Yu-gi-oh

No Limits

By Kevin Jones

Turn 20- Caged

Oh great and powerful magic 8 Ball, please tell me is there even a point to continuing on with this adventure...

"Ask again later."

O.K. let's try this, oh great and powerful magic 8 ball, will the Cardinals ever win the Super Ball...

"As I see it, yes."

Well its official the Magic 8 Ball really is just a stupid toy.

I give up, it's been over a week and I still have no real proof that there really is a conspiracy involving Duel Disks, plus Charlie's been out of school ever since we dueled so it's not like I can ask him anything. Now I need something else to occupy my time, I'm thinking Crack.
"Afternoon Chuckles... hey what's with the black ball?"
"What are you doing here? It's a Friday afternoon."
"I asked you first."
"It's a Magic 8 Ball."
"No way, Gramps told me about these. He said they were really popular when he was growing up but how did you get one?"
"I get around a lot; now what do you want?"
"I just won a contest."
"What, world's longest hair contest."
"Very funny, I was walking out of a grocery store when I saw that there was this contest where this guy told me to turn a crank and if a gold ball came out I would win 4 tickets to the Great Jungle Circus at Lincoln Center tomorrow and guess who one."
"And what does that have anything to do with me?"
"Well I want you and the guys to come with me."
"The guys?"
"Yeah, you know, Toni and Kai."
"Why on earth would you want us to come? You've made friends here."
"You guys are my friends."
"We have no reason to be. We're just a bunch of kids who got ourselves sucked into some weird shit. We're all completely different and have no reason to ever even see each other."
"You and Toni have spent the past week and a half entertaining yourselves with the idea of uncovering an international Duel Disk conspiracy."
"And now I'm done with that so I have no reason to ever talk to her again and you should do the same and get some of the friends you've made here to go watch High School drop outs covered in paint make idiots of themselves."
"First of all, most clowns are actually trained to do what they do; second, don't get me wrong a lot of the girls here are very nice but there just... well-"
"Unintelligent."
"No, it's just that, to them a big problem is not being able to make it to the mall in time for a sale or that they lost their cell phone but you guys know what it means to deal with things in the real world, you know."
"The worst thing that's happened to me in the past 2 Weeks is when we had Meatloaf Night in the cafeteria the other day and I spent the majority of the next day on the toilet."
"That's where you were the other day?"
"Yup."
"So while we were taking a test in history you were-"
"Taking a 6 hour dump in the boy's room," That's actually true.
"O.K. then, so are you coming or not?"
"No and what makes you think Kai and Toni are going to want to come?"
"Simple really, I already asked them."
"Wait you found them?"
"Well don't make it sound like I was looking for a pair of Jackalopes, Toni works for her Dad and Kai was dueling in a basketball court by that bar he told us about."
"And they actually said yes?"
"Yup, you see unlike you, most people like to enjoy a good laugh."
"Chase doesn't laugh at anything."
Oh crap Millay's here.
"Excuse me but I couldn't help but over here you 2 talking about… what exactly?"
"None of your business, Millay."
"Well excuse captain Carrot but last time I checked I can talk to Chase whenever I like."
"Why you do it, I'll never know."
"Oh come on Chase can you honestly say you actually want this little Q-Tip hanging around you?"
"As apposed-"
"What did you just call me?"
"A Q-Tip, your skinny, white and simple."
"Oh and what do you mean by simple."
Here we go again. All these 2 do is argue, usually with me in the middle, literally."
"You heard me simple, simple minded, simple hair style, simple"-
"Leave Millay," I say. Personally I've had it with these 2 arguing at each other.
"All I was saying was-"
"I said leave."
When dealing with a bad dog you look them straight in the eye, never change your tone and don't get off topic. The same thing applies to evil 15 year old Blonds.
"Fine, I just wanted to make sure you were coming to Alfredo's tomorrow."
"Why would I go to some fancy pants Italian restaurant?"
"Because my parents will be in town and they want you to be there."
Since when did I ever agree to do that?"
"Since I told them you said you would 2 weeks ago while you were off doing god knows what."
Oh crap.
"Now I don't know how I'll explain your… Criminal Mark but I'm sure I'll think of something now-"
"Actually I already have plans for tomorrow."
"Locking yourself in your room for 6 hours doesn't count as "plans."
"I never said that, I'm going to the circus."
"Yeah and I'm going to Mars."
Risking making the situation worse, I gesture towards Vanessa who raises all 4 tickets towards Millay with a look on her face that almost says "Ha take that you witch!"
"Wait so you 2 are going on a date?"
"No, just me, her and some friends."
"Since when do you even have friends?"
"You got your answer, now git!"
She looks angry, but at least she's walking away, well more like stomping away.
"So your coming after all."
"Looks like it."
"Hey is there something going on between you and Millay?"
"Does it look like there's something going on between us?"
"I don't know, it's just that it almost seems like she talks to you like she's your wife or something. I mean she wants you to have lunch with her and her parents for crying out loud."
"It's nothing worth giving yourself a headache over. Look, I'm going with the lesser of 2 hells."
"Oh come on, I've been to lunch's with my parents rich friends before, you just sit at the end of table, eat something interesting and keep quiet."
"Tried it."
"What happened?"
"If she can't leave anything alone how do you think the people who created her are?"
"O.K. then, listen the show starts tomorrow at 2 and me and the others agreed to meet in front of Lincoln Center at 1, got it?"
"Shirr," assuming I don't find something more interesting to do along the way, which won't take long.
"Oh yeah, the other day a bunch of girls in my third period class who are friends with Millay were talking about how they were going to the same show as us, and we both no Millay is going to ask them if they saw you. Do you want to be there when they tell her not once?"
Damn it.
"See you tomorrow Chase."
Well there both gone, now to think of a way out of this.
"We're going to the circus!"
Never mind.
"Debris Dragon, what do you want?"
"Isn't it obvious? I'm happy were going to the circus! I want to see a Lion, and an Elephant, and a-"
"Stop talking."
"You seem happy."
"I don't like Circuses."
"You don't like English class but you still go anyways."
"Circus's are degrading example of how stupid the human race is."
"You say that about everything and second isn't it cool how they're able to tame wild animals like that?"
"I don't like the idea of caged animals."
"What does that mean? Hey don't walk away from me!"

