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The Infinity Orb

Chapter 3: The Magician's test, the Titans decision.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh, or Teen Titans or One piece


"Okay... probably should have thought to bring a shovel or something." Tyler complains as he digs with his hands. Wiping his brow, he remembers something.

"With my spell, Emulation will be easier to achieve, however, your still limited to one, and you only have 40% of their power. You are ready.."

"Right, who can move large amounts of sand easily..." Tyler laid back on the hot sand as he tried to remember. The desert sun beating down upon him.

"The desert, it's like a beach without the water." He smiles, then immediately snaps to a face of anger. "Stupid!" He smacks himself in the head. "Sir Crocodile, former warlord, wielder of the Sand-sand fruit." Tyler stands up, breathing heavily. He breathes as he paints a picture of the villain in his mind. Focusing specifically on his control over the sands.

His breath slows down, as he feels his body change. Becoming warmer, then his entire body feels the same temperature as the sand.

Taking a step forward, he kneels down, placing his hand on the desert sand.

Straining his mind to concentrate,he pulls on the sand, commanding it to move, directly behind him. At first it was slow, but as he focused, the sand began to move faster, until finally, it moved like water, as Tyler pealed the sand away like layers of cheese.

Tyler places both hands down, commanding more of the sand faster.

It wasn't long until Tyler had made a valley in the desert. He finally beheld stone, a piece of the very secret he was searching for.

Using the sand power, he pushes all of the sand he had already moved farther away, making sure that he couldn't be buried by a stray bit of wind.

Walking to the stone, he touches the sand again, making sure to be careful, he commands this sand to shoot straight up over his own head, landing safely on the other side of his self-made sand hill. He listened as the sand he stood upon seemed to sink beneath him, until he was mostly standing upon rocks and shards of Egyptian metal. The stone looked as if it had originally fit together. But Tyler wasn't here for stone. He was here for gold.

Placing his hand on the stones, he absorbs any moisture locked within, turning it into sand, which he moves as he works. Absorb. Move the sand. Tedious, but a good exercise in controlling his powers.

Finally he came upon a rather large slab of rock. Which he turns into sand as well. Pushing it behind him. He sees a glint of gold before sand slides to cover it. Quickly commanding the sand to leave, he places his finger on the gold. Simply pulling away rocks and bronze shards, he stuffs his right hand into the ground, clasping around the gold.

With a few strong pulls, he manages to remove the gold from it's rock prison, hitting himself in the face. Causing sand to fly everywhere.

Falling backwards, Tyler sticks out his left hand, touching the sand behind him. Quickly his body reconstitutes itself.

As his vision returns, Tyler looks at his prize. It looks like a pyramid, only solid gold, having an eye-like symbol on it.

"Pre-solved." Tyler sits down and blows the sand off the item, rolling it in his hands. "The Millennium Puzzle."

As he speaks, six lights shine underneath him, shining through to the surface. Tyler simply studies the puzzle, not bothering to take notice of his surroundings.

Finally, the puzzle itself glows with the brilliance of a yellow star, blinding Tyler and causing him to drop it. The other six items shoot up from the ground, spinning in a vertical circle in front of the boy. Each glows brighter, and a voice speaks to the boy.

"I never thought someone would dig these items up so quickly." The voice calls out, "Who dares to attempt to use the sacred powers of egypt!"

"Cough-cough-hack!" Tyler tries to clear his throat, thinking of something clever but polite. "Who dares call out my dare!" Or not.

"A boy... Hmm, We know just the test for you." the items speak, before they light up like Vegas.

Tyler puts up his hands to keep the light from blinding him. It soon subsides. And he beholds...

"I am the Dark Magician. Your test begins now!" The purple clad magician stands before him, his brown hair mostly hidden by his large hat.

"Which is?" Tyler quietly asked, slowly rising to his feet.

"A-"

"Duel?" Tyler interrupts as he searches his pockets. He had it somewhere.

"Sort of." The magician replies, he waves his hand to reveal a small table.

"What's this?" Tyler takes a step forward, looking at the clear glass of the table, he sees a deck of cards with silver backs.

"Those are yours." Dark Magician says before Tyler can ask.

"Right." A chair appears and Tyler sits down.

"These are mine." Dark Magician places his hand on his own, purple cards.

"What do we do then?"

