Welcome to a new story.
This is a small story that takes place after The War Against Smithy, this story is based on Mario & Luigi Partners in Time.
Although characters of War Against Smithy will return who weren't in the game. Now this story does not literally follow the game it only uses the characters from the game, this story does not take place in Mushroom Kingdom but in New-York.
Now about the rules, I use the standard TCG rules I won't use the banlists
sometimes I use the anime effect for a card and, I will use anime or manga only cards and sometimes I will use my own created cards.
Now for some legal stuff and disclaimers.
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh nor the Mario franchise.
This story is purely made by a fan of both series.
Yu-Gi-Oh is owned by Konami.
Mario and it's characters are owned by Nintendo.
1. Shroob Arrival.
A few months ago a war waged on a small island, this seemed not important and not many people knew of these events until darkness shrouded the world. Dimentio leader of the Trinity used his powers to shroud the world in darkness, but ten years before these events another battle took place, a silent battle.
The Dark Tribe also known as The Nephilim their leader Nephilim (he actually named the tribe after him) was killed by Mario's group. Count Bleck took over most of the tribe stayed loyal to him but before Nephilim's death he ruled with an iron fist all who opposed him were slaughtered by the Shroob Assassins, they were hunted by the Celestians.
Ten years ago.
'We got them in sight.' A man wearing golden armor said, he was tall, had a pale skin, pointy ears and angel wings on his back. 'Move in, unit one and two surround them, unit three attack from above when they are surrounded, if we do this by the book things shouldn't take that long.'
The general looked down at his army he sighted. 'I can't be floating here safely out of reach.' The general descended. 'Commander what's the status?' He asked another Celestian turned his head to the general.
'Seven targets confirmed their Princess is with them.' The commander said.
'Good that is the whole group, this won't be easy, our units are closing in on them as we speak, we move now!'
'You've heard the general move, move, move!' The commander shouted.
Suddenly they heard an explosion. 'Status now!' The general yelled.
'They are divided Princess Shroob is gone with two others, can't confirm who are with her, smoke from the explosion is jamming our sensors.' A soldier yelled.
'I'll use my powers.' The general said, he narrowed his eyes. 'I can confirm the targets watch out for the biggest of them, that is Petey, you need to separate him, charge the rest the smoke slowly cleared the army of the Celestians had moved in, the biggest called Petey was fighting a large crowd Petey was a huge, muscular man, his face was painted red several tribe tattoos covered his naked body, the only thing he wore were some ragged shorts, many spears were stuck in his body, Petey howled from agony right before he mowed down a large group of the soldiers with his bare fists.
'Archers!' The squad leader shouted, a rain of arrows came down on Petey, the man took a step forward grabbed the squad leader snapped his neck without even looking at him before he fell down. 'Petey is down take him!' One of the soldiers shouted twenty soldiers jumped down on the man.
Another group of soldiers were facing two of the assassins one was rather small and fat, every arrow bounced off him, the second a tall and skinny one with two antennas on his head took cover behind his partner.
'What do you make of that?' The commander asked the general.
'The skinny one is Swiggler, a gun expert he can use the antennas on his head for perfect aiming, the fat one is Sunnycide you must watch out for his fat, it is a natural shield projectiles are useless, and Sunnycide is rather strong, rumor has it he can move boulders with only one hand.'
Some soldiers suddenly fell dead on the ground the general saw Swiggler fire quickly. 'Let me handle this one.' The commander said, he took a great leap quickly drew a throwing knife seconds later Swiggler's antennas fell on the ground. 'Now!' The squad leader yelled, the army leaped on Sunnycide pinning him down, the commander kicked down Swiggler.
Another part of the army stood against a guy the size of a toddler, he held a lollipop in his hand. 'Watch out!' The general yelled as he saw the toddler smile but it was too late the lollipop changed into a saw-blade mowing down the soldier who didn't leaped away.
'That is Shrooboid Brat, the worlds deadliest toddler.' The general prepared to jump in but then a small army attacked Shrooboid from behind forcing him to the ground.
