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Fanfic Chapter 154: The Long Awaited Rematch Pt 2: Three Knights to Call a God
Episode Basis: Clash in the Coliseum
Yami-Yugi: I understand that Kaiba doesn't like Joey, but this time his ridicule of Joey's predicament has gone too far. Joey risked his life and soul trying to help me save the world and bring Mai back from the Shadow Realm. But it was no use. And Kaiba basically said that Joey deserved it. But I can't let his taunts get to me. Getting angry certainly won't help me. My only chance is to bring out Slifer the Sky Dragon. With Obelisk the Tormentor removed from play and enough cards in my hand, I'll be able to finish him off before he brings out Obelisk. But in the mean time, I still have to deal with his XY-Dragon Cannon, a machine that, if another monster is summoned, will only become more powerful.
Kaiba was still grumbling from Yami-Yugi's trick. Yami-Yugi permitted himself a little boast, "I should thank you, Kaiba, for allowing me to get Slifer into my hand."
Kaiba's scowl slowly turned into a smile. Enjoy your little victory, Yugi. It won't be long before all three Egyptian God Cards belong to me. I already possess Obelisk the Tormentor, currently removed from play due to your Lightforce Sword card but in less than two turns, it will return to my hand. In the mean time, I'll use my XY-Dragon Cannon to destroy all of Yugi's monsters so he'll have no sacrifices to summon Slifer. Then I will summon Obelisk and be ready to finish Yugi off once and for all.
I'm in a real tough spot, Yami-Yugi thought. The good news is that I finally have Slifer in my hand. The bad news is I needed to use my Exchange magic card to do it which helped Kaiba out too. The card he took was the trap card Life Shaver. Depending on how many turns it's been laid on the field before activation, it could force me to discard most of my hand. Since Slifer's attack points are determined by the number of cards in my hand, if Kaiba wipes out my hand, Slifer will be worthless.
"Hello," Kaiba called getting Yami-Yugi's attention. "Are you going to duel or are you going to stand there all day? I'm getting bored."
Yami-Yugi drew a card. "I summon Big-Shield Gardna in defense mode and then I'll lay a face-down card and end my turn."
"That move seemed pretty desperate," Kaiba taunted. "All the defense monsters in the world can't save you now."
It seems pretty hopeless for the Pharaoh, Yami-Marik critiqued. Soon Kaiba will be free to summon Obelisk. And unless the Pharaoh can think of a way to bring out Slifer, he'll be crushed by Obelisk. And even if the Pharaoh manages to defeat Kaiba, he'll then have to contend with me. And then I will have the ultimate pleasure of torturing hi until he begs to be let out of his misery. And only then will I send his soul to the darkness.
Amara cast a dirty look in Yami-Marik's direction. I don't like the way that idiot is licking his lips. He must want to do to Yugi and Kaiba what he already did to Joey and Mai. She turned her eyes back on the duel. But right now, it seems like both Yugi and Kaiba are trying to summon their Egyptian God Cards. A waste if you ask me. The whole point of Duel Monsters is to lower your opponent's life points down to 0 before he does it to you. But if these guys waste so much time trying to bust out their Egyptian God Cards, they'll never get the chance to attack. It's the number one novice mistake, thinking strong monsters are the key to winning. But I suppose boys will be boys and boys certainly like things that are bigger and better including big monsters.
"Amara's been gone an awfully long time," Harold commented. "I hope she didn't run into Marik."
"Maybe she's just watching the duel," Duke offered.
"Considering how it's Kaiba and Yugi dueling, that's almost as dangerous as running into Marik."
"Where's Tristan?" Serenity asked. "Didn't he say he would see what's taking so long?"
"I bet something's gone wrong with the radio," Harold commented. "That's why Kevin hasn't returned either."
"That's not helping, Duke," Tea said.
"But Duke has a logical point," Harold argued. "Tristan, Mokuba, and Kevin wouldn't be this long unless there was a serious problem."
"Oh no," Serenity gasped and held Joey's hand closer to her.
"Listen, you two, we don't need pessimism like that now," Tea growled at the two boys. "So I suggest you two start perking up now."
"Yeah, I'm sure Joey will be on his feet in no time," Duke said changing his tone."
