Alright, here's the next chapter of my story. On a few notes, I'll only focus on Team Yugi and Team Pickles in this story, I'll just have Team Possible explain what happened in any duel that they get into. Now on with the story
The sun was about an hour or so before it was going to set on down town Team World. It was still early in the day time, no need for streetlights or any of that nature since there was still daylight. We now focus on the duel between Team Yugi and Team Pickles. The rest of Team Yugi and Team KND were cheering on as Kaiba was making the move first.
Kaiba: the first move is mine. (Draws card) I'll set one card facedown.
He puts the card in his duel disk, and a large version of the facedown card appears in front of him.
Kaiba: next I summon my Familiar Knight in Attack Mode.
He puts the card on his duel disk, and the monster appears in front of him.
ATK: 1200
DEF: 1400
Kaiba: that's all for my turn.
Tommy: then it's my turn. (Draws card, looks at it) perfect. I play the magic card, Polymerization. (Puts card in duel disk)
The magic card is shown on the field.
Tommy: this magic card allows me to take two or more fusion-material monsters from either my hand or on the field, and make a new fusion monster.
Kaiba: do you think we're beginners? We know what the card does, we all have it.
Tommy: yes I know. And I also know that each of you all has only one, while I have three copies, as well as other cards that help with the fusion process. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a fusion duelist; my entire deck is loaded with fusion-material monsters, and other fusion cards. I'm surprised that none of you has noticed my fusion deck.
He holds his duel disk up to show them that right across from his regular deck was where the fusion deck slot was. But what really surprised the three team members was that…
Joey: whoa! That guy's fusion deck is as big as his regular deck, maybe even bigger.
Yami Yugi: with a fusion deck that size, he must have every known fusion monster in existents.
Tommy: pretty much. Now then, it's still my turn, and I've just played Polymerization. I fuse two monsters from my hand: Summon Skull, and Red Eyes Black Dragon!
The two monsters are shown on the field (A/N: his Red Eyes are from the "Dark Beginnings" booster pack), they twirl around, becoming a new fusion monster. Tommy takes the correct fusion monster from his fusion deck and puts it on his duel disk.
Tommy: come forth, Black Skull Dragon!
ATK: 3200
DEF: 2500
Joey: oh crap! He's already got a monster with 3200 ATK points in his first move!
Tommy: not too bad, huh? Well, lucky for you, I'll end my turn with that.
Joey: it's Joey Wheeler's turn to step up to the plate, so look out. (Draws card) I'll set two cards facedown, and summon my Rocket Warrior in attack Mode.
He puts the cards in and on his duel disk, two large version of his facedown cards appear in front of him and so does the summoned monster.
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1300
Joey: and that's it for me.
Dil: (Draws card) my first move will be the Cost Down Magic card. (Put card in duel disk)
The magic card is shown on the field.
Dil: this lets me down grade all the monsters in my hand by two stars so they are easier to summon, but I'll have the card affect only my hand. Now with two stars gone, this level-six monster is now a level-four monster.
He puts the card on his duel disk, and the monster appears in front of him.
Dil: say hello to the monarch of the machines, Machine King!
ATK: 2200
DEF: 2000
Dil: this guy gets a 100 ATK point boost for every machine-type monster on the field, including himself.
Machine King:
ATK: 2300
DEF: 2000
Dil: I'll end my turn by setting two cards facedown.
He puts the cards in his duel disk, two large version of his facedown cards appear in front of him.
Yami Yugi: then it's my turn now. (Draws card) I'll summon my Obnoxious Celtic Guardian in attack mode.
He puts the card on his duel disk, and the monster appears in front of him.
ATK: 1400
DEF: 1200
Yami Yugi: next I'll set two cards facedown.
He puts the cards in his duel disk, two large version of his facedown cards appear in front of him.
Yami Yugi: and that's all for now.
Chuckie: (Draws card) I begin by playing A Ritual Magic card: Garma Sword Oath. (Put card in duel disk)
The magic card is shown on the field. Four blue arms, each with swords start forming from an alter that was just created.
Chuckie: all I have to do is sacrifice monsters who star level is equal or more than seven and I'll be able to summon my Ritual Monster. I'll offer my Garnecia Elefantis to summon my Garma Sword.
