Chapter 2: Expel Jaden Yuki
It was the end of the first day of classes. The students who had gym class as their final period were in the locker rooms, getting their clothes out of their lockers or hitting the showers. "About time the day ended." Chazz drank from a water bottle, sitting in between Conklin and Topher. All three of them were in their Obelisk Blue jackets after showering from gym class.
"Well you gotta admit, that one Slifer sure made things entertaining in Crowler's class when he didn't even know what a field spell was." Conklin told Chazz.
The three of them laughed at the memory. "If somebody doesn't know information as basic as that, the rank of Slifer is too good for them." Chazz said.
"Well, now that school's over, how about we hit the card shop and then grab some grub?" Tofer asked.
"If you're going to the card shop, you better remember to pay for yourself after you lost that bet with me." The three turned their heads to see Damian, still in his gym clothes, walking up to them, a Slifer Red jacket in hand. "Hey Tofer, you left this on the floor next to your locker." Damian tossed the red jacket to an upset Tofer. "Bet you thought that you could get out of your punishment, huh?"
Tofer gritted his teeth in anger. He was about to rise up to pick a fight with Damian, but Chazz held an arm in front of him. "What do you want?" Chazz asked.
Damian sat down on the ground. "I was just wondering how your duel with Jaden went yesterday?"
"Wait a sec, how do you know about that?" Conklin asked.
Damian resisted the urge to smack himself. Now he had to think of an excuse for how he knew about the duel. "I mean...didn't Chazz say that he was gonna deal with Jaden after I beat Tofer? I figured you guys dueled after I left."
Chazz shook his head. "We put it on hold until late at night. It ended with the slacker having an empty field and less than 600 points, while I had 1500 life points and Mefist the Infernal General on my side. It was clear I was gonna win, but the slacker got lucky. We had to call of the duel and sneak out of the arena so we couldn't get caught by campus security."
Damian nodded. Seemed like for the most part, events were going the same as in canon. And naturally, Chazz didn't know about that Jaden drew Monster Reborn to summon Flame Wingman from his graveyard. "Well, congrats on the win against Jaden."
"Thanks. But it looks like the Slifer's win against Crowler was a fluke after all."
"Or maybe, it just means that both fo you guys are better than Crowler." Damian said. "And naturally, you're the best of the three."
"Heh. You got a point. Anyway, we're off. Catch ya later." Damian and Chazz fist bumped, to the shock of Conklin and Topher, before Chazz stood up from the bench and left, his two flunkies following."
"What's up with sucking up to Chazz recently?" Damian turned around and saw Ghassan walk up to him, wearing his Slifer Red clothing.
"Hey, doesn't hurt to have the richest kid in school as your friend. Besides, Chazz was one of my favorite characters in the show...even though he's kinda a tool at this point."
Ghassan leaned on one of the lockers. "Damian, what did I tell you about getting too attached to this world?"
"Relax, I was also getting info to help us in getting Jaden expelled."
Ghassan raised an eyebrow. "How so?"
"We can report how there are at least three witnesses stating that Jaden partook in off-hour arena dueling. Add you, me, and Scott to that, and that makes six witnesses." Sure, those three weren't physically there to see the duel like Chazz and his two friends were, but they watched the episode where that happened several times, so in a sense they were witnesses as well.
"Well...it's a start I guess."
Damian stood up. "Look, I know that won't be enough to get him expelled, maybe detention at worst, but it's at least a start, right?"
Ghassan sighed. "I guess. I just want to get out of this place as soon as possible."
"Well for now, we'll have to wait for an oppertunity. Why don't you have some fun at this academy and duel some people?" Damian suggested.
"I hate dueling." Ghassan sternly said.
Damian sighed. "Just because I improved against you doesn't mean you can't do the same you know." Damian stood up. "Anyway, I'm heading for the showers. If you want Jaden to get expelled so badly, you better pray that Alexis is able to beat Jaden tonight."
"Wait, what?"
"Didn't you notice what happened during Crowler's class today?"
"You know something teach?" Jaden asked Dr. Crowler. "You really shouldn't go and make fun of us Slifers like that."
Crowler blinked, confused. "Eh?" The other students in the class turned to Jaden, stunned about how he'd have the nerve to confront a teacher during class.
"I mean, I'm a Slifer and I beat you. So if you make fun of us, you're really making fun of yourself." Jaden chuckled.
