Waking up in an unfamiliar body on an unfamiliar helicopter with unfamiliar colorfully haired people, I did the only natural thing I could do. Look out the window and have a panic attack. Mind racing as I try to remember the last thing I had done, getting ready for night shift, driving to work, dying in a semi accident, showing up here. Wait a minute, DYING IN A SEMI ACCIDENT?! Okay, well at least I know what this is then. An Isekai of some kind, and I actually got hit by Truck Kun. Okay, next to find out what world I'm in.

I slowly peer back towards the people on the helicopter, trying to glean info from them. I see a small kid with massive blue hair talking animatedly to someone with brown hair, but I can't see who. I get my first hint on where I am when I see a flash of brown In someone's hand and I see a deck of cards with brown backs with a black circle in it. Yu-Gi-Oh, then. That makes the two talking loudly over there Jaden Yuki and Syrus Truesdale.

Which means I'm in GX. Well fuck. Despite being a huge fan of the game I only partially watched the Yu-Gi-Oh shows due to my family disliking anime as a whole. A grim thought flashes through my mind. My family. I hope they're okay. At least my brother can turn my room into that game room he's always wanted.

Pushing thoughts of my old family aside, I came to another realization. I don't know who I am in this world, and seeing as how I can see my hair and it's red and black, I'm gonna assume this isn't my body. Which means this body had a life living up to this point to get me to Duel Academy, which must be where we are heading. Do I have parents here? Do I act in a way different manner than I did back home? Do I even have a deck?! As I think this, I feel a thump in my inside jacket pocket that has me nearly jumping out of my skin.

Reaching inside, I pull out a deck with a note rubber banded to it, the entire deck sleeved with a card cover that looks like a normal Yu-Gi-Oh! card except where's it's brown it is now black and the black oval on the front has been replaced with The Black Stone of Legend. Oooo please tell me this is what I think this is! I cackle internally as I open the note left by I'm assuming whoever brought me here and materialized me a deck with my favorite cards. The note reads:

Riley,

I have dropped you into YuGiOh GX. Do what you will with that. You are an orphan with a small apartment, and a trust fund to be used only for necessities, like rent, food, tuition, and clothing.

Here you will find your deck. I'm a sucker for the Red Eyes and it looks like you are too, from the games I watched in your previous life. I just wanna see what you'll do. The GX story has been slightly altered to allow you to assist in certain moments throughout the plot. This means there are unknown characters, characters with different motivations, and much more. Have fun, try not to lose your now much larger soul in a shadow game.

Deuces,

ROB

I don't really know what to feel, on one hand I'm an orphan so no parents to convince or deal with, and I have my favorite Archetype. On the other, I already don't know much of the plot of this wild show, and now you're telling me you have changed it and possibly made it harder?! With my luck I'll be in a tag shadow game with Titan and, oh I don't know, YUBEL HERSELF.

Letting out a sigh, I smirked and looked at my deck. It seems ROB* left me my old master duel deck, minus any link summons, synchro summons, or XYZ summons. So all in all, not a bad deck at all. I run 3 Copies of Meteor Black Comet Dragon, 3 Red eyes Slash Dragon, 3 Red Eyes Dragon Swords, and Magical Knight Giltli Gearfried as my extra deck monsters. My deck is a combo burn deck and equip card deck, using equip cards with my warriors and slash dragon, and my burn cards with my dragons and Meteor Black. Cards like Immortal Phoenix Gearfried, Black Metal Dragon, Metalmorph, Red eyes Fang With chain, etc.

Part of me is extremely excited getting to use this deck, it looks amazing even without the more modern summoning techniques. The other part of me is concerned that some of these cards are here. I know Catalyst Field is way newer than GX, so is Infernoble Knight Roland. How many new cards are gonna be here? I might not have the card advantage I was assuming this would give me depending on what else is here.

Clearing my thoughts via a shake of my head** I looked around again, surprise filling me. I hadn't even noticed we had landed. How had I missed that?! I rushed out the helicopter behind the last other person, who looked back at me with an uneasy expression. Confused, I arched my eyebrow at him in an unspoken question, but he just turned away from me and sped walked down the steps and into the crowd.

I let out a small sign and shrugged before following who I assumed to be my new classmates. I blanched for a second when I realized I had forgotten something important. What dorm am I… okay good. Looking down at my colors I saw the yellow of the RA Dorm. But the jackets look different? Looking around at my classmates, noticed that instead of the solid color jackets the characters wore in the anime we are wearing either black or white coats, with our colors used as highlights. My coat is black with yellow stripes, same as the guy who seemed to not want to associate with me for some reason.

This is good, it means I have a choice in how much I want to interfere. Canon might be different but the Ra dorm should give me a degree of separation between Jaden in Slifer and Alexis in Obelisk. That way I can decide how much I'm needed and how much stronger the world is before making my move.

Heading to the central building we are led into a classroom, before the monitor on the back wall lit up. The face of the chairman appeared and congratulated us on our entrance into Duel Academy before directing upper class men of our respective dorms to lead us to them. Not that it would have been thaaaaat hard to find, it's got a piss yellow roof for fucks sake. After getting my room number from the front desk, I walked up to the third floor. Guess Ra isn't good enough for elevators I grumbled internally, before unlocking the door and seeing my roommate.

