Ranma King of Games Chapter Thirteen.
Disclaimer: Ranma is the property of Viz and Takahashi.
Disclaimer 2: I apologize for this chapter in advance.
Disclaimer 3: All of the original characters and cards in this chapter belong to me and if you steal them I'll hunt you down and shave your pets.
Disclaimer 4: And yes, I know where you live. ______________________________________
"Ha! Why don't you just give up Ranma! My horde of insects has you completely cornered. My Insect Queen not only gets a power bonus from the wooded playing field we're on, but it gets an extra two hundred from each of my other four insect monsters! You're puny little Buster Blader is no match!" Ranma smirked confidently.
"I'll admit that you caught me off guard with the field power bonus system Weevil. But I'm still going to win. You forgot about my trap card." He flipped over a card with the picture of a goblin doctor and two goblin nurses.
"Meet DNA Surgery. It changes all of the monsters on the field to whatever type I want. And since my Buster Blader gains five hundred extra attack points for every dragon on your side of the field I'll choose that." Ranma's and Weevils monsters disappeared and reappeared wearing scales and horns.
"Now Dragon Buster Blader! Destroy his insect Queen!"
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For the first time in a long time Ranma felt relaxed. Beating Kaiba yet again had restored his shaky confidence and thrashing Underwood had been another big boost.
"Well that's two duels down. Four more stars and I'm going to face Pegasus. Nothing can stop me now."
"So Ranma, who are you going to duel next?" Ranma shrugged.
"Who knows Uchan. To bad that Ashaton guy disappeared. I bet he's really good". Ukyou smiled as Ranma continued to brag but frowned when she looked down at her own glove with only one star. I've got to have more duels if I want to catch up.
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In the castle on the hill Pegasus was sitting at a table drinkinga glass of wine and laughing occasionally at the manga he was reading.
"You really should try this some time Ishtar." The woman behind him dressed in white robes shook her hooded head.
"I don't like cartoons. They're pointless and unrealistic. In real life the hero doesn't always win and the villains don't always loses." Pegasus smiled.
"Oh, you're no fun at all. Besides, even though you know the hero will win its fun to see how the villain will toy with him first. Weevil failed to stop Ranma but you and I both knew that would happen." From around Ishtar's neck the Millenium Tauk glinted in the sunlight. "We need to send another eliminator out Ishtar. Shun should do."
"That won't do any good. Ranma will annihilate Shun's deck in an instant with his Blue Eyes White Dragon." Pegasus smiled.
"Who said anything about sending him after Ranma."
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Ranma and Ukyou were walking along when the sound of a lady in distress reached their ears.
"I told you Shun! I'm not interested! Now get the hell away!"
"But Mai! My love, my sunrise! I can't live without you!" With a quick glance at each other Ranma and Ukyou hastened their pace and walked around a hill to see Mai trying to put some distance between herself and a tall, blonde and well-built man.
"Leave...Me...The...Hell...ALONE!!!"
With a frown Ukyou mumbled. "Gee, you'd think he was related to Tatawaki Kuno." The man had heard her though and looked at her curiously.
"You know my cousin?" Ukyou rolled her eyes. "That explains a lot." Suddenly Ranma seemed to realize something.
"I could swear that I've seen you before, you didn't happen to work on TV did you?"
"Why yes I did." Max took a pose. "I am the great Max Shun, television star extraordinare. I'm sure you've heard of me."
"Of course I remember! You used to be the star that old Sentai show, Daiten Gangar. Remember how we used to watch it as kids Ukyou?
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A chibi Ranma is seen running towards a house where an Okenomiyaki Yatti stands waiting outside. A chibi Ukyou is standing in the door waving for him to hurry.
"Come on Ranchan! It's already started!"
"I'm coming Ucchan!" Both little tykes rushed into the home's living room where the television was blaring loud energetic music and displaying people dressed in brightly colored spandex body suits and helmets.
"I can't wait Uchan! Today we finally get to see the fight between Joe and General Doom!"
"Me either! I want to see if Jen and Hikari finally stop arguing and work together." They both turned their attention to the screen where the characters were using martial arts moves to kick some serious minion ass.
"Go go go Daiten Gangar!!!
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"That's not how it happened at all!!!" Ranma looked at Ukyou confused.
"What do you mean? We loved to watch it together." Ukyou shook her head.
"Let me refresh your memory on what really happened."
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A chibi Ranma is seen running towards a house where an Okenomiyaki Yatti stands waiting outside. A chibi Ukyou is standing in the door but when she sees Ranma coming she rushes inside and locks it. Ranma doesn't notice and jumps in through the window.
"Come on Ukyou, Daiten Gangar is on we don't want to miss it."
"You Jackass! Why do you have to come over her every day? I want to watch Sailor Moon!"
"Sailor Moon is for girls Ukyou. Guys should watch action shows like Dai Gangar." Ukyou throws a punch but Ranma countered it, knocking her down and then sitting on her back.
