Origami Yoda and Battles

Summary
''A strange new fad is messing with McQuarrie: Battles! A kid named Connor has brought his own characters for the McQuarrie gang’s enjoyment, but of course, the gang gets more than they bargained for when a kid claiming to be the Evil Paper Twizzler tries to destroy the game. Will he succeed or will Battles prevail?''

Plot
Connor, a fifth grader, is temporarily enrolled at McQuarrie Middle School while his mother is in Virginia for a business trip. During lunch he befriends the gang and introduces them to a game he created called Battles. The project soon catches on with the gang, and they begin to accept Connor as one of their own. However, as Kellen and Connor are leaving the school, a kid with a Paper Twizzler puppet named Arnold appears and vows to destroy Battles from the inside out. Connor predicts that they only have until Saturday to defeat Arnold.

The gang agrees to search Arnold's locker to learn more about his plan. Tommy, Sara, and Connor reach the locker, but Tommy and Sara are ambushed by two kids shooting spitballs. Tommy and Sara chase after the two kids, leaving Connor alone. Inside Arnold's locker, Connor discovers countless posters full of amazing ideas. After finding a particular poster containing an idea for a comic, Connor realizes Arnold was shunned and teased for his creativity, and wanted to destroy everything creative, including Battles, as revenge. Connor vows to either stop Arnold or persuade him to turn back to the Light Side.

Meanwhile, Harvey and Rhondella join Tommy and Sara in pursuit of the kids who ambushed them. Harvey manages to defeat them by using Darth Paper's lightsaber to deflect their spitballs back at them. Once they are defeated, the group recognizes the two kids as Tater Tot's friends Craig and Kurt. The gang regroups at Arnold's locker, but are attacked by a swarm of paper airplanes resembling Dragman.

Connor manages to escape into the library along with Lance and Amy. Connor explains that Arnold is specifically targeting him, and sends Lance and Amy to grab Arnold's ideas while he heads off to stop Arnold alone.

Connor locates Arnold in a classroom and discovers Arnold has hacked into his account and is preparing to destroy battles once and for all. Thinking quickly, Connor kicks Arnold's spinny-chair into the hallway, where he is carried away by the stream of kids.

Thinking he can still save Arnold from the dark side, Connor creates an entire website dedicated to all of Arnold's ideas. Arnold apologizes for his actions upon seeing the website, and he and Connor make amends. After Harvey questions why Connor chose to help Arnold after he tried to destory his work, Connor explains he chose to forgive Arnold after learning about his past. Even after Connor leaves McQuarrie, he and Arnold continue to work on projects and the students at McQuarrie continue to play Battles.