New Testament 007: Clockwork Mind
"I crawl the world in seven days, to find seven bodies to raise my master of the seven elements. Its a kind of magical number, wouldn't you agree?" He took out one deck from his dueldisk and inserted another. "I challenge special souls that have a great hidden power. You may know it as 'Ka'. Once the duel is in progress, the souls can not escape their fate. Either I lose the spirit of my host or the opponent loses his, so in effect all I need to do is to enter a game. The only downside is that I can not forfeit manually." They knew why. "Because your own soul is never at stake, is it?" Jackson sounded so displeased, his words might as well have been poison. "If you wanted a soul, why take his? Why not mine." Rose yelled at him again. "You do not get it yet, do you? It does not matter, whether he goes first or you do. In the end the Magus Ka will make sure everyone is in for it. All of us have been trapped inside his prison for far too long, time will let hatred grow and fester. This world will belong to the darkness.."
The others stared at him and at the suitcase back in the limousine. "Prison... where did you come from?" Turners smile widened. "An easy question. You see there are two kinds of people in this world. Those who have bodies, and those who are without them. We are of the latter, and I learned to make use of my formlessness by taking control of other bodies. Does that sound familiar?" That sounded like a certain friend. "Yes, we named him before, you call him Jacob. And where did he come from? The same place that you once visited, the memory world!" Everyone gasped. "Yes! Jacob was trapped inside that item. The Millenium Puzzle was the prison of us all. Some were lucky to escape like Jacob, when Nero's father found the puzzle pieces. He and I share a similar fate." He looked at the sky now. "I was judged by a pharaoh. Do not remember which one, not the one that you met. You heard a story, now let me tell you how it really happened. The tablets were made to cloud the truth, they lied to you."
"I was supposed to walk the world in seven days, only because that guy did not like having an inhuman like me haunting his kingdom. If I succeeded I could pick any body from his city and use it permanently, the reward was never the eternal rest. He wanted me to fail, obviously. I tried to win by hopping from one body to the other, only to get caught before I even left Egypt. As a result of my cheating, I ended up as a spirit trapped inside another dimension. Which was where I remained until I met 'him'." They knew now he referred to The Magus Ka. "The Ka ruler found my wandering form, and liberated it. Allowing me to try over that trial again. Only this time, the judger is someone who understands me. If I deliver her seven great souls, I will be able to open a pathway for the Magus. And then finally, I can ascend and become something more then a nobody." Turner reminded them of Jacob, but Anima as well now. Anima's special power was to copy the powers of all those around him. "Enough mincing about the past."
He activated his dueldisk. "Someone here will duel me now, or I will cut this poor bastards throat with my own hands." He pressed against the workers throat. "You can not incapacitate me, I will just bodyhop to a free host and kill that one." He licked his lips. "I will tear a path of suicide throughout this country, if thats what it takes for someone to duel me." Jackaon had heard enough and stepped forward. "Oh? So I finally get to face the host of twenty-one personalities? It was about time." He checked on Colin one last time and turned to his enemy. "It is for revenge huh? Don't even think about that, you can only save his soul by defeating me permanently. And I will never allow that." Both players drew five cards, and Doe was allowed to get the first turn. "This game is not starting because of your misplaced sense of justice, its starting because you have no choice, because I want it too begin!" Jackson merely sighed, placing one trap card and one monster card facedown. "Then you should not waste time." He replied.
Jacksons LP: 8000 Turners LP: 8000
"Oh? I wonder, which voice is that?" He looked at his hand. "I have so many choices to pick from. There were..oh wait I miscounted before." He was talking about Jacksons specialty, the fragmented mind. Inside his body were many spirits that represented aspects of his personality. They were called the Personae, however they were not eternal. "There are twenty left, Tum'aga killed one, did they not?" Doe just glared. "It must be a wonderful thing, to be able to sacrifice a part of your existence just like that. You could die ten times and still kick your killer in the face. I can relate to that." Finally he played one of his cards. "Ancient Gear Field spell: GearTown!" They were already surrounded by smoke stacks and factories, yet that did not seem to be enough for the shadow. They were instead surrounded by wheels pipes and clockwork. "I already explained my motif. We go through time as we duel. It reflects the history of duel monsters, and my own life. Because I will tell you, I lived a lot longer then I should have."
