Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online II: SAO Shippuden ❯ Arc III: Chapter 3: Soaring into Darkness’ Past ( Chapter 21 )

With the start of this chapter, the rest of our heroes and heroines are starting to learn about Suguha’s history of what happened to her during SAO in this story series. But it looks like an ‘evil plot’ is developing in Satellite, but you are going to have to read to find out what is going to happen, everyone! Now, before I start, once again, I would like to give thanks and credit to Belletiger and Kanius and Kanius’ YuYuGiDigiMoon series, especially this author’s The Invasion of the Rajita story, for giving me permission to use the idea of Valkyrie Sailor Soldiers and everything that’s a part of them. I would also like to give thanks and credit to Matty G91 and this author’s story of Kamen Rider Lunar for giving me permission to use Kamen Rider Lunar, his looks, and everything about him as well as the UNI-SHOCKER organization.

 

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Warning: This story contains intense mature violence, blood, gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including firearms usage, mind-control, and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!

 

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in this whole story!

 

Sailor Moon Online II: SAO Shippuden

 

(Sword Art Online II music ‘Courage’ starts)

 

As the intro starts, we see images of swords go by and reflected on the blades of the swords are images of Suguha and Leafa with the final reflection from the blades of the sword are Rika, Lisbeth, SAO and ALO forms, Keiko, Silica, SAO and ALO forms, Shion, Sinon, GGO and ALO forms, Kotone, Philia, SAO/SAW and ALO forms, Hiyori, Kuro, and Lux.

 

The next shows Princess Selene then turning into a toddler Suguha Kirigaya, who then ‘ages’ into a 13-year-old Suguha Kirigaya, warping into Suguha Kirigaya of 15-16 years of age, then into Eternal Sailor Celestial, and finally, into Valkyrie Sailor Celestial. As Valkyrie Sailor Celestial turns to the skies to see some unseen sight, Rika, Keiko, Shion/Sailor Orion, Kotone, and Hiyori appear behind her.

 

Just then it turns into images of Ancient Egypt of Atem’s time, Atlantis, the original Domino City, Neo Domino City, and ALO before we see Suguha Kirigaya looking at a ‘shooting star’ before she transforms into Valkyrie Sailor Celestial before facing an unknown figure that uses the Seal of Orichalcos that surrounds her and her enemy.

 

Next, Valkyrie Sailor Celestial and Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze are seen in two separate images which change where Suguha, then Leafa, and finally, Valkyrie Sailor Celestial are using their kendo/sword techniques. Just then Rika/Lisbeth, Keiko/Silica, Shion/Sinon/Sailor Orion, Kotone/Philia, and Hiyori/Lux are seen before we see Valkyrie Sailor Celestial, using her sword techniques, is joined by Naruto, using his famous Shadow Clones and Rasengan, in this ‘fight demonstration’.

 

Then we find Valkyrie Sailor Moon walking slowly forward until she is face to face with Valkyrie Sailor Celestial and the two of them stare at each other before Valkyrie Sailor Celestial brings out Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000) and Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon (2500/2000) with Valkyrie Sailor Moon brings out Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon (2500/2000) and Clearwing Fast Dragon (2500/2000) in which they go into an epic clash with Valkyrie Sailor Moon and Valkyrie Sailor Celestial clashing blades themselves.

 

The scene changes to Davis and Kazuto, looking a lot like his SAO avatar of Kirito, facing off against Naruto with Naruto bring out Red Nova Dragon (3500/3000) and Stardust Chronicle Spark Dragon (3000/2500) while Kazuto brings out Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity (4000/3500) and Davis brings out Shooting Star Dragon (3300/2500) along with the other Signer and Duel Dragons in which they launch into an epic titanic fight.

 

Just then we see Sailor Celestial, Sailor Orion, Lisbeth, Silica, Philia, and Lux engaged by a legion of opponents including monsters from ALO and Duel Monsters which they fight and defeat, but then a mysterious figure brings out the Divine Serpent used by Dartz, but Sailor Celestial, Lisbeth, and Silica bring out the three Legendary Dragons, Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos, and they transform into their true forms: The Legendary Knights of Atlantis where they defeat the Divine Serpent.

 

Naruto and Sailor Celestial are back to back surrounded by Sakura, Hinata, Rika, Keiko, Sailor Orion, Kotone, and Hiyori as a powerful circle brings for the three Aesir, Thor, Loki, and Odin as well as the three Egyptian God Monsters: Obelisk, Slifer, and Ra in which all of them unleash an incredible attack creating a massive bright light. From that light, Black-Winged Dragon (2800/1600) emerges along with the Crimson Dragon.

 

The scene then switches to images of Yugi Moto, Pharaoh Atem, Seto Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, Dartz, and more before switching to our heroes and heroines with images of Neo Domino City, Aincrad/SAO, ALO, the Elemental Countries including the Leaf Village, and more as images of Suguha and Naruto from childhood into their current years are seen before Suguha turns into Valkyrie Sailor Celestial and the two of them look into the distance.

 

Finally, we have different scenes where we see Naruto training and mastering the Rasengan, Leafa flying through the virtual skies of ALO, Serena becoming Sailor Moon for the first time, and leading to a scene with all of our heroes and heroines, joined by Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, racing towards some kind of unknown destination in which it finally stop at all of them assembled together flanked by Earth, Atlantis, and the Leaf Village in the background along with the Legendary Dragons/Knights, the Signer and Duel Dragons, the Aesir, and Egyptian God Monsters.

 

(Sword Art Online II music ‘Courage’ ends)

 

Arc III: Chapter 3: Soaring into Darkness’ Past

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector

 

Right now, we are in Neo Domino City’s Satellite Sector where we find Sailor Celestial being advanced upon by what looks like a legion of vampires in the daytime, but then a visor similar to the one that Sailor Mercury appears in front of her eyes in which data from the visor is passing through her eyes.

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a sneer, “I thought something stunk.”

 

Lunamon’s voice booms, “What is it, Suguha?”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “These so-called ‘vampires’ aren’t real! Well, not as ‘non-real’ as Real Solid Vision projections are!”

 

Agumon’s (Suguha) voice booms out, asking, “Real Solid Vision? Hey, boss, isn’t that the stuff that makes you able to ride on Duel Monsters and stuff?”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “That’s right, Agumon. However, this means that while they ‘aren’t real’ doesn’t mean that they can’t hurt me.” Sailor Celestial says, with a smirk, “However…” Sailor Celestial then claps her hands and creates a sphere of light as the visor vanishes in which Sailor Celestial unleashes a ‘light wave’ that causes all of the ‘vampires’, revealed to be Real Solid Vision projections, to fizzle like an old fashion television due to loss of reception before vanishing completely.

 

When they are gone, Sailor Celestial hears clapping and a female voice says, “Well done.” Sailor Celestial turns to the voice to see a young woman with shoulder length black hair, jade green eyes, and wearing a sexy female goth outfit walks out into the open.

 

Sailor Celestial asks, with a glare, “Who are you?”

 

The young woman responds, “The name is Kara, mistress of darkness.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a curious quark of her right eyebrow, “Yeah…”

 

The young woman, Kara, says, with a sly smirk, “I had heard that you had a ‘thing’ against vampires and it looks like it is true. Most likely, a bad experience.”

 

Sailor Celestial tells Kara, with a sneer, “Keep it up and you might develop a ‘thing’ against Sailor Scouts.”

 

Kara says, with a sly smile, “I doubt it. You might have a few ‘frights’ when you meet my partner.” Sailor Celestial gives a confused look, but her ‘danger senses’ goes crazy and she leaps out of the way of a crimson colored energy whip in which Sailor Celestial looks to see Myotismon floating down near Kara.

 

Sailor Celestial says, shocked, “Myotismon!”

 

Kara tells Sailor Celestial, with a sly smile, “Very good, but it isn’t the same one that your Digidestined friend have fought. I raised this guy from a Demidevimon.”

 

Myotismon tells Kara, “Her fear is quite nice, my partner.”

 

Kara says, with a wicked grin, “And soon, it will be time to feast.”

 

Sailor Celestial sneers as she gets into a defensive stance and she thinks, “That’s what you think.”

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector, Dark Signer’s former base

 

At the remains of the Dark Signer’s former base where the first Ener-D reactor was created, Yuuko is walking into the room where the remains of the first Ener-D reactor were container. During the reconstruction of Satellite after the final battle with the Netherworld King, the remains of the first Ener-D reactor were extracted through with some ‘difficultly’ due to the remaining negative energy. However, now, there is a machine similar in design to an Ener-D reactor with Yuuko looking at the machine as a group of people dressed like scientists walking over to her.

 

One of them, a young man, says, “Yuuko-sama.”

 

Yuuko asks, “Progress?”

 

The young man that spoke says, “Perfect, Yuuko-sama. We have tapped into the remnant energies of this whole energy.”

 

Yuuko says, with a nod, “Excellent. When we can now use this to open a doorway, but not into the Netherworld.”

 

The young male scientist tells Yuuko, “Are you sure about this, Yuuko-sama? I don’t wish to question you…”

 

Yuuko holds up her hand and she says, “You have a right to question me in this one. This is dangerous. I know plenty about the ‘elements of time’ and past that shouldn’t be messed with. You are right. One wrong move and we can destroy ourselves as well as our enemies due to us completely rewriting history. We could wipe ourselves from existence. That’s why we need to do this very…and I mean, VERY carefully. Not a SINGLE mistake or mis-step.”

 

The young male scientist says, nodding his head, “Yes, Yuuko-sama. You are right.”

