Author's note: Just a reminder, any cards highlighted in bold are not actual Yugioh cards.

Chapter 18: Kaiba Land part 3: Life Points over 9000!

Gohan was waiting in a locker room of sorts for Yugi and everyone to return. When they did, he was immediately surprised by the appearance of somebody new: a woman clad in Saiyan armor, who upon request, revealed herself to be Fasha, Yugi's mother, now having returned to her son. "And who are you? I feel you also have Saiyan blood in you." she continued.

"I'm Gohan, Yugi's friend. My father was Goku, a Saiyan, like you."

"I don't remember anyone naming their child Goku. I would like to meet him, maybe see how strong he is."

"Sorry, he has passed on."

"Didn't Vegeta call him by another name?" Yugi suddenly asked.

"Yes, I think it was Ka-… something."

"Kakarot?" Fasha interrupted.

"Yes."

"That was his Saiyan name. Interesting. So you are his son, and by extension, Bardock's grandson. Is it true you are strong?"

"Yes. I defeated-"

"I know of your exploits. Yugi took the liberty of telling me, and I have to say I am impressed. Your grandfather would have been very proud of you."

"Attention all Duelists. Please prepare your decks and move to your designated locations!" the announcer boomed.

The second round of the Tournament was beginning, and while Fasha, Yugi and his friends went to watch Joey duel, Gohan was also getting ready to duel. His opponent was Detective Paul McGregor, and they were set to face off in one of the KaibaLand theatres, the Music Hall. Soon, the Duel got underway, with Gohan making the first move by playing his Galick Gun and summoning Lesser Mystic Totem of Healing (0/2500). Paul then played Pot of Greed for two cards, placed one face-down, then activated Guardian Treasure, losing his entire hand, but drawing two cards and gaining the privilege to draw two cards instead of one as long as it remained in play. His face-down was then revealed: Disgraceful Charity, allowing him to gain back the cards he threw out. His next move was to summon a Plasma Eel (500/1200) in Defense mode, place three cards face-down then activate the Magic Card Scapegoat, giving him four extra monsters.

"What is he up to?" Gohan wondered. He began his turn, but his Life Points dropped to 1000.

"How?"

"I was clued in to your strategy," Paul announced. "I activated my Trap Card, Bad Reaction to Simochi! Now as long as it remains face-up on the field, every time you would gain Life Points, you lose that many instead. So since there were six monsters, you actually lost 500 points per monster!"

Gohan knew he was in trouble then, and he tried to think what he could do. After a while, during which the Music Hall somehow went haywire with the curtains closing and opening, accompanied by more malfunctions, he set a card and played Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy the enemy Trap, but was countered by Magic Jammer. His gambit was working well so far, so he summoned Mira the Eternal Magician (1800/1000) increased his own Magic Card to 900 points and forced Paul to reveal his face-down card, Trap Jammer. Knowing that the other face down was now no threat due to this phase not being a battle phase, he activated his set Dust Tornado to successfully destroy Bad Reaction to Simochi. The next move was the Magic Card called Gather the Lesser Totems. "If there is only one Lesser Mystic Totem on the field at the start of this turn, this card allows me to summon another one directly from my deck!" he explained, summoning his Lesser Mystic Totem of Offense (X/0) in Attack mode, giving it 4000 Attack points due to there being eight monsters in play and increasing the Galick Gun to 1400. The last two card in his hand was then played: Card of Sanctity, giving him six cards and Paul four.

The two Lesser Mystic Totems were then sacrificed to activate their effect, Special Summoning Greater Mystic Totem of the Vampire (?/0) which gained 1500 points from the monsters on Gohan's side of the field and 1250 from Paul's, giving it a total of 2150. The Magic Card Turn Jump was played, providing three Hunger Counters, and the Plasma Eel was subsequently destroyed, restoring 1200 Life Points to Gohan for a total of 2200 at the cost of all three counters. Paul began his turn by drawing two cards due to Guardian Treasure, then three cards were placed face-down.

