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This fic a joint project with one of my friends, Comic Master Alpha.
EPISODE 1-37
Soldiers of the Grave
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Saito: 3400
Gozaburo: 3400
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Saito grimaced when he realized that he potentially only had one turn left to win the duel. Even with his Montage Dragon (ATK/? DEF/0) standing at seventy-five hundred attack points along with Felgrand Dragon (ATK/2800 DEF/2800), Tyrant Dragon (ATK/2900 DEF/2500), and Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (ATK/2800 DEF/2400), he still wouldn't be able to do enough damage by attacking Gozaburo's Five God Dragon (ATK/5000 DEF/5000) in his next turn. The teen only had two cards in his hand while Gozaburo had five, four of which were pieces of Exodia.
This was going to be tricky.
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Mikey: 4500
Bonz: 5900
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Mikey stood with his Cyber Dragon (ATK/2100 DEF/1600), Kuraz the Light Monarch (ATK/2400 DEF/1000), one facedown card and no cards in his hand as he faced Bonz with his Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon (ATK/2400 DEF/2000), Il Blud (ATK/2100 DEF/800), and Mikey's resurrected Beast King Barbaros (ATK/3000 DEF/1200) along with his Zombie World, Card of Safe Return, and Call of the Mummy on the field and four cards in his hand.
"Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon, go! Attack Cyber Dragon with Undead Fire Blast!" On the undead duelist's command, Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon gathered up spirit flames and fired them in a concentrated blast at Cyber Dragon. A mechanical screech pierced the air as the rusted mechanical beast was reduced to scrap metal.
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Mikey: 4200
Bonz: 5900
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After the attack went through, Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon expelled ghost fire from its wings and summoned Cyber Dragon to its side. "Beast King Barbaros, attack Kuraz the Light Monarch!" On Bonz's command, Beast King Barbaros took up his lance and charged.
"I activate Compulsory Evacuation Device!" The moment Mikey's trap card was flipped face-up, a large cannon similar to the one found in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess at Lake Hylia only more futuristic in appearance materialized onto the field. "And I'll use it to eject Barbaros from the field!" A door opened and Beast King Barbaros ran in headfirst. The hatch slammed shut and locked before taking aim and firing. Barbaros was launched into the air and reverted back into card form as he returned to Mikey's hand.
"Feh. Nothing I can't fix later." Bonz concluded his turn and now it was his opponent's turn.
"I draw." Mikey took the top card off his deck and then summoned Beast King Barbaros at nineteen-hundred attack points. "I set a card and end my turn."
"Once again, I'll be bringing your Barbaros to serve me." Bonz drew his card and pointed at his intended target, "Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon, attack Beast King Barbaros with Undead Fire Blast!" As Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon gathered up spirit flames, Mikey flipped his facedown up.
"I activate Interdimensional Matter Transporter. This card lets me remove one monster on my field from play until the End Phase of this turn." A strange device appeared and it flashed a bright light that made Beast King Barbaros disappear, leaving Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon without a target.
"Fine. I'll end my turn," Bonz muttered with a scowl. At that moment, Beast King Barbaros returned to Mikey's side of the field. However, since it hadn't been summoned from his hand without any tributes, it was back to its original three thousand attack points.
The brunet happily drew his card now that things were looking in his favor and pointed at Il Blud. "First I'm taking him out so you can't resurrect any monsters. Kuraz the Light Monarch, attack Il Blud with Excalibur's Light!"
"It shall be done, Mikey!" Kuraz replied. He threw back his cape and tore his sword from its scabbard with one swift stroke and fired a golden wave of light that penetrated Il Blud's body and cleaved it in two.
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Mikey: 4200
Bonz: 5600
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"Now for him." Mikey pointed up at Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon, "Beast King Barbaros, attack Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon with Death Sentence!" The massive liontaur roared and charged. The undead dragon let out a terrifying cry and expelled ghost fire at the oncoming monster. Barbaros blocked the pale blue inferno with his shield before lunging forward with his lance, penetrating the dragon's chest and impaling its non-beating heart. Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon let out a roar of pain as it was slain and its body fell to the ground before its flesh burned away in seconds by ghost fire, leaving behind a heavy stench of burnt organs and decay.
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Mikey: 4200
Bonz: 5000
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"I end my turn."
