Yugioh 5D's: Konami/Kazuki Takahashi
It's been quite a dull evening. Time after time at sunset she duels one of Radley's chumps and one after another they get knocked to the ground. She starts to think there's no challenge for her hear, so she decides to leave Crash Town to look for a challenge elsewhere. But when she starts her duel-runner, she's disappointed that the engine kept stalling. It's all due to the sand that's probably stuck inside. It's gonna take forever to get it all out. But then she remembered a small repair service when she settled into town. She'll have to get her runner fixed if she wants to leave...
It already became early in the evening when Axel and Klaus drove back to Crash Town. Once there Axel got out the truck with the parts in hand. Tired out he figured he'd wait until tomorrow and went straight to his room to get some sleep. The next morning he walked over to Toru's house next door to his, and knocked on the door for Toru to surely answer.
"Hey Axel! You're back already?" Toru greeted and let him in.
Axel dumped the parts onto the living room table and dropped onto a chair, "Here's the parts. I hope you appreciate the trouble I went through to get these."
"Yeah, thanks for going shopping for me yesterday. I was going to stop by your place later, but yeah, you dropping by works, too. So what happened there?" after settling down Axel told Toru about what he went through in Satellite. And when he got to the certain part… "You mean you got to meet the Enforcers?!"
Axel's surprised with Toru's excitement, "You know them?"
"They're only the greatest team of duelists fighting to reclaim their homeland! I could've sworn I told you about that!" Toru's face went blank when he looked into the parts, "Um, isn't this a little different from what I asked for?"
"I didn't exactly go to the mall, you know." Axel scowled.
"Yeah, I know! But… Yeah, these are much better!" Toru listened a Axel continued his story as he looked over the parts, up to how he got them, "I had no idea. Now that you mention it, it does look handmade. Still, it looks really good for being handmade! But that's to be expected from Yusei Fudo! I can't believe the Enforcers helped you out, and you got to duel with them! West'll be jealous when he hear about this!"
"I guess that means now you can finally fix up that duel-runners. I better go see what the kids are doing and leave you to finish it. By the way, here's your money back." Axel got up and left, leaving the money for Toru.
When Axel made it to the restaurant, he spotted West and Nico at the bar and sat with then, telling them about his time spent in Satellite.
"You got to meet the Enforcers, Axel?!" West asked, surprised.
"I can't believe I don't remember ever being told about them." Axel said.
"I head one of them takes care of kids who lost their parents." Nico said.
"They're not only strong, they're nice, too!" West added, "The Enforcers are the total package!"
While they were busy talking, a glass was settled in front of Axel. He looked at the drink puzzled, then at the bartender, "But I didn't order anything."
"I know. It's from this guy," the bartender pointed to the far end of the bar where someone with spiky red hair sat. Looking closer, he found him wearing a red tank top under an open red shirt with blue rims with shorts of the same design. He kind of looks familiar…
"Hey, what are you guys up to?" Toru came into the restaurant.
"Hey, Toru!" West accosted, "Axel was just telling u about the Enforcers who saved him! You were right; they really do exist!"
Toru smirked, "Was there any doubt? It's thanks to my request he got to meet them!"
"…Then surely Axel got into that dangerous situation because of you in the first place, too?" Nico pouted.
"She does have a point, Toru." Axel scowled.
"Well, yeah…" Toru flushed, "But it worked out in the end! Not to mention the great story that came with it! Plus, thanks to Axel, my duel-runner's complete!"
"West jumped up, "You finally finished it?!"
"Congratulations! You worked really hard on it." Nico smiled.
"I sure did! I'm about to take it out for a test-drive. I figured you guys would probably wanna watch."
"Of course I wanna watch!" West then scurried out.
"Oh, west…" Nico sighed.
"Hey, Axel. You coming?" Toru asked.
"…You guys go ahead. I'll catch up."
"Alright, I've gotta get everything ready first anyway, so West and I'll go on ahead. Just meet us outside of town when you're ready." Toru went on out to catch up to West.
With fewer people to listen in, Axel skipped over the stools to sit beside the stranger, "Alright, you reeled me in. It's not everyday strangers are that generous. Is there anything you want from me?"
"Nothing much," the stranger said, eyes away from Axel, "I just a wandering duelist looking for a challenge. But there's not a duelist in town I can find."
"I don't think you'll find anyone with a duel-disk around here. If you want a challenge, the try those two pubs out either sides of town. …By the way, you look like familiar. Have we met before?"
The stranger chuckled, "Doubt it. I'd remember a face when I see it. But I have heard a bit about you. Your name's Axel Xavier, right?"
"Wha? Wait a minute, how'd you even know that?"
"I better get going. There's stuff to do and barely little time," the stranger paid for what he ordered and jumped off the stool to leave, "Thanks for the advice."
