Chapter 5: Attack the Moon! Charge of the Old Toys!

"Alright now, everyone. Lunch break is over and it's time for the next three Duels in the Friendship Cup! In case anyone hasn't heard, we have six Duels a day, three before lunch and three after. The first round is determined throughout the first day with the last two matches carrying over into the second day. We then hold the quarterfinals throughout the remainder of the second day, with the semifinals on the morning of the third day. After lunch on the third day, we will then hold the finals, and after that, the Duel between the overall champion and the King, Jack Atlas!" Melissa explained, giving a recap of the tournament's event schedule. "Now, with that out of the way, time for our fourth match! Our contenders will be, Yugo!" The tall blonde appeared in his white jumpsuit, "Versus, Selena!" The purple-haired girl who, for some reason, was still wearing Yuzu's school uniform, appeared next to him. Both holograms stood fifty feet tall.

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"Aww, come on! Why don't I get to Duel?" Sawatari demanded.

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"I wish I was that tall in real life," Yugo grinned as he rode onto the course on his own D-Wheel. "Bit of a shame that Security guy lost already. I'd have loved to beat him again," the blonde grinned, zooming towards the starting line.

"The young, cocky hotshot Yugo seems confident," Melissa observed. "And now, here comes his competition, Selena!"

The other girl silently drove her motorbike to it's starting position, and took a cursory glance at Yugo, before snorting and turning away. Yugo, though, was struck by something. "Rin?" he blinked in surprise, before leaping off his motorbike and rushing to hug the girl. "Rin!" he squealed in excitement - only to be thrown away by Selena, who took his action as some kind of assault on her person, and responded accordingly. "What do you think you are doing?" Yugo, despite being thrown against the ground, was undaunted and leapt up for another hug, crying "Rin!"

Within seconds, the process repeated itself. "Shut up!" Melissa awkwardly looked - "Rin!" SLAP! "Get away from me!" - at Tsukikage for support. "Should we do something about that?" - "Rin!" SLAP! "Quiet!" - she awkwardly wondered.

"I believe that -" The ninja was cut off - "Rin!" SLAP! "Quit it, you creep!" - "Yugo appears to have mistaken Selena for someone close to him. I think it shall resolve itself in due course," - "Rin!" SLAP!

"Enough!" Selena barked. "Do you intend to mock me with your pitiful cries?" she harshly demanded. "I don't know who this 'Rin' person is, but I assure you that I am not her! I am Selena, and I refuse to have my dignity scorned by your incessant babble!" she barked. Yugo blinked. "Okay, okay, I get it. But before we start," He paused, making a plaintive hand gesture. "You're sure you're not Rin?"

"I will slap you right back to the slums you crawled out of!" Selena hissed. "Okay, okay, sheesh," Yugo nodded, getting back on his bike.

"What did I tell you?" Tsukikage nodded. "When you're right, you're right," Meliisa agreed. "Riding Duel," she declared, and the cry echoed through the stands. "Acceleration!"

"I shall take the -" Selena declared, but her opponent cut her off. "Sorry, too slow!" Yugo called over his shoulder as he shot past her. "The first turn's mine! he grinned, before consulting his hand. "Damnit!" he cursed. "Nothing useful! Ugh, I set a monster and a face-down and end my turn," he sighed as the two face-down cards appeared around him.

"Very well. My turn, I draw!" Selena declared, consulting her hand. She raised an interested eyebrow. "I suppose I was going to try this sooner or later no matter what," she shrugged, before selecting two cards from her hand and holding them up. "Using the Scale 1 Lunalight Wolf, and the Scale 5 Lunalight Tiger, I set the Pendulum Scale!" she shouted as twin pillars of light rose into the sky behind her. One carried a purple dancer with a wolf tail and ears in a golden mask,the other a cartoonish anthropomorphic tiger wearing a bodysuit. Now, I Pendulum Summon!" she declared as a portal that shone like the moon with silver light appeared between the two. "Yuya always uses some kind of chant or something," she remembered. "Ah . . Swing, pendulum, beneath the full moon's gaze! Create a stage upon my field! Appear, Lunalight Purple Butterfly, and Lunalight Pearl Swan!"

