Episode 39: The Fusion of Light and Darkness - Black Chaos Descends

Téa, Joey, and Tristan stand outside the Shadow Realm darkness, worrying about Yugi, whose presence they can no longer feel inside the shadows.

Within the Shadow Realm, Yami knows that the Jigen-Bakudan time bomb is set to go off in two turns. But with Yugi gone, he can no longer prevent Pegasus from reading his mind.

Then Yami hears Grandpa speaking to him, telling him that Yugi is still with him. "Yugi's heart is still in this," he tells Yami. "The unshakeable devotion of his friends keeps Yugi alive." (In the Japanese, Grandpa calls Yami "Yugioh," and Yami responds, "Grandpa": they know each other, and talk to each other as if Yami and Yugi are the same person. Grandpa reminds Yami that there is something else he believes in besides the cards: "the other self" is not the only person in his heart. Yami says he understands.)

Téa has an idea. They have to try to reach out to Yugi. Remembering the friendship pact they made, with the Happy Face drawn on their hands, the three put their hands together and concentrate on sending Yugi their support.

Yami draws a card, and Pegasus tries to scan his mind. It begins to come clear (it's a magic card, with a green border)—but suddenly, the image is blocked! Instead, he sees Yugi's friends standing against him, along with little Yugi, unconscious but being held up by Téa. Pegasus is shocked and outraged! He should be able to see every thought in Yugi's mind! (In the Japanese, Pegasus says that other people shouldn't be able to come into the Dark Game.) Not anymore, Joey tells him. Get out of our friend's mind! And Pegasus is forced to retreat. Yami thanks them, and they tell Pegasus his Millennium Eye doesn't make the difference—friends do! (In the Japanese, they just tell Pegasus to get ready, because they're going to beat him!)

Yami tells Pegasus his friends will help him save his Dark Magician from the Jigen-Bakudan time bomb. And he plays the card he's drawn—Mystic Box (Magic Box of Death)! Furiously, Pegasus thinks he could have countered that if he'd seen it coming! (I don't know how, since Yami played it immediately after drawing it—there's nothing Pegasus could have done between Yami's draw and his play.) The Mystic Box puts Jigen-Bakudan in the Dark Magician's place, freeing the Dark Magician. Now when Jigen-Bakudan explodes, it will only destroy Relinquished. (Japanese Pegasus swears in English, "God damn!" Which the subtitles render as "No...")

Pegasus draws, then passes, unable to make a play. Yami draws, and plays Brain Control, taking control of Relinquished for one turn. Pegasus laughs—with Relinquished on Yami's side of the field, it will destroy the Dark Magician when the time bomb explodes, taking all of Yami's life points! You're wrong, Yami says. He's forgotten about the card little Yugi left on the field. Now it's time to find out what that card is! (In the Japanese, Yami appears to already know what the card is. Which is a good thing—it would have been suicidal for him to steal the Time Bomber without knowing he could destroy it before it exploded.) Yami flips it over—it's a ritual magic card, Dark Magic Ritual (Ritual of Black Chaos). Yami offers Jigen-Bakudan and the Dark Magician as sacrifices to summon the Magician of Black Chaos, the greatest magician in all of Duel Monsters! He'll use this monster to avenge his fallen friend! (As usual, they've redesigned the ritual's triangle design to look less hexagrammy.)

But Pegasus thinks he still has a chance—next turn, he'll get Relinquished back, and use it to absorb the Magician of Black Chaos. But Yami isn't finished yet. He plays a card face-down, and a monster face-down in defense, and with Yugi's friends blocking his Millennium Eye, Pegasus can't see what they are. They must be part of a strategy to defeat Relinquished, but he doesn't know what it is.

Yami's turn ends, and Relinquished is back where he belongs—with his daddy. (Japanese Pegasus says he'll use his best card to show Yami that friendship is meaningless.) Then he uses Polymerization to fuse Relinquished with the Thousand Eyes Idol to create the Thousand Eyes Restrict (Thousand Eyes Sacrifice), a new and even stranger monster!

Téa, Tristan, and Joey stand strong, giving Yami and Yugi their friendship and support. Yami says it's not over, but Pegasus knows that once all of the Thousand Eyes Restrict's thousand eyes open, all of Yami's monsters will be paralyzed, and unable to prevent the Magician of Black Chaos from being absorbed.

Yami vows to find some way to stop Pegasus, so that Yugi's bravery won't be in vain. (Japanese Yami remembers that he made a promise with Yugi to use Yugi's last card to defeat Pegasus, and says, "No matter what you do, you can't break our promise.") Then Pegasus activates the Thousand Eyes Restrict's mesmeric power, paralyzing the Magician of Black Chaos, as well as Yami's defense monster. The Thousand Eyes Restrict begins to draw the Chaos Mage to itself. Then Yami turns over his face-down cards—Kuriboh and the magic card Multiply! Now hundreds of mesmerized Kuribohs are also being drawn to the Thousand Eyes Restrict, and it is forced to absorb them all. The little Kuribohs self-destruct on contact with the enemy, crippling the Thousand Eyes Restrict. Yami loses Kuriboh's 300 attack points, lowering his life points to 100, but the Thousand Eyes Restrict is blinded by the Kuribohs' attack, and the Magician of Black Chaos is freed from its mesmeric gaze. (They've also removed the five-pointed star from the Magician of Black Chaos's headpiece.)

Now Yami can attack and destroy the Thousand Eyes Restrict with his Magician of Black Chaos, wiping out Pegasus's life points and winning the game!

Yugi's friends now find that they can feel Yugi's presence again! Little Yugi's okay! Inside the Shadow Realm, Yugi stands up, telling Pegasus it's over. "We've won." All of Yugi's friends, including Yami, stand beside him. Devastated, Pegasus falls to his knees, shaking, apologizing to his beloved Cecelia. (He doesn't mention her in the Japanese.) Yugi sighs with relief, and thanks Yami for his help. Yami tells him it was his courage and his friends' love that prevailed. And your determination, Yugi adds. We all did it together. Yugi and Yami high five, their hands passing through each other. (In the Japanese, you can hear the slap as their hands meet.)

The Shadow Realm darkness dissipates, and the friends rush to Yugi's side to congragulate him. Joey gets a little frustrated that everyone else is telling Yugi the things he wanted to say! But then he decides it doesn't matter—because Yugi won! Then Téa reminds them that it isn't over until Pegasus keeps his promise to release the souls he's imprisoned. But Pegasus has gone! They are about to run off to look for him when they remember Bakura and Mokuba—they can't just go off and leave them.

Then they see Bakura waving to them from the balcony. He's recovered, and tells them he's fine. He doesn't seem to remember anything about what happened. Tristan tells him he threw the Millennium Ring away, and Bakura agrees that it was probably for the best. Bakura agrees to stay and look after Mokuba while the others search for Pegasus, and they run out of the arena.

But on the balcony, Dark Bakura reemerges, the Millennium Ring once again around his neck. If Mokuba's soul is returned to him, he'll no longer be any use to him, he thinks, but it doesn't matter. Now that Pegasus is weakened, Dark Bakura will have the chance he's been waiting for! It's time to add Pegasus's Millennium Eye to his collection! (In the Japanese, we don't hear any of Dark Bakura's thoughts, just an evil chuckle.)