The Prince of Games Arrives

by mattchilly


Duel One. Amazons vs Mix and Match Machines

I yawned and looked to my right to see my reflection in my living room window. I have messy brown hair, and dark blue eyes. Currently I’m wearing a plain black shirt, black jeans, and white tennis shoes and a locket that looked like a dark red diamond shaped crystal around my neck. I had also decided to wear a white trench coat with small spikes on the shoulders that my mom had gotten for my birthday a many years ago, because I wanted to cosplay as Jack Atlas from Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s for Halloween that year. I was currently doing a few last-minute edits on my Amazoness Tribe Deck before heading to a small tournament my friend John threw once a year, but I was also going to bring my Photon Overload and my Dragon’s King decks in the deck carriers on my belt.

Once I was finished I grabbed my forest green duffel bag that my dad made, grabbed everything I'd need and placed it in the bag after looking at the hidden pocket in my duffel bag for a moment. Just as I was about to head out and walk to John’s house when I saw a card lying face down as if someone slid it under the front door when I picked it up I saw it was a field spell card called Equestria, the picture was blank and its description said, “A world like you’ve never imagined. Have fun and keep your eyes open for you never know who you might run into.”

I wondered what that meant before the card let out a blindingly bright light. Dropping the card, I shielded my eyes, when the light finally dimmed I opened my eyes only to find I wasn’t in my hotel room but instead standing in the middle of a park. I blinked a few times until my eyes adjusted to the light when they had I saw a sign that read, “The Special Canterlot Duel Event will begin at Noon at the Lunar Dome” Underneath the sign was another with an arrow pointing to the left and an electric clock saying it was 11:30 am.

Seeing this I smirked. “Glad I’m not like my namesake and always believed magic existed. Otherwise I’d be freaking out. A dueling event huh? I doubt I can learn something on how I was sent here there but at the very least it should be fun.” As I made my way through Canterlot I realized my bag felt a little heavier than it had been and reached into my bag and pulled out my custom order Duel Disk that my younger sister had given me a few years ago which looked like Tanya’s from GX only to find it was now made of metal instead of plastic. I smiled to myself and put it back into the bag.  When I came to the Night Dome and saw it looked exactly like the Kaiba Dome being based of off the head of a Blue Eyes White Dragon. After I walked into the Dome I followed the signs to the registration desk.

Sitting behind the desk is a woman in a sapphire-blue suite with short black hair. As I approached she looked up and said “Hello, are you here to sign up for the event?” After I nodded she said. “In that case, all you need to do is sigh this form. You’re lucky, you just took the last open spot. Do you need to borrow a Duel Disk?”

“No thanks. I got that covered.” I replied before I signed the form and followed the secretary’s instructions on where the duelists were to wait for their match. After taking my Duel Disk out of my bag and putting in on my left arm the large TV on one of the walls turned on and a woman with long light pink, light green, and light blue hair, in a white business suite appeared.

“No thanks. I got that covered.” I replied before I signed the form and followed the secretary’s instructions on where the duelists were to wait for their match. After taking my Duel Disk out of my bag and putting in on my left arm the large TV on one of the walls turned on and a woman with long light pink, light green, and light blue hair, in a white business suite appeared.

As the duels proceeded I saw that no one wanted to duel the champion making me wonder what the Champion was like and which I roused myself from my thoughts I saw that there was only one other person in the room. She was wearing a sky-blue tracksuit with clouds dotted on it in a seemingly random pattern. Her hair is rainbow colored and had a blue Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s style Duel Disk on her arm. Once the current duel was done we both made our way to the door, as we walked to the arena she said with a cocky grin. “I hope you’re ready to get creamed, I’ve been preparing my deck to take on the champ for weeks, and I don’t plan on letting you stop me.”

“Well I can’t wait to see what kinds of strategies you’ve come up with when you duel them. That is IF you can beat me.” I replied, before we walked out to the area I made my way to the left side while my opponent went to the right, glancing up I saw that the dome was closed so we couldn’t see the sky. When we were in position the speakers came on and Celestia said.

“And now for the final round, Seto Kaiba vs Rainbow Dash. Alright you two call it in the air!” Between us a hologram of a giant coin appeared and was sent flying into the air. I called ‘Tails’ while Rainbow called ‘Heads’. I wasn’t surprised to see it came down heads since I always have bad luck with flipping a coin. “Rainbow Dash goes first! Duelists BEGIN!”

Rainbow 4000
Hand has 5 cards.
Seto 4000
Hand has 5 cards.

