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// Duelist: Duel 12-Confrontation 
// Story: It's Time to Duel! 
// by thisissparta789789 
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2 days before the beginning of Duelist Kingdom

As Princess Luna worked on something in the office of her personal estate on the Moon, she looked out towards the Ocean of Storms, which was surprisingly calm that morning. Her estate was right on a cliff side and was expansive. She then set down what she was working on: Two red and blue discs with cables attaching them to gauntlets that carried Duel Monsters decks. These prototypes were to be called "Duel Disks."

As she then grabbed a screwdriver to open the battery compartment of one of them, she thought to herself, "Adagio Dazzle has to have some kind of trick involving the Alicorn Eye. Hopefully, if her field of vision is blocked by these Duel Disks, she won't be able to read my mind when I face her after her little tournament is done and rescue Cloud Tail. Ugh... Even thinking about that bitch and how she kidnapped my star pupil makes me want to puke."

Suddenly, she heard footsteps from behind the door in the hallway, as well as the sound of a gun cocking. She quickly closed the battery compartment, placed both Duel Disks, her wallet, and her cell phone in her briefcase of cards, and slammed it shut just before two men busted down the door, guns in their hands. She instantly recognized both as Luna Corporation security guards.

As she turned around to face them, one of them shouted, "Don't move a muscle, Princess Luna!"

The other then shouted at her, "On the orders of Adagio Dazzle and the Big Five, you're gonna need to come with us, or else!"

"Or else what?" Princess Luna remained defiant as she grabbed her briefcase. "I'm assuming that if I say no, you're just gonna kill me instead, right?"

"Right, you are," said one of the men.

Princess Luna then suddenly kicked the chair in front of her towards the two men with such force that it knocked them both down. She then shouted, "You'll never take me alive, you traitors!"

One of the men then fired her gun at Luna. However, she instantly deflected the bullet with her briefcase before crashing through the window and down towards the Ocean of Storms below. One of them men shouted in disbelief, "What the hell?!"

They both then ran to the smashed window and looked down at the water. "Well," said the other man. "That takes care of her. Let's get the hell out of here." They both assumed she was killed by the fall.

"Wait a minute," the other man said as he noticed that Luna had left her actual deck on the desk. "Let's take this." Sure enough, when he drew a card from it, he happened to pick up one of her three Blue-Eyes White Dragons. "Adagio will love this."

However, their assumption that she was dead proved to be wrong, as several minutes later, Princess Luna emerged from the water and walked onto a nearby beach, soaking wet. Luckily, her briefcase survived, as well as all of the contents in it, due to it being both waterproof and watertight. As she brushed herself off, she said, "That's it. I'm going to that fucking island and facing Adagio now."



Present Day

"C'mon," said a duelist who had just lost to Soarin on the island. "How did you know what you would play before it happened? Are you some kind of psychic, dude?" He was clearly unhappy.

"No," Sorain replied. "I'm just lucky, I guess. Anyways, hand over your star chips." The other duelist then sighed and begrudgingly handed over his star chips, knocking him out of the tournament.

Then, Soarin noticed that the other Twilight and her friends were walking over. Rainbow Dash called out to him, "Hey there! Didn't we meet on the ship?"

"I believe we did," Soarin replied. "I see your friend Twilight won a duel already." He noticed that the other Twilight had three star chips. "Who did you win against?"

"I won against Sunny Flare," the other Twilight replied. "She's out of the tournament."

"Wait," Soarin replied in shock. "Then that means... Oh my God, you're the National Champion!" He then noticed that Rainbow Dash also now had a gauntlet with just one star chip. "I didn't know you were in the tournament. Say, who did you lose against?"

"Nobody, thank you very much," Rainbow Dash replied, annoyed. "Twilight gave me a star chip, and I took Sunny Flare's gauntlet, hence why she has only 3 star chips. In fact, I haven't dueled against anyone."

Soarin then thought to himself. "Hmm... How about this? I'll be your first opponent."

Flash Sentry advised Rainbow Dash, "Uhhh... Dude, I wouldn't go for it. Soarin is a really good duelist."

"I mean," Soarin followed up with. "I would like to face someone weaker before I face Twilight."

Rainbow Dash, now angered, replied back, "Oh, really? Fine. I'll take up your challenge."

Fluttershy told her, "Ugh... Rainbow Das-"

"No," the other Twilight replied. "Let her face Soarin. We'll be behind her all the way." She then turned to Soarin and told him, "Don't be so cocky, Soarin. Cockiness has been the downfall of many otherwise great duelists, including Sunny Flare."

Soarin brushed her off by saying, "Whatever. Keep your philosophy mumbo-jumbo to yourself. This is between me and the rainbow-haired winged girl. By the way, since you have only 1 star chip, even if I do lose, by some weird act of God, it won't affect my standing in the tournament, so don't get your hopes up."

Rainbow Dash and Soarin then took to the Duel Arena, with Rainbow Dash taking the Blue platform and Soarin taking the Red platform. As they raised up, Rainbow Dash thought to herself, "Don't give into his insults. You got this. Your friends are behind you."

Soarin thought to himself, "I'll steamroll her, and once I'm done with that, I'll face Twilight and see if she's truly what she claims to be."