AN: And finally we have Chapter 9 posted, giving us the conclusion of our first protagonist vs antagonist duel(s), aptly titled the 'The First Conclusions'.But before you start reading, since I've started reading A LOT (around 15 or so, no kidding) of fanfics on the very day of writing this note, i decided to recommend at least two of them to you, and i decided to pick these two:
The first one is Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain by Master of Anime224 and I'll best explain it in his own words:
The city of Nishihama, Japan. A young duelist named Matsuda Yukaro has his life turned upside down by the appearance of a strange woman, an off-putting classmate and a shady group whose goal he cannot begin to guess at. But as he tries to unravel the mysteries surrounding these things, he discovers that his curiosity may unravel reality itself... Cover edited by ThatLoneAvenger.
As well as (æ)mæth (there is a sequel, but I'm currently at chapter 7 od the first ), by Kim-Chang- Ra with the following description:
Hokuto has been sealed into a card. Yaiba is still recovering from his loss to Isao. And Masumi, left with Akaba Himika's unsettling revelations of interdimensional invaders, is starting to have nightmares. (Rated T for language and thematic violence.)
Yes, these are the descriptions made by the original authors and if they don't make you interested, I probably can't make you either.
Anyway, let's get on with chapter 7!
Edit: I changed the beginning Scenes to reflect the reconstructed Version of chapter 7. I don't know how Patient you need to be, but I'm in the process of proofreading the redux. (And I'll get to this one too, eventually)
Flashback Go Onizuka´s POV
"I have told you the basics already. Summon Gouki Heel Hitter, and then imagine whatever card you want to create or draw."
"So basically, I'll gain a superpower that lets me cheat at Duel Monsters by stacking my deck and creating cards out of thin air.", i summarized.
"No, it's thick air actually", they said., "And on which principle do you think Storm Acces works? It#s just a weaker, admittedly safer and more controlled form of this power."
"What even is this power you speak of called?", i asked.
"I can't name it to you yet, but i will once all of my experiments are complete."
So they tested this power with other persons, as well.
"But-", they continued, "before I will let you use it, here are the conditions I want you to fullfill: Accept that you will need to change your dueling style eventually. Even if only is from hero to a different type of hero, you don't need to become a villain. And secondly, beware of SOL technology, they will not be content with a user of this power, to say the least."
"So, all you demand from me is to better myself and to know the risks?"
"Bettering yourself, according to my image and to know the heavy risks , from SOL tech trying to ruin your career, to merely claiming that any card created by this power is just a pro-exclusive promo card, if the apparent benevolence of my demands is unnerving to you.", the Person responded. I wondered if they were smirking right now.
"And this power has no drawbacks of its own?", I asked, since something like this just HAD to have some sort of adverse effect on its user.
"I have found out trough previous deals and experiments like this, that those People I grant this power will usually not experience more than great exhaustion at worst, but if you used it without my help, the consequences could be much worse and after this duel only what you created will remain and the power will fade. If you DO want to go far with the power, I would Focus on generating one card of Incredible power and only a few simple cards otherwise. That is all you need to know about it. What is your final answer?"
I will gain a power that might help me during my next duel, by creating cards and improving my draws, it will fade afterwards and since i take part in an experiment, this supernatural person giving it to m, doesn´t even know everything about it either.
They haven´t done much to make themselves look very reliable, besides warning me of risks, risks which should make me hesitant to accept the offer.
And yet, somehow i can´t quite reject this offer. Am i, deep down, that desperate to stay number one? Or is one of the alternative uses this unnamed force to convince me into going along with this person? However my reason for wanting to stay number one selfish at all, so i answered: "I will accept your offer with all the risks it brings."
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Back in the present GO vs Playmaker Go Onizuka´s POV
And now i need to make the most out of the power!
That last card in my extra deck should be Gouki The Great Ogre, but if i create a new extra deck monster with this new power,
then it should at least temporarily transform Great Ogre into a new Extra deck monster.
Now, i only need to concentrate what kind of card i need now.
"First, i activate my drawn Gouki Exchanged Rivals to send both Face Defender and Twist Cobra to my Graveyard and revive Gouki Destroy and lightning Ogre!
And i add two new Gouki cards to my hand! I normal summon Gouki Headbatt and then activate Fistdrop to destroy all your cards but Firewall Dragon!"
"I activate my face-down Cynet Backdoor to banish Honebot Temporarily and add Link Shielder to my hand! Since a monster next to Firewalls link point left the field i can special summon Link Shielder!" (DEF:?)
"Link Shielder makes our monsters immune to everything this turn and gains DEF equal to our Link Monster´s ATK. (DEF:?-2500) Plus, we don´t take battle damage from battles involving Link Monsters and they don´t get destroyed by battle while he is on the field. Well, we´re safe for now, but baiting out Face Defender definetly wasn´t worth it. And his Dark Aura is subsiding, so that´s a good point too!"
"And now prepare, for my final Link Summon! Arrowheads confirmed! The summoning conditions are three or more Gouki monsters! I set the Link markers with Gouki Destroy Ogre, Lightning Ogre and Headbatt! Strongest of the strong Oni, Raise your primal fist upon your enemies and crush them under your rage! LINK SUMMON! Come forth, Link 8, Gouki the Ultimate Ogre! (ATK: 4000)"
"Why did i have to be right?!", Playmaker´s AI complained, "Hey Mr. Onizuka, maybe you could not take me away and sell me to the KOH or SOL or whoever if we lose. PLEASE!"
"You shouldn´t give up the duel so easily. It´s not over yet.", Playmaker said.
"Yeah? Then tell me that summoning a freaking Link 8 , was not worth it and that it is just a bunch of garbage!"
Playmaker went on to try and check the effect of Gouki the Ultimate Ogre, but it didn´t seem to be possible somehow.
" So he does have protection against checking cards?", Playmaker noted.
"Weeel, technically we don´t know yet that his monster is indeed worth the effort. Maybe that we can´t read it is the only advantage. Let´s keep telling ourselves that."
So my mysteriously created card is unreadable? This could work out to be my advantage, i did decide not to be a different kind of hero after all, perhaps i could inform of some, but not ALL of its effect to mess with his mind.
My monster prevents Playmaker from summoning into zones linked by a monster controlled by me. If i move Ultimate Ogre to my main monster zone with Castle Link and get rid of Firewall Dragon then i can log out His extra deck summons, even if Storm Acces restocks it. He may be able to summon three monsters into his main monster zones after that, but i doubt he has Main Deck monsters that can reach over 4000 ATK.
"Ah, i have an idea!", the AI exclaimed, "Hey, do you have no sense of honor as a duelist, Go Onizuka! Hacking your cards invisible, pretending to be a cyber criminal just to snag a duel and beat the duelists who just had gotten more popular than you? You´re the worst of scum!"
"Shut up! I´m not the same GO i used to be! I´m using every trick i can, to stay the number one of Link VRAINS! I didn´t merely perform a Heel Turn, i am purely dueling for the sake of victory!"
"Your attempt at exploiting irrational human behaviour would have been more succesful if 1. you didn´t exclaim ´Ah, i have an idea!´ 2. you had realized that he is beyond the stage where guilt-slinging is effective. 3. noticed that his eyes widened when i failed to verify Ultimate Ogre´s ability, meaning that the unreadability was somehow beyond his control, though he obviously decided to use that to his advantage now. But you´re right about the fact that no true duelists woud let their personality get derailed like this, by the existence of two more popular ones."
