The Slifer quartet and Ra were relaxing by the ocean in their bathing suits, the digimon playing near them.
MetalKoromon had digivolved to his In-Training level, Kapurimon and he was playing happily with V-Mon while Renamon relaxed.
After Beetlemon had been beaten brutally, Dai had forgiven him and stayed up with him all Saturday night long, tending to him to make sure he wasn't too badly hurt by Agunimon, Lowemon and Lobomon.
While they were waiting for something to do, V-Mon let out a yelp of shock, making everyone shoot up to see what happened.
"What is that thing?" Syrus yelled at the sight of an orange lizard on top of the blue dragon.
"Agumon?" Dai asked in surprise.
"What's he doing here?" Jaden asked as the group all stood up.
"Kari opened up a portal for us of course." Agumon answered as he walked over with V-Mon who had Kapurimon on his head.
"What do you mean by 'us'?" Bastion asked.
Just then, two arms wrapped themselves around Dai's waist and she shrieked out a laugh as she was swung up into someone's arms.
"Easy there, Dai-chan!" the male said.
The boys looked as they saw the wild haired brunette with tanned skin dressed in an orange t-shirt that said 'Too Hot To Handle!' on the front with flames and a pair of jeans with black shoes.
"Taichi-sempai!" the Slifer Queen cried as she was set down properly and she nearly tackled the male to the ground in a hug.
"So that's Tai?" Chumley asked.
"Yup. Tai Kamiya, leader of the original team of DIgidestinds and first child of Courage." Jaden said with a smile.
"Oh, what are you doing here?" Dai asked pulling away from her sempai, but still clung to his arm looking very much like a child.
Bastion, Chumley and Syrus were surprised by this since she seemed to transform into a completely different person.
"I know you said you were fine here on your own, but I still just had to come see my little kohai." Tai said smiling down fondly at her.
"So, you boys know all of Jay and Dai's secrets, right?" he asked the three boys he didn't know.
"Y-Yeah. I'm Syrus Truesdale." The bluentte said.
"I'm Chumley Huffington." The heavyset male said.
"Which means you're the new Digidestind, Bastion Misawa. Izzy told all of us about you." Tai said to the last male.
"Yes, it's a pleasure to meet you, Taichi. Koushirou told me much about you." Bastion said shaking hands with the tanned 19 year old.
"Just Tai. Welcome to the digi family, dude." He said making the Ra feel very bashful.
"Come on, Taichi-sempai! Let's go. I wanna show you around the campus." Dai said bouncing in place with an adorable look on her face.
The child of Courage laughed as the girl pulled him away, V-Mon handing Kapurimon to Bastion before he and Agumon ran off after their partners.
"Wow, I've never seen Dai act like that before." Syrus blinked as Jaden laughed.
"Dai doesn't have any siblings at all and never had any friends when she was young, so when Tai and his sister Kari walked up to her and offered to be her friends, she just…they became her important people." Jaden said as he smiled at them.
(The next day in class…)
"For real?" the child of Darkness asked pointing to himself.
"That's right. You will duel Bastion and the victor will represent Duel Academy in the school duel against North Academy." Banner said.
Dai looked at her cousin, then their friend sitting behind them.
Jaden did the same and sent a smile to the Ra, who returned it.
"I look forward to an exciting match." Banner said.
After class ended, the Slifer Quartet were together at the desk to talk.
Tai and Agumon were staying in the Slifer dorms waiting on them to get out of class.
"All right, Jaden. You might actually be in the school duel." Syrus said.
"No Slifer's ever been there. You might make Duel Academy history." Chumley said.
"This is gonna be so awesome." Dai said.
"It will be a sight to behold." Renamon said.
Jaden chuckled as Bastion stepped down beside them, Kapurimon on his shoulder.
"Well, Bastion, I guess may the best man win, huh?" the Slifer King said.
"Best deck and I assure you, Jaden, that deck will be mine. You see, I've been formulating a new set of cards to defeat you and your monsters ever since my duel with Chazz." Bastion said.
"You said you would. So it's finished?" Jaden asked eagerly.
"Not yet, but it will be, Jaden. It will be soon." Bastion assured.
"Well, till then." Jaden said holding out his fist and the black haired male bumped fists with him.
Bastion then turned and walked up the steps, Kapurimon waving his tail at them all.
"Bastion's designed a new deck just to duel you with?" Syrus asked.
"I don't know if you should feel really honored or really scared." Chumley said.
"Well guys, guess we'll find out when we throw down." Jaden said.
Afterwards, the Slifer quartet walked off and saw the duo of Courage was waiting for them in the halls wearing a spare Obelisk jacket that Sheppard gave him to wear while he was there.
"Looking good, Tai." Jaden said.
"Thanks. So, what's the up?" Tai asked as Dai clung to his arm and they walked down the halls, the maroon haired girl telling him all about the school duel.
While they walked down the hall, they saw a SLifer Red they never saw before talking to some of the students, who were freaked out by him.
