//------------------------------// // (Part 1) Passing the Pacifist // Story: Yugioh Spiez: Opperation Duel: Final Season // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// CHAPTER SIX The second the orange light had ceased, WOOHP agents rushed to the scene, but arrived more than too late. It was the same thing-- Tony’s duel disk was busted and his cards lay scattered about. The entire farm seemed deserted, all the animals had run off, and all the apple trees were stripped of apples. Even Adeline and Kitten were nowhere to be seen, meaning they, too, had been abducted. However, while searching for evidence, the men found Kitten’s cell-phone, when they saw the picture that was on it. There was no doubt about it, Sam and Megan had been brainwashed too, and were now on the loose somewhere. As for Tony, it was assured that he was defeated in a duel. The pictures even showed him getting defeated, but the shock-waves and flashes from the resulting duel made it hard to see his opponent, but they were able to see what monster attacked Tony… …A Five-Headed Dragon; one of the fiercest creatures in duel monsters. It was no surprise that he lost. The agents brought the evidence to Jerry, and he called me up on this. Once I arrived at WOOHP I went over all the data. “Well, it looks like we’re getting somewhere.” I said “Apparently, whoever this mystery opponent is only appears whenever the spies win a duel, then challenges them and defeats them.” Jerry felt very concerned about the spies and their safety. He had sent them warnings immediately after finding this out; that they were to beware of this mystery duelist and be prepared to face at least a Five-Headed Dragon. “Oh, if only we could fix the duel disks, they could provide us with more information.” I said. My voice sounded loud and frustrated. “I’m sorry…” I said “I’m just very worried. I have a great fondness for the spies, both teams. We’ve been through so much together.” “I understand how you feel. I too have many fond memories with girls and the Clarks.” said Jerry. He secretly felt a bit more worried about something other than the spies, but he didn’t think it best to worry me about. In the meantime there was something else bothering me. Three of the lights in the sky were gone, but six more remained, and with three of the spies kidnapped and, defiantly, brainwashed, the ponies and their forces were beginning to outnumber us, and with this mystery duelist at large, it was only bound to get worse. Jerry and I both happened upon the same thought “If things get any worse…?” Jerry asked. “Yes, we won’t have a choice.” I said. Suddenly, the computer detected unusual wavelengths. “Oh dear, what now…?” grumbled Jerry. As he tried to compute the source of the waves, his computer screen began to fade with static and white light began to shine from it. “What’s going on?” I asked. Jerry hadn’t the foggiest, and then we could see her; a white pony with a horn, wings, a golden tiara, and a voluminous multicolored mane sparkling and fluttering magically. She was so incredibly beautiful that Jerry and I almost would have been taken in by her charm, except we both saw the astral mark on her head, and this gave us the idea that she was the leader and brains behind this mess! Her face also appeared on every electronic screen, and her voice could be heard on every radio station all over the world. All the brainwashed people gazed up at her, and shouted their chant, and those who were not infected gazed forth in confusion, but kept well out of sight not wishing to be seen. “Greetings humans, I am Princess Celestia.” Those who already knew her cheered for joy while all the rest were still confused. “For those of you who do not know me, fear not for me and my kind are not your enemy, we wish you no harm. We merely wish to help; help you solve all your problems.” Jerry and I gawked at each other in confusion, and then we listened as Celestia explained she and the ponies were well aware of all the problems on Earth-- War, disease, people not trusting one another, and morality having hardly much of a voice. “That is why I beseech you all; join us! Be one with the light. Embrace the harmony, and cast any and all worries and darkness behind you.” As unbelievable as it was, many of the uninfected people were taken in by her words, and were actually considering joining with the society, but everyone else still not infected remained unmoved and were now more than convinced that Celestia was not acting very level-headed. True, a world full of peace and no woe would be nice, but not the way she was doing it. It almost even seemed like she had an ulterior motive. “I submit to you all; help us cleanse the world; make it a better place. Together, with