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Dark Signs IV

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Episode Aired: July 11, 2009

(Previously <1:10>)

(Opening)

ACT 1 <2:10>

(Late night in a foggy corner of the Satellite, a gigantic fiery design burns upon the earth; the lone helicopter soars above it. Inside, Mina and Carly are watching opposite sides of the holographic screen in the air, showing the two runners, while Jack looks out the side door, no longer even noticing the wing mark burning brightly on his arm.)

(Crow is watching from the top of a cliff, either natural or made of trash, when he hears--)
Rally: Crow!
(He turns; Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin are running toward him up the incline.)
Rally: Hey!
(They join Crow near the edge of the cliff.)
Rally: What's goin' on? Where's Yusei?
(Crow points toward the purple fire.)
Crow: There.

(Cut abruptly to the duel; Kalin races by in a blur, followed by Hundred-Eyes Dragon above and Yusei a short distance behind. Yusei presses a few buttons on his right-hand control and taps the left-side pedal with his foot. They race onward.)

(Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin crowd around Crow's runner screen.)
Rally, Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Whoa, he's dueling?
Nervin: He's not just *dueling*, you guys, he's *turbo*-dueling!
Tank: So who's the other guy?
Crow: It's Kalin.
Tank: As in 'let's take over Satellite' Kalin?
Nervin: I thought they locked *him* up and threw away the key.
Blitz: Looks like they didn't throw it far *enough.*
Rally: Is he the one behind the big glowing thing in the sky?
Crow: Yup. Remember those Dark Signers Yusei was talkin' about? Apparently Kalin is one of 'em. <3:00> And he used some sort of dark mojo to trap Yusei in this seal, and force 'im to duel. Only this isn't like other duels-- the damage in this duel is *real*.
All: Huh?!

(Kalin's lifepoints stand at 4000, Yusei's at 1800.)
Kalin: It looks like your precious duel runner is about to give up on you, Yusei!
(Yusei's runner is starting to shake, and a small bump in its path throws it off-balance. Yusei fights to keep control, getting it back on the ground and steering sharply away from the wall. It seems to be going slower, because the rate at which the wheels are turning can't keep up with the momentum Yusei already had, skidding against the ground and kicking up lots of dust, right in Yusei's face. Still, he's not about to let it show.)
Yusei: It's *fine*, Kalin. It's just a little wobbly, is all.
(Yusei's front wheel *is* wobbling, shooting up little sparks as metal grates against itself where it isn't supposed to.)
Kalin: Then I guess it's a perfect fit for your game!
(They race past Crow and the gang, who call out to Yusei.)
Crow, Rally, Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Yusei!
Kalin: Did you hear that? It sounds to me like you have a couple of loyal friends out there watching the duel. I just hope for *your* sake that you never have to feel the stinging pain of their betrayal!

Jack: Kalin can run the table with this combo of his.
(Jack looks inside the helicopter toward the holographic screen, which has just split to display two different video feeds.)
Jack: He made it so that as long as he has no cards in his hand, he can pretty much use any monster in his graveyard and activate their special ability. Yusei needs to do somethin' about that or he's finished!

Yusei: It's my turn!
(He drew Level Warrior; Scoreboard. Kalin, 4000, 7; Yusei, 1800, 7.)
Yusei (think): I've only got *one way* to throw 'im off his strategy. <4:00> It's a longshot, but I gotta try *something*!
Yusei: Alright, Kalin-- since you've got monsters on your field and my field is empty, I'm able to special-summon this next card as a level-four monster! I summon Level Warrior!
[Level Warrior 300///]
Yusei: Next I'll bring out Hyper Synchron to the field in attack mode!
[Hyper Synchron 1600/800/L4/light]
Computer: When Hyper Synchron is used to summon a synchro monster, that monster gains eight hundred attack points and cannot be destroyed in battle.
Kalin (sarcastic): I'm shaking.
Yusei: And now I'll use the power of my Hyper Synchron to tune my Level Warrior so I can summon out your destruction!
(Hyper Synchron unleashes four stars from its chestplate, which form green rings through which Level Warrior soars, transforming into golden outlines. In a flash of green light--)
Yusei: Stardust Dragon, let's rev it up!
[Stardust Dragon 2500///]
Kalin: Busting out your deck's top performer! I was worried you weren't taking me seriously. I guess in a way I should be flattered! <5:00>
Yusei: Well this next move'll *really* make ya feel special! See, when Hyper Synchron is used to summon a synchro monster, the summoned monster then gets a power boost!

