Susano-o: Fuck this chapter.
Sekhmet: It wasn't too bad, just long and tedious.
Susano-o: 16000 Life Points!
Sekhmet: Like I said, long and tedious. It won't happen again! On with the show!
"Hello," Rose said into her phone after everyone had fallen asleep. "I need to speak to Mr. Pegasus...yes I'm serious...Hello this is Rose Warren winner of the ICF and WCW tournaments...yes I'm cashing in two of those wins, I need cards by tomorrow...here's what I need."
.…
"Yeah? Well tell me what you'll do if I hold you like an ice cream cone?" Yuko muttered. "Yeah that's what I thought."
"Yuko it's time to wake up," Midori said shaking her roommate. "We've got a duel to attend."
Yuko violently twitched awake, and scrambled to tuck loose hair back in her beanie. "Right, kinda forgot our academic futures are in peril." She said, almost laughing.
"Are you doubting Rose and Syrus?" Midori asked backing up so Yuko could get down the ladder.
"Not in the slightest. Situation sucks, is all." She said, backtracking a bit.
"Yes it does," Midori said sighing. "Come on get dressed, we have to retrieve Syrus."
Yuko slid out of her bunk. "Alright." She said, grappling in her dresser for a set of fresh clothing.
After getting dressed for the day the two made their way across the courtyard to the male dorm and up to Syrus and Chumley's room.
"You guys dressed?" Midori asked knocking on the door.
"Yeah," Chumley said opening the door. "But I need help getting Syrus down from the ceiling."
"I got this." Yuko said, and located the beam Syrus was tied to. "How'd he do that?" She asked.
"I didn't!" Syrus yelled trying to wiggle out of the rope.
"Rose did it," Chumley said trying to hack away at the knot. "She was sure he'd try to pull a runner at least one more time, so she tied him to the ceiling to keep him here, but I think this knot is a constrictor, I can't get it undone."
"Of course." Yuko said.
"I got a knife," Midori said cutting Syrus down. "You ok?"
"I gotta pee!" Syrus yelled running downstairs to the bathroom.
"I honestly don't have a response to that." Yuko said.
"Damn it Rose," Midori muttered rubbing her temples. "Ok Chumley make sure he makes it to the arena, Yuko me and you need to make sure Rose is there, I haven't seen her since last night."
"Got it." Yuko said, and started towards the arena.
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They did find Rose, dancing in the middle of the arena with a CD player blasting music at full volume, much to the confusion of everyone in the arena.
"SAY WAAAH! GET GET WILD... (GET UP!) STAND UP kutabatte bakkainna buttonde yukou janai funbatte BOMBER tte Go! Go! TRICKY STYLE hayaku narase GONG konna jidai da ze oretachi wa tomerarenai come on... come on... come on!" She sang dancing around randomly. "1, 2, BLOW" MEGATON kyuu PUNCHER "FIGHTING SOUL" hissatsu gyou UPPER bukkowashiteenda joushikitte yatsu wo "CRUSH BOMB" ittoke BLOCK BUSTER "LET'S JET GO" ware michi masshigura kakeagare FIGHTER! (like a PHATMAN)!" She yelled pointing at Crowler. "BINBIN MACHO de GANGAN ittoke!
BANBAN HARD na ueta WILD CHALLENGER ima da WILD CHALLENGER warera WILD CHALLENGER!" She finished as the music cut out.
"Rose? What the heck's going on?" Yuko asked.
"I'm getting psyched up!" Rose yelled shadow boxing. "I drank 3 red bulls and ate 16 pixie sticks before I got here!"
Yuko was besides herself. "You're gonna have a heart attack right here on stage!"
"I'm fine!" Rose yelled back. "Where's Syrus?"
"Bathroom, last I checked." Yuko said.
"Well he needs to hurry up!" Rose yelled back. "My head is starting to spin so we need to get on with this!"
"You essentially stapled him to the ceiling! You know how hard it is to undo a constrictor knot? If Midori didn't have that knife we would still be at the dorms!" Yuko said.
"Semantics!" Rose yelled dismissively. "Lets get on with this!"
"I don't control the rate at which he pees, and you're gonna have an aneurysm!" Yuko said, exasperated.
"Nah I've done worse!" She said seemingly settling down a bit. "I'm ready and raring to go."
Yuko took a seat in the stands with Midori, Chumley joined then a few minutes later.
"I'm here!" Syrus yelled running into the arena.
"Finally!" Rose yelled dragging him up onto the arena. "Here," she said taking a few plastic encased cards out of her pocket. "Here put these in your deck," She ordered.
"What? What are they?" He asked, looking at the cards she held. One was a spell card, 'Ultimate Machine Union' the other was a fusion monster, 'Barbaroid, The Ultimate Battle Machine'. He had never seen these cards before.
"They're for you, real "In case of emergency break glass" kind of cards," She explained ripping them out of their packaging. "Now put them in your deck before Crowler starts the duel!"
"Oh, right!" He said, and quickly slipped the cards into his Deck and Extra Deck.
