Time now for one of the female dominant archetype to shine!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX or the rest of the franchise. I own Claudio, YugiNAtem117 owns Melody, AzureKite4 owns Kenji, Rocket Knight 777 owns Jethro, Jeremy Roswell owned by SulliMike23, Lily Rose Lee owned by Lily Truesdale and Alex Jacobs is owned by Digidramon.
Chapter 43: A Date with the Amazon
Bastion stood on a high cliff, staring out at the saw as the morning sun slowly began to rise. He took a deep breath, and stretched his arms, taking in the morning air. With his morning stretches done, and his head clear, he gazed back out at the waves.
'Ever since Claudio defeated Camula, things have been eerily quiet...too quiet. When the next Shadow Rider arrives, it may be my turn to duel, and with two of the seven Spirit Gates open, it's more important than ever...that I be prepared.'
Bastion reached into his pocket and pulled out his own Spirit Key, the thin necklace thread tied to his belt loop. He stared at the Key for a short moment, and then began to undo his blazer buttons.
After opening his blazer, Bastion looked at the six decks he carried around on a vest. One deck was used on Chazz that day he dueled him for the chance at Obelisk Blue. Bastion had made these six decks to fit each attribute of monster cards. The one he used against Chazz, the one with that used a Water Dragon, was his water-attribute deck. The other five were his Fire, Earth, Wind, Light, and Darkness decks.
'Good thing I'm well equipped,' he thought as he took out one deck and began to look through the cards. Some he recognized from previous duels, but there was one that he didn't recognize at all. It was a monster card that showed an image of a small girl in white with a white lamb hat and red pom poms on her robes. It was a White Magician Pikeru (1200/0).
Bastion raised an eyebrow and held up the card, "Where on earth did this card come from?" he asked himself. He looked around a few times, then back at the card, shaking his head, "Silly distraction..." he muttered, placing the card back into the deck, "Nothing distracts me!"
"From what?"
Bastion nearly fell off the cliff, before he leaned backwards to fall on his back. When he turned around, he saw Claudio and Melody walking up to him.
"You two may want to be more careful, you almost knocked me off the cliff..." Bastion said, catching his breath.
"Sorry, Einstein." Claudio said. "Mel and I never thought anyone would be up at this time."
"So what're you two doing up in the morning?"
"Having an early morning date." Melody said cheerfully. "We were planning to watch the sunrise up here until we heard you ranting how nothing distracts you."
"Dude, anything could distract anybody." Claudio added.
"Well not me," Bastion said proudly. "Not even that cute Pikeru monster!"
"You mean White Magician Pikeru?" Melody asked. "You must like that card, calling her cute!" She teased.
"Oh yeah, remember when you battled Dimitri," Claudio asked his girlfriend. She nodded. "When you played Pikeru, he was staring more than he should..."
Bastion quickly covered the Jukebox Hero duelist's mouth. "Be quiet..." He whispered.
Melody giggled. "So... you do have a crush on her..."
"How can you have a crush on a monster card?" Bastion argued.
"Hey, I had a crush on one when I was little," She argued. "I even have it in my deck now!"
Claudio removed Bastion hand from his mouth. "Me too, it's nothing to be ashamed of; I heard it is common in young duelist like us,"
"I still think its silly..." The intellectual Ra stated.
"Aw, don't worry about it, Claudio." Melody said, leading her boyfriend away from the cliff, "The sooner he admits it to himself, the sooner he gets over feeling embarrassed about it."
"That's true..." He replied. "Let's go wake up Jaden and the guys. I can't wait to use my special wakeup call on them."
"Special wakeup call?" She wondered.
"If this is what Claudio did to me during the winter," Bastion ran up to meet the other Ras, "It'll involve loud music..."
"And you're gonna laugh, sweetie!" Claudio grinned, wrapping his arm around Melody's shoulders. "Trust me..."
"I just can't wait to join the fun!" She replied with a grin of her own.
"I might join you as well; I was planning to wake them up..." Bastion added. 'I just hope they drop that subject...'
At the Slifer dorm, Jaden, Syrus and Chumely were wasting the day away snoozing... on a School day... but someone wasn't going to have that...
"You got it set in?"
"Yeah!"
"Before you play anything, let me get the earplugs..."
Inside Jaden's room, Claudio was about to play his Soul Guitar while Melody brought out Blast Magician and Bastion with Barrel Dragon.
"Ready..." Bastion whispered as Barrel Dragon charged and loaded the guns.
"Aim..." Melody whispered as Blast Magician created a red, glowing orb.
"Hit it!!" Claudio yelled.
With a shot fired, an orb blast and a loud strum of the guitar, the three Slifers all woke up, falling out of their beds.
"Hit the snooze button!" Chumley groaned.
"More like the snooze trigger!" Syrus added.
"That's getting up with a bang..." Jaden muttered. They all heard some laughter and turn to see their three Ra friends, turning off their duel disks. "Bastion, Melody, and Claudio? What's up with the wake-up call?"
"Trying to get you all up for class." Melody said.
