Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Chapter 2: Ace Vs. Owner
I think I'm starting to get a little steam up now, hopefully I'll be able to update a LOT faster.
I'm going to be using quite a few OC cards, some times, simply to fit the situation, sometimes for pure awesomeness and sometimes just for dramatic effect. Hopefully that Imaginary Dragon last chap whetted your appetite. ...O.K... why are you still reading this? Read the REAL story and you'll see what I mean!
Rusty: 2800 LP
Torego: 4000 LP
Rusty looked from his Ancient Gear Golem to Torego's sneering face and back again.
O.K. Assessment time. 1. This creep just stole one of my cards. 2. The card he stole just happens to be the most powerful monster in my entire deck 3. Even if I play defence I still can't protect myself thanks to the Golem's Piercing effect. 4....
Rusty looked at his hand I don't even have a combo to buy myself some time so...
"Hey! Are you just gonna stand there all day? Or do you just wanna give me your Golem?"
Rusty struggled to his feet. "Over my dead body Sauce-boy" He snarled.
"Make all the jokes you want, they won't save you now"
"No. But this should. Draw!" Rusty looked at the card and groaned. I hate to do this, but I don't have a choice.
"I activate the Spell Hand Destruction! Now we both discard our entire hands and then draw the same number of cards we discarded"
Torego and Rusty both folded their hands and slipped them into the graveyard slot. I had to toss some of my best cards there, but even they couldn't help me now. Rusty drew a new hand and narrowed his eyes This could work... "I activate a Spell! Monster Reborn! Now I get to Special Summon any monster from either of our Graves. And I'll choose the Green Gadget!
A short green machine popped out of the Graveyard slot, hopped across the Duel Disk and down onto Rusty's side of the field.
"So what? That can't beat your...oh, I mean MY golem!" Torego scoffed. Rusty shook his head.
"You really are stupid aren't you? I'm tributing the Green Gadget to Summon the Ancient Gear Gadjilton Chimera! (2300/1300)"
A rusted claw reached up from the ground and pulled the Green Gadget into the earth. Then, the claw re-emerged and pulled the rest of itself onto the field. the Gadjilton Chimera was a three headed monster with a large green-plated metal body and a long tail, it's three heads waving about like snakes, seeking a meal.
"Plus, since he was Summoned by Tributing the Green Gadget, it gains a bonus of 300 extra Attack Points! (2600/1300)"
Torego opened his mouth but Rusty interrupted. "I know, he still can't beat the Golem. At least, not until I activate this! My facedown, which happens to be a Machine-only trap called Rare Metalmorph! And thanks to it, the Chimera gets even more Attack power! Another 500 Attack Points, enough to take down the Golem!"
A mass of molten metal emerged from the card and began to cover the Chimera.
Torego snorted. "I don't think so" He plucked a card from his hand and inserted it into a slot on his Duel Disk.
"I activate the Mystical Space Typhoon!" A blue tornado emerged from the night sky and engulfed the Chimera, blowing away the Metalmorph.
Rusty growled. The Mystical Space Typhoon, one of the most common and most powerful cards in the game, the magical tornado can destroy one spell or trap on the field. And thanks to it, I don't have anything left to counter the Ancient Gear Golem. I have some traps but you can't activate any when an Ancient Gear attacks. This card could help, if I survive this round, and if I can get a good monster next draw. Man, that's a lot of ifs.
"Hey!" Torego snapped. "You finished yet? I wanna get back to pounding you!"
Rusty Set the card face-down. "I am now"
"Good!" Torego drew, not bothering to look at the card. "Gear Golem! Mechanized Melee!"
The Golem raised a fist and slammed it onto the Chimera's back. It let loose a roar of pain and fury before exploding into millions of pixels.
Rusty: 2400 LP
Torego: 4000 LP
Rusty grunted as the metal fist flew through him again, dropping his life point's even further.
Torego set one card. "I'll end my turn with that"
"D-Draw!" Perfect! Just what I've been hoping for! "First, I summon the Yellow Gadget in defense mode!"
