While Dorothy was working on getting a new shipment of food in, a scuba diver snuck onto the island. He was a journalist working on a story about the missing students and he came to just the right place for the scoop.
During a staff meeting, the teachers were choosing who was going to represent the Academy in the upcoming school duel. North Academy was going to use a first-year student, so Chancellor Sheppard didn't think it would be fair to have Zane duel, a third-year. Zane elected Jaden to be the duelist, but Crowler hated the idea, so he elected Bastion Misawa. With two students being elected, they decided to have the two students duel to see who the representative will be. Jaden and Bastion were told about it during class and Jaden got excited, while Bastion planned to win. Meanwhile, the reporter snuck into a locker room and stole a Slifer jersey. He tried to act like one of the students but no one would talk to him because they thought he was a Slifer, until he met Jaden, Syrus, and Chumley who treated him like one of their own.
That night, the four of them had dinner together and then put together Jaden's deck in the dorm room. The reporter saw the one card, Skyscraper, and got mad because Skyscraper was the card that ruined dueling for him. He accidentally let his name slip, Gerard, when Jaden kept calling him old dude. Jaden talked about how much dueling means to him and that Gerard may someday find dueling interesting again and he also said something about the abandoned dorm. That night, Gerard checked out the abandoned dorm and met Alexis, who was there to pay another tribute to her brother. She wouldn't talk to him, so Gerard just took pictures.Meanwhile, Bastion was in his room trying to come up with a strategy for defeating Jaden. When an idea finally hit him, he gave out a loud laugh. A few weeks later, the day of the duel came. The school gathered in the arena to watch and see who will represent their school: Bastion Misawa or Jaden Yuki? Meanwhile, Gerard snuck into the library while everyone was gone and hacked into the school's files to find profiles on the missing students.
Bastion: summoned Carbongeddon (900/600) in defense mode
Jaden: summoned Busrtsinatrix (1200), attacked Carbongeddon and placed one card face down to end his turn.
Bastion: summoned Oxyegeddon (1800/800), attacked Burstsinatirx, but Jaden used his face down, Hero Barrier, which negated the attack as long as he had an elemental hero on the field. Bastion ended his turn with a face down.
Jaden: summoned Sparkman (1600) and equipped him with Spark Blaster, giving him the ability to switch the battle mode of any monster. He switched Oxyegeddon to defense and then attacked him with Burstsinatix, but when Oxyegeddon is destroyed by a fire monster, both duelists take the damage (Both: 3200 LP). Jaden ended his turn by attacking Bastion directly with Sparkman.
Bastion (1600 LP): summoned Hydrogeddon (1600) and used it to attack Burstsinatrix. When Hydrogeddon destroys a monster, Bastion gets to summon another Hydrogeddon to the field. Afterwards, he played the magic card, Living Fossil, which brought Oxyegeddon back to the field as long as it was equipped with the card, even though it cancels it's special ability and lowers its attack to 800. Bastion also played the magic card, Bonding H2O, which fuses Oxyegeddon and the two Hydrogeddon's together to summon Water Dragon (2800) and ended his turn.
Jaden (2800 LP): played Polymerization to try to fuse his monsters, but Bastion used a trap, Cursed Seal of Forbidden Spell. It cancels Polymerization and Jaden can't play it for the rest of the duel.
It seems Bastion has figured out Jaden's strength, his ability to use fusion monsters, and took it from him. How will Jaden win now?
To Be Continued...
