Chapter 25: Through Fire, Flames and Performers!
I followed the small boy escort down to what looked like a garage, with a changing room in the corner. He walked over to a riding suit hanging on a hook and took it down before offering it to me.
"Here, you'll need to wear this if you want to Turbo Duel." He told me.
"Thank you." I nodded as he handed me the suit and left me to go and get changed.
The first round of the Friendship Cup was pretty much half over, it's a 32 player event, which will go onto top 16, 8, semi-finals, finals then the title match against Jack. A lot of matches had already played out today, Gongenzaka, Tsukikage and Chojiro lost their matches, but Crow, Shinji, Yuzu (Yep, she's here, along with Yugo and...Synchro me...Leiko.) and Selena had managed to make it through, so now I'm part of the last match of the day. Guess who I'm up against? I'm serious, try and guess. I'll wait...you guessed yet? Okay, okay, I'll tell you.
Greiger.
You know? The guy from 5D's? Yeah, that guy? Jealous? Don't be! I was nervous as hell! I hate those Reactors of his!
Anyway, I finished getting my riding suit on and examined myself in the mirror. It was a full-body one, obviously, mainly blue in colour, with red lines across the sleeves then shooting down the back, as well as lining the pockets on either side of my waist. My riding gloves were white with a black wrist, whilst the boots were primarily black with red edges.
I nodded at my reflection to try and give myself a boost of confidence, but truthfully my stomach was flipping out and my heart was hammering my ribcage. I mean, I'd never driven before, how was I supposed to ride a Dueling motorcycle!? I know it has auto-pilot whilst doing, but what if I crashed just trying to get to the starting line? Yuya, Gongenzaka, Yuzu and Chojiro all had trouble too...but that still doesn't reassure me.
I sighed, figuring it was one of those things you had to do without thinking, and walked out of the room, equipping a simple grey gauntlet to my left wrist in place of my Duel Disk, and sliding my Deck in.
"Hello, Elliot."
"Ahhhhh!" I jumped a foot in the air at the unwelcome voice. "Orion!? Don't do that! You scared me half to death!"
"My apologies." The blonde-haired being bowed. "I must admit, you look good in a Turbo Dueling suit."
"Uh...thanks?" There were a few things I wanted to ask him...but I didn't see this as the time, and I just wanted to know why he was here. "What are you doing here, Orion?"
"I came to give you that present I mentioned earlier." He said as he walked forward further into the garage, and I followed him, stopping in front of the Duel Runner I was to be using, a basic, clunky model with a grey paintjob and a few red lines for emphasis.
"So you gonna tell me what it is now?" I asked.
"Better yet, I'll show you." With a wave of his hand, a portal opened up. "Here you are, Ellix. My gift to you."
A Duel Runner rolled out of the portal before it closed, the vehicle had a sleek and sharp body with the front jutting out like a spear, it was primarily crimson red, whilst purple streaks zigzagged up to the tip and yellow accentuated the edges, whilst the handles were pulled down to rest on either side of the front wheel.
"Woah!" I gasped, running around the Duel Runner to observe it from every angle. "Is this mine?"
"Yes." Orion confirmed.
"To keep!?"
"To keep." He smiled.
I eagerly climbed into the seat and reached down for the handles, pulling them up so that they were in front of me and easy to hold on. I gave the right one an experimental twist and an engine roared on, the yellow edges and insides of the wheels illuminating for a second before dying down.
"This is so cool, my own Duel Runner!" I marvelled.
"I expect to see a good Turbo Duel with it. Here, you'll need this." He tossed me a helmet and I caught it, the object having a regular domed shape, but with two triangular extensions at the side, with a dark blue colour and a red visor. I slipped it on my head and found it fit like a glove.
"Thanks, Orion." I said as I hunched over slightly, to get in a good position to actually try and ride this thing.
"Oh yes, and one more thing." He rested something on the table, and I instantly recognised it. "Your laptop. No doubt your benefactor is still sending you emails."
"Reckon so..." I agreed.
"That is all for now." He said as he opened up another portal. "As you know, I must not linger, but I shall still be rooting for you, Elliot. Best of luck." And with that, he was gone.
"I stared at where he was for a little longer, before remembering what I was doing before and pushed myself and the Duel Runner right in front of the shutter using my foot before stopping, the shutter opening was my cue to go.
