Shougo Aoyama is a younger kid (say, Mokuba's age) who is too afraid of losing to develop the skill he need to actually win. His dilemma only becomes more acute when he makes the lucky draw of a pack that contains the rare Red-Eyes B. Dragon. He can now hide behind his powerful card, claiming that it'd be unfair for him to Duel against lesser opponents, who would be clearly outmatched from the start. Kaiba hears that someone has pulled the Red-Eyes and tells his flunky to add Shougo's name to the list for his upcoming Duel Monsters Invitational Tournament. Apparently, Kaiba fills the role of Pegasus in this story, serving as both the creator and champion of the Duel Monsters card game. Shortly, both Yugi and Shougo receive invitations. Like the Battle City tournament, losing Duelists must forfeit their rarest cards, which will ultimately go to the overall winner. Shougo panics at the thought of losing the Red-Eyes, without which he feels he's nothing, and refuses the invitation. But apparently that's not an option and soon one of Kaiba's goons appears to collect Shougo or his rare card, since failure to Duel constitutes a loss and this an automatic forfeiture. Yugi comes to Shougo's defense and both get beaten up, losing both Shougo's Red-Eyes and Yugi's Millennium Puzzle. Jyonouchi goes after the goon and also gets soundly beaten, but manages to get the Red-Eyes back. The goon takes the Puzzle to Kaiba. Yugi tells to come and watch him win the tournament and show Kaiba what it means to be a True Duelist. When he enters the arena, Kaiba is just finishing up a conventional tabletop Duel with Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (Rex Raptor), who has clearly lost. Kaiba tells Yugi that he's been waiting for him to show up, tossing the Puzzle back contemptuously. Yugi transforms as Kaiba signals for the stage to be changed into his new Solid Vision System. Both he and Yugi don Duel Disks that hold their decks, but there's no tray on which to play the cards, just the disk itself. Instead, the cards are thrown up into the air, where they transform into human-sized holographic "cards" that stand in front of each opponent. As each card in this virtual "hand" is played, it rotates to face the opponent before either transforming into a Monster or activating its Spell or Trap effect. Monster Cards placed in Defense rotate horizontally before transforming. Yugi's first card is 12 Curse of Dragon. Kaiba counters with 108 Dark Zorla, a Monster that exists only in the Bandai OCG and never made it into the Konami Duel Monsters OCG. Yugi then plays a Field Spell Card, 112 Dragon Vein of Mother Earth (jpn. Daichi no Ryuumyaku), another card that doesn't exist in Duel Monsters as we know it, which increases the ATK and DEF of Dragon-type Monsters by 800 points. Kaiba summons 61 Battle Ox (jpn. Minotaurus) and Yugi counters with 11 Gaia the Fierce Knight (jpn. Dark Knight Gaia), then Kaiba summons 9 Blue-Eyes White Dragon, which Yugi counters with 14 Dark Magician (jpn. Black Magician), protecting it with 109 Magical Hats (jpn. Magic Silk Hat) and throwing in 110 Spellbinding Circle (jpn. Hexagram Curse). Oddly, it's animated here with a four-pointed star, but the actual card does, in fact, has a hexagram on it. In a familiar sequence, Blue-Eyes destroys the hat in which Yugi placed the Spellbinding Circle, weakening it enough for the Dark Magician to destroy it. Kaiba plays his second Blue-Eyes and destroys Dark Magician. Yugi goes on the defensive and summons 27 Celtic Guardian (jpn. Elf Swordsman) in Defense mode. Kaiba then summons TA1 The Wicked Chain (jpn. Jyaakunaru Kusagi), activates 88 Monster Reborn (jpn. Raise Dead) to bring back his first Blue-Eyes back from the Graveyard, summons his third Blue-Eyes and then uses The Wicked Chain to bind to link them all together into the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Troika (jpn. Blue-Eyes White Dragon Santai Renketsu), which blows Yugi's Celtic Guardian away. (Of course, in the actual Bandai OCG, the player would lay down the 114, 115, 116 and 117 cards to create the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Troika combo or use the two promo cards, TA1 The Wicked Chain and TA2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon Troika, an all-in-one version of the four-card combo.) Thereafter, all Yugi can do is play one Monster after another in Defense mode: 34 Beaver Warrior (jpn. Ruis), 21 Summoned Skull (jpn. Demon Summon), 24 Blackland Fire Dragon (jpn. Dark Dragon) and 111 Meteor Dragon. During this time, it becomes apparent that Yugi has drawn Shougo Aoyama's 10 Red-Eyes B. Dragon, but is holding it back because it's not his own card and he hasn't received Shougo's permission to use it. Jyonouchi explains that he swapped the Red-Eyes for Yugi's 29 Silver Fang after he won it back from the goon, marking it with his blood in the process, because he felt Shougo might as well not have it if he wasn't ever going to actually play it. After destroying Yugi's monsters one by one, Kaiba finally plays a Spell Card called here (in English, no less) Unguard Magic, which actually exists in Duel Monsters as Stop Defense, although in the early dubbed episodes it's sometimes called Defense Paralysis. This time, however, the card doesn't exist in the Bandai OCG at all, only in this anime and the subsequent Konami OCG. Just as Kaiba is about to destroy Meteor Dragon, Shougo, encouraged by Jyonouchi's pep talk and Yugi's example, stands up and tells Yugi to stop holding back and to go ahead and play his Red-Eyes, which is Yugi's cue to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. He activates Polymerization (jpn. Fusion) to combine Meteor Dragon and Red-Eyes into 113 Meteor B. Dragon to destroy the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Troika. Kaiba acknowledges defeat and withdraws gracefully, warning Yugi that he'll be back when he's even stronger for a rematch. Shougo returns home with the Red-Eyes and newfound confidence in himself, going on to become a star at the Duel Monsters Center, instructing others on what it means to be a True Duelist.moreless