Hey guys, I back! This time, my stories back but this time I gotta leave the list of Season 3 OCs out, and I'll put them on my Author Page so you can keep up with the cards being used by them. If it was anything else, everyone's stories should have been taken. Anyway, I'm also taking out a few things such as the omakes. Since my other stories haven't been taken out, I guess it was the list that got be kicked off. So, hopefully I'm here to stay! Restart this Season!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX or the rest of the franchise, no names of any band or any music in this story, I own Claudio Osbourne and the Jukebox Hero Archetype, aside from a select few made by all the authors/readers who submitted them. And all other OCs and cards submitted © original creators.

Chapter 1: The Third Year Opening Scramble

Duel Academy Island, somewhere in the Pacific, the typical Pacific island, trees, cliffs, stunning beaches, a dazzling sea and the towering volcano rising proud over the domed building which was Duel Academy, its four dorms scattered further around the island. Perched at a cliff top by the sea, the once, long-suffering Slifer Red dorm, now little more than a two-story house divided into dorm-rooms, although last year it had received a new look thanks new headmaster, Spencer Sojourner and even got better accommodations like better food, a recreational room, and the fact that's it's not looking like a rundown outhouse with a deck. A larger, and conservative Ra Yellow dorm with a little more better accommodations, yet somewhat still equal to the Slifer Dorm, and that was just down path from the main building with all the classrooms, activity rooms and the main dueling arena. And finally, the Obelisk Blue's castle-like dorm which was taller and a better than the other two, and sitting beside a stunning lake which sparkled in the dazzling sun.

This dorm, along with its sister Obelisk Blue Girls' Dorm, were now being painted blue from the events of the Society of Light last year that made it white. All students and faculty were being called earlier than the startup date to come help in restoring both dorms color. Right now, it was just the Obelisk Students painting and was about done with the business that spanned about five days.

Among the students, a spiky black-haired teen wearing a tattered and dirty looking black jacket with a dark purple shirt underneath, black pants was shouting out a bunch of orders to the Obelisk students. He was Chazz Princeton, now in his third year, a user of the Ojamas, a Slifer student but refuses to wear the dorm colors and prefers the color black.

"Let's go, guys!" He shouted to the working students through a megaphone, his black eyes showing authority, "And do try to stay inside the lines; if I see anything white left on that dorm, heads are going to roll!" Once done, he laughed to himself. "It's good to be the Chazz! And they know, no matter what kind of color I wear or dorm I'm in, I still got the skills to take down anyone!"

"You should give it a rest," Said an Obelisk Blue boy painting from the bottom, as noted by the Obelisk Blue Uniform for boys consisting of a large blue, long-tailed jacket, grey pants and black shoes. He had long, messy blond hair and light green eyes. He was Allen 'Seung Joon' Kamakawiwo'ole, a second year Obelisk Blue of Korean/Hawaiian nationality, user of Fairy-Type monsters. "At least we're working because it's my dorm."

"Ah, don't let that sidewinder get you down, Allen," Said another Obelisk Blue boy. One with long, sandy blond hair underneath a black Cowboy hat and brown boots, making him Jethro Cartwright who earned his spot in the dorm last year, even waiting patiently from the first year with his use of Desperadoes and Tribal Warriors. "He's just mad because he was shot down to become Obelisk again, but he shouldn't that get him down."

"Whatever, cowboy!" Chazz shouted back. "Just keep painting!"

"Ahem..."

The black coated Slifer turned around to see a stunningly beautiful blonde-haired girl wearing a blue and white top, a blue miniskirt and royal blue boots, handling a bucket of blue pain. This was Alexis Rhodes, a third year Obelisk Blue and a user of Cyber Girls and Angels.

"A little advice," She told him, yet still keeping her light brown eyes focused on a friendly stare. "You want something done right, you should do it yourself." She then smiled and handed him the paint bucket. "So here you go! Besides, the new students are arriving today and we need to make sure this dorm is done."

"No way," Chazz grumbled, turning away. "I beat all of those Obelisks singlehandedly; I shouldn't have to work with them. I'm their leader and soon the new students will realize that too."

"And yet, a good leader creates an example by giving orders and also doing that same order himself." A voice behind him said.

Chazz freaked out once he heard the voice behind him, causing Alexis to accidentally spill the paint all over the back of his head. Instead of focusing on Alexis' slip up, he focused on the guy in front of him. A jet-black haired teen, styled in a wolfcut, and staring at him with silver eyes, while wearing the Obelisk Blue uniform for boys consisting of a large blue, long-tailed jacket, grey pants and black shoes. This was Kenji Yuuyami, another third year Obelisk Blue Ninja duelist, who's also a skilled ninja, and as of last year, Alexis' boyfriend.

"What's the big idea?" Chazz snapped.

"Sorry, I thought you saw me in front of you," Kenji apologized. "Plus, I came to tell you guys that the roof is finished." He then smiled. "Isn't it great to have someone would can scale the roof without falling issues?"

"Yeah, yeah," the black coat Slifer grumbled.

"Still, you could have just walked up to us and said so," Alexis smiled as she walked up to Kenji and lightly kissed him. "Stop abusing your stealth for once..."

"I will fight the urge," the ninja pledged.

"Oh just gag me," Chazz scoffed.

"Heads up!" Someone shouted from above, but before anyone could react... another blue paint can fell from up top and splattered Chazz all over. "Sorry!"

"Well..." Kenji said, trying to hold back his laughter, "It's only paint..."

"Yeah, don't look so blue." Alexis added with some humor.

"Oh, a real comedian," the black coated Slifer grumbled. "If all of you are going to just make jokes about me, I'll just leave before any more punch lines..." He then walked away from the Obelisk Dorm, "Good bye... I'll go hang out with the roaches of Slifer Red!"

Alexis and Kenji sighed at their friend's mannerisms.

"It's unbelievable how he'll do anything to avoid working," Alexis stated.

"Unless it's a duel," Kenji added. "In fact, he's like Jaden in retrospect that dueling isn't working when you play."

"I hear that..." the Obelisk girl replied. "So, when were you going to see Claudio for your rematch?"

"Right now..." the ninja smirked. "Coming with?"

"Of course..." She smiled as they set off.

Meanwhile, Chazz was walking off in the woods, and used a towel to wipe off the paint that was splashed on him.

"'Yeah, don't look so blue.' I can't believe her," Chazz grumbled, replaying the event earlier in his head. "I can't believe I fell for her... At least the Chazz, is a new man. Free from the Society of Light, and on my way to becoming the best duelist in the world, after I graduate this year!"

While he was proclaiming it, Chazz had his eyes closed, which led him to bumping into another person and cause them both to stumble back.

"Hey, watch where you're going!"

Once the black coat Slifer got his focus back, he saw who he bumped into. A moss green-haired person with emerald green eyes staring at him with a scowl on her face, dressed in the guys' version of the Obelisk Blue uniform. Yet Chazz wasn't taking the new face any lightly...

"Whatever," Chazz scoffed. "You pushed into me, aren't you going to say you're sorry?"

"Like I need to say that to someone like you," the Obelisk said. "Even its Chazz Princeton..."

"So, you've heard of me," the Ojama smirked as he walked up to the Obelisk. "Then you know with someone of my reputation, you'd do best to stay on my good side." He then poked the guy in the chest... causing the Obelisk's face to go red with anger. "Got it, pal?"

*SLAP!*

Chazz found himself on the ground before he knew it, holding his left cheek that had a bruise on it.

"Hey, what was that for?" he snapped.

"You touched my chest, you pervert!" the Obelisk shouted, crossing her arms.

"How does that make me a pervert for poking a guy?"

"I'm a girl, you dork!"

Chazz felt like his jaw dropped as he saw, the proven Obelisk girl storm off towards the direction of the Obelisk Girls' dorm.

"What the-?"

"Hey, Chazz!"

Soon, the black coat Slifer snapped out of his thoughts and saw a Slifer Red boy run up to him. He was a young, Chinese teen with short, black hair and his name was Jachin Chong, a user of Persona Monsters and what was called a Psychic Duelist, one that can bring Monsters and Card effects to life. Yet, he wasn't one to abuse that power. Jachin saw Chazz on the ground and offered him a hand up.

