Me: Well, I got this chapter up. And I'll probably run away from all of you at the end of the chapter. I do not own Yugioh Zexal or Zexal II, or I would have probably killed Vector already. Just out of spite.
Chapter 18: Chaotic Tournament (I mean it literally)
"This is so weird!" Yuma said. "How is this exciting? We're just dueling on a mat! There's no AR or anything!"
"Yuma, they obviously don't have things like this here, so could you please be quiet?" Kotori asked. The five of them sat at a table in the food court, eating during the break of the tournament.
"It's pathetic." Shark said, taking a bite out of his hamburger. "They don't have technology advanced enough like we do."
Sarah hit the back of his head, and he choked slightly before glaring at her. "What was that for?!"
"Payback." She said, sipping her soda.
"But still, good job for making it all the way to the semi-finals, Yuma-kun!" Shingetsu said, sitting next to her. "That Numbers is as good as yours!"
"Yeah!" Yuma nodded. "You hear that Sarah? I'm not losing to you!"
Sarah looked at him and blinked. "Oh, okay."
"Oh come on! That's all the reaction I get?!"
"What did you expect?"
"Something more pumped up!" Yuma complained. "You made it too, and I'm not going to lose, so that means you are! Aren't you going to say something like, 'oh I'm not going to lose either'? Come on!"
"I don't really see the point. It's just a duel." Sarah said.
"Well, either way, I'm still not losing!"
"Okay."
Yuma frowned, ripping open a booster pack and looked at the five cards. "Hey, I think these are good cards!"
"No they're not. They're all commons." Sarah sighed. Yuma sighed, disappointed. Sarah pulled out five cards from her backpack and handed them to him. "Here, I pulled some that are okay from my booster, although I don't need them. You can take it."
"Seriously?! Yes!" Yuma yelled, taking the cards and putting them into his deck. "Thanks!"
"Sure." Sarah shrugged. "I don't need them, and I doubt just five cards'll make much of a difference."
"But still, good job for both of you getting this far!" Shingetsu said. "If you think positively, you'll both win!"
"Shingetsu, they can't both win. That just wouldn't work." Kotori said.
"Aww, but that would be so nice!" He said, before glancing at Sarah who had a neutral expression. He smiled, then continued eating his fries.
-linebreak (sometime later)-
"And then Hope attacks your dragon!" Yuma said. His opponent punched into his calculator some numbers, the sighed disappointedly.
"You win." He said, gathering up his cards. He was 17, with brown hair and a slightly overweight figure. Yuma cheered, putting his cards back into his deck case. "Not many people your age come here to play. You're good."
"Thanks!" Yuma said. "Okay then! I'm gonna win and get that Numbers!"
"Yeah, you do that…" Sarah said blankly.
Yuma checked the board of matches. According to it, since he just won, the final match would be… "Sarah, you're good?!"
"That is an insult, you know." She said. "What, the WDC champion scared?"
"No. I can't wait!" Yuma said. He looked around. The other participants who had lost were watching them.
"They're both kids…" He heard one mutter. "How the hell'd this happen?" He frowned, and took a step forwards before Shark put a hand in front of him.
"Don't." Shark said. "Show them instead. Idiots who don't know the first thing about it."
"Okay then, the final match of the tournament is going to be between Yuma Tsukumo and Sarah Walker." The store manager said, looking at the board. Yuma held up his hand. "Yes?"
"Hey, can we try dueling differently for this?" He asked. The manager raised an eyebrow.
"How?"
"With these!" Yuma took out his duel disk, and a white one that Sarah had once made for a convention.
"Fake duel disk?"
"No! Real ones that work!" Yuma said. "These work, so why not!"
"Um, if they work I don't see why not…"
"Yes!" He cheered, throwing the white one at Sarah. "Okay then! We're dueling with these!"
Sarah stared at him. "Oh you've got to be kidding me."
So as he tried to explain how it would work, nobody noticed a ball of light zip amongst them, flying into Yuma's deck case and glowing with golden light.
-linebreak-
And so, everyone gathered on the roof of the mall as the two of them looked at each other, holding the duel disks.
"Yuma, I've told you. This is a fake. A cosplay. It isn't going to work." Sarah said. "Stuff like that doesn't work here."
