Chapter 19; survival battle
Tails arrived at the duel stadium where Silver told him to go. He entered the dark building. He walked to the arena. No one was around.
"Silver? Are you here?" Tails asked loudly.
Suddenly the exit door slammed shut. So did every exit. Tails looked around shocked and then felt panic building up inside of him. But before he could panic for real.
"I'm right here Tails" Silver's voice was heard.
Tails looked at the direction the voice came from where a light was lit. Silver was standing under it like if it was a spotlight. He was wearing a duel disc.
"Hey there you are. Do you know what happened to the doors?"
"We shut them" Silver explained.
"We? Who's we?" Tails wondered.
"Us!" several familiar voices were heard around Tails.
The lights of the arena were suddenly lit. Tails looked around him and felt the shock going through him like electricity. Around him were…
"Zeena? Blaze?" he said when he noticed the two girls.
"Long time no see Tails" Blaze said.
"They're not the only ones." Another familiar voice was heard.
Tails looked behind him and saw Espio and Shadow's new rival Vector.
"You guys too?"
"Me too Tailsy".
Tails looked at the direction of the last voice and saw Cosmo standing in front of him. He couldn't believe it. All the friends he and the singed ones had made through their journey in pursuit of the gods were here.
"What are you all doing here?" he decided to ask before any of the other millions of questions he wanted to ask them prevailed.
"I called them all here Tails" Silver said.
"What for?" Tails asked again while noticing that they all wore duel discs, even Cosmo.
"Cause we found a way to increase our chances of beating Sonic" Zeena said.
"You see Tails, Silver told us all that happened" Blaze continued.
"And we all tried to find a way to beat Sonic in his current state" Espio completed the phrase.
"And… what did you find?"
"We thought exactly what you think. That in your current state it will be like fighting Sonic and Amy together. So we considered the chance of doing the same with you" Vector explained.
"When you say the same.. what do you mean?"
"We mean that if we can create an opponent with almost as much power as Sonic and Amy combined we will have a chance." Cosmo said.
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Tails asked them.
"Like this!" Silver said triggering his duel disc and activating the battle royal mode forcing Tails' as well as everyone's duel discs to activate.
"Silver what are you doing?"
"The seven of us in here hold almost as much power as Sonic and Amy. The only thing left to do is create the opponent who will face Sonic. And the only way to do this is in a battle royal duel!"
"But…. If I duel you and beat one of you… you die!"
"We know Tails. But we accept the risk." Blaze declared.
"Well I don't!" Tails said "I'm not dueling you guys!
"If you refuse to duel Tails, your LP will drop to 0 immediately. You will lose and die. Your power will be split between the six of us. Then we will battle to death so the strongest will survive and face Sonic. We have the obligation to try and save the world. And we are doing it with or without you!" Silver said not accepting no as an answer
"Silver I can't kill you. Neither you nor anyone in here. You guys are my friends."
"Tails! If you love me then take us all on!" Cosmo shouted.
"Cosmo. Please remove the disc and leave! Especially you I will not fight."
"Tails! You don't have any choice! Duel or die! This is the only hope we have if we wanna save the world. Everyone in he world. All the people we love. Our families. Our friends. And I want to protect my family and my friends. But I can also trust anyone in here with this. We're combining our powers with or without your will! So duel now!"
Tails drew 5 cards unwillingly.
"Here's the rules. We will all focus you Tails. It is the only way. You are far stronger than all of us. Meaning that to beat you we have to cooperate first. Since we're 6 and you're one you must draw 15 cards as your first hand. We will take subsequent turns. First me then Blaze. After her Zeena. She will be followed by Espio. Then will be Vector and last but not least before you Cosmo. Any objections anyone?" Silver asked them
"No." They all said.
"Wait! You mean I have to fight against six fields?!"
"Yes. Your LP will be 8000 just like all of us. But your starting hand is 20, half your deck. It is beyond fair".
"Silver I beg you to think about it again." Tails begged him. But his mark started shining.
