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Mark of the Monkey IV

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Episode originally made available online: September 13, 2009

ACT 1 <1:01>

(The duel is right where we left it; Power Tool Dragon in defense mode faces Zeman the Ape King in attack mode, while Trudge and Yusei watch from the top of a building, powerless to help. Deevac's lifepoints stand at 2500, Leo's at 2000.)
Deevac: After I send you to the netherworld, Leo, your sister's next!
(Leo draws and his deck shuffles automatically.)
Leo: That's only if you can beat me! And in case that Dark Signer brain of yours doesn't work too well, I'll remind you that I get a random equip spell thanks to my dragon! (think) Just *please* be the card I need to take out that Ape King!
(Leo draws his random equip spell; when he sees it, his face lights up with joy-- it's Double Tool C & D!)
Leo (think): *Now* that monkey's a goner!

(Meanwhile, at the gloomy, foreboding castle of Zeman the Ape King, in the throne room, there's silence)
Luna (aside to Tarunka): So you think Zeman'll fall for this?
Tarunka (whispered): You betcha.
Luna (aside): I hope you're right. (think) These wizard costumes got us *in* the castle, but I'm not sure this stolen staff'll help free my dragon.
Zeman: You've done well to bring me Regulus. Now my plan can be realized. Once the bonds of the Fairy Dragon are removed, I'll use the minus curse on her and her loyal servant, to bring her powers under my control, correct?
Luna: Uh... yup.
<2:00>
Zeman: I should *hope* so. Because *if* the two of you are wrong, I will seal you both away for all eternity!
Tarunka: Why so negative? The plan's gonna work! It's practically monkey-proof! Have a banana already!
Zeman: It's time! Let the ritual begin! Ancient Fairy Dragon, with the power I possess, I release you from your prison!
(In the sky above AFD's mountain, a giant minus staff changes its hands and glows. The dragon in the rock begins to regain her normal, vibrant color.)
Tarunka (whispered): Yes! Zeman's doing it! He fell for it!
Luna (aside): Now let's just hope the rest of our plan works!
(AFD is being drawn further and further out of the rock, and now looks perhaps as though she is made of glazed ceramic.)
Zeman (to a monkey soldier): What are you waiting for?! Bring me Regulus!
- Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
(The monkey runs to do his bidding)
(The door to Regulus' cage is opened; the lion is still feigning sleep)
Luna (dramatic and overblown): Oh, great Regulus! Hear my words! You hath been summoned to thy chamber-ness... thingy.
(Regulus stands and walks out of the cage. Luna and Tarunka lead him around the edge of the pool toward Zeman.)
Regulus (think): Well done, Luna. Now use the staff you've stolen from Zeman's soldiers to reverse your dragon's curse just <3:00> like you did with me.
(Tarunka is skipping along joyfully in his too-large clothes)
Tarunka: I *told* you we knew what we were doing! Now my friend here is gonna use Regulus to complete the ritu-uh-uh-ohh-whaoh!
(Tarunka trips spectacularly and knocks Luna over, too. They're surrounded by monkey soldiers by the time they hit the ground.)
Tarunka: Ugghh...
(When Luna's staff hit the ground, its bandages started unraveling. Tarunka picks it up, rubbing his head, and they fall off completely and the hands move back to where they were before. He laughs nervously)
Tarunka: Ahaha, haha, now this staff may look like one of yours, but funny story, it belongs to--
Zeman: Wizard!
Tarunka: Awaaah!
Zeman: What is this?!
Luna: *Say* something!
Tarunka: So okay, we may've *accidentally* stolen one of your staffs, but, it's not like we were planning on wielding it or anything!!
A monkey soldier: Hey!
Tarunka: Aaah!
- Quick, stop him!
- He can reverse the dark curse of Ancient Fairy Dragon with that thing! He must be captured!
Luna: Why don't we all just calm dah-ah-ah-own!
(Luna rises on her knees to speak, then trips over her robes and falls on top of Tarunka. His hat goes flying, and rolls to the feet of a monkey soldier next to Zeman. Moreover, Luna herself is unmasked; her hat and veil have fallen off)
- That's the girl we saw earlier in the city, the one with Kuribon!
- She's not a wizard!
Tarunka: But *I* am!
Luna: He looks young but he's actually really powerful!
Zeman: Oh really! Well let's see if he's powerful enough to help you escape! Get them!
Luna and Tarunka: Aaaaah!
<4:00>
Regulus: Need a lift?!
Luna: Regulus!
(Regulus comes running out of nowhere, completely forgotten, and evades the monkey soldiers to grab Luna and Tarunka on his back. They run/ride for their lives, chased by a horde of monkeys.)
Luna: A-aa-aah!
- Don't let 'em get away!
Zeman: You'll regret toying with *me*! Ancient Fairy Dragon, I bind thee to thy rock!
(As they flee, Zeman points his staff and AFD fades back into the mountain.)
Luna: How do we save her *now*, Regulus?
Tarunka: This is all my fault! I'm a clumsy old man!
Regulus: Luna, you have to give me your staff!
Luna: But why?
Regulus: If I get close enough to Zeman, he'll have to use *his* staff to stop me; when the two strike each other, their powers will cancel out, and lift the curse from everyone!
Luna: That's a big 'if'!
Tarunka: And speaking of 'ifs', *what if it doesn't work*?!
Regulus: It *has* to! Otherwise all of this world will fall under Zeman's control!
Luna: Ah!
(She offers her staff, and Regulus grips it in his mouth. Then he headbutts the door of the cage he was kept in; Luna and Tarunka are inside, protected from the monkeys.)
Regulus; I jammed the door; you'll be safe!
(He runs toward the throne; monkeys surround Luna and Tarunka)
- Not if *we* have anything to say about it!
(Luna and Tarunka recoil from the bars)