…

"And now folks may I introduce you all to the amazing, mysterious and magical Mr. Illusion!"
If I hear another adjective describing some Norwegian idiot in a stupid costume, I'm going to use some words of my own, words I shouldn't use with small children around.
The stupid tent is big, blue, and yellow and looks like its housing a full house of around 1,000 people. So far we've seen a guy on one foot ride on top of a horse, a woman balance a house cat on her head and… well then I fell asleep till intermission. That's when I tried to make my escape but the others caught me and are now holding me against my will.
"Oh my god Chase he's going to do magic, he's going to do magic!"
And Debris Dragon hasn't shut up since the horse thing.
"Oh come on Chase surely you'll enjoy this," says Vanessa.
"If I say yes will you and Kai stop sitting in between me."
"If me and Vanessa let you sit on the side you'll sneak out."
"You don't know that."
"You did that before."
"I won't do it this time."
"Bull shit."
"Yeah Chase just have fun, I mean you of all people should believe in magic."
"Debris Dragon shut up."
"What did you say Chase?"
"Nothing Vanessa."
I haven't told the others talking to duel spirit thing.
"O.K. then everyone, I will not need a few assistance's from the audience!"
As if automatically half the audience has their hands up screaming "me, me, me" including Vanessa as well as the jack ass behind me who's kicking me in the back of the of the head.
"You with the mullet!"
That would be the guy behind me.
"Please tell the 4 kids below you to get up here."
"Aw man you kids are so-"
"Say anything else or touch me again and you die!"
Hah, that shut him- "hey Vanessa let me go!"
"Come on Chase we have to get down there."
"You 3 go and leave me out of this."
"Not happening buddy," says Toni.
"Ah good now that your all here, granted one of you had to be pulled via his jacket collar, by the way, black leather, straw fedora, and criminal mark, you've got a great fashion sense."
This has everyone laughing, granted most of these people are probably dumb enough to laugh at anything, including this guy.
He has us on the far left side of ring standing on a platform with just enough room for the 4 of us.
"Like with everyone else in this show he has a thick Norwegian accent. The only real differences this guy has from the rest of the performers is the fact that most of the show has been done by women and he has blond hair instead of brown, other than that he's like all the others. Tall and skinny with long hair and pale skin.
"Now then, will the 4 of you please tell us all your names, nice and loudly."
"I'm Kai."
"Toni."
"My names Vanessa."
"Excuse me, Mr. Straw hat could you please tell us your name."
"Jimmy Hoffa."
"Fascinating, you look much younger in person Mr. Hoffa. Now then as you all know…"
"Chase, what is wrong with you?"
Great now Vanessa's whispering in my ear.
"I told you I didn't want to come here."
"Doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone-"
"Excuse me, I'm going to need you 2 to pay attention. Now then, I bet the 4 of you are wondering why it is I picked you all for this trick. Well the reason is under that sheet."
The sheet he is talking about is covering what looks like a big box. Now the sheet is "magically," via wires, is being lifted up, revealing 4 animals in a large cage.
"Now what do the 4 of you notice about these 4 animals? Well believe it or not these animals look a lot like you."
Makes sense, me and the tiger obviously show the same desire to kill when we see this guy. Actually all these animals look kind of lifeless to me.
"First up Mr. Kai, in front of you is the mighty buffalo! Big and strong and has just the right amount of facial hair."
To all those curious, Kai is trying to grow this weird, Tony Stark, goatee thing, to all those who know people with facial hair I now know your pain.
"For Ms. Toni, the proud Swan, a creature known for its beauty and strength."
He should be careful, when Toni looks proud like she does now she usually starts talking.
"Now for Ms. Vanessa, the sleek Tiger, a creature that shows strength and shares its hair color with you."
He forgot to mention, big head, can be loud and will probably drive someone crazy enough that they'll shoot her.
"And for my good friend Jimmy," What the hell he just took my hat and he's putting it on the fourth animal.
"Can you all see the resemblance?"
He put my hat on a god damn Porcupine and now he's got the whole tent laughing loud enough to wake up the dinosaurs!
"Hey Chase, he got you perfectly," Vanessa says with a laughing tone to her voice.
"As you can see both Chase and Steve the Porcupine have pointy black hair, dark eyes, and, from the looks of it, a similar taste in hats."
My hair is not that pointy, and Porcupines don't have hair they have quills.
"Now as I pointed out before these kids all have something in common with the animals in front of them and in a minute they will gain another. In a minute all 8 of them will vanish and reappear in each other's respective spots. Now then I will now tap on both sides of the stage 3 times."
Something strange is going on around here. First Vanessa wins exactly 4 tickets and now all 4 of us are involved in a trick plus the animals, why do these 4? Plus that whole little speech he just gave, it almost sounded rehearsed. Finally the animals themselves, there just sitting there you'd think they'd be moving around in the cage. Instead they're perfectly across from us in the same order we are. I don't care if it's been raised in captivity, a giant man eating tiger is still a giant man eating tiger and no one in their right mind would put one with a tiny Porcupine, a giant bird and basically a giant brown cow. All these animals, they look like they're just ready to die, the tiger especially, I mean for all the life-
"Now then I say my magic words, Jeg er forbannet!"
Wait what did he just say?
The floors given out! Now we're under the stage. It's black as night down here and cold as well and we've landed on some type of cushion thing, plus there's this weird smell, strong to, almost like once it enters my nose it travels to the back of my head and starts hitting everything with a hammer! Now we're moving, fast, I can hear a conveyor belt pulling the cushion and- ah, ah, it feels like something just hit me and that smell is now stronger- we're back up again, this time on the other side of the ring and the animals are where we were.
"Behold through the smoke and beyond human understanding these 4 teens have been transported and in their place are there animal look a likes!"
Oh god whys the damn crowd so loud all of a sudden and these bright lights, god I knew I hate the circus but now. Oh god my head, and the others they don't look to well either, I mean Vanessa's holding on to my shoulder just to keep standing.
"Clearly the teleportation process has left our guests a little loopy but let's gives them a round of applause anyways!"
Oh shit that's loud. No, something isn't right, I've got to focus... and figure out... wh, wh, wh-

