YU-GI-OH GX TAG FORCE LEGACIES

THE ADVENT OF RED HAT

A/N: I WILL USE ITALICS TO INDICATE WHEN THE CHARACTERS ARE SPEAKING TO AVOID CONFUSION. THANK YOU.

In the Kaiba Dome in the city of Domino are held the exams to enter the Duel Academy.

There were a lot of kids hoping to be admitted, but there was one in particular who stood out from the rest.

He wore: a red jacket with white edges, with a black t-shirt underneath, black jeans, black sports shoes, what stood out the most was his red hat with the academy symbol on it covering his face.

Calling itself Red Hat, it had long since dropped its old name, ignoring others' comments on its decision.

Inside the Kaiba Dome, Red Hat thought "the written exam was very easy", as he waited his turn to duel, his thoughts were interrupted by a voice over the loudspeaker "The Red Hat candidate will show up in arena 4 for his admission due".

Hearing these words, Red Hat got up and entered the arena, arrived he found himself in front of a man with a long blue uniform, he had black hair that fell on his head and covered his forehead in front, with a beard of the same color some hair and a pair of sunglasses.

"I am the Duel Proctor, I will be the examiner for your admission duel." Answered the man in the uniform.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Red Hat. Thanks for this opportunity." Red Hat answered without batting an eye.

"Well we can start." Said the examiner as he prepared his duel disk.

"Let's begin." Red Hat responded by activating its duel disk as well.

DUEL

Red Hat: 8000 LP

Duel Procto: 8000 LP

"Ill go first! I Draw!" Duel Proctor draws.

Hand 6.

" I summon Manju of the Yen Thousand Hands in attack mode (ATK 1400 – DEF 1000). When this monster is normal or flip summoned i can add a ritual monster or a ritual card from my deck to my hand. I choose Shinato, King of a Higher Plane." Explained the Duel Proctor as he added the card to his hand. " I set a card facedown and end my turn." The Duel Proctor ends his turn.

Hand 5

"It's my turn! I draw!" Red Hat draws

Hand 6

"I summon Breaker The Magical Warrior in attack mode (ATK 1600 – DEF 1000). When this monster is normal summoned he gets a spell counter whichincreases his atk by 300, buti t doesn't matter because i use the spell counter to destroy your set card. Now Breaker attack your monster." The spellcaster slashes the opponent monster.

Duel Proctor: 8000 – 7800 LP

"I end my turn." Red Hat ends his turn.

Hand 5

"I draw!" Duel Proctor draws.

Hand 6

"I activate the ritual spell Shinato's Ark. I offer monster from my hand whose total LVs equal 8 or more. I offer Guardian Angel Joan of 8. Now i summon Shinato King of a Higher Plane (ATK 3300 – DEF 3000)." a ship appeared in the middle of the field, after a few moments a dazzling light appeared from which a creature with six light yellow wings came out, it had dark blue skin, with yellow and green armor on its chest. "Shinato attack Breaker!" his monster launched spheres of purple light that hit the opposing monster.

Red Hat: 8000 – 6600 LP

"I end my turn." the Duel Proctor ends the turn with his arms crossed.

Hand 3

"My turn now! I draw!" Red Hat draw.

Hand 6

"I activate the spell Graceful Charity. I can draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards. (discards Jinzo and D.D. Warrior Lady)."i set a monster facedown and end my turn with set this card."

Hand 4

"Very well. Now it's my turn. I draw!"

Hand 4

"I activate the equi spell Premature Burial. Paying 800 LP, i can special summon a monster from the graveyard in attack mode. So i special summon Guardian Angel Joan (ATK 2800 – DEF 2000)." A creature with angelic features appeared on the field.

Duel Proctor: 7800 – 7000 LP

"Now Joan attacks his set monster." He ordered.

"I play my set card. The quick play spell Mystical Space Typhoon!" Shouts Red Hat. The opponent was surprised in that instant."with this i can destroy your equip spell. this means your monster goes back to where it came from." The boy explained.

Strong gusts of wind blew that shattered the opposing card, the same fate also befell the monster.

"I still have Shinato left to attack!" he ordered as he attacked the set monster, which turned out to be Magician of Faith (ATK 300 – DEF 400).

" Flip effect of Magicia of Faith. I can recover Graceful Charity from the graveyard and return to the hand." Red Hat explained as he recupered the card but his monster was destroyed.

"my monster's activates his effect too. When this card destroy a monster in defense poisition and sends it to the graveyard as a result of a battle, you take a damage equal to the original atk of the destroyed monster. In this case you take a damage of 300 points."

Red Hat: 6600 – 6300 LP

"i set a card and end my turn."

Hand 2

" My turn. I Draw!" Red Hat draw

Hand 5

"First i play again Graceful Charity. I draw 3 cards and than discard 2 ( discard Kycoo the ghost destroyer and Sangan). Now i play the equip spell Premature Burial. Paiyng 800 LP i special summon from the graveyard in attack position Jinzo (ATK 2400 – DEF 1500)." he said, as a cyborg appeared with his brain dangling above his head." I activate a second equip spell Snatch Steal. Which i equip to yourn Shinato to take the control of it." The opposing monster passed to the other side of the field.

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!" He exclaimed in fright.