"Good, now don't ask where they came from," Rose said smiling evilly. Syrus gulped. What did she mean, 'Don't ask?' Had she gotten them through questionable means?
"Syrus," Rose singsonged getting closer to his face and tapping his shins with her foot. "I'm waiting for an answer."
"Oh! Right, I won't say anything." Syrus said, and winced, his legs still bruised from their last beating.
"Good," she said backing away. "Now let's get this show on the road!"
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"Now without further ado!" Crowler yelled from the middle of the arena. "Allow me to introduce our guest tag team duo!" He announced as two shapes back-flipped over him to land behind Rose and Syrus. "The Paradox Brother!" He finished as the two duelists stood and posed.
"Salutations you fool," The orange one said.
"Hope you're ready to duel," The green one finished.
"Umm never heard of them," Syrus said questioningly.
"Oh my god it's them!" Rose said excitedly jumping up and down like a schoolgirl. "Para and Dox, the Paradox Brothers!"
"I've studied these guys. They're some kind of dueling mercenaries, not to mention the best tag team duelists in the world. This is hardly fair." Alexis said.
"I think that was Crowler's point. Statistically speaking, I'd place Rose and Syrus' odds of winning this to be 1 in 50." Bastion added.
"Can I have your autographs?" Rose asked running across the arena and pulling out her autograph book. "I heard you guys fought Yugi and Joey is that true?"
"Oh course anything for a fan," Para, the orange brother, said taking the book and signing it.
"And yes we did duel that flash in the pan," Dox, the green brother, finished adding his autograph to the book as well.
"Oh no." Yuko thought. "Those guys fought Yugi and Uncle Joey. Gave them a lot of trouble too. This doesn't bode well for Rose or Syrus."
"Oh this is gonna be so sweet!" Rose yelled practically skipping back to Syrus. "We're dueling against living legends from Duelist Kingdom! Two of Pegasus's eliminators!" She yelled excitedly grabbing the rapidly paling boy and spinning him around. "Oh if only PaniK and Ventriloquist of the Dead were here too!"
"I'm glad they're not," Syrus whined trying not to pass out from fear.
"Ok you two it's time to duel!" Dox yelled activating his duel disk.
"And it promises to be cruel!" Para finished activating his duel disk.
"For we are here to destroy you!" The brothers yelled pointing at the two.
"Oh I'm so ready for this," Rose said smirking.
"I'm not," Syrus said nervously.
"Lets duel!" The four yelled.
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"Now here are the rules," Crowler said smiling. "You cannot share cards with your partner, you cannot share strategies with your partner, you may however use any card out on your partner's side of the field, now begin!"
"My move," Syrus said drawing his first card. "I'll set one monster, and place one card face down."
Para smirked. "I draw and summon 'Jirai Gumo' in attack mode (2200/100)!"
"Oh here we go!" Rose jumping excitedly as she drew her card. "I play 'Elemental Hero Blazeman' (1200/1800) and when he's normal or special summoned I can add one 'Polymerization' from my deck to my hand, I'll set a face down and end my turn."
"And now me," Dox said drawing a card. "I play 'Kaiser Sea Horse' (1700/1650) and now I activate 'Tribute Doll' this allows me to send one monster from my side of the field to the graveyard to summon a level 7 monster from my hand, luckily my brother is more than willing to let go of his 'Jirai Gumo'."
"Of course brother," Para said smirking.
"I sacrifice 'Jirai Gumo' to summon 'Kazejin' (2400/2200) in attack mode!" He yelled as tendrils came out and grabbed his brothers spider and sucked it in before exploding in a flash of light that brought out a large green spherical monster with the Kanji for wind on its forehead.
"He sacrificed his brother's monster to summon a better one for the team. Now that's tag dueling." Bastion commented.
"Would you mind not sounding quite so impressed with them?" Alexis said annoyed.
"My turn," Syrus said drawing his card. "And now I play 'Polymerization to fuse 'Steamroid' and 'Gyroid to summon 'Steam Gyroid (2200/1600)!" He yelled as his two monsters fused together to form a half-train half-helicopter anthropomorphic machine. "Now you're in for it, since you sacrificed Para's monster, you left him wide open, go 'Steam Gyroid' Hurricane Smoke!"
Syrus's monster's blades spun up and summoned a tornado of smoke around himself before charging at Para full steam ahead (Para-Dox LP: 16000-13800)
"Hell yes!" Rose said excitedly. "A few more of those and we've got this in the bag!"
"First blood goes to Syrus!" Midori smiled.
"'Licios move!" Chumley said.
"Yeah it was," Midori said happily.
"Now I place a card facedown and end my turn," Syrus finished.
"It matters not what you do!" Para yelled drawing his card. "We will still defeat you! I play monster reborn to bring back 'Jirai Gumo' then I will also play 'Cost Down'' to summon 'Suijin' (2500/2400) at that the cost of a level 5 monster!" He yelled discarding a card as a giant pair of legs with a face on the crotch and the kanji for water on its forehead appeared on the field. "Now 'Suijin' attack 'Blazeman' Tidal Surge Attack!"
