Mark 007: Inferno Invaded
Bobs LP: 0
"Awww." The duelist sighed as the last of his lifepoints were wiped out by Xavier's winged beasts. "Sorry about that man. I just got some good draws is all." He had lost against him and also YQ, so now Bob was without keycards. "Oh well. It was a good game either way. At least I had some fun today." He gave his last card to the student, now he had four of them. "Hey." Or rather, he had six. "Wait, two of these are Ada's. Why did she leave them here?" He could not imagine her wanting to duel with just one card between her and elimination. "The girl you mean? She hasn't come back yet has she?" The duels had been to engaging for the three to notice that half an hour had passed already. "And now that champion guy is gone too." They did not even know when or why he left the scene. "I mean that was probably inevitable, that guy is obsessed with his list and all." Xavier was not worried about him dueling on his own. "..I think I know what she is planning." YQ sighed. "But for her sake, I hope she has not gone that far."
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Whatever his fears were, for Ada the worst possible outcome had come to pass. "My plans.. my.." Ramirez had beaten her soundly, she never stood a chance. "Very interesting monsters, they all get effects if your hands are clean, so to speak." Urizen watched it all happen. "Infernity. That family is mentioned nowhere on the official lists. It must be one of the unofficial classes." He looked at Ada, who was still mumbling. "You could not have prepared for that, Ada Wolfram. So stop blaming yourself for your loss." He said as nicely as he could put it, as her losers attitude annoyed him. "Every duelist had to register their decks in advance and could not change once they were inside the city, so you have the advantage of surprise." His eyes turned back to Ramirez. "I do not know how you got such cards, but that is not what I came here to ask." She never averted her gaze either. "Do you even remember the names of the people you defeat?" He had to know if she had dueled people on his list. "I forget." Was her simple yet straight reply.
"Typical." This got him nowhere. Ada meanwhile stood up at last. "Is that all you came here to do? Are you sure you didn't watch me lose just so you stood a better chance?" She felt like she had been used. "I followed you here yes, but we both had the same idea. Miss Ramirez would be at the where she was guaranteed to find duelists, at the places where they had to check in to escape this madness. Because.." His dueldisk was already active. "As long as you do not do that, you are in danger." Urizen had six keycards, but still he had been forced into dueling mode because they stood on a hotspot. "So she even fights those who are technically already winners? Why?" The girl asked, but the woman did not listen to her anymore. "I can answer that. It's a way of measuring your worth, isn' t it? Only those stronger than you are given the right to win today." She still did not speak, she merely reshuffled her cards. "Well the reasons are unimportant, the results are. If I defeat you, I will prove myself stronger than those you defeated. That is all there is to it." he was about to shuffle his own deck. Yet within the next instant, she was right in front of him. "What the.." And took out another pack of cards from his coat. "No. Use this."
She had taken out the other deck and handed it back to him. "You want me to duel you, with this? How did you even know I had it with me?" She went back to her silent state. "What's wrong with that deck?" Ada was confused and intrigued by whatever could be inside that pack. "You must have registered it, so..you can use it." Urizen grit his teeth, he had resolved to not use this deck against just anyone. "Is that..your old deck?" Wolfram now remembered his story, and how he supposedly discarded that deck when he abandoned his title. "There is no problem. If this is what this woman wants." He inserted the other deck. "I will not back down., and I will not fall top your mindgames." Now he was at least at his strongest. "Six for six. "She dropped Ada's keycard down next to the pile, indicating that she would take all of Urizens cards if he lost. "Fine by me." The feeling of that risk felt good to him. "Then, I begin." Again Ramirez took the first turn. "Set." Three traps were once again placed face down along with one monster.