"But it doesn't start til noon..." Syrus whined.
"Well that's even greater," Bastion said, confusing the Slifers in the room. "We can do some daybreak dueling exercises!"
"Huh?"
"One, two, draw! One, two, draw! One, two, draw!"
Jaden yawned as he, Chumley, Syrus and Bastion went through some ridiculous dueling exercises their Ra Yellow friends had woken them up for.
"Yeah, this was worth getting up for," he muttered under his breath.
"Quiet," Syrus whispered as he drew, "You'll make me lose count,"
Chumley looked over at the card Syrus and just drawn and took the Slifer's hand, holding it still so he can get a better look at it. The card was a monster card, which had the picture of a cute girl with red hair, small cat ears, and a leopard-skin leotard.
"Hey, isn't that Thunder Nyan-Nyan?" he asked.
Syrus smiled and took the card back, "Yeah, it is. I got her a little while ago," he blushed lightly, "I sorta have a card crush on her," he confessed.
"A card crush, that's so lame, Syrus," Chumley pulled out a card and showed it to him, "Check out mine!"
Syrus laughed weakly as he looked at the Dian Keto the Cure Master card Chumley showed him, "Yeah...that's great, Chum, real pretty,"
"I know," Chumley withdrew his card, "It so totally reminds me of my real girlfriend back home, her name is Sally...no, wait, Adrianna!"
Syrus turned around, "Hey, Jaden, you have any card crushes in your deck?" he asked loudly.
Jaden grinned, stopping in his exercise, "Sure do! They bring loads of luck for me!"
"Hey, Melody and I were on that same subject earlier." Claudio added.
"And knowing Syrus's history of 'going steady' with Dark Magician Girl," Melody playfully ruffled the small Slifer's hair. "I bet he has more than just Thunder Nyan Nyan as a card crush!"
"Hey!" Syrus blushed and got out of Melody's grasp.
"I beg your pardon?!"
The three Slifers and two Ras turned back to see Bastion, with an unhappy look on his face.
"I thought we were training here!" he snapped, "And training, gentlemen and lady, does not include standing around and talking about birds!"
"Hello! I'm right here!" Melody snapped, slapping Bastion upside the head.
"Hang on, girl!" Claudio said, holding her back.
"Did he say 'birds'?" Syrus whispered to Chumley.
The larger Slifer leaned to the side, "Ya know what? I'm starting to think that Bastion doesn't have a card crush,"
After recovering from Melody's slap, he replied to Chumley's statement. "A crush on a card?! Of course not!" Bastion snapped again, "That's just illogical, irrational, and ridiculous!"
At that moment, a memory flash of the White Magician Pikeru card came to his mind and he stopped in his harsh words. Quickly coming back to his sense, Bastion shook his head, forgetting about the card.
"Look, let's just get back to our dueling exercises, alright?" he sighed.
"Just ignore him guys," Claudio assured everyone. "He does have one, he just won't admit it."
"Well, he better choose his words next." The Magician duelist huffed.
Syrus nodded, "Sure, but I do have plans to play Solitaire with Thunder Nyan-Nyan in about fifteen minutes," he said, holding up the card again.
"WHAT?!"
Bastion's outburst made both Chumley and Syrus fall over, startled by the apparently crazed Ra.
"You'll be breaking that date, and soon, breaking a sweat!" Bastion said firmly, hand going back to his duel disk, "Now, gentlemen, back to our duel training!"
Syrus groaned as he climbed to his feet, "That means the dog house for me; Nyan-Nyan hates it when I cancel on her..."
Jaden glanced at his roommate, "Somehow...I think she'll understand."
"You think?" Syrus looked up at him.
Chumley nodded, "Totally, it's not like she's a real girlfriend like Sally-er, Adrianna,"
"Yeah, Chumley, we get it..." Melody groaned.
"Bastion's not the only one who needs to admit something..." Claudio muttered as the six went back to drawing exercises.
Later that day, the Slifer Boys, Bastion, and a small handful of other students from different dorms sat in Banner's Alchemy class.
Banner frowned at the sight of so many empty seats as he pet Pharaoh, "There certainly a lot of absences today. Perhaps there's a bug going around,"
'None that I've heard of,' Bastion thought, looking around at the empty seats, 'There's definitely something strange in the air...well...' his eyes roamed over to Syrus, Jaden and Chumley, who were enjoying a well-earned, yet badly timed nap, 'Besides all that snoring.'
"Jaden..."
The E-Hero duelist snorted a bit, and saw Jethro trying to speak to him.
"You okay... you actually look tired other than sleeping by choice?" The cowboy asked.
The sound of the door hissing open made Banner turn to see a young lady in yellow walking up to him, holding a duffel bag.
"Can I help you?" the Slifer head asked her.
"Well," the lady in leaned in close to him, "Do you recognize this bag?" she whispered.
Banner looked down at the bag, "Yes, it belongs to one of my students, why?"
While the girl whispered some more to Banner, Jaden fully woke up and saw what was going on. He took one look at the bag and knew that something was up, as did the other Key-Keepers that sat nearby.
