AN: Hello, I have the next chapter here. We continue with the group out shopping for clothes. Here, I get to show off a lot of new cards as a certain someone finally gets to duel. As well as fit in a ton of references to a lot of media this chapter. Hope you enjoy this chapter, leave a review with your comments and questions, and have a nice day.
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Chapter 46 – The Machina
Inside the clothing store, Coco stood outside a changing room, "Come on, step out already." She called out. The door opened to reveal Chazz, who now dawned a crimson red tailcoat, "There we go, a simple change makes you look forty percent cooler."
"…" Chazz remained silent.
"Now, we get you some fingerless gloves to complete the outfit." Coco said before putting her right hand on her chin, "But now we need to fix your hair. Give it a good trim, maybe dye it something else. Like white or-"
"No." Chazz responded, "The Chazz does he change his hair for any reason." He said before pulling off the crimson long coat, then quickly putting on his black one, "Nor does not wear any shade of slacker colors."
"If you ignore my advice. Then, you'll never make it in the pro leagues wearing that garb." Coco said before lowering her sunglasses, "And by garb, I mean garbage."
"You should know that it's not the clothes that make the duelist who they are," Chazz responded before crossing his arms, "I bet I could beat you wearing anything?"
"Oh, want to put your money where your mouth is?" Coco said before adjusting her sunglasses, "How about this? I pick the worst outfit here by my standards. You wear while we duel in public. If you win, I'll admit that I'm wrong and even put your name out there in the league. You'll get a head start after graduating and already have some sponsors eyeing you for beating someone in the top three."
"And if you win?" Chazz asked.
"Then, you wear this costume for the rest of your little class trip." Coco spoke, "What do you say, sounds like a fair trade?"
"Heh, you've got a deal," Chazz responded, "Now which outfit is it?" he asked with Coco smirking, then pointing to her far right. A look of dread then filled the affluent Obelisk Blue's eyes, "…Oh."
A short while later.
Bastion, Velvet, and Pyrrha watched as Coco exited the shop, "How did the shopping go?" Pyrrha asked while offering the attaché case.
"Slight change of plans," Coco said as she got her case back, "He wants to duel me to prove a point. But to do so, has to wear that thing?"
"That thing?" Bastion asked before seeing Chazz walking out, "Oh my word."
The affluent Obelisk Blue now wore a yellow costume, one with an overweight body, big feet, and red speedos with pink hearts on them. His head was framed by orange lips of the noodle-eyed helmet, "And you will say no more words until I beat this girl." Chazz spoke with his face slightly red.
Suddenly, the duel spirit of the card he was dressed as hoovered to Chazz's side. "Awe, Boss, I feel so flattered." Ojama Yellow spoke while blushing, "Does this mean you accept me now?"
"Never." Chazz responded, causing Ojama Yellow to have a look of sorrow, "No matter what happens, I will burn these clothes." He said before following Coco, "Hey, let's do this already."
"Hold your horses," Coco said before downing the last of her coffee, then casually tossed the cup into a trash can. She then entered a code on her attaché case. Suddenly, it began to morph and transform into the shape of a duel disk that equipped to her left arm, "Okay, I'm good." She while loading her deck into her duel disk.
"Let's do this," Chazz said as he equipped his duel disk.
"Duel!" Coco and Chazz said as the battle over fashion had begun.
Chazz: 4000 Life Points
Coco: 4000 Life Points
"The Chazz goes first," The affluent Obelisk Blue said as he drew, "First, I play the field spell Union Hanger." Suddenly, a large yellow building with orange cubes attached to it was seen, "When activated I can add a light union machine from my deck to my hand." He said as a card eject, then showed it to his opponent before playing, "I summon A – Assault Core in attack mode." Chazz spoke before an orange tank with a scorpion-like tail rolled onto the battlefield, (1900 ATK / 200 DEF). "As well, my Union Hanger lets me equip another light union monster from my deck to my hand. So, I pick B – Buster Drake." With those words, one of the cubes opened with a green dragon machine with cannons on its back was seen. It landed on the tail of Assault Core before roaring, "I'll end with one card face down."
"My turn then," Coco said as she drew, "I'll summon Machina Gearframe in attack mode." Suddenly, an orange machine appeared on her side of the field. However, this one was more humanoid in shape, (1800 ATK / 0 DEF).
"So, you play machines as well." Chazz commented, "I was expecting so kind of fashion monsters from you."