 

Yuuko says, “We have great power, but it won’t be enough to defeat our opponents. They are mighty and in order to win, we need power. The power that comes from the past. The power of the greatest duelists in history.” Yuuko snaps his fingers and a group of cloaked figures brings a mobile trey covered by a cloth in which Yuuko takes off the cloth to reveal that the trey contains five of the Millennium Items, the Millennium Eye, Scales, Necklace, Rod, and Key, along with a blue cube that contains the Millennium Symbol, the Eye of Wdjat, on it. Yuuko says, “Pharaoh Atem took the Millennium Puzzle into the afterlife after destroying the Millennium Necklace for good. However, the Ishtar family, after learning what Kaiba did, retrieved the other items to lock them in a place only known to their family while this, the Quantum Cube, was kept by the Kaiba family. It took much work to find these.”

 

The scientist asks, “Yuuko, do you think that we can bring them here? Kaiba touched the Cube while he was the previous owner of the Rod in his previous life and Marik Ishtar did control Joey Wheeler through the Millennium Rod, but do you think that we can bring Yugi Moto here?”

 

Yuuko says, “Remember, he was the one that placed the items in the Millennium Stone to give Atem physical form for their final duel. The three great duelists touched or were touched by these items in one form or another. Now, we can use that connection to bring them here to draw their strength for us to defeat our foes.” Yuuko says, plainly, “However, nothing must happen to them for us to return them to the past to ensure our present.”

 

The scientist says, with a nod, “We have containment prepared that will keep them contained, but unharmed.”

 

Yuuko says, “They need to absolutely unharmed. We are only drawing their strength for as long as we need it, that’s all.”

 

The scientist says, nodding his head, “Understood, Yuuko-sama.” Soon enough, the group takes the Quantum Cube and Millennium Items in which they are inserted into the machine similar to the Ener-D reactor.

 

Yuuko says, “We don’t have much time. One of our enemies is nearby and Kara can only hold her for so long.” The group of scientists nod their heads as the machine starts to come to life.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Kaiba Dome

 

Back at the Kaiba Dome, our heroes and heroines and our former Signers are assembled together as they prepare to head out to Satellite while Ami is looking over Hiyori with her computer.

 

When Ami is done, Keiko asks, “Is Hiyori okay?”

 

Ami responds, “There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with Hiyori or anything that seem to do have ‘done’ to her. She is just fine.”

 

Rika says, ‘That’s good to know.”

 

Serena tells Hiyori, “We’re glad that you are okay.”

 

Hiyori says, with a smile, “Thank you.” Hiyori asks, curiously, “But who was that person? And what did she want?”

 

Amara tells Hiyori, “All that we know is that she has an ancient evil power and she has a major grudge against Serena.”

 

Lita says, “So she says.”

 

Raye tells Lita, “While there is a lot of negative energy and darkness around her, she wasn’t lying about what she said about her brother, Lita. She made sure that I can sense her emotions loud and clear.”

 

Hotaru asks Amara, “Amara-papa?”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “Raye is right, Firefly. Lying she wasn’t.”

 

Hiyori asks, nervously, “So, her brother did die in SAO?”

 

Kazuto says, “It seems that way.”

 

Serena gets a bit solemn and Rika tells Serena, “Hey! None of that again, girlfriend!”

 

Serena says, with a sigh, “I know.”

 

Rika tells Serena, sternly, “No ‘buts’, sister.”

 

Darien tells Serena, with a kind smile, “She’s right, Meatball Head.”

 

Serena smiles, kindly, at Darien and Hiyori asks, “But what she want with Suguha?”

 

Keiko says, with a shrug, “We don’t know.”

 

Tai says, “But it looks like she has a similar ‘thing’ for her as she does for Serena, so, it isn’t good.”

 

Davis says, with a nod, “No kidding.”

 

Kazuto says, plainly, “Let’s go find Sugu.”

 

Just then Trista ‘senses’ something and she looks in the direction of Satellite in which Shion asks, seeing this, “Anything wrong?”

 

Everyone looks at Trista, who is intently looking at the direction, causing Michelle to ask, “What’s wrong?”

 

Trista replies, “I’m sensing a distortion in time and space.”

 

Hotaru asks Trista, “A distortion?”

 

Trista says, “Yes, Firefly. And it is coming from…” Trista’s eyes widen in shock and she yells out, “In Satellite! At the former base of the Dark Signers!”

 

There are gasps of shock and Jack asks, stunned, “What did you say?”

 

Leo asks, “What are they doing there?”

 

Yusei says, “There is a lot of leftover negative energy there, Leo. Even though we defeated the Dark Signers years ago, the negative energy from Zero Reverse and the Earthbound Immortals still lingers there.”

 

Crow says, with a nod, “Yeah. It was the reason that area was kept abandoned despite the rest of Satellite being reconstructed after we defeated the Dark Signers and the bridge was built linking Satellite with the rest of the Neo Domino.”

 

Amara asks Trista, “So, someone is using that negative energy to cause a distortion in space and time?”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “Yes. Most likely, it is our new enemies. Such negative energy is perfect ‘food’ for the Orichalcos.”

 

Kari asks, “Didn’t Carly-san say that Suguha was heading for Satellite?”

 

Hiyori asks, concerned, “Will she be okay?”

 

Mina tells Hiyori, “Sure! She is fine! You know the truth about us, right?”

 

Hiyori says, “I was really shocked to learn that Serena is Sailor Moon and Suguha is Sailor Celestial.”

 

Amara tells Hiyori, “For good reason, Hiyori.”

 

Davis gets his D-3 digivice out and he tells Ken, “I think that we need to get over to Satellite right now.”

 

Ken says, getting his D-3 digivice out as well, “Good idea.” Davis and Ken look at their Digimon partners and Veemon and Wormmon nod their heads in unison.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector

 

Back in Satellite Sector, Sailor Celestial, RizeGreymon, and Crescemon are battling against Myotismon, but not the same evil Digimon villain that the Digidestined faced, and what looks like a legion of Vampire Lords with Kara, this Myotismon’s partner.

 

“Grizzly Wing!”

 

Myotismon unleashes a wave of bats at Suguha’s Digimon partners in which they fight back with fire and ice and barely hold back the attack.

 

Sailor Celestial says, concerned, “RizeGreymon! Crescemon!” Sailor Celestial then dodges a Vampire Lord and she uses a powerful ‘stream of rainbow light’ to dispel a lot of the Vampire Lords.

 

Kara says, with a smirk, “Remember, these are Real Solid Vision. That means that they CAN hurt you.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, annoyed, “How in the heck did you get Real Solid Vision technology?”

 

Kara responds, “Yuuko-sama has her ways.”

 

Sailor Celestial, RizeGreymon, and Crescemon gasp in shock and Sailor Celestial asks, stunned, “What?!”

 

Kara asks Sailor Celestial, “Did you really think that your betrayal would go unpunished Celestial-san?”

 

RizeGreymon says, “I had a feeling that it was her!” Just then RizeGreymon and Crescemon yelp as they are hit by the wave of bats and they crash to the ground, hard!

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, worriedly, “RizeGreymon! Crescemon!”

 

Kara tells Sailor Celestial, “Myotismon is one of the most powerful Ultimate level Digimon there ever is. Remember the one that your Digidestined friends fought? It took a legion of Ultimate level Digimon to defeat him!” Sailor Celestial snarls at Kara, but she then ‘senses’ something and out of the hole leading down into the Dark Signer’s former base a column of light emerges that goes high into the sky!

 

Sailor Celestial asks, “What the?!” Sailor Celestial floats towards it, but she then dodges a whip of blood red lightning from Myotismon.

 

Myotismon says, with a sinister smile, “I think not!”

 

Kara says, snapping her fingers, “Indeed.” Just then more Real Solid Vision projections of Vampire Lords appear all around Sailor Celestial.

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, annoyed, “I don’t have time for this!” As Sailor Celestial is getting surrounded, she looks towards the column of light coming from the former base of the Dark Signer and can’t help to wonder what’s going on.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector, Dark Signer’s former base

 

Within the Dark Signer’s former base, Yuuko is looking at the column of light coming from the Ener-D reactor-like machine as the scientists are looking holographic screens in which she can see the Quantum Cube and the remaining Millennium Items glowing with the rainbow of light engulfing the machine.

 

One of the scientists, a female one, shouts out, “Yuuko-sama!”

 

Yuuko asks the female scientist, “What is it?”

 

The female scientist responds, “It’s working! It is actually working! We are creating a gateway into the past!”

 

Yuuko says, “Keep an eye on everything.”

 

The female scientist replies, “Yes, Yuuko-sama.”

 

Yuuko says, “Time is short. Kara can only keep our enemy contained for so long and she is about to gain reinforcements.” Soon enough, portals are appearing in the sky and figures are being seen within those portals.

 

Decades in the past

 

Back in the Domino City of the past, we are inside of Kaiba Corporation headquarters of the time where we find none other than Seto Kaiba working at his desk with Mokuba Kaiba, Seto Kaiba’s younger brother, entering the room.

 

Mokuba says, “Hey, big bro!”

 

Seto Kaiba, who is normally called Kaiba, responds, “What is it, Mokuba?”

 

Mokuba tells Kaiba, “Just seeing what you are up to.”

 

Kaiba says, “Important work, Mokuba.”

 

Mokuba tells Kaiba, “Come on, big bro. Thanks to the KC tournament and that jerk’s, Siegfried’s, plans backfiring forever ago, Kaiba Corporation is back on top especially with the new duel disk.”

 

Kaiba says, “True, Mokuba. However, the new duel disk is a thing of perfection, yes, but it may not be the best solution.”

 

Mokuba asks, curiously, “Why not? It’s perfect! Why wouldn’t it be the best?”

 

Kaiba says, “It is the best for now, but it can always be better. However, being top of the line, it isn’t as mass producible as the standard duel disk. Yes, it is excellent, but its advanced features may not be easy to use for new duelists with deep pockets if you know what I mean. To make sure that dueling continues to rise in popularity, I need a duel disk that’s more advanced than the standard duel disk, but mass producible like the standard duel disks. And there is more.”