As we locked eyes, I knew this wasn't gonna be good. The same boy from the helicopter looked at me, and a sweat broke out on his forehead almost instantly. Do I know this guy from somewhere? He glances at the door, and then the window, as if death via defenestration was preferable to having me a roommate. Fair enough.

Unsure as to why this guy has a problem with me, I raise my hand in a greeting and start to speak. "Hiya, names Riley." I gave him a winning smile. In that short moment I realize a couple of things: number one, I'm much larger than this guy, and probably larger than I was in my past life based on the doorway I'm standing in. Number two, I haven't spoken since I woke up here, and my voice was full of fluid like I woke up with a cold. Number 3, my smile back home is a sarcastic smirk most of the time, but I doubt it would look at that on this guy. This means my attempt to sound happy and confident instead looked like a large guy in all black leering down (unintentionally) at his roommate before basically growling out a couple of words at him. He reacted better than I expected but worse than I wanted.

"My name is Benjamin, but everyone calls me Benji. I don't know what your deal is, but I heard you chuckling to yourself while you looked around at everyone on the helicopter. I don't want anything to do with any nefarious plots you have, I just want to be left alone to work on my deck in peace." He finished before backing up and looking still like he wanted to bolt, but I could see the grit in his eye showing he was gonna stand his ground even though his mind was screaming at him to run.

I can respect that and, wanting to salvage my first impression, I clear my throat and try again. "Sorry about that, I had something in my throat. I'm Riley, and I don't have any nefarious plots that I can think of. As for my chuckling, well, I really like my deck. I had just got some new warrior cards to add and I was imagining using them all." I finished my mini-speech rather weakly, but already I could see the change in my roommate's demeanor. I should take a good look at him now that I think about it. The guy stands at about five foot seven based on the height of the desk behind him, which puts me at six foot four, a couple inches taller than my last life. He has dark brown hair in a middle part, dark skin and brown eyes. His glasses seem new, and his eyes are bright yellow.

Immediately the guy flips the script, scaring me with how fast he jumped at me, reaching for my deck with fanaticism that scared the hell out of me. "LEMME SEE! Warrior monsters are the best! You gotta let me duel them! What attribute are they?! LET ME SEE LET ME SEE LETMESEELERMESEELETM-"

It seems despite being taller I'm still the same bean pole I was in my last life, because this kid just knocked me straight on my ass back out the door of our room, and into an unsuspecting Ra.

He turned and snarled "What the hell do you think you're doing, trash?!" Benji let out a small gasp at the harsh language, but I brushed it off. I had just slammed him into the wall before falling in front of him, a shitty attitude is at least partially earned here.

I stood up before reaching my hand out to shake his. "Sorry about that, we were playing around and I fell out the doorway. I'm Riley, are you hurt anywhere?" He was taller than Benji, at six foot two inches, with spiky silver hair and green eyes. He looked up at me, probably not used to people taller than him, before sneering and smacking my hand away.

"Fuck your apology" he grunted out. "Trash like you should know your place. How someone clumsy like you got into this prestigious academy in the same dorm as one as marvelous as I is a wonder. Your deck must be gimmicky and surprised the examiner. Just stay out of my way, extra."

His speech started off with a posh accent, but as he went it slipped more and more into a belligerent, grating tone. This guy went from Monoma to Bakugou just like that! I thought to myself with a chuckle. It came out deep and rattling, with a dark sound to it.

This guy just insulted my deck, called me trash, and smacked away my apology. Three strikes, sorry pal. I glance back at Benji, who is oscillating between looking angry at prissy boy here and staring terrified at me again for some reason. I give him a reassuring smirk before turning my gaze back to Great Value Chazz. A dark facsimile of a smile tore across my face, and my eyes gleamed with malice.

"Oh? Well you can find out about my deck right now if you'd like asshole. I'll beat you so bad your white pants will match our dorm colors if that's what you're looking for."

His face turned an ugly puce, before gritting his teeth. "How DARE you! Fine, I'll destroy you and your pathetic cards! You're gonna eat those words in front of our whole dorm, you side character!"

Benji, now locked in at the mention of a duel, says "I'm sure you can ask Professor Sartyr to referee when we all meet up for the dinner, let's just leave eachother alone until then." His attempt at defusing the situation kinda worked, as the other boy narrowed his eyes at him before growling out a "fine" and stomping off to his room and slamming the door.

With the pompous dick gone, Benji let out a stressed groan and collapsed on his bed while I closed the door. "Dude, it's day ONE and you have a nemesis. What the fuck was that?!"

I give him a shrug and reply "Well I tried to be nice but I really don't do well with people throwing that back in my face. Now that he has I can drop the hammer on him without feeling a shred of remorse. It's the only reason I'm nice to everyone, I give them the rope to hang themselves with. Metaphorically, of course."

Benji looks scared again and I realize I'm smiling again. Oh well, I'm sure tomorrows gonna be fun.

*ROB stands for Random Omnipotent Bastard.

*like an etch e sketch lol

Thanks for reading the first chapter everyone! Let me know what you think but try to keep it to constructive criticism if you hate it. Flames don't really make anyone a better writer. This is also my first story so I don't know how this is going to format itself.

Writing is hard, and dialogue is the worst part. True to my name I ramble and that doesn't always make for good storytelling.

Lastly, I'm not crazy familiar with GX like I said in the story and I also probably will use cards incorrectly in duels. It's gonna happen, I'm making decks up as we go here people.

Anyways enjoy, I'll try to have to the second chapter out by next week. Ciao!