"Beat it, Slifer Sludge." A Ra Yellow said walking away.
"Man, why won't anyone talk to me?" the new Slifer that looked way too old to be in school said.
"I don't remember seeing that guy around. He must be new." Syrus said as Renamon narrowed her eyes in distrust, grabbing the two male digimon and faded off with them while the three Digidestinds walked over to the black haired male.
"Hey, what's up?" Jaden asked startling the male as he turned to see the Slifers and who he thought was an Obelisk because of the jacket.
Three pairs of brown eyes narrowed at him as the man laughed nervously.
"You're old. Really old. How can you be a Slifer?" the duel brunette said.
"I, uh…" the man said.
"Hey, it's cool." Jaden said friendly slapping his should and taking his hand.
"I mean, so it took you a while to get accepted here. Don't be ashamed. Let me show you around, old timer." He said pulling the man along with him, the two Digi Leaders following after.
"Wait up!" Syrus called as he and Chumley followed them.
When the sun was setting, the man was shown to the Slifer cafeteria and was staring at the simple meal of fish, rice and curry.
The three Digidestinds didn't want their digimon around the man, so Dai opened up a portal to the Digital World to allow them to stay there until the man was gone.
"Delish." Jaden hummed over his mouthful of rice, Tai stuffing his face as well.
"You better hurry up and finish or you won't have seconds." Jaden said.
"Uh, seconds?" the man asked.
"Or thirds." Jaden said.
"And sometimes fourths. They were gonna install a garbage disposal, but Jaden took care of that problem." Syrus said as the mentioned boy stuffed his face.
"I see. Well, then…" the man said trying some of the rice and fish.
After supper was done, Dai and Tai went back to the girl's dorm and they both sat down on the bed.
"I don't trust that guy." The wild haired brunette said.
"I know. He could be a spy from North Academy or worse. Paparazzi." Dai said as she looked at her window feeling nervous.
Tai crossed his arms as he glared at the window, knowing that it would be uproar if that guy was paparazzi and found out that Kaiba and Yugi's children were attending the school.
The two teenagers would never get any privacy and wouldn't be able to reach their full potential if everyone just saw them in their fathers' shadows.
"I can't believe Jaden let that creep into his room. If Renamon were still here, she would've threw him into the ocean without a care." Tai said.
Dai stood up and started pacing the room nervously.
Tai smiled at her as he got up and wrapped his arms around her, comforting her.
"Everything will be fine. We won't let him find out about you and Jay." He said.
She sighed and leaned into her older brother figure, praying to Ra, Horus, Azulongmon or, heck, even Pharaoh Atem that something good would happen.
(The next day…)
"All right, guys, get your eat on!" Jaden said at breakfast.
"Boy after my own heart." Tai chuckled as the two stuffed their faces.
"This stuff's so good. The hard part is remembering to chew. Before you swallow." Jaden said.
"That explains why we're missing so many forks. Look, just don't stuff yourself." Syrus said sternly.
"What's your prob, Syrus?" Jaden pouted.
"You're being very anti-lichious." Chumley said.
"Yeah, this stuff is better than my mom's cooking." Tai said.
"Maybe so, but if Jaden's going to win today's match, he's going to need to be a lean, mean dueling machine. After all, Bastion's been training weeks for this match up. You've trained what? An hour?" Syrus asked.
"More like a half." Jaden said making the bluenette groan as Dai and Tai laughed.
"Minus the time we took for that food run." Chumley chuckled.
"Look, Sy, Bastion has his way to train and I have mine." The Slifer King said as he kept eating.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Syrus sighed.
"By the way, where'd that guy Jarrod go?" he asked looking for the black haired man.
"I haven't seen him." He continued.
"I don't know, but his lunch is mine." Jaden said.
"Not if I get to it first." Tai said.
Finally, it was time for the big duel.
Bastion gave Kapurimon to the child of Miracles to look after as she took her seat with Tai, Chumley and Syrus in the stands.
"And now it's time duellists to find out…who will represent our most lustrous academy in the school duel!" Crowler said making the students all cheer.
"That's a Creepy Cross-dressing Crowler?!" Tai asked with a dumb founded look on his face.
"Introducing first from the Ra dorm, Bastion Misawa!" Crowler cried proudly making the crowd cheer.
"It's obvious who he wants to win." Dai said while Kapurimon cheered.
"Go, Bast! You can do it!" the In-training cheered.
"And then, from Slifer…some kid."Crolwer said.
"Grumble." Dai said snapping her fingers.
The Warrior of Earth shook the ground making the man fall onto his back side while Tai ran down and took the stage.
"Let's hear it for the duellist from Slifer, Jaden Yuki!" he yelled with a lot of energy making the crowd cheer wildly.
Crowler stared at the Obelisk he hadn't seen before in confusion as the male glowed with an orange light, the energy making the students all energized and amazed by the upcoming duel.
He had a great aura of leadership that made the people want to follow his example.
