“So who do you want to date?”
I look over at Jaden, “You’re still going on about that?”
“Yeah, you looked like you were about to say it when Sy asked.”
“Alright, I will tell you, but promise you won’t tell them?”
“No promises.”
“*sighs* It’s Alexis.” I look over at him trying not to laugh. “Whats so funny J?”
“It’s just that, I was poking fun at you, it was obvious it was Alexis.”
“How obvious?”
“Rob, I noticed it. Does that say anything?”
“True, but you won’t tell her, right?”
He smirks at me, “I don’t know, maybe I will, maybe I won’t.”
“Jaden…”
“Fine I will tell her.”
“JADEN!”
I go back to taking notes.
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As I am taking notes, I see Syrus run in. “Jaden, Robert, Its awful, Chazz is gone!!”
“You said awful, what did he do? Steal something of yours?”
“Yeah, that's awful how?”
“Um… because he’s your duel rival?”
I look at him, “And what am I? A roach?”
“Ah, you’re right!” He stands up. “No offense robert, But I need my competition around here.”
“So I am a roach.”
I look up and hear Chazz’s friends talking smack about him.
“Man they’re awful.”
“Yeah, if I had friends like that, I would run away too!”
“Listen, I know Chazz has been a pain in the past, but what if he’s in trouble and needs our help?”
Jaden stands up, “You’re right! The right thing to do is go look for him.”
“So when should we go?”
“Right now. After all, it’s also a great excuse to sneak out of class.”
“Good point J.”
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We then are sneaking out of a little crack in the wall.
“All clear,” Jaden says.
“You know,”
We all jump at the voice.
“The school does have regular doors.”
We turn and see Alexis and her friends standing there.
“Oh, hey Alexis,” we walk over to them. “I bet your wondering what we’re doing out here. We were just uh… getting a early start on our homework.”
“Yeah right, you’re looking for Chazz.”
“You laid it on too thick dude, everyone knows you don’t do homework,” I say with a look of disapproval.
“And we’re going to come with you.”
“Really?” Jaden asks. “Since when did you guys skip class?”
“Chazz is an Obelisk Blue, and we take care of our own.” she says.
“We do?” I ask
“We do,” she replies with a hint of malice
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“CHAZZ! CHAZZ!”
“COME ON OUT!”
“YEAH, WE’RE WORRIED ABOUT YOU!”
“I’M NOT! I JUST NEEDED AN EXCUSE”
“Robert!” Alexis jabs my side.
“OW! I MEAN, I AM TOO, not really.” I say, so Alexis doesn’t jab me again
“That's it.” Alexis then puts her hands around her mouth to amplify the noise. “CHAZZ YOU LITTLE TOAD! IF THIS IS SOME KIND OF TRICK YOU BETTER HOPE WE DON’T FIND YOU!!! YOU GOT THAT?!?!?!”
I look at her, startled that she yelled like that.
“Yeah, threaten him, that’ll bring him running.”
“You know,” one of Alexis’ friends said. “Maybe there’s a reason he ran off.”
“Yeah, Like he snuck out to go get me flowers. My Chazzy is so romantic. ”
“Chazzy?” syrus says with a look of concern.
“You like Chazz? Last week it was Bastion. Who’s next, Little Syrus?”
“Well he is cute.”
“Who? Chazz or Sy?” I ask
“Look there!” I look at where Alexis is looking. “Something is moving!”
We all take a closer look.
“I don’t see anything”
The bushes then move
“Chazz?”
“Must be.”
“Alright,” Jaden walks up to the bush, “Games up, we found ya! Come on out!”
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Just then A monkey jumps out of the bush, scaring all of us. It then collides with us and takes someone.
“That Chazz…”
“Not human either.”
People in black suits then come out of that direction.
“WHAT NOW?!”
“AHHHH!!!!”
They look around. “Jasmine!”
“Wait,” I look at her. “That's her name?”
“You never knew?”
“Nope.”
“AH!! Up in those trees!”
We look at the trees and hear screaming.
“Just what she always wanted, some guy to sweep her off her feet.”
“Yeah, some guy, not some monkey.”
“Over there!” one of the people say. “Move!”
“Wait, what’s going on? What is that thing?” Syrus asks.
“Who cares? Its got Jasmine. We got to follow.” Jaden says.
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As we near there, we notice the monkey has a duel disk.
“Hey!” Jaden yells. “That monkey has a duel disk!”
“either that, or it has a funny shaped banana.”
“THAT'S NO BANANA!” the old guy yells. “And that's no regular monkey. His name is Wheeler, and he’s a trained duelist.”
“Wha… a dueling monkey?”
“Sir.”
“Ah, yes. Top secret.”
“Wait, was this Seto kaiba’s idea?”
“How did you-?”
“Simple, where i’m from, rumor has it seto kaiba called Joey wheeler a dueling monkey, so this makes sense.”
“...”
“Wait! If he duels… let me duel him!”
“What?” I say. “I want to duel him though.”
“Why not settle this with a duel?”
“We can’t, there’s no time. Just let me duel and we can duel later.”
“How about I tell someone a certain something?”
“you motherfucker, I see what you’re doing. I just want to duel since no one will duel me.”
“... Fine, I won’t tell, just win though, got it?”
“Got it.”
I walk up. “Let me duel.”
“Do you understand the situation here?”
“Uh, Yeah. That's why I got to duel him.”
