Richard took to the Motion Figure System as Brian finished resetting his field. The Megacolony fighter looking bored, blinked slowly.
"Defeating someone like Harold isn't something to be proud of." Richard said suddenly.
"Are you seriously dissing your own teammate?" Brian asked.
"It matters not, I will beat you." Richard stated
"Well someone's eager to lose." Dragan stated.
"Agreed." Sora added.
However, our attention turns to Harold seriously getting mad at Richard's statement.
"Oh come on, why is always dissing me or worse ignoring me? I hate it when he does that!" Harold exclaimed.
The person next to Harold merely chuckled, the shadows obscured his appearance.
"Fighters at the ready, begin!" The referee declared.
"Stand up, vanguard!" Both fighters exclaimed.
Once again, the battlefield emerges as a frozen tundra.
"Frostgal (6000)!" Brian revealed.
Brian's vanguard appeared as the dog with ice armor.
"Machining Worker Ant (6000)!" Richard revealed.
"Megacolony this time." Brian thought.
"Draw, and I ride Phantom Black (8000)!" Richard declared.
Richard's vanguard transformed into a humanoid insect. It wears a black suit.
"I draw a card, and call Stealth Millipede (7000). This ends my turn." Richard informed.
Richard - Brian
5 - hand - 5
0 - damage - 0
1 - soul - 0
0 - counterblast - 0
Stealth Millipede, empty - empty, empty
Empty, Phantom Black - Frostgal, empty
Empty, empty - empty, empty
"That unit's new." Tom thought.
"I draw, and ride Frozen Mage Garron (8000)!" Brian declared.
Brian's vanguard appeared once again as a middle aged man wearing a mage's cloak, he carries a blue covered book close to his chest.
"I draw a card and call Walrus Hyde Knight to rearguard (8000). Don't forget that this one gets 5000 power for each empty rearguard circle you control (28000)!" Brian informed.
"So what." Richard simply said.
"Garron attacks Phantom Black (8000)!" Brian declared.
"No guard." Richard informed.
[Drive check: Frozen Dragon Mage - no trigger]
Garron opened his book, and unleashed a surge of ice magic at the humanoid insect.
[Damage check: Machining Hornet - no trigger]
"Walrus Hyde Knight attacks your vanguard (28000)!" Brian declared.
[Damage check: Water Gang - no trigger]
"I end my turn." Brian informed.
Richard - Brian
5 - hand - 6
2 - damage - 0
1 - soul - 0
0 - counterblast - 0
Stealth Millipede, empty - Walrus Hyde Knight, empty
Empty, Phantom Black - Frozen Mage Garron, empty
Empty, empty - empty, empty
"Draw, and I ride Machining Mantis (9000)!" Richard declared.
In a burst of green light, the humanoid ant became a mechanical Mantis.
"With a counterblast, I check the top 6 cards of the deck, and I add this to my hand." Richard informed.
[Revealed card: Machining Spark Hercules]
"Mantis gets 6000 power (15000), then I call Bloody Hercules (9000), soulblast, I add 6000 power to Hercules (15000)." Richard informed.
"Well, this is dangerous." Brian thought.
"Millipede boosts, Hercules attacks Garron (22000)!" Richard declared.
[Damage check: Hidden Tundra Knight - no trigger]
"With Hercules' skill, I counterchrge, and add 6000 power to Mantis (21000)!" Richard informed
"That's some power boost." Brian thought.
"Mantis attacks Garron (21000)!" Richard declared.
"No guard." Brian decided
[Drive check: Paralyze Madonna - draw trigger]
"Power to my vanguard (31000), and I draw." Richard informed.
The Mantis moved quickly, then struck Garron down with it's blade arms
[Damage check: Witch of Snow Endor - no trigger]
"I end my turn." Richard informed.
Richard - Brian
7 - hand - 6
2 - damage - 2
1 - soul - 1
0 - counterblast - 0
Stealth Millipede, Bloody Hercules - Walrus Hyde Knight, empty
Empty, Machining Mantis - Frozen Mage Garron, empty
Empty, empty - empty, empty
"I stand and draw!" Brian declared.
"With Stealth Millipede sharing the column, none of the other units in the same column on your field can stand." Richard informed.
"So, that's it." Tom said.
"What?" Megan asked.
"Walrus Hyde Knight and Witch of Snow Endor make a very dangerous power column despite the methods they power up. Keeping the column from standing stops an attack that's near impossible to defend against." Tom explained.
"Rise my icy Avatar, I ride: Blaster Ice (9000)!" Brian declared.