ACT 2 <4:54>

(Back to the duel!)
Leo: It's time I take the leash off my dragon, Deevac! (switches to atk mode) Now, if you've thought he was tough before, <5:00> just wait 'til you see the upgrade that I give his hardware! First up, I add the equip spell Double Tool C and D, so not only are we going full-on pneumatic, but I get to add another thousand attack points to my beast!
Deevac: All those power tools and no safety goggles. You should be more careful, especially since all you've done is match the attack points of Zeman the Ape King.
(Leo swings his arm around and around)
Leo: That's what I was hoping for! Now! Attack! And give this Ape King the royal treatment!!
(As Power Tool Dragon hurtles toward Zeman the Ape King...

(... So, too, does Regulus.)
Regulus: Raaah!
Zeman: Aaaa-aagh!
(Zeman raises his staff and it meets the one Regulus grips. Freeze frame; Regulus doesn't fall out of the air. Energy crackles all over the place. Zeman is glowing purple)
Zeman: What is happening?!
(So is Regulus, but he hangs on)
Regulus: Mmmgh!
Luna: Regulus!
Tarunka: He's doing it!
Regulus: Ancient Fairy Dragon! I release you from your prison! The dark curse is broken!! Mmmm-gagh!
(With that, Regulus breaks the freeze-frame and keeps falling, toward Zeman...)

(...As Power Tool Dragon does.)
Deevac: What a wasted effort. Unless--
Leo: That's right! You forgot my Dragon has a little bonus when he's equipped; he can't be destroyed!!
<6:00>
(Power Tool Dragon collides with Zeman much the same way Regulus did...)

(... And Regulus hits again, and the staffs collide directly; huge white-out of light; the monkey soldiers are destroyed as though in battle. Pink fire races across the floor-- straight for Luna and Tarunka! Luna's Sign glows)
Luna: I'll protect us! Rrrrgh!
Zeman: You may destroy me, Regulus, but not before I transfer the power of the minus curse to the Dark Signer Deevac!
Luna: Huh!
Zeman: Aa-aa-aaaagh!
(And Zeman shatters, both in the Spirit World...)