"I guess you could say I'm more than meets the eye." Coco responded, then had a card eject from her deck, "Gearframe's effect now activates, letting me add Machina Fortress from my deck to my hand. Now, I can discard it and a level four machine to special summon Machina Fortress." Suddenly, a massive cyan robotic tank appeared behind Coco, one with a railgun mounted on its left shoulder, (2500 ATK / 1600 DEF). "I'll equip it with Machina Gearframe. Then, I'll attack Assault Core." The fashionist pro duelist said before pointing, the orange humanoid robot to jump on the mobile fortress. The railgun then charged with blue light before unleashing a beam towards Assault Core.
Chazz: 4000 – 600 = 3400 Life Points
Despite being encompassed by the beam, the smoke cleared with Assault Core still standing, but green dragon machine was gone, "My monster was spared of destruction thanks to my Buster Drake." He said before a card ejected from his deck, "And since Buster Drake was sent to the grave, I can add a new union monster from my deck to my hand."
"Yeah, I know." Coco said before taking two cards from her hand, "I'll set these and end it for now."
"My turn," Chazz said as he drew, placed the card in his hand, then played a different card, "I summon C - Crush Wyvern in attack mode." Suddenly a blue-winged machine flew and landed near the orange tank, (1200 ATK / 2000 DEF). "Now, time to Chazz it up! From my field and graveyard, I banish A – Assault Core, B – Buster Drake, and C - Crush Wyvern." Suddenly all three machines appeared, but Drake and Wyvern broke apart before attaching to the tail of Assault Core, "To form ABC – Dragon Buster!" he said as the twin-headed tank formed with a twin roar, (3000 ATK / 2800 DEF). "Now, show that tin can a real railgun." Chazz declared before both cannons on the side of the Dragon Buster fired.
Coco: 4000 – 500 = 3500 Life Points
While they collided with their target, Machina Fortress was still standing. However, Gearframe was nowhere to be seen, "So, that union monster had the same effect?" Chazz commented.
"Yep," Coco responded, "But if you had Dragon Buster use its effect, you could have removed my monster from play instead of attacking it."
"Ha, I don't want this to end too fast." Chazz commented with a smirk, "I'll make you pay for insulting my wardrobe."
Suddenly, Ojama Yellow appeared near Chazz's head, "Boss, you're so cool!" he said while crossing his arms, "And here I thought you just forget that monster's effect because you just added it to your deck." Ojama Yellow said with Chazz glaring at him.
Coco then sighed, "Whatever, It's my turn." She said before drawing, then played the spell she drew, "I activate Machina Reformation. By discarding a card, I can add two Machina monsters from my deck to my hand." The fashionista pro duelist said as two cards ejected, "Now, I will discard one of them to special summon Machina Irradiator in attack mode." She said as a massive green railgun turret robot appeared, (1700 ATK / 2400 DEF). "Next, I reveal my face down, Machina Overdrive. With it, I can destroy my Machina Fortress," she said as the mobile fortress explode, "To bring out Machina Citadel!" as the smoke cleared, a red chainsaw cut through to reveal a blue mechanical warrior with three treads for legs, (3000 ATK / 2500 DEF), "And I am not done yet. Since Fortress was sent to the grave, I can special summon the card I discarded before. Machina Megaform!" Suddenly, the remains of the fortress started to morph, causing a pair of mechanical legs to expand before standing, (2600 ATK / 1500 DEF).
"Three powerful monsters, but only one is a match for Buster Dragon," Chazz commented.
"Yes, but if she crashed her Citadel into it, they will both be destroyed." Coco added on, "And with those two other machines, he will not have enough life points left." She said before taking a card out of her hand, "But so my monster does not go down without leaving something behind, I'll play Armored Unit." She said as the continuous spell card was seen, then pointed, "Now, Citadel will-"
"Not so fast, I use ABC – Buster Dragon's effect." Chazz interrupted, "I can tribute it to summon the banished parts back to the field in defense mode." He said as his fusion machine split apart. Forming to the right was A – Assault Core, (1900 ATK / 200 DEF). In the middle was B – Buster Drake, (1500 ATK / 1800 DEF). and on the left was C – Crush Wyvern, (1200 ATK / 2000 DEF). "There, now I'm from all your machines."
