"Speaking"

*Noises*

"Thoughts or monsters speaking"

The Standard Dimension...

As Yuya snapped out of his trance, he blinked a few times out of confusion, trying to figure out why the audience had suddenly gone very quiet. The boy of 16 years then started to look around to see what had cause this to happen, and found the answer lying on the floor of the now deactivated Action Field, it was the champion of Action Duels, Strong Ishijima.

Now even more confused, Yuya started to rub the back of his head with his left hand and started to think about what was going on "What happened? The last thing I remember was drawing my card, my pendant starting to glow, then everything was just a blur after that." he then started to looked around again to try and come up with an idea of what happened.

He closed his eyes and began to think in his mind "Seeing that the Action Field is now deactivated, that could only mean that the Duel is over. But the question is who won? I mean I couldn't have won because I only had monster cards in my hand, two of them were Stargazer and Timegazer Magician, two Performapal monsters and Odd-Eyes Dragon, while Strong had Battleguard King on his field who had 5000 ATK and one face down, but then why is he on the floor while I'm still standing?" he thought.

Yuya was brought out of this thoughts when heard someone saying, "Yuya you defeated Strong Ishijima, you won!" said someone turned out to be Yuya's mother Yoko Sakaki.

After she said that the audience snapped out of their shock and started to cheer at the top of their lungs, saying things that Yuya could barely just hear, "That was amazing!", "Incredible comeback!" and "I've never seen anything like it!" were just some of the things said.

Yuya to say the least was in shock upon hearing that he had won, but then looked around him and soaked in the cheers of the crowd and did a small bow before getting straight back up and started waving to the crowd.

He then heard some grunting coming from his right, so he turned to face that direction and saw Strong getting back up, he seemed fine so Yuya being a good sport that he was, whether or not he won or not went over to him wanting to thank him for getting the crowd all riled up and that it was a fun duel. Only he didn't even move one step before being spun around now facing the direction of Strong's manager Nico smiley with his face all up in Yuya faces.

Nico took a moment before saying, "That was spectacular Yuya! Not only did you win the duel but you also pulled off a brand new Summoning Method!" he said to Yuya who was now getting why the crowd had gone quiet a few minutes ago. "A new summoning method, what are you..." Yuya asked, but he never got to finish his sentence as the next thing that happened was dozens of reporters crowding around him asking him a dozens of questions like; "How do you feel now that you won?", "What do you plan to do next?" were some of the things asked. but one question really got his attention which was "Could you tell us about the Pendulum Summon?".

Yuya then got an idea of how he won the duel, as Nico had talked about a new summoning method before they got her, "Pendulum summon, so that what I did to win, but I still don't know what this Pendulum summon does." he thought in frustration, but he just kept quiet as much as he could until he could get out of here and back to his friends and family.

Speaking of his friends they were standing next to his mother the first one was called Yuzu Hiragi, a girl who had dark pink hair pulled into two pigtails and she's Yuya's childhood friend and she is also 16 years old, while the other one was a boy who could be mistaken for a man due to his enormous size was called Noboru Gongenzaka or Gong as his friends call him and he is Yuya's best friend and they were current talking about Yuya's victory.

"Gong can't believe that Yuya not only won the Duel, but also discovered a new Summoning Method, Gong's really proud of that boy... no of that man! What do you think of all this Yuzu?" he finished speaking in third person to look back at her, only to discover that she wasn' really focused on their conversation, "Err Yuzu? Are you there?" he asked her.

She suddenly stop her thinking after he said that, "Huh? Oh yeah it was impressive, wasn't it?" she quickly said to him, however Gongenzaka was about to ask what's wrong. "Hey look! Yuya's about to walk off the stage." she said pointing at the stage, which caused Gongenzaka to look at the stage to discover what she said was true and that Yuya was indeed walking off the stage, while Strong walked off the other side, both going into their respective corridors. "We should go congratulate him." she added.

He agreed with her and started to walk off with Yoko and two other kids while Yuzu sighed in relief that the attention is gone, now that they were gone she glanced down at her wrist, or more importantly what she's wearing on it, it was a double-banded bracelet with two pink gemstones directly opposite one another where the bands intersect, these stones were framed in a simple rose design. It was an interesting bracelet design, but the interesting thing about it was that the two small stones were blinking and making a small chiming noise.

A different location...

At the same time after Yuya's Duel, in a room located somewhere sits a girl of 16 who looks exactly like Yuzu, but the only difference is that while Yuzu's hair is dark pink, this girls hairs was indigo in colour while put into a ponytail with a large yellow ribbon keeping it in place. She also has a bracelet, but this one consisted of two metallic rings, one smaller than the other with the smaller one locked into place by the larger one by two metal loops, the smaller rings housed a metallic platform that could rotate back and forth and on this small platform was a single purple gem that like Yuzu's was blinking.