…

"Oh crap what happened to us?"
Was that Toni? Sounds like her... my headaches gone. Yeah that's right, after the magic trick everything seemed louder and brighter and it was hard to stand, but I feel just fine… yeah, we all look better.
"I don't get it we fell below stage and then when we came out on the other side we felt all, well... woozy," says Kai.
"Wait a minute," he continues, "Did you guys smell something under there, I don't mean like Elephant shit or something, I mean something strong?"
"Yeah," says Vanessa, "It smelt kind of like rotten eggs, only even after it went up my nose it felt like it kept going up and started swinging an aluminum bat at my brain."
Both I and Toni nod to show we agreed.
As for the tent it looks like every ones walking out which means we were out for a little more than an hour and a half but still what on earth could be under the ring that would do something like that to us?
"My decks gone," yells Toni, "it was right here in my front pocket and now it's gone!"
"Hey mines not in my Wrist Dealer either!"
Toni and Kai don't have their decks but what about- "What the hell, Mines gone to!"
"Who on earth would take your decks?"
"Vanessa isn't it obvious! This whole thing was a trap."
"What do you mean a trap?"
"Think about it, what were you doing before you were won the tickets?"
"I was coming out of the Grocery Store over on 12Th street when this street vendor asked me if I was feeling lucky and told me about the circus."
"There's the first problem, for a circus you'd want to attract, say, a mother with her children or a bunch kids who just bought candy not a teenage girl with grocery's."
"Now that you mention it when the ball came out I didn't hear anything else inside the wheel."
"Plus the minute he started comparing me to a Buffalo and then Toni to a swan, and then a tiger and a Porcupine, the whole thing sounded and felt staged."
"And that smell when we went below stage. I swear for a minute down there I felt a hand touch me but it happened so fast." That was Toni, Vanessa's wearing a skirt.
"But why'd they steal your decks?"
"Come on guys lets go find out."

