"I tribute Photon Thrasher and Photon Crusher!" Both of Youth's monsters vanished in particles that combined into a black-purple star that was grabbed by Youth's right hand.
"His Ace monster is coming." Yuya says as Youth throws the black-purple star into the air.
"That dragon from earlier." Yuzu mutters as she knew that Galaxy-Eyes was going to be summoned.
"Embodiment of light, descend upon us!" Youth chanted as cosmic energy gathered on the spinning black-purple star once again. "Appear now, Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!"
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - (LIGHT/ Dragon/ ATK: 3000/ DEF: 2500/ Level 8/ Effect)
"It's here..." Dan says as he made his usual smile when dueling. "His ace monster."
""Now that I summoned my Ace monster, do the same as well." Youth demands to Dan to do the same.
"Come! Galaxy-Eyes!" Dan challenges with his duel smile.
Chapter 4 - A fierce clash between two duelists! Siegfried Apollodragon vs Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon.
"Dan is in a bad situation." Shuzo states as he sees Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon staring down a Dan.
"It's alright, Dan oniichan will find a way to defeat that dragon." Ayu says as she believes that Dan can defeat Youth's dragon.
"But Dan niichan's opponent's monster has 3000 ATK." Tatsuya comments the high ATK of Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. "It won't be easy to destroy it."
"I end my turn." Youth declared the End Phase.
Dan - LP: 4000 x5
Youth- LP: 4000 x2
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card.
"I summon Apollo Bladra!" Apollo Bladra appeared in front of Dan with a cute sound.
Apollo Bladra - (FIRE/ Winged Beast/ ATK: 800/ DEF: 800/ Level 3/ Effect)
"I want to pet that monster..." Yuzu and Ayu said as their eyes had heart designs on them.
"I will use it's effect to normal Summon once again." Dan declarates as Apollo Bladra's small wings grew began to shine like the sun itself.
"From my hand, I summon the Tuner monster Apollo Skull!" A skull that was shining like the sun appeared on the field with a sinister laugh.
Apollo Skull - (DARK/ Zombie/ Tuner/ ATK: 300/ DEF: 0/ Level 2/ Effect)
"That monster sounds mean..." Yuzu and Ayu disliked Apollo Skull's appearance.
"Tuner monster?" Futoshi asks in confusion. "What is that?"
"I have no idea." Yuya also didn't know what a tuner was. "This is the first time that Dan summons this monster to the field."
"Does this mean that he's a Synchro user?" Sora was definetely surprised by this revelation.
"Does this mean that Dan knows how to Synchro Summon!?" Shuzo asks in shock at this fact and turns to Yuya. "Yuya, did you know about this!?"
"No, this is the first time that I've known of this." Yuya didn't know what to say about Dan being able to Synchro Summon. "He never did it during our duels at home."
"I tune my Level 3 Apollo Skull with my Level 3 Apollo Bladra!" Dan declares as Apollo Skull became three red synchro rings that Apollo Bladra went through and turned into three light orbs that are in the middle of those synchro rings.
"The synchro rings' color is different from usual." Sora mutters as he noticed that the synchro rings are not the usual green colored ones.
"Mighty Defender of the sun entrusted with the name of God! Use your shining shield to blind my enemies!" Dan declares as a card popped out of his duel disk's Extra Deck compartment. "Synchro Summon! Appear, Level 6 - Apollo Gardna!" Dan chanted and from that light, a bulky golden armored warrior with yellow eyes holding a shield with the symbol of the sun, appeared on the field in attack mode.
Apollo Gardna - (LIGHT/ Warrior/ Synchro/ ATK: 1500/ DEF: 2600/ Level 6/ Effect)
(At LDS's control room)
"Sir! A powerfull Summoning Method has been detected!" An operator reported to Akaba Reiji.
'Again?' This was the third time in a row that a powerfull Summoning was performed in the short period of three days.
"Is it Pendulum again?" Reiji calmly asked to the operator if it was Sakaki Yuya who Pendulum Summoned in the middle of a duel.
"No, sir." Reiji's left eyebrow raised for a moment. "It's Synchro Summon!"
'Synchro?' Reiji thought as this was the first time that something like this happened. 'What kind of duelist could produce such a powerfull Synchro Summon that called so much attention?'
"Do you have a live feed on the duel?" Reiji calmly asked to the operator once again.
"Yes, sir." The operator responds to Reiji.
"Then transmit the feed to me right away." At that a live footage of a duel was shown, but what called Reiji's attention the most was the red-haired duelist who was there with a Synchro monster on his side of the field.
