Yu-gi-oh
No Limits
By Kevin Jones
Turn 15- Assault Mode Activate
Abigail
"My draw, I play the spell card, Pot of Greed."
Uh oh I do not like the smile she's now got on her face.
"Tell me Chase do you remember what the field looked like in our last duel?"
"Yes."
"There was a fall field, I had my Fox Warrior who had 900 ATK points and 1100 DEF points and you had 2 face downs, your Stardust Dragon with 2500 ATK points and 2000 DEF points and your Elemental Hero Stratos with 1800 ATK points and 300 DEF points."
"I know, I was there," Why is she letting her hair down?
"My plan was to attack your Stratos with Fox Warrior but then you used a combo involving your Pixie Ring and Battle Mania, so I didn't get to finish my combo."
"What combo?"
"Oh don't worry you're not only going to see in a minute but your also going to see what my powers can really do."
"I have a bad feeling about this."
"You should because now not only are you going to see my combo you're going to see it just a little bit stronger than before."
Oh shit I'm in trouble.
"Now than I play the equip spell Megamorph, now since my life points are less than yours Fox Warriors ATK points double! (900-1800) Now Fox Warrior take down his Wild Wingman," (1800-2800) Fox Warrior, armed with the large disc that represented Megamorph slashed through Wild Wingman's wings.
"Now that Fox Warrior has destroyed one of your monsters in battle I can special summon the most powerful monster ever created!"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Simple when Fox Warrior destroys a monster at the end of the battle step I can tribute Fox Warrior to summon The Nine-Tailed Fox!" (ATK: ?/DEF: ?)
What in the world is this thing, its overall the same yellow and white color scheme as Fox Warrior but this one is on all 4 legs instead of 2, a bigger body, and 9 large tails.
"Oh and if you think that's interesting just wait till you see this, my fox's ATK and DEF points are the combined amount of Fox Warrior and Wild Wingman's original ATK and DEF points!" (ATK: 2800/DEF: 3400)
2800 ATK points, and I can already feel the pulsations being admitted from Abigail's body, and I don't have a single card on the field or in my hand.
"Now Nine-Tailed Fox, attack him directly Fox cures attack!"
Damn it I was hoping I could save this for later.
"I remove from play the Necro Gardna I discarded last turn in order to negate your attack!"
Even though a ghostly image of my Gardna has stopped her fox in its tracks I can still feel the energy being emitted from it like a baseball to the head. It would appear where as Fox Warrior suppressed her power Nine-Tailed Fox actually helps her focus it, which means I have a bad feeling this duel is going to hurt.
Chase
"Now it's my turn to ask you to surrender," she says.
"Even if I said yes would you let me?"
"No but I've always liked watching all hope being erased from someone's eyes."
"Kid let me tell you something another Elemental Hero duelist once told me, a duel ain't over till the lat card is played," yes, "and with this draw this duel ain't over just yet. Now because it's the only card in my hand I can special summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman (ATK: 800/DEF: 1200) also when Bubbleman is summoned and he's the only card on my field I can draw 2 more.
Next I play Fusion Recovery allowing me to add 1 polymerization and a Fusion Material Monster from my graveyard to my hand.
Now it's time for some more fusion because now I combine the Elemental Hero Avian I just got back with the Elemental Hero Bubbleman on the field in order to summon Elemental Hero Mariner!" (ATK: 1400/DEF: 1000)
Now I admit a tall green man with rock star hair and tiny anchors for weapons isn't that menacing but his effect is what's going to win me this.
"Now I set one card face down and thanks to my Mariner's special ability since I have a set card he can attack you directly, now anchors aweigh!(440-440) Hey why didn't your life points go down?"
"One of my Nine-Tailed Fox's many effects. While it remains face up on the field I take no battle damage, unfortunately you do."
Abigail
"First things first, now that it's my standby phase I can activate Nine-Tailed Fox most devastating effect."
"I should be scared shouldn't I?"