After class, Jaden led Syrus, Banner, Chazz, Kenji, Chumley, Alexis, Bastion, Jethro, Claudio and Melody through the woods, holding his own bag close to him.
"Wonder why that pack was left all the way out here...?" he wondered aloud, walking through a thick area of trees.
Bastion nodded, "Indeed...also, where the owner of the pack is right now?"
"I hope that no one is hurt," Banner added, worriedly.
Melody looked around, "Maybe they just went camping and forgot about it?" she offered.
"Or maybe lost their way around the forest?" Claudio added.
"I don't think it's that simple..." Kenji said. "Everyone should know their way around the island by now, even in getting out of the forest area."
After what seemed like hours of walking, the group of duelists exited the forest and entered a large clearing, surprised at what stood before them. A very large stone and wooden structure loomed nearby, against a small cliff. It looked just like an old coliseum from ancient Rome or Greece.
"Where did this come from?" Jaden asked, staring at it.
Bastion frowned, "I'm going in," he declared before taking off ahead of the others.
The group ran, following him into the large building and stopped shortly after coming in. Inside, stone seats and pillars decorated the interior of the coliseum. But that's not what got their attention. About a dozen of Academy Students from every dorm were in different areas of the coliseum, handling large stone blocks and working with ropes to drag the stones around.
Syrus pointed to one of them, "That guy's from class!"
"Him too!" Chumley pointed to another student.
"I have noticed that most of the students missing were guys," Jethro pondered. "Now we have living proof..."
"Oh my..." Banner murmured as he pet Pharaoh.
Chazz scanned the area and his jaw dropped as his eyes widened when they landed on one worker in particular.
"CROWLER?!"
At Chazz's either surprised or horrified shriek, everyone else looked up to see Crowler trying to move a large stone block with a crowbar.
"What are you doing?" Kenji called out to him.
Crowler looked at them and smiled proudly, "A man's work!"
"A man's work?" Banner repeated, holding his chin in thought, "My, they must've been running very short on men,"
Both Kenji's and Jethro's face turned red as they held in their laughter. Neither of them expected Banner of all people to make a crack at Crowler like that.
"Man, Alex would've loved to hear that!" Claudio smirked.
A loud roar made the group look back ahead to see a huge tiger standing right in front of them.
"Oh no..." Kenji muttered.
Before he could finish, the tiger roared again and began to run at the group. Screaming, they all ran to a large pillar on the other side of the arena, not really wanting to be a part of the tiger's dinner.
Banner looked behind him, "First a coliseum, now a tiger! What's next, a gladiator?!" he yelped as he followed his students into climbing up the large stone pillar.
"Actually, I think she prefers the term of Amazon!" Crowler yelled over the tiger's growling.
"Amazon?!" Banner yelled.
"I think he means her..." Jethro pointed out.
Everyone on the pillar looked back behind the tiger to see an impressive looking woman. The woman had a well-built body, tight black pants, long red hair tied into a ponytail, a set of golden bracelets and a spike collar around her neck...and two long scars that went from above her right eye all the way down to her chin. To finish off her ensemble, she had this duel disk that had a perfectly straight field wing, and the entire disk was a silvery color with laced edges. The woman jumped off a high ledge and landed on the ground, smiling.
"I must say, thanks to your friends, I've finally been able to finish my glorious arena!"
Jaden raised an eyebrow at the woman as the tiger went over to her, "Arena...for what?" he asked.
The woman smirked as she petted the tiger, who was by the way, almost as tall as her, "Dueling, of course,"
Jaden and watched as the missing students and Crowler lined up a short distance away. The woman pulled out a stack of envelopes and walked over to them, beaming.
"Job well done!" she praised, "Who would've thought that Duel Academy students were such good laborers?" she started to hand out an envelope to each student, "Now, as promised, here's your payment. Some rare cards, which I might add, are very well deserved. Until next time, my friends,"
Crowler held out his hands expectantly. The woman looked at him, "What do you want?"
"Why, I want my rare cards!" Crowler smiled slightly, "I did work like all the rest, you know," he reminded her.
The woman scoffed, "I don't think so,"
"What?!" Crowler gaped at her, "Why not?!" he demanded.
"Because...well, to tell you the truth, I find you to be repulsive, and I don't think you deserve some rare cards,"
"Why you..." Crowler started to advance on her, but was stopped by the tiger, Bass. The huge feline stepped in his way, growling loudly.
Crowler screamed, turned around and bolted out of the arena, screaming at the top of his lungs.
"Ooh, burn..." Claudio muttered to Melody.
"You're really enjoying this, aren't you?" She asked. He nodded.
"Hey!" Kenji yelled at them while the others climbed down, "What is goin' on?!" he demanded.
The woman chuckled and turned around, facing him, "I'm setting up the stage, Key-Keeper, for your vanquishing. I'm one of the Shadow Riders," she explained, "Tania, the Amazon!"
Jaden stared at her, "Uh-oh..."
"A Shadow Rider?" Syrus repeated, "Oh man..."
