Susano-o: This chapter is also fun.
Sekhmet: Eh. It sets up but it's also kinda boring.
Susano-o: Rose gets her riches bitches.
Sekhmet: On with the show.
Duel 23: I'M ON A BOAT!
"So how is Tania adjusting?" Rose asked as they settled around the dinner table.
"Well enough," Camula said sipping from her "tomato juice". "She at least understands modern technology, so it was adjusting to being around people."
"Well that's nice." Yuko said.
"Yep," Rose said grabbing another bowl of rice. "She built a house for herself and Bastion at the edge of the woods not far from the Ra Dorms, apparently their tuna pounding is keeping everyone else up," She said biting a tempura chicken piece in half.
Yuko shivered at that comment. "Poor Ras."
"Must you be so crude?" Camula asked. "I know language has changed since my time, but common decency still exists."
"She's right, you know." Yuko said, pointing at Camula.
"Oh screw you two," Rose snorted eating a few vegetables. "I am a riot."
"Eeeeeeh…" Yuko thought.
"Hey you two!" Chazz yelled opening the dining room door. "We've got a situation."
"What's up?" Rose said raising an eyebrow.
"There's someone down at the docks, and he wants to duel you," Chazz said pointing at Rose.
"Why you specifically?" Yuko wondered.
"I don't know," Rose said leaving her dinner and walking towards away. "Did you guys even know our names?" She asked Camula.
"We weren't given your names, no." Camula said.
"Well let's go then," Rose said cracking her knuckles.
"Alright." Yuko said, and the group made their way to the docks. A huge submarine was waiting for them.
"ATTENTION YE LANDLUBBERS!" A voice screamed out over the intercom.
"Too loud!" Yuko shouted, covering her ears.
"I SEEK THE ONE CALLED ROSE WARREN!"
"I'm right here!" Rose yelled back. "Are you the next Shadow Rider?"
"WHAT DID YE SAY?" The voice yelled.
"Does he sound familiar?" Midori asked Tania and Camula as she covering her ears too.
"No, but he could be the one who hadn't awakened yet." Camula said.
"No, he doesn't seem familiar to me either." Tania agreed.
"I WISH FOR YE TO COME ABOARD MY SHIP!" The voice yelled. "I'LL DROP THE GANGPLANK FOR YOU ALL!"
"Fine!" Rose yelled. "At least it will get you off the damn speaker."
The ship's gangplank descended creating a path for them leading them up to the sail. "Are we really going in?" Chazz asked.
"Yeah, this seems like a trap and a half." Yuko said.
"What other choice do we have?" Aleixs asked. "I highly doubt we can wait him out before he starts doing something else."
"And as we've seen they're not above threats," Midori said with an annoyed sigh.
"We could ask him. After all, you two both don't seem to be familiar with him, maybe he's not a Shadow Rider." Yuko suggested.
"WHAT'S THE HOLD UP!" The voice boomed again.
"Hold your horses!" Rose yelled.
"WHAT?!" The voice yelled back.
"Hey, are you a Shadow Rider?" Yuko shouted as loud as she could.
"I BE A SEA RIDER!" The voice yelled back.
"See see rider," Rose sang. "Well that's odd."
"Well it's two different things, right?" Yuko asked.
"Possibly," Midori said shrugging.
"Let's get going," Rose said cracking her knuckles. "What's the worst that could happen," She said walking up the gangplank.
"He could kill all of us for fun." Yuko said, but followed her anyway.
"Then they lose the keys," Rose said. "Also we got these two," She said gesturing to Camula and Tania.
"I guess." Yuko admitted.
…
The submarine looked modern on the outside, but the inside was all high tech. There was even a submerged duel arena.
Yuko whistled. "Wow, danger Will Robinson."
"Wrong reference," Rose said looking around. "Now let's find captain Nemo," She said before smirking. "That's the right reference."
"Right." Yuko said.
The group made their way to the bridge, which had a massive frontal facing window looking at the ocean floor. "Ah there ye are!" The voice called out from above them.
"So do you want our keys or not?" Yuko asked.
From the stairway a giant of a man wearing wearing a giant captain's coat, a sea captain's hat, tiny glasses, and the buttest of butt chins appeared. "Keys, what keys?" He asked confused.