"Too late Tails. We have begun now. My turn. I play the spell left arm offering. Now I remove all my hand to add the spell that grass looks greener from my deck to my hand! Now I activate it. My deck has 54 cards right now and all the rest of your decks have 35 except Tails'. In this case I'm throwing 19 because most of you have 35. 2 wulf the lightsworn beast and performage trick clown were sent to the graveyard. So they're special summoned back with the clown dealing me 1000 damage" (Silver LP 7000) "Then I build the overlaying network with the trick clown and one wulf! When the beast dedicated to light and the clown who brings smiles to the people combine the high priest of light shall be born! Xyz summon! Appear! Minerva the exhalted lightsworn! I activate her effect. Once per turn I can use one overlay unit to send 3 cards from my deck to the graveyard then if there were any lightsworns in there, I draw one card for each one sent. Looks like I sent felis the twilightsworn archer to the graveyard. With her effect I special summon her from the graveyard. Also I draw one card due to the effect of my Minerva. I set a card and pass the torch to Blaze!"
"My turn. I draw. I activate fire formation tenki. Thanks to its effect I add fire zoodiac raptier to my hand. Now I summon it. Thanks to it effect is sent zoodiac thouroughblade to the graveyard. Then I build the overlay network with Raptier! From the brave warrior who fights for everything he loves the protector of all zoodiacs will be born! Xyz summon! Appear! Zoodiac hammerkong! But he won't stay for long. I use him to rebuild the overlaying network! From the protector of all zoodiacs will come the one who unites them all! Xyz shift! Come forth Zoodiac chakinine! Now I use her effect. I use an overlay unit to special summon a zoodiac from the graveyard. I detach hammerkong and summon him back! Now I rebuild again the overlay network with my chakanine! From the one who brings unity to all zoodiacs will come the one who gives them their power! Xyz shift! Come forth Zoodiac tigermortar! I activate her effect as well. By using one overlay unit I can attach thouroughblade from my graveyard on hammerkong as an xyz material! Now I'm gonna summon one final monster! I rebuild the overlay network with tigermortar! From the one who gives all zoodiac warriors their power will come the one who crashes everyone in his way no matter the opponent! XYZ SHIFT! Come forth! Zoodiac boarow! Boarow can attack directily when the time comes. Now I activate the spell card advance. I see the top 5 cards of my deck and put them back together in any order. Next I activate the spell monster birth! If I declare the top card of my deck correctly it is added to my hand. If it is a monster I special summon it and if it is level 4 or less I can special summon ALL the copies from my deck! I say it is zoodiac whiptail! All of the whiptails in my deck join us! And they will all be attached to my boarow who gains their power. It has a grand total of 3600! I set 2 cards and end my turn."
"My turn then" Zeena said "I draw. First I summon performapal skullcrobat joker! Thanks to his effect I can add from my hand a performapal, magician or odd eyes monster. I add wisdom-eye magician. Now I set the pendulum scales with scale 8 double iris magician and scale 5 wisdom eye magician. Then I activate the spell card star pendulumgraph. After this I use the effect of wisdom eye magician. He is destroyed and I set from my deck the scale one purple poison magician! Next I activate the effects of star pendulumgraph and astrograph sorcerer in my field and hand accordingly. Astrograph sorcerer appears on my field and when he is summoned I add a pendulum monster from my deck to my hand provided that it is either in my extra deck or graveyard. Since pendulums when they are destroyed the go to the extra deck rather than the graveyard I add a copy of wisdom eye magician with my sorcerer's effect and harmonizing magician with the star pendulumgraph's effect! Then I set the link arrows with skullcrobat joker and astrograph sorcerer! Circuit complete! Link summon! Come forth! Link 2! Heavymetalfoes electrumite! And this is just the start! Now with the set scales 1 and 8 I perform a pendulum summon! Come forth! my monsters from my hand and extra deck! From my hand! Harmonizing magician and wisdom eye magician. From my extra deck another wisdom eye magician and astrograph sorcerer! Next harmonizing magician's effect activates. When she is pendulum summoned I special summon a magician monster from my deck with its effects negated! Say hello to black fang magician! Then I activate electrumite' effect. I destroy double iris magician to add skullcrobat joker from my extra deck to my hand. Then I activate the destroyed double iris magician's effect. I add a pendulumgraph trap from my deck to my hand. I choose time pendulumgraph. I set it face down. Then I build the overlay network with the 2 wisdom eyes magicians! The two wise mages will create the ultimate ruler of time and stars! XYZ SUMMON! Appear! Timestar magician! Next I activate his effect. I use one overlay unit to add one more astrograph sorcerer from my deck to my hand! Now I build the overlay network with harmonizing magician and purple poison magician! From the combination of the white mage master of harmony and the magician master of poisons the disaster dragon will be born! Xyz summon! Appear tornado dragon! I end my turn now! You're up Espio!"
