Okay, my second Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds fanfic. Let's see if I can do better this time. They're all in high school, trying to get through sophomore year (except Leo and Luna who are ninth graders). This was pretty much inspired by the quote from Angela about high school, but it's not in the same universe as the show. How're we doing so far? And did you know, lazar is an actual word? It's defined as: a poor and diseased person. Hah!

Yusei cringed as a high-pitched annoying voice reached his ears. "Guess what!" Angela squealed.

Yusei didn't even bother responding to the pretty blond girl, knowing she would simply tell him.

"A new girl's coming, like, today, and she's going to be in our dorm! With me and Aki and Misty, I mean!"

"Yeah, and I'm showing her around." Akiza said as she walked out of her classroom – at the high pitched tones Angela was using, it was doubtful people on Mars hadn't heard her, let alone her magenta-haired best friend.

As usual when Akiza arrived, Yusei felt his heart skip a beat. He had gotten used to it over the past few years, and now, though ignorant to its meaning, had learned to pay it almost no attention. Instead, he focused on a pair of arguing boys, one much taller than the other, one blond haired, and the other orange-headed.

"I can't believe you didn't study for the science test!"

"It's just a test, Crow, so what? We're three days into the school year and you're already raining on my parade!"

Kalin walked up behind them. "What I can't believe is that we have a test three days after break."

"You'll never guess what I just heard!" Angela, ever desperate to be the center of attention, had jumped in front of Jack.

"We're getting a new girl and Aki gets to walk her around the school. We could hear you at the other end of the hall." Jack said without smiling. Angela's own smile melted.

A red haired man, old enough to be any of their fathers, walked out of his classroom. "Stop gossiping outside my classroom and go to lunch!"

Angela, Yusei and Akiza walked ahead while Crow, Jack and Kalin stayed behind to put their backpacks away.

"Idiot." Jack said, looking back at Mr. Divine.

"Mr. Full-of-Himself." Kalin added, looking sideways at Jack.

"Remind you of anyone, Jack?" Crow tacked on, staring in another direction.

"No, not really. Why?" Jack followed Crow's gaze onto a girl with bright blue hair in a business-like outfit. "Why are you looking at Mina?"

"Her hair is pretty-" Crow suddenly realized who he was talking to and corrected himself. "Pretty interesting."

"What's wrong with blue hair?"

"Nothing!" Crow quickly answered, placating Kalin. "It's just the shade."

Kalin shook his head. Even if Crow wouldn't tell Jack about Mina, that didn't mean Kalin was oblivious.

"I'm going to sign up for initiating the new girl." Jack said, leaning against his locker as a group of girls walked by him, giggling and staring. A tall black-haired girl followed the crowd, detaching herself and walking over to her friends.

She looked serenely at the gaggle of girls. "Boys. What a waste of time."

"Excuse me?" Crow yelped. Misty laughed and pushed him into the lockers.

"You barely count as a human being, let alone a boy."

Kalin and Jack snickered quietly, while Kalin ignored the slight ache in the corner of his stomach, putting it down to hunger. Lunch was, after all, next. But did she really think boys were a waste of time?

Misty shrugged, walking around the wall of lockers to the other side and stuffing her books haphazardly into the top part. She knocked several times on the back of the locker.

Dot-dot-dot-dot dot dash-dot-dash-dash dash dot-dot-dot-dot dot dash-dot-dash.

Hey there in Morse Code.

Since their lockers were back-to-back, Kalin tapped back dot-dash-dash dot-dot-dot-dot dot-dash dash dot-dot-dash-dash-dot-dot, or What?

Never mind, came the response.

Misty walked back around. "Come on, let's go." Kalin followed her silently towards the lunchroom, vaguely hearing Jack and Crow argue about something new in the distance. It sounded like Jack was curious about Crow and Mina.

As they walked up to their usual table, a boy with a bright blue ponytail and a loaded lunch tray bounced up to them.

