Turn 2 - Sampson Attacking
Malik LP: 2300 Gage: 3 Hand: 1
Malik controls Ragtag Wizard (ATK: 0 DEF: 800) in face up DEF mode with 2 set spells/traps.
Sampson LP: 4000 Gage: 1 Hand: 0
Sampson controls Blank Sphere (ATK: 2100 DEF: 0) and Blank Triangle (ATK: 0 DEF: 0) He controls the field spell Nothingness and the continuous spell Gage Power.
Sampson is attacking Ragtag Wizard with Blank Sphere.
"Go Blank Sphere, destroy his Wizard!"
Blank Sphere fired a colorless beam at the Wizard who was sitting in DEF mode.
"I play the trap Ragtag Shield. This stops my monster from taking damage, but its second effect is the important one. And that monster attacking is then destroyed.
A metal shield with the letter R engraved on it appeared before Wizard. The beam bounced off the shield and back at Blank Sphere, destroying it.
"Fine. I end my turn there." Maliks shield disappeared.
Turn 3
Malik LP: 2300 Gage: 3 Hand: 1
Sampson LP: 4000 Gage: 1 Hand: 0
"I draw!"
"I cant destroy his Blank spells and traps because while he controls a Blank monster they cant be got rid off." thought Malik.
Sampson looked very confident, like he had changed inside.
"I summon Ragtag Goose!"
Ragtag Goose ATK:1200 DEF: 600 LVL 4 (ATK: 0)
"That monster?!"
"Yes that monster. This card can destroy one spell or trap once per turn, then you take 500 points of damage. I destroy your Gage Power card!"
The spell card was destroyed from Sampson's field. Malik Gage: 3 - 5 (Effect, Destroyed Spell)
Sampson LP: 4000 - 3500
"Next up appear Ragtag Witch!"
Ragtag Witch ATK: 500 DEF: 200 Dark/Spellcaster LVL 1/Foundation
"She can appear when I control another Ragtag, also you take 600 points of damage!"
Sampson LP: 3500 - 2900 Malik Gage: 5 - 7 ( Effect X 2)
"Derek, you do have something here. Your teleport to the Fire World. When I beat you.. I will go to the Fire World and save my friend Morgan."
"Morgan? King of the Light World. The coward who ran from King Henry."
"King Henry? Hes the one in charge of the Fire World?"
"Yes. Thanks to Blazes memory's my invasion of the Fire World will be a success."
"I have seen that future I wont let that happen! I pay four counters to grow my Witch."
Malik Gage: 7 - 3
"Spread your mighty gold wings, fly to the sky. Golden Light Heart Eagle!"
Golden Light Heart Eagle ATK: 2000 DEF: 1600 Gage LVL 4 Light/Winged Beast/Growth (ATK: 0)
"Another new Growth monster?! Blazes memory's didn't tell me this." said Sampson
"Maybe you didn't get everything. I pay two counters. This allows me to increase Eagles ATK by 500 X for each monster you control!"
Malik Gage: 3 - 1 Eagle ATK: 500
"Now go. Golden Ray!" yelled Malik pointing towards Blank Triangle."
Eagle flew into the sky and flapped its wings. A golden aura came from it which turned into a arrow. Breaking Sampson's monster.
Sampson LP: 2900 - 2400 Malik Gage: 1 - 3 (Destroyed Monster)
"I end there."
Turn 4
Malik LP: 2300 Gage: 3 Hand: 0
Sampson LP: 2900 Gage: 1 Hand: 0
"I draw!"
Sampson laughed at his drawn card. "Oh Malik. I thank you."
Malik was taken aback. "Why?"
"First of all if I have no monsters on my field. Blank Star can appear from my grave. Remember I sent this to the grave a few turns ago."
Blank Star ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Fairy Sampson Gage: 1 - 2 (Effect)
"Now then when this card is the only monster card on the field. I can add one Blank spell card to my hand. I add the continuous spell Blank Reversal and I play it! This prevents all monsters whose oringal ATK was 0 from being destroy, and I take no damage from battles involving them."
