those imbeciles performed a proper ritual! Why was that legitimate!?"
Winged Kuriboh gave a little noise. Jaden looked over to his partner in confusion. "Blood? You mean the portal in the abandoned dorms is activated by blood?"
Wilona eyed Jaden and Winged Kuriboh in disbelief. "I don't know how you got that from one sound, but can we please find a way home!?"
"What about the others, Wilona?"
"What about the others?" The girl narrowed her eyes.
Jaden was quick to point out something the determined girl wouldn't consider. "Don't you see, Wilona? This is our chance to find Alexis' brother and the other missing students!"
"I believe another world is far out of our jurisdiction!" The girl cried out before pointing to Honest. "You! Get us out of here!"
"I cannot, Miss Wilona."
A brief second of anger flashed over Wilona's face before she sighed with resignation. "What's the problem?"
"You were not dragged into the spirit world by a duel. Those young men opened a portal willingly. Only with their blood can we open a portal back to our home." Honest looked up to Winged Kuriboh. "Master Winged Kuriboh has said so."
The light green-haired girl raised her brow in the first part of that explanation. "Sooo, we don't necessarily need them, right? Just their blood?"
"We're going to save them too." Jaden put his hands on his waist. "We're not abandoning them."
"It's their fault!"
"Come on; I know you don't wanna do something that uncool." Jaden folded his arms and looked down on his friend. You wouldn't usually see Jaden so adamant, but for the first time, Wilona relented. She silently looked away, which meant that she would drop her ideas. Jaden, not realizing he had a victory over his usually dominant friend, asked, "Where are they anyway?"
As he jumped down, Honest spoke up. "I suggest we go in that direction." However, he turned back to the others. "I sense something similar to all of you, but I must also caution you. I sense something else that doesn't belong in this world."
"What does that mean?" The green-haired girl asked.
"There is something dangerous up ahead." Honest answered.
Normal people would be afraid of such an answer. "Ooh! This is exciting!" Normal and Jaden Yuki have not met. The passionate Slifer Red pointed ahead. "Come on, guys! We've got students to save!" Then he walked up ahead with a smile on his face.
"I am alone in the universe," Wilona whispered to herself before she turned to Honest. "Hold her, I can't keep up with that fool otherwise."
With Honest taking care of Alexis, Wilona and Winged Kuriboh followed after the ace of Slifer Red.
"How are you so excited being in a foreign world!?" She looked at the brunette in disbelief.
Jaden turned to Wilona with almost the same amount of disbelief. "Why aren't you excited?! This is just like all those movies! Plucky kids, thrown off into a different world to go on epic journeys and save the world! Best of all, it's almost Christmas! It's like the best of both worlds! Man! There's no way a future Christmas can top this! This is the Best Christmas ever!" If Jaden's eyes shined any brighter, they would have to replace the sun... or in this case, all three suns.
Wilona briefly wondered if her glasses, ears, and brain were playing tricks on her. "Wait, they make movies like this!?"
Jaden turned to the green-haired girl as if she was the one acting crazy. "Not exactly, but it's in the same ballpark! Haven't you seen a Christmas movie?"
Wilona's eyes softened before she sighed. "No. I don't think I've ever watched a movie before."
Jaden had his world view blown after hearing that, not at the fact he was in another world for the second time. He opened his mouth—
"I don't think I've ever had a good Christmas either." Jaden blinked as he saw Wilona's face look downcast. "I've always spent it..." She put a hand on her head and sighed. "I've always been busy. Holidays especially. It's really nothing new."
Wilona didn't realize it, but she frowned when she finished her sentence. Jaden may have been as sharp as a rubber ball when it came to anything outside of dueling, but he knew when a friend was feeling down. It took him a second, but he puffed up with determination.
"Okay! It's decided!"
"What is?"
"After this, I'm gonna give you the best Christmas ever! We're gonna watch all my favorite movies like Santa Vs Krampus Vs Devil Ninja! I wish my mom and dad weren't busy this year because my dad knows how to make the best Turkey at Christmas! Don't ask him to cook on Thanksgiving though, I'm still having nightmares of finding stuff in my mouth that shouldn't have been there. He doesn't handle stress well during cooking. And don't get me started on my mom's cooking! I had nightmares when dad left her and me alone for a weekend!"
Honest and Winged Kuriboh watched Jaden prattle on as Wilona watched him with an unreadable face. They spotted a small smile start to grow on the girl as she heard Jaden talk about one of his animated Christmas dinners.
However, the small moment was interrupted when Honest blurted out. "Hold! Something is ahead of us!"
Everyone tensed. The group moved slowly while Wilona grabbed on to Jaden's wrist to prevent him from making another reckless mistake.
As they all hid behind a large tree growing out of a boulder, the group of humans and spirits spotted the Occult Club... and bizarre reptilian-looking creatures with armor and futuristic looking weapons tossing them to a cage of some sort.
Winged Kuriboh cooed in confusion.
"I have never seen their kind before either." Honest whispered. "Something is wrong about them."
"Who cares? They got the occult club!" Jaden took a step forward with courage—before Wilona yanked him back with annoyance.
"Yuki, I am starting to think that the nutrients for your brain went to your hair! We are in no condition to face them!" She whisper-shouted.
"But we gotta help them!"
"We'll be more of a hindrance than help as we are now!"
They all became silent when they heard the sound coming from one of the creature's mouths.
It didn't sound like a human language, it sounded more like varying tones of growls and screeches. At one of them talking, an occult member woke up. "Uuhh? AHHH!?"
The occult student tried to get out of the cage, but try as he might, he couldn't budge the strange bars.
"H-Hey! Let me out!" He cried out.
However, something caused the blue, armored reptiles to step away as something came closer to the cage.
"Whoa!" Jaden gasped. "Is that an alien?"
Jaden's description wasn't wrong, it looked like the famed gray man: a lanky body that didn't show any muscle and a strange, large cranium with a pale grey body.
With how the blue reptiles walked away from the grey man, it seemed like he was of high status.
Perhaps the occult student knew of this, which is why he stepped back in fear when the alien-like creature moved towards him. "W-Who are you?! What are you?!"
"That," It didn't speak with a mouth, it spoke as if it was speaking straight to the brain of the student and even the others hiding behind the rock. "Is what we are going to ask you. Do not struggle," He raised a limb out towards the student, who gasped and tried to back away. However, the hand extended and stretched as it touched the head of the student. "For it will hurt otherwise."
The "fingers" of the creature touched three random parts of the student. The boy gasped as his eyes were left wide open.
"I see much." The grey alien linked to nearby species. "I see... others as well. More like this... human..." They watched as the alien seemed to lift his head along with his hand. As he did, the student fell back into the floor of the cage. "... What, in the twelve dimensions, is Devil Ninja Versus Santa Claus?"
