Duel 51: Mild Soap
Sekhmet: We beached our main characters for some time with the secondaries.
Susano-o: They need it, and we get to show off their new decks! Fun fact Fossil is now a real Archetype and it's really good. Now all we need is Axel and Adrian to get some support and the gang will be all here.
Sekhmet: They're not part of the gang yet, we still have to work on that.
Susano-o: I mean as in they'll all have actual functioning decks (Excluding Cloudians which were apparently pretty good).
Sekhmet: Well Cloudians are pretty situational right? It's pretty much up to the luck of the draw and they depend on it way more than other decks right? By the way, everyone's gonna get a major deck rework by at least season 4.
Susano-o: Yeah, Also I get to unleash the Horror that is OJAMA-ARMED DRAGON-VWXYZ! Oja-Megazord assemble!
Sekhmet: You guys are so lucky only supports the core 3 font alterations because holy crap is that gonna be a torture fest to read.
Susano-o: EVERY OJAMA GETS THEIR OWN FONT! 5 FONTS TO MAKE YOU SUFFER! AHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHHAHAHAH! *Dio wrry pose*
Sekhmet: Help. Here we goooOOOOO!
"Corporal you ok?" A voice asked. "Come on Corporal time to rise and shine."
Yuko groaned as she tried to open her eyes, but ended up covering them in the infirmary's blinding light. "...did anyone get the number of the truck that hit me?"
"Illogical: A truck would cause significant blunt force trauma to your anatomy, Scans indicate you are perfectly intact."
"Just an expression, Avatar." Yuko groaned.
"Yuko!" A voice yelled before a small body slammed into her chest. "You're awake!"
"Yes dear. I'm glad you're safe." Yuko said, hugging him back.
"We were worried about you," Another voice, female this time, added. "You've been asleep for hours."
Yuko finally managed to pry her eyes open. "Did you manage to catch Rose yet?" She asked. Looking around she saw everyone was here, even Alexis and Chazz, who was currently keeping watch by the door.
"Girl eluded us and ran deeper into the woods," Jim answered. "Shirley's got her trail, but we all came back here when we heard you went down."
Chazz, at that, turned his head to look at her. "Yeah what happened there? You've never gone down like that before, even against the shadow riders?"
"Well, either I exhausted myself summoning Eraser to save our butts, or I was so mind numbingly enraged I passed out when my blood pressure finally dropped, or something else fishy is going on." Yuko reasoned. "One of those three anyway."
…..
"Well it's not perfect," Viper said as he looked over the large metal dish now strapped to the glowing tank in the middle of the room. "-But it will do."
"The fact you had to create such a device to attempt to make up for your failure to use the Bi0-bands is….disheartening." The tank said.
"My apology," Viper said bowing. "I was not expecting such resistance from those four."
"Yes….curse that infernal creature for making them so much stronger," The tank snarled. "No matter…..with this dish draining their energy it will take more time….but it will work and I will be reborn."
"And then you will bring back Pierce?" Viper asked hopefully.
"Yes….I will bring back your son," The tank agreed.
"Thank you sir," Viper nodded before turning back to his monitors to keep watch.
….
Axel devoured his lunch as quickly as he could in confusion, he had done survival duels before but never passed out before, something about Viper's new methods rubbed him the wrong way. "I'll have to ask him about it later," He mumbled out loud chewing on an apple.
Outside his room Adrian eavesdropped in. "Did you get that Echo?" He whispered into his collar.
"Yes sir," A woman responded. "If you bring me one of those Bio-bands, I believe I can find out what caused those two to react like that."
"Alright, but I'm going to do some investigating on my own after."
"Please be careful sir," Echo responded.
"I will," Adrian smiled before leaving the dorms.
….
"Alright, enough of me lying around like a lump on a log, let's get back to business." Yuko said, and made a move to get up.
"What? But you were just out cold for 12 hours. You should rest." Syrus said.
"I've done enough resting. It's not like I can help bring her back by just laying here." Yuko said, combing hair out of her face with her fingers.
"Corporal we can find the Sarge, you should rest," Hassleberry insisted.
"Yeah that damn Slacker isn't gonna get away from us," Chazz insisted.
"Chazz language," Alexis chastised. "-But he is right, we have people around the docks so she can't leave on the submarine or airship," She explained, gripping her skirt tighter. "We'll find her and set her straight."
"...fine. But I'm gonna complain the whole time." Yuko said, plopping back into the bed.
"That's fine as long as you stay there," Chazz said firmly. "We'll handle her."
"Get better soon honey!" Syrus said, kissing Yuko's cheek as they left the room. Yuko wanted to be mad that she was being left behind, but her boyfriend always melted her.
….
"So," Chazz said as the four walked through the forest to meet Jim. "Hassleberry, I don't think we've been properly introduced."
"I don't believe we have. Tyranno Hassleberry, nice to meet you." He said, shaking his hand vigorously.
"Umm Chazz Princeton," Chazz answered, rubbing his now sore shoulder. "And I would like to formally apologize for last year, had I known there would be a cult leader bent on world domination, I would have done online classes."
