//------------------------------// // Duel 3: Fight through the Forest // Story: Yu-Gi-Oh! Friendship is Dueling 4: Cyber Duel Saga // by Bahamut0 //------------------------------// A limo arrived to pick up Mokuba and Ace's friends, and they soon arrived at Kaiba Corp.'s Canterlot branch. "We're here!", Mokuba announced. The group exited the limo and followed Mokuba into the building. Kaiba was there to greet them. "Hey Seto!" "I take it they wanted to test out the virtual reality console Mokuba?" "Yup! Hopefully we don't have another incident like the first time." "Well, follow me. I'm about to show you the future of gaming!", Kaiba said proudly. The group boarded the elevator and went down to where the virtual reality chamber was located. "These are the virtual reality pods. We've already linked them up to out latest duel monsters video game. Enter the pods, and you'll be transported into the game. It's the next level of immersive game-play. So, you ready to take things to the next level?" "Good one!", Sonata noted. "Finally someone who appreciates puns.", Kaiba said with a small smile. The group got into the gaming pods and prepared to enter the game. However, something went wrong once they game started to run. "Mr. Kaiba! Our program's been tampered with!", a technician cried out! "What?! Terminate the program! Now!", Kaiba ordered. "It's too late! If we abort it now, their minds will be trapped in the game!" Kaiba growled at hearing this. "Then it looks like their only way out is to beat the game." Inside the game world.... "Wow. The graphics here are great!", Ace said as he took in the world of the game. "Kaiba wasn't kidding when he said it took immersive game-play to the next level.", Ice added. "So how do we play?", Sonata asked. "Maybe we use our duel monsters decks.", Indigo suggested as she noted the duel disk on her arm. "This IS a Duel Monsters video game." "You got a point.", Ace said as he activated his duel disk. "I guess we'd better try finding some form of civilization. That's usually how adventure games work. We'd better find our way through the forest." "Also, it looks like we can summon our high-level monsters with no cost.", Ice noted as he looked over his cards. "Come on out Gorz!" Gorz, the Emissary of Darkness materialized. "Huh. So this is what it feels like to go digital.", Gorz said as he took in the game environment. "So we're heading into the forest right? Well, good thing I'm great at squashing bugs." The group then made their way through the forest. And as expected, they ran into some enemy monsters! In specific, a swarm of insect-type monsters! "Time to play exterminator!", Gorz boasted as he readied his sword. "Don't count me out of the fun!", Ace said as he summoned Dark Magician Girl! "Eat magic you stinking bugs!", DMG cried out as she fired a blast of magic! Frying the bugs in their way! "Uh, guys? I don't think we're outta this yet!", Indigo cried out as more bugs started to swarm them! "Time to bring out some backup!" Indigo summoned Jet Synchron and D.D. Unicorn Knight! "Synchro summon!" Indigo brought out Jet Warrior! "Time to fry some bugs! Turbine Blast!", Jet Warrior cried out as he unleashed a flaming tornado from his fist! However, there was no end in sight of the insect onslaught! "They just keep coming!" Sonata then noticed something that could turn the tide! "Look at the trees!" The group looked up at the trees, and noticed the hives stuck to the trees! For every bug they destroyed, the hives churned out another one! Sonata summoned out Jellyfish! "Come on Jelly! Zap the hives!" Jellyfish fired small bolts of electricity from his tentacles! Frying all of the hives and stopping the continuous wave on insects! "That oughta fix our bug problem!", Gorz said with a smile. "Now to rip things up!" Gorz charged at the horde of insects! Cutting them to pixelated bits with his arm blades! "Wait....if those were hives, then where's the...." The ground soon rumbled! "I think we're at the first boss battle!" Six massive legs rose up from the ground, and Insect Queen emerged from her hiding place! She hissed at the group as she beat her wings! She tried to attack, but was stuck in place! "Looks like the game shares some of the same effects of cards as the real world! Insect Queen can't attack unless another insect is tributed! Meaning we can get in as many hits as we want! But first, I think you need some better equipment DMG!" Ace played Magic Formula, and the iconic spell book fell into DMG's hands! "Thanks Ace!", DMG said with a nod. "Dark Burning Attack!" DMG fired a massive blast of magic at Insect Queen! Singeing her! "Care to do the honors Gorz?", Ice asked. Gorz smirked. "Watch this!" Gorz charged at Insect Queen, and unleashed a series of rapid slashes! Once he was finished, he sheathed his blade. "Wait for it...." A few seconds later, Insect Queen exploded into a bunch of pixels! "And THAT'S how you finish a boss battle!" The group was all set to celebrate, until a figure sntached up Sonata and Indigo Zap! "Sonata!", Ace cried out! "Zap!", Ice screamed! Armed Ninja noticed the two were pursuing him, and vanished in a smoke bomb! "Darn! What now?!" Ace sighed. "I guess we'd better head for the village at the edge of the forest. Maybe we can find out why our girlfriends got nabbed..."