//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: The mane 6 vs Simon Muran (A.K.A. The insensitive Brute) // Story: Ponies vs Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories // by Lucky Star Kona-chan //------------------------------// BGM Simon Muran. The black fade out, brought the mares to the front of a palace it was night time. Then a robed figure appeared its face was totally covered so they weren’t able to say what it was. “My dear princess!” the text in the box said. “Oh, so we are royalty on this game? That’s a pleasant surprise if I say so myself,” Rarity said happily, maybe she was exaggerating the whole being a princess thing, but who knows. “Argh! Great, now I have princess added to my name in game, I swear if somepony calls me princess Dashie I’m going to kick them to tartarus!” “There’s something interesting with this scene, according to a note on manual, originally the character was a male but they change it for us. I’m surprised they went that far to not making us feel uncomfortable.” “Well, Ah’m still sure has hay that being called a princess will take some time to get used to.” “Are you going to the city to play cards again!?” the mysterious character said. “Well duh, what else am I supposed to be doing?” Rainbow replied to the fictional character. “Rainbow dear, a princess should always present herself with grace and looking her best even for such activity!” “You are of royal blood! Walking the city streets dressed as a commoner. Have you no shame!? Quite frankly, I’m embarrassed!” the robed character said. The room fell into silence only the music could be heard. Then Rainbow burst into laughter, “Hahahahaha! S-so m-much for looking your best there, Rares!” She managed to say in between breaths. The others facehoofed except for Rarity. Rarity’s eye twitched involuntarily, “How dare you, speak your princess that way! I’ll make sure you get fired from whatever job you may have, you insensitive brute!” “Woah Rarity, calm down.” Applejack tried to calm her friend. “Calm down? Calm down!? This hideous looking person here insulted my wardrobe Applejack! Don’t tell me to calm down!” “It’s just a game Rarity; tis’ fella is not even real.” “Hmmph!” Rarity said as looking away indignantly. Then Twilight noticed something, “Oh, new options.” The options “Run away” and “Keep listening,” were on screen. Rarity took no time for selecting “Run away” same with Rainbow. “No way I’m sitting there with that dude, he looks so lame.” “I must agree with Rainbow here, such disrespect for a lady is unforgivable.” “Ah’ don’t really care about what he says, but Ah’ want to see more of the game.” AJ selected Run away too. “Umm… I’m sorry sir but you weren’t very nice, so I must go” Fluttershy said before selecting Run away. Pinkie was just making noises by pressing up and down constantly. Twilight wanted to say something but thought otherwise just to not set Rarity off. So she selected Run away too. “Pinkie stop doing that and choose please.” “Okie dokie lokie!” She said as she selected Run away. “Wait! My princess!” the character said with a shocked expression before changing to its stoic one, “Drat! She’s gone…” Rarity felt that retribution has been accomplished. BGM First Environment of Duels. Twilight then explained that they had to return to the pharaoh’s palace  to start their first game. Rarity didn’t wanted anything to do with the “insensitive brute” but gave up soon after, she still wasn’t happy. BGM Simon Muran. “Princess (name of the character here). You’ve returned…” the character said. Rainbow started seeing red, the words “Princess Dashie” were on screen. “Twilight… tell me we have the chance to kick this dude’s flank.” She said darkly. “Yikes, Dashie is red from her frowny frown.” “Alright… to answer your question Rainbow, yes we have the option to confront him. He’s actually the first enemy according to the manual but it doesn’t say his name anywhere, that’s weird.” “It is well into the night… Please return to the palace.” The no name character said. “Buck you, I do what I want.” Rainbow said still red of anger and embarrassment. “Dear Princess… If you still wish to play cards… then try your hand against me. If you lose, you must return to your room. I’m sure you’ll find me a worthy opponent.” The blue faced character said then the options “Duel” and “Pass” appeared. “Worthy opponent my flank! You’re going down whoever the hay you are!” “Uuuuuhh, this is getting intense! I can’t wait!” Pinkie said excitedly. All of them selected “Duel” “Ho ho ho. My dear princess… I taught you the game. You don’t really think you’re going to win, do you? Prepare yourself!” the character with the big had said. The screen faded to black before coming back. BGM Build Deck. They were brought to a screen that looked like a list with the word chest at the upper left corner, the word order to its side followed by various symbols and a white diamond with the number 40 on the upper right with a flashing arrow pointing right. “This is the deck building screen; here you choose your cards to play. The deck always has to have 40 cards; the cards are divided in 3 types, monsters those are yellow cards, spells are green cards and trap cards are dark pink. Monsters have two stats that define their effectiveness in combat, Attack represented by a sword or ATK, and Defense represented by a shield or DEF those two are followed by a number the higher this number the better.” Twilight explained. “Hmm, it makes sense.” She took a breath before continuing, “I suggest we take turns in doing this girls, I’ll go first to test it.” “No way! I want to go first!” “Rainbow you don’t even know how to play, let me try it, then you can go after ok?” “Fine…” Rainbow said crossing her hooves and pouting, “I hope you lose.” “Thanks for the vote of confidence Rainbow.” Twilight’s duel. Twilight left the deck building screen, it faded to black. Then a board appeared from the shadows, their life points went up to 8000 and Twilight’s hand was drawn. BGM Egyptian Duel. “Ok, let’s see what I got.” She took a look at her hand/hoof considering her options. “Oh, I got a spell, now how do I know