 

Mokuba asks, “More?”

 

Kaiba says, “Yes, Mokuba. Dueling needs to evolve to the next level.”

 

Mokuba asks, “Evolve? Next level?”

 

Kaiba says, with a nod, “Yes, Mokuba. And I have an idea that might help in that.” Just then there is a bright glow coming from behind Kaiba and when Kaiba and Mokuba turn towards the ‘glow’, they yell out as they are engulfed by it.

 

(Around the same time; Elsewhere in this same time period)

 

At the Domino City airport, Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Duke Devlin, and Serenity Wheeler are assembled together as they look on as Tea Gardner walks down.

 

Serenity shouts out, excitedly, “Tea!”

 

Tea yells out, “Hey, Serenity!” As Tea joins Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Duke, and Serenity, Tea hugs her friends especially her best friends.

 

When they are done, Yugi tells Tea, “Nice to see you, again, Tea.”

 

Tea says, with a warm smile, “Good to see you, too, Yugi.”

 

Serenity says, excitedly, “How are things in America? I hope that you are doing well.”

 

Tea says, with a warm smile, “It’s tough, but it is also great.”

 

Yugi tells Tea, “I know that you can do it.”

 

Tristan says, “No joke, Tea!”

 

Tea says, with a smile, “Thanks, guys.”

 

Joey asks Tea, “So, how long you are going to be here for?”

 

Tea says, “Not too long, Joey.”

 

Duke asks, “So, what are you planning to do?”

 

Tea says, “Well…” However, Tea doesn’t get to finish as a bright light engulfs all of them.

 

Tristan yells out, “What the heck?!”

 

Joey shouts out, confused, “Now what?!”

 

Serenity yells out, confused and nervous, “Joey!” Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Duke Devlin, Serenity Wheeler, and Tea Gardner then yell out as they vanish in a bright flash and after the flash is gone, plenty of other people in the airport look at where they were in which they look at each other in which they wondered what happened to Yugi Moto and his friends especially one Mai Valentine, who had just arrived on the scene to see what happened.

 

Mai asks, curiously, “What have you gotten into now?”

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector, Dark Signer’s former base

 

Back in the present day and within the Dark Signer’s former base, Yuuko is standing around as the gateways produce none other than Seto Kaiba, his younger brother, Mokuba, and Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Duke Devlin, Serenity Wheeler, and Tea Gardner in which the portals that they come from close with the column of light from the Ener-D reactor-like machine vanishing as well.

 

Tristan says, “Well, that hurt.”

 

Joey asks, seeing the Kaiba brothers, “Huh? What are you doing here, rich boy?!”

 

Kaiba says, “I should be asking you the same thing, Wheeler.”

 

Tea asks, confused as she is looking around, “Where are we?”

 

Yuuko says, with a plain tone, “Welcome, Yugi Moto, Seto Kaiba, and Joey Wheeler.” Everyone looks towards Yuuko and she says, plainly, “We have been expecting you.”

 

Kaiba asks, with a glare, “And who are you? And, where are we?”

Yuuko replies, with a plain tone, “Who am I is of no importance since you won’t be in this time for too long.”

 

Yugi asks, “In this time?”

 

Yuuko says, “Yes, Yugi Moto. Welcome to your future.”

 

There are gasps and Joey yells out, surprised, “Future?”

 

Yuuko responds, with a nod, “Yes, Joey Wheeler. You are still in Domino City, just many years in the future, though it is now known as Satellite since it is just one part of the vast Neo Domino City of this time, but it is nothing that you need to be concerned about. You won’t be here. Once we have what we need, you will be returned to the past. We can’t have history being too distorted after all.” Yuuko snaps her fingers in which Yugi, Joey, and the Kaiba brother yelp as they are lifted into the air and entrapped in three separate force-field ‘bubbles’.

 

Serenity shouts out, concerned, “Joey!”

 

Tea says, worriedly, “Yugi! Joey!”

 

Joey pounds on the force-field bubble that he is in and he yells out, angrily, “Hey, let me out of here!”

Mokuba does the same and he shouts out, angrily, “What’s the big idea?”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “Your brother and you are important to our history. We can’t have anything happening to you as well as Yugi Moto and Joey Wheeler. The three greatest duelists known in history.”

 

Joey asks, curiously, “Huh? THREE greatest duelists?”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “Yes. Of course. Along with Yugi Moto and Seto Kaiba, you are one of the greats, Joey Wheeler.”

 

Joey yells out, excitedly, “Ha! Take that rich boy!”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “I wouldn’t be too excited since you are below Yugi Moto and Seto Kaiba as the THIRD of the great duelists.”

 

Joey shouts out, annoyed, “What?!”

 

Kaiba says, with a sly smirk, “Even as a so-called ‘great’, you are always third rate, Wheeler.”

 

Joey growls at Kaiba and Yugi yells out, “This isn’t the time, Joey! If we have been pulled into the future, it must be for a reason.”

 

Joey says, “No kidding, Yug’. And I don’t think that it is a good one!”

 

Yuuko says, “We are borrowing your strength to defeat our enemies.”

 

Yugi asks, “Borrowing our strength?”

 

Joey asks, annoyed, “What’s that supposed to mean?” Yuuko holds out her heads in which Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey scream out as their bodies glow in which an ‘energy’ streams out of their bodies.

 

Mokuba screams out, horrified, “Seto!”

 

Serenity yells out, horrified, “Joey!”

 

Tea and Tristan shout out in unison, shocked and horrified, “Yugi! Joey!” The ‘energy’ streaming out of Yugi’s, Kaiba’s, and Joey’s bodies turns into orbs of energy that goes into the hands of Yuuko.

 

Yugi says, weakly, “I feel…feel so weak…”

 

Kaiba asks, weakly with a demanding tone, “What did…did you do to us?”

 

Yuuko says, “As I have said, I am borrowing your strength as duelists. Your courage, your determination, your pride, and all of your unique traits that make you the great unique duelists that you are. I will use that power to defeat our foes.”

 

Tristan asks Joey, “Joey, dude, are you okay?”

 

Joey retorts, weakly with a glare, “Do I look…okay…Tristan…?” Just then a young man with blond hair and brown eyes comes up to Yuuko and she inserts one of the ‘orbs’ into the young man in which a decking deck appears inside of his Chaos Duel Disk.

 

Kaiba says, weakly, “That…That duel disk…”

 

Yugi says, also seeing the duel disk, “No…can’t be…”

 

Yuuko tells the young man, “Jou, you, now, have the strength of Joey Wheeler.”

 

The young man responds, “I feel it, Yuuko-sama. Oh, wow. This is the strength of one of the three greatest duelists in history.”

 

Yuuko says, “Use it wisely to defeat our enemies.”

 

The young man, Jou, responds, with a nod, “Yes, Yuuko-sama.”

 

Tea, Trista, and Serenity turn towards Yuuko and Jou and Tristan shouts out, cracking his knuckles, “Hey! You had better give what you stole from them back or else!”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “Your threats don’t scare me. You have no power here.” As Tea, Tristan, and Serenity are focused on Yuuko and Jou, they don’t notice another person, wearing a hooded black cloak, sneaking up behind them with the Millennium Rod.

 

Seeing this, Yugi says, weakly, “Tea…Tristan…watch…out…”

 

Mokuba shout out, strongly, “Look out!” Tea, Tristan, and Serenity turn around only to get bathed in the light from the Millennium Rod in which they internally struggle against it, but all three of them gain the Millennium Symbol on their foreheads and blank eyes showing that they are completely entranced.

 

Yugi and Joey say in unison, weakly, “No…”

 

Mokuba shouts out, angrily, “What have you done to them?”

 

Yuuko says, “It is obvious, Mokuba-dono. You should be glad that, like your brother, you are too important to history to let anything happen to.” Yuuko says, looking at the entranced Tea, Tristan, and Serenity, “But they are not. They have no importance to history, but they will make proper pawns.”

 

Joey says, weakly, “Let my sister…go right now…or…”

 

Yuuko tells Joey, “Wheeler-dono, don’t even try. You don’t have the strength to do anything and even if you did, you are trapped. They belong to us now.” Yuuko tells the person with the Millennium Rod, “Take them away.”

 

The Millennium Rod wielder responds, in a male voice, “Yes, Yuuko-sama.” He then commands the entranced Tea, Tristan, and Serenity, “Come. Now.” He then walks away and his three victims mindlessly obey in which they follow him.

 

Yugi says, weakly, “No, Tea…Tristan…fight it…”

 

Joey says, weakly, “Serenity…Tea…Tristan…come back…”  

Mokuba shouts out, “Tea! Tristan! Serenity! Fight it! Fight it!” However, Tea, Tristan, and Serenity don’t listen as they are being led away by the Millennium Rod wielder while Yugi, Kaiba, Mokuba, and Joey watch helplessly in their prisons as they leave.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector

 

Back on the surface, Sailor Celestial, RizeGreymon, and Crescemon have their own troubles as a legion of Vampire Lords and Myotismon continue to battle with them.

 

“Trident Revolver!”

 

RizeGreymon fires three sphere of orange flame energy from his revolver-like left arm, but Myotismon unleashes a horde of bats that holds off the attack with ease.

 

RizeGreymon says, with a snarl, “He’s tough!”

 

Crescemon says, “The one that the Digidestined fought had once fought against over half-a-dozen fully powered Ultimate Digimon, RizeGreymon. It seems like this one is no different in terms of power.” On the meanwhile, Sailor Celestial easily dispels the Real Solid Vision projections, the Vampire Lords, with ease with her powers.

 

“Position Laser!”

  Just then an ultra-powerful laser heads straight for Myotismon and he barely dodges the attack in which his right arm is damages with the right side of his cape destroyed!