"I draw! I summon d/d savant kepler in attack mode! I activate his effect. I add a dark contract spell or trap card from my deck to my hand. I select, add and activate dark contract with the gate. Thanks to its effect I can add a d/d monster from my deck to my hand. I choose dd lamia! Now I activate the effect of d/d swirl slim in my hand. I use it and d/d necro slime as fusion materials! Arcane slime that takes all forms. Engulf this duel in darkness and give birth to a new king! Fusions summon! Here it is! D/D/D Flame king Genghis! But there's more. I activate swirl slime's effect! I banish it from my graveyard to special summon D/D lamia from my hand! Now I activate Genghis' effect! When a D/D monster is special summoned while he is on the field I can special summon a dd monster from my graveyard! I special summon D/D necro slime! Then I tribute D/D lamia and Genghis to set the link arrows! Circuit complete! Link summon! Come forth! Link 2! Crystron needlefiber! Needlefiber's ability activates! I special summon a level 3 or lower tuner from my deck. I choose another D/D lamia! I then set again the link arrows with crystron needlefiber and D/D necro slime! Circuit complete! Link summon! Appear! Link 3! Decode talker! Next I activate necro slime's effect in my graveyard. Once per turn I can fusion summon one monster by banishing the materials from my graveyard! I fuse Genghis and necro slime to summon another Genghis! Then I tune him with lamia! Snake woman born from rubies! With the heat of the flames give birth to the new king! Synchro summon! Appear! D/D/D Gust King Alexander! Then I activate the spell soul charge. I then activate monster reborn to resurrect Genghis! Then I alexander's effect kicks in. I can special summon a D/D monster from my graveyard. So say hello to the lamia summoned by needlefiber's effect. Then finally I activate the other lamia's effect. By sending dark contract with the gate to the graveyard I can special summon it to the field but when she leaves again she leaves for good. Now! I tune together D/D savant kepler, D/D/D flame king Genghis and D/D lamia! Rise to your destiny! Step on the corpses of heroes carrying your bloodstained sword! Synchro Summon! Come forth! D/D/D Cursed king Siegfried! Finally I tune my other D/D lamia and D/D/D gust king alexander! Dragon with wings of crystal flash your wings and strike down our opponents with brilliance! Synchro summon! Appear! Crystal wing synchro dragon! I set another card and end my turn."
"I'm up then. I draw" Vector proceeded. Tails started feeling the pressure. He was up against over 15 monsters already and they just kept coming.
"I'm not gonna do a lot. I activate foolish burial and send Stygian street patrol to the graveyard! Now I banish it to summon from my dark summoning beast from my hand! Now I activate its effect! I banish it to summon a mythic demon from my deck! Appear! Hamon lord of striking thunder! Defense mode! I then activate the field spell fallen paradise. Thanks to it I draw 2 cards due to controlling a mythic demon. I set 3 cards and end my turn."
