(GS3) Field: Destroyed Shopping District

[OverDrive]

Diablo had awaited a response from the mysterious figure but instead heard behind him a more foreboding sound, as Hikaru the Underground King, tainted by the reverse like his generals, charged at Diablo from behind. He could hear the sound of his aura even tell that he had unleashed a weapon for this confrontation, so with a quick movement he turned around his dark blue aura beginning to appear from clearly as he held Blaster Dark in his hand and letting the knight pass his sword to him for this moment.

One would assume that he drew a card but it looked as if he drew a sword from his deck as he raised it and blocked Hikaru's attempt, "Hoh..The king himself comes after me, such an honor." he said as the two blades pushed at each other.

"..I expect more this time, after all if it was something like that Aoi general you had then I'm afraid this won't take too long, Your highness!" exclaimed Diablo, as he use his blade to push Hikaru backwards, the two wielding both of their blades and preparing for the other to move.

Though at the same time Diablo kept a clse watch of the figure behind him, he could not make out what he was doing bu the had to make sure that he kept him in check along with Hikaru, any wrong move could cause some damage to Darren or anyone else involved.

[Spectre Diamond]

Hikaru adds more force in his attack as he pushes the blade forward in his pursuit. They were in a standstill as neither party refused to give in to the other. Hikaru then pushes Diablo as he back flips and sends an arc of pure energy towards him.

Freezeray on the other hand began to attack Mordred with intense rays of ice.

[OverDrive]

The masked fighter did not deny nor hide anything with his moves, Diablo was not even sure if this was Hikaru, but he concluded that if these generals from The regional Hall referred to him as their King then there has to be some connection. If the fighter spoke it would clarify more details but so far Diablo only is 80% sure...does he have a voice changer too?

"I did not want to believe it but...All the evidence seems to point that way...I wished it was not the case...but this fighter could indeed be Hikaru." he thought.

As the two broke away the standoff the masked fighter unleashed an arc of pure energy towards him, while at the same time Freeze Ray retaliated against Mordred. As Mordred and Diablo both lunged towards their opponent for an attack only one thing came in mind for Diablo to say as he waited for a reaction to his attack and his words, "Not enough...-Mordred deflects the ice with his blade and lunges at Freeze Ray-...this is hardly enough..-Diablo uses his blade to shake off the arc, causing it to dissipate-... to force my hand! -Diablo lunges with Dark's blade towards the fighter-..Ou-sama!" he shouted.

As the two blades clashed a Shockwave was released from the impact as the fighters almost mirrored the battle between their units.

[Spectre Diamond]

Realizing how long this fight might end up taking, Hikaru relented on his assault against the masked man.

"Play time's over." His blade faded into clouds of darkness as he moved back. Freezeray Dragon turned into red motes as it returned to Hikaru's deck. He then summoned the fields on both sides and places his starter.

[OverDrive]

Diablo used the force from the strike to send himself into a safe range away from Hikaru, as his blade and Mordred dissapated and returned to his deck.

"....That voice...now it's done." he thought.

Pulling out his deck and readying his field Diablo prepared to face the King with everything he has, getting ready to deal with Link Joker once again.

"..We settle this now!" he said, placing his starter.

[[R.T] SpiderHunterMD]

He gave up on the slums and strolled into this area of despair which was once a market. Noting the very aura that he had, Amon perched himself up on a nearby piece of rubble, noticing the beginning of a new battle. A Man in a mask clashes with the Underground King

"Wrath fights... After this bout, I will deal with the second sin, by that person's appearence, I believe that he is also a sin. No doubt, he looks exactly like 'Him'. Its Envy..." He spoke to himself as he began to watch

[Hope]

Sera wasn't looking well. Obviously.

Hana gathered the remnants of the time-space distortion and moved it upwards to the sky, near the gate. She looked at it closely.

It was reverse energy through and through, but for some reason, with her power, it still felt "heavier," as in her power was not able to carry it as well. Mixed in with it was another blind spot, rather it was energy made of light. She wasn't able to see it before, but that was the reason that time-space distortions were always a blur to her. They were composed of light and dark.

But what was the part of it that was composed of light if darkness is the reverse energy?

"A Space-time distortion..." Hana wondered, "This sure is hard without Minette... but The Rift?"

Then the silence and lack of activity of the Rift was this, preparing for an invasion. It was then that she also looked towards Sera who now had less energy to spare or at least, had less going around him due to his state. She was able to see a shape within him, composed of dark energy. The seed itself.

Then where is it that this seed came from? Where did the invaders come from? How was it so that there were no records of them in Cray's history?

Even the units themselves had energies composed of only darkness, if so, then that means the seed is only purely allowed to have the void energy. So the Rift is the part of it which is light?

The Rift created them?... no.

During the War of Liberation, Neu Edelweiss and Tsubasa Hayato were able to fight in a battle which was like a clash of titans, using versions of their ace units coming from different future timelines. Neu Edelweiss currently has an unevolved Messiah unit which if given enough time would be able to become the one that she used. Tsubasa's Mithril Ezel was a unit that knew how to break locks which were unknown of at the time all over Cray, so it could only have come from the future, and as things stand with Ezel at the moment, it may not even be this future, but another?... The Rift acts as a gate itself, it is then beyond space-time. That distortion that the seed is able to generate then make sense.

The existence of separate timelines come into play.

