#also my teachers insane he makes chapters due like every three or four days and not every week?? so im against the clock here

[scarletanpan]

Somehow just found I have a usb w windows 10 home?? Now my new laptop she's been downgraded and the OS is like three times smaller than windows 11, literally around 12 gb like it should be. She still has some Issues and needs to be cleaned out but is already thriving compared to before

[kasienda]

Fanfiction Year In Review - 2020

The rest of 2020 was rough, but I sure wrote A LOT! And that feels good. 

1 List of fics completed this year in the order they were finished:

Confessions to a Statue (Ladybug) - I’m lowkey shocked that this was finished in 2020. I feel like I wrote this one an eternity ago! It’s honestly not my favorite story, but I’m grateful to it for getting me writing in this fandom! 

Stutters (Ladybug Reveal - Marichat)

An Open Secret (Ladybug for Gift Exchange)

Instagram (Ladybug Reveal - Ladrien)

Anything to Protect You (Sailor Moon for Gift Exchange)

Locked in a Closet (Ladybug Reveal - Sequel to MissNoodle’s wonderful work.)

New York (Ladybug Reveal - Ladynoir)

A Craving For Chocolate Milkshakes (Sailor Moon)

Eight fics in total! Four of them multi-chapters! Crazy!

2 Number of words written: 

Written: 139k (as tracked by 750words.com)

Published: 105k (according to ff.net).

This is amazing! This is the first year (that I know of anyway - I’ve only been tracking for three years) that I broke 100k in one year!! I wrote every month, and I published at least one thing every month except August (I was moving in August).

I’m thrilled to see the written to published ratio as high as it is! It’s not something I’ve tracked before, but I always feel like I’m writing a ton and publishing very little, but it looks like that impression is fairly inaccurate. I’m publishing a lot more than I realized relative to how much I’m writing.

3 Your most popular fic:

My Miraculous Reveal Series has also gotten the most recognition of all my works this year, but it’s difficult to splice out which short is the most popular because I publish it as one series. Keeps my dashboard neater and gives the old ones a bit of attention whenever I post a new one. 

4 Your personal fav:

I think I’m insanely proud of both An Open Secret and Anything to Protect You. As I published each chapter, I often had the thought “This is the best thing I’ve written!” And that feels good. 

But right now, I am going to have to say an unfinished fic that I started this year - Restorative Justice - is my favorite. This is a fic that has pulled me out of my usual genre and gotten me closer to my life as a teacher. And it’s powerful and cathartic to turn these experiences into a story. I also really enjoyed exploring Chloé’s headspace. She’s just so angry, and like, this year that has been really easy to channel for some reason, and it all transferred to paper rather well. I’m kinda stuck in this fic at the moment though… 

5 Your fav scene:

I literally cannot decide. I could maybe pick a favorite scene in each fic I finished, but just one?! Nope! I can’t do it. So here’s my favorite scene in the three works I’ve spent the most time on this year: 

An Open Secret - the scene where Ladybug confesses to Chat Noir in the rain. The moment it all comes together for Adrien. I made myself cry. 

Anything to Protect You - Honestly, this one is HARD to pick. I really like the UsaMamo kiss in the first chapter, but I also love the dates. Especially the moment where she tells him she’s Sailor Moon and he thinks she’s joking. And the cattery date.

Restorative Justice - Chapter 3 - Where Chloe and Marinette are screaming at each other. I found it so satisfying. 

6 A fic or scene that challenged you:

Writing the festival scene in Anything to Protect you was an absolute slog! I was struggling so hard with trying to somewhat accurately capture a cultural event that I myself have never directly experienced (I did so much research - I read a lot, I listened to music, I watched videos), and at the same time not stall the pacing of the story or emotional anchor of the piece. It was so hard, but I was really happy with how it came out. 

7 A line of writing you’re proud of: 

From the most recent update of a Craving for Chocolate Milkshakes: 

So she dove back into old habits and started drawing chibi-tuxedo masks all over her worksheet.

Go ahead. Do your worst. 

He always had some playful or snide critique of her scribbles.

She waited a whole ten seconds before she realized the mental silence would not be filled. Because he wasn’t there. He couldn’t see her doodles.

She burst into tears.

8 A comment that touched you: 

Honestly, this year it wasn’t so much what was in a comment, so much as it was when a comment arrived. Like when I was ready to tear my hair out arguing with the bank or insurance company, and then a review would pop up out of nowhere! Or when I was sitting next to my son at the hospital. Sadly, I don’t remember which comments were the ones that did this. But I think LitaKino had especially good timing more than once this year. And jennagrins as well! But there were so many others! I’m tell you all - comments are love!!

9 Something that inspired your writing:

There’s lots of the usual suspects - life, husband, children, students, etc.

But a lot of it this year has actually been reading other people’s stories and wanting them to keep going, or wanting them to have taken a different turn in the story arc. And then I have to open a doc a start a whole new fic! It’s kinda a problem honestly. I have thirteen active stories and another ten that I’m like - I would like to work on that, but it’s not happening at the moment. 

10 Your proudest accomplishment (that one scene; finally finishing that one fic; posting your first fic; etc):

That I finished four multi-chapter fics! (Though two of them it was just the last chapter). I think I’m proving to myself that I can be somewhat disciplined about what I’m working on, so that the projects I want to finish, get finished! 

And I’m also learning that you can write a lot with just chewing away at it bit by bit. It’s not about the 3k word days. It’s about it being a habit. If you can write 100 words every day that’s 36k words in a year! I wrote an average of 378 words per day! My goal is only ever 200 words, but I try to have an unbroken chain. I did not succeed this year in that due to weekly work deadlines, but I came a lot closer than I ever have before.

11. Do you have any writing goals for the next year?

I read my goals from last year and laughed. (Apparently, I wanted to finish Chocolate Milkshakes by the end of January. Bwahahaha!) But that’s okay. I wrote a ton this year!! It just wasn’t where I expected it to be. So that’s what I want this year to be about. I want to focus on my own personal projects by not making commitments for exchanges or events.

I have three WIPs right now that are just far more personal than anything else I’m working on. And these three stories are the ones I want to focus on this year. 

Invisible Wounds - (Ami/Zoi - Sailor Moon)

Restorative Justice - (Chloé POV - Ladybug) 

Right Behind You (Unpublished Adrino story - Ladybug) 

I imagine though that there will be one-shots that demand to be written in between, or one shots that will work me out of ruts, too. Or one shots that will explode into seven chapter outlines like jerks! Haha! 

But overall, my main goal is to just try to write every day!

I tag the following people to tell us about your fic writing accomplishments this year because you’re amazing!! @tinacentury @floraone @starlingsinclair@mikauzoran @chronicallylatetotheparty @ladyofthenoodle @alexseanchai @galahadwilder And anyone else that wants to! And of course, if I tagged you and you don’t want to, there is NO pressure. I’ve just enjoyed doing this over the years, and wanted to share the joy! 

[rainywritingsx]

Torn • BNHA X OC • Chapter 1

You can find the prologue here. I thought posting the first chapter would be fun too and I’m thinking of updating the fanfiction weekly if people really like it. Please let me know what you think! Leave a like or reblog if you enjoyed it please. I think that’s it, enjoy reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!!

xxx admin rainbow

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“I don’t think you realise how dangerous you could be.” My twin brother smirked as we made our way to school.

