Chapter 4: Cynet Backdoor

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After the duel was finally over and the duel was over as well, Andrea and Jake were enjoying their lunches. She had more to eat, but she ate her lunch quickly. Fernando kept the tacos warm and toasty for her. a Ambulance came and and took Tony to the best hospital in Night City and Rocki was allowed to go with them.

Andrea sighed and replied, "What a day this has been for us. I hope that Tony guy pulls through."

Jake nodded as he continued to eat his last taco and he replied, "I really do. Rocki can't take change well at all."

She nodded and she looked at her cellphone and replied, "We should head back now."

He nodded as they both got up and left the area.

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That night in the ladies locker room, I was with Maddie in the locker room and we were getting ready to head home.

Maddie sighed and replied, "What a day, eh?"

I nodded to her and resumed, "What a day it was. I hope that Tony makes it through the night as well."

"So do I. I Can't believe he was shot in the stomach in front of so many people."

I only nodded and Maddie got out a red sweatshirt out of her locker and then the wonderer saw her various tattoos and she nodded and replied, "That is beautiful works of art you have there, girl."

"Thanks, girl. I like all of my ink, but I have better ones on my back. Wanna see them?"

She nodded and Maddie turned her body around with her back towards me and she took off her work shirt, showing off her the back of her grey sports bra, I looked at Maddie's back with amazement! Her whole back was covered with different kinds of flower and insect tattoos from the back of her neck to the bottom of her back and she replied, "Impressed?"

"Very much so.", I said with a smile and Maddie nodded as she put her sweatshirt on and then she replied, "When I was promoted to a Middle-Ranked Fighter, my uncle and mother paid for all of this. Uncle Calvin owns a tattoo place in the middle of the CIty Center area of the city and he gave me this work for under 50 bucks. It took 4 long hours, but he and his assistant Rudy got it done. I had 2 days off afterwards so I can recover from it and I turned out okay."

I only nodded and then Maddie resumed, "I'm heading home for now. I can walk you to your room before I head home if you want me too."

"I would like the company."

She nodded as both closed our lockers (Their boss Liz gave me a locker of my own to use if she needed to do so) and then we both left.

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Later that night at about 10:30 in the Night City Eastwood Hospital 2nd Floor waiting room, Tabatha and Jake were in the room waiting for anything new about Tony. Unknowing to Andrea and the other World Fighters, Tabatha called up Jake and asked him to be with her right now and he quickly drove up there to be with her and both were in the waiting room and were waiting for any kind of news. Tabatha had been crying for hours now and he was there to help her out.

He sighed and resumed, "I Really do hope he makes it through the night. Tony is a decent guy that was forced to do something that he didn't want to do thanks to that asshole."

Rocki then replied, "Me too, Jake. I don't want to lose him."

She looked at Pat and replied, "I really want to thank you for saving my life earlier today, Jake. you are such a great friend to have. I'm so sorry we had our feud. We both lost and I shouldn't of took out on you."

"It's no trouble at all, Rocki. I forgive you and we can start fresh as two good friends."

She smiled at him and then they saw a doctor walk in and it said Dr. Lewis on her name tag and she saw the friends and replied, "You both here with Tony Montirello?"

They both nodded and she sighed and resumed, "I wish I didn't have to tell you this, but I have to. When Tony was shot in the stomach, the bullet tore through his stomach quite a bit and we removed it, but he lost a lot of blood in the process."

Rocki looked at her and resumed, "What are you trying to tell us right, miss?"

She sighed sadly and replied, "We did all we could, but the damage done was so serve and bad, that he sadly passed on about twenty minutes after the surgery. I'm so sorry to tell you all this."

She sat down and cried even more and the nurse then replied, "We'll leave you both alone for a while. Call us up if you need anything."

She slowly left the lounge and closed the door behind them and Jake walked over to Rocki and he replied, "Rocki, I'm so sorry for your loss. He was a great guy."

She saw him and hugged him and replied, "Please stay with me as long as you can, Jake. I can't do this on my own right now."

"I will never leave your side for anything right now, girl. You need a friend and that'll be me."

She smiled at him as she went back to crying her eyes out.

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That following morning, Liz told them about the sad news at a meeting in the cafe area and it effected Andrea the most. Keith, Andrea, Maddie and myself were there.

Andrea sighed sadly and replied, "That is not right at all. Jake called me this morning and he was with her until about one in the morning and then he gave her a ride home."