"You mean 'Oh wo-man'," Chumley muttered, walking up beside him and Alexis, "Amazons are a warrior race of all females,"
Alexis whistled, "Wow...you go, girl!"
"Totally!" Melody added.
Tania nodded a little, "Now that the battleground is complete, it's time that we battle! Now..." she looked at the group of students, "Which of you big strong men will it be?" she asked teasingly, before taking a glance at Alexis and Melody, "After all, I'd never harm a sister,"
"Hey, don't do us any favors," Alexis shot back at her.
Jethro shrugged, "Well, at least two of us are safe...I guess,"
"I'm guessing, she has cards that can't mess with female monsters," Kenji added. "Both of which Melody's and Alexis' deck mostly comprise of."
"So, who wants to be the first one to duel and lose?" Tania challenged, looking at the group.
"Right here!" Jaden stepped up.
"Yours truly!" Chazz added, joining the Slifer at his side.
"I'll duel you!" Bastion declared.
"Let's go!" Claudio said.
"I'm game!" Jethro added.
"I'm ready!" Kenji said.
Tanya looked at the boys, "Hmm... if this is really the best you have to offer, then I guess I'll pick..." she pointed to the third duelist, "...you!"
Chazz and Jaden looked to the side at Bastion, who was smiling a little bit.
"Well, I guess you can't win 'em all," Jaden muttered, walking back to join his friends, Chazz and rest of the gang right behind him.
Tania and Bastion walked towards each other, leaving a good distance between them for the duel.
"What's your name?" the muscular woman asked.
"Bastion," the Ra answered, "Bastion Misawa,"
Jaden clapped his hands, "C'mon, go get her pal!" he cheered.
"Don't go easy on her because she's a girl!" Syrus yelled.
Chumley gulped slightly at the sight of Tania, "She's not like a girl I've ever seen,"
"Alright, let's do this," Bastion tore open his blazer to reveal his six-deck vest, "The only question is which deck I shall use?"
Tania grinned a little, "Really? I have that problem, too. I have two decks," she held up two separate set of cards to prove her point, "One is a deck of Knowledge, and the other is a deck of Courage," she tilted her head to the side, "Why don't you go ahead and pick which one for me to use?"
"Fine then," Bastion looked at the decks for a few moments, "I'll pick the deck of Knowledge,"
"Saw that one coming," Kenji noted.
Tania chuckled as she inserted her Knowledge deck into her disk, "Nice choice...,"
"Thank you, but it's not nearly as nice as the choice I'm making for myself," Bastion looked down and took the middle deck on the left side of his vest, "I select my Earth-attribute deck," he declared slipping it into his disk.
"Earth-attribute deck?" Jethro repeated, "Yet another deck about to be revealed..."
"You seen another deck of his?" Melody asked.
"Yeah, his fire deck," The cowboy grinned. "Had me up against the wall with it."
"Let us begin!" Tania ordered, turning on her disk, "Don't worry, this isn't a Shadow Game..."
"Beg your pardon?"
"You heard me," Tania shot back, moving from side to side in her place, as if filled with giddy, "I want you, Bastion. It's like this: my tribe is all women. So, to marry, I gotta shop around,"
"To marry?!" Bastion gawked at her.
"That's right... so let's do this," Tania winked at him, smiling.
"I am glad I didn't picked," Claudio slumped in his deck, as the guys laughed at him.
"And if she did, I'd hurt her..." Melody narrowed her eyes. "Very badly..."
Most of the spectators scooted away after sensing the Magician duelist's anger.
Both Tania and Bastion drew their cards as their points went to full count.
"DUEL!"
Tanya: 8000
Bastion: 8000
"I'll start this duel," Tania drew her sixth card, "and first, I'll summon the Amazoness Swordswoman in attack mode!"
With a battle-cry, a large, well-built woman with wild, red hair appeared, holding a long, curved blade tightly in her hands. (4/1500/1600)
"Tanya slipped a card into her disk, "I'll also place one card facedown and end my turn,"
"I'm up then," Bastion drew his card, "I summon to the field Magnet Warrior Sigma Plus in attack mode!"
A strange monster carrying a slab-like shield and strange rectangular armor appeared label with the Plus symbol. (4/1800/1500)
"Now, Magnet Warrior, attack that Amazoness!" Bastion pointed to the Swordswoman. "Lode Stone Baton Bash!"
The Magnet Warrior raised its staff as it charged with crackling energy and everyone watched as it collided with the Swordswoman, destroying her in a mighty blow. But something strange happened. Syrus noticed this when he saw the Life Point meters.
Tanya: 8000
Bastion: 7700
"Why did Bastion just lose Life Points?" the small Slifer asked.
Tania smiled, "That's due to my Amazoness' effect. Bastion took all the battle damage she received from the attack of his Magnet Warrior,"
"It's just like Man in the Box!" Claudio realized.
"Without the sewn eyes..." Melody muttered.
Chumley shook his head, "Bastion walked right into that one,"
Alexis nodded, "That's not like him at all..."
