Episode #24 - Champion Vs. Creator - 1

Running to the scream they find Mai being kicked out of a dueling arena- she’s lost all her starchips to the Eliminator Panik. Panik claims it was easy and shoves her. Joey wants to make Panik pay for shoving Mai, but Yuugi says the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them, and transforms. He then challenges Panik to a duel. Panik agrees- Pegasus has promised a special bonus to whomever defeats Yami Yuugi.

They mount the platform, and Panik promises that if he looses he will give Yami Yuugi all Mai’s starchips back, but if Yami Yuugi looses he will loose his life (since he doesn’t have enough starchips to cover Mai’s.) Yami 
Yuugi’s legs are grabbed by metal handcuffs, effectively trapping him in place. Panik fires two fire jets, the fire barely missing Yami Yuugi just for a display. His friends beg him to stop, but Yami Yuugi is not 
intimidated (“It will take more than a cheap show of Pyrotechnics to scare me, Panik.? They start the duel.

Panik plays his floating castle, which covers all the field in darkness. Yami Yuugi plays various monster cards which are destroyed by whatever is lurking in the darkness. Yami Yuugi then plays Sealing Swords of light, 
freezing all of Panik’s cards in place for 3 turns. Panik plays Chaos Shield, protecting his monsters. Yami Yuugi plays Gaea the Fierce Knight and combines it with Curse of Dragon (using a Polymerization card.) Panik 
plays a large metal monster, to guard his monsters even further. Yami Yuugi plays Catapult Turtle, and launches Gaea the Dragon Champion at Panik’s Floating Castle. The floatation device on the castle is destroyed, but it 
does not fall. Yami Yuugi’s lifepoints are reduced to 300, and he has no monsters left on the field (except Catapult Turtle.) Yami Yuugi’s friends think he’s doomed, but Yami Yuugi says he’s already won. What if the only 
thing holding up Panik’s castle are Yami Yuugi’s Sealing Swords of Light?

Three turns have passed, and the Sealing Swords of Light disappear. The castle comes crashing down on Panik’s monsters, who cannot escape as they are trapped inside the Chaos Shield. They are all destroyed, taking Panik’s lifepoints with them. Panik is enraged and fires all his fire jets at Yami Yuugi, smashing the control device. The arena becomes a huge fire tornado. Yami Yuugi’s friends are forced to jump away. However, the Millenium Puzzle 
protects Yami Yuugi. Panik is shocked, but Yami Yuugi is disgusted by Panik’s show of fowl play and destroys him with his magic. He then returns to the group, Mai’s starchips in hand.

Mai won’t accept them, but when Joey grabs them for his own, she is tricked into taking them back, and then promises to repay Yuugi when she can, and have an honest duel with him.

- Bassam S.