(...And in the duel.)
Leo: Yea-haah! I'll just toss that Double Tool C n' D, and Power Tool Dragon gets to hang around for a little *R n' R*!
(PTD's attack points go back to 2000)
Trudge: Nice move! Now that Deevac's gone and lost his little monkey friend--
Yusei: *Leo's* gotten himself into *more* trouble!
Trudge: Huh?
Deevac: Hahahahahahaha.
Leo: So you think that's funny, huh?!
Deevac: Yes, I do. I *always* find it amusing when a young duelist walks so willingly into one of my traps. And with the power of my Dark Matter (trap), these two monsters will be escorting you straight to the netherworld!
(Dark Matter is a trap that summoned two monsters in facedown defense mode, apparently from his deck. Still they appear on the field; they're Magician Ape and Fighter Ape.)
Leo: While you keep playing around with your gang of gorillas, <7:00> I'm gonna equip my Dragon with a Power Converter! You're up!
Deevac: Hahahahahahaha...

(Back in the Spirit World, Zeman's castle is in ruins. Moonlight and smoke filter through a hole blown through the ceiling, and smoke, dust, or mist hangs in the air inside)
Luna: Regulus! Tarunka! Where are you?!
(She hears the voice of an old man)
- I'm here, Luna. It looks like our lion friend was able to lift the curse after all.
(The mist clears between the speaker and Luna. Tarunka has transformed back into the old and powerful wizard he once was. He's very tall and his helmet and shoulder pads are still very reminiscent of the Dark Magician; his robe carries simple, strong designs, and he has a thick black cape. His staff has also grown taller.)
Tarunka: Back to my old self-- emphasis on 'old'!
Luna: Is-- that really *you*?!
(He laughs and winks, and she can see the resemblance between this old man and her friend)
Tarunka: *Told* you I was an old man!
Luna: Yeah, but-- *grandpa*-old? You're- you're older than a wrinkle on dirt! (he chuckles) That means it worked! Regulus broke the curse!
Tarunka: Mmm.
Regulus: Luna!
(They turn; Regulus is striding toward them from across the chamber)
Luna: You're okay!
Tarunka: Thank you, Regulus, for all your help.
Regulus: The rule of Zeman the Ape King is no more.
Luna: That mean, my Ancient Fairy Dragon is *free!*
<8:00>
Regulus: I'm afraid part of the curse still lives, Luna.
Luna: What?!
Regulus: Your friend and the other free wizards have regained their true age, but the other duel spirits remain trapped. Zeman transferred the power of the curse to Deevac. Until he's defeated, the duel spirits are his prisoners.

Deevac: It's my turn, Leo. I draw! Hm. And it looks like thanks are in order for enabling me to summon two monsters to the field last round.
Leo: Why's that?!
Deevac: You see, I need *two* sacrifices to summon out my Earthbound Immortal!
(He holds up the card, laughing)
Yusei: Not good!!
Deevac: 'Not good' is right, Yusei.
(The clenched fist appears in the sky, this one dark and pulsing purple against ripples of yellow light.)
Leo: Oh no-- it's gonna take me an' my friends away!
Deevac: You don't have to worry about *that*; this Immortal requires a different kind of power source-- one that exists in the Spirit World. By the power of the Dark Signers, I summon Earthbound Immortal Cusci Lu!
[Earthbound Immortal Cusci Lu 2800/2400/L10/dark]
Yusei: We have to save Leo!
Trudge: How?!
<9:00>
(The flames at the border of the duel flare.)
Both Uugh!
Leo: Uuuuwaaaaaaaaahh!

(Through the hole blown in the ceiling of Zeman's castle, the monkey Sign appears against the clouds.)
Luna: That's Deevac's mark of the monkey!
(Purple lights ooze from the carvings on the walls, streaming up through the hole to the symbol)
Regulus: It's absorbing the duel spirits!
Luna: No!!
Regulus: Soon they'll all be gone, Luna!
Tarunka: We have to find a way to stop this!
Luna: That's if these Earthbound Immortals even *can* be stopped!

