Destroying the Meta
Chapter 14: Brain vs Bronze and Magician vs Magician
Tyler was scared to duel this woman, but who wouldn't be scared of a person who said that they could crush your head with their bare hands. Tyler's duel disk snapped together as the two of them said "Let's duel!" [8000:8000].
"I go first," the woman said drawing a card, "I set down monster and end my turn."
"That's not too big of a move with the big words you said," Tyler mocked.
"I don't need a big move like that to beat you!" she replied.
"Harsh," Tyler said under his breath, "My turn, I summon Krebon in attack mode!" Yet again this clown appeared, but this time, he was in the correct deck unlike Tele-DAD. "Then I'll end."
"Not a big move yourself puny man," she laughed, "I summon Amazoness Paladin [1700/300] and flip over my Giant Rat and attack your Krebon!" The rat pounced on the clown, only to stop right before it made contact and returned to the lady's field. "What happened?!"
"I can negate attacks to Krebons by paying a mere 800 life points," Tyler responded as his life points went down [Tyler = 7200].
"Even better. Now I can damage your life points still!" the girl said as her paladin attacked Krebons only to stop in mid swing [Tyler = 6400].
"My turn," Tyler said drawing a card, "You attacking was all part of my plan."
"What are you talking about!?"
"I needed to loose life points so I could activate this!" Tyler said activating his card. Krebons now held a giant glowing sword [Krebons = 2800]. "I activate my Psychic Sword. Now my monster gains attack points equal to the difference of our life points if mine is lower. New I'll summon Psychic Snail!" A yellow snail appeared with electricity coming out of him [1900/1200]. "But even though he has such high stats, he's not going to attack. Because I can pay 800 of my life points [Tyler = 5600] so Krebons can attack twice!"
"What?!?" the woman said as her paladin was cut in two by Krebons [Woman = 6600] [Krebons = 2200].
"Now Krebons, attack her other monster!" The monster exploded into little bits [Woman = 5800] [Krebons = 1400].
"Hahaha! Now your monster is weak!"
"But now you don't have any monsters." Tyler replied.
"Not quite. Giant Rat lets me special summon an Earth monster like my Amazoness Tiger!" she said as her red, battle scared tiger appeared [1100/1500].
"Eh, forgot about that… well I'll throw down a face down and call it a turn."
"My turn," the woman said drawing a card, "I summon another Amazoness Paladin [1700/100]. She gains 100 attack for every Amazoness on the field and my Amazoness Tiger gains 400 for every one [Paladin = 1900] [Tiger = 1900]. Now I'll activate The A. Forces. Now my warriors rise by 200 attack for each one of them [Paladin = 2100]. Paladin, attack that snail!" The paladin charged and swung her sword, but was stopped by yet another trap.
"I activate Draining Shield. So all that damage you did will instead by converted to heal me [Tyler = 7700]."
"Then I'll just attack your Krebons for you to loose some of which you gained!" The tiger pounced at Krebons, but like his rat brethren, he met the same end [Tyler = 6900]. "Now your Krebons doesn't have any extra attack!"
"Exactly, it is all according to plan," Tyler said with a smile drawing his card, "I summon Mind Protector [0/2200]."
"Are you that desperate to get life points?" the woman laughed, "Summoning a 0 attack monster?"
"He'll be long gone before your turn," Tyler replied.
"Huh?"
"I synchro using all my monsters. Two plus three plus four equals nine! Summon Hyper Psychic Blaster!" A man dressed in white armour with two guns appeared. He had an eye that glowed emerald. This was Tyler's boss monster [3000/2500]. "Hyper Psychic Blaster, attack Amazoness Tiger!" Hyper Psychic Blaster charged up his gun and fired at the tiger, making it explode into little pieces [Woman = 4700]. "I'll end by throwing down a face down."
"I would be scared of your monster," the woman said, "But I have this! My Tribute to the Doomed!"
"You thought that I would leave my monster defenseless? Not quite! I chain, Assault Mode Activate! Now your Tribute to the Doomed has no target because my Hyper Psychic Blaster transforms!" A light surrounded Hyper Psychic Blaster as he transformed into his assault mode form [3500/3000].
