Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online II: SAO Shippuden ❯ Arc III: Chapter 17: In and Out of the Shadows ( Chapter 35 )

Things are getting to a head at the start of this chapter, but you may be thinking that I might be leaving some things out, however, I’m sure that everything will pan out in the end. You must be also thinking about Yuuko’s ‘endgame’, but I’m trying my best NOT to give spoilers away, so, you need to read to find out, folks! Now, before I start, 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 17: In and Out of the Shadows

 

May 26, 2026, Neo Domino City

 

Within Neo Domino City, we find ourselves within Leo’s and Luna’s former apartment where we find Joey Wheeler pacing around with Duke Delvin and Yugi Moto looking at Joey with concern.

 

Duke tells Joey, “You are going to wear a groove on the floor, Joey.”

 

Joey tells Duke, “Like I can stay still. My sister and two of my friends are still captured by this future Paradius group. And we are just sitting on our asses!”

 

Yugi says, “I know, Joey. I’m worried too. However, you have to understand on how Yusei and the others feels. We’re vital to this time. If we’re gone, this future is gone too.”

 

Joey says, “Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know! I’ve seen enough sci-fi flicks to know what happens when you change history.”

 

Duke says, “Do you, Joey? There is also the factor of us learning too much of the future. Because of that, we might be tempted to change their past, our present, because of that information and in a lot of those sci-fi shows and films, it usually changes the future for the WORST and not the better.”

 

Joey says, “Oh, come on. You really think…”

 

Duke tells Joey, interrupting, “Do you really want me to answer that Joey?”

 

Joey gives an annoyed look and he says, “Fine, I get it.” Joey says, still with an irritated look, “But I just can’t stand it! You already saw what they did with Tristan. I just can’t help to wonder what they are doing to my sister and Tea!”

 

Yugi says, solemnly, “To be honest, I don’t want to know.”

 

Duke says, “All we can do is wait and see and hope that the ‘heroes’ of this time will be able to handle it.”

 

Joey says, with an annoyed tone, “I don’t like doing nothing while others are doing what I should be doing.”

 

Just then a familiar male voice says, “Trust me, I know how you feel.” Everyone looks to see Yusei and the other former Signers walking up to them.

 

Yugi asks, “How is Kaiba doing?”

 

Akiza says, plainly, “The same. Very weak and his brother won’t leave his side.”

 

Joey says, with a smile, “That’s not surprising.”

 

Crow tells Joey, “Anyway, Joey, we know how you feel. Trust us, we do. However, we’re going to have to leave it in the hands of our successors as Signers and their friends and family.”

 

Jack tells Joey, “And trust me, I feel the same way as you do. I don’t like others doing what I feel are ‘my tasks’. I like to do things with my own hands and my own power.”

 

Leo says, “Come on, the Sailor Scouts are real-life superheroes and they have got awesome pals with those guys with their Digimon partners!”

 

Duke says, “Personally, I’m amazed at what the future will bring. Living creatures made of data coming from a world made from our technology. This sounds like science fiction to me.”

 

Yusei says, “Well, Duke, it is real. The Digital World might actually exist in your time, but it may be in its ‘primitive state’.”

 

Joey says, “That’s pretty cool and yet, also pretty scary.” Joey says, “It is also weird that there are real-life superheroes in the future. I mean, that stuff you only see in anime and manga.”

 

Yusei says, “Well, the Sailor Scouts are quite real.”

 

Leo says, excitedly, “And they are awesome!”

 

Duke says, plainly, “They may be powerful…And I mean POWERFUL, but even so, they still seem to be having problem with this new version of Paradius.”

 

Joey says, “No joke. And it seems like the new leader is just as troublesome as Dartz was.”

 

Yugi says, “But they are quite excellent duelists.”

 

Joey says, “Yeah. Yeah. However, if I was out there…”

 

Duke tells Joey, “You might get yourself schooled, Joey. I’m not saying that you haven’t become a great duelist. While you aren’t anything like Yugi, you are a very good duelist yourself, Joey. The problem is, you are a good duelist of OUR ERA. This timeline has cards and dueling techniques that makes dueling at a level above what we have.”

 

Yugi says, “Atem and I learned about Synchro Summoning when Yusei and Jaden came from their times to stop Paradox, but now, we have come to a time that they have even more advanced cards and summoning techniques. XYZ Summoning and Pendulum Summoning. They put dueling far above what we are experienced to.”

 

Jack says, “And the reason that we are keeping you out of the fight with Neo Paradius. We can’t risk you getting captured again and also, if people found out that legendary duelists of the past are here in the present…let’s say that there is more than one duelist that would love a match with the duelist known as the ‘King of Games’.”

 

Leo asks Jack, with a smirk, “Even you?”

 

Jack gives an annoyed expression and he says, “I’m man and duelist enough to admit it.” Just then there is a sound like a telephone ringing is heard and everyone goes into the living room where Akiza pushes a button in which a holographic screen appears causing everyone to gasp to see a haggard Tea Gardner and Serenity Wheeler on the screen.

 

Joey yells out, horrified, “Serenity!”

 

Serenity says, weakly, “Joey…”

 

Yugi says, worriedly, “Tea!”

 

Tea says, weakly, “Yugi…” Just then Yuuko appears on screen in front of Tea and Serenity and showing an impassive look on her face.

 

Duke says, with a snarl, “You!”

 

Yuuko says, “All of you are going to meet at this location.”

 

Jack asks, with a snarl, “Why should we do that?”

 

Yuuko replies, plainly, “Do I really need to point out the obvious?”

 

Duke yells out, shocked, “You wouldn’t dare?!”

 

Joey shouts out, angrily, “If you harm one hair on her head, I’m going…”

 

Yuuko then responds, “You will do nothing other than do as I say. You, Yugi-dono, and Duke-dono are important to history, but your sister and Tea Gardner are not. If they die, they will not matter in the context of history.”

 

Yusei yells out, shocked, “You wouldn’t!”

 

Yuuko retorts, with a plain tone, “Can you really risk it?”

 

Joey yells out, strongly, “We’ll be there and we’re going to kick your ass!”

 

Yuuko says, plainly, “One can dream.” Soon after, the video imagine vanishes and an image of a map appears.

 

Duke says, plainly, “This is obviously a trap.”

 

Jack says, plainly, “Obviously.”

 

Akiza asks Yusei, “Yusei, would she…?”

 

Yusei says, with a solemn tone, “I wish that I could say ‘no’, Akiza, but with what she has done, I wouldn’t put it by her.”

 

Luna and Leo gasp in horror and Leo says, worriedly, “She can’t!”

 

Jack says, with a plain tone, “She may since she has the power right now.”

 

Luna asks, “So, what do we do?”

 

Crow retorts, “What can we do, Luna?”

 

Jack then asks, “But what guarantee do we have that she won’t do the unthinkable if we go?”

Yusei responds, “We don’t, Jack. That’s the worst part.”

 

Joey says, strongly, “Well, I’m going.”

Yugi says, with a nod, “Same here. I’m not going to let her harm Tea, Serenity, and Tristan.”

 

Crow says, with a sigh, “Well, here we go again.” Plenty of the others nod their heads in agreement and all of them start to move and discuss their plans.

 

May 26, 2026, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Within the Juuban District, we find ourselves within the secret base of the Sailor Scouts, under Crown Fruit Arcade, where we see Darien and Ami looking over all of the victims of Vlad Dracula the Third, the descendant of Vlad the Impaler’s vampire brother, recently destroyed by Sailor Celestial, who were mutated by a mutagen left by UNI-SHOCKER when they abandoned this Earth and modified by Vlad to incorporate his DNA to turn people into a kind of ‘pseudo-vampire’. Darien and Ami are looking over someone who has just been administered something into one of them and that person loudly grunts and groans as this person, a young man, transforms back into a complete human.

 

Ami says, with a smile, “It’s working.”

 

Darien says, “Don’t be so sure right now, Ami. We need to keep an eye on this person.”

 

Ami says, with a nod, “Yes, you have a good point.”

 

Darien says, “Thankfully, we were able to get a sample of Vlad’s DNA and he didn’t alter the mutagen beyond using his DNA instead of Lupin DNA used on Suguha.”

 

Ami says, nodding her head in agreement, “Indeed. It made it easy to create a counter-mutagen for Vlad’s mutagen like it was for the one used on Suguha.”

 

Darien says, “It was also a good thing that your headquarters at the Crown Fruit Arcade had this ‘enhancement’ to make room for all of these victims.” Ami nods her head and Darien says, “However, Vlad’s partner, Camula, managed to get away and with two of the victims of Vlad’s ‘vampire mutagen’.”

 

Ami says, nodding her head at Darien’s statement, “I know, Darien. We’re going to need a good and stable counter-mutagen just in case.” Ami asks, curiously, “But would they follow her as they follow Vlad?”

 

Trista walks over and she responds, “She seems to be high enough in the ‘vampire hierarchy’. She may already have control of them as we speak.”

 

Darien says, “And she seems to be quite intelligent. She may not make the same mistake. In fact, she will try to start over secretly. That means that we are going to need to keep our patrols at night.”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “Indeed.”

 

Ami asks Trista, “How are things over there?”

 

Trista says, a bit nervously, “Well…” Just then they hear the sound of someone’s fist hitting flesh and they turn to see Amara, lying on the ground on her right side and rubbing her bruised cheek, with Kazuto, his right fist extended outwards, over her with a lot of the others surrounding him.

 

Asuna says, shocked, “Kirito-kun!”

 

Michelle knees over to Amara and she says, worriedly, “Amara!”

 

Amara says, rubbing her bruised cheek, “I’m okay.”

 

Kazuto yells out, angrily, “I can’t believe you! You know damn well that Sugu has been really sensitive about this whole thing and she has been struggling to overcome this! I know! I know all too well what she is going through! And you just…!!!” Kazuto prepares to attack Amara, again, but Tai and Davis stop him.

 

Tai tells Kazuto, “Whoa, bro!”

 

Davis says, “As much as she deserves a real kick in her skirt for what she did, this isn’t helping your sister.”

 

Asuna tells Kazuto, “Kirito-kun…” Kazuto looks at Asuna and her pleading eyes, Kazuto calms down, and he lowers his fist.

 

Keiko asks, looking around, “Where is Suguha?”

 

Mimi then says, a bit nervously, “She left as soon as we got everyone in here.”

 

Serena asks Kazuto, “Can you talk to her, Kazuto?”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “Yeah, I am.”

 

May 26, 2026, Tokyo, Kawagoe, Saitama prefecture

 

At Kawagoe, we find ourselves inside of the Kirigaya residence where we find Suguha Kirigaya sitting on her bed while her two Digimon partners, Agumon (Suguha) and Lunamon, sitting on the floor and looking at her with worry as Suguha has a solemn look on her face.

 

Agumon (Suguha) asks, concerned, “Boss?”

 

Lunamon tells Suguha, “Suguha…”

 

Suguna gives a sigh and just then a female voice says, “You have a message from Naruto-san.” Suguha and her two Digimon partners then look to the source of the voice to see Trivia, Suguha’s talking feline advisor, on the main desk in Suguha’s room looking at her activated computer.

 

Suguha asks, curiously, “He is?” Suguha then gets up off her bed and goes over to the computer in which she reads what’s on the screen.

 

Agumon (Suguha) asks, curiously, “What does he want?”

 

Suguha says, “He wants to talk to me in ALO.”

 

Trivia asks, curiously with a hint of suspicion in her voice, “Just talk?”

 

Suguha says, annoyed, “Just talk, Trivia.” Suguha goes over to her bed, takes her Amusphere off the nearby table that it was on, and when she lies down, she puts it around her neck.

 

Lunamon asks, curiously, “You are going?”

 

Suguha says, “Might as well.”

 

Trivia asks, curiously, “Are you serious, princess?”

 

Suguha tells Trivia, annoyed, “How many do I have to tell you not to call me that? But then again, you don’t listen to me anyway.” Suguha says, with a plain tone, “Naruto has proven to be trustworthy. He was honest with his intentions and we just talked in New Aincrad. He isn’t too different with what he was in anime and manga.”