Wilona raised her brow as the alien said the stupidest and most random string of words she's ever heard.
"Uh! That's my favorite Jaune Claude Magnum Christmas movie! I was totally going to show that to Wilona later!" Jaden whispered in shock while Wilona silently hated how reality continued to test her patience that she knew she didn't have.
"Fellow Hunters, I believe I've found more of these humans." The grey alien turned right for where Jaden and the others were hiding.
The four's eyes widened with alarm before the things called hunters screamed and ran with all the viciousness and speed of a pack of hungry wolves.
"Bolt for it!" Wilona didn't need to yell that as everyone already was moving the moment they saw these alien... hunters... pursue after them.
Jaden, Wilona, Winged Kuriboh, and Honest ran away—flew in the latter two's case. A few seconds in the chase, the forest turned into a swamp. From solid ground, Jaden and Wilona struggled to find their footing as the earth beneath them turned muddy and watery. Because of the footing, and the twisting lands, Wilona tripped on a branch and fell to the ground. Not only that, with how the land itself kept moving, her leg got covered by the branch that seemed to grow three sizes.
"Wilona!" Jaden cried out as he and the others ran back for her. He tried to free her foot, but no matter how much he or Winged Kuriboh tried, the root seemed to tangle her foot.
This was a bad thing since the stranger Hunters sounded like they were coming closer.
"No choice!" Jaden stood up and armed his duel disk. Wilona had a horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach. "I'll lead them away! Honest, get her out of there!" Without a word, and without the green-haired girl to pull him back, Jaden ran back and waved his arms out as if he was in a cartoon show.
"Hey, uglys! Over here!" He yelled before he bolted in a different direction with Winged Kuriboh following after him.
"That idi—" With great effort, Wilona bit her tongue as to not let her voice rise as it usually did, and to not let Jaden's action go to waste, especially as she heard the sounds of their pursuers go after the Slifer Red boy instead.
Honest made sure Alexis was put down safely before prying off the root that trapped Wilona's leg.
When he did so, they heard Jaden's voice... as he screamed in pain followed by the sounds of electricity.
Wilona stared horrified and in shock when silence followed. She hoped against all the odds the annoying boy would pop up at any moment, being the hero he always boasted he could be.
Yet the only thing she heard was the sound of her heart pumping harder. ...And the return of distant growls.
"Wilona, we need to go!" Honest whispered quietly as he put a hand on the girl's shoulder.
The teenage girl bit her lip and whispered, "Yuki, if you die, I'm going to kill you!"
Wilona led Honest and Alexis towards another direction. However, the land started to shift again, showing a beach... and technically a dead end.
"H-Hey!" A new voice made Wilona turn to her right to see someone that looked human but had the same get-up as someone from the Duel Monsters game. "C-Come with me!"
"Why?"
"You don't want to get caught by those Aliens! My name is Aleister and—" They heard more of these aliens coming closer. "Hurry up! They're dangerous!"
Without much choice, Wilona and Honest followed after the man named Aleister.
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"After that, Aleister brought us here and gave us a place to relax." Wilona finished telling Alexis.
"That all happened while I was out?!" Alexis cried out in disbelief.
"I do not know why, but you and the other occult members seemed affected by the travel in some way." Honest added along.
"But what about Jaden?! Is he alright?!" Alexis stood back up from her seat.
"Alive? Yes. Alright? I doubt it." They all turned to Aleister who stopped talking when all the attention was back to him.
"Rhodes, you woke up at a good time. Aleister here was about to tell us more about the Aliens as he called them."
They all turned back to the Invoker who seemed to clear his throat. "Alright, you all deserve to know considering I think you're also a part of this. I'll start with how I am and why I'm here. My name is Aleister, I'm studying to be an Invoker."
The three didn't know what an Invoker was, but they assumed that the word was similar to the one in their world where it meant to call on something from beyond.
"I came from the Magic Citadel of Endymion to research a working theory I have: that there are other worlds!"
Wilona and Alexis shared a look that had more confusion than interest.
"No, no! I've heard about the Human World long before I began studying magic. However, as I tried studying the link between the Spirit World and The Human World, I found out this interesting theory that there could be more—"
"I mean no disrespect," Wilona interrupted. "But please cut to the chase?"
Aleister gapped in aghast. However, Wilona was in no mood to be civil despite the mage helping them.
"Are you humans all so rude? Fine. I was studying the area for a while without any progress in my research, but one day, my instruments picked a strange spike of energy. When I went back out, I saw those... creatures..."
"Wait," Alexis blinked. "Aren't they Duel Spirits like you and Honest?"
"They are most certainly not, Ms. Alexis." The winged spirit answered for the Invoker. "Something about them feels... uncanny."
"Uncanny is putting it lightly!" The mage pointed a handout. "I've been stalking them for a while, and it appears they've been capturing the native wildlife of the area, then taking them down to their base down a temple of Cyber Angels."
Those last two words caused the two girls' eyes to widen. "D-Did you say Cyber Angels?"
"Why yes! The Cyber Angels are a mysterious and secluded faction. All anyone knows about them is through these empty temples scattered through the lands." Aleister shook his head. "Point of the matter is, that place is now off limits! The one time I was there, I spotted the local spirits enslaved to do mining around the valley. I don't know their purpose, but I know it can't be good."
Silence filled the air after Aleister explained this.
"Now then!" And he promptly killed it not three seconds in. "Since you girls are obviously human, this is the perfect opportunity to further my research without exposing myself to those nightmares in disguise!" He took out an injection that had its needle shine in the light. "Now, who wants to be a blood donor for research?"
Wilona sighed. "With all due respect, I thank you for helping us escape, but we're going to need the location of those aliens' base."
"WHAT!?" The mage screamed in surprise. "I finished warning you that those... aliens... take prisoners!"
"Yuki is there... as well as the stupid Occult club that caused this mess in the first place," Wilona added that second part as an afterthought. "He's an idiotic hero-wannabe, but he's our idiotic hero-wannabe. I refuse to leave him to the mercy of these things while sparing us."
"I wouldn't word it like that," Alexis stood up, "But after hearing Jaden risk his life for us, I'm going to do the same for him." There was a silence that followed. Wilona had a feeling she knew what that silence meant.
"You people are crazy!" Aleister looked back and whispered, "I mean I would love to research that thought process but—" He turned back and pointed. "I've never seen anyone act so foolish about their own lives!?"
"Must be nice to live a life where we're the only crazy people." Wilona folded her arms. "Tell us where you saw them, and we'll take it from there."
