Chapter 10: Locked On Target! Yee-Haw, Cowboys, Go!
"I get my own D-Wheel?" Yuzu asked in excitement when she entered the garage and saw a pink-and-White D-Wheel that perfectly matched her riding suit. "No. You get to borrow one from the Council for the duration of the Friendship Cup," the pit crew corrected her. "I'm still not sure this is safe," she nervously frowned.
"If ya want safe, stay home with ya mama, little girl," a brash, cocky voice retorted from behind her. "Now shove over, ya blocking my light,"
You obligingly stepped out of the doorway and watched, interested to see her opponent.
Megan was tall, with a brown leather jacket that had a silver star over her heart worn over her riding suit and a bright red neckerchief tied around the bottom half of her face. Her helmet was dusty brown-yellow, as was her riding suit, but that had black highlights. A long plait of bright orange hair hung from the back of her helmet, and a belt was tied around her waist, carrying several pouches and what looked an awful lot like - "Is that a gun?" Yuzu squeaked. Her opponent looked at her and smirked, drawing it in a flash and spinning it in her hand. "Yep. Like it?"
The pink-haired Duelist blanched. "Please put that thing away and tell me that you won't shoot me if I beat you,"
"Aw, chillax, girlie. The bullets are chalk. They pack a punch, but they won't kill ya," Megan smirked, returning her weapon to its holster. "You kinda scare me," Yuzu shivered. "Good. I like being scary," Megan grinned, mounting her D-Wheel. "Wait, wait, it's not time to -" one of the pit crew cautioned her, but the Duelist ignored them and sped off zooming out of the garage and onto the track.
"Now, after that intermission, it's almost time for - hey, wait! You're not supposed to -" Melissa started as Megan zoomed onto the course, then caught herself. "It appears that one of our last two competitors is eager to get going! So, without further ado, everyone say hello to the masked gunslinger girl, Megan Kashim!"
The cowgirl waved and grinned behind her neckerchief as the crowd greeted her with mixed responses. "I miss my hat," she grinned, "but this is cool too,"
"And her opponent, a friend of yesterday's Yugo, give it up for the resident girly-girl, Yuzu Hiragi!" Melissa shouted.
In the garage, Yuzu was siding on the seat of her bike, pressing random buttons in a vain hope to make it start. She screamed in surprise as her D-Wheel accelerated seemingly of its own volition and carried her onto the track.
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Yuya sat up in excitement. "Yuzu's here?" Then he realised something. "That means that she saw my Duel with Flare," The green-haired boy gulped. "What if she's angry about me losing control again? What if she hates me?"
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As she looked up at the crowd, Yuzu remembered how she had been perfectly positioned to watch every match so far, and realised that there were good odds Yuya was watching her as she entered the course. "He's probably still sad about what happened yesterday with that Flare girl," she thought to herself. "I need to send him a message, something to cheer him up," she decided as her D-Wheel pulled up at the starting line.
"Everyone! There's something I want everyone to hear!" she shouted. "Well? Spit it out and get Duelling, girlie," Megan huffed.
"The real fun," she paused, exactly as Yuya always did. "Is just getting started!"
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Yuya froze as he heard Yuzu repeat his catchphrase. "You're right, Yuzu," he nodded. "I'm just getting started,"
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"Is that all?" Melissa asked from her copter, and Yuzu nodded. "Alright then! Riding Duel; Acceleration!" Melissa declared, and the light turned green.
"Yippe kai ay, lil' beastie! Let's get movin'!" Megan grinned, kicking her D-Wheel into overdrive and shooting ahead as she drew her hand. "Hey, wait! Slow down!" Yuzu demanded, starting her own bike and trying to both catch up with Megan while not going too fast. "Megan exits the gates first by a considerable margin, and claims the first turn!" Melissa grinned.
"Alright then! Woohoo!" the cowgirl cheered, before looking at her hand and sighing. "Sorry, malady. I know I said that I'd try not to do this, but if I'm gonna win, I might not have much choice," she groaned to herself as Yuzu slowly began to catch up.
"Using the Scale 3 Six Shooter Watering Trough, and the Scale 7 Six Shooter Bazooka, I set the Pendulum Scale!" she declared, and twin pillars of light appeared behind her. In one appeared a slim cowgirl wielding what looked like a high-tech water pistol, and the other boasted a broad-chested, muscular black highwayman with a high-tech visor covering his eyes and carrying a big cannon.
Yuzu's eyes widened. "You can Pendulum Summon?"
