"And Full Armored Black Ray Lancer's effect!" Shark declared aloud. "This card gains 200 attack for each material attached to it!" The boy said, explaining the monster's attack boosting effect, and the armored monster was then surrounded by a dark blue hue as its attack raised slightly.
Full Armored Black Ray Lancer - Water/XYZ/Beast-Warrior/Rank 4/Effect: 2300/600 OV: 1
"Now battle!" Shark declared loudly, waving his right arm outwards as he went on towards the Battle Phase. "I'll attack your Infinitrack River Stromer with Full Armored Black Ray Lancer! Gleaming Spear Slash!"
And with that declaration, the armored Water XYZ Monster reached out towards the center of its armour, the dark glowing gem in its chest, and from it it generated a giant dark spear of energy. Then the monster leapt.
Heaving the dark spear high above its apparent head, the XYZ Monster swung down its weapon. And as its battle position was changed due to the effect of Spin Turn, the attack managed to destroy its target, that being none other than Infinitrack River Stromer.
"Kuh!" Allen said as he flinched at seeing his own XYZ Monster getting destroyed in battle. Lowering the hands that he had put up to defend himself from the gust of wind that the solid holograms made upon impact, but thankfully they didn't receive any battle damage.
"Now Full Armored Black Ray Lancer's effect!" Shark shouted aloud, waving his hand to gesture towards his XYZ Monster. "When it destroys an opponent's monster by battle, I can target one Spell ot Trap that you control, and destroy it!"
Done with explaining the monster's effect, the dark blue haired duelist then pointed towards the one card that still remained in their backrow. "I'll target your set card, and destroy it!" Shouting so, the Water XYZ Monster hefted its spear, and poised to throw it.
"Allen!" She shouted aloud, and her partner of course already knew what he should do at this point.
"Tch! Shut up! I already know! I'll activate the set card! Crusher Run!" He said, flipping up the face-down set card, and revealing it to be a Continuous Trap. "With this card, if a face-up Earth Machine we control is destroyed by battle or card effect, we get to target a card on the field and destroy it!"
And that said, the brown haired boy shouted the name of the one target that was on Shark's field. "I'll target your Full Armor whats its name and destroy it!" He said aloud, and the Continuous Trap card's holographic projection shone as what seemed to be a gigantic bulldozer briefly materialized onto the field, intending to crush down the monster of Allen's choice.
"Tch! Full Armored Black Ray Lancer's other effect!" The older teen shouted out. "If this card on the field would be destroyed by battle or card effects, I can detach all materials that this card has instead!"
The gigantic armored XYZ Monster took its one overlay material that it had and absorbed it into itself, then twirled its spear as it cut through the gigantic dozer that came towards it. Managing to prevent its own destruction at the cost of its one overlay unit, and reducing the attack that it had.
Full Armored Black Ray Lancer - Water/XYZ/Beast-Warrior/Rank 4/Effect: 2100/600 OV: 0
And the chain then resolved backwards, as the Water XYZ Monster then threw its energy spear and pierced their now face-up Continuous Trap, destroying it in sequence as the chain of effects then ended.
Shark then clicked his tongue as he saw that he hadn't quite managed to clear the board, and proceeded to his second Main Phase. "I'll set two cards face-down, and I'll end my turn." And he then promptly ended his turn. Ending with an XYZ Monster with no materials nor protection, two set cards in his backrow, and a single card remaining in his hand.
Allen gave her a look before she nodded. "My turn! I draw!" She said, placing her hand on her duel disk and drawing for turn. Starting off with six cards in her hand just like Shark had earlier.
She glanced at the cards that she had in her hand for a good few seconds, stopping herself from frowning as she saw a dead card in the form of Unexpected Dai. A card that she couldn't use with Infinitrack Drag Shovel on their shared field.
And though that turns off the Normal Monster part of her deck and makes it slightly harder for her to summon her own XYZ Monster, she still has her ways of doing so. "I'll start by activating the Spell, Evo-Diversity!"
And placing the Spell card onto her duel blade, its holographic projection appeared and shone on the field. She hadn't quite understood why Yuuna had told her to put as many copies of these kinds of cards that searches other cards at the start, but after a lengthy explanation of consistency and deck thinning later, she perfectly understood why the red haired girl had suggested that she ran three of these cards along with Fossil Dig.
"Evo-Diversity lets me add an 'Evoltile' or 'Evolsaur' monster from my deck to my hand! I'll add Evoltile Najasho from my deck to my hand!" She said, naming her target of choice and revealing it to their opponent, before adding the card to her hand.
"And I'll special summon it!" Then she immediately summoned the added monster, and it took the form of a small grey snake-like creature with small wings on its back, ferociously hissing at the large XYZ Monster at their opponent's side of the field.
Evoltile Najasho - Fire/Reptile/Level 2/Effect: 100/2000
"A Level 2 monster with 100 attack and 2000 defence?" Shark muttered, narrowing his eyes warily as she wasted her normal summon on what seemed to be a weak monster. "With a defence like that it would be better to summon it in defence but… a combo then." He summarized.
"Well you're right! I'll activate the Spell, Evo-Force!" And she then activated another card in her hand, placing it onto the duel blade and making its larger holographic counterpart appear.
"This card lets me tribute an 'Evoltile' monster to special summon an 'Evolsaur' monster from my deck! And that monster is then treated as if it was special summoned by the effect of an 'Evoltile' monster!" She shouted aloud, explaining the card's effect and declaring to pay the cost.
