Chapter 06: Duel with the Kaiser

Konami opened an eye in annoyance as he heard banging a few rooms over. "What the hell?" He muttered rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and checking the time.

It was Five-Thirty.

Who the heck makes this type of noise that early?!

"If I was solid I would kill them and harvest their organs." Eyeless Jack snarled as despite being a spirit the Creeps still slept a bit.

"I'm not even a killer and I agree with you," Jay muttered tiredly with Smile Dog barking at the door before the young man paused. "Minus the harvesting part."

"You are making this worse." Jeff pulled Smile Dog back, feeling a headache.

"They better have a good reason otherwise I might follow Jeff's example and go on a killing spree." Konami muttered tiredly not thinking straight due to only having only three hours of sleep.

Jeff smiled. "Do it-," He was cut off when Jane appeared and pulled his hair. "Ow damn it."

"Stop trying to corrupt him." Jane told him plainly as that has been a theme with Jeff these last few years.

Konami opened the door in time to see some people accosting Jaden and Syrus making him blink before seeing a woman in a green uniform.

"Excuse me," Konami muttered tiredly making her level a glare at him. "Usually I'd be curious about what's going on but can you please keep it down?"

"Konami Tribal?"

That made Konami a bit more alert as he gave a guarded expression. "Yes?"

"You are to come with us as well as your roommate Blair Flannigan." She said-no she ordered.

"... Can I ask why?" Konami asked just thinking about closing the door as he was in no mood for any crap.

"Konami what's going on?" Blair muttered walking out rubbing her eyes as all of the noise woke her up as well before seeing what was going on and was extremely glad that she wore her hat to sleep.

"You're all under campus arrest." The woman answered sharply making their eyes widen.

"What?!" Blair asked in shock while Konami froze, his mind going through all of the possibilities in why this happened-.

… The Abandoned Dorm.

"What did we do?!" Apparently Jaden didn't come to the conclusion that Konami has with the woman looking at him.

"That will be made apparent at the interrogation."

"... Can we at least get dressed first?" Konami asked hesitantly looking at the woman who frowned before relenting that much.

"Make it quick, you have five minutes."

Konami gave a nod and closed the door looking at Blair. "You want me to change in the bathroom or do you want to go in there?" He asked as there was a small space in there.

"I'll go in there." Blair muttered grabbing her Slifer Uniform while Konami grabbed his clothes to change.

"Expulsion?!" All four of them shouted in shock as they stood in a room with the woman now introduced as the Chairman of Security on a screen along with Crowler, Chancellor Shepard and a few members of the School Board who kept quiet in the background.

"That's what I suggested." Chairman said with a glare at the four of them. "You trespassed in the Abandoned Dorm, a letter from one of the Faculty confirms it, you must be punished so an example will be set for all the students."

"But what type of example are we setting?" Doctor Crowler asked with a smirk. "That we are a bunch of hard-hearted tyrants? How about we set something a little more sporting?"

"Sporting?" Jaden asked curiously. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well Jaden off the top of my head, you partner up with Syrus for a Tag Duel against Konami and Blair there." Crowler answered him. "The winner stays while the loser is expelled."

The four just stiffened up at hearing that while Chancellor Sheppard turned to give Crowler a cautious look. "Isn't that a bit much?" He asked in concern as while this was a serious issue due to how he had the Dorm closed off for a good reason, just pitting four students against each other like that was cruel.

In fact he was willing to just let them off with a warning and a few days of detention.

Crowler grimaced, knowing how the Chancellor thought as he continued. "They knowingly trespassed in a part of the island that's forbidden, an example has to be made, if we go easy on them we would have more people going there."

He was originally going to invite some professional duelists to take out the Drop-out boy and his friend as Syrus hasn't made any impressive scores at all, but on looking at all four of them, the idea of pitting them together to ensure that a Slifer gets expelled is too good of an idea to not do.

That way someone does get expelled and either way he would win.

The Chairman of Security, gave a nod agreeing with the teacher. "Doctor Crowler is correct Chancellor, action must be taken here." She said looking at the four students.

After a moment the Chancellor sighed in agreement as he couldn't exactly decline this as these four did get themselves into this mess and he could see from how the Board were talking that they agreed as well. "We'll give out the time of the Tag Duel at a later date." He said giving an apologetic glance to the four students as he said that.

Konami couldn't think straight as they left the room in silence, none of them spoke.

The four of them had to face each other in a Punishment Tag Duel and the losers get expelled.

'I haven't even been here for three weeks and I might be expelled.' Konami thought looking at Jaden who he knew would normally be excited by a duel, especially since he's been wanting to duel against Konami's Creepypasta Deck, but even Jaden was subdued as he knew this was bad.

"W-What do we do?" Syrus asked looking between the four of them.

"Syrus, I don't think there's anything we can do." Blair whispered not looking at him as she didn't want to be expelled but she didn't want to be the cause of them being expelled either.

"Man this just stinks." Jaden said with a frown, trying to think before seeing Konami walk off. "Hey Konami where are you going?"

"I-... I need to clear my head." Konami muttered giving a lazy wave as he walked off not caring about class now.

While he walked, he could idly see Sally humming as she followed him, making him quirk a brow before shrugging.

He didn't know Sally as well as the others so he wasn't against her just following him, maybe she was just curious in what was going on?

The Chancellor sighed as he sat at his desk with both Chumley and Alexis speaking to him later that day.

They just finished explaining what happened at the Dorm as well as saying that they were coerced into coming by these Shadow Duelists-it adds to their story as their Duel Disks can record duels and showed the two duels on their files.

However the Board wouldn't accept it because they had proof that the four Slifers were there already before the Shadow Duelists.

"I'm sorry all of you had to go through that, but I can't change their punishment." Sheppard said looking at them.

"But there has to be a different way," Chumley said his arms shaking. "None of them deserve this."

Jaden and Syrus coming to this school were the best thing that have happened to him as the two of them managed to get him more interested in dueling again instead of giving up. Sure he might not be close with Konami and Blair as much as Jaden and Syrus but he didn't want to lose any of his friends.

"Chumley's right, please Chancellor." Alexis said with a frown. "There has to be something you can do."

