Yugi, Joey, and Michael ran over to Weevil's body, which had just fallen
off the arena platform being controlled by Salazar.
"Treating an unconscious victim? They didn't even try to teach us that in school," Yugi said.
Michael checked his pulse but not before taking out three star chips from his enormous dueling gloves, "He's not dead but he's got several broken bones. As a duelist I'd leave him here, but even Weevil doesn't deserve to be left for dead."
"Yeah," Joey said putting him over his shoulder. "Let's go to the docks and think of something then."
"Actually, that weakling will be coming with us," said one of four men in suits who had appeared out of nowhere it seemed.
"I don't think so, your boss just threw him off the platform," Yugi said to them.
"Hand him over or we can't be responsible what happens to you next," said the same suit again and he was oddly familiar to Yugi and Joey, with his ridiculously long hair pointed up like an antenna in the front.
The other suits began cracking their knuckles and had menacing smiles on their face and Michael stood up to them ready for a fight.
"We're sorry it had to come to this," said Joey placing Weevil on the ground and stepped up beside Michael.
"Okay, then, I hope you enjoyed the feeling in your legs," said the antenna haired suit.
The suits charged at the two of them and Joey and Michael charged at them. A bald suit threw a punch at Joey but caught the punch and pulled him in and punched the suit deep in the gut in the gut of the bald suit and threw him over his shoulder and on the ground. A brown-haired suit upper-cutted Michael in the chin and it connected but as Michael went flying in the air, as his legs were level with the suit's head he grabbed him by the neck with his ankles and threw him over to the ground and then Michael got off his hands and got on his feet. A black-haired suit grabbed Joey by the head and head butted him right on the noggin, as Joey was dazed, the suit didn't seem harmed by the attack and threw one punch to Joey's gut, then to his face knocking him to the ground. Michael jumped up and drop-kicked the black haired suit right to the head knocking him the ground. The antenna- haired suit however, had ran over to Yugi, who was guarding Weevil, and grabbed Yugi by his hair and threw him to the ground, grabbed Weevil and put him over his shoulder.
"Okay, we got him, let's go!" said the suit.
The other three suits got up like they weren't hurt at all and ran over the antenna haired suit and they ran off. "Hey get back here!" shouted Michael as he ran after them.
"Stop him, do whatever it takes," said the antenna-haired duelist to the bald one.
The bald suit stopped running, turned around and faced Michael. The bald suit threw a punch at Michael but he stepped out of the way and did a turning kick to the bald suit's head, but the bald suit parried the kick with his left arm then applied force on his leg, causing Michael to do a corkscrew-styled fall to the ground. Then the bald suit kicked him several times in the back and ran after the other three suits.
Joey got up rubbing his head and ran over to Michael helping him back up.
"You okay?" asked Joey.
"Yeah, but my back hurts," said Michael.
Yugi got up rubbing his head and said, "Don't mind me."
"Oh sorry Yuge," Joey said. "Didn't see you there."
"It's okay," Yugi said as he came over to his other two friends. "But I guess I should fill you in about what's going on Michael.
"Okay," Michael said as he was still rubbing his back.
Yugi explained to Michael about the Millennium Items, his Puzzle, the spirit that resides in it, the Millennium Rod, and about Salazar.
"So Weevil fell off the platform because Salazar used the Millennium Rod, which can control minds?" Michael asked.
"Yeah," Yugi said.
"What was with those dueling gloves? They were twice as big as they should've been." Michael said.
"Salazar called Weevil an eliminator and last time Joey and I were here, I had to duel an eliminator, they're really skilled duelists, hired to get rid of the weaker duelists by forcing them to duel." Yugi explained.
"Well I heard a rumor about their being ridiculously powerful cards used in the Battle City finals, there was a picture in the newspaper of a red dragon coiled around the blimp where the first matches were held." Michael said.
Yugi panicked for a second and thought, 'Oh no, people know about the Egyptian God Cards???'
"An American Journalist was trying to take pictures of the Battle City Finals, however reporters and journalists weren't allowed on the blimp so he did the next best thing, take pictures from the highest skyscraper." Michael said.
"That explains why Japan wasn't informed about that," said Joey. "By the way, what time is it?"
Michael looked at his watch, "My time says 5:34 PM, but changing to the current time zone, I'd say about 11:56 AM, so almost Noon."
"Noon?" Joey said. "Four hours and I still haven't dueled, I gotta find someone to duel."
Joey ran off to go find a duel going on.
