A Black Rose by Any Other Name
Chapter Twenty-Five: Nightmare Reborn
It was late at night and still day three. But for a Turbo Duelist it was the worst night of their Life. They were in a duel and losing badly. They only had 1500 Life Points left and they had four Speed Counters and a single face down card. Their opponent had 6900 Life Points left and twelve Speed Counters, they also had a face down card and a huge monster looming over them.
The person with higher Life Points drew and smirked. "I activate Dust Tornado so your face down card is destroyed!" a whirlwind full of dirt and debris flew out of the Trap card and shattered the other duelist's Mirror Force.
"No wait, I surrender, please!" the other person begged.
"I don't accept surrender and you'll find that thanks to me your Runner won't shut down until your Life Points actually hit zero, so die!" the massive monster flew forward and slammed into the other duelist who was thrown off his Runner. He slammed into the road and his Runner passed over top of him and smashed into the ground.
The other duelist smirked. "Yes this Deck works very well…..very soon Yusei Fudo you'll know the pain I felt, especially once I smear your daughter all over the highway!" the mysterious Turbo Duelist cackled.
Several minutes later
Someone had called the Public Security and Maintenance Bureau, which was also known as Sector Security. Tetsu Trudge the current Chief of the Duel Chasers squad pulled his Runner up to the scene of the incident. Several other Security members where already on there and some of them were standing around the wreckage of the Runner others around the body of the duelist covered by a white sheet.
An officer noticed Trudge and saluted. "Sir!" he shouted.
Trudge saluted back. "Well care to explain to me what exactly happened here, Kazama?"
The officer, known as Kazama, someone Team 5D's knew fairly well sighed and looked back at the body. "Well sir it seems this poor soul was challenged to a Turbo Duel and crashed at the end, the on board computer said one last direct attack was what did it," he explained and Trudged gritted his teeth.
"You mean to tell me it could be one of them?" Trudge asked clearing angry.
"Unfortunately sir, it seems that way, and that could mean several things," Kazama said.
"It's just like the incident twenty years ago," Trudge growled. "And this time we may have to rely on Reina and her friends to end this."
"You can't mean that sir!" Kazama exclaimed in shock.
"Yes Kazama I do," Trudge sighed. "If she's anything like her father or mother she'll hopefully be able to end this, and maybe come one step closer to solving the mysteries going on in this tournament."
"I take it you mean the actually damage and the people falling into coma's sir?" Kazama asked and Trudge only responded with a nod.
"Remember Kazama, no one is to know about the strange goings on, by orders of Leon Archer," Trudge said.
Kazama nodded. "I understand sir."
Early the next morning
Reina was up, which at this time of day, when she didn't have to go to school was unusual. But she was fired up especially after Zeke's duel against Talia.
She sighed. She'd been hearing rumours of a mysterious Turbo Duelist forcing people to duel and then making them crash. "Sounds like Ghost," she murmured.
"Speed World set on," her Runner's computerized voice said. "Duel mode engaged auto-pilot disabled."
"What in the," Reina said. "I thought only the Duel Chasers could do that?"
"Heh, no I can do it too," a sinister yet charming voice said. "And now Reina Fudo you shall pay for the sins of your parents past!"
"Are you Koda Kinomiya, because if you are I'd heard you'd gone bankrupted due to extreme medical expenses," Reina growled.
"No that fool got what he deserved," the voice chuckled. "No I have score to settle with your father!"
"Fine if you want to duel me then show yourself!" Reina challenged.
Something pulled up next to Reina. It was a silver streamlined Duel Runner with four boosters on the back. "Well do you like it?" the rider asked.
Reina growled. It bore a striking resemblance to Placido's Duel Runner, but he was dead, or at least Reina hoped.
"My name is Coby Heriku and like I said I have a score to settle with your father," the rider said. "And Reina Fudo you'll be the tool I use for my vengeance!"
"Duel!" the both shouted.
(Reina: 8000 – SPC: 0) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 0)
"I'll be making the first move!" Coby shouted.
"So you're nuts and rude," Reina said. "Good combination you must be a real lady killer."
"I'm normally quite suave and yes I am normally a lady killer," Coby grinned and somehow his teeth seemed to sparkle. "Metaphorically but I'll go for literally today!"
"I'll set a monster face down and two cards face down and end my turn," three face down cards appeared around Coby's Runner, two of them quickly vanished.
Just as Reina when to draw one of Coby's face down card flipped up. "Reveal face down card Extra Bomb!" he laughed. "Now if you don't Synchro or Fusion Summon by the End Phase you'll take 200 points of damage for every monster in your Extra Deck. But should you perform either of those two kinds of summons then you'll gain that much."
"Crap, I have a full Extra Deck, if I fail I'll take 3000 points of damage if I succeed I have a feeling I'm doing what he wants me to do," Reina thought.
(Reina: 8000 – SPC: 1) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 1)
"Fine I guess I'll have to play along!" Reina snarled. "I'll discard my Quillbolt Hedgehog to Special Summon my Quickdraw Synchron!" from the portal appeared a small robot dressed like a cowboy, it was even holding a small toy gun. (ATK 700/DEF 1400)
"Now since I control a Tuner monster Quillbolt Hedgehog is going to be making an appearance!" the orange furred Machine monster that looked more like a Beast appeared on the field. (ATK 800/DEF 800)
"Now I'm going to tune my two monsters together but first I should tell you I'm allowed to substitute Quickdraw for any Synchron Tuner monster, so activate Synchron Shooting Gallery!" the three lights on the robots chest began to project a large wheel with several monsters on it. The wheel started to spin and the robot pulled out his gun and shot a hole in the Nitro Synchro card.
