Well a lot of you guys were guessing Johan to be Anguish last chapter… Well guess what…?
I'm not telling you anything, you can keep guessing if you like but, I'm not going to say if you're right or wrong. But Im updating a little early because Im not that evil to leave you guys at a cliffhanger for that long.
Or am I?
Chapter 7More Technical Difficulties
"Wait, hold up!" Atticus said, clearly a little skeptical of this information. "This can't be. Kaiba and Pegasus would have at least mentioned something about all this mythology and stuff. All they said was we just had to guard keys to computer data."
Then Zane added. "But now the question is, what is this data? Why's it so important?"
Chazz nodded and crossed his arms, a defiant gleam in his eyes. "That's right, if we're going to risk our lives for these keys and for Kaiba's information's sake, we deserve to know what exactly we're protecting."
Alexis sat back with a sigh, tired and stressed. "There has to be a reason why they're hiding this stuff from us. I mean, we're already in danger by holding the keys themselves, so knowing this info wouldn't hurt."
Jaden didn't talk much due to the fact he had a long gash on his cheek, so he shrugged and looked closer at Aster's computer screen.
"Hey guys, can we all take our keys out, it seems these symbols appear in different orders and patterns throughout these sketches." Aster said looking at the rest.
There was a second of silence before everyone either pulled their items from around their necks or pockets. They switched the tiny screens on as their symbols pixilated. "Flash the screens over here, guys," Aster continued. He observed each key carefully, his blue eyes darting from the different screens and back.
"Okay, set 1 is
Water Wind Dark Earth Light Fire
Set 2 is
Light Wind Fire Water Earth Dark
Set 3
Wind Dark Earth Light Fire Water
And here's the last set
Water Fire Earth Wind Dark Light."
Aster wasn't done. "Hold on there's more, it says that under each set was a word or phrase in Greek lettering. It says Set one had "Destruction" Set two had "Peace" Set three had "Forever Wondering". And the last had "Rebirth". Whatever this means, our keys have something to do with this or Pegasus is playing a joke on us."
"Why don't we just contact them right now?" Atticus suggested.
"A fax is unreliable, we don't know where it'll end up for sure. And whatever signal we have up here is terrible, we wont be able to understand each other at all and we don't have internet."
"Then how is-"
"I have a built in encyclopedia on this thing," Aster said, tapping on the side of his notebook. "It updates itself with reliable sources when I connect to the internet."
Alexis asked, "Where does your computer get the memory?"
"That's what a lot of people asked me, this is really expensive you know. It has 120 GB so holding any interesting articles in an encyclopedia is no problem."
Before anyone could get back on topic, there was a huge BANG that shook the seats a bit.
"What the hell was that?" Aster said, sweating after they all got scared half to death. Chazz stood up. "Ugh, it came from the cargo room in the back I'll go check."
Zane and Atticus stood up. "Atticus and I'll go check on the pilots and ask them about it." He told them. They nodded and Chazz slid open the compartment door as Zane and Atticus headed the other way. They vanished behind the dark gray doors.
"I wonder what was that…" Alexis said, rubbing her arms, recovering from the shock. Jaden finally said something, "I dunno, but I don't have a really good feeling about it."
"They'll be okay, this is Chazz's private jet." Aster insisted. "While we're waiting lets see if we can make more out of the information we have, We're going to have to wait till we land before we contact either Pegasus or Kaiba." The other two agreed and took seats beside the silver-haired teen.
"I can't make heads or tails of the sets of symbols," Alexis said, a little frustrated. She fell silent thinking hard.
"Neither can I," Aster wrinkled his brows and concentrated. "Besides the last set holds the elements in opposite… But that doesn't mean anything. At least not now."
And now for a generic movie scene.
The two older guys passed through the attendants' work area. It was empty and strangely quiet. The door slid closed behind them as they reached the piloting pit. Zane lifted a hand and knocked. No answer.
"What the-" We grabbed the handle and tugged on it, it was stuck. Atticus lent a hand and the two pulled as hard as they could. "Open up!" Atticus shouted. Still no answer.
"This thing is held in place with a tab," Zane thought logically. "Pulling isn't going to do anything." He lifted his foot. "Atticus, I know I said violence wasn't the key to success, but lets say I lied." Atticus grinned and followed suit with Zane. "On three…"
"THREE!"
they smashed their feet against the door, it split on the left before Atticus kicked it down.
When they finally got the thin barrier out of the way they looked at the seats. It was like the attendant's compartment.
