> Tournament of Duelling Fun!
>  by Garfield23
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> Chapter 1- Zeno Bored
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The quiet of Zeno’s Palace was endless as the two Zenos sat on their thrones, they had remained quiet for so long that the silence was suffocating even for their Grand Minister and their Attendants. The first Zeno turned his head to look to the right, the second Zeno looked to the left and then they faced the other. The first Zeno let out a long sigh that hung in the air for the longest moment before the second copied him and they both turned their attention to the Grand Minister. 

“Bored” was all the first Zeno said

“Yes we are bored” the second Zeno said

“Well your graces it has been a while since anything interesting happened. If you would like I could arrange some entertainment?” The Grand Minister suggested “You did seem to rather enjoy the last....” 

“NO!” both Zenos said in unison “We want something new!” 

The Grand Minister shrugged “Well you could always watch one of those Earth movies from Universe 7?” he suggested lamely “I hear this one is supposed to be the Mortal Goku’s favourite….” But the Zenos groaned annoyed again this time looking around the room some more “Okay…maybe a game?” 

“We already played all the games” The second Zeno said 

“Well as I understand it…there is a new game that my Daughter, Kusu has recently taken an interest in from Universe 10” the grand minister said as he made a pile of Duel Monster cards appear in front of the Zenos “They call it Duel Monsters there but most of the twelve universes have it in some regard….and they call them Yu-gi-oh cards in most of them but it seems like a rather interesting game” the Zenos seemed interested as they floated the pile over and started looking through them.  

“Oooooo I like this one” the first Zeno said and the second looked nodding at the card selected “Teach us how to play” however the Zenos were fast learners and within a week the same problem propped up “Bored again! This game is boring!” 

“Yes very boring….” The second zeno said as then both looked like they got an idea “Grand Minister you said something about this game being in all 12 universes?"

The Grand Minister rubbed his chin and nodded "Yes, I do believe it is indeed in all of them, in some of them though the game is a few years old and in others it's not been there very long" he said as he smiled "But why do you ask?" 

The Second Zeno smiled clapping his hands together "Oh goody! We can invite them round and we could play against them! We could learn so much!" 

“Oh yes! Good idea! And we should invite Goku! It’s been so long since we’ve seen him!” the first Zeno said but then got a mischievous idea "We even could create our own cards! Watch!" he raised a hand at the pile of cards and the decks changed to include cards of unrivalled power "YAY! Now how should we play them?" 

The Grand Minister then had a suggestion “How about we have a Tournament? You can watch the best play against each other and maybe even have a prize like a wish from the Super Dragonballs?” 

“Ooooo! That’s even better!” both Zenos said as the two smiled happily “Make it happen! Make it happen!” 

“I shall contact all Twelve gods of Destruction, all 12 kais and convey your orders” The Grand Minister said with a smile as he bowed and left the room “Maybe now the Zeno will be happy. You really can’t top such a grand tournament like the Tournament of power and I think….Universe 7 should have all their fighters participate again. They will be the returning champions but maybe allow them to swap a few players since not all would be willing"


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“Hey! Whis! Where’s my Pizza?!” Beerus snapped feeling annoyed at Whis for taking so long but Whis appeared smiling. The two were back on Beerus’ planet enjoying peace and quiet for the first time in quite a long while but Whis had gone to Earth to get some Pizza for the two “Well it’s about time!? I need my Pizza now or…what is it?! You look far too happy!? What has Goku done now!? Or is it Vegeta this time!?” he pinched the bridge of his nose “If those two have done anything…”

“Nothing, my lord, since that fight with Broly it seems things on Earth has settled down but I’d be surprised if that had kept up. No I got a message from the Grand Minister” Whis said happily as he coughed and looked at the message “Hmm seems Lord Zeno is bored and desires another tournament” 

“OH NO! Not another one!” Beerus yelled in horror as he leapt up and floated toward Whis “It’s all very well for you to look so calm! But if Universe 7 is destroyed, you don’t! It’s so unfair and I haven’t even gotten a decent nap!” 

Whis sighed and shook his head “Well the stakes have been settled, it would seem Zeno agrees it would be a little silly to hold another tournament where those are the stakes…not to worry Lord Beerus the stakes are the following” he read him and then laughed “It would seem for the losers their god of destruction and Kai will be erased….since some of the Gods annoyed Zeno at the Tournament of Power. Would seem this may be how Zeno will be dealing with things going forward....wait…what’s Yugioh cards?” 

“How am I supposed to know?! Aren’t you suppose to know that sort of thing!?” Beerus snapped but frowned “But knowing our luck, I can guess which trouble making planet has it! How long do we have to prepare?” 

“Seems we have a month” Whis said “ahhh but we have to enter with the same team we entered with in the Tournament of Power….since our universe won and unlike the Tournament of Power all 12 universes will be participating” 

“Oh that’s just super!” Beerus croaked sarcastically as he looked down “So to summarise…we have to play in a tournament, with a game you and I don’t know about! With a team that doesn’t get on and we had to trick into it last time! And if we lose I’ll die!? How is that fair!?” 

“Oh I know what it is now. Seems to be a children’s card game….Shouldn’t be too hard for some on our team to grasp the basics of but I suspect Freeza and Goku probably won’t. Freeza for lack of caring and Goku because it isn’t fighting” Whis said as he looked down “Hmm I believe we now have 30 days 23 hours and 23 minutes to get a move on”

“Your enjoying this aren’t you” Beerus said dryly as he grabbed Whis’ arm and the two took off “So we have Twenty Minutes? We have to teach 10 fighters how to play a children’s game and hope they win or I’m dead! Wait since Freeza will be a pest to recruit any chance we’re allowed to sub him out!?” 

“You are assuming of course that Lord Zeno would allow such a thing? And Even if that were true we have to convince 9 other fighters to learn how to play a children’s card game. And some weren’t overly eager to help in the first place” Whis sighed as he went through the list “18 and Krillin shouldn’t be too hard if we can just get our hands on some money to pay them. Roshi, Tien and 17 I’m not sure about probably could get Tien if I promise to give him a little training. Gohan and Piccolo might but I wouldn’t bet on it. Goku, Vegeta and Freeza are the real concerns. Ah! We can replace a member or two but I suspect Lord Zeno would really want those last three” 

“This is all very annoying! That lot are fighters not card players!” Beerus screamed annoyed 

“Well I suspect the Supreme Kai would probably be willing to help since his life is on the line too” Whis said as he then added “And that’s where we’re heading first”


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“You have got to be kidding me!?” Champa screamed in rage as he stamped his feet “Not another one! A Tournament?! I hate this!” he had just been informed about the stakes of the Tournament and was naturally a little unhappy “I swear, I’m going to…wait did you say Universe 7 has to use the team they used in the Tournament of Power?!”

“Yes” Vados said in a calm voice “You seem happy about that”

“Why shouldn’t I be! Beerus is stuck with a bunch of idiots to play the game! I can pick a fresh team and thanks to that Simpleton, I now have my Earth back! Now where to pick from, this is an Earth game right?” Champa asked and Vados nodded “Excellent! Tell me what point on that planet has the highest Power Level?! We can use that as a point to start and if they have any special abilities even better for letting us cheat!” 

“Alright…let me look….Here we are? This place has got a really high level, not especially strong fighting wise but magic practically oozing all over the place” 

Champa looked into the orb eagerly and his face fell, he looked for all the Universe like Frost had just blown it up again and then he screamed “A HIGHSCHOOL!? Are you kidding me!? A school full of teenage brats!” 

“Lord Champa…it is a children’s card game” Vados stated happily “Who’s most likely to play this game?” 

“Children and oh….I see your point” Champa said as he looked back into the orb “I want to know who has the highest levels of Magic! Show him to me…” the image changed, showing a girl with red and yellow hair causing Champa’s smirk to only grow bigger “Or her! That works fine for me! Get me Cabba and the Sayains girls too…we could use their help and Hit! We don’t need to be gentle” 

“My lord is that wise?” Vados asked as she looked unsure “We could just ask nicely” 

“NO! And besides I like the look of that cupcake that pink girl’s got” Champa said as he licked his lips and he suddenly noticed something “Hey wait…are those the cards?! They do play!? Even better! You were right!” 

Vados smiled “Allow me to go and recruit them alone, sire. No need to waste your time” she offered but Champa shook his head “Sir?” 

“I want to meet my new team and I want them to obey me so I’d better come with you” Champa said as he put his hand on Vados’ shoulder “Next stop Earth!” 


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“It’s my turn! I play this Machine King in attack mode!” Scootaloo screamed sitting at the School Cafeteria “Oh yeah! I’m so awesome at this! I bet I can beat anyone! Machine King Attack!” 

Applebloom smiled and shook her head as she flipped her defence monster revealing a Celtic Guardian “Hmm My Obnoxious Celtic Guardian says otherwise!” and Scootaloo scowled “Looks like ya can’t get by my warriors!” 

“Yeah well my machines rock!” Scootaloo snapped 

“My Fairies are pretty awesome” Sweetie Belle chirped up. 

The school had been Yugioh card mad for a few weeks since the game had done a massive event in the school sponsored by Industrial Illusion and it’s CEO, Maximillian Pegasus. The school even had a tournament of its own where the surprise winner had been Sunset Shimmer. So the school was enjoying the fad, most knew it’d be over soon but for now the CMC sat playing a three way match. 

“I don’t like it” Applejack said sitting beside Rarity watching the CMC “This game, it’s just a fad and it’s all Applebloom focuses on right now. Also Big Mac but he’s sensible and doesn’t let it get in the way of other things” 

“Oh calm down” Rarity laughed as she put a comforting arm around Applejack “In a few weeks they’ll forget they ever even played it and then you can relax again. It’s just a harmless fad like you said. They’ll get over it like Sequins” 

“But what if it’s like…” Applejack began but Rarity gave her a look that said she wasn’t eager to discuss it further “Pinkie, Fluttershy, Twilight, Sunset and even Rainbow play it now! I feel like we’re the odd ones out!?” 

“Yes but you can either join a fad or decide to not be a part of it” Rarity said as she pulled out a pencil and a sheet of paper “You have to admit Mr Pegasus does have a rather Unique fashion sense” 

“Yeah” Applejack said as she watched Applebloom laugh and enjoy the game “Those cards aren’t cheap either though” 

“Does she spend her own allowance?” Rarity asked sounding a little more annoyed 

“Yes”

“Then that’s the beginning and end of it!” Rarity snapped and raised a finger “I will not discuss this further! If you are so worried about her schoolwork and other commitments discuss it with your Granny and Cheerilee” 

“I think I will” Applejack said standing up and approaching Granny Smith who looked on with concern “Are ya worried too?” 

“Hmm?” Granny Smith said with a shrug “I think that game seems rather harmless” Applejack stormed off feeling like everyone was just being stupid and not seeing how bad this game was but when she got to Cheerilee’s classroom the result wasn’t nearly as harmless “She’s missed how many!?” 

“Applebloom’s homework has been late twice in the last two months” Cheerilee revealed and looked a bit annoyed “I have wanted to discuss this with your Granny Smith but I wasn’t too worried since the work has been done. Her friends Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo have also been late…Applejack!?” Applejack had turned towards the door and was about to storm out “Wait!” 

“It’s that Duel Monster game!” Applejack said as she opened the door but Cheerilee shook her head “What!?”

“I admit they have seemed a little distracted since…well Mr Pegasus’ visit but…only the second piece of work was late after his visit” Cheerilee admitted as she then added “Your work has been late more often than hers has” 

Applejack looked a bit sheepish but nodded “Yeah but I’ve got my band, my farmwork and…”

“And you think she can’t have a hobby!?” Cheerilee challenged but Applejack shook her head “So what on Earth has gotten into you!?” 

“I just…I want…” Applejack stammered but then stormed out “Am I wrong to hate this game?! NO! NO! This game is so stupid!” she was so busy thinking about the game that she didn’t notice Twilight using her locker and thus when Twilight stepped out the two girls bumped into each other “Oh Twilight I’am so sorry sugarcube” 

“It’s fine, Applejack. What’s wrong you sounded awfully upset” Twilight asked as she picked up her deck from the floor, Applejack looking dismissively at one of the cards and groaning “Oh that!? It’s Dark Magician Girl! She is so amazing! I love how technically challenging the game is and this card is so…”

“I don’t care! It’s just a stupid time wasting card game!” Applejack snapped but then realised what she’d said “Twilight I’m sorry” 

“Yeah…I have to go” Twilight said walking away sadly and Applejack felt even worse but also angrier. That night she tried to call Twilight again to apologise but Twilight answered with “I’m busy” 

“Ya can’t be surprised she doesn’t want ta talk ta ya right now” Big Mac said kindly as they cleaned up after Dinner “Ya did shout at her about something she’s proven to be quite good at…” Applejack glared at Big Mac clearly not in the mood to talk but Big Mac coughed and continued “I know my opinion on this just ain’t worth much since I’m biased” 

“Well so am I….I suppose I can’t get too upset since it’s just a fad I ain’t into and Twilight just pushed ma button at the wrong moment” Applejack admitted as she turned towards her phone hoping Twilight may have texted but all that was there was a message from Sunset “Hmm?” 

Then it happened as Applebloom rounded the corner a box slipped from her grip, it had clearly been something she’d been trying to smuggle out of sight “Applebloom?! What’s that!?” Big Mac asked as he grabbed the box. It was a massive booster box, it still bore the price on it and Big Mac looked at horrified “Where did ya get the money for this!?” 

Applejack looked at the box shocked and her eyes bulged “How munch!? This is more allowance than…Applebloom…” she felt a tear trickle down her face “Where?” 

“I…I…I…” Applebloom began clearly looking for any reason she could give but even if she told the truth they wouldn’t believe her “I got some part time work…”

“Then why sneak this in!?” Big Mac roared “You…Did you steal this!?” 

“NO! I swear!” Applebloom said in a very defensive manner 

“Then where!?” Applejack snapped but was now in no mood to talk further “Give me that box and that thing you call a deck!” 

“NO! Please! Applejack!” Applebloom begged but it was no use, Applejack and Big Mac looked madder than ever and Applebloom reached into her pocket “Please just let me keep, my favourite?” 

Applejack shook her head “NO! Till we get to the bottom of this…We’re taking these cards from you!” Applejack said as she put the cards in her pocket “And you should be glad I don’t know which one is your favourite or I would rip it in half!” 

Applebloom screamed and ran crying “Ya went too far” Big Mac said but Applejack was seeing red in a big way and wanted to make it clear she was cross but this was a mistake she’d live to regret. Because outside the school in a bright flash, Champa and Vados arrived looking around Champa smirked. 

“Gather the students of this school my fighters! Just don’t hurt them” Champa ordered and Kale, Hit, Caulifla and Cabba moved out “And be quick about it!” 

Fluttershy was the first to be targeted, Kale arriving at her home and despite her families best efforts, Kale was focused on pleasing Caulifla but the Universe 6 fighters also targeted anyone who had even been in the school in the last year! So when Hit arrived at the Twilight residence both Cadence and Twilight were on his list “Don’t bother resisting” Hit said as he knocked the front door down “I don’t want to hurt any of you but I have my orders”

“What do you want!?” Nightlight snapped as he tried to protect his family but Hit swept him aside easily “NO!” 

“Stop this!” Twilight screamed “Please stop!” she tried to use her magic but it was useless, Hit’s power was far greater and her magic only held him back for a fraction of a second “NO! He…He’s a monster!” he broke her magic and stepped closer “NO!  NO!” 

Elsewhere Rainbow was trying to outrun, Cabba who was trying to be gentle but Rainbow was avoiding him, she had to make it to the portal and then maybe get to Equestrian Twilight for some help! Cabba had mentioned they wanted Canterlot high’s students “Please stop…I don’t want to hurt you..” Cabba called out but Rainbow kept running “You’ll leave me no choice but to be a little rougher”

“TRY IT!” Rainbow called out “PINKIE! NOW!” suddenly a loud explosion clouded Cabba’s eyesight “Well done! Pinkie!” 

“Well! No matter! Two of you just makes my job easier!” Cabba said confident his higher power would make the difference, he flew straight at Pinkie but smacked into a crystal wall “What the?!” 

“Fighting’s really not my thing I’m more into fashion but I will destroy you if you touch my friends!” Rarity called out from her hiding spot “Sorry, Darling whilst I love your amazing fashion sense….Someone clearly needs a lesson on…OW!” 

“On what?” Caulifla said as she pinned Rarity’s arm behind her back “You were going somewhere with this?! I don’t know why Lord Champa wants this school and I respect you ladies for fighting back but take my word for it…you’re no match for a Sayain!” 

Rainbow snapped “OH YEAH!” she ran up and punched Caulifla in the face “How’d that feel!?” 

“Hmm? Was that supposed to hurt?” Caulifla said with a sneer “You’re not bad to look at are you? But you’re not in my league in terms of power!” 

“Remember don’t hurt her! We may need her!” Cabba said in alarm but Rainbow was gone before they could stop her “NO!”

“You idiots! She’s heading for the portal!” Champa screamed as he wanted the whole school “They’re magic powers is what I want them for and if you let one slip away! What’s the point!?” Rainbow surged into the portal before Champa could stop her and Vados just shrugged “Why didn’t you stop her!?” Vados shrugged and Champa growled “That portal leads to Universe 7!” 

Vados shrugged again “It doesn’t matter m’lord she’ll be bringing back an Equestrian Princess which will be of use to us” Vados said confidently “And may even bring back another one…either way I think we’ll be good” an hour later all the school were gathered and now Vados had what she needed “Now then who should be on our team and who should be our hostages” 

“Hostages!?” Principle Celestia snapped trying to hide her sheer rage “I demand you free us at once!” 

Champa felt annoyed “We know you’re school as a lot of power, maybe not fighter level but we can use your skills for our own end” Champa then pointed at Vados’ staff “Now my angel here will scan each of you to see who here is of the best use to us in the Duel Monster Tournament” 

The school knew it was a long shot but many were hoping that Equestrian Twilight would pop out the portal with reinforcements but it seemed unlikely as Hit and the Sayains stood by the portal, it’d be unlikely Twilight would be able to slip past and by the sounds of it, Vados was counting on it but also even if Twilight did suddenly appear what could she realistically do against such power.
> Chapter 2- Forces Begin to Gather
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“What do you mean!?” Twilight asked in shock as Rainbow sat across from her in her castle, she couldn’t believe what she’d been told by Canterlot High’s Rainbow Dash. However this was an undeniable reality, when the clearly scared, hurt and upset Rainbow had crashed through the portal in front of a startled Spike who had burst into the middle of a Pinkie Pie Party “You mean Canterlot High came under attack but by who?!” 

“I don’t know! Sunset called me screaming for me to run! Then I heard a woman’s voice and Sunset told me that I had to reach you” Rainbow cried as she sat shaking, her left forehoof was broken clearly from when she’d punched the Sayain but then she openly sobbed “Please, Twilight! We need your help!” 

“But what can I do?” Twilight asked as she looked down at the table “I don’t have a lot of power in that world. If they came through the Portal we may stand a chance but this is just not something...” she paused as she looked towards the doors and Spike looked concerned as he brought in a tray with some baked goods “I want to help but if I can’t…wait did you get a look at the leader of this group?” 

“Only for a passing moment” Rainbow sniffed as she tried to look stronger but it was hard for her since for a person so loyal to her friends, she’d showed in her book such cowardice and fled “We have to get back there and help!” 

“And do what?!” Spike said firmly as he looked up at her “You punched one right and look what it did to your hoof…hand. You’re in no shape to go anywhere!”

“You cowards! These are our friends!” Rainbow screamed as she began to shake “You can’t just leave them! Who knows what these creeps will do to our friends! I can’t believe this!” she tried to get out of the chair and onto her hooves but her body wasn’t fully use to her pony body so she ended up falling due to her hurt leg “I can’t….leave them” 

“You won’t have to!” a voice at the door said and there stood Equestrian Rainbow Dash looking cross “Twilight! How could you even think like this!?” the pony walked over to her double and helped the other mare back into the chair “This isn’t cool!” 

“I agree!” Starlight said standing at the same door “Twilight! We…”

“Don’t you think I want to help! There is nothing we can do! We go there and what good is there that any of us can do!?” Twilight asked as she then began to sniff, her mane beginning to look a little more frizzled and her eyes clearly bloodshot “Sunset, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and my other self…but we’re stuck for options” 


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Back at Canterlot High all the students, staff and their families had been gathered. Sunset looked sadly downward as the others looked to her for guidance but she had no ideas. Hit stood in front of the portal, preventing any more students from running through it, Cabba and Kale blocked off the other escape routes. Leaving the gathered people trapped before the God of Destruction and his assistant. Caulifla was walking through the crowd trying to find anyone who didn’t have a deck to play with but the uncomfortable silence was finally broken when Champa started laughing “Oh relax everyone! I maybe the all-powerful God of Destruction but that’s no reason to be worried! I’m simply here because I like Duel Masters!” 

“Uh Lord Champa that’s Duel Monsters” Vados corrected as she looked calmly around the crowd “I have already detected those with decks…I’ll highlight those who don’t. Caulifla sort those who don’t into the school” 

“Right” Caulifla said as lights from Vados’ staff shot out, completely harmless but those who it highlighted walked towards the school till it finally hit Applebloom “Hey! Short stuff move!”

“But I have a deck!” Applebloom begged she couldn’t place why but she didn’t want to go into the school, it felt like a horrible idea and she kept begging “Please! My sister has it! Please don’t!” 

Champa looked at Applebloom annoyed as he hovered over “I don’t care! You don’t have a deck! You are no use to me! I am Champa the God of Destruction!” he smirked clearly thinking Applebloom would respect his title “Now move it, Shrimp!” 

“STOP IT!” Applejack yelled running forward “I have her deck! Please stop!” 

“Back in line!” Caulifla snapped as she dodged Applejack trying to punch her “Not a bad right hook for an Earthling but here’s one of mine!” she used only a drop of her power in the punch that followed but the attack completely winded Applejack and send her flying back into Big Mac “Now…I hope that serves as a lesson” 

Cabba yelled “Was that really needed!? She’s just protecting her sister!” 

“And I respect that but dude we’re here to do a Job!” Caulifla huffed “Besides I didn’t do any harm” 

“Applejack! Applejack!?” Applebloom screamed trying to get past Caulifla but not getting by and the Sayain picked her up by the scruff of the neck “NO! Put me down!” 

“Caulifla?” Kale asked unsure of this and seeing something of a resemblance between the two sisters and their own relationship. She wanted to fly over and stop them but she focused on her job “Please be kinder” Caulifla nodded and put Applebloom in the school gently. 

Big Mac held Applejack back but then the light passed over Rarity “NO! You can’t!” Sunset screamed, the girls formed a circle around Rarity trying their best to keep the stronger opponents out “You’re not getting any more of our friends!” Sunset said but they were aware as the light continued to shine onto other people that they were up against a wall on this one. 


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“Man this is one boring world. Could do with some more exciting things...just in general” Belmod said as he looked down at the city far below him but shrugged “OH looks like we’ve been noticed” 

“Oh yes, My lord” Marcarita said as she looked down at the fighters flying up to them “I believe that one is called Hawks. Here the earthlings have developed things called Quirks which are naturally occurring Super Powers” she offered as Hawks closed the gap “But please someone deal with him” 

Dyspo flew forward and said “I’m just going to assume we’re to avoid killing them. Man my job recently has gotten so damned Boring!” he grabbed Hawk’s wings and dragged him back “Man! Your wings are freaky! I bet I can pull them off” 

“What?!” Hawks said in alarm but in a moment he was slammed into the ground “Damn!” he passed out from the impact. 

“Well done, Dyspo!” Top said as he landed and looked around “Hmm I get the feeling we’re not going to get a warm welcome here since we just floored one of their heroes” he sighed “Such a shame. Hawks I believe was his name…seems like a truly noble spirit!” 

“You’ll pay for that! We won’t allow you to harm these people!” said a man dressed in yellow “I am Fatgum and I’ll do what I can to stop you!” 

“Dude! You are either very brave or very foolish” Dyspo said as he looked smugly at Fatgum 

“Allow me” Top said as he stepped towards Fatgum “I respect your noble desire to protect these people but we are here to fulfil our duty! Now please step aside!” suddenly a torrent of water struck Top in the face and he looked mildly annoyed “Who dares!?” 

“The Name’s Backdraft!” a man called out from the crowd his water cannons trained on Top “Allow us to make this clear! We will stop you!” 

“Backdraft! Behind you!” Fatgum yelled a warning but it came too late as the well build, Kettle landed behind Backdraft and a swift punch knocked out the fire rescue hero “This isn’t good! I have to hope my Quirk will hold” 

“Fat chance, Fat boy!” Dyspo said running forward and punching Fatgum in the stomach “HEY! Why didn’t you fall over?!” 

“My quirk” Fatgum grunted but he was in a lot of pain from the blow “I won’t fall to the likes of you!” he punched Dyspo in the face and the force was strong enough to force Dyspo back “You…won’t beat me…” 

“Your spirit is to be commented” Top said sadly and then added “You would make a worthy Pride Trooper! But I must do my duty” he surged forward and before Fatgum could respond he was punched in the face, the poor tired pro hero was send flying and landed in the ocean “Today is not going to be an easy day” 

Elsewhere in the UA Highschool dorms “NO! FATGUM!” Kirishima yelled horrified as the TV showed the battle as it was happening “Please no!” Kirishima began to shake as the class of 1A watched on in horror as the alien invaders began to walk through the Pro Heroes, any who tried were swiftly beaten and Kirishima shook “He’s gotta be okay!” 

Midoriya Izuku remained silent as different students had different reactions to the oncoming threat, some like Momo and Todoroki shared in Midoriya’s stunned silence. Some including Uraraka tried to cheer the class up with optimism but class members like Bakugo were responding to this with rage and Panic. Perhaps the only reaction that was held by one class member alone was Tenya Ida trying to restore calm. However no matter the reaction, the school was already trying to take steps to prepare since the Aliens…were clearly heading their way. 

Outside Cementoss and Power Loader were trying to use their quirks to sure up the walls and even try to make more defences but a lot of teachers were readying for battle. If they couldn’t protect the students, it’d be one more failure UA could ill afford and even All Might was preparing “You do know your ability to fight is significantly unlikely to last long” Eraserhead told him but All Might shook his head “You have to know our chances are less than zero” 

“We have to protect the students…it’s that simple” All Might said and he turned frowning “I refuse to just roll over and let them walk all over us! I believe in the students and that’ll give me the strength I need…to do more than just transform…I have got to do this!” 

“For Izuku?” Eraserhead dryly added 

“No…I have to do this for everyone in Class 1A…Class 1B. Every class in this school! And for all my friends” All might said firmly “You and I may not always see eye to eye but can’t you appreciate that is my job!” 

“Yeah I know I was just messing with you” Eraserhead said smiling “That was just a tactical deception” 

All Might laughed “You know sometimes I think you should be a comedian…you may have proven to be good at it” the two shared a laugh till Snipe screamed a warning “Looks like it’s time” 

Belmond and Marcarita hovered over the wall of the school as the Pride Troopers took care of the pro heroes who tried to stop them. Belmond looked around “My you know this school is impressive. To be fair the whole planet is a credit to our Universe. Their spirit is quite strong” 

“Yes I quite agree” Marcarita said as she looked around at the gathered teachers and she addressed the heroes “Rest assured teachers of UA Highschool we mean you and your students no harm” however the staff didn’t relax, all gathered look ready for a fight but then the Principle stepped forward “AH! Principle Nezu I assume?” 

“Yes. You’ll understand our position when we say we don’t believe you” Nezu said as he looked as calm as always but his eyes showed the anger as fierce as a wild fire, he was clearly in a bad mood and then said “Take one more step and we’ll do what we have to” 

Belmond shrugged “It’s a shame….your world has no reason to fear me if it just does as I ask” he said as he stepped forward “I am the God of Destruction and I am simply here to gather those who can help me with a simple task” 


****


“So you want to look through the time line?” Gowasu asked as he took a slow sip of tea “For what purpose?” 

Rumsshi smiled and said “Simple our universe holds the origins of this” he held up a single card, he paused and turned to Kusu “I am informed there have been several powerful duellists through the history of our Earth. Need I remind you what happens if we don’t assemble the strongest possible team?” Gowasu remained silent and Rumsshi snarled “Come on! Do you really want to disappear again!?” 

“Don’t misunderstand I am not interested in disappearing again but this breaks all kind of rules” Gowasu said as he then added “Besides do you even have a list of duelists you want? Because I’m not going back in time to randomly look for 10 players!” 

Kusu jumped forward eagerly “I have the list here!” she pushed it under Gowasu’s nose who looked through the list “See great isn’t it!?” 

“Six of these duellists have dates next to them?” Gowasu asked 

“That’s when they were at their best!” Kusu reassured as she then added “I’ve watched their duels from afar! My favourite is this one!” she made her orb shine bright and an image appeared above them with sound “Watch this!” the image showed the duel between Yugi and Joey at the end where the Black Skull Dragon was revived to finish Joey off “See such a good move!” 

“I found it confusing” Gowasu said slowly

“This is what I have to put up with when she decides to peer in on the mortals duelling” Rumsshi said sadly and shrugged “But she’s the best one qualified to pick our team. So please, Kusu, just tell us who you want” 

“OH okay! Well those two of course! Yugi Moto and Joey Wheeler but also Seto Kaiba!” Kusu said as she made the image showing a different duel “These three as well! Jaden Yuki, Chazz Princeton and Alexis Rhodes!” she then made the image change again this time showing a Turbo duel “I also want Yuesi Fudo, Jack Atlas and Akiza Izayoi!” 

“But that leaves us one spare spot” Rumsshi said annoyed “Surely you have a final member” 

“Well I was hoping I could be the tenth?” Kusu offered but Rumsshi and Gowasu shook their head “Oh please! I have worked so hard with my deck! Mine is so good!” 

“I don’t doubt it” Gowasu said as he took another sip of tea “But it’s not something I think any other Universe would accept” he shook his head “And besides maybe if you’re lucky we can convince our ten to practise against you” 

“But…but…I want to!” Kusu said sadly “Please Rumsshi!” 

“This is just the way things have to be” Rumsshi said as he looked angrier now “Now please select your final duelist or I’ll choose whoever I think looks best!” 


***


Heles sat in her palace as she stirred a drink casually with a finger, Sour looking on with some concern as she hadn’t moved since the announcement had gotten to them and seemed unlikely to move but finally he broke the silence “You seem unhappy” 

“I am…we are to participate in another tournament how am I supposed to feel about such sad news” Heles said as she looked at a picture on the wall “And this time all around a single planet? Earth…and in a game I know next to nothing about!?” 

“It is perplexing but perhaps you should contact that Planet’s defenders to see if they have any idea how they can help us?” Sour asked and then added “I did ask Pell if he would be kind enough to join us but he said he would go and ask that Planet’s defenders” 

“But aren’t those planet’s defenders….OH NO!” Heles gasped in horror “Why did you let him go alone!?” 

“I fail to understand the problem?” Sour asked sounding bored about it. 

“You don’t understand that planet’s defenders are the Sailor Scouts!” Heles said sounding scared “If he disappears…I go too!?” 

“The Sailor Scouts hardly seem strong enough to kill, Pell” Sour offered but Heles shook her head “Then how will they succeed at such a thing?” 

“By looking at them! The Sailor Scouts are very beautiful...they're literally called the Pretty Guardians!” Heles said as she grabbed his shoulder “Get us there now! If we don’t hurry then I dread to think what will happen if we don’t get there!” 

Heles was right to be worried Pell had a weakness for beautiful girls but unlike many of the other universes he’d simply landed at Rei’s temple and was now enjoying a mug of tea with Rei whilst calmly explaining the situation “So that’s the situation. I hope you appreciate why we didn’t ask you and the scouts to help us with the Tournament of power?” 

Rei sipped her own tea and nodded “Yes well it does sound like we wouldn’t have been much help in a martial arts tournament” she said as she then added “But I hate to say only a couple of the girls play that game. Usagi and Ami I think” 

“But not yourself?” Pell asked as he took a biscuit “I would assume a girl of such intelligence as you would be a natural?” 

“I can’t say I’ve ever had a desire to do so” Rei said trying not to look guilty “I will admit the game has only been around for a couple years and I don’t really have time to play it but Usagi always goes for that sort of thing. And Ami just seemed to start playing because Usagi was” 

“Considering the other teams are unlikely to play fair. We’d be better off choosing members of the scouts” Pell said with a cheeky smile “And we do have a month to prepare” 

“Oh you’re doing better than I thought you would be, Pell” Heles said standing at the door and Rei looked at the Goddess with uncertainty “But that is good reasoning there, Pell” and she sat down next to Rei “hmm and I must admit your beauty is something to behold my dear” Pell now clearly blushed and Heles sighed “I hope if the other teams have beautiful women you’re able to control yourself” 

“Don’t I always!?” Pell asked as he then added “Besides so long as we have love…”

“Sometimes that line doesn’t fly with me!” Heles said bluntly and Pele laughed nervously “But I have heard a lot of good things about the Sailor Scouts of Earth. It really does impress me so how well your leader has done” 

“Vicious rumours” Rei murmured but then smiled “We would be happy to help!” 


***


As the gods prepared Twilight looked through a set of notes on every possible reference to Sayains, Purple cats and anything she could use to learn more about the threat Canterlot high faced but the only information she had found was a vague reference to Beerus but it was a dead end of a lead. As she did her desperation didn’t go unnoticed by one who would be able to help. King Kai looked on as he had sensed Twilight mumble Beerus’ name and now knew the situation “Such a pity” King Kai said as he desired to help and looked to Earth where he contacted Goku “Goku?”

Goku was with the Earth Members of Universe 7’s team when he heard King Kai’s voice, when Beerus showed up he demanded all members of the Earth Team gather. Whis had already contacted Zeno requesting Freeza be removed from their team list and thankfully the Zenos had agreed but with an understanding the replacement would be impressive “King Kai?!” Goku asked as he heard King Kai’s voice “What’s Wrong?” 

“Oh I’m fine Goku still dead but you know otherwise great!” King Kai said sarcastically but then his tone became more serious “I’ve been watching a planet far off in another part of the Universe but still in my sector. It seems their newest Princess, has gotten a visitor from Universe 6” 

“Is it Hit!?” Goku asked eagerly but King Kai coughed “Oh right….who is it?!” 

“It’s a school girl from Universe 6’s Earth” King Kai revealed now letting everyone gathered around Goku to hear “She seems awfully upset” 

“So why should we care!?” Beerus snapped he then had a question “So why ask Goku about this?!” 

“The School girl is talking about a purple cat attacking her school…I think that means it’s likely the Universe 6’s god of destruction” King Kai revealed 

Whis suddenly smiled “And if we can get the girl…we could have information of Team’s 6 decks!” he said happily and he rubbed his hands together “Isn’t that right King Kai…you clever scoundrel!?” 

“No wait! I just wanted to help them!” King Kai said but then he rubbed his chin “But it may give us our new tenth member and she could teach you muscle bound fools how to play this card game since I can sense her deck is with her” 

“What’s the School girl’s name?” Tien asked as he looked concerned “She maybe very well be willing to help us if it means she can get her friends back” 

Beerus smirked “I can’t wait to see the look on Champa’s face when we drop that on him!? Goku! Go get the girl!” 