"Good choice as always Quickdraw so now I'm tuning my level five, Quickdraw Synchron, and my level two, Quillbolt Hedgehog…," Reina began.
"These clustering minds will awaken a force that strikes down evil! Become the path light in born upon! Synchro Summon! Blaze on, Nitro Warrior!"
Quickdraw Synchron became five Synchro gates and Quillbolt Hedgehog curled up into a ball and became orange framework. From the burst of light appeared a Warrior that looked more like a Fiend, with green and dark blue skin and a jet engine on its rear. (ATK 2800/DEF 1800)
"Very good now you gain Life Points equal to the amount cards in yours Extra Deck times 200," Coby said mocking.
(Reina: 10800 – SPC: 1) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 1)
"Nitro Warrior attack his face down monster with Dynamite Knuckle!" Nitro Warrior rocketed forward and crushed a familiar three eyed Fiend.
"Ugh a Sangan," Reina muttered.
"Yes so now I can add a weak monster from my Deck to my hand!" Coby laughed as a card slid out of his Deck. "Any other moves you'd like to make?"
"Yes I'll set a monster face down and then I'll follow that with a face down card and then turn end!" Reina shouted.
(Reina: 10800 – SPC: 2) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 2)
"Now I'm going to summon a monster that would be familiar to your father!" Coby declared. "I summon Wise Core!" from behind Coby appeared a huge metal egg. It split open revealing a glowing blue sphere in the center.
"Shit," Reina hissed. Her father had told her about the Machine Emperor cards, including their core cards this was obviously Wisel's.
"And with that card on the field, I'll activate Spark Breaker, and now I select one face up monster I control and all monsters with that name are destroyed!" a blast of electricity shot out of the Trap card. It struck the egg shaped Machine blowing it to scrap metal. "And last I checked the only monster I controlled was Wise Core!"
"No that means….," Reina gasped.
"Yes since Wise Core when to the Graveyard by card effect, I first destroy every monster I control and then I can Special Summon from my Deck, hand or Graveyard the following five monsters!" a huge portal opened behind Coby and five cards appeared in the portal.
"First up is Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity!" the monster that appeared looked like a UFO in the stereotypical saucer shape with spike like protrusions on the side and an infinity symbol on the front. (ATK 0/DEF 0)
"Then Wisel Top!" another monster appeared this one looked like a large white cobra or some other kind of snake. (ATK 500/DEF 0)
"Next is Wisel Attack!" the next monster was seed shaped with a blade sticking out of the bottom. (ATK 1200/DEF 0)
"Followed by Wisel Guard!" the next monster was saucer shaped but with five bumps on it, two on the top three on the bottom. (ATK 0/DEF 1200)
"Finally the last piece of the puzzle that is my ultimate monster, Wisel Carrier!" the final monster also looked like some kind of space ship with two large comma shaped boosters on either side. (ATK 800/DEF 600)
"Now Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity I activate your effect, combine!" the infinity symbol on the Machine Emperor's chest opened up and sparks burst out of the spikes and grabbed hold of the other pieces. Wisel Top became the head, Wisel Attack became the left arm, Wisel Guard became the right arm and Wisel Carrier became the legs. (ATK 0-2500/DEF 0)
Reina starred at the huge robot before and gulped. "Well part of me always wanted to face this thing, but I don't know why!" she thought. "You're giant robot doesn't scare me!"
"Really then maybe this will!" Coby laughed. "Wisel I activate your other effect, absorb Nitro Warrior!" the glowing core in Wisel's chest flashed and four tendrils of light flew out and grabbed Nitro Warrior. The Warrior struggled but was pulled into Wisel's chest. Wisel's optic sensors flashed and a burning aura surrounded Wisel Attack. (ATK 2500-5300/DEF 0)
"Before I begin your destruction I'll activate my face down card!" he cackled. "Infinite Wrath, so now every time an Infinity monster destroys a monster you control while equipped with a Synchro monster, you take damage equal to the Synchro monster's level times 200!"
"What!" Reina cried in shock
"Wisel kill his face down monster!" he commanded. Wisel didn't move at first, in fact the only thing it did was stare down at Coby, with what seemed to be hate in its optic sensors. Then is flew forward and cleaved what appeared to be a small robot with a blue body and three wheels, two in the front a single in the back.
Reina howled in pain as a blast of energy from Wisel's chest struck her. She started to swerve but managed to regain control of her bike. "That really hurt….oh crap!" she thought.
(Reina: 9400 – SPC: 1) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 2)
"You just trashed my Tricular, so now I get Bicular from my Deck!" from a portal appeared a robot that looked similar to Tricular only it lacked the third wheel and was mostly yellow. (ATK 200/DEF 200)
"Just more target practice for Wisel," Coby sneered. "Face it Reina, unless you have Shooting Star Dragon you lose!"
