• Published 6th May 2015
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A Siren's Encore - Richforce



Equestira Girls/ Yugioh Arc V crossover. During a school trip to Maiami City the Rainbooms run across the Dazzlings hatching a plot. Is Friendship still in the cards?

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A Sea of Troubles! Ocean Terror Deck!

Author's Note:

Note: Character names are based on the original Japanese, card names are based on the English TCG. The story occurs after Rainbow Rocks and between episodes 26 and 27 of Arc V. As for the skin color thing I’m treating it as a non-issue.

“Hello Maiami City!” Pinkie Pie yelled out to the sky while standing on top of a picnic table. “We like to say hello after coming all the way from Canterlot High!”

“Settle down Pinkie,” said Applejack pulling the blue eyed curly pink haired girl back into her seat. “After all we’ve already been here three days and we’re leaving tomorrow.”

Pinkie pouted to the blue eyed blonde wearing a cowboy hat. “But this is the only day we get to see the sights! We should do something fun!”

“Normally I would agree,” said Rarity as she brushed her long purple hair. “But it seems we came at the wrong time. Everyone here seems to be so focused on this major tournament we won’t sticking around for.”

“I thought you wanted to come,” said Sunset who had her back to the table in a relaxed manner. She blew a strand of her long red and yellow hair away from her blue eyes.

Rarity rolled her blue eyes. “That was when I thought we coming to Miami, you know cruise ships, beaches, museums and Cuban festivals. Instead we end up being Principal Celestia’s Guinea Pigs taking our classes under cram school teachers who normally teach Duel Monsters after school.”

“Would you please not mention that game?” said Rainbow Dash. “I’m still trying to forget that Sawatari creep.” She had red eyes short hair in a rainbow of colors.

“The one that had big crush on you?” asked Pinkie.


Flashback

Shingo Sawatari a blond young man was kneeling next to a disinterested Rainbow Dash. “Oh what light through yonder window there? It is Dash with the Rainbow Hair!”


“Let meh guess, that was when the soccer ball ended up in his face?” asked Applejack.

“The guy wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer!” said Rainbow Dash. “Just seeing a Duel Monsters card makes me see that jerk’s smarmy face!”

“Eep!” Fluttershy squeaked her long pink hair gently blowing in the breeze.

Sunset groaned. “Let me guess Fluttershy. You got yourself some cards.”

Fluttershy blushed her reddening face contrasting with her blue eyes. “I don’t want to play the game and make someone feel bad for losing, but a lot of the cards had such cute little critters on them! I just had to have them!”

“Just as long as you don’t show me your collection I think I’ll be fine,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Hey, we’re wasting daylight just sitting around here chatting!” yelled Pinkie Pie. “How about we split up into pairs and if anybody finds something interesting call the rest of us and we’ll check it out together!”

“Alright,” said Dash. “We’ll meet back at the hotel in an few hours.”

Rarity and Fluttershy went off to find a spa, Applejack and Rainbow Dash decided to look for a sports field for some friendly competition so Sunset Shimmer and Pinkie Pie wandered through the streets.

“So want to go shoe shopping or maybe hit the arcade, oh or get some ice cream?!” Pinkie asked.

“Whatever you want,” said Sunset uninterested.

Pinkie slowed down to walk at pace with Sunset. “What’s wrong Sunset?”

“It’s just I’ve been thinking about the Dazzlings a lot lately. I mean I was allowed to make up for what I did but they ran off before they were even given the chance. Who knows what could be happening to them or what they could be up to? I mean Twilight…”

Just then as she approached a corner she was run into by a young teenage boy and fell along with him to the ground.

“Sunset you Ok?!” yelled Pinkie Pie.

“I’m fine Pinkie,” Sunset said. A she got up she had a better look at her accidental assailant. He had crimson eyes, and dual-colored green and crimson hair of average length sticking out in downwards pointing spikes all around his head with the exception of one short-upwards pointing spike of green hair. He wore a crystal pendant with crossed metallic wings on a simple string around his neck and a pair of golden goggles with orange lenses on his forehead that had a blue star painted over the right lens. The boy was also wearing a simple red t-shirt, green pants and a gold and red lined white jacket over his shoulders like a cape.

