Yu-Gi-Mon

Legendary Crusaders

Animaster21: Hi guys, it's me, Animaster21! You might not know me, but I've written a few stories about Pokemon, Digimon and Dragon Ball Z. Anyway, about a year ago I came up with this idea combining Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon into one universe called Yu-Gi-Mon. Basically, it's Yu-Gi-Oh with Pokemon for cards. For example, a Bulbasaur card is a level 3 monster with 1100 attack points and 1300 defence points.

Anyway, Hotrod and I decided to do a collaboration fic, so we created this account, Animasterod2198 to do it. It's set in the Pokemon World, but the basic Yu-Gi-Oh concept. It's sort of based off GX, but with a different storyline and stuff. Now, onto Hotrod!

Hotrod198: Thank you for the introductions Animaster. So here is a collaboration fic between Hotrod and Animaster. And before any flamers say it should be in the crossover section, the only similarities are the fact they used cards, its set at duel academy and some plots are based off of the GX season. We have about four seasons planned and maybe more so it should be good. Anyways, read on fellow readers! This chapter is written by Animaster, edited by me.

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Episode 1

The Trials: Part 1

Finn Jackson was confident as he stepped off the train into Saffron City and looked around. He was wearing a black, leather jacket with a white shirt underneath, and his spiky black hair was blowing in the wind. Around his neck was a small silver cross.

Finn put his hands to his waist, where hung a deck holder with his set of cards in it. His whole life he had spent collecting the pokemon in this deck, and it was unstoppable. Or so he thought. Finn tended to conveniently forget the few losses he had obtained in his life.

Saffron City was huge, and the 15 year old almost got lost as he walked along the busy streets. There were no cars, but there were hundreds of people. It was very confusing in the city: a lot of the buildings looked identical, but luckily, Finn's destination stood out like a pimple on a pumpkin: The Saffron City Stadium.

As Finn neared the Stadium, he saw out of the corner of his eye a small shape squeeze out of his deck pack and float up to his face. It was a black shape, in the shape of the letter A, with a large eye in the middle, and was slightly transparent.

"Hello, A!" said Finn. The Unown A blinked at him, which he took to be a greeting. "You ready?" Unown bobbed up and down in mid-air, the equivalent of a nod. "Then let's go!"

He entered the stadium, forcing his way through the hundreds of kids around his age crowding around. Today was the entrance exams of Duel Academy. Located in Celadon City, Duel Academy was famous for churning out hundreds of professional duelists into the Pro League. Finn could barely contain his excitement as he looked around at his surroundings.

Suddenly, a loud voice rang out over a loudspeaker.

"All new duelists report to the command desk! I repeat; all students report to the command desk!"

Finn thought the best thing to do would be was to follow the instructions. He walked over to a tall man with long blonde hair stretching down to his waist. He had purple lipstick on and a massive blue coat, with pink sleeves and a pink collar. On each shoulder was a gold frill. He looked very effeminate, and was talking in a loud, wailing voice to a shorter, older man in a white lab suit.

"Excuse me," interrupted Finn. "Which way is it to the command desk?"

The tall man looked miffed. "Can't you see I'm talking?" he snapped at Finn, who was unmoved. The shorter man was more kindly.

"Now, now, Chronos! We wouldn't want this promising young duelist to get lost this close to being enrolled in Battle Academy!" he said. This man's voice was halfway between high and croaky, and had an odd halting manner about it. "It's over there," he said pointing at a door down the corridor, which had a large line waiting outside.

"Oh, I don't know why you bother with scoundrels like him, Oak!" scoffed Chronos, as Finn walked towards the door and joined the end of the line. As he waited, an official looking person in another lab coat with a large white moustache passed, and the brown-haired boy following him bumped into Finn as he hurried by.

"Sorry!" the boy called back, and Finn nodded in recognition, before turning back to line. Ten minutes later, he had moved a lot closer to the front of the line, and before long was at the head of the queue. A man waved him through, and he followed the man into the main stadium. For the trials, it had been split into several areas. In each area was a potential recruit duelling against an Academy Proctor.

As Finn watched, a boy with black hair combed back used a spell card to evolve his Feebas into a Milotic, who then proceeded to attack the Proctor the boy was facing and win the duel.

"Wow," thought Finn. "He's good!"

Unown A popped back out and nodded again. Finn turned back to the man he was following, who turned into one of the areas. Over his back were slung two duel disks, and he pulled both off, throwing one to Finn.

"We will now begin," he said. "If you can beat the training deck that I will use, then you will be enrolled in Battle Academy. Ready?"

