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Vanguard Generations
Chapter 7: Rage against your rival
Eric smirked widely. "You're on death's door, and you treat your little 2900 fusion like he's the best in the world. Well now you've walked right into my trap!"
Shinsei blinked at that. "A trap?"
"That's right, a trap!" Eric drew. "Reveal face-down Soul Resurrection! One normal monster in my graveyard will be special summoned to the field! Big Koala!" The giant blue koala returned to play in a crouching position. "Now I'll show you a real fusion! Go Polymerization, fuse Des Kangaroo and my Big Koala together to summon my Master of Oz!" (4200/3800) A giant green-furred creature appeared on the field and pounded its boxing glove-covered hands together. "You can't win now that I'll wipe out your best hope for a victory! Go Master of Oz, Ultimate Punch!" The giant creature charged right at Elixeler like a missile.
Shinsei braced himself as the fist slammed into his fusion and shattered it into dust.
Eric threw back his head and laughed loudly. "I won! I finally beat you!" A loud whistle caught his attention and he looked over at Airos. "Huh?"
The green-haired boy pointed over at Shinsei's field. "Take a look."
Shinsei- 5400
Eric- 3800
Eric gasped in amazement as he saw Shinsei standing unharmed. "How did you not only survive, but also gain life points?"
"Trap card…" Shinsei's face-down card was now up. "Fusion Reflection Mirror's special ability is that when a fusion monster on my field is destroyed as a result of battle, I can negate the damage to me and the battle phase. Also, all cards used in the creation of that monster in the graveyard are added to my hand. For one final kick to the head, I gain 1000 life points for every returned card. It's one of the most powerful fusion traps in the world." He fanned out the five extra cards in his hand, making it seven he was holding. "Anything else?"
Eric trembled in anger, and then slammed a card into his disk. "I place one card face-down on the field! Just go!"
Shinsei drew. "I summon Elemental Hero Clayman (800/2000) to the field in defense mode." A brick-bodied superhero appeared on the field in a crouching position. "Also, I place on card face-down on the field and them my turn ends."
Eric snapped the top card off of his deck and pointed at Clayman. "Go Master of Oz, attack it!" The giant creature didn't budge. "What's the matter?"
"What's the matter is that my trap card is now in effect." Shinsei motioned at a stone shield that was in front of Clayman. "Hero Halo can only be activated and equipped to a warrior monster with 1500 or less attack points. As long as this card is equipped to this monster, it cannot be attacked by monsters with 1900 or more attack points. Because of Clayman's high defense score that means you can't attack at all."
Eric trembled even more and scuffed the ground a few times with his shoes. "You're acting like a scared little coward! End turn!"
Shinsei drew. ("With the current cards in my hand, I can make a lot of different possible fusions…but none of them would be able to get around what this kid has in play already.") Sliding a card into his disk, he prayed it would be enough for now. "I'll just place one card face-down on the field and then my turn will end.
Eric drew and scuffed his foot against the ground again, damaging the tile. "ARGH!"
Shinsei drew. ("For now I've got him frustrated and held at bay. However, I'm relying on a single trap card to protect me. And if there is one thing I know about traps, it's that they are easily defeated by card effects.") For now though, he had to continue to defend. "I place one card face-down on my field and then my turn ends."
Eric drew and his eyes widened slightly. "Heh…you're out of luck! I place one card face-down on the field and then my turn ends!"
Shinsei drew with a heavy heart. ("It's some kind of trap to defeat my Hero Halo.") Looking at the drawn card, he flipped it over to show it to Eric. "Graceful Charity allows me to draw three cards, but then I must discard two cards from my hand to the graveyard." Sliding the card into his graveyard slot, he pulled three cards off the top of his deck and added them to his hand. Then he took two cards from his hand and discarded them. "I'll get rid of Burst Lady and Spark Gun. Now then…" He smirked and held up Fusion Sage. "This magic card lets me search my deck for one Polymerization card." After a quick deck search, he was one Polymerization card richer.
Eric just stood there, eyes narrowed. ("What kind of human is this guy?")
("I have to make sure that by the end of the next turn he's afraid to attack me!") Shinsei snapped up Polymerization, Bubbleman, Sparkman and Featherman. "Come out now, Elemental Hero Tempester!" (2800/2800) A winged superhero appeared and lowered to the field. "Go Chaos Tempest!" Lifting up its blaster, the superhero blew the Wild Lion apart.
Shinsei- 5400
Eric- 2800
Shinsei slammed a card into his disk. "One card face-down, and that's it. Go."
Eric drew. "Say goodbye to your foolish little fusion! Master of Oz, attack now!"
