Chapter 25: Joey and the Monkey
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptors or Yugioh. I do own Erin. Also there is a special guest staring in this chapter I won't say much but I'll also say this I don't own him.
The three days had passed since Pegasus had formatted a plan of action against the Earthbound Immortals. This meant something to Erin, this would be the first time she, and her allies would take an offensive approach to MFWD from allowing them to use their Earthbound Immortals. Blair, Ferb, Erin, Joey and Phineas were all packed for the adventure. They were doing one last look at their decks trying to make adjustments so they'd protect themselves from MFWD a bit better. They needed every Life Point they could have in order to make sure they'd survive an Earthbound Immortal's Direct Attack. The group was now meeting up with Pegasus, Erin's parents, and Eriol at Pegasus's mansion. Eriol had agreed on Pegasus's plan seeing that he didn't like that fact that MFWD were using them against Erin and her friends. They all gathered around the table sitting in chairs when there was a knock at the door.
"Who can that be?" Joey asked.
Pegasus shrugged "Don't know, and funny I wasn't expecting any other guest at this time today."
Ruby Moon, one of Eriol's servants went up to answer the door. The girl was about to get a shock of her life. As she got to the door she tried to be polite "Yes, who is it?"
"Ether you Pegasus started dating again or you got a new servant...Open up this door this instant!"
Ruby Moon looked out of the spyhole and gasped seeing that it was a brown haired man wearing a white jacket. He had blue eyes. Ruby stepped back shocked for once. She knew when someone was powerful in both world effort ways and in Duel Monsters. She turns as Syaoran Li walked up the stairs thinking Ruby might've seen someone from MFWD "What's wrong?"
"Tell Mr. Pegasus we have a visitor that wants to speak to him...Also tell Wheeler that he mighjt want to sit tight. He may not like who comes down."
Syaoran Li nods going to inform Pegasus "Right but is it someone from MFWD?"
"Negative" Ruby answered "But it is someone else that Joey doesn't like."
Ruby watches as Erin's father walked down towards the room where they were having their meeting. Ruby now opened the door and the man came in "Took you long enough to open the door!"
"Sorry Mr...Kaiba is it?"
"Yes, that's my name" the man said "Seto Kaiba."
"Sorry Mr. Kaiba sir, but Mr. Pegasus wasn't expecting guests at this time, you see he's having a meeting and-"
Kaiba ignored her explanation "I could careless if he was in a meeting or not, but I'm here to see him rather he wants to see me or not. I came here looking to why Pegasus asked me to lend him a few Kaibe Corp probes especially for this Suicide Forest!"
Ruby nods closing the door but made sure that no one else was waiting to come inside at least no one from MFWD. Once she closed it she guided Seto Kaiba towards the meeting room where everyone was silent. All eyes turned towards the entrance area of the room as Pegasus looked up and turned "Well Ruby, it looks like you've dragged in my old friend Kaiba boy!"
"KAIBA?" Joey shouted breaking up the silence after Pegasus spoke his words "NOT YOU AGAIN!"
"Nice to see you too you Dueling Monkey" Seto Kaiba said shrugging Joey's words off.
"DUELING MONKEY?" Joey demanded forming a fist "WHY I OUTTA!"
He wouldn't get far for Blair, Phineas, and Ferb were holding him back from charging "Let me go you three! I gotta give Kaiba a one-two punch!"
"Settle down man!" Blair told Joey "I mean I know he gets on your nerves but you have to settle down!"
"She's right!" Phineas said "No use starting even more trouble now!"
Seto Kaiba looked at Erin whom was sitting at Pegasus's side "So...You must be this Erin Syaoran that has beaten quite a handful of my students back at Duel Academy and is Pegasus's student."
"T-T-T-That's me sir" Erin said in an unease voice, compared to the kind Yugi, Kaiba sort of already scared her.
Seto Kaiba looks at her more "You must be impressive to beat an Obelisk Blue in Alexis, a really smart Ra Yellow in Bastion, and helping Jaden to defeat Nightshroud and some other brainwashed attacker serving this MFWD."
"Oh she's incredible Kaiba!" Joey told him "She beat Mai Valletine"
"That's nothing new Wheeler, anyone that's focused on dueling Mai and not think for only themselves can beat Mai" Kaiba told him.
Joey formed a fist not believing Kaiba would insult Mai's dueling skills but at least Kaiba admitted the ones that did lose to Mai usually did think only for themselves one of those being John Claw Magnum. Kaiba looked at Pegasus "I'm cutting the main problem here, I didn't come here to see your student Pegasus, I came here wanting to know why you asked me for two or three Kaiba Corp probes to cover the Suicide Forest...News flash, nothing important is in there!"
It is Phineas that spoke "For once sadly Mr. Seto Kaiba...That's where you are wrong! Supposingly, somewhere in there is the main base of MFWD."
Kaiba glared at Phineas for calling him out in being wrong but there was something about the words of MFWD that made him know Phineas was telling the truth "So...If I'm wrong then tell me isn't MFWD the same clowns that kidnapped two of my students and planned to try to kidnap a third?"
