//------------------------------// // Fashion Freak // Story: Yugioh Spiez: Opperation Duel: Final Season // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// CHAPTER TWO Megan was up first and she got to stop off in Paris. Normally she was psyched about getting to visit and check out all the coolest fashions and artworks, and maybe get courted by a lucky-in-love Frenchman, but upon her arrival, things did not look pretty… The stream of purple light in the sky seemed to radiating the strongest overhead, and on top of that, the city seemed to be overrun with brainwashed people still chanting to the light of harmony, while others were roaming the streets and seeking out all those who weren’t among them yet to be part of the heard. “This is so, not cool.” Megan said to herself, and then she noticed down in the streets, three brainwashed people were ganging up on a helpless French-boy. He cried out for someone to help him, but the others insisted… “We do not wish to ‘arm you.” “Oui… we only wish to ‘elp you see zee light.” “It’ll all be over soon.” They got out dueling cards ready to make their moves, until Megan came swooping down and kicked the cards out of their hands. “Didn’t anyone ever teach you about fair play?” she scolded at them. The French-boy seemed to be taken in by her heroism, but the other three people saw her as another trouble maker. “Perhaps you should come with us and learn a few manners yourself about ‘armony.” “You will see zee light. You shall be one of us.” They all moved in closer, but Megan was ready for them, and got out one of her gadgets “Have a taste of the WOOHP Stun Spray!” It was an aerosol can that spayed a substance that would paralyze any being dead in their tracks. More and more of the brainwashed people came at her, but Megan stunned them in their tracks as well. Then she switched to her next gadget “Now let’s use… the WOOHP Super Strong String.” It only appeared to be an ordinary long rope, but this rope could extend extremely long, and it was, as said, super strong, made of a diamond filament which Megan used to round up gaggles of the infected people and tie them up. Still, as many of the people she managed to overcome, many more seemed to come at her. “This isn’t going the way I hoped.” Megan said. She suddenly found herself surrounded, but she escaped with the help of her rocket-boots. “This is nuts!” Megan groaned, and she flew off over the town hoping to find the source of the purple light. Suddenly, she was shrouded in a mystical, sparkling blue light. “Hey, what’s happening?” Megan cried as she felt herself being pulled away and through the window of a large building. She found herself then in a big square room, surrounded by wall-to-wall mirrors, but none of the brainwashed people we’re anywhere to be scene, all Megan could really see was just her many reflections from so many angles. “Hmm, cool…” she said as she posed her body in many ways, but her enjoyment was interrupted by the sound of someone snickering and saying “It appears we have a troublemaker.” “Who’s there?” snapped Megan. The voice snickered again “You’re not like others, especially with your distasteful fashion sense.” “Hey, what do you mean distasteful?! Where are you?” Megan slowly turned round and saw a figure standing in the shadows, and she slowly walked out into the light, and Megan was just stunned with astonishment “No way, you’re a… you’re a… unicorn?!” The beautiful creature shimmered in the light coming through the windows, and she shook her mane loose, but this revealed the astral mark on her head. “I am Rarity; Mistress of fashion, and a highly sophisticated lady of standards sociality. I also serve the light of harmony.” Megan didn’t need any more proof after what she just heard “So you’re the one responsible for all this. You’re brainwashing everyone into mindless zombies.” “Brainwashing…?” Rarity chuckled “That’s such a strong word. Nobody’s been brainwashed.” Rarity explained, about how she and her friends come from Equestria, a magical planet located in another dimension, and how she and her kind, the My Little Ponies, they believed in the powers of friendship, harmony, love and light. They came to the human world hoping to share the light and harmony with all the people, “And it seems we were right to do so. You humans are indeed a sorry lot. Well, we’re here to help you fix yourselves and better your lives.” Megan wasn’t sure if she could truly believe all this--the idea of magical ponies from another world and all that jazz-- nevertheless “Brainwashing is still brainwashing no matter how you try and say it.” “Temper-Temper…” Rarity snickered “You ought to take a good look around at yourself.” Megan peeks all over at her many