 

Kara shouts out, shocked, “Myotismon!”

 

Myotismon returns to Kara and he says, “I am all right, my partner.” Everyone looks to the source of the attack to see Imperialdramon, in his dragon mode, floating down.

 

Sailor Celestial thinks in her mind, “Oh, great.”

 

Davis yells out, “Hey, you, fanged freak, I thought that we got rid of you!”

 

Myotismon retorts, “I’m sorry, you must have mistaken me for a Myotismon that you crushed.”

 

Kara says, stepping forward, “This Myotismon is my partner.”

 

The Digidestined, who are riding on the back of Imperialdramon with everyone else that was at Kaiba Dome earlier today, are shocked and Sora asks, shocked, “What?”

 

Tai asks, stunned, “That Myotismon has a Digidestined partner?”

 

Cody says, “More like Tamer. Remember, these days, there are Digidestined and Tamers, an ‘off-shoot’ of Digidestined, like us.”

 

Myotismon says, “I think that it is time for us to get going, Kara.”

 

Kara says, with a sly smile, “I think so.” Kara tells Sailor Celestial, “I can’t wait to feast off your fear, Celestial-san.” Kara then shows fanged canines before Myotismon uses his cape to cover himself and Kara in which they ‘dispel’ into hundreds of bats which fly high into the air and into the distance.

 

RizeGreymon asks, “How did they do that?”

 

Crescemon says, “A form of teleportation.” However, Sailor Celestial takes off for the Dark Signers’ former base much to the surprise of the others.

 

Kazuto yells out, “Sugu!” But Sailor Celestial doesn’t stop as she races for the Dark Signers’ former base and prepares to enter it.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Satellite Sector, Dark Signer’s former base

 

Within the Dark Signers’ former base, the ‘followers’ that are working with Yuuko are leaving in which only Jou and the entrapped Yugi, Kaiba, Joey, and Mokuba are left with Jou coming over to Yuuko.

 

Jou says, “The Quantum Cube and remaining Millennium Items have been moved to another base, Yuuko-sama.”

 

Yuuko says, with a nod, “Good.” Yuuko then says, “She’s here.”

 

Jou asks, curiously, “Who?”

 

Just then Sailor Celestial’s voice booms, “Yuuko!” With a loud ‘thud’, Sailor Celestial touches down on the ground in front of the only people left within the base causing their attention to focus on her.

 

Mokuba thinks in his mind, “Who or what is that?”

 

Yuuko tells Sailor Celestial, “Hello, Celestial…Or should call you by your real name, Suguha?” Sailor Celestial doesn’t say a word, but she then notices Yugi, Kaiba, Mokuba, and Joey in which her eyes go wide causing Yuuko to say, “Your eyes don’t deceive you. They are the real deal.”

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, stunned and angered, “What have you done Yuuko?!”

 

Yuuko tells Sailor Celestial, with a dangerous dark glare, “What needs to be done for what you have done and what you have caused?”

 

As RizeGreymon and Crescemon floats down, Sailor Celestial shouts out, “What do you mean?”

 

Yuuko tells Sailor Celestial, still with her dark dangerous glare, “Don’t play stupid with me, Suguha. You know that you are the cause of my brother’s death.”

 

Sailor Celestial gives a look of surprise and Crescemon says, seeing Yuuko, “It is Yuuko!”

 

Yuuko tells RizeGreymon and Crescemon, “It has been a while, you two.”

 

RizeGreymon says, with a sneer, “Not long enough, Yuuko.”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “Well, I suggest that you leave your partner because she is about to pay what her existence cost me.”

 

Sailor Celestial tells Yuuko, “Yuuko, he did what he did because of his own selfishness…!!”

 

Yuuko tells Sailor Celestial, with a dark sneer, “He did it because you existed! He wanted to awaken your accused powers and he took my brother from my family and me!” Yuuko says, with a dark growl, “If you…If you never existed…Suguha…” Sailor Celestial flinches from the dark enraged glare from her eyes, but she remains strong as the rest of our heroes and heroines teleported onto the scene.

 

Davis asks, surprised, “What the heck?!”

 

Yusei says, shocked, “This looks like an Ener-D reactor!”

 

Tai says, pointing to everyone else in the ‘room’, “Look at that!”

 

Yolei asks, confused, “What the?!”

 

Yuuko tells Jou, “Use the power of Joey Wheeler and end Suguha.”

 

Jou says, with a sinister smile, “As long as it causes HER pain, I’m up for it.”

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, “Yuuko!”

 

Yuuko tells Sailor Celestial, “I will destroy you and her for what you have both done to my family, Suguha. And you will also pay for your betrayal. I swear on it.” Yuuko then teleports away in which Sailor Celestial steps forward, but Jou appears in her sight and activates his Chaos Duel Disk.

 

Jou tells Sailor Celestial, “I don’t think so, girl.”

 

Sailor Pluto asks, “What do you think that you are doing messing with time and bringing those of the past into this time?”

 

Jou retorts, with a dark smile, “Don’t get your skirt up in a twist! We’re only borrowing them and we plan to send them back home around the time that we took them…after we used their strength to crush both of your ‘precious princesses’!”

 

Sailor Moon yells out, “What did we do to you?”

 

Jou says, pointing to Sailor Celestial, “Her. Nothing at all. Yuuko-sama has the grudge against her.” Jou glares at Sailor Moon and he says, with a dark snarl, “You…You are another story! Do you know how many lives your family has destroyed?!”

 

Sailor Mars shouts out, annoyed, “Hey! Sailor Moon’s family had nothing to do with Kayaba!”

 

Jou retorts, with a dark nasty tone, “Cry me a river! I had friends in SAO and they are dead thanks to the wretched death game! And I also had friends that had families that worked at Argus! Do you know what happened to them?! Their families were destroyed and all of them are either dead or in ‘funny farm’!” Jou says, glaring at Sailor Moon, “Someone has got to pay and since she is Kayaba’s ‘precious princess’, she is the one to pay it!”

 

Sailor Venus says, angrily, “That’s not fair! She’s a victim of SAO, too! She was trapped in there for two years, you ass!”

 

Jou says, with a dark angered tone, “I don’t care! A lot of my friends lost their lives because of SAO, one way or another, and they deserve their justice! Now, don’t get any ideas!”

 

Tai yells out, sternly, “Or what?”

Jou says, pointing to the Ener-D reactor-like device with a sinister smile, “That’s what. Why do you think that’s designed like an Ener-D reactor? All of the negative energy that remained from the time of Zero Reverse to around the time that Yusei-dono and his friends beat the Dark Signers is here. I think you can understand the words ‘Second Zero Reverse’.”

 

There are gasps and Jack yells out, “You wouldn’t dare?!”

 

Jou says, with a wicked smile, “Try me, Jack-dono.”

 

Crow yells out, angry and shocked, “You’re crazy!”

 

Jou says, with a dark sinister smile, “Maybe I am.” Jou asks Sailor Celestial, “Ready?”

 

Sailor Celestial’s Real Solid Vision duel disk appears around her armored left wrist and she says, plainly while inserting her deck that was contained her sub-space pocket, “Fine.”

 

Kazuto yells out, “Sugu!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “Stay out of this, big brother. There is just no reasoning with him. His heart and mind are completely engulfed by hatred and rage and all he can think about is vengeance.”

 

Jou tells Sailor Celestial, with a wicked smirk, “You should know, right?”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, plainly, “Are we going to get started or not?”

 

Jou tells Sailor Celestial, in a dark taunting tone, “Ooh, you have gained quite a backbone, huh? It makes me how tough you will be if your precious family and friends find out the truth about you.”

 

Yolei asks, curiously, “What’s he getting on about?”

 

Kotone asks, “Did that person that we saw back at the Kaiba Dome say the same thing?”

 

Cody says, “And from what we saw, Suguha knows her. I believe that she called her ‘Yuuko’.” On the meanwhile, Sailor Celestial’s duel disk activates in which both her duel disk and Jou’s duel disk shuffle their respective decks and the two of them draw five cards from their decks causing their duel disk’s touch screens to display 4000 life-points each.

 

Jou says, “By the way, don’t think that you can do anything during this duel. Any tampering will set off that machine and I’m armed with a ‘dead man’s switch’.”

 

Davis says, with an annoyed snarl, “Figures.”

 

“Game on!” Jou and Sailor Celestial say in unison as their duel begins.

 

Starting Scores:

Sailor Celestial: 4000

Jou: 4000

 

Sailor Celestial says, drawing a card, “I’ll start this off! My move!” Sailor Celestial says, putting one card on her duel disk, “I place a monster face-down!” Sailor Celestial then puts one card into the main slot of her disk and she says, “And I end with a face-down!”

 

Jou says, drawing a card, “Is that all? Well, then, my move!” Jou then gains an evil smirk and Jou says, “I guess that the real duel is starting now.”

 

RizeGreymon says, nervously, “Uh oh.”

Jou says, displays a Seal of Orichalcos Field Spell card, “I activate my Seal of Orichalcos!”

 

There are gasps and Davis says, with a snarl, “Knew it!” Jou puts the card into the Field Spell slot and he roars out as the dark power surges through him as the Seal of Orichalcos surrounds him and Sailor Celestial.

 

Sailor Moon says, concerned, “Celestial!”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “There is nothing that you can do, princess. Once within the seal, there is no getting in or out until the duel is over.” On the meanwhile, Jou gets the insignia of the Orichalcos on his forehead and his eyes gain a red glow/tint.