"That would be correct" Phineas answered in a matter of fact voice.
"So..." Kaiba said looking at Pegasus "You wanted the three probes to look around that area looking for the base because why?"
"They are after powerful cards" Eriol said to Kaiba "Cards that in the wrong hands especially MFWD's hands could lead this world to being conquered...They aren't Duel Monster Cards and are known as Sakura Cards."
Sakura held a card up to show Kaiba what one looked like.
Kaiba wasn't too pleased "Oh please...You're saying a couple of Tarot cards has that much power? You're pulling my leg!"
"There are fifty-three of them" Sakura explained.
"Oh I'm sorry, Fifty-Three tarot cards?" Kaiba said still not believing in them "Next you'll be telling me that these Sakura Cards are magical."
"But they are!" Sakura said.
"I rest my case" Kaiba muttered "Those cards can't be that strong."
"What's his deal?" Li asked Joey.
Joey answered "Rich Boy doesn't believe in magic. So anyone telling him some cards are magical go in one ear and exit out the other."
"What would happen if Mommy uses one?" Erin whispered to Joey.
"He still wouldn't believe it" Joey answered "Heck he doesn't even believe in Yugi's Millennium Puzzle or that any Millennium Item has magic in them. Even when his soul was taken out by one of them!"
Kaiba turned to Pegasus "Regardless on what MFWD is after, that doesn't excuse those clowns of attacking my Duel Academy. They will pay for that and will pay for it dearly when I catch them. So now that I know that they are supposingly in the Suicide Forest, I will lend you the three probes...And they better catch something because if not it will be a waste of Kaiba Corp money."
"Oh, so your lending the probes?" Pegasus asked.
"For at least five days" Kaiba said "Now if they pick something up in those five days even some unusual activity from this MFWD then I'll let them out longer. So...I can see you all are in a meeting now...What's it for?"
"Our first big offensive against them" Sakura answered.
Kaiba turned his attention to the screen of Ccappu "Pegasus...What is that?"
"I had nothing to do with that Monster" Pegasus told Kaiba "But that's an Earthbound Immortal one of seven of them."
"I was gonna say, this Pegasus, ether you grown too old and don't have imagination any more or that is someone else's card they created."
"Careful what you say there Kaiba, Earthbound Immortals have the ability to attack the player directly..." Joey warned Kaiba "One nearly killed Erin."
Kaiba grew more interested in this "Hmm...Maybe you do have something there. Now what's the big offensive?"
"We are in the planning stages right now" Phineas told him "We're going to the source of the Earthbound Immortal problem then taking MFWD's ability away to use them by dueling their Duelist that have them."
"That's a bold move you are making Pegasus" Kaiba said looking at Pegasus for once there was a hint of kindness coming from Kaiba as if Kaiba was warning him but that soon turned out to be an insult "What hope do you have to gain in sending your only student up against them all...You nearly lost her once, and if she doesn't get a good hand a couple more times then she's as good as dead the next time. Plus"
Kaiba looked around seeing Erin's friends "You have two kids from this Tri-State Area that prefer Dueling together, a girl with love issue matters-"
"HEY!" Blair shouted angrily at the insult "Don't bring up my love for Zane and Jaden at that time!"
Kaiba ignored her then sent the biggest insult at Joey "Then you got the Dueling Monkey...I suppose out of the group the Dueling Monkey has the biggest experience in dueling but even with his skills they all will fall."
"Keep on talking Kaiba!" Joey said in an angry tone.
"I shall not shut up" Kaiba ordered Joey, forcing the Blond to nearly break the hold that Blair, Ferb and Phineas were holding him in but they were able to hold.
Kaiba looks at Pegasus "If you wanted to deal with the Earthbound Immortals so quickly than you should've came to me or Yugi. The two of us alone could handle these Earthbound Gods especially when Yugi has the three God Cards in his deck. This first ever offensive mission you are planning Pegasus is bound to fail!"
"It isn't about beating them" Sakura told him.
Her husband Syaoran Li stood up "Sakura's right Kaiba! Sure the first step is beating the Earthbound Immortal user in a Duel but the next step is to silence the Earthbound Immortal and the Seal Card one of my wife's Sakura Cards has that power to do it."
Kaiba shrugged off this as he looked at Pegasus "So you have a decent plan of attack, but you are lacking the strength factor in your group. This mission is bound to fail from the start because you are sending a group of kids and a Dueling Monkey to deal with such a threat. Please Pegasus for once be smarter!"
Pegasus turned to Seto Kaiba smiling "Oh, Kaiba-boy, you maybe a strong Duelist but you forget one important thing about Duel Monsters, is that it's this, if you believe in yourself you can accomplish anything. Besides how many times has Yugi-Boy beat you? Last I checked dueling Duelist Kingdom you had to cheat to defeat Yugi"
"HE CHEATED?" Sakura asked.
"Oh he did" Pegasus said "He threatened to jump off a cliff if Yugi were to finish the Duel off right then and there."
