Sekhmet: Finally relieved of the uncomfortableness, we go straight into war mode this chapter.
Susano-o: The Society of Light meets its match! With Rose at the helm they won't know what hit them! Metaphorically and in many cases quite literally!
Sekhmet: And in addition, while she won't make an official appearance for two more chapters, that character I mentioned before is born this chapter. I'm excited.
Susano-o: Let's a-go!
Duel 35: We Totally Didn't Steal This From Code Geass
Yuko slammed the door of the Ra Yellow dorms open. "Alright, listen up! Those who joined the cult, get the hell out! Anyone who still has a brain, we're consolidating the dorms. For your own safety, follow me!"
Most of the Ra Yellows were shocked to say the least. "What are you talking about?"
"Did I fucking stutter?!" Yuko said. "If you don't feel like getting brainwashed, let's go people! Pack light, we're not coming back!"
….
"Line up maggots!" Hassleberry yelled as the new recruits entered the red courtyard. "I want everyone from the yellow dorms on this side and everyone from the red dorms on this side! Lets go! Lets go! Five to a row!" He yelled as people started filing into ranks on both sides of him.
Syrus was getting everyone's information as quickly as he could. "Has anyone seen Bastion?" He asked. "We got Tania but no Bastion!"
"Hubby was heading to the card shop," Tania said nervously. "I haven't seen him all afternoon."
"We'll recover the Specialist later!" Hassleberry yelled. "We're waiting for the Sarge first!"
"Knowing her, she's probably knocking heads." Yuko said. "Or blazing it with Belowski like I wish I was."
"Nah the Sarge sent me a message," Hassleberry explained. "She's getting ready in your room."
"Huh?" Yuko asked. "Ready for what?"
"You'll see," Hassleberry said cryptically.
"Ok…" Yuko said and returned to funneling more people into the courtyard.
Once the people had been filtered and filed, a whistle was heard above the dorm, looking up everyone saw Rose standing on the roof. She was wearing a modified black trench coat-length gakuran/tsume-eri with a tall, stiff collar, pierced on the left with a golden chain over her shoulders. Underneath, a fitted, sleeveless shirt and a pair of slim-fitting ¥20,000 pants of very short, sharp flares held up by two thin belts, often differently colored, patterned in a row of alternately colored tessellated triangles, and a pair of leather shoes. She also had a cap adorned near the center with a golden button in the shape of the 'King' Kanji, on its left, a rectangular golden plate with a design of a duel monsters card back. It was torn at the back, appearing to merge with her hair. Finally, she was chewing on a green reed. Yuko could also see 'Winged Kuriboh floating beside her, wearing the same coat thrown over his shoulders and the hat with a reed hanging out of where his mouth presumably was.
Yuko was dumbfounded that she felt the need to dress up like a tough guy, but considering the state she was in, she didn't question it. Syrus took one look at her and was immediately stunned. The crowd was silenced in both emotions.
"Listen up people!" Rose yelled over the crowd. "A dark light has spread across campus like rotting infection," She explained. "And I'm not about to sit around and let them take over without a fight!"
The crowd murmured in slight confusion at her statement.
"You've seen what happened to the blue students!" Rose shouted. "Are you about to let it happen to you?"
A lot of the students replied with worrying statements. The murmuring got louder.
"The Society of Light is a cancer! One that will take over this school and turn us into drones under that asshole Sartorius's control!" Rose yelled. "I refuse to let a cult exist on this island as long as I'm still here to kick its ass!"
The murmurs got louder still, but also more confident.
"Today at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is not a man nor woman in here that shall stand alone!" Rose shouted. "Not today, because today we are fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation!" She said with a stamp her foot. "We are fighting for our right to live! To exist! And should we win the day it will be the day where we all declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the light! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!"
The students roared in approval, but as always, there was one stick in the mud. "Hey, aren't you stealing the speech from Independence Day?" He asked once the initial cheer died down.
"Yes and Pacific Rim," Rose said with a dark smirk. "What about it?" The student didn't reply. The rest of the crowd roared again in approval.
"Today we form our own army!" Rose yelled grabbing a flag behind her and slamming it into the roof, it was a jet black flag with the same 'King' Kanji on the front. "The Black Knights!"
The crowd gave one more roar of approval, this one the loudest of all. For the first time in Duel Academy history, two dorms had joined forces in an all out war against another...Honestly it seemed like it should have happened before.
"Well, what now?" Yuko asked herself. "What's next for us?"
"Everyone put these on!" Rose yelled throwing a box over the edge of the roof. It landed in a clearing with a heavy thud. Inside were beautiful outfits of pure black with gold details.
"We are no longer two dorms," Rose explained. "We are now one, together under one flag!"
Students looked over them, some went to closed off spaces to change immediately, while others were taking a bit longer, through shyness or trouble finding their size.
"These are nice," Hassleberry said tearing the sleeves off his uniform.
"What a material." Yuko said, holding up a jacket. "Where'd she get the good stuff? This has to be the Egyptian cotton they keep in the back room."
