#pendulum dimension

[pendulumprince]

One more step until The End: it’s episode 147.

Cold open to Yusho monologuing about Yuya’s duel with Jack

Idk my dudes that’s about it

After the opening!

All four dragons are roaring

Yuya’s saying some shit

Uses Starve Venom’s special effect to grab Scarlight by the balls

Starve Venom goes up to 9300 ATK (HOT DAMN)

Shun, Sora, Asuka and Crow watch the duel from the Fusion D

Take note the Starve Venom was Yuri’s dragon…

Yuya goes in to attack Jack

Melissa’s freaking out

But Jack’s got a trap card at the ready!

Averts the total destruction of his entire life??

Nice one, Jack

Why is Yuya facing Jack again lol he isn’t even an official Lancer.

Yuya thinks to the three boys living in his psyche.

Yuya uses DR’s effect to bring one of Jack’s dragons down to 1500 ATK and DR to 5750 ATK

Yuya goes in for the attack!

STARVE VENOM IS GORGEOUS WHEN IT’S ABOUT TO THROW DOWN

Jack saves himself with an action magic card!

Yuya goes to attack him with DR!

AND JACK PICKS UP YET ANOTHER ACTION CARD

Jack’s down to 1400 LP

Yuya goes in to attack with Clear Wing!

Takes out one of Jack’s dragons!

But Jack has a trap at the ready!

He goes down to the very awkward number of 1075 LP

Back in the Pendulum D, Reira’s still whimpering

Ugh Himika suddenly caring for this kid is so awkward

Back to the duel!

Yuya goes in to attack him with Odd Eyes!

And Jack

YET AGAIN

Blocks him with an action card

Well, not really

He brings his dragon up to 2300 ATK to lessen the damage I guess

Yuya goes in for the action card, but misses—

OH SHIT WAIT

NO HE DOESN’T

CLEAR WING CAUGHT HIM??

YUYA GOT THE ACTION CARD

IT BRINGS ODD EYES UP TO 3300 ATK (??)

THE ATTACK CONNECTS

AND VIA ODD EYES’ SPECIAL EFFECT…!

JACK’S DOWN TO 0!

YUYA WINS!

Hella hella good shit yuya

Everyone in the Pendulum and Synchro Dimensions are HYPED

Yoko looks so proud

Jack accepts his defeat

But he also chews Yuya out a little

Probably cause he hasn’t made Reira smile yet, and still has to face Reiji as his final opponent

Lol well at least Reiji is an actual Lancer

And speaking of which

Card game hipster is on his helicopter now

He, Himika and Reira go to meet Yuya

Reira still has not smiled, but his gaze is… a little less blank??

Yuya’s pissed off at himself…

Reiji says something that catches Yuya’s attention

And to the crowd, Reiji announces himself as Yuya’s final opponent!

Everyone is SO DOWN to see two this is gonna turn out

Himika’s sitting in a dark room with Reira somewhere

Reiji sets the action field!

And it’s…!

I REMEMBER THIS

EPISODE 12 AND 13

YUYA AND REIJI’S FIRST DUEL

Nice.

Looks like Yuya remembers it too

Kick his ass bby

And

YUYA AND REIJI TO THE ACTION CHANT TOGETHER

YES

YES THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

MY PENDULUMSHIPPING HEART, WHICH HAS LONG LAID DORMANT

IS BEATING ONCE MORE

YUYA TAKES FIRST TURN!

Summons some scrooge mcduck looking monster at 100 ATL

And another at 800 ATK

Yuya draws again!

Plays a magic card!

Releases both of his monsters

Sets the scales 3 to 10

Summons 5 monsters?! Okay bruh.

Odd Eyes, some 2000 ATK Spellcaster, and a 200 ATK tuner—aw I see where this is going

And Yuya also brings back the two monsters from before

“The fun has just begun!”

Hm I see

I think he can summon the other three now

The Spellcaster fuses with one of the pendulum monsters

Here comes Starve Venom (OH MY WORD YUYA DID THE HAND-CLAP THING AGAIN)

Okay so he tunes the other monster in the pendulum zone with teh fucking tuner

Gets Clear Wing

And overlays the remaining two monsters

Holy shit Yuya

Have you come a long way since you last played on this field

He summons DR!

Shun in particular looks so proud

Yuya draws one more card, ends his turn

Reiji takes his turn

Behind him, his scarf has taken on a life of it’s own as he sets the scales 1 to 10!

Yuya looks worried?! Those aint nothin but numbers bby

So Reiji summons three of those golem looking monsters at 3000 ATK a pop

Reiji goes in to attack Starve Venom

YUYA JUMPS ON STARVE VENOM

THEY GRAB AN ACTION CARD TOGETHER

NEGATE REIJI’S ATTACK

SO REIJI GOES IN TO ATTACK CLEAR EYES

YUYA AND CLEAR EYES FLY OFF TOGETHER

GRAB AN ACTION CARD

NEGATE THAT SECOND ATTACK

YUYA GOES DOWN TO 3750 LP, BUT THE DRAGON STAYS!

YOKO’S HYPED

FUTOSHI’S COME DOWN WITH A CASE OF THE SHIVERS

REIJI GOES IN TO ATTACK DR WITH HIS FINAL MONSTER

YUYA SAVES IT WITH ANOTHER ACTION CARD

BRINGS UP DR’S ATTACK TO 3500

THE ATTACK CONNECTS

BUT SINCE NOW DR’S MORE POWERFUL THAN REIJI’S MONSTER...

HE DESTROYS REIJI’S MONSTER!

REIJI’S DOWN TO 3500 LP!

YUYA THANKS HIS DRAGONS!

HE’S HAVING ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM AND

The pendulum swings

Yuya has a Zarc flashback?!

Look at what a NORMAL MAN Zarc used to be

Look at him riding on Odd Eyes Dragon!

Kicking ass all over the place…

But in a good way! A wholesome asskicking!

Back to the present, Yuya rubs DR’s neck

He… looks so sad…

He jumps off of DR

Back with Himika and Reira… Reira’s crying?!

BABY NO.

Yuya grabs his pendulum

Aw shit, he’s crying, too

Reira starts full-on sobbing

Rieji tells Yuya to suck it up?! Lol okay.

Reiji plays a magic card!

Reiji draws three cards!

He plays another magic card

Fuses the magic card with one of his monsters

Fusion Summons a 3500 ATK monster

He plays another magic card

Tunes it with one of his monsters

Synchro summons another 3500 ATK monster

And he plays one last magic card that brings out two monsters of the same level

HE XYZ summons a rank 8 3500 ATK monster

He uses an overlay unit to… what? Idfk

Okay looks like we’re ending it there.

Preview time! (Omg this is the last time I’ll be watching a preview for a new arc v episode. Lord help me.)

Yuya and Reiji continue to duel!

Everyone is watching on in suspense

And Reira’s reaching for the camera, looking mighty alert…!

Yuya calls on the boys living in his head for help, which throws Reiji off I guess

But the finale looks like it’s gonna be a doozy!