"I may be the Chancellor but even I can't change what the board decides." Sheppard said in an apologetic tone and his face fell at seeing the two looked a bit crushed at what they were hearing and he couldn't blame them.

His hands were tied as it was because if he tried to interfere people could call him out on favoritism.

Eventually, Konami was in the middle of the forest in the school, sitting in a tree to watch the clouds.

Below him Sally managed to pull Smile Dog into playing a game while Jeff tapped his foot impatiently with Masky and Hoodie nearby having a bit of a conversation.

All of them stopped however when Slenderman walked into view. "Konami, get down here." He called out catching the Red Hat's attention as he looked down at the faceless Creep in surprise.

In all the years he's had this deck, Slenderman hasn't really spoken to him all that much. Instead he just kept silent and observed him, only speaking to the other creeps, the other night was one of the few exceptions to that and apparently today was going to be another.

Giving a nod, Konami slowly climbed down as Slenderman looked at Smile Dog, giving a silent message for the dog to patrol around them so no one walks in on this conversation.

Because if anyone did they would just think Konami was crazy as they couldn't exactly see the creeps.

Once Konami made it to the ground, Slenderman crossed his skinny arms and spoke. "After you and everyone else left the Dorm, it had another visitor," Slenderman explained to Konami who blinked while the other Creeps looked confused, not seeing anyone else. "Apparently the Shadow Duelists were hired by that blonde teacher of yours, Crowler."

Konami's eyes widened at hearing that. "He hired them?!" He asked in disbelief that a teacher did that before clenching his fists. "Now it makes sense, Sheppard said that one of the Faculty confirmed it."

If it was just Jaden though he would understand because the man has made a bit of a habit of trying to get Jaden humiliated, but why drag him or Blair into this?

"Quite a dick move." Eyeless Jack muttered thoughtfully, moving his mask a bit to where he could pick his teeth.

"May-Maybe we shou-should ret-retali-retaliate?" Toby suggested, his twitches a bit more noticeable with some eagerness.

Masky gave a nod, actually agreeing with Toby for once much to Hoodie's surprise.

Konami frowned knowing what Toby meant but he gave a slight nod.

Nothing too drastic but he did want some revenge.

"But that still leaves what to do with this Punishment Duel." Konami muttered, earning a snort of disbelief from Jeff.

"You fucking serious?" Jeff asked looking at him as if he was an idiot. "Just beat those two. Who cares if they get expelled?"

Konami looked at Jeff with a frown. "Not going to happen," He said sharply. "Besides if they get expelled Crowler wins and I think we both agree that we hate that idea."

On hearing that Jeff grudgingly agreed.

"Either way he would win, we have to find a way around that." Jay said holding his camera as he messed with it-a habit he's picked up over the years as a spirit when he needs to think.

"Easier said than done, say what you want about Crowler the guy is good at covering his bases." Jane said with Jay nodding in agreement.

While that was going on Masky looked deep in thought before an idea came to him and he quickly placed a hand on Hoodie's attention making the spirit look at him in surprise.

"Tie." Masky said quietly and that surprised everyone as the Creep usually preferred to keep quiet.

"... The fuck are you talking about?" Jeff asked dubiously, Eyeless Jack perking up.

"That's the way out of this, they said that if the loser will be the one to be expelled," Eyeless Jack reminded them giving a dark grin. "But what if there was a tie instead of a win and a loss?"

Konami's eyes widened at the thought before Toby brought up a problem. "But what if the-they deci-decide to expe-expel all of them inst-instead?" He asked twitching with each word.

Jeff just snorted and looked at Hoodie. "Remember when it was easier just killing people without all of this shit?" He asked with Hoodie shaking his head in amusement.

"Easy? I seem to remember a lot of stuff going to hell." Hoodie returned.

"Still it's the best option we have," Konami muttered before looking at Sally who was quietly playing with her teddy bear while they were talking. "So we going to talk about the elephant in the room?"

Just like that the others turned towards Sally with curiosity making her look up returning the look with a tilt of her head.

"Say what you want about her if she wasn't there chances are neither would we." Jay reminded Konami who agreed with the cameraman spirit.

"I'll talk with her," Slenderman stated as dealing with children was typically his territory before he looked at Masky, Hoodie, Toby and Konami. "I'll need to speak with the four of you later tonight."

Konami looked surprised right before Slenderman walked to Sally, a tentacle protruding from his back to pick the girl up and disappeared. "Should I be worried?" He asked with Jeff leaving with Eyeless Jack, Smile Dog following behind them.

Jane glared at Jeff's back before walking off, Jay looking a little worried as he didn't want to be caught in any crossfires and left when Masky gave him a glare.

"Nah, he prob-probably has a j-j-job for us." Toby said grinning excitedly as it was finally beginning to seem like old times, his answer making Konami wary.

Ticci-Toby once made a joke about Konami being an 'honorary' Proxy in the past and he was pretty sure what that night entails would probably involve that.

Making it back to the dorm room, he saw Blair looking miserable with her hat off before she saw him, halfway to putting it on when he opened the door. "Don't do that." Blair muttered finishing putting the hat on. "I thought you were one of the others."

"Sorry." Konami apologized walking to his desk and sitting at it. "Just needed to think."

"Yeah, that was something I wish we could forget." Blair said thinking about the bomb that was dropped on all of them that morning.

Konami gave a nod, leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed, looking at Blair. "How are Jaden and Syrus?"

"Jaden is trying to make the best of it-I think he's excited about dueling the two of us finally but you can tell he isn't entirely happy," Blair said thinking back on it. "Syrus is just panicking and I don't blame him. The two of them had a duel earlier but it didn't exactly help Syrus's confidence."

"Then how about we go over and tell them that I think I have a way out of this." Konami said with a grin his words making Blair's head snap up in surprise.

"You know a way out of this mess?" Blair asked some disbelief in her tone-Konami can't exactly blame her for not really believing him because even he thought this was an unwinnable situation.

Before Konami could elaborate, their door slammed open with Jaden rushing in a panicked look in his eyes, Chumley running in behind him holding the door frame panting, Blair's hand rushing to her head before remembering she already put the hat on while Konami just calmly raised a brow at the sudden entrance. "Have either of you seen Syrus?!" Jaden asked the panic reaching his tone telling Konami that this was serious.

