Cards of Lyoko
Summary: The sequel to Xana's Revenge. Coauthored by Cdc100. Takes place
the school year after Xana's Revenge. An old enemy returns, and the gang must play a deadly game to be rid of him. Code Lyoko x Kingdom Hearts x Sonic the Hedgehog x Xiaolin Showdown x Yu-Gi-Oh! x Yu-Gi-Oh! GX crossover.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, Xiaolin showdown, Kingdom Hearts, Sonic the Hedgehog, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Yu-Gi-Oh GX. I only own my OCs. Cdc100 owns the story's plot and the OCs Garrett and Chris.
Me: This is another joint project between Cdc100 and me. Just a note, this story has a LOT of dueling in it. If you don't like it, then don't read it. It's that simple.
Duel Notes:
When we display a Duel's stats, they are in this format:
(Name of Duelist LP: # of Life Points remaining)
(Name of Monster: Level/Type/Attribute/Attack/Defense)
The gang had just been transferred to Lyoko. Ulrich, Odd, William and Dartz moved ahead to combat the monsters protecting the tower while Riou, Yumi, Duke and Sharon stayed with Aelita to protect her from any attacking monsters.
"The tower is just ahead of you," a computerized voice said.
"We're getting there," Odd declared. He shot a laser arrow at a Flying Manta that was flying above him. The Manta shot a laser beam at Odd, which hit him in the arm, before being destroyed.
"Odd, you just lost twenty Life Points!"
"No problem, Einstein! I'll be fine," Another Flying Manta came down at Odd, but before it could hit him, Odd jumped on its back and scratched the hell out of the Xana insignia on its back, making the Manta explode.
"Buen trabajo, Odd!" Riou yelled.
"What did he say?"
"He said, 'Nice work, Odd,'" Dartz said. Just then, a Megatank rolled in front of both of them and began charging up its laser.
"Odd! Get out of the way!" the computerized voice yelled. Just then, the Tank fired its laser, depleting Odd's remaining Life Points. Odd appeared in one of the scanners. "Odd, are you all right?"
"I'm fine, Jeremy. But, I could have left Lyoko in a better way than that." Odd said.
"Well, you'd better get back upstairs. Come on." Odd went to the elevator and pressed in seven, one, three, zero, check, five and one, and the door opened. He then proceeded inside and pressed the up button. The elevator doors closed with a hiss, and the device carried Odd back up to the computer level.
"How are the others doing?" Odd asked when he finally arrived at the laboratory.
"Dartz took out the Megatank that beat you, and William took out a couple of Kankrelats that were blocking the way into the tower. Aelita has just stepped inside." Aelita floated to the top of the tower, walked to the center of the platform, and made an interface appear in front of her, she then proceeded to press her hand to the interface, which made her name appear.
AELITA
CODE:
LYOKO.
The data on the walls of the tower exited and made the tower go black.
"Tower deactivated," Aelita announced. Jeremy hit the "Enter" button on the keyboard.
"Return to the past, now." A white bubble filled the room, and spread throughout the entire area. Next thing the gang knew, it was Friday, school wasn't starting for another week, and they were sitting by their usual bench.
"That mission seemed almost too easy," William said.
"You can say that again," Ulrich agreed.
"I wonder what Xana will come up with next," Odd said.
"I don't know," Jeremy said. "It seems really strange. For the past few weeks, Xana hasn't done anything major. I wonder if he's just biding his time to execute a bigger plan…" He looked up at the sky and wondered at this thought. That seemed almost exactly like the Xana that they knew.
"Let's hope that that hunch of yours is wrong," Aelita said.
"One can only hope, but I wouldn't count on it." They sat in silence for a moment until Odd spoke up.
"Hey, Dartz, have you heard from Doc?" he asked.
"The last time I talked to him, he was going to New Orleans to help repair a few things down there. Of course, that was about a month ago." Dartz answered.