"I'm still in this until you drop my Life Points down to zero or cause me to crash!" Reina snarled. "And how dare you use that cursed monster, my father and mother and the other Signers burned those cards for a reason!"
"Oh believe me Reina your Life Points will reach zero, but more than likely you'll crash, and nothing you can do can stop it!" Coby retorted. "And they destroyed these wonderful cards because they were cowards!"
"Shut and just end your turn already!" Reina growled.
"Gladly I'll just set two cards face down and then I'll end my turn," Coby sneered.
Reina drew and looked back at the monster floating above Coby. It seemed to emit pure malice buts it wasn't directed towards her, it was focused on Coby.
(Reina: 9400 – SPC: 2) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 3)
"I activate my one of my two face down cards, Reckless Greed, so now I can draw twice but I must skip my next two Draw Phases, but with Wisel what do I care!" Coby snickered tearing two cards off his Deck.
"You're a fool," Reina smirked. "Seto Kaiba himself once said it was foolish to rely on a single monster. And considering Wisel itself is the weak link in those monsters I just have to destroy it to snap the chain!"
"Seto Kaiba said that," Coby sneered. "What a high minded fool, his Deck was focused around the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, and you'll never defeat Wisel!"
"My father did and so will I!" Reina declared. "In fact I have a Speed Spell that could do just that but I'm lacking on Speed Counters to use it, maybe this jerk can help me."
"I'll set another monster face down and then I'll set a card face down and end my turn," she said.
(Reina: 9400 – SPC: 3) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 4)
"Wisel attack her Bicular and send it to the scrap heap where it belongs!" Wisel was once again slow to react but soon cleaved Bicular in two and another blast of energy struck Reina.
(Reina: 8000 – SPC: 2) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 4)
Reina panted as sweat poured down her face. Right now she wished she hadn't woken up this morning and wished even more Coby hadn't run into her. "I'm still in this, you pompous asshole!" Reina goaded. "And with Bicular gone little Unicycular takes its place," from the portal appeared a small red robot. It looked at Wisel and began to shake in terror. (ATK 100/DEF 100)
"So it does and so you are," Coby snickered and Reina gulped. "I activate Stolen Fury!" a blast of energy shot from Wisel's chest and slammed into Reina with such force she almost flew off her Runner.
(Reina: 5200 – SPC: 0) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 4)
"What….just…..happened," Reina asked weakly.
"The powerful Trap card Stolen Fury," Coby sneered pulling up along side Reina. "You see Nitro Warrior is angry at you for not protecting him, so his rage was unleashed upon you in the form of his attack points being thrown at you!"
"Now I'll end my turn by setting two cards face down," he said.
(Reina: 5200 – SPC: 1) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 5)
Reina shakily drew her next card and grinned when she saw it. "I activate my Speed Spell – Overboost so now I gain four Speed Counters but during my End Phase my Speed Counters will drop back to on, a fair trade off if you asked me," she said.
(Reina: 5200 – SPC: 5) - (Coby: 8000 – SPC: 5)
"Now I activate Speed Spell – Trap Launcher and just like it says I can now automatically activate a Trap card from my hand," she smirked. "Like I don't know Dust Tornado, so Nitro Warrior you're free!" the debris filled tornado flew across the road and slapped into Wisel's chest. Nitro Warrior in spirit form appeared and nodded to Reina before shattering. (ATK 5300-2500/DEF 0)
"But you haven't seen the last of him," Reina grinned. "I'll activate Call of the Haunted!" from the road burst Nitro Warrior and he looked pissed!
"Now I'll summon Speed Warrior!" from the portal appeared a Warrior in grey armor with a breathing apparatus on his face. (ATK 900/DEF 400)
"Speed Warrior attack Wisel Guard with your Sonic Edge!" Speed Warrior's eyes glowed and he charged forward. "Oh and small fact about Speed Warrior since it's the Battle Phase of the turn I normal Summoned him he has his attack points doubled!" (ATK 900-1800/DEF 400) Speed Warrior let out another battle cry and then jumped up and delivered a brutal round house kick to Wisel's right arm. It sparked for a second then exploded.
"Nitro Warrior attack Wisel with your Dynamite Knuckle!" Nitro Warrior roared and flew forward striking the large robot's chest with both fists. Wisel howled in pain and then the main body exploded. Seconds later so did the remaining pieces.
(Reina: 5200 – SPC: 5) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 5)
"Damn you!" Coby snarled.
"You may as well give up," Reina sneered. "Without Wisel I bet you don't have a single monster capable of defeating Nitro Warrior."
"Oh how wrong you are," Coby said under his breath. "I won't surrender until you're dead!"
"What do you have against my father?" Reina demanded angrily. "Are you some friend of Lotten because everyone else who may have a grudge against him reformed or is Jack!"
"No I'm no friend of who ever Lotten is," Coby muttered. "I'm a duelist who has his life ruined by people like your father!"
"Ummm, nice people who scowl a lot," Reina chuckled.
"No you stupid bitch!" Coby roared. "I was an Elemental Hero duelist in fact I was considered the best Elemental Hero duelist since Jaden Yuki!"
"Oh, now I get it," Reina murmured. "Synchro monsters ruined you career and you blame my father because of the Deck type he uses."
"That and more," Coby said.