"The Pharaoh inside Yug's Millennium Puzzle didn't care much for Kaiba then" Joey admitted "And he was going to attack Kaiba but...My pal Yugi decided not to in the end."
Kaiba glares at Pegasus and Joey as even he knew that win he had on Yugi wasn't a solid win compared to Yugi's other wins on him. Pegasus then spoke up encouraging words "I believe in my student and her friends to be able to overcome the Earthbound Immortals. Of course if you are so worried about my student and her friend's first ever offensive mission you can tag along."
"Oh please" Kaiba said "I have more important things to do than just babysit a bunch of kids and the Dueling Monkey."
"Call me a Dueling Money again Rich Boy and I'll break through this hold and give you three punches to the face!" Joey warned.
Kaiba then looks at Pegasus "I don't believe your group can be successful against the Earthbound Immortals."
"Then why don't we make a little bet shall we?" Pegasus asked.
Kaiba turned as Pegasus then made up the suggestion "If Erin and her friends are able to defeat the Earthbound Immortals than you give me the three probes for free so that I can use them instead of you."
"Fine!" Kaiba said "And if they are unsuccessful my probes will cost you double the money! For this bet I'll even take your group to the first location once you've found an Earthbound Immortal. Heck I'll even tag along with them to see one of your team's efforts fail."
"Very well."
"Does he have to be with us?" Joey asked.
"It's only for one Duel!" Phineas told him.
"Just settle down" Ferb said "And think of what will happen when we prove Kaiba wrong."
Joey grinned really thinking on this "Oh, thank you, I think I already am feeling better on that!"
The meeting was then resolved and the first location was revealed. Kaiba was true to his word and took Blair, Erin, Ferb, Joey and Phineas to the destination with Sakura being with them seeing that she had the Seal Sakura Card. She didn't want Erin to try to attempt to use the Seal Card. Such a card like that may have unintended consequences on her daughter, so perhaps this was one card for Erin to use when she got older.
They finally arrived at the area with Kaiba looking around seeing the line in the ground "So...We are here...Oh and Wheeler, how fitting for you after all it was you that said you'll be taking on this Earthbound Immortal on and it looks like a monkey...Quite a good impression if you ask me
Joey glared at Kaiba "QUIT MOCKING ME RICH BOY!"
Erin turned to her mother "Even when it's not a Duel yet, I can sense an evil power coming from it."
"I can too Erin"
"First thing is first" Erin suggested "We have to duel the opponent first right?"
"I'd so love to Duel Demonica!" Joey said "For what she put you threw Erin!"
"I doubt it's Demonica" Phineas told him.
Suddenly the scene seems to change as the ground shook.
"That's funny" Kaiba muttered as everyone hugged the ground "This isn't on a fault line, so an Earthquake shouldn't have appeared."
Sakura turned hearing what appeared to be thunder in the distance and shadows seemed to emerge "That's because it's no earthquake!"
"Then what is it?" Joey asked.
Phineas looked threw his binoculars he brought with him for this just in case they'd run into trouble like this. He bit his lip as he saw the figures "STAPMEDE!"
Sakura thought quickly grabbing Erin and Blair she managed to with them in her arms jump into a tree for safety. Kaiba, Phineas and Ferb managed to get on another tree but sadly for Joey...He was too slow in his reaction time as he looks up "Stampede of what Phineas?"
He would get his answer as bulls, cows and other cattle ran over him.
"Are you okay Joey?" Phineas asked seeing that the dust cleared.
Amazingly even when trampled Joey raised a hand "I think they broke something! But I'll be fine."
Erin rushes down to help Joey up as Sakura does the same helping him up. Kaiba was shaking his head almost wanting to laugh at Wheeler's misfortune. Things like that nearly always happened to Joey.
"Where did that stampede come from?" Joey asked.
Phineas answered "From the north of here."
"Yeah, I can see that and I felt them on my back" Joey muttered "But who are they running from?"
Kaiba answered as a masked clown figure emerged "Maybe that clown could tell you."
Joey looked up to see the clown "Great...A clown. Wait a second a MASKED Clown!"
The figure glared "What are you doing on my land?"
"You're land?" Kaiba asked "Last I checked this land is owned by the federal government of this place."
"All lands that have Earthbound Immortal markings belong to MFWD!" the clown spoke.
"So you work for them" Joey said getting up "And that stampede was your doing."
Joey grabbed the clown by the throat and started whirling him about "Who were you after? What purpse did you have to do that? You could've killed me!"
"I was hoping to separate your group to get to Erin easily, but the mother was smarter than I thought too bad you weren't and I would've not cared if you would've lived through that."
"Why you?" Joey said "It's always trying to get to Erin!"
The MFWD member managed to pull out an electric button and forced Joey's hand to touch it. The button emitted an electrical charge that was sent into Joey shocking him and forced him to let go after the blond screamed "ELECTRIC BUTTON? Don't tell me you are the Joker from Batman!"
