Twilight, Basil and Fluttershy stood with Yugi as Joey and Kaiba stood across from each other on a grassy field. The wind whistled around them as Whis walked up and coughed holding up a card. He smiled at the assembled audience, it was at that moment all the duel discs that the duellists wore were switched out and replaced with differently designed duel discs. Yugi, Kaiba, Joey and Mai were wearing duel discs that looked like a blue eyes white dragon head, with a field area jutting out and the eye of Horus was on the deck storage area. Jaden, Alexis, Zane and Aster’s duel discs were decorated to resemble a cyber dragon wrapping around their arms with a duel field area jutting out and a GX medal over their deck zone. Yusei, Jack, Crow, Akiza, Luna and Leo’s duel discs were replaced with the design of the crimson dragon with the duel field jutting out. Fluttershy and Twilight both got the strangest duel discs, the field had each zone marked with a member of the main 6 except for Twilight and then they noticed the centre area bore Twilight’s Cutie mark. Each duellist noticed they now wore a duel glove on the other hand with two star chips each.
Whis then spoke calmly “Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen! To the opening Duel of the Duellist Universe Tournament! On my right we have the owner of Kaiba corp, the former world champion and renowned duellist, Seto Kaiba!” Kaiba smirked and then he turned “Then we have the duelling chimp, Joey Wheeler!”
“Hey!” Joey snapped.
Crow nudged Jack and whispered “Bet you a can of cola, Joey woops Kaiba” he giggled and held up his hand for Jack to accept the deal “It’s kind of like you and I duelling though, isn't it?”
Jack nodded and said “Yeah and the result would be little different…I’d school you” he then shook Crow’s hand “You’re on, Kaiba wins you give me a can of cola and if Joey wins, I’ll give you a can of cola”
Akiza groaned “We’re already going to have to bet these Star chips and here you are gambling cans of soft drink!” she said indignity “Besides we both know Kaiba is going to win…by all accounts of the two duels they’ve had, Kaiba has won both...convincingly”
Crow smirked and said “Care to put your money where your mouth?” he held up his hand and Akiza shook it. Everyone else was talking about who they thought was going to win, only Twilight, Crow, Basil and Fluttershy thought Joey stood a chance.
Whis continued, after letting the chatter die down “Let the match begin! Kaiba, you have the first move” he said sitting in a chair ready to ref the match.
Kaiba drew a card from his deck and said “Well, Wheeler this shouldn’t take long. I’ll start by summoning Battle Ox in attack mode!” the massive ox monster appeared with it’s axe ready to destroy whatever Joey would throw out “I’ll end my turn with a face down”
Joey looked up at the monster remembering, back at duellist kingdom when the massive ox had humiliated him and left him a joke. He drew a card and smiled “I summon Axe Raider in attack mode!” he said and then set two cards face down “I end my turn! Now let’s see what you got moneybags!”
Kaiba frowned and said “I’ll send you back to Yugi crying about your defeat for a third time!” he drew his card and smirked “I’ll play pot of greed and then Blade Knight!” the warrior monster appeared the sun glancing off it armour and then Kaiba held up a spell card, polymerization “I’ll use this to merge Battle Ox with Mystic Horseman in order to summon Rabid Horseman!” the monster appeared prancing it’s hooves “Remember this monster, Wheeler, you could barely beat it the first time!”
Joey snapped “Look, Kaiba, I’ve grown a lot stronger since then and I’m sick of you trying to make yourself sound amazingly skilled but you just rely the power of your Blue eyes white dragons!” he then made a deadly promise “I promise that I’ll destroy all three in one turn!”
Kaiba smirked and said “There you go again, shooting your mouth off and I’ll bet you rely on your inferior Red eyes! Blade Knight attack, now unless you have forgotten, when Blade knight attacks it gains 400 attack points!” it was true the attack points went to 2000 and Kaiba said “Your Axe Raider is done!”
Joey smirked “Your too arrogant, Kaiba” suddenly Axe raider was equipped with a shield that dragged Rabid Horseman into the line of Blade Knight’s attack and both monsters were destroyed “Magic Arm Shield! You done Kaiba?”
Kaiba growled “I’ll play a card face down”
Joey drew a card from his deck and looked at his hand, he had two monsters but only one, he could actually summon “I summon Armoured Lizard!” he then looked at Kaiba’s two facedowns but he had to risk it “Axe Raider, Armoured Lizard attack, Kaiba directly”
“Negate Attack! This ends the battle phase. Are you done making a fool of yourself?” Kaiba said sounding bored, to which Joey nodded and Kaiba started his turn drawing a card, his hand had nothing but two Flutes of summoning dragons, he set them before saying “I play Card of demise!” he drew five cards and added “It’s over!”
Joey sighed “Your way too arrogant”
“I play Lord of dragons and flip my two spells, two flutes of summoning dragon!” he smiled as the Lord of Dragon held the flutes and the note went out calling “Three blue eys white dragons and my Twin Headed Behemoth!” Kaiba began to laugh, Joey looking a little annoyed “Well my first Blue eyes lay his Axe raider to waste, White lighting!”
The Dragon roared and the hologram of the Axe raider flinched as the attack burst towards it but the attack failed to find it’s mark “I activate Negate Attack!” Joey said as the trap stopped the attack “Looks like great minds think alike” Joey joked.