"Yes and all my monsters which get destroyed are banished. You used that card in our first duel."
"You mean the first duel in which you opposed me."
"You banned dueling, someone had to speak up."
"Even though I used you Malik, I grew to respect you and care for you. Like a close friend."
"Close friends don't do what you did."
"I had a the perfect reason. Someone caused the explosion, they were never caught."
"No... they were never caught were they." said Malik in a thinking tone.
"What are you getting at Malik."
"Wow. I have been so stupid. So so so stupid!"
"What!" demanded Sampson.
"You had a entire police force at your disposal. And you was unable to track down one criminal. "
"Its harder then you think Malik."
"That night of the explosion, when the monsters became real and made people disappear. There was only one way for someone to make monsters real, as Alex recreated to find out. You had to have access to the holographic system. You arrived just before the monsters became real, and you was able to escape with Tyrus without getting involved."
"Your not saying Malik."
"I am. You Sampson are the one who created the explosion!" said Malik pointing in rage.
"You always had a good imagination Malik. But no. It was you. Your King powers caused it."
"I was wondering that. But not once can I remember having my powers. So why would I get them at that precise time? I wasn't even at the stadium that night."
Sampson looked irked.
Power Core
Hannah and Alex made there way up some stairs. They opened a door and looked around. There was no Androids to be seen.
They entered the door and shut it. The room was dark, Alex turned on the light switch.
Inside was a massive computer room. It was computer servers stacked on top of each.
There was a main computer in the middle. Alex and Hannah walked over.
"How long do we have?" said Hannah.
"Well our duelists are slowly falling, but so are the Androids. We have at least twenty more minutes left of the EMP. We need to find the override.
Alex put a computer stick into the main computer. He typed something on the keyboard and Maliks duel came on screen.
"OK lets find this override switch."
Duel
"Believe what you want Malik. But now I know it was your fault . I will take you down. I play Blank Draw. Now by banish any amount of Blank monsters, I can draw the same amount of cards new cards! I banish Star,Sphere,Triangle,Diamond. I draw four new cards!"
Sampson looked at his new hand. "However my opponent can draw half of what I drew."
Malik drew two cards. "Now then, I summon Blank Cuboid!"
Blank Cuboid ATK:0 DEF:0 LVL 1 Light/Fairy/Foundation
"His effect allows me to special summon one LVL 1 monster with 0 ATK from my deck. Appear Blank Cone!" Sampson Gage: 2 - 3 (Effect)
Blank Cone ATK:0 DEF:0 LVL 1 Light/ Fairy
"Cones effect activates, when its summoned it destroys all monsters whose ATK were 0 this turn. Since Blank Reversal is in play, my monsters are safe, but your eagle isn't!"
Blank Cone floated into the air and fired a beam at Golden Light Heart Eagle, destroying it.
Sampson Gage: 3 - 4 (Effect)
"Not so fast Derek. I play the trap Speical Safe. This prevents all Speical Summoned monsters this turn on my field from being destroyed, targeted or banished from the field."
"Very well I play the spell, Blank Punishment. Now for each monster on the field with 0 ATK, you take 300 points of damage. There are currently four. So take 1200 points of damage!
A cyclone appeared from the card, knocking Malik against the wall.
Malik LP: 2300 - 1100
"I then set one card face down and end there."
Malik slowly got back up.
Turn 5
Malik LP: 1100 Gage: 3 Hand: 2
Sampson LP: 2900 Gage: 4 Hand: 2
"My move, I draw!"
Malik looked at his duel disk. He saw a clock counting down. It read "15:00 14:59 14:58"
"Waiting for something Malik?" Sampson laughed. "It wont be long before whatever you did to my Androids to be undone."
