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Chapter 2: As the Days Go By

(A few days after the duel between Hassleberry and Jaden; Inside of Jaden's room at the Slifer Red dorms)

However, a few days after that duel, it shows that they have plenty of ways to go for all of Jaden's friends to agree on that. After the duel, Hassleberry moved into the Slifer Red dorm with Jaden, even though he is a Ra Yellow, in order to 'learn' from Jaden, who he called 'Sarge' now, out of respect for his new friend. Today, we find Chazz Princeton sneaking into Slifer Red dorm room of Jaden, Syrus, and their new 'bunkmate', Tyranno Hassleberry, in order to see Yusuke, Hikari, Kira, Kuwabara, Ranma, Akane, Tyson, Max, Kento, Rowen, and Naruto with Jaden watching an argument between Syrus and Hassleberry.

Syrus yells at Hassleberry, angrily, "I've got one word for your, Sarge! Shower! Try using it! It actually gets you clean!"

Hassleberry retorts, seriously, "Oh, yeah! Well, you talk in your sleep and what's with the nightlight! And your information, I've showered last week!"

Hikari asks Jaden, drolly, "How long have they been at this?"

Jaden replies, nervously, "Ever since Hassleberry moved into our dorm room."

Syrus yells at Hassleberry, annoyed, "Well, next time stand under the water!"

Kira says, putting her right thumb and index finger on her nose, "Syrus is right! Hassleberry does really need a shower!"

Kuwabara says, drolly, "No joke, Kira! I can actually smell the stink!"

Yusuke replies, sarcastically, "Over your stink, Kuwabara? That's a surprise."

Kuwabara yells at Yusuke, annoyed, "Just keep it up, Urameshi!"

Akane asks Ranma, "How long has this been going on?"

Ranma replies, with a sigh, "Ever since the 'Sarge' decided to stay with Jaden."

Just then Chazz says, sounding like television show host or something, "And there you have it, folks! The dweebs in their natural habitat!"

Everyone looks at Chazz to see him filming with a camera in his hands and Tyson yells out, annoyed, "Forget how to knock and what's with the camera, Philini?"

Chazz takes the camera, gets a proud smile on his face, and says, in his usual snobbish tone, "I'm pitching my life as a reality show. It has a great summary: One talented young duelist, forced to live in a dorm full of slackers! Talk about a rating grabber! It'll make me into a big star!"

Syrus says, with a sly grin, "With a big head!" This causes everyone else, but Chazz, to giggle at this.

Jaden says, with a smile, "I think you might be on to something, Chazz, but your show needs a plot twist."

Chazz states, in his usual snobbish tone, "What could be more interesting than me?"

Just then a familiar feminine voice booms, "Am I interrupting something?" Soon after, Ryo Sanada, Mia Koji, wearing now a female Obelisk Blue uniform, Hotaru Saotome, and Alexis Rhodes appears inside of the room with bags in their hands.

Hassleberry says, "Jaden was right! Your show became a whole lot better!"

Jaden asks Alexis, "What's up?"

Kento asks Ryo and Mia, "Hey, guys, something wrong?"

Alexis tells the others, with an annoyed tone, "I've left my dorm for good…"

Ryo states, in an annoyed tone, "…until Crowler has been stripped of power of this school."

Mia says, with an annoyed tone, "I've also left the Obelisk Blue dorms and got back my 'old room' in the Ra Yellow dorm where I'll be staying with you, guys, until you are promoted."

Alexis says, with a serious tone, "However, I think it will be safer for me, here. Do you have room for one more?"

Rowen asks Ryo, "What happened in the Obelisk Blue dorm?"

Hotaru says, a bit annoyed, "Our current Chancellor is what happened."

Chazz yells out, excitedly, "I've got a better idea!"

Kira asks Syrus, "Does he ever quit?"

Syrus whispers to Kira, with a sigh, "No way. Major crush on Alexis."

Kira whispers back, disgusted, "Yuck. No way, I put Chazz on a girl like Alexis."

Yusuke whispers, disgusted, "Yeah, no joke! She has a better chance with Jay than a snob like Chazz!"

(A short time later; Elsewhere within the Slifer Red dorm)

In another part of the Slifer Red dorm, Chazz shows off his redesigned dorm, which was as big as living in a normal house with more elegant 'stuff', and Chazz says, with a sly grin and usual snobbish tone, "I give you 'Le Chazz', the ultimate in dorming elegance."

Tyson asks, perplexed, "A spa with a waterfall in the bathroom? Don't you think that's overkill?"

Yusuke says, stunned, "Oh! I think that we went way past overkill in somewhere between the bowling alley in the basement and the three ringed circus in the living room!"

Just then, a familiar female voice calls out, "This is a wonderful place you've done for yourself, Chazz." Everyone looks to see Isabel walking out of the room with the hot springs.

Ryo says, plainly, "Miss Takahashi!"

Chazz says, with a sly smile, "Thank you and I hope that you like the spa that I've built for you, just like you wanted."

Isabel says, with a smile, "I do love it! Thank you so much!" On the meanwhile, Kagome, Yusuke, and Ranma were looking at Isabel with interested looks.

Flashback; at the front of the Slifer Red dorm

The evening after Chazz's and Ryo's duels, we find in front of the Slifer Red dorm, Kagome Higurashi, Yusuke Urameshi, and Ranma Saotome assembled in front of Inuyasha and his sisters when they told them about Isabel being the reincarnation of their mother.

Kagome asks them, curiously, "So the three of you may believe that Miss Takahashi could be your mother reincarnated?"

Inuyasha says, in a serious tone, "We're positive, Kagome! Isabel had most traits that my mother used to have. She loved lemon tea or she didn't get so freaked out with our ears as well as she made us go to that duel without much of a fight."

Yusuke asks, curiously, "Wait! She made you!"

Melody says, in a plain tone, "Yeah, she also cooked as good as our mother and she almost looks exactly like her, even though she didn't have the same scent as her."

Megumi says, in a serious tone, "Also, we looked at her room and she stated that she loved anything from the Feudal Era, our time frame! When we look at her as well as with her, the memories of our mother come back into our minds."

Ranma asks, curiously, "By the way, you didn't say anything on how your mother died?" The three dog hanyous look at each other and Megumi says, lowly and angrily, "A few bandits from our time came and killed her in cold blood."

Kagome says, in a plain tone, "Myoga as well as Inuyasha told me this after we had to deal with the So'unga deal."

Yusuke says, in a plain tone, "Maybe the next time that I see Pacifier Breath, then maybe I'd get some clues on Miss Takahashi."

End Flashback; Back to the present

Back to the present, we find ourselves back at Chazz's redesigned room.

Alexis says, with a smile, "High ceiling, marble floors…Wow! I never thought that I ever say this, Chazz, but I'm impressed! It's awesome and tons of space! So, do you mind if I crash here for awhile?"

Jaden asks, curiously, "I thought that you were going to stay with us."

Chazz gets in-between Jaden and Alexis and yells out, in his usual snobbish tone, "Zip it! You can't argue with what she wants!"

Hikari bashes him in the head and says, annoyed, "No, but I can argue about your rudeness, Princeton, so, watch it!"

Jaden says, uncomfortably, "I guess. If you like high ceilings and marble floors…"

Chazz states, in his usual tone, "Let's see! Stay in a decent room with soft beds and beautiful stuff or stay in the room with lumpy pillow and a family of roaches?"

As Alexis goes down and Ryo and Mia follow her, Syrus asks them, "Why do you leave the Obelisk Blue dorms in the first place, you three?"

Alexis opens the bag, takes out a red dress with a matching pink and yellow dress, and Alexis exclaims, "This is why!"

Hassleberry says, nervously, "Nice dress, ma'am."

Alexis says, with a snort, "Oh, please. This is all Crowler's idea! He wanted me to sing and where this during when I duel!"

Mia replies, with an annoyed tone, "Same here! He wanted me to perform a few dance steps and sing for every card that I play!"

Ryo says, in an annoyed tone, "Not only that…!" Ryo takes out a red suit from his bag, with an annoyed look on his face, which got Rowen and Kento gaping in shock and Kento says, "Ryo, dude, what's up with the weird suit!"

Ryo says, in an annoyed snarl, "Crowler wanted me to wearing this while I'm dueling, he says that it brings out styling in dueling!"

Kento asks, drolly, "What was he on, bro?"

Ryo says, annoyed, "No clue! He was crazy as hell if I was going to wear this!"

Yusuke calls out to Alexis, with a sly grin, "Yeah! You are no good at picking a tone!" Just then Alexis's right fist slams into Yusuke's forehead, giving one nasty lump, and knocking him into the couch.

Kento says, winching in fear, "Ooh, that's got to leave mark!"

Hikari slaps herself on the forehead and thinks, solemnly, "Nice one, bro!"

Alexis calls out, annoyed, "Any more smart mouth remarks, Urameshi?" Yusuke groans in pain as his body lies down on the couch while anime-spirals are in his eyes and a circle of stars around his head.

Hikari goes to his brother's injured form and asks, helping him into a sitting position on the couch, "What in the world is Crowler thinking anyway, Lex?"

Alexis says, with a snort, "Something about turning me, Ryo, and Mia into dueling pop stars or something!"

Mia states, with an annoyed tone, "Can you picture us doing that and wearing these dresses?" Just then Chazz gets a dreamy facial expression, he imagines Alexis in the dress, and Alexis asks him, in confusion and annoyance, "Uh, guys?"

Jaden replies, cluelessly, "You're right! Who wants to see you in that thing?"

Alexis replies, nervously, "Um…thanks."

Chazz tells Jaden, annoyed, "Real smooth! Don't you get it? This isn't about the dress! It's about Chancellor Crowler!"

Jaden asks, curiously, "He is going to wear the dresses?"

Everyone gives a groan of disgust and Mia says, "Nobody's wearing that dress, Jaden!"

Alexis says, in a serious tone, "Since Crowler is head of the school, he is more dangerous than ever! He wants to further his career and he is using us to do it!"

Jaden says, with a serious tone, "You're right! He needs to be stopped! Who's with me?"

Mia says, with a smile, "And Alexis has an idea to find out what he is up to."

Syrus asks, curiously, "What do you mean?"

Alexis tells Syrus, with a smile, "I've only showed this to Ryo and Mia so far, but…" Alexis puts the dresses down, gets a bit of distance from everyone, puts her hands together in a ninja hand sign fashion, and yells out, "Transform!" Just then Alexis is covered in smoke and dust causing everyone to gasp in shock and then out of the smoke and dust, Alexis reappears in the total height, weight, and look of Chancellor Crowler down to the face and clothing.

'Chancellor Crowler' says, exactly in his voice with a sly smile, "What do you think?" Everyone gasps in shock as 'Chancellor Crowler' turns back into Alexis.

Isabel says, surprised, "Oh my!"

Naruto calls out, stunned, "That's a transformation jutsu! But how did you know that?"

Alexis says, with a smile, "Some years ago when I was a kid, my family and I were attacked by some rouge ninja and a young looking female Shinobi with an assistant came and saved us. My family was so grateful, they allowed her a place to stay for awhile, and she accepted. During that time, she took a 'liking' to me and taught me how to harness my charka, perform a transformation jutsu, use kunai and shuriken, and a lot of physical combat along with plenty of taijutsu in order to defend myself and my family. We found out that she was someone that you know as one of three Legendary Sannins from your village: Lady Tsunade."

Naruto's eyes when pop out of their sockets and he exclaims, shocked, "What? You've got training from Grandma Tsunade?"

Syrus asks Naruto, curiously, "You know her?"

Naruto says, with a serious tone, "No duh, Sy! She is the current Hokage, the leader, of our village known simply as the Fifth Hokage and she is the granddaughter of the First Hokage."

Alexis says, amazed, "Wow. So, Lady Tsunade is the leader of your village."

Naruto says, with a proud smile, "Yep! Two years ago in fact and when I helped bring her back, she helped three friends of mine! She might look young, but in fact, she is over fifty years old, but with some kind of special transformation jutsu, she barely looks twenty or so!"

Jaden asks Alexis, "Do you know anything else?"

Alexis says, with a smile, "Lady Tsunade also tried to teach me a Shadow Clone Jutsu, but I was never good at it at first. However, I practiced a lot and well…" Alexis performs the hand signs for a Shadow Clone Jutsu and she calls out, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Alexis is covered in smoke again and when it clears, two solid Alexis clones stand by the original.

Jenny says, amazed, "Wow! I never knew this!"

Alexis and her two clones reply in unison, "That's because I didn't tell you, because that'll make me into a complete show-off! However, I can only make up the three clones at one time and that's it! If I try beyond that, I will use up my chakra or spirit energy."

Yusuke gets to his feet and says, with a smile, "Trying to scare us with that trick? I learned from Genkai about that trick and learned that these 'copies' can be solid or just plain illusions! Ha! I say that these 'clones' of yours couldn't even touch me."

Naruto says, cautiously, "Uh…Yusuke…" It was too late, Yusuke then reaches out for one of the Alexis clones, but the clone grabs him by the arm, flings him forward, and the second clone slams her right knee into his chest, sending him flying right back into the couch.

Alexis says, with a snort and annoyed tone, "Think my clones are just illusions now, Urameshi?" Yusuke holds his chest and shakes his head nervously.

Hotaru tells Akane, with a sly smile, "Don't even bother asking her about training since I told her about your temper tantrums."

Akane says, in a snort, "I wasn't going to ask since she came here with you."

Just then the door bursts open, Alexis's two Shadow Clones vanished, and everyone looks to see Bastion Misawa, Tenchi Masaki, Ray Kon, Kai Hiwatari, Hilary Tachibana, Cye Mouri, Sage Date, Ryoko Hakubi, wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform, Keiko Yukimura, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno.

Bastion says, seriously, "Syrus, there are you are!"

Syrus asks, curiously, "What's up?"

Bastion tells Syrus, in a serious tone, "A duel! For you!"

Syrus asks, nervously, "A duel? For me? With who?"

Keiko replies, "Her name is Missy, she's an Obelisk Blue student and she duels with a duel full of insect monsters."

Alexis says, seriously and with disgust, "Missy? Okay, that girl totally freaks me out! But she is very good."

Chazz tells Syrus, with a low sarcastic tone, "Congrats, you're Crowler's next victim."

Jaden calls out, seriously, "Wait! Sy, this could be your big break! You're going to win and prove everyone wrong! They are going to see the brave Sy!"

Syrus says, in a low timid tone, "Jaden, one question: When you see the 'Brave Syrus', can you tell him that the wimpy one is looking for him?" Syrus wails out as he ran from his friends.

Hassleberry leaps after him and exclaims, "Hey, Truesdale?"

Bastion yells out, perplexed, "Syrus!" Syrus ran out of the door and Ryoko jumps up from her seat and yells out, "Where do you think you're going, twerp!" She, Yusuke, Ranma, and Hassleberry ran after the little blue haired Slifer.

Jaden says, lowly, "Sy…"

Sakura asks, perplexed, "Okay, what's up with him?"

Jenny sighs and says, solemnly, "Sy has a bit of a confidence problem…simply, he thinks he can't win…You see, Syrus told me this after his and Jaden's duel with the Paradox brothers last year…years ago when he was younger, he was dueling a school bully and winning. He was about to play a card that Zane gave him, Power Bond, when Zane stopped him and stopped the duel. Zane then told Syrus that the bully's face-down card was Spellbinding Circle and Syrus realized that he would have lost if he used Power Bond since at the end of the turn, the original attack points of the Machine Fusion monster that he summoned with Power Bond gets taken from his score. However, Zane isn't exactly good with 'big brother, younger brother relations' and the way that he told Sy made him lose great confidence in himself."

Kira tells Hikari, with a sly tone and smile, "So, your boyfriend isn't perfect after all."

Hikari yells at Kira, annoyed, "Shut up, Kira! So, Zane isn't perfect! No one is!"

Jaden tells Hikari, "Easy, Kari!"

Jenny says, "Anyway, Syrus suffers from a low confidence problem and it takes friends like Jaden or me to boost him…for a short time. I mean it took Jaden's encouragement to get through that tag duel with the Paradox Brothers that I told you about and they barely won."

Bastion says, logically, "In short, unless we boost Syrus's confidence in himself, he doesn't stand a chance. He is a pretty good duelist, Jaden has seen that in him, but unless he has the confidence to match his skills, he won't be playing at his best and he won't stance a chance against Missy."

Keiko asks, concerned, "What can we do?"

(Sometime after Syrus's run; At Jaden's, Syrus's, and Hassleberry's room)

In Jaden, Syrus and Hassleberry's room, we find Yusuke, Ranma, and Ryoko, with their arms crossed and Hassleberry on his bed above Syrus's, which had the youngest Truesdale brother, hiding in the covers.

Hassleberry says, in a serious tone, "Come on, solder! Up and at him!"

Yusuke says, in a serious tone, "That's right, Syrus! You can't possibly stay in there forever!"

Syrus's voice boomed in the covers, "Of course not! Just for a few days, a weeks tops! But don't worry! I've got everything that I need here: bottled water, candy hams, Mr. Fudgy Bear…"

Ryoko says, annoyed, "I'm not gonna ask…"

Ranma grabs hold of Syrus's covers and yells out, "Come on!" Ranma pulls hard enough to have the covers pulled from Syrus as Syrus came out, spinning in the air and fell onto the ground.

Hassleberry says, in his usual manner, "Listen up, soldier! Fear is your mortal enemy and fear needs to be destroyed! Now get up and fight that fear! Fight that fear!"

Syrus sits up and says, "But…I'm afraid to!"

Hassleberry says, seriously, "Then, you've already lost the war. Is that what you want? No! You want win and not against that Missy girl, but against your own fear! Now, what scares you the most, Truesdale!"

(The next day; within Obelisk Arena)

However, the next day, everyone's worries about Syrus dueling against Missy was washed away when he dueled her and won and the whole crowd is celebrating his victory. Through when Missy cried out for Zane, Yusuke and Kira had to hold their elder twin sister back from running up there and kicking her ass all over arena. Today, we find our heroes and heroines, Digidestined, four Shinobi from the Hidden Leaf Village, our Spirit Detective team, our Ronin Warriors, our Bladebreakers, Jaden, Ichigo, Tenchi, and his friends celebrating Syrus's victory, except for Chazz, Hiei, and Sasuke, who are just plain silent.

Syrus was waving towards the audience and just then, a feminine voice calls out, excitedly, "Way to go, Sy!" Syrus turns to see a girl his age, which was normal height for most teenaged girls her age. She had blonde hair, tied to two pigtails, with light brown eyes covered by glasses. She also wore a female Ra Yellow uniform.

Syrus yells out, shocked, "What! Ryuko!" Without warning, the girl, known as Ryuko grabs Syrus in an embrace that made his face go red. Meanwhile, Syrus's friends, new and old, looked at this with surprise and confusion.

Chazz asks, in his usual snobbish tone, "Who's the Ra girl, hugging the shrimp?"

Jaden replies, "Beats me, Chazz! She must know Sy from somewhere!"

Kento says, with a sly smile, "Or I bet that Sy got himself a girlfriend."

Keiko takes a good look of Ryuko and she yells out, shocked, "I know that girl!"

Hikari asks, curiously, "You do?"

Keiko tells Hikari, in a plain tone, "Yeah, remember our days from Sarayashiki Junior High, she was one of those girls that I talked to. Her name is Ryuko Lyon."

Yusuke yells out, seriously, "I remember her now!"

Ryuko lets go of Syrus and Syrus asks, stunned, "Ryuko, I didn't know that you go to this school!"

Ryuko says, with a sly smile, "Since, the beginning of this year! I've been trying to get to you, but I couldn't! I can't believe that you're in Ra Yellow with me!"

Syrus laughs nervously and Jaden's voice calls out, "Hey Sy, nice duel!" Syrus and Ryuko turn to see Syrus's friends, old and new, walking towards them.

Alexis asks Syrus, with a smile, "Hey Sy, who's your friend?"

Syrus points at Ryuko and he replies, "This is Ryuko Lyon…" Syrus smiles with a blush and says, "She's a childhood friend of mine."

Alister snickers, slyly, and says, with a sly tone, "Come on, Sy! Don't you mean girlfriend?" This caused both Syrus and Ryuko to blush and earned Alister a jab on the ribs by his annoyed sister. Keiko says, annoyed, "Alister, please!"

Chazz says, in his usual snobbish tone, "You had friends when you're a kid! That's believable!" That earned him a punch in the ribs by Hikari, which knocked the breath out of him and Hikari says, in a serious tone, "Watch it, Princeton! Another crack like that again and the next punch is really going to hurt!"

Chazz winches as he held his chest and he thinks in his mind, seriously, "Damn! That hurt! Most of Hikari's punches hurt like hell, then again, I'm not surprised considering that she's Yusuke's elder twin sister!"

Jaden says, with a kind smile, "Nice to meet you, Ryuko! My name is Jaden Yuki, one of Syrus's Academy friends."

Ryuko nods her head and she says, with a smile, "I know you! They say that even though you don't do well on academies, you do well with dueling! They also call you the 'Miracle Duelist' and has beaten many of the best Obelisk students in this school, as well as Crowler, when he was a teacher."

Jaden laughs loudly and he says, with a lopsided grin, "That's right!" Jaden points at Yusuke and Kuwabara and says, "These are two of my childhood friends, Yusuke Urameshi and Kazuma Kuwabara!"

Ryuko yelps in shock and fear and yells out, shocked, "Whoa! THE Great Urameshi and Kazuma Kuwabara, what are you guys doing here!"

Syrus says, with a smile, "Don't worry about it, Ryuko! Yusuke isn't as bad as the rumors are and the same is double for Kuwabara."

Keiko says, with a kind smile, "That's right!"

Ryuko looks at Keiko and she says, surprised, "Keiko, you go to this school now!"

Keiko says, with a kind smile, "Yeah! I decided a change."

Ryuko looks at Sasuke and she says, shocked, "No way, Sasuke Uchiha, the last of the Uchiha clans!"

Naruto tells Sasuke, with a sly grin, "It seems like you are quite well-known, Sasuke."

Sasuke tells Naruto, with a plain tone, "Shut up, idiot." Naruto gives a growl of annoyance at Sasuke and sticks his tongue at him causing him to think, "Typical Naruto. Just as foolish as ever."

Tyson says, with a smile, "Hi, I'm Tyson! Tyson Granger!" Ryuko gasps in shock and she says, stunned, "You mean that you're the world champion beyblader!"

Tyson says, with a smile, "The one and only!" Tyson then notion to his friends and says, "These are my friends, Hilary Tachibana, Daichi Sumeragi, Kenny, we sometimes call him 'Chief', Max Tate, Ray Kon, and the other one is my friend and team leader, Kai Hiwatari."

Ryuko tells Kai, with a smile, "I've heard about you! You're the talk among the girls from my old school."

Kai says, plainly, "Whatever."

Tyson tells Ryuko, with a reassuring smile, "Don't mind Kai, Ryuko. He's always like that, including us." Soon after, Crowler calls out, through a microphone, "All right, everyone! Settle down!" When everyone does so, Crowler yells out, through the microphone, "Now, will the two duelists clear the stage for the next duel?"

Every one of the students, except for Sasuke, gasp in shock and Ranma asks, curiously, "Huh? There is another duel?"

Yolei tells Ranma, "It seems so, Ranma."

Akane says, in her usual annoyed tone, "Why should we be surprised? It is most likely another scheme of Crowler's to increase his reputation like he did with Alexis, Hotaru, and Ryo."

Kiyone tells Akane, with a smile, "Well, we will have a talk with Chancellor Crowler about that."

Sasuke says, with a plain tone, "Don't think that he will listen to you."

Sakura says, with a serious tone, "I hate to admit it, Kiyone-sensei, but Sasuke has a point. Crowler does things for himself and now that he is running this school, I don't think he will obey a simple teacher. Sorry."

Washu tells Sakura, with her sly smile, "Don't worry about it. We understand."

Crowler calls out, with a serious tone through the microphone, "Now, will Sasuke Uchiha report to the dueling arena?"

Our heroes and heroines, except for Sasuke and Hiei, along with much of the school gasp in shock and Naruto exclaims, annoyed, "Damn him! Now, he is planning to use Sasuke's `fame' as one of the last Uchihas to boost his popularity!"

Sakura yells out, angrily, "What an asshole!"

Sasuke stands up, takes a duel disk hidden under his seat, and Alexis asks him, "Hey, you aren't going up there, are you?"

Sasuke says, attaching the duel disk to his left wrist and in a plain tone, "He wants to give me a challenge. Fine. I never back down from a challenge. However, I plan to show him what he is up against." Sasuke then uses his ninja speed and agility to easily bound down to the stadium as well as onto the dueling platform where Syrus and Missy have left and where an Obelisk Blue boy of sixteen year with deep dark red well-combined hair and deep blue eyes is waiting for him.

Crowler calls out, through the microphone, "Mr. Uchiha's opponent shall be Tom Hartwill from Obelisk Blue!"

Kurama says, with a serious and plain tone, "I've heard of him from my fellow Obelisk. He has one nasty attitude, but his dueling skills are quite admirable."

Hikari says, with an annoyed tone, "No joke! He is always flirting with the Obelisk Blue girls and making egoistical boasts, but I know that Sasuke can beat him to the ground!"

Alexis asks Hotaru, curiously, "Speaking of flirting, we haven't heard much about that guy who came onto you."

Ranma asks, curiously, "What guy?"

Hotaru says, in an annoyed snort, "One of the people that the old man coned me into marrying!"

Ranma says, in an annoyed tone, "You're kidding!"

Akane says, in disbelief, "Another fiancé!"

Kagome yells out, annoyed, "Uncle Genma strikes again!"

Yusuke says, with an annoyed sigh, "Not again!"

Ryuko asks, perplexed, "Fiancé?"

Keiko tells Ryuko, in an annoyed tone, "Yusuke's Uncle Genma's overgrown stomach strikes again! He does this to Ranma and Hotaru and poor Ukyo was one of the people that he ruined her life for ten years."

Ukyo says, in an annoyed tone, "He's been selling Ranchan and Hochan for food or money as well as other things."

Ryuko yells out, shocked and angrily, "That creep! What kind of parent would do that!"

Ranma says, in an annoyed tone, "That old man is really getting on my nerves!"

Crowler yells out, through the microphone, "The stakes in this duel are: If Mr. Uchiha wins this duel, he shall be granted immediately entry into Obelisk Blue and if Mr. Hartwill wins, he shall immediately allowed to graduate and go into the Pro leagues."

Chazz says, in his usual annoyed tone, "Typical."

Kira says, annoyed, "That Crowler really disgusts me! I wish that I could take him down a few by using as pawns for his career, but I don't want to get into trouble."

Tom raises his left arm, displaying a duel disk with a dueling deck inside, and he says, with a nasty grin, "So, if it isn't the infamous Sasuke Uchiha, one of the last living members of the massacred Uchiha? Last thing I heard that you went rogue, abandoned your friends, and abandoned your village! Guess the apple doesn't fall from the family tree since I hear that it was your own big bro that killed your clan and your family."

Sasuke states, with a deadly glare in his eyes and a plain tone, "You dare compare him to me?"

Tom asks, with a nasty smile on his lips, "Well, I got your aroused, eh, Uchiha? What are you going to do? Kill me?"

Naruto calls out, angrily, "That asshole! He is trying to arouse Sasuke!"

Sakura shouts out, angrily, "He is really getting me mad! I'm ready to teach him some manners!"

Kari tells Sakura, "No, Sakura! You can't or you will get yourself and possible Sasuke in trouble!"

TK tells Sakura, with a nervous tone, "Easy, Sakura. That's what he wants to do to Sasuke."

Just then Sasuke gives one his rare sly grins and Tom asks, perplexed, "What's that smile for?"

Sasuke replies, with a rare sly tone, "I didn't really damn well care about this duel. This is Crowler's pathetic attempt to get his reputation improved through my 'fame' as you would call it, but since you need to be taught a lesson, I've change my mind and plan to give this duel my all and teach you a lesson that you will never forget." Sasuke puts his dueling deck into his duel disk and activates it, causing the life-point counter to display 4000 life-points.

Tom calls out, activating his duel disk, "Bring it on, Uchiha!"

"Duel!" the two duelists yell out in unison as they draw five cards from their decks.

Starting Scores:

Tom: 4000

Sasuke: 4000

Sasuke draws one card from his hand, looks at his hand, and says, with another rare sly smile and plain tone, "Well, it looks this duel is over before it began."

Tom yells out, annoyed, "You're just bluffing! Now, just make your move!"

Sasuke puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "First, I play my Graceful Charity! I draw three cards from my deck and discard two from my hand!" Sasuke draws three cards from his deck, discards two from his hand, and then puts one card in the spell/trap slot, declaring, "Next, I play Monster Reborn! This card allows me to revive one monster from my graveyard and I choose to revive the monster that I just sent to my grave! Red-Eyes Black Dragon!" Soon after, Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) appears on the field in attack mode.

Tom calls out, annoyed, "So, what? You might have summoned that powerful monster, but you can't attack with it since it is your first turn!"

Sasuke replies, putting another card in the spell/trap slots, "My Inferno Fire Blast spell card says differently! Now, when I don't attack with Red-Eyes this turn, you take damage equal to his original attack points!"

Tom yells out, shocked, "What?"

Sasuke calls out, seriously, "Red-Eyes, show this loser what I mean!" Red-Eyes Black Dragon fires a dark sphere of flame energy right into Tom and he yells out as he loses 2400 life-points. Sasuke puts another card in the spell/trap slots and says, "Next, I play my Trap Booster spell card! Now, by discarding one card in my hand, I can play one trap card from my hand right now!" Sasuke discards one card from his hand, puts another card in the spell/trap slots, and calls out, "So, I play Ring of Destruction! This card destroys one monster in attack mode and we take damage equal its attack points!" Just then a huge ring with red explosives appears around Red-Eyes Black Dragon's neck and Sasuke tells Red-Eyes, telepathically, "Sorry, friend, but I have to do this to you!" Red-Eyes gives a loud roar like a roar of approval, Sasuke gives a rare sly smirk, puts the final card in his hand in the spell/trap slots, and says, "Even through, I've already won, to prove my point, I play my Ring of Defense! This card shall shield me from the effect of my trap card!" Just then a huge green ring appears in front of Sasuke and spins around as Ring of Destruction explodes, taking out Red-Eyes, but only Tom receives damage in the form of 2400 points of damage, ending the duel immediately.

Final Score:

Sasuke: 4000

Tom: 0

Everyone, except for Hiei, gasp in shock from Sasuke's victory and Max exclaims, amazed, "Whoa! He won in one turn!"

Naruto says, with a proud smile, "Ha! Same old Sasuke! I knew he couldn't without even breaking a sweat!"

Sakura shouts out, excitedly, "Way to go, Sasuke!"

Crowler quickly regains his composer and calls out, "And the winner of this duel, by one turn knockout, is Sasuke Uchiha, who will be advancing into Obelisk Blue!"

Tom falls to his knees and says, into total disbelief, "I lost? In one turn? How could I lose to a Ra Yellow?"