The monster is shown on the field, the four swords absorb the energy of Garnecia Elefantis, and the monster disintegrates. The four swords clash together, they rise and it now shows that the four arms are part of the monster.
ATK: 2550
DEF: 2150
Chuckie: and since that was a special summon, I can do an extra summon. So I'll summon the Sonic Bird in attack mode.
He puts the card on his duel disk and the monster appears in front of him.
ATK: 1400
DEF: 1000
Chuckie: I'll now activate Sonic Bird's card effect: since I was able to summon it successfully, I can take a Ritual Magic card from my deck, and move it to my hand.
His duel dusk shows different hologram-cards in front of him. Chuckie chooses one, a random cards pops out of his duel dusk, and he takes it.
Chuckie: I think I'll use it now: White Dragon Ritual! (Puts card in duel disk) I'll sacrifice my Sonic Bird to summon the Paladin of White Dragon!
The magic card is shown on the field. Sonic Bird glows and armor appears on it. The armor absorbs the energy of Sonic Bird and it disintegrates, leaving only the armor as it produces the monster, both Warrior and Dragon.
ATK: 1900
DEF: 1200
Joey: the Paladin of White Dragon? (To Kaiba) don't you have that card, Kaiba?
Kaiba: yes, and I have a feeling I know what's goning to happen now.
Chuckie: now for my assault: Garma Sword, attack the Rocket Warrior with eight sword attack!
Garma Sword raises its eight swords and rushed towards Rocket Warrior.
Joey: not so fast, Chuckie, I'm activating my facedown cards. (Pushes two buttons on duel disk) Graceful Dice and Skull Dice!
The two facedown cards flip up. An angle thing with a blue die comes out of the magic card, while a devil thing with a red die comes out of the trap card.
Joey: Graceful Dice increases the number of the ATK points of my monsters depending on the roll of the die, the higher the number, the stronger my monsters gets. And Skull Dice pretty much does the same thing, except replace the word "my" with "your", replace "increase" with "decrease", and "stronger" with "weaker."
Both the red and blue die gets launched in the air, and come back spinning on their sides. First the blue die stops and lands on a one.
Joey: oh-no! A ONE? That means my monster get no increase.
Next the red one was stopping, and it lands on a two.
Joey: ALRIGHT! That cuts your monster's ATK points by half.
Paladin of White Dragon:
ATK: 950
DEF: 1200
Garma Sword:
ATK: 1275
DEF: 2150
Rocket Warrior transforms into a rocket and rushes towards that attacking Garma Sword. They both collided, leaving a huge explosion, but only Rocket Warrior survived.
Joey: alright! One down, three to go!
Chuckie: 7775
Chuckie: you won't be so lucky next time. I end my turn by control shifting Paladin of White Dragon to Tommy.
Paladin of White Dragon flies towards Tommy's side of the field.
Paladin of White Dragon:
ATK: 1900
DEF: 1200
Kaiba: (thinking) just as I though, once Tommy takes his turn, he'll activate Paladin's card effect, sacrificing it for a Blue Eyes. Well guess what Tommy; I don't plan for you to make that move anytime soon. (Draws card) hmm, this could help me. (Aloud) alright Tommy, I'll have my Familiar Knight attack Paladin of White Dragon.
The Familiar Knight rushes towards the Paladin of White Dragon.
Tommy: is he nuts?
Dil: careful bro, he's up to something.
Tommy: time to find out what. Paladin, attack Familiar knight with Dragon Lance!
The Paladin shot an energy beam through its lance, white the dragon that it was riding shoots another energy beam. The two beam combined into one, which was about to hit Familiar Knight.
Kaiba: that attack might destroy my Knight, but thanks to my facedown card, I won't receive any damage. (Pushes button on duel disk) Ring of Defense!
His facedown card flips up. The energy blast destroys Familiar Knight in an explosion-like manner, but the Ring of Defense started spinning, stopping the explosion from getting to Kaiba.
Kaiba: that's not all, now that my Knight has been destroyed through battle, I can activate its card effect. Now we can all special summon any one low level monster that is in our hand. I now summon the X-Head Cannon.
He puts the card on his duel disk, and the monster appears in front of him.
ATK: 1800
DEF: 1500
Chuckie: I don't have a low level monster, so it can't affect me.