“Fair warning, she has turned into a pony due to the nature of the portal but it should be okay. Oh and there are two of them” King Kai revealed and Goku nodded raising two fingers to his forehead “Goku it’s going to be hard for you to sense the Planet but focus on the high level of magic!” 

Goku struggled but finally got a lock on Equestria and onto Twilight who finally sobbed out “Please someone help us!” Goku then appeared before her a moment later “What the!? Who are you!?” 

“My name is Goku” Goku said happily and then added “You did ask for help?”
> Chapter 3- Recruitment Troubles
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Twilight observed the orange clad man with great curiosity since she had assumed humans couldn’t come to Equestria given her experience at Canterlot High but here he was. However he seemed different from other humans for one she could sense a high concentration of power and for another his weird hair was a definite give away but she knew two Pinkie Pies so maybe she wasn't in a position to judge that. Also she could tell Goku was a kind man, his generously big smile showed to her he wanted to help and she gasped as he knelt down “Well you asked for help didn’t you?” Goku asked as Twilight nodded “King Kai let me know” 

“But where’d you come from!?” Twilight asked confused at Goku’s presence but now not unhappy to see him since any help was welcome “Also I must admit the presence of a human is weird to me”

“Well that would be weird except I’m not a human” Goku said happily he then clarified “I’m from a planet where humans live but I’m actually a Sayain” 

“Wait a Sayain!? Rainbow mentioned the woman she punched called herself a Sayain?!” Twilight gasped as she looked at Goku with surprise and then anger “But why would your people attack Canterlot high!?” her horn powered up ready to attack but Goku shook his head “WHAT?!” 

“Well it’s complicated but this Canterlot high isn’t in our universe…You see we’re in Universe 7 and Canterlot High is in Universe 6” Goku explained and then laughed nervously “I don’t understand it all myself” Twilight didn’t look impressed but sighed “Something wrong?”

“Oh no everything is just fine! I mean my friends are in trouble, I have an alien in my reading room and there’s nothing I can do about either of them!” Twilight yelled as she rubbed her temple with her right hoof “So this Universe 6 has Sayains too? And how do you know that?!”

Goku couldn’t help but look stunned at Twilight, he didn’t expect the reaction he was getting and had to think “Well you see the thing about that is…there’s this purple cat…”

“Wait what!? So you know him!?” Twilight interrupted if possible looking even angrier 

“Uhhh there’s actually two of them. Universe 6 has Lord Champa and Universe 7 has Lord Beerus” Goku said and Twilight’s expression seemed to get even more dangerous “And they’re the gods of destruction…”

“GOKU!” King Kai snapped, he should have known Goku could possibly make things worse and talk about picking the worst possible point to go for. If this didn’t’ make Twilight panic well, it’d be a credit to Twilight and King Kai quickly spoke to Twilight “Twilight! Sorry my name is King Kai! Nice to speak with you, been watching your…uh anyway. Sorry about Goku I should have known he’d make a mess of it but we do want to help” King Kai explained everything he knew about the Tournament and even filled Twilight in on some background info “So that’s the situation”

Twilight’s expression rivalled her expression when she was trying to get a friendship lesson into Celestia and Goku looked away uncomfortably “Okay” she breathed out slowly “I think I have an idea…If this game is the source of the problem….and they’re after duellists?” Goku nodded “And you can rival them in power?” Goku nodded again “I think I may have a plan. Can I count on your help, Goku?” 

“What are you thinking?” Goku asked a smile beginning to grow on his face and Twilight muzzle also bore a grin by this point. She hovered up and whispered into Goku’s ear “Oooo…oooo I like….So I get to?! That’s perfect!” 

King Kai having heard the plan nodded “Hmm you’ll only have time for a couple of seconds and any mistake will cost you” 

Twilight nodded “But that maybe all we need and it may very well not work. However we have to try!” Twilight said stomping her hoof onto the ground and Goku nodded “Let’s do this” the two moved towards the mirror which she powered back up “Okay? You ready?” Spike ran in “Spike?!”

“Let me help!” Spike asked and Twilight nodded 

It was then that all three leapt through the portal, Hit on the other side taken by surprise as Goku flew out “Hi Hit!” and punched him in the back of the head.

“Twilight!” Sunset screamed in surprise but Spike bit her trouser let pulling her towards the portal to which Sunset nodded and ran for the portal “Come on girls!” 

“GOKU!” Champa yelled in shock and surprise “GET HIM!” 

“Sorry Champa, love to stay but this is a rescue mission” Goku said as he ducked as Caulifla lunged at him “Nice seeing you again”

“Stop them!” Champa yelled desperate as Twilight pushed Sunset through the portal Goku quickly following “Noooo!” however the plan didn’t work fully the other Equestria girls tried but Kale and Cabba stopped them. Worst of all Spike running back to the portal tripped missing the portal by inches and left helpless as Hit reappeared “Grab that dog!” 

On the other side of the portal wrongly assuming Spike had made it in before her Twilight turned off the mirror by blasting the generator with magic “Where’s Spike!?” Twilight asked only to realise in a horrifying moment of clarity. 

“He was right behind me!” Goku offered lamely, the truth of what had happened dawning on him and he looked guiltily downward “I should have made sure he got through before me! I’m so sorry!” 

“It’s not your fault” Twilight whimpered and began to cry “It was my fault! He’s my number one assistant! He’s my brother and more….I should have stayed to make sure he got through safely” Sunset wrapped a hoof around Twilight, in a cruel twist they had traded Spike for Sunset and Twilight was left saying one thing “I…I…have to get him back!” 

Sunset nodded “I know and thank you, Twilight. We’ll get our friends back” she said as she turned to Goku “I think I caught your name, Goku was it?” Goku smiled and nodded “Thank you” 


******


Champa was pissed off by the loss of Sunset Shimmer and worse not gaining the princess like Vados had said they could but worst of all he got a dog in return “Give me one reason why I shouldn’t destroy you!” Champa hissed as he placed his foot on Spike’s head “You are worthless to me! You can’t duel and you can’t teach! But I know this…how did Goku find out about my plan?!” Spike simply growled but as Champa applied a little more pressure with his foot Spike screamed “That hurt doggy!?” 

“STOP IT!” Fluttershy screamed running forward, grabbing Champa’s foot and trying to get it off Spike’s head but Champa being far too strong “Stop it, please!” Kale stepped forward and pulled Fluttershy back “NO! Stop let me go!” 

Cabba did say “Lord Champa please stop it! It’s a dog, a little harmless creature and since when can a dog talk!?” he laughed nervously but Spike grunted a response “What?!” 

“I said kiss my flank!” Spike growled and Vados ended up laughing as she walked over lifting Champa off the dog “I’m not telling you anything!”

Vados picked him up and said “Well aren’t you a brave dog?” she scratched him just behind his ear and despite Spike’s best effort he couldn’t help but let out an enjoyable sigh “Now please tell us?” Spike shook his head “Oh well…your still cute and brave. I think someone has earned himself a bit of a treat” Champa looked at her annoyed but Vados shook her head “Sorry Lord Champa but you can huff and puff all you like”

Champa snarled “Regardless you better have my ten duelists!?” 

“I do my lord” Vados said and then added “But I want Caulifla to learn to play…I think she could be a good counter for Goku and correct me if I’m wrong but Caulifla would like a rematch?” Caulifla nodded looking angry “Also I need a replacement for Sunset Shimmer” she turned to the gathered students, staff and families “If you don’t hear your name please move into the school and those that do will get a duel disc” the remaining people all had decks with the exception of Rarity “Ahem Fluttershy…” a beam shot out from Vados staff onto Fluttershy’s wrist and a duel disc appeared shaped like the Number 6 but as a nice touch was a light green with Fluttershy’s Butterflies on top “Do you like?” 

Fluttershy looked down and nodded saying “Thank you” 

“Big Macintosh” Vados said the same thing happened except the disc was a light blue “Maud Pie…” a dark grey Duel disc appeared “Shining Armour…” a yellow duel disc appeared, Shining had been dragged along with his family and had a deck of his own “Twilight Sparkle…” a light purple duel disc “Applejack…” Applejack looked sadly away as a light red duel disc appeared “Scootaloo…” another light purple duel disc “Sweetie Belle…” a light green duel disc “And finally Pinkie Pie” Pinkie had to be the only member of the team who looked excited as a light pink duel disc appeared on her wrist “The rest of you into the school please?” 

“Wait! Can’t we say goodbye?!” Applejack pleaded Champa looked annoyed but the Sayains didn’t move, not even Hit moved Granny Smith and Applebloom ran out the school hugging their family “Applebloom? Please tell me where you got that box? I don't want you know to have that whole experience be the...last” Applebloom looked nervously at Granny Smith and shook her head “Okay…I love ya and please be safe”

“Just use the box! If ya are going to be in a Duel Monsters Tournament ya may need it!” Applebloom said sadly, the other members were saying goodbye to Rarity and their families “We love ya too” 

“Time’s up!” Champa snapped “Get into the school!” 

Suddenly Pinkie Pie had an idea “Wait! We need to look super cool for a tournament right!?” Champa shrugged “Well we’ll need Rarity to uhhh design costumes!” Rarity smiled, maybe with some luck they could turn the tide but Rarity nodded deciding to play along “Tell him Rarity!?” 

“Oh well I think I could design some really nice outfits for your duellists, Lord Champa was it?” Rarity asked and Champa glared at her looking dangerously at her but Rarity held her nerve “I mean such a fashionable God must surely know the value of dressing properly?” Champa smiled and laughed as he took a liking to Rarity. 

“Alright! Alright! You stay” Champa said and then watched as Applebloom walked back in “Alright Vados do your thing” Before the gathered mortals, Vados raised her staff and in a moment the school shrunk down to a thing about the size of a soda can “Well done….now you lot remember this! If you don’t win the Tournament, you won’t get this back!” he held up the school and gave it a small shake “You get whatever wish you want from the super dragonballs but I demand Victory!” 

There wasn’t a reply instead just a dejected nod from all gathered. Vados coughed “Now you may go home but be gather at Miss Sparkle’s home for training bright and early tomorrow” she said happily and turned to Twilight “Oh one more thing…you and your brother will be hosting us. Clear?” 

“Crystal” Twilight said 


*****


Kusu smiled as she looked at the three duelists she was facing in a duel, Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler and Seto Kaiba for her it was like a dream. They were on the boat that was travelling it’s way to the temple where the final duel would take place, Kusu and Murichim having shown up with Kusu challenging the three “Oh I can’t believe it! Three of the best monsters ever!”

“I only count two” Kaiba said dryly as he looked over at Joey’s Red eyes black dragon with a dismissive smirk “Wheeler’s doesn’t count for much”  


“Oh yeah, Rich boy” Joey snapped as he looked up at Kaiba’s Blue eyes “Yours sounds like it belongs back in the…” he quickly rethought his choice of words “Uh never mind” 


Yugi’s Dark magician was also in play and the current scores read, Yugi 4000, Joey 3000, Kaiba 4000 and Kusu 100 so Yugi simply said “Look Kaiba, Joey…let’s focus on this game! I don’t like how easy it has been. Remember if we lose we have to obey any request she has!” 


“Yay! And you’re about to lose!” Kusu said observing carefully the face down cards the three had, each had one whilst Kusu had 3 herself but if her plan worked she’d win easily “My cards are unstoppable! Just have to wait for my best monster!” Kusu smiled as she drew one card but looked sadly at the card sighing sadly “Oh well”

“What’s the matter didn’t get the card you need?” Kaiba asked clearly unimpressed “Your duelling has been even more pathetic than Wheeler’s is” 

“Oh shut up, Kaiba” Joey snapped as he then added “Besides she did challenge all three of us….”

“And I’m about to win” Kusu said as she revealed a level one monster in her hand “Behold my monster, the absorbing monster, Began slime!” a single pink blob appeared on the field with zero points and nothing else really impressive about it “Began slime is my ultimate monster!” 

“No disrespect but if it’s a monster that can absorb other monsters on the field….I’ve seen something like that before” Yugi said remembering his duel against Pegasus “and it’s not impressive” 

“Oh no Began Slime has a very special ability! It can absorb all monsters of a certain type from any one person’s deck!” Kusu revealed and held up a single coin “It is all based on a coin flip…normally it works on who gets to decide but because there are three of you! I will let Yugi pick if he calls it right. I’m not stupid enough to ask Joey to do it” 

“alright” Yugi said sighing “I will go for Heads!” 

Kusu tossed the coin but she used a little of her power to encourage to land Tails “Tails!” Yugi, Joey and Kaiba gulped “Oh and yes it will also take from your fusion decks! So I pick dragons and I choose Kaiba’s deck!” 

Kaiba snarled as he looked out all his dragons and the total amounted to 9 dragons including two of his blue eyes and his ultimate dragon “So what, your monster’s attack points are combined from the dragons your slime absorbed?!” Kaiba asked slowly. 

“Not quite. It gains 500 points for each card it absorbs! So 9 dragons times by 500 is…4500!” Kusu said eagerly “Ooo I can’t wait to win!” 

Yugi sniffed “Well go ahead but fair warning our face downs will stop it” he said sadly, it was a shame such a powerful monster seemed to be wasted since Joey’s face down was kunai with Chain, Kaiba’s he knew to be Attack Guidance Armour and his own was the powerful trap Devine wind which if she did what he thought she would, then he’d simply counter it but then Kusu began laughing “What’s so funny?” 

“Nothing…it’s just I’ve seen so many of your duels from afar, they were very entertaining but a bit primitive” Kusu said as she reached a hand into the air “Compared to the future duels of Yuesi and Jaden they’re a bit pedestrian” 

“Say what!?” Joey snapped 

“oh nothing but I know your moves so well…Yugi that Devine wind won’t do you any good” she pushed a button on her duel disc “Not when I activate the trap, Dust Tornado” a hurricane swept onto the field and took out Yugi face down “Now for my real plan, thanks Kaiba…this is my favourite move and I learned it from you! I activate the trap Ring of Destruction” 

“But that’ll take you out as well?!” Kaiba said in surprise “Unless….”

“Unless I have a spell to counter it? I do….it’s called Damage Vaccine Omega Max” Kusu revealed “So whilst you all take 4500 life point damage from the Ring of Destruction on my slime…I’ll be gaining those points!” 

“Oh no!” Yugi yelled in alarm but too late as the Ring of Destruction exploded and all three duelists life points dropped to zero whereas Kusu’s life points jumped to 4600 “We lost…all three of us” 

“Yay! I won! I won!” Kusu yelled happily “And that means you three now work for me” she raised her staff and the three were trapped in little spheres of light “Yay!” Murichim approached and smiled as he looked at the little orbs containing the trapped duelists “I can’t believe I won! Open the bag!” Murichim obliged and Kusu popped the three orbs in “I can’t wait to get the others!” 


****


Mule in his metal suit, Camparri  and Eyre touched down on Universe 3’s Earth looking around at the welcoming committee that had gathered Eyre sighed and pushed his glasses further up his nose “I was hoping we could avoid a fight but I guess that was too much to hope for, from such a primitive planet but I guess we’d better teach you all a lesson. Catopesra please deal with these annoyances. Try to avoid killing them” 

“Yes of course!” Catopesra yelled eagerly running forward “I’d suggest you surrender! You all are no match for my suit!” he flexed his muscles a little but none of the opposing warriors dropped their guard stances instead they seemed to be readying themselves to charge but then Catopesra flexed his left arm “Come on surely none of you wish to fight against the will of the god of destruction?!"

A single old man stepped forward, Catopesra looked at the old man with confusion but smiled when he coughed politely “Please forgive us but could we ask why you are here? We are sorry if we did anything to offend you?” 

“You can drop the act” Eyre called out and added “We are not so easily fooled by your primitive….fighting skills or primitive technology. We simply need your people to play a little card game. I believe in this dimension you call it Yugioh cards?” the gathered warriors looked at the small blue man with confusion “Does anyone gathered here play the game, yes or no?!” 

In the midst of the crowd of gathered warriors a single woman stepped forward “Step aside, master” she said and turned to face the aliens “A few of us do but Fairy Tail doesn’t take being bullied lightly. Forgive me but I can’t just ignore the insult!” 

“And who might you be?” Catopesra asked  as he looked the woman in the face through his helmet “Your courage is impressive!” 

“My name is Erza Scarlet” said the woman


*****


Back in Twilight’s castle, Twilight sat sniffing as she looked at a photo of Spike, she had been sitting alone for about half an hour on her bed, whilst the others discussed the battle ahead and felt her spirit beginning to fail. Not only had she lost Spike but now all her hard work could mean very little “Twilight?” Goku asked as he walked into her room “We’re about to leave. I promise we’ll get Spike back. Champa isn’t a complete jerk…”

“I want to go with you” Twilight said and added as she looked at the photo “Even if I can’t do much I need to at least try!”

“Here’s the thing Twilight I can only realistically take back two with me to Earth and you don’t know how…” Goku began but catching the look from Twilight, he sighed and rethought his choice of word “Then again I don’t know how to play the game either and I could come back for you?”

“There’s no need Goku!” said a happy sounding voice from behind him, Goku turned and found himself face to face with Whis “I decided it’d be easier if I came and got you but if your new friend wants to help…I don’t see why not. It’d be good for Beerus to meet the future ruler of this place anyway” 

Twilight looked at Whis with utter confusion “Um yay?” She offered numbly as she then added “But I better tell my friends first. Would that be okay?”
> Chapter 4- Team Spirit?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Oooo so how many are entering?” The first zeno asked as he looked at his god pad “uh 1…2…A lot?”

“Yes a lot” the second zeno said eagerly as the names of those entering filled out the spaces, soon images appeared alongside those names and the Zenos smiled as the Grand Minister approached the two and bowed to them “So many names…”

“Yes my lords. I have to report Universe 7 has just send in their names. I’ll read them out now. Goku, Vegeta, Android 18, Krillin, Tien, Gohan…Hmm and three names I don’t know hmm better check with Whis who these new names are” the Grand minister contacted Whis a moment later “Whis? What is the meaning of this list? I said you could replace one or two not three” 

“Sorry, sir but Piccolo, Freeza and Android 17 weren’t willing to participate” Whis offered sadly knowing that wouldn’t fly with the Grand Minister “It took a lot of convincing to get Vegeta to agree at all. It would seem he doesn’t think the card game is worth learning but if it means taking on Goku he is willing” 

“Hmm I can overlook Freeza and Piccolo but Android 17 won the last Tournament so you’ll need him” the Grand Minister said firmly before looking through the names “Wait Twilight Sparkle? Not your Universe’s pony princess?” 

“The very same” Whis said eagerly turning towards Capsule corp’s garden “Right now the other two new names on the list are teaching the others how to play with some…interesting results”

“Oh so it’s going well?” The Grand Minister asked happily 

“Uhhhh not really” Whis said rubbing a nervous bead of sweat from his forehead. 

The Universe 7 team had been given Duel discs by Whis and Twilight had used a transformation spell on herself and the other two to change them into their Equestria girl forms but some members of the Z fighters were slow learners “No Goku you can’t play that!” Sunset Snapped as they had another practise duel 

“Oh come on! It’s so strong looking!” Goku whined as he sighed “What about this?” 

Rainbow Dash was having just as much trouble practising with Vegeta “Stupid card game! And you’re a useless teacher!” Vegeta snapped as he looked annoyed at the deck “If I want to play this card what is stopping me!?” he played a card who’s terms of play weren’t met and smirked smugly only for a moment later “AHHHHHH!” the duel disc shocked him painfully “What was that!?” 

“Whis made sure to include a function to shock you muscle heads if you tried anything like that. We need you to learn to play and soooo the rules must be observed” Beerus said as he yawned and stretched “On the plus side this is very entertaining” Vegeta’s eyes bulged dangerously but sighed and drew one card since he’d forgotten to draw. 

Meanwhile Tien was practising with Twilight whilst Tien had learned the basics he was struggling with certain aspects “hmm so if I sacrifice my Monk Fighter and my Karate Man in order to summon Gaia the Fierce Knight…is that right?” Twilight nodded since she’d grasped the rules fairly quickly “Okay! Here he comes, Gaia the Fierce knight! Attack!” 

“Tien no!” Krillin shouted a warning but it was too late as Twilight flipped a trap revealing Shadow Spell which trapped Gaia and allowed her monster to counter attack “Oh man! Tien” 

“You’re getting better” Twilight offered kindly as Tien smiled at her shrugging “We’re both still learning and besides we’re both a lot better since we got here” in truth it had been a week since Whis had returned with Twilight, Sunset, Rainbow and Goku from Equestria. At first the learning had been slow especially with Vegeta and Goku not understanding some concepts but now practise duelling was being done. Krillin and Android 18 grasped the game quickly since Maron took an interest in learning too. The others weren’t grasping the game so easily. 

“I play Red Archery Girl” Master Roshi said eagerly as he eyed up the female monster as it appeared, unlike normal duel discs these monsters were real enough and Master Roshi was admiring his monster’s bodies “hehehe come here you beautiful young thing!” 

“Master Roshi!” Gohan snapped firmly “You are not supposed to do that!” this was probably the biggest problem, Master Roshi when left to pick his own cards…had chosen an all-female deck and clearly not for pure motives “At least these decks are only temporary” 

The Grand Minister watched on with Whis “You do seem like you are having troubles” 

“That’s an understatement” Whis said dryly “I’ll try to get Android 17 into the team. He’ll probably grasp the game better than the others” 


*******


Universe 7 was far from the only Universe having issues, Universe 8’s god of destruction, Liquiir was having as much trouble finding duellists on his Earth since apparently he was looking at a world full of mostly ocean, with some of the weirdest weather conditions, they weren’t extreme but they were varied and unpredictable, Korn and Iru were looking elsewhere to increase their chances but as Liquiir flew over an island, he ended up flying into an area filled with a variety of hurricanes. Normally they shouldn’t have been enough to throw him off but these winds were unusually fierce and in a moment of calm, he let his guard down. The lull in his guard caused a rock to strike him in the back of the head, he fell to the choppy sea below and this could have been the end but an hour later. He was pulled from the water and next thing he knew he was lying on a bed “hmmm where am I?” he asked as he began to slowly rise. 

“Woah! Woah! Lie back down! You were in that water for too long!” a voice said and Liquiir then became aware he was blind, his eyes were open but they refused to work properly, it was like looking into a white void and the voice said “You got a concussion…I don’t know how but an injury to the back of your head would suggest a heavy object moving at great speed” 

“I can’t see anything” Liquiir said frustrated by the white “Who are you!?” 

“My name is Tony Tony Chopper. Your vision will return in time” the voice said as he walked away to fetch some medicine “Luffy pulled you out the water just a little while ago but don’t worry your safe with us” he encouraged Liquiir to open his mouth “Here” he poured a warm bitter liquid into Liquiir’s mouth which caused the god to cough “You’ll be okay after a little rest” 

“Chopper!” a voice called out. 

“Franky? What is it?!” Chopper asked as the noise of many panicked footsteps could be heard “Franky!?” Chopper prepared to defend his patient but he couldn’t know what he was facing as the ship was rocked by an unseen attacker “Franky!?” the sounds of screams followed as Chopper felt a rush of panic “Anyone?!” 

Robin burst in, before putting herself between Chopper and the new comer who walked in shortly “Who are you!?” Robin yelled feeling the desire to protect her friend “We did nothing to you!” the man standing before her glared at Liquiir “We won’t let you hurt him!” 

“Wait what?!” Korn asked confused by the woman’s statement “I’m his attendant! When I sensed he’d been hurt I went looking for him. Liquiir are you okay?” the fox god nodded and Korn settled “Opps I do believe there’s been a misunderstanding then?”

“It would seem so” Liquiir said dryly 

Korn sighed “So you were hurt by a freak occurrence or was it your own carelessness this time?” Korn asked as Liquiir shrugged “So both? Well I’ve got to say sorry to this pirate crew” 

“Pirate crew?” Liquiir asked and smiled he couldn’t believe his luck maybe this was the break he was hoping for given that pirates were famed for their greed and lust for treasure this could be a much easier way to recruit a team of duellists “Tell me doctor, how would I go about recruiting your crew for a job?” 


*******


“Hehehe this is so fun” Kusu giggled as she drove her stolen duel runner round a corner, she nicked it from some pizza delivery guy, okay she knew it was Crow but she didn’t care about him, she just wanted the ones she’d been send for and the current opponent she was facing was of little interest “You know Trudge is it? I can’t help but think of you as a warm up” 

“Oh yeah, Squirt! Montage Dragon attack!” Trudge ordered as he was certain this attack would work “Hope you’re ready for a nice warm jail cell” 

“Doubt it! Because I activate the traps Ring of Destruction and Damage Vaccine Omega Max!” Kusu said happily, the resulting explosion dropped Trudge’s lifepoints to zero but Kusu’s goal had been achieved as three duel runners were coming up fast “oooo finally!”

Yuesi pulled to a stop by Trudge “Trudge!” he ran up and helped sit Trudge so he was leaning back against his duel runner “You okay!?” 

“Yuesi…she…duels differently…damage was…real” Trudge whimpered before he passed out. Yuesi stood up glaring at Kusu who smiled sweetly as Akiza and Jack rolled up pulling to a stop. 

“So you wanted our attention? And now you have it!” Yuesi snapped as he looked at Crow’s runner “It’s just as well I put a tracking chip in that runner…”

“Oh that? I was counting on that” Kusu said simply “But I don’t mind having a light warm up with your friend” 

Jack looked at Trudge “If you think you’re going to get away with that…you’re dead wrong! Hope you’re ready for a duel with the Master of Faster!” 

“Oh Jack…I don’t have time for that. So I’ll take you all on at once” Kusu said as she stared at them “If you win I’ll return your friend’s runner but when I win…you three will work for me!” the three facing her looked doubtful but then she reeved up the duel runner “And if you don’t agree to play me I’ll destroy this runner!”

Yuesi said “You’re bluffing!” 

“Am I?” Kusu said pulling out her staff and pointing it towards a tall building “Then call me on it?” 

Akiza mumbled “I don’t think she is bluffing. She seems deadly serious” 

“Alright Squirt we’ll play your game!” Jack said and the four started their runners, Jack was up first to the curve and he said “If you don’t mind I think I’ll go first! I play two cards face down and summon my Mad Archfiend in attack mode!” the monster appeared beside Jack’s runner twirling as it did and smirking “I’ll end my turn there!” 

“It’s my turn now!” Akiza said as she looked at her hand each duelist gaining a speed counter “Alright I summon Lord Poison and set one card face down! Your turn Yuesi!” her Lord Poison appeared beside her runner as her turn ended. 

Yuesi nodded drawing one card “I discard one card from my hand in order to summon Quickdraw Synchron! He can take aim at another Synchron monster for a synchro summon! And would you look at that he’s chosen my Junk Synchron but first my Quilbolt Hedgehog is going to pop back for a bit more fun in the sun!” his Quilbolt Hedgehog appeared next to his runner “And now I synchro summon! My Junk Archer!” Kusu smiled as her plan all came together and Yuesi’s Junk Archer appeared “And now I…what’s going on!?” 




Junk Archer appeared on Kusu’s field with some weird blob of slime on its head “Oh sorry Yuesi that’s my Synchro slime! When you summoned your junk Archer this little Parasite saw his opportunity and jumped onto the field! And when he did he hooked himself to your Junk Archer…oh and before I forget your friends are about to lose their traps! Because at the same time my End slime hates Special Summons! So he destroys one kind of card for every special summon and since there were two Spells and traps go!” Jack and Akiza watched helplessly as their back rows were taken out as a black slime appeared on the field “It’s still your turn Yuesi?” 

“I…I…I…” Yuesi looked at his hand, his first draw hadn’t been the best so he had four monsters but one of them was “I summon Shield Wing in defence mode!” 

Kusu drew a card and smiled “it’s a shame…I was just getting to enjoying this but after my turn only Yuesi will be left” she said happily 

“What do you mean you, squirt!” Jack snapped as he looked at the field “I’d say we’re still in this!” 

“Hmm? Oh that’ll be fixed shortly” Kusu said as she revealed her first card and it begins with this card “Soul Exchange! This speed spell variant allows me to sacrifice one monster from each duellist including myself! So here we go I sacrifice Jack’s Mad Archfiend and Akiza’s Lord Poison! To summon Dark Magician” the magician appeared twirling his staff as Kusu smirked “Oh I stand corrected none of your life points will remain when I’m done! I use Yuesi’s shield wing and my End slime to summon Elemental Hero Neos!”





“It can’t be!” Yuesi yelled in horror “Yugi and Jaden’s monsters!” 

“Oh you remember that duel? Well I’m sorry to say now I have three powerful monsters in play…you may think I can only take out one of you but remember I said all! I’ve still got my normal summon! I summon my level four Self Destruct Slime!” She smirked as a large white blob appeared on the field “Now for this card acts a lot like a certain time bomb except it goes off once it absorbs a certain number of monsters and the magic number is 4!” 

“NOOOO!” Yuesi screamed as Neos was absorbed 

“What is it, Yuesi? We still have one turn left?” Jack asked looking concerned. 

“Her Synchro slime and Junk Archer count as two monsters!” Yuesi said in horror “But wait won’t you just take out your own life points?!” Kusu shook her head “What?! But the combined attack points are over 5000!” 

“Normally I would take damage but here’s the thing my hand holds a little surprise! My Shock slime!” Kusu said as she showed the card “This little guy really should be called Shock absorption slime because when I’m about to take Effect damage all I have to do is give up half of my lifepoints and the damage becomes zero!” 

Jack groaned “Oh no!” as the Self Destruct slime absorbed the remaining monsters and exploded. All three duel runners vented steam, before they rolled to a stop and all three fell off, the damage they had taken was indeed real but they weren’t dead. Kusu rolled up and held up her staff, the three disappearing. Murichim gathered the 9 orbs for her after he landed and she smiled happily with her good work. 

“YAY! I got all 9…” Kusu began but Murichim looked at the 9 orbs they had gathered “What!?”

“But don’t you need 10?” Murichim asked curious as to the final member

“Don’t worry I have someone in mind for that role” Kusu said as she looked at the 9 orbs “I have the perfect person in mind” 


*******


Sunset shimmer looked out from her bedroom as she thought over the last week, she looked out over the city but then there was a knock on her door “Hmm Come in?” as the door opened Sunset was surprised to see Tien walking in with a calm look upon his face “Tien? What is it?” 

“Nothing bad if that is your concern” Tien soothed as he sat in a chair near where Sunset was standing “I’ve been worried about you to be honest. Goku told us what happened at your school” Sunset’s expression looked a bit grimmer but Tien shook his head “You must be worried about your friends and about possibly facing them?” 

Sunset nodded but then looked to the moon “It’s more than that, it’s…” she paused and wasn’t sure if she could continue “Tien…can I ask have you ever, that is to say…have you ever felt like you’ve let yourself betray a friend?” Tien nodded “I wasn’t always liked or even trusted by the school…I worked hard to…and just like…” Sunset felt tears sting behind her eyes “I want to believe…” Tien stood up and wrapped a comforting arm around Sunset, rubbing her back gently and Sunset resisted but Tien held firm “Please…”

“Just let it out” Tien offered kindly and Sunset did, Tien held her as the girl let out all her grief and regret crying with tears streaming down her face “Its okay; it’s not your fault. I’ve met Champa I know what he’s like...” 

“But I left them!” Sunset screamed and began punching Tien’s chest “How will they ever forgive me!? And I’m supposed to duel against them! This is so wrong”

Tien nodded as he let her go and released a breath “You and I are two different people but pain is something all creatures know and yet no two pains are the same. We all make mistakes too I’ve made enough to…and I’ve failed often enough to know….the sting of failure” he raised his right hand cupping it slightly “It’s not a question on how you dwell on them but how you handle those failures” 

Sunset’s eyes widened “I…thanks” she smiled as Tien returned the smile and turned to leave “Wait! Why were you concerned?” 

“You remind me of a friend of mine” Tien said simply and walked out “And I know you’ll duel well for us. Tomorrow is our day off…tell you what seems like the last two weeks you, Rainbow and Twilight have been focusing on duelling a lot and maybe you could…”

Suddenly Beerus floated up from the big area below and Tien gulped “Day off?” Beerus said dangerously “I don’t remember anyone agreeing to that, three eyes?” he glared at Tien but Tien maintained his gaze as if daring Beerus to stop him “What point would a day off serve?” 

“It’s simple Lord Beerus” Tien began but didn’t know where exactly he was going with this “It’d do us all some good to get some time off…to uh…clear our heads!” he hoped that would fly with Beerus and when Beerus smiled, Tien thought he was out of the dangerous spot but Beerus frowned a moment later. However Tien was saved by Sunset who quickly stepped between the two.

“It’s simple Lord Beerus, Tien is going to take us shopping for new Duel Monster cards tomorrow and that way our decks could get a lot stronger” Sunset said calmly and Tien sighed nodding vigorously “So is that okay?”

Beerus cupped Sunset’s face and said dangerously “On one condition” Sunset tried to look to Tien for help but Beerus kept a firm grip “I get to come too and we go somewhere for some tasty food!” his grin suddenly returned and Sunset felt a surge of relief “So we leave at 10am tomorrow morning!”


*****


Arak was having a bad day, he’d arrived alongside his Universe’s angel and Supreme Kai on Earth but so far they weren’t having much luck finding any duellists. It seemed the humans were too busy doing other things and he looked on as a battle seemed to be taking place “I think we came at a bad time” Cukatail offered and Arak nodded “So maybe we should look somewhere else?” 

“If this battle is so important…maybe we should get involved” Arak said simply “Though it does make for a good spectacle. What is this place called?” 

“I believe it is called the Hidden Leaf Village” Ogma said as she looked on at the battle unfolding before them “It would seem they’re facing an enemy of considerable strength…” at that very moment a figure floating high in the air seemed to move his arms and a moment later the Hidden Leaf Village was pushed against its own walls “Oh…that maybe a slight problem” 

“You don’t say” Arak said as he sighed “We may need to go back a bit to see if we can recruit this village at an earlier point…this is the last village”

“You mean the others weren’t very friendly?” Cukatail offered and Arak nodded again. The three turned away but would return once they’d gone back a bit further. 


******


Kusu approached her final choice for her team, she timed this choice perfectly and hopefully she could gather up this player easily enough but as she approached him, he turned with a cruel look of joy “Would seem I have company? Hope you don’t mind but I have goals that I need to dispatch you to the shadows!” 

“Bakura is it?” Kusu asked as she readied her duel disc “I’m here with an offer for you” 

Bakura’s smirk grew as he began to laugh evilly “So what is this offer?” 

“Hmm how would you like any wish your heart desires?” Kusu said and then added the juicy part of her offer “Any duellist you beat you can do with what you desire?” 

“You have yourself a deal. A wish would allow me to get Zorc’s desires fulfilled” Bakura said smugly as the two shook hands and with that a new dangerous element was added to the Tournament. Kusu knew this but she didn’t care much since now they had the ten. However she was far from the only one to add a dangerous player to their team, Universe 12’s new team even had the Grand Minister worried.
> Chapter 5- Choices made in haste
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was a dark and stormy night, two men sat alone within an old church as they passed the hours quietly waiting for the next war to begin but as one slowly swirled a glass of wine with a bored expression upon his face he looked to the door “Hmm, seems we have company?”