"All right Tailsy! It's my turn now! I summon draconnet! Then I activate its effect. I can special summon a normal monster from my deck in defense mode. I special summon bitron. Now I set the link arrow with bitron! Link summon! I summon the link 1 monster! Link spider! Then I activate brilliant fusion. I fuse together salvagent driver and gem knight lazuli from my deck! The scavenger of the network and the knight from the gem world! Become one and summon the seraphinite of unity! Fusion Summon! Gem knight seraphinite! Next lazuli's effect activates. Since he was sent to the graveyard by a card effect I can add a normal monster like bitron in my hand. Then I summon ram clouder from my hand as my second normal summon due to seraphinite's effect. Then I activate its effect. I tribute the now useless seraphinite and special summon salvagent driver from my graveyard! Then I use link spider's effect to special summon a monster to the one she points at. Bitron come with us! Now I activate the spell mind control!"
"Here goes" Blaze said " I activate the spell stray lamb. I summon 2 lamb tokens to my field. Take one Cosmo!"
"Thanks Blaze. Now I set the link arrows with the lamb token and bitron! Circuit complete! Link summon! Appear Link 2! Proxy dragon! Then I set once again the link arrows with proxy dragon and draconnet! Circuit complete! Link summon! Appear! Link 3! Trigate wizard!"
"Why bother summon proxy if you were aiming for trigate all along?" Tails asked her.
"Don't underestimate me Tails. I activate salvagent driver's effect! Once per turn I can discard a spell card and revive a fallen cyberse monster! Say adios to my scapegoat spell and hello again to proxy dragon next to trigate!"
"How did you learn to use that deck?"
"Self-taught! It was the only way to have this duel right now!"
Tails wanted more than anything for her to stop and leave before something happened to her. But she kept on.
"Now I set the link arrows one last time with proxy salvagent driver and ram clouder! Circuit complete! Link summon! Arise! Link 4 Firewall dragon! and finally I activate world legacy's return! I can special summon a monster from my graveyard to a zone where a link points. So I summon proxy dragon next to trigate once again! I end my turn Tailsy! Now overcome all this if you can!"
Tails looked around him. Silver and Blaze had relatively easy to beat fields. Zeena had those annoying pendulum cards. Espio had one monster effect and one spell trap effect negation effect each turn. Vector had made it impossible to attack since hamon forced the opponents to attack him so long as they had monsters. Meaning that Tails could only attack directily if he had a way. And Cosmo had a strong field as well. But it came with a big weakness. If he could get trigate out of the way everything would be easier. He had all he needed to get rid of his friends' annoying cards. But to destroy their monsters… it required for him to break the oath he had once made to Sonic.
"I draw." Tails said "I first of all tribute your trigate wizard cosmoto summon in its place radian the multidimensional kaiju!"
"Oh no! My combo!"
"Next I special summon from my hand vice dragon! Because you all control monsters and I don't. Now I activate the spell emergency return. I force one monster on my field and a field of my choice to return to the hand! I choose my vice dragon and Espio's crystal wing synchro dragon!"
"Oh no you don't! I activate Siegfried's effect! Once per turn I can negate the effect of a spell and trap card and destroy it!"
"I chain with ghost ogre and snow rabbit's effect to smash your Siegfried!"
"Forget it! Crystal wing! Negate that effect!"
"Now I got you all right where I want you. I activate the spell hey trunade! It forces all set cards on the field back to our hands. Cards or effects activated in response cannot be used until my main phase 2!"
"Then I activate time pendulumgraph before it is sent back!" Zeena said triggering her trap.
"Now I summon vice dragon again! Next I summon dark resonator! Now I…." he stopped. He just couldn't do it.
"Tails what's wrong?" Silver asked him.
"There is only one way to survive this. But I need to break my oath. I swore not to use this card again".
"What card?" Blaze asked as well.
"Blaze remember when I told you about the darkness in my heart and how Sonic saved me?"
"Yes?"
"Well later on that darkness reappeared and manifested itself into a card. When I used it I almost lost control. Sonic stopped it. I swore never to use that card again."
"Tails if this is your only way out of this situation then do it! If we are meant to beat you here we need to beat you at full power. Remember we are trying to create an opponent worthy of Sonic's powers". Vector reminded him.
"Tailsy. If you have a noble target like saving Sonic… I'm sure the powers of darkness won't affect you. They will do your bidding. And as long as you keep that target in mind you won't fall to their control! I'm sure of it!" Cosmo encouraged him.