"What happened to you?" Jachin asked.

"Some dude, who was really a girl, slapped me down for some misunderstanding," Chazz replied, getting up on his own and rubbed his bruise. "How was I supposed to know; she looked a boy!"

"Oh, you must have ran into Samantha Warrington," the Persona duelist stated. "But she prefers to be called Sam."

"You met her?"

"Yeah, she was nice to me. I guess you rubbed her the wrong way..."

"Whatever..." Chazz scoffed as he walked towards the Slifer Dorm.

"Something's will never change with that guy," Jachin sighed, and walked away. But he failed to notice someone watching him from behind the trees... another girl of Chinese nationality, with long, black hair down mid-back and brown eyes. She was wearing Slifer red jacket with a white shirt underneath, black shorts and boots. Her name was Xiu Zhen Teo, a new Slifer Student.

Outside the Ra Yellow Dorm, a teen girl was sitting on the roof. She wore the Ra Yellow uniform for girls, which was exactly like the Obelisk's version, except the trimming, boots and miniskirt colored yellow. She had black hair and blue eyes that resembled a famous Spellcaster monster. She was Melody Hikarii, a third year Ra Yellow student, and the first ever GX Tournament Champion. She was currently staring at a new card she got from the King of Games, Yugi Moto; the Dark Magician Card that the Rare Hunter Arkana used to wield before it was won in the Battle City Tournament. It used to be a ruined card because of what the Rare Hunter did to make sure he got his signature card, but sometime after Yugi won Battle City, he sent it to Pegasus to be redone into a proper card of use.

"It still feels weird that I'm holding this card," Melody said, staring at the card's picture and text. "He said that I'd earn this card's respect..." Soon, a transparent figure appeared by her side in the form on her Duel Spirit. It was the famous Spellcaster, Dark Magician Girl who was named Mana.

"This Dark Magician's has been by Yugi's side since the Battle City Tournament," the Duel Spirit stated, "And since it used to have a Master that would quickly abandon him for the chance to win, I think he's not too trusting." Both happened to turn towards Melody's left, where another spirit was staring out at the horizon. This was the Dark Magician card she received from Yugi, the dark red robed one.

"I bet," the Ra girl sighed. "Claudio and I tried to talk to him, but he just asks to be left alone and stare out in the sky."

"Give it time," Mana smiled. "He'll open up..."

"Hey Melody!"

Both spirits vanished as Melody heard a voice from below. She looked to see three boys, two of them wearing Ra Yellow uniforms, consisting of Yellow Jackets, gray pants and shoes, yet the third stood out wearing a coat similar to the Obelisk, except colored white and crimson. One of them was brown-haired, wavy styled and wore glasses over his dark brown eyes. He was Jeremy Roswell, another third year Ra Yellow student who was the resident Sci-Fi expert/fanatic, right down to the Alien Archetype deck he had. The other was white haired, with orange eyes. He was Vincent Merchet, a second year Ra Yellow student using Dragons and Rider styled cards, proficient in Union Monsters as well. And the one that stood out had long, shaggy black hair and dark brown eyes, plus a scar over his cheek due to his time of taunting arrogant Obelisks. He was Alex Jacobs, a third-year Ra Yellow and user of Gemini Monsters.

"Jeremy, Vincent, Alex," Melody greeted as she made her way down the dorm roof via a ladder, "Is everything thing done over at the Obelisk Dorm?"

"Yeah," Jeremy said. "A lot of work for five days... so much white..."

"Yeah, but it was never all blue..." Vincent added. "Most of it was actually white..."

"They just wanted both Obelisk Dorm's blue, because of the White color bringing back bad memories." Alex stated. "Even I agree..."

"Ah," the Alien duelist nodded, before turning to Melody. "Anyway, where's Claudio?"

"He's inside his room, cleaning up," She replied. "Apparently, back when the Society tried to raid the Yellow Dorm and make it white too, they got into some of the rooms, one being Claudio's. And they caused him to beat them badly in a duel..."

"They touched something personal?" the Dragon/Rider duelist asked.

"Several autographed Rock Posters that were about to be torn apart," Melody stated. "Very valuable possessions..."

"I don't blame him," the Gemini duelist grinned. "Those white fanatics had it coming, even if brainwashed."

"That's not all they did last year..." Everyone turned around to see another girl coming out of the Ra Yellow Dorm. Unlike the dress code, this pale-skinned, green-eyed, and very dark brunette teen wore a long, black coat over her shirt, knee-length skirt and shoes. She was Lyra Raine, a second year Ra Yellow, and a user of the Infernity Archetype. "They went into my room... No one goes into my room, without my invitation..."

"I bet you gave those girls a beating..." Alex said.

"I gave those guys a painful beating..." the Goth corrected, with a light smirk. "Which I enjoyed..."

Everyone cringed at the rare smile of Lyra as she walked by.

"Man, I'll never understand her," Jeremy noted. "Maybe Vincent, Alex and I can go back and check out the progress of the Obelisk Dorm..."

"Good idea and I can go get Claudio," Melody added as the boys waved goodbye, "See you later."

"And you can take us with you," The Spellcaster duelist saw Alexis and Kenji walk up to the dorm.

"Oh hey, guys," She greeted. "I thought you'd two be coming soon..."

"Since the Obelisk dorm's almost done, I thought I go get Claudio for that duel," Kenji said.

"What's he doing anyway?" Alexis asked.

"Cleaning up inside his room," Melody replied. "Let's go in..."

Inside Claudio's room...

Moving back in, the Jukebox Hero duelist had cleaned and set up his room back to his liking, having his Rock posters and some photos of his family and friends added. Once again, he was doing what he loved... rocking out!

(Play Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger)

A radio system started playing an old rock song, starting with some short piano tunes. Afterwards, the bathroom door opened up and let a person slide out by his socks. He was a black-haired, dreadlock-styled, wearing only black shades over his eyes, a white dress shirt, boxers, and his socks. Once the second piano tune was finished, he turns around to reveal he has dark shades on and grabbed his black, flying-V guitar and started playing it while lip-synching to the song...

And while he was doing that, he was dancing around in a silly manner, even moonwalking to the front door. But while he was doing so, Melody, Alexis, and Kenji just happened to walk in on him while he still had his back turned.

But once Claudio turned around, he's finally alerted to see Kenji looking on with an amusing smirk, Alexis turning away, while blushing and holding in a laugh, and Melody doing the same except looking at her boyfriend in his current attire. Feeling embarrassed enough, he shuts off the radio. He then turns back to the trio of his guests, who let go of their laughter as Claudio blushed and Kenji closed the door.

"You know..." Kenji said, catching his breath. "I heard this song before... and I knew, it was a matter of time before you'd do this."

"And how you dance when no one's looking," Melody added, still giggling a bit.

"I can't believe, I saw this," Alexis said, still with her head turned away.

Claudio sighed and grabbed a pair of grey pants, "But you do realize of course, I have to kill you all now?"

The girls could only laugh a little, as Kenji just walked over to the music lover. "I know this is a joke and all, but I doubt you could bring yourself to hurt Melody. But, if you tried to lay a hand on Alexis in any wrong way, I'd have to kick your ass! And I can back it up..."

"Good point," Claudio muttered, but then grabbed the Obelisk by the blazer and pleaded, "But you all have to take this to your graves... I can sing and dance on stage, provided that I'm fully clothed, but what you saw is only intended for privacy! Please, man!"

Seeing this, Kenji shook his head, "Alright... but only if you can beat me in our duel today."

The music lover groaned, but caved in, "Oh man, alright... but we got to get Jaden, anyway... he wanted to see our duel anyway for these new monsters."

"Alright," the ninja nodded. "And for no hard feelings, I'll keep quiet until the duel's end where it will be decided."

"Sure..."

"Then let's go," Kenji smiled as he left out the room with Alexis following after.

Soon, it was just Claudio and Melody, with the latter still smiling and blushing as her boyfriend put on his yellow blazer, while grabbing his Academy Issued Duel Disk and deck. Once Claudio prepared to lock up, he saw the expression on his girlfriend's face and asked, "You enjoyed all that?"

"Yup..." She replied, sheepishly. "At least it was just three people watching..."