 

Trivia says, “But that’s fiction and this is the REAL-LIFE Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze we are talking about here. Fiction and reality can be similar, but they also different as well.”

 

Suguha says, with a sigh, “Yes, I know. However, this Naruto seems to be a lot like the one that I read about in anime and manga and he has proven trustworthy. He admitted that by giving the information on Neo Paradius, he was doing it for the benefit of his own group. If that’s unexpected of someone, this is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze we are talking about. He is being ‘the most unpredictable ninja’ as he is known as.”

 

Trivia says, with a nod of understanding, “Point taken.”

 

Suguha tells Trivia, “Anyway, there is no harm of logging in and going to see what he has to say.”

 

Trivia says, “Okay.”

 

Suguha says, plainly, “However, the three of you watch over Yugo. I left him in Kazuto’s room to talk with him when big brother gets back.”

 

Lunamon says, with a nod, “Okay, Suguha.” Suguha puts her Amusphere over her head, lies down on her bed, and she prepares to log into ALO to meet up with Naruto AKA Menma to find out what he wants to talk about.

 

May 26, 2026, ALO

 

In the skies hovering above the area in-between Sylph and Cait Sith territory in the continent of Alfheim in the virtual world of Alfheim Online AKA ALO, we find none other than Menma, the ALO avatar of our blond haired ninja from the Elemental Countries, looking around in which he looks up to see Leafa flying up to him.

Menma says, “Hey, Leafa-chan!”

 

Leafa says, “Hey, Menma.”

 

Menma says, with a sigh, “You are still bummed out about what happened, huh? You know that you shouldn’t bring that kind of stuff here.”

 

Leafa says, with a sigh, “I know.” However, Leafa yelps as Menma grabs her right hand and she yells out, as Menma drags her along, “Hey!”

 

Menma says, with a smile, “We need a private place to talk! Follow me!”

 

As Menma continues to drag Leafa along, she shouts out, “Fine! Just stop dragging me!”

 

May 26, 2026, ALO, Thule Island

 

On Thule Island, which actually a group of three island connected to each other by narrow strips of land, Leafa and Menma are on the beach.

 

Menma says, “Pretty cool, huh? This is really awesome!”

 

Leafa says, with a smile, “Yeah, it is. I was here with big brother…Kirito and others to go on a quest to have Yui-chan see whales.”

 

Menma asks, curiously, “Really now?”

 

Leafa says, “Yeah. It is called Deep Sea Plunders quest.”

 

Menma says, “I would like to hear about that story.”

 

Leafa tells Menma, with a sigh, “Sorry to ruin the mood, Menma. What do you want to talk about?”

 

Menma replies, plainly, “I just want to tell you that what Amara-san said and did to you was wrong. You did nothing wrong and what happened to Hotaru-san was not your fault. I know that Hotaru-san is like a daughter to her and Michelle-san and she had a right to get upset over that, but she should have gotten mad at fang-faces for getting her infected and Yuuko-san for kidnapping her, not you.” Leafa was about to speak and Menma tells Leafa, “Please don’t give any self-blame crap, believe it. It isn’t your fault! Amara-san and Michelle-san have no right to talk to you about you and Yuuko-san when they were willing to let innocent people die just to complete their mission. Did Serena-san tell you that? They didn’t know that they held two of the three items to bring out the Purity Chalice and if anyone else had them in their hearts, they were willing to let them die just to complete their mission. They were also willing to sacrifice Hotaru-san just to prevent the calamity that she was to bring and they mistook Sailor Saturn for that calamity when it was Mistress Nine especially when it was Sailor Saturn that helped saved the world that time.”

 

Leafa asks Menma, surprised, “How do you know all that?”

 

Menma tells Leafa, with a smile, “The ninja of this world have known about the Sailor Scouts ever since Mina-san started as Sailor V.”

 

Leafa says, with a sigh, “That shouldn’t surprise me.”

 

Menma says, with a smile, “Information is part of our business, believe it.”

 

Leafa says, “That’s no surprise.”

 

Menma tells Leafa, plainly, “Anyway, that’s not important. What’s important is that you get your act together. If you want to face Yuuko, always we have been saying, you need your head in the game.” Menma says, nervously, “Oops. I guess that I should have rephrased it better.” Leafa can’t help to mentally giggle at Menma and Menma tells Leafa, “However, if you are still hung up on her, I know of a way for you to finally conquer your ‘demons’.”

 

Leafa asks, surprised, “Really?”

 

Menma says, with a nod, “You are going to need your deck.”

 

Leafa says, nodding her head at the implications, “Right.” Leafa asks Menma, “Why are helping me?”

 

Menma tells Leafa, rubbing his head, “Well, for one thing, I like you.” Leafa can’t help to blush at that and Menma tells Leafa, “But I’m not ‘cheating’ on Hinata-chan, Sakura-chan, or the others! No way that I would survive that!”

 

Leafa says, with a nod, “No kidding.”

 

Menma tells Leafa, “I’ll admit that it is kind of personal and selfish. If I want to change this world’s ninja system, there has to be got to be a world for me to change.”

 

Leafa says, plainly, “That makes sense.”

 

Leafa then realizes something in Menma’s words and Menma tells Leafa, “Leafa-chan, I know that you are sore about this subject, but you know that Yuuko-san is messing with powers that could destroy the world and she wouldn’t give a darn unless she gets what she wants.” Leafa can’t help to remain silent since she knows that Menma is right and Menma says, “But I know that you are one of the people that can stop her, believe it. However, you aren’t going to stop her as you are. I know of a way to help, but you are going to need to trust me.”

 

Leafa doesn’t say a word for a few seconds, remembering what has happened with Menma AKA Naruto so far, and after those seconds are up with her thoughts, Leafa tells Menma, “I trust you. I still have my doubts thanks to that stunt that you approved Sakura-san of doing, but you have proven quite trustworthy.”

 

Menma says, with a smile, “Thanks, Leafa-chan. I will make up for that stunt, I promise you. And remember who I am? I don’t break promises. That’s my ninja way and the way of the Uzumaki!”

 

Leafa says, with a smile, “I know. I know that I can really trust that.” Soon after, Menma and Leafa shake hands and Leafa can’t help to feel a bit ‘warm’ shaking Menma’s hand.

 

May 26, 2026, Tokyo, Kawagoe, Saitama prefecture

 

Back at the Kirigaya household, we find Kazuto entering his house and looking around for any sign for his sister, but he doesn’t see her in the kitchen or living room as he enters the house.

 

Kazuto calls out, “Sugu! Sugu?! Sugu, are you here?!”

 

Just then Trivia’s voice shouts out, “It is about time, your majesty!” Kazuto then looks to see Trivia coming down the stairs into the living room.

 

Kazuto asks, curiously, “Trivia?”

 

Trivia tells Kazuto, “Your sister isn’t here, your majesty. She has taken her two Digimon partners and taken off to meet up with Naruto-san.”

 

Kazuto asks, shocked, “What?”

 

Trivia says, with a nod, “It’s true. She left a note for you on your desk in your room.” Kazuto then takes off to his room and shortly thereafter, Kazuto is reading a note left in his room by his adoptive sister/cousin.

 

Kazuto says, with a sigh, “Sugu…”

 

Trivia asks, concerned, “So, what do we do?”

 

Kazuto responds, “There is nothing that we can do, Trivia. Other than trust, Sugu.”

 

Trivia asks, “But…?”

 

Kazuto asks Trivia, “Do you have an idea where she is going?”

 

Trivia responds, with a sigh, “No.”

 

Just then there is ringing like a phone ringing and Kazuto takes out a smartphone from his pocket in which he pushes the receive button causing him to ask, “Hello?”

 

Asuna’s voice comes over the phone booming in a worried tone, “Kirito-kun!”

 

Kazuto asks, noticing the concern in Asuna’s voice, “Asuna? What’s wrong?”

 

Asuna responds over the phone, “It is Yuuko-san again. Yusei-dono and his friends just said that she called them up and threated to kill Yugi-dono’s and Joey-dono’s friends as well as Joey-dono’s sister if they don’t come meet her!”

 

Kazuto asks, shocked, “What?!”

 

Asuna says over the phone, “There is more Kirito-kun! Yuuko-san managed to contact us and she knows that Yusei-dono and the others called us in which she wants us to meet in the same location expect for your sister!”

 

Kazuto asks, confused, “Huh? Why?”

 

Asuna responds over the phone, “She didn’t say, Kirito-kun.”

 

Kazuto says, angrily, “Damn it! What is she up to now? This is really pissing me off!”

 

Asuna asks over the phone, “What should we do Kirito-kun?”

 

Kazuto responds, “We don’t have a choice. With all that she is done, I’m not taking the chance that she isn’t willing to murder them in cold blood just to get what she wants. In her mind, as long as they aren’t important to the past, there are no limits on what she can do.”

 

Asuna says over the phone, “The others agree on this.”

 

Kazuto says, “I’ll be right over.”

 

Asuna then says, “Don’t worry. Serena-chan is actually coming over to get you herself.”

 

Kazuto asks, curiously, “She is?”

 

Just then there is a knock on the front door and Serena’s voice booms out, “Kazuto, it’s me!”

 

Kazuto then says, over the phone, “She’s here!”

 

Asuna then says over the phone, “I’ll see you later, Kirito-kun.”

 

Kazuto says, “You, too, Asuna.” Kazuto then hangs up the phone and rushes downstairs to the front door in which when he opens it, he finds Serena at his front door.

 

Serena says, “Kazuto…”

 

Kazuto tells Serena, with a nod of understand, “Asuna just called me, Serena. I know what’s happening.”

 

Serena says, “We’re meeting at Raye’s temple before we head off.”

 

Kazuto says, “Right.”

 

Serena asks, curiously, “Where is Suguha?”

 

Trivia says, “She went off to meet with Naruto-san.”

 

Serena asks, shocked, “What?!”

 

Kazuto tells Serena, “I’ll explain once we are at Raye’s temple. This actually works out since Sugu would insist on going and you know how stubborn she is.”

 

Trivia says, looking at both Serena and Kazuto, “A quality that ALL Moon royals seem to be having lately.” Kazuto and Serena give Trivia an annoyed look, but they can’t retort since they know that she has a point.

 

Kazuto tells Trivia, “Please, Trivia, just take care of the house while we are away.”

 

Trivia says, with a sigh, “Yes, of course.” Kazuto, who had taken his shoes off when he entered the house, puts on his shoes, and heads out in which she says, with a sigh, “What a nightmare.”

 

May 26, 2026, Kyoto City, Kyoto prefecture

 

Right now, we are within Kyoto City, the former capital of Japan before Tokyo for one thousand years before the capital was moved to Tokyo in 1868 around the time of the Meiji Restoration when the Feudal shogun and samurai were put out of power and political power was restored to the Emperor of Japan and his court until after World War II. Right now, we find ourselves within temple grounds of the To-ji Buddhist temple where Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and members of their group, the Crimson Squad, assembled as Valkyrie Sailor Celestial flies in.

 

Homura asks, “Don’t you have the ability to teleport?”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “I’m not expert in Kyoto despite knowing where you are talking about.”

 

Homura asks, amazed, “Seriously, girl? With tech that we have these days, can’t you bring up a GPS on your smart phone?”

 

Haruka says, with a sly smile, “She is being very smart. It isn’t that she doesn’t trust us. It is to make sure that no enemies are spying on our position.”

 

Hinata asks, curiously, “Really?”

 

Sailor Celestial says, a bit nervously, “Yeah.”

 

Sakura tells Sailor Celestial, “Why are you embarrassed about that? That’s smart.”

 

Yomi asks, with a sly smile, “Are you sure that you don’t come from a shinobi family?”

 

Sailor Celestial gives a sigh and she asks, “Can we get this over with?”

 

Naruto says, “Sure. I’m sure that you get the reason that I asked you to bring your duel disk and deck.”

 

Sailor Celestial tells Naruto, “That’s obvious, Naruto. I’m dueling.”

 

Sakura says, with a nod, “Yes, but you aren’t dueling one of us.”

 

Sailor Celestial gives a brief look of surprise and Sailor Celestial says, her expression becoming calm and plain again, “To be honest, I was expecting that.”

 

Homura says, with a sly grin, “However, WHO you will be dueling is quite a surprise.”

