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The Orichalcos Saga
Fanfic Chapter 214: Rise of the Blue-Eyes Tyrant Pt 2: Fire in the Sky
Episode Basis: Flight of Fear Pt 2
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! Alister hijacked Kaiba's personal jet and forced Kaiba to duel him. As Alister played the Seal of Orichalcos, they were transported outside the plane and sent the plane into a nosedive. As Mokuba tried to regain control and call for help, Kaiba was shown a vision of three boys: Tony, Dennis, and Juan, who looked hauntingly like Mokuba. It was revealed that the boys were living in war-torn city just struggling to survive. Suddenly four tanks owned by Kaiba Corp. showed up. As it turned out, Alister was using the Seal of Orichalcos to show Kaiba a scene from his past. On the outside, the vision didn't affect Kaiba, but Kaiba was affected, more than even he would believe. Now the plane is heading towards a mountain and their only hope lies in Mokuba. They're doomed… or are they?
The plane was passing the point of no return as Mokuba tried to reach someone on his cell phone. "Come on, pick up, pick up."
"Mokuba, sir."
"Roland!" Mokuba cried relieved.
Roland was, at this moment, at Kaiba Corp.'s USA branch. "Are you all right?"
"No time to explain," Mokuba snapped. "I need you to tell me how to fly an airplane now!"
"Yes, sir, right away, sir, one second." Roland tapped one of his subordinates and handed him the cell phone. "You talk."
The subordinate visibly cringed.
"You're going down just like this airplane," Alister said. He drew a card. "I play the magic card Junk Dealer which lets me bring back two of my monsters with half their original attack points. So welcome back Science Soldier and Cyber Soldier of Dark World."
(SS: 400)
(CSDW: 700)
"Now I summon Kinetic Soldier (1) in attack mode. Now all my soldiers gain 500 life points thanks to the Seal of Orichalcos!"
(SS: 400-900)
(CSDW: 700-1200)
(KS: 1350-1850)
"Okay, so I leveled the flaps and diverted power, now what?" Mokuba asked.
"Pull back on the stick," the Kaiba Corp. employee instructed. Mokuba tried but the stick was jammed. "Mokuba, our sensors are still showing you going down, are you pulling up?"
'I'm trying!" Mokuba cried.
"I'm activating a trap card," Alister decided. "Soldier Revolt. This trap card can only work when Science Soldier, Kinetic Soldier, and Cyber Soldier are all on the field at the same time. I can destroy every card on the field and in your hand!" Kaiba's XYZ-Dragon Cannon and face-down card was destroyed. Kaiba deposited all his cards in the graveyard slot. "Next I play a magic card called Sky Union. Now I sacrifice all three of my soldiers to summon my ultimate beast, the Air Fortress Ziggurat (2)!" A large shaft of energy exploded upward behind Alister.
With all his strength, Mokuba pulled back on the control stick. The stick pulled back allowing the plane to skim off the mountainside and ascend into the sky again.
"Good job, Mokuba, now engage the Autopilot."
"I've been waiting all day to hear that," Mokuba said and flicked the switch.
"Mokuba, we have your coordinates, we're dispatching rescue choppers right now."
"Thanks," Mokuba said and hung up. "I can't wait to tell Seto!" He left the cockpit and ran back to the dueling area.
Joey and Tristan stared in horror. They couldn't move, couldn't blink, couldn't even breath.
The snake hissed.
The two were still walking along the train tracks but stopped to allow Amara to go to the bathroom behind a large boulder.
"Just take a step, I'm right behind you," Tristan urged.
"Somehow that doesn't reassure me," Joey said sarcastically.
"You two are just a bunch of wimps," Amara said coming out from behind the rock holding a stick. She held out the stick and the snake wrapped itself around it. Amara threw the stick away and gestured for them to continue. "Shall we?" But she noticed that Joey and Tristan were still not moving; they were staring upward. Amara gazed upward. She let out a scream.
A large burly dragon, color masked by the sun's glare, appeared over them. It spread its wings and Joey, Tristan, and Amara all dissolved.
As Mokuba returned to the scene of the duel, he gasped.
Flying higher than even the plane was an enormous flying fortress covered in gun barrels and missiles of every shape and size. At the forefront was something which vaguely resembled a head. It had two spikes sticking out in a v-shape and a metal mask with a red indentation in the center. And it had two glowing red eyes. The Seal of Orichalcos appeared on the front.
(AFZ: 2500-3000)
Kaiba gasped, "I've seen that monster somewhere before!"
"That's because my friend Jonah designed this card after my brother's Dyna Dude action figure. You remember, don't you? The action figure that I carry around to remind myself of how my brother suffered at your company's hands! Now here's how it works. Every turn it releases one of these to protect itself from an attack!" A robot similar to the completed action figure appeared inside the red indentation. It fell to the ground and crouched on one knee. "A robot token, in defense mode, and also you should know that my Air Fortress Ziggurat is impervious to all magic and trap cards. I think I'll end my turn right there. Now nothing you can do can stop me!"