ACT 3 <9:26>

(Yellow lightning strikes again and again around the duel as the flames that form the monkey symbol climb higher. Purple lights osmose from the flames and soar toward the fist)
Deevac: Watch as all your pathetic duel spirits become the fuel for your destruction! <10:00> With their energies I can summon the most powerful monster ever!!
(The fist explodes into a pillar of purple light. Then that vanishes, and the earth begins to rumble. Cusci Lu appears, the coils of its tail a bit too perfect to be real. It raises bony fists above its thin, skull-like head.)
Leo: Aaaaaaaaah!
(Cusci Lu is huge, black glowing with yellow light, towering above the Reactor Star it defends.)
Computer: Earthbound Immortal Cusci Lu has twenty-eight hundred attack points, twenty-four-hundred defense points, and can attack your opponent directly.
Trudge: Oh, come on! What's with this guy and the monkeys?!
Yusei: You got me; all I know is Leo's gotta figure out a way to tame that beast!
Deevac: Behold my Earthbound Immortal Cusci Lu! There's nothing in your deck that can stop its power! It's immune to any attacks, traps, and spells you might throw its way!
Leo: Just my luck.
Deevac: There's also the not-so-little matter of his graveyard bonus.
(There are three Magician Apes, three Fighter Apes, Dark Ape, and Zeman the Ape King in Deevac's graveyard.)
Deevac: Thanks to my Closed Forest field spell, it <11:00> receives an extra hundred attack points for every monster in my graveyard! (total atk is now 3600) Perhaps next time you'll think twice about taking your sister's place in a shadow duel! Earthbound Immortal, attaaaack!
Yusei: He doesn't have a monster to stop that thing!
Trudge: *Leo!!*
Leo: Who needs a monster-- when you've got *this*! I trigger my trap card (spell) Power Converter! Soon as I send it to the graveyard, all of my Dragon's attack points are converted over to lifepoints! The move might make 'im a little weak until next round, (0 atk) but at least there *will* be a next round!
(Cusci Lu raises its mighty fist and pounds it on the ground. Leo runs away, but can't outrun the whole attack; he lands on his face on the ground, covered with a blanket of dirt raised by the impact. He's down from 4000 to 400 lp in one turn. He's shaking with exhaustion.)
Leo: Ugh... if you're out there, Luna, I could use some sisterly advice. If not... I'm done for.

(Luna seems to feel something)
Luna: Leo? (to Tarunka and Regulus) He needs my help!
Tarunka: You sure?
(All three glow and suddenly start to rise into the air)
Luna: You've gotta do something, Tarunka! Or we'll all be sucked into that thing!
Regulus: Unless we find a way to stop Deevac, he'll take each and every spirit from our world!
<12:00>
Tarunka: Well, then, let's stop him!
Luna: But how?
Tarunka: Like this-- I have just enough strength to send you back to your own world. Now, listen-- you must defeat that Deevac!
Regulus: Hm. He's right, my little warrior. Should you fail, all is lost.
Luna: I gotcha. No pressure.
(Tarunka meditates over his staff a moment, then holds it out; bright flash...)
Luna: Ahh!
Tarunka: Good luck, dear child!

(The next thing Luna sees is an aerial view of the Satellite and the monkey symbol coming closer and closer. A ball of light appears next to Leo in the duel. Deevac is mystified; Yusei and Trudge seem to be bracing themselves for more trouble.)
Trudge: Look!
Yusei: ...Luna?
(The bubble disappears and there stands Luna, back in her normal clothes, hands clasped, and glowing with reddish energy. She opens her eyes. And sees Leo on the ground. She drops to her knees next to him)
Luna: Ah! Leo! Please tell me that you're alright!
(Leo raises his head, with effort; he's covered with dirt and scratches.)
Leo: Mm. Luna... Everything's under control!
(Luna gently helps him sit up)
Luna: Of course it is. But now it's time for *me* to help *you*. I'm gonna take over your duel, okay?
Leo: I guess I really let you down, huh, sis? I couldn't even win one little match. Just look at me-- I'm the sidekick who can't do anything...
Luna: Except be my hero.
Leo: Huh?
(She hugs him close, crying)
<13:00>
Luna: It's true; not- not as a duelist-- but as my brother!
Leo: Ugh! Not so hard! You're squeezing the tears out!
(And Leo's crying, too. Yusei almost smiles.)
Deevac: Hahahaha. I'm glad you've finally joined us, Luna. My Earthbound Immortal has been waiting patiently. Let's duel, Signer!
Luna: Oh, *we'll duel*, Deevac! And when I get through with you, you're gonna wish you never messed with *any* of my spirit friends!
Deevac: Will I!
(Luna starts detaching Leo's duel disk from his arm)
Luna: Don't worry, Leo. I promise I'll be fine.
Leo: Be careful out there. As long as he has this field up, that Earthbound monkey is practically invincible!
(Luna straps on Leo's duel disk)
Luna: I'm not worried. I'm not doing this alone; I've got your deck. You know it's kind of like we're dueling together, isn't it!
Leo: I guess so-- but if we're dueling together I'm staying by your side!
Luna: I hoped you would. Now let's win this duel.
(Luna stands, ready to duel)
Yusei: Luna!
Luna: Yusei, it's gonna be okay.
<14:00>
Yusei: Be safe. Huh?
(His arm is lighting up with a quiet whistling noise. Luna's Sign is also glowing...)