Nervin: Thatta boy. I bet even with One Hundred Eye Dragon on the field, Kalin never saw *that* coming.
Rally: Go get 'em, Yusei!
Crow: But Kalin can still activate lots of abilities...

Yusei: Stardust Dragon, attack with Cosmic Flare!
Kalin: Attack all you want, because now my One Hundred Eye Dragon gains the special ability of Infernalty Guardian! (sic) And thanks to this power, it can't be destroyed in battle!
Yusei: That may be, but your lifepoints're still gonna take some damage!
(Kalin's lifepoints decrease to 3700.)
(Kalin groans a bit when it hits, then is laughing again by the time it clears.)
Kalin: Heheheheh. It's good to see you *finally* hitting back. I *know* that's *not* all you've got, Yusei, what's next, huh?!
Yusei: Since Stardust Dragon managed to successfully deal battle damage, the "Shard of Hope" trap card automatically activates, <6:00> which means I can now draw one card from my deck, and if that card is a trap card, then I can activate it by destroying Shard of Hope! (mutters) It all comes down to this...
(Yusei draws; his card seems to form an arc in the air as it travels. He drew Miracle Locus)
Yusei: Nice! Here goes everything!
(Yusei's strategy clicks together in a shining pathway: Shard of Hope, Miracle Locus, a facedown, Stardust Dragon, Hundred Eye Dragon, and finally Synchro Destructor.)
Yusei: I'm destroying the card "Shard of Hope", so that I can activate-- the power of my Miracle Locus trap! This trap forces *you* to draw one card, and gives Stardust Dragon a thousand more attack points, *and* the ability to attack for a second time this turn. So add a card to your hand, Kalin!
Kalin: Hmph. With pleasure!
(As he draws, Stardust's attack points rise to 4300.)
Crow: Alright, there we go!! Now that Kalin's got a card in his hand, that combo he built is useless!
Rally: And so are the abilities of the monsters in his graveyard!
Yusei: Stardust Dragon, <7:00> time to inflict another dose of damage! Attack!
(Hundred-Eyes Dragon explodes in midair, showering Kalin with smoke and debris. His lifepoints fall to 2400 and he drops a speed counter, leaving him with 6.)
Kalin: Uuaaghhh!

Rally: All right!
Crow: And the One Hundred Eye Dragon goes *down*! And that means Kalin's gonna have to figure out a new game plan!

Kalin: Thanks for the help Yusei, because now that your monster destroyed my mighty beast, I can select one card in my deck, and then add it to my hand!
(A symbol in glowing blue pulses in the gloom; there's something powerful about the card Kalin just put in his hand.)
Yusei: It won't matter, 'cause *now*, I activate my trap-- "Synchro Destructor"! Now when my dragon destroys your monster in battle, you take damage equal to half that monster's attack points! And then, if the monster I destroyed was a synchro monster, you get hit *again* for the same amount of damage.

Crow: So Kalin's basically getting served his own dragon's attack points! So that's what, like, three thousand? If this move is successful--
Tank: Yusei wins this thing!
Nervin: I've never seen a combo so perfectly executed!
Rally: He's the best! <8:00> Nothing can stop him now!

Kalin: Gah! This can't be, I'm done-for!!! (grins) But seriously, folks-- I activate the "Damage Translation" trap! This card halves the harm I take from a card effect.
(Kalin takes the first blast and it hurts; he's down to 1650. Then the second one, which also hurts. 900 lifepoints left. He slumps over, apparently exhausted, then comes back laughing.)
Kalin: Heheheheh... Impressive string of attacks, Yusei. But look who's still standing!

