Chapter 13- The Final Duel!- Battle of the Invincibles

Matt slowly walked up the stairs to face his opponent. "So, you are the Zane Trusdale I have heard so much about. I hope you won't bore me with this duel."

"Oh, I have no intention of doing that." Zane said. "Are you ready?"

"Always."

"Let's duel!"

Zane: 4000

Matt: 4000

"I shall begin." Matt said. Drake thought that he saw a knowing look on Matt's face, but it was gone in a second. Matt drew a card. "I will summon my Mpirian Knight (Light/Warrior/Mpire, 1900/1400) in attack mode. Then I shall set a card facedown and end my turn. Give me your best shot."

"My best shot? You've got it." Zane said. "I special summon my Cyber Dragon (Light/Machine/Effect, 2100/1200) in attack mode. Next, I will summon Proto-Cyber Dragon (Light/Machine/Effect, 1100/800) in attack mode as well. Cyber Dragon, attack his Knight!"

Zane: 4000

Matt: 3800

"Now, Proto-Cyber Dragon attacks directly."

Zane: 4000

Matt: 2700

"Next, I activate Different Dimension Capsule. I remove one card from play and end my turn."

"Not bad. But it could have been better. I summon Mastrus the Guardian (Light/Warrior/Mpire/Effect, 1400/2200) in defense mode. Then, I will end my turn."

"Is that all you've got?" Zane said. He drew his card. "I activate Polymerization. I will fuse both Cyber Dragons on the field to form my Cyber Twin Dragon (Light/Machine/Fusion/Effect, 2800/2400)."

"Wait, where's the Proto?" Julie asked.

"It was fused." Flynn said.

"Huh? But it couldn't have been used-"

"Yeah, it was. While on the field, Proto Cyber Dragon counts as just another Cyber Dragon."

"Oh."

"Cyber-Twin Dragon, attack his Guardian!" Zane said.

"I activate Guardian Art- Damage Negation!" Matt said. "This card can only be activated while I have Mastrus on the field or in my Graveyard. Now, you do no damage during this turn."

"Very well. I end my turn."

"My turn then." Matt drew a card. "I think I'll just end my turn."

"Now, my turn. I'll draw." Zane carefully studied his hand. "And now, my Different Dimension Capsule gives me the card I placed in it two turns ago. Next, I activate De-Fusion, to break apart my Twin Dragon. Then, I'll destroy your facedown card with Mystical Space Typhoon. Then, with nothing left to defend you but your monster, I'll play my Power Bond Spell Card! With it, I can fuse Machine-type monsters. Then the monster I summon gets an attack points- doubled, to be exact. So, I'll be fusing the Proto on the field, the Cyber Dragon on the field, and the one in my hand, to form… the Cyber…End…Dragon." There was a huge amount of lightning and smoke effects, and out of the smoke came a massive, three headed, mechanical dragon. (Light/Machine/Fusion/Effect, 4000/4000). "And as you probably know, when he destroys a defensive monster, the difference between his attack points and your monster's defense points comes out of your life points. So, now his attack points double to 8000."

"No way! Matt's going to lose!?!" Drake said.

"No way…" Flynn said. "He's got to have a trick up his sleeve."

"Cyber End Dragon! Destroy him!" said Zane.

"You cannot! I activate my Magical Barrier Trap Card!"

"Wait- I destroyed that!"

"Not exactly." Matt said, and tapped the Guardian's card on his duel disk. "He's called a guardian. He protects all other cards on my side of the field from destruction by your effects. Now, on to the effect of Magical Barrier. I can only activate it when you attack one of my Mpire monsters. The monster you attacked with and all face-up monsters on your side of the field with less attack points than the monster that attacked first are now… destroyed. So, your mighty dragon is destroyed. And now it is my turn."

"Yes… I guess it is."

"Hmm. I draw." Matt drew his card.

"Wow! I didn't think that he could get out of that." Drake said.

"Again I wonder- where is he getting all of these rare cards? They seem kind of cheap." Flynn said.

"Maybe he got them straight from I.I.?" Julie suggested.

"That could be." Said Keith. "But I've never heard of that."

"I summon my Mpirian Jet (Wind/Machine, 1800/400) in attack mode. Then, I activate the Bountiful Land of Mpire Spell Card. With it, I draw one card plus one for every Mpire monster on my side of the field. So, that's three cards." He drew them all in one shot, then fanned them out and glanced at them. Sinister organ music began to play.

"Hey, where's that coming from?" Drake asked. Flynn started looking around Keith just shrugged.

"Over there." Flynn said. "That kid." On the side of the duel ring was a small electric piano. A short, tubby kid was hunched over it, plunking at the keys.

"Chris, you can stop that now." Matt said.

"What? Oh." The one called Chris stopped playing and sat up.

"Now!" Matt extracted four cards from his hand. "I discard these four monsters and send my Mpirian Jet to the Graveyard to summon MPIRIAN OMNI MACHINE (Light/Machine/Mpire/Fusion/Effect, 5200/5200)! Now, Omni Machine, attack him directly and end this duel!"

Zane: 0

Matt: 2700

A deafening silence fell over the crowd. They were all stunned that Zane had lost.

"And that's all." Matt said. "We win."

Author's note: If you haven't figured it out yet, yes, I did create almost every last card that Matt uses.