"Seventy percent of the human body consist of water, and you have the ability to control any fluid in the universe! You can basically make the whole world your slaves if you train your quirk enough." I sighed softly, not feeling the need to reply to his boring words that I'd probably heard a million times already. I was born with this power, did he think I wouldn't have figured that out after fourteen years?

I mean how couldn't I, when my father, despite my mother's protests, had been training me since I was four up until this year, because according to him training at school would be enough.

"Mom and dad will be so proud when you can finally go into the field too, Janie." He said, his voice dripping with pride and

excitement for my future. I, however, wasn't as interested in that, I must say. But I didn't say that out loud of course, due to the fact that I know that's not what he'd like to hear and I wasn't in the mood to argue with him right now. Not like I ever was in the mood to do that.

You see, unlike my younger siblings, I had the big responsibility which would be given to me as soon as I became the new leader of the so-called 'villain world', which would most likely happen as soon as my parents decided to stop - that would take a while considering they found their job absolutely lovely. Any villain would've been stoked for something like this, but me? I despised it from the day I was born.

Yes, there was a very small proportion of 'villains' that actually had some rational ideals, like them not agreeing with some situations though they were seen as 'right'. For example: Stain, the hero killer, didn't have the worst ideas in my opinion. He didn't agree with the fact that some heroes didn't become heroes with the intent of helping people. All they wanted was fame and glory. He decided to kill anyone he deemed unworthy of being a hero and kept the worthy ones alive. So, yes, his way of handling them was a completely different case but he had some decent morals.

However, the majority of this community was filled with people who just wanted to inflict pain on others, see their terrified faces before taking away possessions or sometimes even their lives. I did not want to associate myself with people like that.

And those were the exact kind of villains my parents were. As parents, they were just normal people but everyone knew both went ballistic during fights against heroes. There were some stories of heroes who could still hear my mother's psychotic laugh as she killed their allies. My dad would always look his victims right in the eye as he did whatever he wanted to do. I can't even imagine the amount of sins that they must've committed.

They expected me to be at least as crazy as them when I took over, but I wasn't even planning on becoming a villain at all. Even if some villains had ideas that seemed okay, it didn't make up for their actions. I wanted to become a hero and whether I'd become famous or not didn't matter to me. Helping people was all I wanted to do. However, we should put the emphasis on "wanted". I couldn't become a hero, my whole family would consider me absolutely insane.

We entered the school and parted our ways since we had different classes until lunch break. I never minded that, to be completely honest. We weren't the type of siblings that couldn't live without each other. I didn't have that relationship with any of my siblings. (I've got three younger brothers, I'm thirteen minutes older than my twin brother so yes I'd consider myself older, the others are twelve and ten.) Sure, we all cared about each other but we didn't have the tight bond some siblings do have. I thought that that was partly due to my parents, who never really let us do things together to get closer to each other. It was only when we got older that we started doing some things together. Maybe it was also due to our ideals being different but of course he didn't know that.

As for my two other younger siblings, they were a lot closer to each other so there never really was a need for them to have this really tight bond with my brother and I. Those two were completely fine as a duo.

I entered the classroom, not saying a word as I walked over to my seat. I also never really bonded with my class either. It didn't have to do with what I though, but more because of the fact that I was the daughter of the two most notorious villains ever. Nobody would ever talk to me and I had the tendency to be quite shy at first, so I never took the first step either.

"Alright everyone! Please open your books, classes will start now!" Our English and homeroom teacher, miss Deceit said with a bright smile on her face in the same annoyingly high tone she always used. "Today's lesson will be really exciting!" Maybe her name gave it away already, but she was a teacher who was great at creating illusions. After training for years and years, she could make someone's biggest fear and taunt people with those images. And people tend to do strange things when they're absolutely terrified... Sometimes a slightly less deathly version of that is used as a punishment for students, but only in very extreme cases. Now that she had reached an older age, she mostly used her quirk to make classes more fun than they actually are and the majority falls for it, but my parents taught me how to deal with quirks like that so it almost became like a reflex that I saw right through it.

And if you were wondering how on earth some of these villains were able to even set a foot in the outside world, there were two answers: serving in jail and fake identities. Some villains were able to get away with certain crimes and that way they got a shorter sentence, so after they served in jail they could just return to society. Other villains made fake identities and at my school they never turned people to the police. 'Villain code' is what they call it. You help other villains when they need it but you never ever call the cops on them.

The day seemed to last forever, but after villain training I could finally go home. I almost ran out of class, not wanting to spend another second with these people. My brother finished early today and went away to hang out with some of his friends, so I was on my own. It wasn't like I missed much though, no offence to him.

I frowned when I noticed a big sign set on the usual path I took to my home. It said that work was being done on the road, which meant I had to take a different road, a longer one sadly. I sighed quietly and then continued walking again. Before I could think my feet stopped on their own, making me almost fall in surprise. I looked up and gasped when I noticed it.

UA high.

The school I had admired since I was a small child, because that was the school where heroes were made. If you wanted to become a hero, you knew you just had to attend UA.

My eyes became wide when I noticed huge banners hanging. Today, and only today, they would let potential new students in and take a look in the building, like classrooms etc so they could see what to expect. I tilted my head in slight confusion. Why was this done though? UA wasn't a very open school at all, barely letting any students in. I wasn't complaining though..

Then a thought struck me. Wouldn't it be strange if I came home late? I usually got home at the same time every day so it would seem odd... But then again, I was usually the first in my family to arrive since my parents' "working hours" varied and my siblings usually hung out in places after school. I'd just go to look at the school and find an excuse later.

My excitement grew with each step I took, realising I was getting closer to the school I could only dream of even seeing. The school was huge and from the start the whole atmosphere was just completely different from what I was used to in my school. It felt like one community, whereas my school was just a mix of small groups who didn't really bother to talk to other people, let alone make other friends. Maybe I could actually make some friends here...if I was even able to attend the school at all. My parents wouldn't ever approve of this in a million years of course.

Okay, I'd just take a look. Nothing more or less. Looking wasn't a bad thing for sure so why was I worried about them not approving of it? I wouldn't attend the school anyway, nope. It was totally fine, I'd be there for a few minutes and then gone before anyone could notice. Yes. I'd do that.

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[pxiao]

It’s my turn Chapter 2

It’s been four months since Zarc was revived and three since he reappeared in Standard. Standing guard against the revived Supreme King Dragon, Yuzu with Serena, Rin and Ruri stand as Ray with the stronger Lancers helping them. This time, It’s Her Turn!

Previous chapters: 1

concept thought up by @skittymon originally.

At 7:00 am, Yusho watched with a smile on his face as his students gathered for breakfast in You Show’s slightly dated cafeteria.  He looked in shock when he saw a girl with long purple hair and pink eyes had arrived for breakfast. Ruri quickly noticed his stare, happily walked up to him and bowed.

“Good Morning Mr. Sakaki. It’s good to see you again.” Ruri happily said.

Yusho got over his shock and quickly replied, “It’s nice to see you again, Ruri I hope you’ve remembered what I taught you in Heartland. If not, I’m be happy to teach it to you again.”

“I remembered. It helped keep me going during those times.” Ruri said as her smile turned slightly sour at the memories.

Yusho noticing her sad smile, quickly asked as he walked alongside her, “So why are did you come for breakfast instead of Yuzu?”

“She had a bad dream and didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. So we’re letting her sleep and I’m in charge of the body right now.” Ruri replied as she was getting some scrambled eggs.

“That’s nice of you” Yusho complimented.

