Disclaimer: neither shadowwriter329 or myself own Yu-Gi-Oh GX or Sly Cooper. We're just using the two ideas as a story.

So here I am, heading off to Duel Academy, a new place to train and hone my skills. Oh and I also get to duel. From what I learn there are some duelist that are greatly skilled. I can't wait to set my skills against them as a duelist but also as a thief.

But I also have other plans. I am looking for someone to call friends and will to join me in my job as Sly. Sly has his brothers in all but blood and they helped him out through thick and thin. I manage to get some jobs done myself but I could use a hand to watch my back. Who know maybe I will find someone at the academy that will be my Bentley and Murry.

Sly Cooper GX

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Duel Academy Recon

Jaden kept a watch, though he looked like he was sleeping as the Helicopter approached the island. "Duel Academy Island, and yes I know it's impressive. Please return to your seats as we approach the landing point." The pilot said as the students gazed in awe. 'So, that's going to be my new home for the next few years, or at least 'till I find out more about the crooks that stole those cards.' Jaden thought as he glanced at the island in secret. It was an impressive sight.

"Greetings to all of you for the new semester, and welcome to Duel Academy. I am Chancellor Shepherd, and am proud to welcome you to these hollowed halls. You are the best and brightest of young duelists, and while you are here, you will learn new things about the game itself. Well, I've rambled on long enough and now dismiss you to the dorms." Chancellor Shepherd said on a video screen in front of the groups. Jaden now had a black shirt with a raccoon based emblem in blue and a red blazer jacket, indicating which dorm he was in.

Jaden walked around for a bit before he spotted someone, "Hey Syrus!" He cried out

The small boy turned and saw Jaden walking towards him, "Oh Jaden, hi. I see you are a Slifer Red, I'm in Slifer Red too."

"Really? I wouldn't have guessed," Jaden said sarcastically as he looked at the boy in the RED blazer. Of course Jaden had a different tone so the sarcasms is hard to find sometimes.

"Hello, gents."

The two boys turned their attention to the one who called. It was Bastion, now in a yellow jacket. "Hey Bastion. So you're in Ra Yellow?"

"Indeed, I am. Although I am surprise you are a Slifer Red."

Jaden blinked, "Really why is that?"

"Because you were able to defeat Dr. Crowler, and his rare card like that." Bastion said, "Although I must say I never heard of those cards of yours."

Jaden grinned, "Well they are a rare series. Nothing like them in the world."

Bastion grinned, "Well I would love to duel some time. But not right now really, I do not know much about them and I am not one to be unprepared."

Jaden nodded, as he know info was important, as he needed to do some recon before some heist. "So I guess we'll see you around the dorms?"

"I doubt that, yours is over there," Bastion pointed off into the distance.

Jaden then turned back to Syrus. "What do ya say we check out our dorm?"

"Sure." With that, the two set off.

It wasn't long before they found their assigned dormitory; it wasn't what they were expecting. "This is our dorm? It looks more like an outhouse with a deck," said Syrus.

"It's not that bad besides, check out this awesome view."

Syrus joined Jaden where he stood and saw what Jaden meant: an excellent view of the ocean stretching into the west, perfect to catch the sunset. They opened the door to their room. "Huh? I guess we're in the same dorm room."

"Yeah, looks like it." Jaden replied to Syrus' statement. The room was simple enough, but it was dark. 'This'll make a nice hideout for a while, but better not let Sy know about my 'trade'. He'll freak.'

"It's not so bad. We've got a kitchen, some desks. With a little lighting we can see what to work on."

"Hey! That was closed for a reason!" came a voice from the direction of the beds. "AHH! A DEATH KOALA!"

"I AIN'T A KOALA!" The voice revealed a boy that was a year or so older then Syrus or Jaden. He looked at the two before hmphing. "I ain't seen you two before, so I'm guessing you're freshmen."

