Transcript:
Will the Real Jack Atlas Please Stand Up? II

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Original Air Date: November 27, 2010

(Previously <1:52>)

(Opening)

ACT 1 <2:52>

(A picturesque view of the New Domino City skyline, including the tip of the frame surrounding the golden teardrop at the center of that bridge.)
Angela (VO, via speakers): This is Angela Reins reporting. Jack Atlas, the former turbo-dueling champion now charged with assault, has escaped from custody and is currently *at large*.

(This broadcast is playing on a big screen somewhere in the middle of the city; several bystanders have stopped to listen to it.) <3:00>
Angela (via screen): Sector Security is advising citizens to avoid major highways if possible. Anyone with information pertaining to Atlas's whereabouts should contact the local authori--

(Yusei, Bruno, Crow, Akiza, and the twins have been watching the same broadcast on TV at the guys' place. Someone just flicked off the TV.)
Leo (guiltily): *We* don't have 'information pertaining to his whereabouts', *do* we?
Akiza (to Yusei): You said you saw him last night on the highway, right? He didn't say *anything*??
Yusei: No, not really. It was *weird*.

(Flashback. A purple-tinged Red Dragon Archfiend is hovering above. 'Jack' smiles unpleasantly.)
Yusei (VO): He just *smirked*, and took off.
(End Flashback.)

Yusei (think): Jack, *what is going on* with you?

(At an office building somewhere in New Domino City...)
Carly: I'm telling you, Jack is *innocent*! I'm not gonna write some hacky *smear piece*!!
(She slams her hand on the table, on top of a couple magazine covers with pictures of Jack and his runner.)
Carly: I betcha ten-to-one that he busted out because he's trying to clear his name!
(Carly is leaning over Mr. Pitts' desk, and he stands and gets right back in her face. They're nose to nose, all but snarling at each other.)
Pitts: Listen, I didn't ask you to write your *theories*-- I asked you to write *my* theories, and *my* theories involve celebrity scandal and stolen money!!!
Carly: If- that's what you want, then you can write it *yourself*!!
(Carly straightens up, turns, and storms out, slamming the door behind her. Several other journalists in the room collectively steal a nervous glance over their shoulder at the door through which she left.)

(Carly is driving down the highway in her little car, still tense with anger.)
Carly: The truth is out there somewhere, and I'm gonna do whatever it takes to *find* it!! <4:00>

(Sunset, in a parking lot somewhere.)
Carly: Are you serious? Do you have proof?
(She's talking to the two wacky hippie citizens, the girl with the afro and her friend with the long black hair and red T-shirt, through their car window.)
T-Shirt Dude: Yeah, man. Right here.
(He shows her a picture on his digital camera-- two identical duel runners like Jack's, riding ahead of the car from which the photo was taken.)
T-Shirt Dude: *Check it out*, man!! Two Jacks, right there! One was like 'vroom!' and then 'whahaaa!' and then the other was like 'yahaa!!'
Afro Girl: Tch-yeah, it was one of the grooviest things *ever*!
(Carly leans back from the window, smiling; she has her proof...)
T-Shirt Dude: *You're* the grooviest thing ever, babe!
Afro Girl: No, *you*!
T-Shirt Dude: No, *you*!
Afro Girl: No, *you*!

Yusei: What did you say?!
Crow: You're sure it wasn't a *fake* picture or somethin'?
Yusei: Yeah, it's just *gotta* be. It's not exactly a common model, *his* is the only one *like* it. Why would someone else build another one, unless...
(Yusei and Crow look at each other.)

(Yusei and Crow tear up the highway as the sun sets.)
Yusei: That Jack we saw last night was an impostor!
Crow: So the big question now is, where's the *real* Jack!
(Above, the area around the shattered hole in the side of the track is barricaded with signs.)
Yusei: Remember how the barrier next to the fake Jack was shattered?
Crow: You don't think that...?!
Yusei: I don't know. Let's just check the area below the highway.
(Yusei and Crow park. Yusei glances around, Crow takes off his helmet and does the same. Crow leans over the rocky edge they're standing on, spots something, and skids down the steep slope, running toward it.)
Crow: Huh?
Yusei: Crow! <5:00>
(Crow leans over and finds what he saw-- the card Trust Guardian, lying abandoned among the rocks.)
Crow: Oh, no...!
(Crow picks it up, staring at it closely. Yusei joins him.)
Yusei: What is that, is that one a' Jack's cards?
(Crow sinks to one knee, shaking.)
Crow: It's Trust Guardian! He wouldn't drop this...!
(The card falls from Crow's hand. He's nearly crying, floored with grief.)
Crow: Something's *happened*!! I can't believe I said all that mean stuff, Yusei!! Ugh, I mean... ohh... he could be *gone*, an'... an'...
(Yusei picks up the card and looks at it.)
Crow: I'm sorry, Jack...!!
Yusei: What *happened*...?
(Ringing. Yusei stands and takes a cell phone out of his pocket, glances at the front, and answers it.)
Carly (via phone): We've got trouble!
Yusei: What is it, Carly?