"What's this? Pendulum Summon? Isn't this that thing the Yuya kid did when he was Duelling against Jack Atlas?" Melissa frowned. "Tsukikage. Can you shed any light on this mysterious technique?"

The ninja sighed but obliged. "Pendulum Summon is a technique in which the user uses two Pendulum Monster cards from their hand to set the Pendulum Scale. From there, the user can Summon any number of monsters from their hand as long as those monsters' levels lie between the Scales. Selena has set the Scales at one and five, therefore she can summon the Level 4 Purple Butterfly and the Level 3 Pearl Swan. She could also summon a level 2, but she must not have any at present," he explained. "Oh, okay. How impressive!" Melissa smiled.

Two more gymnasts appeared, one with purple hair and large, multicoloured butterfly wings, the other tall with white hair that resembled bird plumage, feathery, angelic wings on her back and a golden bodysuit. Both monsters had a golden eyepiece covering one of their eyes with a red Jewel in the centre. Purple Butterfly only had 1000 ATK, and Pearl Swan wasn't much better, with merely 1200. "I activate Lunalight Wolf's Pendulum ability! Once per turn, I can use monsters I control on the field as Material for a Fusion Summon, but if I do so, the Fusion Materials are banished!"

Lunalight Wolf raised her hand, before bringing it down in a sweeping motion, and a Fusion vortex appeared on the field, which the two dancers happily entered. "Become one, graceful insect and pure songbird! Fusion Summon!" Selena chanted as a silhouette began to take form. "Descend from the stars, moonlit serenade, and now become the great white musician! Arise, Lunalight Swan Singer!"

The Fusion monster closely resembled Pearl Swan, but had no eyepiece. Instead she wore a wide-brimmed purple fedora, with her bodysuit replaced by a gold-and-purple dress of feathers. In one hand she wielded a silver rod that had a microphone mounted on top. She smiled and blew a kiss at the audience, preening her wings as she was revealed to have 2600 ATK.

"Lunalight Swan Singer, attack Yugo's face-down monster!" The dancer wielded her rod and walked forwards, smashing it down onto the face-down card. A golden dice was revealed for a second before shattering into nothingness. "Swan Singer can attack twice during each Battle Phase!" Selena shouted. "Do it again!"

"I won't let you!" Yugo shouted. "I activate Speedroid Menko's effect in my hand! When you attack me directly, I can Special Summon it to the field in Attack Mode, and change all your monsters to Defence!" he declared. A rocket-powered domino shot from his hand, whizzing around in circles like a boomerang and smashing into Swan Singer, forcing her to duck down and take cover, before returning to Yugo's field. It only had 100 ATK. "I set a card and end my turn," Selena said, before pausing. "What is that thing supposed to be?" She demanded.

"A domino," Yugo evenly replied. "Why do you have a domino monster?" Selena asked as Yugo drew his card. "The same reason I have this! I summon Speedroid Double Yoyo from my hand!" A pair of twin yoyos with razors on them appeared next to the domino with 1400 ATK. "When Double Yoyo is summoned, I can special summon a Speedroid from my Graveyard! Revive, Speedroid, Red-Eyed Dice!" The golden dice with red eyes covering it in various patterns and six red dots orbiting it that Swan Singer had destroyed as a facedown returned to the field. "I now activate Red-Eyed Dice's effect! I can target one Speedroid I control and change it's level to anything between 1 and 6! I make Double Yoyo a Level 5!" The 100 ATK dice monster transferred five of it's red dots to Double Yoyo, whose level promptly changed from 4 to 5.

"Now I'm going to switch Menko into defence position!" The domino started frantically spinning with it's rockets again, whirling like a dervish as it revealed 2000 DEF. "And now that I have Menko to protect my Life Points, I tune Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice to my Speedroid Double Yoyo!" The Synchro Summon procedure happened, with Red-Eyed becoming a red ring around Double Yoyo, and Yugo cheered, "Possessed sword in the shape of a cross, take your power and slice through your enemies! Appear, Hi-Speedroid Maken Dharma!" A metal orb, crackling with electricity appeared, followed by a navy blue sword that cut through the air. A pod with a head was attached to the hilt of the sword as the orb split in half, before attaching to the hilt on either side of the head. Maken Dharma growled as he appeared with 2200 ATK.

