Transcript:
A Score to Settle II

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Episode originally made available online: January 12, 2010

(Previously <1:53 not incl.>)

(Opening)

ACT 1 <1:00>

(Open on an aerial shot of the Giant sign, burning purple against the Satellite landscape.)
Kalin: Come on, Yusei, we're just getting started! If you thought my last attack was something, wait 'til you feel what's coming *next*! Archfiend's gonna finish Max Warrior with a--
(Suddenly Infernity Archfiend's attack points drop to 800)
Kalin: Hey, what's happened to my monster's attack points, where'd they go!!
Yusei: They disappeared along with my Ghost Gardna. See, once it was destroyed, your monster loses a thousand attack points, but hey, don't let that stop you from attacking!
Kalin: I end my turn!
Yusei: It's *my* move, then!
(Scoreboard: Kalin 4000, 5 and Yusei 2900, 2)
Yusei: I summon Junk Synchron to the field in attack mode!
[Junk Synchron 1300///]
Yusei: And now I'm gonna tune it and my Speed Warrior in order to synchro-summon-- Junk Warrior! (synchro-summon) Let's rev it up!
[Junk Warrior 2300///]
<2:00>
Yusei: Next I reveal my trap card, Synchro Striker Unit! And with it in play, I can now increase Max Warrior's (sic) attack points by a thousand!
(Synchro Striker Unit is a long, slim rectangular laser rifle wielded by Junk Warrior, raising Junk Warrior's attack points to 3300.)
Yusei: Time to fight! Max Warrior, take out Infernity Archfiend!
Kalin: What's going on?! Is it gaining *more* power?!
Yusei: It sure is! When Max Warrior goes in for an attack, he gains four hundred attack points! (2200 is the total) Go, Swift Rush!
Kalin: You've underestimated me, Yusei! I reveal my trap card! Infernity Force! Now if you attack an Infernity monster when I have no cards in my hand, Infernity Force deflects the attack, and obliterates your monster!
Yusei: Huh!
Kalin: And not *only* that, but I can now harness the power of this trap and summon a weaker Infernity monster from my graveyard! I summon-- Infernity Necromancer!
[Infernity Necromancer /2000//]
Kalin: Hahahahahahahahaha!
Yusei: Not bad, Kalin. <3:00> But let's see you stop Junk Warrior from attacking your Dragon!
(Junk Warrior attacks, and O.H.E.D. takes the hit right in the huge eye on its chest. Kalin ducks, and flies out of the cloud of smoke and debris with 3700 lifepoints left.)

(On a wrecked highway nearby, watching the duel from a distance, stand Crow, Trudge, and the twins.)
Leo: Woohoo! All right!
Luna: Yeah!
Trudge: Thatta boy! Now it's time to set your sights on some *lifepoints*!
Crow: Hey-- why is Kalin *laughing*...?

Kalin: Eheheheheheheheh. When One Hundred Eye Dragon is destroyed, I can select any card I want from my deck and add it to my hand. You might remember *this* monster...
Yusei (think): I *knew* it. One Hundred Eye Dragon was just a setup!
(Kalin looks over his shoulder at Yusei, snickering; both of them know what that card is.)
Yusei (think): I better build a defense, and fast! (aloud) I place two cards facedown and end my turn! And since it's my end phase, Junk Warrior now loses its power boost, since the effect of my Synchro Striker Unit wears off.
(Junk Warrior's atk is back to 2300; <4:00> Kalin cackles and flips the card in his hand-- of course it's Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu!)
Yusei: If that's what I think it is, I'm in big trouble!

ACT 2 <4:08>

(Yusei and Kalin race onward, neck and neck, as the spectators watch anxiously.)
Crow (think): Come on, Yusei. Don't lose sight a' what you came here to do! I *know* Kalin's an old friend. I know we've all got history, but- you're here to defeat 'im, *not* to save 'im. You've already tried doin' that before, way back then...

