Chapter 11
A week has gone by since the tag duel between Naruto and jaden vs. the Paradox brothers. During the week, Naruto and his friends did sports. The first sport they did was baseball with Ra yellow vs. Slifer red, but since the Slifer team was down a few players, Naruto and Jaden decided to play for their former dorm. It was Jaden's turn to hit,
"Jaden, keep your eye on the ball!" Syrus coached Naruto sitting beside him.
"Heh, it'll be hard to do to that..." Jaden replied. "Since the ball is gonna go over the fence. Then he'll score, he'll score, and I'll score; then we'll have a six run lead!"
"Hold on! Time out!" A voice called out, running into the baseball field, Bastion Misawa. "I was deep into some attack point quantum mechanics and lost track of time."
"Can ya throw?" One of the yellow players asked Bastion.
"Sure."
"Well, we need a fresh arm... Pitcher change!" The tired pitcher left the field for Bastion to take the mound.
"This isn't a written exam, Bastion!" Jaden said. "I hope you know what you're getting into!"
"Oh trust me, Jaden." Bastion smirked. "It's over for you." Bastion said, getting ready to throw. "Now get ready; this is coming in red hot!" Bastion didn't wait for the signals as he launched a fast ball, straight down the middle. Jaden missed.
"Strike one!" And as for the next throws...
"Strike two!"
"Strike three, you're out!" Jaden was struck out.
"Nuts!" Jaden shouted, causing Naruto to laugh at his sibling's failed attempt to hit the ball. Well... actually he had a large grin on his face.
At the bottom of the inning, Jaden already struck out the first two batters. But he then he started get sloppy, for some reason. Naruto noticed how he was nonchalantly just tossing balls around.
'Typical Jaden.' Naruto thought. Jaden hated being outdone by someone and always did his best to get even.
"Ball 4, take your base!" For the next three batters, Jaden walked them all intentionally with no problem or concern.
"Time!" Syrus called as the Slifers met at the mound. "Jaden, what's going on? You got two outs, and walked the last three batters!"
"Pretty slick, right?" Jaden smirked. Naruto shook his head at being proven right, waiting for it to come.
"Slick?" Syrus and the other Slifers asked while Naruto shook his head
"Yeah, it was the only way to pitch Bastion." Jaden revealed.
"What? You walked all those guys to get even with Bastion?" Syrus asked.
"Nah, not even; ahead!" Jaden corrected as Bastion took his place at bat. "You hear that, buddy!? You're going down!"
Bastion put on his helmet and smiled. "Down the base line perhaps." He replied. "Now give your best, Jaden! That is even you can get the ball over the plate."
"You want it!? You got it!" Jaden pitched a fast curve ball, hoping to get Bastion to swing and miss. He swung, but it hit instead.
Meanwhile, Dr. Crowler was passing by the field trying to think of his next move on getting Jaden kicked out...
"The Paradox Brothers couldn't beat Jaden and Naruto! Chazz couldn't beat Jaden or Naruto! I need someone who can beat Ja...AAH!" His ranting was interrupted by a ball straight to his left eye, knocking him into the baseball equipment.
"Heads up!" Crowler popped out of the pile and saw Jaden, Naruto, and Syrus. When the Slifers realized who was hit, they freaked.
"IT'S YOU! WHO ELSE WOULD CAUSE SUCH INTENSE PAIN?!" Crowler cried.
"That's keeping your eye on the ball," Syrus cracked, as Crowler had the ball lodged in the eye. Naruto lips upturn into a giant grin. Syrus was a funny guy.
"Hahahaha! That's a good one Sy." Naruto laughed patting the younger Slifers shoulder earning a glare from Crowler.
"Sorry," Jaden said. "It was…"
"My fault!" Bastion came up to them. "I was the one who hit the ball."
"Of course." Crowler said, his mood completely changing as he heard Bastion. "Here I was looking for a new accomplice and here it hits me right in the face! Well the eye, but that's beside the point."
"Dr. Crowler, accept my apologies." Bastion said bowing in respect.
"No, no, no, I've been meaning to have my contacts refitted for ages and now I have the perfect excuse." Crowler said, trying to be nice. 'And a new protégé." Crowler whispered with a smirk tgat didn't go untoiced by Naruto.
'What's that crossdresser up to now?" Naruto thought.
Crowler jumped, he forgotten that Jaden, Naruto, and Syrus were still there. "DO YOU THREE MIND?"