The clown began to laugh "Joker? Oh he's my favorite Batman villain alright...You know why?"
The masked figure pulls off his masked to reveal that he was indeed the Clown Prince of Crime, the Joker.
"HOLY SMOKES!" Blair shouted.
"IT'S THE JOKER!" Phineas and Ferb shouted.
"Great..." Sakura muttered "Why did MFWD have to have him?"
The Joker laughed "That's right ladies and Gentlemen, I'm Mr. J!"
"If you're the Joker" Kaiba said stepping out trying not to believe this man "Then where is the Batman?"
"Oh, you know how the BATMAN is" Joker explained "He only arrives at night and last I checked is still in Gotham City!"
"Why are you in league with MFWD?" Sakura asked.
Joker laughed "Because why not? They wear masks! Anyone that wears masks and wants to conquer the world is my sort of organization and soon I'll be the top of that organization...Now hand over Erin and her mother!"
Joey looks at the Joker knowing full too well that the Joker had Joker Venom on him somewhere but where was the Joker's gun? He saw a Duel Disk "I didn't know you were a Duelist."
"My sonny boy, in order to be in MFWD you have to be a Duelist as well..." Joker said "I must admit it's a fun game especially when Shadow Dueling is involved...Seeing your opponent's lying in death as their life force withers away, that's fun...Really fun."
"So what deck do you have?" Kaiba demanded "You can't have a good deck due to being a clown so I'm assuming you have a Clown based deck?"
"Oh?" the Joker asked "there is a clown based deck? Oh I'll look into that one next...I only stole this deck from another Duelist that I captured, and killed only finding the ace in the hole!"
The Joker laughs pointing to the markings "This Earthbound Immortal of course!"
Joey knew he had to stand up "If you are so powerful Joker, then take me on! We're looking for MFWD members that have Earthbound Immortals...Take me on!"
"You want to take me on sonny boy?" The Joker asked "I was hoping that Seto Kaiba would do the honors."
Kaiba spoke mocking the Joker "Don't be ridiculous Joker! Why should I dirty my deck against your deck? I'd be able to beat you in an instant...Besides I'm only here as an observer."
The Joker laughs then eyes Joey "Then so be it! I'll be glad to handle you and hand you a loss! A loss of which you'll never come back alive with!"
"That's where I'll prove you wrong!" Joey said as the two activated their Duel Disks.
Once activate the two drew their top five cards shouting "DUEL!"
Joey's Life Points: 4000
Joker's Life Points: 4000
"I'll start things off Sonny boy!" the Joker announced.
Joey allowed him "Go ahead, show me why I should fear you."
"I shall" Joker said checking his hand.
The Joker grinned "Well, why don't I start by summoning Berserk Gorilla? in attack mode!"
Berserk Gorilla appears on the field ATK: 2000
"Turn end" Joker said.
Kaiba watched this thinking Interesting, I was thinking the Joker would have Clowns in this deck, but he did admit he stole this deck from another duelist after killing him so, he's dueling with the stolen deck instead. The only Monster that the Joker has confirmed he has is the Earthbound Immortal.
"That seems to be a powerful monster there Joker" Joey told the Joker "Now watch how I make my move, it's my move, I draw!"
Joey drew his card checking his hand "Sweet! I summon Goblin Attack Force in attack mode!"
Goblin Attack Force appears on Joey's side of the field ATK: 2300
"Battle!" Joey announced "Goblin Attack Force attacks your Berserk Gorilla, go get him guys!"
The goblins rush over to Beserk Gorilla bashing it with their clubs destroying it and dealing damage to the Joker's Life Points.
Joker's Life Points: 3700
"When Goblin Attack Force attacks" Joey explained "They are switched into defense mode!"
Joey's monster switched into defense mode DEF: 0.
"Turn end!" Joey announced.
"Not bad sonny boy!" The Joker announced "I draw!"
The Joker drew his card "Oh dear Wheeler, I'm about to deal you a lethal blow, I summon Rescue Cat!"
Rescue Cat appears on the field ATK: 300
"How's that going to be lethal?" Joey demanded.
"Why it's effect is going to be lethal that's what!" The Joker said while laughing at the end "I activate Rescue Cat's ability by offering it up I can Special Summon two level three or below Beast Type Monsters from my deck, but they are destroyed when I end my turn. So my Rescue Cat is going to the Graveyard in order for me to Special Summon the Elephun Tuner Monster and D.D. Crazy Beast!"
Elepun appears on the field ATK: 500, then D.D Crazy Beast also appeared ATK: 1400
"Tuner Monster?" Kaiba asked not sure where this was going.
Erin knew "This can't be good for Wheeler."
"And it's not!" the Joker said "I'll Tune the Level two Elephun Tuner Monster with the Level Three D.D Crazy Beast in order to Synchro Summon...Naturia Beast!"
Out of a bright flash of white light Naturia Beast rose ATK: 2200
Erin knew what it did. This was the first Synchro Monster Pegasus introduced her too during her second day at learning from him.