“It’s all that I can do to make up for erasing her memories.” Ruri bitterly replied which caused Rin and Serena to grimace.

Seeing her response, Yusho scratched his head, following her as she gathered some food from the buffet.

“You’re curious about something aren’t you?” Ruri asked as she noticed how silent he was.

“No, no” Yusho denied.

“It’s fine to ask, you were my teacher for a year or so and we’re fellow Lancers. So go ahead.” Ruri said with a small smile as she put her tray of food down on a table.

“You don’t have to answer this if you don’t want to…. But how do you and Rin find the strength to fight Zarc?” Yusho asked, causing Ruri to fall silent. “You, Rin and Serena erased Yuzu’s memory so she could fight Zarc? So why did you and Rin decide to keep your memories?” Serena looked on with a slightly bitter expression.

Ruri kept silent for a minute before replying in a small voice, “Because Yuzu, unlike me and Rin, can’t fight Zarc if she has her memories. She’ll never give up the hope that she can save Yuya, Yuto and Yugo. And as much as I hope that she’s right ….. I don’t know how much of my hope is real. Do I truly believe that I can save Yuto or am I just deluding myself because I want him back?” which caused Yusho, Rin and Serena to frown.

Yusho looked in shocked at Ruri and tried to comfort her but only silence came.  

“I can’t let all of reality be destroyed because I refused to acknowledge reality. I just … just can’t” Ruri finished as tears started to trail from her eyes.

“I’m sorry for asking such insensitive question” Yusho sincerely apologized as he frowned.  

“No I was the one who decided to answer.” Ruri stated as she started to frown.  “After crying so much, I’m not really in the mood to eat. I’ll let Rin take over, she always enjoys eating.” Ruri said as she transformed into a girl with green medium length hair and amber eyes.

“Don’t say it like I’m a glutton!” Rin complained, starling Yusho.

Both Rin and Yusho had trouble looking at each other due to the awkward atmosphere earlier. After a few minutes of silence, Rin sat down and took a bit of the food that Ruri had gotten. “This is delicious. Who made it?” Rin said, hoping to lighten up the atmosphere.

Yusho smiled a bit said, “I did”

“Really?” Rin followed up.

“Well, as much as I would like to claim all the credit. My wife did help me.” He continued.

“Well that’s nice” Rin said which caused Yusho to show a sad smile.

Having seen Yusho’s reaction, Rin arched an eyebrow. Yusho sighed and then explained, ”I just feel I’m a burden. Because I couldn’t stop Zarc from reviving, Yoko decided to join the Lancers and we had to uproot our lives to the Fusion Dimension, even then she spends most of her time helping me. If I had just protected Yuya like I should have, we would be continuing our lives instead of forcing all this danger on her.”

Rin then turned away from Yusho and then asked, “Mr. Sakaki, you went missing for three years right?”

Yusho felt a pang of guilt as she brought up his past actions, “That’s right”

“I’m not blaming, you did it to protect innocent people. But when someone that you used to spend every day with is ripped from your life, you ….. You realize how much the small things you used to do with them like eating together, talking about your dreams together or even just dueling together were so precious and that you would give up anything to do it again. I think that Mrs. Sakaki helps you because she’s just happy that you’re with her again.” Rin stated which caused Yusho to go speechless. “So I don’t think you should worry if that you’re a burden to her. I think you should just smile, to show that you really do enjoy your time together. That’s how I feel at the very least.” Rin finished with a small smile which caused Yusho and Ruri to smile while Serena looked at all three of them and felt a bit jealous.

Yusho then patted her head and said, “You’re very wise despite being so young.”

“Well someone had to be or otherwise Yu… some idiot would never survive” Rin replied which caused Serena to feel another pang of jealousy.

“Thank you for the advice” Yusho happily thanked with a big smile, causing Rin to blush a bit.

Hoping to change the topic again, she asked, “Where are the other Lancers?”

“We finished checking the files that Zarc looked over. Most of them were about himself and Ray. But a good number were about prisons for major criminals in this dimension.”

“prisons? What would he want with prisons?” Rin asked.

“We have no clue. But he seemed to focus on two prisons in particular that held high class criminals. Yoko and Mr. Tokumatsu went to one of them while Sora and Asuka went to the other one.” Yusho added.

“And we’re still in You Show for ….?” Rin asked.

“We’re not sure which one he might attack. So it was better thought that you and I wait at You Show and then travel to the prison being attacked instead risking the both of us being stuck at the wrong one.”

“Should you have let us sleep in then?” Rin asked.

“We have no idea when or even if Zarc will attack today. We’re already pushing this harsh duty on your four, I think we should let you rest and eat your full.” Yusho said with a smile that made Rin, Ruri and Serena smile too.

Sora and Asuka stood as they grimaced at the prison in front of them. Asuka looked at the square, gray prison and felt her energy being drained. She remembered that the building in front of them was originally used for people that rejected the war effort, leaders that thought the Academia was insane, teachers that refused to let their students become soldiers and parents that refused to send their students to the Academia were all locked up. Ironically after Zarc torn them apart, the Academia staff were now being held in the very same prison. Asuka wondered how an entire dimension had effectively lost their collective minds, listening to a mad man. She started clenching her teeth as she bitterly thought she had no right to mock others when she had also believed in the Professor’s insane ramblings.

“So this is where all the Academia is being kept?” Sora asked, shaking Asuka’s from her thoughts.

“Huh? Oh no. Just the staff. The most of the students are being kept in a psychological treatment physicality. But some of the more deranged students are kept here.” Asuka answered.

“So this is where I would have been if Yuya and Yuzu didn’t show me the truth. And how do I repay them? Watch on the sidelines as they try to kill each other” Sora bitterly added as he clenched his teeth and hands.

Asuka frowned as she tried to cheer her friend, “It’s possible that we can still save Yuya. I mean Reiji is trying to revive Ray and her En cards. He even decided to focus on it instead of his other projects when he realized that Yuzu still remembers Yuya.”

Before Sora could say anything. A purple beam of light exploded from the center of the prison shocking Sora and Asuka. They climbed the fence with three jumps as they called Yusho and Yoko. They then jumped to the top of the prison and raced to the hole in the prison’s ceiling. As they reached the center, they saw bright little squares in front of them. Their stomachs dropped as they realized that someone had already transported away, causing them to up their speeds. When they were five meters away from the hole, a boy wearing a cape and long jacket jumped onto the ceiling causing both Sora and Asuka to start their duel disks.

“ZARC!” Sora roared as he drew five cards as Asuka did the same. Zarc turned to face them and smiled.

Sora then yelled, “I activate Polymerization and fuse Fluffal Bear and Edge Imp Scissors to fusion summon Frightful Scissor Bear”

Asuka then continued, “I activate Machine Angel Ritual. I tribute two Cyber Tutubons in my hand to Ritual Summon Level 10 Cyber Angel Vrash!

Zarc just smiled as he drew five cards and then yelled as dramatically as possible, “And I ACTIVATE THE STRONGEST CARD IN MY DECK!!!!!!!!”

Sora and Asuka braced themselves for Zarc to summon some horrible abomination.

“violet flash” Zarc finished as blandly and calm as possible while looking a bit bored, causing Sora and Asuka to nearly trip in shock to Zarc’s enjoyment.

“Magician’s Right Hand’s effect activates! When I control a Spellcaster monster I can negate a spell card’s activation so I negate violet flash!” Yusho yelled as he flew in standing on his ace, Performapal Sky Magician’s rings with Yuzu standing on another ring.  

