Hey! It's me, Coral the Leviathan! And I present to you a new story! Meet Vestroia of Mayham! This follows the storyline of Bakugan: New Vestroia, just with additional members. Now then, enjoy the story.
It had been three years since that day. The day when Naga almost conquered Earth, andthe day when all the Bakugan returned to their home in Vestroia. Since then, Japan had been peaceful.
In one small apartment, two teenagers just moved in and began to unpack their stuff.
"You don't have to help me, Minoru," the male teen insisted.
"Don't be silly. I can't let you do all the work, Shinobu," the female teen said.
Shinobu and Minoru Gushiken were twins, the former being the older twin. Shinobu had dark blonde hair and was fairly muscular. He wore thin, baggy blue pants, navy blue t-shirt, a black wristband on his right wrist with 'FROM THE DEPTHS I RISE' written in sky blue, and normal red shoes. Minoru had dark blonde hair that ends past her shoulders and her skin was quite pale, compared to her brother. She wore a white sundress that ends at her knees, brown combat boots, and a yellow wristband with a white star on it.
"You say that, but I don't want your sickness to act up," Shinobu said.
"I'm fine." Just as Minoru said that, she started to cough badly.
Shinobu quickly rushed to his sister's side. "Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine. Just not use to the air here."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm fine. You're such a worrywart, big brother," Minoru said.
"It's not my fault; you get sick easily," he defended. "Okay, since I can't talk you out of helping me, I'll handle all the heavy and complicated stuff, you just put away your clothes and think about the groceries we should buy for the week."
The female twin nodded at the idea and the two went to work.
Some time later, Shinobu couldn't help but notice how quiet the apartment got. This worried him as he rushed to his sister's room.
"Minoru? Are you okay?" he called. The male twin saw the door opened and walked in. Turns out, his sister was looking at a photo with a longing look.
"Minoru?" he called once more.
"Do you still think about them?" Minoru suddenly asked.
"Who?"
"You know... Them..."
Shinobu knew who she meant and answered, "Always." He walked over to her and looked at the photo as well.
On the photo were the twins in their younger teens, each with a Bakugan on their shoulders. On Shinobu's left shoulder was a blue Bakugan and on Minoru's right shoulder was a white and yellow Bakugan.
"Why would they leave, Shinobu?" Minoru asked.
"You know why, sis. They had to go back. They... don't belong in this world. They have a home in Vestroia," Shinobu tried to reason.
"I know. I just wish that we could see them again. Our time with them... was the longest time that my sickness didn't act up." It was true. For some reason, since the day when Bakugan came into their world, Minoru didn't get as sick as usual. In fact, it was also that day that the two met their partner Bakugan for what could've been eternity. Since then, Minoru hadn't felt more alive in all her life. Then when the Bakugan left, her sickness acted up again. It was as though Bakugan was the permanent cure for her. And now that they were gone, her sickness came back. Thankfully, it wasn't life-threatening, but the two still needed to be cautious about it.
"How do you think they're doing?" Minoru then asked.
"They probably miss us just as much as we miss them. Besides that, I bet they're living a peaceful life." He grabbed a hoodie. "Come on. Let's go grocery shopping and get our minds off of the past. Those two wouldn't want us to worry about them."
His twin smiled sadly and nodded.
After a quick trip to the supermarket, the two were walking back to their apartment.
"Tell me again why I have to wear a white hoodie every time I walk out at this time of the year," Minoru said, donning a white full-zipped hoodie over her dress.
"You could get burned from the sunlight with how fragile your body is. That and you get cold easily," Shinobu answered. He looked up and saw that it would rain soon and the two of them were ways away from their apartment. He knelt down in front of his sister. "Climb on. We're taking the short way. A storm's coming."
Minoru looked up and saw that to be true. She knew her brother wouldn't take 'no' for an answer and got on his back. "Lead the way, big brother," she insisted. With a smirk on the male Gushiken's face, he ran at full speed to their home. For a fairly muscular guy carrying his sister and several bags of groceries, he was fast and quite athletic.