It's weird. This is a small town. How would anyone not from her know who Axel even is…? Whatever. There's no point worrying about that now. Right now all Axel's thinking about is seeing that new duel-runner Toru finished.
"I everything alright, Axel?" Nico, who listen into the small conversation, asked in concern.
"That's noting important," Axel answered, "C'mon, we better catch up to the others."
Axel and Nico walked to the welcoming post in the front of the town and found West standing on the fence post. "Hey, West. Is Toru back yet?"
"No, haven't seen him yet! But he should be back soon!" Soon they heard the distant sound of an engine while seen a large dust cloud approaching them. Someone on a small vehicle came up and skied right outside the town, kicking up a cloud of dust that nearly choked the audience.
"Talk about a grand entrance." Axel coughed.
"That's the coolest thing I've ever seen!" West cheered.
"So that's Toru's duel-runner!" Nico said.
"Get a look at me in this bad boy, will ya?" Toru cracked under his helmet as he drove back out. He showed off with a bunch of maneuvers, some of which West and Nico thought he'd crash from, before he sped back, "So how'd you like my driving?" he lift his windshield and asked.
"It was so cool! Well, when you weren't about to wreck, anyway." Toru said.
"I was a little nervous," Toru chuckled, "It's scary going fast when you're not on a well-maintained course. Whaddaya say, Axel? Wanna take it for a spin?"
Axel jumped at the question, "Wha? Uh, me?"
"I want to drive it, too!" West begged, "I best I can drive it better than you can, Toru!"
"Don't be ridiculous," Nico giggled, "You can't even reach the handlebars."
"Aw! Weak!" West pouted.
"Maybe I could give it a try…!" Axel finally replied.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Toru said and got off, "Alright, let's see what you can do!"
After Axel grabbed the helmet he got himself fitted onto the duel-runner and felt the rubbery handles tightly, while feeling the engine rumble under him. Taling a deep breath, he tapped on the accelerator and let the runner carry him across the desert ground. At first slow, he wanted to make sure he stays upright so he rather not try any tricks like Toru. He could feel the wind being torn up by the speed he's gathering. 20 minutes later he returned to the welcome post and took replaced the helmet with his own hat. "That felt pretty good."
"That was awesome!" Nico cheered.
"You even moved faster than Toru!" West added.
"Hey, that's not even true!" Toru argued.
"It is true! I was watching both our you!"
"You were seeing things!"
"I think Axel must have way more talent as a turbo-duelist!"
"Just be quiet, will ya?!" Toru then started chasing West back into town.
"And there they go again," Nico said, "Sometimes I can't tell who's the real child."
"Now that you mention it…"
Things were pretty routine as usual until the next day. Soon after Axel got dressed…
"Axel?! Hey Axel!" someone called from outside, "Come out here! Quick!"
"What's all the fuss going on in this ungodly hour!" Axel heard Klaus scream from the next room and came into his room, "Hey, boy! Hurry up and see what he wants so I can sleep!"
As Axel went for the door he could hear the faint sound of rumbling. He took the hint when he stepped outside and found Toru outside on his duel-runner, "Hey, Toru. …Are you going somewhere?"
"Yeah. See, this might be out of the blue, but I'm heading off to the city!"
"What?! You're going to New Domino City?!" Axel and Toru talked about going to New Domino many times since it's the best place to turbo-duel. But to be ging right after he finished his runner…
"That's right! It's time I made a name for myself! I wanted to call you out here to help!"
"Help? What are you talking about? Even I do have a duel-runner, don't think I can get granddaddy to change his mind."
"No, I want a duel! One last duel before I head out! How about it, for old time's sake?"
"…I'll be right back," Axel ran back into the house. It's true he no longer has a duel-disk, but he's sure Klaus wouldn't mind if he borrowed his, "So, got a place in mind?"
The two didn't bothered to waste any time and set their duel right in front of the town's gatepost.
"Let's go!"
Axel: 4000
Toru: 4000
"Here's to good times!" Toru said and drew his starting hand, "I activate the continuous-spell card, The Dark Door; meaning only one monster can attack once a turn! Finally I set one monster face-down and end my turn!"
"It's my turn!" Axel drew his next card, "I summon Sabersaurus in ATK mode!" the large, bladed triceratops stomped onto the field with a snarl, ready to charge (ATK: 1900), "Now attack Toru's face-down monster!" the giant dinosaur trudged across the desert plain and dunked its horns downward, dragging the dirt that went flying as the beast pulled his head out. A bizarre looking machine was seen as well. It has a camera for a torso, and a sink faucet and nozzle for a head. It also had limbs made of scrapped utensils. The small, rusted body fell back onto the ground (DEF: 500), "Hey, what was that?!"
