Full Story Summary: James McKenna was a very easy-to-please person; all she wanted out of life was to watch Yugioh GX on her laptop while the world burned outside her window and she made twelve year olds cry on Duel Links like they hadn't just been slinging slurs at her like they were League players.

As she had said, she was a very easy-to-please person.

But then her simple life of causing others suffering via online children's card games was cut short when she was yeeted out of her bedroom one night and onto a park bench in the world of Yugioh during the GX timeline. Armed with nothing but her trusty decks with actual strategies, card sleeves, a backpack, and a toy duel disk that most definitely should not be working like a normal one, James sets out to become the next King of Games because fuck it.

Duel Academy better sleep with one eye open, because James McKenna was coming to fuck shit up.

(Or in which a girl gets isekai'ed into Yugioh GX, replaces Jaden, seduces the attractive members of the cast and sets out to fuck with people for nothing but sheer amusement. Zane is the tired mom friend, Bastion is a mad scientis, Chazz is a simp, Alexis and Cyrus are barely relevant, several memebers of the Yugioh OG cast are forced to come out of retirement just to deal with this wayward kid's punk ass, and James is laughing her ass off)

Love Interests:

Chazz Princeton

Zane Truesdale

Atticus Rhodes

Johan Anderson

Jim 'Crocodile' Cook

Aster Phoenix

Seto Kaiba

Duke Devlin

Thief King Bakura

Marik Ishtar

James McKenna had woken up in a lot of weird places over the years; on a rooftop, in cave, and one time in the washing machine of a house she had never been in before (don't ask how she got herself into that situation), but she had never woken up on a park bench before. James blinked at the annoyingly bright sunlight peeking down at her through the shade of the trees hanging over her and groaned as she sat up.

"Ugh, my fucking head. How much benadryl and vodka did I take last night?", James asked herself as she ran a hand through her long black hair. Her fiery golden eyes surveyed her surroundings suspiciously.

"Where the heckyll and hyde am I?", James asked herself. She was most definitely not in any local park near her small North Carolina town, that was for sure. The park she was in looked odd to her for some reason. It looked too… urban. The girl looked above the trees in the park and saw the tall buildings surrounding her. James blinked at the sight in bewilderment.

"Welp, I'm definitely not in Kansas anymore. They don't have any buildings like that back home.", James said to herself, and she was right. Her eyes widened as the reality of her situation started to sink in. She was alone in a strange place, and she had no idea whether or not she had the resources to take care of herself or get home. She was about to start panicking when something blew in out of nowhere on an afternoon breeze and ended up colliding with her face.

"ACK!", James exclaimed as she grabbed for the offending object that was covering her eyes. When she got it off, she realized it was a flier. At first, she was going to just crumple it up and throw it away with a few annoyed curses as a farewell, but the familiar images on the piece of paper caught her attention.

'Wait… Aren't those the Egyptian God Cards? Like, the ones from Yugioh?', James thought curiously.

The God Cards were well known to her. James had played Duel Monsters since she was seven, after she had started watching the original Yugioh anime on TV. She had been fascinated by the dramatic duels and interesting characters. James had quickly become good at dueling, and had made it her mission to collect all the coolest cards and decks from the moment she started playing. Currently, she had a copy of each God Card, and specialized decks for all her favorite characters and card types. The flier in her hand was an advertisement for something. The words on it, surrounded by the colorful images of the infamous Egyptian God Cards, read as follows;

Come test your skills at the Duel Academy entrance exam, and become the next top duelist of tomorrow!

Exams start at nine am on August thirtieth at the Kaiba Dome.

James stared at the paper with a shocked expression.

'This can't be real. This has to be a joke. Someone found out I'm into Yugioh and decided to punk me. Yeah, that's it. Though, I doubt anyone I know would go through the trouble of kidnapping me and taking me to an unknown city just for some joke… ', James thought in disbelief. She read the words on the flier again and again, until they finally sunk in and she started to believe that maybe, just maybe, the flier wasn't fake.

'Okay.', James started to think as she took a deep breath and sat the flier down beside her. She needed to remain calm. Freaking out wouldn't do her any good.

