"Excuse me coming through!"Jaden Yuki ran through Domino Park in a hurry until he suddenly bumped into someone making his deck fall out."Sorry!"He quickly began to pick up his cards and blew some dirt off the last one.
"You're a duelist aren't you?"
Yeah, I'm going to try out for the Academy."
"I see."
Getting up laughing, Jaden finished putting his deck in his deck box until he saw who he had ran into: Yugi Muto, the King of Games himself."You're-"The starstruck Jaden was interrupted by Yugi opening his deck box and taking out a card.
"Take this, I have a feeling it belongs with you."Jaden anxiously got the card as Yugi began to leave.
"Thank you! I-I'll make you proud!"Smiling at the young duelist, Yugi gave him a thumbs up and kept walking.
'I know you will, I'll see what you're made of at the entrance exams.'
"Whoa..."Jaden looked at the Winged Kuriboh card in his hand before running back in the direction he was going.
"Excuse me am I late?"Jaden ran up to three people organizing stacks of paper breathing heavily.
"You are son, looks like you'll-"
"Excuse is there a problem?"The four turned to see Yugi walking towards them causing the man who was speaking to Jaden to gulp.
"No Mr. Muto, it's just that this young man arrived late to sign in-"
"Let him through, if anything I'll talk to Kaiba to take the fall should there be any complications."
"Yes sir."
Letting out a sigh of relief, Jaden looked at his idol smiling."Thank you Yugi...sir..."
"Yugi is fine. You should go now, I have a feeling the duels will be over soon."
"Thank you!"
"Nice job."Syrus Truesdale looked at Bastion Misawa who had just finished his entrance exam making him close his eyes and smirk.
"Thank you, you didn't do so bad yourself."
"Yeah your duels were awesome!"The two looked behind them to see Jaden smiling confusing them.
"I don't recall seeing yours."
"Because I just got here."
"But Bastion's was the last duel."Hearing Syrus say that, Jaden fell forward until they hear a surprising announcement over the speakers.
"JADEN YUKI TO DUEL ARENA 4!"
"Yes! Last duel huh?"Jaden ran down with Syrus and Bastion in surprise.
"Another duel? Wasn't that Misawa boy supposed to be our last duel?"Dr. Vellian Crowler was sitting with other staff members and was shocked by the announcement until he got a call on his cellphone."Hello who is this?"
"Your boss."Crowler gulped hearing Seto Kaiba on the other end of the call."Listen, I need you to duel this Jaden Yuki applicant."
"May I ask why sir?"
"Does it matter, I say you're doing it and you better do it now."
"Alright, time to do this."Jaden appeared on the Duel Field to see Crowler with a colossal Duel Disk blade on his arm and the deck slung over his shoulder. Seeing that, Jaden fixed his Battle City Duel Disk as it turned on.
"Hello Mr. Yuki, are you prepared for your exam."
"I sure am."
"Fine then..."
"Get your game on!"
"LET'S DUEL!"
Jaden: 4000 LP
Crowler: 4000 LP
"Normally seniority rules, but you can go first."
Hearing that, Jaden got his beginning hand and drew a card as Crowler's deck shot the beginning hand into his fingers."Alright. I'll start by playing the spell known as Convert Contact."
"Convert Contact? That is a rare card, I've never heard of such a card."
"Well here's a crash course, you see: when I have no monsters on my field, by discarding a Neo-Spacian and one from my deck to the graveyard, I can draw two cards. So by discarding my Neo-Spacian Dark Panther and sending Neo-Spacian Glow Moss from my deck to the graveyard, I can draw two cards!"Jaden grabbed a card in his hand, pulled out his deck and grabbed a card from it, he put them in the graveyard slot making them slide in. He then shuffled his deck and drew two cards, smiling seeing what they were.
"Neo-Spacians?"
"An odd archetype, I've read on all Archetypes but I never read about Neo-Spacians."Bastion and Syrus were talking seeing what Jaden was doing until Syrus looked up to see his brother and Alexis Rhodes watching.