"Completely because now I pay half my life points," (440-220) now the fox's furthermost left tail is up and on fire, "now during both of our standby phases Nine tailed Fox will gain 1 Fox Counter and for each lit tail on Nine-Tailed Fox's rear end it will gain 500 ATK points." (2800-3300)
"But why increase its ATK points if it's 1 attack from wiping out all my life points?"
"I'm not an idiot, I know your skill level and I know your face down is probably something to counter my fox. Luckily Nine-Tailed Fox can't be destroyed by trap cards so if it's something like Sakuretsu Armor that's now useless, but that also opens the door for a card that will increase or decrease ATK points like Shrink, so by increasing the ATK points of my Fox to more than twice the amount of your Mariner I can erase the worst case scenario and that's either halving or doubling our respective monsters ATK points, also once all 9 of my Fox's tails are lit I can remove all 9 fox counters and inflict damage equal to what Nine-Tailed Fox's ATK points were when the final counter was placed. Now Nine-Tailed Fox show his hero your dark powers, Fox curse attack!"
The large fox attacked and the amount of energy its releasing has me against the wall but luckily my life points are still here. (1400-450)
"You covered all the bases, you have a monster that can't be destroyed by traps and its attack points are now to high for any decrease or increase to work with the field the way it is but you did forget 1 thing."
"What's that?"
"I changed the amount of damage I received."
"How?"
"Hero's Guard, this card allows me to make Mariner indestructible through battle."
"That still doesn't explain why you still have life points!"
"Also by removing from play Elemental Hero Burstinatrix I can halve the battle damage and draw 1 card."
"I set one card face down and end my turn, now make your last move."
Chase
"My draw, I summon the Tuner Monster Tune Warrior."(ATK: 1600/DEF: 200)
"What good is a normal monster going to do you because in case you forgot Nine-Tailed Fox just got another 500 ATK points?" (3300-3800)
"He may be normal and he may look like he's made out of a radio but this guys going to win this for me. Now I tune my level 3 Tune Warrior with my level 5 Elemental Hero Mariner in order to synchro summon," Tune Warrior's dials all turned straight as he jumps into the air and dematerializes into 3 large green rings, Mariner's now jumping towards the rings, dematerializing and being replaced by 5 shining stars; the 5 stars and the 3 rings fashioned themselves perfectly and in a burst of light, "I synchro summon Stardust Dragon!" (ATK: 2500/DEF: 2000)
"What good is your overgrown lizard going to do you?"
"Simple, because in case you forgot my Hero's Guard allowed me to draw a card and I'm going to activate it now! I play Battle Tuned which allows me to remove Tune Warrior from play and increase Stardust Dragon's ATK points by my warriors, (2500-4100) that's what good about my normal Tuner monster did me; now Stardust Dragon Cosmic Flare on Nine-Tailed Fox!"
"Sorry but you walked right into a trap! I play phase divided by 2."
"What does that do?"
"Simple by activating this trap I can instantly end this phase of your turn so long as I skip the same phase during my turn."
"I end."
Abigail
"Now Nine-Tailed gains 500 ATK points (3800-4300) unfortunately due to the effect of Phase Divided by 2 I can't attack this turn."
"You don't have to attack next turn either."
"Why's that?"
Listen I didn't come here to duel you, in fact one of the reasons I came was to bring you back to your mother."
"As far as I'm concerned, Principal Ivanov is my mother."
"No I mean your birth mother."
"As far as I'm concerned that drunken whore has nothing do with me!" Now she's angry.
"Let me guess Ivanov told you all that?"
"That's right and what she hasn't told me I remember. She didn't care about me and she denied I even existed."
"Do you actually believe that or is that what Ivanov wants you to believe?"
"Make your move!"
Chase
"My draw, (4300-4800) I play Legacy of a Hero allowing me to draw 3 cards because I have 2 level 4 or higher Elemental Heros in my Graveyard."
