Transcript: The Question of the Card

Transcript:
The Question of the Card

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Original Air Date: February 19, 2011

TEASER

(A single spell card that depicts a portal streaming light spins from a dark void. Sherry LeBlanc speaks in voiceover.)
Sherry (VO): It was because of *one card* that my life was turned upside-down. That my mother and father lost *everything*. That I was forced to run for my life!
(The card flips closer and closer to the camera, and then is held by Sherry, still against the backdrop of the dark void, looking fiercely angry. She whips it around, as though ready to play it.)
Sherry (VO): It was because of one card that everything was ruined-- but it will be through that *same* one card that everything will soon be fixed!

(It's a scene of chaos in a plush, fancy room somewhere in one of New Domino's skyscrapers. Several men in suits sprawl on the floor incapacitated, and the furniture is knocked over and upended. In the center of the room, one kind of chubby man, gray-haired, in a business suit, stands cornered by Sherry.)
- Whaddayou want? W-why have you come here?
(Sherry walks a step forward and grabs the front of his shirt.)
Sherry: I've come here for answers.
(She keeps gripping his shirt with one hand, and with the other shows him the card with the bright portal.)
Sherry: *This card*. I want to know why it's so important!
- I... don't know...!
(Wrong answer. He is shoved out the door to the railed patio, half of whose windows have already been smashed through. Sherry strides after and backs him against the railing.)
Sherry: Don't *know*? You've been chasing me for it for weeks!
(She grabs him by the front of his shirt again.)
Sherry: Now I want to know *why*.
- Yes... fine... you're right... I *have* been after that card... but only because I got an order from someone to snatch it! I would tell you who the someone was, but he...
(The man's loafered feet now dangle a few inches above the ground.)
- Gggh, he never gave me a name, I swear!!
(The tips of his toes rest on the ground.)
Sherry: I don't believe you!
- No... please... I'm not lying, this man is a mystery! He operates in the shadows...! Gaaah..!
Sherry: *Shadows*? He'll need more than shadows to hide from me! *Vengeance will be mine*!! <1:00>
(She lifts the man up again and his feet dangle helplessly a few inches above the patio...)
- No, stop! Don't!!

(And he's thrown against a wall inside, knocked out. Sherry regards him, arms crossed, with Ellsworth.)
Sherry: It's as I feared. To get some answers... we're going to need to do it with tech power, not muscle power.
Ellsworth: With *tech*? And what tech might that be?
(Behind Sherry, the blinking red lights of the antennas atop the Public Security Bureau building are visible.)
Sherry: What else? The city's most advanced comp grid-- the Public Security Bureau's Super Mainframe.
(With that, she looks behind her out the window toward Security Headquarters. Ellsworth follows her gaze.)
Ellsworth: Ah, but of course. Question *is*, how do we access it?

(Opening)

ACT 1 <2:25>

Trudge: So, then. You still haven't regained your memory?
Bruno: No. It's all still one big haze.
(Mina, Trudge, Yusei, and Bruno are seated together at a table next to a floor-to-ceiling plate glass window, in a cafe somewhere in Domino. The china on the table suggests maybe they're meeting over coffee around mid-day.)
Yusei: Has Sector Security found any leads on Bruno's I.D.?
(Mina pulls out a document.)
Mina: Well, we ran his prints and did a face-scan down in the Super Mainframe... but no matches.
(The document has pictures of Bruno, and a big red circle with a slash through it printed across it.)
Bruno: Really? *Nothing*?
Trudge: *Don't worry*, Bruno, we're gonna keep at this. Yusei, would it be okay if he shacked up over at your place for a little bit longer?
Yusei: Yeah; sure, of course!

(Same time, outside the Public Security Bureau Headquarters. Two individuals in gray uniforms-- one a woman with a tight blonde bun, the other a huge man carrying a metal suitcase-- approach the building.)

(Yusei and Bruno take the elevator back down to the ground floor after their meeting. Bruno gazes solemnly out the window in the wall of the elevator; the buildings beyond seem to get taller as they descend.) <3:00>
Yusei: You okay, Bruno?
Bruno: Yeah... It's just- I have this weird feeling that someone out there is *waiting* for me. I dunno, that probably doesn't make any sense, does it?
Yusei: Sure it does. Don't you worry, Bruno, we're going to find out who you are.
Bruno: Yeah, I sure hope so... I feel so *lost*...