"The shows starting Ukyou, do you have anything to eat?
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"That's how I remember it Ranma." Ukyou looked over at Ranma who was rubbing the back of his head and grinning with embarrassment.
"I can't believe you liked such a stupid show." Max grabbed at his heart and hunched over as if he had been hit.
"The episodes had no plot." Max sunk even lower.
"It was nothing but senseless action that wasn't even that good." Max was now on his knees.
"And the acting was just terrible!" Max crashed into the ground. But he quickly got up and pointed an angry fist at Ukyou.
"That's it missy, no one ridicules my life's work and gets away with it." Ukyou look at him with disgusted curiosity.
"Missy?"
"Yes and I'm challenging you to a duel, you wouldn't know this but I happen to be one of Pegasus's eliminators. If you lose this duel you lose all of your star chips, but if you win I'll double them. Of course that's assuming you actually had a chance of beating me." He pulled back the sleeves of his shirt to reveal strips of star chips running up the sides of his arms.
"There is a dueling field over there, get your deck and prepare for the worst."
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Ranma watched intently as Max shuffled his deck and drew five cards. "If what I suspect is true then Ukyou may be in for the fight of her life." Mai rolled her eyes.
"Ranma, this guy couldn't even be a good actor, what makes you think that he can duel."
"Well he is an eliminator after all." Ranma and Mai looked over to see Ashaton leaning against a tree. As he flicked a bit of dust from the Century Bracer on his wrist he became thoughtful.
"Did you read the ninety eighth issue of Duel Monsters Monthly?" Ranma nodded.
"Then your friend is in for one tough fight." Mai hated being left out of the loop and decided to voice her ire.
"What are you two talking about?!" Ranma shook his head.
"If I'm right you'll see, and I hope I'm not."
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Ukyou smiled at the good hand she had just drawn and picked out two cards.
"Okay Shun. I've been wanting to beat you up ever since your obnoxious show first aired. So I'll lay one card face down and summon Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode." A young blonde warrior wielding a broad sword appeared on Ukyo's side of the field looking stern. [1700, 1000] Max considered his hand and picked out a monster.
"I chose to summon Daiten Ranger Red in attack mode." A man clad from head to toe in red and gold spandex burst from the ground and took a karate stance. [1600 1200] "I'll also set one card face down." Ukyou stared dumfounded until Ranma sighed and shook his head in despair.
"I knew it." Ashaton nodded.
"So did I."
"Well would you two mind filling me in if you know so much." Ashaton took a pack of cards from his backpack and fished about until he found the one he wanted. He handed it to Mai who looked at the picture of a Dai ganger cast member.
"About seven years ago the company that produced Dai Ganger was bought up by Industrial Illusions. Every one of their programs were canceled except for Dai Ganger because Maximillion Pegasus took a personal interest in it. I'm sure you know how he loves cartoons and kiddy shows right?" Mai nodded. "Well Pegasus thought the show had enormous potential so he, with the help of Max Shun, created a new version, Trizen Daiten Ganger."
"I remember that, it was one of the greatest television flops of all time."
"That's right, it was canceled before the first season even finished. For some reason Pegasus seemed to know this would happen and as a last attempt to save the show he had created a back up plan. As a publicity stunt he announced a new series of duel monsters cards with the hero's and villains of the original Dai Ganger as the monsters and their weapons as magic and trap cards. The only problem was that they were designed to only be effective with other Dai Ganger cards so you had to have an entire deck of them to have a hope of winning. Fans of the game began to complain because it was destroying the theme of the game and Industrial illusions had to stop producing the cards and offered a refund for anyone who had bought a pack. Now the only people who own Dai Ganger cards are wealthy collectors and nerdy fan boys." Mai pondered what she had just heard and then grinned mischievously.
"So which one are you?" Ashaton smiled back.
"Neither, I rescued this card from some kids bike spokes."
"Well I'm glad you two are so happy but my fiancée has a lot on the line here. So why don't we focus on the duel and leave the chit chat for later okay?" Mai looked over at Ranma surprised at the harshness of his voice.
"Why on earth are you so concerned about a future opponent?" Ranma looked up wistfully to where Ukyou had finally regained her composure.
"Even though this is Ukyou's first duel she can get overconfident in a situation like this. Max is going to lead her right into his trap and there is nothing I can do to warn her."
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Ukyou gritted her teeth to keep from laughing but failed.
"HAHAHA!!! You have got to be kidding me! You're using characters from your show as monsters?! This is going to be more fulfilling then I thought. Not only do I get to beat you into a pulp but I also get to beat up those stupid TV characters. Neo attack him! Oracle Blade!" Ukyo's monster disappeared for a moment then reappeared out of a hole in reality behind the Red ranger. It slashed down, knocking the red monster across the field. Max merely laughed. {Ukyou 2000, Max 1900}
"You're pretty happy for a guy that just lost his monster." Max smiled and pointed to the reddish brown color of his Dai Ranger Red card.