"Yeah, when you hit rock bottom, the only place left to go is up," Harold quipped.
Tea, after slapping Harold in the back of the head, stared out the porthole at the Duel Tower. I hope Yugi's all right.
A/N: Okay, before I continue, I should probably explain something. In the original Japanese version, Joey's dream duel is actually a reliving of the National Championship (the one that Weevil dueled Rex in back in episode 2 of the canon show). This is going to be an example of how I'm going to fuse the Japanese and American versions of the TV show.
"Axe Raider, destroy his dragon now!" Joey commanded. The barbaric warrior charged the Petit Dragon (1) and sliced it. "Oh yeah, that bring your life points down to 0, nada, zilch, zip!" His opponent cried. Joey cheered, forgetting that this was a dream and looked around for the others.
They weren't there.
In fact, most of the spectators weren't there either. In the stands were ghostly-white mannequins.
"Oh man, this is a nightmare," Joey complained. "I really like to wake up now."
Insidious laughter echoed all around him.
"Headquarters, come in," Mokuba called but nothing.
"Is everything all right?" Kevin asked. "The others sent me in to see what's going on."
"We're trying to get in touch with headquarters but it's no good," Mokuba reported.
"Anything I can do to help?"
"Mokuba pointed to a panel in the wall. "Check the wiring inside that circuit box. I need to see if everything is connected."
"You got it."
"Wouldn't it be easier to just fix the engines?" Tristan asked.
"Our crews are working on it but it would be much quicker to get a helicopter out here on the double," Mokuba replied.
Ishizu paid another visit to the unconscious Odion. "I wish you were awake to see this, Odion," she said. "The Pharaoh's ancient struggle is playing out again. Everything is happening just as the ancient scriptures predicted." She recalled her first meeting with Seto Kaiba.
Ishizu opened a door. "This is why I brought you here." The two entered the back room. "The stone carvings that are in this room depict the earliest known game playing in Egypt. Kaiba, I give you… the origin of Duel Monsters!"
Kaiba was led into a dark room. As Ishizu flicked on a light, Kaiba gasped. Standing before him was a giant limestone tablet, almost twice his height. But there were images carved into it, images that looked very familiar to Kaiba. The images were of creatures surrounded by rectangles with Egyptian hieroglyphs on them.
"No way, those images resemble Duel Monster cards."
"In ancient times, my people believed that the soul contained an image of what that person truly was," Ishizu explained. "These images could be drawn out. But the monsters that were formed from these images ran rampant and threatened to destroy Egypt and the very world! The Pharaoh and his six priests were able to seal the monsters into stone tablets. But over time, the priests were able to summon the monsters from the tablets the same way you would use your virtual technology to summon Duel Monsters from the cards. But one of the priests betrayed the Pharaoh and waged the ultimate shadow war against him."
Ishizu moved on to another stone tablet. "Look at this next carving, but I should warn you, once you gaze upon it, your life will change forever. It depicts the final battle between the Pharaoh and the treacherous priest."
Kaiba looked at the stone tablet and gasped. In addition to more monsters that resembled Duel Monsters, there were two human images on it. One of the images was clearly dressed in kingly robes leading Kaiba to believe that he was the Pharaoh, but what's more…
"That's the Pharaoh? But, that looks like Yugi!" It was true, everything about the Pharaoh from his spiky hair to the monster image shown above him (which was clearly the Dark Magician) looked like Yugi Moto. But how could that be? How could a 3000 year old Pharaoh look exactly like the boy who beat him and won the Duelist Kingdom tournament?
"On the left is the priest who betrayed the Pharaoh. According to an Egyptian archives that I discovered years ago, the priest betrayed the Pharaoh and killed everyone who was close to the Pharaoh. He then gathered his followers and battled against the Pharaoh. The battle was long and costly. Soon, the priest was able to challenge the Pharaoh directly. The conclusion of the battle could not be found either in the archives or on here. Doesn't the priest look familiar?" Kaiba grunted. "Yes, it's you, Kaiba! If you have any doubt, look at the monster carved above him." Ishizu pointed to the dragon-like image carved above the priest. "It's the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Kaiba was flabbergasted, it did look like his beloved dragon.
