When Ryo, opened his eyes, he did not expect to see what he first saw. Rubble. Interested, he took a look of his surroundings, and was in utter shock. The area was wrecked, multiple buildings were torn to the ground, scorch marks were seen on the remains of buildings, and dark clouds filled the air.
Ryo felt the air around him, it was cold, dark, and filled with despair. The city was empty, isolated, it almost seemed abandoned. However, Ryo knew better, and he had a feeling he knew where he was.
The Xyz Dimension.
Ryo looked behind him to see an unconscious Rin lying there. Ryo narrowed his eyes at the unconscious body. When she wakes up, she might still be in control of whatever happened to her. It isn't a good idea to wake her up.
"I'll have to find some survivors, of my hunch is correct, and that this is the Xyz Dimension, then the Resistance should be nearby." Ryo spoke to himself. He then took a moment to look down at his clothes, he was still wearing his Obelisk Blue clothes. "They're going to think I am an Academia soldier. A change of attire is needed." Ryo clicked a button on his Duel Disk, immediately, his clothes changed. His new outfit consisted of a black overcoat with white trimmings and sharp edges. The letter "R" is centered on his belt buckle, he had a black shirt underneath his overcoat and he had black pants as well.
(If you couldn't tell from the description, its the outfit he wore when he became Hell Kaiser Ryo in Season 2 to the end of the series. Also, about the Duel Disk changing his clothes thing, I mean, come on, they have a function to seal people into Cards, INTO CARDS, you cannot tell me the Duel Disks have a function to seal people into FRICKING CARDS and not be able to switch their clothes with a touch of a button.)
"This will do." Ryo crouched down and picked up Rin, holding her over his shoulder as he began to look for the Resistance base.
Meanwhile-At the Resistance Camp
Kaito grumbled to himself as he kept growing worried. Allen looked at Kaito with a confused look as they walked into their tent.
"What's wrong, Kaito?" Allen questioned his friend and fellow comrade in interest. He had been like this for the past 2-3 days, something was up.
"Academia hasn't attacked us in a while, well, they have, but those were small attacks and easy to deal with. They haven't done an attack like they did in the beginning of the war, and that worries me." Kaito answered simply.
"Yeah, I've had a bad feeling also. How do you think Yuto, Shun, O'Brien,and Ryoga are doing?" Allen asked, deciding to change the topic to something else.
"As I have said before, I don't know about O'Brien, but Yuto, Shun, and Ryoga should be fine, they're too stubborn to lose, especially tentacle hair." Kaito made a light joke about Shark's hair, trying to lighten up the already dim mood a tiny bit.
Allen chuckled a little bit at the joke. "That never gets old. But you know what does, fighting in this war. I'm tired of this Kaito, all of this fighting, and so are the others. Recently, I have been thinking, are we fighting a losing battle? Cause this hasn't gone in our favor whatsoever. Our only sliver of hope are the four that left us, and we're not even sure if they will succeed."
"How could you say something like?!" Kaito snapped, startling Allen. "Are you giving up on the fight Allen? We aren't fighting a losing battle, we have each other, and that means we will pull each other up through these hard times. Even when times are at their darkest for any of us. We just have to stick together." (Foreshadowing/Irony)
"Kaito...alright! I'll believe! If you haven't given up hope yet Kaito, then why should I?" Allen threw out a rhetorical question.
"That's the spirit." Kaito smiled. At that moment, Kamishiro Rio, Ryoga's younger sister, came rushing into the tent they were in. Kaito and Allen looked at Rioin confusion. "Huh? Something wrong?"
"We don't know yet. But someone has just entered the base, we don't know if it's an enemy or a civilian." Rio replied.
"Odd. I thought people stopped coming to the camp out of fear of being caught by Academia." Allen raised an eyebrow.
"Come on, quickly, and we'll find out what's going on!" Rio rushed the two as the trio left the tent together and went to the entrance to the camp, where they saw a big group of people surrounding a person.
"Everyone back down." Kaito commanded. "The three of us will take care of our visitor."
"You mean visitors." Sayaka, who was on the outside of the crowd spoke as everyone dispersed, revealing a man carrying a green haired girl on his shoulder. They both had oddly looking Duel Disks, raising the suspicions of the four Resistance members.
"Who are you?" Rio interrogated the man.
"Ryo." The man responded, much to the confusion of the four.
"I'm sorry, how the hell do you know my name! I've never met you before!" Rio exclaimed out of shock.
"That's my name, Ryo. R-Y-O. Marufuji Ryo." The man now known as Ryo spelled out his name.
"It seems they have similar names." Allen stated the obvious.
"Yeah, the only difference being the I and Y." Kaito added to Allen's statement.
"If it's too much trouble, you may call me Kaiser, a nickname given to me by some certain...people." Ryo trailed off for a moment before finishing his sentence. "The girl's name is Rin, she is unconscious for...reasons that I will explain later."
"Those Duel Disks, they look weird, one I have never seen before and one looks like…" Sayaka trailed off as she widened her eyes. "An Academia Duel Disk!"
