//------------------------------// // Chapter 6- Another loss for Equestria // Story: Equestria Crossover Confusion 2 HFC- Time to Duel! // by Garfield23 //------------------------------// “Cyber End Dragon! Super Strident Blaze!” Zane yelled as Twilight looked on helplessly, as the giant robotic Dragon began to charge up its attack. She looked down, how could this be happening, tears dripped from her eyes and she looked as the monster before her seemed to flinch before the attack “Now Cyber End Dragon! End this!” the attack burst forth. Basil Stag Hare yelled “NO!” as the attack struck the monster with horrific power and the life points dropped to zero. Fluttershy dropped to her knees weeping as, the monster disappeared and Zane Truesdale stepped forward to claim his prize. He took the starchips and smiled coldly. Basil charged forward and yelled “Give them back!” Fluttershy however shook her head and numbly said “It’s over Basil!” An hour earlier Leo and Luna had just finished challenging Jack and Crow to a double duel but the duel had ended with Jack and Crow claiming victory. The duel had been exciting and close but Crow had managed to summon his Black Wing Armour Master, thus the duel had ended when it had attacked Luna directly. Twilight, Fluttershy, Basil, Yugi and Joey clapping their hands as Luna’s life points hit zero. Jack and Crow walked up to Leo and Luna to accept their prizes. “Well done, Leo, you’ve really improved” Jack said shaking the young boy by the hand and smiling gently as Leo handed over his two star chips but Jack could tell the boy was still feeling depressed “Hey…chill kid, you pulled off some really impressive plays during that duel. No shame in that” Jack added. Leo nodded with a sad look “I know, I just wanted to…do better” he said but then smiled “Next time Jack, I’ll take you down!” Jack laughed “Well kid, you’ll need to keep improving your skills at the duel!” Jack said giving Leo a thumbs up. Crow then claimed his starchips from Luna and said “You did awesome, Luna!” who smiled and Crow added “Well you two certainly are improving every time you duel!” Jack nodded and said “Well they were members of team 5ds” he then turned to Akiza who was sitting with Yusei’s head lying on her knees “Still not awake?” he asked as Akiza sadly shook her head and Jack sighed “I thought a duel between members of team 5ds would wake him up. Come on!” Luna sighed sadly “Maybe we shouldn’t have brought him?” she asked sadly to which all the members of Team 5ds looked to her crossly, except for Akiza who stroked his hair gently “S…Sorry” “No…maybe your right Luna” Akiza said as she looked at Yusei’s closed eyes as tears began to splash on his closed eyes and her despair seemed to be getting the better of her “He’s too hurt to compete” Fluttershy took a step forward and kindly put a hand on Akiza’s shoulder “Would he have wanted that thou? We’re all fighting for our worlds…I know it’s hard but would he have forgiven you if he had been left out?” Crow nodded “Yeah, um…Fluttershy right? Yeah, she is right. Yusei never would have accepted excuses from us, if we had left him back at New Domino and he’s always wanted to protect his friends” he said as he and Jack supported Yusei’s weight across their shoulders “Well I guess we had better decide who’s duelling next?” “Before that I need to ask Yugi something” Twilight said as she turned to talk with Yugi and held up her deck “Um, Yugi, would you please take a look at my deck?” she asked nervously holding the deck between trembling fingers. Having spoken with Joey, he had given Yugi quite a lot of praise but now she felt her nerves surrounding asking the question “Please, I need to know” she added hopefully. Yugi looked at her with his gentle smile and said calmly “Sure, it would be my pleasure” he took the deck from her, looking through the deck thou soon forced the gentle smile to surrender, giving way to a look of abject horror and Yugi said “Um…Twilight…did Fluttershy and yourself build your own decks?” he couldn’t believe someone could build a deck so carelessly. Fluttershy mumbled “Um…no…Beerus said we…were to use these decks….why is that bad?” she asked the question in her Flutterdry tone. There was a long moment of horrified silence from the duellist around them, before Jack stepped forward and snapped “Bad?! It couldn’t get much worse! If you don’t build your own deck…how are you supposed to know the deck’s strategy and it’s layout?!” he