Emily and Shark walk into the centre of the Arena, stoping in their designated zones. "Shark. Still causing trouble for Yuma?" Asked Emily. Shark activates his duel disk. "Or is this the Barian inside?" Asked Emily, as she activated her dueldisk. "You figure it out" Said Shark. "Duel!" Declared Emily and Shark.
Turn 1: Shark
Shark draws. Shark normal summons "Dive Krill" (0/ 1000). Shark activates the effect of "Dive Krill", special summoning a different "Dive" Monster from his deck. Shark special summons "Dive Plankton" (0/ 1000). Shark overlays his two level 2 monsters to XYZ Summon "Over 100 Library" (1000/ 300). Shark activates the first effect of "Over 100 Library", special summoning it's overlay units to the field and placing itself in the field spell zone. Shark ends his turn.
Turn 2: Emily
Emily draws. Emily normal summons "Time Streamer - Life Crosser" (1500/ 2000). Emily activates the spell card "Time Streamer Access", discarding one card and special summoning "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" (2100/ 1900). "Time Streamer - Life Crosser" attacks "Dive Plankton", but Shark activates the second effect of "Over 100 Library", negating the attack and special summoning "Number 101: Silent Honners Ark" (2100/ 1000), with "Dive Plankton" and "Dive Krill" becoming it's overlay units. Emily sets two cards, and then ends her turn.
Turn 3: Shark
Shark draws. Shark activates the spell card "Rank Up Magic Barian's Force", ranking up "Number 101: Silent Honners Ark" into "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark" (2800/ 1000). Shark activates the first effect of "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark", targeting "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse", but Emily discards "Effect Veiler" to negate the effects of "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark". "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark" attacks "Time Streamer- Life Crosser" (Emily LP: 2700). Emily activates the effect of "Time Streamer- Life Crosser", paying 1000 life points (Emily LP: 1700), special summoning it back to the field, then gaining life points equal to "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" attack points (Emily LP: 3800). Shark sets a card and ends his turn.
Turn 4: Emily
Emily draws. Emily activates her facedown trap card "Time Specter- Loop Pheonix", summoning the trap card as a trap monster (Warrior/Fire/LV8/3000/2500), with its effect treating it as "Pheonixion Traviler". During her standby phase, Emily activates the second effect of "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse", drawing a card since she drew a spell card during her last turn. Emily activates the spell card "Mystical Space Typhoon", targeting "Over 100 Library" however, Shark activates the third effect of "Over 100 Library", removing it from his field zone and putting it in his monster zone. "Time Specter- Loop Pheonix" attacks "Over 100 Library" (Shark LP: 2000) Shark activates the final effect of "Over 100 Library", special summoning a "Number 10X" monster from his extra deck. Shark special summons "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor" (Link 1/ 0/⬇️). "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" attacks "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor", but Shark activates the first effect of "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor", negating the attack. "Time Streamer- Life Crosser" attacks "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor", but Shark activates the first effect of "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor", negating the attack. Emily sets one card and then ends her turn.
"So, Shark. Also deciding to use link monsters. It's like Playmaker started a trend" Said Emily. "Maybe. But I'll be more powerful then he is" Said Shark.
Turn 5: Shark
Shark draws. Shark activates the second effect of "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor", since it's effect was activated twice last turn, special summoning a XYZ "Number 10X" from his extra deck or graveyard that's number is 102 or higher up to 107. Shark special summons "Number 107: Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon" (3000/ 2500). "Number 107: Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon" attacks "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse", but Emily activates her facedown trap card "Time Streamer- Life Rush", redirecting the attack to "Time Streamer- Life Crosser" and doubling it's attack (3000/ 2000). Emily activates the effect of "Time Streamer- Life Crosser", paying 1000 life points (Emily LP: 2800), special summoning it back to the field, then gaining life points equal to "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" attack points (Emily LP: 4900). "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark" attacks "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" (Emily LP: 4200). Shark activates the final effect of "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor", since an opponent's monster was destroyed by battle, halving Emily's life points (Emily LP: 2100). Shark uses "Number 107: Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon" to Link Summon "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor" (Link 1/ 0/⬇️). Shark activates the spell card "Linking Polymer", fusing his two "Number 10X: Phantom Bari Emperor" to Link Fusion summon "Number C10X: Barian King Thousand" (1000/ Link- 2/ ⬆️⬇️). Shark ends his turn.