Ramirez's LP: 8000 Urizens LP: 8000
"The same opening even. I am ready for it." Now his turn began."If she has that infernal guardian set, the one who cant die when her hand is empty, I have a countermeasure." But he could not summon it yet in this turn. "Stygian Street patrol." For now his hellish road warrior(1600/1200) would have to do. "Let's see what you got." The hellway patroller raced over to her side of the field, and pulverized it. "The archfiend?" And he recognized the remains as the infernal demon(1800/1200). "You used it first, without using its effect?" That seemed like a waste, until he discovered what her plan was this time. "No." She flipped her trap card, Rope of Life. "Discard." By sending all cards in her hand to the cemetery, she could revive the killed archfiend and make it stronger to boot. "But you take 100 damage for every level of a monster my patroller kills." The Archfiend had 4 level stars, so she lost 400 LP. "But that thing gets its effect whenever it is special summoned, not just during the draw phase." He noticed as Ramirez took an Infernity Launcher from her deck, the Archfiend(2600/1200) had its powers enabled as well, thanks to the trap of life. "And now everything is ready for the launcher combo." This was not good, he was playing into her hand already.
Ramirez's LP: 7600
Urizen ended his turn after he placed a trap card face down. ".." She started hers by summoning a monster. "Infernity Dwarf." A small dwarf(800/500) with a flaming axe appeared. This one was new to Ada and Urizen. "That card gives all your Infernities the ability to inflict piercing damage. In that case." He flipped his own trap. "Hidden Soldiers. I special summon a level or lower dark monster from my hand." He called out his Giant Germ(1000/100) in attack mode. That way he would take less damage. "Good" Was all she said before she activated the dreaded spellcard. Infernity Launcher was activated and special summoned the two Infernities in her grave which had been discarded by Rope of Life: Infernity Beast(1600/1200) and an Infernity Beetle(1200/0). Now her hands were free. "It separates." The horned beetle had an effect as well, it could tribute itself to special summon two more copies of itself from the deck to the field(1200/0). "Five monsters in one turn." Ada was stunned to see how easy that was for her.
"Now. This will hurt." She extended her cardless hand towards Urizen as she entered the battle phase. "Destroy." And all Infernal creations were unleashed, the Beast melted the first germ down with its breath attack, while the two germs summoned afterwards were cut down by the Beetles. "You take 500 damage each time you slay a giant germ." Urizen pointed out. But he had taken 1000 battle damage at the same time. After that assault the Archfiend summoned a hellish seal that sucked the Stygian into the depths of darkness. Finally the Dwarf swung its brimstone axe across the duelist. "Ggh. It could have been worse." She was done, nothing more could attack and nothing more could be set. "Then now Is the time to show you the power of this deck." He drew a card. "Stygian Street Patrol can be banished from the grave, to special summon a fiend from my hand if it has 2000 or less attackpoints." He did so and called out an demon with insect wings(1700/0). "So that's your first decktype, the Steelswarm?"
Ramirez's LP: 6100 Urizens LP: 5200
That was a rare series of cards. "Then I sacrifice the Caller for another Steelswarmer." The black insectoid started to twitch and spasm, until a level 7 horned fiendbeetle(2600/0) erupted from its skin. "Gack!" Ada did not expect the disk to have such an elaborately gross animation in its software. "Steelswarm Girastag. It can be tribute summoned with just one steelswarm tribute. If its summoned this way, he can send one monster to the graveyard." This would have been his answer to an Infernity Guardian, but now he had stronger targets. "I choose the Archfiend." The stagbeetle planted its tendril-like tail into the floor, which emerged beneath Infernity Archfiend only to drag it underneath the mall as well. "In return I gain 1000 lifepoints." Now he had regained the lead. "Furthermore, when the Caller is tributed for a Steelswarm tribute summon, he can special summon another level 4 or lower Steelswarm from my deck." From the Callers hollowed out body, another Caller was born(1700/0). "This is what you wanted! I attack!"
Urizens LP: 6200
Girastag powered up the cannon on its arm and released a blast of dark energy. However.. "Trap." Ramirez snapped her fingers to activate another face-down: Infernity Force. "A Force barrier?" And just like the well-known Mirror Force card, this trap reflected the attack and sent it back to the Stagdemon, destroying it. "It takes life and gives life." Infernity Force's second effect revived Infernity Archfiend(1800/1200), which let her add an Infernity card to her hand again. She took another Infernity Force. "But you have to set it first!" The second Caller could still attack, so it flew over to the Dwarf and cut it down. "Still not enough." The damage did not bother her at all, because everything Urizen had accomplished was because she allowed it to happen. "I set another trap card. It's your turn."
