The Ultimate Tournament
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Disclaimer: I do not own anything or anyone you recognize, except for Lance, who has no relation to anything at all. Therefore, I don't own Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Powerpuff Girls, Pikmin (game 1 or 2), or the Duel Monsters trading card game (though I do own some cards). Also, the Derek in this chapter is not from Life With Derek. It's just a random name I thought up.
Notes: This is based mostly on the Battle City arc, so the rules are basically the same. That means each person starts out with 4000 life points. There's only one thing that's different, which is that there can be more than one field card on the field at one time. I will also make up huge amounts of cards you have never seen before. Please Review! Please Review! Please Review!
Meaning of abbreviations: D mode Defense mode, A mode Attack mode, A points Attack points, D points Defense points, LP Life Points, italicized means thought, as well as author previews for the next chapter, and -- means a change of scene.
Prologue
Our scene begins as Mac and Bloo are playing Pikmin 2 in the living room, while Coco, Wilt, and Eduardo are watching.
Mac yelled, "Arghh! The red pikmin can not survive in water!"
Bloo replied, "But the blue ones survive!"
Mac asked, "Is a blue a red?"
Bloo queried, "What?"
Mac screamed, "Arghhhh!" as his eye twitched.
Wilt inquired, "What's the point of this game again?"
Mac replied, "To pay back 10,000 pokos, which are a unit of money."
Frankie walked in slowly.
Frankie asked, "Whatcha doing?"
Mac replied, "Wait, I'm attacking a Honeywisp."
Mr. Herriman hopped in after her.
Mr. Herriman stated, "Miss Frances, there is a large mess in the kitchen that requires your immediate attention."
Frankie said, "Again?"
Without warning, the room began to spin and the walls closed in. The seven of them could not find any sense of direction. After a minute, though, the spinning ceased. Mac and the rest of them were all dumped out into a large meadow with no trace of the room they had been in. Wilt spotted someone in the distance walking towards the group with many dozen unidentifiable short things following and glimpsed a silver flash that disappeared into the surrounding forest.
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Blossom stated, "Our enemies are working overtime today!"
The three girls had had a rough day. First, Mojo Jojo had built another destructive machine. Then, two giant monsters, separately, had both tried to obliterate Townsville. The Gangrene Gang and Princess Morbucks had appeared as well. Naturally, the Powerpuff Girls had stopped them all, but were in an increasingly bad mood.
Buttercup sighed, "I just wanna get to sleep."
Before the three could fly themselves upstairs to bed, the room began to spin and the walls closed in just like what happened to the ones at the House.
Bubbles asked Blossom, "Is that Him?"
However, their fiendish enemy did not cause the movement of the room. Soon, they were dumped out into a meadow. The three were facing a short brown-haired boy, a teenage red-haired girl, a small blue blob, a weird bird-type thing with an airplane middle and green hair, a tall red guy with a kooky eye and a really short arm, a strange purple thing with gray pants and huge teeth, and finally, strangest of all, a giant bunny wearing a monocle.
All three of the Powerpuff girls said in unison, "Whoa…"
Then, all three of the girls noticed someone in the distance striding towards them, with a large multi-colored horde following him. Within 20 yards of them, the boy broke into a run, quickly reaching them. He was of average height, with black hair and glasses.
He stated, "Hey, I'm Lance, who are you? Wait, wait are you flying?"
Bubbles replied, "Um…yeah."
Mr. Herriman introduced the group, pointing to each of them in turn, "My name is Mr. Herriman. Those are Miss Frances,"
Frankie interjected, "Call me Frankie"
Mr. Herriman continued, "Master Mac, Master Blooregard"
Bloo interrupted, "Bloo's fine."
Mr. Herriman continued again, "Master Wilt, Master Eduardo, and Miss Coco."
Coco said, "Coco Coco."
Lance asked, "What?"
Wilt replied, "She says 'Hi'."
Blossom then introduced their group, "Hey, I'm Blossom, she's Buttercup, and there's Bubbles."
Lance then inquired, "Hey, aren't you the Powerpuff Girls?"
Bubbles quickly said, "Yeah."
The eleven of them had been too engrossed by the conversation to realize the huge horde had reached them.
Mac was the first to notice.
Mac was speechless, but finally said, "What? Are those, are those, real Pikmin!"
There were twenty pikmin of each color, resulting in a grand total of 100 pikmin. The pikmin had the same body structures as on the game, but the smallest one, the white pikmin, was a yard tall, while the purple pikmin were the size of Eduardo.
Lance quickly changed the subject and asked, "Did you see that huge four-legged silver spider thing? It came at the same time as these guys. points to pikmin
Mac thought Hmmm… four-legged spider from Pikmin 2, probably a Dweevil… silver… it had to be a Titan Dweevil, the last boss in the game! "Quick, were there any others?"
Lance replied, "Umm…"
Before they could finish the conversation, though, they spotted a man in a white suit driving a buggy towards them.
He said, "Oh good, you are here. I'm Derek, by the way. Now, please come with me."
That's when he noticed the Pikmin and screamed, "What? They're video game characters, how could they be here? The teleporter must have malfunctioned somehow."
Lance asked, "What teleporter? Why did you teleport us all here, then?"
Derek explained, "Yes, let me tell you. You see, Miss Alexis, the sponsor and overseer, is conducting an experiment on the skills of various, random people. We have created a teleporter that generates random coordinates and brings those people and their decks here to this isolated island in the Pacific.
Frankie asked, "Wait, what skills?"
Derek replied, "Er… you'll be playing a Duel Monsters tournament. The grand prize is twenty…million…dollars! It's your choice if you want to participate, though."
Everyone stared at him in shock until Blossom and Bubbles responded in unison, "I'll do it."
Buttercup then replied, "Me, too."
Eduardo, Wilt, and Bloo all said, "Definitely."
Mac, Frankie, and Mr. Herriman all agreed.
Coco said, "Coco coco coco!" (Of course!)
Lance said, "Yeah! Hmm… the pikmin seem to want to compete, too."
Derek stated, "Sure, as long as they can duel."
Bubbles inquired, "One more question. If it was 8:00 PM in Townsville, why is it noon now?"
Derek answered, "Two words: time zones. We're almost on the other side of the world here. Well, anyway, the tournament begins at noon tomorrow, so you have 24 hours to prepare. Edit your decks, which should be in your selected cabins. If you don't have one, go to our card vault and create it. Don't expect any special advantages from using the card vault, though, because everyone on the island has access to it. Also, by tomorrow, you must know the rules of the game. Hmm… we're going to need an extra big one for all those pikmin. Anyway, go to your cabins now. Details will be explained tomorrow."
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It was now midnight. Everyone in the Foster's Cabin was still awake, except for Mac and Lance (who, because he was only one person, stayed there), who both already had a deck and knew the rules of the game. They had only needed one hour to prepare. In the excitement, though, Mac had forgotten to investigate further about the loose Titan Dweevil. He would soon wish he had.
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Each of the Powerpuff Girls was asleep in their comparatively small Powerpuff Cabin. They had all finished their decks pretty quickly due to their immense speed, so they had plenty of time.
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The Pikmin Cabin was the largest on the island (next to the castle). About a third of the members had just gotten to sleep. The rest were still rereading the rules or editing their decks a little more. Most of them had glimpsed the Titan Dweevil, but, in the absence of a true leader, did nothing. However, by the end of the tournament, they would be scared out of their flowers.
Next time, the real rules will be explained. Then, in our first duel, Mac takes on a master of plants