Chapter 19: The Birth of an Anomaly
Turn 1: Apprentice (4000 LP, 5 cards)
Apprentice normal summons Bururu Ignister and activates its effect, sending 6elements ignister from deck to GY. Since 6elements has been sent to gy, it's effect activates, adding Doyon Ignister to hand. Apprentice uses Bururu Ignister as Link Material to summon Link 1 Dark Infant ignister. Since Dark Infant is Link Summoned, Apprentice adds Ignister Ailand from deck to hand and then activates it, summoning the Dark attribute Doyon ignister and activates it's effect, adding Bururu from GY to hand. Apprentice uses Doyon and Dark Infant to link summon Link 2 Dark Sage Ignister and activates it's effect when Link Summoned, adding Ignister Darkland from deck to hand. He activates Dark Sage's second effect, tributing itself to special summon the Dark attribute Doyon and 6elements ignister from GY. 6elements's effect activates upon being summoned, summoning Pikari Ignister from his hand and treating it's element as Dark Attribute. Pikari's effect activates, adding FA. Spirit to hand. He then uses both of Doyon and 6elements to Link Summon IP:Masquena. Apprentice activates Ignister Darkland since he controls Ignister Ailand and activates it's first effect, summoning Dark Sage from GY. He then activates Darkland's effect to discard Bururu to add $$ Ignister from deck to hand. Apprentice uses Pikari as Link material to Link Summon Link 1 Linguriboh.
Apprentice sets AI.Q and Reality and ends his turn. (4000 LP, 3 cards, $$$ and FA. Spirit)
Turn 2: Thunder Emperor (4000 LP, 5 cards)
Thunder Emperor draws Thunder Dragon and activates its effect from the hand to discard itself to add another copy to hand. He uses this effect again to add a third copy to hand. He banishes the level 5 Thunder Dragondark from hand to Special Summon Thunder Dragonlord from hand and activates it's effect, adding Thunder Dragonhawk from deck to hand and then activates its effect by banishing it, special summoning Dragondark from banish zone to the field. He normal summons Thunder Dragonmatrix and uses it and Dragondark to Link Summon Predaplant Verte Annaconda. Thunder Emperor activates Dragonmatrix's effect since it's sent from the field to GY, adding another copy to hand. Then he activates Verte's effect, by paying 2000 LP (Thunder Emperor: 4000 - 2000), he sends Thunder Dragon Fusion from deck to GY to use its effect: He shuffles 2 Thunder Dragons and Thunder Dragonhawk from GY to Fusion Summon Thunder Dragon Titan. Thunder Emperor activates Thunder Life since he activate a Thunder monster's effect from the hand this way, he gains LP equal to Thunder Dragonhawk's DEF of 2200 (Thunder Emperor: 2000 - 4200)
Thunder Emperor discard Thunder Dragon from hand to activates it's effect and chains with Titan to destroy Dark Sage. At this moment, Apprentice chains with IP's effect, allowing Apprentice to Link Summon immediately by using IP as Link Material. He uses Link 2 Dark Sage and Link 2 IP to Link Summon Link 4 Dark Skirmisher Ignister. Titan's effect resolves without destroying any cards and he adds a copy of Thunder Dragon to hand. He activates Thunder Dragon's effect from hand and chains with Titan's effect again to destroy Dark Skirmisher but because IP is used as a Link Material, Dark Skrimisher cannot be destroyed by card effects. Thunder Emperor adds the last copy of Thunder Dragon to hand.
Thunder Emperor declares battle and attacks Dark Skrimisher with Titan. Dark Skirmisher cannot be destroyed by battle with it's own effect (Apprentice: 4000 - 3800). Thunder Emperor attacks Linguriboh with Dragonlord (Apprentice: 3800 - 1100). Since a Dark Attribute Cyberse monster is about to be destroyed, Apprentice activates AIternate Reality, destroying Dragonlord instead of Linguriboh.
Thunder Emperor sets Thunder Dragon Discharge and ends his turn. Since Reality destroyed a monster, Apprentice sends Linguriboh to the GY. (4200 LP, 2 cards, Thunder Dragon, Thunder Dragonmatrix)
Turn 3: Apprentice (1100 LP, 3 cards, $$$ and FAthing Spirit)
Apprentice draws and activates Reality. Since he controls Ignister Darkland while Ignister Ailand is in the GY, Apprentice can use the effect of Ignister Ailand in the GY but he cannot activate the effect of Ignister Darkland for the rest of the turn. Apprentices uses the effect of Ignister Ailand to Special Summon $$$ Ignister and activates it's effect, summoning *Starzzz* Ignister from his deck. *Starzzz* activates it's effect, summoning an ignister token. Apprentice uses *Starzzz*,$$$ and token to Link Summon Dark Templar Ignister. Apprentice activates Linguriboh from GY, tributing Dark Templar to special summon itself from GY. Apprentice activates the effect of Dark Skirmisher, equipping Dark Templar from GY to Dark Skirmisher. At this point, Thunder Emperor activates the effect of Thunder Dragon Discharge to banish Dragondark from deck to destroy Dark Templar but Apprentice activates the effect of Linguriboh by tributing itself to negate the effect of Discharge and banish it.