“Yusho” Zarc said with venom in his voice as his face twisted into a snarl. Yusho grinned in response as Yuzu jumped onto the ceiling next to Sora. “So you decided to join this little get together.” Zarc added.

“Of course. It’s an honor to meet the Supreme King Dragon that desired to destroy reality only to fail twice.” Yusho said as he gave a small bow which only angered Zarc further.

“Ray too. Just great” Zarc added with even more venom.

“Don’t forget about us!” a voice roared behind Zarc. Zarc and the person who followed him turned their head to see a motorcycle holding a blonde woman wearing a white knee length coat and a man wearing a yukata. The motorcycle stopped behind them as Chojiro jumped off.

Zarc looked around and realized that he was completely surrounded. He sighed and then said, “Hey just jump up. It’s better that we don’t get separated.” As Zarc finished someone still in the prison jumped up, causing Rin, Ruri and Serena to look in shock as they saw his face.

“Oh my, look who it is. My cute little test subject.” The balding man said with sneer as he looked straight at Yuzu.

“Test subject?” Yuzu asked with as she started to feel disgusted.

“Doktor!” Sora said with venom in his voice.

“The Doktor?” Asuka and Yusho both asked.

“Good to see that others realize genius when they see it. Yes, I am the greatest mind of the Academia. At your service.” The Doktor said with a voice filled with arrogance.

“What do you want with him, Zarc?” Yoko yelled. She heard at how the Doktor put parasites inside Yuzu’s head and felt herself shiver from disgust and rage at the mere thought of it.

“Well I really messed up.” Zarc calmly said, placing his hand on his forehead as he ignored Yoko’s question.  

“Good!” Sora snarked with an arrogance filed grin.

“I guess this is my fault. I should have expected you guys would have prevented interdimensional transport inside the prison but I mean who would expect the Lancers would be. Would be. What’s the word?” Zarc started to fumble around as the Lancers stared at him. “Oh I remember, competent especially after I tore you all to pieces without really trying.” Zarc said as he clapped his hands with a sadistic smile which caused the Lancers to clench their teeth.

“Times change Zarc. Want to test it then?” Chojiro threatened.

“Sure!” Zarc said with a sadistic smile. Just as the Lancers started to make their move, black smoke expelled from Zarc’s body. Soon the smoke filled the area, blinding the Lancers. After a few minutes of darkness, the smoke started to thin but the Lancers soon wished they had stayed blind as they saw the smoke started to form a ten story black dragon with blue eyes.

“He can still transform into Supreme King Dragon Zarc?” Sora nearly yelled as he saw the huge dragon Zarc transformed into.  

“Yep! Hope you enjoy, flying!” Zarc yelled as he flapped his large wings causing hurricane level winds. The Lancers tried to brace themselves against the winds but soon found themselves flung into the sky.

The six Lancers looked to each other as they saw they were at least a few kilometers in the air. Yusho and Asuka made eye contact and nodded as they still held onto their monsters. They then passed each other as they went to rescue their friends.

“Yoko!” Yusho yelled as he and Sky Magician raced to grab his wife. Yoko quickly regained her senses and grabbed onto one of the rings that her husband’s ace held.

“Grab on!” Asuka yelled she flew on her Cyber Angel Vrash near Sora and Chojiro. They quickly grabbed onto Vrash’s arms and hanged there as Asuka helped them up.

Yuzu prepared her duel disk as she saw that Yusho was flying to rescue her as well, but she realized he would take too long and prepared to draw before she heard Serena talk.

“Yuzu let me take control! My Cat Dancer is easier to summon!” Serena begged. Yuzu nodded her head and her body changed into a blue haired girl with a huge yellow bow in her hair and green eyes. Serena then turned on her duel disk that as she drew five cards and yelled, “I activate Polymerization. I fuse Lunalight Blue Cat and Lunalight Purple Butterfly to Fusion Summon Level 7 Lunalight Cat Dancer!” As Serena yelled, a purple woman wearing a mask with cat-like features appeared and quickly caught her master in a princess carry, slowly floating down to the ground. But soon Cat Dancer twisted her face in pain. “Cat Dancer!” Serena worried as she saw her ace in pain and saw a disgusting but familiar bug on the back of her monster.

“I activate the spell Incubation! This destroys the monster my Parasite Fusioner is attached to and allows me to summon two more Parasite Fusioners from deck, graveyard or hand!” The Doktor yelled with a sadistic look on his face.

“AHHH!” Cat Dancer yelled as she exploded into yellow light, dropping Serena. Serena quickly positioned herself to land without injury. Once she made contact with the ground, she started to roll forward, causing her to face the Doktor once she stood up without any injury.  

“My, my. That was a beautiful landing, almost cat-like.” The Doktor mocked, causing Serena to clench her teeth.

Above Serena and the Doctor, Zarc prepared a beam of energy from his mouth and fired on the buildings below him, only for a pink bear with a scissor in the center of its body to block the blast at the price of being destroyed.

“We’re not letting you kill anymore!” Chojiro yelled.

“Why to save lives? Or because you don’t want Egao Fetish junior to be a murderer?” Zarc mocked.

“Both!” Asuke roared.

“I activate Fusion Recovery and bring back Edge Imp Scissors and Polymerization. Then I activate Toy Vendor. I discard Edge Imp Frightfuloid to activate its effect. I draw a card and if the card is a Fluffal monster, I can special summon it, otherwise I have to discord it. I draw and it’s Fluffal Sheep. I then fuse Sheep with Scissors to summon Frightful Chain Sheep! Then I activate Frightful Fusion that removes Sheep, Bear and Frigthfuloid to Fusion Summon Frightful Mad Chimera! (Attack: 2800, Defense: 2000)” Sora commanded.

“Wow that was a mouthful” Zarc snarked.

“Shut it!” Sora yelled as he jumped onto one of the heads of his monster.

“My turn! I activate Ultimate Koi Koi. I discard my hard and then draw five times. For each card Flower Cardian I draw, I can special summon and make them level two. Koi Koi Koi Koi Koi! I draw.” Chojiro said before he drew five times. “Good to see that Enjoy Chojiro hasn’t lost his stuff.” He smiled at his luck. “All five of my draws were Flower Cardians and now I tuned them to Synchro Summon Level 10! Flower Cardian LightFlare  (Attack: 5000, Defense: 0)” Chojiro yelled as he summoned his strongest monster and jumped from Vrains to LightFlare’s shoulder.

“Not to be left behind, I activate Roar of the Nightlife. I can now summon any Road Raven from my hand without any tributes. I now summon Road Raven Red Queen(Attack: 2000 Defense: 2000)” Yoko yelled as her ace entered the world.

“I will give you Lancers’ praise. You’re the only IDIOTS that consistently keep racing towards your deaths.” Zarc mocked.

“We won’t give up! Not till we get Yuya, Yuto and Yugo back!” Yusho countered.

“What nothing for Yuri? Oh well, then try to catch me then!” Zarc yelled as he started to fly away.

“Get back here!” Asuka roared as the five Lancers chased him.

“Hopefully the Doktor uses this time to escape and not act like an idiot.” Zarc thought as he led the Lancers away.

 The Doktor looked in glee as the Lancers flew out of sight. “Hahahhaha. This is perfect! Zarc understands my genius and gave me time to recollect my test subject!” The Doktor giggled, causing Serena to grow goosebumps.