"Bashin Dan...' Reiji thought as he saw the other irregular that showed up not too long ago with Brave alongside Sakaki Yuya's Pendulum Summon very recently, but his eyes suddenly shifted to the unusual black-armored dragon that his opponent was using. 'But who is his opponent?'
"Sir!" Another worker called out to Reiji throught his private line, interrupting him from his thoughts about Dan's opponent, not that it mattered right now. "The experiment to create the Pendulum and Brave cards is about to start and you ordered us to inform you when we were ready to begin."
"I will be on my way." Reiji turned off the line, left his office and went on his way the experiment room. "The time to advance to a new era of dueling is about to come, for the sake of what it is about to come, we will need as many weapons as possible."
"Dan has Synchro Summoned?" Yuzu says in disbelieve that Dan performed a Synchro Summon.
"This the first time that I've seen a Synchro Summon." Tatsuya comments at his first sight of a Synchro Summon.
"But it's ATK is weaker than Youth's dragon." Futoshi comments. "Why would Dan niichan summon it in attack position?"
"Maybe he has a plan to deal with Youth's dragon." Ayu suggests to Futoshi that Dan might have a plan in mind to deal with Galaxy-Eyes.
"At this timing, I activate the effect of Apollo Skull in my graveyard." Dan declares as a ghost of Apollo Skull appears and enters inside of Apollo Gardna as a dark aura covers the Synchro monster. "When this card is sent to the graveyard, I can target one "Apollo" monster on my field and that monster cannot be destroyed in battle nor leave the field by the effects of Spell cards until my next Standby Phase."
'That still won't be enough to protect Apollo Gardna from his dragon.' Dan privately thought as he checked his hand. 'If I can't beat his dragon with my monster alone, then I will use a combo.' and saw two cards that could be used to weaken Galaxy-Eyes to the point of defeating it.
"I activate Apollo Gardna's effect!" Apollo Gardna's sun emblem on the shield began to shine and aims it in Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's direction. "Once per turn, I can halve the ATK and DEF of a monster you control and I will use this effect on your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon! Go, Lumious Shine!"
The concentrated ligh on the emblem was fired at Galaxy-Eyes, the dragon screamed until the light stopped shining and when the dragon tried to open it's eyes, it noticed that it was blinded by the intensity of the light that was shined upon him.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - ATK: 3000-1500 / DEF: 2500-1250
"Galaxy-Eyes ATK has been halved thanks to that hot-blooded effect!" Shuzo was excited that Galaxy-Eyes attack was reduced by half. "Now Dan can destroy it with Apollo Gardna!"
"And since Apollo Skull's effect is protecting Apollo Gardna, the only monster that will be destroyed is Youth's Galaxy-Eyes." Yuzu confidently says as it is for sure that Youth's Ace monster will be destroyed."
"Unfortunantely I am afraid that's impossible." Sora denied Shuzo's claim as they looked at him for the answer, "Have you already forgotten Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's effect?" and asked them if they already had forgotten had that dragon was capable off.
"That's right." Yuya said as he finally recalled what happened earlier during Youth and Hokuto's duel. "That monster can banish itself with the monster that it battles."
"On top of that it will be almost impossible to beat that dragon in a direct battle." Sora adds and points his lollipop at Youth. "Because if Dan where to use a effect to raise his monster's ATK, that guy would just made his monster escape from the field through it's effect."
"Then, isn't there any for Dan to defeat it?" Yuzu asks with a bit of concern. "There surely must be a way to do it."
"The only way for Dan to defeat Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon is by using a card effect to make it leave the field outside of the Battle Phase." Sora says the one and only way to get rid of Galaxy-Eyes. "Otherwise, it will be impossible to get rid of that mean looking dragon."
"I activate the Field Spell, Olympium Supression!" Dan declares as a ghostly looking colosseum was now above him and Youth.
'That card...' Youth remembered what this field was capable off because he saw it's effects when Dan dueled against Gen yesterday.
"Yes!" Yuya raises his left arm in celebration at the sight of Olympium Supression, knowing it's effects from first hand experience. "That's the way to go, Dan!"
"Why are you so happy, Yuya?" Shuzo asks Yuya for the reason why Yuya got excited when Dan used that Field Spell. "Is the Field Spell that Dan just activated that good?"
"It's more than good." Yuya smiles as he begins to explain Olympium Supression's effect to the others. "As long as that card is on the field, if a player doesn't banish 2 cards from their hand at the start of their Battle Phase, their non-Braved monsters cannot attack."