Minutes later the four were locked in coffins, these coffins were created to lock in the most deadly and dangerous criminals.
'General sir we lost half our men, one squad lost its leader.' The commander said. 'Let that squad return we march upon the east I just sensed Princess Shroob there.'
Then minutes later the remaining army arrived at a large open space there stood Princess Shroob a young woman wearing a pink dress, her face was covered by a veil, she was flanked by two others one older looking man with gray skin holding a cane, the other one a stern looking man wearing armor.
'The Celestians.' Princess Shroob said she sounded cold.
'Commander Shroob, Elder Shroob, kill them.' Princess Shroob took a few steps back the two warriors stepped forward, Elder Shroob pulled the underside from his cane revealing a dagger, Commander Shroob drew a sword, the Celestian commander and general drew their swords the general went after the Elder Shroob the commander took Commander Shroob.
For an older man Elder Shroob was pretty quick, the general was on the defense evading the barrage of attacks, the Celestian general leaped backwards. 'Not much defense.' He muttered suddenly Elder Shroob lunged forward, the general evaded the attack by diving to the ground, he landed behind Elder Shroob quickly he leaped to his feet kicking the elder man in the back after Elder Shroob fell down the general jumped on his back locking him in a coffin with his magic.
A fierce battle occurred between both commanders, the Shroob commander was fierce and reckless, the Celestian commander managed to keep the Shroob away by parrying his attacks the Celestian waited until the Shroob lost his patience he struck angrily the Celestian managed to hit the wrist of the Shroob with his pommel the Shroob's sword dropped on the ground the Celestian general kicked him down locking him in a coffin then the two turned their attention to Princess Shroob.
'You two captured my brethren, something I thought was impossible.'
Princess Shroob phased up and down. 'I can't let you go, I need to know the way to free them.' The general started to laugh. 'Only our Lord can do that, it is his magic we used.' The general explained. 'In that case I have no need for you any longer.' Princess Shroob pointed her finger at the general a beam shot from her finger the general fell dead, the commander wanted to flee but he was shot down as well.
'Time to free my brethren.' Princess Shroob muttered.
'Don't think so.' A female voice said, Princess Shroob turned around, there stood a new Celestian she wore golden armor. 'I am Merlee, Merlon's sister, I am here to take you in.'
'Never.' Princess Shroob hissed, she fired a barrage of dark beams Merlee deflected the attacks with a barrier then she casted another barrier around Princess Shroob.
'You killed some of my squad leaders, a general and a commander, I was ordered to take you in but I will strip you from your powers first, you and your kind that means.' Merlee started to chant a beam of light pierced Princess Shroob she fell down crying from pain, the same thing happened to the Shroobs that were imprisoned, when the barrier disappeared the Shroob princess tried to fire a beam at Merlee but nothing happened.
'Good that worked now to bring you in.' Merlee blew Princess Shroob away with a shock-wave before Princess Shroob could stand up the foot of Merlee pinned her down a coffin slowly appeared around the Shroob princess. 'Mission accomplished.'
Ten years later.
The six smaller coffins stood around the bigger golden coffin, of course in these coffins were the Shroobs imprisoned. 'And hereby I sentence these Shroob Assassins to stay in their coffins for eternity.' Minerva the leader of Star Heaven spoke, Merlee stood next to her.
'Lady Minerva you think this shrine can hold them?' Merlee wondered.
'Yes my dear you stripped them of their powers and in these coffins they are in a death-like sleep nothing can happen here.'
'I'd rather stay here to guard them, I have a feeling something will happen, reports got in that Nephilim died and that means another one of that tribe will grab leadership for himself.'
Minerva nodded then she disappeared.
Three hours later.
Merlee felt some dark presence a woman with blue skin and pink hair appeared, she wore a white suit jacket and black pants and glasses.
'Who are you?' Merlee asked the Celestian drew her sword.
'No need for violence.' The strange woman spoke. 'My name is Nastasia, you have some things here that belong to my master.'
'Nastasia? I've heard about you, the right-hand woman of the mysterious Count Bleck.' Nastasia closed her eyes. 'Seems my reputation proceeds me, then you must know resistance is futile.'