"Two people, too many," He stated, locking up and going after Alexis and Kenji.

"'Two people?'"

"If it was just you, I wouldn't have stopped..." He smirked, causing Melody to blush and got a light slap to his arm for his troubles.

"Alright, we both have those thoughts," She said, grumbling, "Let's just go..."

At the Silfer Dorm, inside the cafeteria, several people were eating breakfast. The first was a short, light-blue haired, grey-eyed boy wearing an Obelisk Blue blazer, as opposed to the Ra Yellow jacket he had last year. This was Syrus Truesdale, now a third-year Obelisk Blue, and felt proud that he was moving up. The second was a more feral-looking dark-skinned boy in a Ra uniform, with a bandana styled like a dinosaur's face tied up over his dreadlocks, a green shirt and beige camo pants worn under his jacket that had its sleeves torn off. This was Tyranno Hassleberry, a second-year Ra Yellow and a dinosaur duelist. The third was a tall blond haired boy with stunning sapphire eyes, long unruly hair reaching mid back, and dresses in a black coat with red flame patterns, a blue t-shirt, and blue jeans. He also sports a pair of triangular shades which he called the coolest in existence. This was Masaki Oda, a second year Slifer Red, yet strong enough to be in Obelisk Blue.

"Hey Syrus, congrats on making it to Obelisk Blue," Masaki said, taking a bite of the pancakes that were being served.

"You're really moving up in the world, Truesdale," Hassleberry added, patting the new Obelisk on the back.

"Yeah, I feel great," Syrus smiled. "I guess what happened last year was what I needed to get stronger."

"Oh, you mean battling Pro League duelists," the Ra asked.

"That and battling Zane," the new Obelisk added.

"Speaking of which, Aster called me about him," the Slifer spoke up. "Zane's still dueling aggressively, but at least he's swearing off trying to harm his opponents."

"That's good," Syrus said. "He may not be respecting the opponent's in the Pro League, but I got some of his respect."

"Good to know," Masaki replied.

"I figured the three of you would be here." The boys turned to the door and saw two Obelisk Blue girls come in. One had white/blonde hair, green eyes, and went by the name of Lily Rose Lee, a great Dragon duelist. The second had long, golden blonde hair, blue eyes, and went by the name of Allyson Anderson, a Spirit Monster user.

"Hey Lily, hey Allyson," Syrus greeted, "What's up?"

"Just had the Obelisk Blue Girls' Dorm finished being painted up," Lily replied. "No more all-white!"

"And that leaves on the Boys' Dorm," Hassleberry deduced.

Allyson looked around and asked, "Where's Jaden?"

"Surprisingly, still sleeping," Syrus noted. "Maybe since opening day's not until tomorrow..."

"Yeah, but wouldn't he be still up for breakfast?" Lily wondered.

"That is strange," the Spirit Monster duelist pondered. "I'll go see if he's in his room..." She stated and ran out of the room.

"I'll bet she gives her boyfriend a wake-up call, he'll never forget," Masaki smirked.

Inside all of the dorms, there were bunk beds for two to replace the ones for three that nearly cramped the students in their sleeping spaces. At the bottom of one, a sleeping, brown-haired boy, wearing an open red jacket with a black shirt underneath, grey pants, and white socks, laid himself to rest there, all sprawled out. He was snoring, blissfully unaware of anything around him, and his name was Jaden Yuki, a third-year Slifer Red, yet despite the rank, one of the top duelists in the Academy with his Elemental Hero/Neo-Spacian deck. He was unaware that Claudio, Kenji, Melody, and Alexis were already inside, not believing that one of their friends was sleeping away the morning.

"I should have known," Alexis sighed. "Either this, eating, or dueling..."

"Jaden, Jaden, Jaden," Claudio said, picking up an alarm clock, "Sleepyhead... Wake up!" When he clicked it on, the alarmed beeped but got no response from the sleeping Slifer.

"Come on, that guy can sleep through a wailing train," Melody waved off.

"We'll see about that," the J-Hero duelist smirked as he pulled out his stereo, playing loud music.

(Play Du Hast by Rammstein)

Loud drums and sounds came blaring as the lyrics came in while Claudio was headbanging to the beat, causing Kenji and the girls to laugh.

"This is never going to get old with him," Kenji said, shaking his head.

"At least he's not complaining about how he does that," Alexis added.

Seeing that the loud music wasn't working, Claudio looked around the room until he spotted a covered plate on Jaden's desk. Once he uncovered it, it showed a full plate of pancakes, eggs, and bacon, while the aroma was soon set free. He then brought the plate up to Jaden's face and blew the food's aroma during the guitar solo. Soon, the Slifer was awake as evident by his brown eyes fluttering awake. Claudio soon started to pump his shoulders to the beat, and for laughs he started to move the plate front and back in front of Jaden, causing the awakened stare to follow.

(Once Jaden grabbed his plate, and started eating down on it, Claudio turned off the stereo)

"I knew that work," Claudio said. "Should have done the same with Bastion..."

"You mean, you tried using that wakeup call before?" Melody asked.

"Before Winter Break first year," the J-Hero duelist noted as Jaden came down from scarfing down the food.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Jaden greeted.

"Everyone but you apparently," Alexis joked.

"Well, I'm up now!" the E-Hero duelist exclaimed. "And I'm glad to be an upperclassman!"

"Reminds me of the time when you started throwing the freshman term around," Kenji noted. "And ironically, you were doing that to Aster only."

"Technically, he was a freshman in his first year," Melody noted.

"True, anyway, we came to get you because Kenji and I are having our duel," Claudio stated. "And you were blowing up my email address stating where it's taking place..."

"Sweetness," Jaden exclaimed once more, "You going to use those new cards that Pegasus released during the summer?" That question got Claudio and Kenji thinking...

"You want too?" Claudio asked Kenji.

"Why not?" the ninja duelist replied, "We need to work these out sooner or later and I heard the Duel Academy students were being given those cards as a trial experiment for the year. Makes sense for us to use them."

"Cool, let's go outside and break these babies in," the J-Hero duelist said, patting his duel disk.

Moments later…

Everyone moved to the front of the dorm, and even called everyone else who wanted to see the duel go down.

"So, what's the story on this duel?" Jaden asked, as Allyson held his hand, happy to be with her boyfriend again.

"It's a rematch that was supposed to happen last year," Alexis answered. "Not only that, this is Kenji's apology to Claudio for the things he did while acting as part of the Society."

"Claudio told me that they planned it over the summer," Melody added.

"That's nice that Kenji's making amends," Allyson noted.

"Still, there's a stipulation that if Claudio wins, Kenji, Melody and I are supposed to erase from our minds," Alexis said, laughing a bit.

"And we can't tell you, unless Kenji wins," Melody said with an amusing smirk at Claudio.

"I wonder what Claudio's trying to keep away," Hassleberry wondered.

"Something embarrassing, I figure," Syrus figured. "I had too many of those moments..."

"Just chill out, Syrus," Alex stated, patting him on the back, "You're a tougher duelist, despite the blue color; anybody gets in the business of embarrassing you, they'll get beat by your skills!"

"Hope you're ready, Claudio," Kenji smirked. "Not only I'm making this two-for-two from first year, but I got some leverage over you..."

"Which is why I'll win," Claudio replied, "You're getting to mischievous after what went down earlier..."

Soon, both boys strapped on their duel disks with Kenji slipping his left arm out of the sleeve, flexing it and then placing his duel disk on the arm. They both drew their starting five card hand and yelled.

"GAME ON!"

Claudio: 8000

Kenji: 8000

"Let's start this party with a bang!" Claudio shouted, drawing his sixth card. "For my first move, let's introduce my Jukebox Hero Modest Mouse to the field in defense mode!" He stated playing his card and bringing out his banjo-playing, tuxedo wearing mouse, kneeling down on the field. (4/800/1200) "And when he's summoned without any other cards on my field, I can draw two new cards!" He then drew out his two cards. "And the first will be to activate the Field Spell Card, Live Stage – A Favor House Atlantic!" The Slifer Red area grounds turned white for a bit, before it settled on an ocean where a factory was located. It was big and brown with two smokestacks at the top and only one window made. The duelists were just outside it building near the entrance.

