"Duel monster cards can be grouped into normal monster cards, fusion monster cards, ritual monster cards, effect monster cards, trap cards, and spell cards," Alexis announced to Dr. Crowler, answering the question that was asked of her during the class. "Trap cards can be divided into normal traps, counter traps, and continuous traps. Spell cards can be separated into normal spells, continuous spells, equip spells, quick-play spells, ritual spells, and field spells."

"Perfect!" Crowler sang. "Well done, Alexis. Though I wouldn't expect any less from one of my Blue Obelisks."

"Yes, Dr. Crowler," Alexis said as she sat back down.

"Hmm. Now who should we question next?" Crowler said as he looked around the classroom, eventually making his choice. "You, Syrus Truesdale?" Syrus nervously stood up. "Tell us all what a field spell does, please."

"A field spell is-uh a thing that-uh affects the thing-"Syrus nervously bumbled out.

"Even pre duelers know the answer to this ya Slifer Slacker!" One Obelisk Blue student yelled out, making fun of the poor student. Many of the Obelisk Blue students laughed at this, with even Chazz giving a smirk in satisfaction at the poor display occurring before him.

"No, I know. It's uh…" Syrus tried to answer, but his stage fright was getting the better of him, with his cheeks flushing pink in embarrassment. Meanwhile, students like Rarity, Twilight, Bastion, Applejack, and Fluttershy were disappointed in how Syrus couldn't answer the question and were unhappy with how everyone else was treating him because of it. Pinkie Pie was trying to remain still and not say anything comforting as she wasn't allowed to move from her seat. Rainbow Dash was angry at Crowler and the students and needed to be held back by Applejack to ensure that she wouldn't act out and hurt anyone.

"Hey, don't worry Sy, you got this," Jaden tried to comfort.

"I think not. Sit down. Now can someone please give me the right answer to the question, please?" Crowler said, and then he muttered under his breath, "Preferably someone not wearing red, thank you?" At this, many of the Obelisk Blue students laughed.

"Aw man. I blew it. I made all of the Slifers look bad," Syrus moaned in disappointment.

"You know, teach? You really shouldn't make fun of us Slifers like that," Jaden suddenly said with a smile on his face. "I mean I'm a Slifer and I beat ya. So when you're making fun of us you're really making fun of yourself."

"And you lost to me too, so that makes you look even worse, Dr. Crowler," Rainbow Dash quipped.

At this, Crowler was seething. He got out his handkerchief and bit on it hard. He then thought to himself, "That's it! I won't tolerate this dropout boy or his friend being in my school for another second! I will see to it that they are taken down, starting with Jaden!"

As the next class started, Syrus took it upon himself to thank his two saviours from last class. "Hey, Jaden? Rainbow Dash? Thanks!"

"You're welcome. For what?" Jaden and Rainbow Dash both thanked, while half-asleep.

"For defending me during the last class," Syrus explained.

Suddenly, the teacher, Professor Banner, turned his attention over to Syrus. "Uh oh. Looks like I may have to defend you again," Jaden said quietly.

"Syrus?" Professor Banner began, with Syrus nervously jumping out of his seat.

"Um, yeah?" Syrus nervously got out.

"Can you please bring Pharaoh over here?" Banner kindly asked.

"Uh, Pharaoh?" Syrus was confused.

"Unless you are majoring as a scratch post," Banner joked. Syrus looked down only to see that Pharaoh the cat was rubbing up against his leg, a sight that caused many students to laugh.

Crowler was in his office writing a mysterious letter, petting his brown and pampered dog named Clarissa as he did so. As he did so, he was thinking to himself about Jaden. The boy had got on his nerves from the beginning for being an obvious dropout boy. However, the fact that he had got into Duel Academy, was making a mockery of him in front of the rest of his class, and got that other dropout Rainbow Dash to also make a mockery of him in a duel was too much for him to stomach. Well, no more. He was going to get Jaden expelled from this academy, and he knew just how he was going to do it. "Yes, yes, Clarissa. That no good dropout boy will finally get what he deserves," Crowler said to Clarissa.