“How about you?” Pinkie asked the boy.

“I haven’t dropped any cards so I’m ok,” the boy said as he got up and dusted off his pants.

“You aren’t hurt?” said Sunset. “I’d be more worried about bruises than cards.

“With what I do, I’ve learned how to take a fall. Let me introduce myself my name is Yuya Sakaki.”

Pinkie cut in between Yuya and Sunset. “Hi my name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, everybody calls me Pinkie Pie and this is my friend Sunset Shimmer!”

“A pleasure to meet you, if you don’t count the collision,” said Sunset. “Funny your name seems familiar to me.”

Yuya crossed his arms behind his head. “You aren’t from around here are you? Lately the folks around town have been asking for autographs or want to see me duel, especially since I just qualified for the Maiami Championship tournament.”

“Yeah,” said Pinkie. “Everyone we met seems to be talking about it, too bad we won’t be sticking around that long, sounds exciting.”
Sunset smiled. “Well good luck with the tournament.”

Sunset moved up to shake Yuya’s hand. Just then Yuya’s pendant started glowing and swinging back and forth, in response Sunset’s magic made pony ears and a tail appear on her.

“What’s going on!?” yelled Yuya.

“You tell me!” Sunset replied while Pinkie stared while covering her mouth.

Soon a small ball of light emerged from Sunset’s chest and hovered just in front of her. Sunset’s ears and tail had vanished once more as Yuya’s pendent stopped glowing and became still. The ball of light had now taken the shape of a card. It was unlike the ones Flutershy had collected, orange on the top and green on the bottom. The image on the card was of a white pony with a blonde mane, it wore a small conical clown’s hat at an angle suggestive of a horn and a ruffled collar with two larger than normal ruffles that were reminiscent of wings and on its flank a single yellow star. The card fell gently into Sunset’s hand.

“What was that?” asked a shocked Yuya.

Pinkie blushed furiously. “It’s a long story, for now let’s just say we’re magic.”

Sunset handed the card to Yuya. “What do you make of this?”

Yuya grabbed the card and took a close look at it. “Performapal Trick Pony? A new Pendulum Monster?”

“Pendulum?” asked Pinkie.

Yuya took out a deck of cards and produced three of them. The first one showed a masked wizard dressed in white, the second was another masked wizard in black and the third was a red wingless bipedal dragon with a red right eye and a green left eye. All three like the card that came from Sunset were the same mix of colors. “These are Pendulum Monsters,” said Yuya. “My pendant created them a little while ago and they’re half of the reason I’m famous. Strange, Trick Pony is a Performapal like most of the monsters in my deck.”

“But why did this appear now?” Sunset said as she took the card back. “Yuya we better stick close, I think something big is about to happen.”


In another part of the city Yuzu Hiragi was bringing along the kids from the You Show Duel School through a shopping pavilion. She had blue eyes and dark pink hair tied up in pigtails clipped down by blue, spherical hair clips with two lighter pink bangs that fall to the side of her face. Yuzu wore a sleeveless light-blue and white shirt with a musical note on the right collar, a red tie a dark red skirt and dark stockings.

“Hey Yuzu!” cried a red headed little girl. “Haven’t you been listening?”

“Oh, sorry Aya, you too Tatsuya, Futoshi,” said Yuzu. “I’ve just had a lot of things on my mind lately.”

“I’ll say,” said Futoshi a chubby boy with sandy blonde hair. “Your mood lately sometimes gives me the chills, and not the good kind like I get from dueling.”

“You can tell us Yuzu,” said blue haired Tatsuya. “I mean we are friends aren’t we?”