"Why the hell are you blinking for? I've had you for 16 years and you've never once done anything like this before, so why now?" she asked herself. The girl trying to have a conversation with her bracelet was Serena Tsuki... And she was clearly pissed off at what happened earlier this morning with the professor, once again being denied permission to go to the Xyz Dimension to help out with her fellow students in the war effort to create the 'perfect utopia' that the professor always talked about, and yet she's being confined to do nothing but roam the school grounds and train some more.

"I mean what's the bloody point of me being here then? The Professor refuses to allow me to go to Xyz and I can't go home to the main lands because he refuses that as well..." She then thought about the last thing she said, "I mean it's not like that I really want to go home to the orphanage, but I would still like the option of going to the main lands like everybody else." she finished

After she had ranted that to herself, she decided to take a quick nap before the next lesson started... Well she tried to but she really couldn't as her bracelet kept making that (to her now annoying pinging), "WOULD YOU F***ING STOP MAKING THAT NOISE!" she yelled out at her Bracelet.

In another location, (same time)

Once again in another room and by looking out the window, one could tell that the room was very, very, very high up. But that's not important for now, what is important is what's inside the room, or who is inside, this person happens to be another girl of 16, and once again she looks exactly like Yuzu and Serena, but this time her hair is very long hair, that goes past her lower back, and if she didn't have a loose bun with a barette shaped liked a wing keeping the bun in place, it would be longer, the colour of said hair was a dark purple with thin lilac side tails on each side of her face.

Her name is Ruri Kurosaki and if you look at her facial expression, you can tell that she is clearly depressed over something with a tint of confusion in her eyes.

"*sniff* Why are you blinking for? And why now?" she said trying to calm herself down and looked at her bracelet, which compared to the other two look-alikes that she has no idea who existed, looks fairly simple, it's a single metallic band, with a feather shape design framing a topaz, diamond-shaped jewel, it was currently blinking.

"Your not the reason for me being captured are you?" she said trying to get an answer from her prized possession, not really wanting it to be then reason for her capture and causing her depression. Suddenly she felt very tired for some reason, so she lied down on her bed in her room, and tried to get some rest to once again try and escape from the hell hole that was her enemy's base.

Once again, another location, (same time)

Once again we find ourselves in another room and once again there is another 16 year old girl that looks like the other three girls, this girl was called Rin... she doesn't have a last name, well not one that she can remember anyway, and like the other three girls she has a different hair style and colour, with it being shoulder length and aqua-green with two light green side tails. Her outfit could be summed up in one word, which would be 'motorcycles'.

Rin had clearly experienced something that must have been traumatic for her and is now trying to lighten the mood with a joke, related to what has gotten her attention, which would be 'her' bracelet which was very thick in a spiral design with a small green gem on it, and also glowing for some reason.

"I didn't know you could do this? maybe I should sell you and get a good price for you." she joked of course as she wouldn't do such a thing like that, as it was very important to her but she can't remember, but it could've belonged to her mother who passed it onto her before passing away.

"I wonder when Yugo will be back with some food? I mean I would do it myself but judging on what happened last night with his look-alike trying to kidnap me, I don't that's a good idea at the moment." she said then continued "But knowing Yugo, he'll probably get distracted with something and lose focus." she finished while remembering every time he got distracted and she always ends up clobbering him on the head for it.

She waited for another 10 minutes before, "THAT'S IT! if he isn't back in 5 minutes, then he's so getting hit on the head again! and he better have a good excuse for it" she finished, and then tried to get a little sleep, she wouldn't completely go to sleep as Yugo's look-alike creep may comeback and try again to catch her again.

The Standard Dimension, LDS Building (After the Duel)

People crowded in a very large room, were very busy typing information into the state of the art equipment that was used to keep track of Summoning Method Energies throughout Miami City, usually the equipment mostly records the Summoning Energy of three powerful Summoning Methods from the Extra Deck which were called Fusion, Synchro and Xyz.

Each Method had their own way of being Summoned to the Field. But currently the equipment wasn't being used for that at the moment, instead all the equipment was being used to collect what little data they could on anew Summoning Method that was just as powerful as the other three called 'Pendulum'.

Currently on a big screen at the front of room was showing some footage of the Duel that happened between Strong Ishijima and the Duellist called Yuya Sakaki and currently the footage was of the last turn of the Duel, which happened to be Yuya's turn and the turn he performed the Pendulum summon.

The recorded version of Yuya's face held one of confidence and started to say "I'll use the scale 1 Stargazer Magician and the scale 8 Timegazer Magician to set the Pendulum Scale, I'm taking control of this duel, starting now!" The recording of Yuya then placed Stargazer Magician on the far right side of the his Duel Disk's energy blade, then placed Timegazer Magician in the far left side of it, the Duel Disk then then started to spell out, P-E-N-D-U-L-U-M, between the two magicians.