"Now" the Joker said to Joey "My Naturia Beast is hungry for some goblins! And she shall have them! Battle, Naturia Beast attack Goblin Attack Force with Naturia Pounce!"
Naturia Beast roared and pounced destroying Joey's monster with ease.
"Turn end" The Joker said a big smile was on his face.
"It's my move!" Joey announced "I draw!"
He drew his card "I summon Swordsman of Landstar in defense mode!"
A small swordsman appeared DEF: 1200
"Then I'll set one card face down and end my turn" Joey said.
"It's my move!" the Joker announced "I draw!"
The Joker drew his card then grinned "I activate Spell Card: Polymerization!
That stolen deck has fusion? Kaiba thought.
"With Polymerization" the Joker explained "I'll fuse Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts and Berfemet in order to Fusion Summon Chimera, The Flying Mythical Beast!"
"Battle!" the Joker announced "Chimera, attack Joey's Swordsman of Landstar! Polverizing Pounce!"
Chimera roared and pounced on Joey's defense monster destroying it with ease.
"Now" The Joker announced "You have no monsters to defend you sonny boy, which means you're Life Points are wide opened, so Naturia Beast attack the player directly! Naturia Pounce!"
"My Life Points maybe wide opened" Joey declared "But not for long, I activate Quick-Play Spell Card: Scapegoat!"
Joey's face down activated allowing Joey to explain the effect "Now this card allows me to Special Summon four goat tokens!"
"Amazing" Joker said but then he laughs.
"What's so funny?" Joey asked "I'm about to stop your monster's direct attack!"
The Joker laughs more "Oh Wheeler, wake up and smell defeat will you? Normally you'd pull off a good move but you see my Naturia Beast comes with a special ability, any time you or I activate a Spell Card, I can activate my Monster's special ability sending the top two cards from my deck to the Graveyard, I can have my Naturia Beast negate and destroy that Spell Card."
"SAY WHAT?" Joey demanded clearly not anticipating Naturia Beast's effect!
Kaiba just grinned The Joker's out playing the mutt. Without Joey's luck based Spell Card, I'm just about to witness Wheeler's defeat.
The Joker smiled at Joey as he discarded the two cards from the top of his deck to the Graveyard "Watch me sonny boy! So I've now discarded the two top cards from my deck to the Graveyard allowing me to activate my monster's ability of Naturia Negation!"
Naturia Beast roared at the top of it's lungs negating Joey's Scapegoat Quick-Play Spell Card.
Joey watches bewildered about this "No way!"
"Oh yes, way sonny boy!" The Joker said as he pointed to Joey "Which means my Beast can still carry out her Direct Attack!"
Naturia Beast leaps onto Joey Wheeler slashing him and took him onto the ground onto his back grunting in pain as his Life Points dropped heavily. Joey's Life Points: 1800
"Joey!" Erin shouted.
"He can't take any more hits!" Phineas admitted.
"Poor Joey" Sakura muttered.
"Turn end" the Joker said smiling "It looks like I won't have to summon the Earthbound Immortal after all.
"I'm not out yet!" Joey announced getting up "It's my move! I draw!"
Joey drew his card then grinned "I'll summon my Fortress Warrior to the field in defense mode!"
Fortress Warrior appeared on the field DEF: 1200
"Next" Joey announced "I'll set one card face-down and end my turn!"
"It's the finishing blow then!" the Joker announced "It's my move I draw!"
The Joker drew then checked his hand "Battle! Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast shall attack your defense monster with Pulverizing pounce!"
Chimera roars then pounces at Joey's monster. Joey then grinned "Too bad, Fortress Warrior is going to defend me this turn, you see Fortress Warrior can't be destroyed by battle once each turn and any battle damage isn't taken!"
Fortress Warrior is pounced on by Chimera but it still stands.
"Impressive!" The Joker announced "But I still have one more monster out on the field, Naturia Beast attack Fortress Warrior, and keep in mind Wheeler this is the second attack which will destroy it!"
Naturia Beast roared and pounced, Joey smiled "You maybe able to block my Spell Cards but not my Trap Cards, I activate Trap Card: Kunai with Chain!"
"Nice one!" Blair said "Nice defending Joey!"
Joey explained the effect "With Kunai with Chain's effect, I'll only activate the first option putting your monster into defense mode!"
Naturia Beast turned into defense mode which canceled her attack on Joey's monster DEF: 1700
The Joker blinked not having any defense against that "Not bad"
The Joker looked at his hand "Turn end!"
"It's my move!" Joey announced "I draw!"
He then smiled "You aren't the only one that can Synchro Summon Joker! I summon the Luck Synchron Tuner Monster!"
Luck Synchron appeared on the field ATK: 500
"Next I'll activate Luck Synchron's special ability!" Joey announced "First I can increase the level of one of my monsters on the field so I choose to up Fortress Warrior's level by one level!"
Fortress Warrior's level increased by one 2-3.
"Next" Joey announced "I'll activate Luck Synchron's second special ability, before it's used for a Synchro Summon, I get to roll a die and depending on the results, that ability will be passed down to the Synchro Monster!"
