Ten Years had come and gone. The war was over and Alex had decided to take a bit of advice from Kaiba. Alex had taken a job at the Duel Academy to train the new generation in the Art of duels. Right now Alex was sitting next to some of the other professors at the academy. One of them was already on his bad side, Vellian Crowler was said professor's name, he was a very Prejudiced teacher and favored the elite Students over everyone else. The students when enrolled in the academy werr put into one of three dorms, Obelisk Blue, Ra Yellow, or Slifer Red. Alex had been at the Aademy for about 5 years and he knew a lot of it secrets but he also let the other faculty know that if he was crossed by one of them, he woud make them Pay. On his first day Crowler had crossed him and Alex had Trounced his sorry Excuse for a behind into the dust. . Crowler then kept his distance form Alex for a while and knew better then to contradict him. What they didn't know was that Chancellor Shepard had been watching the match and recorded, the matter had been taken to the Chancellor but Shepard had agreed with Alex and gave Crowler a reprimand. Soon all of the other Faculty and staff learned that Alex was not one to be crossed as they all saw the video evidence. They all watched what they said around Alex after that. Alex was brought out of his thoughts as a man came up to Crowler.

"Excuse me but one last examine made it at the last minute."

"What was his rank on the written test?" Asked Crowler. All possible students had taken a written test a week prior and the practical tests were being held that day at Kaiba land.

"He was ranked 110."

"He has hardly any sense of readiness if he is coming in at the last minute! We have no need for a dropout boy in our academy!"

Alex started to get irritated, ever examinee had a fair shot and yet Crowler was pushing it. The chancellor had given strict orders not to reject anyone. Before alex could say something one of the other examiners spoke up.

"However, he made it on time, to a point, so he does Qualify for the Exam."

"Yes," said another, "besides there was a small train accident so that is to blame for the delay!"

"Not letting this boy take the test might not be a good idea don't you think?"

Alex noticed that Crowler was starting to get irritated and he might blow his top any minute, he decided to let thingsunfold naturally before he would step in. then Crowler lost his temper.

"THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM! NO! NO! NO!" it was then Crowler's Academy cell phone started to ring. He stopped his tirade and reaced to get his phone and answered it.

"Yes? Who may I ask is speaking?" A small mumble was heard from the other end of the line, "Oh it is you Mr. Chancellor!"

After a few more mumbles Crowler's showed an expression of slight shock. Followed by a few more mumbles.

Crowler hung up his phone and muttered a few insults all Alex caught was, "you sly old dog…"

Crowler thought for a few minutes then put his phone away, "I will be testing the examinee myself."

"Please Wait!" called out an Examiner, "Professor Crowler, please take an Examination Deck."

"I have no need for one of those!" Crowler growled and started to walk off, "I will use my own deck to duel."

Alex just about lost it. They had been told to not use their personal decks to test the possible students. He was about to say something when his phone went off.

"Hello, this is Alex Yachira, who is this?"

"Alex it is Shepard."

"Yes Chancellor, what can I do for you?"

"Keep an eye on the Duel with Jaden Yuki, Crowler will be dueling him and I want to test Jaden to his limits right now to see where he stands."

"Are you sure Chancellor, Crowler is going to use his own personal Deck on him, are you sure about this?"

"Very sure, let this duel unfold naturally."

"very well sir, I will see you at the academy later tomorrow." And Alex hung up his phone, a few moments later an announcement went over the arena.

"Examinee Number 110: Jaden Yuki, please report to field 3."

Alex looked over to the stands and noticed a brown haired young man walk down the steps and talk to a few other young men and then walked down to the field. Crowler was already in field three getting his Duel Coat adjusted by a few attendants. And they walked off when the Brown haired Young man came into the ring as they had finished. Alex could feel that something was different about this boy. Soon he saw why. A creature appeared next to him. Alex could tell that this creature was female and that cared deeply for her duelist. Yubel, Guardian monster of the Supreme King.

'So, the supreme king's time has come,' Alex thought. In his time in the duel monster spirit world he knew about the Supreme King, wielder of the Gentle Darkness. He was foretold to save the worlds form the light of destruction.