[christophermulero]

Cloaked in shadows and relentless in its objective, I call upon the most dangerous of dragons!

I XYZ SUMMON!

DARK REBELLION XYZ DRAGON!

[pendulumprince]

Ladies and gentlemen: the finale.

Yuya and Reiji are still going at it

Yuya’s got all 4 of his dragons on the field

Reiji’s got Zorc, Z-One and Don Thousand there to help him

Reiji’s talking about pendulum monsters… and Odd Eyes in particular

And

HE HAS Z-ONE ATTACK THE DRAGONS

AND DON THOUSAND OPENS UP A VOTREX IN THE SKY

DARK REBELLION, CLEAR WING AND STARVE EVNOM GET STUCKED UP INTO IT

And then he had Zorc attack Odd Eyes

Odd Eyes gets taken out!

Yuya’s down to 1250 LP

Reiji ends his turn!

Damn Reiji, that was fierce

But Yuya’s too determined to bring back Reira’s smile and Yuzu from the depths of Arc V to quite now

Yuri, Yugo and Yuto give Yuya some words of encouragement

Yuya takes his turn, and it’s like all 4 boys took it omg

They all comment on the magic card they just drew

Yuya plays it, Odd Eyes Fusion Gate

He’s able to bring back Starve Venom and Odd Eyes!

YUYA AND YURI FUSE THEM TOGETHER

Aw yes this was the Yuri I always wanted

They summon Odd Eyes Venom Dragon at 3300 ATK

Aw yeah what’s happening

UM

HOLY SHIT

IT’S ATTACK JUST WENT UP TO 13800

WOW OKAY

ALLEN AND SAYAKA LOOK SO IMPRESSED

YUYA GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK, BUT!

REIJI ACTIVATES… ONE OF HIS MONSTERS EFFECTS

BRINGS ODVD BACK DOWN TO 3300 ATK

BUT THE ATTACK HAS ALREADY BEEN DECLARED?? FUCK THIS GORGEOUS DRAGON IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED

BUT WAIT!

YUYA RUSHES TO GET AN ACTION CARD!

HE GRABS ONE, BUT… IT’S OF NO USE

THE ATTACK CONNECTS

YUYA’S DOWN TO 1050 LP

Okay okay Yuri doesn’t look mad at all

Neither does Yugo!

Yuya plays his magic card again

And be brings out another magic card, Odd Eyes Synchro Gate

AND HE TUNES THEM TOGETHER

AHHHH THE MUSIC FROM EPISODE 37 IS PLAYING

YUYA AND YUGO SYNHVCRO SUMMON ODD EYES WINGED DRAGON

JACK LOOKS SO PLEASED WITH THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT

YUYA TARGETS DON THOUSAND FOR ODWD’S EFFECT, WHICH DOES… IDK BUT I BET IT’S GOOD

YUYA GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK

AND

UM

YUYA’S DOWN TO 550 LP

YUYA YOU GOTTA STEP[ YOUR GAME UP

YUYA GETS RID OF OFF EYES SYNCHRO GATE AND BRINGS OUT ODD EYES XYZ GATE

BRINGS OUT ODD EYES AND DARK REBELLION

HE AND YUTO XYZ SUMMON ODD EYES REBELLION DRAGON

YUYA BANISHES THE THREE MAGIC CARDS HE JUST USED

ODRD GOES UP TO 4000 ATK

YUYA PLAYS THAT ACTION MAGIC CARD FROM BEFORE

WHATEVER HE SAYS HAS REIJI WORRIED AND THE THREE PRECIOUS DARLINGS EXCITED

YOKO AND SHINGO ALSO LOOK HAPPY WITH THIS

AND YUYA GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK

AND…

What the hell happened

Ugh watch those ugly ass monsters still be on the field

OF COURSE

Reiji goes down to 2000 LP but his annoying as is fine besides that

Yuya looks… disappointed? I feel you my dude

OERD goes back down to 3000 ATK

Yuya sets a facedown, ends his turn

Back in LDS, Reira’s still crying

Shuzou’s damn near ready to start crying too; he knows what the stakes are

Reiji draws!

HE GOES IN TO ATTACK ODRD

YUYA ACTIVATES HUS TRAP CARD

NEGATES THE ATTACK

AND ODRD… goes up into the pendulum zone??

It’s there as a scale 4 monster

Shuzou looks so absurdly happy

Me too my guy

Yuya takes his turn!

Yuya brings out another monster

Sets it in the other pendulum zone

So now it’s there, 4 to 12

Yuya pendulum summons!

Odd Eyes Venom Dragon, Odd Eyes Winged Dragon, and a 100 ATK monster and a 1000 ATK monster

But Reiji’s like, “not so fast y’all”

Yuya takes out his 100 ATK monster, brings Odd Eyes back!

Reiji goes in for some attack

Negates it

Grabs an action magic card

AND BY HIS MONSTERS PENDULUM EFFECT

HE BRINGS ALL OF HIS MONSTERS, AND ALL OF REIJI’S MONSTERS, DOWN TO 0 ATK

O…kay I trust you got a play here bby

So there’s some odd visual behind him lol okay

After a lengthy exchange, Yuya… ends his turn, I guess? AND REIJI ANGRILY TKES HIS

HE AND YUYA RACE TO GET AN ACTION CARD

AH FUCK

REIJI GRABBED IT

YUYA’S NOT WORRIED THROUGH

HE CAN ALWAYS GRAB ANOTHER

BUT HIS ROLLAR SKATES BETRAY HIM IN THE WORST WAY, AND REIJI JUST PROCEEDS TO DO WHAT HE DOES BEST: RUIN LIVES.

Reiji… does something, and immediately ends his turn? Okay dude.

Yuya uses Odd Eyes’ head as a springboard, takes his turn??

Grabs an action card!

Takes his turn

And

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN ARC V

I HEARD A HEARDBEAT

REIRA’S REACHING TOWARDS THE CAMERA, LOOKING MIGHTY ALERT…!

REIJI TAKES HIS… TURN? BUT YUYA PLAYS HIS CARD.

Idk what’s happening anymore

I really, really don’t

Reiji keeps saying “watashi no turn!” but he never ends his turn?? And Yuya keeps playing cards during his ‘turn'?? I have never been this confused watching the raw omg

Anyway, on to things I can actually follow

BACK IN ACADEMIA AND ARC V

THE ORB IS GLOWING AND FLASHING DIFFERENT COLORS

EVERYONE WATCHES O IN SUSPENSE

THIS HEARTBEAT ISN’T MAKING THINGS ANY EASIER

REIJI AND YUYA CROSS EACH OTHER

GO FOR THE SAME ACTION CARD

YUYA GOT IT, AND REIJI LOOKS NONE TOO PLEASED

HE PLAYS 5 MAGIC CARDS AT ONCE

ALL OF HIS MONSTERS GO BACK TO THEIR NORMAL ATK

NAH, SCRATCH THAT, THEY’RE ALL LIKE 2000 ATK HIGHER

YUYA HAS ODD EYES GO IN FOR THE ATTACK

BUT REIJI ALSO PLAYS HIS 5 CARDS

HIS MONSTERS GO UP TO LIKE 7000 ATK EACH

OMG JUST END THIS DUEL ALREADY

SHINGO AND GON CHAN LOOK SO HORRIFED

YUYA ACTIVATES HIS 100 ATK MONSTER’S EFFECT; IT BRINGS ODD EYES REBELLION DRAGON BACK AND BRINGS THE 100 ATK MONSTER INTO THE PENDULUM ZONE

ODD EYES AND ODRD MERGE THEIR POWERS?? ODD EYES GOES UP TO 8000 ATK

REIJI TRIES TO USE Z-ONES SPECIAL EFFECT TO DO SOME SHIT, IT DOESN’T WORK

SO HE MOVES ON TO ZORC

AND OFF EYES GOES BACK DOWN TO 2500 ATK

FUCK FUCK FUCK THAT ATK IS STILL GONNA GO THROUGH THOUGH

IS IT…?!

