2. Attack! Psycho Shocker!

"This is really not a good idea..." Hide said as the two boys crept down the hall.

"Hide, if we want to make a good impression in this academy" Kyu said. "Taking this kind of challenge is exactly what I need to start off the year"

Kyu and Hide stepped into the dark arena when suddenly the lights came on. Kyu and Hide looked up into the control center, seeing Genesis at the controls, waving at them.

"Glad you made it!" Sophia said at one side of the field.

"I'm here to accept your challenge." Kyu said excitedly, running to the opposite side of the field.

"What a fool..." Genesis thought in her mind as she watched Kyu shuffle his deck and slide it in into his Duel Disk.

Sophia readied her deck and got ready. "Well Kyu, it seems that it's your first face off among the Obelisk Blue I say we set a wager." Sophia said, holding up a card.

"What's that?" Kyu thought to himself.

"This is one of my favorite rare cards, Android Psycho Shocker. It's one of the rarest cards in my deck and I'm wagering it. If I win I can take any card I want from your deck and if you win, you get my Android Psycho Shocker."

"Fine." Kyu said, smiling.

"And I have a card in mind." Sophia said in her mind as she pictured Kyu's XYZ Dragon Cannon attacking Genesis from this morning.

"Let the duel begin!" Genesis said from an intercom.

"Duel!" Sophia and Kyu announced as their life points rose to 4000.

"I'll begin!" Sophia announced, taking her card for the draw. Sophia smiled at the card she drew, Cost Down. "First I'll summon KC Thousand Tanker in attack mode! (1700/1000) I'll then set a card and end my turn!"

"Draw!" Kyu announced, watching the cannon of Sophia's KC Thousand Tanker point toward his direction.

"Come on Kyu, don't get us into trouble." Hide thought. He looked up into the dark area's of the bleachers, wondering if anyone else was watching.

Quartz sat in a shadow, smiling as Kyu watched his cards carefully.

"Start!" Kyu announced, drawing his next card. "Now! I summon Hayton Swordsman! (1000/1800) In attack mode!"

"Such a weak monster." Sophia smirked as the swordsman pointed his sword at her.

"Hayton Swordsman allows me to summon this, Faithful Sword!" Kyu announced as a silver bladed sword with diamond incrested jewels materialized to the field.

"No, a union monster..." Sophia growled.

"Faithful Sword's effect allows me to equip it to Hayton Swordsman, increasing his attack and defense points by one thousand (2000/2700)" Kyu said, smiling. "Now! Hayton Swordsman, attack and destroy her KC Thousand Tanker!"

The swordsman leapt up, slashing down on the tanker and destroying it. Sophia covered herself from the flashing light as her life points reduced to 3700.

"I'll then set a card face down and end my turn." Kyu announced.

Sophia growled but then smiled. "Foolish boy... Who doesn't know anything about his peers. You should have studied before taking this challenge." Sophia said.

"What?" Hide thought.

Sophia took her next card. "Now! Reveal face down card, Cost Down!" Sophia announced.

"No..." Kyu hesitated.

"With this I can discard a card from my hand to reduce all monsters in my hand by two levels." Sophia said.

"No! That means she can practically summon any strong monster from her hand." Hide said in shock.

"Now! I summon Android Psycho Shocker! (2400/1500)" Sophia announced as the android rose from the ground, with it's arms crossed and emotionless robotic face starring toward Kyu.

"Meet your ultimate destruction, my Android Psycho Shocker blocks off all your trap cards." Sophia giggled as Psycho Shocker's eyes glistened, then shot two red beams at Kyu's face down card, destroying his only Mirror Force. "Now! Attack and destroy his Hayton Swordsman!"

The android blasted a purple energy sphere toward the swordsman. Suddenly the sword jumped from the swordsman's hands, taking the full blast. Hayton Swordsman's attack power reduced to 1000, but it was enough.

Kyu smiled as his life points reduced to 3600. "My swordsman was spared, but because my Faithful Sword was sent to the graveyard, I can draw two new cards from my deck." Kyu explained, taking two new cards from his deck holster.

Sophia threw back her hair. "I'll set a card face down and end my turn." Sophia announced.

Kyu drew his next card. "I've got to get rid of her android..." Kyu thought to himself, looking at his new card."and I've got just the right cards to do so."