"That field gives me shivers!" Futoshi says his catchphrase that makes Dan's body tremble like jelly for a moment.
'Futoshi said shivers again, didn't he?' Dan guessed right away that was the case.
"Not to mention that Dan niichan has Braves in his Deck, so when he draws one that can help him to deal with Galaxy-Eyes, not only he will Brave it to his monster, but that monster also won't be affected by Olympium Supression's effect." Tatsuya informs everyone of Dan's plan to stall Youth until he gets a Brave.
'Is it really that simple?' Sora could almost see the pattern of how the duel might turn out at this point. 'When I saw Dan dueling Sawatari, I've noticed that he doesn't do any moves that are just as simple to read, so what are you really up to?'
"Are you trying to stall me until you draw a card that can help you get rid of my Galaxy-Eyes?" Youth reads Olympium Supression's effect and asks.
"Who knows." Dan answers Youth's question with his usual smile and picked a card from his hand.
"I will set one card face-down and turn end." Dan declared his End Phase after setting one card face-down on the field.
Dan - LP: 4000 x2
Youth - LP: 4000 x2
"My turn. Draw!" Youth draws his card.
"I activate the Spell, Pot of Desires!" The card revealed a jar that had two faces on each side, one of them was a green smiling face and the other a purple face that has it's tongue exposed, "By banishing 10 cards from the top of my Deck face-down, I can draw 2 cards from my Deck."
Youth took ten cards out of the top of his Deck, placed them on the disk's banish slot and drew two cards.
"I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Photon Stream of Destruction!" An image of Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon doing it's Photon Stream of Destruction attack was shown on Youth's Quick-Play Spell. "I can only activate this card if I control a "Galaxy-Eyes" monster on the field and this card allows me to target 1 card on the field and Banish it and you cannot activate cards or effects to respond to this activation if you control a monster that was summoned from your Extra Deck."
Galaxy-Eyes gathered energy in it's body to unleash it's signature move.
"Is he going to banish Dan niichan's Apollo Gardna?" Futoshi asks as he believes that Youth would banish Dan's Synchro monster.
"Apollo Gardna can't leave the field because of Apollo's Skull effect." Sora sights at such question. "Did you even paid any attention to Dan's first turn?"
"You don't have to be so mean." Futoshi fumed at Sora's mocking question.
"So this means that Field Spell's protection will be gone." Yuzu sadly states as it was obvious that Youth was going to banish Olympium Supression.
"As for the target of my Spell, I will choose that face-down card of yours." Youth aims at Dan's only face-down card on the field.
"What!?" Everyone except for Sora and Dan were shocked by Youth's choice since they expected for him to banish the Field Spell that would be a nuisance to him.
Galaxy-Eyes struggled to see the face-down as he fired his Photon Stream of Destruction attack. The attack managed to hit the target that turned out to be a Breakthrough Skill trap card.
"He got me good." Dan muttered as his Trap was disarmed.
"Battle!" Youth declares the Battle Phase as the chains from Olympium Supression began to fall upon his blinded dragon. "At the start of my Battle Phase, I will banish 2 cards from my hand to allow my monsters to declare attack."
Youth placed his two cards that were Photon Spear and Photon World in his banished zone slot so that the card's would go there as the chains disappeared.
"I attack your Apollo Gardna with my Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!" Youth declarates the attack as Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon charged at Apollo Gardna who braced himself for the impact. "I will use activate it's effect to banish both of our monsters!"
Galaxy-Eyes claws grabbed Apollo Gardna by it's shield and turned into blue particles alongside him, making them both leave the field.
"But why did Youth banish 2 cards from his hand instead of waiting for Dan to attack?" Yuzu asks why Youth banished two cards from Olympium Supression's effect instead of waiting for Dan to attack first. "It would have been better to wait rather than losing 2 cards from his own hand."
"That's because he wanted to return Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's ATK to it's normal value before Dan summoned another monster and activated Apollo Gardna's effect to weaken his monster even further than he already is." Sora explains to Yuzu why Youth did that even though it costed him his hand.
"Not to mention that Olympium Supression's effect will also affect Dan and since he doesn't have a Braved monster yet, he will not be able to attack unless he banishes 2 cards from his hand as well at the start of his Battle Phase." Yuya adds as he sees the trouble that his friend has gotten himself into because of his own Field Spell.
"It's too bad that he choose to remove Dan's Breakthrough Skill." Shuzo said with a lot of pity for Dan. "Otherwise that dragon of his would be gone by now."