"You see I was an aspiring duelist in the Pro Leagues, and one who seemed like he'd rise to glory and stay there," Coby began. "But several years before I joined the Pros an announcement was made. A new kind of monster was supposedly going to be created, one that would totally alter the game."
He paused and sighed. "Most people thought it was just crap, but at the very first ever Kaiba Land Cup, a Zombie type duelist appeared using a proto-type card, Doomkaiser Dragon. Needless to say the kid was deadly, he won and the very first Synchro monster had appeared. Only weeks later a Warrior duelist appeared using Junk Warrior, he too cleaned everyone's clocks. People like me were pissed, Synchro monsters and the rule a fifteen card limit to the Extra Deck would ruin us!"
"So Doomkaiser was the first Synchro monster, too bad I'd always hoped it was one of the Warrior monsters," Reina muttered.
"Whatever, needless to say several people protested the creation of Synchro and Tuner monsters. Most people said they would ruin the game, I guess they didn't realize that the Psychic type would die without Synchros backing it, most people said that people would start creating cookie cutter Decks. But I continued to duel in the Pro League for several years, I did quite well, luckily I never faced too many Synchro duelists. That quickly changed, at a Pro League exhibition nineteen years ago I decided to challenge a random person in the audience, unfortunately I chose your father as my opponent. I knew the stories people told about him, that he was some kind of genius duelist and that he was nearly unbeatable!"
"I should've accepted his offer to select another person, but I had my pride to think about to. I knew it would be tough, but I hoped I could win, after three rounds I knew I was doomed, he had Turbo Warrior and Road Warrior on the field, I think he held back against me but he annihilated me. And I lost my nerve and had trouble dueling, anytime I faced a Synchro monster I froze up, people like Jack Atlas walked all over me, I was dropped by sponsors like a diseased pet!"
"So I vowed that I would have my revenge on all duelists who dared to use Synchro monsters and Archer created a perfect Deck for my, an Anti-Synchro Deck!" Coby laughed. "You and your father and Josh and his father you'll all suffer!"
"Well now that that interesting story is out of the way, I'll end my turn," Reina said. (ATK 1800-900/DEF 400)
"You may think Wisel was my only monster another than Sangan, but you're wrong!" Coby snarled.
(Reina: 5200 – SPC: 2) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 6)
"I'll summon Synchro Devourer!" from the portal emerged a lanky Fiend with grey skin and a three claws on each hand, it didn't seem to have any eyes only a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth. (ATK 1800/DEF 1600)
"I have a really bad feeling about that thing," Reina muttered.
"And you should be because when it attacks a Synchro monster that monster has its attack points reduced down to zero, during the damage step only," Coby sneered. "So Devourer attack her Nitro Warrior!" the Fiend snarled and flew at Reina's monster.
"I activate Ready for Intercepting, so Nitro Warrior will be flipped face down," the Trap card glowed and Nitro Warrior was about to disappear when Coby's face down card flipped open.
"I activate my Trap Jammer, so now your Ready for Intercepting fails to work and Nitro Warrior is dead!" the seal appeared bellow Reina's Trap and it shattered. Synchro Devourer raised its claws and Nitro Warrior groaned weakly. (ATK 2800-0/DEF 1800) The thin Fiend slashed Reina's monster causing it to explode into shards.
(Reina: 3400 – SPC: 1) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 6)
"Now I'll set two cards face down and end my turn," Coby sneered.
Reina drew and scowled. Nothing in her hand could help her right now. But a plan was forming.
(Reina: 3400 – SPC: 2) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 7)
"I activate my Call of the Haunted and with it I resurrect Wise Core!" in a burst of black energy appeared the mechanical egg.
"He wants me to attack that thing, I'm betting that other face down will destroy it or protect it then he'll summon Wisel back," Reina thought. "I'll move Speed Warrior to defense mode and then I'll set another card face down and call it a turn!"
(Reina: 3400 – SPC: 3) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 8)
"Oh well I have hoping you'd be stupid enough to attack my Wise Core," Coby sighed.
"Sorry but I inherited my fathers smarts and my mother's good looks and smarts," Reina grinned. "So if you'd hurry this up, just summon back Wisel so I can trash it again, please."
"That first time was a fluke if you ask me and now I'll activate Bomb Blast," Coby growled. "So now I can destroy up to three Machine type monsters that haven't attacked and inflict damage to you equal to their Levels times 400, so goodbye Wise Core!" Wise Core floated over to Reina and the sphere inside started to flash red, after a second it exploded jarring Reina.
(Reina: 3000 – SPC: 3) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 8)
"So now I destroy my Synchro Devourer and call back the star of this Deck!" Coby laughed as Synchro Devourer exploded and the huge portal opened up and the pieces of Wisel reappeared. (ATK 0-2500/DEF 0)
"Now I activate my last face down card Foolish Revival!" Coby laughed. "This allows me to Special Summon a monster from your Graveyard back to your side of the field in defense mode, like your Nitro Warrior!" the ground burst open and Nitro Warrior reappeared, his arms crossed over his chest, he looked back at Reina with an apologetic look.
"I don't blame you," Reina whispered.
