Disclaimer: This is going to be a weird one, so bear with it. First off, I don't own Yugioh GX. Never had and never will, but that should be obvious. Second, there's going to be a weird use of names in this story, like the use of last name before first that is used in Japanese culture. (When used verbally there will be the reverse, or the Japanese way, while thought mentally or through the author it will be the American way of saying a name.)
Third, I'm using the Japanese names of the canon characters and of any Duel Spirits that may appear. (Winged Kuriboh doesn't work for me, but Hane Kuriboh sounds just fine.)
General warning: This entire story will more than likely have spoilers for the end of Season Two of GX, so if you don't like spoilers (I'm looking at you dub-watching-type people) then please don't say I didn't warn you.
Commence Wolf General writing idea '#I haven't been keeping track' now!
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Shifting Generation Saga (SGS for short)
Chapter 1: Clash of Spaces (Part 1)
Some say that time is like a river, a constantly flowing stream of events that tie together into one large mass which is forever moving forward. Others say it is like a spring, a spiral that occasionally crashes its parts together and creates fluctuations in time.
No one can say what time really is though, except that perhaps it is both the most reliable and the most unpredictable of things. Seconds will always be seconds, and they will always pass like seconds. It's the same with minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.
Yet the unpredictability comes from the fact there are moments in time that sometimes skip, jump, or do things no one expected it to do. This is one of those moments, and its consequences will stretch across the universe if left unchecked.
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In a clearing located somewhere on the island of Duel Academy, there was a young man wearing an Osiris Red blazer sitting in the grass. He looked to his left, and then to his right. His nose twitched a little and he frowned, crossing his arms across his chest and tilting his head to the side as if he was going into some kind of deep contemplation.
"Let's see, I remember walking into a tree. Or did the tree walk into me? That's what it felt like anyway. After that I was here. But here doesn't feel like the here I know, it feels like a here somewhere other than here." His hazel eyes opened and he blinked in surprise. "That was a frighteningly deep thing for me to say. Maybe I should stop thinking about it. After all, I'm sure an answer is on the way."
His hand reached over and grabbed his backpack, pulling the piece of red sewed fabric in front of him and unzipping it. "Let's see…Duel Disk…Textbooks…PDA…Emergency Snackage…"
Zipping the bag closed again, he wondered if the answer was coming soon. "Hurry up; I don't want to sit here forever!" The grass underneath him crunched softly as he collapsed against it.
A soft wind blew past his body, tickling the brown wolf ears on top of his head and causing them to flatten against his mess of poofy chestnut-brown hair. ("Oh well, at least summer is fast approaching.") With the wind kissing his cheek he closed his eyes and started to remember the school year.
Ichigo Pilkington had never had the most normal of lives. His best friends were either half-demons like him, a group of aliens, or just plain strange. Oh, did he forget to mention that he was a superhero that was supposed to fight some of the bad aliens which followed his alien friends to earth?
Yeah, sometimes he wondered if there was some outside force directing his life. After all, the kind of insanity that followed him wherever he went was definitely not normal. ("Honestly, my life's become so strange that now if something strange doesn't happen I'm worried that it isn't my life.") That was probably why, despite the fact that to his sensitive wolf-strength nose, ears, and senses this place wasn't the Duel Academy he knew, he wasn't all that panicked.
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Yuki Judai peeked under the bush in front of him before lifting his head back up and looking at the small phantasmal ball of winged fur floating around his head and chirping worriedly. "What's the matter, Hane Kuriboh? You led me out here but you won't tell me why."
Not that it was like he had anything else to do. With the current semester rapidly on the verge of ending, Judai had little to do since the Organization of Light and Edo had left Duel Academy. The most exciting thing he could recall doing for the last week was dodging Rei Saotome, who seemed intent on fawning over him after her inception into the academy.
Hane Kuriboh chirped once more and faded away, leaving Judai to wonder if whether his partner had just led him out here just to get him excited about the possibility of a new adventure and new opponents to duel. He certainly wouldn't have minded a bit of fun. It would have given him an excuse to avoid studying for finals that wouldn't get Sho on his case.
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Ichigo, back still to the grass as he enjoyed the warmth of the sun on his face, opened his eyes finally. "Well I guess I'd better start investigating why this doesn't feel like my Duel Academy." Was it another dimension? That was possible. "Maybe I just got a concussion when I walked into the tree?"