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN”

Lol nah Yuya’s got this

He’s getting his sparkle on

He takes out both of his pendulum monsters and all the facedowns on both his and Reiji’s fields

All the monsters go back down to their normal attacks

Yuya gets the audience to counts along with him

And he sets off fireworks?? Pretty pretty.

AND THE FIREWORKS MERGE TO CREATE A GIANT PENDULUM

REIRA IS SO. FASCINATED BY THIS.

ODD EYES GOES UP TO 4500 ATK!

AND YUYA HAS ODD EYES GO IN FOR THE ATTACK

REIJI ISN’T WORRIED

UNTIL YUYA BRINGS UP THAT REACTION FORCE

THE ATTACK CONNECTS!

REIJI GOES DOWN TO 0!

YUYA WINS!

*deep breath* Finally.

And Reiji… smiles.

Aw my kikaku bby

And a baby is… laughing in the abject silence

REIRA’S GIGGLING

YAAAAAAAAAAS *PUNCHES A WALL*

So… Reiji holds up Yuya’s wrist

Introduces Yuya as the Pendulum Ds new champion (or something)

Aw yis one of the old themes starts playing

And the Arc V orb is glowing to the max now

And

WHO IS THIS EMERGING

A BEAM OF LIGHT PASSES THROUGH ALL THE DIMENSIONS

Lmao it brings all our folks over to the Pendulum D lol nice

The Orb is in front of them all now

And… all 4 girls pass before their respective boys

Aw nice

AND YUYA

REACHES INTO THE GLOWING ORB

TAKES THE GIRL’S HAND

AND YUZU EMERGES

SHUZOU IS SCREAMING?!

SO ARE THE THREE PRECIOUS DARLINGS

MY GIRL IS BACK

I FEEL LIKE SHOZOU AND GON CHAN RN

THIS. THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.

REIJI TURNS TO HIS PARENTS, WHO ARE STANDING SIDE BY SIDE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS

LEO LOOKS LIKE A NORMAL DUDE FOR ONCE

REIJI LAUGHS HIS EVIL FUCKING LAUGH AT SOMETHING HIS DAD SAYS

I—

Um

Some ratchity old man is shouting

OH LOOK IT’S YUSHO

Lmaoooo he’s hyped

He takes out his duel disk

He’s challenging his kid to a duel

Lmao i feel that

OF COURSE YUYA’S UP TO THE CHALLENGE

“THE FUN HAS JUST BEGUN!”

Perfect.

[pendulumprince]

Title: Intervention

Characters: Yuya Sakaki, Yuzu Hiragi, Shingo Sawatari, Serena, Yuri, Sora Shiunin, Yugo, Rin, Reiji Akaba, Noboru Gongenzaka, Yuto, Ruri Kurosaki, Yoko Sakaki

Pairings: Light Fruitshipping with a dash of Predatorshipping and Brashshipping

Summery: Yuya and Yuzu are willing to go to extremes to ensure they’ll never be separated again. The Lancers aren’t having it. 

Notes: My late birthday gift to cypsiman2. Warnings for my haphazard attempts at writing humor. 

“Ah ha! And who might this be?” Sawatari cried, sweeping his arm across the empty room. He wasn’t talking to himself, but to the person who had just knocked on the door. He hadn’t been expecting Yuya for another hour or so, but he didn’t put it past his rival to surprise him with an early arrival. (It’s what he liked best about Yuya—never a dull moment.) 

“Might it be my second-in-command? My protégé?” he continued, grabbing his duel disk. A true entertainment duelist always had to be prepared to defend the Sacred Philosophy of Egao, even against a fellow believer. “Yuya! You’ve come a hundred years too early if you think you can beat—“

A fist pounded on the door; Sawatari skidded to a stop. “It’s Serena!” the voice on the other side of the door barked. “Open up!”

Sawatari scowled. He was glad to have Serena back after her ill-conceived ascent into godhood, but he didn’t care for the way her yelling made his heart pound in such a delightfully confusing way. He opened the door, and was reminded of another drawback to Serena’s return—the overgrown parasite that now followed her everywhere. (Everyone insisted on calling it ‘Yuri’; Sawatari preferred to ignore it’s existence.) 

“Serena-chan!” Sawatari leaned up against the doorframe. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”

She grabbed him by the collar, and pulled him along. “Come.”

“W-what—?”

“We’re staging an intervention!” the parasite elaborated as it roughly grabbed him by the upper arm. “For some reason, Serena thought you might be able to help.” 

Sawatari tried to ignore the jagged nails digging spitefully into his skin.  He whipped his head in Serena’s direction. “’The hell do you mean, ‘an intervention’?!” he cried. “On who?!”

“Yuya.”

Sawatari’s heart leapt into his chest, and images from that time violently flashed before him. “Don’t tell me—“

The parasite laughed cruelly. “Serena,” it managed between giggles, “why are you friends with this moron?”

“Shut up, Yuri.” Serena turned to Sawatari. “I’ll remind you that even if Zarc were still in existence, his revival would require his pieces to become one again. And,” she gestured vaguely in the parasite’s direction, “that obviously has not happened.”

“Then what’s wrong with Yuya?!”

“You know, I always wondered what it’d be like to get kidnapped,” Sora mused as they sped down Maiami City’s main highway. “It was sort of interesting, but I’m ready to get off now.”

Yugo looked down at Sora, who laid face down across his lap, nestled between himself and Rin. He kept his arms on her shoulders as she drove, both to maintain his balance and to keep the other boy pinned. “I told you to shut up about that! We nabbed you fair and square!”

Sora rolled his eyes, tempted to remind him that as a former soldier of Academia, they’d only ‘kidnapped’ him because he allowed it to happen. He held his tongue, but only because he didn’t want to ruin the experience. “Can you at least take this hood off, then? Not being able to see is really annoying.”

Yugo sucked his teeth, and just when Sora accepted that it wasn’t going to happen, Yugo roughly yanked the black hood off from over his head. “Happy now?!”

“I’d be a lot happier if you let me off, or at least told me where we were going. Why all the drama?”