Sasuke says, with a plain tone, "Fool. Didn't you hear what Chazz said during his duel with Reginald or Jaden Yuki's duels? It doesn't matter what color you wear. You will always be a loser...no, I shouldn't compare you to Naruto. Even that clown has more skill in his right pinky than you have in your entire body. Guess that blue blazer you got was be 'connections' and not skill because that is something that you will never have." Sasuke then turns away and head back to his 'friends' and allies.

(Sometime later; Back within Obelisk Arena)

Some days have passed since Syrus's duel with Missy with Syrus getting into Ra Yellow, but choosing to stay in the Slifer Red dorm a lot to be with his best friend, Jaden, and with Sasuke moving up into the Obelisk Blue dorm, but he tends to be mostly apart from his now fellow Obelisk Blue students. During the time since that duel, Kira and Kuwabara made up to Ra Yellow, Sakura joins Sasuke in Obelisk Blue, Kento and Cye also pasted their own promotion exams to Obelisk Blue, and Yolei, Ken, and Kari have made their way from Ra Yellow into Obelisk Blue. Today, however, we find Jaden Yuki dueling against Bastion Misawa with Jaden having Elemental Hero Flame Wingman (2100/1200) and Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) on the field in attack mode while Bastion has his Water Dragon (2800/2600) in attack mode, but Jaden just drew and played his Polymerization.

Jaden calls out, "Check this out! Polymerization! Now, I fuse my Flame Wingman with Sparkman!" The two monsters go into a fusion vortex while their two cards go to the graveyard, Jaden he calls out, "Now, give it up for my Shining Flare Wingman!" Out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman (2500/2100-4900/2100) comes to the field in attack mode with a power increase thanks to eight Elemental Hero monsters in Jaden's grave. Jaden calls out, "Now, attack Shining Flare Wingman! Finish him off with Solar Flare!" Shining Flare Wingman leaps up towards Water Dragons, rams its right fist into it, destroys it, and Bastion's life-points drop to zero, ending the duel.

Jaden calls out, excitedly, "That's game!"

After the holograms fade away while their duel disks de-activate, Bastion tells Jaden, with a smile, "Good job! You would be our top student if you get to class on time."

Jaden asks Bastion, curiously, "Who needs class?"

Bastion tells Jaden, coming up to him and with a smile, "Well, good grades help. You want to go pro, don't you?"

Jaden holds up a magazine, displaying an article with Zane in front of his favorite monster, the Cyber End Dragon, and says, "Yeah. But I don't need grades. I need a challenge. I mean, I've dueled and beaten practically everybody here except for Yusuke, Tyson, Tenchi, Ichigo, and Ryo, who managed to tie with me." FYI: During this time period, Jaden has been busy and he dueled Yusuke, Tyson, Tenchi, Ranma, Ichigo, and Ryo once during this time, but they've managed to tie with him. Jaden says, with a smile, "What I need is to challenge them and find another great challenge and then I will be ready to duel with the pros like Zane."

Just then a familiar male voice calls out, "Jaden!" Just then Jaden and Bastion look to see Syrus, wearing a Ra Yellow blazer run up to and climb onto the dueling platform.

Jaden asks, "What's up, guys?"

Syrus tells Jaden, "You will never believe who is dueling in the Kaiba dome tonight!"

Bastion asks, curiously, "Zane?"

Syrus tells Bastion, solemnly, "Ah, man! You ruined the surprise!"

Bastion replies, nervously, "Sorry!"

Syrus then tells Jaden, seriously, "But you will never guess who is dueling my bro?"

Jaden replies, curiously, "Aster Phoenix?"

Syrus replies, solemnly, "Ah, man!"

(During the same evening; within the Slifer Red dorm)

Back at Duel Academy, in Chazz's room, we find our heroes and heroines, namely the Spirit Detective team, Tyson and his friends, Jaden and his friends were assembled there talking about the duel between Zane and Aster.

Alexis asks, in a curious tone, "So Zane's gonna duel Aster Phoenix!"

Chazz says, in his usual snobbish tone, "Please, don't tell me that you're afraid that Aster's going to win, come on, that overrated punk couldn't even beat Jaden!"

Ryuko asks Chazz, in a plain tone, "But from what Jenny told me, you're one of those that have lost to Jaden?"

Chazz yells at Ryuko, annoyed, "Who asked you!"

Jaden thinks in his mind, "But when I dueled Aster, he didn't use his real deck! He used a few trashed cards, right before we threw down."

Syrus asks Jaden, curiously, "Hey, Jay, are you okay?"

Jaden says, with a smile, "Yeah, Zane will win!"

Bastion tells Jaden, in a logical tone, "May I remind you that Aster Phoenix has yet to reveal his real deck!"

Kenny says, in a serious tone, "Bastion's right, everyone! From what we know, Zane is going to embark on his greatest dueling career."

Hikari says, with a sly grin, "But that doesn't mean that Zane will lose to some kid!"

Hilary says, in a plain tone, "I don't know, Kari! From what I've heard about Aster Phoenix is that he's really good enough to make the pros at a young age."

(During at evening hours that same day; within one of the large classrooms with Duel Academy)

Inside of one of the large classrooms within the main building of Duel Academy, we find Jaden Yuki, Jenny Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, Ryuko Lyon, Bastion Misawa, Chazz Princeton, Tyranno Hassleberry, and Alexis Rhodes together as the students prepare to take their seats as the duel between Aster Phoenix and Zane Truesdale is about to begin.

Just then a familiar male voice calls out, "Don't mind if you have some more friends over?" Jaden and his friends look to see Ryo, Kento, who's wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Cye, who is wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Rowen, Sage, Mia, along with Naruto, Hinata, Sasuke, who is wearing male Obelisk Blue uniform, Sakura, who is wearing a female Obelisk uniform, Ino, Tenten, Neji, Lee, Tyson, Max, wearing a Ra Yellow blazer, Ray, Kai, Kenny, Hilary, Daichi, Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, Kiyone, Ichigo, Orihime, Rukia, Chad, Uryu, Yusuke, Keiko, Hikari, Kuwabara, wearing a Ra Yellow blazer, Kira, wearing a Ra Yellow blazer with her 'tomboy clothes' instead of a female Ra Yellow uniform, Kurama, Yukina, Kari, also wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform, Yolei, wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform and also, Ken, wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform.

Jaden tells Ryo, with a smile, "No problem! The more the merrier!" Soon after, the newcomers took their seats.

Jaden asks Kira, "So, how do you like the Ra Yellow dorm?"

Kira says, with a smile, "It's not bad. At least there aren't any roaches in there."

Yolei asks Kira, "Why are you wearing that? Didn't they give you a female Ra Yellow uniform to wear like Keiko's uniform?"

Kira says, with an angered snort, "Don't even get me started there, Yolei."

Yolei asks Hikari, nervously, "What's her problem?"

Hikari replies, with a nervous tone, "Kira has a thing with mini-skirts and stuff that looks 'girlish'."

Sakura asks, curiously, "Isn't Kira a girl like me and you, Hikari?" Kira gives Sakura a deadly death glare and Sakura winches in surprise.

Jaden tells Sakura, nervously, "Sakura, it isn't a good idea to go there."

Just then, a familiar female voice calls out, "So there you all are!" Everyone looks up to see Isabel, Inuyasha and his sisters, who were wearing hats on their heads.

Kagome asks, curiously, "What are you guys doing here?"

Isabel says, with a smile, "I've decided that they should learn some things in this school! We can't have them do nothing on their stay here."

Kagome says, with a smile, "No, I don't suppose not!" Kagome thinks in her mind, plainly, "Just like a motherly thing to say!" Soon after, Isabel and the three dog hanyous found seats behind our heroes and heroines.

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, "Hotaru, my dear! There you were!"

Hotaru says, in a groan, "Oh no!" Everyone looks to see Hoshi Saionji walking towards where our heroes and heroines were sitting.

Ranma asks, curiously, "I take it that this is the fiancé that Pops set Hotaru with."

Ryo asks, curiously, "Fiancé?"

Inuyasha says, in an annoyed snort, "It's one of those people that Ranma and Hotaru's old man set up to fed his overgrown gut!"

Hotaru tells Hoshi, in a plain tone, "Hoshi, I know that you're a nice guy, but I don't see us marrying each other." Soon after, there were many gasps in shock and Syrus yells out, shocked, "Marry!"

Ranma tells Syrus, in an annoyed snap, "Syrus, not so loud!"

Yolei says, in a serious tone, "But you're sixteen and still in school!"

Akane says, in an annoyed tone, "Nope! In fact, our fathers had forced an arranged marriage on Ranma and me."

Ken says, seriously, "So, in other words."

Ranma says, in his usual tone, "In other words, I'm stuck with this uncute flatchested tomboy." Just then, Ranma's face was met with his table by Akane's hand hard.

Akane yells out, nastily, "Well, it's not a dream for me to be engaged to a perverted jerk like you!" Just then, Akane's face was met with the table by Hotaru's hand hard.

Hotaru says, with a sly smile, "Speaking of perverts, Tendo, I seem to remember something that you did to me when we first met!" Akane groans in pain as she feels her face being pressed against the table.

Alexis asks Ukyo, curiously, "Are they always like this?"

Ukyo says, with a sly smile, "Oh yeah! It works with Ranma and Akane arguing or Akane and Hotaru with Akane hitting Ranma and Hotaru hitting Akane even harder for hitting Ranma."

Hoshi says, in a plain tone, "It's impossible to cancel the engagement since it was made with our fathers."

Tyson asks Hotaru, curiously, "You mind explain this to the peanut gallery?"

Ranma raises his head and he says, in a snort, "Well, you remember what the old man has done to me and Hotaru, right?"

Isabel says, in a serious tone, "Ranma, Inuyasha and his sisters told me everything that father has done to you and Hotaru. The Neko-ken, the honorless engagements, and other things too."

Hotaru says, perplexed, "They did?"

Kagome says, with an annoyed sigh, "That's my Uncle Genma for you!"

Sakura asks, curiously, "Honorless engagements?"

Ranma says, in a snort, "The old man made numerous of dishonorable engagements to feed his stomach."

Sakura yells out, annoyed, "You're kidding!"

Ukyo says, in a serious tone, "Ranma isn't lying, Sakura! It's one of the reasons why I was adopted by the Saotomes since I need to be a Saotome or kill Genma, Ranma, or Hotaru to restore honor to the Kuonji name when Genma stole my family's okonomiyaki cart."

Hotaru says, in a plain tone, "Also, the old man is a real sexist since he believes that all 'girls are weak'!" This gave annoyed looks on most of the females of the group and Ryoko says, annoyed, "Girls are weak, huh! Just wait until I see him and show him how 'weak' girls are!"

Hotaru says, with a sly smile, "Too late on that, Ryoko! Melody, Megumi, and I have that job taken care of when we're heard to hear the old man say that."

Hilary asks Syrus, "So, your brother is dueling against Aster Phoenix, Syrus?"

Syrus tells Hilary, nodding his head, "Yep. That's my big brother, Zane. He's the best and I know that he will win."

Ino asks Syrus, "How can you be so sure, Syrus? From what I hear, Aster Phoenix is good."

Bastion states, plainly, "Ino brings up a good point. We haven't seen the power of Aster's true deck, yet, so, we can't be certain of Zane's victory."

Chazz exclaims, annoyed, "Oh, come on! We are you so worried? Zane can't lose to that punk and true deck or not, he couldn't even beat Jaden."

Kenny tells Chazz, "Bastion has a point, Chazz. From what you told us, Aster just used a deck that he created with random cards."

Rowen says, "If he is using his true deck, who knows what skills he will use."

Bastion nods his head in agreement and states, "Indeed, Rowen."

Hikari says, with a plain tone, "All I know is that Zane isn't going to lose to some punk kid!"

Kira says, with a sly smile, "Way to root for your boyfriend, Kira, Kari!" Hikari bashes Kira's head and yells out, annoyed, "Kira, shut it!" Just then television screen went on and it displays the show that showing Zane's and Aster's duel. It gives a view of the Kaiba Dome with the pictures of Zane and Aster display the words Aster Phoenix VS Zane Truesdale' in-between the two pictures.

As the students gossip about the upcoming duel, Alexis says, "I can't believe that Crowler sprung for cable."

Kento says, in his usual matter, "What does it matter? This way, we will know what's happening and see if Syrus's brother or Aster Phoenix wins."

Soon after, the announcer on the television tells about the crowd is split in popularity between Zane and Aster Phoenix and the screen shows the dueling arena in the Kaiba dome with the classic 'theatrical fireworks' for Zane's arrival. After Zane is seen, the picture switches to dozens of young girls cheering and swooning over the former top student of Duel Academy.

Chazz says, annoyed, "Argh! What does he have that I don't?"

Jaden's laughs at Chazz's 'question' and Syrus retorts, with a smile on his lips, "A career, personality, and oh yeah, a good looking little brother."

Ryuko says, with a nervous smile and sly tone, "Whatever you say, Sy." Soon after, the picture on the television shows Aster's entrance into the dueling arena with some other young girls also swooning over him, too.

Hassleberry says, with a smile, "I guess that Zane isn't the only lady killer over there." Chazz growls in annoyance and looks away in pure annoyance as well. Soon after, the two of them started their duel and Aster went first by drawing one card from his deck.

Starting Scores:

Aster: 4000

Zane: 4000

On the television, Aster smirks at the card and says, "I think I will start with this guy." Aster then displays the card to be Elemental Hero Avian (1000/1000) monster card and everyone is shocked by this.

Jaden then says, also surprised, "Hey, that's mine."

Aster shouts out, "Go, Elemental Hero Avian!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Avian (1000/1000) appears on the field, but unlike Jaden's Avian, this one is black skin and green fur/feather with grey wings instead of white skin and green fur/feathers with white wings.

Zane says, stunned, "No way! I deck full of heroes!"

Aster says, with a sly tone, "That's right! Just like your Academy chum, Jaden!"

Jaden says, in annoyance, "Hey, come on, bro! That's not cool!"

Yusuke says, in annoyance, "No joke! Try something more original!"

Aster puts two cards in the spell/trap slots and says, "Next, I place these two cards face-down and end my turn." When the screen turns to Zane, he has his eyes closed and then he opens his eyes and gets a smile on his lips, which is a rarity for Syrus's older brother.

Syrus says, plainly, "He's smiling."

Bastion tells Syrus, "Wouldn't you, Syrus? Zane has the advantage. He has already fought against Jaden's deck."

Alexis nods her head and states, "That's right! So, Zane knows how to beat it! If it is like Jaden's deck…"

Back inside of the Kaiba dome, Zane draws one card and says, "Hey, Aster! Watch this!" Zane puts one card on his duel disk and says, "I summon Cyber Dragon in attack mode!" Soon after, Cyber Dragon (2100/1600) appears on the field in attack mode. Zane tells Aster, "I can summon my Cyber Dragon since all of the monsters in play are on your side of the field. A trick that I learned back in the academy." Zane then calls out, "Now, Cyber Dragon, attack with Strident Blast!" Cyber Dragon fires a beam of blue energy right at Elemental Hero Avian.

Aster then calls out, "You've just triggered my Draining Shield trap!" Aster's face-down card is revealed to be the Draining Shield trap card and Cyber Dragon's attack slams into a dome like shield surrounding Aster and Avian. Aster then says, sarcastically, "Isn't that special? But not does this card stop your attack, I gain life-points equal to your monster's attack points."

Zane puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "Nice move, but here's a better one! It's the spell card known as Trap Booster! By discarding one card from my hand, I can play one trap card from my hand!" Zane discards his Photon Generator Unit spell card, puts another card in the spell/trap slots, and calls out, "And I choose my Trap Jammer and it cancels your trap, junior!"

Aster gives a sly smirk and replies, in a sly tone, "Is that all? Come on, Zaney! Don't you know that card is a dime a dozen?" Aster's other face-down is then revealed to be the Trap Jammer counter-trap card and Aster says, "I've got a Trap Jammer, too! And it cancels out all of your hard work." Zane's Trap Jammer is negated by Aster's and Cyber Dragon's attack is negated as Aster's life-points increase by 2100.

Back in Duel Academy, the students, especially our two groups of friends are amazed by this play, and Bastion says, "What an even match."

Hassleberry says, with a smile, "They're neck and neck. This is what I call combat."

Jaden asks, very interesting and curiously, "I wonder: What other surprises that Aster has in his deck?"

Back in the stadium, things began to heat up as Aster beings his turn.

Current Score:

Aster: 6100

Zane: 4000

Aster draws one card from his deck, puts one card in the spell/trap slots, and says, "All right, Zane! Get this! Now, I play Pot of Greed! And I'm sure you know that it allows me to draw two more cards from my deck!" Aster draws two more cards from his deck and says, putting another card in the spell/trap slots, "Then I'm kicking it Polymerization Style!" Aster discards his Avian and Elemental Hero Burstinatrix (1200/800), causing the hologram of a darker version of Burstinatrix to appear on the field, goes into a fusion vortex with Avian, Aster says, "I'll be fusing my Avian on my field with the Burstinatrix in my hand! Now, give a Kaiba Dome welcome to Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer!" Out of the vortex, Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer (2100/1200) appears on the field in attack mode.

Back in the classroom, Syrus asks, confused, "Who? He fused Avian and Burstinatrix! Hello! Where is good old Flame Wingman?"

Chazz says, annoyed, "Someone tell him."

Syrus asks, perplexed, "Tell me what?"

Bastion tells Syrus, "When fusing Elemental Heroes, you get to choose what high-level monster they fuse into."

Kenny tells Syrus, "That's right, Syrus! And each fusion monster has different powers."

Rowen states, "So, when you fuse Avian and Burstinatrix, you can form Flame Wingman or Phoenix Enforcer, right?"

Kenny tells Rowen, "That's right, Rowen."

Keiko says, with a smile, "Yeah. Sort of like a 'branched fusion'."

Naruto asks, perplexed, "Wait! He can?"

Jaden asks, amazed, "Wait! I can? Whoa! Who knew!" Everyone then does a classic anime sweatdrop and a few classic anime falls at Jaden's and Naruto's statement.

Sasuke says, while taking a deep breath, "Typical Naruto."

Sakura tells Naruto, annoyed, "Come on, Naruto! Don't act as if you are THAT dense?"

Naruto says, plainly, "But I really didn't know." Sakura gives a sigh from Naruto's classic 'denseness'.

Ryo says, in his debelief, "You run a hero deck, Jaden, how could you have not known!"

Chazz tells Jaden, "Wow, you are even dumber than I thought. And that's saying a lot."

Jaden says, with a smile, "Wow. My deck has a new trick. Why didn't someone tell me sooner?"

Chazz exclaims, annoyed, "How did this spazz ever beat me?"

Jenny says, annoyed, "You're kidding, right! Try being three second born after him!"

Kai says, lowly, "And here I thought Tyson was a real ditz."

Tyson tells Kai, annoyed, "I heard that, Kai."

Back within the Kaiba Dome, Zane stares down the new Elemental Hero that he never saw before.

Aster tells Zane, "Cool outfit, don't you think, Zaney? Now, check out his attack!" Aster then commands, "Go, Phoenix Flame!" Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer then charges right at Cyber Dragon.

Back in the school, Hassleberry yells out, shocked, "Hold on! They've got the same attack points! It's a wash!"

Bastion tells Hassleberry, "Not quite."

Returning to the Kaiba dome, Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer slashes through Cyber Dragon destroying it while it remains totally unharmed.

As his monsters returns to his side, Aster tells Zane, sarcastically, "Oops. Did I forget to mention his ability? He can't be destroyed in battle." Zane growls in annoyance at this, while Aster puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "Oh, well. I'll end my turn with this card face-down."

Back in school, Hikari thinks, with an angered tone in her expression, "Asshole. He is starting to make me mad! He's treating Zane like dirt!"

Zane tells Aster, as he draws one card from his deck, "Alright, kid, settle down." Zane puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "Well, what do you know, Aster? It's Pot of Greed. I'll draw two." Zane draws two cards from his deck, puts another card in the spell/trap slots, and he says, "Next, an old favorite: I play my Power Bond!"

Back in the school, Hikari says, with a sly smile, "Wicked!"

Jaden says, with a smile, "Awesome."

Syrus says, with a smile and excitedly, "That's the best card he's got."

Jenny says, with a smile of her own, "That's right! Now Aster doesn't stand a chance!"

Within the Kaiba Dome, Zane tells Aster, "Listen up because Zane's going to win. I'll send two machines to my graveyard in order to summon a new machine." Zane discards two Cyber Dragons (2100/1600 X 2) to his graveyard, the two Cyber Dragons appear on the field and fuse together, Zane says, "I'll fuse my two Cyber Dragons to summon my Cyber Twin Dragon!" Out of a bright light from the fusion of the two Cyber Dragons, Cyber Twin Dragon (2800/2100) appears on the field on attack mode. Zane then says, "And thanks to Power Bond's effect, my Twin Dragon's attack points are doubled!" Cyber Twin Dragon roars and sparks as it stats increase from 2800/2100 to 5600/2100! Zane then calls out, "And now, Cyber Twin Dragon, attack his Phoenix Enforcer!" Cyber Twin Dragon launches a powerful blast of energy at Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer, it slams into him, but thanks to its ability, it isn't destroyed, however, Aster loses 3500 life-points with this attack. Zane tells Aster, "And my dragon has another surprise for you, it can attack again!"

Back in Duel Academy, Chazz tells his 'associates', "Just like I thought! Aster's going to lose!"

Hikari says, with a wide smile, "Big time!"

Cyber Twin Dragon launches another attack right at Phoenix Enforcer and Aster growls as he secretly pushes a button on his duel disk just before the attack slams into Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer, covering him and Aster in a large amount of smoke. The announcer yells out, excitedly, "Good night, Irene, this duel is over!" Then Aster appears out of the smoke with 100 life-points still remaining.

Zane gasps in shock and exclaims, "Hold on! I won!"

Aster tells Zane, with a sly grin, "Afraid not. Did you ever hear the expression: 'The Duel Monsters' card is quicker than the eye'?"

Zane asks Aster, in a serious tone, "What do you mean?"

Aster tells Zane, "Can't you tell? I used my Elemental Recharge and it gives me an extra one thousand life-points for every hero on the field." Aster tells Zane, "Now, as for you, your Power Bond comes with a price and it is time for you to pay up with your life-points. Actually, make that twenty-eight hundred of them. Right? The same amount as your dragon's original attack points." Zane's Cyber Twin Dragon glows as Zane loses 2800 life-points, thanks to the negative effect of Power Bond.

Current Score:

Aster: 0100

Zane: 1200

Aster draws one card from his deck and says, "Tough break." Aster puts one card on his duel disk and says, "And things are getting tougher with my Sparkman!" Soon after, a darker version of Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) appears on the field in attack mode. Aster puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "Next, I'll add this! Spark Blaster!" Just then a hologram of a blaster connected to Sparkman's right arm appears in Sparkman's right hand and Aster puts the last card in the spell/trap slots, "And then I will add my Guard Penalty spell card! Thanks to this, I get to pick one monster on the field and if it switches to defense mode, I get to draw a card! So, I'll choose your Twin Dragon! And what luck! I can use my Spark Blaster to do just that!" Sparkman uses his Spark Blaster to switch Cyber Twin Dragon to defense mode. Aster then draws one card from his deck and says, "While he is taking a nap, I get to draw a card. Did you get all that? How about I switch him back to attack mode for a reply?" Sparkman uses Spark Blaster to switch Cyber Twin Dragon back to attack mode and Aster says, "And now, for an instant reply. Back to bed little dragon." Sparkman uses Spark Blaster to switch Cyber Twin Dragon back to defense mode and everyone in the audience starts to laugh.

One child in the audience says, "Look, mommy. The dragon is doing tricks."

Aster says, tauntingly, "Listen to that Zane, looks like the crowd is on to you. They know that you are a joke."

Zane yells out, angrily, "Shut it!"

Back in Duel Academy, Hikari thinks, getting really enraged, "Damn him! Damn that SOB is making Zane look like a total fool! If I was down there, I would so give him a major smack down and that would stop his antics once and for all!"

Akane yells out, annoyed, "Okay, that's going a little bit overboard there!"

Syrus says, worriedly, "Whoa. I've never seen Zane that angry before."

Chazz says, annoyed, "He can't lose to some kid."

Bastion tells Chazz and his friends, "He is more than a kid. In one move, he has made our top graduate into a laughing stock."

Jenny says, annoyed, "Defeating Zane is one thing, but doing this…It is just plain wrong. What a jerk."

Sakura says, seriously, "No joke, Jenny! This guy has no class!"

Kira says, with an annoyed look on her expression, "Yeah, Sakura! What an asshole!"

Kento says, annoyed, "No joke, Kira! This guy is real bastard!"

Returning the Kaiba Dome, Aster says, "See you later, Blaster! Thanks for everything!" Sparkman's Spark Blaster is destroyed since it has been 'used up', Aster draws one card from his deck, thanks to Guard Penalty, and says, as he puts one card in the spell/trap slots, "Well, I'm disappointed with you, Zaney. I thought you would be tougher! Because I'm just warming up! Ready! Now, I play Polymerization! I fuse Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer with Sparkman!" The two monsters go into a fusion vortex as they are sent to the graveyard, Aster exclaims, "This creates my Elemental Hero Shining Phoenix Enforcer!" Out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Shining Phoenix Enforcer (2500/2100) comes to the field in attack mode.

Zane says, drolly, "Oh, great."

Back in Duel Academy, everyone is awe-struck and Hassleberry tells Jaden, "Sam hill! That critter is bigger than any heroes in your deck, Jaden!"

Keiko says, in a worried tone, "And it is going to get a lot worse. If that monster is similar to Jaden's Shining Flare Wingman."

Returning to the Kaiba Dome, Aster tells Zane, "The fun doesn't stop there, Zany. My Shining Phoenix Enforcer gets three hundred attack points for every hero in my graveyard for a grand total of thirty-seven hundred points!" Elemental Hero Shining Phoenix Enforcer's stats increase from 2500/2100 to 3700/2100! Aster then calls out, "Now, show him how you got your name! Shining Enforcement!" Shining Phoenix Enforcer then rams right through the chest of Cyber Twin Dragon, destroying it, and shattering to nothingness, but even through Zane didn't lose life-points, since his monster was in defense mode, he was getting really angry at Aster. Aster puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "All right. I'll place one card face-down and that will be it."

Ryo says, in an annoyed tone, "Man! I've seen a lot of crud in my life, but that's just low!"

Kari says, in a serious tone, "No joke, Ryo! Aster's the biggest jerk there is!"

Uryu says, plainly, "Besides, all that, he's pretty good."

Aster nastily laughs at Zane and Zane tells Aster, seriously, "Sorry, Aster, the joke's on you. And it is time for the punch line. My move!" Zane draws one card from his deck, looks at the two cards in his hand, puts one card in the spell/trap slots, and says, "First, I play a little spell card known as Polymerization!" Zane then puts the other card in his hand into the spell/trap slots and says, "Next, I'll play Cybernetic Fusion Support! Here's how it works: I play half of my life-points and then I can fuse monster in my graveyard! So, I fuse my three Cyber Dragons in my graveyard!" The three Cyber Dragons cards in Zane's graveyard come out and are removed from play, the holograms of Zane's three Cyber Dragon appear on the field and go into a fusion vortex.

Back in Duel Academy, all of the students were beginning to celebrate and Jaden says, "Talk about a sweet comeback!"

Bastion says, "Nice. He just bought himself a victory!"

Hikari thinks in her mind, with a wide smile, "Yes! I knew that Zane would win! He is the best! Now, kick that fucking kid right back into the minor leagues where he belongs!"

Kento says, excitedly, "That kid is going to be taught some manners once and for all!"

Yusuke tells Kento, with a smile, "You know it, Kento!"

Ryoko says, with a sly smile, "Here's a huge spanking from Cyber End Dragon, folks!"

Ichigo states, with a sly smile, "That's right! No way is that snob going to get out of this!"

Back within the Kaiba Dome, Zane shouts out, "Meet Cyber End Dragon!" Out of the fusion vortex, Cyber End Dragon (4000/2800) appears on the field in attack mode and the crowd starts to cheer. Zane tells Aster, "It has been fun, kid. But all good things come to an end!" Cyber End Dragon then prepares to attack and Zane says, with a smile, "Nice knowing you."

Aster smiles and says, "You talk a wicked game, Zaney. But when dueling the pros, I'm afraid going to get you two things: Beaten and fast."

Zane wonders what Aster is talking about, he then gasps, remember Aster's face-down card, and exclaims, "Wait! Your trap card!"

Aster yells out, "Destruction of Destiny to be more exact!" Aster's face-down card is revealed to be the Destruction of Destiny trap card and Aster says, "Nice try, Zaney! But thanks to this card, I can send five cards from my deck to the graveyard! And I choose Clayman, Bladedge, Wildheart, Bubbleman, and Hero Signal!" Aster takes the said cards from his deck, puts into his graveyard slot, and says, "Oh, did I mention Enforcer's special ability? He gets three hundred attack points for every hero in the graveyard!" Elemental Hero Shining Phoenix Enforcer's stats rise from 3700/2100 to 4900/2100!

Zane yells out, shocked, "What?"

Aster tells Zane, with a sly grin on his lips, "That's right. Your little dragon picked the wrong fight. Now, who's got more points now, Zaney?"

Zane says, solemnly and shocked since he knew what was coming next, "You."

Aster exclaims, "That's right! And don't you forget it!" Shining Phoenix Enforcer counters Cyber End Dragon's attack, charges right through Cyber End Dragon's chest, and Cyber End Dragon explodes with a huge explosion, costing Zane 900 life-points and ending the duel. Within the halls of Duel Academy, all of the students, including our Ronin Warriors, Spirit Detective team, Digidestined, former Bladebreakers, ninja group, and Jaden, Ichigo, and their friends are shocked to see what happened.

Ranma yells out, shocked, "Oh hell no!"

Ukyo says, angrily, "That rotten jackass won!"

Jenny says, stunned, "How could have this happened?" Back in the Kaiba Dome, Zane falls to his knees in shock.

Zane says, shocked by his loss, "How can this be?"

Aster replies, in a plain tone, "It's simple. You can't escape from destiny."

Zane looks at Aster, gasps in shock since he heard that saying before, and he says, stunned, "The demon! It's you!" Aster gives a serious look, turns around, and walks away. Back in Duel Academy, all of the students and teachers, including our heroes and heroines, looked in stunned silence at Zane's loss to Aster.

Ryoko exclaims, "Whoa! Zane Truesdale lost!"

Ayeka says, amazed, "Well, it looks like that Aster Phoenix is as good as he says."

Kuwabara says, with a serious tone, "He may be a jerk, but man, he really knows his Duel Monsters Urameshi."

Yusuke states, with a sarcastic tone, "What was your first clue, Sherlock? How he beat Zane's butt?"

Hinata says, nodding her head in agreement with Ayeka, Kuwabara, and Yusuke and in her usual shy tone, "I agree. It's unbelievable."

Hikari thinks in her mind, enraged and shocked, "I can't believe it! I can't believe it! Zane lost! Zane lost to that SOB! When I see Phoenix again, I'm going to rip him a new one!"

Syrus says, stunned, "I just can't believe that he took out my brother."

Bastion says, plainly, "He can't be beat."

Jaden says, in a plain tone, "We'll see about that."