"Wisel absorb Nitro Warrior!" the tendrils grabbed hold of Nitro Warrior. The Warrior struggled only to be pulled back into the Machine Emperor's chest. (ATK 2500-5300/DEF 0)
"Wisel attack…!" Coby cried.
Reina scowled. And part of her hoped he would attack Unicycular because if he did it would make that she was planning much easier.
"Attack her pathetic excuse for a robot!" Wisel drove its blade into Unicycular's chest and the smaller Machine exploded.
"And don't forget my Infinite Wrath is still on the field," Coby snickered as the blast from Wisel struck Reina.
(Reina: 1600 – SPC: 2) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 8)
Right now Reina wished the duel would just end, mainly so the pain and terror would stop. "Maybe you should just give up!" Coby taunted.
Reina scowled. He was right, she was way behind and her plan might not even work, and even if it did he'd likely summon Wisel back.
"Well hurry up and surrender so I can move on!" Coby sneered.
"W…w…what do you mean?" Reina asked.
"When I finish you I'm hunting down your friends and Joshua Atlas next!" Coby replied.
Reina snarled and the fire inside of her ignited again. "Like Hell you are!" she roared. "You'll hurt my friends over my cold lifeless body, and I'm the only person who's allowed to defeat Josh!"
"Well that is the plan," Coby smirked. "I'll set a card faced down and then I'll activate Speed Spell – Angelic Assistance, so now I get to draw three cards!"
"Then I'll set another card face down and end my turn!" he smirked.
(Reina: 1600 – SPC: 3) - (Coby: 7700 – SPC: 9)
"I activate Speed Spell – Angel Baton!" Reina shouted. She pulled two cards off the top of her Deck and then threw one into her Graveyard.
"Then I'll follow that by activating my Speed Spell – Discard Transaction, I can only activate it while I have two or more Speed Counters, luckily I do, now we both have an choice we can discard any number of cards and then draw cards equal to the number of cards we drew, plus one extra!" Reina explained. "So my whole had has got to go!" she slid her other cards into the Graveyard and pulled three card off her Deck then one extra.
Coby looked at the cards in his hand. "No I'll keep what I have," he muttered.
"Fine by me because I'm summoning Junk Synchron!" from the portal jumped the small Warrior Synchron monster. It gestured and a portal opened up next to it. (ATK 1300/DEF 500)
"Now thanks to my little buddy's effect I can revive the Tuningware I dumped into my Graveyard!" from the portal jumped the small robot with the wok on its head. (ATK 100/DEF 300)
"And I'm not done yet!" Reina cried. She looked at the card she was about to use, it was one she treasured above all else, save for Stardust and Black Rose Dragon. "Since I've already Normal Summoned I can call out a gift from a friend, Turbo Booster!" the latest monster to appear was yellow robot with rocket boosters for arms. (ATK 0/DEF 0)
"Ok its time for another Synchro Summon, I'm tuning my level , three Junk Synchro my level two, Speed Warrior and both my level one, Tuningware and Turbo Booster…," she began.
"The roar of these clustering shouts will launch the arrow that will split the air! Become the path light is born upon, Synchro Summon! Come on, Junk Archer!"
Junk Synchron pulled its ripcord and flew forward. It became three rings, all of which covered the three other monsters. They vanished and the stars aligned causing a bright flash of light.
The monster that appeared wore mostly orange armor with an elongated mask covering its face. Only one of the creature's eyes was visible. On the Warrior's left arm was a bow made of green metal. (ATK 2300/DEF 2000)
"And how exactly is that puny monster, a Synchro monster at that going to over power my mighty Wisel!" Coby laughed.
"Using his special effect," Reina smirked. "Once per turn I can until the End Phase remove one of your monsters from play, so Junk Archer free Nitro Warrior with your Dimension Arrow!" Junk Archer fired a single arrow, but instead of striking Wisel it passed clean through the Machine Emperor but moments later Wisel vanished into motes of light. Then seconds later the other parts exploded.
"I'm starting to love doing that," Reina chuckled. "With Wisel gone, not only is Nitro Warrior free but you're wide open, Junk Archer attack him directly with Scarp Arrow!" Junk Archer fired another missile at Coby. It whizzed by him leaving a noticeable scratch on his cheek.
(Reina: 1600 – SPC: 3) - (Coby: 5400 – SPC: 7)
"Damn you!" Coby snarled. "You may have temporarily gotten rid of Wisel but it'll be back!"
"I'll set a card face down and end my turn," Reina smirked. "Do your worst!" she taunted as the now weakened Machine monster returned.
Coby drew and chuckled. "I activate Machine Emperor Reassembly!" the infinity Symbol on Wisel's chest began to glow and the other four pieces reappeared and joined with Wisel. (ATK 0-2500/DEF 0)
(Reina: 1600 – SPC: 4) - (Coby: 5400 – SPC: 8)
"This card allows me to Special Summon the four parts of any Machine Emperor in my Graveyard, of course the main body must be on the field," Coby explained. "Wisel take her Junk Archer!" no matter how hard it struggled Junk Archer like Nitro Warrior was captured. (ATK 2500-4800/DEF 0)
"Wisel attack her directly and end this!" Wisel flew forward its blade raised, and just as it was about to stab into Reina's Runner her face down card flipped up.