Next he played a continuous spell, Ancient Gear Castle, adding a Castle area to Geartown. "This spell increases my monsters attack by 300. We have entered industry times, mankind has learned to craft machines, ancient gears!" Then he normal summoned a monster, a mechanical soldier with a drill on its hand. It was powered up by the Castle too (1800/1500) "Wait a second." Carter recognized that monster, but not the field. "Ancient Gear Engineer, a level 5 monster." Levels above four usually needed tributes. "Nope. Geartown reduces all needed tribute costs for Gears by one, Engineer needs no sacrifice. It is nice because Ancient Gears can usually not be special summoned." He entered the battle phase. "But when an Ancient Gear attacks, you can't chain with traps or spells!" The Engineer struck, drilling Jacksons facedown Persona to death. "Furthermore, when this monster attacks, it can destroy any random spell or trap card." At the same time Jacksons trap was shattered. "And now... its your turn."
Jackson nodded and drew a card. "Soulnado." He first played his own continuous spell, a tornado of spirits swirled around the Gears. "This spell huh.." As long as it was on the field, the controller would gain 500 LP whenever he summoned a Symbol-card, and the opponent would lose 500 LP if that Symbol killed one of his cards. "Fool." He summoned the Zero Arcana to the field, Orpheus the Harp wielder (1100/500). Jackson gained 500 lifepoints. A Symbol could get three effects, depending on what effect was activated before it. "The last effect to activate was my own spell. Orpheus gets his spell effect." Orpheus gained 1000 attackpoints during the battle phase (2100/500), in its spell-mode. "I attack your machine!" He wasted The Ancient Gear Engineer, inflicting 500 effect damage through the Soulnado at the same time. "Heh. That was pretty good. Mister Fool. But I want to see a lot more from you." Doe ended his turn, the bystanders were not sure if they should be excited yet. The loser would still lose their soul..
Jacksons LP: 8500 Turners LP: 7200
"Watch this." Suddenly he removed the Gear Castle from the field. "When I summoned the Engineer, Ancient Gear Castle gained a counter. I can sacrifice the Castle to tribute summon a monster, using all counters as tributes." Normally that meant he could special normal summon a level 5 or 6 card, but with Geartown still in play, that number went up to 8. "Heh. Come out, Ancient Gear Golem(3000/3000)!" So he was able to summon the strongest machine in the Gear arsenal. The trampler Golem. "Take this, idiot symbol!" It was probably overkill to go that far, but the Golem slew Orpheus(1100/500) with one swing of its fist. Just like The Engineer, it could not be stopped by traps. "Well. If I remember correctly, there is no Arcana in your deck that can match this golem in strength, aside from Death. It would be really cool if you could show me that one." He finished his turn. "Don't flatter yourself." Doe said to him, with a less pleasant tone then before. "Oh, then what are you choosing?"
Jacksons LP: 6600
"Spell card: Velvet Room." Jackson could discard Persona Monsters from his deck, until they doubled the level of a monster in his hand. He discarded 16 levels worth of cards, to call out. "Persona of the Star, Lucifer." The fallen angel revealed himself (3000/1600), giving Jackson 500 LP. "Now, the tower." Lucifer Doe played a field spell card: Tartarus Tower. "Ah, another simila.. what?" The ominous green light of the Dark Hour construct destroyed the refineries of Geartown, only one field was allowed at any time. "I see." Lucifer was now stronger than his Golem, because the Tower strengthened any Persona by 200 points (Lucifer: 3200/1800). "But..when Geartown is destroyed, I can special summon a Gear from the deck." He summoned a spearwielding Ancient Gear Knight from his deck, in attack mode (1500/1500). "Huh, why did he.." Yet summoning so weak, Turner must have wanted Jackson to present a better target than the Golem. "I attack your Knight card." Right now, Lucifer did not feel like holding back.