"Good Day to you!" Crowler greeted the brown-haired boy, snapping Alex out of his thoughts

"I'm Jaden Yuki, Sir!" Said Jaden.

"Well then Mr. Jaden, I am Professor Vellian Crowler, Acting General Director of Practical Application at the academy."

The boy's eyes widened a bit with excitement, What an honor. To think that the Director of Practical Application would challenge me! I'm sure that means you're expecting a lot out of me!"

Alex was absolutely speechless. Either this kid was not real bright or he was very optimistic. And to be honest Alex hoped it was the latter. He was brought out of his thoughts as Crowler spoke again

"Duel Coat, on!" Crowler's disk sprung to life and shot out five cards from the deck slot located on the chest. Jaden watched on in awe of this.

"Professor, can I buy one of those coats too?"

"All of the high-achieving students have one," Crower replied.

"All right then, I will do my Best!" Jaden enthusiastically replied. The monster Said something in his ear and his Grin broadened

"DUEL!" They both called out.

"I'll go first!" Jaden said. He looked over his hand, "All Right. I summon Elemental Hero Avian in Defense mode!"

The winged hero rose up and struck a pose, then settle down to one knee on top of his card.

"Next I'll set a card Face-down on the field. My turn's finished!"

"It is My turn. Draw!" a card then was put out of Crowler's disk for the draw Crowler looked over his hand and Alex could tell that this was not going to end well. Crowler's deck held some very powerful and dangerous cards if used in a proper combo, but the thing was that for all Crowler boasted, some of the more complicated combos with his deck he would fail at one way or another.

"Allow me to teach you just how broad the world is!" Crowler called out, "from my hand I activate the Spell card, Confiscation!"

"What? Confiscation?" Jaden asked surprised.

"By paying 1000 life points, I can look at my opponent's hand, pick one card from it and discard it to the Graveyard."

Jaden's hand glowed and the cards appeared in front of Crowler who began to look at them. With Alex's sharp eyes he could tell what they were even from the examiners seats. Jaden had Monster reborn, Polymerization, Hero Signal, and the Warrior Returning alive. But it is what Crowler said next that Got Alex upset.

"Sure enough, a Dropout boy's deck, I see."

Alex noticed that Jaden and Yubel also got upset about the comment, no matter what kind of deck a duelist makes, they pour their heart and soul into the cards, Alex had learned that log ago and showed it to Crowler in their duel but it seemed that Crowler did not earn his lesson.

"I'll send Monster reborn to the Graveyard."

Jaden was forced to send monster reborn to the grave yard and Crowler continued his turn.

"I set two cards facedown and activate Heavy storm! This card will destroy all Spell and Trap cards on the entire field!"

A great wind then struck the field and Jaden's card was destroyed along with Crowler's two facedown cards. Alex could see this is exactly what Crowler wanted. He had a hunch about what cards Crowler had played facedown, and if he was right it would not be good for the boy.

"But Professor, your cards got mixed into it, too!" Jaden declared excitedly, thinking Crowler had made a mistake.

'he made that move for a reason Jaden,' Yubel said, Alex could hear her now, even at this distance, 'be careful.'

"That is what they call not paying attention!" Crowler replied. The arena had dark clouds gather around it and this got Jaden worried. Alex's assumption had also been right.

"What's this?" asked jaden slightly worried now.

"I special summon, The Wicked Tokens!" Crowler called. Not a second later two golden colored four eyed serpents rose up bearing their teeth and evil looks.

'Crowler sets two Statues of the Wicked facedown and then destroys them with heavy storm, I stopped that tactic with Horus last time but it nearly cost me, but can this boy stop Crowler from summoning it?' Alex thought to himself, 'this is Crowler's personal Dark ages deck, I can tear it apart because I have faced similar decks as well as stronger decks, but this kid may not have seen anything like this before.'

"my turn is not over as of yet either!" Crowler called

"Sounds fun! What're you going to show me this time, Professor?" Jaden replied. Alex noticed that this kid was really enjoying the duel despite the fact that Crowler was going to destroy his dream if he didn't catch wat Crowler was going to do to him.