"It's just like your exam Zane, no one ever hear about Cyber Dragons until you dueled."Alexis looked at Zane Truesdale who stood with interest clear in his eyes even though he was emotionless.
"It is, but the Cybers were known. But even Crowler had never heard of that Convert Contact card."
"Next I play the spell know as Polymerization! I fuse Elemental Hero Avian, Sparkman, and Bubbleman...to summon: THE ELEMENTAL HERO TEMPEST IN ATTACK MODE!"A vortex appeared above Jaden as a green, blue, and gold light flew in and a blue man with green hair, a blue visor, a blaster on his right arm, and green wings appeared surprising Crowler.
ATK: 2800
"Now I'll throw down two facedowns and call it a turn."
"I draw, I'll set two cards facedown."
"Not good."
"I PLAY HEAVY STORM!"Hurricane strength winds surrounded the two as their facedowns began to float up.
"I'LL CHAIN WITH DE-FUSION! I SPLIT MY TEMPEST INTO MY AVIAN, BUBBLEMAN, AND SPARKMAN IN DEFENSE MODE!"All of a sudden, Tempest split into his three fusion materials as the facedowns were destroyed. But along with the three heroes appearing, two golden medals were floating near Jaden.
"What are those?"
"You see doctor, you destroyed my facedowns, they were Hero Medals."
"Hero medals?"
"Yeah the way my traps work is that first they have to be taken out by your card effect. Then they get shuffled into my deck."The medals went into Jaden's deck as he shuffled it and put it back in the slot.
"So what?"
"So my medals also let me draw a card, so since you destroyed two: I can draw two cards."
"I see, interesting card young scholar. But I also have a destroyed trap effect."
"What?"Jaden looked around as smoke rose up to his legs and two golden fiends appeared in front of Crowler.
"These are my Wicked Tokens. The facedowns I played like your Hero Medals activated when they're destroyed."
"Let me guess, they were the Statue of the Wicked trap card."
"Excellent observation. BUT THIS WILL SHOCK YOU EVEN MORE! I TRIBUTE MY TWO WICKED TOKENS..."
Watching the two tokens begin to glow Alexis and Zane gulped knowing what was about to happen."Here it comes."
"Crowler's legendary card."
"TO SUMMON ANCIENT GEAR GOLEM!"A colossal roman like robot made out of gears stood in the two tokens' place making Jaden smile.
ATK: 3000
"I've always wanted to duel one."
"Well here you go. ATTACK HIS BUBBLEMAN WITH MECHANIZED MELEE!"Bubbleman braced himself as Ancient Gear Golem punched him creating an explosion that sent Jaden sliding backwards."Oh and one other thing, when my Golem attacks a defense position monster: you take damage equal to the difference between my Golem's attack points and your monster's defense points. So since your Bubbleman had 1200 defense points and my Golem has 3000, then you take 1800 points of damage."
Jaden: 2200 LP
"I end my turn at that."
"I draw."Jaden drew his card and smiled seeing what it was and looked at his hand."I summon Winged Kuriboh in defense mode!"Winged Kuriboh appeared in front of the Elemental Heroes making Crowler laugh."I'll throwdown a facedown and call it a turn."
DEF: 200
Still laughing at Jaden's play, Crowler drew his next card and immediately pointed at Winged Kuriboh."ATTACK THAT FUZZBALL! MECHANIZED MELEE!"Winged Kuriboh let out a cry of pain as he was taken out but the aftermath surprised at what had just happened."Check your gear, your life points haven't changed."
"My gear is fine, when Winged Kuriboh is destroyed: I take zero damage."Hearing that, Crowler growled and ended his turn."Go."
"I draw!"Jaden drew his card and smiled as in his head, a network of combos lit up."First I'll play Pot of Greed, this lets me draw two cards."He did just that and grinned at what he drew."Next I'll play Fake Hero! Now this lets me special summon any monster that has Elemental Hero in its name but it goes back to my hand at the end. So meet: ELEMENTAL HERO NEOS!"A man resembling a grey alien with red markings and a blue gem on his chest appeared making Crowler smile.