On the meanwhile, Ryo gets a terrible feeling in his stomach and he thinks, "Why do I get the feeling that something terrible is going to happen?" Just then images of evil glowing purple eyes and sickly white light swallowing his friends appear in his mind, but quickly left as fast as they came. Ryo thinks in his mind, confused, "What? What in the world was that? A vision?" As every student in Duel Academy is wondering and reeling from the loss of their former top student, Zane Truesdale, they, along with our heroes and heroines, don't know is that evil is on the rise and when it comes, it will start changing the lives of those in Duel Academy, including our heroes and heroines for a long time, and the battle for the fate of the universe will soon begin…

(Within the Kaiba Dome; at the same time)

Within the hallways of the Kaiba Dome, we find Aster Phoenix, after his victory against Zane, talking with a group of reporters, who are photographing him and interviewing him.

One female reporter tells Aster, "What an impressive win! What's your secret?"

Aster replies, with a sly smile and tone, "Like I tell my fans, winning is easy when you got destiny on your back."

Back in Duel Academy, we find our heroes and heroines, our three Digidestined, Kari, Yolei, and Ken, Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, Kiyone, Washu, Mia, Ryo, and the rest of the Ronin Warriors, Ichigo, and his friends, Yusuke, Kira, Hikari, who has a pissed off look in her expression, Keiko, Kuwabara, and Kurama, Isabel, Kagome, Inuyasha, Melody, Megumi, Ranma and his group, Naruto and his seven fellow Shinobi, Sakura, Sasuke, Hinata, Ino, Tenten, Neji, Lee, Tyson, Hilary, Kenny, and the rest of the Bladebreakers, and Jaden, his sister, Jenny, and their friends, Alexis, Chazz, Bastion, Syrus, and Hassleberry, watching the after duel interview with Aster Phoenix.

Hikari says, with a low angered tone, "What a fucking jerk."

Keiko tells Hikari, with a whisper in a slight scolding tone, "Kari, keep it down and watch that language! Do you want to get us in trouble?"

Kira says, with a sly tone, "She's just sore that her boyfriend lost."

Hikari tells Kira, with an angered expression and tone, "Shut it, Kira, before I use you as an example on what I'm going to do to that asshole."

Yusuke tells Kira, with a nervous tone, "Sis, I don't think that you want to make Kari mad right now."

Kuwabara whispers to Kira, nodding his head, "Urameshi is right. Kari might not like to get into fights like you and Urameshi, Kira, but she can still kick your butt."

On the meanwhile, on the large television in the room, the female reporter's voice asks Aster, "What about this new deck of yours?"

Aster says, "Well, there is a reason that I revealed it today…" Aster's face is fully displayed on the television and he says, "You see, last week, I pay a visit to Duel Academy and get this, I found a student that totally copied my deck!"

Jaden exclaims, stunned, "What?"

Yusuke says, in an angered tone, "Why that son of a…" Before Yusuke could finish, Keiko jammed her right elbow onto her boyfriend's ribs and she tells him, "Yusuke, are you trying to get us in trouble!"

Ranma yells out, angrily, "Why that lying jerk!"

Akane says, in an angered tone, "Of all the lowdown dirty…!"

Hassleberry asks, perplexed, "I wonder who did that?" Soon enough, we find many of Hassleberry's friends, namely our heroes and heroines, sweatdrop from this ditzy comment coming from the mouth of our dino duelist.

Hilary tells Hassleberry, "Hassleberry, Aster Phoenix is accusing Jaden of copying his deck when he copied Jaden's!"

Hassleberry yells out, shocked and angered, "What? All right, that did it! No one accused my pal of being a copy cat! Wait until I get my hands on him!"

Naruto tells Hassleberry, "No joke! That's so a low blow! Believe it!"

On the television, Aster says, with a serious tone, "I guess I can't blame him. I mean who doesn't want to be me?"

Hikari thinks in her mind, angrily, "Everyone in the whole world, asshole!"

Ryoko says, angered, "What an egotistic asshole!"

Kento says, in an annoyed tone, "Okay, that's it! This dude needs a serious ass-kicking from yours truly."

Jenny says, seriously, "Get in line, Kento! He accused my brother of copying his deck, when in reality he copied his!"

Tyson says, in an annoyed tone, "No joke! Who does he think he is?"

Aster then says, with a serious tone, "But before this wanna-be took all of the credit, I had to reveal my deck. You see, this student, who will remain unnamed, has somewhat of a following with hard-core dueling fans. And last thing that I need is some prep school wanna-be taking the credit for my work!"

Ukyo calls out, annoyed, "Wanna-be! Phoenix is the only wanna-be since he copied Jaden's deck!"

Ryo says, seriously, "What a snob!"

Bastion says, with a serious tone, "It's official. I can't stand this bloke!"

Ray tells Bastion, with a serious and annoyed tone, "You aren't the only one, Bastion! He accused Jaden of copying his deck when he was the one that copied Jaden's deck! That guy needs to be taken down a few!"

Sakura nods her head and says, seriously, "No kidding! Taking credit for someone else's work while making it looks like the other way around! How rude is that?"

Yusuke calls out, with an annoyed tone, "Yeah! Jaden has been playing with his Elemental Hero cards since he was a little kid!"

Alister says, in a serious tone, "No joke, Yusuke, and that jerk must have only been playing with them probably around this one duel or so!"

Tyson says, seriously, "What an asshole! Famous or not, he needs to be taken down!"

Max nods his head and says, with a very serious tone, "I agree with you, Tyson."

Tenchi says, in a serious tone, "There are many things that I tolerate, but what Aster Phoenix just did was really low."

Ayeka nods her head in agreement with Tenchi and says, "That's right! Accusing Lord Jaden of copying his deck when it is actually him that copied Jaden's!"

Kari says, in a serious tone, "No joke, Ayeka! Talk about rude!"

Yolei nods his head and says, annoyed, "No joke, Kari! What a major egoistical jerk!"

On the television, Aster says, with a serious tone, "Now, whatever you like me or not, there is one point that can't be denied: I'm the best and I can't be beat! And to prove it, I'm challenging this school boy! I won't mention his name, but it rhymes with Shaden Shuki!" Everyone then looks directly at Jaden and Aster says, over the televisions, "Do you hear me, Shaden? You know who you are, you card thief! You think that your rip-off deck is so great? Then prove by putting it up against my deck!"

Ranma says, with a snarl, "Okay, I'm really tempted to deck this guy!"

Hotaru says, with an angered snarl, "Get in line, bro!"

Ichigo says, in a serious tone, "I think that everyone of us wants to kick Phoenix's ass for his comment about when he accused Jaden for coping his deck."

Naruto says, with a confidence, "Ha! I know that Jaden will beat the pants off of this jerk!"

Tyson says, with a smile, "No kidding! Jay will put that sorry asshole in his place!"

Hinata asks Naruto and Tyson, in her usual tone, "How can you be so sure, guys?"

Naruto tells Hinata, "Jaden's a great guy and one awesome duelist! He's beaten tough opponents! I've seen him in action and I know that he can beat some copycat jerk with an attitude!"

Sakura tells Naruto, nervously, "I'm not so sure, Naruto. I mean, Jaden only tied with Zane and Aster managed to beat Zane."

Hikari yells at Sakura, angrily, "Would you shut up about that, Sakura?"

Sakura winches in fear and she thinks in her mind, "Touché."

Naruto says, with a confident tone, "Ha! That jerk only got lucky!"

Sasuke tells Naruto, "You're such a fool, Naruto."

Naruto yells at Sasuke, annoyed, "What was that, Sasuke?"

Sasuke tells Naruto, in a plain and serious tone, "If you had been paying attention, loser, Aster played the duel flawlessly. He didn't get lucky. He skillfully beat Zane and that means he isn't no pushover."

Kai says, in a plain and serious tone, "I have to agree with Sasuke, Naruto. There's a chance that Jaden may have a tough challenge."

Jaden's friends look at him and Alexis tells Jaden, concerned, "Sasuke's right, Jay. You might have beaten him once, but now, he is using his real deck."

However, Jaden thinks in his mind, with a wide sly smile on his face, "This is just the duel I've been looking for! It's time to get my rematch on!"

Syrus asks, curiously as he watches Jaden gives a wide sly grin and watching Aster's picture on the television intently, "Uh, Jay?"

Yusuke tells Syrus, with a sly smile, "Don't even try, Sy. That's exactly Jaden would look when he gets excited for a great and challenging duel."

Kira says, with a wide sly smile, "I think that he is really excited for this challenge, even if the jerk accused him of copying his deck. You should know that about him by now."

Syrus thinks in his mind, with a sigh, "Yeah, no kidding."

Mia thinks in her mind, worriedly, "Yeah. But Aster is very good to beat Syrus's older brother like that and Jaden only managed to get a tie out of him! Does Jaden stand a chance to win?"

Kurama thinks in his mind, "It seems like nothing, but I'm getting a terrible feeling that what Hiei told the Ronin Warriors is right. There is an evil coming to Duel Academy and I can't be sure why, but I can feel that it is coming. However, I don't know why I'm feeling this way."

Hikari tells Jaden, with a very serious tone, "Jay, you had better make sure that you tear that pretty boy a new one or I will make sure that I do that for you!"

Jaden yelps and says, nervously, "Yes, ma'am!"

Chad says, a bit fearful of Hikari's tone, "Scary…"

Orihime says, seriously, "No kidding, Chad!"

Keiko tells Hikari, with a serious and scolding tone, "Kari, that wasn't nice! Threatening Jaden like that is way off line!"

Kari tells Hikari, also with a scolding tone, "Keiko's right! I know that you are upset about Zane's lost, but you can't take it out on Jaden!"

Hikari yells out, angrily, "That jerk didn't just beat Zane! He made a laughing stock out of him!"

Kira tells Hikari, with a serious tone, "We know that, Kari! And we are pissed off by that jerk, too! However, it doesn't damn well give you the right to take out on Jaden!"

Hikari sighs and says, solemnly, "Yeah, you are right. Sorry, Jay."

Jaden tells Hikari, with a wide smile, "Don't worry, Kari. It's cool."

Tyson asks Kenny, curiously, "Do you think that Jaden stands a chance against Aster, Chief?"

Kenny tells Tyson, while secretly using his laptop, "I'm not sure, Tyson. Jaden's abilities seem to equal Zane's since he and Jaden tied at the final duel that Zane fought in Duel Academy, but Jaden has a unique ability."

Ray asks Kenny, curiously, "Unique ability?"

Kenny nods his head and he says, with a nod, "Yes. Jaden has some kind of unique 'Miracle Draw' ability, the ability to draw the card that he needs from his deck when the duel has turned against him and at other times that he needs to draw the right card."

Kurama says, in a serious tone looking at Yusuke's way, "Plus, I've only notice this ability in one other person that we know."

Yusuke looks at Kurama and asks, a bit unnerved, "Kurama, why the hell are you looking at me like that?"

Kurama says, in a serious tone, "You're one of the duelists I know who has the same 'Miracle Draw' as Jaden, Yusuke."

Yusuke asks, perplexed, "Me?"

Kento looks at Ryo's way and he says, with a sly smile, "And Yusuke and Jaden aren't the only ones with the 'Miracle Draw' trick."

Mia says, in a serious tone, "That's right! When Ryo's is going to lose the duel, he draws one card that'll turn the duel around."

Ryo blushes and he asks, perplexed, "Really?"

Rowen says, in a serious tone, "I've seen it any time that you duel, Ryo."

Max says, looking at Tyson, "The same with Tyson too."

Tyson asks, perplexed, "Me?"

Kenny tells Tyson, with a nod, "That's right, Tyson. In all of the duels that I recorded and kept records of, you seem to have a similar ability to Yusuke, Ryo, and Jaden and when the duel looks like it is going to be in your defeat or turning against you, you draw the right card that you need and play it in the right way. Based on the data that I took of Tyson's duels and I've gotten about Yusuke's, Ryo's, and Jaden's duel, it would seem so."

Tyson says, amazed, "Wow. What do you know?"

Bastion asks Kenny, overhearing their conversation, "Kenny, may I take a look at your data and I'm sure to see if I can valid your theory. I've got a lot of information on Jaden and his duels and I can compare that data with the information that you have on Yusuke, Tyson, and Ryo."

Kenny tells Bastion, with a smile, "Sure thing, Bastion! I would be glad too."

Yusuke thinks in his mind, "Tyson and Ryo have got the same 'Miracle Draw' ability that Jay and I have? Well, from what I saw in Ryo's duel with Bastion, I'm not one to doubt that possibility."

Kira thinks in her mind, with a sly smile, "So, Tyson and Ryo might have Yusuke's and Jaden's 'Miracle Draw' ability, huh? It seems like that Ryo might have that ability. In his duel with Bastion, when the chips were down, Ryo drew exactly what he needs and turned a near defeat into one awesome victory."

Sasuke thinks in his mind, seriously, "Yusuke, Ryo, and Tyson might have Jaden's 'Miracle Draw' ability? That's interesting, but it is most likely true. In Ryo's duel with Bastion, he drew the one card that he needed to give him the chance to turn that duel around for victory in his favor."

Jaden tells Yusuke, Ryo, and Tyson, with a smile, "Wow, guys! I didn't know you were that good, but then again, Ryo getting to Obelisk Blue just after you guys arrived here shows that you are one awesome duelists and I should know, I dueled you and you tied with me!"

Syrus says, amazed, "Yeah! That was sure a surprise!"

(Back in the mysterious location; Sometime later)

Inside of the mysterious room with white marble walls and floors with Sartorius sitting down in front of the white marble table looking down at his Tarot cards with Aster Phoenix walking up behind him.

Sartorius tells Aster, in a plain tone, "Wise choice."

Aster tells Sartorius, in a serious tone, "Yeah, you were right. I have to beat that Jaden kid. It's the only way. My entire career is on the line here!"

Sartorius tells Aster, in a plain tone, "Glad that you agree, but it wasn't my idea. This rivalry was decided by the hands of fate."

Aster tells Sartorius, in a serious tone, "That may be true. But we already know that fate has already chosen me to be the best."

Sartorius tells Aster, in a plain tone, "Your pride serves both as strength and a weakness. Now, bring me your deck! I would like to peer through the doors of destiny." Aster hands his deck to Sartorius, he puts into one hand, his eyes gives off a bright violet glow, and sinister purple energy goes into Aster's deck.

Aster asks Sartorius, curiously, "Well?"

Sartorius tells Aster, as he returns Aster's deck to him, "It seems you already knew the future."

Aster says, with a confident sly smile, "Then you don't have to wish me luck." Soon enough, Aster walks off to his transport that will take him to Duel Academy.

(While at the Duel Academy harbor; Sometime later)

At the Duel Academy harbor, we find Chancellor Crowler and Vice-Chancellor Bonaparte standing in the, while shivering in the cold.

Bonaparte says, in annoyed and shivering tone, "I'm freezing my crowsons here! Where's Aster, already? He better not has stood us up again!"

Crowler says, in a shivering tone, "All I know is that I've lost all feeling in my legs!"

(While up in the air on a nearby airplane)

While up in the clouds in a plane, we find Aster putting on his sky board, goggles, and parachute bag on his back.

The pilot calls out, "Alright, Mr. Phoenix, we've reached the target!"

The pilot yells out, "Are you ready?"

Aster replies, "Yep!" Just then, the door opened and Aster jumps off the plane, yelling out, excitedly, "Duel Academy, here, I came!"

(While at Bastion's room; Sometime later)

In Bastion's room at the Ra Yellow dorms, we find Bastion Misawa, Keiko Yukimura, Hilary Tachibana, Hotaru Saotome, Nabiki Tendo, Ryuko Lyon, Mia Koji, Rowen Hashiba, Kenny, with his laptop open, and Kurama were assembling by Bastion's computer with Bastion by it, while Jaden and Tyson were just lying on the bed, with Tyson's feet by Jaden's head and the same with Jaden's feet.

Bastion says, in his logical tone, "According to my research, there isn't a sport that Aster Phoenix hasn't mastered."

Hotaru nods his head and he says, in a serious tone, "That's right! Plus, there's more…he's got a high IQ and a photographic memory."

Syrus says, in a plain tone, "I've got a photographic memory too…"

Ryuko says, with a sly smile, "Yeah, when you remember to reload the film!"

Jaden yawned loudly as his friends, old and new, looked at him and Jaden says, in a plain tone, while shuffling his deck, "We'll you guys chill out! If you want, I have some homework that needs some finishing! Otherwise, cool it with the spy mission."

Kenny tells Jaden, in a serious tone, "This is important, Jaden! We're trying to figure out Aster's weakness and so far there is none."

Nabiki says, in a plain tone, "And my 'personal investigations' couldn't get anything on the guy!"

Tyson says, with a smile, "Chief, you're my pal, but you're taking all the fun out of this, bro."

Jaden says, with a smile of his own, "No joke, Tyson!"

Hilary states, in a droll tone, "They are so alike."

Dizzi says, in a droll tone, "What gave it away? The fact that they aren't taking this seriously."

Jaden and Tyson yawned in unison as they lay down and Jaden says, sleepily, "You just got to love these Ra Yellow beds…"

Everyone of Jaden's and Tyson's friends sighs in annoyance and Rowen says, plainly, "You're right, Hilary! They are so alike."

Syrus looked out the window to see a phoenix figure coming down, what he doesn't know if that 'phoenix figure' was Aster Phoenix coming down from the sky. Aster pulled the cord, which brought his parachute out.

(At the Duel Academy card shop; Sometime later)

At the Duel Academy card shop, we find a male figure, which appeared to be a thief wearing a duel disc and a brown coat, with tan pants, with a helmet with and goggles. Grabbing a bag full of booster packs and he says, with a sly smile, "Jackpot!"

Soon after, we see him leaving the school, thinking that he's won, a dark laugh was heard, which made the thief turn to see a monster that's revealed to be Destiny Hero Doom Lord (600/800) on top of Duel Academy. Just then, the male activated his duel disc to duel…which was followed by an explosion and the thief screamed as he fell to the ground.

Soon after, Aster Phoenix hovering over the thief's body was wide-eyed shocked and horrified while shuffling through a deck of cards in his hand.

Aster says, with a nasty sneer, "If you want free cards, then here! They won't be much use to you in jail!" Aster throws the deck of cards on the stunned person's stunned form, who is twitching and has the look of horror in his eyes. Soon after, Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and Sasuke using their ninja super-speed appear first on the scene.

Sakura yells out, angrily, "Okay! Who is the wise guy? I need my beauty sleep, you know!"

Hinata gasps, points to Aster, and says, in her shy tone, "Isn't that…?"

Sasuke says, with a serious tone, "Aster Phoenix."

Aster looks at Sasuke and states, with his sly smile, "Well, what do you know? Sasuke Uchiha, the last of the Uchiha clan. What's someone like you doing in these parts?"

Sasuke states, with a serious and plain tone, "What is it to you?"

Aster shrugs his shoulders and says, with a sly tone, "Nothing really. And besides, this isn't why I'm here."

Sasuke says, plainly, "Your challenge to Jaden Yuki." Just then Mia, Ryo, the rest of the Ronin Warriors, Ichigo, Orihime, Rukia, Chad, Uryu, Yoruichi, Tyson, Hilary, Kenny, Max, Kai, Ray, Daichi, Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Jaden, Jenny, Bastion, Ryuko, and Syrus, Ranma, Hotaru, Akane, Kagome, and Yusuke, Keiko, Alister, Kira, Kuwabara and Kurama, along with Crowler and Bonaparte from the harbor, arrive.

Tyson yells out, angrily, "Okay, what's the deal! Where's the creep, who woke me up in the middle of the night!"

Yusuke yells out, angrily, "What in the hell is the idea? Who's the ass that screaming their head off when we are trying to get ready for some sleep?"

Kira calls out, annoyed, "Somebody who is getting their ass kicked!"

Daichi says, annoyed, "That's for sure!"

Aster says, amazed and with his sly smile and tone, "Wow! The infamous Yusuke Urameshi, the most notorious street punk of Sarayashiki Junior High, is here as well as Kagome Higurashi AKA the Sick Girl and Tyson Granger and the rest of the G-Revelations? My, this school attaches quite the crowd."

Yusuke and Kagome yell out, in unison while slapping their foreheads, "I hate that rep!"

Kuwabara yells out, looking at Aster, "Hey, it is that Aster Phoenix kid!"

Yusuke tells Kuwabara, annoyed, "We can see that Kuwabara!"

Daichi looks at Aster and yells out, angrily, "You! Haven't you caused enough trouble, already, Aster Phoenix!"

Bonaparte calls out, annoyed, "So, I've got icicles on my eyebrows for nothing?"

Kira tells Bonaparte, with an annoyed tone, "Why don't you keep it down, short stuff?"

Ryoko says, annoyed, "No joke!"

Kento tells Aster, with an annoyed tone, "You've got some nerve to show your face here!"

Aster tells Kento, with a sly smile and tone, "And why is that?"

Tyson calls out, angrily, "You damn well know why?"

Jenny says, in an annoyed tone in her voice, "You've got some nerve to accuse Jaden of copying your deck when you are the one that copied his!"

Yusuke yells out, angrily, "No joke, jackass! And on national television, no less!"

Hikari yells out, angrily, "Not to mention, humiliating Zane!"

Aster shrugs his shoulders and says, with a sly tone and a sly grin, "What can I say? That's my true deck and that's all there is too it!"

Naruto calls out, angrily, "Cut the crap, Phoenix! You were just jealous of Jaden and you pulled that stunt on purpose!"

Ranma yells out, in a serious tone, "What gave the right to accuse my friend like that, you famous jerk!"

Aster says, with a sly tone, "Don't knock it until you are a pro, rookie."

Naruto thinks in his mind, "All right, this jerk is starting to really piss me off!"

Syrus then points to the thief lying on the ground and asks, curiously, "Who is that guy?"

Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "Him? He is just some punk that thought that crime would pay. Turns out he was wrong." Soon after, Mia, Bastion, Syrus, and Ryuko run over to him.

Ryuko puts her fingers on his neck and she says, seriously, "He is alive, but I think that he is in a comatose state."

Syrus says, nodding his head in agreement, "I'll say, Ryuko. It looks like that he knocked him out cold."

Bastion yells out, demandingly, "What did you do to him?"

Aster ignores Bastion's question and Aster asks Jaden, with a sly grin and tone, "Hey, Jaden! How you've been, bro?"

Naruto yells out, angrily, "Hey, answer Bastion's question, jerk!"

Jaden tells Aster, annoyed, "Naruto's right, Aster! Now, fess up!"

Kento says, annoyed, "Before things get ugly if you know what we mean!"

Aster tells Jaden and Kento, with a cool sly grin and tone, "Whoa! Slow down! Save it for the duel!"

Bonaparte tells Aster, in his French accent and tone, "Bonjouer, Monsieur Phoenix! I am Chancellor Bonaparte!" Bonaparte motions to Crowler and he says, plainly and lowly, "And here is my personal assistant." Crowler yelps in shocked and annoyance at Bonaparte's 'antics'.

Aster tells Bonaparte, "Sorry, pal, but I'm not supposed to talk to managers. All business deals go through my agent. Guys like me don't have time to deal with the little people." Bonaparte gives out a loud growl of annoyance and Crowler looks at Bonaparte with a serious look.

Crowler tells Bonaparte, plainly, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but are both of us are in charge here?"

Aster passes Jaden and he tells him, with a serious tone, "I'll see you bright and early for our duel! Oh, by the way, other than your friends, there are no spectators!"

Bastion asks, curiously, "No spectators?"

Ranma asks, perplexed, "Why would he not allow others to watch him duel?"

Aster says, with a serious tone, "You see, I'm a pro! People pay for me to see me duel! There is no way that I'm going to give a free show to a group of amateurs!"

Kagome yells out, annoyed, "Amateurs?"

Kento says, cracking his knuckles, "I'm about to mess up pretty boy here!"

Ryoko tells Kento, while cracking her knuckles as well, "Get in line, Kento."

Jaden tells Aster, annoyed, "That's not cool, bro! A lot of the students here look up to you and you are going to say that they can watch you duel? Come on!"

Naruto tells Aster, with an annoyed tone, "No kidding, Jay! How selfish can you get? You've got plenty of fans, here, through I don't know why a person like you would have fans!"

Sakura says, with an annoyed tone, "Yeah! That so not fair, Phoenix!"

Keiko nods her head and says, "I agree, Sakura! That's just stuck up and selfish even for an egotistical jerk like you!"

Aster says, with a sly tone, "Are you for real?" Aster gives a loud amused laugh and Akane yells out, annoyed, "What is so funny, you jerk!"

Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "You've got a lot to learn about the biz, boys and girls." Aster then tells Akane, seriously, "You better tell that sister of yours, Nabiki Tendo, that my duel is not going to be involved in her money making scheme."

Akane says, perplexed, "How did you know my sister?"

Aster says, with a sly smile, "You didn't think that I know that the 'Ice Queen of Nermia' and her younger sister were at this school, please! I've done some research and getting word that she went to Duel Academy along with her sister. If that ever to happen, then your sister better have a good lawyer handy." Aster then walks away for our heroes and heroines, who have serious, angered, and annoyed looks on their faces.

Ranma says, in a snarl, "You know, attacking weaker people is beneath me as a martial artist, but for Phoenix's case, there's always an exception!"

Crowler calls out, worriedly, "Wait! Aster!"

Bonaparte states, begging tone in his voice, "What about this agent?"

Crowler yells out, worriedly, "We have business to discuss!"

Sasuke thinks in his mind, plainly, "Those two are pathetic! Naruto is a fool and a loser, but he is far better in character and as a duelist than him! Personally, I'm surprised that he managed to control that creature living inside of him! I was surprised to learn that Naruto had the Nine-Tailed Fox, the creature that the Fourth Hokage sacrificed his life to stop, inside of him, sealed by the Fourth Hokage, but then again, it explains where he gets that unusual fearful power inside of him. I'm surprised that someone like Naruto could control it, but compared to those pathetic idiots, if they had the Nine-Tailed Fox inside of him, the fox would take control of those weaklings in no time."

Ayeka yells out, perplexed and annoyed, "What does Aster Phoenix mean by that?"

Kira says, annoyed, "He is just a damned jerk."

Rukia says, with a serious and plain tone, "Yes, he is. However, he is a very talented and famous 'jerk'."

Chad whispers to Rukia, curiously, "Is something wrong?"

Rukia whispers back, serious tone, "I'm getting a weird feeling from him. More specifically his deck."

Ichigo asks Rukia, in a whisper and curiously, "What do you mean?"

Kurama thinks in his mind, "I think I know what Rukia is talking about. I've felt it too ever since he got here. I'm sensing a weird aura coming from his deck and I'm not sure that it is friendly." While Aster goes off to find somewhere to sleep for the night before the duel, he and the others don't know is that Hiei is watching, unnoticed, from a nearby tree.

(The following morning; within Obelisk Arena)

That following morning, we find Ryo, Mia and all of Ryo's fellow Ronin Warriors, Ichigo and his friends, Tenchi and his female friends, Tyson and his friends, our three younger Digidestined, Jaden's sister and friends, Jenny, Chazz, Alexis, Bastion, Hassleberry, and Syrus, Naruto and his fellow seven Shinobi, Isabel, Kagome and her half-demon associates, Ranma and his friends, and Yusuke, Hikari, who was glaring at Jaden's opponent, who was on the platform, Kira, Kuwabara, Keiko, Alister, Kurama, Hiei, and Yukina sitting down in the stands as Jaden, with a duel disc that has his dueling deck inside attached to his left wrist, starts to enter into the room.

Kuwabara whispers to Hiei, "Hey, short stuff, I thought that you were interested in duels like these!"

Hiei replies, in a low tone, "I'm not, fool. The only reason that I'm here is because of the weird aura that I sense."

Kuwabara asks Hiei, perplexed, "What do you mean?"

Kurama thinks in his mind, "I know exactly what Hiei means! I'm sensing a mysterious new aura and I think I know where it is coming from!"

Nabiki thinks in her mind, with an annoyed look, "I can't believe Aster Phoenix found out about me! This would have made me a lot of yen too!"

Mia says, concerned, "I hope that Jaden will be okay."

Kari asks her friends, "Do you think that Jaden has a chance against Aster Phoenix?"

Yolei tells Kari, with a smile, "That guy is a poser! He might have beaten Zane Truesdale, but Jaden can't be beat by someone who copied his deck!"

Ken tells Yolei, concerned, "Well, Aster's Elemental Hero deck is somewhat different than Jaden's deck, including with that Phoenix Enforcer, Elemental Recharge, and Destruction of Destiny cards. And he used them masterfully! Even Jaden has proven to be good, Aster has won tons of pro-level duels!"

Kenny says, in a serious tone, "Ken's right! Jaden might have a real challenge, since Aster defeated Zane and Jaden tied with Zane."

When Jaden comes onto the dueling platform, Alexis says, worriedly, "They are about to start."

Hassleberry calls out to Jaden, "Your back-up troops are right here, Sarge!"

Naruto yells out, seriously, "Crush that jerk, Jay!"

Kento says, with a serious tone, "Naruto means that literately, Jay!"

Hikari calls out, seriously, "Yeah, pal, no mercy to that jerk or I will kick your butt!"

Keiko tells Hikari, with a sly smile and tone, "Nice words of encouragement, Hikari."

Hikari tells Keiko, with a sly smile and tone of her own, "Yeah, I thought so, Kei."

Jaden then looks at his deck and says, silently, "Come on, boys. We can do it."

Just then a pair of familiar female voices calls out in unison, "Aster! Aster! We love Aster! Yes, we do! We love Aster! How about you?" Jaden looks up in confusion, sees Aster waving to his right, and everyone looks to see Mindy and Jasmine pinning over the Pro Duelist.

Kento says, annoyed, "You are kidding me!"

Mindy yells out, pinning over Aster, "He waved at me!"

Jasmine calls out, pinning over Aster, "He totally winked at me!"

They look at each other, annoyed, and tell each other at the same time, annoyed, "It was me! In your dreams!"

Hotaru says, annoyed, "Yuck!"

Yusuke yells out, annoyed, "You've got to be fucking kidding me!"

Akane yells out, annoyed, "Honestly, how 'boy crazy' can they get!"

Alexis says, annoyed, "How pathetic."

Syrus says, annoyed, "They are supposed to be on our side."

Sakura says, annoyed, "Rotten traitors. They see a cute guy and they go all out on him. How pathetic."

Yolei says, shaking her head, "I might have been boy-crazy before Ken became my boyfriend, but I never would ditch my friends just because of a cute boy."

Kari give a sly grin and she states, slyly, "Oh, really?"

Yolei yells out, annoyed, "Cut that out, Kari!"

Jenny tells everyone, with a smile, "Don't worry, Alexis and I will talk to them."

Alexis nods her head and says, seriously, "Right. We will talk some sense into them."

Just then Yusuke and Hassleberry yell out in unison, "Oh no, you don't!" Just then Yusuke and the others blocked Alexis and Jenny's path.

Inuyasha tells Alexis and Jenny, in a serious tone, "You two aren't going anywhere!"

Ranma tells Alexis and Jenny, with a serious tone, "You can't fool us, girls!"

Yusuke says, with a serious tone, "Yeah, you two just want to sit by Aster!"

Syrus tells Alexis, "You and Jenny can't fool us, even with your ninja abilities, Alexis."

