(Collab between Scarifar and IVIasterJay)
"Alright students," the MC started. "This duel with feature our Generic Special Summoning and Pendulum Courses! Our representative for our Generic Course will be Michelle Kine! Our representative for our Pendulum course will be Saze Iver!" 

"Now, action field... ON!" the MC shouted, and the field began to transform. "Featuring 'Cosmo Sanctuary', a field that will surely keep you on the edge of your seat!"

“Duelists locked in battle, kicking against the earth and dancing through the skies with their monsters, they storm through this field! Behold, the newest and greatest evolution of Dueling! Action . . . !” The MC snapped his fingers above his head, and the Action Cards scattered across the field. A beat later, the audience shouted as one, just like before.

“DUEL!”

(Turn 1 - 4000 | 4000)
Saze looked around, everywhere but at his opponent. The duel began and he drew five cards. It looked like he was going first. Darn, he hated going first. Oh well, if he had to. He looked down at his five cards. Darn, he'd drawn a dead hand too. He might lose.

"I activate Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and set two cards and end my turn. Thanks to Odd-Eyes' effect I'll send him to my Extra Deck and add one Qliphoth Tool to my hand." Saze stifled a yawn with the back of his hand. "Your turn."

(Turn 2 - 4000 | 4000)
Michelle took a deep breath, then said, "Interesting. I draw," and drew one card. She felt a familiar feeling in her head and looked at the card she drew: 'Freya, Spirit of Victory'. "There you are, girl," she muttered as she stared at the card for a second. She examined the rest of her cards, wondering what she should do, and decided on a favorite action of hers. "I summon Freya, Spirit of Victory!" Michelle said, and out she appeared, jumping out of a spiral of light, landing with her left hand out in a "V". Michelle smiled and continued on, "Now I activate the spell card, 'Court of Justice'!" and a metallic yellow ring being circled with two little angel-like sprites appeared. "When I have a level one fairy-type monster on the field, I can special summon one fairy-type monster from my hand! And I choose Splendid Venus!" Michelle said, and the Court of Justice began to shine with a blinding light, a golden goddess descending from said light, landing gently onto the ground. Michelle was about to call for both Venus and Freya to attack, but then a feminine voice spoke in her mind, "[i]Don't attack yet[/i]." She looked around briefly, then realized it was Freya who spoke. Thinking, Michelle said, "I place one card face-down and end my turn."

(Turn 3 - 4000 | 4000)
Saze cocked his head to the side and asked, "Why didn't you attack? You could have nearly won."

Michelle hesitated, not willing to reveal Freya's existence as a spirit, then said cryptically, "I have my reasons. Please, continue."

"It won't be fair if I win because you went easy on me, but I won't return the favor." Saze drew one card, exactly what he needed to start getting serious.

"I summon Qliphoth Genome in attack position." A creature - or was it a vehicle? - made of twisted matal and crackling energy appeared above Saze's head. For a split second its attack registered as 2400 before plummeting all the way down to 1300. The ship dropped closer to the ground, allowing Saze to take a seat on the metal spike on its front, before it rose again into the air. 

Saze yelled from his perch, "I'll equip Qliphoth Genome with Qliphoth Sacrifice from my hand." The air around the ship shimmered as a yellow field of energy engulfed it, and its attack rose back up to 1600. "And then I'll activate Qliphoth Tool as a pendulum and use its effect to add Qliphoth Archive to my hand." Saze's lifepoints dropped down to 3200. "Your turn," he said as Qliphoth Genome started moving around the field at a relaxed pace.

(Turn 4 - 4000 | 3200)
Michelle smiled as she drew one card. "Using the effect of 'Court of Justice', I summon 'Gellenduo', in defense mode!" she said as a flash of light appeared next to Freya, revealing 2 little creatures, one pink and one green, each with its own little halo around its waist. "And by the way, Gellenduo counts as two sacrifices for a light fairy-type monster! So now I sacrifice Gellenduo to summon the bane of effect monsters: 'Angel 07'!" she yelled out, Gellenduo disappearing in a flash of light, replaced with a giant white creature. She then point straight at Qliphoth Genome and said, "Alright you, time to destroy that hunk of junk! Splendid Venus, attack Qliphoth Genome!" Venus put her hands together to form an orb of light, then fired a beam of light straight at the heart of Genome, light engulfing Genome and dealing 1600 points of damage.

