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At Tall Timbers Park in Royal Woods, Michigan, Lincoln Loud was sitting on a picnic table looking through a deck of Duel Monsters cards with a Kaiba Corp duel disk next to him; he then sees you.

"Oh, hey everybody." said Lincoln as he waves at you. "You're probably wondering what I'm doing. You see, over a month ago, I found out about this amazing game called Duel Monsters; I made a Masked Hero Deck. I entered several tournaments and even won a few of them, and a few trophies in the process." He picks up his duel disk and puts it on. "After I won this one tournament, I won this Kaiba Corp duel disk. I'm telling you, Duel Monsters is an awesome game."

"Well, well, what do we have here?" Lincoln hears a familiar face that makes him cringe. He looks to see Chandler McCann and his friends, Trent and Richie, all wearing duel disks walking over to him.

"Hey, Chandler." said Lincoln with no enthusiasm. Chandler looks at Lincoln's deck in his hand.

"You're lucky I never entered those tournaments you entered, otherwise I would have humiliated you." said Chandler.

"Want to duel me?" asked Lincoln as he jumps off the picnic table.

"Please; dueling you would be a waste of my time." said Chandler. "But if you want, my buddy, Richie, would like to duel you."

"I would?" asked Richie, making Chandler glare at him. "I mean, yeah I would."

Moments later, Lincoln and Richie stood several yards from each other; they put their decks into their duel disks. Trent reaches into his pocket and pulls out a quarter.

"Call it." said Trent, flipping the quarter.

"Heads." said Lincoln. Trent catches the quarter and slaps it into the back of his hand; he uncovers the quarter, revealing it to be heads up.

"Heads; Loud gets to choose who gets to go first." said Trent.

"I'll start." replied Lincoln.

"Whatever." replied Chandler. Lincoln turned towards Richie.

"Ready, Richie?" asked Lincoln.

"Bring it!" replied Richie. They hold out their arms that had their duel disks on them and holographic projectors fly out from them and landed on each side of them in the area, and the duel disks activated.

"Let's duel!" Lincoln and Richie says in unison before they each draw five cards from their duel disks.

"I draw!" said Lincoln, drawing a card. "I summon Elemental Hero Ocean in attack mode." Lincoln summons Elemental Hero Ocean (Warrior/Effect Type, Water Attribute, Level 4, ATK/1500 DEF/1200) in attack position. "I set one card face down and end my turn." Lincoln slides a card into a slot of his duel disk.

Lincoln: 4000 LP

Richie: 4000 LP

"Beat him, Richie." Chandler says to Richie.

"You got it." replied Richie, drawing a card from his deck. "I summon Phantom Gryphon in attack mode." He summons Phantom Gryphon (Winged Beast Type, Wind Attribute, Level Four, ATK/2000 DEF/0) onto the field. "Phantom Gryphon, attack Elemental Hero Ocean!" Phantom Gryphon swoops towards Elemental Hero Ocean.

"I activate my Hero Barrier Trap!" said Lincoln; his face down card rises up. "When I have an Elemental Hero on the field, this trap negates the attack of an opponent's monster." A round blue barrier of energy appears in front of Elemental Hero Ocean and Phantom Gryphon crashes into it.

"I set two cards face down and end my turn." said Richie slides two cards face down into slots into his duel disk.

Lincoln: 4000 LP

Richie: 4000 LP

"I draw!" said Lincoln, drawing a card from his deck.

"I activate my Needlebug Nest Trap!" said Richie; one of his face down cards rises up. "This sends the top five cards of my deck to the graveyard." He sends Spiral Serpent (Sea Serpent Type, Water Attribute, Level Eight, ATK/2900 DEF/2900), Alexandrite Dragon (Dragon Type, Light Attribute, Level Four, ATK/2000 DEF/100), the Ritual Spell Card, Emblem of the Awakening, the Trap Card, Adhesion Trap Hole, and Frostosaurus (Dinosaur Type, Water Attribute, Level Six, ATK/2600 DEF/1700) from the top of his deck to the graveyard.