 

Jou says, putting one card on his duel disk, “And now, it is time to start the pain! I play my Marauding Captain!” Marauding Captain (1200/400) appears on the field in attack mode and Jou says, putting one more card on his duel disk, “And he allows me to play another monster! Meet a classic of Joey-dono’s deck: Gearfried the Iron Knight!” Soon after, Gearfried the Iron Knight (1800/1600) then appears on the field in attack mode and Jou says, with an evil smile, “And now, they get empowered the Orichalcos!” Marauding Captain and Gearfried roar out as the mark of the Orichalcos appears on their foreheads and their eyes gain a red glow as Marauding Captain goes from 1200/400 to 1700/400 with Gearfried going from 1800/1600 to 2300/1600.

 

Joey says, weakly, “Gearfried…”

 

Jou shouts out, “Captain, attack her face-down monster!” Marauding Captain attacks Sailor Celestial’s face-down monster which is revealed to be Dandylion (300/300) in defense mode. Jou says, with an evil smirk, “Your weed is finished!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, pushing a button on her duel disk’s touch screen, “Not so fast! I activate my Impenetrable Attack trap card!” Sailor Celestial’s face-down card is revealed to be the Impenetrable Attack trap card and Sailor Celestial says, “With it, I can make one monster unable to be destroyed by battle or effects this turn!” A field forms around Dandylion and Marauding Captain’s attack is stopped.

 

Jou says, putting two cards into the main slot of his disk, “I end my turn with a pair of face-downs!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, drawing a card, “My move!” Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot, “I activate Pot of Greed! Now, I draw two more cards!” Sailor Celestial draws two cards, puts one card on her duel disk, and she says, “And next, I release Dandylion in order to play my Meteor Dragon Red-Eyes Impact!” Dandylion vanishes in which Meteor Dragon Red-Eyes Impact (1800/2000) appears on the field in attack mode and Sailor Celestial says, “And since Dandylion has been sent to the grave, I get two Fluff Tokens in return!” Just then two Fluff Tokens (0/0 X 2) appears on the field in defense mode. Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Then I play my Mirage of Nightmare! During your next standby, I get to draw until I have four cards in my hands, but on my next standby, I have to discard the same number of cards that I draw!” Sailor Celestial puts four more cards into the main slot of her disk and she says, “And then I end my turn with four cards face-down!”

 

Jou says, with a dark mocking tone while drawing a card, “Is that it? My turn!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, drawing four cards, “And it is my draw thanks to my Mirage!” Sailor Celestial says, pushing three buttons on her disk’s touch screen, “And now, I activate my face-down cards! Thunder of Ruler! Jar of Greed! And Emergency Provisions!” Three of Sailor Celestial’s face-down cards are revealed to be the Thunder of Ruler and Jar of Greed trap cards with Emergency Provisions Quick-Play spell card.

 

Jou asks, shocked, “Three face-downs?!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a sly smirk, “Yep! And thanks to Emergency Provisions, I destroy a number of my spell and trap cards and I get one grand for each card! And I choose Thunder of Ruler, Jar of Greed, and Mirage!” Three said cards vanish from the field while Sailor Celestial’s life-points increase by 3000 in which Sailor Celestial says, drawing a card, “However, their effects are still in play with Jar of Greed giving me an extra card and Thunder of Ruler preventing you from attacking this turn!”

 

Jou says, with a dark smirk, “Not bad, but not good enough!” Jou says, putting one card on his duel disk, “I release my Captain to play the Fiend Megacyber in attack mode!” Marauding Captain vanishes from the field and Fiend Megacyber (2200/1200-2700/1200) appears on the field in attack mode in which he gets infused with the power of the Orichalcos. Jou says, putting one more card into the main slot of his disk, “And then I end my turn with another face-down!”

 

Current Scores:

Sailor Celestial: 7000

Jou: 4000

 

Sailor Celestial says, drawing a card, “My move!” Sailor Celestial says, putting one card on her duel disk, “I release my two Tokens to play my Red-Eyes Black Dragon!” Both Fluff Tokens vanish from the field and Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Mokuba says, amazed, “No way!”

 

Joey says, weakly, “Red-Eyes…”

 

Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Then I play my Fusion Substitute! Now, I fuse my Red-Eyes with my Meteor Impact!” Both dragons on Sailor Celestial’s field then goes into a fusion vortex as Sailor Celestial puts a Fusion Monster card from her Extra Deck on her duel disk and she yells out, “Meet Meteor Black Comet Dragon!” Out of the fusion vortex, Meteor Black Comet Dragon (3500/2000), a flaming black, dark violet, and red dragon, appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Sailor Venus says, amazed, “Wouldn’t want to meet that dragon in a dark alley.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, as a card come out of her deck, “And now, I use his ability! By sending one Red-Eyes monster from my hand or deck to the grave, you suffer damage equal to half of its attack points!” Sailor Celestial says, discarding Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon (2400/2000) Monster card, “And I choose Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon, so, it means you take twelve hundred points of damage!” Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon is projected by Meteor Black Comet Dragon and unleashes a stream of flames at Jou.

 

Jou responds, pushing a button on his disk’s touch screen, “I don’t think so! Go, Damage Polarizer!” Jou’s face-down card is revealed to be the Damage Polarizer counter-trap card and Jou says, “This negates any effect damage and both of us must draw a card!” A shield protects Jou from the flames and when the attack is done, both Jou and Sailor Celestial draw a card.

 

Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “You are going to regret that! I activate my Double Attack! I send one monster from my hand to my grave and one monster on my field that’s a lower level than the monster that I send to my grave!” Sailor Celestial discards Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (2800/2400) Monster card to her disk’s graveyard slot and she says, “And I choose my Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon!”

 

Mokuba asks, amazed, “How many Red-Eyes cards can one person have?!”

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, “Meteor Black, give this guy a major hot foot!” Meteor Black Comet Dragon roars out as it unleashes streams of meteors at both of Jou’s monsters!

 

Jou says, pushing a button on his disk’s touch screen, “I think not! I play Compensation Mediation!” Jou’s face-down card is revealed to be the Compensation Mediation trap card and Jou says, as the attack stops, “Now, you need to take two cards from your graveyard and shuffle this card with those cards placing them face-down on the field! I choose one and if it is this trap, your attack ends!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “That’s really going for the lucky move!”

 

Jou says, with a dark sly smile, “I’m confident in my chances, princess!”

 

Sailor Celestial takes two cards from her disk’s graveyard slot, displays Pot of Greed spell card and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (2800/2400) Monster card, and she says, “I choose these two!” Jou throws her the trap card, Sailor Celestial shuffles the three cards, and she then puts the three cards on her duel disk face-down causing them to appear on the field as such.

 

Jou says, pointing to one card, “I choose that one!”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, “No way he is getting it right.” When the card is revealed, it is the Compensation Mediation trap card and Sailor Jupiter yells out, in disbelief, “No way!”

Jou says, with an evil smile, “I guess I win.”

 

Sailor Celestial throws Jou back the trap card and she says, putting the other two cards back on top of her deck, “You might have gotten that, but I get those two cards.”

 

Jou says, “Yeah, but they won’t matter soon enough!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, seriously, “We’ll see! I end my turn!”

 

Jou says, drawing a card, “My turn!” Jou says, putting one card into the main slot, “I activate my Roll of Faith!” As a huge dice appears on the field and starts to roll onto the field, Jou says, with a dark smile, “Now, I roll a dice and I draw as many cards as I roll, but I have to remove the same number of cards from my deck as I roll!” When the dice stops rolling, it lands on a six and Jou says, with a dark grin, “I guess that it means I get six new cards!”

 

Tai says, shocked, “What?! It can’t be! No one is that lucky twice!” Jou draws six cards and he then takes six cards in which he puts them in his pocket and ‘out of play’.

 

Jou says, with a wicked grin, “However, one of those cards that I removed was my Different Dimension Charity spell card! When this card is removed from play, I get to add all other cards that I removed from play other than this card!” Jou puts five of the cards that he put into his pocket into his hand.

 

Yolei says, shocked, “You have got to be kidding me!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Well, Celestial is about to get the ‘punchline’ and none of us think that it is going to be funny, Yolei.”

Jou says, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “First, I activate my Double Summon! During this turn, I can perform two Normal Summons instead of just one!” Jou says, putting one card on his duel disk, “Then I summon Rocket Warrior in attack mode!” Rocket Warrior (1500/1300-2000/1300) then appears on the field in attack mode and gets infused with the power of the Orichalcos in which Jou says, putting one more card on his duel disk, “And then I release Gearfried, Fiend Megacyber, and Rocket Warrior to play Joey Wheeler’s ultimate warrior: Gilford the Lightning!” The three said monsters vanish from Jou’s field and in a flash of lightning, Gilford the Lightning (2800/1400-3300/1400) appears on the field in attack mode and gets infused with the power of Orichalcos.

 

Joey says, weakly, “No, Gilford…”

 

Jou yells out, with a dark strong tone, “And thanks to Gilford’s ability, your monsters are now automatically destroyed!” Gilford takes out his sword and with a burst of lighting, Meteor Black Comet Dragon is destroyed.

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a serious tone, “Now, his ability activates! When my dragon is sent to the graveyard, I can summon one non-effect monster from my grave and I choose Red-Eyes!” Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) appears back on the field in attack mode.

 

Jou says, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “Speaking of Red-Eyes, I activate my Polymerization!” Jou discards his Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) and The Dark-Hex-Sealed Fusion (1000/1600) Monster cards in which he says, “I fuse Red-Eyes with The Dark-Hex-Sealed Fusion!” The said monsters appear on the field and goes into a fusion vortex while Jou puts a Fusion Monster card from his Extra Deck on his duel disk in which he yells out, “Meet the Black Skull Dragon!” Out of the fusion vortex, Black Skull Dragon (3200/2500-3700/2500) appears on the field and gets infused with the power of the Orichalcos. Jou says, with a dark serious tone, “Gilford, get rid of her dragon!” Gilford slashes Red-Eyes Black Dragon and it roars out as it is destroyed, but since it was in defense mode, Sailor Celestial doesn’t lose any life-points. Jou yells out, with a dark strong tone, “Black Skull Dragon, attack her directly with Molten Fireballs!” Black Skull Dragon unleashes flaming meteors from its mouth right at Sailor Celestial.