Saze shut his eyes as a blinding light engulfed the monster he was riding, and with it him as well. He opened his eyes a second later. Not only was he not falling to the ground, but Genome was untouched by the attack, the yellow forcefield surrounding it preventing its destruction. Saze looked at his lifepoints, which had dropped down to 1600. The field hadn't stopped that.

"This is getting a little too rough for my liking," he mumbled, knocking his knuckles twice against the metal side of his creature. Genome hovered over to the nearest high column to allow Saze to jump off before the ship lifted off to again face the enemy's monsters.

"What? But- crap, the equip spell!" Michelle muttered as she snapped her fingers. "That doesn't matter, it wouldn't stop you from taking damage! Angel 07, attack Genome!" Michelle said, and Angel 07 fired another beam of light from its halo, aimed directly toward Genome, engulfing it some more light.

This time when the light faded it wasn't that Genome hadn't been destroyed, but there was no trace of it whatsoever, and Saze's lifepoints hadn't dropped at all. The boy flipped around the card that he held between his fingers with a grin. It was the action spell "Avoid". The air above the boy's head shimmered, and his mechanical monster materialized there. "Too bad, you almost had me there," he said completely truthfully.

Michelle sighed, lowering her head. This time she couldn't do anything against it. "[i]Hey, cheer up. We'll win this[/i]," Freya said in Michelle's mind. Michelle looked up, and saw Freya looking back ever so slightly, winking. Michelle smiled, and said, "I set one card face down, and end my turn."

(Turn 5 - 4000 | 1600)
Saze drew one card, and then he fell backwards to lay on his back atop the white column. "I guess you are pretty good," he yelled down to Michelle. 

"I activate Qliphoth Tool's effect to add one Apoqliphoth Killer to my hand, then I'll use Qliphoth Archive to set the pendulum scale from one to nine. And with that I can pendulum summon another Qliphoth Archive from my hand." Another strange machine-like craft appeared in the air next to Genome. "And then I'll tribute both to summon Apoqliphoth Killer to the field." The air inside the action field vibrated as a massive creature descended from above. Apoqliphoth Killer seemed to fill the space available with its presence.

Michelle started to quiver in fear at the sight, and even her own monsters seemed to back away, especially Freya.

Saze yawned audibly, he was tired. "I would activate the effects of Genome and Archive since they were tributed, but your Angel will just negate them, so I won't even bother. I can use the effect of Qliphoth Sacrifice in my grave though to add Qliphoth Shell to my hand though."

"I activate Killer's effect to make you send one monster from your hand or field to the grave," Saze mumbled, still on his back looking up at his monster.

"Wait one moment there!" Michelle interjected. "Did you forget already? Angel 07 prevents any effects from activating! That includes Killer's!"

Saze yawned again. It was rude to yawn during a duel, especially an action duel, but he couldn't help it. "Oh, yes, I forgot," he said simply. "Then I guess I'll have Killer take out Angel 07 first." The massive monster hummed to life, and a countless number of purple beams of light fired from it, all bending to converge on the one angel. "Boom," Saze mumbled, a fraction of a second before the beams hit.

Michelle was frozen in place as the beams fired, then Freya spoke, "[i]Michelle, Action Card! To your left![/i]" Michelle's head snapped to the left, and spotted it in one of the ruins. "Venus, hurry!" Michelle yelled, and Venus lowered her arm for Michelle to jump onto, and together they flew toward at a high speed, hoping against hope that it would help. As soon as Michelle grabbed it, the beams hit Angel 07, destroying it in a cloud of smoke. Michelle watched as her lifepoint gauge dropped from 4000 to 3900, then looked to see what her action card would have been. 'Cosmo Arrow'. She sighed, as she knew it wouldn't have helped anyway. Still, she knew it might help later on. With Venus, she flew up to Saze and said, "You may have destroyed my monster, but this Duel is still on!"