Alexis and Jenny sit back down with blushes on their cheeks, coughs, and Alexis says, seriously, "Oh, please. If I used my ninja abilities, you wouldn't be standing, Sy."

Sakura tells the others, "Lex does have a point. My friends and I have found out that Tsunade-sensei taught Alexis the secret of her super-human strength."

Keiko asks, curiously, "Super-human strength?"

Naruto tells Keiko, "Yeah, Keiko, Grandma Tsunade might be old, but she is really super-strong. I mean she can create huge craters in the ground from one kick or huge holes in thick stone walls with one punch and she doesn't even get a bruise."

Hassleberry calls out, surprised, "Sam Hill!"

Keiko tells Alexis, with a surprised look, "No wonder, you were kicking Yusuke around so well!"

Alexis cracks his knuckles and says, with a sly smile, "What can I say? Naruto and his friends aren't the only talented ones around here."

Akane asks Hotaru, curiously, "Isn't similar to your abilities?"

Hotaru says, in a plain tone, "Somewhat?"

Sakura asks, curiously, "What do you mean?" Hotaru then takes off her bracer on her left hand and tosses to Sakura as she catches it, but feeling the bracers weight, Sakura nearly falls down to her hands.

Sakura says, surprised, "What in the…!"

Naruto asks Sakura, curiously, "Sakura, what's wrong!"

Sakura tries to carry the bracer and she says, flabbergasted, "Hotaru, what is this! This bracer! It weighs a ton!" There were many gasps and shock of this and Syrus yells out, shocked, "What the!"

Hotaru says, in a plain tone, "Actually, it weighs only twenty-five kilograms!" There were more gasps of shock at this and Bastion yells out, shocked, "Great Scott! Five kilograms!"

Hotaru says, with a sly smile, "That's right! It's the same for my other bracer and there's more…!" Hotaru goes for her left boot, pulls something that looks like a metal leg bracer, unclasped it, and drops it to the ground, which makes a huge dent.

Chazz yells out, shocked, "What in the…!"

Hotaru says, in a plain tone, "Now, that weighs ten kilograms and my Power Pole weighs only twenty kilograms."

Ichigo says, surprised, "All those weights!"

Ranma says, with a sly smile, "It's something that she's learned how to do when she was staying in the Japanese Amazon tribe!"

Sakura says, in a serious tone, "That's almost similar to our friend and fellow Leaf Ninja, Lee's, way. He trains with weights also!"

Bonaparte calls out through the microphone, "Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Aster Phoenix, one of the biggest stars of our time!"

Crowler growls and says, annoyed, "With an ego to match."

On the meanwhile, a janitor wearing white working nearby is talking on a cell phone and he says, with a cold plain tone, "Yes, Master Sartorius. The duel is about to start."

On the other side of the line is Sartorius on a speak phone and he says, with an evil smile, "And then it is only a matter of time that we will acquire our latest member. Jaden Yuki. For when young Jaden loses, he will see the light!" Sartorius stands on his feet and he says, with an evil smile, "Everyone does, eventually." Back to Obelisk Arena, Aster and Jaden were facing each other and Aster puts his deck into his duel disc causing a slight purple aura to come from it, which is sensed by Yusuke, Kira, Hikari, Ichigo, Kagome, Inuyasha, Melody, Megumi, Rukia, Yoruichi, Hiei, Ryoko, Sasuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara.

Inuyasha thinks in his mind, seriously, "There's something foul in the air!"

Kuwabara thinks in his mind, "What the heck? What was that creepy aura that I just felt?"

Yusuke thinks in his mind, seriously, "There is a big stink and it is coming down there somewhere."

Kurama thinks in his mind, seriously, "I think Hiei and I were right. There is a mysterious aura coming from Aster's deck and it isn't friendly." When Kurama looks at Hiei, he just gives a slight nod and closes his eyes.

Orihime whispers to Rukia, seeing her serious look, "Rukia, what's wrong?"

Rukia tells Orihime, in a whisper, "Tell the others to keep their eyes open for anything weird or suspicious, Orihime."

Yoruichi whispers, with a serious tone, "Rukia's right. There is a nasty aura, but I'm not sure where it is coming from. Keep your eyes open."

Kagome asks Inuyasha, in a whisper, "Is that true, Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha says, seriously, "Yeah, I sense something foul in the air!"

Megumi says, in a serious tone, "We don't know where, but it's in this place!"

Just then the spirit of Winged Kuriboh comes out of its card and Jaden asks Kuriboh, silently, "What's up, pal?" Kuriboh chirps while pointing to Aster like the little fairy monster was giving Jaden a warning. Jaden tells Kuriboh, silently and reassuringly, "Don't worry, pal. I know that he is tough and very good, but we beat him once and we can do it, again. It's all good."

Aster thinks in his mind, seriously, "I'll show him what a deck of real heroes can do!"

Jaden tells Aster, with a serious tone, "Okay, Aster, it is time to roll up those sleeves and get your game on!"

Aster tells Jaden, with a sly smile and tone, "Please, I won't even break a sweat! You are going down, man!"

Jaden tells Aster, "Well, there is only one way to find out!" Jaden and Aster activate their duel discs, their life-point counters displays 4000 life-points, and they draw five cards from their decks.

"Let's do this!" the two duelist say in unison as their duel begins.

Starting Scores:

Aster: 4000

Jaden: 4000

Aster draws one card from his deck and says, "I'll start things off!" Aster puts one card on his duel disc and calls out, "Check this out! Look familiar! It's Elemental Hero Clayman in defense mode!" Elemental Hero Clayman (800/2000) comes to the field in defense mode. Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "Guess I will let you off the hook for now."

Bastion says, amazed, "This is incredible. Now, Jaden has to face some of his favorite monsters."

Yusuke says, seriously, "Yeah, but I know that Jaden will take out that poser!"

Naruto cheers out, "Go get him, Jaden!"

Jaden draws one card from his deck and says, "Pretty sweet move. But watch this!" Jaden looks at the card that he drew and says, "Not bad." Jaden puts the card in the spell/trap slots and calls out, "Now, I play Polymerization!"

As a fusion vortex appears on the field, Syrus calls out, excitedly, "Yes, time for some fusion action!"

Hassleberry says, with a smile, "Now, the Sarge can summon some high-level soldiers to the field!"

Kira says, lowly, "Yes."

Jaden calls out, "Now, I fuse my Avian with my Burstinatrix! So, Elemental Hero Flame Wingman come on down!" The two named monsters appear on the field, go into the fusion vortex, and out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Flame Wingman (2100/1200) comes to the field in attack mode. Jaden calls out, with a smile, "All right, Wingman, attack with Inferno Rage!" Flame Wingman launches a beam of flames from its dragon right hand, it slams into Aster's Clayman, and it is destroyed. Jaden then calls out, "And that's not all! Thanks to Wingman's super-power, you lose life-points equal to your destroyed monster's attack points! Take it away, Wingman!" Flame Wingman fires a beam of flames into Aster and he yells out in shock as he loses 800 life-points. When the attack is over, he growls in annoyance.

Chazz says, with a sly smile and his usual snobbish tone, "Well, it looks like the pro took the first blow."

Current Score:

Aster: 3200

Jaden: 4000

Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "Lucky shot. But that's all about to change." Aster puts the card that he drew in the spell/trap slots and he states, "Guess what I just drew?"

Jaden asks Aster, perplexed, "How should I know?"

Aster tells Jaden, with a sly tone, "Because it is the same thing that you just played! Polymerization!" Just then a fusion vortex appears behind Aster and our heroes and heroines gasp in shock.

Bastion states, annoyed, "Oh, please. Why don't you play something original?"

Ranma yells out, annoyed, "Yeah, something that Jaden hasn't played at the last turn!"

Hilary says, annoyed, "No kidding, Ranma! What a copycat!"

Aster says, with a sly smile, "Like you, I'm fusing my Avian and my Burstinatrix, but unlike you, I'm summoning my Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer!" Soon after, the two named monsters go into the fusion vortex and out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Phoenix Enforcer (2100/1200) comes to the field in attack mode.

Jaden yells out, excitedly, "Awesome! I was hoping that I would see him again! This is so cool!"

Aster tells Jaden, seriously, "Oh, really? How this for cool? Attack!" Phoenix Enforcer gains a rainbow sphere of energy around his body and he attacks while Flame Wingman counterattacks, but when the attack slams into Phoenix Enforcer, the shockwave destroys Flame Wingman and Phoenix Enforcer survived.

Hassleberry yells out, shocked, "Hold it! It should have been a tie!"

Bastion tells Hassleberry, "One small problem, it can't be destroyed in battle."

Sakura says, nervously, "Yeah! Thanks to that ability it has."

Jaden tells Aster, with a sly smile, "Way to one up me."

Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "What did you expect? Our decks are similar, not equal."

Jaden asks, perplexed, "Huh?"

Tyson asks, perplexed, "What does he mean?"

Kenny tells Tyson, in a logical tone, "I think that he is implying that his deck is superior to Jaden's."

Tyson jumps out of his seat and calls out, angrily, "Okay, that's it!"

Kai tells Tyson, in a very annoyed tone, "Would you sit down, already!" Tyson yelp in fear as he obeyed Kai's order.

Aster tells Jaden, with a sly smile and tone, "Think of our decks as a mirror, they reflect who we are and what motives our actions."

Jaden asks Aster, curiously, "Come on, do you really have to go so deep?"

Aster tells Jaden, with a sly smile and tone, "That rests my case. In simple terms, my deck is better!"

Naruto calls out, annoyed, "What a real jerk!"

Yolei says, annoyed, "No joke! Jaden's deck is way better than that jerk's!"

Tenchi says, seriously, "That's right! And Jay's going to teach that lesson to that creep the hard way."

Jenny says, annoyed, "Yeah! It has been through a lot more than that poser!"

Jaden draws one card from his deck and says, putting the card on his duel disc, "I summon Elemental Hero Bubbleman!" Elemental Hero Bubbleman (800/1200) comes to the field in attack mode and Jaden tells Aster, seriously, "And since it is the only card out on my field, its special ability activates, allowing me to draw two more cards from my deck!" Jaden draws two cards from his deck, puts one card in the spell/trap slots, and he calls out, "Now, I play my Warrior Returning Alive spell card! So, if you don't mind, I will be getting back a Warrior-type monster from my graveyard!" Jaden's Elemental Hero Avian (1000/1000) monster card returns from the graveyard to his hand, Jaden puts one card in the spell/trap slots, and says, "My Elemental Hero Avian to be more exact! Now, I fuse him with my Sparkman and my Bubbleman!" Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) appears on the field with Avian, the three monsters go into a fusion vortex, Jaden calls out, "In order to form…drum roll please…the mighty Elemental Hero Tempest!" Out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Tempest (2800/2000) comes to the field in attack mode.

Hotaru says, with a sly smile, "Ha! Let's see how that copycat just try copying Jaden's Tempest now!"

Jaden then calls out, "Now, attack with Glider Strike!" Tempest gives a war-cry as it fires a beam of blue energy from its cannon-like right arm at Phoenix Enforcer, it slams into Phoenix Enforce, and through it isn't destroyed, Aster still loses 700 life-points.

Naruto yells out, excitedly, "All right! Jaden just nailed him! Big time!"

Alexis says, with a wide smile, "Aster's monster might be indestructible, but he isn't!"

Bastion tells Alexis, "Don't stop celebrating just yet. This duel has a long way to go."

Sasuke tells Naruto, with a plain tone, "Yes, fool. So, please sit down, Naruto. Do you want to jinx Jaden or something?"

Akane then exclaims, "But Jaden made one awesome move! He show who the real Master of those Elemental Hero cards really is!"

Mia tells Akane, with a smile, but a logical and serious tone, "However, Bastion is right, Akane. This duel has a good ways to go, but Jaden is doing very well.

Current Score:

Aster: 2500

Jaden: 4000

Aster draws one card from his deck and says, with a sly smile and tone, "Back to me." When Aster looks at the card, he says, with a sly smile and tone, "Well, here's a card that we haven't seen in a while: Polymerization!"

When a fusion vortex forms behind Aster, Syrus yells out, worriedly, "Oh, man! That's only cool when Jay plays it!"

Jenny says, annoyed, "No joke!"

Kira says, seriously, "And trouble for Jaden when Aster plays it!"

The black-clad version of Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) appears on the field, goes into a fusion vortex with Phoenix Enforcer and Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "I take one part Phoenix Enforcer and add a pinch of Sparkman and out comes Elemental Hero Shining Phoenix Enforcer!" Out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Shining Phoenix Enforcer (2500/2100) comes to the field in attack mode. Aster then says, with a serious tone, "Now, he gets three hundred attack points for every hero monster in my graveyard!" Shining Phoenix Enforcer's stats rise from 2500/2100 to 4000/2100, thanks to its ability and five Elemental Hero monsters in the graveyard!

Jaden says, amazed, "Whoa. That's a whole lot of hero."

Hassleberry says, amazed, "That thing is going to be all over Jaden like flies on a cow pie!"

Tyson says, nervously, "I don't know what that means, but something tells me that isn't a good thing."

Max tells Tyson, "Got that right, Tyson."

Aster calls out, seriously, "You are way out of your league! Shining Phoenix Enforcer, attack with Shimmer Kick!" Shining Phoenix Enforcer leaps into the air, its right foot starts to glow, it back-flips, and dives on Tempest slamming its right foot into Tempest's chest, causing it to be destroyed while Jaden loses 1200 life-points.

Hinata asks, worriedly, "Is he okay?"

Naruto yells out, confidently, "Sure, he is, Hinata! Jaden won't get kicked down by one hit!"

Mia says, with a serious tone, "But one serious hit."

Kira tells Mia, nodding her head, "You know it, Mia."

Aster puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "That will be enough for now."

Current Score:

Aster: 2500

Jaden: 2800

Hikari calls out, angrily, "Come on, Jay! You can't lose to that jerk! Show who the real boss is!"

Cye tells Hikari, nervously, "Real encouraging, Hikari."

Kari nods her head and says, also nervously, "No kidding, Cye."

Jaden draws one card from his deck and he says, with a serious tone, "Not bad." Jaden puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "I play Pot of Greed! Now, I draw two more cards from my deck!" Jaden draws two more cards from his deck, puts one card in the spell/trap slots, and he says, "Next, I play my Miracle Fusion! Here's how it works: I remove Fusion-Material Monsters from my field or my graveyard and then I combine them to form something stronger!" Jaden takes his Elemental Hero Flame Wingman (2100/1200) fusion monster card and Elemental Hero Sparkman (1600/1400) monster card from his graveyard, puts them in his pocket and out of play. Jaden calls out, as the two monsters appear on the field and go into a fusion vortex, "All right, here goes! I fuse my Flame Wingman with my Sparkman! In order to summon Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman!" Out of the fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman (2500/2100) comes to the field in attack mode. Jaden tells Aster, with a sly smile and serious tone, "And if you think that he is strong now, wait until he gains twelve hundred life-points, thanks to the heroes in my graveyard!" Shining Flare Wingman's stats then rise from 2500/2100 to 3700/2100!

Aster says, with a sly smile and tone, "Are you done? I thought after that big production that you would summon something that would accomplish something. But no, you spent five minutes summoning a monster that's weaker than mine."

Jaden tells Aster, with a sly smile, "Not exactly. You see, attack points aren't everything. So, if you excuse me, I would like to continue my move with this!" Jaden puts one card in the spell/trap slots and says, "With this! Light Laser! This card can only be equipped to a Light warrior-type monster and when my Wingman attacks your monster, it is automatically removed from play!" Just then the laser appears in the right hand of Shining Flare Wingman and he activates it showing a bright blue glowing blade.

Chazz says, with a sly smile and his usual snobbish tone, "Not bad, Slacker. Not bad."

Hilary says, excitedly, "Jaden has a chance now!"

Ray tells Hilary, seriously, "It would seem so."

Bastion says, with a sly tone, "Yes, what would his fans think? Now, we know why he wanted the arena to be empty expect for us."

Naruto calls out, "Yeah, Bastion! To make sure that his fans don't see his butts get kicked by a so called 'Prep School Boy'!"

Hikari tells Jaden, excitedly, "Take on home, Jay!"

Jaden's Field Spell slot open, he puts a card in the slot, and Jaden tells Aster, with a sly smile, "Next, I play a Field Spell! It's called Skyscraper!" When the slot closes, huge buildings come on the field and Jaden says, with a sly smile and tone, "I thought that a change of scenery is in order! And since my Wingman is weaker than your monster, he gains one thousand more attack points!" Shining Flare Wingman's stats rise from 3700/2100 to 4700/2100 and Jaden calls out, seriously, "Now, Shining Flare Wingman attack!" Shining Flare Wingman leaps forward to attack Shining Phoenix Enforcer.

Aster calls out, seriously, "Fine! We'll go out with a bang!" Shining Phoenix Enforcer moves in to counter the attack Shining Flare Wingman.

Jaden calls out, seriously, "Wingman, activate Light Laser!" Shining Flare Wingman slams his laser into Shining Phoenix Enforcer while Shining Phoenix Enforcer slams its foot into Wingman's chest, but Phoenix Enforcer is gone while Flare Wingman returns to Jaden's side and Aster loses 700 more life-points.

Current Score:

Aster: 1800

Jaden: 2800

Alexis asks, excitedly, "Awesome! Who is the pro now?"

Syrus says, just as excitedly, "Jaden!"

Naruto calls out, excitedly, "You know it, Syrus!"

Sakura calls out, excitedly, "You know it, Naruto! Excellent move, Jay!"

Kento yells out, excitedly, "Way to go, Jaden!"

Keiko calls out, with a smile and excited tone, "You know it, Kento!"

Hikari exclaims, excitedly, "Sweet move, Jaden!"

Ryo asks, with a smile, "Jaden is the pro, but who is the asshole opponent?"

Tyson says, with a sly smile, "Times a million!"

Yusuke says, with a smile, "Aster!"

Jaden exclaims, excitedly, "This is one sweet duel! I mean, hero monsters going head to head! What could be better? This is so chill!"

Just then Aster growls in annoyance and unexpectedly yells out, angrily, "What's with you? You think that this is some kind of big joke!" Jaden and the others gasp out in surprise and when Aster raises his head, his expression changed within an intense look in his eyes. Aster then says, in a real serious tone, "Well, I've got news for you, joy-boy, dueling isn't just for fun! Well, not for me! But someone like you would never understand. I duel for justice and…revenge."

Going into the 'audience', Keiko asks, perplexed, "Justice? Revenge?"

Tyson states, shocked at Aster's change of attitude, "Whoa! His attitude has taken a total one-eighty."

Kira tells Tyson, with a serious tone, "You know it, Tyson. He is totally serious and all business now."

Yusuke nods his head and says, seriously, "You're right, Kira. I can see it in his eyes and his tone."

Kiyone says, plainly, "Something tells me we are seeing the true Aster Phoenix."

Ayeka asks Kiyone, "What makes you say that, Ayeka?"

Kiyone states, plainly, "Behind that sarcastic attitude, I saw a look deep within his eyes that he tried to hide. The one of someone on a mission…a mission of justice and vengeance. Then I knew there was more to this kid than meets the eye."

Sasuke tells Kiyone, with a plain and serious tone, "You took the words right out of my mouth, Ms. Makibi. I saw that spark in his eye. The spark of someone out for revenge."

Sakura asks Sasuke, surprised, "Revenge?"

Sasuke nods his head and says, with a plain tone, "That's right, Sakura. I know that look anyway because I've seen that same look in my eyes when I think about HIM."

Back on the dueling field, Aster growls and says, "Ah, forget it."

Jaden tells Aster, seriously, "Too late for that now, bro."

Aster tells Jaden, in a serious tone that he didn't use until now, "I chose my hero cards for a reason. And punks like you that use them just because they look cool, make me sick."

Jaden tells Aster, perplexed by his change in attitude, "Come on, bro, chill out."

Aster yells back, very annoyed, "Look, these cards are everything to me! They are my whole life! So, you chill out!"

Jaden tells Aster, "I'm always chill."

Aster says, annoyed, "Whatever. I told you that you wouldn't understand."

Within the stands, Kento says, with an annoyed tone, "He is more of a jerk than ever."

Sage states, in a serious tone, "It is more than that, Kento. Kiyone's right. His voice is full of anger and rage. Someone who wishes for vengeance. But what does he want revenge for? And who or what does he have this anger and rage against?"

Back on the dueling field, Aster says, in a serious tone, "I was destined to build this deck! And here's proof! I play my D-Time trap card!" Aster's face-down card is revealed to be the D-Time trap card and Aster says, as two cards comes out of his deck, "Thank you. You've triggered this trap when you destroyed my Phoenix Enforcer! When he leaves the field, it allows me to unleash a new breed of heroes from my deck!" Aster puts the cards from his deck into his hand, revealing one of them to be Destiny Hero Doom Lord (600/800), and declares, "They are known as the Destiny Heroes!"

Jaden asks, stunned and perplexed, "Destiny Heroes?"

Back in the stands, Chazz nearly leaps out of his seat and asks, confused, "What heroes?"

Hassleberry tells Chazz, "Destiny, son! They already said it twice."

Syrus asks, curiously, "What are they?"

Jaden's friends look at Bastion and he says, "Don't look at me."

Syrus asks, worriedly, "You don't know?"

Max asks Kenny, "What about you, Kenny?"

Kenny tells Max, "I wish that I knew, but I never heard of any cards known as the 'Destiny Heroes' in any card database. However, they do sound familiar from a story that I read about, but I'm not exactly sure where I heard that story before."

Sakura yells out, perplexed, "I've never heard of 'Destiny Heroes' before!"

Hinata says, perplexed, "Neither have I!"

Keiko says, confused as her friends, "Same here!"

Mia says, perplexed, "Neither have I?"

Rowen says, "Same here."

Hotaru says, seriously, "Don't even bother asking me!"

Nabiki says, plainly, "I'm just as clueless as you guys!"

Tyson asks Dizzi, "What about you, Dizzi?"

Dizzi says, in a serious tone, "I wish I knew about those cards, Tyson. But I'm totally clueless."

Kari says, worriedly, "I'm worried. If Bastion, Kenny, Mia, Rowen, Hotaru, Nabiki, Keiko, Dizzi, or anyone else has never heard of these cards, who knows what they can do?"

Dizzi says, in her sarcastic tone, "Here's an idea! I think it's time for Jaden to call home!"

Alexis yells at Dizzi, angrily, "This isn't the time for jokes, Dizzi!"

Back on the dueling field, Aster tells Jaden, "Now, it is time for you to open your eyes to the true power of the Elemental Heroes."

Jaden tells Aster, "Enough of the dramatic speeches, bro."

Aster says, with a sly smirk on his lips, "Fine. Then I won't tell you my secret then."

Jaden gives a perplexed look and asks, "Huh?"

Aster tells Jaden, "Unless you want to know the truth."

Jaden asks Aster, "What truth?"

Aster tells Jaden, "About a secret series of hero cards created by Industrial Illusions, but never released to the public. It is known as the D-series." Aster then draws one card from his deck and says, "But how about I show you instead?"

Upon hearing that Washu yells out, in a logical tone, "Of course! That's it! Since those cards were created and not released, it is no wonder we never heard about them!"

Hikari asks Washu, "What makes you say that, Ms. Hakubi?"

Ken says, with a serious tone, "Since those cards were created, but never released, only those in Industrial Illusions have ever heard about them and most likely, they rarely talked about them with others or posted them in the internet. So, the information about these cards would be slim if there is any at all."

Kari asks, curiously, "So, does that mean that Jaden is in trouble?"

Max tells Kari, concerned, "Based on how powerful these cards are, Jaden might be in real deep trouble, Kari."

The Field Spell slot opens on Aster's duel disc, he puts a card in the Field Spell slot, and says, "First, I play my Clock Tower Prison Field Spell." The Field Spell slot on Aster's duel disc closes, causes Jaden's Skyscraper spell to fall apart since a new Field Spell was played, and as a huge clock tower appears behind Aster with Jaden, Aster, and Shining Flare Shining being in the center of some kind of courtyard to some kind of prison connected to the clock tower behind Aster. Aster tells Jaden, "This clock tower is the key ingredient."

Jaden asks, perplexed, "It is? But why?"

Aster replies, sarcastically, "Oh, now you want to hear my speech. Let's just say that with every tick of this clock, I come closer to victory. Now, hands of fate turn and usher in the doom!" Soon after, the needles on the clock tower move backwards to the twelve o'clock position and when they do so, it gives off loud clock-like bongs. And just then a figure is seen on top of the clock tower.

Syrus exclaims, shocked, "Look! On top of the tower!"

Aster then calls out, "Jaden, meet Destiny Hero Doom Lord!" Soon enough, the figure on the clock tower is Destiny Hero Doom Lord (600/800) in attack mode.

Jaden tells Aster, "No offense, but he seems weak."

Aster says, with a sly smirk, "Let's test that theory. Doom Lord, show him your stuff!" Doom Lord leaps from the clock tower and moves towards Flare Wingman, seemly going to attack.

Chazz says, "That was dumb."

Bastion says, in his logical tone, "I concur, Chazz. Why would Aster play that? He clearly has the weaker monster."

Cye says, plainly, "He must think that he can't win."

Ryuko states, plainly, "No joke. Flare Wingman has three thousand seven hundred attack points to that Doom Lord's just six hundred. It's going to get crushed."

Naruto nods his head and says, "No joke, Ryuko! That card is going to get crushed and Aster is going down!"

Hilary says, worriedly, "Unless it has a special ability that we don't know about."

Keiko states, worriedly, "That could be a problem, Hilary."

Yusuke says, seriously, "And knowing Aster, it most likely has a powerful ability, if that guy played that."

Back on the dueling field, Aster exclaims, "Oh, did I mention his ability? Destiny Hero Doom Lord, send him packing with Impending Doom Grip!" Doom Lord slams his right claw into Shining Flare Wingman and Aster says, "See ya! In the future, that is." Soon after, Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman vanishes, dropping Light Laser, and sending that card to the graveyard.

Jaden exclaims, shocked, "Hey, what do you to my Wingman? He's gone!"

Aster tells Jaden, "Yeah, but not for long! Each turn, he can send one of your monsters into the future by removing them from play for two turns!"

Jaden tells Aster, "That doesn't even make sense."

Aster tells Jaden, "To you. That's because you've got a lot to learn about destiny. And unfortunately for you, right now, I'm controlling yours. And your future is looking pretty grim." Aster then starts to laugh in dark satisfaction as the duel turns in Aster's favor. And as the duel continued on, Aster's 'prediction' looks like it is coming true and with each new Destiny Hero monster, including Destiny Hero-Diamond Dude (1400/1600), Destiny Hero-Captain Tenacious (800/800), and traps and spell like D-Shield that made Destiny Hero monsters invincible and Misfortune spell card that drained Jaden's life-points away. Jaden was getting into serious trouble.

(Sometime later; returning to Sartorius's lair)

As Jaden continues his struggle against Aster and his Destiny Heroes deck, we find Sartorius looking over his Tarot card deck and he turns over one card.

Sartorius says, evilly, "I can see your struggle. Everything that you believe in turns out to a lie. They are no choices and freedom is nothing, but an illusion. For you see, my young friend, destiny has led you to me. I have infused Aster's deck with the Light of truth! And when you lose this duel, your eyes will finally be opened! Soon, you will walk along the path of light by my side."

(Sometime soon after; Back to the duel between Jaden and Aster in Obelisk Arena)

We return to Aster's and Jaden's duel where Jaden has only 150 life-points left with Elemental Hero Thunder Giant (2400/1500), Elemental Hero Necroid Shaman (1900/1800), and Elemental Hero Flame Wingman (2100/1200) while Aster has 800 life-points left, Destiny Hero Doom Lord (600/800), Destiny Hero Captain Tenacious (800/800), Destiny Hero Diamond Dude (1400/1600), and Destiny Hero Dreadmaster (2800/2800). Jaden tried to prevent defeat by using his Thunder Giant's special ability to weaken Dreadmaster by getting rid of Diamond Dude, but Dreadmaster's effect stopped Thunder Giant's ability and now, Aster's last attack is about to finish when he starts his turn.

Aster tells Jaden, with a sly smirk, "I've got to admit, your dueling skills aren't half bad, but I have something that you don't! Purpose! A reason to duel other than having fun!"

Jaden asks, perplexed, "What else is there?"

Aster tells Jaden, in a serious and strong tone, "Typical. You've just proven my point, once again. The reason I duel is to bring justice to the world by punishing people that think they are above the law!"

Jaden asks, confused, "Come again?" Everyone widens their eyes in shock at this revelation about Aster Phoenix.

Keiko asks, perplexed, "What does Aster mean by that?"

Sasuke says, with a plain and serious tone, "It means that Ms. Makibi and I were right about Aster Phoenix. There is more to him than meets the eye."

Aster says, a bit nervously, "Guess you need an explanation: My father was a duelist, too. He was a card designer for Mr. Maxamillion Pegasus at Industrial Illusions." Aster smiles at this memory and says, "He put his heart into every card he designed. He was my hero."

Jaden asks, curiously, "What happened to him?"

Aster's expression then becomes one of rage and he states, angrily, "Some punk came and took him away!" Aster thinks about what happened and says, solemnly, "They must have broken into my house and now, he's gone."

Jaden says, horrified, "That's awful." Just then a realization comes to him and Jaden asks, "Wait! Did your father…?"

Aster says, seriously, "That's right. My father…created and designed the Destiny Heroes! They were the last cards that he ever made! My father taught me that justice would always prevail. But he was wrong. Justice was a lie. My father is still gone. And whoever took him away is still out there, another criminal whose actions went unpunished. It's not fair. So, I made a choice: I duel to bring lawbreakers to justice." With the fire of anger, rage, and determination in his eyes, Aster says, with a serious and determined tone, "And in the honor of my father, I use the very same cards that my father created to punish these lawbreakers. And that's why I duel. And someday, I will find the scum that took my father away and make him pay. And I'll know him when I see him. He will have a rare card the one he stole when he took my father away. It was the last card that he ever made. Whoever has that card will regret the day that they were born!"

Everyone in the 'audience' were awe-struck and surprised by the story and Mihoshi says, stunned, "Oh my. I never thought that someone like Aster went through this."

Washu tells Kiyone, with a serious tone, "You were right, Kiyone. Aster Phoenix is dueling for revenge and vengeance for his father."

Kiyone tells Washu, nodding her head, "However, I was surprised that he deep his anger and rage goes. I can see it in his eyes. He means every word that he said and that last statement, directly towards that person that caused him so much sorrow: Aster Phoenix will most likely carry out that promise."

Sakura says, horrified, "That's horrible!"

Hikari tells Sakura, with a serious tone, "No joke, Sakura! If my siblings and I have gone through that with mom, we would keep searching for the asshole that took her away from us and make him pay for what he did!" Hikari thinks in her mind, seriously, "However, it didn't give Phoenix the right to do what he did to Zane or what he is doing to Jaden!"

Hilary says, shocked, "Whoa. I never thought a guy like Aster could go through something so horrible."

Orihime nods her head and says, "It's terrible."

Keiko nods her head and says, with a serious tone, "I thought Aster was a jerk, but now, I can see him for what he truly is. He is full of anger and rage with probably no one else to support him. His father was someone that he really loved, and when he left his father, his heart was full of anger and rage."

