Yu-Gi-Oh! NXG: NeXt Generation
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Episode: 1 Season 1
Pilot
"Fuya," called out the voice of a woman. "Fuya, it's time to get up," the voice called again. "Fuya! Get your ass outta bed!" Yelled the voice as a young boy with black spiky hair fell from his bed. He sat up and rubbed his head and looked around the room in a daze. He was in a deep slumber and he momentarily remembered his dream. He was at Duelist Academy, away from his drunk mom dueling and having fun. What a wonderful dream it was. "FUYA," the voice screamed even louder this time.
"I'm up, I'm up," the boy said as he rubbed the tiredness out of his eyes. He reached behind him and grabbed a remote control and turned on the his Television.
"Welcome back to the paint drying channel," a bored voice on the television muttered. "If you like paint, and like it dry. Then you're going to love this," the man continued. Fuya immediately changed the station. "This duel is brought to you by Kaiba Corporation. Where children's card games are taken to the extreme. Now back to the duel." On the screen were two people wearing duel disks and going all-out in a duel. Fuya immediately knew the situation. He was quite fond of Duel Monsters, but with his drunkard mother who lacked a job, he was financially unable to play the game.
"FUYA!"
"..." He ignored her.
"Get your ass down here!"
He slowly stood up and walked with a small hunch in his back, still not fully awake. He already knew what she wanted. There was no other reason for her to wake him up at Eight in the morning. He walked down the small hallway into the living room of their 1-bedroom apartment. "Go to the store and get your momma some beer," she said sweetly.
"Mom, you're already drunk at Eight in the morning? When did you start drinking?" He said softly. His voice low since he had just woken up. "And besides, I'm 14 years old. It isn't legal to buy alcohol," he continued.
"I don't give a FUCK! Just get me some beer!" The sweetness of her voice was now gone. "And when did I start drinking this morning? Hell, I haven't stopped drinking from last night."
He sighed and walked away from her. He knew she would pass out soon, so ignoring her was his best option. He stepped into the kitchen that was to the left of the living room. There was no wall, just a counter separating the two rooms. He grabbed himself a bowl of cereal and went back to his room. He began to eat his breakfast as he continued to watch the duel.
On the TV screen, the one man had just summoned an Exiled Force to the field and activated its effect to destroy the other guys Garnecia Elefantis. Then activated Monster Reborn to bring it back. With the attack of the 2400 Monster, the duel had ended. Fuya took a deep breath and continued watching. The morning duels were always so boring. He often pondered how they made it through one of the Academies and became Pro. Not like he could say much. He didn't own a single card. He often prepared to go buy a deck, but found them a little more expensive than what he could handle.
It was in the middle of summer and he had been working the entire summer to try and build a deck in order to try and attend Duelist Academy. His oldest brother had went there five years ago and he hadn't seen much of him ever since. Once in a while he'd be on the Dueling Channel just dueling it up against other Pro's.. but with how their home life was there would be no reason to come back home. Not even to help his little brother get out there. He couldn't risk being dragged back in.
Just then he heard a knock on the front door. He looked at the clock and saw it was only 8:11. It was far too early for anyone to be up. Hell, his mom was only up because she was drunk. And he was only up because she was drunk.
"Fuya! Get the damn door!"
He slowly stood up and made his way to the front door. His back a little less stiff and his eyes a little more open. He opened the door to see his friend Jace who had quickly pushed his way into the apartment and found his way to Fuya's bedroom.
"No visitors!" His mom yelled before passing out.. finally.
Fuya made his way to his bedroom and walked in to see that Jace had made himself comfortable and had cleared the floor. He was holding a Duel Monsters deck in each hand. He was a little excited to see that his friend had acquired two a deck for him as well as the deck he had himself. But he was a bit flabbergasted.
"Let's duel bro!" Jace then exclaimed with excitement as he handed Fuya one of the two decks.
"Thanks," was all he could manage to say as he sorted through the deck. And after looking at it he looked up at his friend. His green eyes sort of piercing through his blue eyed friend. "This is the deck I have to use?"
"No dude. My brother gave me those cards and said you can have them. There are rare cards there dude."
Fuya saw that there was one or two rare cards. And Jace's brother was even nice enough to slide in one of the newest types of cards of the game in his deck, a Synchro Monster. But it had seemed pointless in this deck. This deck was just a pile of Earth Monsters with a couple Traps and Spells put in it so that it could be called a deck. Fuya knew enough about Duel Monsters to know this deck was bad, but he really wanted to Duel. The two of them shuffled.