"I miss Doc," Odd said. "He makes me laugh. And that's saying something!"
"Don't worry, Odd. If I know Doc, and I do, he's probably trying to convince his father to let him come back and stay another year," Duke said.
"I imagine it must be a real pity to see New Orleans all torn up," Yumi said sadly.
"You have no idea!" a voice said from behind them. They all looked behind them to see their favorite New Orleans native beaming at them. "You really should have seen New Awlins in its prime, dawlin'."
"Doc?" Riou asked.
"You didn't really think that I was goin' to be kept from this place forevuh, did you?"
"We didn't know you were back in town," Lisa said, running up to him and smothering him in a hug. Garrett hugged back, rubbing Lisa's back. He released Lisa, and walked up to their friends in his usual distinguished manner.
"Well, well, well," he said, grinning. Dartz smiled back at him.
"How the hell are you?" Dartz asked.
"Dawtz, I am rolling," Garrett said, still grinning. "Duke."
"Hey, Doc," Duke said, shaking his hand.
"Riou,"
"Hola, Doc," Riou said, also shaking his hand. He finished greeting the rest of his friends.
"How did you get here so fast, Doc?" Lisa asked.
"Oh, uh, me and my fathuh wuh in the neighbuhood when a retuhn to the past was launched. When I felt the retuhn, I came back here as fast as I could. Oh, by the way, Duke. Yes, I did convince my fathuh to let me come back and stay fuh anothuh year. In fact, he's so satisfied with my wuhk, that he'll let me come back fuh the rest of mah school years if I want to."
"Will you?" Odd asked.
"Hell do you think?"
"Well, yes!"
"Exactly,"
"Hey, Doc!" another voice said.
"Who's that?" Ulrich asked.
"Just a friend of mine from America. His name's Chris." Garrett answered. The boy was running toward Doc.
"I just thought you'd be happy to know that I found our dorm room, and our stuff is already up there."
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce one of my most esteemed friends, and one of my fellow Americans, Christophuh Mahtin." (A/N: It's Christopher Martin. He only pronounces it that way because he's a Southerner.)
"Oh. Are these the guys that you were telling me about?" Chris asked.
"The very same. This is Ulrich Stuhn, Odd Della- Robbia, Samantha Knights, Yumi Ishiyama, Aelita Stones, William Dunbah, Jeremy Belpois, Sharon Fieldedge, Lisa Blackthorn, Duke Avian, Dawtz Dragonblade, and Riou Thompson."
"Nice to meet you, Christopher," Jeremy said.
"Nice to meet you, too, Jeremy," The boy replied. "But, please, call me Chris. I hate Christopher."
"Okay. Sorry."
"No, that's fine. You didn't know."
"Well, I think maybe we'd better go to lunch sometime soon," Garrett said. Everybody just stood where they were for a second. Garrett had made a valid point. They were all hungry, and it was getting late.
"Why don't we just go now and get it over with?" Jeremy asked. They all went down to the cafeteria, making sure that Odd went last on account of the bottomless pit that he calls his stomach. After the group grabbed their food, they met at their usual lunch table.
"So, Chris, are you a student here?" Ulrich asked.
"Yeah. I enrolled here at the end of last week. My father had heard a great deal about this academy and told me that I ought to attend. When I heard that Doc's father was taking him back here, my mind was made up." Garrett leaned in and spoke to Dartz.
"So, what do you think?"
"About what?" Dartz asked.
"Ah was wonderin' if it wouldn't be a bad idea to let him into the loop."
"I don't know, Doc. We just met him."
"Well, I haven't. The kid knows how to keep a secret, and he's got talent." Dartz looked up in thought for a moment.
"We'll see," he said, finally. Odd was scarfing down all of his food. He took a handful of bananas and stuffed them into his mouth in a very skilled manner.
"Hey, Odd," Dartz started.
"What?" Odd asked.
"Chew with your mouth closed!"
