The Elemental Panda and the Elemental Guinea Pig - Cards of Power #72 - A Bedtime Story

0:04 Hey, hello friends from across the nation and around the world. I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories. Tonight, we're finally headed back to the all popular Cards of Power series. As many of you know if you've been following the series, we're currently in what we call the Deity Level tournament, fighting for the top spot, of course, using all of our high powered creatures, and as such, I think we better check out these suggestions we have for the Daity level tournament.

0:40 Hi, I'm Ryan, and I have an idea for the Cards of Power Daity Level tournament. So you and Magnus go and face Ryan in the tournament, and Ryan has an elemental panda. You fight the panda and it's really close, but you slightly end up winning. Thanks. I love your podcast.

1:09 Thanks for the suggestion, Ryan, and thank you for listening. I think we will put that in this episode. But as most of you know, we actually need two different creatures at least at minimum to be in the Daily Level tournament. So I went through my other suggestions and I found a related one, mostly because I figure Ryan could maybe be like an elemental animal specialist. So let's check out this other one.

1:36 Hi, my name is Mary Pastelia. I want to suggestion for the Cause of Palace series where you have an elemental guinea pig with skins and frames and all the different elements of it. Now and it's wins. Also it's very little and still wins, and it's and it's also es damage with pumpkins.

2:03 All right, Melly, I love that a little guinea pig with some serious powers named Pumpkin. Now, if you like the podcast, don't forget to rate it and review it wherever it is you're listening. If you want to add free episodes, you can always join us on Patreon for as little as one dollar a month. By the way, because I think those should be pretty accessible to everyone.

2:23 And if you really like Cards of Power, guess what we are coming out with the Cards of Power game, a card game to be exact. I'm not sure on the exact release date, but I will keep you all up to date. So that's just something to look forward to if that's something you would be interested in. Now it's time to close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does. You wake up inside your well Aleien Hotel room on the combat planet that you've been hanging out on for the Deity Level tournament.

3:08 You wake up Magnus and head down the elevator for some breakfast. After eating, you go over to one of the many computers and check out today's schedule to see if you have a match planned. After scanning your ID card, the system confirms that you do, in fact have a match planned starting in less than a half hour. Well, Magnus, are you ready? Ready? I was born ready. I'd like to see one of these other animals that could actually take me on. Uh, they're all deity level, buddy, I think you should probably be a little less confident. Nah, why would I do that? Magnus asks, all right, let's get going. You head outside and instinctively summon your energy wing card. That way, you don't have to walk through

4:09 a whole bunch of people. You flowed up over the crowd as Magnus flaps behind you, and come in for a gentle landing outside the arena that you were meant to report to at the participant door. Of course, it's much quieter there. One security guard allows you inside and you head up to the desk to register I d cord please. The woman at the counter asks, uh, you present your ID card.

4:44 Very good.

4:45 You will be heading to the main arena.

4:49 Do you know the way?

4:51 Yeah, I've been there once before. Just point me in the right direction. She points down the hall to the change rooms. You head over, open up the door, and you and Magnus sit down inside the change room waiting to be called out into the arena. Well you're waiting. You hear all sorts of strange noises, blasts, and well, all kinds of destruction, likely from the match before you.

5:24 Then everything goes silent, followed by an enormous cheering crowd. After a little while, the door to the change room opens and another cardholder walks through, looking well, looking like he's just been defeated. Good luck, he says, as he walks straight through the change room and out the door. Thanks, you say, Are you okay? I'll be fine, I'm only emotional damaged. The door closes and you and Mangnus continue to wait. After the staff have had enough time to reset things, the door opens up, which is your queue to step outside into the gigantic arena. You enter, and immediately the crowd cheers for you from all different directions.

6:26 They seem to know who you are. Now, maybe some of them watched your last battle or something. You lift your hand into the air and wave hello to everyone as you walk over to your protective battle circle. On the other side of the arena, another kid is doing the same.

6:47 Ladies and gentlemen, friends from across the universe and around the world. Welcome to another exciting day level battle. Today we have two very exciting opponents. The announcer goes on to announce your name, who you are, that you're from Earth, and that you're known mostly for your very powerful dragon Mangness.

7:24 And on the other side of the arena we have Ryan. Ryan comes to us all the way from Alpha Century and he's known for being an elemental specialist. Wood has it that all of his main cards know all of the different elements.

7:50 What a match this will be, folks. The crowd cheers again. Then the referee cuts in, standing on his little floating platform with the force field around it. All right, I just want to remind every one of the rules here. This is a battle until the first person knocks out two of the other person's creatures. Now, of course, if one of your cards has not been knocked out. You can carry it forward.