“You don’t need to know!”

“Maybe if you told him, he’d stop his incessant whining,” Rin suggested.

Yugo sucked his teeth. “Fine.” Sora felt the other boy’s chest expand as he took a deep breath. “We’re staging an intervention, and we need your help.”

“That’s all? Why didn’t you just say that? I have loads of experience intervening in things!” Had his hands not been bound behind his back, Sora would’ve counted off his credentials on his fingers. “I intervened in the Synchro and Standard Dimensions! I intervened in Heartland before that! When students tried escaping Academia, I would intervene on them, too. So tell me, who are we destroying?”

“We’re destroying…” Sora swore he heard Yugo’s voice crack. “We’re destroying Hiragi Yuzu.”

A hot, indignant fury rose in Sora’s chest. How dare Yuya’s idiot Synchro double try to blow Yuzu off the face of the planet? “Oh? And what makes you think I’d help with something like that?” he baited, silently begging Yugo to give him an excuse. 

Rin swung her arm around, backhanding Yugo. “We’re just going to talk to her,” she grated behind clenched teeth. “Yuzu’s gone down a… strange road. We need to stop her before it’s too late!”

Sora tried to think of what Rin could mean by ‘strange road’. Had Yuzu picked up on some strange Pendulum Dimension fashion trend? Had she discarded her real father in favor of the Professor? Was she trying to become an intangible force for good again? “What do you mean by that?”

Rin sighed. “You better brace yourself…”

“This absurd behavior has gone on long enough. You need to stop.”

Sawatari heard Reiji’s low voice rumbling through the halls of the Sakaki household. Serena and her parasite had filled him in on everything, but he needed to see it for himself. He was having a hard time picturing Yuya… Yuya and Yuzu—

“What do you mean?” Yuzu asked, her ever-melodic voice just a bit sunnier than usual. “This is fine.” 

“No, it is not fine!” Gongenzaka roared. “This is totally unhealthy!”

“Yuya,” it was Yuto speaking now, “I understand your feelings—better than anyone. But this… this isn’t right.”

“I agree. Think of your families!” Ruri—Yuzu’s XYZ double—spoke up. “Your mother can hardly stand to look at you, her disgust is so great. And your father! Poor Sakaki-sensei is so disturbed, he’s gone out into the woods ‘find himself’. Who knows when he’ll be back!” Her voice lowered. “And that isn’t even to speak of Hiragi-san’s reaction—“

“That’s not fair, you leave dad out of this!” Yuzu snapped, her chipper tone gone. 

Sawatari, still flanked by Serena and the parasite, walked into the living room. And when he saw that what the two of them told him was true, he only just managed to stifle his scream.

There they were: Yuzu and Yuya, as audacious as anyone could ever be, nestled together in one giant shirt.

“You haven’t managed to talk any sense into them yet?” the parasite drawled, an amused smirk creeping its way across his face. “Oh, you’re both so lucky you didn’t grow up in Academia. You would’ve been beaten senseless for such insolence.”

“Y-yuya…” Sawatari began, truly at a loss for words for the first time in his life. “How… how long has this been going on…?”

“Three days,” Reiji replied, his tone tight and his hand clenched into a white knuckled fist. “Three! Days!”

Sawatari was mortified. How had this been allowed to go on for three days? 

“Oh no, don’t stop there. Tell him what else has happened in those three days,” Serena didn’t wait for a response before listing off everything herself. “In three days, they’ve refused to walk a step apart! The looks we get in public range from fear to pity to outright disgust! Long past are the days when one could call themselves a Lancer with pride! It seems this entire city is just waiting for us to join in on the giant shirt orgy!”

Yuya took a deep breath. “Look, all of you—“

He was abruptly cut off by the roar of an engine, just outside the house. “Shit shit shitshitshitshit—!”

There was a loud crash. The lot of them ran back into the kitchen, to find that a d-wheel—foreign to the Pendulum Dimension, destructive and excessive in all ways—had crashed through the kitchen wall.

The parasite was the first to react, bursting into a violent fit of laughter. Yuto stomped his foot on the ground. “Damnit, Yugo!”

“It wasn’t me! It was Ri—holy shit, Rin was right! Yuya has trapped Yuzu in a giant shirt!” he slammed his helmet onto the floor and started towards the two of them. “Don’t worry, I’ll save—!”

Yuzu wasted no time kicking him in the groin. He collapsed onto the ground in a heap of pain.

“Please get a hold of yourself, Yugo,” Rin remarked dryly as she unbound Sora’s wrists. 

The former Academia soldier stood up a moment later, his eyes immediately honing in on his two former classmates. His normally expressive face went completely blank, and he shook his head slowly. “I thought they were lying to me. ‘Yuya and Yuzu would never do something so outrageous’, I told them. ‘My comrades have way more dignity than that’, I insisted.” He sighed heavily, and began to walk over to them. “Well, let’s get on with it, then. Take the shirt off.”

“Get away!” Yuya cried, and he and Yuzu backed away from him, together. “I’ll duel you all right now if it comes down to it! No one’s going to separate me and Yuzu ever again!”

“Oh, is that what this is about?” Yuri purred. “Don’t be such a baby. Serena and I have been separated until very recently, and look how I turned out—perfectly fine!”

“You’re not helping.” “My father has been taken care of, and Zarc is no longer a threat,” Reiji reasoned. “There is no reason to go to such an embarrassing extreme.”

“I still don’t see why everyone is so offended by this,” Yuzu complained, her voice edging dangerously close to a whine. “Why can’t you just leave us be?!”

“Because no comrade of mine is going to strut around town like… like this!” Serena spat. “If you can’t see reason, we’ll use force! Yuri, get them!”

Yuri spun around, a cold smile on his face. “Don’t you just love how masterful she is? I certainly do. I don’t know what I ever did without my little barbarian.”

Yuya and Yuzu turned to the door, and ran outside. Everyone chased after them—Yuri and Sora in the lead, Rin and Yugo starting at the rear before recovering their d-wheel, and everyone else in between. The shouting from the eventual ten-versus-two duel could be heard for miles. 

An hour or so later, Yoko returned from grocery shopping to find her home in an utter state of disarray. Garbage was strewn everywhere. A discarded shoe lay cast off on the far end of the living room. Several chairs had been flipped over. The fridge door was cast wide open; someone had obviously raided it. Yuya (and Yuzu, she remembered with a shudder) were nowhere to be found.

She thought nothing of it. Her husband went missing without a trace for a solid three years, and that fiasco eventually worked itself out. She had no doubt this one would as well.

As she began dinner, she idly wondered who was going to pay for the giant hole in her wall. 

[pendulumprince]

All I know is in 146, my sons better be coming home.

After the opening!

Reiji fills Yusho in on wtf a ‘Jack Atlas’ is

‘Forever king? But how can someone be a king forev—?“

DON’T QUESTION, YUSHO

JUST ACCEPT

Back at academia, Jack is… scolding Yuya?? Okay well somebody’s gotta

Yuya’s talking about Reira

I really think it’s time they go and take that infant to see a neurologist

You don’t play around with that kinda blank stare in a infant

Yuya, for a moment, is discouraged by Jack’s verbal lashing

But Reiji pops up via hologram to encourage Yuya

Reiji snaps his fingers??