"A glorified kitchen knife. How impressive," Selena snorted.

"Er, a kendama monster?" Melissa frowned. "It's not a kendama! It's Maken Dharma! As in, religious magic sword!" Yugo raged at her. "But it looks just like a kendama," Melissa pointed out, her blood-red irises gleaming in the light reflected off Maken Dharma's blade.

"Whatever," Yugo fumed. "I play Hi-Speed Re-Level! By banishing Speedroid Double Yoyo from my graveyard and targeting Maken Dharma, his level changes to four, and then he gains ATK equal to that monster's level times 500!" he shouted. Maken Dharma crackled with electricity and roared as his ATK rocketed up to 4200.

"What?" Selena gasped. "Battle Phase! Maken Dharma, attack Swan Singer!" The toy monster charged the dancer and destroyed it with a single blow. Selena's D-Wheel swerved as she dodged the shockwave from the blow, causing her Life Points to drop to 2400. "I activate my Trap! Lunalight Reincarnation Dance! When a Lunalight monster is destroyed by battle, I can add two other Lunalights from my Deck to my Hand!" Selena cried. "I add Lunalight Black Sheep and Lunalight Crimson Fox!" she shouted, taking the two cards from her Deck and adding them to her hand "I end my turn, and now Hi-Speed Re-Level wears off!" Yugo declared as Maken Dharma's ATK returned to 2200 and his Level to 6.

"Fine!" Selena spat, shooting forwards. "My turn! Draw!" In a single movement, she pulled both a card from her Deck and an Action Card from midair. "I Pendulum Summon! Swing, pendulum, beneath the full moon's gaze! Build a stage upon my field! Come forth, Lunalight Crimson Fox!"

Another gymnast appeared, clad in orange with fox ears and a long, bushy tail. Crimson Fox haughtily glared at her opposition with a solid 1800 ATK. "I activate Lunalight Black Sheep's effect in my hand!" A dark gymnast with horns on her shoulders and white fluffy fur sticking out of her outfit appeared, descending into the Graveyard portal. "By discarding her, I add one Polymerization from my Deck to my hand!" Selena held up the Fusion Spell. "Next, I activate Lunalight Tiger's Pendulum ability! I can Special Summon Lunalight Swan Singer from my Graveyard! Her effects are negated, she cannot attack and she will be destroyed during the End Phase!"

The monster reappeared. The stylish singer seemed to be in the middle of a tantrum about her hat, which had been cut in half, presumably by Hi-Speedroid Maken Dharma's blade. She angrily clutched the two halves of her hat and glared at Yugo's Synchro monster, who almost looked ashamed at making a lady cry.

"I play Polymerization, and fuse Lunalight Swan Singer with Lunalight Crimson Fox! Musical maestra with the grace of a bird! Young night huntress with a brilliant smile! Fusion Summon! Swirl in the vortex of the moon's gravity and become one with a new power! Come forth, Lunalight Cat Dancer!" Selena's ace monster appeared, it's great cyan cloak billowing behind it and mismatched masquerade mask gleaming with its 2400 ATK. "Nothing to Tribute for its effect," Selena hissed in displeasure. "Lunalight Cat Dancer! Attack that kendama! And when Cat Dancer declares an atrack, ou take 100 points of damage!"

"It's Maken Dharma!" Yugo raged as his Life Points dropped to 3900. "Potato potato," Selena snorted. "More like potato not gonna happen! I activate my Action Card, Avoid! Your attack is negated!"

"Whoa, when did Yugo get an Action Card?" Melissa frowned.

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Yugo dashed forwards on his bike the second the light turned green. As he zoomed towards the first curve that would claim him the first turn, he spotted a card floating in mid-air. Thinking quickly, he snatched it out of mid-air as he passed and took a second to scan the text. "Could be useful," he shrugged.

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"Wrong! I activate my own Action Card, Reverse Polarity! Your Action Card is negated and you take 500 points of damage!" Selena shouted, activating her own Spell. Yugo's D-Wheel shuddered with electricity as his Life Points became 3400. The attack went through and Maken Dharma was destroyed with 200 damage spilling over. "I end my turn," the ex-Obelisk Force Duelist snorted.