Finn nodded, but before the Proctor could start the duel, they were interrupted by the man than Finn had annoyed before, Chronos.

"Hold it there, Proctor," he said, staring at Finn cruelly. "I'll be taking this duel!"

"But, Sir!" protested the official. "You're not allowed to duel him, unless you're using a practice deck! Do you want to borrow the one that I was going to use?"

"No," said Chronos angrily. "And my title is Doctor Chronos, or Professor, you fool!"

"I'm sorry, si-Doctor Chronos," said the Proctor. "But it is against the rules."

"I make the rules around here!"

"No you don't," argued the man. "Professor Oak does."

Chronos was silent for a full five seconds. "Shut up!" he eventually said. "I'm duelling this pip-squeak whether you like it or not."

"Sorry, Doctor Chronos," sighed the Proctor, and he left the area. Chronos looked at Finn, who gulped. He knew that this strange man was trying to stop him from getting into the Academy.

"Ready for your duel, then? I'm sorry, but there's no way I'm gonna lose this! Say goodbye to the Battle Academy," he said sadistically, and unzipped his blue coat. On his chest was a deck holder, which was holding Chronos' cards. Strapped to the holder was a Duel Disk, but for some reason it was missing a deck slot and graveyard slot. Suddenly, Finn realised that the deck slot was the holder on his chest. The Duel Disk was built right into his coat!

"Wow, nice Disk!" Finn said.

Chronos smiled as well. "You've got a long way to go until you're respected enough to get one of these, you slacker! Let's duel!"

Finn grinned, and pulled his deck from its case, and slid it into the Training Disk that the Proctor had given him. The blue dome on top of it glowed brightly, and the card slots slid out from the centre.

"You're on, Prof!"

"How dare you call me that?" screeched Chronos. "You will address me as Doctor or Professor Chronos!"

"Yeah, yeah," said Finn, waving his hand casually. "Let's just get on with this."

"Fine, if you're in such a hurry to lose!" taunted Chronos. "I'll start!"

Chronos: 4000

Finn: 4000

He held his hand up to his deck on his chest, and six cards slid out straight into his hand. Placing them into his other hand, and looked at the cards.

"Not a bad start," he said. "Let's get this show on the road, so I can get rid of you. I start off by summoning Large Kabuto, in attack mode!"

He placed the card in a monster card zone, and it appeared on the field. A small display flashed up next to it, showing that Large Kabuto had 1500 attack points.

"And now I'll finish off with a face-down card! Your turn, if you could call it that."

"Let's go," exclaimed Finn, deftly drawing a card and flipping it around in his hand so that he could see it. "Perfect! I summon Unown R, in attack mode!"

A small black pokemon in the shape of an R appeared on the field, with 1000 attack points.

"In case you didn't know, each Unown gains 200 attack points for every Unown on the field, including itself!"

Chronos laughed as R's points rose to 1200. "You think that'll stop my Kabuto?"

"Not on its own," said Finn. "But I'm about to activate R's other special ability! Now I can choose any Unown that's four stars or less from my hand, and then summon it to the field! And I pick Unown T, giving R another 200 points!"

T appeared, and with two Unowns now on the field, its attack points rose from 1200 to 1600, enough to destroy Kabuto, while R rose to 1400.

"Now, T, attack Large Kabuto! Hidden Power!" commanded Finn, and several balls materialised around it, before flying at Kabuto, who exploded. Chronos growled in anger as his Life Points fell by 100.

Chronos: 3900

Finn: 4000

"Now R, it's your turn! Attack the Prof directly!"

"You will address me as Professor!" screamed Chronos. "And your attack won't work! You fell right into my trap, literally! I activate Cinnabar Lab. Using this trap card, I can special summon one Ancient pokemon from my deck, at the low cost of 1000 Life Points!

Chronos: 2900

Finn: 4000

"Come forth, Armaldo!"

A machine rose from the ground, and a conveyor belt on the side began to whir. Off the end came the large fossil bug, with 2200 attack points.

Finn gasped. It was too late to stop his attack, and the Hidden Power rebounded off Armaldo and hit R, destroying it.

Chronos: 2900

Finn: 3200

"Unown R!" gasped Finn. "Damn."

Since R was destroyed, T's attack points lowered back down to 1400, making Finn's chances of winning even worse.

"Well, I guess I'll just finish with two face-downs. Your turn, Prof!"

Chronos went beetroot-red.

"You little punk! Don't you have any manners at all?"

"Sometimes," laughed Finn. Despite the fact that Armaldo was on the field, he seemed to be having great fun.

Chronos growled, and drew a card, bringing his hand to five.

