Mark 038: Royal Flush
After another half hour, Ramirez finally started showing signs of consciousness. "Ah, we thought you'd never get up." Xavier breathed a sigh of relief. "But wait, she is deaf you say? How do we talk to her then?" He asked Nate who had heard that from Richard. "I don't know.. gestures?" He knew off those, but only knew so little. "Wait, maybe this will help. Ra-mi-rez? Are you o-kay?" Sarah looked straight at her and moved her thumb up and down. ".." The girl just stared blankly at her. "Fine." Before answering. "So, you know." It did not take a genius to figure out why they were behaving that oddly. "Yeah. Oh and sorry about thinking you were a spy or something and chasing you down." Xavier said quickly, even though she had not even been aware of said chase. "Anyway we should probably head back dow, the worst seems to be over now." Ada said, noting that there were no more noises. "Yeah, Urizen is probably still up there." Xavier replied. 'Though, now that i think about it. It was Yale who insisted on us being friends with him in the first place." He was not sure where the motives lied with him. 'Yale.." Ramirez meanwhile stared at her own cards, Infernity Mirage and Necro Gardna in particular. 'He did something.. to me.."
"Humans show their true natures in these kinds of situations, would you not agree?" Malcean witnessed the rioting done below from the second story of the parking lot. People were tipping over cars, looting stores and fighting back against the police. "So unseemly." He scoffed. "It's in our genes, some might say." Lincoln said while leaning on the car. "They can not help but be descended from a lesser breed." Just then a third figure joined the conversation. "Hm?" This one wore a uniform of Gaunts unit, yet he did not sound like one. "Hello father." The kid took his helmet off revealing himself to the Ace of Diamonds as the one he dueled when he called himself Yale Quincy. "Welcome back, Jason. We have missed you. Your sister has been very worried about you." And now he saw him as someone else. "I see. Your other project eh?" Lincoln realized Malcean had picked an infiltrant from his own family. "No offense to your contribution, but my son here was the only one that could get close to Gaunts son. And the only one with the ability to bring god within Gaunts domain." Malcean explained. "None taken. I assume we can leave now?" He opened the doors of the limousine. "Not yet. I fear I have been spotted." Jason sighed. "I can take care of prying eyes on the ground, and your friends can take care of those in the sky. But I am not sure if my powers work against those with the talismans." Lincoln just smiled and took out his dueldisk. "Then allow me.."
The two turned out to be the other two Aces, Richard and Macbeth. "He was last seen here." The few troops they could spare had the parking lot surrounded. "Good, do not let anyone out under any circumstances." They did not want to let him slip away. "Aye-aye. That man will not get away with this." The officer saluted the two and had his men take their positions. The two then decided to search the area themselves. "It's odd, right Rich? Why would a kid like that, do that? And how?" Macbeth had heard the story about YQ, but he did not quite understand it. "And they say he can make holograms do real damage? Like the earthbounds can? That sounds like a link to me." Richard nodded. "Yes. The damage to the lab looked like a monster had torn it apart. It seemed he wanted to destroy the laptop specifically, even though our department did not find anything out of the ordinary on it." They reached the second floor and stopped. "All technology leads to somewhere, Marshall." Lincoln stood on the opposite end. "In this case, to your dead end."
Before they could exchange any words or even insults, the masked man raised his arm and revealed an activated disk. "You!" A light came from underneath Lincoln which encircled the trio. Both their disks were turned on by it as well. "It seems I did have to see you again. My mistake. This time I will make sure you are put under." He drew five cards. "What is this? You want to duel us here?" Macbeth did want this, he just did not think the man would come up to them. "Obviously. Let's just say I am here to distract you." He chuckled, by now Jason and Malcean had managed to break free he wagered. "That is acceptable. Capturing you will yield results as well." Richard drew five cards as well. "That's right!" Macbeth was the last to add cards to his hand. "This is a two-on-one duel then?" It seemed Lincoln wanted to take them both on at the same time. "You can say that. I will alternate turns between the two of you. I do not need to increase my lifepoints or handsize." He pointed at the Ace of Spades. "You may begin, Marshall. Duel!"
Lincolns LP: 8000 Macbeths LP: 8000 Richards LP: 8000
"..Card Destruction." He started off with a spell that forced everyone to toss out their old cards in their hand and draw new ones. "The deck destruction deck still eh? Your style conflicts with his.." Lincoln saw that neither had changed their decks since the last day. "We do not mind." Macbeth retorted. "Not when your conflict with ours is far greater." Richard added and summoned The Fabled Rubyruda(1100/800). He also placed three spell/trap cards down and ended his turn. "So you say. And yet your first act served me well, Marshall." Lincoln started his turn. "My deck relies on a full scrapyard. You saved me a lot of trouble."