Damn it, there's only 1 monster in my deck that can help me right now, but the summoning conditions make it almost impossible to get it out. Hell to be honest I'm not entirely sure why I even chose to bring it with me, but right now I've just got to hold off until I draw the card needed to summon it.
"I summon Elemental Hero Clayman (ATK: 800/DEF: 2000) in defense mode, next I set 1 card face down and end my turn."
Abigail
"I know you're baiting me but in case you forgot Nine-Tailed Fox can't be destroyed by traps. Now watch as another one of my fox's tails lights up; (4800-5300) now Nine-Tailed Fox destroy his dragon!"
"Oh no you don't I play a trap!"
"Weren't you listening Nine-Tailed Fox can't be destroyed by battle!"
"True but I can use my Defender Hero to switch your attack target from Stardust to Clayman and since he's in defense mode this duel is still on."
Chase
Alright this should by me some time. (5300-5800)
"I play Swords of Revealing Light."
"What's with the glow in the dark kitchen knives?"
"Simple now your Light up Fox can't attack for another 3 turns."
Abigail
"Those 3 turns end now (5800-6300) I play Heavy Storm which destroys every spell and trap card on the field."
"My swords are staying I activate Stardust Dragon's special ability, I tribute him in order to stop your Heavy Storm!"
"I end."
"This allows Stardust Dragon to comeback; this little trick is formally known as Victim's Sanctuary."
Chase
"My draw," this is it if I can't draw the right card now then this duel, and what appears to be the world is over… No this isn't it, even if I had another turn I drew the monster itself and once it's in my hand I can't use it… (6300-6800)Wait a minute this other card, from before when I used Legacy of a Hero, it's a gamble, and the chances of it actually working are 1 in 40, oh god there's no way it'll work.
"It will work."
"Debris Dragon, but how, Ivanov said that duel spirits can't get into the school."
"Hah, there's no way a bunch of mediocre psychics can keep me away."
"You found a small gap in the energy field and flew threw it, didn't you?"
"Yes, but that's not the point, now why are you nervous."
"I'm not nervous."
"Then why is your hand shaking."
"It's not, it's all the… it's all the energy she's releasing brushing against me."
"No it isn't, you're scared like a little kid even though you still have 1 possible shot of drawing what you need."
"I'm not scared!"
"Then make your move."
"Fine then; I play Magical Mallet now I shuffle the last card in my hand back into my deck and draw a new card in its place," there's no way, there's just no way.
"See I told you that you could do it."
"I set one card face down and end my turn."
"So I take it since you already know there's no way to get passed my Nine-Tailed Fox's ATK points and next turn his effect will make your life points hit 0 no matter how high you make them it looks like the only reason you summoned your Stardust was so you could die with your favorite monster."
"We'll see about that."
Abigail
"Well it's been real Mr. Chase Rhodes but this duel is over." (6800-7300)
"Chain trap card!"
"You've got nothing."
"Actually I do, do you remember what Ivanov did after your little "episode" the other day."
"She brought me back here."
"She did something before that, she bribed me to keep my mouth shut, I kept the bribe but came here anyway."
"A little money won't help you here."
"She didn't give me money, she gave me a card, an impossible a card and with the power of this card I'm going to defeat you, stop Ivanov and then bring you back to your Mother."
"There isn't a single card in the world that can do all that."
"Look at the hologram. I play the trap card Assault Mode Activate now I tribute Stardust Dragon in order to summon Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode!" (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500)
"That's impossible, including yours there are only 2 Stardust Dragons on the face of the planet and you don't have any connections so there's no way you could get yours a support card!"
"That's because Ivanov made it. At first I couldn't understand why, and I'm still not sure how, but the minute I saw that Nine-Tailed Fox I realized that you and me both are just puppets in Ivanov's plan. For you it started almost 2 years ago when Ivanov took advantage of your scared Mother and for me it started about a week ago when I came close to beating Scott Truman."