"Nothing really useful here," he muttered under his breath. "Alright, Armaldo! Attack his Unown T! You're about to lose a whole load of Life Points, brat!"

Finn wasn't that fussed. "I don't think so," he said. Armaldo swung a claw at T, who was destroyed, but Finn's Life Points didn't lower one point.

"What?" whined Chronos. "Why didn't you lose Life Points?"

Finn laughed. "That's T's special ability. When it's attacked, it can switch to Defence Mode!"

"Oh well, it was still destroyed! Now you're defenceless," jeered Chronos. "I'll end with another face-down card."

"And I'll activate one of mine!" interrupted Finn, and one of his face-down cards rose up to reveal a trap. "It's called Unown Revival! With this I can bring back my Unown R, straight from the graveyard."

R appeared again, and blinked at Chronos with its single eye.

"And it's not over yet! Remember R's special ability? I can choose one card from my hand and summon it to the field. And I choose Unown F!"

An Unown in the shape of the letter F appeared.

"And its ability now activates!" said Finn. "I can choose any Unown that's five-stars or more from my deck and summon it to the field! So say hello to Unown P!"

With three Unowns on the field, each one gained 600 attack points, bringing R to 1600, F to 1400 and P to 2300.

"And guess what else?" asked Finn. "It's my turn, so I draw!"

He swiped a card out of his Duel Disk, adding it to the other one in his hand.

"Alright, perfect! I activate one of my favourite spell cards, Tongue of the Lickilicky, letting me draw two cards."

A pink pokemon with a huge gut appeared, and poked out an enormous tongue. Finn drew two cards.

"Unown P, attack Armaldo!"

P used Hidden Power, and Armaldo blew up in a cloud of smoke. Chronos grumbled as the smoke poured all over him.

Chronos: 2800

Finn: 3200

"Now, F and R can attack you directly, bringing your points to 0!" declared Finn, and the Unown began to charge up their attacks.

"Oh, no you don't!" screeched Chronos. "I'm going to activate my face-down trap, Direction Protection! All damage from direct attacks is cancelled out for this turn!"

Finn cursed, as the attacks landed, but did nothing. "You're doing pretty well for a professional, eh? Well, I'll finish off with putting two of my three cards face-down."

"My draw!" shouted Chronos. "And what a perfect draw it is! I'll use Tongue of the Lickilicky. That's right, slacker! I have one as well!"

"Damn," thought Finn. "He keeps on replenishing his hand!"

Chronos' eyes widened in delight when he saw the two cards had drawn.

"I'm afraid it's all over for you! Say bye-bye to the Academy!"

"Just make your move, Prof."

Chronos' eyes twitched in anger. "Fine! You want to be beaten quicker? Make my day! I activate this spell card, Fossil Excavation!"

"And what does that do?"

"It can special summon two cards two fossil pokemon directly from the graveyard. They can only stick around for one turn, but I'll won't need them for long, because I'll sacrifice both of them to summon this: The Prehistoric Claydol of the Relic!"

Finn gasped as Large Kabuto and Armaldo reappeared, only to return to the graveyard to make room for Chronos' newest monster. It was a Claydol, but bigger than any other Claydol Finn had ever seen. It was at least twenty metres tall. From all around the stadium came gasps as the Claydol stretched to full height. Finn grimaced at its mighty 3000 attack points.

"Not good."

"Claydol, attack his Unown P!" screamed Chronos, and the giant clay behemoth swung one of its floating arms down, crushing P into the dust.

Chronos: 2800

Finn: 2500

"Oh no, I'm losing! And how am I ever going to beat that thing?" whispered Finn. Suddenly, a small shape pooped up in front of him. It was his Pokemon Spirit, Unown A.

"You think I can do it?" he asked it. Unown A bobbed up and down furiously. Finn's confidence returned. "Then I can do it!"

Meanwhile, Chronos was looking at Finn like he was insane. Through his eyes, Finn was asking empty space whether he could win or not.

"Well...I'll end my turn with another face-down, then," he said, still staring at the boy strangely.

"Let's do this, Prof!" declared Finn, and he drew a card. "And I'll summon Unown A!"

"Thanks, A," he thought. "But, I'm going to have to say goodbye to him, because I have to sacrifice A to activate this card, Unown ABC, to special summon B and C from my deck. Sorry, buddy."

Unown A shattered into a hundred shards of light, but then Unown B and C appeared where it had been, joining R and F. Unown B, C and R all had 1800 attack points, while F had 1600.

"That's still nowhere near enough to defeat my Claydol!" taunted Chronos, but Finn didn't listen.