"I'll tribune my Evoltile Najasho as cost!" She said aloud, tributing and sending her normal summoned Evoltile Najasho to the graveyard as the cost for the Spell card's effect. "And I'll special summon Evolsaur Diplo from my deck in defence position!"
Taking the monster card from her deck, she immediately then summoned the monster onto her field, and the spiky armored purple diplodocus appeared onto their side of the field in defense position, summoned as if it was special summoned with the effect of an Evoltile monster.
Evolsaur Diplo - Fire/Dinosaur/Level 4/Effect: 1600/800
"Now Evolsaur Diplo's effect!" She declared, triggering the effect of the monster that she had special summoned with her spell's effect. "When Evolsaur Diplo is special summoned by the effect of an 'Evoltile' monster, I can target one spell or trap card that you control, and destroy it!" She explained the first monster's effect, declaring its target first.
"I'll target your leftmost set card!" She said, declaring the target for the monster's effect. "And I'll also chain the effect of Evoltile Najasho in my graveyard!" She continued, triggering the two monsters' effects in sequence as to not miss any of their timing, something that Yuuna had drilled into her when dealing with 'when' effects.
"If this card on the field is tributed, I can special summon one 'Evolsaur' monster from my deck!" She explained the monster's graveyard effect, one that activated if it was tributed from the field.
And the effects then resolved, and she resolved the effect of Najasho first as it was the last card on the chain of effects. "I'll special summon Evolsaur Cerato from my deck in attack position!"
She took out the card straight from her deck, and then played the ceratosaurus-like monster onto her field, its armored and spiked body appearing onto the field as the solid holographic projection appeared.
Evolsaur Cerato - Fire/Dinosaur/Level 4/Effect: 1900/1400
"And since Evolsaur Cerato was summoned with the effect of an Evoltile monster, it gains an additional 200 attack points." She said, and her newly summoned Evolsaur Cerato gained a bright orange aura as its attack was boosted thanks to its own effect.
Evolsaur Cerato - Fire/Dinosaur/Level 4/Effect: 2100/1400
Then the chain continued to resolve backwards, and with the effect of Evolsaur Diplo, one of the two set cards in Shark's backrow was then destroyed, revealing that it was the Trap card, Fish Depth Charge.
She frowned as she touched her duel disk's screen to read the effect of the card that she had set, and proceeded to read its effect to essentially do something similar to Allen's own Spin Turn, but with fundamental differences of course, as it tributes a fish monster to destroy a card on the field and drawing them a card, as opposed to how Spin Turn's effects being dependent on the battle position of an Earth Machine XYZ monster.
Done with reading the destroyed Trap card's effect, she continued on. "Now I'll overlay the Level 4 Evolsaur Diplo, and the Level 4 Evolsaur Cerato!" She shouted aloud, and the two Fire Dinosaurs on her field roared as they turned into bright red motes of light, criss crossing one another, and a black and gold vortex appeared in the middle of the field.
"With these two monsters, I will construct an overlay network!" And as she shouted so with a raised hand, the two flaming orbs entered the galactical vortex. "XYZ Summon!" And it then exploded into a golden pillar of light.
"Appear! Evolzar Laggia!" And shouting out the name of the monster and finishing the simple summoning chant, the monster then appeared after a flare of fire, the six winged Dragon monster, surrounded by a green aura and lines of fire, along with two glowing red orbs orbiting the monster appeared on the field. Letting out a loud roar as it was summoned.
Evolzar Laggia - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 2400/2000 OV: 2
But that was sadly as much as she could go into for this phase of her turn. "Battle!" She declared aloud, waving her arms outwards and entering the Battle Phase. "I will attack your Full Armored Black Ray Lancer with Evolzar Laggia!"
And with a roar and a beat of all its six wings, the ring of fire surrounded the dragonic XYZ monster spun faster, and became a pillar of fire that was then shot towards the fully armoured XYZ Monster, an attack that would no doubt destroy it now that it has no more protection.
"Tch!" And all that Shark could do was click his tongue and hold both of his hands up to defend himself from the gust of wind that the clash of solid vision created. His XYZ monster consumed in the pillar of flame and dealt an amount of battle damage towards him, scowling all the while.
Shark: 7700LP
"Tch, I'll activate the Trap card, Torrential Reborn!" Shark declared aloud, flipping his other face-down card face-up, and the holographic projection of the card shone on the field. And he then began explaining the card's effect.
"When a face-up Water monster I control is destroyed by battle or card effect and sent the graveyard, I can special summon the monster that was destroyed and sent to the graveyard at that time and inflict 500 points of damage towards my opponent for each of those special summoned monster!" He shouted aloud, intending to revive his destroyed Full Armoured Black Ray Lancer to do who knows what.
And there was no way that she was allowing him to go with that. "Evolzar Laggia's effect!" She shouted aloud, waving her arms outwards as she responded to the Trap card's effect with the effect of her own XYZ Monster.
"When a monster would be normal or special summoned, or a spell or trap is activated, as a Quick Effect, I can detach 2 materials from this card to negate the summon or activation, and if I do, destroy it!" She shouted aloud the XYZ Monster's effect, and Shark's eyes went wide as he heard so.
She then pointed towards the Trap card that still shone as the first chain link. "I will detach two materials from Evolzar Laggia, to negate the effect of Torrential Reborn, and destroy it!" She declared aloud.
