//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Twilight VS Joey and Joey VS The Rare Hunter // Story: Twilight's Journey in Battle City // by deleted account DNB //------------------------------// The sun was shining on the sidewalk as the group walked towards the shop where they would get their long-awaited duel disks. When they passed a clothing boutique with a 50% off sale Tea quickly ran in and told the group she would meet them at the shop after her shopping. Tristan quickly went in and grabbed her. "Tristan let me go! I was just about to try on the most beautiful new shoes.," Tea wined then she was let down. The others were silent because if they said something Tea would get even more enraged. Twilight felt really sorry for her especially of how because she knows how Rarity gets when she doesn't get to go shopping on a great sale day. "It's OK Tea, it's just that the tournament is more important, and the two boys want you to be there. If one of us doesn't win I'll never get my crown back, and Equestria will be in grave danger without the Elements of Harmony. Do you understand what's at stake?," Twilight said to Tea as the boys went ahead. Tea replied, "Yes of course I understand Twilight. It's just that what me and Yugi learned at the museum the other day is making me feel worried." "Well, you can tell me what's troubling you," Twilight said. On the way Tea explained of what Ishizu spoke to them about the past and how Yugi was a ancient spirit named Yami living within his puzzle. Twilight was fascinated by the magic of the millennium items especially Yugi's puzzle. After walking for a bit the guys suddenly stopped. "Hey, why did you guys stop?," Tea asked. Joey said, "Because we're here already. Ah yea! I'm ready to rock this tournament, and get my own duel disk! Let's go in already! " Ok here we go, Thought Tea, I know this tournament's going to be risky, but we will all get through it together. Joey and the others walked into the store where two employees were stationed at the counter. "May we help you," the two men said. Yugi said, " Yes all three of us would like to sign up for the Battle City Tournament." "Aw yes you two come over here while my associate will handle with your female friend," the man with the blue bandana said. Twilight walked up to the counter as the guy shook her hand. "Hello my names Twilight Sparkle and I'm a new duelist here, but I really need to enter the tournament. Can you see if there's any way I could," she said to the man. He replied, "The rules do state that best duelists may compete, but maybe there's something about your deck that may let you in. May I please see them. Don't worry I'm just putting them into our card scanner where the data will displayed on this computer." She handed him over her deck. After the scanning he gave the cards back. After looking at the data the main said to Twilight," Miss you seem to have a deck mostly made of cards that aren’t in our data base, but after close examination these cards are authentic. Can you give me a moment I'll have to call Mr. Kaiba about this." Twilight nodded, and she took a seat next to Tea. The employee dialed the number and started to talk to Kaiba. "Mr. Kaiba." "Yes what is it?" "Well someone who isn't in our database came to register for the Battle City Tournament." "You know the rules only anyone I see fit can be in my tournament. If they aren’t in their no entry. Is that clear." "Yes sir, but this girl has a deck of cards not seen in our database either." "What! Any card not in our database is either counterfeit or one of a kind. Did you scan the cards?" "Yes and the cards were verified by the machine. They're real cards sir, so what should I do let her enter or not?" If this deck has one of a kind cards then how could I have greatest deck in the game without them, Kaiba thought. "Let the girl enter, but make sure the satellite tracking system is working on her duel disk at all times. Is that clear?" "Yes sir." The man put down the phone and grabbed a duel disk from the back shelf and handed it to Twilight. "Congratulates Miss Sparkle, your officially a duelist in the Battle City Tournament. Mr. Kaiba was intrigued by your deck and decided to give you a shot. Good luck." Twilight started to jump around with her duel disk in hand screaming, "Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!" "Twilight are you ok?," Joey asked. She nodded, and then the group left with their duel disks. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Yugi's house, 2 PM. ________________________________________________________________________________________ When the group walked into the game shop Spike jumped from from behind the counter, and came and hugged Twilight. "Hey Mr. Muto look at our duel disks!," shouted Joey with excitement. Mr. Muto nodded. He came over to Joey and Twilight. "Now Twilight you may have learned the game extremely well, but you need to duel one of my former students to officially call yourself a duelist," Gramps said, and then he grabbed Joey. Joey said," What? You mean me Gramps? Well I guess it would be fun, and plus I really wanted to try this duel disk out. So Twilight are you up for it?" Twilight replied, "Of course, but where should we duel?" Yugi replied,"How about in front of shop. What do you think Grandpa?" Mr. Muto nodded in agreement, and the group headed outside for Twiligt's first official duel. Joey was on the left, and Twilight was on the right with the others being on the sidelines. The two duelists set up the duel disk system, and both drew their 5 cards. "Good luck Joey! Even though we are friends it doesn't mean I'll go easy on you!," Twilight said. Joey replied, " I wouldn't have it any other way! Let's go! Twilight you can have the first move." Twilight VS Joey Twilight's Turn: Twilight sets two cards face down, and then summons Blazer, Unicorn of fire (ATK: 1600 DEF: 400). She then activates it's eff adding Burning, the Fire Pegasus to the top of her deck. Twilight then ends her turn. Status: Hand-3 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-2 ************************************************** "I've never seen that card before. I guess the man at the shop was right that Twilight's cards are one of a kind. I hope Joey can stay focused," Yugi commented. "Alright Princess, It's time to show you how it's done Joey Wheeler style!," Joey happily said. ************************************************* Joey's Turn: Joey summons Panther Warrior (ATK: 2000 DEF: 1600). He then sets one card face down, and ends his turn. Status: Hand-4 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-1 ************************************************* Next turn Turn, Joey thought, I attack with my Panther Warrior and destroy her unicorn. Joey Wheeler is going to kick some butt next round. "Alright it's my move!," Twilight said as she drew her card. ************************************************ Twilight's Turn: Twilight summons Burning, the Fire Pegasus (ATK: 1300 DEF: 300). Then activates her set Polymerization. Twilight fuses together Burning, the Fire Pegasus with Blazer, the Unicorn of Fire to fusion summon Inferno, the Alicorn of Fire (ATK: 2300 DEF: 1800) in attack mode. ================================================================================ "Wow that's one big horse!," Joey said as the Alicorn was summoned to the field. "That's a beast with a power unlike anything I've seen Yugi," Yami said to Yugi. "I sense the world of Equestria must contain many secrets. I wonder how Joey will handle it," Yugi replied. "Under Battle City rules I can't attack with Inferno, but I can still use her special ability. Once per turn by not attacking Inferno can dish out 1500 points of damage! Go Inferno use Equestrian Heat Wave!," Twilight said. "Look out!," Tea shouted. ================================================================================ Twilight uses Inferno, the Alicorn of Fire's effect to deal 1500 damage to Joey's life points. Joey's Life Points: 4000-> 2500 Twilight ends her turn. Status: Hand-3 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-1 ================================================================================ "Twilight's a better duelist then I thought. She's really keeping Joey on edge," Mr. Muto commented. "Joey! Stay calm! Look and consider all of your options.," Yugi shouted to Joey. Yugi is right. I can't give up even though I'm up against the wall. I didn't become second place in Duelist Kingdom by throwing in the towel when the odds were against me, Joey thought, Hey maybe this card can help. ================================================================================ Joey's turn: Joey switches Panther Warrior to defense mode. Joey sets 1 card face down and ends his turn. Status: Hand-4 Life- 2500 Monsters-1 Face down cards-2 ================================================================================ Tristan asked, "Hey Yug do you think Joey could win?" Yugi replied, "Of course he can he just has to believe in himself and in his deck." ================================================================================ Twilight's turn: Twilight sets Apprentice Unicorn (ATK: 1000 DEF: 1200). Then she attacks with Inferno but Joey uses Kunai With Chain to change Inferno to defense mode. Also Panther Warrior gains 500 attack points ( 2000 -> 2500). ================================================================================ "Good move Joey! Now destroy it next turn!," Tristan shouted. Joey nodded, and made a huge grin. Twilight said, "Nice play Joey! I didn't see that coming. Alright it's your move." ================================================================================ Twilight ends her turn. Status: Hand-3 Life- 4000 Monsters-2 Face down cards-1. ================================================================================ Joey's turn: Joey activates his face down Scapegoat which summons 4 Sheep Tokens (ATK: 0 DEF: 0). ================================================================================ Spike yelled, "Come on Twilight show us from Pony Power!" Yugi said, "With those tokens on the field Joey can attack with his Panther Warrior." ================================================================================ Joey first tributes one Sheep Token to let Panther Warrior attack. He then attacks