"I activate my Mask Change Spell Card." said Lincoln as he slides his Spell Card into a slot of his duel disk. "By sending a Hero monster on my field to my graveyard, I can special summon a Masked Hero monster from my Extra Deck to my field that has the same Attribute as the Hero Monster I sent to the graveyard, so I send Elemental Hero Ocean to my graveyard, and since he's a Water Attribute, I can special summon a Water Attribute Masked Hero from my Extra Deck." Lincoln sends Elemental Hero Ocean to the graveyard. "I special summon Masked Hero Vapor in attack mode!" He summons Masked Hero Vapor (Warrior/Fusion/Effect, Water Attribute, Level Six, ATK/2400 DEF/2000) in attack position.

"That monster's stronger than Richie's!" Trent says to Chandler.

"I'm aware of that!" replied Chandler.

"Masked Hero Vapor, attack Phantom Gryphon!" said Lincoln. Masked Hero Vapor leaps at Phantom Gryphon and thrusts his lance into it, destroying it.

"Rrgh!" grunted Richie as his life points drop to 3600.

"Next I'll activate the Spell Card, Quick Booster." said Lincoln, sliding his Spell Card into a slot of his duel disk. "This Spell Card allows me to take a Quick-Play Spell Card out of my graveyard and shuffle it into my deck, and I pick Mask Change." Lincoln takes Mask Change out of his graveyard and shuffles it into his deck. "I end my turn now."

Lincoln: 4000 LP

Richie: 3600 LP

"I draw!" said Richie as he draws a card. "I summon Sabersaurus in attack mode!" Richie summons Sabersaurus (Dinosaur Type, Earth Attribute, Level Four, ATK/1900 DEF/500) in attack position. "Then I activate the Spell Card, White Elephant's Gift!" He slides his Spell Card into his duel disk. "By sending a non-Effect monster on my field to the graveyard, I can draw two cards!" He sends Sabersaurus to the graveyard and draws two cards; he looks at the cards he drew and grins. "I activate my Preparation of Rites Spell Card!" He slides his Spell Card into his duel disk. "This allows me to select one Ritual Monster in my deck and one Ritual Spell Card in my graveyard and add them to my hand."

"I'm guessing a Ritual Spell was sent to your graveyard when you played Needlebug Nest." said Lincoln.

"You guessed right." said Richie before he takes his deck out of his duel disk and looks through it until he pulls out a card and shuffles the rest of his deck before putting it back into his duel disk; the Ritual Spell, Emblem of the Awakening slides out of his graveyard and Richie takes it. "Then I activate Emblem of the Awakening!" He slides his Ritual Spell Card into his duel disk. "I tribute the Djinn Presider of Rituals in my hand so I can summon Cu Chulainn the Awakened!" Richie sends Djinn Presider of Rituals (Fiend/Effect Type, Dark Attribute, Level Four, ATK/1800 DEF/1400) from his hand to the graveyard and summons Cu Chulainn the Awakened (Warrior/Ritual/Effect Type, Light Attribute, Level Four, ATK/500 DEF/1000) in attack position.

"But that monster only has five hundred attack points." said Lincoln.

"Not until I activate its special ability." replied Richie. "You see, by removing a Normal monster in my graveyard from play, I can increase my monster's attack points by the attack points of the monster I removed until my next Standby Phase."

"Oh man." said Lincoln.

"I remove Spiral Serpent from play; it has twenty-nine hundred attack points, so Cu Chulainn the Awakened gains twenty-nine hundred attack points, raising its attack points to thirty-four hundred." said Richie. He removes Spiral Serpent from his graveyard and Cu Chulainn the Awakened's attack power rises to 3400.

"Uh oh." said Lincoln.

"Cu Chulainn the Awakened, attack Masked Hero Vapor!" said Richie. Cu Chulainn the Awakened leaps at Masked Hero Vapor and slashes through him with its staff, destroying him.

"Rrgh." grunted Lincoln as he shields himself with his arms while his life points drop to 3000.

"Just so you know, when Djinn Presider of Ritual is tributed for the Ritual Summoning of a Ritual Monster, I get to draw a card whenever that Ritual Monster destroys a monster by battle; it's like giving my Cu Chulainn the Awakened another effect." said Richie as he draws a card from his deck. "Now I activate my other face down card, the Trap Card, Fine." Richie's other face down rises up. "This sends two cards from my hand to the graveyard." Richie sends Cyber-Tech Alligator (Machine Type, Wind Attribute, Level Five, ATK/2500 DEF/1600) and Launcher Spider (Machine Type, Fire Attribute, Level Seven, ATK/2200 DEF/2500) from his hand to the graveyard. "I end my turn, Loud!"