He said, that i wouldn´t be swayed by guilt anymore, but- NO! I have to pull trough now, there´s no turning back now! I decided to use this new style, so i have to stick with it!
"I activate one of Ultimate Ogre´s abilites! Once per turn, i can banish all monsters he points to face-down! Then i set two cards and use Castle Link to shift Ultimate Ogre into my middle Main Monster Zone! Now I attack Firewall Dragon with Ultimate Ogre! Ogre KO! (Playmaker LP:2000-500) Now try to get something with Storm Acces that helps you, but it will be futile! And if you were to take out my monster i get to recycle 8 cards from my graveyard! And you still have to worry about my face-down Gouki Botching and Gouki Kickout! And to be generous, i´ll tell you that i can choose whether my Ultimate Ogre will be affected by a card effect! He isn´t a Link 8 for nothing!"
"I hope your friend has finished hacking us out of this cage soon."
Yusaku´s POV
As Ai said that, a light green shockwave run trough Link VRAINS, as it did in the duel against KingStarveVenom. It seems like Yugo has managed to summon his dragon. I checked out the skill on my duel disk and it read: Storm Acces Neo effect: If your Life points are below 1000 gain Access to two random cards from the Data Storm.
Well, i should waste no time in using this improved skill.
"Skill Activate! Storm Acces Neo! Since my life points are below 1000 i gain acces to, not one, but TWO cards from the Data Storm!", i announced.
"Don´t think it will be that easy!", GO said and sped up until he was ahead of me, along with his monster.
"How are we going to get trough GO AND his giant monster?"
"Without my physical input of grabbing the cards inside the Data Storm, Storm Acces Neo will not resolve and should not count as used, so i have time to gather some ´allies´ to help me. My turn, draw!"
To confirm my theory, i immediately checked my duel disks screen and indeed Storm Acces Neo, was marked as ´not fully executed´, but this also meant that i coud not switch to any other skill.
"I activate Gouki Botching! You will discard that card and take 300 damage! (Playmaker LP:500-200) And remember, Kickout can negate the attack of a non-Gouki monster and end your turn! "
"Now Honeybot will return to the field by the effect of Cynet Backdoor! I place it in the very left main monster zone!"
The card that GO sent to my graveyard was Link Wayback Machine, which can revive a Link monster by banishing Spells and trap cards equal to its number of Link Arrows, i can get another monster that can help me reach out to the Data Storm, but i don´t know yet in which zone i should place it, since i don´t know what i will get, meaning i have to take a risk.
I take a deep breath and jump! Then i use the glowing lines of my Avatar not to get back on my own D-board, but to hang on to GO´s, I grabbed on to it for a few seconds and swung myself a bit further. Honeybot sped to me and prevented me from falling to the ground.
How this is possible, you ask?
Well, SOL technologies does have some sort of Safety measurements, they aren´t failsave, but they worked this time. My opponent didn´t block me because either
1. The death of his opponent was the one line he wouldn´t cross
2. He was to perplexed by my audacity to react and
3. he had a sudden change of heart and reverted to his old style and therefore gave me a small chance at winning.
Regardless of it, i survived managed to get my board back with my avatar´s abilities and managed to get close to the data storm.
"Now, finally! Storm Acces Neo!"
It was blowing strong and i almost got knocked off once, but with Honebot´s VR being able to catch me from behind in case i fall of , i managed to take hold of the cards Powercode Talker and Recoded Alive.
"What the? Did we really just do that?", Ai commented on my risky acrobatics.
Alright, now i can try to turn the tables around!
" One of the cards from Storm Acces Neo can be part of the main deck so it will be added to my hand!I use the effect of the Cynet Wayback Machine you discarded with Gouki Botching! Once per duel, i banish a number of spell and trap cards equal to a Monsters Link Rating to revive it! I banish Cynet Backdoor, Shut Line, One Time Passcode and Waboku to revive Firewall Dragon at Honeybot´s Link Point! I use his effect to bounce back Aurora Draw for a final time! I set a card and use Aurora Draw! I set two cards and then by the effect of Ccynet Backdoor Honeybot can attack directly!"
"I take those mere 1900 points! (GO LP:4000-2100)
"I end my turn."
"You think you are going to win because you got a good card out of nowhere too, but i will prove you wrong! MY TURN; DRAW! I activate my own Raigeki!"
"I activate The Huge Revolution is Over! Your Raigeki is negated and banished!"
"Grrr... But fine! You only have 200 life points left anyway! Battle Phase!"
"At this point i activate my Trap card Recoded Alive! I banish Decode Talker and recode him! Forceful Messenging Knight of the Heat, intercept the enemies barrage and launch a counterattack! Link 3! Powercode Talker! (Powercode Talker ATK:2300 Link Markers: Left,Right, Bottom Left)"
"Y-you did that poetry thing too! Why? You only know them for a short while!"
"I don´t know", i answered Ai, "Must be very infectious."
"I attack Firewall Dragon!"
"I use another Backdoor! I banish Powercode this time, and search and summon Link Shielder No.2! (DEF:4400)"
"I continue to attack and use another of Ultimate Ogre´s abilties! If a Gouki monsters attacks i can swap their stats with their targets! (LS DEF:4400-4000 Ulimate Ogre ATK: 4000-4400) And if the Ultimate Ogre´s barrage deals no damage, you will lose 500 life points for every time that happened when the next assault occurs! And don´t bother using that stupid Backdoor trick again!"
"Sorry, but unlike you, i don´t duel to entertain, i don´t care if my strategies don´t look interesting. I duel to defeat the Knights of Hanoi! And i will never forget that cause!"
"Unlike me...", he muttered. Looks like he came back to his senses as quickly as he lost them. Apparently. I am not 100% sure. And i have no time to verify here.
"I end my turn.", GO said, "Fine then, Playmaker, show me your resolve."
Oddly he didn´t issue this challenge in a very challenging tone, it was more like resignation, that he had lost. And well, if i can get rid of Gouki Kickout, i could attack directly with powercode talker and take out the remainder of his life points and even if i didn´t attack directly Ultimate Ogre can only switch the power values of monster if he´s attacking, assuming GO told the truth of course, and Powercode Talker will have 4600 ATK by sacrificing Firewall Dragon dealing 200 damage if i get rid of his Ogre then Honeybot´s follow-up attack deal 1900 damage, reducing his life points exactly to zero. All provided i draw Mystical Space Typhoon.
"My turn, draw! I activate Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face-down card!"
My victory is ensured, but something feels strange. I can´t bring myself to conduct the winning attack. Why?
"Alright Playmaker, go and attack for game! This time for real!"
"No. Something doesn´t feel right about this."
"Huh, why are you getting like that all of a sudden? I thought you didn´t care whether your victories are boring or not!"
"That thing is right. Why don´t you at least try to make your last attack? If Gouki the Ultimate Ogre has a secret ability to stop it, you´re as good as gone anyways!", GO said, "But if you don´t have the guts to defeat me, then i gladly take the victory!"
It seems like he didn´t have a quick epiphany after all. Or he is trying to fight it. It is bothering me, why is it bothering me? I don´t know much about Go Onizuka the Charisma duelist, but it is obvious he doesn´t act like usual and somehow this hits close home.