"Or maybe it is," Jaden leaned forward, "Sure, Bastion has fewer Life Points at the moment, but Tania has fewer monsters!" he grinned, "Smart move..."
"Yes...at least, until I play my facedown card!" Tanya cried as her card became upright, "It's called Pride of Tribe. This Trap card activates whenever an Amazoness' is destroyed, and it lets me summon another one from my deck. Who's the smart one now?" she asked with a smile as another Amazoness Swordswoman appeared on her field. (4/1500/1600)
"You see, you miscalculated with that last move. After all, now we have the same amount of monsters...but not the same amount of Life Points!"
Bastion looked at her, breathing deeply, then slipped a card into his disk, "Fine. I'll place a card facedown...and that will suffice."
A dreamy look entered Tania's eyes, "That will suffice? Say it again!" she begged, "It sounded so cool!"
Syrus turned to Jaden, "You know, I think it's been a couple of years since Tania's been with a guy, Jay..."
"Couple of years, Sy?" Jaden shook his head, "Try decades... this chick is man-crazy!"
"Well Bastion, needs to keep his head on the duel and figure out another way to get past that Amazon." Jethro said.
Bastion smiled a little, "I'm quite flattered, but I'm well aware of what you're trying to do. You're trying to distract me, but I'll tell you right now my dear, it's not going to work, I'm too focused,"
"Oh, are you? We'll see about that," Tania drew her card, "I play the Amazoness Chain Master in attack mode!"
A silver haired woman with a rope and chain appeared. (4/1500/1300)
"Then I'll add Mist Body on Amazoness Swords Woman!"
A bunch of mist covered the first Amazon.
"Now, my Swords Woman can't be destroyed in battle!" Tania declared. "Meaning, I can deal damage to you and not be destroyed!"
"That's not good!" Kenji said.
"Now attack the Magnet warrior with Amazon Slash Attack!"
Both the Magnet Warrior and Amazon charged each other, ready to strike each other.
Bastion pressed a button on his duel disk, "And I play my facedown, Magnet Force Plus!" he paused as green lightning bolts shot out of his card and wrapped itself around the Swords Woman and, "When this card is activated, it can equip onto one monster, and whatever monster it's equipped to gains a positive magnetism and becomes what's known as a Plus monster,"
Tanya blinked and looked her monster, "Oh..."
"And what's more dear," Bastion continued, "Two Plus monsters? Well, then they won't be able to battle!"
As he said that, both attacking monsters were suddenly repelled by the magnetism they gave off.
"Looks like Bastion now had the smart move!" Jaden cheered.
"You think so?" Tania smirked. "I attack with Chain Master!"
Everyone saw she was crazy for attacking with a monster weaker than Bastion's as the Chain Master swung her rope and chain.
"Chain Master doesn't have the same ability?" Melody wondered. "What gives?"
"I activate Rush Recklessly to increase the power of my monster by 700!" Tania played another card.
'What?' Bastion thought as the Chain Master gained more power. (4/1500-2200/1300)
"Now attack with Chain Smash!"
The rope wrapped around the Magnet Warrior and then the Amazon threw it up in the air, and back down to the ground, destroying it.
Tania: 8000
Bastion 7300
"I think she wanted Bastion to play his trap on Amazoness Swordswoman!" Alexis realized. "That way he'd have nothing against the other."
Bastion gasped, recovering from the attack, "But...how? That's two times in a row that she's managed to out-think me..."
"I guess we know where our kids are going to get their smarts from..." Tania teased.
"What?! Our kids?!" Bastion gaped at her, "We're enemies! Rivals!"
Tania smiled, "During this duel, yes, but afterwards, we'll be betrothed to each other. Just think about it: you'll be Mr. Tania the Amazon Woman!"
The spectators groaned at the idea of Bastion hooking up with the Shadow Rider.
"You're relentless," Bastion muttered, "Truly, are you that smitten with me?"
"I prefer in love!"
"You hardly know me!"
"I know enough...my little sugar booger,"
"Now I see, she playing mind games with him!" Jethro said.
The intellectual Ra gasped and tried to focus his mind, hearing Jethro's deduction.
'He's right; keep your cool, Bastion, she's just trying to distract you.' Bastion told himself mentally, 'Like those silly card crushes distract Syrus and Chumley.' He thought about Thunder Nyan-Nyan and the Cure Master and their affects on the Slifers, but then he thought about the White Magician Pikeru he found in his deck.
"No!" he gripped his head, "I'm above all this!" he shouted.
On the sidelines, Jaden, Chazz and Syrus sweatdropped at the sight of the Ra.
"Bastion sure is acting weird..." Jaden commented.
"Love works in mysterious ways..." Syrus nodded.
Bastion turned and glared at them, "Quiet! I'm not in love!" he shouted.
'And I'll prove it by taking Tanya down!' Bastion turned back to his opponent, "My turn!" he drew his card and nodded, "Right... I play the spell Pot of Greed." He drew two cards. "Perfect! I send the Magnet Warriors Alpha, Beta and Gamma from my hand to the grave..."
