Hello, again.
Now it's Jaden's turn to bring out the Synchros. Let's see how Yugi's deck, while in Dimitri's hands, can handle the new additions. Also, if it gets finished in one chapter, then the next will be more like when Crowler tried to use the fake love letter.
Sorry about the time it took to bring this one up. Personal issues kept on getting in the way.
I don't own Yugioh GX or Fairy Tail.
A New Generation of Heroes
Bella raised an eyebrow at what was happening right in front of her as she arrived in the Card Shop.
She could see the poster depicting the tour of Yugi Muto's Battle City Deck at Duel Academy in the back, with Syrus dueling a Ra student between her and it. The Ra had two facedowns while Syrus had a jet-like monster that she recognized as Jetroid when she took a look at Syrus' deck once. However, it was once the Ra started a turn that she recognized him as the Copycat Duelist, Dimitri. And apparently he was copying Crowler this time.
She sighed in annoyance. "He needs to get a life."
"Who're you talking about?" Jaden asked behind her.
"Dimitri, the dumbass Shrimp is dueling." She told him, pointing at Dimitri. "He thinks it's actually a good idea to simply copy other people, never realizing that it's fucking impossible. He'll never be them."
The wind from the duel suddenly picked up, earning a facepalm from the girl. "And currently he's using the same tactics Crowler tried to use against us in Initiation."
"Which Syrus just countered by Magic Cylinder." Mavis quipped, seeing the duel end in a humiliating defeat for the Ra. Again.
"Okay, that's it!" Bella declared, stomping forward and grabbing Dimitri from off the ground. "We need to talk."
She dragged him into a side room and tossed him inside. As he stood up to face her, he met with her fist knocking him back down. Laid out, he breathed out as Bella stepped on his chest somewhat heavily.
"Is this supposed to be some kind of a joke to you, dumbass?" She asked, staring down at him. "Do you honestly expect to win any duel by fucking copying others?!"
She shoved him away, stopping at the wall.
As he struggled to get up, he try to respond. "You don't understand-"
"I don't understand?" Bella scoffed. "I can understand trying to emulate someone, but you're trying too hard to be them."
With that, she calmed down some and looked at him in the eye. "You're not allowing yourself to duel at all by doing this. Even if you have a copy of their deck and know their tactics, you are not them. If you want to continue in a place like this, then show what you are capable of."
"And how do you suppose I do that?!" Dimitri asked, aggravated. "Huh?!"
"Actually, Bella." Happy said, smiling. "I have an idea."
As Bella listened to Happy, she smiled as well. Even if Happy and Natsu weren't all that intelligent to most people, they still had their moments.
Not to mention it'd be fun to see their faces if Baldy accepts.
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That evening, Bella was in her dorm room waiting for when Jaden and the others would sneak out to see Yugi's Deck.
When Sheppard was told about the idea, he was a bit hesitant at first. After all, it was a celebrity's deck they were dealing with. But ultimately agreed to it, partly wanting to help a student in need, partly because of Bella's own reputation, and partly because he wanted to see said deck in action.
Although she had no real idea how Dimitri was going to act throughout the whole ordeal.
Her train of thought stopped once she heard Jaden's room door open and close. "Show time."
She silently went through her own door to follow Jaden and Syrus from a distance. Though she was moderately surprised when she saw Chumley with them, but she figured that either he must want to see Yugi's Deck himself, or the others managed to convince him to come. Didn't really matter to her though. It didn't do much to affect the job.
And as expected, the boys made their way to where the deck was being kept on display. Not too far from it, they met up with Bastion, who was there for the same thing as them. However, things started turning bad when they walked into the room and found Crowler and a broken case.
Bella face-palmed. "Dammit, Dimitri."
She ran in between them, hands raised. "Don't even start. It wasn't him, guys. It was Dimitri."
"What?" Jaden asked, surprised.
"This was meant to try and get Dimitri to understand that copying others won't win him anything except as an actor." Bella explained. "I guess Crowler was the one set to secretly hand it over to him to later duel you, allowing you to fix his head on straight."
"Actually, yes." Crowler admitted.
"So this is all because Dimitri needs to be shown that he's been an idiot so far?" Jaden asked.
Bella gestured to to the broken case with a raised eyebrow.
Jaden grinned. "Then it's a good thing I got another deck to break in."
"Just spread out and find him!" Bella ordered.
"No need." Mavis said. "This way."
Mavis led them over to a rocky beach surrounded by semi-cliffs, where Dimitri was waiting. His stance made Bella face-palm again in frustration. "Figures the dumbass would decide on doing something of this level of fucking up."
"But it wouldn't entirely be him for now if he didn't." Mavis said.
"True." Bella admitted reluctantly. "Jaden, you're up."
Dimitri then spoke in an imitation of Yugi Muto's voice. "So you'll be the fir-"
"Just shut up and duel, you fucking moron!" Bella yelled.