Yuzu looked at the metallic double diagonal banded bracelet on her wrist. It had two pink stones set on either side of the bracelet where the bands intersect, framed by a simple rose design. “What can I tell them?” she thought. That there’s a guy with Yuya’s face named Yuto out there whose friend is the one attacking all the LDS elites because they think they are involved in the capture of their friends? And that whenever Yuya gets close my bracelet sends Yuto away to who knows where? Still, they’re worried so maybe just a little…”

“I’ve been wondering a lot about my bracelet,” Yuzu told the kids. “I’ve had it ever since I was a baby but even my dad can’t seem to tell me where it came from. I know that shouldn’t bother me…”

“I got it!” said Tetsuya. "We’ll ask Dazzler the Appraiser!"

“Dazzler who?”

“The Appraiser,” said Aya. “Her flyers are all over town.”

“They say she has the gift of Psychometry!” said Futoshi. “That just by holding an object she can find out everything about it! Its worth, its owner, its past, even its future!”

“Sounds like another fortune teller like that Meiru girl,” Yuzu said skeptically. “But I guess it’s the only shot I have right now.”

A bit later they came to a tent set up in an alley. A young woman was sitting in front of it behind a cloth covered table wearing a cloak and a surgical mask. “Forgive me,” she said. “I have come down with a cold but it shouldn’t hinder my powers.”

“Right,” said Yuzu. “I need a reading off this bracelet, so how much?”

“I feel a very powerful aura coming from it, for an object this unusual there is no charge. Would you mind taking it off for a moment? I wouldn’t wish to confuse your auras.”

Yuzu hesitated then folded the bracelet’s rings in to remove it from her wrist. “Ok, but be careful. Do you see a young man in your vision?”

“The aura is clearing… I sense an event, something important in this object’s timeline. I can it see it, it is a theft!”

“A theft?!” Yuzu said shocked. “Is this in the past or the future?”

Dazzler got a wicked look in her eyes. “Neither, it’s in the present!”

At that moment a smoke bomb went off under the table. Yuzu and the kids were knocked down as the appraiser ran by with the bracelet.

“Stop, thief!” Yuzu cried.


“Stop, thief!”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash turned around to see a cloaked figure running from an alley with a bracelet in hand. The two made a grab for the young woman getting a hold of the cloak and surgical mask. As both pieces of the disguise fell away they saw a familiar lavender eyed curly blonde figure was the culprit.

“Adagio Dazzle,” said Applejack gritting her teeth.

Adagio threw the bracelet up in the air towards a second story balcony. “Sonata, catch!”

The bracelet was caught by a girl with lavender eyes and light blue hair with dark blue stripes done up in a ponytail. “Got it!”

“Find Aria!”

“Right!”

“Who are these people?” Yuzu said as she and the kids ran up.

“More trouble than a rattlesnake at a rodeo!” said Applejack.

Rainbow Dash got on her cell phone while running after the thieves. “Girls we got trouble! The Dazzlings are here and they’ve resorted to petty theft. We’re chasing Adagio through the shopping pavilion but Sonata’s turning to Tenth now! We need someone to head them off at the pass!”

“This is Fluttershy,” Rainbow heard over the phone. “Rarity and I are at a spa on Tenth, we’ll catch her…I hope.”

“Sunset here,” Sunset came over another line. “Chase them to the You Show Duel School by the waterfront. Pinkie and I have new friend and we’ll set a trap for them here.”

“Got it, good luck everyone!” said Rainbow before she hung up. “Any of you guys know where the You Show Duel School is?”

“My dad runs it,” said Yuzu. “If we’re forcing them there it shouldn’t be a problem!”

“Then let’s round the varmits up!” said Applejack.


Sonata had come down to street level when it looked like no one was chasing her. She started laughing until she found that Fluttershy and Rarity stepped in front of her, Rarity still had a green compound on her face.

“You interrupted my facial!” Rarity said. “Now you’re going to pay!”

“WAAAAAAH!” Sonata screamed as she was frightened by the angry girl in the face mask.

“Sonata I’m open!” said Aria Blaze. She had violet eyes and purple hair with light blue stripes done into two long pig tail with star shaped clips.

