Rex's powerful dinosaur, Black Tyrano (2600/1800) closed in on Joey's Ryu
Senshi (2000/1200) to devour it...
And it did. The black tyrannosaurus bit Ryu Senshi placing the dragon warrior's upper body in its mouth. Then Rex's dinosaur lifted up Joey's warrior and shook its upper body several times. When it stopped, Ryu Senshi's legs swayed from the momentum. Then for a grim finale, Black Tyrano slid the soon-to-be-digested Ryu Senshi down its throat and into its stomach. The black thunder lizard king roared in its victory towards Joey.
"Plus from the Wasteland, Black Tyrano's attack rises to 3100," Rex said with a tone of pride. "So you lose 1100 life points! I'll end my turn. Good luck recovering, Wheeler!"
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 1000
Mako: 1400
Ryan's turn-
As Ryan drew his card, and began thinking over on what to do. He first looked at Rex's Black Tyrano and then at Mako's Crab Turtle. Then, he got an idea.
"I'll play one card face down..." he began. "Now I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving Granadora (1900/700) in defense mode."
The brown spiked reptile arose from the graveyard and was now on Ryan's side of the field.
"That'll give me 1000 more life points, putting me at 2000," Ryan said. "And I'll end my turn."
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 2000
Mako: 1400
Mako's turn-
"You really didn't think out that turn, did you?" Mako asked Ryan, drawing his card. "Once Granadora is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, you'll lose 2000 life points, putting you to zero. Once my Crab Turtle destroys it, you'll lose the rest of your life points. Go Crab Turtle! Attack Granadora, Torrent Claw!"
Mako's thick-shelled crustacean dove into the water and began riding a huge wave towards Ryan. Crab Turtle raised up his claw about to strike Granadora down...
"I'll activate Poison of the Old Man!" Ryan shouted activating his Quick- play magic card.
A hooded old man appeared holding two vials in each hand: one green and one purple. The old man hurled the purple vial towards Ryan, hitting the ground and turning into a purple cloud smoke. The smoke replenished his life points by 1200. As soon as that was done, the hooded old man let out a slight chuckle and vanished from the field.
Crab Turtle's attack crushed Granadora and the defeated reptile was buried into the ocean.
"Normally, I would have lost the duel by losing 2000 life points," Ryan said. "But from Poison of the Old Man I gained 1200 life points, putting me at 3200. But since Granadora was destroyed, I lost 2000 life points, putting me at 1200."
"Very well," Mako said. "I'll end my turn."
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 1200
Mako: 1400
Joey's turn-
'I could really use a good card right now...' Joey thought slowly reaching for his next card.
He closed his eyes and placed his hand on the card.
As Joey drew the card, he looked at it and sighed with relief.
"I play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two more cards," Joey said drawing the two cards.
'Come on,' Joey thought to his deck. 'Give me something good...'
As Joey drew the cards he looked to them and smiled.
"Yes!" he shouted. "I'll play one magic or trap card face down and I'll play Meteor Dragon (1800/2000) in defense mode ending my turn."
Rex's turn-
"You must be desperate to rely on your traps Wheeler," Rex said drawing his card. "But my Black Tyrano's got a special ability. He can attack your life points directly if you control nothing but monsters in defense mode. Say so long to your life points! Go Black Tyrano!"
The black tyrannosaurus charged towards Joey with its jaws open ready to wipe him out.
"Not so fast," Joey said activating his trap card. "I activate Fairy Box!"
A whack-a-mole machine appeared, covering up Joey. Suddenly, Joey began popping his head out of different holes.
"What the...?" Rex questioned at Joey.
"Now it's all a game of chance," Joey told Rex.
Rex's Black Tyrano dove its jaws towards a hole that Joey popped out of. A cloud of smoke appeared as the black-pigmented tyrannosaur attacked the hole. When the smoke cleared, Black Tyrano looked around for Joey but he wasn't there.
Joey was in the hole right next to Black Tyrano.
"Nice try Raptor," Joey told him. "That means I don't lose any life points!"
"Grr..." Rex growled in anger. "I'll end my turn."
Ryan's turn-
As soon as Ryan drew his card he told the three of the duelists, "I think I'll help everyone out. I play Card of Sanctity, making us all draw until we have six cards in our hand."
Ryan, Joey, Rex and Mako each drew the said amount of cards and each held six cards.
Joey was especially excited at the six cards in his hand.
Ryan sighed at his hand and continued his turn.