Ishizu went up to him. "I have something to give you, so that your time here was not a total waste." She held out a card. It was a monster card with a blue background, but it wasn't the blue background of a ritual monster. Kaiba immediately recognized the picture, it matched a picture on the stone tablet.
Kaiba gasped, "It's an Egyptian God Card!"
Yugi and Kaiba's connection with the ancient past each allows them to wield an Egyptian God Card. But not even Dr. Hunter could guess the outcome of this tremendous battle. All we can do now is wait and hope that light will shine once again.
Kaiba drew a card and a small sadistic smile crept across his face. This is exactly what I need to complete my strategy. "I set one card face-down," Kaiba began.
That must've been the Life Shaver trap card he got from me that he laid down, Yami-Yugi guessed.
"Next I summon Z-Metal Tank (2) in attack mode!" A yellow machine monster appeared. "Next I'll have it combine with the others." XY-Dragon Cannon landed on top of the Z monster. With a burst of electricity, the three machines became one.
"Behold, XYZ-Dragon Cannon (3)!" The XYZ-Dragon Cannon brought its cannons to bear on Yami-Yugi's monsters.
"Kaiba is quite impressive," Yami-Marik commented. "I can see how he defeated my sister."
"Yeah, well don't count Yugi out yet," Amara countered.
"XYZ-Dragon Cannon, attack Yugi's Big-Shield Gardna now with Plasma Laser Storm!" All four barrels on the XYZ-Dragon Cannon fired and the male warrior hiding behind a big shield exploded in a fiery inferno. "One down, one to go, and soon I'll be able to summon Obelisk and unleash unbridled torment on you!"
To Kaiba's surprise, Yami-Yugi was now chuckling, "Thank you, Kaiba, I was hoping you would do that."
"Why?"
"Because then I could activate this, reveal trap card: Soul Rope. By paying 1000 life points when one of my monster, I can take a monster from my deck directly to the field."
(Y: 3000)
(K: 2000)
"Now I play King's Knight (4)!" A man with blonde hair, a beard, and dressed in orange and carrying a sword appeared. "And now that both King's Knight and Queen's Knight are on the field, I can automatically summon another monster from my deck, Jack's Knight (5)!" Jack's Knight had long blonde hair and dressed in blue armor and carried a sword and a shield. "Now I have all the sacrifices I need to summon my Egyptian God Card."
Kaiba was horrified, "You can't summon your God Card before I play mine! I've been in control of this duel from the start!"
"Not any more! Now I sacrifice Queen's Knight, King's Knight, and Jack's Knight so I can summon my Egyptian God Card, Slifer the Sky Dragon!" Lightning danced across the sky and gathered behind Yami-Yugi. The large serpentine dragon appeared. It was so big that it couldn't fit on the Duel Tower but instead wrapped its body around it.
"Guys, look!" Tea called. She, Harold, Duke, and Serenity all looked out the portholes
"Is that what I think it is?" Duke asked.
"It's Yugi's Egyptian God Card!"
Ishizu saw it too. "The Pharaoh has summoned the first Egyptian God Card."
"Uh… guys," Kevin called "What's long, red, and have two mouth?"
"Kevin, this is no time for comedy," Tristan said.
"I'm serious, there's a long red snake thingy on top of the tower."
Tristan came over to the window. "Ho boy, Yugi's getting serious."
"Huh?"
"He summoned his God Card."
Kevin gasped as a faint memory occurred to him.
"Yes, I have the God Card right here in my hand. Okay, I'll bring it right over."
"Could that be the one," Kevin muttered.
"This is unexpected," Yami-Marik said. "I'd never thought Yugi would be the one to summon his Egyptian God Card first."
"So that's Slifer," Amara muttered. She only saw a glimpse of the red dragon once before during Yugi's duel with Bakura. And even then, it was more of a tail than an actual face. Now that she could see its full profile, she was taken away.
"I'm not impressed," Kaiba said. "You have only three cards in your hand which means Slifer's attack power is 3000."
(SSD: 3000)
"Yes, but your Dragon Cannon has only 2800 attack points. Slifer is stronger. If I destroy it, you won't have any sacrifices to summon Obelisk."
"Then go ahead and attack," Kaiba bid.