 

Suzume then says, “However, it is for the best that you fight without your Sailor Scout powers.” Sailor Celestial gives a curious look and when she looks at Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata, they nod their heads in which Sailor Celestial touches her broach causing her to glow as she reverts back to Suguha.

 

Suguha takes out her digivice and she says, “However, my partners are coming out. To be honest, I trust Naruto. He has proven trustworthy, but let’s just say that I’m not letting my guard down. Agumon! Lunamon! Realize!” Suguha pushes a button on her digivice and her two Digimon partners come out.

 

Agumon (Suguha) says, “Hey, boss!”

 

Mirai says, with a smirk, “Smart girl.”

 

Suzume says, with a nod, “Indeed.” Suzume tells Suguha, “In our line of work, you NEVER take anything to chance.”

 

Suguha says, “That’s not surprising.”

 

Suzume says, with a nod of understanding, “Follow us.” Soon enough, Naruto and his group then head off with Suguha and her two Digimon partners following them.

 

As they are walking along, Suguha asks, curiously, “So, all of you are…?”

 

Haruka says, with a smile, “Yes, we are. And before you say anything, yes, we do have laws that allow male members of a ninja clan to marry multiple women.”

 

Suguha asks, stunned, “Seriously?”

 

Suzume says, with a smile, “Yes, we do. It is easier for one male to have multiple spouses due to it being easier for a male to ‘mate’ with multiple females than one female to mate with multiple males.”

 

Suguha says, with a mad blush, “Okay, serious TMI here!”

 

Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata are also blushing and Sakura asks, with a solemn tone, “Are the best ninja of this world are mainly busty women with a few exceptions and plenty of them are also completely shameless?”

 

Mirai tells Sakura, “Girlfriend, I ask that every single day.”

 

Sakura says, with a plain tone, “Don’t blame you.”

 

Suzume says, with a sly smile, “Well, seduction is part of what it is to be a female shinobi. It has been a staple of us, female shinobi, for generations.”

 

Suguha says, nervously with a blush still on her cheeks, “She has a point. Male shinobi are more ‘direct’ in their form of ‘ninja way’ while female shinobi, who we, the general public, and members of Naruto’s world, call kunoichi, use more ‘indirect’ ways including seduction.”

 

Suzume says, “Actually, there was a title where we, female shinobi, went by the name of kunoichi. Shinobi were for the male member of the ninja way while kunoichi were those of the female. However, that change since shinobi is the standard term for those who practiced the way of the ninja, but it was only part of the reason. These days, it seems like the female shinobi are becoming more talented than the male shinobi. For whatever reason, there are too few exceptional male shinobi and too many exceptional female shinobi. The male shinobi that prove exceptional are those of the Hayabusa and Mugen Tenshin clans along with the infamous Black Spider clan, but they are outside of the ‘good and evil shinobi clans’. The only males on ‘those sides’ that are incredible are Kiriya-sensei, Asuka’s father, Hanzo-dono, and a few others, but that’s about it.”

 

Haruka says, looking seductively at Naruto, “It is why someone like Naruto is in high demand. He is exceptional…BEYOND exceptional male shinobi. We’re just lucky that we found him first. We know that our progeny from Naruto, male and female, will be as exceptional if not more so than all of us.” Suguha, Naruto, Sakura, and especially, Hinata, blush madly with Hinata becoming as red as a tomato.

 

Sakura yells out, annoyed, “Have you no shame?!”

 

Homura says, with a smirk, “If we did, we wouldn’t be shinobi, right? Shame isn’t part of the business, girlfriend.” Soon enough, the group comes to a grouping of bushes and tries in which Suzume puts her hands together in a hand sign and chants something causing what looks like black and dark violet ‘mist’, but then ‘mist’ parts ways created a pathway through the middle of the mist where Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and the members of the Crimson Squad go through in which, after looking at each other, Suguha and her two Digimon partners follow causing the ‘mist’ to cover the path once again where it seems like all of them vanish through a form of teleportation.

 

May 26, 2026, Kyoto prefecture

 

Right now, we find the rest of our heroes and heroines, minus the captured Sailor Saturn, assembled together, where we see that a lot of them have Real Solid Vision duel disks attached to their left wrists, in which they are joined by Sailor Moon’s Earth brother, Sammy Tsukino, and Sailor Moon’s two Digimon partners, Gatomon (Serena) and BlackGatomon, with Sailor Moon looking at Sammy with annoyance.

 

Sailor Moon tells Sammy, annoyed, “You know why I didn’t want you following along!”

 

Sammy retorts, “Sorry, Meatball Head, even if I wasn’t involved because I’m a Signer like you, she is a threat to our family.”

 

Sailor Moon tells Sammy, sternly, “And that’s why I wanted you to stay behind, squirt! She wants revenge against us and Suguha and she is willing to do ANYTHING to get it! She is dangerous than any of our enemies as Sailor Scouts before!”

 

Gatomon (Serena) says, “Sorry, Serena.”

 

Sailor Moon tells her Digimon partner, “No, Gatomon. It isn’t your fault. You and BlackGatomon just did the job that you agreed to.”

 

BlackGatomon tells Sailor Moon, “Yeah, but we couldn’t stop him unless we used forced and attacking your partner’s family is a big ‘no way’.”

 

Sailor Moon says, with a smile, “Yes, that’s right.”

 

Sailor Mars says, with a plain tone, “It seems like stubbornness is part of your ‘Earth heritage’ too, Meatball Head.”

 

Sailor Moon says, annoyed, “Don’t remind me.”

 

Sailor Jupiter asks, “Do you think that Yusei and the others are all right?”

 

Just then there is a sound of vehicles coming up and Ken says, “Looks like we’re going to find out.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, annoyed, “I don’t like this.”

 

Sailor Neptune says, “I know, but they have saved the world before from the Dark Signers, Netherworld King, and Z-One and his organization from that ‘dark future’ making sure that Crystal Tokyo had a chance to come to being in the first place.”

 

Sailor Venus asks, confused, “I don’t get it. If Z-One’s future was an alternate timeline of ours, how come we couldn’t stop it?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “From what I could tell from that horrible future, the Machine Emperors were too much, even for the Digimon, in which there are millions upon millions of Digidestined and Tamers, and us. Also, we didn’t get the levels of power that we did now.”

 

Sailor Jupiter asks, “We weren’t Valkyrie Sailor Scouts?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, shaking her head, “No, we weren’t. In fact, SAO never happened in that timeline.”

 

There are looks of shock and Sailor Star asks, “SAO NEVER happened in that timeline?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, shaking her head, “No, it didn’t. And as you know, SAO was the catalyst for Suguha to awaken as Sailor Celestial.”

 

For a few moments, there is silence, but then Kazuto asks, “Did Kayaba know about this?” Kazuto looks Sailor Pluto, strictly in the eyes, but before she could reply, Yusei and the other former Signers, riding their Duel Runners, with Luna riding with her brother, Leo, on his Duel Runner, riding up and stopping in front of them.

 

Tai asks, “What’s up?”

 

Crow says in reply, “What’s up is that we didn’t find a thing all around.”

 

Akiza asks, “Why did she wants us to meet us in the middle of nowhere some distance away from the old capital?”

 

Yusei responds, “That’s a good question, Akiza.”

 

Leo asks, looking around, “Where is Yugi-dono, Joey-dono, and Duke-dono?”

 

Just then a male voice says, “We’re right here and we may have found something.” Everyone looks to see Yugi, Joey, and Duke coming towards them.

 

Davis says, “Yo!”

 

Mimi says, “We’re glad that you are okay.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “You shouldn’t run off like that.”

 

Joey says, sternly, “Hey, my sister is in danger! I also want to teach that little witch a lesson about threatening my sister and my friends!”

 

Yugi says, “Easy, Joey. We’re all worried about them.”

 

Yusei says, “And we did agree that we should scout around first since Yuuko and Neo Paradius would have more been focused on you.”

 

Kazuto says, “We said that MAY have been possible, but since she called all of you, here, too, it is possible that she would be prepared for all of you, too.”

 

Akiza says, a bit nervously, “That’s a good point.”

 

Duke says, changing the subject, “Anyway, you should see this.”

 

Ken says, plainly, “Lead the way, Duke-dono.” Soon enough, the whole group heads off with Sailor Moon giving concerned glances at Sammy, who doesn’t seem to notice, but Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon’s Digimon partners do.

 

(Shortly thereafter)

 

A bit shortly afterwards, we find that group on a high hill overlooking a valley looking at a group of ruined buildings that are obviously NOT Japanese.

 

Yolei asks, stunned, “What are those?”

 

Davis says, “They don’t look Japanese.”

 

TK says, with a nod and amazed look on his face, “No kidding, Davis.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “They are Atlantian.”

 

Tuxedo Mask asks, surprised, “Atlantian?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a nod, “I recognize the architecture.”

 

Yugi says, with a nod, “Same here. I remember this type of architecture when we were battling Dartz.”

 

Joey says, nodding his head in agreement, “No joke, Yug. This is when we went to Atlantis when that freak Orichalcos managed to raise it from under the sea.”

 

Rika asks, stunned, “It did that?”

 

Joey says, with a nod, “Yep. Believe me, in my experience, I learned NEVER to underestimated real magic.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, nodding her head in understand, “Wise policy, Joey-dono.”

 

Davis says, annoyed, “Seriously? Maybe she should have put a massive neon sign that says: ‘Welcome to the Big Fat Trap!’ She is really losing her touch.”

 

Tai says, “Maybe or maybe not. Maybe she made it so obvious since we have to ‘trigger’ this possible trap. She has people’s lives in her hands.”

 

Kari says, nodding her head, “I agree with Tai.”

 

Kazuto says, giving his own head a light nod of agreement, “Ditto. We can’t risk Serenity-san’s, Tea-san’s, and Tristan-san’s lives here.”

 

Sailor Star says, “I’ve got to agree with you, Tai, and Kari, Kirito-kun. Not after what we went through. We won’t lose innocent lives to get lost again.”

 

Sailor Moon says, giving her own nod of confirmation, “I feel the same way.”

 

Sailor Mars says, with a sigh, “Okay, let’s go.” The group bound their way down the hill and into the valley containing what looks like Atlantian ruins, but when they are at the edge of the ruins, everyone else is stopped by a barrier, but Hiyori and Yugi are allowed to pass through.

 

Keiko shouts out, “Hiyori!” Hiyori and Yugi look to see the others on the other side of the barrier and most of them pounding on the barrier.

 

Sammy asks, confused, “What the heck?!”

 

Sailor Mercury, who has her visor active and using her computer, says, “It is some kind of barrier to keep people out.”

 

Sailor Venus retorts, sarcastically, “Really? Who knew?”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, annoyed, “Not the time.”

 

Davis asks, pointing to Hiyori and Yugi, “Wait! Then why…?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “It has a DNA based encoding. It is designed to let people with a certain DNA pattern through the barrier.”

 

Yusei says, “Namely Yugi and Hiyori.”

 

Kazuto tells Hiyori and Yugi, “Hiyori, you and Yugi-dono need to get out of there now!”

 

Hiyori says, with a nod, “Okay!” However, when Yugi and Hiyori try to leave out of the barrier, they are stopped in front of the others, making them unable to get out.

 

Yugi says, pounding on the barrier, “We…We can’t get out!”

 

Joey asks, annoyed, “Let me guess: The barrier lets the people that it allows in, but it doesn’t let them out, right?”

 

Just then a sinister male voice shouts out, “That’s right, dweeb!” Everyone looks to the source of the voice to find none other than Bandit Keith with a Chaos Duel Disk attached to his left wrist walking up in front of them.

 

Joey asks, shocked, “Bandit Keith?!”

 

Bandit Keith says, “The one and only twerp!”

 

Yugi asks, “What are you doing here in the future?”

 

Bandit Keith says, “The future, huh? It is kind of the present to me since I was revived some time ago.”