“Oh. Then TRY IT!” Serena dared as she got her duel disk ready.

Yuzu looked in shock as she saw how angry Serena was. She then noticed that Ruri was also uncharacteristically angry while Rin looked on in cold fury. She started to shiver as she realized what she had to do.

“Serena, switch with me!” Yuzu commanded as she continued to shiver.

“No! After what he did to us. I don’t want you to face this monster” Serena refused.

“And facing him when you’re this angry is the better idea?” Yuzu countered.  

“She has a point.” Rin conceded through gritted teeth.

“But, BUT!” Serena nearly roared.

“We can’t let you face this pervert” Ruri also refused as her face showed disgust.  

“Are you three sure, you can duel calmly?” Yuzu argued which shut up Ruri and Serena. “I’m touched that you want to protect me but if we lose to this freak because you couldn’t think straight, how safe will any of us be? We still need to catch up to Zarc!”

“Tch. Fine.” Serena gave up and transformed into a pink haired girl with blue eyes which shocked the Doktor.

“So you can change into different people just like Zarc!” The Doktor nearly exploded into joy which disgusted Serena, Ruri, Rin and Yuzu. “Wait hahhahhha. You changed into the only girl that I didn’t get to use. What does that mean you can change into the purple and green haired girls too!!” the Doktor mused with a disgusting smile.

“Use?” Yuzu thought as nausea flooded her senses.

“Oh come on talk. I mean this is the last chance you get to freely control your body again” the Doktor replied with a smile on his face which made Yuzu want to punch him.

“Are you going to keep talking or are we going to duel?” Yuzu threatened as started shaking. She wasn’t sure if it was fear, rage, disgust or a horrid mix of all three.

“True, stalling would mean those Lancers will come back.” The Doktor stated as he also readied his duel disk.

“Crossover!” Yuzu’s duel disk yelled as platforms formed.

“Duel!” Yuzu and Doktor roared as the Action Cards fell.

“Well I already have cards on my field, so I set one card and end my turn.” The Doktor said.

“It’s my turn then! Draw!” Yuzu yelled as she drew. Yuzu checked the field and saw that the Doktor had three of those parasites on his field. As she saw those horrible monsters, she could feel something disgustingly familiar about those bugs. She forced those feelings down, refusing to let the first memories she regained be of those bugs. She resolved that since she didn’t really know how his deck worked, she would create an iron defense first.

“I activate 1st Movement Solo! This allows me to special summon a level 4 or lower Melodious monster from my hand or deck if I control no monsters. I special summon Aria the Melodious Diva in defense mode (Attack: 1600 Defense: 1200) from my deck. I then special summon Canon the Melodious Diva (Attack: 1400 Defense: 2000) as I control a Melodious monster. I then activate Transmodify and send Canon to the graveyard to special summon Elegy the Melodious Diva in attack mode (Attack: 2000 Defense: 1200).” Yuzu yelled.

“So all that effort to summon two monsters whose attack are at best 2000” The Doktor mocked.

“Keep mocking, but due to Aria’s special effect, if she was special summoned none of my Melodious monsters can be targeted by card effects or destroyed by battle! And with Elegy’s special effect none of my Melodius monsters can be destroyed by card effects. And with an added bonus all my Fairy type monsters gain 300 attack because she was special summoned. Elegy(attack 2300) Aria(attack 1900) And I end my turn.” Yuzu said with a smile.

“hahahahaha. It’s cute that you think you stop me!” The Doktor mocked as he drew his card causing Yuzu feel her heart race from rage. “hahaha. I activate my trap! Parasite infestation!” As the Doktor yelled the parasites started to jump onto Yuzu’s monsters.

“What? But Aria’s special effect makes sure that my monsters can’t be targeted by special effects!” Yuzu asked.

“Parasite Infestation’s effect states that as long as I control at least the same number of parasites on my side of the field, I negate all your monsters effects and take control of them with the equal number of parasites as equip cards!” Doktor yelled

“Don’t panic!” Ruri yelled.

“Grab an action card!” Rin aided.

At Rin’s words, Yuzu started to jump on the platforms in front of her.

“I activate Polymerization and fuse the parasite attached Aria, Elegy and my last remaining Parasite Fusioner to Fusion summon Parasite Empress! (Attack: 3000 Defense: 0). I activate her special effect, when special summoned, I revive all Parasite Fusioners in my graveyard and attach them to her and her attack raises by 300 for each parasite attached. I revived all three so her attack is 3900. Direct attack.” He laughed as purple bile from the bug’s mouth shot as a highly pressured stream aimed for Yuzu’s back

“Behind you!” Serena warned as Yuzu jumped to the top platform and grabbed the card hanging at the edge.  

“I activate Evasion! The attack is negated!” Yuzu yelled as she felt nostalgic. That feeling quickly went away when she saw the Doktor smile.

“I can negate activate spells or traps when Parasite Empress attacks!” The Doktor smiled as Yuzu’s duel disk showed a red X on her action card.

Yuzu put her arms in front of her body and closed her eyes to protect herself.

“Yuzu!” Serena, Ruri and Rin yelled as the bile hit Yuzu.

Yuzu felt the bile push her at least a few feet back as she slid across the concrete ceiling. Serena, Ruri and Rin floated over Yuzu as they called her name in worry as she laid flat on the ceiling. Yuzu opened her eyes and saw her three counterparts but couldn’t hear them. She tried to get up but could feel her strength leaving her as she struggled. She could feel her vision start to fade as the concrete grey floor morphed into a white crystal floor instead. She wondered if she had a concussion from the attack and was having a visual hallucination, but soon even the hallucination started to fade to black. As she was surrounded by darkness she heard something.

“Yuzu!” a desperate voice called, shocking her. As Yuzu regained her senses, the voice continued to call her name over and over and each time she heard the worried but kind voice, she could feel more of her strength coming back. After a few moments, she started to get up to see the environment around her was a white gem filled area. She realized that she was still hallucinating but at the same time everything felt so familiar. She turned her head to see the owner of the voice that awoke her, the voice that made her feel happy, safe and for some reason sad. Her eyes widened as she saw a blinding light covered the boy’s face. But for some reason a name started to come to her, a name of someone precious to her.

”Yu—“ She started before she heard something.

“Yuzu!” Serena, Ruri and Rin screamed which caused Yuzu to open her eyes as she realized she was lying on the dark grey ceiling of the prison in the Fusion Dimension. She picked herself off the ground as she felt stronger for some reason. She knew that it was likely the voice she heard was just an auditory hallucination but even still she could feel the voice still giving her strength, causing her to smile.

“Yuzu are you ok?” Serena worriedly asked.

“I’m fine, Serena” Yuzu said in a soft voice as she assured her friend.

“If you don’t think you can’t keep on dueling, one of us can take over” Ruri suggested.

“It’s ok. I have to finish what I started.” Yuzu rejected her offer, feeling oddly more confident.

“Don’t push yourself” Rin advised.

“Thanks everyone.” Yuzu thanked with a warm smile.

“If you had just lost consciousness, I would have won. Stop trying to delay the inevitable.” The Doktor stated.

“Maybe I should have lost consciousness then I wouldn’t have to listen to this cliché line. If you’re such a genius, think up something original to say” Yuzu attacked.

“Big words for the girl with only 100 life points left when I still have 4000. I set one card and end my turn.” The Doktor gloated.