Brian's vanguard became the icy knight that resembles Blaster Blade.
"Using his skill, I retire Bloody Hercules, and freeze that rearguard circle!" Brian informed.
Blaster Ice dug his sword into the ground, and icy spikes surged from the ground, and struck it's target, then the active circle on the MF system deactivated, and Richard moved Bloody Hercules to the drop zone.
"I move Walrus Hyde Knight back, then call Frozen Mage Garron (8000), Frozen Dragon Mage (9000) and Witch of Snow Endor (9000)!" Brian added.
"Endor won't get the benefit of having Walrus Hyde Knight as a booster this turn." Tom thought.
"With Garron's counterblast: I retire Stealth Millipede and freeze that circle!" Brian declared.
Garron opened his book, and blasted the blue colored Millipede, freezing it in a block of ice.
"Endor gets 3000 for each unit that shares her column (12000), and Blaster Ice gets 4000 power and a critical for having four rearguards on my field (13000, 2 critical)." Brian informed.
"If he had just one more damage, he'd have been able to use Endor's skill to draw another card." Dragan thought.
"With support from Garron, Blaster Ice attacks your vanguard (21000, 2 critical)!" Brian declared.
"I nullify that with Paralyze Madonna (perfect guard)." Richard countered
[Drive check: Frozen Sentry Dracokid - draw trigger]
"Power to Dragon Mage (19000), and I draw." Brian informed.
Blaster Ice moved in to attack, but was stopped by a woman wearing a butterfly costume.
"Dragon Mage attacks your vanguard (19000)!" Brian declared
[Damage check: Bloody Hercules - no trigger]
"With Dragon Mage's skill: since it's attack hit, I countercharge and soul charge, and Endor gets 6000 power (18000)!" Brian declared
[Soul charge: Blaster Ice - no trigger]
"Now, Endor attacks your vanguard (18000)!" Brian declared.
I guard with Spiteful Hopper (10000)." Richard countered.
"Garron's skill: At the endphase of my turn, if my opponent has 2 or more frozen circles, I countercharge 1 card. I end my turn." Brian informed
Richard - Brian
4 - hand - 5
3 - damage - 2
1 - soul - 3
0 - counterblast - 0
Frozen, Frozen - Witch of Snow Endor, Walrus Hyde Knight
Empty, Machining Mantis - Blaster Ice, Frozen Mage Garron
Empty, empty - Frozen Dragon Mage, empty
"I stand and draw." Richard declared.
"With two rearguards useless, Richard's attacks won't be strong enough to do anything major this turn." Brian thought.
"End the justice that plagues this world, I ride Machining Spark Hercules (12000)." Richard declared.
Richard's vanguard morphed, this time into a mechanical Hercules Beetle. It's armor is mostly blue with some gray coloring, and lightning pulsates around it.
"Imaginary Gift: protect, I add the gift to my hand. Call Water Gang (9000), Stealth Millipede (7000) and Machining Hornet (8000)." Richard informed
"Two strong columns, not bad." Tom thought.
"With Spark Hercules' skill: I rest all your rearguards, and my units get power +5000 (Water Gang:14000, Millipede:13000, Hornet:13000), your units get power -5000, until the end of your next turn (Blaster Ice:4000, Garron:3000, Endor:4000, Walrus Hyde Knight:3000, Frozen Dragon Mage:4000)." Richard informed.
"That makes it harder to guard attacks when they come." Tom thought.
"With support from Hornet, Spark Hercules attacks Blaster Ice (25000)." Richard declared
"No guard." Brian decided.
[Drive check: Sharp Nail Scorpio - critical trigger]
"Power to Water Gang (24000), critical to my vanguard (2 critical)." Richard informed
[Drive check: Medical Battler Ranpli - heal trigger]
"Power to Water Gang (34000), and I recover 1 damage." Richard informed.
Spark Hercules roared a mechanical roar, and lightning from it's horns shot forth, and blaster Blaster Ice. In the Knight's weakened stare, the lighting attack felt even stronger than it should. This is causing the knight to yell in agony.
[Damage check: Magician Dragon of the Restless Blizzard - no trigger]
[Damage check: Merry Elf Santa - heal trigger]
"Power to my vanguard (14000), and I recover 1 damage." Brian informed.
"Hornet let's me check the top 6 cards of my deck for a grade 3, and I can add it to my hand." Richard informed.
[Revealed card: Death Warden Antlion]
"Hornet goes to the soul, then with the support of Millipede, Water Gang attacks your vanguard (47000)." Richard declared
[Damage check: Frozen Dragon Mage - no trigger]
"Millipede goes to the soul, and I countercharge 1. I end my turn." Richard informed.
