[Story & Private to Yuya]

[ruleroftheend]

Akaba Reiji looked up to his computer's mainframe, the giant luminous flowing orb of steel and circuitry, his hands running over the guard rails anxiously. The anxiety and the disgust were both eating at him.

It had started simple enough. He and Serena had noticed Reira had been growingly off. Could of been some trigger or event setting them back emotionally, but that could be worked over, especially with Serena. Reiji loved his younger sibling, but years of both of their parents and their business had kept him, well. Rigid. Stiff. Cold. Serena had said it gave him the demeanor of a mobster. Which he never quite got how. But she did insist he did sometimes word things in a way that gave people the impression they'd be having a trip at sea with concrete shoes.

But, Reira's behavior was the start of it. Then the mentions of people remembering things that couldn't of happened, or feelings of memories missing. That had led him into looking at the computer mainframe of Leo Corp's Head Quarters. What had shocked him is that quite a bit of information, beyond surface level things, was just gone. Where money had gone. Empty project and file reports.

From there, he remembered his father had developed technology. Technology to dig up suppressed memories, or as his father claimed absurdly, 'past lives'. He had his staff pull it out, dust it off, turn it back on... And test it on himself.

What scraps he saw alarmed him. A war. A war started by his father. Giant robots that leveled cities. Airships that crossed worlds. Other worlds. The fact he had a satellite in orbit. And the worst: Certain feelings for the girl who was now his sister. Feelings that made him queasy...

'Enough of that trail of thought...' He thought to himself gripping the railing.

He quickly had that satellite accessed. Apparently for whatever reason, this satellite carried information of another world. Did he do it? Had the world been changed but whoever had done so just simply ignored it? Were they incompetent? Lazy?

He had lead the Lancers into other worlds. Through Synchro. And split up to Xyz and Fusion, and ultimately, they had faced down two forces that Leo Akaba, his father was ultimately responsible. A ghostly goddess emulating his half sister, Ray, the basis of his his sister, Serena. And a demon dragon, called Z-ARC, a monster born of Yuya and his counterparts, or rather now, his brothers. It had been stopped, through a huge massive effort, but only barely. And at quite a bit of cost.

Those ghosts. Those echoes of another world. What Leo had speculated was once an original Dimension, but others believed with a parallel world, or even the 13th Dimension of the Branes that created this world and the Duel Monster Worlds. ... And what was worse, he realized, the Ghost of Z-ARC had fled. Fled into Reira. And he sincerely doubt he or Serena could do anything about it. Likely, the only ones that could do anything about it...

Were the shards of Z-ARC themselves.

He'd have to ask Sakaki Yuya and his doubles, no. His brothers. For help...

Akaba Reiji took a deep breath before pulling out his smartphone.


[Private to the Sakaki Brothers]

I'd like to talk to you four about something. Please hear me out.

Comments

[pendulum_soul]

You want to talk all of us?
Do you want to speak here, or in person?

[ruleroftheend]

It an be either.

But if it's in person, bring at least Hiiragi Yuzu as well.

This concerns her to a degree as well. And she has the right to know if its been spoken person to person.

[pendulum_soul]

Alright. It sounds kinda important, so it might be best in person.
I'll rally up my brothers and Yuzu and we'll head over to meet you.

[ruleroftheend]

I'll be sure to make sure my schedule is open for you.

Event

[pendulum_soul]

*A little later on, Yuya is walking down the hallways of Leo Corp, leading a small group consisting of his three brothers and Yuzu.

None of them had any idea on why Reiji wanted to speak to all of them so suddenly and with such urgency.

Walking up to Reiji's office, Yuya glances around at Yuzu and his brothers, before knocking on the door.*

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[rideon_clearwings]

*Yugo has been wondering-- out loud, repeatedly-- why in the world they're going to see Akaba. It's really suspicious, honestly, and he doesn't like this feeling...*

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[melodiousmaestra]

*Yuzu... took a bit of convincing to even come to Leo Corp to see Reiji. She makes it no secret that she isn't super fond of the guy, even if her best friend is his sister-- but if it was something to do with Serena, he wouldn't be asking for Yuya and his brothers along with her, right?*

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[dark_rebellion]

*Yuto was just as equally as surprised about them going to see Reiji Akaba, but had mostly kept his questions and concerns to himself, unlike Yugo.

Standing cross-armed beside his brothers, Yuto figured the best thing to do was to wait and have Reiji explain what was going on.
If they didn't like whatever he'd called them for, they could just leave.*

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[predaprince]

Yuri's here. It also took some convincing, since he's very sure Reiji doesn't approve of Yuri's (failing miserably) attempts to court his sister. He's taken Yugo's approach, except you can practically feel the mistrust and distaste radiating off of him.

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[lunalightlady]

::Well, you guys knock, the door opens, and you find Reiji trying to escape a headlock from his much more muscular younger sister, who looks entirely peeved.::

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[pendulum_soul]

*Blink.*

Er.

Are we interrupting something?

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[lunalightlady]

::Lets go.::

Only my deadbeat brother not letting me know what's going on.

::Gives Reiji a light punch on the back of the noggin.::

Jerk!

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[ruleroftheend]

::Rubbing the back of his head.::

I thought it would be in bad taste for me to let you know.

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[lunalightlady]

Yes, that Yuzu and me apparently combined into a giant goddess. Mecha. Thing.

And that you're a doofus.

I swear to god, Reiji...

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[melodiousmaestra]

Um, wait, back up a little bit. What's this about mecha goddesses? *this is absolutely not what she expected coming into here*

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[rideon_clearwings]

Sounds more like he's gotten punched in the head a few too many times, to me.

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[pendulum_soul]

I have absolutely no idea what's going on.

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[predaprince]

Yuri's surprised to see Serena here. Not surprised she's spouting nonsense.

"... what's even going on here?"

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[dark_rebellion]

Yes. I'd like to know exactly why we were called here so suddenly.

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[lunalightlady]

You can either have my version of explanations.

Or you can have my brother's. Mine will naturally be more interesting.

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[ruleroftheend]

Your explanation will confuse details and involve needless hyperbole.

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[lunalightlady]

And your version will make it sound like you're trying to squeeze high interest loan repayments out of them!

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[melodiousmaestra]

Why don't you... try to explain together...?

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[ruleroftheend]

Your memories have been altered and reality has been as well because Serena and I's father, Akaba Leo, nearly destroyed all existence in at least our local series of realities, to follow a delusional dream.

And someone is suffering because of it.

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[lunalightlady]

Also, we were all apparently superheroes for a few weeks to months fighting Card Game Fascism.

The worst part about this is Yuzu didn't like me in this other world. And Yuri over there was a creep.

::Points over to you, Yuri. Yes. You.::