"I just got back here." Konami said carefully with Blair nodding.

"I thought he was with you."

"Read this." Jaden opened his hand to show a crumpled up note, making Konami quirk a brow as Blair accepted it with the red hat looking over her shoulder to read.

"This is a goodbye note." Blair muttered not liking this.

"Uh what kind of goodbye note?" Konami asked hesitantly hoping it wasn't a suicide note.

That's the last thing they need and he was pretty sure Syrus wasn't that depressed about this whole situation… But he's been wrong before.

"We need to find him." Jaden said looking determined.

"The island is a big place, any idea where he would go?" Blair asked standing up.

Konami crossed his arms in thought. "He'll be looking to leave so he'll have to be near the harbor or perhaps the Chancellor's Office to try and resign." He suggested knowing that those were the most likely places.

"Syrus!" Blair called out with her and Konami looking near the school while Jaden and Chumley were down at the south end of the island.

"Where are you dammit." Konami muttered under his breath keeping his eyes peeled, checking his PDA in case Jaden sent him a message saying they found him.

Blair glanced at Konami after a few more minutes. "Do you think he might've already got off the island?"

"That's pretty unlikely, the ships don't leave until Monday to get supplies for the cafeteria and today is Wednesday." Konami reminded her, putting his PDA away. "So I don't see how he could get off-."

"Kuri."

"The hell?" Konami turned towards the weird noise, missing Blair's face adopt one of confusion to see a Duel Monster Spirit in the form of Winged Kuriboh flying by, giving Konami a cautious look as it did so.

"What is it?" Blair asked not seeing the Duel Monster right when they heard footsteps and turned to see Jaden and a panting Chumley running towards them.

"Hey I think we found a lead on Syrus." Jaden explained not even stopping while Chumley had to stop to catch his breath.

"W-We did?" Chumley asked, looking exhausted when Jaden took off running again going the same way as Winged Kuriboh. "H-Hey not lishus!"

Blair and Konami just exchanged a look before running after them. This was the closest they got to finding Syrus in two hours, they needed to hurry.

"Aw man first no Grilled Cheese and now more running?" Chumley complained as despite his worry for Syrus he was a bit miffed at missing supper.

That made Konami frown. "If you'll stop complaining I'll make us Grilled Cheese when we get back." He said wanting some peace as Chumley gained a hopeful look.

"You will?" Chumley asked a hopeful tone in his voice with wide eyes.

Blair grinned, seeing that. "Only if you help find Syrus." She said barely finishing that when Chumley had a burst of speed running past them, nearly knocking the two over.

"SYRUS!" Chumley shouted easily going out of sight.

"Damn he can run when motivated." Konami said not expecting that a bead of sweat going down his face.

"Stay back Jaden!" Konami and Blair heard Syrus's voice and they saw him trying to leave on a raft as Jaden jumped on it only for the Raft to give out and they both fell into the water. "Help me, I can't swim!"

"And you were about to go on a raft into the ocean?!" Jaden asked incredulously as Syrus tried to use him to stay afloat, only to drag him into the water.

"Shit." Konami cursed as he ran forward when Chumley jumped into the water.

"I'm coming!" Chumley shouted only to blink as he was waist deep in the water. "It's shallow?"

Jaden and Syrus broke through the surface gasping for air as Konami and Blair made it.

"You guys are insane." Konami deadpanned with a sweat drop as Syrus was shivering from the cold water.

"Better then being boring." Jaden said to him as Winged Kuriboh landed on his shoulder and disappeared, but not before giving Konami another cautious look.

"Why did you stop me, Jaden?" Syrus asked looking away. "I stink. They'll assign you a better Tag Partner and you'll have a much better shot at winning the match."

"Sy, that's your brother talking." Jaden said to him. "Come on pal, you've got to believe in yourself."

"You've got to believe me." Syrus muttered. "I'm a lost cause."

"He is right, you know." All five of them spun around to see Alexis standing next to a male Obelisk Blue with dark blue hair looking at them with crossed arms.

"Z-Zane." Syrus didn't know he was in the area.

Blair's eyes went wide as Konami frowned. 'So this is Zane.' He thought remembering the talk he had with Blair the other night.

"The school's top duelist." Jaden muttered under his breath and Zane must've heard him from the small look he gave Jaden as he turned back to Syrus.

"You dropping out?"

"Well... Yeah, kind of." Syrus said nervously, unsure of how his brother would take it.

Zane just stared before looking away. "Well it's about time."

Konami's eyes widened at hearing that.

What kind of brother said that?!

"HEY!" Konami shouted a little pissed off. "That's no way for brothers to treat each other!"

"He's right." Jaden agreed after seeing Syrus looking down from what Zane said. "How can you say that?!"

"Because I know him." Zane answered without a bat of an eye.

"Yeah, I bet you think you know it all, but guess what, you don't." Jaden said with his hands clenched. "And I'm going to prove it right now, let's duel."

Syrus looked at Jaden with a stunned expression. "No, Jaden don't!"

"Duel? Jaden are you crazy?!" Blair asked saying her first word since Zane showed up. "That's Zane Truesdale you're good but he's on a whole other level."

Zane looked at Blair and frowned.

There was something familiar about this student.

When Blair saw Zane looking at her, she went red and averted her eyes.

Now Zane narrowed his eyes, recognition dawning in them.

Seeing that, Konami blocked his gaze by standing in front of her and gave a glare of his own as if daring for him to try something with his friends making Zane look amused.

"You going to answer Kuriboh Head or not?" Konami asked trying to take the attention off of Blair.

Jaden nodded before giving a start. "Kuriboh Head?" He asked not sure where that came from.

"Well your hair is shaped like one." Chumley pointed out.

"Duel with a Slifer?" Zane asked slowly as if the thought was nothing more than amusement before shrugging. "Sure why not? It's been awhile since I've been slumming."

If anything excitement shined in Jaden's eyes seeing this as both a chance to boost Syrus's confidence and to duel the best in Duel Academy.

"Under one condition." Zane looked from Jaden to Konami. "You team up with the Red Hat there."