"Your turn, Prof."

"Fine, and it'll be one of the last! Claydol, attack!"

Claydol swung its arm at Unown F, but Finn cut across it.

"You fell in to my trap, Unown Saviour! With this, I can summon Unown S from my deck to absorb the attack for F."

An Unown in the shape of an S was summoned, and hovered in front of F, taking the hit for it, and was destroyed.

"And now to use Unown S' effect. When it's sent to the graveyard, I can summon another Unown straight from my deck to the field! So come on down, Unown M, with a raised total of 2200 points!"

"Curse these Unowns!" grumbled Chronos, as each of Finn's pokemon gained another 200 points each. "I end my turn. I'll just kill you next time."

"There won't be a next turn, not for you anyway!" grinned Finn, as he drew a card. "Now for the Grand Finale! I sacrifice Unown F and Unown C to summon the incredible, unstoppable...Crystal Entei!"

There was an explosion of light, and a portal opened up. Out of the portal leaped a massive dog-like creature. It had large flat paws, and what looked like a cloud on its back. Another loud gasp rang out in the crowd watching the exams in the grandstands.

"And get this; Entei has 2500 attack points...to begin with," said Finn slyly.

"What do mean, 'to begin with'?" whimpered Chronos, feeling an unpleasant surge of panic well up inside him.

"Well, like the Unowns, Crystal Entei gains 200 attack points for every Unown on the field. F and C are gone, but I still have B, M, and R, giving Entei 600 more points...bringing it to a grand total of 3100!"

"What? Time out!" shrieked Chronos, but it was too late. Finn raised an arm and pointed directly at Claydol.

"Entei, fetch!"

Entei gave an almighty roar, and bounced forwards, running closer to Claydol with every passing second.

"It's not over yet!" intervened Chronos just in time. "I still have one face-down card! I activate the trap, Detect! Now your attack is stopped."

A Meditite appeared, and its eyes glowed green.

"It would be," smirked Finn. "If I didn't play this! Counter!"

Entei jumped on top of the Meditite's head, destroying it, and continued on its way towards Claydol. Chronos let out an obnoxious wail, as Entei hit Claydol with a ball of shadow. Entei bounced of Claydol's crumbling body, leaping high into the air and landing on all four feet in front of Finn. Meanwhile, Claydol cracked, and exploded into dust, all of which fell straight on top of Chronos, burying him in the suffocating pile of dirt.

"Good work, Entei," complimented Finn. He looked across the floor to where Chronos was climbing out of the pile, covered in dirt. His clothes were all ruined, and his hair had been blown around. The Professor looked a right mess.

Chronos: 2700

Finn: 2500

"Now, let's finish this duel," suggested Finn. "When I sacrificed my F and C, the other Unown lost a few points, but they're still enough to bring you to 0. Now, go B, M and R! Attack Chronos directly!"

Chronos had only just managed to climb to his feet again, and looked up just in time to be hit by several Hidden Powers. He fell like a sack of potatoes.

Chronos: 0

Finn: 2500

"Well Prof, you did well. But not good enough, haha!" laughed Finn. "Looks like I'm in the academy now, huh?"

Chronos, with great effort, stood up.

"You brat," he hissed through his teeth, as the Proctor entered their area and congratulated Finn. "I'll get you for this. We'll see who's laughing...when we're at the academy!"

The Proctor shook Finn's hand, and took back the practice Duel Disc.

"Incredible duelling," he said. "I thought you were a goner, to be honest."

"Remember my name," said the boy. "Finn Jackson, the Unown Extraordinaire!"

The Proctor led the way back the arena. As he left the stadium, he was tapped on the back by the tall boy with the black hair that had played the Milotic earlier on.

"Nice duelling," said the boy. "You're good. That Entei is strong."

"Thanks," said Finn. "My name's Finn, by the way."

"I'm Taine," said the boy. "Taine Parker."

"Well, I'd better be going," said Finn. "I'll see you at Duel Academy."

"Yeah," answered Taine. "And I'll be looking forwards to duelling you sometime."

Finn grinned and walked away. As he walked, Unown A popped out of his deck and floated up to his face, blinking happily.

"We did good, A. We did good."

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Animaster: Well, that's one chapter down. A lot better than my old Yugimon story, I think. I hope you all enjoyed it, I sure did.

Hotrod: Yup it was definitely a good duel. Btw, Finn is owned by Animaster. If you're wondering why it's a two parter, we have the second main character introduced next chapter. It takes place the same time this chapter took place. And it's written by yours truly.

Until next time,

See ya!

Hotrod & Animaster