"That's my (1) Scrap Goblin(3/ATK: 0/DEF: 500)!" Tory explained, "And it can't be destroyed in battle!"
"Then I guess I should put up a little defense of my own! I place one card face-down and end my turn."
"It's my turn!" Toru drew his next card, "I summon (2) Scrap Shark(4/ATK: 2100/DEF: 0) to the field in ATK mode!" a fat-looking piranha made of scrapmetal floated to the field (ATK: 2100), "And 2100 ATK points is enough to finally make that dinosaur go extinct!" the shark burrowed itself into the ground and trailed itself straight towards Sabersaurus. Right when it's about to reach it, Sabersaurus buried its horns into the ground and pulled the shark back out.
"I activate my face-down card, Rush Recklessly!" Axel revealed his quick-play reverse-card, "This gives Sabersaurus 700 extra ATK points for this turn! So my Sabersaurus isn't going anywhere!" the triceratops tossed the shark off of its horn and the shark shattered onto the ground, smashed into pieces.
Axel: 4000
Toru: 3500
"Then I guess I should end my turn."
"It's my turn!" Axel drew his next card, "I release Sabersaurus to summon (8) Saber Beetle(6/ATK: 2400/DEF: 600)!" the dinosaur was replaced by a crimson Hercules beetle with Aztec markings on its back with a sword-shaped upper-horn. It's half the height as Axel (ATK: 2400), "And in addition to being one of the toughest species in history, this bug can inflict piercing damage! Show 'em!" the beetle buzzed quickly towards Scrap Goblin. Its upper horn glowed and crackled with electricity and zipped past the goblin. A few sparks flew out before the scrap creature exploded.
"Shoot! Scrap Goblin's destroyed when he's attacked while in DEF mode," Tory groaned, "On the bright side, I get to bring a different Scrap monster back to my hand!" he then removed Scrap Shark from the graveyard.
Axel: 4000
Toru: 1600
"I'm placing one card face-down. That ends my turn!"
"Then it's my turn!" Toru drew his next card, "I activate the spell card Monster Reincarnation! By sending one card from my hand to the graveyard, I can add a monster back into my hand!" Toru swapped another monster in his graveyard with a different card, "Next, I summon (3) Scrap Chimera(4/ATK: 1700/DEF: 500) in ATK mode!" a lion-faced winged chimera made of scrapmetal appeared (ATK: 1700), "And when summoned, I can use his effect to summon the Scrap monster I just sent to the graveyard: the tuner-monster (4) Scrap Beast(4/ATK: 1600/DEF: 1300)!" a wolf-like scrap creature appeared (ATK: 1600).
"Tuner monster… This could be a problem."
"You know what happens next, don't you! I tune my level-4 Scrap Beast and Scrap Chimera together to synchro-summon (6) Scrap Dragon(8/ATK: 2800/DEF: 2000)!" the Scrap monster fell to pieces and combined together to form a giant winged dragon made from more scrapmetal. Steam coming from the pipes underneath to help it keep afloat as its started at Axel with piercing red eyes (ATK: 2800), "And with his special-ability, I can destroy tow card on the field; one from my side for one on yours! And since The Dark Door spell is the only other card on my side of the field, I'll use it to destroy the Saber Beetle that's on your field!" the continuous-spell card vanished and the dragon launched a ball of fire that burned away the beetle, "And with that done, I'll have Scrap Dragon attack you directly!" Scrap Dragon prepared for another blast.
"I activate a quick-play spell card, Shrink!" Axel opened his reverse-card, "This halves the ATK points of any monster on the field, which happens to be your Scrap Dragon!" Axel was then hit by another fireball, only half the size of when it's used during its effect.
Scrap Dragon: (ATK: 2800-1400)
Axel: 2400
Toru: 1600
"In that case I'll end my turn with a face-down, and let the effect of your spell wear off!"
Scrap Dragon: (ATK: 1400-2800)
"It's my turn now!" Axel drew his next card, "I send a monster from my hand to the graveyard to summon Quickdraw Synchron from my hand!" the robotic cowboy tuner appeared (ATK: 700), "Next I summon X-Saber Axel!" the beastly mercenary appeared (ATK: 400), "Now I tune them together to synchro-summon (9) Turbo Warrior(6/ATK: 2500/DEF: 1500)!" the tow monsters combined to form a crimson and black armored warrior with a general mixture of a robot and truck mixed together. However, Turbo Warrior's fingers were sharp metal claws and its head was crowned by something meant to resemble some form of hairstyle, while its mechanical appearance just seemed rather like armor (ATK: 2500).
"Where did you get a monster like that?!" Toru gasped, then calmed down, "Well, at least it has weaker ATK points."
