Chapter 32: Limiter Removal Part 1
Returning to Kozaky's lab, they found the mad scientist waiting for them eagerly.
"Ah, welcome! I see you've brought what I need, excellent. Come in, and we can begin."
Entering the lab, they found it full of strange machinery and vials of strange liquids. Finally, they made their way into a small duel arena, where they found two familiar faces...
"Eria, Gigobyte! What are you two doing here?"
Eria smiled upon seeing her friends.
"Oh, its you guys! Maybe you can help me convince Gigobyte not to go through with his?"
"Eria, I told you, its perfectly safe! And once I'm done, I can protect you for a change!"
"I guess. Its just, I don't like the feeling of this..."
Kozaky quickly shooed her away, before turning to his other guests.
"Now, what I need from you is rather simple really. See, I agreed to give Gigobyte here a power up, but in order to do so, I need something called duel energy."
"Duel energy? What's that?"
"Simply put, its the energy field put out by two or more duelists in battle. The harder they fight, the more energy they output. I needed this card to power the machine and collect it, so thank you for that. Now, I need to gather the duel energy, and..."
"You want us to duel?"
"Not each other, of course. I have other duelists lined up to help with that. What do you say?"
Everyone shrugged. Not like they had anything better to do.
"Excellent! Let me just make some final preparations..."
After several minutes, the experiment was set. Gigobyte stood in a tank of strange fluid, wires and electrodes attached to his body to allow the duel energy to flow into and empower him. Chazz went first, duel disk at the ready. Facing him was an Inpachi.
"Alright tree hugger, let's do this!"
"You're going down, meat bag!"
DUEL!
Chazz: 8000
Inpachi: 8000
"Best duelist first, I draw! And to start, I activate Foolish Burial, sending Z-Metal Tank from my deck to the graveyard. Next, I summon X-Head Cannon in attack mode, and set one card face down. Your move."
"Hardly impressive. I summon Gene Warped Warwolf (2000/100) in attack mode. Pummel his Cannon!"
"Not so fast, I activate my face down Roll Out! Now I can take the Z-Metal Tank from my graveyard and equip him to X-Head Cannon, giving him 600 extra attack (1800-2400). Counterattack, X-Head Cannon!"
The machine raised its two cannons and fired, blasting the werewolf to pieces.
Inpachi: 7600
"I'm not done yet! I activate the spell cards, Heart of the Underdog and Two-Man Cell Battle! I end my turn with two cards face down, which activates the effect of my Cell Battle, letting me summon Insect Knight (1900/1500). Your move."
Chazz looked over his current hand. He didn't quite have enough for his ace, but he did have another trick up his sleeve.
"I banish X-Head Cannon and Z-Metal Tank to summon XZ- Tank Cannon (2400/2100)! And his effect lets me discard a card to destroy your face down card on the left!"
"You'll do no such thing! I activate Skill Drain, paying 1000 life points to negate all monster effects on the field!"
Inpachi: 6600
Chazz groaned, his plan stopped in its tracks.
"Fine then. XZ-Tank Cannon, attack his Insect Knight!"
"I activate my trap card, Justi-Break! Now any monster that isn't a normal monster in attack mode is destroyed!"
"Oh come on!"
Chazz could only watch in horror as his monster exploded into pixels.
"I end my turn, and thanks to your spell card I can special summon my V-Tiger Jet in defense mode. Your move."
"Then its my turn, and since I drew a normal monster, I can draw another card. And another, and another..."
Chazz groaned as Inpachi kept drawing cards, each time showing him what would soon await him. Soon, however, he stopped with a hand of seven.
"Excellent. First, I activate the spell card Ancient Rules, letting me special summon Summoned Skull (2500/1200) in attack mode! Next, I sacrifice Insect Knight to summon Frostosaurus! Summoned Skull, destroy his Jet!"
The fiendish skeleton conjured up a large lightning storm, frying Chazz's machine to a crisp.
"Now Frostosaurus, attack him directly!"
Chazz yelped as the frozen dinosaur smacked him with his tail, causing him to fall to one knee in pain.
Chazz: 5400
"I activate my trap card, Damage Condenser! By discarding one card, I can special summon Y-Dragon Head from my deck!"
"Humph. I end my turn."
"And so begins mine! And I'll start with Cards of Sanctity, letting us draw until we hold six cards!"
Chazz grinned at his new hand. His opponent wouldn't stand a chance.
"I activate Heavy Storm, destroying all of your spells and traps! Next, I activate Dimension Fusion! Now by paying 2000 life points, we each can special summon as many removed from play monster as possible, but since I'm the only one who has any, guess I'm the only one to reap the rewards."
Chazz: 3400
"Welcome back, X-Head Cannon and Z-Metal Tank! Next, I activate Monster Reborn to bring back V- Tiger Jet, and summon W-Wing Catapult! Now, X, Y, and Z combine to form XYZ Dragon Cannon! And V and W combine to make VW-Tiger Catapult!"
The living tree gulped. This would not end well.
"Next, I discard a card to have Catapult Cannon destroy your Frostosaurus. Next, my two monsters combine once more to summon my strongest monster, VWXYZ- Dragon Catapult Cannon (3000/2800)!"
Everyone gazed up as the towering machine, dual cannons aimed at Inpachi's last line of defense.
"Oh, did I mention? Once per turn, my monster can remove one of your monsters from play, and who better than your Summoned Skull?"
The massive robot fired two shots, blasting the demon away to another dimension.
"Now my Cannon, attack him directly!"
Inpachi could only raise his arms in defense as the bullets peppered him, knocking him back.
Inpachi: 3600
"I end my turn. Your move, if you can."
Wearily, Inpachi drew his next card, knowing there was not much he could do. And certainly enough, there wasn't.
"I summon Blazing Inpachi in (1850/0) in defense mode and end my turn."
"Too bad, guess you couldn't cut it. I activate Limiter Removal, doubling my monsters attack points. Dragon Catapult Cannon, attack his Blazing Inpachi, and my monster's effect forces it into attack mode! You go bye bye!"
Inpachi: 0000
Chazz wins!
Kozaky clapped, nodding excitedly as the duel energy filled the tube. Looking back into the tank, he saw Gigobyte began to grow ever so slightly.
"Yes, yes, excellent! But not enough! We still need more!"
Chaz huffed and took a seat next to Atticus.
"Someone else can do it, I've worn out!"
Bastion stood up, carefully choosing a deck from his coat.
"I'll go. I never pass up the chance to test out my decks."
"Excellent. Just give me a minute to adjust things once more."