A bush at the edge of the clearing rustled and Judai's head emerged from it, looking around questioningly. ("I thought I heard someone's voice from over here.") "Hello? Is somebody there?"
Up in the branches of a long-reaching tree, Ichigo perched quietly amongst the leaves and tried to calm himself down. ("That was a bit of an extreme reaction from just hearing someone coming, don't you think?") The question was posed by his inner voice, and he didn't have any reason to dispute it.
Judai walked into the middle of the clearing, rubbing the back of his head and wondering if his boredom was making him imagine things now. ("I'm sure I heard something though…") He stepped forward and his foot bumped into something. "Huh?"
("Oh no…") Ichigo started panicking as he realized he had left his backpack on the ground. ("Think fast! Gotta think fast!")
"Somebody lost their backpack out here…" Judai picked up the bag up, surprised by its weight. "This thing weighs a ton! What are they carrying in here? Bricks?" A click noise came from inside it and the backpack bulged as if something was trying to escape. "That sounded like a Duel Disk activating."
Ichigo silently wished he had something nearby to bang his head against. ("Why did my Duel Disk activate? Oh please don't open the bag, please don't open the bag…just go away and leave it alone…")
"I'd better turn it off so it doesn't tear the bag up." Dropping into a cross-legged sit, Judai pulled the zipper along its track and removed the activated Duel Disk. "Hey, they left their deck in here too. That's pretty careless of them."
("Go away!") Ichigo mentally screamed, hoping that his wish could change reality and make the person disappear in a burst of smoke. Of course nothing happened though, and Judai had removed the deck from the device. "Do you rifle through other people's possessions just cause they're lying around?"
"Oh, there you are." Judai grinned up at the rustling tree branch as he heard someone groan in frustration. "What're you doing up there? Why don't you come down?"
"First I need to ask you a couple of questions," The voice muttered, sounding rather cross. "This is Duel Academy, right?"
"Of course, where else would it be? You're a student here, aren't you?" Judai held up one of the textbooks with both hands, inspecting its surface with surprise on his face. "I've never seen these textbooks before. Are you part of an Honors program or something?"
A red and brown blur dropped out of the tree and landed in front of him, apparently unaffected by the impact of the fall. "Yeah, I guess you could say that." A messy-haired guy in an Osiris Red uniform wearing a pair of sunglasses stood up and smiled. "Sorry about yelling at you, I just…" He grew silent, looking at Judai's face. "Wow, do you know that you're the spitting image of Yuki Judai?"
"Huh?" Judai looked a little confused and then laughed at the joke. "Of course I look like Yuki Judai, I am Yuki Judai."
"Oh…" The older boy put his hands on top of his head, flattening the hair there. ("Stupid ears, don't twitch in surprise! Don't give away my cover!") "Is that so? Well I'm sorry to say…" He had a bit of mocking tone to his voice. "But I don't believe you."
"You…you don't?" Judai sweatdropped. He found it hard to take offense of the words of a guy who had his hands over his head and therefore looked like he was acting like some kind of monkey. "Ummm, why would you say I'm not me?"
"Because Yuki Judai is a great man that I truly respect," The other Osiris Red student dropped one hand down and pointed at Judai. "And he's older than me. Plus…" He put his hands at his sides, nothing that he had to look down at Judai just a little bit. "He's also taller than me. You do look a lot like him though, that's for sure."
"I'm telling you though," Judai wasn't sure how to argue that he was himself, or at least dissuade what seemed to be someone's image of him. It wasn't a conversation he ever expected that he would be having in his lifetime. "I am Yuki Judai. Maybe you mean another Judai though?"
"I guess I must." The guy turned and looked up at the sky, a grin on his face. "Judai-sensei was the amazing man that taught me to be a hero. He's a great Elemental Hero duelist too."
"Wow, that's a really amazing coincidence." Judai laughed at how odd of a sense of humor the world seemed to have sometimes. "I run an Elemental Hero deck too. This Yuki Judai guy sounds like a real cool guy though…"
"Oh yeah, I haven't even introduced myself." The other Osiris Red smiled and offered a hand. "My name is Pilkington Ichigo, pleasure to meet you."
"I guess you already figured it out, but my name's Yuki Judai." The two grasped hands and shook firmly.