'You won't take the coffins!' Merlee yelled before she charged forward her sword pierced Nastasia.
A cold laughter sounded behind Merlee. 'The moment you laid your eyes on me you were caught in my hypnotic spell.' Merlee tried to move but she couldn't. The Nastasia Merlee had attacked slowly disappeared the real one appeared behind her. 'You probably wonder why you cannot move?' Nastasia said. 'That is another spell, a net made of thin psychic magic that binds anyone who touches it.'
Merlee tried to free herself again. 'I have no time for this, but you know what I look like now, that must remain unknown, this is nothing personal.'
Nastasia put her glasses straight then she touched Merlee.
The Celestian felt her skin getting hot it got swollen Merlee started to scream then suddenly her skin exploded the remains of her exploded body were spread around the shrine Nastasia turned around she used her magic to grab the seven coffins then she and the coffins disappeared.
New-York, present time, one month after Dimentio's death.
'And that has to hurt.' An announcer shouted, two guys stood each at the side of an arena, one of them wore a black coat and had flaming red hair, a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon stood in front of him. 'Bowser has dealt a blow to the morale of his opponent, how will Zack recover from this?'
'He won't.' Bowser said with a grin, Zack who was knocked over by the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon looked Bowser in the eyes with a look of fear.
'Gwa ha ha you do not trifle with the champion!' Bowser shouted he took a card from his hand. 'De-Fusion!' He shouted, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon changed into three Blue-Eyes White Dragons. 'Triple White...' Bowser started but Zack was already running off.
'And so Bowser wins by default!' Bowser shrugged as the images of the three dragons disappeared. 'And that means Bowser passed through the preliminairy rounds.'
Two piercing red eyes watched the tournament from the shadows of an old house. 'Bowser and Mario are here, I've not seen Rozalin yet, hm maybe she's not here... all the better, better tell the Count so he can get underway with his plan... and then I'll take Bowser, oh I remember him he defeated me a month ago, nobody humiliates Skell and get away with it.' The stranger muttered to himself before he disappeared.
'The winner of the second bracket has been decided!' The voice of another announcer sounded Bowser looked at the big screen he saw Mario's picture moving up to the ''winner'' spot. 'And this is how it has to be.' Bowser mumbled to himself. 'Mario!' He bellowed all faces turned to Bowser he quickly took the announcer's microphone.
'This is what I've been waiting for Mario.' Bowser said. 'You the only one who has bested me in a true Duel! In my own home!'
Mario sighted he shook his head. Bowser was referring to a small incident before the Smithy invasion started, Bowser had kidnapped Rozalin and brought her to his home and that was all to forge a marriage between the two so that Bowser could rule Rozalin's kingdom.
Mario stormed Bowser's home which was unguarded there he found Bowser and two huge chandeliers, the two had a ferocious Duel atop the chandeliers the loser would fall, Mario won Bowser fell down and Rozalin was saved. 'But this time Mario I shall end up the victor!'
Mario stepped up the stage Bowser still stood there with the microphone.
'Then let's-a-go!' Mario yelled activating his Duel Disk.
One hour before the tournament finals.
Rozalin knew she was in trouble, she was supposed to be at the tournament site, but she couldn't let go of her dream that tormented her for a week now, it was the same every time, it started with Rozalin floating in some kind of shrine there stood seven coffins in it a young-looking Celestian was guarding them. Then the second moment it became black Rozalin saw the Celestian pierced to a sword she apparently held the sword but she wasn't herself.
Then it became black for a few seconds after that she was in a Duel with an unknown person the only thing Rozalin could see was a shadow that resembled her and two glowing red eyes, and before she woke up she was dragged into some kind of vortex after she apparently had lost the Duel and right at that point she saw the location where she now was.
Rozalin looked around she was in some back alley of a rundown industrial area this was definitely the place.
After a few minutes walking around through the creepy place she found her destination, a large factory completely abandoned with broken windows and plants growing up the walls.
