A/N: I OWN NO PART YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS!

Some ideas in this story are influenced by the story, Ignorance by EibonVirgo. The ideas go to her.

Me: Bonjour!

Crow: What's with the French?

Me: *shrugs* Just felt like it.

Yusei: Crow, remember, bricann can be a bit strange at times.

Me: Yep. And I am proud of it!

Keeo: But it's not always best to be strange.

Me: It's best to be yourself, Keeo. Doesn't matter whether the real you is strange or whatever normal is.

Keeo: What do you mean by 'whatever normal is'?

Me: One sentence for a reply: "Weird is normal and normal is weird."

Keeo: What?

Me: I'll write the chapter while you go sit and figure that out.

Chapter 44: Duel of the Expulsion

Keeo's POV

The next day, Yusei and I were working on a frame of the runner again. Jack and Crow were out with their own business.

"You know, the principal at Duel Academy is really getting on my nerves," I commented.

"Why?" Yusei asked.

A knock came at the door interrupting them and they turned as a man came in. "Hello, I heard there was a good mechanic here," he stated.

"Yeah, is there a problem?" Yusei asked.

"I'm having a mechanical problem and I could use someone named Yusei's help," the man responded. "I was told he was more than capable of helping."

"What's the mechanical problem?" Yusei asked.

"It's called Heitmann. It has a few screws loose that need tightening Can you help?" he asked.

"Sure," Yusei answered. "I'll be over there later." The man then left.

"And looks like you're going to be putting the teacher straight soon," I stated.

"What do you mean?" Yusei asked.

"Heitmann isn't a machine," I explained. "It's a teacher at the Duel Academy. He's got a serious machine type deck. He's been wanting to expel Leo and Luna's class for a while because they use low level cards. It's ridiculous in my opinion. He's been trying to convince the chancellor to do so. Well, we should going to go there now for you to set Heitmann straight."

"How do you know about him?" Yusei responded.

"I've been watching all of the Signers very closely," I told him. "Especially with the new threat appearing. Like I told you guys last night, I'm never too far away." He nodded giving a relieved grin.

He slowly grabbed my hand, making me blush slightly. I still wasn't sure if I wanted him to stay locked down to me, but I knew when Yusei made his mind, it was made up.

"Want to come with me to Duel Academy?" he asked with a grin.

"Sure," I agreed.

Yusei gave me a small smile and nodded. "Good," he responded.

"Come on, then," I called. Without any other words, we boarded his duel runner and took off, my arms wrapped around his waist.

Third Person POV

"That isn't right," Leo stated as the class complained.

"Be quiet!" Heitmann yelled. "No matter what you say, my decision to kick you out is final!"

"Why are we even being expelled?" Patty asked.

"Yeah, what did we do?" Bob added.

"You all have low grades and don't even deserve to be in this school," Heitmann replied. "This is New Domino City's best Duel Academy. As such, we are going to change to a more Higher-Leveled Class."

"What you're doing is wrong," Ms. Barttlet, the class' teacher responded. "All children have the right to duel. The chancellor has always said so and…"

"You might be surprised that this is also the chancellor's decision," Heitmann responded and she was surprised. "The stubborn chancellor listened to what I have to say."

"Mr. Heitmann, please don't expel us," Luna begged.

"We are just now beginning to do our best," Leo added.

"You are in no position to say that. Especially you, Leo, who happens to be at the very bottom of this class," Heitmann responded.

"What are you talking about?" came Akiza's voice and they turned as she entered.

"You're Akiza," Heitmann stated.

"How can you be like that and still be proud to be a professor?" Akiza asked.

"A superior student like yourself would understand what I have to say," Heitmann responded.

"I don't," Akiza responded. "And I won't forgive any person who hurts children."

"It's alright, Akiza," Yusei responded walking in. Keeo was behind him and Akiza immediately smiled at her with a nod.

"Aren't you Yusei who won the Fortune Cup?" Heitmann asked causing the class to get excited. "What brings you to our Duel Academy?"

"I came with Keeo because I was asked to fix a problem," he answered.

"Nothing in the room needs to be fixed," Heitmann argued. "That is because the students are beyond fixing."

"You shouldn't even say that," Akiza scolded. "Do you really think judging people is based on grades alone? Stopping duels is a foolish thing."

"You are the one who is foolish," Heitmann retorted. "No matter how a low-leveled duelist duels, it is pointless. Every key card in the following duelists' decks are trash: Leo's Morphtronic Remoten, Luna's Kuribon, Dexter's Batteryman AA, Bob's Flamvell Guard, Patty's Hanewata, Sly's Eccentric Boy, and so on. That's because their duel level is low. Isn't that why they're using low level monsters?"

"You're wrong," Yusei told him.

"Nothing in this world is useless," Keeo followed.

"You are outsider and you have no right to interfere on this. You should just go home," Heitmann said. "Why are even hear again?"

"Someone came to Yusei's place asking him to help fix you," Keeo stated. "Though he was vague and just said a mechanical problem in something called Heitmann, I could tell he was talking about you pretty easily."

"How?" Heitmann asked.

"Once I started hearing you were planning on expelling this class, I've been watching very closely," I answered. "Don't act so surprised."