"Yep, just off the helicopter. Would you introduce yourself so Sy and I don't just call you koala?" Jaden smirked at his bad joke, but the large boy, who ironically did look somewhat like a koala, answered, "Fine, my name's Chumsley Huffington, and I'll lay a few rules about the dorms. There are three dorms: Obelisk Blue, Ra Yellow, and Slifer Red. Obelisk Blue is the best maintained, but you have to have money, connections, or go to a Duel Prep school for about three years. Ra Yellow's a nice dorm where people with talent go, usually by doing really well on the entrance exams. Then there's us the 'red wonders'." Sly was in awe at the idea of wonder, until Chumsley brought him down. "As in 'I wonder how they got this far?' Slifer Red is better known as the drop out dorm 'cause everyone here has no talent." Jaden just sat down and huffed a bit. "More like we've got more talent then the blues."

'The three dorms based on the god cards: Slifer Red, Ra Yellow and Obelisk Blue. I still find it funny that Ra was the most powerful of the three god cards and that dorm is only the middle rank. And of course the fact that Slifer Red is the lowest and Obelisk Blue is the highest when Slifer was owned by Yugi, and Obelisk was originally owned by Kaiba before all three were won by Yugi. Shows a lot about a man when his ego gets in the way of the design, but ranks means nothing if they do not have the skills to back them up. But still I heard the Blue dorm would be fun to steal from. That, and the fact that a certain female student I seen before also lives there may have something to do with it…a little.'

"You do maybe but not me," Syrus said with his head down as he sat in a chair He was disheartened by the idea of being a 'drop out' or 'talent-less'. "I barely passed the entrance exams."

Jaden looked at him with a frown before he looked at Chumsley, "So I'm Jaden Yuki, and emo over there is Syrus Truesdale."

Syrus's head shot up, "I am not emo!"

Jaden laughed and Chumsley could not help but laugh with him. Syrus scowled before he cracked a smile and laughed along.

As the laughter died down Jaden said, "hey Sy, let's go check out the school, I want to look around more." and he ran out the door. Syrus got up and followed him

After a bit of walking, the two found their way into an arena. "Wow, this place is huge!" Syrus exclaimed, looking at the sheer size of the arena.

"Meh, I've seen bigger." That was actually true on Jaden's part. He recon and stole from places bigger then this.

They weren't alone in the arena as some Obelisk Blue students were around. One of them noticed the two. "Hey! You Slifer Slackers aren't supposed to be here!"

"We're just a couple of students looking for a duel. It's not like we're breaking a rule or something." Jaden said, but one of them pointed to something. "See that crest on the wall over there? That shows this is an arena for the Obelisk Blue dorm only." Sam, the spiky haired boy said, but then he noticed the blue haired glasses boy's expression. "What's up Clint?"

"That's the kid that beat Crowler in only two turns."

It was then that Sam had a look of surprise, but a third voice caught their attention. "Well, it looks like you lost your way, Slacker."

They looked to see Chazz up in the bleachers looking down on them. "I'll tell you now that you beating Crowler was a fluke. I'm Chazz Princeton the next King of Games, and the top student of Duel Prep."

Jaden just looked at the boy and sighed. 'Great, a kid that's rich and thinks he's got it all. Hope he can duel better then he can brag. If he is not skill then it won't even be worth stealing from. Maybe just to shut him up for a bit.'

"Chazz, you should know better then to pick on freshmen." Came a girl's voice, and everyone noticed Alexis Rhodes standing in the door. "Hello Alexis, did you come by to watch me beat this Slifer Slacker. It'll be a short match, but an entertaining one to say the least."

"I came to remind you about the Obelisk dinner banquet. You'll be in trouble if you don't attend." Chazz and his two cronies, Flint and Sam, scowled as they exited the arena. "Wow, thanks so much." Syrus was in awe at the lovely girl in front of them. "Sorry about Chazz. Not all of us blues are like that, he just doesn't like Slifer's for some reason." Jaden walked up next to Alexis after she finished. "Well, I could take him, but thanks for helping anyway. May we be graced with your name milady?" Alexis smirked, she like this guys style, "Alexis Rhodes, but you may call me Alexis. I saw your duel with Crowler, and I'm impressed."