“Yes I can sense....power and a lot of it” the second man said as he sipped from a second glass  “Maybe our waiting is finally over?” 

“I do not believe so” the first man said as the door opened and in walked three figures “hmm seems you have disturbed us at a rather inconvenient moment but I assume you desire my treasure?” 

The first of the three who’d entered smirked “If I desired your treasure I would simply take it. My name is Giin or you can call me the god of destruction, either works fine for me...what care have I how mortals address me...so long as they do as I ask” the first figure said as he stepped closer and looked around “I must congratulate you on being the one to win the Holy grail war, Gilgamesh”

“Yes, well it wasn’t quite the glorious victory I had envisioned” Gilgamesh said as he took a small sip from his glass and smiled “I assume you are here to do more than congratulate me? Though to be praised by a god carries a certain amount of…pleasurable irony” 

“I guess beating around the bushes is meaningless to you” the second figure said as he smiled at Gilgamesh “Oh my name is Agu, I am the Supreme Kai but I am an equal to Giin”

“Cheeky” Giin grinned smugly. 

“It would be” Gilgamesh said as he turned to the second man “This is my friend, Kirei Kotomine” 

Kirei bowed slightly and asked “So maybe you would be so kind to explain to us what we have done to earn the attention of two gods? It is a true honour" he was speaking honestly but his eyes indicated he was suspicious to the god's motives. 

Giin smirked already taking a liking to Gilgamesh “Well it’s simple. The Holy Grail's one wish is somewhat limited, though for a planet like Earth it’s powers are amazing but how would you feel about earning a wish with unlimited power?” Giin offered with a smile, Gilgamesh rubbed his chin with a smirk upon his face and nodded “You could reform the whole universe to your liking” 

“hmm so even a supposed god asks for my help, all for the vague promise of a wish?” Gilgamesh said as he swirled his glass and paused “And yet I sense there’s more?” 

“Your senses serve you well. Yes you would be required to participate in a tournament with these” Martinu said as she placed the cards before Gilgamesh who gave the cards a dirty look “Problem?” 

“No. I know these cards and to say the least the Pharaoh Atem’s use of them annoys me…” He paused and his look grew even more sour “I control the most powerful cards of this game…” he raised a hand and a bright circle of light appeared “All the treasures of the world are mine…so I possess the cards to put any opponent to shame” he revealed three cards in his hand at that moment placing them onto the table before him. 

Giin smiled as he picked up one “Slifer the Sky Dragon? You’ll need more than three cards to be a threat?” again Gilgamesh raised his hand but this time cards poured out “These are some of the rarest and most powerful cards in the game?” Gilgamesh nodded “Your treasure room must be as full as legend tells” 

“Doubting me is a dangerous mistake but I shall allow you to do so this once” Gilgamesh said with a sinister smirk “A tournament with a wish beyond the Holy Grail does sound enticing but I assume you’ll need more than me?” 

“Yes we’ll need a team of ten” Agu said but then smirked “However I assume you have a list of names you would like on your team?” 

Gilgamesh smiled “Very knowledgeable…as you three will know the Holy Grail war gathers 7 mages and 7 spirits to fight to the death but I desire 8 spirits to serve me in this tournament” he explained as he pulled out a book “I already have access to the names here but they will obey me alone. Does this sound reasonable to you?” 

Giin’s smirk only grew wider before nodding “So long as you win I do not much care who you want on your team. Tell Agu and Martinu who you want, I would like to sample your wine” he reached a hand forward for the wine but Gilgamesh grabbed his wrist “What?” 

Gilgamesh met the god’s gaze before producing a fresh goblet of wine “You should only be served the best. Behold this is my rarest and most desired wine” he said as the god took hold of the goblet, handing it to the god, before picking up his glass and then took a sip “A toast to our victory!” he coughed and turned to Agu “I trust any name is agreeable?” 

“Indeed” Agu said 

Martinu rubbed her chin already impressed by the powerful and confident Gilgamesh “You do certainly impress” 

“Naturally” Gilgamesh said as he opened his book “My first name is the Legendary warrior king of Sparta, Leonidus…I need a muscle man to help me keep the others in line. For the others will be my slaves is this agreeable?” Giin nodded but didn’t look thrilled about the idea “It’s not like we’ll need the others…I’m all you will need” 

Agu looked even more unsure but nodded as he sighed “I suppose as long as we secure your services…that’s all that matters” Giin gave Agu a knowing look, both felt this could be a mistake given Gilgamesh’s clear superiority complex but the fact was he was brilliantly intelligent and second to none in terms of power on Earth “So we’ll get Leonidus? Who else do you want?” 

Gilgamesh handed the kai a written list and Agu looked at it with a sad realisation “You understand these warriors will be…”

“My slaves…they are unworthy to be my equals” Gilgamesh spelt out firmly as he turned towards a large armchair “Or you can simply see yourselves out?” Giin looked tempted by the idea of blasting the arrogant man on the spot but sighed knowing he had little choice “Good…By the end of this Tournament I promise we will be the victors” 

Giin smiled “Excellent…then I suppose I shouldn’t be too worried by your steep price” he walked out with Agu “By the end of this Tournament…Universe 12 will be the most powerful of all” 

However Kirei was unsure if this was a good idea “You know this is just a childish game? I don’t see the value in playing along?”

Gilgamesh smiled as he picked up a loose card from the floor “A wish with no limit…we could change the nature of the holy grail war to our liking, the world or even the Universe. Isn’t that worth shooting for? I can see so many routes into the future if we win…and like in all battles the winner takes the spoils. So every loser we beat will become our prize” he rubbed his hands together “I could become the ruler of the cosmos if I so desired and then the power to write the rules will be mine” 

Kirei nodded “May I assume I’d be the 10th member of your team?” 

“You know I keep you around for more than your looks” Gilgamesh said as he looked out a window and whispered to himself “Before long Artoria…you will be mine. Once and for all!” 


******


Sunset smiled as she looked at the cards in the shop, the whole team was given a budget by Bulma and whilst they had to stick to it, they had little to worry about price wise but Tien seemed unsure by the big variety “Everything okay?” Sunset asked as she approached the man who smiled back and shook his head “ooo that’s an interesting choice…”

“hmm I’m not sure” Tien admitted as he looked at another set of cards “What are these?” he looked at the shop owner who looked out a selection of cards that matched the one he’d selected “Huh…they look strong?” 

“They’re Elemental Heroes…albeit they’re new but I’ve been told they’re good fusion monsters” The shop owner said as she looked out the final batch of cards “But they’re pretty powerful so I’d recommend them” 

Tien nodded as he asked “Twilight? What cards are you wanting to use?” 

Twilight shrugged as she looked through pile after pile for a card that captured her imagination but Whis then stepped up behind her “I believe these cards would be perfect for you” he said handing her a stack of cards “They should serve you well and you know them well” 

Twilight looked through the pile and smiled “Yeah I do” she turned to the shop worker and asked “How much?” 

“Don’t look at me? Those aren’t ours” The shop worker admitted as he handed Goku his change

“So are these cards…” Twilight began but decided she didn’t want to know 

Vegeta growled as he looked through another pile of cards and swore loudly as other people looked at him annoyed but he simply shot them a dirty look “This is ridiculous! You Sunset! Tell me which cards are best!?” he snapped as he looked at Sunset as if expecting her to have all the answers on this card game “Well?!” 

“How about you try look for cards that match your personality!?” Sunset fired back but Vegeta looked even more annoyed by that “If it makes you get off my back, you seem to like big powerful attacks that get the job done. Dragons go for them” 

Vegeta nodded and said “Fine, I’ll get a suitably powerful deck” 

Goku looked at the cards he’d selected and smiled “Hey Vegeta do you think we’ll get to duel in the Tournament” 

“I’m counting on it Kakarot” Vegeta said as he turned away “But just remember this…when I win I’ll be sure to rub your nose in it!” 

Sunset sighed as Bulma tapped her shoulder “Sorry about my husband. I’ll make it up to you, Twilight, Rainbow and 18” she turned as Beerus groaned loudly “We’ll be going soon, Beerus” this seemed to settle Beerus’ impatience but Bulma knew they’d have to hurry. 


*****


“This is ridiculous!?” Quitela groaned as he looked through Universe 4’s files, he’d spend the first few days doing almost nothing but now he was feeling the pinch “How can our Earth be so Pathetic!? This is so unfair! I don’t even know where to start looking!” 

Cognac shrugged as he simply said “You haven’t got a lot of time remaining to make your mind up” 

“I know that! If I don’t decide I’ll be in real trouble!” Quitela snapped as he looked through more of his files but then his eyes found something “Hmm this is interesting…our Earth has a co-World does it? Digital World?!” he smirked “The files say there’s 12 children with creatures from this alternate world? Hmm and these creatures are called Digimon?” 

“Yes but that’s two more children than we need!” Cognac sighed annoyed by the god’s almost insane focus on children “How do you plan to make the children obey your will!?” Quitela held up a picture of the digimon partners and Cognac smiled “Oooo that is clever…hold the Digimon hostage and the kids will fight for us?”

“And the left over kids will make great hostages too!” Quitela said as he rubbed his hands together “Kuru can go get the kids whilst we go and capture their pathetic little pets” his plan seemed brilliant in its simplicity and if they tried to resist well no harm in blowing their digital pets to bits “Let’s move out” 

On Earth, in Tokyo Kari smiled as Tai sat across from her in their home, the two were playing the very card game that they were now being targeted for and Tai seemed to be struggling “Come on Big brother…are you struggling to get by my defences?” 

“No…I….I well…alright well yeah…Oh nuts!” Tai finally admitted as he couldn’t see a way to win, Kari giggled as Tai gathered up his cards and pointed to the dishes “Guess I have to do them?” Kari nodded and Tai sighed “Yeah…okay it’s a fair cop” 

“So how was soccer practise earlier?” Kari asked as Tai shrugged “You still thinking about Agumon?” Tai nodded “We all agreed it was for the best…You’ll see him again” 

Tai shook his head and began to clean the dishes carefully “I once thought that Agumon and I were a dream team but now it feels like he’s been away for years” Kari laughed as Tai blushed “But also I have a bad feeling. What do you think?” Kari didn’t answer, Tai turned and the sight that met his eyes was something he hadn’t been expecting. Kuru stood with his hand over Kari’s mouth “Kari!” 

Kuru raised his other hand and raised his index finger moving it right to left “Tsk tsk, is that anyway to welcome a houseguest?” Kuru said as Tai felt utterly powerless to stop him “Now you two are the last ones on my list...Quitela the god of Destruction has an offer for you. Agree to obey him or your digimon friends will disappear” 

“What?!” Tai snarled as he raised a fist but Kuru simply pulled Kari closer “You’re going to be in for a world of hurt!” 

However from behind out stepped Izzy with Davis “Tai…he has Mimi and Ken…” Davis said sounding broken “We have to do what he says. If we don’t his friend, Quitela will kill them and our partners” Tai had never seen Davis looking so broken and nodded slowly. 

“Excellent. So now we have our team and trust me…you’d best be good little children or there will be consequences” Kuru said as he let Kari go who turned and punched him in the stomach but Kuru barely felt a thing “Hmm your courage is to be commented my dear but you better behave!” 


*****


Meanwhile in Universe 6, Applejack sat in her kitchen sadly looking out the window, they’d spend all day practising and now she sat dwelling on Applebloom “A penny for your thoughts?” Big Mac asked as he walked in “Oh is this about…” 

“Big Mac…how could I believe Applebloom was…doing something illegal!?” Applejack sniffed as she pushed the deck of cards away “All because I…I…I’m an idiot!” she turned away and Big Mac put an arm around her “What if…we never see Applebloom again!?” 

Big Mac simply shook his head “I promise we’ll see them again” 

“I hope you’re right but Applebloom…” Applejack couldn’t bear to finish that thought as she then added “And we’re going to duel against possibly our friends from Equestria!? And people who may be many times smarter than even Twilight!? Stronger than any enemy we’ve ever faced and could be better just in general!” 

Big Mac smiled kindly “You need to remember something important. All those times you and your friends have defeated powerful magical things…it wasn’t because you were the strongest or smartest it’s because you had the heart, drive and courage to succeed but also you had your friends” Applejack nodded as he continued “Just remember what you’re fighting for and who” 

Cabba was in the next room, it’d been discovered the Sparkle family house wasn’t big enough for all of them and so Cabba listened in “Hmm they really are amazing” he said to himself and stood up to look at a photo of the family “I wonder…” he looked around the living room as he picked up a picture of two people he hadn’t seen anywhere “I wonder who they are…”

“Put that down!” Applejack snapped as she ran in having heard the movement of the picture “I can’t believe you! Who do ya think ya are!?” 

Cabba looked around alarmed as Applejack yanked the picture from him “Who are they?” he asked kindly but Applejack’s eyes narrowed “Please?” 

“OUT!” Applejack yelled at the sayain who knew better than to stay, Applejack placed the picture back as Big Mac walked in and Applejack sighed “Cabba was…”

“Wasn’t doing any harm!” Big Mac said firmly “I know what he did but he’s been the only one of them to try and…” Applejack nodded as she punched the wall in frustration “Look maybe we should get some sleep?” 

“Yeah I guess” Applejack said sadly. 


*****


“So our Earth isn’t much use!?” Sidra snapped as he looked through the information on his Earth provided by Mohito, who nodded sadly as the god, angel and Kai stared through the information accessible to them on their Earth and it made for grim reading “So it’s just a normal planet with barely any power?!” 

Roh sighed “It seems so but in the spirit world plain it seems to be a different story….in our universe things are a little different. Centuries ago, the afterlife process was streamlined to a more…”

“Yes I’m aware! What is your point?!” Sidra snapped in annoyance but then his eyes widened “The Soul Reapers? They seem hardly the type to know how to play this childish game” 

“No indeed not my lords it would seem they are not best qualified for the job considering their recent conflict with the Espanda and Lord Aizen” Mohito explained slowly but then added “But their human allies may in fact maybe more fruitful…it could be easier to get them to help us” 

Sidra stroked his long beard for a moment and then smiled “And with their powers we could ensure they’re a good counter to any other super powers the other universes use….however I would like to test their powers first…send the Trio of Danger”

On Earth Ichigo Kurosaki sat on the warm grass near the river as he took the day easy, the sun was bright, all his friends were safe, life was good…it couldn’t last. Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and Ichigo felt himself being pushed back “Oh hey! What’s going on!?” 

“Hey, Bergamo? Is this one of them?” a voice said as the owner of the voice looked down, Ichigo’s eyes went wide as he realised without his Soul Reaper powers…he was very vulnerable to these three who all looked very strong “So your name is Ichigo Kurosaki…name’s Lavender…let’s see what you got!?” Ichigo dodged with barely a millisecond to spare as Lavender began his attack “OI! Hold still! This is a fight! Come on I promise I’ll play fair” 

“I doubt that” Ichigo hissed as he began to run, with no power left after the battle with Aizen he was no match for the Trio of Danger and now he had to get away but a red wolf appeared in front of him “Oh nuts…” Ichigo was send flying into Bergamo’s waiting hand who grabbed him by the front of his neck “OW!” 

“Hey kid! Come on! You’re supposed to be powerful!?” Bergamo snarled “So quit playing around and show us!” 

“I tried to inform you three, he lost his power and we need him for other things” Sidra said as he walked up to Ichigo who was trying to pull his shirt free of Bergamo’s grip “Excuse me young man have you heard of Yugioh or Duel monsters?” 

“Yeah?! It’s a kids game?!” Ichigo snapped as he kicked and punched Bergamo’s arm “Let go, Dog Breath!” 

“I’d do as he says if I were you” said a voice from the nearby road, there stood Uryu Ishida with his bow drawn and aimed at Bergamo “Put him down! Or prepare to find out what a bad idea fighting a Quincy is! By Honour of the Quincys!” he fired but Lavender blocked the arrow and it didn’t do a lot “Oh no” 

“Oh yes!” Lavender laughed as he flew forward and punched Uryu who went flying back into a nearby building but was saved from crashing by an orange field of energy “HUH?!” 

“Koten Zanshun! I reject!” a female voice called out and a second later, Lavender screamed as a flash of light scored a direct hit on his eye “Leave my friends alone!” Orihime stood looking angrier than she’d ever looked. 

“And what if we don’t!” Basil yelled in anger ready to attack Orihime. 

“Then you’ll deal with me” Basil turned only to get an unwelcome surprise in the stomach by a powerful punch delivered from Chad “I’m sorry but I can’t let you hurt my friends” Chad apologised but despite their best shots and the element of surprise being on their side…their attacks, the trio of danger seemed more annoyed than fearful for their lives but Chad picked up on it quickly “Uryu! Get Ichigo out of here!” 

“Remember boys we need them alive but…that one can heal most injuries so…do what you will” Sidra said calmly as he sat down “Just don’t kill them…probably nothing to worry about” 

Chad fell first, Basil returned the favour by kicking Chad across the face, this send Chad flying back into a bridge’s support and next Lavender grabbed Uryu this time slamming him into the ground “Orihime! Get hat and clogs!” Ichigo tried to warn as Bergamo carried him over to the now terrified girl “NO! DON’T!” Orihime did try to run but too late as Bergamo grabbed the back of her neck “Let her go!” 

“You four will make good bait to get the others” Sidra said as he watched as the four were gathered by the river “The Soul Reapers maybe here soon…Trio of Danger. I suspect they won’t take kindly to us beating up their friends” 

Basil cracked his knuckle “One is already here…I can smell them” 


*****


Iwan stood waiting in Universe one for his Angel, Awamo to return from his mission to their Earth, the god sighed as he turned to the Kai, Anato and said calmly “Awamo seems to be taking his time?” Anato nodded calmly but Iwan shrugged “I hope our Earth has enough players of this game” 

Anato nodded saying calmly “Our Earth is not the strongest Earth without reason…we have spent much time promoting the planet’s strength and…soon we’ll have a team unrivalled in duelling skill but also power” Anato smiled as his statement ended as a bright flash of light filled their vision “AH! See, Awarno? Was your mission a success?” 

“Indeed…” Awarmo said as he turned to the figure that stood behind him “Iwan, Anato may I introduce King Micky…the captain of our team” 

“Excellent” Iwan said as King Micky smiled nodding “Let’s test your duelling skills!” 

“Happy to” Micky said calmly “I already have selected my team!”
> Chapter 6- Bitter Defeat.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Whis sighed as he looked at the gathered team before him, he looked at Sunset, Twilight and Rainbow Dash before saying “The time has come, this tournament may not have the same stakes as the Tournament of Power but with Universe 6 having your friends…it could be a much larger challenge for you three. Pulling your punches could very well spell doom” he then looked up "Oh my the stakes really are interesting" 

Sunset nodded “So long as we can win and help them, I’m willing to do what it takes…right girls?” Twilight and Rainbow nodded “It’s not as if we can afford to take it easy on them…trust us we’re in for the long fight and besides the others would never forgive us if we took it easy on them!" 

Goku smiled and clapped Sunset on the back “That’s the spirit! We’re gonna win this tournament and save your friends!” 

Vegeta shrugged “So long as I get a go against you Kakarot I’ll be happy” he said with a sneer 

Whis raised his staff “Well regardless it’s time to go. Hold hands everyone” the gathered team joined hands with Beerus and Whis, a moment later they had teleported. When they arrived they weren’t the first team there “Hmm oh look Universe 2 is already here!” 

Twilight and Sunset turned to see the Universe 2 team “I felt like I’ve seen them somewhere before” Rainbow said in surprise as one of the Sailor Scouts turned to look at them “They’re so…familiar” the scout who turned gave a small smile and approached “Huh!? HEY!”

“Hello My name is Haruka and who might I ask are you?” the scout asked as she extended a hand, only for Goku to shake it “Hey!”

“Name’s Goku! You look strong!” Goku said in his normal clumsy way but Haruka smiled because despite being caught off guard there was something she did like in Goku, she however couldn’t take her eyes off of Sunset, there was something interesting about her that made Haruka want to learn more “We’re the Universe 7 team!” 

“Universe 7? So you guys won the last tournament?” Ami said as she approached with the other scouts as she shook Krillin’s hand who smiled in a polite manner “We’ve been told all about you but Heles failed to tell us about you three?” she looked at the three closely and shook her head "You don't seem to fit the team if you know what I mean?" 

“That’s what had me interested about them” Haruka admitted as she looked closely at Rainbow “You have eyes that say you will not be conquered….I hope we get to duel…I’d find that match interesting to see the spirit you have but also you…” she pointed at Sunset "You're certainly an interesting prospect" 

“I also wouldn’t mind getting to know your team better” a voice said from behind Haruka, out stepped Usagi, she was staring at Twilight and her smile was as warm as ever but there was a small fire in the eyes of the scout’s leader “Something about you makes my heart…feel stronger…I can sense a small glimmer within you. I know we will duel” 

"I hope so" Twilight said, she couldn’t help meeting Usagi’s eyes and they shook hands as Usagi and her team headed back to their team area. Twilight looked to Sunset who nodded they shared the same feeling about Universe 2's team, the team seemed to be trustworthy but Twilight couldn't be sure since there was a danger in being too trusting. 

Then they heard a small muttering sound behind them “Interesting…yes…an all female team and a team made up of a mixture of what appears to be fighters and tactical members…yes must be skilled players…smart players and…” an average height green haired boy was jotting notes down in a book “Yes…need more notes…”

Tien was first to challenge the boy “Hey! It’s rude to mutter and not introduce yourself!” Tien snapped catching the boy off guard and causing him to drop his note book. Tien picked it up and smiled as he opened the book, in a short time the boy had taken notes and began drawing pictures of them "This is...interesting..you have a name?" 

“OH!? Sorry My name is Izuku Midoriya! I’m really sorry!” the boy said bowing multiple times “I’m sorry, sorry please forgive me because I am sorry” Tien couldn’t help but look at the boy with a mixture of interest and a touch of embarrassment given he clearly didn’t mean any harm. The picture of him was quite flattering for what it was “I’m from Universe 11’s team…” suddenly the looks the Z fighters gave him were changed to looks of surprise but a couple of distrust “What’s wrong!?” 

“Hey! Deku! No flattering with the enemy!” Dyspo said as he approached and added “Especially with the returning champions….” He suddenly spotted the three new members “So who might you be? Certainly don't look like fighters...hope you're tougher than you look” 

Dyspo was staring at Sunset who met his gaze with a cold look, something about Dyspo made her uneasy but Dyspo smiled and she said “My name is Sunset Shimmer, these are my friends Twilight and Rainbow. We may not be fighters but we're here to win and save our friends!” 

Dyspo’s smile only grew “I have to admit you are spirited…but Deku come on” Deku nodded and followed Dyspo who whispered a warning "Your research into our rivals is very impressive but remember you're going to have to ready yourself for duelling" 

"I know sir" Deku said as he looked at Goku's picture "Why does that Goku guy look so friendly? He doesn't seem powerful?" but Dyspo shook his head and began laughing "What?!" 

"I thought the same thing" Dyspo said kindly 

It was then another team arrived, this one however got a reaction out of Beerus and the girls who’s glares were sharp and harsh as Universe 6 arrived “AH! Beerus! How’s it going!?” Champa said as he approached but his stare was on Rainbow and Sunset who returned the stare with angry glares “Done stealing members of my team!?” 

“What! You made our friends join your team!” Sunset snapped her anger clear as she glared at Champa with a look of sheer hatred and it took Gohan holding her back to stop her jumping at him “You are evil! Terrible! You’ll pay!” Gohan had to keep his grip strong because if he hadn't Sunset would have leapt at Champa. 

Champa’s reaction sickened those around him as he began to laugh “Calm down, dear…I’m simply pointing out that Beerus broke the rules” he said through his laughter “And I…” but at that moment Rainbow Dash ran forward trying to punch him but this time Android 18 grabbed her and held her back "Hmm trying to break the rules again?" 

Beerus shrugged “I didn’t order it so I broke no such rule and you seem to be trying to piss off my team” he said as he then pointed out besides “Look…every team is here now. So we’d all better get ready for the Grand minister’s announcement of who’ll be up first for duelling” 

“Right” Champa said as he walked away, his team looked sadly at Team 7 but knew better than to throw their duels. Each team no matter how they were recruited had a way to keep their team in line. Some teams looked happier than others but those teams outnumbered the sad teams. 

The Grand Minister coughed as his voice filled the Null Realm “Welcome all 12 Universes to the new tournament where we will be hosting a Tournament of Duelling fun! For the pleasures of Lord Zeno!” the two zenos looked down from their thrones in eager delight as they awaited the Minister to announce the first match “You will notice for this tournament we have set up team areas for each team, teams are free to interact with each other but any hostile behaviour will not be tolerated!” the teams looked behind them and spotted houses with chairs in front of them, the houses had a number on them and the minister continued “The first round of this tournament will be tag duels but the pairs will be selected at random and anyone who’s lifepoints hit zero will be eliminated no matter which team they’re on!” 

“So there maybe motive for a tag partner to turn on their partner” 18 said quietly “And wipe out their lifepoints too?” 

“I suspect that will happen” Whis said to confirm 18’s concerns "Knowing what some of these people are capable of...it wouldn't surprise me that they will try that" 

“The winner will thus get to determine the fate of the losers” The minister continued leading to gasps of concern from some teams but one team’s captain seem to positively grin with eagerness at this rule “And the higher the lifepoints will decide the winner between partners so if Partner A has 300 and Partner B has 301, it’s partner B who gets to decide the fate of the losers!” 

Luffy looked sadly at his team “So I could lose my crew? With these rules" he shook his head "We can't afford to lose then!" 

“Now time for the first 4 to be selected!” the grand minister raised his hand and four orbs of light left his hand, two red and two blue “Now if these lights connect with you…you will be selected!” the four lights floated round slowly like a roulette in midair “Now let’s see who!” 

The first red light stopped before falling on Fluttershy of Team 6 who looked sad but she stepped forward “NO!” Sunset growled “Please…Red light connect with me!” 

But her luck didn’t hold as the second red light came down on a member of Team 11 “I wonder if it's Izuku” Tien questioned but a girl stepped forward “Or not" 

“Team Red has been selected! Fluttershy of Universe 6 and Kyoka Jiro of Universe 11!” the Grand Minister announced proudly and he then watched as the blue lights still hovered above “Now team blue!” The first blue light came down on Universe 10 and the second on Universe 12 “And Team Blue are Yugi Moto of Universe 10 and Gilgamesh of Universe 12!” 

Whis’ expression darkened “Oh dear…this maybe a terrible match for us” Whis said as the selected duellists gathered on the duelling field in the centre of the area “Gilgamesh’s reputation isn’t to be underestimated. What I've heard is that he is ruthlessly intelligent” Beerus sat down and Whis sat next to him with Team 7 standing to watch the match “Well we’d better hope dear Fluttershy will be okay” 

Sunset looked at Gilgamesh with concern but then his face turned to her “Hello…” he said as he walked over “I hear your team won the last tournament…which one of you is Goku” when Goku stepped closer and offered to shake hands “hmnm I don’t think so…you are beneath me, beneath my contempt and unworthy of my treasure. I just wanted to see who might be my biggest rival but what I see here is an exaggeration and a joke” he turned and walked back to the ring pausing in front of Fluttershy “Weakness like yours disgusts me…you’d do better to remember your place” Fluttershy murmured a reply but Gilgamesh couldn’t hear it “What?” 

“I said I’m not weak!” Fluttershy snapped “I maybe not as brave as others or as confident but I’m here for my friends and family! I will win!” she then showed him her eyes unshaken by his scowl "And if you insult my friends again...I'll be sure to stand up for them!" 

Jiro turned her head impressed by Fluttershy’s defiance “Wow…you really know how to make a good first impression!” Jiro said as she walked up and shook Fluttershy’s hand “My name is Jiro…your Fluttershy?” the shy girl nodded “I do hope we can get to hand this arrogant jerk his ass!” 

Yugi approached and said “So long as you try your best there’s no shame in losing but I can’t afford to lose either” he shook both Fluttershy and Jiro by the hand “Right good luck” The teams took their place and a light shone bright above Yugi “I assume that means I’m first?” when the Grand Minister nodded Yugi drew his opening hand before Atem took over “Okay! Let's begin! Hmm I’ll start by setting two face downs and summoning Alpha the Magnet Warrior in Defence mode!” Alpha appeared on the field spinning and landing looking calm as it raised it's shield “And that’s my turn!” 





The next move was Fluttershy’s to take “Um okay…I…um let’s see” she checked her hand, nothing she held was a match for Alpha but it didn’t have to be…she just had to trust her defences could hold “I…I….um I…play two face downs and then summon a monster in defence mode!” the cards appeared on the field and Fluttershy gulped “I end my turn” 

Gilgamesh drew one card bored and said “Boring moves like that are pathetic….you are weak! Inferior to me!” Gilgamesh snarled at Fluttershy “Respect is for the strong and you are not!” he looked at his hand “You are so weak…I do not need to play a single card, I end my turn!”

Jiro laughed “Sounds like all talk and no bite! It’s my move! Alright! I play pot of greed, this card allows me to draw two cards. Now hmm yeah this works!” she looked out a monster “I now summon Vorse Raider in attack mode! Then I set a card!” Vorse raider appeared snarling as he readied his weapon “Turn end”





Yugi smiled “You’re certainly confident…but I’m afraid it is simply not enough. I draw! Hmm I’ll sacrifice my Alpha the Magnet Warrior and summon my Summoned Skull!” Alpha disappeared, being replaced by the tall demon monster and Yugi smiled “Now Summoned Skull attack with lightning strike on Vorse Raider!” 





“FOOL!” Gilgamesh snapped as lightening crackled around them as Summoned Skull channelled it’s power at Vorse Raider “She has a trap card!” 

“She’s not the one you have to worry about!” Fluttershy suddenly declared “I play my trap, it’s one of my favourites…it’s called Redwall Defiance!” suddenly a wall appeared in front of Vorse Raider absorbing the blow “This trap doesn’t only stop your attack but it allows me to take control of the attacking monster!” 

“What?” Yugi said admiring the trap with a confident smile “Impressive” as Summoned Skull appeared on Fluttershy’s field "I'll admit...probably underestimated them a little but..." 

“That’s not all! I activate my second trap…it’s called Redwall Union Equip! It allows me to sacrifice one monster on our field and equip it to another monster! I sacrifice Summoned Skull and equip it to Vorse Raider!” as soon as she declared it, Summoned Skull disappeared and Vorse Raider yelled in surprise as suddenly it was clad in armour that looked like the fiend “That’s it”

"Risky play" Whis mumbled to himself but then added "However to have a chance Fluttershy and Jiro will have to work closely together so Fluttershy did well"  

“I might have underestimated you” Gilgamesh said in a calm voice “In a single turn you’ve taken a powerful monster and used it to reinforce your partner’s monster making Vorse Raider’s attack points an impressive 4400. I don’t mind admitting you may be in fact worthy of my time” Gilgamesh’s face however suddenly became sinister “However I have a card in my hand that’ll change that…it’s called Grail’s Wish!” a golden cup appeared before Gilgamesh and he smirked “To explain this simply, this card allows me to sacrifice an opponent’s monster and summon a monster from my deck with half the attack points! And no it's not cheating that I played it from my hand!” he looked through his deck “ah perfect! I summon Servant Lancer Leonidas in defence mode” the powerful warrior appeared with a raised shield and his defence points were a scary 3000 “Now for his special ability! I can summon any tuner monster from my hand so long as I discard the rest of my hand! I summon the tuner monster Servant Caster Bluebeard” 





“Hmm so annoying….You summon me when I have better things to do” Bluebeard said as he appeared “I am not your puppet” 

“Silence!” Leonidas snapped 





“Is it my turn?” Fluttershy asked 

Yugi sighed “Yep” 

“Okay my move…I draw” Fluttershy said her hand now didn’t look too promising her best cards were gone, used to give them an advantage but instead had just allowed Gilgamesh to gain an advantage, her face down monster was Redwall Cornflower, a monster’s who special ability wouldn’t be much help and she looked to the monster in her hand “I…don’t know what to do…”

“Fluttershy! Believe in yourself and in your cards you’ll need to believe in them if you’re going to beat Gilgamesh!” Sunset suddenly called out “Please! We believe in you! Believe in yourself!” 

“I…Sunset?! Thank you…I may lose but when I have friends like you and Jiro….” Fluttershy said as she turned to Jiro who nodded her support “I’ll go down giving it my all!” she looked at her hand again and spotted a possible winner “I play the spell card! The will of Martin!” a scroll appeared on the field “This powerful spell allows me to sacrifice half my life points…” her life points went from 4000 to 2000, this did cause Fluttershy quite a bit of pain but she gritted her teeth determined and defiant to fight on “To choose a monster from anywhere and summon it! I must also launch an attack as soon as it appears but that’s fine because the monster I pick is…Servant Saber Arturia!” Gilgamesh’s face formed a look of sick rage as Saber appeared on Fluttershy’s field smirking as she did “Thank you”





“How’d you know Arturia was in my deck!?” Gilgamesh bellowed 

“I don’t know” Fluttershy said shyly 

“I called to you…sweet Fluttershy…I could not bear to serve Gilgamesh and wanted to be your servant” Saber Artuira said kindly turning and hugging Fluttershy who was surprised “Your spirit is strong and brave and I wouldn’t serve anyone else…You are worthy of me. Now use my special ability” 

“Yes I use Excalibur Calling! This special ability allows Saber to call another of the Saber class to our field! And I choose the Servant Saber Mordred” Fluttershy yelled as another card flew out of Gilgamesh’s deck only for Saber Arturia to give a look of slight annoyance although small, Fluttershy noticed and asked “What did I do something wrong!?” 

“No…I just don’t want to talk to her right now” Saber Arturia admitted as she pitched her nose in a sad shake of her head “But here comes trouble”

“I heard that!” Saber Mordred snapped as she appeared “Hi Dad! Not in a chatting mood are we?!” she looked towards Fluttershy and gave a dismissive shrug "Hey...I don't recall being in this weakling's service" 





“Not really” Saber Arturia said as she turned back to Fluttershy and ignored Mordred “But I sense you’re intentions are to use us to summon your strongest monster…do it! I want to see you win!” 

“R…Really?!” Fluttershy asked but Mordred glared at her for sounding nervous “I...I…I play my spell card! Polymerization! To Summon the Redwall Fusion monster…Redwall abbey in defence mode! This card can only be summoned by fusing monsters together that had the same attack points and were over 2000!” she looked at the cards of the two sabers as they flew back to Gilgamesh who looked annoyed but also impressed by the high walls of the abbey before him, it had 4500 defence points dwarfing Leonidas. 

The zenos looked down from their thrones “Wow! Impressive! So strong, those walls look tough” one zeno said as he tried to look inside the walls. 

“Indeed the real walls of Redwall Abbey were built to both protect and welcome friends inside….withstanding siege from rats like Cluny the Scurge or from the Raven Ironbeak” the grand minister said as he rubbed his chin “But it lacks a single attack point so maybe miss Fluttershy is mistaken in its summon” 

The second zeno nodded “Well she’s gotta have more to it? Or maybe she hopes those two will be impressed by the walls?” 