The man from the Citadel stared at his guests/research for a second before slapping his forehead. He let loose a deep sigh before letting his hand go. "Aww hell! Nothing ventured, nothing gained! I'm coming with you! The place they happened to make a base in also is worth m research."
A small smile appeared on Wilona's lips. "Thanks. We're going to need all the help we can—"
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"There is no way we can do this."
"Oh?" Aleister put his hand on his chin as they hid atop the cliff looking down on the temple Valley. "What happened to that 'can-do' attitude?" His tone betrayed the disinterest his body showed.
"Stuff it. I still stand on getting Yuki out of there." Wilona paused as she looked back down from their hiding spot. "No one said it would be bloody easy!"
"Yeah, I almost want to take back what I said." The green-haired, purple-eyed, and glasses-wearing girl turned to glare at her blonde Obelisk Blue friend. "What? You gotta admit this is waaaayyyy out of our league!"
She motioned to the valley. When Aleister talked about those strange creatures making a base, he didn't quite mention they turned the ruined temple into some kind of fortress. UFO hovered around the building, patrolling the area. The ruined temple had weapons and other machinery attached to it, ready to shoot down any incoming enemy. And then there was the ground, there were maybe around a hundred of these Alien Hunters patrolling the area. They were also watching over other Duel Spirits with special glowing collars on them. It looked like the Hunters were like prison guards watching over their captured prey from all across the area.
"What are they making their prisoners do?" Alexis asked out. Their hiding spot didn't really give them a view of what the prisoners were doing.
"When I was in a different area," Aleister fixed his glasses. "I think I saw them mining. That doesn't make sense though. There's nothing of interest among the minerals here!"
"Wait," Everyone turned to Honest. The Angel seemed to slowly tense and looked up to the air. "Something isn't right."
As soon as he finished talking, the clouds started to gather fast. The angel quickly unfurled his wings and covered the three as a storm started to pick up within seconds. However, as thunder struck and heavy winds blew, the temple started to glow. Soon, it showed what looked to be a giant spell circle all around the Cyber Angel temple. Above the temple, the area around it started to distort.
"No! It couldn't be!" Aleister gasped as he pushed some of Honest's feathers to peek at the strange distortion in the sky.
They watched the distortion twist and stretch in such a way that it didn't look natural. It started to stretch up and outward until the light suddenly faded. This caused the distortion to shoot up and hit the storm. When it did, a powerful thunder strike hit the area behind the group of four. After that, the distortion calmed down and fizzled out until even the sky turned back to normal.
"Um?" Wilona moved out of Honest's wing. "What was that?"
"I didn't know! How did they know that!?" Aleister screamed out as if he was the only one who knew what had just happened.
"Aleister, what are you bloody talking about?" Wilona asked.
"They were trying to open a portal to another dimension!" Aleister looked at the others with wide eyes, but only saw a large amount of confusion.
The Invoker sighed before standing up and bringing out a staff. "Alright. This is my theory that you shot down a while ago. Long story short: everyone here is part of the Twelve Dimension theory." He raised his staff before anyone else could ask him what that meant.
With his staff, he created images of twelve circles. Two of them had the labels, 'Spirit' and 'Human' written on them. "Long ago, there were believed to be two worlds: the Human and Spirit World. However, due to catastrophic events such as the return of the Great Leviathan—" Aleister saw blank faces around him. "Right. None of you know that event. I need to simplify this further. Okay! After a bad event that weakened the barriers between the two worlds, I found out in that weakened state that there are more worlds out there than the two mentioned." He motioned again to the other ten circles. "With 'whatever' magic research I did—and trust me I am simplifying almost ten years of torturous research—I theorized that there are ten other worlds besides these two main ones. And if there are portals between the Spirit World and The Human World, I hypothesized that there are portals in both worlds to the other twelve dimensions."
Alexis' eyes widened. "Are you saying that the temple is a portal to another world that might not have Duel Monsters nor Humans in it?"
Aleister pointed over to the blonde girl with glee. "Yes! And these aliens must be from a world like that! They must be trying to get back home with that portal! And I thought they were forcing their captives to mine, but they're actually forcing them to terraform the land into proper magic runes! Aha!" The researcher actually jumped and skipped in the air. It looked as if all his years of studying was about to pay—
"Hold on," He stopped and put a hand on his chin. "How are they activating it?" The Invoker asked out loud. "Before they came, I did visit that temple. No matter how much I tried, I couldn't get a reaction out of anything. Is it some foreign magic that's allowing them to access it?"
"Blood."
Everyone turned to Wilona who seemed to be looking at her hand. The green-haired girl turned back to Honest. "Didn't Winged Kuriboh tell Jaden that blood was used to activate the portal?"
"Indeed. Winged Kuriboh is a much older spirit. He would understand the machinations of the Spirit World more than I." Both Alexis and Wilona found it bizarre that a flying hairball was older than someone that looked like an angel. "But if they are using Human Blood for these portals, Sir Jaden and the others are in grave danger."
After hearing that, Wilona slammed her fist on a nearby rock. "That idiot! He just had to play hero!" She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "We need to get him and the others out of there."
"How are we going to do that?" Alexis motioned to the direction they came from. "We saw that they fortified the place. I doubt we can get in without being caught or blasted."
"Hmm..." Aleister pointed his staff towards the old temple. His staff started to glow and he started to stare into the light his staff was giving off. "I think might be possible after all."
The three waited for Aleister to explain. "I believe they will attempt to open that portal again. When they do, they may be so distracted with securing themselves and their captives that we might be able to sneak in."
"Sneak in? What happens after that? We'll be trapped there without any way to escape!"
"Not necessarily! I have a working theory that we may be able to control the portal. But I'll explain more on that part once we find a good blind spot that'll Angel boy over here can lift us over to." After motioning to Honest, Aleister all too eagerly went to work. He muttered about how this new breakthrough in his research would prove all his apparently many naysayers wrong. It wasn't really a muttering as everyone else could hear him.
Honest sighed and went after the Invoker. Alexis followed after and looked behind her, only to see Wilona clutching her hand. It took Alexis a second to remember that she slammed her fist on a rock. That probably wasn't the smartest thing to do.
"Are you alright?" Alexis found herself asking.
Wilona looked up to her and shook her hand. "It's nothing. We have to save Yuki." The purple-eyed girl suddenly froze mid-step and had this look of realization on her face. "Oh."
Alexis raised her brow when Wilona turned to her. "Rhodes, I... apologize."
The Obelisk Blue didn't understand where this was coming from. "Why are you apologizing?"
Wilona's face softened. "I now understand why you were so determined to save your brother."
Alexis' eyes widened. She had to admit that she was caught up with all the craziness she got dragged into that she forgot the reason they were in this mess in the first in place!