"At the end of the Battle Phase, both of our monsters are Special Summoned back to the field." Youth ended the Battle Phase as both monsters that were banished returned to the field in the same battle positions, but it seemed that Galaxy-Eyes was no longer blinded as it's eyes showed rage torwards Apollo Gardna for the latter's actions a turn ago.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - (LIGHT/ Dragon/ ATK: 3000/ DEF: 2500/ Level 8/ Effect)
Apollo Gardna - (LIGHT/ Warrior/ Synchro/ ATK: 1500/ DEF: 2600/ Level 6/ Effect)
"Then, I will equip my Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon with the Equip Spell, Galaxy Barrier." The card revealed the image of Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon being protected by a blue barrier from a few thunderbolts. "As long as this card is on the field, my monster cannot be affected by other card effects."
"Protection against Apollo Gardna's effect." Dan mutters to himself as a blue barrier appeared around Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. "So my Breakthrough Skill wouldn't have worked on his monster."
"With this, I end my turn." Youth ended his turn.
Dan - LP: 4000 x2
Youth - LP: 4000 x0
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card.
"I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Sagita Fire to destroy Olympium's Supression!" A rain of fire arrows fell upon the ghostly colosseum and destroyed it.
"I summon Phoenix-Cannon." A mechanical red phoenix that had two small cannons in it's wings appeared in the sky.
Phoenix-Cannon - (FIRE/ Astral Machine/ Red Brave/ ATK: 1000/ DEF: 1000/ Quality 4/ Brave Boost - 300 ATK/ Effect)
"It's a Brave." Youth comments at the sight of yesterday's Brave that Dan had used to defeat Gen.
"I will activate it's effect to destroy Galaxy Barrier." Dan declares as Phoenix-Cannon aimed and fired a couple of red energy bullets that shateered the blue barrier that was around Galaxy-Eyes.
"Now, I activate Apollo Gardna's effect once again!" Dan declarates as Apollo Gardna's sun emblem on the shield shined as it was aimed at Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. "I will use this effect on your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon once again, Lumious Shine!"
Galaxy-Eyes was blinded once again by the intense light.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - ATK: 3000-1500 / DEF: 2500-1250
"Battle!" Dan declared the Battle Phase. "I attack your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon with Apollo Gardna!"
Apollo Gardna went straight to Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to bash him with it's shield.
"I won't allow that! I activate Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's effect to banish both of our monsters that are involved in this battle!" Youth declared as Galaxy-Eyes grabbed Apollo Gardna's shield with it's claws once again before they vanished in blue particles.
"Now that your dragon is no longer on the field, you're wide open for a direct attack." Dan declares as Phoenix-Cannon aimed his cannons at Youth, "I attack you directly with Phoenix-Cannon!" and fired at him, pushing Youth to the floor.
Youth - LP: 4000-3000 x0
"At the end of the Battle Phase both of our monsters are returned ot the field." Dan states as Apollo Gardna and Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon returned to the field once again in full glory as Youth recovered from Phoenix-Cannon and got up.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - (LIGHT/ Dragon/ ATK: 3000/ DEF: 2500/ Level 8/ Effect)
Apollo Gardna - (LIGHT/ Warrior/ Synchro/ ATK: 1500/ DEF: 2600/ Level 6/ Effect)
"I activate Apollo Gardna's effect to half your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's ATK and DEF once again!" Dan declares as Apollo Gardna began to blind Youth's Galaxy-Eyes with his shield's light once again. "Lumious Shine!"
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - ATK: 3000-1500 / DEF: 2500-1250
"I will set one card face-down and end my turn." Dan concluded his turn after setting a card face-down on the field.
Dan - LP: 4000 x0
Youth - LP: 3000 x0
"My turn. Draw!" Youth draws his card.
"I activate the Spell, Photon Sublimation!" A card with the image of two unknown monsters covered in light that are falling into a wormhole as two cards are coming out of it. "By banishing 2 "Photon" monsters from my graveyard, I can draw 2 cards from my Deck." Youth banished Photon Thrasher and Photon Crusher from his graveyard and drew two cards.
"Battle!" Youth declares the Battle Phase. "I attack your Phoenix-Cannon with my Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon! Photom Stream of Destruction!" Galaxy-Eyes charged and fired his signature attack which caught and destroyed Phoenix-Cannon in the blast.
Dan - LP: 4000-3500 x0
"With this, I end my turn." Youth ended his turn.
Dan - LP: 3500 x0
Youth - LP: 3000 x2
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card.