"I activate my face down card Limit Reverse!" from the ground appeared a large stone creature with four legs and arms carrying a helipad. (ATK 600/DEF 1200) "It allows me to revive a monster with 1000 or less attack points like my Fortress Warrior, only it can't move to defense mode."
"It doesn't matter Wisel kill her Warrior!" Wisel tried to slash Fortress Warrior only for the stone Warrior to block with the helipad.
"Sorry but once per turn Fortress Warrior isn't destroyed," Reina grinned. "And I receive no battle damage from a battle involving this guy."
"Fine I'll move to my second Main Phase and activate Speed Spell – Infinite Superiority! A blast of energy shot of the card and vaporized Reina's Fortress Warrior. "This Speed Spell can only be activated while I have seven Speed Counters and an Infinity monster on the field, all non-Machine types die!"
"Now I'll end my turn with two face down cards," Coby smirked.
(Reina: 1600 – SPC: 5) - (Coby: 5400 – SPC: 9)
"I activate Speed Spell – Magical Energy Gain!" Reina's useless Call of the Haunted dissolved into motes of light that surrounded Reina. "This card is just like Emergency Provisions, only I have to have three or more Speed Counters to activate it."
(Reina: 2600 – SPC: 5) - (Coby: 5400 – SPC: 9)
"Now I'll activate Speed Spell – Overwhelming Disadvantage! This card allows me to draw cards equal to the difference in the number of monsters we control, so I draw five!" Reina pulled five cards off the top of her Deck and grinned.
"I'll set two cards face down and that's all I can do," she said.
(Reina: 2600 – SPC: 6) - (Coby: 5400 – SPC: 10)
"I'll start this turn off by activating another Angelic Assistance then I'll follow that with both my face down cards Wise A3 and Wise T3, now I can release Wisel Attack and Wisel Top to summon their upgraded forms!" Coby laughed at Wisel Attack and Wisel Top vanished.
From the two Trap cards appeared a monster each. The first one looked much like Wisel Attack but the blade attached to it looked different. (ATK 1600/DEF 0) It joined with Wisel and the blade jutted forward, it looked like a horrible combination between an axe and a sword. (ATK 4800-5200/DEF 0)
The other monster looked kind of like some kind of mechanical bug, or maybe a mechanical rabbit. (ATK 600/DEF 0) It linked up with the top of Wisel becoming the head. (ATK 5200-5300/DEF 0)
"Wisel end this with a direct attack!" Wisel lifted its new arm and swung at Reina.
"I Special Summon Battle Fader!" Reina cried. A Fiend with an X shaped body with a bell and a pendulum attached floated onto the field. (ATK 0/DEF 0) The pendulum smacked into the bell causing a blast of sound waves to assault Wisel, the Machine Emperor backed off. "Thanks to my Battle Fader, and Zeke for giving it to me, I can Special Summon it when you declare a direct attack, and then the Battle Phase is ended."
"Hmph I don't see why you continue to fight, Wisel is unbeatable!" Coby laughed.
"Nothing is unbeatable, even the mighty Exodia could be defeated!" Reina snapped.
"It doesn't matter, I'll end my turn," Coby said.
"Ok everything rides on this next draw," Reina thought looking at her Deck. "Dad I hope you're right, because right now I couldn't believe in my Deck anymore!"
Reina tore the top card off her Deck, but was too terrified to look at it.
(Reina: 2600 – SPC: 7) - (Coby: 5400 – SPC: 11)
Reina looked at the card and smiled. "Well I guess dad is absolutely right!" she thought. "Hey Coby are you ready to lose, because I just drew the card that'll destroy Wisel for the final time!"
"You're bluffing!" Coby sneered. "Nothing you can play will stop Wisel, you should realize by now the only thing that's going to happen is you're going to die!"
"I activate my most powerful Speed Spell – Power Flux!" the card appeared and it showed Great Maju Garzett being torn apart by a blast of energy. "This card destroys any monster on the field whose current attack points are higher than its original attack points, and I need six Speed Counters to activate it!"
"Too bad that won't be happening," Coby sneered. "I activate Wisel Top 3's effect and negate and destroy your Spell card!" Wisel's eyes glowed and sparks crackled over the Spell card.
Reina smirked as the sparks faded but a blast of energy fired from the Spell. It struck Wisel in the chest and then it along with its parts exploded. "That's impossible my monster's effect negated that card!" Coby snarled.
"Well that's the thing," Reina grinned. "If my Speed Counters are lower than yours then Power Flux cannot be negated, period!"
"No!" Coby cried. "This can't be happening I can't lose I have Wisel!"
"I'm not done yet!" Reina declared. "I activate my Speed Spell – Dead Synchron! Now I can remove from my Graveyard Synchro Material monsters listed a Synchro monster and then I Special Summon that monster from my Extra Deck, catch is it'll be removed during the End Phase, but there isn't going to be an End Phase!"
"I remove my level five, Quickdraw Synchron and my level one, Turbo Booster….,"
"Clustering bonds will weave a path for this Warrior of justice to fly along! Became the path light is born upon! Synchro Summon, and charge forward, Turbo Warrior!"
Quickdraw Synchron and Turbo Booster appeared. Quickdraw became five Synchro gates and Turbo Booster flew into them, it became see-through. From the flash of light emerged the red armored Warrior with the punk style 'hair'. (ATK 2500/DEF 1500)
"Ha that thing won't even come close to beating me!" Coby smirked.