Turn 6: Emily
Emily draws. Emily activates "Polymerization", fusing "Time Streamer- Loop Pheonix" and "Time Streamer- Life Crosser" to fusion summon "Life Master, Hople" (2800/ 2500). Emily activates the second effect of "Life Master, Hople", returning "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" from her graveyard to her hand, then special summoning it to her side of the field. Emily equips "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" with the spell card "Time Streamer- Rift Breakdown". "Life Master, Hople" attacks "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark". Shark activates the effect of "Number C101: Silent Honners Dark", but Emily activates the effect of "Time Streamer- Rift Breakdown" and then "Life Master, Hople". "Life Master, Hople" special summons itself and "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" from the graveyard. "Time Streamer- Rift Breakdown" negates the effect of monsters who would special summon themselves from the graveyard for the rest of the turn, except "Time Streamer" monsters with less then 2000 attack points. "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" attacks "Number C10X: Barian King Thousand" (Shark LP: 900). Shark activates the second effect of "Number C10X: Barian King Thousand" since it was attacked, special summoning "Number 107: Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon" from his graveyard and ranking it up into "Number C107: Neo Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon" (4500/ 3000). Emily activates the quickplay spell card "Time Streamer- Combine Line", fusing "Chimeraic Warrior", "Time Streamer- Specter Reverse" and "Life Master, Hople" to fusion summon "Time Lord Stream- Hurricane Access Future" (?/ 4000). "Time Lord Stream- Hurricane Access Future" attack points are how many turns the duel has played for x1000 (6000/ 4000). Shark attempts to activate the first effect of "Number C107: Neo Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon", but Emily activates the second effect of "Time Lord Stream- Hurricane Access Future", reducing the turn count by 2 (4000/ 4000) and negating the effect of "Number C107: Neo Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon", and destroying him. "Time Lord Stream- Hurricane Access Future" attacks "Number C10X: Barian King Thousand" (Shark LP: 0) Emily wins.
"And with a killer combination, Emily Dual wins!" Declared the announcer. "Yeah!" Declared Hope and Akiza from backstage. Emily then closed her duel disk and walked away. "Well, next up for the day are very exiting duels! It's..." Said the announcer.
A few hours later
"... Seto Kaiba's victory over Mizar with Neo Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Burst Stream of Destruction! Also moving on in today's events are Yuto and Solomon Muto" Declared the announcer, as Emily and Hope gathered in Hope's room. "So, what did you learn about the prizes?" Asked Hope. "Prizes? What prizes? Asked Emily. "The prizes that we get for winning" Said Hope. "I don't know of any prizes" Said Emily. "However, sports fans, we're going to have a midnight duel, a duel by darklight! It will be Emily Dual and Hope Xiao Rose VS our gracious patron, Rob Cirun and myself, Amadeus L. Daenom" Declared the announcer. "Wow! We have to dual him?" Asked Hope. "Well, I guess we should do as we are told" Said Emily, as they left Hope's room, running into Akiza. "Akiza" Said Hope. "Your name wasn't called. Why'd you come out?" Asked Emily. "Well, it's you and Emily dueling, I'm pretty sure everyone is going to the stadium" Said Akiza. "Well, we don't want to disappoint our fans" Said Hope. "Or lack therefore" Said Emily. "Don't be depressed" Said Hope.
A few minutes later, in the duel arena
"Well, I guess we have no introductions. Let's duel!" Declared Hope. "The turn order is this! Me, Emily, Amadeus, Hope" Said Rob.
Turn 1: Rob
Rob draws. Rob sets one monster and ends his turn.
Turn 2: Emily
Emily draws. Emily activates the spell "Companion Ninja Arts: Spell Shadow Retrieval", adding one "Companion Ninja" Monster and Trap card from her deck, but not being able to activate any cards for the rest of the main phase, or summon monster level 5 or higher. Emily adds "Sky Companion Ninja Lion Castle" and "Companion Ninja Arts: Soaring Deathblow Flow" to her hand. Emily sets one card and ends her turn.
Turn 3: The Announcer
The announcer draws. The announcer sets one monster and ends his turn.
"They don't seem all that good, Em. Maybe we should go easy on them" Said Hope. "I'd have to agree, we appear to already have a advantage" Said Emily. "We also have been only had one turn each. Maybe during the next turn we will lose everything" Said Hope.
Turn 4: Hope
Hope draws. Hope normal summons "Piller of Fire" (0/ 2000). Hope activates the first effect of "Piller of Fire", tributing it to special summon "Fireizer" (3000/ 3000). Hope activates the final effect of "Fireizer", adding "Piller of Time" to his hand. Hope sets two cards and ends his turn.
Meanwhile, the machine in the control room pointed to a image of Rob and the Announcer standing over the bodies of Hope and Emily, who looked frail and lifeless, with the bodies of Akiza, Sora Perse, Jack Atlas and Playmaker looking the same and surrounding the scene.