(Flashback. Wide-beam spotlights shine through the pouring rain as they light up one by one. The Security officer with the pointy mustache and his troops-- seven with riot shields, at least two more besides with duel disks, three on runners, at least one car, and two large tanklike machines with spotlights mounted on top-- stand there in the rain, besieging the building. Inside one of the upper-story rooms, Kalin stands to the side of the window, out of sight. Yusei, Jack, and Crow are away from the windows, out of sight. The only furniture in their stronghold is a row of lockers, a green couch, and a table.)
FB Mustache (on megaphone): We only want your leader! Turn him in, and the rest of you are free to go!
FB Kalin: Not a chance, copper! Heheheheheheheh!
(Yusei, Crow, and Jack look at each other. Kalin leans against the window frame, looking contemptuously over his shoulder at the assembled forces and laughing. He hears a sound and looks back inside. Yusei, Jack, and Crow are removing their duel disks and placing them on the table.)
FB Kalin: Wha? Whoa! What're you guys *doing*? Are you *giving up*? If we surrender then it's all been for nothing! *Let's get out there and fight!!*
FB Jack: Get real and wake up!
FB Crow: This little revolution of ours has gone way too far, man.
FB Kalin: Wait, are you *serious*?
FB Yusei: Kalin, look. We can still escape out back.
(Kalin almost laughs, still with that frenzied, manic look in his eyes.)
FB Kalin: Escape? <5:00> No way, I'm sick of running from these guys! Let's *end this* here, let's kick them out of Satellite for good! Don't you *see*?! This is our big moment, right here!
FB Jack: Right *nothing*. Our 'big moment' is never *comin'*, Kalin.
FB Kalin: Guys, come on!
(Kalin looks from Jack's face, to Yusei's, to Crow's as Yusei speaks; all of them are completely serious.)
FB Yusei: Things weren't supposed to go this far. Let's just get *outta* here while we still can. *Come on*, man.
(Kalin stumbles backward, distraught, confused, unable to accept this.)
FB Kalin: This can't be happening. Not here! Not now! We *can't* just *give up*!
(Something explodes; Security is firing something or other at the side of the building, and the room rocks.)
FB Yusei: We need to get out of here, like, now!
(Outside, the man with the mustache was done waiting.)
FB Mustache: Duel them if you have to, just take 'em down!
(The three runners were the first forward, zooming out into the night. A pack of officers with duel disks ran up a fire escape as the four Enforcers ran across the catwalk above. They couldn't catch up to the Enforcers before they leapt the edge of the building.)
Crow (VO): We ran as fast as we could. We *could've* gotten away. But *Kalin* couldn't leave well enough alone. And *that's* when things finally came to a head.
(Sometime later, Kalin runs down an alleyway alone, then stops and looks up into the falling rain.)
FB Kalin: What's the point? There's nowhere to run in *Satellite*.
(He hears the noise of a runner engine and turns. One of the Security officers on runners has caught up with him. <6:00> Kalin turns to face him, looking crazy again.)
FB Kalin: If I'm gonna go down, then I'm gonna go down *fighting*! Let's *duel*! I draw, I summon Vorse Raider in attack mode!
[Vorse Raider ///]
(The officer)
- You dunno when you're beaten*, do you! Fine. If it's a duel you want-- I summon Montage Dragon!
(Montage Dragon destroys Vorse Raider, and the officer rides straight at Kalin, who has nowhere to run and knows it. The officer turns sideways, going into a skid.)
- You're *finished*!!
(Kalin gasps, then notices something above him. When the officer hits the space Kalin was standing in a moment ago, he can't react fast enough before Kalin, who's jumped up and grabbed the end of a fire escape ladder above, jumps down and lands on the back of the runner. The officer takes off riding, trying to shake him off; Kalin grabs him in a headlock; Yusei appears at the other end of the alley, in time to see Kalin and the officer zoom past, wrestling for control of the runner.)
