Annex 089: D-Day
Decembers LP: 8000 Uno's LP: 7500
In the showdown of pendulum-dueling timetravelers, Decembers second turn began. He activated his continuous spell, Dark Contract with the Gate. With it, December added D/D Barfomet from his deck to his hand. "You are not the only one to have incorporated all forms of special summoning into his deck. D/D Swirl Slime, fuse with Berfomet!" By using the effect of the Swirl Slime, he could fusion summon a D/D fusion monster without a spell. "No. He is going to.." Alice shuddered as she recalled the same sequence that he had terrorized her with. "Be reborn, D/D/D Flame King Genghis!" This time though he created a hellfire king(6/2000/1500), wielding a sword and shield.
"Appear, D/D Night Howl. Return D/D Berfomet to me!" The next link was the demonic jaw-tuner(3/300/600). Normal summoning it started the effect to special summon a lowlevel D/D monster from the graveyard; Berfomet(4/0/0) the chimera with two right arms and a left devil-wing. "A tuner? Is he actually going to.." Before the words could leave Erics mouth, December performed his synchronization. "Rise again, Gust King Alexander!" Night Howl and Berformet tuned their seven stars and the emperor of the wind(7/2500/2000) was reborn. "He controls synchro monsters as well?" Iria cried out.
"Genghis, Alexander, name your servants!" Once each turn, when a D/D monster was special summoned, Genghis could summon one of the dead D/D monsters. Alexander could so the same for any level 4 or lower D/D monster in the graveyard. The synchro-summoning of the Gust King made the fused Flame King resurrect D/D Pandora(5/1700/2100). That special summon in turn allowed Alexander to revive Berfomet(4/1400/1800) once more. "Equalize, Pandora and Berfomet!" Finally there was D/D Berfomets effect. It could modify any other D/D monsters level to a number between 1 and 8. He gave Pandora(4/1700/2100) a single level reduction. "Oh no way.." And for the second time in the same minute Eric was blown away, when December overlayed his two monsters. "Come now, D/D/D Wave king Caesar!" The lord of the sea(4/2400/1200) joined the lords of fire and wind. "Incredible." Adamant had seen a lot of duelists in his time, and he had never seen anything like this.
"To me, D/D/D Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok!" Still, December was not finished. He banished Swirl Slime from his graveyard and activated its effect. The slime special summoned a D/D monster from his hand; a horned emperor of darkness(8/2200/3000), seated on his throne. "One life to banish another." Abyss Ragnarok activated its second power. It grabbed Flame King Genghis with its pendulum-tipped ribbons and crushed it. "Dark Rebellion, disappear and never return." The Oblivion lord now sent the same ribbons after the XYZ-dragon(4/3550/2000) and strangled the life out of it. Dark Rebellion was banished completely. "That guy has a removal effect?" Uno was defenseless and the remaining lords saw their chance. "...!" Wordlessly, December ordered his direct attack. The Wave King Caesar was the first to strike. "Well this is a pinch, so let me just activate Performapal Pinch Helper!" And Uno responded immediately by revealing a continuous trap. "Guess what? Your direct attack is negated! And I can summon a Performapal from my deck!" The trap summoned Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer(4/1500/800) in defense mode.
"Is this amusing you?" Instantly, December followed up the first attack by having Ragnarok slice up Kaleidoscorp. "It shouldn't." Finally The Gust King attacked Uno. "G-ghf!" The performing duelist was hit bye the blunt edge of Alexanders sword, causing him to fall face-first to the ground. "Hrheh.. Ow." Uno lay on the ground, his body aching all over. "Uno, please stop! He isn't playing a game, he's just going to hurt you!" Alice couldn't bare to watch anymore. "Hey. It's fine. A little method acting is all." Uno pushed the pain aside. If he couldn't keep up his spirit for her and the others, he might as well give up. "What else you got, December?" The duelist in him was standing strong. "... The end." And December, after he placed two cards face-down in the spell/trap zone, relinquished control to his opponent.