As he rushed through an alley, something odd happened. A lightning bolt was struck down in front of him and a portal opened up. Shinobu was too late to stop and he and his sister went through. And then, they blacked out.
Later that day, Shinobu woke up to the feeling of hard soil. He opened his eyes and found himself in the desert.
"Where am I?" he wondered out loud. The male twin's eyes widened as he realized one thing. "Minoru!" He looked to his side and saw his sister lying on her side. "Minoru! Wake up! Wake up, sis!"
The female twin slowly opened her eyes. "Shinobu?" Shinobu sighed in relief at the response. "Where... are we?"
The two looked everywhere and saw no sign of civilization.
"Well, one thing's for sure, we're not in Japan anymore," Shinobu stated the obvious.
"But... where are we?" Minoru asked once more.
"Where else?" came a voice. One that is quite familiar to them.
"Welcome to our home," came another voice just as familiar.
The two of them looked around and saw no one around them. They felt something land on both their shoulders and looked to see a blue and a white ball respectively on their shoulders. The two popped open, revealing the blue one glowing and having some kind of dragon and sea serpent characteristics while the white ball had some characteristics of a warrior.
"Tsunamyss/Felgrand?!" the two humans called in shock.
"Of course, milady," the white Bakugan, Felgrand, replied.
"Who else would look as cool as the two of us?" the blue one, Tsunamyss, asked.
The teens were speechless. It had been years since they last saw their partners. And there they were, right by their side like the old times.
"Felgrand!" Minoru couldn't take it any more and took her partner in her hands, rubbing her cheek on him, tears pouring out of her eyes.
"Hey, hey, milady! I missed you too, but this is too much," he said.
"You're not going to do that, are you?" Tsunamyss asked his old partner.
"I'm not as mushy as her. You know that," Shinobi assured. "But it is good to see you again, partner."
"As it is to you."
Just then, they heard a trio of voices coming towards them. "Boss! Wait!" They looked to the source and saw three blue Bakugans. The three caught up to the humans.
"You really need to sssslow down, bossssss-man," the Bakugan that looked like a serpent said.
"Yeah... We're not as fast as you and Sir Felgrand," the Bakugan that looked like a crab followed.
The Bakugan that looked like a hermit crab noticed the twins with them. "What the-?! Vestals!"
"You bozo!" Felgrand knocked the hermit crab away. "These two are no Vestals! Do you not remember the stories Tsunamyss and I had been telling you? About our old partners?"
The three Bakugan took some time to process what was said, either in shock or they were just trying to remember the stories. After half a minute, they lowered their heads to Shinobu and Minoru.
"Please pardon our rudeness!" they begged.
"I-It's fine! Really!" the female twin assured.
Elsewhere, a tank was driving through the desert. The driver, a boy with green hair wearing purple clothes, spotted something on the radar and hit the brakes.
"Dude! Why the sudden stop?" another boy asked. This boy had brown hair with goggles on his head and was wearing red. This boy, was none other than Dan Kuso.
"A couple of unidentified Bakugan are in quadrant 0-17," the driver/technician, Ace Grit, explained. The screen showed up, showing a picture of Shinobu, Minoru and their Bakugan. "Looks like they did what Drago did to you and Marucho; bringing along two humans. No way they will last five seconds out there."
"Easy there, Ace. That's what you said about Dan and Marucho," said a girl with orange hair. This was Mira Clay.
"Hey, not to sound like Baron, but unlike these guys, Dan and Marucho are in a league of their own."
"Well, in any case, I should go and greet our guests." Mira took a gauntlet along with a spare and left the tank.
Dan, on the other hand, had a troubled look on his face.
"What's up, Dan?" Ace asked.
"Nothing much but... I feel like I've seen those two before."
Back with the twins, they looked around the area.
"You say this is New Vestroia? Your home?" Shinobu questioned.
"But if this is your home, how come you're both in your ball form?" Minoru asked.
