Yu-Gi-Oh E-QUEST

by DakariKingMykan

Episode 26: Part 2: Flash Freeze

Raven made it back to the camper.

“Hey.” she called.

“Hey, way to go, Rae.” said Robin “At least you’re in the finals now.”

“…Yay.” Raven groaned softly and she removed her duel disk, setting it on the table, “At least I can take a break now from all the noise and hustling.”

She then looked over at Rarity, Fluttershy and Twilight while they were watching over Spike.

“How is he?”

The girls all looked up and gave her a straight look, which told her enough.

“It’s so strange.” said Fluttershy “His heartbeat is fine, his blood flow is slow but normal, and his breathing is okay.”

“He most-certainly does not seem okay.” said Rarity.

Even Twilight was flabbergasted by this. To her it just rewrote all scientific facts about death or medical conditions.

“I just hope we can reverse it.” she said sounding a bit tearful, but shed not a tear from her eyes. Her eyes still didn’t even look a bit wet.

“Oh, Twilight,” cried Fluttershy, embracing her in a small hug.

Raven could only sigh and walk away, over to Robin who was monitoring the duels in the virtual world.

“Did anyone else win yet?”

“Hard to say.” answered Robin “I can only track a few spots in the virtual world at one time. It is what it is.”

He then flipped through the many images, obviously looking for Kori.

…He found her!

Kori was in a jungle scene, and because her powers and her ability to fly didn’t work in the virtual world, she was forced to swinging through the trees on vines, and yelling like a Tarzan Lady.

She was actually enjoying herself, flying through the foliage, but so far she hadn’t come across a point card or an opponent to duel.

Frankly, she was more concerned in finding a point card first due to her score being low and she needed the points.

She was so distracted in her search that she didn’t look at what was coming…!

CRASH!! Right into a tree, and she slid down the trunk and fell flat on the ground. She wasn’t hurt-- it was all virtual.

She got up and brushed the dirt off her clothes.

“Swell.” she groaned as she looked all around her.

Then, as luck would have it, she spotted a point card; sitting on a lone rock in the middle of a large pit of bubbling quicksand.

“Ugh! If only I could fly!”

Then things got worse as she could hear the sound of growling behind her.

She slowly turned round, and saw a huge lion that roared at her.

Normally, she wouldn’t be too afraid because she had her powers, but without them, she in a bit of a spot, but she knew that showing fear wouldn’t help, even if this lion wasn’t real.

She stood her ground glaring at the beast.

The lion growled, and flexed its claws.

It then leapt while roaring and Kori dodged causing the critter to miss and land in the sinking sand, and it sank down, down, and vanished in a pixelating shatter.

“Whew!” Kori sighed “That takes care of that, but how am I going to get that card?”

She couldn’t swing on the vines as none of them could reach the rock the card was on.

Suddenly, looking all around her, Kori had an idea, and ran off into the jungle.

Meanwhile, in the Ice Cavern, Pinkie Pie was still livid with Jackie’s attitude.

“You can yak until you turn blue in the face, twerp,” jeered Jackie “If I think you and your friends are pathetic, that’s just the way it is.”

Pinkie clenched her fists, and her eyes were shut tight, “Normally, I’m pretty upbeat and optimistic about everything, but for once… I’m willing to forgo it all.”

She looked up and shouted sharply, “You’re going down! You hear me?”

Her army of Performapals all roared and hooted with her.

“Ha!” huffed Jackie “In a pig’s eye.”

She drew he next card.

“Now I summon one monster face-down in defense-mode. Bet you know what’s going to happen now.”

Pinkie growled.

“That’s right, I’m using Hot Red Dragon’s ability, by tributing my monster, I get to summon back… you guessed it… SCARLIGHT RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND!”

In a fiery blaze, her fiery dragon reappeared and spread out its flaming wings.

Pinkie looked up at it nervously.

“This isn’t good!” she groaned in thought “Now she can destroy every single monster I have in play, and I’ll take 500 points of damage for each one.”


“Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend, lend me your power!” Jackie shouted, and just as Pinkie predicted, “Now I destroy all the monsters that were special summoned whose attack is lower than my dragon’s attack!

Then for each monster destroyed, you’ll take 500 points of damage.”

Pinkie growled nervously,

“Think fast, Pinkie Pie!” Pinkie cried to herself as her monsters began to explode…

…Except for her Gatlinghoul!

“What happened?!” snapped Jackie “Why wasn’t that freak destroyed?”

Pinkie smirked, “One: He’s not a freak, and the reason he wasn’t beaten was because I played a card!”