Tank: Y'know, I never liked him...
Blitz: He may've managed to survive that attack, but he's *finished.* He's got no monsters on his field and Yusei's got Stardust Dragon!
Nervin: And I'd bet a salami sandwich that facedown card of Yusei's is "Scrap-Iron Scarecrow". So if Kalin summons a new monster, Yusei can negate the attack!

Jack: Yusei's biggest mistake would be thinkin' he's got this one wrapped up.
Carly: Huh?
Jack: That card Kalin added to his hand earlier... it's gotta be something powerful.

ACT 2 <9:00>

(The menacing, fiery Sign still burns on the earth of the Satellite.)

Yusei (think): If I can hold Kalin off 'til next turn, my speed counter will be eight, and I can activate the Final Attack speed spell, which'll double Stardust Dragon's attack points. Then I'll finish 'im off! (aloud) I end my tu--
Kalin: Slow down, I'm not done! See my Damage Translation's other effect activates during the end phase, and since I take (sic) damage from card effects twice, I can summon two ghost tokens to my field!
Yusei: *This* can't be good...
(Two semi-opaque ghosts swirl like streamers above Kalin, moaning ethereally.)
Kalin: Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Yusei: What's so funny?!
Kalin: The irony is delicious! You did all that work to force me to add a card to my hand; did you ever stop to think that the card I might end up adding to my hand would be my most powerful?
Yusei: What is it?
Kalin: Time for the big finale! Come on out, everybody!
(Beyond the haze of the fiery edges of the arena, dozens of figures in drone robes begin to appear around them, waiting silently.)
Yusei: What *is* this?! Huh? <10:00> Kalin, who are they?!

Rally: Ya see that? It- it looks like there's people in the purple mist!
Tank: Where'd *they* come from?
Nervin: Your guess is as good as mine, Tank.
Crow: Maybe they're the same people who were taken in by that weird group and went underground.
Other four: Huh?

Yusei: I had a feeling it was you Dark Signers who'd been taking people! What're you gonna do to 'em?!
Kalin: It's *my* turn now. But because of "Power Baton", I can't draw another card.
(Scoreboard: Kalin 900, 7; Yusei 1800, 8.)
((Yusei's drawing even with Kalin, and is starting to panic.)
Yusei: Answer me, Kalin! What're you doing with these people!
Kalin: Huhuheheheheheh! What do you *think*, Yusei? I am going to channel their spirits to this card!
Yusei: You're... you're gonna do *what*?!
Kalin: Their combined energy is going to give this card unbelievable power! By releasing the two ghost tokens from my field, I banish the taken to the netherworld as an offering to the Earthbound Immortal, Ccapac Apu!
(Pronounced KO-kuh-pak-uh-PU. In the sky, the two ghosts twine around each other and vanish, replaced by a large object, stone-looking, apparently coiled up on itself, more or less the shape of a land snail shell, with large black veins. On top of that is what looks like a couple of apparatuses like square metal pipes, stacked on top like a hook that hangs the shell in the sky. The figures in robes begin to scream as one by one they glow purple and turn into streams of energy, these all shoot up toward the thing in the sky, creating quite a light show; reverse fireworks.)
Yusei: What's happening?!
Jack: Where did all these flashes come from?
Kalin: Their energy has been assimilated. And now Ccapac Apu will descend upon this world!
[Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu 3000///dark]
(Kalin raises the card; as the streams of light shoot into the thing in the sky, the black veins begin to pulse with shadowy purple light. Then the whole thing explodes, creating a column of purple fire from ground to heavens, with dark mist swirling around and ripples spreading rapidly across the dark clouds above. The whole scene begins to shake violently. 3D shot. A massive hand bursts from the ground, and the Earthbound Immortal rises. Glowing blue stripes form inlaid designs on its black stone exterior, and the whole thing glows with blue-white light.)