And with that declaration, her dragonic XYZ Monster let out a roar as it grabbed and absorbed the two red orbs orbiting around it, and shot out a hot red stream of fire towards the trap card, entrapping it in a pillar of fire.
Evolzar Laggia - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 2400/2000 OV: 0
With no other card chained to the activation of Laggia's effect, the chain resolves backwards, the pillar of flame that Laggia shot out negating the effect of Torrential Reborn, and destroying it. Preventing Shark from summoning back his destroyed XYZ Monster.
And with that, she ended her Battle Phase and moved on towards her second Main Phase, intending to continue with her turn for a few more plays. And that was of course to set cards from her hand onto their shared field.
"I will set three cards face-down." She said, setting three face-down cards on their spell and trap zone, one of them being a bluff, none other than the dead card that was Unexpected Dair. "And I will end my turn."
And then she ended her turn, with Evolzar Laggia with no XYZ Materials and Infinitrack Drag Shovel in their field, along with three new set cards filling their spell and trap zones next to Heavy Forward, and one card remaining in her hand. The play once more passed back to Shark as he had no partners for the impromptu tag duel that they had started.
"Tch, you're both stronger than I thought, I'll give you that." He said bitterly, acknowledging that the two of them managed to exceed his expectations. "But even that won't change that you'll both lose! My turn! I'll draw!"
Starting his turn with his Draw Phase, Shark drew his card for turn, getting back to two cards in his hands as he moved on to the Standby Phase, and then his Main Phase 1, briefly glancing towards the two cards in his hand before playing one of them.
"I'll activate the Spell, Glorious Numbers!" The dark blue haired teen shouted aloud, placing the card on his duel blade and activating it. "If I control no monsters, I can target one 'Number' XYZ Monster in my graveyard and special summon it, then draw one card!"
Shark then declared his target, that being none other than the Number monster that needed the most material so summon. "I'll target Number 32, Shark Drake!" He shouted aloud, and she clicked her tongue and responded.
"I'll chain the Trap card, Evo-Singularity!" She shouted aloud, flipping the face-down card that was not Unexpected Dai face-up and activating its effect. "This card lets me target one 'Evoltile' monster and one 'Evolsaur' monster in my graveyard, and special summon one 'Evolzar' XYZ Monster from my Extra Deck!"
And with a wave of her hand, she declared her targets. "I will target Evoltile Najasho and Evolsaur Certao, and special summon Evolzar Dolkka from my Extra Deck!" The Trap card's holographic projection then shone as space itself seemed to bend, and with a burst of fire, a dragonic XYZ Monster with a pair of wings appeared on the field.
Evolzar Dolkka - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 2300/1700 OV: 0
"Another XYZ Monster!?" Shark shouted with slightly widened eyes as he saw her managing to cheat out the XYZ Monster with a mere Trap card,
"Then if I did so, I can attach those monsters that I targeted as XYZ Material!" She continued on, and the two Reptile and Dinosaur monster that she had targeted earlier appeared very briefly on the field before both turned into red glowing orbs that orbited the newly summoned XYZ Monster, giving it the ability to use its effects.
Evolzar Dolkka - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 2300/1700 OV: 2
Then the chain continued to resolve backwards, and Shark raised his hand high. "Return! Shark Drake!" He shouted as his Ace Monster once again graced the field with its vicious presence, letting out a roar as it was summoned back to battle.
Number 32: Shark Drake - Water/XYZ/Sea Serpent/Rank 4/Effect: 2800/2100 OV: 0
And Shark then drew another card with Glorious Number's effect, essentially managing to summon back his XYZ Monster for free, getting back to two cards in hand once more. "That monster…" He said, narrowing his eyes at the XYZ Monster that she had cheated out.
"That's the one that negates monster effects isn't it." He said, apparently knowing the effect of Dolkka. And then clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Fine then, I'll activate Glorious Number's graveyard effect!"
Shouting so, Shark then continued on as he activated the graveyard effect of the Spell card whose effect had just been resolved. "I can banish this card from my graveyard, then target one 'Number' XYZ Monster that I control, and attach one card from my hand to it as material!"
And he then proceeded to reveal one of the two cards in his hand, revealing the card that he would attach to his XYZ Monster with the Spell's graveyard effect. "I'll attach Needle Sunfish from my hand to Shark Drake as XYZ Material!"
The monstrous Sunfish then briefly appeared on the field, before turning into a blue orb of light that went and orbited around the revived Number monster. Giving it an overlay material for it to use its effect.
Number 32: Shark Drake - Water/XYZ/Sea Serpent/Rank 4/Effect: 2800/2100 OV: 1
She kept her guard up, knowing what that monster does when detached as an XYZ Material, having watched it during Sayaka's duel. But at the very least, she does have a form of defence in the form of her newly summoned Laggia.
After all, Laggia was a monster capable of negating a monster's effect, and destroying it by detaching an XYZ Material, essentially she would be able to destroy Shark's monster if it were to use its effects, but the problem was if it was to attacked.
After all, Shark's newly re-summoned Shark Drake has higher attack than her own Evolzar Laggia, and even without activating the XYZ Monster's effect it could simply plow through her XYZ Monster.
But even then she had something in store for that. Yuuna-san and the others had already shown how that was her deck's largest weakness after all.