Kaiba smirked “No matter next turn, I’ll finish you!” he said
Joey drew a card and said “Sorry Kaiba I play my first card pot of greed and then I play Monster reborn to revive your Battle Ox and then I play snatch steal to steal your Lord of dragons!” the monsters appeared on the field and Kaiba’s frown grew “I then sacrifice Lord of Dragons, Battle Ox and Axe Raider to summon Gilford the Lightening!” the warrior appeared on the field and drew it’s sword “Remember what I said Kaiba about destroying all three of your blue eyes in one turn...I meant one blow! As soon as Gilford is summoned he destroys all monsters on my opponent’s side of the field!”
Kaiba’s eyes went wide “N…No!” the blast of lightening went out and hit all four dragons destroying them “This can’t be happening!”
“Then I suggest you close your eyes!” Joey said as he then had a thought, being reckless would lead to defeat Kaiba still had a face down! “I’ll switch my Armoured Lizard to defence mode and then Gilford will attack lightening sword!”
Kaiba activated his trap and said “I activate the trap, Attack Guidance Armour and I attach it to your armoured lizard!” Gilford’s sword struck Armoured Lizard, it was lucky for Joey, that he’d stopped and thought through his move or he’d have taken a big hit “My move?” to which Joey nodded. Kaiba drew a card and Twin headed Behemoth reappeared on the field it’s points set to 1000 but Kaiba’s only other card was “I summon Vorse Raider in defence mode and end my turn!”
Joey drew a card and sighed, he only had two cards in his hand and he said “I play Gearfried the iron knight!” the iron armoured knight appeared before Joey “Gilford attack Vorse raider!” Gilford charged forward and cut Vorse Raider’s head off “Gearfried attack Twin Headed Behemoth with your iron blade!” Gearfried ran his sword through the monster and Joey said “I’ll end by playing a card facedown!”
Kaiba drew a card and smirked “I play Monster reborn to revive my Blue eyes!” he said as the massive dragon appeared on the field and Kaiba pointed to Gilford “Attack! White Lighting!”
“I activate my trap card! Skull Dice!” Joey yelled in response, the trap’s little devil imp appeared and the dice rolled out, landing on a two and Blue eye’s attack dropped to 2800 making it the same strength as Gilford. The warrior monster charged forward and thrust his sword through the dragon’s chest but the dragon got off a second shot, hitting Gilford square on and both monsters disappeared with a roar of pain. Joey drew a card and said “I summon Alligator's sword in attack mode. Now both my monsters attack!” Kaiba’s points dropped to 700 “I end my turn!”
Kaiba drew a card and smiled “Well done, Wheeler…you win!” he revealed the card he’d drawn “Soul Exchange and I have no card to use it with” he then added “You were right…you have been getting better but it’s more fun to tease you. I end my turn”
Joey drew his card and said “I sacrifice my two monsters in order to summon Red-Eyes black dragon” the dragon roared, almost anticipating the victory that had been denied to Joey for so long but Joey paused, it felt weird and all he had to do was attack and he would have just beaten Kaiba. Then again, he’d been in this situation before and it hadn’t ended with victory “Red Eyes inferno fire blast!”
Kaiba smiled again as the fireball consumed him, he walked forward as his life points hit zero and said “Well Wheeler you know what you have to do…you had better win this tournament, since you just beat the best duellist in the tournament” he laughed and shook Joey’s hand “I’m still going to call you a duelling monkey though” and he pulled out a blue eyes white dragon but sighed handing it to Joey “Here”
Joey however smiled and shook his head “I have my own dragon…you keep your blue eye wimps” he joked before pulling out his red eyes but said “Thanks though” Kaiba however pushed another card into Joey’s hand with his two star chips “Summoned Skull?”
“Yeah I had a spare” Kaiba smiled “Besides, it’ll let you summon that Red eyes skull dragon of yours?” he then turned and added “Good duel for a duelling monkey”
“Good duel for a stuffed shirt moneybags” Joey retorted before turning towards Yugi “Well, that was fun, right Yug!” he asked as he looked at the stunned crowd but the silence was broken by Fluttershy
“Yes! You did it! You beat him!” Fluttershy screamed with joy but then blushed and mumbled “We were rooting for you” she then looked into Joey’s eyes and said “You were amazing”
Joey smiled back “Uh…yeah, I’m looking forward to duelling you” he said trying to make the conversation a little less awkward “I’ll bet you’re an awesome duellist!” he looked at her duel disc and said “Your world must really like ponies?”
Suddenly Whis interrupted the conversation “Wow what a duel Mr. Wheeler. Here’s your other prize… the card Sweetie Belle” he said handing the card to Joey and noticing Fluttershy trying to reach a hand up to it “Now for a rule on this card Mr Wheeler, it’s a card you can only give to another after you lose a duel”
Joey raised an eyebrow “Why?”
Whis shrugged “It’s just the rules” he then whispered into Twilight’s ear “You and your friends are also forbidden to mention that you are ponies or Beerus will destroy your planet” he then raised himself high and yelled “Well now that we have the first duel of the tournament out of the way! We’re going to have a twenty minute break before any more duelling! This will also give you time to spread out….as in duellist kingdom, fireworks will mark the start of more duelling but they’ll also mark when duelling is to stop at the end of the day!” he smiled and walked over to Beerus.
Many of the duellist split up but Twilight, Fluttershy and Basil decided to ask Joey and Yugi if they could stick with them, after a bit of convincing Joey and Yugi agreed but mainly because Joey joked Fluttershy reminded him of Yugi. Elsewhere Crow was smiling at the seven cans of cola, he’d won, Jack and Akiza grumbling about how he cheated them. Jaden and Alexis walked off to the south, as the Zane and Aster went off on their own. Mai Valentine walked off to the mountains area, where her deck would have an advantage but the field power bonus didn’t exist in this tournament. Finally after twenty minutes Beerus started the Duellist Universe Tournament with a bang!