Dil: but it can still affect the rest of us.
Tommy, Dil, Joey and Yami Yugi each placed a card on their duel disk, and the monsters appear in front of each one.
Tommy: I'll summon my Cave Dragon in attack mode.
ATK: 2000
DEF: 100
Dil: I'll summon Mechanical Chaser, also in attack mode.
ATK: 1850
DEF: 800
Joey: Panther Warrior will be my choice.
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1600
Yami Yugi: and I choose Beta the Magnet Warrior.
ATK: 1700
DEF: 1600
Yami Yugi: both in attack mode.
Kaiba: my turn's not over yet. Since X-Head Cannon was a special summon, I'll do one more normal summon.
He puts the card on his duel disk, and the monster appears in front of him.
Kaiba: I've now summoned Z-Metal Tank.
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1300
Kaiba: now, since Z-Metal Tank is a Union monster, I can fuse him to another without Polymerization. Z-Metal Tank, Fuse with X-Head Cannon.
The small connection port on the Bottom of X-Head Cannon starts spinning, and forms electricity. The connection port on Z-Metal Tank starts sparking too. Both ports come together magnetically, forming a new monster.
Kaiba: I've created the XZ-Tank Cannon!
ATK: 2400
DEF: 2100
Kaiba: my new machine can now take out that Paladin.
Tommy: (Laughs) your XZ-Tank Cannon may be powerful then my Paladin, but you already you've already finished your Battle Phase by summoning your Z-Metal Tank.
Kaiba: that may be, but I have a magic card that will change that. (Puts card in duel disk) Activate Brave Attack!
The magic card is shown on the field, XZ-Tank Cannon glows.
Kaiba: I got this card as a trade I made with Gerald Johansson before this duel started. It allows me to take up to all the monster on my side of the field, and combine their ATK points for one Big Attack.
Joey: Rocket Warrior, control shift to Kaiba and follow his orders.
Rocket Warrior moves to Kaiba's side of the field.
Kaiba: thanks Wheeler. Alright, XZ-Tank Cannon, Rocket Warrior, attack Tommy's Paladin of White Dragon with Brave Attack!
Rocket Warrior transforms into a Rocket and mounds on top of XZ-Tank Cannon.
Combined Monster Strength:
ATK: 3900
XZ-Tank Cannon started rushing towards the Paladin of White Dragon. Paladin tried to defend itself, but the Rocket Warrior started to detonate, causing a huge explosion, leaving no trace of either monster.
Kaiba: so much for your Paladin. And since Chuckie was the one to summon it, he loses life points.
Chuckie: 5775
Mokuba: alright Seto!
Duke: way to go Kaiba!
Kaiba: my turn's not over yet. Next I play Pot of Greed, (puts card in duel disk) which lets me draw two cards.
The magic card is shown on the field. Kaiba draws two cards from his deck.
Kaiba: I end my turn by playing my Monster Reborn, (puts card in duel disk) Bringing back my XZ-Tank Cannon.
The magic card is shown on the field. Kaiba's graveyard glows, a beam of light comes out of it, and it forms into the XZ-Tank Cannon.
ATK: 2400
DEF: 2100
Kaiba: your move Tommy.
Tommy: (Draws card) Black Skull Dragon, Destroy his XZ-Tank Cannon with Molten Fire-Balls!
The Dragon opens its mouth and shoots flaming balls at the XZ-Tank Cannon.
Yami Yugi: not so fast Tommy!
He pushes a button on his duel disk and one of his facedown cards flips up.
Yami Yugi: my Shift trap card changes what monster Black Skull Dragon attacks, and I choose my Obnoxious Celtic Guardian.
The fire balls change direction, so instead of XZ-Tank Cannon, they hit Obnoxious Celtic Guardian. They make a direct hit, but Obnoxious Celtic Guardian was still there.
Tommy: hey wait! Shouldn't your Celtic Guardian be destroyed?
Yami Yugi: normally yes, but Obnoxious Celtic Guardian has a card effect: if he is attacked by a monster with over 1900 ATK points, he will not be destroyed. However, I still suffer damage since he was in attack mode.
Yami Yugi: 6200
Yami Yugi: leaving both of our monsters save from your attack.