The other suddenly realized Ryo's Duel Disk and immediately activated their Duel Disk.
"One second, I am from the Fusion Dimension, yes, I defected from Academia already, I have had no part in the war or the attack on the Xyz Dimension whatsoever." Ryo informed the four.
"We still can't trust you." Kaito spoke up with a serious expression on his face."For all we know, you could be an Academia spy!"
"I trust you that I am not." Ryo said again. "If I was an Academia spy, then I would have gotten an Xyz Duel Disk instead of one from the Fusion Dimension." At that moment, Rin woke up on Kaiser's shoulder. "You're awake? Good." Ryo put the girl down to the ground on her feet, where she stumbled. "Now tell me, are you still under Academia's mind control or something?"
The four gasped, "Ruri!"
"Ruri? What are are you talking about, I'm Rin. What happened anyway? Where are we, where is Asuka? Where is Ruri as a matter of fact?!" Rin threw multiple questions at Ryo.
"Wait, you're not Ruri?" Sayaka asked to be sure, hoping that she would say she was Ruri.
"I know who Ruri is, but me, I am Rin. I merely have the same face as her for some reason. Wait, you guys know Ruri, so does that mean...we're in the Xyz Dimension?" Rin asked as she looked around. "Woah! What happened here? It's so horrible! This place has been torn to shambles, this is even worse than the Commons section of the City back in Synchro!"
Synchro? Rin? Wait a minute…Allen realized something in his thoughts. He flashed to after Yuto Dueled the guy on the motorcycle, he remember having a conversation with Yuto at some point.
Flashback-Some time before Yuto and the other went to Standard-Resistance Camp
"Yuto, who was the guy on the motorcycle? You were talking to him, but you were Dueling also. What was that about?" Allen questioned Yuto.
"Oh him, that was Yugo. We had a misunderstanding and got into a Duel, we talked it out, Yugo said he was looking for his friend named Rin. He is a Duelist from the Synchro Dimension." Yuto revealed to Allen.
"From Synchro? Are you sure he's not an enemy?" Allen asked his friend.
"Honest, I could tell, he wasn't lying."
Back to now
"Rin, tell me, do you know someone called Yugo? Also, you know who Ruri is?" Allen asked.
"Yugo? How do you know Yugo, he should be in the Synchro Dimension."
"My friend Yuto, who has the same face as him, faced off against him in a Duel. Yugo accused him of kidnapped you."
"How did Yugo travel between Dimensions?" Rin asked herself in a whisper, but she decided to shrug it off for now. "So Yugo is doing something reckless again huh, figures...but...the guy who kidnapped me also had the same face as Yugo, and I was taken to a place called Academia, where I met Ruri. She told me about this place, and how she was kidnapped by a boy who looked like the person you call Yuto. I think Ruri and I were kidnapped by the same person."
"You saw Ruri at Academia? Thank goodness." Sayaka sighed in relief. Ruri was fine, so she didn't get Carded because of her.
"About Ruri, another person and I went to Academia to rescue her and Rin, we succeeded, by something weird happened to Rin and Ruri, and they both fell into different portals. I jumped in after Rin, I don't know where Ruri is, I'm sorry. But I can assure you that at the moment, Ruri is free from Academia's clutches." Ryo told the four.
"At least she's free." Kaito said.
"Thank you." Rio took a bow of gratitude. "For saving my friend Ruri."
"We can trust the girl, but what about you?" Kaito questioned Ryo.
"It matters not if you trust me or not, I defected from Academia, that's that." Ryo closed his eyes and answered in a calm manner.
"Come on Kaito, we need more comrades, we're starting to shrink in numbers. We can only fight off Academia for so long." Sayaka told Kaito.
"You are right about that. I guess it cannot be helped then, I accept your assistance." Kaito said as he gave in to the wishes of his friends. However, he wasn't sure about this, something felt off about the girl.
"Hey, Ryo, you said something weird happened to me and Ruri, what was it?" Rin spoke to Ryo in a hushed manner.
"I don't know, you lost control of your body. I think-"
Suddenly, an explosion went off nearby, the six people looked in the direction of the sound.
"What was that?!" Rio exclaimed in surprise and confusion.
"Don't tell me…" Kaito trailed off, fearing the worst.
"Could Academia be attacking us?" Allen asked the question the others had in their head.
"We should get a move on and check it out." Ryo proposed, everyone nodded in agreement as they ran over to the source of the explosion.
In the Fusion Dimension-Academia
"Damn it!" The Doktor cursed out loud in frustration. "I had them! And they slipped right through my fingers! Now that they are in a different dimension, they are free from my control. I will have to go one of the dimensions myself, particularly Xyz, maybe I could help the fight to destroy the Resistance."
Suddenly, an idea sprouted in the Doktor's head as a grin came across his face.
"I know the two perfect people to go to Xyz to take out the trash. Hopefully the Professor can get in contact with them." The Doktor walked out of his lab to go to the Professor's throne room.
