Case 28: A Duel, With a Twist
Rainbow Dash was doing a solo patrol flight over the Everfree. According to Fluttershy, there had been something strange going on with the animals in it, and Cruger agreed that it would be worth sending out patrols to see if there was anything amiss.
So far, it had been pretty quiet, but Rainbow saw something odd and went down for a closer look. Once she got close enough to see what it was, her face turned into a snarl as she went into a dive. “Looks like I get to have some payback,” Dash said as she landed and pulled her blaster, “Hands up, Chrysalis.”
The changeling queen, who had her back turned to where Rainbow landed, jumped a little, and looked back. “Oh, great,” Rainbow heard her say. “We’re back here.” With that, she turned around, letting Rainbow see a device on Chrysalis’ left arm, one that was colored to match her skin and hair. In her right hand were five cards. “May as well get this over with so I can get back an tell them we’re here.” With that, she placed two of the cards on the device, and a purple worm with needles appeared, alongside a giant grasshopper. “Okay, Needle Worm, Pinch Hopper, you two know what to do.”
“Looks like you’ve learned some new tricks,” Dash said, “so have I!” With that, Dash unleashed a barrage of shots into the grasshopper, causing it to shatter into pieces. She then took to the air before the worm could get her, “I’m not letting you get within spitting distance of Ponyville.” Dash pulled out her morpher and set it to communication mode, “This is Alpha 1 requesting backup, I’ve engaged Queen Chrysalis and she’s acquired summoning magic.”
“As well as other tricks,” Chrysalis said. “You destroying my Pinch Hopper lets me summon my Insect Queen from my hand.” She threw down another card, and this time, a giant insect appeared, with red chitin over the wings, a black body, a near pony like face, though flat, and blue highlights. She then spoke into her device. “Guys, I may need some help. We’re back in Equestria, and I just encountered Rainbow.”
“Right,” a male voice said from her device. “We’re on our way now.”
“What’s the status on that backup!?” Dash shouted into her morpher.
“Hang tight, Cruger’s enroute,” replied Blue Rush, “eta 3 minutes.”
“Got it,” Dash said as she put her morpher away. “Well, time for a little pest control.” With that, Dash started firing on the larger insect, to minimal effect.
“Whatever you’re using, Rainbow Dash,” Chrysalis said, “it won’t work. Her chitin armor is tough to begin with, and for every insect, it only gets stronger.”
“Well, in that case,” Dash changed targets to the worm, destroying it almost instantly. “You know, telling your enemy your plan is pretty dumb.”
“And you are as cocky as I remember, as I can now remove my Hopper and Worm to another dimension to summon Doom Dozer, who is on the same level as my other queen,” Chrysalis said as a red centipede appeared, it being just as tall as a pony, and longer than the Insect queen, with black armor on the top, and massive pincers. “Maybe you should think before acting.”
“Buck me…” Rainbow started firing in earnest, but was unable to do much more than get them angry. After the tenth shot on the giant centipede, her finger, for some reason, wouldn’t do as she wanted. “What the-” she said before one of Chrysalis’ allies walked into view.
“You know, Chrysalis,” Twilight, wearing a blue outfit with a mini skirt and a black shirt that went just above her stomach, her hair now with greenish blue stripes along with the usual, the same device on her left wrist but differently colored, said as she came into view, “you could have had them out sooner.”
Rainbow could only gape. “What?!” She yelled. “Twilight, what are you doing with her?! I saw you just this morning, no way she could brainwash you that fast. Unless you’re a changeling meant to replace Twilight,” Dash said before firing a nonlethal shot, which was blocked by a lavender field.
“Chrysi, I don’t think we’re in our Equestria,” Twilight said.
“Agreed,” Chrysali said. “Maybe another Displaced?”
“Probably,” Twilight agreed. “And Josh is a minute away.”
“And so’s my help,” Rainbow said. “Just surrender, and I might not have to bring out the big guns.”
“Yeah, no chance of that one,” Chrysalis said. “How about you stand down, and take us to the displaced here. If there is one.”
Before Dash could reply, the sound of a rapidly approaching vehicle could be heard, along with sirens. “Don’t have to, here he comes now,” Dash said, grinning.
“So, what should we do?” Twilight asked Chrysalis.
“Let them come, and tell them what’s going on,” Chrysalis said. “Obviously. I figured someone with your intellect could figure that one out.”
“Oh, shut up, Chrysalis.”
With a crash, Cruger rode in on his ATV. “Status?” he asked rainbow Dash.
“Sir,” Dash replied saluting, “I encountered Chrysalis during my patrol. I ordered her to surrender, and she responded by summoning two large insects. I managed to defeat them, but she summoned more powerful ones. Then this Twilight copycat showed up, although she’s not a very good one if you ask me, can’t even get the hair right.”
“Understood,” Cruger said before turning to Chrysalis and Twilight, “so, any particular reason you assaulted one of my officers?”
