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Fanfic Chapter 119: Yugi in Cyber Space Pt 3: The Weak Shall Inherit the Earth
Episode Basis: Isolated in Cyber-Space: Yugi vs. Big 1
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! While Yugi and his friends were dealing with their own problems, Kaiba and Mokuba were subjected to memories of their past, growing up in a far from hospitable Orphanage. When Gozaburo Kaiba, the reigning Chess Champion and former head of Kaiba Corporation visited, Seto challenged him to a game of Chess. The kid won and Gozaburo had to adopt him and Mokuba. But as Mokuba noted, Seto changed that day. He was no longer the game-loving pleasant boy of their youth, but the cold and calculating one of current. Even though it was a virtual illusion generated by Noah, Mokuba ran hoping if he interrupted the chess match, Seto could go back to the way he was before. Unfortunately for Mokuba, he ended up almost going over the edge… literally! Meanwhile, with an endless supply of monsters and his Reflector Hole Deck Master ability, Gansley was ruling the duel. Will Gansley's monopolizing dueling strategy conquer Yami-Yugi's heart? (Sheesh, now I'm starting to sound like one of those Big-5 guys).
"It's my turn, are you ready to give up yet?" Gansley asked Yami-Yugi.
"Not on your life," Yami-Yugi replied, still breathing heavily from being attacked by his own monsters.
"You're only a few life points away from losing," Gansley noted.
(Y: 500)
(G: 1800)
"It would just be so much easier for you if you just gave up." Yami-Yugi glared daggers at him. "I'll take that as a no, oh well, your funeral." He drew a monster card called Rainbow Snake Eingana (1). Rainbow Snake Eingana, this monster can win this duel in one move. But what fun would that be? I should draw this duel out a little bit longer and prolong his suffering. "I summon Melchid, the Four-Faced Beast (2) in attack mode. Destroy his Celtic Guardian!" Yami-Yugi's warrior was destroyed.
(Y: 400)
(G: 1800)
Yami-Yugi couldn't hold the pain back any more, he collapsed.
Tea sat on her knees watching the Hitotsu-Me Giants stir a pot. She recalled passing her hand right through a flower and then the pebble cut her cheek. "I thought this world was supposed to be an illusion, but that attack certainly felt real, and if I could feel a cut like that, then the others… in a duel… oh no, Yugi!"
"You'll never get anything done laying face-down in the dirt," Gansley cracked.
For some reason, Yami-Yugi, in all his pain, heard Tea's voice, "Yugi, hang on, I'm right here for you."
Yami-Yugi staggered to his feet, "I'll never give up! I'll stop you and save my friends, no matter the cost."
"The thief must be stopped, no matter the cost!"
Another memory fragment, Yami-Yugi noted.
"It doesn't matter," Gansley said. "I'll win soon anyway… as soon as I launch my next attack!"
Gansley's right, Yami-Yugi thought. I have only 400 life points left and as long as he has two monsters on the field, he can sacrifice them to activate his Reflector Hole.
Yami-Yugi drew a card. It was a magic card called Rainbow Blessing. Rainbow Blessing, this won't help me now.
"Stalling won't help," Gansley snapped. "Success comes to men of action!"
I wish he would just shut up. Kuriboh started chirping rapidly. "Not now," Yami dismissed.
"Wait a second," Little-Yugi called. "I think Kuriboh is trying to tell us something." Kuriboh was nodding his head wildly. "Maybe Rainbow Blessing can help us. Yami, Kuriboh has never let us down before, and I know he won't let us down now!"
"You're right, Yugi, I've been trusting my deck, but not my Deck Master. It's time to put my trust in another. Ready, Kuriboh? Kuriboh gave Yami-Yugi a determined glance and nodded. Yami-Yugi set Rainbow Blessing face-down. "I end my turn!"
"Are we there yet?" Amara asked.
"That's the tenth time you asked that," Duke said. "I wish I could answer you but I don't even know where we're heading."
"Why's Noah keeping us down here?" Amara asked. "I mean I thought he wanted our bodies to escape to the real world?"
"The Big-5 want that, I don't know what Noah's deal is. He's probably keeping us here while he gets the others out of the way."
"Because he doesn't consider us much of a threat," Amara concluded Duke's thought. "I'll show him who's a threat." She stomped passed Duke and down the sewers.
"What is with this girl?" Duke wondered out loud.
Tea was growing nervous as smoke billowed from her captors' pot. "I better get out of here before I become Tea Soup," she said to nobody. "But how to…" Something hit her in the back of the head. She turned to see a vine dangling from the top of the cliff. "Yes, my ticket out of here." She looked up to see a shadow waving down at her.
The shape was that of a penguin.
"Hold on, Mokuba!" Kaiba cried as he removed his Duel Disk. The door that Mokuba went through was a trap, leading to a cliff leading to an abyss. "I have you."
"Hurry, Seto!" Mokuba called out. "My hands are getting sweaty!"
Kaiba reached down and pulled Mokuba up. Once back on solid ground, the Kaiba Brothers caught their breath. "This place is more dangerous than I thought," Kaiba realized re-donning his Duel Disk. "Somehow Noah has virtual software that can imitate the sensation of touch."
"Poor Seto, you just have no idea," Noah said.
"I don't get it, Seto, I thought only we had the latest virtual software," Mokuba said. "But this place feels way too real. If you hadn't caught me, I don't know what would've happened." Tearfully, he said, "Thanks, Big Brother."
"Mokuba, remember, no matter what you may see, you must understand that the past is over. I may not be proud of every decision I ever made, but understand, everything I did, I did so we could have a better life; the two of us." Mokuba dried his eyes and nodded.
Kaiba looked up, "Noah, come out and face me, you coward!"
