Chapter 42
Rex's Revenge
"I challenge you to a rematch, Codebreaker!" Sharptooth, formerly known as Capt. Rex pointed his finger at Codebreaker. "Or, are you just overwhelm by my new, awesome look and the fear of losing?"
"Fear of losing? No way!" Codebreaker grinned and laughed. "This is just too exciting!"
"Master Yu, what are you talking about?!" Rossy questioned. "There's no time to do another duel! The Tower is almost 100% complete!"
"Playmaker!" He turned to Playmaker and Ai. "You and Ai go ahead! I will handle Sharptooth here."
"Got it. Good luck," Playmaker said.
"I am sure you can beat this random weirdo. Go and kick his butt!" Ai stated before he dragged by Playmaker as he ran toward the tower while Sharptooth just let them go.
"Come on! We got to follow Playmaker!" Frog ordered.
"But, what about Codebreaker, sir?!" Pigeon asked.
"Our scoop is on Playmaker! Our rival can tell a story about Codebreaker, and that is how it's been! Let's go already!" Frog ordered.
"Ai, ai, sir!" Pigeon carried his boss to follow Playmaker.
Claire and her cameraman watched them flying away.
"It looks like those two will handle the story on Playmaker," Claire said. "We will handle with our hero, Codebreaker here."
Sharptooth activated his new and improved duel disk, which was white with yellow lining for the duel blade.
"DUEL!"
Codebreaker vs. Sharptooth
Codebreaker (5h): 4000 LP
Sharptooth (5h): 4000 LP
"I will allow you to make your first move, Codebreaker," he offered.
"Really? Thanks!" Codebreaker replied positively.
"Don't mention it. It may be your last, anyway," he chuckled evilly.
"Ooookay then….Here I go." Codebreaker began. "Since I control no monster on the field, I can Special Summon C# Bit Raider!"
The Cyberse Viking warrior appeared with a battle cry and 2000 DEF.
"Here comes more! Then, I Special Summon C# HDMEye from my hand through its effect!" The computer monitor with an eye for a face and HDMI cables for tentacles appeared next to Bit Raider. "This monster can be Special Summoned from my hand if I control another C# monster on the field.
"Next, I Normal Summon C# Data Miner." A simple, yet classic mining norm-like monster appeared. "When he is Normal Summoned, I get to draw a card."
Codebreaker (4h): 4000 LP
"Just right after the wonderous tag-team duel, Codebreaker now just began his second duel alone against who appeared to be Capt. Rex, now known as Sharptooth and he had joined the side of the Hanoi! The reason for it is unknown, but according to what we see, it seems that he is claiming to be here for revenge on Codebreaker!" Claire said to the camera.
"I input the code to the circuit of victory!" He shot a lightning, which made the link circuit square appeared. "Arrowheads confirmed! The summoning condition is two C# monsters. I set my C# Data Miner and Bit Raider in the Link Markers! Link Summon! Appear! Link 2, C# Stream Dragon!"
The two monsters turned into two blue twisters, sucking into the arrows on the circuit square. Then, the white dragon with a computer monitor for a face appeared with a roar and 2000 ATK.
"C# Stream Dragon's effect activates! Once per turn, it can inflict 400 points of damage for every C# monster it points to. Since it is pointing C# Data Miner, you gain 400 points of damage! Stream Ray!" Stream Dragon roared and shot a ray beam from its monitor screen face, hitting Sharptooth as he felt a burning sensation and bit of glitch.
Sharptooth: 4000 – 400 = 3600 LP
"I set a card and end my turn here." Codebreaker ended his turn.
Codebreaker (3h): 4000 LP
"This is a good start, Master Yu," Rossy complimented, but a worried look. "Although, I am more concerned about Capt…Correction, Sharptooth. If I recall, he uses the Robo-Dino Deck and unfortunately, I don't have much data about it since our last duel with him due to the short length it was."
"Me too, but that's what makes it exciting because it means that it has more potential and we will get to see now," Codebreaker said positively, but he also acknowledged Rossy's concern.
"So you start the duel by stinging me a little. Ho, ho, ho!" Sharptooth chuckled. "That sting is nothing compared to what I will do to you. My turn of revenge…begins now!"