Carefully Rozalin opened the door it made a terrible noise and halfway it was stuck, Rozalin managed to squeeze through, her pink dress got covered with dirt she knew that her guardian Toadsworth wasn't happy with it.
Inside the factory it was dark and damp, the only light came through the broken windows, dirt covered the floors several machines still stood in the hall Rozalin couldn't see them but she knew it was crawling with bugs.
Rozalin saw that several fungi had grown through the broken floor.
Suddenly two bright lights turned on blinding Rozalin she could see a vaguely shadow at the other end of the room.
Tournament side.
(Bowser: 8000) - (Mario: 8000)
'Bowser! Bowser! Bowser! Bowser! Bowser!' The crowd was yelling.
'Gwa ha ha let their cheers the music of your defeat Mario!' Bowser said he put his right foot forward he pointed at Mario with his right hand.
'Now Mario I shall start.' Bowser drew six cards in one.
'Here I go Mario I call out Kaibaman!' Bowser shouted, a man appeared in front of Bowser he looked like Seto Kaiba. (200 ATK)
'Now I sacrifice Kaibaman!' A pillar of light surrounded Kaibaman then a loud roar bellowed over the Field as the world famous Blue-Eyes White Dragon came falling down from the sky. (3000 ATK)
Mario stared the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the eyes.
'Gwa ha ha stare into the face of your defeat, or should I say faces?' Bowser took a card from his hand. 'I activate Ancient Rules to call forth a second Blue-Eyes!' The crowd went crazy as a second Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared next to the first one. (3000 ATK)
'Gwa ha ha ha my Blue-Eyes white Dragons shall grind your Ancient Gears to dust.' Bowser taunted. 'Won't happen Bowser I don't use Ancient Gears anymore.' Mario replied. 'So back to V-to-Z are we?' Mario shook his head, Bowser looked stumped.
'Let me show you my new strategy, I summon Brron, Mad King of Dark World!' Mario shouted a maniacal laughter sounded over the Field a purple-skinned Fiend appeared he wore a blue jacket his arms were tied with chains in front of his body. (1800 ATK)
The crowd gasped, Bowser looked shocked. 'A monster like that? In your hands?' Mario smiled. 'Don't be surprised Bowser Fiends and especially the types like the Dark World monsters are associated with evil, but they are simply misunderstood Merlon showed me, Brron was an evil Duel Spirit during Jaden Yuki's age but he was possessed by evil I have made a deal with Brron and several other Duel Spirits.
Bowser frowned. 'So you made a pact with Duel Spirits?' Bowser confirmed for himself. 'Yes and I can interact with them but I do not do that during a Duel like this, don't want to scare the crowd.' Mario whispered. 'Next I activate Dark World Dealings.' Mario stated as the Spell card appeared in front of him.
'First we draw a card then we discard one.' Mario explained, Bowser drew his card and quickly discarded one Mario also drew his card.
'I discard Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World and when I do I destroy one card you control in this case your Blue-Eyes.' Mario discarded the card and a black mist surrounded Blue-Eyes White Dragon when the mist cleared the dragon was gone.
'And now I return Brron to my hand to summon Grapha!' Brron cackled as he slowly disappeared in his place a huge, black dragon appeared it stood on two legs and was covered with heavy plating and horns, it let out a loud roar. (2700 ATK) 'Now I equip him with Axe of Despair!' Mario played the Equip Spell a fiendish axe appeared in the claw of Grapha. (3700 ATK)
'Grapha take out Blue-Eyes!' Mario commanded, the black dragon charged in and with one clean hit he sliced the Blue-Eyes in half.
'I set a card and end my turn.'
(Bowser: 7300) - (Mario: 8000)
'Your turn Bowser.' Mario said.
'First I activate Pot of Greed.' Bowser said, the classic card appeared and he drew two cards. 'Here is a special Spell card, Spell Sanctuary!' A huge sanctuary appeared behind Bowser.
'This let us both draw one Spell card from our Deck.' Mario took a card from his Deck. 'I just needed this.' Bowser said he took a card from his Deck it was Dragon Shrine.