Three monsters appeared from Bastion's hand, the first being sliver carrying a shield and sword, the second a yellow one with magnets grafted into his head and arms to make it look like horns and hands, and the finally one was a pink, wider one with white wings. They all broke apart a reformed into a new monster.
"... to summon Valkyrion the Magna Warrior!"
The new monster was indeed a mix and match version of the original three monsters. It carried Alpha's sword, a sleeker version of Beta's head and Gamma's wings, while the other pieces made a new sliver body. (8/3500/3850)
Jaden whistled "Wow, Bastion wants to end this now..."
"He just needs to stay off that Swordswoman and find a way to prevent her from attacking." Melody added.
"Now Valkyrion, attack Amazoness Chain Master with Magna Swords!" Bastion commanded.
The new warrior flew over to the Chain Master and sliced her across the mid-section.
Tania: 6000
Bastion: 7300
"Alright, ΒΌ of the way down!" Kenji cheered.
"Take that!" Claudio added.
"Next, I place this card face down and end my turn!" Bastion declared.
Tanya smiled and wiggled around in her place, "What a move!" she praised, "No wonder I'm in love with you! And, sweetie, because I do, I have to beat you," she became serious again and drew her next card. "I play Amazoness Blowpiper in Attack mode!"
A blue haired woman with a large, bone pipe appeared, and inserted some darts inside the pipe. (3/800/1500)
"I also activate Amazoness Spellcaster! Now, an Amazoness monster and one other monster on the field exchange original attack points with each other," the Amazon Shadow Rider explained, smiling a bit.
An old woman appeared in between the Blowpiper and Magna Warrior. Chanting an incantation, she ripped the essences of both monsters and transferred them to the other bodies.
Amazoness Blowpiper felt more powerful than ever as she got her blowpipe ready. (3/800-3500/1500)
While Valkyrion dropped his sword, as it felt heavier than normal. (8/3500-800/1500)
"Attack Valkryion with Poison Dart Attack!"
The blue-haired Amazoness shot a long, thin dart and struck the Magnet Warrior in the head, destroying it easily.
Tania: 6000
Bastion: 4600
"Now, Amazoness Swordsman will attack you directly!" Tanya pointed to Bastion, "Amazon Slash Attack!"
The burly woman with a curved blade leapt towards Bastion and ran her sword diagonally across Bastion's chest, hitting him fast and shocked him with the Magnet Force.
Tania: 6000
Bastion: 3100
"Man, she really taking it to him!" Claudio gasped.
"Yeah, she's completely thrown him off his game!" Melody said worriedly.
"Don't worry, honey..." Tania spoke to Bastion. "After were married, I can teach you everything I know... In fact here's an early wedding gift, I activate Card of Sanctity letting us both draw until we have 6 cards!"
Both players drew until they had their desired number.
"Finally, I place one card facedown." A facedown card appeared. "Your turn, hun..."
Bastion took another deep breath, before drawing. "I activate Heavy Storm to destroy all spells and traps!"
A harsh storm ripped apart Tania's facedown card and Mist Body and Bastion's Magnet Force card, making Amazoness Swords Woman lose her magnetism.
"Then...I activate Magnet Conductor Plus! This card allows me to bring back a Plus monster from my Graveyard and add it to my hand, so come on back, Magnet Warrior Sigma Plus!"
He reached down and plucked the card from his Graveyard and added it to his hand, "But he won't be staying around for long, because he and the Magnet Warrior Sigma Minus from my hand are going right back to the Grave so that I can summon Conduction Warrior Linear Magnum Plus Minus!"
Everyone watched as an impressive monster of golden armor and large purple cannons appeared on Bastion's field. (7/2700/1300)
"That's a lot of words in that card!" Claudio quipped.
"Then, I'll Summon Magnet Warrior Omega Minus in Attack mode!"
A purple Magnet Warrior with a magnet sword appeared. (4/1900/600)
"Now, I activate Magnum Plus Minus' special abililty!" Bastion declared, "It adds half the attack points of one other Plus or Minus monster on the field and adds it to the Magnet Warrior's attack points! So I'll take half of Omega Minus's attack and add it to Plus Minus!"
Red electricity emitted from the smaller Magnet Warrior, and charged up the Conduction Warrior with overwhelming power. CWLMPM (7/2700-3650)
"He's got her outmatched now!" Jaden cried, staring at the power shift.
"Now, Warrior Magnum, attack Amazoness Blowpiper with Polarizing Pulverizing Blast!"
The powerful Plus Minus monster blasted both cannons at full power and hit the Blowpiper dead on, blowing her to pieces and taking a huge chunk out of Tanya's Life Points.
Tania: 3150
Bastion: 3100
"Next, I place two cards facedown and I'll think that'll do it for me." Bastion said as he slipped two cards into his disk, and as his monster's attack strength went back to normal.
"I really made the right choice of picking you!" Tania squealed. "Now we're really having great chemistry!"
"Is she serious?" Chazz groaned.
"With her logic so far, yup." Jethro nodded.