 

Sailor Celestial says, pushing a button on her duel disk’s touch screen, “I don’t think so! I activate my trap: Defense Draw!” Sailor Celestial’s face-down card is the Defense Draw trap card and Sailor Celestial says, “Not only don’t I suffer damage, but I also get a card!” A shield protects Sailor Celestial from Black Skull Dragon’s attack and she then draws one card from her deck.

 

Jou says, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “Well, I place a face-down and end my turn!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, drawing a card, “My move! Draw!” Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot, “Remember those cards that you gave me? Here is a reminder: Pot of Greed!” Sailor Celestial draws two cards and Sailor Celestial says, “Next, I activate the effect of my Fusion Substitute! I remove this card from my graveyard, I can return a Fusion monster to my Extra Deck and then draw a card from my deck!” The said spell card is removed from the graveyard slot of Sailor Celestial’s disk, Meteor Black Comet Dragon (3500/2000) Fusion Monster card is returned to her Extra Deck, and Sailor Celestial draws a card from her deck. She gets a ‘sensation’ and she looks at her hand causing her to mentally flinch in which she thinks, “Damn it! It has to be this card again! Well, I don’t have much of a choice!” Sailor Celestial says, putting one card on her duel disk, “I play Red-Eyes Black Chick!” Just then Red-Eyes Black Chick (800/600) appears on the field in attack mode and Sailor Celestial says, putting another card on her disk, “Then I use his ability and he grows up into Red-Eyes Black Dragon!” Red-Eyes Black Chick glows as it transforms into Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) in attack mode.

 

Mokuba says, amazed, “Whoa! Talk about a growth spurt!”

 

Kaiba thinks in his mind, annoyed, “Just great! Wheeler’s favorite card has a whole family of cards dedicated to it now, but they are still nothing to my Blue-Eyes!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Then I play Inferno Fire Blast! Since I have Red-Eyes on the field, you take damage equal to Red-Eyes’ original attack points, but Red-Eyes can’t attack this turn!” Red-Eyes unleashes a fireball that slams into Jou and he grunts out as he loses 2400 life-points.

 

Jou says, with a dark sneer, “Ha! One low blow isn’t going to help you win!”

 

Joey tells Yugi, weakly, “Yug’…pinch me…I think that we’ve…gone from some nightmare…into a wacky dream come true for me…”

 

Sailor Celestial says, putting one more card on her disk, “I release Red-Eyes Black Dragon to play Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon in attack mode!” Red-Eyes is engulfed in a dark violet aura as it ‘transforms’ into Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon (2400/2000) in attack mode and Sailor Celestial says, “Red-Eyes gains three hundred attack points for every dragon in the grave and since there are five dragons in the grave!” Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon goes from 2400/2000 to 3900/2000.

 

Mokuba says, shocked, “No way!”

 

Joey says, weakly, “Okay…now…I know that I’m dreaming…”

 

Jou says, with a dark sneer, “Your dragon hasn’t the power to fight against my mighty creatures!”

 

Sailor Celestial finches, as if she is in pain, and she says, her voice slightly strained, “Maybe, but this will help.” Sailor Celestial says, displaying her Black Metal Dragon (600/600) Monster card, “I activate the effect of my Black Metal Dragon and I equip to Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon in order to boost its attack by six hundred!” Sailor Celestial puts the card into the main slot of her disk, Black Metal Dragon appears on the field and attaches itself to Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon, and Darkness Dragon goes from 3900/2000 to 4500/2000 in which Sailor Celestial yells out, “R-Red-Eyes, attack his Black Skull Dragon with Inferno Dark Fire!”

 

As Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon unleashes his attack, Jou says, pushing a button on his disk’s touch screen, “I activate my Skull Dice!” Jou’s face-down card is revealed to be the Skull Dice trap card and Jou says, “Now, your monster loses one hundred attack times the number that I roll!” A dice appears on the field and it lands on a six in which Jou says, with an evil smirk, “Ah, it looks like dragon loses all of those attack points! Too bad!” Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon goes down from 4500/2000 to 3900/2000.

 

Sailor Celestial says, “He is still strong enough against your precious Skull Dragon.”

 

Jou says, pushing a button on his disk’s touch screen, “Not with my other face-down! Graceful Dice!” Jou’s other face-down card is revealed to be the Graceful Dice Quick-Play spell card and Jou says, with an evil smile, “Thanks to this card, my monsters gain one hundred attack points times the number that I roll!”

 

Joey says, weakly and annoyed, “That’s my stick…” Another dice appears on the field and it lands on a six, again!

 

The others are shocked and Yolei yells out, annoyed, “You have got to be kidding!”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “To get such good dice rolls twice in a roll…The odds are huge!”

 

Jou says, with an evil smile, “Not for me! I’ve always been very lucky and I’ve gained Joey Wheeler’s skill, strength, and most of all, his luck! Combined with my own, there is no way that I can lose!” Gilford goes from 3300/1400 to 3900/1400 while Black Skull Dragon goes from 3700/2500 to 4300/2500 in which Black Skull Dragon unleashes its meteors where it starts to cut through Darkness Dragon’s flames.

 

Sailor Celestial says, putting one more card into the main slot of her disk, “Don’t count on it! I play my Rush Recklessly! This card boosts my Darkness Dragon by seven hundred points to the end of the turn!” Jou’s eyes widen as Darkness Dragon goes from 3900/2000 to 4600/2000 and overpowers Black Skull Dragon in which it roars as Darkness Dragon’s attack slams into it causing Black Skull Dragon to be destroyed in a strong explosion causing Jou to lose 300 life-points. Sailor Celestial says, with a plain tone, “That’s enough for now.” Darkness Dragon goes from 4600/2000 back to 4500/2000 while Gilford goes from 3900/1400 back to 3300/1400 due to the end of the effects of spells and trap cards played.

 

Current Scores:

Sailor Celestial: 7000

Jou: 1300

 

Jou’s eyes glow a sinister red and he says, drawing a card with a dark strong tone, “You are going to pay for that one! I draw!” Jou says, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “What do you know? It’s Pot of Greed!” Jou draws two cards, he gives an evil smile, and he says, putting one card into the main slot, “I activate Monster Reborn! I use it to revive Rocket Warrior!” Rocket Warrior (1500/1300-2000/1300) returns to the field in attack mode and gets infused with the power of the Orichalcos in which Jou says, putting another card into the main slot, “Then I equip Gilford with the Lightning Blade equip spell and boosting his power by eight hundred points!” The Lightning Blade appears in Gilford’s right hand causing him to go from 3300/1400 to 4100/1400.

 

Sailor Venus says, with a smirk, “That monster doesn’t stand a chance against Celestial’s dragon!”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, seriously, “Don’t be so sure, Venus! That’s why he brought back that other monster!”

 

Jou yells out, “I activate Rocket Warrior’s ability! Invincible mode!” Rocket Warrior transforms into its ‘rocket mode’ and he yells out, “Attack!” Rocket Warrior then rams into Darkness Dragon causing it to roar out in pain and Jou says, “In this mode, Rocket Warrior is invincible and I don’t take damage, but your dragon loses five hundred attack points!” Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon slumps as it goes from 4500/2000 to 4000/2000 in which Jou says, with an evil smile, “Which means Gilford can put it out of its misery!” Gilford unleashes a powerful lightning strike that destroys Darkness Dragon and Sailor Celestial grunts as she loses 100 life-points.

 

Kazuto says, worriedly, “Sugu!”

 

Rika says, with a smile, “She only lose one hundred life-points.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, plainly, “But she lost the most powerful monster that she had.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, as a card comes out of her deck, “Black Metal Dragon’s ability now activates! When it is destroyed while equipped to a monster, I can take one Red-Eyes from my deck and add it to my hand!”

 

Jou says, with a dark smirk while putting one card into the main slot, “A lot of good that will do you! I end my turn!”

 

Current Scores:

Sailor Celestial: 6900

Jou: 1300

 

Sailor Celestial says, drawing a card, “We’ll see!” Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “I activate Graceful Charity! I draw three cards and then I discard two to my grave!” Sailor Celestial draws three cards, discards two cards, and Sailor Celestial says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Time to end this! I activate a card that you should know well! Monster Reborn! I use it to revive my Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning!” Soon after, Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning (2500/1200), a darker version of Summoned Skull with red eyes, appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Jou says, with a dark smirk, “Ha! That bag of bones doesn’t stand against Gilford!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a sly smirk, “You shouldn’t assume things, buddy! Red-Eyes Archfiend is a GEMINI monster which means that in the grave or on the field, it is treated as a non-effect monster, but by giving up my ability to Normal Summon this turn, I can unlock its true power and I do so now!” Red-Eyes Archfiend roars out as its true power is unlocked and Sailor Celestial says, with a sly smile, “And its true power is ability to destroy all monster with defense points that’s less than this monster’s attack points!”

 

Jou yells out, knowing what this means, “Oh no!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a sly smirk, “That’s right! Both of your monsters’ defense points aren’t anything close to my monster’s attack which means…!!!” Red-Eyes Archfiend unleashes a lightning storm that destroys both Rocket Warrior and Gilford.

 

Jou shouts out, fearfully, “No!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, seriously, “It’s over!”

 

Jou says, fearfully, “No, you can’t! You know what happened if you win!”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a sigh, “All too well…” The others are surprised by this statement and Sailor Celestial says, with a determined look in her eyes, “But you made your bed, now, you need to lie in it, jerk! Red-Eyes, direct attack!” Red-Eyes Archfiend unleashes another lightning storm and Jou screams out as he is hit hard, causing him to lose 2500 life-points as well as the duel.