"I activate the effect of Apollo Gardna!" Dan once again uses Apollo Gardna's effect to weaken Galaxy-Eyes." Lumious Shine!"
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - ATK: 1500-750 / DEF: 1250-625
"Galaxy-Eyes's ATK went dow by a lot." Ayu comments as she sees Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's low ATK and DEF.
"But Dan will not be able to do anything to destroy it because if he attacks that monster, the same will happen again." Yuzu states as they all knew what has been going on through the entire duel.
"It is only a matter of time until one of them gets the edge over the other." Sora states while he finished his lollipop. "This is starting to get boring."
"I will set one card facedown and I end my turn." Dan ends his turn after setting a card face-down on the field.
"That's all he is going to do?" Futoshi says in disbelieve. "All they're doing is playing tag with each other."
"There isn't much that he can do in a situation like this." Yuya adds. "The same also applies to Youth."
Dan - LP: 3500 x0
Youth - LP: 3000 x2
"To be honest with you, I am a bit disapointed." Youth states as he looks at Dan, "I expected for this to be a battle between or Ace monsters." and says as he was slowly losing his patience at the lack of advance from both parts.
"You lack the patience for long duels." Dan states as he saw that Youth was getting impatient with the current situation.
"What?" Youth asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You are used to corner your opponents with your Galaxy-Eyes to quickly end the duel, so you can't fight against someone that can stall your dragon." Dan said as he was aware that Youth relied to much on Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to do everything for him. "And that overreliance in that dragon is your weakness."
"In that case, I will break the silence in this turn." Youth states as he looks the card he drew, Dimension Wanderer.
'With this, the duel is as good as over.' Youth though before picking another card from his hand.
"I summon Photon Circle!" A monster who looked like a sorcerer in red robes appeared on the field.
Photon Circler - (LIGHT/ Spellcaster/ ATK: 1000/ DEF: 1000/ Level 4/ Effect)
"It's time for me to end this duel. Battle!" Youth declares the Battle Phase. "I attack your Apollo Gardna with Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon! Photon Stream of Destruction!"
Galaxy-Eyes attacked Apollo Gardna with it's signature move.
"I activate Galaxy-Eyes effect to banish both battling monsters!" Galaxy-Eyes and Apollo Gardna left the field once again.
"Now Dan is opened for direct attacks." Yuya states as he saw Dan wide opened for an attack.
"From my hand I activate Dimension Wanderer's effect." Youth reveals the card that he used to defeat Hokuto.
Dimension Wanderer - (LIGHT/ Spellcaster/ ATK: 0/ DEF:0/ Level 1/ Effect)
"That is the same card that he used to defeat that guy from LDS earlier." Sora reminds everyone how Youth had defeated Hokuto with tthat card. "This might be it for Dan."
"This is bad." Shuzo points out how bad Dan's situation is right now. "Dan's LP are 3500, and the monsters that have the highest ATK that are banished are Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Photon Thrasher, if he takes that damage effect he will lose."
"As you should already be aware of, if a monster that I control is banished by a card effect, by discarting this card, the combined ATK of two banished monsters are dealt to you as damage." Youth explains as ghostly versions of Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon and Photon Thrahser appeared above Dan. "With this, you will take 5100 damage. I win."
"This duel is far from over." Dan countered as he reached out for his duel disk's screen.
"I activate the Counter Trap, Half Buster!" The card revealed the image of Ojama Yellow, Ojama Green and Ojama Black trapped in a Ring of Destruction that is about to explode while a Siegfried Apollodragon that is Braved with Phoenix-Cannon is in a safe distance from them.
"This card not only negates that damage effect, but it also make us both take half of the damage effect that I would have got." Dan explains the efect of Half Buster as he braces himself for the coming explosion.
"What!?" The explosion that came from Half Buster's effect caught both Dan and Youth inside of it as smoke covered the dueling field.
Dan - LP: 3500-900 x0
Youth - LP: 3000-450 x1
"Dan!" Everyone called out for Dan's name since the smoke was still clouding them from seeing what is going on inside the dueling field.
When the smoke went out, it was revealed that Dan and Youth were on the floor side by side.
"Dan, Youth, are you two alright!?" Yuzu asked them from the viewers room as her words was transmited throught the speakers inside of the dueling arena.
Yuzu was meet with silence until Dan and Youth started to laught for her and everyone's surprise.
"Why are they laughting?" Tatsuya asks in confusion at what he was seeing and hearing.
"I think that those two are enjoying this duel, despite how evely matched they are." Yuya was surprised at their attitude after getting involved in a situation like that just now.