The smoke cleared, and Jackie gawked, “I don’t believe it!”

Pinkie chuckled, “Thanks to my REINFORCMENTS trap, my Gatlinghoul gained 500 attack points, putting his strength at 3400, and making him too strong for your dragon to roast away.”

Jackie growled angrily, but her anger then faded into a scoff, “No matter, I still destroyed four of your monsters, and for that you still take 2000 points of damage!”

Pinkie was not impressed.

“And even though you powered your monster up,” Jackie pointed out “I still have enough power to blow it off the field.

…Hot Red Dragon Archfiend, attack!”

Her dragon roared, and unleashed its dark flames at Pinkie’s last monster, blowing it off the field, and making the cavern rattle once again.

Then, two spaces by Jackie’s dragons began to glow.

“What’s happening?” asked Pinkie.

Jackie snickered, “What’s happening is I’ve activated my dragon’s other special ability.

When it deals you damage from an attack, I get to summon two tuners of the same level-- one from my deck, and one from my graveyard.”

Pinkie cringed as the two monsters appeared.

“I summon two DOUBLE RESONATOR(s)!”

Pinkie figured Jackie had tribute one of the resonators on her last turn, which was how she was able to summon two of them.

“But never mind them, and start worrying about what he’s going to do.” Jackie pointed up at her Scarlight Dragon.

“Direct attack…!”

The might dragon unleashed its fiery wrath on Pinkie, blowing her down, and sending her skidding along the ice, right into the barrier of the duel field.

“Now I’ll tune both my level 1 resonators to level 8 Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend!”

“Both Tuners!” cried Pinkie, and then she remembered catching the end of Terra’s duel against Jackie. “…Uh-Oh!”

“Uh-oh is right… for you that is!” sneered Jackie, and her three monsters all combined together as orbs of fire, creating a huge burst of flames, and the monster appeared from the embers.

“I Synchro Summon the hottest and nastiest of burns of all-- TYRANT RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND!”

The huge, flaming dragon spread out its wings, and roared greatly, spreading embers about, and rattling the cave again!

Pinkie finally noticed this.

“Stop!” she called “All these hot flames are weakening the ice in the cave!”

“Yeah, right...” chuckled Jackie. She obviously hadn’t noticed or even felt the danger, “I summon my strongest creature, and you try to back out like a little baby.”

It was in vain that Pinkie could try to get through to this meanie!

“Now that my Tyrant is here, I’ll go ahead and use his special ability, which lets me destroy all other cards on the field!

“No!!” cried Pinkie, but it happened right before her eyes, the dragon spread out its wings, and with a single flap, spread a billowing blaze across the field, and destroyed nearly every single other card off the field, including Pinkie’s pendulum zone cards.

Strangely, however, Jackie’s other dragon had survived and was still standing.

Pinkie gawked with confusion.

Jackie grinned, “I know what you’re thinking, “Why wasn’t my Hot Dragon destroyed?”

She then pointed to the image of a trap card that was next to her.

“…A trap?” cried Pinkie “But how-- You didn’t have any cards like that on the field.”

Jackie snickered, “Remember that monster I tribute at the start of my turn…?” she then pulled the very card from her graveyard “It’s MAKYURA THE DESTRUCTOR, and during the turn it gets sent to the graveyard, I can activate any trap card from my hand!”

Pinkie’s eyes widened.

“And with that I was able to activate RED GEM, thus sparing my Hot Red Dragon from destruction and leaving your field completely bare, just like your brain!”

Pinkie growled angrily.

“Aw, did I hurt your little feelings?

…I’ll place one card facedown, and that ends my turn!”

Pinkie was really in a tough spot now.

“What can I do?” she thought “She’s got two huge dragons on the field and ready to wipe me out on her next turn, and I just bet that whatever that facedown is she played is to protect her dragons from being destroyed.

How can I stop them?”


She gazed at the only card in her hand; Odd-Eyes Synchron, and then she looked over at the two dragons on Jackie’s side of the field.

“Are you just going to stare all day or give up already?” Jackie jeered “You can’t win this duel, so just quit already, and get out of my sight.”

Pinkie looked up at her sternly, finding it really hard to control her anger.

She wasn’t willing to let this nasty person win, especially since she, herself, had a lot of duel points.

Winning the duel and grabbing that point card would probably get her into the finals, which would go a long way towards helping her friends.

“My friends…” she thought softly, and she could see images of them all.

-The girls…

-The adults-- Celestia, Luna, Shining Armor and Cadance…

-The Titans…

-Princess Twilight and Spike…

“They’re all counting on me, just as I count on them, and besides maybe what I draw next may be just the card I need.”