"Come on Kyu! Don't give in!" Hide cheered.

"Now! I'll use this, Bond of Brothers!" Kyu announced.

"Not so fast!" Sophia announced. "I'll activate my magic card, Magic Infusion!"

"Magic Infusion?" Kyu wondered.

"By discarding my whole hand, I can change your Bond of Brothers magic card, into a trap card." Sophia smiled as the green magic card suddenly changed to a pink on. The Android then shot another red blast from it's eyes at the trap card, destroying it.

Kyu growled. "I'll shift my Hayton Swordsman into defense mode and end my turn." Kyu announced.

Sophia smiled. "Now I draw!" She announced. "And I'll activate Card of Sanctity! It forces us to draw until we have six cards in out hands"

Kyu was in trouble now. Sophia had an advantage with her Android Psycho Shocker. "Now I activate Raise Dead, to bring back KC Thousand Tanker! (1700/1000) I'll then summon KC-5 Assault Soldier! (1800/500)"

"Err.." Kyu said.

"Now! Android Psycho Shocker, attack and destroy his Hayton Swordsman!" Sophia announced. The android blasted another energy sphere, this time destroying the swordsman. "Finally! KC Thousand Tanker and KC-5 Assault Solider, attack his life points directly!"

"Kyu no!" Hide gasped as the tank blasted a missile while the soldier shot at Kyu with it's machine gun.

Kyu gasped in pain as the realism of the holograms hit him hard. Kyu's life points lowered to 100. "I never knew how easy you were to beat. I can't Genesis actually gave in to you."

Genesis frowned at Sophia's comment. "Just hurry and finish him off!" Genesis said into the intercom.

"My turn ends." Sophia smiled.

Kyu suddenly smirked. "Seriously, you need to stop underestimating people like me." Kyu said, drawing his next card.

"What?" Sophia said, narrowing her eyes.

"Thanks to your Card of Sanctity, I was able to draw the right cards in order to win this duel." Kyu said.

"No! How!" Sophia stammered to know.

"The first card of my combo! Cheerful Coffin which allows me to discard three monster cards from my hand to my graveyard!" Kyu announced, taking three cards from his hand and discarding them. "Second card of my combo, Mega Fuse!"

"Mega Fuse? How could he have such a rare card?" Genesis said, intrigued.

"Mega Fuse allows me to fuse monster from my graveyard by removing them from play. So I remove these three!" Kyu said as his graveyard slid out X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, and Z Metal Caterpillar. "Now go, the third card for my combo! XYZ Dragon Cannon! (2800/2600)"

Suddenly the giant machine appeared onto the field. "No..." Sophia said in shock.

"Finally, the fourth card of my combo, Pump Up!" Kyu said. "This card doubles my XYZ Dragon Cannon's attack power for the remainder of the turn! (5600/2600)"

"Oh yeah Kyu! You've got it!" Hide smiled.

"As an Obelisk Blue student, I thrive for some respect, and I'll earn it by becoming number one in this school!" Kyu said. "Now, XYZ Dragon Cannon, attack and destroy KC-5 Assault Soldier!"

The machine directed it's cannon at the soldier, firing at it. The soldier was instantly destroyed. Sophia screamed in shock as her life points reduced to 0.

"Looks like I've won your Android Psycho Shocker!" Kyu said, pointing at Sophia.

"Take it!" Sophia snapped, tossing the card at Kyu. Kyu caught it and looked in awe.

"My first rare card, earned! I'll treasure it!" Kyu said to himself.

"Sophia! That blast must have attracted the guards let's get out of here!" Genesis said, waving from the control center.

"Guards?!" Kyu said in horror.

"Kyu let's go!" Hide said, pulling Kyu from the field.

Kyu and Hide snuck back into their dorm rooms and went to sleep. Kyu couldn't sleep. He kept looking at his new addition to his deck.

"So Hide. I've never really seen you duel." Kyu said from the bottom bed.

"Well I'm not exactly duel king." Hide said blushing.

"Oh come on!" Kyu said, kicking the bottom of his bed.

"Ok I guess I could show you some of my rare cards, tomorrow after class of course." Hide said.

Kyu and Hide finally got to sleep when an alarm came up from the PDA. "Morning already?" Kyu said, rubbing his eyes and stretching.