Crowler bit his handkerchief in anger and embarassment. The majority of the students either laughed alongside with Jaden, or held it in out of fear of being punished.
"Oh yeah. That happened. What about it?" Ghassan asked.
"Don't you remember? Crowler tries to trick Jaden into going to the girls dorm to get him expelled because of that. He tries to give Jaden a fake love letter from Alexis, but Syrus gets it instead thinking it's for him. He then goes to the girls dorm, gets in trouble for it, Alexis uses Syrus as bait to get Jaden to come to the girls dorm, and she challenges him to a duel where if she wins, Syrus and Jaden get reported for tresspassing onto the girls dorm."
"Wait...Alexis knew it was a misunderstanding right?" Damian nodded. "But she blackmailed Jaden into tresspassing, and threatened to have them expelled if he doesn't win the duel?"
"Well...yeah."
"Wow. Alexis is a bitch."
Damian shrugged. "Odds are it was a bluff to get Jaden to duel her. Not like that matters though. There's nothing we can really do about the event."
Ghassan chuckled. "I think we can get Jaden expelled faster than you think Damian."
Scott was lying on his bed, casually going over his new deck. "Yeah, this works. Adding Dragon Shrine and Trade In will really help build up a graveyard." Scott said to himself.
"Working on yet another deck I presume?" A young man with a brittish accent asked. Scott rose up to face his room mate, who was, as usual, drawing equations of the walls.
"Like you're one to talk Bastion." Scott replied.
Bastion chuckled. "I'm afraid you have a point there. Still, even I don't spend quite as much time working on different decks as you do."
"Yeah." Scott reached for a baseball bat on the floor, and picked it up. "You spend time calculating equations for baseball." Scott pointed to the multiple equations that Bastion wrote on the bat.
"You laugh now, but you'll see just how necessary those equations are if we ever face each other in baseball."
Scott shrugged, and dropped the baseball bat. "Anyway, I'm off to the cafeteria. You want me to pick you up anything?"
"No need. I'll be going there in a few hours."
"Suit yourself." Scott walked out of the room, and headed outside. The sun was setting, and the sky was a beautiful orange. He looked around, saw that nobody was watching, and started to take a few deep breaths. It was wayy to surreal an experience to be living in a different dimension. 'I know it didn't work the last few times, but...' Scott pinched himself in the arm. Nothing. 'Yeah, figures. But god, it's so weird for this to be reality.' From the corner of his eye he noticed that Ghassan was approaching, so he calmed down quickly before Ghassan arrived.
"Hey Scott. I was looking for you."
"Hey Ghassan. What's up?"
"I think I found a way we can get Jaden expelled by tomorrow."
Scott raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? Come on, it's only been two days since we arrived at Duel Academy."
"And if things work out, we won't have to spend another two days here. Now come on. We've gotta get a boat."
It's a rare occurrence for there to be a duel in the middle of the lake, and yet late at night, two students were having just that. One boat had three Obelisk Blue girls, one with short auburn hair, one with wavy black hair, and one with long blonde hair. The blonde haired girl, Alexis Rhodes being the duelist. The other boat had Jaden Yuki and Syrus Truesdale, with Jaden being the duelist.
On Alexis' side of the field was a woman with long blue hair, a red visor, and figureskates. Due to a equip spell, the monster's right arm was replaced with a mechanical trident. On Jaden's side of the field was a large muscular man wearing yellow armor and yellow gauntlets, all which had a generator on it "Hate to break it to you, but my Cyber Blader's (3600/2300) attack points are higher than your monster's." Alexis told Jaden.
Jaden smiled. "Yeah, I know. But the ability of my Elemental Hero Thunder Giant (2400/1500) is that he can destroy any monster whose original attack points are less than his own."
"Wait...ORIGINAL attack points?" Alexis asked. "But before I played Fusion Weapon, her attack points were only 2100..."
"Exactly! And that's lower than my Thunder Giant's attack points!" Thunder Giant held a hand out towards Cyber Blader. Energy was built up, before a bolt of lightning was shot out of the generator on it's hand, destroying Cyber Blader. "And the coolest part of it Alexis is that I still have an attack left to use on you! Voltic Thunder!" Thunder Giant shot out lightning from the palms of both of it's hands at Alexis. Alexis recoiled from the shockwaves of the attack, before holding her head in pain. (Alexis 2400-0) Jaden pointed at Alexis while winking. "That's game!"