"I thought you were acting rash, but seeing Yuki make such a stupid mistake..." The usually money-oriented girl perked up and then pointed at Alexis as if she was threatening her. "Make no mistake! Yuki annoys me to no end!" Her cold attitude melted when she then said, "But even I don't want him to die." Wilona sighed, and with that breath, she let loose some feelings she never would have let go. "I've been alone more often than not, so I didn't understand how you felt about putting yourself at risk for someone else. But when Yuki did that for me, I felt... horrified. It was so similar to my fears if I lost my m..." Wilona bit her lip. She shook her head and locked eyes with Alexis. "I'm sorry."
Alexis couldn't help but soften after hearing that. "No, if anyone should apologize, it's me, Wilona. I did want to find my brother, but the thing is, I only suggested to go to the abandoned dorms because Seika apparently wanted to exclude me from finding my own brother!" The usually calm girl gripped her fist tightly before she loosened her grip and looked down in shame. "But I overheard she said that I wasn't ready for it. I went there looking for my brother, and instead, I put us and others in peril."
"...She was right." And the words tasted so bitter coming out Alexis' mouth. "I'm sorry, Wilona. I was hard on you too when you're probably the reason why Jaden and I aren't both captured by aliens."
The two stared at each other before they both broke off laughing. "Aren't we in a sorry we state? I bet even Yuki is better off than us."
"That's probably not wrong. But we should still save him anyway."
Aleister's voice came back to them. "What are you doing? Come along now! Time is most definitely not on our side!"
The two girls shared a look. "Let's go save, Mr. Hero Wannabe."
The two girls nodded with far more confident looks in their eyes before chasing after the two Duel Spirits.
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"Alright, according to my scans," Aleister showed everyone the top part of his staff as it showed a simulation of the temple. "There's going to be another spike of magic in about ten minutes. Which basically means there's going to be another portal. When there is, I can cast a spell that should make us invisible to their machinery and such."
"Okay, but how about your plan getting us out with around half a dozen more people?" Wilona folded her arms. "When that storms end, there's a good chance our lives will as well."
"Actually, your captured friend might hold the key to our escape." Aleister pointed back at her. "One of you mentioned a Kuriboh, right?"
"Winged Kuriboh?" Alexis spoke up. "What about him?"
"Don't you know? Kuribohs are mystical creatures tied to both the Human and Spirit World! They have a special connection to these portals. I'm willing to bet, if you guys really have a Kuriboh with you, he can use the portals and get us out of here!"
"Wait, I remember! Yuki was talking to Kuriboh, and it was almost as if the hairball actually understood what was going on! He was the one that knew the portal activated by blood!" When Wilona said that, it clued into the others that if they got Winged Kuriboh, along with the Occult Club, they could actually escape.
"However, this sounds more like a theory than anything." Wilona continued. "Are you willing to bet so much on assumptions?"
Aleister inhaled. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained!" He repeated again. "Before you all came, I was sure I'd spend my days researching empty ruins for the rest of my life!" As he said this, he gripped his fist tighter and looked up with a feeling of passion in his eyes. He looked back at his staff as the same humming noise came from the temple.
"It's coming soon! Everyone get ready!"
The four got in position. As soon as the clouds started to gather, Aleister started to chant. When the distortion above the temple appeared, The Invoker fired a spell right into it.
When the spell hit the distortion, a storm suddenly broke out. Thunderbolts started to shoot from the distortion rather than the clouds. One of them landed near a patrol of Alien Hunters, and out of the crater, these strange bunch of robots crawled out and attacked the Hunters.
More of these thunderbolts shot out of the portal, and more of these brown mechanical creatures with red orbs started attacking Alien forces. Chaos broke out, and some of the prisoners were able to escape with their guards no longer focusing on them.
"Okay. I did not account for that." Aleister admitted before Wilona pulled on him and Honest.
"We need to get the others out now!" Honest didn't waste time, and with some difficulty, got the three atop of the temple and snuck in.
When they entered through a hole, they expected the ruins to hold broken structures, old stone walls, and musty air. Honest and the girls did not expect a metallic factory styled like a church.
"Wow, the Cyber Angels sure know how to decorate," Wilona commented as they looked at the stainless mosaics made of colored metals depicting the ritual monsters.
Alexis looked up to one mosaic that seemed greatly preserved compared to the other ones. "I don't recognize that Cyber Angel." She had multiple arms, had a halo-like gear behind her, and was dressed in pink and purple.
"Everyone, I sense Winged Kuriboh!" Honest spoke and pointed down a hallway. "This way!"
Without wasting more time, they followed the angel deeper into the temple.
The metal floor started to turn into a multitude of pipes.
"Hold on, this looks like some of my Ritual Spell Cards," Alexis whispered as they all soon came to an area that was lit with metallic torches. In the center of the room was a lowered floor with a stone circle that looked similar to the one in the abandoned dorms. "Wilona, look!"
Around the stone floor were the occult members. They were chained to some of the lit torches of the area.
"Everyone, get them out of there!" Wilona barked as the other three started to move. However, the green-haired girl kept searching around. "Where's Yuki?"
"Ughhh..." There was a groan. The green-haired girl moved towards the stone ruins and soon spotted a mop of brown hair hidden from the elevation.
"Yuki!" Wilona sprinted before reaching for her friend. Unlike the rest, Jaden looked roughed up, even bleeding. "Hang on! We're getting you out of here!" Wilona watched as the blood of the Slifer Red Ace fell into the lines of the strange marked stone. Where they using Yuki to activate the portal each time?! All Wilona could see was red at that moment.
"...ota...ut..."
The green-haired girl gripped her fist. "Shut up! You can't talk at that state! That's the last time I let you talk me into being a hero! Honest! Where's Winged Kuriboh!?" Wilona looked back up.
"I-I do not know!" The Angel screamed back.
"What?!" Wilona became distracted when Jaden pointed towards the center of the stone. She looked back, only to spot Jaden's duel disk in the center of the ruins.
That was weird. Why was it over there? Yuki was so adamant about dueling things to submission, so why was he separated from it? As more questions came to Wilona's mind, she stood up before rushing to pick up the duel disk.
However, she did not see Jaden's eyes widening as she went towards the center of the stone. He opened his mouth, and as he struggled for air, he finally gasped out, "N-No!"
Sadly, he said this as Wilona picked up the duel disk.
When Wilona picked up the duel disk, a barrier activated and surrounded the entire stone circle.
"Wilona!? Jaden!?" Alexis cried out before Honest and Aleister used some of their power to attack the barrier, only for their attempts to fizzle out like fire doused by water.
When that died down, everyone else heard the sound of over two dozen growling noises. Out of thin air, more of the alien Hunters materialized from thin air and pointed their weapons at the surrounded rescuers.