(A busy day in the office at Security Headquarters. A female announcer on a large screen overlaps with urgent business chatter.)
- (via screen) Attention, all Sector Security personnel--
- Trudge? You got a call on line fourteen!
(At the end of a row of busy phone operators, Trudge picks up a handset.)
Trudge (into phone): Yeah, ya got Trudge here...
Building Operator (via phone, muffled): -- We need to evacuate--
Trudge (into phone): Who is this?!
Building Operator (via phone): The building operator! I just got a call saying that the place was completely *rigged*!
(Trudge is thunderstruck.)
Trudge (into phone): Huh! *Completely rigged* with *what*?
Building Operator (via phone): Whaddaya *think*, with *explosives*! So everyone needs to evacu--
(The phone conversation is cut off with a crackle of static.)
Trudge (into phone): Hello?! Hello!! Hey, are you there?!
(Trudge is really starting to panic. Mina looks up from reading papers at her desk nearby; the uniformed young lady who brought her coffee is just as startled. Then the audio of the big screen cuts out and a loud microphone feedback whine interrupts all business in the room. The operators look up from their desks, bewildered.)
- What's going on?
(A menacing voice comes over the speakers.)
- (via speakers) Hmhmhmhm. *He's* not-- but *I* am.
(Trudge stands, still holding the phone set to his ear.)
Trudge: Who *is this*?!
- (via speakers) This is someone with a great many *lives* in their hands.
Trudge: Yeah, right-- I'm callin' your bluff, pal!
- (via speakers) Very well, I'll prove it.
(Trudge and Mina gasp, horror-stricken.

(A moment later, a spot on the side of the PSB Building explodes, billowing dark smoke.)

(The room rocks, and the ceiling lights go out. <4:00> A dial tone can be heard on Trudge's phone; the mystery bomber hung up already. Mina stands, taking charge, though her voice wavers slightly.)
Mina: Code Red!
(Trudge gasps, brought back to the situation by her words, then goes into action.)
Trudge: You heard her, everyone-- evacuate!
(The phone operators clear from the room quickly.)

(Yusei and Bruno are stuck in the elevator, which apparently stopped when the lights went out, listening to a computer voice over the building's public address speakers with alarm.)
Computer (via loudspeakers): Code Red. Repeat, Code Red. Please evacuate immediately.
Yusei: Evacuate...?
Bruno: And we're stuck in here?

(In front of the PSB Building, people stream from the open front doors, some with cell phones or other gizmos; Mina's holding a small handheld holographic screen. Trudge hurries up to her.)
Trudge: Chief-- our division is all out of the building.
Mina: That's good.
(The Deputy Director is a bulky man in a dark red suit, bald on top with brown hair around the back of his head and a bushy brown mustache. He calls to them from nearby.)
Deputy Director: Does anybody know who was on the phone?
Mina: We aren't sure.
- Deputy Director, there are no reported injuries!
- Deputy Director-- the press is demanding that you make a comment!
(Trudge and Mina watch form a distance; a few men nearby are kneeling on the sidewalk with their laptops, and officers in uniforms and business suits are milling around frantically. A crowd of half a dozen clusters around the Deputy Director, all speaking at once.)
- Deputy Director!
- Deputy Director!
- Deputy--
Trudge: The poor guy, I feel sorry for 'im. After all, he didn't sign up for this, the *real* Directors can't be located and Vice-Director Lezar is away to who-*knows*-where on some *extended vacation*. Now there's practically *no one left* to run this place.
(Just then, the building's metal shutters rattle closed, sealing every entrance. Security has just been locked out of their own building.)
Trudge: What gives! Why is the building locking itself?!
Mina: I'm not sure. That's *not protocol*.
(She consults her screen.) <5:00>

(In an endless blue room, little yellow lights drift in figure-eight patterns around three pillars, atop each of which is a throne. Geometric designs in strict right angles weave across the ceiling. Below the three thrones is an ellipsoid window, showing the scene outside Security Headquarters. The three Directors-General watch from their thrones.)
Lester: It seems the flies are doing quite a bit of buzzing these days! Oh, how I like to watch-- I find it so amusing seeing them search for answers. Eheheheheheheheh!
Primo: That clown Lezar is still on the run; which *means*...
Jacob: Which *means* we do *nothing*-- and let these fools destroy *themselves*!