…

"Chase when you suggested that we go find out why the circus stole all your decks did it ever occur to you to go to the front desk?"
"I told you to go home. If this gets ugly, you'll have a hard time running away in a skirt."
"I'd like to figure out what's going on he-"
"Quiet."
"Chase what are-"
"Toni shush."
"Did you just-"
"Yes I did, now shut up."
It's faint but I think I hear Debris Dragon's voice.
"Guys this way."
"How do you know that?"
Oh shit I forgot Toni and the other 2 don't know I can speak with Duel Spirits and I don't really need them thinking I'm crazy right now.
"Well... I have this device, no bigger than a Duel Monster Card that I have shuffled into my deck and if my deck is ever out of my Wrist Dealer for more than 10 minutes it starts beeping."
"Wait so that's what that noise has been?"
Wait, Kai's hearing a noise?
"Oh yeah of course, and its coming from over by the animal pen so let's move it before someone See's us."
With the speed of the drugs that got us we ran past the half dozen circus trailers and stopped in front of a large tent, for a relatively disturbing reason.
"What's it say?"
"Beats me Toni, it kind of sounds like something a 4 year old would say."
"Kai that's nonsense."
"Fine then, what does it mean Vanessa?"
"I'm sure it makes sense when you pronounce it. Ka... Kan Gud ha...nåde med, våre sjeler."
"May God have mercy on our souls."
"Chase, wait a minute, how on earth do you know what that means?"
What Vanessa is referring to is a phrase crudely spray painted on the front of the tent in black.
"It's Norwegian, much like everyone else in this circus."
"And you speak Norwegian, you sleep in our English yet you apparently speak fluent Norwegian?"
"Apparently; hey Toni do you remember what the magicians magic words were?"
"I don't know, it was something like Jeff... erg-
"Jeg er forbannet, it means I am damned."
"What the hell have we gotten ourselves into this time?"
"I don't know Toni. Listen I want the 3 of you to get out of here. Toni and Kai, I'll bring you your decks as soon I can, and Vanessa there's a good chance there's something dangerous in there, so it-"
"I can take care of myself Chase."
"And there's no way I'm leaving my Blackwing Deck with you."
Kai nods and begins to talk. "You're not going in there alone."
"Yeah Chase, it's like I said yesterday, we're friends and friends don't just walk away."
"Suit yourselves, but I have a bad feeling I know what's inside this tent."
We're all walking through now. Oh my god. I knew I'd see something bad in here but this is horrible and from what I can see the others are wishing they stayed outside.
"Th, they looked fine on stage."
While Vanessa talks I walk over to the cage where the Porcupine with my hat is. All the Animals are stacked in rusted steel cages, with the exception of the Elephants who aren't even here. Each cage is the same size, tall enough so the Buffalo can stand up, wide enough to fit multiple small animals and long enough just so the Tiger can fit. All the animals are lying down on cold steel and all appear unfed and beaten.
"There's something on their necks," it looks almost like a-
"What do you think Mr. Rhodes."
That voice, it belongs the Ring Master.
"What the hell are you up to?"
Says Kai to the tiny man and I mean tiny too. He comes up to my elbow yet he's wide enough that it would take all 4 of us in a circle just to match his wideness. He looks pretty old to. He's at least in his early 60's. Why kids clapped for this guy I don't know.
"All I am doing is keeping what's important to me safe."
"And what makes you say that?"
"Listen Rhodes, my show was dying in Norway, so several years ago we came here, the land of opportunity, but you see it isn't easy starting over in this business. Between feeding the animals and getting from place to place we barely made enough to feed ourselves. For almost 200 years my family has run this show and I'll be damned if I let it end with me, so one day I just decided, no one ever said we had to treat the animals like kings. You'd be surprised how much you can save simply by not feeding the animal's every day."
"So that's why the magician said I am Damned and why they wrote what they wrote on the tent, you beat the animals so they'll cooperate and probably threaten everyone just to shut them up, but how do you hide it all on stage?"
"Simple boy." Up until now he's had his arms concealed by a red cape which is over a red suit, but now he's taking off the cape and it looks like there's a red Duel Disk with Gold accents on his right arm.
"Now it may not be as cool looking as that black old fashion one on your arm but I think you'll like this."
The Duel Disk is on now… wait a minute it looks he's putting on a card that says Porcupine on it into one of the spell card slots. What the hell! All the broken quills and visible wounds are gone.
"Pretty cool huh, the Duel Disk allows me to merely place a card with the respective animals name on it and I'm able to make the animal look just fine, plus to help break their spirits I can do this as well. He's pushing a button on the disk and- the porcupines being electrocuted but the animals so weak it can't even cry out in pain.
