"What a mystery, what's really going on?"
In a laboratory, a man wearing a white lab coat with a strange wing-shaped badge on his chest stood curiously in front of a large machine.
It was a "Y-Dragon Head." At this moment, the Y-Dragon had lost its vitality, lying limply on the platform, occasionally emitting sizzling sounds.
"What's the principle behind it?" He stroked his chin and murmured, "Clearly it's mechanical, but it's also a spirit. How is it achieved?"
His name doesn't need to be mentioned; let's just call him "Dr. Union."
In this world, due to the birth of dimension travel, many scholars who were originally unable to showcase their talents or were not recognized for special reasons in the Human World finally found new opportunities.
But even among these researchers, there were some "special" researchers not recognized by Kaiba Company, those who casually conducted "Spirit Body Experiments" on spirits.
Whether out of curiosity about souls, the pursuit of eternal life, or simply pure interest, these people were not accepted by Kaiba Company due to their special "hobbies" and could only look on helplessly.
Dr. Union was one of them.
However, in this situation, someone found him, telling him that they could provide funding for him to conduct his experiments in the Other Dimension, where Kaiba Company could not interfere.
So he naturally gladly accepted.
After all, the other party provided money and efforts, also offering him great "power," and all he needed to do was provide "unfailingly loyal" Spirit Soldiers for the other party.
It's simple, isn't it?
After all, he had done such things, so he didn't care about these matters anymore.
Besides, they were just robots, what's the big deal?
"Boom——"
While he was observing the data, he heard a violent explosion outside. The tremors nearly toppled him over. He glanced sideways and shouted, "What's going on? Those annoying robots attacking again?"
"Hmph, I just caught a bunch of them last time. Didn't they learn their lesson?"
While he was asking, a soldier wearing a purple uniform ran over, saluted him, and then said, "Doctor, it's nothing, just an intruder."
"An intruder?" He looked puzzled upon hearing this, "A human?"
"Yes, a human wearing a Yellow Academy uniform, nothing to worry about." The soldier confidently patted his chest, "We are excellent graduates of Duel Academy's Blue Academy, just a mere Yellow Academy student."
The doctor didn't quite understand these things. Listening to the soldier's words, he thought it sounded reasonable from his perspective, so he said nothing more.
But how did a student come to this dimension?
Wasn't this dimension discovered by Dr. Akuma himself?
With a mind full of questions, he began his dismantling work.
He had tried dismantling several spirits. Although they looked like robots, taking them apart was utterly unlike mechanics. He attempted to install weapons, but failed repeatedly and couldn't complete it.
Especially when one day, he discovered that the parts he dismantled would disperse into starlight, making him even more perplexed.
Are these things truly machines?
He felt they were more like some kind of creatures that looked like robots.
Hmm...
"Boom!!!"
This time, the noise was even more violent than before. The entire research facility trembled intensely, as if in an earthquake.
What is happening!
Before he could react, a soldier rushed in hurriedly.
"What's wrong?"
"The intruder! The intruder is so strong—how can a Yellow student be so powerful!"
"Doctor, please wait a moment. We'll gather more manpower! Can a mere Yellow Academy student really turn the sky upside down?"
The doctor was stunned for a while,
"Why don't you call the brigade captain?"
"How could we? Just a mere Yellow—"
The soldier's voice echoed in the doctor's ears. Before waiting for a response, the soldier ran off like the wind. Then the doctor saw a stream of soldiers and Mechanical Spirits rushing down the hallway.
"Wh... what is going on."
Dr. Union turned to look at the other side of the laboratory. There, in the break room, a man wearing a mask, pale-faced, with cold sweat on his forehead, and his right hand withered and twisted, seemingly in a terrible physical condition, walked step by step into the laboratory.
He seemed to have been sleeping and was woken up by the loud noises, appearing even more uncomfortable.
"Captain Morishima," the doctor greeted, then continued, "I've heard there's an intruder."
"An intruder? A spirit of the Union?"