Joey rolls the dice and it lands on a lucky three!
"Sweet!" Joey announced "Lucky three! Now I'm going to tune my Luck Synchron Tuner Monster with my now Level Three Fortress Warrior!"
Joey begins to chant "Warrior of Luck, answer the call. Come out and shine your Luck under the rainbow. Synchro Summon...Level 6...Luck Warrior!"
Luck Warrior appears on Joey's side of the field in a flash of light ATK: 2500
Joey then smiled "Now Joker, I have the upper hand here! You see, when Luck Synchron's effect comes from a three, the ability he passes down to Luck Warrior is that during my Battle Phase your monsters lose two hundred attack points for every monster in my Graveyard and that same amount is added onto my monster's attack points!"
Joker counted down Joey's monster "That would make it...Four Monsters!"
"That's right!" Joey said "So all of your monsters loses a grand total of eight hundred attack points and Luck Warrior gains them during the Battle Phase, so...Battle!"
Naturia Beast and Chimera, the Flying Mythical Beast have their attack points reduced 2200-1400, 2100-1300, while Joey's Luck Warrior had it's attack points increased by the same amount. 2500-3300
"When did Wheeler get Luck Synchron and now Luck Warrior?" Kaiba demanded looking at the play Joey had just made, he never knew Joey had this Synchro Monster. Now he heard Dr. Crowler had lost to Joey but he didn't want to know how exactly Crowler lost.
Sakura giggled "I found them one day and got them for him."
Kaiba shook his head "You got him two good cards...Maybe lady luck was looking not only on you but him that day..."
"Now" Joey announced "It's time Luck Warrior does some damage Joker! Luck Warrior's own special ability allows him to attack twice during the Battle Phase, but if he attacks that second time Battle Damage is halved. So here's the first attack, Luck Warrior, attack Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast with LUCK SLASH!
The Joker watches as Joey's Luck Warrior charges, leaps then slashes Chimera destroying it causing damage to the Joker's Life Points. Joker's Life Points: 1700
The Joker blinked "Why, that was a good move! But when Chimera is destroyed, I am allowed to bring back Gazzle the King of Mythical Beast to the field in defense mode!"
Gazzle appears on the field DEF: 1200
"Doesn't matter!" Joey announced "Now thanks to Luck Warrior's ability I'll also attack your Naturia Beast whom is in defense mode! Go, Luck Warrior, attack Naturia Beast with Luck Slash as well!"
Luck Warrior charges again this time slashing Naturia Beast down destroying it, due to Naturia Beast being in defense mode the Joker's Life Points were spared but at least Joey was able to destroy that threat as well enabling him to use his Spell Cards again.
"I'll set one card face-down" Joey announced "And it ends my turn."
Seto Kaiba watches the Duel as Joey had no cleaned up this gap. Wheeler was ahead of the Joker by just one hundred. It was all thanks to Kunai with Chain and the effect of Fortress Warrior during Wheeler's last turn.
"It's my move!" Joker announced "I draw!"
The Joker drew his card "I'll activate Spell Card: Circus Deal!"
A New Spell Card was played and the Joker announced it's effect "With this Spell Card, I'm allowed to bring back two Beast Type monsters that were destroyed by battle but their effects are negated and I draw two cards!"
Joey watched as Chimera, the Flying Mythical Beast and Naturia Beast came back on the field but Erin along with her friends could tell their effects were negated. ATK: 2100, 2200
Joker then drew two more cards from his deck then smiled "Great fortune! It's time to send you to your Death Wheeler! I activate Field Spell Card: Ancient Forest!"
The Field changes to be what looked like an Ancient Forest, and Joey knew what was coming "This can't be good!"
"It's good for me!" The Joker announced in between laughter "But it's good for me, I tribute my Naturia Beast, and Chimera, the Flying Mythical Beast in order to Tribute Summon, Earthbound Immortal Cusillu!"
Just as Erin experienced with Ccappau, something evil happened, not only did a great big object appear over the Joker's head shown up but the lining to the monkey Earthbound Immortal began to glow blue. Chimera, and Natruia Beast disappeared and were sucked into the object followed by more human souls. Kaiba watches with horror on his face but he tried not to show it as even he knew this was an evil act. He didn't know that Earthbound Immortals needed souls to summon too.
Joker begins to chant out "Come on out thy Monkey God. The time to awaken has fallen upon you...Rise up and bring lovable chaos and mayhem to the world, Tribute Summon, Level 8 Earthbound Immortal Cusillu!"
With the last soul sucked in the object burst apart and soon a huge yellow outlined monkey appeared on the field ATK: 2800
"Oh, great" Joey muttered "It had to be a monkey!"
The Joker now laughs "Now you are dead Wheeler! Earthbound Immortals including Cusillu can attack the player directly! Battle, Earthbound Immortal Cusillul, attack Joey directly and end this Duel!"
All eyes were on Joey what could he do against this thing, Joey had the answer "I activate my trap Card!"