I swallowed the lump in my throat as I waited. Don't get me wrong, it felt awesome to be on a Duel Runner but...would I even be able to use it without it exploding!?
In the midst of my thoughts the shutters gave off a clunk, and I immediately refocused as they began to open. This was it, no time for second thoughts. As soon as they were open wide enough, I revved up the engine and sped out of the doors and onto the track.
"Our first contestant is an inspiring Entertainment Duelist with a lot of surprises in store!" The MC (Seriously, those initials) announced. "It's Elliot Zekaki!"
"Ack! Geez!" I'd accidentally steered myself towards the semi-circle glass wall that ran around the track, and had to right myself. The tiniest shift of weight could send this thing careening off to who-knows-where! Somehow though, I made it to the starting line.
Unbeknownst to me, my friends were watching me in their rooms, with Yuya looking on thoughtfully. "Elliot..."
"Gah! This isn't fair!" Sawatari raged. "How come Zekaki gets to go on before me!?"
"Fuck you, asshole!" Leiko yelled as he flipped my image the double birdie.
"And his opponent, a mysterious man from far away who's definitely no slouch when it comes to Dueling, Greiger!" I looked behind me to see the familiar motorbike Duel Runner burst out of its hanger to the cheers of the crowd, before coming to rest beside me.
And by god, Greiger was intimidating as all hell, he towered over me and set me with that stoic serious gave of his, I think I turned pale from the eye contact.
"Do you want to win?" I was a bit shocked when he asked the question.
"Uh...y-yes?" I replied nervously.
"Then do not let anything cloud your judgement." He said, which actually made me feel more comfortable. Yeah, I was ready to do this!
"Let's get this final show of the day started!" Melissa announced. "Action Field on! Cross-Over Accel!" The race track was covered in the Action Field as Action Cards scattered.
"Duel Mode: On. Auto-Pilot: Standby." Both Duel Runners said as the 5 second countdown appeared and we both leaned forward.
"Riding Duel..." The timer hit zero and our wheels screeched as we surged forward. "Acceleration!"
"DUEL!"
Elliot vs. Greiger LP: 4000
Even with auto-pilot, I still unsteadily wobbled as Greiger easily took the first corner. "Greiger has taken the first corner, so that makes his move the first!"
"Then I shall begin." He stated as he took a card from his holder. "I summon Spell Reactor-RE from my hand." The familiar monster appeared with 1200 ATK. "Now I activate the Spell Reactor Gamma Reactor." The card showed Spell Reactor and Trap Reactor being launched from a jet. "If I control a Spell Reactor-RE or a Trap Reactor-Y FI, I can Special Summon one of those two monsters from my hand or Deck. I Special Summon the Trap Reactor-Y FI from my hand." The green machine appeared with 1800 DEF. "I set a card and end my turn."
"Wow! In just his starting turn Greiger has created a really strong defence!" The MC announced. "Will Elliot be able to overcome it?"
"I will! For everybody else!" I declared.
"Show me your strength, then." Greiger challenged.
I nodded. "It's my turn! Draw!" I placed the card with the others in the holder on my left side. "Alright! I know what to do!" I took two cards from the holder and showed them. "I activate the effect of Parally Gooey Ghost in my hand!"
The little monster looked like a cartoony ghost you'd see from something like Mario, with a shiny purple gooey body, stubby arms, a wispy tail with a pink lollipop wrapped around the end of it, a wiggly grin with a red tongue sticking out, and two round yellow eyes. Chocolate syrup covered its head like some kind of melting hat, with a red cherry on top to complete the look.
Parally Gooey Ghost, Level 2, Fiend, DARK, ATK: 600 DEF: 400, Pendulum Scale 3
"By revealing both Gooey Ghost and another Parally monster in my hand, I can perform a Fusion Summon using both of them!" I declared as Gooey Ghost licked its lollipop happily. "I'll fuse Gooey Ghost with the Parally Zesty Zapper in my hand!"
Zesty Zapper had a body of shiny rubber, with stubby arms just like Gooey Ghost with mitten hands and little round feet similar to a Toads (I miss playing Mario, in case you couldn't tell.). It was primarily yellow, but had a sky blue stomach and lightning bolt symbol on its back, as well as a sky blue crescent moon framing its eyes, which were large and twinkling. Two rubber cords tied up into buns on either side of its head indicated that this monster was female, as two electrical plugs were attached to the end, red on the right side and blue on the left. Tied to her waist were two silver pom-poms that crackled with faint electricity, and she wore an orange newsboy cap.