FB Yusei: Kalin! *No!* Kalin, stop!!
(The runner crashes through a solid wall and goes flying through the air; both Kalin and the officer are thrown off, yelling. The runner hits the ground and spins a few times. Kalin and the officer have landed some distance away. Kalin pushes himself up on his hands, breathing heavily.)
FB Kalin: That's it- (gasp gasp) You asked for it!
- Ugh...
(The officer lays on the ground, not moving, as Kalin advances on him)
FB Kalin: I- am gonna--
FB Yusei: Stop!!
(Yusei tackles him aside before he can do anything to the officer, and they're fighting and wrestling, rolling over and over through the soaking wet alleyway. <7:00> Finally, Yusei pins Kalin to the ground.)
FB Kalin: Let me go, Yusei, we have to stop them!! We have to fight back! We can't let them win!!!
(As Yusei pins Kalin, Jack and Crow run up behind them. Later, Security cars search the streets while the Enforcers hide in a building somewhere. Yusei's looking out the window, back to the wall beside it to stay out of sight.)
FB Jack: Yusei. It's only a matter of time before they find us.
(At the back of the room, Jack and Crow are each gripping one of Kalin's arms, restraining him.)
FB Crow: Whaddaya thinkin', Yusei?
(Yusei looks into Kalin's eyes as the prisoner glares at him. Kalin looks almost sick or fevered, breathing heavily even though Yusei has long since caught his breath; there's little doubt that he would fight anything he could, including Yusei, if Jack and Crow let him go. Yusei seems to make a decision in that moment, and turns his back, his face hard.)
FB Yusei: You guys stay here.
(Yusei walks out into the street, and three Security cars stop at the nearest intersection, appearing from all directions. It doesn't take long for Yusei to be surrounded with headlights, and more Security appearing from every direction.)
FB Yusei: I'm the leader of the Enforcers! I'm the one who's been organizing and planning the attacks! You said if I turned myself in, the others could go free-- well *here I am!*
FB Crow: Yusei!
(Yusei looks; an officer with a riot shield has Crow by the shoulder, and five more are clustered around him and Jack. They've already been apprehended. The officer with the mustache walks over to Yusei)
FB Yusei: Huh!
FB Mustache: We *did* say it was the leader of the rabble we were after, but we *know* who the real leader is!
(Yusei looks up; a pair of Security officers are leading Kalin out. One has Kalin's arms pinned, the other's holding his head down)
FB Yusei: Huh?! Ah! Kalin!! Kalin! (to Mustache) You're wrong, *I'm* the one in charge!
(A couple of paramedics in masks are wheeling the officer who crashed earlier on a gurney.)
FB Mustache: Do you think we're stupid? <8:00> You can't fool us. But that's cute that you tried to take the fall and protect your little friend. Heheheheheheh...
(Mustache pats Yusei patronizingly on the shoulder. As Kalin's being hauled into the van, he looks back)
- Into the wagon, kid!
FB Kalin: Huh!
(He sees Mustache patting Yusei on the shoulder, sickeningly smug)
FB Mustache: *Good* job. Heheheheheh.
(Mustache walks away. Kalin can't believe his eyes, can't bear to see what he's seeing. He loses it.)
FB Kalin: Uugh… Uuagh…! HOW COULD YOU!!!!
FB Yusei: Huh?
(Kalin lunges forward, and is dragged back by the two Security officers gripping his arms and towing him toward the van.)
FB Kalin: Yusei, you *snitch*!!! How could you sell out your best friend like this!!
(Yusei is surprised, trying to explain the misunderstanding)
FB Yusei: You’re wrong, Kalin, I—
(And the two Security officers throw Kalin into the prison van. He scrambles to his hands and knees, fighting for all he's worth to get at Yusei, screaming himself hoarse)
FB Kalin: Mark my words, you’ll pay, traitor!!
(And the doors slam shut. And the van drives away, Kalin screaming in the back)
FB Kalin: YUSEI!!!!
(The Security cars are all driving away, leaving Yusei, Jack, and Crow standing in the street.)
FB Yusei: Kalin...!
(He shouts into the night; maybe, somehow, he hopes Kalin can hear him)
Yusei: I'M SORRY!!!
(End Flashback)

