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Vanguard Generations
Chapter 8: Three ways to defeat
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.
Andrew screamed as the huge blast slammed right into him, nearly hurling him into and through the wall behind them.
Facets- 24000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 17500
"Are you alright?" Shinsei ran over and helped the boy stand up. "What's the matter with you? What was that face-down card?" Then he sighed. "I apologize. Don't worry about it." Helping the boy back over to his field, Shinsei glanced over at Airos. "It's your move."
The green-haired boy nodded solemnly and drew. "This thing isn't playing around, and neither am I!" Looking at the drawn card, he smirked and slid four cards into his disk. "I place four cards face-down on the field and then I'll end my turn." Now he had no cards in his hand, but from the look on his face it was fine.
"Beginning Facet 2's turn." A card appeared next to the remaining two cards this field had left. "During standby phase, payment to Metal Devil Token is negated because of Living Economics. Activate Coins from Heaven. All players draw until holding six cards in hand." A shower of golden coins fell onto the field as the other two facets drew six cards, and the second facet drew four.
Airos smirked as he also drew six cards. Shinsei just muttered unhappily as he drew two cards only, and Andrew slowly did the same.
Facet 2's face-down card flipped up. "Reveal quickplay magic card, Draw Till It's Gone. After naming one type of card, all players draw cards until they reach a card of that type. If they draw through their entire deck, then the effect is negated and they shuffle their hand into their deck. After that, those players draw six cards and gain 5000 life points. Calling magic card." A single card appeared and it flipped it over to reveal Spell Reproduction.
Both Facet's 1 and 3 beeped. "Deck out, proceeding to shuffle."
Shinsei and Airos both figured it out immediately. ("These three decks are pure focus decks. One is a Monster only deck, another a magic only deck and the last a trap only deck. Therefore, if we can destroy the trap deck first we should be able to win.")
Facets- 34000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 17500
Airos went first, sliding three cards off of his deck until he found a magic card. Holding it up, he smirked. "Heavy Storm, perfect."
Shinsei drew five cards, and at the fifth held up Skyscraper. "Well that was a fun draw. I wonder what I'll do with all of these extra cards."
Andrew meekly drew two cards, and at the second held up a magic card and then added it to his hand. "So…what do we do now?"
Facet 3 beeped. "Reveal face-down trap card. Heavy Slump allows me to select a player who has eight or more cards in their hand. They shuffle their hand into their deck and then draw two cards." A little neon arrow appeared in the air and pointed at Shinsei.
Shinsei frowned and complied. ("Lousy stinking computer…") Looking at the two drawn cards, he sighed. ("How lovely…useless with my current field.")
Facet 3 had two more cards flip up. "Activate double Encore Performance trap cards. Copy the effect of Heavy Slump."
Airos growled and did the same as Shinsei had, as did Andrew.
"Continuing turn." Facet 2 flipped over another card. "Activate Dark Hole. All monsters in play will be destroyed." A dark hole appeared in the air and sucked up the monsters in play.
Shinsei slid his two field cards into his graveyard and pointed at one of Facet 3's field cards. "Clay Wrap, when sent to the graveyard, activates! I destroy that card!" The card he pointed at shattered into dust.
Facet 2 flipped over another card. "Activate Monster Reborn, reviving Shinsei's Clayman." The stone superhero appeared on its field in defense mode. "Activate equipment magic card Horn of Light. Defense increases by 800." (800/2800) "End turn." It now had two cards in its hand.
Shinsei drew. "You made a big mistake by clearing my field, since my favorite Elemental Hero is currently in my hand!" He threw a card onto his disk. "Elemental Hero Bubbleman, come out now!" (800/1200) The blue-armored superhero appeared on the field. "When he is summoned and I have no cards on my field, I may draw two cards." Sliding two cards off of his deck, he grinned at what he saw. Glancing over at Airos, he smiled when the green-haired boy returned his look. "Bubbleman, attack Clayman!" Right before the superhero leapt to attack, it and Clayman both disappeared.
Airos smiled and pointed at his now face-up trap card. "West Wind activates when a player declares an attack. All monsters in play are returned to their owner's hands."
Shinsei held up both Clayman and Bubbleman, adding them to his hand. "Thanks for the assist, Bird-boy. Fortunately for you, machine, I have to end my turn for now."
Facet 3 drew. "Reveal face-down card. Dust Tornado will destroy one card on Airos' field." A blast of wind shattered one of the remaining three cards.