A small yellow machine similar to the Green Gadget popped out of the card and hopped onto the field.
"Next I activate the Messenger of Peace spell! Now monster's with more than 1500 attack points can't attack. And just in case you couldn't count, which you problably can't, the Ancient Gear Golem has twice that many!"
"Oh, I can count all right" Torego sneered "And I also can activate this! My facedown trap card. Pole Position! Now the strongest monster on the field is immune to all spells, and in case you couldn't tell that's the Golem!
Rusty groaned as the hologram of his Messenger vanished.
"I'll end my turn too" Rusty closed his eyes and braced himself. Oh man, this is really gonna hurt.
"Mechanized Melee!"
Rusty cried out as the blow sent him staggering backwards.
Rusty: 600 LP
Torego: 4000 LP
Torego howled with laughter. "Oh, man! This is almost too easy! You can't use traps because you can't activate them against an Ancient Gear, you can't use spells thanks to Pole Position. And the best part is you can't attack because I've got your best monster and you'll still take damage no matter what mode you play your cards in!"
Rusty winced and glanced down at his Life Point counter then back at his hand.
"You're totally helpless!" A sadistic gleam entered Torego's eye's. "I'd offer you the option to surrender, but I'm having too much fun watching you struggle"
He's right, I'm finished. Rusty thought, his eye's downcast. Next turn it's all over. I should just walk away now, save myself the humiliation.
Rusty started to turn. Then, he felt a hand on his shoulder, keeping him in place. He looked up to see the robot from his dream earlier only...transparent. He could see right through him.
The robot's voice resonated through his head. The Duelist I chose would never have abandoned hope.
The Duelist you chose never had any reason to.
Is that so? Tell me, name one time your Deck never came through for you in a Duel.
How about right now?
The machine chuckled. The Duel isn't over yet, trust me. Just one more draw, it could mean all the difference in the world.
Torego was growing impatient. "Are you going to give up or just stand there?"
Slowly, Rusty drew his next card. He looked at it and his trademark smirk spread over his face. And for some reason, that smirk scared Torego more than a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
"Sorry Sauce-boy, but I never give up!"
Torego ground his teeth. "You wont be laughing next turn" He grated. "I'll grind you to dust!"
"Not if your next turn never comes around!"
"Don't talk stupid! The Gear Golem is the strongest card in your deck! There's no way you can defeat it!"
"WRONG!"
Rusty held up a finger. "He WAS the strongest card in my Deck" Torego looked blank.
Rusty's eye's narrowed. "First I activate Double Attack! For this to work I discard one card in my hand, then a monster on my side of the field get's to attack twice. So I'll discard the Ancient Gear Beast!"
Rusty slid the card into the graveyard and grinned. "With that all the requirement's have been filled. So now I remove from play the Ancient Gear Beast and Gadjiltron Chimera..."
The two beastly machines appeared on either side of Rusty, both growling and ready to attack before before vanishing into a whirlwind. Rusty shouted over the storm. "...and now I can Summon the most powerful monster in my deck. Come Forth! The Ancient Gear Demon! (2100/500)"
The Demon exploded from the earth, clods of dirt flying everywhere. I told you so. Rusty nodded.
"Now, his special power kicks in! He gains Attack and Defence equal to half the Attack and Defence of the monsters removed to Summon him so that means...(Ancient Gear Demon (4250/2150))"
Torego started moving backwards. "What the...!"
"Plus, thanks to Double Attack, he get's to attack twice!"
As Rusty spoke a blue aura began to pulse about the Demon.
"But I'm still not done! I activate my facedown, this should seem familiar to you, Metalmorph!"
A mass of molten metal appeared as before and covered the Demon. His bare gears became covered in a layer of steel, causing the little light there was to gleam off his new armor and give him the appearance of an avenging angel.
"Now he's not just any Demon... He's the Ancient Steel Demon! And thanks to his up-grade he gets a few extra attack points. 300 to be exact! (Ancient Steel Demon (4550/2150)) Not only that, but when he attacks, he gets Attack points equal to half his target's!"
