Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh GX or any of the cards.

Note: Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster's effect is the one on the card not the one used in the show. I just wanted to clear that up.


Episode Two

The General's Army

Jaden stared at his opponent. It was an army general named Mitsavumi. The stakes were two locator cards and they each had four thousand life points. Jaden drew a card.

"Of course," said Mitsavumi, "babies first." Jaden tried hard not to let Mitsavumi's words get to him. But some who no matter how hard he tried he kept hearing those taunting words as he thought up his move.

"I summon Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) in attack mode." A man in a yellow and blue uniform with sparks coming from him appeared on the field. "And now I'll end my turn."

Mitsavumi smiled and drew a card. He studied his hand for a very long time before placing a card on his duel disk. "I summon Attack Soldier A in attack mode (1600/1000)!" A small man in a camouflage uniform armed with a black blaster emerged. "My soldier will be more then a match for your Elemental Hero," said Mitsavumi and he ended his turn.

Jaden drew and smiled. "Prepare to watch your monster fall, cause' I activate the magic card Spark Blaster, which I equip to my Elemental Hero Sparkman!" Sparkman was now armed with a big pink blaster that was charging up it's energy. Elemental Hero Sparkman let the charge go and a small electrical blast zapped Soldier A, switching him to defense.

"Thanks to my Spark Blaster I can switch the position of up to three monsters. And now I'll have my Elemental Hero Sparkman attack your Attack Soldier A who only has 1000 defense points." The Spark Blaster was charged up to maximum level and let out a charge so strong it could have blasted anything into pieces. Attack Soldier A was destroyed in an instance and Mitsavumi was left defenseless. "Ok Mitsavumi I'll end my turn. Do your worst."

"Trust me I will," suddenly an Attack Soldier A appeared on the field.

"What," said Jaden? "But you didn't even draw yet."

Mitsavumi smiled. "I must have forgotten to mention to you Attack Soldier A's special ability. When he is destroyed during my opponent's turn I can summon another one from my hand."

Jaden grunted, "That one will meet the same fate as his brother."

"We'll see,' said Mitsavumi and he drew a card, giving him five in his hand. "I'll equip my Attack Soldier with the magic card Heavy Artillery." Mitsavumi's Attack Soldier A's blaster became a giant gun and he gained 700 attack points. Giving him a total of 2300 attack points.

"Well the effect of the card is pretty obvious, but let's see how destructive it is. Attack Soldier A, attack Elemental Hero Sparkman!" Attack Soldier A took aim and shot a big rocket out of his new gun. It hit Sparkman in the stomach and he was destroyed in seconds.

The smoke cleared and Mitsavumi stood smiling triumphantly. Jaden's life points shot down to 3300, with Mitsavumi's still at 4000. "That's just a taste of my power," said Mitsavumi and he ended his turn.

Jaden drew, giving him five cards in his hand and he carefully planned out his next move. "I activate the field card Fusion Gate," Jaden announced and he placed the field spell card in the field slot. Dark clouds loomed above them and for the first time Jaden noticed a gang of people watching the duel. All of whom were staring at the clouds forming above. "And now thanks to Fusion Gate."

"I know what Fusion Gate does," said Mitsavumi. "Just get on with your move."

"Whatever you say, general, I'm now going to activate Graceful Charity," Jaden quickly discarded two card and drew an addition three.

"And I'll now fuse the Elemental Hero Bladedge and Wildheart in my hand to create Elemental Hero Wildedge (2600/2300)." Wildheart and Bladedge both appeared on the field for a moment before they flew up to a vortex forming amongst the clouds. They entered the portal and in a blinding flash of golden light a new monster appeared and returned to the field. It was none other then Elemental Hero Wildedge, who was literally half Bladedge and half Wildheart. The left side of his torso was human, resembling the features of Wildheart. And his right side was made up of Bladedge's golden armor, while his legs were a little of both.

When his new monster landed on the field Jaden was left smiling and with two cards in his hand. "I'll now equip my new monster with the magic card Fusion Sword Murasame Blade. Which will increase his attack by 800 to 3300." Wildedge's sword began to glow radiant colors and shined like the sun. "Now Wildedge, attack Soldier A." Wildedge ran forward roaring and cut Attack Soldier A in half, destroying him.

The blast knocked Mitsavumi over and the crowd cheered, but Mitsavumi watched in horror as his life point's dropped to 2500 (Jaden: 3300 Mitsavumi: 2500).

He got up and stared at Jaden, with a wild look in his eyes. "I will not be beaten by a stupid baby! I worked hard to become the top Military general and now the top duelist in the world. I will not be stopped!" Suddenly Mitsavumi retrieved a small gold plate from his pocket. It reminded Jaden of the amulet he got from the Gravekeeper (He unfortunately neglected to bring it with him).

The plate was old and had weird inscriptions on it. But most of all it had a small version of the famous Millennium Eye on it and in the center of the eye was an amethyst jewel.

"Do you know what this is Jaden?" The general asked him.

"No," Jaden replied.

"It's a Shadow Amulet," he said plainly. "Which allows me to capture people's souls, and send them to the Shadow Realm." Jaden stared in horror realizing the power of the small plate.