Apprentice declares battle and attacks Verte with Dark Skirmisher. Since Dark Skirmisher attacked, Dark Skirmisher's effect activates, sending Dark Templar to GY to gain ATK equal to Dark Templar's ATK (Dark Skirmisher ATK: 3000 - 5300) Thunder Emperor activates the effect of Dragonmatrix's effect from hand to target Titan and chains with Titan. Titan destroys Verte and Titan gains 500 ATK from Dragonmatirx (Titan ATK: 3200 - 3700). Replay phase occurs, Dark Skirmisher attacks and destroys Titan (Thunder Emperor: 4200 - 2600).
Apprentice enters Main Phase 2 and activates FA. Spirit to Special Summon Dark Templar from GY. Since a Dark Templar's Link Arrow points to a Spell/Trap Zone, Apprentice activates Judgement Arrows. Apprentice sets a AI challenge you and ends turn. At this point, Dark Skirmisher's effect ends, returning it's ATK to normal (Dark Skirmisher ATK: 5300 - 3000) (1100 LP, 0 cards)
Turn 4: Thunder Emperor (2600 LP, 1 card, Thunder Dragon)
Thunder Emperor draws. At this point, Apprentice activates AI.Q and AI challenge you. Now Thunder Emperor can only Link Summon once per turn and monsters he control loses 100 ATK for every card Apprentice controls. Apprentice controls 6 cards. Thunder Emperor activates Fusion from GY by banishing it to add Dragonroar to hand and then he activates Dragonroar by discarding it, adding Fusion back to hand. Thunder Emperor activates Fusion, shuffling 2 Thunder Dragons and Titan from GY to Fusion Summon another copy of Titan (Titan ATK: 3200 - 2600). Thunder Emperor activates the effect of Thunder Dragon with Titan's effect, destroying Darkland and adds another copy to hand (Titan ATK: 2600 - 2700). Thunder Emperor does the same again, this time Titan destroys Judgement Arrows (Titan ATK: 2700 - 2800). With Judgement Arrows leaving the field, Judgement Arrows destroys all monsters it points to, therefore, Dark Templar is destroyed (Titan ATK: 2800 - 2900). AI challenge you's effect activates when an Ignister monster Apprentice controls is destroyed by card effect, he summons Dark Templar to the field (Titan ATK: 2900 - 2800).
Thunder Emperor declares battle and attacks Dark Templar with Titan (Apprentice: 1100 - 600). With AIternate Reality's destroys Titan instead of Dark Templar but Thunder Emperor banishes Dragondark and Dragonmatrix from GY to negate the destruction of Titan. Dragondark and Dragonmatrix's effect activates, Dragonmatrix adds a third copy to hand while Dragondark adds Thunder Dragonduo to hand.
Thunder Emperor banishes Thunder Dragon and Dragonroar from GY to summon Dragonduo from hand. Thunder Emperor normal summons Dragonmatrix from hand and since he activated a Thunder Monster's effect from the hand this turn, he tributes Dragonmatrix to summon Thunder Dragon Colossus. Thunder Emperor then overlays Dragonduo and Colossus to Xyz summon Aegaion the Sea Castrum (OL: 2). Thunder Emperor activates Aegaion's effect, he randomly banishes Darkwight Ignister from the Extra Deck.
Thunder Emperor ends his turn (2600 LP, 2 cards, Thunder Dragon)
Turn 5: Apprentice (600 LP, 0 cards)
Apprentice draws and at this moment Thunder Emperor activates the effect of Aegaion's effect, randomly banishing Wind Pegasus Ignister from the Extra Deck and Aegaion's ATK becomes double of Wind Pegasus's ATK (Aegaion ATK: ? - 4600 - 4200). Thunder Emperor activates the second effect of Aegaion by detaching 1 overlay material (OL: 2 - 1), returning the Link Darkwight from banished zone to return the Link Dark Skirmisher to the Extra Deck (Aegaion ATK: 4200 - 4300, Titan: 2800 - 2900). During the Standby phase, Apprentice destroys AI.Q (Aegaion ATK: 4300 - 4400, Titan: 2900 - 3000)
Apprentice activates Cybserse Scrapping, banishing the Link 2 Dark Sage from GY to draw 2 cards. Since Dark Templar points to a spell/trap zone, Apprentice activates the Link Spell Judgement AIrows (Aegaion ATK: 4400 - 4200, Titan: 3000 - 2900). Since "Judgement Arrows" is in Apprentice's GY, it destroys itself to place "Judgement Arrows" to the zone that Judgement was at. Apprentice summons Donyoribo and uses it to Link Summon Darkwight Ignister. He uses Link 1 Darkwight and Link 3 Dark Templar to Link Summon Link 4 Dark Skirmisher Ignister (Aegaion ATK: 4200 - 4400, Titan: 2900 - 3000). Dark Skirmisher's effect equips Dark Templar to itself.
Apprentice declares battle and attack Titan. Apprentice activates the effect of Dark Skirmisher, sending Dark Templar to GY to gain Dark Templar's ATK (Dark Skirmisher ATK: 3000 - 5300). Judgement Arrows effect activates, doubling Dark Skirmisher's ATK (Dark Skirmisher ATK: 5300 - 10600). Thunder Dragon Titan is destroyed. (Thunder Emperor: 2600 - 0)
Apprentice wins.
(Thunder Emperor took 7600 damage)
Ace Monsters:
Thunder Emperor: Thunder Dragon Titan, Predaplant Verte Annaconda, Thunder Dragon Colossus, Aegaion the Sea Castrum
Apprentice: Dark Templar Ignister, IP:Masquena, Dark Skirmisher Ignister