"This is an effect monster. All Dai Rangers have a specific ability that works to help each other. So to demonstrate I'll play Daiten Blue!" Another spandex warrior dressed in aqua and obviously female appeared and stood ready. [ 200, 1000 "Then I can arm her with face down card, Temporal Mater Transport Gun, it's a magic card that allows me to summon one Daiten class monster from my hand and put him in defense mode." A futuristic rifle materialized in Daiten Blue's hands and she shot it to open a hole in time and space. The next second Daiten Red jumped out and took a guarded position. "The only side effect is that I have to put all of my Daiten monsters in defense mode until my next turn so its your move now." Ukyou plucked two cards from her hand.
"Fine, I'll play Twin headed Fire Dragon and have him attack your Daiten Red." The double headed dragon materialized and shot twin balls of fire at its opponent. But just when they were about to hit the Daiten blue began to glow and a sphere of blue light formed around the Daiten Red. There was a large explosion but when the dust cleared the red ranger was still standing. Ukyou watched in surprise as her life points went down.
{Ukyou 1700, Max 1900} Max held up his Daiten Red and smirked.
"I guess I'd better explain. The Daiten Cards were created with the intent of working together as a team. Daiten Red was the leader of the team and so he gets an extra three hundred extra attack and defense points for each Daiten class monster on the field. [ DR, 1900, 1500] But my Daiten Blue has a special effect as well. In the show Daiten Blue was the teams strategist who studied an opponent to figure out a way to make her allies stronger. So once per turn she can transfer over one thousand of her defense points to another of my monsters. Which means that my monster had a total of twenty five hundred defense points. Three hundred more then your monsters offense. So if your done with your turn I'll just make my move." Ukyou nodded.
"Good, first I'll summon Daiten Pink to the field in Defense mode." Another Ranger, this time the size and build of a young girl appeared and twirled cutely.[100, 100] "Since I have two extra daiten monsters on the field my Daiten Reds attack points go up three hundred more." [2100, 1800] "And since you were so foolish to leave your magic swordsman in attack mode I'm about to take a large chunk out of your life points! Daiten Red! Attack with Roaring Lion First!" Ukyou gritted her teeth and appeared to be worried but as the crimson blur descended she smiled and flipped over her face down card.
"You fell for my trick! I activate Reverse Trap! The powerups from your monsters become power downs and your monster only has thirteen hundred attack points!" For a moment the Daiten Red appeared to get smaller and weaker but a burst of pink energy shot over from Max's side of the field and blew apart the trap card. The next instant the Daiten Red was back to its full strength and smashed down with a wicked punch. Neo roared in pain and then shattered apart.
{Ukyou 1300, Max 1900}
"How did you do that?!" Max pointed to his Daiten Pink that was busy looking cute.
"Daiten Pink and Daiten Blue were part of a team. While Blue aids her allies Pink enfeebles the enemy. Her special effect can negate the effect of one trap or magic card once per turn if I send one of the cards in my hand to the graveyard." He held it up for Ukyou to see that it was another Daiten Red.
"Remember this, it will come in very important later on. So now I'll end my turn." Ukyo drew a card and laid two on the field.
"I play Offering to the Doomed on your Daiten Pink!" A white sphere surrounded the Daiten Pink but it burst apart under a blast of pink energy.
"I can't believe you forgot about my monsters special ability already." Ukyou smiled.
"I didn't, I just wanted you to use up its ability so I could use this. Defense paralysis. And then have my Fire Dragon destroy your Daiten Pink and take a chunk out of your life points. Say goodbye girlie." The twin fireballs once again descended on Max's monster but he quickly laid a card down.
"I activate another Temporal Mater Transport Gun and summon Daiten Green in Defense mode!" [ 1300, 1400] Ukyou blinked but shook it from her head.
"That won't do you any good, I'll still destroy your monster." Max smiled and Ukyou watched amazed as her monster's attack veered off course and blew up the Daiten Green.
"During sweeps Daiten Green died to save his team mates and the rating skyrocketed. So his special ability allows him to take the attack of any opposing monster in place of one of his allies. So my Daiten pink is safe. Now I summon Daiten Yellow to the field." A fat ranger appeared dressed in a yellow uniform and began to glow. "So I'll end my turn with out attacking." Ukyou looked at her hand and pulled out a monster.
"I'll put Twin Headed Fire Dragon in defense mode and then Summon the Red Eyes Black Dragon in attack mode!" Max flinched as the huge dragon appeared and roared at him.
"That won't do you any good. You lost this duel last turn with your little magic card combo."
"We'll see, Red Eyes, Destroy his Daiten Pink! Its still in attack mode!" As the dragon prepared its attack Daiten Yellow raised its hand to the heavens.
"Daiten Yellow was the comic relief of the show but still played an important part. As the last suviver of planet X he was able to use his X powers to heal the Daiten team, even from the brink of death. So he can bring one Daiten monster back from the graveyard each turn. And I'll bring back Daiten Green!" Ukyou watched as the green ranger appeared and the attack headed for him.
