Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 121

Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 121

Names
Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Number	121
Season	3
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes (season 3)
Previous	"Burying The Past - Part 1"
Next	"Back to Battle City - Part 1"

Burying the Past - Part 2, entitled Escape!! in the Japanese version, is the 121st episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! television series.

Seto Kaiba wins his Duel against Gozaburo by defeating "Exodia Necross"—but now, he, Yugi Muto, and the rest of the group must escape the Virtual World before the missiles descending toward the undersea fortress destroys the main servers.

Summary

Noah tells everyone where the real exits are - the virtual Domino City arcade. With the virtual world about to be destroyed, Gozaburo turns into a red monster and tries to escape in Kaiba's body. However Kaiba convinces him to continue dueling, promising his body if Gozaburo wins.

Joey, Duke, Téa and Serenity escape to the real world. Tristan also escapes and returns to his real body. Yugi stays behind to find Kaiba. Noah gives him a shortcut to Kaiba and Gozaburo's duel.

Kaiba wins the duel but Gozaburo tries to take his body anyway in his red monster form. Yugi helps him escape the building and Noah gives them a new exit. Noah gives Mokuba's body back and says goodbye as he sends him back to the real world. In the virtual world, Gozaburo plans to upload his mind to another network, but Noah traps him as the place destructs.

All of the gang escape the fortress in the blimp, although Yugi, Kaiba and Mokuba barely make it.

Noah and Gozaburo are destroyed with the virtual world when the missile hits the fortress, however Gozaburo makes one last bid to escape in the form of a large flame. He fails and disappears with the explosion. The Battle City finals can now commence.

Featured Duel: Seto Kaiba vs. Gozaburo Kaiba - Part 2

Duel continues from previous episode.

Turn 5: Gozaburo
Gozaburo draws. "Exodia Necross" attacks "Vorse Raider", but Seto activates "Negate Attack" to negate the attack and end Gozaburo's Battle Phase.

Turn 6: Kaiba
Kaiba draws. He then activates "Shrink" to halve "Exodia Necross's" ATK until the End Phase ("Exodia Necross": 2800 → 1400/0). Kaiba then Tributes "Vorse Raider" to summon "Luster Dragon ^#2" (2400/1400) in Attack Position. "Luster Dragon #2" attacks "Exodia Necross". Due to the latter's effect, it is not destroyed, but Gozaburo still takes Battle Damage (Gozaburo 1900 → 900). Due to the fifth effect of "Exodia Necross", it gains 1000 ATK at the end of the Damage Step ("Exodia Necross": 1400 → 2400/0). On Kaiba's End Phase, the effect of "Shrink" expires ("Exodia Necross": 2400 → 3800/0).

Turn 7: Gozaburo
Gozaburo draws. "Exodia Necross" attacks & destroys "Luster Dragon #2" (Seto 4000 → 2600). The fifth effect of "Exodia Necross" activates ("Exodia Necross": 3800 → 4800/0).

Turn 8: Kaiba
Kaiba draws "Pot of Greed" and subsequently activates it, drawing two cards. He then sets a monster ("Ancient Lamp"). Kaiba then sets a card.

Turn 9: Gozaburo
Gozaburo draws. "Exodia Necross" attacks and destroys Seto's set monster. It is revealed to be "Ancient Lamp" (900/1400). The fifth effect of "Exodia Necross" activates ("Exodia Necross": 4800 → 5800/0).

Turn 10: Kaiba
Kaiba draws "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". He then activates "Monster Reborn" to Special Summon "Ancient Lamp" (900/1400) from his Graveyard in Attack Position. Kaiba then activates "Ancient Lamp's" effect to Special Summon "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp" (1800/1000) from his hand in Attack Position. Kaiba then activates "Soul Demolition". Now both players, during their respective turns, can pay 500 Life Points to remove from play one monster from their opponent's Graveyard, but they can only activate the effect if they have a Fiend-type monster on their side of the field. Seto pays 2500 Life Points (Seto 2600 → 2100 → 1600 → 1100 → 600 → 100) in order activate the effect of "Soul Demolition" five times and remove all five Exodia pieces in Gozaburo's Graveyard from play, thereby negating all of the effects of "Exodia Necross" ("Exodia Necross": 5800 → 1800/0).

Kaiba then Tributes "Ancient Lamp" and "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp" to summon "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (3000/2500) in Attack Position. "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys Gozaburo's "Exodia Necross" (Gozaburo 900 → 0).

Seto wins.

Differences In Adaptations

• Noah clinging on to Gozaburo's neck is removed when Gozaburo is breaking up.
• The sign saying Alert is changed to a column of red lines in the dub.
• At the end of the episode, cut is a shot of a lily floating on a river and Mokuba hearing Noah saying 'I am a human, not a machine.'
• In the dub, Yugi believes that Noah has uploaded his mind to a back-up file, and Mokuba agrees with Yugi that he and his friends will see Noah again. However in the original, Mokuba merely throws the lily into the river, signifying that Noah is dead.

Trivia

• This Duel is the only one in the Virtual World involving no Deck Masters.

Featured cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Duel Monsters army
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Lizard Soldier Rock Ogre Grotto #1 Effect Monsters Command Knight Extra Deck Fusion Monsters Skull Knight

Yugi Muto
Monster Cards Normal Monsters Dark Magician

Joey Wheeler
Monster Cards Normal Monsters Flame Swordsman