'So I may or may not have been isekai'ed into Yugioh-no, Yugioh GX. Duel Academy is only a big thing in Yugioh GX. If that's true… then this will be a very fun experience.', James thought carefully as a grin slowly crept onto her face.

Because really, of all the worlds she could have been isekai'ed to, Yugioh GX had to be the jackpot of all anime worlds. It had modern technology (mostly, since the anime took place in 2005), it had no life-threatening danger (the Shadow Realm didn't count because going there didn't kill you and it was about as scary as a dark closet to James), and it was a place where she could kick back and make a career out of playing the game she loved while trying to seduce all the attractive guys (Chazz Princeton had been one of her first crushes and to this day, James would still date him post redemption arc. His haircut notwithstanding). James was basically in her dream world! And she wouldn't even have to worry about getting a place to live if she got into Duel Academy like the universe was clearly directing her to do! James cackled loudly enough to make passing pedestrians look at her strangely.

'And getting in will be easy thanks to my decks! Wait, my decks! Do I even have my decks?!', James declared in her mind, before she started to panic again when she realized she didn't think she had her cards on her. Frantically, the pale girl began to pat herself down. She found nothing in her pockets, aside from her wallet and house keys. James was about to start cursing loudly when she noticed something on the ground by her feet.

'Huh? A backpack?', James questioned as she picked up the black bag and began to sift through it. There, she found several very important items; her devices, her chargers, several wads of cash, clothes, and other personal items. But most importantly, she found her cards, all exactly as she had left them, neatly stacked and tied together with rubber bands inside of the black lockbox she kept them in. James grinned like a madwoman and let out a loud whoop, causing people to stare at her again.

"Oh fuck yeah, I'm back in business baby!", James yelled. The then took out her smartphone and turned it on. Her eyes went wide when she saw the time.

"8:50?! Oh fuck, if I don't go now I'll miss the exam!", James cried in distress, because while she didn't need a school to teach her how to play a children's card game, she needed the free room and board said school provided. Also it was where all her sexy childhood crushes were, so…

"FUCK FUCK FUCK! I'M ABOUT TO LOSE MY MEAL TICKET!", James yelled as she bolted up from the bench and started sprinting towards the large building she remembered to be the exam center from the anime (she thanked the Egyptian gods that she had binged GX two weeks ago, which made it easier to remember the little facts about the series). She bobbed and weaved through the crowds of people, not bothering to apologize as she ran. While she was busy trying not to be late, James let herself get lost in her thoughts about dueling strategy.

'How am I gonna win in the practical exam? Let's see… The decks of the people in the anime usually weren't that good. Even Yugi's deck really sucked on its own, so the chances of a random examiner being any good at dueling will be slim to none. And even if I get stuck with Crowler because I'm late, I still know how to beat him easily. But then that begs the question of what deck I should use… ', James thought as she got closer and closer towards the exam building. She had tunnel vision. She had to get to that building so she could live out her childhood dream of winning duels and getting bitches! Her tunnel vision was so intense, in fact, that she didn't notice the short man with colorful spiky hair that she was about to run into. When she did, it was too late to stop the collision.

"AW SHIT! SORRY MAN!", James yelled out as she went crashing to the ground, her backpack breaking most of her fall. She scrambled to stand up and keep running, but before she could take off, she realized who exactly she had run into.

"Wait a goddamn minute, you're… ", James trailed off in shock. There, standing in front of her with an understanding smile, was Yugi Moto. The Yugi Moto. He looked about ten years older than he had at the end of the original Yugioh series, and he looked much more like Atem than he used to. The short man nodded at her.

"Yes, I am.", he said in a deep voice, and James snapped out of her stupor. She still had an exam to get to (not that she cared much about tardiness, but she'd rather avoid dueling Crowler if at all possible. She really hated that guy). James adjusted her bag and got ready to start running again.

"Again, sorry for running into you. I'll be going now.", James said, and she began to run away, but Yugi called out her and stopped her in her tracks.

"You're a duelist, aren't you?", the purple eyed man asked. James looked back at him with a small smile. She hadn't dropped any of her cards, but she supposed that Yugi knew enough about the game he was king of to know who was a duelist and who wasn't on instinct.

"Yeah, I am. I'm on my way to the Duel Academy entrance exam, actually.", James confirmed. Yugi reached into the deck case hanging off his belt and pulled out a card, before walking over to James. James stared at him in confusion.