 

Joey asks, shocked, “Revived? Wait! You mean…?”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a wicked smile, “Died? Yep! You really didn’t know what happened to me after I was losing my mind thanks to that Marik asshole using something similar to Pegasus’ cheating eye to make me into his little puppet!” Bandit Keith’s smile turns into a snarl as his right hand turns into a fist and Bandit Keith says, “Personally, I would love to go back to the past and beat the stuffing out of that Egyptian twerp now that he doesn’t have his little cane to help him anymore!” Bandit Keith says, “But that girl, Yuuko, won’t let me go back into the past despite me being dead there! Doesn’t want to risk one of those sci-fi paradoxes or something!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, plainly, “For once, she is being smart.”

 

Bandit Keith says, “However, she told me if I do one little thing, I get a chance at a new life, here, with a boat load of riches that will keep me in the lap of luxury for rest of my new life here! I have to say that this future place really rocks! I mean…duels on motorcycles?! I have to say that while Kaiba’s personality needs a bit of work, his ideas are just rad! I could get use to life here!”

 

Tuxedo Mask asks, “Do you really think that she will fulfill her promise?”

 

Bandit Keith says, “Like I got anything else to lose!” Bandit Keith says, pointing to Joey, “She also promised me if I take out that twerp! I get to duel you as long as I do anything permanently damaging to you!”

 

Joey says, with a sly smirk, “That’s because I’m vital for this place to exist! You want to live here, you can’t do a darn thing to me!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with an annoyed snarl, “Keep it up, punk! I may be so tempted to give you a beatdown after I beat the shrimp that girl told me to duel!” Bandit Keith says, pointing to Hiyori, “You.”

 

Hiyori asks, shocked and worriedly, “Me?”

 

Bandit Keith says, “Yeah, you. Nothing personal, little girl, but this is business after all.”

 

As Bandit Keith prepares his duel disk, Yugi says, “No way, Bandit Keith! This won’t be a fair duel at all!”

 

Joey says, “Yeah! You cheated in our duel by keeping up cards in your sleeves! Pegasus ratted you out after I had beaten you even through you cheated! Let’s see those sleeves!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a plain tone, “Don’t get your panties in a twist. This duel disk was designed with an anti-cheat system that will only accept cards that came from the deck and the deck has already been scanned in.”

 

Duke asks, annoyed, “And we are supposed to believe you and her?”

 

Kazuto says, “As much as I hate to admit it, when it comes to dueling matches, Yuuko tends to be ‘fair and square’.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “When dealing with ancient powers like the Millennium Items and the Orichalcos, the result isn’t valid if a party tries to cheat. If you want to use such powers, you must win the duel fair and square.”

 

Tuxedo Mask asks, “So, basically, it is necessity and not any sense of honor that Yuuko has her duelists duel WITHOUT any cheating tactics?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a nod, “Yes.”

 

Joey says, “If you ask me, that Orichalcos card is a MAJOR cheat.”

 

Bandit Keith says, tauntingly, “Boo hoo! You’ve beaten duelists that use this freaky card before, so, you have no room to talk, punk! Oh, yeah! You also use a card that can be combined with other cards that can give you also sorts of edges!”

 

Joey yells out, irritated, “Hey, don’t compare us to you! Those cards…No, the Knights of Atlantis gave Yug, Rich-Boy, and me their powers because they were confident that we would use them to tip those old scales back into a fair fight!”

 

Yugi tells Joey, “Easy, Joey. He is just trying to get into your skin.”

 

Joey says, “Yeah, I know, Yug. But he is just as a pain in the ass as ever. That’s Bandit Keith all right.”

 

Bandit Keith says, in a nasty taunting tone, “That’s my name and don’t wear it out! Now, it is time for me to beat this little girl and get my life back on track!”

 

Yugi says, “Not today, Keith!”

 

Bandit Keith says, snapping his fingers, “Oh, I think you are going to stay ‘benched’ Yugi!” Just then multiple chains burst out of the ground, wrap around Yugi, and entrap him.

 

Joey says, worriedly, “Yugi!”

 

Yugi says, struggling against the chains, “Can’t move…!!”

 

Hiyori says, worriedly, “Yugi-dono!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a wicked smirk, “Now, brat, it is time to duel! Like I said, nothing personal, but this is my future here!” Bandit Keith then activates his Chaos Duel Disk causing the ‘energy blade’ containing his disk’s Monster and Pendulum Zones.

 

Keiko asks, worriedly, “What should we do?”

 

Sailor Orion retorts, “What can we do?”

 

Kotone asks Sailor Mercury, “Can we get through the barrier?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, shaking her head, “No. There also seems to be some kind of ‘energy field’ matched to our energies. Basically, it was designed as an ‘anti-Sailor Scout barrier’.”

 

Davis says, annoyed, “Great! Another UNI-SHOCKER product!”

 

Yolei says, “That doesn’t surprise me.”

 

TK says, “It shouldn’t surprise us that they would have so many pieces of technology to use against Sailor Scouts since they have experience with them.”

 

Sammy says, “Maybe my new powers…!!!”

 

Sailor Moon responds, interrupting, “No way! You know what your new powers are!”

 

Sammy tells Sailor Moon, “Yeah, but the others already cleared them, Meatball Head!”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “Your powers won’t help either. The force-field is too powerful and made to counter our powers as well!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a sly smile, “Basically, it means that there is no escape!”

 

Hiyori says, with a sigh, “Then I have no choice.”

 

Hiyori activates her Real Solid Vision duel disk and Rika says, “You can do it, Hiyori!”

 

Keiko says, with a nod, “You have become stronger!”

 

Bandit Keith says, tauntingly, “Ah, how sweet! It makes me want to throw up!” Hiyori’s duel disk ‘produces’ the ‘energy blade’ containing the Monster and Pendulum Zones for her duel disk, Bandit Keith’s and Hiyori’s decks are shuffled by their respective disks, and when their respective duel disks display 4000 life-points for each duelist on their touch screen, both Hiyori and Bandit Keith draw five cards from their respective decks.

 

“Duel!” Bandit Keith and Hiyori say in unison as their duel begins.

 

Starting Scores:

Hiyori: 4000

Bandit Keith: 4000

 

As the duel starts, Keiko says, worriedly, “Hiyori.”

 

Rika tells Keiko, “Don’t worry, Keiko. Hiyori is strong. And she has become stronger here and in ALO ever since we met.”

 

Keiko says, with a nod, “Yeah.”

 

Sailor Moon thinks in her mind, concerned, “I believe you…We all do, Hiyori. Win this duel and bring yourself and Yugi-Dono back to us safely.”

 

May 26, 2026, Kyoto City, Kyoto prefecture

 

Returning to Suguha and her two Digimon partners, they are traveling with Naruto and his group through some kind of field until they end looking at a large clearing that has a Shinto shrine on the edge of the other side with man-made group of rocks set in some kind of formation.

 

Suguha says, “I’m guessing that only shinobi know of this place.”

 

Suzume says, with a nod, “Yes. It is a sacred spiritual place only known to shinobi, but it is known to ALL shinobi.”

 

Homura tells Suguha, “Let’s not pull any punches here. If you do this, you are going to go through hell, girl.”

 

Haruka says, with a nod, “Indeed, Suguha. This is a place that will push you to your limits.”

 

Naruto tells Suguha, “Homura-chan and Haruka-chan aren’t kidding around, Suguha. It will push you to your physical, emotional, and mental limits. If you want to back down now, I won’t blame you.”

 

Suguha asks, “I’m guessing that some of you were here before?”

 

Sakura replies, “You can say that.”

 

Lunamon says, concerned, “Suguha…”

 

Suguha smiles at her Digimon partner and she says, with a plain tone, “Well, I came this far and it isn’t like I haven’t been through an emotional roller-coaster. SAO saw that happen.” Suguha takes out her duel disk and attaches it to her left wrist. Suguha then inserts her dueling deck and starts to walk inside.

 

Hinata tells Suguha, “Good luck.”

 

Mirai says, bluntly, “You are going to need it.”

 

Suguha retorts, sarcastically, “Thanks a lot.” Suguha then walks forward into the clearing and into the rock formation in which the rock formation starts to glow causing the whole area to shake.

 

Suguha’s two Digimon partner gasp and Agumon (Suguha) asks, “What’s happening?”

 

Suzume responds, “Her trial has started.” Suguha looks around and she then looks to see her own shadow extending outwards until it reaches the other side where a female figure emerges from her shadow. Suguha then looks to see that the female figure is none other than herself dressed like she was when she was under the influence of the Orichalcos and ‘working’ for Neo Paradius with a Chaos Duel Disk that the current Neo Paradius duelists are using attached to her left wrist.

 

Suguha and her two Digimon partners gasp in shock and Agumon (Suguha) asks, surprised, “TWO of the Boss?”

 

Lunamon says, stunned, “No way!”

 

The ‘other Suguha’ says, with a dark smirk, “What’s the matter, girlfriend? It looks like you have seen a ghost.”

 

Suguha asks, sarcastically, “Let me guess: The old ‘face yourself’ routine?”

 

The ‘other Suguha’ responds, in a dark nasty tone, “Well, look at the big brain on you. And they call Serena a ‘Meatball Head’.” Suguha gives an annoyed look at her ‘counterpart’ and this ‘other Suguha’ says, “Don’t give me that, girl. You know what I am. I am you. The REAL you. The you that you keep denying!”

 

Suguha says, sternly, “No, I’m nothing like you! Not anymore!”

 

As a dueling deck appears in the ‘other Suguha’s’ duel disk, she says, with an evil smile, “We’re going to find out, won’t we? Time to find out who is the true Suguha Kirigaya!”

 

Suguha says, activating her duel disk, “Fine by me! Time to end this nonsense!” Suguha’s ‘dark counterpart’ activates her Chaos Duel Disk causing the ‘energy blades’ for their disks’ Monster and Pendulum Zones to appear, their decks become shuffled, and as their disks’ touch screens display 4000 life-points for each duelist, they draw five cards from their respective decks.

 

“Duel!” Suguha and her ‘dark counterpart’ say in unison as their duel begins.

 

Starting Scores:

Suguha: 4000

Dark Suguha: 4000

 

Suguha’s ‘dark counterpart’, Dark Suguha, says, drawing a card, “I’ll take the first turn! I draw!” Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot, “I place one monster face-down and call it a turn!”

 

Suguha thinks in her mind, “What’s she up to?”

 

Dark Suguha says, with a dark sly tone, “Trying to figure what you are going to do? It is a real bitch when you don’t know yourself.”

 

Suguha says, drawing a card, “Fine! I draw!” Suguha then displays two Pendulum Monster cards, Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon (1200/2400) and Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon (1200/600), and she says, “I take scale one, Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon, and scale eight, Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon, and set the Pendulum Scale!” Suguha sets the two cards in the Pendulum Zones causing the word ‘Pendulum’ to appear in Monster Card Zones in rainbow colors, the two monsters appear on the field in columns of light, one monster per column, and the number 1 below Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon with the number 8 below Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon. As a swinging crystal pendulum appears on the field, Suguha says, “I can now summon monsters that are levels two to seven this turn! Swing, Pendulum! Draw the arc of light to victory! Pendulum Summon!” Suguha puts a card on her disk and she says, “Meet the duel-eyed dragon of dimension: Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!” A circle of light appears on the field, a ‘light’ comes from the circle, and the ‘light’ is revealed to be Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000) in attack mode. Suguha yells out, “Odd-Eyes, attack her face-down monster! Spiral Flare!” Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon attacks Dark Suguha’s face-down monster, which is revealed to be another Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon (1200/600) in defense mode, causing it to be destroyed, but since it was in defense mode, Dark Suguha didn’t lose any life-points.

 

There are looks of shock and Lunamon says, stunned, “She played one of the cards that Suguha played!”

 

Sakura says, “That’s because they have the same hands. They are the same person after all.”

 

Suguha says, shocked, “Hey! Hey! If you used the same monster, we have the same decks! No…It isn’t just that! We have the same hands!”

 

Dark Suguha says, with a dark taunting tone, “Look who wins the booby prize! No damn kidding! I’m you, girl! You and I are the same person, get it? It is no duh that we would have similar hands and decks!”

 

Suguha says, putting two cards into the main slot of her disk, “Then maybe this will look familiar to you, bitch! I place two cards face-down!” Suguha then says, putting the last card in her hand into the main slot of her disk, “Then I play Mirage of Nightmare to end my turn!”