Ichigo looked down at the hand he had used to shake with quizzically. ("Okay, that felt weird.") Reaching down and picking up his backpack, he pulled out his Duel Disk. "Excuse me Judai-san, but if you've got the time would you mind dueling with me?"
"Of course!" After meeting an interesting guy like this Ichigo, Judai would have been disappointed if he hadn't gotten such a chance. "Is here fine?"
"Yup, here's fine." Ichigo strapped his Duel Disk onto his left arm slowly, his eyes narrowed behind his sunglasses. ("His hands felt just like Judai-sensei's hands. Now I can't just discount it as a coincidence. I've got to find out for myself in a duel.")
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A minute later…
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"Duel!" Both Judai and Ichigo activated their duel disks at the same time.
Ichigo- 4000
Judai- 4000
"Since I made the challenge it would only be appropriate if I went first! Draw!" Ichigo pulled the top card off of his deck and added it to his hand. ("I have to be sure of this. Therefore I'll come at you with everything I have.") "I activate the magic card Polymerization. As an Elemental Hero duelist I'm sure you know what that does right?"
"Right." Judai nodded his head slightly.
"Then I won't need to explain what I'm doing beyond this." Ichigo held up two cards from his hand. "I fuse the Final Shadow God Crystal Knight in my hand and the Star Shadow Wolf next to it into Star Wolf Rider!" A crystal-armored knight riding atop a wolf mount made of dark blue crystal appeared on Ichigo's field. (?) "This monster's attack and defense are equal to the compound attack and defense of its fusion components." (2700/2900) "I summon it in defense mode and end my turn."
("In just his first turn he summoned a monster with such high attack and defense...") An electric tingle ran down Judai's spine and he grinned as he drew. "I summon Neospacian Air Hummingbird in defense mode!" A bird-humanoid appeared on his field in a crouching position, its wings folded around itself protectively. (800/600) "Since I can't beat your monster this turn, I have to prepare for the worst! I activate Air Hummingbird's effect. Honeysuckle!"
Ichigo was now ninety percent sure. Three flowers appeared over his field and the Neospacian flew amongst them, inserting its beak into buds and then flapping back over Judai's field. It flapped his wings and a glittering rain of green sparkles fell down around Judai's body.
"For every card in your hand I gain 500 life points." Judai smirked confidently, despite the fact that his Air Hummingbird was weaker than the Star Wolf Rider by far. "End turn."
Ichigo- 4000
Judai- 5500
Ichigo frowned at Judai before he drew for his turn. ("Judai-sensei never dueled me with his Neospacians in his deck, so I have no idea what to expect in this battle. I know the effects of the monsters themselves, but it doesn't make me feel better.") "I activate the magic card Fusion Recovery, adding Star Shadow Wolf and Polymerization from my graveyard to my hand." The two named cards slid out of his graveyard slot and he picked them up, but in that same motion he threw the Star Shadow Wolf card onto his disk. "I summon Star Shadow Wolf in attack mode!" A copy of the mount being used by the Crystal Knight appeared on his field. (1500/1000)
Judai gulped as he watched the Star Wolf Rider slowly come out of its crouch as it switched into attack mode.
"Star Shadow Wolf attacks Air Hummingbird! Star Shadow Howl!" Ichigo's non-fusion wolf howled loudly, the sound waves crashing into the Neospacian and blowing him apart. "When Star Shadow Wolf destroys a monster as a result of battle and sends it to the graveyard I draw one card."
"And now," Ichigo pointed directly at Judai. "Star Wolf Rider, attack his life points directly!" The fusion charged forward and crashed into Judai with its lance. "I set one card face-down and end my turn." A face-down card appeared behind his Star Shadow Wolf while his Star Wolf Rider returned to his side of the field.
Ichigo- 4000
Judai- 2800
"I can tell that this will be a great duel!" Judai barely seemed affected by the attack, a grin on his face as he drew from his deck. "I activate the magic card Emergency Call, adding one Elemental Hero from my deck to my hand." Removing his deck from its slot, he fanned the cards out and quickly made his selection before returning the stack of cards to its original place.
"And then I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman in attack mode!" A blue-armored superhero appeared on Judai's field in a burst of bubbles, his cape flowing around him. (800/1200) "When Bubbleman is summoned and I have no other cards in play I can draw twice." Adding two more cards to his hand, he grinned. "I still can't beat your fusion, but I can match it with one of my own."
