Screw the Rules, I have Escalation! is a Worm and Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover fanfic by Stewart92.
Taylor triggers with the ability to use cards from the Duel Realm. This new power will change the world forever. The original can be read on Spacebattles here
. The redux version can be read here.
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Both Stories
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Thanks to her cards, very little can actually get in Taylor's way.
- Outside-Context Problem: The powers from the Duel Realm are completely nothing like what Earth Bet has ever encountered before.
- Power Incontinence: Zigzagged. Taylor can choose when to use her cards, but can't decide what card she gets.
Original Story
- 100% Heroism Rating: Taylor and her monsters instantly gained world-wide respects for saving Canberra and beating back the Simurgh.
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Taylor uses A Legendary Ocean in Brockton Bay to rejuvenate the bay area.
- Back from the Dead: Kisara summons Annette to break Taylor free from Dingo's control. Before returning to the afterlife, Annette have a proper chance to saying goodbye to Taylor and Danny.
- Badass Boast: Taylor to Midas as she uses the card Offering to the Snake Deity to wipe out his city and army. "You know Midas? The thing about Kings? They still bow down to gods!"
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: One of Taylor's monsters is Ultimate Insect LV1, who eventually evolves into Ultimate Insect LV7.
- Colony Drop: During the fight against the Simurgh, she decides to drop a satellite to try and finish everyone off.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Sophia/Shadow Stalker is cursed by Knight (Winged Kuriboh) to feel guilty for all the wrongdoings she had committed, and the only way to ease her guilty conscience is by (very relunctantly) admitting to her crimes to her victims and asking for their apologies.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Taylor's monsters are able to deal a lot of damage to the Simurgh.
- Eaten Alive: Blue-Eyes White Dragon does this to Lung. Thankfully, Blue-Eyes spat him back out a few days later.
- Fantastic Racism: Meltiel and Pitch do not get along as they are light and dark monsters who are opposed to each other. Taylor forced them to get along much to their reluctance.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Grappler is sacrificed in order to use a card (Offering to the Snake Deity) Taylor needs to defeat a villain, Midas.
- How Unscientific!: Moon is left in utter disbelief over Tinkertech after he tried and failed to replicate Wally's tech.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Coil realizes that antagonizing Taylor and her monsters is utter suicide after the Simurgh's death. Instead, he planned to direct the Monster Queen into removing the gangs from Brockton while he discreetly abandons his supervillain persona and become the city's new PRT director."He just had to... not act like an idiot and shoot a girl capable of making monsters, it really was that simple."
- Laser-Guided Karma: A villain, Dingo, who uses their powers to control his victims and lure them to a separate space to torment them until they die picks Taylor as his next victim. Kisara is having none of it and challenges him to a Shadow Game. He cheats, which causes him to receive a Penalty Game. His punishment is to be controlled and tormented by the ghosts of his victims until he dies (and possibly even after that).
- Let's Get Dangerous!: In the fight against the Simurgh, Taylor is forced to summon another Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and later fuses them into Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon.
- Power Misidentification: Everyone wrongly assume that Taylor's monsters are "projections" until she and her monsters cleared things up with Piggot and the Protectorate.
- Rejected Apology: Taylor doesn't accepts Principal Blackwell's apology for the "locker incident" and goes into a monologue why her principal doesn't deserve an apology.
- Villainous Breakdown: Dingo finds out to his horror the cost of cheating in a Shadow Game.
- Midas is left very furious after Taylor used Offering to the Snake Deity to wipe out his so-called "kingdom" off the map. He is then left frozen in fear after Taylor activated Stand-Off.
- Emma goes into a tantrum over Taylor being the Monster Queen who saved Canberra and getting called out by Taylor for being very petty.
Redux
- An Arm and a Leg: When Sophia and her cronies start to harass Taylor, Comrade Swordsman of Landstar defends her by chopping off one of Sophia's hands.
- Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Märfae Rabbie seems to think this, as it tries its hardest to make Taylor happy after it is drawn.
- Brooklyn Rage: Red-Eyes Black Dragon has this, as a Shout-Out to Joey Wheeler's accent in the dub.
- Camp: The Elemental Heroes act like this. Pegasus also gives off this vibe.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: The Simurgh tries to manipulate Slifer the Sky Dragon. This resulted in it being sliced almost in half.
- Enemy Mine: Pegasus is going to Bakura for help as no one else is available.
- Mythology Gag: Taylor's character when she plays Capes and Foes in Salem is pretty much her canon version.
- Physical God: The Egyptian God cards are this. Slifer says so when she meets Taylor.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Taylor's team consists of herself, whatever monsters she has at a time, a minor hero with a neglectful father, and a reluctantly joined sorta-reformed biotinker.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Talor recruits Blasto as she finds he might be useful.
- Sad Clown: Underneath her joking exterior, Ragdoll hides the sadness that comes from an unhappy home life.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In order to take down one villain, Taylor summons both Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys and Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Needless to say, their appearance put Boston on high alert, as some actually believed they might be new Endbringers.
- Toon Physics: Taylor occasionally displays this when she has Parrot Dragon as her Deckmaster.
- The Worf Effect: What happened to the Simurgh is a demonstration that the Endbringers are not invincible, especially against the Egyptian Gods.