Airos' eyes went wide. ("Wait…this…")
Shinsei closed his eyes slowly. "This is the end! Tempester's special ability lets me send one card on my field to the graveyard to negate his destruction!" A swirling vortex of air formed around Tempester's body. "Except…" The superhero started to glow bright gold. "Tempest Vortex's special ability activates! When this trap is sent to the graveyard you cannot damage my field during this turn, and if sent to the graveyard because of Tempester he can now attack you directly!"
Eric gasped as Tempester lowered in front of him, blaster aimed right at his face. "No!"
"Yes. Bang." Shinsei held up his hand, pretending it was a gun. Then he fired his 'gun' at the same time that Tempester did, energy washing over the little boy's body rapidly. "That's the end."
Shinsei- 5400
Eric- 0
Airos tapped his foot against the ground and sighed. ("And here I thought that kid might have actually been able to defeat the likes of Zeru. Oh well, if either of us could beat him it would be me anyway.")
Eric collapsed to his knees and looked at the ground in amazement. "You…you defeated me again?"
Shinsei nodded, and then gasped as he watched the boy assemble his deck together and run off. "Where are you going, we had a deal!" But when Eric didn't turn around, he rubbed the back of his head and sighed. "Damn, that's a let-down. It looks like you and I are going to be stuck here for a while."
Kenshin's prescense ran up his spine and managed not to jump as the samurai appeared next to him. ("There's a Vanguard nearby.")
Shinsei lifted his eyebrows slightly and glanced around suspiciously. ("That lady told me to be careful concerning other of these Vanguard people, so I wonder where this mystery Vanguard is hiding. Are they stalking me? Or maybe they're just like me, just a person in this tournament and trying not to be anymore than that.")
Airos chuckled quietly. "Well have a look at this." He motioned over toward one of the set-up dueling arenas, at a young man who was begging to be let through. "I wonder if he's lost hope in finding a team. Maybe we should use him to our advantage…"
Shinsei was already on the move.
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"Please, you have to let me through! My mother needs me!" The boy, who had a shock of white hair down his back that blended in with his pale skin and grey eyes tried to shove past the guard once more, only to get shoved to the ground. "Please! Not everyone in this city is a duelist in this tournament!"
"All citizens of the city were told about a month ago that they needed to leave. It's not our fault that your family was stupid." The man shoved the boy back again angrily. "Now quit bugging me, you little brat!"
"But my mother was too sick to be moved..." The boy tried to get around the man again, and this time was punched right in the jaw. The force of the hit dropped him like a sack of rocks to the ground.
The guard grunted and rubbed at his knuckles, which were bright red. ("Why did that feel like punching steel?") His eyes, hidden behind his sunglasses, went wide as he realized that some gold and black-haired punk had shoved the other kid out of the way and had taken the punch for him. "Who the hell are you?"
Shinsei brushed off his cheek and stood up slowly. "Allow me to introduce myself formally." Then he punched the man right in the chin, hearing the bones of the man's jaw crack. While the guard fell, he turned to look at the boy, who couldn't have been much older than he was. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, thanks to you." The boy stood up and offered a hand. "My name is Andrew Maschell."
Shinsei took the hand and shook it firmly. "Shinsei Zeru, and the green-haired guy behind me is Airos something or other."
Airos growled and piped in his name. "It's Airos Mitsunawa!"
Andrew looked between the two and gasped. "You're both duelists?" When they nodded he shook Shinsei by the shoulders. "Then please, help me get past this blockade! My mother is still at our apartment in the city, and she's deathly ill…" His british accent was difficult to translate to the ears of Shinsei, who had no experience with it before.
Airos nodded and spoke in perfect Japanese for Shinsei's sake. "He wants our help to save his mother."
Shinsei smiled and gave the boy a thumbs-up. "Can you play Duel Monsters at all?" When Andrew nodded timidly, the boy took a deck out of his pocket and offered it to him. "Use this."
"And what do you suggest we do about a Duel Disk for him?" Airos didn't like the fact that he was being drafted to do this good deed.
Shinsei smirked and pointed down at the unconscious guard, who had one of the devices strapped to his arm. "Bingo."
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As the three of them walked through the steel doors slowly, light flooded the makeshift dueling stage, illuminating the six different fields that were facing each other in a grid of two by three. "Welcome duelists, proceed to any of the spaces of your choosing. The duels will be three on three, with a total life point score of 24000 for your team and the computer team."
Shinsei gave Andrew, who looked completely nervous, another thumbs-up and then walked to the center field, activating his duel disk. Airos went over to his right and Andrew went over to his left. "We'll be competing against you, got it?"
"Understood." The computer echoed out. Each of the three fields became lit up by the energy of hologram generators. "Determining trio of dueling decks…" Then it announced, "Begin."