Konami blinked not being called that for awhile when Jaden frowned. "I want to duel one-on-one." He said not liking the idea of double-teaming someone.

It was too cowardly.

"Those are my terms, take it or leave it." Zane said coldly, walking off with Alexis following after him after giving the Slifer's an apologetic look for his behavior.

Slowly Konami looked at Blair. "That's the guy you have a crush on?" He whispered in disbelief while she poked her fingers together a bit nervously but her confidence was returning now that Zane was gone.

She didn't get the chance to reply when Jaden sighed and looked at Konami. "I don't think he's going to budge you in?"

"Gladly." Konami said wanting to beat that guy in a duel.

No one should act like that to their own brother, he was going to enjoy this.

"Oh man, both of them are going to be dueling Zane?!" Syrus tugged his hair. "This is all my fault."

"Guys I'm not sure about this, Zane is the best Duelist at the Academy for a reason." Blair said trying to talk some sense into them.

That made Konami look at her. "You don't think we'll win?"

Blair opened her mouth but paused seeing that she might've dug herself into a hole here.

Jaden placed a hand on her shoulder with a grin. "Hey the duel hasn't even started yet, so don't count us out yet."

Chumley then grinned. "Yeah and it's two on one, they have this in the bag."

"No, Zane knows he can still win," Syrus said his lack of confidence in Jaden actually surprised Konami there as the bluenette always had confidence in his friend. "He dueled three people at once before and they were all in Obelisk."

"And he won?" Jaden asked in surprise with Syrus giving a nod before the Kuriboh Head gave an excited laugh. "Hearing that is just getting me even more pumped up."

"He hasn't faced anything like my deck before." Konami said coldly taking offense at the lack of confidence from both Blair and Syrus.

Besides the Creepypastas were powerful in their own right, they will win this.

Syrus looked down. "Still you should've just let me leave, that way you guys had a chance to escape expulsion."

That made Blair's eyes widened. "Oh right Konami didn't you say you had an idea on how all four of us could get out of this?"

Immediately both Syrus and Jaden snapped their heads towards Konami surprising the teen as he was pretty sure they should've suffered from whiplash. "You know how we can get past it with all of us staying here?" Jaden asked a look of excitement in his eyes while Syrus had a look of both skeptical and hopefulness.

"I do but we have a duel right now, I'll explain after it okay?"

Up on the harbor, Jaden and Konami stood across from Zane while Syrus, Chumley, Blair and Alexis were off to the side to watch this duel.

"Hope Jaden knows what he's doing." Alexis muttered to herself looking from him to Konami. "Same goes for Konami."

"Come on you two," Chumley shouted cupping his hands to his mouth. "You can do this!"

"My brother versus my best friend, there's no way this can end well." Syrus said looking dejected.

Blair hesitated unsure of who to root for as Zane was her idol and the sole reason she came to Duel Academy. But Konami and Jaden were her friends and she didn't want to root against them.

"Alright so not only do we get to find out what's wrong with Syrus and his bro but we can see how we rank up with the best of the best." Jaden said with excitement coursing through him.

This along with the news that Konami might have an idea on how to get out of expulsion seemed to bring the fire back in his eyes.

"Just keep your head in the game." Konami warned him with Jaden grinning at him.

"Right back at you Konami."

"Duel!" The three Duelists shouted out at the same time, drawing five cards each.

Turn 1: Jaden.

Zane: 8000 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 8000 LP.

Zane Hand: 5 vs Jaden Hand: 5 Konami Hand: 5.

"The fuck?" Jeff muttered appearing next to Konami with the others as they were just doing their own thing on the island. "Wait we're in a duel?"

"A three-way duel?" Hoodie asked seeing the situation while Sally giggled and climbed up to look over his shoulder. "Hey get the hell off of me!"

"Alright I'll start this off," Jaden said drawing a card, grinning in excitement. "By summoning Elemental Hero Voltic in Attack Mode

Elemental Hero Voltic

Level: 4 Light Attribute

1000 ATK 1500 DEF.

Thunder/Effect.

Sparks flew as the monster was summoned to the field covered in a purple suit with silver armor on the knees and chest, a red jewel in the knee part while a lightning emblem appeared on its belt.

"I'll throw a face down while I'm at it."

Turn 2: Zane.

Zane: 8000 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 8000 LP.

Zane Hand: 5 vs Jaden Hand: 4 Konami Hand: 5.

"That's all? Okay," Zane asked in a bored tone drawing his card. "For my first move I'll summon out Cyber Dragon in Attack Mode."

Cyber Dragon.

Level: 5 Light Attribute.

2100 ATK 1600 DEF.

Machine/Effect.

A giant metal snake-like Dragon roared as it appeared shocking everyone but Alexis who calmly watched.

"No way his Cyber Dragon already?!" Blair asked in awe.

Jaden blinked. "Wait that's a Level 5 Monster how can you summon it on your first turn like that?"

Zane looked amused by his lack of knowledge on this. "I can summon it because it's my first turn," He said calmly taking a card out of his hand. "If you have a Monster on your field while I don't, then he requires no sacrifice. Now I'll play Mystical Typhoon."

Jaden covered his face as the wind kicked up with the face down of his being destroyed. "That was fast." He muttered.

"Not as fast as your life point meter will go down," Zane said quickly getting to the point. "Cyber Dragon attack! Strident Blast!"

Needless to say Voltic was obliterated.

Jaden/Konami: 8000 LP-1100 LP = 6900 LP.

Syrus groaned and placed his hands over his face. "I can't watch, I warned Jaden about this."

"Okay this might be trouble." Jane said her eyes narrowing at seeing this.

"Nothing we can't handle." Jeff said hiding his worry as a monster this powerful on the first turn? They never went against anything like that before.

It really said something about the situation given how both Jeff and Jane weren't arguing.

"Next I'll play the card Extra Dimensional Capsule," Zane said a coffin erupting from the ground. "It allows for me to pick any card from my deck and place it in the capsule. In two turns I can take it out and add it to my hand."

'Oh boy this isn't good.' Konami said his heart was beating fast from adrenaline at how quickly this duel was escalating. 'He can get his very best card with this strategy, for all we know he could end this duel in his next turn.'