Yuzu grimaced as she noticed that her arms and legs were red, but luckily they weren’t bleeding. She realized that she couldn’t go looking for action cards but with Parasite Empress’ effect they weren’t very useful anyway.

“It’s my turn draw!” Yuzu yelled as she did a small motion to draw her card, she smiled when she had drew the card that she needed. “I activate Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen from my hand. Valhalla’s effect activates, if I don’t have a monster on my field, I can special summon a Fairy-Type monster from my hand. I special summon Symphony the Melodious Diva(level 4 Attack: 1500 Defense: 1400). And I activate her effect, when she has been special summoned, I can special summon another Symphony from my deck but I can only use this effect once per turn! I special summon her in defense!” Yuzu said as she looked to Ruri. “Ready?” She smirked.

“Let’s show this monster what Ray is made of!” Ruri responded which Yuzu smiled in response to.

“I overlay my two level four Symphonies” Yuzu said as she pushed forward with her left arm causing her signature bracelet with two pink gems on the opposite side to flail around.

“Plentiful birds sing your melodies to defy winter’s cold grasp!” Ruri yelled.

“Let your voices combine into a song that can never be silenced!” Yuzu continued.

“Xyz Summon Rank 4, Bloom Passeri the Melodious Choir! (Attack: 2000 Defense: 1000)” Yuzu and Ruri said in unison as another bracelet with feather styled metal surrounded a yellow gem formed on Yuzu’s left arm.

As Yuzu and Ruri yelled, a yellow colored woman came out from the overlay network with white bird wings that extruded from her back as two golden orbs circled around her causing the Doktor to look in shock.

“You summoned a Xyz monster?!!!” The Doktor nearly yelled.

“Did you think I couldn’t?” Yuzu taunted.

“Yes. Unless, you did fuse with your Xyz Counterpart!!!!” The Doktor yelled in excitement. “Just think of the possibilities!!!”

Yuzu looked in disgust and felt rage starting to build in her heart.

“I activate Bloom Passeri’s effect. By sending an overlay unit to the graveyard, I can negate the effect of one my opponent’s monsters and turn its attack to zero till the end of the turn. I choose Parasite Empress. Vibration Disruption!” Yuzu yelled as her monster’s song covered the monstrous bug.

“My Empress!” The Doktor yelled.

“Blood Passeri attack and destroy that eyesore! Melody Destruction!” Yuzu and Ruri yelled.

“Not so fast! I activate my continuous trap card. Parasite guard! By sending one of my Parasite Fusioners to the graveyard, I can negate the destruction of one of my monsters this turn. I choose the Empress! Too BAD! You three will always be in the palm of my genius!’ The Doktor mocked.

“You still take 2000 points of damage” Yuzu countered with a smile.

As one of the parasites on the Empress’ body disappeared into light, the razor sharp winds hit Empress, knocking the Doktor off his feet as his life points dropped to 2000.

“I then set a card face down and end our turn. At this point your Empress regains her attack and effect.” Yuzu responded.

The Doktor struggled to pick himself up and then yelled, “My turn!” as he drew his card and his face again twisted into a smile. “I activate Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy your face down. And then Empress destroy her monster and the rest of her life points” he yelled.

Yuzu covered her face as the wind from his card destroyed her face down card. As Empress fired bile at Bloom Passeri, the monster’s wings covered her body and then suddenly the wing opened up, repelling the bile back on Empress’ face causing the Doktor’s smile to crumble as Yuzu’s showed a big smile on hers.

“When the card you destroyed, Grave Defense, is sent to the graveyard when on field, I can remove from play that card and one of my monsters in my graveyard and then choose one monster you control. The targeted monster loses Attack Points of the monster removed. I removed Elegy who had 2000 attack. So Empress’ attack drops from 3600 to 1600!” Yuzu explained as the Doktor’s face started to panic.

He clenched his teeth and yelled, “Parasite Guard’s effect activates again! I send another parasite to the graveyard and protect my Empress” As he said this, another parasite disappeared into light, dropping Empress’s attack from 1600 to 1300. He strained as Bloom Passeri’s counterattack dropped his life points to 1300. He then yelled with annoyance in his voice, “Empress’ effect. When a Parasite Fusioner is sent to the graveyard, I can choose one monster on the field and destroy it. I choose that annoying Bloom Passeri.”

After saying that Empress jumped back to life and fired more bile at Bloom Passeri. Once the bile hit Passeri, it exploded then dissolved into light.

“Bloom Passeri” Yuzu yelled as she braced from the explosion while the yellow gem bracelet disappeared as she felt her jaw clench.

“I then set one card face down and end my turn.” The Doktor yelled, obviously annoyed.

“It’s our turn!” Yuzu yelled as she drew and then smiled when she saw the card she drew. “I activate Valhall’s effect again as I don’t have any monsters on my field. I summon the tuner monster, Requiem the Melodious Diva(Level 3, Attack: 1000 Defense: 400). Because I special summoned her, I activate her effect. I can special summon a level four or lower Melodious monster from my graveyard. I choose the level four Symphony the Melodious Diva. And because I special summoned her, I can special summon another Symphony in from my deck in defense mode.” Yuzu said as she looked to Rin.

“What are you waiting for? A round of applause?” Rin joked as Yuzu felt her jaw start to relax.

“I tune my level four Symphony with my level three Requiem!” Yuzu yelled as she raised her left arm in the sky.

“Mighty winds circle the world as the sky’s cries become a song!” Rin cried.

“The world chills for those that dare harm it as the song roars!” Yuzu continued.

“Synchro Summon Level 7 Bloom Boreas the Melodious Choir(Attack: 2500 Defense: 1900)” Yuzu and Rin roared together as a bracelet with a green gem that had wind decoration surround the gem appear on Yuzu’s left arm.

As Yuzu and Rin yelled a green color woman appeared with metallic legs and arms.

“Synchro too. So you did fuse with all your counterparts like he did.” The Doktor calmly said.

“He?” Yuzu wondered as her counterparts looked uncomfortable.

Yuzu then refocused on her duel and focused the face down card on the Doktor’s field. Due to his Parasite Guard trap, Empress would survive one more turn and even if she got rid of the last of the parasites, it would just destroy her Bloom Boreas. While she would enjoy not having to see anymore parasites. That face down card was too dangerous to ignore especially with her low life points

Yuzu clench her teeth and said, “I set one card face down and end our turn.” Which caused Ruri and Rin to nod their heads in agreement.  

The Doktor started to smile again which caused all of Ray to frown. “Look likes no matter how big you talk, you still fear my genius!!!” The Doktor again taunted as he drew causing Yuzu to nearly explode in rage. “Empress attack Bloom Boreas!”

As the Doktor yelled Empress fired a stream of bile as it neared Bloom Boreas Yuzu and Rin yelled, “Bloom Boreas’s effect activates once during either player’s battle phrase, I can remove a monster from my graveyard and add its attack to one of my monster attack. I remove one of my Symphony’s and add her attack to Bloom Boreas raising her 2500 attack to 4000.”      

The Doktor only smiled in response, “Reveal face down card! Spirit Barrier! Now as long as I have a monster I take no battle damage. And you know what happens next” After he said this, Bloom Boreas blocked the stream of bile and then raced towards Empress as a sonic boom started to form in front of it. The Empress screamed in pain as Boreas passed through it. “Parasite Guard’s effect, I sent my last parasite to protect my Empress. Empress’s effect now activates, I destroy Bloom Boreas!” He said as his face started twist into insane laughter. “See while you might have tricked me, you can’t outsmart my genius. Accept the honor that I want you four as my test subjects. I set one more card face down.” Doktor laughed as Yuzu’s monster exploded and the bracelet with the green gem disappeared again.