Airos held up South Wind and chuckled. "This trap card would have negated it, but what sense would that have made." Inserting the trap into his graveyard, he smirked.
Facet 3 placed five more cards face-down on the field. "End turn."
Andrew drew slowly, his eyes closed and a prayer on his lips. ("If we lose, I won't be able to get to my mother…and she needs me!") His eyes snapped open. "It's my turn! Draw!" The air around him shuddered from the force of the draw, which brought gasps both from Shinsei and Airos. "I play Elemental Chaos! This card will first destroy all cards on the field!" A blast of energy slammed down on the field as all cards were destroyed.
Airos smiled as he looked at his hand. Now he had all four direction wind traps in his graveyard. Shinsei didn't care, because his field was empty. Andrew had only lost his face-down Astral Barrier, but the Facets had lost all of 3's set cards, and 2's Metal Devil Token and Living Economics.
Andrew slammed another card into his disk. "Activate Elemental Order! This card can only be activated right after Elemental Chaos! All cards in the opponent's hand are discarded!" An explosion of light rocked the field, and when it cleared the computer's side of the field was empty. "End turn."
Shinsei and Airos stood in silent awe. They'd never seen such amazing power…and Shinsei was more amazed that he never placed those two Elemental cards in that deck.
A card appeared over Facet 1's field. "Summon Theban Nightmare (1500/500) in attack mode." A blue-fire demon appeared on the field. "When there are no cards in hand or in magic and trap zone, increase attack by 1500." (3000/500) "Attack directly." The demon sprayed Andrew with fire, and he simply collapsed face-first to the ground in exhaustion.
Facets- 34000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
Airos drew. "I set two cards face-down and summon Mother Bird (0/0) in defense mode." A little songbird sitting in a nest appeared on his field. "End turn."
Facet 2 drew. "Activate Pot of Greed." Two cards appeared in place of the single one. "Activate Light Alone. If the only card in play is a light monster, at that time increase the attack of it by double." (6000/500) "Also activate Puppeteer. Control one monster of partner's." Theban Nightmare roared and sprayed Andrew's unmoving body with even more fire.
Facets- 34000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 8500
Shinsei closed his eyes and envisioned what he had seen before in his head. ("Amazing power…and amazing drawing. That guy is not a normal person.") He then drew. "Andrew, you did enough…let me and Airos handle these guys from this point on. Let's do it Airos!"
"I'm all for it, so hurry up and move!" Airos glared at Shinsei, and then they both smiled slightly.
Shinsei looked at the drawn card and then slapped Bubbleman down. "Once again, I draw two cards!" Sliding two extra cards off of his disk, he lifted his eyes up to look at the Theban Nightmare angrily. "For attacking a guy when he's down…" He pointed at the machine. "Watch as I tear your monster down and bring your life points down with it!" As soon as he said this, a giant blue blast of energy exploded behind him and formed into the shape of a dragon, which roared and flew around the field angrily. "Hero Dragon allows me to discard one magic card that requires a specific Elemental Hero to add that Elemental Hero to my hand! I discard Radiance Glow to search my deck for Elemental Hero Radianceman!" After getting the card he needed, he slid two cards into his graveyard. "Activate Radiance Glow! When I discard two cards while it is in my graveyard I can add it to my hand and special summon Radianceman!" (2300/2500) An explosion of light slammed down on the field and a powerful red and white-clothed superhero lowered into play.
Airos blinked at the look on Shinsei's face. ("He looks like he is about to kill that thing…")
"Go Radiance Glow!" Shinsei's hand card flashed and the Theban Nightmare vanished. "When Radianceman is in play I can remove a monster on your field from play to gain its attack in life points!"
Facets- 34000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
Shinsei pointed at Bubbleman and it disappeared. "By sending one card on my field to the graveyard I can activate the graveyard effect of Hero Dragon and return one Elemental Hero specific magic card to my hand!" He held up Radiance Glow and added it to his hand. "Polymerization fuses Radianceman and Burst Lady together to create Elemental Hero Nova Radiator!" There was an explosion of fire as a pure red suited superhero lowered on the field. (2500/2300) "Field magic card, Skyscraper activates!" All around them, the field warped and changed into a city setting. "Activate the effect of Nova Radiator! When Skyscraper is in play I can discard one Radiance Glow from my hand to deal you half of your life points in damage! Go Nuclear End!" Then the world seemed to explode, everything turning red hot for a few seconds. When it cleared, the damage was done.