Maddie nodded and replied, "Tough loss for him. I hope they can find the help they need to get through this.

Liz nodded and resumed, "I'm giving Jake the day off today so he can be with Tabatha during this tragic time for her."

Their boss looked at Keith and resumed, "You and Andrea heading to the Pier today, Keith. Keep a eye on things and make sure everything goes okay."

He nodded and then she saw me and resumed, "Why don't you let our new friend head with you and maybe that'll help her with the memories."

He nodded as he got up and replied, "I'll call if any trouble happens."

She quickly left and then Keith looked at her me and replied, "You ready to go, girl?"

Erica got up as well and I nodded as we all got up and left.

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Night City has the biggest fishing piers in all of California. The main went about 8 miles away from shore for people to do many kinds of fishing. Keith, Andrea, Erica and myself were sitting in in their hideout area that was closed off from the public. The temp that day was in the low 80s and it was a beautiful day for fishing.

Keith then replied, "I feel so bad for that Rocki lady. It's hard to lose someone you care about that closely. I hope they can get through it okay."

Andrea then replied, "I totally agree, bud. I heard from Jake that he was a nice guy that was blackmailed into doing stuff they both hated a lot. I hope we can find that asshole and bring him to justice for what he did."

Erica sighed and resumed, "People like that don't deserve anything for crimes that bad. We need to find him and put him away for good!"

Andrea nodded as she went back to checking her phone and they saw a young brown-haired female staring at them and Keith got up and lifted up the glass window and he smiled and replied, "Hey there, Amy. What's going on?"

Her name was Amy Gibbson and she and Keith had been friends since their middle school days and Keith helped introduce her to his other best friend Chase 2 years ago and they been a couple ever since. Their wedding was announced and Keith and Erica were allowed to come as well. They both had big time jobs in Night City that had every other day off and this was their day off to relax with some fishing.

She sighed and replied, "We have a problem, Keith. this guy came in and they were about to duel and before Chase got a chance to activate his duel disk, he stole his deck and disk and won't give it back until he duels one of your guys."

Keith sighed and replied, "I'll handle this myself."

Andrea got up and resumed, "I'll come with to help you out, Keith."

He nodded and then he looked back at his sister and resumed, "Just point camera A at ENT-100 and you'll view the whole duel and if anything bad starts to happen, call up the HQ right away."

She nodded as he got up and grabbed his duel disk and left and I decided to keep Erica company in the shack and she looked at me and resumed, "With our group, there's never a dull moment even on calm days like this."

I smiled and nodded as she went back to watching the screens.

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Near the entrance of the pier, two guys and a female had trapped the guy who was sitting on a bench and he had a duel disk on his arm as well and near him was a large box of his stuff he was trying to sell.

One of the guys (Chase) looked at him and replied, "Give my disk and deck back, you thief! I was going to duel you as well! Do you even have a deck of your own?"
The guy then replied, "Of course, but it's not as good as your deck is. Maybe if I sell your cards, I can get better ones!"

"If you even touch one of my cards, you'll regret it for a very long time!"

He only sighed and Andrea, Keith and Amy walked towards them and Keith saw him and he sighed and replied, "Troy Winters. I should of known you were the thief this time. Why don't you give his deck and disk back before this gets any worse."

He looked at Keith and replied, "Not without a duel from either of you. I refuse to give it up without a duel and if I win it, I keep the deck and run off with a hour head start!"
He could only sigh and resumed, "Whatever it takes to take you down, Troy. Let's get this duel on already."

Chase looked at Keith and he replied, "Take this guy down, buddy! I know you can do it!"

He nodded as the crowd stepped back and Amy walked over to her faincee as both duelists activated their duel disks and both drew 5 cards.

"Game on!", both yelled out.

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She then replied, "I'll set a monster and that'll end my turn now."

Troy drew a card and replied, "I summon my Crazy Fish!"

As he sat the card down, a yellow-skinned fish with a large pointy nose appeared (ATK: 1,600).

"Attack the facedown monster!"

It went in and a cyber-like lady with purple hair appeared on the card (DEF: 800) and the fish went and pecked at the young lady with its nose before she shattered without making any kind of noise and Troy looked puzzled and resumed, "What the heck was that thing?"

He smirked and resumed, "A Cyberse monster called Backup Secretary."

"I see. I end my turn now."

He drew a card and resumed, "I summon my RAM Clouder."

She played the card and a large virtual ram with large horns appeared (ATK: 1,800).