"Well, I'll put two magic or trap cards face down, and play Iron Demon Viser Death (500/1200) in defense mode," Ryan said as the mechanical armor.
Suddenly, the machine shot towards Crab Turtle and accommodated Mako's thick-shelled crustacean head and tightened around it.
"What's it doing to my Crab Turtle?" Mako asked.
"Until my third standby phase after Viser Death's been summoned he can't be destroyed," Ryan told Mako. "Also on that third standby phase, it'll destroy whatever monster it's attached to. But that's just the beginning of your troubles."
"What do you mean?" Mako responded.
"Forget about my Satellite Cannon?" Ryan asked. "Its attack power increases by 1000 at the end of each my turns. Right now its total attack is 3000 but after this, it will go up once more. That'll make him a 4000 attacker, the strongest card on the field. Your turn, Mako.
Mako's turn-
Mako was clearly worried as he drew his card, Viser Death let out several red bolts of electricity to his Crab Turtle. However the attack wasn't strong enough to kill. As he looked at his card, the worried expression on his face faded into a smirk.
"All of your machines are done for," Mako said. "I play Tribe-Infecting Virus (1600/1000) in attack mode!"
'I think I've seen that card before,' Joey thought looking on. 'Something about destroying monster types.'
"By discarding one card from my hand, I can destroy all of one type of monster on the field," Mako said. "I believe I'll destroy all of the machines on the field."
Mako sent a card to his card to the graveyard and shouted, "Go Tribe- Infecting Virus! Wipe out all machines, Mechanical Plague!"
As the unseen virus shot throughout the field, it began infecting all the monsters but not affecting most of the monsters. Right when the virus passed through Crab Turtle and towards Viser Death, Ryan flipped his face down card.
"Not so fast," Ryan said flipping his face down card. "I activate Skill Drain. By paying 1000 life points, all effects on every face-up monsters are now negated."
"Aw damn it," Rex said. "My Black Tyrano's effect can't work."
"Well, I don't want to risk losing against Fairy Box to Joey, so I'll switch my Crab Turtle (3300/2000) and end my turn," Mako said.
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 200
Mako: 1400
Joey's turn-
When Joey drew his card, he knew what to do.
"All right time for me to kick some butt," Joey said. "First, I won't pay for Fairy Box, so it's destroyed. Now I play the magic card, Question. Quiz time, Rex. What was the first monster card put in my graveyard?"
As if from a game show, a door appeared with a question mark depicted on the front of it and cheesy game show music began playing.
Rex was dumbstruck. He had no clue what it was.
"Uh... Garoozis?" Rex guessed.
"Close but no cigar!" Joey replied. "It was Gearfried the Iron Knight (1800/1600). Since you called it wrong, he's summoned from the graveyard.
The question-marked door opened up and out walked the Iron Knight. As he walked out, canned applause and cheers came out. After Gearfried stood beside Meteor Dragon, the door and the game show effects vanished.
"And now I'll play Chosen One," Joey said. "By playing one monster card and two non-monster cards from my hand, the selector will randomly choose one. If it picks the monster, it can be summoned without a sacrifice."
Suddenly, three cards appeared in a triangular position. In the center of the cards appeared a top with a grinning demon on it. Suddenly, the top spun around clockwise very fast.
"As soon as it stops, whichever card the demon head picks will decide the fate of this duel," Joey said.
After 30 seconds of the top spinning, it began to slow down. Slower and slower until it finally stopped. The demon head looked on at one of the cards and its red eyes gleamed white as the card arose and was revealed to be...
"Yeah! Emerald Dragon!" Joey exclaimed placing the other two cards in the graveyard. "Now I can summon the mighty Emerald Dragon (2400/1400), without having to sacrifice it."
Suddenly, a dragon with beautiful emerald covered scales appeared on the other side of Joey's Meteor Dragon.
"Now I'll sacrifice my Meteor Dragon to bring out... Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000)!" Joey proclaimed bringing out his favorite dragon card.
The black dragon let out a roar towards Rex, its former master, as it landed in between Emerald Dragon and Gearfried.
Rex gasped at the sight of his old dragon.
"So you've been taking care of my dragon, huh?" Rex asked.
"You better believe it," Joey answered. "This dragon has helped me out countless times."
"But did you forget something?" Rex asked. "As strong as your monsters are, my Black Tyrano has 3100 attack power. Stronger than all of your monsters."
"You're right about one thing," Joey told the dinosaur duelist. "Alone, my monsters aren't strong enough to beat your Black Tyrano. But together, they have more than enough power. I'll play this card, United We Stand on Red- Eyes!"
