Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh Gx. But you already knew that.
A Different Kind of Detention
Jeremy, Jaden and Syrus were all sleeping in their room. They had fallen asleep as soon as they had lain down on their beds, or in Jeremy's case, mattress, because of the late night duels against Chazz and his accomplice Mat. Syrus was the first to awaken, perhaps because he hadn't dueled anyone the previous night. As he opened his eyes, he could just read the clock on the desk opposite him. Seeing how late it was, he jumped up in surprise, only to bang his head on the top of the bed.
"Aww man. That hurt," Syrus complained as he rubbed the back of his head.
"What's going on?" Chumley asked, having woken up from the noise.
"It's already 7:50. If we don't get moving soon, we'll be late for class. Help me get the others up."
"Alright, alright. Just give me a minute." Chumley crawled out from the top bunk and made his way down. They tried shaking Jaden but it had no effect.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Syrus worried.
"I've got an idea. Pretty simple really." Chumley then walked out of their room for a few minutes. When he came back, he had a bottle of hot sauce that he had obtained from the kitchen. "You may want to plug your nose Syrus, cause this stuff smells strong." He took a deep breath and held the bottle right underneath Jaden's nose. He opened the bottle which was quick to produce results.
"WHOA! What is that?" Jaden said as he jumped out of the bed.
"It's called hot sauce Jaden," Chumley explained as he put the top back on.
"I sure wouldn't like to have to eat that stuff." Jeremy had woken up about the same time as Jaden had.
Syrus almost couldn't believe it. "When you said that stuff smelled strong you sure weren't kidding Chumley."
"So what's with the weird wakeup call Chum?"
"Well it's almost 8:00, so if you guys don't want to be late, we should get moving soon. And you know what? I think our first class is with Dr. Crowler, if we're late we're in for it."
"Fine then let's get a move on."
The four of them got dressed and managed to sink their teeth into a few of Chumley's grilled chesses before having to run off towards the main building, where the classrooms were. "I… hate… running… this… much," Chumley complained.
"Common Chum, you can do it. Just imagine a nice big grill cheese is waiting for you in class," Jeremy tried to inspire him. The thought of his favorite kind of food was just enough to send Chumley's mind racing. Chumley then started to run fast to the point that it seemed almost as if someone had strapped a rocket to his back.
"Hey! Wait up Chumley," they all shouted after him.
They finally arrived in the classroom just before Crowler started. "Whew. I guess we made it just in the nick of time," Jeremy said relieved.
"Yes, yes. Now why don't you all take your seats before I find another reason to give you detention?" Crowler waited with a frown on his face.
The four Slifers went to their seats in the middle of the class and Crowler started to talk about different monster cards. "Now as you should know there are monsters you can only summon by combining two or more monsters. Anyone who isn't too dimwitted will know I'm talking about fusion monsters."
"Hey Jeremy," Jaden leaned over to speak with his friend. "If we were to have a test just on fusion monsters, that'd probably be the one time I'd get an A."
"Are you sure about that Jay?"
"Ok. Maybe if it was about elemental hero fusions."
"I'd find it easier to believe that. As for me, I'd probably flunk a test on fusion monsters. Especially since I don't have a single one in my deck."
"You're kidding me. So what kind of deck do you use then?"
"Well, I've got almost nothing but warrior monsters. Most of which are the Six Samurai. They're the best monsters out there."
"Yeah, I saw your entrance duel against that Obelisk student," Syrus said. "Those were some pretty cool monsters you used against him."
"Thanks Sy. And there are still more where those came from. By the way Jaden, I was told about your duel against Crowler. I heard you beat him good."
"Just what is it you might be talking about?" Crowler faced the three Slifer students. "Care to tell the rest of the class?"
"Sure Doc. We we're talking about fusions, but then there was something about our entrance duels, when Jaden beat you and I won against that Obelisk student."
Crowler was seething with rage at Jeremy's comment. 'How dare that Slifer slacker bring up my defeat at the hands of his friend and think that he's better than my Obelisk blues?' he thought to himself.
"Yes. Now be quiet and pay attention," Crowler said with barely repressed rage.