"I have no intention of letting your little toy stop me," Kaiba declared. "I'm through playing around with you!"
"Seto, please stop this!" Mokuba pleaded.
"I never backed down from a challenge before and I'm not about to do now!"
"But if you lose, he gets your soul!"
Kaiba let out a laugh, "The only thing he's getting is the pounding of a lifetime!" He drew a card, "I play the magic card Pot of Greed which lets me draw two extra cards." He stared at the two cards. "I set one card face-down and end my turn."
Looks like Kaiba's plan to beat me just failed. I'll reduce him to dust with Ziggurat. "You're about to feel the pain and agony my family felt at your hands!"
"That's enough!" Mokuba snapped. "What our step-father did has nothing to do with Seto! Our step-father was a jerk and we never supported him!"
"Mokuba, that's enough, we don't have to defend ourselves from him."
"That's right, you really should be defending yourself from my Ziggurat!" All the guns aimed at Kaiba. "Now, Ziggurat, attack his life points directly!" The dozens of cannons started to fire.
"I activate my trap card!"
"Trap cards don't work on my Ziggurat!"
"Don't be so sure, Alister, Magic Mirror is no ordinary trap, it lets me use a magic card from your graveyard! Now I'll use your Junk Dealer's effect to bring back my Judge Man (3) in attack mode."
(JM: 2200-1100)
A burly ogre appeared briefly before being destroyed by the barrage of lasers.
(A: 1400)
(K: 100)
"I'm not impressed," Alister said as another Robot Token appeared.
The sound of a helicopter made the three passengers turn. Four Kaiba Corp. helicopters were heading towards them. Roland's face could be seen placed against the window on one of the helicopters.
"Looks like my rescue team is a little early," Kaiba commented. "Good, gives me more time to beat some humility into you."
Those are Gozaburo's choppers, Alister thought. He really IS just like his old man! He thought back to his brother's death. Alister's rage reached its breaking point. "KAIBA, YOU'LL PAY!" Bolts of electricity were emitted from the Seal of Orichalcos. What little windows were left intact was shattered. The bolts were so powerful that it actually destroyed three of the helicopters. Fortunately, Roland was on the surviving one.
The airplane was rapidly descending again, disappearing into a cloud bank and off the radar of the remaining Kaiba Corp. chopper. Mokuba grabbed the bulkhead. "Seto!"
But Kaiba was busy addressing Alister, "I was right all along, you are a heartless tyrant just like your old man! Why else would you use his air force to protect you?"
"Are you done yet?" Kaiba asked indifferently. "Because it's my move." Alister scowled upon seeing his verbal jab had no effect on Kaiba, "I play the magic card Soul Exchange. This takes a monster on both sides of the field and uses them as a sacrifice for one of my monsters. "But as you can see, I have no monsters."
"And my Ziggurat can't be sent to the graveyard by magic cards."
"That's why I'm using it on your two little dolls!" The robot tokens disappeared. "Now I summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"
Roland scanned the skies looking for a sign of his bosses. Suddenly the Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared parallel with Air Fortress Ziggurat. Roland tapped the pilot on the shoulder, "Follow that dragon!"
"It looks like we're about even," Kaiba commented.
"Looks can be deceiving," Alister replied. "Our monsters have the same number of attack points and it's my move." He drew a card. Another Robot Token was deposited onto Alister's side of the field. He also laid the magic card he drew face-down.
Kaiba drew a card. "I'll place this face-down. Now, Blue-Eyes, attack his Robot Token with White Lightning!" The dragon blasted a beam of white light at the robot and destroyed it.
"That was your last chance," Alister said drawing a card. "Now it's time to win this duel and complete my brother's vengeance!" He held the card close to him. "Mikey, this is for you. I play the magic card Robot Toy Box! Now by discarding a card, I get three Robot Tokens!" Three robots were made and dropped, one after another, onto Alister's side of the field. "Next I sacrifice one to summon Spell Canceller (4) in attack mode." A strange machine with metal-like tendrils appeared which opened to reveal a hole which started emitting green mist.
(SC: 1800-2300)
"And in case you couldn't figure out its ability by its name, it prevents you from activating any more spell cards."
Last time, Alister played a card that prevented Seto from playing trap cards, Mokuba thought. This time, it's the same but with spell cards.
"Soon you and everyone like you will be eradicated from this world!"
"If you ask me, it seems like you and your legion of cronies plan on eliminating everyone that doesn't share your lame ideals."
"I'm saving Earth!" Alister argued. "If people like you continue to exist, the world will crumble!"
"How nice of you," Kaiba said dryly. "But answer me this, would you still try to destroy mankind even if it meant hurting him?"
"It's your fault Mikey's gone!"
"It's the duty of the older brother to protect the younger brother at all costs! But you were careless in your duty and look where that carelessness got you! My step-father may have provided the tanks that killed your brother, but it was YOU who gave him the opportunity!"
"Air Fortress Ziggurat, attack Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" The barrels raised to pointed at Kaiba's dragon.