Sonata regained her composure and tossed the bracelet over the heads of the two girls and into Aria’s waiting hand.

“Go back to Adagio! I’ll catch up to you two later!”

“We got to get that thing back!” yelled Rarity after wiped the face mask off.

“Right,” said Fluttershy as they started chasing Aria.


Adagio was still being chased as Sonata joined her. “Where’s Aria?!” she said.

“Trying to give the slip to two more Rainbooms,” Sonata said. “It’s like a Battle of the Bands reunion.”

“Forget them, they’re not who we’re really after. Follow me to the rendezvous point.”

“The what?”

Aria groaned. “If your brains were dynamite you wouldn’t have enough to blow your nose.”

“Why would I blow my nose with dynamite when a tissue would work better?”

“Just follow me!”

They made another turn and ended up in front of a river. Shortly after that Aria caught up with them.

“The other two are close behind,” she said. “We can’t outrun them all forever.”

“We’re almost there,” said Adagio. “Soon my plan will come together.”

Just as they were about to reach an artistically designed building with the words “You Show Duel School” on it Sunset, Pinkie and Yuya blocked their path. With the eight pursuers almost on top of them they came to a halt and raised their hands in surrender.

“End of line Dazzlings!” said Rainbow. “Are going to give that thing back the easy way or the hard way? Here’s a hint, the hard way’s not fun.”

“Yuzu trusted you to read it and you just took it!” said Aya.

“You meanies!” said Pinkie.

“Unforgiveable!” said Futoshi.

“Sorry for the ruse,” said Adagio. “But it was the only way to get want I really want.”

“You aren’t in any position to make demands partner!” said Applejack.

“But what I want is oh so simple and you have nothing to lose by giving it. I’ll give the girl her bracelet back…” Adagio then suddenly pointed at Yuya. “If you agree to duel me Yuya Sakaki!”

“A duel?” asked Tetsuya.

“You went to all this trouble over a card game?” Rarity said with a twitching eye.

“Well after we lost our singing we started looking for a different way to become famous,” said Sonata.

“We went bust with most of them,” said Aria. “But Adagio came up with a plan to break into Entertainment Dueling if she could beat Yuya there in a live match we’d broadcast over the web. So we looked into his friends and spread flyers about a phony appraiser to bait the trap.”

“Enough talk!” said Adagio. “Agree to the duel or this hunk of metal goes into the sea and you’ll never find it again!”

“You wouldn’t!” said Fluttershy.

“We won’t just give into you!” said Sunset. “If you try to throw it one of us is bound catch it before…”

Sunset stopped as Yuya stepped up to Adagio. “I’ll accept your challenge.”

“WHAT?!” was the collective response by almost everyone else.

“I just have one question first…” Yuya then rubbed the back of his head. “Why didn’t you just ask me in the first place?”

All of his friends sweatdropped.

“You wouldn’t have agreed to it otherwise,” said Adagio. “You’ve just got a 60% win rate a week before the Maiami Championship. One loss and you’d be disqualified from competing.”

“Uh, no he wouldn’t,” said Yuzu.

“Huh?”

“Once you’ve won 60% of at least fifty duels or get six consecutive wins your qualification is locked in. Otherwise those who qualify earlier could get rusty waiting for the tournament.”

Adagio turned to her cohorts. “I thought you two checked the rulebook!”

Sonata was using a tablet. “Oh here it is, I just forgot to scroll down!”

“Hey at least we all got our cardio in for the day,” Aria said nonchalantly.

Aria gave the bracelet back to Yuzu. “Just get in their school and set up our match.”


While Aria and Sonata were setting up in the room that held the controls for the school’s solid vision system the two groups of friends started to get to know each other. However Sunset took Yuya to the side for a moment.

“Yuya the Dazzlings and I are more alike than my friends would want to admit. Like them I’ve made mistakes, big ones, but while those girls forgave me and gave me a place to belong, the Dazzlings ran before we could even give them a chance. We let them go thinking they couldn’t hurt anyone anymore but maybe I was wrong and my magic worked with your pendent to make it right.”