Parally Zesty Zapper, Level 4, Thunder, LIGHT, ATK: 1500 DEF: 1200 Pendulum Scale 5
"Sweet spirit of sugar, mix with the electrifying supporter and cast a shadow over evil!" Gooey Ghost and Zesty Zapper turned into a yellow and purple swirl. "Fusion Summon! Appear! Stalking shadow across parallel worlds! Parally Undersea Umbral!"
A long shadow stretched across the moving track before a monster emerged from it. For one thing, it looked like a flatfish with how vertically challenged it was, but that was an advantage to this monster, which was mainly dark purple in colour with a black underbelly, and had a mouth full of sharp white teeth whilst a dark blue jem was embedded in its forehead, with a dark pink slash shooting down its whole length of its body, making its razor sharp dorsal fin the same colour. It's long tail stretched out behind it with the end looking like a crescent moon claw, whilst its two fins looked like they belonged to a manta ray with their length, only they were thin and ended in a jagged diamond shape. Finally its gleaming red eyes looked like streaks of blood as they dashed down either side of its flat body, overall, it looked like a deadly, stretched, and squashed, shark.
Parally Undersea Umbral, Level 5, Fish, WATER, ATK: 1800 DEF: 1300
"Amazing! It looks like Zekaki is also able to Fusion Summon!" The MC called.
"So this is Fusion Summoning?" Greiger muttered, before he noticed a black shape stretching towards him. "Hm?"
Suddenly a completely black version of Undersea Umbral emerged, its red eyes gleaming, and wrapped the two Reactors in its shadowy body. "What the-!?"
"Parally Undersea Umbral's effect activates!" I called, as he noticed that the creature was actually my monsters elongated shadow. "When it is Fusion Summoned, I can negate the effects of all face-up cards you control as long as Umbral is face-up on the field!"
"So you negated my Reactors effects." Greiger said.
"Yeah, so now, I'm free to play Spells and Traps without taking damage." I confirmed. "But first, I summon Parally Pendulum Performer from my hand!"
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Finallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" She cheered as she flew out of the portal. "It's my time to shine!"
Parally Pendulum Performer, Level 4, Fairy, LIGHT, ATK: 1600 DEF: 1400, Pendulum Scale 4
"Heeeeeey everybody!" The little monster cheered to the crowd. "I'm Pendulum Performer! Leader of the Parallies!"
"Happy now?" I asked.
"Very much so." She replied.
"Good. I activate Pendulum Performers effect! By banishing a Parally monster from my Extra Deck or Graveyard, I can have Pendulum Performer activate one of three effects until the End Phase!" I declared.
"Okey-dokey! Here we go!" She swung her heart pendulum as it glowed brightly. "Special Pendulum!"
"I banish the Gooey Ghost in my Graveyard to activate her Fusion effect! It allows her to be treated as any material for a Fusion Summon, as long as the other ones are correct!" I said.
The pendulum glowed brightly as Performers clothes turned purple and her top hat turned into a witches hat. "Ta-da! I'm fit for Fusion!"
"Now I activate the Spell Fusion Clock from my hand!" The card showed a split clock, one half pink, one half green, with a red and blue swirling portal in the centre and clock hands spinning wildly. "This allows me to target a Timestream monster in my hand, on my field, in my Extra Deck, or Graveyard, and any other monster in my hand or on my field, and use them as Fusion Materials! I fuse the Timestream Assassin in my hand with Pendulum Performer, treating it as a FIRE monster!"
"Hi there! Your a Timestream, right? Let's work well together!" Assassin cringed at her bubbly personality before they became a green and pink whirlpool of light.
"Miraculous dimensional performer, become one with the steeled killer across time, and fill the black sky with light! Fusion Summon! Appear! Blazing arrow that streaks across time! Timestream Phoenix!"
A blast of red fire shot across the track before a monster emerged from it. The Fusion monster was a brilliant crimson red bird with blazing white hot feathers for an underbelly, whilst its red and gold feathers covered practically everywhere else. It had a long neck and emerald green eyes with long rainbow coloured plumes, three on its head (Where a little pearl was) and five trailing behind it, with golden armour covering its claws.