ACT 2 <5:19>

(The two mysterious individuals in grey uniforms who approached the building earlier hurry down a flight of stairs inside the darkened Security building, tossing off their sunglasses and flinging off their nondescript hats; it's Sherry and Ellsworth.)

Yusei: This... should do it.
(Some skillful tinkering with a screwdriver has finally allowed Yusei and Bruno to pry apart the doors of the elevator.)
Bruno: Nice going, Yusei.
Yusei: Thanks. Now let's get ou--
(As they emerge from the elevator, they catch sight of Sherry and Ellsworth as they reach the bottom of the flight of stairs and turn the corner to descend another level.)
Yusei: What in the *world*?
Bruno: D'you *know* them?
Yusei: Yeah-- but where're they going!
(Yusei takes off running after them. Bruno hesitates before following.)
Bruno: Hey-- d'j'you forget? We're supposed to be *evacuating*!

(After a moment of typing on a control console keyboard, the screen displays an icon that depicts a lock with a circle and slash across it.)
Sherry: There. We now have complete access to the Super Mainframe! Come on!
(Sherry turns to descend the stairs from the control panel platform, and Ellsworth follows.)

(Yusei is waiting to intercept them, Bruno right behind him.)
Yusei: Sherry.
(Sherry and Ellsworth stop in their tracks.)
Sherry: Yusei. Long time, no see. What's happening? You smarten up and decide to join my team yet?
Yusei: Now's not the time to talk about that. <6:00>
Bruno: We all have to get out of here-- it's not safe to be in this building right now!
Sherry: Heheheheh. *Actually*, yes it is. We just rigged one blast for effect!
Yusei: Wait, then *you're* behind this? But *why*?
(Sherry turns to leave through the large door at the opposite end of the room.
Sherry: Sorry; but that's simply none of your business. Au revoir!
Yusei: Wait--!
(Ellsworth blocks Yusei's path.)
Yusei: Let me through! You two *won't* get away with this!
Sherry: Try and stop me.
(She turns, and disappears into the dark area beyond. The door begins to shutter closed behind her.)
Yusei: Huh...! Sherry--!
(Yusei lunges forward and Ellsworth heads him off.)
Yusei: Agh...!
(Bruno gets around Ellsworth while his attention is on Yusei and runs for the door. Ellsworth whirls and throws a tool, catching Bruno on the ankle and tripping him. He rolls, hits the ground on his tailbone, and slides right under the door as it closes.)
Bruno: Whoa...!
Ellsworth: Lucky punk.
(Ellsworth is still blocking Yusei; Yusei calls over his shoulder toward the door.)
Yusei (calls through door): Bruno, you have to stop Sherry!
Bruno (through door): You can count on me, Yusei.
Ellsworth (to Yusei): ...No, you can't.
(Ellsworth turns and walks toward the sealed door.)
Ellsworth: Huh. You know he's no match for Sherry. But *you* might be. Therefore, I cannot allow you to pass.
(Ellsworth smashes a glass panel beside the door with his fist, and reveals two slender coated wires, one green and one blue. A panel on the back of his duel disk slides open and he plugs these into two matching ports. His duel disk lights up with a lifepoint count of 4000.)
Ellsworth: Shall we?
(He activates his duel disk. Two lights on the wall beep and light up red, and a screen on the wall next to where the blue and green wires are attached to it similarly reads 4000 lifepoints.) <7:00>
Yusei: Are you saying that the only way that door is gonna open is if I beat you in a duel?
Ellsworth: That's right.
(Yusei walks to the other end of a dueling distance.)
Yusei: Very well, if that's what it's gonna take. I may not know what Sherry's up to-- but I plan to stop it here and now.
Ellsworth: Then you'll have to get through *me*! (draw) From my hand, I summon Spirit Summit Warrior!
[Spirit Summit Warrior 1200//L4/]
Ellsworth: Next I activate Spirit Summit Warrior's ability. It lets me summon one level-three-or-below warrior-type monster from my hand. And the monster I choose is the Liberated Rear Warrior!