(In the fading sunset, the false Jack is on the move.)
Carly (VO, via phone): Jack's been spotted on the highway again, and Sector Security is after him!

(The space is all shades of purple and black, with a bit of red brightening the purple in some places. Grey masses, like giant wads of lint or bolls of coarse and soot-filled cotton, float in the ether. A few are attached to vines or tentacles, which restrain the real Jack's arms and legs. He struggles in the void against their grasp, teeth bared with rage and fear. Directly ahead of him, wherever that is, the void presents a screen that gives him a front-row seat as Security hunts his double. The false Jack looks directly at the real one through the screen as he rides, laughing malevolently.)
Jack: Let me go! Who are you?! Whaddayou think you're doing, pretending to be me!!
Fake Jack: You don't get it, *do* you, old chum! I *am* you-- a *better you*!! Huhuhahahahaha!
Jack: NO!!!!

ACT 2 <5:57>

(The fake Jack races down the highway, pursued by five Security officers on duel runners. <6:00> One of them is Officer Kaz.)
Kaz: Come on, Jack! You're only making things worse, turn yourself in!
(The fake Jack ignores him. They ride into a tunnel. Fake Jack rides up the side of the tunnel and runs over two light fixtures, shattering them with his wheel. Glass shards fly into the faces of the oncoming Security riders. They panic and crash.)
- Look out!!
- Whoa-a-a-a!
(Only Kaz rides out of the ensuing cloud of dust and smoke.)
Kaz: Jack, *stop*! This isn't like you! You're a *good guy*!
Fake Jack: Ahahahahaha! Did you hear that? He thinks you're a *good* guy, how very *sweet*! I guess it's safe to say he doesn't *know* you very well, isn't it!!

(Jack leans forward against the bonds, furious.)
Jack: Stop ruining my name!!

(In the big blue room, the three Directors are watching Jack in his prison.)
Primo: Do you think it possible that we've overestimated this *Atlas* character? I'm starting to doubt whether or not he fits into the grand design.
Jacob: *Have patience*. All men struggle when trying to defeat the enemy within. It is *through* this struggle that they find their true strength.
Lester: You better be right. It was *hard* conjuring the energy to copy all those *cards* of his.

(Jack fights and struggles against the imprisoning vines.) <7:00>
Jack: Ugh... uagh!!
Crow (via screen): Hey, Officer Kaz!!
(Jack looks up, eyes wide with surprise and horror.)
Jack: Crow?!

(Yusei and Crow are gaining on Kaz and the fake Jack on their own runners.)
Kaz: Stay back, guys, you can't get involved!
Crow: That isn't Jack, Kaz, it's some sort of *loser impostor*!
(Yusei and Crow are riding on Kaz's right and left wings.)
Kaz: *Impostor*? What're you talking about, of *course* it's Jack!
Yusei: No, it's *not*! He's a fake!
Kaz: A *fake*?!
Fake Jack: Hahahahahaha! Sounds like *someone* can't accept that I've finally decided to be *who I really am*!
Crow: I dunno who *you* are, but you are *not Jack Atlas*! Sure, Jack's an arrogant and selfish egomaniac, an' he always eats my cereal, but he's my buddy-- and 'cause a' you, I said horrible things I can't take back now!! You know what it's like to know you might never be able to apologize to your friend?!

Jack: I'm right here, Crow!

Crow: But even if I can't tell my friend that I'm sorry, I can at *least* try to do 'im right by kicking your sorry *butt*!
Fake Jack: Go ahead and try it, pipsqueak!!
(Fake Jack decelerates, swerving back towards Crow, and then turns on his engine, blasting Crow with it.)
Crow: Whaa--aaaaahh!

