'Yu Nishkiyama. He's a clue to a mystery of the Six Dimensions and their sudden appearance on Planet Cray. I need to examine up personally. And there is only one way without drawing suspicion.' Reiji looks at the stage while Yu and Aoi walk on both sides of the arena.
"You know dang well that I'm not going to hold anything back against you, Aoi. Prepare cause this battle is going to rock!" Yu says as he places his deck on the table.
"I expect nothing less from you. This is the payback for earlier!" Aoi responds putting her deck on the table.
"Stand up, the Vanguard!"
"Stand up, Vanguard!"
Both fighters flip over their card as the crowd cheers in excitement.
"Jet Synchron!"
"Trickstar Bloom!"
Six Dimensions
By: NexusEX
Chapter 8: Unexpected Company
"My turn! I Ride! Trickstar Mandrake! (Grade 1, 6000 Power)" Aoi said before moving Trickstar Bloom to the bottom left the rear-guard zone.
"Ride the Vanguard! Junk Synchron! (Grade 1, 6000 Power)" Yu moves Jet Synchron behind Junk Synchron before turning the card. "Attack!"
"No guard."
"Trigger check." Yu turns over the card to reveal nothing.
"Damage check. Draw trigger. I draw a card and give the power to Mandrake." (6000 → 11000 Power)
Aoi - []
"My turn! Draw! I Ride! Trickstar Narkissus (Grade 2, 9000 Power). Call! Trickstar Lycoris. (Grade 2, 9000 Power)" She places the two Lycoris on the top left and top right rear guard zones. "I attack your Vanguard!"
"No guard."
"Trigger check... No trigger."
Yu - []
"The left Lycoris attacks!"
"Guard!" (6000 →11000 Shield)
"The right Lycoris is the final one to attack!"
Yu - [][]
"My turn! Ride the Vanguard! Turbo Warrior! (Grade 2, 9000 Power) Call! Road Synchron (Grade 1, 7000 Power) and Speed Warrior (Grade 1, 7000 Power)" Yu places Road Synchron on the top right rear guard zone and Speed Warrior behind it. "Road Synchron attacks your Vanguard! (7000 → 14000 Power)"
"No guard!"
Aoi - [][]
"Turbo Warrior attacks your Vanguard! Skill activate! Counterblast! Your Vanguard's Power is cut in half. (9000 → 4500) (9000 → 14000 Power)"
"No guard."
Aoi - [][][]
"Jeez. You're really trying to bring me down. But you're going to need to do much more if you want to make it up for me, by making me wait all that time." Aoi comments as she draws her card.
"Seriously? I told you that I passed out. Cut me some slack." Yu comments.
"Sorry, Yu. No mercy in a fight. Hear the song of the Trickstars! I ride! Trickstar Holy Angel! (Grade 3, 11000 Power) Holy Angel attacks your Vanguard!"
"Guard!" (9000 → 19000 Power)
"Twin Drive!" Aoi flips over the card revealing no trigger. She pulls over the second card. "Critical Trigger! I give all effects to the left Lycoris! It attacks your Vanguard! (9000 → 14000 → 19000, Critical 1 → 2)"
"No Guard. Damage check... Heal Trigger! I heal one damage and give the power to my Vanguard." (9000 → 14000 Power)
Yu -[][][]
"Tsk. I end my turn. You got lucky from that Heal Trigger."
"But here is the climax. Ride the Vanguard! Almighty warrior from the heavens, descend from your place in the stars! Stardust Warrior! (Grade 3, 11000 Power) Then! I tune Speed Warrior to Road Synchron! Synchro Summon! Stardust Dragon! (Grade 4, 26000 Power) Skill activate! When I Synchro Summon Stardust Dragon, I can add a tuner and non-tuner from my deck to my hand! Call! Road Warrior (Grade 2, 9000 Power) and Junk Forward (Grade 1, 7000 Power). Road Warrior Skill! I superior call Unknown Synchron from my deck. (Grade 1, 7000 Power)"
"You filled out your board and prepared to Synchro Summon next turn..." Aoi comments before gripping her deck.
"Stardust Dragon attacks your Vanguard! (26000 → 31000 Power)"
"Perfect Guard!"
"Triple Drive! Heal Trigger! I give the power to Road Warrior and heal one damage."