His sister followed him. "Leo, you gotta put some of that back or you'll spill it all."

"No I wo-wo-whoa!" Leo tripped on his untied shoelace, his tray falling all over him.

Jack rolled his eyes. Leo was such an idiot. Turning to the table, he froze as he saw a dark-haired girl he had never seen before sitting at their table. Yusei, Aki and Angela were standing there, presumably having just arrived. They looked as though they were wondering how to tell her she was sitting in their spot.

The girl looked around suddenly, and seeing the group of nine looking back, stopped dead. "Uh… h-hi." She stuttered. "I'm… Carly?" Her voice was barely a whisper, and it rose, making the end of her sentence seem like a question.

"You must be very stupid if you're not sure of your own name." Jack commented, looking at her coldly.

She squeaked. Angela laughed.

"Don't mind Jack," Yusei said. "That's his way with everyone." He sat down next to Carly, holding out his hand. "Yusei Fudo."

"C-carly Carmine."

"What kind of a name is Carmine?" Angela demanded.

"A pretty kind of name." Akiza said, sending her friend a look that said She's new, lay off. "It means red, doesn't it?"

"Yes."

Suddenly there was a loud outburst of shouts from two voices behind them, and Akiza whirled around. "WHAT IS ALL THE YELLING ABOUT?!"

Jack pointed at Crow, starting to shout, "He won't tell me what the big deal is about MMMFFFF!" Crow had jumped up to reach the hood of Jack's white hoodie, grabbed it, yanked it over Jack's face and stuffed it into his mouth right before he could yell Mina to the entire lunchroom.

"I know what the big deal is." Kalin said, looking amusedly at the bickering pair.

Jack managed to pull the hoodie out of his mouth and back over his head, sputtering, "I'll get you for that!" He looked at Kalin. "So, what is it?"

"You want to know?" Kalin smirked.

Jack glared at Kalin. "Yes."

"Are you sure you want to know?"

Jack's violet eyes narrowed, his mouth distorting into a scowl. "Yes."

"Are you positive?"

"YES!"

"All right, I'll tell you." Crow looked horrified. "If Crow says it's all right." Kalin continued.

Jack gaped at him, irate. Crow nearly cheered.

Akiza plopped down next to Yusei. "So, Carly, can I see your schedule?" Carly silently handed the sheet of paper over, and Akiza surveyed it. "You're in all my classes, and most of everyone else's."

"Even him?" Carly pointed at Jack with an expression on her face that was a mixture of terror and worship.

"Yeah, even him. You might want to get over your original crush – Jack Atlas doesn't date, and trust me, you're too good for him." Crow snickered at Akiza's words, and Jack's outraged expression grew to one of murderous intent.

Carly quickly wiped the worshipful look off her face as the others took their places.

Leo started to shovel Luna's food into his mouth as fast as possible while Jack regarded him disdainfully. Crow was occupied with staring across the lunchroom at Mina.

"Leo, what are you doing?" Luna asked.

"Seeing how far I can bend back a plastic spoon." Leo had almost finished Luna's lunch, and so had moved on to a new activity.

"One that's loaded with mashed potatoes?"

Carly looked over across the table to see Leo facing Luna, trying to do exactly what he said he was doing. This can't end well.

Just as Carly thought that, the spoon snapped, flew through the air and across the table, and hit Jack somewhere between the eye and the ear. Jack turned with a menacing look on his face, and Carly and Leo gulped simultaneously. Akiza laughed and started to clap from her seat. Jack shot her a dirty look, and sprayed soda at Leo and Akiza at the same time.

He got Akiza full in the face, but Leo was a little luckier. He ducked under the table and the spray from Jack's Sprite hit the daydreaming Crow directly between the eyes.

Crow was abruptly yanked from dreamland and started to harmonize with Akiza in a chorus of profanity, the duo beginning to chuck everything remotely within reach at Jack. Most of which was food. Jack jumped out of the way, and suddenly Yusei, Kalin, Carly and Misty were splattered head to toe in various mysterious substances.

