Sekhmet: This was supposed to be a weed jokes episode.

Susano-o: Instead it became a serious look at how much people got away with in that show. We have a habit of reversing the tone of the original episode tone.

Sekhmet: Yeah, we tend to do that a lot. On with the show!

Duel 16: Baby That's all we Need

"You know this boogie is for real. I used to buy my faith in worship, but then my chance TO GET to Heaven slipped, I used to worry about the future, but then I throw my caution to the wind!" Rose sang as she danced around the room in her underwear.

"Rose, come on I'm trying to study." Yuko said, shoving her face further into the collage of notes. She was slowly losing her will to stay focused though, Canned Heat was a good song.

"I had no reason to be care free, o no no, until I took a trip to the other side of town. Yeah yeah yeah, you know I heard that boogie rhythm, hey- I had no choice but to get down down down down!" Rose yelled as she prepared to let loose with her best moves.

"Dance! There's nothing left for me to do but dance! Through all these bad times I'm going through just dance! And I got canned heat in my heels tonight baby yeah! Awooo!" Yuko slammed the book down and practically flipped out of her chair to sing along.

"I feel the thunder see the lightning! I know this anger's heaven sent. So I've got to hang out all my hang-ups, because of the boogie I feel so hell bent!" Rose sang grabbing Yuko and dancing along with her.

"It's just an instant gut reaction, that I got, I know I never ever felt like this before, I don't know what to do, but then that's nothing new, stuck between hell and high water I need a cure to make it through!" Yuko sang. You could practically see the two in full 70s disco regalia.

"Hey- dancing nothing left for me to do but dance off these bad times I'm going through just dance,Hey got canned heat in my heels tonight baby! You know know know I'm gonna dance yeah off all the nasty things that people say!" Midori yelled from the doorway as she jumped into the impromptu dance party, ignoring the rest of the group who were watching from the door in confusion and in two cases, slight arousal. Yuko, who had been dancing on her toes, tripped and fell on her ass at the sight of other people.

"And that's the end," Rose said as she rubbed her head. "Shoot and I was just about to unleash the moonwalk."

"And I was just getting started," Midori said dusting herself off. "And put some clothes on!"

"Fine," Rose groaned as she put her shirt on.

"So what are you guys doing here anyway?" Yuko asked, putting her book away.

"Oh someone wants to duel Rose," Midori said causing Rose's to spin around to face her.

"Repeat that," She said excitedly.

"Someone's waiting to duel you on top of the school," Midori started but before she could finished explaining Rose had already taken off running towards the school.

"Rose put on some pants!" Alexis yelled.

"She's gone," Midori said sighing. "Alexis grab her some pants, she can't duel in boxers."

"Slifer save us from her craziness," Alexis sighed as she started rooting through Rose's unorganized mess of a dresser.

"Pants are on bottom, I think." Yuko said, though she wasn't really sure. Who willingly sought out a duel with Rose anyway? Poor sap must either be on a dare or high.

Alexis forced the drawer open, sending clothes flying everywhere. "I found a pair," She muttered from under a pile of shirts. "Remind me to force her to organize this later."

"You can try." Yuko said.

"...I just organized that monday," Midori said in shock. "How does that happen!?" She yelled.

"Sometimes I think Rose is some sort of space bending anomaly." Yuko said, somewhat jokingly.

"We should get going," Bastion said. "Rose will most likely become violent if someone mentions her current predicament," He warned.

"Right." Yuko said, and started out the door.

….

"Oh geez, what happened here?!" Yuko said, seeing a trail of discarded students and general chaos.

"I'm guessing this one made a comment to Rose," Bastion said pointing at the upside down Blue student in a trash can. "And the rest joined in, apparently the Obelisk Blue dorm still hasn't learned their lesson the way the Ra Yellow's have," He explained with a sigh. "You think after having to replace five windows and every door they would have learned not to antagonize her."