Yuzu could feel her teeth grind together as she not heard the Doktor’s laughter but continued to see that damn parasite. But just as she was about to draw she again heard a voice that shocked her, her own voice.

“Smile, -----“ her voice rang, causing Yuzu to widen her eyes. “You Show Duel School’s a Duel School for cheerfulness and entertainment right? Don’t forget to smile.”

As Yuzu heard her voice, she realized she was recalling one of her memories. “Smile” the same voice that called for her in the gem filled area said. “Guess you’re right. Cheerful and entertaining is my motto after all.” The voiced said in a calm and soft voice that soothed the rage in her heart.

“Yuzu, you there?” Serena asked bring Yuzu back to the duel as she saw Serena, Ruri and Rin worryingly at her.

“Yeah …. Just I finally regained some of my memories.” Yuzu answered which caused all three to look in shock. “I just realized I was being a bit of a hypocrite earlier but I’m fine now.” She said with a smile which only confused the three of them as she placed her right pointer and middle fingers on top of her deck. “Because the fun is just getting started!” Yuzu smiled, shocking her counterparts even more.

“I activate Choir Switch out! I discard a Melodious monster in my hand and I can special summon another Melodious monster in my deck as long as the level is lower than the monster I discard. I discard Bloom Mozarta the Melodious Maesrta a level 8 monster to special summon the level 4 Soprano the Melodious Songstress. I activate her special effect, I can fusion summon with using any monsters that I control. I fuse Soprano and my remaining Symphony.” Yuzu said as she looked to Serena.

Serena shook off her shock and said, ”Lets get rid of that eyesore shall we?” to which Yuzu happily nodded her head.

“Beasts hiding in the moon’s light, roar as you claim your domain!” Serena started.

“Let these roars mix to create music which strikes fear in the hearts of evil!” Yuzu continued.

“Fusion summon Level 9 Bloom Liger the Melodious Choir (Attack: 3000 Defense: 2600)” Yuzu and Serena yelled together. Yuzu then intertwined her fingers as her hands clapped together as a bracelet with a huge blue gem appeared on her left arm.

As Yuzu and Serena ordered, a red colored woman appeared with fangs as she held two short swords as she wore armor.

“Bloom Liger’s special effect! When she’s fusion summoned, I choose one card from my deck and add it to my hand. Now Bloom Liger’s second effect activates, she gains attack points for each monster card in my graveyard times 100. There are 6, so Bloom Liger’s attack rises to 3600 attack.” Yuzu yelled as she readied her attack.

“Go Bloom Liger destroy that bug with Resounding Roar!” as Yuzu and Serena commanded their monster, Bloom Liger gave a mighty roar that hit Parasite Empress finally destroying the monster. “Now Liger’s final effect activates! After I’ve destroyed one of your monsters in battle, I can destroy all your spell and trap cards!” Yuzu commanded as her monster glowed a bright green.

“I activate my face down card. Spell protection. I can choose one card and it can’t be destroyed by card effects this turn. I choose Spirit Barrier!” The Doktor yelled as a protective bubble appeared around Spirit Barrier.

“And now I’ll show my genius!” The Doktor yelled. “I activate Parasite Guard’s second effect. By removing this card from my graveyard. I can special summon a Fusion Monster that lists Parasite Fusioner as fusion material and then destroy one of your monsters!” The Doktor yelled as Bloom Liger exploded pushing Yuzu off her feet as the bracelet with a blue gem disappeared. “Also due to Parasite Empress’ effect I attach my three Parasite Fusioners in the graveyard to her again. Her attack rises to 3900 once more. After all that using all three summoning methods, in the end we’re back to where we started again!!! And it’s all my turn next” The Doktor giggled.

“I end our turn then.” Yuzu said with a smile as she got up which caused the Doktor to giggle more.

“You finally realize the honor of being my test subject!!!!” The Doktor yelled as he drew his card. “Empress end this duel, it’s time to continue my work!”

As Yuzu heard his order she started jumping for action cards, shocking the Doktor. As the Doktor looked in shock, she continued to jump around the platforms the field magic created as her limbs started t ached from Parasite Empress earlier direct attack. She felt like her joints were breaking as red hot pain seared her senses. She ignored it and kept moving towards her target. As she continued to search, the image of a boy whose face she couldn’t remember appeared in her mind. While she couldn’t remember the details, she could remember how he continually faced pain and torment but kept a smile on his face. She could see how every day hurt him but he never gave up. As the silhouette of that boy was burned in her mind she only thought, “he suffered for years but kept going. He was beaten, mocked and even tortured so I can’t give up because of a little pain. I can’t give up, not now or ever.” As the image of that boy continued to give her strength, she finally found an action card and saw it was the exact one she was looking for. She then slide the card in her duel disk and yelled, “Evasion! I negate the attack!”

“Idiot, did you forget? I can negate spells or traps when Empress attacks. I negate your action card!” The Doktor screamed as his face twisted into a sadistic smile as he hoped to see the despair on her face. To his shock, Yuzu’s face instead showed a smile filed with hope.

“I activate Score the Melodious Diva’s special effect by discard her, I can banish two spell cards with the same name and that becomes her effect. So I banish my two Evasions and I negate your attack!” Yuzu countered which shocked the Doktor.

Yuzu then landed and saw her counterparts smiling at her and the Doktor running his hands through his thinning hair.

“Why, WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!!!” Why won’t you give up?!” The Doktor yelled.

Yuzu smiled as she let Ruri take control. “I don’t expect you to understand but we’re face much worse odds than to let the likes of a fool who can’t spend more than five minutes without stroking his ego break our will.” Ruri angrily replied before letting Rin take control.

“In the end, your greatest achievement is adding to Real Solid Vision that the Professor perfected. And your genius is using our skills and strength to beat our friends and family. In this duel, Yuzu was always ahead of you despite the difference of 3900 life points at the start.” Rin added before she let Serena take control.

“No matter what you do, no matter what you say, we can’t lose to a middle aged coward who uses teenage girls do his dirty work. You say you’re a genius but you’re just a sad old man with a bug obsession.” Serena finished before returning control to Yuzu.

“Shut UP. SHUT UP. You will realize my genius. EVERYONE WILL.” The Doktor yelled.

“End your turn! You have no cards to play. It’s time to end this.” Yuzu commanded.

“It doesn’t matter, you can’t win. You only have one card in your hand and one facedown card. I’ll win my next turn, I end my turn.” The Doktor arrogantly said.

Yuzu smiled and said, “Don’t underestimate us”

“It’s our turn!” Yuzu, Serena, Ruri and Rin yelled together as Yuzu drew.

“I activate the spell card, Melodious Calling. I can choose two Melodious Pendulum monsters from my deck and add them to my hand as long as they have different names. I choose my Do the Melodious Diva and Ti the Melodious Diva. And I set my Scale one Do and my scale 10 Ti in my Pendulum scales.”

“Even so how can you beat my 3900 Attack Parasite Empress?” The Doktor laughed.

“With this. I activate my facedown card Pendulum rebirth! By halving my life points I can Pendulum summon Pendulum Monsters in my graveyard as long as its level is in between my scales. I revive Bloom Mozarta the Melodious Maesrta (Level 8 Attack 2800 Defense: 2200).” Yuzu commanded as her life points dropped to 50 as the pink gems on her bracelet sparkled.