"Well I'm impressed..strong walls they are" the first zeno said.

Fluttershy had finished looking through her deck and said “Thanks to the Abbey! I can Summon any one Redwall Monster regardless of summoning requirements!” she had found the monster “I choose the Warrior of legend! Redwall Martin the Warrior!” the warrior mouse appeared his attack points set to 2500 “Now I activate Redwall’s second effect! Once I have a face up Redwall monster in attack mode it gains 500 attack points for each level!” 





“And Martin is a level 7!?” Yugi correctly stated as the warrior mouse raised his sword high above his head and the air cracked with lighting as his attack points surged to 6000! The players watched on impressed by the warrior mouse’s new found strength “It could crush Leonidas easily or….”

“Miss Fluttershy…” the mouse suddenly said clad in his heavy armour as he turned to look at her “I come with my own special ability…By giving up a card from your hand you can have me attack twice! Please it’d be best if we take out those monsters first!” 

“Well I guess…we could do that! Yeah first I start the battle by ordering Martin to attack Leonidas!” Fluttershy yelled in her quiet way as Martin began to charge, Leonidas turned raising his shield blocking the first blow of Martin’s shield but he couldn’t stop Martin bringing his sword down in a clear cutting movement that cut him in half “And now I…”

“We discard a card…” Jiro interrupted turning to Fluttershy “Well I should help….and since I discarded that card my deck finally gets to help! When I discard this card I get to summon it! Behold the power of my music hero deck! I Summon Music Hero Elton John!” suddenly the air was filled with the sound of music of Rocketman as the legendary singer rose in a cloud of steam in a pose as his defence points were registered as 2000 “Hi Mr John?” 

Elton John turned with a smile and nodded, this was Elton John at the prime of life and he said simply “Hope you don’t mind if I start singing now…” the song cut out as Elton John brought a microphone to his lips and began to sing.  

“What is this tripe!?” Gilgamesh snarled as the song began 

“Show some respect!” Jiro yelled “This is one of the greatest Musicians who ever lived! And with his summon his song touching the hearts of Martin and Fluttershy’s defence monster…I get to draw two cards and Martin gains an extra 100 attack for each!” she smiled as Elton nodded at Martin who returned his nod “Now Martin attack, Bluebeard!” 

“oh no” Bluebeard sighed as Martin cut him in half too “Ohhh that was good but my special ability activates as I’m destroyed and now Gilgamesh will summon your doom!” 

“Indeed I get to summon Servant Berserker Hercules!” Gilgamesh called out as the towering brute rose to the field but weirdly his attack points were registered as 0 “Now you may be wondering where his attack points are? Not to worry his attack points are the combined total of all monster currently on the field!” 



“But that would mean…his attack is 6200 from Martin…and 1900 from Mr John” Yugi said slowly “8100!” 

“Yay! So many attack points!” Zeno one yelled excited as Zeno two nodded 

“It is quite impressive Lords Zenos” The Grand Minister said as he then added “And Mr Muto hasn’t had much of a chance to impress” he then paused “But it may very well be over” 

Fluttershy looked sadly to Martin “I’m sorry” 

“Not your fault” Martin said sadly “If I had not said my bit…you could have won without me” 

“No no no! You did great” Jiro said as she sadly admitted “I just wish I could have done more” 

Fluttershy walked up to Jiro who looked sadly downwards but then Fluttershy gave her a small hug “We’re a team…I know we maybe from different worlds but I’m honoured to have met you and played with you side by side!” Jiro nodded as she returned the hug “For better or for worse we gave it our all and that’s all anyone can ask of us” 

Watching from their seats, Naruto Uzumaki said “If this tournament has people of that spirit…I can’t wait for my turn!” his team mates laughed, some things never changed and Naruto’s eagerness was one such thing “But that Gilgamesh certainly seems tough” 

Monkey D Luffy smiled as Nami turned to him “I know that smile Luffy….what is it?” 

“Can you believe how many amazing people are in this!? Those two are just amazing! Those two are about to lose and yet…they’re so free” Luffy said as he stood up “I want up next!” 

However not everyone was so happy watching as the imposing monster stood on the field well over 20 feet high “Fluttershy…” Applejack whispered from where she sat “This can’t be happening…what will happen if they do lose!?” 

“It all depends on who has the higher lifepoints” Shining Armour admitted as he heard her “I suspect….” 

“That Gilgamesh will take out Yugi in the same move he takes out those two” Kaiba said to Joey as they watched, the Universe 10 team was silent as none of them doubted that was a possibility. It was what made sense and he seemed to be the type to do it “I’ve seen that look too often to doubt it” 

Joey was silent for a moment and then nodded “It pains me to say it, Rich boy but your right” Joey’s tone was filled with a small hint of sadness “It’s sad too because I feel like I know that Fluttershy girl…she maybe shy but she reminds me of something that just makes my head hurt” 

“Doesn’t sound that hard” Kaiba joked but he then saw Joey’s eyes “If Yugi does lose…it’ll be up to us to win this, Joey and I hope you’re not thinking of taking it easy on anyone….HEY! Where are you going?!” 

“I’m just gonna see what we’re up against” Joey admitted as he walked away but kept his eyes on the duel “Please Yug don’t let your guard down” 

“Enough stalling! Do you end your turn, Miss Fluttershy! Your stalling is annoying!” Gilgamesh snapped as he looked down at his hand “I want to let loose Hercules on you!” as he said this Hercules roared in rage, Martin looked ready to go down fighting but despite how he tightened the grip on his sword, the nerves were clear with the way his body trembled ever so slightly “or do you wish to surrender you pathetic fool!” Fluttershy mumbled her response but no one could hear it “Pardon!?” 

“I said….I’m not done! I activate the final effect of Redwall….I’m sorry, Martin, this is the last resort…I activate Walls Crumble! This effect destroys Redwall…and summons fourth one of the monsters used to summon it! Come back Servant Saber Arturia!” there was a bright flash but when it cleared there stood Saber Arturia looking confident “The second part of this effect is that Saber can led her attack points to Martin for one last attack…”

“Allow me” Jiro interrupted discarding a card 

“And if Mr John wants to…” Fluttershy added but both Jiro and Elton John nodded “He can led his attack points too!” both monsters led their attack points to Martin as his armour suddenly changed to a bright gold colour “Now on top of that! For Every monster who led him strength he gains 100 attack points for every level involved including his own! So that’s 2200! That should be enough to drop your points to zero!” Gilgamesh shrugged “Martin! Take those points and ATTACK! Final Sword Slash!” 

“Charge!” Martin yelled as he charged forward “For the will of Redwalll! For my friends and all those who have fallen! I am that is!” Hercules roared and lunged forward but Martin dodged to the right and when Hercules spun to hit him, Martin jumped into the air and swung his sword cutting Hercules’ head off “I did it!” the head of Hercules landed with a thump at the feet of Yugi who was surprised but impressed. 

“Hmm amusing little mouse but someone needs to revise the 12 trials of Hercules” Gilgamesh said calmly as the body of Hercules hadn’t fallen “To defeat Hercules you must defeat him 13 times….and till that’s done my life points….will only be cut in half each time” he grunted as his lifepoints fell to 2000 but despite the pain, his grin only grew “and I have the redwall cards in my treasure….I know that attack costs you dearly!” 

“What are you talking about…” Yugi began but Martin suddenly fell to one knee as his armour disappeared exposing the mouse underneath “What the?!” the mouse looked old, his whiskers grey for many battles but it was in his eyes where the pain seemed the most noticeable, Martin the Warrior looked more like Martin the broken and his sword fell to the ground. 

“He’s right…that attack is a last resort….once it’s used my points fall to their base value…” Martin wheezed as he held his chest “Fluttershy forgive me….” 

Fluttershy let a single tear trickle down her face “There’s nothing to forgive, Martin….I felt the same way when I read about Rose…but please we’re a team! Goodbye” 

“Now Hercules rip that mouse in two!” Gilgamesh ordered 

“NO!” 

“Elton John!!” Jiro called out as he jumped in front of Martin who looked up shocked as a part of Elton's clothes fell onto him “I didn’t order this!” 

“But you were going to!” Mr John said as he smiled back “I activate my special ability! This allows me to sacrifice myself and take your monster with me! Hope you don't mind the trip!” he disappeared a moment later and Jiro fell to her knees but it was all for not. It had worked…till Gilgamesh began to cackle. 

“What’s so funny!?” Yugi hissed in disgust 

“Hercules maybe gone but your efforts have just unlocked a more powerful monster…I give up all but 1 of my lifepoints to summon fourth…myself!” Gilgamesh yelled as a second version of him appeared on the field, his attack points came in at 2000 but Gilgamesh grunted “My special ability allows me to summon the four most powerful monsters from my deck!” 





“So what!?” Jiro challenged “We have you beaten can’t you see! All we have to do is get to my turn then I can summon my favourite of the Musical Hero monsters!” she held up a single card "All we need do is summon this and...." she looked at Fluttershy with a knowing look. 

“And with my defence monster will…” Fluttershy began but then four monsters appeared on the field. 

“Impossible! Where’d you get those!?” Yugi snapped as slifer the sky dragon, obelisk the tormentor, winged Dragon of Ra and a woman appeared on the field “The Egyptian god cards!” 

“Oh them? Those are just the icing on the cake to the fourth, may I present Servant Ruler Joan!” Gilgamesh said as Joan stepped forward looking a little sad “I’ll activate her special ability now! This effect allows me to force all cards on the field apart from one to the hand” he smirked “Including my partner’s…” all Gilgamesh’s monsters returned to his hand, Yugi’s cards returned as did Fluttershy’s but weirdly Slifer remained on the field who’s attack was registered as zero “Oh yes I forgot to explain….when summoned in this way…the monster’s effects are negated for a turn” 





“Which means…when Fluttershy ends her turn” Yugi began “Slifer’s attack will jump to…7000!” The dragon hissed looking down at Fluttershy practically daring the timid girl to end her turn. Fluttershy looked up into the monster's face and felt her heart quake in fear for what would happen but as the second ticked down so did her options. Her hand had her cards back but there was precious little she could do with them especially when facing a monster who's attack points were ready to end this on the next turn! 





“But if she ends her turn…there’ll be no way to stop Slifer from attacking” Sunset Shimmer whispered in a horrified tone as Team seven knew Fluttershy's fate was all but sealed at this point. Tien walked over and placed his hand on Sunset's shoulder in a supportive manner. 

“I don’t understand! What will happen if....when she takes an attack from that thing!?” Rainbow Dash screamed distressed by the mere sight of Slifer "I mean how is that card even legal! It's like cheating!" 

Joey suddenly approached and said in a sad voice “It’s likely she won’t survive the blow…I took an attack from Ra once and...” he shook his head “Just curious though and wanted to ask why is your team so invested with this duel given no one from your team is in it?” 

Sunset and Rainbow looked uncomfortably to Twilight who explained simply “Well Fluttershy and her friends are friends of ours” she hoped that would be enough but then a member from the Naruto team approached and Twilight gulped “You don’t seem impressed by my answer?” 

“Sorry no I’m not because I feel there’s more to it. Name’s Shikamaru” the man said as he looked at Twilight closely and then met her eyes “Regardless of your motives to tell half-truths tell me all I need to know….I know I’ll be meeting you later in the competition. And when I win…I hope you’ll permit me to know why there are two of you?” he pointed to Sci Twilight who looked uncomfortably away. 

Joey snarled “That’s your biggest question?” Shikamaru glared at Joey who returned the glare “This tournament has so many questions as it is…that one isn’t in the top 10!” 

“Hmm so which question is the number 1?” Shikamaru asked as he watched Joey who pointed to Twilight and then all around in a big circle “What?!” 

Joey then pointed to Gilgamesh who noticed but smirked confidently at Joey who said “The question is what are the motives of all those taking part…because no matter how much I watch that guy...those eyes he has make me ask, what’s he in this tournament for?” Shikamaru shrugged admittedly that was a fair question “And in my team…Bakura” 

“awwww something wrong Wheeler?” came a dark voice as Bakura approached looking sinister as he smirked “Or is it just simple fear?! You know what I’m capable of and…” he spotted Sunset and stepped closer “And the shadows want to consume some of you more than others” he raised a hand to Sunset but Tien stepped between the two “Hmm?” 

“I would advise you leave my friends alone” Tien snarled as the other z fighters gathered round in a protective manner. 

Bakura shrugged “Well regardless of who I face…I’ll be sure to send you all to the sha…” suddenly a sword’s tip stopped him from speaking by being drawn a mere inch from his face turning to see the swordsman of the Strawhat pirates. 

“Not a very friendly tone is it?” Zorro said as he was far from alone, next to him was Nico Robin looking equally unimpressed by Bakura “Now I suggest you leave them be” Bakura walked away as suddenly Slifer roared “Looks like that woman has ended her turn” 

“That woman is my friend!” Rainbow dash snapped grabbing Zoro by the front of his clothes, her eyes filled with tears,  Zoro simply let her and nodded with a kind smile on his face "What's that smile about!?" 

“Forgive him…Zorro meant no disrespect” Robin said in a friendly tone as she gently hugged Rainbow in a supportive manner, rubbing her back gently and generally showing Rainbow a level of support that Robin usually reserved for her crew mates “We’re simply seeing who’s who in this little tournament and also so we can see if we can…make some friends” 

Joey said cautiously “That’s friendly of you” 

However Zorro was right, Fluttershy had ended her turn and in so doing sealed her fate, Gilgamesh drew a single card and Slifer’s attack rose to 8000 as it’s effect returned “I’ll admit I have but one turn…one turn to end this otherwise Slifer will go to my grave but in this turn all my opponents in this duel shall fall” he took a card from his hand “I’ll start with this! Reload! This spell allows me to shuffle the cards in my hand back to my deck!” 

“But why?” Jiro asked “You could wipe out Fluttershy or me…” 

“But that’s the thing…I don’t just want to destroy you two” Gilgamesh said calmly and then yelled “Slifer! I command you attack…Yugi!” 

“WHAT?!” Joey yelled in alarm “YUGI!” Krillin grabbed Joey “Let me go! If he takes an attack from Slifer he’ll be…”

“I know” Krillin said as Slifer turned towards Yugi it’s mouth opened wide and Yugi pulled off his duel disc turning towards Joey giving him a sad smile causing Joey to struggle all the more. Slifer’s attack began to power up filling with a fearsome orb of power “I’m sorry” Krillin whispered

Suddenly Fluttershy ran forward and pushed Yugi out the way “Fluttershy!” her friends screamed in horror as the attack fired, the full force hit Fluttershy, she disappeared in the stream of destruction and above them the Zenos clapped at the entertaining show of Slifer the Sky Dragon. Finally the attack stopped, everyone had to stop the Equestria girls and Twilight from  running to their friend in case Slifer wasn't finished. 

“Hmm annoying” Gilgamesh said as Fluttershy’s points hit zero “Since I won! I get to decide her fate!”

“NO!” Rainbow dash screamed as Gilgamesh approached the injured Fluttershy and flipped her over with his foot “Leave her alone!” she tried to pull free but Robin kept a tight hold on her despite Rainbow's frantic attempts. 

“Hmm annoying but worthy…I sense a great power within…worth keeping. My request for the loser is for her to become my slave!” Gilgamesh yelled as he looked back at her, a single small bird that had been teleported by mistake by Whis flew over and tried to protect Fluttershy but Gilgamesh found the answer he was looking for with this small action “I can see her being of use and besides she’ll make a fine trophy” 

“A trophy!” Yugi yelled in disgust as Jiro also looked furious “Is that all we are to you!? In that case since your attack is through I'll team up with Jiro to finish you!” 

Gilgamesh shook his head “Those who proof themselves worthy of my time are worth keeping but you Pharaoh have proven not to be…Now I play this! The spell Fated Choice! This powerful spell allows me to take one monster I control and either dish out their attack points as damage to every player or add them to my lifepoints” Yugi and Jiro braced themselves “And I pick the first option! After I activate Ring of Defence! So both of you are taking 5000 life points of damage! This means…Game over” Yugi and Jiro both fell to their knees as their points hit zero and the shock wave from the spell forced them back causing serious injuries to both “Now to claim my prizes…you three will be…”

“Joey!” Yugi screamed as Joey ran up “Joey take my deck!” Joey grabbed up the cards before turning to run but one card slipped from his grip “No! Joey! Stop!” 

“My servants!” Gilgamesh finished before adding “Nice try Pharaoh…now let’s see what clumsy mistake your friend Joey made” he picked it up and his smirk only grew “Oh! How Ironic! It’s none other than your fabled Dark magician?” Joey looked to the deck he was holding and his expression grew more desperate but Goku ran up holding him back “Good call…now hear this! All of you will be my slaves! Weather your Muscle bound apes or slender celestial guardians!” 

“What!?” Sailor Moon yelled in disgust "Bad enough what he's done to those three...I'll never serve him" 

“As if” Ichigo Kurosaki said in equal disgust

Vegeta glared at Gilgamesh and then said “Hope he isn’t a betting man” 

Joey looked sadly to Yugi as Yugi disappeared into a golden portal and the UA students equally watched as Jiro disappeared into the same portal but when it was Fluttershy’s turn her friends from Universes charged forward forming a circle and even the Z fighters, Zorro and Nico charged forward to help “Out of the way or you’ll all be disqualified” the Grand Minister warned “The rules of the tournament are absolute! I suggest you move” 

“We won’t let him take our friend!” Twilight snapped in disgust as she raised her hands but then Beerus and Whis approached “Mr Whis!?” 

“I’m sorry Twilight but our team has no part in this” Whis said as he then added “Now please move”

“We won’t!” 18 said firmly “This girl gave it her all! She is worthy of respect” 

“This is your final warning” the grand minister said evenly “If you don’t surrender her to meet with Gilgamesh’s decision…you will be removed” he held his hand up and Team 7 knew they had no choice as they all made the bitter decision they had to. 

“I’m sorry Fluttershy” Sunset said as the Universe 7 team moved with the z fighters pulling Rainbow, Sunset and Twilight back to their team seats. Team 6 were removed by Caulifla and Hit, Zorro and Robin seeing no further point in staying moved off “Evil…evil….man” Sunset whimpered watching as Fluttershy disappeared into the portal “I swear I’ll get Fluttershy back…no matter what it takes” 

“Get in line” Joey said as he walked over sadly “I want to get Yug back! Now but I promise no matter if it's you or me who takes him down...I'll get Fluttershy back too!” 

The Grand Minister coughed “Now that duel is finished it’s time for the next round….” The lights appeared overhead and this time the first red one shot over to Universe 2 and the second red light landed on Universe 5 “Shikamaru Nara of Universe 5 and Ami Mizuno of Universe 2 have been selected for Team Red! Now team blue…” the first blue light landed this time on Universe 7 and then the second blue light fell on Team 5 again “Weird I thought I…oh well, Naruto Uzumaki of Universe 5 and Sunset Shimmer of Universe 7 are selected for Team Blue!” 

Naruto was over to Sunset barely a second later and smiled offering his hand “Hey! My Name is Naruto” 

Sunset smiled and shook Naruto’s hand “My name is Sunset Shimmer but please just call me Sunset” 

Naruto blushed and said “Yeah just saying this…but I’m sorry about your friend?” Sunset nodded “Right…my friends and I were…impressed” Naruto admitted “I hope your good because uhhh we may be doomed…What?” 

“You’re not filling us with confidence” Master Roshi said sadly 

“It’s just that Shikamaru is like really smart! And I’m not called the Knuckle headed ninja for nothing” Naruto laughed nervously as Sunset looked at Rainbow for some support but Rainbow's reaction was what Sunset's was. 

“Do you want a white flag now or later?” Rainbow Dash deadpanned.
> Chapter 7- One more card
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“I can’t believe this is happening!” Sakura said as she watched the duellists preparing to duel, the Universe 5 team was in shock, they assumed that this couldn’t happen, the chances had to be ridiculously out of it for this match to ever happen but Sakura turned to Sai and asked “What are the chances of this happening?!” 

Sai just shrugged as he looked on as the four drew their opening hands and then mused “Well look at this way, Sakura…at least we’ll have one person through to the second round even if Naruto loses so badly that he….” WAM! Sakura punched Sai into a nearby wall “I guess I misspoke” Sai mumbled in a little bit of pain.

“Regardless….this match is over…Shikamaru is a genius at this game” Neji Hyuga said as he crossed his arms in front of himself “Naruto maybe a great ninja but duelist…”

“Yeah he’s not so bright…I mean Shikamaru just has this in the bag!” Choji said as he opened a bag of crisps and began to snack on them “I mean what chance does Naruto realistically stand?” 

Hinata rose to her feet before giving a small shake of her head and said “Well yes but Naruto isn’t fighting alone that girl from the Universe 7 team is duelling at his side and maybe Naruto and Shikamaru will go through to the next round....” 

“Oh give me a break Hinata” Kiba said as he stroked Akamaru who groaned happily “You saw what happened in the last duel? That girl will probably try to turn on that knuckle head! And will likely succeed!” he stood up and added “Besides that other girl, Ami is also in this duel and she could pose a threat to both our guys” 

“Yeah we don’t know much about this Ami girl” Sakura agreed as she rubbed her chin “But she is up first…and seems to be taking her time?” 

Ami was indeed taking her time considering her opening move slowly as she looked at the cards one by one and then said “Right…I’m going to open with this! I play a monster in face down defence” she then picked a second card “And play this face down” 

“Right my move!” Naruto said happily as he drew a card “Okay! I play…uhhhh” 

“Does he know what he’s doing?!” Sakura said in shock 

“uhhh I play Battle Ox in attack mode! And then I play the spell card, Heart of the Underdog!” Naruto declared as his Battle Ox appeared on the field raising its axe and the spell appeared behind him “And to end my turn I play a card face down!” 





“Wait I remember Naruto’s deck…” Sai said as he dusted himself down “The deck is mostly normal monsters and equip spells but one card in there is dangerous” 

“It’s my turn” Shikamaru said as he drew a card “Right…” he also took his time as he looked at Naruto’s ox and smiled “You know Naruto I was hoping we’d get to duel but not this early…I play the spell, Card destruction. This means we all discard our hands and then draw the same number of cards” all four did as they were supposed to “Now I play two cards face down and end my turn” 

Sunset looked to her deck and sniffed “Fluttershy this is for you” she drew a card and smiled “Thank you…I play a spell Black Luster Ritual!” she raised the card above her head and then added “In order to invoke the power of this card I must sacrifice monsters from my hand that equal level 8! And I have one! I sacrifice from my hand this card! Blue Eyes White dragon!” Kaiba from the side lines was shocked but then he realised since Sunset was from a different dimension, she could gain access to it and he smiled eyeing her up “The offering has been accepted! I summon Black Luster Soldier” the ritual monster surged forward from the ritual and raised its sword high “Fair warning this is merely the first of many ritual monsters my deck has to offer!” 





Shikamaru smiled “And here I thought Naruto was the real threat…but you’ve made a mistake summoning your most powerful ritual monster…unless this really is opening move of a much more fearsome deck?” 

“You’re smarter than I thought” Sunset said and smiled “As it happens this isn’t my only deck but I will use it to crush you!” she pointed to Gilgamesh who smirked as he sat with his team “You all seem nice but I have to get Fluttershy back!” 

Ami nodded “Friendship like that is worthy of respect but I can’t afford to lose” 

Sunset simply chose a card from her hand “I’ll end my turn with a facedown” 

Ami drew a card and shrugged “Shame…I wanted to see that monster attack but….I flip my Cyber Jar!” she flipped the card revealing the destructive jar which blasted both Battle Ox and Black Luster Soldier“Now we each get to draw five cards and if there are any level four or below monsters we have to summon them” the four drew “I play Beta the Magnet Warrior, Gamma the Magnet Warrior and Alpha the Magnet Warrior!” 





“All three!?” Sunset said as she drew but her result wasn’t pleasing “I play Masked Dragon in defence mode” 

Naruto drew and smiled “I play all five monsters! Blackland Fire dragon, Giant soldier of stone, Gil Garth, Axe Raider and Alexandrite Dragon, with the first two in defence mode!” all five of Naruto’s monsters appeared “Thanks for the favour!” 

Shikamaru shook his head as he said “I didn’t get any” 

Ami smiled as she then said “I’m sorry Naruto but I think you’ve made a mistake…” Naruto looked at his five monsters and shrugged “Well my three monsters can combine into a stronger force. In the monster card, Valkyrion the magna warrior!” the three magnet monsters broke apart and the powerful Valkyrion appeared raising it’s sword “and remember I still have my attack! Valkyrion attack Gil Garth!” 





“I don’t think so!” Sunset declared “I activate my trap Attack Guidance armour! And equip it to my Masked Dragon!” the armour appeared on the unlucky dragon and Valkyrion was guided to attack it, the dragon braced itself as Valkyrion took it’s head off “Thanks to that I get to summon a dragon from anywhere in my deck! So I pick Decoy Dragon!” 

Ami smiled “That was a good move…I end my turn” 

“I’m up!” Naruto said as he drew and smiled “Alright! Check it out! I drew a normal monster!” he showed the card exposing a Gaia the Fierce Knight and then drew again “Hmm Not what I wanted but it’ll do…check it out!” he played the spell he’d just drawn “It’s the ritual card…see Sunset you’re not the only one…curse of the masked beast! And I’ll offer up Gil Garth and Blackland Fire Dragon….to summon fourth The Masked Beast!” 





“Impressive but it’s nowhere near strong enough to take on Valkyrion, Naruto” Shikamaru said but then noticed Naruto holding up another card “Oh no” 

“You remembered? I play the equip spell Mage Power!” Naruto declared as he equipped it to his Alexandrite Dragon “And I play another card face down…so that means my Alexandrite Dragon has…4000 attack points! Now my mighty dragon attack! Diamond Storm Blast!” the dragon reared up and fired it’s attack. 

“Not so fast! I play a spell! It’s called Shrink!” Ami declared but then Naruto hit a button on his duel disc “Oh no!”

“Oh yes! I play my trap, Mystical Refpanel!” Naruto declared and added “With it I’ll use your spell to target Valkyrion…dropping his attack points to 1750!” 

“Nice card, Naruto but now I play my trap! The Mirror Wall! And my second trap Dust Tornado! To wipe out your mage power!” Shikamaru said as he then added “Making your monster’s attack points a mere 1000!” Alexandrite dragon smashed into the mirror wall and it’s points indeed dropped to 1000

“Now Valkyrion counter sword slash attack!” Ami ordered as her monster cut Alexandrite dragon in two and Naruto’s points dropped to 3250 “Phew that was close thanks Shikamaru!” 

“No problem” Shikamaru said giving her the thumbs up. 

“Oh yeah…well I still have my masked beast at…” Naruto began but noticed Sunset shaking her head “What!?” 

“I have that trap in my deck! Mirror Wall is continuous; if you order Masked Beast to attack it’ll only be destroyed!” Sunset warned as Ami nodded 

“Smart girl” Shikamaru said as he smiled at Sunset “She’s correct…Naruto. It gives me no pleasure but Ami and I will have to defeat you” 

Naruto smiled “That’s the thing Shikamaru I am not going to lose! Sunset and I have two kickass decks plus this duel is just too good to stop! Even if we’re all rivals…I love this sense of competition” both Ami and Sunset did nod in agreement “Already I can see Sunset and Ami are worth respecting…” he turned to Sunset “You don’t mind if I call you a friend?” 

Sunset smiled “I’d be insulted if we weren’t” Sunset said as she gave him the thumbs up “But I’m sorry Shikamaru…I need to get through as I’ve said before…Fluttershy needs me to save her!”

Ami shrugged “If we win Sunset and face Gilgamesh later…I promise we’ll see your friends freed! That’s a promise from Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts as a whole!” 

“Well if it’s okay it’s still my move” Naruto said as he sighed “No choice, I end my turn” 

“Sorry to say this maybe the last move…” Shikamaru said as he drew “Hmm or not but I do take 2000 life point damage from having Mirror wall in play. I play one card face down and then play the spells Mass Driver and Wave Motion Canon!” the two canons appeared on the field and Shikamaru smiled “I then play Cost down! Using this card allows me to reduce the level of a monster by 2 and all it costs me is a card from my hand!” he discarded “And Now I summon Shadow Ghoul in attack mode!” the zombie monster rose on the field and it’s attack read 1600 “May look harmless but for every monster in my grave it gains 100 attack points! And after discarding so many cards…it’s attack stands at 2200!” 





“So that’s why you discarded our hands! You had nothing but monsters?!” Naruto said in surprise Shikamaru nodded “That’s rare for you” 

“Hmm well at any rate I play one card facedown and end my turn!” Shikamaru said as he stared at Sunset “Your move?” 

“And I’ll make it count!” Sunset said as she drew “In a big way! I play this…” She smiled at the card remembering it was Fluttershy who gave it to her “I play Martin’s return! This spell allows me to summon any monster who went to the grave without battling! So return to the field Black Luster Soldier!” the warrior returned and showed his sword “But I’m not done! Thanks to Martin! My Soldier gains a special ability! For his first attack, traps played against him will be destroyed and that includes continuous traps already in play!” 

“Meaning the mirror wall is little more than tissue paper?!” Shikamaru said as he rubbed his chin “Impressive card but why is it in your deck?” 

Sunset sniffed as she saw Martin’s spirit standing beside her Soldier “You know why! Now I play another spell! Magnum Shield! This card will add Black Luster Soldier's defence points to his attack points! Giving him 5500 attack points! So even if you could stop it….you won’t” 

“Allow me to help!” Naruto added “I activate the trap metalmorph! Meaning that when Black Luster Soldier attacks it’ll gain half of the attack points of whatever it attacks!” 

“Meaning it’s only logical for Sunset to attack me” Ami said as she turned to Universe 2 who were shocked by what seemed to be happening “I’m sorry girls…couldn’t pull it off” she turned back to Sunset “If you attack, Sunset with your monsters…it’ll be over. 7250 hitting my monster will take off 3750 and then Decoy Dragon can take the rest” 

“My mirror wall will…” Shikamaru countered but was left unsure what he could do “If I play my second trap…it’ll be destroyed…” 

“It’s okay, Shikamaru” Ami said happily as she turned to face Sunset “Please just order the attack….you need to win this don’t you? If you attack Shikamaru…he could have a quick play spell that could weaken the blow…I’m the only logical target!” 

“I…I…can’t…” Sunset whispered as she thought about what happened at the end of the last duel carefully but then Ami nodded as Sunset nodded in return “Okay! Black Luster Soldier attack Valkyrion!” Black Luster Soldier charged forward as he did Mirror wall appeared in front of him but the spirit of Martin smashed it “Chaos slash!” Valkyrion braced itself for the blow, raising it’s sword as Black Luster Soldier swung his shield disarming the magnet warrior and then thrust his sword through the chest of the magnetic warrior “I’m sorry, Ami” 

“It’s okay…” Ami began but then the shockwave from the battle hit her winding her as she fell to one knee “You did it…” 

“Decoy Dragon attack” Sunset ordered “Gently!” she ordered, the small dragon hovered over and slapped Ami across the face “That was still a little rough” Ami’s points dropped to zero “I end my turn” 

“It’s my move” Naruto said drawing a card “With Shikamaru’s mirror wall gone…I’m free to attack…Masked Beast Attack Shadow Ghoul…” 

“Naruto wait!” Sunset warned but too late masked beast was already attacking it’s staff in front of it and Shadow Ghoul bracing itself “NOOO!” 

“I activate the trap Magic Cylinder! Watch Naruto as your attack goes in one pipe and comes out the other aimed right at you!” Shikamaru explained as exactly that happened “Now is that all you got?!” 

“Y…Yeah” Naruto hissed as his points dropped to 50 points and he held his stomach in pain “Sunset looks like I may be about to go out. I’m sorry but I end my turn” 

Shikamaru drew a card sadly and his wave motion canon gained a counter “It’s such a drag doing this, Naruto but I…activate…my wave motion canon….fire” the canon let loose a shot and this hit Naruto dropping his points to zero “Now for you, Sunset…I play…”

“I don’t think so” the grand Minister said as he floated down in the centre of the duelling area “You remember I said it was the first two duellist to hit zero who’d be out…well Ami and Naruto’s points are zero. Last duel both Jiro and Yugi’s lifepoints hit zero at the same moment and Miss Fluttershy’s had already hit zero but Sunset is the winner of this game since her lifepoints are 4000 and your points are 2000, Shikamaru…”

“Does that mean I’m out?” Shikamaru asked 

“No simply both Naruto and Ami’s fates are in Sunset’s hands. Sunset can demand they switch teams in an advisory role, she can enslave them, kill them or just demand their decks” the Grand Minister said in his usual matter of fact tone “So Sunset…what will it be?” 

“I’ll accept their defeat with the two forfeiting a single card of their choice to both Shikamaru and myself” Sunset said assuming she had to ask for something. 

“You know you don’t have to demand anything” the Grand Minister said calmly 

“Oh in that case! A simple hand shake is all I ask” Sunset said kindly Ami and Naruto were healed by the Grand Minister and the two rose to shake Sunset’s hand “Thanks for your help Naruto” 

“Yeah well you owe me remember” Naruto joked “Hey take this…it’s not my favourite card but it’s proven helpful in the past…here” he handed her a simple spell card “It’s my heart of the underdog spare…it could be helpful” 

Ami smiled as she walked up “Yeah here…take this from me, I didn’t get to play it but it’s my favourite monster and here are the cards needed to summon it. Water Dragon…could I get those back at the end?” Ami joked but Sunset nodded “Huh?!” 

“I promise I’ll get these cards back to both of you when this tournament ends” Sunset said as she hugged Ami “Thank you…If it weren’t for your say so…I don’t know if I could have…” 

“Don’t worry about it…You didn’t want to hurt me…and I appreciate that” Ami said kindly “You’d make one heck of a sailor scout” 

“Just about to say she has brains of a ninja!” Naruto joked 

“If that were true you wouldn’t be a ninja, Naruto” Shikamaru joked as he walked up and shook Sunset’s hand “Thanks…you gave me quite a challenging match but if the Grand Minister hadn’t stopped me…I would have ended the duel…so I hope we’ll get a rematch…because I promise Miss Shimmer…next time I’ll put you away in a turn” 

Sunset smiled “I’d like to see you try” Shikamaru smiled and walked away with Naruto 

“I think he likes you” Ami joked as she gave Sunset another hug “Sailor Moon will be eager to duel someone from your team now…I hope your team is strong” 

“oh is she better than you?” Sunset asked 

“Hmm not sure but her deck is a reflection of who she is kind but strong” Ami mused as she turned towards Universe 2 “hey good luck…if we get time later I’d love to chat” Sunset couldn’t help but look on as Ami walked away till the Grand Minister coughed. 

“Oh sorry” Sunset said as she headed for Universe 7 “Hey guys…What?!” 