After I drew my first hand I quickly studied them and saw I had my favorite opening combo unfortunately I lost the coin flip. “Time to start this off with a bang! Fist I’ll play the spell card Frontline Base, with this every time I summon a Union monster that’s level four or below I can summon a second one. Next I summon Y-Dragon Head in attack mode *Attack 1500, Defense 1600*, and thanks to my spell card I can also bring out Z-Metal Tank! *Attack 1500, Defense 1300*” As Rainbow spoke a red mechanical dragon and an oddly designed yellow tank appeared. “Now I’ll activate my tanks ability and equip it to my dragon raising Y-Dragon Head’s attack points by six hundred, then I’ll end my turn with two face downs.” *Attack 2100, Defense 1300*

Rainbow 4000
Hand has 1 card.
Seto 4000
Hand has 5 cards.

“Alright my draw! First I’ll play the Field Spell Amazon Village! Now all my Amazons get two hundred more attack points and when one of my Amazons is destroyed I can summon a new one if its level matches or is lower than the one destroyed. I summon the Amazoness Spy.” *Attack 800, Defense 1200, now Attack 1000* As I spoke the environment changed so were now standing in the middle of a large village made of wooden huts with thatched walls and roofs. Beyond the buildings was a large wooden wall that keeps the village safe from the wild animals of the surrounding jungle. There were a few women scantily clad in leather clothes and armed with spears watching us from between to the houses.

The Amazoness Spy jumped out of one of the huts on my left and landed in a defensive crouching position. She has a well-toned and slightly muscular body and wore a red face mask which showed her green eyes, a blue cape that was attached to an ornamental skull on her left shoulder. A red fabric wrap around her chest, metallic bands on her arms, a simple brown belt with a red short sword scabbard, a dark green skirt, red knee guards and white cloth wrapped on her feet. “Next I’ll play one card face down and play the spell Field Barrier with this not only is my village safe but no other field spell can be played, and end my turn.”

Rainbow 4000
Hand has 1 card.
Seto 4000
Hand has 2 cards.

After rainbow drew her card she said, “I’ll admit you’ve got some cards I’ve never seen but I’m not about to let up! First, I play Pot of Greed so I can draw two cards, then I’ll unequip my Z-Metal Tank from my Dragon and one my face down Jar of Greed to draw another card. Now I summon my X-Head Cannon. *Attack 1800, Defense 1500* Now I remove my three monsters from play to summon my XYZ-Dragon Cannon! *Attack 2800, Defense 2600*” As Rainbow spoke a blue mech with two large yellow arms, two long energy cannons on its shoulders and a large round spiked lower body appeared before the three robots began to combine. First the spikes retracted into the ball as X-Head Cannon lowed itself into a domed indent on the back of Y-Dragon Head’s body. Next Y-Dragon Head’s wings flew off and its feet folded in so they rested on the dragons under side as Y-Dragon Head lowered so it rested in the indent on Z-Metal Tank and with a clicking sound the three monsters finished combining. *Attack 2800, Defense 2600*

“Now I’ll equip my Machine Conversion Factory card to my cannon giving it Three Hundred more attack and defense points.*Attack 3100, Defense 2900* “Before I destroy your monster, I’ll destroy your Field Barrier with my Cannon’s special ability, by sending the last card in my hand to the graveyard. Now XYZ-Dragon Cannon destroy his spell card with you XYZ Hyper Cannon! Then destroy his spy with your Cannon Firestorm!”

XYZ-Dragon Cannon took aim and fired energy beams from the two cannons on X-Head Cannon’s shoulders, Y-Dragon Head mouth and two more cannons that from the top the armor of Z-Metal Tank’s treads.

“I activate my trap Intrigue Shield, this card equips to one of my monsters and once per turn that monster can’t be destroyed in battle and I take no damage!” I yelled.

“Sorry but that won’t help! I play the counter-trap Trap Jammer! When you activate a trap during the battle faze I can negate and destroy it!” Rainbow replied just before her attack hit. When the it did, it caused a large explosion engulfing my side of the field in smoke.

Rainbow 4000
Hand has 0 cards.
Seto 1900
Hand has 2 cards.