8:22 To the next opponent, or you can choose to switch anyways. One card out of time everyone, and as I said, first one to knock out two of the other opponent's cards wins.

8:36 Now it's time to choose your first card. You look over at Magnus and nod as the protective force field shoots up around you. Magnus immediately starts to glow and of course grow larger and larger and larger until he's reached his deity level form a gigantic black dragon with veins of pure white sunlight energy. He lets out a roar and blasts a plume of fire up towards the ceiling of the arena. The crowd cheers, kind of looks like he's putting on a show for them. On the other side, Ryan's card Cores starts to glow. A stream of light shoots out of it and forms itself into a panda, A pretty big panda, but well it just looks like a normal panda at first. Are you kidding me?

9:45 I can take on a panda in my sleep. The match will begin in five four three two one. Magnus immediately take in a huge breath and blasts out a powerful stream of pure sunlight energy. Unfortunately, it passes straight through the panda that, instead of being solid, is now made of lightning. The lightning blasts over towards the side of the arena and then straight back down at Magnus, shocking him and causing him to fly into the wall. Now, Magnus says, the lightning panda shoots back over to the center of the arena and its element starts to change.

10:42 Fire begins to rise up around the panda, larger and larger, creating a sort of fire panda outline outside the actual elemental panda itself. If that makes any sense, It looks kind of like a gigantic fire mechsuit surrounding the thing. The panda roars, opens the mouth of the giant fire part and blasts out a huge stream of fire. Then it lifts up one of its fire hands and unleashes a bolt of lightning. The fire glances off of Magnus, but the bolt hits him dead center, again, shocking him. Oh, he says, that's it. Magnus starts to light up. He begins to glow brighter and brighter and brighter, until it looks like he's surrounded by a miniature sun of his own.

11:49 The floor of the arena melts, as it often does, straight into lava, and Magnus dives inside. The elemental panda begins trying to strike what he can't see, punching down towards the ground and splashing the lava everywhere with a giant fire fist. Then he tries summoning rock out of the lava, pulling pieces of lava into the air, solidifying them together, and then chucking them down at the ground, creating another huge splash of lava, but again nothing happens. Next, he starts to gather water around him. Water starts to solidify out of the air itself and spin around the huge fire Panda. He splashes it down on the ground and instantly cools the lava back to stone, though right afterwards it melts again. The bare roars in frustration as

13:03 a huge lava dragon shoots out and tackles the thing. Magnus flies straight up, bashes the panda out of the center of the fire Panda and pulls it down towards the ground, pulling it underneath the stone and lava. Moments later, the panda flies out of the lava, its fur smoking, pits the wall of the arena and lands on the ground once again, starting to sink. It opens its eyes, looking kind of angry. Air starts to swirl around it, and the panda lifts up off of the ground, held inside a little miniature tornado. From there, all of the elements start to surround it. Fire, water, pieces of earth, pieces of ice. It waits for a moment for Magnus to once again shoot out of the lava, and it unleashes a blast of all elements at once. They collide

14:15 with Magnus, sending him flying backwards against the arena wall until well, until the elements start to swirl around him. Instead, he shoots them back in the direction of the panda, and well, it has the opposite effect. The panda flies across the arena and smashes into the wall once again. The two of them struggle back and forth for full control over the different elements, but as the panda is distracted, Magnus looks down towards the ground. Suddenly, a huge magma like dragon shape sh boots out of it and splashes into the panda on the other side, knocking it against the wall and causing it to lose control of all of the elements at once. Magnus wastes no time summoning the lava up from the ground again, wrapping it around

15:18 the panda, and solidifying it all at the same time. Then Magnus charges another huge breath and unleashes a powerful blast of pure sunlight energy. When the energy hits the now obsidian covered panda, the obsidian explodes, The panda flies backward and smashes against the back wall. The stream continues and continues and continues, until finally it looks like the pandas reverting back to energy. Blue energy shoots up in the air, but instead of returning to the card core, it blasts straight at Magnus in the form of lightning.

16:08 The lightning hits Magnus, causing him to drop down to the ground before solidifying into a panda once again. The panda slowly closes its eyes, falls asleep, and finally actually transforms into energy and shoots towards Ryan's card core. Magnus is able to keep his eyes open, but just barely. The announcer's voice fills the arena.

16:42 Ladies and gentlemen, we seem to have a winner.

16:48 Round one goes to the fire dragon.

16:53 All right, kid, you can pick one more.

16:55 What'll it be?

16:57 Oh?