“You certainly brought honour to our team” Tien offered kindly 

Beerus shrugged “A bit too close for my taste and maybe you should have taken one to recommend us on how to deal with their team mates in future duels” he said but Whis glanced disapprovingly at Beerus who looked a bit sheepish “Okay! Okay! Well done, Sunrise Shimset” 

“Sunset Shimmer” Whis corrected 

The Grand Minister coughed loudly “Time to select the next 4 duellists to play in this tournament! First the red team!” the red light shot up in the sky and hovered round but finally one light came down on Universe 1 and Universe 3 “Duellists selected are Tony Stark and Lucy Heartfilia!” the universe’s reps stepped out, the Grand Minister Coughed again “Now for the Blue team!” the lights shot up and this time they came down on Universe 4 and Universe 8 “From Universe 4, Izzy Izumi and from Universe 8…Brook?” 

“Yohohoho…is it really my turn! Oh joy!” Brook said as he walked forward “Mind if I give everyone’s ears a little joy from my music?” Brook asked the Grand Minister who looked confused and turned to the Zenos who nodded eagerly “Right….” 

“With all due respect…I’m here to win…not to hear an impossibility” Tony Stark said as he readied his duel disc “You’re a skeleton…your vocal cords should have decayed long ago” 

“Oh they did and it hurt terribly…or rather it would have hurt too had my pain cells not decayed too before that” Brook joked “Yohohoho Now what sort song are you all in the mood for?” 

Izzy however was still standing by the god of Destruction “Remember, kid you take out everyone in this game…no excuses or else your little digital pet gets blown to bits” Quitela whispered into Izzy’s ear who sadly nodded “Good boy…now go and get me a win” 

Beerus watched Quitela frowning “Little creep…bet those kids are going to be hard to play against or with…since Quitela probably has their arms twisted behind their backs” Whis nodded “If there’s one thing Quitela is…it’s underhanded” 

“Indeed, my lord but he’s not breaking any rules…so it’ll be hard to proof one way or another” Whis said as he scratched his nose “But this duel should prove interesting”

Roshi smiled “Yeah…interesting” he said as he looked at Lucy “Hmm owwwwww!” Rainbow dash stomped on his foot “OI! Was that really necessary!?”” 

“Yes” Rainbow dash said dryly.
> Chapter 8- Desperate Stakes
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Tony Stark looked at his opponents calmly and then stared at his deck before staring at his opponents again this time paying particular attention to Brook as he said “Hmm…interesting…last thing I remembered before coming to this little party, was…dying and now I'm facing a skeleton in a duel...there's a joke there but I can't be bothered working it out” he paused and turned to Micky who smiled at him “Hmm I guess…I better make a move to get this duel started…” he drew a card and his face darkened “Marvel deck? My marvel deck is, one formed from my friends and my enemies....Micky, what does it mean? Marvel?” 

Micky called out “Don’t overthink it!” 

Tony frowned “My head hurts trying to remember where I was before I appeared in Micky’s castle…I have to think…” the headache only got worse “I…I did die…how?! My daughter…I have to get back!” 

“What’s he talking about?” One Zeno said as he looked down

“Don’t know but sounds like it hurts him” The second Zeno said as he smiled “Sounds like he was dead” 

“No he’s currently dead…Like Freeza in the last tournament you can see the halo” the grand minister said as he hovered up “Except sounds like Micky dragged him to his castle on dodgy methods thus his memory may have been affected...it seems to go in and out but I'll help” the Grand Minister floated down and tapped Tony on the forehead making Tony shake his head "Does that help?" 

"Y...Yeah...yeah that helps..." Tony said as he then felt his mind finally settle down a bit "Thank you" 

"Think nothing of it...please take your turn" The Grand Minister said happily. 

“I play…the field spell, Avengers Tower!” Tony yelled as a tower shot up behind him all the way up, as it passed the zenos, the two clapped happily as they saw the big A of the Avengers form on top of the tower and Tony smiled up at it “With it I can special summon one Marvel Monster! And I pick Marvel Iron Man MK1” suddenly from the top of the tower a box shot out from the Avengers floor, Tony hit a button on a wrist band he was wearing and the box headed straight for him as it broke into pieces “So I am the monster!” the armour box crashed on top of him causing a massive cloud of smoke and when it cleared Iron Man stood in full armour with a duel disc on his wrist “This feels so familiar….well I guess this thing will get some getting used to but it’s…so right…to be back in this armour” 




“Isn’t it dangerous for him to be the monster? And when Gilgamesh summoned himself…he didn’t become the monster?” Sunset asked Whis from the side lines 

“That’s simple he’s not at any more risk than he would be under normal circumstances” Whis answered “And as for the second Gilgamesh summoned a different dimension version of…”

“Wait what?” Goku asked confused “That sounds confusing” 

“It is” Whis admitted 

Iron Man’s attack registered in at 2200, defence was 1800 but his armour registered his special ability to Tony within the armour “Right with my special ability I can summon another Marvel monster from my deck but for every level it is…I lose 100 lifepoints! So I summon Marvel Warmachine!” from the top of the tower a dark shape shot out and flew down to hover next to Iron Man “Rhodey?” 


“Tony?” Warmachine turned smiling as his attack registered in at 1800 but his defence was 2200, Tony’s lifepoints dropped by 500 points “Oh my…you were….how’d I get here?!” 

“Long story, how’s everyone been without me?” Tony asked as his face plate rose up revealing his face to Rhodey who returned the favour smiling the two shared a hug “How’s…I want to ask about…so many people right now…I don’t know where to start, I mean I know where but not who” 

Rhodey smile only grew bigger “Hey your not going soft on me are you? Where's the smart alec jerk we all love?” he joked as Tony pulled away and punched Rhodey in the arm “To answer your question…everyone is fine…well fine as they can be…Cap is out too but that’s a long story. Looks like you’ve got your hand full with whatever this is…” 

“It’s that kids Japanese card game…” Tony began 

“Pokemon?” Rhodey asked 

“No…Yu-gi-oh…I woke up a couple weeks back and learned to play…well it was hardly a challenge” Tony joked 

“So I guess time to show them how we do things!” Rhodey said as his faceplate closed and his guns trained on Brook “Wait…I can’t move” 

“It’s move one and this is a tag game so we can’t attack on the first move” Iron Man explaind as he picked two more cards right “I play two cards face down and that’s my turn” 

Izzy sadly drew a card and looked at his hand “I…play…I mean I…..” 

Rhodey whispered to Tony “Whatever happens you have to save him” Iron man nodded “He’s just a kid and I’ve seen that look before” 

“I play the spell insect barrier! Then I play Pinch Hopper! Defence mode!” Izzy yelled as the bug appeared on the field and the barrier appeared too “I then play a face down and that’s it” 




Lucy had also noticed Izzy’s dejected look and looked sadly to him as she drew “I play the….” She noticed Brook looking at her “What!? Your creeping me out!?”

Brook began to say “Oh nothing my dear but may I see your…” WHAM! A bolt of lightning struck him before he could finish “Should have seen that coming but then again I don’t have eyes…so I…” another bolt of lightning struck him as Nami sat back down looking annoyed. 

“Well I summon…Key Mace in attack mode” Lucy said as a small fairy appeared on the field smiling as she hovered onto Lucy’s shoulder “I then set two cards face down” 




“Well I guess it’s my move” Brook said as he drew a single card “Hmm well I guess I’ll begin with my own field spell…Music Stage! Now every time I play a monster! It takes a spot on stage as part of the band! There are five slots! And when all five are filled…I’ll summon my ultimate creature!” 

“We’d better stop him before he finishes!” Rhodey said and both Lucy and Stark nodded 

“But first lets welcome the drum man! To give us some sick beats, I play Armoured Zombie!” Brook declared as his monster appeared but then walked up on stage, it’s armour changing for black leather and a pair of sunglasses “And next I think I’ll play this spell…Brain Control! Yeah I lose a fat 800 but in exchange I gain my band’s backing vocals! Key Mace! You’re up!” Key Mace drowsly floated over also changing clothes into a plain white robe “Nice! Now I play the spell Double Summon! And with it I’ll summon our lead guitar player Vorse Raider!” Vorse raider appeared and also changed clothes and his halberg changed to a big electric guitar whilst he ended up in red leather “Now before I end my turn once a monster joins the band…it can’t leave” 




“So Key mace won’t return” Lucy guessed 

“You got it!” Brook said as he turned to the band “Not too bad now just the Saxophone player and lead singer and we’ll be ready for our opening song! But that’s my turn” 

“Not if we can help it!” Warmachine yelled 

“Damn right! It’s my move!” Iron man yelled as he drew “I play my next monster Marvel Spider-man!” from the top of the tower a web shot out and wrapped to the top of Brook’s stage before suddenly Spider-man landed on the roof of the stage “Hey kid!” 




Spiderman looked to Tony and said “hey Mr Stark…whoa...this is weird…where are we?! It’s like we’re at…a really weird comic book convention!?” 

“Long story kid….talk later! Anyway Marvel Spider-man…has a special ability where he gets to launch an attack behind your enemy lines…Direct attack!” Iron man ordered pointing at Izzy but as soon as Spider-man jumped toward Izzy he ran smack into the Insect barrier “Opps” 

“Opps?! That hurt!” Spider-man snapped as he landed on his bum “That was not fun!” 

“I forgot about his spell…well Warmachine attack!” Iron man ordered as Warmachine aimed at Pinch Hopper “Fire at will!” 

Warmachine nodded as he locked on and fired but Izzy sadly nodded “Yeah I thought that would happen so I activate my Pinch Hopper’s ability…when he’s destroyed I get to summon any insect monster from my hand so I pick Digi Kabuterimon!” suddenly a bright flash filled the area and a second later Izzy’s partner digimon stood Kabuterimon with an attack power of 1900 “Hmm Kabuterimon…It’s good to see you” 




“Well I admit this isn’t ideal old friend” Kabuterimon said as he looked around “I would rather we could get a burger to catch up with” 

Izzy smiled for the first time and said “I promise we will” 

“I hate to break up the reunion! But I’m attacking!” Iron man said as he flew forward and Kabuterimon braced himself but Iron man slammed into the Insect Barrier falling to earth with a bump “what the?!” 

“I activated my trap! DNA Surgery! I picked Insect!” Izzy said as he turned to iron man “No one will hurt Kabuterimon so long as I’m here!” 

“Well I guess I’ll need to end my turn” iron man said unsure of what to do. 

“My move…I play the spell Digivolve!” Izzy said as he held the spell high “In order to use this card I have to be in control of a Digi monster! And then I must give up half my lifepoints…so…Kabuterimon take it away!” 

“Kabuterimon digivolve to….Megakabuterimon!” the digimon roared as he changed to his more powerful version Izzy’s points dropping to 2000 but Megakabuterimon’s attack points came in at an eye watering 3200! 

“Next I play the equip spell…I’m sorry…Megamorph…since my lifepoints are the lowest…It doubles Meagkabuterimon’s attack points! I’m sorry Mr Stark…but this is the end!” Izzy declared 




“No! It’s not…” Tony said as under his helmet he became worried “My traps will stop the attack…”

“If not for the special ability” Lucy said as she pointed at their face downs which suddenly all disappeared before the monster “We’re helpless” 

“I hope you understand I have to win!” Izzy yelled “Megakabuterimon! Horn Buster on…Spider-man…destroy him!” 

“NO!” Iron man turned, Spider-man’s attack came in a weak 1500 “I won’t let you!” 

“No choice…Horn Buster!” Megakabuterimon declared as his horn sparked and then his attack launched a massive energy wave…heading straight for Spider-man! 

“NOOOO!” Iron man yelled as he flew over and pushed Spider-man out of the way “ahhhhhhh” the attack struck and Tony’s armour fell off but his points only dropped to 100 “If I give up…Avengers Tower….I gain…enough lifepoints to survive” 

Brook nodded “Very impressive” 

“Regardless on the next move…I’ll finish you…off” Izzy said as he ended his turn. 

Lucy walked over to Tony “are you okay?” 

“Yeah…I am but I gave you a chance…” Tony said as he pointed to Spider man and Warmachine “Use them and knock the kid out!” 

“HEY!” Spiderman snapped 

“Not you” Tony said as he looked to Lucy “I hope you have a plan?” 

“I do” Lucy said as she drew a card “I play twin twister to take out DNA Surgery and Megamorph! Now I play the ritual spell Black Illusion Ritual! I offer up Warmachine….Sorry” 

“Just win” Warmachine said firmly as he disappeared 

“This allows me to summon Relinquish! This card has one special ability you should fear kid” Lucy said as Relinquish appeared on the field and opened its mouth wide as a black hole appeared “It can absorb one monster! I’m going to use to absorb Digi Megakabuterimon!” 




“NOOOO!” Izzy screamed as Relinquish began to draw in the digimon who struggled as Izzy ran trying to stop it “Nooo! Please don't! Not that! Stop it! No!” as Relinquish finished absorbing the big bug and closed it’s wings “No! Open! No! For the love of” Izzy screamed trying desperately to open the wings “NO! Please give him back!” 

Spider-man stood up, approaching Izzy sadly and tried to gently pull him away "It's just a game" he tried meekly but Izzy's screams were so horrible that Spider-man pulled his mask off exposing the kind face of Peter Parker "Please stop this! You..." 

"He's my friend!" Izzy screamed "He's done so much for me! How am I suppose to..." he went back to desperately trying to pull open the wings. 

Tony watched his eyes wide in horror as he asked "What on earth is going on!?" 

From the side lines many of the spectators were beginning to feel deep disgust for Quitela but deep sympathy for the duellists on his team. On Universe 3 team seats, Makarov sat shaking in rage, his face bore a very dangerous look but then he calmed down and turned to Natsu and Erza "That boy...must be saved to join our..."

"No need to say anymore!" Natsu said happily "Lucy will get him!" 

"Indeed she is very capable" Erza said as she gave Lucy the thumbs up who nodded at the signal "I think she understood..." 

"Uhhh hate to point this out but why don't we just tell her!?" Gray Fullbuster asked slowly and the guild members looked away as Gray sighed "You didn't think of it did you!? You know to use our magic?!" 

Makarov laughed "Well it's all about being good sports" he offered meekly 

Lucy looked sadly as Izzy kept pulling, it was so severe one of his finger nails flew off, he was crying and banging desperate to get back Tentomon “I…I’m sorry but this has to be done!” Lucy screamed as tears came down her face, she ran forward and pulled Izzy away, holding him close as Quitela smirked on the side lines but she stroked his hair trying desperately to sooth the boy, she looked up at Relinquish her eyes begging for the monster to understand and she breathed deeply before saying “It’s okay…it’ll be over in a moment! Relinquish! I order you to attack…Izzy but please be gentle” 

Relinquish looked on, it’s unflinching single eye blinking but then the stalk with the eye nodded and in Megakabuterimon’s voice it said “Thank you” and swiped easy gently with the back of it’s hand dropping his points to zero. 

Lucy stroked Izzy’s hair and whispered “It’s almost over…we’ll have you safely away soon. I end my turn Brook! Finish this!” 

“Only if I can see your…” Brook began but caught a look from Nami “ahem my move! I play monster reborn to revive Digi Kabuterimon!” Kabuterimon soared out from the ground and hovered overhead before taking centre stage “Next I summon Celtic Guardian!” Celtic Guardian appeared before his clothes were switched for a black suit and a saxophone appeared in one hand “Now time to play a little song! Yohohohoho!” Brook ran up on stage and began to sing Butterfly alongside the monsters “This card allows me to summon any fusion monster from my extra deck regardless of summoning requirements! I call on the Cyber End Dragon!” the impressive fusion monster appeared in a bright flash 




Tony stood up and said “attack me…I only have 100 points left” Spider-man began to walk forward but Tony tore the card off the disc and smiled "Sorry about that but I don't want to see anymore suffering today" Tony breathed as he looked at the card "Tell everyone back home...hi from me, kid" before he put it in the graveyard and spread his arms wide "Go ahead and attack me!" 

“I guess I have no choice! Cyber End Dragon attack Mr Stark!” Brook ordered as the dragon surged up to its full height and fired from three mouths with a powerful blast at Tony “Tone it down a little bit…it’s a bit too much” Tony Stark took the blast full on and his points hit zero

The grand minister hovered down and declared “The duel is over! Lucy Heartfillia and Brook will be advancing to the next round. Lucy as the duellist with the highest points, the fate of the losers is up to you” Lucy looked to Izzy and then to Tony as the Grand Minister drew closer “What is your decision?” 

“I want Mr Stark and Izzy healed but for Tony to go back to his team. However I wish Izzy to join mine” Lucy said honestly and then added “His friend too…the bug…”

“What she can’t ask for that!?” Quitela snapped but before he could prevent it, a light shot out of his orb and landed near Izzy “NO!” 

“Who…” Izzy began but then Tentomon appeared and his eyes filled with tears “It can’t be!” 

“Oh Izzy you’re a sight for big sore green eyes…got any eye drops?” Tentomon joked as he helped Izzy up “You look great by the way…” Izzy smiled as Lucy approached “Who’s she?” 

“She’s the one who saved us” Izzy explained and walked off to join the Fairy tail team

“So Universe 4 is brow beating their team into duelling for them” Whis said in a surprised voice “However I suspect most teams here were brow beaten but the gods and kais did their best to convince them to duel for them…”

“Yes well Quitela has never been that bright” Beerus dry panned “We’d better see how many of his team we can steal” 

“Good plan” 18 said as she added “It maybe they have cards we could put to use” 

The Grand Minister coughed “It is time for the next selection! First up the red team…” the two lights shot fourth and hovered round this time both hit Universe 2 with Sailors Neptune and Uranus being selected “Now the blue team!” this time the lights shot for Universe 11 and Universe 9 “Katsuki Bakugo and Mayuri Kurotsuchi…” 

“That’s Captain Kurotsuchi” came a voice as the soul reaper captain stepped out and turned to Universe 6 “Hmm I was hoping I’d get a chance to…add you to my research subjects…and…” he turned to Universe 7 and smirked at Sunset Shimmer “Once I’ve won this…I plan to add you too” 

“How does he know?” Sunset whispered but Kurotsuchi raised his hand to his ear and began laughing “He creeps me out” 

“You’re not alone there” Tien said as Krillin and himself stepped forward 

“I’m sorry I’m not currently interested in studying dwarves or three eyed humans” Kurotsuchi explained as he pointed at Sunset “When I entered this dimension I detected an unusual energy emitting from 8 sources…however this place has much I can dissect when I get back to my lab” Tien stepped closer raising his fist “I’m sorry my dear fellow…as I said I’m not currently interested but I appreciate you volunteering” 

“I’m going to say this once…threaten my friends with disembowelling again…I will drop you from Orbit” Tien said with his eyes narrowing dangerously. 

“No need to be rude” Kurotsuchi said as he turned towards the duelling area and saw his partner “Seems my partner maybe equally short tempered” 

Meanwhile Uranus and Neptune were planning their game plan but Bakugo was looking increasingly annoyed as he looked at his opponents “This is so annoying! Hurry up you old fart!” Bakugo snapped as Kurotsuchi approached “I want to get this victory over with” Kurotsuchi smile grew broadly dangerous at this.
> Chapter 9- Bakugo! Calm down!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kurotsuchi sighed bored as he began the first turn, he then took a long moment as he considered his move, looking at each card in turn, and then checked again before having another look at each card. He slowly considered the move that made the most sense, and then Bakugo screamed “Oh will you hurry up and make a move!” he looked comically furious as always but Kurotsuchi looked at one card turning it upside down as he did. 

“Patience…I must consider which move is best suited to deal with the two women before us” Kurotsuchi explained as he turned to Bakugo his expression if possible even more bored than before “Now if your done being so rude…I must consider which cards are best suited for a water deck and a speed deck” 

“Wait what?” Bakugo asked as he looked shocked at Kurotsuchi statement “How do you know what decks they have?! Are you cheating!?” 

“Your squawking is very annoying” Kurotsuchi said as he finally made his move “I play the spell, Card Trader, from now on if a draw doesn’t suit my needs I can shuffle a card back into my deck and draw a card” Kurotsuchi then sighed “Sadly now I must summon a monster in face down defence mode and end my turn” 

“My move!” Michiru declared as she drew a card “I play the field spell a Legendary Ocean! This card will allow me to summon Level 5 water monsters without a sacrifice so I’ll summon fourth in defence mode my Catapult Turtle! Followed by the Equip spell Horn of Light!” Catapult Turtle appeared with a horn coming forth from its head “I’d like to see you get past it’s now 3000 defence points!” 

Haruka smiled “You two are done! We’re great at tag duels! You two were just unlucky to be playing us!” she said as she added “Michiru’s monsters represent our defence and mine will be the ones to…”

“What an annoyingly silly statement” Kurotsuchi said as he added “The Data shows why you believe that stupid statement…and it’s not based on reality…it’s based on your feelings for the other” he smirked suddenly “That kind of bond is easy to exploit” 

“What!?” Haruka asked in surprise and anger. 

“Oh no…that Kurotsuchi guy is trying to get under Haruka’s skin” Rei said from the side lines, she shook her head and added “Normally Haruka is a pretty balanced woman but I think Kurotsuchi just found their weakness” 

“Weakness?!” Usagi asked in shock “But they’re bond is what makes them…”

“You don’t get it….if he targets one alone he could make the other careless” Rei said sadly as she shook her head “And then there’s that Bakugo guy…we’re so focused on the guy with the face paint that…”

“HEY! I heard that! Are you talking about me!? If you have something to say! Say it to my face!” Bakugo yelled at Rei who instantly looked annoyed “Yeah! That’s right I’m talking to you!”

“Or maybe he’s just a hot tempered idiot” Makoto said with a slightly annoyed glare. 

“What was that!?” Bakugo screamed but the Grand Minister hovered down looking annoyed “And what do you want!?” 

Dyspo groaned “Is it too late to swap him out? That guy really needs to consider anger management” as he added “Plus if I didn’t know better I’d say…”

“If I hear one more violent outburst from you, Mr Bakugo then you will be disqualified!” The Grand Minister warned evenly but Bakugo glared at him before looking like he was about to yell before Dyspo got in and covered his mouth “You know normally I’d say he’s disqualified but I did say if I heard the outburst…” 

“Yeah that’s why I covered his mouth” Dyspo joked trying to sound like he hadn’t been desperate but Bakugo was struggling, screaming and probably shouting things that no one should ever shout “Would you calm down! Seriously! If you get yourself disqualified…Belmod won’t be happy!” 

Kurotsuchi groaned “Hmm probably doing the rest of us a favour if he does get disqualified” 

“Yeah I gotta agree with that” Haruka said a second later

“Same” Michiru agreed 

Bakugo suddenly calmed down and growled something but it was clear he was ready for his turn. Dyspo removed his hand and stepped back but remained close enough in case Bakugo lost control again “Right! I’ll start with this! The field spell called Cybertron City!” suddenly the field was coated in a layer of metal and tall spires rose from the ground “With this card in play for every Transformers monster I have in play it gains a new effect!” 

Jaden from the side lines smiled “So it works a bit like Jesse’s Crystal Beast Field spell?” 

Alexis elbowed him “Better be quiet unless you want Mr Explosive Temper to lash out at you” 

“I then set a monster face down and end my turn!” Bakugo said as he smirked turning to face Dyspo “How’s that you Trix Bunny looking moron!?” Dyspo cracked his knuckle in a warning manner “Whatever”

Haruka sighed “It’s my move! I play continues spell, the Speed way! This card allows me to summon two monsters in one move but when I use this effect I won’t be able to draw next turn!” she explained as she then said “I’ll start by Summoning the level 4, Armored lizard!” the lizard monster appeared hissing it’s fearsome warning as Haruka then used the effect “and alongside it! I play the tuner monster, Flare Resonator!”

Jack Atlas frowned “So another world has Sychro monsters…interesting” 

“Time for Flare Resonator to give Armoured Lizard a tune up!” Haruka said as Flare Resinator brought it’s tuning fork and drumstick together and circled around the lizard “I summon the legendary Seven Swords Warrior!” the warrior monster appeared drawing it’s weapons and slashing through the air “Thanks to Flare Resonator my seven swords gains 300 attack points! Now for the equip spell Axe of Despair! I’ll end my turn there” the axe crashed on the field and the warrior picked it up but a bolt of energy suddenly shot fourth splitting in two and hitting both Bakugo and Kurotsuchi causing their points to drop by 800 “Oh I forgot to say once per turn if we equip something to Seven Swords you two lose 800 lifepoints!” 

“Well that could prove to be quite annoying” Kurotsuchi grumbled “Still quite an interesting move…but it’s my move” he drew a single card and then looked at it. Again there was quite a long pause as he considered his move “hmm I send this card from my hand to my deck…using Card Trader and draw again. Yes this is much better. I sacrifice my defence monster to call on the power of this spell card!” he played it “It’s called the Continuous spell, Card Lab!” a massive iron coated lab appeared behind Kurotsuchi “My lab will allow me to summon any extra deck monster by simply offering a monster on my field of the same type to summon it! However I also play Brain Control! To seize control of Seven Swords warrior! Now I’ll order him to attack your turtle!” Seven Swords flew forward and as it did, both scouts knew there was no way to stop it as the axe of despair came down on the turtle “And now that is done I’ll sacrifice your seven Swords to summon fourth Jinzo!” the warrior to be replaced with the freaky cyborg monster “With that all done, I’ll end my turn” 

Michiru sighed as she looked at her hand and shook her head “I play the Ritual spell Neptune Mirror’s reflection!” suddenly a giant form of Sailor Neptune’s Mirror appeared on the field “With it! I can summon Sailor Guardian Neptune in attack mode!” and as she spoke, her Sailor scout uniform appeared on her and she sighed “My attack points clock in at 2500! Deep Submerge!” she launched an attack against Jinzo, the water orb gathering above her head and then her thrusting it towards Jinzo who tried to resist but the attack washed over him and Kurotsuchi's life points dropped by 100 “I’ll set a card and end my turn” 

“Wow! This duel is…” Twilight said as she sat with the Universe 7 team but then noticed Rainbow Dash sitting off in the corner “Rainbow?” Rainbow Dash turned her eyes dripping tears as Twilight and Sunset both turned as Rainbow pointed over to Universe 12 “What the heck!?” 

“It’s disgusting!” Sunset snapped as Gilgamesh sat with Fluttershy serving him grapes and Jiro fanning him, this was clearly done to piss off the other teams as he was using Yugi as a seat when he didn’t have to and Yugi’s arms were tied in a way to stop him moving so it must have been painful “I’m going to go over there and…”

“You will do nothing of the kind!” Whis warned sternly 

Beerus nodded “You will remain where you are or else!” 

Rainbow ran and grabbed Beerus by the scarf around his chest “How can I just sit here and watch as he humiliates my friend!” Beerus easily pulled away from her and Rainbow snapped “Don’t you ignore me!” 

Gohan walked up and pulled her back “It’s not that we don’t understand where you’re coming from, Rainbow but if we’re to stand a chance in rescuing them we’re going to have to play by the Zeno’s rules” the reality was more than Rainbow could bear and she turned to walk away “Don’t go near Universe 12!” 

“Yeah whatever” Rainbow sighed as she walked towards the Universe 9 team absentmindedly. 

“My move!” Bakugo snarled as he drew one card and looked at it “I now flip Transformer Shockwave!” the huge purple Decepticon rose up his attack points registered as 1800 “With his summon I get to special summon another Dark Transformers monster! So I choose Transformer Soundwave…his special ability means I get to see all face down cards on the field!” Sailor Neptune had no choice but to show her face down, as Soundwave appeared using his mounted shoulder laser to scan it and revealed it was a Mirror Force trap. Soundwave’s attack came in at 1700 “I still have my normal summon open to me! So I summon the Transformer tuner, Transformer Red Alert! Now I’ll give my cards a tune up to call fourth Transformers Omega Supreme!” 

The massive Transformer appeared on the field his claw snapped as he turned to Bakugo “You are not in my computer data base” his attack points came in at 3400 “Your orders?” 

Bakugo ignored him for a moment and said “Thanks to his special ability I can attack twice in a round and traps don’t work on him! Also when he attacks he dishes out an extra 1000 points of damage!” both scouts knew what this meant as Bakugo smirked “Now to finish you off, Blue hair! Omega Supreme attack!” the giant transformer targeted Sailor Neptune, raising his arm laser, Sailor Neptune bracing herself for the attack and indeed the laser struck forcing her back to her civilian clothes, she landed a few feet away with a clearly injured leg but her points were now 2100 “Now attack her and finish her off!” 

“NO!” Haruka charged towards her friend and stood before the blast 

“NO! Haruka! Get out of the way!” Michiru screamed in terror “Please just get out of the way!”

“I won’t and you know I won’t” Haruka said as a tear leaked down her face “I don’t trust that guy in the silly face paint! I have to protect you!”

Michiru smiled and said “But I want to protect you too” 

“Well you can’t do that if your points hit zero…I don't have enough to survive this unless I activate the quick play spell Sailor Miracle! For every card I discard I gain 300 life points!” Haruka said kindly, her points jumped to 4600 after discarding two and looked up to face the attack, the laser shot out and Haruka’s points dropped to zero “I don’t….don’t understand” 

“Ooo forgive me. I just thought I’d activate my lab’s second effect” Kurotsuchi said as Bakugo suddenly fell to his knees his points hitting zero too “And produce my Damage two way mirror! It requires me to throw away half my deck to the Graveyard but in exchange I can boost one attack by 1000 and then have it strike another target!” Kurotsuchi smiled as his points shot up by the same amount of damage Baukgo and Haruka had taken “Hahahahahaa which makes me the winner!” 

The Grand Minister dropped down and said “He’s right the fate of the losers fall to Captain Kurotsuchi” 

Michiru crawled over to Haruka, hugging her fallen friend and whimpered “No…you’re not taking her! She’s my…I love her! You can’t take her!” she kissed Haruka on the lips and she then was helpless to stop as Kurotsuchi walked over just to grab Haruka by her hair “NO! LET HER GO! I’ll do anything!?” 

“Hmm? With the power you two share….I’d find it fascinating to see what happens when I split it up” Kurotsuchi said smugly as he put a collar around Haruka’s neck “Now I’ll be taking my lab rat with me if you don’t mind and that one too” 

“Bakugo!” Midoriya screamed as he ran up and tried to help Bakugo up but the stubborn boy punched him in the face “Baku…”

“Let me go you damn, Nerd!” Bakugo said as he turned to take the collar “At least I won’t have to put up with you s…”

“Language” Kurotsuchi snapped as he snapped the collar around Bakugo’s neck he had chains that attached to the collars “Now I have to see what umm Quirk is it you have…and test it…to its limits” he pulled Bakugo and Haruka back to his team seats where Nemu sat waiting she wasn’t wearing a duel disc and was clearly there to assist Kurotsuchi “Ah Nemu ensure the lab we brought is ready for operation soon”

“Yes sir” Nemu said as she took the chains from him for Bakugo and Haruka 

Usagi ran up to Michiru and Rainbow Dash also approached “I can’t believe this! I can’t lose her!” Michiru snarled as Rainbow nodded and she turned to her “You…?” 

“I saw what happened? I wanted to ask how you are?” Rainbow asked sadly 

“How do you think I am!?” Michiru challenged “I’ve lost the woman I love!” 

“You haven’t…we’ll get them back!” Rainbow said and Michiru looked surprised “Fluttershy is a dear friend of mine, I may not love her like you love Haruka but I have a suggestion….” 

“I think I know where this is going?” Usagi said as she stood up and nodded “An alliance? Unofficial? It’s a great idea! Members of our team will support members of yours…”

“Not just Universe 7 but Universe 6 too please!” Rainbow asked and both scouts looked a little surprised “There’s only one player they have that I don’t know but the others please help them!” there was a long pause before Rainbow added “I promise Universe 7 will help your team as best as we can! We brought a huge chest full of cards and…” 

“So did we” Ami said as she approached and said “We better discuss this idea further and see if the gods of destruction are agreeable to it” she pointed towards Beerus who didn’t look best pleased “Maybe he considers the possibility that we’re trying to steal you from his team?” 

“YES!” Beerus said suddenly shooting over “Now paws off!” 

“My lord! That seems unneeded” Whis said as the Grand Minister hovered over looking annoyed “Oh yes?” 

“Can you please leave the duelling area so I can announce the next 4 duellists?” The Grand Minister said as the team members nodded and returned to their seating areas “Right now for the next 4 players! Up first are the red team!” the lights shot up as before and paused in the air before shooting for Universe 12 “For Red Team! We have William Shakespeare and Joan of Arc of Universe 12 are selected!” the two duellists stepped forward. 

“Ah excellent! This is a great chance to write my next great epic!” William said as he looked around “I have my leading lady but where are my co-stars for this first scene of my epic?” 

“Do you take anything seriously?” Joan asked as she walked away from him as she snarled “Being Gilgamesh’s slave doesn’t seem to bother you?” 

“It is a joy to work for a man with such vision!” William yelled eagerly 

“I’d love to knock the stuffing out of that asshole” Naruto said from the sidelines 

“Yeah I can’t disagree with that” Sakura said and punched him playfully in the arm “Leave it to me! I’ll happily kick his ass!”

“Hmm interesting I smell an unwilling player” Chazz said as he looked over at Joan “Maybe if we get selected I can win and…” Alexis looked at him and Chazz blushed “Uhhh I mean anyone but me” 

“You’re not fooling anyone” Alexis sighed 

“Now for the blue team!” The Grand  Minister said as the lights shot up, the pause was long as they hovered into the air, this time the first light came down hovered over Universe 1 and then shot away to Universe 10 connecting with a player. The second light hovered over several teams before coming down in Universe 7 then shot off to Universe 6 “Akiza Izayoi of Universe 10 and Twilight Sparkle of Universe 6 are selected” 

Twilight looked far from looking happy stood up and walked over readying her duel disc as she pointed at Joan “You have hurt my friends and now you will pay for it!” she said in a deadly sounding voice for her  and Joan glared back but the eyes betrayed her sympathy for Twilight’s position “I swear! You two will pay!” 

Akiza walked up and said “Get in line I want a shot at them too!” Akiza glared over at Gilgamesh and yelled “You think you can disrespect our team and get away with it!?” Gilgamesh began to laugh but Akiza drew a card and played it right away “Black Rose Dragon attack!” the dragon fired the attack and it landed a few feet in front of Gilgamesh who looked annoyed by the show of force “You wanna take me on instead!?” 

“Careful, Miss Izayoi or you will be disqualified” The Grand minister warned as the dragon disappeared but Gilgamesh stood up and walked over “Return to your uhhh seat” 

Gilgamesh looked deeply into Akiza's eyes who glared back but Twilight also stepped behind Akiza to show support “You two aren’t worth my time” Gilgamesh said slowly and evenly before turning to William who smirked at the look he was given “No mercy you understand?” 

“Perfectly my lord, Gilgamesh. You hired me and so I must ensure that I put on a good show” William said as he turned to Akiza “You really know how to spice up the drama I…” 

“Drama nothing! We’re here ta beat you not talk about your weak excuse of an imitation of...” Twilight began but William tutted and shook his finger. 

“My good girl! I am not an imitation! I am the real William Shakespeare! Brought here today to write a great epic! And this is merely act 1! Now I hope you’re ready for me to part the curtains and put on the lights! I want our audience to watch a great…” William ranted on but Joan elbowed him in the ribs “Got it…well I hope you girls don’t mind if I go first?” The opening hands were drawn and William said “Ah my it would seem this performance is already over! I call the first scene to our little Production! I play the field spell Stage Selection! And here's how it works! You three each must select a field spell! And I get to pick which one gets played! However the effects of the field spell can be altered to suit my needs! Now let's see what you have?" 