A swirling portal of energy appeared over his field. "I activate Polymerization, fusing the Elemental Hero Clayman in my hand with the Bubbleman on my field!" The two named monsters appeared, were pulled into the portal, and then a round-armored heavy superhero appeared on his field in a crouching position. "I summon Mudballman in defense mode!" (1900/3000) "End turn."
"It's my turn, draw!" Ichigo narrowed his eyes at Mudballman. ("That defense is way too high for me to do anything about.") "End turn."
("Good, I managed to stop him from attacking for now.") Judai drew and realized the downside to this situation though. ("Until I do something about his attacking monsters I can't summon any of the other monsters in my hand. They won't be strong enough.") "End turn."
It was Ichigo's turn now, but before he drew he glanced at one of the cards in his hand. ("If I use this now then I'll be able to shuffle my deck and maybe increase the chances of drawing a card capable of beating Mudballman's defense.") Then he drew and added the card to his hand, readjusting his sunglasses to make sure his slotted eyes couldn't be seen. "End turn."
"Draw!" Judai slid one of the cards in his hand into his disk. "I set one card face-down and end my turn."
"My turn again," Ichigo emphasized the last part of that, wondering how long he was going to have to wait for Judai to counterattack. ("Is just one of my fusions really that hard to beat?") "I place one card face-down and end my turn, just like you did." A card appeared alongside his earlier-set reverse card.
"Now's the time for my counterattack, draw!" Judai smiled at the card he had pulled, holding it up for Ichigo to see. "I activate Graceful Charity, drawing three cards and then discarding two." A trio of cards left the top of his deck and was added to his hand, after which he selected two different cards and discarded them. "I summon Card Gunner in attack mode!" A weird robot that looked like it came out of an old 60s science fiction movie appeared on his field. (400/400)
"I activate the effect of Card Gunner." Judai placed his hand on top of his deck. "Once per turn I can discard cards from my deck to the graveyard. The maximum number is three, and per card I discard Card Gunner gains 500 attack points until the end of the turn! I choose to discard three cards!" His deck slot clicked as he pulled three cards off and placed them in the graveyard tray, the Duel Disk moving them one by one into the graveyard. (1900/400)
"A 1900 attack monster won't beat my fusion, Judai-san." Ichigo smiled because he saw the smile on Judai's face. ("He knows that, but he has something else up his sleeve.")
The Osiris Red duelist grabbed a card from his hand and slid it into his disk, a magic card with a picture of a purple O on it appearing on his field. "I activate the magic card Oversoul, special summoning one normal Elemental Hero from my graveyard to the field!" A blast of light erupted from his graveyard and a mighty gray-colored superhero appeared in play on his field. "Elemental Hero Neos, its Showtime!" (2500/2000)
"So you summoned Neos…" Ichigo muttered this to himself before raising his voice so that Judai could hear him. "That alone won't be enough."
"I know that." Judai pointed at the card that was face-down on his field, which flipped up to reveal a magic card with a picture of a blue H. "I activate the magic card Heat Heart, increasing the attack of Elemental Hero Neos by 500 points until the end of the turn!" (3000/2000)
Mudballman stood out of its crouching position as it switched to attack mode. "Mudballman, attack Star Shadow Wolf now! Mud Crash!" The hero skidded across the field and bounced the crystal monster off its shoulder, shattering it.
Ichigo- 3600
Judai- 2800
"Neos attacks Star Wolf Rider, Lance of Neos!" Judai punched his fist at the fusion and his space-faring superhero flew across the field, breaking the combination monster with a powerful chop from its arm.
Ichigo- 3300
Judai- 2800
Ichigo braced himself against the powerful backlash that hit his body. "Reverse card open!" One of his set cards flipped up and a black-clothed humanoid holding a heavy steel shield in front of it appeared on the field. "Night Signal activates when a monster on my field is destroyed as a result of battle, special summoning a level four or lower Final Shadow from my deck to the field. My choice is Final Shadow Shield Guardian, which has an original defense equal to the number of defense mode monsters on my field multiplied by 1500!" (0/1500)
"Card Gunner attack Shield Guardian!" Judai watched the robot fire a double blast from its cannon that instantly shattered the defender. "Alright! I end my turn." (400/400)
"Then it's my turn, draw." Ichigo pulled the top card off of his deck. "Now that you've shown me such power, it would be rude not to return it with my own. That's why I'll play this." A magic card appeared on his field and he removed his deck from his Duel Disk. "I activate the magic card Shadow Construction Company. It lets me send two dark machine type monsters from my deck to the graveyard to make one field magic card the top card of my deck." Two cards were slid into his graveyard and he replaced his deck back in its slot.