Coco then lowered her sunglasses, "You sure about that," she said before pushing then back up again, "I activate my other face down, Final Attack Order." The fashionist pro duelist said with Chazz gasping at the continuous trap, "All face-up monsters are switched to attack mode and cannot change their battle positions." Coco said before pointing, "Now, time to send each of your monsters to the scrapheap!" with that declaration, her monster rolled out. Citadel dashed in and slashed Assault Core tail off. Megaform's railgun fired a hole through Buster Drake's torso. Irradiator blasted Crush Wyvern out of the sky. Chazz shielded himself as all three of his monsters exploded near his body.
Chazz: 3400 – 1100 – 1100 – 500 = 700 Life Points
"Well, I just I could have ended it if I summoned this monster." Coco said as she looked at the lone card in her hand, "But oh well, I'll set it and end my turn."
"You underestimate me that much?" Chazz asked.
"Well, you haven't impressed me yet," Coco responded.
"Then take off those shades and watch closely, I draw!" Chazz said as he started his turn, "First, I play Monster Reincarnation. By discarding one card, I can add Buster Dragon from the gave back to my extra deck. This means I can remove all three parts from my graveyard again to summon ABC – Dragon Buster!" he said as the three parts merged again into the two-headed tank, (3000 ATK / 2800 DEF).
"Oh, clever," Coco commented.
"Now, I summon Y – Dragon Head in attack mode." He said as red winged machine dragon was seen, (1500 ATK / 1600 DEF). "Next, I use Union Hanger's effect to equip it with Z – Metal Tank." suddenly, one of the orange cubes opened with a yellow tank with grey treads rolling out, causing Dragon Head to attach to it. "I now reveal my face down card, Call of the Haunted to bring back the card I discard, my X – Head Cannon." The affluent Obelisk Blue said the upper torso of a machine was seen, one with cannons on its shoulders, (1800 ATK / 1500 DEF). "And I can combine all three to make XYZ – Dragon Cannon!" he said with the other monster landing on the tank with an electric pulse, (2800 ATK / 2600 DEF).
"You still seem a few letters short of completing the alphabet," Coco commented.
"Maybe, but I can just cut to the chase." Chazz responded with a smirk, causing Coco the have a look of confusion, "I can now banish both of my fusion machines to make the ultimate armored weapon," he said as ABC and XYZ broke apart, then combined to form an amalgamation tank of the two, "Behold, A-to-Z – Dragon Buster Cannon!" All three of the dragon heads roared, while the head cannon had a look of focus as the weapons charged, (4000 ATK / 4000 DEF). "Go, destroy Citadel with Full Power Ion Basters!" he said before the amalgamation tank unleashed several beams at once, each piercing through the chainsaw-wielding mechanical menace, causing a massive explosion.
Coco: 3500 – 1000 = 2500 Life Points
"You may have destroyed my monster, but thanks to Armored Unit, I can-" Coco was saying until the continuous spell exploded.
"Sorry, but Dragon Buster Cannon can negate just about anything." Chazz said as he showed one card, "I have to do is make a discard." He then showed the other two cards in his hand, "And now, I'll end with setting these two."
"Chazz seems to be a bit overconfident now," Pyrrha commented.
"Yes, perhaps that costume is cutting off circulation to his brain," Bastion added on.
"Come on, that Citadel was her strongest monster." Chazz responded, "Now, I have this in the bag."
"Yeah?" Coco said before she drew, "I never said that one was my strongest, did I?" she then pointed, "I'll tribute Megaform to summon Machina Sniper from my deck." She said the bipedal fortress exploded, but as the smoke cleared, a small robot with a large blaster was seen, (1800 ATK / 800 DEF). "Then, I'll use Irradiator's effect to tribute itself to resurrect the Machina Soldier I discarded last turn from Reformation." The massive green turret robot exploded, a new green robot was seen, this one with a bladed right arm, (1600 ATK / 1500 DEF). "Next, I'll flip summon my Machina Defender," she said as the blue turret robot was seen, (1200 ATK / 1800 DEF).
"Those three monsters are all weaker than what you had before." Chazz commented, "What can they do?" he said as she smirked, "…Uh oh."
"When flip summoned, Defender lets me add Commander Covington to my hand," Coco said as the card ejected, then played it. In doing so a red robotic man was seen, his frame resembling that of a military uniform, (1000 ATK / 600 DEF). "And with his order, I can send my three Machina monsters to the graveyard to form their ultimate combination, Machina Force!" as the commander robot placed his right hand on his chest, the other robots broke apart to create a massive mechanical soldier, (4600 ATK / 4100 DEF).
"4600!?" Chazz exclaimed.