reflections and Rarity continued to badger her about how grumpy she looked “I can see now that you need to be administrated with a little enforcement.” Rarity said “When I get through with you, you’ll be wishing you just came willingly.” “Don’t think so!” snarled Megan, and she whipped out the stun spray and fired it straight at Rarity, which did stun her on the spot. “All right!” cried Megan, but then, much to her horror, Rarity’s horn glowed, and she neutralized the effects of the spray with magic. “Ugh! How dare you spray me with such stuff, not to mention very horrid in odor!” Rarity whined. Megan was really starting to lose her cool. Rarity’s horn glowed again, and she raised Megan up high using telekinesis. “Hey! Put me down!” she growled. “You will discover now who you truly stand before.” snapped Rarity “You will see the light, you will feel the harmony!” Megan suddenly remembered something about magic and unicorns and how magic as this could only be conducted through maintaining eye-contact. So she flashed her eye-com flashlight right at Rarity’s eyes, stunning her again and breaking her grip, causing Megan to hit the floor. “Note to self: bring soft pillows.” she groaned. Rarity moaned and wailed as she fussed about. “Now look what you’ve done to me. I am blind! BLIND!!” “Your eyes are closed.” grumbled Megan. She opened her eyes, and felt both silly and enraged. “It appears I’ve underestimated you. You are obviously desperate.” Megan growled at the pony. “Well then… we’ll just have to settle this in a more civilized manner.” “If you mean a duel, now you’re talkin’ my language” said Megan. She always carried her duel disk with her, and loaded it up. “Ha! Let’s do this.” Rarity snickered and then the mark on her head glowed brightly, and a special dueling base appeared before her. Since she didn’t have opposable fingers to hold her cards, her cards would magically be moved from the top of the deck to a base in front of her, to simulate drawing, and the cards would move to their respective places on the platter when played. “That has got to be the weirdest duel setup I’ve ever seen.” said Megan. “Ha! Your insults won’t get you very far with me.” “Yeah…? Well, neither will your attitude.” growled Megan “Now, let’s get moving.” They drew their cards, and life points were set “DUEL!!” SCORE: Megan: 8000 VS Rarity: 8000 “I’ll go first…” said Megan “And I’ll start by playing the spell POLYMERIZATION. I’ll use it to fuse Etoile Cyber and Blade Skater from my hand, and Fusion-Summon CYBER BLADER!” (Atk: 2100) Rarity gazed at Megan’s monster, and seemed impressed with her outfit. “Oh, my stars!” she cried “Why that outfit is simply divine. Why I could make a whole line of casual and formal-wear, and…” “Will you just move already!” snarled Megan. Rarity grunted “How rude. Well, I’ll show you…” she drew her card, and her eye shimmered."First I shall play the spell, POT OF GREED, so I shall now draw two new cards. Then, I shall summon the REFLECT BOUNDER in defense mode.” (Def: 1000) “Now, I shall place two cards face down, and conclude my turn.” Megan stared down Rarity’s field. She knew Reflect bounder’s ability would deal her damage if she tried to attack it, but then again, Rarity did have two face-down cards as well, which made her wonder if Rarity was up to something else. “Well, come now. It’s not polite to keep a lady in waiting.” said Rarity. “Why don’t you hold your horses?” Megan grunted, and drew her next card. Rarity took that as a bit of an insult, but Megan liked what she drew “Let’s see you try this on for size. I activate FISSURE!” Rarity gasped as she saw her only monster get shattered to dust. “Guess that’s seven years bad luck.” Megan gloated “Now, Cyber Blader, attack her directly!” “Not so fast!” snapped Rarity “I activate the trap MIRROR FORCE!” “Ah!” Rarity snickered “Now your own attack shall be repelled, and your own monster shall be vanquished!” “Don’t think so, from my hand, I activate DE-FUSION! It’ll split Cyber Bladder back up into the two monsters she’s made of.” (Def: 1600) (Def: 1500) “And since they were brought back in defense-mode, they don’t get destroyed.” Rarity growled fiercely, and Megan laid one card facedown, ending her turn, but after which, Rarity grinned sinisterly. “Now I have you…” “Huh?” Rarity drew her card and grinned even winder “Oh, how simply marvelous. Remarkable, this is exactly what I needed.” “What is it?” snapped Megan. “A card that I shall now place facedown.” said Rarity. Megan really didn’t like the sound of that, and Rarity continued her turn. “And now I call on THE AGENT OF CREATION- VENUS!” (Atk: 1600) “Isn’t she beautiful? Well, now observe as I invoke her special ability. First, I must pay up 1500 of my