A/N I want to start off this editing of DD by apologizing for those who are waiting for an update.

But see since I started this almost 4 years ago now there are so many things that need to be fixed.

And so this has been updated as of 4/30/14 in honor of my being an adult for 24 days now.

So here it is the updated chapter 1 of DD

Chapter 1

Our story begins in a stormy Chicago. Dark thick clouds blanket the heavens as harsh winds rattle buildings and trees as small frozen flakes are hurled about.

A yellow cab is speeding down the slick road, a girl in a red coat seated in the back peers out at the stormy city. She gazes up at the towering buildings and the street lights struggling to lighten the driver's path through the harsh weather.

Slowly the buildings begin to slip away from view as they head towards the outskirts of the mighty city. The girl sighs and looks away from the city. Smiling slightly, brushing a strand of her brown hair out of her face as she reached into the pocket of her jacket and pulled out a picture.

The edges were a little smudged from the amount of times she'd picked it up and it was a little wrinkled from the amount of times she'd held it to her chest and prayed to see the ones in the photo.

Pictured in the photo was a brunette girl with bright blue eyes with one arm thrown over a brunette boy with short hair spiked slightly towards the front. Then her other arm was thrown over the shoulder of a blond haired boy with golden rimmed glasses who's chin was tilted slightly upwards and looked down his nose at the camera like he was superior to everyone and everything. The other two were smiling brightly, like they didn't have a care in the world. The beautiful lake gleaming in the background made the image all the more brighter.

Slowly the small smile grew into a full spread grin, as she reached her hand up and run her fingers over the trio.

"I'm finally here guys." She said with a laugh. "My wish came true, and we can finally be together-" Her happy moment was broken with a squeal of tires and being thrown against the seatbelt as the cab came to a harsh stop. The picture slipped out of her fingers and fell to the floor. The girl winced as she settled back in her seat rubbing the spot on her chest where the seatbelt had dug in.

"We're here ma'am." The cab driver said reaching a hand back towards her. "That'll be $53.93."

Viki shot him a distasteful look, taking a moment to retrieve her picture from the floor and shoving it back in her pocket. Then she took her time pulling out the money and taking care to give him only exact change, taking her time counting it out. She held back her vicious grin as the driver proceeded to grumble and mutter as his client took her sweet time. When she was satisfied she had the proper amount Viki grabbed up her bags in her other hand while she held out the money in her left.

"Here you go." Viki said sweetly dropping the money into his hand, making it so she dropped some of it onto the floor. "Oops." When the cab driver bit out a curse, Viki hastily fled out of the car. She closed the car door just as the cab peeled out and back onto the street in search of a few more customers.

Viki sighed pulling up the hood of her red jacket adjusting her grip on her stuff before she surveyed the building she stood before.

The house was a two story building made of orange brick, white stone accents, and copper detailing. Viki smiled and held back a laugh. She still couldn't get over the fact that she was really here. That she was finally going to meet Jet.

Not willing to wait a moment longer she hurried to the door and rang the doorbell. She took a step back bouncing on her feet as she waited for the door to open.

However, when no one came to let her in after several moments, did her smile fall away and she frowned tilting her head.

She rang the bell again, and then knocked on the door. She moved closer to peer through the glass in the door and look around.

The lights were all on inside the house, but there wasn't anyone in sight.

"Jet?" Viki called setting down one of her bags, and reaching out and grasping the doorknob. She opened her mouth to call when the knob turned in her grip and she was able to open the door. "Oh, its… open."

Viki hesitated before she spared a glance around, trying to take comfort in the fact that there were neighbors around. If there was some sort of trouble… She could shout. They'd help right? Surely the constant crimes going on in the city nearby wouldn't have made the people that… that unsensitive.

Frowning to herself Viki shook it off, seriously she'd just got here and already she was getting paranoid. Jet had assured her that despite the bad press Chicago got, the city wasn't that bad. So the Canadian let herself in dropping her bags in a chair in the living room, closing the front door behind her. Then after a moment, she locked it as well.

"Jet?" She called kicking off her shoes as she took off her coat revealing the long sleeved pink shirt she wore underneath and blue jeans.

"Upstairs!" A voice called from the floor above. Viki let out the breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. Jeez her with all her worrying about some murderer about to jump out at her.

'That rude cab driver certainly didn't help.' Viki surmised as she went up the stairs and headed towards the room towards the backyard. She knew this because every so often when they chatted online with the others Jet would take a seat near one of her two bedroom windows overlooking her backyard and Viki could get a glance at it.

"Hey, Jet it's me Viki. Come on out and come greet me." The brown haired girl with light brown eyes knocked on her friend's bedroom door with a grin on her face. She waited patiently for a response, placing her hands on her hips and tapping her toe patiently before she frowned slightly tilting her head to the side when she didn't receive a response. "What's with the hold up?" Viki asked. "Are you changing or something?" She waited another few seconds and then she sighed shaking her head. She grasped the doorknob and turned it slightly opening the door a crack and peekng in. Her eyebrows raised at the sight and she opened it farther. When she got a better look at what was inside she had to cover her mouth to stifle the laugh that threatened to escape.

The floor of her friend's room was covered in papers, both blank and written on. There were so many sheets everywhere that you could hardly see the floor. Viki snickered slightly as she walked in and looked toward her friends bed spotting a particularly large pile resting atop the bed.

Stepping carefully in an attempt to prevent messing up as few pages as possible, she made her way toward the pile on the bed. As she approached, she noticed some faint hints of color through spaces between the papers.