"Yes, yes. That is a splendid idea. If only you could do the same to those rotten dalmatians," Clarissa said to herself, knowing that Crowler wouldn't understand her barks.

After he finished writing the letter, Crowler proceeded to apply some lipstick to his lips, using a personal sized mirror to help him. After he was done, Crowler proceeded to kiss the back of the envelope that the letter was now sealed in, laughing maniacally as he did so.

During gym class, Crowler snuck into the empty boy's locker room, looking for Jaden's locker. One by one, he opened up the lockers until he found shoes with Jaden's name on the inside of them in one of the lockers. Believing that the locker was Jaden's, Crowler left the letter inside of the locker on top of Jaden's shoes, grinning widely all the while. Afterward, Crowler left the locker room, believing that his plan was sure to succeed.

A few minutes later, Syrus arrived in the locker room, having been late because he accidentally went into the girl's locker room. Upon opening his locker, he noticed Jaden's sneakers in his locker, "Hey, those are Jaden's sneakers. Well, I guess he's still using my locker." Syrus grabbed Jaden's sneakers and pulled them out of the locker. The letter proceeded to fall out of Syrus's locker, which Syrus then noticed."But this isn't Jaden's!" Syrus looked to his left and right, making sure he was alone before he opened the envelope and read the letter."Wonder who gave me the letter. Usually all I get is letters from my mother. 'Since the moment I first saw you I've been in love with you. Please meet me behind the Obelisk Blue girl's dorm endearingly, Alexis Rhodes.'" Syrus fell to the ground in shock. "Wow, that letter was better than what my mom usually writes to me." Syrus was extremely happy to have gotten the letter. Not only was an Obelisk Blue in love with him, it was Alexis, who was both incredibly beautiful and kind. Syrus couldn't help but be enamoured by the letter he thought was for him.

Later that night...

"Hey Syrus, the outhouse is all yours if you want it," Jaden said as he returned to his dorm room, drying off his wet hair. However, when he returned, he noticed that Syrus was gone. "Hey, Rainbow Dash. Do you know where syrus went off to?"

"Oh, he left a while ago. Saying something about seeing his beloved. Personally, I couldn't care less about that romantic gunk, but at least he seemed happy and confident about it," Rainbow Dash explained.

"Hmm, happy doesn't seem typical of Syrus, but oh well," Jaden brushed off.

Dr. Crowler was sneaking around the girl's dorm wearing a full body wetsuit that was charcoal gray. "This will be perfect, thanks to that faux love letter I wrote!" Crowler was excited. "Jaden will come here looking for Alexis, and all he'll find is trouble. When he gets here, I'll snap a picture. Ha ha. And I will have caught him breaking campus rules. He'll be ruined!"

Meanwhile, in the outside bath for Obelisk Blue girls…
"Can you believe what that Jaden kid said to Dr. Crowler in class today? Talking to a teacher like that? Completely disrespectful. Don't you think so Alexis?" Jasmine, a girl with brown hair said.

Alexis then answered, "Actually, I think it was kinda cool." Alexis said with a dreamy tone of voice.

"What?! Him, cool?" Jasmine was outraged.

"Well, he might be if he has the talent to back it up," Mindy, a girl with black hair, said.

"I think he just might. Still, I won't know for certain until I duel him myself," Alexis explained to her two friends.

Meanwhile, back outside the bath…

Crowler was waiting for Jaden to arrive so that he could get Jaden expelled for breaking campus rules. Crowler was happy to see a figure in red walking up to the bushes he was hiding in. "That's it Jaden. Right into my trap like the Slifer sap you are," Crowler whispered expectantly.

Eventually the figure could be seen through the bushes that Crowler was hiding in. However, instead of Jaden, like Crowler was expecting, it was Syrus. "Alexis!" Syrus called out.

At this, Crowler shot up and out of the bushes in shock. "That's not Jaden! It's that stammering field spell nitwit!"

Suddenly, a girl walked by, confused at the voice she had just heard, "Who's there?" Crowler was nervous at the prospect of being caught, which he did. "It's a boy!" a girl yelled out as more girls in their pajamas came out to chase away the intruder or to just gawk.