Timestream Phoenix, Level 7, Winged-Beast, LIGHT, ATK: 2100 DEF: 2100
"Incredible! Elliot has Fusion Summoned twice in one turn!" The MC declared as my two monsters flew either side of me.
"Wow! Elliot has a lot of new monsters!" Yuzu praised from within her room.
"Eh, that Leiko-look-alike isn't bad I guess. Looks like Yuzu was right about these guys." Yugo muttered.
Selena observed the two Fusion monsters with folded arms before huffing. "At least your good at Fusion Summoning."
"Battle! Parally Undersea Umbral will attack!" The shadow shark roared. "When this monster attacks whilst my opponent controls cards affected by its first effect, it can attack directly!" The monster dived into its shadow and bypassed the Reactors before emerging in front of Greiger with its jaw opened wide.
Greiger however quickly snatched a passing Action Card. "Action Spell: Avoid, shall negate the attack." He swerved out of the way of Undersea Umbral's bite.
"Already Greiger is using Action Cards to his advantage, and its saved him from a direct attack!" The announcer namesaked.
"I'm not done yet! Timestream Phoenix! Attack Spell Reactor-RE!" Phoenix burst into flames before flying at the Reactor.
"Trap card open: Fake Explosion!" Crap! That Trap!" "It negates my monsters destruction." The attack hit, and Greiger didn't even flinch from the impact.
Greiger's LP: 3100
"Then I may Special Summon a Level 5 monster from my hand or Graveyard. I Special Summon Summon Reactor-SK from my hand." The familiar and annoying monster emerged next to its Reactor counterparts.
"Undersea Umbrals effect only targets face-up cards when it was Summoned." I mumbled to myself. "I end my turn!"
"My turn. Draw." Greiger drew, before grabbing another Action Card. "I activate the Action Spell Rally." The card showed the typical shadow figure with a fist raised and a red up arrow above him. "It increases the attack of all my monsters by 700 until the End Phase." Summon and Spell Reactor got a boost to 2700 and 1900. "Battle! Spell Reactor shall attack Parally Undersea Umbral." As the monster locked on, I quickly reached down and grabbed an Action Card, whilst DRIVING. Kinda.
"Action Spell: Cover!" This time the figure was cheering as a barrier surrounded him. "With this, I take no battle damage for the rest of this turn!" Spell Reactor's lasers blasted Undersea Umbral not a moment too soon, and his shadow doppelganger faded.
"Now Summon Reactor shall attack Timestream Phoenix!" The strongest Reactor fired several missiles that obliterated Phoenix.
"I activate Timestream Phoenix's effect!" I cried. "When this monster is destroyed by battle, you take damage equal to half the original attack of the destroyed monster! Thus, you'll take 1000 damage!" Fire erupted under Greiger, and he once again endured.
Greiger's LP: 2100
"...I set a card and end my turn." He finished. "At this point, my monsters attacks return to normal."
"Greiger has instantly swept Elliot's field clean! Will he be able to come back ftom this!?"
"My turn! Draw!" I looked at the card, then at Greiger's Reactors. Spell was obviously a problem, I couldn't get rid of it, so I had to...endure it.
"I activate the Spell, Parally Pendulum!" The Spell showed Pendulum Performer swinging its pendulum with Water Witch and Zesty Zapper on either side. "If I control no cards in my Pendulum Zones, I can add 2 Parallies from my Extra Deck to my hand."
"I activate Spell Reactor-RE's effect." Greiger responded. "Once per turn, when a Spell Card is activated, I destroy it, and deal 800 damage to my opponent." Spell Reactor fired a laser that destroyed the card and shocked me, making me cringe in pain.
Elliot's LP: 3200
"But its activation isn't negated." I pointed out. "I add Pendulum Performer and Zesty Zapper to my hand." The two cards popped out of my Extra Deck, and I put one into my holder and took the other card out. "Now I, using the Scale 1 Timestream Hydra, and the Scale 5 Parally Zesty Zapper, set the Pendulum Scale!" The two monsters rose up either side of me with their scales underneath them, Zapper smiling and Hydra hissing.
"Infinite power of unknown origin, bestow upon me the chance to shape my own future! Pendulum Summon! Come forth, my monster partners!" Two streams of light fell out of the portal. "From my hand, Parally Pendulum Performer! And from my Extra Deck, Timestream Assassin!"