They had to make a good counter attack before that happened.

"I'll end my turn by playing a Face Down."

Turn 3: Konami.

Zane: 8000 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 6900 LP.

Zane Hand: 2 vs Jaden Hand: 4 Konami Hand: 5.

"My turn." Konami drew and looked at his six cards.

In his hand were Ticci Toby, Jane the Killer, Totheark, The Eight Pages, Smile Dog and Axe of Despair.

"I summon Ticci Toby in Attack Mode!" Konami said playing the Twitchy killer as he unstrapped his hatchets.

Ticci-Toby

Lv: 4 Dark Attribute

ATK: 1600 DEF: 1300

Creepypasta/Effect.

"Next I'll equip him with Axe of Destruction-." Konami went to do so only for Zane to interrupt.

"You activated my trap," He said calmly revealing Magic Jammer where chains erupted right as the Axe appeared, obliterating it. "From what I've seen your strategies involve using spell cards to power your monsters up, take that away and you won't put up much of a fight."

That made Konami glower but Ticci was shaking in a mixture of rage and tourettes.

"You moth-mo-motherfu-fucker," Toby shouted shaking a hatchet at him. "I'll k-k-kill you for des-destroying my axe!"

Konami blinked never hearing Toby rage like that before and it really seemed to be messing with his speech a bit.

But looking back at his hand he knew he couldn't do anything else but end his turn.

Turn 4: Zane.

Zane: 8000 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 6900 LP.

Zane Hand: 1 vs Jaden Hand: 4 Konami Hand: 4.

Zane drew a card and quickly got into action. "I play Limiter Removal which doubles any Machine Monster's power." He said with Cyber Dragon getting an upgrade.

Cyber Dragon 2100 ATK-4200 ATK.

"Destroy his Monster." Zane ordered with the Dragon obliterating Toby.

Jaden/Konami: 6900 LP-2600 LP.

"Now I'll play a face down and end my turn."

As his turn ended his Cyber Dragon roared when it exploded.

"Not Lishus." Chumley said in shock as when both Jaden and Konami dueled they always came out on top from what little he's seen.

This however wasn't a duel. No this was a slaughter.

Toby looked very irked when he appeared next to Masky and Hoodie. "F-F-Fuck him." He muttered showing he would show a bit of a grudge.

Masky snorted in amusement while Hoodie rolled his eyes at how they were.

Turn 5: Jaden.

Zane: 8000 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP.

Zane Hand: 0 vs Jaden Hand: 4 Konami Hand: 4.

Jaden however was grinning even wider. "Alright my move." He said drawing a card. "I play Polymerization."

The fact that he got that card was enough to draw a cheer from Chumley while Konami sighed in relief.

They still had a chance.

"To fuse together Elemental Heroes Heat and Stratos to summon Elemental Hero Great Tornado!"

Elemental Hero Great Tornado

Lv: 8 Wind Attribute.

ATK: 2800 DEF: 2200

Warrior/Fusion/Effect.

A large Elemental Hero wearing green and yellow armor with a tattered black cloak covering him appeared, wind kicking off around him.

"Alright attack directly with Cyclone Blast!"

Zane barely flinched when the attack passed through him.

Zane: 8000 LP-2800 LP = 5200 LP.

"Man can at least kind of flinch." Jaden said playing a face down, ending his turn.

Turn 6: Zane.

Zane: 5200 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP.

Zane Hand: 0 vs Jaden Hand: 1 Konami Hand: 4.

"Amazing." Syrus breathed as he has never seen his brother lose that many life points.

"Ha I bet the big man on campus is going to feel small enough given the skills that Jaden is showing." Chumley said looking confident at this comeback.

"Don't get your hopes up too high." Alexis warned as Zane still didn't look worried. "This duel is only beginning."

"Alexis is right, Zane is the best for a reason." Blair said focusing on the duel, not wanting to miss any of it but looked worried by how Konami seemed to be losing his cool.

Especially since it seemed that he was the one lacking in this particular duel.

"I play Pot of Greed." Zane said the spell card appearing, allowing for him to draw two more cards. "Next I Cyber Phoenix in Defense Mode."

Cyber Phoenix

Lv: 4 Fire Attribute

ATK: 1200 DEF: 1600

Machine/Effect.

It was like Cyber Dragon, only with more avian like features and it emitted fire.

As he ended his turn, Konami couldn't help but find that odd.

He showed this much skill only to play a weak monster like that?

Unless he had a different monster planned to summon and found this one to be good to sacrifice for his strategy. That made more sense considering that he still had a card in his hand.

Turn 7: Konami.

Zane: 5200 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP.

Zane Hand: 1 vs Jaden Hand: 1 Konami Hand: 4.

Drawing his next card, Konami saw that it was Slender Sickness.

So he got into action. "Time for my comeback," He said with a grin. "I summon Jane the Killer in Attack Mode."

Jane the Killer

Lv: 3 Dark Attribute.

ATK: 1400 DEF: 1500

Creepypasta/Effect.

Jane stretched as she got ready. "Haven't used me in awhile." She acknowledged wondering what Konami had planned.

"Jaden mind if I use your monster?" Konami asked as they were partners in this duel.

"Hey go for it." Jaden said with a thumbs up considering they still had the same amount for the field to use to keep it fair.

"Alright Elemental Hero Great Tornado destroy his Cyber Phoenix."

Jaden's Monster gave a cry as another cyclone erupted destroying Zane's. "When Cyber Phoenix is destroyed I can draw one card." He said showing that he was planning on it being destroyed.

"Maybe so but you have nothing to stop Jane from attacking you directly." Konami said with Jane rushing forward hitting Zane before he could blink.

Zane: 5200 LP-1400 LP = 3800 LP.

"I'll play a face down and end my turn." Konami said planning on using Slender Sickness to ruin Zane's plan.

With that, Jaden's Monster and the Eight Pages they could end this on his next turn if Jaden doesn't finish him off.

Turn 8: Zane.

Zane: 3800 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP.

Zane Hand: 2 vs Jaden Hand: 1 Konami Hand: 2.

Zane said nothing as he drew when the Different Dimension Capsule activated giving him another card that he placed in his hand. "First things first I activate my facedown card to bring back my Cyber Dragon."