"Row faster Scott! I see them over there!" Ghassan and Scott were both in a small rowboat, the latter using it's oars to row their way towards Alexis and Jaden. Sitting next to Ghassan was his bag, bringing it from his Slifer Red dorm.
"I think it's too late to change the outcome of the duel Ghassan. Jaden already won."
"We would have gotten here sooner if you didn't stop to eat. But whatever. The plan was never to get Alexis to beat Jaden."
Scott raised an eyebrow. "So what WAS the plan?"
Ghassan reached into his bag, and got out a duel disk. "We're at a dueling school Scott. What did you think?"
"Well, a deal's a deal." Jaden said. "I won, so we get off free."
Alexis nodded. "I won't back out of our agreement. We'll keep quiet about what happened tonight."
A girl with auburn hair next to Alexis frowned. "Well if you ask me, I say we should turn both of them in anyway!"
Alexis turned to her friend, annoyed. "Well nobody IS asking you Jasmine." This seemed to take her friend by surprise. "Jaden beat me in the duel, fair and square, and that's all there is to it."
"Well there's more to it than that. You almost beat me after all." Jaden said. "You got game Alexis." Alexis seemed to be at a loss for words. "Anyway, we're off. Catch ya later."
"Hold it!" The five students turned their heads to see a rowboat approaching their direction. "You two aren't getting off the hook that easily." Ghassan declared.
"Who's that guy?" The black haired girl next to Alexis asked.
Scott stopped rowing when the boat was only a couple of feet away from Alexis's boat. "Hey, don't mind me. I'm just the chauffeur."
Ghassan turned to Alexis. "How about I cut you a deal? I'll give you something you might be interested in if you report those two anyway."
"What?!" Syrus yelled.
"I'm not going to break my word just for cash or presents. And what's it to you anyway?" Alexis questioned.
"I'm not offering you anything like that. I'm offering information."
"Hey, don't ignore her question!" Jasmine demanded.
"It's information that you've been trying to find for a long time Alexis." Ghassan grinned.
Alexis's eyes widened. "H-How? How do you know about Atticus?"
"Huh? Atticus?" Jaden asked, never hearing the name before.
"What do you say? Report those two for tresspassing, and information about your brother will be yours." Ghassan offered. Theoretically, he could report Jaden and Syrus on his own, but with no physical proof, along with how Alexis would probably vouch for them if he did, he wasn't sure how effective it would be.
Alexis started to tremble. "I...I..."
"You haven't even known those two for a week yet. They're worth sacrificing for your beloved brother, right?"
"I gotta say, you're really looking like a tool right now Ghassan." Scott whispered. Ghassan felt a tinge of guilt for pulling something like this, but anything to get him, Scott, and Damian back to their world.
Alexis held her head down. "I've been waiting for a chance to find Atticus ever since he disappeared. And here it is. Right in front of me."
Ghassan smiled. "So that means you'll-"
Alexis raised her head up with a fierce expression. "But I'm not gonna sell out my friends for it!"
Ghassan sighed. He figured this would happen. "Alright then. How about a duel? If I win, you report those two. Hell, you don't even have to report Syrus, only Jaden. And if you win, I give you the info about Atticus. Deal?"
'As if I'd accept that. There's no way Jaden would be ok with me putting him at risk for my sake.'
"Go for it Alexis!" Jaden yelled.
"Whaaaa?!" Alexis and her two friends turned to Jaden.
"Umm...are you sure that's the smartest thing to do J?" Syrus asked.
"I don't know what's going on, but information about this Atticus fellow is definitely important to Alexis."
"Jaden..." Alexis said.
"So, does that mean you'll accept the duel?" Ghassan asked.
Alexis turned back to Ghassan. "You're on!" The large blue button on their duel disks turned red as they activated them. (Alexis 4000/Ghassan 4000)
"I'll make the first move." Ghassan drew card. "I summon Jurrac Velo (1700/1000) in attack position!" On Ghassan's side of the field, a velociraptor with a green body and a red head emerged. Something particularly interesting about this creature is how flames danced on top of the creature's front claws.
"A dinosaur deck eh?" Alexis asked.
"I place two cards face down and end my turn." Ghassan said.
"My turn." Alexis drew a card, put it in her hand, and got out a different card. "I summon Cyber Tutu (1000/800) in attack position!" A young ballerina with short pink hair, and a green visor was summoned to Alexis's side of the field. "Next I activate Double Attack! By discarding a monster card, I can select a monster on my side of the field with a lower level than it, and have it attack twice. I discard my level 6 Mind on Air to allow my level 3 Cyber Tutu to attack twice."