"Well it will still destroy your monster."
"Not when I activate Daiten Blue's special ability! With the extra one thousand defense points my Daiten Green can withstand your attack!" The fireball crashed into the green monster but bounced off and disappeared."
"Since our points were equal you don't lose any lifepoints. But I'll soon remedy that. Remember those Daiten cards I sent to the graveyard? Well, by removing them from play I can summon the Silver Dragon Ninja!" Above Max's side of the field a ball of white light appeared and then something dropped down. It was covered from head to toe in shiny silver ninja armor and wore a silver dragon mask.
"In every sentai show there is the team of five and then there is the lone ranger of the group. The character that shows up when the heroes are about to lose and helps them in their fight. My Silver Dragon Ninja is that character. And his special ability allows my monsters to attack your life points directly by bypassing your monsters!" The ninja began to make strange motions with his hands as he started using his ninjitsu and the next second Ukyou's monsters had faded away slightly.
"Go Daiten Force! Pentaheadren atack!" Al five of Max's warriors leaped foreword and attacked Ukyo's podium in unison.
{Ukyou 800, Max 1900}
Max began to grin wildly. "But I'm not finished yet. Now that all five members of the Daiten force are on the field I can use the ritual magic card Robo Transformation! At the end of every episode the team would have to summon their robots and form them into Daiten Mega Robo! And I can do that as well by sacrificing all five of my Daiten Team!" The speakers began to play loud exhilarating music as all five of the rangers did a fancy summoning move and the next second the ground split as five massive machines burst forth. A blue one shaped like a wolf and a pink one shaped like a fox folded up to form a pair of legs. A green one in the form of an eagle and a yellow one in the shape of a stag beetle formed the arms onto the body, which had previously been a red lion. With a loud crash the final parts connected and the newly formed Daiten Mega Robo struck a proud pose! [2000,3000]
"But there's one more surprise. My Silver Dragon Ninja can also summon his robot." The silver assassin jumped up high into the clouds and disappeared. The next second the clouds burst apart and a metallic dragon zoomed down and roared. It burst into three parts. The body flattened out until it had become a large pair of wings, which attached to the back of the Mega Robo. The tail flattened out as well and attached to the Robots left arm to form a shield. And the head attached to the right arm, where the jaws opened up and released a giant sword of glowing light! "Meet the Daiten Robo Omega Storm!" [ 2700, 3400] "Robo! Destroy her Red Eyes!" With a massive roar the machine's verniays lit up and propelled it towards its black opponent. It slashed its sword through the air and for a second Ukyou had two Red Eyes on the field.
{Ukyou 500, Max 1900}
Max shook his head. "No one insults my career and gets away with it. My Daiten deck took you by surprise and now there is no way you can win." Ukyou reached for her deck.
"I'm not giving up. I know just the card that I can beat you with." She drew a card off the top and held it up.
"Ranma gave me this card as a sign of friendship, and now it's going to finish you off." Ranma jerked.
"No Ukyou wait! Don't!"
"I activate Limiter Remover!" The Daiten Robo suddenly began to glow and the point readout began to go up.
"Limiter Removal doubles the attack of all machine monsters on the field. But it also will destroy them all at the beginning of my next turn. Your monsters special effects caught me off guard, but without your best monster you'll be easy to take down. So make your last move." Max grinned again.
"You're right, this is my last move."
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"Sorry Ranma, it's to bad your girlfriend is going to lose." Ranma shook his head.
"I know, and it's all my fault." Mai watched curiously.
"I don't understand. Why would she lose? It looks like she's about to win to me." Ranma pointed to the robot on the field that was continuing to power up.
"Max will explain it in a minuet."
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"You're right, this is my last move. Because I'm going to win! I'm guessing that since you weren't a fan of the show you didn't watch the final episode did you?" Ukyou shook her head.
"Well if you had then you would have known that in order to defeat General Doom the Daiten force had to self destruct their Robot and blow up his fortress. In other words they won by sacrificing their ultimate weapon. My Daiten Robo has a similar effect, since when its destroyed a third of its attack points are deducted from your life points! It'll take away your last five hundred life points and the duel will be mine!"
"No!" Max smiled and held out his hand with the thumb pointed towards the ground.
"My turn is over." The next second the Daiten Robo turned bright white before disappearing in a giant explosion. Ukyou stared in disbelief.
{Ukyou 0, Max 1900}
"I...lost."
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Authors notes:
Ack! What a surprise! You all thought that Ukyou was going to take Joey's place and go all the way to the finals didn't you? Well I've got several more surprises in store for you all. I know that people don't like it when I create new cards but I got the idea after seeing Union Monsters in Magicians Force and after sketching it out a bit I couldn't help but write this. The really observant will probably realize that I used the Daiten Zen Characters from Excel Saga as well as Power Rangers and a touch of Geki Genger. This will probably be the last duel with Max but if enough people request him well...he might show up again.