("A field magic card?") Judai wondered what field magic card it was. ("It doesn't matter though; he won't get it until his next turn.")
"I play Graceful Charity, just like you did." Ichigo drew three cards from his deck and then discarded two, trying his hardest not to smile too widely. If he did then he would reveal his fangs and the whole purpose of his disguise would be negated.
"I summon Final Shadow Night Slasher in attack mode!" A black-robed humanoid form appeared on his field dramatically, an unfelt wind blowing against the fabric surrounding its body. (1100/800) "When this monster is summoned I can destroy a monster in play with original or current attack equal to or less than its own. In other words your Card Gunner is toast. Night Murder!"
Judai gasped as the Final Shadow appeared right behind his robot monster and produced a knife from out of the folds of its robes, slashing the machine in half. "But when Card Gunner is destroyed I draw one card." He added a card to his hand, smiling at what it was.
"Here I come, Judai!" Ichigo grabbed a pair of cards from his hand.
"Bring it on!" The Hero Duelist was ready. He knew what was coming next.
"Reverse card open!" Ichigo's set card flipped up. "I planned on using Polymerization as a bluff, but thanks to this setup I can use it as it was meant to be used instead! I fuse the Final Shadows Psyche Vizier and Blood Saber in my hand with the Night Slasher on my field!" A female monster wearing a metallic helmet and a black-clothed warrior holding a red-tinged sword appeared on his field alongside his Night Slasher.
"Come out now, Final Shadow Psychic Blood Slasher!" The three monsters were sucked into a vortex of energy that appeared above them, and a thin-limbed black skeletal humanoid with a heavy metal helmet over its head floated down onto his field. (2600/2600)
("It's even stronger than Neos!") Judai felt a drop of sweat slide down the side of his head. ("I can't back down here though. As long as I have cards left I won't give up!")
Ichigo opened the field magic card slot on his Duel Disk and place a card into it, their surroundings growing darker and darker. "I activate the field magic card City of Shadows!" Giant shadowed skyscrapers rose up into the air around them, creating a dreary background for the battle. "I activate the effect of City of Shadows, discarding a card from my hand to remove a random card from your graveyard!"
Judai's eyes widened in surprise as a card slid out of his graveyard and a giant version of it appeared in the air above them. "Elemental Hero Wildman…"
"That's right." Ichigo pointed at Judai's field. "When the card removed through the effect of City of Shadows is a monster my opponent selects one monster on their field and returns it to their hand." He crossed his arms across his chest. "Well Judai, hurry and choose."
"I choose Elemental Hero Neos." Judai's space-faring superhero disappeared and its card reappeared in his hand.
"Also the effect of Psychic Blood Slasher activates now." Ichigo motioned to the hologram of Wildman's card, which was now tinted blood-red. "When a monster is removed from your graveyard you take half of that monster's original attack in damage!" A crescent of bloody energy exploded from the card and slammed into Judai's chest roughly. "Psychic Blood Slasher attacks Elemental Hero Mudballman! Psychic Assassin!" A phantasmal humanoid appeared behind the superhero and slashed it in half with its hand before disappearing.
Ichigo- 3300
Judai- 1350
"Also," Ichigo's monster started to make a faint humming noise. "The effect of Psychic Blood Slasher is that when it destroys a monster of yours as a result of battle you place one card from your hand on top of your deck. During your next draw phase you may choose to either draw the bottom or top card of your deck. Well then, pick your card."
Judai inserted a card onto the top of his deck silently, looking rather worried. ("This guy is just as strong as I thought. But I'm not out yet!") "I choose the top of my deck!" He drew the card he just returned and suddenly the fear on his face was gone. "From my graveyard the effect of Elemental Hero Necro Darkman activates now!"
"Necro Darkman…" Ichigo nodded his head slightly. "You get to normal summon an Elemental Hero without sacrifice."
"That's right, and my choice is Elemental Hero Neos!" Judai's superhero reappeared on the field once more in a flash of rainbow light. (2500/2000)
"So you're resummoned Neos? That won't change anything if my Psychic Blood Slasher just destroys it during the next turn." Ichigo pointed at the superhero. "I'm not afraid of the power of Neos. However…" He sneered, and this unfortunately showed off one of his fangs. "Let's see his power!"