pinched the bridge of his nose and groaned “How bad is it, Yugi?” Yugi looked through both decks, three times each, his face seemingly growing more depressed as he looked through them and he finally said “They’re unusable. Fluttershy’s deck contains a lot of monsters that have very specific summoning requirements and she has no way to summon them! Twilight’s deck has only one spell but luckily it has three copies of this one spell and no traps! If either deck is used in a duel with opponents of such skill as the ones we have seen in the tournament thus far, then the results are a foregone conclusion and they will lose!” he then added with a smile “We’ll help you rebuild your decks tonight when the duelling is finished for the day and we’ll also need to help train them how to use the decks. At least then they’ll have a fighting chance!” Basil smiled as he walked up and clapped Yugi on the back “Jolly good show, ole chap! We really do appreciate the help, aye what?!” he then turned to Jack and said “Jolly good of you to be so honest, takes great courage of character to be so honest!” “Still one thing leaves me confused” Joey said in a concerned tone, before he turned to Fluttershy and asked “You told me that Pegasus helped you to learn the game? Yeah?” Fluttershy nodded and Joey continued “Why didn’t he pick up on these clear flaws?” Akiza featured a guess “By most historical accounts Pegasus was a pretty slimy operator?” to which both Yugi and Joey nodded “Well maybe he was trying to interfere with Twilight and Fluttershy’s chances?” to which there was a murmur of agreement from most of people present “Still maybe Beerus told him, he was just meant to teach you three the game and nothing else?” Crow then sighed “Well it doesn’t matter now, we’ve got enough stacked against us, without wondering if Beerus and Whis cheated, right?” he asked and the group nodded in agreement “We’ll just need to keep anyone from duelling Twilight or Fluttershy” “Oh I don’t think so!” came the voice of Whis from Crow’s duel disc and he appeared above the group. Before anyone could stop him, Whis had grabbed Twilight, before he flew her to Zane Truesdale, who had just beaten Jaden Yuki again and was looking for a fresh victim “Ah, Mr Truesdale I have a fresh opponent for you” Zane looked at Twilight with a cold glare and said “She doesn’t look like much of an opponent. You’d better be worth my time, I have six star chips and I can tell you only have two!” he frowned disappointed by the weak opponent “Well I suppose you should be honoured to be beaten by a duellist of my calibre!” Twilight shook her head and said “No, sir I will not!” she wasn’t going to be bullied into a duel but Whis walked over and pointed to her duel disc which had activated all by itself “No…no!” “It would seem you don’t have choice, Miss Sparkle” Whis said as he sat down on a lawn chair and added “I’ll be referring this match, now ladies first, so Miss Sparkle will take the first turn and we’ll go from there” Twilight sighed and drew five cards from her deck but all were monsters “I can’t win, not like this” she said to herself and looked in the direction her friends were but said to herself “Yugi, Joey, everyone! Help!” “No outside help!” Whis said blowing a whistle as if he were referring a football match “Miss Sparkle please make your first move!” Twilight drew her first card and says nervously “I’ll set this card in face down defence mode!” and she sighed, there was nothing else she could do since except for three cards all the cards in her deck were monsters “Your turn” Zane drew a card from his deck and said “I summon my Cyber Dragon in attack mode” he then placed a card face down “After I play this face down. I’ll launch my attack! Cyber Dragon Strident Blaze!” Zane’s Cyber dragon reared up, the attack shooting out from his open maw, Twilight’s monster flipped up and revealed a man dressed all in green but as the attack drew near, Twilight felt a card in her hand vibrate before flying out and a warrior in red stood in front of the man in green before slashing the attack in half with his sword “What the?!” The Red warrior yelled “The Burning Flame Element! The Red Mage, Magi Red!! You will not harm my brother!” he turned to the warrior in green and said “Are you alright Makito?!” The green warrior nodded before turning to Twilight “What’s going on?” he asked her, he sounded very confused but he then turned drawing out an axe “Last thing I