Tokyo Tournament
Chapter Eight: Nuclear War
Also Entitled: Boom! Bang! Kapow!
A barrage of laser-fire crashed into the duelist and his Life Points plummeted. He fell to the ground on his knees before his opponent came up to him and extended his hand. The duelist relinquished a chip and a card sadly. He then watched as his opponent walked away before he himself headed for his room, disappointed that he had lasted such a short time in the tournament.
Kirbin and Joy made their way down the hallway of the hotel towards the elevators. Unbeknownst to them, Lin and Yamato had both won Duels since their own had ended, and another would take place before they covered the ten feet that separated them from the twin doors. A Duel against a person who has been described as "an SOB," "a cheating bastard," and "someone who doesn't deserve do be American." You have five seconds to guess who it is.
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Bandit Keith stepped around the corner and collided with Kirbin. (You got it right? Good, you get the wonderful prize of negative 500 thousand dollars.) "Why you-" he growled as he grabbed Kirbin by the neck and yanked him off of his feet, the veins of his steroid-pumped body pulsing. Kirbin failed to react do to surprise and the hand around his throat. However, Joy had enough sense to kick Keith in an area that most males would rather eat vomit than have hit. Keith immediately lost his grip, and Kirbin landed on his feet. Bandit Keith's eyes bulged and his knees buckled as he let out a high shrill of pain as he clutched the damaged area.
"Thanks," said Kirbin to Joy as he rubbed his throat. Joy simply grinned.
Keith somehow leapt to his feet, eyes burning in rage. "Why you little –[(this series of words has been censored to ensure the well-being of all members of the audience under the age of fourteen)]-!" he shouted in fury, "I challenge you to a Duel!"
"Um, actually..." Joy opened her KS to reveal its emptiness.
Keith growled, then whirled on Kirbin, "Okay, then I challenge you to a Duel! One chip, right here, right now!"
Kirbin rolled his eyes. He wasn't the kind of person who could tell what someone was like just by looking at them, but Keith's little outburst accompanied by his reputation for cheating let him know that there was no danger from this lunatic. "Alright," he agreed, and then closed his eyes and began to change.
Bomber was perfect for this Duel, and Kirbin knew it. Not only did he have the cards to wipe Keith out, but he would also frustrate him with a strategy specifically meant for... frustrating someone.
Black armor that looked like a strange spacesuit replaced Kirban's clothes, and his pink hair changed to a shaved black. Keith had witnessed strange things before, and he looked unimpressed with Kirban's new attire. Little did he know that this was no longer Kirban he faced, but Bomber.
Keith: 4000 Bomber: 4000
"I'll let you go first, brat," said Keith after they both drew five cards. Bomber nodded and drew a sixth card before announcing, "I play one monster facedown in Defense Mode, plus three more facedown cards." All four brown- backed cards appeared in front of him, their purposes hidden.
Keith snorted, "Playing facedown, huh? How pathetic," he drew, "especially since I'm playing the Robotic Knight (1600/1800) in Attack Mo-,"
"I activate Trap Hole, destroying your Robotic Knight," interrupted Bomber, activating his Trap Card. A robot that appeared to be a mechanical version of some sort of British general wielding a rapier appeared momentarily, then fell into a pit that materialized below it.
Bandit Keith scowled angrily, then placed a card facedown and ended his turn.
Bomber drew a card, then played a Magic Card (or should I say Spell now? Yeah, I'll go with Spell from now on), "The Mystical Space Typhoon shall destroy your facedown card," he said calmly. A whirlwind lanced through the air and struck Keith's single card, Mirror Force, and destroyed it. Keith scowled. "Next, I play Guardian of the Throne Room (1650/1600) in Attack Mode, and attack you directly." A yellow robot with a relatively human torso attached to tank treads and shoulder-mounted missiles appeared before him. It lowered its body, and launched a barrage of missiles at Keith.
Keith: 2350 Bomber: 4000
"Yeah, get him Kirbin!" Joy cheered from the sidelines. Bomber smiled back at her briefly and set his mind back on the Duel.
Keith slapped a card off of his deck and slammed it on the field. "I play Mechanical Chaser (1850/800) and tear apart your Guardian of the Throne Room!" A spherical machine with multiple appendages, each of which carried a deadly blade appeared. It shot forth at the yellow machine, blades raised, and-
"I activate both my facedown cards, Blind Destruction and Needle Wall!" cried Bomber as his two cards flipped up. First, an infinitely large battleship appeared above the field, thousands of laser turrets scattered about its hull. Next, two stone panels measuring about 6'x6' appeared to the side of the field, one in the middle of the field and the other just in front of Keith. The sides that faced each other were covered in spikes. "Here's what happens now," Bomber explained, "with Blind Destruction I roll a die, and any Monster with a level equal to the number rolled is destroyed, and any Monster with level 6 or higher is destroyed if I roll a 6. With Needle Wall, I roll another die, and the Monster Card Zone on your field that I roll is swept clean of any Monsters on it. On a roll of 6, I roll again. However, this won't happen until my turn, so your Attack goes off." The Mechanical Chaser sliced through the Guardian, and Bomber's Life Points dropped a small amount. Keith played a card facedown and ended his turn.