Daichi says, "But it still doesn't give him the right to take it out on Jaden."

Naruto calls out, seriously, "No joke, Daichi! He still a major jerk, purpose or no purpose!"

Rukia tells Naruto, "Don't judge him too quickly, Naruto, as well as you, Daichi. His heart is full of anger and rage. His desire for revenge and justice is overwhelming. And anyone that stands in his way to find his father is nothing, but an enemy to Aster. Aster will not stop until he finds the person that took his father away from him when he was young and this desire encompasses him. He shouldn't take a part of his revenge out on Jaden, but you have to understand what has happened to him. His only family member that he had was taken away from him when he was just a young child and you've got to understand how scaring it can be."

Mia tells Rukia, "You do have a point, Rukia, but still Aster shouldn't be using others for 'guinea pigs' to test his skills for the duel against the person that took his father."

Back on the dueling field, Jaden tells Aster, "Aster, your father created the Destiny Heroes so that people could have fun with them. He wouldn't want you to use them for revenge."

Aster yells at Jaden, angrily, "You don't anything about him! So, butt out! Look, my father deserves justice! And I'm going to see that he gets it! Didn't you hear what I said? He was my hero and now, I get a chance to be his!" Aster draws one card from his deck and says, with his voice full of anger, rage, and sarcasm, "Now, where were we? Oh, I remember, we were at the end! It has been blast, Jaden!" Just then Aster's Dreadmaster card begins to glow with a violet light, Dreadmaster's eyes glow a bright violet, and his body was encompassed by a violet aura. Ichigo, Uryu, Ryoko, Ayeka, Kagome, Inuyasha and his sisters, Kuwabara, Yusuke, Hikari, Kira, Kurama, and Hiei, quickly sense the evil aura coming from Aster's card.

Kagome thinks, worriedly, "That evil aura is going to hit Jaden hard!"

Ichigo thinks in his mind, "What is that aura around Aster's monster? I can sense pure evil coming from it!"

Hikari thinks, worriedly, "An evil aura is coming from that card!"

Kuwabara thinks in his mind, perplexed, "What in the hell? Where is that freak evil aura coming from?"

Kurama thinks, seriously and worriedly, "Oh no! I was right! That evil aura is coming from Aster's cards and he is ready to finish off Jaden! I'm not sure what will happen when Jaden loses, but there is nothing we can do!"

(Back in Sartorius's lair; around that moment)

Around that exact moment, back in Sartorius's headquarters, his right hand starts to glow with an evil violet and he gives an evil smile from that.

Sartorius says, with an evil smile, "At long last, the Chosen Duelist Jaden Yuki belongs to me!"

(Back at Obelisk Arena; shortly thereafter)

As Dreadmaster continues to glow a slight bright violet color with an evil aura, only noticed by, Ichigo, Uryu, Ryoko, Ayeka, Kuwabara, Yusuke, Hikari, Kira, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei, with a serious look on her expression, Aster calls out, "Dreadmaster, send Jaden out with a bang! Dread Fist!" Dreadmaster leaps towards Jaden's monsters, stops in front of Thunder Giant, slams his left palm into Thunder Giant, destroying it, and taking 400 life-points with it, ending the duel in Aster's victory. Aster gives a sly smirk, turns his back to Jaden with an image of Dreadmaster forming over his form, and says, "Oh, well. Told ya. You can't hide from destiny." After Jaden's life-points go to zero and the final holograms fade away, everyone is shocked.

Final Score:

Aster: 0800

Jaden: 0000

Alexis, Bastion, Naruto, Kagome, Ranma, Akane, Hotaru, Ukyo, Sakura, Keiko, Alister, Hinata, Ryo, Kento, Mia, Jenny, Ray, Tyson, Hilary, Kenny, Daichi, Max, Kari, Yolei, Ken, and Chazz say in unison, shocked, "Jaden lost!" Just then Jaden gives out a loud groan of pain as an evil power tries to enter his body and his cards fly out of his duel disc.

Syrus, Ryuko and Hassleberry calls out, stunned, "His cards!"

Naruto yells out, shocked, "What the hell happened?"

Jaden thinks in his mind, weakly, "Something…Something doesn't feel right inside…" Just then Jaden's witness every one of his cards go blank before his eyes and he collapses to the ground on his stomach, rendering him unconsciousness.

Ayeka exclaims, shocked, "He fainted!"

Yusuke yells out, stunned, "Jaden!" Immediately, Yusuke leaps from the stands and onto the ground. Soon after, much to the other's shock and surprise, Ranma, Hotaru, Ukyo, Ryoko, Kai, Ray, Ryo, Kento, Cye, Rowen, and Sage leap down from the stands, land safety on the ground, and all of run towards Jaden's fallen form.

Bastion says, amazed, "Oh my. Those guys are quite talented."

Alexis states, stunned, "I didn't know they were athletes."

Kira asks, with a whisper and in a serious tone, "Did any of you sense that like I did?"

Hikari tells Kira, in a whisper and seriously, "Like that freaky negative aura that came from Aster's card, then yes, I did!"

Kurama tells his friends, in a whisper and worried tone, "You didn't imagine it! I've sense that weird energy since Aster arrived on the island. That evil energy has infected Jaden when he lost the duel. He needs help."

Hikari, Kira, Kuwabara, Alister, and Keiko yell out in shock and in unison, "What?"

Kira then calls out, shocked, "Then what are we standing around here for?" Soon after, Inuyasha, Melody, Megumi, Hikari, Kira, Kuwabara, and Kurama run to the end of the stands and leap off to follow our Ronin Warriors while Keiko immediately rushes to get down from the stands and onto the dueling platform.

Chancellor Crowler yells out, shocked, "Hey, that's dangerous!"

Ryoko yells out, annoyed, "Can it, Crowler! Can't you see that Jaden is in trouble? Something's wrong with him!"

Yusuke calls out, seriously and annoyed, "No duh, Crowler! Do you think that his cards exploding from his deck and a duelist fainting to the ground is normal?"

Jaden's friends and sister get out of their seats and exclaim in unison, "Jaden's in trouble?" Without saying another word, Jaden's friends and sister run out of the stands and towards Jaden's fallen form while Alexis uses her ninja agility and skills to leap down from the stands. Yusuke puts the unconscious hero in his arms and the others look at his unconscious form.

Ryo whispers to Yusuke, asking him, "What do you sense?"

Yusuke tells Ryo, in a serious tone and whispering, "We were right. Jaden was attacked from within by an evil force when Aster's monster destroyed his monster and he lost the duel."

Kenny gasps in shock and asks, whispering, "What can we do for him?"

Kai whispers in reply, "All we can do is to get Jaden to infirmary as quickly as possible."

By this time, Yusuke's siblings, and his friends arrive and Hikari whispers to Kai, seriously, "Are you nuts, Kai? The infirmary doesn't know how to treat infections by evil powers!"

Kurama tells Hikari, with a serious tone, "Unless we want to reveal ourselves to Crowler and Bonaparte, it is the only thing that we can do right now."

Cye says, in a whisper, "Ryo and I will pick up all of Jaden's cards."

Kira says, plainly, "The rest of us will go with you."

Yusuke then puts the unconscious duelist into his arms and races off with Cye, Kento, Rowen, Sage, Tyson, Ichigo, and Tenchi following them.

Syrus exclaims, worriedly, "Hey, wait for us! We're Jaden's friends!"

Hassleberry states, "Yeah! We don't leave any member of our platoon behind!"

Kira yells out, seriously, "No joke, Hassleberry!" Soon after, Hikari, Kira, Alister, Keiko, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Hassleberry, Alexis, and Syrus, along with the rest of our heroes and heroines, except for Chazz, follow the rest of the group. Chazz decides to follow Alexis, Hassleberry, and Syrus to the school infirmary while Bastion goes over to aid in picking up all of Jaden's cards scattered on the ground.

Naruto shouts out, seriously, "Hold up! Wait for me!" Soon after, Naruto uses his ninja skills and agility to leap off the stands and follow the group.

Sakura calls out, stunned, "Naruto!" Soon after, Sakura, Sasuke, and Hinata leap out of the stands with their ninja skills and agility to leap down and follow the group of heroes and heroines taking Jaden to the infirmary.

Kari calls out, seriously, "Hey, hold up!" Soon after, Kari and the other two younger Digidestined run to get out of the stands and head for the infirmary where our heroes and heroines are heading with the unconscious Jaden.

Ryo thinks in his mind, "I wonder: Since Aster is so consumed for a desire for revenge, could he have made a deal with an evil power to make sure he gets his father back from whoever who took him? Or was he a pawn for someone's sick game?" Soon after, Ryo, Cye, and Bastion began to pick up Jaden's cards scattered across the dueling platform. On the meanwhile, Jaden, in Yusuke's arms, moans as he lies unconscious.

Alexis thinks, worriedly, "Jaden, what happened to you when that duel ended?"

Kento thinks in his mind, seriously, "Oh, man! I thought we were done with all of this 'saving the universe' stuff, after Talpa, and we could have fun in Duel Academy, but it looks like that demon friend of Yusuke's is right! It looks like evil has come to Duel Academy and Jaden is its first victim! I hope we can help him before it is too late!"

Hikari thinks in her mind, angrily, "That son of bitch! What did Aster do to poor Jaden? Is that asshole has done something to poor Jay, then I'll make sure that he pays, once and for all! That guy has to be an agent for whatever evil energy infected poor Jaden!"

Yusuke thinks in his mind, angrily, "Damn asshole! I knew that I never should have felt sorry for that punk! He did something to Jaden with that weird evil energy! He must be agent for some wacko wanting to destroy or take over the world!"

Kira thinks in her mind, angrily, "When I get my hands on Aster Phoenix, I'll make sure that he pays for this if anything happens to Jay!"

Ichigo thinks in his mind, seriously, "What was that weird evil energy from Aster's deck? Did he mean to do this to Jaden? Or is he some kind of pawn for a game for another great evil?" Little did our heroes and heroines knew Jaden's body was glowing red and a voice from the brown haired Slifer's body boomed, darkly, "First seal open!"

(The following day; in the hallways leading to the infirmary)

We find Syrus, Ryuko, Naruto, Hinata, and Max running down towards the infirmary where they finds a group of Ra Yellow and Slifer Red students in front of the door.

One male Ra Yellow said, "Did you hear? Jaden Yuki can't duel anymore."

One male Slifer Red student says, "Yeah. I heard that he can't see his cards anymore."

Syrus yells out, in a serious tone, "Make way! Coming through here everyone!" The Ra and Slifer students look to see Syrus, Ryuko, Naruto, Hinata, and Max trying to get through them and they were yelling at him until all of them fall over into the infirmary/nurse's office with Max, Ryuko, and Syrus falling down with the students while Naruto and Hinata use their ninja agility to leap out of the way where Jenny, Chazz, Bastion, Alexis, Hassleberry, Ryo and his friends, Ranma and his group, Tyson and his friends, Ichigo and his friends, Tenchi and his friends, Yusuke, his siblings, Keiko, Alister, Kurama, Kuwabara, Sasuke, Sakura, Kari, Ken, Yolei, and Jaden, sitting in a chair in front of Ms. Fontaine and Isabel, who was examining him.

Chazz asks, annoyed, "What are all of you, dorks, doing here?"

All of the Ra and Slifer students get to their feet and exclaim, worriedly and in unison, "Chazz!"

Chazz tells them, with a serious tone, "I said, Beat it!" But the group of students stands in place in fear of Chazz and he says, with a tone to scare them off, "Boo!" All of the Slifer and Ra students, other than Syrus and Ryuko, Max, then run off in fear of Chazz.

Ukyo says, plainly, "I've got to say this much for him. He really knows how to get rid of a crowd."

Chazz growls, annoyed, "Hey! I heard that!"

Syrus tells Jaden, "Jaden, please tell me that this is some kind of joke! I've heard from someone that knows someone's cousin that told me that you can't duel anymore! Tell me that this is some kind of rumor!"

Chazz tells Syrus, "When they said that you hit puberty that was a rumor. This isn't." Chazz takes Jaden's deck from his black coat, hands it to Syrus, and says, "According to Jaden, all of his cards are blank. Pitch white blank."

Syrus exclaims, shocked, "This is terrible! But I don't see anything wrong with them."

Ken says, seriously, "Neither do I. To me, his cards are the same as they ever been."

Kari says, nodding his head, "Same here."

Keiko states, with a plain and worried tone, "And it is the same with me. I looked at every single card and nothing was wrong with them."

Naruto yells out, seriously, "Then what's the problem?"

Sasuke says, with a plain and serious tone, "Simple, Naruto. The problem with Jaden and not the cards."

Ms. Fontaine tells Syrus, nodding her head in agreement, "Sasuke is right, Syrus. The cards aren't the problem. During Jaden's last duel, something happened to him."

Hilary asks, curiously, "Is there anything we can do for him?"

Isabel replies, "I wish that was possible, Hilary. Until we figured what happened to him during that duel, I don't think there is a way any of us can help him."

Jaden rises to his feet and says, "Oh, well. What are you going to do?" Jaden goes to his feet, takes his deck from Syrus, puts it in his card pouch attached to his belt, and starts to walk off.

Syrus asks Jaden, concerned tone, "Jaden, where are you going?"

Jaden tells Syrus, solemnly, "I need to chill a while, Sy." Jaden then heads out the door, leaving everyone with solemn expression on their faces. Soon after, Jaden leaves the infirmary while a lot of heroes and heroines give solemn look on their faces.

Hikari yells out, angrily, "Damn it! That SOB, Aster Phoenix, is responsible for this! He's going to pay for this!"

Bastion tells Hikari, seriously and logically, "Kari, we aren't sure that Phoenix is responsible for Jaden's condition."

Naruto yells at Bastion, with his serious tone, "Bastion, the evidence is there!"

Kento says, seriously, "No joke! Jaden was just fine until that rotten Phoenix got into his head and after he lost to that creep! I just wish he was here so I could show him, how I think when you mess with one of my friends!"

Sakura nods her head and says, seriously, "I agree both Naruto and Kento. The evidence points to ass, Aster Phoenix."

Sasuke says, with a serious tone, "I'm not so sure."

Sakura asks Sasuke, "What do you mean, Sasuke?"

Ranma yells out, seriously, "Yeah, we all saw what Phoenix did to Jaden! He was fine until that jerk did whatever he did to him!"

Sasuke tells Sakura, with a serious and plain tone, "I don't think that Aster Phoenix has the power to do what he did to Jaden. A greater evil must have been at work, here."

Naruto yells out, seriously, "You mean that a greater evil jerk gave Aster the power to do that?"

Sasuke thinks in his mind, seriously, "Or used Aster to get to Jaden since they knew he or she would be dueling him! But we would need more information to make sure!"

(Later that day; within Obelisk Arena)

Inside of Obelisk Arena, we find all of our heroes and heroines, minus Jaden and Hiei, are inside of Obelisk Arena in the aftermath of a duel between Alexis Rhodes and her older brother, Atticus Rhodes. Before they could help Jaden and investigate this evil, they find that aid Alexis finish off the affair between Crowler and her with the 'dueling pop star' thing that 'forced' Ryo, Mia, Hotaru, and Alexis away from the Obelisk Blue dorm. While this was going on, Alister had similar plans with his sister, but Keiko literately had to beat it out of him. Alexis won the duel with her brother, who got involved being himself, and after the duel, he learned about what happened to Jaden.

Atticus yells out, shocked, "Whoa! Are you serious?"

Bastion tells Atticus, "Yes, Atticus. After his duel with Aster Phoenix, Jaden lost the ability to see his cards. We're not sure how or why, but we believe that sinister forces are at work here."

Atticus says, amazed, "Man! I thought that whole 'great evil threatening the world' stuff is done and over with since Jay defeated Kagemaru and the Sacred Beast cards!"

Bastion tells Atticus, with a serious tone, "We thought so, Atticus. However, it looks like that there is something else and it looks like it targeted Jaden through Aster Phoenix. We're not sure what to do."

Atticus says, with a serious tone, "Maybe we should talk to Jaden and find a way to restore his lost 'dueling sight' or whatever."

Hinata says, in her usual tone, "I'm not sure that Jaden will see us in his depressed state."

Sakura tells Atticus, "Hinata is right, Atticus. We had better leave him alone for awhile. Losing the ability to see your cards would make anyone depressed."

Max nods his head and says, "Yeah, let's give him some time alone while we figure out what we can do for him."

Crowler then steps forward and calls out, "Yes! Yes! Whatever!" When everyone looks at Crowler, he tells them, "With the issue between Atticus and his sister done and over with, there are other matters to take care of."

Chazz says, in his usual snobbish tone, "Like what?"

Crowler says, with a sly smile, "What do you think, Chazz? Mr. Urameshi's promotion duel of course."

Yusuke says, surprised, "What? Who?"

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, "Why me? My future cousin-in-law!" Everyone turn to see Hoshi Saionji walking forward with a bouquet of roses and Hotaru says, in a groan, "Not him!"

Hoshi walks towards Hotaru and he says, with a sly smile, "For you, my love!" Hoshi gives the roses to Hotaru and Hotaru says, seriously, "Listen, Saionji, I don't want to marry you!"

Hoshi says, plainly, "But you have to! Our fathers made this deal!"

Hotaru says, in a snort, "Too bad that I don't think of Genma Saotome as a father anymore!"

Atticus says, winching, "Ouch! Major harsh!"

Alister tells Atticus, in a serious tone, "With all the crap that Mister Saotome has done to both Ranma and Hotaru, you can't help but feel sorry for her."

Atticus asks, curiously, "What did he do?"

Hotaru says, annoyed, "Trust me, pal! You don't want to know!"

Hoshi says, with a smile, "I know! How about if we raise the stakes of this duel! If I win, then you'll go on one date with me!"

Hotaru yells out, annoyed, "Excuse me!"

Alexis tells Hoshi, in an annoyed tone, "Excuse me, but what words 'Get lost' didn't you understand!"

Hotaru says to Alexis, in a serious tone, "Hold on, 'Lex! If this guy wants the stakes to be that high, then fine! However, should Yusuke win, you get out of my life until I see that rotten old man and I'll make him break off that engagement!"

Hoshi says, with a sly loving smile, "Whatever you say, my dear!"

Kagome thinks with a nervous smile, "Oh man! This guy is similar to Koga before he wanted to make me his woman and Zera crushed that dream in an instant when she bashed him hard, taking him to Ayame, and Feng when he's flirting with Melody, which gets Melody into hurting him physically!"

Yusuke says, in a serious tone, "Same with me!"

Crowler says, with a sly smile, "Good. I know that you would."

Hoshi tells Yusuke, with a kind smile, "Don't think that you are going to be my future cousin-in-law that I'm going to be easy on you."

Yusuke says, with a sweatdrop, "Gee, thanks! I wouldn't want you to go easy on me!" Just then, Yusuke feels a sudden jerk of his collar taking him to the serious glaring eyes of Hotaru Saotome and Hotaru tells Yusuke, seriously, "Yusuke, if you so much lose this duel, then I'm going to have a hard time telling Kagome, Hikari, Kira, and Keiko why their cousin, brother, and boyfriend is dead! In other words, I have many ways of torturing you for the rest of your life!" Hotaru throws Yusuke away, but Yusuke regains his balance with a nervous look on his face and he says, nervously, "Yes ma'am!"

Ryuko says, amazed, "Who would of guessed that Yusuke Urameshi would be threatened by Hotaru!"

Hikari says, with a sly grin, "Oh believe me! Yusuke gets that a lot from me, Keiko, Akane, Kagome, and Hotaru!"

Ryuko says, shocked, "You're kidding!"

Keiko says, with a sly grin, "Yep!" Soon enough, Crowler and Bonaparte along with the rest of our heroes and heroines were back in the stands while Yusuke and Hoshi got onto the platform, put their dueling decks into the duel disks attached to their left wrists and activate their duel disks causing them to display 4000 life-points each.

Hoshi tells Yusuke, with a sly smile, "I'm going to enjoy being the cousin-in-law of the great Yusuke Urameshi once I marry your beautiful cousin!"

Yusuke says, in a serious tone, "You do realize that unlike the engagement with Ranma and Akane, which is unbreakable, Hotaru couldn't care less about the Saotome family honor and there were others that had a claim on Hotaru thanks to my Uncle Genma. Like their claims, yours will soon be taken away!"

Hoshi says, in a plain tone, "We'll see!"

Starting Scores:

Hoshi: 4000

Yusuke: 4000

Yusuke draws his card and he says, seriously, "I'll start!" Yusuke places a card onto his duel disk and he calls out, seriously, "I summon Luster Dragon in attack mode!" Soon after, Luster Dragon (1900/1600) appears on the field in attack mode. Yusuke sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "Next, I play Ancient Rules! This allows me to special summon a five star monster or higher!" Yusuke then places another card onto his duel disk and he calls out, "I'll summon forth Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Soon after, Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500) comes beside Luster Dragon in attack mode.

Everyone, but Kagome, Ranma, Akane, Hotaru, Nabiki, Ukyo, Kira, Hikari, Keiko, Kurama, Kai, Ray, Max, Kenny, Daichi, Hilary, Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Kiyone, Mihoshi, Sasami, and Kuwabara, gasp in shock and Jenny calls out, stunned, "That's a legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"

Sakura calls out, stunned, "No way! I thought that only Seto Kaiba had those cards!"

Keiko says, with a sly grin, "Think again, Sakura! Yusuke, Tyson, Tenchi, and Kagome won two sets of playable dragon cards, including three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, one Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, one Master of Dragon soldier, the whole set of Red-Eyes Black Dragons, from Chick to Darkness Dragon, Black Luster Soldier, the original Ritual monster and Envoy of the Beginning, Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End, through Yusuke, Tyson, Tenchi, and Kagome rarely keep them in their decks, a Five-Headed Dragon, and even a Blue-Eyes Shinning Dragon, in a special Industrial Illusions tournament years ago!"

Yolei yells out, stunned, "That's unbelievable!"

Tyson says, displaying his Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon (3000/2500) monster card from his deck to everyone and with a sly grin, "And it's all true! Cool, huh?"

Naruto yells out, amazed, "Awesome is more like it, Tyson!"

Kari asks Tenchi, curiously, "Is that true, Tenchi?"

Tenchi displays his own Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon (3000/2500) monster card from his deck to everyone and he says, with a sly smile, "That's right!"

Ken says, amazed, "That's so cool!"

Hoshi says, in disbelief, "Impossible! I thought that there were only three in existence and they all belong to Seto Kaiba!"

Yusuke says, with a sly smile, "Actually, I won them from a tournament when I was a kid along with three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, one Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, one Master of Dragon soldier, the whole set of Red-Eyes Black Dragons, from Chick to Darkness Dragon, Black Luster Soldier, the original Ritual monster and Envoy of the Beginning, Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End, and even a Blue-Eyes Shinning Dragon."

Hoshi says, in a serious tone, "However, I'll still win no matter how many Blue-Eyes that you may have!"

Yusuke sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he says, seriously, "We'll see! I'll place a face-down and end my turn!"

Hoshi draws his card, puts it in his hand, takes out another one, sends it into the spell/trap slot and he says, "I play Reinforcements of the Army!" Hoshi takes out his deck, fans it, and he says, "Now, I'm allowed to bring a level four or lower warrior from my deck!" Hoshi takes out a card from his deck and places it in his hand, then puts his deck back into his duel disk. Hoshi then places a card onto his duel disk and he calls out, "I summon Marauding Captain in attack mode!" Soon after, Marauding Captain (1200/400) appears on the field in attack mode. Hoshi then places another card onto his duel disk and he calls out, "Now, I play his effect! I can summon another monster and I choose another Marauding Captain and that would be it!" Beside the first, another Marauding Captain (1200/400) appears on the field in attack mode.

Ukyo says, seriously, "That's not good! Marauding Captain's second ability cancels out any attack Yusuke can do with any other Warrior monster other than Marauding Captain! And since he summoned two, the first Captain protects the second and vice-versa."

Chazz tells Hotaru, in a serious tone, "Well, I hope that you don't have any other plans tonight since you'll be going on a date with your 'fiance'!" That comment gets Chazz a fist in the fist by an annoyed Hotaru.

Hotaru says, annoyed, "Shut it!"

Keiko tells Hotaru, seriously, "Don't worry, Hotaru! It's not as if Yusuke lost!"

Yusuke draws his card and he calls out, "It's my turn!" Yusuke places a card onto his duel disk and he calls out, "I summon Masked Dragon in defense mode and end my turn!" Soon after, Masked Dragon (1400/1100) comes to the field in defense mode.

Hoshi says, drawing his card, "That's all!" Hoshi places a card onto his duel disk and he calls out, "I summon Disciple of the Forbidden Spell!" Soon after, Disciple of the Forbidden Spell (1700/800) comes to the field in attack mode and Hoshi sends a card into the spell/trap slot, calling out, "Next, I'll play Double Summon! Now, I'm allowed another Normal Summon! So, I'll sacrifice my disciple for Silent Swordsman level five!" Disciple of the Forbidden Spell disappears and Silent Swordsman LV5 (2300/1000) appears on the field in his place.

Yusuke says, drolly, "Oh great!"

Hoshi then sends another card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "Then, I'll play Monster Reborn to summon back my Disciple of the Forbidden Spell!" Soon after, Disciple of the Forbidden Spell (1700/800) appears back in attack mode.

Hassleberry asks, curiously, "Why would he bring back his weaker soldier?"

Hoshi then sends another card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "Finally, I'll activate The Allied Forces to increase the attacking power of my warriors by two hundred points for every warrior I have on the field!"

Yusuke yells out, shocked, "What!" Disciple of the Forbidden Spell's stats rise from 1700/800 to 2500/800, Silent Swordsman LV5's stats rise from 2300/1000 to 3100/1000, and the two Marauding Captains' stats rise from 1200/400 to 2000/400!

Hoshi yells out, strongly, "Now, my swordsman, attack his Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Silent Swordsman LV5 lunges after Yusuke's dragon with the intent to kill.

Yusuke calls out, pressing a button on his duel disk, "I activate my Dust Tornado trap!" Yusuke's face-down card was the Dust Tornado and Yusuke says, with a sly grin, "Now, I can destroy one spell or trap on your side of the field and since you have one, guess who has to go!"

Hoshi yells out, shocked, "No!" Soon after, a huge dusty tornado appears and destroys Hoshi's The Allied Forces continuous spell card, lower the stats of his monster back to normal with Disciple of the Forbidden Spell to 1700/800, Silent Swordsman LV5 to 2300/1000, and the Marauding Captains 1200/400.

Yusuke yells out, seriously, "Blue-Eyes, counterattack with White Lightning!" Blue-Eyes fires his blast at Silent Swordsman, destroying him and Hoshi screams in shock as he loses 700 life-points.

Ranma yells out, excitedly, "All right!"

Hoshi snarls and he yells out, seriously, "My disciple, attack his Masked Dragon!" Disciple of the Forbidden Spell charges after Masked Dragon, cuts it in half with his sword, and since he was in defense mode, Yusuke doesn't lose any life-points.

Yusuke says, taking out his deck, "Since you've destroyed my Masked Dragon, you activated his effect, which allows me to summon a dragon with fifteen hundred attack points or less and I choose another Masked Dragon!" Soon after, a second Masked Dragon (1400/1100) comes to the field in defense mode.

Hoshi says, in a serious tone, "One of my captains will slay it!" The first Marauding Captain charges after the second dragon and slashes it with this sword. Since it was in defense mode, like the last one, Yusuke doesn't lose life-points.

Yusuke takes out his deck and he says, seriously, "Now, I can summon another dragon!" Soon after, a third Masked Dragon (1400/1100) appears on the field in defense mode.

Hoshi yells out, seriously, "My second Marauding Captain, destroy that dragon!" The second Marauding Captain charges after the third dragon and slashes it in half again while in defense mode, Yusuke doesn't lose any life-points.

Yusuke says, seriously, "With another one gone, another will take its place and I choose my Troop Dragon!" Soon after, Troop Dragon (700/800) comes to the field in attack mode.

Hoshi says, in a serious tone, "I'll end my turn!"

Current Score:

Hoshi: 3300

Yusuke: 4000

Yusuke draws his card, sends it to the spell/trap slot and he says, "First, I activate Card of Sanctity! This allows us to draw until we're holding six cards!" Yusuke and Hoshi draw until they were holding five cards, Yusuke then sends one more card into the spell/trap slot, and he calls out, "Next, I'll play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two cards from my deck!" Yusuke draws two cards from his deck, places one card onto the duel disk, and calls out, "I sacrifice my Luster Dragon and Troop Dragon to summon my second Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Luster Dragon and Troop Dragon disappear and Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500) comes to the field in attack mode. Yusuke calls out, sending another card into the spell/trap slot, "Now, I'll play White Dragon Ritual and I'll sacrifice my level four Divine Dragon Ragnarok to summon Paladin of White Dragon!" After Yusuke sends his Divine Dragon Ragnarok (1500/1000) monster card into the graveyard, Paladin of White Dragon (1900/1200) appears in attack mode. Yusuke says, in a serious tone taking his deck out from his duel disk, "Now, I sacrifice my Paladin for my third and last Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Paladin disappears and a third Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500) comes to the field in attack mode.

Hoshi asks, in a curious tone, "But you can't attack with any of them since my captains prevent it!"

Yusuke says, putting another card into the spell/trap slot, "I'll get to that later 'cause now I play Polymerization to fuse my three Blue-Eyes for Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" A black vortex appears above Yusuke's head as the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons fly into the vortex, and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (4500/3800) comes out of the vortex with a ferocious roar. Yusuke then sends another card onto the duel disk and he calls out, "Now, I'll sacrifice my Ultimate Dragon for Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon!" Soon after, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon shatters apart and Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon (3000/2500) takes its place in attack mode. Yusuke then says, with a sly grin, "And thanks to its ability, it gains three hundred attack points for every dragon in my grave and since I've got eleven dragons in my graveyard, he gets thirty-three hundred attack points!" Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon's stats rise from 3000/2500 to 6300/2500! Yusuke then sends the last card in his hand into the spell/trap slot and he says, "Now, I'll play my Fissure Spell card to get rid of those captains!"

Hoshi yells out, shocked, "No way!" Soon after, the two Marauding Captains were destroyed.

Ranma yells out, excitedly, "All right! Now, Yusuke can attack now!"

Yusuke yells out, strongly, "You heard Ranma, Shining Dragon, attack with Shining Neutron Blast!" Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon fires a powerful beam of energy at Disciple of the Forbidden Spell and wiping it out in a huge explosion causing Hoshi to scream out as he loses 4600 life-points, ending the duel immediately.

Final Score:

Hoshi: 0

Yusuke: 4000

After the duel is done, the final hologram fades away, Hoshi falls to his knees, and Yusuke exclaims, with a sly grin, "And that's game!"

Keiko calls out to her boyfriend, excitedly, "Way to go, Yusuke!"

Hotaru says, with a wide smile, "That means no more seeing that moron ever again!"

Crowler calls out, with a sly smile, "Well done, indeed! It is my honor to give you a promotion to Obelisk Blue immediately!"

All of Yusuke's friends, except for Chazz, and family cheer for Yusuke's victory, Sakura calls out, excitedly, "Congratulations, Yusuke!"