Ramirez's LP: 5200
She drew and placed Infernity Force face down. Then she summoned what she had drawn, for this one she tributed one of her two Beetles. "Destroyer." It was the demonic giant(2300/1000). "Infernity Destroyer. When it 'destroys' a monster, its controller takes 1600 effect damage as well." He knew what it did because that was the effect which had been the one-turn downfall of Ada. "Destroy Caller." And he knew that his lifepoints would drop to zero just as quickly if he did not stop her. "Trap card!" So he raised up a series of bloodred glass shields that the Destroyers claws could not break through. "The Red Screen. As long as I control this card, you can not attack me. However in return I must relinquish a thousand lifepoints during my endphases to maintain this Screen." Since she could do nothing about this, she switched the rest of her monsters to defense mode and ended her turn. "Wait, that card has a second effect." Ada noticed there was more to it, but Urizen could not use that effect at this point in the game. "You have.."
"No. I do not." Screen of Red required a certain Synchro if he wanted to take advantage of its full potential. "That is the one card I could not secure. But I do not need synchros like that to defeat her. I know what to do." What his deck gave him this draw phase instead was good enough. "You may be thinking your Infernity Force can protect you again, Ramirez. Yet that trap can not be sprung, if you have cards in your hand." He smirked as he tributed Steelswarm Caller again. "Steelswarm Moth!" As its name suggested, the next demon to leap from a Callers shell was moth-like(2400/0). At the same time he special summoned a third Steelswarm Caller(1700/0) from his deck. "The Moth has a tribute summon-enabled effect too. It takes 1000 of my lifepoints to send two of your monsters to your hand: Destroyer and Archfiend!" It almost looked as if she was amazed, as she had to take the two monsters back. "I call the shots now!" In his battle phase Moth used its tail to strangle the Beast, while Caller chopped up the Infernity Beetle. Neither attack damaged her lifepoints, since both monsters were in defense mode. And since Urizen payed 1000 LP for the Screen as well, he was below her again. But it felt good to catch her off guard for once.
Urizens LP: 4200
She started her turn by placing one trap face down. "I felt that." The woman did not sound startled or annoyed, in fact it was more of a satisfied tone. "Not many, last this long." She activated her third face-down card, a spell called Magical Stone Excavation. "Gah." She could discard two cards to add one already used spell back to her hand. Naturally she reclaimed Infernity Launcher, which was usable now that her hand had been freed from cards. "So much for hoping she would be delayed by not having any way to summon her Destroyer." Now instead she revived Infernity Destroyer and one of the Beetles from her graveyard. "You are one of few, that made me summon this." And to Urizens dismay, it turned out that her Beetle was also a tuner monster. "Synchro summon." As the level 2 beetle turned into synchronizing rings, allowing the Destroyer to combine its 6 stars with the 2 floating about. The colliding light revealed a new hideous entity, a horn-nosed dragon(3000/2400) with a crowned skull that revealed part of its brain. "Infernity Doom Dragon?" She had a Synchro too. "But I feel. You will be the last to see this.. today." She added, which alarmed Ada. "The last? What do you mean with that? The day isn't over yet!"
"The dark is coming.."
Meanwhile on the far side of the city, near the borders, a Zero duelist was still loitering about. Some had given up at this point, but this particular keycardless duelist was persistent. He had barely rested in between his pursuits of someone who was kind enough to duel him. He ignored his own hunger and the fact that his disk was sitll offline. "Please. I need that price. I need.." But he stopped eventually. Not because his body could take no more, but because something changed. "What is.." His disk had been turned on again, and he too felt oddly re-energized. "This is." A card in his deck was glowing as well. "With this..we can win!" He started to laugh, barely audible at first, but then it devolved into outright maniacal glee. "Yes!" He ran off, missing the fact that just around the corner were more zero duelists, all of them unconscious.
(To be Continued in Mark 008: Your World Upside Down)
New Cards used by Urizen Artani
Stygian Street Patrol
Steelswarm Caller
Steelswarm Girastag
Steelswarm Moth
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Hidden Soldiers
Red Screen
New Cards used by Ms. Ramirez
Infernity Dwarf
Infernity Beetle
Infernity Doomdragon
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Magical Stone Excavation
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Rope of Life
Infernity Force
