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Fanfic Chapter 57: Battle CityBegins Pt 2: Piece by Piece
Episode Basis: Yugi vs. the Rare Hunter Pt 2

Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! It was time for Battle City to start, and it wasn't long before the first duel presented itself: Yugi Moto would battle the Rare Hunter who stole Joey's Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Joey knew that the Rare Hunter planned on summoning Exodia, but he couldn't warn Yugi because the Rare Hunter threatened to tear up his Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Fortunately, Yugi was able to figure it out on his own. But with four Exodia pieces in the Rare Hunter's hand and the fifth on the way, is it too late for Yugi?


"Yes, now that Yugi has figured out what the Rare Hunter was planning, he can counteract it. I guess faith really is stronger than luck," Joey mused. By this time, a large crowd had gathered around

"You may have discovered that I had Exodia, but it's too little, too late," the Rare Hunter said. "I already have four pieces of Exodia and I can see the fifth piece at the top of my deck. All I have to do is draw it and I'll be declared the victor!"


At Kaiba Corp, one of Kaiba's Bridge Bunnies reported, "Mister Kaiba, we discovered something."

"What is it?"

"The Rare Hunter's cards are coated with some sort of invisible ink."

"That's illegal! That's it I'm going to disqualify him!"

"Let it go, Mokuba," Kaiba instructed.

"But Seto, you made me Battle City Commissioner so that I could enforce the rules, so why are you letting him slide."

"Because I need to see if he has what I need." And even if he doesn't, it'll be fun to see Yugi squirm against the very same monster he used against me.


"I place one card face-down. Now, Chimera, attack his Stone Statue!" Chimera pounced on the rock wall and destroyed it. "Now you have only one monster defending you."

"It doesn't matter how many monsters I have, I'm still on the verge of winning! All I have to do is draw this card…" his hand moved to his deck.

"Activate trap card!" Yami-Yugi commanded revealing his face-down card. It was Time Seal, a card that would prevent the opponent from drawing for one turn.

"No, not Time Seal," the Rare Hunter moaned.

"That's right, with Time Seal, your draw phase is void and Exodia will have to wait."

"You may have saved yourself for one turn, but it still won't stop me from drawing the final piece of Exodia."

He's right, Yami-Yugi thought. If I don't draw something that can help me right now, I could be eliminated from Battle City on my first duel. I'll lose any chance I have for getting Joey's Red-Eyes… and my memories… back. Please, Heart of the Cards, grant me the strength I need to win this duel. Yami-Yugi drew a card, looked at it, and inserted it into the magic and trap card slot. "I end my turn," he said.

"Finally, I win!" The Rare Hunter cried as his hand once again moved to his deck.

Gotta time this just right. "Go, Lightforce Sword!" The trap card flipped up.

"What does that card do?"

"It lets me choose one card from your hand and remove it from play for three turns!" A sword shot forward and stabbed the center card throwing it to the side.

It was Exodia's Right Arm (1).

"No, not that card," the Rare Hunter cried. "You pierced Exodia's Right Arm!" He growled at Yami-Yugi like a dog. "You saved yourself again."

"Yes," Mokuba cheered.

Kaiba just watched it grimly.

"I'm not done yet," Yami-Yugi said taking his turn. "As per Battle City rules, I sacrifice Chimera so I can bring out my Summoned Skull! Summoned Skull, attack his Moving Fortress with Lightning Strike!" The Summoned Skull's lightning attack destroyed the Rare Hunter's last defense monster. "Now you're defenseless!"

He's right, the Rare Hunter thought as he drew Exodia's Left Arm (2). I have Exodia's Left Arm, but now that his right arm has been removed from play, I can't summon him. I need to stall for time until his Lightforce Sword wears off. The Rare Hunter laughed, "A Rare Hunter is prepared for every scenario! I play Swords of Revealing Light!"

"No, not the swords," Yami-Yugi cried as three gold swords covered him and his monsters.

"Yes, now you're stalled from attacking for three turns! And once your Lighforce Sword wears off, I'll have Exodia's Right Arm back in my possession and be declared the winner!"