"How fortuitous." Wilona yelped and jumped back. In front of her, the same gray alien from before appeared before her. He held a specialized birdcage that poor Winged Kuriboh was stuffed in. "A rescue party. Who could have predicted that?" Wilona hated the fact she could feel the wicked smile even though the alien had no mouth.
"You!" Her mind went back as to how the grey alien took information out of one of the other students. "You did that to my friend!" Only Winged Kuriboh noticed the girl looked close to snapping and attacking the Alien outright, but she still had this seething glare on her face despite standing still.
"If anything, you should be thanking me. We are known to be far more ruthless to our enemies. I held back because this little one here had information on how to return to our home dimension." Alien Gray shook Winged Kuriboh's cage, causing the little creature to coo in an upset manner.
No one noticed Wilona's eyes narrowing.
"But I find this concept of mercy interesting among you humans. I will let all of you go free on one condition." With his free hand, Alien Grey lifted one of his elongated fingers.
The light green-haired girl took another step back but kept her eyes on Winged Kuriboh. "What's the condition?"
With his free hand right hand, a gauntlet-like device appeared before it unfolded into a—
"ARE YOU BLOODY KIDDING ME!?" Wilona had her eyes snap wide open and stomped down with her boots. "IS THAT A BLOODY-HELL-DAMN ALIEN DUEL DISK!?"
Alien Grey blinked. "Yes." He let go of Winged Kuriboh's cage as it floated beside him. "Let us... duel... and I will let your friends go."
Wilona had the greatest battle of her life at that moment. Eventually, she defeated the idea that she should facepalm herself so hard that she'd knock herself unconscious. Unfortunately, it brought her back to the sobering reality of an alien challenging her to a card game for the fate of their friend's lives in a different dimension.
Not wanting to think more about the stupid situation, she put on Jaden's Duel Disk and placed her own deck into it. "Fine! Let's get this over with!"
"Wilona, no!" Jaden yelled out, despite his current state.
That made the Slifer Red girl turn back in surprise. Jaden Yuki, the teen who could practically bleed Duel Monsters if blood didn't already fill him, didn't want her to duel?
However, the stone floor beneath them started to glow. It was similar to the glow before they were spirited away into the Spirit World!
"At last!" Alien Grey cried out. "I must thank you, water sac. This accursed portal only would activate under two conditions. The first was some of your life fluid needed to hydrate this stone. The second was to enact a duel! With both conditions set, the portal can finally work! We can now return to our world with you as our slaves!" He pointed over to Jaden. "When that one was informed of those stipulations, he refused to fill the second condition. However, he made excellent bait."
"Are you telling me the one time—the only time I decide to play this stupid game outside of school, and it's to the benefit of an alien conquerer!? Even Yuki didn't want to duel!?" Wilona was having a very bad day, and yes, that was the understatement of her life. "But how did you know about those stipulations!?"
Alien Gray pointed to Winged Kuriboh. "My powers do not work on this one. However, I could still sense a connection between this one..." He pointed over to Jaden Yuki. "... and that one. I simply... took advantage ... of the weaker link. He wouldn't have had to suffer had he just dueled me."
"I... wasn't going to let you... bring everyone here... as slaves..." Jaden gasped for breath trying to say a single sentence.
"It matters little. The Duel has begun!" As he said this, the stone ground started to rumble. Wilona found Jaden's duel disk activating without her doing so. It seemed like her word alone activated some kind of mystic pact.
Alien Gray: 4000 LP
Wilona: 4000 LP
Turn 1:
"I move first!" Alien Gray drew his sixth card. "I summon Alien Hunter in attack mode and place one card face down."
One of those creatures that hunted them down appeared on to the field, roaring as it wielded its weapon of choice.
Alien Hunter- [Type: Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Reptile/Attribute: WATER/Level: 4/ATK: 1600/DEF: 800]
(If this card destroys a monster with an A-Counter by battle, it can attack once again in a row.)
Turn 2: Wilona. Cards: 5
Wilona drew her card and looked to her hand. "I activate Mithra the Thunder Vessel's ability from my hand before special summoning her in attack mode!" As she claimed this, electricity sparked around her card, and a woman in electric-centric armor entered into the field with a theatrical twirl.
Mithra the Thunder Vassal [Type: Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Thunder/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 2/ATK: 800/DEF: 1000]
"Her ability summons a token on your side of the field in defense position!" Wilona pointed as right next to the Alien Hunter, a token with a similar appearance to Mithra appeared.
[Type: token/Sub-Type: Thunder/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 1/ATK: 800/DEF: 1000]
"Next, I tribute summon Mithra in order to summon Caius the Shadow Monarch!" As she put the card into the field, the shadows around the room started to grow. The shadows moved and formed into a giant circle in front of Wilona. Caius' soon climbed out, towering over the other monsters and even making Alien Gery pause at its intimidating size.
Caius the Shadow Monarch
[Type:Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Fiend/Attribute: DARK/Level: 6/ATK: 2400/DEF: 1000]
Wilona looked to her monster. Something about it felt... different than before. But she shook her head. "When Caius is summoned, I'm allowed to banish one card on the field!"
The green-haired girl pointed towards Alien Grey. "I banish... your face down!" Wilona knew the stakes of this duel the instant she was dragged into it. She was not going for the big risky plays and attack when her opponent had clearly set up defenses. And Yuki told her that the dueling classes were boring!
Caius raised his hand, then fired a bolt of shadows that raced for the facedown card.
"I activate my face down! "A" Cell Recombination Device!" Alien Grey declared. "By sending an Alien Monster of my choice from my deck to my graveyard, I can target your Caius and place A-Counters equal to the level of the sent monster! I send a level 4 monster!" With that, the attack of Caius banished the face down, but not before four white dots attached itself to the Shadow Monarch.
Caius. A-Counters: 4.
"A-counters?" Alexis did not like how those strange white shots started to move atop of Caius' armor. "I don't like the looks of that."
Wilona didn't either. "I'll have Caius attack... the Mithra Token!" Caius did, so destroying the token with little effort. "And I'll end my turn there."
Turn 3: Alien Grey. Cards: 4
"Cautious, aren't you?" He drew his card and Wilona noticed the glint in his red eyes when he drew his next card."It will not save you from this! I too tribute summon Alien Hunter in order to bring forth, Alien Mother!"
As Alien Hunter disappeared, a giant egg fell from the sky. Instead of a shell, it was made of flesh. It cracked open and a monstrous creature, pale to the point of an empty white, busted out with arms that looked like they could bend steel with little effort.
Alien Mother - [Type:Effect Monster/Sub-Type:Reptile/Attribute:DARK/Level:6/ATK:2300/DEF:1500]
"Now, Alien Mother attacks Caius!" Alien Grey pointed to the dark-type monster.