[Liberated Rear Warrior 0//L3/]
(As Ellsworth speaks, the two monsters are already beginning a synchro-summon. Liberated Rear Warrior slashes his naginata and dissolves into three stars.)
Ellsworth: Now both of these battle-hardened heroes will tune together and create a champion even more powerful-- behold the power of two warriors working as one!
(L4 + L3 = L7)
Ellsworth: Behold the power of a synchro-summoning. Rise and conquer-- Driven Daredevil!
[Driven Daredevil 2400/2100/L7/earth]
Computer: When Driven Daredevil is attacked by a monster with more attack points, *it* survives, and the attacking monster is destroyed. <8:00>
Ellsworth: With that, I end my turn, with two facedowns.
Yusei: My draw!
(Yusei drew Quillbolt Hedgehog. He discards it.)
Yusei: And first, I'll send the Quillbolt Hedgehog in my hand to the grave, to summon, Quickdraw Synchron!
[Quickdraw Synchron 700//L5/]
Yusei: And now because there's already a tuner monster out on my field, the Quillbolt Hedgehog in my grave-- is summoned to join him!
[Quillbolt Hedgehog 800//L2/]
Yusei: Now, level-five Quickdraw Synchron, tune with level-two Quillbolt Hedgehog and take aim-- to make an even mightier beast!
(A wheel of synchrons whirls in the air; Quickdraw Synchron draws his little gun and fires. The smoke from the barrel is bright violet, as are the edges of the bullet hole through-- Nitro Synchron. Quillbolt Hedgehog soars through the aligning five rings. L2 + L5 = L7.)
Yusei: Pool together all of your powers, and merge all of your might! I synchro-summon-- Nitro Warrior!!
[Nitro Warrior 2800//L7/]
Ellsworth: Ggghh...
Yusei: Now, Nitro Warrior, attack Driven Daredevil! Go, Dynamite Crunch!
(Daredevil faces down the attack, catching it on his crossed blades. Ellsworth's lifepoints decrease to 3600.)
Ellsworth: I'm *not letting you through that door*...! <9:00> I play Daredevil's special ability-- Determined Will!
(Daredevil uncrosses his swords in a double slash, and a strong wind begins to blow through the room.)
Yusei: What is this?!
Ellsworth: *This*, I'm afraid, is the end of the road for your Nitro Warrior, Yusei Fudo!
(Daredevil expertly crosses his glowing swords in a T, then leaps skyward and slashes down on Nitro's chest with both swords, leaving two deep gashes. Daredevil's eyes glint bright white.)
Ellsworth: Next I play "Master and Servant's Resolve". From now on, if a monster is destroyed in battle due to another monster's ability...
(A glowing knife shoots from the card-- straight toward Yusei!)
Ellsworth: The destroyed monster's attack points are dealt as damage!
(The glowing dart stabs right into Yusei's stomach; he grips it with both hands. This brings him all the way down to 1200 lifepoints, but he doesn't make a sound.)
Ellsworth: However, in order to keep this continuous trap in play, I must take one thousand points of damage every turn.
Yusei: That means you'll only last in this duel for *four turns* at the very max!
Ellsworth: *Four turns* is all that I will need... and my Driven Daredevil will see to that!
(With Ellsworth and Driven Daredevil looming over him, Yusei is up against quite a challenge. His vivid blue eyes are blazing.)
Yusei: Well then... time to *rev it up*!

ACT 3 <9:56>

(Outside the shuttered entrance to the Security Building, Trudge impatiently watches a crew cut through the metal with welding torches.)
Trudge (thinks): The only way the security screens would activate is if someone on the *inside* activated them. <10:00> Huh... I'm starting to smell a rat here!
Mina: Trudge!
Trudge: Huh?
(Mina shows him her little screen.)
Mina: Remote feeds indicate someone's trying to access the Super Mainframe!
Trudge: What? The *Mainframe*?! But that would give them access to the city database, which would mean-- (wails) Aaaahhh!
Mina: *Right*. All kinds of bad things. Pick up the pace, men!
Trudge: The ones we want are *inside*!!