"So you managed to recover. But it won't last long, I guarantee it!" Bonz drew his next card and promptly added it to his hand. Currently, all he had was Mikey's Cyber Dragon and as long as his opponent had Beast King Barbaros out, the most he would be able to do would be to defend. "I set a monster facedown and switch Cyber Dragon into defense mode. That ends my turn."
"My move!" Mikey drew his card and pointed across the field. "Kuraz, destroy Cyber Dragon! Excalibur's Light!" With his sword still in hand, Kuraz the Light Monarch swung his blade and cleaved through Cyber Dragon with a beam of light. "Beast King Barbaros, your turn. Attack that facedown! Death Sentence!" Barbaros ran toward the facedown card and thrust his lance into it only to have it deflected by a scythe as it was revealed to be Spirit Reaper (ATK/300 DEF/200), a monster that could not be destroyed in battle. Bonz's Life Points were safe for now. With this in mind, Mikey ended his turn. Bonz proceeded with his move and drew his card. He smirked when he saw it.
"I set one card facedown and switch Spirit Reaper into attack mode before end my turn," he declared.
"He's baiting Mikey," Coltyn thought aloud, "Switching a low-level monster into attack mode and setting a facedown are an obvious ploy to destroy his monsters. I'm sure Mikey knows this too."
"I draw!" Mikey took his card and placed it in his hand. "I end my turn."
"In the end, you're going to wish you had attacked and done some damage," Bonz cackled as he drew his next card, "First I activate my facedown, Raigeki Break. Now by discarding one card, I can destroy one card on the field." He discarded Plaguespreader Zombie and a bolt of lightning shot down and destroyed Beast King Barbaros. "Next I summon Zombie Master and use his effect to bring one Zombie back from the grave!" Bonz laughed as he summoned a pale white-haired necromancer (ATK/1800 DEF/0) to the field and discarded one of his Zombie monsters to bring out a grotesque abomination made up of body parts from multiple creatures – Plaguespreader Zombie (ATK/400 DEF/200).
"That's a Tuner!" Max exclaimed as Bonz drew a card thanks to Card of Safe Return.
"Now I tune my Plaguespreader Zombie to my Zombie Master!" The undead duelist snapped his rotting fingers and Plaguespreader Zombie's chest split wide open as it released two shimmering stars. Its body vanished as those stars formed into rings which surrounded Zombie Master and a beam of light shot out. "Come out, Revived King Ha Des!" As the light subsided, tattered robes flapped in an graphically generated wind as the king of the demons Dark Ruler Ha Des emerged, but his skin was now a dull grey riddled with maggot holes (ATK/2450 DEF/0). "The effect of Dark Ruler Ha Des made it so that effects of monsters destroyed by Fiends in battle would be negated. But as the Revived King, Ha Des now supports his new Zombie brethren! Ironic that the demon king is now a servant to the undead. Go, Revived King Ha Des! Destroy Kuraz the Light Monarch! Plague of Untimely Death!" Revived King Ha Des spread out his arms and opened his mouth to a physically impossible width before exhaling an enormous swarm of locusts. The insects completely surrounded Kuraz the Light Monarch, whose screams of agony echoed throughout the field sending chills down the spines of the living.
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Mikey: 4150
Bonz: 5000
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"I switch my Spirit Reaper into defense mode and end my turn."
Mikey nodded and drew his card. Revived King Ha Des was going to be a problem; its power was just fifty points stronger than most of his stronger easily-summoned creatures. For the time being, he set a monster and one facedown and concluded his turn.
It was back to Bonz now and as he drew his card, a wicked grin spread across his decaying face. "I summon Pyramid Turtle in attack mode." He placed his card onto a dirt-encrusted slot on his Duel Disk and a turtle with a pyramid for a shell appeared (ATK/1200 DEF/1400). "Next I return one card from my hand to the top of my deck to use Plaguespreader Zombie's effect and Special Summon it onto the field." He placed a card back into his deck slot and his Plaguespreader Zombie reappeared, prompting him to draw another card thanks to Card of Safe Return. "Now I attune Pyramid Turtle using Plaguespreader Zombie." Once again, Plaguespreader Zombie's chest burst open and it vanished as two starts emerged and formed into rings that surrounded Pyramid Turtle. The creature was then engulfed in a beam of light as the two monsters synchronized.
