Bonds That Can Change the Future (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)

If I Lost You

          Chapter 20

(following anime episodes 75 and 76)

          Hanako was already on her way from Martha's place to Poppo Time. She made dinner with Martha and was distracted by playing with kids that she completely lost the track of the time. It was nearly midnight when she checked the digital clock on her runner and it was very dark on the streets of Neo Domino City, "I stayed too long!" She shouted angrily, "Crow is going to get worried about me again", she sighed when suddenly her D-Wheel activated and Speed World II spell showed on the screen of her runner, "A duel? Have you gone crazy?!" She asked her runner like it was alive, "What's going on? Who told you to wake up in the middle of the night?" She rolled her eyes, thinking her system had an error again, so she will have to check it tomorrow, but then she saw a strange male figure driving a D-Wheel behind her. Hanako ran a system-check to scan the driver behind her, but there was no data registered, so she turned her head, looking behind over her shoulder just to see a familiar character behind her.

"Get ready to duel!" The strange male shouted.

          "Ghost?" Hanako murmured, "At this hour it's no surprise... I should've listened to Crow and come back home by the dinner time!" She scolded herself, moving her head back to the screen, seeing the duel has already started, so she just pressed the button and accepted it.

"You can't escape now!"

          "Tell me something I don't know", she murmured sarcastically into her chin.

"It's time!" Ghost laughed wickedly.

          "Come and get me!" Hanako smirked, looking over her shoulder, "But we will do this my way!" She added, disabling autopilot mode, so that she can have a complete control over her runner and the speed.

"No autopilot, huh?" Ghost laughed manically, "You are very brave to do so!"

          Hanako didn't mind the provocation, "Since you invited, why don't you go first?"

But Ghost didn't even think, he just drew his cards and started the duel, "My turn!" Ghost looked at his cards, playing his Wise Core (ATK 0 / DEF 0) in defence position, "I place two cards face down and end my turn!"

          "My turn!" Hanako shouted, drawing a card, as she started thinking about her strategy, "He is playing the same tactics he played with Yusei... If I don't stop this Wise Core, he is going to summon his Machine Emperor", she looked at the cards she drew, realisation of her forgetting to replace her regular deck with her Speed Duel deck was clearly visible on her face.

"What's wrong, little girl?" Ghost smirked, looking at Hanako's runner before his eyes, "Are you scared?"

          "Who said I'm scared?" She shouted, looking at the screen of her runner, "I can't believe I forgot to change my decks!" She scolded herself through a whisper, knowing she doesn't have her Speed Spells and some crucial Tuner Monsters with her. She turned around to see Ghost; he was speeding up, following her speed without even sweating! "What should I do now?"

"If you're going to quit, then do me a favour, Baby!" Ghost shouted with an evil smile on his face.

          "Baby?" Hanako was left surprised, "And how do you know my name?"

"I know more than you can imagine", Ghost added, "Now make your move!"

          "Well, here goes nothing!" Hanako answered, moving back to her screen and carefully scanning her cards, "Well", she smirked, seeing a card from her regular deck that might help her out, "Maybe having a regular deck with me isn't that bad after all!" She said, taking a card and placing it onto the field, "I summon Numbing Grub in the Ice Barrier (ATK 1 300 / DEF 1 800)!"