LC; I really need to get back on my game, I missed my personal deadline for one fic already!

Jay; Yeah, wouldn't want you to be late for this one too!

LC; So I need to update this within the next three days or suffer my personal punishment!

Sy; Um, for curiosity's sake, what is your personal punishment?

LC; I will force myself to write something for school, like a report or something.

Jay; *Sweatdrop* Shouldn't you do that anyway? So you don't flunk?

LC; I do not flunk. I merely enjoy mediocrity!

Sy; So Cs an Ds are alright for you so long as you get your diploma?

LC; Hit the nail on the head shorty!

Sy; Shorty? *Whimpers*

LC; *Looks at puppy dog eyes of bluenette* AW! No, not shorty! Cutey!

Sy; Oh, okay!

LC; I'm whipped by the puppy dog look.

Disclaimer; I do not own Yu-gi-oh GX! They are not mine! I wish they were but they aren't!

Chapter 12; In for a dollar, in for a buck! It's time to be promoted!

"Wait professor! It was my fault! I'm the one who hit the ball!" Bastion called as he ran over to where the three were standing amongst the supplies.

"Ah! Bastion! Of course, here I am looking for a protege and it hits me on the head." Crowler laughed.

"Well, the eye but you get the point!" He drew Bastion aside to talk to him about his plan. Surely getting the boy into Obelisk Blue wouldn't be too hard. Chazz was the best player but he had been defeated by a slacker, so he wasn't deserving of that blue blazer.

Bastion though, was a genius! He could defeat both Chazz Princeton and Blue Jay Yuki! It would only be a matter of time and he could bid bon voyage to that annoying girl!
With any luck she'd be gone before the start of the second semester!

Later, Bastion led his new friends Jay and Syrus to his dorm room. He chuckled upon seeing their awed faces when exposed to his many formulas.

"Wow Bastion, I knew you were big on math but I didn't know you were this big on it." Jay muttered, trying desperatly to make some kind of sense of the many numbers and letters on the walls and ceiling.

She had no idea how those formulas could possibly tie with duel cards but who was she to doubt someone who could actually sound out a fifteen syllable word?
If he could do that, the young Ra Yellow student deserved her respect.

"Not that I'm ungrateful for seeing this, but why show it to us?" Syrus asked nervously. He had a feeling he knew, judging from the cans in the corner.

"Well as you can see I've begun to run out of room and I've already commited all these to memory. So if it wouldn't be too much trouble, would you help me repaint the walls?" He asked them kindly, holding up three brushes.

"Sounds like fun!" Jay decided, taking a brush and the ladder and starting on the ceiling.

"Guys look! I'm Michelangelo!" She giggled, referring to the artist who painted on ceilings. In her little fit, the ladder wobbled, causing her to lose her grip on the brush and for it to fly into Syrus' hair and covering him in white paint.

"Um, whoops?" She tried. Syrus growler before holding up his bucket and tossing it for all his little body was worth.
Jay 'eeped' and ducked, causing it to hit Bastion instead, who had been urging them to stop.

"You realize of course, that this means war." He said seriously, his hair stained white and uniform a mess. Jay gulped and immediatly tried to escape, for fear of ending up looking like an Inuyasha cosplayer.

"I regret nothing!" She cried as a glob of paint stained the front of her blazer.

"Let the paint wars begin!" Three hours later, both the room and themselves were wearing a fresh coat of paint.

"Dibs on the shower!" Jay called the moment Bastion announced their job complete.

"Aw! How come you get to go first?" Syrus whined.

"Ladies first!" Jay answered, already running to where the Ra showers were located.

"Hey! They're actually clean!" They heard her gasp. This caused Bastion to ask as to the state of the Slifer bathrooms.

He wasn't sure he'd be able to stomach dinner after the discription.

Another hour later, they met in the Ra caffeteria since Bastion was treating them to lunch. Both Syrus and Jay were amazed as to the level of food the Ra yellows were given. Better dorms, clean bathrooms, and gormet food? Where was the justice?
And if Ra was this good, dare Jay even dream of what the Obelisk food might be like?