"The last three years had been peaceful. That is... before they came," Tsunamyss began.
"It happened out of nowhere. These aliens, the Vestals, appeared and used some kind of tech to force us back in these forms," Felgrand continued. "Not long after, they began to abduct us. Some of us managed to escape and avoid capture, but everyone else..."
"Thosssse guyssss practically declared war! A war that we would've won if it wassssn't for their tech!" the serpent, Abis Omega, stated.
"Even if we are at our true forms, though, we wouldn't be able to win the war because the Vestals have Bakugan themselves. Bakugan... much more powerful than most of us," the hermit crab, Stug, stated.
"That's horrible..." Minoru said in sympathy.
"Horrible's an understatement," her brother corrected. "If they think they can just use Bakugan as weapons, slaves, they'll have to answer to the both of us! Right, sis?"
"Right!" The moment she answered, however, Minoru started to feel faint and collapsed.
"Minoru!" Shinobu grabbed hold of his sister.
"Whoa! What happened?!" Felgrand demanded.
"Her sickness." Shinobu took out a small pottle of pills from his pocket. "Good thing I have her medicine with me."
"I thought she got better," Tsynamyss said.
The male twin fed her the pill. "Yeah, but as soon as you guys were gone, it came back. It wasn't as threatening as last time, but it's still pretty bad."
"And what were you saying about answering to you two?" came a voice filled with overconfidence. Shinobu and the Bakugans turned and saw a punk boy in black and purple and a woman in blue.
"Well look what the cat dragged in!" Shinobu shouted.
"Go home to your mommies," the woman said.
"I'm warning you now! You Vestals better pack up and get out of here!"
"Us? Surrender to you? Aha! Now this, I gotta see!" the boy laughed.
"You better... do as my brother said," Minoru warned. "The two of us will send you back where you came from if you don't leave Vestroia!"
"Oooh. Scary~ Should we teach them a lesson, Mylene? It should be easy. They don't have gauntlets. And even if they do, that girl looks easy to beat; she wouldn't last a turn!"
"Gauntlets?" the twins repeated.
"I've seen the Vestals use them. Apparently they developed a tech where our abilities can only be active by using them," Felgrand answered.
"What's the point in brawling then if we can't go our full potential?!" the male twin questioned.
"Exactly! You're just sitting ducks!" Just as the boy in black and purple said that, an engine was heard. Shinobu looked behind him and managed to move himself and his sister in time to avoid getting hit by a motorbike. "Oh man... Not her again..."
Shinobu glared at the driver. "Hey! Watch where you're riding that thing!"
She got off her bike and removed her helmet. "Sorry if I almost ran over you two," she apologized to the Gushiken. The girl then tossed something at them, which Shinobu caught. "If you want to brawl, you have to use this."
"And you are?" he asked.
"I'm a member of the Bakugan Brawler Resistance. My name's Mira. And like I said, you want to brawl the Vexos, you have to use a gauntlet to do so."
"Vexos? You mean guys like them?" Shinobu gestured to the boy and Mylene.
"Yes. The cold woman is Mylene Farrow, the laughing hyena is Shadow Prove."
"Hey! Watch your mouth!" Shadow shouted.
"You're asking for it," Mylene said. She and Shadow put their gauntlets on.
"I don't know what exactly is going on, but if you're a friend to the Bakugan, that makes us allies." Shinobu put the gauntlet on his left arm. He looked at Felgrand and Tsunamyss' 'underlings'. "Watch my sister."
"Got it!" they replied in unison.
"Guantlet activated," a voice from the gauntlets spoke.
The three Vestals inserted a card in their gauntlets. "Gauntlet Power Strike!" they shouted in unison.
Shinobu followed their actions. "Gauntlet Power Strike!"
Shadow: 100%
Mylene: 100%
Mira: 100%
Shinobu: 100%
"Good luck, big brother!" Minoru cheered. Shinobu gave her a thumbs up in return.