"Battle!" Shark declared aloud, moving on towards the Battle Phase immediately, seemingly not activating his XYZ Monster's effect, or perhaps it hasn't met the condition to activate its effect.
"I'll attack your Evolzar Dolkka with Number 32: Shark Drake!" He declared, giving his monster a target for it to attack, and the red skinned monstrous Sea Serpent let out a soul shaking roar. "Depth Bite!"
Large waves of water then appeared from beyond, surrounding the newly reborn Number XYZ Monster and shooting out towards her own newly summoned XYZ Monster, and the red skinned Sea Serpent rode the deadly waves with ease as it inched closer to strike its maw towards her monster.
"Then I will activate my other set card! The Trap, Evolutionary Bridge!" She declared aloud during the Battle Phase, flipping up her other set card, and revealing it to be another Trap card in the line of Evo-Singularity.
"When a monster I control is targeted for an attack, I can target one 'Evoltile' monster in my graveyard, and special summon that target. Then switch the attack target to that monster and conduct damage calculation!" She declared, explaining the Trap's effect and declaring her target with a wave of her hand.
"I will target Evoltile Najasho, and switch your attack to that monster!" And with a blinding flash of glowing red light coming from the Trap card, the winged Reptile monster returned to her field in defence position, summoned in order to block the attack of Shark's own XYZ Monster.
Evoltile Najasho - Fire/Reptile/Level 2/Effect: 100/2000
The Trap card's effect would have certainly been better if she were to had the Evoltile monsters whose effects triggered on battle destruction, but she ran no more than simply Najasho and Westlo, the reason why she ran the card was simply because she had no other better Battle trick.
And immediately the Trap's effect took place, the wave of water that once aimed to drown Evolzar Dolkka changed its direction as it instead splashed on towards the revived Reptile monster, and from the vortex of deadly water came the winged Sea Serpet, who proceeded to tear through the monster with its jaws with ease.
"Kya!" She let out a squeak as she felt the strong impact made from the clash of the two solid visions, having to hold both of her arms out to defend herself from the gust of wind that it made. As though she received no damage from the battle, the impact from the two real hologram monsters was far stronger than normal.
She glanced next to her and saw that Allen had done the same, his eyes slightly squinted to protect himself from the cloud of dust that the battle made, and no doubt he too shared the same sentiment.
Those Number monsters were bad news, that was no doubt from the start, but they were only realizing how dangerous it was now.
Shark clicked his tongue, seeing how he had not managed to destroy her Dolkka thanks to her second Trap card's effect, and moved on towards his Second Main Phase. "I'll set one card, and I'll end my turn." Then proceeded to end this turn after setting a card in his spell and trap zone, ending the turn with a Number XYZ Monster with one overlay material under it, an unknown set card, and no cards remaining in his hand.
"Alright! Now it's my turn! I'll draw!" And with the dark blue haired teen ending his turn, it was one again Allen's turn. And drawing his card for the turn, the brown haired boy got back up to four cards in his hand.
"I'll start by normal summoning another Infinitrack Harvester!" And the first card that he played to start his turn was the same monster that he started on his first turn, the futuristic combine harvester once again appearing on the field, or rather the second copy of the monster appeared on the field.
Infinitrack Harvester - Earth/Machine/Level 2/Effect: 0/2100
"Then Harvester's effect!" Allen declared on the monster's summon, activating its on summon effect and shortcutting by forgoing explaining the monster's effects once more. "I'll add a second Infinitrack Brutal Dozer!"
"This line again!" Shark clicked his tongue in annoyance as he saw Allen basically do the exact same play that he had done, and that was exactly what the brown haired boy was doing.
"And now I'll activate the effect of Infinitrack Brutal Dozer!" Allen declared loudly, revealing the card that he had just searched with the on summon effect of Harvester once more, and again forgoing to re-explain the monster's effect. "I'll tribute Infinitrack Harvester on my field, and summon Infinitrack Brutal Dozer!"
The gigantic metallic grey futuristic dozer then appeared as the golden harvester was tributed for its special summon, being summoned in defence position as it filled the fourth monster zone on their side of the field.
Infinitrack Brutal Dozer - Earth/Machine/Level 5/Effect: 1900/2100
"Then Brutal Dozer's effect! I'll special summon Infinitrack Tuneller from my deck in defence position!" And then the line of play diverged, instead of summoning the gigantic saw machine that was Infinitrack Trencher, he summoned a gigantic futuristic drill headed roadheader, coloured dark metal grey with red and blue accents, summoned with Brutal Dozer's effect and locking Allen to Earth Machine monsters for the turn.
Infinitrack Tuneller - Earth/Machine/Level 5/Effect: 2200/500
And now, having managed to gather three monsters of the same Level, Shark's eyes narrowed dangerously. "Three Level 5s." He muttered, seeing Infinitrack Drag Shovel, Brutal Dozer, and Tuneller all gathered on the field.
"That's right! And here's where it starts!" The brown haired boy shouted with a grin. And he then waved his left hand outwards towards the three monsters that he had gathered. "I'll overlay the Level 5 Infinitrack Drag Shovel, Infinitrack Brutal Dozer, and Infinitrack Tuneller!"
The three giant mechanical marvels shone and turned into brown motes of light, all three of them criss-crossing one another, entering the giant vortex of black and gold that appeared in the middle of the field.
