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Fanfic Chapter 70: The Silent Puppet Pt 2: Slifer the Sky Dragon
Episode Basis: Mime Control Pt 2
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! Marik took control of a soulless mime called Strings and sent him into battle against Yugi. After a few light jabs, Marik got down to business summoning his Revival Jam, a monster that couldn't be destroyed and activating his Jam Breeding Machine magic card which will create a slime token during every one of his turns. But Yami-Yugi couldn't attack them because of Marik's trap card Jam Defender, which redirects all attacks to Revival Jam and his magic card Nightmare Steel Cage which prevents him from attacking for two turns. Looks like both Yami-Yugi and us will have to sit back and watch as Marik summons his Egyptian God Monster.
"You can't attack as long as my Nightmare Steel Cage is out," Marik said through his puppet, Strings. "And even without the cage, you would only be able to attack my Revival Jam. Looks like a fool and his puzzle will soon be parted!" Marik burst into laughter.
"You may think this is a laughing matter, Marik, but you won't be laughing after I beat you!" Yami-Yugi declared.
"Oh please, what do you have that can beat me?"
"I have my belief in the heart of the cards."
"Psssh," Marik blew. "Your heart means nothing before my power, a power that you will soon experience first hand."
Meanwhile, Kaiba was checking in. "You mean you STILL haven't been able to find the other two Egyptian God Cards yet?"
"Not yet, sir," the scientist currently in charge of the control room said. "Dozens of ultra-powerful cards have been played but none of them match the criteria that you programmed into the computers."
"Contact me the moment our GPS picks up any of the two remaining God Cards."
"Yes, sir."
Kaiba shut off his laptop. "I'm surprised the God Cards hadn't been played yet." I'm eager to find them so I can win them for myself so I can once again become the World's Top Duelist. "Let's go, Mokuba, at the very least, we can earn some easy locator cards so I can be in the finals."
"All right… hey wait up!" Mokuba grabbed his brother's briefcase that contained the laptop and his cards.
"How does it fee, Pharaoh?" Marik-Strings asked. "How does it feel to be locked in a cage like an animal, not being able to do what you need to do? Well, this'll be nothing compared to the eternal torture that waits for you in the Shadow Realm!"
Yami-Yugi was not phased by Marik's taunts. "I draw one card and end my turn."
Strings drew a card and produced a third Slime Token. "At last, my third Slime Token!" Yami-Yugi took a step back in fear. "Now I can summon a beast with few equals, a monster with such incredible power that the very world trembles before it!" The three Slime Tokens and the Jam Breeding Machine were destroyed. "I call upon my Egyptian God Card!" The skies darkened and lightning flashed around them actually uprooting the ground. A large shaft of energy shot out from the ground into the air and disappeared. "I now call forth… Slifer the Sky Dragon (1)!" A large red dragon appeared. It had two mouths, one on top of another. "You're staring into the face of defeat, Pharaoh!"
Yami-Yugi trembled. "It's… enormous!"
"Slifer's power is limitless, and here's how it works. For every card I hold in my hand, Slifer gains 1000 attack points. Since I have two cards, that means Slifer's attack power is 2000!"
(SSD: 2000)
"Right now, it's weaker than your Buster Blader, but not for long. For now, I play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards from my deck. Greed is good." Strings drew two cards and Slifer's attack power changed because now Marik had three cards.
(SSD: 2000-3000)
"You've obviously forgotten one thing: there's a limit to how many cards a Duelist can hold in his hand." It was true; normally a Duelist is allowed to hold a maximum of six cards. If the Duelist holds more than six when his or her turn is over, the Duelist must then discard until they hold six cards.
"Every rule is made to be broken," Marik commented. He obviously doesn't understand the destructive force of an Egyptian God Card, because he lost his memory of a time when they devastated the Earth. And I hold just the cards I need to give Slifer infinite strength. "Soon, I will take your puzzle and banish you and your little cohort to the Shadow Realm where you rightfully belong!"
I have to figure out a way out of here, Yami-Yugi thought. I still have Buster Blader on the field. Buster Blader gains 500 attack points for every dragon monster on the field…
(BB: 2600-3100)
A/N: For the record, I'd just like to point out that Slifer's categorized as a Divine-Beast, not a Dragon type, but hey, to each his own.
