Raimundo Vs Joey

(For once in the tournament, the two teams separated to help support the two finalists ready to play, Raimundo and Joey. Omi, Kimiko and Stephanie were giving a few words of support in the hospital wing.)

Kimiko: Don't forget Rai, there's nothing on the line in this duel.

Stephanie: Yeah, Joey ain't a sad and twisted monster like Marik.

Omi: Your mind will not be lost in the Shadow Realm, your Legendary Knight will not be lost, and I highly doubt Joey will plaster it out.

Raimundo: That's rub it in. Besides it's not that I'm worried about.

Kimiko: Really? Then what?

Raimundo: If I lose now, you'll be the only hope for us, Kimiko.

Omi: I will be sure that if Yugi wins, he will be more than happy to surrender the stone to us.

Raimundo: Yeah, that's great and kind 'n' all, but it doesn't seem right, winning something that we lost, Y'know.

Stephanie: At least we'll have the stone and save the world from 10,000 years of darkness.

Kimiko: If you lose now, Rai. I'll get that stone. Don't worry about me.

Raimundo: And what if you're paired with Marik next? You seen what that God Card did to Omi and Clay. I need to win against Joey. For the world, for my rank as leader, and for you.

(Meanwhile, Yugi, Tea, Tristan, Serenity, Mai, Duke and Yugi's grandpa were all supporting Joey.)

Yugi: Remember Joey. Play to the best of your ability.

Tea: From what I'm seeing so far, that Raimundo sounds like a tough duelist.

Yugi: He is alright.

Joey: Don't worry about it, I got a plan.

Duke: Mind sharing it with us?

Joey: In the words of Chase Young, all in good time.

Tea: Well, how do you know this plan will work?

Joey: It will, trust me.

Serenity: Why won't you tell anyone your idea?

Joey: Because, sis. I don't wanna spoil it. If I tell yah the plan now, then you're gonna tell me to screw it or just plain old go with it, it's what I need ter do.

Yugi: Alright, we won't ask for the plan, but only if it works.

Joey: It'll work, trust me.

(The intercom sounded and the four Warriors, (Omi had fully healed.) went to Raimundo's platform.)

Omi: Remember, Raimundo. Play to the best of your ability, and you shall succeed.

Raimundo: Thanks, dude.

Kimiko: Please pull through for us, Rai.

(She gave him a hug.)

Raimundo: I promise I'll win.

(The platform raised and he waved goodbye to his fellow Warriors.)

Roland: Introducing: the master of the Warrior type, conqueror of Odion, and student of Yugi Muto himself: Raimundo Pedrosa!

(The crowd cheered him on; his nerves were turned to jelly as he took his spot on the duelling spot.)

Roland: And introducing: the master of strong powered monsters, conqueror of Bakura and Yugi Muto's right hand man: Joseph Wheeler!

(The crowd erupted in more cheers again as Joey took his spot.)

Joey: How yah doin'?

Raimundo: Like a jelly pack.

Joey: Don't worry, I got a plan. You'll see.

(The finalists took their place; Odion was seen watching with complete interest.)

Kimiko: Yo, Odion? Bee in your bonnet?

Odion: Yes, my two conquerors are facing each other.

Stephanie: Well, at least he cares who beats him or not.

Both: Let's duel!

Raimundo: Care to do the honours and go first?

Joey: With pleasure, I summon Alligator Sword (1500/1200) in attack mode!

(The monster was summoned.)

Joey: I think that ends my turn with one face-down card.

Raimundo: My move! I summon Warrior Dai Grepher (1700/1000) in attack mode!

(The monster was summoned.)

Raimundo: Now attack his Alligator Sword!

Joey: I activate Skull Dice!

Raimundo: Oh no!

Joey: Now roll!

(The imp threw the die and landed on a 5.)

Raimundo: This cannot be good!

Joey: Sorry, Rai. Your Warrior Dai Grepher's now at 340 attack points.

(The Warrior tried to attack the Alligator but it got wiped out and fired Raimundo's life points to 2860. The crowd gasped.)

Kimiko: Rai!

Raimundo: Slick move! I'll place a card face-down and end my turn.

Joey: Alright, I summon Axe Raider (1700/1150) in attack mode!

Raimundo: If those things attack me, I'm done for!

Joey: I'll end mah turn!

(The crowd gasped again.)

Mai: This is Joey's plan? Forfeiting his attacks?

Yugi: No, Mai. He's playing equally with Raimundo. If he attacked, then it would have been a dishonourable move. He's giving Raimundo a chance to counter-attack.

Raimundo's thoughts: Darn! That was my one chance to get my back, I could have used Magic Cylinder to strike him down and make the playing field even. Oh well.

Raimundo: According to the effects of a very rare card in my hand, I can summon it without a tribute as long as you have two or more monsters on your side of the field. Which is Fiend Megacyber (2200/1200)

(The monster was summoned. Joey gave a smile.)

Raimundo: Now attack his Alligator Sword!

(The monster destroyed Alligator Sword and dropped Joey to 3300.)

Joey: Slick move, Rai!

Raimundo: I'll place a card face-down and end my turn!

Joey: Oh boy, you're in trouble! I sacrifice my Axe Raider, to summon Jinzo! (2400/1500)

(One of Joey's rare monsters was summoned.)

Serenity: That's one of Joey's rare monsters, isn't it?

Tea: Yup, and Raimundo's got a handful to deal with now.

Joey: Thanks to Jinzo's special ability he can destroy all trap cards on the field!