"Well, they don't seem to be the learning type. Unfortunate, as just learning when they've been beat would have spared them a lot of trouble." Yuko said. "I guess we just follow the overturned students to the roof then."

"I've tried to tell them," Alexis said with a sigh. "I've had to stop the blue girls multiple times from riling her up and destroying our dorm."

"Crap, really? I know our dorm is looked down upon but geez, someone's gotta do something about the climate here! I'm surprised there hasn't been incidents linked to bullying yet." Yuko said, continuing on the path of destruction.

"You've seen the administration," Chumley said bitterly. "Other dorm heads aren't allowed to interfere with other dorms."

"That's a stupid rule." Yuko said before covering her mouth.

"I've tried to talk to the heads of the Blue dorm," Midori said with a sigh. "-But Chancellor Sheppard doesn't get involved with the day to day operations of the school and Fontaine being the head nurse means she has to stay out of it so she can remain objective, leaving only Crowler to talk too."

"Right…" Yuko said. To be completely honest, she didn't want to talk to Crowler any more than she had to. Every other face he pulled made him look unnervingly like Pot of Greed.

"So wait, if they aren't allowed to interfere, how does Crowler keep trying to get us expelled?" Syrus asked.

"He's doing it through his head professor position, not his dorm head one," Midori said snorting. "I looked and every complaint he's made has that signature."

"But that's so wrong!" Syrus yelled angrier than they had ever seen him before.

"Wait, so he's been after us this whole time? Why us specifically?" Yuko asked.

Everyone looked at Yuko like she was insane. "Because we're Rose's friends," Midori answered bluntly.

"What's that got to do with anything?" Yuko asked, but then she started to think back to all the incidents so far on campus. A lot of them, if not all, had involved Crowler in some form or another. Everything seemed to click, and she leaned against the wall, a hand on her head.

"You didn't notice?" Chumley asked.

"I'm not too observant." Yuko muttered. She had to fight turning on the terror aura for once.

"I've tried to talk to people too," Alexis said with a nervous sigh. "-But I'm a Blue, so I'm practically immune to punishment, I flat out told Sheppard and Crowler I was in the abandoned dorms too and that you all rescued me and I wasn't punished at all, I avoided you all for a while after that, worried you would never want to talk to me again. "She said slightly ashamed of herself.

"Don't blame yourself." Yuko said curtly.

"Yeah it's ok," Chumley said nodding.

"We don't blame you," Syrus said as well as he patted Alexis's back.

"No it's Crower's fault," Midori said crossing her arms angrily.

"Thank you," Alexis said smiling. "I know Rose forgave me, but I was worried about the rest of you."

"Don't think for a second that we'd hold it against you." Yuko said, more aggressively than she'd meant it to sound.

"Come along everyone," Bastion said trying to get the group moving again. "we need to get going before Rose breaks someone permanently."

"Right." Yuko said, and opened the door to the stairwell.

…

"There you all are!" Rose yelled from where she was sitting with a blue student in ratty clothes, half-laden eyes, and a big dopey grin. "Man you all look like shit, come sit down and enjoy yourselves!" She said happily.

"We brought you pants." Yuko said.

"Oh thanks," Rose said grabbing the pants and putting them on. "Oh hey this is Belowski," She said gesturing to the boy beside her.

"Pleased to meet you." Yuko said curtly.

"Yo welcome, sit down and take a break!" Belowski said happily. 'You're putting out some major bad mojo and should really chill out!"

"I'm trying to keep it contained." Yuko said, curling her fingers in weird ways.

"You want a burrito?" Belowski asked. "I make a mean burrito, we can sit here and unravel the mysteries of the universe together," He said with a big smile.

"That's alright." Yuko said.

"I'll join you!" Syrus said happily sitting down beside the two.

"I could go for a burrito," Chumley said with a big smile as he also sat down.

"Hey," Alexis said sitting down next to Rose and setting her head on her shoulder. "I told them," She said smiling.