"This again?" Jane asked with a frown at seeing the familiar monster.

"Next I'll play Polymerization to fuse this Cyber Dragon with the one in my hand to create Cyber Twin Dragon." Zane said everyone tensing while Konami fought hard to try and not to smirk to avoid giving his plan away.

But he was wary because he saw Zane save the card he got from his Different Dimension Capsule so he was definitely saving something. Still if they play this next turn right then it won't be used.

Cyber Twin Dragon.

Lv: 8 Light Attribute.

ATK: 2800 DEF: 2100

Machine/Fusion/Effect.

"Oh man twins? One was bad enough." Chumley said in shock.

"That's not even his best card." Blair told him because she has seen his strongest in a tournament style duel before.

Jaden whistled at seeing the giant two headed mechanical Dragon. "That's a sweet monster." He said liking it.

Zane allowed for a small smirk before growing serious. "And his ability allows for him to attack twice." He explained making them tense.

Seeing his chance, Konami took it. "Too bad for you that it won't come I activate Slender Sickness!" He said his trap card showing.

The effect was immediate as Cyber Twin Dragon roared in pain with it's form shifting like static.

"Not only does it negate your attack but on the second end turn I can destroy your monster to summon one of my own." Konami said with a grin, one that disappeared on seeing Zane smirk.

That was never a good sign.

"Very well I end my turn."

"Wait isn't that the card that Konami used to summon Slenderman?" Syrus asked in surprise at seeing Cyber Twin Dragon stopped as the memory of the Dorm Duel came to mind.

On hearing that Chumley gave a start, having heard of that particular story. "So we might see it in action?" He asked with Syrus nodding. "Sweet they're really taking your brother down."

Blair bit her lip with indecision. "Don't forget he still has two turns."

"Right a lot can happen in a single turn." Alexis said getting what she was saying.

Turn 9: Jaden.

Zane: 3800 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP.

Zane Hand: 2 vs Jaden Hand: 1 Konami Hand: 2.

"Alright draw!" Jaden said declaring his move. "Hey Konami you mind?"

Getting what he was asking, Konami hesitated as he really wanted to bring Slenderman out to end this duel but he gave a nod. He trusted Jaden to win this.

"Sweet then I play De-Fusion!"

That caught everyone's attention as Elemental Hero Great Tornado separated into Heat and Stratos.

Elemental Hero Heat

Lv: 4 Fire Attribute.

ATK: 1600 DEF: 1200

Pyro/Effect.

Heat looked to be a muscular hero in silver, red and orange armor with flames bursting off of him and next to him was Stratos who wore blue armor with silver wings.

Elemental Hero Stratos

Lv: 4 Wind Attribute.

ATK: 1800 DEF: 300.

Warrior Effect.

"Now I'll activate Stratos Ability to where I can add one Elemental Hero to my hand," Jaden said quickly searching his deck to pull Bubbleman out. "Plus Heat gains an extra 200 Attack Points for every Elemental Hero I control."

Elemental Hero Heat: 1600 ATK + 200 ATK = 1800 ATK.

"Next I'll fuse them with another Polymerization."

"Hold up why would Jaden do that?" Syrus asked completely lost.

"Maybe he wanted a certain hero?" Chumley suggested.

Zane however frowned knowing exactly what he was doing as Great Tornado appeared. "I'm sure you're probably confused but let me explain his effect," Jaden said with a grin. "When Great Tornado is summoned on the field the Attack and Defense points of all of your monsters are cut in half."

A vortex appeared around Cyber Twin Dragon making it groan as Elemental Hero Great Tornado flew above it.

Cyber Twin Dragon: 2800 ATK/2 = 1400 ATK.

"Alright now let's do this Great Tornado, Cyclone Blast!"

Right as it was about to connect however Zane made his move. "Bold strategy but I have a quick-play spell." He said showing the face down card was De-Fusion, blocking the attack and separating the Twin Dragon to two Cyber Dragons in Defense Mode.

Konami grimaced.

Now he can't summon Slenderman and Zane still had monsters on the field. Still it was a good attempt from Jaden. Besides he can't be mad because Zane would most likely have did that on his next turn anyways.

"Heh now this is pretty sweet, I end my turn," Jaden said looking at Zane. "Give me your best shot!"

Turn 10: Zane.

Zane: 3800 LP vs Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP.

Zane Hand: 2 vs Jaden Hand: 0 Konami Hand: 2.

"My best huh? Okay you asked for it." Zane said drawing his card before grabbing the one he took from the Different Dimension Capsule. "A good duelist is ready for anything and that means not just knowing how to use all of their cards but how to play them too. From what I've seen you can play your cards well."

Syrus looked taken aback by Zane complimenting someone's duel style before thinking about what was said. 'Know how to play your cards?' He thought now seeing Zane's point as he remembered when he tried to use a card given to him but Zane stepped in as it would've backfired horribly. 'I think I get it. Knowing how to play a card and knowing how to use one are two completely different things.'

'Good compliment but better advice,' Jaden mused his grin still on his face. 'Hope Sy is listening.'

Konami quirked a brow, not expecting that. 'Well what do you know,' He thought seeing Zane look at Syrus from the corner of his eye while saying that. 'He used this duel to teach his brother a much needed lesson.'

Guy was still an asshole though.

"You both have good teamwork, trust is important when it comes to Tag Duels, but it's not enough to win this one," Zane said as they covered each other. "It's time to end this."

With that he played his card.

"I play Power Bond, to fuse the two Cyber Dragons on the field with the one in my hand to create Cyber End Dragon!"

Konami stilled as a giant mechanical monstrosity with three Dragon Heads appeared roaring.

P-Power Bond? He's only heard of it but never seen it.

This was an all or nothing card.

Cyber End Dragon.

Lv: 10 Light Attribute.

ATK: 4000 DEF: 2800

Machine/Fusion/Effect.

"Zane's greatest monster." Blair looked awed at seeing it again. "This duel is over."

She didn't see any way for them to get out of this because they had no cards on the field, two Monsters and Cyber End Dragon can attack a total of three times.

"They dueled well though." Alexis said as they did give Zane a challenge.