Facets- 17000
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
"Go Nova Radiator, attack directly with Nova Blast!" The superhero charged up a ball of fire that it threw across the field. The ball dissipated into nothing because there was no target.
Facets- 14500
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
Shinsei dropped to his knees and took a deep breath. "End turn."
"Begin turn." Facet 3 drew. "Place one card face-down and end turn."
Andrew didn't respond at all.
Airos frowned. "He passes."
Facet 1 drew. "Summon one monster in face-down defense mode. End turn."
Airos drew and smirked as his bird disappeared. "During my standby phase I can send my monster to the graveyard to special summon a single Winged Beast type monster from my hand to the field!" A giant bird appeared in play and screeched down at the field. "Roc from the Valley of Haze (2400/1000) in attack mode! Reveal face-down card!" A blast of air slammed into the face-down trap and monster cards on the computer's field and blew them apart. "By activating my Wind's Return trap card, I can activate any of the four directional wind traps. So I chose East Wind to destroy all face-down cards in play! Go Roc, direct attack!" A blast of wind came from the creature's wings.
Facets- 12100
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
"Begin turn." Facet 2 drew. "End turn."
Shinsei smiled slowly and drew, trying to stay conscious. "Didn't draw that killing card? That's a damn shame…" He held up a card from his hand. "Activate Hero Strike! This card allows one Elemental Hero in play to attack twice, as long as it is my only monster! Also, I discard one Elemental Hero from my hand to power up Nova Radiator by the attack of the discarded Hero until the end of the turn!" (3300/2300) "Go Double Nova Blast!" Explosive flame shot from both of the superhero's hands.
Facets- 5500
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
Facet 3 drew and placed a card face-down. "End turn."
Facet 1 drew and placed a monster face-down on the field."
Airos drew and smirked slightly. "End turn."
"Draw and activate Scapegoat." Facet 2 suddenly had four different colored Goat Tokens (0/0) on its field. "End turn."
Shinsei drew and looked over at Airos. "We've got it?"
Airos nodded. "Reveal Tempest Focal Point! This trap card lets me remove the four direction wind trap cards from my graveyard to destroy all cards on the enemy's field!" A powerful tornado tore through and blew the six (counting Tokens) cards in play into nothingness. "For every card destroyed, you take 300 points of damage!"
Facets- 3700
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
Shinsei closed his eyes and bowed his head in silent thanks to Andrew. "I discard Edgeman for the final blow!" (4100/2300) "Go Final Nova Blast!" One final explosive fireball slammed into the other field and the whole room went dark.
Facets- 0
Shinsei/Andrew/Airos- 14500
"Congratulations on your win, duelists. You may all proceed into the city. There are taxis that will take you to one of our fine hotels, or you may simply ask to be taken to any other location, excluding the inner area of the city." The computer dinged nice and cheerfully.
Shinsei glared up at it weakly and then with Airos' help got Andrew to stand up. They were almost outside the other door when Shinsei froze up and slowly stepped back into the room. "Go ahead…please…"
Airos knew that tone, and in silent warning expected an explanation later.
Shinsei slowly turned and looked into the dark room quietly. "Well, who are you? Kenshin sensed you earlier, and now I'm curious as to what you want with me."
A chuckle was his response. "For a beginner you're pretty perceptive." A dark form stepped out of the shadows of the empty room. "I disabled the computer, so this duel won't be interrupted. Of course, you can avoid that possible risk by simply coming with me."
Shinsei shuffled his deck and was about to slam it home, but he something pulse from within his shirt pocket. Pulling it open, he blinked at the sight of a blank black-faced card. ("A Soul Template Card? How did…") His eyes widened as he realized there was only one possible time that could have happened. ("Andrew slipped it into my pocket when we helped him up? But…why?")
("Now is not the time for questions, that it isn't.") Kenshin's phantom form appeared next to Shinsei. ("We must be careful against this opponent, he is also a Vanguard.")
"Right?" Shinsei activated his duel disk again, and nearly collapsed. ("Did I burn myself out against that computer?")
"Fine then, I'll just wipe your Guardian out of existence and leave it at that!" The man stepped a little more out of the darkness, but he still couldn't be identified at all. "Ready?"
Shinsei slid the Soul Template Card into his Guardian Deck and nodded. "I'm ready!"
"Duel!"
Shinsei- 4000
Shadow- 4000
To be continued…
To Seeker of the Soul: I think Andrew proved himself, wouldn't you say?