"What a rookie mistake, would anyone like to tell Mr. Yuki-"
"Now you see I know my Neos isn't all that powerful, but that's the luck of the draw. Especially with this, Spellbook inside the Pot! Now we draw three cards, now I play: Cocoon Party!"
"Cocoon what?"
"Cocoon Party, for every Neo-Spacian in the grave: I can special summon a Chrysalis in my deck. So since I have Glow Moss and Dark Panther: I summon Chrysalis Larvae and Chrysalis Chicky!"Two small cocoons with a larvae and a baby bird in them appeared making Crowler laugh.
"What do they have an effect like your Kuriboh?"
"No, but when I use this spell, it'll be like when I graduate from the academy. CONTACT!"
"Contact?"
"It basically grows my little buddies up. It turns my Larvae into Neo-Spacian Flare Scarab!"The cocoon around Larvae disappeared and a man resembling a scarab appeared covered n fire."And my Chicky, into Neo-Spacian Air Humming Bird!"Chicky then turned into a man resembling a hummingbird making Crowler's eyes go wide."Now I activate my Air Hummingbird's special ability, for every card in your hand: I gain 500 Life points. So since you have 3, I gain 1500."
Jaiden: 3700 LP
"So what?"
"So now I'm leaving it to the luck of the draw again and play Card of Sanctity, now we each draw until we have six cards."The two did just that with Crowler drawing three and Jaden drawing six."Next I play Reinforcement of the army! This lets me add Elemental Hero Burstinatrix to my hand. Now I play Fusion Recovery! This adds Polymerization and Bubbleman from the graveyard into my hand. Now, I play Polymerization! This fuses Avian, Bubbleman, Burstinatrix, and Clayman that's in my hand to summon: ELEMENTAL HERO ELECTRUM!"A golden man with an E on his chest appeared and began to glow.
ATK: 2900
"Now my Electrum gains 300 attack points for every monster with the same attribute."
"So that's only 600."
"Actually teach, my Electrum counts as Light, Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth. So that's your Golem, my Sparkman, Neos, Flare Scarab, and Air Hummingbird so that's 5. Bringing him up to 4400!"
"WAIT TIME OUT!"
"Now I play the field spell known as Skyscraper!"Jaden slid a card into the Field Spell zone making multiple buildings rise up surprising Crowler."Now when an Elemental Hero battles a monster with more attack points, it gains 1000 attack points!"
"IT WHAT!"
"I switch Sparkman to attack mode. AND NOW...NEOS ATTACK HIS GOLEM! COSMIC CRUSH!"Neos ran up a building and jumped off the roof and delivered a karate chop to Ancient Gear Golem making it break apart.
Crowler: 3500 LP
"Impossible! He was my very best card!"Crowler was panicking until a piece of his golem hit him in the head making him stop.
"Flare Scarab attack him directly! Burn Rush!"Flare Scarab was covered in fire and he tackled Crowler burning him.
Crowler: 3000 LP
"AIR HUMMINGBIRD! SLAUGHTERING SWOOP!"Soon after, Air Hummingbird flew up and into Crowler making him yell in pain.
Crowler: 2200 LP
"SPARKMAN! STATIC SHOCKWAVE!"
Crowler: 600 LP
"This is just overkill!"
"You can say that again: In total, he's dealing Crowler with 7500 points of damage while his weaker damaging monsters attack first."
"NOW ELECTRUM! SOLAR FLARE!"Electrum began to grow so brightly he blinded Crowler and everyone else watching except Jaden.
Crowler: 0
Winner: Jaden
"Impressive Jaden, good luck in the academy."Yugi took off his sunglasses and left the Kaiba Dome thinking about Jaden's future at Duel Academy.
"That's game!"Jaden laughed looking up at the audience until he made eye contact with Alexis who did the same causing a small blush to creep on their faces.'Wow.'
'Wow.'