 

Dark Suguha says, drawing a card from her deck, “My turn! I draw!”

 

Suguha says, drawing four cards from her deck, “And my draw, too! You should know that Mirage allows me to draw cards until I have four in my hand, but I lose that same number of cards during the Standby of my next turn!”

 

Dark Suguha says, with a smirk, “Don’t give me that! One of your face-down cards is Emergency Provisions!”

 

Suguha says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “What do you know? You’re psychic! Big whoop! I activate Emergency Provisions!” One of Suguha’s face-down cards is revealed to be Emergency Provisions Quick-Play spell card and Suguha says, “Thanks to this card, for every spell and trap on my field that I get rid of, I get one grand in life-points and I remove Mirage!” The ‘image’ of Mirage of Nightmare continuous spell card vanishes from Suguha’s field and Suguha’s life-points increase by 1000!

 

Sakura says, with a smile, “Very good. She increased her life-points and got rid of Mirage before it can kick her in the skirt!”

 

Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “You aren’t the only one that can draw new cards! Recognize this card? I play Magical Mallet! I can return any number of cards from my hand to my deck, reshuffle, and draw that same number of cards!” Dark Suguha returns her entire hand to her deck, her deck is reshuffled, and Dark Suguha says, drawing five new cards, “Okay, it is a fair fight since we can’t tell what each other can draw anymore!” Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Then I activate Pot of Greed and draw two more cards!” Dark Suguha draws two cards from her deck, then displays two Pendulum Monsters, Xiangke Magician (2500/500) and Xiangsheng Magician (500/1500), and she says, “And I think that you remember this, girl! I take scale three, Xiangke Magician, and scale eight, Xiangsheng Magician, and set the Pendulum Scale!” Dark Suguha puts the two cards on her disk’s Pendulum Zones causing the word ‘Pendulum’ to appear in Monster Card Zones in rainbow colors, the two monsters appear on the field in columns of light, one monster per column, and the number 3 to appear below Xiangke Magician and number 8 below Xiangsheng Magician. When a swinging crystal pendulum appears between the two columns, Dark Suguha says, “And now, I can summon monsters that are levels four through seven this turn! Swing, Pendulum! Draw the arc of light to victory! Pendulum Summon!” Dark Suguha puts two cards on her disk and she yells out, “Come on, Red-Eyes Wyverns!” A circle of light appears on the field, two ‘lights’ come from the circle, and those lights are revealed to be two Red-Eyes Wyverns (1800/1600 X 2) in attack mode. Dark Suguha says, “And then I Overlay both of my Wyverns and build the Overlay Network!” The two Wyverns turn into lights that goes into a vortex in the ground, Dark Suguha puts the two monsters’ cards on the same Monster Card Zone on her disk, putting an XYZ Monster card from her Extra Deck on top of them, and she says, “I XYZ Summon Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon!” Out of the vortex, Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon (2500/2000), with two Overlay Units orbiting it, appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Suguha says, with a sigh, “And this doesn’t surprise me.”

 

Dark Suguha says, with an evil smile, “But this might. I said that our decks are similar, but NOT the same. It is time for you to see you who you really are and this next card is going to make you see that!”

 

Suguha asks, confused, “What do you mean?”

 

Dark Suguha says, with a wicked smile, “Don’t give me that! You know what I’m talking about!”

 

Suguha gasps, knowing what her ‘dark doppelganger’ is implying, and she says, “No, you mean…!!!”

 

Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the Field Spell slot of her disk, “That’s right! I play my Seal of Orichalcos Field Spell!” Soon after, a column of sickly green light surrounds Dark Suguha and the Seal of Orichalcos surrounds both versions of Suguha in which Dark Suguha gains the insignia of the Orichalcos on her forehead with red tint in her eyes. Suguha flinches and Dark Suguha says, with an evil smile, “And now, you know what this means? All my monsters gain new power thanks to the Orichalcos!” Dark Rebellion roars out as he is infused the Orichalcos’ power causing him to gain the insignia on its forehead with a red tint in its eyes while it goes from 2500/2000 to 3000/2000 in which Dark Suguha says, “And now, I activate Rebellion’s ability! By removing its Overlay Units, your pathetic lizard gets its power cut in half while Dark Rebellion gains the power that it lost! Treason Discharge!” Dark Rebellion absorbs its Overlay Units and unleashes dark violet energy that bind Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon causing it to roar as it goes from 2500/2000 to 1250/2000 while Dark Rebellion goes from 3000/2000 to 4250/2000 in which Dark Suguha says, with a dark strong tone, “Now, destroy her worthless peon with Revolt of the Lightning Disobey!” Dark Rebellion’s fangs get charges and it charges right at Odd-Eyes in which it rams its fangs into it causing Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon to roar out in pain as it is destroyed in a massive explosion.

 

Suguha says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I play my trap: Defense Draw!” Suguha’s face-down card is revealed to be the Defense Draw trap card and Suguha says, “This negates the damage to me and I draw one new card from my deck!” A shield protects Suguha from the shockwave created from Odd-Eyes’ ‘destruction’ and afterwards, Suguha draws a new card. Suguha thinks in her mind, confused, “Hold on! She should have known I had this card face-down since we originally had the same hands and with my set Pendulum Scale, I can revive Odd-Eyes since he has gone to my Extra Deck due to him being a Pendulum Monster! What is her game?!”

 

Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot, “You must be wondering what my plan is? Well, you are going to find out! I end my turn with a face-down!”

 

Current Scores:

Suguha: 5000

Dark Suguha: 4000

 

Suguha says, drawing a card, “It’s my turn! Draw!” As a crystal pendulum appears in the field, swinging between the two columns of light on Suguha’s field, Suguha yells out, “With my set Pendulum Scale, I can summon monsters levels two through seven this turn! Swing, Pendulum! Draw the arc of light to victory! Pendulum Summon!” A card comes out of Suguha’s Extra Deck and she puts it and two cards in her hand onto her duel disk causing her to say, “Come on down, Performapal Dag Daggerman and Performapal Odd-Eyes Synchron! And revive from the Extra Deck, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!” A circle of light appears on the field, three ‘lights’ come down from the circle, and those lights prove to be Performapal Dag Daggerman (2000/600), Performapal Odd-Eyes Synchron (200/600), and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000), all of whom are in attack mode. But just then both dragons roar out and Suguha and her ‘dark counterpart’ flinch as a surge of ‘energy’ shakes the area.

 

The others are curious and Mirai asks, confused, “What the heck was that?!”

 

Suguha, shaking off the ‘flinch’, says, “Since Dag Daggerman was Pendulum Summoned, I can discard one Performapal from my hand and draw a new card!” Suguha discards Performapal Laugh Maker (2500/2000) from her hand, draws a new card, and Suguha says, “And now, I can use Odd-Eyes Synchron to tune with one Pendulum Monster in my Pendulum Zone by summoning it to the field and tuning Odd-Eyes Synchron with it! I choose Persona Dragon!” Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon comes out of its column of light while Odd-Eyes Synchron turns into two stars that turn into two rings that surround Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon, causing it to become transparent, and a column of light appears on the field as Suguha gets a Synchro Monster card from her Extra Deck. Suguha then says, “Spread those wonderous and beautiful wings and strike down your enemies at the speed of light! Synchro Summon!” Suguha says, putting the Synchro Monster card on her disk, “Time to appear, Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!” Out of the light, Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (2500/2000) appears on the field in attack mode, but then Odd-Eyes, Dark Rebellion, and Clear Wing give mighty dragon-like roars of power and the shaking of the area gets a bit worse.

 

Homura asks, confused, “What the heck?”

 

Sakura says, concerned, “Those dragons…”

 

Hinata asks Sakura, “What is it, Sakura?”

 

Sakura says, “It is those dragons. They are causing this.”

 

Mirai asks, confused, “What? Are you kidding?”

 

Sakura says, sternly, “Do I look like I’m kidding. Those dragons aren’t ordinary cards.”

 

Suzume says, “Indeed. You have to remember that Duel Monsters has a rich history that’s steep in magic, spiritualism, and the supernatural too. It goes back to the Shadow Games of Egypt and in fact, even further back, to the time of Atlantis in which it could even further back in history.”

 

Suguha shakes her head and she thinks in her mind, confused, “What is this?”

 

Dark Suguha tells Suguha, in a dark nasty tone, “What do you think genius?” Suguha glares at Dark Suguha and she says, “Don’t be an idiot! You know that darn well that our new dragons aren’t ordinary cards. They have primal destructive powers and this proves that I’m the REAL Suguha since they tie you to the dark!”

 

Suguha says, sternly, “You’re wrong!”

 

Dark Suguha says, “Then we’re going to see, won’t we? Let’s do this!” Suguha glares at her ‘dark doppelganger’ as she prepares to continue this duel with the others looking on with her two Digimon partners look at the situation with concern.

 

May 26, 2026, Kyoto prefecture

 

Back with the others, we find Hiyori forced to duel Bandit Keith with Yugi entrapped in chains while the others remain trapped behind a force-field that surrounds the mysterious Atlantian ruins that have appeared in this area of the Kyoto prefecture in Japan.

 

Keiko tells Hiyori, “You can do it, Hiyori!”

 

Rika says, “Show this jerk how we duel today!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a wicked smile, “How sweet! You have a cheerleading squad!”

 

Hiyori says, “They are my friends and they believe in me as I believe in them.”

 

Bandit Keith says, in a nasty taunting tone, “How adorable. I think that I’m going to have an ulcer!”

 

Rika shouts out, “Make sure that he has worse than that Hiyori! Kick his ass!” Hiyori gives a nervous smile and nod as she prepares to duel Bandit Keith.

 

Hiyori says, drawing a card, “I’ll start off first! My turn! I draw!”

 

Bandit Keith thinks in his mind, slyly, “Whatever. Thanks to all that information that girl’s organization gathered on you, I know that you have a Dark Magician deck based on Yugi’s best spellcaster monsters along with that dragon! Won’t help you!”

 

Hiyori then holds out two Pendulum Monster cards, Empress of Endymon (1850/2700) and Magister of Endymon (1500/900), and she says, “I take my scale two, Empress of Endymon, and scale eight, Magister of Endymon, in order to set the Pendulum Scale!” Hiyori puts the two cards on her disk’s Pendulum Zones causing the word ‘Pendulum’ to appear on her disk in rainbow colors where the two said monsters appear in two columns of light, one monster per column with Empress having the number 2 below her and Magister having the number 8 below him.

 

The others are shocked and Bandit Keith asks, confused, “What the?!”

 

Tai asks, surprised, “Hold on! I thought that only Serena, Davis, Suguha, and Naruto had Pendulum Monsters!”

 

TK says, amazed, “Same here!”

 

Sailor Orion says, “We discovered that Hiyori mysteriously gained Pendulum Monster cards recently.”

 

Sailor Moon asks, amazed, “Really?”

 

Keiko says, nervously, “Yeah. We didn’t have time to say anything…”

 

Rika says, interrupting with a sly grin, “And we thought that it might be a nice surprise!”

 

Sailor Venus says, “Well, we’re surprised all right.”

 

Back to the duel, Hiyori says, “And now, I can summon monsters that are levels three through seven this turn! Magicians of elemental power, pool your magical energies and give birth to a new power! Pendulum Summon!” Hiyori says, putting one card on her disk, “Come forth, Dark Magician!” A circle of light appears on the field, a ‘light’ comes from the circle, and that ‘light’ is Dark Magician (2500/2100) in attack mode. Hiyori says, putting one card into the Field Spell slot of her disk, “Next, I activate my Magical Citadel of Endymion Field Spell!” The whole field then transforms into a giant medieval style castle fortress that come from fantasy games and television shows/anime with a huge mystical citadel in the center of the fortress in which Empress of Endymon and Magister of Endymon gain an orb of light on them in which Sailor Moon, Sailor Uranus, Sailor Orion, Tuxedo Mask, and Davis take note of. Hiyori says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Next, I activate my Pot of Greed and draw two new cards!” Hiyori draws two new cards and Empress and Magister gain another orb of light in which an oval glass window on the citadel of the fortress glows with Hiyori says, putting one more card into the main slot of her disk, “Next, I activate my Field Barrier spell! As long as this card remains on the field, you can’t play another Field Spell and my Field Spell can’t be destroyed!”