the light of harmony, there will be order to all things.” The millions of brainwashed people cheered and chanted to Celestia and the light of harmony, and Celestia felt she had done her deed, and uncast her contact spell. Luna and Twilight applauded her for her moving words. “Well said, sister.” said Luna. “The humans cannot resist us now.” added Twilight “And even if they try, they will soon be one of us.” Celestia nodded “Especially thanks to you and your helper, Twilight. I’m most impressed by the progress you’ve made.” Twilight bowed graciously, and then she and Luna were dismissed, leaving Celestia alone to think sinisterly “Soon every human on Earth will bask in the light, and harmony will spread all over. Finally, everything will be mine.” Meanwhile, Alex was flying over Central Africa, and she had already seen the local cities and villages with all the people becoming brainwashed by the light. She, too, had heard everything from Celestia’s broadcast, but she wasn’t very moved at all. “Gosh, as much as I still like ponies, I think this goes beyond anything I’ve seen and didn’t like.” she said She followed the source of the yellow light, which seemed to lead her into the jungle. Down below she could see all kinds of animals; Lions, elephants, zebras, and even antelope. None of which seemed to have the astral mark on their heads. “Weird…” Alex said to her “I guess it means that animal life isn’t affected by the lights.” Suddenly, she could see a hungry lion chasing after a lone zebra. Despite Alex being a meat-lover herself, and having and understating of the animal survival instincts, she just couldn’t permit this. The lion continued to chase his runaway meal, and then the poor zebra tripped on a log and fell on its side. The lion saw his chance and leapt up ready to pounce on his prey, when Alex swooped in and snared the lion in her laser-net. “Sorry, but dinner’s canceled.” She sneered as she held the carnivore down, but suddenly, a beam of light struck her net, disarming it and freeing the lion and he ran off all scared. “Hey!” snapped Alex, then she turned to face the zebra, and saw a pale yellow pegasi with a long pink mane and tail. She also had the astral mark on her head, but at the moment she was tending to the fallen zebra. “There, there…” she said in a soft spoken voice. “You’ll be just fine, there’s nothing broken or sprained.” She used the magic from her astral mark to help nurse the zebra, heal its wounds, and the zebra got up onto its feet, and then trotted off. Alex was hardly able to bring herself to believe what she had just seen, but the pony spun around and glared fiercely at her and snarled “YOU!!” Alex felt as if the lion had just returned and was roaring right at her. “How could you do such a thing?!” snarled the pony. Alex insisted she did nothing to the zebra, but the pony was referring to the lion. “How could you just rough him up like that?” “What?!” snapped Alex “I didn’t rough him up, I just stopped him form hurting that zebra.” “You could have used other methods than for you know.” Alex could barely believe that she was arguing with a pony over something ridiculous. “Look, I don’t know what obsession you have with animals, but I’m here on a mission to stop you.” The pony smiled sinisterly “Okay then…” Alex blinked once. “It’s been a while, but I could use a good challenge to keep my new boldness going, and when I’m through with you, the whole world will realize the true and full power of Fluttershy!” “Fluttershy…?” Alex muttered, thinking that was a very oddball name. She then shrugged it off and the two prepared to duel, but then Alex realized “Hey, I thought you didn’t like all this enforcement and roughhousing.” Fluttershy gave Alex a stare, which nearly stunned her. “Whoa!” cried Alex, and Fluttershy replied “I won’t need to use any roughhousing in this match, you’ll see. A perfect way to show you disbelievers how much better our way of things are.” Alex felt her blood boiling “I am getting really sick and fed up with hearing that phrase. You guys couldn’t be more wrong with your ways.” “QUIET!!!” shouted Fluttershy. Shout seemed to make the entire jungle vibrate, and birds flew off in flocks. Now she looked angry enough to stampede right through all the trees, but quickly shook herself calm. “The only way to settle this is through a duel. So let’s just do this calmly.” Alex still couldn’t get all this; peace and calm… in a duel? It was making her brain ache. “Let’s just get going.” she sneered, and the duel was on. SCORE: Alex: 8000 VS Fluttershy: 8000 “I’ll go first.” Alex said as she drew her cards. “Nice, this duel may be over quicker than I thought. I Summon RED EYES BLACK CHICK!” (Atk: 800) “Aw, it’s so cute.” said