"This is getting more interesting." Sora mutters as he looks forward to see what will come next. "Show me more, senpai."
"I almost thought that I was a goner when you used Dimensional Wanderer's effect." Dan was still laughting at the close call that he had just now.
"I wasn't expecting for you to counter Dimensional Wanderer's effect with a Counter Trap like that." Youth couldn't believe that one of his finishing moves didn't work out for the first time. "This has been the first time that someone managed to escape from this finishing combo of mine."
"There is always a first time for everything." Dan states as he and Youth got up from the ground and returned to their previous positions on the field. "There is no such thing as the perfect play in Duel Monsters."
"I guess that's true." Youth agreed with Dan's statement about the fact that no play was completely perfect since there was always a way to overcome it. "The duel is still on and I still have to declare one more attack." Youth points at his Photon Circler.
"I attack you directly with Photon Circler!" Youth declares as Photon Circler creates one magical circle and throws it at Dan. "With this the duel is over!"
"Is it over for Dan niichan?" Futoshi asks as the magical circle hit's Dan, creating a small explosion that covered Dan's surroundings in smoke.
"This time it's over..." Youth said that it was over until he noticed that Dan's LP counter hasn't gone down to 0. "...what is going on?"
"I am not out of this duel yet." Dan walked out of the smoke as his LP were still 900.
"Why didn't you...?" Youth noticed that there was a trap card activated by Dan's side, "Don't tell me that..." and figured out what happened right away.
"During the Damage Calculation, I just activated the Trap, Defense Draw to turn the damage from that attack to 0 and this card's other effect allows me to draw 1 card." Dan finishes explaining to Youth how he managed to survive Photon Circler's attack just now as he drew a card.
"I will end my turn, and with that both of our monsters are returned to the field." Youth declared the End Phase.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - (LIGHT/ Dragon/ ATK: 3000/ DEF:2500/ Level 8/ Effect)
Apollo Gardna - (LIGHT/ Warrior/ Synchro/ ATK: 1500/ DEF: 2600/ Level 6/ Effect)
Dan - LP: 900 x0
Youth - LP: 450 x1
"My turn. Draw!" Dan draws his card and sees his partner.
"I will activate Apollo Gardna's effect for the last time." Dan declares as Apollo Gardna blinded Galaxy-Eyes for the last time.
Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon - ATK: 3000-1500 / DEF: 2500-1250
"You wanted to see my Ace monster, right?" Dan smirked as he picks the card that he just drew.
"Sun! Give form to the mighty dragon that will guide me to victory with it's brave wings." Dan chanted as Apollo Gardna vanished in flames. "I will tribute summon Siegfried Apollodragon by using Apollo Gardna as the tribute cost to the Tribute Summon!" The field was surrounded by flames the Red Dragon emerged from them and made it's appearance on the field flying above Dan and roared at Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon as he also did the same.
Siegfried Apollodragon - (LIGHT/ Astral Dragon/ ATK: 2300 / DEF: 1800 / Level 6/ Effect)
'This is bad, if he attacks Photon Circler, I'm done for.' Youth knew that he couldn't do anything now.
"Battle! I will Target attack your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon with Siegfried Apollodragon!" Dan declares the Battle Phase and orders siegfried Apollodragon to attack Youth's Galaxy-Eyes.
"WHAT!?" It was everyone's reaction asides from Dan.
"What is he doing!?" Shuzo freaked out by Dan's decision to attack Youth's dragon instead of his Photon Circler.
"Even I am confused by this..." Sora didn't understand why Dan did something like that.
"Are you mad?" Youth couldn't understand why Dan did that.
"What's wrong?" Dan asked Youth what was wrong. "Earlier you challenged me to summon my Ace monster right?"
"But what are you trying to acomplish after you had already won?" Youth couldn't understand why Dan didn't attack his Photon Circler.
"It's because it would have been boring if I had just settled with a guaranteed victory." Dan said with his usual smile.
'That smile again.' Youth couldn't understand why Dan was smiling like that.
"The attack has already been declared, so what will you do?" Dan challenges Youth to a battle between their Ace monsters.
"If you insist, I activate Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's effect to banish both of our monsters!" Siegfried Apollodragon crashed against Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, who just started to surround them in blue energy in order to banish them both.
"In response to the activation of Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's effect, I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Brave Cyclone !" Dan placed a card in his duel disk that revealed the image of Geo-Beowulf trapping Elemental HERO Shining Flare Wingman inside a gust of wind. "When you activate a monster''s effect during the Battle Phase, I can banish a Brave from my graveyard in order to negate that monster's effects!"