"O.k. that's it!"
Kai is now running towards the guy with his fist up ready to beat this bastard down.
"Up, up, up, we wouldn't want me to use the panic button now would we?"
He's now stopped shocking the Porcupine and has his finger hanging over another button. This has naturally stopped Kai in his tracks.
"What does that button do?" Asks Toni.
"There's an emergency feature on my disk. In the event I ever lost control of the animals this button would shock them with well over 3000 volts of electricity. Now back in the days of the Electric Chair, Old Sparky would only need 2000 to kill a fully grown man so if I push this button consider my Circus a fried Exotic Meat Restaurant."
"Why are you doing this to us! Neither me, or Chase, or Toni, or even Kai have ever done anything to you!"
"It's nothing personal, but the people who gave me this Duel Disk want me to test your skills Mr. Rhodes, in a duel of course."
"I don't have my deck."
"Catch, you'll find it has all its cards in it."
My decks in a case, just got to pull this off and-
"Chase you came!"
Debris Dragon is all right.
"There's something weird about this case he put me in. I was actually trapped inside and couldn't get out!"
What the hell is going on here?
"Now then, here's the deal. If you can beat me then I will give you my Duel Disk as well as your friends decks, however if you lose I will light the decks on fire and kill all the animals."
"What about all that "Family Circus" crap?"
"I was promised a completely new batch of animals if I have to kill mine and I know for a fact that these people have deep pockets."
"I am not dueling if means that there's any possibility of these animals getting hurt!"
"Then I'll kill them anyways, either way I get my new animals."
"You're insane!"
"You're probably right Rhodes but either way you have till the count of 3 before I light this place up like a Christmas tree. 1... 2.-"
"So let me get this straight if I win they live and if I lose they all die?"
"Correct."
"Then it's time to Duel!"
Ring Master
"All right then, my circus, my rules, my turn."
"Just make it quick."
"They were right, you don't mess around. I summon The Ring Master (ATK: 0/DEF: 0) in attack mode!"
This thing looks like him, only not as old and it has a really long mustache.
"I end my turn."
Chase
All he did was summon that monster.
"Chase, be careful," says Kai, "We don't know what that thing can do."
Kai's right, I can't risk falling for a Card effect, there's only thing to do.
"I summon Elemental Hero Voltic (ATK: 1000/DEF: 1500) in attack mode, now Voltic attack, voltic thunder!"
As the lightning gets closer The Ring Master raises the whip in its right hand and whips it in the direction of Voltic. What the, Voltic stopped his attack and now he's, he's jumping over to the other side of the field!
"Surprised aren't you. I guess I should have mentioned, when you declare an attack against The Ring Master, I can discard a card to take control of your monster for the remainder of the duel."
"Not good," starts Toni, "Now any monster that attacks that thing becomes the Ring Master's."
"I set 1 card face down and end my turn."
Ring Master
"I draw. Now then, let us see if I can do this just as well as you. Elemental Hero Voltic attack him directly, voltic thunder!"
"Not good enough, I activate my trap, Scrap-Iron Scarecrow, now I can negate your attack and reset my Scarecrow for next turn."
"Clever but what are you going to do next time you lose a monster and I have 2 creatures to attack you with!"
"That isn't happening."
"If you say so, I set 1 card face down and end my turn."
Chase
"I summon Elemental Hero Burstinatrix (ATK: 1200/DEF: 800) in attack mode! I don't want to do this but I got no choice, Elemental Hero Burstinatrix, Flare Storm on Voltic!"
"And I am sorry for the long face your about to have. I play the trap card Attack Guidance Armor! Now I Equip this card to my Ring Master, now all your attacks are redirected towards my Ring Master and you know what that means, for the price of one card I gain control of your monster."
Damn it now he's got another one of my monsters. "I'm throwing down a face down and calling it a turn."
Ring Master
"Now let's see what you have waiting for me, Voltic attack!"
"Oh no you don't I discard my Kuriboh! Now all my damage from this attack is 0 (4000-4000)."
"And you're going to negate Burstinatrix's attack so I guess I'll just end it with that."
Chase
Great I can't attack, but I can still inflict damage.
"I summon Elemental Hero Lady Heat (ATK: 1300/DEF: 1000) in attack mode and end my turn. Oh yeah and during my end phases, Lady Heat hits you with 200 points of damage!" (4000-3800)
Ring Master
"Clever, your new plan is merely to just swarm your field with heroes until my points are at 0. Safe but it isn't going to save you for much longer. I play the spell card Terraforming. Now I can add a Field Spell to my hand. Now I'm going to activate it! I play the Field Spell Ring of the great Master!"