"I have to beat Sampson before the EMP wears off." Malik thought. "I play the spell Lightning Vortex. I discard 1 card from my hand, this destroys all monsters you control. I send Growth Warrior to the grave, now say goodbye to your Blanks!"
A lighting cloud appeared above Sampson's monsters, and a thunderbolt struck his monsters, destroying.
"Now then I can special summon Growth Warrior from my grave or my hand by tributing one or more monster on my field." Malik Gage: 3 - 4 (Effect)
Golden Light Heart Eagle Ragtag Goose and Ragtag Wizard both left the field.
"Now appear Growth Warrior!"
A muscled white warrior in bronze amour and G engraved on his chest, he held a sword and swung it in air appeared.
Growth Warrior ATK: 1400 DEF:1200 Dark/Warrior LVL 4 (ATK: 0)
"When this card is special summoned via its own effect, I gain Gage Counters equal to the amount of monsters tributed +1"
Malik Gage: 4 - 9 ( Effect X 1, Tributed Monsters X 3, +1)
"I remember giving you that card Malik."
"Yeah. But it seems you cant remember causing the explosion either!"
"I have not committed no crime. How can I claim something I didn't to."
Power Core
Alex and Hannah were looking at the main computer watching the duel.
"What is Malik doing? We were sent here to try and deactivate the Androids? said Hannah.
"I don't know. But all these switches look the same. If we hit the wrong one, god knows what will happen."
"He has a point though. We have never thought Sampson could cause the explosion. He has always been anti dueling,why would he do it."
"He has had years to practice his speech, learn how to cry on queue. It makes sense, but we don't have a cause."
"Maybe Malik is somehow trying to contact us. We have Sampson's main power here. We have every piece of information about him in here."
"Hannah you genius. Thats exactly what Malik is doing."
Alex switch from Sampson and Maliks duel on the computer to searching through his files.
Duel
"Come on guys. Find me something." thought Malik.
Malik returned to looking at his hand. "I normal summon Ragtag Turtle!"
Ragtag Turtle ATK: 200 DEF: 100 LVL 1/Foundation Aqua/Reptile
"I pay four counters to grow my Turtle!"
Malik Gage: 9 - 5
Ragtag Phoenix popped out of Maliks extra deck zone. Malik slammed it onto his duel disk.
Ragtag Phoenix ATK: 2500 DEF:2000 Gage LVL: 4 Growth Monster/Light/Winged Beast
Ragtag Phoenix flew onto the field and glowed in pure purple.
"Because I used Ragtag Turtle, Phoenix cant be targeted by card effects this turn. So your field spell is useless. Also I use Phoenix's main effect, once per turn I can negate a card effect on the field. I negate your Nothingness field spell! So my Growth Warriors ATK is back to normal."
Growth Warrior ATK: 1400
"I used this same combo in our first duel Derek. Back then I didn't think. I'm a much better person and duelist since then."
"Your not Malik. You did all those evil things."
"Yes I did. But I cant live in regret. You wont beat me with that anymore."
"Fine. But your also the Dark Worlds King. Even from Blazes DNA I don't know much about these Kings. But anyone who is King of a world called the Dark World must be evil."
"I cant remember anything about being a King. So what you say is false."
"Maybe the reason you cant remember is because you told yourself lie after lie."
Malik smirked. "This all would have worked before. But I grew, I know why I cant listen to this anymore. Your like a broken record, always going on about the same thing."
Maliks duel disk beeped. Malik looked at it. It was different files sent from Alex.
"Knew it." thought Malik.
"What!" Sampson demanded.
"It all makes sense. Why you hate dueling."
Sampson looked more and more on edge. "TELL ME!"
"You was... bullied."
Sampson face cracked, he was stunned. "Thats all false. It is."
"OK it might be false. But tell me one thing Derek. Why have you got a hit list with different peoples names on it. And theres a line ruled through them."
Sampson stuttered he had no idea what to say.