At this moment the cage program broke, looks like Shoichi managed to break it.
That´s it! My reason to fight is to get back his brother and sometimes, i think, what if he has become an entirely different person once we get to reunite?
It seems like GO´s change has brought back this fear in me. It makes no sense, the reason for GO´s personality change, the change,the reason for Kirito´s almost ensured change and even the timespans of their personality changes are entirely different.
"Hello? Earth to Playmaker? Finish him or log out. What are you thinking right now? "
"Remember, how earlier in this duel you said Humans can be strange? My line of thought is proving that right now."
The logical conclusion of this this illogical emotional turmoil is to attempt to bring GO back to his old self, but i am not the person for speeches like this.
Nothing comes to my mind, except maybe, that if GO wants to change this style, this is not the right way to go about it, but it feels like this is not going to work.
*sigh*, I am in abysmal circumstances to think about a topic like this anyway and i wasn´t and won´t always be able to win fights the way i want.
"I attack GO directly with Powercode Talker!" (GO LP:2100-2300=0)
WINNER: Playmaker
The Data Storm dispersed and glided to the ground. GO was about to log out without a further word, but i interrupted him:
"Why did you act like this during our duel?"
I know i just said, that i didn´t think i could make him change, but at least i could find out more about why he is behaving like this.
Surprisingly GO payed attention to what i said.
"Didn´t i say it? I need to be ready to do everything to stay number one of Link VRAINS. I need to change my dueling style eventually. But it seems like even with that, i still got a ways to go."
"Or maybe, you´ve gone the wrong way.", *sigh* now i said it anyway.
"Maybe. Well, it seems i should take time to consider the right way and pace of changing: And one more thing before i go, i only had a moment of weakness, defeating me a second time won´t be as easy.", he said as he logged out and as i thought it feels like i only made him reveal what he realized about himself.
"What was that just now?", Ai asked.
"My mind got crowded with illogical human thoughts, but that doesn´t matter."
"I think these illogical thoughts do indeed matter. Anyways, are we going to look after our allies´ Tag Duel or log out right away?"
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The Tag duel Yugo´s POV
"I don´t have Super Storm Acces? How? We had that weird shockwave and everything.", i muttered.
"Speed Rider, look at your skillset!", Mayoi told me.
"Alright, Duel Disk, show me my skillset!"
A small screen popped up that showed me a list of the generic skills, Healing Staff, Wind Draw and... Storm Access Neo? So i got a different upgrade, huh?
I clicked the screen again to examine and it apparently allowed to to get two cards from the Data Storm, but for the same conditions as in
"So we each will give a different Upgrade to Storm Access.", Yuri observed, "I need less of a pinch, but you need the same pinch and get more cards. I wonder if that also affects Yusaku in his own duel, he did share the upgrade in our last duel but that was with us, after all"
That´s surprisingly insightful of you.
"Even more surprising is, that you know the word ´insightful´",he teased.
Hey!
"Looks like they don´t have that skill after all... In that case we will just defeat you as fast as possible!",Machinarex said.
"Not if we defeat you first!My turn, Draw!", Mayoi declared, "I activate Go to Hell and add HorReaper PitchFreak to my hand! I normal summon Figurobe which lets me summon another PhanTorch from my deck! Since i control a HorReaper i can special summon PitchFreak! (ATK:1700)"
"At this time, my Ancient Gear Chess Queen wil revive the Banished Toon Ancient Gear Golem, this will make them immune to effects of any monster besides her! It will also weaken all of my monsters, but i instanly banish the Toon Ancient Gear Golem to give its ATK and DEF to my monsters!
(AGCQ ATK/DEF:0-3000)"
"So, because the stats of monster´s can´t go below zero this became a boost by 300 for Queen. And he even protected them against monster effects. These Ancient Gears are way stronger than those of the Obelisk Force.",Yuto said.
"Yeah, the OF was only strong in numbers.", Yuri added.
"Alright, but now PitchFreak´s effect will activate! I can send Horrible Fusion from my deck to my graveyard! And now i banish to fuse my monsters! Collector of Souls, eclipse the red moon with your all-cutting scythe and make your foes wish they could turn back time! FUSION SUMMON! HorReaper CronuScythe!(ATK:2200) When CronuScythe is fusion summoned, i can destroy cards on the field, but i have too banish one HorReaper more than the number of cards i want to destroy! I banish PhanTorch (Hyacrosea LP: 10134-9534)and PitchFreak to take out Ritual Dragon!"
"No way! I use her effect to banish all cards i control instead!", he countered.
"Did Machinarex perhaps expect CronuScythe to be her last Extra Deck monster?", Yuya wondered.
I dunno, any monster effect could have affected his Ancient Gears.
"Now i attack you directly! (Hyacrosea LP: 9534-7334) Now i end my turn! I have no use for my Action Card, so i lose it and 1000 life points (ScytHeart LP:2100-1100 Hyarosea LP:7334-8334)"
"Do you want me to gain back everything again?", Hyacrosea said.
"Are you sure you´ll be able to do that?", she countered.
"We´ll see. My turn, draw! I activate the spell Restauration of Rites, allowing me to recover a Ritual Spell that i banished or in the grave! Then i use Birth of the Tidal Dragon to summon Ritual Dragon, her to summon Link Dragon and then he revives Ritual Dragon! I then normal summon Sea Scales Amazoness!"
2600 ATK for a level 1?!
"Monsters like that usually have huge downsides", Yuto explained.
"When Amazonness is summoned or flipped face-up, All cards on my field are banished."
"I can´t believe i´m saying this, but is that really a downside in this particular deck?", i asked.
"On the positive side, apart from that, Amazoness only works as a beatstick.", Mayoi said.
"Now Sea Scales Link Dragon puts himself back into the Extra Deck, and brings back my other monsters. But i can Link Summon him once more and bring back Ritual Dragon another time! Now since three cards have been banished, Sea Scales Ritual Dragon will lower Ultimate Speed Rider´s life by 1350!
(USR LP:1400-50 Hyacrosea LP:8334-9784)"
"Why did you pick him?!", Machinarex asked angrily, but then realized, "I see, they must have a different alternate version of Storm Acces, and you predicted that, can you also predict the name?"
"I guess it´s named-"
"Forget it! I´ll use it myself!", i interrupted, "Skill Activate! Storm Acces Neo! I can use it unde the same condition as the original, but i´ll gain 2 cards!"
"I cover for you!", Mayoi said and went on to get another Action Card, "I activate the Action Card Overworld Miracle! I special summon a Overworld Miracle Token (ATK:0) to block the way! Go for it Rider!"
"Oh there´s no need to cover for him", Machinarex said, "We want to see this skill in all of its glory, we will not even attempt to stop him."
I am having my doubts, but having strong cards will be important for future battles; i cannot allow myself to waster such a chance! And if i gain an insight on what Clear Wing is thinking...
I rushed towards the Storm and braced myself, soon i could feel two card beginning to take shape in my hand, then everything went black.
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Unknown Realm still Yugo´s POV
I was in an empty black void, just like the one where our adventure started. So Clear Wing should be around here somehwere, i wonder why he didn´t call out to me telling me to ´take hold of the wind´, like Starve Venom did.
"Hey, Yugo turn around!", a voice, which 100% belongs to Clear Wing, said. And as i turned around Clear Wing indeed stood before me.