So right now, he's stronger than Slifer. But he's still barred from attacking because of the Nightmare Steel Cage. And by the time the cage wears off, Marik would have drawn another card and Slifer's attack points would've gone up again, this time higher than Buster Blader's. Yami-Yugi drew Lightforce Sword, the trap card he used against the Rare Hunter who stole Joey's Red-Eyes Black Dragon. This might be helpful but I'm still trapped for one turn. If I can hold out until then, I can turn this duel around. "I set two cards face-down and call Kuriboh (2) in defense mode." A little furball with large eyes appeared. "My turn ends and so does your cage."
"Not that it matters," Marik said as he made Strings draw another card raising Slifer's attack power.
(SSD: 3000-4000)
"Activate trap card: Lightforce Sword!" A sword stabbed the card that Strings drew. "This takes a card from your hand out of play for one turn so Slifer now loses its power bonus."
(SSD: 4000-3000)
"Buster Blader, counterattack!" Buster Blader charged Slifer but only ended up attacking Revival Jam. "No, Revival Jam blocked it!"
"That's right," Marik confirmed as Revival Jam reformed. "Jam Defender is a permanent trap so all your attacks will go to Revival Jam and Slifer is safe. Plus it's my turn." Strings drew a card. "I play the magic card called Card of Safe Return. This lets me draw three cards every time my Revival Jam reforms itself." Strings drew three cards.
(SSD: 3000-6000)
A Duelist walked by looking for a duel. Tristan saw him but Joey was ignoring him.
"Why don't you challenge him?" Tristan asked. "You could've beaten him easily."
"Nah," Joey dismissed.
"But you're only two cards away from entering the finals!"
"Tristan, my mission here is to discover how to be a true Duelist. I'll never be able to reach that goal if I'm beating small fish like him."
"You've definitely grown stronger since Duelist Kingdom, Joey," Solomon said. "But don't forget, nobody can learn everything they need to learn. The key to discovering the Soul of the Duelist is not to discover it but to let it discover you."
"I guess so."
"Well what do we have here?" Everyone turned to see Kaiba and Mokuba walking up to them. "Looks like the Three Stooges." He eyed Joey's Duel Disk. "What's a nobody like you doing with one of MY Duel Disks?"
"Hey, I'll have you know that I qualified to participate in this tournament."
"Somebody must've screwed up at registration," Kaiba cracked. "Oh well, I've got better things to do than deal with small fish like you." He turned to walk away.
"I think I just found my next duel," Joey said. "Kaiba, I challenge you to a duel!"
"Joey, are you nuts?" Tristan asked.
"Yugi had trouble beating him, what makes you think you'll do any better?"
"Yeah, right, why don't you go home to your mommy like a good little boy and leave the dueling to the grownups?"
"Oh, so you're afraid of me now, are you?" Joey challenged.
"Uh-oh," Tea said meekly.
"If you were a true Duelist, you would accept my challenge!"
"Dueling you would only be a waste of my Big Brother's time," Mokuba snapped.
"On the contrary," Kaiba rebutted bringing out his deck. "It won't take me any time at all to finish this has-been. I'll show this pathetic excuse for a Duelist just where someone like him belongs, namely under my feet."
"Bring it!" Joey dared.
"I can't watch," Tea said turning away.
"This'll be a massacre," Tristan added.
But before the two could start dueling, a sudden wind began to pick up. Everyone looked up to see a Kaiba Corporation chopper hovering over them. A rope ladder was lowered to Kaiba. His communication pin turned on. "Mister Kaiba, just now, an Egyptian God Card was played. Climb on and I'll take you there."
Kaiba smirked at Joey. "Looks like this is your lucky day," he said gripping one of the lower rings of the ladder.
"That's right, you better run," Joey called to the ascending helicopter. When the helicopter was out of sight, he collapsed to the ground in relief.
"Sir," the pilot called once Kaiba and Mokuba were inside the helicopter. "Something else I think you should know: the Egyptian God Card was played in a duel with Yugi Moto."
How fortunate that both my goals would be together, Kaiba thought. And that gives me an idea…
Yami-Yugi watched in horror as Slifer attacked Buster Blader destroying the warrior.