"I attack your fish now."

It quickly charged in and rammed into it and it shattered to pieces (Troy LP: 8000 - 7800).

"That'll do for now."

He groaned and drew a card and resumed, "I'll set a monster and a card for later and that's all for me."

Keith drew a card and resumed, "I now summon my Launcher Commander."

He played the card and a large robotic-like cyber creature with several cannons appeared (ATK: 1,700) and then his ram glowed with power (ATK: 1,800 - 2,100).

"I attack with my Ram first."

It quickly charged in and a Mother Grizzly appeared on the card (DEF: 1,200) and rammed into it and it snarled in pain before it blew it into pixelated shards and then they reformed and created a 2nd Grizzly (ATK: 1,400) and he nodded and then the other cyber creature glowed and then it fiery a bolt of fiery cyber energy that shot out and struck down his huge bea and blew it to little pieces (Troy LP: 7800 - 7400) and Troy then smiled and resumed, "I Special Summon my Piercing Moray!"

As he sat the card down, a large moray eel with a large sharp horn appeared (ATK; 1,500).

"There you go. I end my turn now."

Troy drew a card and he opened his field slot and resumed, "I activate A Legendary Ocean!"

As he slid the card into the slot and it closed up, a wall of sea water came onto the field and the large palace appeared behind him (ATK: 1,500 - 1,700).

"I now summon my Fiend Kraken!"

As he sat the card down, the large yellow octopus appeared (ATK: 1,200 -1,400).

"I tribute it to give my Eel 600 more attack with its effect."

The horn began to glow even more (ATK: 1,700 - 2,300).

"Time to fight. Destroy his Commander!"
It quickly went in and stabbed its horn into it and each of its screens all went dark before it shattered into pieces of broken metal (Keith LP: 8000 - 7400).

"You'll never beat me, buddy. I end my turn now."

Keith drew a card and resumed, "I'll keep my big guy where he is and I'll set a new monster facedown and 1 card facedown and that's all for me."

He drew a card and resumed, "I summon my Space Mambo."

As he sat the card down, a large alien-like fish appeared (ATK: 1,700).
"Moray attacks now."

It quickly went in and pierced through the virtual ram and he glowed and then shattered into shards that flew around him (Keith LP: 7400 - 6800).

"Mambo attacks now."

It glowed as a burst of colorful bubbles flew out and a tiny digital-like creature appeared on the card (DEF: 2,000) and the attack splattered all over it and did nothing to it (Troy LP: 7400 - 7300) and he smiled and resumed, "I guess my Bitron has more power then your fish does."

"Darn it. I End my turn now."

Keith drew a new card and then resumed, "I activate my Dark World Dealings."

The spell appeared and he discarded a card and drew one and then Tony did the same thing and then he resumed, "I summon my Cliant."

He played the card and a cyber-like ant creature appeared (ATK: 1,300 - 1,800) and then he smiled and resumed, "Since I Normal Summoned a Cyberse monster, I can Special Summoned my Boot Staggered."

He played the card and a strange virtual-like creature with large antler-like horns on its head appeared (ATK: 2,300 - 2,800) and he resumed, "I now banish the Breakthrough Skill I discarded with my Spell to negate your Moray's effect."
He banished the card and the eel began to glow (ATK: 2,400 - 1,700).

"Blast that thing away."
The antlers glowed as two large bolts of fiery, colorful light shot out and slammed into the large eel and it thrashed around before it shattered into pixelated triangles (Troy LP: 7300 - 6200) and he smiled and resumed, "When he deals damage, I can Special Summon a Stag token."

It glowed as a smaller form of the head of the virtual with a single white horn (DEF: 0) and he smiled and resumed, "Your turn now."

He groaned and drew a card and resumed, "I'll set a monster facedown and switch my Mambo to defense and then I'll set a new monster facedown and 1 card facedown and that's all for me."

He drew a card and resumed, "Not all of my monsters in my deck are of the Cyberse variety, like my Cannon Soldier."

He played the card and the infamous dark machine soldier appeared (ATK: 1,400) and he resumed, "I activate my Mystical Space Typhoon."

The storm began and his field spell drained up and the palace collapsed into dust & pebbles (DEF: 1,200 - 1,000).

"My Staggered attacks."

It fired more bolts as it struck down his Space Mambo and reduced it to shards.

"My Cliant attacks."