"Clear Wing...", i said as i just stood there in amazement. Zarc supposedly could hear Duel Monster spirits, but i never really used it, as if it got weaker with the splitting in four, which probably was the case.
"So, what should we talk about?", i said sheepishly, because i really wasn´t prepared for this.
"The most important thing of course! Does Yuya know about our true stance on entertainment?", he asked.
"Yuri didn´t say anything about you and entertainment to us so, no. What is your stance on that?"
"We don´t really like it, being forced to fight for humans enjoyment, noone caring what happened to us in duels, it was frustrating, so when Zarc went crazy, we didn´t attempt to stop him."
"But Zarc was an entertainer too! Why didn´t you try to revolt against him?"
"It took a while until we really started to detest it. It didn´t start on day one. And the fact that Zarc did everything, and his everything was a lot, to protect us from harm in duels, was a huge saving grace for him."
"I´m sorry, but our everything won´t be as much as Zarc´s. Sometimes, even when we want to, we won´t be able to save you from destruction. I had no defense against Destruction Confusion, my other set card was just Extra Shave Reborn and i think Yuya should be told about that by his own dragon."
"I understand both of that, but it still feels painful."
"Isn´t there a solution for that?", i wondered.
"A solution for the fact that you can´t always save us, even when you don´t want us to suffer... Not using us at all would prevent all pain, but what will happen to us when we stop being used? Will we fade into nothingness? None of us four want to risk that, so, since you have control of what happens to us in duels, will have to find a way."
"I promise to find it!", i said.
"Well then, do what you have to."
"One last thing", i said, "Do you know anything about these two Sea Scales Dragons?"
"No. We assume they are frauds stealing our name, but more than that? No."
"I actually expected a bit more", i said, "But in that case, back to the duel."
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Back inside of Link VRAINS still Yugo´s POV
When i returned, i held two cards, one named Clear Wing Fast Dragon and another named Clear Wing Angel.
"Are you satisfied now? Here´s your Storm Acces Neo! Or do you want to my Speed-to-Master duel card as well?", i taunted them.
"Actually that is something we plan to see", Hyarosea admitted.
"However we don´t need to keep your partner alive.", Machinarex added.
"Don´t waste your cards on me", Mayoi said to me.
"Are you crazy? We promised we would keep each other save, so of course i´ll use my cards to protect you! And you´ll do the same for me!", i told her.
"Yug- i mean Ultimate Speed Rider!..."
"She truly seems to not want anyone else to die for her sake.", Yuto noted.
"And she would have ruined our mission, if we weren´t acting under the name of Yuya."
"That´s true. Perhaps we can avoid suspicion because our ´real name´ doesn´t start with Yug.", he said.
"Now i attack the Overworld Miracle token with Sea Scales Amazoness!" Hyacrosea interrupted us.
"I use my Avoid, to Avoid this!", i countered.
"I use the Action Spell Illumination to prevent to from negating summons!", Mayoi said, using a card she just got.
"It´s not like there´ll be any summons to negate this turn, anyway! I attack the Token with Sea Scales Link Dragon!"
"I banish my Three-eyed Dice to negate this!"
"You could have at least used it on an attack that would have taken out my life points. And if you didn´t negate it i could have gotten rid of this counterproductice token."
"And an attack with a player´s life at at stake, would also have prevented more healing with Recovery Flood", Yuya noted
"I was doing my best, okay!?"
While we were arguing like that, Hyacrosea got another Action card, "I special summon the Action Monster Ancient Gear Wyvern! (ATK:1700) I attack the Overworld Miracle Token!"
"I use the ability to halve damage! (ScytHeart LP: 1100-250 Hyacrosea LP: 9734-10584) But not the one to negate destruction!"
"Wait, Action Monsters?", i thought out loud
"You mean, the reason you didn´t mention them, isn´t their absence on Crossover?", Mayoi asked.
Yuya, have you heard of them?
"No. As far as my knowledge goes, there were only Spell and Trap cards. And traps shouldn´t be on Crossover either. The only bad Action Cards we can get are ones not suitable for the current situation.",Yuya answered.
"Well, looks like you don´t know everything about Action Duels, even though you thought you would be the only one with Acces to them! And I will leave the details about Action Monters to your observational skills!", Machinarex said.
"I end my turn.", Hyacrosea said.
"As far as we can tell, Action Monsters can be special summoned from the hand", Mayoi noted, "having to do so in attack position might be part of it as well."
"And maybe you need to do instantly?", i guessed.
"Trap cards have to be used right away so that could be the case", Yuya said.
"Oh yeah! Trap cards have to be used right away so that could be the case!", i repeated for Mayoi to hear, "Anyway it´s my turn. Draw!"
Clear Wing Angel can special summon herself, by returning all Clear Wing or Crystal Wing Synchro monsters from the grave to my deck; she can also take the name of any tuner in my graveyard and can treat any level five or lower Wind non-tunrt that is used alongside her to summon a Clear or Crystal Wing monster with level 7 as the remaining Synchro material. I drew the card Light Metal Factory, wich will allows me to search Speedroid Taketomborg, which gives me the material to summon Clear Wing Fast Dragon. If it wasn´t for one thing.
Sea Scales Ritual Dragon´s Negate Ability. As long as he has both dragons he can disrupt my combo at any time he wants.
My only hope is to get an Action card that would be worthy to negate. Only so far, the only time i was lucky it worked against me. However he does want me to use Fast Dragon´s ability to change the field size, so i should be safe until then. Alright! I know what i´m gonna do!
"Hey remember, how you wanted to see my version of Storm Acces? I bet you want to see Clear Wing Fast Dragon´s field changer ability in action too, right? So you better not negate anything until i do that, or you can´t investigate how his Storm Absorbtion works."
"We said that we wanted to see it, didn´t you listen!? Oh, and you FINALLY realize why we want you to use your skill. As if it wasn´t obvious enough", Machinarex taunted.
"That makes sense, so you are working for SOL tech and want to gather Data on how absorbing the Data Storm affects Link VRAINS. That´s why you pretended to be part of the KOH!", Mayoi deduced.
"Who said anything about SOL tech?", Machinares asked.
"NO! You two and GO are definetly sent by SOL techologies!", Mayoi insisted, "To think you´d pretend to be your own enemy..."
"It doesn´t matter! I´ll win this duel! I start by using Light Metal Factory and add Speedroid Taketomborg to my hand!"
"In advance i use my Chess Queen combo to immunize my Ancient Gears for this turn!", Machinarex countered.
" Then i special summon Clear Wing Angel (DEF:0) and shuffle the original Clear and Crystal Wing back to my extra deck! Angel can change her name to that of any tuner in my grave! I choose Speedroid Red-eyed dice! She will take that attribute as well"
Clear Wing Angels Wings started to get blindingly bright and when the light faded a red-eye dice with two little wings and eyelashes on the red eyes remained.
"Now that her attribute changed from wind to light, i can special summon my Speedroid Taketomborg! And now, i tune my Clear Wing Angel to my Speedroid Taketomborg, using her ability! Spread those wondrous and beautiful wings and strike down our enemies at lightspeed! SYNCHRO SUMMON!
Come forth, Level 7 Clear Wing Fast Dragon!" (ATK:2500)
"The same chant as synchro dragon?", Hyacrosea wondered.
