"I'm sorry guys, but I'm afraid our network just doesn't have room for you guys."

The Blade Breakers stared at the TV network manager, horrified. Kai threw his Beyblade to the ground angrily.

"You can't do this to us!"

"I'm sorry Kai, but you and your friends aren't just getting the ratings our company needs. Kids these days like animes full of violence, gore and rude jokes, not crappy cartoons where kids watch tops spin around in circles!"

Tyson shook his head in disbelief.

"No, that's not true. There are plenty of kids that like Beyblade, it's an awesome show! And the merchandise is great too!

"What, plastic tops that spin around? Where's the guns? The explosives? Sure, the tops look great on TV, but these days they're gathering dust on shelves at Kmart."

"What about Pokemon?" Max said, "You never see blood or guns in that show! It makes money!"

"Actually, that's not entirely true. Now that there's 7, 652 pokemon, the kids are starting to tire of the show. People turing into Pokemon? Not working either. So we have new characters coming in..."

A tall bulky man with two miniguns and a belt of pokeballs entered the room, closely followed by a blonde anime character in a string bikini.

"Say hello to Commander TNT and his sexy sidekick Pokebabe!"

The team stared at the two pokemon characters with dislike.

"These are the new face of Pokemon. We've also replaced Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy with prostitutes. It gets more viewers. And Brock's been replaced with a gangsta dude with a load of baditude and a team of angry gang members."

TNT and Pokebabe stood there silently.

Hilary stared at them in wonderment.

"Do they say anything?"

"Well, we don't have actors to voice them yet. Snoop Doggs signed up to be the gangsta character when he's finished, and Pamela Anderson's probably the choice for Pokebabe."

Kai looked at the group.

"Uh where's Pikachu?"

"Well, he's loaded with cybernetic implants and is virtually insane. We keep him locked in a box in the storage closet."

Kai and the gang simply stared at him.

"What. The. F-"

Pokebabe stuck a hand grenade in Kai's mouth and threw him out the window, the others falling down after him as Commander TNT blew them all away with his minigun, and they fell down to the street below.

But the world was now a better place for the beyblading cartoon characters. The were now non-existent in the eyes of the real world. That meant they were immortal, having no artists to animate their death scenes or draw bloodstains on their bodies.

But for the stylish children's cartoon characters, life was set to get a whole lot worse.