"Hmf! That monster won't be there for long!" the woman said playing her new monster, "I summon Amazoness Sword's Woman [1500/1600] in attack mode and switch Amazoness Paladin to defense. Go."
"Ok, I summon Telekinetic Shocker." A red suited man appeared with electric coming out of his hands appeared [1700/700]. "Hyper Psychic Blaster, attack Amazoness Swords Woman!" Tyler's assault mode monster charged up his blaster and fired an even bigger beam at the woman than the tiger. The woman exploded into pieces, but her sword stayed in tact and flew into Tyler's duel disk [Tyler = 5300]. "Ow, why did I take the damage?"
"That's what Amazoness Swords Woman's effect," the woman said smiling.
"That's right Kim!" the red haired girl said from the other side of the side lines. So I guess this girl's name is Kim…
"Well that's a good thing my Hyper Psychic Blaster's effect applies now," Tyler said with his own smile, "You now take damage equal to your monster's ATK, and I gain your monster's DEF!" Hyper Psychic Blaster fired two smaller lasers, one at Tyler and one at Kim [Kim = 2800] [Tyler = 6900]. "My Telekinetic Shocker will now attack your Paladin," the monster fired electricity at the girl. "Then I'll end."
"My turn," Kim said drawing her card, "Just what I needed! I summon Amazoness Chain Master in attack mode [1500/1300]! Now I'll activate Amazoness Spellcaster! With this card, I can switch the attacks of our monsters!"
"Oh crap!" Tyler exclaimed.
"I now get the attack of your Hyper Psychic Blaster and he gets my monster's attack. Now I attack your Hyper Psychic Blaster!"
"I activate Psychic Rejuvenation! Now I gain a 1000 life points for each of my Psychic monsters [Tyler = 8900]!"
"It won't matter! Your boss monster is destroyed!" Kim said as her Amazoness swung her chain and hit Hyper Psychic Blaster. Telekinetic then shocked Hyper Psychic Blaster and blew up while Hyper Psychic Blaster survived [Tyler = 6200]. "Why didn't your Hyper Psychic Blaster die?!"
"It's because Telekinetic Shocker. I can pay 500 life points and kill him instead to save my Hyper Psychic Blaster."
"No!" Kim screamed as she looked at her situation.
"Yes. Now my Hyper Psychic Blaster will attack your for game." With his life points back, Hyper Psychic Blaster aimed his laser at both Kim and her monster and fired a giant laser destroyed them both [Kim = 0].
"Whatever," Kim said getting up from the attack and walking away trying to look as cool as she could.
"Good job Tyler!" Squid said, "Flipper," they high fived, "Noggin," they bumped head, "Dude!"
"Well, your turn," I told Forrest. He walked up to the duel platform, yet again pretty emotionless. His opponent interested me. She looked very under confident; I think she was even shaking. She had blonde hair and wore a blue dress; she was quite small as well.
"Kick his butt Lorene!" the red haired girl yelled in encouragement.
"Let's duel!" they both said [8000:8000]
"Um… I'll go first…." the girl said. "I set a monster and a spell or trap and end."
Forrest drew, "I summon Magical Library. Now I activate Level Limit Area – B to switch it to defense and it gains a spell counter. Go."
"I guess I'll have to pass," the girl said shyly. This duel was going to take a while, I know Forrest's deck. He snares her into not being able to do anything, and slowly dwindles her life points down to nothing. I walked over to the other side of the side lines.
"I activate Terraforming," Forrest said searching his deck for his field spell: Secret Village of the Spellcasters. "I activate Secret Village and draw a card using Library. I now summon Ebon Magician Curran and equip Heart of Clear Water to her. Go."
I walk over to my enemies: Kim and the red haired girl. "Hey," I said politely trying to spark conversation. What I got in return was a cold reaction.
"What do YOU want, boy?" the girl asked harshly.
"You did well in your duel," I said trying to let her listen to me.
"No I didn't, I lost," she replied.
"But you don't have to win to do well," I said comfortingly.
"I know you didn't just come over here to tell me that I did well, what do you want," she said yet again harshly.
"Well I mean, I just wanted to talk…"
"You know I'm not interested in your…. kind." she replied.
Man, every thing I say she just shoots down. I was getting annoying. "I never got your name."