"For someone who likes to turbo-duel you don't really know how to look past mere appearances. When Turbo Warrior attacks with at least the same level and his, their ATK points are halved!" Turbo Warrior shot a dark beam at the dragon, which dropped to its feet, wings heavy against it (ATK: 2800-1400), "Turbo Warrior, attack Scrap Dragon!" the warrior sliced down and destroyed the dragon.
Axel: 2400
Toru: 500
"Okay, I guess I had that one coming," Toru grinned under the explosion, "But at least I can summon a non-synchro Scrap monster from my graveyard; and I choose my Scrap Beast!" Scrap Beast returned to Toru's field (DEF: 1300).
"Now I place this last card face-down! It's your turn!"
"Alright," Toru drew his next card, "I release Scrap Beast to summon (5) Scrap Golem(5/ATK: 2500/DEF: 1400)!" the beast was replaced by a large golem with an old refrigerator for a torso, a microwave for a head and a fan-hand on its large cord of an arm (ATK: 2300), "And what's cool about this monster is that he can bring a level-4-or-lower Scrap monster from the graveyard, like my Scrap Beast!" the refrigerator opened and the beast jumped out (ATK: 1600), "Now I tune them both to summon an even stronger dragon: (7) Scrap Twin Dragon(9/ATK: 3000/DEF: 2200)!" the scrap monsters at the time merged into a much larger, two headed dragon (ATK: 3000), "Now I'm the one with the stronger monster! Scrap Twin Dragon, attack!" the two heads merged their firebreaths into a single giant blaze. But Turbo Warrior flew into the inferno, "I guess you're monster isn't going down without a fight!"
"You're right, it won't go down so easily! I activate the quick-play spell, Battle Tuned!" Axel opened his reverse-card, "By removing a tuner monster in my graveyard from play, the monster on my field gains that tuner's ATK power!" Axel removed a monster from his graveyard and showed it to Toru, "And with X-Saber Airbellum backing him up, Turbo Warrior's once again king of hill (ATK: 2500-4100)!" Turbo Warrior ripped through the dragon's flames before ripping through the dragon itself, causing it to widely shatter into explosive pieces.
Axel: 2400
Toru: 0
"Ugh, I didn't think I'd lose so easily," Toru groaned as the holograms disappeared, "I thought I had this deck made out perfectly!"
"Well, you haven't even held a duel-disk since you've been working on that runner," Axel walked towards him, "It's to be expected."
"I guess you're right… Oh well, on the bright side at least I can improve my skills! That's a great duel, by the way!"
"Thanks… Will you be going on your way soon?"
"Right now, actually. I just want brush up on my dueling before I head out!" Toru said as he mounted back on his runner, "Hey, say bye to West and Nico for me."
Axel stood over the porch rails, "Wait, you mean you didn't?"
"It's still early in the morning and they're no doubt asleep," Toru put on his helmet and turned on the engine, "Besides, a long goodbye isn't exactly my thing. Can you do this favor for me?"
"…I don't think 'goodbye' is the right way to put it. But putting 'for now' in front of it would make more sense. We'll come by and check on you when we can."
"Seems about right. I'll keep you on that!" Toru dropped his windshield, "Hey, maybe you'll move to the city and we'll form a turbo-duel tea! You'll never know!"
"There's always hope…"
Toru smiled under his helmet and gave a thumbs up before driving off out of town. Axel watched as he drove off to fulfill his dream.
"Oh, Toru left?" Klaus came out next to Axel, "I'm not sure how to act without his obnoxiously voice around here."
"Uh-huh. I'll give it a year or two. We'll see him again…" SMACK! "OW! What the—"
"'There's always hope'! That's right I heard what you said!"
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"You ain't slick! You wanna go into the city and be a turbo-duelist when I said not to! …Trust me, you'll be wasting your life away." Klaus walked back into the house, leaving Axel outside pouting.
When Axel told the kids that Toru left, they didn't take it too well. But they still wished him luck. All three realized they could have a dueling celebrity coming back for a visit…
A couple of years passed since that day. It was quiet and boring as usual around these parts; that's until some pretty bad news came. West burst in and pulled Axel out in a state of emergency. When they reached the restaurant, he showed Axel the problem: there're chopper bikes and a couple jeeps parked out front which means only one thing…
Crash Town was first settled when miners were fighting over the Dyne that was discovered here. Some time after, it became left to two individuals, Malcolm and Radley, each one now leader of a small gang of theirs. They cause trouble from time to time, but no heavy damage with Klaus as Sheriff; but still both the left and right side of the town have been taxed by the respective gangs. But now, it looks like Radley's gang is in the restaurant. And Axel could see them hauling out the Duel Terminal arcade! "Hey! What are you doing with that?!"