(Sector Security's Super Mainframe is topped with a colorful array of lights. It's a really big supercomputer. Sherry stands before the console on the front of it. She holds the mysterious card with the bright portal before her.)
Sherry: At last the truth will *finally* be mine...
(Bruno runs into the room after her, one arm outstretched.)
Bruno: Stop! Don't even take another step! It's *over*!
(Sherry whirls, and Bruno can barely yelp before being felled by a kick to the head. Sherry faces him, ready to attack again, and Bruno cowers on the ground.)
Bruno: Wait- no- stop- please don't hurt me!
(Sherry answers with another flying kick; Bruno barely manages to scramble out of the way.)

(Yusei and Ellsworth face off across the room outside the Super Mainframe.)
Yusei: I summon Tricular in defense mode.
[Tricular /300/L3/]
Yusei: I then end my turn with a facedown.
Ellsworth: My draw then. In order to keep Master and Servant's Resolve activated...
(Another glowing dagger flies from the continuous trap and plunges into Ellsworth's stomach. He grips it with both hands, face strained and intense.) <11:00>
Ellsworth: I take one thousand points of damage!!
(This leaves him with 2600 lifepoints. Yusei is watching carefully; this is where Ellsworth's style speaks volumes.)
Ellsworth: Now Driven Daredevil will attack Tricular!
(Daredevil destroys Tricular.)
Yusei: And since you *did*, and Tricular was destroyed, I can now summon Bicular out from my deck!
[Bicular /200/L2/]
Ellsworth: In that case, I play "Reversal Sword". Due to this trap, when your monster is destroyed in battle, a monster with a level lower than that monster is *also* destroyed!
(A sword shoots from the card and slashes Bicular, then shatters; Yusei shields his face from the shards of steel. He's down to 1000 lifepoints.)
Ellsworth: And then, *both* players take damage equal to that destroyed monster's attack points.
(Ellsworth also takes 200 points of damage, leaving him with 2400.)
Ellsworth: I'll now end my turn with a facedown.
Yusei (think): *And* end any chance I have to do damage this round! Every monster I play, he *pulverizes* a moment later!
(A holographic screen appears in the air above the duel; it shows the front of the building, just as Security troops rush through the new doorway they made. Trudge and another higher-ranked officer in a brown coat lead the charge.)
- (via screen) All right, men, sweep the place!
Trudge (via screen): You three, follow me-- we're goin' to the Mainframe!
Ellsworth: This isn't good...

(Meanwhile, Sherry kicks at Bruno again and he leans back, just barely evading her.)
Bruno: Whoa- please- let's just *talk*--!
(She whirls and kicks again, and he lands on the floor on his rear. Almost before he can recover, she runs at him and punches down; he rolls out of the way. Her punch hits the floor. Then her cell phone rings. Leaving Bruno coughing on the floor, she answers it.) <12:00>
Sherry (into phone): What's up?
Ellsworth (via phone): Sector Security has entered the building. There's not much time; have you found what you're looking for?
Sherry (into phone): No. There's been an unexpected delay.
(Bruno catches his breath on the floor, listening.)
Sherry (into phone): I need more time.
Ellsworth (via phone): But Sherry--
Sherry (into phone): No buts!

Sherry (via phone): I'm not leaving until I find the answers I need!
Ellsworth (into phone): Very well.
(Ellsworth hangs up and puts his cell phone away.)
Yusei: So then you plan to continue this duel? Don't you see, it's only a matter of time before you get captured.
Ellsworth: What happens to *me* doesn't matter. Sherry must be allowed to solve the mystery of that card no matter what the cost may be!
Yusei: *What* card?
Ellsworth: The card that's determined the course of her life.