"Yep, but I do have to pay 1000 life points to attack with him," Coco said before pointing, "Now, attack Dragon Buster Cannon with Atlas Armory Assault!" Machina Force then opened fire with its rifle and turrets, blasting Chazz's monster to pieces.
Coco: 2500 – 1000 = 1500 Life Points
Chazz: 700 – 600 = 100 Life Points
"And now, I think my Commander can end this with a direct-"
"I don't think so," Chazz cut her off, "I activate my facedown card, Union Scramble. This lets me special summon a banished Light Union monster and I pick B – Buster Drake!" he said as the green robotic dragon was seen, (1500 ATK / 1800 DEF).
"Heh, so you managed to block that one." Coco said before looking at her hand, "I'll set this and end my turn." She said before doing so, then the thing about the trap she laid, "He thinks that if he can destroy my commander, I will lose more life points than I can pay to use my boss monster again. However, with this second Machina Overdrive, I can get rid of my machine and summon out another Citadel."
"I draw," Chazz said before doing so, having it as the only card in his hand, "I play Pot of Greed." He said before gasping at the result of the two new cards.
"What, those two cards couldn't have been enough to make the difference here?" Coco commented.
"Heh, you think?" Chazz responded, "First, I summon Ojama Yellow in attack mode." He said as the yellow weirdo in a speedo was summoned, (0 ATK / 1000 DEF).
"Yeah, Boss summoned me!" Ojama Yellow said as he raised his arms in joy, then looked over at Machina Force, "Uh, that thing is really big."
"Wait, you actually have that card in your deck!?" Coco commented, then giggled, "I guess that costume does fit you after all."
"Laugh now, but I'm about to win this," Chazz said as he took a card from his deck, "You remember the last card I discard for A-to-Z, it was Ojama Duo. And I can banish it to summon two Ojama monsters from my deck. And I pick Ojama Green and Ojama Black." He said the corresponding-colored weirdos were summoned with the same stats, (0 ATK / 1000 DEF).
"Bothers!" Ojama Yellow said as he hugged Green and Black, "Now, the three of us will combine to beat this pile of junk."
"Yeah," Ojama Green said with a nod.
"We're the true kings of morphing into one," Ojama Black added on.
"That won't be needed this time." Chazz said with all three looking at him, "Now, I destroy my field spell," he said as the Union Hanger exploded, "To play Ojama Country!" suddenly the area was transformed into an odd land with a clay house that had antennae. The residents were all different colors of the rainbow, but all had red speedos on.
"I don't believe it," Ojama Yellow said in joy.
"We're home!" Ojama Black finished.
"And look, everyone is here!" Ojama Green added.
Looking down from a cave with pursed lips was an Ojama Blue, "Oh my, those three have returned. How curious?"
Stomping on one of the houses, an Ojama Red was seen, "YEAH! LET'S GO! YEAH! RRRRAAAA! YEAH!"
Walking confused in the road, an Ojama Lime was seen, "Can you help me find my house? It looks just like the others, except the smell of cheese is stronger."
Outside of a house on a hill, a purple Ojama in the form of a cat was seen, "…Mooo…"
"… This place is appalling," Coco commented, her sunglasses slightly lowered to show her half-open eyes. Then looked at her monsters to gain a red aura, "What's happening?"
"In this land, so long as I control an Ojama, all monsters have their stats flipped," Chazz said he looked over to the Buster Drake, who also had the aura, (1800 ATK / 1500 DEF). He then saw the three Ojama brothers jumping in joy, (1000 ATK / 0 DEF).
"Damnit," Coco said before looking over to Commander Covington, (600 ATK / 1000 DEF). then over to the Machina Force, (4100 ATK / 4600 DEF). "It doesn't matter, this still will not help you."
"You forget, I still have one last card." Chazz said before pointing to his last face down, "I active Ojama Trio, giving you three Ojama tokens." He said as a copy of each of the Ojama Brothers appeared on Coco's side of the field. With the field spells effect, their attack and defense switched, (1000 ATK / 0 DEF).
"Hey, look!" Ojama Yellow said with a point towards his clone, "It's us!"
"I always knew I had an evil twin." Ojama Black said with arms crossed, "But I imagined him with a mustache."
"Yeah," Ojama Green added, "Or a goatee."
"Thanks to your trap, those tokens are switched to attack mode." Chazz said as Coco gritted her teeth, "And when one is destroyed, you take 300 points of damage." He said before pointing, "Now, Ojama Green attack the Ojama Green Token!"