As Joey played the last card in his hand, Gearfried, Emerald Dragon and Red- Eyes gave off a golden luminescence. Gearfried's and Emerald Dragon's luminescence went towards Red-Eyes to power him up even further.
"United We Stand increases the equipped monster's attack by 800 for each face up monster on my side of the field," Joey said. "So that'll double Red- Eyes' attack making his attack 4800!"
"Oh no!" Rex shouted.
"Oh yes..." Joey said tasting victory. "Go Red-Eyes! Attack Rex's Black Tyrano! Inferno Fire Blast!"
The golden gleaming black dragon gathered energy in its mouth and fired a devastating fireball towards Rex's black tyrannosaurus. The attack reduced the thunder lizard king to dust taking with it 1700 of Rex's life points, leaving him with 1050.
"Now to finish you off," Joey said. "Go Gearfried! Wipe out the last of Rex's life points! Iron Blade Strike!"
The metallic knight happily obeyed taking a great leap and coming down on Rex stabbing him with his pointed shield, wiping out the last of his life points.
"Aw Damn..." Rex said as his life point gauge to zero.
Suddenly, Rex fell to his knees and his side of the field blacked out, his wasteland field card vanished from the field and what was left was Mako's raging waters of Umiiruka.
"And I'm not yet finished," Joey said. "I'll attack your Tribe-Infecting Virus, Mako with Emerald Dragon. Emerald Blaze!"
His emerald-scaled dragon nodded in affirmation then breathed in and exhaled a wave of green flames towards the omni-affecting virus. The virus had no chance and was reduced to green cinders.
Joey: 1700
Rex: 0
Ryan: 200
Mako: 1350
"Your turn, Ryan," Joey told him.
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card while nodding to Joey.
"Okay, this duel ends here," he said. "I'll play Fairy Meteor Crush on my Satellite Cannon."
Mako closed his eyes and nodded, knowing he was done for.
"Go Satellite Cannon! Attack Crab Turtle! Ion Cannon!" Ryan shouted.
The orbiting satellite turned its direction towards Mako's defending crustacean. From Umiiruka, its defense was lowered to 2000, but it didn't matter.
Satellite Cannon took aim and locked on target. Energy began gathering in the cannon hole. Then after a few more seconds of charging, it fired its power 4000 attack power laser but along its travel to the dueling field, a meteor got caught in the blast and came hurdling towards Crab Turtle.
As strong as Crab Turtle was, it couldn't measure up and was crushed by the meteor and 2000 leftover damage hit Mako reducing his life points to zero.
"This duel's over," Ryan said.
Joey let out a heavy sigh and said, "Whew! That was intense."
Mako's field had vanished and Rex's side of the field lit up once more. They were in the pure white room again.
"That was an excellent duel," Mako said.
"Yeah..." Rex said, disappointed on his loss.
"Well I dueled both of you guys and neither of you were as tough as this," Joey said.
"Yeah, you guys were tough," Ryan said. "If it wasn't for Joey's luck, I'd probably never have gotten my Satellite Cannon that high."
"Thanks," Joey said. "Hey, you aren't so bad after all."
"Yeah well it took some getting used to," Ryan said. "Not used to getting help."
"Oh and as part of our agreement, the losers ante up once card for each of the winners," Mako said taking out his deck from his Duel Disk. "Go ahead, take what you want."
"I'm a man of my word," Rex said also taking out his deck and presenting it to Joey and Ryan.
"From Mako, I'll take Tribe-Infecting Virus," Ryan said.
"And I'll take Crab Turtle," Joey said.
"Very well," Mako said taking out two of his strongest cards, looking at them one last time then giving them to the two winners. "Here you are."
Then, Mako took out another card and said to Joey, "It might be hard to summon Crab Turtle without Turtle Oath."
"Thanks Mako," Joey said taking the card.
"Okay from Rex, I'll take... Guardian Grarl," Ryan said.
Rex sighed and gave him his Tyrannosaur humanoid, "You might need Gravity Axe, too."
"Thanks," Ryan said taking the two cards.
"I'll take Black Tyrano," Joey said.
"Here," Rex said giving him his strongest card.
"Don't worry, I'll take good care of your cards," Joey told the two as he slipped the three cards in his deck.
Ryan nodded with Joey also placing the cards in his deck.
"You'd better," Mako and Rex said in unison.
They each shook hands and were happy on the excellent duel.
As they walked towards the exit, Ryan opened the door for them ready to see what people's reactions would be...