“You mean the Pendulum Monster that was created?”

Sunset took the card with the pony on it out and held it out to Yuya. “When you face Adagio I want you to use it, I know it sounds crazy but maybe it could tell them what I want to say better than just words.”

Yuya smiled as he accepted the card. “It’s not crazy at all, Duelists communicate to each other through their cards. As an Entertainment Duelist I’d be honored if I could use this card to make you and your friends smile.” He placed the card on top of his deck in a device with a large screen and two large slots to hold cards. The device then shuffled the deck.

Adagio came into the room. “Aria and Sonata are just about finished. If you want to watch you better get moving.”

+++

Yuya and Adagio were standing in a large enclosure with a roof made of chain link grating open to the sky. While Aria and Sonata were in a control room above the black glass like field the others were in an adjacent hallway peering through a window.

“Those two had better not be using your system to help Adagio cheat,” said Rainbow.

Yuzu shook her head. “This is the latest system from Leo Corp. It’d be almost impossible for a novice to break in.”

On the court Adagio put a device similar to Yuya’s on her left arm. A platform materialized out of energy from the device. “You might as well not waste time putting on your Duel Disk. I’ve studied every duel you’ve had from Strong Ishijima to your last duel with Gongenzaka, so I know what to expect from you.”

Yuya smiled. “If you really studied me you should know the only thing you can expect from me is the unexpected.”

Up in the control room Sonata had finished typing on a computer. “Ok the feed is live. Next stop, duel stardom.”

Aria was standing in front of a console beside the window to the duel field. “Cheating would just ruin our reputation with the audience but nothing says we can’t give Adagio an edge by letting her fight where she’s at her best.” Aria then pushed a button on the console. “Action Field on! Field Magic: Shipwreck Reef!”

The formerly plain enclosure then changed into an atoll of sharp rocks out in the middle of the ocean surrounded by a boundless blue sky. The wrecks of several wooden sailing ships could be seen both above and below the water. Yuya and Adagio stood on two surface wrecks with the open water separating them. Above them a large orb of moving cards was hovering in the air.

“Wow!” said Pinkie. “This looks so real! I think I can even smell salt water!”

“I’m getting the chills just from the anticipation!” said Futoshi.

“Come on everyone!” said Aya. “Let’s cheer for Yuya!”

On the reef the two duelists started with a performance of their own.

"Duelists locked in Battle!" said Adagio.

“Kicking against the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!” said Yuya.

“They storm through the field!”

“Behold the latest and greatest evolution in dueling!”

Together they finished. “Action…Duel!”


Game Start!

Yuya LP: 4000
Adagio LP: 4000


The orb of cards burst out spreading cards to several locations on the field.

“The first move is mine,” said Yuya. He took five cards from his deck as Adagio did the same and placed one of them on the energy platform. “I summon Performapal Skeeter Skimmer!”

A mosquito like monster appeared with glasses, a top hat and a blue bowtie with white polka dots. It stood on top of the water on six gloved hands and behind shield like wings there was a hollow space like the inside of a rowboat.


Performapal Skeeter Skimmer
Level 4
ATK 500


Yuya leapt into the boat portion of Skeeter Skimmer. “With that I’ll end my turn.”

“Huh, I guess he couldn’t do all that much right now,” said Sunset.

“More than you think,” said Yuzu. “Skeeter Skimmer is the best monster in his deck to help him look for action cards at a water based field.”

“Action cards?” Applejack asked.

“In an action duel special cards are spread around that often have game changing effects. Yuya is using Skimmer’s high speed over water to find where all the action cards are now so he can quickly get to them later.”

“You mean there’s an athletic component to this?!” said Rainbow Dash. “I wish I’d known that sooner!”

“My turn,” said Adagio as she took another card from her deck. “Draw! So you managed to get a good monster for a water action duel. But no one can beat me when it comes to fighting on the sea! I summon Ocean Terror Siren!”