Inferno with Panther Warrior. He sets Skull Dice and then ends his turn. Status: Hand-4 Life- 2500 Monsters- 4 Face down cards-1 ************************************************ "Good play Joey. That is what I call strategy," Mr. Muto said. Spike started to gloat a bit about Twilight still being in the lead, but Twilight quickly told him to stop. ************************************************ Twilight's Turn: Twilight sets Trap Hole face down. She then ends her turn. Status: Hand-3 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-2. ************************************************ Joey's Turn: Joey normal summons Alligator's Sword (ATK: 1500 DEF: 1200) but Twilight uses Trap Hole to destroy it. Joey first tributes one Sheep Token to let Panther Warrior attack. He then attacks her face down monster. He ten ends his turn. Status: Hand-4 Life- 2500 Monsters- 3 Face down cards-1. ************************************************ I don't know what to do, Twilight thought, he has me in a pickle and my hand has no monsters with more attack points. Wait! I have Merge, the Fusion Expert in my hand and Gust, the Unicorn of Wind in my hand. If I draw the right card then I can still win this duel. Spike shouted, "Come on Twilight you can do it. Trust in your deck! I still believe in you!" "Thanks Spike. With you behind me there is no way I could loose! Huh whats happening to my deck.," Twilight said. Her deck started to glow purple mainly her top card, and Spike started to glow too. When she drew her card Spike magically went into that card. "What! Where did Spike Go!," shouted Tea. Twilight replied, "It seems Spike's spirit is connected to this card. Well Spike let's go!" ================================================================================ Twilight's Turn: Twilight summons Spike the Dragon (ATK: 800 Def: 400). She then uses his effect by discarding 1 monster she can special summon 1 monster but it's attack and defense become 0. She discards Merge, the Fusion Expert to special summon Gust, the Unicorn of Wind. Merge's effect activates when it's discarded it add Polymerization from the graveyard to her hand.Then Gust's effect adds Tornado, the Wind Pegasus to her hand. She then uses Polymerization to fuse her Gust and Tornado together to fusion summon Hurricane, Alicorn of Wind (ATK: 2500 DEF: 1400.) ================================================================================ "Another Alicorn monster, and it seems more powerful than Inferno was," Mr. Muto said. "Come on Joey don't give up. Remember she can't attack this turn", Yugi said. ================================================================================ Twilight ends her turn. Status: Hand-1 Life- 4000 Monsters-2 Face down cards-1. ================================================================================ Joey's Turn: Joey summons Axe Raider (ATK: 1700 DEF: 1150). Joey first tributes one Sheep Token to let Panther Warrior attack. He then attacks but activates Skull Dice but Twilight negates it using Trap Jammer. Both Panther Warrior and Hurricane are destroyed. Hurricanes effect then activates returning Axe Raider to Joey's hand. He then ends his turn. Status: Hand-4 Life- 2500 Monsters- 2 Face down cards-0. ************************************************ Twilight's Turn: Twilight summons Lillian, the librarian (ATK: 1500 DEF: 300). Then Lillian's effect activates which lets her add one Book card from her deck to her hand adding Book of Esteemed Unicorn History. Spike and Lillian both attack and destroy the two remaining tokens. She then sets Book of Esteemed Unicorn History and ends her turn. Status: Hand-1 Life- 4000 Monsters-2 Face down cards-1. ************************************************ Joey's Turn: Joey re-summons Axe Raider (ATK: 1700 DEF: 1150). He then uses Monster Reborn to special summon Hurricane, Alicorn of Wind (ATK: 2500 DEF: 1400) from Twilight's graveyard. He then attacks Spike with Hurricane. Twilight's Life Points: 4000-> 2300. ************************************************ After Spike's card was sent to the grave yard his spirit returned to the sidelines next to Mr. Muto. "I'm sorry Twilight I let you down," Spike said. Twilight replied," It's ok Spike, you still got me out of that jam, and I thank you for that." ************************************************ Joey then attacks Lillian with Axe Raider. Twilight's Life Points: 2300-> 2100. He then ends his turn. Status: Hand-3 Life- 2500 Monsters- 2 Face down cards-0. ************************************************ Twilight's Turn: She activates her set Book of Esteemed Unicorn History to return her 3 unicorn monsters from the grave to her deck. Then Twilight draws two cards. She uses Dark Hole to destroy all of Joey's monsters. She then normal summons Royal Guard of the Sun Alicorn (ATK: 2000 DEF: 1000) She then attacks him directly. Joey's Life Points: 2500-> 500. She then sets Rope of Life and Mystical Space Typhoon. She ends her turn. Status: Hand-0 Life- 2100 Monsters-1 Face down cards-2. ================================================================================ Joey's Turn: Joey normal summons Swordsman of Landstar (ATK: 500 DEF: 