Yu - [][]
"Attack! (9000 → 14000 → 21000 Power)"
Aoi - [][][][]
"My turn! Trickstar Holy Angel Skill! I can use Units from my hand to Link Summon! I use Trickstar Candina, Corobane, and Nightshade from my hand! Link Summon! Trickstar Crimson Heart! (Grade 4, 26000 Power) Skill activate! I heal one damage point!"
Aoi - [][][]
"Stride Skill! Counterblast and I add Trickstar Reincarnation Witch from my deck to my hand. Generation Break 2! I bind Reincarnation and send all of your cards from your hand to the drop zone. Then you draw the same amount of cards from your deck."
'Forcing me to draw? Is she trying to go for a deck out?' Yu thinks as he does just that.
"Next. Trickstar Lycoris Generation Break 2! When you guard, the total is dropped by 2000 shield for each card that you've drawn! You drew five cards so you need 10000 more shield in order to successfully block my blows! But since there's two, you need 20000 more than usual. Crimson Heart attacks your Vanguard!"
'I can't guard her blows with a minus 20000 rate and I have no Sentinels.' Yu thinks as he looks down.
"This is what is special from my Trickstar Archetype. We make your guards weak and last our devastating blow." Two critical triggers. "I give the critical to Crimson Heart and the Power to Lycoris! (Critical 1 → 3) (9000 → 19000 Power)"
Yu - X[][][][]
"This is it Yu! I attack!" (19000 → 26000 Power)
"Generation Guard! Junk Gardna! Plus Guard and Intercept! Even with minus 20000 shield, it's enough to pull through! Plus skill activate! I rest your other Lycoris!" Yu said letting out a sigh. "Heh. This is quite hilarious. That gimmick of yours is quite awesome. I can't lie, Aoi."
"Yeah. And you're not pulling any punches. You're constant ability to Synchro Summon is quite awesome." Aoi said before remembering something. "Oh yeah. I got us those backstage passes that you wanted."
"Wait! You got us Backstage Passes to see Roselia!? Hell yeah! This is awesome!"
"On one condition!" Aoi said as Yu looked at her. "If you're able to beat me this turn, I'll let you have it. I only have one."
"Wait… Only one?!" Yu pondered the thought before chuckling. "Oh sweet sweet Aoi. I guess that pass is as good as mine!"
"You sound really confident." Aoi chuckles before looking at her hand.
"It's the motivation to win! Final turn! I tune Junk Foward to Unknown Synchron! Clustering crystal dreams become a shining new star! Become the light of evolution! Synchro Summon! Stardust Spark Dragon! (Grade 4, 26000 Power) Skill activate! When Synchro Summon, I randomly bind one card from your hand. The one on the far left."
'That was a heal trigger...'
"Stardust Spark Dragon's skill. I flip over a copy of the same card and return Lycrois from your field to your deck and shuffle. Plus one critical." (Critical 1 → 2) "Call! Speed Warrior and Road Warrior. Road Warrior skill, superior call Unknown Synchron. Speed Warrior attacks your Vanguard! Skill activate! It's power becomes double when attacking your vanguard directly! (7000 → 14000 Power)"
"Critical Trigger. I give the power to Holy Angel." (11000 → 16000 Power)
"Great... Stardust Spark Dragon attacks your Vanguard!"
"Perfect Guard!"
"Triple Drive! Critical trigger! I give all effects to Road Warrior. Draw Trigger! I give the power to Road Warrior and draw one card..." (9000 → 19000 Power, Critical 1 → 2) "Final strike! Attack!"
"Even if I do a no guard, I'll still win this bet!" Aoi said with a smile as she notices the smile on Yu's Face. "What's so funny?"
"Are you going to guard or not?" Yu asks with a chuckle.
"N-No guard."
"I win then. I activate Stardust Lord's effect from my hand! I bind two G-Units and five cards from my deck. If the attack hits, add one critical!" Yu said with a smile.
"H-Huh?"
Aoi - [][][][][][]
"Thank you. Thank you. You have been a wonderful audience." Yu bows towards the crowd. "Now that was a nice match now, was it?"
"Eugh. How did you pull that off!? That was just a bunch of nonsense luck! And that effect! That's just nonsense!" Aoi exclaims.