"Next, I sacrifice both of my Wicked Tokens," The tokens had flames gather around them and they vanished, "To summon Ancient Gear Golem!"

This is when alex nearly got down to the ring and stopped the duel himself, "Crowler this is dirty and you know it! That card is too powerful to use on an examinee!" but his voice was drowned out by the summoning of the mechanical behemoth. The large metal beast was nearly as tall as obelisk the tormentor and stood behind Crowler who barely came a third of the way up the beast's shin guards

"Awesome! I've heard rumors about that card. Very few people have been able to beat it!"

'even in our world it is a formidable foe, be on your guard Jaden' Alex didn't hear if Jaden replied due to the Roar of the people watching the duel

Crowler started laughing and then began his assault, "Here I go! Ultimate Pound!"

The gear golem raised its fist and drew back a bit and then struck the winged hero.

'if harry where here he would be cringing in his seat to see this' Alex thought as he watched the wind type hero bite the dust against the mechanical monster's fist. Avian cried out in pain and then shattered, 'not only that but the golem inflicts damage when it attacks a monster in DEF mode, this kids points are going to be cut in half by one attack!"

The Beast followed through, his fist went past where avian was sitting once before and struck jaden hard, granted the fist practically was bigger than Jadne himself, and Jaden's points dropped down to 2000. This due was not going to end well if Jaden did not find a way to do something about that golem.

Crowler was chuckling, "Already lost your fighting spirit, have you?"

Jaden's shoulders twitched and he started laughing himself, "I'm really touched…that the General Directing professor is Dueling his hardest against me!"

'Only you would think that,' yubel replied, 'he must really not want you here. One of the instructors said that this Crowler should not be using the deck he has. Something is up Jaden'

Crowler backed up a bit, it seemed that what Jaden had said had caught him off guard and then he started to shake a bit with rage, and Alex could see this, 'I'm rooting for you kid, give Crowler the beating he deserves.'

Jaden moved his hand over his disk and that is when Alex heard something he had not heard in a long time

'kuri kuri, kuri!'

'that is not possible! He didn't!'

Jaden drew his card from his deck and Alex could see what he had suspected after he had heard the small sounding voice.

'kuri kuri!'

'that boy has another spirit card! And if it is from who I think it is he better have a good reason for this!' Alex thought quite a bit perturbed.

"From my hand, I summon Winged Kuriboh in Defense Mode!"

"KURI! Said the small creature as it rose form its card in a shine of light and sparkles.

'he did! Yugi gave this kid his Winged Kuriboh Card! It has to be his Winged Kuriboh, that card was in short print when it came out and it has never been reprinted by order of Pegasus! This has to be Yugi's Winged Kuriboh that he won last year at that Tournament held by Pegasus!'

A year prior Yugi had attended a tournament held by Pegasus to celebrate the anniversary of Duelist kingdom, and the prize was a hand crafted alternate art Winged Kuriboh, Alex had attended if only to get out some of his boredom, most of the court attended spare the pharaoh, his queen, the high priest and the royal sorceress, but everyone else had attended and Yugi had won top spot out of everyone. And Alex and only lost to him. in the semifinals. Alex was brought out of his thoughts as Jaden continued his turn.

"Then, I set a card Face-down to end my turn!"

Crowler then began laughing at the small monster, "a feathered Kuriboh…you have quite a rare card there, don't you?"

'you have no idea crowler' Alex thought snidely.

"however, it is just a low-level monster, is it not? You may have played it in defense mode, but it will not stave off Ancient gear golem's piercing effect. I suppose a small fry monster befits a small fry! My turn is it not?"

'that does it after this match Crowler's ass is MINE!' Alex grabbed his disk and left the stands to be where crowler would be, he would still be able to see the match but what Alex had in mind would not be avoided, to hell with what Shepard would say, Crowler was going to pay! Alex didn't notice however, was that both Jaden and Yubel had gotten upset by this as did the Winged Kuriboh.

"this is the end. Ancient Gear Golem, use Ultimate Pound on Winged Kuriboh!"

The golem raised its fist again and struck the kuriboh relative.