"Oh come on, it's worked up until now! Let's try!" Yuma said. Sarah fiddled with it, sighing. She didn't seem surprised when it activated and attached itself to her arm. They didn't have the D-Gazers, so they were using regular holograms so everyone could see.
"Yuma." He jumped as Astral appeared next to him.
"A-Astral! Are you alright?"
Astral nodded. "For now. I don't know what's been hurting my body, but it's likely to be the Barian energy around. We need to focus on this duel. It could be tough. Sarah seems strange."
"She does?" Yuma looked at Sarah, who was drawing her hand and looking at it blankly.
"Well? Aren't you going to duel?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah!" Yuma yelled. "Duel disk, set!" His red duel disk activated, springing onto his arm. "Let's go!"
"DUEL!" They yelled.
Sarah: 8000
Yuma: 8000
"I'm first. Draw." Sarah said, drawing her card without feeling. "I set one monster facedown, and set two cards facedown. I end my turn."
"That's it?" Yuma asked. "That's too simple! It's my turn! Draw!"
"Yuma. There's obviously something wrong here. Three cards without any activating." Astral said. "We need to proceed with caution at the beginning."
"Kay then! I summon Gagaga Magician!" Yuma yelled. The magician dressed in black clothing, with chains floating around him appeared from a magic circle on the ground, glaring across the field. "Since I have a level four monster, I special summon Kagetokage from my hand!"
From Yuma's shadow extended out a lizard with glowing red eyes. "I overlay my level four Gagaga Magician and my level four Kagetokage! Xyz summon!"
A familiar white and gold structure rose onto his field, unveiling his ace monster as the golden 39 flashed through the air. "Number 39, Aspiring Emperor Hope!"
Sarah merely blinked. "Okay. Then?"
"Then?" Yuma cocked his head, then nodded. "Oh, then! Then Hope attacks your facedown monster!"
The warrior drew his twin swords, and leapt forth, slashing at the card which flipped faceup. A small jar, with one large eye and a creepy, toothy smile peaked out from inside of it, which was promptly destroyed.
"Morphing Jar. When it's flipped faceup, we discard our hands and draw 5 new cards." Sarah said. "Although I activate my trap, Macro Cosmos."
"Huh?" Now Yuma was confused, as stars flew out of the trap card and around the field. "What does that do?"
"Any card that would go to the graveyard is now removed from play." Sarah said. "And we have to discard our entire hands now, so say good bye to everything in your hand because it's getting banished."
"What?!" Yuma stared at the cards in his hand as they turned into stars and disappeared into the sky.
"We draw 5." Sarah said, redrawing her hand. "Morphing Jar's gone, banished from play. Are you done?"
"O-Oh, I set one card facedown and end my turn." Yuma said.
"Okay. I draw." Sarah said. She frowned. "I activate Toon World!"
Yuma: 8000
Sarah: 7000
On her field appeared a huge green book, opening. From the book popped up a spooky, cartoon castle. Giggling and laughter was heard from the castle, as cartoon ghosts was seen in the windows occasionally. Yuma stared. A… cartoon castle?
"And I activate Scapegoat." She said, with four small goats of multi-colors multiplying onto her field, all of 0 attack and defense. "I sacrifice one of my tokens to summon Toon Dark Magician Girl."
One of the tokens disappeared, and from the castle appeared a cartoon version of the famous Dark Magician Girl. Huh? The little girl winked at him, and Yuma blinked in confusion. He was fighting… cartoons?
"I equip her with Twin Swords of Flashing Light – Tryce." She said, and two large swords appeared in the hands of her cartoon, being around the same height she was. The girl struggled with the two heavy swords, trying to figure out how to use them. "By discarding, or technically banishing due to Macro Cosmos, she loses 500 attack points, but can now attack twice per battle phase."
"Um, but she didn't have enough attack points to beat Hope to begin with." Yuma said. "This is just lowering it. What's the point?"
"This is the point." Sarah said, her voice still blank. It was starting to creep him out a little, with how expressionless it was. "My cartoons can skip past your field and direct attack you."
"Wait, what?!" The little girl struggled to pick up her wand along with the two swords, managing to carry them all as she ran, ducking underneath Hope's legs and dropping them on the other side. She picked up one of the swords and swung it at Yuma, who yelped as it hit him.
Yuma: 6500
Sarah: 7000
"Tryce's effect. She can attack again." She said. "Direct attack."