"Let's go get him, I'd like to see what he's got in his deck," Michael and Yugi ran off to go find Joey and who he was dueling.
Joey, meanwhile was running for over 10 minutes, and forgotten all about Yugi and Michael and he was now facing four different duelists, they all looked the same age but they were each of a different nationality and they were all wearing blue and white clothing.
"So you want to duel one of us?" said the Japanese duelist.
"That's right," Joey said. "Now which one of you do I have to duel?"
"Right then, why don't you duel me?" asked the English duelist. "I'll knock you on your bloomin' arse."
"I want to duel him," said the Egyptian duelist. "That last duel I had was hardly a challenge."
"No, I've only dueled once since I've been here and that chump only had one star chip, let me knock him outta tournament," said the American duelist.
"Okay I'll duel you," Joey said as he put on his duel disk as did the American duelist, and they both got on the platform and it elevated up facing each other.
"You got a name, duelist?" asked the American duelist.
"Name's Joey Wheeler," said Joey. "How 'bout you?"
"I'm Justin Grey," he said. "How many star chips are you willing to give up."
"I'll wager three," said Joey. "Then I'll have six.
"Correction: you'll be out of the tournament," Justin said. "And for the fun of it let's both put up two rare cards instead of one."
Joey thought about the stakes he was taking then said, "Alright fine, you've gotta have two decent cards."
"Let's duel!" both the duelists said as their life points went up to 8000.
"Ladies first, so you can go," said Justin drawing five cards.
"Fine then," Joey said, ignoring his insult picking up five cards and drawing an additional card. "I play Axe Raider (1700/1150) in attack mode, and I'll play this card face down ending my turn." A warrior with purple hair wielding an axe and wearing armor appeared and behind him a large card.
'He's gonna feel the pain when he plays whatever strategy he has and I flip my trap card Blast with Chain, even if his monster's stronger, it will die too.' Joey thought.
Justin's turn-
Justin drew his card and smirked at the Axe Raider, "I play Sky Dragon (1900/1800) in attack mode and I play the Magic card, Mystical Space Typhoon." As the purple four-winged dragon appeared onto the field, the card Joey had set face down was blown away and sent to the graveyard. "Sorry but that look on your face was so predictable so anyone could tell it was a trap and now, Sky Dragon attack his Axe Raider, Wind Cutter!" The four-winged dragon raised it wings and unleashed them with a great force of wind so precise it formed a curved blade bisecting Axe Raider, as his upper body fall over and he faded from the field and the remainder of the blade hit Joey.
Joey: 7800
Justin: 8000
Joey's turn-
'Ah man, I never got to see my card in action, well, maybe my other cards will help me out,' thought Joey as he drew his card and got happy.
"Okay Justin," Joey said. "Payback time for my Axe Raider, I play Warrior Dai Grepher (1700/1600) but that isn't all, I equip him with Lightning Blade, increasing his attack to 2500!" as Joey played the two cards, a muscular warrior wielding a mighty sword appeared but that sword vanished and was replaced it with a greater sword that eternally emitted electricity. "Attack his dragon, Dai Grepher! Lightning Blade Strike!" Dai Grepher ran up to Justin's Sky Dragon, electricity gathered greatly in the sword creating a light blinding the dragon and Justin and the warrior decapitated the dragon and its separated body fell to the ground and faded from the field.
Joey: 7800
Justin: 7400
Justin's turn-
"So you have a short and early lead, bravo," he said patronizingly. "Well I draw my card and I play the field card Mountain, and I play Curse of Dragon (2000/1500)," the dueling field they were playing on had vanished and the platforms they were on were now snowy and they were playing on the summit of what it appeared to be, a mountain, even with thermal virtual reality, meaning it was now freezing on the platforms they stood on. "Because were now on a Mountain field, and because of the new rules, Curse of Dragon's stats rise to 2500/2000.
"Man it's freezing," said Joey clenching his arms.
Justin scoffed at Joey and played another card, "I also play one magic or trap card face down ending my turn."
Joey's turn-
Joey drew a card and said, "Okay I play Gearfried, the Iron Knight (1800/1600) in attack mode and I'll lay one card face down ending my turn." The Iron Knight appeared and behind it was a huge card.
-Justin's turn-
"I'll play Twin-Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in attack mode and his stats rise to 2000/1700 and I'll have him attack Gearfried." As the two headed dragon went to attack, Gearfried, it fell into a hole and got skewered by several spikes one of them impaling a head.