They panicked.
"Where the hell are the pilots!?" Atticus shouted frantically. The two ran to the controls.
"Who's been driving this damn plane for the last four hours!?"
Zane cursed heavily. "I only know the basics, good enough for a misting plane only, not a jet. We can't fly this! And if we don't do something…" He traced the route with his finger on the side screen.
"What, what'll happen?"
"Our Elevation's too low. In approximately three hours…" Zane's face paled.
Atticus waited for him to finish.
"We'll crash into the East African Mountain Range."
"I have to tell the others," Atticus turned around and tried to open the second remaining door.
Zane quickly grabbed the mouthpiece from his top left and dialed the nearest flight tower's number.
"Princeton Jet, we set flight almost five hours ago. Requesting assistance," Zane said. "Our pilots are missing and if we don't get any help soon, we're going to die in less than three hours." As he said that he heard Atticus swear and shout, "Dammit! Zane we're locked in, I can't even get an inch's reach of the door!"
Zane's eyes widened as he heard a sinister voice on the other end. "Nice try Truesdale, but I'm afraid you're alone on this one."
Atticus rushed to his side after failing to beat through the invisible shield. He opened his mouth to say something but Zane held up a hand to silence him.
"You're not going to die in three hours, actually only one." Zane bit his lip, he tasted a bitter liquid.
As it was dead quiet, the two heard a steady, faint beeping. Atticus turned and walked to the corner's cabinet and tugged open the door.
It was a bomb.
"Zane… this thing is set to designate in one hour," Atticus said quietly, staring at the red countdown.
He heard the voice laugh. "That's right, and there's no point in trying to defuse it. If you touch it in the wrong places, it'll explode and you'll all end up dead. There's only one way to stop that bomb. One of your friends is probably dueling one of my servants. If he gets lucky and win, he'll get a special key to deactivate it but you'll die anyways since those mountains are coming pretty close. If he loses… I'll let you guess. Good luck, Mr. Truesdale, Mr. Rhodes." The line cut itself and Zane was left with the device clutched dangerously tight in his hand.
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"Okay, so what exactly went wrong here…?" Chazz asked himself, pushing a few boxes out of the way that were left over from their last flight.
His three duel spirits appeared beside him.
"I don't have a very good feeling about this, Boss," Ojama Yellow said, casting nervous looks around them.
"Yeah, Yellow's right," Green agreed. Ojama Black nodded. "Let's get out of here, Boss."
Before Chazz could say anything and swat the pest away he heard the door click behind him. "What the-" He rushed back and tried to tug at the handle, but a stinging force field seemed to be repelling his touch. He tried pounding it to no avail.
"Oh no, we're trapped!" Ojama Yellow screamed.
"It's no use, the only way those shields will fail is if I command them to," someone said behind them.
Chazz whirled around. "Who are you and how did you get on my jet!?' Chazz demanded.
A man in his early twenties revealed himself, he had bleach blond hair with sharp green eyes. "You have really sucky secretaries, after impressing them with my skills on all sorts of vehicles, they agreed to hire me since no one else wanted to pilot your plane on such short notice. It was a good plan, really. But enough small talk. It's time for me to beat you good and take those data items." He tossed a second duel disk towards Chazz who caught in and slipped it on.
"Are you going to go through with this, boss?" The Ojamas asked nervously. Chazz smiled. "Don't worry," he answered, "Im going to sweep the floor with this guy."
"And the name's Raytou, don't forget it."
"Duel!"
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"Okay its been a while, something's definitely wrong. Im checking on them!" Alexis said, standing up.
"You're right," Aster agreed he walked down the aisle to open the door but his hand met with the same barrier. Alexis had the same trouble. "How come we can't open the doors!?" She asked starting to panic. Alexis kicked and threw her body against the shield but it wouldn't budge. Aster or Jaden didn't have any luck either. "I don't know, maybe those guys somehow got in here and somehow put up these barriers and for some reason want to separate Zane, Atticus and Chazz from us!"
"Zane!" Alexis shouted. "Atticus! Can you hear me!" when no reply came she started yelling their names again until finally, after the third shout, she gave up.
"These things are sound proof, if something happened to them we would've known. Hell, they maybe pounding on the shields right now for all we know." Aster finally concluded. Alexis turned to him.
"So what are we going to do, we can't just stand here!"
Jaden made a fist. "Alexis is right! We have to find a way to break down these things. He kicked the nearby door but still, nothing happened."