Gohan's turn saw him place a card face-down, summon his Sangan (1000/600) and sacrifice it to summon Twin Sister of Darkness (1500/1500), getting the Twin Sister of Light (1500/1500) due to the ability of the first Sister, and one monster from Sangan, a Watapon (200/300) in Defense mode, special summoned by it's own effect. The Galick Gun was now given 2100 points for a total of 3500, and the Greater Mystic Totem of the Vampire had now gained 3750 points from Gohan's monsters and 1000 from Paul's, for a total of 4750. The Trap card Meteorain was activated from the former's side of the field, making the Defense mode of the Scapegoats irrelevant, and the Totem attacked. The next move from Paul was weird – the Trap Card Staunch Defender, forcing all of Gohan's monsters to attack one of the Scapegoats.

"What are you doing sir?" Gohan asked. "You'll lose all your life points-"

"I said I was clued in to your strategy!" Paul roared. "Reveal trap: Rainbow Life."

"Oh no!"

"Oh yes! Now, by discarding one card, the number of Life Points I would lose I would instead gain! Which means I gain 4750 from your Totem, 3000 from your sisters, 1800 from Mira and 200 from your Watapon, for a total of 9750, bringing my Life Points to 13750!"

Paul's turn saw a Sinister Serpent return from the Graveyard to the Hand, then he set a card and activated Pot of Benevolence, allowing him to take two cards from either player's Graveyard, and he chose two cards from his own, and shuffled them into his Deck. He then revealed the Trap Card Imperial Iron Wall: As long as this was on the field, no cards could be removed from play, meaning that the side effect of Pot of Benevolence was negated, instead of it being removed from play, it was sent to the Graveyard. He then activated the Field Spell Card Arcane Blossom, which in addition to filling the field with rainbows, allowed his Monster Card Zone to legally be used as a Magic/Trap card Zone provided all monsters there are Spellcasters or results of a Magic or Trap Card, meaning his Scapegoats don't stop the effect. He then set two cards, revealing one of them: Continuous Spell Card Replace Card, he can take a card of his choice out his Deck and add it to his hand as long as he showed it to the opponent and shuffled a card of the same type (Monster, Magic, Trap) from his hand back into his Deck. What's more, the effect could only be activated once per turn, unless you pay 500 Life Points, and that secondary effect cannot be activated more than once. He revealed Rainbow Life, and set it. He ended his turn with two cards in his hand.

Gohan drew, set a card, and chose to attack directly with Watapon, and rather predictably, Rainbow Life activated, bringing Paul up to 13950. The latter's turn saw him retrieve his Sinister Serpent from the Graveyard and activate another Pot of Benevolence, and Gohan could guess which cards he was bringing back: sure enough, when Replace Card activated its effect twice, bringing him down to 13450, he revealed Rainbow Life and Pot of Benevolence. One of the cards was then re-set, and Gohan assumed Rainbow Life. Then, Meteor of Destruction was played, followed by the Continuous Spell Card Amplify Damage, which activated when a Monster, Magic or Trap card is due to deal damage. The player would then sacrifice X000 Life Points, and the damage dealt would be multiplied by X. Should the damage be successfully dealt to the opponent's Life Points, the player would be refunded half of their own Life Points. Paul chose to pay 3000 Life Points, bringing him to 10950 to multiply the effect of the Meteor by 3, but it was countered by Gohan's set Mystical Refpanel, redirecting the attack to himself, bringing him down to 7950 Life Points. Paul also revealed at that point that there was another drawback to Replace Card: If the card brought from your Deck is set or summoned this turn, if it is a Monster, it cannot attack and all abilities are negated, and if it is a Magic or Trap card, it cannot be activated until after the end of the turn in which you set or summoned it, hence why he took the damage.

