And now the final act of the epic 3 on 1 duel between Lars, Clio, Joey and Valon! Mai's out of the picture, so there's no need to do the other 2 parts. After this, it's right into 'Grappling With A Guardian', then 'A Duel With Dartz' and 'Rise of the Great Beast' to wrap everything up. HERE WE GO!
Previously on 'Yu-Gi-Oh!':
Valon: I ACTIVATE THE SEAL OF ORICHALCOS! Next I play the Spell Card - FULL ARMOR GRAVITATION! I'M INVINCIBLE!
Lars: I activate the Spell Card - DARK DESIGNATOR! This lets me move The Claw of Hermos from Joey's Deck right to his hand!
Joey: LET'S SEE YA STAND UP TO THIS GUY!
We pick things up in the center of Domino at Professor Hawkins' mobile lab. Sam and Rebecca just hacked into Kaiba's satellite system and had just figured out where Joey was.
"Guys, we figured out where Joey, Lars and Clio are!" Sam called out.
"If this readout is right, they're at a junkyard not too far from here!" Rebecca added.
Yugi took the map and decided to proceed on his own. "I'll take this and track him down. Otto, you're with me. You guys take the trailer and move it to a safe place."
However, Tristan, Tea and Reggie were having none of it!
"Hold it, Rocket Boy!"
"We're not letting you two go at this alone!" Tristan said.
"We're all in this together!" Tea added, quoting 'High School Musical'. (Note: 'High School Musical' didn't come out until 2007, 2 years after the Waking the Dragons arc)
"Appears you've made your choice. Thank you," Otto remarked.
Rebecca wanted to go, but Yugi kept her back, asking her and Duke to keep an eye on things until their return. Besides, they're gonna need Rebecca's talents back on the streets.
"Now go kick some butt and take names!" Duke cheered.
"That's one way to put it, Duke!" Reggie said as the group ran off with Otto, Yugi and Reggie activating their Duel Disks.
Back to the duel...
Score so far:
Lars: 1450
Clio: 950
Joey: 750
Valon: 900
"My draw!" Clio shouted as she drew her card. "I'll pass and let Joey do his thing. Joey...YOU'RE ON!"
"LOOK OUT! First I summon my BRIGADIER OF LANDSTAR!"
ATK: 900
DEF: 1200
"Then I'll use my MONSTER REBORN CARD! And I'm using it to bring back my ROCKET WARRIOR! Next, I'll use THIS bad boy! It's the card Lars gave me with his Dark Designator card...THE CLAW OF HERMOS!"
Just like that, a red-scaled dragon appeared in a flash and roared loudly. This was Joey's Legendary Dragon - HERMOS.
Back in Domino, we see the Brothers Kaiba at a Ferarri dealer.
"I like this red one!" Mokuba said.
"Good. We don't have time to shop around, anyway. Get in!"
Mokuba climbed in with his brother, who told him it was time to pay Dartz a visit. They were then confronted by the salesman asking what they were doing with the car. After Mokuba said they were buying it, Kaiba wrote out a check for half a million dollars.
"I think this should cover it. Keep the change."
"There goes my job," the salesman said before looking at the check. "Maybe not."
'Wheeler must be in trouble. But I don't have time to bail that chump out. I have bigger fish to fry,' Kaiba thought to himself.
Back at the duel...
"That's the dragon Reggie used to beat Valon last time I dueled him!" Clio remembered.
"Then you should know how he works, Clio! I'll merge him with my Rocket Warrior to summon...ROCKET HERMOS CANNON!"
Rocket Warrior flew around Hermos and merged with the dragon, both vanishing in a flash of light and in their place came a modern-day cannon, primed to blow Valon's strategy sky-high!
"It's the perfect weapon to help my Brigadier of Landstar take you down!"
"Are you kidding me? That puny monster couldn't even make a dent in my Armor!"
"He's not looking to make a dent! He's looking to blow the whole thing away! Brigadier of Landstar, ATTACK! ROCKET HERMOS CANNON!"
Brigadier of Landstar launched a missile from his cannon, which then split into as many missiles as Valon had monsters.
'Warning: Opponent Attack Unavoidable! Probability of Armor Destruction - 100%'
KA-BOOM! Thanks to Rocket Hermos Cannon, Valon's Armor was blown away!
"DIRECT HIT!" Lars declared.
"Looks like we win, Lars!" Clio celebrated.
"We're the last ones standing!" Joey cheered.
Don't start celebrating yet! Valon's still raring to duel!
"I may be down...but I'm not out, thanks to my Armor!"
"HOW?! Joey's Cannon just blew your Armor sky-high!" Clio explained.