"He just started off with a great move," Melody stated. "Claudio doesn't have a Battle Phase to use, but Kenji will once he takes his turn."

"Yeah, but will Kenji take the bait?" Alexis wondered.

"I'll then end with two facedown cards," the J-Hero duelist concluded.

"Alright, time for the Ninja to take control," Kenji announced, drawing his sixth card. "I summon Ninja Sheik in attack mode!" He announced, placing the card on his disk. Instead of any flashes, his monster jumped out of nowhere and landed right in front of him. It was a short-haired blonde, androgynous female with her muscular build clad in a blue and silver tight jumpsuit. She also had a scarf concealing her nose and mouth and a white turban on her head that only showed her right red eye staring down the opposition. (4/1500/1450) "Now it's time I used her effect, but first I activate the Spell Card Fuhma Shuriken and equip it to my Ninja, giving her 700 ATK!" He continued, as Sheik pulled out some shuriken with unknown Kanji on them. (4/1500-2200/1450)

"If he attacks, he'll just send back his only monster," Chazz stated.

"But also deal damage since the Equip Spell will be destroy," Jachin added, "Costing Claudio 700 Life Points."

"Also, by activating a Spell Card, my Sheik's effect activates and gives her a Spell Counter," the ninja duelist smirked. "And for each one, she gains 200 ATK!"

"A Spell Counter?" Melody gasped as a black stone with yellow markings surrounded the ninja. (NS: 1SPC) (4/2200-2400/1450)

"I then activate my own, Field Spell to cancel out yours, the Hidden Ninja Village!" As Kenji inserted his field spell, the factory and the ocean faded away to a large forest of bamboo trees. Behind Kenji, a large wooden gate and a few rooftops behind them were seen. And then, another counter surrounded Sheik (NS: 2SPC) (4/2400-2600/1450)

"So much for that plan..." Claudio muttered.

"Now Sheik's effect activates," Kenji announced. "I can remove any number of Spell Counters from her card and then destroy the same number of Spell and Trap cards on the field! And that would be the two you're going to use... correction, WERE!" (NS: 0SPC) (4/2600-2200/1450)

"I can still use one," the J-Hero duelist smirked, revealing his facedown card. "I activate the trap, Burn it to the Ground! This destroys a Field Spell Card and deals 500 points of damage to the owner, meaning you!" The trap flashed, causing a sea of flames to wash over the field and lit it up. The trees and village were reduced to ash, even as some of the flames touched Kenji's disk to translate the damage.

Claudio: 8000

Kenji: 7500

"Alright, no Field Spell then," Kenji shrugged, but quickly smirked. "But that mouse of yours is going down... Sheik, attack with your shuriken!" the kunoichi jumped into the sky and threw several of the Fuhma Shuriken into the mouse's body, shattering him with a cry. "And then, I'll end my turn here."

"At first, I thought we were going to be in some Field Spell for a while," Alex noted. "But I guess, Claudio wanted to be his or not at all."

"It's my turn now," Claudio announced and drew his card. Once he looked at it, he smiled, "Since you didn't like the first stage of the tour, here's a new stage for ya! I activate the Field Spell, Live Stage – Starship City!"

The Ra Yellow opened up his Field Spell slot once more, and placed a new card inside. Once closed, the Obelisk Dorm again vanished and transported to a nighttime city with tall buildings and neon lights over some. Behind Claudio, the building's neon lights read "We Built This City!"

"I think he may finally cycle his Field Spell cards," Lyra stated. "About time..."

"Yeah, with so many that he has," Allen added.

"By playing that Spell Card, you gave Sheik another counter!" Kenji announced as another Spell Counter surrounded his kunoichi, granting her more power. (NS: 1SPC) (4/2200-2400/1450)

"Then, I'll summon Jukebox Hero Li to contend with her!" Claudio continued, as he played the monster card. In a blaze of fire, an Asian guitar player with long, brown hair jumped out wearing armor made out of dragon scales, and played a fast solo with dragon scaled guitar that doused the fire into just a small ring. (4/1600/1200) "And then, I'll attack your Ninja."

"And that will activate the Field Spell," Jaden noted. "Since it's like an Elemental Hero version of my Skyscraper card, Li gains 1000 ATK.

"And that would be the only reason you'd know about that card," Allyson pointed out. "It's a card like yours..." Soon, the neon lights illuminated the field as Li absorbed the power. (4/1600-2600/1200) He then made a hard strum of the guitar, letting a flaming dragon be released from it and blast the Ninja into ashes. Kenji blocked himself from the excess flames with his duel disk...

Claudio: 8000

Kenji: 7300

"But since you also sent Fuhma Shuriken to the graveyard, by destroying my ninja, you lose 700 life points as well," the Ninja duelist added as he took the shuriken left behind by his Ninja and threw it at Claudio's disk, damaging the Ra's points before it vanished.

Claudio: 7300

Kenji: 7300

"I'll end my turn here..." Claudio concluded.

"Field advantage changes, but both scores are matched," Masaki noted.

"My turn," Kenji announced, drawing his next card. "I set one monster in defense mode." He then placed his next monster card, face down on the field to conclude.

"Alright, that was quick," Claudio shrugged, drawing his next card. He put the card he drew into his spell/trap card slot, "I'll set this card facedown, and then I'll attack with Li!" The dragon-scale armored guitars strummed his guitar once more, sending flaming sound waves to burn off Kenji's facedown monster. But underneath it, was another ninja clad in a black ninja garb, with only his black eyes visible. (3/1300/1300) Swiftly, the ninja flipped over the attack and landed safely to higher ground.

"I believe you remember, Ninja Kato," the ninja duelist smiled. "Too bad, there were no monsters for you to summon this turn..."

"Hey, you know luck," the Ra said, as he signaled the end of his turn. "One minute it's there, the next it's gone."

"Well, allow me to capitalize on that," Kenji replied, drawing his next card. "And it looks like we move on to the new era, sooner than I thought."

"You got it?" Alexis asked.

"Not directly," the ninja duelist replied. "But I have the means to get it out! First, Ninja Commando Kabuki will grace his presence in defense mode!" He declared as a puff of smoke was launched and from it came a white armored ninja with golden accents around it. (3/700/700) "And when summoned, I can bring out any Ninja to the field from my hand or deck." He then pulled out his deck and retrieved his card after a search. "I Special Summon the Tuner monster, Foreign Shinobi!" From a flash, a man dressed in a grey, German military uniform and had a facemask with the colors of Germany over it, and wielded a long blade. He crossed his arms and stared at the opposition. (3/1300/1200)

"Here it comes..." Vincent said, anticipating the next move.

"Makes you proud to see the ideas about to come together," Melody smiled.

"I know, and Mr. Pegasus even has me checking out how people react to this type of gameplay," the Dragon/Rider duelist replied.

"Time now, for the Synchro Summoning," Kenji announced. "I tune Level 3 Kabuki with Level 3 Shinobi..."

Everyone watched as the Shinobi went through a string of hand signs, when done, transformed him into three, transparent green rings. The rings then surrounded Kabuki, reducing the body into framework and created three, glowing stars lining up. The power of the rings and star coalesced together, creating a portal of light.

"I Synchro Summon, Ninja Mech – Shadow!" Emerging from the light a giant, black and white, mechanical fighter that stood over 50 feet tall taking its place behind Kenji. Underneath its gloved hands were two long Spiegel blades and held them at the ready. (6/2500/1500)

"Whoa..." Claudio eyes bugged out with a low voice.

"That monster's huge!" Alex shouted.

"Wow, that was a sweet way to Summon a monster," Jaden exclaimed.

"It looks like a Fusion Summon," Allyson figured. "Like the VWXYZ monsters..."

"Somewhat, but it's more than that," Vincent stated. "Synchro Summoning requires a Tuner monster and one or more other monsters who are not Tuners. And to perform it, their combined level has to add up to the Synchro Monster's level to summon. Of course, there are complex requirements such as a Type of Tuner or Specific Monsters for certain Synchro Monsters, but you'd get the idea."

"And they don't have to use a Polymerization card," Alexis noted. "Sounds easier, but I know Fusion Monsters can still play a role."

"Yeah, there's still pros and cons to using them all," the Dragon/Rider duelist continued. "But, let's just see this duel through before we reach that road."