"Draw one card."

The boy does as he's told, and realizes the card is blank.

"I want you to imagine the first thing that comes to your mind."

A picture of himself appeared on Tyler's card.

Don't show it to me, each card will take the form of someone or something that you imagine. You can only play three cards per turn. Each card played can attack, defend or, if able, cast magic.

"Great." Tyler said, "That ruins the fun of drawing cards."

"Maybe, but this is a test of your spirit, not your luck."

"Right."

"Draw two more cards." Tyler does as he is told, "And I shall draw three." The Magician picks up three of his cards.

"So, do I go first, or do you?"

"You."

"Right, I think I'll start with... myself!" Tyler places the card with his own picture on the table. The glass table changes, and like a movie screen, depicts Tyler when he was training with Chamie.

"Interesting."

"And," Tyler looks at the other two cards, trying to think of what to choose... well he could stick to what he knew... "I'll play Chamie." His mysterious trainer also appeared in the table's picture. "And," Trying to think of a third team mate, he cycled through a list of heroes and people he had read about, but the card changed into... "What the.. I wasn't even thinking about-, this game is rigged." Tyler throws the card on the table, revealed to be Dark Magician Girl.

Soon the glass-screen showed a battle scarred Tyler being held up by the pink and blue clad blond magician. But she was missing her usual hat.

"I'm curious, as to why you would pick her.."

"the cards choose her, not me." Tyler says.

"My turn, I play the Pharaoh." the yellow-red-black haired man appeared on the screen, adorned in gold and the usual apparel for the king of Egypt. His presence fierce but not intimidating. "And he summons Obelisk the Tormentor!" The giant blue god rises behind the Pharaoh, it's rocky appearance masked by it's own destructive aura.

The blood had never drained so quickly from Tyler's face before as he stared at the table.

"It seems the cards tell a story, a story of an unbeatable foe, and yourself. You realize that you can't beat a god."

"Why not?" Tyler says.

"Alone, you don't have the power to take on Obelisk."

"Winning isn't about power, winning is about will."

"Will is the demand of the mind on the power of the body, if your body doesn't have the power, you can't call upon it."

"Chamie probably does."

"You don't know that, your foolish to call upon an ally that you know almost nothing about."

"So I'm an idiot, what else is new."

"Lets see what you value. Obelisk attacks, destroying every member of your team."

"I have my own sand powers, but I'm guessing Obelisk would cancel it out, but, I could use them instead to send my other team members out of the attack range of Obelisk. However, I would probably die from getting hit." I announce.

"Yes, but you've been declared the teams leader..."

"My life is not worth more than any others. If the team dies because I sacrifice them to save myself, then I am doing the opposite of the leaders job."

"Where did you learn all of this?"

"Probably from Tv, or a book. But certainly not school. I know that."

"And would you willingly sacrifice your self for them."

"Probably not, no." Tyler answered honestly, "I would tell them to run, but I wouldn't sacrifice myself. My pride would probably drive me to keep fighting alone to give them time if nothing else. Even if I die, I won't give up." Tyler says as if he's rehearsed it. "At least thats what I should say, but I don't really know if I'm the fighting type, I haven't had any actual challenge yet. I may just turn and run myself if I encountered a foe that I could not defeat."

"You know what should be done, but you do not believe in yourself."

"Not really no."

"Alright," the magician sighed. "I need a vacation anyway. Dark Magician Girl will become linked to you so that you can communicate with her, and I shall give you the items."

"What?"

"I said,-"

"No, I should have said why, I'm no one special, how are you sure that I can be trusted?"

"Well, you'll find out." Dark Magician tosses the boy one of the items.

"I don't think I actually need the items themselves. Just let me hold them."

Dark Magician hands him the golden pyramid, and Tyler focuses the Infinity Orb into it... then pulls the energy back out. After repeating this six times, Dark Magician took the original items back.

"They have read your heart. You have light and darkness in you, both to the extreme, but what happens next, depends on your choices. However, if you abuse the power of the items, I will not hesitate, to have you struck down."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Tyler mumbles.

"I shall hide the items further underneath the sands, And I will break apart the puzzle. Also," He turns to Tyler. "You should know, that the items know you better than you know yourself. They expect great things from you. Don't, disappoint them."

"Okay, note to self, don't screw it up. Gotcha."