"When a monster is summoned with Power Bond their attack is doubled." Zane said the monster roaring as power coursed through it.

Cyber End Dragon 4000 ATK X 2 = 8000 ATK.

"Holy shit." Eyeless Jack said his jaw dropping at the sheer power.

It easily dwarfed all of them, Slenderman included.

A fact that didn't set too well with the faceless Creepypasta as he watched this.

"I-If they can survive this then they win, doesn't Power Bond backfire on the user's life points?" Chumley tried to be optimistic about their chances. "Jaden doesn't your Monster have some sort of hidden ability or something?"

Much to his shock, Jaden didn't answer instead grinning. "Come at me with everything."

Zane smirked at his guts. "Cyber End Dragon destroy Great Tornado." He ordered the Monster gathering up energy before firing a blast at the Elemental Hero to obliterate him.

Jaden/Konami: 2600 LP-5200 LP = 0.

The holograms disappeared as the loss registered. "W-We lost?" Jeff asked unable to comprehend that. "No way we should've won."

It was two on one, they had this.

The other Creeps didn't say anything as they were shocked by the strength this Zane showed compared to them. "It was a bad mismatch, especially with the hand," Hoodie said with a sigh. "It's to be expected from time to time considering this game factors in luck."

Konami looked down at his hand knowing what they said was true.

He had good cards in his deck but he was unable to do anything in this duel due to the ones he drew. That and Zane exploited his main weakness of using spell cards to power up the Creeps.

They lacked the sheer power by themselves to battle effectively.

Jaden however laughed and looked at Zane with no resentment or anger, instead he looked excited. "That was a great duel, let's do it again sometime." He said.

Instead of answering, Zane gave a nod. While he wouldn't say it he knew he would've lost if Jaden used Stratos other ability to destroy any face down trap or spell card depending on the number of Elemental Heroes on the field. If he did that then he definitely would've lost.

It seems he needed to work on his deck a bit more.

Looking from him to Konami, Zane saw the boy looking at his deck before seeing Zane's gaze giving the Obelisk a nod of respect showing he wasn't going to hold any resentment either.

Both of them will go far.

Giving a small smile, Zane turned and walked off, glancing at Blair as he passed by.

While he did know who Blair was he didn't see any harm in letting her keep her secret, especially when he saw her run towards Jaden and Konami, Syrus and Chumley right behind her.

"So what do you think?" Alexis asked curiously, walking with him.

Taking the moment to close his eyes, Zane made a response. "Syrus made some good friends."

"You weren't kidding about his skills," Konami said when Blair reached them. "That was unreal."

"I tried to warn you guys." Blair said with a smile.

Jaden laughed. "Tell me about it, Sy your brother had some mad skills."

"Yeah but I got the looks," Syrus joked earning a bout of laughter that made him take on a look of mock hurt. "Hey."

Smiling slightly, Konami coughed. "Come on let's get back to the Dorms." He said as they had a lot to talk about.

"Tie?" Jaden looked intrigued as they were all in Jaden, Syrus and Chumley's room discussing their problem. "So we just have to tie and we'll be able to stay?"

Blair looked unsure. "Will that work? What if they throw all of us out?"

"Then they do that," Konami said with a shrug. "Either all of us stay or all of us leave I'm not giving Crowler the satisfaction of one of us expelling the other."

Syrus fidgeted at how Konami was being blunt but he gave a nod. "Yeah I don't want to be expelled or do that to anyone."

It was a slim chance but that was better than what they had that morning.

"But how can you make the tie?" Chumley asked unsure if they had the right card for it.

Konami just smirked. "I have one but it's not in my deck," He said opening the binder he brought in with the different cards he brought with him, showing the specific card to them. "But we should all make sure we have one to ensure a better chance of drawing it."

"Heh sweet and after this tie we should really get our game on to celebrate!" Jaden said showing he wanted to duel without the fear of being expelled making Konami snort.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night Kuriboh Head."

"We have to get through this to celebrate." Syrus deadpanned as Chumley grabbed his stomach.

"Can we celebrate with Grilled Cheese?"

Later that night when everyone was asleep, Konami snuck out of the dorm wearing a black hoodie with horizontal green stripes on it, his red Slifer blazer in the backpack he was carrying while he headed for the forest with his hood pulled up and dark green gloves on to avoid leaving fingerprints.

On entering the Forest he placed the mask he had on to hide his features, the skull-like mask giving him an intimidating appearance as the rest of his body blended in with the shadows.

"Lo-Looking g-go-good Skull." Toby joked using the 'name' he began to call the Red Hat whenever he wore the mask.

"Shut up, I'm only wearing this because I don't want to get into any more trouble for sneaking out," Konami said harshly his voice muffled a bit by the mask. "And don't call me that."

"I don't know," Hoodie said sounding amused. "It does suit you with that mask on."

Masky just tilted his head jerking towards the forest reminding them that they had to meet Slenderman. Thankfully the meeting spot wasn't too far off as Slenderman was waiting.

"He-Hey b-boss!" Toby twitched as he waved.

Konami would be lying if he said he wasn't intimidated by how Slenderman slowly turned towards them before he was suddenly in front of them using his 'teleporting' ability to move around.

"Good you're all here," He said, static erupting around them. "I have Smile Dog walking around to make sure no one walks in on us talking."

"What exactly do you want us to do?" Hoodie asked curiously. "We can't exactly interact with the world in our current state."

"You can't but Skull here can." Slenderman said his tone taking an amused tone to it at the name that Toby seemed to have chosen for Konami.

Despite wanting to say he wasn't going to answer to that, Konami grew uneasy. "I'm not killing anyone." He said glaring at Slenderman because Jeff and Eyeless Jack have spent the last few years trying to 'convert' Konami into a killer since they couldn't do anything else.

Besides killing people on the island would cause such an unneeded panic.

Slenderman might scare him but the faceless being couldn't exactly do anything to him except for give him nightmares.

Just the thought of having that nightmare with the eight pages nearly made Konami shiver while Slenderman just stared at him not giving any sign on if Konami's refusal to go that far made him angry or not.

"Of course." Slenderman said still sounding amused while Toby groaned and snapped his fingers, twitching a bit.

"Bu-But that's s-so bori-boring." Toby complained with a huff.