"I hope you like the new monster, Claudio," Kenji announced, patting the giant mech on the leg, "Because now I can give you the full frontal assault of my new monster… Shadow, attack Jukebox Hero Jukebox Hero Li with Messergranz knives!" The giant mech reached with its right hand, pulling out and throwing numerous small knives, which penetrated the Jukebox Hero's armor, destroying him.

Claudio: 6200

Kenji: 7300

"And now, Kato will attack you directly!" He continued as the all-black clad ninja dashed across the field and hit Claudio's chest with a sharp, palm strike that caused him to nearly fall over.

Claudio: 4900

Kenji: 7300

"He's nearly down to the halfway mark," Syrus gasped.

"Man, and with Kenji's deck suited for Special Summoning, he's got it down," Hassleberry noted.

Claudio rubbed his chest, grinning with his right eye closed, "No pain, no gain, ninja dude," He then revealed his facedown card, depicting a demon pulling its way into a doorway. "I activate the Trap Card, Damage Gate! Since I lost 1300 life points, I can Special Summon a monster from my graveyard with ATK equal to or less than the damage I've taken. And I call Modest Mouse once more!" The mentioned monster slid out of his graveyard, letting the J-Hero duelist take it out and place it back on the field, horizontally on the field to let the banjo-playing mouse back on the field. (4/800/1200) "And since it's the only card on the field again, I draw another two cards!" He then drew out two more cards.

"I'll end my turn here..." Kenji concluded, "Just hope you got something for those two cards and the next; it won't be much fun if you didn't play your Synchro Monsters."

"I aim to please," Claudio smirked, drawing his next card. "And you'll get your wish for my Synchro Summoning! And you'll like my Tuner Monsters, so meet the Symphonic Warrior Drumss!" He announced, placing the card he just drew on the field. The monster that appeared looked like a red drum set with a face on the front drum and arms carrying the brass cymbals. (2/700/700)

"Musical Instruments..." Alexis noted. "If Atticus was around, he'd be psyched to see this, even if his deck doesn't revolve around it."

"Where is he, anyway?" Melody asked.

"Out greeting the new students," the Obelisk girl replied. "Sheppard asked him since he's in a meeting with the other faculty members."

"Time for some heavy metal as I tune Level 4 Modest Mouse with Level 2 Drumss for a Synchro Summoning," Drumss jumped over Modest Mouse and crashed its symbols together, transforming into two green rings and then surrounded Modest Mouse to transform it into four stars that combined into a white portal. "I Synchro Summon the Metal Queen!" A metallic shriek rang through the Starship City, and through the portal, crawled out 25 ft tall, metal, eight-legged spider. Strangely enough, her back looked like an advanced car motor. Her six blue eyes glared at the mech and her mouth dripped with acid. (6/2200/2400)

"Half the size and 300 points short," Lyra noted. "But there could be more than meets the eye..."

"And you'd be right, Lyra," Claudio noted. "If you all remember the Kill Master, the Metal Queen's spider horde is where he gets the bass strings to heal. "For every Machine or Insect Type monster on my field, she gains 200 ATK! And she's counted as Machine, so it's fair game for 200 points!" Metal Queen's blue eyes glowed brighter, gaining power. (6/2200-2400/2400) "Now I play the Spell Card, Forbidden Chalice!" Claudio inserted another card, depicting a woman wearing a white toga, drinking from a chalice, "This will increase Kato's power by 400, but negates his special ability!" A torrent of holy water splashed from the sky, giving Kato power but felt his inner power drained. (3/1300-1700/1300) "Metal Queen, destroy Kato with Acid Spider Spray!"

The Metal Queen hissed as her eyes turned red and spat out brown acid, filled with metallic debris, smashing into the ninja and destroying him into pixels.

Claudio: 4900

Kenji: 6600

"I then end my turn with a facedown card and the Metal Queen will bring out a Metal Spider Token as per her Special Ability!" Claudio concluded as an egg dropped from the Queen's abdomen and hatched into a small horde, crawling over each other. (1/400/400), (6/2400-2600/2400)

"Good, now Claudio can beat that giant mech on his next turn," Lily noted.

"Still, it's too soon that Kenji can kill the spiders on his turn and deal damage since the special ability puts it in attack mode," Jeremy added.

"It's my turn," Kenji announced as he drew his next card. "That facedown card of yours is trouble, so I'll just have to force your hand with Ninja Sub-Zero!" He announced, playing his next card bringing out another ninja with his black outfit was outlined in blue and his arms were covered in ice. He didn't wear a mask showing of a stern face with a red scar over his right eye. (4/1800/1000) "And then, I'll use his Special Ability to freeze your Metal Queen until the end of your next turn!" The ice ninja unleashed a massive blizzard from his hands, causing the giant metal arachnid to be frozen within a glacier, making Claudio groan. "Now Sub-Zero, attack the token!"

The ninja created an ice beam next, aiming towards the small spider babies, blasting them out of existence and made the mother weaker. (6/2600-2400/2400)

Claudio: 3500

Kenji: 6600

"Now your monster's weak," Kenji continued, "Shadow, destroy the Queen!" The giant mech raised its massive blades in the air and prepared to stab through the monster. But once close enough...

"On the damage Step, I activate the trap card, Feathers!" Claudio countered, revealing a trap card showing a man walking away from a woman with black, feathered wings, unaware that he's about to be attacked with a hammer. Kenji cringed, knowing what was about to happen, "Thanks to this, your monster's about to lose 800 ATK!" He stated as the ninja machine sprouted black-feathered wings, putting some weight on it. (6/2500-1700/1500) "Plus, since I activated it during the damage step, I can counterattack!"

The swords became only strong enough to shatter the ice around the Metal Queen, freeing her front half. She was able to use her front two legs to stab through the ninja mech several times before exploding in fiery debris.

Claudio: 3500

Kenji: 5900

"Right, Trap and Quick-Play Spells that increase or decrease ATK can be used during the damage step," Jachin noted. "That way he can destroy him before Kenji could use anything else to benefit his Synchro Monster."

"Claudio maybe down, but he's not out," Melody smiled.

Kenji smiled, 'You really don't want that moment to get out, eh?' He then said out loud, "I'll end my turn here, meaning your Metal Spider Token is created." On cue, the Metal Queen created another horde of small spiders, crawling in a pile. (1/400/400) (6/2400-2600/2400)

"Cool, now my move!" Claudio announced, drawing his next card. "First, I activate Pot of Greed to let me draw two cards!" The grinning green pot appeared above, letting Claudio pick up his extra cards and then shattered. Once he saw them, he nodded, "Sweet, here's a big move for you! First, I play the Continuous Spell card, Different Dimension Hangar!" Appearing above the nighttime sky, a swirling dimensional vortex made itself known. "By activating this card I have to remove up to 3 Union Monsters from the game!"

"Alright, he's reaching for the only Monsters that can fit together like that," Jaden realized as the J-Hero duelist pulled out three cards during the deck search and showed them off, before placing them into his pocket.

"And I chose three of my Ironheade Monsters!" Claudio stated, "Now I sacrifice both Metal Queen and the token to Summon Jukebox Hero Roadie Riggs!" He announced as all the metal spiders vanished into stars and from the ground, raised a muscular man with black hair that went down to his shoulders. He had all black clothing, from his shoes, jeans, shirt, and leather jacket. Around his neck was a backstage pass of a rock band no one would have remembered. On his back he carried a large, double-breasted axe and crossed his arms. (7/2500/2000)

"And thanks to his Summoning, all three of the Ironheade Monsters come out to play!" Vincent realized as Claudio pulled out the three cards he just fished out the three cards the J-Hero duelist just pocketed.

"I summon the Ironheade Crew," the J-Hero duelist announced, placing the cards on the field in attack mode. "Ophelia the Razor, Rima the Wild, and the Baron!" From the dimensional portal, three people jumped out and landed in front of the Ra.