"Hey! I'm starving!"
"Does he always eat like this?" Chris asked.
"Unfohtunately," Garrett replied.
"That's surprising. He doesn't look like he could eat you out of house and home, judging by how scrawny he is."
"Hey! I'm not scrawny. I'm svelte!" Odd whined.
"Yeah. Whatever," Ulrich said.
"Well, well, well, I see that once again you're all up to no good," a snide voice said. The gang turned to see Sissi standing near the table with her recently found army of flunkies. "What is it this time, huh?"
"If we're no good, then you must be downright diabolical, Pissy," Garrett said, taking a sip of the milk that he picked out. "Ahh. What do you think, Odd? Is this two puhcent that they're suhvin'?"
"Got me, Doc," Odd replied, playing along.
"It's SISSI!" the principal's daughter shouted.
"Oh, I apologize, Prissy, it appeahs that I was one consonant off. Please fuhgive me." Garrett said.
"You think you're bad, don't you?" Sissi asked.
"'Reckon I do."
"You know, Ulrich," Sissi put her arms around Ulrich's neck and snaked their way to his chest and caused Yumi to shoot a death glare at her. "I can't figure out why you hang out with these people. Especially him," she pointed at Garrett. "And HER!" she pointed at Yumi.
"Well, what do you know," Garrett said. "She actually broke the record by using a ten lettuh word in a sentence. Stop the presses." The whole table broke down in laughter, but Sissi and her goons were furious. "Ulrich, where ah yoh mannuhs? Shouldn't you provide the little miss with an answuh?"
"Yeah, you're right, Doc. Sorry," Ulrich said. He flung Sissi's arms off of him. "Because I have more fun things to do than hang out with you, Sissi. That's why."
"Like what?" Sissi asked.
"Oh, I don't know. Root canal; perhaps knife myself in the eye. You know, the simple pleasures." Sissi was just about to blow her top.
"And, if he gets bored with that, he could always… hell, I don't know. Shoot himself, maybe?" suggested Garrett.
"That does it! You'll get yours sooner or later, Murdoch. You'll get yours!" Sissi shouted. She turned on her heel and walked off, her goons in toe.
"Well, I don't know about you ladies and gentlemen, but I… I'm practically quakin' in mah boots… or I would be if I had any."
"You broke the record, Doc," Dartz said. "You made her even angrier!"
"I try," Garrett replied, taking another sip of milk.
"It's not fair! I haven't gotten the chance to tick her off since the end of last year!" Odd exclaimed.
"Odd, Odd. Whoevuh said I wouldn't share her?" Garrett asked. "You can tick her off next time."
"Who was that jerk?" Chris asked.
"Her name is Sissi. She's the principal's daughter," Yumi answered.
"And she uses her position to her advantage." Riou said.
"Huh, I can only imagine how big a pain it must be to have that as a daughter." Chris's comment also made the others start laughing.
"Hey, why don't we go hang out in Jeremy and Aelita's room?" Dartz asked.
"Not a bad idea," Aelita said.
"Yeah." Duke said. "It'd be better than sitting here all night." They all finished their food and began walking up to Jeremy and Aelita's room. On the way to his dorm room, Jeremy snaked his arm around Aelita's waist, making her gasp.
"Sorry! Does that make you uncomfortable, Aelita?" Jeremy asked.
"Not at all," Aelita smiled. Ulrich found himself snaking his arm around Yumi's waist also, which earned him a kiss on the cheek. They made it into the dorm room and stayed up talking for a while. After a while, everyone began to be bored with what they were talking about.
"Hey, Doc?" Chris asked.
"What is it?" Garrett replied.
"What would you say to a duel?" Chris pulled out a deck of cards that had a design of a vortex on the back.
"What would make you suggest that?"
"Well, it'd give us something better to do than worrying about tests and just not talking, don't you think?" Garrett nodded his head.