Why is Kaiba so confident? That face-down card must be Life Shaver. Since it's been on the field for one turn, that means that once he activates it, he can use it to remove one card from my hand reducing Slifer's attack power to 2000, less than his Dragon Cannon.
Kaiba has the Pharaoh questioning his strategy, Yami-Marik realized.
"Why don't you attack, Yugi? Of course you must realize that I'll win whether you attack or not."
Yami-Yugi considered his options. If I don't attack, Kaiba will surely summon Obelisk. But if I do attack and Kaiba activates that face-down card, I could lose Slifer and any chance I have at winning this duel.
"Come on, that's got to be the oldest trick in the book," Amara said crossing her arms. "A bluff like that will never work."
"What makes you so sure it's a bluff?" Yami-Marik asked taking Amara by surprise.
"Slifer, attack his Dragon Cannon with Thunder Force!" Slifer opened its bottom mouth and unleashed a furious thunder blast at the machine.
"Activate trap card," Kaiba commanded as his card was flipped face-up.
Yami-Yugi gasped, the card wasn't Life Shaver.
"Go, Interdimensional Matter Transporter!" Kaiba's XYZ-Dragon Cannon disappeared causing the lightning to dissipate into the air.
Everyone on the ship gasped as the ground started to shake. The lights flickered.
"What was that?" Duke asked.
"An earthquake," Harold guessed.
On the bridge, a large electric shock threw Kevin back.
"Kevin, you okay?" Tristan asked.
"I think so, but what was that?"
"Some type of electrical burst, it looked like it came from the Duel Tower," Mokuba analyzed.
There was a click on the radio and a voice could be heard. "KC3, this is Kaiba Corp. Headquarters, we acknowledge your plight and are dispatching a medical team and rescue chopper immediately!"
"We did it," Mokuba cried. "Joey's going to get help."
"That's great! Come on, Kevin, let's go tell Serenity."
"Yeah," Kevin said woozy.
"I wonder if I can transmit," Mokuba wondered as he pushed a few buttons. A light coming on signaled that it was possible. "Cool, I can! Transmitting… now!" He got up. "Of course, there's no beating a front row seat." He ran out.
In Domino, large tele-screens switched on showing the duel. People walking around the streets skidded to a halt to watch the duel.
Yami-Yugi was still wondering what happened to Kaiba's Dragon Cannon. Fortunately, Kaiba was able to provide an explanation. "My trap card took my XYZ-Dragon Cannon out of play for one turn so that your attack didn't hit it."
Yami-Yugi chuckled, "Your plan to save your monster from attack succeeded." He took a card from his hand. "But I also have a plan. I set one card face-down and end my turn."
(SSD: 3000-2000)
Kaiba's eyes narrowed. Why would Yugi deliberately weaken his monster?
"What are you waiting for, Kaiba? Slifer is weaker than even your XYZ-Dragon Cannon. Why don't you make an attack?"
Nice try, Yugi, but I'm not biting. Kaiba's XYZ-Dragon Cannon reappeared and the sword binding Obelisk the Tormentor disappeared. "I've already made up my mind. I now sacrifice my XYZ-Dragon Cannon so I can summon my Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor!" Light particles began gathering behind Kaiba. "It's over, Yugi!" The tower rumbled as Obelisk flew down on its mighty wings.
"The battle of the Gods has begun," Yami-Marik announced.
"But which one will win?" Amara wondered.
I hope I can hold my own against Obelisk, Yami-Yugi thought. It's not going to be easy, especially since Obelisk is twice as powerful as Slifer.
"It's time for our gods to clash," Kaiba was saying. "But only one will remain standing, now let's see which one."
To Be Continued
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Petit Dragon
Level: 2
Type: Dragon
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 600
DEF: 700
(2)
Name: Z-Metal Tank
Level: 4
Type: Machine/Union
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1500
DEF: 1300
(3)
Name: XYZ-Dragon Cannon
Level: 8
Type: Machine/Fusion/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 2800
DEF: 2600
(4)
Name: King's Knight
Level: 4
Type: Warrior/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1600
DEF: 1400
(5)
Name: Jack's Knight
Level: 5
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Light
ATK: 1900
DEF: 1000