Sharptooth (6h): 3600 LP
"I discard my Thunder Dragon to add two more Thunder Dragons from my Deck to my hand." He revealed one Thunder Dragon card, discarded it, and then added two more to his hand.
Sharptooth(6h – 1 + 2 = 7h)
"Thunder Dragon? Now, that's something new…" Codebreaker commented.
"Next, I play the Field Spell, The Lost Ancient Robo Land!" Suddenly, the surrounding areas turned into a giant jungle-like area inside two tall mountains, trapping the duelists in a canyon. Trees grew out of the ground, but the mountain looked mechanical with gears and even flickering LED switch lights.
"A new field spell?" Codebreaker thought aloud.
"This will be your grave, Codebreaker." Sharptooth chuckled sinisterly. "Next, I Robo-Dino Metaltops!"
A triceratops with metal horns and two robotic feet for the front appeared with normal 1500 ATK and 2000 DEF.
Robo-Dino Metaltops-Level 4, DARK, Dinosaur/Effect, 1500 ATK, 2000 DEF.
"Now open the circuit of vengeance!" The link square appeared above him. "Arrowheads confirmed! The summoning condition is one Robo-Dino monster. I set my Robo-Dino Metaltops in the Link Markers!"
His Robo-Dino turned into a purple twister, absorbing into one arrow only on the link square. "Link Summon! Appear! Link 1, Robo-Dino Hydrosaurid!"
The Link Monster was a duck-billed dinosaur with green and red scaly skin, but with a metallic duck-bill and two red lenses for eyes. One arm was robotic while the other arm was a normal arm, with metallic armor for each knee, and the tail had metal spikes attached at the end.
Robo-Dino Hydrosaurid-Link 1, WATER, Dinosaur/Effect, 800 ATK, Link Arrow: Bottom.
"Now, I activate my Robo-Dino Metaltops' effect that I used for Link Summon!" He declared. "When this card is Link Summoned, I can inflict 400 points of damage for every Robo-Dino monster I control on the field. Since I control only one, you gain 400 points of damage!"
Missiles shot out of the graveyard portal, hitting Codebreaker as he cringed in pain.
Codebreaker: 4000 – 400 = 3600 LP
"Oh, the pain has only begun! The effect of my field spell now activates!" He followed up. "When my opponent is inflicted with effect damage by Robo-Dino card, you gain extra 300 points of damage!"
"Argh!" Codebreaker agonized as he was shocked.
Codebreaker: 3600 – 300 = 3300 LP
"Following up is my Link Monster's effect! When my opponent is inflicted by effect damage due to Robo-Dino monster's effect, then I can Special Summon a Robo-Dino Token next to its Link!" A robot dinosaur egg appeared next to Hydrosaurid's bottom arrow.
Robo-Dino Token-Level 1, DARK, Dinosaur/Effect, 0 ATK, 0 DEF.
"But I just had only begun! I now banish my Robo-Dino Metaltops and Thunder Dragon in my Graveyard to summon Thunder Dragonduo!" Two-headed black Thunder Dragon with greenhorns and electrifying aura appeared as it roared, with 2800 ATK.
"Yikes! What a shocking summon of a monster!" Claire exclaimed.
"Since I control more monsters on the field, I can activate Robo-Dino Terrodactyl's effect to Special Summon itself from my hand!"
A robot version of pterodactyl swooped into the field, presenting robotic wings and 1800 ATK.
Robo-Dino Terrodactyl-Level 5, WIND, Dinosaur/Effect, 1800 ATK, 1600 DEF.
"Thunder Dragonduo's effect activates! Once per turn, when I activate a monster's effect from my hand, it gains 300 ATK!" His two-headed dragon roared, crackling its body with electricity with its power increased to 3100 ATK.
"According to my calculation, he's going all out on us, Master Yu, but I sense that he has more to show!" Rossy warned.
"Your little AI there is right," Sharptooth acknowledged. "I do have more to show! Now, I re-open the circuit! The summoning condition is at least 2 Robo-Dino monsters. I set my Link 1 Robo-Dino Hydrosaurid, Robo-Dino Terrodactyl, and Robo-Dino Token into the Link Markers!"
