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The data storm swirled above the city square, it’s purple streams giving off a faint glow as two figures… well, two and a half figures could be seen standing across from each other, staring the other down.
“Playmaker, I truly do not wish to duel you. If you give yourself up you can join the collective and stay at rest. You would gain even more of my respect for doing so. Can you not see that is the correct way? Humanity has so much strife, chaos, poverty, sadness…I can make humanity happier Playmaker!” The taller of the two duelists shouted across the field to the other. He was tall, bare chested and dressed in gold along with a royal purple. Five colours flashed across their back – Blue, Red, Orange, Green and Yellow. Five of the six Ignis. Bohman was almost complete. He just needed the final colour – Purple – to be fully realised. The next generation of AI. The Ignis’s Upgrade, their final form, their true form.
“Bohman, you would only save humanity by destroying it! There is no peace to be found with your method! Only destruction! I cannot allow you to do this!” Playmaker retorted, a scoff coming from the lips of his small companion.
“Yeah! You killed my friends! We’re gonna get so much revenge!” Ai, the last Ignis shouted at the being who had absorbed the other five Ignis – Ai’s friends, siblings, whatever you would call them. Ai couldn’t stand the thought of them vanishing forever. There had to be a way to save them. The two of them would do it! Ai and Playmaker! Rag tag duo! Tag team experts! The Cyberse Gadgets of Bohman’s destruction!
“I’ll take the first move Playmaker! With the power granted to me by the data storm and using the consciousness data of every human in Link VRAINS, I can ascend my knowledge of dueling and strategies to an even greater level! I’ll surpass even you Playmaker! Your bond with AI helps you, but you will never be able to reach this new level that I will surpass! Huuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!”
With his knees bent and arms directed outwards in a power stance, Bohman began to shout – powering up his brainpower as a supercomputer by using the minds of all the humans connected in Link VRAINS! Ghost Girl and Zaizen looked on in shock as players – trapped in Link VRAINS began to drop to the floor, falling unconscious from the strain it put on their minds!
“Uh oh Playmaker! Bohman is going to surpass us in strategy! What are we going to do!?”
“Play…maker…! You cannot even conceive this level of strategy! This level of intelligence! This is the power of the next generation Ignis like myself! The Ultimate Strategy! The Ultimate Monsters! The Ultimate! Unbeatable! Unsurpassable combo! I… Normal Summon!! Aleister!!!!!! The INVOKER!!!!!!!!!!! Use his effect to add Invocation!!!!!!!!!!!! Then! I will go even further beyond!!! I LINK SUMMON INTO SALAMANGREAT ALMIRAJ! AND LINK THAT OFF! FOR SECURE GARDNA! FINALLY! THE CARD TO COMPLETE THIS UNSTOPPABLE COMBO! I USE INVOCATION TO FUSE SECURE GARDANA WITH THE ALEISTER THE INVOKER IN MY GRAVEYARD AND SUMMON!!!!! INVOKED!!!! MECHABA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I will use Invocation’s effect to add Aleister from my banished zone to my hand and shuffle itself back into the deck. Your move Playmaker!”
“Woah! What ever will we do against Invoked Mechaba Playmaker?! It’s such a mighty monster! How on vrains will we beat it?!?!”
“Shut up Ai, I’m just going to use Raigeki. Mechaba is destroyed. Then I’ll Normal Summon Lady Debug and use it’s effect to search—” “Aha Playmaker! I have Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring! Negated!” “….woah…suree…..thats…such a threat….anyway, Link off Debug into Link Disciple, activate Parallel eXceed in my hand to summon itself, and then another copy from my deck. I’ll link the two Parellels off for Update Jammer, Update and Disciple for Transcode Talker. Transcode’s effect will revive Update Jammer. Then I’ll link Update Jammer and Transcode into Firewall Dragon, using Update Jammer’s effect to let Firewall Dragon attack twice. Then…Battle Phase, Firewall direct attack twice for game?”
[Bohman: 0, Playmaker 4000]
“Shit.”
“Invoke deez nuts now give me my friends back bastard”