Professor's Throne Room-Academia-Fusion Dimension
The Doktor entered the room and walked up to the Professor.
"Doktor? What do you want?" Akaba Leo asked nonchalantly.
"I have an idea to make the process of destroying the Resistance much faster. Why don't we get those twins." The Doktor proposed.
"The Tyler twins? Hmm...for once I actually fully agree with this idea, Doktor. You may proceed with the idea." Akaba Leo granted the Doktor permission.
"Great, now, I was wondering if you could get the, here right now." The Doktor spoke.
Meanwhile-You Show Duel School-Fusion Dimension
Asuka managed to teleport away from Academia and make it back to You Show. She ran for minutes trying to find Yusho. She turned a corner to almost run into the person she was looking for.
"Sensei!" Asuka exclaimed in joy.
"Huh? Something the matter, Asuka?" Yusho asked in concern.
"It's Ryo! We both went to Academia without telling you to free the girls in the towers, we succeeded at first. But we got caught, the enemies were defeated, but something happened to Ruri and Rin, Ryo went after Rin, who, along with Ruri, jumped into a separate portal in Academia's Transportation Room!" Asuka told Yusho the story, who simply listened.
At the mention of transportation, Yusho slightly twitched, he was reminded of leaving his son and wife 3 years ago without telling them. He closed his eyes and sighed.
"I'm very sorry, Sensei!" Asuka apologized.
"Apology accepted. Just tell em next time. Don't do the same thing again...and make the same mistake I did 3 years ago..."
"What happened 3 years ago?"
"Well, I don't come from this dimension, I come from the Standard Dimension." Asuka nodded as she listened on to Yusho. "I was an Entertainment Duelist, I Dueled to make people smile. I loved it in Standard, I had a wife, a son, and some good friends. Everyone loved me, my son and wife especially. Then, 3 years ago, I repaid them, but...not in a good way. Today, I still regret doing it. I left Standard to go to the Fusion Dimension to stop Akaba Leo, who was making preparations for attack. A mistake was made, and I was transported to the Xyz Dimension. That was a one way trip, and I was stuck in Xyz, I couldn't go to Fusion to stop Leo. I could have stopped the war, but I just left, on a day that probably ruined the lives of my son and wife, all because I didn't tell them. To this day, I still regret my decision...so I ask you, please, next time, tell me you're leaving, don't be irresponsible like me." Yusho told Asuka as a sad expression was seen on his face.
"Sensei..." Asuka murmured in concern for the man.
"When...if, I return to Standard, I will be afraid, I will be afraid of my son and wife, what will they think of me? Would they forgive me? Now I am starting to think that life for my son Yuya and my wife Yoko would be better without me." Yusho closed his eyes as he thought of his family.
"They'll forgive you, if you did for a good reason, they will understand." Asuka assured Yusho.
Yusho let out a small chuckle. "Funny, I thought I was the one helping you."
Somewhere...
An unconscious Ruri laid on the ground. However, she began to stir, she slowly opened her eyes and took a look around her surroundings.
"Ugh…" Ruri groaned as he held her head in pain. "Where am I? This isn't Academia, thank god, and this isn't Heartland...it's so...beautiful here."
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" A woman screamed near Ruri. Ruri tpwuickly turned towards the voice and saw the woman looking at her with a frightened face. She had a boy next to him and she was covering his eyes. "Don't look! It's Commons Scum!"
"Commons Scum? What?" Ruri blinked after hearing the title. Already, she could tell that the title didn't mean anything good.
"Security!" The woman cried out for help. Ruri gasped in shock. Was she really going to call the officials on her?! What kind of society is this? Immediately, Ruri started to run away.
"Wait..." A memory flashed back to Ruri. It had Rin in it, Rin told her about the Synchro Dimension, and how it was slept into two groups, Tops, and Commons. Apparently, Commons were poor people who the Tops vatiewed as Scum. Also, apparently 99% of the population are the Commonsm but they only have 1% of the money. "This is...the Synchro Dimension!"
Finished! Sorry for the very short chapter guys, really, I only made this chapter so you guys could find out what happened to Ruri and Rin and where they ended up when they fell into the portal. So I decided to get this chapter out quickly. Since it would be short no matter what. Hope you guys don't mind.
I'm feeling a little tired right now, so I'm not writing a preview, plus, the preview is basically most of the stuff I alluded to this chapter.
Yuka Kuroshiro: My plan is working, to make you hate the Doktor and Sanders, particularly the Doktor.
SoulMatter: I want The a Doktor to suffer to, for what he did in the anime. He'll, Rin didn't even have a proper Diek because of the Doktor. The only Duel Rin has and Ruri for that matter (Two Duels in Ruri's case) is when they were brainwashed.
Mekyaku: I might include number 94, we shall see.
Matrixnis: Thanks, I decided to have Kaiser and Rio have a moment like that in this chapter.
Hope you guys enjoyed the short chapter, take care, goodbye!