"Hiyaaaaaaaaaa!" Performer waved as Assassin floated forward stoically. "Hey! Zesty Zapper! Your here too?" The Thunder monster cheered as the two seemed to converse, whilst Assassin looked mortified at flying next to the chatting female monsters, and Hydra's two heads looked at each other in confusion.
"Wow! And Elliot pulls of a Pendulum Summon and brings back his two monsters from earlier!"
"Heh, what a bunch of funny monsters." A Commons member chuckled. "Still, when they work together they're all really strong."
"I've never seen monsters with such character before." A Tops member said. "This is highly enjoyable."
Greiger slightly narrowed his eyes at the mumblings in the crowd. "At this point, Summon Reactor-SK's effect activates. When my opponent summons a monster, they shall take 800 damage!" The monster launched five small missiles that crashed into me and sent me skidding, forcing me to quickly right myself.
Elliot's LP: 2400
"Ugh! Battle! Timestream Assassin will attack Spell Reactor! Quick Cut!" Assassin flew forward with a malicious glint in its eyes.
"Summon Reactor's other effect allows it to negate one attack on the turn it inflicted effect damage!" Summon flew in front of Spell and blocked the attack.
"I'm not done! Pendulum Performer will also attack Spell Reactor!" I declared.
"Yes! I'm up!" She cheered as she flew forward and swung her pendulum over her head like a lassoe.
Greiger snatched up an Action Card. "Action Spell: Miracle negates my monsters destruction and halves the battle damage I take from it."
"I activate Timestream Hydra's Pendulum effect!" I yelled. "Once per turn, when a monster battles, I can double the battle damage dealt from that battle!" As Pendulum Performer whacked RE with its weapon, a blue aura blasted over Greiger.
Greiger's LP: 1700
"Greiger has managed to keep both his monsters protected from Elliot's attacks!"
"I'm not done yet!" I cried. "By releasing both my monsters..."
"Awwww, do I have to?" Parally Performer whined as Assassin facepalmed with one of its daggers-for-hands, before they both turned into pillars of fire.
"...I can Special Summon Timestream Phoenix from my Graveyard!" The fiery time bird appeared with a wild cry. "Then, when Phoenix is Special Summoned via its effect, you take damage equal to the difference between its attack and the monster you control with the highest attack! Between Summon Reactor's 2000 and Phoenix's 2100, you'll only take 100." Phoenix breathed soft flames over Greiger, which didn't seem to harm him.
Greiger's LP: 1600
"Heh, now that's a bird, and I should know!" Crow smirked.
"Those monsters of his..." Shinji muttered.
"Once more! Timestream Phoenix shall attack Spell Reactor-RE!" Phoenix dove at the monster blazing with fire.
"It seems I can't put this off any longer!" Greiger said. "Trap Card open! Delta Reactor! By releasing Summon Reactor-SK, Trap Reactor-Y FI, and Spell Reactor-RE, I can Special Summon this monster from my Deck!" The three monsters of his quickly began morphing into new shapes, before combining into one being. "Come forth! Flying Fortress SKY FIRE!" The giant newly formed monster towered over me and cast us in its shadow with a threatening 3000 ATK.
"A-Amazing! Greiger has summoned a giant powerful monster during Elliot's own turn!"
I grit my teeth. "Turn End."
"My turn, draw." He stated. "I activate the effect of Flying Fortress SKY FIRE. By sending a card in my hand to the Graveyard, I destroy one card my opponent controls." He slid the drawn card into his Duel Runner. "I destroy Timestream Phoenix!" The giant mecha launched an armies worth of missiles, lasers and gunfire that destroyed Phoenix.
"Gaaaaah!" I cried as the impact sent my Duel Runner screeching back.
"Battle! I shall attack directly with Flying Fortress SKY FIRE!" Greiger yelled as his monster locked onto me.
"I won't lose yet!" I declared, spotting an Action Card up ahead. I drove my Duel Runner into the side and curved up the wall before jumping and grabbing it. "Action Spell: Miracle!"
"Elliot has just used Miracle, but he has no monsters to use it on!"
"I target SKY FIRE for its effects!" I braked to avoid a series of deadly missile explosions before accelerating again.
Elliot's LP: 900
"Wow! He targeted his opponents monster for its effects, how clever!"