"You seem to forget I played two cards face down last turn," Reina smirked. "First I activate Synchro Baton, so my Turbo Warrior gains 600 attack points for every Synchro monster in my Graveyard and I have two!" the spirits of Nitro Warrior and Junk Archer appeared and phased into Turbo Warrior. (ATK 2500-3700/DEF 1500)
"Next I'll activate my other face down card, Synchro Strike!" she shouted. "So since Turbo Warrior counts as being Synchro Summoned it gains 500 attack points for every Synchro Material monster I used for it, and I used two!" a burning red around surrounded Turbo Warrior. (ATK 3700-4700/DEF 1500)
"Now I remove my Skill Successor from my Graveyard to give Turbo Warrior 800 extra attack points!" the aura around Turbo Warrior intensified. (ATK 4700-5500/DEF 1500)
"Turbo Warrior end this with Maximum Accel Slash!" Turbo Warrior flew forward at a blistering speed and slashed the front of Coby's bike with such force he started to spin out of control.
(Reina: 2600 – SPC: 7) - (Coby: 0 – SPC: 11)
"No this is impossible Archer promised me that I couldn't lose if I had Wisel!" Coby roared. He was so enraged he failed to notice that his Graveyard started to glow.
Above him appeared Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity, in its original form. It looked down at Coby with the same hate it had shown before. Coby looked up and his face started to go very pale. "No stay away!" he screamed.
Wisel ignored him and slowly reached down to grab the hapless Turbo duelist. "Turbo Warrior stop that thing!" Reina cried. Turbo Warrior flew at Wisel only to be swatted aside. Reina barely avoided her monster smashing into her.
Reina closed her eyes and tried to ignore the cries of terror and pain from Coby. After a second they stopped. Reina slowed her bike to a halt and walked over to the remains of Coby's bike. He was lying on the ground but Reina couldn't bear to look.
She bowed her head. "No one deserves that kind of end," she whispered.
The sound of an approaching Runner caught her attention. A familiar red Duel Runner pulled up near Reina. Her parents jumped off and ran over to their daughter.
"Reina sweetie, are you alright!" Akiza asked hugging her daughter.
"I'm alright right, by comparison to my opponent," Reina muttered. "But why were you riding with dad?"
"Someone slashed both of our tires and two of the extra sets," Akiza sighed. "Luckily your father has a third extra set for emergencies."
Yusei walked up to his wife and daughter. "How are you feeling Reina?" he asked.
"I'm fine dad," Reina said. "I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm sad that jerk got killed by Wisel, but why'd that happen?"
"Wisel and the other two Machine Emperor cards are powerful and seem to have minds of their own," Yusei muttered. "The only ones who could properly control them were the three from Yliaster."
Yusei produced a lighter from his pocket and threw Coby's Deck on the ground. He put the lighter to the cards and they quickly caught fire.
"Archer more insane than I first thought," Reina murmured. "If he can recreate Wisel what else can he recreate?"
Archer's office same time
Archer had been watching the whole duel using the various security cameras on the highway and the chip planted in Coby's Runner. He sighed and laced his fingers together. "Well that was a spectacular failure. I not only lost the Wisel cards I lost a duelist and due to Wisel's interference I didn't even gain any souls from the duels Coby was in, I'd best halt my plans to recreate any other cards of extreme power, especially the Earthbound Immortals."
Zeke: Archer actually managed to recreate Wisel!
Vincent: And Coby was quite good with those evil cards.
Josh: Yes Reina managed to get Wisel out of the way three times.
Rob: But in the end it blew up in Coby's face.
Reina: Next Rob faces an opponent his father never got a chance to face, can he win?
Melissa: Don't miss Mythical Battle.
Original Cards
Extra Bomb
Image: A bomb attached to the back of a duelist's Duel Disk. (The duelist looks a lot like Jaden Yuki.)
| Continuous Trap | Activate only during your opponent's Main or Draw Phase while they do not control a Synchro or Fusion monster. If they do not Fusion or Synchro Summon during this turn they receive 200 points of damage for every card in their Extra Deck. If they manage to Synchro Summon before their Main Phase two ends they gain 200 Life Points for every monster in their Extra Deck.
Wise Core
Dark | Level 1 | Machine/Effect | 0/0 | When this card is sent to the Graveyard by a card effect, destroy all monsters you control, then Special Summon 1 each of "Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity", "Wisel Top", "Wisel Attack", "Wisel Guard", and "Wisel Carrier" from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard.
Spark Breaker
Image: Mechanicalchaser and Brave Scizzar being struck by lightning
| Trap | Select 1 face-up monster you control. Destroy all face-up monsters on the field with the same name as the selected monster's.
Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity
Dark | Level 1 | Machine/Effect | 0/0 | Other monsters you control cannot attack. Once per turn, you can equip 1 Synchro Monster your opponent controls to this card. This card gains ATK equal to both the total ATK of monsters equipped to this card by its own effect and the total ATK of all other "Wisel", "Grannel", and "Skiel" monsters you control. When this card is destroyed, destroy all monsters you control.
Wisel Top
Earth | Level 1 | Machine/Effect | 500/0 | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster.