Tommy: is that so? Well check this out: (puts card in duel disk) I activate my Quick-Play Magic card, De-Fusion! I shall break up by Black Skull Dragon.
The magic card is shown on the field. Black Skull Dragon glows, Then it looked like it was cut in half, one half became the Summon Skull…
ATK: 2500
DEF: 1200
… And the other half became the Red Eyes Black Dragon.
ATK: 2400
DEF: 2000
Tommy: and since that was a Quick-Play magic card, my Battle Phase is still up. Summon Skull, attack the XZ-Tank Cannon. Red Eyes, attack Joey's Panther Warrior.
Summon Skull creates lighting in its hands and sends the blast at XZ-Tank Cannon, thus, destroying it.
Kaiba: 7900
Red Eyes Black Dragon breaths Fire and shoots a blast at Panther Warrior, thus, destroying it.
Joey: 7600
Tommy: I'll set one card facedown, ending my turn.
He puts the card in his duel disk, and a large version of the facedown card appears in front of him.
Joey: my move. (Draws card) I play my own Monster Reborn, (puts card in duel disk) bringing back my Panther Warrior.
The magic card is shown on the field. Joey's graveyard glows, a beam of light comes out of it, and it forms into Panther Warrior.
ATK: 2000
DEF: 1600
Joey: Yugi, I could use some monsters over here.
Yami Yugi: you got it. Beta the Magnet Warrior and Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, control shift to Joey and follow his orders.
The two monsters move towards Joey's side of the field.
Joey: sweet! Now I can sacrifice all three of them. Prepare to meet one of my strongest monsters!
He puts the card on his duel disk. The three monsters disintegrate, and in there place came the new summoned monster.
Joey: say hello to Gilford the Lightning!
ATK: 2800
DEF: 1400
Chuckie: wait a minute! Gilford is a level-Eight monster, yet you sacrificed three monsters.
Joey: that's because if I sacrifice three monsters to summon him, I'd activated his card effect. Gilford can now destroy all the monsters on your side of the field. Gilford, destroy all of there monsters with Lighting blade!
Gilford raised its wide-bladed sword, and it produces lighting. The lighting struck all the monsters on the opposing field, thus, destroying them.
Serenity: way to go, Joey!
Joey: (to Serenity) Thanks sis. (To Team Pickles) Now Gilford is free to attack directly. Gilford, attack Chuckie's life points directly!
Gilford rushed towards Chuckie with the blade in his hand, preparing to attack.
Dil: not so fast dude! I activated my facedown card.
He pushes a button on his duel disk, and one of his facedown cards flips up.
Dil: it's known as Physical Double. It lets me take a monster on my opponent's side of the field, and I choose your Gilford the lighting.
The trap card glows, and soon, the air around the card became wavy.
Joey: what's going on?
Dil: well, once I choose a monster, my trap creates a Mirage Token, which I'll summon on Chuckie's side of the feild. The token monster will be an exact duplicate of Gilford: the same type and attribute, star level, and the same ATK and DEF strength.
And sure enough, a pale colored version of Gilford appears in front of him.
ATK: 2800
DEF: 1400
Ref-Bot 26: (Makes Whistle sound) REPLAY! Now that the number of monsters on Dil's side of the field had changed, Joey has to stop his current attack and choose a target again.
Joey: (thinking) if I attack that Mirage Token, both Gilfords would be destroyed. (Aloud) you win this round, Dil; I'll set two cards facedown.
He puts the cards in his duel disk, two large version of his facedown cards appear in front of him.
Joey: your move, Dil.
Dil: (Draws card) my Mirage Token can only last for one turn, which makes us Defenseless for now.
As he says this, the Cloned Gilford self-destructs.
Dil: I don't have much in my hand to work with, so I'll play this magic card: (Puts card in duel disk) Exchange!
The magic card is shown on the field.
Dil: this let's me take a card from my opponent's hand, and vice versa. I could have everyone be effected by my card, but since Joey has no other card, I'll only focus the effect on me and Yugi.
Suddenly, holograms of the cards in Yami Yugi's hand and the card in Dil's hand are shown to each other. Yami Yugi's two cards were Card of Sanctity and monster Reborn. Dil's card was 7 Completed.
Dil: I'll take that Card of Sanctity.
Yami Yugi: then I guess I'll take 7 Completed.