Tails was unwillingly encouraged by her words.
"I tune dark resonator with vice dragon! From the ancient chasms of a lost world I unleash a great and terrible power! Burn down anyone who crosses my path to the top of the world! SYNCHRO SUMMON! APPEAR! MY STRONGEST MONSTER! SCARLIGHT RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND!"
Tails' new archfiend card looked a lot like the classic red dragon archfiend but it was had the color of fire on it. They all looked at it in shock except Espio and Silver.
"So this is his darkness embodied." Espio said calm.
"Doesn't look that tough to me. It's just like his average archfiend dragon" Zeena commented.
"I'm not done yet. I activate the equip spell black pendant to increase his attack to 3500. Then I activate his special ability! Once per turn I can destroy all special summoned monsters out that have less or equal attack to my dragon! And for each one you lose all 500 points of damage!"
"WHAT?!" Blaze screamed shocked.
"Damn! In this royal mode we're all opponents. The damage is dealt to all of us. I have 3 monsters out. Blaze and Zeena have 3 each as well. Espio has 3 too. Vector has 1 and Cosmo 4. The only monsters stronger than his dragon are boarow and hamon! Meaning that there are still 15 monsters that are gonna be destroyed! If they are all destroyed we all lose 15 times 500 meaning 7500! We're gonna be left at the brink of defeat and since I have used trick clown's effect I am done for!" Silver said shocked realizing why Tails swore never to use that card.
"Not just yet! I have my proxy dragon's ability! I destroy radian and my monsters are safe! So we'll only lose 5500 LP each!" she said while destroying radian.
Scarlight red dragon archfiend ignited his right hand and punched the ground. Every monster weaker than 3500 atk was destroyed and all of Tails' friends took 5500 damage (Silver LP 1500, Blaze LP 2500 ,Zeena LP 2500 , Espio LP 2500 ,Vector LP 2500, Cosmo LP 2500).
"Cosmo you're a savior!" Silver screamed in relief.
"Don't miss the timing!" she anwered.
"Oh right! I activate Minerva's effect in the graveyard! I send 3 cards from my deck to my graveyard and if there are any lightsworns i destroy one card out! I send 3 cards! And I got raiden hand of the lightsworn! So scarlight red dragon archfiend goes back to the burning abyss from where he came!" Silver said while destroying Tails' dragon.
"You trigerred my black pendant's effect. You destroyed it. So you all lose 500 LP!"
"(Silver LP 1000 ,Blaze LP 2000, Zeena LP, Espio LP 2000, Vector LP 2000, Cosmo LP 2000)
"That is not enough to stop me Silver. I activate return of the dragon lords! I special summon back scarlight red dragon archfiend."
"Damn" Zeena said "One of us is going down this turn".
"No" Tails said while a tear left his eyes "two of you. I equip scarlight with twin swords of flashing light-tryce. It lose 500 attack but can attack TWICE!"
Zeena was left stunned by the fact. But then she smiled sadly.
"Go ahead then Tails. Pick 2 targets." She said.
But Tails couldn't order the attack.
"Tails do it! Weakness is not an option neither here nor against Sonic!" Silver said.
"I can't! I have already stained my hands with Knuckles' blood. I can't do it again."
"Tails it's killed or be killed! Sonic made it this way! No sacrifice no victory! Now attack me! I'm waiting!" Espio ordered him.
Tails knew deep down that there was no other way. With a heavy heart he considered who should be defeated. Blaze couldn't be attacked because she had still boarow on her field. Silver was wide open. So were Zeena and Espio. Silver's deck was dangerous since it had a lot of resources but not as broken as the pendulum magicians. And Espio's control field was scary. They were the ones to be defeated this turn.
"Scarlight… attack Zeena and Espio directily! ABSOLUTE POWER FLAME!" he screamed not giving himself a chance to back off.