The black leather-wearing gang members looked up, "Beat it, kid! This ain't your business!"
"This is our business! That's my dad's restaurant!" West yelled from behind Axel.
"Maybe you don't hear too good! I said it's none of your business! So get lost!"
"Now what's going on around here?" a man with sleek, oily hair walked out flanked by two more members. That's Radley, this gang's leader.
"Ah? Radley!" his gang gasped in surprise, "Nothing's wrong! Just a bunch of kids sticking their noses where they don't belong!"
"Just what are you guys doing here, anyway?!" Axel demanded, "This is the left side of Crash Town! You guys should be staying on the right!"
"Oh come on, where's the love," Radley groaned, "Don't you know what sharing is?"
"Sharing? It looks more like you're taking it for yourself! You don't own this place!"
"But we do own the farmer's market on our side, and we let Malcolm's side get what we needed just to show our good faith. It should be fair that they should share back."
"If you want to play video games them play them here like everyone else!"
"You got a lot of nerve, punk!" the members barked back, "No one pushes Radley around and gets away with it-"
"Hold it," Raldley silenced him and returned to Axel, "Here's an idea. How about we duel."
"A duel…?"
"Yeah. You do know how to duel, don't you? I win, and that game belongs to the Radley Bunch. You win, and it stays here. So do you accept?"
"If it's to keep you away from here, then name the time and place!"
"I'm a busy man and I don't want to waste valuable time. So lets have it right in town central, where everyone can watch!"
"Don't worry, I'll be there!"
"Excellent. I'll get my gear ready. Let's go!" Radley commanded his men and they followed him back out on their choppers.
Axel and West burst into the restaurant and spotted Nico in front of the bar with her father Jorgan slumped against it, and he's in pretty bad shape.
"Dad! You're hurt!" West cried and ran towards his father to his embrace.
"Don't worry, kiddo. I'll be alright," Jorgan hushed before looking up to Axel with a scowl, "Axel what were you thinking picking a fight with Radley's gang?"
Axel looked away in embarrassment, "Uh yeah, you have a good point. I don't know what came over me! But what's Radley doing here anyway?"
"He just walked in uninvited," Jorgan said as Nico helped him to his feet, "He tried to buy me out of that game and when I turned them down… Well, I guess how that went. But that's beside the point. Why did you make a fuss over some video game?"
"Well, because… Look it's might as well be the only form of entertainment in this town for mile! And didn't you have more business ever since it first came here? And what do they want with the Duel Terminal anyway?"
Jorgan looked down, "I guess you do have a point. To be honest I don't know why they wanted it myself. I guess they wanted the cards inside."
"But it's not theirs to take!" West said, "I think Axel did the right thing standing up to those punks!"
"But Radley didn't become leader of his own gang for nothing. I doubt he would agree to this duel if he didn't think he's win."
"It's not like I can back out now," Axel pointed out, "For all I know he's already back out waiting for me."
"Just be careful, Axel. Even I don't know what he has up his sleeve."
Axel nodded, "Don't worry. I'll be fine."
As soon as he ran back home to get his deck and disk, he ran back uptown to the intersection where Radley's seen standing on the left with his gang backing him windows overhead open to watch the show, along with a bunch of other towngoers gathered around the four corners.
"It's about time you show up," Radley slurred, "I was beginning to think you wouldn't come!"
"Let's just get this over with!" Axel barked back.
"Wow, someone's eager. That's fine by me. But before we begin, here's a little gift." Radley tossed something to Axel's feet.
Axel looked closer and realized that it's a gun holster! And it doesn't take much to know what's inside, "I don't like this…" he muttered and shot back to Radley, "Hey, what's the meaning of this, Radley?! No firearms allowed here, remember?!"
"I know the rules. It's not something to shoot with if you're that worried," Radley pulled back his black cape to show that he's wearing a similar holster, "This is a special-made duel-disk we'll be using for this duel; you know, just to make things more interesting."
"…What's the catch?"
"No catch. All you have to do beat me in a duel. We already went over the winning conditions. So how about it?"
Axel muttered under his breath. He didn't like how this is going, but he made the decision and so he may as well go through with it, "Fine, then." He picked up the holster and slung it around his waist.
"Oh, and one more thing," Radley said and pulled out a coin, "Soon as this coin hits the ground we draw; and I don't mean just drawing cards. The first one to draw out and activate their duel-disk and draw their starting hand gets to go first!"
"Wait, what?" But Radley already flicked the coin into the air. It all went so fast when the coin touched the ground and Radley pulled his pistol from his holster. He placed the gun sideways on his left wrist and let it unfold into a small, compact duel disk, then drawing his first five cards. Axel fell behind as he was just pulling his own out his holster.