A mermaid like creature completely covered in silver scales with a large fin on its back appeared.


Ocean Terror Siren
Level 3
ATK 1400


“Figures she’d use a Siren,” said Applejack.

“And the thing is ugly,” said Rarity.

“Not to mention scary strong,” said Fluttershy. “The poor little water bug is going to hurt!”

“Yuya won’t let that happen,” said Tatsuya. “Skeeter Skimmer has an effect that allows him to negate one attack by switching to defense mode. She won’t be touching him this turn.”

Adagio leapt on the Siren’s back holding onto the fin with one hand as it jetted across the water.

“You’re putting on a good show so far,” said Yuya.

“It’s what I do,” said Adagio. “But remember I studied you so I know how to get past your bug’s defenses. I activate Ocean Terror Siren’s monster effect!”

The siren started singing causing Skitter Skimmer to get hearts in its eyes.

“Once per turn I can take control of one of your monsters until the end phase by reducing its attack points to zero.”


Skeeter Skimmer
ATK 0


“Battle Phase! Ocean Terror Siren, direct attack! Dirge of the Depths!”

The controlled Skeeter Skimmer took Yuya right next to the siren. Adagio’s monster opened its mouth revealing a row of needle like teeth as it made a powerful shriek. The force of the sound launched Yuya off of Skeeter Skimmer and into the air.

“AAAHHH!”

Yuya had just enough time to pull his goggles over his eyes before he hit the water.


Yuya LP: 2600
Hand: 4


Adagio got off Siren as she circled back to her wreck. “I play one card face down and end my turn. Now Siren’s effect ends and Skeeter Skimmer returns to your control with its attack points back to normal.”

Skeeter Skimmer pulled up to Yuya as it shook the hearts from its eyes.


Skeeter Skimmer
ATK 500


“She was able to attack Yuya so easily,” said Aya.

“Don’t sweat it Aya!” said Pinkie. “I mean we just got started right?”

Aya seemed to cheer right up. “Yeah!”

Yuya clung to Skeeter Skimmer as it pulled him back to his wreck.

“I hope I don’t beat you too quickly,” said Adagio. “I studied your famous Pendulum Summoning and I’d like to experience it firsthand before crushing you.”

“Don’t worry,” said Yuya as he put his goggles back on his forehead. “The fun has just begun! Draw!”

Yuya took a close look at his hand. "I just drew Odd-Eyes, not bad but I still need one more card before I can Pendulum Summon. Still I can defeat her Siren and prevent her from taking more of my monsters.”

“I summon Performapal Silver Claw!”

Yuya summoned a grey wolf with long claws, a red bowtie with yellow polka dots and an orange star on its left cheek and a purple star on its right.


Performapal Silver Claw
Level 4
ATK 1800


“Oh what a cute puppy!” said Fluttershy. “Hi puppy!”

“And it’s stronger than Siren!” said Futoshi. “Oh, the chills!”

Yuya jumped onto Silver Claw’s back. “Battle phase! Performapal Silver Claw attack Ocean Terror Siren!” Silver Claw started running over the side of the atoll towards Adagio’s monster. “I activate Silver Claw’s monster effect! When Silver Claw declares an attack all Performapals I control gain 300 attack points until the end of the battle phase!” A silvery glow washed over Yuya’s monsters.


Silver Claw
ATK 2100

Skeeter Skimmer
ATK 800


“If this attack hits Yuya will not only be able destroy her Siren but Claw and Skimmer will be able to take a big chunk out of her life points,” said Yuzu.

“Go Yuya!” said Rainbow Dash. “Turn that Siren into sushi!”

“Did you think I’d be that easy?” said Adagio. “I activate the trap Proteus Veil!”

A creature appeared that looked like a humanoid from the waist up made of water.

“What’s with that strange monster?” said Tetsuya.

“Proteus Veil summons a Proteus Token with the same Attack and Defense points as the monster you targeted for an attack and makes it that attack’s new target!”