"Wow, he's good." Syrus said.
"That's my Taichi-sempai." Dai said proudly.
"Here we go. Good luck pal." Jaden smiled at his friend.
"I appreciate the sentiment, but with the deck I've prepared, I don't need luck." Bastion said.
"Hey, guys. Remember, whatever happens and whoever wins, it won't change the fact that you're friends and both awesome duellists." Tai said as Crowler tried to stand up, buy was tried down by an invisible force.
Grumblemon and Arbormon were sniggering and high fived each other as the man couldn't get back up to do anything.
"Go Jaden! This is what you trained for…or didn't." Syrus cheered.
"You can do it, guys! I have faith in both of you!" Dai called not wanting to choose between her friend and cousin.
"All right, let's get this duel started!" Tai yelled pumping a fist in the air making everyone cheered as the two younger Digidestinds started their duel.
During the duel, Tai was surprised with how real the battle was and had to cover himself from the flames or any other attacks that were sent.
It reminded him so much of the time of the battles he went through and he was amazed by it all.
The real trouble was when Bastion made a move that had Jaden at a lost when he wasn't able to use Polmerization for the entire duel and all of his friends, even Tai, were biting their nails in shock at this.
Even though Jaden was at a lost, he still found a way to make up for his loses and never backed down from the duel.
Jarrod had come in and was watching this all, becoming entranced by the way Jaden dueled and never gave up.
It was an all-out blood bath on the field and had everyone on the edge of their seats, Dai nearly jumping and squeezed Kapurimon tightly to her chest from it all.
The child of Darkness changed things up by summoning a new Elemental Hero, Wild Heart.
Kazemon was filming the entire thing on a camera and was going to give it to Dai to send to the Kaiba family so they could watch their son in action.
In the end, Jaden finally won.
"And there you have it!" Tai called.
"The winner of this duel is our very own Slifer King, Judai Jaden Yuki!" he yelled making everyone cheer loudly and wildly.
"Does this slacker ever lose?" Crowler groaned as he was released at last and Jarrod left with a smile, happy about the win and Dai watched in curiosity as Alexis chased after him.
"Thank you, Taichi Kamiya. Jaden will be Duel Academy's rep for the school duel." Sheppard said.
"Way to play, Jay." Syrus said as his friends all ran up to him and Dai handed Kapurimon over to Bastion.
"Awesome duel. That was intense." She said.
"Yes, but it seems that Jaden is still the King." He said taking his partner back.
"You're the King of my world, Bast." Kapurimon said.
"Thanks." The Ra blushed bashfully to his partner as Dai chuckled and ran over to her cousin, tackling him in a hug.
"Good job." Chumley said.
"You made my duel first an amazing experience." Tai said ruffling the boy's hair.
"You were too great." Dai said as the cousins hugged.
"Indeed." Bastion said as he walked over joining the crowd.
"You beat me fair and square, Jaden. Rather you beat this deck, but you can be assured that there will be another." He said as the cousins pulled apart.
"And another duel I hope. Till then." Jaden said doing his signature move and Bastion took his hand.
"Yes, until then, Jaden." He said as the boys smiled.
"I'm so proud of you, Jaden." Syrus said as the Slifer quartet were in a group hug, Tai and Bastion watching them just as Chibimon, Koromon and Viximon came in with a very familiar brown haired girl dressed in a pink skirt, white tube top and flip flops with cherry colored eyes ran in with a white cat.
"Guys, that duel was so amazing!" the girl said.
"Kari!" Jaden cried as Viximon jumped onto his head and then the child of Light threw herself in his arms.
"Koromon." Tai said picking up his partner.
"Chibimon!" Dai said hugging her dragon.
"AAAAHHHHH! There are more of those horrid creatures?!" Crowler yelled pointing at Koromon and Gatomon.
"Hey, who're you calling horrid? Have you even looked in a mirror?" Gatomon quipped.
The man then passed out, yet again.
"Wow, he really does do that." Kari said as everyone laughed.
"How long have you been here?" Dai asked.
"We were here for the entire duel. We got here early this morning and witnessed the entire thing." Gatomon said.
"It was just amazing, but you really shouldn't have used your Warriors to do those things to Crowler, no matter how much of a jerk he is." Kari scolded her leader.
"Hey, they do what they feel is right." Dai said.
"Anyway, Bastion Misawa, Syrus Truesdale, Chumley Huffington and Kapurimon, meet my sister Kari and her partner Gatomon. Kari's the child of Light." Tai introduced.
"Hi there." The girl smiled sweetly.
"H-Hello." Syrus said blushing.
"A pleasure, Hikari. I've heard much from Koushirou." Bastion said.
"Hey." Chumley said.
"All right, school duel, get your game on 'cause here I come!" Jaden cheered with one arm around Kari and the other pumped in the air, the crowd cheering again.
To be continued…
Question! When Missy comes in at...whenever she comes in...should I have Dai duel her or not?