Yugo cursed. "My turn! Draw!" He pulled a card from his Deck and groaned. "I set a card face-down and end my turn," he sighed, looking at the last card left in his hand.

"I draw!" Selena grinned. "I activate Lunalight Wolf's Pendulum Ability! I can perform a Fusion Summon using monsters I control or in the Graveyard as Fusion Materials! I fuse Cat Dancer with Swan Singer, and they are both banished!"

"What? In the Grave?" Yugo was shocked. "Appear, Lunalight Panther Dancer!" Selena called, and her monster appeared. It was Cat Dancer, but with a makeover, new shoulder armour and a new black mask that covered her entire face. Not to mention its ATK was now 2800. "I now Normal Summon my old friend, Lunalight Crimson Fox!" The orange monster reappeared and winked. "I activate Purple Butterfly's effect in my hand! By sending her from my hand to my Graveyard, Crimson Fox gains 1000 ATK until the end of my turn! A purple aura surrounded the foxy monster, and she howled upwards at the sky as her ATK reached 2600. "Battle! Crimson Fox! Destroy Speedroid Menko!" Selena commanded, and her powered-up monster happily obliged, removing the domino from Yugo's field. "Panther Dancer! Direct attack!"

Yugo swerved to dodge the feline monster, and his Life Points dropped to merely 600. "I'll end my turn here!" Selena decided.

"My turn!" Yugo agreed. "Looks like this is it! I'm gonna bet everything on this next draw!" he decided. "Draw!" The blonde looked at his card and grinned. "Perfect! I activate my Spell, Shock Surprise! I can banish two Speedroids from my Graveyard and destroy two cards on the field! By banishing Speedroid Double Yoyo and Speedroid Menko, I destroy Panther Dancer and my own facedown Trap card!" he declared and the two cards vanished from the field. Selena fumed.

"Eh? Why would Yugo destroy his own card?" Melissa questioned with a frown. "Because while I control no cards, I can Special Summon Hi-Speedroid Maken Dharma from my Graveyard!" Yugo responded, and his Synchro monster rose from the Graveyard portal and returned to the field. "Now, while I control a WIND-Atteibute monster like Maken Dharma I can Special summon Speedroid Taketomborg from my hand!" A little bug-eyed transforming robot appeared, taking up a martial arts stance. "Taketomborg's effect! By tributing him, I can summon a Speedroid Tuner from my Deck!" The monster vanished, and a familiar sight appeared in it's place. "Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice!" Yugo cheered. "I activate Red-Eyed Dice's effect! I change Maken Dharma's Level to 3! Now, I tune my Level 1 Red-Eyed Dice to my Level 3 Maken Dharma! Appear, Hi-Speedroid Puzzle!" Yugo declared, and the screens showed 1 + 3 = 4.

An action figure-like monster appeared on the field, navy blue with a good ring around it's waist. Puzzle raised it's fists with 1300 ATK. "What the heck? Yugo got rid of a 2200 ATK monster for one with only 1300?" Melissa frowned.

"I'm not done! I activate my Continuous Trap, Speedroid Racetrack's effect in my Graveyard! Stupid announcer lady," Yugo fumed to himself as a ribbon of orange track appeared in front of Puzzle, that wend straight around Crimson Fox and led straight to Selena. "By banishing it from my Graveyard, one Speedroid monster with less than 2000 ATK can attack you directly!" the boy grinned. "Battle! Puzzle, end this!"

Selena snorted. "What do you mean, end this? That monster has 1300 ATK, I still have 2400 Life Points remaining,"

Yugo grinned as he made his final play, revealing it the second he was sure that Selena had missed the timing of any cards she could have activated. "When damage calculation is conducted involving Hi-Speedroid Puzzle, his ATK is doubled," he smiled. His monster rushed down the orange toy track and past Crimson Fox, who watched him go in surprise. Selena was stunned, her eyes widening in shock as the now 2600-ATK Synchro monster dealt her the final blow, and her Duel Disk beeped as her Life Points hit zero.

"What an incredible come-from-behind victory! Who would have thought that a little monster like Puzzle could pack such a punch!" Melissa cheered, before looking at Tsukikage. "You're supposed to say something too, you know?" she frowned. "Selena played well. It was a shame that she lost," he offered, and his co-host groaned. "Brilliant," she sighed.