Kagome calls out to Yusuke, "Good luck in the Blue dorm!"

Ryo tells Yusuke, with a wide smile, "Can't wait to show you around!"

Yusuke looks at Hoshi, who getting on his feet, and he tells him, "I'm sorry, man, but a deal's a deal!"

Hoshi says, with a solemn sigh, "How am I going to explain this to my father? I've lost my fiancée because she doesn't want to cooperate with family honor."

Yusuke walks over to Hoshi and Yusuke tells Hoshi, in a plain tone, "It wouldn't be worth it, considering that my Uncle Genma would probably be mooching off of your family for the rest of his life when you'll be married to Hotaru. Personally, you're better off without Hotaru if she has a father like hers." Soon after, Hoshi heads towards one of the exits while Kagome moves to meet her friends while Nabiki was looking at Hoshi, who was leaving the arena, with a devious sly smile.

Nabiki thinks in her mind, with a devious sly smile, "Now, I know how I'm going to payback Hotaru for warning Alexis about the cameras that I installed in her room."

(A few days later; morning within the Slifer Red cafeteria)

A few days in the aftermath of Yusuke's promotion duels into Obelisk Blue, Kagome, Akane, Ranma, Rowen, and Sage had their own promotion duels and they get into Obelisk Blue as well and Tyson and Max getting promoted to Ra Yellow. This morning, however, we find Alexis, Chazz, Hassleberry, Jenny, Naruto, Hinata, Bastion, Tyson, who was wearing a Ra Yellow uniform, Rowen, Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, and Kenny within the Slifer Red cafeteria, helping around while trying to come up with a plan to help Jaden.

Just then the doors to the Slifer Red cafeteria are thrown open, everyone looks to see Syrus and Ryuko, nearly out of breath, and Jenny asks, concerned, "Guys, what's wrong?"

Ryuko yells out, horrified, "Jaden! He's gone!"

Everyone gasps out in shock and Alexis asks, "Guys, are you sure?"

Syrus calls out, seriously, "Yes, we're sure! When we went into his room, he was gone!"

Bastion says, in a logical tone, "He might still be on the island."

Jenny says, worriedly, "If he is challenged to a duel, he won't be in the right condition to duel."

Hassleberry yells out, seriously, "Troops! We have to find him! Search and rescue time!"

Naruto tells Hinata, "We should tell Sasuke and Sakura about this!"

Hinata nods her head and says, in her usual manner, "Good idea, Naruto."

Tyson tells the others, "I'll get my other friends."

Bastion nods his head and says, "Good idea, Tyson. Let's get to work as soon as possible."

Naruto yells out, seriously, "Right!" Soon after, Naruto and Hinata use their ninja speed and agility to get to the Obelisk Blue dorm while Rowen runs over to the Obelisk Blue dorm as well.

(That very evening; Within one of the room's in the Slifer Red dorm WARNING: ATTEMPT RAPE! YOU WERE WARNED!)

In the evening, we find Hotaru Saotome without her bracers and Power Pole walking towards Jenny's dorm where she was staying with Jenny and Kira. After everyone heard that Jaden had left his dorm, she was real concerned for him and wanted to get some equipment that she brought with her for these cases of emergency. Right now, we find Hotaru opening the door to Jenny's dorm while sensing that someone was inside. As a martial artist, Hotaru was ready for this situation and opens the door, quickly turns on the light, and only to find Hoshi Saionji, hanging by his right foot to a rope in the ceiling.

Hotaru says, with an annoyed tone, "Hey, what are you doing here, Saionji! I thought that we had a deal!"

Hoshi says, with a reply, "Well, I'll explain everything if you could just get me down from here." Hotaru closes the door, goes over to the rope knot, and unties it, which gets Hoshi to fall down to the ground with a nasty thump.

Hotaru asks Hoshi, curiously, "Nabiki sent you here didn't she?"

Hoshi slowly gets onto his feet while winching at his slight injury and Hoshi says to Hotaru, "Yes, though she asked for five hundred yen to give me the information! However, I wanted you to know that I'm terribly sorry for pushing you to this engagement. Your cousin, Yusuke, gave me a summary that your father would 'mooch' off my family for the rest of his life."

Hotaru says, in a plain tone, "Well, that's the old man for you! He's a fat and dishonorable bastard!"

Hoshi tells Hotaru, while walking towards her, "I understand that you don't want this engagement and I was wondering we could be friends."

Hotaru says, with a smile, "Sure, why not?"

Hoshi says, with a wide smile while placing his hands his back pocket, "Good! Also, I was wondering…in order to get over you…is it okay to get a kiss."

Hotaru says, annoyed, "Excuse me!"

Hoshi says, in a pleading tone, "I know that's a bit odd coming from me."

Hotaru says, in a serious tone, "You want me to kiss you!"

Hoshi says, plainly, "That's right and that'll be the last thing that I ask of you, please!" Hotaru looks at Hoshi with a serious stare and thought that it couldn't hurt to give him a little peck on the cheek. As Hotaru walked near Hoshi with the intent to kiss his right cheek, Hoshi quickly grabs Hotaru's waist with his arms and placing his right finger into the back of Hotaru's neck, rubbing something onto it.

Hotaru exclaims, annoyed, "Hey, what the hell…!" Soon after, Hotaru's vision starts to get a little blurry and as she feels like her legs are made out of jelly as she feels a great sense of pleasure in her whole body that makes her arms wrapped around Hoshi's neck.

Hotaru says, straining to move out of the way, "What…what have you…done…!"

Hoshi says, with a sly smile in a whisper in Hotaru's right ear, "I've placed some of my pleasure potion onto your skin and what it does is keeps your mind open, but your body will move against your will to any 'pleasurable' reaction."

Hotaru says, straining, "So, you're…!"

Hoshi says, kissing Hotaru's neck, "That's right, my dear! I'm going to show you how much I love you."

Hotaru says, straining and angrily, "You bast…!" Hotaru doesn't finish as Hoshi slams his lips onto hers, kissing her. Hotaru was fighting the surge to kiss him back as Hoshi, rubs more of his potion onto Hotaru's neck, making her more unable to resist, the pleasurable feeling without her body as she slowly returns the kiss as Hoshi's tongue is moved into her mouth, causing her to moan in displeasure as she feels Hoshi's fingers rubbing against her back.

Hotaru thinks in her mind, worriedly, "Oh no! I can't break free! I know that I'm stronger than this, but his potion is weakening my resolve!" Soon after, Hotaru finds herself backed against a deck in the dorm, sitting on it, wrapping her legs around Hoshi, making him smile with lust as he moves his lips to Hotaru's neck as he moves his hands to her breasts, fondling them gently, causing her to gasps at his lips with worry and disgust as she was unable to get him off, which gets her frustrated.

Hotaru thinks in her mind, seriously, "This bastard is going to rape me! I won't let that happened!" Hotaru then feels her vest, being unbuttoned and pulled off her body as Hoshi then kisses her neck, hungrily and wanting more feel of Hotaru's smooth skin. Hotaru then feels Hoshi's hands underneath her black sleeveless shirt of her female Obelisk Blue uniform and moving further to her breasts.

Hotaru thinks in her mind, seriously, "I still have a chance! I have my telepathic technique that links me with Ranma that I made when I first saw him after three years!"

When Hoshi's fingers got to the bottom of Hotaru's purple thin bra, Hotaru calls out to her mind, telepathically, "Ranma, please help me!"

Ranma's voice calls out in Hotaru's mind, seriously, "Hotaru, what's up, sis! What's going on?"

As she feels Hoshi's hands, going under her bra to fondle her breasts, Hotaru calls out to Ranma, mentality, "Help me! I'm being raped in Jenny's room!"

Ranma yells out, mentality and angrily, "WHAT! BY WHO! THAT JERK AGAIN!"

Hotaru says, mentality, "Yeah, you've got to come here with the others, please!"

Ranma tells her, seriously and mentality, "Don't worry, sis! I'll be there soon!" Soon after, Hotaru feels Hoshi's hands, fondling her breasts under her bra, while kissing her neck, making Hotaru moan in displeasure and disgust.

Hoshi then tells Hotaru, in a whisper in her ear, "You'll soon be mine, my dear." Hoshi then rubs his finger onto Hotaru's nipples, making her moan in disgust.

Hotaru says, in a snarl, "You bastard! Just you want until my friends here!" Hoshi then chuckles as he moves his hands from Hotaru's breasts, then to her back, travelling them up and he tells her, "Your friends are still looking for Jaden Yuki!" Hotaru then feels Hoshi's fingers to her bra clasp and he says, starting to unclasp the hooks from behind, "There's no way of them knowing of us!" Just then, the door was broken through by a pissed off Ranma Saotome, who was wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Yusuke Urameshi, who was wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Kira Urameshi, and Jenny Yuki as they see Hoshi and Hotaru in a 'compromising position'.

Ranma yells out, in an enraged tone, "Get your fucking hands off of my sister, you perverted asshole!" Ranma then lunges after Hoshi, throwing him away from Hotaru as Yusuke and Kira joined Ranma into beating Hoshi up as Hikari, Akane, and Keiko walked inside the room to find Hotaru, who had her vest taken off, shaken up by what had happened with Jenny saying soothing words.

Keiko asks, curiously, "What's going on! Ranma rushes off when we were finding Jaden!"

While grabbing Hoshi's collar, after beating him up, Yusuke yells out, angrily, "I'll tell you what happened, Keiko! This fucking pervert was trying to rape Hotaru!"

Akane yells out, shocked and angrily, "What!"

Hikari asks Hotaru, seriously, "Hotaru, is this true!"

Hotaru says, a bit shaken up, "He rubbed something on my neck to make me unable to move freely and he tried to…!" Jenny then rubs Hotaru's back, while trying to comfort her, while Akane looks at Hoshi, with extreme anger in her eyes.

Akane thinks in her mind, angrily, "That pervert! It's someone like him is one of the main reasons why I hated boys! True, Hotaru does piss me off at times, but no girl deserves to experience what she's done!" Akane then summons a big wooden mallet in her hands and she yells out, seriously, "Yusuke, let me at him! He's going to pay dearly for what he's done!" Just as Akane was going to pound Hoshi within an inch of his life with her mallet, Hikari goes in to restrain her and Hikari tells Akane, seriously, "Akane, don't! As much as we'd want to kill him for what he's done, we can't! The only thing we can do is report this to Chancellor Crowler!"

Ranma yells out, enraged, "Are you insane, Kari! This is justice for what that asshole has nearly done!"

Akane says, seriously, "I agree with Ranma! This pervert needs to be punished! No girl deserves to experience what Hotaru has gone through just now."

Jenny says, with a serious glare, "Oh don't worry, Akane! He'll be punished severely for what he's done, but not in cold blood."

Keiko says, in a serious tone, "Kari and Jenny are right, guys! We'll have to tell Chancellor Crowler about this!"

Yusuke snarls and he tells Hoshi, with an angered glare, "You are so not worth it!" Yusuke then walks over to the door while dragging Hoshi's beaten up form, with Ranma, Akane, and Kira following him while glaring at Hoshi with anger and hate.

Ranma thinks in his mind, angrily, "Damn it! This is Pops' fault that this happened! If he hadn't gotten Hotaru engaged to that pig, then Hotaru wouldn't have gone through all that!" Soon after, Keiko, Jenny, and Hikari were walking the shaken up Hotaru, who had her Obelisk vest placed on her shoulders.

(Within the Chancellor's office; a few moments later)

In the Chancellor's office, we find Crowler and Bonaparte assembled in front of Ranma Saotome, Akane Tendo, Hikari Urameshi, Keiko Yukimura, Yusuke Urameshi, and Kira Urameshi with a tied up Hoshi Saionji after telling them what had happened.

After they were done, Crowler yells out, horrified, "Good heavens! An attempt rape in our fine school!"

Ranma yells out, strongly, "That's right, Chancellor Crowler! This creep is the one responsible!"

Hoshi says, while winching, "It's my right to do that since Hotaru is my fiancée!"

Ranma yells out, angrily, "You call that an excuse! Akane is my fiancée and you don't see me doing to her what you were doing with my sister!"

Akane says, seriously, "Yeah and if he would, I'll kill him! What you've done was so unforgiveable!"

Ranma says, in a serious tone, "There's no doubt that the claim you have on my sister will be null and void once our parents find out about this!"

Hoshi gasps in shock and he says, worriedly, "Wait! You're not going to tell my father about this!"

Kira yells out, angrily, "Who do you think, jerk!"

Yusuke yells out, seriously, "After what you've done, I'm surprised that you've lived this long!"

Bonaparte asks, curiously, "What had happened with Hotaru?"

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "She's in the infirmary, getting checked by Miss Fontaine and Miss Takahashi with my cousin, Kagome, and our friends in the infirmary."

Hoshi calls out, worriedly, "No! Please, I'll do anything! Please don't tell my father!"

Yusuke bashes him in the face and he yells out, angrily, "You have the nerve to beg after what you did to my cousin!"

Keiko goes over to her boyfriend and she says, with concern and worriedly, "Yusuke, please calm down! I know that you're upset!"

Ranma yells out, angrily, "You can't blame him, Keiko! This jerk doesn't deserve forgiveness after what happened!" Just then, the door was opened and the military like people were walking into the room and in their arms was Nabiki Tendo, who was fighting them off to let her go.

Crowler asks, curiously, "What's going on?"

The female leader tells him, "Chancellor Crowler, we heard about what had happened and Miss Hotaru Saotome told us that to get this girl since she was told by Hoshi Saionji where to go!" Soon after, many glares of anger and annoyance were placed towards Nabiki by our heroes and heroines.

Ranma yells out, enraged, "Nabiki!"

Akane yells out, angrily, "How could you!"

Nabiki says, seriously, "Hey, how was I supposed to know that Hoshi would do that! If I had known, I wouldn't have done what I did!"

Ranma yells out, angrily, "My sister was almost raped because of you! Nabiki, you've pulled this stunt many times, but this time, you've really gone too far!"

Nabiki says, seriously, "Look, I'm sorry!"

Yusuke says, in an angered tone, "You think sorry is going to cut it this time, Tendo! 'Sorry' doesn't take back what had happen with to my cousin!"

Keiko says, in a serious tone, "Because of you, I don't think that Hotaru will ever be the same again!"

Crowler sends a glare to Hoshi and Nabiki and he thinks in his mind, seriously, "As much as I don't like to help Jaden Yuki's friends, but as the Chancellor I'm responsible for the well-being of my students. Besides, once Sheppard or Seto Kaiba will get wind of this, if I don't make a fair decision." Crowler says, in a serious tone, "Hoshi Saionji, because of your ill-minded actions towards Hotaru Saotome, you are hereby expelled from Duel Academy and I'll see to it that you never ever get admission to any dueling school in the world." Hoshi lowers his head down and Crowler then turns to Nabiki, saying, "As for you, Nabiki Tendo…what you've done is inexcusable and will not be tolerated by an Obelisk Blue. You are here by demoted to Ra Yellow!"

Nabiki yells out, shocked, "Ra Yellow! You're kidding!"

Ranma yells at Nabiki, seriously, "After what you've done, I'm surprised that you haven't been expelled yet and having a hard time explaining this to our parent, especially my mother!"

Akane says, in a serious tone, "Nabiki, as my sister, I'll always love you! I've forgiven you for taking pictures of me working out and sold them to twisted perverts from our school, but what you've done was unforgivable! As a person, right now, I've lost so much respect for you! I know that Hotaru may be a pest sometimes, but she didn't deserve what she went through tonight!"

Nabiki says, in a snort, "If I recall, there were times that Ranma was brainwashed by Shampoo and you decided to ignore it and went on with your business! Isn't it almost the same thing?"

Just as Akane was going to retort, Ranma yells at her, enraged, "How dare you excuse yourself after what you've done!"

Crowler says, in a serious tone, "I'm not quite finished with Miss Tendo's 'sentence'! In addition to your punishment, you will be not allowed to be within 20 meters of Hotaru Saotome nor are you allowed to talk to her or communicate with her in anyway. You will be also placed under dueling arrest for a month, so that means you will not be dueling on this island! Do you understand?"

Nabiki snarls while she glares at Crowler and she thinks in her mind, angrily, "Damn it! I will not be pushed around like this! I'm the 'Ice Queen of Nermia'! I will not be pushed around by this clown! However, it looks like that I don't have a choice in the matter!" Nabiki says, in a snarl, "Yes, Chancellor!"

Crowler says, in a serious tone, "Good, now, once you've packed up and moved your belongings to your new room within the Ra Yellow dorm, you will bring any decks that you may have! Is that clear?"

Nabiki snarls at Crowler and she says, with a nod, "Yes, Chancellor!" On the meanwhile, Ranma, Akane, Yusuke, and Kira were glaring at Nabiki with serious glares.

Kira says, seriously, "That was a little too easy! We better keep an eye on her just to make sure! With Inuyasha and his sisters, it wouldn't be that hard!"

(Within the infirmary; at the same time)

Within the school infirmary, we find Ms. Fontaine and Isabel doing the final check up on Hotaru while the rest of our heroes and heroines, except for Jaden and Chazz, in the room with Rowen, wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Kento, wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, and Max wearing a Ra Yellow uniform. When they heard what had happened, they were shocked and horrified and they went to see her. The potion that was placed on Hotaru's skin had worn off, making her able to freely move again.

Ms. Fontaine says, with a kind smile, "You should be alright, Hotaru!"

Hotaru says, with a smile, "Thank you!"

Jasmine says, in an angered snarl, "Man, I can't believe that they were guys like that who would do that!"

Alexis tells Jasmine, in a droll tone, "You just figured that one out!"

Isabel tells Hotaru, in a plain tone, "Hotaru, your parents were informed this and they'll be here along with Hoshi's parents, tomorrow morning."

Hotaru says, with a nod, "Okay!" Soon after, Ms. Fontaine then leaves the room and Hotaru places an angered snarl on her lips, saying, "Just wait until I see that old man! I'm going to clobber him for this!"

Mindy says, amazed, "Wow, Hotaru, you're sure feeling better about this!"

Hotaru says, in a snort, "I sure will feel even better once I drill some fists into that old man for setting me up with that pig!"

Kari says, worriedly, "Aren't you going a bit too far with this, Hotaru? I mean, it can't be all your father's fault that this happened! Sure, he's engaged you too many rich teenage boys, but he couldn't have known that this would happened!"

Kagome tells Kari, in a plain tone, "Kari, you don't know my Uncle Genma like we have!"

Alister says, in a serious tone, "Yeah, no kidding! He's a fat, dishonorable, lying, cheating thief that would sell his own children to feed his overgrown belly!"

Inuyasha says, in a snort, "And I'm getting the feeling that the rest of the 'Moron Squad' and the 'Hentai Horde' in Nermia would be arriving here to cause trouble, especially the old freak!"

Hotaru says, in a serious tone, "I know! That's way I'm going to have you and your sisters as well as Hiei to go to the boat to Domino Prep to prevent them from coming and if they're persistent, then you know what to do! Only make sure that Uncle Tendo, my mom, and the old man gets onto the boat and leave the old man for me to punish! I'm not ready to face the 'Moron Squad' and the 'Hentai Horde' at the moment."

Mia says, perplexed, "Moron Squad?"

Kagome says, in a plain tone, "Moron Squad is a name that Hotaru made up for Ranma's, Hotaru's, and Akane's rivals and 'suitors' in Nermia and the 'Hentai Horde' was made up when one of Ranma's rivals and Akane and Hotaru's 'suitor', Tatewaki Kuno, made a challenge to the male population of Furuiken High School that if anyone defeated Akane in a fight, then she has to date with them and that was before she met Ranma."

Rowen yells out, stunned, "Date!"

Yolei yells out, annoyed, "Are you for real!"

Kagome says, plainly, "Nope! Then, they moved the challenge to Hotaru when Kuno made his eyes towards her, stating that anyone who wanted to date Hotaru. However, when that challenge happened all of Hotaru's challengers had went to the school nurse's office since Hotaru hit harder than Akane ever did."

Inuyasha says, in a plain tone, "And for some odd reason they seem to love losing and the pain so much that they kept attacking Hotaru over and over again every day and she had her 'restraints', so the blows wouldn't be fatal!"

Syrus says, amazed, "Wow!"

Hotaru says, in a serious tone, "Most likely, Kuno's ninja, Sasuke, would have gotten wind about what had happened to me and I don't want to deal with Kuno, right now, because with the way I'm feeling when he's touching me, I may kill him!"

Yolei says, surprised, "Are you serious!" Just then, there was a huge smashing sound when Hotaru's right fist hits the wall, which makes a huge hole and crack to the wall, surprising some of our heroes and heroines.

Ryo says, amazed, "Whoa! That's some serious power!"

Kento says, shocked, "I'll say! Man!"

Naruto says, nervously, "Remind me never to get on your bad side!"

Hassleberry says, with a nervous smile, "Ten-four on that, soldier!"

Melody says, with a sly smile, "Well, I just can't wait until I see that old man quiver when he gets his desert!"

Isabel asks, curiously, "Any luck finding your friend, Jaden?"

Alexis says, shaking her head, "Nothing! It's like he disappeared into thin air!"

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, "Hey sis, how are you feeling?" Soon after, Ranma, Akane, Hikari, Keiko, Yusuke, and Kira walk into the room.

Hotaru says, plainly, "I'd feel better after tomorrow." Soon after, two members of the DAS came into the room with Nabiki in their arms, which made almost everyone glaring at her.

Melody yells out, nastily, "Why the hell is she doing here!"

Alister says, in a nasty tone, "Hasn't she caused enough problems already!"

Yusuke says, plainly, "Actually, she came to say something to Hotaru."

Sage says, in a serious tone, "We're not interested in what she has to say!"

Hotaru says, in an emotionless tone, "No, I'd like to hear what Nabiki has to say." Almost everyone could hear the tone of Hotaru's voice and they winch at it.

Nabiki sighs and she says, seriously, "Hotaru, I didn't mean for what had happened! I told him where to go and I didn't know that he was going to do that."

Inuyasha yells out, nastily, "Didn't know! Girl, have some common sense! You've seen how that pig was coming onto Hotaru when we first saw him and Hotaru made it perfectly clear that she didn't want anything to do with that guy or any engagements that the old man of hers made!"

Kagome says, in a serious tone, "Normally, I don't approve Inuyasha yelling so harshly, Nabiki, but you went too far this time! This isn't like Nermia, where you can get away with these things, there's huge consequences for your actions!"

Nabiki says, in a snort, "There was consequence that I was given, Higurashi, I was demoted to Ra Yellow and I'm not allowed anywhere near Hotaru or speak to her through any communication whatsoever!"

Alexis yells out, in a nasty tone, "Good, Crowler actually made a more appropriate decision for once since he was made temporary Chancellor! People like you don't deserve to be an Obelisk Blue!"

Hotaru tells Nabiki, in a serious tone, "Nabiki, what you've done to me was unforgivable, even though you had no idea that he would even pull that stunt. With this punishment, I'll consider fair with compared to what you've done in the past! In fact, it's taking everything within me not to beat you senselessly for what you've done."

Ranma says, with a snort, "Don't expect me to bail you out this time, Nabiki! Sorry, Akane, I know that Nabiki is your sister and all, but after what she's done."

Akane says, in a plain tone, "I understand completely, Ranma." Nabiki uncharacteristically winched knowing how physically strong Hotaru is and she's gotten flashbacks on how Hotaru beats up Akane, Ryoga, Kuno, Kodachi Kuno, Shampoo, Mousse, Happosai, and Genma as well as members of the 'Hentai Horde'. Soon after, Nabiki was taken out of the hallways with almost everyone glaring at her back.

Hotaru sighs in exhaustion as Ranma walks and sits by his sister and he asks her, "Hey sis, are you going to be okay?"

Hotaru says, plainly, "A little bit!"

Megumi snaps her fingers and she exclaims, with a smile, "Hey Hotaru, I know what will make you feel better! Chazz made this hot spring in Isabel's room when he was making his new room!"

Hotaru says, perplexed, "Hot spring?"

Isabel says, with a smile, "Of course! It's one of the reasons why I've asked Chazz to build one for me. I hot bath is what I always use to take away my stresses." Soon after, Inuyasha and his sisters get a sense of familiarity from Isabel as Melody and Megumi remembers their hot baths with their human mother when she was alive and they were children.

Hotaru says, with a smile, "Yeah, I guess that it would cause my troubles to wash away." Just then, Megumi grabs Hotaru's right hand and pulls her to her feet and away from the room.

Isabel walks up to Melody and she says to her, with a smile, "I think a hot bath would be a wonderful idea, right now? Would you like to join me?" When Melody looks at her eyes, her will to say 'no' was quickly vanished and Melody says, with a smile unlike hers, "Sure, why not?" Many others, who know Melody, pretty well was surprised by this move as Isabel and Melody walked away to follow Megumi and Hotaru.

Hikari asks, confused, "Is it just me or did Melody willing agree to Miss Takahashi's request with a smile?"

Keiko says, plainly, "That sure sounds like it."

Sage asks Hikari and Keiko, curiously, "What do you mean?"

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "Well, Melody is pretty much a headstrong and blunt person, who wouldn't be so easily pulled into situations like this. I'm even surprised that she'd willingly agree with Miss Takahashi after knowing her for this short while since like Inuyasha, doesn't take so kindly towards strangers, in fact, she doesn't trust them at all."

Yusuke says, plainly, "Who knows, maybe, she's gotten to know a person well enough for her to trust willingly."

Ukyo looks around looking for Chazz and she says, seriously, "By the way, as anyone seen Princeton?"

Alexis says, in a plain tone, "He must be still looking for Jaden."

Ryo says, in a serious tone, "I just hope that he doesn't become like Jaden."

(Inside of the Slifer Red dormitory; sometime later)

Inside of the Slifer Red dorms, we find Isabel, Hotaru, Melody, and Megumi inside of the huge hot spring that Chazz added to Professor Banner's former room which was now Isabel's room when he 're-designed' the Slifer Red dorms to make them more 'livable' to the rich duelists. In the hot springs room, the environment was similar to the hot spring environment in the Feudal Era where Inuyasha and his sisters were from. All of them were totally nude and their bodies were mainly submerged in the spring water except from the top portion of their breasts to the top of their scalps.

The females, especially Hotaru and Melody, were enjoying the hot springs that Chazz installed in the room and Megumi says, relaxed, "Hey! I feel as if I'm back in the Feudal Era! Chazz really did a fine job with this place."

Hotaru tells Megumi, with a small smile, "Thanks for the suggestion Hotaru, I'm actually feeling a little better."

Megumi says, with a wide smile, "See, I told you that you'll feel great!"

Melody says, with a sly grin, "I'm actually surprised that Megumi came up with this good idea since almost all of her ideas ends up going in smoke."

Megumi yells out, annoyed, "Sissy, that's not nice!"

Melody says, annoyed, "Don't call me that!"

Isabel looks at the rest of Melody's nude form while from the tops of her breasts to the rest of her body was underwater and she says, with a wide smile, "Melody-chan, I never noticed that you have a beautiful female body for a half-demon."

Melody uncharacteristically blushes at this and she yells out, in a rare embarrassed tone, "Don't say that!"

Megumi says, with a smile, "She does! She even points it out to Kagome when she says that she's even cuter than her as a human. However, she hides it in her kimono that she's always wearing."

Melody says, in an annoyed tone, "And I suppose I should start wearing those ridiculous clothes that you have the miko bring for you from this time."

Megumi says, holding her hands in defense, "Hey, I'm just saying that it's time for a new look, Sissy, that's all!"

Melody says, annoyed, "I told you not to call me that!"

Megumi says, with a wide smile, "With a new look, you could even impress Feng a lot more!"

Melody says, an annoyed snarl, "Now, why would I want to impress that moron!"

Isabel asks, curiously, "Feng!"

Megumi says, with a smile, "He's this Phoenix Demon, who's in love with Mel…!" Just then, Megumi feels Melody's right arm wrapped around her neck from behind, placing her in a choking hold, with a very annoyed look on her face.

Melody yells out, annoyed, "Don't say that, Megumi! It's not like that! Remember, he just keeps saying that he loves me just because I beat his butt! It is his tribe's tradition that someone beats their members in battle that they have to marry them! It's similar to the Chinese Amazon law of Shampoo's, which is one of the reasons why I happen to agree with Hotaru that Ranma needs to get rid of that Chinese bimbo!"

Isabel asks, curiously, "Let me guess: this Feng person uses cheap tricks to win your heart like Shampoo does."

Melody let's go of her sister's neck, allowing her to breath again, and she says, plainly, "Unlike Shampoo, Feng doesn't rely on cheap tricks, but he seems to love pain very much since whenever I comes into my personal space and I hit him hard by punching him in the face, he seems to be coming back for more. He also knows that I'm a half-demon, but he doesn't seem to care."

Isabel says, with a smile, "Well, maybe, you should give Feng a chance? You'll never know until you tried."

Melody says, in a serious tone, "I'm never letting that bird touch me without him getting something broken."

Hotaru says, solemnly, "I just wished that I have a sense of smell like yours, Melody, so I would have smelt what he was placing on me to make me unable to move." The females look at Hotaru, who had arms crossed towards her breasts, covering them up while remembering what had almost happened to her.

Isabel 'swims' over to Hotaru and she says, placing her hands over to Hotaru's bare shoulders, "Hotaru, what happened to you wasn't your fault?"

Megumi says, with a smile, "Yeah, that boy had his mind messed up."

Hotaru says, in an angered snarl, "I wish that I had broken his arms to teach him a lesson about touching me." Isabel then places Hotaru in her arms, hugging her, gently as Hotaru lets out a few sobs, which lasts about ten minutes. This horrible experience would mentality injure a strong person like the elder Saotome twin since she went through what would be so horrible to women. Hotaru then pulls away from Isabel and Isabel asks, with a kind smile, "You feel better now, dear."

Hotaru wipes the tears from her eyes and she says, plainly, "Listen, I want you girls to promise me that you won't tell the others, especially Ranma, about this. I don't want them to worry about me that much."

Megumi says, with a smile, "You don't have to worry about it too much, Hotaru."

Melody says, with a sly smile, "Yeah, after you beat that old man of yours up, you'll feel a lot better."

Hotaru says, seriously, "Don't worry! I will feel better!"

(At the Domino Pier; the next early morning)

At the Domino Pier, in the early morning, we find Akane and Nabiki's father and sister, along with Ranma and Hotaru's parents with Nodoka with Genma under the impression that they were going to an all you can eat buffet in Duel Academy which got him excited. If he happens to hear about the engagement that he set up with Hotaru and Hoshi Saionji, then he'd have to face the wrath of his angry daughter, and he knows how strong she is and will tear him apart.

Genma says, with an excited tone, "An all you can eat buffet in Duel Academy! It doesn't get any better than this!" On the meanwhile, Nodoka and Soun were looking at Genma with nervous gazes.

Soun thinks in his mind, solemnly, "Oh my! I don't know how I'm going to break it to Saotome when he finds out the truth." Soon after, a white limo was pulled to the pier and a couple of people come out of the limo.

Kasumi then spots a large luxury boat heading towards the pier and she says, "Look, there's our boat right now!"

One was a middle aged man with black hair and green eyes, which looked like an older version of Hoshi Saionji. He was wearing a blue business suit with a white dress shirt and black formal shoes.