"So Vermillion's appearance...." She looked up at the black ring, the gate. It was then that she remembered that Cero climbed up the Cardfight Training Area in an attempt to reach it when he was reversed. He witnessed Neu's power, the power of stride, and with it, he was now attempting to replicate it to bring back Vermilion. If that was the case then...

No history throughout Cray's records... A seed made to only be composed to darkness, having the influence of the Rift... and a Rift that can bring things from other dimensions.

That was it. The Rift was the enemy, always is the enemy.

These invaders were never meant to exist.

[Cherry]

Yugure coughed and groaned, summoning the Blaster Blade sword again to get on her feet. Gancelot rushed over and got off of his horse, and Salome came to assist. They helped her stand up.

"What happened?" The elven girl inquired. Gancelot had about a hundred ways to answer how they fought with an absolute monster and about how their vanguard has an even more personal reason to kill the invaders.

"Well..."

"Are you alright to keep going, Seifer...?" Yugure asked the boy nearby, seeing as this wasn't over yet.

[Hope]

"Invaders destroy and do what they do because it's what they do. It wouldn't be hard for the Rift to just simply pick them up and move them here. No command is needed, they would just continue to go about their business, continue to destroy." She shook her head. This was enough progress for now.

Hana took the space-time distortion, compressing it all into a small ball that was now at the palm of her hands. Looking down the skyscraper, she saw Yukino with her units. It was time to repay them back.

"Yukino." She disappeared flew down and a panel of darkness appeared before her. "Would you care to honor me with a fight?"

[Cherry]

"First, tell me what happened to you."

Yugure kept standing, wanting to hear how Hana got infected by the invaders, and how she even got these grotesque angel features to add on.

[Golden Sage NovaRaizer]

Darren began to stir and finally awakened. Time healed his wounds slightly though he still appeared as though he had been on the bad end of a blender. He looked up and he saw Yukino and Hana. Were they about to fight one another? He stood up slowly as his body continued to wobble. He wasn't anything like the others there but he wasn't dead. That was a good sign.

"Yukino, bring Hana back with a fight!" he called out to her, knowing her power enough to know that she had the ability to do so.

[Hope]

"This is all voluntary no need to worry about me." She began to laugh a little.

It really was, she was learning so much, but also the infection in her heart led her to have so much fun with what she was doing now. Her guilt was lifted and the feeling that she got here was like performing in a concert for her, it was exhilarating. Doki doki heart pumps from the doki doki destruction that she caused, plus Ramiel's new form looked so kawaii desu ne with all the black rings and stuff. Clean up time was lots of fun.

"It's moving us in the right direction, trust me." Rather than keeping all the ring leaders in the shadows, pushing this little meet up enabled both sides to meet each other, causing things to advance and the guessing games to end. "Anyways, how about that faito?"

[Cherry]

"Voluntary?!" Yugure was awestruck by such a reckless choice. Hana willingly allowed herself to be infected? ... No, no no no no, absolutely not. No, she isn't standing for this. Moving them in the right direction?

"You call this moving in the right direction?"

The woman pointed out the chaos and destruction that left Hoshiko's Shopping District completely beyond recognition.

"... Sure, we'll fight."

Raging Form was too busy being a battle craving warmonger for the Revengers, so Gancelot was allowed the charge again. The little sister has clearly lost her mind, and Yugure wasn't going to see it continue if she was stepping in.

[Cipher Izanagi]

Seifer nodded to the question. He was still able to keep going, though she seemed worse for wear. Maybe the fight had taken more out of her than he thought? He tried to help the ivory haired woman to her feet, using his frame as a pillar, though she didn't really seem to need it? She was standing fully it seemed... Though... Now Hana showed up, and was reversed. Wait, what did he miss? When did this happen? She seemed like a seraph at the moment, but... Was more... like a fallen angel with all things considered. He opened his mouth to offer to fight in her place but... She'd... Already accepted the fight. He just hoped she knew what she was doing, and backed off a little bit.

[OverDrive]

The fight between Hikaru and Diablo was truly a sight to behold, it was as if Hikaru was manipulating the damage zone like the Angel Feather but at the same time utilizing Freeze Ray's lock skill, causing him to devastate Diablo's formation. The Masked fighter did not back down though he stood his ground showing no emotion under the mask, and with an assist of two criticals he was able to push the game in his favor, the rest unfolded with the illusion of darkness. Diablo's Ace unit took the field descending and pushing Freeze Ray to 5 damage with it's skill while having no rearguards to be locked, also Diablo's avatar Blaster Dark Revenger stood by his side ready to attack if necessary, but the phantasmal dragon ended the fight with his Phanatic Illusion.

With the fight ending Hikaru, let out a scream of pain, for a minute it looked as if Diablo was about to return to his other persona, but the reminder of the scythe wielding individual kept him on edge.

"...I'll get him out of here..once this is dealt with.." he thought, as he began to turn around, after collecting his cards.

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Now that the fight was over, Diablo turned around to see that the psyche bearing figure was still standing there in his usual state, something about him struck him as familiar, though no matter how hard he tried he could not pinpoint what he was looking for. He was however interested to know where on earth this figure come from, it was clear that it was reversed or rather emanating reverse energy but what was unclear was it's role in this are at this time.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" he asked, the voice modifier making his tone menacing as usual as he tried to get some info from the daunting figure.