We look like we're back in the empty ring only it's brighter in here.
"What does this do."
"You'll see soon enough, but for now I'm going to end my turn."
Chase
"I have a bad feeling about this."
"You should, because now the effect of my Field Spell activates!"
"Hey my Lady Heat is attacking!"
"Correct, thanks to the effect of my Field Spell, all attack position monsters you control have to attack."
Great now he's got 3 of my monsters.
"I summon Quillbolt Hedgehog (ATK: 800/DEF: 800) in defense mode and that's it for me."
Ring Master
"Hah! That's all you've got? All these exciting heroes and you give me a rodent. I think I've seen the tiger try and catch bigger things."
"Make your move and I'll show you just how strong my rodent is!"
"If you insist, Elemental Hero Voltic destroy his Hedgehog!"
Damn it, he electrocuted my Hedgehog.
"Now Burstinatrix, attack him directly! (4000-2800)Now by ending my turn you take 200 points of damage for each of my hero's!" (2800-2200)
Chase
"Here goes something," this works, "I summon Elemental Hero Wildheart. (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1600) Now Wildheart attack Voltic, wild slash!"
"Did you forget about The Ring Master."
"Not at all, that's why I'm using a monster that isn't affected by traps like your Attack Guidance Armor."
"True, so I'm going to discard Ring Master's Assistant, now I can redirect your attack to The Ring Master!"
"Oh crap, now how am I supposed to defend myself?"
"Oh don't worry, due to the effect of Ring Master's Servant I can't conduct my next battle phase, so is there anything else you'd like to do?"
"I end."
Ring Master
"Now then, seeing as I'm now out of room for your monsters I can no longer use Ring Masters effect and with only 0 ATK points he'd be easy picking for even your weakest monsters; what to do? Oh, I know, I switch Ring Master to defense mode. Now I play the Equip Spell Mist Body."
"Now your monster can't be destroyed by battle."
"Oh so you know what it does? So then you know what Lady Heat does now that I'm ending my turn." (2200-1600)
Chase
"Now what will you do? I have 5 monsters, 4 of which are yours and even if you can stop me from attacking next turn it won't take long to lower your life points thanks to Lady Heat, so what will you do?"
"This, I summon Summoner Monk (ATK: 800/DEF: 1600)!"
The blue skinned, purple cloaked wearing Monk went onto the field, and as he finishes materializing I can see my monsters he's controlling smiling.
"What could this thing possibly do to help you?"
"Watch and learn. I activate Summoner Monk's special ability! I send the Legacy of a Hero in my hand to the graveyard so I can special summon My Debris Dragon (Level: 4/ATK: 1000/DEF: 2000)!"
"O.k., its revenge time for kidnapping us!"
"I don't know why that monster was talking but there's no way you can win with those 2 pathetic monsters."
"Then let's make it 3! Now because Debris Dragon is a Tuner Monster I can special summon a good friend, Quillbolt Hedgehog! (Level: 2/ATK: 800/DEF: 800)Next I activate the trap Level Returner! This allows me to reduce Summoner Monk from a level 4 to a level 2!"
"Wait a minute, you aren't going to-"
"You bet; I tune My Debris Dragon, Quillbolt Hedgehog, and Summoner Monk!"
Debris Dragon flew like a bullet into the air and as it spread its wings it dematerialized and turned into 4 large green rings. At that moment Summoner Monk and Quillbolt Hedgehog jumped into the air and dematerialized into 4 bright stars that fashioned themselves equally within the rings (4+2+2=8) and with a burst of light, "I synchro summon Stardust Dragon (ATK: 2500/DEF: 2000)!"
"Impossible, I, I, was told that you had a powerful deck, but how on earth do you have a Stardust Dragon! Only Yusei Fud-"
"Why don't you tell me what's going on here while Stardust is forced to attack your Ring Master."
"Very well then, a year ago we were dying. I had tried every idea I could think of until one day the idea just came to me that I could save money by not buying as much food or having enough trainers for the animals, and then, as if by the will of God, I was approached by a man who simply said that he was a representative of an origination known simply as Segas."
"What's Segas?"
"He didn't say, all he told me was that his organization had been watching me for a while and felt that he had the perfect product for me."
"And you didn't find that just a little bit strange?"
"You don't know what it's like to be a desperate man. I was shown pictures of you. You are just a boy who goes to a good school, has nice clothes and deck full of rare cards. You don't know what it's like to be in the most god forsaken parts of the country, afraid that you may not have a meal tonight where those stupid animals did or worse that the people who loan you money find you and make you the animals next meal. These people gave me a chance to gain back my business with no one finding out how and if they want me to hand them over 4 children then I'll do it."
"So there watching us?"
"Most likely," he says this as if it's the simplest thing in the world.

