365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

Revenge Success

8/18/19

That night, they all finally sprung their plan into action - it'd been pushed off a few days thanks to the reactor tests and Yusei having to write up his request and reports to go with it, but they all agreed that it was the perfect time to do it.

When Jack got back, they all made sure to look busy, like they weren't planning anything. Judai was still supposedly sleeping on Yusei's lap on the couch, and Crow had stolen the desk to spread out his deck and look over it to see if he wanted to try anything new; there was nothing to indicate that Jack was in for an embarrassing time.

"Welcome back," Crow greeted, waving idly before going back to his cards. Jack simply grunted in response, dropping his bag to the side before making his way to the kitchen.

They sprung into action when he disappeared fully, Crow dragging the desk chair to the middle of the room while Yusei quickly pulled out his phone to keep track of the hidden camera's footage. Judai, on the other hand, used his shadows to move the coffee table in front of the chair, which allowed him to do so silently.

The three Resonators who had appeared in spirit form when Jack returned floated above the kitchen entrance to hide, and once they were in place Judai materialized them and grinned.

He'd gone over what he wanted to say and preach about multiple times, and he knew it like the back of his hand. Granted, he wouldn't be able to follow it perfectly, especially when he'd have to inevitably argue with a very unhappy Jack Atlas and pull off a lot of improv, but it was enough for him to be able to follow and work around.

It helped that both Haou and Yubel had pitched in with their own additions and edits to it as well. Judai knew from experience that they were particularly talented at making this as horrible and embarrassing to listen to as possible.

Jack paused a step out of the kitchen doorway when he came back out, staring at them and thankfully not having anything more than a mug of coffee in his hand - he'd be allowed to drink that, at least, because it'd help make him stay awake.

"...What the hell are you guys doing?" Jack asked carefully, giving each of them a stare that would've seemed scary if it weren't for the fact that all of them knew him well and could see the glint of worry and paranoia in his eyes.

"Come, have a seat," Judai replied smoothly, glancing over and nodding in thanks when Yusei dug out a folding chair out of the closet and opened it for him to sit on.

"And just why should I do that?"

"Don't you want to hear what I have to say?"

"With all of you guys clearly planning something, the last thing I should do is follow what you tell me to do, " Jack scowled, crossing his arms and huffing a bit. He ended up sitting anyways after Judai did nothing but smile and gesture towards the chair again.

"So glad you decided to make this easier!" Judai stated, letting his smile turn into a wild grin as he clapped, which cued the Resonators to reveal themselves.

Chain Resonator secured their chain around Jack within less than a second, successfully keeping him pinned in place while Dark and Red Resonator cackled happily. Whatever they said seemed to irritate Jack, seeing as he was trying to bite at them.

The Resonators, which are pretty much just cloth and metal and in Red's case, fire, continued to chatter rapidly while Dark and Red were quick to pull out their sound instruments and bop Jack in the head lightly, but repeatedly, which made for a hilarious scene.

"I'm sure you're wondering why it's come to this," Judai interrupted before Jack could say anything, and he heard Crow and Yusei snicker to themselves from behind him, "Well, I heard something very interesting earlier this week. Something that you've failed to tell us about." At this point Jack winced, clearly knowing almost instantly what he was talking about, so Judai sighed loudly and leaned forward on his knees, resting his head in his hands with an exaggerated, disappointed frown, "Honestly, if you had just told us before the week ended it never would have had to come to this. But now you have to pay the price."

"You fuckin' bastards," Jack scowled, eyebrow twitching as he glared at Judai before switching his attention to his duel monsters, "Also, you traitors! Damn it, why are you helping him?!"

The Resonators laughed happily back at him, saying something that Judai couldn't understand but was clearly enough to rile Jack up more. He'd actually gotten to talk to them a little bit when he'd first invited them into the plan by using Winged Kuriboh as a translator, and they'd pretty much just said that they loved messing with their owner and would be happy to help.

"Considering you got a girlfriend, I came up with the perfect thing to lecture you on," Judai smiled innocently, tilting his head just ever-so-slightly to the side before grinning maniacally, "Allow me to educate you on all manners of the male and female body."

He cackled at the absolute look of horror that spread across Jack's face, gesturing for Yusei to pass him the holo-pad, which had already been set up the way he needed it to be for his following lecture.

He'd been in Jack's position years ago and he never forgot how incredibly mortified he'd been, and he hadn't had anything even close to looking like a romantic partner at the time. He was so, so ready to make someone else go through what he'd had to go through, and his smirk was so wide it made his cheeks ache.

He'd made sure to pass it by Carly too, just to double-check with her that it was something that Jack could handle and wouldn't end up going wrong or something without realizing - she'd know better than any of them and she'd gave him the green light a million times over, saying that she couldn't wait for some clips of it.

Needless to say, he ended up with very good blackmail material a couple hours later, and he'd even gotten a bonus! Yusei and Crow hadn't been able to hide their own embarrassment at hearing what he was talking about a few times, and a couple little nudges on the hidden camera with a wayward shadow picked up on them perfectly. It had sound, too, so he'd be able to know exactly what parts they'd been embarrassed by.

Looks like I owe you two, this might as well be a skill, Judai thought giddily, still smirking all these hours later and managing to not completely break out into laughter during the entire thing - he'd impressed himself, to say the least.

"A difficult skill that not many people can capitalize on, so good job!" Yubel agreed, Haou sending through agreement as well.

To end it all off though, he pulled a box of protection out of the desk drawer that they'd hidden it in just for when Jack finally was allowed to run back to his room, and quickly threw open the door to toss them at him.

"Don't forget these!~" Judai sang, ducking out as fast he could and joining the other two downstairs, who'd grabbed the camera and were already going through the video on Yusei's laptop.

All three of them had to pause to take a nice, long laugh at the highly offended, stuttered yell Jack made a few seconds later.