“She attacked us first,” Chrysalis said. “I was simply acting in self defense. “You’re the displaced for this Equestria?”
“Yes, and don’t bother lying,” Cruger said, “a law enforcement officer telling a potential threat to surrender is not them attacking first. So, judging by your Duel Disks, I assume that we’re waiting for one more?”
“Yeah, me,” a third person, this one being recognizably, to Cruger, anyway, a human, who wore the outfit that the main character from Yugioh five ds wore. He stopped as he walked out from the brush. “Okay, blue anthro dog. Either a diamond dog, or you were displaced as Anubis Cruger from Power Rangers SPD.”
“The second,” Cruger confirmed, “and please don’t call me a diamond dog, personal pet peeve.”
“Noted,” the human said. “Name’s Josh, by the way. Chrysalis, Twilight, stand down, guys.”
“You sure, Josh?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah, I’m sure.”
“Same to you Dash,” Cruger said, “head on home and let our Twilight know she’ll be meeting another her, Dual Star can take over your patrol.”
“Yes sir,” Dash replied before taking off.
“You know,” Josh said as he watched Rainbow fly off, “a second Twilight may help. How we got here is in need of repair.” He then looked at Cruger and said, “Before you ask, it was the Interdimensional matter transporter trap card that got us here with no planning on our side.”
“I’ll take a look at it,” Cruger said as he opened a portal, “I’m pretty good at that sort of thing.”
“Then come on,” Josh said. “It’s this way. Tell your Dash to tell your Twilight to be at the edge of the Everfree. I’ll have a friend of mine lead her there. Chrono?”
“With pleasure,” the Machine King said before he appeared, and made his way to the Ponyville edge of the Everfree.
“Have it your way,” Cruger said as he closed the portal. “So, how did you get Displaced if I may ask.”
“Would you believe me if I said those two,” Josh said, gesturing to the two royals, “and our versions of the others summoned me, with my most powerful card in terms of ability having had a hidden part in it?”
Cruger whistled, “man, and I thought getting eaten by a void dragon was the most unique way of getting Displaced, before you ask, it wasn’t me, it was a friend. By the way,” Cruger asked turning to Twilight, “mind if I get a copy of that spell? Consider it payment in full for my services.”
“It’s a standard unicorn spell,” Twilight said. “Well, for me, anyway. No idea here.”
“How about a deck?” Josh asked as the group began moving.
“That sounds interesting,” Cruger said, “but I offer one to one. How about this, you tell me about a problem in your verse, and I give you a solution in exchange for the deck?”
“You got a solution to remove from power a guy who has one, if not all three, of the sacred beast cards who was able to mind rape Cadence, Luna, Celestia, Shining Armor, five of the Element bearers, and probably all of Equestria?”
Cruger sighed, “Geeze, what is it with Displaced and their verse’s getting attacked? Anyway, in all seriousness, how far along is your verse’s Dueling, in terms of YuGiOh seasons?”
“Up to the Paradox movie.”
“That’s the original, GX, 5Ds crossover, right?”
“Bingo,” Josh said. “Thankfully, so far, the Order, the group that took over our Equestria, hasn’t used those cards. I just know that it’s at that level because I can essentially make any card I’ve had in real life or one of the various games.”
“Well, good news is that I have two, maybe three solutions,” Cruger said, “unfortunately, odds are they’ll only give you a temporary boost until they start using them themselves. Okay, first, and only unguaranteed, solution. Tell me, did any of the Order use, a Duel Runner?”
“No, but there’s a whole temporal displacement, meaning one universe travels through time faster than the other-we’re in our universe’s duel monster world when we came here-who knows when we’ll return.”
“At least it’s a possibility, kinda hard to Turbo Duel without speed spells,” Cruger said, “even if you’re Rainbow Dash.”
“So, what’s the second?” Chrysalis asked.
“Second, and third, are related,” Cruger said, “when I was Displaced, there were two additional seasons, and each brought something new. I’m almost certain that the Order doesn’t have any Xyz or Pendulum monsters.”
“You mean like the badass known as Utopia?” Josh asked. “You know, never tried to bring him into play. May try when we get back. Shouldn’t you tell Rainbow to tell your Twilight to follow Chrono, by the way, so she can help you help us?
“Not really necessary,” Cruger said as they arrived, “I already sent someone else.”
“When?” Josh’s Twilight asked. “You’ve been with us for the entire walk, and you’ve only talked with us.”
“I’ve only talked with you verbally,” Cruger said as his Twilight walked up, along with Bunker.
“Mental link?” Josh asked.
“Not very strong, but yeah,” Cruger said, “plus Bunker was watching from the treeline when I arrived. Once you said I should bring my Twi, I signalled him to do it.”
“In that case,” Josh said as he brought this duel disk up to his mouth. “Chrono, come back. Cruger has a mental link.”
“Of course,” Chrono replied.
