Yugioh 5D's: Konami/Kazuki Takahashi
One typical day in Crash Town, a nameless person was busy fixing up his employers' duel-runners. It's the same process as any other day: he comes in, he maintains the bikes, he gets out; nothing in-between. The gang he works for don't care much about who he is or what he goes through. His only usefulness is his acceptable maintenance skills, as the others get to make an easier pay in their matches against the rival group. If only they gave him a chance to prove his worth on the field.
The non-subtle sound of a chair breaking against the wall broke him from his train of thought under his work, "I can't believe it! I can't believe she beat us again!" sounds like Radley's back in another fit. It's been common ever since Malcolm had that new duelist for hire. Besides the fact that she's a girl, this mechanic doesn't know much about that new duelist. But she must be pretty skillful to have Radley in such a tantrum; and he's usually calm and creepy... "Malcolm's pet's has to be taken care of, pronto! I don't care that you have to travel the four corners to find 'im! I want a powerful duelist brought here so I can shut Malcolm's mouth of his!"
Maybe this is the opportunity he's been waiting for. So he got up from his work and entered the pub to meet Radley, "Hey Boss, um, maybe it's time I get that opportunity like to promised me. It think I kinda earned a duel. And with my deck-"
"Nobody asked you, Torque!" Radley hissed, "And what do you know, anyway? You're just a wrench-jockey! Now get back to wrenchin'!"
Torque barely ducked under a monkey wrench thrown at him before he ran back outside. He muttered in frustration as he was blown off for the umpteenth time...
Axel chased the thief around Satellite trying to get back the parts stolen from. Eventually he chased him down to one of the old buildings dotting the streets. But when he was about to go inside, two thugs stepped out blocking the doorway. "Outta my way!"
"Hey, what do you think you're doing, wandering into someone's place without permission!" one of them barked.
"Look, I don't want any trouble!" Axel said, "I just want that stuff that guy stole from me!"
"What are ya taking about?" the other thug snapped, "What other guy?!"
"Uh, you mean you never seen some creep with a bowl-cut, a toothbrush mustache and a pink shirt?!"
"Never seen such a person!"
"Look, don't lie to me! I know I caught him running into that building! Now let me through!"
"I don't you're in any position to tell us what to do!" Axel looked over his shoulder and saw several other thugs come out from hiding behind the corners. That caused him to let his guard down and let one of the first two knock him down for the second time today. Now he found himself surrounded by a small gang. "It's time me and my friends teach you a lesson in trespassing into people's property." Suddenly something grabbed a few of the thugs and pulled them out of the circle.
"Come on now… Can you be any more stereotypical?" Axel spotted two more thugs outside the circle; but they seem different from the ones around him. One has messy white hair while the other was black with yellow highlights, arching in three directions; and they were both reeling in their captives with some of the same tethers he saw before. In fact, they were both wearing the same vests that Crow character wore, save for the respective red shirt and black tank top with a red pattern on it. "Anyway, surely, this area's been controlled by yours truly, The Enforcers! More importantly, we can't let punks like you run wild" Okay, they don't look too bad.
"Who are you guys?!" one of the thugs demanded.
"We just introduced ourselves; we're The Enforcers!" from the other direction stood two more people like the first two. One of them has blonde, spiked-up hair, while the other one's a girl with fuzzy purple hair with white ribbons tied on both sides. Both of them caught the few remaining thugs with multiple grapples. "You're not just bad but stupid too, apparently."
"What the heck is a team whachamacallit?!" one of the thugs stammered.
"Never heard of us, huh," the girl scoffed, "Well, I guess we should get better acquainted, right guys?"
"Hey, you!" the guy with the white hair called to Axel, "You're chasing that guy that went inside, Right? Go on! We got it here!"
"…Well you don't have to tell me twice!" Axel sprinted into the building. He ran through every corridor and busted into almost every room looking for the thief. When he heard a loud thump overhead, he zipped through the flights of stairs and charged head first into the first door ahead, taking him back outside standing on the rooftop. He found the thief, but he's lying flat on his stomach. Standing over him is a girl near Axel's age. She's got dark skin like him, ocean-blue eyes and wild blue hair. She's wearing a blue tank top under an open teal shirt with blue rims and blue shorts. In her hand was the bag of parts. "Uh, thanks, I guess."
"These are what you're looking for, right?"
"That would be it. So would you mind giving it back?"
"Mmmm…. Nope; I rather not."
"And why not?!"
"If you really want your stuff back, then how about you take it from me if you beat me in a duel."
"A duel?! Are you kidding me? In case you can't tell, I don't have a duel-disk on me!"
"Somebody asked for a duel-disk?" the girl from the ground came out to the roof, "If you want one then take mine right now! Those guys downstairs were too easy to beat anyway!" she tossed him her duel-disk and Axel caught it.
"It's like I'm facing one problem after another…" Axel grumbled to himself as he attached the duel-disk and activated it. "This better be worth it."
"I'm really glad you accept. And by the way, my name's Taylor!" Taylor activated her own duel-disk. "Now let's duel!"