Axel: 4000
Radley: 4000
"Too bad. I guess I go first," Radley sneered and drew his sixth card, "And to start, I activate the continuous-spell card Toll! From now on, we have to pay 500 life-points every time we wage an attack. Next I summon out Armored Zombie(3/ATK: 1500/DEF: 0) in DEF mode," a decaying samurai warrior appeared (DEF: 0), "That ends my turn."
"That's the best a gang leader can do?" Axel asked and drew his sixth card, 'I don't know what this guy's planning, but I'm not gonna throw away my life-points like he wants.' "I summon X-Saber Anu Piranha to my field! And this warrior's more lively!" the blonde-haired swordsman appeared, "Then I end my turn with a face-down card! You're up!"
"I draw," Radley drew his next card, "And I activate the continuous-spell card Mass Driver!" a large, futuristic cannon rose to the field in front of him, "It's quite a handy spell in the right hands. Because by releasing a monster, I can deal 400 points of damage. So I activate the quick-play Scapegoat to summon four extra cannonfodder," four sleepy balls of fluff with goat horns appeared (ATK: 0x4).
"Wait a minute, if there's five monsters and Radley's planning to use them all on Mass Driver…" West began.
Nico gasped, "That means he can deal up to 2000 points of damage this turn!"
"Let's see if you can handle 2000 points of pulse-pounding firepower!" one after another, every monster on Radley's field disappeared into Mass Driver's chamber and discharged as pulses of energy. Axel shielded himself from the cannonfire that exploded around him.
Axel: 2000
Radley: 4000
"Already halfway there," Radley smirked, "At this rate I won't have to lose my trump card. "I'll end my turn with a face-down. Let's see what you can do."
"It's my turn," Axel drew his next card, "I summon the tuner-monster X-Saber Palomuro!" the reptilian X-Saber appeared (ATK: 200), "And now I tune him with Anu Pirahna to synchro-summon X-Saber Wayne!" the two X-Sabers merged and formed the western X-Saber gunman (ATK: 2100), "And when Wayne's synchro-summoned, I can give him some backup! So I summon X-Saber Galahad!" the masked emerald lance-wielder appeared next to the cowboy (ATK: 1800), "Finally I'll end my turn with another face-down!"
"Then I guess I'll draw," Radley drew his next card, "I activate the continuous-spell Level Limit-Area B! This forces all level-4-or-higher monster on the field to DEF mode!"
X-Saber Wayne: (DEF: 400)
X-Saber Galahad: (DEF: 800)
"Now to show you something special! I send all three spell cards to the graveyard to summon my ultimate monster!" storm clouds suddenly gathered overhead and Radley's three spells disintegrated into dust that became sucked into the eye of the storm.
"What's going on?!" Axel demanded.
"By sacrificing these three continuous-spell cards I bring out one of the monster powerful cards in duel-monsters! I summon (11) Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder(10/ATK: 4000/DEF: 4000)!" a large golden behemoth broke through the clouds and descended. It's hide appeared to be like stone covered all around it, even its exoskeleton seemed to be made of golden rock. Its large wings curl around it as it lands, crackling with electricity. Radley had to hold back his snickers from watching Axel watch on in both horror and awe, "Like my new beast? Well, I'll let you in on a little secret: this isn't even the actual monster! There's a more powerful version lying around in an island somewhere. For some weird reason Pegasus didn't want it to come out in public! Luckily they managed to make one more that I just happen to get my hand on! And with his 4000 points of ATK come a very dangerous ability. Because when Hamon destroys a monster, he deals 1000 points of damage!"
"…But that leaves me only two turns left!" Axel gasped.
"Do you always thing that small? Or don't you know I can power up my monster further by activating this trap card!" Radley opened his reverse-card, "Miracle Locus boosts Hamon's ATK points by 1000 until the end of the turn. Sure, it can't inflict any battle damage this turn, but who cares as long as it can attack twice this turn!"
Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder: (ATK: 4000-5000)
"But Axel's got two monsters on his field!" West said.
"And if Hamon destroys them both, he'll lose…" Nico said.
"Don't feel too bad. At least you got an extra card out of Miracle Locus! Just don't say I never gave you anything, but do say goodbye to you monsters, and your life-points! Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder; attack Wayne with cerulean skyfire!" Hamon's body brightly surged with electricity, and all of it then struck down on X-Saber Wayne and destroyed him. The destructive force managed to reach just past the battlefield as small jolts of lightning struck Axel as well.
Axel: 1000
Radley: 4000
"When a Saber monster's destroyed in battle, I can pay 500 life-points to summon Palomuro back from my graveyard!" the reptilian X-Saber appeared in DEF position (DEF: 300).
Axel: 500
Radley: 4000
"So you'd rather have a shot at your own life-points before they're all gone, huh? That's fine by me! Hamon, attack!" Hamon's lightning shot towards Galahad.