Gohan knew now what strategy Paul was using, he needed some way to get rid of the Rainbow Life Trap permanently, otherwise it would just keep coming back by the effects of the two Pots of Benevolence, Imperial Iron Wall and Replace Card. There was also an idea as to what another one of his face-downs was. He drew, and activated Pot of Greed, praying for the Heart of the Cards to guide him. The two cards he drew were just the ones he needed. First, he Set a card. Then, he activated the Magic Card Power of Desperation, which increased the level of a monster in his hand by two stars, but if monster is successfully summoned and attacks, activates its effects or is used as material for another effect activation, the player gets to draw as many cards as its level divided by two and rounded up provided the opponent's Life Points are higher. He sacrificed Watapon to set the monster face-down, then activated Eradicator Epidemic Virus, fulfilling the terms of the last card and letting him draw three cards.

"You still need to pay the cost of tributing a monster with 2500 or more Attack points, which you don't have!" Paul declared. "So you-"

"-Can activate it!" Gohan interrupted. "The monster for the Virus was my set Giant Kozaky, with 2500 Attack points, just the amount I needed, and its level was increased to 6, so I could draw three cards. I declare, Trap Cards! Now, for the next three turns, all Trap Cards that are on your side of the field and in your hand are automatically destroyed, including Rainbow Life, Imperial Iron Wall, Trap Jammer and from the looks of it, your face-down on the field."

Now the only thing left on Paul's field was Guardian Treasure, three Scapegoats, Amplify Damage and Replace Card.

"Now for the monkey-wrench," the young Saiyan continued. "I activate Hand Control. I must now guess the name of a card in your hand, and I can activate it. I am now clued in to your strategies, Detective McGregor: Since I know the cycle you use to bring back your trap depends on your Pot of Benevolence, I know you are holding it," whereupon he activated that very card and used it to bring back his Meteorain and his Card of Sanctity. "What's more, since there is no more Imperial Iron Wall to stop the side-effect, your card is removed from the game!"

The cards were then shuffled into Gohan's Deck, after which he played Graceful Charity, drawing three cards but discarding two from his hand. The Heart of the Cards was definitely with him that day, he had drawn his own Meteor of Destruction, Card of Demise and Emergency Provisions, along with the Sister's Unity, Dark Spirit Art-Greed, Dark Hole and Heavy Storm in his hand. He kept the first two cards that he drew. His Greater Mystic Totem of the Vampire had two Hunger Counters, 3000 points from his monsters, 750 points from his opponent's Scapegoats for a total of 3750. His Galick Gun had gotten 1250 points from the Giant Kozaky which was revealed as the source of the Eradicator Epidemic Virus, for a total of 4750.

Gohan played Meteor of Destruction, lowering Paul to 6950 Life Points. Mira the Eternal Magician attacked the first Scapegoat, destroying it. Then the Twin Sisters destroyed the last two Scapegoats. The totem, with 3000 points now, attacked Paul directly, bringing him down to 3950 Life Points.

"I will figure out something in the next turn. Mark my words boy!" he warned.

"There is no 'next turn'," Gohan stated.

"You have run out of attacks!"

"Let me just tell it to you like this. Galick Gun… fire!"

The Magic Card then sent a purple energy beam towards Paul, draining him of the last of his Life Points. That was when Paul realized his opponent had an attack stored up all along, the Galick Gun, which, unlike what he thought, was far from insignificant: it wasn't just something for show, it was actually gathering power all that time.

"And the winner after this epic battle…" blared the announcer, "…is Son Gohan!"

Gohan immediately went to look at the chart for his next match, and after a bit of waiting, it was revealed not to be Joey Wheeler, whom he had hoped to duel, but Zigfried Lloyd, the mysterious pink haired man who, in a 2-on-1 Duel, annihilated the two Duelists Rex Raptor and Weevil Underwood, who had earlier infiltrated by way of the costume of Fortune Salim, in literally one fell swoop. Things would definitely be getting interesting for him quite soon, the half Saiyan thought.

End note: Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but things have gotten much busier than before, and because of that, I'm not sure when the next update will be, but don't worry, I'll update as soon as I can.