(Still in 3D, it raises a hand that the helicopter just barely manages to dodge. Jack is hanging onto the edges of the doorway, eyes wild; Carly is in the background, tears of terror exploding from behind the lenses of her glasses)
Jack: *Incredible!!*
Carly: Aaaaa-aaa-aaaaih!
(The massive golem towers over the field.)

Crow: *That* is *really big*.

(The circle in the center of the giant's face glows, and it stands to its full height; lightning crackles in the sky above it, and it has 3000 attack points.)

Kalin: Hahahahahahahahahah!
Yusei: Okay, how come Goodwin didn't warn me about *this* guy?
Kalin: Hahahahahahaha! Get ready to join the rest of the taken in the shadows of the netherworld! Ha! Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu, pound this pathetic Signer into the darkness!!
Yusei: Ogh!
(The giant is reaching one huge knobbly black hand toward him; his runner is rocking back and forth by now. Yusei defiantly gives a battle cry and fights back.)
Yusei: Stardust Dragon, attack!
(Stardust flies at the hand descending on Yusei and passes right through it.)
Yusei: Oh, it didn't do anything! Well at least I got "Scrap-Iron Scarecrow"!
Kalin: Come on, Yusei-- d'you seriously think a little trap like that can stand up against the power of an Immortal?
(Scrap-Iron Scarecrow activates, and is immediately pulled back into its card; it's useless.)
Yusei (think): There's nothing I can do! *I can't stop this attack!*
(Kalin races onward as the ground around Yusei explodes and the hand looms closer, casting a shadow over Yusei.)

Jack: Yusei!

Crow, Rally, Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Watch out!

(Yusei is heading into a dead end, teeth clenched, braced for impact.)

ACT 3 <12:36>

(A lone helicopter hovers above a fiery sign in the Satellite. Yusei is riding toward a massive black hand that blocks out the sky.)

Jack: Don't give up, pal!

Crow, Rally, Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Yusei!!

Kalin: Hahahahahaha! It's lights-out!
(Yusei closes his eyes, bracing himself for the end; just then, the engine on his runner explodes. <13:00> He skids backward, out of control, and out of reach of the big hand as it descends where he was a moment before.)

Jack, Crow, Rally, Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Hang on, Yusei!

(The giant's hand smashes into the ground, and Yusei comes flying in its wake, thrown free of his runner.)

(Luna's mark fades. She and Leo have been watching it.)
Leo: Why'd it stop glowing, what's that mean? Did something bad just happen to Yusei?
Luna: I'm not sure, but... I think he's been hurt.

(Akiza's mark fades, too. She looks down at it, then out at the City.)
Akiza: Yusei's in danger.

(Goodwin is watching footage of the Earthbound Immortal on the TV in his office, resting his chin on laced fingers. He looks grumpy.)
Goodwin: Looks as though the Dark Signers are stronger than I thought.

(Yusei and his runner hit the ground separately, and both bounce and roll several times each. Kalin rides up to where Yusei lies on the ground wincing in pain.)
Kalin: In the moment all hope is lost, Yusei's crummy duel runner breaks! Officially ending the duel before the duel can officially end *him*!
(Yusei can only answer with pained moans. Kalin laughs.)
Kalin: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Just look at you-- you're so pathetic! You may have managed to survive this little encounter, but I'm afraid you can't fight your fate! You can't stop the Satellite from being obliterated! And you can't save *yourself*. <14:00> (He raises the card) Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu, come back to me now!
(The Earthbound Immortal raises a hand to the sky, and descends into the shadowy flames from whence it came. The fiery border around the dueling field fades.)
Kalin: What was it that tournament emcee started calling you? 'Satellite Shooting Star'? More like 'Satellite's *falling* star'! See ya 'round, Yusei!
(He rides away; Yusei's friends are already running toward him.)
Rally: Yusei!
Blitz: Yusei!
Nervin: You okay?
Blitz: Hey, man, you still with us?
(Blitz carefully turns Yusei over onto his back.)
Yusei: Oh, my gut!
(There's no visible injury, but everyone gasps in shock and horror.)
Rally: Oh, man...
Tank: Is it bad?
Rally: Hey, Yusei, can ya hear me...?
Crow: Don't touch 'im!
(Crow races down the side of the nearest pile of garbage on his runner, and stops on the other side of Yusei.)
Rally: Crow!
Crow: I'll take 'im to Martha's place.
(Blitz and Tank each grab one of Yusei's shoulders and lift him onto the back of Crow's runner.)
Nervin: Good idea.
Blitz: Is she still in the Knotting District?
Crow: Yeah. I'll see you there.
(Crow rides away.)
Rally: I hope he's okay...