The three robot dinosaurs turned into three twisters of green, blue, and purple. All twisters sucked into the arrows on the link circuit square, turning into a new monster.
"Link Summon! Rise! Link 3! Robo-Dino Birth Tyrano Rex!" A giant mechanical T-Rex with flames burning out of its eye socket for the eyes appeared with a roar.
Robo-Dino Birth Tyrano Rex-Link 3, DARK, Dinosaur/Link/Effect, 2700 ATK, Link Arrow: Bottom-Right, Bottom, and Bottom-Left
"It's…huge!" Codebreaker shouted.
"Now my revenge is complete! I declare my Robo-Dino Birth Tyrano Rex to attack your C# Stream Dragon! Dino Crush!" His Link 3 monster roared as it crunched on Stream Dragon by its neck, crushing it until it became a sparkle.
Codebreaker (3h): 3300 – 700 = 2600 LP
"I shall attack with my Thunder Dragonduo next and with your puny Data Miner's ATK, compared to my monster's ATK, you will gain 2700 damages, which is enough to defeat you! Ha, ha, ha!" Sharptooth laughed evilly.
"Oh, crud! He's right!" Codebreaker realized it.
"Battle! Thunder Dragonduo, attack and destroy Codebreaker with Double Thunder Roar!" The dragon's both heads roared at the same time, creating a thundering echo ray beam.
"Not so fast! I activate my Continuous Trap, C# Algorithm!" The new Trap Card revealed a bunch of arrays of data streaming over on a computer monitor with a barely C# symbol behind it the streaming data.
"When this card is activated, all C# monsters I control on the field gain 500 ATK!" Data Miner's ATK increased to 900 quickly before it was destroyed by Thunder Dragonduo's roar. The roar also hit Codebreaker, causing a significant impact as it made him hit over on his back.
Codebreaker: 2600 – 2200 = 400 LP
"Wow! That was a shocking turnabout! Thanks to Codebreaker's Trap Card, he managed to decrease the damage he would've gained from Sharptooth's monster attack!" Claire stated.
"Rrrgh! Damn you!" Sharptooth cursed. "Well, that's fine. You won't last for long anyway. Thunder Dragonduo's additional effect! When it destroys an opponent's monster by battle, I can add 1 Thunder monster from my Deck to my hand by banishing 1 monster in my Graveyard. I banish my Robo-Dino Hydrosaurid in my GY to add Thunder Dragonhawk to my hand. I end here."
Sharptooth (3h): 3600 LP
"You've lost a significant amount of Life Points, Master Yu," Rossy said worryingly.
"Yeah…. I really got hurt a lot…." Codebreaker stood back up. "But I can't give up here. We've come so far, and the tower is right there in front of us. There's no way I can lose here! My turn! Draw!"
- Codes of Secrets –
Around this time, another duel was happening somewhere else near the Tower of Hanoi's base. It was a duel between Go Onizuka and the current Number 1 Top Charisma Duelist, Metal Mayhem.
"I talk enough. It's time to end this!" Metal Mayhem snapped his finger, telling his ace monster, Cyber End Dragon to attack. Its three head charged up an attack, and then all three heads fired an energy beam together at Go Onizuka.
The energy beam consumed Riscorpio, destroying it. Go widened his eyes as the attack came close to him…not until he reacted and pulled up a card from his hand.
"I activate my Gouki Octostretch's effect from my hand!" He announced as a Gouki with blue octopus mask appeared in front of him. "If my opponent's monster attacks, during damage calculation, I can discard this card so that I take only half of the battle damage from this battle!"
Gouki Octostretch blocked the powerful energy beam momentarily until Cyber End Dragon pushed more strength into it, destroying Octostretch and the blast hit through Go Onizuka as he still felt the powerful impact from the energy beam.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" He screamed.
Go Onizuka (3h): 4000 – 2000 = 2000 LP
"Tch! So you survived, but I will destroy your little defense! I declare my other two Cyber Dragons to destroy your Gouki Suprex and Headbatt!"
The other Cyber Dragons destroyed Suprex and Headbatt with their energy beam attacks together.
"Gouki's effect activates! When they are sent from the field to the Graveyard, I can add Gouki cards!" Go Onizuka added two more from his Deck to his hand.