'Wait a second, he's not supposed to do this with me, he's supposed to do this with Jaden!', James thought as Yugi held a card out to her.

"Take this. Something tells me it belongs with you.", Yugi said cryptically, and James took the card out of his hand without looking at it.

'Please don't be Winged Kuriboh, please don't be Winged Kuriboh.', James chanted in her mind, because while she knew Winged Kuriboh wasn't a useless card, she didn't want to possibly steal it from Jaden or have to listen to it's duel spirit constantly making those 'kuri kuri' sounds that annoyed the shit out of her in the show. James breathed a huge sigh of relief when she saw that the card in her hands wasn't Winged Kuriboh.

'Oh thank the Egyptian gods.', James thought. In her hand was… Slifer the Sky Dragon?

'What the fuck? Why would he give this to me? These cards are super dangerous here and can actually kill people. Oh well, better for me since I'll have a logical explanation as to why I have a God Card if I end up using mine in my practical exam duel.', James thought with a shrug. Oh well, who was she to question the master? With a wide grin, the girl gave Yugi the most grateful look she could muster as she stuffed Slifer into her pocket.

"Really? Thank you! I'll use him well!", James declared, and Yugi nodded at her again.

"Good luck.", he said, and James took that as her que to hightail it to the exam building. As she ran, she threw a cocky grin back over her shoulder at Yugi.

"By the way, I'd be on the lookout if I were you, because one of these days I'm coming for your title!", James declared, because fuck it. She had the skills to be the next King of Games, so why not go for it? The plot could screw itself, because she wanted to be the first King of Games without a stupid haircut. Yugi blinked at her in shock, and then he laughed.

"I'll be sure to do that!", he said, liking the girl's spunk. James's grin widened as she kept running. Her day had started bleak, but now she felt like she was on top of the world. Yugi watched her run with a fond expression.

"That girl… she reminds me of myself. I hope she does well.", Yugi said to himself. Then he heard a familiar sound from beside him.

"Kuri kuri!", a high pitched voice said. Yugi looked at the Winged Kuriboh duel spirit beside him in shock.

"Winged Kuriboh? What are you doing here? I gave you to that girl.", Yugi exclaimed in confusion. Then a look of realization appeared on his face.

"Wait, if you're here, then what card did I give to that girl… ?", Yugi trailed off slowly as fear started to creep onto his face. He then started feeling through his deck cases, checking to see if he still had all his cards. When he came to his extra deck, his face went pale when he realized only two of his three God Cards were in there.

"Oh no.", Yugi said quietly. Slifer was gone. Which could only mean one thing; he had given Slifer to the girl instead of Winged Kuriboh. He had just given a teenager a literal god that could fit in her pocket and possibly destroy everything in a mile radius if it was summoned… and she was going to take an exam that would require her to win a duel to pass very soon.

Fuck.

Yugi immediately pulled out his phone and flipped it open, dialing a familiar number. The dial tone didn't even ring for a full beep before the person on the other end picked up.

"What is it?", a harsh male voice asked. Yugi's face hardened.

"Kaiba, we need to talk-yes I know you told me not to call your personal number while you're at work, but this is an emergency.", Yugi said stiffly. The person on the other end, now revealed to be Seto Kaiba, spoke again.

"How big of an emergency, dweeb?", Kaiba asked skeptically. Yugi took a sharp, irritated breath.

"Let me put it this way; how badly do you want your Kaiba Dome in Tokyo to still be standing by the end of today?"

—-

James ran as fast as she could to the Kaiba Dome where she knew the exams were being held. By the time she arrived at the front entrance, it was 8:59. She saw two women in Obelisk blue uniforms manning the sign-in desk, and one man standing beside their table talking to them. James ran even faster.

"-Well ladies, that's it. Mark all the no-shows no-shows.", the man told the women. The two ladies started collecting their papers and other things, when James finally skid to a stop in front of the desk. The three people looked at her in bewilderment. James bent down and rested her hands on her knees as she breathed deeply. She hadn't run that fast since the last time she ran from the cops. After a few seconds of catching her breathe, James looked up at the three adults with the most charismatic smile she could muster.