"Seto, will Yugi lose?" Mokuba asked.

"I don't think Yugi would allow himself to be beaten by such an imbecile," Kaiba said. I should be the only one Yugi loses to.


Yami-Yugi drew a card. "I end my turn."

"Yes, and now your duel will end! You see, I still have the ability to draw cards."

"Unfortunately, you can only have one Exodia set in your deck."

"Too bad I don't."

"WHAT!"

"You can have three sets of a card in your deck, so I have three sets of Exodia! All I have to do is draw another Right Arm and I'll still win!"

"I doubt it."

"What do you mean?"

"Your problem is that you're so full of Exodia parts that the chances of drawing the right one are slim. I won't even need to wait three turns to defeat you."

The Rare Hunter drew an extra Exodia piece. This won't do me any good, but with the Swords of Revealing Light, Yugi won't be able to attack me. "I choose to end my turn without playing a card."

Come on, Yug, Joey thought. You have to win.

"I draw," Yami-Yugi announced taking a card from his deck. "I place one card face-down and summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior (2) in attack mode!" Alpha may not be able to attack now, but with so many Exodia pieces, I doubt the Rare Hunter could mount an effective attack on me anyway.

The Rare Hunter drew another Right Leg of Exodia (3). What if Yugi does find a way to destroy the Swords of Revealing Light? My life points could be wiped out. Fortunately, Yugi forgot one thing: that each piece of Exodia is also a monster card. "I summon my spare Exodia Head (4) in defense mode! Now I have a monster protecting my life points!"

"Just what I wanted, reveal trap card: Chain Destruction! Your spare Exodia Head may be on the field, but Chain Destruction lets me destroy every card in your hand and deck that matches the card you summoned." A chain came out of the card's hologram and destroyed the remaining two Exodia's heads. "And now, without all the pieces, there's no way you can summon Exodia the Forbidden One."

The Rare Hunter cried out. I don't believe it, he defeated the Forbidden One, no, there's no way, but he did!

"But I'm not done with you yet. I activate my other face-down card, Dust Tornado, which destroys your Swords of Revealing Light!" The swords vanished. "I play Monster Reborn to resurrect Chimera, the Flying Mythical Beast!" Yami-Yugi's fusion monster reappeared. "Chimera, destroy the Exodia Head." Chimera pounced on the Exodia Head and destroyed it. "Now, Summoned Skull and Alpha the Magnet Warrior attack him directly!" The Summoned Skull's electricity charged Alpha's sword. "Summoned Skull raises the attack power of Alpha the Magnet Warrior by 200 points!"

(AMW: 1400-1600)

"And along with Summoned Skull's 2500 attack power, that means…"

"No, no, it can't be!"

"You're finished!"

A burst of light engulfed the Rare Hunter and sent him crashing to the ground.

(Y: 4000)
(RH: 0)


"He did it," Mokuba cheered. "He beat Exodia!"

I knew he would, Kaiba thought. I'm not surprised that Yugi won. In fact, I want him to make it to the finals. He looked at his Egyptian God Card. So that in the finals, I can crush and humiliate him with my Egyptian God Card. "Mokuba, I'm going to join the tournament," Kaiba said as he left the room.

"Hey wait for me," Mokuba called. As he left, he called back to the Bridge Bunnies. "Inform us if any of the other two Egyptian God Cards are played."

"Yes, sir," the Bridge Bunnies said as one.


Yami-Yugi took the Red-Eyes Black Dragon card and a locator card from the Rare Hunter's deck which has spilled all over the ground. He then looked at the Exodia cards. "These cards are fakes!"

"You mean that Rare Hunter never really had a real Exodia set?" Joey asked.

"That's right." Yami-Yugi tore the cards up. "And now, nobody else will."

"Forgive me, master!" Yami-Yugi and Joey looked at the Rare Hunter and saw him clutching his head in pain. "I'm sorry I failed you!"

"What's his beef?" Joey asked.

The Rare Hunter let out an inhuman scream before going limp. When he raised his head, his eyes had gone blank. There was a familiar eye-shape symbol on his forehead.