Ref-Bot 26 entered the center of the field. His two arms reach towards the cards in Dil and Yami Yugi's hands. He takes a hold of the selected cards, and makes the switch without moving his legs.
Ref-Bot 26: card exchange completed. (Walks backs to sidelines)
Dil: I now play Card of Sanctity, (puts card in duel disk) allowing all of us to draw until we each have six cards.
The magic card is shown on the field. The two teams drew cards from their deck, and now they all had six cards in their hands.
Dil: first I play Dark Hole, (puts card in duel disk) which destroyes all monsters on the field, including your Gilford.
The magic card is shown on the field, it creates a black hole which sucks Gilford the Lighting, thus destroying him.
Joey: oh-no!
Dil: now I summon the Heavy Mech Support Platform.
He puts the card on the duel disk, and the monster appears in front of him.
ATK: 500
DEF: 500
Dil: next is my magic card, (puts card in duel disk) Machine Duplication, this magic card can only work if I have a machine monster with 500 ATK or less, it allows me to summon up to two more of the same monster.
The magic card is shown on the field. It then scans the Heavy Mech Support Platform, two cards stick out of Dil's deck. He takes them both, and puts them on his duel disk, thus, summoning the monsters.
Dil: now my three Platforms, attack their life points directly!
All three platforms each shot a laser beam at the three duelists. Kaiba, Joey and Yami Yugi guarded themselves with their duel disk as each blast hits them.
Kaiba: 7400
Joey: 7100
Yami Yugi: 5700
Susie: alright Dil! Way to go, little guy!
Kimi: they're ahead of the duel now!
Phil: nice job, Dil!
Dil: yeah, thanks! I know I'm great. I'll set one card facedown, ending my turn.
He puts the cards in his duel disk and a large version of his facedown card appeared in front of him.
Yami Yugi: (Draws card) not a wise move Dil, you've let yourself open for an attack.
Dil: did I now?
Yam Yugi: oh yes, and you'll regret it. I now summon Gazelle the King of Mythical Beast.
He puts the card on his duel disk and the summoned monster appears in front of him.
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1200
Yami Yugi: that's not all, next I play Polymerization, (Puts card in duel disk) Fusing my Gazelle with Berfomet.
Berfomet was shown and was twirling with Gazelle to make a new monster. Yami Yugi places the right fusion monster on his duel disk.
Yami Yugi: I now create Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast!
ATK: 2100
DEF: 1800
Tommy: nice move. But it seems you forgot about my facedown card, and now it's gonna cost you. (Pushes Button on duel disk) ACTIVATE MISPOLYMERIZATION!
His facedown card flips up, Chimera glows and then it looks like it was sliced into pieces, and it disintegrated. The fusion card is then jumps off the duel disk and Yami Yugi catches it.
Yami Yugi: what the?
Tristan: (confused) um… what just happened here?
Numbuh 4: well, Chimera was just sliced up into small pieces.
Numbuh 5: we all saw that, genius. He means "how did it happen?"
Mai: that trap card did it.
Tommy: allow me to explain what happened: when you created your Chimera, I activated my facedown card, which was Mispolymerization. When a fusion monster is summoned, it takes all fusion monsters on the field, and returns them to the fusion decks. And since it was returned and not destroyed, Chimera's card effect of re-summoning one of the monsters that created it does not occur.
Yami Yugi: oh no.
Tommy: and I thought you were experts. I mean, come on! If it was me, I would fusion first, and then normal summon, but you normal summoned first and then fused the summoned monster, leaving you unable to summon again until next turn.
Yugi: (in Yami Yugi thoughts) oh great! I messed up on my turn, and there's nothing in my hand that can let me summon more monster. (Gasps, Realizes) wait! Of course, I almost forgot.
Yami Yugi: sorry to disappoint you Tommy, but I still got an ace up my sleeve. First I'll set two card facedown.
He puts the card in his duel disk. Large versions of the facedown cards appear in front of him.
Yami Yugi: next comes this move.
He pushes a button on his duel disk, and his old facedown card flips up.
Yami Yugi: I activate my Rope of Life Trap card! All I have to do is discard all the cards in my hand and I'll bring back a monster that was lost in battle.