 

Sailor Jupiter yells out, excitedly, “Awesome! Now, this jerk can’t play that cheating spell card!”

 

Bandit Keith asks, with a sly smirk, “Who said that I was?!” Everyone looks at Bandit Keith and he says, “I don’t plan on playing that card and in fact, my new…ally told me not to play that card. In fact, I don’t have it in my deck!”

 

Joey says, with a snarl, “And we are supposed to believe you? Get real, Keith!”

 

Bandit Keith says, “Believe what you want to believe, punk! However, this girl isn’t going to enjoy this duel. That Yuuko girl has a nasty surprise already waiting for her and she is already in it!”

 

Kotone says, “I don’t like the sound of that.”

 

Kazuto says, “Neither do I, Kotone.”

 

Hiyori says, putting one card into the main slot, “Next, I activate my Bond Between Teacher and Student! Since I have Dark Magician on my field, I can play one Dark Magician Girl from my deck!” A card comes out of Hiyori’s deck, she puts it on her disk, and Dark Magician Girl (2000/1700) appears on the field in attack mode. Another card comes from Hiyori’s deck and she says, putting the card into the main slot of her disk, “Then I can set one of four certain cards from my deck face-down in my spell and trap zone!” Just then Empress and Magister gain another orb of light in which another oval glass window on the citadel of the fortress glows in which Hiyori says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Then I place one card face-down and end my turn!”

 

Bandit Keith says, drawing a card, “About time! My turn! I draw!”

 

Joey says, “Great! Here comes those tin cans again!”

 

Bandit Keith says, putting one card on his disk, “Shows how much you know twerp! I start off with Fusilier Dragon, the Duel Mode Beast!” Just then Fusilier Dragon, the Duel Mode Beast (2800/2000-1400/1000) appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Duke says, shocked, “Hold up! That’s a high level monster! You can’t summon that without a sacrifice or some kind of trick like Pendulum Summoning!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a sneer, “Shows how much you know, dweeb! I can play Fusilier Dragon with a sacrifice or tribute, as they call these days, as long as I cut its attack and defense in half!”

 

Joey says, with a smirk, “Well, your tin can doesn’t have the firepower to beat those two magicians!”

 

Bandit Keith says, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “Not with my Forbidden Chalice spell card! I can target one monster and it gains four hundred attack points, but its effects are negated!” Just then Fusilier Dragon goes from 1400/1000 to 3200/2000!

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Crap! Since its power was cut in half due to special ‘Normal Summoning’ effect, the card just negated it, causing his war machine to regain its full power and become even stronger!”

 

Bandit Keith says, “You got that right! Now, my dragon, destroy her Dark Magician!” Fusilier Dragon then aims its cannons right for Dark Magician and fires its weapons right for Dark Magician.

 

Hiyori says, pushing one button on her disk’s touch screen, “I activate my trap: Waboku!” Hiyori’s face-down is the Waboku trap card and Hiyori says, “This trap card prevents my monster from being destroyed and I take no damage from battle this turn!” A trio of maidens then appear to put up a protective force-field around Dark Magician in which it protects him from Fusilier Dragon’s attack.

 

Bandit Keith says, putting two cards into the main slot of his disk, “Nice trick, kid, but it won’t help you! I place these babies face-down and call it a turn!” Soon after, Fusilier Dragon goes from 3200/2000 down to 2800/2000 due to the end of the effect of Keith’s spell card.

 

Kazuto says, “Since Fusilier’s effect activates when it is Normal Summoned without releasing other monsters, the negation prevented it’s attack and defense from remaining cut in half.

 

Hiyori says, drawing a card, “My move! I draw!” Hiyori says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “Next, I reveal my other face-down card: Dark Magic Twin Burst!” Hiyori’s other face-down card is revealed to be the Dark Magic Twin Burst spell card and Hiyori says, “Now, my Dark Magician gains attack power of all Dark Magician Girls on the field and in the grave!” Dark Magician Girl sends energy into Dark Magician causing him to go from 2500/2100 to 4500/2100 in which Hiyori says, “Dark Magician, destroy Fusilier Dragon now! Dark Magic Twin Burst!” Dark Magician then joins up with Dark Magician Girl in which they combine their attacks and those attacks slam into Fusilier Dragon causing it to be destroyed in a massive explosion where Bandit Keith is sent skidding backwards due to the explosion as he loses 1700 life-points.

 

Rika yells out, excitedly, “Way to go, Hiyori!”

 

Bandit Keith gives a grunt of pain causing plenty of others to notice this and Bandit Keith says, with a snarl while pushing a button on his disk’s touch screen, “You are going to pay for that one! I activate my Time Machine trap!” Bandit Keith’s face-down card is revealed to be the Time Machine trap card and Bandit Keith says, with a wicked smirk, “Now, the monster that you destroyed comes right back!” The machine pictured on the Time Machine trap card appears, opens up, and Fusilier Dragon, the Duel Mode Beast (2800/2000) returns to the field in attack mode.

 

Yolei says, annoyed, “Not again!”

 

Bandit Keith then says, pushing another button on his disk’s touch screen, “And for my next trick, I activate my other trap: Cyber Summon Blaster!” Bandit Keith’s other face-down card is revealed to be the Cyber Summon Blaster continuous trap card and he says, with a wicked smirk, “And now, when a machine monster is special summoned, you get slammed for three hundred points!” The ‘blaster’ pictured on the trap card appears and fires its laser right at Hiyori causing her to recoil when it hits, but then she gasps as she relives the moment when she was nearly killed in labyrinth in SAO causing her to scream out in fear as she loses 300 life-points.

 

Keiko shouts out, worriedly, “Hiyori!”

 

Leo asks, confused, “Why did she yell out like that?’

 

Joey yells out, annoyed, “You! What’s going on?”

 

Bandit Keith says, with an evil smile, “Oh! Well, this force-field doesn’t just keep your little friends in and keep you out! It also does a little nasty SHADOW GAME!!”

 

There are gasps of shock and Kazuto asks, stunned, “Shadow Game?!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a nod, “Yep, punk! Now, every time that we lose life-points, we get struck with one of the worst memories of our lives! For this brat, it must be when she was stuck in that awful ‘death game’!”

 

There are gasps of shock as Bandit Keith laughs and Crow says, angered, “That’s sick!”

 

Joey says, angrily, “That’s low even for you!”

 

Bandit Keith says, “Hey, it is what the girl wants! With riches and a new life for me, who am I to say anything? Personally, I just want my chance for payback and I can just taste it!”

 

Rika asks Hiyori, concerned, “Hiyori, are you okay?’

 

Hiyori says, with a nod, “I’ll…be okay.”

 

Bandit Keith says, “Not for long, little girl.”

 

Hiyori says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “I end my turn with one card face-down.”

 

Current Scores:

Hiyori: 3700

Bandit Keith: 2300

 

Bandit Keith says, drawing a card, “And now, it is my move! I draw!” Bandit Keith looks at the card in his hand and he says, with an evil smile, “And now, things are going to get interesting.”

 

Joey says, “I don’t like the sound of that.”

 

Kazuto says, “Neither do I.” As the others look on, helpless, Bandit Keith prepares to make his new move on Hiyori in which a feeling of ‘doom’ comes over the area.

 

May 26, 2026, Kyoto City, Kyoto prefecture

 

Back with Suguha, she is in her duel with her ‘dark counterpart’ and she just summoned Clear Wing Synchro Dragon which seems to be ‘reacting’ with Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon.

 

Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “I activate my Fusion Substitute spell card! I can now summon a Fusion Monster using monsters on the field! I fuse Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon with Dag Daggerman!” The two said monsters goes into a fusion vortex as Suguha takes out a Fusion Monster card from her Extra Deck and she puts it on her disk causing her to say, “Meet Brave-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!” Out of the fusion vortex, Brave-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (3000/2000) appears on the field in attack mode and unleashes a powerful heat wave in which Suguha says, “Thanks to Brave-Eyes’ ability, when summoned, the attack of your monsters hit zero! And zero attack point monsters lose their abilities for this turn!” Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon then goes from 4250/2000 down to 0/2000 in which Suguha says, seriously, “Brave-Eyes, attack and knock out Dark Rebellion!” Brave-Eyes unleashes a powerful blue flame that heads straight for Dark Rebellion.

 

Dark Suguha says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I activate my trap: Impenetrable Attack!” Dark Suguha’s face-down card is revealed to be the Impenetrable Attack trap card and Dark Suguha says, “This card has two effects and I use the effect to negate all battle damage during the Battle Phase of this turn!” A shield forms around Dark Suguha as Brave-Eyes’ attack vaporizes Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon.

 

Suguha says, putting two cards into the main slot of her disk, “I end my turn with two face-downs!”

 

Dark Suguha says, drawing a card, “You are going to need them, but then again, like they matter! My turn! I draw!” Dark Suguha puts one card into the main slot of her disk and she says, “I activate my Card of Sanctity! Both of us must draw until we have six cards in our hands!” Both Suguha and her ‘dark doppelganger’ draw until they have six cards in their hands and Dark Suguha says, as a crystal pendulum that’s swinging appears over her field, “With my set Pendulum Scale, I can summon monsters that are levels four through seven this turn! Swing, Pendulum! Draw the arc of light to victory! Pendulum Summon!” Dark Suguha says, putting three cards on her disk, “Come forth, my twin dragons of dark rage! Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon! Along with the dragon of dimensions: Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!” Suguha’s eyes grow wide as a circle of light appears on the field, three ‘lights’ come from the circle, and those three lights are revealed to be Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000-2900/2000), Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon (2400/2000-2900/2000), and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000-3000/2000) in attack mode and all three of them are infused with the power of the Orichalcos. Suguha’s eyes narrow and Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “If you think that’s bad, it is going to be so much worse! I activate my Premature Burial! By lowering my life-points by eight hundred, I can revive one monster in my grave! And I choose Dark Rebellion!” Dark Suguha’s life-points drop by 800 points and Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon (2500/2000-3000/2000) returns to the field. Dark Suguha then says, “And now, I use the Pendulum effects of my two magicians! Now, when I XYZ Summon, my Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon counts as a level seven monster! Now, I Overlay my Odd-Eyes with my Dark Rebellion and build the Overlay Network!” Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon become dark violet lights that goes into a vortex in the ground while Dark Suguha puts the two monsters’ cards on the same Monster Card Zone on her duel disk while putting a Pendulum-XYZ Monster card from her Extra Deck on her duel disk causing her to say, “Dragon with duel colored eyes! Resurrect from the deep darkness and with the flames of rage, incinerate everything on Earth! I XYZ Summon Supreme King Violent Dragon: Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon!” Out of the vortex, Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon (3000/2500-3500/2500) emerges and becomes infused with the power of the Orichalcos.

 

Agumon (Suguha) says, nervously, “Uh oh! That’s not good!”

 

Lunamon says, nervously, “Not good at all.”

 

Suguha gives a nervous snarl and Dark Suguha says, with a dark taunting tone, “Recognize it? This is the dragon that proves that you still lie within the darkness! That I’m the TRUE Suguha Kirigaya! And it is time that you learn the truth the hard way! Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon’s ability now activates! I remove an Overlay Unit and Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon destroys all cards that my opponent controls and it gains two hundred attack points for every one destroyed! Raging Firestorm!” Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon absorbs one of its Overlay Units and Dark Suguha says, with an evil smile, “And since my Raging Dragon is an XYZ monster, meaning no levels, and it isn’t targeting any of your monsters, your Clear Wing’s power is worthless!” Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon unleashes a firestorm that destroys Brave-Eyes, Clear Wing, Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon in its Pendulum Zone, and Suguha’s face-down cards in which Dark Suguha says, with an evil smirk, “Since Raging Dragon destroyed five cards, he gains a grand in attack power!” Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon then roars out as it goes from 3500/2500 to 4500/2500 and Dark Suguha says, with an evil grin while putting one card on her disk, “But I’m not done, yet! I want to see your despair, so, I release Red-Eyes Black Dragon in order to play this: Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon in attack mode!” Red-Eyes Black Dragon roars out as it is engulfed in dark flames causing it to transform into Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon (2400/2000-2900/2000) in attack mode while getting infused with the Orichalcos’ power causing it to give out a massive dark roar of power in which Dark Suguha says, with a dark sinister sly tone, “Not only goes the Orichalcos enhance its power, it also gains three hundred attack for every dragon in my grave in which the three already in my grave gives it a nice boost!” Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon gives a dragon-like howl as it goes from 2900/2000 to 3800/2000 due to its ability.