It glowed as it slowly went in and a Island Turtle appeared on the card (DEF: 2,000) and it did nothing to it (Keith LP: 6800 - 6600).

"Now big loss. I use my Cannon Soldier's effect and send it and my token away to blast you for 500 damage for each monster."

His token flew into the cannon and fired a large fiery bolt that struck him and then the machine collapsed into shards and they flew into and struck him down as well (Troy LP: 6200 - 5200).

"I end my turn now."

Troy drew a card and resumed, "I activate my Moray of Avarice to banish my Island Turtle for two new cards."

The Spell appeared and the large turtle faded away and he drew 2 cards and then Chase nodded and replied, "Just added a couple of those cards to the deck last week."

"Now, I'll ditch the Warrior of Atlantis from my hand to get another Ocean from my deck!"

He discarded the card and quickly got a field spell and he quickly activated it as well.

"I now summon my Terrorking Salmon!"

As he sat the card down, the large evil salmon appeared (ATK: 2,400 - 2,600) and Keith groaned and resumed, "That was a decent move."

"Thanks to your Spell, I also discarded a Breakthrough Skill."

He banished the card and her ant stopped glowed (ATK: 1,800 - 1,300) - (ATK: 2,800 - 2,300).

"Go for your new meal."

It slowly went and it went and swallowed the creature whole (Keith LP: 6600 - 5300).

"Your turn now."

He nodded and drew a card and resumed, "I'll switch my monster to defense and that'll end my turn now."

He drew a card and resumed, "Troy drew a card and replied, "I summon my Metabo-Shark!"

As he sat the card down, a large shark-like fish appeared (ATK: 1,800 - 2,000).

"With this big guy's effect, I can shuffle any two fish monsters back into my deck and I only have two of them there."

He took the Crazy Fish and Piercing Moray and shuffled the cards into the deck and resumed, "Time to fight. Attack his defending monster."

It went in and swallowed the small creature whole as well.

"Shark attacks now."

If glowed as a large ball of slimey gunk and shot out and struck down his Staggered and blew it into pixels.

"I'll set a card and that'll end my turn now."

He drew a card and resumed, "I activate my Spelbooks Inside of the Pot."

The spell appeared and both drew 3 cards and she resumed, "I discard a card to activate my One for One and Special Summon my Datacorn."

He took a Witch of the Black Forest and discarded it as a cute little cyber creature. It looked a little pine cone with small eyes, arms and legs and it had a big smile (ATK: 100) and he nodded and resumed, "When this little one is Special summoned, I can Special Summon a Data Acorn Token to my field."

A even smaller virtual acron creature appeared (ATK: 0).

"I tribute them both to Summon my Segmental Dragon."

Both tiny creatures vanished from the field as a large virtual-like dragon creature appeared (ATK: 2,600) and he smiled and resumed, "I can now destroy it and take out all monsters with attack as the same or less then it currently has."

It glowed as a fiery explosion of light blew it and both the salmon and Metabo-Shark to shards that flew around the field and he resumed, "I now play Double Summon and Summon my Lady Debug."

He played the card and a cute colorful female creature appeared with a big smile (ATK: 1,700) and she resumed, "Now I can get a Level 3 or lower Cyberse monster from my hand."

He grabbed a new card and resumed, "I attack you directly."

It quickly flew in and punched at him and knocked him back a bit (Troy LP: 5200 - 3500).

"Your turn now."

He groaned and drew a card and resumed, "I'll activate my facedown Hidden Spellbook."

The trap appeared and he shuffled his field spells back into his deck and then he resumed,"I'll set a monster and a card facedown and I'll banish 2 Water monsters to Special Summon my Fenrir to defend me."

He took his Shark and Salmon and banished both as a large wolf appeared on the card (DEF: 1,200).

'Your turn now."

Keith drew a new card and resumed, "I summon my Leotron."

He played the card and a large cyber-like machine in the shape of a lion appeared (ATK: 2,000).

"I attack now."

The newer monster glowed as a ear-splitting roar shot out and struck down his Fenrir and blew into globs of water that splattered all over the ground and then his Debug went in and a Morphing Jar appeared on the card (DEF: 600) and it punched at and smashed it to bits and He discarded a monster called Flame Bufferlo and discarded it and both drew 5 cards and he resumed, "I'll set a card for later and that's all for me."

He drew a card and resumed, "Time for some fun. I activate my Call of the Haunted to discard the last card I had in my hand."

The trap appeared and a Unshaven Angeler appeared (ATK: 1,500).

