Chapter 4
A Little Underground (literally) Duel
(Author's note: This should've been apparent by now, but any of the characters you see I do not own. Also, to those picky about anime names, I will be using their butchered dub names. Just so the normals know whom I'm talking about. But I will not refer to the spirit as "Yami". That is not his real name. The characters actually know not of his real name, but rather refer to him as "the other Yugi". It was something stupid 4Kids added in. 4Kids does a lot of butchering to the original anime from Japan, such as changing Osiris to Slifer. If I get up to that point, I will refer to him as Osiris because it is his true name. 4Kids assume that if it is red, big, and watches over the Underworld, it's Satanic. But I'm ranting. Let's continue on.)
The crew got to introduce themselves to the "lovebirds", as Paula affectionately called them. They introduced themselves, too. The boy's name was Yugi. The brown-haired girl was named Téa. Then the blonde butted in and introduced herself as Mai.
Then Ness, Jeff, Paula, and Poo went back to their hotel cave.
"You know," said Jeff, "we really should practice. We need to stay at the top of our game."
"Good idea," said Paula. "Rematch, Ness?"
"No way!" replied Ness. "You got whipped and that's it! You were attack happy, and that's it!"
"I'll duel," said Jeff.
"You could've won the turn you drew that Typhoon," said Paula, "but no! You had to play it as a trap."
"It ain't my fault you fell for it!" said Ness. "It's also your fault you fell for me reviving my Blue Eyes and hitting the Cylinder!"
"I'm willing!" said Jeff.
"Right!" said Paula. "You did that just so Cosmo Queen would get the power boost, just so that your Magic Cylinder would be more effective! It's a cheap trick!"
"So is using Trap Hole, according to most people," said Ness.
Jeff fired his Gaia Beam laser gun. Then he swapped some cards out of his deck. He realized Scroll of Bewitchment changes attribute, not type.
"Enough, Ness," said Jeff. "Let's go!"
Jeff whipped out his automatic card shuffler, cut his deck, and hit the button to shuffle.
Ness shuffled by hand.
The two put on their duel disks, and inserted the decks into the proper slot.
"LET'S GO!" shouted the two.
Poo and Paula sat in their beds to watch.
"You go first," said Jeff.
"'Kay," said Ness. He drew his hand. Sling Troopers, first draw. (Not bad,) he thought.
"I'll set this monster down," said Ness. He slapped his Sling Troopers face down and horizontal. He then inserted a card in the magic/trap slot. "And set this card. Your turn."
Jeff thought he had a good first hand, too. X-Head Cannon, Y-Dragon Head, and Z-Metal Caterpillar right off the bat. After modifying his deck, he only had two non-Machines in his deck. He drew. There it was. Sinister Serpent. He looked at the other 2 monsters in hand. Jinzo #7 and Mechanicalchaser. It wasn't a bad hand. But it worked for him. Le laid down Mechanicalchaser.
"First, I'll throw down Mechanicalchaser in attack mode!" declared Jeff.
(ATTACK!) thought Ness. (ATTACK!)
"Then, I'll remove these 3 cards from the game…" Jeff took X, Y, and Z out of his hand and threw them into a slot. "… to special summon XYZ-DRAGON CANNON!"
He watched as his machine formed. All he could see were the many armaments extending from the giant metal mass. Jeff looked admirably at the fusion monster he summoned, with its attack of 2800 and defense of 2500. He had to get it to survive, because since it was summoned by its effect, it was considered an illegal fusion summon. Thus, if destroyed, it couldn't be revived.
"Then, I'll discard a card from my hand…" Jeff took the Serpent from his hand and slid it into the discard slot. "…to activate its effect that lets me destroy any card on the field! Say goodbye to your set!"
Ness saw the set monster explode. "SLING TROOPS!"
"And I'll discard my remaining card to destroy your trap!" declared Jeff.
"Not my Magic Cylinder!" Ness was amazed.
"I can't attack with my newly fused monster, so Mechanicalchaser will attack instead!"
Ness was pushed back by the force of the blow. Amazed, he said, "This is good technology!"
"I agree," said Jeff. "Now go. I have a good feeling."
Ness looked at the Rush Recklessly he drew. He could be his sneaky self, but he never dueled Jeff before. He deduced doing that would be like giving a horror flick murderer a chainsaw. He needed a good sap to attack with. Then he realized he could just whip out the Retrained Celtic Guardian, equip it with Dragonic Attack, and annihilate the little machine he has to deal with. Jeff will attack with XYZ, and he'll wipe the floor with his Goblin Attack Force.
"First, I'll summon the Retrained Celtic Guardian!" declared Ness. "Then, I'll power him up with Dragonic Attack! Not only is he now a Dragon-type, but his attack is now 1900! You know what that means, right?"
"That he's a big draggin' target for my Dragon Cannon?" replied Jeff.
"You can try," replied Ness. "But… ahh. I'll let you find out for yourself. CELTIC GUARDIAN! ATTACK MECHANICALCHASER!"
A swing of the guardian's sword, and the robot was gone.
"Go," said Ness.
Jeff drew his card. Then the Serpent he discarded popped out of the discard slot. Jeff took it.
"Ness, you're okay, but I have 2 words for you," said Jeff. "You're screwed. I play LIMITER REMOVAL! It doubles the attack of my machines! Sure, they'll blow up at the end of this turn. But it makes a great finishing move. XYZ, BLAST CELTIC GUARDIAN!"
The numerous turrets went off firing, and the Retrained Celtic Guardian fell on his back. Then got up. Then fell down.
It didn't matter to Jeff. He won in 2 turns.
"That was as much fun as recalibrating a motor," said Jeff. "Maybe we'll duel another time. And maybe I'll find a genetic solution that'll make pigs fly!"
Jeff put his deck in a box, and tucked himself in to sleep.
