A bus arrived at Duel Academy.

"Here's our stop kids!" The bus driver said. The passengers stepped out of the bus. "Good luck with your exam duesl, I'd hated bringing ya all of this way just to send ya home."

"Thanks. I'm gonna need it." One of passengers said walking off.

Meanwhile Gwen was on her bed skimming her deck looking forlorn.

Mirakuru's spirit then appears. "Gwen, you've been looking at your cards ever since your match yesterday, don't you think you should make a decision?"

Gwen looks at her spirit. "It's not as easy as you think it is. Even if I do decide to make a new deck, I don't how I'll build it, what cards I should use that'll work with you girls, or what I could take from the deck I have now."

"Is there really that complicated?"

"It is."

The door opens and Bridgette and Courtney enter.

"Hey there Gwen." Courtney said.

"Oh hey, what's up."

"Nothing, we thought we could all go for a walk."

"Pass."

"Come on, you can't stay in here forever." Bridgette said dragging Gwen by the arm out of bed.

"Woah! All right!"

The trio headed to the foyer when Bridgette noticed the boy.

"Wait a minute. Cody, is that you?" Gwen looked to see if it was the Cody she met. The boy turned his face and indeed it was the brunette boy Gwen dueled shortly before meeting Bridgette.

"Bridgette?" The boy responded and run towards her. Gwen hid behind Courtney hoping that Cody won't see her. "What are you doing here?"

"It's a long story."

Cody noticed the blue-haired girl. "Hey, I know you, Gwen."

Gwen stuttered. "Hi."

"You two know each other?" Bridgette asked.

"Yeah, I dueled him before I meet you." She turned to face to the boy. "Look, sorry about how I acted and ran off the other day."

"Oh yeah."

"Listen maybe I should explain to you, in private." Gwen pointed to a tree where no one was around."

"Sure!" Gwen and Cody walked over.

"Who is he exactly?" Courtney asked.

"He's a friend from High Point." Bridgette replied. Just then her face flushed and she screamed.

"Bridgette, what's wrong?"

"My aunt and uncle's house! I left it unattended and the doors unlock! And they come home tomorrow!" Bridgette replied shaking Courtney back and forth.

"Talk- to- Shepard- and- see- if- you- can- get- a- ride- back!" Courtney said while she was being shook.

"Okay, I'll do it right now!" Bridgette let Courtney go and ran to Shepard's office. Courtney fell to the ground all dizzy.

"You don't remember anything?" Cody said after Gwen told him her story.

"Yeah." Gwen replied.

"Sorry, no wonder you flipped on me."

"Don't be, you didn't know."

"Still."

"By the way, why are you here?"

"Oh, I'm trying to get enrolled here."

"You are?"

"Yeah, I'm with a group of applicants who couldn't make to the entrance exam duels. Tomorrow we'll be facing off with proctors for a chance to become students."

"Oh yeah, their canceling classes tomorrow because." Someone said, Gwen and Cody look to see who it is.

"Trent! Hey!" Gwen said.

"Hey Gwen." Trent replied.

"Oh Cody, this is Trent." The boys shook hands.

"So you might be a student here."

"Hoping to be. That is if this deck works for me." Cody attempted to pull his deck of his box on his belt only for it slip out and of the cards to fall over the ground. "Dang!" All three started to pick up cards, Gwen and Trent got a good look at what cards Cody had.

"This is your deck?" Trent asked.

"Well yeah."

"No offense Cody but you've got about as many monster types as in the game." Gwen said, remembering her duel with him he did seem to use random monsters. "I know that!" Cody snapped as he grabbed his cards. "Look, I don't have much luck when it comes to booster packs okay. I just seem to get the bottom of the barrel."

"Wow sorry. We weren't trying to make fun of you." "No I'm sorry. It's just I'm always getting make fun of because of my deck. And with my chances for entering this school riding on my duel tomorrow I'm on edge."

"Sorry to hear that buddy."

"Maybe I can help." Courtney said joining in.

"What do you mean?" Cody asked.

"Come with me."

"Hold on, where's Bridgette?" Gwen asked. "She went to Chancellor Shepard's office to see if she could get a ride back to her house."

"Will she okay?"

"Don't worry, Shepard will take precautions to keep her safe."

"If you say so."

Soon after the four were in Courtney's room.

"So what do you have that'll help Cody?"

"Right here." Courtney went over to a chest next to her bed, she opened it and it was full of binders. She took one and opened it, showing it was full of cards.

"Wait are all of the binders full of cards?" Cody asked.

"Yup. "She hands Cody the binder. "This is for Fire-type Effects, including archetypes like my Flamvells. I've got them all caterogized by card type, then by attribute, and I've got plenty of copies of each."

"Got did you get all of these?"

"I've competed in a lot of tournaments with card packs as the prize. You can use these to make you a new deck."

Cody gave it some thought. "I-I can't do this."

"Why not?" Gwen asked.

"Because these aren't my cards, it wouldn't feel right dueling with someone's else cards. I'd rather go with I my deck, with the cards I own."

"But Cody even you don't seem to like your own deck that much." Trent asked.

"So not? At yet then I'll duel my way."

"Cody." Gwen put her hand of Cody's shoulder. "No one's trying to get you to duel their way, we're trying to help you improve you're deck and it'll be on your terms." Just then Gwen's words got through to Cody and Gwen herself, as she now realized what Courtney who was eyeballing her was trying to tell about making a deck for her Armored Heroines.

"I think get it." Cody said.

"Yeah, so do I." Gwen said under her breath.

"What?"

"Um, so what do you think your favorite card is?"

Cody took out his deck, looked through his deck and pick out a card. "I'd say it's this one." The card was Genex Controller. "I don't know why but really like this guy. But he's my only Genex monster."

"I take it you have a binder for Synchros?" Gwen asked Courtney.

"Of course." Courtney took out said binder.

Gwen flipped through pages until she found the Genex Synchro monsters. "Cody, how you make a deck around Genex Controller and the Synchro monsters that use him?"

"Really?" Cody thinks about for a second. "I think I will." He takes out his other cards. "I need some time to think about what I'll use, I'll tell ya if there's any thing I need." "You got it." Courtney said.

Just then Bridgette came in. "Guys! Okay so Shepard will have Someone tag along, but he is letting me return back to my house. I'll try and work things out with my family and came back here as so as I can."

"All right then. See ya soon Bridge." Gwen said. Bridgette quickly hugged her gal pals and was on her way.

And so Cody got to work.