"You're lying, you hear me, lying! Ms. Ivanov has treated me like a daughter where as that women just saw me as a mistake!"
"Ivanov has lied to you, when I met your mother she was a mess because she was tormented by the fact that she let her daughter go to a psychopath."
"You lie and I'm going to make you stop lying! Now because Nine-Tailed Fox has its maximum amount of Fox Counters on it I can remove them all to inflict damage to your life points equal to what Nine-Tailed Fox's ATK points were when the final counter was placed on it, now Nine Tails hell!"
The 9 brightly burning tails all went out at once as the energy in the room reaches maximum, I can even feel it as the shadow energy around me thickens, but I'm not afraid of this beast not anymore.
"I activate the effect of Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode, now I can tribute it in order to negate the activation of your Nine Tails Hell!"
As the burst of energy is released from Nine-Tails Fox, my big blue Armored Dragon explodes into a thousand tiny stars that are not only forcing the blast back they are also rapping themselves around the fox and are now smothering it.
"You, you"-
"It looks like you're done."
Chase
"Now Stardust Dragon/Assault Mode attack her directly, Assault Cosmic Burst," (220-0) it's over, now there's only one last piece-
Winner: Chase Loser: Abigail
Her powers are out of control again, oh god right now the only thing keeping me from flying away is me holding on tight to a damn stair well. This answers my last question, why can she control her power while her Fox Warrior or Nine-Tailed Fox are on the field but the minute there gone she loses complete control? Because her 2 foxes actually absorb her energy, Ivanov hasn't been training her whatsoever all she's been doing is draining her energy, maybe that Assault Mode monster I just used does the same thing to me that Nine-Tailed Fox does to her, oh man Vanessa was right I have no idea what I've gotten myself into… Wait a minute that's it. Right now it looks like her emotions control her power so I've got to calm her down, and that's something Vanessa would probably know how to do; after all what've have I got to lose, well my balls but if I can't stop her soon I'm going lose those, and the rest of me while I'm at it, anyways.
"Listen I understand how you feel."
"No you don't, you're just a spoiled school boy, with some rare cards!"
Good, even though she's physically out of control her brain is still functioning as opposed to last time where she became a blank slate.
"At first you didn't know what to feel, no dad, moms never around, and you had to deny all of it so eventually you became more and more alone until eventually you just found it easier to give up on everyone around you, but because of your fear of your own powers you became dependent on Ivanov but I bet you don't have a single friend your own age at this place."
"How on earth could you know any of that!"
This is good, the energy being thrown out of her is substantially less than before I'm still a goner if I can't calm her down, I've only got one last option, but still I don't know if I can do this, I've only ever told this to a couple of people before.
"Listen I understand how you feel, more than you know!"
"How's that?"
"Because my parents are dead, dead for a long time and I was told to keep it a secret as well, but you still have your own mother, and I admit she probably sucked but from what I've seen she's begging for a second chance, give it to her."
It's dying down and I'm able to let go of the stair well.
"It's ok I'm going to bring you home."
She's looking into my eyes, I've got to keep a straight face otherwise she may not believe me.
"I, I, I, I want my mom."
The energy is gone, and I catch as she falls down from all the stress. I can hear her cry as she barriers her face deep into my jacket.
"Listen I'm going to bring you home ok, but right now I need to stop Ivanov, do you know what she's doing?"
"No, nobody knows, all we know is that when it's all over there will be no judging, no social class, and no secrets, but now I don't know if she just means what the world will be like under her control or something."
"Don't worry I'm going to stop her, now is that her office back there?"
She lifts her head off my leather jacket and with her face covered in tears nods.
"Stay right here ok, I'm going to stop her."
"Be careful, in the time I've been here I've never seen her lose control of a duel."
"Don't worry I know how to stop control freaks."
Next Time: Becoming God
"Where are the others!"
"Apparently you're not interested in chit-chat. Very well then, bring in the prisoners."
"No that's impossible!"