Then on the actual field, two pillars of pale blue light appeared, one on either side of Yuya, the one on Yuya's right then starting to show a magician dressed in white, with a white masked that covered his lower face he had long pale blonde hair and had a white wizards hat and a purple cape and unique looking staff, this was Stargazer Magician.

When he reached a certain height he stopped and a number appeared which was the number 1 underneath the magician, then on Yuya's left in the other pillar of light, another magician appeared. This one was dressed in black with a golden metal band around his waist, two around his forearms, he had one on his black wizard's hat which covered his spiky brownish hair and had a red scarf like mask covering his lower face, on his right arm he had a gauntlet which was silver in colour and had a yellow orb on it.

This was Timegazer Magician and once he reached the same same height as Stargazer Magician, he stopped and then the number 8 appeared underneath him.

With the 'pendulum scale' as Yuya had dubbed it now complete, he then continued, "I can now summon monsters between levels 2 and 7 simultaneously!" upon hearing this Strong shouted, "WHAT!" clearly in shock at what was happening before him.

Yuya continued as though he had never been interrupted, "Swing pendulum of the soul, draw an arc of light across the ether! I Pendulum Summon! now come forth, my monsters!" As he said this, a large version of Yuya's pendant formed between the two pillars and started to swing back and forth then started to sway side to side until a pattern started to form, and then out of nowhere at the centre of the pattern, a rift started to open and once it was big enough, three beams of light appeared from the rift.

"First is the Level 2 Sword Thrower Magician." A small male magician appeared wearing a pale blue, trench coat, with the collar, being big enough to cover the males lower face, reaching his nose, and he was wearing orange gloves and had safety goggle, and the reason for the goggles was that he was wielding 3 small sword like daggers in each hand with the intent on juggling them. ATK: 600

"Next is the Level 4 Whiplash Magician." A tall male magician wearing a purple trench coat, with dark purple patches on different parts on it, his hair was short and greyish silver in colour and had yellow eyes, in each hand was a black handle of a chain like whips, on his right arm, the chain was wrapped around his wrist area and up to the elbow, while the other whip was on the floor, the chain was moving about, as if it were alive. ATK: 1700.

"And finally the main star of this show, appear and show us your heroic, beautiful and dichromatic eyes! Level 7! Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" a dragon that used to be Odd-Eyes Dragon had now transformed, before it had on its back, pale white spikes that went straight out, they now curved inwards and were still symmetrical and that they almost linked up to make a circle, with them each having three orbs on them, the right one had 3 green orbs with the middle one being slightly bigger, while the left one had 3 red orbs, like with the green set, the middle was slightly bigger.

It had red scales covering most of it body, with its long neck and tail, now being armoured, its torsos had also changed and had become separated from the hip area with this part being bulkier and now housing only 1 giant blue orb that was kept in place with a pale white upwards cross covering it and connected to the rest of the pale white torso area.

While the hip area it was covered by red plating scales, that were attached to the thigh of the dragons hind legs, the feet were bulky and covered in red armour. His arms were slightly longer than before, on each hand claw, there were two pale white fingers on each side of it, with the thumb now in between them, located close to the wrist area each finger and thumb had a yellow tip on them.

And finally its head connected to its now covered neck, it held two right angled horns that got thinner at the points, in between these horns at the forehead was a blue orb smaller than the chest one, on the right side of the dragon's face was some yellow plating, and then came the eyes which gave the dragon its name, the right one was red while the left was green. Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon then did a spin to show the audience his new form then gave a ferocious roar, ATK: 2500.

The recording then stopped when all three monsters were summoned, then in three corners of the screen three monster cards appeared on it, these cards were Stargazer and Timegazer Magician and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, but there was something unique about them, while they were from the main deck, the cards weren't only orange now, but the bottom part of the card was now green, similar to that of a spell card. a

Covering part of the monster's picture, was a transparent box there was writing in this box, which was for the pendulum effect of said card, and on either side of this new box were 2 small boxes which only had two things in them, two arrows facing away from each other, the left one was blue and the right one was red, and they both had the same numbers in them, Stargazer's was 1, Timegazer's was 8 and Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon was 4. These new cards were dubbed 'pendulum cards' by Yuya.

In the middle of the room in a chair was the CEO of LDS was the chairman named Reiji Akaba, who despite being 17 years old was running the company, and standing next to him was his right hand man called Nakajima.

"Its interesting isn't it sir? a new Summoning Method that allows for multiple Summoning monsters at the same time! we need to get are hands on them right away, what do you think sir?" Nakajima said this with a small smile on his face, and asking his boss what they should do to get them.