"I'm sure it's nothing that your not used to at the Slifer dorm." Bastion said modestly while they ate their lobster.

"Dude, the closest we get to shellfish is professor Banner's cat's breath!" Jay told him honestly.

Bastion watched in a sort of fixed trance as Jay finished her third plate, only to turn back for fourths. He was starting to wonder if they ever fed the poor girl.

"The Slifer dorm was going to get a food disposal but Jay solved that problem." Syrus told him upon seeing his disbelieving face. Her appetite had surprised him too.
How did she keep such a small frame with all the food she was eating? And where did she put it all?

Later they led Bastion down to the cliff with the intentions of pushing him off it...errr...I mean to spend the night at their dorm.

"So Sy why is the Ra yellow guy here?" Chummly asked as soon as both Bastion and Jay had fallen asleep. Funnily enough Jay was using Bastion as a pillow on the blow up mattress.

"Oh, we helped him paint his dorm today so we offered to let him crash here for the night." Syrus answered, going over his deck as he did everynight before bed. It was just a read ritual of his, like the world would end if he forgot to organize his deck or something.

"But what if he decides to duel one of us?" Chummly asked, slightly panicked at the thought of being made fun of by a Ra yellow.

"Chill out Chummly, he's cool." Syrus defended their new friend.

Meanwhile!

Chazz had seen Bastion head out to the Slifer dorms for the night. He had just finished a chat with his older brothers about his role in the family.
He had to be the best, become the king of games and take over the world of dueling while his brothers took over the worlds of economics and politics. He had to be the best!

He knew what their duel had at stake, and honestly he was worried. So he decided he would do what he had to do in order to be certain of his victory.
After all, if Bastion didn't have his cards he couldn't duel!

By the time this thought process had wrapped itself up in a neat Obelisk blue bow, he had reached Bastion's room and was surprised to see all the furniture in the hall.
From the weird plots of paint on the ground, he figured that Bastion must have been redecorating.

He opened the unlocked drawers of the desk and found the jackpot right away. Bastion should have been more careful about where he left his deck but it was all the same to Chazz Princeton.

He ran over to the docks, just before sunrise, and threw the cards into the water. He was certain nobody had seen him do it, after all, who would be up at like five in the morning?
Satisfied over a job well done, he went back to his dorm to wait for breakfast before he left for his duel.

Eight in the morning, Slifer dorm!

"Jay! Jay wake up!" A voice shouted and banging could be heard, it sounded like someone was knocking on their door with iron brass knuckles.

"What is it Dorothy?" Jay yawned upon opening the door.

"Oh Jay it was just awful! Cards tossed everywhere!" Dorothy cried, her eyes damp from held back tears. Obviously because little pieces of plastic deserved tears.

"What! Show us!" Jay ordered, running back in to rouse the boys first of course.

Upon reaching the docks, they were stunned to recognize Bastion's deck. Someone had just tossed all his cards into the water like yesterday's tuna!

"Who could do such a thing?" Jay asked in rage. No one treated cards like that and got away with it as far as she was concerned!

"I don't know, but probably the lowest scum of the Earth." Syrus growled. Elsewhere, Chazz sneezed into his Egg's Benedict.

"What are you going to do about your duel Bastion?" Jay asked, concerned that he would have to forfeit. She'd happily loan him her spare deck if he needed one.

"I'll be fine. I was merely careless when I left this deck in my desk drawers." He assured her. Without missing another step, he led them to the school.
It was almost time for his duel after all.

They arrived and were shocked to find out the person he would be dueling was Chazz. Lowest scum of the Earth indeed. He made one celled creatures look down right kind hearted!

"I'd bet my Elemental Heroes that Chazz was the one who dumped your cards." Jay muttered to Bastion, not really trying to be subtle. She hated jealous rich boys.