Jaden smirked, "Great maybe we can have a duel sometime."

Alexis smiled, "Who knows Jaden you might get your wish. I would like to see what other cards you got. I never heard of them before."

"Well they are a rare series. It's no wonder you never heard of them." Jaden looked at Syrus, "Well I am sure the Slifer Dorm is having their welcome dinner and we do not want you to get in trouble if you miss yours."

Alexis nodded and watched them walk off. "There is something about you Jaden, and I can't quite put my finger on it."

At the Slifer Red dorm, things were not as festive as one might think. In fact, many of the students looked at their meager-looking meal in despair.

"This is our banquet?"

"Never mind that, look at our headmaster. It's a cat!"

That particular student was proven wrong when a lanky-looking man stepped into the room. He had long, dark grey hair with squinty eyes behind a pair of glasses. "Hello, students, I am Professor Lyman Banner. I will be your headmaster and your instructor on Duel Alchemy. Now before we dig in, let's all tell each other about ourselves." Jayden didn't pay too much attention as he just started eating. "Uh, Jayden, we're supposed to say something about ourselves."

"Well Sy, how 'bout this: I'm starving!" Jayden stopped for a moment, noticing Professor Banner trying to sneak up on him. "Well, since we're so hungry, why don't we just skip the introductions and just eat." The group then cheered and started to dig in. Jayden just looked at Banner before going back to his meal.

After the welcome banquet, Jayden had grabbed something he brought. 'Alright, time to recon the Blue Dorms.' He thought as he had changed outfits. A dark blue shirt with tight grey pants held together by a belt with a raccoon head buckle. He strapped a small tool bag to his right thigh, and a blue mask covered his face. Completing the outfit was a pair of blue boots and a blue hat. He had smuggled his outfit and gear on the island, using his knowledge of how criminals acted. He snuck out of the red dorm and out into the grounds. The grounds were large but the moon was out and made a little light but enough cloud coverage to make plenty of shadows. The only people around were campus security that they had flashlights shining bright. Sly, as he made sure to call himself, when he was as a thief, was able to avoid them easy and went off towards the blue dorm.

It was not really hard to find after all, the dorm was big and fancy looking. Nothing on the school itself but one would think it was more of a small mansion then a dorm. Even then there wasn't much stopping Sly was sneaking inside it. 'Man these guys must really think highly of themselves. Little to no security, and I'm not even trying. An amateur can break in here. Do they really think no one would dare mess with them just because they are part of the blue dorm? I am half wanting to steal from them to teach them a lesson.'

Sly crawled into a vent and looked around the rooms. He found an indoor hot spring complete with a small waterfall. No one was in it but he was sure that it going to be used quite a bit, 'Note to self find out if there is some schedule or sign up sheet and see when Alexis going.'

He passed one of the rooms when he heard what sounded like Chazz talking. "That slacking is nothing really."

Sly peeked inside and found Chass talking with the two other boys from before. "And to think that Alexis, the queen of Obelisk Blue, was even talking to him earlier. Why would she though? She shouldn't even give them the time of day."

Sly deadpanned at this, 'Maybe because she's human and a nice person? Of course if the others are like you I would not be surprise of she does talk to other guys. Besides who are you to say what she can do. She could wipe the floor with you.'

Chazz then had an idea, "That slacker only won by luck, but I am sure he needs some rare cards to even do anything."

"Well I think some of those cards he has are rare." Sam said, "I mean I looked up some of the cards he played before and I found that those Sly Cooper card and the other ones are part of a rare series."

Chazz smirked, "Well then I will send a message to the little punk and have him duel me tonight. I will win and get some of his rare cards. Not only that but I will have him leave Alexis alone as she will be dating me."