"Told you nothing bad would happen," Rose said smiling back as she wrapped her arm around Alexis's shoulders.

"And nothing of value was lost this day." Yuko said, sitting down next to Syrus. She had to admit, her urge to kill was fading.

"You gotta let that stress go," Belowski said holding out a bag of chips. "Feel the good vibrations in the air, let the waves of life take you along on a righteous journey of awesomeness."

Yuko didn't understand a word he said, but she felt less stressed, so whatever he was talking about, she must have been doing it somehow.

"Yes it is most logical to remain calm in the world," Bastion said with a big smile. "Calm allows one to think much clearer than they would when stressed.

"Yo you got it my man!" Belowski said happily. "You are totally riding the good vibrations!"

"Good vibrations…" Yuko muttered.

"Yeah my dudette," Belowski said smiling lazily. "There's like good waves and bad waves out in the world, and when you're angry you attract the bad waves, but when you're happy you attract the good waves, and then when you learn to ride the waves you become like a beacon of happiness radiating out into the world making other people happy too!"

"Like radio?" Yuko said, trying to get a grasp on the concept.

"Yeah you got it," Rose said with a smile.

"Ok, I kind of get it." Yuko said. She hasn't felt this relaxed since before she applied to Duel Academy.

"Yeah there you go Yuko," Syrus said setting his head on her lap.

"Oh uh, thanks." Yuko said, and in a move she wouldn't have made otherwise, put her hand on his head. His hair was soft.

"Ah man see your good vibrations have gone and gotten him all mellowed out!" Belowski said happily.

"I think he's right," Alexis said with a big smile. "I can feel the good vibes everyone is putting out!"

"Yeah it's great," Midori said smiling as she and Chumley shared a bag of chips.

"Mhm." Yuko said, about ready to fall asleep.

"Ah I love it when a plan comes together," A voice laughed out from the top of one of the pillars. "You're all going to be sent away if I have anything to say about it!"

The moment Yuko registered Crowler's voice, all the threads keeping her rage aura snapped, unleashing her terror aura in a lotus blossom of pure rage. Her hands balled in Syrus' hair, painfully so.

"Owch, Yuko that hurts!" Syrus whined trying to free himself from Yuko's grasp. Yuko released him without a word, and stood up abruptly.

"Oh you're really harshing the mellow now man," Belowski said with a frown. "You sure you don't want a burrito? I made them myself."

Yuko flat out ignored Belowski. "How could you be so cruel to students? We are but children trying to learn, yet you see fit to torture this whom you deem unfit. What authority do you think you have to torment innocents based on some stupid color?" She roared.

Crowler jumped back at her reaction, but fueled by the defensive capabilities of his suit and weeks of pent up rage he snapped back. "It's because you all shouldn't be here!" He yelled back. "This is an elite school for elite duelist only! Seto Kaiba himself set this school up and you think he would ever give any of you the time of day! You all only got in because the examiners are forced to use dumbed down decks and the practical will always outweigh the written exams if you're here to be a duelist and not a designer, had they been using anything stronger than what a five year old with a bunch of booster packs would have made for a deck you would all fail!" He ranted. "I spent years in a dueling prep school and worked day and night for my PHD and none of you show me the respect I deserve, my own students will insult me to my face but at least they respect me!" He yelled actually tearing up slightly. "That insolent brat right there is everything wrong with this academy in one person! She's loud, brash, has no respect for personal or public property, and continuously proves to me that the red dorm is a waste of the academies resources, for Ra's sake the brat broke every door in the blue dorms and she was never punished for it, did you all forget that she just yesterday nearly burned the entire arena down!" He yelled. "I want this school to be the best it can be, but you are all ruining it!" He finished breathing heavily.

"We've all earned the right to be here, regardless of what we carry in our personalities. You have no right to deny us an education based on that. It's how humans are made. You disgust me." Yuko said, and lurched back like she had been punched in the gut. She fell to the floor with a thud.

