Disclaimer: see chapter one
Chapter 18: Duel and Words of Wisdom
In the afternoon hours after classes in Duel Academy on that day, in the Ra Yellow Dorm, we find Bastion Misawa in his room, painting his walls white, so he can write new formulas.
'Well, we've managed to unite the students and nearly all of the facility against Sartorius and the Society of Light, which will slow down his plans……for now. But Jaden, Blair, Keiko, Jasmine, the Urameshi twins and I have become targets since we were 'elected' leaders of our new student council and sooner or later, the Society of Light will come after us. And that's just fine by me! It will allow me a chance to finally prove my power by beating members of the Society of Light and possibly Sartorious and to think that I was so depressed that I was almost insulted when the Society of Light didn't chose me first from Ra Yellow as a target, before.' Bastion thought, remembering
Flashback
"Damn it!" Bastion slams his fist to the walls in his room, "Why didn't they choose me!? I'm one of the best duelists in Duel Academy. They've chosen Keiko, Ryoko, Jade, Jordan and Kagome, but they haven't chosen me!"
Just then, his PDA communicator rang on his desk and he went to pick it up and answered it, "Bastion Misawa, come to the arena in five minutes and bring your best deck and duel disc. This is a challenge." Came a distorted voice
'I wonder who could that be,' he thought.
Bastion walked from the Ra Yellow dorm and towards Duel Academy, "So good of you to come, Bastion."
The logical duelist turned to see Koenma, in his teenage form and Botan walking towards him, "Koenma, Botan, did you call me?" Bastion asked.
"We didn't make the call, Bastion," Koenma said, "Your challenger was the one, who made the call to you."
"My challenger?" Bastion repeated, perplexed
"That's right," Botan said. "We've arranged this duel for you and your challenger is in the arena."
The three walked inside and spotted on the platform stood a purple cloaked figure, with a duel disc attached in its left arm. The purple cloaked figure looked at Bastion and says in a feminine voice, "I'm glad you came here, Bastion Misawa."
'That voice sounds vaguely familiar,' Bastion thought and asks, "Who are you!?"
"I'll tell you my identity if you duel me and win." The cloaked figure said.
Bastion nods in reply, "Fine, we'll play by your rules." He said, and walked towards the platform to face his cloaked opponent. The two duelists activated their duel discs as their Life Point meter went up to 4000 and drew five cards, "Let's Duel!"
Bastion draws one card from his deck and says, "I will start things off!" Bastion looks at his hand and says, putting one card on his duel disk, "First, I will play my Magnet Warrior Sigma Plus in attack mode!" Soon after, the robotic warrior, Magnet Warrior Sigma Plus (A: 1800/D: 1500) comes to the field in attack mode. Bastion then puts one card in the spell/trap slots of his duel disc and states, "I will end with this."
The cloaked figure draws one card from her deck and says, plainly, "It is my move now!" The cloak figure puts one card on her duel disc and calls out, "Now, I summon my Armed Dragon LV3 in attack mode!" Soon after, Armed Dragon LV3 (A: 1200/D: 900) comes to the field in attack mode. The cloaked duelist then states, in a serious tone, "Next, I'll activate Level Up! Now my Armed Dragon evolves to an Armed Dragon LV5!" Soon after, Armed Dragon glows and becomes Armed Dragon LV5 and The cloaked duelist says, seriously, "Then, I play Dragon's Gunfire, now you take 800 points of Direct Damage!"
Armed Dragon blasts a fireball and hits Bastion. The logical duelist blocks the impact with his duel disc as his Life Points decreases (B: 3200), "Now Armed Dragon, attack Bastion's monster with Infernal Assault!"
Armed Dragon charges towards Magnet Warrior Sigma Plus, "You've triggered my trap! Magnet Force Minus!" Bastion's face-down card is revealed to be the Magnet Force Minus trap card and it shoots out energy towards Armed Dragon and it stops in its tracks and throws it back to its owner side, "What the hell just happened!?" The cloaked duelists asked, confused.
Bastion tells her, with a smile, "Let me explain this in simple terms: My trap card has turned your monster into a positively charged monster and my Sigma Plus is a positively charged monster. Whenever there is a PLUS monster on one side of the field and a PLUS monster on the other side of the field, they can't do battle."
"Oh come on!" the cloaked duelist shouts, as she places a card into her disc, "Last I checked, this was a duel not a science class!"
"When you duel me, it's both!" Bastion said as he drew his card from his deck. Bastion looks at his cards and shouts out, "Now, I sacrifice my Sigma Plus from my field and Omega Minus from my hand!" Soon enough, Bastion sends the monster card known as Magnet Warrior Omega Minus (A: 1900/D: 600) among with his Sigma Plus monster card, puts another card on his duel disk, and calls out, "This allows me to call my Conductive Warrior Linear Magnum to the field!"