"Point well taken." He pulled out a deck of his own and began shuffling it. The rest of the gang
looked puzzled.
"What's up, guys?" Odd asked.
"They're gonna play a game of Duel Monsters," Dartz answered. He chuckled. "I love that game."
"'Duel Monsters?'" Aelita asked.
"How do you play?" Ulrich asked.
"¡Ustedes nunca han oído hablar de monstruos del duelo?!" Riou asked.
"Translation?" Yumi asked, looking at Dartz.
"'You guys have never heard of Duel Monsters?'" Dartz translated.
"No, we haven't." Aelita said.
"My friends, you have no idea how deprived you are."
"Nor do you have any idea how much imagination went into this game," Garrett said.
"Tell you what. You guys just watch the game, and I'll try to explain the rules as it goes along."
"Deal," the others replied simultaneously.
"How much do you want to start out with, Doc?" Chris asked. Garrett thought about this for a moment.
"Eight thousand Life Points ought to do it," Garrett answered.
"That's a lot of Life Points," Jeremy said.
"They're not like the Life Points that we have on Lyoko, Mistuh Belpois."
"What's Lyoko? That another card game?" Chris asked. Everyone looked alarmed.
"Uh… actually, no. It's a video game. But, uh… after they finished testing it, it was never released," Jeremy said. "Don't ask me why, I don't know."
"Oh, okay,"
'Whoo. That was close.' Everyone thought that at the same time. Garrett turned to look at the gang, mouthing the word, "sorry," to them. Chris got out a playing mat from his pocket and laid it on the dorm floor and placed his Deck in the rectangular space labeled, "Deck Zone." Garrett followed suit.
"You wanna flip a coin or play Rock, Papuh, Scissuhs?" Garrett asked.
"Well, do you wanna go first, Doc?"
"No, not really."
"I guess I'll go first, then."
(Garrett LP: 8000)
(Chris LP: 8000)
They each drew five cards from their decks. Chris drew an additional one from his deck.
"Players are required to draw a card from their deck at the start of their turn," Dartz explained. "If they reach down toward their deck and are unable to draw a card, the opponent automatically wins. Also, when the game begins, each player has the same amount of Life Points as their opponent. You can start out with two thousand, four thousand, or eight thousand Life Points. The Life Points aren't limited to those amounts, I just listed a few."
"I'll start by placing two cards facedown, and then I'll summon Maha Vailo in Attack Mode," Chris said. He placed two cards in the area labeled, "Spell and Trap Card Zone," and one in the area labeled, "Monster Zone." The monster that he played depicted a person in a meditation stance wearing a strange outfit.
(Maha Vailo: 4/Spellcaster/Light/1550/1400)
Everyone noticed the two numbers on the Maha Vailo card. 1550 and 1400 labeled ATK and DEF respectively.
"Each player can only play one monster per turn, unless it's under special circumstances."
"Your move, Doc," Garrett drew a card also.
"I'll staht by playing one card facedown, and then I'll play Mechanicalchasuh in Attack Mode." A robot with a wide assortment of weapons was depicted on the card that Garrett played.
(Mechanicalchaser: 4/Machine/Dark/1850/800)
"Each monster card has an attack number and a defense number, labeled ATK and DEF respectively. If a monster with higher attack power battles a monster with lower attack power, then the monster with the lower amount is destroyed and the difference between the two gets deducted from the Life Points of the weaker monster's controller," Riou explained. "The same thing would happen if a monster with lower attack power attacked a monster with higher attack power. However, this only happens when the opposing monster is in Attack Mode and you attack it. You can tell what mode a monster is in by checking the position of the card. If the card is placed vertically, the card is in Attack Mode. If it is placed horizontally, it is in Defense Mode. If a monster with higher attack power attacks a monster with lower defense power, the defense monster is destroyed, but the owner of the defense monster doesn't lose any Life Points, unless the card text says otherwise. When a facedown Defense Mode monster is attacked by a monster with lower attack power than the Defense Mode monster, then the monster with the lower attack power isn't destroyed, but the difference is still deducted from the Life Points of the attacking monster's owner. When a monster is destroyed, it is sent to the Graveyard."