Jack: Crow, no!!!!

(Crow's runner bounces back along the tunnel, first on its front wheel, then on its back. Crow comes flying after it, landing hard on the pavement.)
Crow: Agh! Agh! <8:00>
(Yusei rides past, calling back to him.)
Yusei: You okay?!
Fake Jack: Hahahahaha! That little joke thought he could take me on, but a champion like me devours pipsqueaks like him on a daily basis!
Yusei: No way! If you were *really* Jack Atlas, you'd know that that *little joke* is one a' your best buds, and you wouldn't do *anything* to hurt your friends!
Fake Jack: A *champion* has no use for friends! Only losers sit around and depend on friends, champions reign *alone*!
(Fake Jack looses a smokescreen from the back of his runner.)
Kaz: Look out!
Yusei: Hah!
(Yusei's riding through a thick fog; he can't see a thing, until he sees the shadow of fake Jack's runner decelerating toward him, about to do the same to him that it did to Crow!)

Jack: Yusei!! That *does* it!
(Jack fights even harder against the bonds; they spark and crackle with power.)
Jack: Nobody messes with my mates and gets away with it!!!
(Jack clenches his fists, and shatters the bonds around his wrists, yanks away from the vines restraining his arms-- and his whole prison shatters...)

(Jack is sitting alone in the dark, in a metal chair with several thick wires emerging from the back, wearing a visored helmet. He pulls it off and throws it away, looking around. His runner is parked nearby.)
Jack: My duel runner!

(He bursts through the metal doors of the cave he was trapped in, riding. He hits the ground, bounces slightly, and races away toward the City.)

(Yusei, Kaz, and the fake Jack ride out of the tunnel. <9:00> Kaz urgently speaks into his headset.)
Kaz: I'm in pursuit of the suspect, heading north through Centerfield District! Requesting backup!
(Just then, a second circular white runner jumps the edge of the highway above.)
Jack: Make way for the *real* Jack Atlas, you *second-rate wannabe*!!!
(Jack crashes right down on top of the fake's duel runner, sending both of them spinning.)
Yusei: It's *Jack*!
Kaz: There really *are* two of 'em!

(Back in the tunnel, Crow is picking up his runner. And the screen shows the two white runners, neck and neck.)
Crow: Ugh... Huh?! Wait does this mean Jack is all right?!

(Yusei throws Jack a card.)
Yusei: Jack, catch!
(Jack smiles when he flips and shows it; Trust Guardian.)
Jack: Hmph! You *really* want me to use this card, don't you, Yusei!
(He places it on the top of his deck, which automatically shuffles it in.)
Jack: You claim to be a better version of me, but you're wrong. You're not a *better me*; you're the *worst* of me! You're all my negative qualities come to life, and I may've let you defeat me once, but now-- *it's time for a rematch*!!
Fake Jack: Hah!
Both: Let's do this! Activating the Speed World Two field spell!!!
Computer: Duel mode, engaged.
(A ring of light spreads outward from the two runners, and twin rings of light appear around the runners in an infinity symbol.)
Jack: This white light again. This must be what makes duel damage become *real* somehow! <10:00>
(The duel lane signs pop up along the highway, and a holographic barrier appears to separate off the farthest right lane. Colorful lines spread over the familiar road map of Domino City.)
Computer: Formulating cross-town duel course, and awaiting Central Grid Authority's official authorization... Authorization has been granted. A turbo-duel is about to commence. Combat lane transfiguration underway. All non-dueling vehicles must vacate the combat lane immediately.
(Beautiful 3D shot. Blocks of raised street erupt from the ocean, leading away from sparkling New Domino City and straight toward the camera. The two white runners roar through a gate onto a dueling track.)
Fake Jack: Let's *do this*!
Jack: You're goin' *down*!!
(The light panels above the dueling track are lighting up.)
Fake Jack: *I'll* go first! I summon Archfiend Interceptor, in attack mode!
[Archfiend Interceptor 1400//L4/]
Fake Jack: Next, I place one card facedown and end my turn! Honestly, you clown, how d'you expect to defeat *me* when *I'm* the better *you*!
Jack: I hope you're ready to *eat those words*! (draw) It's *my* turn!
(Scoreboard. Fake Jack, 4000,1; Jack, 4000, 1. Jack's draw is-- Trust Guardian.)
Jack (think): Trust Guardian!