"That's the Millennium emblem," Yami-Yugi recognized.

"Remember me, Pharaoh?" A strange voice asked.

"You were the one who was controlling Bandit Keith!" Yami-Yugi realized. Joey looked at his friend oddly.

"Correct, and congratulations on defeating my Rare Hunter, but he was the weakest of all my servants, the others will prove much more challenging."

"What did you do to him?" Yami-Yugi demanded to know.

"I banished his mind to the Shadow Realm!"

"What's this guy blabbering about?" Joey asked.

"I've waited to meet you for years, so I could destroy you!"

"How are you doing this?"

"Thanks to my Millennium Item, the Millennium Rod!"

Millennium Rod… wait a second, Ishizu said that the dark force also had a Millennium Item. Could this be who Ishizu was warning us about? "Who are you?"

"My name is Marik."

"What do you want?"

"I want what belongs to me! And I'll do it using the Egyptian God Cards!"

"The Egyptian God Cards?"

"Don't play dumb with me, Pharaoh, you of all people should know about the Egyptian God Cards, three of the most powerful beasts to ever exist!"

Yami-Yugi put what Marik told him now with what he said while controlling Bandit Keith. "And you need my Millennium Puzzle to do it? Well I won't let you get your hands on it!"

"You fool, it's not the puzzle I want; it's the power it contains! Enjoy the game while you can, because soon it will be all over for you!" And the Rare Hunter's body collapsed.

Joey went up to the body and poked it a few times before saying, "Yup, he's out to lunch."

This isn't good, Avatar thought as he slipped away.

"Joey, here," he said handing Joey the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. "Your dragon."

"It isn't mine to take," Joey said.

"Huh?"

Joey stared off into the distance. "Look, buddy, I lost that dragon of my own free will. I did a lot of thinking during Serenity's operation and I came to realize that I was an idiot during my duel with the Rare Hunter. I probably deserved to lose it. After seeing how a real Duelist duels (that's you by the way), I realized that I have a lot to learn about the soul of the Duelist. At Duelist Kingdom, I was dueling for someone other than myself but now that I'm dueling for myself, I have a lot to learn. You're here to whoop that Marik creep, and I just figured out why I'm in this tournament, to discover the soul of the Duelist. Who knows, maybe some day we'll duel and I'll win the right to own the Red-Eyes Black Dragon again. But until then, you keep it. You're probably going to need it anyway, with that Marik creep and his Rare Hunter goon squad running around."

"But what about the rare card requirement?"

"I still have a rare card left in my deck."

"You do?"

"Don't you know? You gave it to me just before Duelist Kingdom." Joey held out the card in question: the Time Wizard (5).

"I see."

"Yup, so we have no excuses. The Red-Eyes Black Dragon is yours, Yugi, take good care of it."

"I'll treat it like my best friend," Yami-Yugi said.


Tea was running across an overpass and saw Yugi and Joey in the distance. "There they are," she said exasperated. "Hello! Yugi! Joey!" She hurried down to them.


"Well smell 'ya, later, I'm off to find me some duels."

"Joey, wait!" Yami-Yugi called.

Joey turned around, "What is it?"

"I don't know if I'll be able to beat Marik on my own. I'm going to need help, from you and the others."

"No sweat, bud, that's what friends are for."

"Thanks, Joey."

The two shook hands and parted ways. No sooner had they left then Tea arrived.

"Oh shoot," she said. "I lost them again." She headed off in a random direction.

The End


Duel Monster Database

(1)
Name: Exodia's Right Arm (Right Arm of the Forbidden One)
Level: 1
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 200
DEF: 300

(2)
Name: Alpha the Magnet Warrior
Level: 4
Type: Rock
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1400
DEF: 1700

(3)
Name: Exodia's Right Leg (Right Leg of the Forbidden One)
Level: 1
Type: Spellcaster
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 200
DEF: 300

(4)
Name: Exodia's Head (Exodia the Forbidden One)
Level: 3
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1000
DEF: 1000

(5)
Name: Time Wizard
Level: 2
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 500
DEF: 400