life points.” SCORE: Megan: 8000 VS Rarity: 6500 After her points were paid, Rarity’s deck glowed brightly, and three beams of light shot out on the field. “Behold, three MYSTICAL SHINE BALL(s)!” (Atk: 500)x3 The shiny balls shimmered as the light shone on them, and the mirrors all around the room reflected the light, making them seem brighter than ever. Rarity gazed at it all with sparkles in her eyes, and her mouth hanging open. “Give me a break!” groaned Megan and then she shouted “Are you going to duel or just drool!” Rarity snapped back into reality, and her features hardened. “How rude…! I can’t help it if I have such a fine taste in fashion and glamour, unlike some…” Megan gritted her teeth and growled. “Well then…” snapped Rarity “If I may continue, I activate two of the same spell card; HARMONIC WAVES!” Megan knew that card, it was one of the fresh cards just released a few months ago, which could actually change the level of one monster to four, and since Rarity played two, she manged to form a group of two level 4 monsters,and two level two monsters. Rarity then overlaid the two groups. “With these combinations, I build what you call the Overlay Network, twice, and I Xyz Summon two creatures…” “SHINING ELF…” (Atk: 1600) “And… EVIGISHKI MERROWGEIST!” (Atk: 2100) The first monster was a rather handsome and dashing young elf. To Rarity he resembled that of a handsome prince, and the second was a heavily armed mermaid warrior. Her facial features seemed attractive, but she looked dressed more like a nightmare. “If there’s one thing every fashion-expert knows, it’s how to beautify things.” said Rarity. She gazed at one of her two remaining cards, and her eyes shimmered at the sight of it. “Now, witness the power of RANK-UP-MAGIC ASTRAL FORCE!” Megan gasped in shock “But… how?! How is that card still around?” She then shielded her eyes as the mark on Rarity’s head glowed brightly along with her card. “With the aid of this card, and my Merrowgeist, I’ll give it an extreme makeover, but rebuilding the Overlay Network, so that I may call on a monster two ranks higher.” Megan then watched as the formation began. “Behold!” shouted Rarity “I Xyz Summon NUMBER 21: FROZEN LADY JUSTICE!” (Atk: 500) “Success…!” Rarity sang “Once again, a marvelous ensemble for a fair monster of such class.” Megan was not only tired of all this, but she was confused. “Why would you summon that? I don’t see how it’s a threat to me. I mean it hardly has any attack points.” Rarity felt insulted “Apparently you are far more ignorant than I anticipated. My new monster not only has better physique and clothing, but also a few new tricks, and one of which is, each of her overlay units grants her an additional thousand attack points.” (Atk: 500) ---> (Atk: 3500) “Thirty-five hundred?!” cried Megan. Rarity snickered softly and teased “What, is it too much for you? Well, I’ll lower it then, but using one of those units. It may drop my Lady’s attack to 2500; however, your defending monsters will now leave!” “Ah!” gasped Megan as she watched both her monsters explode before her eyes. “Now, that you are defenseless. Go my Lady, and attack her directly!” The monster lunged straight at Megan… “Don’t think so, I activate the trap SAKURETSU ARMOR! It destroys any monster that’s trying to attack me. So your lady’s going down.” “Not so fast!” snapped Rarity and she activated a counter-trap “Go, XYZ REFLECT!” Megan yelped! She knew that card only too well. It negated the effects of any card targeting an Xyz monster. Megan’s trap card was destroyed, and then she took 800 points of damage! SCORE: Megan: 7200 VS Rarity: 6500 “Now let’s try this again…” said Rarity “Attack her directly!” Both the monsters lunged forth, and struck Megan hard, knocking her off her feet and dealing her a combined total of 4100 points of damage! SCORE: Megan: 3100 VS Rarity: 6500 By this point, Megan was furious, and she pounded the floor angrily. Then she got back onto her feet, but Rarity simply flicked her mane “You see what happens when you show disrespect. Why not make it easier and give in to the light and harmony? It isn’t even painful to join.” “As if…!” snapped Megan “I wouldn’t join your little club even I was promised a million dollars.” Rarity scoffed at such a thought “I guess I’ll have to wipe you out then. After I get through with you, you’ll really wish you chose the easy way.” Megan scoffed “Forget it you overgrown mule! You’ll never crush me!” Rarity’s features completely hardened, her head began to throb, and her eyes flared with fury. “What… did… you just CALL ME?!?!” She growled, and screeched angrily, unleashing a wave of magic, shattering many of the mirrors in the room. Megan was wide-eyed with shock, as Rarity