Keith: 2350 Bomber: 3800
"Now it's my turn," Bomber said as he drew. Two holographic dice appeared. The first rolled and came up 5, the other 1. Lasers slashed across the field, however both Monsters were left unharmed. The Needle Wall slid across the ground two spaces to the Mechanical Chaser's left, and both walls slammed together, though they left no effect. Bomber simply ended his turn without playing any more cards.
Keith drew a card and smirked. "I play Card Destruction, sacrificing my hand for a new one." He tossed his hand into the graveyard, and Bomber did likewise. Then they both drew replacement hands. "Next, I activate my facedown Return of the Doomed, sacrificing my Mechanical Chaser to call forth the Barrel Dragon (2600/2200) from my Graveyard!" The Mechanical Chaser disappeared, but was immediately replaced by an immense mechanical dragon with three humongous laser cannons that rotated about its upper body. "Now, I get to flip three coins," three coins appeared in midair before him, twirling, "if two of them land on heads, I can destroy your facedown Monster automatically." All three coins flipped a bit higher into the air and then came plummeting down to the floor, spinning as they slowly revealed the results of the flips. Heads...a tails...and one more heads.
Keith laughed in triumph.
Joy gasped.
The Barrel Dragon fired its cannons.
And Bomber grinned, "You just attacked my Man Eater Bug (450/600)." The brown, man-sized insect appeared, then leaped onto the Barrel Dragon's face and exploded, taking the machine with it. He drew a card, rolled both dice, and ignored their results. "Now I play Monster Reborn, to revive Barrel Dragon (again) on my side of the field and finish you off." The Barrel Dragon appeared again, and this time finally got to use its lasers to kill something off.
Keith: 0 Bomber: 3800
Bandit Keith swore and foamed at the mouth. Then he ran at Bomber screaming, "I'm gonna kill you, you little-" before Bomber punched him in the jaw.
Bomber reverted his form back to Kirbin, who leaned down and took Keith's chip and Barrel Dragon before walking back to Joy and saying cheerfully, "So, where exactly were we going?"
"Um, downstairs," Joy replied slightly nervously.
"Right, right," Kirbin muttered as he recalled.
"What about him?" Joy asked as she motioned to the unconscious Bandit Keith.
Kirbin looked down at him, looked back at her, and with the same tone of voice asked, "What about him?" before heading for the elevator. Joy gave up and followed him.
Well, that's eight chapters up, who knows how many more to go? Meanwhile, please read my other fics, Twilight Realm and Lost Items of Legend.
Chapter Eight: Nuclear War
Also Entitled: Boom! Bang! Kapow!
A barrage of laser-fire crashed into the duelist and his Life Points plummeted. He fell to the ground on his knees before his opponent came up to him and extended his hand. The duelist relinquished a chip and a card sadly. He then watched as his opponent walked away before he himself headed for his room, disappointed that he had lasted such a short time in the tournament.
Kirbin and Joy made their way down the hallway of the hotel towards the elevators. Unbeknownst to them, Lin and Yamato had both won Duels since their own had ended, and another would take place before they covered the ten feet that separated them from the twin doors. A Duel against a person who has been described as "an SOB," "a cheating bastard," and "someone who doesn't deserve do be American." You have five seconds to guess who it is.
5
4
3
2
1
Bandit Keith stepped around the corner and collided with Kirbin. (You got it right? Good, you get the wonderful prize of negative 500 thousand dollars.) "Why you-" he growled as he grabbed Kirbin by the neck and yanked him off of his feet, the veins of his steroid-pumped body pulsing. Kirbin failed to react do to surprise and the hand around his throat. However, Joy had enough sense to kick Keith in an area that most males would rather eat vomit than have hit. Keith immediately lost his grip, and Kirbin landed on his feet. Bandit Keith's eyes bulged and his knees buckled as he let out a high shrill of pain as he clutched the damaged area.
"Thanks," said Kirbin to Joy as he rubbed his throat. Joy simply grinned.
Keith somehow leapt to his feet, eyes burning in rage. "Why you little –[(this series of words has been censored to ensure the well-being of all members of the audience under the age of fourteen)]-!" he shouted in fury, "I challenge you to a Duel!"
"Um, actually..." Joy opened her KS to reveal its emptiness.
Keith growled, then whirled on Kirbin, "Okay, then I challenge you to a Duel! One chip, right here, right now!"
Kirbin rolled his eyes. He wasn't the kind of person who could tell what someone was like just by looking at them, but Keith's little outburst accompanied by his reputation for cheating let him know that there was no danger from this lunatic. "Alright," he agreed, and then closed his eyes and began to change.
Bomber was perfect for this Duel, and Kirbin knew it. Not only did he have the cards to wipe Keith out, but he would also frustrate him with a strategy specifically meant for... frustrating someone.
Black armor that looked like a strange spacesuit replaced Kirban's clothes, and his pink hair changed to a shaved black. Keith had witnessed strange things before, and he looked unimpressed with Kirban's new attire. Little did he know that this was no longer Kirban he faced, but Bomber.