"Damn right I can!" Megan barked back at her. "I Pendulum Summon! The setting sun shines on my silhouetted scale!" Sure enough, a vertical portal that was shining red like a setting sun appeared, it's light turning her Pendulum cards into silhouettes. "Come on out of the sunset! Six Shooter Rapidfire, and Six Shooter Shotgun!"
Her first monster was a slim man in a red shirt and a fedora, wielding twin pistols. The second was similar, but slightly taller, dressed in white and wielding a single long-barrelled shotgun. Rapidfire was armed with 1600 ATK, and Shotgun had 1800.
"I now Overlay my Level 4 Rapidfire with my Level 4 Shotgun! The sun shines down on the Wild West plains!" Megan chanted as her two monsters were sucked into an Overlay vortex. "Xyz Summon, Rank 4! Cut through the wind on ya way to the sun! Six Shooter Comanche Chief!"
The summoned monster was a tall man with black and white stripes on his face, armed with two tomahawks and dressed like a Native American. Comanche Chief was in Defence Position, with 2500 DEF.
"You can Xyz Summon too?" Yuzu gasped.
"You bet!" Megan grinned. "I set a card and end my turn!"
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Declan frowned in curiosity. "How is it that that girl, who is not one of your Lancers, is capable of using both Pendulum and Xyz Summon?" Bordeaux, a member of the Executive Council whose chambers he had been confined to, questioned. "I don't know," the silver-haired boy frowned.
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"Alright," Yuzu breathed, still rattled by the surprise of seeing her opponent use Pendulum and Xyz Summons. "I draw,"
She looked over her cards and planned her strategy. "I activate my Spell, 1st Movement Solo! While you control a monster and I don't, I can Summon a Level 4 'Melodious' monster from my Deck! Appear, Opera the Melodious Diva!" A petite, cherub-like monster appeared in a blue dress and sung in a high-pitched note. Megan blinked in surprise, seeing it had 2300 ATK. "Little concerning," she noted, searching for an Action Card.
"And while I control a Melodious monster, I can Special Summon Sonata the Melodious Diva from my hand!" Yuzu continued, and a taller singer in a flowing blue dress with long green hair and two wings that looked like sheet paper music appeared. "If Sonata was Special Summoned, all Melodious monsters on the field gain 500 ATK and DEF as long as she's on the field!" Yuzu declared, and the singing increased in pitch as Opera's ATK became 2800 and Sonata's ATK increased from 1200 to 1700.
"Go, Opera! Destroy Comanche Chief!" Yuzu commanded.
"No Action Cards in sight," Megan fumed. "Time for Plan B! I activate Six Shooter Comanche Chief's effect! By using one Overlay Unit, the ATK of the monster he battles is halved!"
"Wait, what?" Yuzu blinked, but it was too late. Opera had already had her ATK decreased to 1400, and as she ineffectually tried to hit the Xyz monster, it threw a tomahawk at her in retaliation, dealing Yuzu 1100 damage. "Now, I activate the effect of the Six Shooter Rapidfire I detached! If he'd be sent to the Grave 'cause of being detached from an Xyz monster, he goes to the Extra Deck instead! And then I get to add a Six Shooter from my Deck to my hand. I pick another copy of Six Shooter Shotgun!" Megan declared, adding a second copy to her hand.
"Dang it," Yuzu fumed. "I set a card and end my turn,"
"And during your End Phase I activate my Trap! Silver Bullet! While I control a Six Shooter, by shuffling a Six Shooter from my Extra Deck into the Deck I destroy one of your monsters! Say goodbye to Opera!" Megan declared with a smile as her face-down revealed itself and manifested a large pistol, which fired a bullet that gleamed silver in the sunlight. "Not happening!" Yuzu protested, reaching for a nearby Action Card - but she was stunned to see it suddenly dissolve into nothingness with a loud crack!.
She looked at her opponent, who was blowing imaginary smoke from her pistol. "I said this gun wouldn't kill you. I never said anything about your chances of victory,"
"Oh wow! Before Yuzu can grab the Action Card, Megan literally shoots it out of the air!" Melissa gasped.
The silver bullet hit Opera, immediately destroying her. "You're good," Yuzu nodded.
"I know," Megan nodded. "My turn! Draw! I switch Comanche Chief into attack position," The Xyz monster changed position, revealing 1000 ATK, "and activate his effect! By using one Overlay Unit, if he battles this tip urn, the opponent's monster's ATK is halved! Now, Six Shooter Longshot activates! When he's detached, I return him to the Extra Deck and reduce the ATK of a monster you control to 0!"