"What!" Crowler gasped. Could his wonderful plan be failing already? How could it be?

"I don't know what they're talking about doctor Crowler, I didn't do anything." Chazz defended himself cooly.

"That's not what I saw." Everyone turned back to the entrance to see both Zane and Alexis walking through the arch.

"I saw you Chazz, this morning by the docks. You just dumped them and ran!" She growled at him.

"Normally I wouldn't snitch, but you don't mess with someone's deck." She finished fiercly.

"Che. Whatever." He scoffed, turning away from her accusing eyes.

"If Bastion doesn't have his deck though, I guess he forfeits." He said, a smug little smirk on his face, the bastard.

"You may have thrown away one of my decks Chazz, but a good duelist always carries a few spares." Bastion said, showing what appeared to be six decks strapped to his chest.
Why on Earth they were strapped to his chest eluded the rest of them but nobody but Chazz was willing to complain.

"Yeah well, you can keep your six stinking decks!" Chazz said childishly.

"Because all I need is the one!" He stated, holding up his deck briefly before slipping it into his disk.

"Your just another theorum to be solved, an algabreac expression to be cracked!" Bastion pointed out, causing everybody to loose track of the conversation when faced with nerd lingo. Somebody should really consider teaching Bastion english sometime. It would come in handy.

(For reasons I don't feel like telling you I'm not writing the actual duel.)

The duel kept switching sides, the battle fierce and neither opponent willing to stand down. Bastion managed to finally turn the tides steadily in his favor when summoning his H2O dragon, and with it proceded to show Bastion why his milkshakes brought all the girls to the yard!...What? Oh! Um I mean, to show him that he was top dog?

"I...lost?" Chazz whispered, he was sitting on his knees. He couldn't believe this! He had not only lost to a Slifer slacker, but a Ra yellow too!
How could this have happened? He was supposed to be the best! No one should be able to beat him!

"Bastion Misowa, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Obelisk dorm." Crowler introduced him professionaly.

"Thank you professor, but I'm afraid I must decline." He replied formally.

"What! Why ever not?" Crowler questioned him.

"Because I told myself when I enrolled I would only advance to Obelisk blue once I was sure I was the best duelist in the freshman class." He told him, before turning to his friends.

"Jay, I believe out of all of us, you are that duelist." The girl smiled up at him kindly for the compliment.

"So does that mean you want to settle things here and now with a duel?" She asked hopefully. Watching that match had gotten her fired up and now she really wanted to get her game on!

"Sorry, but not right this instant." Bastion declined politely.

"Aw!" She whined. Darn, she was hoping she could play around a little.

"I still need to prepare for dueling you. But as soon as I've written some new formulas, I'll be sure that our duel will end just like that ballgame. You know, the one where I struck you out?" He teased her.

"Hey! Baseball's a past time! Dueling's my entire life!" Jay snapped at him. There was no heat behind her words though, her smile told him as much.

"Guess I'll just have to wait for that day then." She sighed. Oh well, maybe she could get Chummly to duel her later as a practice run?

"Yes, until then!" Bastion agreed.

While everyone was congratulating Bastion, he ran outside. He had to get away for a while. He couldn't stand to be around those losers anymore!

The next episode is up now so break a leg my fair readers!

The next day in class, Syrus burst through the door. Of course, as professor Banner was busy blowing himself up at the moment, no one protested the fact that he was late.

"Jay! Something horrible has happened!" Sy panted once he reached his best friend's side.

"Chazz has gone missing!" He cried.

"...Soooo, what's the horrible part?" Jay asked, not understanding the problem.

"Well gee, I have no idea." Syrus deadpanned. He had just kind of gone into autopilot once he heard the news. Run to Jay was practically ingrained into his instincts.

"Um, because he's your dueling rival?" He tried. It worked, he'd say that much at least.

"Your right!" She gasped.

"I need my competition!" She whined, standing up and packing away her papers. Ha, as if she actually carried papers. What did you take her for? A student?