"Your time has come. Arise, Doomkaiser Dragon!" From the light, two bony wings spread out and the reanimated corpse of Chthonian Emperor Dragon appeared, except its hide had been reduced to a shriveled black and its wings were now ragged and torn (ATK/2400 DEF/1500). At the same time, Plaguespreader Zombie was removed from play due to its own effect. "When Doomkaiser Dragon is Special Summon, his effect lets me Special Summon one Zombie monster from your graveyard in attack mode. And since Zombie World is in play, all your monsters are Zombies." As Doomkaiser Dragon stood there, clouds of an unknown compound seeped from its body into the ground and before long, Beast King Barbaros erupted from the bones littering the field and roared.
"You have got to be shitting me," Sammie muttered in disbelief.
"I'll play Upstart Goblin so I can draw one card." Bonz played card to draw one from his deck while at the same time boosting Mikey's Life Points.
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Mikey: 5150
Bonz: 5000
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"Beast King Barbaros, attack first with Death Sentence!" Beast King Barbaros roared and thrust his lance into the card, which turned out to be Majestic Mech – Senku. With no monsters on the field, Mikey had absolutely no defense. "Revived King Ha Des, attack him directly with Plague of Untimely Death!" Revived King Ha Des opened his mouth and a swarm of locusts flew forth and overwhelmed Mikey.
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Mikey: 2700
Bonz: 5000
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"Doomkaiser Dragon, it's your turn now. Attack him with Undead Blight!" Doomkaiser Dragon snarled as it opened its mouth and unleashed a burst of green gas. In reality, it was a cloud of deadly micro-organisms and as the attack struck Mikey, a total of twenty-four hundred Life Points was deducted from his score.
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Mikey: 300
Bonz: 5000
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"I end my turn!" Bonz cackled as he took a step back and stared at Mikey with his hideous gaze. "You've only got three hundred Life Points and I have the most powerful monsters on my side."
"I can still come back," Mikey said.
"Face it," Bonz laughed, "You don't stand…"
"NO!" Sammie interrupted, "We're not doing that!"
"…fine." Bonz pointed at Mikey and his insane expression appeared once again, "Make your final move!"
"I draw." The brunet drew his card. "I activate my facedown card, Compulsory Evacuation Device. Barbaros, return to my hand!" Once again, a large machine appeared and Beast King Barbaros was returned to Mikey's hand.
"Next I summon Beast King Barbaros without any tributes." Mikey placed the card onto the field and brought out his behemoth liontaur again.
"Again?" Bonz laughed. "You're trying that trick again?"
"Not quite." Mikey played a card from his hand. " I play the Quick-Play spell Prohibited Chalice. This gives Barbaros four hundred extra attack points until the End Phase."
"That won't do you any good. He's still too weak."
"Prohibited Chalice has a second effect," Mikey continued, "It negates my Barbaros' effect!" All eyes watched as Beast King Barbaros' attack power rose to thirty-four hundred. "Beast King Barbaros, destroy Revived King Ha Des! Death Sentence!" The giant monster thrust his lance into Ha Des, whose screams echoed loudly as he was swiftly returned to the grave from which he was raised.
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Mikey: 300
Bonz: 4050
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"I end my turn," he declared.
"Take that, motherfucker!" Sammie yelled, "This is payback for kidnapping my family, you coward!" Bonz glared at her as he placed his fingers on his deck.
"You speak of justice? Of Cowardice? What it justice that sent me to hell!? Was it justice that killed me and my friends!? There is no justice, only death!" He drew his card and Mikey looked on at him curiously. "I will show you the justice of the grave, and the true meaning of fear! I play Book of Life. With this card, I can resurrect one Zombie from my graveyard and remove from play one card in your graveyard. So say goodbye to Kuraz the Light Monarch." Mikey's Duel Disk ejected his prized card and he placed it carefully in his pocket as Bonz pulled out a card from his own graveyard. "Welcome back, Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon!" Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon rose up from the bones and roared once again. Card of Safe Return flashed and Bonz drew a card.
"I'll end my turn with two facedowns."