"Jet?" Viki asked leaning forward, before chuckling slightly as the pile shifted. She quickly took a step back as another girl with brown hair, though just a bit shorter burst out from beneath the pile. The action disturbed the papers on the bed and causing more to fall to the floor. Jet however paid that no mind, as she held up a paper that had a couple of math figures on it. She was panting slightly.

"Jeez who knew it would be such a hassle to find one flippin' page of homework." Jet turned to her friend and gave her a tired smile. "How are you Viki?"

Viki couldn't help but chuckle slightly at her friend's bedraggled appearance.

"Oh I'm just fine, thank you. And if you're wondering why finding a measly sheet of homework was such a hassle perhaps you should take a look at your room." Viki suggested gesturing to the mess that covered the floor. Jet leaned forward to look down at the floor of her room.

"Holy cow, my room looks like a tornado came in here!" She groaned, throwing her hands into the air in exasperation. She proceeded to glare down at the papers on the floor. Then she heaved a sigh and got off her bed and began to pick up the papers off the floor and put them away in their binders. All while muttering under her breath. "I'm going to kill the person who invented homework and then-"

"But what if the person is already dead?" Vikipointed out walking around the bed to join Jet on the other side

"Good riddance, and may they rot in the depths of hell." Viki rolled her eyes and punched Jet lightly in the shoulder, before she reached down to aid her friend in cleaning up her homework.

"Ugh, I officially hate homework." Jet muttered tilting her head back to chug down a cup of lemonade. Viki, who was sitting across from her at the kitchen table let out a sigh and rolled her eyes.

"Jet, you've said that like a million times already." She smirked slightly and picked up the cup of lemonade that was in front of her and took a small sip. "What do you expect me to do about it." Jet sighed and stared at the bottom of her cup.

"Hmph, I bet that if naga were to become supreme ruler over Vestroia and Earth, he'd ban homework." Jet muttered placing her cup back down on the table and leaning back in her chair, arms crossed over her chest pouting a little. Viki laughed a little at her remark.

"If Naga were to have become supreme ruler I would think we'd either all be dead or enslaved to him." Then her face darkened slightly. "And if he hadn't been beaten then there wouldn't have been-"

"Yeah yeah, there wouldn't have been any New vestroia series which would mean that Spectra never came to exist." Now it was Jet's turn to roll her eyes. "You do realize thats he's basically just a copy for Masquerade don't you?"

"He's more than that!" Viki retorted slamming her closed fist down on the table. Jet snorted in disbelief and got up to get more lemonade. She walked over to the island in the center of the kitchen and picked up the pitcher full of lemonade.

"Yeah, sure whatever you say." She replied pouring some of the cold liquid into her cup. "I mean, first of all, he wants to create an ultimate bakugan, he wears a mask, he has spiky blonde hair," Jet finishes pouring her lemonade and takes a sip from her cup. "And later in the series he switches sides to the brawlers! Sound familiar?"

"Well, he-he's just better than Masquerade, alright!" Viki said grasping at anything to use as a comeback. Jet chuckled before she set down the pitcher and walked back to the table, a small smirk on her face.

"I beg to differ my friend, after all I've said it seems that Spectra's the inferior one and believe me I have plenty more reasons that I could add if you'd like." Viki glared at her, she slammed her palms down onto the table and stood up.

"I'm going to put my stuff upstairs!" She said with a hug before she walked away from the table and out of the room. Jet chuckled as she heard Viki stomp up the stairs toward Jet's room.

Meanwhile, in an unknown space, a bony white dragon with tattered wings that was trapped within a sphere was speaking to a pair of figures in front of him.

"I cannot believe that a pair of kids was actually able to defeat you Masquerade." He snarled, fixing a glare on the blonde masked boy. "What do you have to say for yourself." Masquerade gave a slight shrug in response.

"It appears that Shun has decided he'd much rather fight alongside Dan Kuso and his friends. Though his refusal to join us is a minor setback, it is one we shall eventually overcome." Masquerade replied calmly arms crossed across his chest. The mad scientist Hal-G turned to him.

"Perhaps that is true but we still need to locate the infinity core as quickly as possible." Hal-G spat out jabbing his staff towards Masquerade. "And with more of those pesky brats in our way how do you propose we find it without them interfering?!" Masquerade turned to him a smirk appearing on his face.

"We will just have to find more minions then." Masquerade replied, "There are plenty of brawlers out there who are willing to do anything for power."

"All that's going to do is increase the pyrus dragonoid's power! If we continue to send weaklings after them it won't be much longer before the dragonoid evolves!" Hal-G glared at Masuerade. "This wouldn't have been a problem had you just sent the blasted dragonoid to the doom dimension like-" Naga let out a roar that caused both villains to flinch and turn to face the irritated dragon.

"Enough! Masquerade had already explained the reasoning behind why the dragonoid's existence is being tolerated; we must focus on keeping the silent core balanced and on locating the infinity core." Naga snapped. Hal-G gritted his teeth while Masquerade sneered at the mad scientist whose grip tightened on his staff. Naga turned his focus back to the best brawler once more. "Masquerade, what is it you wish to suggest to us?" Masquerade, smirked.

"It's quite simple actually; if we want to find the infinity core as soon as possible the best way to do that is to increase our numbers-"

"But all the brawlers in the world would hardly be a match against the pests!" Hal-G pointed out jabbing a finger in Masquerade's direction. "Surely you of ll people should know that!" Masquerade frowned for a moment, and then his lips turned back up in a wicked smirk.

"Then we'll just have to find someone who's not of this world."

A/N:

You wanna know what I found when I reopened this.

I didn't hit my minimum word count for this chapter.

But then again I think it was maybe around chapters 4 or 5 when I set the minimum as 2000 words for chapter content.