16:58 I have an idea, Ryan says, his cardcore, lighting up, pumpkin go. A blue flash of light shoots out of Ryan's chest, swirls through the arena, and reforms itself into a really cute little guinea pig. The crowd lets out a big aw all at once. Eh, Magnus, do you need a break? I can call dominic in if you need me to. Ah. Well, I'm not feeling the greatest, but I think I can take on a guinea pig, Magnus responds, man Just as he says that, the guinea pig transforms into lightning, blasts across the arena and strikes Magnez directly in the center. Nah, he says, feeling the electricity blasting through his body. The lightning powered guinea pig shoots up into the air and back down into Magnus, again and again and again and again, striking him over

18:16 and over faster than he's even capable of responding, until Magnus eventually gives in, closes his eyes, and transforms into energy, shooting back into your card core. Oh well, interesting, ladies and gentlemen, it seems we now have a tie, which means that the next knockout will win the battle. Surprise to see Magnus go. So suddenly you reach into your card core and summon one of your other toughest creatures, Dominic, the Magic Dingo, the huge Dingo appears in front of you, and immediately it begins to duplicate itself. Other Dingoes, or well Dingo clones start to appear all around the arena time clones, versions of Dominic from other realities, other possibilities.

19:31 But the little guinea Pig doesn't waste any time. It transforms into lightning once again and begins to blast towards various clones as quickly as it can. Fire shoots out bolts of rock fly around the arena, and one by one they start taking out different versions of Dominic. The attacks are far more powerful than anyone would have imagined.

19:59 The guinea Pig transforms into stone and blasts through one of the versions like a little guinea pig bullet. It transforms back into lightning and shoots into another. It gathers into a fireball and blasts through a third. It flies through the arena at a speed that's almost well invisible to the naked eye, but it's not invisible to Dominic as he usually does. The true version of Dominic simply disappears, watching from the shadows. Then he increases his rate of existence, speeding himself up to give himself a much better view of what's happening. From that perspective, he can slowly watch the little guinea pig fly through the air, transform into various elements, and take out different versions of himself. And

21:06 while this little creature is obviously quite powerful, Dominic has all the time in the world to decide what to do with the thing. He lays down in the center of the arena, opens his mouth and begins to well sing for lack of a better word. The sound spreads through the arena, and the other versions of him start to join in, filling the arena with a strange and incredibly relaxing sound, a sort of humming. Slowly, the little guinea pig starts to slow down. In between blasts, it stands and looks slightly disorient it or dizzy, as if it's going to fall over. It shakes its head, transforms into lightning, and blasts at another one of the dingoes, but then the sound starts to overtake it. It transforms

22:17 into fire and blasts towards another, and Dominic sees his chance. That is increased rate of speed and well being completely invisible, Dominic, from his perspective, slowly walks towards the creature barreling through the air in the form of a fireball. He opens his mouth and snaps down on the thing. He reappears for others to see the fireball stopping dead and transforming into energy before blasting back to Ryan's card core.

23:01 Ladies and gentlemen, it seems we have a winner.

23:09 You immediately reach into your card core once again nod in thanks to Dominic the dingo. The time clones disappear, Dominic himself transforms into energy and shoots back into your core. It's a good thing you captured that dingo. He has been nothing but useful in this tournament so far. The crowd cheers. The little force fields around you and Ryan disappear, and you both walk to the center to shake hands. Well, how's a good match, you say to Ryan. Yeah, same to you. I thought I had you there. I thought you might too, you respond, and then the two of you wave to the crowd once again and head in opposite directions back towards your own change rooms. You pass through the little change room all by yourself. Now that

24:15 Magnus has returned to energy and well, we'll have to regenerate. You head out of the change room, wave hello to the person attending the desk, and out the competitor's door once again. To avoid the crowds, you reach into your card core, and this time you summon your magic skateboard. It appears under your feet, allowing you to roll along the ground and straight up into the air. You blast up and around the arena once before heading straight back to your hotel room. You loop around your hotel room in a circle, catch your own balcony and head straight for it. The skateboard disappears. You land on the balcony and swipe your key card against the door. The door opens up and you head inside. You lay down on

25:26 one of the two super comfortable beds, which looks like it's been made newly and fresh for you while you were gone. You place your head on the pillow, pull the covers up to your chin, and slowly allow your muscles to relax. With each breath, you sink down a little bit deeper into the mattress. You let go of the tension in your arms and your legs, and your shoulders, your neck, and even your face, and with each breath you slowly drift off to thoughts of new dreams and new adventures to come. Good Night, everyone, m.

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