He got up to send his message Sly shook his head, 'Like that will stop me from talking to her and there is no way I would lose to an idiot like you. Still a chance to knock this guy down a few pegs may be worth it. Plus I wonder how our lady friend will react when she find out your little bet involving her.' Sly made his way out of the boys Blue dorm, after he finished his recon. 'Little security would just make me feel like a cheap thief. I definitely need to talk to someone about it, but it would look too suspicious if 'Jaden Yuki' told them the problems. Might as well check out the girl's dorm.' Sly thought to himself as he checked his Personal Duel Assistant, PDA for short. He had a map of the island, and that included where the girl's dorm was.

'I gotta say, the girl's dorm is a nice location.' Sly thought, looking at the location in general. It was a fairly nice waterfront building that could house a good deal of people. Security was just as bad as the Boy Blue Dorms, and Sly was almost unhindered in his recon. He didn't even need his family's secret techniques to hide since the few campus security near the girl's dorm checked the grounds, not the interior. 'Well now, this is easy. A roster of who's in which room. This is almost too easy.' He checked the left open roster and found Alexis' room, and he used a blank card and a pen to write a note, but not give out the location. His PDA rang with a message, and Sly answered it quickly so he wouldn't get caught. "Let's finish what we started at Obelisk Arena Slifer Slacker. Winner gets the loser's rarest card and Alexis as his girlfriend." It was pre-recorded audio message with a visual, and sure enough it was Chazz Princeton. Sly quickly finished the note and used the ventilation ducts to hide and move closer to Alexis' room. He found the room, left the message, and quickly ended his recon of the blue dorms to get in his civilian persona and duel Chazz.

Alexis had finished with the welcome banquet, and entered a room with her two roommates. Both were attractive and in the girl's uniform, but one had short hair grey-black hair that was silky smooth. Her companion had red hair in a semi-jagged manner that went just below her shoulders. "It's great we're roomies 'Lexis! Maybe we can see what kind of boys we can catch!"

"Mindy, you don't have to bother her that much." The red haired girl, Jasmine, told Mindy, the grey-black haired girl. "It's alright, but I don't have that much time to be looking for a boyfriend." Alexis then noticed something on her dresser. "What's this?" The three noticed a letter with a raccoon shaped emblem or seal at the end. It read: Alexis, a certain Obelisk Blue has wagered your affections without your consent. If you want to know who then show up at Obelisk Blue as soon as you can.

PS: Do you think you can let DA know the security is so bad an amateur could've snuck in and robbed everyone blind?

Sincerely, Sly Cooper.

Alexis blinked before she growled out. She did not know what she was angrier about: that someone was able to break into her room, or the fact someone offered her as a prize, and she was none the wiser. The note said it was an Obelisk blue student that was doing this, and she had a pretty good idea who it was. "Chazz," she growled out.

Mindy got a look at the card, "Sly Cooper? What kind of name is that?"

Alexis remember seeing that name before, "Jaden has a card with that name, he used it to beat Crowler at the entrance exam duel. I remember he said that it was a thief, or part of a gang of thieves."

Jasmine snorted, "A thief that copied the name of a card? At least they could be original about it." she turned to Alexis "Shouldn't we be worried that a thief was able to sneak in here without getting caught?"

Mindy looked around, "Well I don't think he stole anything so maybe we were lucky."

"Besides, security isn't that great in this place. I'll talk about it with Chancellor Shepherd tomorrow, but for now I got to give a certain duelist a piece of my mind."

Jaden was able to get back to the Slifer Red dorm and get dressed he woke up Syrus and told him about the challenge. Chumsley did not feel like wakeing up so they headed off to meet Chazz.

Jayden and Syrus kept on walking, and Jayden had a bit of a cocky smirk on his face. "Uh, Jayden, why are you smirking?"

"I'm going to see if Chazz can duel. If he can't then I enjoy knocking him down a couple of pegs, but if he can, then I'll get a good duel out of it. Either way it'll be fun."

'And if he can put up a match, then I just might make him a target. Also need to check any rumors of certain cards being used in a duel later.'