And it did. The black tyrannosaurus bit Ryu Senshi placing the dragon warrior's upper body in its mouth. Then Rex's dinosaur lifted up Joey's warrior and shook its upper body several times. When it stopped, Ryu Senshi's legs swayed from the momentum. Then for a grim finale, Black Tyrano slid the soon-to-be-digested Ryu Senshi down its throat and into its stomach. The black thunder lizard king roared in its victory towards Joey.
"Plus from the Wasteland, Black Tyrano's attack rises to 3100," Rex said with a tone of pride. "So you lose 1100 life points! I'll end my turn. Good luck recovering, Wheeler!"
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 1000
Mako: 1400
Ryan's turn-
As Ryan drew his card, and began thinking over on what to do. He first looked at Rex's Black Tyrano and then at Mako's Crab Turtle. Then, he got an idea.
"I'll play one card face down..." he began. "Now I'll play Monster Reborn, reviving Granadora (1900/700) in defense mode."
The brown spiked reptile arose from the graveyard and was now on Ryan's side of the field.
"That'll give me 1000 more life points, putting me at 2000," Ryan said. "And I'll end my turn."
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 2000
Mako: 1400
Mako's turn-
"You really didn't think out that turn, did you?" Mako asked Ryan, drawing his card. "Once Granadora is destroyed and sent to the graveyard, you'll lose 2000 life points, putting you to zero. Once my Crab Turtle destroys it, you'll lose the rest of your life points. Go Crab Turtle! Attack Granadora, Torrent Claw!"
Mako's thick-shelled crustacean dove into the water and began riding a huge wave towards Ryan. Crab Turtle raised up his claw about to strike Granadora down...
"I'll activate Poison of the Old Man!" Ryan shouted activating his Quick- play magic card.
A hooded old man appeared holding two vials in each hand: one green and one purple. The old man hurled the purple vial towards Ryan, hitting the ground and turning into a purple cloud smoke. The smoke replenished his life points by 1200. As soon as that was done, the hooded old man let out a slight chuckle and vanished from the field.
Crab Turtle's attack crushed Granadora and the defeated reptile was buried into the ocean.
"Normally, I would have lost the duel by losing 2000 life points," Ryan said. "But from Poison of the Old Man I gained 1200 life points, putting me at 3200. But since Granadora was destroyed, I lost 2000 life points, putting me at 1200."
"Very well," Mako said. "I'll end my turn."
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 1200
Mako: 1400
Joey's turn-
'I could really use a good card right now...' Joey thought slowly reaching for his next card.
He closed his eyes and placed his hand on the card.
As Joey drew the card, he looked at it and sighed with relief.
"I play Pot of Greed, letting me draw two more cards," Joey said drawing the two cards.
'Come on,' Joey thought to his deck. 'Give me something good...'
As Joey drew the cards he looked to them and smiled.
"Yes!" he shouted. "I'll play one magic or trap card face down and I'll play Meteor Dragon (1800/2000) in defense mode ending my turn."
Rex's turn-
"You must be desperate to rely on your traps Wheeler," Rex said drawing his card. "But my Black Tyrano's got a special ability. He can attack your life points directly if you control nothing but monsters in defense mode. Say so long to your life points! Go Black Tyrano!"
The black tyrannosaurus charged towards Joey with its jaws open ready to wipe him out.
"Not so fast," Joey said activating his trap card. "I activate Fairy Box!"
A whack-a-mole machine appeared, covering up Joey. Suddenly, Joey began popping his head out of different holes.
"What the...?" Rex questioned at Joey.
"Now it's all a game of chance," Joey told Rex.
Rex's Black Tyrano dove its jaws towards a hole that Joey popped out of. A cloud of smoke appeared as the black-pigmented tyrannosaur attacked the hole. When the smoke cleared, Black Tyrano looked around for Joey but he wasn't there.
Joey was in the hole right next to Black Tyrano.
"Nice try Raptor," Joey told him. "That means I don't lose any life points!"
"Grr..." Rex growled in anger. "I'll end my turn."
Ryan's turn-
As soon as Ryan drew his card he told the three of the duelists, "I think I'll help everyone out. I play Card of Sanctity, making us all draw until we have six cards in our hand."
Ryan, Joey, Rex and Mako each drew the said amount of cards and each held six cards.
Joey was especially excited at the six cards in his hand.
Ryan sighed at his hand and continued his turn.
"Well, I'll put two magic or trap cards face down, and play Iron Demon Viser Death (500/1200) in defense mode," Ryan said as the mechanical armor.