Joan revealed her spell "I have this my Sogan Field spell" 

Akiza revealed her spell "Black Garden field spell is mine" 

Twilight sadly revealed her card and this is where Shakespeare's smirk grew into an enormous grin "School of the Dark Magicians is my spell" Twilight admitted sadly knowing full well how dangerous the spell was "This card allows me to summon any Magician monster from my hand without a sacrifice so long as I give up a card from the top of my deck" 

Shakespeare walked forward and took the card from Twilight before cupping her face, she used her magic and repelled him "Hmm thought so...this is a duel of the dashing hero against a horde of witches!" he pointed to Twilight "Magic in you is real! I can tell you, Miss Akiza don't like being called a witch and...you Miss Joan..I know you're a traitor but you were also burned as a witch!" 

Joan frowned "So what if I am or was?! It was never true! A lie made up by..." but Shakespeare tutted shaking his head. 

"Grand Minister I have a proposal! Rather than a boring tag duel lets make this a 3 on 1 duel! But with some slight changes. I get 12000 lifepoints and I get to draw two cards a turn?!" Shakespeare said as there were boos and even Gilgamesh looked displeased as Shakespeare handed back Twilight's card to her "It'll make quite the dramatic performance! Of the dashing hero when I slay the wicked witches!" 

"Be careful who you call a witch" Akiza growled 

However the Grand Minister turned to the Zenos who both nodded eagerly "Very well! The rules for this match have been changed rather than a tag duel! This'll be a 3 on 1 duel but the rules are slightly different! Every second turn will be Mr Shakespeare's move and the rule about those with the highest life points still applies" 

"That's not fair!" Joey Wheeler called from the side lines but the grand minister shot him a dirty look "Damn it"

Shakespeare smirked and said "I'll even let Joan go first"
> Chapter 10- Witches everywhere
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“So Peasant you seek to betray me?” Gilgamesh said as he sipped a glass of wine, his expression a mixture of fury but also amusement “You forget your place! You may have once been a great figure of France but soon enough like all those supposed great ones…you shall be forgotten. Whereas my legend will continue” 

Yugi grunted from where he was as Gilgamesh elbowed him “hmm you won’t….get away with this” 

“You are mistaken former Pharaoh! Like you were when you destroyed the Millennium Items! You assume that destroying them will ensure their evil is destroyed…how childish” Gilgamesh gloated as he reached into his portal and pulled out a copy of the Millennium Puzzle “In my world you failed…you’re little host lost the duel against Marik that day in the warehouse and was burned to death!” 

“You lie!” Atem growled through Yugi.

“Lie do I? I was there the moment little Yugi died…I even took his cards as a trophy! In some worlds you exist Yugi…Atem whatever…but in others you don’t. In some worlds you failed to rescue your grandfather, in others…Kaiba defeated you during that first duel. I know this because the god of destruction showed me all…in fact that’s how I knew how to win! I’ve spend the last month hopping universes and evaluating their strengths. Their wishes seem so trivial to me” Gilgamesh gloated as he grabbed Yugi’s hair and pulled him up to his lips “Over there is Monkey D Luffy…his wish is so pathetic…he wants his brother back. Over there is Applejack…I already know her wish, when she threw out one of Universe 6's fighters. I saw it happen…she wants her parents back…it’s almost laughable!” 

Fluttershy suddenly slapped Gilgamesh hard across the face shaking in rage “How dare you!? That dream is not pathetic!? It’s not Laughable! You sick demented….!” 

“You need to learn your place, slave!” Gilgamesh rose to his feet and approached Fluttershy pulling her hair harshly and throwing her to the ground before putting his foot on her head “You are mine now…You are a spoil of conquest! And when I win this tournament…well you will know what a great wish looks like” 

“Sounds like a load of hot air to me” Jiro snarled 

“It would except it’s hot air with some purpose because when I win this tournament…I will make a wish of great worth! I will wish that all of Existence will be mine! The Grail cannot grand me such a wish but the Super Dragonballs will grand me an eternal existence…to do with as I see fit! No more pain…no more injustice…all people given enough…and those unworthy of serving me eliminated” 

“But no freedom! No choices!” Artoria suddenly called out from where she sat “Your delusions are only matched by your frightening arrogance” 

“So long as I win…what care have I for the opinions of one of my slaves?” Gilgamesh asked slowly as Joan took her first turn of the duel. 

Joan sighed as she looked at her hand and then said “Right! It’s my move so I play the spell! Banner of Courage! During our battle phases our monsters will gain 200 attack points and you’re out of luck because I have two! So I’ll play it!” Joan looked behind her as the two banners appeared and she then said “I’ll then set a card face down and summon Silent Swordsman Level 3 in attack mode! Finally I play Level up! So now my Silent Swordsman becomes Level 5! That’s my turn” 



“I don’t know what I expected from a witch like you” Shakespeare said clearly trying to mock Joan as he drew “Hmm now I play the Field Spell, Centre Stage!” the area changed to look like the inside of the Globe Theatre “Ah yes so many memories here but now to give one amazing performance! That’ll ensure our audience are given a show for the age!” 



“Is this guy for real?” Krillin asked from the side lines but Whis nodded “I’m guessing that field spell has a power?” 

“Let’s put it this way….any spell or trap played by his opponents can be used by Shakespeare…For example that Banner of Courage” Whis explained as he then added “Traps like Mirror Force wouldn’t be affected but say a trap adds attack points to Twilight’s monster…then the same attack points would be added to Shakespeare monsters that goes for Equip spells too” 

“Would that mean the girls could benefit from the cards effects?” Goku asked but Whis shook his head “So he really is…” 

“The leading man” Whis finished sadly “That deck seems perfectly designed to face more than a single opponent…” he glared at Gilgamesh “I’m guessing he planned for it” Gilgamesh’s smirk only seemed to grow “It’ll mean if he’s chosen his team well and aren’t more Joans…his entire team will have ruthlessly strong decks” 

“Now I summon our first leading man…V Tiger Jet in attack mode…next I play Frontline Base! This spell allows me to special summon any Level 4 or lower union monster so I summon w-wing catapult! Now let our two leads come together to summon VW- Tiger Catapult!” he then pointed at Silent Swordsman “Now I discard a card and it allows me to force your monster into defence mode! And since this is a 3 on 1 duel I can attack! VW-Tiger Catapult attack Silent Swordsman!” 



“Not so fast I activate the quick play spell Emergency Summon!” Twilight yelled as a monster appeared on the field “Meet my Ghost gardna and I’ll activate my quick play spell Shrink! So VW is attacking my 1900 Gardna with a mere 1400!” 



“Hmm interesting how the witch protects her coven” Shakespeare said amused as he looked at the card in his hand “But I activate my own quick play spell called Shakespearian Tragedy! Now this card has two effects that work together! First step is I check my hand…and if I don’t have five cards…I draw till I do but for every one…my VW gets 200 extra attack points!” Shakespeare drew five cards “Ah! So now my monster has 2400!” VW launched missiles at Ghost Gardna who tried to dodge the attack but finally the missiles found their mark “Well I guess I’ll end my turn…Your move Miss Akiza” 

Akiza drew a card and said “I really don’t like you…So I’ll start this turn by playing Monster Reborn! To Revive your V Tiger Jet! I then normal summon Copy Plant!” her plant appeared as she then added “I next play the spell Brain Control! I give up 800 life points to take control of your monster! Now since VW is a level 6 I’m going to use Copy Planet to give him a tune up! I now summon Black Rose Dragon!” the dragon roared as it appeared on the field “Now you have no cards left so Black Rose Dragon attack!” 



“Battle Fader!” Shakespeare said as he showed the monster who appeared on the field and ended Akiza’s battle phase “Is that it?” 

Akiza snarled “No…all I have left is this. I set one card face down” 

“My move! I’ll use this spell, Cost Down! To discard a card and now I sacrifice Battle Fader to Summon Perfect Machine King! Next I play one card facedown and then play double Summon! To Summon X Head Canon!” Shakespeare said as he marvelled at his field “So since I now control a second Machine monster my Perfect Machine King gains an extra 500 attack points! That’s 3200! Now to test how strong your bounds are in this little performance…Perfect Machine King attack Miss Sparkle directly!” 



“Silent Swordsman! Block the attack!” Joan suddenly ordered as the missiles of the Perfect Machine King were launched and the swordsman intercepted the attack “Sorry” 

“Why?” Twilight asked “I owe you one!” Joan smiled as Shakespeare ended his turn and Twilight began her turn “That monster maybe strong but he…”

“Oh I forgot to mention but I activate my trap DNA Surgery so now I select Machine!” Shakespeare said as he laughed “Oh Miss Sparkle your decks are so predictable…I saw what kinds of decks you have and…why are you laughing?” 

“Oh sorry” Twilight said as she couldn’t help but laugh “When you asked to face us in a fresh game I saw through your plan…so I decided to switch my decks to my second deck” 

Jaden Yuki sitting on the side lines laughed and said “Reminds me of someone doesn’t it, Alexis?” 

“Yeah Bastion” Alexis confirmed “I’m guessing Twilight there also has other decks” 

“So I swapped to my Warrior deck to help Joan out…it’s true Dark Magicians are my favourites but I have other decks in case they’re not able to win. Besides with a brother like Shining you know sticking to one deck is just silly” Twilight admitted as her brother laughed from the side lines. Shakespeare’s face seemed to sink as Twilight held up two cards “And now I play my first spell Pot of greed to draw two cards, then I play Mystical Space Typhoon to take out your DNA Surgery! And now for my next card I play two copies of the A forces Spell! This card means that all our warriors will gain 200 points for each warrior in play on our side!” 

“Which would mean…Well this may very well be a tragedy” Shakespeare murmured 

“Here’s hoping! I play Monster Reborn to Revive Silent Swordsman LV5 and now I summon Obnoxious Celtic Guardian! Now I have one card left and as bad an idea as it is…I play the equip Spell Mage Power And Equip it to my Celtic Guardian!” Celtic Guardian smiled back at her “So unless your math skills are as bad as your obnoxious tones! Both My monsters gain 400 from each A forces spell, so that’s 800, Celtic Guardian also gains 3000 because I have three spells, Joan has two and Akiza has 1…and the banners add an extra 400! So Giving Celtic Guardian a total of 5600 attack points!” 



“Ummm oh dear…” Shakespeare said as he gulped “Don’t suppose I can ask you not to attack?” 

“No” Twilight said as she said “Look at it this way…you’ll still have points after this. Go Silent Swordsman attack, Perfect Machine King! Your monster has 3200 and mine has 3500! So you lose 300!” Silent Swordsman cut the machine in half and Shakespeare’s points dropped from 12000 to 11700 “Now Celtic Guardian attack with Silver Sword Slash on X-head Canon!” X-head cannon’s resulting destruction dropped Shakespeare’s points to 8100 “With that done I’ll end my turn” 



Shakespeare stood up from the pain his face no longer smiling or even charming, he just looked mad and yelled “How dare you!? I will not be upstaged by a bunch of witches!” he stroked his beard trying to calm down and drew “I will not be made a fool of! By a pack of…” but the Grand Minister cast him a warning look to which Shakespeare took the hint “Right…Oh this is good…I just drew the cards I needed!" his face lit up with a mad gleam to it "I was given a rare card by Gilgamesh to take you all down…But first I play Heavy Storm! To wipe every spell and trap off the field…I need a fresh set for this act” Shakespeare smirked as he then played the next card “I play the spell! Spell Revival! This spell allows me at the cost of 300 life points for each…to revive any spell destroyed this turn! So Revive the A forces Spells and one of the banners!” his life points dropped to 7200. 

“Oh no!” Jaden screamed from the sidelines “He’s not! It can’t be!” 

“Oh I heard that Young man…you know what’s coming now?” Shakespeare said as his smirk grew to an evil size “Now I sacrifice the three continuous spells to summon…YOUR DOOM!” the air was filling with thunder and lightning as Shakespeare placed the monster on the duel disc “Come fourth! Hamon lord of striking thunder!! Hahahahaha!” the massive Sacred Beast appeared on the field “Now who should I take out first?” he turned to Joan “I’m afraid my dear, it is time for you to exit stage left…Hamon strike her down!” 



Hamon roared as it prepared to attack but suddenly Celtic Guardian charged in front of the blast “Sorry but I can’t let you leave just yet” Twilight called over 

“Well then your lifepoints will be the ones to go! Because I activate the spell Shrink” Shakespeare cackled “Now you’re Gilgamesh’s!” the attack struck the guardian and he disappeared in a cloud of smoke “Now…you take 1000 points since your monster has been destroyed…”

“I don’t think so…I may be down to 700 points but my Celtic Guardian can’t be taken out by monsters stronger than 1900” Twilight wheezed as she fell to her knees “It’s why I ordered him to take the blast” 

“So you’re smarter than you look” Shakespeare said as he then added “But next turn I’ll take you all out in a single blast!!” 

“I don’t think so! It’s my move!” Joan yelled as she drew and said “I won’t let you hurt her! Hmm Hey you two do you mind if I borrow your monsters?” Akiza and Twilight nodded “Alright! I sacrifice V Tiger Jet, Celtic Guardian and Silent Swordsman to summon Gilford the Lightening! This all mighty monster can destroy every monster you have in play including your Hamon!” 



Hamon was destroyed as Shakespeare snarled “Damn it! You witch of a traitor!”

“Well I guess what’s done is done” Joan joked causing Shakespeare’s face to grow even more cold “Oh sorry that was one of yours wasn’t it?” 

“You joke again, witch and I’ll…” Shakespeare growled but the Grand Minister “Well is that your move?!” 

“Oh goodness no! I still have my attack…Gilford! Lightening Sword!” Joan ordered as Gilford charged Shakespeare “So let’s see that’s 4400? Isn’t it that you have left? I’ll set a card and end my turn!” 

“My move! I….have nothing” Shakespeare snarled as his eyes went wide “I…I…I…play Giga Tech Wolf in defence mode. I end my turn” 

“My move! I summon Lord Poison in attack mode!” Akiza said and then added “Now I use Black Rose’s Special effect, by removing a plant monster from my grave I can force your puppy into attack mode and drop its points to zero! So I remove my copy plant and Now Black Rose attacks!”  

“And I activate my trap….Life Point Transfer! I transfer 3900 life points to Black Rose Dragon!” Joan declared, her points dropped to 100 and Black Rose’s attack shot up to 6300 “There Twilight…that should get you through to the next round” 

“Joan…” Twilight said in surprise “But I don’t understand” 

“If it weren’t for you I would have lost! Thanks to you! I can go out with honour!” Joan called over “Thank you” the attack smacked into the Giga Tech Wolf and the duel was over with Shakespeare’s points hitting zero. Joan walked over to Twilight and smiled as Twilight hugged her thankful for her help “You make me proud to…”

“Don’t give me that! You should be the one to go through! Not me!” Twilight snapped “Why did you…”

“You ask that but you fail to understand…I’m a slave of Gilgamesh it’s taken all my strength to defy him” Joan explained as she smiled “If the duel had finished the way it had….Twilight you would have been made Gilgamesh’s slave too” 

Akiza nodded “It’s true…points stood me 3200, Joan 4000 and you Twilight, 700” 

“So you tried to save me?!” Twilight asked 

“No I want Akiza to save me” Joan said as she turned to Akiza “Is that okay?” Akiza nodded as Twilight hugged Joan “You should be pleased you showed that…man...the spirit worthy of…why are you crying?” Twilight was crying as she held Joan closer “You won?” 

“But you deserve to go through…not me! I’ve heard your story and…” Twilight sobbed but Akiza stroked her hair gently “And for you to do something noble just for my sake! And when facing Gilgamesh’s control…I don’t feel worthy of it!?” 

“You are worthy…that’s my call to make and you are smart, brave and wonderful” Joan soothed as she turned to Akiza “So what’s your decision?” 

Akiza sighed “I don’t suppose I can ask for Yugi and Fluttershy back?” 

“No sadly I don’t think so” Joan said kindly 

“Well then I request your freedom and you can serve whichever team you want!” Akiza declared happily as Joan smiled “I’m guessing you’re joining Twilight?” Joan nodded “Yeah with what she did…I would too” Akiza then turned to Shakespeare “You will be joining my team! You will tell us everything you know!” Akiza said firmly. 

The Grand Minister coughed “Well that is all agreed it’s time for the next match! Red team first!” the red lights shot up and circled around before landing in Universes 1 and 8 “Selections made! Universe 1’s Princess Jasmine and Universe 8’s Nico Robin selected! Now for the Blue Team!” the blue lights shot up and again it was long time before they came down “Universe 11’s Momo Yaoyorozu and Universe 9’s Rukia Kuchiki are the Blue Team Members!” 

“Miss Yaoyorozu…you’d better win this one…we’ve already lost two players” Belmod said sadly as he looked down sadly “We’re currently in last place…we haven’t got a single duellist through to the next round and we have two players eliminated” 

Midoriya nodded “It’s a pretty bad position all round…but Momo is one of the best we have” he said as Momo nodded as she walked out to the duelling area.

Momo approached Rukia who smiled and shook her hand “Hey my name is Rukia…hope you’re ready for a duel? Looks like we’ve got one of the less insane duels” Rukia joked and Momo nodded “It could get more insane I suppose” 

“Yeah well let’s hope we can all just have a nice quiet duel” Momo said sadly “Yeah right”
> Chapter 11- Sakura enters the Duel
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“Okay! Attack Jasmine’s life points directly!” Rukia declared as her monster charged in and the defeat was complete the duel hadn’t lasted very long since Momo and Rukia proved too much for either of their opponents, as the life points hit zero, Jasmine held her arm and looked down expecting severe punishment for their defeat, however Nico approached her and helped her up “You two played well” Rukia said as the four shared a handshake marking the end of their game, despite Rukia’s lifepoints being higher, no demands of the losers were made but the happiness from the winning teams was clear. 

The Grand minister descended and turned smiling as he raised for silence “After quite an interesting contest….we have our winners! Momo Yaoyorozu of Universe 11 and Rukia kuchiki of Universe 9 are our the uncontested winners! Now to select the next two teams! First for the red team!” the lights shot up and circled round before landing in Universe 2 and Universe 10 “The red team is chosen! Usagi Tsukino aka Sailor Moon from Universe 2 and Yuesi Fudo of Universe 10!” 

Yuesi smiled as he was chosen and Akiza gave him a high five as he picked up his duel disc “Good luck Yuesi! We believe in you!” Yuesi nodded as he turned to leave and Jack looked down “Come on Jack?” 

“Come on! No one is going to beat Yuesi! Not until I get my shot!” Jack said with a confident smile and Yuesi laughed “What?” 

“No worries Jack! I look forward to our rematch!” Yuesi said as he walked into the centre. 

Usagi picked up her duel disc as the other scouts gave her reassuring pats on the back “I’m ready girls” she said as she walked up and shook hands with Yuesi “I guess we’re team mates” 

“Yeah!” Yuesi said as he smiled at her “Hope your good?” Usagi laughed and the two turned ready to meet the blue team. 

“Now for the blue team!” the Grand Minister said as the blue lights shot into the air, they circled for a while before one headed for Universe 7 and landed on “Son Goku of Universe 7 is selected for the blue team!” 

The zeno twins cheered happily “Yay! It’s Goku!” the first Zeno cheered

“Oh yes I bet Goku is really good at this!” the second Zeno said 

Goku waved to the Zenos as he got his duel disc “Yes it’s my turn!” the rest of Universe 7 team however stared at the blue light as it still hadn’t fallen but it seemed to be picking between Universe 1 and Universe 12 before finally the blue light fell. The air was then filled with Gilgamesh’s sickening laughter, his laughter cruel and full of victorious joy “He’s happy…who was selected” Team 12 parted revealing a small woman with light purple hair wearing a school uniform “Her?” 

“Sakura Matou of Universe 12 is selected!” the grand minister declared but no one moved, anything that made Gilgamesh laugh like a mad man made everyone uncertain even Goku didn’t move his eyes lingering on the girl, her eyes appeared dead and lifeless as if pain was all she had ever known “Would the Blue Team please come to the centre” 

Gilgamesh turned to Sakura Matou and whispered “I want total victory…..show them your power!” 

“Yes…master” Sakura Matou said as she walked out into the centre “Total victory” 

Yuesi looked at Sakura Matou with the same level of concern “She looks….her eyes remind me of…” he shook his head clear of those bad memories as Sakura walked into the centre without a word to either of her opponents but Goku had still not moved, Sunset and Twilight had both grabbed his arm and both were shaking uncontrollably “Those two are…scared”

Usagi said “They’re not the only ones” around them several teams were trying to calm down their more receptive team members, Rei from Universe 2, Kari Kamiya from Universe 4, 2 members of Universe 1’s team and Kiba Inuzuka of Universe 5 were crying as fear took over completely as they could sense something deeply disturbing coming from Sakura Matou. Kiba’s dog, Akamaru was very close to running away from the smell he could smell “This is horrible” 

Sunset shook “Please Goku! For the love of Celestia just forfeit! Don’t duel with her! I have a terrible feeling!” she begged before Tien pulled her off Goku “NO! NO! STOP!” Twilight also begged as Vegeta did the same. 

“Don’t worry, girls! I’ll win!” Goku said confidently but his own shaking fooled no one. He finally walked out and extended a hand to Sakura however the glare he got convinced him that was a very bad idea “Uh hi! I’m Goku!” 

Sakura Matou turned her glare as cold and ruthless as ever suddenly darkness surrounded her, causing Goku to jump back instinctively again other team members with visual powers saw through it and they were horrified. Hinata and Sasuke of Team 5 were both left stunned as their jutsus made it clear how dangerous Sakura Matou was but all those with magic also sensed the threat “I’m here to make you all pay for my pain!” 

Usagi activated her duel disc as she said “We’ll pay for nothing!” she wasn’t about to stand back and allow her friends to be scared by the threats of this girl “I’m not scared of you! I have faced Queen Beryl, the doom Phantom and Galaxia! I’m here to win!” 

Yuesi activated his duel disc “Yeah! I won’t let you win either!” 

Even Goku was raring to go and activated his duel disc “Let’s go!” 

The Grand Minister said “Let the duel begin!” 

Yuesi took the first move drawing his starting hand he found it to be quite strong “Okay! To start my turn I summon Shield Warrior in Defence mode and set three cards face down!” he looked at his hand on his next turn he could use a spell to discard Quilbolt hedgehog then hopefully draw Junk Synchron and summon it before summoning back Quilbolt hedgehog and synchro summon his Stardust Dragon. His facedowns would also ensure he made it to the next round “I end my turn” 

Goku took the next move “Okay let’s see! Alright! I summon this in face down defence and set two cards face down!” Goku equally had a good move in mind, he’d been well taught but Sunset was still shaking on the side lines along with Twilight screaming for him to stop. 

Even Beerus sensed the threat “Uhhh Whis level with me…how worried should we be?” he asked as Whis leaned his head to the side and shrugged “You know that’s not an answer!!” 

“I honestly don’t know…this girl’s energy is hard to read and I don’t have anything on her past” Whis said as he looked away, when no one was looking his expression soured, fact was he did know what was about to happen, the terrible deck Sakura Matou wielded was as fearsome as any because it oozed the same darkness that Sakura herself did causing Whis to whisper “Be cautious Goku….when she plays her first card destroy it” 

The warning was well advised as Usagi started her turn and also played three face down traps then said “After setting three face downs I summon Marauding Captain in attack mode and then use his effect to special summon a second!” this field created an attack lock that Usagi hoped would protect her till she could summon the heavy hitters of her deck “I end my turn” 

Whis whispered “Now we see if our fears are well founded” his words rang through the air and for the first time Sakura Matou’s smiled but if anything it was more chilling than her previous actions. 

Sunset begged “For the love of all things, Whis! If you don’t stop this! They’ll all be killed!” she practically screamed “You have to stop this! Just let her win! Don’t let her make her move! She’ll kill them!” Tien rubbed her back but nothing could be done as Sakura drew to start her turn. 

Rei screamed “Usagi! RUN!” 

“There is no running” Gilgamesh said coldly “Now watch as Sakura Matou proves her worth!” 

Sakura Matou said “I activate the field spell Mausoleum of the Emperor!” the field spell activated and as the field changed Whis felt his head fall, their only chance to stop her had passed and as she activated the effect “I give up 2000 life points! For every 500 I give up…it acts as a monster towards the tribute summoning of a high level monster!” 

Yuesi nodded “But what monster could need 4 tributes?” but then he saw her smirk “No…no…no” 

“What is it Yuesi?!” Usagi asked looking to him with deep concern as she realised he knew what Sakura was planning “What’s wrong?! Apart from what is already wrong!?” 

“A field spell like that…giving up so many lifepoints…she must be sure she’s got a monster worth summoning…I think it’s an Earthbound Immortal” he said “But how?!” 

Sakura heard the spikey haired man’s comment “Oh so you’ve met this monster before?! No no…that can’t be….because this is special….this is my Earthbound Immortal!” suddenly the air was filled with cracking thunder and lightning “I summon Earthbound Immortal Darkus Godd!” the field was surrounded by purple flames as the massive monster emerged. It’s head brushed past where the Zenos were sitting and all looked up in fear.

Even the zenos stared in awe of this thing “Do you think Goku will be okay!?” the first zeno asked concerned 

“No need to worry, my lords even if battle damage in this duel is real…it’s impossible for any duelist to be killed during the duels….I made sure of it” the Grand Minister reassured as he watched on but for the first time his calm expression was wavering “I think” 

“All my life…all I’ve known is pain and fear! Now my power will ensure you three will never see the light of day!” Sakura screamed as she set the remaining cards in her hand on the field “I now activated my Earthbound Immortal’s special effect!” the immortal roared as black and red tendrils shot out towards every card on the field stabbing every card through the centre “Now, no card effect, spell or trap can activate to negate this effect! I must surrender all but 1 of my life points!” as she said this other cards appeared on the field filling every space, Sakura clearly felt pain from the lost points but she seemed to enjoy it as the lifepoints slipped away “Now my Earthbound Immortal destroys every card on the field! And for every card destroyed….you all take 800 points of damage!” 

“Wait how much!?” Usagi said in fear, she had a card in her hand that could counter the effect but without space on the field there was nothing she could do. 

“That’s 35,200 points of damage” Yuesi said slowly the damage would be well past the word catastrophic as he shook in fear “There’s got to be a way to counter it!” 

“Well there is” Sakura admitted “I can’t activate this effect if you have any divine beasts in play or in your graveyards!” Yuesi looked to Goku but his face down monster was not a divine beast “Also if there are any in your hands?” all three faces fell as they realised they didn’t have any “Now then! Darkus Godd! Destroy them!” the field blew up as all the cards were destroyed. The lifepoint damage hit Goku, Yuesi and Usagi ruthlessly, all three fell straight back, the damage was so devastating their decks were all destroyed, even Yuesi’s Stardust Dragon was not spared and the remains of their decks were blown away by a cruel wind “hmm that was fun!” 

The audience was left in shock as Sakura walked back to Universe 12’s area “I don’t believe my eyes” Luffy whispered in numb shock “How could that have happened!?” 

“I don’t know” Nami said in equal shock as she shook “I don’t think they’re…breathing” 

“YUESI!” Jack Atlas screamed as he ran to his friend’s side “No…no…no….nooooooo!” Jack grabbed Yuesi’s shoulders and shook him “Please…wake up! NO! You promised me! You promised me! We’d meet in the next round!” Akiza walked up her eyes filled with tears “Please for the love of….”

“Jack…it’s no good…he’s gone” Akiza said numbly as Jack continued to scream “Please stop….the pain….” Jack looked to her “I know…I love him but he’s….” the rest of Universe 10’s team ran up and pulled the two away. Alexis comforting Akiza as Jaden and Kaiba tried to sooth Jack’s anger. As they were being led away Akiza’s eyes flickered dangerously, her anger hidden by tears and her desire to let loose dangerously present “Alexis…please tell me…I’m wrong” 

Alexis shook her head and weakly mumbled “I can’t” 

As this was happening all of team 7 ran forward with elements of team 6 however Vegeta got there first “Very funny Kakarot you can get up now” but when Goku didn’t Vegeta said “Kakarot? No….no this isn’t funny!” 

No one laughed or told Vegeta the terrible truth till Krillin stepped up and said “It’s no use…he’s dead” 

Hardest hit however was Universe 2’s team, Usagi’s body lay as Rei led the scouts to her body but it was Makoto who broke the unbearable silence as she turned to Universe 12 “I swear! You’ll pay for this!” she screamed but all the scouts around her didn’t seem to share her fire. 

In Universe 11 Deku looked on at the sight shaking but first to speak was one of the pride troopers, none other than Top who looked in shock “The mighty Goku…killed?!” he asked in a numb shock “Just as well Jiren isn’t here but….why is that girl so…”

“Evil?” Dyspo asked as he shook in place “I ain’t so sure but if her pain is real…I think it’s probably beyond what we dare imagine” he asked “Permission to go and…”

“Granted” Top said knowing what Dyspo meant. 

Belmod turned to his Angel, Marcarita and asked slowly “How could the energy of that duel kill Goku?” 

Marcarita said “Simple the pain is usually applied depending on someone’s threshold…Goku could have gone ultra-instinct and it would have still killed him” she however still looked shaken “But it shouldn’t have been possible to do over 35,000 life point’s worth of damage” 

Belmod frowned “Something tells me that Gilgamesh wanted to make an example of Goku” 

Deku said “Well it was a terrible idea” 

Belmod smiled “Hmm? You think so?” 

Deku nodded “The teams here already hated Universe 12’s team but this will just make everyone here want a chance at revenge for this….look at teams 6 and 7…I’d say all of them will now want a shot at vengeance” 

Marcarita smiled “If you think that’s true I hope you get the chance to duel next because you look ready?” Deku nodded “Huh…Hey Belmod want to bet Universe 12 won’t get a single duelist to the next round?” 

Belmod nodded “Safe bet I’d say” 

The Grand minister made the corpses on the field disappear as he descended and looked to Universe 12 “Let this be a warning to your team if you kill any other duelists in this tournament your entire team will be disqualified!” 

The Zenos above looked unfazed by the death of Goku but despite this what the second zeno said revealed their annoyance “I’d disqualify them now”

The first zeno said “We must be fair and that was the effect of the card” 

The Grand minister however coughed and said “It’s time to select the next teams for duelling! First the red team” the red lights shot up and hovered round the area over the teams before the first light fell on Universe 1 “Yoda of Universe 1 is selected!”

“Hmm my turn it is?” Yoda asked as he got up from his chair “Hmm good, good. Hope team mate is good too I do” he said as he watched the light fall in Universe 4’s team “Hmm a child? Good” 

“From Universe 4 Cody Hida is selected!” The Grand minister said as the blue lights now shot up this time the lights only circled for a few seconds before they fell upon Universe 7 and Universe 8 “Master Roshi of Universe 7 and Tony Tony Chopper from Universe 8”  

However amongst the straw hats chopper was shaking uncontrollably “Come on Chopper it’s your turn!” Usopp said but Chopper shook his head burying into Robin’s lap, he was utterly terrified and would need time “Luffy what are we going to do?” 

“Isn’t it obvious, Usopp? One of us will have to stand in for Chopper he is no fit state to duel” Zorro said in a flat but in a weirdly caring tone “I may as well” 

However Sanji snapped “Oh no you don’t moss head! I want a chance to play!” but both were silenced as Luffy walked past them “Luffy?!”

“Stand down” Luffy said but it wasn’t a request this was an order and his face was his serious expression, the one he used when he was not to be messed with and Zorro and Sanji stood down but Nami walked up “Nami?” 

“None of you three are in a fit state to duel either. Out of the entire crew I’d say only myself, jimbei and Robin are fit but since Robin is already out…I’m going to suggest a coin toss” Nami said firmly meeting Luffy’s glare but Luffy relented “Okay Jimbei get over here!” Jimbei shrugged and walked over, Nami tossed a coin but Jimbei won the toss “Damn it!” 

“Sorry” Jimbei said as he walked up, the Grand Minister looked less than impressed as Jimbei walked forward “Forgive Chopper, he’s not in a fit state to duel” Jimbei stated “The last duel was too…traumatic” the grand minister nodded as Master Roshi approached Jimbei “Pleasure to meet y….”

“I’m not here to talk” Roshi said, his voice was cold and bitter “I’m here to get my chance to go to the next round and get my shot at Gilgamesh. That poor girl isn’t to blame for what happened to Goku” he removed his sunglasses and his eyes were as harsh as a blizzard. 

Yoda approached the two “Ah yes…the last duel…unpleasant it was” he reached a clawed hand up to Jimbei who took it and gave it a firm shake “Pleasure to meet you three this is” 

Jimbei nodded “It is an honour for me as well” 

On the sidelines many teams were still shaken by the shocking duel but as Gilgamesh sat on Yugi’s back, his smirk only grew bigger, despite Deku’s predictions his two strongest duelists were already through and as the Grand Minister began to speak Gilgamesh looked to Master Yoda with interest “Now the last duel of the day is about to begin! After this all teams will retire for dinner! Tomorrow’s duels will be announced tomorrow!” there was a pause “Is everyone ready”
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“With that the winners have been decided! Advancing to the next round are Yoda of Universe 1 and Cody Hinda of Universe 4!” The grand minister declared before adding “Yoda finished with the highest life points so he decides the fates of the losers!” 

“No need have I” Yoda declared as he turned away as Universe 1 cheered for their first victory of the tornament as Yoda walked back his old smile clear on his face. The victory had almost been entirely down to Yoda, who’s deck still left many still in the tournament a little surprised “An honour it was” 

Cody however sadly turned to Universe 4, the god of destruction was where his gaze fell to, far from looking happy, Quitela looked mad but kept his mouth shut just casting Cody a dirty look that made the young boy look away sadly. The Grand Minister coughed as he then said “For dinner each team has been gifted the talents of a student cook from the Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute! If any cooks wish to help them they’re more than welcome! We just ask you enjoy your evenings! Teams are allowed to interact so long as the meetings are civil!” he cast a dangerous glare at Universe 12 as the teams headed to their respective bases. 

Whis turned to the team, none looked much like celebrating, two defeats in a row and one death was hard to express happiness over “Well…our chef should be in here somewhere? Hello?” suddenly a small girl with dark blue hair appeared from the kitchen area dressed in a white cooks uniform  “You must be our cook for the evening?” 

The girl bowed and said “Yes my name is Megumi Tadokoro from the Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute” she smiled as she added “I have been working on dinner for you…” suddenly Beerus walked close and glared at her, Megumi gulped nervous by one of the gods of destruction looking so threateningly at her “Ummm is there a problem?” 

“I warn you here and now! No ordinary slop will please my taste buds! So I suggest what you’re preparing is tasty” Beerus growled but Megumi smiled and bowed again before opening the door she’d come from a crack allowing the smell of her food to fill the entrance area. Beerus inhaled and his brain practically melted with the delicious smell “GIVE ME!” 