"It's Terra," she said, "Yours?"
"Kovel," I said, "But why would you be…" I lost track because of the duel.
"I summon Injection Fairly Lilly…" the girl said as the fairy nurse appeared [400/1500]. "I now attack your monster and use her effect [Lorene = 5400]." The nurse flew with her giant shot and pierced right through Ebon into Forrest [Forrest = 5800].
"Fairly Lily?!" I asked. This was different, and will create trouble.
"Heh, yeah," Terra said folding her arms and smiling, "To the looks from here, your friend has a match. Low level Spellcaster decks have a hard time mirror matching, making the mirror a Fairly Lily makes it all that harder."
"I set another card and go…" Lorene said placing her card.
"My turn," Forrest said drawing his card, "I switch Ebon to defense mode and set a card. Go."
The girl drew, "I activate Giant Trunade." A giant gust swept through the stadium picking up all of their spell and trap cards and placing them into the duelist's hands. "Now I set two spells or traps and summon Consoler Lily [400/1500] and tune her with Fairly Lily to make Goyo Guardian!" The white man with the chain appeared once again [2800/2000]. Now I attack your Ebon!" The man threw his chain and attached it the magician and pulled her onto Lorene's side. "Go."
Forrest drew, "I summon Magical Exemplar [1700/1400] and activate Arcane Barrier letter have two Spell Counters. I'll use them to summon Frequency Magician 800/500] from my hand to defense position. Now I'll activate Light Wave Tuning on my Library and synchro for Stardust Dragon." A beautiful sparkling dragon appeared onto Forrest's side of the field [2500/2000].
"Hehe, Stardust isn't strong enough to kill Goyo!" Terra said.
"Not yet," I explained, "But there was a reason why Forrest summoned Frequency Magician first."
"I use Frequency Magician to make Stardust gain 500 more attack points," Forrest said as his dragon grew [3000/2000], "Attack Goyo." The dragon blew its white fire upon the other synchro monster [Lorene = 5200]. "I set two cards and go."
"Before my turn," the girl said, "I activate Limit Reverse, special summoning my Fairy Lily, and I activate Infernal Reckless Summon, to summon two more from my deck." Her field was full of those monsters. Forrest, however, was defenseless against this because he didn't have extra copies of any of his monsters on the field. "Now it's my turn." Forrest got whipped by his own Ebon [Forrest = 5200]. "I'll flip over my Giant Rat and attack your Frequency Magician." Sadly, Frequency Magician didn't have the same effect as Krebons, and was torn to bits from this attack. "Fairy Lily attacks your Stardust [Lorene = 3200]." The nurse flew and injected Stardust with her giant shot [Forrest = 4300].
"Its game," Terra said next to me, "There's no way your friend can survive two shots from her Fairy Lilys." I was thinking the same thing. How could he get out of this?
"Fairy Lily attack his life points, and I'll activate Selbek's Blessing so I can gain life points," Lorene said as her second Fairy Lily gave a giant shot to Forrest [Lorene = 4600] [Forrest = 900]. "Finish this Lily," Lore said as her Lily came to do the final strike.
"Not so fast!" Forrest said revealing his Mystical Space Typhoon. Everyone was caught in surprise. Who would have thought that? Well, he could, because he destroyed the Fairy Lily with the Limit Reverse [Lorene = 2600].
When his opponent finally recovered from the surprise, she ended her turn.
Forrest drew his card, "I summon my Magical Exemplar and activate Swords of Revealing Light. I activate Secret Village of the Spellcasters and use Exemplar's effect to summon another one from my grave. I activate Monster Reborn from my grave to summon Stardust Dragon. Now Stardust, attack Ebon." Stardust blew his white fire to destroy Forrest's own monster. "On my Main Phase 2 I use my summoned Exemplar to bring back Ebon and set a card."
"My turn," Lorene said drawing her card, "I summon Exiled Force and use their effect to blow up your Stardust."
"Oh no, I use his effect to negate it." Stardust transformed into shiny dust and covered the men called the Exiled Force.
Lorene then revealed a hidden smile, "That was the point, I activate Heavy Storm to end this game."