"Oh, that IS IT!" Misty shouted, earning attention clear across the lunchroom. Carly froze, taking in the expressions of the teens sitting around them. Every single one of them had the same mischievous smile as Leo, and suddenly Carly was nervous.

Then the air around her exploded with food.

Carly was blinded – apparently a lot of people had mashed potatoes, and Carly's glasses did, after all, look a lot like bulls-eyes. But it was better than getting them actually in her eyes.

Misty and Aki looked at each other and nodded deviously, some form of telepathy passing between them before the two friends rose and headed to the dessert bar.

"Can we have some of those?" Akiza asked sweetly, pointing towards the table.

Martha the lunch lady looked down where she was pointing and gave her an apprehensive look. "I'm not sure…"

"Please?" Misty asked, an angelic look coming over her face.

"Well… how many?"

"Thank you!" Without answering, Misty and Aki scooped up all of them, racing over to Jack.

Jack took one look at them and backed away. "What's the matter? Is the great Jack Atlas scared?"

"I swear, if you throw that at me you will not live to see another day."

Akiza grinned. "I'll take the risk." She picked one up in her hand, and Jack stared at it, facing down a pie in the face.

Just as Akiza launched the creamy offensive, Leo leaped into the air with a newfound superhuman agility, and buried his face in the pie, gobbling it down.

"HEY!" Misty yelled, taking her stack of pies over to Leo and dumping them on his head. "Those aren't for you!"

Leo took advantage of this to consume every last one of Misty's pies. Misty swore. "You little -!" She started to shriek words that can't even be censored to fit in this story.

"Jack!" Akiza shouted, chucking another pie. Jack ducked easily and the sweet projectile splattered Yusei in the face.

Crow started laughing. "Not very smart of you, smashing your boyfriend in the face with pie!"

"Shut up or you'll be the one smashed with dessert!"

Crow stopped laughing abruptly, then hiccupped as Akiza threw a pie at him anyway. She now had only one left.

"I promise you, Jack, you're not dodging this!" Akiza threw her last pie at him furiously, and it splattered onto his hoodie ferociously, spreading cream everywhere.

Jack smirked. "I do hope you weren't trying to hit me in the face." Jack would have been too tall to hit in the face anyway, as Akiza only came up to his shoulder and aiming higher would have been an extremely hard target to hit. As it was Jack's hoodie was covered in cream pie, and Jack looked rather irritated.

"CUT IT OUT!" A piercing yell came from the front of the cafeteria. Martha.

Akiza gulped. "Uh-oh."

Martha stalked up to their table. "Yeah, uh-oh. Your table started this, didn't they?" Yusei nodded. Martha gave them a once-over, shaking her head when she looked at Carly, Yusei and Luna, tilting her head at Leo, Kalin, Misty, and Akiza, and nodding at Crow, and grabbing Jack by the ear. "You're coming with me, you trouble-maker."

"But I didn't do anything, you wacky-"

"Don't talk back! Bad enough that you started the food fight, but now you're trying to get out of it by denying everything and probably pinning it on one of your friends! Don't you feel ashamed of yourself?"

"No, because I didn't-"

Martha slapped him, dragging him out of the cafeteria by his ear. "Detention, most probably! You're going to Principal Goodwin's office, you hooligan!"

"Aren't you going to go after him?" Carly asked Leo, watching Martha drag Jack out of sight.

"Nah." Crow said, back to gazing dreamily at Mina. "He's taking one for the team."

"The team?" Carly asked, perplexed.

"Team Satisfaction." Kalin replied. "Our club."

"I'm an unofficial member!" Leo yelled happily.

"Why aren't you official?" Carly asked curiously.

"Cause you gotta be in tenth grade to be a member, and I'm still in ninth!" Leo said.