Suddenly, the machine shot towards Crab Turtle and accommodated Mako's thick-shelled crustacean head and tightened around it.
"What's it doing to my Crab Turtle?" Mako asked.
"Until my third standby phase after Viser Death's been summoned he can't be destroyed," Ryan told Mako. "Also on that third standby phase, it'll destroy whatever monster it's attached to. But that's just the beginning of your troubles."
"What do you mean?" Mako responded.
"Forget about my Satellite Cannon?" Ryan asked. "Its attack power increases by 1000 at the end of each my turns. Right now its total attack is 3000 but after this, it will go up once more. That'll make him a 4000 attacker, the strongest card on the field. Your turn, Mako.
Mako's turn-
Mako was clearly worried as he drew his card, Viser Death let out several red bolts of electricity to his Crab Turtle. However the attack wasn't strong enough to kill. As he looked at his card, the worried expression on his face faded into a smirk.
"All of your machines are done for," Mako said. "I play Tribe-Infecting Virus (1600/1000) in attack mode!"
'I think I've seen that card before,' Joey thought looking on. 'Something about destroying monster types.'
"By discarding one card from my hand, I can destroy all of one type of monster on the field," Mako said. "I believe I'll destroy all of the machines on the field."
Mako sent a card to his card to the graveyard and shouted, "Go Tribe- Infecting Virus! Wipe out all machines, Mechanical Plague!"
As the unseen virus shot throughout the field, it began infecting all the monsters but not affecting most of the monsters. Right when the virus passed through Crab Turtle and towards Viser Death, Ryan flipped his face down card.
"Not so fast," Ryan said flipping his face down card. "I activate Skill Drain. By paying 1000 life points, all effects on every face-up monsters are now negated."
"Aw damn it," Rex said. "My Black Tyrano's effect can't work."
"Well, I don't want to risk losing against Fairy Box to Joey, so I'll switch my Crab Turtle (3300/2000) and end my turn," Mako said.
Joey: 1700
Rex: 2750
Ryan: 200
Mako: 1400
Joey's turn-
When Joey drew his card, he knew what to do.
"All right time for me to kick some butt," Joey said. "First, I won't pay for Fairy Box, so it's destroyed. Now I play the magic card, Question. Quiz time, Rex. What was the first monster card put in my graveyard?"
As if from a game show, a door appeared with a question mark depicted on the front of it and cheesy game show music began playing.
Rex was dumbstruck. He had no clue what it was.
"Uh... Garoozis?" Rex guessed.
"Close but no cigar!" Joey replied. "It was Gearfried the Iron Knight (1800/1600). Since you called it wrong, he's summoned from the graveyard.
The question-marked door opened up and out walked the Iron Knight. As he walked out, canned applause and cheers came out. After Gearfried stood beside Meteor Dragon, the door and the game show effects vanished.
"And now I'll play Chosen One," Joey said. "By playing one monster card and two non-monster cards from my hand, the selector will randomly choose one. If it picks the monster, it can be summoned without a sacrifice."
Suddenly, three cards appeared in a triangular position. In the center of the cards appeared a top with a grinning demon on it. Suddenly, the top spun around clockwise very fast.
"As soon as it stops, whichever card the demon head picks will decide the fate of this duel," Joey said.
After 30 seconds of the top spinning, it began to slow down. Slower and slower until it finally stopped. The demon head looked on at one of the cards and its red eyes gleamed white as the card arose and was revealed to be...
"Yeah! Emerald Dragon!" Joey exclaimed placing the other two cards in the graveyard. "Now I can summon the mighty Emerald Dragon (2400/1400), without having to sacrifice it."
Suddenly, a dragon with beautiful emerald covered scales appeared on the other side of Joey's Meteor Dragon.
"Now I'll sacrifice my Meteor Dragon to bring out... Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000)!" Joey proclaimed bringing out his favorite dragon card.
The black dragon let out a roar towards Rex, its former master, as it landed in between Emerald Dragon and Gearfried.
Rex gasped at the sight of his old dragon.
"So you've been taking care of my dragon, huh?" Rex asked.
"You better believe it," Joey answered. "This dragon has helped me out countless times."
"But did you forget something?" Rex asked. "As strong as your monsters are, my Black Tyrano has 3100 attack power. Stronger than all of your monsters."
"You're right about one thing," Joey told the dinosaur duelist. "Alone, my monsters aren't strong enough to beat your Black Tyrano. But together, they have more than enough power. I'll play this card, United We Stand on Red- Eyes!"