(Y: 2100)
(S: 3000)
"With each turn, my Slifer becomes more powerful but because of my Revival Jam, there's nothing you can do about it. You might as well give up."
"Giving up is something I'll never do," Yami-Yugi said. "My move." He drew Magic Cylinders, a trap card. This trap card could do the trick but it needs to work in conjunction with a magician. Yami-Yugi looked through his hand and spied the Dark Magician Girl. Dark Magician Girl should do it, she was a big help in my duels against Arkana and Harold. "I sacrifice my Kuriboh so I can summon Dark Magician Girl in defense mode!"
"Too bad, summoning a monster activates Slifer's special ability!"
"What?" Yami-Yugi watched as Slifer's top mouth opened.
"Slifer's second mouth has the ability to drain a monster of 2000 points from whatever mode the target monster is in. And it will use this special ability every time a monster is summoned on the opponent's side of the field." Dark Magician Girl only had 1700 defense points so they were quickly drained as she was showered with energy. The Dark Magician Girl landed on her bottom, looking drained.
(DMG: 1700-0)
Yami-Yugi wasn't too worried. "I play Magical Hats to conceal my Dark Magician Girl." The Dark Magician Girl disappeared underneath four top hats. "Now you'll have to guess which hat she's hiding under, Marik, but you better be careful." He placed two cards face-down. "Attacking the wrong hat could prove most dire. And Slifer's attack points are only limited to 6000."
"As usual, you presume too much, Pharaoh," Marik said as Strings drew a card. "I play Infinite Cards! Now I can have as many cards as I want and Slifer's power is limitless!" Yami-Yugi gasped. "Slifer, attack his Magical Hat!" Slifer let out a burst of energy.
Yami-Yugi grunted. "Lucky guess." Marik's target was dead on. The hat was destroyed and the Dark Magician Girl was revealed.
But to Marik's shock, the power wasn't striking the Dark Magician Girl, but rather was being absorbed into one of two tubes that appeared on either side of the Dark Magician Girl. "What is that?"
"In attacking my Dark Magician Girl, you also triggered the trap cards I've hidden: Spellbinding Circle and Magic Cylinders."
"No, not a trap!"
"Oh it's a trap, all right. First, Spellbinding Circle decreases Slifer's attack power by 700…"
(SSD: 6000-5300)
"And now, Magic Cylinders will take the power of your Sky Dragon and send it right back at him!" The same energy burst was fired from the other tube. But to Yami-Yugi's horror, Revival Jam once again intervened.
"Revival Jam's effect works even if the attack is my own," Marik said as he drew three cards.
(SSD: 5300-8300)
"I end my turn."
"And since you did, Slifer gains back the attack power it lost from your Spellbinding Circle!" The circle around Slifer disappeared.
(SSD: 8300-9000)
"Now it's my turn again." Marik drew a card.
(SSD: 9000-10000)
"Slifer, attack his Dark Magician Girl now!"
Yami-Yugi frantically looked through his hand. Oh no, there isn't anything in my hand that can save my Dark Magician Girl from Slifer's attack. Both Yami-Yugi and the Dark Magician Girl watched in horror as the blast hit its mark. "I'm sorry," Yami-Yugi whispered as the Dark Magician Girl disintegrated.
"I hold the ultimate five-card combination," Marik announced. "I'm invincible! There's nothing anyone can do to stop me!"
Yami-Yugi collapsed to his knees. "I… I can't…"
"Get on your feet, Yugi!" Yami-Yugi looked up to see Kaiba and Mokuba standing on the ledge above them. "Since when do you bow to your rivals?"
"Never!" Yami-Yugi declared.
"Then stand up and take this nobody down and win his God Card. If you still have what it takes, then get up and prove it to me now!" Once Yugi wins his Egyptian God Card, I'll duel him and take it in return. Then I'll have the most powerful deck in all of Duel Monsters!
To Be Continued
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Slifer the Sky Dragon
Level: 11
Type: Divine-Beast
Attribute: Divine
ATK: X000
DEF: X000
(2)
Name: Kuriboh
Level: 1
Type: Fiend/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 300
DEF: 200