"Sorry," They said. "See ya, later Bastion!" Before they ran off back to the field.
"You really shouldn't be associating yourselves with those slackers..." Crowler said. "I think it's time you associate yourself with someone more on your level… like me."
Chazz entered the classroom and sat down towards the top of the stadium-style room. "It's good to be at the top. Yo, foot rub and an ice tea, pronto!" He commanded snapping his fingers.
"Get it yourself." A random Obelisk student snapped.
"What did you say to me?" Chazz asked the Obelisk. "Go on, say it again, I don't think I heard you."
"Chazz, what are you doing?" Another Obelisk student asked, walking up to him.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Chazz asked rhetorically. "I'm sitting in my seat."
"That's not your seat anymore." The Obelisk informed him.
"You idiot, this seat is mine, I even have a name tag right…" But when Chazz looked again, the name tag that he put there personally to show everyone that only he was supposed to sit there, was gone! "What the-!"
"I think you'll find your name tag down there." The Obelisk pointed to a seat towards the bottom near the Ra Yellows.
"No way, this has to be some mistake! The next King of Games shouldn't sit with third-rate no-names!" It was then that Dr. Crowler, now sporting a shiner from being hit with the ball, walked into the classroom. "Dr. Crowler, what's the meaning of this? I don't deserve to sit with the losers!"
"Oh I wouldn't say that, Chazz," Crowler said. "After all, it was a loser that beat you… what was his name… oh yeah, Jaden Yuki... a Slifer! That's why tomorrow you're going to duel Bastion Misawa and if you lose to him as well, you two switch dorms!"
Chazz gasped as the dilemma he was in. "You mean… I'd become a Ra reject?!"
"I guess you're not as half as dumb as you pretend to be, Chazz." Crowler said, even applauding in amusement.
Chazz growled in embarrassment with the rest of the class laughing. Chazz fled the room after. "I WON'T BE A RA!"
After finishing class, Bastion, Syrus, Mana, Naruto, and Jaden had their free time, and were currently heading to the Ra dorm.
"Okay, so maybe that last one wasn't a foul ball." Jaden said, talking about the earlier baseball game.
"Jaden, over the center field fence normally isn't." Syrus added.
"I play like I duel," Bastion explained, while showing him a baseball bat with formulas written on it.
"You see, I find that statistics, geometry, mathematics, we use all of them in our daily lives. Whether we're counting life points, or home runs, or just how many helpings of dinner we have." Bastion explained.
"You know, I never thought of it that way," Jaden said to was also impressed with Bastion philosophy.
"So do you have a formula for everything?" Mana asked.
Bastion chuckled, "I'll show you."
While the Ra Yellow dorm, the Slifers thought while it wasn't the small mansion that the Obelisk dorm was, it was still better looking than the Slifer Red dorm. Bastion led Jaden, Naruto, and Syrus to his room which was on the second floor.
When Bastion opened the door to his dorm room, Jaden, Mana and Syrus let out a gasp while Naruto stared amazed. The walls and ceiling was covered with equations and formulas alike
"Welcome to my dorm room," he said. "Also my lab and my workshop." He pointed to the wall his desk was up against. "Over there is formula for trap cards." He swung his hand to point to the opposite wall and ceiling, "Over there is for spell cards." Bastion's hand swung again this time pointing to the wall with the window. "And that's… well you get the idea. In here I've cracked the ability to beat almost every card ever made, but as you can see I'm running out of room. So…" Bastion said as he held up a mop and paint bucket. "Mind helping?
"Sure." The five set out to whitewash the walls of Bastion's dorm.
"Hey check it out, I'm Michelangelo," Jaden said while standing on a step ladder, as the others laughed at the joke. while Naruto smiled. "Get, because I'm painting on the celinnnnggg!" Jaden lost his footing and his hold on the brush. The brush went flying right into Syrus' face.
"You do realize, Jaden, that this means war," Syrus said in mock anger.
"Look, Sy, it was just an accident!" But Syrus was already picking up a paint bucket and getting ready to throw it.
"That's enough, you two." Bastion scolded. "Now give me that paint…" Syrus threw the paint at Jaden but Jaden ducked and the paint covered Bastion's face instead. Jaden burst into laughter. "Oh, funny is it?" Bastion smacked Jaden's face with a paint rag. That got Jaden steamed who immediately fought back with his paint brush.
"Oh boys." Mana said shaking her head before Jaden and Bastion turned to her with a glint in their eyes. "Oh no." Mana said as the duo dumbed paint over her head.