'Sure glad I watched that ZEXAL episode...' I thought.
"I end my turn." Greiger braked so that he could ride next to me. "You fight hard, and with determination, what is your reason?"
"My...reason?" To be honest, all I'd thought about was winning, didn't even consider a reason for it.
"Yes. Why do you aim to face Jack Atlas?" He asked.
I actually had to think about that, why DID I want to fight him? Did I even want to? There were plenty of other people participating that had a better reason the me...in the end, I could only think of one thing.
"To reach out to everybody here, and show them what not only me, but all of my friends believe in." I told him.
Greiger gave me a thoughtful look. "I see...but, words alone cannot do that. Prove you worth in your actions!" He accelerated ahead of me.
"I will! It's my turn! Draw!" I looked at the card and nodded, knowing what I had to do. "I summon Timestream Driller from my hand!"
A little metal robot appeared, with a giant silver drill on its head and three-fingered crane claws for hands, with brown shoes, a shiny metal body and two small red eyes.
Timestream Driller, Level 2, Machine/Tuner, EARTH, ATK: 800 DEF: 200 Pendulum Scale 8
"I activate Flying Fortress SKY FIRE's effect!" Greiger pointed up at his monster. "When my opponent summons a monster or sets a card once per turn, I can destroy that card and inflict 800 damage to my opponent!" More missiles fired and destroyed Duo, whilst I was sent skidding.
Elliot's LP: 100
"Ngh! Not yet! Once more, I'll Pendulum Summon!" Three monsters descended. "Revive from my Extra Deck! Parally Pendulum Performer, Timestream Assassin, Timestream Driller!"
"And we're back!" Performer cheered.
"I activate Pendulum Performer's effect!" I said. "By banishing Undersea Umbral in my Graveyard, I activate her Xyz effect, allowing her to gain the same Level as another monster on my field! I target Timestream Driller to give her a Level of 2!"
"Alrighty! Special Pendulum!" Her pendulum glowed brightly as her clothes turned black, and her top hat turned into a rainbow flower. "Ready for Xyz!"
"Get ready, Greiger! I'm tuning my Level 4 Timestream Assassin, and my Level 2 Parally Pendulum Performer, with my Level 2 Timestream Driller!" Driller spun skyward, turning into two Synchro rings for Assassin and Performer to pass through, turning them into six spheres of light that burst into a beam.
"Across the limits of time, bring smiles and laughter to the past, present and future! Synchro Summon! Emerge! Level 8! Timestream Entertainer!"
A tall humanoid monster emerged from the beam of light. It was lanky and wore a white twin tailed coat with the tails curving around and out, whilst little stars acted as buttons on the front up to a big red bow tie, and a large green music note adorned the left side with the right side remaining white. The sleeves were baggy with crimson red wrists also buttoned back with little stars, and black fingerless gloves. It also wore baggy white trousers with blue straps around the thighs, and black rubber boots with metal outlining them. It carried a baton as long as it was tall in its right hand, with a body that looked like a star filled sky, with a red sun on the end of one end and a blue crescent moon on the other end. Its mouth was obscured by its upturned crimson red collar with yellow music note badges on each side of it, but its eyes were revealed, being a brilliant golden colour with violet star shaped pupils. Several tufts of aquamarine hair descended over its forehead, whilst the rest was covered by a red top hat with a bright purple strap.
Timestream Entertainer, Level 8, Spellcaster/Synchro, LIGHT, ATK: 2800 DEF: 2000 Pendulum Scale 4
"Ehh!? A Synchro Pendulum monster!?" The MC gasped.
"Ah! Incredible, Elliot-san! What a performance!" Dennis applauded.
Shun narrowed his eyes at the image.
In another room, a young woman gasped at the image. "What an amazing Synchro monster..."
"Everybody! Your attention please!" I cheered. "I'll now activate Timestream Entertainer's effect!" The monster bowed as it held its baton up. "Once per turn, I can excavate the top of my Deck, and if it's a Timestream monster, I can Special Summon it!"
Entertainer waved its baton, and a rainbow of colours emerged as the monster danced across the sky, and I checked the top of my Deck.