stood there panting. “I could handle the ignorance, the insolence… but no one… I mean NO ONE CALLS ME A MULE AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!” She huffed and puffed and panted like a bull ready to charge, but it was Megan’s turn. “You seriously need to chill.” Megan said as she drew her card. “I play POT OF GREED. Now I can draw two more cards.” She drew her cards, and then thought quietly. Against two Xyz Monsters, she had her work cut out for her. She would have to play something strong and fast, but also to keep Rarity at bay. “It’s risky, but I’ve got to try it.” Megan said “I activate TRADE-IN. Now by discarding eight-star monster, I can draw two more cards.” “Draw all the cards you wish, nothing can save you now.” said Rarity. “Oh yeah, well watch this!” snapped Megan “Now I play MONSTER REBORN!” “You what…?!” “You heard me, and I bet you can guess which card I’m gonna revive. The one I just ditched. Say hello to one of my newest monsters; WHITE KNIGHT DRAGON!” (Atk: 3000) Rarity gawked in worry at the dragon, but Megan felt proud to have it out. Cyber girls would always number one with her, but along the way she knew she had to open up and expand her horizons, and that meant trying new cards now and then. “Very impressive…” Rarity said “But I’m afraid I’m about to cut that monster of yours down to size. You see, my Shining Elf lets me use one of his precious Overlay Units, and in exchange, I may weaken your monster’s attack by 500 points.” (Atk: 3000) ---> (Atk: 2500) “Hmm…!” Megan grunted “I’m not letting that slow me down. I can still wipe your little boy toy. Attack White Dragon…!” “Sorry, but no…” snapped Rarity, and before Megan knew it, her dragon crashed right into a large mirror “NIGHTMARE MIRROR?! No, not that card!” cried Megan. “I’m afraid so…” hissed Rarity “And it’s very bad luck to break a mirror. So bad, that it costs you 1000 life points.” SCORE: Megan: 2100 VS Rarity: 6500 “And it only cost me to discard one card, and that was for calling me a mule!” Rarity’s hand, or rather her holder was totally empty now. Megan put one card facedown--one she was counting on to help her end the duel—and ended her turn. Now it was Rarity’s turn, and grinned sinisterly, but didn’t bother to draw a card. Instead, a small light glowed from her graveyard, and a single card zapped into the holder. “Hey, what are you doing?” snapped Megan “You can’t just take a card like that.” “Oh… can’t I?” hissed Rarity “Well, for your information, I can, and I did, just as I can and will play it; RANK-UP-MAGIC ASTRAL FORCE!” “Oh, no, not again?!” cried Megan as the brightness began to shine forth. “Prepare to face the most beautiful monster in my entire fleet.” shouted Rarity “With the power of my Lady Justice, I rebuild the Overlay Network, so I may call a monster one rank higher!” In big flash of bright light, the monster appeared! “Behold… OREA, THE SYLVAN HIGH ARBITER!” (Atk: 2800) Rarity gazed more deeply at her new monster than any other she had summoned. “Oh, boy, she has gone fully nuts.” Megan muttered to herself. She was very dismayed by Rarity’s entire strategy and deck construction-- nothing but beautiful and fashionable creatures, and a whole lot of mirrors, and now she summoned forth a monster, while beautiful, with an effect that wouldn’t help her much at all. Rarity, still acting as vain and as blinded by her misguidedness, didn’t seem to care much that her monster’s ability wouldn’t help her. Then she turned to face Megan “And now my beauty, attack! Destroy that dragon!” (Atk: 2800) (VS) (Atk: 2500) SCORE: Megan: 1800 VS Rarity: 6500 “Now, Shining Elf, go!” Megan was knocked off her feet again by the attack, and lost a good 1600 points. SCORE: Megan: 200 VS Rarity: 6500 Rather than be outraged, Megan smiled softly, and activated her disk. “Well, what say you now my dear?” hissed Rarity, but as she gazed on ahead she could see the White Dragon had returned and was staring her down. “What?! But, I just destroyed that awful creature.” “Yeah, you did, and then I brought him back.” Megan gloated as she motioned at her Call of the Haunted card next to her. “You know, if you spent less time whining, complaining and ogling about fashion, maybe you’d actually get somewhere with yourself.” “I’ll have you know I’ve gotten extremely far!” snarled Rarity. Megan scoffed, “It doesn’t look like you did to Me.” she drew her next card. “Now I play XYZ TREASURE! Now I get to draw one card for every Xyz monster in play.” She drew two cards, and her eyes glistened with joy. She now had four cards in her hand, exactly what she needed to end the duel. “Why would you give me something as this?” “You’ll see.” Megan said “In the meantime, I summon CYBER