The doctor drew his next card and eyed Aiya’s field curiously. “Decoy Dragon… a card that allows you to redirect an attack to a level 7 or higher Dragon-type monster resting in the graveyard, is it?” he’d say with a wag of his finger. “That won’t do… all the dragons I’ve destroyed thus far have been levels three and four. You can’t win with a bluff like that! Geo Genex, attack Decoy Dragon!” Aiya’s opponent cried out. Geo Genex pulled back its arm again, fully intent on pulverising the cutesy looking dragoling. The Decoy dragon’s cutesy innocent taunting face would turn into a smirk of confidence as it would fly back to Aiya’s Duel disk and take out a monster card. Slamming it onto the field. At once a large intimidating Dragon would soon rear its head. Its red and black scales glimmering as the hospital lights glowed upon them as it would roar in challenge. “Decoy dragons effect summons a level 7 or higher monster from my graveyard. But you already knew that. What you didn’t know was that I had managed to place my Darkblaze Dragon there last turn!” She’d declare [b]Darkblaze Dragon[/b]: ATK 1200 “And because it was summoned from my graveyard, its attack doubles” She’d continue as Darkblaze would roar as it was cloaked in a shadowy aura, causing its muscles to bulge and its eyes to glow. [b]Darkblaze Dragon[/b]: ATK 1200 -> 2400 “Now it's more than a match for your Geo Genex! Go Darkblaze Counter-Attack!” She’d roar as her dragon would lurch forward leaping upon Geo Genex as it would scorch it with its infernal breath. As Geo Genex would disintegrate into light particles however the attack would still continue, the breath would scorch the doctor. “Darkblaze’s effect, if it destroys a monster by battle, you take damage equal to that monster's original attack points!” She’d say pointing at them. “Guh… Guuaaaaah!” the doctor screamed as Darkblaze’s scorching flames reduced his life from 4100 to 1700. He took one step back, glaring at Aiya. “Impossible… I’ve been keeping track of your graveyard, just when did you-” he’d say, before pausing his train of thought. “Of course… back [i]then[/i]. That was the only time you could’ve placed that card in your graveyard…” the doctor growled. [i]“I activate my spell card. Graceful Charity!”[/i] was the image conjured to both players’ minds, the one time Aiya could’ve put cards in her grave that the doctor hadn’t known about. “This procedure has gone over schedule… I’ll bring it to a close quickly! Hydro Genex, bury Decoy Dragon!” the doctor ordered, with Hydro Genex spinning its spear and rushing forward once more. Her Decoy Dragon would explode for real this time, as it had already used its little ‘trick’, The spear that had run it through would knick Aiya’s body, causing her to fall to her knee. As she would activate her trap card. “I activate Widespread Ruin” She’d declare. “Since your Hydro declared its attack, I get to destroy your highest attack point monster!” She’d say pointing at Thermal Genex. The reactor inside of Thermal Genex would go haywire, combusting the monster from the inside-out. “Tch… but don’t forget, I’ll recover my life with your runt of a dragon’s destruction,” the doctor reminded both girls. The lifepoint totals updated: [b]Doctor:[/b] 1700 > 2000 LP [b]Aiya:[/b] 4200 > 2200 LP The doctor pulled his surgical mask down again, glaring angrily at the one remaining monster on his field. “You’re useless to me, just like you’ve always been…! With your attack power, I might as well wait on Darkblaze to run me through…” he growled, summoning a new monster from his hand. It was a little blue robot, far more sleek and refined to Undine before it. “Genex Ally Solid has me send one of my WATER Genex to the grave and draw two cards… Now vanish from my sight, Hydro Genex!” he yelled at his monster, with Solid turning its little guns on Hydro and spraying it in a dissolving acid. The monster seemed in pain as it melted, with the doctor indifferent as he picked up his two cards. “Hah… hahaha! Ahahahaha!” he madly laughed, smirking back at Aiya. “You may have thought you’d made a comeback, but you couldn’t be more wrong… Ultimate Offering, drink from my blood once more!” the doctor declared, paying another 500 LP to go back down to 1500. “Appear: the tuner monster, Genex Recycled!” [b]Genex Recycled:[/b] 200 ATK [color=#EBF5FF]”It’s… only level one?”[/color] Tsukiko would mutter. [color=#EBF5FF]”With the level 2 Solid, he should only be able to summon a level 3 synchro monster. That won’t be enough to beat a monster like Darkblaze Dragon!”