"How about a duel, Heitmann?" Yusei challenged. "If I win, you can't expel this class or any class."

"Very well," he agreed. "Even though an outsider has no right to duel."

. . .

Yusei kneeled to the children's eye level as they wished him luck. "I need you guys to do me a favor," he told them. They looked at him confused. "I need to borrow the monsters that Heitmann called useless. This way I can teach him that you and your cards are never useless."

"Alright!" the kids agreed and handed over the cards.

Yusei's POV

Heitmann and I stood across from each other. "Let's see how well you can duel, girl," Heitmann taunted.

I stayed silent as I drew my card. "I summon Flamvell Guard (Attack 100/ Defense 2000) in defense mode and set two cards face down," I declared. "That ends my turn."

Heitmann drew his card. "I summon Ancient Gear Statue (Attack 500/ Defense 800)," he declared. "I then activate Machine Duplication to special summon two more Ancient Gear Statues. Next I activate the effect of my three Ancient Gear Statues. By tributing each of them, I can special summon three Ancient Gear Golems (Attack 3000/ Defense 3000) ignoring summoning conditions."

"I activate Tuner's Barrier! This prevents Flamvell Guard from being destroyed by battle or card effects until the end of the next turn," I called.

"Now my three Golems, attack Flamvell Guard," Heitmann ordered. Flamvell Guard wasn't destroyed but I still took damage from the Ancient Gear Golems' effect dropping my life points down to 1000. "Now I activate Level Thunder which inflict damage to you equal to the combined levels of all my face up monsters I control times 100. And the combined levels equals 24 meaning you'll take 2400 points of damage. Now wouldn't that strip you of your life points."

"Not quite, because by discarding Hanewata, I can make the damage I would've taken to zero," I fought.

"Wait, those cards…" Heitmann stated finally realizing my cards.

"That's right, Heitmann. These cards I'm playing are monsters that you called useless because they were low-leveled," I told him. "Now it's my turn!" I drew my card. "I activate Cards of Consonance. Now if I discard a card like Debris Dragon, I can draw two cards." I drew the cards. "Next I normal summon Eccentric Boy (Attack 800/ Defense 200) in attack position. Then I activate its effect to tune it with my Turret Warrior that's in my hand!" I nodded. "So I synchro summon to the field, Stardust Dragon (Attack 2500/ Defense 2000)!" I declared. My dragon took its stance beside me and everyone looked at it shocked while I saw Keeo grin in approval, obviously knowing what I was planning. "Next I activate Variety Comes Out! By returning Angelic Light Dragon to the extra deck, I can special summon Eccentric Boy, Hanewata (Attack 200/ Defense 300) and Debris Dragon (Attack 1000/ Defense 2000) from my graveyard in attack position since their combined levels equal the level of Stardust Dragon. Next I activate Tuner's Explosion! By tributing Eccentric Boy, Hanewata, and Flamvell Guard, I can destroy all of your monsters and inflict damage to you for each monster destroyed." Heitmann's life points took the hit and fell to 1000. "Now Debris Dragon, attack him directly!" The attack succeeded and Heitmann's life points fell to nothing.

"There are children who duel seriously and it doesn't matter about the level of the monsters used, Heitmann," I told him walking up.

The man who informed Keeo and I of the problem earlier entered. "That was what I expected of you, Yusei. You tightened the screw like I needed," he stated.

"You're the chancellor that had come to see me earlier," I responded.

"I'm sorry for tricking you, but I wasn't able to persuade the stubborn Heitmann myself," he responded.

"Did you ask Yusei to defeat me?" Heitmann asked the chancellor.

"How was it?" the chancellor replied.

"I was wrong," he answered.

The children ran down and hugged me cheering for the fact that I won and they got to stay.

"Alright, I withdraw my expulsion request," Heitmann laughed.

I handed back the cards to them and walked up to Sly who stood to the side. "Thanks for letting me use your card, Sly," I told him handing the card back. "I couldn't have won without it."

"Yeah," Sly simply replied and took the card back.

Keeo walked over and I looked at her as she gave me an approving grin. "Let's go," I suggested. She nodded and followed me along with the children out.

Me: And… done!

Keeo: Finally! Can I read it?

Me: Before you can read it, you have to understand the quote I told you at the beginning of the chapter. What does it mean?

Keeo: Uh…

Me: Figure it out… Then read chapter.

Keeo: Okay, not cool, bricann.

Me: You need to understand why it is good to be weird and unique before you can continue to read unique stories. Maybe a book you should read is Scarlet Letter. Hardest book to read of which I have ever read, but it is in Puritan times so it's saying that it's bad to be different while the main character is okay being different.

Yusei: How does a book that has a culture like that make you reason why it's good to be weird and unique?

Me: Read it and understand. If you can read its language.

Crow: Uh, is it written in Spanish or something?

Me: *sighs* No. It's written with a mix of normal English and Shakespeare style. I can't tell you how difficult it is to read. It's a good book once you read it and understand it, but it's difficult as all hell to read.

Akiza: Did bricann just swear?

Me: Yep!

Keeo: I'm not even going to question anymore.

Me: Well, while Keeo continues to figure out the quote and the rest of these guys figure out Scarlet Letter, I will say: "See you in the next chapter, readers!"

-bricann