Yusei: Things were getting out of hand. The riots and the fighting had to stop; *you* had to stop! But I was trying to *help* you, Kalin! I was trying to *save* you!
Kalin: You think I *believe* you?! You sold me out, man!

(Up on the highway, Crow has somehow opened up a link between Kalin's runner console and his)
Crow: Not true! Yusei was trying to surrender to Sector Security in *your place*!
Kalin (via screen): *Nobody* should've surrendered, we should've stood up to them *together!* <9:00> You backed down when things got tough!

Kalin: You let Sector Security take over Satellite! So as far as I'm concerned *you DID betray me*!!!
Yusei: I wanted to *help* you!
Kalin: Well, with help like yours who needs help! Besides, if you cared *so much* about me, why didn't you come an' visit me in the Facility?! Huh, Yusei?!

Crow: He *tried* to visit you, *plenty* a' times. But every time we came by, they turned us away! (He looks away from the screen, pained) Man, I can't *imagine* what they did to you in there!

Kalin: Of *course* you can't, *old friend*! I coulda handled the insults and the solitude, but they... *they took my deck from me*!! That deck was my *life*!!!

(Flashback. Kalin sits in a stone box, huddled with his knees to his chest in a corner far from the barred window, the only light entering the room. His water-stained battleship grey shirt is tattered, his jeans ripped. The mark on his face that's black in the present is tan, faded tracking dye, and he looks tired, bitter, miserable, and far past the point of despair. He hears a deep voice speak.)
- Hear my voice. I am a messenger from beyond the twilight. I can grant you a power like you've never known. All you have to do is accept the mark of a Dark Signer. And then, you will be free. You will be unstoppable! You will duel again! And finally, you will be able to get revenge on all who have opposed you!
<10:00>
(Kalin speaks, barely moving his mouth. He seems to have been robbed of that vibrant, competitive spark, that shrieking rage; but as he speaks, he begins to tremble, looking as though he can't shout, but might cry. He's in so much pain, with no energy left to feel it.)
FB Kalin: Good. But I only want revenge on one person. Just one...
(He slumps over, seeming to faint. End Flashback)

Kalin: I gave myself to the shadows so that I could have this *one moment*! This moment, where I make you feel the terror and the pain that you made *me* feel when you turned your back on me!! It's my move!
(Scoreboard: Kalin 3700, 6 and Yusei 2900, 3)
Kalin: And I now release Infernity Archfiend, and Infernity Necromancer!
(The two monsters turn into orbs of light and fly upward, combining to form the clenched fist that summons an Earthbound Immortal.)
Kalin: I summon to the field, Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu!
(A beam of light soars from his upraised card to the fist in the sky, and it begins to pulse, gradually picking up pace. A fiery column of purple light shoots from ground to sky, sending energy rippling across the clouds. The ground rumbles, and the Giant appears, roaring its supremacy.)
[Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu 3000///]
<11:00>

(The Immortal can easily be seen from the highway; Luna cries out and hugs Leo, while Leo tries not to do the same. Even Crow and Trudge look afraid.)
Trudge: Oh, *man*! That thing is *huge*!
Crow: Gee, ya think?

Yusei: With *that* guy out...
Kalin: It's the end of the line! Man, I've been waiting a long time to say-- Ccapac Apu, send Yusei to the netherworld!!
(The Giant leans over and reaches for Yusei, just like it did before...)

ACT 3 <11:22>

(Ccapac Apu reaches for Yusei and his runner; the ground erupts beneath the Giant's arm, blown apart by the sheer energy.)

(Flashback. As Yusei speaks, the same exact scene plays; Ccapac Apu's massive black hand reaches for Yusei, casting a shadow over him and his runner. Then just as the hand crashes down where he would have been, Yusei flies backward and hits the ground, thrown free of his runner, and bounces further, end over end.)
Yusei (think, VO): The last time we dueled and he summoned this Earthbound Immortal, my duel runner's wheel broke before it could attack, ending the duel early.
(End Flashback.)