(Back in the Mainframe room, Sherry advances on Bruno again.)
Bruno: Please-- please, no more...
(She grabs the front of his shirt and pulls him up.)
Bruno: Why don't you just leave now before you get *caught*?
Sherry: Because I'm willing to risk my freedom *and more* for the information I'm looking for!
Bruno: Why? What's this *info*...?
Sherry: It all has to do with *one card*; where it came from, who handled it, everything! Once I find that out, I can find out who took my parents from me, and finally get my revenge! <13:00>
Bruno: Wha...?
(Sherry's duel disk unfolds its field spell zone, then another cap folds off the end of that, revealing two metal prongs, crackling with electricity. These might normally allow a duel disk to plug into something, but she clearly intends to use them as a weapon.)
Sherry: That's why *no one* will interfere!!
(She lunges forward, stabbing toward Bruno's face with the crackling prongs. Bruno is frozen, too slow to get out of the way; the menacing crackle of electricity reflects in his blank, slate-blue eyes. Then, at the last moment, they light up bright, sparkling red. Before Sherry knows what hit her, Bruno has just done an impossible somersaulting scissor-kick, balancing on his fingertips, fending her off and gracefully putting distance between them, something mild-mannered Bruno would never have been able to pull off alone. His eyes are still shining like bright red stars. Sherry hits the ground at a crouch and springboards off of it, whirling through the air for another kick. Bruno, or whatever has possessed him, halts her kick less than an inch from his face, gripping her ankle and keeping her off-balance, then casually swinging her around by the ankle and flinging her into the wall. She spins around in midair, keeping her opponent in sight, ready to come back again, but just as she turns he catches her by the throat and holds her at arm's length, his other fist at the ready. The card with the glowing portal slips from inside the lapel of her disguise, and he takes it from her, examining it closer. Sherry weakly protests.)
Sherry: No-- that card...! It's the only clue- that I have to help me set my life straight again...!
Bruno: Set- my life- straight- again...!
(The scary red glow fades from Bruno's eyes. He releases Sherry, leaving her on the floor coughing, and walks over to the computer console. He places the card on a small, round scanner on the console and holds down a big red button next to it. Sherry walks suspiciously over to him as he starts typing.)
Sherry (hoarsely): What are you doing?
Bruno: Solving the mystery. This computer is highly advanced; I'll operate it for you.
Sherry: Why are you helping me? <14:00>
Bruno: I know what it's like to have questions about the past. And if this is your one chance to get some *real answers*, and I can help... (turns) well then, *why not*.

Yusei: Wait, so, this is all about *Iliaster*, and getting revenge?
Ellsworth: Correct, Yusei, and Sherry will not be *denied* that revenge.
Yusei: Even if she ends up being *taken* like her parents! Does she have *any clue* what kind of trouble she's stirring up?!
Ellsworth: She knows what she's doing. It's not *my* place to try and stop her.
Yusei: In that case, I guess the job falls to me! It's my turn!
(Yusei flips the card he just drew; Turbo Booster.)
Yusei (think): Perfect! (aloud) I summon to the field Debris Dragon!
[Debris Dragon 1000//L4/]
Yusei: Now, due to Debris Dragon's ability, I can summon a monster with five hundred or less attack points from my grave! So welcome back, Tricular!
[Tricular 300//L3/]
Yusei: But wait, there's more, because on a turn that I'm able to successfully summon a monster, I can summon out Turbo Booster, too!
[Turbo Booster 0//L1/]
Yusei: And now the stage is set! <15:00> Level-four Debris Dragon, tune with level-one Turbo Booster, and level-three Tricular!
(Debris Dragon's four stars shoot into the sky and float back down as green rings. Tricular and Turbo Booster soar into them. L1 + L3 + L4 = L8.)
Yusei: Out of three will come one-- and out of one will come great cosmic might! I synchro-summon-- Stardust Dragon!!
(Yusei's mightiest monster soars forth, filling the air with iridescent, glittering snow.)
[Stardust Dragon 2500//L8/]
Ellsworth: Stardust Dragon...! But that means...
Yusei: It *means*, I can negate an effect that destroys cards *and* get rid of the card it came from. Of course if I do, then Stardust Dragon must pay the ultimate price...

(Vision. As Yusei speaks, we envision a possible end of the duel in monochromatic blue tones. Stardust Dragon is crying out in pain, glowing cracks shattering its chest and wings. It glows, and evaporates from the field.)
Yusei (VO): ...And be banished to the graveyard. However it's a price well worth paying, since the card I'm choosing to rid of is Driven Daredevil!
(Across the field, Stardust's dissolving fire reaches over and strikes Driven Daredevil from the field. Another glowing dagger emerges from Ellsworth's continuous trap, and plunges into his stomach.)
Yusei (VO): Now due to the effect of Master and Servant's Resolve, *you'll* take damage equal to his attack points, and that's twenty-four-hundred points, which means--
(End Vision.)