Axel: 4000
Taylor: 4000
"I'm taking the first turn; I draw!" Taylor drew her sixth card, "And I summon (1) Numbing Grub in the Ice Barrier(4/ATK: 1300/DEF: 1800) in ATK mode!" a large, frost-blue grub worm appeared in the field (ATK: 1300), "And when it's normal-summoned, its special-ability gets activated!" the worm spewed a sort of white slime that froze into a glacier in a spot on Axel's field.
"What did you just put on my field?" Axel wondered.
"It makes it so that spot can't be used to summon a monster. I place two card face-down and end my turn!" a couple of reverse-cards appeared.
"Then it's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "I summon Sabersaurus(4/ATK: 1900/DEF: 500) in ATK mode!" a large, red triceratops-like monster with two large blade-like horns appeared (ATK: 1900), "Now smash that worm!" the dinosaur roared and charged towards the worm.
"I activate the trap card Relieve Monster!" one of Taylor's reverse-cards opened and the worm disappeared, "When a monster on my opponent's field attacks, a monster on my field trades places with a level-4 monster in my hand! So by returning my Numbing Grub in the Ice Barrier, I can now summon (2) Pilgrim of the Ice Barrier(4/ATK: 1500/DEF: 1000) in DEF mode!" a man clad in furs appeared and formed a hexagonal barrier in which Sabersaurus slammed into, "And this monster can't be destroyed by monsters with ATK points of at least 1900!"
Axel groaned then I place one card face-down and end my turn!"
"My turn!" Taylor drew her next card, "I switch Pilgrim of the Ice Barrier in to ATK mode and summon (3) Cryomancer of the Ice Barrier(2/ATK: 1300/DEF: 0)!" a priest wearing majestic clothing appeared, wielding a scepter with an ice sculpture of a snowflake (ATK: 1300). One wave of his wand created a small blizzard that froze both the Pilgrim and Sabersaurus solid.
"What happened to my monster?!" Axel demanded.
"As long as Cryomancer's on the field with another Ice Barrier, no monsters level-4 or higher can attack! That would be it for my turn."
"It's my turn!" Axel drew his next card, "And I summon X-Saber Airbellum in ATK mode!" the lion-like beast-warrior appeared (ATK: 1600), "This monster can both work under you Cryomancer's ability, but also has enough ATK points to destroy your Pilgrim!" Airbellum advanced with its sharpened clawed gauntlets.
"I activate my face-down card, the trap know as Begone, Knave!" Taylor's reverse-card opened while Airbellum sliced the Pilgrim apart, "Whenever a monster inflicts battle-damage, that monster is returned to the hand!" Airbellum vanished.
Axel: 4000
Taylor: 3900
"At least without any other Ice Barrier monster, your Cryomancer's effect can no longer be activated! So now my Sabersaurus can attack!" Sabersaurus slammed into the Cryomancer.
Axel: 4000
Taylor: 3300
"That also means Begone, Knave forces another monster back to your hand!" Taylor said and Sabersaurus disappeared.
"Whatever. I'll just end my turn with a face-down card." A reverse-card appeared.
"Then it's my turn," Taylor drew her next card, "I summon Numbing Grub in the Ice Barrier back to the field in DEF mode!" the giant worm returned (DEF: 1800), "And just like last time, when this monster is summoned, another space in your monster-card zone can't be used!" the worm spewed our more saliva that created another glacier on Axel's field.
"If this keeps up there won't be enough space for him to synchro-summon." The girl commented.
"With that I end my turn."
"It's my turn!" Axel drew his next card, "I summon Sabersaurus back to the field! Now Sabersaurus, attack Numbing Grub one more time!" the raging triceratops stomped on the ice worm. "That end my turn."
"It's my turn," Taylor drew her next card, "I summon (4) Geomancer of the Ice Barrier(3/ATK: 800/DEF: 1200) in DEF mode!" a monk wearing elegant blue robes appeared, hiding a decorated mirror behind her face (DEF: 1200), "Now I activate her special-ability: by sending one card from my hand to the graveyard, I can select a monster's attribute, and then this card can't be attacked by any monsters with that attribute! So by discarding one card my Geomancer can't be attacked by earth-attribute monsters, which I'm sure you're deck has nothing but. With that I end my turn."
"It's my turn," Axel drew his next card, 'She's wrong about one thing; there's one in my deck that can get past Geomancer's effect. Problem is, it's a bit too weak, even for Geomancer. But if I can attack, at least I can get that monster off the field. I might lose a field advantage, but at least I can get rid of her life-points. Until then…' "I summon Airbellum back to the field in ATK mode and end my turn." The beast-warrior lion reappeared (ATK: 1600).
"Then it's my turn," Taylor drew her next card, "I summon (5) Shock Troops of the Ice Barrier(3/ATK: 1500/DEF: 800)!" a man in blue hooded robes appeared wielding a staff (ATK: 1500), "And now I tune him with my Geomancer to synchro-summon (6) Dewloren, King of the Ice Barrier(6/ATK: 2000/DEF: 1400)!" the two monsters merged and the light from their fusion formed a ferocious tiger with frost-blue fir, adorned in black-and-gold armor (ATK: 2000), "Next, I activate the spell card Lightning Vortex! By discarding one card from my hand, all face-up monsters on your field are destroyed!" Both Sabersaurus and Urbellum were struck by a flurry of lightning, "Next I activate the spell Card of Sanctity! Now we both draw until we hold six cards in our hand!" both duelist replenished their respective hands, "Next I activate two continuous-spell cards: Kishido Spirit and Spring of Rebirth! Now I can activate Dewloren's special-ability! By returning the three face-up cards I have in my spell/trap card zone, Dewloren gains 500 ATK points for each one until the end of the turn! Now attack him directly!" Taylor's two spell cards and trap card returned to her hand (ATK: 2000-3500). The tiger pounced and struck Axel with its claws.
