Face-Off OVERKILL! The Wanderer VS MADMAN

*"The Wanderer duels against his deadliest opponent yet..."*
***Face-Off OVERKILL! The Wanderer VS MADMAN*** is the 3rd episode of *Yu-Gi-Oh!: DEVOLUTION*.

## Transcript

[*The episode opens with The Wanderer walking down an empty road. Moments from his previous Duels play out as he walks. Meanwhile, MADMAN thoroughly analyzes his Deck and shuffles his cards.*]
[*Now standing before MADMAN, The Wanderer stomps on a card in the grass.*]
**MADMAN:** You've arrived...

**Wanderer:** MADMAN! I'm gonna send you to Hell where you belong!

**MADMAN:** So you wanna be *my* judge and jury. Then I'll be your executioner!

[*Both Duelists approach each other, MADMAN wheezing, then stop once they are standing parallel. After a few seconds of silence, they continue walking.*]
[*They both quickly turn around and activate their Duel Disks. The Duel begins.*]
**MADMAN:** My turn. I'm laying one card facedown.

**Wanderer:** Now it's my turn! I Summon Makyura the Destructor in ATK mode! I'll power him up with the Spell Card, Rush Recklessly. For one turn, his ATK will be increased by 700! Now, rip him apart!

[*Makyura the Destructor's ATK becomes 2300.*]
**MADMAN:** GHHH!!

[*Makyura the Destructor → Direct attack = MADMAN LP: 4000*]
**Wanderer:** What...? His Life Points didn't go down!

**MADMAN:** [*coughing*] Feels good... Activating Trap Card, Nutrient Z. If my Life Points take 2000 or more points of damage, Nutrient Z will give me a 4000 point boost before calculating all the battle damage.

[*Nutrient Z → MADMAN LP: 5700*]
**Wanderer:** My turn's over.

**MADMAN:** My move. And I'm Summoning Drillago in ATK mode! SHRED HIM!

**Wanderer:** What?! GHAAAAHHH!!

[*Drillago → Direct attack = The Wanderer LP: 2400*]
[*The Wanderer collapses and starts panting.*]
**MADMAN:** Drillago can attack *your* Life Points directly if you only have 1600 or above Monsters on your field.

[*The Wanderer wearily gets back up.*]
**Wanderer:** For my turn, I'll have Makyura attack Drillago!

[*Rush Recklessly loses its effect, so Makyura the Destructor's ATK returns to 1600, the same as Drillago's.*]
[*Makyura → Drillago = MADMAN LP: 5700*]
**MADMAN:** When both Monsters with the same ATK fight, they'll *destroy* each other.

**Wanderer:** I Summon Spear Dragon to the field. That ends my turn.

**MADMAN:** It's my turn now, and I'll draw. I Summon The Portrait's Secret in ATK mode. That's it for now.

**Wanderer:** Now I'll draw!

[*He draws Bad Reaction to Simochi, a Trap Card which reverses any effects that restore the opponent's Life Points.*]
**Wanderer:** (*This Trap won't work without Gift Card, and I can't attack with Spear Dragon. The effect would force it into DEF mode. With no DEF, it would become easy prey for anything else he Summons.*) I lay one card facedown and end my turn.

**MADMAN:** My turn again. I Summon Newdoria in ATK mode.

**Wanderer:** It's my move.

[*He draws Limiter Removal.*]
**Wanderer:** (*Another dead draw.*) [*sigh*] I'm ending my turn.

**MADMAN:** Of course you are. I Summon Dark Jeroid in ATK mode. Weaken the Spear Dragon!

[*Dark Jeroid's effect activates, reducing Spear Dragon's ATK to 1100.*]
**Wanderer:** Spear Dragon's ATK is lowered?!

**MADMAD:** When my Jeroid is Summoned, it'll lower any Monster by 800 points. I'm laying a card facedown, and now, my turn is done.

**Wanderer:** [*grunt*] For my turn, I'll activate the Spell Card, Exile of the Wicked! All your Fiend-type monsters are now destroyed!

[*Exile of the Wicked destroys The Portrait's Secret, Newdoria, and Dark Jeroid.*]
**Wanderer:** I lay one card facedown. That'll end my turn.

**MADMAN:** It's my move again. I'll summon a creature unlike *anything* you've seen before. The Dark Necrofear!

**Wanderer:** How is this possible?!

**MADMAN:** My Necrofear can be Summoned by removing from play any three Fiends from *my* Graveyard.

**Wanderer:** (*I get it now! He wanted me to destroy his three monsters. That way, he could Summon something even stronger than my Spear Dragon!*)

**MADMAN:** Now, Necrofear! Attack with Spirit Beam!

**Wanderer:** Open Trap Card, Raigeki Break! By discarding one card from my hand, I can destroy Dark Necrofear!

[*Dark Necrofear perishes, but Spear Dragon leaves the field, too.*]
**Wanderer:** No! My Spear Dragon's destroyed!