Lincoln: 3000 LP

Richie: 3400 LP

"I draw!" said Lincoln, drawing a card. "I set one monster face down in defense position." He sets a monster face down onto his duel disk. "I set one card face down and end my turn." He slides a card face down onto his duel disk.

Lincoln: 3000 LP

Richie: 3400 LP

"I draw!" said Richie, drawing a card. Cu Chulainn the Awakened's attack power returns to 500. "I remove my Cyber-Tech Alligator in my graveyard from play to raise Cu Chulainn the Awakened's attack power to three thousand!" Richie removes Cyber-Tech Alligator from his graveyard and Cu Chulainn the Awakened's attack power rises to 3000. "Next I activate my Double Attack Spell Card!" Richie slides his Spell Card into his duel disk. "Now by sending a monster from my hand to the graveyard, a monster I control whose level is lower than the monster I discarded can attack twice this turn; I send Cosmo Queen to the graveyard!" Chandler sends Cosmo Queen (Spellcaster Type, Dark Attribute, Level Eight, ATK/2900 DEF/2400) from his hand to the graveyard.

"Oh man." said Lincoln.

"Cu Chulainn the Awakened, attack that face down monster!" Cu Chulainn the Awakened leaps at Lincoln's face down monster and slashes it with its staff, revealing it to be Elemental Hero Wildheart (Warrior/Effect Type, Earth Attribute, Level Three, ATK/1500 DEF/1600) and destroys it.

"I activate my Hero Signal Trap Card!" said Lincoln as he pushes a button on his duel disk, making his face down card rise up; a light comes out of the trap card and shines onto the sky, revealing an H-shaped symbol on it. "Thanks to this trap, when a monster I control is destroyed by battle, I can special summon an Elemental Hero that's level four or below from my deck; I pick Elemental Hero Shadow Mist in defense mode!" Lincoln summons Elemental Hero Shadow Mist (Warrior Type, Dark Attribute, Level Four, ATK/1000, DEF/1500) to his field in defense position.

"That monster's defense points are too weak to withstand my monster's attack." said Richie.

"True, but Elemental Hero Shadow Mist has a special ability." said Lincoln. "You see, when he's special summoned, I get to add a 'Change' Quick-Play Spell Card from my deck to my hand, and I add another Mask Change to my hand." Lincoln takes his deck out of his duel disk and looks through it and pulls a Mask Change Spell Card out of it and adds it to his hand; he shuffles his deck and puts it in his duel disk.

"Don't forget, thanks to Djinn Presider of Rituals, whenever Cu Chulainn the Awakened destroys a monster by battle, I get to draw a card." said Richie before drawing a card from his deck. "And thanks to Double Attack, Cu Chulainn the Awakened gets to attack again; now Cu Chulainn the Awakened, attack Elemental Hero Shadow Mist!" Cu Chulainn the Awakened slashes Elemental Hero Shadow Mist with its staff and destroys it. "And because Cu Chulainn the Awakened destroyed a monster, I get to draw a card." Richie draws a card from his deck.

"But since Elemental Hero Shadow Mist was sent to the graveyard, I can add a Hero monster from my deck to my hand." said Lincoln. He takes his deck out of his duel disk and looks through it until he pulls out a card. "I pick Elemental Hero Woodsman." Lincoln puts Elemental Hero Woodsman (Warrior/Effect Type, Earth Attribute, Level Four, ATK/1000 DEF/2000) in his hand and shuffles the rest of his deck before putting it back into his duel disk.

"I set one card face down and end my turn." said Richie as slides a card face down into his duel disk slot.

Lincoln: 3000 LP

Richie: 3400 LP

"I draw!" said Lincoln, drawing a card.

"I activate my Simultaneous Loss Trap!" said Richie, pushing a button on his duel disk and making his face down card rise up. "This card forces both of us to send the top card from our decks to the graveyard. Lincoln takes the card that's on the top of his deck and puts it in his graveyard; Richie takes the top card of his deck and looks at it, seeing it was Terrorking Salmon (Fish Type, Water Attribute, Level Five, ATK/2400 DEF/1000) and smirks before putting it in his graveyard.