"Before I begin my turn," Mikey started, his curiosity now piquing as his hand hovered at the ready above his deck, "answer me this, what are you? Why are you here? Why are you doing this? And what did you do to those guards?"
Bonz lips curled as the necromantic flesh fell to the ground in flakes of undeath. "I am Bonz the hell walker; didn't you hear? I used to be a pro level duelist that competed in both the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City tournaments. I was going to be a fucking star! I had so much potential and guys like Bandit Keith, Joey Wheeler, and that friggin' freak with the white hair ruined my life!" Bonz seethed in rage as a wheezing sound tore through the holes in his throat, skin flapping with each breath. "I was killed and sent to hell by that freak... I stayed there and died a thousand times…I lost all hope, but he saved me. He is why I am doing this."
"Who? Who helped you? Who are you working for? Is it Gozaburo?" Mickey questioned, trying to understand the upset dead boy. He would have been skeptical of the whole situation had the dead man not been standing there the whole time. It was too surreal.
"Gozaburo? Please, the person I work for is a lot more powerful than Gozaburo. Now, enough of this questioning! Draw your final card!"
"I draw." Mikey drew his card, sighing as he did so. "I'll play Enemy Controller and with it I'll target Spirit Reaper, which will be destroyed by its own effect." A giant game controller appeared on the field and tried to plug into Spirit Reaper, but the small undead being swiftly rotted away until it was nothing more than a broken scythe and a tattered robe covered in dust. "I'll end there."
"My turn." Bonz drew his card and looked at his facedowns. To his left he had laid down Torrential Tribute so when Mikey summoned a monster, all the monsters on the field would be destroyed and then he would summon a Zombie from his graveyard. Beside that was Mirror Force should Mikey choose to attack without summoning. The undead duelist cackled silently to himself. This would end in his favor. He quickly passed his turn and then it was back to Mikey. The young teen drew his card and passed. He had some good cards now, but there was just one more that he needed. He hoped he would get it next turn.
As Bonz drew, he felt compelled to trigger his Torrential Tribute on his own. However, he managed to refrain himself from doing so. To him it was a greater victory to have his opponent destroy himself. That was not to be the case when Mikey drew on his next turn and he smiled.
"I play Heavy Storm!" A powerful wind blew across the field and destroyed Bonz's two facedown cards, his Card of Safe Return, his Call of the Mummy, and to his horror Zombie World. With the field card gone, all monsters regained their original type. "Now I summon Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast in attack mode and use a second Prohibited Chalice on him!" A mechanical dragon armed to the teeth with cannons (ATK/2800 DEF/2000) appeared on the field and with its effect removed and its power boosted by four hundred, Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast's attack power rose to thirty-two hundred.
"Fusilier Dragon, attack Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon with Heavy Artillery!" Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast turned its weapons onto Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon and locked on target. The sound of cannons as they unleashed their loads filled with air with such intensity that the walls themselves shook under the mighty of the creature's power. The first shell struck Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon's left wing, causing the mighty undead creature to roar in pain as the appendage was torn from its socket. The second struck its other wing, bringing upon it another wave of insufferable pain and agony. Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon fell to the ground growling as the third shell shot across the field and struck its chest with such force that the beast buckled down. It raised its head up to watch as the final missile came directly to its face and exploded upon contact, wiping out the monster for good.
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Mikey: 300
Bonz: 3250
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"Beast King Barbaros, your turn!" commanded Mikey, "Death Sentence!" Beast King Barbaros, now no longer a reanimated corpse, roared as he charged and thrust his lance into Bonz's heart as if to take revenge on him for turning him into an undead monster.
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Mikey: 300
Bonz: 250
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"How can this be happening?" Bonz gasped. "My strategy was perfect. I had your monsters serving me! The power was mine!"
"Power isn't everything, "Mikey replied, "You know what they say." He punched his arm out toward Bonz. "The meek shall inherit the Earth."
"The meek shall be buried within the Earth!" Bonz roared as he tore the top card off his deck. "I play Lightning Vortex!" He discarded a card to his graveyard and a rain of lightning shot down and destroyed both of Mikey's monsters. The undead duelist cackled manically as he stood with an empty field before him. "Now what was that you were saying about the meek inheriting the Earth?"