Nakejima’s doing some shit behind him

O-okay

What’s this

So

The ‘Dimension Highway’ is a solid vision hologram

Crow comes riding up on everybody

Throws his helmet on Yuya

Hits him in the head

Yuya’s out cold

Well that was a short episode

Nah jk Yuya’s gonna hop back up on that bike

In the Synchro D, Melissa Claire is hosting!

Tokumatsu and the Three Sycnhro Darlings are watching!

So are Crow, Shun, Sora and Asuka

Yuya’s on his bike

They’re getting ready to start…

Yuya thinks back to what Jack told him

“Riding. Duel. Acceleration.”

They begin!

Jack takes first turn!

Summons some 1200 ATK monster

And a 600 ATK tuner

He brings up the 600 ATK monster from level 2 to level 4

He tunes them!

Summons Red Demons Dragon -  Scarlight at 3000 ATK

Jack sets a facedown, ends his turn

Dares Yuya to grow a pair of ovaries and summon the 4 dragons

Yuya takes his turn

Sets the scales with Astro and Chrono

He pendulum summons Odd Eyes and a 1700 ATK monster and another at 1200 ATK

Yuya and Jack disappear into one of the portals, much to Melissa’s disappointment

Yuya think about the other three dragons

And all the shenanigans he pulled as Zarc

They make it to the XYZ D!

The Tyler Sisters, Blockhead, Edo, Sayaka, Allen, and Kaito are all watching

So are Dennis and his little proteges

Both Odd Eyes and the 1700 ATK monster go up by 500 ATK

Yuya goes in for the attack with Odd Eyes?!

Yuya’s other monster brings Scarlight down to 2700 ATK

Here comes the attack…!

But ofc Jack activates his trap, negating Scarlight’s destruction

The attack still does damage, though

And Jack’s down to 3400 LP!

Scarlight goes back to 3000 ATK

Yuya ends his turn

Jack takes his

Goes in to attack Yuya’s 1200 ATK monster

Yuya’s somehow able to reduce the damage down so that he’s at 3500 LP

Jack goes to attack again?!

Takes out Yuya’s 2200 ATK monster

And he’s down to 2700 LP

Odd Eyes goes back down to 2500 ATK as a result

Jack pressures Yuya to just summon the damn dragons already

Yuya thinks about Leo, who’s still trying to revive Ray/Yuzu

He says something about Reira that makes Himika gasp?!

Jack and Yuya make it to the Pendulum D

Where all the folks we know and love are sitting in the stands

Yuya takes his turn!

Pendulum summons his 1700 ATK and 1200 ATK monsters again

C’mon lil guy try out some new shit

Odd Eyes goes back up to 3000 ATK and the other one goes up to 2200 ATK

Yuya redoes his strategy: brings Scarlight down to 2700 ATK

Attacks with Odd Eyes

But Jack grabs an action card!

Plays it!

But Yuya negates it’s activation with Astro’s effect!

Jack summons some 600 ATK monster

That… does something?!

Yuya ends his turn

This concerns Shingo and Gongenzaka

The Three precious Darlings talk things over

Shuzou starts talking about Yuzu

Yoko… gets up?!

STARTS

CHEERLEADING?!

Omg Yoko you’re such an embarrassing mom lol I love it

Jack takes his turn

Draws, plays a magic card

Brings back his 1200 ATK monster from before

And a 0 ATK tuner

He double tunes his monsters!

Jack’s eye catches fire!

Summons Red Demons Dragon - Tyrant at 3500 ATK

He goes in for the attack!

Takes out the 2200 ATK monster

Yuya’s down to 1400 LP

And he’s going to attack again?!

FUCK

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Yuya

Has a internal moment

YUTO, YUGO AND YURI URGE HIM TO SUMMON THE DRAGONS

YUYA’S SUPRISED AS SHIT TO SEE YUGO AND YURI THERE

YAAAAAAAS

YUYA PLAYS SOME SPELLCASTER LOOKING MONSTER AT 2000 ATK

HE BINDS TYRANT?!

JACK’S ABLE TO ATTACK ODD EYES ANYWAY

YUYA’S DOWN TO 400 LP

JACK SETS A FACEDOWN, ENDS HIS TURN

YUYA THINKS ABOUT THE PENDULUM

AND HOW THE BOYS ARE INSIDE HIS HEAD NOW

AND HOW

THEY’RE ALL

ZARC

I. AM. SCREAMING.

HE ACKNOWLEDGED ZARC

FUCK

YUYA TAKES HIS TURN PENDULUM SUMMONS ODD EYES AND THE OTHER TWO MONSTERS FROM BEFORE

THIS PISSES JACK OFF BEYOND BELIEF

BUT HOLD ON, JACK

YUYA CHANNELS YUTO OR SOME SHIT

AND OVERLAYS THE OTHER TWO MONSTERS

HEEEEEERE COOOOMES DARK REBELLION!

THEY MAKE IT BACK TO THE XYZ D!

AND THE FIRST THING THESE MOTHERFUCKERS SEE IS DARK REBELLION

OMG YES

YUTO IS STILL ALIVE

Y’ALL CAN REST EASY TONIGHT

O-omg wait

No

ODD EYES AND DARK REBELLION START ROARING AND SHIT

REIRA IS WHIMPERING?!

FUCK ME SIDEWAYS

YUYA SUMMONS A SYNCHRO MONSTER, CHANNGELS YUGO

BRINGS DOWN ASTRO FOR THE PURPOSES OF TUNING THEM TOGETHER

SYNCHRO SUMMONS CLEAR WING!

REIRA IS LITERALLY GLOWING PURPLE OMG ZARC CAN WE NOT

BACK TO THE DUEL

YUYA CHANNELS YURI!

AW YIS

HE FUSES HIS SPELLCASTER ON THE FIELD WITH CHRONO

HELL YEAH

HEEEEEELL YEAH

AHHH AND YUYA DID THE FUSION CLAP-HAND THING!

HERE’S STARVE VENOM!

REIRA’S GLOWING INTENSIFIES!

HIMIKA LOOKS READY TO FUCKING CRY

YUSHO PATS REIRA ON THE HEAD?!

HE FOUR DRAGONS START ROARING

Some… weird music starts playing?!

But Yuya’s okay

AND HE’S ABOUT TO KNOCK ASS

PREVIEW TIME!

Jack reminds Yuya that he’s gotta keep that entertainer mindset

He and Yuya exchange some words and shit

He has Strave Venom take control of RDD - Tyrant?! Nice nice nice

[pendulumprince]

For episode 142, I’ve decided to adorn myself in a sweater made of my own tears.

Cold open to Shuzou looking at Yuzu’s fan

Trying to figure out where the fuck it came from

ONTO TO THE DUEL

SHINGO AND GON CHAN LOOK WORRIED

AH, THAT’S RIGHT

TSUKIKAGE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF KICKING YUYA’S ASS

Reiji, Himika and Yusho go over the endgame kikaku

Himika goes over

Picks Reira up out of his crib

Flashback to a flashback!