Aster sighed and leaned against the wall crossing him arms. "Let's face it, we can't do anything. All we have to do is hope they're going to be alright."
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"I sacrifice my Armed Dragon LVL 5 for my LVL 7 dragon!" Chazz declared as his armored orange dragon appeared in a furry of light. It roared menacingly. "Go Armed Dragon LVL 7, and destroy his Alien Warrior!"
Raytou flinched as his monster was destroyed under the pressure of the flaming fist.
Raytou- 3000
Chazz- 4000
"And I end my turn," Chazz finished, currently satisfied at the damage he was able to inflict.
"Not bad," Raytou commented. "But you activated the effect of my Alien Warrior. Since your Armed Dragon is the one that destroyed it, it receives two Alien counters."
Chazz didn't expect this. "Alien counters?"
"Yeah, you'll see what they do later on… I summon my Alien Hunter in defense mode to hang out with my Alien Grey. I'll set a face-down and end my turn." A blueish armored lizard took place on his side of the field.
"That's it?" Chazz drew. Ojama Yellow? If only had a different monster, I'll be able to wipe his field clean with my Armed Dragon. But I have Malevolent Nuzzler and I can equip it to Yellow and still wipe out his field.
"I summon my Ojama Yellow!" Chazz's first duel spirit appeared and grinned stupidly. "He may be nothing right now but I activate Malevolent Nuzzler to boost his attack points to 700. Now my Armed Dragon, attack his Alien Hunter!"
Raytou narrowed his eyes. "I activate my trap card! Crop Circles! By sacrificing my Alien Hunter and my Alien Gray, I can summon a level six monster from my deck." Chazz blinked. "What?"
Raytou pulled out his deck and quickly searched through before selecting a card. "I summon my Alien Mother!"
Chazz grinned. "Too bad! My Armed Dragon is still stronger! Destroy that monster." However, despite his confidence, Alien Mother fired a violet beam, which cleanly split and destroyed Armed Dragon.
Chazz cried out in pain as the shards from the battle cut his skin. "How can that be!? My monster was stronger!"
Chazz- 3900
Raytou- 3000
"Nope, apparently it wasn't. You're monster had two Alien tokens on it remember? So that means when it engages in battle, it loses 300 attack and defense points for each token it has. Oh and also…" A flash of light covered his field and the powerful dragon reappeared on Raytou's field.
Chazz's jaw dropped. "What?"
He explained, "Since Alien Mother technically destroyed your monster, it lets me take control of it just as long as it has an alien counter."
"Okay that is just screwed up," Chazz said pissed. Chazz's remaining monster trembled at the fact that it was face to face with two very large monsters. "I switch my Ojama to defense mode, place a face-down and end my turn."
"Well there's nothing much to except… I use my Mystical Space Typhoon to get rid of your one and only Trap Card."
Chazz grimaced as his card was blown away and shattered. "Go, Armed Dragon and destroy that pathetic little Ojama Yellow!"
"Boss, save meee!" It cried. "Sorry, can't." He frowned as his last monster was destroyed.
"Now I attack you directly with Alien Mother!" Raytou declared. Chazz felt stinging pain as the violet beam of energy passed through him. "Damn, this hurts!"
Chazz- 1500
Raytou- 3000
"Have you given up yet?" Raytou teased. "You're weaker than I thought."
That did it. "Okay!" Chazz fired up. "So what if you managed to take one and destroy one of my monsters and then take a bite from my lifepoints, but NO ONE calls me weak just like that!" He drew with fury.
"I activate Monster Reborn to special summon my Ojama Yellow from the grave! Then I activate Reckless Summon, and since I special summoned my Ojama Yellow, I can also summon Ojamas Green and Black! Now the Ojama Trio is on my field!"
Raytou seemed unimpressed. "So?"
"So, I can activate another spell card! Ojama Delta Hurricane! With this card I can destroy all monsters on your side of the field!"
"What no!" Raytou braced himself as the two monsters roared and shattered under a powerful twister of wind. "Ugh!"
The Ojamas returned to their position, smiling proudly. "That's weak for you! I set a face down and end my turn."
Raytou drew. "Well I guess there's nothing much I can do besides this. I summon Flying Saucer Muusik'i. I end my turn."
"Now its pretty boring…" Chazz commented. "But I can do this! I activate polymerization from my hand to fuse my three Ojamas! Say hello to Ojama King!" One of Chazz's best cards appeared. No attack but a high defense.
"And due to Ojama King's special effect, three or your monster zones are classified as occupied!"