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Disclaimer: Ranma is the property of Viz and Takahashi.
Disclaimer 2: I apologize for this chapter in advance.
Disclaimer 3: All of the original characters and cards in this chapter belong to me and if you steal them I'll hunt you down and shave your pets.
Disclaimer 4: And yes, I know where you live. ______________________________________
"Ha! Why don't you just give up Ranma! My horde of insects has you completely cornered. My Insect Queen not only gets a power bonus from the wooded playing field we're on, but it gets an extra two hundred from each of my other four insect monsters! You're puny little Buster Blader is no match!" Ranma smirked confidently.
"I'll admit that you caught me off guard with the field power bonus system Weevil. But I'm still going to win. You forgot about my trap card." He flipped over a card with the picture of a goblin doctor and two goblin nurses.
"Meet DNA Surgery. It changes all of the monsters on the field to whatever type I want. And since my Buster Blader gains five hundred extra attack points for every dragon on your side of the field I'll choose that." Ranma's and Weevils monsters disappeared and reappeared wearing scales and horns.
"Now Dragon Buster Blader! Destroy his insect Queen!"
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For the first time in a long time Ranma felt relaxed. Beating Kaiba yet again had restored his shaky confidence and thrashing Underwood had been another big boost.
"Well that's two duels down. Four more stars and I'm going to face Pegasus. Nothing can stop me now."
"So Ranma, who are you going to duel next?" Ranma shrugged.
"Who knows Uchan. To bad that Ashaton guy disappeared. I bet he's really good". Ukyou smiled as Ranma continued to brag but frowned when she looked down at her own glove with only one star. I've got to have more duels if I want to catch up.
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In the castle on the hill Pegasus was sitting at a table drinkinga glass of wine and laughing occasionally at the manga he was reading.
"You really should try this some time Ishtar." The woman behind him dressed in white robes shook her hooded head.
"I don't like cartoons. They're pointless and unrealistic. In real life the hero doesn't always win and the villains don't always loses." Pegasus smiled.
"Oh, you're no fun at all. Besides, even though you know the hero will win its fun to see how the villain will toy with him first. Weevil failed to stop Ranma but you and I both knew that would happen." From around Ishtar's neck the Millenium Tauk glinted in the sunlight. "We need to send another eliminator out Ishtar. Shun should do."
"That won't do any good. Ranma will annihilate Shun's deck in an instant with his Blue Eyes White Dragon." Pegasus smiled.
"Who said anything about sending him after Ranma."
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Ranma and Ukyou were walking along when the sound of a lady in distress reached their ears.
"I told you Shun! I'm not interested! Now get the hell away!"
"But Mai! My love, my sunrise! I can't live without you!" With a quick glance at each other Ranma and Ukyou hastened their pace and walked around a hill to see Mai trying to put some distance between herself and a tall, blonde and well-built man.
"Leave...Me...The...Hell...ALONE!!!"
With a frown Ukyou mumbled. "Gee, you'd think he was related to Tatawaki Kuno." The man had heard her though and looked at her curiously.
"You know my cousin?" Ukyou rolled her eyes. "That explains a lot." Suddenly Ranma seemed to realize something.
"I could swear that I've seen you before, you didn't happen to work on TV did you?"
"Why yes I did." Max took a pose. "I am the great Max Shun, television star extraordinare. I'm sure you've heard of me."
"Of course I remember! You used to be the star that old Sentai show, Daiten Gangar. Remember how we used to watch it as kids Ukyou?
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A chibi Ranma is seen running towards a house where an Okenomiyaki Yatti stands waiting outside. A chibi Ukyou is standing in the door waving for him to hurry.
"Come on Ranchan! It's already started!"
"I'm coming Ucchan!" Both little tykes rushed into the home's living room where the television was blaring loud energetic music and displaying people dressed in brightly colored spandex body suits and helmets.
"I can't wait Uchan! Today we finally get to see the fight between Joe and General Doom!"
"Me either! I want to see if Jen and Hikari finally stop arguing and work together." They both turned their attention to the screen where the characters were using martial arts moves to kick some serious minion ass.
"Go go go Daiten Gangar!!!
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"That's not how it happened at all!!!" Ranma looked at Ukyou confused.
"What do you mean? We loved to watch it together." Ukyou shook her head.
"Let me refresh your memory on what really happened."
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A chibi Ranma is seen running towards a house where an Okenomiyaki Yatti stands waiting outside. A chibi Ukyou is standing in the door but when she sees Ranma coming she rushes inside and locks it. Ranma doesn't notice and jumps in through the window.
"Come on Ukyou, Daiten Gangar is on we don't want to miss it."
"You Jackass! Why do you have to come over her every day? I want to watch Sailor Moon!"
"Sailor Moon is for girls Ukyou. Guys should watch action shows like Dai Gangar." Ukyou throws a punch but Ranma countered it, knocking her down and then sitting on her back.
"The shows starting Ukyou, do you have anything to eat?