Megumi shook her head and said “It’ll be another half hour before it’s properly ready to enjoy” she turned back to the kitchen before she turned back Beerus trying to follow her “You will wait in the dining room or in your rooms! No non chefs is allowed in the kitchen” 

“OH! PLEASE!” Beerus screamed “That food needs eaten now!” 

Whis drooling also screamed “I agree! FOOD NOW!” despite this he turned noticing the depressed expressions of the duelists, none even seemed to enjoy the smell of their dinners and he sighed “I know today has been a hard day….but we should still be proud of today’s duels. Sunset you managed to advance to the next round that's something worth celebrating in a small way” 

Megumi smiled as she approached Sunset “I was watching your duel….I don’t quite understand the rules but it was good” Sunset smiled sadly trying her best to give Megumi a better showing that just utter depression “I could use your help in the kitchen” 

“Why?” Sunset asked but Megumi shook her head and guided Sunset into the kitchen. Beerus looked on in shock as the two walked in and the door was locked behind them. 

“THAT’S NOT FAIR!” Beerus screamed scraping at the door “I need food now!” 

Elsewhere Akiza sat in her bedroom, her eyes hadn’t stopped leaking tears since Yuesi had lost and her hands trembled as she hugged herself but there came a knock on the door. She at first didn’t say anything but then a stronger knock came and she sniffed “Come in?” the door opened and there stood Sailor Mars in her full uniform, Rei eyes were as puffy as Akiza’s felt her own to be and she said “You were from the team who…”

“Yeah” Rei said as she walked in “Our team saw how you and that blonde man took the death of….uhh Yuesi was it?” Akiza nodded sadly “Well we would like to invite you two to share a meal with our team so we can all…well you know” 

“Have you asked the Universe 7 team?” Akiza asked slowly and Rei nodded “And you’ve checked it’s okay with both our cooks?” 

“I asked Erina and Takumi, they both said it was fine” Rei explained as she extended her hand to Akiza who took it gratefully. The two walked out heading for Jack’s room but almost before they knocked on the door Jack walked out looking angry “Uh sir?” 

“Save it! I know why you’re here! I’m too busy preparing my deck and Akiza I’m surprised you’re not focusing on…” Jack began but Akiza’s expression darkened and Jack realised if he finished his sentence he’d regret it “Uh actually maybe I could come” 

Meanwhile Camparri the angel of Universe 3 was praising the team “Well day 1 is over and we’re undefeated….I mean only one of us has duelled but I thinking focusing on the positive is important…” the Fairy Tail guild members smiled as they could smell their cook’s food through the door “Yes I know Miss Mito’s food smells very tasty but could you all…focus?” 

Natsu however was the only one who wasn’t drooling over the food “Oh come on! Who cares about undefeated or the food! I want my turn to show the other teams what I can do!” 

“Would you cool it, Flame brain!” Gray Fullbuster snapped pulling himself away from the delicious smell “If you keep talking like that you could be the next to die!” 

Lucy however also managed to pull herself away from the smell and said “GRAY! What happened was horrible?! I can’t imagine how…horrible those teams who lost people are feeling. And I’m not sure I want to imagine” the other members of the Fairy Tail team looked down as they all comprehended the prospect of duelling Universe 12…a team seemingly determined to make every other team hate them. 

Izzy stood at the edge of the room looking nervously unsure but then a hand was placed on his shoulder and Wendy Marvell smiled at him “It’s okay! You’ll get use to them” she said as Izzy nodded and the two shared a brief laugh “They’re all weird at first but they’re all nice though I suppose weird just comes with being in Fairy Tail” 

Izzy smiled “Then I’ll be right at home that pink haired guy reminds me of Tai so much it’s scary” 

“Natsu and I’m sure he’d take that as a compliment” Wendy said before she looked down at Tentomon who looked up and she asked “So what exactly are you?” 

“I’m a Digimon…Digital monster” Tentomon said as he continued to smell the food “All I care about is that yummy smelling food now though! So I’m just going to sneak in!” he headed for the door flying over the heads of Natsu and Gray “So close!” Suddenly he stopped moving forward “HuH?!!”

“Oh no you don’t!” Natsu snapped as he was holding onto Tentomon’s back legs “I know what you’re thinking!” 

Tentomon begged “Awww come on the food smells so good....”

“yeah well all the fish in there is property of me!” Happy said as he held onto Natsu’s back “Yummy little fishies! All for me!” 

Tentomon sighed “Yeah well I’m not keen on fish…” 

Back with Universe 7 Whis and Beerus were drooling at the door at the delicious smell as Twilight, Krillin, Tien and Android 18 approached them “Whis…Whis? We need to ask a question” Twilight said in a serious tone, Whis barely able to tear his attention away from the delicious smell turned his head slowly, the look on Twilight’s face was one of uncertainty but also great focus causing the angel to sigh “You were expecting this?

Whis nodded and even Beerus tore himself away from the smell “What happened in the duel…Goku…” Twilight began but couldn’t find the words to finish before she found her resolve “Why did he die!?” 

“You know why” Beerus said in a firm but bitter tone “The damage he took was beyond what anyone could have predicted! 30,000 was unthinkable! Yet that Earthbound immortal….” 

Whis tapped his staff against the floor to silence the room “I have been considering it for some time why….30,000 was overkill no body in this tournament stood a chance of surviving that…Goku was best suited to but even he couldn’t” Whis looked to them “I think it’s safe to assume 4000 lifepoint damage in a single strike you can survive it….even 10,000 but…beyond that. I’d say with every 100 points your odds look worse” 

Tien asked “How much worse?” 

“You don’t need to know. However I believe Universe 12 has shown their hand with this. It’s likely any loyal duelist to Gilgamesh has cards that could inflict as much as double that damage!” Whis said firmly “So we’ll probably need to approach the other teams and form an a…alliance” 

“Isn’t that cheating?!” Krillin asked rubbing the back of his head as he spoke laughing slightly

Android 18 swatted the back of his head “As oppose to dying, Krillin?” she asked coolly and turned her focus back to Whis “If we were to do this we would need a way to spread the word amongst the other teams?” she then added “But I’d suggest we don’t spread the word to Universe 4. We still need to save those kids” Twilight and Krillin nodded but Tien shook his head. 

“We don’t have that luxury….if we end up in a duel with 1 of our team, 1 of Universe 12 and 2 from Universe 4….we’d need their help” Tien said crossly “Universe 12 needs to be the priority and Universe 4 the secondary concern” 

“We’re forgetting something we do have access to another source of information” Twilight offered as she smiled slightly “Joan, she’s now part of the Universe 6 team and she is likely providing information” 

“Unless she’s a double agent” Beerus growled as he crossed his arms “From what we’ve seen Gilgamesh would never allow such a valuable source of information to slip through his fingers” 

“I agree” Android 18 and Tien said at the same time. 

“It’s already likely she’s being put through a long interrogation by Vados” Whis said doubtfully and he then added “I suspect most of the other teams are also preparing their strongest duellists with orders they can’t afford to be knocked out tomorrow” 

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Twilight answered it “Hello!” a man wearing a blue mask which covered one of his eyes and a green jacket as he stood at the door he looked around “Wow! I have to say this is an interesting team you have….Forgive me, I should introduce myself?” there was a pause which caused Tien to move slowly forward “My name is Kakashi Hatake of Universe 5” 

“Yes well why are you here?” Tien asked slowly not trusting the man in question 

“As I speak many teams are beginning to form alliances….including Universe 12” Kakashi said as he walked in and took a seat in a comfy pink chair “We were approached by someone calling themselves Assassin. She told us we either agree to help Universe 12 or share in Fluttershy, Jiro and Yugi’s fate at best…at worse…well” they all understood what Kakashi was driving at “I haven’t yet said yes…or no” 

“Why not?” Twilight asked 

“Simple I want to know if we have anyone capable of beating Universe 12 if not….it’d be safer to side with them” Kakashi said matter of factly “You understand we’re not keen on this idea but it seems to me Gilgamesh is only interested in seeing his wish achieved” 

“Which team would even consider siding with Universe 12?!” Krillin asked but Kakashi’s eye fixed him with a knowing look “Who!?” 

Meanwhile Gilgamesh sat sipping a glass of wine, next to him sat Giin both looking content as kittens as they stared across a table at the arrival of two team captains, two angels and two Gods of destruction. Gilgamesh placed his wine on the table “So our teams will team up against the others in the duels going forward regardless of who our partners are?” Gilgamesh asked as the captains looked down but their Gods looked pleased “Sounds like a waste of time to me” 

Giin said “I agree but….Sidra’s team was first out of the tournament of Power and you Quitela are none too popular right now?” he laughed as the god sniffed uncomfortably “Or is there something else you want Quitela?” 

Quitela nodded “I want Twilight Sparkle….The Princess of Friendship it makes me sick! I want her destroyed! Looking at her makes me sick!” he tried to sip his glass of wine but his hand crushed the glass easily in anger “Some beings just piss me off!” 

“Is that it?” Gilgamesh asked 

“No I want her!” Quitela said pointing at Fluttershy who sat beside Gilgamesh holding the bottle of wine “I want her to watch as I kill her!” 

“Sorry but she is a trophy of victory” Gilgamesh said as he then added “But Twilight is very doable but again I find your reasoning…confusing” 

“I don’t expect you to understand it! But I want revenge against Beerus as well!” Quitela snarled “And killing another duelist from his team…would just be pleasure for me!” 

“And we can assume that you Sidra…you’re just wanting to avoid last place again?” Quinn asked to which Sidra nodded “Understandable but will your duelists do as you two want?” Sidra and Quitela nodded and the captains of their teams didn’t dare look in a position to question it “So Sidra how are you going to control your team?” 

“Simple Ichigo here either obeys or...” Sidra began before throwing out a large crystal onto the table “Inside that crystal is the key to his loyalty” he then snapped his fingers “And our best duellist is yet to play” as the door opened and in walked a man wearing a long cloak, he smiled as he waved his hair and pushed a hand through his hair “May I present! Sōsuke Aizen” Aizen smiled calmly, his face cold and calculating as Ichigo shook in place “With you and Aizen….no one will be able to defeat us!” 

“What makes you so sure?” Gilgamesh asked as he observed Aizen, there was something Gilgamesh both loved and hated about the look Aizen gave him in return 

“If he duels tomorrow you’ll see him crush everyone in that duel” Sidra said confidently 

Aizen said “I promise total victory and I’ll present the losers to you, Gilgamesh as a tribute to your glorious self and I promise a victory that’ll shake them more than any seen today” Gilgamesh smirked and added “I have a request of my own though” Gilgamesh put his glass down but his smile only grew “A wish on the Super Dragonballs could grand us the chance to reform our Universes!” 

“I see you’re able to see the wish I want” Gilgamesh said as he realised Aizen saw the opportunity he too had decided to use and this made Gilgamesh’s confidence only grow “I imagine there are those in other teams we can exploit!” 

“Funny you should mention that because I believe I have found several team members on other teams we can…recruit” Cognac said, angel of Universe 4 and he pulled out a list “Bakura of Universe 10, Maleficent of Universe 1, Sasuke of Universe 5 and Applejack of Universe 6” 

“One of Universe 6?” Giin asked unsure “With us taking Fluttershy are you sure one would turn on…”

“Yes her anger at Champa is overwhelming…it’s unmistakable. I’d be willing to bet if you were to offer Fluttershy’s freedom in exchange for her working for us” Cognac explained and then smiled coldly “She’ll agree….” The door to the kitchen opened and in walked Jiro with food “ooo smells good…where is the chef?” 

Jiro shrugged “He said he had to pop out for a moment” 

“WHAT?! STOP HIM!” Quitella screamed in a full panic and rightly so “How long ago did he leave?!” 

Jiro suddenly smirked before saying calmly “A while ago” 

Gilgamesh sighed “Tell me, Jiro why didn’t you inform me?” his tone gentle but the threat clear as Jiro stood staring at him as he stood up approaching her before cupping her chin “You were defeated and still you believe you can defy me?” 

“No I just did as he told me….he was just going to see his friend” Jiro said as she then added “Not my fault....though suppose it is my fault that I gave him my hero name…” Gilgamesh’s composure fell away as his expression darkened “Go ahead! Plus Ultra” 

“I forgot your universe worships that worthless waste of space All Might” Gilgamesh said as he turned away “But not to worry….We’ll catch up with our chef later but Jiro…you will now learn the price of your foolish actions, Archer” 

Meanwhile Sōma Yukihira ran for Universe 11’s quarters, his heart racing as he was desperate to reach safety, Jiro’s story drove him to inform the other teams of the dangers they all faced. He spotted someone outside the building “HELP!” he screamed, the boy turned his head and spotted Archer on the roof of Universe 12’s quarters taking aim at Soma “Oh please! Earphone jack! EARPHONE JACK!” 

Kirashima nodded and charged forward, just as Archer fired, the arrow zipped through the air, Kirsashima hardened his skin as hard as he could and got just in between the boy and the arrow “AHHHH!” the arrow pushed him back threatening to break through as Kirashima kept hardening all he could “NO! DON’T GIVE!” Archer looked surprised as he lowered his bow. Archer zipped past Kirashima desperate to get to Soma with a dagger already drawn “NO!” Archer thrust his dagger forward but suddenly his wrist was yanked up “TSU!” 

“Yep!” Froppy said as she pulled archer up and threw him “The Grand Minister said no fighting” 

“Orders are orders” Archer said as he recovered dusting off his long red cape and glared at the two who dared interrupt “If you two don’t move away I’ll have to ensure…there are no witnesses and that won’t end well for you!” he thrust forward with one of his daggers at Froppy but the dagger was blocked by a sword “UH!?” 

“Now that’s not safe is it” Zorro grunted as he held the sword in his teeth, Archer tried to attack round the side but Zorro moved fast enough to keep up “Not happening! Luffy!” 

Suddenly a fist connected with Archer’s jaw and send him sprawling onto his back as the captain of the Strawhats walked forward his rubber arm and fist shrinking back to normal as he then used the hand to crack his other knuckle “You’re outnumbered” Luffy said dangerously as Archer looked around him, the students of UA were now pouring out hearing the sounds of battle but also the strawhats were charging over “Now leave” 

“Now where’s the sport in that” A voice said from behind Luffy, just in time Froppy pulled Luffy out of the way as a sword came down on the floor and Luffy was left shocked to see who had launched the attack “uhhh guess my swing is getting worse” Kenpachi said as he looked towards the charging strawhats “Huh this should help get the rust off….” Suddenly Zorro was swinging his swords at Kenpachi forcing the captain to block “oooo now this is fun! At least if I cut your arms off! You’ll still be able to fight!” 

“Try it!” Zorro snarled 

Archer pulled back his bow taking aim at Soma again and fired but this time the arrow was blown off course as a blue tornado appeared in front of the boy “Forgive me…I saw you were fighting and decided to cut in” Neji said as he stood confidently ready but the ninja was forced to dodge a sword swing of another new comer “Hmm and you are?” 

“You can call me Saber” the blonde woman said as she walked closer “but I prefer Atoria Pendragon” 

However before the fight could grow any worse, the Grand Minister appeared amongst all the combatants “I said for you all to remain civil…I’d suggest you all seize fighting before I am forced to disqualify all those involved in this!” his voice was calm but it held a serious note of dangerous anger “Soma…you are meant to be cooking for the Universe 12 team…I’d suggest getting back there before I report this to your teachers”

“Well too bad! Report me! I’d rather a failing grade, than a failing character!” Soma snapped “And for trying to visit my friend…they try to kill me?” 

The Grand minister nodded “Archer, Saber, Captain Kenpachi! I’d suggest you head back to your quarters before I disqualify you!” Kenpachi shrugged and the Grand Minister glared at him “I mean it” 

“Like I care…I only agreed to learn to play the stupid game so I could meet strong fighters” Kenpachi said and added “I really wanted a go at that Goku besides I’m only a substitute duelist” 

“Yeah! Kenny fears no one!” a small girl said behind him 

Kenpachi nodded “Thank you, Yachiru” he turned away as Yachiru climbed up onto his back but as Kenpachi walked past Zorro he paused and smirked at the Strawhat’s swordsman “Careful green hair…next time we fight…I will take your arms off” Kenpachi walked away but as he did “Followed by your head” 

Saber and Archer left without any further words, closely followed by the strawhats and Neji left as well. The grand minister glanced down at Soma but weirdly didn’t say or do anything as he hovered upwards to the Zeno’s palace but then the Universe 11 main doors opened and Deku ran out followed by the Team 11’s chef, Ryoko Sakaki  who spotted Soma and looked very surprised “Soma?! What are you doing here?!” 

“I need to speak to the team captain!” Soma snapped looking concerned “Jiro send me! We overheard what Universe 12, 4 and 9 are planning!” Deku nodded as they all headed inside to find Iida looking very annoyed but what he saw the shaken looks of Deku and Tsu he looked to Soma with confusion. Soma explained everything before the entire Universe 11 team “I know the rules say I should have just let it happen but watching that duel earlier…”

Belmond nodded “Rules are made to be broken…we’ll need to spread the word. The next round will likely be a free roam style game where duelling skill and physical strength will play as important a part as the other” his tone didn’t change as he spoke but then his tone turned very dark “And if that does happen….Universe 12 will have an advantage if Universes 4 and 9 don’t attack them” 

Deku nodded “It’s likely teams with the most undefeated players will also be targeted more heavily. Universe 9 has the most remaining duellists after Universe 3. The team in the worst spot as far as that’s concerned is Universe 2 but without their leader they’re looking very shaky” he explained as the others couldn’t help but agree “And we’re not in great shape either” 

“Don’t forget about Universe 7 without Goku they’ll struggle” Dyspo chipped in 

Belmond added “Not forgetting Universe 6 if Universe 12 approaches them regardless of how their duellists feel…Ginn could get them on side. Even returning his hostage in exchange for their loyalty” he rubbed his chin “I can’t help but find that Gilgamesh rather impressive” 

“But that Sakura girl…she’s terrifying” Uraraka whispered before saying out loud “Maybe we should see if we can form alliances?” 

“Trouble is….which Universes” Momo asked as she added “It’s hard to believe Rukia would be on a team with…”

“Really?” Dyspo asked slowly “Given his team mate took your friend away to be a lab rat” 

Soma looked cross as the others seemed to be ignoring him but Deku noticed “Something wrong?” Soma nodded “You’re expression makes…”

“I want in on this tournament!” Soma snapped his tone and mannerism gave away he was serious “Jiro asked me to get word to you but Jiro is now my friend! And I won’t abandon a friend! That’s just not what I’m about” 

“Do you even know how to play this game?!” Momo asked but Soma shook his head “Then I’m afraid you’re not much use….” Soma nodded “And our team is already chosen! Our reserves are full! The only team according to the charts with open spots in their reserves is Universe 7!” 

“Then I’ll go to them!” Soma snapped as he headed for the door but a hand grabbed his hand “What…Ryoko!” the Universe 11 chef looked down “What is it?” she handed him a stack of cards “Huh?” 

“I should have known you’d want in to…save a friend” Ryoko said as she looked at the deck “This is the deck of our dorm….it’s outdated but I thought we’d need it! So I asked Fumio and she gave me her blessing! But Soma you have to be careful!” 

“I can’t leave a friend in such a miserable position! Gilgamesh ordered me not to prepare food for her, Fluttershy or Yugi….I can’t take it! I must help!”” Soma snapped as he looked through the deck “Wait this deck…it’s a…” Ryoko nodded as she handed him one last card “This is….”

“You can do it, Soma….I’ll let the others know” Ryoko said as Soma turned to leave but Deku put a hand on his shoulder “What is it?!” 

“Universe 7, 2, 3 and 8 have proven trustworthy! I say we approach them!” Deku said as the rest of the team nodded “I’ll go with Soma to Universe 7. Momo, you head for Universe 2, Uraraka you ask Universe 3 and Kirashima you ask Universe 8!” the three nodded as they headed out. 

Soma and Deku reached the Universe 7 dorm but as they drew closer “Who goes there?!” Rainbow Dash stepped out her eyes puffy and her face a mixture of sadness and anger “Why are you here?!” 

“Rainbow Dash?” Soma asked to which Rainbow nodded, he held up a single card and Rainbow snatched it “She gave me that to give to you” 

Deku said “Soma here has told us what Universe 12 is planning and wants to join Universe 7’s team to duel” Rainbow looked cross as Soma held up the cards Ryoko had given him “Please! We want to form an alliance!” 

Rainbow shook “And why should I trust you two!? One of my best friends is in chains! I have to save her!” Soma walked closer and nodded “How could you know my pain?!” 

“Because no one deserves to have me cook a meal mere inches from them! Then to be told they’ll only be getting scraps from the table! I’m a chef, my duty is to cook for those that are hungry and enrich their dining experience! I’m Soma Yukihira!” Soma said confidently as he then added “I’ve fought in many a food war but now I want to help in any way I can!” 

Rainbow broke down as her tears fell to the ground and she fell to her knees saying as she looked up from the ground “I guess you should come in then” 

As Soma and Deku met with the remaining Universe 7 team, Whis sighed as Megumi sat with Soma and Deku “This isn’t an easy problem to resolve but I think having Soma as a reserve isn’t a good idea” Soma looked cross but Whis shook his head “With all due respect Soma, you don’t know how to play and as soon as we register you as a reserve member….you could be selected to duel! And the first round has two more days to go. We’ll be counting on you be chosen for the last day of the first round whilst your taught to play…what’s more we don’t have a teacher….”

“You do now” said a voice from the door as Seto Kaiba walked in “I’ll teach you to duel….” 

Twilight looked over “Aren’t you from Universe 10? Why would you want to teach Soma?!” she asked 

“Because my biggest rival is being used as a…chair!” Kaiba screamed before kicking a chair over “Anything I can do to give Universe 12 a bit of payback I welcome” 

“What are you even doing here?” Krillin asked slowly 

“I needed a walk…ever since Yuesi was killed…my team mates are all taking it differently” Kaiba admitted as he added “I felt like I needed to do something productive…Soma I will teach you but I’ll need your full effort!” Soma nodded as Kaiba frowned before nodding “Let’s see your deck” 

Next morning the Grand Minister was informed of Soma’s inclusion on Universe 7’s team roaster “Well I guess your team is a real mix of universes” the Grand Minister sighed but nodded “Okay…get back to your team” once Whis hovered down the Grand Minster called out “Day two….time for the lights. Red team first”

The red lights shot up and hovered round before both red lights shot down to Universe 12 and 9 “Sōsuke Aizen of Universe 9 and Kirei Kotomine of Universe 12! Now Blue team!” the blue lights shot up flying round before both lights shot down “Sora Takenouchi of Universe 4 and Scootaloo of Universe 6 are selected” 

Rainbow cried out “NO! Stop! Scoots!” 

“Rainbow?” Scootaloo asked clearly scared as she stepped out, Rainbow screaming in uncontrollable grief as Twilight and Sunset held her back “I’ll be okay Rainbow” Rainbow’s screams became unbearably loud. 

Applejack looked on as she looked away, Pinkie couldn’t help but cry, Rarity hugging Sweetie Belle as she sobbed out “It’ll be okay, Sweetie…She’ll win. I promise” Rarity choked through her words as Sweetie Belle couldn’t bear to look on “Please no” 

“Despair….true glorious despair” a voice said from Universe 1 “Such a pity” Maleficent smiled in her chair drawing an angry glare from Sora but she added "Universe 12 has already killed and now they may also add a little girl to the mix....I wonder if a heartless could be created from her death" 

Sora snarled "Be quiet!"
> Chapter 13 - FREEDOM!
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Aizen smirked as he began the duel “ohhh don’t worry girls…I’ll be kind” he said with a calculating look over to Rainbow Dash “I see….Now’s the time for words to stop and actions to begin” he picked his first card “Here I’ll play one card face down and then summon my first monster in face down defence mode” 

Scootaloo smiled and said “Is that all you got? My move!” she drew a sixth card and looked at her hand “I’ll start by playing a field spell!” suddenly the field changed so they were standing in front of a large train station “Welcome to Tidmouth Station! My deck is now the best!” 

“hmm empty bragging” Kirei said as he glared at the station as an Engine approached the platform “What the?!” 

“Oh yeah! I forgot to say! Once per turn I get to special summon one random Sodor monster from my deck! So long as its level 4 or below!” Scootaloo said and added “So Welcome to the Field Sodor Toby!” the little brown tram engine pulled to a stop “Now all Sodor Engines need a train to pull! It’s part of their job! Since Toby is a level 2, any two non sodor cards become part of his train!” 




“What?!” Aizen snapped as his two cards turned into two trucks which were attached to Toby 

“Oh dear! I’m frightfully sorry” Toby suddenly said “But did you need those?” 

“I’m not done! Since that was a special summon I’ve still got my normal summon! So I tribute Toby and his trucks to summon Sodor Gordon!” from the station there came a loud whistle as the long blue engine pulled to a stop “His special ability means that he needs passengers! So he takes 9 random cards from your hands!” Aizen and Kirei watched as their entire hands were pulled to Gordon “But best of all with the new passengers, Gordon converts that to attack points 500 for each card!”




“500?!” Kirei said in surprise “You’ve got to be joking?!” 

“It’s no joke! Gordon’s attack points sit at 4500!” Aizen snarled 

Sora smiled over at Scootaloo as Kirei started his turn “I pass, there’s nothing I can do” Kirei said as his one card was just an equip spell “Your move Sora! Better make it count!” Sora nodded glancing over at Quitela who nodded confident Sora wouldn’t dare betray him. 

“My move…” Sora said as she drew a card “I summon….I mean I….” Sora had a way to stop Scootaloo but she couldn’t think, she couldn’t believe this was happening but her card could either be used to help Kirei and Aizen or drive the knife in and defeat them but she knew she’d have to be careful to give nothing away till the last second “I play my monster in face down defence mode! And that’s it” 

Quitela sat feeling his control over his duellists slipping “Yeah certainly seems like you’ve gotten yourself in trouble” a voice said from behind him, Quitela turned as Beerus stood looking at him with contempt “My team are trying their hardest whilst your team doesn’t seem like they even want to duel” 

“Oh shut up! I’m gonna win this time! If these brats don’t win! I’ll blow up their precious playground with their little pets too! It’s as smple as that!” Quitela said and then looked down to the orb that contained the entire digital world “If they don’t win well their precious pets will go boom!” 

Beerus sneered at that “That’s all very well but of all the teams in this contest yours is the weakest in terms of resolve” Quitela looked cross “Your threats only hold weight if you can keep that tiny orb in your grip” Beerus headed back to Universe 7 as Quitela pocketed the orb. 

“Yeah well least none of my puppets are dead” Quitela scoffed as Beerus paused “Goku…dear sweet Goku your team’s captain is…” Beerus began to laugh “What?!” 

“Who ever said Goku was our team captain this time round? This is a card game? Whis selected the team captain and they’re still to duel” Beerus said as he turned his head toward Universe 7 “So enjoy the rest of the duel” 

Aizen started his turn, he drew a single card and snarled “I play one card facedown and end my turn” 

Scootaloo noticed her field spell as a whistle sounded from it “Looks like it’s time for Gordon to go! Wait till he see this! It’s awesome!” Gordon blew his whistle as he pulled the train out “My Sodor cards must go and do their jobs at the start of each of my turns! But as Gordon leaves he deals to all my opponents 100 points for each truck! So that’s 900 points of damage!” Aizen and Kirei’s lifepoints fell to 3100 “Yay! Now I special summon my next monster Sodor Edward in defence mode!”  




Another whistle sounded as the small blue tender engine pulled into the platform “Oh dear, Scootaloo I am sorry about being late” Edward said as he took his position in front of Scootaloo “Care to explain my special ability to these two lovely Gentlemen”

Aizen snarled “My trap will stop any special ability” but the trap failed to activate “What the!?” 

“Oh my! I am sorry but whilst I’m on the field, no face down cards can be flipped up” Edward explained as he smiled “I do hope that doesn’t cause you any problems” 

Aizen and Kirei looked sick as two parrots as Scootaloo played her next monster “I summon Sodor Percy in attack mode!” a cheeky whistle sounded from the platform as Percy rolled in “Percy is my tuner monster! So I’m gonna use him for a Synchro summon! If that’s okay?” 




“Of course it is! Come on Edward!” Percy said 

“Right behind you!” Edward said “Oh and by the way when Percy tunes a monster he steals one card on the field for another level in this summon!” Aizen screamed in anger as he watched his card disappear as a level “Now we synchro summon…”

“Me!” A voice said from the station as an engine rolled in “Sodor Thomas!” the cheeky tank engine rolled to a stop his attack points registered in at 2400 “Now my special ability! I can special summon one random Sodor Monster from Scootaloo’s deck!” two whistles suddenly sounded from the station as two tender engines rolled in “Ah! Donald, Douglas welcome!” 




“Dunna fess yourself Thomas! Sodor Double Donald and Douglas here ta help!” Donald said as his twin smiled “And our special ability is rather neat! We are a union monster! When we equip to Thomas he’ll be able to attack twice!” 

Douglas added “Sorry about that” as their line linked to Thomas’ and they fell in behind Thomas “We’re ready when you are, Thomas!” 

“Try it!” Kirei said confidently as he held up his card, Scootaloo paused looking uncertain but Kirei’s bluff was empty “Attack now or end your turn!” 

Scootaloo blinked taking his bluff “Okay…I end my turn”

“Scootaloo! NO! It’s a trap!” Rainbow screamed but it was too late Scootaloo’s turn had ended and Kirei drew a card to start his turn “No….” 

“Now I think it’s about time we rid ourselves of this ugly train station” Kirei said smugly as he played his field spell “I play the field spell Holy Grail War one!” the train station disappeared “And as I understand it…your monsters have no place to drop off their goods so every turn costs you 100 points to keep them…” it was true Scootaloo’s monsters indeed would dish out 100 points for every monster she currently had “And when Gordon returns…it’ll cost you 200 points per card!” 

Thomas said “Sorry Scootaloo” 

“Don’t worry about it!” Scootaloo said confidently “We can still win! I know it!” 

Tien watching from the side lines sighed “She’s in a worst position than she appreciates” Rainbow shot him a dirty look as he shook his head “Sora is far from a friend…her own motives mean she could easily attack Scootaloo when her turn starts” 

“No…but they’re…” Rainbow began and shook “She’s just a kid! The life point damage is real! It’ll hurt her! Scootaloo! Please give up for your own sake!” she cried out

“How dare you!?” Vegeta said coldly “Either of you! You, Tri-clops I thought you respected drive and a never give up spirit?” Tien nodded “And as you for you Rainbow! How can you ask her to give up!? When she’s duelling for your friend!” 

“What?!” Rainbow asked in shock 

“Haven’t you noticed? Her gaze keeps glancing to Fluttershy! She’s hoping if she wins she can get Kirei to gain Fluttershy’s freedom” Android 18 said as she looked down “I suspect everyone on Universe 6’s team is holding out hope if they got this chance they’d get to play for Fluttershy’s freedom” 

Rainbow fell to her knees “Then it’s my fault! Scootaloo! Please! We’ve already lost a friend in Goku! Don’t throw away your life or your wellbeing for my sake! I already respect….”

“NO!” Scootaloo screamed hearing Rainbow begging “I can’t, Rainbow! Don’t you see?! Don’t you remember?! That song you sung before the friendship games!?” Rainbow looked down but nodded “We’re Wondercolts, come cheer our name!” 

“We’re not the school we were before” Rainbow choked 

“We’re Canterlot united!” 

“UNITE! We'll never bow” Rainbow said as she stood back up as Sunset and Twilight placed their hands on her shoulder “Wondercolts forever!” all three cheered before Rainbow said with a smile “You are a true Wondercolt, Scoots” 

A tear trickled down Scootaloo’s cheek as she said “And I will win! Watch me Rainbow!” 

Sweetie Belle suddenly screamed “Our time is now!”

“Incredible” Natsu Dragneel said from Fairy Tail as he sat watching “YEAH!” he breathed fire “GO Wondercolts! Come on Fairy Tail! Wondercolts!” 

“Wondercolts!” the entire Fairy Tail Team Screamed this spread round till Universe 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 2, 3 and 4 were screaming their support for Scootaloo “Your time is now!” 

“No stop it!” Quitella snapped as the Digidestined all screamed their defiance “Stop it now! Or I’ll smash the Digital world to bits!” he reached into his pocket but the orb containing the digital world was “GONE!?!” 

“Oh sorry is this yours?” Wendy Marvell asked holding the orb in her hands “Carla and I just thought it was so pretty” as she spoke Mule stood in front of her protecting her from Quitella’s wrath “Digi Destined! You can duel now because you want to! SORA!” 

Sora turned her head and smiled “I activate my quick play spell! Mystical Space Typhoon to wipe out your field spell!” 

Kirei screamed “No! You’ll pay for this!” 

“Not likely! Because now I activate my second quick play spell! It’s called A digital world!” Sora said suddenly a card popped out of her deck and it appeared on the field the area changed to a map of the Digital World “This card allows me to summon from my deck, Digital Biyomon!” but instead of appearing on the field like other monsters the orb Wendy held shone and Biyomon shot fourth “Biyomon?” 




“Sora!” Biyomon wrapped her wings around Sora “I’ve missed you, Sora! You saved me” 

“Not me…Scootaloo thank you” Sora said as Biyomon nodded “You can count on our help to win this!” 

“You will not….” Aizen said coldly as he readied his sword to be drawn “Once I draw my blade you won’t be able to see your cards! Never mind play them!” 

“Not so fast!” Yoruichi Shihōin said as she flash stepped in and stole Aizen’s zanpakutō, Aizen shook with rage at her and she said confidently “Well use of zanpakutō isn’t really allowed” 

“You’ll pay for this” Aizen growled but then he turned realising if Yoruichi had the nerve to steal his zanpakutō then it was likely the entire Universe 9 team was defying the alliance and indeed there was the bane of his life standing next to Sidra “YOU! Kisuke Urahara!” 

Kisuke smiled and said “Opps” 

Kirei snarled “Never mind! Let’s just beat these two! My last card will help! I play Holy wish! If this card works out! You two are finished!” a golden cup appeared in the centre with two golden dice “Now how this works is if I roll an even number Aizen and I will get to draw 6 cards but our turns will end there! If on the other hand it rolls and odd number! Half the cards from both your decks will go to the graveyard! And regardless of the outcome! If the numbers match, so long as it’s not two ones, you take damage equal to the number times by 500! If it’s two ones I lose on the spot!” 

“It does take all the cards in his hand to activate but given he has none he can just play it” Gilgamesh said from the side lines 

“Enough stalling! DICE ROLL!” Kirei snapped as the cup dropped the contents onto the ground and the dice rolled out the first came to a stop “YES! A six!”

“So he won’t lose automatically!” Kaiba said from the side “It’s a shame you aren’t rolling the dice, Wheeler” as the second dice slowed “It’s stopping” it rolled to a four “NOOO!” both Aizen and Kirei drew 6 cards each “This is bad!” 