"I'm not a boy! I'm a man! I-I mean-you know forget it!" Crowler yelled as he covered his face and turned around to leave. "You don't know me. You don't know me. You don't know me." Crowler muttered as he tried to leave, only to fall and sink into the lake.

Syrus, however, wasn't so fortunate. Being like a deer caught in the headlights, he was caught by the girls and two of them held his arms behind his back to keep him from leaving while the rest of them surrounded him. "Let go! Please!" As Syrus said this, he looked up and saw Alexis's two friends wrapped in towels. He also saw Rarity and Fluttershy in the background.

"Not until you tell us why you're here. And it better be good!" Jasmine warned.

After Alexis and her friends got properly dressed, they took Syrus into the Obelisk Blue girl's dorm with his hands tied together by a rope with the other end being held to keep Syrus from escaping. Rarity and Fluttershy were also in the room, listening in the background.

"A love letter from Alexis? You've got to be kidding!" Mindy said in disbelief.

"Yup! Ask her!," Syrus said with a wink, enamoured with the Obelisk Blue girl.

"Hello? Alexis is really tall and you're really short. She's really good at dueling and you're really not. She's really hot and-," Jasmine was saying, refusing to believe that Alexis and Syrus could ever work.

"Really. It's true. Tell them Alexis. I even have the note right here," Syrus said as he got out the note from his pocket. "Look, see?"

Jasmine grabbed the letter and the girls looked it over. Once they were done, Alexis pointed out, "Syrus, my name isn't even spelled right here."

"Sorry, Syrus, but I think someone is yanking your chain," Mindy apologized.

"Wait, so then you don't love me?" Syrus was starting to get disappointed.

Jasmine then noticed something else, "Hey! This letter is made out to Jaden Yuki."

"Wait, Jaden?! But-," Jasmine then proceeded to show him the letter, confirming that it was for Jaden, not for him. "Aw, so I can't even get a fake love letter."

"I'm sorry Syrus," Alexis apologized sympathetically.

"Me too," Syrus responded.

After a moment of silence, Jasmine proceeded to speak up. "I don't buy it."

"What?" Mindy didn't see what point her friend was making.

"He could have written the letter to have an excuse to come here," Jasmine explained.

"So, do you think we should report him for trespassing then?" Mindy wondered.

"But I was invited! I swear!" Syrus tried to plead with the girls.

Finally, after all of this talking, Fluttershy and Rarity butted into the conversation. "Now hold on. I think he may be telling the truth," Rarity defended Syrus.

"Huh?" Jasmine was confused.

"Yeah. If he wanted to write it himself, he wouldn't have used Jaden's name on the letter," Fluttershy explained.

"Wait, you're defending him?! Seriously?!" Mindy was outraged.

"Maybe we should test him then." Rarity got out a pen from her pocket. "Here, Syrus. Write down Alexis's name as though you were writing a letter." She handed the pen and a blank sheet of paper to Syrus. After a minute of writing, he turned in the paper, with the name being written differently than it was on the letter. "See? The writing is different. There is no way it could be Syrus. He's innocent."

"How do we know he just isn't writing differently intentionally?" Jasmine was still unconvinced.

"Personally, I think that Syrus is telling the truth," Alexis began to say. "But still-" before she could finish her thought, they were all interrupted by the gym teacher, nurse, and female dorm head, Fonda Fontaine.

"Girls, just what in the world is going on down there?" Ms. Fontaine wanted to know what the source of the noise was.

All of the girls looked to each other in panic, unsure of what to do. Eventually, Alexis came up with a solution. "Down, hurry!" Alexis whispered to her friends. The two girls proceeded to sit on Syrus, blocking him from view of the teacher.

"Alright, what's up?" Ms. Fontaine wanted to know.

"Man, you guys are heavy," Syrus complained.

"Beg your pardon?" Jasmine was offended.

"Maybe you're just brittle," Mindy was similarly offended.

"We're sorry, Ms. Fontaine. We'll be sure to keep a lid on things," Alexis apologized.