Axel: 500
Taylor: 3300
"And with Begone, Knave back in my hand, Dewloren stays on my field. Finally, before I end my turn I activate Spring of Rebirth and Kishido Spirit, followed by one card face-down."
"It's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "I summon (7) X-Saber Axel(1/ATK: 400/DEF: 100) in ATK mode!" a beastly warrior in dark-blue armor appeared, armed with a serrated sword with the guard like a flintlock (ATK: 400), "Next, I activate the spell Card Destruction! Now we send all the cards in our hand to the graveyard and draw the same number of cards," Axel redrew his hand, 'Alright, time to put my dad's strategy to good use.' "And with that done I can activate my two face-down cards, (5D's) Blast Bolt and (5D's) Wax Bolt!" his two reverse-cards opened, one showing a wild-western gunman shooting flaming bullets while the other showed a different sharpshooter firing small wax-white ammunition.
"And what are those supposed to do?" Taylor wondered.
"Each of these cards can be activated when I discard from my hand as a card-effect while a monster's on my field. That monster can't attack that turn, but they provide certain effects. With Blast Bolt, you take damage equal to the number of cards I discarded x200. As for Wax Bolt, one of your monsters loses 300 ATK with the same requirement." The monster Axel's sword changed into an actual pistol. He fired five rounds at Dewloren, the tiger growling from the sting of the wax bullets (ATK: 2000-500). After reloading the chamber, Axel fired five more rounds at Taylor.
Axel: 500
Taylor: 2300
"Now by discarding a monster card from my hand to the graveyard, I can summon the tuner-monster (8) Quickdraw Synchron(5/ATK: 700/DEF: 1400) from my hand!" another monster appeared beside the X-Saber, this one a machine dressed almost head-to-toe in cowboy attire (ATK: 700).
"That's a Synchron monster?!" the girl gasped to herself, "He outta meet a friend of mine…"
"There's more: since Quickdraw Sychron's a tuner-monster, I get to summon (9) Quillbolt Hedgehog(2/ATK: 800/DEF: 800) I discarded from my graveyard!" a giant brown rodent appeared with bolts sticking out of its back (ATK: 800), "And now I tune my Quickdraw Synchron with X-Saber Axel to synchro-summon (10) Drill Warrior(6/ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000)!" the two monsters merged and formed a rust-red full-armored warrior wearing a yellow scarf. He has drill halves for shinguards and a drill over its right hand (ATK: 2400), "Now Quilbolt Hedgehog, attack Dewloren!" Quilbolt launched a dozen bolts and destroyed the tiger.
Axel: 500
Taylor: 2000
"And Drill Warrior, attack Taylor directly!" Drill Warrior dove in and bore its spinning drill into the duelist.
Axel: 500
Taylor: 0
"Alright, you got you duel," Axel groaned, "Now give me back those parts!"
"Alright, fine. They're yours," Taylor said, "I don't have any need for bike parts anyway."
"Then why duel?!"
"Why else? I want to see how good a duelist you are. So if you don't mind, I really must be going!" Talyor suddenly jumped off the roof. Axel went over to the edge to see her nowhere to be found.
"I can't believe I had to preoccupy myself with another weirdo. At least I got my stuff." Axel muttered and took his parts back.
"That was some pretty good dueling back there." The girl said to Axel.
Just then the three other duelist with the spiky blonde hair came out to the roof, "Hey, is everyone alright?"
The girl nodded, "Everything's fine. Let's get back to the others."
Back on the ground, the other two Enforcers were just done with the last of the thugs, "Just like that! Weak and pathetic, you see!"
"Forget this! I'm outta here!" the last thug scampered off right before Axel and the other two Enforcers came outside and the four came together.
"Hey, did you get the guy you were looking for?" The one with white hair asked.
"You can say that," Axel replied, "He was the same guy who told me about the shop to buy these parts. He stole them just after I got them!"
"Figures. It's a common trick in this town," the black-haired one said, "Well, the important thing is that you got them back."
"Well, thanks for the help. My name's Axel, by the way."
"Nice name," the girl said, "My name's Margaret. This here's Yusei, Kalin and Jack," she gestured to the black-haired, white-haired and blonde-hared guys respectively. "You don't look like you're from here. What brings you into Satellite?"
Two of the Enforcers followed Axel to the harbor to make sure he could get there safely. Along the way they told them their story.
"So that's what the Enforcers are for?" Axel asked, "You want to take your town back?"
"Not just this town, but all of Satellite," Yusei said, "A gang of duelist rule over each district with an iron fist."
"Sector Security wouldn't give two cents about what happens to little people like us," Margaret said, "So we take it upon ourselves to fight to make our home as safe a place as we could for everyone. It's bad enough we have to live in a dump like this. It should at least be a place that we don't have to live everyday looking behind our backs every two minutes."