what this does?” she checked the manual, “alright ∆ to see the card’s information.” “Dark Energy: Equip spell card, Dark forces increase the power of Fiend and other monsters of the Dark!” “So that means I can play it with a fiend type monster to give it more power?” “Come on Twilight, make your move already!” “Easy Rainbow let me get a hold of these controls first.” She then read to her friends what every button does and some other minor aspects of a duel like the position of the cards and the meaning of that. “Alright, I’ll go with this.” She selected Meda Bat (A800/D400) from her hoof, she decided to put it face-up, when the Guardian Star selection appeared she wasn’t sure of what to choose. “The manual mentions these, they have different interactions with others but it doesn’t explain what they accomplish.” “Just do your move!” Twilight groaned, “Fine!” she chose Moon and left her end her turn with her monster on Attack position. The Cpu put a Uranus star monster face down in defense and end it’s turn. Twilight drew a new card. “Oh, this one is pretty strong.” Without considering it too much Twilight chose the new monster Lady of Faith (A1100/D800) and place it face up with the Sun guardian star. “Alright time to go on the offensive.” Choosing not to risk it, she attacked with Lady of Faith, destroying the defending monster which was Ancient Jar (A400/D200). Then she attacked with Meda Bat directly. Cpu LP = 7200 “His cards don’t appear to be too strong,” she then ended her turn. The Cpu once again set defensive monster but with the Moon star. Twilight was enjoying her first duel, she figured her opponent had no opportunity against her superior cards but she didn’t let her guard down. Selecting the new monster on her hand Hurricail (A900/D200) she place it face up with the Neptune star. This time however she attacked with Meda Bat at the defending monster (Dark Plant A300/D400), and then attacked with her other two monsters before ending her turn. Cpu Lp = 5200 The Cpu set down a Jupiter star monster. Twilight picked Penguin Knight with Uranus star and put it on the field. She destroyed the defending monster (Griggle A350/D300) and attacked directly. (Sorry the wiki doesn't have an image of the card) Cpu Lp = 2300 Her opponent set another Jupiter star monster and passed. She selected The Wandering Doomed (A800/D600) put it on the field with the Moon star and attacked the face down (Leghul A300/D350) then ended her opponent with the rest of her army. BGM You win! “That was interesting,” she said as the little fanfare sounded, she got a POW S-Rank, 5 starchips and the card Mystic Lamp (A400/D300). “You won. T’would seem that I taught you well… You’ve grown strong. You’ve won fair and square. As promised, you may go. I’ve nothing more to say…” the mysterious man said and the screen faded to black sending Twilight to the world map. “Tis’ fella at least knows how ta accept a defeat, Rainbow should learn from him.” AJ said with a smirk. “He’s just a loser, and he will lose again against me, oh yeah!” Rainbow boasted. “Alright girls you can go all together, he does not seem to be much of a treat for monsters with more than 500 points in stats.” And that they did Rainbow finished swiftly with Patrol Robo (A1100/D900), Kaminarikozou (A700/D600), Yashinoki (A800/D600), Change Slime (A400/D300) and The Drdek (A700/D800). Her victory earned her and S-Pow 5 stars and the card Time Wizard (A500/D400). Applejack won with Penguin Soldier (A750/D500), Lucky Trinket (A600/D800), Akakieisu (A1000/D800), Masked Clown (A500/D700) and Phantom Ghost (A600/D800). She got a S-Pow 5 stars and Mechanical Spider (A400/D500) Rarity still sore from the encounter with the “Insensitive Brute” won with Dharma Cannon (A900/D500), Sectarian of Secrets (A700/D500), Doron (A900/D500), Meotoko (A700/D600) and Happy Lover (A800/D500) but not before complaining about how her monsters weren’t ladylike enough for her. Besides her S-Pow/5 stars spoils, karma didn’t want to go with her nonsense and gave her the card Fungi of the Musk (A400/D300) No image for this one either, sorry. Fluttershy played so quietly that none of the others saw what happened, but apparently she received damage because her Lp were 7900. She was a little embarrassed but she got a Time Wizard and the obvious S-Pow/5 stars. When Pinkie started her duel she kept on moving the cursor left and right making a very irritating sound, when the others told her to stop she started playing and she was the fastest when it comes to turn count. Her monsters were Hibikime (A1450/D1000), Unknown Warrior of Fiend (A1000/D500), Skelengel (A900/D500) and Cyber-Stein (A700/D500). She got the S/5 and a Change Slime alongside the slack jawed expressions of AJ, Rainbow and Twilight. They couldn’t believe Pinkie had such a strong monster on her deck. “That’s not fair! How come I didn’t get an awesome monster like that?” Rainbow complained. “The starter decks are randomized apparently, that still doesn’t explain how Pinkie’s deck turned out so strong.” “I don’t know, I just wanted to have fun and that I did!” “Anyways, this took quite some time to test, I think we better end it here and continue tomorrow, do you agree?” Twilight asked, and they seemed to accept it. Except for Rainbow, “Do we have to? I’m not tired yet! I need to get better cards.” Twilight deadpanned, “Rainbow, I can see your eyes fighting to be closed, I know you’re excited I’ am too, but our health comes first, besides there’s work to do tomorrow.” “Fine…” Rainbow accepted begrudgingly. “Ok, everypony plug in your Data Cards and go to the card shop to save our progress.” Twilight said but she already saved while the others had their duels. The mares did as they were told and saved their games. “We will continue tomorrow at the same hour, have a good night of sleep girls.” Twilight said to them with a warm smile. A collective wave of cute ‘yawns’ was heard, and everypony said good bye before turning off their Magical Visions and going to bed to recharge energy for the next day. Everypony except one… “They’ll never know,” the raspy voice said with a chuckle, “I’ll be the best, you’ll see!”