'I activate the Spell card Dragon Shrine.' Bowser said. The card appeared before Bowser. 'I know how this works and I know what you're planning.' Mario stated, Bowser closed his eyes. 'Tell me.' He said.
'You use the effect of your Shrine to send your third Blue-Eyes to the Graveyard then you use Dragon's Mirror to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.' Mario said, Bowser grinned. 'Yeah...' Bowser slowly said as he took a card from his Deck it was indeed a Blue-Eyes.'
'Well don't have to say anything here.' Bowser continued as he played another Spell card, a huge mirror appeared appeared on the Field the image of the terrifying three-headed Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon appeared, the mirror cracked and the dragon broke out of it. (4500 ATK)
'And Bowser brought out his big guns, Mario must be sweating now.' The announcer shouted, the crowd started to yell Bowser's name again.
'Bwa ha ha ha ha my dragon is bigger and has more heads!' Bowser pointed at Grapha and three beams of light shot Grapha in the chest the dragon collapsed. 'Hey Mario recognize this little card?' Bowser played a Spell card it was Surprise Attack from Beyond, a card some of Mario's enemies had used.
'Yeah I recognize it.' Mario sat down on one knee he shielded himself with his arms. 'Good because I now end my turn and that means Blue-Eyes can attack again!' Bowser said he pointed at his opponent, Mario closed his eyes and tried not to scream as the beams of light knocked him on his back.
(Bowser: 7300) - (Mario: 2700)
Mario slowly stood up. 'Yeah I forgot how a normal attack feels, didn't feel a thing after all these Shadow Games.' Mario drew his card.
'I activate the Spell card Card Destruction!' Mario discarded three cards Bowser discarded his single card.
Then quickly Mario drew four cards Bowser drew a single card. 'The first card I discarded was Fabled Raven, the second card I discarded was Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World, and since he was discarded by a card effect I special summon him.' A purple-skinned Fiend wearing armor made of bones appeared he held a spear in his hands. (1600 ATK) 'The rest were Trap cards.'
Mario looked over his hand. 'I Banish Fabled Raven and Brron.' Mario took the two cards from his Graveyard and pocketed them. 'I special summon Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning!' A portal appeared on the Field, out of it stepped a knight clad in heavy, wicked-looking armor, his eyes seemed to pierce right into Bowser's soul, Mario's opponent shivered, the crowd seemed to gasp. (3000 ATK)
'I still have my Normal Summon so I sacrifice Beiige to summon Silva, Warlord of Dark World!'
The smaller Fiend disappeared and a bigger one appeared clad in fancy armor, lightning struck behind the Fiend. (2300 ATK)
'Silva attack Blue-Eyes!' Mario yelled, the crowd held their breath.
'I activate my Trap card Bark of Dark Ruler, I can now pay Life Points and your monster loses the amount I pay.' Mario explained he made a quick calculation. 'I pay 2300 Life Points!' Mario said Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon hung his heads as its power dropped to 2200.
Silva quickly drew a small sword he sliced the three heads of Blue-Eyes clean off the dragon's body fell to the ground.
(Bowser: 7200) - (Mario: 500)
'Now I could have used Black Luster Soldier's effect to Banish him but if I would have done that I couldn't have done this, thanks to your Spell Sanctuary I activate Monster Reborn!' Mario played the Spell card.
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon appeared on Mario's side. (4500 ATK)
Bowser closed his eyes. 'Seems you found out about Spell Sanctuary, seems I was overconfident.' Bowser sighted 'Blue-Eyes attack Bowser!'
Bowser didn't flinch as he was struck down by his own monster's attack.
(Bowser: 2700) - (Mario: 500)
'Black Luster Soldier end it!' Mario yelled Bowser let out a shriek when the warrior struck him down again.
(Bowser: 0) - (Mario: 500)
'And that was a finishing blow!' The announcer shouted. 'Mario took down Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon then used it against its master and Bowser is out of life!'
Bowser looked at Mario the digital projections disappeared.
'Gah! Why did I lose to Mario?' Bowser pounded with his foot on the ground.
