Chapter 4: Battle City –Guess I am overpowered
It felt good getting a change of clothes and that did stop all the strange looks we were getting from other people. Tousen being dressed up like a Rap artist makes me smile for some reason. It was clear at this point that we needed to strengthen our decks if we intended to grab hold of the Egyptian God cards. But before we did so we needed to get a hold of some locator cards.
We entered a card shop and spent the money we earned from our street performances. Thank you dimension for allowing us to still use kido. We sat in the store buying hundreds of card packs and looked through the piles of cards for the right cards for our decks. While looking at the cards I realized that the strongest cards usually had low attack powers. I remembered about the royal flush in this game and the three replica card rule. I also found a couple of nasty combos that I almost over looked.
I finished putting my deck together and showed Tousen, he frowned at it and said to me:
"Gin, everything in your deck is made to prevent your opponent from doing anything. You have made a cheaply overpowered deck, it is completely unjust."
Yeh that I did, but you know his deck is a cheap as Kyouka Suigetsu. I mean it takes him like 2 moves before no one can use magic or trap cards, then his monsters where cheaper than mine. Hypocrite calling my deck unjust.
We left the shop and went to by some ice cream with our left over money. Why, I just felt like it and Tousen couldn't stand me constantly complaining about it. What I wanted some Ice cream. While purchasing the ice cream that same blow heart appeared on the TVs and on another Giant blimp. He had announced the beginning of the "Battle City Tournament". So it was time to duel random people and find these finals. We decided to split up so we could cover more ground that way. With the green light on this tournament and with an objective in mind we were off to our separate ways.
I had no idea where I was going to so I walked around. It wasn't before long that I stumbled upon some kids playing. They obviously where in the tournament, and watching them duel I learned something about the nature of this game. You get the rarest card in your opponent's deck, now that's diabolical. I watched them duel and prepared to duel the winner and it must suck being 12 and not having money of your own to spent on cards because those where some low level monster played there.
My turn came around and I introduced myself to the kid and challenged him. We shuffled our decks and I was allowed to go first.
"I put one card in my magic zone and play Card Destruction sending all of our cards in our hands to the graveyard. I then play down another card in my magic card zone and end my turn." I said with a chuckle.
"You've left yourself open; I play Komori Dragon in attack mode! (ATK 1000) Now I attack your life points directly!" the child stated.
"I activate my trap card Mirror Force, Bye Bye dragon!" I waved while saying this one.
"Oh should've seen that coming! Ok, I put down three cards and end my turn" The kid said with the thunder in his voice removed.
"My turn" I drew my card and couldn't help but signal to the child that the match was over. "I activate Harpies Feather Duster destroying all of your cards on the field. I now special summon Black Luster Solider -Envoy of the End (ATK 3000). I now end this duel, Black Luster attack twice."
"Are those even allowed?" The child said.
"Didn't hear anything about them not being, well anyways I win 1 locator card please." I said.
The child handed me his locator card and was about to give me the card Summoned Skull, I let him keep the card because it had no effect and thus useless to me. I found Grimmjow at the park he apparently hadn't joined in on the card games. I went up to him to ask about how he was doing. He tried to brush me off by saying he was trying to interrogate the people around town. I told him about the message I got from Szayel about how we have to collect the Egyptian God cards if we planned on going home. I also told him about how our zanpaktou tuned into decks of cards. At this Grimmjow looked at me with surprise in his eyes and started running. I'm guessing that he tossed them when he discovered that he had some cards on his sash. But all in all it looks like Grimm-kitten might just join in on the dueling.
I stayed in the park and won my six locator cards. That was the easy part it seems no one can stand up to being Yata Locked as they say. Let it be noted that I now love my Yata Garasu. I won one card that I decided to keep from all of that dueling; it's called "Chaos Sorcerer". The duels where all under 5 minutes, I still can't believe I was able to one shot so many people in so little time. I guess I did put together a cheap deck. Now that I had my locator cards I couldn't figure out that to do next so I put them together and *Poof* I had a map on the cards. I finally had a map of this place too bad I didn't know where I was. I started to ask the people of the city where to find a map of the city and I was pointed in the direction of a train station.
After looking at the train station's map I figured out where the semi finals were being held at what appeared to be an airport. It was only three stops from where I was so all I had to do was sit back and relax. I wonder how many people are waiting there; after all I did just get through phase one in roughly 30 minutes of this tournament starting.