“Rob, Are you feeling ok?”
“He’s not sick, he’s just crazy.”
“Ha ha. Very funny. If I win, He has to hand over whats-her-face.”
“You already forgot her name?”
“Yeah.”
I run up to the edge. “What about it Joey? Want to duel?”
He makes a grunting noise.
“That's right you knock off! So put whats-her-face down and lets settle this through a childrens card game!”
I hear some talking that I can’t understand until, “Maybe all that training has made wheeler understand human. Or maybe Roberts really a monkey.”
I turn around, “Oh fuck off! He understands me! Not the other way around!” I turn back to wheeler. “If I win, you give the girl back! And if I lose… uh… we let you go wheeler!”
“Wait,” Jasmine says, “Let him go? Where does that leave me?”
“I will figure that out. If I lose. Which I won’t.”
“And I reveal who robert likes”
“GOD DAMNIT JADEN!!! IF I WIN YOU WILL DROP IT! GOT IT?!?!”
“Yup!”
Wheeler grunts a bit, then sets Jasmine down and walks up to a rock. He jumps on it and sets his duel disk up.
“Alright Wheeler, let’s get down to some Monkey business!”
“Duel!”
Everyone jumps back. “It talks?”
“Of course not, the machine just reads its thoughts and speaks for it.”
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*duel*
Wheeler: 4000 Lp
Robert: 4000 Lp
Cards: cyber dragon zwei, Limiter Removal, Limiter removal, pot of greed, cyber dragon
Robert: “You may go.”
Wheeler: *grunts* “Beserk gorilla(2000/1000)! Go! Now, one card face down.”
Robert: “Good, Now time to make sure this monkey doesn’t become the chimpion of this match!” *draws*
Jasmine: “Really? Puns at a moment like this? They’re not even good.”
Card:power bond
Robert: “I summon Cyber Dragon(2100/1900)! Because you have a monster on the field and I don’t, I get to special summon it! Now I normal summon Cyber dragon Zwei(1800/800)! I also activate it’s effect, by showing you a spell card, like pot of greed It’s name becomes cyber dragon! Next, I play pot of greed! This let’s me draw two cards!”
Cards: Cyber dragon, power bond
Robert: I play Power bond! I fusion summon Cyber End Dragon(4000/2800)! And power bond Doubles Its Attack points!-”
Cyber End Dragon: 4000->8000 ATK
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I look over and see a tribe of monkeys hiding behind a rock
“No way! Is that his tribe? I get it! You escaped so you could meet them again, right? Well sorry to say, but unless you release Jasmine, I gotta beat you!”
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Robert: “So I play Limiter removal! It lets me double those attack points again! And I play 2!”
Cyber end dragon: 8000-> 16000 ->32000 ATK
Robert: “GO, Cyber End Dragon!”
Wheeler: 4000-> 0 Lp
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“A deals a deal Wheeler! Let Jasmine go!”
He then walks over to Jasmine, picks her up, walks back over, then sets her down. She runs on over and hugs Alexis. “Jaden,” I start to say.
“I know, I know, I will drop the fact you like-”
I cover his mouth before he can say another word. “Close one.”
“Thanks for saving me, but,” she looks at wheeler. “What happens to wheeler now? He shouldn’t have snatched me, but he deserves better than those needle poking scientist guys.”
“Alright you flea ridden failure,” one of the people say. “Lets go.”
“Hold it!” Jaden yells while running in front of them. “He doesn’t belong with you. He belongs out here with nature! He belongs with is family, so that's where we’re going to leave him, got it?”
“Huh?!?!”
“Then he can pick grubs eat berries,” Jaden continues on. “You know, other monkey stuff.”
Wheeler grunts. Soon, everyone is getting in, but sadly, we weren’t enough, at least, until professor Banner appears and puts a stop to it, he then leads us to the docks where Chazz left.
“Good rivals are hard to find,” Jaden says.
“Yes, but you know what isn’t?” Banner asks.
I realize whats going on and try to slip out, but Jaden grabs my collar.
“Class, and since you all missed the last one, we have some cramming to do…”
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*later*
As I’m getting in bed, another shroud of darkness encloses me. “What now?”
“Well,” My magician begins. “I feel I should warn you of other dimensions.”
“What?”
“There are other dimensions like ours, except its main extra deck monster is different.”
‘Whats ours?”
“Fusion monsters. others are XYZ monsters, synchro, and pendulum, like Odd-eyes there.”
“So, why tell me? Its not like they can just jump here… they can jump here, can’t they?”
“Yup, but don’t worry now, as they can’t affect you yet, you have a few years to fuse our deck with yours.”
“But that will take me awhile to do that, so don’t get your hopes up yet.”
“Wait, is Jaden Yuki in this academy?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Never mind then, you only had to worry if he didn’t make it.”
“Why?”
“If Jaden is here, that means nothing bad will happen to the multiverse.”
“... alright, so does that mean an alternate me is without you and needs your help?”
“... indeed, i shall go and try and find him, good luck on your dreams!”
“A-alright.”
“Oh, and keep the deck, its in this dimension, so it won't be affected by the conflict.”
“But, what about other circumstances?”
“I shall appear and help, but until then, farewell!”
He disappears in a cloud of smoke. The darkness is replaced by natural darkness and everything goes back to normal. “Well that was weird.” I then go to bed and fall asleep.