Richard - Brian
5 - hand - 5
2 - damage - 4
4 - soul - 3
0 - counterblast - 0
Empty, empty - Witch of Snow Endor, Walrus Hyde Knight
Empty, Machining Spark Hercules - Blaster Ice, Frozen Mage Garron
Empty, Water Gang - Frozen Dragon Mage
" I stand and draw!" Brian declared.
"Endor's power went up to 7000 this turn, and Walrus Hyde Knight's power is now 23000, it's still a good column." Sora stated.
"But Dragon Mage and Garron won't be able to do too much in attacking or boosting." Dragan said simply.
"True." Sora admitted.
"Bring forth your frosty decree, I ride Emperor Ice Dragon Hail Call Dragon (12000)!" Brian declared.
Brian's vanguard transformed into the dragon that helped him beat Harold in the previous match.
"Imaginary Gift: Protect, I add the gift to my hand, I call Hidden Tundra Knight (8000)!" Brian added.
"That unit changes the cost of a perfect guard." Richard thought.
"With support from Garron, Hail Call Dragon attacks your vanguard (15000)!" Brian declared.
"Imaginary Gift: Protect will guard that." Richard countered.
[Drive check: Blaster Ice - no trigger]
[Drive check: Walrus Hyde Knight - no trigger]
The emperor raised his blade, and struck against a 3-point barrier, unable to advance past it.
"With support from Walrus Hyde Knight, Endor attacks your vanguard (30000)!" Brian declared
"Ranpli guards (20000)." Richard countered.
"Dragon Mage attacks with support from Tundra Knight (12000)!" Brian declared
[Damage check: Machining: Stag Beetle - no trigger]
"I end my turn." Brian informed.
Richard - Brian
2 - hand - 7
3 - damage - 4
4 - soul - 3
0 - counterblast - 0
Empty, empty - Witch of Snow Endor, Walrus Hyde Knight
Empty, Machining Spark Hercules - Emperor Ice Dragon Hail Call Dragon, Frozen Mage Garron
Empty, Water Gang - Frozen Dragon Mage, Hidden Tundra Knight
"I stand and draw. Then I counterblast, send Water Gang to the soul, and draw 2 cards." Richard said.
"I have both Frozen Sentry Dracokid and the Protect gift in my hand, I'm fine." Brian thought
"Bring this world to it's knees, ride Death Warden Antlion (12000)." Richard declared.
Hercules morphed this time into a brown colored giant ant lion with golden horns.
"Imaginary Gift: Protect, I add the gift to my hand, I call Stag Beetle (12000), with it's skill, I call Stealth Millipede (7000) and Phantom Black (8000) from the soul, then I call Machining Mantis (9000). With Mantis' counterblast, I check the top 6 cards of my deck, and add a grade 3 to my hand." Richard informed.
[Revealed card: Death Warden Antlion]
"Mantis gets 6000 power with it's skill (15000)." Richard added.
"With Millipede in rest, Brian can't stand the column." Sora thought.
"Antlion attacks your vanguard, I soul blast Spark Hercules, and discard 2 cards from my hand, add 10000 power and one critical to Antlion (22000, 2 critical), perfect guards are useless to you on this attack." Richard informed.
"I don't guard." Brian decided.
[Drive check: Shelter Beetle - critical trigger]
"Power to Mantis (25000), critical to my vanguard (3 critical)." Richard informed
[Drive check: Sharp Nail Scorpio - critical trigger]
"Power to Stag Beetle (22000) critical to my vanguard (4 critical)." Richard informed.
Antlion moved in with rapid speed, and stabbed the emperor dragon with it's horns.
[Damage check: Emperor Ice Dragon Hail Call Dragon - no trigger]
[Damage check: King of Ice Merlin - no trigger]
Once the sixth damage was dealt, the units on the field faded, and the stadium returned to normal.
"Winner, Richard!" The referee called.
Brian cleaned his cards up, then returned to his team's bench. Richard set his field up to how it was before the game started.
"Sorry guys, I lost." Brian said.
"Don't worry about it, I'm up now, and there's no way I'm going to lose." Dragan stated confidently
As Dragan walked to the MF system, he felt Sora and Brian eyeing him curiously.
Richard: we're tied now. I'm going to win here.
Dragan: you may have beaten Brian, but there's now way you'll beat me!
Brian: careful, you don't want to get too worked up.
Sora: next time, flaming bugs
Megan: what the!? Blaster Blade, but on fire!?