Fluttershy. Alex smirked “You haven’t seen anything yet. Thanks to my chick’s special ability, I can sacrifice it, and it lets me call out my favorite ace in the whole game; RED EYES BLACK DRAGON!” (Atk: 2400) Fluttershy quivered softly at the sight of Alex’s dragon, but she quickly shook off her field and kept telling herself to stay focused, while Alex gazed at her Red Eyes as if it were a superhot celebrity. She barely was able to shake herself back into reality. “I’ll place card facedown, and end my turn. So, how are you going to handle this rough-houser now, huh? I doubt even your supposed calmness can break through.” Fluttershy didn’t answer and just drew her card, and all she did was place a single monster in facedown defense-mode, without even saying at thing, much to Alex’s confusion. “What’s with this pony?” she thought silently “All she plays is that simple facedown monster. She must be off her rocker, or maybe she actually wants me to attack it.” “Well, come on. It’s your turn.” Fluttershy teased. Alex felt she was being taunted, and drew her next card, and said in thought “I guess I’m just going to have to go in for it.” “Sorry to do this to you Red Eyes, but I need to kick it up a bit. So I’ll sacrifice you in order to summon RED EYES DARKNESS DRAGON!” (Atk: 2400) Fluttershy quivered again, but still managed to maintain control of herself. “Oh, don’t stop.” Alex teased “I’d be quivering too if I were on the other side of Red Eyes, especially seeing as he gets 300 extra attack points for every dragon in my graveyard, and I count two.” (Atk: 2400) ---> (Atk: 3000) “And as if that weren’t enough, I activate my facedown continuous trap, DRAGON’S RAGE! Now whenever a dragon monster of mine attacks your monster, even if it’s in defense-mode, you’ll still take damage in the difference of their points.” Fluttershy gasped! “Go Red Eyes! Blow her monster to a crisp!” shouted Alex. Her dragon complied and attacked, but when Alex checked the score, was she ever surprised…! SCORE: Alex: 11,000 VS Fluttershy: 8000 “Hey, is this thing even working right? How did I just gain life points?” Then she looked forward as the dust from the attack cleared, and she saw the monster was a KURIBON! “No way!” cried Alex. “Oh, yes…” said Fluttershy “When you attack it, I don’t take any damage from the attack. Instead, you gain life points, and Kuribon comes back to my holder.” She took her card back, and practically smothered it soothingly as if it were a live animal that had just been hurt “Oh, don’t worry, I’m here now. I won’t let her hurt you like again.” Alex couldn’t take much more of this, but she ended her turn, letting Fluttershy draw a seventh card. “Now I get to activate GRACEFUL CHARITY. I can draw three cards, as long as I kindly discard two.” After all that, she now had a total of eight cards in her hand, and she really liked what they were. “Now it’s time for your dragon to take a time out, so I play MESSENGER OF PEACE!” “What?!” snapped Alex. She remembered that continuous spell all too good. As long as it remained in play, only monsters with less than 1500 attack points could attack. “I told you, we need to approach this calmly.” said Fluttershy “Next I play DOUBLE SUMMON, and it lets me summon two monsters this turn. So, I’ll play WHITE MAGICIAN PIKERU and FIRE PRINCESS.” (Def: 0) (Def: 1500) Alex grumbled softly. The Magician would increase Fluttershy’s life points every turn, and the Fire Princess would drain Alex’s life points by 500 every time Fluttershy gained life points. “I bet this is her plan.” Alex thought silently “She’s trying to hold me back so she can take out my life points by card effects.” Fluttershy then ended her turn with two cards facedown. “Go ahead now, it’s your turn.” she said “But it won’t be too long. Victory will be mine! MINE!” She laughed loud and evilly… and then slipped off from her duel platform and plopped onto the ground. Alex palmed her head in disdain. Fluttershy brushed the dirt off her and retook her post. “Well, move!” she snarled at Alex, giving her that same stare. Alex winced and nearly dropped her cards. “Okay, take a pill already. Here goes…” she drew her card, but much to her disdain, it wasn’t very helpful. She couldn’t attack with her Red Eyes either and nothing else she had would help her, so she had to her turn, and the first thing she did was pay 100 life points to keep her Messenger card in play. SCORE: Alex: 11,000 VS Fluttershy: 7900 “But now my trap card activates; CALL OF THE HAUNTED! Now I can use to revive a monster I just discarded. Come on out, EBON MAGICIAN CURRAN.” (Atk: 1200) “Oh, no, not that too!” cried Alex. “I take it you know what happens now…” said Fluttershy “While it is still my standby phase, my two magicians