The Dark Magician sighed as he turned away from the boy. He waves his staff, and speaks. "Your second trial begins now."

Tyler quickly found himself thinking that he maybe should have thought his formerly brilliant plan out a bit more. This wasn't a trial, it was torture.

"Yes!Yes!Yes! I'm finally free again!" a strange blond hair girl was jumping or should I say flying around excitedly making as much noise as possible. Tyler made a mental note to only summon her in a dire situation. Very dire.

The sands and stone moved and shifted under his feet as he attempted to carve a way out of the sand trap he put himself in. The Millennium Items were buried even better then before, Until Tyler himself wasn't sure he could find them again.

"Who are you anyway, and how did you summon me?" The green eyed blond magician questioned from above his head.

Tyler wanted to say 'I didn't and you don't need to know, also shut up..' But he thought better of it, and instead;

"My name is Tyler, and I honestly don't understand why you are here either... I get that your exited to be free from where ever it was you were but I'm trying to concentrate" Tyler irritably added "could you calm down just a bit, I can't do anything without some quiet."

"sorry" the blond replied finally quieting down "Oh and you don't have to call me Dark Magician Girl every time, just call me Mana"

"Okay, Mana but I really need to concentrate on getting out of here" Tyler breathes as he sits down on the hot sand. "Go, look for water or something."

"It's the desert, there is no water."

"And thats why Egypt is a horrible place to live nowadays." Tyler mutters as he tries to focus.

"Okay, next question, Why are you here."

"Again, I don't know."

It was taking longer to travel to a second dimension than he had expected. He had wanted to go to any world that wasn't this one especially if it meant he could get out of the desert.

"Do you know anything?"

"Two plus two equals four, if it didn't creation would be completely different." Tyler closes his eyes as he concentrates on food, hoping the Infinity Orb would take him to some kind of restaurant, oh! Pizza, pizza sounds good.

"Very funny, I mean about me being here."

Finally Tyler was able to feel the effects of the Orb working it's inter-dimensional magic. He was starting to be pulled from the world like before but...

"Not without me you don't!" Mana yelled grabbing onto Tyler's arm.

"dang" he thought "and it seemed like I was finally rid of her too"

As a new world came into focus total chaos had appeared before the pair.

"OW!" Tyler yelped with pain as a green bolt of energy connected with his head, causing sand to fly everywhere, and him to lose his vision for one eye. As soon as he regained his sight, an explosion of water slammed into him nullifying his copied sand-sand ability.

"HEY!" Tyler yelled as he pulled himself together and dusted himself off. "WHAT THE DAVE!" he took a moment to take in his surroundings, and let his emulated powers flow out of his body. "Darn it, Mana better not get into any trouble" he muttered.

After his eyes reformed completely, he saw a girl in a purple outfit shooting green energy out of her hands and eyes.

A green boy that kept turning into different animals.

A big dude that looked like half of him was a computer with blue parts...

A spiky black haired teen in green, yellow, and red spandex using some sort of martial arts, and...

A teen girl dressed all in blue with a black aura around her, and a hood covering her face.

After a few seconds of processing the visual input in his brain, he drew a simply insane conclusion. "Am I in the world of the teen titans?" He asked himself. "AWESOME!" He began focusing on the legendary Monkey D. Luffy.

Robin was having a problem, who decided it would be a good idea to have the H.I.V.E Five (there were actually five of them now that Jinx had left) break Cinderblock out of jail and have him go on a rampage? It was hard enough just to fight the Hive Five without any additional distractions. And the worst part? They were doing worse than usual.

"GUM GUM PISTOL!" a voice yelled out. At the same time a fist connected to a long arm connected with Cinderblock's stomach (or at least where his stomach would be if he was a human)

Robin whirled to see where the fist had came from. Tyler's arm snapped back into place.

"I'll deal with the walking boulder you help your friends!" Tyler shouted "Mana we could really use your help right now!"

"Ah! You summoned me to help you fight!~ I can do that!" Mana yelled back going to help Raven against Billy Numerous

"I meant help me!" Tyler turning to face Cinderblock again. Mana was completely ignoring him and instead started to charge up a spell to force all of Billy's copies back into one person.