"That must be real hard for you here." Axel replied with empathy.
"By the way, Axel, Margaret told me about your duel earlier," Yusei said, "I was wondering what kind of deck you have. The was she described it, I never would've seen anything like it."
"Well, here's where it gets complicated," Axel told Yusei and Margaret about his parents and how they left home years back, "So actually the deck I use has a few cards left to me from both my parents. The problem is I always have trouble making them both work."
"Margaret also told me that you used a Synchron tuner-monster; like the cards I use. What exactly does it do?"
"You mean this?" Axel brought out his Quickdraw Synchron, "This is my own card. I got three of these."
"Yeah, I have one just like that," Yusei said.
"My dad used cards that takes advantage of discarding from my hand. Meanwhile my mom's cards base on warrior and beast-warrior type, not to mention they're all earth-attribute. I have to rearrange my cards every now and then just to change between strategies."
"Maybe you don't have to. Why don't I help you out?"
"Huh?"
"Yeah, you should really let him go for it," Margaret said, "The extras we have are mostly throw-aways but I'm sure we can find the right cards you can use."
"I appreciate it but if it's out of your way to where I'm heading, I don't want to trouble you."
"It's no trouble," Yusei said, "We always carry extras for last-minute customization, same as you. I'm sure I could spare a few."
"We have an old warehouse near the harbor where we go sometimes to train," Magic said, "We can work it out there while Kalin and Jack take care of some business."
When they made it to the old harbor district to their warehouse, they had a chance to sit down.
"So, Axel, you have any Synchron synchro-monsters other than Drill Warrior?" Margaret asked.
"I have a few. Sometimes I can't help but find it weird that the same tuner that can summon different synchro-monsters could cause my own deck trouble on summoning them."
"Sounds to me you preoccupy yourself on forcing those two strategies to work together." Yusei said as he dug inside a small box.
"Just like husband and wife. It sounds weird, I know; but that's how I view my deck. It makes me feel like they're still with me."
"That's not weird at all. I'm glad you think of that as a special connection. But still, maybe you'll get a better grip when you use them as two decks instead of one. Here, try these," Yusei gave Axel a few cards, "They're not much, but if what you said about your father's cards are true then these could work."
"Thanks a lot."
"Do you think you have any extras to spare in a duel?" Margaret said, "I wanna see what those X-Sabers of yours can do against my deck."
"Sure, why not?" Both Axel And Margaret stood on either side of the warehouse. It's big enough for dueling space, fortunately, and Margaret already had a spare duel-disk.
Axel: 4000
Margaret: 4000
"Since I was the one who challenge you, why don't you go first." Margaret insisted.
"Thank you, I will," Axel drew his sixth card, "I summon X-Saber Urbellum to the field in ATK mode!" the bipedal, armed lion appeared (ATK: 1600), "Then I place one card face-down and end my turn."
"It's my turn," Margaret drew her next card, "I activate the continuous-spell Arcane Barrier! When this card's on the field, when a spellcaster on my field is destroyed, Arcane Barrier receives 1 spell-counter, until it hold a total of 4 counters! Next I summon (11) Apprentice Magician(2/ATK: 400/DEF: 800) in DEF mode!" a young blond apprentice mage appeared in purple carrying a staff (DEF: 800), "And when she's called out from my hand, I can add a spell-counter to an appropriate card on the field. And the card that'll fit perfectly will be my Arcane Barrier (CTR: 1)! That ends my turn!"
"It's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "I summon X-Saber Anu Piranha in ATK mode!" the female X-Saber swordsman appeared (ATK: 1800), "Airbellum, attack Apprentice Magcian!" Airbellum struck down the magician with its bladed shields.
Arcane Barrier: (CTR: 2)
"When Apprentice Magician's destroyed I can summon another level-2-or-lower spellcaster from my deck face-down!" Margaret said and a set monster appeared on the field.
"Anu Piranha, attack her face-down card!" Anu Piranha lashed through the set monster, which was another Apprentice Magician.
Arcane Barrier: (CTR: 3)
"That means another spell-counter and spellcaster monster form me." Another set monster appeared.
"Then that ends my turn."
"Then it's my turn," Margaret drew her next card, "I summon (12) Magical Exemplar(4/ATK: 1700/DEF: 1400)!" a black haired spellcaster wearing light-green robes and a golden crest on her head appeared (ATK: 1700), "Next I summon the monster that I had face-down: the tuner-monster (13) Night's End Sorcerer(2/ATK: 1300/DEF: 400)!" an anthropomorphic rabbit appeared wearing a tattered black cloak and a scythe in its paws.
"I think I know what's going to happen next." Axel said.
"And now I tune Magical Exemplar with Night's End Sorcerer to synchro-summon (14) Tempest Magician(6/ATK: 2200/DEF: 1400)!" the tuner merged with the Exemplar to enhance her power. She now wears darker blue robes with Night End's scythe (ATK: 2200), "Now for Tempest's ability! By sending a nimber of cards from my hand to the graveyard, She gains that number of spell-counters to go with the one she gained when she' syncro-summoned. And there's more: by removing all the spell-counters on the field, you take 500 points of damage for each counter! Now by sending 4 cards from my hand to the graveyard…." Before Margaret could discard from her hand, a hole tore open from under Tempest Magician.