Wisel Attack
Earth | Level 1 | Machine/Effect | 1200/0 | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster.
Wisel Guard
Earth | Level 1 | Machine/Effect | 0/1200 | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster. When an opponent's monster declares an attack, you can switch the attack target to this card instead.
Wisel Carrier
Earth | Level 1 | Machine/Effect | 800/600 | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster. This card cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.
(The above seven cards were first used by the Riding Roid called Ghost during Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 65 creative credit goes to the writers of that episode, they rightfully belong to Placido.)
Infinite Wrath
Image: A blast of energy shaped like Stardust Dragon being fried from Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity and striking a duelist on a red Duel Runner.
| Continuous Trap | Whenever an 'Infinity' monster equipped with a Synchro monster destroys an opponent's monster by battle. Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the level of the equipped Synchro monster times 200.
Stolen Fury
Image: A blast of energy shaped like Ancient Fairy Dragon being fired from Machine Emperor Skiel Infinity at a duelist who ressembles Luna.
| Trap | Activate this card only while you control an 'Infinity' monster equipped with a Synchro monster. Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the equipped monster's attack points.
Speed Spell – Trap Launcher
Image: A catapult firing a Mirror Force card onto a Duel Runner track.
| Quick-Play Spell | Activate while you have 4 or more Speed Counters. You may activate one Trap card from your hand.
Synchro Devourer
Dark | Level 4 | Fiend/Effect | 1800/1600 | If this card battles a Synchro monster that monster's attack points become 0, during the damage step only.
Bomb Blast
Image: D.D. Scout Plane on fire flying across a grid.
| Trap | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster. This card cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.
(This card was first used by Placido during Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 108 creative credit goes to the writers of those episodes.)
Speed Spell – Discard Transaction
Image: A Turbo Duelist sliding three cards into the Graveyard and four cards popping off the top of their Deck.
| Spell | Activate while you have 2 or more Speed Counters. Both duelists may discard any number of cards from their hands to the Graveyard. (They may choose not to discard any cards.) For every card discarded draw one card then draw one, once the full number of cards is drawn draw one extra card.
Machine Emperor Reassembly
Image: Machine Emperor floating over the wreckage of its pieces and the pieces are starting to float upwards.
| Trap | Activate while the only card you control is an 'Infinity' monster. Special Summon from your Graveyard one 'Attack', 'Guard', 'Top' and 'Carrier' monster from your Graveyard.
Speed Spell – Infinite Superiority
Image: Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity crushing Sonic Chick.
| Spell | Activate while you have 7 or more Speed Counters and control an 'Infinity' monster. Destroy all non-Machine type monsters on the field.
Speed Spell – Magical Energy Gain
Image: DNA Transplant dissolving into grains of light and flowing into a Duel Runner.
| Quick-Play Spell | Activate while you have 3 or more Speed Counters. Send any number of Spell or Trap cards on your side of the field to the Graveyard to gain 1000 Life Points per card.
Speed Spell – Overwhelming Disadvantage
Image: A Turbo Duelist being attacked by five monsters.
| Spell | Activate while you have 4 or more Speed Counters. If you control less monsters than your opponent draw one card for every extra monster your opponent
Wise A3
Image: Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity with Wisel Attack 3 attached to it.
| Trap | Tribute 1 "Wisel Attack". Special Summon 1 "Wisel Attack 3" from your hand.
(This card was first used by Ghost in Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 66, creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.)
Wise T3
Image: Wisel Top 3 surrounded by a green aura.
| Trap | Tribute 1 "Wisel Top". Special Summon 1 "Wisel Top 3" from your hand.
(This card was first used by Placido in Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 109, creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.)
Wisel Attack 3
Dark | Level 3 | Machine/Effect | 1600/0 | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster. When an "Infinity" monster you control attacks an opponent's Defense Position monster with a lower DEF than the ATK of the attacking monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent.
(This card was first used by Ghost in Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 66 creative credit goes to the writer's of that episode. Note: It was originally along with Machine Emperor Wisel Infinity an Earth monster.)
Wisel Top 3
Earth | Level 3 | Machine/Effect | 600/0 | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster. Once per turn, you can negate the activation of a Spell or Trap Card and destroy it.
(This card was first used by Placido in Yu-gi-oh 5D's episode 109, creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.)
Speed Spell – Power Flux
Image: Great Maju Garzett being torn apart by a blast of energy.
| Spell | Activate while you have six or more Speed Counters. All monsters on the field whose current attack points are higher than their original attack points are destroyed. If your Speed Counters are lower than your opponent's this card cannot be negated.
Speed Spell – Dead Synchron
Image: Eight stars floating above a Fiend monster rising out of the ground.
| Spell | Destroy this card if you do not control an "Infinity" monster. Once per turn, you can negate the activation of a Spell or Trap Card and destroy it.
(This card was first used by Yusei in Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 90 creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.)
Synchro Baton
Image: Brionac and Gungnir, Dragons of the Ice Barrier behind Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier.
| Trap |Select 1 face-up Synchro Monster you control. It gains 600 ATK for each Synchro Monster in your Graveyard.
(This card was first used by Yusei in Yu-gi-oh! 5D's episode 64, creative credit goes to the writers of that episode.)