"With this, I end my turn." Metal Mayhem finished. "I expected you survive this turn, Go Onizuka. Just as expected from the former Number 1 Top Charisma Duelist."
"Metal Mayhem…" Go Onizuka held his arm as if it was broken from the attack. His avatar form was still glitching as it slowly restored for each part that it needed. "Why…why are you doing this?! Why now, of all places?"
"Why? WHY?" He raised his voice. "I guess you really don't know, do you? Do you not remember, do you?"
"Remember what? What I have done to you?" Go questioned.
"Hmph. Alright. I will tell you since the world is coming to an end, I guess it is best to tell you when I have the chance right now," he decided. "I was one of your challenges for your title in the past."
"What?" Go said.
"It was years ago…"
- Flashback –
A young man with teal green and blue, spiky hair defeated another duelist.
"Oh right! One step for victory, another step closer to the Champion title!" The man cheered.
"And that's a victory for Metal Man! What an impressive victory! At this rate, he is the most likely candidate to face Go Onizuka!" The MC announced as the crowds cheered.
"I was at the top of my game. I went through preliminary and through my victory, my reputation as Charisma Duelist grew and grew. However, I was just to aim to be a famous champion, but I was also doing it for a…special someone during that time."
The same man now dressed in a light blue jacket and white shirt and pair of matching blue trousers walked with a woman with long pink hair and purple eye in a wheelchair.
"I met the most beautiful and kindest woman in the world. Her name was Amy, and she cared for me and I loved her very much. I promised her that if I become the champion, I will win the prize money and use that prize money to pay for her upcoming surgery."
"Surgery?" Go repeated.
"That's right. The surgery would help her to walk again, but then…. the championship match came!"
"Aaaaaaaahh!" The man screamed as he fell over his back, defeated in the duel.
"I lost in the duel!"
The man tried to get up until he was approached by Go Onizuka.
"So I heard people say that you are promising, strong Charisma Duelist," past Go said. "Hmph! You are not strong. You're weak! You didn't even make me sweat at all! Go and train, and come back later!"
- Flashback Ends -
"I lost to you in the most important duel of my life and Amy…she…. I couldn't even pay her medical bill to cover her surgery! I felt so much ashamed, depressed, and…angry! Angry toward you, Go Onizuka, for you to take away my dream to become the strongest duelist in the world and my life with Amy!" Metal Mayhem pointed at Go,
"Metal Mayhem…I… I didn't know about that, but that isn't my fault that you lost in that duel!" Go Onizuka defended himself.
"Shut up! You were just selfish! You only cared about yourself! I watched you from the shadows, seeing you being praised by your fans that it made me sick! You don't even know that some of us Charisma Duelists actually duel for a reason other than for themselves!" Metal Mayhem argued.
"But, I…" Go wanted to say more, but he was interrupted.
"Make your move, Go Onizuka! Show me what you really made of, so that I can crush that pity pride of yours and end this!" Metal Mayhem shouted.
Go sighed and said, "Fine, Metal Mayhem. I will show you, why I am Go Onizuka, the Top #1 Charisma Duelist! My turn! Draw!"
Go Onizuka (4h): 2000 LP
"Appear, my circuit!" The Link Square appeared above him. "Arrowheads confirmed! The summoning condition is at least 2 Gouki monsters. I set my Link 2 Gouki Jet Ogre and Twistcobra in the link markers!"
The Link Gouki turned into two blue twisters while Twistcobra turned into green twisters as they all sucked into the link arrows on the link square. "Link Summon! Appear! Link 3! Gouki The Great Ogre!"
His ace monster appeared with a battle roar.
"So finally your ace monster appears," Metal Mayhem said.
"Gouki The Great Ogre's effect! All monsters on the field lose ATK equal to their original DEF! Ogre Pressure!" His ace Link Monster cried out with a powerful roar, causing all Cyber Dragons to screech in pain as their ATK lowered.
"So what! Even when you made my strongest monster, my ace Cyber End's ATK lowered than its original ATK, with just your Great Ogre, you can't win this duel!" Metal Mayhem pointed out.
"No, I can't…" Go agreed. "But I must do what I must! I play the Spell Card, Gouki Final Countdown!"