"G- Graveyard?" Aelita asked timidly.
"In Duel Monsters, 'Graveyard' is just another way of saying 'discard pile,'" Dartz said.
"I like 'Graveyard' better," Odd said.
"I'm going to have my Mechanicalchasuh attack yoh Maha Vailo."
"Not so fast, Doc," Chris said.
"What?"
"I activate the Trap Card, Magic Cylinder. It'll negate the attack of your Mechanicalchaser and deliver damage to you equal to its Attack Points." Garrett didn't complain.
(Garret LP: 6150)
"How was he able to do that during Doc's turn?" Aelita asked.
"Most Trap Cards can be activated at any time, as long as they are facedown for at least one turn," Duke explained. "Spell Cards? They're another story."
"Well played, Chris," Garrett said. "I guess I'll just have to end my tuhn."
"My move," Chris said. "And I'll play the Field Spell Card, Yami, which boosts my Maha Vailo's Attack and Defense Points by 200 points."
(Maha Vailo: 4/Spellcaster/Light/1750/1600)
"Field Cards are a special type of Spell Card," Dartz said. "Instead of going to the Graveyard, like Normal Spell Cards, they remain on the field until another Field Card is played. I'll name some of the field types for you; Wasteland, Ocean, Darkness, Mountain, Meadow, and Forest. These six were the first types ever created. The card that Chris played, 'Yami,' is a Darkness field. There are many other types, and each one helps one monster and hinders another, but I'll explain that a bit later."
"It's still not strong enough to destroy Mechanicalchasuh." Garrett said.
"I'm not finished yet, Doc. Next, I'll play Mage Power. This increases Maha Vailo's Attack and Defense points by five hundred points for every Spell or Trap Card on my side of the field."
(Maha Vailo: 4/Spellcaster/Light/3250/3100)
"In addition, for each Equipment card that Maha Vailo has equipped to him, he gains five hundred additional Attack Points."
(Maha Vailo: 4/Spellcaster/Light/3750/3100)
"Now, I'll have Maha Vailo attack Mechanicalchaser."
"I have a Trap Card of my own, Chris, and I think I'll activate it right now."
"A Trap?" Chris asked.
"I activate the Trap Card, Dust Tornado. This will destroy yoh Mage Power and bring Maha's Attack Powuh back to its original value."
"Don't think so, Doc."
"Say what?"
"I have another facedown card, too. I activate the Spell Card, Magical Dimension. If I have a Spellcaster Type Monster on the field, I can sacrifice it and bring out a new monster in its place. So, I'll get rid of Maha in order to summon Magical Marionette."
(Magical Marionette: 5/Spellcaster/Dark/2000/1000)
"Oh. Almost forgot. Magical Dimension also allows me to destroy another monster. So, you'll have to say goodbye to Mechanicalchaser. After that, I'll have Magical Marionette attack your Life Points directly."
(Garrett LP: 3950)
"Whenever a player is attacked directly, that player loses Life Points equal to the Attack Points of the attacking monster," Riou said. Everyone nodded, showing their comprehension.
"I'll end my turn with one card facedown and leave it at that, see what you can do."
"I'll play the Spell Card, Polymerization to fuse my Cannon Soldier with my GigaTech Wolf to summon my Labyrinth Tank in Attack Mode."
"What just happened there, Dartz?" Yumi asked.
"It's a Fusion." Dartz answered. "This would be one of those 'special circumstances' that I mentioned earlier. Whenever a player has the right monsters in his hand or on his side of the field, and plays the Spell Card, Polymerization, he can send them to the Graveyard and summon a Fusion Monster that lists those monsters in its card text. A monster mentioned in that card text is what's called a Fusion Material Monster."