"Dark Magic Binding!" Mana cast the spell on the nearest red suited , thin man that had copies of himself everywhere. Suddenly Billy and all his copies were pulled to the one that had been hit by the spell. Once all of his bodies were pulled together Billy Numerous collapsed.

Raven instantly went to help Cyborg with Gizmo using her powers to rip his backpack apart. Beast Boy was fighting against Mammoth in his gorilla form and Starfire was dealing with the teleporting Kyd Wykkyd.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos" Raven chanted as she used her powers to catch Kyd Wykkyd just as he was about to teleport again. He was just about to try to escape when..

"Dark Magic Attack!" Mana cast the attack spell and sent it at Kyd Wykkyd knocking him unconscious.

Cyborg was able to help BB easily take down Mammoth with a well-timed double hit. And Starfire and Robin made quick work of Private HIVE. Starfire easily smashed his shield while Robin gave him the knock-out punch.

Tyler however, was still struggling with Cinderblock. Forty percent emulation wasn't gonna cut it. Tyler has zero experience, but he attacks again and again, but gets slapped away by Cinderblock, only to dust off and try again.

"Should we be helping him?" Raven asked everyone present.

"NO!" Tyler declared, "This is my first real fight, I won't lose!"

"Emulation is not a substitute for your own strength." Tyler recalls Chamie's words. But really, what else did he have... he put his hand to his chest, trying to breathe away the pain, but he felt something inside his sand-covered coat.

^So thats where I left it!^ Tyler smiled to himself, before getting launched into a building by the stone giant's foot.

"Okay, now we help." Robin pulled out his favourite steel extendable fighting staff.

"Wait!" Tyler's strained voice calls out from the building, as he struggles to rise again, "I can still beat him!" He yells, pushing his body up, he whispers, "Rubber always bounces back." He takes a few deliberate steps towards Cinderblock, who simply intends to step on the boy.

His foot never reaches it's target.

"Rising energy." Tyler calls out as his body emits a faint green aura for a few seconds. He dodges the step, and throws back both fists, letting them stretch as long as he dared, "GUM GUM BAZOOKA!" using his hands converge on Cinderblock's face, throwing the monster on it's own back. Tyler takes a few more steps forward, but collapses to the ground,

He only hears a 'Who are you?' from someone, and quietly answers, 'Tyler' before he loses consciousness.

Tyler woke in Titans Tower, although he didn't realize it at first. "Where am I?" Tyler asked still reeling from the pain his body was in, he realized that he was in some sort of medical room. "and can I have some..."

"He's awake!" A female voice shouted as it came into the room. Tyler heard people rushing throughout the building. It turned out that the voice belonged to Starfire. Robin ran into the room at top speed, followed shortly by everyone else.

"who are you?" Robin asked for the second time. Tyler finally recognized the room he was in as the Teen Titans sick bay.

"Didn't I already answer that question?" Tyler replied as his stomach growled and his body ached, "Tyler, my name, is Tyler. As for all the other questions you probably have, can they wait until after I eat something?" it had been more then a day of not eating, and he was feeling the effects now.

"alright here." Cyborg handed him a paper plate with two slices of meat pizza on it.

"Thanks" Tyler said taking the food gratefully. After quickly scarfing it down, Robin had more questions.

"Why are you in our city?" he probed.

'Oh snap!' Tyler thought, 'Think something up!'

"I.. uhh, wanted to join the team?" Tyler says in an unsure tone.

"Where did you come from, what's your favorite color and will you be my friend?" Starfire rapid fire-asked. Interrupting Robin.

"Uhh, my parents, anything in the visible spectrum, and if I recover, sure..." Tyler replied.

"Wait Starfire!" Robin holds his Tamaranean girlfriend back for a bit. "Why do you want to join our team?"

"Because... I need help. To control and refine my abilities. Please." Tyler answered. It wasn't a lie, but if he said he just came by accident, that wouldn't look good either.

The other Titans look to Robin, who only stares intently at the boy covered in bandages.

Starfire's was the look that drove him over the edge.

"Fine, you can stay, but on a trial basis only."

"AWESOME!~" Tyler exclaimed, then, instantly calming down he added "I mean, thank you."

"Welcome new friend!"

"OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!" Tyler cried out in pain as the Tamaranean tried to hug him, "I'm still injured!" He roared, to the laughter of everyone else.

-To be Continued-