"Maybe you forgot I placed a face-down on my first turn. Well now it's time to show you," Axel revealed his reverse-card, "With Saber Hole activated, I can negate the summon of your monster and destroy it!"
"My Tempest Magician!" Margaret cried as her magician fell down the disappearing hole.
"Anything else you'd like to try?"
"…I end my turn."
"Then it's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "And I summon X-Saber Galahad in ATK mode!" the masked lance-wielder appeared (ATK: 1800), "Now my monsters will attack your directly!" all three X-Sabers charged in and brought their attacks down on the opponent.
Axel: 4000
Margaret: 0
Margaret slumped down on her knees as the holograns disappeared, "Shoot. If I had Tempest Magician on the field I would've gotten enough counters to get rid of your life-points instead."
"It's not that bad," Axel said, "If you were good enough to have taken my life-points last turn if it wasn't for Saber Hole, I say that takes a lot of skill."
Margaret smiled a bit, "Thanks; you too."
"We're back!" Kalin and Jack came into the warehouse, "Hey, Axel. I'm sure you'd be wanting you money back. Here." Kalin tossed something over for Axel to catch.
It's the money he paid for the duel-runner parts, along with the list, "Why are you giving me this back?" Axel asked, "I already paid for these parts."
"Yeah, if you prefer phony parts." Jack said.
"Phony? You mean they're fake?!" Axel dug into the bag of parts he bought, "That's impossible! They have to be legit!"
"Mind if I take a look?" Yusei pulled out one of the parts, "I thought so. This was made intentionally. As far as I can see, it's just junk stuck together."
"We thought there's something funny about a merchant selling duel-runner parts our of nowhere," Kalin said, "Luckily we caught him red-handed trying to sell to some other sucker and managed to put him out of business permanently. There's not a single official product in sight."
"All of these look just like they were put together at random," Yusei looked into the parts, "I doubt any of them work."
"But I got someone back home who's expecting those parts!" Axel said, "Isn't there any working parts around here?"
"Not likely. Duel-runners are illegal here so the odds of finding any parts are slim. But maybe I can help you. There's some old parts lying around in one of the crates we found. Maybe they can work."
"Can you find these for me?" Axel gave the list to Yusei.
"Don't worry, I'll take time to get you what you need." Yusei returned to the corner of crates and began scavenging.
"As long as I'm waiting, might as well pass the time," Axel reactivated his duel-disk, "Anyone else around here like to duel?"
"Why don't you try and take me on," Jack stepped in, "I'll count it as a thank-you for helping you out."
"Hey, you can count me in too," Kalin said, "We can have a Battle Royal!"
"A battle-royal?" Axel wondered.
"It's simple; it's like any other duel except we duel against each other! And the last duelist standing wins!"
"I guess that's fine by me. I still got quite a while until I go back; might as well make this quick."
Axel: 4000
Jack: 4000
Kalin: 4000
"Alright, don't hold back!" Kalin advised to Axel, "I want to see what you're made of!"
"I guess that means I'll go first," Axel drew his sixth card, "I place these 2 cards face-down and end my turn."
"Time to show you my full power!" Jack drew his sixth card, "Since you're my opponent and the only one with monsters on his field, I can special-summon the level-5 (15) Vice Dragon(5/ATK: 2000/DEF: 2400) to the field. But by doing so will cut both his ATK and DEF points in half," a ferocious purple dragon appeared (ATK: 2000-1000/DEF: 2400-1200), "But that's all well and good for me, because now I can release him to summon an even stronger monster: (16) Strong Wind Dragon(6/ATK: 2400/DEF: 1000) in place of the dragon came another, this one larger in both size and wingspan with emerald scales (ATK: 2400), "And since he's summon by releasing a dragon-type monster, half of that dragon's original ATK points now belong to Strong Wind Dragon (ATK: 2400-3400), "But since this is a battle-royale, I can't attack on my first turn. So I place one card face-down to end my turn."
"I guess that leaves me, then!" Kalin drew his next card, "I summon Gil Garth(4/ATK: 1800/DEF: 1200) in ATK mode!" a fieddish walking armor appeared with a fearsome sword in hand (ATK: 1800).
"It's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "By sending 2 cards from my hand to the graveyard, I can summon the tuner-monster (20) Barrel Synchron(7/ATK: 2850/DEF: 1950)!" the space on the round in front of him rippled in front of him. A massive, longhorned giant of gunmetal black rose from the distorted space. With a giant claw on its left arm and a long cannon barrel on its right, it stared into both Jack and Kalin with its burning red eyes (ATK: 2850).
"A tuner-monster with over 2500 ATK points?!" Jack gasped, stunned by the mere presence of the monster.
"That's not all. The monster I discarded were (19) Dandylion(3/ATK: 300/DEF: 300) and Quillbolt Hedgehog. And when Dandylion's sent to the graveyard, 2 Fluff Tokens(1/ATK: 0/DEF: 0) sprout onto the field!" a pair of dandelion seeds floated down beside the metal giant (ATK: 0).