He summoned the Scrap Chimera(1700/500). "Uh oh." Chimera used its ability to rebuild a Scrap Beast(1600/1300) from his cemetery. "I use these two as materials for my Scrap Dragon!" He tuned the two level 4 scrap cards to call out the level 8 Scrap Dragon(2800/2000). "I can not attack during this turn, but I can destroy." He activated a card called Scrap Lube. "That sounds wrong." This oilzone spell could rebuild scraps from the graveyard, and Lincoln used it to bring out the Scrap Beast again. "I destroy Scrap Beast, to destroy your Fabled monster." The dragon used its ability, and Lincolns beast was dismantled already. "Beast Soul Swap." But Richards beast was not, for he used his trap. "I swap Fabled Rubyruda with Mine Mole." He returned the bird to his hand and brought out a mining mole(1000/1200) in defense mode. "I missed huh?" However since Scrap Beast died, Lincoln could take back any scrapped scrap monster. "No matter." He put Scrap Chimera in his hand and placed two spell/traps. "Well then Tobias, show me what you got."
"I will!" Macbeth drew. "The Card Destruction did not hurt me much. Quite the opposite!" Now had Gemknight Fusion in his hand, and he played it. "I fuse Gemknight Tourmaline with Gemknight Crystal!" He combined pure white crystal with bright yellow, to form a bloodred gem warrior, Gemknight Ruby(2500/1300). "Then I normal summon Gemknight Alexandrite, and sacrifice it!" Ruby could absorb the blue crystal knight(1800/1200) to take over its attackpower (Ruby: 4300 atk). "What I have is this, the outrage of all the people you betrayed and hurt. All the duelists souls you wounded! Take this, Ruby-Drawing Axe Slash!" Scrap Dragon had been summoned to defense mode, yet since his fusion monster could inflict piercing damage, this attack costed Lincoln a great deal of lifepoints. Richard at this time moved his hand to one of his face-down cards, but apparently decided against using it. "Betrayed you say? That's a joke!" But when a Scrap Dragon was broken to pieces, any non synchronized scrap monster could be revived.
Lincolns LP: 5700
"To not betray you, would be to betray my true self, my true friends." He rebuilt a Scrap-Golem(2300/1400) monster. "Your true self?" Macbeth placed two cards down and ended his turn, Ruby(2500/1300) lost its powerboost. "Don't bother asking." Lincoln drew and immediately resummoned the Scrap Chimera. "You do not deserve to know." The Chimera revived the Beast, and he used them to synchro summon his second Scrap Dragon(2800/2000) in attack position this time. "Tuner Capture." Now Richard used his second trap, a capturing card that took Scrap Beast from Lincolns graveyard and placed it on his field. "Hmph, you can wait Marshall." Lincoln did not seem to care. "Macbeth made me feel too little, I will not be as lenient." Then his Golem used its ability. "I can bring one Scrap monster back, to any side of the field." The golem used leftover metal parts from cameras and kitchen tools to forge a Scrap Goblin(0/500). "Hey?" And he gave it to Macbeth. "This should not be new to you. Scrap Goblin can not be killed in battle."
He entered the battle phase. "This is how I cause the most pain, now feel it." The dragon and the golem both struck the indestructible Goblin. With zero attack, those attacks might as well have been direct hits. "Gggh." And the damage the Ace of Hearts took, was felt by his body. "And now to destroy it." In his second main phase he flipped a trap card. "Widespread Dud. I target two monsters in attack position. When one dies, so does the other. When the trap is removed, both explode" Dud claymore mines attached themselves to Ruby and Goblin. "Scrap Dragon destroys the Dud, to destroy Mine Mole!" This way all three monsters would be blown to pieces. "Defusion!" However when one of three was removed, the duds went off prematurely. "I unfuse Ruby." Ruby became its fusion materials Crystal(2450/1950) and Tourmaline(1600/1800). "Feh." Scrap Goblin was destroyed and so was Widespread Dud. The dragon lost its target before it could use it against Mine Mole. "Then I suppose you it is down to synchro versus synchro." He ended his turn.