(...As is Akiza's as she and Mina drive through the Satellite somewhere far away)
Mina: Akiza, your Sign!

(Jack is also riding along, and looks at his glowing wing Sign)
Jack: So Luna's back in the game. I really hope she knows what she's in for...!

Luna: Let's role-call. Looks like I got Power Tool Dragon on *my* field... and *you've* got a giant turkey-day balloon on yours!
(Luna gets into a dueling stance, duel disk held out across her chest. Her lifepoints stand at 400.)
Deevac: I'm glad that you can make jokes at a time like this-- it's no fun taking the spirit of someone who's lost hope, and speaking of someone who's lost hope, it's time I reintroduce you to one of your oldest friends! But first I activate the Cursed Prison trap! Now I can summon a synchro monster of my choosing, and it just happens to be the very same one you failed so save back in the Spirit World!
Luna: Ahh!
Deevac: Allow me to introduce my prisoner, your precious Ancient Fairy Dragon!

ACT 4? <15:00>

(AFD appears, chained and a bit worse for wear. suspended inside an elegant metal cage.)
[Ancient Fairy Dragon 2100/3000/L7/light]
Deevac: Say hello to your Ancient Fairy Dragon!
Luna: What did you do to her, Deevac?! She's not some stray dog you can lock up in a cage! Rrgh!
Deevac: That's exactly what she is-- a wild animal. And if she doesn't learn to behave, I'll tear her card in half!
Luna: We'll see about that! My turn!
(Luna adds the Limiter Removal she just drew to her hand. It contains a trap with green gridlines, the spell Pot of Avarice, a monster that might be Gadget Hauler, the trap Respect Synchron, and now the spell Limiter Removal.)
Luna: Thanks to Power Tool Dragon's ability, I can search my deck, find an equip spell, and then send it to my hand!
(She pulls her equip spell, and plays it)
Luna: And this one's going right into immediate action.
Leo: I forgot I had that! And now even though Luna can't stop Deevac's Immortal from attacking, at least she can protect her dragon! So you don't have to worry, 'cause my sis isn't gonna let anything happen to you! Isn't that right, Luna!
(Luna nods)
Luna (think): I just hope that I don't let the three of us down.
<16:00>
(Luna takes Limiter Removal and Respect Synchron from her hand and...)
Luna: I think I'll end my turn with two facedowns!
Deevac: A shield and a couple facedowns don't exactly lead the Dark Signers to tremble in fear. If that's all you can offer, I'm afraid the Crimson Dragon made a grave mistake in choosing you as a Signer. *Please* tell me they didn't entrust the fate of the world to you and a toy dragon! (draw) You can't win! And now, Earthbound Immortal Cusci Lu, send this pathetic Signer to the netherworld!
Luna: This Signer's not going anywhere! I play the trap (sic) Limiter Removal, which doubles this toy's attack points.
Deevac: How *dare* you!!
(Cusci Lu's fist collides with PTD and the impact sends shock waves both directions; Deevac and the twins both withstand the wind, as do the spectators.)
Trudge: Thatta girl!
Deevac: Unwise! I guess you don't know what happens when I get angry! <17:00> It doesn't end well for *anyone*! And that, I'm afraid, is terrible news for both you and your precious Ancient Fairy Dragon, dear Luna! If you have any parting words for her, you had better share them now; if not, you might want to shut your eyes. This won't be pretty.
(Ancient Fairy Dragon is tributed and Luna loses half her lifepoints, leaving her with 200. Luna seems to fold, spent. Leo rushes over to catch her.)
Luna: Aaaah!
Leo: Ohh! Are you okay?! I'm here, Luna!
Luna: Don't worry, Leo... It's time to take back my Ancient Fairy Dragon.
Deevac: ...But she's in my graveyard.