remember was working in the garden and then….there was a flash” he held his helmet but then turned back to Twilight “Um wait…why are we speaking English?” “Because it’s just easier that way” Whis sighed and said “I guess taking heroes from other realms for cards, wasn’t such a good idea” he then looked at Zane “So is your turn finished?” to which Zane nodded looking cross “Alright Miss Sparkle it’s your move” Twilight nodded as she drew a card from her deck and smiled, the spell card “I play the field spell Super Sentai Battle zone!” the area around them shifted and changed before the green field they had been in, gave way to a grey quarry and a symbol on the ground with Japanese lettering. Twilight smiled as she looked at the field “With this card out the effect changes according to how many Super Sentai monster is out and since I have two, I can special summon another sentai ranger this turn from my hand but first…I normal summon Liveman Blue!” a female warrior appeared on the field dressed in blue “With her on my field, I can summon any sentai monster from my deck!” she looked through her deck and picked one “I Special summon Gokagier Pink!” Zane looked on in shock as Twilight’s deck summoned monster after monster but then he noticed all their points were the same, a mere 1200 attack points and 1200 defence points “If you think summoning a bunch of weak monsters will beat my Cyber dragon! Guess again!” Twilight smiled “But you forget I still have one more special summon and I summon Magi Yellow!” the monster appeared, doing some punches before Twilight smiled at the five monsters she had assembled “Now I can do this!” all the monsters bar Gokagier Pink disappeared into her deck and were quickly replaced by Gokaiger Red, Blue, Yellow and green “I’ll now use the effect of the field spell to fuse my five monsters into Gokaioh!” the giant robot appeared with it’s attack points set to 3000! “Now attack Gokaioh!” Zane smirked as the robot charged forward and said calmly “Negate Attack!” the attack of Gokaioh was blocked and Zane smirked “Now it’s my turn!” he drew a card from his deck. Suddenly Basil and Fluttershy arrived on the scene with Yugi, Joey and team 5d’s “Twilight! Are you okay?!” Basil yelled in alarm but as he observed the field before him “You seem to be giving this chap a jolly good fight!” Twilight nodded with a smile and Basil gave her the thumbs up “Keep giving them blood and vinegar then!” Zane laughed before saying “Might want to watch what you say!” he smirked and revealed the card he held “I play the spell Power Bound! To fuse the cyber dragon on the field with the two in my hand and I summon Cyber end dragon!” the giant triple headed dragon roared as it appeared on the field “Prepare to lose!” Twilight quickly looked at the field spell and the monster she had on the field “It’s over, the only effect the spell has is….useless and....I’ve failed everyone else!” tears splashed from her eyes “Fluttershy….It’s up to you…I’m sorry!” Fluttershy mumbled “Twilight…no!” “Cyber End Dragon! Super Strident Blaze!” Zane yelled as Twilight looked on helplessly as the giant robotic Dragon began to charge up its attack. She looked down, how could this be happening, tears dripped from her eyes and she looked as Gokaioh before her, it seemed to flinch before the attack “Now Cyber End Dragon! End this!” the attack burst forth. Basil Stag Hare yelled “NO!” as the attack struck Gokaioh with horrific power and the life points dropped to zero. Fluttershy dropped to her knees weeping as, the monster disappeared and Zane Truesdale stepped forward to claim his prize. He took the starchips and smiled coldly. Basil charged forward and yelled “Give them back!” Fluttershy however shook her head and numbly said “It’s over Basil!” Yugi however grabbed Zane’s wrist and said “I challenge you!” Zane smirked and nodded “Right now! If I win….you give me Twilight’s star chips back!” the two then stood apart from each other, Yugi smiled as the power of his puzzle activated and Atem looked across at Zane who glowered back “So if you beat me…you’ll be in the finals!” Akiza and Joey helped Twilight to the side as she wept into Akiza’s shoulder “It’s okay, Twi, Yug, will totally own him!” Joey said with a smile “We’ll get your star chips back!” he however had to admit the chances had never looked more serious, Zane could summon a monster with 8000 attack points, could Yugi really win and Joey frowned “Yeah he’ll totally win!”