"It's the Level 5 Timestream Lightning! Thus, I can Special Summon it!" The monster was mostly made out of yellow lightning, consisting of a jagged tail for a leg pinned to the ground, two long arms with claws of electricity, a crackling pinhead and two lightning bolts firing off of its shoulders, the whole thing constantly sparking. What actually made it look alive was two mean red eyes, and a sky blue and black suit consisting of a torso and two pipes leading to a blue pressure pad on the back of each claw.
Timestream Lightning, Level 5, Thunder, LIGHT, ATK: 2000 DEF: 0 Pendulum Scale 2
"Now! I activate the Pendulum Effect of Parally Zesty Zapper!" The monster cheered as its two plug coils uncurled and it picked up its pom-poms. "By reducing one of my monsters attack to 0, I can have another gain attack equal to half of that monsters attack!" Zappers blue plug plugged into Lightning, whilst the red plugged into Entertainer. "With Lightning's 2000 ATK, Entertainer gains 1000 ATK!" Lightning shrunk in size as its attack dropped to 0 and Zapper shot electricity through its own body, cheering with its pom-poms crackling with electricity as the lightning transferred to Entertainer and boosted its attack to 3800.
"Battle! Timestream Entertainer! Attack Flying Fortress SKY FIRE! Illusion Dance!" Entertainer sprung forward, leaving multicoloured after images behind it.
Grieger, however, sped forward and grabbed an Action Card. "Action Spell: Avoid!" SKY FIRE dodged out of the way.
"Ah, Greiger has avoided Elliot's critical attack!"
"I'm not done! I activate Timestream Lightning's effect! Once per turn, when a Timestream monster has attacked and my opponent still controls a monster, I can allow it to attack once again!" Lightning zapped Entertainer, giving it a golden aura.
"Once more! Illusion Dance!" Entertainer struck SKY FIRE hundreds of times thanks to its rainbow afterimages, creating a huge explosion. "Now I activate the Pendulum Effect of Timestream Hydra to double the battle damage!" A blue aura accompanied the explosion and washed over Greiger in a glorious ray of sparkles.
Greiger's LP: 0
Elliot: WIN!
"Our winner has been decided! It's Elliot Zekaki!" The crowds roared with cheers as I braked next to the garage and took off my helmet with a sigh.
"Thank you for the Duel." I looked up to see greiger standing over me.
"Greiger..." I said.
He looked at the cheering crowd. "I asked you what your motivation for winning was...and I believe your answer is better then just revenge against Jack Atlas. I learned a lot during this Duel. For one thing...your monsters conveyed such emotion, such trust in each other, it was an honour to face them."
"Same here." I smiled. "Your Reactors show how strong of a person you are, and your determination too."
Greiger smiled. "I hope we get to Duel again someday." He held his hand out.
"Me too." I shook his hand and we both waved to the crowd. Then we parted ways and I wheeled my Duel Runner into the garage before picking up my laptop and going to get changed out of my riding suit.
"That was AMAZING!" Pendulum Peformer squealed. "Let's do it again tomorrow!"
Yu-Gi-Oh!
"Aaaaaack! That bastard! Using Synchro! Ripping off my style!" Leiko roared. "Oh suuuuure! One does not simply rip off my style, they go overboard and FUCKING USE SYNCHRO LIKE ME!"
His attention wasa diverted as a luxurious tray of food wheeled into his room before the door closed. "...I'll rant about this later." He immediately began devouring the plated meal. "Oh GOD! This food is as good as sex! I could live off this meat! GLARCK! COUGH! GLUG! Glug...oh, almost choked to death there...fuck it. MORE MEAT!"
Yu-Gi-Oh!
It was late at night now, and I was sitting on my bed, my computer logged on as I watched the latest episodes.
"No way..." I gasped. "The losers get sent to an underground forced labour facility!? Those Tops bastards! That means everyone who has lost so far..." In my frustration, I remembered something Greiger said.
"Then do not let anything cloud your judgement."
The words sunk in, and my features turned sad. "Greiger...you knew, didn't you?"
Parally Gooey Ghost: Normal Effect: You can reveal this card in your hand, as well as another Parally monster in your hand, to Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck listing the revealed monsters as Fusion Materials.
Pendulum Effect: You can send this card from the Pendulum Zone to the Graveyard to Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck listing monsters in your hand or on your side of the field as Fusion Materials.
Parally Zesty Zapper: Normal Effect: When this card declares an attack, you can target one other monster you control; this card gains ATK equal to half that monsters ATK until the End Phase.