An apparition of Six Shooter Longshot appeared and fired a shot at Sonata, before going to Megan's Extra Deck. "I conduct my Battle Phase! Comanche Chief, attack Sonata!"
Yuzu gulped, as Sonata's ATK changed to 0. "I can't lose her," she resolved.
"I activate my Quick-Play Spell Card, Pianissimo! Sonata's ATK becomes 100, but until the end of the turn, she is indestructible!"
A shield of musical notes surrounded Sonata, and her ATK increased by 100, and Comanche Chief's tomahawk bounced off the shield before whirling around and biting deep into the framework of Yuzu's D-Wheel, centimetres from her head. She squeaked in shock as it lodged there, reducing her LP to 2000.
"Not bad, girlie," Megan nodded. "But now it's time for my ace to make his appearance. I activate Bazooka's Pendulum effect! By returning him to my hand, I can return Comanche Chief to my Extra Deck!" Both cards vanished from the field. "Now, using the Scale 7 Longshot with my already-set Scale 3 Watering Trough, I set the Pendulum Scale and Pendulum Summon!" Once again, the setting sun appeared, and Six Shooter Bazooka returned as a monster card with 2300 ATK, accompanied by Rapidfire and Longshot back from the Extra Deck. "I activate Bazooka's effect! When he's Summoned, all Six Shooters I control become Level 6!" Megan grinned, as Rapidfire and Longshot's Levels increased by two.
"Three Level 6 monsters?" Yuzu gulped.
"That's right! I overlay my Level 6 Bazooka, Rapidfire and Longshot! Take your partners by the hand, folks!" Megan shouted as her three monsters were sucked into an Overlay vortex. "Shining star of the Wild West, take your badge and quell the opposition in these parts! Xyz Summon, Rank 6! Ride out of the sunset, Six Shooter Silver Sheriff!"
A tall, black figure with a white hat and three Overlay Units orbiting him appeared, casually standing in mid-air and carrying three weapons; at his belt were Rapidfire's pistols, over his back was Bazooka's cannon, and in his hands was Longshot's shotgun. "Silver Sheriff starts off with 2500 ATK, but gains an extra 300 for every Xyz Material attached to him!" Megan grinned, as her monster was declared to have 3400 ATK. "But that's not all. Once per turn. I can use one Overlay Unit to force you to discard one card to the Graveyard!" Megan grinned as Silver Sheriff used his shotguns to shoot an Overlay Unit out of the air, then they vanished. Yuzu groaned and discarded a card from her hand. "And you know the drill, when Rapidfire is detached, I can send him on up to the Extra Deck so that he'll let me add a Six Shooter to my hand! I call out another Watering Trough!"
Another card was added to her hand. "Turn end!"
Yuzu gulped. "My turn," She stared at the 3100 ATK Rank 6, wondering, "How am I going to beat that thing?" She drew her card, and blinked. "This . . . is perfect?" Looking at the three cards in her hand, she grinned in sudden realisation. "I can win this right here and now!"
"I'd like to see you try, girlie," Megan snorted.
"Watch me! I play Polymerization! I fuse Sonata the Melodious Diva with Shopina the Melodious Maestra in my hand!" Yuzu declared, and the Fusion Spell activated, drawing the monsters from her hand and field into a green vortex. "I Summon Bloom Prima the Melodious Choir!" she shouted, and a petite yellow girl with a rose above both of her shoulders appeared, dressed in a dress that resembled plant leaves, with 1900 ATK. "Bloom Prima gains 300 ATK for every Fusion Material used for her Summon!" Yuzu continued, and her monster's ATK became 2500.
"Huh. Our monsters have the same effect. Weird coincidence," Megan noticed.
"Go, Bloom Prima! Attack Six Shooter Silver Sheriff!" Yuzu commanded. "You know that'll," Megan cut herself off and frowned. "You've got something up your sleeve,"
"I activate the effect of Score the Melodious Diva in my hand!" Yuzu continued, revealing the last card in her hand and sending it to the Grave. "By discarding her, your monster's ATK becomes zero!"
"Aww, shoot," Megan cursed, watching her Xyz monster get destroyed.
"Well? You gonna use the effects of the other Six Shooters?" Yuzu waited patiently, but the cowgirl awkwardly shrugged. "They don't work if they're removed because the monster was destroyed," she lamented as her Life Points became 1500, taking the full force of Bloom Prima's ATK and her opponent grinned. "Then it's my victory! Bloom Prima can attack twice!"
"Incredible! In a repeat of Shinji's victory from yesterday, Yuzu drops her opponent's monster's ATK and attacks twice for a one turn kill!" the announcer girl grinned as Bloom Prima attacked once again, damaging music being blasted from the flowers on her shoulders.