"I'll take all these three monsters and overlay them! XYZ Summon!" The brown haired boy shouted as he raised his hand, and the galactical vortex exploded into a giant pillar of light. "Appear! Digvorzhak, King of Heavy Industry!"
And what appeared onto the field was a gigantic bucket-wheel excavator based monster. Standing far larger than her own XYZ Monsters, or Shark's own Shark Drake, Allen's XYZ Monster appeared on the field.
Digvorzhak, King of Heavy Industry - Earth/XYZ/Machine/Rank 5/Effect: 3200/2000 OV: 3
"Alright!" Allen said with a fist pump, a grin clear on his face, having found a way to destroy Number 32: Shark Drake without way of battle through DIgvorzhak. "Now that I have this one we can-"
"Looks like I've caught a big one! I'll flip my set card!" Shark shouted aloud, gardening back the brown haired boy's attention as his head snapped towards them, and the dark blue haired boy flipped up his face-down set card.
"Splash Capture!" He declared aloud, the Trap card's holographic projection shining brightly on the field. "When you XYZ Summon, I can banish 2 Fish-Type monsters from my graveyard to target that face-up XTZ Monster and take control of that target!"
""Wha-!?"" Both she and Allen shouted in alarm at Shark's Trap card, and the older duelist paid the Trap card's cost.
"I'll banish Saber Shark and XYZ Remora from my graveyard, to target and take control of your Digvorzhak!" The dark blue haired duelist declared aloud, and the two Fish monsters that were banished appeared on their side of the field, biting the gigantic mechanical XYZ Monster.
"Digvorzhak!" Allen shouted, clear alarm in his voice, as the two Fish monsters then dragged down the giant XYZ Monster as if the ground under it was water, drowning it. Then that same XYZ Monster rose from the depths below on Shark's side of the field.
Digvorzhak, King of Heavy Industry - Earth/XYZ/Machine/Rank 5/Effect: 3200/2000 OV: 3
"Kuh!" The brown haired boy grunted as he hastily checked the other cards that remained in his hand, gritting his teeth all while he did so. Eyes widening slightly as he visibly scowled. "Darn it! If I had just did that earlier!" He hissed.
"And I'll… I'll end my turn." And he then ended his turn with a deep scowl on his face. Ending with her two XYZ Monsters still remaining in their side of the turn, and only the dead Unexpected Dai and Heavy Forward on their spell and trap zone, three cards still remained on his hand, but none of them were sadly playable.
"Ah! Allen! Why didn't you change them to defence position!" She shouted as she turned to her partner, whose eyes went wide as he snapped his head towards the two XYZ Monsters on their side of the field.
"Crap!" He hissed out, noticing his mistake. With both Shark Drake and Digvorzhak on the opponent's side of the field, and their attack points being far larger than the two XYZ Monsters they have, there was no doubt that they would be receiving quite the damage on the next turn.
"Heh, then it's my turn! I'll draw!" And with a smug grin on his features, noticing the chance that he had after the miss play that Allen had done. Shark started his turn once more, drawing for turn and getting a card onto his hand. "I'll activate the Spell, Aqua Jet!" He declared.
"This card lets me target one Fish, Sea Serpent, or Aqua Type monster, and make it gain 1000 points of attack!" He declared aloud, and waved his hand towards the one and only target that he could give the card's effect to.
"I'll target Shark Drake! And boost its attack by 1000 points!" And the winged Sea Serpent roared as its attack was boosted, the monster being surrounded by a blue aura as its attack rose.
Number 32: Shark Drake - Water/XYZ/Sea Serpent/Rank 4/Effect: 3800/2100 OV: 1
"Battle!" He declared, immediately going towards the Battle Phase. "I'll attack your Evolzar Dolkka with Shark Drake! Depth Bite!" And once more, the red skinned winged Sea Serpent roared as waves of water appeared, once again aiming its attack to none other than Evolzar Dolkka.
And this time, they had no way of preventing the attack.
It connects, the waves of water drowning her Flame Dragon XYZ Monster, and the Sea Serpent then ripped the monster apart into motes of light with its jaws and claws, destroying it by battle.
"Kyah!" "Guh!" They once again held up both of their hands up to defend themselves from the hard gust of wind that the clash of XYZ Monsters created. She almost lost her footing from that attack with how strong the impact that it made that she could feel it from here, and that's not mentioning the hefty amount of Life Points that they lost from the battle.
Allen Kozuki & Myu Chiyoda: 6500LP
"Finally! I'll use the effect of Number 32: Shark Drake!" Shark declared, now managing to get rid of Dolkka that had been a deterrent from him to activate monster effects, he then activated the effect of his Number monster.
"Once per turn, when this attacking card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the graveyard, I can detach one XYZ Material from this card, and special summon the destroyed monster to your side of the field in attack position, also it loses 1000 points of attack!" He shouted out the Number monster's effect.
And the red skinned winged Sea Serpent then lets out a roar, taking into its mouth the one blue orb that orbited around it, taking its one overlay material into itself as a cost to activate its effect.
Number 32: Shark Drake - Water/XYZ/Sea Serpent/Rank 4/Effect: 3800/2100 OV: 0
And in a wave of water, the monster that it had just destroyed in battle then returned to the field. Evolzar Dolkka being summoned back in attack position without its overlay materials, the Dragon's head hung down as if it was diminished.
Evolzar Dolkka - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 2300/1700 OV: 0
Then a wave of water hits the monster again, making it give out a sad cry of pain, a blue aura briefly engulfing the monster as its attack is reduced.