As Joey played the last card in his hand, Gearfried, Emerald Dragon and Red- Eyes gave off a golden luminescence. Gearfried's and Emerald Dragon's luminescence went towards Red-Eyes to power him up even further.
"United We Stand increases the equipped monster's attack by 800 for each face up monster on my side of the field," Joey said. "So that'll double Red- Eyes' attack making his attack 4800!"
"Oh no!" Rex shouted.
"Oh yes..." Joey said tasting victory. "Go Red-Eyes! Attack Rex's Black Tyrano! Inferno Fire Blast!"
The golden gleaming black dragon gathered energy in its mouth and fired a devastating fireball towards Rex's black tyrannosaurus. The attack reduced the thunder lizard king to dust taking with it 1700 of Rex's life points, leaving him with 1050.
"Now to finish you off," Joey said. "Go Gearfried! Wipe out the last of Rex's life points! Iron Blade Strike!"
The metallic knight happily obeyed taking a great leap and coming down on Rex stabbing him with his pointed shield, wiping out the last of his life points.
"Aw Damn..." Rex said as his life point gauge to zero.
Suddenly, Rex fell to his knees and his side of the field blacked out, his wasteland field card vanished from the field and what was left was Mako's raging waters of Umiiruka.
"And I'm not yet finished," Joey said. "I'll attack your Tribe-Infecting Virus, Mako with Emerald Dragon. Emerald Blaze!"
His emerald-scaled dragon nodded in affirmation then breathed in and exhaled a wave of green flames towards the omni-affecting virus. The virus had no chance and was reduced to green cinders.
Joey: 1700
Rex: 0
Ryan: 200
Mako: 1350
"Your turn, Ryan," Joey told him.
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card while nodding to Joey.
"Okay, this duel ends here," he said. "I'll play Fairy Meteor Crush on my Satellite Cannon."
Mako closed his eyes and nodded, knowing he was done for.
"Go Satellite Cannon! Attack Crab Turtle! Ion Cannon!" Ryan shouted.
The orbiting satellite turned its direction towards Mako's defending crustacean. From Umiiruka, its defense was lowered to 2000, but it didn't matter.
Satellite Cannon took aim and locked on target. Energy began gathering in the cannon hole. Then after a few more seconds of charging, it fired its power 4000 attack power laser but along its travel to the dueling field, a meteor got caught in the blast and came hurdling towards Crab Turtle.
As strong as Crab Turtle was, it couldn't measure up and was crushed by the meteor and 2000 leftover damage hit Mako reducing his life points to zero.
"This duel's over," Ryan said.
Joey let out a heavy sigh and said, "Whew! That was intense."
Mako's field had vanished and Rex's side of the field lit up once more. They were in the pure white room again.
"That was an excellent duel," Mako said.
"Yeah..." Rex said, disappointed on his loss.
"Well I dueled both of you guys and neither of you were as tough as this," Joey said.
"Yeah, you guys were tough," Ryan said. "If it wasn't for Joey's luck, I'd probably never have gotten my Satellite Cannon that high."
"Thanks," Joey said. "Hey, you aren't so bad after all."
"Yeah well it took some getting used to," Ryan said. "Not used to getting help."
"Oh and as part of our agreement, the losers ante up once card for each of the winners," Mako said taking out his deck from his Duel Disk. "Go ahead, take what you want."
"I'm a man of my word," Rex said also taking out his deck and presenting it to Joey and Ryan.
"From Mako, I'll take Tribe-Infecting Virus," Ryan said.
"And I'll take Crab Turtle," Joey said.
"Very well," Mako said taking out two of his strongest cards, looking at them one last time then giving them to the two winners. "Here you are."
Then, Mako took out another card and said to Joey, "It might be hard to summon Crab Turtle without Turtle Oath."
"Thanks Mako," Joey said taking the card.
"Okay from Rex, I'll take... Guardian Grarl," Ryan said.
Rex sighed and gave him his Tyrannosaur humanoid, "You might need Gravity Axe, too."
"Thanks," Ryan said taking the two cards.
"I'll take Black Tyrano," Joey said.
"Here," Rex said giving him his strongest card.
"Don't worry, I'll take good care of your cards," Joey told the two as he slipped the three cards in his deck.
Ryan nodded with Joey also placing the cards in his deck.
"You'd better," Mako and Rex said in unison.
They each shook hands and were happy on the excellent duel.
As they walked towards the exit, Ryan opened the door for them ready to see what people's reactions would be...