"What, a student from Yellow Academy?"
"Yellow Academy..." The captain listened, thoughtful, and after a moment suddenly considered a possibility, then muttered, "Impossible!"
With one crash after another, the captain snapped back and shouted, "Doctor, come with me to check it out!"
"Oh, okay—"
However, before they could leave the lab, they heard a cry of "Direct attack on the opponent!" and "Ah——" followed by a soldier in a purple uniform and mask being sent flying from the right side of the door like a ball, rolling several times on the ground and crying out in pain. Meanwhile, a man's voice rang out, "Is that all you have, senior?"
"Damn it!" More voices rang out, accompanied by the "rat-a-tat-tat" sounds of a machine gun, it seemed the soldiers outside abandoned dueling and started shooting directly.
Yet after a series of clanging sounds, more screams were heard, and the sounds of gunfire gradually faded away.
The doctor was drenched in cold sweat.
He finally realized something was wrong.
There's trouble!
"Tap...tap..."
A gentle sound of footsteps approached, unhurriedly, as if completely unconcerned, someone leisurely walked towards them.
The doctor and captain stared intently at the door. With each step that sounded, more sweat dripped from the doctor's forehead; each time, he couldn't help wiping it away; on the other side, the captain's lips trembled, forming a slowly uttered name.
"Tenjo Hikari!"
As the sound fell, Tenjo Hikari reached the doorway, and as soon as his silhouette appeared, the doctor was so frightened he fell backward onto the ground, while the captain swallowed hard.
"You actually recognize me? I thought everyone here wouldn't know who I am." Tenjo Hikari, seeing the captain, glanced at his right hand, looked around the lab, and, seeing the Machine-Type Spirits dismantled all over, couldn't help frowning.
Earlier, he considered whether to disguise himself, but those Fusion Army soldiers didn't recognize him at all.
"Heh…mere soldiers aren't qualified to return to the Human World or watch its news," the captain casually explained, "Tenjo Hikari…you're on the professor's bounty list."
Tenjo Hikari shrugged, entirely unconcerned.
Let the bounty be; he'd been attacked so many times already, was he afraid of this?
"I never thought you'd abandon a perfectly good school life to seek trouble with us." He extended his left hand, and the Duel Disk on his left arm automatically unfolded, "Don't think I'm on the same level as those useless guys!
When I was in the academy, my Spirit Adaptability had already reached the seven-star level!
Far stronger than you are now!"
Seven stars, Marufuji Ryo's current level.
But what does Spirit Adaptability even represent?
"Don't think that doing this will let you leave unscathed!" he continued, a trace of electric light flashing across his face, making him look quite pained, "I will eliminate you to complete the professor's bounty!"
"With this terrifying power bestowed upon me by the professor!"
Tenjo Hikari shuffled his deck, casually saying,
"The Three Phantasm, is it?"
"Wha...!?" The captain was taken aback.
Tenjo Hikari just chuckled, his mouth curling into an excited and slightly fanatical smile, forcefully flipping his Duel Disk: "Then let me show you the power of my [Polymerization] deck!"
Accompanied by his shout, a purple light flashed over him, and a gust of wind blew away all the debris and miscellaneous objects around!
Smack—
The head captain stepped back in fright.
What kind of figure was Tenjo Hikari right now standing before him?
Amid flying rubble and bullets, with a fanatical smile, exuding a purple, eerie aura, and with numerous purple puppet strings swirling around him, flapping like bat wings behind him. At first glance, he seemed not like a human at all, but a devil emerging from Hell!
Am I, am I the antagonist here?
The head captain swallowed hard.
No, whatever happens, with this powerful "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" given by the professor, relying on its strength, even if those robots outside bombard this camp as a group, Hamon would just hold them off.
This is the ultimate Monster Card!
With such a powerful card, he could never lose to a kid who's not even graduated!
"Duel!" X2.
Head Captain of the Union Zone, Morishima Takeo LP: 4000.
Tenjo Hikari LP: 4000.