Sorry it took me forever to get an update, but finals week is still on. As promised, here's look at Duel Academy…

…which I do not own.

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"No, but—I know, but…ugh! Ya know what, just forget it!" Hassleberry angrily pressed the OFF button on his phone and jammed it into his pocket. He turned to Alexis and Blair. "No luck," he moaned. "Ma and Pop won't give in. Sheppard said if I could convince them, then…" He sighed heavily and changed the subject. "Sarge and Private Truesdale promised they would call; they haven't yet."

"Yeah…" Alexis nodded and bit her lip worriedly. "Atti promised the same thing, but he hasn't called either. I wish I was there with him…"

"I wish I was there, too," Blair agreed.

Alexis raised an eyebrow. "You came as soon as Jaden started his duel with Sartorius. You don't know any more about the LOD than the transfer students."

"Yeah, but they got to go!" Blair whined.

"LOD?" Hassleberry repeated.

"L-O-D: Light of Destruction," Alexis explained. "And, Blair, you're, what, ten?"

"And a half," Blair corrected. "But anyway, what's your point?"

Alexis rolled her eyes. "Do you honestly think Sheppard will let you go when you're almost half the age of the people who went?"

"Almost half?! Hello, check you math!"

"Hey! You two, break up the catfight!" Hassleberry roared. "The fact stands that none of us can go. I guess we'll just have to wait around for someone to call…"

"Wait…" Alexis's amber eyes widened. "Why wait around…when we can call them?"

"Hm. Didn't really think of that," Hassleberry admitted.

"I call calling Jaden!" Blair screamed.

Alexis scowled. "No, I'm calling Jaden!"

Hassleberry rolled his eyes. "I'll call Sarge. Alexis, call your brother, Blair, call Private Truesdale. Move out, troops!"

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Waves crashed against the cement under Alexis's feet. She was leaning against the light house she had become familiar with over the years, her cell phone pressed to her ear.

"Yo, yo! You've reached Atticus Rhodes—" Alexis rolled her eyes "—but I can't answer right now. Ya see, I'm off fighting an evil alien from outer space in another dimension, so you can't really blame me for not coming to the phone. Now, I'm not sure how you got connection if you're my sister or somebody, but—" A beep cut her brother's voice off so Alexis could leave a message.

"Hey, Atticus, it's Alexis…you sister. You know, the one you forgot to call." Alexis scowled as she spoke the last sentence. "We—me, Hassleberry, and Blair—wanted to see how you were. You guys did say you would call…Hassleberry and Blair are trying Jay and Sy, respectively. Let us know what it's like over there, 'kay?" She paused and closed her eyes. "I miss you guys. So do the others. Heck, I even miss your stupid—" her voice cracked a little and a tear leaked out of the corner of her right eye— "show biz schemes. I love you, bro, and I miss you so much. Hope to see you soon. Bye."

Alexis hung up her phone and trudged back to the dorm, where Hassleberry had stayed to call Jaden. As Alexis might have suspected, Blair has already back from calling Syrus, hanging on to Hassleberry's every word….

"So we hope you guys are doing A-okay over there…" Hassleberry was saying as Alexis shuffled miserably through the door.

"Tell Jaden I miss him," Blair demanded in a hushed whisper.

"And call back real soon, ya hear?"

"Tell him that I miss him."

"And keep us up to date on how many Society dorks you beat…"

"Tell him."

"And I guess we'll see ya'll when ya'll get back."

"Tell. Him. Now."

"And we all—" Hassleberry glanced pointedly at Blair "—miss ya."

"ESPECIALLY ME, JADEN!" Blair screamed.

Hassleberry sighed. "That was Private Flannigan. Call back soon!" He hung up.

"No answer?" Alexis guessed.

Hassleberry shook his head. "No answer from Private Truesdale, either."

"So I guess we really do have to wait…" Blair moaned.

"Well, ladies, it looks like there's only one thing to do."

"And that is?" Alexis arched an eyebrow.

"Go and hang with my new platoon of Ra Yellows." Hassleberry raced out the door to join the Ra students that he had recruited to hang around with him to save his reputation.

Alexis and Blair rolled their eyes. "Whatever. You know, there's something I was curious about ever since we got this Pokémon invitation. I'm going to Chancellor Sheppard's office." Alexis glided out the door, leaving Blair by herself in the dorm.

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"Alexis Rhodes to see you, sir," Chancellor Sheppard's secretary's voice blared through his phone stand.

Hm. Why would Miss Rhodes want to see me? Perhaps she has reconsidered about helping in the other dimension! Chancellor Shepard thought gleefully as he pressed the button to give his reply. "Send her in, Barb."

A few moments later, the door opened and Alexis gracefully strode through the entrance. "Chancellor Sheppard, if you don't mind, I have a question."

"Yes, Alexis?" Sheppard was slightly taken aback at her abruptness

"If you live in different dimensions…how do you know Professor Oak?"

"I figured one of you would come ask me that eventually." Sheppard sighed. "Well…it all started with the invention of the Inter-Dimension Transporter, or IDT. At the time, Oak and I were children living in the Pokémon dimension."

Alexis's eyes widened. "Really?"

"Yes. My parents volunteered our family to test out the IDT. There were a whole lot of legal issues and details that I won't bore you with, but the bottom-line is that I've been living here ever since. However, I have kept in contact with Oak using the IDC. The C stands for Communicator—think of it as the IDT's earliest form."

Alexis nodded. "I see."

"Is that all?"

"Yes, thank you for clearing that up for me." Alexis smiled and left, still trying to take in what she had heard. Chancellor Sheppard used to live in another dimension…?

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I found this chapter rather boring, so I decided to make it rather short…compared to every other chapter except Chapter 1.

Okay, I wouldn't expect an update until late June…

I'll also give you Bastion's, Zane's, and Max's Pokémon teams…next chapter, because I want to get this one up ASAP.

If you want to give me any ideas for their teams, that's good…cause all I know is that Zane's going to have dragons, Bastion will have a really well-organized team (cause, well, he's Bastion), Max will just have random Pokémon like Ash, and his starter will be Treeko…you have till late June, which is a lot more time than that last vote-thing I did…

Yup, that's about it. Hope to hear from you!