, "I tribute my large fishy friend for the mighty and powerful Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth!"

As the large fish vanished, an even larger fish appeared (ATK: 2,800) and Keith groaned and replied, "This might be trouble."

"Now, I'll ditch a card to Special Summon up to four fish monsters that level 4 or less from the deck!"

As he took a card (Which was a Surface Spell Card) and discarded it, the floor of the arena glowed as a 7 Colored Fish (ATK: 1,800) a Flying Red Carp (ATK: 500), A Crazy Fish (ATK: 1,800) and a Great White (ATK: 1,600) all appeared and Chase groaned and replied, "He's using my cards so easily. I only use a single copy of that big guy in this deck."

"Now, I'll overlay my Carp, Crazy Fish and Great White!"

The 3 Water monsters began to glow as they all turned into large blue orbs and a portal opened up, which they flew into.

"I use these monsters to build the Overlay Network and Xyz Summon! A mighty hero of the waves smashes through anything that gets in its way! I Xyz Summon the mighty Gagagigo the Arisen!"

As he sat the card down, a Gagagigo covered in metal armor appeared with a power cry (ATK: 2,950) and Chase sighed and replied, "I use that thing because its a powerful Xyz monster and can combo well with that larger monster."

"Lets do it. Arisen, attack!"

A huge burst of water shot out and struck down his Lady Debug and washed it away.

"My huge friend attacks now!"

The huge fish glowed as a large stream of water shot out and smashed his Leotron to pieces (Keith LP: 5300 - 2250).

"You'll never win this duel, Keith. I end my turn now."

He drew a card and she resumed, "I activate Monster Reborn."

The spell appeared and his Segemental Dragon appeared with a deep roar (ATK: 2,600) and he resumed, "I now summon my Cyberse Wizard."

He played the card and the virtual wizard with a glowing staff for a weapon appeared (ATK: 1,800) and he continued on, "I can Special Summon my Threshold Borg by discarding a Cyberse monster."

He took a card and discarded it as a huge robot-like Cyberse monster appeared (ATK: 2,400) and he resumed, "With it on the field, all of your monsters lose 500 attack."

His monsters began turn colors (ATK: 2,950 - 2,450) - (ATK: 2,800 - 2,300) and he smiled and resumed, "I activate one more card to save me. I activate my Metaverse to activate my Sorcerous Spell Wall."

The trap flipped up and the field spell appeared and the area turned into a glowing arena of power.

"I move to my Battle Phase."

All of his monsters began to glow (ATK: 2,400 - 2,700) - (ATK: 1,800 - 2,100) - (ATK: 2,600 - 2,900) and I resumed, "I equip my United We Stand to my Threshold Borg."
The spell appeared and flew into the huge creature (ATK: 2,700 - 5,100).

"Attack his monsters."

The huge machine-like creature glowed as two beams of pure fiery light shot out and sliced through the huge fish monster before thrashed around and exploded into shards (Troy LP: 3500 - 700) and then his Dragon-like creature glowed as a huge fiery bolt of energy shot out and slammed into his reptile and blew it to minute bits (Troy LP: 250) and Troy groaned and resumed, "I'm screwed now."

"You are so. Wizard attacks for game."

She aimed her scepter as another fiery bolt of light shot out and struck him down (Troy LP: 250 - 0) and Tony sighed as Keith looked at him and resumed, "You are a great duelist, buddy. Thanks for a duel. I'm not good with this deck, but I will be ready when my actually deck."

She walked up to Chase and took the duel disk and deck and handed the deck to him and he smiled and resumed, "Your deck is really well made, bro. Thanks for giving me the chance to finally use it today. I can't wait to duel you with my actually deck."

Chase nodded as he grabbed both things and the both shook hands as Chase walked away and then Amy stopped him and she smiled and resumed, "Want to join us for dinner tomorrow, Troy? We'll let you choose as well."

He smiled and resumed, "I'll take you both up on that offer, Amy. You've been a great sister-in-law to me."

They both hugged and then he walked away and Keith looked at Andrea and he nodded and resumed, "Let's go meet back up with my sis and our new friend."

She nodded and they both left as well.

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A duel ends with a unexpected twist. Next time, I watch as that duelist Tabatha is ready to move on from that serious event and she wants to duel to become a World Fighter for Night City and she has to duel a powerful deck to do so and she's in for a huge fight. Can she do it? You'll see with me next time.