The first, Ophelia, was a young woman with brown hair down to her shoulders, dressed in a black shirt with a falling raven and ankh logo on the front, jeans with a spiked belt buckle. She then pulled out two short swords with her logo on the hilt of them. (4/1200/1200)

The second, Rima, a woman with an unusual dress style of only a black, leather-armored halter top that barely covered the lower part her upper body, a very revealing black waist cloth that covered her front and back and two spiked arm cloths. She also wore a skull helmet and carried a sharp, spiked spear poised at her opponents. But what really caught Claudio's eye, was the black and white war paint on her face that reminded him of a rock band... (4/1900/900)

Finally, the Baron was a man in black leather jacket with nothing underneath, hat and leather pants. He also wore black shades that covered his eyes. He rode on a chopper style motorcycle, reminiscent of a Harley Davidson. (4/1900/1000)

"Four monsters," Allyson gasped. "Kenji's finished..."

"Eh... not quite," Vincent stated. "The monsters summoned by Different Dimension Hangar can't attack on the turn they're brought out."

"But that still means I can do this," Claudio smirked. "I Union Equip Ophelia the Razor to Roadie Riggs!" Riggs held out his axe as Ophelia jumped on the flat end, swords pointed outward. "And now since she's equipped, I can attack you twice!"

Kenji braced himself, for the pain that was coming.

"Riggs, Ophelia, attack Sub-Zero with Double Razor Cyclone!" Claudio announced.

"This is going to cut you up!" Ophelia shouted as Riggs launched her from his axe, letting her jump into a spinning cyclone that shredded Sub-Zero into pixels.

Claudio: 3500

Kenji: 5200

"And now Riggs will get his chance with Axe of Succoria!" Claudio continued as Ophelia jumped back to his side and Riggs dashed over to Kenji and hit him with the flat side of the axe, knocking him on his back.

Claudio: 3500

Kenji: 2700

"Claudio just needs to hang on for another turn and he could win," Alex noted.

"But Kenji's not the one to take this lying down," Lily added. "He's going to fight back and hard."

"I then end my turn," Claudio announced, "And that means both Riggs and Ophelia go back to the deck because of the latter's effect, so I'll see you two later." Both Riggs and Ophelia shined with a dark aura and then vanished back into Claudio's deck.

"Which leaves us to deal with the ninja guy," The Baron noted in a gruff, British voice.

"Fine by me," Rima added, standing up her spear.

Kenji got up from his attack and dusted himself off, before drawing a new card. "You made a big mistake attacking Sub-Zero and sending him to the graveyard, Claudio," He announced, "Because thanks to his death, I can perform another Synchro Summoning!"

Hearing that got everyone talking in a buzz...

"With no monsters on the field," Claudio asked. "How are you going to do that?"

The ninja duelist smiled, tapping his graveyard, "This particular Synchro Summoning can happen while Sub-Zero's in the graveyard with a Level 3 tuner! And if your recall, my Foreign Shinobi's in the graveyard is a Level 3 Tuner, remember?"

Claudio groaned, "Oh crap..."

"I activate the effect of my next Synchro Monster!" Kenji announced, "I tune Level 4 Sub-Zero and Level 3 Foreign Shinobi from my graveyard and remove them from play to Synchro Summon...!" A transparent version of Foreign Shinobi and Sub-Zero came out of the graveyard. The former turning into three rings surrounding the latter, transforming him into four stars and blasted into another portal, "From the dead, come forth Wraith Ninja Noob Saibot!"

From the portal, emerged a warrior of complete shadow. His outfit was all black; his mask, clothes, and boots. It not only described his dress, but a look in his eyes, it described his personality. (7/2550/2150)

"Is that Sub-Zero?" Claudio gasped. Kenji nodded. "Whoa, what happened to him?"

"Resurrected by a sorcerer of the Netherrealm to serve him," Kenji said, "His death was wronged though, because of false visions toward his killer, turning out to be Scorpion who's also a resurrected warrior."

"Wow," Alexis whispered.

"Yeah, both of those guys had a rough time," the ninja duelist admitted. "But let's get back to the duel and some good times, hm?" He then inserted another card into his disk. "I activate the Spell Card, Monster Reborn! This lets me revive a Monster from either player's graveyard. And I choose my Ninja Mech – Shadow to rise from the dead!" The graveyard shined bright, shooting a spirit behind him and formed into the 50-ft tall machine. (6/2500/1500)

"It's back..." Claudio cringed.

"And with two monsters, you're out of luck," Kenji smirked. "Noob Saibot, attack The Baron!" The undead ninja quickly teleported from his spot and right beside the Baron, and before the pyrokinetic motorcyclist knew it, was set aflame in a blue-whitish fireball that set him down to pixels.

Claudio: 2850

Kenji: 2700

"Shadow, attack Rima!" Kenji commanded as the mech fired millions of daggers once more and shattered Rima to her destruction.

Claudio: 2250

Kenji: 2700

"I then place one card facedown," He concluded, inserting the Set Card into his disk. "You're defenseless, and with two monsters of 2500 and over, let's see you handle the pressure."

'And it's a big one,' Claudio thought as he drew his next card. 'At least I got defense...' He then announced, "I place one card facedown and then set a monster in defense mode!" He inserted a Set card into his disk and then placed a Set Monster on his field, letting the images appear in front of him.

"Sorry Claudio, but it's not gonna cut it," Kenji announced drawing his next card. "I activate Noob Saibot's effect! Once a turn, I can flip over your monster into Face-Up Attack Mode! And if it had any effects when Flip Summoned, it's negated!"

"Aw, crap!" the J-Hero duelist grumbled as the Wraith Ninja created a shadowy construct that grabbed the Set Monster and forced it out of the card. It revealed a guitarist wearing a leather jacket with a white shirt underneath and blue jeans. He was noticeable from his wild, black hair under a black top hat and large, black shades. He wielded a black guitar with a sharp, red guitar pick. But he was now flailing in the air as the shadow carried him. (4/1300/1500)

"Attack!" Kenji commanded as Noob Saibot forced the shadow to bring its victim towards the controller. With one slash of a black blade, Slash exploded into pixels.

Claudio: 1000

Kenji: 2700

"Looks like he's lost it," Chazz looked on.

"Game over, Claudio!" Kenji announced. "Shadow Mech, attack directly!"

As the monster approached him, Claudio pushed the button his disk to reveal his facedown card. "It may be a big boy for this, but I activate Sweet Chin Music! I get to destroy the monster, attacking directly and you lose 500 points, Kenji!" Suddenly, an unknown force caused the giant mech to its hands and knees, making everyone bug out at the luck. "Okay, then..." Claudio saw his opportunity and just delivered a big kick to the mech's face, making it shattered in an explosion around Kenji.

Claudio: 1000

Kenji: 2200

"Wow..." Melody gasped. "One kick, shattered a big thing like that machine?"

"Makes him quite the Superman," Jaden stated, shocked as the rest.

"Well, I've got nothing else to do," Kenji shrugged. "You won't be able to hide from me because of my monster's effect…"

"Right..." Claudio said, looking at his deck. 'That means I need to Synchro Summon a good monster... I just hope that facedown card he has don't stop this... it's practically one-shot. I got the monsters; just need a good card to bring it all together...'

"I end my turn," Kenji announced. He then looked at his facedown card, 'He won't be able to destroy my monster with my facedown card... even if he summons something that will outmatch me; I'll just come back and overpower him...'

"It's my draw," Claudio announced, drawing the card. 'Here we go...' "I play the Spell Card, Double Summon! This card allows me Normal Summon twice this turn, and the first will be to bring out Jukebox Hero Tom Sawyer!" Soon, a blonde, silver armored warrior appeared with a guitar that had a spearhead at the neck. (4/1900/1000) "And next is the Tuner Monster, Symphonic Warrior Piaano!" Afterwards, another robotic instrument hybrid appeared in the form of a piano keyboard. (3/900/1300)

"A piano now?" Kenji wondered.

"Now, I tune Level 4 Tom Sawyer with Level 3 Piaano to Synchro Summon the monster that will end this duel!" Piaano used its hands to play a few keys before becoming three rings and surrounded Sawyer to become four stars, and then combined their power... "I Synchro Summon, Jukebox Hero Hellion!"

The light created from the Synchro Summon flashed into the sky. Claudio smiled as he pulled out his guitar. "And now, allow me to bring out a song for the occasion for this new monster..."

"You haven't won yet," Kenji pointed out. "We haven't seen your Monster yet..."