"Not yet!" Megan growled, reaching for an Action Card - but a solid object whooshed past her, causing her to recoil her arm in surprise - and the second she did that, Bloom Prima's second attack hit. Her LP dropped to 0 and her Duel Disk beeped.
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"Good Duel," Megan offered her opponent as they pulled into the garage. "It was close, I'll admit that," Yuzu agreed. "Hey, what did you throw at me to top me from getting the last Action Card?" Megan asked out of curiosity, and Yuzu gestured to a deep dent in her D-Wheel's front. "Remember when Comanche Chief threw that tomahawk at me?" she responded, and the cowgirl nodded, before realising what she was getting at. "You threw my own monster's weapon back at me?" she asked, incredulous.
Yuzu nodded and smiled, and Megan did the same, a cocky, approving grin appearing on her face. "Not bad, girlie, not bad at all," she nodded.
"Over here, loser," one of the pit crew called, and Megan replied, "Coming!" then turned and walked away.
Yuzu frowned and called after her, "Hey, wait! I still haven't asked you where you got . . . ." she trailed off, seeing the cowgirl was already gone. "Pendulums," she awkwardly finished.
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Well, I think that went well. Always ready for feedback, though.
The Six Shooters are loosely based on the Lone Ranger films, with Silver Sheriff based on the Lone Ranger and Comanche Chief based on Tonto.
Six Shooter Rapidfire
Level 4/FIRE/Warrior/ATK:1600/DEF:1400/Pendulum/Effect
Pendulum:
7
If you do not have another card in your Pendulum Zone; You can target one 'Six Shooter' Pendulum monster in your Graveyard, activate it in your Pendulum Zone.
Monster:
If this card is detached from an Xyz Monster as an Xyz Material and sent to the Graveyard; You can place this monster from your Graveyard face-up in your Extra Deck, and if you do; Add one 'Six Shooter' monster from your Deck to your hand.
Six Shooter Shotgun
Level 4/LIGHT/Warrior/ATK:1800/DEF:1200/Pendulum/Effect
Pendulum:
3
Monsters your opponent controls cannot target face-up Xyz monsters you control for attacks.
Monster:
If this card is detached from an Xyz Monster as an Xyz Material and sent to the Graveyard; You can place this monster from your Graveyard face-up in your Extra Deck, and if you do; Target one monster your opponent controls, it's ATK and DEF become 0. These changes last until the end of the turn.
Six Shooter Watering Trough
Level 4/WATER/Warrior/ATK:900/DEF:2100/Pendulum/Effect
Pendulum:
3
Once per turn, during either player's turn; You can target one 'Six Shooter' monster you control in ATK position, change it to DEF position.
Monster:
If this card is detached from an Xyz Monster as an Xyz Material and sent to the Graveyard; You can place this monster from your Graveyard face-up in your Extra Deck, and if you do; Add one 'Bullet' Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand.
Six Shooter Bazooka
Level 6/EARTH/Warrior/ATK:2300/DEF:700/Pendulum/Effect
Pendulum:
7
Once per turn; You can target one 'Six Shooter' Xyz Monster you control with no Xyz Materials attached to it, return it to the Extra Deck, and if you do; return this card to your hand.
Monster:
When this card is Summoned; You can activate this effect; the Levels of all face-up 'Six Shooter' monsters you control become 6 until the end of the turn. If this card is detached from an Xyz Monster as an Xyz Material and sent to the Graveyard; You can place this monster from your Graveyard face-up in your Extra Deck.
Six Shooter Comanche Chief
Rank 4/DARK/Warrior/ATK:1000/DEF:2500/Xyz/Effect
2 Level 4 Warrior-Type monsters
Once per turn: You can detach one Xyz Material from this card; this turn, if this card is involved in damage calculation, the ATK of the monster that this card battles is halved until the end of the Battle Phase.
Six Shooter Silver Star
Rank 6/LIGHT/Warrior/ATK:2500/DEF:500/Xyz/Effect
2 or more Level 6 Warrior-Type monsters
This card gains 300 ATK for every Xyz Material attached to it. Once per turn; You can detach one Xyz Material from this card; discard one random card from your opponent's hand.
Silver Bullet
Normal Trap
If you control a 'Six Shooter' monster; Shuffle one 'Six Shooter' monster from your Extra Deck into the Deck; then target one monster on the field and destroy it.
And . . . probably because I've been updating so quickly, no reviews to respond to. Shoot. -.- Peace!