Pendulum Effect: Once per turn, you can target 2 monsters you control; reduce the ATK of one to 0, and increase the others ATK by half of the reduced ATK. These changes last until the End Phase.
Parally Undersea Umbral: 2 Parally Monsters. When this card is Fusion Summoned; negate the effects of all face-up cards your opponent currently controls whilst this card is face-up on the field. Whilst your opponent controls cards effected by this cards effect; this card can attack your opponent directly.
Parally Pendulum Performer: Normal Effect: Once per turn, you can banish 1 Parally monster from your Extra Deck or Graveyard to activate one of the following effects, until the End Phase:
This card can be substituted as any Fusion Material listed on a Fusion Monster (The other materials must be correct, though)
This card is treated as a Tuner monster.
Target 1 other monster you control; this cards Level becomes that monsters Level.
Pendulum Effect: Once per turn, if you have no card in your other Pendulum Zone, you can add 1 Pendulum Monster from your deck or Extra Deck to your hand.
Fusion Clock: Target 1 Timestream monster in your hand, Pendulum Zone, Extra Deck, on your field, or your Graveyard and 1 monster in your hand or on your field; Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, treating those monsters as Fusion Materials (If a Timestream monster in the Graveyard is targeted, banish it instead). You can send 1 Timestream monster from your hand to the Graveyard (Extra Deck if it is a Pendulum Monster) to add this card from your Graveyard to your hand.
Timestream Phoenix: 1 Timestream Monster + 1 FIRE Monster. When this card is destroyed by battle by an opponents monster and sent to the Graveyard; inflict damage to your opponent equal to half of that monsters ATK. You can release 2 monsters you control to Special Summon this card from your Graveyard, and inflict damage to your opponent equal to the difference between this card's ATK, and the opponents monster with the highest ATK.
Rally: All monsters you control gain 700 ATK until the End Phase.
Cover: You take no battle damage for the rest of this turn.
Parally Pendulum: If you control no cards in your Pendulum Zones; add 2 Parally monsters face-up in your Extra Deck to your hand.
Timestream Hydra: Pendulum Effect: Once per turn, when a monster you control battles an opponents monster, you can double the Battle Damage.
Timestream Driller: Normal Effect: When this card is Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your Extra Deck or Graveyard with its effects negated and its ATK reduced to 0.
Pendulum Effect: Once per turn, during your turn only, when your opponent activates a Spell or Trap card, you can negate its activation and destroy it.
Timestream Entertainer: 1 Timestream Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters. Normal Effect: Once per turn, you can excavate the top card of your Deck; if it is a Timestream monster, you can Special Summon it, anything else is discarded. If this card is in your Extra Deck, you can destroy one card in your Pendulum Zone and place this card in it.
Pendulum Effect: All Timestream monsters you control gain 500 ATK and DEF.
Timestream Lightning: Normal Effect: Once per turn, when a monster you control declares an attack, and your opponent still controls monsters, you can make that monster attack once again in a row. You cannot attack directly the turn you activate this effect.
Pendulum Effect: During your turn only, you can release one card you control to destroy one card your opponent controls.
Hello! I'm back! Did you miss me? It seems you did, lots of you commented and stuff!
By the way, good to see you back too, NewComer1! Thank you for the base ideas of Fusion Clock and Timestream Phoenix!
Oh yeah! TheLoneAvenger! Your all caught up now, aren't you? I wanted to thank you again for the time, effort and honesty you put into your reviews, as I truly appreciate them, and your reviews are without a doubt my most valued. Everybody, check out his reviews, they're awesome.
A recommendation too today. This goes out to The Signer of Xyz by Pokemonever1994. It's a very nice story so far with a good structure, and its a shame that it isn't more focused on, so please give it a bit of support.
Finally, for todays question, I was looking at the Fresh Prince of BANANAS Deviantart account (You can find the username on her page) and checked out her OC base, which is really cool may I say, and that got me thinking onto this weeks question:
QOTC: For each Elliot counterpart and Elliot himself, which is most fitting as a theme song for each?
For me, I think it's these:
Elliot: Monster by Skillet
Hotaru: Dance with the Devil by Breaking Benjamin
Leiko: Riot by Three Days Grace
Xyz Counterpart: In the End by Linkin Park
Well then, I believe you've all been waiting long enough, so I'm posting this chapter right now! See you in the next one!