"It may have the same chant, but its powers are different!", i said, "Since i used a Storm Acces Skill, the field will be changed to that of a master duel! And no more skills!"
"Everyone used a skill already.", Hyacrosea pointed out as we glided down, "And you used that power even though you knew why we wanted to see it?"
"Playmaker could steal back the investigation results and use it for himself, so why not? I-i mean", Mayoi said.
"Maybe she shouldn´t have said that. Didn´t she say she needed to be Playmaker´s ally to fully understand the importance of being secretive?", Yuri commented.
"He doesn´t know how this power works himself!?",Hyacrosea gasped.
"Pah! They are just trying to do a clever bluff! Of course Playmaker knows the power of his allies! He isn´t stupid!", Machinarex said.
At this moment, the cage programm that trapped us burst into pieces.
"So, we could log out now.", Mayoi said.
"Yeah, but do we have to?", i asked.
"Why would we want to stay?", she asked back.
"Well, there are no consequences for a loss anymore, right? And i have a feeling we will fight those two guys again. We should find out if we are able to defeat them, they´ll see more of our decks, but the same goes for us and their decks"
"Well you are right, but..", she said.
"I am sure this won´t be our only duel either.", Hyacrosea said, "I will fight to the very end as well!"
"Speak for yourself.", Machinarex said, "Go test out your deck. I have fulfilled my role and there is no need to continue this for me."
"What?!", Hyacrosea gasped, "N-no wait!"
But Machinarex logged out anyway, removing him from the duel. Strangely i feel sorry for Hyacrosea. I could feel his spirit as duelist when he decided to take us on til the very end and to get betrayed by his tag partner like that...
"Hmph. R-regardless of that, Sea Scales Ritual Dragon can still negate Fast Dragon´s effect! And she will also protect Link Dragon from your two monsters!"
"However, there is one more thing,", Mayoi pointed out, "With you partner logging out, Self-insert Accel has been deactivated. If we try to get Action cards, we won´t get any Ancient Gear support cards. And you still have Ancient Gear Wyvern to attack into."
"So, where are the platforms of Crossover, anyway? Shouldn´t it switch modes?", Yuya asked.
"Oh, and it looks like our Action Cards are still inside of these levitating bubbles.", i said while looking upwards.
"Well, then we can fly on your dragon and Gaia Saber.", Mayoi said, "And we don´t have to worry about the 1000 LP penalty anymore too."
"Alright, then let´s get going!", i said.
I hopped onto Fast Dragon, Mayoi onto Gaia Saber (because CronuScythe wasn´t a flyer) , while Hyacrosea flew upwards using his Ritual Dragon.
"I use the Action Spell Amazing Performance! Once this turn i can prevent a monster´s effect from being negated!", i said
"I use Ritual Dragon´s ability to counter it! That way you won´t be able to negate her protection of Link Dragon and attack into it!"
"The chain´s not over yet! I use High Dive to boost Fast Dragon by 1000!"
"I use my action card, Destruction to destroy your strongest monster! Goodbye Gaia Saber! And since all of my cards were banished, i can return Link Dragon to my extra deck and bring back all of my other cards!" (Clear Wing Fast Dragon ATK:2500-3500)
He did nearly fall to the ground from his dragon fading, but it reappeared just in time to catch him. Mayoi also had no problems landing safely
"If he didn´t, you could have negated Ritual Dragon, so she couldn´t protect Link Dragon anymore. A good strategical choice", Yuto commented, and i would have gotten what he was trying to do, even without your help! And don´t need ´ifs´!
"Now i attack your Ritual Dragon with Clear Wing! Heaven Dive Whirlwind Cutter! Your Dragon´s in the grave right now, how are you trying to bring her back now?"
"The Ritual/Link duo...", he said and then took a deep breath, "Is not the only power of my deck! Sea Scales have more Extra deck options than just those two!"
"If you say so, then bring ´em to me! I end my turn!"
"My turn, draw! I summon Sea Scales Serenity and now-", he then paused took a deep breath, "I swear, i will defeat both of you, no matter what it takes! Show yourself, Circuit of my past! Arrowheads confirmed! The summoning conditions are two non-link Sea Scales monsters, which have to be banished! I set the Link Markers with Sea Scales Amazoness and Sea Scales Serenity! LINK SUMMON! Link 2, Sea Scales Brawler!" (ATK: 2550 Link Markers: Bottom-left, Top-right) And the i use the effect of Sea Scales Brawler, once while he is face-up on the field i can banish either all face-down and Sea Scales/Tidal cards or all face-down and non-Sea Scales/Tidal cards and then let him gain 750 ATK for each! I obviously choose to banish Cear Wing Fast Dragon, HorReaper CronuScythe and my Action Monster, Ancient Gear Wyvern! "
"I use Fast Dragon´s effect to negate you effect and reduce Brawler´s ATK to zero!" (Sea Scales Brawler ATK: 2550-0)
"It seems you have forgotten about one of my banished cards", he said.
"Wait, which one?", i asked.
"It looks like we should have done better verification after he used Card of Sanctity.", Mayoi said.
To prepare for what´s to come, we both hopped onto Clear Wing and went for an Action Card.
"I use the effect of the banished Sea Scales Underdog! If one of my card effects is negated while he is bansihed, i can special summon a banished Sea Scale Monster! I choose to revive Amazoness! Since she has been summoned all cards i control are banished! And since all cards i control where banished by the special summoned monster´s effect, Underdog revives himself with that monster´s ATK/DEF as his original ATK/DEF (Sea Scales Underdog ATK/DEF: 50-2600), and equips that monster to himself. I can also return the equipped monster to my deck instead of him leaving the field."
Meanwhile, i got the Action Card Miracle and Mayoi got Target Change.
"I attack Clearwing Fast Dragon with Sea Scales Underdog!"
"I use Target Change to redirect the attack to CronuScythe!" (ScytHeart LP: 250-400=0)
"So you got saved by your partner´s luck once again. But can you make it count?", he dared me.
"Of course i can!", I said, "Uhm, by the way, are you going to watch or-?"
"Can you bring me back into it with a healing card?", she asked
"We´ll find out.", i answered.
"Your turn."
"Alright, i draw! I use Fast Dragon´s effect on you Underdog!" (Sea Scales Underdog ATK:2600-0 DEF:2600-50)
"Since his effect to equip Amazoness got negated, she will be destroyed."
"Then i set a monster and then attack underdog with Fast Dragon! Heaven Dive Whirlwind Cutter! (Hyacrosea LP: 10584-8084) I end my turn!"
"My turn, draw! I set a monster and end my turn!"
"Looks like your luck has run out! My turn, draw! I flip summon Sangan (ATK: 1000) and then-"
"Wait a second, what if the set card is another Amazoness? With her 2600 DEF you will take out your last 50 life points if you attack into it."
"Sangan? But regardess of that, will you take the risk of attacking into my monster and losing. There are no consequences for a loss after all.", Hyacrosea said.
"Just do it.", Mayoi said.
"Well, there are two things. First: even if nothing bad happens afterwards, i still don´t want to lose. Second: I don´t need to take that risk."
"Then show me."