Noah just chuckled.
Back at the duel, Gansley drew a magic card called Offerings to the Doomed. "Ah, perfect. I activate Offerings to the Doomed. Now by discarding one card, I can destroy any monster on the field. And I'll use it to destroy your Chimera!" The fusion monster broke apart. "Now you have no monsters to defend yourself."
"Oh yes I do, I have Chimera's special ability. When it's destroyed, I can automatically summon one of the monsters used to fuse it and I choose Berfomet."
"It won't help you I sacrifice Melchid and Wall of Illusion to summon Rainbow Snake Eingana!" A large multi-color snake appeared. "Attack Berfomet!" The snake ate the beast monster. "Now you're defenseless once again. You see, hope is nothing before the power of business! Why don't you go home and play with your teddy bears."
Tea grunted as she climbed her lifeline. "I don't know who is rescuing me…" She heard a roar and saw the Hitotsu-Me Giants yelling at her and waving their clubs. Tea screamed and scampered the rest of the way up the rope. "But I'm glad they did," she said quickly.
This is it, Gansley thought. I'm going to beat the King of Games. I've dreamed of this moment ever since he and Seto Kaiba beat us in Kaiba's game. Now, it's my professional business skills and superior intelligence that will prevail over his blasphemous speeches about heart and his koosh of a Deck Master. "Ruclomba, attack his life points directly!"
This is it, Yami thought. It's all over.
As Ruclomba bore down on Yami-Yugi, Kuriboh leapt into the line of fire and multiplied itself forming an impenetrable wall. When the smoke from the attack cleared, Little-Yugi was standing on the field.
And so was Kuriboh.
"Good job, Kuriboh," Yugi congratulated. "You saved what was left of our life points."
"Yugi, why did you take over?" Yami asked.
"I figured you needed a rest after all those direct attacks. One more of those and you would've been a goner."
"Thank you."
"The one you should be thanking is Kuriboh."
"Yes, I guess I was wrong about you, Kuriboh, you were essential in helping me in this duel. It seems that the heart of the cards guided you to us and with good reason."
Kuriboh looked immensely pleased with itself. Yugi and Yami smiled.
Tea ran across the desert landscape, no sign of her mysterious rescuer. But the Hitotsu-Me Giants were right behind her. She eventually came to a rickety bridge over a waterfall. "You've got to be kidding me," she said at seeing the adventure movie set.-up. She looked from the bridge to the approaching giants.
She was scared.
"I could really use some friends right about now," she muttered. Then she recalled something.
"Everyone, put your hands together," Tea instructed. "And I'll mark us with a special sign." She drew a star so that each point was on someone's hand.
The others were confused by the action. "What gives, Tea?" Joey asked.
"It's a symbol of our friendship. So that when Yugi's dueling, no matter how tough it seems, he'll know that he's not alone."
I'm not alone, Tea realized staring at her hand. My friends are always with me, no matter how tough it is. I'm going to risk it. Carefully, she started to cross the bridge. Half-way across, the giants arrived and started to cross the bridge too.
The bridge must've been really weak because it split right down the middle. Tea was able to hang onto the rope railing. The giants on the other hand weren't as lucky. They plunged down the waterfall.
Tea breathed a sigh of relief, "I never liked action movies," she said.
"I don't understand! How can you still be standing after I made a direct attack on your Deck Master?"
"Easy," Yugi said. "I figured out Kuriboh's Deck Master ability. It can cancel out a direct attack by a strong monster."
Gansley scowled and then smirked again, "It doesn't matter, the only monster you have on the field is that pathetic Kuriboh and what can it do?"
"Watch," Yugi said and drew a card. "You shouldn't underestimate the small and weak, Gansley, otherwise they will become more powerful than you, like so! I summon Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight (3)!" This version of Gaia had dark and red armor and his horse was a maroon color.
"Wait, how can you summon a level seven monster without a sacrifice?"
"Swift Gaia's special ability let me summon it without a sacrifice if it's the only card in my hand. Next I reveal my face-down card, Rainbow Blessing!" Kuriboh turned many different colors. "When Rainbow Blessing is combined with Kuriboh, it can form the Rainbow Arch!" The Rainbow Kuriboh became a real rainbow with one end being in front of Swift Gaia, and the other end at Gansley. "Rainbow Arch leads a path that lets one of my monsters attack you directly! Now, Swift Gaia, attack his life points directly!"
Oh no, Reflector Hole doesn't work on direct attacks! Gansley could only watch in horror as Swift Gaia traveled the rainbow arch and stabbed Gansley with its lance.
(Y: 400)
(G: 0)
"NOOOOOO!" Gansley cried as he dissolved into bits of digital information.
Yugi breathed a sigh of relief. "Phew, it's over. Hey, are you okay, Yami?"
"A lot better, thanks."
Yugi nodded then turned to Kuriboh, "Kuriboh, thank you, we couldn't have won this duel without your help. You proved that even the smallest and weakest can make a big difference."
Kuriboh cooed happily and disappeared.
"Hmmm," Noah said. "Either Yugi Moto is stronger than I thought or the Big-5 don't have the dueling skills they boast they have. I guess future duels will only tell. In the mean time…" He hit a button on his control chair.
A door appeared near Yugi. "Yami, look, a door."
"Yes, hopefully it leads to our friends."
"Then let's see where it leads." Yugi opened the door and walked through.
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Rainbow Snake Eingana
Level: 7
Type: Reptile
Attribute: Water
ATK: 2200
DEF: 1800
(2)
Name: Melchid the Four-Face Beast
Level: 4
Type: Fiend
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1200
(3)
Name: Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight
Level: 7
Type: Warrior/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2300
DEF: 2100