Uno's LP: 5000
"Well. Black, purple, white and orange/blue. I can work with those colors.." Uno drew his next card, a spell card. "..I activate Pendulum Call! For one card I get two Pendulum Magicians! What a deal!" He used the spell to discard Wisdom-Eye Magician. The two newly searched Magicians were quickly revealed. "I set the scales, Wisdom-Eye Magician and Xiangsheng Magician!" The insightful sage and the female archer appeared in pillars on both sides of the field. "Uh oh. Guess he already forgot!" On the sidelines Neter broke into laughter as Decembers counter was easy to predict. Decembers flipped his second Wavering Eyes. "That fool." August snorted. This would be the second time Uno lost his pendulum spells. "Oh but you should have learned one of my shows rules; never try the same trick on me twice!" Uno responded with his own quickplay spell. "Pendulum Impenetrable! You can't destroy my pendulums this turn!" The Impenetrable spell protected both Xiangsheng and Wisdom-Eye from the Wavering Eyes. "Now them, can I continue?"
"Yes then! Okay, since I have another Magician in my pendulum zone, I can use Oafdragons spell effect to add a Pendulum monster Magician to my hand! Can you guess which one?!" Uno pulled Noble Dragon Magician from his deck. "It is time, I Pendulum Summon!" Oafdragon Magician had the 2nd scale. Xiangsheng Magician had the 8th, as long as December controlled more cards than Uno. "Go my Performapals, my Magicians and Odd-Eyes." Nobledragon Magician(3/700/1400) was summoned from the hand. Odd-Eyes(7/2500/2000), Pendulum Sorcerer and Drumerilla(6/1600/900) were summoned from the extra deck in defense mode. "Pendulum Sorcerer, take your pick!" As the Sorcerer had been special summoned, it could destroy one of Uno's cards, Performapal Drummerilla, to find Performapal Trump Girl card in the deck and bring it to Uno. "Now I already showed everyone my XYZ-monster. Next in line.. synchro monsters!" Uno took his tuner, Nobledragon Magician, and tuned it with Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer. "With just seven levels from one tuner and one nontuner, I can make Odd-Eyes Meteorburst Dragon!" The crimson red dragon(7/2500/2000) appeared in attack mode. But, when the nontuner synchro material wasn't a dragon-type, Nobledragon Magician shuffled itself back into the deck.
"Dom.." Iria couldn't stop herself from thinking about the man who made this all possible. "Yeah, say what you want about the guy, but he helped me in the end. I can't give up for his sake either." Uno had to find Dom again, somehow. "Meteorburst's effect lets me summon a pendulum monster from the pendulum zone! Though Meteorburst wont be able to attack anymore this turn." The Synchro dragon targeted the Oaf Magician, putting the wind mage(6/2100/1400) in the front row. "And when Oafdragon is summoned, he returns one Magician or OddEyes card to me." Uno used his effect to reclaim the card he had discarded at the start, Wisdom-Eye Magician. "But of course, there is one more color to go... Let's bring it in!" Uno had a normal summon left, he used it to bring out Performapal Trump Girl(2/200/200). "Trump Girl can force a fusion between herself and another monster! I fuse her with Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" The tiny jester and the great dragon were tossed into the fusion maelstrom.
"Is it gonna be Rune-Eyes?" Eric wondered. That fusion dragon could be made from Odd-Eyes Dragon and a spellcaster. Yet Uno suddenly had a new idea. "One Odd-Eyes and one Pendulum monster. Put them together.. and you get Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon!" This was new, to everyone. The dragon(7/2500/3000)'s spikes transformed into metallic bird wings and its armor scales gained a green hue. "Odd-Eyes Vortex pushes one attack-position monster off the field! I choose Alexander!" The dragon dragged its claw through the air, raising a whirlwind of energy and thunder that enveloped the synchro D/D/D. Uno appreciated the irony; having the Gustking be returned to the extra deck by his own element. "And then he attacks Abyss Ragnarok!" With a more direct blast of lightning, the dragon incinerated the Oblivion lord and his throne.
Decembers LP: 7700
"I thought.. How.. did you do that?!" This time, Iria couldn't make heads or tails of Uno's new acquisition. This dueldisk of Uno did not have a printer in it anymore, nor had he created it before hand. "The power to create.. that was something that existed in the times before." June was able to shed some light on the subject. "Create? So like you can make your own cards?" Eric was more than slightly skeptical. "The cards tell stories that have been forgotten, Eric. We are one of the few who remember their origins. Some stories may not be true or have been based on the fantasies of that world, but others are real. That is the one thing connecting everything. No matter where Tempus goes, the cards follow." She explained. "So that Scarlight Dragon of yours.." Iria looked at August. "Is one of them. His story is as old as I am. The power of my mark, January and his 'Light', June and her Piece; we all can manipulate destiny'. So.." August turned an angry glare towards Uno. "How is it that you can do the same?"