"I can do it instead and I won't stop there. I play the spell Limiter Removal to double Jinzo attack points (ATK 2400 – 4800 – DEF 1500). I play the equip card United We Stand. With this Jinzo gain Jinzo gains 800 attack and defense points for each monster on my field."(ATK 4800 – 6400 – DEF 3100)

"IT CAN'T BE!" he said terrified.

"Now Shinato and Jinzo attack you directly!" the two monsters hit with energy balls that caused a huge explosion.

Duel Proctor: 7000 – 3700 – 0 LP

Monster holograms disappeared after the smoke from the attack cleared. The examiner approaches the boy. With a smile on her face she told him " You fought a very good duel. Having said that, I welcome you to the Duel Academy."

"Thanks." he answered leaving the arena.

Red Hat left the Kaiba Dome. Started walking around Domino's Town, walked for a long time until he arrived in a remote part of town. With old, dirty buildings. It was called the Satellite Zone. A very disreputable area of the city due to the gangs present and the riots caused. Some stayed in this part of the city because they were poor, unable to afford to move.

After a while he came to an old building with a fire escape which was his home, it was located in the central part of that area. Red Hat took a key from his pocket, inserted it into the lock, turned it, and heard the door click open.

Once inside the house, he put the key back in his pocket. The house didn't have much, it was very small, inside there were only: a small sofa with a table nearby, in the not very large living room an old-fashioned TV with an antenna above it, as well as a small kitchen.

"I'm back. Dad are you at home?" Red Hat asked as he entered. No one answered his question, but he didn't seem surprised. "Let alone if it were here. He's definitely still at work."

At that point he went to the kitchen. Opening a cabinet he took out a pack of instant ramen, since the boy didn't know how to cook. He added water to a kettle which he put on the fire. After a few minutes the kettle started whistling, he poured the boiling water into the Ramen bowl which he covered with the lid, waiting three minutes for it to be ready. When he took the lid off the bowl, grabbed some chopsticks, went to the sofa to eat his lunch. It's not like he had high taste in food in food, he just ate Ramen and ready made food.

After eating, he threw the bowl with chopsticks in the trash and then went to his room. When she started to leave, there was a locker by the door to her room with a framed photo on it. Red Hat looked closely at the photo. It depicted a little boy who must have been him when he was a child. Held by an adult couple who must have been his parents. The woman had long orange hair, with blue eyes. She wore a gold necklace around her neck with a nearby key sliding into her side. The man, on the other hand, had brown hair all up, with black eyes and a little beard.

He looked away for a few moments to see that the necklace the woman was wearing was right next to the photo.

He returned his focus to the image of the woman, after a few moments the memories of the past that he had tried to forget for some reason came back to him. His mind traveled back in time to when he spent time with his family, when he won his first tournament, when at every duel his parents were there to cheer. For a few moments he seemed tempted to want to take the necklace in his hand, but one last memory came back to him, which was different from the ones before which seemed to convey joy, because this one seemed to convey sadness. He saw his mother walking away from him, she didn't even turn to her son who kept calling her incessantly. Thinking about that moment, he immediately pulled away from the necklace, feeling a great anger inside himself, he clenched his fist as hard as he could, gritting his teeth. "I will never forgive her!" he told himself in a voice that was filled with hatred.

After a few moments he composed himself. "Why I keep thinking about it. I promised myself I'd let go of my past." He repeated in his mind. He went to his room to already pack his bags that he would take to the academy when he left tomorrow.

He began by putting the cards he thought he might need into boxes, with other reserve decks he prepared from time to time. Time passed so quickly that it became night, with Red Hat falling asleep on his desk.

The next morning he wakes up still exhausted, struggling to get up.

"What time is it?" he asked himself. Looking at the clock on the desk, he saw that it was 7 in the morning.

"I better start preparing otherwise I may forget about going to the academy." He repeated as he took all the things to take with him.

"Dad you're home." he asked aloud. But just like yesterday no response.

He gave up and started leaving the house. As he did so he walked past yesterday's photo again, with him focusing on the necklace, his hand slowly approaching the necklace, but the hand froze and withdrew.

He stormed out, locking the front door, which he then hid the key in a brick in the bottom corner of the door, a rule his father had taught the little one to stop anyone from entering or when no one was home to a lot of time .

He started running to go to the airport where the helicopters took off to bring this year's new students to the academy.

After a half hour of running, when he arrived at his destination, he saw that there were other students admitted. He thought to himself whether he would find strong duelists who would give him a real challenge.

A/N: I included the reference to the Satellite in the story because after the GX saga I hope to make one that connects with 5D'S.

In the next chapter Red Hat finally arrives at the academy. On his first day he will already get into trouble due to his aggressive nature.

PS: If you have any suggestions to help improve the story, or decks that could be used, let me know in the comments below. I'm open to suggestions.

If any of you had read the first version that I put on the site. Sorry if I suddenly deleted it. But I had decided to rewrite it and was also having computer problems.

So I preferred to delete it and rewrite it.

I hope you like the story anyway, let me know in the comments.

I wrote this story which would be my first Fanfiction since I read others on this site that inspired me and made me reflect on some things about the series. As an example some characters in the series that have been underrated like Blair here I always thought that she deserved a place among the main characters, even counting that if there were few episodes that included her she was one of my favorite characters. So I decided to use Red Hat character from the video game series along with other episodes and characters from the GX Tag Force video game series to help me redeem Blair thinking.