The two Duelists pulled up at the finish line. "Good duel," Selena offered her opponent, still smarting at her loss. "Oi, loser! Over here!" a burly bodyguard snapped his fingers at her. She shot him a death glare and turned back to Yugo. "Thanks, you too," he agreed. "Now, before you leave, there's one thing I have to ask you," Yugo solemnly told her as the two put all their cards back in their Decks. "Yeah? What is it?" Selena asked with grudging respect for her opponent.

Yugo squinted at her, looking closely. "Are you one hundred percent certain that you aren't Rin?"

The look Selena gave him could have bored a hole straight through the side of the stadium.

"So, that's a no, right?" Yugo asked, and she nodded in irritation. "I suppose your hair is a different colour," he realised. "Don't dye your hair or anything, okay? But good luck, whoever you are!" he shot her a winning smile.

"My name is Selena!" the purple-haired girl raged at him as the two bodyguards began to haul her bodily away. "Alright, alright, I'm coming. Where do the losers go anyway?"

"Well, wasn't that an exciting Duel?" Melissa grinned, before pausing as a bright light appeared on the track. "Wait, what's that?"

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Flare groaned as she rematerialised. "Urgh, I see why that portal was experimental," she groaned, realising that she was lying on the ground on some sort of tarmac. "Wait, am I on a road? Oh crap oh crap oh crap, I don't wanna get run over!" she panicked, picking herself up and frantically dashing towards the nearby grass. Once she had reached what she presumed to be safety, the girl looked around and realised that she was in some kind of racetrack stadium. Looking up, she spotted a helicopter with a orange-haired girl precariously leaning out and trying to get a good look at her.

"Who is this strange intruder?" Melissa frowned in confusion, looking down at the flaming-haired girl in her crimson cloak.

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Declan, who was watching the Duels and waiting in the Executive Council's conference room, looked up with interest at the intruder's arrival. He looked at the leader of the Executive Council. "This is an interesting development," he observed. "I would like to meet with this newcomer. Can you arrange it?" he requested.

"Certainly," the elderly man responded.

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So, Flare's in Synchro. Just have to say, I am so sorry that I kind of botched the last scene with Declan and the Council, but . . . I actually don't know what the individual names of any of the Council members are. If anyone knows even one of them, could you please tell me in a review?

Anyway, three original cards this time;

Lunalight Pearl Swan

Level 3/LIGHT/Winged-Beast/ATK:1200/DEF:800/Effect

Once per turn; You can make this card gain 300 ATK. If this card is sent to the Graveyard as a Fusion Material for a Fusion Summon; The Fusion Monster that used this card as Fusion Material gains 500 ATK and DEF.

Lunalight Swan Singer

Level 7/LIGHT/Winged-Beast/ATK:2600/DEF:1400/Fusion/Effect

2 Level 4 or lower 'Lunalight' monsters

This Fusion Summoned card can attack twice during the Battle Phase. Once per turn, you can banish one 'Lunalight' monster from your Graveyard, then target one monster on the field; that card loses ATK equal to the banished monster's ATK.

Speedroid Racetrack

Continuous Trap

Once per turn, if a 'Speedroid' monster is Special Summoned to your side of the field; You can target that monster you control and declare one Level; that monster becomes that Level until the End Phase. You can banish this card from your Graveyard, then target one 'Speedroid' monster you control with less than 2000 ATK; that monster can attack your opponent directly this turn.

Also, this doesn't really count, but the actual card text of Hi-Speedroid Puzzle specifies that it's ATK doubles when it battles a Special Summoned monster. That didn't work for me so I just made it when it battles at all.

Now, time for reviews!

Corinne, firstly, I know about the it's/its thing, I've been told about it before and have taken measures to correct it. Problem is, I write on an iPad where auto-correct's a clueless bastard, so I try to keep it tidy but things slip through now and then. Thanks, but don't get your hopes up. Kite won't reappear for a while yet. P

Huh . . . I guess because I somehow got this chapter off in only a little over a day, there really aren't many reviews to respond to. Thanks for being a dedicated follower, Corinne! Peace!