"Then I'm going to show them something good because I'm setting a card face down and ending my turn."
Ring Master
"I dra-"
"This is Sector Security; we have the building surrounded; Come out with your hands up!"
And we're off. This guy now looks frantic thanks to Cops we just heard from the outside.
"What the hell is going on here!"
"Take a look around and you'll notice something's missing."
He's frantically scanning the room now, while the 3 of us are smiling at him.
"Where's the red headed girl!"
"Simple really, as soon we went searching for our decks I told her that if worse comes to worse I'll use my Duel Disk for a distraction. I had feeling I was going to need to duel so I made sure I had everything set so I could control the situation."
"Control, I've been winning!"
"And because you've been winning you've been distracted which gave her the perfect chance to slip away, luckily Kai and Toni kept quiet so you wouldn't look over."
"That's it these animals are fried."
"Stop bull shitting me. The other reason you didn't notice the girl leave was because you've been staring at that screen on the top of your disk every chance you get. I'm guessing you've used it to fry animals so many times your afraid that if you put too much strain on it, one of those shocks might just get you instead of the animals."
"I'm not afraid of anything!"
"Yes you are, that's why you make threats. You're afraid of your performers so you probably have them thinking you'll kill them or something. Combine that with the fact that you torture the animals that pretty much makes you the definition of a coward."
"How's that?"
"You're too afraid to actually deal with a problem so you just make everyone involved with the problem afraid of you, but this ends here with the trap card Battle Mania!"
"What does that do?"
"Simple, now all your monsters, accept Wildheart for obvious reasons have to attack me."
"What! But, but, why?"
"Just watch, now Lady Heat attack Stardust Dragon, heat kick! (3800-2600) You're up next Burstinatrix, Flare Storm! (2600-1300) And last but not least, Voltic, voltic thunder!" (1300-0)
Winner: Chase Loser: Ring Master
"This is Sector Security, we're coming in!"
"You bastard! Fine then, if I have to go to the Facility then let there be fire!"
He raised his arm high in the air and as Security ran in he slammed his hand down on his disk, looking fully prepared to make something suffer, but, nothing. He did it again, and again, and again, before being grabbed by a Security officer.
"What the hell did you do Rhodes?"
"Me nothing; I've encountered a Duel Disk made by these "Segas" people once before. His stopped working the minute he lost, so I just assumed the same principles applied."
As they drag him out, I walk over to the Porcupine cage.
"Don't worry little guy, I'm not going to hurt you."
I try to stick my hand through the cage door only to find that to open the lock all I had to do was to push a button. Son of a bitch didn't even have a good quality lock.
"So Chase" starts Vanessa, "now what?"
"Well, looks like I've got someone else who's after me."
"Wait a minute," starts Toni, "You think this guy and that Charlie kid got there Duel Disk from the same people?"
"Only one way to find out."