do their work. Pikeru grants me 200 life points thanks to the other monster I discarded; MARIE THE FALLEN ONE! This also means my Fire Princess makes you lose 500 life points.” The scores changed… SCORE: Alex: 10,500 VS Fluttershy: 8100 Despite Alex was still way up front, she didn’t seem to appreciate it, because now the other monsters would get to work their stuff on her. White Magician raised Fluttershy’s life points by 400 for every monster she had in play. That gave her 1200 points, which made Alex lose another 500. SCORE: Alex: 10,000 VS Fluttershy: 9300 Then the Ebon Magician gave Alex another 300 points of damage for every monster on her field. All she had was her Red Eyes, and that wasn’t too bad. SCORE: Alex: 9,700 VS Fluttershy: 9300 “I’m catching up to you.” Fluttershy teased, and then she cackled softly, which really annoyed Alex. “Now I’m going to play something new; a good animal friend of mine called BURNING LAND!” “Ah!” cried Alex. “I take it from your gasp, you know what this does.” Alex was very aware. At the start of either player’s turn, that continuous spell would drain 500 life points, and it also meant that Field Spell cards couldn’t be used either. Fluttershy ended her turn without doing anything else. So Alex drew her next card hoping for something to help her, but she took her 500 points of damage. SCORE: Alex: 9,200 VS Fluttershy: 9300 Still, she gazed at her card and thought “Hey! This could help.” “BABY DRAGON, come on out!” (Atk: 1200) This time, Fluttershy wasn’t so scared at the sight of the cute dragon. Her wings fluttered with excitement “A Baby Dragon…! …He’s so cute.” Strangely enough, even the holographic image blushed and acted kind of shy, much to Alex’s frustration. Still, she had a feeling her dragon would be very useful, seeing as its attack was low enough. “Baby Dragon, Go now and attack White Pikeru!” Baby Dragon snapped to his senses and dove straight for the monster, and its zero defense-points. “Oh, no, you don’t!” snapped Fluttershy “Go MAGIC CYLINDER!” “Ah!” Alex gasped, and Fluttershy smirked. “This trap absorbs your attack, and sends it right back at your life points.” Alex watched as her dragon’s attack went into one cylinder, and shot out the other one, hitting her square on. SCORE: Alex: 8,000 VS Fluttershy: 9300 “I told you before. Roughhousing will get you nowhere.” said Fluttershy. Alex was outraged, but there wasn’t anything else she could do. “I’ll just end my turn.” Fluttershy snickered softly as she drew her next card, and then the calculations went into effect. She paid 100 points for the Messenger card, and then took 500 damage from the Burning Land card. Marie the Fallen one then gave her 200 life points, and Pikeru gave her another 1200. As for Alex, she took 1000 points of damage from the Fire Princess, and an additional 600 from Ebon. SCORE: Alex: 6400 VS Fluttershy: 10,100 The scores had changed dramatically, and now Fluttershy was in the lead. “Now, to keep my monsters well, I’ll turn Pikeru into attack mode.” (Atk: 1200) “This way, you can’t try to attack it again, even with your cute baby dragon.” Alex scowled angrily. “Next I play POT OF GREED.So I draw two more cards. Then I place one facedown, and that ends my turn.” “It’s… my draw!” snapped Alex, and she drew and took her damage. SCORE: Alex: 5900 VS Fluttershy: 10,100 But she did like what she drew, and formed an idea as she thought “Ah, yeah, Alex is jumpin’ back.” “Sorry Baby Dragon, but it’s time for you to go bye-bye.” Fluttershy was sad to see the poor little baby go. “Oh, why did you go and do that for? He was just a baby.” Alex smirked “I banished him so I could bring out this big bad boy. RED EYES DARKNESS METAL DRAGON!” (Atk: 2800) Fluttershy hated the sight of this new dragon. “You got rid of an innocent baby to summon a big horrible monster?!” she growled “Oh, I am so frustrated I could just scream!” She drew in a huge breathe a let out what had to be… the most pathetic attempt at screaming Alex had ever seen or heard. Fluttershy hardly made any sound at all; like a rag running softly against a glass sheet. “If you’re about done being silly, I’d like to finish my move.” said Alex “Anyway, thanks to my new Red Eyes, I get to summon one dragon out form my graveyard, and I know just who to pick; Red Eyes Black Dragon, welcome back!” (Atk: 2400) It was an incredible lineup for Alex; three super Red Eyes Dragons, but of course with a dragon out of the graveyard, Darkness dragon lost 300 points reducing him to 2700. Still, Fluttershy didn’t seem to care much, believing her messenger card would shield her. “Sorry to break it to you, but it won’t any longer.” said Alex “I activate this spell, STAMPING DESTRUCTION!” Fluttershy gasped; knowing