"You guys are so dead!" Mana said with mock anger grabing some near by buckets and launching paint at Jaden and Bastion, Naruto soon joined in as well dueling both Jaden and Bastion with twin paint brushes.
After a ceasefire, the three got done painting Bastion's room and after cleaning up themselves, Bastion invited his four helpers to the Ra Yellow cafeteria.
"Help yourselves!" Bastion offered. Immediately, Jaden, Mana, and Syrus stormed over to the buffet line and grabbed some fish, while Naruto took the ramen, before sitting down in front of the Ra and started chowing down. Bastion chuckled as he went to get his own dinner.
"I don't think I ever had such a good time eating!" Jaden said as he stuffed some fish into his mouth. "Bastion you're alright."
"Yeah," Syrus agreed. "And so is Ra Yellow's food!"
"Oh, you flatter us," Bastion said bringing over his lobster dinner. "But I'm sure it's not all that much better than Slifer."
Jaden, Mana, and Syrus' eyes bugged out upon seeing the lobster. "Trust me, the closest thing we have to fish is Banner's cat's breath," Jaden cracked.
"Speaking of cat breath, Bastion," Syrus said. "What were you talking with Crowler about back at the ball field?" Mana snorted in laughter.
"Actually, he wants me to test to be an Obelisk." Bastion replied.
"Are you serious?" Syrus asked.
"Is that why you were cleaning your room, because you were switching dorms?" Jaden smiled. "Well congratulations, Bastion, you deserve it."
"Again, you flatter me." Bastion said, trying to endure the praise.
"But you deserve it, bro!" Jaden said. "I saw you duel at the entrance exam and you kicked that Duel Proctor's butt!" Jaden exclaimed. "You'll be a shoe-in to pass Crowler's test!"
"And couldn't have happened to nicer guy!" Jaden added.
"Well thank you." As the four first-year students dug into their respective meals, Bastion just looked at them with a sad smile on his face.
Naruto however was deep in thought. Why would Crowler be so interested in Bastion now. It was blatantly clear Bastion was a talented duelist with skills to rival most Obelisk blues so why is Crowler just now taking notice.
In the Obelisk boys' dorm, Chazz was currently in contact with some not so nice fellows; his older brothers, Slade and Jagger on the video screen communicator, that was a flat screen TV.
"Got it, Chazz?" Slade asked
"Yeah." Chazz replied.
"We can't hear you." Jagger pried.
"I said I get it!" Chazz rolled his eyes. Apparently, someone had gotten word to the family that his position among the elite was in jeopardy and they called to "check up" on him.
"Well you better understand," Slade threatened. "The Princeton Group has a plan. Your brother and I are already going through with our ends of it."
"And you had better be following through with your end as well," Jagger spoke up. "Just think of it, Little Brother, the world of politics, finance, and Duel Monsters! If the Princeton family rises to the top of all these things, we will control the world! The future of the Princeton family relies on you."
"Be the best no matter what!" Slade shouted, ending the conversation.
Chazz clicked off the video communicator. 'Be the best?' Chazz thought snidely. 'How can I be the best?' He got up and went to the window. In the distance he could see Naruto, Jaden, and Syrus. 'When there are lucky punks like those guys out there?' He then saw Bastion walk up to them before all three of them took off down the path that led to the Slifer dorm.
'Looks like Bastion's heading off to spend the night at the Slifer dorm. That means that his dorm room would be empty!' Chazz said as an idea came to mind and it wasn't a good one for Bastion.
Meanwhile, at the Slifer dorm, Jaden and Bastion were sound asleep in Jaden, Syrus' and Chumley's room. Jaden and Bastion sharing hiz matress.
"Hey Syrus, what's that Ra doing here?" Chumley asked.
"He just had his room painted so we're letting him crash here for the night." Syrus explained.
"But what if he wakes up and starts to make fun of us… or even worse… duel us." Chumley said, feeling cautious.
"Bastion's okay, Chumley, besides he let us eat at the Ra Meal Hall." Syrus calmed him, Naruto giving an affirmative nod.
"Oh… he can have my bed then."
In the morning, Jaden, Syrus, and Bastion were awaken by a slamming on their door.
"Jaden! Jaden!"
Jaden got up, opened the door and saw Ms. Dorothy, the owner of the card shop. "What is it, Ms. Dorothy?"
"I was unloading some supplies from the docks when I saw them… cards everywhere!" The four boys gasped and immediately took off towards the pier.