"It's got special abilities, remember? When you destroyed it...YOU LET LOOSE ITS MOST DEVASTATING ONE! I'm still holding my Data Brain Spell Card! It activates whenever my Armor is destroyed! It creates an exact duplicate of whatever card destroys my Armor!" Valon explained.
Clio was having none of Valon's tricks.
"You really think we'd fall for that? NONSENSE! I have a Trap Card!"
"WHAT?!"
"And when Data Brain activated, you triggered it! MAGIC JAMMER! When a Spell Card activates, I can chain my Magic Jammer to negate the effect and destroy that card...for the bargain price of 1 card in my hand." Clio explained as Data Brain was destroyed. "Looks like you're the one who's one step behind!"
"Not quite! You remember my PSYCHIC ARMOR HEAD, don't you? Since you 3 are happy to see it again, I'll play another BIG BANG BLOW, just 'cause I like ya! Now I'll attack BRIGADIER OF LANDSTAR!"
Valon launched in on Joey's Brigadier and punched it to destroy it.
"As you know, when Big Bang Blow attacks, all monsters on the field are destroyed and you all take damage equal to the total Attack Points of those monsters!"
Lars: 550
Clio: 50
Joey: 660
"WHAT?! Wheeler should've lost the duel!"
Clio had activated another Trap!
"Confused, Valon? When you attacked, you triggered another Trap Card! It's called REDUCTION BARRIER! It cut Joey's damage to 10%, keeping him in the game!"
"I also played my AURA ARMOR Trap Card on Clio! This card can only be used on a player with less than 2000 points - in this case, that's my cousin Clio. All I have to do is give up half my Life Points and it creates a suit of armor for her that's directly connected to her Life Points. So, if it's destroyed, she loses. But we plan to defeat you before that can happen!"
Lars: 275
"Then go ahead. It's your move."
"Very well," Lars said as he drew. "I activate my RED-EYES TRANSMIGRATION Spell! This lets me sacrifice the Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon in my hand and Clio's Aura Armor to give her the LORD OF THE RED ARMOR!"
A Red-Eyes-themed suit of armor then appeared on Clio. If Otto was there to see it...he'd be fainting right about now! Oh by the way, Otto had just arrived on scene.
"What the juice is my girl wearing?" Otto asked.
Clio giggled. "You like it? It's my new battle armor! And I plan to use it to take Valon down for good!"
Otto hated to admit it, but Clio looked rather sexy in that Red-Eyes armor. He, Yugi, Reggie, Tristan and Tea made it just in time. It was Clio's turn...and time to finish it off!
"YOU'RE THROUGH, VALON!" Clio beamed. "Lord of the Red...END THIS DUEL WITH INFERNO FIRE BLAST!"
Clio lunged in on Valon and punched Valon with her right hand, which generated a fire stream at her opponent, knocking him into the Seal, defeating him.
Valon: 0
Lars, Clio and Joey: WIN!
"You did it, you 3...you won. I can see why you wanted to duel for your friends and family - you have a lot of heart and you put that heart into your dueling, just like they do. Now, go...beat Dartz and save those you care about."
Those were Valon's last words before the Seal of Orichalcos took his soul.
"CLIO! CLIO!" Otto called out as he rushed to his girlfriend. "You alright, Clio?"
"I am...now that Valon's out of the picture," Clio told Otto.
"You were amazing, Clio," Otto complimented Clio as he kissed her.
"You were amazing in your duels, Otto!" Clio beamed, kissing Otto back.
"Get a room, you two!" Lars complained. "We gotta get to Paradius headquarters, find Dartz and take him down! It's the only way we're gonna get Twister back!"
"But how? Only form of transportation we have is the trailer and that's back in Downtown Domino," Reggie told the group.
That's when Raymundo and Tito appeared in Tito's 1974 Marquis.
"Hey, Otto! Reggie!"
"DAD!" Otto exclaimed.
"Hey, cuzzes!" Tito greeted. "Looks like you guys could use some help."
"Where were you guys?" Lars asked.
"We were a little lost because Tito made a left when we should've taken a right."
"In my defense, the GPS did say to make a right," Tito explained. "Pile in, cuzzes!"
"Next stop - PARADIUS HEADQUARTERS!" Tristan called out.
'Soon, Twister...I'll have you back, my love,' Reggie thought to herself as they sped off to Paradius.
Back at Dartz's lair...
"Look what the Orichalcos dragged in...it's my former employee," Dartz quipped, referring to Valon. "Now it's Rafael's turn to send me a soul...or give up his own."
TO BE CONTINUED...
That's right! Rafael's final duel is coming up next! STAY TUNED!