“And can I just note?” Josh asked as he turned to face Bunker. “Creepy as fuck to watch someone from the shadows, dude.”
Bunker just shrugged as Cruger chuckled, “Don’t blame him, I was the one who decided to have him be on standby, consider it me having a face down trap card as it were.”
Josh chuckled. “Fair point,” he said as he turned to face the two Twilights, who were, not very surprisingly, asking each other questions, oblivious of the world around them. “You know, you never asked why Chrysalis was out and about.”
“You say that like I couldn’t take her,” Cruger said, “besides, I figured I’d give her the benefit of the doubt, innocent until proven guilty and all that.
“Yeah, well, it was to stop ponies like Dash from finding us so we can repair the thing in peace.”
“Speaking of which, better get started,” Cruger said before turning to the Twilights, “Twilight, you remember that diagnostics spell I showed you?”
“That I do,” Cruger’s Twilight said before casting it on the transporter, generating a 3-D model of it.
“Let’s see what we’ve got,” Cruger said as he examined it, “looks like an easy fix, this was designed to send its target to a random dimension, but I could easily rig a connection to your Disk to allow you to pick and choose.”
“Now that’s what I call terrible planning,” Josh said. “I mean, who makes these kinds of things, with no way to go to a dimension of your choosing? It’s stupid.”
“The original IMT card removes a card from play right?” Cruger asked.
“Then returns it a few turns later, yeah,” Josh replied. “In game, anyway. For me, it acts like a normal dimensional transporter.”
“Well, no one ever thought to designate exactly where removed from play is,” Cruger said, “it looks like it does have a function to maintain a lock on the transported party, but it’s kind of useless if it’s transported as well.”
“Can you take care of that?” Josh asked. “Maybe put some kind of recall feature on it?”
“No problem,” Cruger said as he pulled up a holographic terminal, “it’s mostly programming I need to change. Twilight, can you get a mark 2.5 QEC?”
“No problem,” Cruger’s Twilight said before teleporting away.
“Thanks for helping out,” Josh said.
“No problem,” Cruger said as he typed furiously, “this is actually a hobby of mine. There, looks like I’ve successfully added a control subroutine to the dimensional selection process, and the recall systems have been tweaked to allow it to lock onto a location as well as a person, all that’s left is to install the QEC, and we should be good.”
“Right,” Josh said, not understanding most of that, as Chron returned, and vanished back into his card and Cruger’s Twilight teleported back.
“Here you go Cruger,” She said as she handed two objects to Cruger.
“Thank you,” Cruger replied. Cruger opened up a panel on the transporter and plugged in one of them. Closing the panel, he turned to Josh, “If you would?”
“Right,” Josh said. “So, what next?” He asked after removing his disk and handing it to Cruger.
“All I need to do is install this transmitter/receiver into your Disk,” Cruger opened a panel on the Disk and plugged it in, “and download the HMI. 40%, 70, done,” Cruger handed the disk back to Josh, “that should do it, it’s the button that looks like a double headed arrow.”
“Thanks,” Josh said as he pressed the button and handed Cruger a card. “In case you need my help,” he said. “See ya next time.”
“Just a minute,” Cruger said, “aren’t we forgetting something?”
“What?”
“I fix your teleporter and give you advice that can potentially save your verse, you give me a deck and a copy of the spell that Displaced you,” said Cruger.
“Well, tell me what cards you want, and talk to Twilight and Chrysalis,” Josh said.
“To be honest, I did have Warrior’s Strike structure deck, and I felt a connection with Gemini monsters, especially Phoenix Gearfried.”
“Then here,” Josh said as there was a small flash, and a deck of cards appeared before handing it to Cruger. “Gemini cards,” he said.
“Thanks,” Cruger said, “although, if you don’t mind, I would like to ask a favor.”
“What?”
“Nothing too big, but since I’ve got this, I wouldn’t mind trying it out, specifically with one of those two,” Cruger said, pointing at Josh’s Twilight and Chrysalis, “I’ll throw in a bike you can convert to a Duel Runner.”
“Next time,” Josh said. “Sorry, but we need to get back so Ra doesn’t freak out.”
“Fair enough,” Cruger shrugged, “just gives me time to strategize.” Cruger handed him a copy of his Tokens, “call me if you need an extra Disk.”
“We will,” Josh said before he, his companions, and the IMT vanished.
Cruger looked at his new deck, “Welcome to the team, Phoenix.”
As if in response, the deck glowed gently for a moment.
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Nice! My guys had a encounter with one of LoneShadow's Destiny Displaced, that was fun!
7085505 I'll see if I can't get Eriba to let me give you a copy of her token.
7085518
*deranged cat giggles*
7092931 Hail!
Wow, I thought I was the only one who loved Phoenix Gearfried for no reason, quite weird if you think about it. Anyways seems we got the same Yu-Gi-Oh partners. Love this story=)