Himika remembers how she conducted all those fucked up experiments on Reira

Back to the present, Reira is an damn ugly baby

So it looks like Himika remembers everything, too

FLASHBACK TO EPISODE 140

WITH REIRA SACRIFICING HIMSELF TO SAVE EVERYONE

So Himika saw that and it changed her ways??

Back to the duel, Tsukikage… goes in to attack Yuya?

Yeah. Yeah he does.

BUT WILL HE SUCCEED IN TAKING YUYA OUT

AFTER THE OPENING

YUYA GOES TO GET AN ACTION CARD

DISTRACTS TSUKIKAGE LONG ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO DO IT

HE GETS IT

NEGATRES THE ATTACK

BUT SHINGO

PLAYS A TRAP CARD?!

IT DOES SOMETHING TO TSUKIKAGE’S MONSTER?!

OKAY??

GONGENZAKA DISCARDS A MONSTER AND

IT BRINGS UP ONE OF YUYA’S TOKENS UP TO 3500 DEF

NICE

SUKIKAGE GOES DOWN TO 2400 LP

TSUKIKAGE ENDS HIS TURN

So let me see if I got that

Shingo tried to help Tsukikage take Yuya down

Gongenzaka stepped in to help Yuya?

I think that’s it

“The fun has just begun!”

Omg Yuya and Gon chan say it together I AM TOUCHED

YUYA TAKES HIS TURN

SETS THE SCALES WITH ASTRO AND CHRONO

SUMMONS ODD EYES

YUYA GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK

TARGETS SHINGO’S MONSTER

AND

IT TRIGGERS A FLASHBACK

TO THE SYNCHRO D

TO HIS DUEL AGAINST JACK

FUUUUUCK

“D-WHEEL?!”

“SYNCHRO DIMENSION”

OH SHIT

BACK TO THE PRESENT

SHINGO ACTIVATES HIS MONSTER’S SPECIAL EFFECT?

IT GOES UP TO 2200 LP

THE ATTACK GOES THROUGH, BUT SHINGO ONLY GOES DOWN TO 3700 LP

AND

LMAOOOO

YUYA HAS DISCOVER HIPPO ATTACK SHINGO DIRECTLY

AND HE’S DOWN TO 2900 LP

YUYA ENDS HIS TURN

O-oh

He

He hallucinates some strange girl with pink hair walking away form him

I wonder who that could be?!

BACK TO THE DUEL

SHINGO TAKES HIS TURN

Did… did Shingo just say “academia”

It does seem to trigger a flashback for either of them

Yuya boasts his dad’s dueling style

Shingo draws!

He sets the scales, 3 to 8!

Summons Big Star at 2500 LP

And his old 1100 ATK monbster!

Yuya activates a trap card!

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!"

ANNNND HERE COMES ANOTHER UNEARTHED MEMORY

THIS TIME, IT’S HIS DUEL AGAINST EDO

“Smile world…”

Shingo asks Yuya wtf is going on

YUYA GETS BACK INTO ENTERTAINER MODE

YUYA RELEASES HIS TRAP CARD

GETS ON DISCOVER HIPPO

THEY BOTH CLIMB ON ODD EYES

ODD EYES GOES UP TO 3300 ATK

BUT SHINGO HAS A PLAN

HE ACTIVATES HIS MONSTER’S PENDULUM EFFECT

DISCARDS SOME CARD

BIG STAR GOES UP TO 3600 LP

SHINGO PLAYS A MAGIC CARD

IT’S A BOOK?!

IT ALLOWS HIM TO SUMMON SOME OTHER MONSTER

THIS MONSTER TARGETS DISCOVER HIPPO FOR MEGAL ULTRA DESTRUCTION

DH GOES DOWN TO 800 ATK

DH POINTS OUT A MAGIC CARD TO YUYA?!

YUYA RUNS OVER AND GETS IT

NEGATES THE ATTACK

BUT TSUKIKAGE ALSO GRABS AN ACTION CARD

PLAYS HIS MAGIC CARD

IT BRINGS YUYA DOWN TO 1900 LP

Meanwhile, in the Hiragi household

Shuzou is smacking himself in the head with Yuzu’s fan?!

He falls backwards onto his couch

Stars at the citrus fruit on the end on it…

He gets up!

Storms over to some room!

He grabs the handle—!

IT’S YUZU’S VOICE

HE’S ASSAULTED BY A SLEW OF YUZU FLASHBACKS

He opens the door!

B-back to the duel!

SHINGO PLAYS A MAGIC CARD

IT BRINGS SHINGO’S NEW MONSTER DOWN TO 1800 ATK!?

YUYA GETS ANOTHER FLASHBACK

WHEN THEY WERE ALL ON THAT FUCKING BOAT

SORA AND CROW ARE THERE

REMEMBER YOUR EXTRA DIMENSIONAL PALS, YUYA?!

“Lancers?!”

THAT’S RIGHT YUYA YOU’RE PART OF THAT HALF-ASSED MILITIA

SHINGO GOES IN TO ATTACK YUYA

ODD EYES IS PROTECTED FROM DESTRUCTION

BUT YUYA STILL (SOMEHOW??) GOES DOWN TO 900 LP

BIG STAR COMES BACK AT 3600 ATK

ODD EYES AND DH GO DOWN TO 2500 AND 800, RESPECTIVELY

YUYA ENDS HIS TURN

GON CHAN TAKES HIS

HE SETS THE SCAKES 1 TO 8

PENDULUM SUMMONS

SUMMONS SOME 100 ATK MONSTER

AND ANOTHER AT 0 ATK

THE TWO MONSTERS COMBINE (NOT FUSE)

OUTSIDE, SHUZOU IS FIGHTING NICO FOR CONTROL OF THE MIC?!

YUYA’S ABOUT TO DO SOME WILD SHIT TO HELP OUT GON CHAN, BUT-—!

SHUZOU INTERUPTS HIM!

HE SAYS YUZU’S NAME

BACK IN THE HIRAGI HOUSE

SHUZOU OPENED THAT DOOR

He immediately remembered his baby girl

So do the Three Precious Darlings?!

Yoko does too!

As well as Shingo and Gon chan!

Yuya has a slew of Yuzu flashbacks

He’s absentmindedly chanting her name?!

Back in the original D

When Zarc split up

Leo was looking on??