Torque Synchron: (LV: 3)
"And Quillbolt Hedgehog's summoned from the graveyard since Barrel Synchron's here as well." The hedgehog appeared and joined the two seeds (ATK: 800).
Torque Synchron: (LV: 1)
"Wait, how come your tuner-monster's level keeps changing?" Kalin wondered.
"Glad you noticed. For each monster on my field, Barrel Synchron's level is lowered by 2. That makes him easier to be summoned. Now I tune my level-1 Barrel Synchron with my level 1 Fluff Tokens and level-2 Quillbolt Hedgehog!" Torque Synchron sacrificed his metal shell and released a ring of green light that grew and lowered itself around the three smaller monsters, who gave their corporeal forms for four shining stars. They collided as one and expanded into a tower of light, the same light that gave way to… "I'd like you to meet (21) Barrel Warrior(5/ATK: 2200/DEF: 1200)." A warrior dressed in black leather spandex with silver armor plating on the shoulders and torso. Small silver caps stuck out, attached to the elbows, knees and certain parts of his armor. The helmet he wore is modeled after a buffalo ox, the horns much smaller and stubbier than an ordinary ox. The black visor almost matched the hide of his suit, with a silver crest over it from across the scalp like the barrel of a gun (ATK: 2200).
"That doesn't make sense!" Kalin said, "A synchro-monster made from a higher-level tuner monster?!"
"This guy is full of surprises, all which comes from Barrel Synchron," Axel's new monster pulled out a laser-pistol in the form like a sub-machine gun, the holster under the barrel embedded with a golden emblem of the buffalo ox, "When this Barrel Warrior is summoned with Barrel Synchron, the difference in the tuner-monster's original level and its current level used as synchro-material becomes counters that torque can use, which at this point is 6. And that's not all. Barrel Synchron also becomes an equip-card for Barrel Warrior," a phantom-like image of Barrel Synchron can briefly be seen towering over Barrel Warrior, "Next up is my face-down card: the trap Time Advent!" one of Axel's reverse-cards opened with a picture of rippling space in front of a clock face, "By sending cards from my hand to the graveyard, I can move the turn-count by the same number of cards I just discarded. The only downside of this effect is that I take 500 points of damage after."
Axel: 3000
Jack: 4000
Kalin: 4000
"Now I can activate Barrel Synchron ability! By removing a number of counters from the card it's equipped to, one of his many effects can be applied. And by removing 3 counters from Barrel Warrior, he can destroy one monster on the opponent's field, and then you take damage equal to that monster's original ATK points!" a large set of cannons fell on Barrel Warrior's shoulders (CTR: 3). The warrior held them up as they began to charge, until finally they discharge two balls of fire that slammed themselves into the dragon and destroyed it.
Axel: 3000
Jack: 1600
Kalin: 4000
"Of course Barrel Warrior can't attack on the turn this effect is activated. So I'll end my turn there." The cannons vanished.
"I admit, I never thought I'd meet someone with more firepower than I do…" Jack said and drew his next card, "But let's see you try your hand against a monster that fights back. I summon the tuner-monster (17) Dark Resonator(4/ATK: 1300/DEF: 100)!" a small fiend holding a rod and a tuning fork appeared (ATK: 1300), "Next I activate the trap card Call of the Haunted! With it I can summon a monster from the graveyard to the field in ATK position! Welcome back, Vice Dragon!" the purple dragon appeared (ATK: 2000), "And now I tune my level-5 Vice Dragon with level-3 Dark Resonator!" Resinator turned into a ring of light which surrounded the giant golem as Jack chanted, "The ruler's heartbeats will now file through here! Take witness to its creation-shaking power! Synchro Summon!" when the stars aligned, they unleashed a powerful column of light in front of Jack, and summoned a giant red dragon. It has three horns on its head, one which runs a little down its neck, and has malicious yellow eyes (ATK: 3000), "And with my (18) Red Dragon Archfiend(8/ATK: 3000/DEF: 2000) now on the field I can activate this card: the spell Stamping Destruction! This card can destroy any spell/trap card on your field while inflicting 500 points of damage! It's nice of you to share the fact that Barrel Warrior gains power from Barrel Synchron, especially when Barrel Synchron it counts as a spell card!" Red Dragon's claw ripped through the metal giant's illusion.
Axel: 2500
Jack: 1600
Kalin: 4000
"Now Red Dragon, attack with Absolute Powerforce!" the dragon's right claw ignited for another jab.
"I activate the my quick-play spell card, Battle-Tuned!" Axel revealed his reverse-card, "By removing a tuner-monster in my graveyard from play, all of its ATK points go to a monster on my field for this turn!" Barrel Synchron rose once again and stood erect against the dragon's attack.
Barrel Warrior: (ATK: 2200-5050)
"But with all those ATK points…" Jack's dragon watched as Barrel Warrior pulled out his pistol and attached it to the back of Barrel Synchron, whose chest opened to fire a barrage of missiles that exploded against the dragon.
Axel: 2500
Jack: 0
Kalin: 4000
"I lost! I can't believe it…" Jack flabbergast, then later scoffed, "I guess that means I'll have to get stronger for next time. That was a good duel."
