Well, here we go, and I'd like to thank MichaelDJ54 for letting me use his created cards.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Metroid.
00000
It seems that something that will exist forever is disease. Even where I come from, certain diseases plague our galaxy, some of which we have cures for, others can cripple a planet if left unchecked.
When I started learning how to play Duel Monsters, I briefly heard about cards that would be considered virus or infection cards, but I have yet to see any so far.
Why am I brining this up? Well, today is the first big test of the year, and I'm already nervous enough about how I did on my written test.
But it's my field test that is starting to worry me, I'm up against an opponent using a bunch of cards I'm not prepared to face.
Let's hope I can win.
00000
0000000000
CHAPTER 8:
INFECTION
0000000000
00000
It was the Thursday after Cassie dueled Feral, things had started to slow down a little bit for the duelists, but today was an important day at the school, it was the first major test of the year.
There would be a test every 4 months, if a student could successfully pass 3 out of 4 of the tests, they would go up a dorm the next year. If not, there was always next year.
Sarah, Theo, Lauren, and Cassie are walking into their classroom for their test, and they take their seats as the teacher, Professor Ling groans as he gives out the instructions.
"All right students, you will have one hour to finish your test, then you will go to your assigned areas for your field test," Professor Ling says. "Anyone who is caught cheating will automaticaly flunks both tests. Now, begin."
The students get to work on their tests.
About 15 minutes into the test, Sarah pauses as she looks over one of the questions.
"Your opponent has Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8, Jinzo, and King Dragun all on the field with 3300 life points left. You have two monsters in defense mode, one card face down on the field and one spell or trap card face up, and three cards in your hand, with 1500 life points left. What cards can you use to win the duel in this turn?"
Sarah thinks for a minute. She had read about this combo in her Duel Strategies class, it was very hard to beat unless you had the right cards. After thinking for a minute, she comes up with an answer.
"The face up spell or trap card is Spell Sanctuary, the face down card is Pump Up. The face down monsters are Melchid the Four-Faced Beast and Grand Tiki Elder, and the cards in your hand are Masked Beast Des Guardius, Double Attack, and Armed Dragon LV10. Summon the Masked Beast Des Guardius by sacrificing the two face down monsters, and place Double Attack face down. Destroy Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 with Des Guardius, and activate Double Attack and Pump Up with Spell Sanctuary. Attack either of the remaining monsters with Des Guardius to win."
Satisfied with this answer Sarah moves on to the next question.
30 minutes into the test, Theo is looking over another question, thinking about how to answer it.
"Name three cards commonly used by Joey Wheeler."
He knew this one easily, so he quickly wrote down "Flame Swordsman, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and Time Wizard," before continuing on.
45 minutes into the test, Lauren is pondering a Duel History question.
"During his duel in the Kaiba Corp. Grand Prix against Yugi Motou, what illegal field card did Leon Wilson use?"
Lauren thinks for a minute, they had studied the Grand Prix in her class, and she remembered this one easily, so she wrote down "The Golden Castle of Stromburg."
55 minutes into the test, Cassie is on the final question, card trivia and multiple choice, and it reads.
"What card's effect reads as follows: This monster cannot be special summoned except from the Graveyard, and only if it was sent their from the field. When this card is special summoned, select 1 monster in your graveyard. This card gains ATK equal to the level of that monster x 200.
Darkblaze Dragon
Felgrand Dragon
Tyrant Dragon"
Cassie pauses for a moment, she knew about two of the three dragons on the list, she had them in her deck, but she wasn't sure about the third. So, she just circles B, and walks down to hand her test to the teacher.
00000
About half an hour after the written test is finished; Sarah is making her way to the gym, where she is assigned to duel in her field test.
She gets there, and is hurried over to a part of the gym which is usually reserved for gymnastics, so it is on a blue matted floor, and several gymnastics stuff is pushed off to the side.
Her opponent is already there, a sort of disheveled looking girl with short sandy brown hair, and wearing a grey t-shirt and sweatpants with the badge of a Sliffer Red at her side. She stares at Sarah from two grey eyes, and raises her duel disk.
"Are you my opponent?" She asks in a soft voice.
"Yes, I'm Sarah Aran," Sarah says.
"Adrianne," the girl replies, activating her duel disk.
"All right, time to duel," Sarah says activating her own duel disk as she puts her deck inside, Adrianne just shrugs.
"You can go first, I guess," Adrianne says.
Wow, this girl could use a serious cheering up, Sarah thinks to herself, and draws. "I'll start with Metroid (1200/300), in attack mode!" She says, and a green see-through alien appears, making strange squeeing sounds. "And I'll place this card face down to end my turn."
Adrianne draws rather slowly as she glances at the card. "I summon my Virus Contaminator (300/0), in attack mode," she says, and a disease ridden man in a white robe appears, his eyes low and shallow, with green skin, red, and dissolving to the touch.
"Okay, that's just gross," Sarah says, trying not to gag.
