Yeah, here we go, and if anyone thought that Theo was going to use an army or warrior deck, you where close, and yet so far.
So, shall we begin?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Metroid.
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You can just call me Theo for now, thats all I want to be called.
I've lived most of my life on army bases, some call me an army brat, but I don't like to think of myself as one.
Maybe thats why I got into duel monsters, to prove that I'm more than just a soldier's kid, to prove that I actualy have worth.
Of course, sometimes even that won't help the fact that soldier is in my blood, which is why I use the deck that I do.
My opponent on the other hand is a stranger duelist, her deck is geared towards the strategies of the famous Mai Valentine, which makes me uneasy.
Lets hope we can make it.
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CHAPTER 2:
WAR GAMES
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A cruise ship is traveling towards an island in the distance, on board are the passengers that made it into duelist academy.
Up on the pool deck, having traded her armor for an orange two-piece swimsuit, is Sarah Aran, relaxing on a beach chair as she notices Lauren lightly touching the water with her foot.
"Hey, your that Amazon duelist, I saw the end of your duel back in L.A," Sarah says.
"Umm, yeah, I'm Lauren Herandez," Lauren says. "Oh hey, your that chica who beat Professor Ling with the Metroid deck, I've heard he's realy ticked at you."
"The day that I lose a duel to that guy is the day I retire my deck," Sarah says with a small laugh. "I'm Sarah Aran."
"You might have a point, that guy deffinately needs to take a chill pill," Lauren says.
"Speaking of people who need to take a chill pill..." Sarah says, noticing that Cassie is one deck above them, talking with Theo.
Cassie happens to be glancing down, noticing that Sarah is watching her. She had recognized that Sarah was a little jealous of her, it was one of the things she loved doing, taunting her rival, as she leans against the railing, she continues talking with Theo.
"So, your dad actualy knew the King of Games?" She asks him.
"Yeah, he was never much of a duelist, but..." Theo starts.
"THEO, I FINALY FOUND YOU!" A girlish squeal is heard from behind them, and the two turn around to see a girl with short strawberry blonde hair, and wearing a white tank top and blue jeans.
"Who the heck are you?" Cassie demands.
"WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY THEO?" The annoying fangirl asks.
"Wait, your Theo? I am not yours!" Theo says. "Heck, I don't even... Oh crap, not you again..."
"Theo, do you know this girl?" Cassie asks.
"Unfortunately, I dueled her once in a tournament back in Junior High, since then she's been obsessed with me. Uhh, whats your name again?" Theo says, directing the question at the fangirl.
"Hello, how could you forget me, I'm Tiffany, Tiffany Lestrange!" Tiffany says.
"Look, Tiffany, how about this, we'll have a duel, 30 minutes from now in the arenas on Deck C, if I beat you, you have to leave me alone, and find someone else to obsess over," Theo says.
"And if I win, you have to become my boyfriend until I say otherwise!" Tiffany says with a giggle. "See you in 30 minutes."
"Man, that chica is loco," Lauren says, she and Sarah had heard everything that went on. "What do you think Sarah, should we go check it out?"
Sarah is sitting there staring at Theo, who is walking away with Cassie. He's cute, but it would be kinda awkward to get a boyfriend in this world when I might be going back home at any time... Sarah thinks to herself.
"Hello, earth to Sarah, come in Sarah!" Lauren says, waving her hand in front of Sarah's face, making her snap out of her trance.
"Oh sorry, yeah, lets watch this," Sarah says, and gets up from her beach chair, heading out towards her cabin.
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Elsewhere, on the Earth's moon, an extensive landing site and facility is under construction, but is completed enough to allow life on board.
The Space Pirates salute as their leader, the dragon Valcouri enters the main control room of the facility.
"Is everything ready?" he snarls in the Space Pirate language, his spiked tail twitching as the pirate scientists look a little nervously at him.
"Commander Valcouri, sir, you gave us very little time to actualy..." one of the scientists starts, getting a glare from Valcouri, he chooses his words more wisely. "We should be ready to send the first of our duelists to earth in a few days, but there is no guarantee that we can conquer the world before..."