(Flashback. When he dueled this clone last time, he summoned Dread Dragon and Vice Dragon, then used them to synchro-summon Exploder Dragonwing.)
Jack (VO): If I had used this during our first duel, I would've been able to synchro-summon Red Dragon Archfiend before him; but I let my pride get in the way. That was a huge mistake. A mistake I can't let happen again! <11:00>
(End Flashback.)

Jack: When your field is the only one that has any monsters on it, I'm able to summon Vice Dragon from my hand!
[Vice Dragon //L5/]
Jack: Next I'm summoning the Trust Guardian tuner monster!
[Trust Guardian 0/800/L3/light]
(At last it appears, a caricatured little angel with fluffy, feathery little wings on its back and big tall red helmet. It wears a dark blue tunic and little red boots. Despite its cuddly appearance, its face is stubbornly resolute.)
Computer: If a synchro monster uses Trust Guardian as synchro material, it can negate its destruction by giving up four hundred attack points.

Yusei: Oh, yeah!

Jack: And now, Vice Dragon gets a tuning from Trust Guardian!
(Vice Dragon's golden outlines and shining stars fly through Trust Guardian's three green rings. L5 + L3 = L8. A familiar claw flexes and stretches out of the bright light. )
Jack: I synchro-summon, Red Dragon Archfiend!
[Red Dragon Archfiend 3000//L8/]
Jack: Now, prepare to lose!

ACT 3 <11:53>

(Carly's cute little yellow car is a little out-of-place on the dueling track. She comes around a bend and comes into view of the duel.)
Carly: There they are!
(She gasps a sigh, psyched.)
Carly: It looks like the two Jacks are battling! <12:00> This is the *ultimate* scoop!
Kaz: Pull over, miss, you can't be here; this is a combat lane!
Carly: It's okay, (singsong) I'm a journalist!

Jack: Hope you're ready, 'cause Red Dragon Archfiend is attacking Archfiend Interceptor! Go, Absolute Powerforce!
Fake Jack: I'm *more* than ready, 'cause when you attack Archfiend Interceptor you take five hundred points of direct damage!
Jack: Ugh!
(Jack's lifepoints are down to 3500.)
Jack: I may've taken a hit, but Archfiend's gonna *destroy* Archfiend Interceptor!
(And fake Jack gets taken down to 2400 lifepoints.)
Jack: I place one card facedown and end my turn!
Fake Jack: This should be *fun*! Hehehahah!
(Draw. Scoreboard; Fake Jack, 2400, 2; Jack, 3500, 2.)
Fake Jack: Now *you're* the only one with monsters on his field, so that means that I can summon Vice Dragon *just like you did*!
[Vice Dragon //L5/]
Jack: And *that* means...
Fake Jack: That I'm summoning the Flare Resonator tuner monster!
[Flare Resonator 300//L3/]
Fake Jack: Now Flare Resonator tunes Vice Dragon!
(The flaming version of Dark Resonator taps his tuning fork and blazes even brighter. L5 + L3 = L8...) <13:00>
Fake Jack: I synchro-summon, Red Dragon Archfiend!!
(The second Archfiend's scales are a deep violet, and its eyes spark bright amethyst.)
[Red Dragon Archfiend 3000//L8/]
Jack: A *fake*, just like you!

Yusei: *Two Dragon Archfiends*, how is that possible!!
(Carly leans out the window, camera in one hand, the other still on the wheel.)
Carly: Excuse me! Dragons! Could you hold still for a moment?!