However Reiji took a few moments to think off what I needed to say, "No not yet, we need to collect more data on this 'Pendulum Summoning' before we take action, so I need sometime to think of plan to retrieve them." he said as he got up from his chair and started to make his way out of the room. "Make sure that they collect enough data for now." he said "yes sir" Nakajima replied before telling the workers to double their efforts, while Reiji lefted the room completely.

However unknown to anyone who was in the room, one of the computers had a programme that was copying the data and sending it to an unknown location.

The unknown location

Said unknown location happened to be an island in the middle of nowhere... In another Dimension, on this island was a castle this island was actually a school called Duel Academy that taught young duelist how to become Pro Duellist... that was until a certain Professor some how took over the school, and turned the students into an army for his plans.

Inside the throne room of the castle on the throne sat a middle-aged man, who had a tan-skinned complexion, was bald and had a metal plate on the side of his head, wearing a purple coloured militaristic uniform. His name was Leo Akaba and he's the Professor, the leader of the Academy in the Fusion Dimension. Anyway he was currently going through some documents of his, which were displayed on hard-light touch screen projections. When all of a sudden, "Professor! we've got incoming data from the programme that you left behind at your company in Standard!"one of his employees maintaining the giant machine behind him said, this had gained Leo's attention.

"Very well then, bring up the data from the programme, so that I can see what's going on in my old home." Leo demanded, the employee then started the process of relaying the information, while he was doing that, Leo began to ponder on what was happening at his old company and how it was coping without him, this also made think of his wife and son, having not seen his son in three years since he somehow made it to the Fusion dimension and nearly allowed Serena to escape.

And while he kept an stoic expression on his face, his only son kept trying to ask him what he was doing, before being transported back to Standard, inside he was very upset knowing that he has somehow hurt his son by lying to him about his apparent 'death'. He was then brought out of his thoughts by the employee, "Here you go sir!".

The data then show up in front of him, which was on Pendulum cards, to Leo the two magicians looked somewhat familiar to him, but the middle one in between the them was what shocked him the most, Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon. Upon looking into the dragons eyes, a memory started to flash in front of his vision, one that he didn't want to experience ever again.

Good thing the employee interrupted his flashback "Err sir, are you okay?" they said, and that brought Leo back to reality, "Oh yes! I'm fine thanks for asking, any way, what am I looking at?" he asked looking at the cards on the screen, but glaring at the picture of Odd-Eyes in the middle, trying to maintain his rage for it.

The employee then started to talk, "Well sir, it appears to be a new type of card that exist in the main deck and..." he then looked at his screen for more information from the data and continued "Apparently by having just two of these cards, one can perform a 'Pendulum Summon' which is the summoning of multiple monsters at the same time, even high-level ones such as that Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon..." he finished his speech, feeling happy that he had somehow helped the Professor understand the new method to some degree... that was until this happened.

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT DISGUSTING DRAGON'S NAME, YOU HEAR ME!" Leo shouted, scaring the employee, then everything and everyone in the room went quiet as they looked at him, a bit scared and also confused on why that dragon's name caused so much aggression in him. He then calmed down before "Sorry about that... anything else to report?" he said trying to change to subject.

Then one of his other employees having recovered from his outburst then, "Well sir apparently the cameras in the subjects room caught some thing." he then began typing, after a few seconds, two separate videos images appeared in front of Leo, blocking his view of Odd-Eyes, which he was relieved for, showing him the identical girls, Serena Tsuki and Ruri Kurosaki sitting on their beds looking at there bracelets, "For some reason their bracelets are blinking and resonating with each other."

Then another employee continued on, "And we also picked up two burst of energy, one in the Standard Dimension and the other in the Synchro Dimension and both were resonating with these two." he then pressed a button and 4 hard-light images appeared in front of them, the images were that of worlds, each labelled Standard, Fusion, Synchro and Xyz, and the Standard and Synchro were giving off a small dots on them, pink for Standard and green for Synchro.

This seemed to cheer Leo up, which made the employees sigh in relief, "I can't believe it, they're calling out to each other, that means she's trying to comeback by herself." Leo thought with happiness.

Then the employee that Leo had shouted out then said, clearly having no idea who he was talking about then said, Sir? What are we going to do about the new Summoning Method?" an employee asked concern, as it could effect the Professor's plans.

That brought Leo out of his thoughts once again, he then took a moment to think about what to say, "Hmm, we need to send some students to Standard to uncover more information about this and scout the area for potential problems, create a sign up sheet for the students of Obelisk status and I will pick out who are the mosted qualified for the mission." he finished and got a "Right away sir!" as a reply, as the employee got to working on the sign up poster, causing the others to go back to their work.

This then left Leo alone with his thoughts, as he then brought up the file on the Pendulum Cards, then just glared at the now Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, "Demonic dragon of that accursed Duellist, I swear that I will see you burn in hell along with your brothers!" he thought in his head with anger now, while the vein in his head swelled.

End of chapter 1