"I summon Elemental Hero Stratos in attack mode!" said Lincoln. He summons Elemental Hero Stratos (Warrior/Effect Type, Wind Attribute, Level Four, ATK/1800 DEF/300) in attack position. "When he's summoned onto the field, I can either add a level four or below from my deck to my hand or destroy one Spell or Trap for each Elemental Hero Monster on my side of the field.

"But you don't have any other Elemental Heroes on your field." said Richie.

"Then I guess I'll add an Elemental Hero from my deck to my hand." said Lincoln. He takes his deck out of his duel disk and looks through it until he takes a card from it. "I pick Elemental Hero Prisma." He adds Elemental Hero Prisma (Warrior/Effect Type, Light Attribute, Level Four, ATK/1700 DEF/1100) to his hand. "Then I activate my Mask Change Spell Card." Lincoln slides Mask Change into his duel disk. "I send Elemental Hero Stratos to the graveyard to special summon a wind attribute Masked Hero monster from my Extra Deck and I choose to special summon Masked Hero Blast in attack position!" Lincoln sends Elemental Hero Stratos to the graveyard and summons Masked Hero Blast (Warrior/Fusion/Effect, Wind Attribute, Level Six, ATK/2200 DEF/1800) in attack position.

"That monster's too wimpy to take on Richie's monster!" said Chandler.

"Not until Masked Hero Blast's ability activates; when he's special summoned, I can select one monster on the field and cut its attack points in half, and I choose Cu Chulainn the Awakened." said Lincoln. A beam of energy comes out of the crystal on Masked Hero Blast's chest, and it blasts Cu Chulainn the Awakened, lowering its attack strength to 1500.

"Uh oh." said Richie.

"Masked Hero Blast, attack Cu Chulainn the Awakened!" said Lincoln. Masked Hero Blast fires an energy blast out of his hands and it hits Cu Chulainn the Awakened, destroying it.

"Rrgh." grunted Richie as his life points drop to 2700.

"I end my turn." said Lincoln.

Lincoln: 3000 LP

Richie: 2700 LP

"Don't lose this, Richie!" Chandler shouts to Richie.

"I draw!" said Richie before drawing from his deck. "I activate the Equip Spell, Fulfillment of the Contract!" Richie slides the Spell Card into his duel disk. "At the cost of eight hundred life points, this Spell Card revives one Ritual Monster from my graveyard, and I bring back Cu Chulainn the Awakened!" Richie's life points drop to 1900 and Cu Chulainn the Awakened appears onto the field. "Next, I remove Cosmo Queen in my graveyard from play to raise Cu Chulainn the Awakened's attack power to thirty-four hundred!" Cu Chulainn the Awakened's attack power rises to 3400. "Now Cu Chulainn the Awakened, attack Masked Hero Blast!" Cu Chulainn the Awakened leaps at Masked Hero Blast and slashed him with its staff, destroying him.

"Rrgh." grunts Lincoln as his life points drop to 1800.

"I end my turn now." said Richie.

Lincoln: 1800 LP

Richie: 1900 LP

"I draw!" said Lincoln. He looks at the card he drew and smiles. "I activate my Mask Charge Spell Card!" He slides his Spell Card into his duel disk. "This Spell Card allows me to add a Hero Monster and a 'Change' Quick-Play Spell Card from my graveyard to my hand, and I pick Elemental Hero Flash and my Mask Change Spell Card." Lincoln takes Elemental Hero Flash and Mask Change out of his graveyard and adds them to his hand.

"Wait a minute; I don't remember Richie sending Elemental Hero Flash to your graveyard, Loud!" yelled Chandler.

"Remember when Richie played Simultaneous Loss?" asked Lincoln.

(Flashback)

"I activate my Simultaneous Loss Trap!" said Richie, pushing a button on his duel disk and making his face down card rise up. "This card forces both of us to send the top card from our decks to the graveyard." Lincoln takes the card that's on the top of his deck, which was revealed to be Elemental Hero Flash, and puts it in his graveyard.

(End Flashback)

"Oh yeah." said Chandler.