"Alright, I'll show it to you!" Judai slid a card into his disk. "I activate the quickplay magic card Quick Summon, normal summoning Neo Spacian Flare Scarab from my hand to the field!" A humanoid beetle appeared on his field alongside Neos. (500/500) "For every magic and trap card on your field Flare Scarab gains 400 attack points." (900/500)
"But that doesn't matter…" Ichigo wasn't a fool. He knew what Neos and the Neospacians did.
"That's right, it doesn't." Judai pointed up at the sky and his two monsters flew up out of sight. "Contact Fusion!" A fireball crashed down onto his field from space, cooling down to reveal a beetle-armored version of Neos. "Elemental Hero Flare Neos is special summoned!" (2500/2000) "For every magic and trap in play Flare Neos gains 400 attack points." (2900/2000)
"But at the end phase of your turn it will return to your fusion deck." Ichigo mentally chastised himself for accidentally revealing his fang, but apparently Judai hadn't noticed. "Well, what are you doing about it? Are you going to attack and hope I don't end it during the next turn?"
"Of course not." Judai's field magic card slot opened and he placed a card into it. "I activate the field magic card Neospace!" All around them the City of Shadows collapsed, the buildings dissolving more than being destroyed as the scenery changed to a pulsing rainbow dimension. "This card powers up Neos and all Neos fusion monsters by 500 attack points!" (3400/2000) "Flare Neos attacks Psychic Blood Slasher! Burst Rush!" The space hero fusion was bathed in flames as he roared across the field and crashed into the Final Shadow, burning it away easily.
Ichigo- 2500
Judai- 1350
Flare Neos returned to Judai's field calmly, holding a pose that said it knew that its power would remain. "At the end phase of my turn the effect of Flare Neos that returns him to my fusion deck is negated by Neospace. I place one card face-down and end my turn."
Ichigo shook himself briskly, little wisps of smoke rising from his head. "Wow that hurt!" Then he lifted his head up and drew. "I place one card face-down and end my turn. Now Judai, since you've shown me the power of Neos I'll show you the power of Infinity…" He grinned widely. "It's only fair, after all."
("The power of Infinity? What's that?") Judai drew. "Flare Neos gains 800 attack points for the two extra cards on the field." (4200/2000) "Flare Neos, attack his life points directly! Burst Rush!" The fusion hero exploded into flames and charged straight at Ichigo.
"Reverse card open!" Ichigo's set card flipped up and a powerful orange explosion blinded both Judai and Flare Neos. When the afterimage burned into their retinas disappeared, it revealed a dark blue humanoid robot standing on Ichigo's field. "This is what I was talking about. Its name is Final Shadow Infinity Chaser!" (2000/1000) Infinity Chaser made a loud metallic screeching noise and punched its fists together.
"But how did it get into play?" Judai sounded a bit confused. "Was it your trap card?"
"That's right." Ichigo held up the trap he had set. "It's called Big Bang Appearance. When you attack me directly I can special summon one monster with Infinity in its title to my field and end the battle phase." Inserting the used card into his graveyard, he laughed happily. "Sorry about that Judai, but I can't let you beat me that easily."
"Heh, don't worry about it. Now I'm curious about what this Infinity power you were talking about is." Judai double-checked the cards in his hand before nodding to Ichigo. "End turn."
("Up to this point I was controlling the duel until Neos showed up.") Ichigo knew that the power of Neos was similar to Infinity Chaser. ("If you want to use Contact Fusion…") He left that thought alone and drew, smiling at what he saw. "I activate the magic card Pot of Greed, drawing two cards from my deck."
Judai blinked at the warm look on Ichigo's face when he drew those two cards. ("What did he draw?")
"Let's do it Erian!" Ichigo threw a card onto his disk and a humanoid made of prismatic light appeared on his field. "I summon Infinity Traveler Null Entity in attack mode!" (100/200)
"Infinity Traveler…" Judai looked at the two monsters on Ichigo's field…and quickly figured it out. "You mean…"
"That's right!" Ichigo pointed up into the space above him, copying Judai's earlier action. "Contact Fusion!" The two monsters flew high up into the sky and disappeared. Moments later a grey-colored version of Infinity Chaser lowered into play, heavy plates of armor all over its body. "Final Shadow Negation Chaser is special summoned in attack mode!" (2000/1000)
"That awesome!" Judai grinned widely as the two Contact Fused monsters faced off. "But Flare Neos is still a lot stronger."