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"That's how I remember it Ranma." Ukyou looked over at Ranma who was rubbing the back of his head and grinning with embarrassment.
"I can't believe you liked such a stupid show." Max grabbed at his heart and hunched over as if he had been hit.
"The episodes had no plot." Max sunk even lower.
"It was nothing but senseless action that wasn't even that good." Max was now on his knees.
"And the acting was just terrible!" Max crashed into the ground. But he quickly got up and pointed an angry fist at Ukyou.
"That's it missy, no one ridicules my life's work and gets away with it." Ukyou look at him with disgusted curiosity.
"Missy?"
"Yes and I'm challenging you to a duel, you wouldn't know this but I happen to be one of Pegasus's eliminators. If you lose this duel you lose all of your star chips, but if you win I'll double them. Of course that's assuming you actually had a chance of beating me." He pulled back the sleeves of his shirt to reveal strips of star chips running up the sides of his arms.
"There is a dueling field over there, get your deck and prepare for the worst."
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Ranma watched intently as Max shuffled his deck and drew five cards. "If what I suspect is true then Ukyou may be in for the fight of her life." Mai rolled her eyes.
"Ranma, this guy couldn't even be a good actor, what makes you think that he can duel."
"Well he is an eliminator after all." Ranma and Mai looked over to see Ashaton leaning against a tree. As he flicked a bit of dust from the Century Bracer on his wrist he became thoughtful.
"Did you read the ninety eighth issue of Duel Monsters Monthly?" Ranma nodded.
"Then your friend is in for one tough fight." Mai hated being left out of the loop and decided to voice her ire.
"What are you two talking about?!" Ranma shook his head.
"If I'm right you'll see, and I hope I'm not."
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Ukyou smiled at the good hand she had just drawn and picked out two cards.
"Okay Shun. I've been wanting to beat you up ever since your obnoxious show first aired. So I'll lay one card face down and summon Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode." A young blonde warrior wielding a broad sword appeared on Ukyo's side of the field looking stern. [1700, 1000] Max considered his hand and picked out a monster.
"I chose to summon Daiten Ranger Red in attack mode." A man clad from head to toe in red and gold spandex burst from the ground and took a karate stance. [1600 1200] "I'll also set one card face down." Ukyou stared dumfounded until Ranma sighed and shook his head in despair.
"I knew it." Ashaton nodded.
"So did I."
"Well would you two mind filling me in if you know so much." Ashaton took a pack of cards from his backpack and fished about until he found the one he wanted. He handed it to Mai who looked at the picture of a Dai ganger cast member.
"About seven years ago the company that produced Dai Ganger was bought up by Industrial Illusions. Every one of their programs were canceled except for Dai Ganger because Maximillion Pegasus took a personal interest in it. I'm sure you know how he loves cartoons and kiddy shows right?" Mai nodded. "Well Pegasus thought the show had enormous potential so he, with the help of Max Shun, created a new version, Trizen Daiten Ganger."
"I remember that, it was one of the greatest television flops of all time."
"That's right, it was canceled before the first season even finished. For some reason Pegasus seemed to know this would happen and as a last attempt to save the show he had created a back up plan. As a publicity stunt he announced a new series of duel monsters cards with the hero's and villains of the original Dai Ganger as the monsters and their weapons as magic and trap cards. The only problem was that they were designed to only be effective with other Dai Ganger cards so you had to have an entire deck of them to have a hope of winning. Fans of the game began to complain because it was destroying the theme of the game and Industrial illusions had to stop producing the cards and offered a refund for anyone who had bought a pack. Now the only people who own Dai Ganger cards are wealthy collectors and nerdy fan boys." Mai pondered what she had just heard and then grinned mischievously.
"So which one are you?" Ashaton smiled back.
"Neither, I rescued this card from some kids bike spokes."
"Well I'm glad you two are so happy but my fiancée has a lot on the line here. So why don't we focus on the duel and leave the chit chat for later okay?" Mai looked over at Ranma surprised at the harshness of his voice.
"Why on earth are you so concerned about a future opponent?" Ranma looked up wistfully to where Ukyou had finally regained her composure.
"Even though this is Ukyou's first duel she can get overconfident in a situation like this. Max is going to lead her right into his trap and there is nothing I can do to warn her."
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Ukyou gritted her teeth to keep from laughing but failed.
"HAHAHA!!! You have got to be kidding me! You're using characters from your show as monsters?! This is going to be more fulfilling then I thought. Not only do I get to beat you into a pulp but I also get to beat up those stupid TV characters. Neo attack him! Oracle Blade!" Ukyo's monster disappeared for a moment then reappeared out of a hole in reality behind the Red ranger. It slashed down, knocking the red monster across the field. Max merely laughed. {Ukyou 2000, Max 1900}
"You're pretty happy for a guy that just lost his monster." Max smiled and pointed to the reddish brown color of his Dai Ranger Red card.