"I activate my trap card Tyrant Wings!" Blue-Eyes White Dragon's wings started to glow. "This raises my dragon's attack points by 400!"
(BEWD: 3000-3400)
"Blue-Eyes, counterattack!" The White Dragon let out a tremendous energy blast that blew a large hole right through the Air Fortress Ziggurat. Ziggurat fell away from the airplane to the cloud bank below it where it exploded in a burst of light.
(A: 1000)
(K: 100)
"Look at yourself," Kaiba said. "You despise my step-father yet you used machines of war in this duel. It isn't I who's become just like him, it's you."
"Don't you dare compare me with that monster, I'm trying to save humanity!"
"You just don't want to hone up the fact that because you couldn't save your brother, you ended up the very thing you hated! A War Monger!"
Alister let out another scream of rage. The Seal of Orichalcos actually expanded to include Mokuba. There was a deranged look in Alister's eyes now. "You won't be able to save your brother either. Even if you win, this plane is going down. And once that happens, all three of us will be prisoners of the Orichalcos!"
"No we won't, because unlike you I intend to save my brother no matter the cost!" Kaiba drew a card. "I play Fang of Critius and I choose to fuse it with my Tyrant Wings trap card to form the Tyrant Burst Dragon (5)! And then I'll combine Tyrant Burst Dragon's with my Blue-Eyes!" The two dragons' images merged. The new dragon had the colors of Blue-Eyes White Dragon but the dragon was that of Critius. "Now appear before me Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon (6)! Now attack all his monsters with White Fire!" The dragon let out a large burst of white-hot flames and cleared Alister's field of the other two robot tokens and Spell Canceller.
(A: 0)
(K: 100)
The Seal of Orichalcos fell back into the plane. Kaiba and Mokuba were now free. The Seal surrounded Alister and when it faded, Alister's soulless body laid on the floor.
"Poor guy," Mokuba muttered. "One thing's for sure, playing that Seal of Orichalcos drives you crazy."
"Perhaps," Kaiba muttered staring at Alister's Dyna Dude figure.
The plane was now threatening to come apart at the seams. Kaiba and Mokuba ran to the cockpit and Kaiba tried to gain control. "I'm a man of my word, Alister, I promise to save my brother no matter the cost!"
Kaiba's deck started to glow.
Outside, the sky started to glow different colors: green, red, and yellow. Suddenly the three Legendary Dragons appeared and joined Critius. Solon gripped the tail fin of the plane. Timaeus and Hermos each grabbed a wing. Critius placed a claw on the main body. Spreading their wings, the dragons glided the plane to a safe landing in a field.
The dragons rose into the air. Solon's wings glowed and five specs of light fell to the ground forming into Yami, Tea, Joey, Amara, and Tristan.
"Tea, Pharaoh, you're all right," Amara cried happily.
"Yes and you three?" Yami asked.
"No worse for wear," Joey replied.
"Look, guys," Tristan said pointing up. "I think those dragons wanted to bring us back together."
"I think the dragons had a different purpose in mind, Tristan," Yami said. He pointed to the airplane.
"It's one of Kaiba's airplanes," Tea recognized. "Oh I hope everyone's all right."
The door opened and Kaiba appeared carrying Alister's body. He regarded the others with disdain, "Oh great, the Dweeb Patrol." He leapt down, Mokuba hanging off his back. "Don't you geeks have someone else to annoy?"
"Kaiba, we can't do this without you," Yami pleaded. "So why don't you accept your destiny and help us vanquish this great evil."
Kaiba smirked, "You know, if I had a quarter for every time you mention the word 'destiny,' well… I'd be even richer."
"Yeah, and if I had a dime for every time you were cynical, I'd be richer than you and Pegasus put together," Amara retorted. But considering that Kaiba didn't vocally refuse Yami's offer, they considered it an agreement.
"Mister Kaiba, Mokuba!" Roland and the pilot ran up to them. "Are you all right, sir?"
"We're fine," Kaiba replied.
"Good, because I have terrible news, sir!" Everyone gasped.
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Kinetic Soldier
Level: 3
Type: Machine/Effect
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1350
DEF: 1800
(2)
Name: Air Fortress Ziggurat
Level: 10
Type: Machine/Ritual/Effect
Attribute: Fire
ATK: 2500
DEF: 2850
(3)
Name: Judge Man
Level: 6
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 2200
DEF: 1500
(4)
Name: Spell Canceller
Level: 5
Type: Machine/Effect
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1800
DEF: 1600
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(5)
Name: Tyrant Burst Dragon
Level: 7
Type: Dragon/Hybrid/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 2800
DEF: 1500
(6)
Name: Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon
Level: 8
Type: Dragon/Hybrid/Effect
Attribute: Light
ATK: 3400
DEF: 2800
A/N: Air Fortress Ziggurat probably isn't a ritual monster, but it fitted the requirements of a ritual monster (playing a magic card and sacrificing monsters to summon it) so I'm categorizing it as one.