Evolzar Dolkka - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 1300/1700 OV: 0
"And if I do summon this way, this card can make a second attack during this Battle Phase!" Shark finished off with a grin, and raised his hand up. "Now Needle Sunfish effect! When this card is sent to the graveyard, I can target one monster on the field and have it lose 500 attack!"
Then the dark blue haired teen pointed towards the newly summoned monster. "I'll lower Evolzar Dolkka's attack even more!" And the blue sunfish briefly appeared on the field, shooting out orange needles towards the Dragonic XYZ monster, lowering its attack even more.
Evolzar Dolkka - Fire/XYZ/Dragon/Rank 4/Effect: 800/1700 OV: 0
"Just 800 attack-!" She said with gritted teeth, bracing herself for the oncoming attack that would no doubt come soon.
"Attack again! Shark Drake! Depth Bite!" And with the dark blue haired order, for the third time of the game, the winged red skinned Sea Serpent roared, and shot a wave of jetstream from its maw, one that took the form of its own head that bit down on the weakened Dolkka.
"Kyaaa!" "Guaaah!" Both she and Allen screamed as the attack hit. The dragonic XYZ Monster exploding upon contact from Shark Drake's attack, turning into motes of light, and the clash of XYZ Monsters created a strong impact that threw the both of them down to the ground harshly.
Allen Kozuki & Myu Chiyoda: 3500LP
"Hmph. Digvorzhak! Attack Evolzar Laggia!" And while the both of them were down on the ground, Shark continued with his assault, using their stolen XYZ Monster to destroy Laggia through battle, hitting them while they're down.
"Kuh!" "Gack!" They shouted as the impact sent them down once more, and reduced what was left of their Life Points.
Allen Kozuki & Myu Chiyoda: 2700LP
And then the Battle Phase ended, Shark managing to destroy all of the monsters on their side of the field by battle, essentially clearing their entire field of monsters, and moved on to his second Main Phase.
"I'll activate the effect of Digvorzhak!" Shark declared aloud, activating the effect of the stolen XYZ Monster. "I'll detach one material from it, to send the top three cards of your deck to the graveyard! And if any monsters were sent there this way, I get to destroy cards you control up to the number of monsters sent!"
Finished with explaining the monster's effect, the gigantic mechanical XYZ Monster absorbed one of its three orbiting overlay material, using it as cost to activate its effect. No longer hampered by the existence of Dolkka that deterred it from using its effect.
Digvorzhak, King of Heavy Industry - Earth/XYZ/Machine/Rank 5/Effect: 3200/2000 OV: 2
Allen grimaced as his deck as the previous turn player was milled with his own XYZ Monster's effect, and saw three cards from the top of his deck getting sent to the graveyard. Those being the Spell card Iron Call, Infinitrack Crab Crane, and he Continuous Spell Outrigger Extension.
"Tch, just one monster huh." The dark blue haired boy clicked his tongue as he saw the cards that he had milled and checked the field. "That set card is probably a bluff, if it wasn't you would have used it, so I'll destroy the face-up Continuous Spell, Heavy Forward!"
And with that declared, the Continuous Spell was destroyed without targeting, leaving their field with only the set Unexpected Dai left.
"Hmph, I'll end my turn." And with that, Shark then ended his turn. His field being filled by the now strengthened Number monster and Allen's stolen XYZ Monster, without any cards set in his backrow, nor any cards remaining in his hand.
"M-my turn!" She said between harsh breaths, managing to stand up on shaky legs, using the strength that she still had in her to simply stand, with Allen following suit as he put his hands on his knees, breathing harshly. "I draw!" Drawing back to two cards in her hand, she looked at the cards in her hand shakily.
"I-I'll activate the Spell! Unexpected Dai!" She hoarse out, flipping up the set card that she had set on her very first turn, revealing the Spell card who had only now met its activation condition, getting a loud click of tongue from Shark as he saw that the 'bluff' that he had chosen not to destroy was something that she could activate after all.
"If I-if I control no monsters, I can special summon one Level 4 or lower Normal Monster from the deck." She explained, and took out a card from her deck to special summon a monster from her deck.
"I'll special summon Megalosmasher X!" She declared aloud, placing the card onto her duel blade. And the gigantic prehistoric predator then arrived on their side of the field, clamping its maw open as it bared its fangs towards the monsters that were on Shark's field.
Megalosmasher X - Water/Dinosaur/Level 4/Normal: 2000/0
"Then I-I'll Normal summon Rescue Rabbit!" She shouted aloud continuing her play, summoning another monster onto the field. This one being a small hard hat wearing rabbit with goggles, and a small whistle dangling around its neck.
Rescue Rabbit - Earth/Beast/Level 4/Effect: 300/100
"Now Rescue Rabbit's effect!" She declared aloud, activating the monster's effect right after it was summoned. "I can banish this card that I control, to special summon 2 Level 4 or lower Normal Monsters with the same name from my deck! But they're destroyed during the End Phase!"
And proceeded to take the two cards that she intended to summon straight from her deck. "I'll summon two more Megalosmasher X from my deck!"She shouted aloud, and two identical copies to the first monster that she had just summoned this turn then appeared on her field, all three copies out from her deck.