 

Final Score:

Sailor Celestial: 6900

Jou: 0

 

Jou slams down to the ground with a ‘thud’ in which an orb comes from him and goes right into Joey causing him to breathe a sigh of relief as he feels ‘re-energized’.

 

Joey says, excitedly, “Wow! I feel…great! I’m back, baby!”

 

As the seal surrounds Jou, he groans out, as a remote appears in his right hand, “I…may…be going…but I won’t go…alone…”

 

Crow says, nervously, “Uh oh!”

 

Jou says, “Yugi-dono…Joey-dono…and the Kaiba brothers…will be teleported away…but all of us…and Satellite…are going to die…”

 

Yusei yells out, horrified, “No!” But before Jou can push the button, a dice comes out of seemly nowhere to hit the controller with such force that it shatters apart causing Yugi, Kaiba, Mokuba, and Joey to be freed in which they hit ground, hard!

 

Joey says, with a winch, “Ow!” Everyone looks to the source to see Duke Devlin comes out into the open in which Joey says, “Duke!”

 

Duke says, with a sly smile, “Hey! You should have invited me to the party!” On the meanwhile, Jou groans out as his spirit is sealed away and his form lies motionless on the ground, but then Jou’s motionless form vanishes in a flash.

 

Sailor Star says, surprised, “He’s gone!”

 

Sailor Orion says, plainly, “Teleported.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “It seems so.”

 

Joey goes over to Yugi and he asks, “Hey, buddy, are you going to be okay?”

 

Yugi says, weakly, “Yeah, Joey…Just going to need…a rest…”

 

Duke asks, plainly, “Can someone tells me what’s going on here? Where are we? And why is Kaiba and Mokuba here?”

 

Mokuba says, plainly, “Beats us! One minute, we were in our company’s headquarters and now, we are in this place in which these weirdos that captured us implied that we are in the future.”

 

Duke yells out, stunned, “The future?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “More than quite a few decades into your future.”

 

Joey, Duke, and Mokuba look at our heroes and heroines and Joey yells out, “Okay, you look like you have an idea on what’s going on, so, give us the scoop already!”

 

Crow says, nervously, “That’s a long story.”

 

Leo says, nervously, “A real long story.”

 

Tai says, a bit nervously, “And I don’t think that this is the best place for it.”

 

On the meanwhile, Jack looks at the Ener-D reactor-like machine and he asks Yusei, “What are we going to do with that?”

 

Yusei says, “We need to make sure that it won’t denotate and start a second Zero Reverse and then we need to find out how they used it to bring three legendary duelists from the past into the present.”

 

Jack tells Sailor Pluto, “Something tells me that you may have a good idea on how they did it.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “A theory, but most logical one at best.”

 

Sailor Neptune asks Sailor Pluto, “Have you been watching ‘Star Trek’ on digital again, Pluto?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a smile, “Maybe.” However, on the meanwhile, plenty of the others were looking at Sailor Celestial, who an impassive look on her face.

 

May 9, 2026, Unknown location

 

At an unknown location, Yuuko is looking at the motionless form of Jou along with Squall and Dan with a plain look on her face.

 

Yuuko thinks in her mind, “I had underestimated you, Suguha. You have indeed become stronger than when I last saw you, but it won’t save you. You and your ‘royal family’ will pay for what happened to mine and your betrayal of me as well as our dream, Suguha. I will see the end of your accused existence.” Yuuko then turns her focus elsewhere in which we see Tea, Tristan, and Serenity inside of what looks like Full-Dive VR pods that were used by Seto Kaiba and Noah Kaiba before.

 

Just then a female voice says, “Yuuko-sama.” Yuuko turns to the source to see a young woman with black hair, blue eyes, and wearing a female business outfit walking towards her.

 

Yuuko asks, “What is it?”

 

The young woman responds, “They are ready.”

 

Yuuko says, “Good.”

 

The young woman says, “Yuuko-sama, why are you associating with ‘people’ like them? You know what they are.”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “They are useful tools. They are lucky that we found the old servers that they transferred into when Noah Kaiba tried to sealed them away in his virtual world which would have resulted in their demises when Noah’s ship, as well as the servers and computers containing his virtual world, were destroyed. However, you must admit that they are smarter than they look. They knew that Noah would do something to them if they didn’t live to his expectations, so, they came up with this backup plan to survive his wrath. However, it ended them up trapped in an old server for many years.”

 

The young woman asks, curiously, “How will they be useful?”

 

Yuuko responds, plainly, “As pawns, but their ‘dueling system’ is quite interesting. Our opponents are powerful and we need to think ‘outside of the box’ to defeat them. Their ‘dueling system’ that they fought the three great duelists of the past, Yugi-dono, Kaiba-dono, and Joey-dono, is very interesting and may prove an edge that we need.”

 

The young woman asks, “I see, Yuuko-sama. And as the creators of that ‘system’, they would be the best to use it against our enemies?”

 

Yuuko says, with a nod, “Perhaps, but as we know, just because they created the system doesn’t mean that they can’t be beaten at it.”

 

The young woman says, looking at Squall, Dan, and Jou, “And now, I see why you have them prepared like this…”

 

Yuuko says, with a dark glare, “I didn’t keep them to be taken over by wretched old fossils like them.” The young woman yelps in fear and Yuuko says, “They made the supreme sacrifice for our victory against our enemies and they were devoted to our cause which is why. I’m allowing the use of their bodies because it is necessary.”

 

The young woman says, nervously, “I’m sorry! Forgive me, Yuuko-sama!”

 

Yuuko says, “We have much work to do. We know of two of the Legendary Knights newest chosen, but Timaeus has yet to chose a third. While he did assist Suguha, it was due to their bond as she was the Legendary Knights second chosen after Yugi-dono, Joey-dono, and Kaiba-dono. We need to find who will be Timaeus’ third chosen.”

 

The young woman says, with a nod, “Yes, Yuuko-sama.” As the young woman walks away, Yuuko closes her eyes as image of a 14-year-old Suguha Kirigaya, wearing something akin to Mai Valentine’s outfit during the ‘Waking the Dragons’ saga of Yu-Gi-Oh, looming over her in which she then sees her with the Legendary Knights defeating someone in a duel rages in her mind.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City, Tops Sector

 

Inside of the Tops Sector of Neo Domino City, we are in Leo’s and Luna’s penthouse home where our heroes and heroines are assembled in which they are joined by the former Signers, Joey, Duke, and Mokuba as they look at the bedridden forms of Yugi Moto and Seto Kaiba, weak due to a ‘piece’ of them being stolen by Yuuko.

 

Duke says, looking out the window, “Man! I’ve got to say that good old Domino has really grown in so many years.”

 

Joey says, “No joke.”

 

Mokuba says, with an excited tone, “And all of this came from dueling.”

 

Izzy tells Mokuba, “In a way, Mokuba-dono. You and your brother create the Duel Runner and the improved version of the Solid Vision system which made Turbo Dueling very popular.”

 

Duke says, with a grin, “I’m glad to know that my efforts as a game designer are well-known.”

 

Yolei says, “That’s not surprising since you and Pegasus helped create the cards needed for Turbo Dueling. Kaiba took care of the hardware and you and Pegasus together help create the ‘software’ so to speak.”

 

Rika says, “You know, you shouldn’t be speaking so easily about the future.”

 

Yolei says, nervously, “Oh, yeah! Oops!”

 

Raye looks over Kaiba and Yugi and Serena asks Raye, “How is it, Raye?”

 

Raye responds, “Not too bad. They stole a portion of Yugi’s and Kaiba’s ‘essence’, the part of it focused on their strength and abilities as duelists, but it also means that they took that portion of their life-force. It isn’t critical since their life-forces are pretty much intact, but I don’t want to wait long to restore them as we have done with Joey-dono.”

 

Trista says, “They weren’t probably going to keep Yugi-dono’s and Kaiba-dono’s ‘power’ as duelists for long.”

 

Matt says, “Just long enough to complete whatever sick plans that they have.”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “And return them to their own time. I doubt that machine that used the negative energy that remained in the Dark Signer’s former base was their only method.”

 

Amara asks Trista, “How can you be so sure?”

 

Trista responds, “Like UNI-SHOCKER, I believe these people knew about us quite well and knew that I would detect such a distortion. Most likely, they originally planned to bring Yugi-dono, Joey-dono, and Kaiba-dono, here, take what they needed for them, their ‘dueling strength’, and them transfer them to another base for ‘safe keeping’ along with anyone else that came with the three of them.”

 

Davis says, “However, their plans suffered a bit of a ‘monkey wrench’ since Suguha was nearby.”

 

Jack asks, looking at Suguha and with a sarcastic tone, “Yes, quite the coincidence, wasn’t it?”

 

Suguha asks, looking at Jack, “What are you trying to say?”

 

Jack says, glaring at Suguha intently, “You know exactly what I’m saying, Suguha-san. You knew that they could possibly be there because you know how they or at least, the person that seems to be their leader, thinks.” Jack says, glancing at Joey, “In fact, Joey-dono said exactly that you called that young lady that confronted us after Serena-san and Keiko-san beat her two minions at the Kaiba Dome ‘Yuuko’ and that means that you know her! That means that you know what’s going on here and I want answers!”

 

Kazuto shouts out, annoyed, “Hey!”

 

Suguha tells Kazuto, “Easy, big brother.” Suguha tells Jack, with a serious tone, “Yeah, I knew her. Her name is Yuuko…Yuuko Kamishimo.”

 

There are gasps of shock from the others and Yusei asks, “Kamishimo? As in Kamishimo Industries?”

 

Izzy asks, amazed, “The top of the line electronics company that’s only rivaled by Kaiba Corporation and RCT Progress before it was shut down?”

 

Suguha says, with a nod, “That’s the one. She’s the daughter of the head of the company and she had a brother. He…He was trapped in SAO.”