**MADMAN:** When you killed my Necrofear, I activated a Trap Card, Michizure. And Michizure will destroy *any* one of your monsters when you destroy any one of *mine*.

**Wanderer:** I'll draw my card.

[*He draws Barrel Dragon.*]
**Wanderer:** (*No... Another bad card.*) My turn's finished.

**MADMAN:** [*coughing*] Pathetic. My turn. I lay one card facedown, and that's it for now.

**Wanderer:** It's my turn again.

[*He draws Black Magic Ritual.*]
**Wanderer:** (*Pfft. This Ritual card's useless without the Monster.*) I'll pass again.

**MADMAN:** It's my move.

[*He draws Blue-Eyes White Dragon.*]
**MADMAN:** (*Blue-Eyes White Dragon... Another piece. Until then, I'll just defend myself.*) Activate Trap Card, *Metal Reflect Slime*!

[*His Trap turns into a Monster with 3000 DEF.*]
**Wanderer:** What *is* that?

**MADMAN:** This Trap Card morphs into a Token Monster with 0 ATK, *but* 3000 DEF.

**Wanderer:** 3000 DEF points?!

**MADMAN:** Now with *this* defending me, I have all the time I need to Summon my ultimate beast.

**Wanderer:** Ultimate...beast?

**MADMAN:** [*chuckling*] You'll soon see. My turn's over.

[*He draws Gift Card.*]
**Wanderer:** (*Gift Card? I have Bad Reaction to Simochi, but his Life Points are too high. If I activate it now, it wouldn't do anything.*) I lay one card facedown and end my turn.

**MADMAN:** It's my move, and I draw a card.

[*He draws Stop Defense.*]
**MADMAN:** (*Now you're not safe, even with a Monster out!*) My turn's over.

**Wanderer:** (*This one has to be a Monster.*) I'll put one monster in facedown DEF mode. Now it's your move.

**MADMAN:** Let's see what you're hiding. My move. And I'm activating the Spell Card, Stop Defense! Now your Monster'll switch from DEF to ATK mode!

**Wanderer:** Hmph, I was hoping you would. Go, Trap Master!

[*Trap Master's Flip Effect is triggered, destroying Metal Reflect Slime.*]
**MADMAN:** What?! Metal Reflect Slime's destroyed?!

**Wanderer:** When Trap Master's Flipped, he'll destroy one Trap Card on the field!

**MADMAN:** I'm not through, yet! I lay one card facedown, and now end my turn.

**Wanderer:** (*I need to buy some time.*) I'll activate the Spell Card, Swords of Revealing Light! For three turns, these swords'll protect me from your attacks! Before I end my turn, I'll switch Trap Master to DEF mode.

**MADMAN:** You think these'll *save* you?! All you're doing is delaying your death.

[*He draws another Blue-Eyes White Dragon.*]
**MADMAN:** I'll pass this turn.

**Wanderer:** It's time to make these turns count. I'll end my turn laying this card facedown on the field.

**MADMAN:** My turn. I lay a card facedown.

**Wanderer:** I'll draw my card.

[*He draws DNA Surgery.*]
**Wanderer:** (*The swords won't last much longer, and this Trap Card won't help me.*)

**MADMAN:** You're running out of time *and* options. When these swords vanish, then so will you!

**Wanderer:** I have no choice! Reveal facedown Trap, Gift Card!

**MADMAN:** (*He plans on using Bad Reaction to instead inflict 3000 points of damage.*)

**Wanderer:** I'm not through, yet! I'll activate my other facedown Trap Card, Bad Reaction to Simochi! Instead of gaining 3000 Life Points, you lose it instead!

**MADMAN:** Gotcha now! Counter Trap activate, Malfunction!

**Wanderer:** Malfunction?!

**MADMAN:** At the price of 500 Life Points, I can negate your Bad Reaction, and return it to its *original* position.

[*Malfunction = MADMAN LP: 5200*]
**Wanderer:** That means...

**MADMAN:** That your Gift Card instead gives me 3000 Life Points.

[*Gift Card = MADMAN LP: 8200*]
**Wanderer:** (*I activated them in the wrong order!*) I lay one card facedown on the field, and that's it.