"I activate D.D.R. Return from a different dimension by discarding Miracle and revive the banished Three-eyes dice! Then, since my Extra Monster Zone has been emptied, i tune the level three Sangan and level three Three-eyed dice! Cube of Miracles, let the goddess of luck smile upon me! SYNCHRO SUMMON! Come forth, Level 6, Speedroid Six-eyed dice!" (DEF:600)
"A dice synchro monster? That´s interesting", Hyacrosea gasped.
"And since Sangan was used as a Synchro material, i get to search another Red-eyed dice from my deck. And Six-eyed dice can halve my Lifepoints once per turn (Ultimate Speed Rider LP:50-25) to special summon two dice monsters! I choose two Red-eyed dice from my hand and grave! Then i Synchro summon Clear Wing with Six-eyed Dice and Red-eyed dice and then use Clear Wing and the second Dice to summon Crystal Wing again! See, there was no reason to hold back! I attack your set monster with it!"
That monster turned out to not be Amazoness anyway, but Serenity as Crystal Wing destroyed it.
"And then I attack directly with Fast Dragon! (Hyacrosea LP: 8084-5584) And then i end my turn!"
"Yeah, his LP count is getting smaller and smaller!", Mayoi cheered.
"Arrrrrh! My turn, draw! I use Pot of Aquisitiveness to shuffle three banished Sea Scales into my deck and draw one card! i use my drawn Tidal Rescue! This card can place any Sea Scales Monster or Tidal Spell/Trap from my graveyard on the field and then banishes my whole grave! I revive Sea Scales Ritual Dragon on the field!"
"But Rider has two monsters to negate her decrease effect! What will you do?"
"Action Cards still exist!"
"Yeah, but you´re not the only person remembering Crossover Accel above us!", i said as i hopped onto Crystal Wing to fly upwards, "Fast Dragon prevent him from getting one!"
"Too slow! I use Double Potion on myself and your partner! (Hyacrosea LP: 4584-5384 ScytHeart LP:0-800)"
"Wait why are you bringing me back? ", Mayoi questioned.
"I already defeated you once, but i didn´t defeat you partne yet! And if i want to defeat you i cannot allow you to recover any life points! I end my turn!"
My action was Counter Damage which could reflect any battle damage.
"My turn, draw! I use my own Pot of Aquisitiveness to shuffle PhanTorch, CrimiNail and ResurrecTalon back and draw! "
"Hey, ScytHeart can you do something with this card?", I said and showed he my Action card.
"Actually, yes I normal summon HorReaper FiguRobe and use it´s effect to PhanTorch with 0 attack points! ( PhanTorch ATK:1300-0)"
"Good. Even if he suspects something like Counter Damage, he won´t be able to save himself by banishing Ritual Dragon", Yuto said.
"I crash PhanTorch into Ritual Dragon!"
"Then i activate Counter Damage to redirect everything to you!" (Hyacrosea LP: 6384-3984)
"I use the Action Spell i just got, during that attack! Destruction destroys your Crystal Wing!"
I´m again sorry for that Clear Wing, but i promise you pain won´t be in vain! Hey, that rhymed!
"You just had to ruin your own moment, did you?", Yuri mocked.
Regardless, we´re gonna win!
"I end my turn! Now it´s up to you, Ultimate Speed Rider!"
"My turn, draw! I use an Upstart Goblin to draw and increase ScytHeart´s Life Points! (ScytHeart LP:800-1800) and then i use enemy controller-"
"I banish her instead!", he declared after getting another, presumably useless, Action Card.
"I attack directly!" (Hyacrosea LP: 3984-1484)
"Yes, just a tiny bit more and we´re done!", Mayoi said.
"You´ve won this time", Hyacrosea said, "I have nothing on my hand and field, none of the monsters left in my deck can fly me towards an Action Card and even if i get very lucky all i coud do is set one card. I surrender for this time " (Hyacrosea LP:1484x0=0)
He then logged out.
"So, we´ve done it?", i asked.
"Kind of, i guess? It stopped being a typical life-or-death duel, midway through, so we didn´t gain that much experience today. But we still learned a lot about our potential new recurring enemies.", Mayoi said.
"Well, let´s log out. Playmaker´s duel has probably finished by now.", i said.
L4
Back in Yusaku´s house still Yugo´s POV
When we returned, we were immediately greeted by Yusaku asking: "Why did you not log out immediately? Our enemies will now have more infos about you than necessary."
"But you weren´t insta-logging out either, technically speaking.", Ai said.
"To be fair,", Mayoi said, "We wanted to see if we could defeat them eiter way, to check out our own strenght."
"Well, that´s certainly not the worst motivation.", Kusanagi said, "And it probably helped overwrite the memories of Yuya´s Perfomapals with Yugo´s Speedroids. Perhaps people won´t see Yuya´s Perfomapal deck as a sign of you technically being the same person"
"And we got to know a little bit more about the Sea Scales Deck!", I pointed out.
"Still, there were three things that worry me about this", Yusaku said.
"Here come the three reasons again.", Yuri sighed. (Why does he dislike that catchphrase this much?)
"First: How does anyone, but Yuya and co have acces to Action Duels? Two: Go Onizuka played a mysterious new Xyz monster and a Link 8 monster."
"So it´s pointing everywhere?", i gasped, "That must be hella strong!"
"The strength of it was surprisingly a minor problem. A short amount of time after summoning, Gouki Heel Hitter, Onizuka became surrounded by a dark aura which dissapeared shortly before he summoned Gouki the Ultimate Ogre. Usually card don´t get programmed with such a visual effect, so Hell Hitter and Ultimate Ogre are unlikely to just be Pro-exclusive Promo´s to make his duels more interestingl It´s more likely to happen with skills, but my Instincts are telling me it´s linked to those two cards instead of Castle Builder. Third: What was this short switch incident even about?"
"Well, i admit it was a reckless thing...", i answered, "Yuya, well used to be an entertainer in most of his duels, which helped resolve more issues than you could imagine, but he´s been told that he wont be able to do so anymore, before getting sent here and he wanted to test out his new dueling resolve or something like that, out of the blue. We kinda got a little unlucky there."
"...Well that is basically the truth.", Yuya admitted., "Wait! I know who Machinarex was!"
"What, the?!", i gasped.
"Nobody said anything surprising.", Mayoi said.
"Yuya said it! He knows who Machinarex could be!"
Everyone in the room, but Mayoi of course, was schocked by this.
"Machinarex has to be Jean-Michel Roget!", he said
"Roget...", Yuto muttered
"So, Yuya thinks it was some kind of Security director from our home universe and he does so because?"
"For one thing, he would know about Action Duels, he uses an Ancient Gear deck and he tried to create some kind of wormhole to suck in the whole city, but it collapsed and he fell into it himself, what if he landed in this world?"
"So Yuya´s reasoning is that: One: He does know about Action Duels."
"Which everyone in your world should do.", Ai pointed out
"It´s a little bit more complicated than that, but his second reason was that, just like Roget, Machinarex used an Ancient Gear deck."
"That is a weak connection.", Yusaku said.
"Maybe, but the third reason is the most important", i said, "He apparently tried to use some kind of wormhole to suck in the whole city i lived in, but it failed and only Roget himself got sucked in. What if he somehow landed here?"
"But how could he have replicated the Action Duel System and changed it up to be Self-Insert?", Kusanagi wondered.
"Well, Yuya?", i said to- myself, kind of.
"I have no idea about that, unfortunately", he admitted.