Jayden and Syrus made it to the Obelisk Blue Arena from earlier that day, and Chazz Princeton was waiting for them. "Well, I guess the Slifer Slacker decided to show up." Chazz said with confidence. "Yeah, and I think it's time to show you the difference between us." Chazz smirked, "Yeah that you only beat Dr. Crowler by luck you Slifer Slacker!"

Then the door open and Alexis walked in, and she wasn't happy. "Alexis, What's up?" Jaden asked as if he was surprise she was here.

"Oh I found a note a little while again saying that someone was made a challenge, and I would be the girlfriend of the winner, which is funny because I wasn't told anything about it."

Chazz looked worried, but Jaden gave her a small smile, "Sorry Lex, but I just got the message that Chazz challenged me. I had no idea you were out of the loop."

Chazz was really sweating, "Ah, you see…"

Jaden smirked before he activated his duel disk. "How about we duel first, and after I beat you, I will leave Alexis to whatever she's going to do to you."

At the look Alexis gave him he looked worried, but he shook it off and activated his duel disk. "Yeah, yeah, just make sure you get ready to hand over your card, Slifer Slacker," Chazz said.

Jaden: 4000

Chazz: 4000

"I'll go first Slacker, and I summon Reborn Zombie in defense mode." A ragged zombie then appeared on the field, kneeling as if to defend him before it turned blue.

Reborn Zombie Def: 1000

"Then I think I'll play a face down and end my turn."

"My turn," Jaden drew his card, "I'll start off by summoning Samurai Watch Guard in attack mode!" a large boar man wearing samurai armor carrying a spear and a lantern appeared.

Samurai Watch Guard Atk: 1900

"Now Samurai Watch Guard will attack Reborn Zombie!" The Samurai twirled his spear before bringing it down in an overhead slash on to the Zombie. The zombie shattered.

"I'll throw down a face-down and call it a turn."

Chazz looked at the boar like samurai and drew a card. "Fine then, I play Chthonian Soldier in attack mode!" A wicked looking soldier then appeared on the battlefield.

Chthonian Soldier atk: 1200

"I'll place another face down and attack your samurai!" The armored soldier then attacked, but Jaden kept his cool. 'He wouldn't attack with a weaker monster if he did not have something planned up his shelves. I wonder what it is.'

The two warriors squared off before Samurai Watch Guard ran Chthonian Soldier through with his spear. The warrior burst into shards but his sword spun high into the air before it came down and hit Jaden.

Jaden: 3300

Chazz: 3300

Chazz smirked "When Chthonian Soldier is destroyed in battle, you take the same amount of damage that I took. But I'm just getting started. I activate Chthonian Blast! It destroys your monster and we both take damage equal to half of your monsters attack points."

Jaden: 2350

Chazz: 2350

Jaden smirked, "Now this is what I am talking about."

'This guy is not half bad, even if he keeps making our life points the same. But still after security picks up a bit he would make a good target.'

Chazz looked at him before he snorted, "Whatever slacker. Now I activate my face down, Call of the Haunted! With it, I can summon a monster from my graveyard. Rise Chthonian Soldier!" The warrior returned to the field to defend Chazz. "Now it's your turn."

"Okay, I draw!" Jaden drew a card"And I play this card, Police Stakeout. This lets me summon two police token in defense mood." Two pig man monsters, dressed like police officers, appeared. "Then I sacrifice one to summon Sly Cooper!" One of the tokens vanished and Sly Cooper appeared.

As Alexis was closer, she got a better view of the monster, and noticed that the belt buckle looked like the same card she had gotten before.

Jaden held up another card, "And then I equip him with the magic card The Thievius Raccoonus. With this his attack point increase by 500." A book then appeared in Sly's hand.

Sly Cooper Atk: 2500

Chazz growled out, "It doesn't matter, because even if you attack we both will take the same amount of damage. And then I will win this duel the next turn."

Jaden smirked, "I play my face down…"

"First night in the school year and already a long night. Why won't this game just turn into a fad already," A voice said from a door near them.

