Prologue - The Stun Trap
He was planning to simply knock them out; enough for him to obtain more data on their Bakugan at least. But there was something that made the machine go haywire and Spectra did not like the silence that came out of the speaker after the initial screams. Isn't that what's supposed to happen when they're unconscious? The teen had a really bad feeling though that it didn't go as planned.
Letting curiosity (and admitting to himself, a little concern) getting the better of him, he decided to check the room himself to see if the trap worked. As he went down the stairs; he began to imagine the worse possible case scenarios that could've happened. Maybe he shocked them too much that it killed them? He was pretty sure that he didn't set the volt charge that high, so that was impossible. It could've altered them? No way, the machine was design to give someone an electrical jolt, not some kind of mutating substance.
Pretty soon he reached the floor where they were all held. He smirked how he was able to lure them all down here in his own ship so easily. All he had to do was tell them that he wanted to challenge them and they took the bait. The blond approached the door and opened smoothly...and he found himself staring and gaping in shock at what he saw.
Piles of clothes were scattered on the ground. But it wasn't just that, there was something under each of them, and he did not like the idea he thought of. "Ouch...that hurt." a squeaky voice came out. Spectra cringed; the voice was already somewhat familiar to him. Could it be..?
As if answering his question, a brown-haired boy with red-eyes popped out of a large gray shirt. Well, it only looked big since somehow it seemed Dan shrank back to a seven-year-old. "Hey, what happened to my voice?"
So far, Spectra hadn't said a word; he was still trying to figure out what caused this transformation.
Out of the blue, the teen heard a loud groan coming from another pile of clothing. A black-haired kid with brown eyes then came out while rubbing his head. The brunette turned and saw the raven-haired male. "Shun? Is that you?"
"...Dan? Why are you..?" he stopped when he realized how high his voice had gotten. "What the hell is going on?"
At this time, everyone else was emerging and trying to recover from what happened. Spectra was hoping that the transformation was limited; but unfortunately it affected Marucho, Mira, Ace, and Baron as well. He couldn't get over how much his younger sister reminded him of better memories; yet he shook that thought away. He was faced with a much bigger problem at the moment.
Strangely, it was only when everyone was awake that he noticed his enemy by the door with the same surprised face. "What did you do to us Spectra?" he shouted; not amused by the state he was in now. "I have no idea why you wanted to turn us to kids; but if you think this makes us more vulnerable, it doesn't!" the brunette was about to stand up when he realized that his shirt alone covered his body until his knees. The teen almost laughed aloud; it was pretty hilarious for him to see his rival like this.
"Don't laugh!" he screamed; tears welling up in his eyes. To Spectra's surprise, he began to cry. He flinched; did the shrinking change their personalities too?
The blond sweat-dropped. He could've laughed again; yet seeing his pitiful condition, he decided to give the kid a break. "Alright, you gave Dan enough humiliation." Shun told him. "Could you change us back? I doubt that this would benefit you or anything."
He was a bit impressed how the raven-haired boy could act so calm. "Unfortunately for you, I have no clue how this happened. The trap was designed to knock someone out, not to change them in to...well, whatever you are now. It would take me some time before I would be able to come up with a device to reverse the effects."
"Oh great. So now what do we do?" a chibi-Ace asked with frustration.
Almost timidly, Mira stood up and walked towards Spectra; dragging her clothes that covered her small body. "Can you help us brother? Please?" she even did the puppy-dog eyes and tugged her brother's cape to make it a whole lot more...cute.
The blond hesitated. He very well couldn't leave them like this. At the same time he can't just bring all of them along with him. He can't let the others know about this either; that would be too risky. As nice it would be to trample over and discard them, he just knew that he wouldn't be able to do such. Thus the power of chibi prevails.
He sighed as he went to Dan (who by the way was still crying like a baby) and patted him lightly on the head; much like what he did before when Mira was sad. Immediately the brunette looked up with a confused face. "If you stop acting like a child, I'll help you out." for a moment, Spectra wanted to retract his words. He found the offer simply dreadful; it didn't benefit him at all.
But Dan tackling him out of the blue made him lose the idea almost instantly. The brunette was right on top of him with a big grin. "You promise?"
The teen groaned. "Mind getting off of me first?"
"Okay; but mind you I'm still Dan Kuso. So don't underestimate me alright?" he jumped back on the floor and Spectra stood up. Mira was actually running to him asking if he was hurt or anything at the same time scolding the seven-year-old for pushing him. "Mira, he's the bad guy!"
"So? He's also my big brother!"
Baron crawled until he was beside Ace. "A-uhm, Ace?"
The teal-haired male looked at him. "Yeah?" the eight-year-old noticed how young he looked. "How old are you?"
"...I think awound four..." he muttered back in reply.
Out of the blue, Spectra started to walk away from the chibi group. The orange-haired girl shouted not to leave them here alone; yet he reassured her that he was just going to go to the control room. He left without answering Dan's follow-up question about why he was going there. The blond then stepped in the elevator and quickly found himself in the large cock-pit area of his ship. He was about to touch the various buttons on the machine when suddenly there was an alert message. From the Vexos. With his curiosity piqued, he let the signal in, revealing...a chibi Hydron.
"I know you were responsible for this Spectra! Change us back NOW!"
He groaned again while doing a light face-palm. "This is...starting to get out of hand."
A/N : Yay~another random idea that was swimming around my head. To answer various questions that involve this fic's logicality, this happens at Episode 44 (the one where Spectra challenged Dan, lost to him and joined the Resistance.) So in a sense, instead of battling him, he trapped them and somehow turned them chibi.
About where the Bakugan are, that will be answered in the next chapters. And their ages? Just subtract 8 from their age in New Vestroia and there you have it. So Dan's seven, Mira's eight along with Shun and Ace, Marucho's six, and Baron's four.
All other questions and thoughts may be answered also in the next chapters. Please Review you guys!