…. (Meanwhile in the sewing club)
"How are you going to justify using all the Egyptian cotton!?" The club president yelled. "That stuff was worth five years worth of our budget alone!"
"...Classify it as a 'Rose' expense?" One of them suggested. "Dr. Crowler will understand."
The club president blinked. "By George you're right!" He said happily. "Quickly! Order some more! Let's milk this for all we can!"
"Ma'am yes Ma'am!" The sewing club members yelled back.
….
After everyone was uniformed up, rooms were assigned, though with the amount of students they ended up having to make a tent city to compensate, the Ra Dorms had already been written off as a loss.
"Ok," Rose said as she sat down with her inner council, which consisted of Yuko, Syrus, Hassleberry, Camula, and Tania. "Now unfortunately we have a problem."
"What?" Syrus asked.
Rose slammed her head into the table. "I have no idea what the white dorm is planning," She muttered.
"Honestly, we're all in the dark." Yuko said. "And worse, cults in their very nature are unpredictable."
"What we need is a mole!" Hassleberry said banging the table. "An inside man to tell us what is going on!"
"Hassleberry is correct," Camula agreed. "A mole was a commonly used tactics in the vampire human war, send a female vampire into a human base and you'd have an empty base by the morning."
"Well, it's all we've got." Yuko said with a sigh. "Who's the sorry kid going in though?"
"Bastion!" Syrus said happily. "He's way too smart to be caught up in their cult things!"
The door suddenly opened and a student stuck her head in. "Bad news everyone," She said. "We found Bastion, he's currently building a nine foot statue of Sartorius made entirely of light monsters."
"Tarnation!" Hassleberry yelled hitting the table. "We just done gone and lost our logistics specialist!"
"Fucking hell." Yuko said, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Oh no my poor honeybun!" Tania sniffled. "He's now in a cult!"
"And he dyed his hair white," The student added.
"And he dyed his perfect hair!" Tania wailed. Yuko groaned.
"Well fuck," Rose muttered. "Who are we gonna use now?"
Syrus stood up, an atmosphere of grimdark courage about him. "I'll do it."
Yuko looked up, fear in her eyes. "What?"
"Think about it. Everyone sees me as weak and timid. They'll never suspect a thing if I go to them, seeking safety." Syrus said. "And anyone who knows their stuff knows not to mess with the quiet kid."
"Syrus, not to say you're weak minded, but you'd be facing down the barrel of a gun 24/7 if you go in there. Are you sure you can handle the pressure?" Yuko asked, trembling.
"I'll be honest, I'm not sure. But if you need a mole, I'm the best person to do it." Syrus said.
Yuko teared up, and grabbed Syrus in a constricting hug, weeping. Although he didn't have any doubts before, in this moment, Syrus realized that Yuko truly did love him. The two separated after quite some time, Yuko still crying.
"Let's get you packed then." Yuko sniffed.
"Woah woah easy there big girl," Rose said now that their moment had passed. "Even if we get him in, we don't know how to protect him from Sartorius's apparent brainwashing ability, or the general lack of privacy in a cult, he'd be found out in an instant."
Yuko wiped her eyes. "You're right. I'm not sure if the Wicked Gods could help though. I've never bore witness to his power, and neither have they by proxy."
"I could watch him, but only at night," Camula suggested. "I could teleport in without them knowing."
"Yeah, but that doesn't cover the day," Tania said. "And that's when he's most vulnerable."
"Sarge, what about you?" Hassleberry asked. "Your newfangled powers are like Sartorius's right? Can't you use them to protect the private in his undercover operation?"
"Maybe," Rose sighed. "He'd still not be able to act right though, he'd have too much free will, and the odds of him insulting us are none."
Yuko suddenly came up with an idea. "What about some type of hypnosis? If we could psychologically divide his brain in half and program instructions into it and a release switch, he wouldn't even know he was a mole."
Rose paled at that. "Woah there," She said nervously waving her hands. "Look I'm learning how to use these powers pretty quick, but I'm not sure I want to go trying to split a person's brain right now."
"Fair enough, I don't even know how we would do that, new powers or not." Yuko said.
"I'll do it." Syrus said. "Do whatever you need to me."
Rose gulped. "Fine, but give me a few hours before we try this," She insisted.
"Next order of business, retrieving the Private's notes," Hassleberry said. "Can't expect him to walk them over to us."
"That would probably be programmed in as an unconscious behavior. It would just need a mark to tell the real notes from fakes." Yuko suggested.
"Love letters!" Tania suggested with a big smile. "Two star-crossed lovers writing each other notes, oh it's so romantic!"
"While I like it, it could be suspicious or make one of us a target." Yuko said. "Besides, cultists don't typically get love letters."
"Can't we use Camula to pick them up?" Rose asked.
"Again, can't work in the day," Camula said.
"But I could. I can't teleport through…" Yuko said. "We need some sort of unstoppable entity, something that could travel through darkness or shadows. Or someone augmented with those abilities somehow."
"Yeah," Rose said smiling. "We could use them as a spy, or a quick get away, or even to capture people!" She exclaimed.