Megalosmasher X - Water/Dinosaur/Level 4/Normal: 2000/0
Megalosmasher X - Water/Dinosaur/Level 4/Normal: 2000/0
"Three Level 4 monsters." Shark muttered, watching as she gathered three monsters of the same Level, just like he and Allen had done earlier in their own turns. "But no matter what XYZ Monster you summon, it won't be able to defeat both Digvorzhak and Shark Drake!"
And as he said so, the gigantic machine XYZ Monster that he had stolen from Allen lets out a loud mechanical noise, while the winged Sea Serpent opens its maw and lets out an earth shaking roar, both sending shivers down her spine.
She gulped, because she knows that what Shark said was true. She doesn't have a card in her Extra Deck pool that would be able to out both Digvorzhak and Shark Drake in one quick succession, and in the end, it wasn't quite what her deck was made for.
She had been taught by Yuuna that her deck classified as a 'going first control deck', one that has quite low abilities in going second, as her options of breaking boards are simply unsearchable removal spells like Fissure and Smashing Ground, or through way of battle with either her XYZ Monster, or the high attack powered Normal Monster that was Megalosmasher X and Sabersaurus.
And that's mostly because she relies on trap cards that give her tempo when she goes first. Cards like Bottomless Trap Hole that makes the opponent lose their normal or special summon, traps that prevent her monsters from being destroyed by battle like Evolutionary Bridge, and Effect Veiler that was a handtrap which negates an opponent's monster's effect.
The only cards in her Extra Deck are the Evolzars, both Dolkka and Laggia, and there was no way that those two monsters were able to clear the board of monsters that Shark currently had on his field.
Normally, facing a Rank 5 monster with 3200 attack, and a Rank 4 monster with 3800 attack that was indestructible by battle unless done with a specific kind of monster would be unwinnable in her deck.
Normally that is.
She raised her right hand upwards and shouted. "I'll take the three Level 4 Megalosmasher Xs and overlay them all!" She declared loudly, all three Normal Monsters turning into dark blue motes of light that flew and crisscrossed in the sky.
"With these three monsters, I will construct an Overlay Network! XYZ Summon!" She shouted to the sky as the three orbs of light converged into the galactical vortex that had appeared in the middle of the field, and exploded into a blinding pillar of light.
"XYZ Summon!" She shouted, bringing her right hand down as she finished the chant and summoned the monster. "Appear! Vylon Disigma!" And the monster that appeared was ferocious, a strange looking golden monster with large silver claws doubling as blade-like wings, floating above the ground. Its golden and black colouration gives it an odd feeling as the Fairy XYZ Monster descended onto the field, summoned in defence position in an attempt to preserve what Life Points that they have.
Vylon Disigma - Light/XYZ/Fairy/Rank 4/Effect: 2500/2100 OV: 3
"A new XYZ Monster!" Shark said aloud as he raised his duel disk protectively, wary of her newly summoned XYZ Monster that needed three materials to summon, while Allen stared confusedly at the monster that she had summoned.
"That's-!" He said with wide eyes, snapping his head back towards Sayaka, sitting in the sidelines, giving him a soft smile. And as he took a moment as the gears in his head worked, the brown haired boy ended up with a large face splitting grin.
It was obvious why he was confused at the start, after all, this wasn't a card that she was supposed to have in her Extra Deck.
It was Sayaka's.
Suffice to say that Yuuna-san had shown favoritism, or rather she had given Sayaka a whole plethora of cards to thank the lilac haired girl for taking care of her when she was sick, and this XYZ Monster was one of those cards.
The red haired girl had apologized of course, saying that she wanted to get some for them too, only that she couldn't get her hands on some of the cards. She muttered something about 'Disigma being far worse than Castell but a decent Extra Deck option', or something about 'Redoer being stupidly broken in sealed', something about 'probably needing Starring Knight as an option to go into' but whatever those words meant, the implications went far over her head.
But much to her dismay, even after using all but one of the cards that she had on hand, this still indeed does not out both Shark Drake and Digvorzhak, but it could at the very least out one of them.
"I will activate its effect!" She declared aloud, and began explaining the XYZ Monster's effect. "Once per turn, I can detach one material from this card to target one face-up attack position Effect Monster that you control and equip that target to this card!"
With that said, the monstrous looking Fairy monster then took one of its three orbiting overlay materials and absorbed it into its torso, left with two remaining golden orbs orbiting the XYZ Monster as it used one for its effect.
Vylon Disigma - Light/XYZ/Fairy/Rank 4/Effect: 2500/2100 OV: 2
Now it was a decision, whether she should out Shark's own Ace Monster, the Number monster without overlay materials that was indestructible by battle other than with other Number monsters, or the stolen Digvorzhak that could possibly clean their board if it managed to send monsters with its effect.
Her mind raced a mile a minute, deciding which of the two problematic XYZ Monsters that she would equip to Disigma. And she soon came to a decision as she shouted out a name.
"I'll target Digvorzhak, King of Heavy Industry, and equip it to Disigma!" Between a monster whose effects was battle related, and having no more overlay materials to use said effect, and the monster that could possibly just destroy the single wall that was the XYZ Monster in their field and attack directly for game, it wasn't really a choice.
The monstrous gold and black Fairy then spread its claws wide, creating a vacuum of space in front of it that pulled the gigantic mechanical XYZ Monster, and absorbing it and turning it into what was more or less an Equip Spell.
"I will set a card face-down." She said as a face-down card filled their now empty spell and trap zone. "... And I will end my turn." Then proceeded to end her turn as she had no other playable cards, finishing with a defence position XYZ Monster, a set card, and no remaining cards in her hand.