"Hello, hasn't anyone noticed I'm still here?" Kallin called and drew his next card, "I got plenty more dueling to go around! And with this Sword of Dark Destruction equip-spell, so does Gil Garth!" the metal field now holds a demonic-looking sword to go with the metal sword in his other hand (ATK: 1800-2200/DEF: 1200-1000), "Next up is my spell card, Hinotama! This takes 500 out of your life-points!" a large fireball slammed into Axel.
Axel: 2000
Kalin: 4000
"That's it for my turn!"
"Then it's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "By discarding one card from my hand, he gains an additional counter (CTR: 4). Since I no longer have Barrel Synchron on my field, I'll have to make due to Barrel Warrior's original effect: by removing counters from Barrel Warrior, you take 500 points of damage for each one. And since I've removed 4 counters, you lose 2000 life-points!" Barrel Warrior fired four large rounds of energy.
"I was hoping you'd do that! I activate my face-down card!" Kalin opened his reverse-card, which is a quick-play spell that sucked in the attack, "Spell of Pain redirects all effect-damage from a card effect right back to you! And with 2000 damage, that's all the points you have left!" the card spat out the energy in one giant ball and hurled it straight into Axel.
Axel: 0
Kalin: 4000
Axel watched Barrel Warrior and Gil Garth disappear with a slight, surprised look, "I thought this was going to be easy… really didn't see that last move coming. Should've paid more attention to his face-down card."
"That's what you get for underestimating your opponent. You'll have to do better than that if you wanna beat me!" Kalin stated and walked off with a grin.
"Oh, don't take it the wrong way," Margaret said to Axel, "Kalin's always looking for a 'worthy opponent', as he puts it."
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Axel." Yusei came up and gave Axel a bag of new parts. This should be close to what you friend needs."
"Thank. Maybe it's time I paid someone who gave me actual parts." Axel offered up the money but Yusei declined,
"No, don't worry about it. I just put together some old part that no one uses anymore. I'm glade I can help."
"Well, thanks to you I got all the parts I need. I guess it's about time I head back."
"Yeah. Take care."
Axel nodded and walked out of the warehouse. As he left he could hear Margaret saying goodbye as well.
"Hope we meet again! Have a safe trip!"
Soon Axel reached the harbor with Klaus waiting at the boat, "Boy, where were you?! The boat's just about to leave! Where've you been at?"
"I went through a lot of trouble to get this stuff…" Axel groaned as stepped onto the boat. As it pushed it way back to the mainland, Axel watched the Satellite pull away from view. It's been quite an hectic, yet epic day he just went through. It's not all the time things like this get exciting, although he could do without getting scammed. At least Axel's got something out of it, including telling West and Nico about his time in Satellite.
DUEL-MON DATABASE
(1) Numbing Grub of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Insect/Effect] LV4 ATK/1300 DEF/ 1800
Attribute: WATER
Effect: When this card is Normal Summoned, select 1 unused Monster Card Zone. While this card is face-up on the field, the selected Monster Card Zone cannot be used.
(2) Pilgrim of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Warrior/Effect] LV4 ATK/1500 DEF/ 1000
Attribute: WATER
Effect: This card cannot be destroyed by battle with a monster with 1900 or more ATK.
(3) Cryomancer of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Aqua/Effect] LV2 ATK/ 1300 DEF/0
Attribute: WATER
Effect: While you control another "Ice Barrier" monster, Level 4 or higher monsters cannot declare an attack.
(4) Geomancer of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Spellcaster/Tuner] LV3 ATK/800 DEF/1200
Attribute: WATER
Effect: Discard 1 card and declare 1 Attribute. This card cannot be selected as an attack target by monsters with that Attribute. This effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field.
(5) Shock Troops of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Spellcaster/Effect] LV3 ATK/1500 DEF/800
Attribute: WATER
Effect: You can Tribute this card to destroy 1 face-up WATER monster on the field, and add 1 "Ice Barrier" monster from your Deck to your hand.
(6) Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier
Stats: [Beast/Synchro/Effect] LV6 ATK/2000 DEF/1400
Attribute: WATER
Effect: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner WATER monsters
Once per turn, you can return any number of face-up cards you control to the owner's hand. For each card returned to the owner's hand by this effect, this card gains 500 ATK until the End Phase.
(7) X-Saber Axel
Stats: [Beast-Warrior/Effect] LV1 ATK/400 DEF/100
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: While you control this face-up card, when a "Saber" monster is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, draw 1 card.
(8) Quillbolt Hedgehog
Stats: [Machine/Effect] LV2 ATK/800 DEF/800
Attribute: EARTH
Description: If you control a face-up Tuner Monster, you can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard. If this card was Summoned this way, remove it from play when it is removed from the field.
(9) Quickdraw Synchron
Stats: [Machine/Tuner] LV5 ATK/700 DEF/1400
Attribute: WIND
Description: You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by sending 1 monster from your hand to the Graveyard. For a Synchro Summon, you can substitute this card for any 1 "Synchron" Tuner monster. This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster, except for the Synchro Summon of a monster that lists a "Synchron" monster as a Tuner.
(10) Drill Warrior
Stats: [Warrior/Synchro/Effect] LV6 ATK/2400 DEF/2000
Attribute: EARTH
Description: "Drill Synchron" + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters.
Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can halve this card's ATK (permanently). If you do, it can attack your opponent directly this turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can discard 1 card and remove this card from play. During your next Standby Phase, Special Summon this card, if removed by this effect. Then, add 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard to your hand.
(11) Apprentice Magician
Stats: [Spellcaster/Effect] Level 2 ATK/400 DEF/800
Attribute: DARK
Description: If you have only Insect-Type monsters in your Graveyard, you can send 2 face-up Defense Position monsters your opponent controls to the Graveyard and Special Summon this card from your hand.
(12) Magical Exemplar
Stats: [Spellcaster/Effect] Level 4 ATK/1700 DEF/1400
Attribute: EARTH
Description: Each time a Spell Card is activated, place 2 Spell Counters on this card. Once per turn, you can remove any number of Spell Counters from this card to Special Summon a Spellcaster-Type monster from your hand or Graveyard whose Level is equal to the number of Spell Counters you removed.
(13) Night's End Sorcerer
Stats: [Spellcaster/Tuner] Level 2 ATK/ 1300 DEF/400
Attribute: DARK
Description: When this card is Special Summoned, you can remove from play up to 2 cards from your opponent's Graveyard.
(14) Tempest Magician
Stats: [Spellcaster/Synchro/Effect] Level 6 ATK/2200 DEF/1400
Attribute: DARK
Description: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Spellcaster-Type monsters
When this card is Synchro Summoned, place 1 Spell Counter on it. Once per turn, you can discard any number of cards to place 1 Spell Counter on a monster(s) you control for each card you discarded. You can remove all Spell Counters on the field to inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each removed Spell Counter.
(15) Vice Dragon
Stats: [Dragon/Effect] Level 5 ATK/ 2000 DEF/2400
Attribute: DARK
Description: If your opponent controls a monster and you control no monsters, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand), but its original ATK and DEF are halved.
(16) Strong Wind Dragon
Stats: [Dragon/Effect] Level 6 ATK/2400 DEF/1000
Attribute: WIND
Description: This card cannot be destroyed in battle with a monster that has the same ATK. When this card is Tribute Summoned by Tributing a Dragon-Type monster, it gains ATK equal to half the ATK of the Tributed monster. During battle between this attacking card and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of this card, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent.
(17) Dark Resonator
Stats: [Fiend/Tuner] LV3 ATK/1300 DEF/ 300
Attribute: DARK
Description: Once per turn, if this card would be destroyed by battle, it is not destroyed. (Damage calculation is applied normally).
(18) Red Dragon Archfiend
Stats: [Dragon/Synchro/Effect] Level 8 ATK/ 3000 DEF/2000
Attribute: DARK
Description: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
After damage calculation, when this card attacks a Defense Position monster your opponent controls: Destroy all Defense Position monsters your opponent controls. During your End Phase: Destroy all other monsters you control that did not declare an attack this turn. This card must remain face-up on the field to activate and to resolve this effect.
(19) Dandylion
Stats: [Plant/Effect] Level 3 ATK/300 DEF/300
Attribute: EARTH
Description: When this card is sent to the Graveyard: Special Summon 2 "Fluff Tokens" (Plant-Type/WIND/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0) in Defense Position. These Tokens cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon during the turn they are Special Summoned.
(20) Barrel Synchron
Stats: [Machine/Tuner] Level 7 ATK/2850 DEF/1950
Attribute: EARTH
Description: This card cannot be normal-summoned or set. If your opponent controls a monster and you control no monsters, you can discard 2 cards to special-summon this card from your hand. This card cannot attack if you control other cards on the field, in your hand or graveyard. The level of this card lowers by 2 for each monster you control other than this card. When this monster is used as synchro-material for "Barrel Warrior", you can equip this card onto "Barrel Warrior" from your graveyard. While equipped to "Barrel Warrior", once per turn, instead of conducting your battle-phase, you can remove a number of counters from the equipped monster to apply the appropriate effect instead of the printed effect of the equipped monster. These effects are treated as the effect of the equipped monster. (1: lower the ATK of 1 monster your opponent controls by 600./2: destroy 1 monster your opponent controls with an ATK lower than the equipped monster's original ATK./3: destroy 1 monster your opponent controls and inflict damage equal to the original ATK of that monster./4: this card can't be destroyed by battle./6: summon this card to your monster-card zone in face-up ATK position. It cannot attack and it's effect is then negated.
(21) Barrel Warrior
Stats: [Warrior/Synchro/Effect] Level 5 ATK/ 2200 DEF/1200
Attribute: EARTH
Description: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
When this card is Synchro Summoned with "Barrel Synchron" used as a synchro-material monster, place counters on it equal to the difference in "Barrel Synchron's" original level and the level it has when used to synchro-summon this card. Once per turn, you can discard any number of cards to place 1 counter on this card for each card you discarded (max: 7). Once per turn, you can remove 1 counter from this card to inflict 500 damage to your opponent. During each of your standby-phases, the number of counters you can remove for this card's effect increases by 1. You can remove 7 counters from this card while you control a face-up "Barrel Synchron" to destroy all cards on the field and inflict 400 points of damage to the controller of each card.
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