[/color] she hopefully and, somewhat naively, blurted out. “True, as my field is now I wouldn’t get to do much… but I have yet to activate a monster effect! Recycled copies the name of one of the Genex resting in my graveyard, and I select myself: Genex Doctor! [i]Copy Assembly![/i]” The little robot began tearing off parts of its face, reassembling its parts until its head was a completely different design. Then the doctor activated a spell from his hand, Machine duplication, which “allows me to summon any number of monsters from my deck with the same name as a machine of 500 or less attack on my field!” causing two more doctors to spring up. “So you pulled the same trick I did.” Aiya said in surprise. Well no matter, she still had her darkblaze dragon! She hoped it was enough. “Well, it’s true I sent my avatar, Genex Doctor, to the graveyard for the effect of my Triarm. But my ‘trick’ will be quite different to yours,” he said with malice in his voice. “I tune my Genex Spare to my Solid and two Doctors!” Genex Spare slouched over, turned transparent and one single star was visible from inside of him. The monster rapidly faded out as that star spun around to form a single green ring, which expanded and covered all three other monsters. “You’re tuning all of them?!” Tsukiko commented. “But their total levels are…” “Correct! [i]Nine![/i]” the doctor finished her thought for her. The monsters on his field faded into eight bright stars and a pillar of light shot through the one green ring when they had. “[i]Your exhaust pipe screams as you drown in the deep depths of darkness! Assemble the Ultimate Genex monster! Synchro Summon! Run through them, Locomotion R-Genex![/i]” While Furnace and Geo were big, that which appeared this time was even larger. The Solid Vision simulated the room falling apart as the monster broke the roof and walls alike, towering over the three people beneath. Four bulky limbs, two arms and legs, were heavy bolted to the chassis of a steam train’s locomotive. Right in front of the exhaust was a cylindrical head, a lamp in the middle with four glowing red eyes looking menacingly down at the field. As it made its debut, it reached out one of its hands and grabbed onto Darkblaze Dragon. [b]Locomotion R-Genex:[/b] 2500 ATK “Ahaha! Behold, my ultimate creation! My strongest servant!” the doctor madly laughed. “When this monster is synchro summoned, I gain control of your monster! Darkblaze Dragon will become [/i]my[/i] servant! [i]Ultimate Obedience![/i]” Locomotive brought the dragon closer to its face as it struggled, both the lamp and its eyes lighting up fiercely. The same red glow as in Locomotive’s was being reflected in Darkblaze’s eyes, which soon gave up its struggle. Locomotive released it and the dragon flew itself next to the doctor, who cupped its jaw in his hand and gently stroked the dragon’s face. “Yes, just like that… soon, I’ll have everything under control. My servants will subjugate the other monsters, and I’ll… I’ll… Gnngh…!” The doctor suddenly stopped his petting, clutching his head painfully. “What am I…?” he said confusedly, his expressions changing for a moment before going back to an angry look. “Shut up and stay down… this body is [i]mine[/i],” he seemed to talk to himself, then looked back at Aiya with a wicked grin. “Haha… it doesn’t matter. Soon, I’ll have this duel won, and I’ll get even stronger,” he muttered to himself before standing straight and addressing his opponent again. “You have no monsters or set cards on the field. Your hand is at only one, and I have two powerful monsters on my side. And further,” he boasted, pausing briefly to play the last card in his hand. It spun onto his field, the image facing Aiya, at which point he continued: “with my Soul Absorption, if a card would be banished, I recover 500 points of my life. It’s a shame I didn’t have this when I activated my desires, but even if you tried to banish my field now, you’d only make me more powerful. Turn [i]end.