Tania drew her next card and then grinned back at Bastion. "But I'll have the last word as I activate Rirokyu letting your Conduction Warrior gain half the ATK strength of my Swords Woman!"
A green aura drained the Swords Woman of her power... (4/1500-750/1600)
And transferred to Bastion's strongest monster. (7/2700-3450/1300)
"Then, I'll add Black Pendant to give your monster 500 extra ATK!" Tania added, "Think of this as an engagement necklace!"
A necklace with a Black jewel appeared around Conduction Warrior's neck. (7/3450-3950/1300)
"Bastion better have those cards ready, cause he's about to lose!" Syrus said.
"Now Amazoness Swordswoman, strike down Conduction Warrior Linear Magnum Plus Minus with Amazon Slash Attack!" Tania commanded.
'This is it! I better think fast or this duel is going to be over fast!' Bastion thought as the Amazoness came flying at his superior monster. "Sorry, Tanya, but I play a facedown!" Bastion pressed another button on his disk, "Power Off! Now, my Plus Minus monster reverts back to the two monsters that originated him!"
Tanya watched as the Plus Minus split into two separate Magnet Warriors just as her Swordswoman slashed. MWSP (4/1800/1500), MWSM (4/1500/1800) The move caused her two miss, the attack failing.
"No fair!"
Jaden stood up and clapped, "Tight move!" he shouted.
Bastion closed his eyes and nodded calmly, "Yes, I agree..."
"Even though he lost 500 from Black Pendant, he still kept himself in the duel." Jethro nodded.
Tania: 3150
Bastion: 2600
"I guess I'll just get you next turn," Tanya said quietly as she placed a card onto her disk, "And with Amazoness Paladin on the field, you can be sure that I will,"
Another blonde Amazoness appeared with a tan top and skirt with a longsword. (4/1700/300)
"With Paladin on the field, she gains 100 extra attack points for every monster on the field that has Amazoness in its name," she explained. AP (4/1700-1900/300) "Next, I'll place two cards facedown and end my turn," Tanya slipped them into her disk.
'At least she's concentrating on her dueling instead of on me,' Bastion thought as a bead of sweat rolled down his cheek, "Alright, my move now,"
"Speaking of moving, sweety," Tanya looked at Bastion longingly and chewed on her thumbnail a little, "I think... its best that you move in with me...you know, after we get married? Oh, we'll have the coziest home sweet home!"
Bastion blinked, taken back at those words.
"Oh, I'm sorry, am I distracting you again?" Tanya twiddled her fingers, "With all this talk about how much I love you, and how positively handsome you are?" she giggled, "There I go again, I should stop!"
Bastion stepped back a couple of inches, hand over his chest and his face turning a little red.
"I simply can't help myself!" Tanya cried, "I'm head over heels!"
Bastion's face turned from serious to a dream-like trance, "Yes...me too..."
Jaden paled, "Any barf bags on this flight?"
"Oh man...Bastion's getting all flushed and sidetracked," Syrus noted, shaking his head.
"Hey Bastion, snap out of it, dude!" Claudio yelled. "Get your head back in the game!"
"My turn," Bastion ignored Claudio's words and drew his card all the while, keeping that blush, "I summon another Beta the Magnet Warrior in attack mode!"
Another copy of Beta came to the field. (4/1700/1600)
"Next, I'll play my facedown: 100,000 Gauss! You see, I can activate this when I have a Minus monster and a Plus monster on my field. This lets me switch one of your monsters to attack mode and it drains that monsters attack points by 800! Since all your monsters are in attack mode as it is, I'll just drain Amazoness Paladin!"
AP (4/1900-1100/300)
"That's sweet!" Jaden slapped the wall in front of him, "Now, Bastion has all the monsters beat! This duel is in the bag!"
Tanya smirked, "I would think so too, if not for my facedown card, Dramatic Rescue!" she pressed a button on her disk and soon her Paladin disappeared, "By returning one monster from the field to my hand, I can summon a different one!" she explained as she placed a card onto her disk, "You're about to see that this one is very different. I summon Amazoness Tiger (1100/1500) in attack mode!"
A large tiger, much similar to the tiger that Tania came in with, appeared on the field roaring, one of its eyes closed, a large scar over it. (4/1100/1500)
"Don't try catching this tiger by the toe, because she gains 400 extra attack points for every Amazoness on the field!"
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"And, when this card is out, you're no allowed to attack any other Amazoness except it," Tanya explained.
"He has no choice?" Alexis repeated, "He has to attack the Tiger?"
'Simple,' Bastion looked at his monsters, 'I have four Magnet Warriors out. I'll use Omega Minus to destroy Amazoness Tiger, then Sigma Minus to destroy Amazoness Swordswoman, and then I'll use the remaining Beta and Sigma Plus to attack Tanya directly and win the duel.'
"Fun duel, my dear, but I'm afraid that it's about to be over," Bastion pointed to the Tiger, "Go! Magnet Warrior Omega Minus, attack and tame that Amazoness Tiger!"
Tanya chuckled as Bastion's Magnet Warrior marched to her tiger, "You must be distracted, because you would've seen that I have a trap. Go, Amazoness Archers!"