"This monster has a useful effect, he can attack you directly, Virus Contaminator, attack her directly with Viral Breath," Adrianne says, and the monster exhales a cloud of purple gas, and it surrounds Sarah, who coughs as her life points fall to 3700. "And I can now add a Virus card to my hand, like my Crush Card Virus, which I'll set face down. And I think I'll now activate my Mystic Plasma Zone!"
A huge swirling vortex of blackness appears above them, and the Contaminator's attack goes up to 800, while the Metroid's attack rises too 1700.
"And it's your move now," Adrianne says, and interrupts Sarah as she draws. "I activate my trap card, go Crush Card Virus, by sacrificing my Contaminator, I can destroy all monsters on your field and in your hand with more than 1500 attack points, and this effect carries over for the next three turns."
"Fine," Sarah says, and the Metroid shatters as she discards 2 cards from her hand. "I'll just set one monster in defense mode, and end my turn."
Adrianne draws, and glances at the card. "I'll simply set one monster in defense mode, and end my turn," she says. "Don't forget, you have to show me the card you draw.
Sarah draws, and shows the card as a Pot of Greed. "I know the weakness of your trap card, it doesn't make me discard cards I draw outside of my Draw Phase, so I play Pot of Greed," she says, and draws two cards. "Now I play my Metroid Hatcher spell card!"
A strange looking alien with long tentacles appears.
"And using its effect, I get a Metroid Phazon Token (900/200)," she continues, and another Metroid appears, this one is a purplish color. "And that's it for me."
Adrianne draws. "I'll place two more cards face down and that's all," she says, and interrupts Sarah as she is about to draw. "Go trap card, Magical Thorn, but we'll get to that soon, go ahead."
Sarah draws, and looks at the card, groaning as she shows it as Ridley, Dragonic General of the Space Pirates and discards it, then screams as dark energy courses through her body, and her life points fall to 3200. "What was that?" She demands.
"That was the effect of my Magical Thorn, since you discarded a monster, you lose 500 life points," Adrianne explains.
"Fine, I'll just get another token, and set this monster in defense mode to end my turn," Sarah says, and a second Metroid appears. "I've gotta know something though, why do you use a virus deck?"
"My parents where epidemiologists, I just felt like it I guess," Adrianne says, and draws. "I'll just pass."
"And your virus' effect ended on my last turn by the way," Sarah says as she draws. "I sacrifice both of my tokens for this monster, my Cosmic Horror Gangi'el (2600/2000)!" She says, and a huge alien appears with long tentacles as it lets out a loud roar. "And I'll place one card face down, and attack your face down monster with Cosmic Sludge attack!" She commands, and the alien sends a burst of sludge at the face down monster, which is revealed to be a three eyed furball.
"That was my Sangan," Adrianne says, and takes a card out of her deck.
"Your move then," Sarah says.
Adrianne draws boredly. "Hmm, I guess I'll just have to do this, I summon my Plague Wolf (1000/1000)-(1500/600)," she says, and a wolf with scraggly fur, and foaming at the mouth appears.
"But, that monster is too weak to destroy my Cosmic Horror, even with your field spell," Sarah points out, getting a smug look on her face.
"Hmm, that is true, but I'll use his effect, doubling his attack to twice his original attack," she says, and the wolf gets even more haggard as foam pours out of his mouth, and his attack rises to 2000.
"That's still…" Sarah starts.
"Not enough? I know which is why I'm going to activate my trap card, go Deck Devastation Virus!" Adrianne says, and the wolf shatters, then wisps of virus spread from where it once was, and grabs Sarah's two face down monsters, and a card from her hand as her life points fall down to 2700.
No, my Fission Metroid, Alien Grey, and Alien Infiltrator… Sarah thinks.
"And I'm not done with your monster yet; I activate Double Summon, and summon my Tribe Infecting Virus (1600/1000), in attack mode!" She says, and a blob of virus appears on the field. "And then, by discarding one card from my hand, I can destroy all reptiles on the field, like your Cosmic Horror."
The virus covers the alien giant, who groans as it shatters.
"And then, attacks you directly, Infection attack," Adrianne continues, and the virus hits Sarah as her life points fall down to 1200. "And its your move now."
Sarah draws, showing the card as an Alien Shocktrooper. "I summon my Alien Shocktrooper (1900/800), in attack mode!" She says, and a green centaur-like alien appears, wielding a sword. "Now, destroy her virus, Xeno Sword attack!" she commands, and the alien slashes through the virus, and Adrianne's life points fall to 3700. "Okay, its your move now."
Adrianne draws, and glances at the card. "To summon my next monster, I have to remove my Virus Contaminator from the game, but when I do, I can special summon my Virus Beast (1900/0)-(2400/0)," she says, and a dragon-like monster with peeling skin appears with a loud roar. "And I get to remove one monster in your graveyard from the game, so lets see what you have."
A list of monsters in Sarah's graveyard scrolls in front of Adrianne, and she touches one, and a card slips out of Sarah's graveyard.