"KURI!" the monster cried out as the fist of the behemoth went right through it and destroyed it. However, it is what happened next that got Crowler confused.

"Why aren't your life points decreasing?"

"on the turn that winged Kuriboh is destroyed, any damage I take for the rest of the turn becomes Zero," Jaden explained. Jaden took winged Kuriboh's card and put it in his graveyard slot on his duel disk.

"So, that was your small fry monster's special ability, was it?"

"you'll pay for calling a friend who put his life on the line to protect me a 'small fry'!"

"such a smart-alec! Is there a problem with me calling your throw-away monster a 'small fry'?"

"there is! Winged Kuriboh's shriek is the signal that'll call the monsters in my deck into action! Trap card activate, Hero Signal!"

Jaden's reversed card flipped up and a bright light shone from it and a lard red colored H hung above the small arena where he was dueling, Alex was watching from a special room where the faculty was allowed to go. Crowler would have to go to this room to get his duel coat off.

"From my deck, I special-summon my second Elemental Hero, Burstinatrix!"

A group of pink and red flames erupted on the field, then a female voice called out. soon the only female hero was on the field and she did not look happy. But with only 1200 ATK points. Then Alex thought about what Jaden Still had in his hand.

'he still has the warrior returning alive and polymerization, he can get avian back with warrior return and fuse Avian and Burstinatrix with polymerization, but the Wingman only has 2100, so he will have to pull off a miracle draw to get the one card every Elemental Hero deck should have to get out of this situation.'

"My turn!" and Jaden Drew his card, "Winged Kuriboh, I've got a tight hold on all of your encouragement. Just Watch me! And Then, Avian's going to use his unyielding fighting spirit to come back from the grave! I use the spell card the warrior Returning alive to bring him back from the graveyard to my hand and then I summon him!"

"What good will your Fragile Little Comic book heroes do you?" Asked crowler, "they are nothing more than normal monsters!"

"Avian and Burstinatrix, they are normal monsters with low ATK, but this is just their Temporary forms. You'll be surprised once you see their true form, Professor. I activate the spell card Polymerization! This'll fuse Avian and Burstinatrix! Fusion Summon!" where the two low powered heroes once stood there was now a one winged, dragon fisted monster with a dragon tail, this was the card that Alex knew Jaden would play, "My Favorite Card, Elemental hero Flame Wingman!"

'Jaden still has one card left in his hand, and it is the one he drew this turn, but is it the card he needs to win this, with Wingman's ability if he destroys a monster it deals damage to the opponent equal to the destroyed monster, if he can get Wingman's ATK points over golem this match will be his, but the thing is, can he do it?'

"allow me to give you a special lecture. Listen up," Crowler said, "your worthless tripe is useless in a duel! Make sure to keep that in mind. You may have fusion summoned your wingman, but its ATK is 2100. It comes well short of my Ancient gear golem."

"Then, I'm going to teach you something Professor. Heroes have a battle Arena just fit for Heroes! The field Spell, Skyscraper!"

"HE DREW IT!" Alex called out, "he drew the one card that would help him win this match!"

Jaden placed the card in his field spell card zone and the field around him and crowler began to change from generic dueling arena to a city at night. This was the city for heroes, and no other monster could gain this kind of power from the city,

"Okay, the stage is set!" Jaden called out, "GO, Flame Wingman! Attack Ancient Gear Golem!"

The wingman was perched atop the highest building on the field upon its spire, looking right down at the field and the golem standing behind its master, it jumped and flew down towards the gear golem, ready to attack.

"Sherzi! You must be joking! A bit of Crowler's Italian Heritage coming out in his mannerisms, "Flame wingman's ATK doesn't even hold a candle to Ancient Gera golem!"

The wingman landed a few yards from crowler and then jumped back up.

"A hero Always wins! Skyscraper's effect is that whenever a hero battles a monster with Higher ATK than its own it gets a power boost of 1000 ATK!"

"OH DIO!" Crowler's Italian Heritage coming out again.

"Take this! Skyscraper Shoot!"