Yusei (think): But that's *not* gonna happen *this* time. *This* time I'm bringing that Earthbound Immortal down to earth! I hope this plan works! Here goes everything! (aloud) I reveal my trap card-- Baton of the Hero! And with it in play, I'm now allowed to choose the target of your monster's attack!
Kalin: So that means--
Yusei: That your Immortal's attacking Speed Warrior (sic; that's Junk Warrior)!
(Junk Warrior flies up into the Giant's hand, and explodes, showering Yusei with dust. <12:00> His lifepoints fall to 2400.)
Kalin: Way to throw your monster out as a shield, Yusei! But this attack isn't over! Not *yet*!! 'Cause when your monster gets destroyed, you take damage *equal* to your monster's attack points!!

Crow: *This* isn't good. With Yusei's Junk Warrior packin' so much power, if he doesn't *do* something, he's done for!
Luna: Come on, Yusei!

Yusei: I activate this, Kalin-- the trap Burst Synchro Summon! Now my lifepoints are safe from taking any damage!
(As the blast hits, a translucent shield like a contact lens appears over Yusei's head.)
Yusei: And then, due to the power of my trap, I can bring out a monster whose attack points are the same as the amount of damage I would've taken!

Leo: Does Yusei even *have* something that powerful?
(It takes Luna a moment, and she realizes as she says Stardust Dragon that that's really good.)
Luna: Only Stardust Dragon!
Crow: *That's* what I'm talkin' about!!

Yusei: Stardust Dragon, let's rev it up!!
(The contact lens becomes a huge, egg-shaped blast of light, twisting around at the top and lengthening into a cyclone. A blinding flash, and Stardust appears, roaring)
[Stardust Dragon 2500///]
Kalin: Well you finally managed to summon your favorite monster! D'you actually think it's gonna make a difference?!
(Kalin places a facedown, and Yusei draws)
Yusei: Time to find out!
(Scoreboard: Kalin 3700, 7 and Yusei 2400, 4) <13:00>
Kalin: Not so fast! I reveal the trap card, Brilliant Shrine Art! Now when you attack your monster has to face my Earthbound Immortal!
Yusei: ...But my Stardust Dragon doesn't stand a chance against that thing. I'm gonna need some backup, so I activate Angel Baton (spell)! Now I can draw two cards and send one from my hand to my graveyard! And the card I *sent* to the graveyard was Stardust Xiaolong! But with Stardust Dragon already summoned, Xiaolong instantly resurrects to the field in attack mode!
[Stardust Xiaolong 100/100/L1/light]
(Stardust Xiaolong is a Chinese-style dragonet that looks kind of like Stardust Dragon. It's quite adorable.)
Yusei: Next I play a facedown and end my turn!
Kalin: This is getting *good*, Yusei!
(Scoreboard Kalin 3700, 8 and Yusei 2400, 5)
(The duel seems to be going faster and faster, back and forth like a tennis match.)
Yusei: You got that right, and after I play my trap Superior Protector, it's only gonna get better! See, with this card's power, I can only take battle damage if Stardust Dragon battles.
Kalin: All you've done is made your Dragon a target! Now all I need to do is crush *it*, so that I can crush *you*!!
(Ccapac Apu looks ready to grab the soaring Stardust right out of the sky...)

ACT 4 <14:00>

Kalin: Looks like you and your Stardust Dragon are about to get sent to the netherworld!
Yusei: Not if I send Superior Protector to the graveyard to protect us!
Kalin: Nice move, but you're still taking battle damage! Huh! And thanks to my little Wicked Trample trap card, when you take battle damage from something other than a direct attack, that damage is *doubled*!
Yusei: What?!
Kalin: Ahahahahahahaha! Earthbound Immortal! End this now!!
(Yusei buckles down and endures the blast; he drops a speed counter, leaving him with 4, and his lifepoints are down to 1400. The ground around the Giant's feet begins to cave and erode; the road cracks, and Kalin is forced down into the side of the road that is sinking and smashing itself to pieces, forced to the edge of the purple fire. He cries out in fear. Yusei, on the edge of the fracturing sinkhole, veers down onto the broken track, closer to Kalin)
Yusei: Kalin! What's going on?!
Kalin: Don't know!
Yusei: Take my hand!
(Kalin looks up; Yusei is actually offering him his hand, as though they were still friends. Kalin looks up at him, surprised and startled.)