"Yuma! The trap!" Astral yelled. Yuma blinked. Oh yeah…
"Trap activate! Memory Loss!" He said. "When your monster activates its effect, I negate it and switch it to defense mode! And since attacking directly is its effect, it's switched!"
The Toon put down her swords and wands, sitting down on the ground in relief after seeing the trap open. Sarah barely reacted. "I end my turn."
"It's my turn! Draw!" Yuma said. "Okay, we need to get rid of that cartoon."
"Yes. Her monsters attack directly, causing faster damage than usual." Astral said. Yuma nodded.
"I summon Ganbara Knight in attack mode!" He yelled, as the shield-welding knight appeared. A sign next to it revealed 0 attack points.
"Y-Yuma! What are you doing?!" Kotori yelled.
"No, Yuma's got a plan this time." Shark said, making her stop yelling to look at him. "He's not the idiot he used to be. He's changed, if even slightly."
"I activate Cross Attack!" Yuma said. "With this card, in exchange for Ganbara Knight not attacking this turn, Hope can direct attack! You're jumping past my field, now I'll jump past yours! Go, Hope!"
The Numbers jumped into the air, flying above the cartoon castle and slashing at Sarah with its blades. She winced, but quickly regained her posture.
Yuma: 6500
Sarah: 4500
"I set one card facedown and end my turn." He said.
"Draw." Sarah said. "I activate Soul Absorption." The spell appeared on her field. "Toon Dark Magician Girl, direct attack twice."
"Impenetrable Attack!" Yuma countered, his trap flipping open. "I take no battle damage this turn."
"I don't care."
Yuma blinked. Huh? The toon ran up to him, trying to hit him twice with the swords. They hit him, but barely hurt, and once she was done she ran back to her side of the field. His life points were unchanged.
"Because of Macro Cosmos, Impenetrable Attack is now banished instead of going to the graveyard. Now Soul Absorption's effect activates." She said. "I gain 500 life points for every card that's currently removed from play. There are 6 for me, and 4 for you, adding up to 10. I regain 5000 lifepoints."
"6-6000 lifepoints?!" Yuma yelled.
"That many lifepoints recovered at once?!" Astral stared.
The card shot out lightning, striking her but not hurting her in the slightest.
Yuma: 6500
Sarah: 9500
"I end my turn." She said.
Yuma frowned. "Okay, this is getting annoying… Life points being recovered that much…."
"That's the effect of the continuous spell, meaning she will recover that many life points every time a card is banished, which in this case, will be every time anything is activated." Astral said.
"So I can't activate any cards without her gaining that ridiculous amount of life points?! Come on!" Yuma yelled. "Ugh! Now what!"
"An almost perfect combo. Banishing all of the cards that are used, and then regaining life points from it." Astral said. "But there's a way around it."
"Yeah… if I could just get the card for it…" Yuma said. "Draw!"
He looked at the card, then at Astral. "Strategy?"
"Strategy."
"Hope! Attack Toon Dark Magician Girl!" Yuma yelled.
"Even if she's destroyed I'll just gain lifepoints." Sarah said.
"I activate the spell Hand to Hand Combat!" He countered. "With this card, all spell and trap card effects are negated this battle phase! Meaning she's going to your graveyard!"
Sarah blinked as her monster was destroyed, smashed apart by Hope's sword. She frowned. "Why'd you do that…"
"Now I activate the continuous spell, Spell Lockdown! I choose one card on the field, and that card's effects are negated as long as this card is here. I choose Soul Absorption! I end my turn with one card facedown!" Yuma said.
Sarah stared blankly at her field, now with no monsters on it. "You destroyed her. You destroyed my Toon, and sent her to the graveyard…"
"Um, yeah. We're dueling, things like this will happen."
"Why? That's still my monster…" Sarah frowned. "And now she's in the graveyard…. How dare you…"
She drew her card, and suddenly a dark aura appeared around her. Yuma instantly stepped back. "A-Astral, you see that right?"
"Yeah. You know what this means." Astral frowned.
"I activate Pot of Benevolence." Sarah said. "Pot of Benevolence sends Toon Dark Magician Girl and Tryce back to my deck. Benevolence is removed from play, but it would have been anyways. Now I activate Token Easter. I destroy all my tokens, and draw 1 for each. There's three. I draw three."