"Hmph, guess I should end this then." Shark said, a wide grin on his face, assured of his victory in this duel. And she wouldn't blame him, the current boardstate does indeed favor him extremely after all.
"My turn! I'll draw!" He said as he drew a card from his deck for turn, and got back a card onto his hand through his Draw Phase. He checked the card that he had just drawn for turn, and the grin on his face got even wider.
"I'll normal summon Double Shark!" He shouted aloud, placing the card he had just drawn onto his duel blade. And a strange shark with two faces on the top and the bottom of its head appeared on his side of the field, snapping its jaws towards the two of them.
Double Shark - Water/Fish/Level 4/Effect: 1200/1600
"Now I'll take Number 32: Shark Drake, and overlay it!" Shark declared loudly with a wave of his hand, and the giant winged Sea Serpent roared as it returned to its inert state, and once more entered the spiral of black and gold that appeared in the middle of the field.
"Wha-! An XYZ using an XYZ Monster?! That's-!" Allen shouted with wide eyes as they saw what Shark was doing, having seen the exact same thing being done by Yuuna-san herself when she once summoned her own XYZ Monster.
"I'll take Shark Drake, and rebuild the overlay network! Chaos XYZ Change!" He shouted aloud, the galactical vortex exploding into a large blinding pillar of dark chaotic light. "Swim from the depth of the abyss! Show yourself! Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss"
The monster that emerged was undoubtedly that of Shark Drake, its form changed and becoming stronger, its main colouring changing from that of blood red into pure white, with accents of purple and shining chaotic bright red energy coursing through the monster, the mark numbering 32 shone on the monster's torso.
Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss - Water/XYZ/Sea Serpent/Rank 4/Effect: 2800/2100 OV: 1
"A… Chaos XYZ Change…!" She said between breaths as she stared at the terrifying monster ahead of her, looking at it in terrific awe.
"Battle!" Shark declared aloud as he moved on straight towards the Battle Phase. "I'll attack your Vylon Disigma with Double Shark!" With that declaration, the deep blue shark roared as it swam through the air, intending to sink its teeths to their XYZ Monster.
"Wha-!? But with Vylon Disigma having a higher defence why wouldn't he attack with Shark Drake Veiss?!" Allen shouted with a confused but wary look, unsure on how exactly the dark blue haired boy intended to do with this line of play.
"And I'll use the effect of Shark Drake Veiss!" The older teen screamed aloud, using the monster's effect. "As a Quick Effect I can detach one material from this card and banish one monster card from my graveyard then target one monster on the field and turn its attack and defence to zero!"
The white gigantic Sea Serpent roared loudly as it bit into its one XYZ Material, using it as a cost to activate the effect that Shark had just explained right in the middle of the Battle Phase.
Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss - Water/XYZ/Sea Serpent/Rank 4/Effect: 2800/2100 OV: 0
Shark took out a card from his duel disk's graveyard slot and revealed it, showing the card that he would banish for cost. "I'll banish Leviathan Dragon, to reduce the attack and defense of your Vylon Disigma to zero!"
From the depths of the abyss, the serpentine dragon briefly returned with a loud roar, throwing itself into the defence position Fairy XYZ monster, and reducing both of its attack and defence into zero.
Vylon Disigma - Light/XYZ/Fairy/Rank 4/Effect: 0/0 OV: 2
"Wha-!?" And with the golden and black XYZ Monster's defence being reduced to zero, the dark blue shark was able to sink its maw into the larger monster, destroying it with its meager attack and turning it into motes of light.
And while both she and Allen was in a daze as they saw their last defence being destroyed by a normal summon with 1200 attack, Shark continued on. "Finish this! Shark Drake Veiss! Chaos Depth Bite!"
With the final order sent the white Sea Serpent roared loudly, gathering a beam of energy in its maw as she shot out a blue stream directly towards them, said attack then dispersed and became smaller and smaller, those small rays of energy all heading towards them in a direct attack.
And they could do nothing to defend against the attack.
"KYAA!" "GUAAA!" They both shouted as the direct attack hits them, sending them flying as the attack of the Number monster hits, and reducing all their remaining Life Points to zero with that final attack.
Allen Kozuki & Myu Chiyoda: 0LP
The two of them landed harshly on the ground, bouncing slightly after the impact of the attack. It… hurts. Far more than it normally should, something that they had already found from dealing with the Number monster earlier, but even then this was…
Her vision was slightly blurry and her eyelids felt heavy, was she falling unconscious? The same happened to those trio that stole Shark's cards when they were defeated, does it have something to do with those?
Ah, Sayaka was shouting something that she couldn't hear. She looks worried about something, shouldn't she be resting? When did she get so close anyway?
Shark was looking down on them, both she and Allen that is, she couldn't quite well tell what look he had on his face. "Hmph." The dark blue haired teen scoffed at seeing their downed form, and turned his back towards them as he then started walking away.
Then there was a loud explosion, one that made a huge cloud of dust and made Shark and Sayaka snap their heads towards the source.
And from that came a familiar figure, one seething with rage and anger clear with the death glare that they had on their face and gripping their hand so tightly into fists that it almost drew blood.
"The hell did you do this time! SHARK!" Shouted the wild train of Heartland, sending death glares towards the one and only duelist that was still standing on the scene.