"Look, I gave you a job, so do it," Valcouri says. "We have to win this before the Chozo gets wind of what we are doing here."
"Yes sir!" The scientists say, and get back to work.
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30 minutes later, Theo and Tiffany are standing on opposite sides of an arena, staring each other down as they shuffle. Sarah and Lauren are on the sidelines, with Cassie standing not too far away.
"Hmm, I wonder what kind of deck Theo has," Sarah comments, looking at Theo.
"I'm not sure myself, I had arrived at the testing area after he dueled, but I think I heard he used some sort of hero deck," Lauren says. "However, I'm note ntirely sure just what kind of heroes he uses."
Sarah is watching Theo, who gives her a small smile before placing his deck into his duel disk.
Thats when Sarah can't help but think she hears a voice.
"Come on girl, you need to tell him that you love him!" a strange female voice says, and Sarah looks around, but there isn't anyone else around, and she didn't recognize the voice.
"I must be going crazy..." Sarah say, and shrugs it off as the duel starts.
"Ladies first," Tiffany says, and draws a sixth card. "I'll place this card face down, and set one monster in defense mode to call it a turn."
Theo draws quickly, and grins. "I'll place two cards face down as well, and summon this monster, my War Hero Samurai: Hitokiri (1950/1050)!" He says, and a black and gold armored samurai appears.
"Wait, War Heroes? Thats a new one..." Lauren says.
"Don't look at me, I've never heard of them either," Sarah says.
"Now Hitokiri, attack her face down monster, War Katana Slash!" Theo commands, and the samurai charges forward, slashing through a face down monster, which looks like a giant insect. "What on earth was that?"
"That was my Flying Kamakari #1 (1400/900), which lets me summon a wind monster from my deck to the field," Tiffany says, and takes a card out. "And I pick, my Harpie Lady 1 (1300/1400 + 300)!" She says, and a woman with long red hair, and wearing a less than flattering outfit appears.
"Fine, even with her boost, she is too weak to destroy my Samurai, and since he has a trample effect, you lose life points, and you lose 2 cards off your deck!" Theo points out, then Tiffany's life points take a plunge to 6950 before the Samurai slashes at her dekc, and two cards float into her graveyard. "Looks like they upped the life point counter for the school, oh well, its your move."
Tiffany draws, and glances at her card. "I activate this card, go Inferno Reckless Summon, so I can special summon two monsters from my deck, so lets welcome to the field my Harpie Lady 2 and my Harpie Lady 3 (1300/1400 + 300 x2)!" She says, and a woman with short orange hair appears first, followed by another woman with dark purple hair spiked into a sort of bride of frankenstein look, both monsters dressed similarly to the first Harpie.
"A Harpie Lady deck, this could be annoying," Cassie says, she had heard about these kinds of decks, and never realy wanted to face one herself, but this deffinately would be an interesting thing to watch.
"Whats the point? My monster is still stronger than all three of yours, unless..." Theo says.
"My face down card is this, I activate Aqua Chorus, this will raise my three Harpie's attack points all to 2100, now first of all, Harpie Lady 1, destroy his Samurai, Talon Fury Slash!" Tiffany commands, and the Harpie takes off, and then dives down, slashing at the samurai, and Theo's life points fall to 7850.
"I activate War Signal!" Theo says, and a spotlight appears in the sky, showing a symbol of a strange shaped letter "W" as Theo reaches for his deck. "Now I can special summon my War Hero Apache: Geronimo (1800/1100)!" He says, and an indian in his thirties or fourties with a gaunt face and long greyish hair appears.
"Fine, I'll attack him with my Harpie Lady 2!" Tiffany commands, and the harpie charges forward, and starts to slash at the monster, but is interrupted by Theo.
"Sorry, I activate my Negate Attack trap card!" Theo says, and a vortex swallows up the attack.
"Fine, its your move," Tiffany says.