"What!?" Youth was shocked that his dragon's effect was shutted of by a card like that.
"And since your Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's effect is not a Quick Effect, you won't be able to answer this card's activation!" Dan revealed as he banished Phoenix-Cannon card from his graveyard as the Brave itself appeared on the field and flyed around both monsters as it produced a gust of wind that broke up Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon's blue energy as they were still surrounded by the gust of wind.
"Go, settle it with Solar Flare!" Siegfried Apollodragon freed itself from Galaxy-Eyes claws and fired his signature attack at the dragon's head, obliterating it alongside the gust of wind as the explosing sent Youth to the floor.
Youth - LP: 450-0 x1 - Lose
Dan - LP: 900 x0 - Win
"That was a good duel." Dan went to Youth who was still on the ground and extends a handshake to help him out of the floor. "You're really strong."
"Same here." Youth accepts Dan's handshake. "It has been a long time since I've had such an intense duel against someone."
"I know that I am being rude to ask, but would you like to apply in You Show Duel School?" Dan invites Youth to enter You Show Duel School. "I would like to duel you more regularly."
"Sure." Youth accepted Dan's invitation to apply to You Show. "I also want to duel against you more often since you are the only one who gave me a real challenge ever since I came to Maiami City."
"YOUTH!" Shuzo appeared in front of Youth with the registration papers and a pen. "Here are the registration papers! Sign here, here and here!"
"Do you really do that with every single appliant?" Youth sighed at Shuzo's overreaction and started to write in the papers.
"Well we have another student here now." Yuya grins at the thought of having another friend to help him spread smiles through dueling.
"Not exactly." Youth answers Yuya.
"Did you change your mind about enrolling!?" Shuzo freaks out at Youth's blunt answer.
"No, it's that this pen is out of ink." Youth reveals as he tries to write on the blank paper, but nothing is writen at all. "See?"
"Yuzu, get another pen and quick!" Yuzu went for another pen right away.
"Sigh." Dan sighed at the daily issues that this school's headmaster has.
Dan, Yuya and Sora where walking back to Yuya's house after spending the rest of the day doing regular activities at You Show to train their coordenation with their monsters throught the Real Solid Vision's Action field as Youth seemed to have enjoyed the experience as it became a part of his training.
"He was really strong." Dan comments how strong Youth really was during their duel. "I am looking forward to duel him tomorrow."
"Yeah. I lost to him twice even after I Pendulum Summoned." Yuya said as he suddenly stopped walking. "Hey, Dan?"
"What is it, Yuya?" Dan stopped as well because he wanted to know what Yuya wanted from him.
"Why didn't you told us that you were capable of Synchro Summon before?" Yuya wanted to know why Dan never told them that he could perform a Synchro Summon.
"That is because you never asked and I didn't had any chances of doing that during our duels at home." Dan answered.
"Why didn't you just attacked Youth's Photon Circler earlier?" Yuya asks with a lot of curiosity to why Dan didn't made the obvious move to win. "You would have guaranteed your victory."
"Yuya." Dan gave his serious look, making Yuya back away a few steps. "Duels are not only about winning, they are meant to be enjoyed, no matter what happens."
"I guess that is true." Yuya agrees as he sometimes forgets that duels are always meant to be enjoyed since most at the time what really counts is victory.
"Are there any other Summoning methods that you can perform and didn't told us about?" Yuya sarcasticly asks, expecting for Dan to say no.
"Actually, I can also Fusion Summon and Xyz Summon." Dan took out two cards from his deck and revealed one Fusion and Xyz monsters to Yuya.
"What!?" Yuya was shocked by this and Sora didn't said a single word when he saw the monster cards that were being hold by Dan.
"What is wrong, Sora." Dan asked Sora who seemed to be in deep thought.
"I knew that you guys are really interesting." Sora says that and goes a bit ahead of Yuya and Dan. "Last one to arrive is a rotten egg!"
'The Standard Dimension is really filled with a lot of interesting people. I will enjoy this mission as much as I can and hope that this dimension doesn't become enemies with Academia.' Sora thought to himself as he alongside Yuya and Dan made a run to Sakaki's residence.
(At LDS's Main Building)
"Another failure." A frown had appeared on Akaba Reiji's face when the image of the shadowed monster on the field had exploded alongside the card that was now in flames.
"I-I don't understand, the calcultions were perfect..." The leading scientist behind the experiment to develop a Brave card couldn't understand how they've failed to create a mere card.