The water creature took the same shape as Siren.


Proteus Token
ATK 1400


“You’re still going to take damage!” said Yuya.

Silver Claw sliced the watery copy in half before it exploded.


Adagio LP: 3300
Hand: 4


Adagio shielded herself from the blast. “When Proteus Token is destroyed in battle it brings an immediate end to the battle phase returning your monsters’ attack to normal.”


Silver Claw
ATK 1800

Skeeter Skimmer
ATK 500


Silver Claw leapt back to Yuya’s wreck. “I play one card face down and end my turn.”

“You’ve got him on the defensive now Adagio!” said Aria. “Keep it up!”

“Yeah!” said Sonata. “Just a little more and we’re on our way to fame and fortune!”

Adagio then gave a simple cold smile.

“HeheheheheheHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Pinkie pouted. “If they told a joke it wasn’t all that funny,”

But the look on Adagio’s eyes were no joke. “Fame, fortune, stardom? You two still believe that’s why I planned all of this?”

“But Adagio…” Sonata said looking hurt. Aria was gritting her teeth.

“I suppose I should be thanking those girls who stopped us the last time. Because of them I realized what really mattered.”

“Friendship?” said Pinkie Pie.

“Nothing, absolutely nothing matters. And I will show the entire world.”

“We were just stopping you from hurting people,” said Sunset. “What you were doing was wrong!”

“But after that I realized how fleeting and meaningless all of it was and that no matter what anyone does in the end it’s all meaningless.”

“But why duel Yuya?” asked Yuzu. “What does he have to do with this?”

“The pioneer of Pendulum Summoning and the son of great action duelist Yuusho Sakaki? The eyes of the world are on him right now, one of the biggest rising stars out there carrying the hopes of so many. If he loses to some nobody in front of the entire World Wide Web those hopes will be crushed and they will learn the truth as I have!”

“I know a lot about truth!” said Applejack. “That hogwash you said ain’t it! Not even close!”

Adagio just shrugged the comment off. “Looks like I’ll have to prove it all to of you as well. My turn, Draw! I once again activate Ocean Terror Siren’s effect, by reducing Skeeter Skimmer’s attack to zero I can control it until the end of the turn!”

The once again love struck insect went over to the siren’s side.


Skeeter Skimmer
ATK 0


“My monster!” yelled Yuya.

“Don’t worry, you’ll get him back, in your graveyard! I release Performapal Skeeter Skimmer to advance summon Ocean Terror Scylla!”

Skeeter Skimmer vanished and was replaced bronze scale covered hag, where she would have had legs were six tentacles that ended with the heads of snakes.


Ocean Terror Scylla
Level 6
ATK 2400


“The Siren was ugly but that thing is downright hideous!” said Rarity.

“Battle phase! Ocean Terror Scylla attack Performapal Silver Claw! Snake Fang Strike!”

“No! Puppy!” yelled Fluttershy.

Scylla’s snakes dove under the surface of the water and speed along only to emerge right in front of Silver Claw. Yuya lowered his goggles again just before the wolf broke apart as the snakes tore through it. Yuya was sent flying towards the open water and landed with a splash.


Yuya LP: 2000
Hand: 4


Yuya picked up the defeated card. “Since Performapal Silver Claw is a Pendulum Monster instead of the graveyard it is sent face up to my extra deck.”

“Extra Deck, Graveyard, like everything else it doesn’t matter,” said Adagio. “Your monster can no longer protect you. Ocean Terror Siren, direct attack!”

Siren bared its needle like teeth as it jetted toward Yuya while he swam back toward the wreck.

“Yuya, when this attack hits it will not only will it take most of your remaining life points. It will begin to drag you, your friends and everyone watching this duel into a whirlpool of despair!”

To be continued…

Cards made for this story:
Action Field: Shipwreck Reef
Ocean Terror Siren
Ocean Terror Scylla
Proteus Veil

Next chapter: Friendship’s Ambassador! Performapal Trick Pony!

The fun has just begun!