"But this is the main one. A police report you filled. And on it, it says... "
"A young male today reported, violent and verbal abuse was sent towards him when dueling. He stated while at school or in public he is often bullied for having poor cards, and poor tactics. He is also picked on for his lack of dueling interest."
Sampson shook his fist. He then laughed. "Well done Malik. Well done. You have finally got me."
"Say it."
"Fine. I was the one behind the explosion. I caused it. I caused the monsters to become real!"
Malik stood firm and faced Sampson with a emotionless face. In the Power Core room, Hannah and Alex were shaking with fear.
"Why. Why cause all that pain. All that suffering Derek?" asked Malik.
"As a Child I was bullied. Every day at school during recess all the kids would duel, while I was sat on the sidelines. I never like dueling, but I had to live in the City, in which it was the most popular event.
It was the same outside of school aswell. I never wanted to duel, but walking back from school I was bullied for taking part."
"Then what happened?" asked Malik.
"After a while I was peer pressured into dueling. When I did duel people, I was teased and bullied for having a bad deck and poor tactics. I was summoning trap cards and putting monsters in the spell/trap zone. No matter what I did, my life was a living hell everyday."
"So you reported it to the police."
"Yes I did. But no one took any action. The police said there was no evidence, nothing. Teachers did the same thing, no action."
"So why not move schools or City's?"
"You think I didn't try? I was living on my own, I had no money. I was stuck being bullied everyday. So I suffered that way for years and years. Once I left school I was determined... determined to end dueling forever."
"So you became President?"
"After I left school, becoming a young adult. I was teased, this time at work. So I left, I worked my way up the system to become the President of this City. I knew no one would have voted for me to be President if I didn't duel, so I had to do something drastic. I found everyone who had ever teased me, and took them out."
"You mean?"
"Yes. I killed them. I then took there decks, and there knowledge."
"Knowledge?"
"I was so smart at creating new devices, but no one cared about that. All they cared about was rubbish cardboard. I invented a device which could transfer someones knowledge from one person to another. After I killed them, I took all their knowledge and their decks. I quickly became a Duel Star."
"They didn't need to be killed?"
"No. These bullies tormented me forever. I only returned the favor. Once I was a popular Duel Star, I was quickly more popular and with those who bullied me dead, I was voted President. Then my plan started from there.
"You knew from day one what you wanted."
"Oh yes. It wasn't easy. First I had to create the event, the explosion. I was able to build a chip which was able to turn monsters real. Thanks to year of design and research, I was able to turn monsters into the real thing for a brief period of time. I started it once I became President. It took me five years, but I did it."
"On the night of the explosion?"
"That night was the perfect opportunity. I had gone five years as a good President, allowing duels all the time, even competing in rare events. But the chip was done. Before I dueled Tyrus I went round the back and into the holographic system. I quickly implanted the chip and ran. The duel monsters would become real the moment my Blue Eyes attacked."
"And you had the perfect get away. You knew how and when to escape."
"Oh yes Malik. Afterwords it all went to plan. I was able to convince the majority of the City that there was someone out there who did this and dueling was not safe. I was able to convince several Council members aswell."
"More like you got rid of the ones who didn't agree."
"They didn't see what I was trying to create. It went years without dueling, while the you and the Police Force were looking for a criminal who didn't exist, slowly people were getting that no dueling was better. There was more Kids riding bikes, more interactive with other events. There was less gambling."
"Then a month after the explosion you was contacted by this King Henry from the Fire World I'm guessing?"
"Yes. He told me my ways weren't good enough. People were still dueling, even though people had moved on, they showed me my dream was still far away. He gave me the power to seal people. It took the people who didn't obey, off the streets and gone forever. He also gave the Growth summons, which I then gave to other people. This meant we would never lose."
"You then sent your minions to infiltrate the other Seven City's."
"I was given a package from the Fire World. It was Project Upgrade. The Fire World is beyond any technology we have here. They gave me the Upgrade Box, the way to turn people into Androids. It took us a few years to get the Androids fully prepared. But we did it. The men who I sent to the City's, helped get the Upgrade Boxes installed in the other City's."