**MADMAN:** It's my turn. I Summon Versago the Destroyer!

**Wanderer:** I draw. I lay one card facedown on the field. That's all I can do.

**MADMAN:** Your turn's over, as are the effects of your Swords of Revealing Light!

**Wanderer:** They're gone...

**MADMAN:** My turn. This is the end. Activate Spell Card, Pot of Greed, to draw two cards from my Deck. Activate Spell Card, Polymerization! Now I fuse the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in my hand to create Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!

**Wanderer:** Blue-Eyes...Ultimate?!

**MADMAN:** Versago's ability allows it to mimic any Monster while conducting a Fusion.

**Wanderer:** Another Fusion?! But you've already used Polymerization!

**MADMAN:** That's true. And in order to get it back, I'll activate *another* Spell Card, Magic Shard Excavation! After I throw away two cards from *my* hand, I get to add any Spell Card from my Graveyard back to my hand.

**Wanderer:** But...that means...!

**MADMAN:** My Polymerization! Now, Versago! Transform yourself into Black Luster Soldier! And now I can create my ultimate Fusion Monster! Fuse with Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Dragon Master Knight!! Activate Trap Card, my Dragon's Rage! When a Dragon-type Monster attacks, the difference between its ATK and your monster's DEF will be subtracted from your Life Points!

**Wanderer:** Trap Master's DEF is only 1100. I'll lose 3900 Life Points!

**MADMAN:** You can't escape! GO TO HELL!!

[*Dragon Master Knight attacks The Wanderer.*]
**MADMAN:** It was just as I thought. A weakling to the end.

[*The Wanderer does not die.*]
**MADMAN:** Huh?! ...WHAT?!

[*He pants, surviving with 2400 Life Points.*]
**MADMAN:** His Life Points aren't 0?!

**Wanderer:** That's because of my Trap Card. When Negate Attack is activated, your attack will be nullified, ending your Battle Phase.

**MADMAN:** No matter. On my next turn, I'll attack, and you'll lose all your Life Points!

**Wanderer:** (*He's right. This next card has to be something that can help me.*) Draw! I'll activate my own Pot of Greed Spell Card! (*This is it. It all comes down to these last two cards.*)

[*As The Wanderer prepares to draw, The Dueless gently holds his hand. Her spirit appears behind him, nodding with confidence.*]
**Wanderer:** You want me to draw the cards? ...THEN THAT'S WHAT I'LL DO!!! Activating Graceful Charity! Now I can draw three cards, at the cost of discarding two from my hand. Reveal Trap Card, DNA Surgery!

**MADMAN:** A Trap?!

**Wanderer:** This Trap allows me to declare one Monster type, then all the Monsters on the field will become the type I've chosen.

**MADMAN:** What type will you *declare*...?

**Wanderer:** I declare Machine-type.

**MADMAN:** Machines?!

**Wanderer:** Activating Spell Card, Monster Reborn!

[*From the Graveyard, The Wanderer resurrects Obelisk the Tormentor.*]
**MADMAN:** Obelisk? But how?! (*He discarded it with Graceful Charity...!*) Dragon Master Knight is still stronger than Obelisk!

**Wanderer:** Now Obelisk, transform into a Machine!

[*Obelisk's body turns metallic.*]
**MADMAN:** A machine *god*!?

**Wanderer:** Are you ready?! Activating Limiter Removal! For one turn, all the Machine-type Monsters on my side of the field's ATK will be doubled!

**MADMAN:** 8000?!

**Wanderer:** That's not all! I'll activate Spell Reproduction. By discarding two Spell Cards from my hand, I can retrieve a Spell Card from my Graveyard. I'll reactivate Limiter Removal!

**MADMAN:** Its ATK is 16000!

**Wanderer:** Open Trap Card, Graverobber! At the cost of 2000 Life Points, I can activate a Spell Card from your Graveyard! And the card I choose is Magic Shard Excavation!

[*Graverobber = The Wanderer LP: 400*]
**MADMAN:** Magic Shard Excavation?!

**Wanderer:** By discarding two cards from my hand, I can retrieve a Spell Card from my Graveyard, reactivating Limiter Removal!

**MADMAN:** Not again! 32000!?

**Wanderer:** MADMAN, you've lost. Go, Obelisk! Divine Overdrive Deathblow!!

**MADMAN:** GRAAAAHHH!!

[*Obelisk the Tormentor → Dragon Master Knight = MADMAN LP: 0*]
[*With MADMAN gone, The Wanderer looks to the sky, calling to the spirit of his wife.*]
**Wanderer:** I've done it...conquered the hate in my heart, and replaced it with love, sorrow, and your memory. You won't be forgotten. The will to live isn't just for you and me! I must live on, for this world!!

[*He removes his hat and scarves, revealing his face with a single eye.*]