The Story of Jack Poker
Ch 2) Operation Love
tl;dr: Jack messes with Crowler's love letter scheme.
Publish:2/18/19
Edit: 2/23/19 – Changed format to match chapter 1. Fixed A/N. Removed A/N.
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Thankfully, it seemed as if it was the beginning of the year. All I had to do to figure that tidbit out was follow other people around, realize the whole group was lost, and ask for direction. If that wasn't proof enough, there was also the fact that the classes were way too easy. What color were spell cards? Really?
How early in term of the anime though, I couldn't tell. Dozing off, I was thinking blissfully of how I wanted to conduct the rest of my tenure here. That was, until I heard Jaden infamous jab at Crolwer - making fun of Slifer was the equivalent of making fun of Dr. Crowler. That got my ancient gears turning.
Quickly looking around, I was searching for proof of whether or not that love letter debacle had started yet or not. The fact that Alexis was not staring at Jaden every few minute was enough proof for me.
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"Can I go to the bathroom real quick?" I asked innocently to my P.E. teacher. Normally, I hated missing class, as the fun activity always happened whenever I was gone, no exception. The trip wire trap was calling to me though, and it promised way more fun than class could ever be.
"Sure, but just this first time. Use the restroom before class next time." A groan was heard as I bolted off toward my tripwire at the first word. Looks like I am going to have talk to her again later; woe is me.
Sure enough, when I got to the locker room, Crowler had just left. Now to find Syrus locker. Not this one. Or this one. Or this one. Probably should have stalked Syrus. Oh yeah, and get my love letter. Can't forget my custom love letter. Crowler love letter was awful if memory served.
And serve it did, for Crowler idea of a love letter was just downright abysmal. All I have to do now was switch the love letters, and phase 1 of Operation Love would be completed. Now to undo my alarm, use the restroom, and head back to class.
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Ring!Ring! Ring!Ring!
Tossing my Game Boy to the side and grabbing a binocular, I rushed outside my room to get a look at the girls dorm. Unnatural shifting shadow? Check. Large yellow hair? Check. Could I get more precise? No, because I got this binocular on the cheap and the quality of the view suffered for it. Still, good enough confirmation that Crowler had made his move.
Checking to make sure I was on the boat I had prepared earlier, I quickly rowed over to the girl dorm. The next phase of Operation Love awaited.
The first step of this phase of the operation was to wear slippers to cover my tracks. The second step was to take the chain broken by Crowler behind the bush with me to fix while I waited for Syrus to arrive.
Speak of the devil, here he comes, rowing with all his might. Bless his soul, or not. Now I have three options to go from here.
"Boo!" Syrus jumped and shook his head, trying to look in all direction at once for the source of the sound.
"Boo!" Syrus jumped even high than last time and has narrowed the possible hiding place for the scary ghost.
"Boo!" Looked like Syrus has located my position if the direction he was walking was anything to go by.
"Haha, he fell for it!" I yelled as cardboard cutouts' shadows were starting to appear. I stood up before promptly falling back down with my arms wrapping my belly as naturally as practice allowed. Rehearsal was so worth it.
"H-hey, that was mean! What did you do that for? How did you even know I would be here?" Syrus screamed as loud as he could whilst red in the face. How cute.
"Just wanted to see if anyone was really dumb enough to fall for such a trick. I even misspelled Alex Roe name!" Rehearsing this line with a mirror was one thing, actually saying it was a whole other matter. And it hurt. I probably should have went with first version of the plan. For now, though, I must think of some way to make it up to Syrus later. If I can't do that, I will perform 100 draws. But first thing first, I must end this part of the operation as quickly, and kindly, as possible.
After a few minutes of coaxing and apologies, Syrus forgave me (kind of, not really) and went back home. In my soured mood, I decided to read through the rest of my plan to ensure I would not dislike any part. After giving my second approval of my plan, I grabbed the chain I was fixing earlier and set out to work.
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"Hey, Alexis, you have a moment?" This was after class and the earliest moment I could complete the operation. I was still thinking of how to make up to Syrus (preventing him from being expelled from the academy was not sufficient enough for me due to the fact that he would have stayed in Duel Academy with or without my intervention).
"Yeah. What do you need?" Alexis snapped. She seemed a little peeved right now.
"Well, I found this love letter laying around and I was wondering if you knew how to spell your name or not." For proof, I produced the love letter Crowler had made.
"I know how to spell my name, thank you very much. Still, who would do such a thing." Her head was quickly trying to connect this letter with the security breach in the girls dorm yesterday.
"Don't know? Figured you knew since it has your name on it. Or at least what was supposed to be your name. Should we report this to Dr. Crowler?" I was playing a little too innocent here, but she didn't seem to catch on.
"I don't see why not." With that, I checked my pocket one last time as we headed to Crowler's office. I had to drop some mail after this, after all.
Omake:
"Cursed, my plan failed all because I didn't secure the letter into the locker correctly," Crowler cursed as he opened his mailbox.
"Huh, an anonymous mail?"
Inside was a love letter. A photocopy of his love letter to be exact, stapled to what looked like a copy of a work with his handwriting, a YouTube link, and instructions of how to view said YouTube video (it was set to private and complete with username and password). What he saw was evidence of him frantically trying to cut the chain from the wrong side of the fence before jumping into the frigid water. The video was complete with loud background sounds of sirens and screams of bloody murder. When he went to look for evidence of the camera or any footprint, there were none to be found.
A/N:
Version A was to coo at Syrus with a bad imitation of Alexis voice while playing off as being in love with Syrus until he ran away. Scrapped due to not wanting to creep Syrus out in case he needs him in the future for another prank.
Warning: This fic will be very episode by episode. I will skip some, like the Paradox duel (that will appear exactly like in canon). However, I will also cut a ton of content out (like Crowler whole side of the story, or the entirety of Jaden vs Alexis duel). Updates will be erratic.