"One more thing I don't get Derek. Your going to use sealed people energy to fight the Fire World so they wont be a threat. What was you doing with it before?"
"We weren't. The sealed energy was going to the Fire World to repair their world after they got attacked by a unknown enity. Or in other words "The Package" I thought the package was you Malik. But it wasn't. Someone on this planet attacked the Fire World and they wanted me to send it back, in exchange for the stuff they gave me."
Malik looked on confused.
"They were unable to come to this world themselves so they had to strike a deal with me. We figured out what the sealed energy was, and we decide to keep it for ourselves. We sent some other energy to the Fire World to stop them from catching onto us."
"Another enity." questioned Malik. "So thats it. You did all of that, masterminded it all."
"Yes Malik. But all for a good cause, dueling is wrong. It ruined my life."
"All those people dead. Everyone you have screwed up. All because your life was garbage. Who gave you the right to play such a mighty role?"
"I'm trying to make peoples lives better. Yes I had to kill a few people. But it was worth it."
"I have seen your future Sampson. And its not any sort of future."
Sampson looked bemused. "What future?"
"Never mind. Back to the duel! I pay one gage counter, since you have more then 2000 life points. Ragtag Phoenix can inflict 500 points of damage to you!"
Sampson LP: 2900 - 2400 Malik Gage: 5 - 4
"I do it one more time!" Ragtag Phoenix flapped its mighty wings, and the breeze hit Sampson.
"Sampson LP: 2400 - 1900 Malik Gage: 4 - 3
"Now go Ragtag Phoenix, end this now. Attack him directly!"
"Not so fast Malik, you might have improved, but your not good enough. I play the trap Sampson Statues."
Five statues appeared on Sampson's field. Each one looked like Sampson himself. Phoenix's attack was wiped out.
"Please tell me you didn't create a card about yourself?"
"Well who better to model it then your glorious President."
"Whatever was in Blazes DNA, it has given you a ego. I didn't think it was possible, but your even more hateable."
Sampson chuckled. "This card is special. When I have no monsters on my field, I can special summon Five Sampson Statues. When there are Sampson Statues on the field, all attacks are negated!"
"I end there. "
"Good your monsters revert to 0 ATK."
Phoenix ATK: 0 Growth Warrior ATK: 0
Turn 6
Malik LP: 1100 Gage: 3 Hand: 1
Sampson LP: 1900 Gage: 4 Hand: 2
"I draw!"
"Time to show you what Sampson Statues can truly do Malik. I play the spell Sampson Rebuild. By sending a face up spell card to the grave, I can speical summon Growth monsters in place of my Sampson Statues. However their effects are each negated. I send Blank Reverse to the grave"
"All of them...?" stuttered Malik.
"Indeed." Sampson sent his Blank Reverse. "Now then. Appear before me Blank Prism, Blank Triangle, Blank Octagon, Blank Rhombus and Blank Shell!"
Blank Monsters ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Fairy/Growth Gage LVLS: Various
"Next up is the fun part. I play the spell Blank Reconfiguration! By banishing five Growth monsters on my field. Not only do I gain maximum gage counters, but I don't have to pay anything to summon a Growth monster for the remainder of this turn, plus I dont need a foundation monster!
"WHAT?!"
The Blank Growth monsters disappeared from the field.
Sampson Gage: 4 - 15
"I "pay" ten gage counters, to summon my most brilliant monster!"
Sampson Gage: 15
"Come to the field Blank Rhombicosidodecahedron!"
A massive colorless shape with different shapes around a cube like shape appeared.
Blank Rhombicosidodecahedron ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Fairy/Growth Gage LVL: 10
"What in the world is that? And how on earth do you say its name?!"
"Its name is irrelevant. But since its a high LVL Growth monster, it has low level gage effect costs. Like this, I pay two counters, this banishes all monsters on your field with 0 ATK. And you take 400 points of damage."