"Dunno. Amnesia, remember? Every time it happens, it feels like I am reminding myself of a card I forgot." Uno shrugged and ended his turn. "Your memories. Not even June could repair them..." December paused before drawing his card. He sounded almost wistful. "There should be something there." He drew his card and switched to the standby phase. In this phase, the Dark Contract took 1000 lifepoints from its user as was its cost. December didn't show any sign of being affected by this lifeforce drain. "To me, Lilith." He reactivated the Dark Contract with the Gate. With it, December added the D/D monster Lilith to his hand. Then he activated a face-down trap card; Dark Contract with the Witch. Now that he had cards to discard, he could use his trap against Uno. "Hold on there! I didn't tell you about Vortex Dragons other ability." Uno snatched Performapal Guitartle from his extra deck. "Once a turn, Vortex can negate a spell, trap or monster effect by shuffling a face-up extra deck pendulum monster back into the main deck!" The Green dragon short-circuited the continuous trap and destroyed it.
Decembers LP: 6700
"I knew." December claimed as he in turn pulled one monster from his extra deck. "Once is not enough." That card, an XYZ-monster, was placed on top of Wave King Caesar. "Rank-up as well?" Adamant was stunned to see a rank 5 monster that could be XYZ-summoned by using a rank 4 DDD-monster as the base. It was a greenhaired bowman(5/2300/2000) with a half-eaten apple for a torso. "Of course. My universe invented that trick!" Neter said with his big grin. "It begins, D/D/D Marksman King Tell. I have suffered this turn, so make my enemy suffer." Tell's full power was unlocked during a turn in which its duelist took effect damage. It could target an opponents monster, drain 1000 of its attackpoints, and inflict the same amount of damage in one turn. "Aah!" A golden arrow was fired right through Odd-Eyes Vortex(1500/3000) and then Uno himself. "Perish, dragon of fusion." With the same wolf-faced bow, the Marksman fired a blast of flames that burned to Vortex Dragon down to the ground. "Guh.. Ha! I am fine! See? No hole." Uno quickly assured Alice as he patted his chest.
Uno's LP: 3200
"Who are you trying to fool, Uno? Her or yourself? Your act favors no-one. You do not honor the past, if you pretend to be something you are not." December placed D/D Lilith and a trap card face-down and ended his turn. "Oh yeah? Shows what you know! I do honor my past, by caringabout what and who I know! I don't know who I used to be. I tried to find out, I tried to force back memories. All I got was dreams, nightmares and vague warnings. I feel like an actor who never got his script, and I almost lost everything just to get a few answers. So, you'll have to forgive me if I just wing it from time to time." Uno drew his card. "You guys do care about the past, but what about the present? What about this world right here and now? You keep hopping from moment to moment, skipping everything in the middle. You haven't lived here like.. like Alice has. And you're going to decide what should happen to her? No, you don't get to write her future!"
"...Oh. Lost myself for a minute there." Uno took a deep breath. He did not want to snap like he had done in the past, he had to stay himself. "Let's give you you more of those special cards you love so much; a blast from the recent past!" Uno placed Wisdom-Eye Magician in the empty pendulum zone and activated its effect. The Mage tributed himself to be replaced with Xiangke Magician. "The magicians of creation and destruction are here! I will pendulum summon my old cast!" Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer and Wisdom-Eye Magician(4/1500/1000) were special summoned from the extra deck, between the scale 3 Xiangke and the scale 8 Xiangsheng. "Exit the stage, Pendulum Sorcerer!" Uno let the Sorcerer destroy himself and take a Performapal Secondonkey card from the deck. "Take over, Secondonkey!" The donkey(4/1000/2000) was normal summoned in his place. This Performapal, while in the presence of 2 Pendulum zone spells, searched another Performapal to Uno's hand; Performapal _. "XYZ-summon!" Afterwards the Donkey and the Insightful Sage came together, and a rank 4 monster was placed on top of their pile; his second and also last Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon(4/2500/2000).