Jace: 4000
Fuya: 4000
"I'll go first dude!" Jace exclaimed as he drew a sixth card into his hand. "First I'll Set a Monster in face-down Defense mode," he said as he laid a card on the floor sideways. "Then I'll Set one card and end my turn."
Fuya drew a sixth card now and looked at his hand. He had watched enough of the Dueling Channel to know how to use his cards. He knew how to use the effects of them as well as how to sacrifice and set cards. All of these things were learned from years of the Dueling Channel. Fuya grabbed one of the other cards with his other hand and set it face-up on the floor.
"I summon Mountain Warrior in Attack Mode." (ATK/600 DEF/1000)
"Wow dude. That card totally sucks."
"You're the one that gave me this deck," Fuya said as he gave Jace a dark look.
"Just make your move bro!"
Fuya began concentrating on the game once more. Ignoring how much his friend was an ass. "Now I'll attack your face-down Monster."
Jace flipped the card over to reveal a Steel Scorpion. And then placed it to the side of his deck making that his Graveyard. (ATK/250 DEF/300)
"You made fun of my card when that was what you played?" Fuya said laughing.
"Steel Scorpion has a special ability. Whenever a monster that isn't a Machine Type attacks Steel Scorpion, during their second End Phase their Monster is destroyed." Fuya looked a bit distraught. Jace may have actually had a worse deck than Fuya's pile of crap. At least Fuya had some decent cards in his deck. A card that takes two turns to destroy a monster seemed like a bit much.
"I'll play a face-down and end my turn." Fuya said with a sigh.
"My move!" Jace said as he jerked the top card from his deck and looked at it. He smiled. "Now I summon Patrol Robo in Attack Mode. (ATK/1100 DEF/900)
Fuya immediately regretted taking Jace's deck lightly. "Now I attack your Mountain Warrior." Fuya picked up the card and placed it into his Graveyard with a look of disappointment on his face. "And with that my turn is over."
Jace: 4000
Fuya: 3500
Fuya then drew another card, bringing his hand to 5. He saw that Jace also had 5 cards in hand and immediately played the card he drew. "I activate the Spell card Hand Destruction. We both discard two cards and then draw two in their place," he explained as he discarded Akz, the Pumer and Solitude from his hand and drew two new cards. Jace then discarded two cards and drew two in their place.
Fuya smirked slightly as he prepared his play. "I remove from play Mountain Warrior in order to Special Summon Gigantes in Attack mode. Now I play Call of the Haunted," he flipped his face-down card, "in order to bring back Solitude. But he won't be on the field for long. I sacrifice Solitude in order to Summon Ghost Knight of Jackal in Attack mode." (ATK/1700 DEF/1600)
"Dammit. I don't have anything I can do to stop myself from taking damage," Jace thought aloud.
"I attack Patrol Robo with Knight of Jackal, and then I get his special ability. Whenever Ghost Knight of Jackal destroys a Monster by battle, I can Special Summon that monster in Defense mode on my side of the field. And now I attack you directly with Gigantes," Fuya said excitedly.
Jace: 1500
Fuya: 3500
"Now it's my move," Jace exclaimed as he drew another card. He had an intensity in his eyes now. As if this children's card game was extremely important. He was serious about this game. He was going to win this game. "And now I play my own Call of the Haunted," he said flipping the card and grabbing Steel Scorpion from his Graveyard. "Now I sacrifice Steel Scorpion in order to Summon Cyber-Tech Alligator in Attack mode." Jace stopped to think for a moment. (ATK/2500 DEF/1600)
Fuya sat there waiting when finally Jace decided to make his attack. "Now Cyber-Tech Alligator will attack your Gigantes."
Jace: 1500
Fuya: 2900
Gigantes effect would have activated but there were no Spell or Traps on the field at the time. "Now I place two cards face-down and end my turn."
Fuya looked into Jace's eyes and saw how serious he was about this. He saw that intensity when watching the Dueling Channels Pro's duel. Even though they were both playing with weak decks he could somehow feel pressure coming from his friend. He drew a card and ended his turn immediately but not before switching Ghost Knight of Jackal to Defense. He couldn't think clearly for some reason. The glare his friend had made him feel a bit distraught. This was his first duel.
Jace drew a card and looked at it. "That's game my friend," Jace said in a serious tone. Fuya just looked at him confused.
"What do you mean?"
"I Summon Ancient Gear in Attack. And then I activate a second Ancient Gear's effect from my hand to Special Summon it to the field. And finally I Special Summon a third in Attack." (ATK/100 DEF/800)
Fuya seemed a bit confused still. "I have 2900 Life Points. How can I lose to these weak Monsters?"