"Well, I should hope so. It's nearly midnight and I have pilades in the morning," Ms. Fontaine responded. Right as she turned around to head back to her room, Jasmine and Mindy were quick to get off of Syrus.

"So, what should we do now, Alexis?" Jasmine asked.

"I'll tell you what we should do girls," Alexis said as she crossed her arms. "I think we use Sy here as a kind of bait to find out what we were wondering about before. To find out how good of a duelist Jaden really is."

"Um, you do know that we can just ask him to duel, right? According to Rainbow Dash and Applejack, Jaden is the type to accept duels from anyone," Fluttershy interrupted.

"Fair enough, but I want to see him at his best, and I know just how we can get him to do so," Alexis responded.

Jaden was in the middle of playing a handheld video game while Rainbow Dash was in the middle of sleeping. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Jaden, curious as to who was at the door, got up and opened the door only to be met with Pinkie Pie.

"Surprise!" Pinkie yelled out as a bunch of confetti shot out of her party cannon, which was loud enough to wake up Rainbow Dash. "I remember how poorly Syrus felt about not answering that question earlier and I wanted to throw a party to help him feel better. So, where is the boy in question, anyway?" Pinkie Pie looked around the room for Syrus.

"Oh, he left quite some time ago. Something about seeing his beloved," Rainbow Dash explained to her hyperactive friend.

"Aw. But I had a cake ready for him and everything," Pinkie Pie was disappointed.

Before the conversation could continue, Jaden's PDA started to ring. Jaden moved to answer it, only for the message to not show a face and be garbled so not to reveal who was talking, "We have your roommate, Syrus. If you want him back, come to the girl's dorm now! Alone!"

"Well, I guess I should go and see what trouble Syrus got into," Jaden said as he left. Before he could leave, though, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie blocked the way out.

"Hold on. You're just going to go and not bring us? What if this is a trap?" Rainbow Dash was being cautious.

"Yeah. For all we know, they could plan to do something really mean to you and Syrus when you get there. So, take us with you so that we can help you," Pinkie Pie offered.

"Sorry, girls. But I have to go alone," Jaden turned them down as he ran out the dorm room door.

"Should we follow him?" Pinkie Pie asked Rainbow Dash.

"Of course we should. The two of them may need help," Rainbow Dash responded with resolve.

Jaden rowed across the lake in order to reach the girl's dorm, with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie following in a boat behind them. When he made it to the girl's dorm, Jaden saw Syrus being held by Alexis and her friends.

"Hey Jaden," Syrus sadly greeted his friend.

"Hey Syrus. Mind telling me what's going on here?" Jaden asked, curious to see what had gotten him into trouble.

"Well, to make a long story short, I'm basically a big loser," Syrus said in disappointment.

"Your little friend here trespassed onto the girl's dorm," Jasmine explained.

"Is that true, Syrus?" Jaden asked for clarification.

"Hey, it's not like that," Syrus protested.

"And, now that you're here, Jaden you're trespassing too," Mindy explained.

"That's right. And if you don't want us to turn you in, you'll have to win your freedom by dueling me right now!" Alexis gave her ultimatum.

"But, if you turn us in, we'll be expelled," Syrus complained.

"Don't worry Syrus. I'll make sure that doesn't happen," Jaden reassured his friend.

"Are you sure you know what you're doing, Jaden?" Syrus questioned his overconfident friend.

Both groups were in rowboats in the middle of the lake. Jaden and Syrus were in one boat while Alexis and her friends were in the other. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, meanwhile, were in a rowboat a few feet behind Jaden and Syrus. Crowler also found out about the duel and was watching it from not that far away, hoping that Alexis would defeat Jaden.

"Hey, I thought you said Jaden had to come alone!" Jasmine complained, seeing the third boat in the distance.

"Hey, I did keep my end of the deal. They must have come of their own volition," Jaden protested.

"They can stay, provided they don't turn anyone in or interfere with the duel," Alexis decided.

"Duel!" Both Jaden and Alexis yelled at once.

"Get your game on, Alexis," Jaden opened up the duel with.