Kirei said “Alright! Now that this duel is back to where it’s supposed to be!” he looked at the cards he had with a cruel smirk he said “Look at you two….you both look so nervous. I play two cards face down and then a monster in facedown defence mode, I do believe it’s your turn Sora….I suggest you surrender and I’ll show you mercy...well a little” 

Sora smiled “Tempting offer….but I’m done being a puppet! I’m a digidestined…My friends and I are now free and if Scootaloo doesn’t mind I’d like to borrow her monster?” Scootaloo nodded with a smile “You’re about to see the strongest card we possess! I play DNA Fusion! Bioymon and Thomas unite!” 

Biyomon “You up for this!” Thomas whistled as the twins separated from Thomas “Biyomon!”

“Thomas!” 

“DNA Digivolve to! Digi Metalgreymon! RAAAA!” the two said as they combined “And we’re not done! DNA Fusion can be played twice at the cost of half of Sora’s lifepoints! Donald, Douglas!?” the twin whistled their support “Metalgreymon!”

“Donald and Douglas! DNA Digivolve to….Digi Shinegreymon!” The new Digital monster roared as it appeared on the field “This is new! Never seen this digimon before….”




Izzy from the side lines checked his data base said “Here it is! Shinegreymon! Yes it’s a Mega level digimon! According to this! It’s attacks include Glorious Burst! That sounds like quite the attack!” the Fairy Tail guild smiled as they looked up at the huge monster “I can’t believe Sora had that card?” 

“I don’t think she did” Tai said as he approached “Remember DNA fusion is a gamble! It fuses cards randomly from anyone’s deck…willing to bet someone…” he looked over the Universe 4’s angel “Had those cards just in case. The only condition for the fusion is the right monster attributes must be used and Biyomon is a Fire attribute alongside the light attributes of the Sodor cards” 

“Glad it happened” Wendy said 

“Yeah but it wouldn’t have happened without you” Izzy said in a grateful voice. 

Aizen looked up at Shinegreymon with disgust “You think 3200 attack points will be enough to…end this duel!? As if! Wait what the!” 

“Oh that? When Sodor cards are used for a fusion their effects carry over!” Scootaloo declared “So now! Shinegreymon can attack twice in a row and I can special summon a random Sodor monster to my field! Come Fourth! Sodor Adam!” there was a whistle as the engine appeared on the field “Weird…don’t remember you”




“Sorry for being a bother” Adam said as he readied himself in defence mode “My special ability! Allows me to revive a Sodor monster from the Graveyard! Come on Edward don’t want to be late?” 

“Adam!? It’s good to see you” Edward said as he rolled out in defence mode “Sadly my effect is negated”

“Leave it to me!” Shinegreymon said as he readied himself “Now I can attack twice! Glorious burst!” his attack targeted Kirei’s face down monster “Oh and before I forget! My attack can punch through your monster’s defence and deal damage!” the fire ball shot out but as it landed the monster flipped. 

“Thank you! I reveal my monster! Blast Sphere! This becomes an Equip spell before damage step” Kirei said as the red sphere attached to Shinegreymon! During your next Standby phase it’ll self-destruct and take you with it Sora!” Scootaloo and Sora looked down “There’s nothing you can do to stop it!” 




“No! There is! I activate my quick play spell!” Scootaloo said “This is called Sodor Station switch! It swaps control of a monster with another! I swap Shinegreymon for Adam!” 

“Scootaloo!” Stop!” Rainbow begged as the two monsters swapped positions “But why!?” 

“Because if she hadn’t Blast Sphere would have taken the rest of Sora’s lifepoints” Twilight said in shock “Scootaloo made a very selfless decision but also a logical one…it doesn’t mean that she won’t suffer a lot of pain from this” 

Sora turned to Scootaloo “Thank you”

“You taking a risk for me! It’s only fair! And Rainbow once told me…” Scootaloo turned looking at Universe 7 but right at Twilight “Loyalty is her element! So it’s mine too!” 

Sora said “Love is mine! And I love having you as a friend” Scootaloo gave her a high five. 

Aizen laughed “aww how sweet! But it’s my turn!” he drew a card and his smirk turned cold “I guess it’s time to finish you off, Sora! I play Monster Reborn! And I use it to revive Thomas!” Thomas rolled onto his field with a frown on his face “Heh! Now Thomas attack Sora!” however Thomas didn’t move “What’s going on!?” 

Scootaloo laughed as she said “You don’t get it! Thomas and the other engines of Sodor will only attack or change their modes or take any order you give if you have Sodor Sir Topham Hatt in your extra deck or graveyard! Guess you don’t have it?” Aizen’s scowl grew “Oh and by the way! If you don’t have that card! Thomas will attack you!” 

“Yep” Thomas said as he reversed backwards and blew steam at Aizen who coughed in surprise “Guess you should have read my card?” 

Aizen scowled as his lifepoints dropped to 600 “Well since you’re no use to me…I’ll sacrifice you for…” but his duel disc confirmed that was an illegal move “What!? I can’t even sacrifice him!?” Scootaloo nodded as he grabbed the card about to tear it up but caught the glare of the Grand Minister and stopped “I end my turn! Now at least I get to watch Shine Greymon blow up! Wait what the?!” 

“When Thomas is attempted to be sacrificed when you don’t have Sir Topham Hatt, Thomas switches ownership! With a random monster!” Scootaloo explained as Thomas was now on her field and Shinegreymon was on Aizen’s field “But guess what…Blast Sphere will still go boom whilst attached to your monster!” Aizen looked up horrified as the dial on Blast Sphere was approaching zero “It’ll go up when I draw this card!” 

Aizen’s glare was deadly as he said “Do it and I’ll make you pay!” 

“We’ll see!” Scootaloo said as she drew a single card, Blast Sphere exploded dropping Aizen’s lifepoints to zero “Hmm now to finish this! Fluttershy will be back with us in the next few moments!” 

“No” Kirei said with a smug smirk on his face as he shook his head “You assume as Gilgamesh’s right hand my defeat will mean a damned thing to him? You’re holding onto a false hope. My defeat will mean nothing. Go ahead. Finish me off or here’s an offer….attack Sora and I’ll get Fluttershy her freedom. I promise” 

Scootaloo paused she had no reason to hold back, she could summon another monster, she could even revive Shine Greymon and have him finish Kirei off but if he was telling the truth…she could win Fluttershy her freedom! She’d even gain Sora her freedom at the same time by recruiting her to Universe 6’s team but it’d still mean allowing Kirei through to the next round. She looked at her hand then turned to look at Rainbow Dash, her heart conflicted, loyalty meant something to her idol and friend “I don’t know what to do” Scootaloo whispered as she stood trembling “Please no…I have to…I don’t know” 

“Scootaloo!” 

“Rainbow?” Scootaloo whispered but no that scream came from Universe 12 so it had to be “Fluttershy?” 

“What are you waiting for?! Attack him! It’s our best hope to eliminate him! Why are you waiting?!” Fluttershy screamed her voice straining as Saber walked up behind her and dragged her away as she squirmed trying hard to get free “Scootaloo! Please!” 

Scootaloo shook her head “Sora? Are you happy continuing in the tournament?” 

Sora smiled “So long as we can be friends?” she said as she walked over and hugged Scootaloo “But do what you think is right” 

“Yeah! I play Premature Burial! By giving up 800 lifepoints! I can revive Shinegreymon from the Graveyard!” Scootaloo said as the ground shook and cracked as the massive digimon appeared “I can end this with one attack! But you don’t get off that lightly! Thomas attack! Steam drive cannon!” Thomas roared forward he hit Kirei directly who flew backwards his landing painful as he rose to his feet “Shinegreymon! End this! Attack!” Shinegreymon flew forward and struck Kirei but his points didn’t drop to zero instead they dropped to 600 points “What the?! That should have finished you off?!” 

Kirei laughed as he held up a spell “You never saw my true deck…but you have won Scootaloo….not entirely though” He turned walking away “I played the quickplay spell Damage Bounce” Scootaloo fell to her knees as her lifepoints hit zero “Just as well Sora’s lifepoints were higher than mine” 

Sora felt Biyomon reappear beside her “Oh Scootaloo I’m so sorry…You deserved to win that but I…I don’t know what to say” Scootaloo shook her head “You did great” 

Rainbow ran over and hugged Scootaloo to her chest “You did great, kid! We’re so proud of you!” Scootaloo began to cry as Rainbow soothed her “You should have won but it just wasn’t meant to be” she turned her head to Sora “Thank you”

“No….I owe Scootaloo if not for her, my friends and I wouldn’t have gotten our digimon back” Sora said as Biyomon nodded “Her Sodor deck was amazing. Scootaloo thank you” Sora turned to leave and added “I hope we get to talk together soon…you’re a nice girl” 

The Grand minister dropped beside Sora and asked “What do you want done with the losers?” 

“Don’t suppose I could ask for Scootaloo to take my place in the tournament?” Sora asked but the Grand Minister shook his head “Well…I’d like Scootaloo to be given Aizen’s deck! And Aizen to be removed” Aizen growled as he dropped his deck onto the ground before he disappeared back to Universe 9 to be dealt with “Scootaloo take that as a small prize to the real winner” 

Scootaloo picked up the cards and nodded “Thank you” 

The Grand Minister rose into the air as he said “After a truly amazing duel! We are now moving onto the next round! Red Team selection!” the red lights both headed for Universe 3 “From Universe 3 we have Gray Fullbuster and Juvia Lockser!”

“Oh no” Gray groaned as Juvia screamed with joy 

“Now for the blue team!” the grand minister said as the blue lights shot up into the air and also headed for a single Universe “From Universe 5 Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno!” the announcement wasn’t met with excitement rather a low growl from the other members of Universe 5. Sasuke was only part of the team because Arak thought it a good idea and Sasuke had only agreed on equally uncomfortable terms “Please may both teams prepare for the duel?” 

Sasuke approached Sakura and said “You’d better not hold me back” he warned as he walked away “I don’t have time to babysit you” 

Meanwhile in the Universe 7 rooms Soma Yukihira sat smiling stupidly as word had finally made it round the other chefs and two had popped in “So to summarise your trying to learn a game’s rules in two days?!” Erina Nakiri asked trying to restrain her voice from shouting “It’s hard to know if this is the dumbest mistake you’ve ever made or just the latest big one….I mean we’re here to prepare food…not play a children’s card game!” she finally began shouting “I can’t believe you, Soma! Of all the stupid…stupid…just plain stupid ideas you’ve had, this is somewhere at the top!” 

Takumi Aldini nodded as he sighed “Seems to me like this is you trying to win for the sake of winn…”

“NO!” Soma said firmly and then whispered “I do have a reason beyond that” he then stood up “I was ordered to not cook for three people! Instead meant to just give them scraps or or….Dog food!” 

Takumi looked horrified “What?!” 

“Dog food!” Erina screamed in disgust “You’re joking!” Soma shook his head “Right! I want in!”

“Me too!” Takumi said in disgust 

“You can’t” Soma said as he added with a cheerful smile “I’ve had the whole night to learn and you two don’t know how to play either?” Takumi and Erina both shook their heads “So I’m the best suited for this” 

Erina pinched her nose and muttered “That’s debatable” 

“Hmm” Takumi nodded 

Seto Kaiba said “He’s doing fine….it’s not ideal but he’s grasping the game….well enough” there was a collective groan “Sort of reminds me of Wheeler” with that the conversation came to an end as the duel outside began “It maybe as well for you to watch this duel Soma”
> Chapter 14 - Imperfect Pace
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“I guess you two could never work together, a true pity but this duel has been a farce” Gray said as he turned away from Sakura and Sasuke “I hope defeat serves as a lesson…but also don’t mess with Fairy Tail! Blizzard Warrior! Attack Sasuke directly!” Gray said as his warrior moved in and cut Sasuke’s lifepoints to zero “Oh and Blizzard Princess, Attack Sakura’s monster and end this!” Blizzard princess moved in and blasted Sakura's Masked Knight LV3 with a harsh blast of cold air “Yes!”




“We did it, Gray!” Juvia said as she put her cards away. 

“We did” Gray said as he added “And since your lifepoints are higher….you get to decide what their penalty shall be for losing” 

Juvia said “I think defeat for them is enough” Gray nodded as Juvia turned back to their team “Besides now we’re the only team completely undefeated…we’ve done Fairy Tail proud” Gray smiled as he followed Juvia away to the Universe 3 team. 

The Grand Minister dropped down with a smile on his face “After quite an intense duel, we have our winners but now it's time for the next duel. Red team first” the red lights shot into the air and hovered round, it took a long moment before the first dropped on Universe 7 and the other went to Universe 8 “Twilight Sparkle of Universe 7 and Sanji of Universe 8 are selected!” 

Sanji approached Twilight with a smile as he admired her beauty “Nice to meet you!” Twilight said and offered him a polite handshake “I hope we can make a good team?” Sanji nodded as the blue lights shot up “Now we…no way!” one of the blue lights went straight to Universe 7 “No….way” 

Android 18 looked at Twilight and said “Sorry, Twilight but I’ll be giving it my all” Twilight nodded as Sanji’s eyes narrowed “Now who’s my partner?” 

The second blue light took a while but finally fell on Universe 11 “Android 18 from Universe 7 and Tenya Iida of Universe 11 are selected” Tenya approached the other three with a friendly smile “Would both teams meet in the centre for this duel!” 

“Should be in our favour” Krillin said as he looked at Android 18 hoping for the best “It’d be logical for 18 to go after Tenya and Sanji but I’m not sure” 

Sunset nodded as she whispered “I know Twilight will be hoping for that” 

“Don’t get me wrong I hope for the same but 18 is probably the least predictable person I've ever met” Tien said as he sat looking at his hands “No matter how this turns out we have to respect the result” 

Beerus yelled “You make it sound like there isn’t anything at stake! We need both to advance!” 

“Calm yourself my lord. I know both will give it their all” Whis said as he added “Besides they’ll play by the rules. So sadly we may only see one go through” 

Beerus yelled "Between you and three eyes I don't know who is more unhelpful, Whis! For goodness sake! Someone had better get me a pizza or I'll blow up their planet tomorrow!" Beerus wasn't being serious, more or less shouting to vent his frustrations. 

Twilight checked her deck “With these cards….I know I won’t lose. I’ll duel in the name of Equestria!” she said as she placed her forehead against the deck “And in the name of my friends…don’t worry Fluttershy I’ll save you….It’s time to duel!” she yelled as she loaded her deck. 

18 looked down “I’m sorry Twilight but this is the end of the road for you” she whispered as she activated her duel disc. 

Sanji took the first turn “To start my turn I’ll activate pot of greed! This allows me to draw two cards from my deck! And next I’ll play one card face down and one monster in face down defence. With that my turn is over” 

Tenya drew “Hmm I play the field spell, A legendary Ocean!” the field filled with water as Tenya smiled as his field appeared “Next I play The legendary Fisherman! To end my turn I set one card face down!” as he took his turn a man riding a killer whale jumped out of the water before diving deep below the surface, the monster wasn't visible even to the Grand Minister hovering above and Tenya knew he had the edge “My trump cards should give me an advantage” 




Twilight took her turn “Alright! I play the field spell Equestria Zone! This spell allows me to add one M.L.P monster once per turn so long as it’s level 4 or below! So I add M.L.P Scootaloo to my hand! And then summon her in attack mode!” the little Pegasus appeared on the field her attack points coming in at 800 “Now I play Pony up! This allows me to tribute my monster for M.L.P Rainbow Dash!” the blue Pegasus appeared her attack points set at 2200 “Now I set one and end” she looked over to Fluttershy and whispered “With this deck I can’t lose” 




Android 18 saw the look and whispered “If only that were true” she drew a card “I play a ritual spell! Fortress Whale Oath! By offering two monsters in my hand I can ritual Summon Fortress Whale!” the whale appeared from the deep as Twilight looked up in shock “forgive me Twilight but you’re going to lose! And my ritual deck will grand me victory! To end my turn I play one card face down” 




Sanji lit his cigarette as he said “Just a pity I’m here. I draw…now I play Monster reborn to revive one of the monsters you used to summon that whale! Ah this one will do Silver fang! Next I tribute both monsters to summon my Dark Magician in attack mode! I next equip the spell Sword of deep seated!” the magician appeared as his staff was topped with the dark blade of the equip spell “Now Dark Magician Dark Magic attack!” the dark Magician surged forward and blasted the Fortress Whale which caused 18’s lifepoints to drop down to 3550 “With that I’ll end my turn” Tenya began to laugh “What’s so funny!?” Sanji asked alarmed. 




“Sorry to say, you should have attack me….It would have spared you this move” Tenya said as he drew first I play double summon! This lets me normal summon twice! Next I play two Orca Mega-fortress of Darkness….with my field spell reducing their level to Level 4 I now…I’m sorry Twilight, your cause is a noble one but I have to save Jiro and in order to do that you must lose! I overlay two of my monsters!”




“He’s doing what!?” Jack snapped in shock “You can’t do that…”

“He’s doing it!” Chazz said in shock as one of the Mega-fortresses disappeared and the legendary fisherman disappeared into a vortex “Overlaying to summon what?!” 

“To summon Number 37: Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark!” Tenya said sadly as the massive monster appeared roaring onto the field “Forgive me….Orca attack Rainbow Dash!” the whale leapt from the sea “And as it attacks I remove a unit from my Spider Shark! Your monsters lose 1000 attack points!”




“They what!? Rainbow!” Twilight screamed as her points dropped from the attack, Rainbow dragged into the water and she fell to her knees in pain as her points dropped to a mere 2400 “This can’t be!” 

“I’m sorry Twilight but this is where it ends” Tenya said as he yelled “Spider Shark finish her!” the monster surged forward and Twilight activated her trap “Sorry Twilight I activated Dark Bribe! Your trap fails but you get to draw one…” Twilight sadly drew as her lifepoints fell to zero “I’m sorry” 

Twilight looked over to Fluttershy who returned her gaze “I’m sorry….I couldn’t save you…I failed…”

Sanji snapped “Why didn’t you target me! My dark magician was more of a threat than her monster was!” he shook with rage “You scumbag! You could have taken me out instead!” 

“She was going next…it was the sensible choice” 18 said looking at Twilight sadly “It’s sad but it had to be done….she isn’t strong enough” 

“ISN’T Strong enough! Does she know who she’s talking about!?” Sunset Shimmer snapped from the sidelines “Twilight is the strongest pony I know! You were supposed to be her team mate! You could have helped her!” 

18 didn’t acknowledge Sunset’s angry outburst as she drew a card to start her turn “It’s over Sanji…this turn will end it, first I play Premature Burial to revive Fortress Whale, next I equip twin swords of flashing light tryce to Fortress Whale and then I play Panther Warrior in attack mode!” 




Sanji looked down at his trap “My only hope….”

“I activate Harpies Feather duster to destroy all your magic and trap card” 18 finished as the sword, trap and field spell on Sanji’s side disappeared and his dark magician was left wide open “Fortress whale Attack!” Tenya activated his Spider Shark’s effect so Dark Magician’s attack became 1500 and Fortress Whale Blasted it dropping Sanji’s points to 3450 and then another attack dropped them to 1400 “Panther Warrior end this! Use Fortress Whale and attack!” 

“The duel is over” The Grand Minister declared.

“Man that was fast...” Jaden Yuki said as he sighed “So what’s a….whatever that shark dragon thingy was?” Chazz frowned “What?” 

“Don’t you get it?! It must have been an illegal card! No way you can…overlay monsters!” Chazz snapped 

“Not true…they’re known as XYZ monsters, they’re from another time line. I didn’t think any other universe would have them so we….didn’t recruit anyone who knows how to use them” Kusu admitted as she sighed “The game in other times lines from our Universe has advanced in several ways…we just thought well….Synchro monsters would be enough…we didn’t think there’d be teams with even Synchro Monsters”

“So that’s it…but how many of the others could have access to XYZ monsters?” Jack asked. 

“I don’t know” Kusu admitted “But there’s two other monster types to fear….Pendulum and Link summoning…if any other universe has those…it could make the tournament very difficult” her gaze moved over to Universe 12. 

Tenya smiled since he was the winner with the highest light points, he knew he could enforce any punishment to the losers, he couldn’t deny part of him wanted to recruit Sanji and Twilight for intel but his eyes looked over at Twilight who walked over to the Universe 7 area and slumped down her eyes downcast as she shook in place. Tenya knew the look as he sighed “Good game” he said to Sanji shaking his hand but turned to leave shaking his head at the grand minister “I don’t need anything from them” 

Sanji noticed Twilight’s look and walked over “Uhh Miss Sparkle are you okay?” 

Sunset however got in the way, guiding Sanji out of earshot and said “Forgive her, she’s just a very…motivated pon…I mean person and…” she tilted her head towards Fluttershy and Sanji nodded “I know she’ll thank you later but for now she needs her space” 

Sanji nodded “I know my crew and I felt very saddened by your team’s loss earlier but what’s the story with those two?” Sunset shook her head but smiled “I hope you’ll come by later…because you two are very beaut….” He heard a cough behind him and turned to see Nami “Nami! My sweet flower!” Sanji was back to his lovey dovey state as Nami groaned. 

“Sorry but Luffy wants to talk to Sanji” Nami said to Sunset who nodded as the two walked back to their team’s bench. 

The Grand Minister coughed as the team’s looked up “It’s time for the next duel! Now to select the red tea…” suddenly there was a loud yell from the Universe 10 team “Huh? Mr Atlas?” 

“I’m through waiting! I want to be up next!” Jack snapped as there was an audible gasp from those gathered but Jack wasn’t finished “I also want it to be a Turbo duel and against at least one from Universe 12!” 

The Grand Minister frowned but suddenly the Zenos cheered “Yay! Yes turbo duel! We want to see that but there will be one condition….” The first zeno said 

“You must be paired with the weakest duelist in the tournament including all reserve Duellists and as we understand it Universe 7 has recruited a duelist who has just started learning” The second zeno “We want him!” 

Sunset’s colour left her face as she said “But Soma has only had like two hours to learn!? How is that fair on him!?” 

Jack said “That’s fine! So long as at least one of Universe 12 faces me!” he glared over at Gilgamesh who’s smirk was massive and Jack snarled “Try smirking when I beat your….”

“Rider also known as Iskander, will be your opponent” Gilgamesh said calmly as a big man stood up behind him and Jack looked up at him as Iskander approached “Problem?” 

“Iskander?! Isn’t that another name for….” Gohan began 

“Alexander the Great!” Ami said in alarm “If he’s anything like the other Universe 12 team…he’ll have one card that’ll sweep Mr Atlas to one side!” 

Rider looked down at Jack who glared up with a fire in his eyes “So you’re the Master of faster?” Iskander asked as he began to laugh “I hoped for a strong opponent but I never thought I’d get one with such a title of worth! As many suspect I have an ace card like my comrades. May I introduce you to my Dragon!” he put the card he’d drawn onto the duel disc “May I present! The Syncrho Monster Zeus the thunder god Dragon!” the massive beast emerged with the sound of thunder filling the air “As I understand it…your favourite card is also a dragon?” 




Jack snarled “When this duel starts you’ll see my best!” 

Soma suddenly walked up looking calm as he approached and Rider noticed him “Hmm you’re just a traitor…not worth a single thing” Rider said as Soma then smiled “A smile? I hope that isn’t a smile hoping for mercy for you shall receive none” 

Soma simply said “So who’ll be your partner?” 

A blue light shot out from the Grand minister’s hand and headed over to Universe 1 “Megara of Universe 1 is selected as Iskander’s partner!” Meg walked out looking annoyed up at the Grand Minister “Is everything okay Miss Megara?” 

“Just call me Meg” She said as she looked over at the three but then Soma offered to shake her hand “Oh hi! Name’s Meg”

“Yeah I caught that, name’s Soma! Let’s have a good game!” Soma then asked “Uh but do you have any idea how you and I are going to be turbo duelling?” Meg shook her head. 

King Micky ran up “Luckily for Meg she has someone willing to be her duel runner” he whistled to the benches where stood Hercules and Pegasus “We’ve given Pegasus a chariot to pull and it’s been equipped with a duel disc needed for turbo duelling” 

Soma sighed “And I’m guessing a side carriage for me?” Jack shook his head “Huh?” 

“This duel is about avenging my friend! And his duel runner is here! So you can borrow it but just remember don’t get in my way…Rider is mine!” Jack said as Soma turned his attention to Meg and shrugged “Now where are we going to duel?” 

The Grand Minister nodded as he said “We have a special field prepared for you to use! Each Universe has had a speciality Duelling field prepared! Now we roll a 12 sided dice to decide which Universe will be chosen!” he rolled the dice and it landed on 7 “Ponyville field selected! This duelling field has a town in the centre of it, hit any pony or creature and you’ll be docked 500 lifepoints!” 

The angels of each universe transported all duellists and vehicles to Ponyville where Spike stood waiting “Hmm? Oh hello everyone! I’m Spike! I’ve instructed all the ponies in town to remain in town and several ponies will assisting in the duel’s management” 

Soma looked at Spike with Interest “Oh thank you! By the way are you a dragon!? What do you eat!? Ooo I bet cooking for you would be amazing?!” Soma asked eagerly “Sorry but an unusual customer is an interesting prospect!” 

“Soma! You’ll have time after the duel” Jack said as he looked at the dirt track “Tell me Spike who prepared the track?” 

Rider nodded “I quite agree! It’s time to put the Master of faster and the traitor in their place!” the four got onto their vehicles, Rider was riding his chariot pulled by 2 bulls a duel disc attached to the chariot’s front “Now we’re ready to begin!” the engines of the duel runners roared, a Pegasus began pulling the chariot next to Rider’s chariot “I’ll start! I summon my Spell Reactor RE! Before setting one card face down!” 




Back in the Null Realm the duel was being shown to all by a large projection in the centre “Ponyville” Rainbow Dash said as she looked at Twilight still in shock over her defeat “This should prove interesting….Jack and Soma are….” Suddenly a rainbow maned Pegasus was shown flying over the duelling area “Looks like my other self is having a good day” 

“I suspect to get the field ready Twilight’s friends were consulted” Sunset said but her tone wasn’t that happy sounding as she watched Soma begin his turn “Soma is still woefully unready! His best strength is that deck from his school and….”

“He’s not using that deck” Kaiba said as he walked up “We build him a new deck from cards his friends helped choose…turns out his Girlfrie….”

“Finish that sentence and I’ll serve your guts to you on a plate!” Erina said as she too walked up “We picked Soma a pretty safe deck but it’s still a bad time for Soma” suddenly Soma had to swerve to avoid pony Pinkie Pie “Is he driving that duel runner without the auto pilot?!” 

“I think he is…” Megumi said looking sick as Sunset, Kaiba and Rainbow looked shocked but the two Chefs just shrugged “That is a Soma thing” 

Soma’s swerve had counted and he’d been docked 500 points “Uh ouch! Okay my move! I play I guess this spell!” but the duel runner blared a warning at him “Oh right…I don’t have enough speed counters” he sighed “Well then I play my monster Maximal Cheetor in attack mode!” a cheetah appeared running alongside Soma before transforming into a robot and it’s attack points registering in at 1650 “I next set two cards face down!” 




Meg drew a card to start her turn the speed counters increasing to 2 and she smiled “I play Amazoness Swords Woman in attack mode!” she then set one card face down “And with that I’ll end my turn!” 



Jack drew a card to begin his turn, speed counters all going up to 3 and Jack said “Now it’s time to kick this turbo duel into overdrive! Since you all control Monster and I don’t! I can special summon my Vice Dragon!” the dragon roared as it appeared “Now I play….” He paused as he thought through his move, he had a couple cards he’d borrowed from Yuesi “I play Strong Wind Dragon! And set one to end my turn!” 




Rider smiled “You think a strong dragon will win you this duel? You’re delusion is quite amusing” he drew a card and the speed counters went up but Rider said “I play the speed spell, Summon Speeder! SO now I can special summon my tuner Dragon Magma and now I normal summon my Trap Reactor Y FI! Now it’s time for a Synchro summon! I synchro summon the level 10, Zeus the thunder god Dragon” the huge dragon emerged again this time it’s attack points registered in at 3900 and Rider added “It’s special effect means it can attack twice in a round and the controller of the attacked monster cannot activate traps or spells to prevent the attack!” 

Jack’s eyes widened “But that means my strong wind dragon will be destroyed!” 

“Also when Zeus attacks another dragon type monster it gains 300 times the level of the monster!” Rider said “I guess you were never a serious threat to us! Zeus attack!” the thunder dragon reared up and targeted Strong Wind dragon but as it send lighting crackling down on Strong wind dragon a force field appeared “What the?!” 

“He can’t activate traps but I can!” Soma said as he added “So long as I control a Maximal Monster the trap Sentinel System rises up to protect both my monsters and my partner’s monsters once per turn!” he drove up to Jack “Still want me to stay out of your way?” 

Jack smiled “You shouldn’t have…but I’m glad you did” the two bumped fist but then Soma wobbled “You need to engage that thing’s auto pilot” he reached over and pushed a button activating the auto pilot “I still can’t understand how you managed to get that thing into manual…normally….you turned it off!?” 

“Yeah I thought it’d be better if I had control” Soma admitted “and then I couldn’t work out how to activate it…crazy huh?” 

“That’s one word for it” Jack admitted 

Meanwhile when Megumi and Erina heard Soma they groaned loudly and Krillin laughed “Sounds a bit like something Goku would do” the other z fighters nodded as they smiled watching Soma circle round a corner “Look he’s taking his turn!” 

“My move! And now I can play the Speed Spell, Speed Fusion! By combining the Maximal Ratrap I have in my hand and Maximal Cheetor I can summon Pretacon Rampage!” as he said it a robotic crab appeared on the field before transforming into a robot “Rampage has a special ability twice per turn he cannot be destroyed by battle and any monster he battles during those first two times is automatically destroyed!” 



“Wait Rampage has an attack of 2400…so if Soma attacks Zeus he could destroy it!” Megumi said but Erina didn’t look sure “What is it?” 

“If the facedowns are any traps, Soma will be in deep trouble and on top of that the difference will still be taken out of Soma’s score” Erina said as she shook her head “It’s a terrible idea for Soma to…”

“Rampage attack!” Soma ordered as the robot readied it’s missile launcher weapon and Zeus growled as it’s charged it’s attack “FIRE!” the missile was launched and Zeus fired a blast of electricity at Rampage. All watched with baited breath as the missile struck home and the lightning struck as well. Soma’s life points did drop to 2000 but as the smoke cleared Zeus was still standing “What the!?” 

“Sorry kid! But I activated my trap Hades Helm…this allows my monster to be resistant to special effects and instead all I have to do is give up half of Zeus’ attack till your end phase” Rider said but suddenly a fire blast struck Zeus destroying it and dropping Rider’s lifepoints to 2600 “What happened!?” 

“Sorry that was me” Meg said as she turned with a scowl “You Universe 12 cheats needed to learn that turnabout is fair play!” she pointed to her trap “One on One fight! This forced our strongest monsters to battle! And since Strong Wind Dragon is on the field and your Zeus is the only face up card we had…well” 

“You’ll pay for that!” Rider snarled 

Soma coughed “I should have mentioned something about my trap, Sentinel System, it works differently depending on the monster on the field. If it’s a maximal it defends an alley but a Pretacon…allows that Pretacon to attack twice!” Rider’s face looked nervous as Soma declared “Rampage attack Rider directly!” 

“Finally an order I like…I’ll enjoy this” Rampage suddenly said as he surged forward and hit Rider as his points dropped to 200. 

Meg smiled “My Move?” Soma nodded “I draw!” she looked sadly at the cards in her hand and sighed “There’s not much I can do realistically….other than summon a second Amazoness Swordswoman in attack mode!” 

“Clever” Alexis said “She knows she can’t win in battle but if Jack or Soma attack those monsters the damage will be bounced back to their life points” as Chazz nodded “Jack though I’m sure will have an answer to it…he’s looking confident” 

“I activated Powerful rebirth! To revive Soma’s Ratrap which is a level 3 so when it revives it becomes a Level 4!” Jack yelled as he watched Meg end her turn “This for you Yuesi! I draw and I play Hyper Synhcron!” the tuner appeared “Hyper Sycnhron give Ratrap a tune up! I sychro Summon my soul, Red Dragon Archfiend! Which thanks to Hyper Sycnhron gains 800 attack points! I next play the speed spell, Sonic Buster! I choose a Monster on my side of the field and dish out half it’s attack points as damage to you, Meg! So I pick Red Dragon Archfiend! Which means you lose 1900 lifepoints!” 




Meg groaned “Then it’s over” She looked over to Soma and knew what would happen next it was predictable “Go ahead” 

“Fine! Strong Wind Dragon attack Rider directly!” Jack yelled and the dragon roared as it blasted Rider with all it’s power causing Rider’s points to drop to zero and Jack turned to Meg “Red Dragon Archfiend attack Amazoness Swordswoman!” the swordswoman was destroyed but Jack’s points dropped to 2100 “I end my turn, Soma?” 

Soma drew a card and said “Sorry Meg I play Pretacon Waspinator in attack mode!” a giant wasp appeared as it’s attack points came in at 1500 “Now Waspinator Attack Swordswoman!” Meg was surprised but both monsters were destroyed she smiled and Soma looked over his shoulder at her “Sorry about this” 




Meg shook her head “You’re a quick learner…I’m not sad to lose to you…just end it” 

“Rampage Attack!” Soma ordered as the missiles were launched from Rampage and Meg’s points dropped to Zero as the duel runners came to stop, Jack rolled up besides Soma and smiled at him “Something wrong?” 

“Plenty but for now I’m happy to know Yuesi’s sacrifice was avenged” Jack said as he removed his helmet “I just wish…I could have duelled him…it’s hard to accept that he…” Jack punched his arm rest “But you did well! Kaiba must be a good teacher” 

Soma gave him a comforting smile “He’s a harsh teacher but fair…I still forget certain things. That speed spell blunder will probably get me a telling off” Jack nodded as the two high fived each other “Looks like Rider’s fate is yours to decide?” 

Jack nodded as he got off his duel runner but as he did two ponies ran up “Wow that was awesome!” Rainbow Dash said as she touched down and the other pony nodded “Oh hey! Name’s Rainbow Dash” Soma’s eyes widened in confusion but the pony kept going “And this is Scootaloo!” 

“It was so cool! Spike said the duel would be good but wow!” Scootaloo cheered 

“Uhh thanks” Jack said as he turned his attention to Rider “You lost! I get to decide your fate! I demand your cards! That dragon will be good for helping defeat your friends!” Rider scowled but handed over his cards “As for you Meg…you’re cool” 

Meg nodded as they noticed their angels returning “Guess we’re heading back” Meg said as she noticed a weird creature suddenly appear which happened to be Discord but she still found it weirder when he started speaking to a pink pony who smiled at the joke he’d just shared “I suppose just as well because I have way too many questions about this world” the angels took the group back but as they returned Meg did ask “Wait why was that field prepared for a duel?!” 

“Oh that’s for round 2 or Round 3” Awamo, the universe 1 angel, said calmly “But I don’t know which. Just relax. You won’t need to worry about it” 

However Soma and Jack overheard the comments and both looked uneasy “I suppose that means all 12 universes have been gifted a duelling field”

Jack nodded “And it may very well be that not all fields will be familiar…could you ask Universe 7 for a meeting I think it’d be good for us to meet to discuss upcoming events” Soma nodded as he walked back over to Universe 7.