They found Ms. Dorothy's claims were correct. A bunch of cards were scattered among the water.
"That's Ring of Destruction!" Jaden spotted a trap card.
"And Vorse Raider!" Syrus added, spotting the monster card.
"Bastion, these are all of your cards." Jaden identified.
"It's my own fault." Bastion said. "This deck was in the desk I moved out to the hall while we were painting yesterday."
"Who would want to do something like this?" Syrus wondered.
"Someone who doesn't want you to be promoted to Obelisk Blue," Jaden said. He looked up at his friend, "What are you going to do? Your promotion exam is in less than an hour."
Bastion glanced at the river as he stared at the cards and picked up one. "Leave it to me."
Bastion, accompanied by Jaden, Naruto, and Syrus came into the main duel arena where Dr. Crowler and Chazz were waiting. "Ah, Bastion, you made it." He greeted. When he saw Jaden, Naruto, and Syrus, he frowned a bit. "And I see you brought some friends."
"I hope you duel better than the company you keep." Chazz smirked.
"Wait a second, Chazz is your test opponent?" Jaden turned to Bastion, "Bastion, he must be the guy who chucked your cards into the ocean!"
"Pardon?" Crowler asked.
"I don't know what he's talking about, Dr. Crowler, I didn't do a thing." Chazz denied.
"Oh, is that so?" Everyone turned to see Zane, Alexis, and Mito walk in.
"Hey guys," Jaden greeted as Naruto sent a glare towards Mito.
"I saw you Chazz, when you dumped those cards into the water!" Alexis said. "Normally, I don't like to snitch but you don't mess with someone's deck."
"That's low, Chazz, even for you," Jaden said.
"Oh come on, how do you know I wasn't throwing away my own cards?" Chazz said, still lying. "I guess Bastion and I just have similar decks."
"Liar!" Mito growled.
"Nobody calls me a liar, and nobody calls me a thief!" Chazz retorted.
"Fine, you're not." Bastion said. "Let's just get on with our duel, shall we?"
"But Bastion, what about your deck?" Jaden asked.
"A good Duelist always keeps a spare deck on hand, or a few." Bastion unzipped his yellow jacket. "You three saw all my formula on the wall, right? Well…" He spread his blazer to reveal a vest with six card pouches on it. "They were for all my different decks! And each of them is as powerful as the last!"
Chazz cringed, as he saw his plan for keeping Bastion from taking the exam had failed. "Fine, keep your six crummy decks, because all I need is this one, which I'll unleash on you for thinking you're better than me."
Bastion activated his Duel Disk and inserted one of his decks. "You're just a theorem to be solved, Chazz, a code to be cracked, you're finished!"
"Bring it, you worthless reject!"
"DUEL!"
Chazz: 4000
Bastion: 4000
"Get ready! "Because here comes the hurt!" Chazz said starting off. "I summon Chthonian Soldier(1200/1400)!" The dark armored warrior appeared. He then took another card from his hand. "And a card facedown. That'll do it for now."
"Oh will it now?" Bastion asked.
"Sounds like Bastion has something up his sleeve." Jaden commented.
"He works quickly," Alexis said as she, Mito, and Zane came up to stand besides Naruto, Jaden, Mana, and Syrus.
"I summon Hydrogeddon in attack mode! Hydrogeddon, arise!" A geyser of mud water rose up and created a gray and brown dinosaur with an amphibian tail. (ATK: 1600/DEF: 1000) "Now attack Chthonian Soldier! Hydro Gust Attack, destroy him!" Bastion's monster let out a blast of water that sprayed and destroyed the soldier.
"Thanks, you just activated my Soldier's special ability!" Chazz announced. "It causes you to take the same amount of damage to your life points as I do!"
Chazz: 3600
Bastion: 3600
"Not bad," Zane commented.
"Bastion walked right into that one," Jaden said.
"Don't be so sure Jaden." Naruto said looking at the Ra prodigy. "I'm certain there's more to Bastion's strategy.
"I activate a special ability also," Bastion said, taking out his deck and searches through it. "You see, Chazz, when Hydrogeddon successfully destroys a monster in battle, I'm allowed to summon another Hydrogeddon from my deck. So rise, Hydrogeddon!" Bastion took another Hydrogeddon card from his deck and summoned it, creating an exact double of the first monster. "And my battle phase continues which means that now I can wage a direct attack on you, Chazz. Go, Hydrogeddon, Hydro Gust Attack!" The new Hydrogeddon fired its attack. Chazz screamed as he was knocked down by the attack.