She looked at the facedown card on Jackie’s side of the field, and still clung to her theory about it being something to protect the two dragons from being destroyed.

“Well, there’s only way to get this on…”

She laid her fingers on her top card, “I draw…!”

Jackie couldn’t believe this.

“How can this kid still want to keep going?” she thought “Doesn’t she realize she’s just setting herself up?”

Pinkie Pie looked down at what she had drawn, and grinned wickedly over the edges of both cards.

Jackie blinked once, and then the Pinkie took the stage.

“Ladies and gentleman, you’re attention please. You are about to witness the comeback of the century!”

“What are you talking about?” asked Jackie.

Pinkie’s eye gave a shine, “Watch and bedazzled, as I set the Pendulum Scale with Scale 1 PERFORMAPAL MONKEYBOARD and Scale 6 PERFORMAPAL ODD-EYES SYNCHRON!”

“You what…?”

The two monsters rose up high in the lights, and the pendulum started swinging.

Pinkie smiled proudly at her creatures and then raised her arm up.

“Now I use the Pendulum Effect of my Monkeyboard, which lets me PERFORMAPAL CHEERMOLE in my deck and put her in my hand.”

Jackie growled.

“And now folks,” Pinkie announced “Raise your eyes to the sky, because now I Pendulum Summon all kinds of monsters from levels 2 through 5!”

Five blazes of light shot down form above, and her monsters appeared.

All five of her monsters stood together, hooting, and leaping about or growling, but all of them were bowing like the circus performers they resembled.

“So you summoned a whole freak-show, big deal!” scoffed Jackie

“Oh, it’s more than a big deal.” teased Pinkie “After all, Performapal Gold Fang’s ability grants all “Performapal” monsters an extra 200 attack points.”

“And now, folks, allow my Cheermole to do her thing and cheer up a storm.”

The little mole began to hop, prance, and shake her pompons around, creating a big burst of confetti onto Silver Claw.

“What’s with that?” asked Jackie “If you expect me to be amused by that little powder-puff, think again.”

Pinkie snickered, “I wouldn’t gloat if I were you, because Cheermole’s ability allows me to raise Silver Claw’s attack power by 1000 points!”

“Ah!” cried Jackie.

“And now…” Pinkie announced, “Watch carefully as I enter my Battle Phase!

Silver Claw, attack Hot Red Dragon Archfiend!”

“What?!” snapped Jackie “But he’s weaker than my dragon is! What are you thinking?”

Pinkie winked “What I’m thinking is, since Silver Claw is attacking, all my Performapals now gain a 300 attack point boost, including himself!”

Her attack continued…

…And her wolf slashed at the huge, hulking dragon, only to get ricocheted right off of it and exploded into nothing!

“Ha!” Jackie laughed “Even with all that power, your little mongrel still bit the dust, you loser!”

Pinkie was only smiling wider, “The only loser around here is your dragon.”

“Huh?”

“See, when Silver Claw attacked, I got to use the special ability of my Ballad, which causes your monster to lose attack points equal to the attack power that Silver Claw had!”

Jackie gasped, “…But that monster had 3300 points!”

Then she watched in horror as he mighty dragon become deathly weaker.

Jackie shuddered, while Ballad took a bow to the sounds of cheering, even though there were no people around.

“Now I use Lizardraw’s power,” said Pinkie “Since I lost a Performapal, that means I get to draw cards equal to the number of Performapals I have, and that’s four!”

With that she drew four cards into her hand.

“And now, time for this show to turn up a notch, because, as I said, I still have four more monsters to attack with.”

Jackie growled.

“Go, Perfromapal Ballad, destroy Hot Red Dragon!”

“No!” thundered Jackie “I play my trap, RED ARMOR, and it’ll protect my “Red” monsters from being destroyed by effect, and then I banish the card from the graveyard so that Hot Dragon can’t be beaten in battle.”

Pinkie only waved her finger at the nasty girl, “You shouldn’t have done that.”

Jackie blinked once.

“What do you mean? Don’t me how to duel!”

“But that’s just it,” hissed Pinkie “I knew you’d try and protect your dragons somehow, and the fact that you were so desperate to do so is what will now cost you everything.

…Especially since I can still take away your life points as all my Performapals attack!

…GO!!”

Jackie screamed as the swarm of monsters attacked her weakened dragon, causing Jackie to take a whopping 5900 points of damage!

By now, Jackie was screaming like a roaring monster, “THAT’S IT!! NEXT TURN, YOU’RE HISTORY!! HEAR ME!!!”