"DUEL!" King of Games vs. Synchro Warriors
Turn 1: "I'll start us off." Jaden said as he drew a card and looked at it. "I summon Dandylion in Defense Mode." A plant-like monster with a cat face appeared in front of Jaden. "I end." Got to draw him out.
Turn 2: "An interesting monster." Dimitri said in his Yugi impersonation as he drew. "But no matter. I activate Polymerization! I Fuse Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts and Berformet together! Come forth, Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast!"
"I highly doubt Yugi actually speaks with that style of grammar." Bella deadpanned.
"Agreed." Mavis said.
"Now, Chimera! Attack Dandylion!" Dimitri ordered, only to see two weaker variants of Dandylion in its place. "Ah, it summons tokens whenever its destroyed."
Turn 3: "Correct." Jaden said as he started again. "And they're just what I need. I activate Quickdraw Synchron's effect to Special Summon it." He placed a card in his Graveyard as a monster dressed like a cowboy appeared. "Synchro Summon!"
"'Synchro?'" Dimitri asked, raising an eyebrow on Bella with how well he actually was acting.
"Using the two Level 1 Fluff Tokens and the Level 5 Tuner Quickdraw Synchron, I Synchro Summon Junk Archer in Attack Mode." Jaden declared as the three monsters were replaced by a orange robotic warrior wielding a bow. "Now I'll be sending Chimera out of play for this turn."
"What?!" Dimitri cried as Junk Archer attacked, vanishing Chimera.
"Which leaves you open until the end of this turn, when Chimera comes back." Jaden said as Archer attacked again, only this time actually causing damage to Dimitri's life points. "I then end by placing a facedown."
With that, Chimera returned to the field.
Turn 4: Dimitri started laughing. "It's been a while since I've had any sort of effective challenge. I'd like to see more of just how powerful Synchro Monsters really are. Draw! I set a card-"
"-as Chimera is forced back into your deck by Compulsory Evacuation Device."
Even Dimitri had some trouble not twitching from that in annoyance. "So be it. I activate Monster Reincarnation to send Dark Magician to the Graveyard, and return Gazelle back to my hand. I then summon said beast once more, this time in Defense Mode!" But he wasn't done. "I activate Swords of Revealing Light! Now you can't attack for three turns."
Turn 5: "I don't think that'll matter much, if what I saw in this deck is correct." Jaden retorted. "I summon Junk Synchron in Attack Mode. And with both its effect and the effect of the card I sent to the grave thanks to Quickdraw, I summon Dandylion and Quillbolt Hedgehog in Defense Mode." This time, a small, chubbier version of Junk Archer and a hedgehog with bolts in its back were on the field alongside Dandylion. But they were quickly replaced by a sizable black warrior with four arms that was robotic similar to Archer. "They won't be long, as I use them to Synchro Summon Junk Destroyer in Attack Mode!"
"Another Synchro Summon?" Dimitri asked, curious about this one.
"Which, thanks to using two non-Tuner monsters, allows me to destroy your Swords and Gazelle without consequence." Jaden explained as it did just that, shocking Dimitri and most of the audience this time. "And considering you had brought up Dark Magician before, more than likely you set card is to help bring him out to the field. But no card has yet to show up that would allow that without a tribute of some sort, so no Gazelle, no Dark Magician. Attack, Destroyer and Archer!"
The devestating combo was all they needed to snap Dimitri out of his impersonation and back into reality as he forfeited.
Winner: Synchro Warriors
Bella walked forward to the down boy. "Dimitri."
He looked up at her. "Bella..."
"Now do you see?" She asked him. "Now do you see why you can't just copy off of other people? Even with Yugi Muto, it's too easy for someone to figure out who you're copying, and tailor their own deck to counter. It's also part of what people such as teachers expect from students so that they actully learn the material. You don't learn if you don't put it down yourself, and in your own words. The same for your deck."
"She is right, Mr. Dimitri." Crowler added. "Even if I haven't been the best teacher in the past, I still prefer seeing more than just textbook responses for every question."
"But everything I've tried failed." Dimitri said.
"Not necessarily." Mavis said. "It at least felt like he might have a proclivity for Spellcasters. Maybe we could try him out with an actual Spellcaster deck."
"Might be best to leave it until morning, Mavis." Bella answered. "Let's speak with Baldy and his Dorm Head before trying anything."
Mavis shrugged, but understood Bella's words. They didn't exactly get much in regards to whether or not Dimitri truly was compatible with Spellcasters, so they'd need something else to help be sure. Hopefully Dimitri actually learns from this whole mess.
I understand copying something as a reference (makes things easier if you have a direct quote from the source), but Dimitri's case was rather ridiculous and pathetic. Even after Jaden setting him straight in canon, it somehow didn't seem to stick that he'll never win a duel if he simply tried to become someone else. No two people are the same after all.
Until next time. Please let me know what you think.