…

"Chase why did the Porcupine follow you all the way here?"
"Beats me Vanessa, personally I think it's because we've both worn this hat so we share a sort of... brotherhood."
"For what, silly hats, it's a porcupine for crying out loud," says Kai.
"His name is Steve."
"Chase you can't keep it," says Vanessa.
"Why not."
"What possible reason could you have for keeping a Porcupine?"
"What possible reason could you have for never leaving me alone? Anyways, you said this is where you won the contest?"
"Yeah, this is the only Grocery Store where I can find Cocoa Puffs."
"They still make-"
Toni was just interrupted by a woman wearing a shirt that has the stores logo on it coming outside.
"Can I help you kids?"
She looks over at Vanessa.
"Hey I know you, your that girl who comes in and buys Cocoa Puffs."
"Guilty, listen I was wondering if you could tell me about the guy who had the contest set up outside your store yesterday."
"Contest?" She's looking at us with a confused look on her face. "What contest?"
"The contest, the one that a guy had outside your store yesterday," says Vanessa.
"Tall and skinny with thick glasses and black hair, the woman asks."
"Yeah, that's him."
"He was running a contest? I walked outside a little while after you left and found him packing something into a back pack. He had all my flowers under this table to my right, so I chased him away for about a block before I lost him."
"He didn't leave anything behind?"
"No I'm afraid not, why?"
"Oh nothing, he was just pulling a prank on me and my friends over here."
"Oh well, at least there was no harm done. Can I help you all with anything else?"
We all shake our heads.
"Well then, have a nice day, and nice Porcupine."
She walked back into her shop and I turned around to face the others.
"Chase, what have you gotten yourself into?"
"I don't know Vanessa, I really don't know."
Next Time: Kidnapped
I've got my Runner going as fast as it can go with Kai close behind. Damn it we've only got 2 minutes to-
"Chase look out, there's a truck!"