"I'm sorry too," Alexis added. "We had a good friendship starting and then it was ruined," She then turned to Syrus. "And sorry to you as well, I don't think we all ever really apologized."
"The past is the past. Plus mind control kind of relieves you of your actions anyway." Hassleberry said.
"Yeah, and it was an extraordinary situation anyway, nobody could really hold you to it." Syrus agreed.
Alexis smiled with a sigh of relief. "Thank you," She said, much more relaxed. "We should duel at some point, you're much more confident than you were first year."
"And I want to see how good supposed Dino DNA is against the might of the Ojamas!" Chazz declared sending a shiver of fear down everyone's spine.
"Anytime, any place!" Hassleberry grinned.
"You think so?" Syrus asked.
"Please don't," Alexis begged, shivering in remembrance. "That deck is cursed."
"No it isn't," Chazz insisted. "My Ojama-Armed Dragon-VWXYZ deck is perfect!"
"The fact you have three archtypes in one deck and one of them is Ojama's proves it's cursed," Alexis deadpanned. "The creation of the Ojama's proves the Gods have abandoned us and we will be smote soon," The three men looked at her in fear as they slowly moved away from her. "It was a joke guys," She sighed, shaking her head, smirking.
"Yeah, well it works!" Chazz replied as his only response to that.
"...I can see why Rose likes you two," Hassleberry said chuckling.
….
Rose looked up from her new hammock in confusion. "I feel like someone's getting character development and I'm missing it," She said before shrugging and laying back down in an attempt to sleep without the nightmares plaguing her mind.
….
Yuko, meanwhile, was grumbling in her bed while glaring at the ceiling. "Going on adventures and getting character development without me… I want some character development…"
….
"Howdy ya'll!" Jim yelled as the group reached his clearing. "Shirley found her scent so let's get going!"
"Ok," Alexis said nodding then turning to everyone. "Let's find her," She said firmly.
The group slowly trudged through the underbrush following Shirley till eventually they reached a larger space in the forest.
"What's wrong girl?" Jim asked, rubbing her head as she started moving erratically.
"What's wrong with that overgrown lizard?" Chazz asked before suddenly being shoved down by a snarling Hassleberry. "What! Get off me you overgrown lizard!" He shouted.
"Hassleberry!" Alexis yelled trying to pull his arm away from Chazz's throat. "What is wrong with you!?"
"What's going on?!" Syrus asked. Not being physically inclined, he resorted to becoming an ankle weight.
"He's gone feral!" Jim explained poking a pressure point in Hassleberry's neck forcing him to tense up long enough for Chazz to scurry away. "What could have caused this though?"
"Well, he always said that he had Dino DNA, and dinosaurs were reptiles right?" Syrus said.
"Dino DNA?" Jim asked, letting Hassleberry go. "So this frequency is messing with Reptiles, great."
Hassleberry snarled as he grabbed his duel disk.
"Looks like we're gonna have to duel him," Alexis said, pulling out her disk.
"Let me do this," Jim said standing in front of her. "I have experience wrestling with reptiles, and you need to get your girl," He said, smirking.
Alexis blushed but nodded. "Lets go," She said, pulling Syrus and Chazz's arms.
"But what about the duel?" Syrus asked.
"Forget it, let's go." Chazz rebutted, and the three ran deeper into the woods.
"Well then big boy," Jim said tilting his hat. "Time to tame me a tyranno."
….
Rose sat up. "I'm not sure if I just felt the best pun in the world or the worst, either way I'm angry I wasn't there to hear it."
…
Yuko have a slow blink in absolute disbelief before shaking her head. "I feel a great disturbance in the pun force, as if thousands of fan girls cried out, and were silenced." She muttered, then coughed up a bit of blood. "Ra that was a bad one."
….
"Let's go," Jim said, drawing his first card. "I'll play the field spell 'Sacred Defense Barrier' he said as a giant plateau and forest appeared around him. "Now whenever I play a rock type monster I can put it to defense mode and give it a protection counter saving it from destruction once," Jim explained. "Which is perfect for my next card 'Shell Knight' (0/2000)!" He yelled as a creature made entirely of mollusk shells appeared on the field and quickly switched to defense mode. "Because when he's summoned you take 500 points of damage."
'Shell Knight' reared its arms back and fired two razor clams at Hassleberry. (LP: 8000-7500). "Now I'll set this card face down and end my turn."
Hassleberry snarled as he drew his card. "I special summon 'Gilasaurus' (1400/400) from my hand, and I activate 'Big Evolution Pill', by tributing 'Gilasaurus' I can now normal summon level 5 or higher monsters without tributing!"
"Oh that's not good," Jim mumbled.
"So come on out 'Ultimate Tyranno' (3000/2200)!" Hassleberry yelled bring out his massive spiked dinosaur. "Ultimate Tyranno attack his 'Shell Knight'!"
The large dinosaur roared as he charged at the mollusk monster, tearing apart his protection in an instant. "Now I'll place two cards face down and end my turn."