The other was a middle aged woman with long red hair and eyes and she was wearing a white blouse with a red skirt that went to her ankles as well as black high heeled shoes.

The middle aged man looks at Genma and he calls out, "Genma! Genma Saotome, is that you!"

Genma looks at the man and his face went pale, thinking, worriedly, "Oh no!" Just as Genma was going to make a break for it, Nodoka pulls Genma by the back of his top gi and she says, seriously, "Husband, do you know this man?"

Genma says, with a nervous smile, "N-no-no! No-chan! What makes you say that!"

The middle aged couple walks over to Genma and the middle aged man says, with a smile, "Saotome, you don't remember me! I'm Senji Saionji, remember when you asked for money and food at the exchange of your daughter's hand in marriage with my son, Hoshi!"

Genma gulps in fear and Nodoka says, in a chilly voice, "Husband, is he telling the truth? Did you sold our daughter to his son!"

Genma says, in a nervous tone and smile, "I…may…have."

Nodoka says, in an angered tone, "Genma, you did sold our daughter so you're the old to blame for this."

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, strongly, "You're damn straight!" Everyone then sees Hiei, Inuyasha and his sisters, with their hats on, jumping off the boat and Kasumi says, perplexed, "It's Hiei along with Inuyasha and his sisters!"

Genma asks, curiously, "What's going on?"

Senji says, with a solemn sigh, "I'm so sorry, Saotome. My wife, Sonia, here, got a call from Duel Academy and it seems that my son had almost tried to impose himself on your daughter, just last night in the room that she was staying in."

Genma yells out, shocked, "He what!"

Soun says, in a plain tone, "It's true, Saotome! It's our main reason for going to Duel Academy."

Genma says, perplexed, "I thought that it was an all you can eat buffet!"

Hiei says, in a plain tone, "You're wrong! It was a ploy to ensure that you do get on this boat."

Genma automatically knew what would happen once he sees his daughter and he was trying to make a break for it, if it wasn't for Inuyasha, pulling the back of his collar and Inuyasha yells out, seriously, "Oh no, you don't, old man!"

Genma yells out, fearfully, "Hey, let me go! I'm not going!"

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, strongly, "So, it's true!" Just then, there was a crowd of students along with Takewaki Kuno, Kodachi Kuno, Shampoo, Mousse, and Ryoga Hibiki was running towards the pier.

Melody says, in a snarl, "Oh great!"

Kuno yells out, seriously, "Is it true that my dear, Hotaru, was…almost imposed upon!"

Inuyasha yells out, nastily, "That's right and you're not going as well as rest of you!"

Shampoo says, seriously, "You can't stop Shampoo from going to see Ranma!"

Melody says, with a sly grin, "You want to bet!"

Sonia asks, curiously, "Who are these people?"

Inuyasha says, in a serious tone, "They're a bunch of morons who aren't getting on this ship without getting past us!"

Kodachi says, with a menacing smile, "We'll see about them!" Kodachi gets her ribbon weapon and lashes it towards Inuyasha, which makes him throw Genma to Megumi's hands, yelling out, "Take him!" As Megumi jumps back onto the boat with Genma in her hands, Inuyasha grabs the ribbon, but a black paralysis smoke appears from Kodachi's ribbon, making him stunned and with his sense of smell, it made it worse.

Melody yells out, angrily, "That was cheap!"

Kodachi says, with a sly smile, "My paralysis smoke can stun anyone, but for someone who happens to have an acute sense of smell likes you, Inuyasha, it will be even worse!" Kodachi laughs chillingly and Kuno says, excitedly, "Excellent, my dear sister! With…!" Kuno was then knocked out from the back by Melody's fists and Melody says, seriously, "None of you will be going on this boat!"

Shampoo yells out, strongly, "That what you think!" Shampoo then charges at Melody to engage her into hand-to-hand combat and Ryoga yells out, seriously, "Quick while Melody's distracted!"

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, "I don't think so!" Just then, Inuyasha disappears in a puff of smoke, surprising Kodachi.

Mousse yells out, shocked, "He's gone!" From the boat, Naruto Uzumaki and nine of his Shadow Clones appears and Mousse yells out, stunned, "What in the!"

Ryoga says, seriously, "There's ten of them!"

Mousse says, in a serious tone, "Ranma and Hotaru must have made new friends at Duel Academy!" Naruto and his Shadow Clones lands on the battles with Mousse and Ryoga with Mousse throwing many of his grappling hooks at the Naruto Clones and Ryoga tries fighting them. Soon after, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha jump from the boat and quickly knock out Kodachi.

Soun yells out, shocked, "It's Sasuke Uchiha, the last of the Uchiha clan!"

One of the boys from the 'Hentai Horde' yells out, strongly, "I don't care! They're not going to stop us from seeing Hotaru and Akane! Let's go!" Soon after, the 'Hentai Horde' charges towards the boat and Sakura slams her fist to the ground and used Lady Tsunade's super-strength technique to create a shockwave so strong that it throws a major part of the 'Hentai Horde' away while another part goes after Sasuke as he activates his Sharingan.

"Chidori Stream!"

The lightning from Sasuke's body had burst out and slams into the group of boys, hitting them hard as they scream out in pain and they were thrown to the ground, rendering themselves unconscious and their bodies numb. On the meanwhile, the battle between Mousse and Ryoga against Naruto and his Shadow Clones, Mousse was thrown to the wall, hard, rendering himself unconscious.

Ryoga yells out, strongly, "You're not going to stop me from getting on that boat! It's because of Hotaru, it's because I feel for a fact that Ranma and Hotaru are hurting Akane and I'm not there to set them straight!"

One of the Naruto Shadow Clones yells out, strongly, "We'll see about that!" Soon after, five of the Naruto Clones charges at Ryoga, fighting with him as one of the Shadow Clones was by the original, forming a light blue ball of chakra into Naruto's right hand. Naruto charges at Ryoga, who managed to fight off two of the Shadow Clones and slams the ball of chakra to Ryoga's chest.

"Rasengan!"

Ryoga cries out in pain as he's blown away from Naruto's attack and he's slammed to the nearby wall, knocking himself out and Shampoo was thrown to the wall, with nasty black and blues, and falls to the ground on her side, rendering herself unconscious as Melody was dusting her hands.

Melody says, in a snort, "That takes care of that!" Soon after, Naruto's Shadow Clones disappears from sight and Senji asks, curiously, "What was that!"

Sakura tells Senji, in a serious tone, "We'll ninjas and we'll be escorting you to Duel Academy without any interference."

Just then, a familiar elder male voice calls out, strongly, "You're not leaving without me!" Everyone looks to see Happosai, with a pissed off look, while still having the rosary around his neck.

Melody says, in a snarl, "The freak…!"

Happosai yells out, angrily, "Those two…Ranma and Hotaru! I knew that the two of them had something to do with this! Every time that I claim my sulky darlings…!" Happosai points at his rosary and he says, angrily, "…this thing gets in the way! Somehow girls in this town knew how to activate this thing and ruining everything! It's time for them to pay!"

Naruto says, plainly, "I take it that his is the pervy freak that Ranma and Hotaru told us about."

Melody says, in a snort, "Well, he's not getting anywhere near this boat!"

Happosai says, in a serious tone, "We'll see about that!" Happosai places a lecherous smile on his lips and he says, "However…I've missed…!" Happosai then lunges after Melody's chest and he yells out, with pure lecherous excitement, "YOUR LOVELY BOSOM!"

Melody yells out, annoyed, "You're not groping me again, you old pervy freak!" The rosary around Happosai's neck glows and Happosai yelps as he's slammed to the ground hard. Melody says, annoyed, "I'd hate to be copying that wench but…PERVY! PERVY! PERVY! PERVY!" Soon after, Happosai is repeatedly slammed to the ground, knocking him out.

Megumi says, with a nervous smile, "I'm so sorry about that! Now, would you all come with me!" Soon after, Senji, Sonia, Soun, Nodoka, and Kasumi follows Melody, Megumi, Hiei, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura onto the boat where they find Inuyasha with a tied up Genma Saotome.

Genma yells out, fearfully, "Let me go! I didn't mean for this to happen! Please, let me go!"

Inuyasha says, with a sly grin, "Sure, old man! We'd let you go…as soon as Hotaru gives you your punishment." Soon after, the boat moves off the shore as Ryoga slowly regains consciousness seeing the boat leaving the pier.

Ryoga says, in a groan, "No…! I can't…!" Ryoga tries to get up, but the injury from Naruto's Rasengan made it impossible for him to move as the boat was slowly moving to sea.

(The following morning; near the Slifer Red dorm)

The following morning, we find our Ronin Warriors, Yusuke, Hikari, Kira, Keiko, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Jenny, and our three Digidestined, Tyson and the rest of the Bladebreakers, with Alexis, Hassleberry, Syrus, Bastion, and Chazz to see how they are doing with the 'loss' of Jaden while Hotaru, Ranma, and Akane were waiting for their families to arrive.

Mia says, worriedly, "I'm worried. We look all night for Jaden and we didn't find him at all."

Ken says, with a serious tone, "It is possible that Jaden found a way off the island."

Kai tells Ken, with a serious tone, "That's a good possibility, Ken."

Keiko asks, worriedly, "Do you think that Jaden will be all right, Yusuke?"

Yusuke tells Keiko, reassuringly, "Don't worry, Keiko. I'm sure that Jay is just fine. He has faced together things before! When he comes back, I think that he will be stronger than ever!"

Jenny says, worriedly, "I hope so, Yusuke. I really miss my brother right now." Hikari placed a hand onto Jenny's right shoulder and she says, in a kind tone, "Don't worry, Jen, I'm sure that Jaden will be fine, like Yusuke said."

Kento asks, curiously, "Do you think that the others are okay?"

Rowen tells Kento, "Kento, they lost their best friend. How do you think they are feeling right now?"

Tyson looks ahead of him and says, surprised, "Maybe you should see for yourself." Everyone looks to where Tyson is looking and they are shocked to see Chazz wearing a white with whitish-blue version of the male Obelisk Blue uniform.

Jenny states, perplexed, "I didn't know that white was in style now."

Kai says, in his usual tone, "That's not it, Jenny!"

Tyson asks, "What do you mean, Kai?"

Kai replies, in a serious tone, "Meaning Princeton got a new wardrobe!"

Chazz turns around to see the group and says, with a cold snobbish tone, "Well, if it isn't the rest of the dork patrol?"

Kento says, drolly, "Nice to see you, too."

Max asks, seriously, "What's with the weird white outfit?"

Hikari tells Chazz, with a serious tone, "It isn't labor day, Princeton!"

Chazz snickers and says, with a cold sly grin, "You might think it weird now, but you will be wearing white soon enough."

Ukyo says, a bit nervously, "Sorry, I usually don't wear clothes not in fashion."

Yolei tells Ukyo, nodding her head in agreement, "No joke, girlfriend."

Chazz replies, with a cold sly grin, "Oh, your opinion will soon change…when you see the light." Chazz then gives his typical laugh and walks away from the group.

Hilary says, plainly, "All right. He has gone from a jerk to just plain nuts!"

Tyson nods his head and says, "No kidding, Hilary! Who or what messed up his brain? Not that he had much to being with."

Kurama and Hiei look at Chazz with intense stares in their eyes and Kurama thinks in his mind, "I'm getting a weird feeling from Chazz Princeton and I'm not sure that it is a good thing. We had better keep an eye on him."

Just then, Dragoon's voice boomed in Tyson's head, "Tyson, I'm sensing some negative energy from Chazz Princeton!"

Just then, Dranzer's voice boomed in Kai's mind, "The same with me!"

Kai asks Dranzer, mentally, "What do you mean?"

Dragoon says, "We, Driger and Decrial don't know about it, but in the meantime keep an eye on Chazz." Soon after, Ukyo's PDA rung and she goes for it to activate to see Ranma's face.

Ranma says, in a plain tone from the PDA, "Hey Ucchan, our parents are here!"

Ukyo says, with a smile, "We'll be there, Ranchan!" Ranma's face had disappeared and Ukyo says, in a serious tone, "My parents are coming to the island!"

Ryoko says, with a sly smile, "Good! I'd love to meet the good for nothing asshole who sold Hotaru to that pig!" Soon after, our heroes and heroines rush out the door to meet up with their comrades.

(At the Duel Academy Pier; on the meanwhile)

At the Duel Academy Pier, we see Ranma Saotome, Hotaru Saotome, and Akane Tendo standing on the pier with the DAS members were holding Nabiki Tendo and Hoshi Saionji by the arms. As the boat approaches the pier and the walking board had connected the boat and pier, we find Senji, Sonia, Nodoka, Soun, and Kasumi walking down the board with Inuyasha and Naruto carrying a reluctant tied up Genma Saotome with Sasuke, Sakura, Melody, and Megumi following them.

Once Nodoka got onto the ground, she rushes over to Hotaru, embracing her, and she calls out, with relief, "Oh my daughter, I'm glad that you're okay!"

Hotaru says, with a small smile, "Thanks mom!" On the meanwhile, Senji and Sonia walks over to their son and Senji says, in a stern tone, "Son, why did we get a call from your chancellor telling us that you tried to force yourself onto this girl?"

Hoshi says, in a pleading tone, "But father, they owe us for what their father taking our money and food!"

Senji says, seriously, "True, but I didn't want the engagement to be gained in a way that you tried to do! I'm very disappointed in you, Hoshi." Soon after, the rest of our heroes and heroines, with the exception of Chazz and Jaden, appear on the pier and Inuyasha and Naruto throws Genma to Hotaru's feet.

As Nodoka releases her daughter, Hotaru glares at her father and she says, in a snort, "Hello, old man!"

Genma gulps in fear and he says, nervously, "H-hi sweetpea! L-listen, I didn't mean to…!"

Hotaru says, in a frosty tone, "Chancellor Crowler is waiting for you at his office." Genma gulps as he can pick up the frostiness from his daughter's voice as he was dragged by Inuyasha with Soun, Kasumi, and Nodoka as well as our heroes and heroines following them to Duel Academy.

(Within Duel Academy; a few moments later)

Within the chancellor's office, we find the Urameshi and Saotome twins along with Keiko Yukimura, Akane Tendo, and Jenny Yuki in the room with the Saotome twins' parents with Genma untied and Akane's and Nabiki's father and sister and Hoshi's parents as well as Nabiki Tendo and Hoshi Saionji with their arms being held by the DAS members assumed in front of Crowler and Bonaparte. Even though, Genma was freed, he wasn't supposed to leave the room since Yusuke and his sisters would stop him.

Crowler tells Nodoka, with a serious tone, "Missus Saotome, we didn't mean for any of this to happen!"

Bonaparte says, with a serious tone, "That's right! This is a fine school and we take care of our students."

Nodoka says, in a plain tone, "I understand, gentlemen. However, I demand that a method of honor should be replaced with this outrage that had happened with my daughter."

Senji steps up and he says, plainly, "I understand fully, Nodoka! That's why I'm cancelling the engagement between my son and your daughter."

Hoshi says, pleadingly, "Father…!"

Senji glares at his son and he says, sternly, "You have no right in the matter, Hoshi! What you've done is unexcusable! We've taught you better than this and you resorted to an underhanded tactic such as using that potion to have your way with Miss Hotaru Saotome! As a matter of fact, I think that the Saotomes have paid enough so there's no need for you to marry Genma Saotome's daughter."

Crowler tells Senji, in a serious tone, "Mister Saionji, we've expelled your son from our school as well as making sure that he doesn't get into a school where dueling is involved."

Sonia says, in a plain tone, "I think that's a more suitable punishment, Chancellor Crowler!" Sonia then glares at her son and she says, seriously, "As a matter of fact, we'll have to confiscate your deck! Your days as a duelist are now over."

Hoshi gasps in shock as well as the others and he says, pleadingly, "Mother…!"

Senji says, in a stern tone, "Your mother is absolutely right, Hoshi! I'm very unpleased with what you've done that you may have tainted our family's name with your underhanded tactic. You've only brought this upon yourself." Hoshi lowers his head in shame while the others look at this with worry.

Jenny says, worriedly, "Never dueling ever again."

Akane says, with a snort, "Why not? The pervert deserves it!" Just then, Hotaru walks up to Hoshi's parents and Hotaru says, in a serious tone, "Mister and Miss Saionji, you can't really mean that do you! Sure, what Hoshi done is unforgivable, but you can't possibly go that far!"

Hoshi says, in disbelief, "What!"

Ranma yells out, in disbelief, "Hotaru! What are you doing!"

Akane says, seriously, "Yeah! You can't let the pervert get off free like that!"

Hotaru says, in a serious tone, "I'm not! I just do believe that anyone should be punished by taking away their decks like that no matter how bad they are. Hoshi is already expelled from this school, which should be punishable enough."

Genma asks, with a nervous smile, "So, that means that you're not mad right?" Hotaru then glares at Genma, which unnerves him, and Hotaru then places a sly smile as she walks up to Genma.

Hotaru says, with a sly smile, "Old man, there's a few people, who wants to meet you?"

Genma asks, perplexed, "They do?"

Hotaru says, with a sly smile, "Sure! Just go to Obelisk Arena and then you'll meet with them! It seems that they want to give you money!"

Genma says, with a wide smile, "They do! Well, I can't have them kept waiting!" Soon after, Genma rushes out of the office and to the direction to the Obelisk Arena.

Yusuke asks Hotaru, curiously, "You made all that up didn't you?"

Hotaru says, with a devious sly grin, "Maybe…!"

Crowler then tells Soun, while staring at Nabiki, "As far with your daughter, Mister Tendo, she was demoted to Ra Yellow since she had some part in last night's calamity."

Soun says, in a solemn sigh, "I knew that this would happen."

Kasumi steps up to Crowler and she asks, "Chancellor Crowler, I would like to talk to Nabiki alone if you don't mind. It's a personal matter."

Crowler says, with a nod, "I don't see why not."

Kasumi tells Nabiki, plainly, "Come with me, Nabiki." The DAS members that were holding Nabiki, lets her go, as Nabiki walked behind her sister out the door.

While outside of the hallways as the doors close, Kasumi asks Nabiki, curiously, "Nabiki, do you know the damage that you've done?"

Nabiki says, in a plain tone, "I sure do, but what was I supposed to do! Ever since we've met Hotaru, she's been getting away with everything like pounding Akane when she hits Ranma, half of the time, blackmailing me into stopping me from taking pictures of her and Ranma's 'girl form', threatening to tell Akane if daddy or Mister Saotome even dares to stop her from hitting Akane whenever she's hitting Ranma about the secret of her perverted pet pig, treating Akane as if she was a rampaging Gorilla, and she even warned her female friends about me installing cameras into their rooms to get an easy yen. I'm the Ice Queen of Nermia and Hotaru was taking the crown away from me." Kasumi then turns to her younger sister with an unfamiliar expression on her face, a combination of anger, and disgust, mixed with more than a touch of sadness, which unnerves Nabiki.

Kasumi says, seriously, "Nabiki, I know that Hotaru may take things too far with Akane, but she does this for Akane's own good. True, Akane may be a kind hearted person, but her temper is going to do some major damage to other innocent people, so that's why she may make fun of Akane or give her beating, but enough to put her down for the count. Also, I want you to stop with your nasty schemes."

Nabiki asks, curiously, "What nasty schemes are you talking about, sis?"

Kasumi says, seriously, "Hotaru told me that before Takewaki Kuno made that ridiculous challenge, you been taking pictures of Akane and selling them to your old classmates from Furuiken High School while you have taken pictures of Hotaru, if you were able to, and sold them to your classmates, which made Kuno switched that deal from Akane to her, which made those poor boys fight her and they end up in the hospital because Hotaru ends up breaking their legs, arms, and ribs with her Power Pole and any iron made weapons. You know how strong Hotaru is since she's the only one who's able to defeat Grandfather Happosai and one day, Hotaru would lose it and takes her restraints off while fighting those boys, killing them, then where will get your money, Nabiki."

Nabiki asks, seriously, "So, how to you propose we pay for the food you eat and the clothes you wear?"

Kasumi says, in a plain tone, "Well it just so happens that Auntie Saotome is forcing father into martial arts teaching, again!"

Nabiki says, shocked, "You're kidding! Daddy never did that since mom's death!"

Kasumi says, plainly, "Well, Auntie Saotome had to talk some sense into father that its been awhile since mother died and he should have recovered this long." Kasumi then says, seriously, "What I'm trying to tell you is Nabiki is that your schemes have made our baby sister into mistrusting boys and think of them as perverts. She was getting angrier at the situation every day, and eventually she would have seriously hurt someone. Also, if Akane's anger somehow kills Ranma, who do you think would stop Hotaru when she wants revenge? None of us are strong enough to hold Hotaru back from killing her and the only one who has the most effect is Ranma, but that won't do much good if Ranma is dead. Is that worth what you gained from the pictures you sold? How long do you think those relatively innocent shots will suffice before you have to provide more risqué pictures? Is losing the trust of your sister worth what you've done? How much would it cost for us to heal someone if they were seriously hurt by her because of her anger?"

Nabiki replies, seriously, "Everything I've done has been for our family, Kasumi, you know that. But to answer your questions, do you think I enjoyed seeing what I did to Akane? Do you think I like what had happened to Hotaru? But I'll do whatever it takes to keep a roof over our head and food on our plates."

Kasumi says, solemnly, "I'm not the one who needs to answer that question, Nabiki. You do. The sad thing is, Akane and Hotaru aren't the only one that you've hurt nor is she the one that has been damaged the most. Once she finds someone else she can trust, aside from me, she'll start to heal. The one I'm more worried about is you. How long has it been since you've been able to look in a mirror and like the person that you see?"

Nabiki says, frostly,"So you think I'm some kind of monster, do you? Do you think I want to be a cold-hearted bitch? Ever since Daddy lost his last student, I've had to somehow juggle the finances to make sure we could survive. I've sacrificed a lot since, and now you two are telling me to stop."

Kasumi says, with a reply, "No, I'm saying that you need to take your sister's feelings and emotions into account. If you had wanted to stop that idiotic challenge, you could have. Instead you made money off your sister's and Hotaru's pains. It's time you quit trying to do everything yourself and let us help with what we can and you're not the only one who sacrificed yourself. What about a young girl, forced to fill the role of a mother, someone who at one time dreamed of going to college? I didn't want to grow up that fast, but I had to for your sake."

Nabiki looked properly abashed as she says, "I'm sorry, sis. I guess I forgot what you had to give up."

Kasumi says, in a serious tone, "Nabiki, you know why Hotaru blackmailed you into stop taking pictures of her brother's girl half, which is that she had her own coffee shop where she and Ranma work at to pay for her and her brother, only. Why would you need to exploit other girls for your own gain? Do you know how humiliating it is? How would like it if someone was taking pictures of you and selling them to other perverted boys?"

Nabiki winches while thinking if it were to happen and she says, "I don't think that I'd like it and as much as I'd hate to do this, but, I'll stop."

Kasumi then places a smile on her face and she says, plainly, "I'm glad, Nabiki."

(At the Obelisk Arena; on the meanwhile)

Within Obelisk Arena, we find Genma Saotome running into the arena with an excited glee on his face.

Genma says, with an excited tone, "Now, show me where that money is!"

Just then, a familiar female voice calls out, "There's no money here, old man!" Soon after, Alexis appears on the platform with her ninja speed.

Genma says, surprised, "How did you do that!"

Just then, another familiar female voice calls out, "Wouldn't you like to know?" Just then, Ryoko appears behind Genma and kicks him in the back, throwing him to the ground with Sakura appearing by Alexis with her ninja speed.

Sakura says, with a sly smile, "Wow, it looks like Hotaru was right when you'll come down for anything that involves food or money."

Genma thinks in his mind, annoyed, "I should have known that the girl would pull something like this!"

Alexis says, with a sly grin while cracking her knuckles, "So, you think that girls are weaklings, huh?"

Genma says, worriedly, "No! Who told you such a thing!"

Sakura says, in a serious tone, "Hotaru told us everything that you've done to her and Ranma as well as poor Ukyo!"

Genma jumps onto his feet and he says, nervously, "Now! Now! I can explain!"

Alexis says, with a snort, "Please, we're not as dumb as the girls from Ranma's old school, believing that the reason why Ukyo had given up her feminity for ten years was because of Ranma, old man!"

Ryoko says, with a sly sneer, "Now, we're going to teach you a lesson that why you shouldn't look down on us girls!" Genma then swallows a lot air in his throat while on the meanwhile, in the stands stood, Ranma, Hotaru, Akane, Ryo, Kento, Tyson, Yusuke, Hikari, Kira, and Keiko watching this happening.

Yusuke says, with a sly smile, "Oh man! I'm glad that I'm not Uncle Genma right about now." Soon after, Genma got into the position of the Saotome Attack, the Couching Tiger.

Kento asks, curiously, "What's he doing?"

Ranma says, with an annoyed sigh, "It's one of my family's attacks, the Couching Tiger!"

Tyson asks, curiously, "What does it do?"

Akane says, in a plain tone, "You're going to find out, Tyson."

Genma then bowed low, several times, his head touching the ground each time as he did so, he says, rapidly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Everyone was staring him with disbelief with Ranma and Hotaru rolling their eyes and Kento says, perplexed, "What in the…?"

Ryo says, in disbelief, "You've got to be kidding me!"

Tyson says, surprised, "That's this 'Crouching Tiger' thing?"

Akane says, with a snort, "Exactly! It's where the user begs for forgiveness and Uncle Saotome has been prone to use this when getting out of trouble!"

Alexis yells out, annoyed, "We already know about that stupid 'Couching Tiger' technique from Ranma and Hotaru!"

Genma says, in a gulp, "You have?"

Ryoko says, with a sly smile, "That's right, old man! Now, nothing's stopping us from giving you the beating that you deserve!"

Genma says, walking back nervously, "Now, wait you three…! Can we talk about this!" As we leave the scene, he can hear Genma screaming under tons of punches, kicks, and other sounds of the three males getting beat up.

(A few days later; At the school hallway)

In the hallways, we find Duel Academy students leaving for lunch with complaints about the food, with a depressed Syrus Truesdale and Jenny Yuki sitting on one of the stairs. Some of our heroes and heroines have gotten their promotions with Ichigo, Tenchi, Akane, Ryoko, Orihime, Ray, and Hilary promoting to Obelisk Blue. Within that time, Hotaru managed to forgive Nabiki for what had happened with her and managed to get Crowler to lighten her sentence where she'll be able to get back into Obelisk Blue and the restraition order was removed. Just then, Bastion Misawa, Kento Rei Faun, Ichigo Kurosaki, wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Yusuke Urameshi, Kira Urameshi, Keiko Yukimura, Sage Date, and Ryuko Lyon came by them and Bastion asks, "Interesting on having some lunch! They're having your favorite liver and onions!"

Syrus says, solemnly, "I think I'll pass."

Jenny states, in a solemn tone, "The same with me, guys. I'm not that hungry."

Kento asks, curiously, "Hey, are you guys okay?"

Ryuko yells at Kento, annoyed, "Kento, they don't know where their friend and brother went to. Do they look okay to you?" Soon after, Yusuke, Keiko, Kira, and Ichigo went to Jenny's side, while Bastion, Sage, Kento, and Ryuko went to Syrus's side and Syrus says, solemnly, "First, he's here and the next minute he's gone." Syrus looks up to see Jaden's face with a sly smile on his lips and he says, excitedly, "There he is!"

Jenny looks up and she says, hopefully, "Jay…"

Ichigo says, plainly, "Not exactly." As Ichigo has stated, we find that Jaden's face was placed on the back part of the jacket of Tyranno Hassleberry.

Hassleberry says, with a sly smile, "Check it out, soldiers, now Jaden really has my back!" Hassleberry turns to his friends, while snickering and he says, with a sly grin, "Wherever, I go, he goes! Afterall, he's my best friend!"

Jenny stands onto her feet and she yells at Hassleberry, annoyed, "Hassleberry! Would you cut it out! I can't believe that you would exactly have a face of my own brother drawn like that!" Jenny then sobbed quietly with Keiko coming to her aid and comfort.

Syrus yells at Hassleberry, annoyed, "Way a go, dino brain! Besides, Jaden's got one best friend and that's me! Plus, I don't need a drawing to prove it!"

Keiko says, drolly, "Oh boy! Here we go, again."

Kira says, plainly, "You said it, Kei."

Hassleberry yells at Syrus, annoyed, "Don't go dissing my jacket! You're just jealous that we're a two man army!" Hassleberry then tells Syrus, with a sly grin, "If you want, you can carry our supplies, little man!"

Syrus yells out, seriously, "Listen, you lug nugget, you're just a third wheel!"

Hassleberry yells out, "Then, I'll roll right over you!" Syrus and Hassleberry suddenly punched each other in the face at the same. Hassleberry then punched Syrus in the abdomen, while Syrus bit Hassleberry's arm. Hassleberry yelled and slammed his fist on top of Syrus's head. While Syrus held his head, Hassleberry punched him again.

Sage yells out, seriously, "Hey, you two, break it up!"

Keiko says, in a serious tone, "Yeah, seriously, you guys!"

Syrus stood up and punched Hassleberry in the side. Hassleberry then grabbed Syrus and slammed him into the wall. As Syrus struggled to stand up, Hassleberry kicked Syrus's bad leg. Syrus screamed in pain and fell to the ground and held his leg.

Hassleberry yells out, excitedly, "Ha! I win!" Syrus glared at Hassleberry and then stood up and pulled Hassleberry's hair. Hassleberry yelped and then elbowed Syrus's face, forcing him to let go of Hassleberry's hair and back against the wall.

They were about to punch each other again when Alexis and Hikari showed up and grabbed them both to keep them away from each other, with Yusuke, Kira, Kento, Sage, and Ichigo helping.

Alexis asks, in an annoyed tone, "Now, what the hell's going on here?"

Hikari replies, drolly, "If I had to guess, 'Lex, Sy and Hassleberry were fighting over Jaden, again."

(At the Slifer Red dorm, Sometime later)

In Chazz's redesigned room, we find Alexis and Ryuko fixing Syrus's wounds, while Keiko, Kagome, and Mia were fixing Hassleberry's wounds, with the rest of our heroes and heroines were in the room with Tenchi, wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform, Akane, wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform, Ryoko, wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform, Orihime, wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform, Ray, wearing a male Obelisk Blue uniform and Hilary, wearing a female Obelisk Blue uniform.

Syrus yells out, "Ouch!"

Alexis tells Syrus, "Hold still!"

Syrus yells out, "Ouch! Cut me some slack! I'm the victim here!"

Hassleberry calls out, "Yeah, a victim of poor combat training! Scratching and hair pulling are illegal maneuvers! That's why I deserve to be Jaden's best friend!"

Syrus yells out, seriously, "This war is still!"

Keiko yells out, annoyed, "Break it up, you two!"

Kagome says, seriously, "That's right! This 'best friend' feud as good long enough!"

Bastion says, "Yeah, why don't you all be friends?"

Syrus and Hassleberry yell out, in unison and seriously, "I'm not sharing my rank!"

Hikari says, annoyed, "This is not getting us nowhere."

Just then, Atticus's voice calls out, "We've know how you feel, boys and we're here to help!" Everyone looks up to see Atticus Rhodes and Alister Yukimura lying on a log, with Pharaoh with them.