"This makes the seventh time that we already failed to create a Brave card." Reiji states as he cleans away the ashes that used to be the Brave Card prototypes from his red duel blade. "But at least the prototypes of the Pendulum cards have been successfully created, so at least we managed to acomplish something here."
Reiji took a good look at the Pendulum cards that he managed to create for himself.
'Why didn't work?' The data about Braves that was collected from the duel energy produced by Dan's Brave was already more than enough for Reiji to create a Brave with the use of Leo Corporation's card development system, so Reiji couldn't undrstand why he couldn't create a Brave card. 'What am I missing?'
"We will re-start the experiment at another time." With that Reiji left for his office and when he arrived, he saw Nakajima and some employee and took a seat.
"Is there something wrong, sir?" Nakajima asked when he saw his superior's face.
"I have been trying to create the prototype of a Brave with the power and data produced on the duels that Bashin Dan was involved in so far." Reiji explains that he has been trying to create Braves with the data that he gathered so far. "But each time that I seem to be successful, the Brave just explodes and the data goes along with it."
"But why can't you succeed sir?" Nakajima was confused by the fact that with Leo Corporation's resources, making any card would be a child's play. "With Leo Corporation's power should be a easy task, right?"
"That is where the real problem lies." Reiji sights as he shows Nakajima the results of his atemps to create a Brave. "The data that I currently have on Braves should have been already more than enough to produce one single card, but there must be something that I am missing and I am sure that the data that I need to make a Brave card lies within Bashin Dan's duel disk and his physical Brave cards."
Dan's duel disk model was completely different from the ones that were used in this world, so Reiji had imediately figured out that Dan wasn't from this world at all after he properly saw the videos of his duels against Sawatari Shingo and Sakaki Yuya.
"Then why don't we assault Sakaki's house and steal them directly from Bashin Dan alongside his duel disk when they are at home?" Reiji's gaze was fully focused on the employee who made that suggestion.
"Would you mind to repeat what you've just suggested?" Reji's tone indicated that he was not amused in the slightest by what he heard just now.
"He made a mistake, please forgive him, sir." Nakajima pleaded for Reiji to forgive the employee's reckless question.
"I will let it of this once, you two can leave me alone now." Reiji orders for them to leave his office as he returned to his thoughts.
"Are you out of your mind!?" Nakajima scolded the employee for what he suggested earlier.
"What did I say wrong?" The employee still didn't understand that he was saved of being fired by Reiji.
"Do you even know what you just suggested to the president?" Nakajima knew that his superior admires Sakaki Yusho a lot to the point of trusting him with the truth about what is really going on behind the scenes.
"One of the reasons why no one ever tried to go to Sakaki Yuya's house to steal his Pendulum cards from him is because the president himself gave a clear warning to several organizations that if someone ever tried to desecrate Sakaki Yusho's house, he would use all the power of the Leo Corporation to crush the responsible for that."
The employee who suggested that earlier gulped because if Nakajima hadn't interfeered, he would have recieved Reiji's full wrath. "That was a close one..."
"You can say that again." Nakajima sighed at his colleage's close call.
Apollo Skull - (DARK/ Zombie/ Tuner/ ATK: 300/ DEF: 0/ Level 2/ Effect)
If this card is sent to the GY; Target 1 "Apollo" monster in it's card name on the field, it cannot be destroyed in battle or leave the field by spell card effects until your next Standby Phase."
Apollo Gardna - (LIGHT/ Warrior/ Synchro/ ATK: 1500/ DEF: 2600/ Level 6/ Effect)
1 Tuner + 1 or more "Apollo" non-tuner monsters
Once per turn, you can halve the ATK and DEF of a monster on the field. If 1 or more card(s) on the field were to be destroyed by a card's effect while this card is in your GY; Banish this card instead.
Galaxy Barrier - Equip Spell
Equip this card to a "Galaxy" monster you control, that card becomes unaffected by other card effects.
Half Buster - Counter Trap
When a card effect that would deal you damage effect is activated; Negate that effect and both players takes half of that damage. If you control a Braved monster, your opponent takes the damage that would have been dealt to you instead.
Brave Cyclone - Quick-Play Spell
During the Battle Phase, when your opponent activates a monster's effect on the field, you can banish 1 Brave in your GY; Negate that monster's effects.
AN: I nerfed Photon Stream of Destruction's effect so plot purposes. (This AN won't be deleted unlike most of those that might come in the future.)
neostardutdragon101: Glad that you've liked it.