Chapter Five- The Final Obstacle

"Rex," Roman said calmly. "You never knew when to give up. You have lost, little brother."

"Brother?" Jack gasped, voicing everyone's shock.

Goodwin looked sideways at Jack. "Yes. Roman is my brother. He was the one who told me to gather the Signers to fight the Dark Signers."

Roman laughed. "That's what I told you, but I knew if at least one of them decided to join me, then the battle is won. As you can see, two of them joined me."

"Something tells me it wasn't of their own free will," Goodwin said.

Yusei felt his anger toward the director rise and he stood to face him. "I did choose to change sides. All you've done is threaten and manipulate me."

"It was for a greater good, Yusei," Goodwin insisted.

"If you had been honest about all of this, then maybe things would have been different. Instead, you concealed information and only told us what you thought we needed to know."

Jack nodded in agreement. Goodwin had been selective and only revealed certain pieces of information. He was now glad he lost to Carly. Goodwin would never lie or trick him again.

"How could I convince you that I had good reasons for what I did?" Goodwin asked.

"You can't. However, I intend to make you pay for what you did."

Goodwin raised an eyebrow. "Are you suggesting a duel?"

"I am. Follow me." Yusei exited the room with Goodwin behind him. Roman rose and followed them. He was curious about his brother's deck and was eager to see him suffer from Yusei's Immortal. Once Rex is gone, the war will officially be over.

Yusei retrieved his disk from his runner before leading Goodwin to an open area aboveground. His chance at revenge was finally here and he was ready to thrust Goodwin into a world of pain and eventually into the Netherworld.

Goodwin extended his left arm and a duel disk extended from his metal arm, shredding his glove and part of his jacket and shirt in the process. "Yusei, should I win, you will become a Signer again and fight to bring the others back."

"Fine, but I don't intend to lose." He raised his right arm and the spider barrier sprang into existence and its glyph appeared in the sky. A rumbling sounded and the ground began to shakes. Both duelists staggered about slightly. "What's going on?" he called to Roman as the dark man appeared outside the barrier.

"The king is coming through the door!" Roman exclaimed, delighted. "Soon he will arrive and with the Army of Shadows, he will rule over the world!"

Yusei's eyes lit up happily at this pronouncement. The king was making his way to their world! The war was over and the Dark Signers had won! All that's left is to crush the resistance, he thought, turning his attention to his opponent.

Several turns later with the ground trembling, both duelists were in the midst of a red-hot duel. Neither one had noticed that the other Dark Signers had come up to watch. Goodwin wad down to his last 1500 life points and panting hard. Yusei still had 2650 life points, but wasn't breathing hard, though he was on a duel high. His revenge was coming along nicely. Yes, he had taken some damage, but that was all right with him. It would have been boring and unsatisfying if he hadn't lost any life points.

Goodwin attacked Yusei's defense monster and the Dark Signer smirked. "Thanks. I was hoping you'd do that. I activate my trap, Swarm. When a defense monster is destroyed, I get two spider egg tokens." Said tokens appeared on the field with zero attack and zero defense points.

Goodwin growled slightly. "I place a card face-down and end my turn."

"Good. My draw." Yusei drew his card and sensed it: He had drawn Uru. Perfect. I played my field spell card a couple of turns ago and I have two sacrifices needed to summon it. "I sacrifice my two tokens to summon Earthbound Immortal Uru!"

There was a roar from the crater as Uru appeared on the field and fixed its gaze on Goodwin whose eyes widened at the sight of it. It was at this moment that he realized that Yusei was truly lost. He had given in to revenge, anger, fear, and darkness; everything the shadows needed to convert one into a Dark Signer. I was right; defeating the Dark Signers is practically impossible.

"Uru, attack Goodwin directly and send him to the Netherworld!" Yusei declared.

Uru unleashed its attack and as Goodwin's life points hit zero, Yusei saw something emerging from the crater and re-shaping itself. It has to be the king, he thought. He snapped his attention back to the duel in time to see Goodwin fade to dust. The barrier, cards, and glyph faded away as the duel concluded. Yusei stood there with a smug triumphant smile. He had done it! He defeated Goodwin and had gotten his revenge!

"Well done, Yusei," Roman said before sweeping an arm at the crater. "I believe His Majesty enjoyed Uru's appearance and attack."

Yusei watched as the king fully emerged and began to sweep across the Satellite before heading for the city. Roman went to one knee to show his loyalty for the king and the others followed suit. The vision Yusei had received was at last coming true. The world would be ruled by shadows and darkness for the next 5,000 years and all because of a change in destiny.

The End

One last point, the trap card, Swarm, does not exist.