1200). He then uses Graceful Dice and rolles a 6 making it's attack 3000. It then attacks Royal Guard. Twilight's Life Points: 2100 -> 1100. Twilight then uses Rope of Life to bring her monster back with 800 extra attack points. Joey ends his turn. Status: Hand-2 Life- 500 Monsters- 1 Face down cards-0. ================================================================================ Twilight's Turn: Twilight attacks Joey's Swordsman of Landstar with Royal Guard of the Sun Alicorn. Joey's Life Points: 500-> 0. Twilight wins. _________________________________________________________________________________________ "Aw Twilight, you won! I knew you would.," said Spike as he was hugging Twilight really hard. Twilight smiled at him. Then Joey came over and shook Twilight's hand. "That was one of the best duels I've ever seen. Congratulations Twilight you are now a official duelist" Mr. Muto said. "Thank you so much Mr. Muto for training me. I really enjoy dueling, and when I get back to Equestria I'm going to teach it to my friends!," Twilight said. "Your a great duelist Twilight you will do great in the tournament. With the three of us dueling we will certainly get your crown back I promise," Yugi said. Twilight replied, " Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm just worried about if we would have to face each other.I don't know what i'd do." Joey said, "Well if that happens still duel with all of your heart regardless if it's me or Yugi. Our friendship won't change depending on the outcome. You should now that better than all of us Twilight. After you earned your princess title by completely understanding friendship. So don't worry. Any who, I've got to run Serenity's operation is tomorrow and I told her I'd stay at the hospital tonight." "Wish her luck for me. After all of the effort was put in to get the money for the operation it's nice to see the effort was worth it. OK Joey see you tomorrow," Twilight said. "Wish Serenity good luck from me too Joey. I'm sure everything is going to be fine," Yugi said. "Thanks Yug. Catch you later," Joey said, then he took off. "I hope he's alright. Going to that hospital isn't a easy thing for him to do," Tristan commented. "Why?," Spike asked. Tristan replied, "Because Joey's mother is going to be at the hospital too guys. She was the one who separated Joey and Serenity when they were kids. He hasn't spoken to his mother since." "No way! But that means Joey hasn't seen or spoke to his more in almost seven years!," Yugi stated. Tristan put his fists up in courage then said. "Yes but I'll make sure the Wheeler family unites once again." "Aren't you kind of getting a little carried away Tristan," Twilight said. Yugi replied, "Not if he's trying to be a hero to impress Joey's sister Serenity." Tristan's face after Yugi's words basically told the others that Yugi was right. "Alright I think it's time for us to be getting home. See you later. Bye!," said Tea. Both Tristan and Tea went home and Spike, Twilight, and Yugi went inside. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Ally way, 8:45 PM. ________________________________________________________________________________________ While other members if the group were safe in their homes, Joey was racing to get to the hospital. Then he went down the last ally way. Suddenly three hooded guys blocked Joey not allowing him to leave. They claimed to be Rare Hunters, and they stalked Joey until the right moment. One of them challenged Joey to a duel, making the stakes if Joey wins he gets to go on his way, but if he loses they will take his Red-Eyes Black Dragon. So the Duelists start the Duel. Joey VS Rare Hunter Joey's Turn: Joey summons Panther Warrior (ATK: 2000 DEF: 1600) then ends his turn. Status: Hand-5 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-0 ************************************************ "It's the predator's move," the rare hunter stated. ************************************************ Rare Hunter's Turn: Sets Hannibal Necromancer (ATK: 1400 DEF: 1800). Then ends his turn. Status: Hand-5 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-0 ************************************************ "Not much of a predator so far," Joey says as he draws. ************************************************ Joey's Turn: Joey activates Scapegoat summoning 4 sheep tokens (ATK: 0 DEF: 0). He then tributes 1 Sheep Token to allow Panther Warrior to attack. Panther Warrior attacks and destroys Hannibal Necromancer. He then ends his turn. Status: Hand-5 Life- 4000 Monsters-4 Face down cards-0 ================================================================================ "It looks like my Panther Warrior is the real hunter in this duel," Joey comments. ================================================================================ Rare Hunter's Turn: He uses Graceful Charity" to draw 3 Cards and discard 2 cards from his hand. He then sets Three-Headed Geedo ( ATK: 1200 DEF: 1400). He then ends his turn. Status: Hand- 5 Life- 4000 Monsters-1 Face down cards-0 ================================================================================ Joey's Turn: Joey summons Alligator's Sword ( ATK: 1500 