"You only got here because you dueled an examiner with a weak deck!" He yelled. "You did terrible on your entrance exams, you and that brat beside you have the devil's luck and if you didn't you would have been out of this academy long ago!" He yelled. "Now I'm going to get you all thrown into Belowski's dorm and out of my sight forever!"

While the two of them were yelling, Rose was sitting there thinking about what Crowler had said, with Belowski's aura chilling her out, she didn't have her anger clouding her thoughts about Crowler and the Blue dorms she was forced to look at what she had done objectively, and she had to admit… "You're right," She said softly.

"What?" Crowler growled making Rose let out a defeated sigh.

"You're right, partially," Rose said standing up. "I am a rebel, I do cause damage, I'm a living emissary of chaos," she finished with a sigh. "-But you're not squeaky clean either," She accused.

"What do you mean?" Crowler asked.

"You let the blue students abuse not only the red students, but also the yellow students, the duel giant was a set of yellow students that had been bullied by your students, hell I was totally respectful of you when we had our first duel!" She yelled back. "I was excited to duel you!"

Crowler growled but relented on that point. "And what about the fact you all are wasting the academies time, Slifer's are some of the lowest scoring duelist in the school, even after their entrance exams!" He asked back.

"You are right," Rose said with a sigh. "-But you must know we've been trying our best to fix it," She explained. "Me, Yuko, and Midori have done everything we can to get the red dorm up to snuff, they've been broken so hard it's taking forever though."

Crowler growled. "Well what would you have me do?" He asked crossing his arms.

"We need to work together," Rose said calmly. "You want the red dorm to be a better dorm, and I want the red dorm to be a better dorm, but it can't happen when your student's keep putting them down," She explained with a glare.

Crowler sighed. "Maybe I have let the Obelisk's get out of control," He said jetpacking down.

"And I know I've gotten out of control," Rose said walking over to him. "We need to compromise, Midori can only do so much to keep the red dorm together, she's told me before how much it takes to keep them all from jumping ship and leaving, so we need to ease the tension," She explained.

"Yes, healthy rivalry is good, but abuse isn't," Crowler said nodding. "I'll talk to the Obelisk's and make sure Sartyr talks to the Ra's," He said holding out his hand.

"And I'll cool my jets and start helping out the red dorm," She said taking his hand and shaking it.

With a snarfing sound, Yuko came back into consciousness and peeled her face off the floor. "What happened? I blacked out for a second."

"Oh nothing," Rose said smiling. "Just the beginnings of new relations between the dorms," She explained with a chuckle.

"Yes," Crowler agreed smiling in a way that didn't make him look like a gremlin. "Me and Miss. Warren here have agreed to put aside our differences and work together to make the school a better place."

"Ah, well that's nice." Yuko said with a smile. In all honesty, she couldn't remember the last five minutes.

"Yeah they're making all kinds of awesome vibes!" Belowski said happily. "Now let's all get a burrito!" He said pulling out a 'Pot of Greed' bag full of burritos.

"I could actually go for one," Crowler said sitting down and removing the helmet to his suit.

"Same here," Rose said grabbing one and taking a big bite out of it.

"Yeah I'm actually super hungry all of a sudden." Yuko said, and picked one out.

Everyone else took one as well and started munching. Syrus climbed back into Yuko's lap and curled up into a ball as he ate his, while Midori was using Chumley as a backrest while she ate hers and Alexis and Rose were snuggling against each other and sharing bites of theirs.

"I also got brownies!" Belowski said happily. "Made with my own secret ingredient!"

"Dibs on a corner!" Yuko said.

"Here you go!" Belowski said handing her one and taking a bite of his own.

"Thanks!" Yuko said, taking a bite. "By the way, what's the secret ingredient?"

"Hemp!" Belowski said happily. "Grew it myself!"

"Huh. Rope's never tasted so good." Yuko said, taking another bite.