"Oh, that would be fuckin sweet. And they could have religious connotations, as a subtle fuck you to the cult itself!" Yuko said, clapping her hands.
"I can build a church in a few hours," Tania added. "Set it right inside the borderline between the dorms."
"Ok, ok," Camula said. "This is all well and good, but who are we going to use?"
"I'll do it. It'll give me something to do and keep me from going insane from worry." Yuko said.
"Ok," Rose said. "We'll get you a costume and send Syrus out tomorrow morning."
"Sounds good to me." Syrus said.
"Same here." Yuko said.
….
That night, a party started as the new army celebrated their formation, Rose was right in the center with another care package from her friends. Yuko and Syrus were practically joined at the hip, not separating for a second when they didn't have to. The two laughed it up and otherwise pretended that they weren't going to be separated for a long span of time in mere hours.
"Hey Yuko and Syrus," Hassleberry said walking up to the two. "Here have some Four Lokos!" He said handing them two open Four Lokos. "Rose held back some of your favorites!"
"Thanks." Yuko said, taking the blue raspberry one.
"Thanks!" Syrus said, taking the other one. The two clinked their cans and started drinking.
"Alright everyone!" Rose yelled. "In order to fully join the Black Knights you have to drink a glass of this!" She said holding up a giant ten gallon water jug.
"What is it?" Camula asked.
"It's 4/5's Four Loko and 1/5 5-Hour energy, I call it, Nine Loko!"
"We should just grow up and do cocaine!" Yuko joked, already a little tipsy from her drink.
"Shut up and take your drink!" Rose yelled pouring six drinks for her, Yuko, Hassleberry, Syrus, Camula, and Tania. "Bottoms up!" She yelled chugging it back. Fearful of what this might taste like, Yuko utilized her powers of no gag reflex to chug the thing. The other four pounded them back and the crowd went wild.
"Well this is fun," Rose said to Yuko with a chuckle.
"Yeah. Though I'm starting to think that this concoction was a bad idea." Yuko said with a hiccup.
"It's fine," Rose said smirking. "Hey we should go burn the white dorms deck furniture while blasting Creed!"
"Yeah!" Yuko cheered.
"You and Syrus go get my blowtorch in the room," Rose said chuckling.
"Yeah, sure." Yuko said, and the two went up the stairs to get it. Syrus went in first, and the second Yuko went in after him, the door slammed shut and locked. The two, however, were completely unphased until they found no blowtorch and tried to exit.
"Oh no, I think we locked ourselves in!" Yuko said, pounding on the door.
"Was this here before?" Syrus asked, looking at a brown paper bag with a note attached. Yuko read the note as much as she could.
"Hey you two! So since Syrus is leaving tomorrow on a dangerous mission, I have taken it upon myself to make sure neither of you die a virgin! In this bag is a collection of sex shit (lube, condoms, toys, etc.) and my personally booty jams CD, have fun!
Best Regards, Rose
P.S. The door is locked and the windows have been bolted shut, so you two aren't leaving till tomorrow morning when I unlock the door.
P.P.S. Syrus is definitely a Sexual Tyrannosaurus and hung like an elephant, so be careful and use lube!
P.P.P.S. To make sure this happens, I spiked Syrus's drink with a bottle of Viagra and Yuko you've been given an aphrodisiac known only to me, Tania, and several species of dolphin, so good luck with that!
Though it took a hot minute to read, all the alcohol left Yuko's system instantly, sobering her up like ice in a hot bath. Her hand shaking, she reached into the bag and instantly recoiled when it was indeed full of sex shit. She reached in again to pull out the bottle of lube.
She looked at Syrus, who also had realized the gravity of the situation and sobered up very quickly. "I can make this work."
….
Rose smirked as she unlocked the door to her room. "Hello Room Service!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. "I have french toast and coffee!"
She got no response. When she looked to the bed, Yuko's hair may have once been thrown back like a halo around her head, but now it was as bunched up as the clothes tossed around the room. As opposed to what she'd expected, Yuko was curled up to Syrus' chest, both their arms were tangled around each other's torsos. The two were deep in sleep still, not even budging at Rose's loud entrance. They were the picture of afterglow content.
"Aww," Rose said taking several photos. "They totally boned," She chuckled. "Glad there's no semen flood this time," She laughed before walking out of the room, content to give them some more time while the rest of the group dealt with their hangover.
….(Meanwhile at the white dorm)
"Who burned all our deck furniture!" Chazz yelled as he looked at the smoldering remains of their newest furniture set.
"I think it was the dweebs," Alexis said, pointing at the massive flag now hanging from their roof as she nursed her broken nose, concussed head, and choke bruised neck. "They're trying to resist us."
"Yeah well it won't work!" Chazz yelled back. "For we are the Society of Light! And we will not be opposed!"
"Guys!" One of the white students yelled from the door. "Someone broke the pool table! And took a shit on Chazz's laptop!"
"What!" Chazz screamed effeminately as he ran back inside, the first battle had ended with a crippling loss for the Society, and they didn't even know it.