She drew the three cards, and looked at them. "I can special summon Toon Mermaid with no tributes."
This time, a huge clam with huge eyes popped out of the large story book. It opened its mouth, revealing a green-haired, cartoon mermaid with a blue tail and a red archery bow. "I activate Inferno Reckless Summon. This lets me summon the two other Toon Mermaids in my deck."
The mermaid split off into three, so that now there were three clams with mermaids in them on her field, all giggling.
"Now I summon Toon Gemini Elf." Sarah said, two elf appearing on her field. "I overlay two of my level four Toon Mermaids."
The two cartoons flew into a portal, which burst apart. From it rose up a small gold and white warrior, very cartoonized. Yuma and Astral stared at it, along with Kotori and Shark. "I Xyz summon Number 39, Aspiring Toon Hope." The toon gave off a battle cry, a higher and more childish version of its originals cry.
"Aspiring… Toon… Hope…" Astral said.
"Hope's been, toonafied?" Yuma blinked.
"I'm not done. I overlay my level four Toon Mermaid and my level four Toon Gemini Elf." She said, the next two cartoons flying into the swirling portal. This time, a shadowy, dark demonic warrior rose up. It held a huge staff in one hand, and had a cold look in its eyes. "Number 95, Ruler of Toon World."
Yuma stared at it. "Astral…"
"Yeah. I see it too." Astral replied, his eyes narrowing. "This is the Numbers which we fought against before getting sent here."
"And right now Sarah has it." Yuma frowned. "This isn't good. This isn't good at all."
"EHEHEHAHEHAAHEHAHEHAAA!" He jumped slightly when he heard the creepy laughter. Behind Sarah appeared a person in a purple cloak, looking at them with a creepy glare. "Been a while, right Tsukumo Yuma? Astral?"
"W-Who are you—"
"Don't say you've forgotten!" Yuma stepped back at the yelling. Oh man, what was going on?
"Yuma-kun! Be careful!" Shingetsu yelled from behind him. "That's the most evil Barian who we've been chasing for many years, Vector!"
Vector laughed that loud and creepy laugh of his again. "That's right! And right now, I'll be getting rid of our most annoying pest, Tsukumo Yuma and Astral!"
"Technically that would be pests, not pest." Sarah said in her blank tone. They all looked at her. "Yuma and Astral are two people. Then it would be the plural pests, not just one pest. Unless you are implying the Zexal, where they are one person. But that could also be considered two people combined into one."
She was… bugging an evil Barian about grammar? Yuma blinked. Figures Sarah would do that…
Vector growled. "Who cares?! I'll use this girl and defeat you, and then all of your Numbers will be mine!"
Yuma frowned. "Like I'll let that happen!" He yelled.
"This isn't going to be easy…" Astral said, glaring at Vector. Yuma joined him.
"Yeah."
This wasn't going to be easy in the slightest.
Spell Lockdown
Continuous Spell Card
Target one face-up spell card on the field. As long as this card is faceup on the field, the targeted card's effects cannot activate.
Token Easter
Normal Spell Card
Destroy all tokens on the field. Draw 1 card for each token destroyed by this effect.
Number 39: Aspiring Toon Hope
Xyz Monster / LIGHT / Warrior / Toon
ATK: 2500 / DEF: 2000
2 Level 4 Monsters
This card cannot attack the turn it is Summoned. If "Toon World" on the field is destroyed, destroy this card. While you control "Toon World" and your opponent controls no Toon Monsters, this card can attack your opponent directly. When any player's monster declares an attack: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; negate the attack. When this card is targeted for an attack, while it has no Xyz Materials: Destroy this card.
Number 95: Ruler of Toon World
Xyz Monster / DARK / Warrior / Toon
ATK: 3000 / DEF: 1000
2 Level 4 Monsters
This card cannot attack the turn it is Summoned. If "Toon World" on the field is destroyed, destroy this card. While you control "Toon World" and your opponent controls no Toon Monsters, this card can attack your opponent directly. Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz material from this card. Target one card on the field, and remove it from play. The controller of that card takes 300 points of damage. Then draw 1 card. This card cannot attack the turn you activate this effect.
Me: . . . Should I run away now?
Astral: If you want to.
Me: Well okay then. Review. Don't kill me. That would be appreciated. I'll be running away now. BYE!