The Insanity of Kaiba: A Stroke of Bad Luck?
City Streets
Seto Kaiba stormed down the street after his fallout with his rival Yugi Moto earlier that day. He had trashed his rocket launcher he used to scare off the others.
"Damn that Yugi Moto and his 'Heart of the Cards' crap. Who does he think he is?" Kaiba says to himself in a huff.
Flashback
Kaiba reminisces the several times he had dueled Yugi Moto. The times where he almost won, but in the end the same tactic Yugi used, the 'Heart of the Cards', always turned the tables of the battle.
"I know how badly you want to win, Kaiba, but you must believe in the 'Heart of—" Yugi said to him.
"ENOUGH! YOUR USELESS BELIEF WILL SOMEDAY LEAD YOU TO RUIN!" Kaiba yelled back at Yugi.
End of Flashback
"These consecutive losses are sure to provoke the representatives of Kaiba Corp to strip me of my title. How can I, heir to the company, be having so much bad luck?! Damn it all!" he says to himself as he continued trudging down the city sidewalk.
He looks up and notices that he was near a small card shop.
"Maybe if I can get better cards I can beat Yugi Moto since my own company recently changed the password to my rare-card-vault…" he says, walking into the shop.
"Why hello there! How can I h—" Yugi's granddad Solomon Motou says to Kaiba before getting interrupted.
"SHUT IT! GIVE ME YOUR MOST POWERFUL CARDS OR I'M SHUTTING THIS PLACE DOWN!" Kaiba demands.
Solomon Motou laughed.
"And you expect me to just hand over my valuable cards without getting anything in return? Tell you what: let's duel each other, and if you win, I'll give you the cards, but if I win, you give me your possessions. Deal?" Solomon Motou says.
"…Fine…" Kaiba grumbles, preparing to battle the old man for everything he owns in the shop.
Two Hours and 12 Matches Later
"AAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!"
Kaiba kicks the door open and storms out of the shop. He was wearing nothing but a wooden barrel around his naked body after losing all of his cards, clothes, and his pride in every match.
"DAMN DAMN DAMN! THIS IS PISSING ME OFF!" he yells at the top of his lungs, when he ran into someone along the sidewalk.
It was Pegasus.
"Say, you were the one who lobbed that camera at me from off the rooftop earlier today, weren't you?" Pegasus asks Kaiba, but Kaiba shoves past him and continued his way. "Hey, wait up! I can tell you the secret to beating Yugi Moto!" Pegasus yells out to him.
Kaiba stops and turns to Pegasus. At this point he was willing to try anything.
"So I see you are interested. Follow me to my mansion and I'll give you some pointers," Pegasus instructs him before turning to leave for his mansion.
"Like you can show me anything new…" Kaiba grumbled, following the man.
Pegasus's Mansion
Kaiba was sitting in the guest room at Pegasus's mansion, waiting impatiently for the match to start.
"This better be worth my time…" Kaiba grumbles.
Minutes later the door opens and a butler steps in.
"Master Pegasus will see you now," the butler says to Kaiba.
Kaiba got up and shoves the butler out of the way as he went through the door. He made his way down the hall then took a left, then a right.
He ended up right back where he started.
"WHAT?!" he yells, before hurrying back down the hall and taking another route.
Again he ended up back near the guest room.
"GODDAMMIT!" he yells again, before attempting to find Pegasus's battle room the third time.
13 Hours Later
SLAM!
After several hours of looping through endless corridors, Kaiba finally made it to his destination. He slams the door open and stomped toward Pegasus, who was sitting down in a large chair, sipping some wine.
"So you finally made it. Well, shall we get started?" Pegasus says, not paying attention to Kaiba's long chain of swear words that followed.
After the two were set up at their dueling stations, Pegasus began to explain his strategy to beat Yugi.
"Well now, shall we begin? The last time I faced Yugi Moto, I lost to him in a duel because there seems to be a bond between him and his Duel Monster cards," Pegasus said.
"That's a load of bull," Kaiba growls. "I'm telling you, there is no such thing as 'The Heart of the Cards'!"
"Oh yes there is. I will prove to you that if you don't put any faith into your deck, they will always fail you. That was something even my old Millennium Eye could not see," Pegasus continued, revealing his eye that once had the relic in its place, but now was an empty socket.
"Whatever. Let's just duel," Kaiba says impatiently.
"As you wish. Oh, by the way, I made you a new deck," Pegasus says, tossing Kaiba a deck of cards. "Now, let's duel!"
Both men prepare their Duel Disks and approached their stations within the giant 3-D hologram arena.
"I will go first," Pegasus announces. "First I play these two cards, then I will sacrifice them and summon Red Eyes Black Dragon."
Kaiba looked at his first five cards before his jaws dropped in shock.
"HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO WIN WITH THESE CRAPPY CARDS?!"
"Tsk tsk Kaiba, even the weakest monsters in a deck can overcome the most powerful," Pegasus lectures.
Kaiba's eyes twitched. After finally deciding to give the advice a try, he hesitantly, against his will, played his first card.
"I play…Kuribo…" Kaiba says glumly, setting his card onto the field.