"Like this," he said as he played a Spell from his hand. "I play Double Summon and with it I can Normal Summon a monster again. Now I sacrifice two of my Ancient Gears in order to Summon Perfect Machine King in Attack mode. And with his ability he gains 500 Attack Points for each other Machine-type Monster on the field putting him at 3700 Attack." (ATK/3700 DEF/1500)
"I am gonna lose my first duel," Fuya said with a sad expression.
"Now I activate my face-down, Limiter Removal. This doubles ALL of my Machine-type Monster's Attack Points. Now Cyber-Tech Alligator attacks Ghost Knight of Jackal and Perfect Machine King ends the Duel."
Jace: 1500
Fuya: 0
"That was a good Duel Fuya. Especially with it being your first."
"Really? I've been watching a lot of Pro Duels and our Duel didn't compare to them at all.
"Do you have the money to afford all the cards they have? I sure don't dude."
"Right. But what are we going to do? The Duelist Academies Entrance Exams are in 2 months. And I don't think either of our decks could do anything at those Exams." Fuya had a point. Both of their decks were horrible.
"Dude. I got it. Let's look up some decks online. Net decking is getting pretty popular."
"Net decking? To go to a school for Dueling? You're insane."
"Bro! Why not?"
"No. We aren't going to net deck. I'll build my own deck. For now I'm stuck with these extra cards your brother gave me. But before those entrance exams I will have a better deck to duel with." Fuya sounded noble. He sounded like a real Duelist. Net decking was out of the question for any real Duelist. Plus, he knew about a bunch of useable cards. He just needed to find and buy them.
Jace took his leave at that point. At any rate, it seemed pointless for him to go over to Fuya's apartment to take him a deck and leave 15-20 minutes later. Fuya continued to watch the Dueling Channel for a couple hours. 11 o'clock came around and he finally turned off the TV. He stood up and stretched before finally changing his clothes for the day. He put his deck in a little box he had prepared for when he did get a deck and put it on his belt. He made his way out the apartment without waking up his drunkard mother and made his way to 'Card's R Us' which was right up the street.
As he walked up toward the Card Shop, he noticed a sign on the door. It was a training regimen for Duelists that wanted to go to Duelist Academy. And at the end of the regimen was a tournament that timed out to end 1 week before Entrance Exams at the Duelist Academy began. The winner of the tournament received 300 dollars worth of Shop Credits in order to improve their deck more before the exams. He found this quite intriguing.
"Looks like I'm gonna have to try and join this. It'll ensure my chance of getting into the Duelist Academy." He then proceeded to open the door when the door opened up on its own. Well, not exactly on its on. There was an old man opening the door for him. The older man noticed that he was checking out the sign and was intrigued himself.
"So yer lookin' to join the regimen, eh? Well you came at the right time. Today is the last day fer sign ups." The old man spoke quickly, as if he was in a rush.
"Yes I would like to join!" Fuya responded as quickly as possible. The man looked at him with a confused look on his face.
"You got something wrong with ya'? You're talkin' funny little fella."
Fuya was now confused. "I thought you were in a rush," he responded. Now talking at a normal pace.
"Oh ho. Sorry little fella. I just talk a little fast. Not tryin' to rush ya. Anyway, it's 50 dollars to join."
Fuya reached into his pocket and pulled out a crumbled up 20. He then looked at the old man with a disappointed look on his face.
"Well young fella. I'll make an exception for ya. No charge," the old man said as he began to laugh. "Usually we only get like 10 kids to join this regimen. And I sure could use more of ya kids to keep this place runnin'."
Fuya's face lit up. "My deck isn't that good. I basically have a deck that was somebodies extra cards. I have a couple rare cards, but this deck isn't the type of deck I've been trying to run."
"Well little fella. Looks like I'll hafta take a look for ya," as he was talking he reached out and waited for Fuya to put his deck in his hand. Fuya immediately did so. "Let's go on inside little fella. No reason to have these cards outside."
Fuya followed the man inside. "What type of deck you tryin' ta make?"
"I'm not too sure. But a Beast-Warrior/Beast deck really isn't my style. I was watching a Pro Duelist on the Dueling Channel and he used a card called Vampire Lord. That card seemed to be very interesting. The old man laughed. And pulled out a binder that said 'Rare Cards' and began flipping through it.
Next time on Yu-Gi-Oh! NXG: NeXt Generation
Fuya has his new deck and finds himself dueling his middle school bully for ownership of his own deck. Will he lose his newly created deck? Find out next time on Yu-Gi-Oh! NXG