Yusei: It'll be *game over* for you.
Ellsworth: Are you sure about that, Yusei? If I prevent Stardust Dragon's ability, using my facedown...

(Vision. Ellsworth's potential end to the duel plays out in green monochrome. Driven Daredevil slashes Stardust Dragon across the nose, and Yusei takes a glowing dagger to the gut. )
Ellsworth: And then destroy it using my Daredevil, then *you'll* take the effect of Master and Servant's Resolve. <16:00>
(End Vision.)

Ellsworth: And *your* lifepoints will be gone.
Yusei: All right, then; guess it all comes down to this next move.
Ellsworth: I guess *so*...
Yusei: Well, then-- let's get to it!
(Daredevil's swords flash; Stardust roars. Both have just declared they'll win in the next turn, and neither is backing down.)

ACT 4 <16:18>

Yusei: Stardust Dragon! Attack with Cosmic Flare!
Ellsworth: I activate the trap "Standoff"!
(Daredevil withstands the blast, as does Ellsworth; his lifepoints decrease to 2300.)
Ellsworth: Next I'll play my Daredevil's ability!
(Daredevil slashes across his chest with both swords, and dissipates Stardust's blast.)
Ellsworth: Now since Daredevil has the least attack points in this battle, he survives and your monster is destroyed!
Yusei: Not so fast; I'm releasing Stardust Dragon, so that ability is negated!
(Stardust screeches dramatically, and starts to glow.)
Ellsworth: I don't think so. Due to Standoff, you *can't* release Stardust Dragon.
(A glowing yellow band flies out of the card and wraps itself around Stardust Dragon, binding its arms and wings to its sides. It abruptly stops glowing.) <17:00>
Ellsworth: Now go lay waste! Finish Stardust off, Daredevil!
(Daredevil slashes, his double swords grating against the ring that binds Stardust-- then sliding right through it.)
Ellsworth: But how...?!
(Stardust evaporates from inside the imprisoning ring, leaving Daredevil slashing at nothing. The empty hoop falls to the floor with a hollow clink and shatters. Then the air begins to glow in brilliant iridescence; Stardust has returned in shimmering, ghostly form.)
Yusei: I can *tell you* how-- with the trap "Space Jump"! Now I remove Stardust Dragon from play, and *you* take damage equal to his attack points!
(Ellsworth doesn't flinch, or blink, even facing down a huge, dazzling fireball of blue and white power. By the time his lifepoints sink to zero, the room is dark again. The lifepoint counter on the door drops to match, and the door slides open. Ellsworth stands beside it, defeated, and bows decorously.)
Ellsworth: You've earned your passage. And please... tell her I'm sorry.
(Yusei has walked past him, but pauses without turning around.)
Yusei: For *what*? We both want the same thing; to help Sherry.
Ellsworth: What?
(Yusei looks over his shoulder, and smiles.)
Yusei: Come on-- we'll have a better chance if we work together!
Ellsworth: Hmm...

(Back at the Mainframe, the card scanner blinks. Sherry anxiously looks over Bruno's shoulder at the glowing red computer screen.)
Computer: Analysis complete.
Bruno: All right. There ya have it. Guess, that's that. <18:00>
Sherry: No way...! There's no *way* that this is right! This card has *answers*! It *has* to!!
(Just then, the card itself starts to light up, throwing out a halo of prismatic light before several beams of golden light shine from its center, as though through the image of the portal. Sherry and Bruno flinch back, shielding their eyes from the light.)

(Above the Security building, the sky grows dark and scary; several concentric layers of purple clouds blossom from above the rooftop satellite dish, as though the sky has just opened up a spontaneous black hole. Purple lightning strikes through the heavens. The wind has begun to blow. Mina looks up at the phenomenon from the sidewalk below, with an alarmed gasp.)
Mina: What's going on!
(Around her, several other officers are also staring at the strange occurrence. The purple lightning strikes more, and closer to the ground than before, and bolts strike at the top of the building again and again, seemingly without any damage to the architecture.)