Bastion looked at revealed Trap card, stunned.
"Sorry, hun, but now all of your monsters lose 500 attack points and they're all forced to wage battle!"
A bunch of Amazon archers appeared and launched arrows that drained the Magnet Warriors of their power and brought out the fight in them.
MWSP (4/1800-1300/1500)
MWSM (4/1500-1000/1800)
MWOM (4/1900-1400/600)
BtMW (4/1700-1200/1600)
Syrus moaned, "But if that happens, he'll be forced to attack that Tiger!"
"And it has more attack points than any of them!" Jaden added.
"He walked right into a trap!" Chazz growled. "What was he thinking!?"
"He finally got blinded to Tania's love talk, that's what!" Jethro replied. "Clouded the poor guy's mind..."
Tanya looked up as the Magnet trio leapt at her, "Now, Amazoness Tiger, show Bastion that opposites don't just attract, but they attack. Sic 'em with Fang Frenzy!" she ordered.
With amazing speed, the Tiger flew past the four Magnet Warriors, tearing into them without mercy. As soon as the tiger landed, the field was covered in a thick cloud of smoke as the Magnet Warriors were destroyed.
Tania: 3150, Winner
Bastion: 0
Bastion looked at her, smiling, "I'm...all yours," he whispered before falling onto his face. His key was visible under him just before it disappeared with a glow.
"Bastion!" Jaden leapt over the wall and ran towards his friend.
Tanya looked behind her, "Oh, Bass..."
The large tiger roared and started to chase the others towards the gate. The gates were closing just as they were leaving and as the lagging one, Jethro had to slide underneath it just as it got real low. Luckily, he made it, just a few moments before the gate connected with the dirt.
"That... was... close..." he panted as Jaden ran up to the gate, gripping the bars.
"Bastion!" Jaden yelled.
"Einstein, you alright!?" Claudio added.
Tanya walked up to the gate, smirking, "Sorry, but Bastion and I are gonna have our honeymoon. So, get lost!"
Jaden and Claudio glared at her as she walked away.
"THIS ISN'T OVER! YOU HEAR ME!"
This had to be another loss where I can't believe that happened. But then again, it's like what Mai Valentine said: Psychology is half the game. And this is where it really happens in my book without any real Shadow Game penalties hanging over your head. The key, yes, but there was no going to the Shadows, no dolls and no sealed cards.
Pride of Tribe
Normal Trap
Activate this card only when a monster that includes "Amazoness" in its card name, or is named "Amazon Archer", is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard. Special Summon 1 monster from your Deck that that includes "Amazoness" in its card name, or is named "Amazon Archer".
(Used by Tania in the GX episode Duel Distractions Pt.1. All rights to the creators of GX and the episode.)
Magnet Warrior Sigma Plus
EARTH
Rock/Effect
1800/1500
"Plus" monsters cannot battle each other. If your opponent controls a "Minus" monster, this card must attack it if possible.
Magnet Warrior Omega Minus
EARTH
Level 4
Rock/Effect
1900/600
"Minus" monsters cannot battle each other. If your opponent controls a "Plus" monster, this card must attack it if possible.
Magnet Warrior Sigma Minus
EARTH
Level 4
Rock/Effect
1500/1800
"Plus" monsters cannot battle each other. If your opponent controls a "Minus" monster, this card must attack it if possible.
Conduction Warrior Linear Magnum Plus Minus
EARTH
Level 7
Rock/Effect
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by sending 1 "Plus" monster and 1 "Minus" monster from your hand or your side of the field to the Graveyard. Select 1 "Plus" or "Minus" monster you control to have this card gain ATK equal to the ATK of the selected monster. This card cannot attack a "Minus" monster. If your opponent controls a "Plus" monster, this card must attack it where possible.
Power Off
Quick-Play Spell
Send 1 "Plus" or "Minus" monster on your side of the field to the Graveyard that was Special Summoned by a monster effect to Special Summon the monsters that were used to Special Summon it.
Magnet Conductor Plus
Normal Spell
Add 1 "Plus" monster from your Graveyard to your hand.
100,000 Gauss
Activate only while you control a "Plus" monster(s) and a "Minus" monster(s). Change 1 of your opponent's monsters to Attack Position, and it loses 800 ATK.
(The above 7 cards were used by Bastion in Duel Distractions Pt. 1. All rights to the creators GX and the episode.)
Magnet Force Plus
Continuous Trap
Activate only when your opponent attacks a "Plus" monster you control. After activation, this card is treated as an Equip Card is equipped it to the attacking monster. Negate the attack. The equipped monster is treated as a "Plus" monster. If the equipped monster attacks a "Plus" monster, the battle is negated. If you control a "Minus" monster, the equipped monster is switched to Attack Position and must attack that "Minus" monster.
(Used by Bastion in the GX episode Magnetic Personality. All rights to the creators of GX and the episode.)
Next Time: After Bastion's unfortunate loss, Jethro steps up to teach him that you don't have to be in love to be passionate while dueling.
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