"This is an effect monster. All Dai Rangers have a specific ability that works to help each other. So to demonstrate I'll play Daiten Blue!" Another spandex warrior dressed in aqua and obviously female appeared and stood ready. [ 200, 1000 "Then I can arm her with face down card, Temporal Mater Transport Gun, it's a magic card that allows me to summon one Daiten class monster from my hand and put him in defense mode." A futuristic rifle materialized in Daiten Blue's hands and she shot it to open a hole in time and space. The next second Daiten Red jumped out and took a guarded position. "The only side effect is that I have to put all of my Daiten monsters in defense mode until my next turn so its your move now." Ukyou plucked two cards from her hand.
"Fine, I'll play Twin headed Fire Dragon and have him attack your Daiten Red." The double headed dragon materialized and shot twin balls of fire at its opponent. But just when they were about to hit the Daiten blue began to glow and a sphere of blue light formed around the Daiten Red. There was a large explosion but when the dust cleared the red ranger was still standing. Ukyou watched in surprise as her life points went down.
{Ukyou 1700, Max 1900} Max held up his Daiten Red and smirked.
"I guess I'd better explain. The Daiten Cards were created with the intent of working together as a team. Daiten Red was the leader of the team and so he gets an extra three hundred extra attack and defense points for each Daiten class monster on the field. [ DR, 1900, 1500] But my Daiten Blue has a special effect as well. In the show Daiten Blue was the teams strategist who studied an opponent to figure out a way to make her allies stronger. So once per turn she can transfer over one thousand of her defense points to another of my monsters. Which means that my monster had a total of twenty five hundred defense points. Three hundred more then your monsters offense. So if your done with your turn I'll just make my move." Ukyou nodded.
"Good, first I'll summon Daiten Pink to the field in Defense mode." Another Ranger, this time the size and build of a young girl appeared and twirled cutely.[100, 100] "Since I have two extra daiten monsters on the field my Daiten Reds attack points go up three hundred more." [2100, 1800] "And since you were so foolish to leave your magic swordsman in attack mode I'm about to take a large chunk out of your life points! Daiten Red! Attack with Roaring Lion First!" Ukyou gritted her teeth and appeared to be worried but as the crimson blur descended she smiled and flipped over her face down card.
"You fell for my trick! I activate Reverse Trap! The powerups from your monsters become power downs and your monster only has thirteen hundred attack points!" For a moment the Daiten Red appeared to get smaller and weaker but a burst of pink energy shot over from Max's side of the field and blew apart the trap card. The next instant the Daiten Red was back to its full strength and smashed down with a wicked punch. Neo roared in pain and then shattered apart.
{Ukyou 1300, Max 1900}
"How did you do that?!" Max pointed to his Daiten Pink that was busy looking cute.
"Daiten Pink and Daiten Blue were part of a team. While Blue aids her allies Pink enfeebles the enemy. Her special effect can negate the effect of one trap or magic card once per turn if I send one of the cards in my hand to the graveyard." He held it up for Ukyou to see that it was another Daiten Red.
"Remember this, it will come in very important later on. So now I'll end my turn." Ukyo drew a card and laid two on the field.
"I play Offering to the Doomed on your Daiten Pink!" A white sphere surrounded the Daiten Pink but it burst apart under a blast of pink energy.
"I can't believe you forgot about my monsters special ability already." Ukyou smiled.
"I didn't, I just wanted you to use up its ability so I could use this. Defense paralysis. And then have my Fire Dragon destroy your Daiten Pink and take a chunk out of your life points. Say goodbye girlie." The twin fireballs once again descended on Max's monster but he quickly laid a card down.
"I activate another Temporal Mater Transport Gun and summon Daiten Green in Defense mode!" [ 1300, 1400] Ukyou blinked but shook it from her head.
"That won't do you any good, I'll still destroy your monster." Max smiled and Ukyou watched amazed as her monster's attack veered off course and blew up the Daiten Green.
"During sweeps Daiten Green died to save his team mates and the rating skyrocketed. So his special ability allows him to take the attack of any opposing monster in place of one of his allies. So my Daiten pink is safe. Now I summon Daiten Yellow to the field." A fat ranger appeared dressed in a yellow uniform and began to glow. "So I'll end my turn with out attacking." Ukyou looked at her hand and pulled out a monster.
"I'll put Twin Headed Fire Dragon in defense mode and then Summon the Red Eyes Black Dragon in attack mode!" Max flinched as the huge dragon appeared and roared at him.
"That won't do you any good. You lost this duel last turn with your little magic card combo."
"We'll see, Red Eyes, Destroy his Daiten Pink! Its still in attack mode!" As the dragon prepared its attack Daiten Yellow raised its hand to the heavens.
"Daiten Yellow was the comic relief of the show but still played an important part. As the last suviver of planet X he was able to use his X powers to heal the Daiten team, even from the brink of death. So he can bring one Daiten monster back from the graveyard each turn. And I'll bring back Daiten Green!" Ukyou watched as the green ranger appeared and the attack headed for him.