Scarlight attacked with a barrage of flaming balls that stroke Zeena and Espio causing them severe burns on their skins. (Espio LP 0, Zeena LP 0)
"What have I done?!" Tails screamed shocked with what he had just done. He attempted to run to their side but..
"DON'T MOVE TAILS!" Cosmo screamed.
Tails turned at her.
"The royal mode duel is still on. You're not allowed to leave your place."
Then Tails listened to Zeena whispering.
"Damn. This hurts so much. That was some power Tails."
"Zeena I'm sorry" Tails said trying to hold his tears knowing what would follow.
"Don't be sorry" Espio answered as loudly as he could "This will bring you one step closer to saving Sonic. My power is with you Tails." He said fainting.
"So is mine! Save my childhood friend!" Zeena said passing out as well.
Tails saw 2 spheres of blue light exiting their bodies and entering his. He felt their spirits encouraging him to move on and continue the duel. He looked at the rest of his opponents.
"Two down. Four more to go." He thought inside of himself.
"Any other moves Tails?" Silver asked him.
"No. I set 2 cards and end my turn."
"My turn again then. Get ready Tails now that we can attack we're all coming for you. I draw. I summon fairy tail snow. I also activate her ability. I set your dragon to face down defense position!"
"What?"
"Next I activate glow up bulb's effect. I send the top card of my deck to my graveyard to summon it! And what luck. I sent felis the lightsworn archer. Because she was sent to the graveyard by a spell or trap effect I can summon it back. Then I activate her effect. I tribute her to destroy a monster on the field. Since technically no one knows what your set monster is you can't banish return of the dragon lords to save it!"
"NO!" Tails shouted as scarlight was destroyed.
"Now I banish seven cards from my graveyard to summon another snow. Then I tune together the glow up bulb and both of my snows. From the frozen seas of the tundra I unleash the dragon guardian of the ice! Synchro summon! Behold the great dragon! Trishula dragon of the ice barrier! I activate his effect. When he is summoned I can banish one card on the opponents field grave and hand! I banish your left set card, the leftmost card in your hand and scarlight red dragon archfiend from the graveyard!"
"NO!"
"Now your best monster is sealed! Trishula! Attack Tails directily!"
"I chain with battle fader! I summon it and the battle phase ends!"
"Holding on huh? Let's see what Blaze has to say about this. I end my turn."
"My turn I draw. You seem to forget Tails. I don't have to go through your defenses boarow has 3600 atk and can strike you directily!"
"Damn" Tails thought.
"Boarow! Attack Tails directily!"
"AAAAHH!" (Tails LP 4400)
The attack knocked Tails down but he got up even though the attack filled him with injuries.
"I end my turn. Take over Vector."
"My turn. I draw. Hamon! Attack battle fader! Lightning of the fallen paradise!"
Battle fader was eliminated.
"Normally when Hamon destroys a monster by battle he deals 1000 points of damage to the opponent. However because battle fader is banished after he leaves the field you will survive. I end my turn."
"Time to end this Tailsy. I draw. Firewall dragon! proxy dragon! link spider! End it!"
"I activate the trap draining shield. I heal by firewall dragon's power" (Tails LP 6900)"and stop his attack!"
"You won't dodge link spider and proxy dragon!"
"AAAAH!" (Tails LP 4500)
"Good Tailsy. You survived. But you still have to beat us and your best card is gone. I end my turn with a set card."
"Cosmo pleases stop this. I can't keep his up. Even if I manage to defeat Silver, Blaze and Vector…. I can't beat you. I can't live with myself already. If I kill you too…"
"Tails. We're running out of time. We're only hours away from the final battle with Sonic. You have to keep going." Silver said.
Tails drew the next card against his wishes.
"I draw. I summon red resonator. I also discard plaguespreder zombie to special summon power giant. His level is six but it decreases by zombie's level so 2 and he is now 4. I tune together red resonator. Witness the almighty power of the ruler. Witness my SYNCHRO SUMMON! Arise red wyvern! Now I activate its effect. Once per turn when there is a monster out with more attack than the wyvern I can crash the one with the most attack. So Hamon goes down!"