Another hour passed as the two battled each other. Eventually, Kaiba was getting the upper hand.
"See what I've been telling you? Now you are one move away from winning," Pegasus grins, giving him a modest applause.
Kaiba had a forced grin on his face and was sweating furiously. He looked at his next play and had to decide between placing the last part of Exodia, or letting his Kuribo attack like he did majority of the battle.
"You know what the right thing to do is, so go ahead and grasp victory!" Pegasus suggests.
"This…this is all too good to be true…but…this is all going to backfire, like all of my last 700 battles…you know what? I'm going to do just the opposite and prove my point..."
"I play the last body-part of Exodia!" Kaiba announces.
Exodia fully came into effect, and was ready to attack Pegasus's monsters. Pegasu's shook his head in embarrassment and played a trap card, destroying Exodia, Kuribo, and all of Kaiba's 10,000 life points. The blast from the attack hurls Kaiba off of his platform and out the mansion window, with Kaiba screaming explicit swear words with Yugi and Pegasus's name all the way down before landing in a thorny rose bush.
Pegasus' looked out the window and sighed.
"Looks like I'm going to have to refer him to someone else…"
Abandoned Warehouse
After the mess that proceeded Pegasus's mansion, Kaiba was recommended to another person who could probably help him see the light... or not...
"Where the hell is this Marik guy?"
Kaiba was sitting inside of an abandoned warehouse waiting for some guy named Marik Ishtar to give him some advice. After what had seemed to be forever, Marik finally enters the scene.
"So, Seto Kaiba, we meet in person. Pegasus told me all about you, and it seems you and I will get along just fine," Marik says, his eyes flashing with devious delight.
"Whatever, weirdo. Can you show me how to beat Yugi Moto, or are you going to feed me more crap about the 'Heart of the Cards'?'" Kaiba demands.
Marik laughs. "Oh please, I don't believe in that stuff either."
"About damn time! Now I can finally get some real tutoring," Kaiba says with new found confidence.
"Well now, let's get started," Marik says, raising his hands at Kaiba's head.
"Hey, what are you doing….UGH!" Kaiba sputters as Marik began possessing his soul.
"Now to read your mind to get a grasp of your dueling strategies," says the now possessed Kaiba. After a moment of looking into Kaiba's thoughts, he got the info he needed. Marik's spirit left Kaiba and returns to his own body.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?" Kaiba shouts at Marik.
"Invaded your personal privacy, what else? You'll be glad to know that I can lend you the perfect deck to use to battle Yugi Moto and win by using your own flawed strategy," Marik explains.
"Say what?!" Kaiba says, surprised at what he was hearing. "You seem hopeful in me winning, despite my string of bad luck!"
"Indeed. Here, take this deck. Remember, you can't lose. I want to see Yugi Moto suffer defeat as much as you do," Marik says, handing Kaiba his deck.
"Hahaha! Yugi, prepare to lose!" Kaiba schemed, clutching his cards tight.
Kaiba Corp Rooftop
With his new deck on hand, Kaiba was ready to challenge Yugi Moto one last time. The location of choice was on the rooftop of Kaiba Corp once again, the same place where Kaiba had his first meltdown from losing so many times. Once both parties had arrived, they noticed that their friends where there to overlook the match. Joey, Tristan, Tea, Solomon, Marik, and Pegasus were present to witness this epic battle.
"Well, Yugi Moto, prepare to meet your demise! I have finally obtained the ultimate foolproof method in defeating you and your stupid 'Heart of the Cards' logic! Are you ready?" Kaiba boasted maniacally.
"I accept your challenge! It's time to du-du-du-du-ddddddddddddd-DUEL!" Yugi Moto announces.
With that said, the battle began. Each duelist strapped on their Duel Disks and proceeded to the dueling area.
"Your move!" Kaiba says to Yugi.
"Right! I play these two monsters, then one card face-down. I then sacrifice those said monsters and summon Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Yugi says as he played out this turn.
"Well, then, let the onslaught begin!" Kaiba says, as he drew his cards and looked at his hand. When he did, his eyes flew wide open at the sight of the cards he was holding.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT?! THIS DESK IS COMPRISED OF NOTHING BUT &#!$#& KURIBO CARDS! WHAT THE HELL, MARIK?!" Kaiba yells out.
"I already told you, you can win this duel if you use my deck while maintaining your flawed strategies," Marik says with a smug look.
"He's right, it can be done you know," Pegasus adds.
Kaiba was on the brink of exploding like a time bomb. After almost no consideration, he threw away his Kuribo deck and brought out his original deck. He looked at his cards, and smiled really evilly.
"I PLAY THESE FIVE CARDS, SUMMONING EXODIA! YOU LOSE, YUGI! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"I counter with this trap card, destroying Exodia and draining all of your life points. I win!" Yugi says as he commenced his attack.
Kaiba stands there with a glare that would give Satan nightmares.
"Good game, Kai-" Yugi says, offering his a handshake.
Before he could finish his sentence, Kaiba had totally lost it once again, whipping out another rocket launcher as he fired aimlessly at Yugi and all of the guests. Everyone ran from the tower, trying to escape Kaiba's fury.
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