Hide came by with a tray with two cups of coffee. "Why are you up so early?" Kyu asked.

"To be ready. I want to make a good impression for the teachers." Hide said, taking a sip of his coffee.

Kyu quickly got dressed and headed out the door for some fresh air. As he came to the hall, he saw some Osiris Red students walking passed. They were tough looking duelist but they were in Osiris Red, meaning that they were inferiors.

None of the other Obelisk Blue students seemed to notice them. Hide came from behind. "Why have you stopped?" Hide asked.

"Why are Osiris Red here?" Kyu asked.

"Don't know." Hide said, taking his book bag.

"Strange..." Kyu thought, walking along with the Osiris Red to their first class.

Kyu and Hide sat at the middle row of class as an Obelisk Blue teacher gave some notes. Certain cliques of the Osiris Red stayed in the corner of a room.

"What's up with them? They don't even bother to keep up with work." Kyu whispered.

"That's because they are the Delinquents." Genesis' voice spoke from behind. "They get good grades but take advantage for it. You should stay away from them incase you don't want to lose your rare cards."

"Oh..." Kyu said, looking up at the leader who looked down at Kyu and smirked, then laughed. Kyu quickly turned around.

"That's their alpha male, Asakawa." Genesis pointed. "Now leave me alone, this is important."

Genesis went on, continuing her note writing as the teacher spoke. Class finally ended and the students packed up and left. Kyu and Hide went up the stairs and Asakawa purposely bumped into each other. Kyu turned around, giving an glare while Asakawa looked casual and tough.

Lunch arrived and the students gathered into their own areas of dorms. Kyu and Hide found Quartz, sitting alone, seeming to write something down.

"Why is he so quiet." Kyu wondered.

"Most honor students are, too crazy with work on their hands. They have to keep up the grades." Hide said.

Quartz smiled. He looked down at his notepad, colored pencils and pens spread out on the table. He had fine artistic ablities. Quartz began to chuckle at the picture, a picture of a green armored dragon.

"Hail to Sabre Dragon, Green..." Quartz said to himself.

CARDS PLAYED

KC Thousand Tanker: Level 4 / 1700/1000/ Earth / Machine.

Hayton Swordsman: Level 4 / 1000/1800/ Dark / Warrior / Desc: When this card is summoned, you can special summon 1 "Faithful Sword" to the field.

Faithful Sword: Level 3 / 400/200/ Dark / Warrior / Union / Desc: This card can only equip to 1 face up "Hayton Swordsman". Increase the equipped monster's ATK and DEF by 1000. If the equipped monster is destroyed, this card is destroyed instead of the destroyed monster. When this card is sent to your graveyard, draw 2 cards from your deck.

Cost Down: MAGIC / Desc: Discard 1 card from your hand to reduce all monsters in your hand by 2 Levels for the rest of the turn.

Android Psycho Shocker: Level 6 / 2400/1500/ Dark / Machine / Desc: As long as this card remains face up on the field, the effect and activation of Trap Cards are negated.

Magic Infusion: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: Discard your whole hand to change the effects of a magic card into the effects of a trap card.

Card of Sanctity: MAGIC / Desc: Each player must draw from their deck until they both have 6 cards in their hands.

Raise Dead: MAGIC / Desc: Special summon 1 Monster Card from either you or your opponent's Graveyard onto the fiel in face up Defense or Attack Position

KC-5 Assault Soldier: Level 4 / 1800/500/ Earth / Warrior.

Cheerful Coffin: MAGIC / Desc: Discard up to 3 Monster Cards from your hand, to your graveyard.

Mega Fusion: MAGIC / Desc: Remove 2 or more Fusion Material monster's from your graveyard, out of play to create 1 Fusion Monster.

XYZ Dragon Cannon: Level 8 / 2800/2600/ Light / Machine / Fusion / Desc: "X Head Cannon" "Y Dragon Head" "Z Metal Caterpillar". Remove the required Fusion Material Monsters from the field, out of play to Special Summon this monster ("Fusion" is not needed to summon this card) from your Fusion Deck. Discard 1 card from your hand to destroy 1 card on the field.

Pump Up: QUICK PLAY MAGIC / Desc: Double 1 Monster's ATK for the rest of the turn.