"So sorry to bother you fine people, you wouldn't happen to take walk-in's for the exam, would you?", James asked suavely.

—-

As it turned out, the exam did take walk-in's. At least, they did that year since there were so many no-shows. James was placed in a large testing room with several people around her age. When she surveyed her surroundings, she saw many familiar faces; Cyrus Truesdale, Bastion Misawa, and even Alexis Rhodes. One face James did not see, however, was Jaden Yuki's.

'Okay, so that's strike two on the 'I may or may not have replaced Jaden as the main character' board. That is… mildly upsetting, but he annoyed me as a protagonist for the first few seasons of GX and if he doesn't exist, that means I might not have to go through all that Supreme King bullshit. Honestly, Jaden's only likable facets as a character were the fact that he didn't have tie-dyed porcupine hair like every other Yugioh protagonist and that his deck had really cool monsters in it.', James thought bluntly. She probably should have been more upset about possibly taking a person's place in the world, but the Supreme King arc was the deadliest arc in GX and she had no intentions of dying at a goddamn boarding school. If she was dying, it was going to be with several beautiful men in her arms.

While James was thinking all of this, the test began. James flipped her booklet open, and resisted the urge to cackle when she saw how fucking easy the questions were. It was just a bunch of Yugioh lore trivia questions. How did anyone fail this? She filled in all the questions with ease while most of her fellow examinees struggled.

She had finished her exam in less than half the given time, and to keep from looking too eager and signaling herself out, James decided to just doodle in her test booklet until time was called and turn in her answers with everyone else. James silently drew Marik Ishtar's pretty face on the final page of her booklet (because while she was into Chazz, that one scene in the original Yugioh series where Marik showed the tattoos on his back to Yugi and the gang had done something to her tiny self). While doing this, she garnered the attention of Bastion, who was staring at her curiously from across the room. James noticed this and shot the boy a wink and a small wave, which caused him to blush and return to his test. James shrugged at his actions with a carefree smile.

'Oh well, he's not my type anyways. Still hope we can be besties, though. He has actual strategies and would be really fun to duel.', James thought casually. Then she returned to her drawing until time was called.

—-

By the time practical exams started, James had spent most of it blasting music on her phone and sipping a soda she got at a vending machine. Most of the duels were boring as shit. To James, watching unnamed background characters duel was like punching a squirrel; decently funny, but it got really old really fast. And since Bastion was one of the last duels and Chazz had taken his practical exam before James finished her written one, that meant she didn't have much to occupy her time until her own duel started. James sipped her rip-off mountain dew as she scrolled through her phone, wondering how she still had access to media from her world on it, when she spotted a familiar head of spiky black hair in the distance and grinned.

'It's him! The man, the myth, the legend himself; the Chazz! Though, this is him pre-character development, so I probably shouldn't expect more than some lame insults and snobby attitude if I decide to actually talk to him… but eh fuck it, beats sitting here scrolling through Pintrest like a soccer mom.', James thought with a shrug, before she got up out of her seat and walked over to her favorite GX character and his lackeys.

While James was having her internal debate, Chazz was having some internal musings of his own. Chazz eyed the examinees taking their practicals with disinterest.

'What a bunch of slackers. I bet most of them don't even know the difference between a trap card and a spell card.', Chazz insulted mentally. He snickered to himself. None of the people getting into Duel Academy with him were half as skilled as he was, but they would learn that. The hard way-

"GAH!", Chazz yelled as someone jumped in front of where he was sitting from fuck-knows-where. His lackeys yelped as well.

'What the fuck?!', Chazz thought as he stared at the person in front of him. It was a girl around his age. A blush appeared on his face. She was gorgeous, with long inky black hair that flowed down her back and deep gold eyes. She wore all black; black jeans, a black shirt and a black leather jacket. A salacious grin made its way onto Chazz's face. He was about to say something flirtatious, when the girl gave him a sly grin.

"Hey kid, wanna buy some drugs?", the girl asked him in a low voice. Chazz's grin fell.

"Wha-what?", he asked, cursing himself for stammering. He probably sounded like an idiot. The girl, much to his anger, then proceeded to laugh at him.

"Don't worry dude, I'm fucking with you.", the girl said, and then she plopped down into the only empty seat beside him. Chazz could only watch this in bewilderment, while his lackeys quickly started glaring at her.