Everyone heard some people walking around on the other side. "This is the last place to check. Let's just get this over with and call it a night." Said another voice, both of the voices were male.

"Guys, we have to go now or we'll get in trouble with Campus Security." Alexis said, getting Jaden's attention. "Chazz didn't tell you guys that there's no after-hours dueling, and there's no loophole that could get us out."

Jaden frowned before he deactivated his duel disk, "Awe man, and just when I was about to win too."

Chazz scoffed, "Please, all you did was prove my point that you won by pure luck."

They all ran for it, Alexis running with Jaden and Syrus. Once they were far enough away they stopped and took a breather. "That was close," Syrus panted.

Jaden nodded, "I know and jus when I was about to win too."

Alexis looked at him, "How can you be so sure Jaden?"

He held up a card and handed it to her, "This was my face down,"

Alexis looked at it, "Health Absorption Gadget?"

Jaden nodded, "Yeah I can get rid of one of my opponents monster and gain half of it attack point to my life points. He would have been wide open for an attack."

Alexis went wide-eyed as she read the card and found that he was right if he played this card he would have won. "Well, let's see each other again Alexis." Jayden said as he placed Health Absorption Gadget back into his deck. Alexis just looked off in the distance. 'Jaden Yuki, I would love to duel you some time.' She then went back to her own dorm room, ready to tell her roommates about the duel.

"I see, so there's an apparent thief on the premises?" Shepherd asked as Alexis, Mindy, and Jasmine presented the card that had the raccoon shaped symbol. "Yes sir, he had snuck into our dorm room and left this note as proof. He apparently named himself after a card, and the seal is the same as the card's belt buckle. Nothing was stolen, but the fact that someone broke into the girl's dorm is disturbing." Alexis stated calmly. She and her dorm mates had alerted their dorm head, Fonda Fontaine, as soon as they could. Mindy and Jasmine alerted her while Alexis went to the duel. "How could a thief sneak on to the island? I just cannot believe that such a prestigious place would even have a problem as such." Crowler mentioned, not thinking or believing that such a thing could happen. He didn't want to doubt Alexis' word, as she was a star from Obelisk Blue, but he didn't want to think that a thief had broken in the Blue Dorms in the first place. Shepherd looked at the card before up to the girls. "I will look into the matter. I will assure you girls that I will increase security for your dorms." The girls nodded and left. Crower left too still muttering about how someone would dare sneak into the blue dorm.

Shepherd was not listening but looking back at the card. He heard of Sly Cooper before and knew this was one of his calling cards. But from what he knew, Sly steals from other thieves and gangs and there is nothing that would interest him here. He felt like there was more to this then meets the eye. Still the year had just started, and he was not going to let this slow anything down.

Well the night worked out better then I thought. I checked out some of the dorms and found a few targets that will be fun to steal from. Of course I also had some fun messing with that one girl. With any luck there will be more security then before which mean more fun for me.

Still it I had fun even without being my thief mode. I got a sweet dorm with an even better view and it is one of the cooler god cards. I made some cool friends and one is a nice girl. I still have to find a way to steal her heart. Hopefully as Jaden instead of Sly, that would be a pain.

I better get some sleep, I have class tomorrow and maybe start on finding some guys to be part of my gang. Hope my first class is not with that gender-confused doctor.

OC Cards:

Samurai Watch Guard/****/Earth/Atk: 1900/Def: 400/Beast-Warrior/Standing in his armor, this guard keeps watch for protect the treasures of his Shogun.

Police Stakeout/Magic/Place two Police Tokens on your side of the field in defense mode. Police Token/*/Light/Atk: 500/Def: 500.

The Thevius Raccoonus/Magic Equip/This card can only be equipped with a card that has Cooper in its name. Increase the attack and defends point of the equipped monster by 500.

Health Absorption Gadget/Trap/Select one monster on your opponent's side of the field. Destroy that monster and increase your life point equal to half of the attack points of the destroyed monster.