(Flashback. Yusei hangs by his wrist by a duel-grapple chain, several stories off the ground and four more from the rooftop he fell from. That day, Kalin had been the one leaning over the edge, hanging onto the other end of the chain, saving his friend. End Flashback.)

Kalin: Yusei...!
Yusei: I made the wrong call, Kalin! <15:00> I thought I could help you, I thought, 'maybe if I take the heat Kalin'll turn himself around!' But I *get it* now! You and I are friends! I should've found a way for us to fix things *together*! I should've stood by you!

Crow: Come on, buddy!
Luna: Oh, Yusei... Huh!
(Luna's Sign has suddenly lit up!)

(So has Jack's. He looks at it, then off into the distance, probably toward the duel.)

(So has Akiza's. Mina is momentarily distracted from driving as Akiza looks at it, then off in the distance toward the duel.)
Akiza: I can feel us all drawing together...!

(Yusei's mark is shining like a beacon, and shines even brighter as he reaches it toward Kalin.)
Yusei: Jack and Crow feel the same way, Kalin! And right now, like back then, we're fighting alongside our friends for something we believe in! But I'm not fighting to defeat you! You *have* to believe me! I'm trying to save you! *I'm trying to save my friend from the Dark Signers!*
(Kalin is sincerely stunned that Yusei still calls him his friend.)
Kalin: Your friend?
(Then he starts resisting, convinced it isn't possible)
Kalin: You *can't*! It's too late!
(Kalin slides down further, toward the fire)
Kalin: Ah! Aaaagggh!
Yusei: Kalin! *No*!!
(Yusei's mark burns even brighter...)

(And Akiza gasps as the glowing mark suddenly vanishes from her arm--)
Akiza: Ahh!

(--And Jack's--)
Jack: What in the--?!

(--And Luna's--)
Luna: That's weird...

(--And fades from the mysterious arm in a tank.)

<16:00>
(The Sign of the Crimson Dragon appears glowing red through the back of Yusei's jacket.)

Crow: What's goin' on?!
Luna: Our marks have all joined up on Yusei!