(Yusei and Ellsworth run into the Mainframe room to find a windy storm of random dust and bolts of energy.)
Yusei: Sherry, Bruno!!
(Yusei runs a few steps, but stops short, guarding his face with a hand as he peers toward the center of the room.)
Yusei: What's happening?!
(Sherry and Bruno haven't moved from the brightly-shining computer console, which only shines brighter and brighter as they struggle to stay standing. The mysterious card on the scanner is glimmering with shadowy purple lights. Yusei again fights toward the center of the storm, just as the card glows white, and the light spreads from it like the blast of a bomb, encompassing first Sherry and Bruno, then Yusei, and finally Ellsworth...)
Ellsworth: Sherry, no!!!

(When the white light fades, it doesn't fade much, because Yusei, Bruno, and Sherry now find themselves standing in a void of white tiles; the floor under their feet is tiled in pure, reflective white, as is the ceiling several feet above them, and the walls are infinitely far away, if they even exist at all, surrounding the whole space with bright, reflected white light.)
Yusei: Where *are* we?
Bruno: And how did we get here?
(The three of them look around, oblivious to their being mapped on a grid, or watched. A camera lens zooms in on Yusei's face, and superimposes a grid of rectangles over the image. Yusei glances over, as though presciently aware of the scrutiny. He has noticed something else in this empty white void, rotating benignly some distance away.)
Yusei: What is *that*?
(Bruno and Sherry turn around. The object is white and metallic silver, roughly the shape of a comma, with a round top and a pointy bottom, which it balances on unnaturally as it rotates. Apparently it's a robot of some kind. But as it turns to face them head-on, a gruff and sinister blue eye can be glimpsed through the casing. The sight of it is a shock-- all three cry out, shaken to the core.) <19:00>
Yusei: Huaahhh...!!
Bruno: Aaaoooww...!!
Sherry: Ohhh...!!
(The unnerving observer zooms in close on someone's eye, and scans it, rapidly sifting data...)

(Trudge runs into the room that houses the Super Mainframe, with four or five officers at his back.)
Trudge: Whoa!! That's *bad*!
(The towering tip of the Mainframe computer that glittered with LED lights has snapped and come crashing down before it; what's left of the Mainframe computer has seen better days as well, sparking with electricity, the metal ripped apart.)
Trudge: The Mainframe's shorting out!

(Yusei opens his eyes wincing, and sits up; Bruno has been unconscious next to him and awoken at the same time.)
Bruno: Whoa, is that...?!
(Ellsworth is standing beside them; he holds Sherry, still unconscious, cradled in his arms. They're on a nondescript patch of hard ground, looking across the night-dark sea toward the multicolored lights in the distance...)
Ellsworth: New Domino City, yes.
(Yusei and Bruno stand up, Bruno with a hand to his head as though it aches.)
Yusei: Ellsworth, tell me you know what's going on.
Ellsworth: No. There was a blast back at the lab, and I was knocked out. When I came to, we were all just *lying here*...
(He looks down at Sherry protectively.)
Ellsworth: Thank you for your help. If we didn't go after Sherry when we did... who *knows* how worse things could've turned out.
(He inclines his head courteously to both of them, and walks away, carrying Sherry.)
Yusei: This is strange. How did we get away from whatever that creature was back in that weird room?
Bruno: I dunno. <20:00> But, I'd say the *most* important thing is that we *did* manage to escape from 'im.
Yusei: *Him*?
(He looks out toward the City on the other side of the water, and Bruno follows his gaze. The bright, opulent city lights diffusing across the dark ocean give the scene a soft, unreal quality to it. The two stand alone before a daunting challenge.)
Yusei (think): Sherry came here looking for answers; answers about Iliaster. But it seems all she found were more questions. Well now it's *our* turn to take a crack at *answering* them!

END <20:22>

* Special thanks to YouTube, DailyMotion.com and their heroic uploaders for making this episode accessible online in an easily-transcribed format.
* Special thanks to Yugioh Wikia as a source for checking cards.
* Special thanks to Kazuki Takahashi, 4Kids, et al. for Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's!

Last Updated: February 26, 2011

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