Jeremy actually was quiet for awhile, but he wasn't so much paying attention. He had taken out a piece of paper and was drawing whatever things came to his mind. Some involving stickmen, duel monsters or people. He was currently drawing a short comic strip of Dr. Crowler. In it their teacher was seen as a klutz who had accidents all day. Such as tripping in his sheets when getting out of bed, walking into a glass door, having a window close on top of his fingers and other such things.
He went unseen by the person in question until near the end of the class, when Crowler happened to notice that his being quiet didn't imply that he was paying attention. "Jeremy Wheeler, just what do you think you're doing?"
"Ummm, nothing too important."
"Then why don't you bring whatever it is you're doing down here?"
Jeremy walked to the front of the class and gave his paper with the cartoon drawing. Crowler looked over it twice before realizing that it was him portrayed as the accident prone character. "That's it. Eight hours detention for this."
"Ah come on Dr. Crowler, surely we can arrange this some other way."
He was about to tell him straight out no, before he chose to hold back the thought. 'I know just what I can do to make this Slacker regret his predicament even more.'
"Why not? I've just had an idea. How about we have a duel after classes finish? And if you somehow manage to win, you'll be free of detention. But should you lose, I'll make it sixteen hours instead of Eight. Up to the challenge?"
"Of course I am. This'll be sweet."
'Yes. You may have beaten Erik, but with me it'll be different. I'll get to humiliate you in front of your friends and you'll get an even longer detention.'
"Good now we'll duel at the Arena right after classes finish."
"Fine by me. Hope you'll be ready Dr."
In the time that it had taken for classes to finish, the news about Crowler and Jeremy's duel had already spread through the school like wildfire. Jeremy, Jaden, Syrus and Chumley were walking towards the arena. "So Jeremy, think you can beat the Dr.?"
"Course Jay. Especially with the idea of being free of detention to motivate me."
"By the way why is it that Crowler wanted to put you in detention in the first place?"
"Maybe because I mentioned you beating him and that comic I drew."
"What did you draw?"
"I drew Crowler as some character in real life that gets into all sorts of accidents. Maybe he didn't like it that much. Don't worry though, with my deck, I can take on whatever he throws at me."
"I hope I get to see some of those samurais you were bragging about."
"Don't worry. Most of my deck is built around them. So you'll probably get to see some of them."
"Well, good luck Jeremy."
"Thanks guys."
As Jeremy walked to the middle of the arena to face-off against Crowler, there were quite a few people who had gathered to watch the duel. Most were Slifers and Obelisks with a few Ra's. The Slifers had come to cheer for their fellow student, quite a few of the Obelisks were waiting for Crowler to beat Jeremy, while most of the Ra's were there just to watch the duel.
Crowler looked at the students watching. 'There's a nice crowd that gathered. Good now even more people will see me crush this slacker and they'll realize why the red dorm's the lowest.'
Jaden was beside Syrus and Chumley when Bastion sat down behind them. "Hey Bastion! How's it going?"
"Pretty good. I heard about the duel and decided to check it out."
"Yeah I just know Jeremy's going to win."
"I guess we'll see."
"Now then, let's begin shall we?"
"You got it Dr." They both inserted their decks and activated their disks. "Get your game on ."
Crowler: 4000
Jeremy: 4000
'Yes and I'll get yours off.'
"I'll start by playing my Ancient Gear Castle. Now this card gives all my Ancient Gear monsters an extra 300 attack points and when a monster is played, it gains a counter. Now I summon Ancient Gear Soldier in attack mode (1600)."
A human like mechanical monster with a machine gun on it's right arm took it's place in front of Crowler.
"Then I equip him with Ancient Gear Tank, which gives him another 600 attack points."
The gear soldier climbed in the circular tank. (1600-2200)
"Finally I'll play one card face down and end my turn."
"That's quite a few attack points for your first turn. Guess I'll have to cut them down a little. Here goes. Yes! Since I have another Six Samurai monster in my hand, I can discard Shadow of the Six Samurai, which lets me special summon The Six Samurai Zanji (1800)."
A samurai wearing red and gold armor appeared on Jeremy's field. He held a spear in one hand, yet at the tip it had the blade of a sword.
"And to join him, I'll bring out The Six Samurai Kamon (1500)."