"Gandrayda, Fallen Shapeshifter Hunter to be exact, I saw your tag team duel, and I would rather not have to deal with her," Adrianne says. "I'll then play, Card of Sanctity," she says, and they both draw until they have six cards. "And I'll place one card face down, and attack your Shocktrooper with my Beast!" She says, and the monster spits acid onto the alien warrior, who shatters and Sarah's life points fall to 700. "Your move."
Sarah draws, and glances at the card. "I activate Graceful Charity," she says, and draws three cards before discarding two. "And I play Monster Reborn to revive a monster I just discarded, Samus Aran, Federation Bounty Hunter!" She says, and the red and gold armored woman appears, raising her arm cannon at the beast. "Now, destroy her beast, Power Beam attack!" Sarah commands, and the huntress nods before blasting the beast, and lowering Adrianne's life points to 3400.
"Go trap card, Rope of Life," Adrianne says, discarding the rest of her hand, and the beast appears again, his attack points rising to 3200. "is that all?"
"One card face down, and that's it," Sarah finishes.
Adrianne draws. "I'll place two cards face down, and its your move," she says, then interrupts Sarah as she draws. "And I'll activate my trap card, another virus card called Deck Destruction Virus of Darkness!" She says, and the beast shatters. "And for its effect, I declare spells!"
Sarah's forgotten "A" Cell Breeding Device and Metroid Hatcher shatters, and Sarah discards three cards from her hand. "Fine, Samus, attack her directly!" Sarah says, and the female hunter fires a shot at Adrianne.
"I activate Shrink," Adrianne counters, and Samus shrinks as her attack falls to 1350, and Adrianne's life points fall to 2050.
"Okay, its your move then," Sarah says.
Adrianne draws, and for the first time all duel, actually smiles. "I just drew my best monster, but to use him I must remove three specific cards from the game, so first I'll remove my Crush Card Virus…" she says, and purple spores rise around her. "Then, my Deck Devastation Virus," she says, and red spores fly into the purple spores. "And my Deck Destruction Virus of Darkness!" She says, and green spores fly into the mix. "And once I do that, I can summon this monster, the all-powerful, EBOLA BEAST(3000/0)-(3500/0)!"
A being about 20 Feet tall, and hair all over it's chest and arms, the only item of clothing on it's person being a ripped pair of jeans, green skin, pulsating decaying parts on it's face and the fact it's lower jaw was completely gone, causing it's tongue to loll out appears behind Adrianne. It gave Sarah a blank stare…and screeched.
"Oh crap…" Sarah says, staring at the giant virus monster.
"And now I get his effect, by paying half my life points…" Adrianne says, and her life points fall to 1025. "I can remove all monsters in both of our fields, hand, deck, or graveyard from the game!"
Tendrils spread out, grabbing several cards from Sarah and Adrianne's duel disks, and cramming them into the removed from play slot.
"The only downside is that he can't attack, so its your move," Adrianne finishes.
Sarah draws nervously. I only have a few cards left, but I can win this, if I'm lucky, she thinks, and glances at the card. "I'll place two cards face down, and its your move," she says, and interrupts Adrianne as she draws. "Hold it; I activate my trap card, Ring of Destruction!" She says, and a ring of grenades attaches to the Ebola Beast.
"Whats the point? We'll both lose," Adrianne says.
"No, just you, because I'm chaining it with my face down card, Barrel Behind the Door!" Sarah says as the grenades explode, and an ancient gun appears, sucking in the energy and then fires it at Adrianne, who groans as her life points fall to 0.
"Good game, Sarah, keep it up," Adrianne says, and smiles at the other girl and the two shake hands.
I almost didn't put that combo in my deck, but if I hadn't, I might not have won the duel, Sarah thinks, and walks off.
Once outside, she turns, and gets a glimpse of a dark figure watching her from the roof. Is that the same person as before? She wonders. If so, who is he, and why does he seem so familiar?
00000
Virus Contaminator, Virus Beast, and The Ebola Beast where all created by MichaelDJ54, he gets all credit for these cards.
00000
Metroid
Dark
3
1200/300
Reptile/Effect
This monster was created in honor of the classic "Metroid" series by Nintendo. This monster can escape being destroyed as a result of battle once per turn. When this monster is destroyed, increase your life points by 600, and special summon it to your opponent's side of the field.
Metroid Hatcher
Continuous Spell Card
Image of a giant monster creating smaller animals. As long as this card is active, summon one Metroid Phazon Token to the field (900/200/Reptile/4) to the field in attack or defense mode. These tokens cannot be destroyed as a result of battle, and if this card is destroyed, all the tokens are destroyed.
Fission Metroid
Dark
3
500/700
Reptile/Effect
This monster was created in honor of the "Metroid" games by Nintendo. This monster cannot be destroyed as a result of battle. When this monster is targeted by a monster effect, it is automaticaly destroyed.
00000
Next up, its Theo's field test as he faces off against a deck of monsters with no real type connection, but have something in common, they evolve. Can he beat a deck of level monsters? Find out in, "Leveling the Field."