However, what didn't make sense was that Alien Mother had fewer attack points than Caius. That was until Caius' attack points suddenly dropped.
Caius [ATK: 2400 → 1200]
"What?!" Wilona screamed out as her monster's attack points fell. She spotted the splotches of the A-Counter start to grow out like fungus. It was too late as Alien Mother slammed a punch at the lowered Caius, and knocked him away with strength like that of the mythical Hercules. The monarch shattered like glass at the impact.
Wilona LP: 4000 - 2900
When the girl's life points went down, the runes of the stone started to glow, and then they gave of red electricity that raced towards Wilona. As it came to her, she was shocked by a pain she wasn't expecting.
"W-Wilona!" "Wilona!?" "Ms. Wilona!" Jaden, Alexis, and Honest all screamed out loud as the shock went to their friend.
The light green-haired girl remained standing after the shock. "W-Well! So that's how Yuki felt..." She shook her head and tried to focus back on her opponent.
"There, don't you see?" Alien Grey pointed upward where something started to appear over the ruins. It looked like a portal was opening up. "When your life points hit zero, the portal to our world will not only be open, but it will be under our control!"
Wilona was able to recover enough to notice something odd about that statement. "Wait, what happens when I win?"
"Ha! A pathetic creature like you, who needs offices to communicate, can never defeat an elite warrior such as myself!"
Winged Kuriboh, on the other hand, started to repeat something over and over. The Slifer Red girl spotted Alien Gery's eyes widening in alarm.
"Aaagh! You tricked me! You hid that information from your friend until now!" Alien Grey swatted Winged Kuriboh's cage, shutting up the creature in a violent manner.
"Kuriboh... said..." Jaden gasped as Wilona looked to him. "He said you'd control... it..."
That information made the Slifer Red girl's eyes go wide. She'd be the one to control where everyone goes?
"That will be impossible for you to do so! I activate Alien Mother's effect! When she destroys a monster in battle, at the end of the battle phase, she can summon that monster into my side of the field in defense mode!"
Alien Mother had a portal open up from beside her foot. She reached in with one hand and lifted up Caius as if he was a box of toys.
"Then, I'll end my turn with a face down!"
Wilona seemed to narrow her eyes. There was a chance to take this back! She just had to win. Though, it was going to be hard to do something like that...
Turn 4: Wilona. Cards: 4
Wilona drew her next card. She took a second to look at it before reaching for a card she already had. "I play the spell card, Pantheism of the Monarchs! By discarding a Spell or Trap Card with Monarch in it, I can draw two cards!" The girl with glasses did so. "Now, I activate a card from my graveyard! The card's name is Frost Blast of the Monarchs! By removing from play this card and Pantheism from the graveyard, I can target one set card and destroy it!" An ice skull shot out from Jaden's Duel Disk and chomped hard on Alien Grey's face down, revealing it was another "A" Cell Recombination Device.
Wilona took out another card. "I now activate The Monarch's Stormforth!" As she said this a wind started to blow inside the barrier and outside as well.
"What will this do!?" Alien Grey cried out before a tornado swallowed up Alien Mother.
Wilona narrowed her eyes. "I sacrifice Alien Mother for a tribute summon!"
"What!? But that's my monster!"
"You took my monster, so I'm taking yours! Monarch's Stormforth allows me to use one of your monsters as a tribute!" Wilona picked a card from her hand. "Come forth, Zaborg The Thunder Monarch!" She placed the card on her duel disk, and the gales started to pick up at the same time as thunder rumbled and echoed throughout the underground temple. The gales disappeared, revealing Alien Mother was gone.
Instead, a powerful creature descended nearby Wilona's side that cackled with the power of a storm.
Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
[Type:Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Thunder/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 5/ATK: 2400/DEF: 1000]
"When summoned, Zaborg can destroy one monster on the field!" Wilona pointed to Caius with narrowed eyes. "Zaborg, show what we do to traitors!"
The thunder monarch unleashed a blast of thunderbolt that was wide as a monster truck. The attack incinerated the Shadow Monarch.
Now, there was nothing left to protect Alien Grey. It was then that the Alien noticed the anger in the girl's eyes. He had never seen that look on prey before, only predators... and few times when a mother apex predator protected her young. Alien Grey glanced over towards the beaten-up Jaden and then to caged Winged Kuriboh.
With a glint of vengeance in her eyes, Wilona turned her point towards her enemy. "And show him what happens what happens when fools cross us!"
Zaborg didn't hesitate to unleash a thunder blast even bigger than before straight for Alien Grey.
The alien gave off a mental scream that sounded more like white noise than a scream of pain.
Wilona: 2900 LP
Alien Gray: 4000→ 1600 LP
The distortion above started to open up. However, to the surprise of everyone, it looked a lot like the abandoned dorms.
"Wilona!" Alexis cried out. "If you win, you can bring us all home!" She then took a step back as an Alien Hunter pointed its lance at her.
Alien Grey stood back up, now it was his turn to look angry.
Instead of talking, he drew his card.
Turn 5: Alien Grey. Cards: 2+1
He looked at his hand. "I activate the Spell Card, "A" Cell Recombination Device from my graveyard! By banishing it from my graveyard, I can take one Alien Monster from my deck." He did so, looking at the card he just drew.
"I summon the Tuner Monster, Alien Ammonite!"
A small, floating, but many-tentacled creature appeared on to the field, but that's not what got everyone's attention.
Alien Ammonite
[Type: Tuner Monster/Sub-Type: Reptile/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 1/ ATK: 500/DEF: 200]
"What's a tuner?" Wilona raised her brow as the question went on everyone's mind.
"His effect activates! I am allowed to bring back one Level Four monster from my graveyard, but I have to destroy it in the end phase! I bring back Alien Hunter into the field!" He cried out as the first monster he played returned to the field.
"Now it's time to Synchro Summon!"
"Synchro What?" "What Summon?" "What? What?" Wilona, Alexis, and Jaden asked out at the same time.
Alien Grey ignored them as the two monsters on the field started to fly up. Alien Ammonite turned into a ring while Alien Hunter turned into four stars.
"Come forth, O' instrument of cosmic destruction! Lay waste to those who we perceive our enemy and burn your visage into their broken minds for the rest of eternity! Synchro Summon!"
As the lights fused together, a horrible, titanic amalgamation towered over the monarchs.
Cosmic Fortress Gol'Gar
[Type: Synchro/Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Reptile/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 5/ ATK: 2600/DEF: 1800]
"Wilona looked back at the alien duel disk and she raised her brow. "A white card?"
"Wow!" Wilona turned back to see Jaden with stars in his eyes despite being somewhat injured. "That is the coolest thing I've ever seen!"