'This means Mario is the new American champion! And that means he earns the right to get the Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards, I hope Bowser has a spare Deck!' Bowser searched his Deck he took out a handful of cards. 'Bowser keep the cards.' Mario said the announcer gasped. 'You sure Mario, it is an honor to get these cards.'
'I am sure, I know Bowser needs these cards and I can't use them anyway.'
Bowser took a hard look at Mario. 'Why?' He simply asked.
'Bowser, we still have enemies, I know you don't want to fight Grodus and the X-Nauts, and you don't have too, but you must remember one thing, even if you won't fight against him it doesn't mean they won't send soldiers after you, you need to be able to defend yourself.'
Abandoned factory.
Rozalin stared down Princess Shroob now she could clearly see the Nephilim as the lights dimmed, still a monstrous shadow of the Shroob Princess remained visible, Rozalin knew something was completely wrong. 'So you are Rozalin, they said we looked like each other, that was no lie.'
Princess Shroob carefully observed Rozalin.
'I shall take your place.' Princess Shroob simply said, a Duel Disk grew out of her arm.
'Wait you have only 4000 Life Points.' Rozalin noticed, Princess Shroob took a position behind Rozalin the monstrous shadow remained.
'That is because I suffer from a decease, deadly in most cases but I learned to live with it, my twin sister.' The shadow changed into a second Princess Shroob but this one was way older, she bore fangs and claws she also had a Duel Disk activated.
'This is how it works.' Princess Shroob said, the Elder Princess Shroob remained silent. 'You see both of us act as individual, be prepared to fight on two fronts.' Princess Shroob drew her card Elder Princess Shroob also drew one.
Almost thirty minutes later Rozalin had build up quite an army, she controlled Amazoness Queen (2400 ATK), Amazoness Fighter (1500 ATK), Amazoness Swords Woman (1500 ATK), Amazoness Paladin (1700- 2200 ATK) and Amazoness Tiger (1100- 3100 ATK).
The Elder Princess Shroob had retreated she and Princess Shroob became one again after Rozalin managed to deplete the Elder Princess Shroob's Life Points. 'You managed to defeat my sister but that was a lucky shot, I still have all my Life Points.'
(Rozalin: 2200) - (Princess Shroob: 4000)
'I still have three attacks left.' Rozalin said. 'And you have no protection but one facedown Spell or Trap card, I must gamble.'
Princess Shroob's eyes gleamed. 'Fighter attack!' Rozalin commanded.
'You just triggered my Spell card Call of the Warden.' A black hole appeared behind Princess Shroob. 'You just summoned your own doom, come out Black Hole Warden!' A huge shadow crawled out of the hole Rozalin gasped as the monstrosity loomed over her. The eyes of the beast gleamed, Rozalin closed her eyes but she heard the screams of her Amazoness army then she felt an intense pain as the beast clawed at her.
(Rozalin: 0) - (Princess Shroob: 4000)
'Now you are mine.' Princess Shroob said with a sinister smile she took a shiny blue star from under her dress.
'This is the Cobalt Star, the Nephilim use these things as prisons, excellent to capture a Celestian in.' Princess Shroob held the star above her head, it started to shine Rozalin let out a scream then her body fell to the ground.
Next time:
Rozalin is captured by the Shroob princess.
The rest of the Shroob army are hiding in New-York, only Mario and Bowser are able to face the darkness, Mario must face the majority of the Shroob army while another dark creature prays on Bowser.
Is Mario really alone or will reinforcements arrive?
Surprise Attack from Beyond
Normal Spell card
The End Phase of this turn is also treated as a Battle Phase. During this special Battle Phase, the monsters you control that were Summoned and that battled in this turn can attack again.
Note: The above card was used by Marik in Yu-Gi-Oh Episode 141 The Final Face Off - Part 4. All credits goes to the creative writer of that episode.
Call of the Warden (Spell card) & Black Hole Warden (Monster)
Details on these cards are unknown what is known is that Call of the Warden is needed to summon Black Hole Warden and Black Hole Warden is able to destroy multiple monsters on the Field, whether that is by effect or battle is unknown.
Note: Call of the Warden and Black Hole Warden are made by me.