Keith: 4000 Bomber: 4000
"I'll let you go first, brat," said Keith after they both drew five cards. Bomber nodded and drew a sixth card before announcing, "I play one monster facedown in Defense Mode, plus three more facedown cards." All four brown- backed cards appeared in front of him, their purposes hidden.
Keith snorted, "Playing facedown, huh? How pathetic," he drew, "especially since I'm playing the Robotic Knight (1600/1800) in Attack Mo-,"
"I activate Trap Hole, destroying your Robotic Knight," interrupted Bomber, activating his Trap Card. A robot that appeared to be a mechanical version of some sort of British general wielding a rapier appeared momentarily, then fell into a pit that materialized below it.
Bandit Keith scowled angrily, then placed a card facedown and ended his turn.
Bomber drew a card, then played a Magic Card (or should I say Spell now? Yeah, I'll go with Spell from now on), "The Mystical Space Typhoon shall destroy your facedown card," he said calmly. A whirlwind lanced through the air and struck Keith's single card, Mirror Force, and destroyed it. Keith scowled. "Next, I play Guardian of the Throne Room (1650/1600) in Attack Mode, and attack you directly." A yellow robot with a relatively human torso attached to tank treads and shoulder-mounted missiles appeared before him. It lowered its body, and launched a barrage of missiles at Keith.
Keith: 2350 Bomber: 4000
"Yeah, get him Kirbin!" Joy cheered from the sidelines. Bomber smiled back at her briefly and set his mind back on the Duel.
Keith slapped a card off of his deck and slammed it on the field. "I play Mechanical Chaser (1850/800) and tear apart your Guardian of the Throne Room!" A spherical machine with multiple appendages, each of which carried a deadly blade appeared. It shot forth at the yellow machine, blades raised, and-
"I activate both my facedown cards, Blind Destruction and Needle Wall!" cried Bomber as his two cards flipped up. First, an infinitely large battleship appeared above the field, thousands of laser turrets scattered about its hull. Next, two stone panels measuring about 6'x6' appeared to the side of the field, one in the middle of the field and the other just in front of Keith. The sides that faced each other were covered in spikes. "Here's what happens now," Bomber explained, "with Blind Destruction I roll a die, and any Monster with a level equal to the number rolled is destroyed, and any Monster with level 6 or higher is destroyed if I roll a 6. With Needle Wall, I roll another die, and the Monster Card Zone on your field that I roll is swept clean of any Monsters on it. On a roll of 6, I roll again. However, this won't happen until my turn, so your Attack goes off." The Mechanical Chaser sliced through the Guardian, and Bomber's Life Points dropped a small amount. Keith played a card facedown and ended his turn.
Keith: 2350 Bomber: 3800
"Now it's my turn," Bomber said as he drew. Two holographic dice appeared. The first rolled and came up 5, the other 1. Lasers slashed across the field, however both Monsters were left unharmed. The Needle Wall slid across the ground two spaces to the Mechanical Chaser's left, and both walls slammed together, though they left no effect. Bomber simply ended his turn without playing any more cards.
Keith drew a card and smirked. "I play Card Destruction, sacrificing my hand for a new one." He tossed his hand into the graveyard, and Bomber did likewise. Then they both drew replacement hands. "Next, I activate my facedown Return of the Doomed, sacrificing my Mechanical Chaser to call forth the Barrel Dragon (2600/2200) from my Graveyard!" The Mechanical Chaser disappeared, but was immediately replaced by an immense mechanical dragon with three humongous laser cannons that rotated about its upper body. "Now, I get to flip three coins," three coins appeared in midair before him, twirling, "if two of them land on heads, I can destroy your facedown Monster automatically." All three coins flipped a bit higher into the air and then came plummeting down to the floor, spinning as they slowly revealed the results of the flips. Heads...a tails...and one more heads.
Keith laughed in triumph.
Joy gasped.
The Barrel Dragon fired its cannons.
And Bomber grinned, "You just attacked my Man Eater Bug (450/600)." The brown, man-sized insect appeared, then leaped onto the Barrel Dragon's face and exploded, taking the machine with it. He drew a card, rolled both dice, and ignored their results. "Now I play Monster Reborn, to revive Barrel Dragon (again) on my side of the field and finish you off." The Barrel Dragon appeared again, and this time finally got to use its lasers to kill something off.
Keith: 0 Bomber: 3800
Bandit Keith swore and foamed at the mouth. Then he ran at Bomber screaming, "I'm gonna kill you, you little-" before Bomber punched him in the jaw.
Bomber reverted his form back to Kirbin, who leaned down and took Keith's chip and Barrel Dragon before walking back to Joy and saying cheerfully, "So, where exactly were we going?"
"Um, downstairs," Joy replied slightly nervously.
"Right, right," Kirbin muttered as he recalled.
"What about him?" Joy asked as she motioned to the unconscious Bandit Keith.
Kirbin looked down at him, looked back at her, and with the same tone of voice asked, "What about him?" before heading for the elevator. Joy gave up and followed him.
Well, that's eight chapters up, who knows how many more to go? Meanwhile, please read my other fics, Twilight Realm and Lost Items of Legend.