365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

Queen's Command

10/20/19

Their finals opponents were one of the teams who'd dressed up and themed their decks accordingly - they both ran Ice Barrier decks and wore costumes that made them look like they were one of their monsters, and they had to give them props for that.

Unfortunately, dueling them was much more of a pain than they'd like because of one specific card...

They had Trishula of the Ice Barrier, and they'd managed to make it hit the field twice already making for a total of twelve banished cards between the two of them. It ended up being in their favor in the end, of course, but it was still a pain to deal with at first because they weren't sure when it'd happened if they'd be able to follow-up very well.

It was Judai's draw, and they were facing down a Trishula, and a nearly full field of Ice Barrier monsters that protected each other a little too well - Cryomancer of the Ice Barrier made it so that no one could attack with any monster level four or high, Defender of the Ice Barrier made it so that even if they did have a lower level monster, it couldn't attack if it had over 1600 attack, and Secret Guards of the Ice Barrier made it so they couldn't target any of their monsters with effect monsters. On the bright-side there was only one face-down that they already knew was Solemn Warning (not Solemn Judgement for once) thanks to them specifically searching for it, and they couldn't activate it even if they wanted to since they only had 1800 life points and needed 2000 to activate it.

"Alright, my turn! Draw!" Judai called, grinning at the card he'd pulled and sharing a look with him that told Yusei he had at least something he could do, "Well, looks like those banished cards are doing some good in the end. I activate Parallel World Fusion! I choose an 'Elemental HERO' Fusion Monster from my Extra Deck whose Material Monsters are banished, then I shuffle those monsters into my deck and Special Summon it to the field. I choose Elemental HERO Grandmerge, with Elemental HERO Neos and Burstinatrix as materials."

Ah, so we both can use the banished cards to our advantage, Yusei mused, taking a glance at his own hand and smiling inwardly at what a perfect set-up they had - somehow Judai had come through again with the perfect play, even if he didn't know it yet.

"Elemental HERO Grandmerge's attack is equal to the levels of the materials used to summon him times 300, which makes his attack 3000!" Judai continued, relaxing a bit now that they had a monster there was no way they could get over for the moment. They needed to save all the life points they could since they were sitting at only 900 left.

He took another glance down at his hand before seeming to make a decision and deciding to play it, "Finally, I activate the field spell Fusion Gate, which lets anyone Fusion Summon once per turn by banishing the materials from their hand or field. End turn."

Oh good, so Judai had remembered what he'd asked him to do earlier. It meant he could actually make this entire play work in the first place... Yusei could definitely see why he'd been told this particular set of cards would do better in a support deck for Judai and not in Judai's actual deck, but honestly he was just glad it was going to work. Neither of their two opponents had more than a card in their hand, and so long as they got through the next turn unscathed he was golden.

"Draw!" Their opponent shouted, cape fluttering a little thanks to the motion of it, "Ha... you got lucky with that defense, I've got nothing for now. End turn."

"My turn then, I draw!" Yusei stated, glancing at the card he drew for only a moment before putting it to the back of his hand and allowing himself a little smile as he fanned out his cards and got ready to combo; he caught a knowing and intrigued look from Judai before he started, which only made him more excited about being able to pull this off, "To start with, I'll activate the spell card Invocation! This lets me Fusion Summon a Fusion Monster from my Extra Deck using cards in my hand, and if its got 'Invoked' in its name, then I can also banish monsters from my field and from any player's graveyard. I choose 'King of the Swamp' from Judai's graveyard and 'Spellbreaker of the Ice Barrier' from your graveyard to summon Invoked Cocytus!"