The said Spell showed Gouki The Great Ogre facing against Decode Talker in a ring match with a timer on the display board, showing only five seconds left.
"When this card is activated, I target one Gouki Link Monster I control and another monster that my opponent controls. Then, both players draw three cards and one with the monster cards will be dealt with damage equals to the total of both target monster's original ATK!"
"Ha, ha, ha!" Metal Mayhem could only laugh. "So, you're now relying on a bet, a luck to see either one of us live and other go down!"
"You may see that way, so let's bet on it!" Go stated.
"Very well then," Metal Mayhem said.
"I target my Gouki The Great Ogre and your Cyber End Dragon! Now, we both draw three cards and once we drew our third one, we both reveal the cards to see which one of us drew the most monster cards," Go explained as they drew three cards.
Metal Mayhem drew all three monster cards and revealed them. Go drew, and revealed only one monster card out of three.
"You lose, Go Onizuka! It looks like this will go down in the history of dueling! Your time has come to an end!" Metal Mayhem exclaimed.
The Spell Card shot an energy blast, which made a U-turn and aimed for Go.
"Not so fast! I activate Quick-Play Spell, Gouki Counter!" The said card showed Great Ogre doing a counter punch at Gouki Master Ogre.
"What?" Metal Mayhem gasped.
"With this card, I can negate the damage by a card effect and inflict that same damage to my opponent instead!" The energy beam made a U-turn again, and this time went to Metal Mayhem.
"Nnnooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Metal Mayhem cried as his Life Points went down.
Metal Mayhem: 0 LP
Go Onizuka WINS!
Go walked over to fallen Metal Mayhem.
"Metal Mayhem… I am sorry to mock you in the past. I only said it because it was only part of a show. I didn't really mean it, and I didn't know about the whole thing with Amy. I apologize, truly I am," Go said.
"…." Metal Mayhem said nothing, until… "Very well. I may be Number 1 now, but I still have a lot to learn. My anger and hatred for you have clouded my mind for this duel, so this duel doesn't mean anything..."
Just as he finished his last word, he turned into a data completely as that data flew to the tower, becoming part of it.
"Metal Mayhem...For you, the children, and the good people of LINK VRAINS, I will avenge you all!" Go said determinedly as he continued on to the Tower of Hanoi, which was only less than a feet away.
"That's the word is admirable, but the question is could you able to keep it?" A voice said.
"What? Who's there?!" Go questioned aloud.
In front of him, a portal opened up and a figure appeared out of it. The figure was Revolver.
"You...So you're the leader of the Hanoi, Revolver!" Go said.
"That's right," Revolver answered. "I'm honored to meet the former Top 1 Charisma Duelist, knowing who I am already."
"I heard about you from Playmaker, and now that you're here, it saves me the trouble to defeat you and stop the destruction of LINK VRAINS!" Go said determinedly.
"Let's see if you can try." Revolver activated his duel disk, following up with Go Onizuka activating his own, too.
Just then, Playmaker arrived at the scene.
"Go Onizuka!" Playmaker exclaimed.
"It looks like Go made it here before we did, and he's facing the big cheese himself!" Ai pointed.
- Codes of Secret -
We returned to a duel between Codebreaker and Sharptooth. Codebreaker only had 400 LP left while his opponent had a whopping 3600 LP.
"DRAW!" Codebreaker just drew his card, relying on this strongly to win this duel.
"Sharptooth… It's been great knowing you, even though this is our second time dueling," Codebreaker said.
Sharptooth looked perplexed for what he said.
"I activate my Spell Card, Virtual Realm!" It showed a cyberspace-like world split in half; one seemed to look like the real world while the other looked like the network world, and Cyber Magician Girl was looking at the two-split world, trying to decide which one over the other.
"This card can only be activated if I have only less than 1000 LP. By targeting one monster my opponent controls, I can Special Summon one Link Monster with an attack equal to or less than that monster's ATK. I target your Thunder Dragonduo to Special Summon Cyber Magician Girl!"
His ace Link Monster appeared with a wink, presenting herself in front of the dragon as it snarled at her.
"Now, I activate Cyber Magician Girl's effect to take control of your Thunder Dragonduo! CTRL Execute!" Cyber Magician used her whip to take control over the two-headed dragon.