Raytou cursed. "Is that all you have?" he challenged.
"Not really I activate card destruction so now we have to discard our hands and draw a new one," Chazz answered, the two drew their new cards. "Your turn."
"Oh, you're going to regret you did that, you're in for it now! I activate my Flying Saucer's effect! Instead of drawing a normal card, I can search through my deck for an Alien Monster! And I think I'll choose another one of my Alien Hunters! I summon it!" The same-looking blue lizard appeared. "And I sacrifice them both to summon this! Cosmic Horror Gangi'el, rise!"
Chazz took a step back as something really big, and really ugly alien monster appeared on the opposite side of the field.
"I think it's time for me to get rid of that monster! I activate my quick spell, Stop Defense!" He saw the horror on Chazz's face. "Yeah, stuff like this can be a pain. Cosmic Horror Gangi'el, attack and destroy that Ojama King!" The alien roared, gathering an orb of white energy and fired it at Chazz's defense.
"Aw, it looks like I win!" Raytou said smugly at the smoke that was hiding Chazz and his now bare field. However the smoke cleared and Raytou gasped. He was still standing, revealing a trap card!
I… can barely stand… Chazz thought in dismay. "I activate my trap, Numinous Healer…" Too close…
"What!?" He exclaimed. "But still, even with that you should've lost!"
Chazz shook his head. "No since I had another Numinous Healer I discarded earlier from Card destruction, my lifepoints were boosted to 3000, so Im still here."
Chazz- 400
Raytou- 3000
"Okay, you survived by a scratch, so what? I'll just defeat you next turn. I end."
He's right, I don't have any moves left, no more strategies… He slowly began to close his eyes in exhaustion until he heard a voice.
"If you give up now, you'll die. Just survive for this one turn and I'll take care of the rest. Now draw!"
What, I have another duel spirit? Chazz looked at his deck which began to glow faintly. He drew. Chazz's eyes widened, it was his Data Guardian! Finally it decided to help him win this duel. "Told you so, now use me wisely and I'll guarantee you victory." The name appeared across the top of the Stone-crystal reptile.
"I summon my Data Guardian- Tentoros! (Level 4 1000/1000). Now he has a nice effect. By sacrificing him, I can summon any amount of monsters from your graveyard with the same name and these monsters can attack your life points directly just as long as they're level 4 or lower!"
Tentoros was consumed in a ring of green light before Chazz bared a fist and declared. "I'll choose your two Alien Hunters from earlier!"
Fear entered Raytou's eyes. "How could you have drawn that thing at the last moment!"
"Because I know how to duel unlike some people! Go Alien Hunters and attack his lifepoints directly."
He screamed as two orb spears were slashed through him, There was an explosion bringing up debris and smoke as the holograms faded.
Chazz grinned, satisfied at his victory. The smoke cleared and Raytou was no where to be seen. A shiny gold coin laid where he once stood. Chazz's legs wobbled as he walked over and picked up the coin. Besides it was a glossy silver key. He picked it up. "I wonder what this is for…?"
He made his way back and opened the door with difficulty. Before he knew it Alexis ran over and hugged him in relief. "Oh my god, Chazz! You look like you've been through a jungle." He blushed.
"I just took care of one of those guys. But this key… And Zane and Atticus. Ugh…" He stumbled again. Suddenly the door on the opposite side slammed open.
"Finally I got this thing opened!" Atticus said. He looked at Chazz. "Hey, do you have that special bomb key? We need it or this thing's going to blow up in twenty minutes."
"Bomb?" He didn't wait for the answer but threw the key which Atticus caught. "And I really hope you know how to pilot a plane Chazz, our pilots are missing and Zane's angsting in there."
Chazz groaned, he's just been through a corruption duel and know he has to fly his own jet!? "Yeah sure," he answered and made his way into the pilot's compartment.
Aster stared after him. "Poor guy, he's probably been through a lot. We should go in there and make sure everything turns out right…" The two agreed and followed after the lumbering Chazz.
-X-
And yup, I did get the chapter title from my other story xD Bleach GX, read and review if you haven't already. And FINALLY I wrote a duel with No made up cards or cheating (well that I can see, correct me if Im wrong) Except the data guardian of course.
Data Guardian- Tentoros
Level 4
1000/1000
Earth/Reptile
You can tribute this card to take control of any amount of monsters in your opponent's graveyard with the same name. These cards can attack your opponent's lifepoints directly as long as they are level 4 or lower.