(Up in the helicopter, Jack grabs the pilot's shoulder.)
Jack: What're you waiting for?! <15:00> I've gotta catch that creep, put this bird on the ground!!
Mina: No, *don't*, we have to get back to the City right away.
Jack: What're you talking about?! Are you suggesting that we let Kalin just *escape*?!
Mina: I know you're upset, Jack, but right now, without your duel runner with you, there isn't anything that you can do.
(Jack sighs; he's frustrated, but she has a point. The helicopter flies off toward the City...)

(...Leaving Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin alone in the wasteland.)
Tank: We gotta go through Outcast Alley to get to Martha's house, don't we?
Nervin: Then we should move before it gets late and the thugs come out to play.
(Blitz and Tank nod smartly, and the three start to set off.)
Rally: Wait, hang on, you guys!
Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Huh?
Blitz: What is it?
(Rally kneels beside Yusei's smashed, fallen runner.)
Rally: We can't just *leave* this.
Nervin: Get real, Rally; we can't push that thing all the way to Martha's, it'll slow us down! Besides, when we get to Ripper Row, a runner like that is gang bait!
Rally: And you don't think someone'll steal it if we leave it lying out here? We can't just let that happen! There's a piece of every one of us in this duel runner.
Nervin: Mmm.
Tank: Eh, the kid's got a point. <16:00> We all pitched in to help build that thing. Remember?

(Flashback.)
Tank (VO): We spent weeks spreadin' out and gathering parts we thought could be useful, and we brought everything back to Yusei!
(As Tank speaks, flashback to Tank cheerfully sifting through a dump; Rally quietly unscrewing a bolt of some kind that probably actually belongs where he's taking it from; and the four of them running happily through the Satellite, Rally and Tank carrying bars, Nervin rolling a wheel, and Blitz toting a cardboard box on a shoulder.)
Tank (VO): And when Yusei revved that engine for the first time, It was a feeling that I'll never forget! It was like we had really accomplished somethin', together!
(In the flashback, Yusei revs the engine of the red runner; Tank, Rally, Blitz, and Nervin cheer; and the four of them cluster around Yusei and the runner, Rally hugging him and Blitz ruffling his hair. They're standing in the doorway of the subway tunnel hideout. End Flashback.)

Tank: We gotta bring it!
Blitz: He's right, that runner is a testament to the power of our friendship!
Tank: Uh, what he said!
Rally: Come on, help me!
(Tank and Blitz run over and start to lift the runner.)
Nervin: Sheesh! Don't blame *me* if we get jumped!

(Later on, the four are doggedly pushing the runner through deserted, half-wrecked streets, surrounded by buildings much the same. Rally looks up and notices someone watching from a hollowed-out building, and the person walks further inside with a sinister laugh. More quiet, unpleasant laughter surrounds the four; it's like swimming among shark fins.)
Tank: I could really go for a donut right about now.
Blitz: When could you *not* go for a donut, Tank?
Nervin: We've still got a long way to go; don't you start complaining *now*.
- You four lost or something?
(People in raggedy clothes appear out of the buildings on either side, surrounding them. They sport a wide variety of tracking dye; very few are not marked. One of the main ones that speaks is a black guy with no dye; he might be one of their leaders.)
Nervin: Uh-oh! <17:00>
- Need a ride home?
- Nice runner.
- Heheheheh.
- Gonna get you.
Blitz: Any ideas?