TUTU!” (Atk: 1000) “And while I’m at it, I’ll throw in this; LEVEL AWARD! It lets me make Cyber Tutu’s level the same as my Dragon’s.” Rarity gazed in worry as the two monsters were now Level Eight, and as expected, Megan overlaid them both. “Now I build the Overlay Network. I Xyz Summon NUMBER 40: GIMMICK PUPPET OF STRINGS!” (Atk: 3000) Rarity gawked at the new monster, and felt disgusted. “What sort of monster is that, and with such an awful appearance and ensemble?” Megan grinned cheekily “It’s just part of my plan to take you down.” “That, I very much doubt!” sneered Rarity. Megan sighed “You see this is your problem; you’re so wrapped up with all this fashion and good looks that you’ve stacked your deck improperly. Looks aren’t everything to a good strategy ya know. You need a combination of strategy, strength and skill, and I’ll prove it by using my puppet’s special ability, by using an overlay unit, I can put one String Counter on both your monsters.” Megan’s monster shot out two large strings straight at both of Rarity’s monsters. Rarity didn’t like how they looked one bit “What are you doing?!” she snarled “Those awful strings are clashing with my monster’s priceless outfits.” “Oh, they’re going to do more than just clash…” Megan said as she held up a card “I activate the spell RANK-UP-MAGIC BARRIAN’S FORCE!” “What?!” snapped Rarity. “Go, Chaos Xyz Evolution!” Dark waves of energy enveloped Megan’s monster. “Now I do exactly what you did, and summon a monsters stronger than what I had. I rebuild the Overlay Network and now I summon NUMBER C40: GIMMICK PUPPET OF DARK STRINGS!” (Atk: 3300) When the monster appeared, a holographic image of the Barrian mark on the Rank Up card appeared on Megan’s forehead. Rarity shuddered at both it and the sight of the wicked monster. “Don’t forget about my Shining Elf, now I can weaken your monster down to size.” “No you can’t…” Megan hissed, and she snapped her fingers, and the last Overlay Unit on the Shining Elf went over to Megan’s monster, much to Rarity’s horror “Just another one of my Rank Up card’s tricks.” Megan gloated “Now your monster can’t weaken me, and besides, when my Dark Strings summoned, she destroys all monsters that have String Counters on them! Then I get to draw one card, while you take damage equal your strongest monster’s original attack points.” Rarity gasped and then watched in horror as her two monsters shattered into nothing and her score dropped by 2800. SCORE: Megan: 200 VS Rarity: 3700 “This… this cannot be!” Rarity whined “After all I spent beautifying and perfecting them to every last detail.” She was acting like a very over-dramatic drama queen. “Yeah, a drag, I know…” said Megan “Too bad for you it’s all over, because look at the card I just drew; XYZ UNIT! So my monster now gain’s 200 attack-points times the number of her rank and that makes her get 1800!” (Atk: 3300) ---> (Atk: 5100) “No!” cried Rarity. Megan nodded and she gazed all around at the shattered mirrors, she could still see the reflection from so many more angles than before, and how scared Rarity looked. “Mirrors, Mirrors on the wall, Guess who is about to fall!” Then she ordered her monster to attack Rarity directly. Rarity screamed as the monster struck her hard, and she collapsed to the ground. FINAL-SCORE: Megan: 200 VS Rarity: “0000” “Yeah…!” Megan cheered “Score one for Megan!” The mark on Rarity’s head stopped glowing, and the stream of purple light in the skies vanished. At the same time, Twilight Sparkle had to report to the princess. “Your majesty, I regret to inform you, Rarity’s magical bond has been broken.” Celestia didn’t seem angry at all, but she did have a queer look on her face. “As I feared, we face defiance. Someone is trying to bind out the light and the harmony.” She got off her throne and walked over to one of the large crystals on the wall, Rarity’s crystal, which was still glowing. “No matter… They will soon discover the error of their ways.” Twilight agreed, and informed her of the little scheme she and her faithful assistant had prepared for such an emergency. Rarity continued to lie where she was, barely moving. The purple light had completely vanished, and Megan truly thought she had outdone herself, yet when she looked outside, she noticed all the people were still brainwashed and still chanting for the Light of Harmony. “Hey, what gives…?” Megan groaned. While continued to contemplate, someone else in the room was watching her through the shadows with a pair of nasty green eyes. Megan suddenly had that feeling she wasn’t alone. “Who’s there?” she shouted, and before she knew it… it jumped out at her… she screamed… and before long a big flash of light erupted from the place, and Megan blacked out.