"Most Trap Cards won't work on Immortals!" Joker warned.
"I'm aware of that!" Joey said "But my Trap Card I'm playing isn't meant to stop your monster from attacking me directly, it's meant to lower you monster's attack, I activate my Skull Dice Trap Card!"
"Good call Joey!" Phineas remarked.
Joey's face down activated and Joey announces it's effect "Now I get to roll one dice, and depending on the result you're monster's attack will be divided by!"
He rolls a die and out come out a two. The Joker watches as his Earthbound Immortals attack points were halved 2800-1400
Joey sees the monster towering over him with one arm it then brings it down. Joey tries to flea from the fist not wanting to get flattened. He managed to do so but not a powerful wave of rocks and darkness which swarmed over him like a Tsunami wave taking Joey to the ground. Due to Joey's Skull Dice Trap Card, Joey managed to survive that battle with the Earthbound Immortal with some of his Life Points remaining. Joey's Life Points: 400
"Joey!" Erin shouted seeing him have a hard time getting up.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked.
Joey raised his hand "Yes, I'm fine!"
The Joker looks at Joey "You survived that round, but next round you will be finished sonny boy! I'll set one card face down and end my turn."
Once Joker completed his turn his Earthbound Immortals attack went back to normal 1400-2800
Joey saw that the Joker didn't have any other cards in his hand, this round he had to defeat the Joker "It's all or nothing now, it's my last turn, I draw!"
Joey drew his card then saw it was his Time Wizard and one other card and saw it was a winning hand "Alright then, it's truly all or nothing! I summon Time Wizard!"
Time Wizard appears on the field ATK: 500. This made the Joker unease "Not that card!"
"Oh, yes that card!" Joey announced "I'll activate my Time Wizard's effect Time Roulette!"
All eyes watched the Time Wizard begin spinning it's clock hands. The Joker clearly watched for a skull while Blair, Erin, Ferb, Phineas and Sakura hoped for a cloud. Kaiba just stares watching the duel not even caring on the result, even he knew this was Joey's last turn. The clock hands stop moving and Time Wizard's hands stop on a cloud.
"Sweet!" Joey announced he looks at the Joker "Now all Monsters on your side of the field are destroyed pal!"
"Not so fast!" Joker announced "If my Earthbound Immortal Cusillu is going to be destroyed by a Card effect I can choose one monster on the field and have it be destroyed instead so Gazzle will be the only monster your Time Wizard destroys!"
Joey watches this and then grinned "I figured that your Earthbound Immortal had some sort of other ability!"
"You're only monster you have is Luck Warrior!" Joker said "And my Earthbound Immortal can't be attacked!"
"I know that!" Joey said "Which is why I have one last card in my hand, it's called Red-Eyes Fusion!"
"What?" The Joker asked "No way!"
"Oh yes way!" Joey announced playing his last card "With Red-Eyes Fusion I can search my deck, hand and field to Fusion Summon a monster, so I'll fuse my Red-Eyes Black Dragon in my deck with both Time Wizard and Luck Warrior on the field!"
Joey begins to chant out "Powerful Red-Eyes, Wizard of Time, and Warrior of Luck, heed my call join forces together in order to overcome any odd...Fusion Summon Level 12 Luck Warrior, The Red Eyes Dragon Knight!"
Once Joey's fusion Summon was complete everyone saw Joey's new monster. It had Luck Warrior on Red-Eyes Black Dragon as if it were a dragon rider or dragon knight, to Kaiba it almost looked like Black Luster Soldier the Dragon Knight but it had Time Wizard's scepter in it's hands. ATK: 5000
Passionate Duelist Plays
"That's some monster!" The Joker declared laughing "But even with that Fusion Monster, my monster can't be targeted!"
Joey just grinned "I wonder about that too, now I activate my new Monster's special ability. Another Time Roulette!"
"Another one?" The Joker asked.
"Indeed!" Joey said "Now this effect can only be applied immediately after I've successfully Fusion Summoned it. If it lands on a skull all monsters on my side of the field have their effects negated and I take damage equal to my monster's attack points, if it lands on a cloud, all of your monsters have their effects as well as all monsters in all Graveyards are removed from play...For each monster removed, all monsters on your side of the field have their attack points lowered by five hundred and Red-Eyes the Dragon Knight gains them!"
Kaiba blinked and was now nervous, this new Dragon fusion of Wheeler's certainly would give HIS monsters a run for his money.
The Joker laughs mocking Joey "Like this will be the same result as before Wheeler!"
"We'll see" Joey told the Joker as the Time Roulette activated for Joey's new Monster.
All eyes were on this effect. Soon the it stopped and just like the Time Wizard before, it lands on a cloud.
"NO WAY NOT AGAIN!" Joker announced seeing this in disbelief.
"Oh yes it's true!" Joey announced "Now Luck Warrior, the Red-Eyes Dragon Knight, unleash Time Disruption!"