 

Homura says, shocked, “Holy crap! That thing is overpowered!”

 

Dark Suguha says, with an evil smile, “Oh, by the way, I haven’t Normal Summoned this turn, so, since my Black Flare Dragon is a Gemini monster, I give up the ability to Normal Summon to awaken Black Flare Dragon’s Gemini power!” Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon gives out a dragon-like howl as it glows and Dark Suguha says, with an evil smile, “Plus, since Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon was summoned using an XYZ Monster as XYZ Material, he can attack twice this turn! Suguha flinches from that and Dark Suguha says, in a dark taunting tone, “Recognize the dueling style? I think that you should since you used this style once before to terrorize your enemies!”

 

Suguha says, “I’m not that person anymore!”

 

Dark Suguha says, with a dark taunting tone, “And yet, I’m still here! And yet, you create these monsters like Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon! Face it! Your destiny lies in the dark! You chose it the instant that you played this card!”

 

Suguha says, strongly, “You’re wrong!”

 

Dark Suguha shouts out, “Time to find out! Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, swallow this chump back into the darkness where she belongs and show that I’m the TRUE Suguha Kirigaya! Destruction Burst of Rage!”

 

Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon fires an intense blue flame right for Suguha and Lunamon says, worriedly, “Suguha!”

 

Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “I activate my Trap Booster spell! By discarding one card, I can play a trap from my hand!” Suguha discards a card, puts another card into the main slot of her disk, and she says, “I activate Negate Attack! This trap card not only negates your attack, but it ends the Battle Phase for this turn!” A swirling shield protects Suguha from Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon’s attack and Suguha says, drawing two cards, “The card I discarded was Card of Compensation! You should know that means that I get two new cards!”

 

Dark Suguha says, putting one more card into the main slot of her disk, “You are going to need them wench! I activate my Card of Burial Magic! By removing three spell cards from my grave, I can draw two new cards from my deck!” Three cards come out of the graveyard slot of Dark Suguha’s disk, she puts them in a sub-space pocket, and Dark Suguha draws two cards from her deck. Dark Suguha says, putting two cards into the main slot of her disk, “Then I play my Dragon’s Gunfire and Poison of the Old Man! I use these cards to inflict eight hundred points of damage per card!” Dark Suguha’s dragons unleashes a series of fireballs at Suguha causing her to yelp out in pain as she is hit while loses 800 life-points, but then a violet ‘mist’ surrounds her causing her to gasp for air from the poisonous mist as she loses 800 more life-points. Dark Suguha says, putting the last card in her hand into the main slot, “Then I activate my Aria from Beyond spell card! Now, I can activate a spell card removed from play and guess what? I activate my Card of Sanctity I removed from play!” Suguha draws one extra card from her deck while Dark Suguha draws half-a-dozen cards from her deck. Dark Suguha puts a card into the main slot of her disk and she says, “Then I activate Meteor of Destruction since you have over three thousand life-points, you get slammed with a grand of damage!” Suguha yells out as a meteor from the skies slams into her causing her 1000 points of damage and knocking her to the ground, hard!

 

Agumon (Suguha) says, worriedly, “Boss!”

 

Dark Suguha says, putting three cards into the main slot of her disk, “Then I activate my three of my Final Flame spell cards in which you get slammed with six hundred points of damage for each other!” Suguha yells out in pain as she gets hit by flames all around her as she loses 1800 life-points in total and Dark Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “And I think that’s enough pain for now! I end with a face-down!” Odd-Eyes Raging then goes back from 4500/2500 to 3500/2500 since its effect has ended.

 

Current Scores:

Suguha: 600

Dark Suguha: 3200

 

Homura says, “Yow! That girl is on the ropes!”

 

Mirai asks, sarcastically, “What was your first clue?!”

 

Suguha is breathing heavily and Lunamon asks, concerned, “Are you okay?’

 

Sakura tells Lunamon, curiously, “Is that even a question?”

 

Dark Suguha says, with a dark taunting tone, “Give it up! It’s over! You’ve lost! Accept it! You belong to the darkness now! It is a fact ever since you played this card! You gave into your fear, anger, despair, and rage and become me! We are one and the same!” Suguha is breathing heavily and looking at her ‘dark counterpart’ with a haggard look as she remembers all that she went through.

 

Homura yells out, “Hey, what would your brother and sister say to you if they saw you now?!”

 

Suguha then looks up at Naruto and his group and Sakura says, seriously, “Homura is right, Suguha! After all that you have done and gone through, is this how it ends? That’s it?! You can do better than this!”

 

Naruto tells Suguha, “That’s right! It is time to move on! You made a stupid mistake in your past! Trust me, I know how that feels, believe it! But you can move on! You are still alive! You are still here! You made a bad choice, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t make any better choices! She may be right! The darkness may be a part of you, but the light is also a part of you and so much more! You are the freaking Sailor Scout of Reality! That means all of existence is you!”

 

Hinata shouts out, “Naruto-kun is right! You can’t give up here! What about your family and friends? They are counting on you! You can’t let them down! You are focuses on what happened between you and Yuuko-san, but Naruto-kun is right! She doesn’t care for you and cares only for your ‘betrayal’, but she betrayed you first by using you! Your loved ones…your precious people would never do that to you! You need to focus on those people that truly care about you! You can’t let them down!”

 

This gets Suguha’s attention and Sakura yells out, “What will you choose now, girl?!” This strikes Suguha at the core and she really goes into the memories of her lives, Silver Millennium and current, in which a new determination fills her mind and heart as she gets to her feet.

 

Dark Suguha asks, with a dark nasty tone, “You really think that you can beat your past?”

 

Suguha responds, strongly, “And win! They’re right! It is time I get off my ass, overcome my past, and finally, stop this madness for good!” Suguha then draws a card from her deck and she says, seriously, “It is my turn! I draw!” Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “I activate my Odd-Eyes Fusion spell card! I can play one Dragon-type Fusion Monster from my Extra Deck using monsters from my hand or field as Fusion Material, but since you have two or more monsters than I do, I can use Odd-Eyes monsters in my Extra Deck as Fusion Material!” Two cards come out of Suguha’s Extra Deck, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000) and Performapal Odd-Eyes Synchron (200/600) appear on the field, and Suguha says, “And now, I fuse Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon with Odd-Eyes Synchron!” The two monsters go into a fusion vortex, a Fusion Monster card comes out of Suguha’s Extra Deck, and she says, putting it on the field, “Now, I play the dragon of the binding magics: Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!” Out of the fusion vortex, Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (3000/2000) appears on the field in attack mode. Suguha then says, putting another card into the main slot of her disk, “Next, I activate Super Polymerization! By discarding one card from my hand, I can fuse one monster on your field with one monster on your field!”

 

Dark Suguha asks, stunned, “What?!”

 

Suguha discards a card from her hand and Suguha says, “And the monster that I choose are Rune-Eyes and Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon!” Just then a massive fusion vortex appears in the skies in which both Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon goes inside while Suguha puts another Fusion Monster from her Extra Deck on her duel disk in which she says, “Now, come on out, dragon of the poisoned fangs: Starve Venom Fusion Dragon!” Out of the fusion vortex, Starve Venom Fusion Dragon (2800/2000) appears on the field in attack mode in which Suguha says, “And now, Starve Venom gains the attack points of one special summoned monster on your field and you get who I choose!” Starve Venom Fusion Dragon then goes from 2800/2000 to 6300/2000 in which Dark Suguha gives a flinch from that, but doesn’t look too worried. Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Next, I activate Monster Reborn! With it, I can revive one monster in my grave and remember the cards that I fused with Odd-Eyes Fusion? Return, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!” Suguha’s Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000) then returns to the field in attack mode and Suguha says, putting one more card into the main slot of her disk, “Next, I activate my Polymerization! And with it, I fuse Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon with Starve Venom Fusion Dragon!”

 

Dark Suguha says, stunned, “You never did that before!”

 

Suguha says, seriously, “I am now!” Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and Starve Venom Fusion Dragon then merge in a fusion vortex causing a brand new Pendulum-Fusion Monster card to appear on Suguha’s disk in which she says, seriously, “I bring out the Supreme Violet Dragon King: Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon!” Out of the fusion vortex, Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon (3000/2500), a white and violet colored dragon that has Odd-Eyes’ eye scheme and has a similar body shape to Starve Venom Fusion Dragon, appears on the field in attack mode in which Suguha says, “Once per turn, Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon can gain the attack points of one monster on the field and when it does, it also gains the special abilities and name of said monster in which I choose Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon!” Dark Suguha’s eyes widen as Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon goes from 3000/2500 to 5900/2500 in which Dark Suguha gives a snarl. Suguha says, “Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon, attack Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon now!”

 

As Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon prepares to attack, Dark Suguha says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “Wrong, bitch! I activate my Widespread Ruin!” Dark Suguha’s face-down card is revealed to be Widespread Ruin trap card and Dark Suguha says, with a wicked smile, “Since you declared an attack, your strongest attacking monster is now destroyed and since you have only one monster, it is busted!”

 

Suguha says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “Not so fast! I activate my Quick-Play spell: Odd-Eyes Phantasm! When an Odd-Eyes monster attacks and you activate a trap card, when I have an Odd-Eyes Pendulum monster in my Extra Deck, face-up, I can negate the effect of your trap card!” Dark Suguha gasps as her trap card flashes as it is destroyed and its effect negated in which Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon vaporizes Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, destroying it, and costing Dark Suguha 2400 life-points in which Suguha says, “Now, the effect of the ability that Odd-Eyes Venom took from Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon! Since Odd-Eyes inflicted battle damage on you, you take damage equal to Odd-Eyes’ original attack points and that’s three thousand! This duel is over!” Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon unleashes a rain of violet energy that slams into Dark Suguha and she yells out as she is slammed by them causing her 3000 life-points of damage costing her the duel.

 

Final Scores:

Suguha: 1700

Dark Suguha: 0

 

With the end of the duel, the final Real Solid Vision ‘images’ fade away and Dark Suguha’s form starts to turn into dust and ash, but she smirks where her mouth moves to say the words ‘You win’ before she fades away as the Seal of Orichalcos vanishes in which Suguha, breathing heavily, stays in place for a several seconds before fainting backwards from exhaustion with Naruto zipping in to catch her before she falls onto the ground.

 

Agumon (Suguha) says, worriedly, “Boss!”

 

The others with Naruto assemble in and Hinata asks, concerned, “Is she okay?”

 

Sakura says, with a smile, “I’m sure that she is exhausted.”

 

Homura says, with a grin, “Well, she won.”

 

Suzume asks, “You expected anything else, Homura?” Suzume says, “Through you may have a point. She may have overcome this trial, but it doesn’t mean that she has completely overcome her past. We’re going to have to wait and see.”

 

May 26, 2026, Kyoto prefecture

 

Returning to the rest of our heroes and heroines, Hiyori is locked in a nasty Shadow Duel with Bandit Keith and now, it is Bandit Keith’s turn.

 

Bandit Keith says, putting one card into the main slot, “I activate my Junked Greed spell card! Now, I can junk one machine on my field, and I get rid of my Fusilier Dragon!” Fusilier Dragon, the Dual Mode Beast then falls apart into pieces in front of Bandit Keith’s field.

 

Yolei asks, shocked, “He is getting rid of his most powerful monster?!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with a sinister smile, “Who said that tin can was my most powerful beast? It did its job and now, it is time to move onto bigger and better things like I’m going to once I win this duel! Now, due to my spell, I can draw one card for every two levels that my Fusilier Dragon had! And since it was a level eight, I get four new cards!” Bandit Keith draws four new cards, looks at them, and gives a wicked smile causing him to say, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “All right, let’s rock! First, I activate my Ancient Rules spell! With this baby, I can summon a non-effect monster that’s level five or above without any consequences! And who better than my Launcher Spider!” Bandit Keith puts a card on his disk and Launcher Spider (2200/2500) appears on the field in attack mode causing Bandit Keith to say, with an evil smile, “And since a machine monster has been special summoned, you get blasted by my blaster!” Cyber Summon Blaster fires another blast that hits Hiyori causing her to experience what happened when she was found by Laughing Coffin as she loses 300 life-points in which Hiyori stumbles back and gasps.