"For now, but that's about to change!" Ichigo's field magic card slot opened. "Here we go; I activate the field magic card Infinite Castle!" Neospace faded away, leaving the two of them standing with a giant dark blue crystal castle in the background. "This field card doubles the original attack of all Infinity named monsters in play!" (4000/1000)
"It's even stronger than Flare Neos now!" Judai sounded more excited than afraid. "But my set card might be a trap. If you attack and it winds up destroying Negation Chaser then you're out of luck."
"You're right…" Ichigo sounded just as excited, making them seem very similar. "Except I activate Negation Chaser's ability! Negation Core!" Negation Chaser pulled its chest plates open, releasing a blast of grey light that hit Judai's set card and turned it black and white. "Once per turn Negation Chaser can negate one card in play for the turn. Therefore even if you activate your trap card it won't work!"
Judai grew a huge grin. "That really is amazing…" (Flare Neos: 3300/2000)
"Thanks, but here it comes! Negation Chaser attacks Flare Neos!" Ichigo pointed at the Elemental Hero and his Final Shadow charged at it, spinning in place with one leg stretched out in front of it. "Axle Kick!"
"Like I said before, bring it!" Judai pointed at Negation Chaser. "Flare Neos, Burst Rush!" His superhero lit up with its aura of flames and charged at the Infinity monster, the two colliding violently and creating a powerful explosion that seemed to shake the whole island. Then Flare Neos bellowed in pain and shattered, blowing Judai's hair back with the aftershock of its destruction.
Ichigo- 2500
Judai- 650
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At the Osiris Red dorm…
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From inside the small room that served as a cafeteria to the hungry students of the Osiris Red dorm, everyone seemed a little shaken up by the explosion they had heard from somewhere nearby.
"What was that?" The door to the cafeteria opened and a yellow-uniformed boy with a head of aquamarinish hair stepped outside, expecting to see a duel going on. Instead he was surprised to see the field in front of the dorm completely empty. "Where'd the sound come from then?"
"Marufuji-sempai, if you aren't going to eat your ebi fry then I'll just help myself-saurus." The clattering of plates came from inside the cafeteria when there was no response. "Marufuji-sempai?"
Sho wasn't listening, his eyes looking out towards the forest near the dorm worriedly. "Kenzan-kun, didn't Aniki go out into the forest a little while ago?"
"Yeah, I think so-saurus." A dreadlocked head of black hair poked out of the doorway with a piece of fried shrimp hanging from its mouth, speaking around it. "Why?"
"We'd better go check it out, come on!" Sho rushed off towards the forest, leaving Tyranno Kenzan to hurriedly eat both his and his sempai's lunches before following.
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As the smoke cleared from the clash between the two warriors, Negation Chaser floated back to its master's field and crouched, body condensing as it seemed to go into a kind of sit mode. Ichigo rubbed his index finger under his nose arrogantly, though the smile on his face said that he was just teasing. "How about that, Judai? Scared yet?"
"A little…" The Hero duelist brushed some of his hair out of his eyes. "Your monsters are really amazing. It's like fighting an evolved version of my deck…" He was sharing a similar playful smile. "Maybe you're just trying to copy me?"
Ichigo stuck his tongue out childishly, making the sunglasses he was wearing seem kind of stupid. "Just because cards are similar doesn't mean that they're not really different too, bleah!"
Judai sweatdropped, having trouble understanding what Ichigo had said because the other boy had said it in English, not Japanese. "Well whatever, this duel isn't over yet!" Judai grabbed the top card of his deck. "I'll come at you with my all, and we'll see just what is stronger. Will it be Neos or will it be Infinity?"
"Hey now, I think we just determined that Infinity was stronger." Ichigo pointed at his crouching machine monster. "After all, who is still standing in play after battle?"
"That was just round one." Judai drew. "The Elemental Heroes and Neospacians aren't down for the count just yet, Ichigo!"
To be continued…
Note: Any topics concerning SGS should be posted in The Infinity Chronicles forum (In the Yugioh GX section of the forums under my name) with the letters "SGS" just before the title of the thread. Because this site doesn't let me put multiple forums under one category, this will be the way it works for now.