"But you do want revenge on Crowler am I right?" Slenderman asked with Konami straightening his posture showing he was interested.

Truth be told he was surprised that Slenderman seemed to be at ease with him defying the powerful Creep but that meant he had something else planned and he didn't like it.

Konami kept quiet as he was picking the lock to the teachers side of the Obelisk Blue Male Dormitory, Masky keeping watch for him while Toby and Hoodie were inside to make sure no one walked in when he would open the door.

The plan was simple.

Crowler had to have some sort of evidence that linked him to the Shadow Duelists, so he could go in and swipe it for some leverage. Although it all depended on if he was egotistical to keep it and knowing the blonde make-up wearing teacher he definitely would keep it if it was a memory of getting Jaden expelled.

By having that evidence he could do so many things.

He could expose Crowler, getting the man fired or he could blackmail him with it using his masked identity of course, he wasn't stupid enough to do it showing his real face.

So many possibilities.

Feeling the door unlock, Konami pushed it open and slowly snuck in there.

Eight years of having this Creepypasta Deck gave the Proxies plenty of time to teach Konami stealth, lockpicking and tracking, especially since two of them were stalkers in a way.

"Where's Toby?" Konami asked seeing the twitchy Proxy gone.

"He ran ahead to find Crowler's room," Hoodie answered dryly. "Thankfully since we're spirits he can't go off plan like usual."

Masky smirked but his eyes scanned the darkness, gesturing to Konami to move before anyone saw him in case there were a few people up this late.

Konami idly wished that he could've brought his PDA for the map but he couldn't risk the GPS on it tagging him in here.

But thankfully they heard Toby upstairs. "Wow th-this place is hu-huge it's like a ca-cas-castle!"

Following his voice they saw him up on one of the chandeliers looking like he wanted to spin on it before he gave a wave.

"Crowley is in th-there," Toby said pointing to a door at the end of the hall. "He's asleep."

Giving a nod to the Proxy, Konami moved to the mentioned door and slowly opened it holding his breath as the door made a squeaking noise on being opened. Entering the room, he could see Crowler fast asleep and slowly snuck around, looking for any sign of evidence.

Thankfully there was a computer there that he had to boot up.

"Alright listen to me closely," Hoodie said as Konami got on there. "When the password screen appears press the keys I tell you."

Right, Hoodie was a bit of a hacker from his time on Marble Hornets. Although Konami had no clue if it would work since he only hacked a Youtube account.

Still Konami followed the directions and pretty soon he was in.

Looking through his files, Konami quirked a brow as Crowler seemed to have a love for Italian Culture oddly enough but he shook his head and focused trying to find anything that could help him, looking over his shoulder to see Masky watching Crowler, ready to warn Konami if the man would wake up.

"Focus." Hoodie told him with Konami giving a nod.

It took a few minutes but he was able to find a payment info to one Shadow Duelist Titan and smirked, taking a flash drive out to copy it but then he paused. "Hold up where's the info on the other Shadow Duelist?" He asked quietly.

"Skull." Masky whispered catching Konami's attention as Crowler was stirring making him quickly take the flash drive out after it finished, turning the computer off before he quickly left the room.

He had what he needed, he'll have to look for proof of the second Shadow Duelist on a later date.

To Be Continued…

Alright we got past the duel with Zane which I screwed around with to make it a bit more different for obvious reasons, hope you all enjoyed it as well as the introduction of other Elemental Heroes that Jaden has and the 'plan' to get them all out of this Expulsion Tag Duel.

Unlike the last story I decided to have the four of them duel each other because Crowler is vindictive enough to do something like that and it add's a bit more drama to it. Also I sincerely hope you liked Konami donning his 'mask' for the first time in this story as that was a lot of fun to type.

Time to answer some Reviews.

Ender the multiverse Detective: Haha thanks.

The Lord M: Yeah typing Sally's introduction was a lot of fun and thank you for the encouragement on that front. Huh that would be interesting to type for the spirit world part.

Iwymoisiraslom: Thank you.

KuriMaster13: Haha yeah I can't believe I miscalculated that part when it came to the dueling. Yeah Anthony did cheat, it will be made more apparent on a much later date I can promise that. You sure about that Ritual Monster thing? I pulled that off in one of the games… Then again I might have to look into that.

Duskrider: Thank you.

Mad God 42: Yup.

Davidcrazy234: It's currently on hiatus sorry.

Nightmaster000: Thanks and sorry for the lack of updates on my part.

DefconDeceiver: Yeah it was fun to type the build up to the reveal of both Anthony and Blair. I figured there should've been an explanation to why Blair disguised herself as a Boy-sure it could be argued that she did that to avoid Zane outing her as he did remember her but I figured this one made more sense.

Matt: Heheh who said anything about him not being seen again? Almost anything can happen with the Creeps.

Aibcareer2k: Thank you, I might do fusion cards. Don't know about XYZ but Synchro Cards sound pretty cool and 5D's is actually set a few years after Gx because the Police Chief in 5D's that always harassed Yusei is the same bully that beat up Tristan, Joey and Yugi the day that Yugi completed the puzzle.

Smolwriter: That is a pretty cool idea, I'll have to write it down, thank you.

Abyss Emperor: I actually don't know much about the SCP, I'll have to look into them some more. I assume you were talking about Sonix Exe? Well he'll be up there along with Slenderman giving Konami more firepower but let's just say that he'll have an important role to play later on.

DPSS: Thank you.

Dr. X - Raven: Yeah I can see how that chapter was a bit disappointing, the sudden collapsing part I meant to have the guy Konami duel admit to causing that-I forgot to add it in which will be corrected soon. The reveal yeah I could've done it better but truth be told. However it doesn't take much for the neck to break-depending on how you landed and where that brick was-case in point the Injustice Comic where Nightwing died-and when Riku fell the gravity along with the speed of him falling down did it. I changed the last chapter up a bit to fix some of the mistakes so hope that fixes some of it. Oh and as for him being freaked out by Konami attacking him-well it had to do with how one of his eyes went pitch black which would freak anyone out and Konami didn't really fight back earlier so him attacking him threw the guy off.

Alright this is Spidey Signing Out!