Macbeths LP: 2900
"Yes." Richard resummoned Fabled Rubyruda. "Chain Dog." Secondly, since he controlled more than one beast, he could revive a discarded ChainDog(1600/1100). "Voltic Bicorn." He tuned the level 3 Mine Mole with the stolen Scrap Beast to form the two-horned horse(2500/2000). When Mine Mole was used for a synchro summon, he could draw a card too. "And Lightning Tricorn." The three-horned horse(2800/2000) was synchro summoned as well, after the level 4 dog and the level 4 Fabled tuner were combined. "They both attack." Voltic galloped towards Lincoln first, however its target was the superior Scrap Dragon "What?" Macbeth gasped as he saw the dragon counterattack and kill the Bicorn. "I get it." Because it was killed, all three players had to discard seven cards from their decks. Next the Tricorn charged. "They are equals." The two synchro monsters destroyed each other. Both could special summon monsters from the grave upon their deaths. "Nice!" Richard called back the Bicorn, Lincoln called a second Scrap Golem(2300/1400)
Richards LP: 7700
"..Not so nice." It appeared Lincoln had discarded a second Golem when Bicorns effect hit him. "Third attack." But Bicorn could kill the first Golem for some more damage at least. "Greed Grado." Before he ended his turn, he played a quickplay spell. "Draw two cards." He could use it when an enemy's synchro monster had been killed in a turn. "Set a card, end turn." Lincoln smirked. "Heh. I gave you that card, didn't I?" However he flipped the same spell and drew twice as well. "Thankfully I had multiple copies." And one of the cards he drew appeared to be a second Scrap Chimera. "But since one head will not do against two." This Chimera(1700/500) was summoned too, and it summoned the Beast tuner from the scrapheap a third time. And the second Golem recrafted the same Scrap Goblin to Macbeth's field. "I synchro summon!"
Lincolns LP: 5500
The level 4 Orthros and level 5 Golem used their own parts to assemble the two-headed dragon(3000/2200). "I set a card and destroy it, to return your two trap cards back to your hand." Lincoln let a spell of his go, and bounced back Richards and Macbeths face-down cards. "I want to ensure that this will reach its goal." He entered the battle phase again. "Because you are the weakest link, and you always have been. Macbeth!" The two heads released a blast of energy and steam at Scrap Goblin. A strike like that would deplete all his lifepoints. "He is not alone in this!" Fortunately one of the seven cards Richard had thrown away earlier was a Necro Gardna, which he banished to negate Lincolns attack. "Rich!" Macbeth cried out with joy. "You will have to take us both down, Vincent." Richard said with a determined look.
Back at the tower..
"Whoa this place got trashed." Nathan and company entered the command chamber, which had seen better days.. "Is everyone allright?" Most of the staff was still unconscious. "I called for medics, they and Ansoni will be here soon." The one conscious worker replied. Urizen at least seemed to be okay, yet he was not speaking. "Hey, but where is.." Yet the most prominent figure was absent. "Oh no." And this lead to one unfortunate conclusion. "Yes. That is the right phrase." Urizen said, his fists still clenched. "He failed. And.." His tone was calm, but that soon ended when he noticed who else was in the room with them. "YOU!" Heis eyes caught Ramirez. "You did this, you let the thing in! That is what you do isn't it?" He rushed over to her and grabbed her by the collar. "You defeat duelists, turn them into hopeless shells, make them hollow enough for these gods to possess?" She did not answer, but that was because he was talking too fast for her to keep up with. "Hey, wait. Relax! She did not do it!" Xavier shouted. "It was Yale, Yale let it in!"
"Yale?" Urizen repeated incredulously, as he let Ramirez go. "Him? How, why?" That just added more layers to his current confused state. "We know as much as you do, dude." Nathan shrugged. "Tsk. But that is not the end of it. She knows something." Urizen looked at her again. "You are always there when these things pop up, you knew about the nazca geoglyphs as well. All of them, and all of the signer marks. You wanted to find people like Sarah, and you believed I was one as well. Because of my father, is that it?" He did not even know how she knew about him, if she knew about him. "Now I want clear answers, no vague sentences or riddles or any of that bullcrap. Tell me what you know!" That his words were loud was not a problem, this time he spoke slow enough to be read. "I know only what I hear." She explained. "Hear? But you are.." Though Ada knew that could not have been a literal explanation. "I hear not your voices. Other voices. I can hear.. them. I do not defeat duelists to let them hear too. I defeat them so they do not have to hear."
(To be Continued in Mark 039: Set for the Scrapheap)
New Cards used by Richard Marshall
The Fabled Rubyruda
Mine Mole
-
Card Destruction
Greed Grado
-
Beast Soul Swap
Tuner Capture
New Cards used by Tobias Macbeth
Gem-Knight Crystal
-
Defusion
New Cards used by Vince V. Lincoln
Scrap Golem
Scrap Goblin
-
Scrap Lube
-
Widespread Dud