"The ones for the Spirit Gates," Midori said holding hers up.
"Spirit gates?" He asked scratching his chin.
"You know, unlock all the spirit gates, release the Sacred Beasts and cause the apocalypse?" Yuko prompted.
"OH THE SACRED BEASTS!" He yelled loudly. "YES I KNOW OF THEM!"
"So you are the next Shadow Rider!" Rose accused. "Now let's duel!"
"Ah yes las'!" He yelled. "Let's go down to my duel arena!"
…
"So what should the rest of us do?" Chazz asked as they watched the two walk downstairs on the main cockpit screen.
"Watch like we always do, I guess." Yuko said.
"Didn't we say we were gonna fight this two on one or even more?" Alexis said raising an eyebrow.
"Not this particular battle, no. But we really should start doing that." Yuko said.
"Problem was the first one dragged you off without us knowing," Chazz started to explain. "Then we had Camula forcing our souls into dolls so we couldn't risk it, and the less said about Tania's loss the better." Everyone cringed in remembrance, except Camula, who wasn't there for it. Lucky her.
"So what's your name?" Rose asked activating her duel disk.
"I be the Admiral!" He yelled activating his jewel encrusted gold plated duel disk.
"Well Mr. Admiral, you're in luck," Rose said smirking. "It's been awhile since I dueled and the rest of the Shadow Riders ended up blue balling me, so I'm about ready to blow my load all over you."
"Gross." Yuko whined.
"Why do I date her?" Alexis asked herself sarcastically.
"Duel!" They yelled.
"My move!" Rose yelled drawing. "I play 'Elemental Hero Ocean' (1500/1200)."
"AH NOW THERE'S A FINE CARD!" The Admiral yelled loudly. "A REAL BEAST OF THE DEEP!"
"...Right then," Rose said. "I place two cards face down and end my turn."
"Alright!" The Admiral yelled. "I play 'A legendary Ocean'!" He yelled as the arena filled with water.
"I'm breathing water, I'm a fucking fish," Rose joked. "You know my card gets a boost from this too right?" (E-Hero Ocean 1500-1700/1200-1400).
"Yes but it won't matter when my beast of the sea 'Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness' (2100-2300/1200-1400). He yelled as a massive orca shot out of the ground.
"Cool," Rose said smiling. "Well the hit me with your best shot!"
"Oh I will!" He yelled. "'Orca' destroy her 'Ocean' with KILLER WHALE CANNON!"
"Oh no you don't, go 'Draining Shield'!" Rose yelled. "Now I get points equal to your monsters attack" (Rose LP: 8000-10100).
"Erm, I place a card face down then and end me turn," The Admiral said nervously.
"So far so good; She's taken the lead." Yuko said.
"Yeah, and with those extra life points as a buffer, she'll probably hold that lead for a while." Alexis said.
"My move, this is gonna take my whole hand, but it will be worth it! I'll start by playing 'Fake Hero' to special summon my 'Elemental Hero Bladedge!" (2600/1800). "That's not all I play 'Polymerization' to fuse my 'Elemental Hero Ocean' and my 'Elemental Hero Woodsman' to form "Elemental Hero Terra Firma!" She yelled as a new pure white hero came out of the Earth (2500/2000). "And here's the fun thing, I can sacrifice one 'Elemental Hero' and 'Terra Firma' gains its attack points, so sorry 'Bladedge' but I need your power," Rose said as 'Bladedge' was absorbed into 'Terra Firma' giving him a massive glowing aura. (2500-5100/200 "Now 'Terra Firma', rip that 'Orca' to bits!"
'Terra Firma' pulled out his massive twin light swords and charged forward, cross slashing 'Orca' in two (Admiral LP: 8000-5200). "And that's my turn."
"That orca just got yote!" Yuko said with glee.
"Well, that's why they're endangered." Midori said.
"How can something like that be endangered? It's huge!" Camula asked.
"Hunting." Yuko answered simply.
"People hunt those?!" Camula asked incredulously.
"Yes, though they're nothing like hunting humpback whales and great white sharks," Tania said smiling.
"You won't be sending me to the briny deep!" Admiral yelled drawing his card. "I play 'The Shallow Grave' this allows us to summon back any monster in our graveyard back to the field in defense mode, so come back 'Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness' (2100-2300/1200-1400).