Chazz: 2000
Bastion: 3600
"You'll pay for that," Chazz said getting up. "I activate my trap card Call of the Haunted," Chazz's facedown trap activated. "This lets me summon a monster back from my graveyard and the monster I choose is… that's right, Chthonian Soldier!" A burst of electricity brought back the Chthonian Soldier. "Next, I activate the spell Infernal Reckless Summon! After I special summon a monster with 1500 ATK or less, we must summon in attack mode, all monsters from our hand, deck, or graveyard that match the monsters we currently have on the field." Chazz grabbed two cards from his deck. "And I'll bring out my other Chthonian Soldiers!" From the same burst of electricity, two more soldiers appeared side-by-side the first one.
"It doesn't matter how many of those things Chazz summons," Alexis said as Bastion summoned a third Hydrogeddon. "They still won't have enough attack points to beat those Hydrogeddons."
"Not by themselves, they won't." Zane said as Chazz took a card from his hand.
"I activate the equip spell card Chthonian Alliance! The monster this card is equipped to gains 800 attack points for every monster on the field with the same name as it." The Chthonian Soldier on Chazz's left growled as it was covered in dark energy, and grew three times its normal size. (1200-3600) "That brings its attack points up to… well you're the math nerd, you figure it out."
The spectators gasped at the power the soldier was giving off.
"Talk about strength in numbers." Mana said in shock.
"Attack, one of those Hydrogeddons!" Chazz commanded. The giant, super-powered Chthonian Soldier slashed through the middle Hydrogeddon. Bastion grunted from the damage.
Chazz: 2000
Bastion: 1600
"Bastion's life points have gone down by more than half!" Syrus said. "He's losing the duel!"
"There's more to winning than life points," Naruto reminded.
"Bravo, good show," Bastion said drawing a card, not even caring about the lost points as he placed another monster card on the field. "But it will be short-lived. Rise, Oxygeddon(1800/800)!" A Pteranadon monster made of green air appeared in a from an Oxygen geyser. "Now attack one of the 1200 point Chthonian Soldier with Vapor Stream!" The new monster breathed a clear air blast at one of the weaker soldiers, taking it out.
Chazz: 1400
Bastion: 1600
"Forget?" Chazz scoffed. "When my Soldier's destroyed, you take the same amount of damage as I do!"
Chazz: 1400
Bastion: 1200
"My turn's not done yet. Next my Hydrogeddon will attack your other Chthonian Soldier!" Once again, Bastion ordered one of his Hydrogeddons to attack and destroy the Soldier, causing both players to take the same amount of damage from Chthonian Soldier's special ability.
Chazz: 1000
Bastion: 600
"Oh man why does Bastion keep attacking when he's hurting himself more than he's hurting Chazz?" Syrus said, comparing the scores.
"He's fine," Mana assured Syrus.
"He's playing smart," Zane added. "The Chthonian Soldier with the equip card has 3600 attack points. Bastion would have to summon an incredibly powerful monster to beat him. Unless however…"
The large Chthonian Solider lost most of his height and power. (2000)
"Wait, I see, unless he takes out the other Chthonians and lowers the big one's attack points!" Syrus realized.
"Right, Sy, so if Bastion's going to win this, he's going to have to give up some life points." Jaden said.
"Like they said ya gotta spend life points to take life points." Naruto said with a smirk.
"Last, I'll place this card face-down." A face down card appeared at Bastion's feet. "That'll do for now."
"Will it? I doubt it, Wiz Kid!" Chazz taunted as he drew his card. "I sacrifice my Chthonian Soldier and all the cards in my hand in order to summon Infernal Incinerator! Bet you didn't see that coming." He started to laugh as his soldier was engulfed in an inferno sphere.
"Infernal Incinerator!?" The sphere started to explode, covering the field in smoke and from it, a giant fiend salamander appeared with the top half of a Chthonian Solider on the head. (2800/1800)
"Better break out your calculator because if you can't figure out a way to beat this guy, you're through!" Chazz laughed. "Face it, Bastion, you have no chance against my Infernal Incinerator." Chazz said. "Especially since he gains 200 attack points for every monster you have on the field." (2800-3400/1800)
"That thing has 3400 attack points?" Jaden gawked. "That means no matter which monster receives the attack, Bastion's through!"
"Infernal Incinerator, attack with Firestorm Blast!" The monster opened its mouth revealing a row of sharp teeth and launched a huge ball of fire at Oxygeddon.