Fake Jack: When a synchro monster uses Flare Resonator as synchro material, it gains three hundred attack points! (3300 total)
Jack: He's made his Red Dragon Archfiend more powerful than mine!!
Fake Jack: Attack!! Go, Absolute Powerforce!
(Jack's lifepoints are down to 3200.)
Jack: When a synchro monster uses Trust Guardian as synchro material, it can save itself from destruction by sacrificing four hundred attack points!
Fake Jack: I place one card facedown and end my turn! So to keep your Dragon on the field, you *humiliated* it by making it weaker? How pathetic!
Jack: The duelist who relies too much on power will eventually be *defeated* by power! (draw) Allow me to demonstrate!
(Scoreboard. Fake Jack, 2400, 3; Jack, 3200, 3.)
Jack: Go, Red Dragon Archfiend! <14:00> Wipe that impostor off the field!
(Archfiend prepares to launch a fireball.)
Fake Jack: Your Red Dragon isn't as powerful as mine is! Are you just givin' up now or something?!
Jack: No, I'm just *activating* the "Assault Spirits" trap! (He discards Twin-Shield Defender) See, by sending one monster with less than a thousand attack points to my graveyard, I can give that monster's attack points to Red Dragon! Now we've got a *real* clash of the titans!
(The two Dragon Archfiends tackle each other.
Fake Jack: So it's mutually assured destruction you want?
Jack: You're forgetting about Trust Guardian's ability! By sacrificing four hundred attack points, my Red Dragon can survive! I place one card facedown and end my turn! And the effect of "Assault Spirits" wears off.
(This leaves Red Dragon Archfiend with only 2200 attack points-- but unlike its purple-shaded enemy, it's still standing.)
Fake Jack: Hmph! A wounded little lizard like that can hardly call itself Red Dragon Archfiend! Just like *you*, it's not who it once was! It's a *shadow of its former self*!
(Draw. Scoreboard: Fake Jack, 2400, 4; Jack, 3200, 4.)
Fake Jack: Now, since there's no monsters on my field, I can summon Big Piece Golem in attack mode!
[Big Piece Golem 2100//L5/]
Fake Jack: Next I'm activating the Angel Baton speed spell! <15:00>
("Speed Spell - Angel Baton". He sends Small Piece Golem to the grave with this effect.)
Fake Jack: Now I can draw two cards from my deck and send one from my hand to my graveyard! Then I activate the "Powerful Rebirth" trap card, which enables me to summon Small Piece Golem from my graveyard!
[Small Piece Golem 1100//L3/]
Fake Jack: And then I'll enhance its strength with Rebirth's power, increasing its attack points by a hundred! Then, when I've got Big Golem and Small Golem together, I can summon Medium Piece Golem as well!
[Medium Piece Golem 1600///]
Jack: And now you'll fusion-summon Multiple Piece Golem by using Speed Fusion, right?
Fake Jack: Don't be absurd. (turns to ride backwards) I'm going to use that "Assault Spirits" trap card of yours as bait, to summon Trap Eater to the field!
[Trap Eater 1900//L4/]
Jack: A tuner monster!
Fake Jack: Now my level-four Trap Eater tunes my level-four Small Piece Golem...! I synchro-summon, Red Dragon Archfiend!
[Red Dragon Archfiend 3000//L8/]
(This Dragon Archfiend's scales are a brilliant shade of cerulean blue.)
Jack: You've got *another one*?!
Fake Jack: And now, since I successfully synchro-summoned, I can summon the Synchro Magnet tuner monster from my hand!
[Synchro Magnet 1000//L3/]
Fake Jack: And with it on my field, <16:00> I can give Big Piece Golem a tune-up! Next I play "Reincarnation Ring"! By releasing my level-four Medium Piece Golem, this trap allows me to summon a monster from my graveyard that's *twice as powerful*! Why settle for just *two*--
(Two more sets of all-too-familiar claws stretch forth from the bright light. Two more sets of small, almond-shaped eyes light up....)
Fake Jack: When you can battle with *three* Red Dragon Archfiends!
[Red Dragon Archfiend 3000//L8/]
[Red Dragon Archfiend 3000//L8/]
(Now there are three-- the purple one, the blue one, and a third that's a shade of dark mustard yellow.)
Jack: He's got *three Red Dragon Archfiends*?!

Yusei: Incredible!
Kaz: Amazing!
Carly: *Incredibly* amazing!

Fake Jack: Haha! This is the big finish, little clown! The grand finale! The ultimate climax! My *three* Red Dragon Archfiends are going to feast on your *withering little beast*!
(Blue and Purple muscle in first and both pummel and roast Jack's lone Dragon Archfiend. Jack takes the damage, and is all the way down to 1200 lifepoints in a single attack.)
Jack: Uuugghhaaaaaaaaaagggghhh! Hold out, Red Dragon! Stay strong!
(Red Dragon's attack points fall dramatically to 1400; it's all but falling out of the sky. And the yellow one still hasn't attacked.)
Fake Jack: This is the end! My *third* Red Dragon Archfiend attacks!!
(The third Archfiend belches forth a huge, fiery blaze, straight toward Jack and his dragon.)