"And I'm negating that too! Activate: Solemn Judgment," Forrest said revealing one of his face downs [Forrest = 450].
"Then I'll activate Mystic Wok on my Giant Rat [Lorene = 4000] and switch a Lily to defense. Go." Forrest's life points were extremely low, but I knew he would get out of it. I've seen his life points drop down to 69 once, and then he won with over 20,000! He could get out of his.
"Stardust comes back and it's my turn," Forrest said, "And Ebon hits you with 600 damage [Lorene = 3400]. I summon White Magician Pikeru [1200/0] and end my turn."
"Your friend is stalling." Terra said.
"I know," I smiled. This was his strategy, and it was working.
It was the girl's turn and she stood there thinking. There weren't many ways to get out of this. She concluded with setting two face downs.
Forrest's turn again. He didn't have to do much, with his field pretty much full. Ebon burned [Lorene = 2800] and Pikeru healed [Forrest = 2450]. He then used Arcane Barrier on one of his Exemplars, activated Heart of Clear Water on Ebon and switched her to defense, used Exemplar's effect to summon Frequency Magician and synchro another Stardust out of White Magician and Exemplar.
Lorene's turn, and she was preparing for battle. She activated two Reckless Greeds, then set down two more cards.
Forrest passed, and I know why [Lorene = 2200]. It was Lorene's turn, "I'll Shrink one of your Stardusts and attack with Lily!" The fairy charged at Stardust but he was then covered in a hat, and the hat turned into three. "What's going on!?"
"I activated Magical Hats. You now have to attack one of the hats."
"Or I can attack your Stardust!" the girl said as the fairy smashed her shot into the Stardust [Lorene = 200] [Forrest = 1550].
"I win," Forrest said as he started to leave.
"Not yet!" Lorene said grasping out her hand like she could hold Forrest from that far. "You didn't leave when I thought I was going to win. I have a final trick up my sleeve. I summon Tuningware and use all my Lilys to synchro to make Dark Strike Fighter!" A dark machine started to rise from the shadows.
"I activate Solemn Judgment." Forrest said as his trap card rose [Forrest = 755].
The girl fell to her knees. Her cards slowly fell to the ground beside her. She couldn't believe what happened. But she wasn't the only one caught up in the moment. I looked over at her two friends and they were almost as startled as she was. But after a moment, Terra broke the silence. "Here are your spheres. Happy?" she said as she threw the red objects to Squid. She then turned and stomped away. I smiled. It wasn't a smile of abhorrence, not it was a smile because somewhere I knew that Squid and his team cracked a hole in her shell against people. I smiled because Squid and his team got self confidence. I smiled because we were that much closer to the finals.
"Yes! We won!" Squid said jumping. Then his stomach rumbled. "Well… we'll have a victory lunch!" Our group started leaving, but I noticed that Forrest was still there, on the stage, with Lorene.
"What… what is your name?" I over heard Lorene ask Forrest.
"Forrest," he replied.
She looked up at him in admiration, "Well…. Forrest….. I see a…. a light in you. I can see that I can trust you. That…. that you won't let me down…" I saw tears start to accumulate in her eyes. "Would you…. would you be my boy friend!?" she exclaimed at last. My surprise was only matched by Forrest's. I have never really thought of Forrest having a girl friend. I mean, the thought never really came to mind… being asked out. Now that he has, I was wondering.
After a brief moment of collecting his thoughts, Forrest responded with this: "We're opponents. This is neither the time, nor the place to be asking me this…"
"Oh…" she said, in one of the most disappointed voices I have ever heard.
"Forrest quickly went into his backpack, pulled out his binder, and searched through unbound pages until he found the card he wanted. He took it out and handed it to the girl. "Here, have this to remember me by."
The girl took it and her disappointment was overcome by pure joy. She had even more tears now, but they were from a different source. She then looked through her deck, took out a card, kissed it, and handed it to Forrest with her red sphere. "Here, have one of my Injection Fairy Lilys to remember me by. I'll cherish your Don Zaloog forever." She then hugged Forrest and kissed him on the cheek. Then she ran down to join her friends. Forrest's face grew redder than a cherry. I grew a big smile myself, I know that I shouldn't have been spying, but it was worth it to see Forrest's true love.