"I activate my face-down! The quick-play Half Shut!" Axel's reverse-card opened and a barrier formed over Galahad against Hamon's second attack.
Radley huffed, "Big deal. I'll just wait until my next turn."
Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder: (ATK: 5000-4000)
"It's my turn!" Axel drew his next card, "I summon X-Saber Airbellum!" the anthro lion warrior appeared (ATK: 1600), "And now I tune together X-Sabers Airbellum and Galahad to synchro-summon (10) X-Saber Souza(7/ATK: 2500/DEF: 1600)!" the two X-Sabers merged together and out came a new X-Saber: a beastly man strapped in black-and-grey armor with a tattered red cape behind him, a left-side shoulderpad with the same golden 'X' as was emblazed on his belt buckle. In both his hands he crossed his two longswords (ATK: 2500), "And that's not all. With an X-Saber on my field, I can activate my trap card, Gottoms' Emergency Call! This lets me summon 2 more X-Sabers from my graveyard! So welcome back X-Saber Wayne (ATK: 2100, and X-Saber Anu Pirahna!" both the wild-west mercenary and female swordsman returned.
"And what are you supposed to do with those?" Radley scoffed, "No matter how many monsters you summon you'll pose a threat against my thunder lord."
"That's what you think! I equip Invigoration to boost Anu Pirahna's ATK points by 400 (ATK: 1800-2200/DEF: 1100-700)! Next, by releasing another X-Saber monster, I can activate his special-ability!" Axel's Palomuro vanished, "Now Souza can destroy any monster it battle this turn! And neither he nor I will take any damage!"
"What?! You can't do that!" Radley gasped.
"Just watch!" X-Saber Souza bounded off the ground with both blades held behind him, before he swung them over his head down into the beast's hide. His own weight dragged him down on his swords until he reached the ground. He jumped back before Hamon split in two and explode. Radley looked over Hamon's vanishing remains in so much doubt that he didn't pay attention to the two later X-Sabers, who blasted him and slashed him to the ground.
Axel: 500
Radley: 0
"This… This couldn't have happened!" Radley cried in gloom, "That was a one-of-a-kind legendary monster! He shouldn't have been beaten so easily! I shouldn't have been beaten so easily!"
"Well, you did," Axel stated and removed his duel-disk, "Now keep your word. I don't want to catch you causing trouble in town! Is that clear?!"
"You're kidding, right?" Radley laughed, "You didn't think I'd just do what you say because you won out of dumb luck, did you?! BOYS!"
On cue, Radley's men ran past him and surrounded Axel. The X-Saber grunted seeing them flanking him from all directions. "Why didn't I see this coming…?"
"You should've know by now, I wouldn't have agreed to this in the first place if I'd let you win either way. Now if you would excuse me…"
Suddenly everyone turned their heads towards the sound of engines. A fleet of bikes rolled from the street opposite of Radley's gang. The leader dismounted and took his helmet off showing their leader. He's mostly bald though still fairly middle-aged, with two dyed marks curving all the way from his eyebrows to his receding hairline and a third over the cleft of his chin. That's their leader, Malcolm. Grinning, he rested his arm against his thigh with his foot on his seat, "I've been hearing a lot of commotion and figured I'd come out to take a look, when here I find the almighty Radley getting schooled by some kid!"
"I don't remember seeing you on the guest list," Radley scowled, "In case you don't know, this is a private party!"
"My people told me you were trying to steal from one of my subordinates! That makes it my business too! What do you suppose I do about it?"
"Forget this! This is a waste of time! C'mon men, let's go!" Radley and his crew got on their bikes and drove back, "Don't think I won't remember this, kid!"
"I guess that takes care of that," Axel muttered and detached the duel-disk which changed back into a pistol. He gasped when someone pat him hard on the back.
"I gotta hand it to ya, that took a lotta guts to stand up to Radley like that!" Malcolm commend him.
"Yeah, sure." Axel groaned.
"Say, kid? You got a name?"
"It's Axel… Axel Xavier."
Malcolm's smile suddenly dropped, "Wait… Did you say 'Axel Xavier'?"
"Yeah, so what?"
"Lemme ask you something… Do you happen to be related to Youhei?"
"Huh? Wait, how'd you know about my mom?!"
Malcolm eventually burst out laughing, "Well ain't that a surprise! I should've recognized that hat anywhere!" he then pulled out a small business card and gave it to Axel, "Give me a call if you ever wanna make some extra dough!" Malcolm returned to his gang and drove back down town.
"Axel, that was awesome!" West cheered as he, Nico and their father came over.
"For a second I didn't think you could win! I'm sorry I doubted you!" Nico said.