"Yeah if you could! Remember Lost paradise? It protects my Hamon from destruction!"
"That's where the spell galaxy cyclone comes in handy! It smashes lost paradise first!"
"Oh no!"
"Now Vector's wide open! Go for it Tails!" Blaze said.
Tails wasted no time.
"Red Wyvern! Attack Vector! Absolute flare!"
"AAAAH!" (Vector LP 0) Vector was knocked out full in burns just like Zeena and Espio.
Tails let his tears drop once again but not only for killing Vector…. but for not hesitating.
"Heh. Guess it was never my destiny to face the king again. Do it in my stead Tails." Vector said while passing away. Another blue sphere came out of his body and entered Tails'. Tails got on his knees unable to prevent his tears.
"What is wrong with me? I didn't even hesitate! I'm a monster!"
"Tails. You did what you had to do. You can't stop now. We're almost halfway there. You have to see this to the end." Silver brought him back to reality.
"I… I set 5 cards and end my turn."
"I draw. I trishula smash red wyvern!"
"Hold it! My wyvern's effect can be activated during either player's turn. So I smash boarow!"
"No you don't! I activate the trap shift. I transfer the effect to my firewall dragon!" Cosmo stopped him.
"Thanks Cosmo!" Blaze said.
"Trishula continue your attack!" Silver ordered.
"I banish return of the dragon lords in my graveyard to save it."
"You still take damage."
"AAAH!" (Tails LP 4200)
"I end my turn."
"My turn! Boarow! Attack Tails directily! I also chain with the spell anti magic arrows so you won't activate any spell or traps in my battle phase and you won't tamper with my attack!"
"AAAAAAAAAAHH" (Tails LP 600)
"I end my turn! Cosmo end this!"
"My turn! I draw! I activate the monster reborn to revive my fallen trigate wizard! Thanks to his effect I banish the wyvern! Trigate attack Tails and end this duel!"
"Cosmo please stop don't make me do this!" Tails said releasing his tears again in the thought of his next move.
"I'm sorry Tails. There is no other way! Attack!"
" I activate the trap tuner revival. I resurrect a tuner with its effect negated, one level less and its stats 0 . Come forth red resonator!"
"Nothing changes Tails! Attack red resonator!"
"COSMO I LOVE YOU!" Tails screamed "I ACTIVATE THE TRAP DIMENSION SPHINX! Because you attack my monster with a stronger one you take damage equal to the difference in their power!"
Cosmo was shocked when she realized what was coming next. But she managed to look Tails with her most beautiful smile.
"I'm so proud of you Tails" she said with her eyes full of tears as well still smiling "and.. I love you too. Save Sonic for all of us" she said while the effect of dimension sphinx hit her reducing her LP to 0. Tails saw with his heart in pain her duel energy as a blue sphere again joining his body. He turned to Silver and Blaze.
"I am ending this now!" he declared.
Suddenly the unexpected happen. His mark started shining and the lunar dragon appeared. Blaze looked at it in awe.
"So this is the dragon god that gave you powers so long ago?"
"Yes" Tails said still not knowing why the dragon showed up.
The lunar dragon then made Tails' mark shine brighter than usual. When the shine went back to normal Tails saw that the characteristics of his mark had changed!
"That's exactly what happened to Sonic when he got his sky ruler dragon!" he shouted.
"Then we have almost achieved our purpose! The lunar dragon is increasing your power because he sees you as the only one who can truly match Sonic's power! Tails do what you have to do!" Silver ordered him.
"I draw! I activate the spell lost synchro! It allow me to summon back a synchro from my graveyard or my banished zone! However! In the end of the turn I have to take damage equal to double it attack points! Come back! SCARLIGHT RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND!"
"But that's 6000! You won't survive this!" Blaze said.
"It will be over long before that!"
"Think again Tails! I activate snow's effect! I banish 7 cards to summon her!" Silver said banishing 7 of his cards.
"No you don't I activate the spell designator by the grave! It negates the activation of a card in the graveyard in our case snow, banishes it and forbids you from using it until the end of this turn!"