"I'll be the judge of that..." the Ra stated. "Especially since its effect will be known while you listen..."

(Play The Hellion/Electric Eye – Judas Priest)

Claudio started an uplifting intro, sending light into the sky after the summoning... once done, a voice was heard from the sky, singing the lyrics. Like always, the the J-Hero duelist loved when everyone was entranced by the events that happened when he played it.

He then smirked as he looks toward Kenji singing his verse, causing all eyes to be on him. Once he got their attention, a light envelops him and everyone hears a second voice within Claudio's while singing the chorus.

After the chorus, the light left his body and started flying around and showed that the voice was coming from the light when it sung.

During a solo, a transparent figure made itself known from behind Kenji, making everyone alert the Ninja duelist. Everyone saw a giant, mechanical bird flying behind him, armed with red lasers on its wings and red eyes staring at Kenji with precision. (7/2300/1500)

"Nice monster, but it's nothing compared to my monster!" Kenji shouted over the solo.

"I activate its Special Ability!" Claudio announced, "I can take a look at your hand and choose one monster card from it! And then Hellion gains 300 times level until the end Phase! Activate Electric Eye!"

Hellion's red eyes faintly glowed.

"Sensors detect three cards... Scanning..." Hellion stated. "Scanning complete, cards are as follows: Monster Card, Ninja Hayabusa, Spell Card, Art of the Raging Mountain God, and Monster Card, Ninja Dog Akamaru. Select Monster Card..."

"I choose Ninja Hayabusa!" Claudio grinned.

"Affirmative: Draining Power!" Hellion's eyes fired an infrared laser Hayabusa's card and let data codes fly from it into the machine, letting it gain power. (7/2300-4400/1500)

When the power was boosted, the two of them came together to keep singing..

"Attack!" Claudio yelled. "Laser Sight!"

Hellion charged up its eyes into a blue color and then fired it straight at Noob Saibot...

"I activate Ninjutsu Art of Decoy!" Kenji shouted, revealing his trap card. It depicted a tree wearing ninja clothes, taking shuriken and kunai to its body, while the real ninja ran off. "Now my monster won't be destroyed, and with so little life point's left, I can make a comeback!"

"I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Rush Recklessly!" Claudio countered, slipping the last card from his hand into the disk, It depicted a large, orange boar charging into who knows what... "Now my monster gains 700 points, enough to take out your life points!" The Hellion screeched as it gained a green aura. (7/4400-5100/1500)

Finally, the laser hit Noob Saibot, launching him into Kenji and knocking down and his life points.

Claudio: 1000, Winner

Kenji: 0

Claudio shouldered his guitar and shouted, "And I win, Kenji! From our records, one and one!"

Kenji smiled as he picked himself up while the holograms disappeared, "That is true... and that means what I've seen in your room earlier, stays between the people who know it."

"Sweet," the Ra stated, shaking hands with the Ninja Duelist.

Soon, the sound of two people clapping was heard as everyone turned to the source. They saw two people with impressed expressions on their faces, a guy and a girl. The guy had long, dark brown hair tied in a ponytail and currently wore a dark blue t-shirt, blue jean shorts with white and black sneakers. The girl had long, wavy light brown hair that she let out and wore a red tank top, tan jean shorts with white and blue shoes.

"That was impressive, Claudio," the guy spoke up. "You really are as great as they say."

Claudio felt perplexed at the mystery guy's declaration, "Um thank you, but how do you know me? And who are you guys?"

"Oh right, introductions first," the guy replied.

"Smooth move, bro," the girl finally spoke, patting the new guy on his back. "You've confused the guy you wanted to meet..."

"Anyway, I'm Bradshaw Hawkins," the guy introduced, and then pointed to his sister, "This is my little sister, Kairi."

"And it's great to finally meet you guys," Kairi greeted.

"And how do you know about us?" Melody wondered.

"You know some Pro League duelists have apprentices and protégés, and all that," Bradshaw asked, to which most of the Academy students nodded to. "Well, we happened to be trained under Alister and Erika."

"Oh that's right," Claudio figured. "Alister mentioned you two during the wedding..."

"Yeah, we could have made the wedding but they decided it was best for us to show up before opening day of the Academy," Kairi replied.

"So, what dorm are you guys in?" Melody asked, looking over their clothes and seeing the lack of Academy jackets and blazers, "Obelisk Blue?"

"Pretty much, yeah," Bradshaw stated, "And I'm glad that I'm hearing that most of this elitist views I heard from Alister has stopped..."

"Yeah, finally," Alexis noted. "Because you just saw a Ra Yellow defeat and Obelisk Blue, but Claudio and Kenji here are actually evenly matched when you get right down to it."

"I see..." Kairi noted. "But, we need to get to the dorms and see where we need to go. Any chance you guys could show us the way?"

"Alexis and I would be more than happy to show you guys the way," Kenji offered.

"Yeah," Alexis nodded. "Kairi, you can follow me."

"And the Boys' dorm is over here," Kenji said to Bradshaw, pointing over to the direction. He then turned to everyone else. "I'll see you guys later..."

"No problem, dude," Claudio waved over.

"I guess that secret's staying a secret," Lyra noted as she walked away.

"Still, I wonder what it was..." Lily wondered.

"We shouldn't pry," Allyson noted.

"At least we got the rest of the year to look forward to," Jaden stated.

"Well, look who's here..." Everyone turned to see Chazz and Jachin coming over to them.

"Chazz, Jachin, what's up?" Jaden greeted.

"Coming over to the Slifer dorm," Jachin replied. "I do live here for the year..."

"You, I get," Alex stated, and the pointed to Chazz. "But what about you, Chazz; weren't you begging to get back to the Obelisk Dorm?"

"No, since I have my own personal room here in this one," the black coat Slifer stated.

"Huh?"

Inside the rec room, Chazz stepped in and sat down on the couch. The rec room was by far the largest room of the Slifer Dorm, spacious enough to sit around, have a duel, and even had a giant screen TV to watch. But of course, Chazz's workers had a hand in building it before Spencer had his people rebuild it after its destruction. He still called it his room...

"Chazz's personal dorm room is open for business!" the black coat Slifer shouted, relaxing inside.

"Actually this is the rec room," Jachin noted, sitting down next to him. "Didn't Headmaster Sojourner give you the money to compensate for the destruction of the first torn room?"

"At least my bed's upstairs..." Chazz noted. "And away from any annoying girls dressing up like guys!"

"Huh?" Everyone wondered.

"Chazz had a run in with a new Obelisk girl that has the guy's uniform instead of the girls," Jachin noted. "Goes by the name of Sam Warrington..."

"Oh..." Everyone answered.

"And they're not the only new people around!"

Everyone turned to see two girls walking from down stairs, wearing Slifer Red vests. The first had dark purple hair down to mid-back, wearing a yellow collared shirt underneath the vest, black leather shorts with a brown deck belt on the side of her hip, and knee-length stockings with red boots. This was Blair Flannigan, now a full-fledged student of the Slifer Dorm after her performance during the GX Tournament. The second girl looked just as slim as the other, and had brown hair that goes a little past her waist which is highlighted by a streak of red and has side bangs, and has red eyes. She wore a black sleeveless turtle neck shirt underneath her vest, white denim shorts that cut off a few inches above her knees, knee-length stockings, a black belt that slacks a little off her right hip, a black deck box with a red dragon on the cover, a pair of red shoulder-length fingerless gloves with silver knuckles, and a pair of red and black running shoes.

Seeing the second girl, Jaden immediately got ecstatic. "Hey, you finally made it!" He then jumped over the steps.

"Oh, I know you missed me!" Blair stated running over to the E-Hero duelist, but was disappointed when he ran past her and embraced the other girl.

"Told you I was coming," the other girl stated happily, "I can't let you have all the fun in this place... I need some of the action after all your adventures!"

"And trust me, it's the sweetest place to be!" Jaden exclaimed.

Everyone noticed that Allyson was not angry with Jaden hugging another girl they way he was, in fact she was happy.

"You're not going over there to tell your boyfriend off?" Alex asked Allyson.

"Why break up a family reunion at a school?" Allyson asked.

Everyone gasped and looked towards the two in question, and shouted, "Jaden has a sister?"