"Ha!" Joey remarked. "Your monster just fell for my Chasm of Spikes trap card and not only do you lose your monster, but one quarter of his total attack points are taken away from your life points.
Joey: 7800
Justin: 6900
"500 life points is hardly a loss, for the trap I put you in," Justin said as his Behemoth came out of the trap, with only one head that was alive. "My Twin-Headed Behemoth has two lives but when he comes back his stats are lowered to 1000/1000 and it just rises up to 1500/1500 from the mountain's effect and he is placed into Defense mode. Now Curse of Dragon kill Gearfried, Dragon's Flame!" The dragon breathed out a ravenous flame frying Gearfried off the field and burning off 900 of Joey's life points.
Joey: 6900
Justin: 6900
"And I end my turn," said Justin. "As well as any lead you will ever have in this duel."
Joey's turn-
'This guy seems to be playing nothing but dragons, and I don't have anything in my hand that gets a field bonus from the Mountain effect, and plus he knew about my Chasm of Spikes so he attacked with a weaker monster that could just come back from the graveyard. He's probably gonna sacrifice it to bring out an even stronger dragon, I'd just have Dai Grepher attack it but that face down card... I have no clue what it is. Gah, this is so frustratin,' Thought Joey.
Joey drew his card and sighed. "I play one card face down defense mode and one magic or trap card face down, ending my turn."
Justin's turn-
"I play Lord of D. (1200/1100) in attack mode and I'll also play The Flute of Summoning Dragon summoning up to two more dragons to the field, and I summon Meteorite Dragon (1800/2000, from power bonus: 2300/2500) from my hand and he gets the field power bonus for being a dragon!"
"I also flip my face down card, and my personal favorite, Dragon's Rage giving all my dragons the ability to deal damage to your defense monsters as if they were in attack mode! Now Curse of Dragon, attack his face down card!" Curse of Dragon breathed a heavy flame onto the card, which was revealed to be Little Winguard (1400/1800) and Joey got hit with the rest of the flames. "Even though my just-summoned dragon can't attack this turn, they will the next turn and then your life points are going to take a plunge.
"Ah man," Joey said to himself. "I can't recover from something like that, and he's got four monsters compared to only one of mine."
Joey saw the dragons, saw his life points at 5000, while Justin was at 6900. The duel had only begun but it seemed it was already going to end...
"Treating an unconscious victim? They didn't even try to teach us that in school," Yugi said.
Michael checked his pulse but not before taking out three star chips from his enormous dueling gloves, "He's not dead but he's got several broken bones. As a duelist I'd leave him here, but even Weevil doesn't deserve to be left for dead."
"Yeah," Joey said putting him over his shoulder. "Let's go to the docks and think of something then."
"Actually, that weakling will be coming with us," said one of four men in suits who had appeared out of nowhere it seemed.
"I don't think so, your boss just threw him off the platform," Yugi said to them.
"Hand him over or we can't be responsible what happens to you next," said the same suit again and he was oddly familiar to Yugi and Joey, with his ridiculously long hair pointed up like an antenna in the front.
The other suits began cracking their knuckles and had menacing smiles on their face and Michael stood up to them ready for a fight.
"We're sorry it had to come to this," said Joey placing Weevil on the ground and stepped up beside Michael.
"Okay, then, I hope you enjoyed the feeling in your legs," said the antenna haired suit.
The suits charged at the two of them and Joey and Michael charged at them. A bald suit threw a punch at Joey but caught the punch and pulled him in and punched the suit deep in the gut in the gut of the bald suit and threw him over his shoulder and on the ground. A brown-haired suit upper-cutted Michael in the chin and it connected but as Michael went flying in the air, as his legs were level with the suit's head he grabbed him by the neck with his ankles and threw him over to the ground and then Michael got off his hands and got on his feet. A black-haired suit grabbed Joey by the head and head butted him right on the noggin, as Joey was dazed, the suit didn't seem harmed by the attack and threw one punch to Joey's gut, then to his face knocking him to the ground. Michael jumped up and drop-kicked the black haired suit right to the head knocking him the ground. The antenna- haired suit however, had ran over to Yugi, who was guarding Weevil, and grabbed Yugi by his hair and threw him to the ground, grabbed Weevil and put him over his shoulder.
"Okay, we got him, let's go!" said the suit.
The other three suits got up like they weren't hurt at all and ran over the antenna haired suit and they ran off. "Hey get back here!" shouted Michael as he ran after them.
"Stop him, do whatever it takes," said the antenna-haired duelist to the bald one.