[/i]” Aiya would look at her hand, she had one chance to do this, and to do this right she just needed it to all come together. A single card could make or break this, But Aiya couldn’t lose just yet. “Draw!” She’d roar, pulling free the top card from her deck immediately gazing down upon it as her expression steeled. “I activate Soul Release!” She’d say, as her duel disk would whir, popping out 5 cards from her graveyard. “With it I can banish 5 Monsters from a graveyard.” She’d say as she’d put them aside. Having banished her monsters from the graveyard she’d look across at the doctors field, as his card hummed into life. A blue aura engulfed him, boosting his life from 1500 all the way to 4000 points again. “Hahaha! I see, I see!” the doctor bellowed, unable to contain his laughter. “Faced with your defeat, you’ll even boost my life just to beg for me to spare you… if you wanted to lose, all you had to do was surrender!” he mocked the girl. Being mocked would do little to halt her stride as she would continue, flowing into her next action. “You really think i wasn’t aware of that, It won’t be enough for you anyway! Dimensional Fusion!” She’d say as the spell-card lifted itself up on her side of the field showing monsters falling from a dimensional rift. “This is where it’s all been heading! The effect of my ‘Dimension Fusion’ activates, by paying 2000 of my life points, I can special summon as many of my banished monsters as I can!” She’d declare as her card would pulse, draining away yet more of her precious life points [b]Aiya:[/b] 2200 > 200 LP. The pain that would go through her body would make her grimace a little as she’d wince. The shock of losing that much lifepoints at once hurting just as badly as being directly struck by her opponent's genex. She’d be stacking it all on this victory. “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” She’d say as she’d place down her monsters. “Rise my Dragons and retake your place at my side.” She’d say as her monsters would roar out in unison. Facing her opponent. [b]Decoy Dragon[/b]: ATK 300 [b]Reactan, Dragon Ruler of Pebbles:[/b] ATK 1800 [b]Steam, Dragon Ruler of Droplets[/b] ATK 1600 [b]Delta Flyer[/b] ATK 1500 [b]Exploder Dragon[/b] ATK 1000 “Go, Delta Flyer, Use your effect to increase Decoys dragons level by 1” She’d say as the flyer would flap its wings, as it would let out a rallying screech, Decoy Dragon’s body would be enveloped in a green glow as its level would increase. “Now, Synchro Summon!” She’d say “I tune my level 3 Delta Flyer, with my level 3 Decoy Dragon” She’d chant as her delta flyer erupted into green rings, and her Decoy dragon would fly up into the center. Becoming three balls of light. Which soon exploded revealing her new monster that would stretch its wings and screech out. “To summon Red Wyvern” She’d say as the monster flapped on her side of the field. [b]Red Wyvern[/b] ATK 2400 “What?! You can also Synchro Summon?!” the doctor said incredulously. He soon feigned composure again, though, saying: “Tch… but that monster only has 2400 ATK! As long as I have Locomotive, I-” before being cut off by Aiya. “I activate the effect of Red Wyvern” She’d declare pointing at Locomotive. As the red-dragon began to flare up with heat. “If its synchro summoned, I can destroy a monster on the field with more attack points then it, but only once, So i choose your R-Genex Locomotive!” She’d say as the Red Wyverns throat began to bulge with Flame. “Champion Punisher!” She’d say as it would erupt a fireball that would destroy the Locomotive in a shower of fractals of light. The doctor shielded himself from the smouldering embers that rained down on him, then once safe, glared back at Aiya. “Very clever, missy…” he hissed at her, then dusted off his uniform. “But you’re still deadlocked. You may think to attack into Darkblaze with Exploder Dragon to destroy it, but the moment you do, Darkblaze’s effect will burn away the rest of your life!” “Who said I was going to attack your monster with my Exploder Dragon?” “What?! No… you couldn’t be…” “That’s right. Red Wyvern! Attack Darkblaze Dragon” She’d say as her monster would leap forth, their attack points were equal. Both would be destroyed in the clash. “Now your wide open. Go My monsters, Attack his life points directly!” The doctor’s field was wide open, and Aiya still had three monsters on hers. “No…” the doctor muttered. The first to attack was Exploder Dragon, dropping his bomb on top of the doctor. [b]Doctor:[/b] 4000 > 3000 LP. “No!” he then shouted. The second to attack was Stream, shooting a jet of water out of his maw and pushing back the Doctor, making him slide across the hospital floor. [b]Doctor:[/b] 3000 > 1400 LP “NOOOO!” he roared as the final Dragon, Reactan, slammed his tail right into him, sending the doctor flying against the door. [b]Doctor:[/b] 1400 > 0 LP “Gha… GHAAAA!” he screamed in pain, the same dark mist as with the regular at Aiya’s workplace flying up and out of his body. The doctor glared back at the girl. “You…! I won’t forget this…! I’ll… have… my reveeeeeenge!” he bellowed, then another pained scream as the final bits of mist left his body. The cards on his disk spilled out over the floor, and one type among them, the three copies of Genex Doctor, burned out alongside the mist.