Saze pulled himself up to look at his opponent properly. "I know, it's not over until someone's lifepoints drop to zero. Until then, it's anyone's game." Saze looked at the girl that was his opponent and then looked up at his monster. "So... can I activate Killer's effect now?"

Michelle blinked in surprise, seeing how apethetic he seemed at Michelle. "Umm... I guess you can," Michelle said, lowering herself back to the ground to avoid injury.

"Okay, then I activate Apoqliphoth Killer's effect. Choose the monster from your field or hand to send to the grave."

Michelle looked between her two monsters, Freya and Venus. "I choose Venus," she said, and Venus disappered in a flash of light. Michelle picked up Venus' card and sent it to the graveyard. "I'm sorry, Venus," she whispered, feeling like she might not win after all. She looked at Freya, who gave her a small smile of reassurement.

Killer hummed to life as it moved closer to Saze's pillar so that he could reach out to grab one of the lower spikes of Killer's arm. The huge machine delicately set the boy down back on the center platform of the field. "Your turn."

(Turn 6 - 3900 | 800)
Michelle looked at her deck and drew one card, hoping it was a good card. It wasn't bad, but it wouldn't do her much good right now. "I switch Freya to defense mode, and end my turn."

(Turn 7 - 3900 | 800)
Saze sat down on the ground and drew a card, and then he rubbed his eye with the same hand, inadvertently showing the card to be Qliphoth Genome. When he opened his eyes and saw the back f the card, his only reaction was to say, "Oops," and turn it back around.

"First I'll activate Killer's effect to make you send one monster to the grave."

Michelle sighed. Freya was the only monster she had left. "Goodbye, Freya," she muttered as Freya disappeared in a flash of light. Before she disappeared comepletely, Freya turned her head and smiled, letting Michelle know that it wasn't her fault.

"And then I'll pendulum summon Qliphoth Archive and Genome from my Extra Deck, and a second Qliphoth Genome from my hand. The air shimmered as three floating machines materialized around Killer. "And by tributing the two Genomes I'll summon Qliphoth Shell from my hand at full power." The two machines of twisted metal and energy vanished, and a machine that very much resembled a giant conch shell appeared in their place. Now there were three machines on Saze's side of the field, but he wouldn't need all three of their attacks to end the duel.

"Apoqliphoth Killer, attack Michelle directly please," he requested of his most powerful monster, though Qliphoth Shell actually had more attack power.

Michelle watched as the purple beams of light shot out of the machine and went straight for her. She looked down, and realized something. Her face downs! She still had cards that could save her. "I activate my face down card: 'Flute of Summoning Kuriboh'! I summon 'Winged Kuriboh'!" A small, brown ball of fur with wings appeared on her field in defense position. That was the card she had set on her first turn, and now, with another card she had set before, she could do it. "I activate another face down: 'Transcendent Wings'! By discarding two cards, I can tribute Winged Kuriboh, and summon 'Winged Kuriboh LV10'!" Michelle discarded her last two cards in her hand, and Winged Kuriboh was engulfed in light, reappearing in glorious armor. "I activate Kuriboh's effect! By tributing Winged Kuriboh LV10, I can destroy all face up attack-position monsters you control and deal damage equal to the original attack of your destroyed monsters!" Winged Kuriboh then exploded in a blinding flash of light, destroying Shell, Killer, and Archive, and reducing Saze's life points to zero. A screen then popped up, showing Michelle as the winner. Michelle jumped for joy, exhilerated that she managed to not only survive, but win the Duel. Then the field spell faded away, returning the environment to its original state.

Saze yawned and looked through blurry eyes down at his cards, specifically at the two copies of Qliphoth Genome sitting face-up in his extra deck. "Oops, I forgot," he mumbled as he pushed his cards back into his deck and then retunred his deck to its case. He stood up from where he sat in the middle of the now-faded field and shuffled away to find somewhere to fall asleep. He probably should have congratulated his opponent, but he forgot. He forgot a lot of things when he was half asleep.

After Michelle calmed down, she started looking around, and realized that Saze was gone. It was a shame too, as she wanted to thank him for an exciting Duel, but she thought nothing more of it as she left the field, going back to watch the next Duel that would soon take place.