"Hey girlie, get lost! No one said you could sit here!", one of Chazz's more annoying lackeys demanded. The girl's smile immediately dropped, and she gave the lackey a threatening look.

"No, you get lost. Or else", the girl demanded, and the lackeys both narrowed their eyes at her.

"Or what?", the other one asked. The girl gave them a malicious grin.

"Or else I'll kill you with a rusty spork, and I'll do it in such a way that your pancreas will come right out your tear ducts. Don't think I don't know how to do it.", the black haired girl threatened calmly, and the lackeys, seeing she was serious, nervously got up.

"Okay never mind, we'll leave.", one of the lackeys squeaked out fearfully, and with that, they both ran off to be as far from the crazy girl as possible. Said crazy girl then turned to look at Chazz again, and gave him a casual smile, as if she hadn't just threatened to murder two people.

"So, where were we?", the girl asked calmly. Chazz wanted to scream. He wanted to tell the girl to get lost (because no amount of prettiness could make him ignore all the crazy he had just witnessed). But instead, he did the exact opposite of what he wanted to do and calmly responded to her question.

"You were offering me drugs.", he answered, and the girl laughed.

"Oh yeah, I was!", she chirped. Then her face turned serious quickly enough to give Chazz whiplash.

"But I digress. My name is James McKenna, what's yours?", the black haired girl, now known as James asked. Chazz snorted mockingly at her name.

"What kind of parents name their daughter James?", Chazz asked in patronizing disbelief. James just stared at him blandly.

"Dead ones.", she responded truthfully. Her parents had died in a car accident when she was a baby. She had been raised by her (admittedly pretty crazy) grandparents, who were probably losing their shit over the fact their only grandchild was missing. Chazz looked at her with wide eyes and went pale.

"Oh… I'm so sorry.", he apologized, because while he was a snobbish asshole, he wasn't a monster. He wasn't about to say something mean about someone's dead parents. That was a level of cruelness Chazz only ever knew his brothers to sink to. James waved him off with a shrug.

"Eh, it's fine, I never knew 'em. But back to you. You never told me your name, pretty boy.", James told him, and Chazz preened at the girl's attention, as well as the nickname (which was mildly concerning, because the girl beside him was very clearly crazy and he did not date crazy), and swiftly gave a response.

"The name's Chazz Princeton, babe. The best duelist in school.", Chazz said with pride as he pointed to himself with his thumb. James gave him a skeptical look.

"Mm, no you're not.", the golden eyed girl refuted. Chazz looked at her with confusion and irritation. He didn't like it when people argued with him.

"What?!", Chazz exclaimed. James gave him a bored look.

"You heard me.", she responded simply, not wanting to repeat her words. Chazz glared at her fiercely.

"Well then if I'm not the best duelist, then who is?!", the black eyed boy demanded to know. James thought about his question and raised a finger in response.

"Well first off, the official best duelist in school is Zane Truesdale.", James started to say.

'Not that that will be the case for long', James thought with an internal maniacal snicker. Then she raised another finger and continued speaking.

"And second off, you're not even the best unofficial duelist in the school, because that title is taken by yours truly… or it will be when I pass my practical exam. I'm sure you're really good, though.", James declared proudly, and Chazz blinked at her in surprise. Then, instead of laughing like James expected he would, the black haired boy raised a curious eyebrow.

"And how exactly are you gonna do that? Become the best duelist in school, I mean.", he asked inquisitively. Normally, he would have laughed in the face of anyone who made such bold claims, but James… intrigued him. She didn't act like a normal person. She didn't act sane. That made Chazz more inclined to listen to her claims, because you could expect insane things from insane people, at least in his opinion. James grinned at him.

"Easy. I've gotta ace deck, and I've got a million strategies for how I'm gonna win every single one of my duels. But most importantly, I got plans.", James told him in a quiet voice, as if she were revealing some grand secret. Chazz became even more intrigued.

"Plans for what?", he asked, trying to sound casual when in reality he was utterly fascinated. He had never heard anyone talk about their goals like James did, not even his brothers. James shrugged and put her hands behind her head as she leaned back in her seat.