(Labyrinth Tank: 7/Machine/Dark/2400/2400)
(Magical Marionette: 5/Spellcaster/Dark/2400/1000)
"How did that puppet get stronguh?"
"Whenever either one of us activates a Spell Card, I can place a Spell Counter on Magical Marionette. And it also gains 200 extra Attack Points for each Spell Counter attached to it."
"So, now our monstuhs are evenly matched. Oh, wait, that's not true. I'll activate the facedown card that I had. It's the Equip Spell Card, Machine Convuhsion Factory. This increases Labyrinth Tank's Attack and Defense by 300 points."
(Labyrinth Tank: 7/Machine/Dark/2700/2700)
(Magical Marionette: 5/Spellcaster/Dark/2600/1000)
"Now, even though I powuhed up yoh puppet by two hundred moh Attack Points, my Tank still has one hundred moh attack points than he does, so I'll have Labyrinth Tank attack Magical Marionette."
"Not so fast, Doc. I'll activate Spell Shield Type 8. You know what that means."
"Sadly I do."
(Labyrinth Tank: 7/Machine/Dark/2400/2400)
(Garrett LP: 3750)
"Say goodbye to your Labyrinth Tank." Garrett sent his Labyrinth Tank to the Graveyard. "Now, I'll summon my Neo the Magic Swordsman…"
(Neo the Magic Swordsman: 4/Spellcaster/Light/1700/1000)
"…And then I'll have both Neo and Magical Marionette play a little Sleight of Hand with your Life Points."
(Garrett LP: 0)
"You've gotten bettuh, Chris." Chris scratched the back of his head.
"Maybe I should use a different deck. People may not have any desire to duel me if that keeps happening."
"No. You should keep using that deck. Imagine what wuh to happen if you wuh attacked by some goon."
"Good point." Aelita looked puzzled.
"Card players attack each other?" she asked.
"It's a long story," Dartz said. Yumi and the others watched as Garrett and Chris put away their cards.
"That was actually kind of interesting," Ulrich said. "Kind of reminds me of Chaotic."
"Except it's no where near as complicated." Duke said.
"Who makes this game?" Jeremy asked.
"It's made by a famous painter named Maximillion Pegasus. His family owns Industrial Illusions," Dartz said.
"Industrial Illusions," Lisa said. "Never heard of it."
"It's an even longer story."
"I don't care what company makes it!" Odd said. "I'm getting myself some of those cards!" With that, he ran back to his room and came back five minutes later, wallet in hand. "Anybody up for a shopping trip?"
"Now?" Chris asked. "It's six o'clock!"
"Wow, you can tell time. That's great," Odd grabbed his shoes and slipped them on, the laces already tied.
"I don't know about this, Odd," Jeremy said. "What if…" he began. He wanted to say, "What if XANA attacks?" but decided not to do it and run the risk of blowing their cover. "What if something new happens with the project?"
"We'll come racing back here! Let's go! Come on!" With that, he took off running toward the stairs.
"He's nevuh gonna let up on us." Garrett said. "It'll be a lot easiuh on all of us if we just go with it."
"All right. We'll go to the shopping center, but we have to be back here by eight," Jeremy said.
Odd jumped ten feet into the air.
"Hooray!"
"I've needed to buy some new cards, myself," Dartz said. "Look and see if I can find any Neos support cards."
"Neos support cards?" William asked.
"Dartz's deck is made up of a breed of monsters known as the elemental heroes, also called the E- Heroes in Japan." Riou explained. "And his main monster is Elemental Hero Neos."
"Since Neos is the most powerful of the E- Heroes, many cards have been made to support him in battle." Duke said. "Dartz uses a lot of those cards. He could tell you more than we can." They proceeded down the stairs in order to exit the dorms and found Sissi waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
There's the first chapter of Cards of Lyoko. One review if you want the next chapter.