Another Samurai appeared beside the other. This one wore brown armor and held a stick of dynamite.
"Now just so you know, all Six Samurai monsters have a special ability that activates when they're on the field with another Six Samurai. And Kamon's ability is that by not attacking, he can destroy one of my opponent's face-up magic or trap cards. And I think I'll pick, your Ancient Gear Tank."
Kamon lit his stick of dynamite and threw it at the tank. It exploded on contact, tearing apart the monster's weapon and causing its attack points to drop. (2200-1600)
"However, when my tank's destroyed and sent to the graveyard, it gives you 600 points of damage."
A piece of the tank broke off and hit Jeremy's disk.
Jeremy: 4000-3400
"Well I've still got my other monster. Go Zanji attack his Ancient Gear Soldier."
Jeremy monster dashed across the field and swiped at the middle of Crowler's soldier. Its top half then slid off before shattering.
Crowler: 4000-3800
"And I'll leave it at that."
"Alright then. First off I'll draw two cards thanks to pot of greed. Then by sending my ancient gear castle to the graveyard, I can summon my Ancient Gear Golem without a tribute." Crowler's signature monster appeared on his field, towering over Jeremy's samurais (3000).
"This isn't good."
"Unfortunately for you, it isn't and it's about to get worse. Because I play Premature Burial, which lets me summon a monster from my graveyard at the cost of 800 life-points. So I'll bring back my soldier (1300).
The metal soldier stood up next to the taller Golem.
Crowler: 3800-3000
"And then I'll equip him with another Ancient Gear Tank (1300-1900). Now Golem, Attack his Six Samurai Zanji, Mechanized Melee."
"Kamon, defend him." As the Gear Golem's fist was going to hit Zanji, Kamon jumped in front of his ally, receiving the blow instead.
"What's this?" Crowler asked.
"When one of my Six Samurais is about to be destroyed, I can choose to have another one take the hit. But the damage I take doesn't change though."
Jeremy: 3400-2200
"Fine then, I'll just destroy your monster with my soldier."
Crowler's smaller monster shot the remaining samurai with a projectile from it's vehicle.
Jeremy: 2200-2100
"I think that was enough for now."
"I must say, with Crowler's Golem out, not to mention his powered up soldier, things aren't looking too good for Jeremy."
"Come on Bastion, I'm positive he'll win. Go Jeremy! You can do it!"
"Thanks Jay."
'Now let's see what I've got… This might be good.'
"I play my own pot of greed...Oh yeah! I play a face-down and summon Obnoxious Celtic Guardian in attack mode (1400)."
"Your monster can't even beat my soldier let alone my Golem."
"You not the only person with equip cards. I activate Mage Power. This awesome card give the monster it's attached to an extra 500 attack and defense points for each magic or trap card I've got out. So with itself and my face-down, that's 1000 points (1400-2400 atk/ 1200-2200 def). Now attack his Soldier."
Jeremy's Guardian jumped in the air and brought down his sword, destroying both the Ancient Gear Soldier and Tank.
Crowler: 3000-2500
"Since my tank went to the graveyard, you lose 600 life-points again."
Jeremy: 2100-1500
"I'll just end my turn."
Crowler grinned as he saw the card he drew. "I play Limiter Removal. Now at the cost of destroying my machine type monsters at the end of my turn, this card doubles their attack points." (3000-6000)
"Now that's a whole lot of attack points."
"No kidding Chumley. If this hits, Jeremy's loses. Even if his monster can't be destroyed."
"Don't worry Syrus he's still got a face-down."
"Jaden, in case you weren't aware of it, when Ancient Gear monsters attack, you can't activate Spells or Traps."
"Who said he had to wait for an attack?"
"Anything to say before I end the duel?" Crowler asked Jeremy.
"Yeah. There is. This duel isn't over yet. I reveal my face-down, Spirit Barrier. So as long as I have at least one monster on the field, I take no battle damage. Meaning that you just doomed your golem for no reason."
'NOOOOO! Not my Golem. How could that Slacker do that? He still hasn't won though.'
"I play Trojan Horse in defense mode and one card face-down."
A wooden horse laid down in front of Crowler's face-down. (1200)
"I end my turn."