"Plans for how to get into Duel Academy. Plans for how to beat my opponents. Plans for how I'll become the next King of Games.", James told him. Chazz laughed at that. Winning a few duels was one thing, but beating Yugi Moto? That was another thing entirely.

'This girl is crazy.', Chazz thought for what wasn't the first time since he had met the girl beside him. That fact alone should have made him stop talking to her, but it didn't. Instead, he just kept talking and asking her questions.

"Everyone has plans. That doesn't mean they'll work.", Chazz said with a shake of his head. His brothers always had plans for him and the company, and they usually weren't good ones. James shook her head at him and gave him a meaningful look. Chazz blushed slightly under the girl's intense golden gaze.

"No. Everybody has dreams. The difference between dreams and plans is that one is meant to become reality, and the other usually stays the way it is. I've got plans, babe. And they're gonna be a reality.", James explained wisely. Chazz was enraptured. He'd never met someone, let alone someone his own age, speak so surely. It was captivating. Chazz leaned closer to James.

"Okay. So how are your plans gonna work?", he asked. He wanted to hear her speak more. He wanted to hear her ideas that were probably just as fascinating as she was. James chuckled at him and shook her head.

"A duelist never reveals her secrets, hun. You'll just have to wait and see. But mark my words, gorgeous; you and this world are gonna remember me.", James said in a low, seductive voice as she leaned closer to Chazz and gazed into his black eyes. Her slight southern drawl was like a soothing melody in Chazz's ears. Chazz turned red as a tomato when he realized how close James was. He was about to say something, when words being called over the intercom interrupted him.

"James McKenna, please report to dueling arena B-4. James McKenna, please report to dueling arena B-4.", a bored sounding voice repeated. James grinned and moved away from Chazz, who felt very upset at that.

"That's my cue. Wish me luck, babes. And remember what I said.", James said with a wink as she stood up, grabbed her bag and walked over to the entrance to the arena area. Chazz watched her back as she walked away with a red face.

'Just who is that girl… ?', he thought in awe. James, meanwhile, grinned like a shark who smelled blood as she pulled Yugi's Slifer out of her pocket.

'Alright.', the black haired girl thought as she stared at the card, who's eyes seemed to be glowing slightly. Her grin widened.

'Let's get my fucking game on.'

So... this was probably a mistake. In my defense, I was left unsupervised. I had an itch only Yugioh and Yugioh GX could scratch, so I went back and watched some of the latter and got the urge to write fanfiction about it. I know, my lack of commitment to finishing my other books knows no bounds. Fun fact, Yugioh and Yugioh GX were actually the first anime's I ever watched. Some kids had Pokemon and Beyblade, meanwhile six year old me was over here simping for Marik, Bakura, Devlin and Kaiba. I loved this franchise so much I learned how to play the game, and I even created my first OC ever for said franchise. She was cringy, reeked of wattpad and I am so glad I didn't know what fanfiction was until I was eleven, otherwise there would be physical proof of one of the cringiest phases of my life... which just, no thank you please.

For those of you in this niche fandom who are actually interested in reading this shitstorm of a book, let me make some things clear; I haven't played Yugioh in years. The last time I watched the series seriously was like five years ago, so I'm kinda going in blind here. I still know how... most of the rules of the game work, but I won't be dallying too much on duels. Most of you people probably came here for a chaotic romance, and chaotic romance you shall have. Duels will mostly be skipped or used as comedic relief because of how stupidly good I'm going to make James at this game. This story is as the tags state; it is a poly reverse harem with every hot guy in the character tags as a love interest. This story isn't meant to be taken too seriously, either. Also, as you can see I'm a huge Chazz simp, so expect some Chazz favoritism.

This chapter's title and the Chazz scene were inspired by the song 'This World Will Remember Me' from the Bonnie and Clyde Musical. It's a great musical and I would recommend at least watching the set recording of the song. The etymology of James's name is meant to be foreshadowing, by the way. Her first name can mean 'usurper', and her last name means 'born of fire'. James wants to take Yugi's title, hence making her a usurper. How she'll will be 'born of fire' it yet to be seen. That's all for this ridiculously long author's note nobody asked for. Next time, dueling Crowler and Slifer chaos!

So long and Goodnight, Thackery Binx!