The bald suit stopped running, turned around and faced Michael. The bald suit threw a punch at Michael but he stepped out of the way and did a turning kick to the bald suit's head, but the bald suit parried the kick with his left arm then applied force on his leg, causing Michael to do a corkscrew-styled fall to the ground. Then the bald suit kicked him several times in the back and ran after the other three suits.
Joey got up rubbing his head and ran over to Michael helping him back up.
"You okay?" asked Joey.
"Yeah, but my back hurts," said Michael.
Yugi got up rubbing his head and said, "Don't mind me."
"Oh sorry Yuge," Joey said. "Didn't see you there."
"It's okay," Yugi said as he came over to his other two friends. "But I guess I should fill you in about what's going on Michael.
"Okay," Michael said as he was still rubbing his back.
Yugi explained to Michael about the Millennium Items, his Puzzle, the spirit that resides in it, the Millennium Rod, and about Salazar.
"So Weevil fell off the platform because Salazar used the Millennium Rod, which can control minds?" Michael asked.
"Yeah," Yugi said.
"What was with those dueling gloves? They were twice as big as they should've been." Michael said.
"Salazar called Weevil an eliminator and last time Joey and I were here, I had to duel an eliminator, they're really skilled duelists, hired to get rid of the weaker duelists by forcing them to duel." Yugi explained.
"Well I heard a rumor about their being ridiculously powerful cards used in the Battle City finals, there was a picture in the newspaper of a red dragon coiled around the blimp where the first matches were held." Michael said.
Yugi panicked for a second and thought, 'Oh no, people know about the Egyptian God Cards???'
"An American Journalist was trying to take pictures of the Battle City Finals, however reporters and journalists weren't allowed on the blimp so he did the next best thing, take pictures from the highest skyscraper." Michael said.
"That explains why Japan wasn't informed about that," said Joey. "By the way, what time is it?"
Michael looked at his watch, "My time says 5:34 PM, but changing to the current time zone, I'd say about 11:56 AM, so almost Noon."
"Noon?" Joey said. "Four hours and I still haven't dueled, I gotta find someone to duel."
Joey ran off to go find a duel going on.
"Let's go get him, I'd like to see what he's got in his deck," Michael and Yugi ran off to go find Joey and who he was dueling.
Joey, meanwhile was running for over 10 minutes, and forgotten all about Yugi and Michael and he was now facing four different duelists, they all looked the same age but they were each of a different nationality and they were all wearing blue and white clothing.
"So you want to duel one of us?" said the Japanese duelist.
"That's right," Joey said. "Now which one of you do I have to duel?"
"Right then, why don't you duel me?" asked the English duelist. "I'll knock you on your bloomin' arse."
"I want to duel him," said the Egyptian duelist. "That last duel I had was hardly a challenge."
"No, I've only dueled once since I've been here and that chump only had one star chip, let me knock him outta tournament," said the American duelist.
"Okay I'll duel you," Joey said as he put on his duel disk as did the American duelist, and they both got on the platform and it elevated up facing each other.
"You got a name, duelist?" asked the American duelist.
"Name's Joey Wheeler," said Joey. "How 'bout you?"
"I'm Justin Grey," he said. "How many star chips are you willing to give up."
"I'll wager three," said Joey. "Then I'll have six.
"Correction: you'll be out of the tournament," Justin said. "And for the fun of it let's both put up two rare cards instead of one."
Joey thought about the stakes he was taking then said, "Alright fine, you've gotta have two decent cards."
"Let's duel!" both the duelists said as their life points went up to 8000.
"Ladies first, so you can go," said Justin drawing five cards.
"Fine then," Joey said, ignoring his insult picking up five cards and drawing an additional card. "I play Axe Raider (1700/1150) in attack mode, and I'll play this card face down ending my turn." A warrior with purple hair wielding an axe and wearing armor appeared and behind him a large card.
'He's gonna feel the pain when he plays whatever strategy he has and I flip my trap card Blast with Chain, even if his monster's stronger, it will die too.' Joey thought.
Justin's turn-
Justin drew his card and smirked at the Axe Raider, "I play Sky Dragon (1900/1800) in attack mode and I play the Magic card, Mystical Space Typhoon." As the purple four-winged dragon appeared onto the field, the card Joey had set face down was blown away and sent to the graveyard. "Sorry but that look on your face was so predictable so anyone could tell it was a trap and now, Sky Dragon attack his Axe Raider, Wind Cutter!" The four-winged dragon raised it wings and unleashed them with a great force of wind so precise it formed a curved blade bisecting Axe Raider, as his upper body fall over and he faded from the field and the remainder of the blade hit Joey.
