//------------------------------// // The Lights in the Sky // Story: Yugioh Spiez: Opperation Duel: Final Season // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// CHAPTER ONE One year ago… Lee, Megan, Marc and Tony Clark… They were senior Obelisk Blue students, now nearing the end of their third and final year at Duel Academy. They were only a few credits away now, but well on their way to getting them. They aced all their exams, won many submission duels, and participated in prestigious tournaments. This they all owed to their wonderful teachers, friends, and fellow WOOHP agents; Clover, Alex, Sam, and even myself, Chancellor Mykan Jaden, and my wife, Princess Sabrina. Strangely though, even Tami was close to graduating as well. She had a major turnaround, and was also in Senior Obelisk Blue, much to the Clark’s annoyance, especially Lee’s, as Tami attended all their classes together, and would often struggle to sit near Lee, and constantly try and flirt with him again, or even ask him to the senior’s graduation prom. “I’m sorry Tami, but I just don’t feel that way…” he would continuously tell her, but Tami was just too stubborn. “Rest assured My Little Lee, you will, and then you’ll wonder how you ever got on without Me.” she blew him a kiss and wandered off. Many of the students laughed at Lee, even his own siblings. “Ah, come on guys…” he groaned. “You gotta admit, Lee. It is cute how persistent she is.” said Marc. “Yeah, and imagine if you did fall for her… Little Lee.” Tony teased. His brother’s eyes flared with flames. Megan went off teasing Lee with the old “Love, Marriage, baby carriage” poem, visualizing everything. Only Lee seemed to be more of a slave than an equal, and all the kids were miniature Tami’s “Uh… on second thought. Perish it.” As the four walked back to their shared dorm room, and they took a good long look around, knowing that soon they would be leaving, for good. “I’m sure gonna miss this place.” said Tony. Megan hopped onto her bed “We had a lot of good times at this school, as well as some wild adventures.” “Yeah, all those evil creeps we kicked around, and saved the world.” added Lee. Marc sat down at his special drawing table. “Yeah… I’ll never forget all the new cards I designed right here either.” Recently, and in the past year, Marc had developed ideas and designs for special new cards to add to the game; preferably, the Xyz portion of it. Not only did he come up with new cards to make Xyz summoning easier, but his ideas sparked me, and our team of card experts to design a whole new level of Xyz monsters, considerably stronger than normal ones…. …Chaos Xyz Monsters! With these new cards, the Clarks as well as many students had restacked their decks, and trained a lot. It was practically as if Xyz monsters were the best way to play the game. Still, others like the Clarks weren’t overly obsessed and still liked other parts of the game. Lee has his dinos. Marc had his Synchrons and Synchros. Megan had her Cybers, and Tony still used his old Destiny Heroes. “What are we going to do once we leave here?” Tony wondered. None of his siblings had a single word to say about that. Marc then said “Don’t you think maybe we should worry about passing our final exams first? We can’t graduate without those.” “Oh, snap!” cried Lee. “We better hit the books then.” added Megan. A while later the spies were all collapsed on their beds, tired from all their studying and some of them were snoring… …unaware that danger was erupting! Hundreds of miles away from Duel Academy Island, was a very small, and rocky island, about fifty square feet. A bright flash of light emitted from the center of the island, and a band of unusual creatures appeared; Ponies, they were, and they were all under the lead of their Princess, Celestia! She gazed all around her, and while all she could see were the waters of the sea, she knew what lay out there. “So, this is that other world…?” she sneered softly to herself. She then turned to face all the others “I don’t have to remind you why we are all here…” “No Princess…” said one of the ponies “We all the same goal in common.” Another pony stepped forth “We’ll rinse all the filth from this here rust-shackle, and make these so-called humans learn some decency.” Everyone else agreed, and at the same time, everyone’s eyes glowed with an eerie flash of white light, along with a mysterious marking on their foreheads. Celestia snickered sinisterly and then hissed softly “Now it… begins!” … Lee opened his eyes, and groaned softly. He noticed light peeking through the edge of the curtains on the window. “Ugh, it can’t be morning already…” he groaned, and when he checked the clock, it was only just after Ten in the night. This made Lee wonder in shock, and he dashed over to the window and yanked the curtains open. This woke up