"So, Pinkie, who do you think will win?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I dunno. I haven't seen Alexis duel before and I barely know Jaden's deck. Oh, do you think Alexis and her friends will be willing to party?" Pinkie Pie asked.

"Um, I think we should currently be concerned with how Jaden will do in this duel," Rainbow was wary.

"Alright." Alexis responded as she drew her first card. She looked at her options before deciding which card to play. "Etoile Cyber, rise!" A dancer wearing light blue and red was summoned onto Alexis's field (1200/1600). "I'll also play one card facedown."

"Time to throw down," Jaden said as he drew a card. He drew Elemental Hero Sparkman. "I summon Elemental Hero Sparkman!(1600/1400) And I'll have him attack your Etoile Cyber with Static Shockwave!" Sparkman's electricity shot out at Etoile Cyber.

"Hold on there, Jaden! I play the trap card Doble Passe." Alexis played her trap card. Suddenly, Sparkman's attack went around Etoile Cyber and shocked Alexis instead. "My trap card turns your attack into a direct attack on me. And then, my Etoile Cyber gets to wage a direct attack on you. Oh, and when Etoile Cyber makes a direct attack, her attack points increase by 600 for that attack." Etoile Cyber's attack points rose to 1800 for the direct attack, hitting Jaden and inflicting a lot of damage.

Alexis Rhodes

2400

Jaden Yuki

2200

"She was willing to take damage to her own Life Points in order to deal damage to mine," Jaden was amazed.

"Are you impressed, Jaden?" Alexis asked.

"Impressed? I think I'm in love," Jaden responded.

"Aw, you're sweet. Too bad I have to crush you," Alexis said mockingly. "Now, for my move, I play Blade Skater!" The graceful skater appeared onto the field, skating across the water as she was summoned (1400/1500). "And, I play the spell card Polymerization in order to fuse Etoile Cyber and Blade Skater together to form Cyber Blader!" Cyber Blader, a blue haired female skater wearing blue and red, was summoned to Alexis's field (2100/800). "Now, Cyber Blader, attack with Whirlwind Rage!" The skater spun around on the water into Sparkman, destroying him and lowering Jaden's Life Points from 2200 to 1700.

Alexis Rhodes

2400

Jaden Yuki

1700

"Well, so much for him," Jaden muttered to himself.

"Way to go, Alexis!" Jasmine cheered on her friend.

"That's right. I knew that when he defeated Dr. Crowler it was just luck," Mindy added on.

"Well, it'll be my pleasure to prove you wrong. My turn!" Jaden drew his card, which turned out to be Fusion Gate. Jaden then thought, "All right -perfect!" Jaden then said aloud "I play the field spell Fusion Gate! With it, I can fuse monsters together without a Polymerization, which is exactly what I am going to do! I'm going to summon Elemental Hero Flame Wingman!" The wingman rose onto the lake, ready to battle (2100/1200).

"So, Jaden, it looks like it's one fusion monster against another one Jaden, which is fine by me," Alexis was left undeterred. "Although, since they both have the same attack points, they're just going to destroy each other."

"Maybe, but not after I play the spell card Kishido Spirit. Here's how it works. When a monster of mine battles a monster with the same attack points, my monster won't be destroyed. In addition, thanks to my Wingman's superpower, when he destroys a monster, you take damage equal to the destroyed monster's attack points. Now, go! Skydive Scorcher!" Jaden explained, hoping to destroy Cyber Blader and inflict major damage.

"Yeah! Jaden's got this duel in the bag!" Rainbow Dash boasted.

"Or no," Pinkie Pie strangely answered.

"Huh? What do you mean Pinkie Pie?" Rainbow Dash was confused.

"Oh, you don't know. Sorry. You see, Cyber Blader has different effects based upon the amount of monsters on the opponent's field. Alexis told me about them yesterday," Pinkie Pie explained.

"So, what is the effect for one monster?" Rainbow Dash was curious, but she had a feeling that she didn't want to know.

Flame Wingman's attack, in spite of Jaden's best efforts, didn't do a thing to Cyber Blader. "Huh? Hey, what gives?! Why didn't my attack do anything?" Jaden was confused.