"Me first! Gate card set!" Shadow threw down a Gate card. "Bakugan brawl! Bakugan stand! Go Darkus Verias!" A black ball with an eye, arms, wings and a tail appeared.
Darkus Goblinball: 400 Gs
"Bakugan brawl! Bakugan stand! Rise, Aquos Moskeeto!" A mosquito-like Bakugan appeared next.
Aquos Moskeeto: 400 Gs
"What's wrong? Scared?" Mylene provoked.
"I'll take the lead. You follow," Mira instructed.
Shinobu, instead, stepped forward. "Usually, I would go along with a good plan. But these guys... they did the one thing no one should do while I'm around. They insulted my sister. And for that, they'll pay!" He looked at his partner. "What do you say, Tsunamyss?"
"I say, 'let's teach them a lesson they'll never forget!'" the Aquos Bakugan replied.
Shinobu grabbed Tsunamyss. "Bakugan, brawl! Bakugan Stand!" Tsunamyss popped open on the battlefield and a geyser appeared. The geyser hit Goblinball and instantly defeated it.
Aquos Tsunamyss: 500 Gs
"What just happened?!" Shadow yelled.
"Moskeeto! Get out of there!" Mylene ordered. Her Bakugan attempted to move around the geyser.
"You're not getting away that easily." Shinobu inserted an ability card in his gauntlet.
"Ability card set."
"Ability activate!"
"Storm Blazer!" The geyser was suddenly covered in flames and shot itself at Mylene's Bakugan, also defeating it.
(Storm Blazer: plus 200 Gs to Tsunamyss)
Aquos Tsunamyss: 700 Gs
Shadow: 80%
Mylene: 50%
Mira: 100%
Shinobu: 100%
"No way! He beat both of them!?" Mira gasped.
"Nicccce one, bosssss-man, Ssshinobu!" Abis Omega cheered.
"Yeah! You showed those Vestals who's boss!" Clawcer also cheered.
"I see your brother hasn't lost his touch," Felgrand said to his partner.
"Same with Tsunamyss," she said back.
Back to the battle, Tsunamyss was revealed at last. He had three green horns, two over his ears and one in the middle of his muzzle. He had three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand, covered in green gauntlets. His tail was long and forked, the two outer ends being green. He donned a green armor, the armor on his thighs aso having three black spikes. Instead of wings like most dragon-like Bakugan, he had three green, spiky tentacles acting like wings.
"Oh god! How long has it been since I've felt this excitement!?" Tsunamyss roared. He then reverted back to his ball form.
"I know how you feel, pal!" Shinobu agreed as he caught his partner.
"Don't think that round meant anything!" Shadow shouted. "You got lucky!"
"Enough talk! It's my turn to play! Gate card set!" Mira threw down a Gate Card. "Bakugan, brawl! Bakugan stand! Subterra Wilda!" An armored golem-like monster appeared.
Subterra Wilda: 450 Gs
"Bakugan, brawl! Bakugan stand!" Mylene and Shadow followed.
"Aquos Freezer!"
"Darkus Atchibee!"
On their side, a blue octopus and a black and purple moth appeared.
Aquos Freezer: 400 GS
Darkus Atchibee: 300 Gs
"Gate card open! Subterra Reactor!" Mira activated her Gate Card, which summoned a number of pillars.
"Power Level increase detected."
Subterra Wilda: 850 Gs
"Like we're letting you take the advantage! Ability Acticate! Vermilion Jet Black!" Atchibee shot out lightning from its eyes at Wilda.
Subterra Wilda: 550 Gs
"There goes most of your boost," Shinobu said.
"Double ability activate!" Mira declared, much to the twins shock and surprise. "Power Winder plus Gun Lock!" Wilda released a shockwave that seemed to have negated Shadow's ability and blew the moth Bakugan back a bit.
Darkus Atchibee: 100 Gs
Subterra Wilda: 750 Gs
"She activated two abilities at once?" Minoru said.
"Well there's something new," Shinobi followed.