"Never underestimate even the smallest of flowers," Mikey replied. He drew his final card. "This duel ends now. I summon Malevolent Mech – Goku En in attack mode without a tribute!" He placed his card on the field and his undead version of Majestic Mech – Ohka appeared and roared (ATK/2400 DEF/1400).
"Impossible!" cried Bonz.
"What an ironic end," said Mikey, "that you're about to be finished by a Zombie. Malevolent Mech – Goku En, finish this duel! Malevolent Ray!" Malevolent Mech – Goku En opened its mouth as it gathered energy and then fired a solid black beam that penetrated Bonz's body.
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Mikey: 300
Bonz: 0
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"Damn it," the undead snarled.
"It's over," Mikey declared as he deactivated his Duel Disk.
"Now give me my parents!" Sammie roared.
"Ha ha ha ha…. And what makes you think we have them here?" Bonz chortled. He was suddenly grabbed and pulled up by Sammie.
"Tell me where they are, you little motherfucker, or I swear I'll…"
"You'll do what?" Bonz laughed again, "I'm already dead. What else can you do to me?" A cockroach crawled out of a gap in his shoulder and into a hole in his cheek, which he promptly killed between his rotten molars. He had her. "Now how about I send you ahead of them?" He opened his mouth and prepared to do something, but it never happened as a loud gunshot rang out and a bullet struck his forehead. Startled by the sound, Sammie dropped Bonz, who managed to stay on his feet as he leaned against a storage cupboard. Mikey turned around and saw a man with familiar grey eyes enter the room.
"Mr. Remington!"
"I told you, kid, Mr. Remington is my father. I'm Sako." Clenching a cigarette in his lips, Sako took aim at Bonz and fired again, this time piercing his chest. The undead duelist let out an inhuman noise and five marbles spilled out from his heart. They rolled along the floor and stopped just sort from Mikey's shoes. The five small spheres cracked open and a rush of wind burst out from within as voices of five different individuals filled the room. When the wind had died down, the young brunet had a confused look on his face.
"What just happened?"
"Those weren't just marbles," Sako explained, "They were Soul Prisons. I don't know all the details since I've just been a hired gun in all this, but I'll tell you as much as I can. Before all this began, zombie boy over there hatched a plan with some unknown guy to bring back the Big Five. The plan was to capture five people to use as hosts, the souls of the Big Five extracted from the net through some kind of hocus pocus. After that was done, the minds of the Big Five were to be implanted and the original souls of the bodies removed in order to prevent the two minds from conflicting with one another. I honestly thought that soul removal was impossible until I saw zombie boy's power. After that, I began spying on the higher ups to see what they were up to, doing my own research along the way. Apparently those little soul prisons engaged in a thing called a 'Shadow Game', which, from what I understand, usually requires both parties to agree to it. These things had some kind of loophole that automatically made any duel a shadow game as long as the marbles were in existence. It seems that all the guards in this building were then branded with some kind of ancient markings that sapped them of their, and I can't believe I am saying this, duel energy to the point of them being comatose if they lost. It is all some crazy complex bullshit for a fucking card game."
"And you still worked for these guys?" asked Mikey.
"Freelancers have a code and our most important rule is to never betray your employer, no matter how batshit crazy they are. I remember this guy I did a job for that paid me half a mil to go back in time and shoot Hitler. He was wearing a tin foil hat at the time and I figured it was too easy so I walked behind a corner and came back 5-minutes later claiming I got the kill. Crazy shit that was, but this is far crazier and a lot more real."
"Hey, aren't you forgetting something?" Sammie interjected, "What about my parents? Where are they?"
"Not here."
"WHAT?! But they said they kidnapped my parents!"
"Exactly," Sako replied, "But they never said where they were keeping them."
There was a moment of silence and a few minutes later, a desk flew out the window and landed on a parked car.
"Don't worry. I found them. They're safe now," Sako assured Sammie.
"So if Bonz here is the one with the power, then we still need to find his boss," Coltyn said.
"And that means Gozaburo Kaiba," Mikey finished, "But where are we going to find him?"
"I think Bonz will know," Max suggested as he turned to look at the undead duelist, "Hey, where'd he go?" Everyone looked around. Bonz was nowhere to be found.
"He escaped!" Sammie shouted.