"Well it will still destroy your monster."
"Not when I activate Daiten Blue's special ability! With the extra one thousand defense points my Daiten Green can withstand your attack!" The fireball crashed into the green monster but bounced off and disappeared."
"Since our points were equal you don't lose any lifepoints. But I'll soon remedy that. Remember those Daiten cards I sent to the graveyard? Well, by removing them from play I can summon the Silver Dragon Ninja!" Above Max's side of the field a ball of white light appeared and then something dropped down. It was covered from head to toe in shiny silver ninja armor and wore a silver dragon mask.
"In every sentai show there is the team of five and then there is the lone ranger of the group. The character that shows up when the heroes are about to lose and helps them in their fight. My Silver Dragon Ninja is that character. And his special ability allows my monsters to attack your life points directly by bypassing your monsters!" The ninja began to make strange motions with his hands as he started using his ninjitsu and the next second Ukyou's monsters had faded away slightly.
"Go Daiten Force! Pentaheadren atack!" Al five of Max's warriors leaped foreword and attacked Ukyo's podium in unison.
{Ukyou 800, Max 1900}
Max began to grin wildly. "But I'm not finished yet. Now that all five members of the Daiten force are on the field I can use the ritual magic card Robo Transformation! At the end of every episode the team would have to summon their robots and form them into Daiten Mega Robo! And I can do that as well by sacrificing all five of my Daiten Team!" The speakers began to play loud exhilarating music as all five of the rangers did a fancy summoning move and the next second the ground split as five massive machines burst forth. A blue one shaped like a wolf and a pink one shaped like a fox folded up to form a pair of legs. A green one in the form of an eagle and a yellow one in the shape of a stag beetle formed the arms onto the body, which had previously been a red lion. With a loud crash the final parts connected and the newly formed Daiten Mega Robo struck a proud pose! [2000,3000]
"But there's one more surprise. My Silver Dragon Ninja can also summon his robot." The silver assassin jumped up high into the clouds and disappeared. The next second the clouds burst apart and a metallic dragon zoomed down and roared. It burst into three parts. The body flattened out until it had become a large pair of wings, which attached to the back of the Mega Robo. The tail flattened out as well and attached to the Robots left arm to form a shield. And the head attached to the right arm, where the jaws opened up and released a giant sword of glowing light! "Meet the Daiten Robo Omega Storm!" [ 2700, 3400] "Robo! Destroy her Red Eyes!" With a massive roar the machine's verniays lit up and propelled it towards its black opponent. It slashed its sword through the air and for a second Ukyou had two Red Eyes on the field.
{Ukyou 500, Max 1900}
Max shook his head. "No one insults my career and gets away with it. My Daiten deck took you by surprise and now there is no way you can win." Ukyou reached for her deck.
"I'm not giving up. I know just the card that I can beat you with." She drew a card off the top and held it up.
"Ranma gave me this card as a sign of friendship, and now it's going to finish you off." Ranma jerked.
"No Ukyou wait! Don't!"
"I activate Limiter Remover!" The Daiten Robo suddenly began to glow and the point readout began to go up.
"Limiter Removal doubles the attack of all machine monsters on the field. But it also will destroy them all at the beginning of my next turn. Your monsters special effects caught me off guard, but without your best monster you'll be easy to take down. So make your last move." Max grinned again.
"You're right, this is my last move."
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"Sorry Ranma, it's to bad your girlfriend is going to lose." Ranma shook his head.
"I know, and it's all my fault." Mai watched curiously.
"I don't understand. Why would she lose? It looks like she's about to win to me." Ranma pointed to the robot on the field that was continuing to power up.
"Max will explain it in a minuet."
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"You're right, this is my last move. Because I'm going to win! I'm guessing that since you weren't a fan of the show you didn't watch the final episode did you?" Ukyou shook her head.
"Well if you had then you would have known that in order to defeat General Doom the Daiten force had to self destruct their Robot and blow up his fortress. In other words they won by sacrificing their ultimate weapon. My Daiten Robo has a similar effect, since when its destroyed a third of its attack points are deducted from your life points! It'll take away your last five hundred life points and the duel will be mine!"
"No!" Max smiled and held out his hand with the thumb pointed towards the ground.
"My turn is over." The next second the Daiten Robo turned bright white before disappearing in a giant explosion. Ukyou stared in disbelief.
{Ukyou 0, Max 1900}
"I...lost."
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Authors notes:
Ack! What a surprise! You all thought that Ukyou was going to take Joey's place and go all the way to the finals didn't you? Well I've got several more surprises in store for you all. I know that people don't like it when I create new cards but I got the idea after seeing Union Monsters in Magicians Force and after sketching it out a bit I couldn't help but write this. The really observant will probably realize that I used the Daiten Zen Characters from Excel Saga as well as Power Rangers and a touch of Geki Genger. This will probably be the last duel with Max but if enough people request him well...he might show up again.
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