The small jewel in the center of the eye began to glow bright and Jaden felt his feet were no longer on solid ground. "A Shadow Game," Mitsavumi said taking the words right out of Jaden's mouth, laughing at the same time. Jaden had been in a Shadow Game many times before but didn't expect to encounter one in the Battle City, though there was a first time for everything.

They were no longer surrounded by the hustle and bustle of Domino City, or by Jaden's screaming fans. But they were surrounded by a darkness, different then that from the clouds of Fusion Gate. It was a dark, hated darkness that engulfed everything. They were now in the Shadow Realm.

"Well little baby," Mitsavumi began. Jaden now no longer saw Mitsavumi as an honorable, obnoxious general, but as a crazy power hungry psycho. Now Jaden new more then ever, that he had to defeat him, not just for the locator cards.

"I'm not sure if you know what a Shadow Game is but-."

"I know what it is," replied Jaden. "It's where psycho's like you try to steal people's soul."

Mitsavumi laughed. "That's one way to put it. The loser's soul gets captured by my amulet here," he said pointing to his Shadow Amulet. "And once I have another soul my Shadow Powers will increase. Until I am the most powerful being in the world.

Jaden snorted, "If you win this duel that is, because a, you won't. And b, even if you do you'll never capture enough souls to be the most powerful. But like I said in 'a', you won't win anyway."

Mitsavumi laughed, "We'll see baby, let's get back to our duel. I believe you were just ending your turn." Jaden nodded and Mitsavumi drew, giving him five cards. "I'll now take advantage of your Fusion Gate. By fusing a Commander X in my hand with the Attack Soldier A on my field." Commander X appeared on the field and him and Attack Soldier A went up to the Fusion Gate. A dark light blazed from the clouds and in a few seconds a new monster came back down to the field.

He was dressed in a black camouflage and had a black hat on his head. He had a long black rifle and three thousand attack points and two thousand three hundred defense points.

"Sorry to break it to you Mitsa-Pyscho," Jaden laughed at his new name for the psycho general but Mitsavumi didn't seem to appreciate the joke at all. "But your new fusion monster, Commanding General X isn't strong enough to defeat my Elemental Hero Wildedge."

Mitsavumi smiled and glared at Jaden, "I forgot to mention another little special ability of my Amulet," which was now glowing mischievously. "Only certain people can harness the power, me being one of them. It allows me, during a Shadow Game, to gives each of my monsters a six hundred point attack boost." Commanding General X now had thirty six hundred attack points, just more then enough to take out Wildedge.

"Commanding General X, attack Elemental Hero Wildedge." The General took precise aim through his rifle; he killed Wildedge with one shoot, piercing right through his armor. Jaden lost three hundred life points bringing him down to three thousand, only five hundred life points above Mitsavumi (Jaden: 3000 Mitsavumi: 2500).

Jaden looked at Mitsavumi, "Ok I'll admit that was a nice shot, but soak in the glory now because pretty soon you're life points are gonna drop to zero. Cause' it's my draw!"

Jaden drew Pot of Greed and immediately activated it. He picked up two cards giving him a total of three in his hand. "Ok Mitsavumi, have I got a surprise for you, cuz' I'm fusing Elemental Hero Clayman and Burstinatrix to create, Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster!" Jaden was left with one card in his hand as Burstinatrix and Clayman appeared on the field. Like all of the other fusion monsters they floated up to the fusion gate, returning as another monster, Burstinatrix and Clayman did the same. In this case though Rampart Blaster returned to the field below.

Rampart Blaster had two thousand attack points and two thousand five-hundred defense points. His body was made of clay, with a red and yellow shield and helmet, and a black blaster attached to his arm. He was summoned in defense mode.

"Aww look at the little baby's little monster," Mitsavumi taunted.

"You just like pushing people around don't you Mitsavumi? Being in the army you were able to push people around and get away with it right? Well you just pushed the wrong person," Jaden glared at Mitsavumi who was silent. "Because unlike the people at military academy, I push back." At that moment, as if on cue Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster shot a group of rockets at Mitsavumi.

The rockets bypassed Commanding General X and hit Mitsavumi square in the stomach. He was thrown ten feet back by the explosion and his life points dropped to fifteen hundred (Jaden: 3000 Mitsavumi: 1500).

"Wh-what happened," asked a startled Mitsavumi.

"My Rampart Blaster's special ability happened. Which is; when he's in face up defense mode I can directly attack your life points with half of my monster's attack." Mitsavumi snarled realizing now Jaden had double the amount of life points as him and vowed out loud to beat him. Jaden laughed and placed a card facedown, ending his turn.

Mitsavumi drew giving him a total of three cards (Jaden now had zero cards in his hand) in his hand and Mitsavumi took a moment to recollect his thoughts. "I activate the equip spell card Bazooka Blast, which I equip to my Commanding General X," the commanding general's rifle suddenly became a giant silver bazooka that was half the size of him. It was resting on the general's shoulder. "I'll also set one monster in defense."