Luna: And that's just what I was hoping for. As long as she was stuck on your field, it would've been impossible to get 'er back. But *you sacrificed her*, making her a free agent! And now, by playing Respect Synchron, she can join my team! And with a heavy-hitter like Ancient Fairy Dragon on my side of the field, you and your Earthbound Immortal don't stand a chance of winning this duel! Thanks for helping me get 'er back!
Deevac: This cannot be!!
<18:00>
(Ancient Fairy Dragon appears on Luna's side of the field, wrapped in chains. Regulus appears and shatters the chains with his mighty jaws. AFD spreads her gossamer wings, and roars to the sky.)
[Ancient Fairy Dragon 2100/3000/L7/light]
Computer: Ancient Fairy Dragon is a level-seven light-attribute synchro monster, with twenty-one-hundred attack points and three-thousand defense points.
(Luna is uplifted at the sight of AFD on her field.)
Leo: You did it! You got 'er back!
Luna: Mm! Ancient Fairy Dragon, I kept my promise!
AFD: Thank you, Luna. I asked your help to free me, and you risked your life and your spirit to see that I was delivered from Deevac's prison. Now that I am free, we can begin to heal the Spirit World.
Trudge: Look at that! She's *beautiful*!
Yusei: Ya think?
Trudge: Yeah, ya know, like pretty. For a dragon.
<19:00>
Yusei: But pretty doesn't win duels, I'm afraid.
(card shot:)[Power Tool Dragon 2300/2500/L7/earth]
Luna: Normally Limiter Removal's effect would destroy my Dragon, but if I send Central Shield to the graveyard, my dragon doesn't have to go anywhere! Looks like that's *two* dragons to your *none!*
Deevac: Very clever. But even one hundred Ancient Fairy Dragons wouldn't be enough to help you *now*! Now let's just see you *try* and take out my Earthbound Immortal!
Luna: Feel up to it, Leo?
Leo: Yup! Let's draw that card, sis!
(They draw together; the spell Rocket Pilder)
Both: Ha!
Luna: But before we play anything, we activate our dragon's special ability, which uproots your Closed Forest field spell!
Deevac: No! You wouldn't!
(The dead trees all shatter one by one.
Leo: Take *that*!
(Luna's lifepoints increase to 1200; Cusci Lu's attack points decrease to their original 2800)
Deevac: Rrgh!
Yusei: All right! With that field spell gone, Deevac's monkey has no special abilities!
Trudge: He's done for, now!
Luna: But *I'm* not. 'Cause Power Tool Dragon lets me add another <20:00> equip spell straight to my hand! And now that I've got two, I think I'll power up *both* my dragons!
(AFD gets a long scarf; PTD, a massive mounted rocket)
Luna: Deevac! This is the end of the line for you and your monkey!
Deevac: I'm afraid this is the end of *nothing*, little girl!
Luna: We'll see about that!
(Propelled by its rocket, PTD goes flying up Cusci Lu's arm toward its heart. Big bright flash of light. Lots of wind and dust.)
Leo: Luna-a!!
(The twins cling together in the storm; Luna's lifepoints fall to 400)
Deevac: And what did I tell you! All you've done is destroy Power Tool Dragon and hurt *yourself*!
Leo: Try reading the card!
Luna: Yeah, he *can't* be destroyed as long as he's equipped with Rocket Pilder. And that's not the card's *only* bonus. Your monster loses attack points for each of our Power Tool Dragon's attack points.
(Cusci Lu's attack points drop to a measly 800)
Deevac: You *can't*!
Luna: I'm afraid we can, and we did! And now, my Fairy Dragon's <21:00> equip spell kicks in! All the life that I just lost was worth every point; thanks to Pain To Power, it all gets converted to attack points! I think she's still mad about being locked up! And it's finally time for her to get some payback! Whaddaya think about *that*! Ancient Fairy Dragon, chase those shadows *away*!!
(AFD glows in a multicolored rainbow; Deevac recoils; Yusei, Trudge, and Leo shield their eyes; but Luna watches unblinkingly, determined to see this through. To Be Continued...)

END <21:35>

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