He and Reijie xchange some words

Reira’s still there

Zarc is exorcized out of Yuya; attacks Reira

Yuya stands naked in the abyss…

Back to the present

Reira, the ugliest baby to ever live, looks on at all of them with a blank expression

Back to the duel, Yuay’s staring out into space

GON CHAN RESUMES HIS TURN, READY TO END THIS FUCKING DUEL ALREADY

BECAUSE THERE AIN’T NO REST FOR THE WICKED

AND THEY ALL STILL HAVE A JOB TO DO

HE TARGETS BIG STAR

HE GOES DOWN TO 3000 LP; BIG STAR, TO 2600 ATK

HE LOWERS IT AGAIN, HIMSELF TO 2000 LP AND BIG STAR TO 1600 ATK

AND AGAIN, HIMSELF TO 1000 LP AND BIGS STAR TO 600 ATK

SHINGO LOOKS READY TO CRY, BUT WHAT ELSE IS NEW

YUYA ISN’T PAYING ATTENTION TO ANY OF THEM

HE’S TOO BUSY REMEMBERING YUZU AND ALL THE CRAP THEY WENT THROUGH THESE PAST 100 OR SO EPISODES

GON CHAN GOES IN TO ATTACK BIG STAR

AND SHINGO’S BROUGHT DOWN TO 0!

HIS MONSTER THEN GOES IN TO ATTACK TSUKIKAGE DIRECTLY; HE’S DOWN TO 900 LP

AND YUYA REMEMBERS HIS BERZERK MODE

HOW YUZU TRIED TO PULL HIM OUT OF IT DURING HIS DUEL AGAINST LEO

HE REMEMBERS HOW THE BRACELET GIRLS BEGAN TO DISAPPEAR

IT RENEWS HIS BERZERK MODE

BUT BEFORE HE COULD LITERALLY KILL LEO

YUSHO STOPPED HIM WITH THAT BROKEN TRAP CARD

GON CHAN TAKES DOWN BOTH OF HIS PENDULUM MONSTERS

AND ATTACKS TSUKIKAGE A SECOND TIME

TSUKIKAGE IS DOWN TO 0

HE DISAPPEARS SOMEWHERE?!

AND YUYA

HE REMEMBERS THE MOMENT ZARC TOOK OVER

ASTRO AND CHRONO COMBINING

HIM FUSING WITH THE FOUR DRAGONS

AND

AND

THAT’S RIGHT, YUYA

YOU WERE ZARC

YOURE A DEMON CHILD?

THE ARC V VERSION OF SATAN?!

YEAH

Preview time!

Himika’s taking to Yuya, Gon chan and Shingo through the projection screen

She shows them Reira

Yoko takes the mic from Shuzou

Gon chan

Attacks Yuya?!

Well whatever man

Idec if Yuya loses this duel

JUST END IT ALREADY

[pendulumprince]

Get ready, it’s all downhill from 143

“Zarc…”

“Zarc…!”

Okay looks like everyone in the audience just collectively remembered that ol' double horned son of a bitch

AYU STARTS SCREAMING, AND—

After the opening!

THAT’S RIGHT, YUYA

HE HAS A FLASHBACK OF HIS TIME AS ZARC

He askes what happened to Reira…

And Himika shows them over the projection screen

Reira’s a baby now!

Gasp!

Shock!

Reiji’s talking about the En cards

That’s a… mighty blank stare Reira’s sporting there

Blank stares and babies aren’t a good mix

So he’s talking about Yuzu…

And Arc V!

Himka stays stuck on Reira’s smile

Everyone in the audience watches on in intriguge

Reiji and Yuya discuss Yuya’s entertainment style

And how it’s thE ONLY THING THAT CAN MAKE REIRA SMILE NOW

Okay they’re talking… they’re talking… I understand nothing…

Okay Yusho’s on the screen now

Staring Yuya down

Reminding everyone that Yuzu still needs saving (or does she? Who knows.)

In the audience, Yoko stands up!

SHE GRABS THE MICROPHONE FROM SHUZOU

STARTS YELLING AT YUYA

SHE’S TALKING ABOUT EGAO

AND YUYA

SNAPS AT HER

OH SHIT

HE TAKES HIS TURN

HE SWITCHES BOTH ODD EYES AND DISCOVER HIPPO TO DEF

SETS A FACEDOWN

ENDS HIS TURN

Okay Yuya’s still struggling with the whole Zarc thing, it looks like

Yoko gives up on him?!

I mean, knowing her? Hell no she didn’t.

But that’s what the visuals are telling me

Gon chan takes his turn!

Summons a 900 ATK monster

He goes in for the attack!

He then has his other monster attack Odd Eyes!

And a direct attack!

Yuya roller blazes over to the Action card!

Takes it!

Avoids the attack!

Gon chan…!

SYNCHRO SUMMONS

A DEMONIC TRAIN AT 4800 DEF

WOW I’M WITH SHINGO HERE, THIS MONSTER IS WILD

GON CHAN MOVES TO ATTACK YUYA DIRECTLY

HE ALMOST RUNS SHINGO OVER IN THE PROCESS?? I THOUGHT Y’ALL WERE BROS MY BRO

YUYA GRABS AN ACTION CARD

IT SAVES HIS ASS

BUT GON CHAN

GRABS

AN

ACTION CARD

“NO ACTION”

SO YUYA, WHO’S ABOUT TO VEER OVER THE EDGE OF A CLIFF

ACTIVATES HIS TRAP CARD

YUYA DRAWS

IT’S SWORDFISH!

HE STOPS GON CHAN’S ATTACK!

BUT GON CHAN ISN’T DONE YET!

HIS MONSTER ATTACKS YUYA ANYWAY?!

BRINGS HIM DOWN TO 700 LP

FUTOSHI HAS A SHIVERS ATTACK

NICO GRABS HIS MICROPHONE BACK FROM SHUZOU ON THE SLY

HE CONTINUES TO NARRATE

YUYA AND GON CHAN ARE YELLING AT EACH OTHER?! OR AT LEAST SPEAKING VERY STERNLY

SHUZOU IS CRYING

I FEEL YOU MY DUDE

GON CHAN BUILDS SOME TRACKS OVER THE LEDGE HE AND YUYA ARE OVER

THEY CROSS IT

THEY’RE IN THE ROMAN RUINS SECTION OF BATTLE ROYALE NOW

YUYA TAKES HIS TURN

HE PENDULUM SUMMONS ODD EYES

GRABS AN ACTION CARD

HAS ODD EYES ATTACK GON CHAN’S MONSTER?? WHAT YOU DOIN BRUH

4800>2500?!

OKAY SO HE SUMMONS A MAGIC CARD

THAT BRINGS GON CHANS MONSTER DOWN TO 2400 ATK

ODD EYES ATTACKS

AND

AND

WILL IT GO THROUGH??

IT DOES

GON CHAN IS DOWN TO 800 LP

HIS MONSTER IS STILL ON THE FIELD THOUGH

IT GOES BACK UP TO 4800 DEF

YUYA ENDS HUIS TURN

GON CHAN DRAWS

HAS HIS MONSTER ATTACK ODD EYES

YUYA GRABS AN ACTION CARD

AND IT BRINGS GON CHAN’S MONSTER BACK DOWN TO 2400 DEF

THE ATTACK CONNECTS, AND GON CHAN GOES DOWN TO 600 LP

HE GRABS AN ACTION CARD!

AND IT TAKES OFF EYES OFF THE FIELD!