Joey: 7800
Justin: 8000
Joey's turn-
'Ah man, I never got to see my card in action, well, maybe my other cards will help me out,' thought Joey as he drew his card and got happy.
"Okay Justin," Joey said. "Payback time for my Axe Raider, I play Warrior Dai Grepher (1700/1600) but that isn't all, I equip him with Lightning Blade, increasing his attack to 2500!" as Joey played the two cards, a muscular warrior wielding a mighty sword appeared but that sword vanished and was replaced it with a greater sword that eternally emitted electricity. "Attack his dragon, Dai Grepher! Lightning Blade Strike!" Dai Grepher ran up to Justin's Sky Dragon, electricity gathered greatly in the sword creating a light blinding the dragon and Justin and the warrior decapitated the dragon and its separated body fell to the ground and faded from the field.
Joey: 7800
Justin: 7400
Justin's turn-
"So you have a short and early lead, bravo," he said patronizingly. "Well I draw my card and I play the field card Mountain, and I play Curse of Dragon (2000/1500)," the dueling field they were playing on had vanished and the platforms they were on were now snowy and they were playing on the summit of what it appeared to be, a mountain, even with thermal virtual reality, meaning it was now freezing on the platforms they stood on. "Because were now on a Mountain field, and because of the new rules, Curse of Dragon's stats rise to 2500/2000.
"Man it's freezing," said Joey clenching his arms.
Justin scoffed at Joey and played another card, "I also play one magic or trap card face down ending my turn."
Joey's turn-
Joey drew a card and said, "Okay I play Gearfried, the Iron Knight (1800/1600) in attack mode and I'll lay one card face down ending my turn." The Iron Knight appeared and behind it was a huge card.
-Justin's turn-
"I'll play Twin-Headed Behemoth (1500/1200) in attack mode and his stats rise to 2000/1700 and I'll have him attack Gearfried." As the two headed dragon went to attack, Gearfried, it fell into a hole and got skewered by several spikes one of them impaling a head.
"Ha!" Joey remarked. "Your monster just fell for my Chasm of Spikes trap card and not only do you lose your monster, but one quarter of his total attack points are taken away from your life points.
Joey: 7800
Justin: 6900
"500 life points is hardly a loss, for the trap I put you in," Justin said as his Behemoth came out of the trap, with only one head that was alive. "My Twin-Headed Behemoth has two lives but when he comes back his stats are lowered to 1000/1000 and it just rises up to 1500/1500 from the mountain's effect and he is placed into Defense mode. Now Curse of Dragon kill Gearfried, Dragon's Flame!" The dragon breathed out a ravenous flame frying Gearfried off the field and burning off 900 of Joey's life points.
Joey: 6900
Justin: 6900
"And I end my turn," said Justin. "As well as any lead you will ever have in this duel."
Joey's turn-
'This guy seems to be playing nothing but dragons, and I don't have anything in my hand that gets a field bonus from the Mountain effect, and plus he knew about my Chasm of Spikes so he attacked with a weaker monster that could just come back from the graveyard. He's probably gonna sacrifice it to bring out an even stronger dragon, I'd just have Dai Grepher attack it but that face down card... I have no clue what it is. Gah, this is so frustratin,' Thought Joey.
Joey drew his card and sighed. "I play one card face down defense mode and one magic or trap card face down, ending my turn."
Justin's turn-
"I play Lord of D. (1200/1100) in attack mode and I'll also play The Flute of Summoning Dragon summoning up to two more dragons to the field, and I summon Meteorite Dragon (1800/2000, from power bonus: 2300/2500) from my hand and he gets the field power bonus for being a dragon!"
"I also flip my face down card, and my personal favorite, Dragon's Rage giving all my dragons the ability to deal damage to your defense monsters as if they were in attack mode! Now Curse of Dragon, attack his face down card!" Curse of Dragon breathed a heavy flame onto the card, which was revealed to be Little Winguard (1400/1800) and Joey got hit with the rest of the flames. "Even though my just-summoned dragon can't attack this turn, they will the next turn and then your life points are going to take a plunge.
"Ah man," Joey said to himself. "I can't recover from something like that, and he's got four monsters compared to only one of mine."
Joey saw the dragons, saw his life points at 5000, while Justin was at 6900. The duel had only begun but it seemed it was already going to end...