Alexis says, perplexed, "Atticus?"

Keiko asks Alister, annoyed, "Alister Yukimura, what on earth are you doing up there!"

Ranma looks at Pharaoh and he yelps in fear as he gets behind Hotaru, while yelling out, fearfully, "Cat!"

Atticus and Alister jumped down to their friends and sisters and Alister replies, with a sly smile, "We've been sleeping there all day, sis!"

Atticus says, with a sly grin, while Pharaoh was jumping to the ground, "We couldn't help but hearing about a little power struggle and we're here to keep the band together!"

Alister says, with a sly grin, "That's right! I mean, we you can't let your fans down."

Kira asks, perplexed, "Fans?"

Bastion says, plainly, "I'm sorry did I miss something here?"

Alexis and Keiko say in unison, annoyed, "Everything's a music reference with him, remember!"

Alexis asks Keiko, "Alister too, huh?"

Keiko replies, "You know it."

Kagome says, in a plain tone, "I have an older brother that's exactly the same too!"

Melody says, plainly, "It's amazing that three of them act so much alike!"

Alister says, with a sly grin and a serious tone, "You guys want to be front men, but the problem is you're singing back up!"

Atticus points at Alexis and he says, with a sly grin, "Like her, she's dreams of stardom, but takes a backseat to her big bro!"

Alister says, with a sly grin, "And the same for Keiko." Alexis's and Keiko's eyebrows twitched, they looked at each other and nod their heads. The two girls walked towards their brothers with Yusuke says, lowly, "Uh oh!"

Alexis picks up Pharaoh from the ground, grips his tail, and clawing both Alister's and Atticus's face.

Alister and Atticus yell out, in unison and pain, "Ouch! My face! My beautiful unblemished face!"

Keiko says, annoyed, "That's not the ONLY thing that's going to happen!" Just then, Keiko slaps both Alister and Atticus, throwing him to the ground.

Kento winches at this and he says, "Ouch! That has got to hurt."

Ryo says, unnerved, "Yeah no kidding, Kento!"

Yusuke says, drolly, "You don't know the half of it, pal. I know how Atticus and Alister must be feeling right about now. It's like being hit by four baseballs at once."

Naruto says, winching, "Yikes and I thought that Sakura was scary when she's mad."

Syrus says, nervously, "Whoa, watch the temper, girls!"

Hassleberry says, unnerved, "Yeah, violence isn't the answer!"

Alexis yells out, annoyed, "Like you two are the ones to talk!"

Keiko gets out two duel discs and she says, seriously, while throwing one each to Syrus and Hassleberry for them to catch it, "Look, if you two really want to settle this best friend issue, then shut up and duel!"

Alexis states, seriously, "No joke, we're sick of hearing about it!"

Hassleberry tells Syrus, "They're right! Suit up, soldier! Prepare for an assault!"

Syrus tells Hassleberry, seriously, "You're on, Sarge! I'll take your tough talk and wrap it in a box and mail it right back at you!"

(In front of the Slifer Red dorm; The next morning)

The next morning, in front of the Slifer Red dorm, we find Hassleberry with a duel disc on with the rest of our heroes and heroines on the sidelines.

Alexis says, worriedly, "Syrus should have been here by now. I'm worried, guys."

Ryuko says, seriously, "I know what you mean, 'Lex."

Hassleberry calls out, "Hey, half pint, we said thirteen hundred hours on the dot!" Hassleberry says, with a sly grin, "Oh I see! Little man must have come to his scenes!"

Just then, Syrus's voice calls out, "Guess again, Hassleberry!" Everyone turns to see Syrus Truesdale running towards them from the forest with a duel disc attached to his left wrist.

Hassleberry says, with a sly grin, "Well, I'll be a dung beetle! I was sure that you'd surrendered, private! Since, this battle's still on…let's review the conditions! If I rein victorious, then I get awarded the title of second-in-command of Sergeant Jaden Yuki."

Syrus yells out, seriously, "And if I win, then I'll accept that Jaden's my best friend and you'll become my second-in-command!"

Hassleberry gasps in shock and he yells out, annoyed, "Come again! No one authorized that condition, private!"

Atticus's voice calls out, "Condition granted!" Everyone turns to see Atticus, Alister, and Megumi holding up white flags and Keiko places her hand onto her forehead and says, annoyed, "Oh no! Not now!"

Inuyasha yells out, annoyed, "Megumi, what are you doing!"

Megumi says, with a smile, "Atticus and Alister wanted a third judge for this competition, so I agreed to it. Besides, it looks like fun and I know how it works it's similar to that 'Japanese Idol' that Kagome's older brother, Sanosake, is always watching in that magical television box of his!"

Melody says, annoyed, "Only you would find this amusing!"

Inuyasha says, rubbing his head, "Oh man! I feel a huge headache coming!"

Alexis asks Inuyasha, curiously, "Why do I get the feeling that Megumi is a female version of my brother?"

Inuyasha says, in an annoyed tone, "You mean the annoying 'bro-bro' and 'sissy' names."

Alexis says, surprised, "Don't tell me that…!"

Melody says, in a snarl, "She always calls us that when she get the chance."

Hassleberry yells out, perplexed, "Hold up! Who made you three judge!"

Syrus says, with a sly smile, "They preferred to be celebrity judge and besides, Hassleberry, you're not backing out are you!"

Hassleberry tells Syrus, seriously, "Fat chance! A Hassleberry never retreats!"

Syrus says, "In that case, let the battle commence!" Syrus and Hassleberry activate their duel discs and drew five cards from their decks.

Starting Score:

Hassleberry: 4000

Syrus: 4000

Syrus draws his card from his deck and says, "Now, let me show you how the game is played!" Syrus places a card onto the disc and he calls out, "And this guy's up first…Ambulanceroid in defense mode!" Soon after, Ambulanceroid (300/1200) appears in defense mode. Syrus sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "And I'll place this down and give you a shot! But I'm warning you, pal, you'll never break us up! Jaden and I are a team and we've been kicking butt, since freshmen year!" Syrus remembers the tag duel when he and Jaden were dueling the Paradox Brothers, after Crowler tried to set them up, last year.

Alister calls out, waving his flag, "Nicely done! You got puzzass and that'll put you far!"

Atticus says, with a sly smile while waving his own flag, "So, you get three stars for execution…!"

Megumi says, with a smile while waving her flag, "…five stars for originality!"

Yusuke says, plainly, "You're kidding!"

Bastion says, perplexed, "Now, I've heard everything! Giving out stars!"

Ranma asks, perplexed, "What is this 'Japanese Idol!"

Alexis says, annoyed, "Ignore them! It's been their dreams to judge a reality show."

Keiko states, annoyed, "That's right, so they're practicing."

Inuyasha says, with an annoyed snort, "And Megumi thinks that it's fun!"

Hassleberry says, seriously, "Fine! Maybe you have a longer history with Jaden, big deal! I'm here to fortify our future, not to dwell in the past. Hassleberry draws his card and he says, "Now, let's move on!" Hassleberry places a card onto the disc and he calls out, "Report for duty, Archaeopteryx!" Soon after, Archaeopteryx (300/1300) appears on the field in attack mode. Hassleberry calls out, "Now, this monster holds a special place in my heart! Cause I played it against Jaden on the day we met!" Hassleberry remembers the duel he had with Jaden, with Hassleberry excluding Syrus. Hassleberry says, "But, you wouldn't know, since I was Jaden's only Wingman that day!"

Hassleberry states, sending a card into the spell/trap slot, "Like I said, that's in the past! Now, moving ahead, I play this card! It's a handy spell card called Ultra Evolution! It let's me sacrifice my winged-beast for a dinosaur to the field! Front in center, Black Tyranno!" Archaeopteryx disappears in a yellow light and Black Tyranno (2600/1800) appears in attack mode. Hassleberry calls out, "I dedicate this move to Jaden on the day we met each other!"

Kento says, plainly, "This is so not right in many ways than one."

Yusuke says, "Yeah, no kidding!"

Kari says, with a kind smile, "I don't know! It's awfully sweet!"

Alister points his white flag to Keiko's annoyance and he calls out, "Way to show us your tender side and this is what competition is all about, dawg!"

Keiko rubs her forehead for the upcoming headache and she thinks in her mind, annoyed, "Oh Kami! Why did you have to make him my brother!"

Hassleberry points at Syrus and he calls out, seriously, "Time to activate my dino's special ability! If all your monsters are in defense mode, Black Tyranno gets to bypass their defense and attack you directly! This will teach you to outrank me, Black Tyranno relieve the enemy of some of his life points!" Black Tyranno roars as it charges towards Syrus and stomping onto him, making Syrus lose 2600 life points, in one shot!

Ryuko calls out, worriedly, "Syrus!"

Mia asks, worriedly, "Is he okay?"

Hassleberry calls out, excitedly, "Depleted with more than half your life points and I'm still fighting in full capacity!" Hassleberry laughs at this full heartedly as the smoke clears from Syrus and Hassleberry asks, "So, soldier, ready to surrender, yet!"

Syrus yells out, with a sly smile, "As if! You used that move against Jaden and I would know, cause I was there!"

Hassleberry says, perplexed, "You were? Must have blocked it out!"

Current Score:

Hassleberry: 4000

Syrus: 1400

Syrus draws his card and he says, "Maybe this'll refresh your memory!" Syrus place the card onto the spell/trap slot and calls out, "I play Submarineroid!" Soon after, Submarineroid (800/1800) appears in attack mode. Syrus calls out, "And thanks to its Subterranean Sneak Attack, it sneaks past your monsters and attacks you directly!"

Hassleberry yells out, shocked, "Sam hill!" Submarineroid disappears into the disappears, holographic dust and sand kick up as the 'submerged' machine monster comes towards Hassleberry, and fires a 'missile' right at him causing Hassleberry to say, worriedly, "No!" Soon after, the attack plasters right into Hassleberry causing a strong explosion and screams out as he loses 800 life-points.

Kira calls out, "Bombs away!"

Syrus says, as his monster comes back to him, "And to make sure my life points are safe, I'll switch my monster to defense mode!" Syrus sends three cards into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Finally, I'll place two face-downs and end my turn!"

Current Score:

Hassleberry: 3200

Syrus: 1400

Hassleberry tells Syrus, with a sly smile, "Your direct attack barely left a mark, soldier! This duel is done!"

Syrus yells out, seriously, "Oh yeah! Well, the duel's not over until the last card is played!"

Hassleberry says, nastily, "Is that right! That's got to be the most dumbest things I've ever heard!"

Syrus yells out, seriously, "For your information, Jaden taught me that!"

Hassleberry yelps in shock and he says, a bit nervous, "Well, further thought it does make scene!"

Hassleberry draws his card and he calls out, "At ease, Private Truesdale! It's time move my frontline!" Hassleberry thinks in his mind, seriously, "This could be a risky maneuver!" Hassleberry slams a card onto the disc and he calls out, "It's roll call! Giant Rex, you're up!" Soon after, Giant Rex (2000/1200) appears in attack mode. Hassleberry yells out, "Destroy Submarineroid!" Giant Rex charges towards Submarineroid and with one swipe of its tail, destroys Submarineroid.

Syrus presses a button on his disc and he calls out, "Whenever, a machine monster is destroyed, my Supercharger automatically activates, now I can draw two cards!"

As Syrus draws two cards from his deck, Hassleberry thinks in his mind, looking at Syrus's two face-downs, "He still has two landmines, but that's a risk that I have to take!" Hassleberry yells out, seriously, "Black Tyranno, direct attack! Anyone that gets between me and Jaden, gets squashed like a skunk on a freeway!"

Megumi yells out, while waving her flag, "Five stars for word choice!"

Alister says, while waving his flag, "That earned a spot in the semi-finals!"

Atticus calls out, "What you lack in grace, you make up for it with that greediness that we love!"

Alexis says, annoyed, "If anyone asks…"

Inuyasha, Melody, and Keiko states in unison, annoyed, "…we're not related to them!"

Syrus presses a button on his disc and he calls out, "Sorry, Sarge, but you triggered my trap! Cyber Summon Blaster!" Just then, a blaster appeared from the trap card and Syrus calls out, seriously, "It stops your attack and takes three hundred of your life points, every time that I special summon a machine monster!"

Hassleberry sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "Whatever, you're planning to do with that card, forget it, 'cause it's history! Thanks to this here spell card, it's Dino Stomp and it destroys one card! I knew that you were saving that card for last so, I was prepared!"

Syrus's face down card was destroyed, which proved to be the Wonder Garage trap card, and Syrus says, with a sly grin, "Actually, the jokes on you! It was Wonder Garage!"

Hassleberry says, in an annoyed tone, "You've lost me, pipsqueak!"

Syrus says, seriously, "When this card is sent to the graveyard, I can special summon a level four or below machine monster from my hand! So, I play Drillroid!" Soon after, Drillroid (1600/1600) appears in attack mode. Syrus yells out, "Which means my blaster activates and attacks you directly!" Cyber Summon Blaster blasts a stream of blue light at Hassleberry and Hassleberry yelps in shock as it hits him, causing him to lose 300 life points!"

Hassleberry yells out, "Big deal! Three hundred points are nothing and now my Tyranno can snuff out your Drillroid!" Black Tyranno charges towards Drillroid and with one swipe of its tail, throws it away and destroys it, costing Syrus 1000 life points.

Ryuko says, worriedly, "Oh man! Syrus is losing!"

Rowen says, seriously, "That's right and if Hassleberry uses Black Tyranno's ability, next turn, it's over!"

Hassleberry sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "I'll end with a face down! Done!"

Current Score:

Hassleberry: 2900

Syrus: 0400

Syrus draws his card from his deck and he calls out, "Think you're tough, watch this!" Syrus sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "I'll kick things off with Polymerization and fuse my Ambulanceroid and Rescueroid to summon forth Ambulance Rescueroid!" Ambulanceroid and Rescueroid (1600/1800) goes to the fusion vortex and Ambulance Rescueroid (2300/1800) appears in attack mode.

Hassleberry yells out, stunned, "Twenty-three hundred attack points!"

Syrus says, seriously, "That's right! Since, a fusion is a special summon, my blaster fires again!" Syrus's blaster fires at Hassleberry, again, and hits him, lowering Hassleberry's life points by 300 points. Syrus yells out, "Ambulance Rescueroid, attack!" Ambulance Rescueroid charges towards Giant Rex, destroying it and lowering Hassleberry's life points further by 300 points. Syrus places a card onto the disc and he calls out, "I'm not done, yet! I summon Decoyroid in defense mode!" Soon after, Decoyroid (300/500) appears in defense mode. Syrus sends his last card in his hand into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "Okay, I've punished you enough, so, I'll end my turn with this! Oh and since Decoyroid is on the field, it's the only monster you can attack!"

Current Score:

Hassleberry: 2300

Syrus: 0400

Yusuke says, excitedly, "Awesome save!"

Kira says, with a sly grin, "That's right! That stopped Hassleberry's Tyranno from attack Sy!"

Hassleberry says, in a serious tone, "With Ambulance Rescueroid in attack mode, I can't use my dino's special ability, but I can send your Decoyroid on a one way trip…to the card graveyard that is!"

Syrus calls out, "Not going to happen! Ambulance Rescueroid has a special ability that you need to know, anytime that you destroy any of my monsters, it can rescue the card from the graveyard, so going ahead and try, pal!"

Hassleberry yells out, stunned, "No way! As soon as I attack your Decoyroid, it comes back to the field!"

Ryuko says, with a smile, "So, Hassleberry's trapped!"

Hassleberry draws his card and he says, "Maybe not, watch this!" Hassleberry sends a card into the spell/trap slot and he calls out, "I sacrifice my Tyranno to activate a spell card! Big Evolution!"

Kira says, stunned, "Oh shit! Now for three whole turns, Hassleberry can summon any dinosaur monster without a sacrifice!"

Hassleberry sends a card onto the disc and he calls out, "That's right! I'll summon Ultimate Tyranno in attack mode!" Black Tyranno disappears and Ultimate Tyranno (3000/2200) appears in attack mode. Hassleberry's eyes turned into dino eyes and he calls out, "Ultimate Tyranno, devour that Decoyroid!" Ultimate Tyranno charges towards Decoyroid and destroys it. Soon after, Syrus's Ambulance Rescueroid brings out Decoyroid and fires the blaster at Hassleberry lowering his life points by 300. Then, Syrus reveals his last facedown card which was De-Fusion to split both Ambulance Rescueroid back to Ambulanceroid (300/1200) and Rescueroid (1600/1800), which counted as two special summons for machine monsters, so Hassleberry loses 600 life-points. Hassleberry attacks Decoyroid with his Ultimate Tyranno, it ended up being brought out by Rescueroid and brought back to the field, which cost Hassleberry 300 more life points!

Hassleberry yells out, shocked and horrified, "I'm done for!"

Syrus calls out, with a sly smile, "There's no way you can win, Hassleberry! So, keep bring it!"

Alexis says, plainly, "I don't know how, but I think Syrus just won!"

Bastion says, in a logical tone, "He knew how Hassleberry would duel, so he used the ultimate trap!"

Atticus says, "Well, folks show's over!"

Alister says, plainly, "As well as the votes!"

Bastion calls out, annoyed, "What? How's voting!"

Keiko yells out, annoyed, "Bastion, don't encourage them!"

Yusuke says, seriously, "Hey, guys look at Sy!" Everyone looks at Syrus, who was wobbling in place.

Bastion yells out, horrified, "Syrus!"

Alexis says, with concern, "You don't look so well, Sy!"

Syrus says, weakly, "I'm fine…just haven't been getting much sleep these days!"

Mia says, in a serious tone, "He must be looking for Jaden all night!"

Hassleberry says, overhearing the conversion, "What! A search and rescue! But, he might have left the island!"

Syrus yells out, "No! He must be on the island! Dueling is Jaden's life!"

Tyson says, in a serious tone, "That's true! So, Jaden must be still on the island! Otherwise, why would he leave Duel Academy!"

Bastion says, in a serious and logical tone, "Both Tyson and Syrus are right!"

Alexis says, with a nervous smile, "He's probably lost!"

Hassleberry looks at his face-down card and wonders if he should activated, but decided to allow Syrus to win as his life points went to zero, by Syrus's Cyber Summon Blaster. Syrus then fell on the ground as his friends, except for Hassleberry, Alister and Atticus, ran to his aid.

Ryuko yells out, fearfully, "Syrus!" She placed Syrus into her arms and Bastion says, plainly, "Don't worry he just collapsed!"

Hassleberry takes out his card from his spell/trap slot, looks at it to be a trap card called Jurassic Impact and he says, "Jurassic Impact, with this trap this could change the whole outcome!"

Megumi, Atticus, and Alister point their flags at Hassleberry and Atticus says, with a sly smile, "Minus five for not having faith that Jaden's still out there!"

Hassleberry says, in an annoyed tone, "This acting behavior is really starting to annoy me!" Hassleberry says, with a smile, "But if there's anyone that deserves to be Jaden's best friend is Syrus."

(A few days later; Within Obelisk Arena)

Time continues to pass in Duel Academy with Jaden still missing and Chazz's new 'fashion statement', we find that life went on in Duel Academy with Kagome, Nabiki, Akane, Ukyo, Alister, Keiko, and Kira trying out for their promotion exams and Nabiki's chance of getting back to Obelisk Blue. Already Nabiki, Akane, Ukyo, and Alister has already finished their promotion exam against five Obelisk Blue students and won, allowing them to get into Obelisk Blue without much problems. Now, we find ourselves all of our heroes and heroines, except for Chazz and Jaden, watching as Keiko was just finishing off her opponent with her Megamorph powered Infernal Flame Emperor and her opponent's life-points crashed to zero.

With the end of the duel, the final holograms fade away and Chancellor Crowler, in the stands, calls out through a microphone, "The winner of this duel is Keiko Yukimura who will advance to Obelisk Blue immediately!"

All of our heroes and heroines cheer for Keiko and Alexis yells out, with a smile, "Great work, girlfriend!" Alexis thinks in her mind, concerned, "But I wish that Jaden was here to see this!"

Hikari calls out, seriously, "You did it, Keiko!"

Kari yells out, clapping her hands, "That's great, Keiko!"

Kuwabara yells out, excitedly, "That was awesome!"

Alister yells out, excitedly, "You did great, Sissy!"

Crowler yells out, through the microphone, "Okay! That's enough for now! Now, Kira Urameshi, it is time for your duel!"

Kira thinks in her mind, in her usual manner, "Finally! Now, it is my chance to get into Obelisk Blue and be with my siblings, my cousin…and Kurama! No! I can't think that way! Just go out and do this!" Kira goes down from the stands, puts a duel disc onto her left wrist, puts a dueling deck inside of her duel disc, and walks down as Keiko goes back up to rejoin the others.

Keiko tells Kira, with a smile, "Good luck, Kira."

Kira replies, with a sly smile, "Won't need it, Kei." Soon after, Kira walks up to the dueling platform while Keiko returns back to her friends and Kira looks to see none other than Reginald Van Howell the third, with a duel disc that has his dueling deck inside attached to his left wrist, walking up to the platform. Kira says, with a sly grin, "Well, look at what we got here. So, the twerp that couldn't defeat Chazz's Ojama's is back for more, huh?"

Reginald yells out, angrily, "Watch it, witch!"

Kira tells Reginald, with a sly smile, "Well, this is going to be a pleasure to teach you the lesson that Chazz began!"

Reginald calls out, angrily, "Just try it, bitch!"

Crowler calls out, through the microphone, "Okay, that's enough of the trash talk! It's time to duel!"

"Sounds good to me! Game on!" the two duelists yell out in unison as they draw their five cards and began their duel.

Starting Scores:

Reginald: 4000

Kira: 4000

The duel raged on with at first Reginald taking the upper hand, but in the end, Kira won with Reginald falls to his knees, the final holograms fade from the field, and Crowler announces through the microphone, "And with a stunning comeback, the winner of this duel is Kira Urameshi, who will be joining her brother and sister in the Blue dorm!" Crowler thinks in his mind, with a sly smile, "I expected nothing better from the younger sister of Hikari and Yusuke Urameshi, two of the greatest duelists of the Blue dorm! They might prove useful to improving my career when the world learns of the skill of these three siblings!"

All of our heroes and heroines cheer in admiration for Kira and Yolei calls out, excitedly, "I knew that you could it!"

Hilary shouts out, excitedly, "Way to go, Kira!"

Ryoko calls out, with a smile on her lips, "That's showing her what real girl power is about, Kira!" Soon after, our heroes and heroines go down to Kira to congratulate her.

Keiko embraces Kira and tells her, excitedly, "You did it, Kira! This is so great! All of us are in the Blue dorm, together!"

Hikari says, with a smile, "That's right! We will be together in the Blue Dorm!"

Kurama tells Kira, with a smile, "I guess that I will be seeing you in the Blue Dorm, right, Kira?"

Kira gives a slight blush and replies, a bit nervously, "S-Sure, Kurama."

Yusuke states, teasingly, "Well, is that a blush I see?"

Kira punches Yusuke's gut hard, making him gasp for air, and she yells out, angrily, "Shut it, bro!"

Ukyo tells Nabiki, with a serious glare, "I just hope that you don't pull the same thing twice, Nabiki!"

Nabiki says, with a snort, "You really think that I may try something like that a second time!"

Alexis says, in a serious tone, "Nabiki, we're able to forgive you, because of Hotaru, so you better not make us regret forgiving you for what you've done."

Hassleberry tells Kira, with a smile, "That was some awesome combat, Kira. Couldn't have done it better myself! You are the real deal when it comes to dinosaur monsters! Maybe I should take a few lessons from you!"

Alister says, with a smile, "Same here!"

Kira says, sticking her tongue out, "Come out, guys. I wasn't that good."

Syrus tells Kira, with a wide smile, "What are you saying, Kira? You were great!" Syrus then says, solemnly and with a sigh, "I wish that Jay was here to see this." The group of heroes and heroines, except for Sasuke and Chazz, become solemn in their expressions.

Alexis tells Syrus, solemnly, "I know, Sy. I wish that Jaden could have seen Tyson's, Kagome's, Yusuke's, Ranma's, Keiko's, and Kira's duels too, but something tells me that he is still out there. Hopefully, he will be back soon."

Jenny tells Alexis, solemnly, "I hope so, Alexis."

Ranma thinks in his mind, seriously, "If whatever enemy that's after Jaden has got to him, we might already be too late. We've seen or heard of anything unusual since Chazz Princeton started to wear that weird white uniform and speaking about this 'Society of Light'. Inuyasha, Melody, and Megumi notice that Chazz's scent has changed into something weird. Could this 'Society of Light' be our new enemy and are they the ones after Jaden? And if they are, why do they want Jaden?"

(Sometime later; in the aftermath of Kira's victory in her promotion duel)

In the aftermath of the promotion duels of Kagome, Akane, Nabiki, Ukyo, Alister, Keiko, and Kira, the group of our heroes and heroines, except for Alexis, has been continues to give their congratulations to each other.

Yusuke tells Kira, with a smile, "Way to go, sis!"

Hikari tells Kira, with a smile, "Awesome job, sis!"

Alister tells Kira, with a sly smile, "You did great, Kira!"

Kurama says, with a smile, "Yes, indeed."

Kira blushes and says, "Yeah…thanks, everyone. But Alister, Keiko and Yusuke did just as great as I did."

Sasami asks, curiously, "Where is Alexis?"

Just then a familiar female voice calls out, "Right here, Sasami." Everyone looks to the source of the voice to see Alexis carrying three uniforms in her hands and Alexis says, with a smile, "Thankfully, we already got your measurements when you were fitted for your Slifer, for Kira, and Ra Yellow, for Kagome, Alister, Akane, Ukyo, Nabiki, and Keiko, so, the fitting room already has your new uniforms ready."

Akane calls out, excitedly, "Awesome! That's what I call service!" Soon enough, Alexis gives Alister, a new male Obelisk Blue uniform, Akane, a new female Obelisk Blue uniform, Nabiki, a new Obelisk Blue uniform, Keiko, a second female Obelisk Blue uniform, Kagome, a third female Obelisk Blue uniform, Ukyo, a fourth female Obelisk Blue uniform, and goes over to Kira with a fifth female Obelisk Blue uniform.

Kira's face loses color and she exclaims, pointing to the skirt, "There's no way in hell that I'm wearing that!"

Alexis asks, perplexed, "What's wrong with that?"

Yusuke tells Alexis, with a sigh, "We already told you that Kira hates anything that's too girly, including skirts."

Alexis replies, with a sigh, "Oh, right."

Hikari tells Kira, with a serious tone, "Well, you can't wear a male uniform, Kira! You got away with it with the Slifer Red and Ra Yellow, but as an Obelisk Blue, you are required to wear this, like it or not."

Kira yells out, angrily, "This really stinks! If I get the hands on whoever made this stupid rule…!"

Kento tells Kira, "Well, unless you have a way to wear it without it looking 'girlish'…"

Ukyo says, with a smile, "Yeah, I was thinking the same thing too!"

Kira calls out, with a wide sly smile, "Kento, you are a genius!" Kira grabs the uniform and heads off into the distance.

Keiko says, nervously, "Oh, boy. I hate to think what she is up to now."

Yusuke states, nervously, "You and me, both, Kei!"

(Later; Within the Obelisk Blue Girls' Dorm)

Later that same day, we find Hikari walking around with Keiko, in her new female Obelisk Blue uniform, Akane, wearing her female Obelisk Blue uniform, Nabiki, wearing her female Obelisk Blue uniform, Sakura, and Alexis in the Obelisk Blue Girls Dorm.

Sakura tells Akane, with a wide smile, "Wow! Akane, you look absolutely cute in your new uniform!"

Akane says, curiously, "You think so?"

Sakura says, with a smile, "Yeah, I bet that Ranma would love it!"

Akane says, bitterly, "I'd doubt it! The jerk would just call me still say that I'm still 'uncute'!" When they heard a bunch of gasp from nearby and they look to the source and yelp in shock at what they see, namely Kira Urameshi in the female Obelisk Blue uniform with some of her own 'modifications', namely dark blue leggings that Kira is wearing underneath her blue skirt.

Hikari yells at Kira, pointing the dark blue leggings, "Kira, what the hell are those?"

Kira tells Hikari, boldly, "If you need to know, Kari, they are called leggings and match the color of my skirt, don't you think?"

Kagome, wearing her female Obelisk Blue uniform, Ukyo, wearing her female Obelisk Blue uniform, Hilary, Kari and Yolei come over and Kari says, plainly, "We tried to talk some sense into her, but she won't listen."

Hikari calls out, nervously, "But you can't wear those!"

Kira says, with a snort, "Why? Last time that I checked, there was nothing in the dress code against them!"

Keiko tells Kira, "You will be made fun at, Kira."

Kira yells out, with her serious tone, "Yeah! And I'll be making fun of myself, if I have to wear this goddamn thing without it! And besides, these students already know my brother's rep! What do you think about the younger sister's rep?"

Hikari and Keiko roll their eyes and says, "Oh boy!"

(The following day; Within Chazz's personal room with the Slifer Red dorm)

Within the redesigned part of the Slifer Red dorm, we find Jasmine, Mindy, Alexis, Jenny, Hassleberry, Bastion, Syrus, and Atticus along with Yusuke, his sisters, Keiko, her brother, Alister, wearing his new male Obelisk Blue uniform, and their friends, Hilary, Kenny, Tyson and the rest of the Bladebreakers, Ichigo and his friends, Ranma and his group, Kagome and her half-demon associates, Tenchi and his friends, and Naruto and his friends and fellow leaf ninja, watching the television with wide eyes of shock as Ryo, Mia, and the rest of the Ronin Warriors, along with our three younger Digidestined coming into the room.

Mia asks everyone, "What's wrong everyone?"

Bastion points towards the television and says, plainly, "See for yourselves." When Mia, Ryo, and the rest of the Ronin Warriors, along with our three younger Digidestined, look towards the television and they see Zane Truesdale in his new 'Hell Kaiser' persona and look.

The television announcer says, "And that's another win for Zane Truesdale. He's fighting like a man possessed. Could his recent success be in his edgy new look? Well, whatever the case is, Zane Truesdale is back on top."

Kento exclaims, stunned, "Whoa! Is that Syrus's older brother?"

Rowen tells Kento, "It would seem so."

Ken asks, perplexed, "What happened to him?"

Yolei asks, perplexed, "What with the whole Goth' look?"

Sasuke says, with a serious tone, "Something really serious has happened to him. The look in his eyes. It looks like Zane has embraced the darkness or something."

Naruto asks Sasuke, confused, "What do you mean by 'embraced the darkness', Sasuke?"

Sasuke tells Naruto, "It would be too long to tell a loser like you."

Naruto yells at Sasuke, angrily, "What is your deal, Sasuke?"

Syrus thinks in his mind, "I know my brother and he would never duel like that! Whoever that is…It's not Zane!"

Hikari puts her hands over her mouth, a few tears of horror and sadness come to her eyes, and Hikari thinks, stunned and horrified, "Oh no! Zane! This is so not like you! What in the world happened to you?" Hikari covers her eyes, unable to look at Zane, while Keiko, Alister, Kira, and Yusuke try to comfort the eldest Urameshi twin…