Sampson Gage: 15 - 13
Phoenix and Growth Warrior disappeared from the field. Malik was then hit with the damage.
Malik LP: 1100 - 300
"I end my turn."
Turn 7
Malik LP: 300 Gage: 3 Hand: 1
Sampson LP: 1900 Gage: 4 Hand: 1
"Its not very impressive Derek. I draw!"
"Perfect." thought Malik. "I summon Ragtag Dragon!"
A winged orange dragon with the letter R on its tail appeared on the field it roared.
Ragtag Dragon ATK: 1000 DEF: 1200 LVL 3 Dark/Dragon
"This monster is unaffected by face up spell or trap card effects."
Malik Gage: 3 - 4 (Effect)
"Now go Dragon attack his Rhombi-something!"
"You think now is the time to laugh. I play Rhombicosidodecahedron main effect, when this card battles, the card attacking it becomes 0 ATK. Then it is destroyed! However I dont gain any gage counters."
"No way."
Dragon ATK: 0
Ragtag Dragon hit the massive colourless shape and got destroyed.
"I pay one gage counter, when a monster is sent to the graveyard via my monsters effect. You take that monsters ATK as damage!"
Sampson Gage: 13 - 12
Malik looked on in fear as a colourless beam was going straight towards him.
"I banish Ragtag Dragon. Any effect damage I would take is negated."
A shield protect Malik from the beam.
Malik Gage: 4 - 5 (Effect)
"Very well. But how will you stop me now Malik?"
"Good question." thought Malik.
Next Time: Malik is faced with little time and little LP left. Taking on Sampson's strongest monster, Malik must call forth his entire deck to find a way to beat his greatest foe.
Cards
Malik
Speical Safe
This turn, all speical summoned monsters cant be destroyed, targeted or banished from the field.
Ragtag Dragon ATK: 1000 DEF: 1200 LVL 3Dark/Dragon
1) This monster is unaffected by face up spells/trap
2) Banish this card from your grave. Negate all effect damage this turn.
Growth Warrior ATK: 1400 DEF:1200 Dark/Warrior LVL 4
Speical summon this card from your grave or hand by sending any amount of face up monsters you control to the grave. Then speical summon this card.
When this card is speical summoned, you gain gage counters X the amount of tributed monsters.
Sampson
Blank Star ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Fairy Sampson
While you control no monsters, speical summon this card from your grave.
If this is the only monster on the field. Add one Blank spell card to your hand from your deck by tributing this card.
Blank Shell/Growth Monster
Stats Unknown.
Sampson Statues/Trap
When you have no monsters on your field. Speical summon 5 Sampson Statue Tokens. (ATK: 0 DEF: 0) All attacks are negated while these 5 remain on the field.
Sampson Rebuild/Spell
Send one face up spell to the grave from your field. Destroy 5 Sampson Statues. Then speical summon 5 Blank Growth monsters from your extra deck with there effects negated.
Blank Reconfiguration/Spell
Banish 5 face up Blank Growth monsters, then increase your gage counters to 15. You do not pay any gage counters to summon a Growth Blank monster this turn from the extra deck. You do not need a Foundation monster to speical summon this turn.
Blank Draw/Spell
Banish any amount of Blank monsters, the draw the same amount. Your opponent draws half of what you drew.
Blank Punishment/Spell
Inflict 300 points of damage to your opponent for each monster face up on the field with 0 ATK.
Blank Rhombicosidodecahedron ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Light/Fairy/Growth Gage LVL: 10
One Foundation Monster + 10 Counters.
Main effect: When this card does battle with a opponents monster. Make the attacking monsters ATK 0, then destroy it.
Other effects unknown.
2- Counters. Destroy all monsters whose ATK is 0, on your opponents field. Then inflict 400 points of damage.
1 Counter. When a opponents monster is sent to the grave, during either players turn. Inflict damage equal to that monsters ATK to your opponent.