"Go," Sako told the teens, "I'm going to check on the hosts to see if the Big Five truly have left their bodies. After that, I'll find that zombie motherfucker. "
"Okay. Thanks Sako." Mikey nodded at the Duel Sniper before he and his friends took off. As they were running Coltyn began to mumble something that made Mikey turn to him, "What was that Coltyn?"
"He had grey eyes," Coltyn said with a smile as he cleared his throat to quote, "'He observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest, and that all famous marksmen had them.' That is from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce."
Mikey smiled at the quote too. Mr. Remington would find Bonz. He knew it now.
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"Tell me grandson, what do you plan to do?" Gozaburo challenged.
"I'll show you exactly what I plan to do!" Saito drew his card, "Card Destruction will obliterate those Exodia cards very nicely." He played the card and Dark Ruler Ha Des suddenly appeared in the center of the field. He cackled and thrust his hands at both duelists, sending a powerful wind in their directions followed by a flurry of cards coming out of his sleeves. Saito and Gozaburo discarded their hands and drew the same number of cards they lost.
"Now you can't bring out Exodia." Saito pointed forward, "Montage Dragon, attack Five God Dragon. Power Collage!" Montage Dragon opened its mouths and each fired a different-colored beam. The three blasts fused together into one helix and collided with Five God Dragon, dealing damage to Gozaburo without destroying the target.
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Saito: 3400
Gozaburo: 900
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"I end my turn. Looks like your plan has backfired, grandfather."
"Not quite, grandson." Gozaburo drew his next card, "I switch Five God Dragon into defense mode and end my turn."
"Now you're just trying to hide behind an impenetrable wall." Saito drew and proceeded with his turn. With no way to get through a monster with five thousand defense points that could not be destroyed in battle by anything other than a Light monster, he ended his turn. Gozaburo's turn came next and after he drew, he placed his new card into his hand and set another one. Saito's turn came and went as he drew and passed. Gozaburo drew and discarded a card to his graveyard after passing his turn. Saito drew again and scowled. He needed his Dragon's Rage trap card so he could deal piercing damage and win.
Gozaburo drew and he laughed when he found what he received. "This is exactly what I need! Watch closely, grandson. I return all the monsters in my graveyard to my deck…" Every single monster card was removed from his graveyard and slotted in randomly into his deck before it was shuffled. "…so I can summon Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord!" Gozaburo placed a card into the center of his duel terminal and a hologram of a giant bearing a strong resemblance to Exodia appeared. It was almost identical to the original except its body was a darker shade of brown (ATK/? DEF/0).
"And what's the point of this monster?" Saito asked, clearly not impressed.
"Ah, allow me to explain my dear grandson." The last three words were spoken in an increasingly mocking tone. "Exodius gains one thousand attack points for each Normal Monster in my graveyard and each time he attacks I have to send one monster card from my hand or deck to my graveyard. Now, if I send all five pieces of Exodia to the graveyard this way, Exodius' final effect activates, allowing me to win the duel."
"Good luck," Saito scoffed, "It doesn't have any attack power."
"It will once I activate this." Gozaburo revealed his facedown card. "Advanced Ritual Art. I send Oppressed People, Charcoal Inpachi, Skull Servant, Thousand Eyes Idol, Kozaky, Gigobyte, Mokey Mokey, and Water Spirit from my deck to the graveyard so I can summon Shinato, King of a Higher Plane!" After the monsters had been sacrificed, a large blue-skinned god with six golden wings appeared (ATK/3300 DEF/3000). "And with eight Normal Monsters in the graveyard, that bring Exodius to eight thousand attack points!"
"Oh," Saito looked up at the powered-up Exodius, "son of a…"
"Exodius, attack Montage Dragon! Lightning Fire Flash!" Gozaburo discarded Right Leg of the Forbidden One from his deck to his graveyard, boosting Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord to nine thousand attack points, and watched as it unleashed a massive blast of fire upon Montage Dragon and destroyed it without an ounce of effort.
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Saito: 1900
Gozaburo: 900
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"You can't win, grandson!" Gozaburo bellowed, "Nothing you have can match power of this magnitude!"
Saito smirk that signature Kaiba smirk, his eyes gleaming in florescent light. "Nothing, but one card, and that is all I will need. That is all any Kaiba needs."
TO BE CONTINUED
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