Hey guys! Sorry I took so long with this. I'm working on To The Unknown and would love to get it done before my birthday, but I want to continue with this too. This duel is one of the most... well challenging duels in the At-Em-Oh series, because this duel is not gonna be copied from the manga... at least not completely. I'm pretty much replacing monsters with other ones and bla bla bla. Just please bare with me, because these duels will probably change from the original duel.
Another thing for me to mention is that the first duelists are beginners. This is good for Hanaski, because he's a beginner himself and these guys are probably easier to defeat than Rex and Weevil. Seriously! I feel like I'm playing a Yu-Gi-Oh video game! Tea could probably take these guys. Yuma could take these guys in episode 1. I could take these guys! That's how easy this is! Though, it will get harder. Review please!
Hanaski and Lew shuffled their decks, using their duel disks before drawing five cards. Hanaski was willing to defeat Lew and help save Yugi and Atem from Yako. He knew he couldn't be a super hero like Superman, Spider Man, Wonder Woman, or any of those guys, but he can try to save his best friend he considered a hero. Hanaski hoped in his heart that he didn't fail this duel. His friends were depending on him!
"Hanaski, I can duel in your place if you-" Joey suggested before being cut off.
"I'm afraid it's too late for that. If your friend bails now, you'll never see your little friend again!" Lew smirked.
"I can do this, Joey!" Hanaski assured. "I set one card face-down, then summon Elemental HERO Ocean in attack mode!" A strong warrior with silver armor and a shark fin holding a weapon that looked like a wand of some sort. "I end my turn!"
"Is that the best you can do, kid?" Lew asked with a sickly smirk on his face. "I summon Gear Golem the Moving Fortress in defense mode!"
"Okay, why do I get the feeling I've seen this somewhere before?" Duke said, slapping his palm on his forehead.
"So, what's your profession here?" Hanaski asked curiously.
"I work for the department chairmen of techniques here at Kaiba Corp!" Lew explained with a serious smirk.
"Department chair' huh? From the way you were dressed, I thought you were some weird Kaiba Corp. mascot like a majorette or cheerleader!" Hanaski replied.
"Okay, now I know I've seen this somewhere before!" Duke said, trying to remember where he's actually seen this duel.
"I set two cards face-down and that ends my turn!" Lew finished.
"Then, I go!" Hanaski said, drawing his next card. "No matter what kind of strategy you're planning, the bond with my friends will capture it!"
"You have any idea what that even means?" Joey asked wide-eyed.
"No idea!" Hanaski replied, peering at his cards. "I summon Sparkman to the field!" Elemental HERO Sparkman appeared as a warrior with armor and electricity surrounding him. "I equip Sparkman with Elemental Sword!" A handle appeared in Elemental HERO Sparkman's hand and a glowing white sharp blade appeared at the end of it, filled with electricity. "Sparkman attacks your Gear Golem! Because it's a different attribute, Sparkman's attack increases by 800 attack due to Element Sword's ability!" Elemental HERO Sparkman's attack rose to 2400 attack points, then began to attack Gear Golem the Moving Fortress before a vortex appeared in front of it and stopped its enemy's attack.
"Nice try, kid, but I played my trap Negate Attack! Looks like your turn was wasted!" Lew smirked deviously. Hanaski sighed in disappointment, since he didn't scratch his opponent's life points.
"Turn end!" Hanaski finished.
"Good!" Lew smirked as he drew his next card. "I sacrifice Gear Golem the Moving Fortress to summon out Castle Gate in defense mode!" A huge gate with huge red french doors with stone castle-shaped arms and legs in a defensive position. "Your monsters can't get through my iron gate! Your monsters are as weak as you are!" Hanaski just stood there with his glare in response.
"Great, this is Panik all over again!" Joey complained.
"Who's Panik?" Duke asked.
"I think Joey's talking about that guy that almost choked Yugi to death," Serenity said as soon as her necklace glowed. Everyone stared at her with wide eyes. "The necklace can look into the past too. I thought that was already mentioned."
"OHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Everyone responded.
"Don't think you're safe, kid, because I play Brain Control!" Lew declared as he revealed his spell card. "I choose to control your Sparkman!" Hanaski gasped as he watched his Elemental HERO Sparkman disappeared from his field. "Now, I activate Castle Gate's ability!" The castle doors opened and revealed a huge cannon with Sparkman inside it. The cannon blew Elemental HERO Sparkman right for Hanaski and his life points dropped to 1600. "You're so pathetic! You might as well give it up, kid! This is not for newbies like you! You're way out of your league!"
"N-No! I'm not giving up!" Hanaski protested with glaring eyes. "Yugi never gave up on me and I won't give up on him!" He drew his next card and peered at it. "I summon out Elemental HERO Burstinatrix, then sacrifice her and Ocean to summon out Elemental HERO Bladedge!" A strong warrior in gold with a huge gold sword in his hands appeared on the field. Hanaski showed a huge victorious smile on his lips with hope written on his face.
"Then, I'll control your Bladedge as well!" Lew smirked as he revealed his trap card. "Forceful Deal lets me control all your monsters by sacrificing my Castle Gate and half my life points!" Lew was now left with 2000 life points and Castle Gate disappeared from the field. Just then, Elemental HERO Bladedge was pulled onto his side of the field as everyone gasped.
"OH MY GOSH!" Uka responded, though everyone else seemed to be smirking.
"As I said before kid, you're way out of your league!"
