Invaders
Chapter 3: Arrival of hope
At another store in Tokyo:
"This is the final turn. Dark Band Dragon, Radon and Infinite Zero Dragon attack!" a Link Joker fighter says.
After each and every attack, the wielder of Remiel "ETERNAL" skilfully protects herself against the decisive damage, the sixth, leaving herself with one card in her hand after protecting herself, against five that her opponent has, Sentinel included and a unit that can intercept. Her front-row is quite damaged too.
His field:
Infinite Zero | Dark Band | Radon
Lanthanum | Fermium | Neon
Her field:
P. Celestial, Remiel | P. Celestial, Remiel | X
Arabhaki | First Aid Celestial, Penuel (locked) | Narelle
Her damage zone (all of which are unflipped):
Emergency Celestial, Danielle; Recovery Celestial, Ramuel; Prophecy Celestial, Remiel; Marking Celestial, Arabaki; Punishment Celestial, Shemihaza;
"You may have just one card locked this turn, but with just one card in your hand, there isn't anything you could do." he mocks.
"Stand and draw." she stares at her cards for a moment, "Flap your wings, eternal Goddess! Muster the power of love and may thy power save those who have been captured by darkness... I Break Ride the Celestial Vanguard... Celestial Goddess, Remiel... "ETERNAL"! With Remiel's skill, I put Shemihaza in my hand. To compensate, I add the top card of my deck to the Damage Zone."
Celestial Goddess, Remiel "ETERNAL"
Power: 11000 ; grade 3; Skill : Twin Drive
ACT LB4 VC: (Counterblast 2 – "Celestial") Choose up to three of your front-row Angel Feather units with "Celestial" in its card's name and you may give them power +3000 until the end of the turn. If you have a face-up card named "Celestial Goddess, Remiel "ETERNAL"" in your Damage Zone, choose up to one of your opponent's card in his/her Damage Zone and turn it face-down. This skill can only be used once per turn.
CONT(VC): If you have a card named "Prophecy Celestial, Remiel" in your Soul, this unit gets power +2000.
CONT(VC/RC): Lord
She reveals her top card to be Emergency Celestial, Danielle and puts it into her Damage Zone, rather calmly.
"Remiel "ETERNAL" gets power +10000. Due to the Crossride's power, she gets more +2000. Sariel, come to the field! Counterblast Arabhaki. In order to add Celestial Goddess, Remiel "ETERNAL" to my Damage Zone, I send Danielle to the Drop Zone. Now it's when things get really fun. Remiel "ETERNAL", may yourself travel through the limits of this universe and surpass them... Limit Break! I Counterblast Ramuel. All front-row "Celestial" units get power +3000! And if there's a face-up card named "Celestial Goddess, Remiel "ETERNAL"", I get to choose one card of your Damage Zone and turn it facedown: Promethium! That means you can only use one Counterblast if you make it through this turn." she says, extremely confident of her victory.
"I have five cards in my hand, Sentinel included. You can't beat me."
"My Vanguard attacks! Power is 26000."
"Promethium gives me Perfect Guard. I discard Dark Band Dragon." (3 cards in his hand)
"Twin Drive... First check: Punishment Celestial, Shemihaza. Remiel gets power +5000 and critical +1! Second check... Recovery Celestial, Ramuel. Sariel power +5000, and I heal Ramuel."
"Double trigger?" he looks surprised.
"This is the real Final Turn. Remiel attacks! Once again, the power is 26000! Even if you guard against this, Sariel will do the final attack. You don't have enough Shield." she laughs.
"Guard: Stellar Garage, Neon and Nebula Captor.."
"Sariel, bury Dark Band Dragon! Narelle boosts... final attack!"
He struggles to say "No guard" but says. His Damage Check reveals Star-vader, Nebula Captor: a Draw Trigger. He loses. When he gets back to his former self, when the power of Link Joker leaves his body, that girl is already gone. Although, he has no memory of her.
Kiriko versus girl:
"Nebula Core Dragon attacks once more!"
"Essence of the Power, Lyla, guard! (10k shield, Critical Trigger)"
"That means I need to get two triggers so that Nebula Core can stand once more. Twin Drive, first check: Star-vader, Stellar Garage, Heal Trigger, I heal and Nebula Core gets power +5000."
"What?! A trigger on the first check?" she is surprised by that.
"Second trigger check: Promethium... No trigger."
She sighs as a signal of relief.
"It's not over yet! Attack... Radon!"
"Perfect Guard with Jirobo. I discard one. " (0 cards in her hand)
"Turn end. It seems you're better than I thought." he says, even though he is annoyed.
"Stand and draw. I won't comment on that. Remember how our brother just let go when you wanted to divide ourselves? We were one once, but the second you, Link Joker, started to leave, our brother just left, he didn't struggle. But Promoter did. That's why Link Joker won't defeat us. That's why I'm going to bring you back. This is the Final Turn."