Jacksons LP: 7100 Turners LP: 5200
Lucifer broke right through the monsters shield. "Turn end." He declared quickly. "Hee. I knew this Personality would be too cruel to allow a weakling on the field." Turner drew again. "And now the card has come." He flipped it around, showing it to everyone. "Power Bond." Carter flinched, he of all people realized that spells potential, it was one of his favorites. "Fusion!" Turner combined The Golem on his field with two Ancient Gear Monsters in his hand. "Three Ancient Gears come together to form one fusion monster behemoth." The Golem gained more armor, its claws became sharper and longer, it even had an extra set of legs to walk on. "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem!" And its power, originally already very high(4400/3400), was now twice as lethal (8800/3400). "I am pulling out the best for this duel! Jackson Doe, you must appreciate this fusion card, because you know you love fusing stuff to yourself! But now you can become part of me instead!" The Ultimate Golem readied his claw. "I attack the current you.."
"There is nothing to stop this, is there? Even if there was, you can not activate traps in this machine's battle phase." The fallen angel was crushed by all that metal, and 5600 damage was delivered to his hosts lifepoints. "Quite the fix we are in, eh?" He finished his turn afterwards. "Yeah its strong. But do not forget that you used Power Bond to double its strength." William Carter said from the sidelines. "I am aware of that. Power Bond takes away life during the endphase." Turner too lost LP, an amount equal to the 4400 original attackpoints of his fused Golem. So both players were down to around a single thousand. "But hey, what does it matter to me? If I lose, I get this body's soul. If I win, I get your soul. No matter what happens, the arrival of my master is running along smoothly." Jackson sighed and drew a card.
Jacksons LP: 1500 Turners LP: 600
"You are right... but I will not yield. It is my turn." He drew and activated a spell card. "Extension of One's Mind." He could search his deck for a Persona, he had to choose carefully. "Seth!" He added and normal summoned the black dragon Seth, symbol of The Moon (1600/1200). "Jackson, what are you doing? Why are you summoning him in attack mode?" Christine gasped. "Because he knows the Golem has a piercing effect. Even in defense mode he would suffer more because Seth has less defense points. And this way his spell card: Soulnado will give him 500 LP." Jacksons life went up to 2000. "So what? One shot from this thing will end this duel, no matter what Persona I face." Turner laughed. "I am not done yet." The dragonic one spoke, as the main body placed a trap card. "Is that supposed to scare me? A trap card. You do realize I am just going to waltz over that when my turn comes." He said smugly. "Go right ahead." Doe ended his turn, Rose and Carter held their breath. "Heh. I win." All he had to kill, was that Symbol.
Jacksons LP: 2000
It would have been so easy too, except the trap was sprung one phase to early. "What?" Jackson flipped his card: Mind Infection. "You're joking." He was not. "I send five Personae from my graveyard, back to my deck, to destroy all monsters on the opponents field!" He returned Orpheus, Lucifer and three other symbols, and allowed the infection to spread across the machine. "But machines can not get sick, can they?" Even Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem was corrupted and part after part collapsed from its body. "Yes! Traps can still work if they are used before he declares an attack!" Will cheered. "Meh. I miss the old days, where attackpower meant something." Yet not all golem parts left the hologram grid. "Hey..." Instead they came together, re-assembing into a smaller form. "Oh, I forgot to explain? When the Ultimate Golem dies, I can special summon a regular from the grave. Free of requirements." His first Ancient Gear Golem(3000/3000) haunted the field for the second time. "Lets try this again."
But something else happened. "Now what?" The dragon started to glow. "You activated a monster effect, this is followed by Seths own monster effect." Seth assumed its monster-mode. "I can shift a monster into facedown defense position until your next turn." He smirked as the Golem was forced to defend itself and hide. "Oh sneaky. You think like a shadow, while you aren't one. Then again, I dont even know where you come from." But that would soon change. "This is just a temporary setback. You can not hide from the sixth revolution forever.."
(To be continued in New Testament 008: Home is nowhere)
New Cards used by Turner 'Sixth Revolution'
Ancient Gear Engineer
Ancient Gear Golem
Ancient Gear Knight
Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem
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Gear Town
Ancient Gear Castle
Power Bond