Afterwards, Conductive Warrior Linear Magnum Plus Minus (A: 2700/D: 2300) appears on the field in attack mode. Bastion then calls out, "Warrior Magnum, destroy her Armed Dragon!" Bastion's monster fires its two laser cannons at Armed Dragon, destroying it with a huge explosion and costing the cloaked duelist 200 Life Points. (?: 3800), "Finally, I'll place one card facedown and that would suffice!"
"Playtime is over!" the cloaked duelist roared as she drew a card, "I activate my Call of the Haunted Trap Card, now I can bring a monster from my graveyard to attack and I choose my Armed Dragon LV5!"
In a blaze of light, Armed Dragon appears once again and roared, "Next, I play my Dark Spell Regeneration! This spell can copy any spell in the graveyard and I chose my Level Up! Now Armed Dragon LV5 becomes an Armed Dragon LV7!"
As soon as the cloaked duelist sends two cards from her hand, Armed Dragon glows and grew to a larger Armed Dragon (ATK: 2800/DEF: 1000), "Now Armed Dragon, attack with Dragon Talon Terror!"
Armed Dragon thrusts its right claw at Conductive Warrior Linear Magnum Plus Minus, preparing to destroy it. but Bastion had other plans as he pressed the button on his disc, "I activate Magic Cylinder, now your attack is negated and you take damage equal to your dragon's points!"
"WHAT!" the cloaked duelist gawked as her dragon's claw went straight back to her and she fell as her Life Points dropped (?: 1000).
"Now it's my turn!" Bastion draws his card from his Deck, "I sacrifice my Conductive Warrior Linear Magnum Plus Minus to summon Plasma Warrior Atom to the field!" Warrior Magnum vanishes from the field as it is sacrificed, Bastion puts another card on his duel disk, and Plasma Warrior Atom (A: 3000/D: 2500) appears on the field in attack mode.
The cloak duelist says, seriously, "So, what if you destroy my Armed Dragon? I only lose 200 life-points."
"Are you sure about that?" Bastion asked, slyly, which got the cloaked duelist interested, "Didn't you realize by dividing his attack points in half, Plasma Warrior Atom can attack you directly?" The cloaked duelist gasps in shock as Plasma Warrior Atom's stats are reduced to 1500/2500! "Now, Plasma Warrior Atom, end this duel now! Attack her directly with Plasma Electric Sphere!" Plasma Warrior Atom fires an electrical sphere out of its chest that by-passes Armed Dragon and the cloak duelist scream out as her cloak flew away from her and she loses 1500 life-points from the attack, ending the duel. (?: 0)
After the final holograms fade, Bastion gaped a mouth open as he sees the cloaks identity, "Shizuru?"
Shizuru looked up at Bastion as she got onto her feet, "Hey Bastion, congratulations," she said.
"We noticed that you've been depressed when the Society of Light didn't recognize your power," Botan said.
"So, we set up this duel." Koenma added.
"Why's that?" Bastion asked, perplexed.
"To show you that you don't need to be so determined to show the Society of Light your power, Bastion," Shizuru told him.
"You've already have proven it, last year," Koenma said, "Why else Chancellor Shepherd and I would choose you as one of the key holders of the scared beast cards, Bastion?"
"But I lost the duel with Tanya when she distracted me," Bastion said.
"But that was just one duel, Bastion," Botan said, "You've been proven time and time again that you're the best through grades and dueling."
"But why didn't the Society of Light didn't choose me?"
"Because they're a bunch of idiotic snobs who can't recognize great talent, even if it bit them in the ass."
They turned to see Yusuke and Jaden walking towards them, "Yusuke, Jaden…" Bastion murmured
"You need to stop beating yourself up, Bastion," Yusuke said. "I mean look at Chazz, I mean they picked him and you kicked his ass, last year."
"That's right and you've came so close to beating me in a few duels, in the past." Jaden said, "And I'm one of the targets for the Society of Light."
"That is true," Bastion places his finger onto his chin, "I have came too close of beating you two." Bastion laughed loudly, "I really don't know why I was so depressed in the first place anyways."
"That's right," Jaden said, "Besides, if you had become one of those the members of the Society of Light, then you would be a target for my demon side."
Bastion's face turned pale, while mentality cursing himself for forgetting that Jaden's demonic side would have him as a punching bag and he wouldn't like that, "Oh I could I have forgotten about that." He muttered.
End Flashback
After finishing painting, Bastion started writing down formulas for his dueling decks, 'Thanks to Yusuke, Jaden, Shizuru, Botan and Koenma, I'm even more confident that the Society of Light will be destroyed, along with its master,' he thought, gleefully, 'Plus, with the student council that was created, those white geeks as the others would put it, would pretty upset at the moment. If they created the student council, while I was part of the Society of Light, then I'd be upset too. It's a good thing that I'm not. Just you wait, Sartorius, you'll be taken down, along with your detestable Society of Light.'