"Hm, well we don´t know what to do with the knowledge of his identity right now anyway.", Yusaku said, "But your duel against these two was solid enough, from what Shoichi told me and what i´ve seen afterwards. It wasn´t a mistake to accept you as allies."
"Yay!", Mayoi said happily, "How about we celebrate our first victory against an enemy?"
"Celebrate?!", Yusaku gasped, "This isn´t just-"
"My mother- i mean the Charisma Duelist Dark Lady is having an official duel against GO tomorrow, we could watch it together at my house! Of course, if another incident, that requires us intervening happens in Link VRAINS, i can take interrupting that!"
"I-", Yusaku began, but stopped quickly.
"I don´t think that´s a bad idea actually", Kusanagi said, "You could get to know them better and enjoying yourself while you don´t have to fight Hanoi at the moment is a good thing to do. Think of it as resting."
"Fine.", Yusaku sighed, "But first: Won´t you need help at Café Nagi, since a lot of people will be watching that duel? Second: With GO´s strange behaviour during the duel against me, i wonder if the duel tomorrow will even take place. And third: I will plan on arriving a little bit before the at Mayoi´s home so we can have a few small duels, allowing me to learn more about your decks."
"I can do it alone, don´t worry", Kusanagi said.
"Wait, what did GO do?", Mayoi asked.
"It´s a little complicated.", Yusaku said, "But it will be all over the news and everyone will talk about it anyway."
"But would they really cancel a match so suddenly?", Mayoi said worried.
"´Ai´ don´t think so.", ´Ai´ said, "And did really none of you comment on the fact that Mayoi´s mother is a famous Charisma Duelist?"
"I guess neither Mayoi nor Yusaku want to drag an unecessary amount of people into this; even if they could be useful allies. And i agree with that.", Kusanagi said.
"He´s right.", both of them said at the same time.
"That´s a huge bummer and will back fire eventually, ´Ai´ tell you", Ai complained.
"Well then, everything that needed to be said has been said. Watching the rest of your duel gave me a good grasp on Action Duels", Yusaku said, "I think we can call it a day and return home."
L5 At Mayoi´s home Still Yugo´s POV
"I´ve heard about your duel, you two were amazing", Futaba congratulated us, "But i don´t recall you telling me anything about your action duels and it is very worrisome that there is someone else possesing it."
"Well, with all the crazy stuff we told you, there probably have been a few we´ve missed. Sorry", i said,
"But have you heard about the duel Playmaker vs GO?", Mayoi said worried.
"Yes. But i don´t think my duel tomorrow will be cancelled.", she said, "And i think it will be easy to counter Gouki The Ultimate Ogre. Kaiju´s exist for a reason, after all."
"But Mom, you´re playing a 60 card deck for the sake of utilizing That Grass looks Greener, i don´t think you´ll get it that easily; anyway we were planning to watch it tomorrow with Yusaku.", Mayoi said.
"That´s a risk i have to take. And i´m fine with him visiting you.", she just said.
"Ok, then it´s settled for tomorrow.", i said, "Let´s just hope there isn´t another KOH attack interrupting us."
"By the way", Mayoi said, "Didn´t Hyacrosea look kinda like Yuya, but the colors were swapped with different shades of blue and pink?"
"He looked totally different.", i said, "And the four us looked exactly the same, so we should now whether someone looks different or similiar to us."
L6 Yusaku´s House Yusaku´s POV
"You know, Shoichi there is something i´ve been thinking about before my duel with GO ended.", i said.
"What is it Yusaku?", Shoichi asked.
"Since GO behave very different from his usual self, my thoughts have been wandering to how Kirito could have changed after all those years and what we should do if we found him to be a competely different person.", i answered.
"Yeah, that worry never goes away for me", Shoichi repied, "But hope is our only option isn´t it? "
"Yes, but...", i began, "I wonder if i could have said anything to bring GO back to his senses and, if by extension i could apply that to Kirito, should we encounter a somewhat comparable situation."
"I doubt you could have done it to GO, you don´t know him after all. And for Kirito, i think we have to wait until we meet him again. I don´t think we can prepare much for that situation.", he said dryly.
"I can´t imagine Yusaku as someone doing moving speeches to convert people to his side", Ai said, "Maybe that Yuya guy?"
"Perhaps, perhaps not. That remains to be seen", I said
L7
AN: And with that the the first battles end! Yeah, Roget didn´t do much in the tag duel besides having one turn and banishing Crystal Wing, but i believe he is the type of person that doesn´t duel longer than needed. He was just supposed to make Yugo use his alternate version of Storm Acces and change the field size by making the alternate Clear Wing absorb the Data Storm so SOL tech can get Data on how this works, while (maybe) not very fun and interesting to see, it kind of does fit his character in my opinion, if you think otherwise, then tell me, but also explain why.
And if he´s the kind of villain you love to hate, don´t worry, he´ll get more duels in the future!
As for Chihiro, his will to defeat Yugo allowed him to use another Sea Scales Extra deck monster besides Link Dragon, regardless of what the monster shown on Sea Scales Brawler represents to him IRL.
On the heroes side, Yugo was able to put his differences with Clear Wing aside for a moment and gained the manga version of Clear Wing, but another question was thrown into the room: What will the Yu-boys do, when they cannot protect their dragons? How do the ease out their pain?
Mayoi may not have played much of a roles besides Tag partner in this duel, but i promise it will be quite different during the next one.
Now to the alternate Playmaker vs GO duel and with that to my QUOTC:
What are your thoughts on their character as i presented them in this chapter?
I said it before, but after this duel things will develop different from the Anime, maybe i´ll have few match-ups similiar to canon down the road, but that will be all and even now, GO himsef acted very different from his anime self in this duel, he was more ready to focus on pure victory, rather than defeating him with his original Style, partially because there a more people ´above´ him and partially because Yavix (that will be their name for now, until i reveal otherwise) manipulated him.
Oh yea, and there is his own ´Card Ex Machina´ power, given by Yavix, but hey i think i hinted a little that this power might be more important in the story, so stay tuned for how i´ll handle it. And, yes i´m ready to admit that a Link 8 monster could have been a bit much, but... i couldn´t help it.
That´s it, GO wasn´t the only one who had a short moment of weakness there.
And about Yusaku´s character moment, since Yusaku is a lot more cynical and less social than your usual YGO protag, he wouldn´t be able to give a redemption-inducing speech even if he wants or needs to, but that might be the case when he´s reuniting with Kirito. Who knows what being captured by the KOH could have done to him? He may have become a member of them, willingly or not.
Unknowedz: To be fair, they do have a good reason to be confused. First, there´s Firewall, who mysteriously appears as a crude shadow inside of their realm, then he slowly begins to take shape, and then there´s the sudden two Ritual&Link Dragons! That´d be quite confusing, wouldn´t it?
D3lp0xl0v3r: you know it´s quite ironic that your message is clearly missing the word ´mean´, but i´ll clarify. ´with the a dark shade of orange and a light shade of Green´ actually has a word to much, ´the´ could be cut out. The sentence was only describing his hair. I also fixed my typo in Chapter 8, adding that his eyecolor stays normal
OPFan37: And we´re right back onto a long chapter! Partially and my huge AN made it even longer ;).