"I summon Elemental Hero Flash in attack mode." said Lincoln. He summons Elemental Hero Flash (Warrior/Effect Type, Light Attibute, Level Four, ATK/1100 DEF/1600) in attack position. "Now I activate Mask Change!" He slides his Mask Change Spell Card into his duel disk. "I send Elemental Hero Flash to the graveyard, and since he's a Light Attribute Monster, I can special summon a Light Attribute Masked Hero from my Extra Deck, so I summon Masked Hero Koga in attack mode!" Lincoln sends Elemental Hero Flash to the graveyard and summons Masked Hero Koga (Warrior/Fusion/Effect, Light Attribute, Level Eight, ATK/2500 DEF/1800) in attack position. (a/n: Masked Hero Koga is Lincoln's ace monster.)

"My monster is still stronger than yours!" said Richie.

"But Masked Hero Koga still has some special abilities." said Lincoln. "For each monster you have on your field, Masked Hero Koga gains five hundred attack points; you have one, so Masked Hero Koga's attack strength rises to three thousand." Masked Hero Koga's attack power rises to 3000.

"My monster's still stronger." said Richie.

"My Masked Hero Koga has another ability." replied Lincoln. "By removing a Hero Monster in my graveyard from play, I can lower the attack points of one of your monsters by the attack points of the Hero Monster I removed from play."

"What?!" exclaimed Richie.

"I remove Masked Hero Vapor from play; since he has twenty-four hundred attack points, your Cu Chulainn the Awakened loses twenty-four hundred attack points." said Lincoln. He removes Masked Hero Vapor from his graveyard and Cu Chulainn's attack points drop to 1000.

"No! Now your monster is strong enough to destroy my monster and wipe out the rest of my life points!" exclaimed Richie.

"Masked Hero Koga, attack Cu Chulainn the Awakened!" said Lincoln. Masked Hero Koga leaps at Cu Chulainn the Awakened and slashes it with the blades on its forearms, destroying it.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled Richie as his life points drop to zero.

Lincoln: 1800 LP

Richie: 0 LP

"YEAH!" cheered Lincoln while Masked Hero Koga faded away. Richie drops to his hands and knees while Chandler and Trent walks over to him.

"You got beat by Loud?!" exclaimed Chandler.

"Sorry, man." replied Richie.

"Hey, Chandler; want to duel me now?" asked Lincoln, getting Chandler's attention. Chandler begins backing away.

"I would, but I have a dentist appointment in an hour." replied Chandler before running off.

"But Chandler, it's Saturday; the dentist office is closed on the weekend." said Trent as he runs after Chandler, followed by Richie. Lincoln smiles before looking at his deck that he's holding.

"Way to go." said Lincoln.

THE END

Lincoln's Deck Profile: Lincoln plays a Masked Hero Deck which focuses on summoning his Masked Hero Fusion Monsters.

Featured Cards in Lincoln's Deck

Monsters

Elemental Hero Ocean

Elemental Hero Wildheart

Elemental Hero Shadow Mist

Elemental Hero Woodsman

Elemental Hero Stratos

Elemental Hero Prisma

Elemental Hero Flash

Fusion Monsters

Masked Hero Vapor

Masked Hero Blast

Masked Hero Koga

Spell Cards featured

Mask Change

Quick Booster

Mask Charge

Trap Cards featured

Hero Barrier

Hero Signal

Richie's Deck Profile: Richie plays a Cu Chulainn the Awakened Deck which focuses on sending Normal Monsters with high attack points from his deck or hand to his graveyard to activate Cu Chulainn the Awakened's ability to power itself up.

Featured Cards in Richie's Deck

Monsters

Phantom Gryphon

Spiral Serpent

Alexandrite Dragon

Frostosaurus

Sabersaurus

Djinn Presider of Rituals

Cyber-Tech Alligator

Launcher Spider

Cosmo Queen

Terrorking Salmon

Ritual Monster Featured

Cu Chulainn the Awakened

Spell Cards Featured

Emblem of the Awakened

White Elephant's Gift

Preparation of Rites

Double Attack

Fulfillment of the Contract

Trap Cards Featured

Needlebug Nest

Adhesion Trap Hole (never played)

Fine

Simultaneous Loss