'Suijun' aimed its body at 'Blazeman' and let out a massive blast of high pressure water at him sending him flying away and destroying him (Rose-Syrus LP: 16000-14700).
"Oh goody, Eggs with Legs is on the field." Yuko muttered sarcastically.
"I play 'Hero Signal'!" Rose yelled activating the card as a signal appeared in the sky. "Now I get to summon a level 4 or lower 'Elemental Hero' monster from my deck or hand," She explained scanning her deck. "So come on out 'Elemental Hero Stratos' (1800/300) and when he comes out I get a 'Hero' monster from my deck to my hand."
"Good move, but it won't help you I play 'Dark Designator' it allows me to say a card, any card I can think of, and if it's in my brother's deck he gets to add it to his hand," Para smirked taping his forehead in mock thought. "I choose 'Sagan of the Thunder'!"
"What a coincidence I just happen to have one!" Dox said smirking and he added the card to his hand.
"Whatever," Rose muttered drawing her next card. "It's my turn now so I play 'Polymerization' to fuse my 'Clayman' with my 'Stratos' to form 'Elemental Hero Gaia' (2200/2600'!" She called out as the two monsters fused together and a massive arena dwarfing brown and gold hero emerged from the ground. "Now here's the fun part, when 'Gaia' is summoned I get to halve the attack on one monster on the field and add that same amount to him, and I choose 'Kazejin"!" Gaia raised his hand and a flash of red light consumed 'Kazejin' (Kazejin 2400-1200/2200) (Gaia 2200-3600/2600). "Now attack 'Kazejin' Continental Hammer!" 'Gaia' walked across the arena and raised his fist to crush 'Kazejin' with his forearm.
"Go 'Kazejin' Squall Barricade!" Dox ordered, 'Kazejin' breathed out a massive windstorm that sent Gaia tumbling. "Once per battle when my 'Kazejin' is attacked I can use its ability to reduce that monsters attack to zero!" He explained laughing (Gaia 3600-0/2600).
"Wait that means," Rose stuttered as Gaia fell back and exploded into light particles. "I lost the battle," She finished in shock. (Rose-Syrus LP: 14700-13500). "Damn it I place a card face down and end my turn."
"Now I place those odds at 500 to 1." Bastion commented.
"What are the odds of you being quiet?" Alexis asked.
"They've still got plenty of Life Points. No big deal." Midori said.
"My turn," Dox said drawing a card. "I play 'Sanga of the Thunder' by using 'Kaiser Sea Horse's' special ability!" He explained summoning his monster, a massive torso with the kanji for lightning as it's face (2600/2200). "Sanga attack 'Steam Gyroid' Electrical Breaker!" Sagan's ring of orbs charged up and fired a giant blast of electricity at Syrus's monster destroying it (Rose-Syrus LP: 13500-13100). "That will be all, no more no less."
"Oh man," Syrus whined nervously as he drew his card, he had a plan but at this rate he wasn't going to get the card he needed to do it. "I play 'Polymerization to fuse two 'Cycroid's" to create 'Pair Cycroid' in defense mode (1600/1200)."
"That is all you can do," Para said chuckling. "I play 'Fairy Meteor Crush' now when my 'Suijin' attacks a defense position monster the difference is dealt to us as damage," He explained. "Now attack that bike Tidal Surge attack!" (Rose-Syrus LP: 13100-11800). "Your move little girl," He said smirking at Rose.
"That probably wasn't a smart thing to call Rose." Yuko thought, noting her short temper.
"Here we go again." Zane thought, noting Rose's growing ire through her movements.
"Little girl!" Rose snapped drawing a card. "I'll show you a little girl, I summon 'Elemental Hero Shadow Mist' and play 'Mask Change'!" She yelled throwing down her cards. "Sacrificing my 'Shadow Mist' to summon my 'Masked Hero Anki'(2800/1200)!" She explained as 'Shadow Mist' put on the new mask transforming her into Rose's new hero in a hazy black energy wave of high pitched sounds and black fire. "Now I also get a 'Hero' from my deck to my hand!"
"It doesn't matter what you summon," Para smirked. "All three of our monsters have the same ability, your monster will not be able to destroy them."
"It doesn't matter," Rose said smirking. "'Anki' can attack you directly in exchange for halving its attack points, go 'Anki' attack Para with Ongeki Ha: Kishin Kakusei!"
Anki made a sound vaguely similar to a low pitch tuning fork and disappeared in a flash of black fire before appearing behind Para and slashing his back with his now flaming elbow blades (Para-Dox LP: 13800-12400). "Now I set a card and end my turn."
"Good move but it's all for not," Dox said smirking. "Your blinding rage has left your partner wide open, 'Sagna' and 'Kazejin' attack that pathetic twerp," (Rose-Syrus LP: 11600-6800). "Your life points are falling," He laughed posing.
"Your game play is appalling," Para finished mirroring his pose.
"There is nothing to be done but give up and start bawling!" They yelled laughing.
←To be continued