"Duel!" Airos and Shinsei both yelled out at once.
"Uh…duel…" Andrew said meekly.
Shinsei facefell and then stood up, yelling right at the other boy. "No! Put a little strength behind it!"
Facets- 24000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 24000
"Beginning turn of Facet 1." The computer's three fields all had five giant holographic card backs appear along them, with the one having six cards in front of it being the Facet 1. "Summon Berserk Gorilla (2000/1000) in attack mode and end turn." A giant red-furred gorilla appeared on the field and roared at its opponent, who was Airos.
The green haired boy smiled slightly and drew. ("During the first turn of a multiplayer game no duelists may attack. Therefore, I have to plan my field accordingly.") "Computer, is there a zone bonus in play?"
"No, there is no zone bonus in play." The Computer then went silent, waiting for Airos' move.
"Then I don't have to worry." Airos placed a card face-down onto his disk, and then slid a single card into his disk as well. "I'll place one monster face-down on the field and one card face-down as well. My turn is done."
"Facet 2 beginning turn." The computer's second field went from five cards to six. "Activating magic card Nobleman of Crossout. One face-down monster in play will be removed from the game." A man in shiny armor appeared on the field and slashed through the face-down monster on Airos' field, revealing a blue bird which screeched and exploded into dust.
Airos frowned and slid his Stealth Bird (700/1700) into his shirt pocket. "Lucky shot, that's all."
"Facet 2 activates magic card." Another of the cards in the air flipped over. "Devil's Sanctuary special summons one Metal Devil Token (0/0) in attack mode to field." A little metal doll-like creature appeared on the field. "Set one card face-down and activate continuous magic card. Living Economics negates life point payments for creature effects. End turn."
Shinsei clapped his hands together. "Alright, let's do it! Draw!" Looking at the top card of his deck, he glanced over at Andrew and then snapped up a card from his hand. "Reinforcements of the Army lets me search my deck for a level four or lower warrior type monster and add it to my hand!" His deck spat out a card and grasped it, throwing it onto the field. "I summon Elemental Hero Clayman (800/2000) to the field in defense mode!" A squared superhero appeared on the field in a crouching position. "Also, I equip it with Clay Wrap." A lump of a strange translucent material appeared around Clayman's body. "End turn."
"Facet 3 begins turn." A sixth card appeared on the third field, and then five cards shimmered into existence. "Setting five cards face-down on field and ending turn."
Both Airos and Shinsei gasped at that, unsure what it meant. The computer had just threw all of its resources down onto the field, and if Clayman was destroyed than Clay Wrap would let Shinsei destroy a magic or trap card in play.
Andrew gulped and drew. "I…I summon Element Valkyrie (1500/1200) in attack mode." A red-haired woman holding a spear appeared in play. "Also, I set one card face-down and end my turn."
"Beginning turn." A card appeared amongst the five of Facet 1. "Summoning Spirit Ryu in attack mode." (1000/1000) A giant blue dragon appeared on the field and roared loudly. "Ordering attack of Berserk Gorilla against Airos' life points." The giant red-furred creature charged right at the boy.
"Reverse card open!" Airos snapped a card from his hand onto his disk. "Carrying Wind allows me to special summon a level four or lower wind attribute monster from my hand if I have no monsters in play! Come out now, Copper Osprey!" (1500/1400) A copper-colored little hawk appeared on the field and screeched. "Also, I activate the second effect of Carrying Wind! When I have no cards in play upon its activation, I can activate Rising Air Current from my deck!" All around them a strong wind started to blow. "The attack of all wind attribute monsters in play is increased by 500, and their defense is decreased by 400." (2000/1000)
The Berserk Gorilla stopped its charged and the computer spoke. "Changing attack target to Element Valkyrie."
Andrew gasped as a giant fist crashed into his monster and blew it apart.
Facets- 24000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 23500
"Continuing attack with Spirit Ryu." The blue dragon roared and opened its jaws. "Special ability activates now. By discarding dragon type monster cards from hand during Spirit Ryu's attack, attack can be increased by 1000 per card." All five of the Facet's hand cards flipped over to show dragons, and then all of them vanished. (6000/1000) "Attacking Andrew directly." The dragon screeched and a tidal wave of energy hurtled towards the boy.
Andrew froze, his eyes wide in fear.
"Do something!" Shinsei yelled, but it fell on ears too afraid to hear him.
To be continued…
To John: Eric refuses to quit or admit his loss to Shinsei.
To Seeker of the Soul: No we do not, but here it is.
To Darksoulkai: He doesn't want to give up, what more can you say about him?
To G.O.T. Nick: I agree, it is a very circumstantial fusion. However, considering the fact it's a fusion, that's alright. No one says you have to fuse it.