Theo draws. "I activate, Polymerization, and I fuse together Geronimo on the field, with War Hero Scotsman: Macbeth in my hand, to summon this monster, War Hero Apache Scotsman: Geronimo Macbeth (3450/3050)!" Theo says, and a second monster, this one being a scottish man with a slight beard, and wearing a kilt with a black armored breastplate and carrying a sword appears, and is sucked into a vortex with Geronimo.
The result is a tall warrior with a gaunt face and short reddish hair, while wearing silver gauntlets and a kilt, with a tomahawk strapped to his side, and a large sword in his hands.
"Woah, thats an interesting monster right there..." Lauren says.
Well, Theo is cute, smart, and a pretty good duelist, I just wish I had the courage to do something about these feelings... Sarah thinks to herself, thats when she hears another voice, this one sounding almost mechanical, but with a twinge of kindness in it.
"Come, come, your mother had to deal with a lot worse things than this, I think the daughter of Samus Aran can deal with asking one boy out," the voice says.
Sarah looks around, still confused as to who that was, but shrugs it off, and turns back to the duel.
"And I activate this continuous spell card, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier!" He says, and a white marble tomb appears behind him. "And now, I'll place this card face down, and summon my War Hero Spartan: King Leonidas (1950/1650 + 600)!" He says, and a tall warrior wearing a spartan's helmet, and carrying a sword and shield appears, staring down the harpies. "Now King Leonidas, destroy her Harpie Lady 2!" He commands, and the warrior king slashes through the orange haired harpie, lowering Tiffany's life points to 6500. "Now Geronimo Macbeth, destroy her Harpie Lady 1!" He continues, and the scottish indian slashes through the red haired harpie, lowering Tiffany's life points further to 4550, and the last Harpie's attack lowers back to 1300. "Your move."
Tiffany draws. "I activate my face down card Hysteric Party, so lets welcome back one of my Harpies, namely Harpie Lady 1!" Tiffany says, and the red haired harpie appears again after Tiffany discards a card. "And now I activate the spell card, Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation!" She says, and a huge phoenix appears around the two Harpies, and they slam into the War Heroes, and Theo's life points fall to 1250. "Think about it, just a little longer and your all mine!"
"Only in your dreams, and in my nightmares, I activate the trap card War Mirage, so I discard a card, and I can bring back my monsters!" She says, and the two warriors appears again.
"Uhh, I'll place this card face down, and call it a turn," Tiffany says nervously.
Theo draws. "I activate Mystical Space Typhoon!" He says, and a gust of wind blows away a face down Harpie Lady Sparrow Formation. "And I summon War Hero U.S Soldier: Jack (1800/1450 + 600)!" He says, and a man dressed in the garb of an American World War II soldier appears, leveling a gun at the harpies. "Now Jack, destroy her Harpie Lady 1!" He commands, and the soldier fires a shot, and the harpie shatters, lowering Tiffany's life points to 4150, then falls further to 2050, and Harpie Lady 3's attack falls to 1300. "King Leonidas, destroy her Harpie Lady 3!" He says, and the spartan charges forward, slashing at the harpie, and lowering Tiffany's life points fall to 700. "Now Geronimo Macbeth..."
"NOOO, YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME, WE WHERE MENT TO BE, THEO, WE WHERE..." Tiffany screams.
"Shut her up," Theo says, and the warrior slashes at Tiffany, and her life points fall to 0.
"Owwie..." says a very dizzy Tiffany.
"You better remember your end of the bargin," Theo says, leaving the arena, and walking out of the room with Cassie following closely.
"Woah, that was an interesting duel," Lauren says.
"Yeah, interesting..." Sarah says.
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The next day, the students have arrived at the American West Coast Academy. The layout is fairly simple, there is a large building in the center of the island for classes and other school-related activities, and on the outskirts of the island are 3 buildings each designed with red, yellow, or blue.
The new students have all been given a strange badge with a red luster to it, and have been gathered in the auditorium in the main building, where the chancelor would adress them.
The Chancelor is an older man with black hair slicked back, and sporting a neatly trimmed beard, wearing a light blue blazer.