"I'll take care of this, kid. You still have a few things to learn," Mira insulted.
"Hey! Watch your mouth!" Clawcer shouted.
"You have no idea who you're talking to, lady!" Abis Omega followed.
"Calm down!" Felgrand hit the both of them.
"Are they...?" the female twin dared to ask Stug.
"Always this hyper? Energetic? Blunt? Yes," he answered.
"No control over his own Bakugan. That's his problem," Mira silently added to herself. "Go! Wilda attack!" Her Bakugan rammed through the pillars, charging right at the two opposing Bakugan before him.
Mylene smirked. "Ability activate. Freeze Jail." Her Bakugan let off some energy that made Wilda freeze still.
"Oh no!"
"What's the point of having abilities if you can't use them?" Shadow mocked. "Now go Atchibee!"
"You too, Freezer!"
The two Bakugan went to gang up on the Subterra Bakugan.
"Wilda!" Mira cried out.
"Bakugan brawl!" Shinobu threw Tsunamyss back on the field. "Bakugan stand!" The geyser appeared once more and pushed the opposing Bakugan away.
Aquos Tsunamyss: 500 Gs
"You want to talk big, you have to have the ability to back it up. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?" he scolded Mira, who flinched slightly. "Now it's my turn to try this out. Double ability activate! Storm Blazer plus Wave Impulse! Go for it, Tsunamyss!"
(Wave Impulse: transfer 100 Gs from each opponent to Tsunamyss)
Aquos Freezer: 300 GS
Darkus Atchibee: 0 Gs
Aquos Tsunamyss: 900 Gs
The sea serpent/dragon hybrid shot a power-up version of the original Storm Blazer and took out both Atchibee and Freezer, both whom went to the male Aqous brawler instead of their original owners.
Shadow: 0%
Mylene: 0%
Mira: 100%
Shinobu: 100%
Minoru got up and congratulated her brother. "Nice going, Shinobu!"
"Piece of cake," he simply said.
"Asss expected from bossss-man'sss partner!" Abis Omega said.
Mira was bewildered at what had happened. In fact, she couldn't help but have a de ja vu.
'I need to stop underestimating humans,' she thought.
"Don't think this is over!" Mylene shouted. "You may have won the fight, but you have yet to win the war!"
"What she said! We'll remember this!" Shadow followed. Both he and Mylene took their leave.
Shinobu looked back at his sister. "Minoru, are you feeling okay now?"
"Yeah. As usual, even by watching a brawl, I feel a little bit more better than I would with my medicine," the younger twin said.
Mira couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at her words. She then shook it off, for it wasn't any of her business as of yet.
"So, Mira was it?" Shinobu called. "I don't think we've introduced ourselves yet. I'm Shinobu Gushiken. And this is my younger twin, Minoru."
"It's a pleasure to meet you," said girl greeted.
"Huh? Uh, yeah. It's nice to meet you too," Mira greeted back. She regained her composure. "Shinobu, with your skills, you would be able to help the Resistance save the Bakugan and New Vestroia. Would you like to join us and help us fight?"
"I would, but not alone," the male Gushiken said.
"Of course your Bakugan will be joining us as well."
"I don't mean them." Mira had a confused look on her face at his words. "My sister joins as well."
"Well, we do have a doctor. She'll be taken care of while we-"
"I don't mean she just stays with the Resistance as a guest." The female Vestal's eyes widened as she realized what he meant completely. "You want me to be a Resistance, you're going to have my sister be one as well."
"I'm sorry but, by the looks of it, she won't survive what's to come," Mira said.
"Don't let her condition fool you. She's just as strong as I am," Shinobu said.
Mira found it useless to talk him out of the crazy decision and looked at the female twin, only to see the same determined look in her eyes as well.
She sighed. "I can't believe how stubborn you humans are. Okay, your conditions will be met." The two were happy to hear that. "But don't come crying to me if she suddenly collapses and faints in the middle of a battlefield."
"Don't worry! I won't!" Minoru said.