his siblings. “Hey, turn down the lights!” groaned Marc. “Can’t a girl get her beauty sleep anymore?” Megan whined. “Five more hours.” complained Tony. “Guys, get up now!” cried Lee. He sounded worried, and the others got up and joined him at the window, and were they ever surprised…!! It was still night time, but the sky seemed, divided into patterns, with colored streaks across the sky. Many different colors… Lilac, Orange, Pink, Light Blue, Yellow, Purple… There were even a couple or strips with odd designs on them, like wallpaper. One had shadowy image, another had crystal heart shapes all over it, and even one with a fire flame design. “I’ve heard or Aurora Borealis, but this is… I don’t know what it is!” cried Marc. Megan thought it was somewhat cool, but she knew this was anything but a trick of nature. “We’ve got to tell someone about this.” The Spies bolted out the door, only to suddenly see a whole bunch of students up, and out of bed and their rooms after hours, but something seemed strange about them. They all were glaring sternly at the spies, and their eyes seemed… strange, and glittering, while at the same time filled with a sort of emptiness, and on their foreheads was a strange marking. “Okay… what’s going on?” asked Megan. At that, more and more students turned their attention to the spies. “Look, they haven’t got the mark.” snapped one of the girls. “We shall fix that.” said a boy. “Hail to Harmony! Hail to the Light!” many of the students chanted as they began to march forth like zombies under a spell… getting closer, and closer. “Uh, is this the part where we panic?” cried Lee. “Let’s get out of here.” cried Marc. “There’s nowhere to run!” shouted Megan. The army of students were closing in, and getting closer still, chanting “Hail to Harmony! Hail to the Light!” Suddenly, at the last second, the spies got sucked up through the ceiling, and were WOOHPED to Jerry’s office. “Good Evening, Spies. Sorry if I disturbed your sleep.” “Jerry, you Woohped us not a moment too soon.” said Tony. “Something really strange is going on at our school.” added Megan. “I’m afraid it’s not just at Duel Academy, Megan…” said Jerry. He too was well aware of the lights in the skies, and showed the spies images that they could be seen all over the world, even in broad daylight. “Do we know what’s causing it?” asked Marc. “I’m afraid not…” said Jerry “However, there is more…” and he showed the spies images of how half the people in the world were acting strange and abnormally, like the students at the academy. They were even chanting the same phrase about Harmony and Light. There was no doubt, they were defiantly brainwashed by something. These brainwashed people were going after others, in attempting to force them to join their little society… by engaging in duels. They seemed to crush the normal people so easily with powerful cards, even some not seen before. The spies watched as a normal person was defeated by someone brainwashed, and the marking on their forehead zapped them, brainwashing that person. “That mark…” said Marc “I know I’ve seen it before.” He got out his mini-pocket-computer and searched through his dueling data, and came up with the mark from an old sketch for a card called “Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force” This only made things more confusing. “How can a mark from a duel monster card be doing all this?” Tony wondered aloud. Megan searched through her deck and found several other cards like the Astral Force card, but all of them were different in many ways. “Maybe we should ask Chancellor Mykan.” Lee suggested, but at that very moment, I walked into Jerry’s office with my wife, Sabrina. “It’s all right, Lee, we already know.” I said to him. “When did you guys get here?” asked Marc. “We were working late and we saw the lights in the skies.” Sabrina answered. “We knew there had to be a problem, especially when we saw the students acting strange, and Jerry contacted us…” I added. The spies sat down as I began to explain to them what was going on and it all began when my team of card makers designed the chaos Xyz monsters… Special spell cards were designed to make the summoning possible as were per the new rules of the game, Rank up cards, they were called. Three had already been created without much difficulty… -Rank-Up-Magic Numeron Force -Rank-Up-Magic Barian’s Force -Rank-Up-Magic Limited Barian’s Force However, when creating the fourth card, Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force, something mysterious occurred; the card began to glow with a mysterious light, and it began to cause extreme problems. Our workers began to feel their energy being drained, and others had collapsed with illness. I myself was among them, and Sabrina and her team of doctors nursed us all back to health, but it became that the Astral