that card could destroy one spell or trap card, and so, the messenger was destroyed, and she took 500 points of damage. SCORE: Alex: 5900 VS Fluttershy: 9600 Fluttershy whimpered nervously… “Yeah, you ought to be whimpering now, because heeeeeeeeere we come!” shouted Alex, and all her dragons stood ready to brawl. “No, you can’t!” cried Fluttershy. “Just watch me. Go for it boys!” As the dragons headed straight for Fluttershy’s helpless monsters, “I said… NO!!” shouted Fluttershy “I activate the continuous-trap GRAVITY BIND!” “D’ah…?!” Alex watched in horror as her dragons stopped dead in the tracks. The Gravity Bind prevented all monsters higher than level 3 from attacking, and so Alex was stuck once again. “What is with you?!” she snapped “Don’t you realize that you’re going to have to attack sometime in this match?” Fluttershy stood where she was with her eyes shut tight and said “I… can’t. I just don’t believe in attacking all that much.” She sounded so serious that even Alex was taken in by her emotions. Fluttershy explained, and showed images using her astral power, her name fitted her well. Back in Equestria she was timid, meek, and often easily frightened by her own shadow. Even her most exciting moments and cheering were weak and pitiful. Only rarely did she ever show assertiveness, or boldness… And even more rarely would she go completely crazy… But no matter what, in the end, she was Fluttershy. Timid, meek, and often the weakest of the lot A queer look came over Alex’s face. She almost seemed ready to cry herself, just like the images she saw of Fluttershy crying in those flashbacks. Fluttershy wiped the oncoming tears from her eyes, and then broke out laughing wickedly “But all that’s in the past. The old Fluttershy is gone, and I hope soon forgotten. Ever since I saw the light, I’ve never felt such confidence, such power. Already all of Equestria feels this same thing I do, and soon all the human world will as well.” Alex’s features quickly hardened. “Okay, I can totally understand the whole wanting to be different bit, but if you think this is right way to go about things, you’re even crazier than I thought. Look at you! You’re letting all this light stuff go to your head.” Fluttershy snuffed and drew her card. “I’ll show you what’s what around here.” She grumbled softly, but first the score had to change up. Fluttershy lost 500 points, and then she gained 1400, while Alex lost 1000 from the fire princess, and now that she had three monsters in play, Ebon cost her to lose 900 more. SCORE: Alex: 4000 VS Fluttershy: 10,500 “But I’m not through yet…” said Fluttershy “While it’s still my standby phase, I’ll reveal this to you; GOLDEN LADYBUG!” A card that allowed Fluttershy to gain another 500 life points, provided the card would stay revealed until the end of her turn. SCORE: Alex: 4000 VS Fluttershy: 11,000 “But there’s more where this came from.” Fluttershy sneered “I summon Kuribon again!” (Atk: 300) “Not that little fuzzball again?” groaned Alex. “That’s right, and now I get to use this spell card, LEVEL LIFTER! Now I get to discard my ladybug, and what’s more Pikeru and Ebon both get their levels changed to that of my ladybug.” Alex felt her nerves lurch softly. She had a bad feeling something awful was coming. “Now, I overlay all three of my level one monsters. With these, I build the overlay network, and Xyz Summon NUMBER 54: LION HEART!” (Atk: 100) Alex gasped “No, not Lion Heart?!” Even though its attack was extremely low, Alex had tutored many students at Duel academy about the card, and she knew it had one devastating effect, and further, Xyz Monsters didn’t have levels at all, so the Gravity Bind would have no effect either. “Normally, I don’t like to attack…” said Fluttershy “But sometimes, you have to be bold about things, and besides, taming animals is another one of my specialties. Go Lion Heart, attack.” Her target was the Dark Metal Dragon, and thanks to Lion Heart’s natural ability, it couldn’t be destroyed in battle while it was in attack mode, but that wasn’t all. “Now I can use my Lion’s other special ability.” said Fluttershy “By using one overlay unit, you take all the battle damage I would have taken, and that’s 2700.” Alex growled as her life points sank really low. SCORE: Alex: 1300 VS Fluttershy: 11,000 Fluttershy felt the boundless boldness coursing through her, and she laughed manically “I love this feeling!” she shouted “And I’m going to love my next turn, when I finish you off once and for all!” “What am I going to do?” Alex thought fearfully “I still can’t even try to attack her monsters, and she’s still got that Fire Princess out. If I don’t turn this around and fast, she’s going to wipe me out for sure!” To Be Continued…!