(It let out a shockwave that destroyed Raimundo's face-down cards.)

Joey: Hate ter break it to yah! Destroy his Fiend Megacyber!

(The machine destroyed the fiend and sent Raimundo's life points to 2660.)

Raimundo: Ouch. How can one card create so many problems?

Joey: I guess I'll end my turn for now.

Raimundo: I summon Crimson Sentry (1500/1200) in defence mode! And end my turn!

Joey: Sorry, man! I summon Gearfried the Iron Knight (1800/1600) in attack mode!

Raimundo: This can't end well.

Joey: I attack your Crimson Sentry with Gearfried!

(The warrior was destroyed.)

Joey: Now Jinzo! Attack his life points directly!

(Jinzo blasted Raimundo away, tearing a bit of his costume off. And sending his life points to 260.)

Joey: Sorry.

Kimiko: Raimundo's toast!

Raimundo: My move!

(Raimundo drawn his Sun Chi Lantern card.)

Raimundo's thoughts: Excellent, but I hardly got any monsters. Wait, I got Pot of Greed!

Raimundo: I activate Pot of Greed! To draw two cards from my deck!

(He drawn Monster Reborn and a magic card called Gamble of Destiny.)

Raimundo: First off, I activate Monster Reborn to bring back my fallen Fiend Megacyber!

(The fiend was re-summoned.)

Raimundo: Now I activate a magic card called Gamble of Destiny!

Joey: What's that do?

Raimundo: I have to draw a card, if it's a high level monster, I get to summon it immediately to the field, if anything else, I have to remove half of my deck from play for the rest of the duel, and sacrifice 2000 life points.

Joey: A pretty risky magic card, Rai. Yah sure yah know what your doin?

Raimundo: I think so.

Raimundo's thoughts: As a matter of a fact, what AM I doing? There's no way this next cards gonna be my Tyrant Dragon, Sword Hunter, Black Dragon Jungle King or my Legendary Knight Leader. I'm pretty much washed up.

(But little did Raimundo knew, Kimiko was using her PDA to read his mind. Meaning she knew he was despairing.)

Kimiko: Poor, Rai. This one draw decides it all, but it's four cards out of 50. How can he win?

Omi: We must give Raimundo support!

(Raimundo heard the voices of his friends.)

Kimiko: Come on, Raimundo! Draw that card!

Stephanie: Prove your leadership, Rai!

Omi: You can do it!

Raimundo: Alright! I believe I can summon it!

(He finally drew with his eyes closed tight, and slowly opened it. His face turned from a face of despair, to a face of glee.)

Raimundo: It's a good card of mine: Legendary Knight Leader! (4000/3000)

(The knight was summoned, and just like Omi and Kimiko, it had the exact appearance of an older Raimundo, wearing a golden armour and purple cape.)

Knight: Welcome, master!

Raimundo: Alright!

Knight: Cards of the graveyard, unite with my sword!

(Raimundo's graveyard flashed and shot balls of light to the knight's sword.)

Joey: Care to fill me in, Rai?

Raimundo: When this card's summoned, he adds his attack points by 100 for every card in my graveyard! And I have eight. Now increase to 4800!

(The knight's power grew phenomenally.)

Raimundo's thoughts: I should probably take down that Jinzo. Like he did before, he gave me a chance, I should pay him back.

Raimundo: Now attack his Jinzo!

(The knight slashed Jinzo and sent Joey's life points to 100.)

Joey: What's the deal? You coulda wiped out mah Gearfried.

Raimundo: Just repaying your skipped turn earlier on.

Joey: Thanks, dude! Let's see.

(He drew.)

Joey: I activate Bribe of Defence! This switches all my monsters to defence mode, but at the same time, you get to draw one card from your hand and show it to me.

Raimundo: Alright. (He drew.) Fairy Meteor Crush.

Joey: What! Okay, Joey. Time to put your plan into action! I activate Fierceful Summon. This allows me to summon as much monsters as I want in defence mode, which I summon Jinzo, Alligator Sword and Axe Raider!

Yugi: Now he has an army of monsters, but what for?

Joey: Now for every card revived I must pay 500 life points.

Raimundo: Joey, no!

(Joey's life points fell to 0. The crowd clapped, not only for Raimundo, but for Joey as well.)

Raimundo: Thanks dude.

Joey: Don't mention it, pal. But yah gotta admit though, I was pretty close.

(Joey and Raimundo met up with the gang at the café.)

Yugi: You did the honourable thing, Joey, and I'm very proud of you.

Joey: Thanks, man.

Serenity: Was this your plan all along?

Joey: Well not really, I was actually gonna plan to use Ultimate Offering, but two reasons why I didn't. One I had Jinzo, meaning no traps would have been active, and second, I didn't have it in my hand at the time.

Tristan: So you must have had a stack load of rare monsters in your hand.

Joey: That's right.

Raimundo: Well whatever he did, it was a good move.

Kimiko: But where do we go now? The second round's done, so what do the four finalists left gotta do?

(Kaiba overheard the conversation and answered Kimiko's question.)

Kaiba: 15 minutes, go to the Stadium grounds, there you'll be drawn into your groups.

Raimundo: What? More draws?

Kaiba: That's right. Only this time, we've got a special rule applied.

Omi: What is this special rule you speak of?

Kaiba: You'll soon see, Baldy.

(He walked off.)

Kimiko: Grrrr, that creep!

Raimundo: Well, at least yah beat him.