ACT 4 <17:10>

- There's a toll for passin' through Outcast Alley, ya know.
- That shiny red bike you're totin' oughta take care of it.
(Blitz grabs a pointy stick off the ground and brandishes it at the nearest thug.)
Blitz: Just back off, buddy! Why don'tcha crawl back into the sewer ya came from!
Nervin: Just so you boys know, he does not speak for all of us.
(The thugs close in.)
Nervin: Told you bringing the duel runner was a bad idea.
Blitz: Okay, look, fellas, calm down, I mean surely we can work somethin' out, we're all gentlemen here.
- Who you callin' a gentleman?
Nervin: This is not going well.
- Look, youse, just fork over the duel runner and we'll le'chyas go.
Tank: You're not gettin' one *bolt* off this thing!
- Okay, well then what about your decks? You guys have *decks*, right?
Tank: Of course we do! But there's no chance you're gettin' em from us!
- You either give us your decks or the duel runner, or we *take both*!
Blitz: So whaddaya think we should do?
Nervin: I think we should listen to *me* next time. <18:00>
Rally: Our cards aren't as important as Yusei's bike. (reaches into his jacket) So d'you guys know how to play fifty-two pickup?
(Nervin, Tank, and Blitz grimly pull out their decks; and the four toss all of their cards up into the air. Speed Spell - Final Attack, Shard of Hope, Junk Synchron, Infernity Beast, Sand Gambler, Gamble, Guard Dog, Turbo Booster, T5D035_id1, and T5D035_id2 can be seen among the cards. The thugs descend on the fallen cards.)
- It's a free-for-all!
- This one's mine!
- Outta my way!
(Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin flee the scene.)
Rally, Blitz, Tank, Nervin: Run! Run! Run! Run!! Run!!!

(Some distance away, they're catching their breath)
Rally: I think we- got away.
Nervin: Have I said 'I told you so' yet?
Tank (brightly): Five times.
(Just then they hear menacing chuckles once again; their way is blocked by thugs.)
- Ya gotta pay the toll if you wanna pass.
Nervin: You've gotta be kidding me.
Tank: We don't have any more cards to give 'em!
Rally: No, but we *do* have clothes.
(The four fling their clothes up in the air, and the thugs scramble for them. They flee the scene again, this time in their underwear.)
- Ah!
- Gimme that sweatervest, it's *mine*!
- --Jacket! It's cool!

(Elsewhere in the Satellite, Crow's runner comes to a stop outside a house. Not many people in the Satellite seem to live in houses that stand alone, but Martha's place is an actual house with what looks like a backyard and no other houses around it. It looks pretty spacious, and, considering the disrepair of the Satellite, somewhat like a haunted house. Crow jumps off and bangs urgently on the windowpaned door.)
Crow: Hey, Martha! It's me, Crow! I need your help, hurry, wake up! <19:00> Come on, Martha, wake up!
Martha (through door): It's the middle of the night, Crow.
(Martha opens the door, holding a candle. She's about as tall as Crow, middle-aged, with brown eyes and thick black shoulder-length dreadlocks. She wears a dark red dress with a wide white collar and a black, clinging top underneath, and a white apron. She looks only half-awake.)
Martha (sigh): This *better* be good.
Crow (points): No, it's *bad*, it's *real* bad.
Martha: Huh?
(Martha looks shocked, seeing what Crow's pointing at. Yusei is slung over the back of Crow's runner like a sack of flour, still wearing his helmet.)
Martha: Is that Yusei?!
(Martha's wide-awake now, and leaves the door wide-open to run to Yusei's side.)
Martha: What's going on?! What happened?!
(She raises the candle to see him better.)
Martha: He's shivering...
(She calls back toward the house.)
Martha: I need hands out here, people! Come help me get Yusei inside! You hang in there, Yusei. I'm going to do everything I can to help, just hang in there.

(Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin push the runner up a hill, in the middle of the bad part of the Satellite, late at night, barefoot, in their underwear. For future reference, or anyone who's interested, Blitz's boxers match his bandanna, Rally's are dark blue, Tank's have light brown stripes, and Nervin's in white briefs.)
Tank: I'm about to pass out!
Nervin: Maybe we should take a little break.
Blitz: Good call.
Rally: We can't stop here, you guys, it's not safe! You want Yusei to know that we lost his bike 'cause you guys got *tired*?! Tank, think about the time when you were going through a jellybean withdrawal, and Yusei ran through the crossroads in the rain *just to get you some*. He had a cold at the time, but that didn't stop 'im from helping you out!
Tank: Well, yeah, but--
Nervin: Now that I think about it, <20:00> there was that time I needed an energy cell for a project and Yusei scored one for me by trading one of his favorite cards.
Blitz: You're right, little man, Yusei would do anything to help any of us, and he'd never complain about it.
Tank: Let's go! Let's do this for Yusei!
Blitz: For Yusei!
Nervin: There's only one problem. Look at the road ahead of us.
All four: It's a dead end!
Rally: *Now* what do we do?
(An old man comes out of a nearby building.)
- Are you in trouble?
All four: Not *again*!
Rally: We can't pay any more stupid tolls!
- (menacing) I'm afraid if you wanna pass... (just kidding) you'll have to cut through the alley over there.
(He points; behind them there's an alley.)
Rally: Oh, uh, thanks.
- Here, boys, let me give you a hand with this thing. Together, now--
(The five rush down the alley, moving faster with the old man's help.)
Tank: Well, it's good to know there's at least *one* nice person in Outcast Alley!
- We're gonna make a left up here, and--
(Suddenly the runner and the four of them go flying over an edge; it was a trap! Below them there awaits a rickshaw and two guys. The Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin bounce off in all directions, and the two guys catch the runner and spring into action, tying it down and pulling the rickshaw away along with a third guy.)
Rickshaw guys: Now!! <21:00>
(Yusei's friends land in the heap of wooden boxes left behind, breaking several of them.)
Nervin: They're getting away with the duel runner!!
Tank: Our symbol of friendship!
Blitz: Hey!
Rally: Somebody, help!!
(Suddenly the rickshaw crew is pinned down by a bright spotlight. There's a voice coming from the same direction but the spotlight obscures our view.)
- What's that light over there?
- This is Sector Security. We've got you surrounded. Drop the rickshaw and give yourselves up!
- They've got us surrounded!
(All three put up their hands and wail.)
- They can't catch us all!!
(They scatter in different directions. Rally, Blitz, Tank, and Nervin walk up, reunited with the runner.)
Tank: Never thought I'd be so glad to see Sector Security!
Rally (to the runner): We almost lost you!
Blitz: It's a machine, Rally.
Nervin: ...Hey wait a minute, Sector Security doesn't patrol way out *here*.
Rally: So they who could that *be*?
(The 'Security officer' walks over to them. The rickshaw crew was duped by Blister with a floodlight.)
Blister: Hey.
All four: Hey, it's Blister!
Blister: You guys are dressed... interestingly. What happened?
Rally: It's Yusei. He's been hurt real bad!

(Martha's house. Blister leans solemnly against a wall, as Nervin, Tank, and Blitz, each now wrapped in a plain brown blanket, sit nearby. They have the same look on their faces as Blister, but that might also be that they're half asleep. Sitting on a set of wooden stairs elsewhere in the room, Rally, also in a blanket, hugs Yusei's battered helmet close. Crow leans against the outside of the stair rail, expression closed.)

(In an adjacent room, they seem to have set up a crude operating room, the cracked and dusty walls notwithstanding. Several bright lamps are rigged on poles to light a table on which Yusei lies, motionless. Martha is acting as nurse, as a man in a lab coat examines Yusei's stomach; both are wearing cloths over their mouths. Yusei looks like he's either fighting the pain or having terrible nightmares.)
Martha: How does it look, doctor?
Schmidt: He's got some serious bruising on the right side of his abdomen. <22:00>
Martha: Is he going to be all right?
Schmidt: It's a longshot.
Martha: Come on, Yusei; be strong!

(Rally hugs Yusei's helmet to his chest, and looks like he's trying not to cry. They all wait silently...)

END <22:17>

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Last Updated: July 11, 2011

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