"Really, Yuki!? We are fighting for our freedom, and you're obsessed over some... weird thing he just did!?"
"It's called Synchro Summoning! And now I will—"
"How did you do that!? You didn't use anything like a Ritual or a Fusion card!?" Alexis shouted from the side.
"Amazing! That must be some form of other world dueling style! I am breaking research grounds I didn't even know!" Aleister added along as well.
"Another dueling style!? THAT. IS. AWSOME! Wilona, let me duel him next!" Jaden actually stood up in excitement, only to wince in pain at the action.
"You literally bloody idiot!" The girl pointed back at the boy. "If you weren't injured, I'd kick your ass!"
Alien Grey's anger grew, only for the wrong reason this time. "This is the instrument of your destruction, stop being... not afraid!" He grunted and pulled two of his cards. "I activate the Field Spell Otherworld- The "A" Zone!"
As he said this entire area started to change. The portal to the Abandoned Dorms shrank and expanded into a new land. The sky looked distorted, and the lands floated aimlessly around. Colors twisted as if someone was tying together corpses.
"Then, I play the Continous Spell Card, Code "A" Ancient Ruins! When an Alien Monster is I can place an "A" counter on this card!" Alien Gery shot out his arm. "Behold Cosmic Fortress Gol'Gar's special ability! I can return any face-up spell or trap card on the field to the owner's hand." As he said this, he returned the two cards he activated back to his hand. This turned the area back to normal. "For each card return, I can place 'A' Counters equal to the cards returned. That means I can place two "A" Counters on your Zaborg!"
Zaborg. "A" Counters: 2
"Uh oh! He's planning to lower Zaborg's attack like what he did with Caius!" Alexis shouted.
"That's not all! Gol'gar can now remove 2 "A" Counters from anywhere in the field and destroy one card my opponent controls! I remove the counters from Zarbog to destroy him!"
The Cosmic Fortress fired two homing beams directly at the thunder monarch. He was destroyed instantly and left Wilona's field wide open.
"Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar, attack that girl directly!" He cried out as a barrage of laser fire launched itself at Wilona.
Her two friends cried out as the attack hit and smoke covered the area the girl once stood.
Wilona LP: 2900→300
Alien Grey LP: 1600
"Not so tough now? Are you? I end my turn by placing one face down, and re-activating the two spell cards from before!" He played the field and Continous spell cards from before. However, when the world started to shift, there was something more solid about its transformation. There was something in the air that told them, if Wilona lost, none of them would ever see home again.
"Wilona! Are you alright!?" Jaden screamed for his friend but couldn't do much moving.
As the smoke cleared, Wilona was on the floor, heaving heavily and looking worse for wear. She got up—albeit poorly.
Things weren't looking good for her. By the next turn, whatever defenses she could set up would be instantly put down by Gol'gar's ability. Not to mention, if she was able to destroy it, she had a feeling that the face down by Alien Grey might ensure he'll survive whatever attempt she might make and destroy her at the end of her turn.
Turn 6: Wilona. Cards: 2
The girl drew her card and looked at it. She stared at it for a second before looking back at Alien Grey.
The Alien thought to himself. (It doesn't matter what monster you summon! This Trap Card, Fiendish Chain, will allow me to negate a monster's effect and prevent it from attacking! I've also been paying attention to your deck's style: summoning lower monsters to bring out stronger ones! The moment you summon another tributed monster and it activates its effect, I'll use this trap card to negate it, and you'll have no defense next turn!)
Jaden looked over to Wilona before cupping his hands and shouting. "Come on, Wilona! You can do it!"
Wilona looked over to Jaden, the latter who gave her a smile and a thumbs-up despite being a little injured. The green-haired girl looked at him blankly before she relaxed into a small smile. It was quick as she turned back to Alien Grey with a determined look.
"I summon Edea The Heavenly Squire in defense mode!" When Wilona put the card on Jaden's duel disk, an armored woman in white and heavenly armor appeared on Wilona's left side.
Edea the Heavenly Squire
[Type: Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Warrior/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 1/ATK: 800/DEF: 1000]
"Her ability activates when she's normal summoned! I can special summon another monster from my deck with 800 Attack points and 1000 Defense points! I choose Eidos the Underworld Squire!"
To Wilona's right, a completely opposite version of Edea appeared.
Eidos the Underworld Squire
[Type: Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Spellcaster/Attribute: Dark/Level: 2/ATK: 800/DEF: 1000]
"With Eidos summoned, I'm allowed one more tribute summon this turn!" Wilona cried out before pulling a card from her hand.
Alien Grey got ready as soon as the tributed monster appeared, he was going to activate his trap card.
"I now play Heavy Storm!" Wilona brought the card out. "I use this card to all spell and trap cards on the field!"
"Wait, what?" Alien Grey repeated before a storm destroyed all spell and trap cards on the field, returning everyone back to the
"That was kinda anti-climatic..." Jaden muttered from the side.
"Stuff it, Yuki, I'm trying to win!" Wilona declared as she took her last card out of her hand. "I sacrifice both Eidos and Edea to bring out Ehther the Heavenly Monarch!"
From the skies above, a throne appeared on high and a being with a blinding light appeared on to the field. As the light died down, something akin to a goddess appeared onto the field on Wilona's right side.
Ehther the Heavenly Monarch [Type: Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Fairy/Attribute: LIGHT/Level: 8/ATK: 2800/DEF: 1000]
"I'm not done! Ehther has a special effect that allows me to send two different Monarch Spell and Trap Cards from my deck to my grave and if I do that, I can special summon a Monarch Monster from my deck until I return it back to my hand in the end phase!" Wilona picked out her deck and picked up a monster before shuffling her deck back in.
"I special summon, Erebus, The Underworld Monarch!"
Similar to Edea and Eidos, a large black portal appeared from the ground. Darkness spread out of this portal until a giant black throne appeared with a horrifying and dark being appeared sitting atop of it.
Erebus the Underworld Monarch. [Type: Effect Monster/Sub-Type: Fiend/Attribute: DARK/Level: 8/ATK: 2800/DEF: 1000]
"Two Level 8 monsters in one turn!?" Alexis screamed out in surprise.
"And you say you're not good at dueling!" Jaden threw a fist up.
"Yuki, all I did was pay attention to class!" Wilona then pointed over to a now scared Alien Grey, who was taking a step back at the presence of two almost godlike creatures. "As for you, this is for hurting my friends!"
The two Monarchs raised their hands as a blinding light and consuming darkness filled the temple. With a wave of their hands, they blasted the Synchro Monster out of existence.
Wilona LP: 300
Alien Grey LP: 1600 → 0
Wilona won the duel, and soon, the ground started to shake as the ruins seemed to be moving and shifting for some unexplained reason.