"Besides, we're kinda friends. Sorta. And friends help eachother out!" She decided.

"It also gives me an excuse to sneak out of class." Which wasn't all that hard since Banner was still coughing inside a giant smoke screen. For some reason the smoke was rainbow colored too.

"Where do you think your going?" Jay 'eeped' again and turned to see Alexis and her two friends, Mindy and Jasmine.

"Um getting an early start on our homework?" Jay joked, already knowing why the girls were standing outside the school.

"Your going to look for Chazz right? Well we're coming too! Obelisk blue's look after their own!" Alexis told the young slifer girl.

An hour later, everyone was hot, sweaty, and more than ready to castrate Chazz the moment they spotted him and his freakish hair-do. Seriously, how did his hair defy gravity like that anyway? How much gel did he have to use to make it stick up like that?

"Oh Chazz! Little Boy Blue!" Jay called again and again. Her voice was starting to get hoarse. At this rate she'd lose it completely!

"Come out come out wherever you are!" She yelled as loudly as possible.

"He had to have a good reason for leaving like he did." Mindy murmured in defense of her crush when Alexis threatened him with the afore mentioned castration.

"Maybe he's picking me flowers to ask me on a date!" She swooned, completely forgetting he'd been gone since last night and that Duel island didn't have much in the way of flora.

"I thought you liked Bastion." Jasmine sighed. They had stopped to take a break and she was busy rubbing her feet to try and ease the pain. Who knew walking could be so painful? And people said excercise was good for you!

"That was last week." Cue group face fault. Should've seen it coming.

Up ahead of them on the trail, the bushes shook and the leaves rattled, drawing their attention. They jumped to the obvious, (In their minds) conclusion.

"Chazz! Get out of there! We've been looking all over for you!" Jay cried happily. She hoped they'd get back in time for dinner. All this missing person searching had given her one heck of an appetite!

Something got out alright, but it wasn't Chazz. Heck, it wasn't even close. Although, when they watched it carry Jasmine away, Jay admitted to herself it had the same manners as Chazz. Just take what you want and don't bother with please and thank you.

"Come back you giant hairball! And bring back Jasmine!" They cried as they followed it. They stopped arubtly though as three men burst into the path from the surrounding area.

"There the specimen goes! Through the trees!" The short pudgy man shouted, pointing at the retreating ape.

"Ah! The feds!" Jay screeched upon seeing the badges and suits. They'd come to take her away! NO! Oh wait...they were just chasing the monkey. She was safe!

They chases the monkey, who they learned later was called Wheeler, all the way to the opposite end of the islang which ended at a sheer cliff.

"Don't drop me!" Jasmine was yelling, holding onto and probably pulling out the monkey's fur as she tried not to fall from the tree she'd been settled in.

"Sir, we can't get a clear shot without him dropping the girl." One of the men reported. Jay noticed he had been aiming an oddly colorful gun at the primate.

She also noticed that Wheeler had a duel disk.

"Either that's a duel disk or the world's strangest banana." She muttered, not realizing she had spoken aloud.

"That's no banana! Wheeler has been trained to duel just like a human!" The short pudgy man shouted at her incredously. She put her hands up in surrendor before the man was reminded that this was meant to be top secret and he had said to much.
Darn, now they would have to get rid of the girl and her friends.

END OF THE CHAPTER FINALLY SO NOW YOU MAY LEAVE AND NEXT TIME I'LL PUT IN THE DUEL!

LC; I hate the duels. Mostly cause I have to watch the episode with them to get them right!

Jay; And that takes too much time to type all that while listening to the moves.

Sy; So now she's only putting in important duels.

Jay; Or ones she likes due to the fact that they are funny. Like the Wheeler duel.

LC; Percisely! I'm sorry if you are dissapointed but quite frankly I don't give a damn!

Sy; Yeah, most authors don't go into any details about the duels.

LC; You people know where the review button is, so don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!