The Gear Golem overloaded and broke apart from the effect of Limiter Removal.
"I summon the Six Samurai Nisashi." Jeremy's Green Samurai appeared beside the elven warrior. (1400) "Now attack."
"Go Zero Gravity. This card forces all monsters to change battle modes." Jeremy two monsters kneeled down (Nisashi: 700; Obnoxious Celtic Guardian: 2200), while Crowler's Horse stood up (1600).
"Well, I got nothing more to do. Your turn."
"I activate the spell Graceful Charity. So I draw three cards and discard two. When summoning an earth attribute monster, my trojan horse counts a two sacrifices, so let's all welcome yet another Ancient Gear Golem."
Crowler's second Golem rose on his field. (3000)
"Next I'll equip him with Ancient Gear Fist. With this, any monster he attacks is automatically destroyed. Now crush his Guardian."
The Gear Golem shot out his fist like a rocket which slammed into Jeremy's monster, destroying it even though he took no damage.
"I think I'll leave it at that."
"Ok, here goes. I play Card of Sanctity, so we both draw until we each hold six cards. Then I'll bring back Zanji with Monster Reborn."
The red gold samurai came back to Jeremy's field. "But I also equip him with Legendary Ebon Steed."
A black warhorse appeared and Zanji mounted it. "This gives any Six Samurai an extra 200 attack and defense points (1800-2000 atk/ 1300-1500 def). Now attack his Golem."
The black horse galloped forward with its rider, while the opposing machine shot its fist towards the warrior. He then jumped off his horse, onto the flying projectile and propelled himself in the direction of the enemy monster. His mount was destroyed yet as that happened, he flew by Crowler's monster and sliced off it's head. The Obelisk teacher was hysterical as he saw his monster fall. "Wait! How could you beat my Golem? How did your samurai survive?"
"To answer your first question, Zanji's ability works just like your Ancient Gear Fist, because any monster he attacks is basically done for. As for your second one, when Legendary Ebon Steed is equipped to a monster that's about to be destroyed, it's sent to the graveyard instead."
As he explained this, his monster's points returned to normal. (2000-1800 atk/ 1500-1300 def)
"Now you've got no monsters left, so I can attack you directly. And since Zanji is still on the field, Nisashi can attack twice. Go get him."
The green samurai unsheathed his two swords and threw them at Dr. Crowler. They spun in the air before connecting with the chest piece of his duel vest, causing him to fall on his back, as well as depleting his remaining life-points.
Crowler: 2500-0
"Yeah! And that's what we call game. Man that was fun! So I guess I'm free of detention."
In his mind, Crowler was screaming. 'Impossible. I can't have lost to a lowly Slifer again. How could this have happened?'
In the higher seats, an Obelisk blue girl watched as Jeremy won. 'Impressive,' she thought. 'I hope that I have the chance to duel you soon. Though my father always beat yours when they dueled, it might be interesting to see the outcome of a match between us.'
As he made his way out, Jeremy was joined by his three friends. "So guys, what did you all think of that?"
"Your samurais are really cool. It was fun seeing them in action. But what's with saying my lines?"
"Sorry about that. Guess I didn't know."
"It's okay, no biggie. By the way you were right when you said you're samurais were good."
"Thanks. And I haven't even played them all.
"That's okay. There's still a lot of my monsters that you haven't seen either."
"Hey Chumley, you wouldn't happen to have any grilled cheeses with you? That duel made me hungry."
"When we get back to the dorm, I can make you some."
"Umm Jeremy," Syrus spoke up.
"What's up Sy?"
"I was just wondering, your last name's Wheeler right?"
"Yup."
"Are you related in any way to Joey Wheeler?"
"Sure am. He's my dad. My mom's Mai."
His friends were all amazed at this. "Wow! It must be fun to have two parents who are duelists."
"Yeah! You might be able to meet them, if they manage to come here to visit. But until then, we'll just have to take life as it goes. And soon, I'm gonna take some food before I go too hungry."
They all made their way to their dorm, laughing at his attempt at humor.
I made up this chapter because I wanted a reason that Crowler would be angry with Jeremy for the next chapter. Speaking of which, I'll introduce another OC character. Please review. Feel free to point out any errors I make or give suggestions.