"Bastion!" His friends cried as the blast was nearing Bastion's monster.
"I activate my trap card Amorphic Barrier!" A wall of ice rose up around Bastion's monsters. "When I have three or more monsters, this trap card stops my opponent's attack and ends the battle phase. But nice try, Chazz."
"That was close." Syrus said.
"Who cares?" Chazz said, not caring in the slightest. "One turn, that's all it buys you and then you'll be all mine!"
"I'm afraid there won't be a next turn." Bastion declared as he drew his card.
"What?"
"You heard me, and I activate the spell card Bonding H2O." Bastion inserted a spell that showed a beaker, being poured to create water. "I sacrifice two Hydrogeddons and one Oxygeddon..." The three monsters turned into geysers and combined. "...and summon Water Dragon(2800/2600)!" The geysers formed a large serpentine-dragon made of water. "And since the number of monsters on my side of the field has decreased, so does Infernal Incinerator's attack points." (3400-3000)
"It doesn't matter, my monster's attack points are still higher than yours." Chazz smirked.
"Better double check your work," Bastion warned. "Because I've already done all the math!"
"Done all the math?" Crowler questioned. "Does that mean that…?"
Jaden confirmed Crowler's suspicions. "Bastion had this planned from the beginning."
The Water Dragon created a large tidal wave that washed over Infernal Incinerator, taking away all of its power. (ATK: 0)
"No, it's attack points!" Chazz cried.
"Indeed, that's Water Dragon's special ability." Bastion explained. "You see when he's out on the field, the attack points of fire attribute and pyro-type monsters automatically become 0. Now Water Dragon, attack! Tidal Blast!" The dragon fired a high-powered blast of water that surged over Infernal Incinerator again this time destroying it and knocking Chazz from the stage and dousing the whole arena in water.
Chazz: 0
Bastion: 600 (Winner)
"A well played duel, Chazz," Bastion said when Chazz surfaced and the water started to recede. "But not well enough."
"Pure luck," Chazz retorted as he spat out some water. "You drew a lucky card and stumbled into victory!"
"Perhaps, but I find that luck tends to favor the prepared," Bastion said. "And I was prepared to defeat you with half a dozen other cards as well." Chazz was about to open his mouth before Bastion continued. "You can deny it all you want, just like how you denied throwing my deck into the river.
"How can you even prove it was your cards that got thrown in the ocean?" Chazz argued.
"Simple," Bastion said removing a wet card. Immediately, everyone noticed that there were some math equations on the card's face. "This card I retrieved from the water is covered with a formula. A formula I wrote on it. I suppose you could've written it but then the math would've been wrong, and it's not."
He sighed. "Chazz, you cheated, you lie, you stole, you loss. You deserve to be demoted."
Chazz screamed in fury. "This can't happen to me!"
"Bastion Misawa," Dr. Crowler said, walking up to him. "Congratulations, and welcome to Obelisk Blue."
"Thank you, Dr. Crowler, but I'm afraid I cannot accept such an invitation at this time."
"What? But why?"
"When I entered this Academy, I made a promise that I would only enter Obelisk Blue when I become the number one student in the freshman class." Bastion said, turning to the Slifers. "Jaden, Naruto of all the new students, I think that number one student is one of you."
"Hey thanks, does that mean you want to settle this right here?" Jaden asked with Naruto smiling. "I mean seeing you guys duel really made me want to get my game on."
"Yeah I'm all fired up!" Naruto nodded in agreement.
"Sorry, but not now."
"Why not?"
"Because I have a lot of work to do before I duel you guys, many formulas to write, theorems to solve, equations to bounce. You're both good Duelists and I want to be ready." Bastion explained. "Soon my dorm room walls will be filled with new problems and equations and we will have our duel. Just be prepared for it to turn out like that ball game… you know, the one where I struck Jaden out."
"You just keep dreaming, Bastion. Baseball's a past time, but dueling's our life! Until then, pal!" Jaden smirked. Naruto nodded too with a determined grin.
"Until then." Bastion promised.
After the Duel Bastion, Naruto, Jaden, Mana, and Syrus walked out the stadium exit.
"Man that duel was awesome." Mana said walking alongside her friends.
"Hey Bastion would you mind coming with me for a second." Naruto said putting hand on the Ra's shoulder Bastion giving him a confused look.
"Um sure." Bastion said following behind Naruto.
.. Chapter end.