"Good play but it won't help you now," Jim smirked, drawing his card. "I activate 'Specimen Inspection' I reveal one 'Fossil Fusion' and then I get to declare a type and level and you have to send a card from your deck or your hand that fits that description, so I pick level 8 and Dinosaur."
Hassleberry snarled as he sent the correct card to the graveyard 'Super-Ancient Dinobeast'/
"Now I summon 'Flint Cragger' (800/1600) and sacrifice him to inflict 500 points of damage to your life points again. (LP: 7500-7000). And now I activate 'Fossil Fusion!" He yelled as a giant stone appeared behind him with fossils of his monster and Tyranno's on them. "I banish both my 'Flint Cragger' and your 'Super Ancient Dinobeast' to summon 'Fossil Dragon Skullgios' (3500/0)!" He yelled as a giant tyrannosaurus fossil clawed its way out of the rock. "'Skullgios' attack 'Ultimate Tyranno'!"
'Skullgios' roared as it clashed head first with 'Ultimate Tyranno' the two clawing and biting at each other. "And don't forget about 'Skullgios's' ability that allows me to switch your monsters attack and defense while doing double damage against you."
'Skullgios' roared as he tore 'Ultimate Tyranno's neck open and flug its corpse at Hassleberry (LP: 7000-4400). "Now I end my turn."
"Good one," Hassleberry snarled. "-But now I activate my face down card! 'Fossil Excavation' by sending a dino to the grave I can resummon my 'Ultimate Tyranno' (3000/2200)!" He smirked, drawing his card. "Now I play 'Fossil Dig' to add a level 6 or higher dino to my hand, and then I think I'll summon him, 'Super Conductor Tyranno' (3300/1400)!" He yelled as his newest dino, a massive mix of cybernetics and teeth appeared on the field.
"He's a big boy," Jim smirked. "-But not big enough to handle 'Skullgios'."
"Don't need to if your big guy isn't face up," Hassleberry smirked. "I activate 'Swords of Concealing light' to flip him to face down defense position!" Jim quickly lost his smirk when his card flipped over. "All right 'Ultimate Tyranno' tear his card apart and then 'Conductor' tear him apart!" (Jim LP: 8000-4700). "Now I end my turn."
Jim glared as he drew his next card before sighing in relief. "Mighty fine move of yours but it won't be enough when I activate 'Fossil Hammer' to smash your 'Ultimate Tyranno'." Hassleberry snarled as his dino was crushed under a giant rock fist. "Don't worry you get a lower level monster from your grave as compensation."
"I'll summon 'Gilasaurus' (1400/400) then," Hassleberry said.
"Alright, oh and also since you destroyed my 'Skullgios' I get the 'Fossil Fusion' I used to summon him back to my hand," Jim explained. "-Now I'll use it to fuse my 'Shell Knight' and your 'Super Conductor' to summon 'Fossil Warrior Skull Bone' (2000/800)!" He yelled as a small bone monster wielding a spear appeared on the field and was quickly flipped face down. "Now I end my turn."
"Good," Hassleberry said as his 'Swords' was destroyed. "Now I can end this, I'll summon 'Black Tyranno' (2600/1800) and I'll use his ability to attack you directly!" (Jim LP: 4700-2100) Now 'Gilasaurus' will destroy your face down and then 'Conductor' to end this!"
"Not so fast!" Jim yelled. "Go 'Call of the Haunted' bring back my 'Fossil Dragon Skullgios' (3500/0)!"
Hassleberry's eyes went wide as he stopped the attack realizing now he had no cards left to stop that beast.
"Well looks like this duel is ready for extinction," Jim smirked. "'Skullgios' attack 'Gilasurus' Dragon Fang Crush!" (Hassleberry LP: 4400-0).
Hassleberry groaned as he came back to himself. "What happened?" He asked before the two passed out together in the field.
….
"Are we there yet?" Syrus asked, taking a big step over a fallen tree.
"I don't know, I can't see anything with all these leaves in the way." Chazz griped, and attempted to swat a branch out of the way, only for it to fly back and hit him in the face. "Agh! Stupid nature!"
"Chazz get a grip," Alexis glared. "I think we're almost there."
"Where is she?" Syrus asked, looking around for Rose.
"There!" Chazz whispered, pointing at a small clearing.
Rose's campsite had a small lean-to made of thick branches, straw, and animal furs with a small fire pit and stool, Rose herself was roasting a fish over the fire on a skewer while a monkey picked twigs and bugs out of her hair.
"How should we do this?" Alexis asked.
"I don't know. I mean, if we mess this up, who knows where she'll go next." Syrus said. "Whatever we end up doing, we have to take it slow, quietly and-"
"Hey! You better get back to civilization or there's gonna be major trouble!" Chazz yelled, standing up in full view without any hesitation. Rose quickly scattered like John Mulaney at a high school party.
"Damn it Chazz!" Alexis screamed smacking his head.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Chazz yelped. As he and Alexis argued about his latest fuck up, Syrus watched wistfully as Rose scurries off into the woods.
"...I miss my friends…" he thought.