"You can't do anything. I have 4 cards in my hand, Sentinel included. There's absolutely nothing you can do."
"Break Ride. Ultimate Magician of Essence, Merlin "ETERNAL".
Her field:
Lucifer (L) | Merlin "E" | Kouran (L)
Romeo | No card | No card
His field:
Colony Maker | Nebula Core | Radon
Lanthanum | Dust Tail | Lanthanum
Ultimate Magician of Essence, Merlin "ETERNAL"
Power: 11000; Grade 3; Twin Drive.
ACT LB4(VC): (Counterblast 2 – "Essence" and Soulblast 2 – "Essence") This unit gets, until the end of the turn, "AUTO(VC): (Discard 2 cards from your hand) At the end of the battle that this unit attacked a Vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, [Stand] this unit. This unit can only [Stand] once per turn. " and "AUTO(VC): (Discard a card named "Ultimate Magician of Essence, Merlin "ETERNAL"" from your hand and Soulblast 1) When this unit [Stands], you may pay the cost. If you do, choose an opponent's column and you may downgrade or upgrade each of the rearguards on that column. This unit gets power +5000/critical+1 until the end of the turn."
CONT(VC): If you have a unit called "Magician of Essence, Merlin" in your Soul, this unit gets power +2000.
CONT(VC/RC): Lord.
"E-ETERNAL?", he stutters, "What the hell is that?"
"I owe you no explanation." she answers, her tone being extremely different from what it was before, "Break Ride skill. Counterblast. Power +10000. And... I get to upgrade your Radon making it lose its Intercept and your Lanthanum behind Radon is upgraded making it unable to boost, until the end of your next turn. Finally, Crossride skill. Power +2000. Limit Break: I pay two Counterblasts and 2 Soulblasts so that Merlin "ETERNAL" gets two skills. Attack! Power is 23000!"
"Promethium... I discard one and Perfect Guard."
"Twin Drive, first check: Essence of the Beginning, Julio, Vanguard's Power +5000 and critical +1. Second check: Merlin "ETERNAL".
"No hope, my friend." he mocks.
"Due to the Limit Break, I discard two cards from my hand: Julio and Merlin "ETERNAL" so that my Vanguard will stand up once more. This is Merlin "ETERNAL"'s skill. My Vanguard, attack!"
"It won't pass! Guard: Stellar Garage, Neon... and Colony Maker intercepts!"
"Just a tiny little trigger is needed. First check: Magician of Essence, Merlin. Second check: Essence of Destruction, Limyo, a Critical Trigger. My Vanguard gets power+5000/critical+1. Merlin "ETERNAL", take Link Joker down! Eternal Fire!"
Merlin "ETERNAL"'s attack passes through Kiriko's defenses. He even managed to draw a Heal Trigger on the sixth damage, but the Critical 3 from Merlin "ETERNAL" made him lose right after it.
"We'll save you, brother." she says, then gets out of the store leaving Kiriko there.
The girl who fought Dark Band Dragon and the girl who fought Nebula Core Dragon find each other when the now revealed Marianne, the girl who beat Kiriko, meets the still unnamed girl when she turns a corner. They immediately recognize each other as Cardfighters, but no apparent reason why.
"Are you a Link Joker fighter?" they both ask each other at the same time, but in different tones.
They both laugh at the situation, immediately knowing that neither of them are Link Joker fighters. But a man and a woman approach them.
"I'm Lucas. Chaos Breaker Dragon's fighter." a tall, blonde man says.
"I'm Lucy. Schwarzschild Dragon's fighter." a short and red-haired woman says.
"I could not care less about your names. You are Link Joker fighters, all I care is that you disappear." Marianne says.
"Who do you think you are, you little wh-" Lucas says but he is interrupted by Lucy.
"Unnecessary. I'll fight her and I'll make her feel the infinitely saddening feeling of defeat, as she never did. When we finish fighting, you'll join us, girl. Lucas, fight the other one."
"If you say so, Boss..." he answers with an ironic tone.
There's a ridiculously blatant change of scenery. It is like they were transported to same place else. Almost as if it were outer space. That was a small preview of the power that those fighters wielded.
"Stand up, Vanguard!" they all say.
"Micro-hole Dracokid." Lucy says.
"Spark of Essence, Mark." Marianne says.
"Star-vader, Renewal Unicorn." Lucas says.
"First Aid Celestial, Penuel." the unnamed girl says.
Preview – Chapter 4: The fall of the angels
Marianne and the unnamed girl enter into a fierce fight with highly-skilled Link Joker fighters. One of the fights end. Meanwhile, other fighters throughout Tokyo are being submitted to a process called "Reverse". Link Joker fighters who beat normal fighters does not make their deck become Link Joker necessarily, rather their cards are submitted to the power of Link Joker and are Reversed.