"And come on back 'Elemental Hero Woodsman' (1000/200)!"
"Now I play 'Cursed Waters Level 3' now I can summon monsters this turn as long as their total levels equal less than or equal to three, so because of my 'Legendary Ocean' Downgrading all water monsters by one level I can summon my 'Cannonball Spear Fish' (1000/1000) and my 'Torpedo Fish' (1000/1000)!" Now I'll use my 'Orca's' effect, by sacrificing them I can destroy one of your spell or trap cards, and one of your monsters!"
"Ah damn it," Rose hisses as she watched her face down and her 'Terra Firma' blow up.
"And now my 'Orca' is gonna blow your 'Woodsman' to bits! KILLER WHALE CANNON!" 'Orca' opened his mouth and fired a massive laser beam, wiping Rose's monster from the field. "And now I end me turn."
"But humpback whales are huge, and great white sharks are said to be man eaters! How did humans survive this long?!" Camula asked incredulously.
"We kind of just walked things to death." Yuko said.
"Or we outsmarted them." Tania added.
"We're a pretty violent species," Chazz said shrugging.
"Don't you eat people?" Midori said raising an eyebrow.
"We drink their blood, zombies eat people. We preyed on a single species, but at the time they didn't seem so dangerous." Camula admitted.
"Well I guess we proved you wrong," Midori chuckled.
"Alright then," Rose said drawing her card. "I special summon 'Elemental Elemental Hero Bubbleman' (800/1200) by his effect," She said as a high tech bubble themed superhero in a cape hit the fiend.
"He's Batman!" Yuko shouted in an overly gravelly voice.
"And since he's the only card on my field and I have no cards in my hand, I get to draw 2 cards," She said drawing her cards. "I set a card and end my turn."
The Admiral laughed loudly. "If that's all you got then you're not worth enough of being me first mate!" He yelled.
Rose blinked. I'm sorry what?" She asked. "Is that the penalty for losing to you, I become your crewman forever?"
"No you right fool!" He laughed. "You're coming to me school, THE UNDERWATER DUEL ACADEMY OF TEMPLEMER!"
Rose blinked again. "I'm sorry what?" She asked.
"Eh? This is what this duel's all about?" Yuko asked.
"He wants her to be his second in command?" Tania added.
"So he's not a Shadow Rider!" Chazz yelled.
"Then why are we here," Midori asked rubbing her head in annoyance.
"I'm not sure." Camula said.
"We played ourselves." Tania said.
"Yes an underwater dueling school!" The Admiral yelled.
"Woah woah back up," Rose said. "How do you know about the Sacred Beasts?"
"Ah let me explain," The Admiral said. "I'm a collector with a lot of money," He explained. "I know about all the rarest treasures in the world, and recently I've decided to create a duel academy to have a collection of the best duelists in the world, and I want you to be my top student! I'll pay you ten-thousand doubloons if you leave duel academy and come with me!"
Rose blinked for the third time. "What?" She asked.
"What is that in Yen?" Yuko asked.
"In dollars a thousand doubloons in a million dollars," Chazz said.
"So ten of those, carry the commas…" she said, counting on her fingers. "That's over a billion Yen!"
"Over four million Leu!" Camula gasphed.
"Holy hell," Rose said sitting down on the floor. "Give me a minute," She said putting her head in her hands.
"Of course take a minute," The Admiral said smiling.
...
"You guys need to leave," one of the crewman said shoving the rest of the people in the bridge out to the back.
"Hey, careful! One of us is allergic to light!" Yuko said.
"Why are you shoving us out?" Alexis said angrily.
"You're all going, since she'll be staying," He explained herding them into a boat in the back cargo bay, where the doors opened up and a large crane picked them up and dropped them into the ocean. "So I'm taking you back."
"We're not stupid, she didn't agree to anything yet!" Yuko argued.
"You're not taking my girlfriend!" Alexis yelled.
"Yeah, you're not taking my friend!" Yuko added.
"Why would you do this?" Camula asked.
"Do you intend to do her harm?" Tania asked, wishing her Tiger was here with her.
"No, why would he do that?" He asked driving them away.