IT ALSO BRINGS YUYA DOWN TO 500

GON CHAN’S MONSTER GOES BACK DOWN TO NORMAL

HE ENDS HIS TURN

YUSHO’S BACK IN LDS WITH REIJI, TRASH TALKING HIS SON NO DOUBT

YOKO, MEANWHILE, HAS TAKEN IT UPON HERSELF TO RALLY THE TROOPS IN YUYA’S FAVOR

YAAAAAS I KNEW MY LADY COULDN’T HAVE ABANDONED HER SON

AW SHIT

I REMEMBER THIS MUSIC

YUYA TAKES HIS TURN

BRINGS ODD EYES BACK

YUYA HAD ODD EYES ATTACK

GON CHAN RUNS LIKE HELL TO GET AN ACTION CARD

THEY SPOT THE SAME ONE!

GO FOR IT!

YUYA GRABS IT!

GON CHAN’S MONSTER IS DOWN TO 2400 DEF

ODD EYES ATTACKS!

GON CHAN IS DOWN TO 400 LP

HIS MONSTER GOES BACK TO NORMAL

THIS IS THE MOST REPETITIVE DUEL IN RECENT MEMORY OMG

GON CHAN TAKES HIS TURN

THEY’RE IN THE WINTER SECTION NOW

HE GOES IN TO ATTACK ODD EYES

YUYA GRABS AN ACTION CARD

SAME SHIT REPEATS

GON CHAN IS DOWN TO 200

GON CHAN RUNS FOR AN… ACTION CARD?? HE RUNS SO FUNNY OMG

HE TAKES ODD EYES OFF THE FIELD

HIS MONSTER ATTACKS YUYA

HE’S DOWN TO 300 LP

GON CHAN’S MONSTER IS BACK TO NORMAL

THEY’RE BACK IN THE VOLCANO AREA

YUYA SUMMONS ODD EYES

GOES IN TO ATTACK

THERE’S ONE ACTION CARD

WHO WILL MAKE IT??

OF COURSE YUAY DOES

GON CHAN IS PISSED

HE’S JUST OUT OF PRACTICE, IS ALL

GON CHAN’S MONSTER GOES BACK DOWN

GON CHAN… SMILES?! YOU’RE ABOUT TO LOSE MY DUDE

THE TRAIN STOPS

GON CHAN SPREADS HIS ARMS

PRESUMABLY INVITES YUYA TO ATTACK

YUYA GLADLY COMPLIES

THE ATTACK CONNECTS

GON CHAN IS DOWN TO 0

YUYA WINS!

So… the field spell is gone

They're in plain old Maiami City now

Gon chan goives YUya some last words of encouragement

Back in the stadium, everyone is cheering Yuya on!

Nico’s about to say something, but

REIJI INTERUPTS

HE COMES BY ON HUS HELICOPTER

REMINDS YUYA AND GON CHAN OF WHAT THE LANCERS WERE

And he takes Yuya to some giANT BLUE VORTEX

THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT

“XYZ Dimension…”

WELP

LOOKS LIKE IT’S TIME TO REUNITE THE LANCERS FOR ONE LAST WORLD TOUR

OFF TO GO FIND THE GIRLS

OH YES

YUYA ROLLS INTO THE VORTEX

AHHH

ITS PRETTY!

AND

ON THE OTHER SIDE

DENNIS IS WAITING FOR HIM HAHAHA OH HELL NO

Preview time!

Dennis looks like he’s aged 5 years, at least

HE

HE’S STILL EVIL

AND HEARTLAND IS STILL IN RUINS????

NICE. NICE.

WHAT A FUCKING BASTARD.

ZARC OR NOT:

RIP HIS FUCKING HEAD OFF, YUYA

[pendulumprince]

Oh my god I have this crazy theory that just came to my mind all of a sudden and it's about something that I could never figure out in my head: I was trying to wonder what exactly is the Standard Dimension since it has all the summoning types and that's something none other dimension has and my suspicion is that someone brought cards from other dimensions to Standard and LDS started mass-producing them (but only keeping them to themselves, thus why the open public can't have them easily) (cont.)

(cont.) that Standard was always just supposed to be only about Pendulum but it somehow came after that (which is something we need to know more about) and I just think the other summoning types were never meant to be in Standard but was done by someone else, my bet would be on Leo since he’s into making all dimensions into one and stuff. This is just something that came to my mind just now so I’m probably forgetting something, but it’s not a weird idea for why Standard is so different

Oh man, I’ve had a similar theory for a while now! I do think that the Standard Dimension to actually be the Pendulum Dimension; it’s where Pendulum summoning originated, right? And just as the other summoning methods can come out through a Pendulum summon, Standard is described as being the “original” dimension all the others came from. It just makes sense.

But you bring up an interesting possibility that I hadn’t considered: that Leo was the one to bring in the special summoning types and cards to “Standard”. I always assumed that yes, the Akaba family had something to do with it, but I figured they only made copies of the original cards and summoning methods that they saw in other dimensions. It would go hand-in-hand with the fact that the cards LDS students used weren’t “real”, unlike the cards Sora, Shun and Yuto would use. 

But (and correct me if I’m wrong) you’re proposing that that brought in the actual cards themselves. And that they were coming off as fake not because they were copies, but because they were in Standard, and being used by Standard duelists. Duelists who weren’t supposed to have those cards in the first place.

And if it seems that at first glance the cards being replicas would make more sense, consider this: every single Pendulum card in existence that isn’t in Yuya’s deck had to have been created by the Leo Corporation. And yet, those cards are seen as authentic, as opposed to the Fusion, Synchro and XYZ cards they manufacture, even though they came about in the same way. If you’re right, it would certainly raise some more questions about Standard. 

Are the people there the only ones who aren’t supposed to branch out? Is there a force in Standard rejecting those “foreign” cards?And where does that leave Pendulum Summoning? What took them so long to come about? Why was it Yuya who unwittingly created them, and not a dueling corporation like LDS? 

Was there something that was, for lack of a better word, “blocking” Pendulum summoning from it’s own dimension? If so, it definitely wouldn’t be the Akaba’s: Reiji and Himika sought to capitalize on them as early as episode 8, and something like Pendulum summoning probably would’ve pushed Leo into making Standard his base of operations, not the Fusion Dimension. 

So something else had to have been blocking Pendulums, and stopping the dimension as a whole from reaching it’s true potential. It’s already been proven that when compared to the duelists of other dimensions, Standard’s duelists fall short—why is that? It isn’t even the necessity to win at this point. Academia and the Resistance have that, yes, but duelists from the Synchro D, who are uninvolved in the war, have been giving the Lancers one hell of a time. Tokumatsu’s been the only one to lose to a Standard duelist thus far. There has to be something to that, because YGO has always rejected the notion of anyone being inherently “weak”. 

I think I may have left you with more questions than answers lol. But yes, I agree that there’s more to Standard than just being “that weak dimension that just stands there looking pretty”. Foreign summoning methods are processed strangely there; and while Pendulum summoning initially set off alarms, it’s by now taken to being the native method of the dimension. Looks like we aren’t done with the original dimension just yet.