"Huh? Why would she do that? That other guy's monster has more attack points." Syrus wondered.
'Does she have a spell to destroy or weaken my monster? Cause if so, my Dark Bribe will take care of that.' Ghassan thought.
"I activate Cyber Tutu's effect. If all monsters on your side of the field have higher attack points than my Cyber Tutu, she can attack directly!"
"What?!" Ghassan yelled.
"Go, Cyber Tutu! Pounding Pirouette!" The ballerina jumped over Jurrac Velo, did a flip in the air, and landed a kick on Ghassan's shoulder. (Ghassan 4000-3000) "Now for the second attack." Cyber Tutu spun around several times before kicking Ghassan in the face (Ghassan 3000-2000) and jumping back to Alexis's side of the field.
"Alright! One turn in, and she already took down half of that creep's life points!" Alexis's friend with black hair cheered.
"I place two cards face down and end my turn." Alexis said.
Ghassan drew a card. "I summon Jurrac Guaiba (1700/400) in attack position!" A spiked red and yellow dinosaur with a serpentine-like body appeared on Ghassan's side of the field. All of it's claws, along with the spikes on it's back were surrounded by flames. "Jurrac Guaiba, destroy Cyber Tutu!" Jurrac Guaina shot a fireball from it's mouth at Cyber Tutu.
"I activate my trap card, Negate Attack! This negates your attack and ends the battle phase."
"I don't think so. I activate the trap card, Dark Bribe! With it, I negate the activation of a spell or trap card and destroy it. But you get to draw a card." Alexis frowned an drew a card. "And naturally, since your trap was negated, the attack continues!" The fireball destroyed Cyber Tutu, Alexis holding her am against the shockwaves (Alexis 4000-3300). "Since Jurrac Guaiba destroyed a monster by battle, I get to special summon a Jurrac monster with 1700 or less attack points from my deck. I choose Jurrac Dino (1700/800)!" A small, orange Deinonychus with a flaming horn and flaming feet was summoned to Ghassan's side of the field.
"This isn't good. If both of the remaining monsters attack, Alexis will lose!" Jasmine said.
"Don't worry, she's safe for this turn." Scott told her.
"Huh?"
"The monster special summoned by Jurrac Guaiba can't attack on the same turn it's summoned." Ghassan explained. "But I still have Jurrac Velo around. Jurrac Velo, attack directly!" The flaming velociraptor charged at Alexis.
"I activate my quckplay spell, Scapegoat!" Four miniature sheep-like creatures of different colors appeared on Alexis's side of the field. "With it, I special summon four sheep tokens in defense position. (0/0)"
"Fine. Jurrac Velo, destroy one of the tokens!" Jurrac Velo slashed through the pink sheep token, destroying it. "I end my turn."
Alexis drew a card. "I activate Pot of Greed!"
"What does it do?" Scott jokingly asked. Ghassan smacked Scott on the head.
"I get to draw two cards." Alexis drew two more cards from her deck, and smiled at one of the cards she drew. "Next I activate the continuous spell card The Dark Door! With this spell, both of us can only have one monster attack during our battle phase. I set a card face down and end my turn."
"Buyting time eh? I draw." Ghassan put the card he drew back in his hand. "Jurrac Guaiba, destroy one of the tokens!" Jurrac Guaiba dashed towards the blue sheep token, opened it's mouth, and let out a torrent of fire, destroying the creature. "Jurrac Guaiba's effect activates again. I special summon my Jurrac Monoloph (1500/1200) in attack mode!" A small, two-legged dino with a blue body, yellow head, and red tipped tail appeared on Ghassan's side of the field. It's tail was on fire, and so was the back of it's neck. I end my turn.
'He's really dedicated to refusing to use synchro or Xyz summons.' Scott thought. 'Though really, it probably would have been for the best if he got out Evolzar Laggia. Would have stopped that Dark Door card from being played.'
"My turn." Alexis drew a card and immediately set it. "I put a monster in defense position and end my turn."
Ghassan drew a card. "I activate the field spell Molten Destruction!" Everybody felt a bit of a rumble. A volcano rose from the lake, as the water surrounding them changed to magma. If it wasn't holographic, everybody's boats would have surely been melted through. "With Molten Destruction, all FIRE monsters gain 500 attack points, but lose 400 defense points."