"On it!" Ojama Green said before he and his token clone ran towards each other, "Take this you fake! Haya-!" he said before punching the token in the eye but was also punched in the eye at the same time, causing them both to shatter.
Coco: 1500 – 300 = 1200 Life Points
"Now, Ojama Black will attack the Ojama Black token!" Chazz ordered.
"You got it," Ojama Black said before jumping towards his token headfirst, "How about a skull bash!" he said before collided with the token counterparty, causing both skulls to break before the monsters shattered.
Coco: 1200 – 300 = 900 Life Points
"Uh boss, I don't know if I can do this." Ojama yellow said in fear, seeing his token counterpart grinning, "That guy scares me. And his face is really ugly."
"Don't worry, I won't let him hurt you." Chazz said with Ojama Yellow looking back to him in slight confusion, "Because you're the ace of my deck. No fooling."
"Oh, Boss!" Ojama Yellow cried with tears raining from his noodle eyes.
"Yep, it is certainly cutting off circulation to his brain." Bastion commented from the sidelines.
"And now, the final blow," Chazz said with a point, Ojama Yellow mirror his motion, "I attack the Ojama Yellow Token with Buster Drake." He said with the green robot dragon firing its lasers, blasting the token to bits as Coco fell to one knee.
Coco: 900 – 800 – 300 = 0 Life Points
"You go bye-bye." Ojama Yellow said before he and the other monster faded away but smiled at Chazz one last time.
Chazz smiled back before looking at Coco, "A deals a deal, and you better hold up your end of the bargain."
"Yeah, I know." Coco said before standing up with a sigh, but then had a smile on her face, "Still, thanks for a really hype duel." She then turned to see Velvet and others approaching, "Did you get a lot of good pics."
"Eh?" Chazz commented.
"Yep, sure did." Velvet responded with a nod.
"Cool," Coco said while turning to Chazz, "We can use those to help get your name out." She then smirked, "Unless you want to hold onto the photos, which means you don't want us to help you in the league."
"Heh, I don't need your help to make a name in the pro leagues now. The Chazz can do that when he is closer to graduating." Chazz said with a smile before offering his right hand to Velvet, "Now give me those photos." He said with the bunny-eared student looking to Coco, who nodded. Velvet then took out the photos and gave them to Chazz, "Thank you, now I just need to…wait, none of these have my face in the frame anyway!?"
"S-sorry," Velvet responded, "I was just so focused on the costume."
"No backsies," Coco said with her left hand on her hip, "But you can keep the costume, that was my treat."
"As if," Chazz said before ripping off the Ojama Yellow costume, revealing his original black outfit underneath, "This is now and always will be my style." He said before crossing his arms, "And I will never be caught dead in that outfit again."
"In any case, let's head back to meet the others," Pyrrha said as she walked over with Bastion, causing them all to nod before walking away.
Meanwhile.
At the pizzeria restaurant, "…" Zane sighed before taking a drink of his water.
AN: There you go, Chazz was able to win even while dressed like Ojama Yellow. If you are unsure where this came from, go watch season four of GX. As for Coco, I was unsure at first of what cards to give her. Then, I was advised on Machina for of their heavy artillery theme, and I agree that it fits well. It also helped that I got to expand Chazz's deck to include the ABC union monsters, so this was a real battle of the machines. However, Chazz had to win with his Ojama cards on the field, and I liked that I was able to put Lime in this. Next chapter, Yang is on the cat hunt, while Zane still sits there. That is all for now, thanks for reading, and hope to see you in the next chapter.
Now, time to answer some questions. For favorite duel in each series, I will just rapidly fire like this. Duel monsters is Yugi verse Atem. GX is season four Jaden verse Crowler. 5Ds is Yusei verse Akiza, both duels are tied here, (but they should have had a turbo duel). Zexel is Yuma verse Astral. ARC-V is Yuya verse Yuri. Vrains is round two Revolver verse Soulburner. And Sevens is Mimi verse Guruguru, purely for the nostalgia and the fact that it was a normal duel without holograms needed to have fun. Regarding the Exorsisters, I think they look cool, especially the xyz monsters. With the main cast verses jobbers/cameo, yes. The first third of the tournament will be more of that before the real challengers start appearing. Those were all the questions I had, feel free to ask more, and I will answer them in the next chapter.
Edit: I fixed an issue with Union Hanger's effect for Crush Wyvern. This now has Buster Drake's search effect to add the union monster to hand before it is summon next turn.