Luck Warrior, the Red-Eyes Dragon Knight raised it's scepter and unleashed a vortex which sucked up every monster in Joey's Graveyard which there were four and all monsters in Joker's Graveyard.
"A total of nine monsters were removed!" Erin shouts.
"That's going to be way too much for that Earthbound God to handle" Phineas said "And Joey's monster gains nearly another five thousand Life Points! But it's forty-five hundred since it's nine monsters."
It was true, the Joker's best monster had it's attack points stripped 2800-0 while Joey's Monster had it's attack points increased 5000-9500
"Oh no!" the Joker shouted.
"Oh yes way!" Joey announced "And now for some payback! Plus remember your monster's effects are negated until the end of the turn thanks to the ability being a success! Now Battle, Luck Warrior the Dragon Knight attack the Earthbound Immortal Cusillu and END THIS DUEL! Molten Fireball Slash!"
Joey's monster let out a roar from the Dragon part of it and it gained a huge fireball and fired it out at The Earthbound Immortal the ball hit and Luck Warrior the Red-Eyes Dragon Knight slashes it cutting it down and ending the Duel in Joey's victory as well as sending the Joker flying backwards for miles looking like he may land in Gotham city.
Joker's Life Points: 0
Joey's Life Points: 400
Passionate Duelist Ends
"I don't believe this!" Kaiba announced seeing this "Wheeler just beat the Joker!"
"Oh, I believe it" Erin told him.
Kaiba puts a hand to his hand not believing he saw Joey defeat an Earthbound Immortal. Maybe he was wrong about this, maybe Erin and her friends could do this, but then again there were six more of these out there. Sakura raised her hand chanting out her chant to get her wand out. Once out she spoke "I call upon the forces of my star, Ancient Forces, near and far, Sakura Card, come forward and draw your power to my might, Seal Card, seal the Earthbound Marking away!"
She slams her staff on the Seal Card and the Seal Card erupted immediately at first appearing to be a beautiful woman which caused Joey to droll remarking "For the God Sakura Card that's one handsome lady!"
Then the Seal Card's woman figure vanished seemingly to float over the Earthbound Immortal's mark and cast a huge black sphere over it engulfing the entire mark. When it was finished the marking was completely gone and the Seal Card was back into Sakura's hands.
"One down" Sakura said "Six more to go."
"Way to go Joey!" Erin called to him.
Joey winced as she accidentally touched his swollen shoulder "It wasn't so bad! The Joker put up a tough fight but I managed to do it!"
Joey turned to Kaiba "So Mr. Rich Boy? How did I do?"
"Don't get me wrong Wheeler, you did well. However once again it was luck based...It's only because of luck you were able to pull off a win" Kaiba told him "One of these days Wheeler you'll never be as lucky as you were today. Maybe you all have some way of defeating these Earthbound Gods but the next opponents will be tougher. Now once you've recovered we'd be heading back home."
The group agreed waiting for Joey to heal up a bit.
end of Chapter
The first Earthbound Immortal is sealed away! At least until the 5ds Era comes around. Anyway this was an incredible duel and yes, the special guest star was indeed the Joker from the Batman series because my mind couldn't figure out who else to use. Anyway the Joker should've used a clown based deck maybe next time if I put him in again he will but remember he stole this deck from another Duelist whom will not be named. Anyway next chapter is Chapter 26: Erin's Rival While waiting for Joey to successfully recover, Kaiba has decided to take his own personal student outside of Duel Academy in order to give Erin what he calls a proper challenge, now invites Erin to the Kaiba Dome to Duel his own student to see how far Erin has came out...Can Erin's deck overwhelm her first ever true rival or will the Rival's Horus and Friends deck be too much for her to handle this time?
Special Cards
Haven't done this much but it's needed to do it. Luckily there is only two new card and as far as I know it's made up so please don't go looking for it...The first of the new cards is...
Circus Deal
Type: Spell Card
Effect: Select two Beast type Monsters in your Graveyard and Special Summon them to the field, if any have effects those effects are negated, then draw two Cards.
This was owned by the Joker
And now the bigger one-on-one
Luck Warrior, the Red-Eyes Dragon Knight
Type: Warrior/Fusion/Effect
Attribute: DARK
Level: 12
ATK: 5000, DEF: 3800
Requirements: "Luck Warrior" "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" and "Time Wizard"
Effect: Only can be Fusion Summoned after you were successful with Time Wizard's effect. When this card is Fusion Summoned, Flip a coin and call it, if you call it right, Negate all Monsters effects on your Opponent's side of the field, remove from Play All Monsters in all Player's Graveyards, this card gains 500 Attack points for each monster removed from play and all Opponent Monsters lose that same amount. If you call wrong all Monsters on your side of the field have their effects negated and you lose Life Points equal to all monster's attack points.
Owned by Joey Wheeler
Special thanks to Dragonknight 15 for introducing me to Red-Eyes Fusion back on Dueling Nexus, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have known about it Joey might've lost without that card. So thanks again Dragonknight 15! I'm also hoping to hear what your input of Joey's new card!