"And it's boys-only." Akiza said, answering Carly's unasked question. "So we can't join. Personally, I think it's a conspiracy, but there you go."

"What's the girls club?"

"Don't have one." Misty said, watching the bubbles in what was left of her Diet Coke rise and pop. "I voted to start up Team Psychedelic, but it was two to one not to. Basically, we couldn't come up with a name, so we didn't start one."

"I like Team Psychedelic." Carly said, tilting her head to the side. "What's wrong with that name?"

"I didn't want to be in a club, and Angela couldn't be bothered to remember 'Team Psychedelic'. So it got voted down." Akiza said. "I'm starting to reconsider, but still…"

"Did you ask Luna?" Carly said.

"Nah. Why would we?" Misty said, still staring at her now bubble-less Diet Coke.

"Well, because Luna would be an unofficial member, so she should have a say, shouldn't she?" Carly said sensibly.

"I like Team Psychedelic too," Luna said quietly.

Misty sat up so fast everyone at the table could hear a crack from her spine. "Three to two. Team Psychedelic."

Angela filed her nails. "You do know what that means, right?"

"What?"

"Basically," Akiza said, "It means Team Rainbow."

Misty choked and spat flat Diet Coke all around the table. "I voted to name our team what?"

Kalin and Crow cracked up laughing. Yusei gave an amused smile.

"Oh, shut up you two." Misty said, glaring at the laughing duo. "Whatever, it still sounds cool. Team Psychedelic it is."

Akiza shrugged. "I guess I'm in."

"Thanks, Aki!" Luna said.

"Wait, I thought your name was Akiza." Carly said, knitting her eyebrows together in a confused expression.

"Well, it is." Akiza said. "But it's too much of a mouthful for people without a lot of brain cells, like Crow and Jack, so now my nickname is Aki."

Carly nodded.

A short man with spiky purple hair in a style not dissimilar to Yusei's walked up to their table wearing a lemon-sucking grimace. "You!" He barked. His voice was squeaky, so he sounded more like a dolphin than anything else, and Crow couldn't hold back a snicker.

Carly stood up with a terrified expression on her face. "Y-yes, sir?"

"You need to come with me to Principal Goodwin's office immediately!"

"Y-yes, of course sir." Carly sent a glance to her friends. Is this because of the food fight?

Crow smirked. They were about to leave. This was a fabulous opportunity to use the plan he and Kalin had been putting together for three days, ever since they got back from break. He shot Kalin a glance just as the man started to lead Carly away.

"Vice Principal Lazar?" He simpered. "I just love your make-up. You've changed brands since last year, haven't you?"

"I don't wear make-up!" The man – Vice Principal Lazar – squeaked, looking furious. Everyone at the table chuckled, and Kalin plastered on a worried expression.

"Um, Vice Principal Lazar, I think your blush smeared!"

Lazar's face turned a shade of violet to match his hair. He returned his focus to Carly. "Come with me to Principal Goodwin's office immediately!"

"Why?" Crow had picked the perfect moment to land his taunt. Carly's nervousness had vanished as she saw the diminutive man get so upset. She had even giggled while Kalin delivered his line. Suddenly she remembered something that just might save Crow and Kalin from being sent to the principal's office with her. "Sir?" She added.

Lazar calmed down. At least, the puce shade of his face turned a couple shades lighter. "At least one of you shows the proper respect. You, Miss Carmine, are coming with me to Principal Goodwin's office to help us with a few problems that have arisen with your paperwork."

Carly let out a sigh that sounded like a balloon that hadn't been tied flying around a room wildly.

Misty and Akiza looked at each other suddenly, and used their "telepathy" again. "We'll come with you!" They decided to take a leaf out of Carly's book. "Sir." They chorused.

"Why?" Lazar asked suspiciously.

"So we can sign up for initiating Carly, of course." Misty beamed, pulling out her angelic face once again.

Lazar scowled. "Fine, come along."

The three girls followed him out of the lunchroom, one nervously, two confidently.