"You see, Cyber Blader's special ability prevents her from being destroyed by an opponent with only one monster," Alexis explained.

"But, that would mean-," Jaden started to realize.

"Neither of us lose any Life Points," Alexis answered.

"Okay, Alexis. You got me," Jaden admitted.

"Oh don't worry Jaden, you'll know it," Alexis said as she drew her card. "And I'll get you right now. I play the equip spell card Fusion Weapon. This card will give my Cyber Blader an extra 1500 attack and defense points." Suddenly, Cyber Blader's right arm started to metamorphosize into a part cybernetic and part organic trident (3600/2300).

"Uh oh. Sy old buddy, you may want to brace yourself for this," Jaden warned.

"Go, Blader! Attack the Flame Wingman with Trident Shock!" Cyber Blader shot out a bolt of electricity at Flame Wingman, destroying him and lowering Jaden's Life Points to 200.

Alexis Rhodes

2400

Jaden Yuki

200

"Uh oh, Jaden. Your Life Points are looking pretty low. Hope you didn't unpack your bags just yet," Alexis mocked.

"Yeah, because if you lose, you'll get expelled," Mindy reminded the duo.

"Oh no. We are?" Syrus started to show worry.

"Don't worry, Syrus. That's not going to happen," Jaden comforted his anxious friend.

Alexis then thought to herself,"You better not make promises you can't deliver, Jaden." "

"I hope I'm not making a promise that I can't deliver," Jaden thought to himself. "The only card I have out is Fusion Gate. But, there is still a chance that I can win this duel. It all depends on what I draw next." Jaden then said aloud, "Here goes." To Jaden's relief, the card he drew was Monster Reborn. "Perfect. I summon the Elemental Hero Clayman in attack mode (800/2000). Next, I play the spell card, Monster Reborn! Which I will use to summon Elemental Hero Sparkman from my graveyard." Sparkman revived himself from the graveyard in attack mode (1600/1400).

"But what difference does it make? My Cyber Blader has way more attack points than your Sparkman," Alexis was confused at what Jaden was trying to pull.

"Maybe not on their own, but that is why I'm going to use Fusion Gate to fuse Sparkman and Clayman together to form Elemental Hero Thunder Giant!" Jaden revealed his plan. A gigantic soldier formed onto Jaden's side of the field in attack mode (2400/1500). The colossal monster shook the water for everyone upon being summoned.

"Hate to break it to you, Jaden. But my Cyber Blader still has more attack points at 3600," Alexis reminded Jaden.

"Well, you see one of Thunder Giant's special abilities is that when summoned, he can destroy a monster whose original attack points are less than his own," Jaden explained.

"Wait, but before I played Fusion Weapon, my Cyber Blader's attack points were only 2100. Which means-," Alexis started to realize what was going to happen.

"That my Thunder Giant will destroy your Cyber Blader," Jaden answered. Thunder Giant approached Cyber Blader, shocking and destroying Cyber Blader effortlessly. "Now, Thunder Giant, attack her directly!" Thunder Giant shot out a bolt of electricity that zapped Alexis and also hit and hurt Crowler. Alexis's Life Points were reduced to 0, much to the shock of Alexis's friends and to the relief of Syrus. "Looks like that is game! Remember, I won so keep your end of the deal," Jaden reminded Alexis.

"Don't worry I won't back out, you beat me fair and square," Alexis was backing down.

"Well, if you ask me, I think we should turn the both of them in," Jasmine was not ready to let the duo go free.

"Well, it isn't up to you," Alexis reminded her friend. "I have to admit Jaden, you did pretty good."

"Not just that, it was pretty close. You're a pretty good duelist," Jaden complimented the Obelisk Blue girl. "Well, later." Jaden started to row himself and Syrus back to shore, with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie following not that far behind.

"Even if he did lose I don't think I would have turned them in. This place is a lot more interesting with them than without," Alexis thought to herself.

"Just you wait, Jaden Yuki. I will find a way to expel you sooner or later. Just as soon as I make it back home to Clarissa," Dr. Crowler grumbled to himself as he sank back into the water to return to the Obelisk Blue male dorm.