card was danger to use all. We tried to destroy the one and only card we had created of it, but the card actually began to hurt others who dared to get near it, and absorbed more energy and light. It was almost like trying to stave off an army. Finally, we managed to isolate the card in a protective casing, but this card was so dangerous we just had to destroy it, and there was only one sure-fire way we could think of…! Being honorary members and business partners of WOOHP, we contacted Jerry and told him of our problem, so we put the case with the card in it onboard a WOOHP rocket. Our plan was to send it out into space and then steer it straight into the sun. That we felt would surely destroy the card without trouble… except… something went mysteriously wrong… As the rocket got closer and closer to the sun… it just vanished… without any explanation at all. The spies were very confused and concerned with all this. “How could an entire rocket simply vanish like that?” Marc wondered aloud. “Wait a second…” said Megan “You think that this whole mess might have something to do with that card you made?” I nodded, and everyone agreed that it had to be or why else would the astral mark be appearing on people’s heads? “What does everyone mean though when they say “Hail to Harmony? Hail to the light”?” asked Lee. “We’re not sure of that either.” said Sabrina “The first student I found acting this way; I felt something was wrong so I took her to the med-room and gave her an exam. She was perfectly healthy, and all her vital signs were normal, but then it got scary. She attacked me and tried to force me to “bow to the light of harmony”. I barely managed to escape and seal her in quarantine.” This worried the spies, having seen what the world was becoming, and slowly but surely more and more innocent people were becoming brainwashed by this light of harmony, and then those people were going after others and brainwashing them too. “We’ve got to find out who’s doing this and stop them.” snapped Tony. “Yeah, otherwise the whole world will be turned into groups of walking zombies.” added Megan. “Exactly right Super Spies.” said Jerry “However, this time it seems you will need many hands for this job… therefore…” he then pressed a button on his desk, and a large door slid open, and there stood Clover Sam and Alex, the Spies tutors. “Yo, what up kids?” cried Alex. The Clarks were very happy to see the girls, especially seeing as they weren’t affected. Tony was really happy to see Clover, still having his silly crush on her. “Whoa, with you girls by our side, this mission will be a snap.” he said with excitement, but Jerry cleared his throat snapping Tony back into reality “I’m afraid you won’t exactly be side-by-side, Tony. You’ll all be splitting up to cover every inch of assigned places across the world; we’re going to be sending you all each to a place where the sources of the brainwashing seemed to occur.” Tony felt a little down, but Clover approached him and lifted his head up “Aw, come on Tony.” She said sweetly “You guys are like totally pros and going solo, and we believe in you.” Tony blushed and giggled. “We know we can trust you kids on this one, but if you’re in danger we can contact each other.” said Sam. “Now what’d’ya say we get out there and bust whatever’s causing this?” cried Alex. The spies all agreed, and transformed into their spy-gear, and knowing that they’d be dueling, they armed themselves with their decks. “Sabrina and I will head back and try to protect remaining students who haven’t been brainwashed yet.” I said “Good luck to all of you.” added Sabrina. The spies all nodded at us, and then Sabrina and I headed home. Jerry then gave the spies some simple gadgets to use on the mission, and then he wished them good luck and sent them all on their way, across different corners of the globe. After everyone was gone, Jerry opened a drawer in his desk where his own deck stood. As tempting as it was to go out there and help the spies deal with the current situation, as well as get back into the game, he ultimately decided to close the drawer back up and get back to monitoring things. Meanwhile, in a secret lair Princess Celestia was in a lighted roomed, which seemed to become more illuminate by the minute as she used her magic to observe the many loyal followers she was getting. “Look at it, Princess Luna…” she said to her sister “A whole other world where the light and harmony will shine and humanity will pay for their initial insolence.” Luna agreed but informed her sister that “There are still many who reject and refuse us. They try and rebel…” Celestia didn’t seem worried “Try as they may, they’ll soon understand their errors. All ways lead to the light of harmony, and all ways lead us… to the perfection we shall rule.” she snickered softly and wickedly.