 

There are more looks of shock and Leo says, nervously, “I don’t like the sound of this.”

 

Darien asks Suguha, “Her brother is dead, isn’t he?”

 

Suguha says, with a nod, “Yeah. He died on March Thirty-First, Twenty-Twenty-Three.”

 

There are gasps from the SAO survivors and TK asks, “Wasn’t that…?”

 

Kazuto replies, solemnly, “The boss battle with the twenty-fifth floor boss.”

 

Asuna says, solemnly, “What a horrible battle.”

 

Kotone asks, nervously, “I heard a lot of rumors about it, but was it…?”

 

Serena tells Kotone, solemnly, “A nightmare, Kotone.”

 

Jack says, looking at Serena, “Well, it explains her grudge against you.”

 

Serena gives a solemn look and Crow says, annoyed, “Good work, Jack. You are making things so much better.”

 

Jack says, sternly, “I’m not here to pussy foot around, Crow!” Jack looks at Suguha, eye to eye, and he says, “However, it doesn’t explain much about her grudge against you. Based on what she told us, you and she were once close.”

 

Suguha says, with a sigh, “Yeah, we were…friends.”

 

Davis tells Suguha, “Doesn’t seem like that anymore.”

 

Suguha says, plainly, “We got into a…disagreement.”

 

Jack tells Suguha, “Seems more than a ‘disagreement’ if she wants revenge as she wants revenge as much as she wants payback on her ‘royal sibling’.”

 

Joey says, “I want to know is how that Orichalcos junk is back! I thought that Yugi, the Pharaoh, rich boy, and I took care of it and the Pharaoh banished the darkness of that freaky stone from Dartz back in my time.”

 

Suguha responds, “The Great Leviathan is gone. Pharaoh Atem got purified Dartz of the Orichalcos, but it doesn’t mean that the Orichalcos was gone for good. They found a new ‘avatar’ and he formed a new organization as Neo Paradius.”

 

Joey says, sarcastically, “Neo Paradius? That’s original.”

 

Jack asks Suguha, sternly, “How would you know that?”

 

Suguha says, plainly, “I fought and defeated Neo Paradius partnered with the Legendary Knights of Atlantis.”

 

Joey asks, surprised, “You fought with the knights?”

 

Suguha says, with a nod, “Yep. Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos came to me and I fought with them to defeat Neo Paradius especially their leader.”

 

Jack asks, plainly, “Then why are they back with two of your friends now?”

 

Jack looks at Rika and Keiko and Joey asks, amazed, “Hermos and the other Knights are back?” Keiko then displays the Fang of Critias and Rika displays the Claw of Hermos.

 

Mokuba says, seeing the Fang of Critias, “Hey! My big brother had that card!”

 

Joey says, with a nod while looking at Hermos, “And that’s Hermos all right. I recognize my old partner fighting that freaky Orichalcos and Dartz.”

 

Jack asks Suguha, “If you defeated it, then why is it back and why have those knights come back as well?”

 

Suguha says, with a shrug, “Guess they weren’t as defeated as I thought.” Suguha says, with a deadly serious tone, “Something that I intend to correct now.”

 

As Suguha starts to leave, Kazuto says, “Sugu!”

 

Suguha tells Kazuto, sternly, “No, big brother! You and everyone else have to stay out of this!” Everyone else recoils in surprise and Suguha says, looing at them with a deadly serious tone, “This is my problem and my problem alone! I thought that I was finished with them in our battle, but it looks like I was wrong. It is my mistake that I intend to correct, but you need to stay out of it!”

 

Lita yells out, “No way! You can’t be serious!”

 

Suguha says, seriously, “I am serious! You don’t know what they are capable of! I do! They are just plain dangerous! Just stay out of it!”

 

Joey shouts out, “No way! My sister and my friends are prisoners of your former friend and they still have a piece of Yug in their hands! I’m not leaving until I get them back!”

 

Mokuba says, strongly, “My brother, too! I need to get what they stole from him back!”

 

Amara tells Suguha, “Like it or not, we are involved in this, too. They kidnapped Hiyori and used her to draw Kitten and Keiko to fighting them using that thing.”

 

Suguha mentally snarls at this and she says, “All the more reason for you to stay back and let me handle this.”

 

Suguha turns to walk away and Jack yells out, “Hold up! We’re not done here!” When Jack grabs Suguha’s shoulder, he then surprised as he is judo thrown onto the floor, hard!

 

The others are surprised and Suguha retorts, plainly, “I say that we are.”

 

As Suguha heads for the door, Lita asks, surprised, “I didn’t know that Suguha practiced judo?”

 

Kazuto says, surprised, “Neither did I.”

 

Suguha responds, sarcastically, “Really? After all, we went through?” Suguha then says, “Agumon! Lunamon! Let’s go!” Suguha’s two Digimon partners then follow Suguha as she leaves, bowing to the others as they do so.

 

Mina says, a bit nervously, “She does have a point. After all of the wild stuff that we have been through since THAT, you think that we might need to train in other forms of combat.”

 

Yolei says, with a nod of her head, “No kidding.”

 

Yusei asks Jack, “Are you okay, Jack?”

 

Jack responds, sarcastically, “Do I look okay, Yusei?”

 

As Jack gets back to his feet, Joey says, “That girl is hiding something.” Everyone looks at something, Joey says, “I know that gosh darn look in a person’s eyes. That’s the look when they are hiding a big ‘old fashion weight’ on their backs.”

 

Amara says, with a sigh, “Joey-dono is right.”

 

Hotaru asks Amara, “What did you sense from Suguha-hime, Amara-papa?”

 

Amara says, “Guilt. Anger. And all of the emotions that someone with a ‘chip on their shoulder’ and ‘weight on their back’ would be feeling. She was trying to suppress those emotions from us, but not really successful.”

 

When the others look at Raye, she nods her head and Keiko asks, “What do we do now?”

 

Kazuto says, plainly, “We get involved.” Plenty of the others nod their heads in agreement and Kazuto thinks in his mind, concerned, “Sugu, what’s going on with you?” Sensing her beloved’s distress, Asuna puts her hand on his shoulder and Kazuto puts his hand on her hand in which he gently squeezed.

 

May 9, 2026, Unknown location

 

Within an unknown location, there are two young ladies meeting with each other.

 

The first young lady is a young woman of around 19 years of age with blonde hair that is curled at the ends with a large pink bow on top. She wears what resembles pink and white lingerie with white cups, and a diamond shaped opening revealing her cleavage. On her legs and arms are white garments, and she wears thin white bottom with simple pink high heels. On her back is a large white lab coat lined with many different vials filled with hazardous chemicals.

 

The second young lady is a young woman in her late twenties with violet hair tied in a bun with bangs that nearly reach her chest on the sides of her head, a pair of glasses in front of her red eyes, and she is wearing a tight black skirt with black stockings rimmed with black paisley. She also wears a long-sleeved, classy, white dress shirt which reveals much of her bust; while wearing black camisole underneath. She has a black short skirt, black thigh-high stockings, and black high-heeled shoes.

 

The violet-haired young woman says, “It has begun.”

 

The blond-haired young woman says, “Yes, Suzume-sensei.”

 

The violet-haired young woman says, “Haruka, we’re going to need to keep a close eye on them especially her.”

 

The blond-haired young woman says, with a sly smile, “Right, Suzume-sensei.” The blond-haired young woman asks, curiously, “Where is Naruto-kun?”

 

The violet-haired woman, Suzume, responds, “He is keeping an eye on Hebijo and Hanzo.”

 

The blond-haired young woman, Haruka, says, with a smile, “Good idea. I can’t wait to see Hibari-chan again.”

 

Suzume tells Haruka, “You have unhealthy obsession with her.” Suzume tells Haruka, “Remember what our goal is here.”

 

Haruka says, with a smile, “I do.”

 

Suzume says, with a smile, “Good. We need to be ready.”

 

Haruka says, “Oh, I will be, sensei.” Suzume gives a sly smile at Haruka as they look over a holographic screen showing video footage of Suguha’s duel with Mike.

 

May 9, 2026, Neo Domino City

 

Back in Neo Domino City, Suguha is sitting down at a café and having a cup of tea in which Agumon (Suguha) and Lunamon are by him.

 

Lunamon says, “Suguha…”

 

Suguha tells Lunamon, “I know what you are going to say and you know why I need to keep big brother and the others away. Yuuko is dangerous and she is also my problem. I need to take care of her myself. While I’m grateful for Timaeus’ help, I’m a stronger duelist than before. I’ll be fine without the Legendary Knights’ aid. However, the others are going to need them and I hope that Timaeus gets his rear in gear and finds his newest ‘chosen’ soon.”

 

Lunamon asks Suguha, “Is it just that Suguha?” Suguha flinches from Lunamon’s question and she puts her cup down.

 

Agumon (Suguha) says, “Boss, I’m sure if you talk with them…”

 

Suguha yells out, sternly, “No!” Agumon (Suguha) and Lunamon flinch from that and Suguha then looks around to see plenty of the other customers looking at them in which she says, with a sigh, “Sorry. I…I’m just not ready.” Agumon (Suguha) and Lunamon nod their heads in understanding and Suguha thinks in her mind, solemnly, “After all this time, I’m still just a coward. I’m still running away. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to stand around and let my ‘mistakes’ haunt everyone. I’m going to end this personally once and for all.”

 

End Chapter 3

 

And that’s it for this chapter! Suguha has struck out on her own to stop Yuuko and her organization, who still has the stolen ‘strength’ of Yugi and Kaiba, as well as Tea, Tristan, and Serenity in which she seems to have another plan on the ropes. Our heroes and heroines are learning more of Suguha’s history of what happened during SAO in this ‘timeline’ and there are plans in the shadows as well. You are going to have to read and see what will come of them. Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!