"Wilona!" Aleister cried out as a powerful wind started gathering inside the ruins. "You control the Distortion now! Get everyone out of here!" He cried out before Blasting an Alien Hunter and making a run for it. Honest did the same and to one near Alexis, allowing the other two to head to where Wilona was.
Winged Kuriboh was freed from his prison when Wilona launched her final attack. She flew towards Jaden, who Wilona ran to help stand after the duel ended.
By the time everyone got together, a distortion opened up above everyone in the ruins.
"Wilona, hurry up!" Jaden managed to yell as the Hunters started racing for them.
"R-Right! I want everyone here to be returned from where they came from! But make sure that these aliens stay in their world!"
The distortion started to hmm before the powerful winds grew even further, sucking in every occult member, Alien, and everything outside.
"AAAHHH!?" The music club members, Honest, and Winged Kuriboh were the last to get pulled into the distortion, all of them yanked up like thrown toys.
However, only Aleister seemed to stay grounded when everything else was getting sucked into the distortion.
"What!? Wait, Wilona! You should have let me gone too!" He yelled before the distortion closed up, taking in everything and everyone not off that world.
Inside the distortion, everyone was screaming. They all seemed to separate as the Aliens started going towards a world much like the field spell. The humans and two spirits looked to be heading towards the Abandoned Dorms.
Suddenly, Wilona felt a pull on her leg and looked down to see Alien Grey clinging to her leg.
"I refuse to lose to a water sac! If I cannot control the portal, I will take your mind instead!" He cried out as he used his hand to reach for Wilona's head.
Luckily for the girl, she reached her pockets quick enough and used her taser on the incoming hand. Alien Grey received a horrible shock of pain and then let go of his hold on the girl.
"Wilona!" The girl turned to Jaden. "Now you gotta do a cool catchphrase before kicking him back!"
"U-Uhh!?" The girl stammered as she saw that they were getting closer to the end of their portals. "H-Happy Christmas, punk!" She cried out before kicking the alien in the face with enough force to send him back to his group.
Soon, a light enveloped all of them...
[Tag Force: Heroes and Villains]
When Wilona woke up, she was greeted with the sight of Winged Kuriboh in his see-through form, crying his eyes out towards Jaden.
"Aww come on, buddy. I already forgive ya! I know you didn't tell me or that jerk about the winner part because the others were on their way to save us! I knew they'd save us too!" Jaden tried to comfort the crying hairball.
It seemed like they were back in the Abandoned Dorms. With how all of the occult members were sprawled across the floor, it looked like they all returned safe... as safely as they could.
Wilona sat up and spotted Alexis offering her a hand. The green-haired girl took it before both girls walked over to Jaden and helped him up from both sides.
Jaden looked over to Wilona with a somewhat disappointed look. "Really, Wilona? That was the lamest one-liner I ever heard!"
"Stuff it!" Even though it was dark, the other two students could see Wilona's face glowing red. "It's not my fault I've never said something like that before!"
"Aww well, you can do it again next time!"
"There will be NO next time!" The red-faced girl screamed again.
At that, Jaden and Alexis laughed at the reaction of the Music Club President. Wilona could only grumble while her face got redder than Jaden's blazer.
"UUhhh..." The trio looked back to see the other Occult Members waking up.
"What happened?" One of them asked. "The last thing I remember was..."
"Hey... I don't really remember anything... oww..."
"I think we should take this chance to get out before they see us," Alexis spoke up. "I have no idea how to explain what just happened. And I still doubt they'll tattle on us if they remembered."
"Even if they tried, I've made some preparations." Wilona had her blackmail smile on her face. "Do people seem to forget I keep an audio recorder with me?"
The three, along with their two spirits left the room quickly before more of the occult members could gather their senses. As the three exited the abandoned dorms, Jaden realized something.
"Wait, Alexis, what about your brother! We didn't find any clues about him or Yusuke." Jaden tried to ask.
"As much as I would love to find out what happened to him, I'm going to have to find a safer way to figure that out. I don't want to lose my friends looking for my brother." Alexis answered the brunette.
"Really, Yuki? You were basically tortured, yet you care more for others? Do you have any sense of self-preservation?!" Wilona shouted in a way a disappointed mother would scold her child.
"I have no idea what those last words mean," Jaden looked to Wilona before smiling. "But hey! I never knew you had such boss monsters in your deck! We really should duel when I'm back to full strength! I mean, after coming back here, I feel like some of my wounds and pain got patched up! Well, not all of them, but after a good night's rest, we can duel! "
"I'm still mad, Yuki! Don't pull that hero-crap for me again!" Her expression became softer. "I was worried about you."
Jaden's smile went down when Wilona showed a gentler side to her. However, his smile returned when an idea came up. "Hey, let's spend the rest of the vacation watching Christmas movies! Alexis, did you know that Wilona's never seen a movie before?!"
The Obelisk Blue girl looked to Wilona with more disbelief than she realized she was in the Spirit World. "What!? How is that possible!?"
"Well excuse me for not having a normal life!" The girl with glasses screamed again.
"No, it's great! That means I get another excuse to watch all those cool movies again! Hey, Alexis, do you still have a DVD of Duelist Kingdom!?"
"How about we start with some Jaune Claude Magnum movies? Wilona should learn how to actually say a proper one-liner."
"You can also stuff it, Rhodes!"
The three continued their trek towards the Nurse's office, talking about mundane things rather their 'Christmas Adventure' in the Spirit World.
...
However, while those three were finished with that adventure, The Spirit World wasn't quite done with the Human world.
A human hand grabbed onto the cliff and pulled himself up. When he stood up, he looked behind him, only to see an endless mountain range under the sky with three suns.
"... Where the hell am I!?"
Chazz Princeton screamed his lungs out, not knowing that he accidentally woke up something in that specific mountain.
[Author Notes]
Edit: I had to change a play with Erebus and Ether into Raiza when I realized it didn't work. Thanks to Zeowolf9 for pointing out some mistakes I made in changing the edits.
Edit Edit: So, I re-read Ether again and saw that it DID work. But my non-nuerotypical brain overlooked the word, more, in her text.
Finally! I finished this chapter! It got so much longer than it needed to be. (That and I'm not quite happy with the duel I made, mostly because this time I wanted to try using no made-up cards. I mean, I didn't use any this time, but I don't know if it's still enjoyable.)
But this is the reason why I made it a slight AU, I have my own spin on the 12 Dimension Idea and I can't wait to show it.
Also, yes, I too love Little Kuriboh and stole one of his jokes. And thank you all for the support this fic is getting! I'm surprised that a story that is understandably overdone, is getting as much success that it is.
I hope this story finds you during Quarantine. And I hope all of you are doing well!