The girl laughed and held up a peace sign, "Reyna Yuki's, the name! And I hope that this year, I'll get my game on!"

"Oh no, another slacker!" Chazz cringed, falling out.

"And don't forget Blair," Melody pointed out. "She nearly had Kenji on the ropes last year during the finals..."

"Really?" Claudio asked.

"Really," Blair smiled. "Would have been nice to win the whole thing, but at least I got in and I'm close to Jaden again!"

"But you're just a kid," Syrus stated.

"I'm taller than you are," the Mystic Duelist boasted.

"What's next for this school?" Jachin wondered.

At the main building, all the faculty of the Academy gathered in the Chancellor's Room, wondering what the guy in charge was setting up... the Chancellor was a middle-aged man with a bald head and gray hair on his eyebrows and small goatee. He wore a magenta uniform that was styled like the Obelisk Blue boys' uniform over a yellow collared shirt and red tie. He was called Sheppard.

In front of him, was the five other faculty members of the Academy:

The first was an effeminate man with lime green eyes, and blonde hair tied in a ponytail, and looked as if he used makeup with the purple colored lips. His outfit consisted of the a more regal variation on the standard Obelisk Blue uniform, complete with gold trimmings and ruffled pink collar, shoulders, upper chest, and sleeves. He also wears crescent-shaped earrings. He was Dr. Vellian Crowler, Headmaster of the Obelisk Blue Boys' Dorm.

Standing next to him, was a short, stout man with brown eyes, and a bald head with dark hair on the sides. His dark green uniform looked more from France with gold trimmings on the shoulders, giving him a General look. He was Jean-Louis Bonaparte, a Vice Chancellor of Duel Academy.

In the middle, stood a tall man with neat, brown hair and brown eyes. He dressed in a Slifer Red uniform that had a coat that with a red tie and white collared shirt underneath. He was Spencer Sojourner, the Headmaster of the Slifer Red Dorm.

Next to him, stood a beautiful woman with grey eyes, and red hair that had a long bang going down her face. Her outfit consisted of a white blazer with blue trimmings over a pink, short dress and red heels. She also wore blue and white earrings. She was Fonda Fontaine, Headmistress of the Obelisk Girls' Dorm, and also the Gym Instructor and Head Nurse.

Finally, there was a man of Spanish decent with black hair down to his neck, clad in a Ra Yellow uniform. He had the sad honor of being least known person of the Academy. He was Sartyr Kabayama, the Headmaster of the Ra Yellow dorm.

"I finally had the time to go over a few things from last year," Sheppard announced, looking over a file. "And it says that Sartorius was admitted into the school... by you two..." Everyone looked to Crowler and Bonaparte as he made the declaration. "Is that true?"

"That's preposterous," Crowler shouted, slamming his fist on the ground. "He used mind control to trick us into doing it!"

"And we're prepared to sue this place for our pain and suffering!" Bonaparte added.

"Not like you two have a case on this," Spencer muttered.

"What was that?" the accused yelled.

"You heard him," Fonda jumped in. "It's because of Sartorius that he caused everything to go bad last year! Not to mention the reason why both of the Blue Dorms were taken over by them."

"And the Ra Dorm was going to be next," Sartyr added.

"To think it started for you two for getting this place publicity," Sheppard sighed. "At least this information hasn't left the Academy..."

"But what about the new Slifer Dorm?" Crowler perked up. "No more days of being in a worn down shack, hmm?"

"And that was my idea, and my money that went into it," Spencer stated. "After... a certain someone put up the budget towards getting Aster to play for tearing down the Slifer Red Dorm."

"Are you still on that?" Bonaparte grumbled. "It's over, what's past is past..."

"True," Sheppard spoke. "Which is why I will drop this situation, and in return I'll just have you restricted to teaching jobs until further notice." Both men cringed. "I'll explain further in the week... you two are dismissed." Crowler and Bonaparte sulked as they headed out the door. "Now that that's settled, I am making a few changes... the first is, your three jobs, Miss Fontaine. I will be replacing your Headmistress job."

Fonda looked shocked, "What's this about?"

"Yeah, she's a great Headmistress for the girls," Spencer added.

"Don't get me wrong, you've done an admirable job for the girls of your dorm," the Chancellor calmed her down, "But having three jobs while everyone else has two, it has to be stressful. Plus, I see you doing your Gym Instructor and Nurse jobs a lot more beneficial."

"Yeah, it has..." She admitted. "So, who's going to be the new Headmistress?"

"I'll introduce her," Sheppard pressed a button on his desk, opening a door from the side. Stepping out was a young, tan-skinned woman with light pink eyes, wavy, jet-black hair and currently wore a white t-shirt and the same blazer as Fonda's. "I like for you all to meet, Rachel Mason."

"Just call me Ray," the woman greeted, and turned to Fonda. "I hope this isn't a bad thing for replacing one of your jobs."

"Actually, this may work out," Fonda stated. "I'm surprised that this happened, but it does decrease workload and focus on my strengths."

"So we're good," Ray asked.

"Yes," Fonda smiled, "Welcome to Duel Academy." Both of the women shook hands as everyone else in the room smiled.

That's when Sheppard turned around in his chair and stood up to stare at the Slifer Red Dorm. He happened to see Jaden and Claudio walk into the Slifer Dorm's rec room. 'Jaden, Claudio... both of you are my most gifted students.' He thought. 'But after two years, you're still in the same dorm... perhaps the both of you need some discipline; from one that isn't impressed with your victory over the Shadow Riders, someone who doesn't know about your victory over the Society of Light. Someone who will hone your skills and push you to the limits of your abilities...' He then pulled out his Duel Pilot and viewed four different people whose pictures were formed in a square. 'Prepare yourselves, because your third year won't be easy...'

Ninja Mech – Shadow

Level 6

DARK

2500/1500

Machine/Synchro

Foreign Shinobi + 1 or more non-Tuner Monsters

Foreign Shinobi

Level 3

DARK

1300/1200

Warrior/Tuner

A clone of a legendary ninja, but inherited his skills to fight for justice

Wraith Ninja Noob Saibot (Noob Saibot from Mortal Kombat 2011)

DARK

Level 7

Zombie/Synchro/Effect

2550/2150

1 Tuner + Ninja Sub-Zero

You can perform a Synchro Summon, if you have one Tuner Monster and one Ninja Sub-Zero is in your Graveyard. Once per turn, you can activate one of the following effects:

Select one face-up monster on your opponent's side of the field and negate its effects and gain its abilities until the end of the turn.

Switch one Set monster your opponent controls and flip it to face-up ATK mode. (Monster effects do not activate in response to this effect)

(The top three cards were created by me and the Master of Death and Darkness. Card creative rights go to us, while the characters' rights go to their respective company owners)

Metal Queen (Based on the Metal Queen from Brutal Legend)

EARTH

Machine/Synchro/Effect

2200/2400

Level 6

1 Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner Monsters

This card is also treated as an Insect Type. This card gains 200 ATK for each Insect-Type monster on the field. During the End Phase, if this card destroyed an opponent's monster that turn, Special Summon 1 "Metal Spider Token" (Insect-Type/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 400/DEF 400) in Attack Position.

Jukebox Hero Hellion

WIND

Machine/Synchro/Effect

Level 7

2300/1500

Effect Name: Electric Eye

Attack Name: Laser Sight

1 Machine-Type Tuner + 1 or more Non-Tuner Jukebox Hero Monsters

Effect: When this card is Synchro Summoned, look at your opponent's hand and choose one Monster Card. This card gains 300 ATK x the level of the selected Monster Card.

(Name Basis: The Hellion/Electric Eye by Judas Priest)

(The top two cards were created by me. Card creative rights go to me, while names and characters go to their respective owners.)

Different Dimension Hangar

Continuous Spell Card

Select and remove from play 3 Level 4 or lower Union monsters from your Deck. If a monster is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned to your side of the field, and that monster is written in the card text of a Union Monster that was removed from play by this card's effect, you can Special Summon that Union Monster. The Union Monster Special Summoned by this card's effect cannot declare an attack or be Tributed.

(First used by Chazz Princeton during the two part GX episode, Head in the Clouds. All rights go to the creators of the anime.)