"Uh oh." Neter intoned. The current field set-up looked worryingly familiar. "Xiangke, Xiangsheng." The duo of creation and destruction unleashed their effects. Xiangsheng modified the XYZ Dragons Rank, so that It(7/2500/2000), mirrored the level of Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon. Xiangke transformed the XYZ-monsters Rank stars into Level stars. "I XYZ-summon my Pendulum XYZ-monster; Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon!" Odd-Eyes placed itself above Dark Rebellion. The two level 7 Dragons became one, mixing their dark and blue energy to shape the most powerful being in Uno's deck, the Odd-eyed black dragon(7/3000/2500). "December, it's time to wrap this up! Odd-Eyes, destroy his monsters!" December had at least one lowlevel monster on the field, D/D Lilith. Even if she was face-down, the XYZ-dragon would destroy her and gain two additional attacks.
"D/D/D Human Resources!" But then December flipped a trap card that took D/D Lilith away. "Wheh?" Two cards were also recovered from the graveyard; D/D Pandora and D/D/D Genghis. "D/D/D Human Resources sends three D/D monsters from anywhere, back to the deck. And it then puts two new D/D monsters in his hand." June said. The 'resources' added to Decembers hand were D/D/D Rebel King Leonidas and D/D Savant Galilei. "I am afraid December is also someone who never lets the same trick work against him twice." She smiled sympathetically. "Great.." Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon failed to destroy a single card, so it was stuck with its one regular attack this battle phase. "Rgh. I switch all my monsters to attack position and start the battle with Odd-Eyes Rebellion!" The black dragon used that attack to run the D/D/D Marksman through with its claws and teeth. Its flight across the field blew fierce winds across the village. December did not yield and inch. "Oafdragon Magician, Odd-Eyes Meteorburst!" The brutish mage and the crimson dragon barraged the enemy with wind spells and meteor blasts. December still stood his ground, despite the catastrophic damage his lifepoints were taking. "..I set two cards, end turn." It could have been better, it should have been.
Decembers LP: 1400
"That card as well. You obtained it at a point in which your pendulum was restored. Two feats no normal duelist can perform. When we left you last time, we tried to understand how this could have transpired. No matter where we looked, we did not get the answer. Tell us." December asked not too friendly. "Can't your psychic just read his mind to figure it out?" Eric retorted. "I already did, something stops me from seeing those particular memories. I can see how he told you the same story about the three sisters." June looked at Eric and Iria with their unshielded minds. "You do not believe it?" Iria had wondered about the truthfulness of Uno's story herself. "Hey, I was being honest to them and to you! Now leave my friends alone. Until this duel ends, you are dealing with me." Uno did not want June to start digging into their brains. He ended his turn so December could continue. "Friends. They are precisely what made you weak, Uno." December finally started his turn. He took 1000 points of damage due to the Dark Contract of the Gate.
Decembers LP: 400
"Come, D/D/D Rebel King Leonidas! Reverse the time of grief and harm!" That effect damage was what enabled the effect of a D/D/D monster. The Spartan king(7/2600/1300), with his full golden armor and red cape, could special summon himself from Decembers hand to restore those lost lifepoints, and also negate any further effect damage that would be inflicted to the duelist. "If you had just been by yourself, you could have kept running. You are in this position now due to them. Why tether yourself to one world, if it is doomed to die?"
Decembers LP: 1400
"No friends? Then what do you call your accomplices? If they are the only people you know.." Adamant inquired. December was not alone here. "We did not meet as friends. Far from it. But he needed us and we needed him to survive." August unequivocally did not talk like someone who was close friends with December. "Their powers were great, and ancient. Just like mine. Some might call it 'funny', that in all these infinities, there never was a pendulum duelist like me. Until this universe. UNO, Tempus; someone made sure that the art of pendulum summon returned." December reactivated the Dark Gate; to claim a D/D Savant Kepler card. "You are a breakthrough, Uno. Yet I have been dueling with them for more decades than I can remember; possibly centuries. No, I do not remember if I had friends, Uno. I do not look back at what is unneeded. I look ahead and I see threats to time that must be removed!" December placed two cards. "Arise, D/D Savant Galilei and D/D Savant Kepler!" They were two statue pendulum monsters; one with planetary spheres orbiting it, the other with a telescope-lens body. They had a scale of 1 and 10. "The End comes, no matter how much you and your friends may protest! I.. PENDULUM.. SUMMON!"
(To be Continued in Annex 090: For the Last Time)
New Cards used by Uno
Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon
New Cards used by December
D/D Berfomet
D/D/D Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok
D/D/D Rebel King Leonidas
D/D Savant Galilei
D/D Savant Kepler
D/D/D Flame King Genghis
D/D/D Marksman King Tell
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D/D/D Human Resources