Yusei: We're all in this together, right now we're all as one!
(Suddenly the top card of Yusei's deck starts glowing a bright golden color.)
Yusei: Huh? Something's calling to me...
(He goes to draw it, hesitates, then defiantly draws it)
Yusei: Time to find out what!
(He draws and his speed counter rises to 5. He looks at the card, still shining gold)
Yusei: Of course, *that's* what I've gotta do! Just like the others and I had to become a team to fight the Dark Signers, my monsters have to unite to win this duel! And to make sure that happens, I summon Majestic Dragon to the field in attack mode!
(Majestic Dragon is small, pink, and cute, tadpole-shaped with spoke-style wings that lack sails that would actually support flight.)
[Majestic Dragon 0///L1]
Yusei: Next, I tune Majestic Dragon with my Stardust Dragon and Stardust Xiaolong!
(Stardust and Xiaolong soar high, one beneath the other, and Majestic Dragon rolls over midair and spreads its spoked wings wide, growing bigger, beginning to shine pink, until Stardust and Xiaolong are surrounded with pink light. Stardust and Xiaolong appear mostly transparent with glowing gold outlines, stars shining brightly within the outlines, thin green rings circling around them. The myriad stars zoom into place and align with Majestic Dragon's single star, creating a wash of light.)
Yusei: And now it's time I synchro-summon-- Majestic Star Dragon!
<17:00>
[Majestic Star Dragon 3800/3000/L10/wind]
(Yusei's new dragon is the next level beyond Stardust. Its design is futuristic, with spoked wings like Majestic Dragon's, built perhaps for space but not for flying through the sky. Its very presence causes the air to shimmer with iridescent light, and it's absolutely beautiful.)
Computer: Majestic Star Dragon is a level-ten synchro monster, with three thousand eight hundred attack points and three thousand defense points.
Yusei: Kalin, your Earthbound Immortal's special abilities are powerless against my mighty dragon! In fact, my dragon can absorb them *all* and use them against you!
(The air around the Giant begins to sparkle with little blue lights. The monster reels, as if confused or weakened. Majestic Star Dragon absorbs the lights, looking right at the huge Immortal as though staring into its heart.)
Yusei: And now, Majestic Star Dragon-- end this duel!!
(Majestic Star, now shining with blue light, folds back its wings and bullets toward Ccapac Apu, and indeed appears to be a shooting star.)
Yusei: Attack!!!
(Majestic Star blasts right through the Immortal's chest and flies out the other side, not even scratched, soaring away into the sky as the Immortal collapses behind it, bleeding electric blue sparks. A huge wave of darkness explodes from its back, threatening to engulf the Dragon, but Majestic Star easily outruns it. Yusei and his runner are still sitting in a prismatic cloud of light from Majestic Star Dragon; Yusei gasps as the darkness from the Giant's fall enshrouds Kalin and the he groans and shields himself, trying to fight it.)
Yusei: Hang on, pal!
<18:00>
(Majestic Star Dragon swoops down into the flames and back up into the sky, shedding the purple fire in another beautiful light show. Down on the ground, bathed in iridescent, shimmery light, Yusei's runner is stopped; Kalin is lying across his lap, his head rested on the right-side arm bar, and he's in bad shape.)
Yusei: Come on, stay with me! I'm *not giving up* this time; this time, I'm gonna save you.
(Kalin opens his eyes and looks up at Yusei; his eyes have turned their normal color again. He speaks hoarsely, weakly.)
Kalin: Yusei... I spent years hating you and planning my revenge. I let my anger devour me and I willingly gave myself to the darkness...! But in beating me, Yusei... you've found your friend, and although the shadows await... (Yusei gasps) ... I need you to promise me something, Yusei. Stop beating yourself up over what happened. I'm the one who *really* messed things up. But now, finally, here at the very end, you did what you set out to do; you saved me!
Yusei: Huh! (he realizes that Kalin's right; but still Kalin's about to go) Kalin...

(Majestic Star Dragon soars high above a landscape painted with the mark of the Giant; the mark fades, and the sky turns grey again. Majestic Star remains, cruising high above them)

Kalin: You're not going to go and do something stupid like... lose to the Dark Signers... are you?
(Yusei shakes his head no. Kalin is smiling, peaceful and benign.)
Kalin: Don't back down, Yusei. <18:00> No matter what happens... push the shadows back where they belong...! Ggh!
(With a small gasp of pain, Kalin turns to black dust, evaporating in Yusei's arms. Yusei stares at them; even knowing this would happen couldn't soften the pain.)
Yusei: Kalin...!!

(The spectators watch Majestic Star sail serenely through the sky.)
Trudge: Yusei did it.

(His runner parked some distance away, Yusei stands alone, staring out at the desolate Satellite landscape, his shoulders shaking; we can't see his face.)
Yusei: They came to you when you were afraid and hurt. They took advantage of your pain. They twisted you so that they could use you as their pawn! They won't get away with it! I won't let these Dark Signers win!!
(Yusei clenches his fist, and a single tear falls and breaks on it. Several more fly from his cheeks as he raises his head and shouts to the sky)
Yusei: They're gonna pay for this!!
(Full of resolve, Yusei stands strong, watching Majestic Star Dragon glide away into the distance, trailing brilliant blue and white sparkles in its wake, and disappear into the clouds.)

END <18:49>

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