Her shouting caused the, already, weakened cavern to tremble a bit, and it felt as if it was getting ready to cave in!

Pinkie realized she had to move fast.

“There’s not going to be a next turn for you!” she spat.

“What do you mean?” asked Jackie.

“This is what I mean,” said Pinkie and she took a grandstand holding her arms out declaring, “It’s time one-and-all for the Grand Finale!

It all starts as activate the Trap DNA SURGERY!”

“Huh?”

Pinkie smirked, “with the magic of this trap, all I do is declare one monster type, and all the monsters on the field instantly transform into just that.

…I choose “Spellcaster!”

In a magical flow, all the monsters seemed to done funny pointed-hats, robes, and wands or scepters; even Jackie’s Dragons.

“What do you think you’re doing?!” Jackie protested “Get these drags off my monster now!!”

“All in good time.” promised Pinkie “But in order for my trick to work, I need there to be Spellcasters on my field.

Now watch, as I use Odd-Eyes Synchron’s pendulum ability. Now I can turn Performapal Gold Fang into a Tuner Monster, but his level becomes 1.”

Jackie winced in shock and watched as the monsters did their magic.

“And now,” Pinkie called “I tune level 1 Gold Fang with level 2 Cheermole and level 3 Lizardraw, to bring out our star-which allows me to bring out our star-performer!

I Synchro Summon TEMPEST MAGICIAN!”

Jackie was most surprised. “Since when did you have a monster like that in your deck?”

“Since always,” chirped Pinkie “I just hardly ever had to use it, but now seems the perfect time, and after all, every circus has a magician in it.”

The magician bowed to her public, and then to Pinkie.

“And now,” Pinkie shouted “Watch as my Magician performs her first trick-- when she’s Synchro Summoned, she gets one spell counter.”

With that, a small glowing orb appeared at the end of the magician’s magical scythe.

“You wasted all that time to get a blade with a glowing ball on it?” Jackie mocked “How pathetic can you get?”

Pinkie only snickered as her eyes glowed, “How can you think I’m finished yet?”

“Huh?”

“Now, I send my entire hand to the graveyard and for each card I threw away, my magician gains another spell counter for each one, giving me a total of five!”

Now her magician’s scythe had so many counters glowing on it, the entire thing was bathed in a golden light.

“And now folks,” Pinkie announced “My magician shall bring the curtain down with her incredible magic.

Once per turn, I can remove all the spell counters on my field, and for each and every one of them, you take a big 500 smack-a-roos to your life points!”

“WHAT?!!” Jackie screamed.

Pinkie nodded, “And unless my math is off, 5 times 500 is 2500!”

The magician powered up her scythe and fired the five powerful blasts past the two dragons at Jackie, making big explosions and tremors, and Jackie screamed!

Jackie was on the ground, and her duel meter was empty, while Pinkie received her 20%, bringing her own meter to 75%.

“Show’s over! Smiles win.” Pinkie declared, but suddenly the entire cave began to rumble without stopping, and large icicles and rocks began to crash down from above.

Pinkie jumped out of the way as a huge icicle fell from above and nearly crushed her, while Jackie sat upright and screamed as she was buried in an avalanche of ice and snow, and she vanished in a pixelated explosion.

Not that it really mattered as her duel meter was empty, and she would have been ported out anyway.

But Pinkie was still trapped in the cave.

“Oh!” she cried as she gazed up the ice stairway, “…I still have to get that point-card!”

She covered her head with her arms as she scaled up the slippery slope as more shards and rocks crashed all around her.

A very large one was starting to fall right above her as she took a big leap for the ice-pillar and snatched the card.

She was ported out just before the rock crushed her!

She awoke in the real world and was panting in shock.

“That was… FRIGHTENEING!!” she shouted, making the workers jump in fright.

Still, they got hold of themselves and helped her out of the virtual-pod.

“Congratulations.” one of them said “You have just qualified for the tournament finals.”

Pinkie blinked once.

“I did?” and she checked down at her duel disk.

She had a full 100, and with that her disk screen playing that victory theme and flashed the word “FINALIST” several times.

“That point card you found was worth 25%.” said a helper, “So you qualify.”

Pinkie was wide-eyed and dazed as she walked out of the building almost like a zombie in a trance.

It wasn’t until she got outside, did she jump for joy like fireworks and shouted “I’M A FINALIST!! WHEE-HOOOOO…!!”

Her voice echoed all over the park making the patrons all turn to face her direction…

…The friends in the camper could hear.

“Sounds like Pinkie Pie did it.” said Fluttershy.