“Bloom Mozarta’s special effect activates, when she’s been special summoned I can special summon a level 6 or lower Melodious monster from my graveyard. I special summon Aria (Attack: 1600 Defense: 1200).”

“What can those two weaklings do compared to my Masterpiece?” The Doktor yelled.

Yuzu only smiled in response which caused the Doktor to worry despite his arrogance. “I activate Bloom Passeri��s second effect. I removed this card in my graveyard from play and then I can choose one Melodious monster in my graveyard and give it’s effect to one monster on my field till the end of the turn. I choose Bloom Boreas and give it to my Bloom Mozarta and activate Mozarta’s new effect, I remove Canon and add her 1400 attack to my Mozarta’s 2800 attack to a full 4200 attack.” Yuzu calmly stated which caused the Doktor to sweat.

“IMPOSSIBLE. HOW COULD YOU. HOW WAS IT. WHO ARE YOU!!!!” The Doktor yelled with every fiber of his being as he realized that Aria had enough attack points to end the duel.

“We’re Ray.” Yuzu answered.

“Battle, Mozarta destroy Empress once and for all. Final Encore!!!!” Yuzu ordered as Mozarta took in a huge breathe and sang but no sound came out. But to the Doktor’s horror, he saw his Empress start to crumble causing him to whimper.

“Finally Aria take out the rest of his life points!” All of Ray ordered. Aria then gave a huge scream as an invisible stream of air hit the old man, knocking him out as his life points dropped to 0.

“Yes!” All of Ray cheered before Yuzu let her exhaustion and pain take over and let gravity work its magic as she sat on the ground.

“You did it, Yuzu” Serena congratulated with a big smile on her face.

Yuzu shaked her head and stated, “We did it. I only won because the four of us combined our powers. I got my pendulum cards with Bloom Liger’s effect. And then I used Bloom Passeri’s effect to use Bloom Boreas’ effect to finally destroy that bug. It was because of all of our power that we won.”

Serena, Ruri and Rin smiled in response before Rin asked, “Hey Yuzu about that phrase you said?”

“Phrase?” Yuzu wondered.

“The fun is just getting started. Where did you hear that?” Ruri asked worried.

Yuzu just smiled and said, “I have no idea. I just feel like someone I knew said it a lot.”

“Yuzu how much of your memories did you regain?” Serena asked trying to not let her worries show.

“Not much sadly. Just some scattered memories of You Show.” Yuzu said which caused the three of them to relax a bit. “But I do remember this boy though.” Yuzu added which scared the three of them. “I can’t remember his face or even his name. But just thinking of him, I just feel safe and happy” Yuzu said as she touched her chest which caused the three of them to look miserable. “I think he was a You Show student in Standard but the only students excluding myself are Tatsuya, Ayu, Futoshi and Sora and in my memory I saw all of them at his side as he dueled someone. But in the two months after You Show was destroyed, I didn’t see him at all.” Yuzu pondered.

The three of them started to panic but before any of them could say anything they could hear a cheerful voice yell, “Yuzu!!!” All four turned and saw four huge monsters in the sky as the Lancers came flying back. After the Lancers reached where Yuzu was sitting, Yoko jumped off Sky Magician and gave Yuzu a bit hug which Yuzu gave a small smile in response too.

“Yuzu are you ok? We didn’t realize we left you with that. Till after Zarc disappeared.” Yoko said as she pointed to the knocked out Doktor.

“Disappeared?” Yuzu asked while still being hugged by Yoko.

“Yeah after fighting with us for half an hour, he transformed back into his human self. As we looked in confusion, he escaped.” Asuka said as she punched her open hand.

“Instead of Phantom King, we should rename coward king for all the times he’s been running away. I’m sure Sawatari and Crow would enjoy that.” Sora said as he licked one of his trademark lollipops.

“I would ask how did you do but I think that tells us everything we need to know.” Yusho smiled as he looked to the Doktor’s knocked out form.

“Good job, Missy! As I expected from the girl that beat me.” Chojiro said as pride filled his voice.

“So all Zarc did try to take that out?” Yuzu said once Yoko finally stopped hugging her.

“No. When me and Sora arrived someone already had escaped.” Asuka corrected.

“What?” Serena asked.

“Do we know who it was?” Yusho asked.

“We can always find out.” Asuka answered.

“So that means Zarc did free someone from the Academia.” Chojiro said as the Lancers started to grimace in response to his words.

Yuzu decided to ask the question in her mind hoping to change the mood.      

“Ah Mrs. Sakaki, Sora can I ask a question?”

“No problem.” Sora instantly asked

“You really don’t have to ask.” Yoko happily answered.

“In the You Show in Standard, the original. What happened to a student that liked to say ‘The Fun is just getting started.’?” Yuzu asked.

Once Yuzu asked the question, everything went silent as Yusho, Yoko, Chojiro and Sora started to frown while Asuka looked away.

“What?” Yuzu asked seeing how her question depressed them.

“He  ….. he was a student that really enjoyed the Entertainment philosophy of You Show” Sora quietly said.

“So what happened to him then?” Yuzu asked as she could feel their anguish.

“He … he” Yoko started.

“he quit.” Sora forced himself to say.

“Quit? But I remember that he would never give up” Yuzu thought. But as Yuzu looked at everyone’s faces, she realized that something was wrong. If that boy was just a student, why would Mr. Tokumatsu, who had never been to You Show, look in anguish. Yuzu realized that her questions were causing everyone pain, but for some reason she couldn’t stop. Somewhere deep inside of her heart, she knew that she was close to that boy and that knowledge spurned her to keep asking.

“What was his name?” As Yuzu asked this question, Yusho and Yoko looked at each other in pain

“Yugi. He always liked games so his parents named him that.” Yusho said in a big laugh that sounded like he really wanted to cry.

Realized that they were never going to tell her about that boy, Yuzu decided to drop it for now. But even so she wondered what about the boy was so special that the Lancers would lie to her about it. And why did she dream about his voice last night?

 Zarc again dragged his feet inside his base in agony as everything hurt. “Me damn Lancers. You’d think if someone turned into a freaking dragon, you stay away from him. But no they had to keep on chasing me for half an hour” He whined as he sat down on the softest chair in the base.

“Rough day?” A voice asked.

“Yep. Hey I know that Barrett got away but did the Doktor come here?” Zarc asked.

“Only Barrett.” The voice responded which caused Zarc to facepalm.

“I gave him half an hour and what did that idiot do?! Oh me, he dueled Ray didn’t he?” Zarc pondered.

“But I thought we were going to combine his parasites with my androids to create an invincible army? What are we going to do now that you messed up?!” the Voice yelled.

Zarc turned his head as he glared at the owner of the voice, “I did say that weren’t partners. But at the same time.” Zarc then turned into Yuri, causing the owner of the voice to flinch. “That doesn’t mean you’re my superior or even equal, Roger.”

Roger snarled at being disrespected, “But a major part of the plan included the Doktor’s technology.”

“We just continue on without him.” Zarc calmly said.    

“How?” Roger asked which caused Zarc to smile.

“Well, I think I had enough of only letting the Lancers know of my return. So let show the dimensions that I’m back with a bang!” Zarc said with a smile.

“How?” Roget asked looking puzzled.

“With the murder of Jack Atlas.” Zarc said with a smile.