And it´s actually surprising to me that i do have such a huge story focus, because what i enjoy most about this IS the duel writing, maybe the will to be one of the good fanfics allows me to put my personal interests aside a little, or it is BECAUSE i like writing them, that i want to provide a good context for them to happen.
As for this disparity, well i just had a story chapter that was very long (and even that chapter itself had two unfinished mini-duels and three full mini-duels) and in this story chapter the lead-up to this story already happened.
Well, the fact that Self-Insert lets the user turn any of their cards might be at fault for making the cards a bit weird, but if you´re talking about the cards created with Crossover, i guess Fliparound (though it didn´t appear in this one) and Last Escape might be the biggest offender in that regard, with Fliparound´s effect being close to Ghostrick support and Last Escape being there to let Yugo survive Chihiro´s FTK without bringing him below 2000 yet. I think the new Action Cards of this chapter were a bit simpler. If you were mainly concerned arounf Double Potion, then i must say that it doesn´t strike me as odd. I thought that a card healing two players would make sense In-Universe, as it could be quite useful for the Lancers in Duels with 3+ players.
OC stuff HorReapers:
HorReaper CronuScythe
Level 7, Fiend, Dark, Fusion, Effect
ATK:2200
DEF:2000
Material: 3 HorReaper Monsters
Effect: When this card is Fusion Summoned, you can banish a number of "HorReaper" monsters from your GY to destroy that number of cards your opponent controls -1.
HorReaper FiguRobe
Level 2, Fiend, Dark, Effect
ATK:1200
DEF: 600
Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon one level 4 or lower "HorReaper" monsters from your deck, but reduce its ATK and DEF to 0.
HorReaper PitchFreak
Level 4, Fiend, Dark, Effect
ATK: 1700 DEF: 600
Effect: If you control a "HorReaper" monster you can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is summoned, send "HorReaper" or "Horrible" card from your deck to the GY.
Very own OC stuff:
Gouki Botching
Normal Trap
Effect: During your opponents Draw Phase if you opponent has more or an equal number of cards in his hand than you control "Gouki" Link Monsters; you opponent discards one card from their hand for each "Gouki" Link Monster you control, and takes 300 damage
Gouki Kickout
Counter Trap
Effect: When a "Gouki" monster you control is targeted for an attack, negate the attack, then end the turn.
Gouki the Ultimate Ogre
Link 8, Earth, Beast Warrior, Effect
ATK:4000
Material: 3+ Gouki Monsters
Effect: If this card would be affected by a card effect you can choose whether it is.
Once per turn, you can banish all monster sthis card points to face-down. If a "Gouki" monster you control attacks you can swap its ATK with the target's ATK or DEF (depending on the position)
If a "Gouki" monster's attack is negated or doesn't inflict damage: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent the next time a "Gouki" monster attacks for each time you activated this effect during this Duel.
Your opponent cannot summon monsters to zones "Gouki" monsters you control point to.
Link Shielder
Level 4, Earth, Cyverse, Effect
ATK:0 DEF:?
Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned, change it to Defense Position. This cards DEF becomes equal to the ATK of all Link Monsters you control. Link monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle. Once while face-up on the field; you can make all Link Monsters on the field unaffected by cards this turn.
Cynet Wayback Machine
Level 5, Earth, Cyverse, Effect
ATK:2400 DEF:1000
Effect: If this card is Tribute Summoned, by tributing a Cyberse Monster: you can Special Summon that monster from the GY.
You can use one of the following effects once per duel:
-If this card is used as a Link Material, Special Summon it and one other Link Material in defense position to your side of the field.
-If this card is in your GY (quick effect), but not in the phase it was sent there; you can banish a number of Spell/Traps equal to the Link Rating of a Link monster in your GY to special summon that monster.
Sea Scales Underdog
Level 1, Water, Sea-Serpent, Effect
ATK/DE: 50
Effect: If the effect of a "Sea Scales" or "Tidal" card you control is negated while this card is banished: You can Special Summon one of your banished "Sea Scales" monsters, except this card.
If that monster is banished alongside all cards you control, by that monster's effet, you can special summon this card and equip it with the summoned monster as an Equip Spell Card. This monsters ATK and DEF are equal to the equipped monster's ATK or DEF. If this card would be destroyed you can shuffle the equipped monster back to your deck instead.
Overworld Miracle
Effect: Special Summon one, "Overworld Miracle Token" (Fairy, Light ATK/DEF: 0) in Attack Position,
You can use each of those effects once per turn:
-If another monster you control is attacked, you can change the target towards the token.
-You can halve battle damage you would take
-You can negate the destruction of a Monster by battle
Speedroid Six-eyed Dice
Level 6, Wind, Machine, Synchro, Effect
ATK/DEF: 600
Material: 1 "Dice"tuner + one or more non tuners
Effect: Once per turn, you can pay half your Life Points to Special Summon one "Dice" monster from your hand and/or GY.
Amazing Performance
Action Spell
Effect: Activate 1 of these effects for the rest of this turn:
-Once per turn, when an effect that negates a monster's effect resolves, negate that effect.
-Once per turn, when an effect that negates attacks resolves, negates that effect.
Counter Damage
Action Spell
Effect: If a player would take damage; inflict that damage to a different player instead.
Clear Wing Angel
Level 1, Fairy, Light, Effect
ATK/DEF: 0
Effect: You can Special Summon this card by returning all "Clear Wing" and "Crystal Wing" Synchro monsters in your GY to your extra deck. You can target one tuner in your GY, this card gets the same name and attribute as that monster. You can use this card and a level 5 or lower wind-attribute monster to Synchro Summon a level 7 "Clear Wing" Synchro Monster.
Sea Scales Brawler
Link 2, Sea-Serpent, Water, Link, Effect
ATK:2550
Markers: Bottom-left, Top-right
Material: 2 non-Link "Sea Scales" monsters
Effect: You have to banish this cards Link Materials. Once while this card is face-up on the field, banish all face-down cards on the field, all well as either every "Sea Scales" or "Tidal" card on the field, or all non-"Sea Scales" or non-tidal cards on the field, then this card gains 750 ATK for each card banished by
If this card would be banished, you can return it to the Extra Deck instead.
Gouki Exchanged Rivals
Normal Spell
Effect: At the start of your Main Phase, send any number of "Gouki" monsters you control to the GY to Special Summon the same number of "Gouki" monsters, but with different names than the sent monsters from your GY.
You can only activate one card with this cards name per turn.
Restauration of Rites
Normal Spell
Effect: Add one Ritual Spell from your GY or your banished cards to your Hand.
Tidal Rescue
Normal Spell
Effect: Place one "Sea Scales" monster or "Tidal" Spell/Trap card from your GY on your field to a zone it can be placed in, then banish all other cards from your GY.
Light Metal Factory
Normal Spell
Effect: Add one level 4 or lower Machine monsters from your deck to your hand.
Target Change
Action Spell
Effect: Change one attack target.
Destruction
Action Spell
Effect: Destroy your opponents monster with the highest ATK.
Skills:
Storm Acces Neo
If your Life Points are 1000 or lower, gain acces to two cards from the Data Storm
Windraw
Pay 1000 Life Points during your Draw Phase, draw one random wind monster from your deck.
Healing Staff
You gain 200 Life Points for every monsters on the field.
Alt effects:
Clear Wing Fast Dragon
Gets the same Field Transformation and Anti Skill ability, I gave to Starving Venemy.