"Oh no!"
"Oh yes! I now summon double resonator!"
"2 tuners? How can they help?"
"I will now show you my new power! I double tune scarlight red dragon archfiend with my 2 tuners!"
"Another double tuning monster?!" Blaze said in shock.
"Ruler and devil now become one! Call upon the soul of the dragon god and roar in the name of the creation itself! FLAMES SYNCHRO!"
"FLAMES SYNCHRO?!"
Tails and scarlight red dragon archfiend were engulfed in a flame ball.
"Tails!" Blaze tried to see through the flames. He saw him with red eyes suddenly shining in a strong white light and his dragon changing by absorbing the flames.
"COME FORTH! THE ULTIMATE DRAGON OF FLAMES! TYRANT RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND!"
The flame ball disappeared. But what was inside was not the same. Tails' new dragon was far stronger than scarlight and he himself was dressed in a white outfit. He looked at himself.
"So this is how it is!" Silver said in awe "The lunar dragon created the black duelist meaning Sonic. Now it created THE WHITE DUELIST! So he can match the black duelist."
"This dragon… I can feel that…. It contain the remains of Tails' darkness. But… now they are… purified!" Blaze said in awe as well.
"It means that Tails has finally accepted his task. Come on Tails! End us now if you can!" Silver said.
"I activate my dragon's ability! Once per turn I can destroy all other cards on the field!"
"SAY WHAT?!" Both Silver and Blaze said shocked.
"Take this! ABSOLUTE POWER INFERNO!"
Tyrant red dragon archfiend punched the ground with a flaming fist. Waves of fire were emitted from his punch. They stroke every card on the field destroying everything.
"And now I activate the spell I had set! King's charge! If it is destroyed by a monster effect it enables a monster on my field to attack twice!"
"Silver do you have anything left?!"
"Yes! The trap alliance which was destroyed! It can only be used in a battle royal mode duel! I can suggest one of my opponents to make our LP 4000 and become a team in this battle until we are the only ones left!"
"Yes! Now we will survive!" (Blaze and Silver LP 4000)
"Good but not good enough. I activate my dragon's ability! Once per battle phase when you activate a spell or trap I can negate it and increase tyrant's attack power by 500! I know your trap cannot be negated! But I still get the power bonus!"
"Then…. It is settled! Do it Tails! We did it! You are the duelist that your dragon god wants to fight Sonic!"
Tails released one final tear and then ordered the attack.
"TYRANT RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND! ATTACK BLAZE AND SILVER! CRIMSON HELL TIDE INFERNO!"
Silver and Blaze took the attack and their LP went down to 0. However they managed to stay standing even though they were filled with burns all over their bodies. Tails now being allowed to move approached them immediately.
"BLAZE! SILVER! Are you guys ok?"
They looked at him with sad smiles.
"I have been better. But I know that we're gonna be fine. Because right now I'm trusting you will all the power I have Tails. Save Sonic with it." Silver said.
"And here I thought I could beat my teacher. I have a lot to learn I guess. Go Tails. Prove to me that what you told me back then is true! That your friendship with Sonic is stronger than anything out there! Be the friend he was back then for you!" Blaze said while finally letting go and dropped to the ground leaving behind a blue sphere of light. Same happened with Silver. Tails dropped right on spot as well and tried to calm himself down from the adrenaline as well as the fact that he took the lives of his 6 friends. Cosmo too. When Tails relaxed he took them one by one back to his apartment. Now all of his friends where nothing but corpses. He had nowhere to put them anymore. Some of them where lying on the couch and the rest had his bed. In the end he put them on one another and decided to sleep on the floor in a sleeping bag. His sleep was full of dreams were he relived that night's royal mode duel over and over again. The next morning he looked at the duel palace from the balcony of his house. People were already coming for the big final. Tails knew he had to go. After all that had happened he owed his friends to save Sonic. He rode his duel runner and headed for the palace. He looked at the tyrant red dragon card.
"Sonic… today you'll meet your match!" he declared while accelerating.