“I hope you didn’t forget my Village’s special ability so now I’ll summon the level two Amazoness Scouts!” At this two, young teen-aged girls leaped out of different huts. One has red hair with a yellow band with two black feathers set in it on her head, a red under outfit with a yellow sleeveless shirt and skirt, leather arm and leg guards and nothing on her feet. She’s armed with a simple one handed broadsword. The other is armed with a bow and is dressed in the same kind of outfit but where the one with the sword had a red under outfit and hair, the one with the bows has light blue hair, shirt, and skirt while her under outfit is silver and she has simple white cloth wrapped around her legs. *Attack 500, Defense 1100 now Attack 700* {A/N :small note I’m going to be calling these two Red Scout and Blue Scout}

“I’ll end my turn there.” Rainbow said with a smirk.

Rainbow 4000
Hand has 0 cards.
Seto 1900
Hand has 1 cards.

“Now my turn.” When Seto saw the card, he drew a large smile appeared on his face. “I summon my
Amazoness Swords Woman *Attack 1500, Defense 1600. Now Attack 1700* in attack mode and I’ll equip her with the Amazoness Heirloom! Now my Swords Woman has a rather interesting ability, you see when she’s in battle YOU take all the damage I would take if your monsters stronger.” As Seto spoke a woman with large muscles and bronzed skin and fierce green eyes walked out of a hut and stood ready to attack as an intricately carved wooden idol with a large emerald on a rope appeared around her neck. She has long fire red hair with a blue headband with red spikes on it and a simple leather corset with leather arm and leg guards. The Swords Woman is armed with a sword that was a large one handed sword with a blue hilt and red spike that attached to the hilt in her right hand. “Now the Heirloom also has powerful ability. With it once per turn the Amazon equipped with it can’t be destroyed in battle and after the damage calculation your monster will be destroyed!”

“WHAT!? Rainbow yelled surprised that such cards could exist.

“Yup, so when your Cannon destroyed the Amazoness Scouts can take a small chunk out of your life points. Swords Woman take out her Cannon with your Head-Chopping Sword!” I said with a smirk as Amazoness Swords Woman raised her sword and let out a war cry as she charged towards the cannon. Once she was in range she brought her sword down only for it to be blocked by XYZ-Dragon Cannon’s arm creating sparks which fell on Rainbow who flinched when the sparks landed on her arms and legs. "And with that I end my turn."

Rainbow 2600
Hand has 0 cards.
Seto 1900
Hand has 0 cards.

“Got to admit, I’m impressed you managed to make a comeback like that. Draw! First I summon A-Assault Core *Attack 1900, Defense 200* then I’ll destroy your Scouts with Assault Core’s Energy Stinger!” A yellow tank with a rounded body, angled armored treads, and a large mechanical stinger appeared before it fired a yellow beam of energy at the Amazoness Scouts, but before it connected I yelled.

“You just wasted your attack because I activate my scout’s ability! During either turn I can tribute my Scouts to make all my Amazons immune to your monster’s effects and they can’t be destroyed in battle! Alright you two time for your Recon Efficiency!” At this Blue Scout went to whisper something in Swords Woman ear as Red Scout deflected the energy beam with her sword before the two quickly jumped away and disappeared between the huts.

Rainbow just blinked for a moment before growling, “I end my turn.”

Rainbow 2600
Hand has 0 cards.
Seto 1900
Hand has 0 cards.

“My turn. This has been a fun match but I’m afraid I must end this. I summon the
Amazoness Paladin! and she gets one hundred attack points for every Amazon on my field including herself.” A tall woman with long blond hair and garbed in a white leather cowl, a bra like shirt and skirt with golden armbands and armed with a long sword with a golden hilt. Calmly walked out of a hut and stood next to the Swords Woman after placing the tip of her blade in the dirt. *Attack 1700, Defense 300, Now Attack 2100* “Swords Woman destroy her Assault Core!” More sparks landed on Rainbow as the Swords Woman’s sword scraped against her machine before the Heirloom glowed and Assault Core exploded. “Now Amazoness Paladin end this battle with your Blessed Blade!”  Amazoness Paladin pulled her blade from the dirt and charged at Rainbow who raised her Duel Disk to defend herself from the blade.

Rainbow 0000
Seto 1900

“We have a winner! Seto Kaiba has defeated Rainbow Dash using his unique Amazoness cards, but the question remains if he will take on the Champion.” Celestia said over the speakers.

“Of course, I’m going to take him on! I’m having too much fun to just stop now!” I yelled.

“There you have it everyone! Seto has challenged the Champion! But before the match we shall have a five-minute break.”

I walked over to Rainbow and held out a hand. “That was fun, we should have a rematch at some point.”

Rainbow smirked as she shook my hand. “Any time, any place.”