The wing man had reached the crest its jump up and was flying about 300 yards above the golem it turned downward flames spewing from the dragon head on its right hand as its point total rose to a whopping 3100 points. 100 points higher than the golems. The duel was over and Crowler didn't realize that he had just been beat by the young boy and his spirit.

"Mamma Mia! My Ancient Gear Golem!" he cried out not watching what was going on above him and he was struck atop of the head with a piece of scrap metal form the falling apart Golem.

"Flame Wingman's effect makes you take damage equal to the Destroyed monster's ATK, Professor."

"What…!?" crowler called out as he looked behind him, the golem was falling apart faster and faster and soon it started to creek as its legs could not hold any longer and specks of debris fell as crowler tried to get away from the toppling golem.

"N-No, no, no, no! NO!" Crowler called out, as his golem fell apart right on top of him and his life points dropped to zero.

"Gotcha! That sure was a fun Duel, Professor!" Jaden Called out as the Solid vision system shut down at the end of the duel.

"How? How was I beaten by that dropout Boy…?" crowler muttered to himself.

Needless to say everyone, spare Alex, and Jaden, in the arena was shocked, a seemingly talentless kid with a deck with weak monster had just beaten one of the strongest professors in the academy, who was using his own personal deck, and that the legendary rare card in the deck was what was beaten.

"Yay! I won! I did it!" Jaden Celebrated in the ring as crowler was helped out by a few attendants

Alex meanwhile, while glad that Jaden had beaten Crowler, was awaiting for the disgraced professor, he and Crowler were going to have a nice little talk that Crowler may not like when it was over. Crowler entered the room and the attendants moved to remove the coat, Alex did not make is presence known until it had been fully removed.

"Crowler, we need to have a little chat about what happened out there."

"not now professor Yachira, I want to take a shower and get that duel out of my mind."

"NO!" Alex hollered, the two attendants were startled and nearly dropped Crowler's duel coat, "we are going to talk now! You disrespected this young man and his deck! You should be ashamed of yourself, I am glad that you lost to him and with your personal deck too!"

"he had nothing but weak monsters! He got lucky!"

"that is not true crowler! Don't you remember our duel? When you thought I had a deck with nothing but weak monsters and then ended up summoning the 6 monarch cards in my deck?"

Crowler stepped back in shock, he hated the fact that he had lost to Alex Yachira a few years prior and that Alex had beaten him by using the monarch deck that he was known for. But what Crowler didn't know was that Alex had Two monarch decks, one with removal strategy, which he kept safe and hidden away, and the field presence style which tried to keep one monster on Alex's field at all times until eh could summon a monarch card and take control of the duel and Alex had used the field presence build, which contained a lot of low level monsters with revival effects.

"that was also a fluke, you caught me on a bad day, when I had been meaning to rebuild my deck!"

"Don't give me that Bullshit Crowler! You haven't changed your deck at all since that day! I could tell by the way you dueled Jaden out there!"

"That Dropout boy has no right to be in our academy!"

"He has Every RIGHT!" Alex Hollered. He was really starting to lose his temper when his phone rang. He turned to face crowler as he grabbed his phone, "this conversation is not over crowler, just get out of my sight!"

Crowler grunted and walked away as Alex answered his phone, "this is Alex Yachira, who am I speaking to?"

"It is Shepard again."

"yes Chancellor, what can I do for you?" Alex's voice still had a slight hint of anger and contempt with crowler in it.

"you didn't tear crowler a new one, did you? I was watching the match."

"no but right now I wish I did!"

"Well I am glad you didn't I want you to be the one to escort the new students to the academy tomorrow. I am sending everyone else back to the island tonight."

"Yes Chancellor, anything else?"

"No for now just get some rest, you have done your fair share today, go home and see your wife and family."

"thank you, Chancellor," and Alex hung up his phone. It had been a long day and he would be glad to get home and see his wife, Kendra, and their beautiful baby girl, Lauren. He opened a shadow portal as soon as he was sure he was alone and walked home to his apartment after coming out the other end. This coming school year was going to be a difficult one he could just feel it. His Mind turned to the fact that Yubel was alongside this young man.

'this is going to be one interesting year'