DEF: 1200). He then tributes another Sheep Token to allow Panther Warrior to Attack. Panther Warrior attacks and destroys his set Three-Headed Geedo. Then Alligator's Sword attacks the rare hunter directly. Rare Hunter's life points: 4000 -> 2500) Joey then ends his turn. Status: Hand-5 Life- 4000 Monsters-4 Face down cards-0. ================================================================================ Rare Hunter's Turn: He uses Graceful Charity" to draw 3 Cards and discard 2 cards from his hand. He then sets Death Hand (ATK: 800 DEF: 600) He then ends his turn. Status: Hand- 5 Life- 2500 Monsters-1 Face down cards-0. ================================================================================ "The moment I've been waiting for is here! Red-Eyes Black Dragon come on out!," Joey shouts. ================================================================================ Joey's Turn: He tributes Alligator's Sword and Panther Warrior to Tribute Summon Red-Eyes Black Dragon (ATK: 2400 DEF: 2000). Red-Eyes B. Dragon" attacks and destroys the set Death Hand. Joey then ends his turn. Status: Status: Hand-5 Life- 4000 Monsters-3 Face down cards-0. ================================================================================ Joey says,"This is my easiest duel ever. All you have done is draw cards and play defense. Your going down, and I can get on my way." "We'll see who's going to lose and who gets the last laugh," the rare hunter says. ================================================================================ Rare Hunters turn: Rare Hunter has all five Exodia pieces in his hand so Exodia is special summoned ( ATK: ∞ DEF:∞). Exodia" attacks; destroying every monster Joey controls and dropping his Life Points to 0. Joey's life points: 4000-> 0) Rare hunter wins. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Joey lost the duel, and the other two hooded guys beat Joey up and drop him to the ground. They then took his Red Eyes. "No, my Red-Eyes," Joey said in pain. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Yugi's House, Morning ________________________________________________________________________________________ The sun shined through the curtains as Twilight and Spike woke up. They went to say good morning to Yugi, but he was talking on the phone. He rushed out of his room fully dressed and grabbed Twilight and Spike's hands. "Where are you taking us Yugi?," Twilight asked. Yugi replied, "Joey never made it to the hospital last night, and Serenity won't unlock the door until Joey gets there! We have to find them. Tea and Tristan will meet us a few blocks down come on!" The three hurried to the location where Tea and Tristan were. "Have you two found him yet?," Spike asked. They both shook their heads. The group got really worried because they new something must of happened to Joey for him to not get to the hospital so they decided to split up. Tristan searched downtown, and the others searched the rest of the city. After a while of searching Tristan found Joey and headed to the hospital to make the operation. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Domino Hospital, Noon ________________________________________________________________________________________ The two boys ran as fast as they could to Serenity's room. The doctor almost left, but luckily they arrived there on time. "Let me handle this one ma.," Joey said to his mother. He knocked on door, and then said,"Serenity it's me Joey. Listen I know how upset you must be but can you open this door so we can talk." Serenity responded by saying,"No! I'm not opening the door. You said you would be here last night Joey, and I was so worried about you. I need you to help me through this." Serenity started to cry. Joey felt really bad about making Serenity worry so much. Joey then said, "I'm sorry. I I know let you down sis, but can you please let me explain what happened. Yesterday I was on my way here to see you but these creepy hooded guys would let me leave. They forced me into a duel, and plus they took my best card. I can't do anything right! I must be the worst big brother in the history of the world because I let my sister down at the time she needed me the most. But believe me Serenity I'd never try to hurt ya because you know why your more than just my sister your my friend and there's nothing in the world that can break our bond. Now can you please open the door and give your big brother a hug." After a few seconds she opened the door saying, "Joey." She then hugged her mother. Joey said," Uh, it's nice to see you ma." Mrs. Wheeler replied, "Thanks son, and it's nice to see you too." After the operation Joey called Yugi and told him the news. The whole group cheered in happiness for Serenity. Yugi then asked," Joey who were those guys last night?" "You mean those hooded guys who forced me to duel. All I know is that I'm gonna find um and win back my Red-Eyes," Joey said. "Well I'll be their to help you," Yugi said. Yugi then hung up the phone. I'm afraid the people who took his card are more dangerous than Joey realizes, Yugi thought, But I know he'll get his beloved dragon back in his deck where it belongs.