"I'll explain to you what my bazooka does, so that when it destroys you, you won't be surprised. When equipped to a monster if that monster does battle with a monster of two thousand attack points or more and wins, my opponent loses and extra five hundred attack points. Now Commanding General X, attack Rampart Blaster!"

This time the General didn't even bother to aim, he knew his bazooka would destroy it's target. The rocket left the gun and went straight for Rampart Blaster. There was a giant explosion and lots of smoke, and Mitsavumi was sure Rampart Blaster had not survived. But when the smoke cleared Jaden's smile was visible, behind Rampart Blaster.

"What," Mitsavumi cried. But it all made sense when he saw the card that Jaden had just activated.

"Hero Barrier," Jaden explained. "I activated it once you declared you attack. Since I have a monster on the field with Elemental Hero in the name (Rampart Blaster) I was able to negate your attack.

Mitsavumi was fuming that his attack had failed. "You may have saved your monster this turn," he said. "But next turn your life points are mine."

Jaden disregarded the threat and drew, it was Pot of Avarice. He activated the magic card immediately. The dull pink pot appeared on the field and Jaden returned Elemental Heroes Sparkman, Wildedge, Wildheart, and Bladedge and the Neos Spacian Air Hummingbird he had discarded thanks to Graceful Charity to his deck which he then shuffled. He was then allowed to draw two cards.

"Come on make your move already you baby," Mitsavumi said impatiently, "world domination doesn't happen over night."

"I activate Pot of Greed," said Jaden and he drew two cards. He smiled so triumphantly that you'd think he had just drawn Exodia…but he hadn't.

"First I activate Diffusion," he began and in a black vortex Rampart Blaster dematerialized and Clayman and Burstinatrix replaced him. "Next I'll fuse Burstinatrix with the Elemental Hero Avion in my hand to create, Elemental Hero Flame Wingman!"

The two heroes, Burstinatrix and Avion flew to the heavens and came out as one monster. Half red, half green and white wings was all Mitsavumi saw when Flame Wingman emerged, nothing special.

"Once again baby, you did your math wrong. But then again I wouldn't expect a baby to know that thirty-six hundred is more then twenty-one hundred. But I'll spare you the agony of having to go one in the world losing duels, when I capture your soul."

Jaden smiled, "You push me I'll push you harder," was all he said and then he summoned Elemental Hero Sparkman. The two monsters, Flame Wingman and Sparkman, rose up to the heavens, and a blinding silver-white light consumed the shadows.

Mitsavumi cowered back in fear of this power that was strong then that of the shadows. And then Mitsavumi met his maker, Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman. He had white cyber wings, titanium white silver armor with a yellow, mustard lining.

"Meet Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman with a total of two thousand five hundre-." Jaden paused, Flare Wingman's attack points rose to 2800. "Right, because Rampart Blaster is in the graveyard he gains three hundred attack points.

Mitsavumi smiled, still confident that Shining Flare Wingman would not be a threat. "Now Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman, attack Mitsavumi's defense monster." Mitsavumi was puzzled, what was Jaden playing at?

Shining Flare Wingman rose up into the air; he was consumed by a silver fire. He rose higher and higher, past the Fusion Gate and he came back down faster then anything else. All you could see was a blur of silver fire.

As Shining Flare Wingman neared the face down monster it emerged for a moment, it was and Attack Soldier A (1600/1000). And when Flare Wingman attacked, Attack Soldier A was utterly destroyed. But there was more. He kept going until he hit Mitsavumi square in the chest. Mitsavumi's life point's dropped to zero.

"What," cried Mitsavumi, fear read clearly on his face. "My Flare Wingman's effect is that; when he destroys a monster the attack of that monster is reduced from my opponents' life points. Since Attack Soldier A had 1600 attack points, and you only have 1500 life points…you lose the duel.

Mitsavumi suddenly fell to the ground, and his Shadow Amulet was flung to the side. The Shadow Amulet was emitting a strong purple light and Jaden ran to Mitsavumi.

"Mitsavumi," he cried. "How can I help? Where'd you get the amulet from? Are there more of you?"

He dropped two locator cards and Commanding General X, Jaden's winnings. But Jaden was more interested in his questions (although he did pocket the cards). All Mitsavumi said was "Shad-d-d-ow Con-con-quers."

"Shadow Conquerors? Is that it? Who are they?" The Shadow Amulet released a purple light that consumed everything. When the light subsided Jaden was back in Domino Park. His audience was still there whispering "Where'd they go? What happened to him?" And some even dared to ask, "Who won?"

Jaden moved Mitsavumi left and right a little. He wasn't budging. His soul was gone. Jaden took the Shadow Amulet lying beside them and put it in his pocket.

He got up and walked out of the park in a daze. He had to find the others; he had to warn them to keep an eye out. But most of all he had to find the Shadow Conquerors.

To Be Continued…


Next Time on Battle City GX…

Jaden sets out to find and warn his friends. He locates Zane in front of the Domino Museum just starting a duel. Jaden kicks back and watches Zane take on a big brute. It becomes an intense battle, with Zane's opponent setting up more then a solid defense it becomes a trial for Zane's Cyber Dragons. Who will be the victor, the deadly lethal dragons or the tough unbreakable defense? Find out next time on Yugioh…