Torego's eyes were the size of dinner plates. "WHAT?" He squawked.
The Ancient Steel Demon raised a hand. A metal plate in his palm slid back to reveal a dull red glow inside his arm. The gears that made up his arm began to spin and as they did so the glow became brighter, a whining noise could be heard and his Attack Points rose dramatically. (Ancient Gear Demon (6050/2150))
Rusty pointed at the Ancient Gear Golem and roared. "Ancient Steel Demon! Mechanical Hellfire!"
The whining noise climaxed, then a blast of flame exploded from the Demons arm and struck the Golem straight in the chest. The heat was so tremendous it actually melted the Golems metal armor before it collapsed.
Rusty: 600 LP
Torego: 950 LP
Torego watched in shock as the Ancient Gear Golem fell into a heap of melted slag. Then he looked back at the Ancient Steel Demon and Rusty. He turned to run, but there was nowhere to go, caught in his own trap. He slowly turned back.
"I'm not finished with you yet" Rusty hissed.
The Ancient Steel Demon raised his arm again. "Mechanical Hellfire!"
The explosion sent Torego flying backwards into the alley wall. His head struck brick with a sickening thud and he slumped to the ground.
Rusty: 600 LP
Torego: 0000 LP
Rusty approached Torego's still form, his eyes smoldering with immeasurable fury. Torego's deck had been scattered everywhere from the explosion. Rusty stooped and searched through the cards until he found the Ancient Gear Golem.
"Forgive me" he whispered to the card before inserting it into his deck slot.
Then he set about gathering up Torego's other cards.
Torego started to come around as Rusty finished. "Wha--" He mumbled. "Wha're uu duin?"
"I'm taking your Deck" Rusty said coldly. "You can't do that?" "Why not? You did"
Rusty started to leave but the Ancient Gear Demon placed a restraining hand on his shoulder once again.
"Oh, all right" Rusty sighed. "I'll give it back to you"
Torego had recovered enough to reach for his deck, but Rusty held onto it.
"One day" Rusty continued. "When you become a true duelist" With that he turned and walked away.
Rusty and the Ancient Gear Demon walked home in silence until Rusty said. "Thank you"
The Demon shook his head. Don't thank me, you're the one who won the Duel
Rusty stopped and turned.
"Tell me something" He said. "You said before that you chose me. What did you mean?"
Every 'true' duelist, as you put it, has a bond with their cards. But a few duelists have such a close bond with their cards that they come to life as a Duel Spirit
You mean like Jesse Anderson and Chazz Princeton? I've heard rumors but..."
The rumors were true. Usually it's just one monster, but often it's with an entire deck such as Jesse Anderson. He is also another rare case even among the people who can see Duel Spirits.
"What do you mean?"
I mean his cards, the Crystal Beasts, they chose him
"Really?"
The Demon nodded. And, I, in much the same way, chose you
"But why? Why choose me?"
Because I liked you. You were brave, determined, you were loyal enough to your deck to chase down a potentially dangerous thief who had just stolen a mere card. And you had a sense of humor.
Rusty shook his head. "I still don't understand"
It's all right, you will in time
"I guess" They started walking again.
There's another reason I didn't tell you The Demon thought to himself. If I've read the signs right, all is not well in the Spirit World, and soon, if it is not stopped, it will spread to here. And you, Rusty, are one of the few who can even hope to stop it.
Meanwhile, Rusty was lost in his own thoughts. Why do I get the feeling he's not telling me something? Oh, well, I'll find out soon enough. At least I got my Golem back. Man, after that Duel the entrance exams WILL be a cakewalk.
Rusty snapped his fingers as a smirk spread over his face. Look out Duel Academy. Here I come.
Thank God, I'm finally done. It took me all day to finish this. Hope you liked the Ancient Gear Demon he's one of my more inspired creations. But unlike him this is one of my least favorite duels but I hope you liked it! If anyone has any idea's of their own lemme know, I'd be glad to use them if I can.
GAME ON!