He discards all the cards in his hand; a rope appears from the trap card and reaches towards Kaiba's graveyard. It glows and a beam of light shoots out of it. The light was forming into XZ-Tank Cannon holding on to the rope on Yami Yugi's side of the field.
ATK: 2400
DEF: 2100
Yami Yugi: I have brought back Kaiba's XZ-Tank Cannon and with Rope of Life, it shall get an 800 ATK point Boost!
XZ-Tank Cannon:
ATK: 3200
DEF: 2100
Yami Yugi: XZ-Tank Cannon: destroy the middle Heavy Mech Support Platform with XZ Cannon Blast!
XZ- Tank Cannon shoots turret lasers towards the middle platform. The lasers make their mark, destroying the middle platform.
Dil: 4800
Dil: aw man! My life points!
Chuckie: wait! He lost too many! He was only supposed to lose 1800 life points, but that last attack looked like it was direct.
Yami Yugi: check the ATK points of the middle Heavy Mech Support Platform and you'll see why.
Dil checks the stats of the last move, and he sees that…
Dil: hey! My middle platform had 0 ATK points, what gives?
Yami Yugi: allow me to explain, when I sent my hand to the graveyard, one of the cards was the Beast of Gilfer. And when it was sent to the graveyard, its card effect activated, draining 500 ATK points from any monster I choose.
Dil: so you chose my middle Heavy Mech Support Platform.
Yami Yugi: yes.
Dil: clever, I like that.
Yami Yugi: that move ends my turn.
Tea: way to go Yugi!
Numbuh 2: yeah, but it was Kaiba who had that monster in the graveyard, so Yugi should tank (thank) him! A-HAHAHAHAHA!
Duke: weak!
Numbuh 5: Heh-Heh! Strait up Duke!
Chuckie: it's my turn now. (Draw card, looks at it) YES! I now play the magic card, Black Luster Ritual! (Puts card in duel disk)
The magic card is shown on the field. It forms into a doorway on the floor with two fire pot things on each side.
Yami Yugi: (Gasp) you have a Black Luster Soldier?
Chuckie: that's right. As a Ritual Duelist, I have every known Ritual Monster ever made, including this one. Now I sacrifice my Berserk Dragon in order to summon Black Luster Soldier!
The monster is shown on the field. It disintegrates, sending its particles in the two burner-things. The doorway rises up to stand up strait; it then opens, releasing the monster.
ATK: 3000
DEF: 2500
Yami Yugi: guys, I think we might be in trouble.
Joey: why? That thing ain't strong enough to take out our Tank Cannon.
Kaiba: that may be, but if it stays on the field, it might pose a bigger threat.
Joey: I don't get it.
Chuckie: next I play Sword of Deep-Seated, (Puts card in duel disk) increasing Black Luster Soldier's ATK and DEF by 500.
The magic card is shown on the field. Black Luster Soldier's sword becomes a purple-crystal sword.
Black Luster Soldier:
ATK: 3500
DEF: 3000
Chuckie: Destroy that Tank Cannon with Sword of Deep-Seated.
Black Luster Soldier rushes towards XZ-Cannon, and slashes it with its sword, destroying it.
Yami Yugi: 5400
Chuckie: that's that, now I set one card facedown and end my turn.
He puts the cards in his duel disk. A large version of his facedown card appears in front of him.
Yugi: (in Yami Yugi thought) we have to get rid of that Black Luster Soldier, otherwise, if Tommy gets his Blue Eyes, we might not have a chance. But we can't do anything yet, the ball is in Kaiba's court now. It's gonna be up to him to keep us in this duel.
Yami Yugi looks at Kaiba who was about to take his turn.
Kaiba: (thinking) alright, I've got to do all I can to get that Soldier off the field before Tommy gets his Blue Eyes. (Looks at deck) I'm gonna need something to help turn the odds; I'm going to have to trust in the Heart of the Cards.
Kaiba: this duel isn't over yet, it's now my turn!
He starts to draw a card, but pauses first, putting everyone watching in suspense. Finally, he draws but he doesn't look at it yet. Once he looks at it, he draws a smile.
Kaiba: prepare to say goodbye to Black Luster Soldier!
What did Kaiba draw? Will it prevent the event that Yami Yugi and Kaiba believe will happen? What is said event? Keep reading and find out!