"It's a great thing you managed to pull off," Jorgan said, "But I'm afraid you made an enemy of Radley and his gang."
"But something good did come out of it. You managed to keep the Duel Terminal, and…" Axel pulled out his pistol duel-disk, "I got a new duel-disk!" but then it was taken from him.
"Now Klaus' got a new duel-disk," Klaus snapped beside him.
"Grand P'pa?! Uh, what are you doing here?!"
"Don't play stupid! I turn my back for one minute and I find out you're picking a fight with Radley's gang!"
"Yeah, but you should've seen what they did to Jorgan! They were stealing from him!"
"I heard, Axel! He told me what happened! But that's no business to rile them up like that!"
Axel slumped, "You got a good point…"
"You better believe I do! I'll deal with you layer! Now get on home!"
"Yes sir." Axel sagged back home.
"Klaus, I'm starting to worry," Jorgan hinted, "I overheard Malcolm hint to Axel about his mother."
"That's what I'm afraid of…" Klaus grumbled watching Axel walk away. "I was hoping I could avoid answering questions a bit longer…"
"Hey boss, I just heard! That kid's full name's Axel Xavier!"
"Xavier, huh?" Radley then smirked, "Looks to me like the past is catching up. This should be interesting. I wonder if he knew…"
DUEL-MON DATABASE:
(1) Scrap Goblin
Stats: [Beast-Warrior/Tuner] LV3 ATK/0 DEF/ 500
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: This card cannot be destroyed by battle. If this Face-up Defense Position card is selected as an Attack Target, destroy this card during the end of the Battle Phase. If this card is destroyed by the effect of a "Scrap" card, you can select 1 "Scrap" monster in your Graveyard except a "Scrap Goblin", and add it to your Hand.
(2) Scrap Shark
Stats: [Fish/Effect] LV4 ATK/2100 DEF/0
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: When an Effect Monster's effect or a Spell/Trap Card is activated, destroy this face-up card on the field. If this card is destroyed by the effect of a "Scrap" card and sent to the Graveyard, you can send 1 "Scrap" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard.
(3) Scrap Chimera
Stats: [Beast/Effeci] LV4 ATK/1700 DEF/ 500
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster, except for the Synchro Summon of a "Scrap" monster and all the other Synchro Material Monsters must also be "Scrap" monsters. When this card is Normal Summoned, you can select 1 "Scrap" Tuner monster in your Graveyard and Special Summon it.
(4) Scrap Beast
Stats: [Beast/Tuner] LV4 ATK/1600 DEF/1300
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: If this face-up Defense Position card is selected as an attack target, destroy this card during the end of the Battle Phase. If this card is destroyed by the effect of a "Scrap" card, you can select 1 "Scrap" monster in your Graveyard except a "Scrap Beast", and add it to your hand.
(5) Scrap Golem
Stats: [Rock/Effect] LV5 ATK/2300 DEF/1400
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: Once per turn, you can select 1 Level 4 or lower "Scrap" monster in your Graveyard and Special Summon it to either player's side of the field.
(6) Scrap Dragon
Stats: [Dragon/Synchro/Effect] LV8 ATK/2800 DEF/2000
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non - Tuner monsters
Once per turn, activate by selecting 1 card each on you and your opponent's side of the field. The selected cards are destroyed. When this card is destroyed by your opponent and sent to the Graveyard, select and Special Summon 1 non-Synchro "Scrap" Monster from your Graveyard.
(7) Scrap Twin Dragon
[Dragon/SynchroEffect] LV9 ATK/ 3000 DEF/2200
Effect: 1 "Scrap" Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
Once per turn, you can select 1 card you control and 2 cards your opponent controls. Destroy the one you control and return the two your opponent controls to the hand. When this card is destroyed by your opponent's card (either by battle or by card effect) and sent to the Graveyard, select 1 non-Synchro "Scrap" monster in your Graveyard, and Special Summon it.
(8) Saber Beetle
[Insect/Effect] LV6 ATK/ 2600 DEF/600
Effect: 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.
(9) X-Saber Souza
Stats: [Warrior/Effect] LV7 ATK/2500 DEF/1600
Attribute: EARTH
Effect: 1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner "X-Saber" monsters
During your Main Phase: You can Tribute 1 "X-Saber" monster to choose 1 of these effects; this card gains that effect until the End Phase.
● At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles an opponent's monster: Destroy that monster.
● This card cannot be destroyed by Trap effects.
(10) Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder
Stats: [Thunder/Effect] LV10 ATK/4000 DEF/4000
Attribute: LIGHT
Effect: Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by sending 3 face-up Continuous Spell Cards you control to the Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. When this card destroys your opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: Inflict 1000 damage to your opponent. While this card is in face-up Defense Position, your opponent cannot target other monsters for attacks.
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