"Why would you go through all this trouble to get us to leave her behind then?" Camula asked. "Yuko's right, she didn't agree to anything."
"Because The Admiral doesn't want you influencing her," He explained.
"Yeah cause that's not sketchy as hell to say." Yuko said. "He doesn't respect that she can make her own decisions?"
"She can, without you being there," He said.
"I will sue your ass!" Chazz yelled.
"And I'll leave you here in the ocean," He responded without looking back.
"What do you two think?" Yuko thought.
"Kill Him," The two Wicked Gods said together.
"Sounds about right." Yuko thought, but didn't act on it.
…
"Alexis come back in," Midori said with a sigh.
"No not till she comes back," Alexis said as she started out towards the vast expanse of the ocean. Yuko looked to the ocean with sadness and disdain, but said nothing.
"Alexis, come on, even if she says no she's basically been kidnapped," Midori said patting her shoulder. "We told Sheppard, it's up to the police now."
"That's not what I'm worried about," Alexis said pulling her knees tighter to her chest. "I know her financial situation is bad, but would she really take the deal without tell me?" She thought sadly.
"If I had acted even slightly on that suggestion, we could have had her back right now." Yuko thought. "We could have pulled a daring heist and everything."
"Guys come one," Midori said sighing. "It's getting late, we should go inside."
Alexis sniffed as she stood up and left, giving the ocean one final look before going back to the red dorms, she was sleeping in Rose's bed tonight.
...
"So she's like really gone?" Chumley asked in shock.
"I don't believe it myself, but those are the rumors, yes." Yuko said.
"Alexis come on," Midori said looking at the blue girl. "You need to eat."
"I'm not hungry," Alexis said sighing.
"Honestly me neither. You can have this." Yuko said, pushing her tray over to Syrus.
"Oh, uh thanks." Syrus said, a little flushed but mostly also sad.
"Hey you guys something's coming into the docks!" Chazz yelled from the doorway. The group got up to see what Chazz was talking about.
"Did she get free?" Alexis asked hopefully as the shape became clearer.
"Yes, yes she did," Midori said exasperatedly.
Rose was standing on top of The Admiral's submarine, wearing a blue captain's jacket with a white polo shirt, white shorts, and flip flops and The Admiral's hat on her head. Sipping something out of a martini glass while she turned a wheel that was crudely attached to the top of the submarine. I'm On A Boat was blaring over the PA system. "Tally Ho Good chaps!" She yelled to the people on the docks.
"I knew it." Yuko said.
"I should have expected it," Midori grumbled.
"She's back!" Syrus cheered.
"And she's got a 'Licous ride!" Chumley added.
Alexis ran down to meet Rose as she expertly maneuvered the submarine into port, where everyone could now see she had a tampographe saying USS M'DICK on the side.
"I told you I'd get a submarine Yuko!" She yelled sliding down to secure the submarine to the dock. "-But no you didn't believe me!"
"How the fuck!" Yuko said.
"You should know by now to never underestimate me," Rose said finishing her drink. "Anyone want a martini?" She asked. "Come on inside!"
The group boarded the submarine where Rose took them down to the Captain's lounge and started serving up martini's before pulling Alexis onto her lap. "So what did I miss?" She asked.
"Are you just not going to explain how you got this submarine!?" Midori yelled.
"Yeah I for one would like an explanation." Yuko added.
"Oh it's simple," Rose said taking a drink. "See he tried to lie that you all left me, but I knew that was a lie, so I agreed to go and he took me to his school," She explained. "From there I drained his entire fortune over the course of an hour into the submarine and then stole the submarine!" She chuckled. "And since this was the only submarine they couldn't catch me!" She said breaking down in laughter.
"I'm not gonna lie both your tale and the sub are pretty damn cool." Yuko said.
"So you commited grand theft and grand theft auto?" Midori asked angrily.
"No I freed myself from a captive situation," Rose said smirking. "And that's what they'll say when the government finally rescues their asses from under there."
"Oh dear." Yuko said.
"You be amazed how easy this thing is to pilot, I'll give you guys a ride soon," Rose said smiling. "First though I have to get it registered with the school, luckily I don't need a submarine license!" She laughed.
"We should use this as a clubhouse." Yuko said, though the others were preoccupied with the insanity still unfolding.