"Greetings new students, I am Chancelor Roberto Griffin, and I will be heading your school for this year, and hopefuly the next two years as well," the Chancelor says. "I'm glad to see so many new students here this year, as you might have noticed by now, you all have been placed in the Sliffer Red Dorm. If you work hard and do your best, next year you will join Ra Yellow, and if your lucky enough, your third year will be in Obelisk Blue. This is a dueling school, so duels can take place just about anywhere, but all official challenges or school-related duels must take place in the School Arenas, no exceptions. Unless otherwise stated, or if you are on break, duels cannot occur during classtime from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. If you have any questions feel free to bring it up with your Headmistress, you are now dismissed."
Sarah walks out of the auditorium, heading for the Sliffer Red Dorms, but thinking mostly about what is before her. This could be an interesting year, I can only hope that we can figure out what the Pirates are up to... She thinks to herself, having clipped her badge to her belt, and keeps walking.
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Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation and Sparrow Formation where used by Mai Valentine against Joey in the multi-part episode "My Freaky Valentine."
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War Hero Samurai: Hitokiri
Earth
4
1950/1050
Warrior/Effect
The control of this monster cannot change. This monster cannot be attacked or attack a monster with "War Hero" in its name by any means. When this monster attacks a monster in defense mode with defense lower than this monster's attack, deal damage equal to the difference as battle damage to the opponent's life points. When this card destroys a monster as a result of battle, your opponent must discard a card for every 2 levels of that monster.
War Signal
Trap
When your opponent destroys one of your monsters, special summon one "War Hero" to your field from your hand or deck.
War Hero Scotsman: Macbeth
Earth
4
1850/1300
Warrior/Effect
The control of this monster cannot change. This monster cannot be attacked or attack a monster with "War Hero" in its name by any means. When this monster attacks a monster in defense mode with defense lower than this monster's attack, deal damage equal to the difference as battle damage to the opponent's life points. When this monster destroys a monster, increase its attack by 200.
War Hero Apache: Geronimo
Earth
4
1800/1100
Warrior/Effect
The control of this monster cannot change. This monster cannot be attacked or attack a monster with "War Hero" in its name by any means. When this monster attacks a monster in defense mode with defense lower than this monster's attack, deal damage equal to the difference as battle damage to the opponent's life points. When this card destroys a monster, inflict damage equal to the number of Spirit Warrior Tokens on your field x300.
War Hero Apache Scotsman: Geronimo Macbeth
Earth
4
3450/3050
Warrior/Effect/Fusion
War Hero Apache: Geronimo + War Hero Scotsman: Macbeth
The control of this monster cannot change. This monster cannot be attacked or attack a monster with "War Hero" in its name by any means. When this card destroys a monster, increase its attack by the number of "Spirit Scotsman Tokens" on your field x300.
War Hero Spartan: King Leonidas
Earth
4
1950/1650
Warior/Effect
The control of this monster cannot change. This monster cannot be attacked or attack a monster with "War Hero" in its name by any means. When this monster attacks a monster in defense mode with defense lower than this monster's attack, deal damage equal to the difference as battle damage to the opponent's life points. When this card destroys a monster, increase its attack by the level of the target monster x200 until the end phase.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Continuous Spell
While this card is on the field, all monsters with "War Hero" in its name gains 600 attack points.
War Mirage
Counter Trap
Activate this card when a monster with "War Hero" in its name is sent to the graveyard by your opponent's card effect, bring back all monsters with "War Hero" in their names that where destroyed during this turn.
War Hero U.S Soldier: Jack
Earth
4
1800/1450
Warrior/Effect
The control of this monster cannot change. This monster cannot be attacked or attack a monster with "War Hero" in its name by any means. When this monster attacks a monster in defense mode with defense lower than this monster's attack, deal damage equal to the difference as battle damage to the opponent's life points. When this card destroys a monster, inflict damage equal to the points of what mode that monster is in to your opponent's life points.
(All these cards where made by my friend Jon, he gets all credit for them.)
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Well, that chapter is finaly done, I hope your happy Jon.
Anyway, next chapter, Lauren is up for the first time against an opponent with a deck full of weak monsters. Can the Amazons survive against this attack? Find out in "Human Wave Tactics."