"Aren't card games just luck? If luck is on someone's side then they'll most likely win. That and some skill is required." Yu said nonchalantly. "Now. About those backstage passes?"
"...Fine. You did win the bet, fair and square. I'll give it to you later." Aoi said as both she and Yu made their way to the back. "You know. You're not doing a good job hiding your excitement."
"How can I? Just the thought of meeting Roselia is something to look forward for.
"Sabi. This is Nishkiyama International. Who is this that I may be speaking to?" Yu answered picking up the phone.
"Hey Yu! How's it going?" Yuya said from the other side of the phone.
"Oh? Yuya? Quite the surprise. It's going well. It's going well indeed. You?"
"I'm doing fine. So is everyone else. Doing the G-Quest was a lot of fun."
"Oh yeah. The G-Quest. I heard that Chrono and the others became the so-called Generation Masters or something like that. Pretty cool. Pretty cool indeed." Yu said before wondering something. "This is an international call... You sure that you should be calling?"
"Don't worry. Shun is having me call on a Vanguard Association phone. In any case, just calling to check up on you. Everyone is fumbling all over the place. I'll tell you that."
"Ouch. Sounds rough. I'll let you get onto that. Next time, video call me." Yu comments as he heard faint chuckling and the phone hangs up. "What was that all about?"
...
"Oh I should get ready for the concert." Yu said looking at the time and wears a normal black and purple shirt with jeans. "Time for one hell of a night!"
"Wow. I'm actually surprised that Yuya was able to keep quiet for so long." Yuzu said carrying her luggage bag. "I almost thought that you were going to spill the beans."
"Don't you have any faith in me, Yuzu? I would never do something like that. That's Yugo's job."
"Hey! What does that mean?" Yugo exclaims out loud.
"It means that you shoot out whatever comes to mind first. That outburst kinda proves their claim." Yuri looks at his phone with absolute boredom. "Anyway. When did Tokoha say that the flight was?"
"It's an hour from now." Kamui said showing the plane ticket on his phone. "Which means you all should go do your business and get ready to line up."
"Right!" Everyone shouts.
"An international flight to America... I'm not sure I'm ready." A short brown-haired kid comments with a sigh. "I hardly know any English. I'm going to stand out like a sore thumb."
"Don't be like that Taiyou. We're in the same boat but we're still going to have fun." Chrono said putting his arm around Taiyou.
"Oi Chrono. What do you mean when you say that you're in the same boat as him?" Tokoha asks as Chrono just chuckles nervously. "Jeez. What on earth are your English grades?"
"You don't need to know that..." Chrono let outs.
"You don't sound all that convincing, Chrono," Shion says with a chuckle. He looks over to see Yuto and Ruri walking over. "Hey. What's going on?"
"Plane is about to board in an hour so we should get going." Yuto motions the group to follow.
"I still feel a bit excited. I mean, going to another continent." Ruri said placing her hand on her chest. "It's a bit terrifying but I think that'll we'll be fine."
"Right. There's no reason to worry. Don't sweat it too much." Serena said popping out of the restroom. "It's basically another city when you really think about it. Nothing too crazy."
"You make it sound like you traveled between worlds or something when you say it like that…" Taiyou said as Serena shrugs. "You guys don't travel often, right?"
"Yeah, that's right. We usually stay here most of the time. Yuya and Yuzu are really the only ones who traveled when Yusho and Shuzo were doing their performance." Yuto explains thinking about it. "However, the distance this time is massive."
"Tell me about it. Going to another continent that's on the other side of the world." Tokoha said looking at her phone. She goes through a social media website. "Looks like he's having fun."
"We'll have fun when we're there," Shion said with a smile.
"No doubt about it. We have to show everyone what we got." Chrono said looking super pumped up.
"Some things never change."
Hey guys! This is NexusEX here with a quick chapter. I'm uploading this chapter a month early from usual because I have finals next month and I want to focus on studying for those. (I don't want to take Summer School. I happen to like writing.) So for that, this is coming out earlier than usual. Also, this is where it changes from the canon Vanguard G so keep that in mind. I honestly don't have much to talk about to be honest. Trickstars I had to change from Yu-Gi-Oh when it comes from Life Points depletion to guard points dropping. With that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you do, leave a follow/favorite/comment for more content. This is NexusEX signing off! Stay Classy!