Yusei: If this attack succeeds, then Jack is a goner!!

(It blazes toward Jack and Archfiend...) <17:00>

Kaz: *No*!

(It's getting closer!)

Carly: Come on, Jack, *do* something!!

(The blast connects.)
Fake Jack: Ahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

ACT 4 <17:08>

(The third and final Dragon Archfiend, the yellowish one, looses its fiery attack.)
Fake Jack: It's the *end a' the road*, Jack! My third Red Dragon attacks! Ahahahahahahahahahaha-- whah?!
(Within the huge column of flames, a runner and dragon can just barely be seen; Jack is still standing.)

Yusei, Kaz, and Carly: What happened?!

(Jack rides out of the dissipating cloud of flame and smoke, an activated trap coasting beside him. He still has 400 lifepoints remaining. Fake Jack irritably turns around to ride forward.)
Fake Jack: So you managed to delay your defeat by activating "Ray of Hope" and *halving* the damage!
(This card shares its name with another trap card. It's usually distinguished by its association with 5D's exclusively.)
Jack: And let's not forget Ray of Hope's *other* effect! After the end of the battle phase, I can use "Ray of Hope" to summon one level-one monster from my hand. So I summon, Dark Bug!
[Dark Bug 100//L1/]
Fake Jack: *Cute*. But it won't do you much good! Meanwhile every time Red Dragon Archfiend takes an attack, it withers even more; losing its claws, losing its fangs, losing its will to go on and becoming less of a fighter-- *just like you*!
Jack: You just don't get it! It's true that I've been struggling lately, but I've emerged and I'm stronger than I used to be-- <18:00>

(Yusei and Kaz are listening closely...)
Jack (VO): Because I have people in my life that I trust and love.
(As is Crow, and Carly too!)
Carly: *Me*...?

(Jack's Red Dragon Archfiend's scales are scored with glowing scratches, but it still stands strong.)
Jack: Red Dragon Archfiend, who battles on despite the damage it's taken, and the Trust Guardian that continues to protect it, both represent the strength my friends give me!

Yusei: That's right!

Jack: You're the selfish Jack I used to be-- the Jack that had no use for friends, and that makes you the *weaker one*!!
(Jack brandishes his right arm and it burns with the wing of the Crimson Dragon.)

(Yusei gasps aloud as his arm lights up immediately--)

(As do Luna and Akiza--)

(And Crow--)

(Jack pauses a moment longer--)

(And the Sign vanishes from Yusei's arm--)

(Luna's and Akiza's Signs fade next. Leo and Bruno are looking over their shoulders, equally stunned.)
Akiza: What's going *on*...?
Luna: We're gathering together...!

(Crow watches the Sign disappear from his arm.)
Crow: Alright, Crimson Dragon, get to it! Give Jack the power that he needs!

(The Seal of the Crimson Dragon ignites on Jack's back, visible through his riding suit. The top card of his deck is glowing.)
Jack: Now allow me to show you what a *real* duelist is capable of! I hope you're ready to accept defeat, because-- (draw) You're gonna *lose*!
(Scoreboard. Fake Jack, 2400, 5; Jack, 400, 5.)
Jack: I summon to the field Majestic Dragon, in attack mode!
(The card glows even brighter as he slaps it down on his duel disk. Majestic Dragon appears in midair with a graceful horizontal pirouette, glowing with an inner light.)
[Majestic Dragon 0//L1/] <19:00>
Jack: And now, Majestic Dragon tunes Red Dragon Archfiend, and Dark Bug!
(Red Dragon Archfiend, still covered with scratches, roars and rises higher into the sky, alongside little, robotic Dark Bug. Majestic Dragon twirls upward to meet them, and spreads its cute little wings to glide. The air blurs, and the tiny tuner dragon seems to expand. Red Dragon Archfiend flies through the green rings, and its scratches disappear; the golden outlines don't include its wounds, only its bright and shining stars. Dark Bug follows Archfiend. The ten stars align within Majestic Dragon's shining form, and light explodes out from the tuning. Jack leaps from the track, into the light...)
Jack: This is my *true* power! I synchro-summon, Majestic Red Dragon!!
(Jack's dragon, a living flame, gracefully takes the sky.)
[Majestic Red Dragon 4000//L10/]
Fake Jack: Unbelievable!
(Jack and his runner are floating in a cloud of shimmering fiery sparks.)
Jack: Believe it, you inadequate punk! And Majestic Red Dragon has a special ability; it can absorb *all of the attack points* from *one* of the monsters on your field! Go, Power Gain!
(Majestic Red Dragon radiates the light of a magnificent lantern, and breathes a shower of mist onto the purplish Dragon Archfiend, and then breathes it back in, shining even brighter, a dragon made of living, breathing fire. Its attack points rocket to 7000, and the three lesser dragons hovering around it begin to look a lot like kindling.)
Fake Jack: Seven thousand attack points?!?!
Jack: It's been *so nice* and all, having you around. But it's time for the *real* Jack Atlas to stand up! Go, Ultimate Powerforce!!
(Power has been gathering in the air around Majestic Red Dragon, glowing like red-hot coals; it rears back, and forms a blinding, blazing whirlwind of fire, bulleting forward surrounded by a huge cloud of fire, glowing brighter and brighter, larger and larger; the three false Archfiends are overwhelmed. <20:00> One by one, they roar and evaporate, incinerated. The false Jack screams-- and it sounds completely metallic.)