"What? No!" Sharptooth groaned.
"Battle! I declare Thunder Dragonduo to attack your Robo-Dino Birth Tyrano Rex!" The dragon crunched the robot T-Rex, using both mouths.
Sharptooth: 3600 – 400 = 3200 LP
"Now that you're wide opened, I can declare my Cyber Magician Girl to attack you twice due to her effect! Go, Cyber Magician Girl! Double Digital Plasma Beam!" Cyber Magician Girl used her magic over herself, splitting into two clones of herself and both shot the same beam attack at Sharptooh.
"What!? No! This is not how it should end! How could I lose aaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinnn!? Sharptooth screamed.
Sharptooth: 0 LP
Codebreaker WINS
"Way to go! Codebreaker has won the duel in a victory faster than a lightning!" Claire praised.
"No! I can't! How…could I lose?! You…. You! I won't ever forgive you! You bas….!" Just as he was about to curse at Codebreaker, Sharptooth deleted into data.
"Well, at least that's over," Rossy said. "Now we can move on."
"Sorry, but this is how far you can go as disappointing for me to say that," a voice said.
"Oh man. Not another one…" Codebreaker mumbled as a portal opened up, and a mysterious figure appeared.
"Who are you?" Rossy questioned.
"My name is Kronos, the last admin serving for Revolver, the leader of the Hanoi," Kronos introduced.
"The last admin?" Codebreaker said. "You're his last one?"
"Unfortunately, yes. The other two admins, Gemma, and Sir Lady are already defeated and became one with the Tower. Master Revolver has only me left to deal with the leftover threat," Kronos explained.
"So you're his last admin. If we defeat you, then nothing will stand in our way!" Rossy stated.
"That's correct, but to be quite frank, I prefer to let you two go and pass by," Kronos admitted.
"Huh?" Codebreaker looked perplexed at Kronos. "Why?"
"This world…" He watched the darkened sky near the tower and the tower itself. "This world is going to be destroyed in any moments now. If nobody defeats Master Revolver, then everything, the entire network world will be destroyed and that would lead to chaos for not just Den City, but the entire world. It's a waste of potential if you ask me. I joined the Hanoi for a…. another purpose, far different from Revolver and if he knows it, he would most likely be against it."
Codebreaker and Rossy looked at each other, thinking very confused about what Kronos was saying.
"But, alas, a job is a job. Before our inevitable demise has come, let's have one last duel. I, Kronos, will show you why I am one of the three admins assigned by Master Revolver himself!" Kronos activated his duel disk, which looked both modern and ancient looking.
"It looks like we have no choice, but to do another duel, Master Yu," Rossy said.
"No problem! This is the reason why we're here! If anything, Playmaker is probably made it to the Tower and he will stop Revolver! As long as we keep this guy busy, everything will be just fine! It's time to do some little more coding!"
Codebreaker looked determined as his duel against the last Hanoi admin, Kronos, began.
"DUEL!"
Hello, everyone! A quick (and short) update for my VRAINS story.
To be honest, I actually really didn't want to write this duel, between Sharptooth (Formely Capt. Rex) and Codebreaker, but I also have to find a way to conclude Go's duel with Metal Mayhem. Sorry if this chapter wasn't exciting.
I promise that the next one will be more exciting, and the last couples of duels for season 1 will be the most exciting ones. Can't wait to write about them all!
The New Cards Cheat Sheet will be posted at later time. Thank you for reading.
Preview for Chapter 43
Fusion. Synchro. There are many types of Special Summoning methods, but even with what we saw through this journey for the old Summoning Methods, the world of dueling is dominated by Link Monsters and Link Summon. However, Kronos has other story to tell, and show summoning method that barely shows in this story!
Kronos: Your resistance is futile, Codebreaker. Surrender now or prepare to feel the wrath of my power and my Deck!
Rossy: According to my data, this duel, it reminds me of the time when we...
Codebreaker (interrupting): I know, Rossy. I know how you feels. It does remind me of the time when I dueled him... When I dueled Dark Knight.
Next time in Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS Codes of Secrets, Last Hanoi!
Playmaker & Codebreaker: Into the VRAINS!