The flames on the Jurrac's grew larger and hotter. Jurrac Guaiba (1700-2200/400-0) Jurrac Dino (1700-2200/800-400) Jurrac Velo (1700-2200/1000-600) Jurrac Monoloph (1500-2000/1200-800) "Let me guess, that monster you set was the only monster that you could play in your hand right? Otherwise you'd have built up your defenses the same turn you first activated Dark Door." Alexis said nothing. "So if I get rid of all your monsters, that means you won't have anything left in your hand to protect you next turn, unless you draw one of course."
"Get to the point." Alexis said.
"The point is that your defenses are wearing down. You can't block off my attacks forever."
Alexis's friends turned to each other in worry. "He has to be bluffing, right Mindy?"
"Totally. He's just trying to psych her out."
Ghassan smiled. "Dark Door says that only one monster can attack during the battle phase. But that doesn't mean I'm only limited to one attack. I activate Jurrac Monoloph's effect! This monster can attack every monster you control once each."
Alexis gasped. "No way!" Mindy, Jasmine, Jaden, and Syrus all yelled.
"Jurrac Monoloph, attack all of her monsters! Scattered Fire Burst!" The small dinosaur opened it's mouth, and shot out a large fireball that quickly divided into three smaller fireballs. The sheep tokens both exploded, and the set monster, revealed to be Blade Skater (1400/1500) got destroyed as well. "You might have more life points, but it's clear that I have the upper hand. If I were you, I'd just give up by this point." Alexis gritted her teeth.
"Oh man! What is she gonna do?!" Syrus asked in fear.
Scott leaned back. 'Looks like Jaden's gonna get expelled after all. Now let's hope that thing'll keep it's end of the bargain.'
"I end my turn." Ghassan said.
"My turn. I draw!" Alexis looked at the card she drew. "I activate Pot of Greed!"
"A second one?" Ghassan asked.
"It gives two cards for free. Why wouldn't you be running as many copies of that card as you can?" Scott replied.
She drew two more cards from her deck, and put one of them in her hand. "I activate my spell card Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face down card!" A blue cyclone emerged from the card, and headed towards the set card on Ghassan's side of the field. A copy of the trap card, Fiendish Chain was destroyed. Ghassan cursed himself for not using it earlier. He figured he would have saved it for a more dangerous monster, but if he knew it would get destroyed, he could have saved himself from losing half his life points from Cyber Tutu earlier.
"Now I activate my set card, Call of the Haunted! This lets me special summon a monster from my graveyard in attack position. Come back, Cyber Tutu!" The ballerina returned from the graveyard. "Next, I'm gonna be sacrificing her." Cyber Tutu dissolved into light. "I summon Cyber Prima (2300/1600)!" A masked woman with long white hair, four hula hoops on each arm, and two around her waist appeared on Alexis's side of the field. "When Cyber Prima is tribute summoned, I can destroy all face up spell cards on the field." The Dark Door card on Alexis's side of the field shattered to pieces.
The volcano shattered into pieces, and the lava turned back to water. Ghassan gritted his teeth. "And my Jurracs attack points are back to normal." The flames on Ghassan's Jurrac monsters died down slightly. Jurrac Guaiba (2200-1700/0-400) Jurrac Dino ((2200-1700/400-800) Jurrac Velo (2200-1700/600-1000) Jurrac Monoloph (2000-1500/800-1200).
"Cyber Prima, destroy Jurrac Monoloph!" Cyber Prima spun it's way towards Jurrac Monoloph before stopping herself, and slicing through the dinosaur with her hands, destroying it. (Ghassan 2000-1200)
"Yeah!" Mindy and Jasmine both cheered.
"I knew she could turn things around!" Jaden exclaimed.
"What was that about giving up?" Alexis smirked. "I set one card face down and end my turn."
Ghassan drew a card, looked at it, gritted his teeth, and turned to Scott. "Hey Scott, in case I lose this duel, I want you and Damian to know something."
Scott raised an eyebrow. "What's that?"
Ghassan took a look at his extra deck. "It's not gonna be too big a deal if you guys use XYZ and Synchro monsters in the future. After all, these guys are gonna see those monsters for themselves this duel.
Looks like the Yu-Gi-Oh GX cast will be seeing some new forms of summoning next chapter. One of our main characters has made his first move to eliminate Jaden Yuki. Will Alexis be able to defeat Ghassan, or is this going to turn out to be a VERY short story? We'll find out next chapter.