"Or so you think!" Hanaski smirked as he revealed a trap card of his own. "I play Trap Jammer! This negates your stupid trap card!" Elemental HERO Bladedge, then returned back to Hanaski's field while the Forceful Deal trap card burst from the field. "So much for me being out of my league! You're the one out of your league! Not only are you wost at dueling than me, but you're a coward! FINISH HIM, BLADEDGE!" Elemental HERO Bladedge twirled its sword then flew right at Lew's life points and bringing it down to zero. "And here I thought I sucked!"
"I know!" Joey agreed as Hanaski turned off his duel disk.
"I won, so where's the key card?" Hanaski asked.
"Fine!" Lew said grumpily as he gave Hanaski the key card.
"And next time you call someone a nub, try looking in the mirror!" Joey suggested before everyone walked passed Lew. "What a hypocrite!"
Everyone followed Hanaski up the stairs and slashed the key card through the slot to open the front door to Kaiba Corp. The building was huge and started with a long hallway with two separate halls at the end of it with an information desk in the middle. The gang rushed to the information desk, which was empty, since it provided a map. Gekko read the map and gave a nod.
"Looks like the elevator's that way," Gekko directed everyone toward the right side of the hallway.
"Think we'll find anymore newbies around here?" Joey smirked cockily.
"Perhaps, but they will get tougher. My brother probably made this like a game where we start from level one and work our way up, or that's my guess. I'm not quite sure. It can also be that these duelists are random with being talanted or not. Still, it's no surprise that or first guy was a nub," Gekko said plainly.
"Do you think Yugi will be okay?" Hanaski asked worriedly.
"Of course! He was only sealed in that card after all," Gekko assured, then took the card from Uka and gave it to Hanaski. "Here, put it on your duel disk."
Hanaski placed Yugi's soul card on his duel disk and a hologram appeared as Yugi's image. Everyone gasped at this site as Yugi smiled and ran up to Hanaski to hug him, only to find his image starting to glitch a little bit. Yugi gasped and stared at his hands, then at Hanaski, who was staring longingly at his friend. Joey then began running up to hug his friend, only to find his arms transcending through the image.
"Joey! Hanaski! What's going on?" Yugi asked in a radio voice of himself.
"You were kidnapped. Gekko said his brother took yours and Atem's body to resurrect Pegasus or something," Hanaski replied as Yugi looked at Gekko's direction.
"Gekko Tenma. Brother said that you weren't with Yako for some reason. Usually, I'd stay out of brother's business when he's working, but I felt a distress and I couldn't help him, because some sort of drug was on him. Then, when it was out, I couldn't get to him anymore!"
"That was Yako probably drugging Atem to force him to be part of this crazy experiment! He probably took the puzzle out before you had a chance to change. Yugi, I am so sorry! I tried stopping him, but-" Gekko apologized.
"Don't be! It wasn't your fault was it?" Yugi assured with a childish smile.
"You're sure different from Atem," Gekko said with a calm smile. "You seem more childish and innocent."
"I guess," Yugi shrugged, slightly blushing. Then, something occurred to him. "Where's brother?"
"We're not sure, Yuge! All we know is that Yako is planning on saving his soul card for Rich Boy!" Joey replied.
"Seto! He might be in trouble! We have to get going!" Yugi cried worriedly.
"Don't worry, we just need to go over there and get our next card. Just bare with us, okay," Gekko instructed.
"Okay," Yugi nodded.
Everyone ran across the right side of the hallway pass several doors. Yugi's holographic image floated along besides his friends. Yugi was glad his friends were willing to risk their lives to save him and his brother, but he wished he could do more. At this point, he felt helpless. He had no body or any way of helping except through a projectile image of himself through a holographic duel disk. All Yugi can do at this point was watch.
The elevators were at a corner of the hallway with a woman standing in front of the elevator. She was blond with a black headband, a red scarlet dress, and black boots. A smile formed upon her lips and seemed to be someone out of a Tim Burton movie. Gekko showed a plain glare at the blond woman.
"Well, it seems that the duelists have finally arrived," The woman said in a stoned voice. "I am dying to duel against a worthy opponent worth my price of defeating him."
"What's your name?" Yugi asked.
"Her name's Tera Gravewood, one of my brother and I's fellow employers of Industrial Illusions," Gekko replied with a long sigh. "Of course he would hire her."
"I'm sure you would," Tera responded with a light chuckle.
"Why?" Joey asked curiously.
"She has a crush on Yako," Gekko replied as Joey made a freaked-out face.
"Seriously?"
"Seriously."
"Hm, who would be a worthy opponent?" Tera asked herself while rubbing her chin. She then pointed to Hanaski. "You seem like a good duelist."
"Is she good?" Hanaski asked Gekko.
"She's kind of a beginner, but more skilled than the last one we encountered," Gekko replied.
"Another nub," Duke smirked.
"HEY! I am good!" Tera glared as she turned on her duel disk. "I'll prove it by defeating short stuff over there and don't think about cheating with your little friend!"
Hanaski looked over to Yugi's side as he saw a smile upon his friend's face. Yugi said, "I believe in you, Hanaski. Now, go get 'em!" Hanaski nodded and removed Yugi's soul card, giving it to Uka for safe keeping.
"Okay Tera, time to get your game on!" Hanaski shouted.
"Okay, I know I've heard that somewhere before!" Duke shouted to himself.
"Dude, get a hold of yourself, a duel's about to start!" Tristan told Duke.