Yusei: That thing's a *robot*?!

(Huge explosion. Yusei and Kaz stop short of the dust cloud. The fake's cards drift to the ground-- and begin first to glow, then to disappear, evaporating into little yellow motes of light, including all three Dragon Archfiend cards. Carly joins them and the three silently watch the cards evaporate; it's like a big cloud of fireflies or glowing pollen.)

(The three Directors are watching also, looking down at the light show from the cards.)
Primo (grudgingly): Well, I *guess* that was impressive.
(Primo sits. Lester looks annoyed.)
Lester: And I went through *all that trouble* to copy those cards; what a *waste*!
(The vision below dissipates, and the pinkish, sort of glowing stone with white lines in it, the Directors' all-important circuit, appears in its place. A new, glowing white line traces its way through the rock, sparking brightly.)
Lester (excitedly): The circuit's been activated!!
(Primo still looks unimpressed.)
Jacob: *Excellent*. I *told* you he'd fit into the grand design!

(Jack rolls to a halt, and his friends run over to him. Carly's snapping pictures as Jack triumphantly takes off his helmet.)
Yusei: Jack!
Kaz: You did it-- and I witnessed the whole thing, <21:00> so I can testify that you *weren't* the one committing those crimes!
Jack: Thank you, Kaz.
(Behind her camera, Carly's cheeks are streams of tears.)
Carly (think): I *knew* Jack was innocent! I just *knew it*!!
(Crow joins them on his runner, and rides right up next to Jack. He takes off his helmet and leans in close, scrutinizing Jack's face.)
Crow: Hold still.
Jack: O-kay...
(Crow leans back, tears forming at the corners of his eyes. He hurriedly wipes them away with a fingertip, then with his sleeve.)
Crow: It- it *is* you!! I thought I'd never see you again! I thought a *lotta* things about you that weren't true, I- I said all *sortsa* mean stuff, an' I- I, I called you *names*, like--
Jack (smiling): It's not your fault, Crow, I *was* being stubborn. (laughs a bit) Although if you wanna keep groveling and apologizing, I'll *take* it.
Crow: All right, don't *milk* it, ya *jerk*!
(Yusei, Kaz, Carly, and Jack laugh. Above, the tranquil clouds halfway conceal the bright full moon.)

Crow: You're *sure* this is where you were bein' held?
(Yusei, Jack, and Crow are standing on the rocky shore in broad daylight.)
Jack: Yes, I'm *sure*! There was a cave, and... but it's *gone* now. Even my *duel runner tracks* are gone! I just don't understand-- what *was* that robot? Why was it running around and acting like me? How did it have my *cards*?
Crow (to Yusei): Do ya think maybe *this* robot has anything to do with that other duel-bot? <22:00>
Yusei: It's *definitely* all connected, I'm sure of it. The duel-bots, Iliaster, the Grand Prix-- the pieces are there...
(As they stand there, they seem to be obliviously standing in the palm of a giant, gloved hand, with Jacob looming over them.)
Yusei: ...Now it's up to us to figure out how they all fit together!

END <22:16>

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Last Updated: January 27, 2011

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