 

Keiko says, worriedly, “Hiyori!”

 

Bandit Keith says, putting another card into the main slot of his disk, “But it is going to get worse as I play my Deja Alchemy spell card! This card allows me to play one spell card that I already play this turn! So, I play my Junked Greed and get rid of my Launcher Spider!” Launcher Spider explodes and Bandit Keith says, drawing four cards, “Since my Spider was a level seven, I round up and that gives me four new cards!” Bandit Keith then says, putting one card on his disk, “Now, since a machine on my field has been junked by a card effect, I can play this baby: Desperado Barrel Dragon!” Desperado Barrel Dragon (2800/2200), a version of Barrel Dragon that looks like it has old-fashioned revolver gun barrels instead of plasma guns, appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Joey says, shocked, “That’s new!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with an evil smile, “And since another machine has been special summoned, take another hit from my blaster!” Cyber Summon Blaster fires another blast at Hiyori and she yells out as she is hit causing her to experience when she was forced into Laughing Coffin where they use a special weapon to crave their ‘brand’ into her avatar’s left leg causing her to scream out as she holds her left leg while she loses 300 life-points.

 

Rika yells out, fearfully, “Hiyori!”

 

Bandit Keith asks, in a taunting tone, “Ah, did the little baby experience a nightmare?”

 

Joey yells out, angrily, “This is low especially from you, Keith!”

 

Duke says, angrily, “Yeah! Making her experience the most horrific memories of her life? That’s low!”

 

Bandit Keith says, in a dark slip-song voice, “Boo-hoo! Cry me a river! I’ve been down the worst dregs of hell before I died! So, I don’t give a damn!” Plenty of the others snarl at Bandit Keith and he says, putting one card into the main slot, “Now, back to the duel, I activate my Instant Fusion! By paying a cheap one grand in life-points, I can summon one Fusion Monster from my Extra Deck, but it can’t attack, and it is destroyed at the end of the turn! So, say hello to Panzer Dragon!” Bandit Keith puts a Fusion Monster card from his Extra Deck on his disk while his life-points drop 1000 causing Panzer Dragon (1000/2600) and Bandit Keith says, with a sinister smile, “And now, it is time for my blaster to strike again! Fire!” Cyber Summon Blast fires on Hiyori and she screams out as she experiences the death of her friend, Rossa, in SAO as she loses another 300 life-points causing tears to form in her eyes.

 

Keiko says, with tears in her eyes, “Stop!”

 

Bandit Keith responds, while putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “Stop! I’ve only just begun! Now, I activate my Cost Down spell card! By discarding a card from my hand, I can lower the levels of the monsters in my hand by two!” Bandit Keith discards a card and he then says, drawing two cards, “That card was Card of Compensation! That little number allows me to draw two new cards when I discard this card from my hand!” Bandit Keith then says, putting one card on his disk, “And now, I only need one monster to get rid to play the original Barrel Dragon in attack mode!” Panzer Dragon vanishes from the field and the original Barrel Dragon (2600/2000) comes to the field in attack mode in which Bandit Keith then says, “And now, I play Machine Conversation Factory equip spell! This gives my Barrel Dragon a boost of three hundred attack and defense points!” Barrel Dragon then goes from 2600/2200 to 2900/2200 and Bandit Keith says, “Next, my Desperado Barrel Dragon uses his ability! During battle, I can flip three coins and you lose one monster every time that it hits heads!”

 

Davis says, nervously, “Uh oh.” Three coins appear on Bandit Keith’s touch screen and he looks as all three of them hit heads.

 

Bandit Keith laughs and he says, with an evil smile, “Too bad! All three of them hit heads and that means that your pathetic magicians are toast! Take them down!” Desperado Barrel Dragon fires a barrage at both Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl causing them to yell out as they are shot to pieces before ‘vanishing’ into hundreds of data pixels.

 

The others gasp and Sailor Venus says, worriedly, “Now, she is defenseless!”

 

Bandit Keith says, with an evil grin while drawing a card, “Oh, since all three coins hit heads, I get an extra card! The downside is that my monster can’t attack, but with the original Barrel Dragon, I don’t give a freaking damn! Barrel Dragon, take aim and open fire!”

 

Barrel Dragon then opens fire on Hiyori and Keiko, Rika, and Sailor Moon say in unison, fearfully, “Hiyori!”

 

Hiyori says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I activate my trap: Impenetrable Attack!” Hiyori’s face-down card is revealed to be Impenetrable Attack trap card and Hiyori says, “This card has two effects and I use its effect to negate all battle damage for this turn!” A shield protects Hiyori from Barrel Dragon’s attack.

 

Sailor Jupiter says, excitedly, “Nice!”

 

Bandit Keith says, putting one card into the main slot of his disk, “Bah! You are just delaying your end, little girl! I end my turn with a face-down!”

 

Current Scores:

Hiyori: 2800

Bandit Keith: 1300

 

Ken says, worriedly, “Hiyori may have more life-points, but she doesn’t have any monsters and no cards in her hand.”

 

Cody says, with a nod and in a concerned, “And this guy has two powerful machine monsters on his field.”

Bandit Keith thinks in his mind, with an evil smirk, “And a powerful trap card to boot! She’ll try to defend herself, but my trap will make my Barrel Dragons even deadlier and take care of her for good! Then I can get away from that freaky girl and the future is my oyster!”

 

Hiyori is breathing heavily, and Keiko says, “You can do it, Hiyori! We believe in you!”

 

Rika says, with a nod, “Yeah! Kick this guy’s ass!”

 

Bandit Keith says, in a taunting tone, “Ooh, I’m so scared!”

 

Hiyori says, “You should be. With my friends by my side, I know that I can win.” Hiyori says, drawing a card, “My move! I draw!” Hiyori says, putting one card into the main slot of her disk, “I activate my Card of Sanctity! This forces both of us to draw until we have six cards in our hands!”

 

Bandit Keith and Hiyori draw from their respective decks until they have half-a-dozen cards in their hands in which Bandit Keith says, with an evil smile, “You must be desperate to give me cards!”

 

Hiyori says, putting one card on her disk, “Next, by removing six spell counters from my field spell, I can play Endymion, the Master Magician!” Just then Endymion, the Master Magician (2700/1700), a dark violet and black spellcaster monster, appears on the field in attack mode in which Hiyori says, “Now, I can return one spell card from my grave to my hand!” A card comes out of the graveyard slot of Hiyori’s disk and Hiyori says, discarding one card from her hand, “Next, by discarding a spell card, I can target one card on your field, and I can destroy it!”

 

Bandit Keith says, shocked, “No way!” Endymion fires a beam of energy at Desperado Barrel Dragon and destroys it in which Bandit Keith says, with a snarl, “That’s annoying!” Bandit Keith thinks in his mind, with a sly smirk, “But I’ve got what I need to bring him back thanks to you! Too bad that your little gamble didn’t pay off! You should know better than to gamble with Bandit Keith little girl!”

 

Hiyori says, “Then I activate Empress of Endymion’s Pendulum Effect! By removing three spell counters from this card, I can summon it and one monster from my hand that I can place spell counters on it in which I can then put a spell counter on each other!” Hiyori puts one card from her hand on her disk and Empress of Endymion (1850/2700) moves out of her Pendulum Zone AKA the ‘column of light’ onto the field in attack mode in which Skilled Dark Magician (1900/1700) appears on the field in which both Empress of Endymion and Skilled Dark Magician each gain a spell counter.

 

Bandit Keith says, with a wide grin, “Like that’s going to help! Just more lambs to the slaughter!”

 

Hiyori says, “You won’t think about it when I play Empress’ ability! She can target one monster on my field with spell counter and one monster on your field in which both are returned to our respective hands!”

 

Bandit Keith yells out, flabbergasted, “No way!” Just then Empress of Endymion creates a bright light that causes Skilled Dark Magician and Barrel Dragon while another spell counter on Empress glows.

 

Rika yells out, excitedly, “Way to go!”

 

Davis says, excitedly, “Time to bring it on home!”

 

Bandit Keith thinks in his mind, shocked, “No! No! No! No! I’m going to lose to a little future brat! Me?! I can’t believe this!”

 

Hiyori yells out, “Endymion, direct attack!”

 

Bandit Keith yells out, in disbelief, “This can’t be happening!” Endymion attacks Bandit Keith directly and he screams out as he is hit by the attack causing him to be flung to the ground, hard, as he loses 2700 life-points as well as the duel.

 

Final Scores:

Hiyori: 2800

Bandit Keith: 0

 

With the end of the duel, the final Real Solid Vision ‘projections’ vanish and Bandit Keith grunts as he gets to his feet, but then a ‘black portal’ appears below his feet and thick dark violet ‘tendrils’ come out of the portal where they wrap around him.

 

Bandit Keith yells out, confused, “What the heck is this?!” On the meanwhile, Yugi is freed from the chains and the force-field vanishes which allow the others to go over to Yugi and Hiyori, who falls onto one knee due to mental and physical exhaustion from the duel.

 

Keiko asks Hiyori, “Are you okay, Hiyori?”

 

Hiyori responds, with a tired smile, “I’m okay, Keiko.”

 

Bandit Keith screams out and when everyone looks at him, they see him being swallowed into the ‘black portal’ and he shouts out, “Let me go! Get me out of here!”

 

Joey says, “Sorry, Keith, but this is your punishment. The loser of the Shadow Game goes to the Shadow Realm! You should have checked the fine print before helping someone like Yuuko!”

 

Bandit Keith screams out, “NO WAYYYYYYYYYY!!!” Soon afterwards, he is sucked into the ‘black portal’ by the ‘tendrils’ in which the ‘portal’ closes behind him. Just then everyone looks to hear a person clapping and when they look towards the source, they find Yuuko stepping out of the shadows.

 

Yuuko says, “Well done. It was wise for me to send him out to test your strength and it seems like my foresight was correct.”

 

Joey yells out, angrily, “You! Where is my sister, Tea, and Tristan?! Answer me!”

 

Yuuko responds, plainly, “Your attempt to threaten me is…pathetic. I hold the cards and any threat that you make to me doesn’t even come close to scaring me.”

 

Joey yells out, strongly and angrily, “Oh, yeah!”

 

Yugi tells Joey, “Don’t, Joey! She has a point.”

 

Yuuko says, with a nod, “Very wise, Yugi.”

 

Sailor Moon says, “This madness has to stop.”

 

Yuuko says, “It will stop…when I get what I want.”

 

Tuxedo Mask asks, seriously, “Would your brother want this?”

 

Yuuko says, her eyes narrowing in anger and rage, “Don’t you even dare mention my brother.”

 

Sailor Uranus retorts, in a nasty tone, “And why shouldn’t we since he wouldn’t want this, and you are pissing on his grave?” Just then a powerful ‘dark violet’ aura ‘erupts’ from Yuuko and shakes the whole of the area.

 

Sailor Mars shouts out, irritated, “Way to go, Uranus! Piss off the already insane and enraged mastermind? That’s smart!” But then, as quickly as the aura appeared, the aura fades back, and the area stops shaking.

 

Yuuko says, with a plain tone, “If you want Yugi-dono’s and Joey-dono’s family and friends back and end this, then you are going to have survive what’s to come. You are right. It is time to end this. It is what you call the ‘endgame’. Let’s see if you are ready.” Soon enough, our heroes and heroines and Yuuko stare down each other as they prepare for what Yuuko seems to be calling the ‘final battle’.

 

End of Chapter 17

 

View! What a chapter! It seems like Suguha managed to overcome the darkness of her past, but has she overcome it COMPLETELY? Plus, it seems like Yuuko is done with ‘fooling around’, she is prepared for a ‘final showdown’ with our heroes and heroines. But what is her ‘endgame’? You know what you must do to find out, everyone! Please read and review and tell me what you think, but no flames! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!