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Insert Self, Beyblade
By Ryu Himora
Ray woke in a concrete room, unaware of his surroundings. He looked around and saw the rest of the Bladebreakers -plus Hillary- all starting to get up. There was one more person, however. Someone he had never seen before. Tyson, however, was still asleep.
"Uugh, what happened?" Ray asked.
Kenny spoke up first. "Weren't we just on the bus?"
"I don't know about that, but I can tell you that I wasn't just in a storehouse."
All of the Bladebreakers turned to look at this person. They had no idea who he was, but one thing was certain - he was a serious beyblader. He had a professional launcher and ripcord, plus a launch grip they had never seen before. It was all held in pouches on what looked like specially made pants.
"Who are you?" Max asked.
"I am Ryu. I know who you guys are, but what I can't tell you is our location."
Before any of them could respond, a single speaker in the room coughed to life. It spat out an old voice that seemed past the age of caring.
"That's right, and unless you all comply with our demands, the seven of you won't be going home any time soon."
"Who are you?" Kai said.
"My name is unimportant. Just do as we say and this will soon be over."
"Come on, we have a tournament to get to." Max said.
"Change of venue. You'll be fighting on this island instead."
Tyson began to wake up. Ryu turned to the others. "I take it you all were about to defend your title as World Champions?"
Ray nodded. "But we got knocked out on the bus."
"Grr, what happened?" Tyson said. He got up and looked around, then stared at Ryu. "Hey, who's this guy?"
"He woke up here with us." Hillary said.
"Oh... Wait, what are these things?" Tyson grabbed a metal device attached to his left arm. He tugged on it a few times, but it wouldn't come off.
"Looks like some kind of tracking device." Ryu said. "You can see the antenna on its side."
"Very astute, Ryu. Now, all of you just wait there for the first battle."
"Oh, shut up!" Tyson grabbed Dragoon and launched him straight for the speaker. It impacted and blew it straight off the wall mounting. "Come on! We have to find a way out of here!"
As Tyson and the Bladebreakers ran up the stairs, Ryu casually followed them. He figured this organization had enough power to kidnap seven people without a trace, they wouldn't be so easy to escape from.
The Bladebreakers came up on a door. They smashed right through it - and almost ran straight off the edge of a cliff. The door led right outside to a very high terrace.
"There's no escape, Bladebreakers. Just do as we say."
"As if!" Tyson shouted. "If you don't let us go right now I'm gonna trash this place so bad you won't even recognize it!"
"Oh well then. If you won't cooperate, then we'll just have to call the experiment off..."
"You bet!" Ray said.
Ryu walked out onto the terrace.
"...So this entire base will self-destruct in three minutes. Have a nice day."
"I'm gone for thirty seconds and you're already blowing this place up?" Ryu asked.
"Grr... Come on, let's find a way out of here." Tyson said.
All seven of them went back into the room. They checked everything: Ceiling, windows, visible doors... They were all either welded shut or barred with solid steel plate. Ryu didn't seem to be worried.
"One minute to go..." Kenny said.
"Come on! Let us out of here!" Tyson shouted, banging against the main door several times. He gave up, frustrated. Suddenly, under his own weight, part of the floor caved in, probably because of all the impacts.
"You okay, Tyson?" Hillary asked.
"Owww, yeah, I'm fine. Hey, it looks like a mine shaft down here!"
"Really?" Max said.
"Yeah! There's even a mine cart!"
"Let's get going!" Kenny said.
They all piled into the cart, then Tyson pushed them along the track and jumped in when they had enough speed to keep going. They sped along for several seconds before they already had a problem: the track had a switch, and it wasn't activated on their side!
Kai launched Dranzer and hit the switch lever, forcing the track to align with theirs. It was close - they traveled over just a couple seconds afterward.
"Is it just me, or is this thing picking up speed?" Tyson shouted.
"We do seem to be accelerating!" Kenny answered.
"Hey, there's the end of the tunnel!" Ryu shouted. Indeed, there was a growing light in the distance.
Kenny checked his watch. "Three... two... one!"
The cave behind them imploded. rock tumbled just behind them... but it stopped before they were in danger. Hillary noticed the track up ahead... specifically, the end of it.
"Hey! This track doesn't go on much longer! Hit the brakes!"
Max noticed the lever next to him. He pulled on it with all his might, but it wouldn't budge. "Augh! The lever's stuck!"
Ray grabbed on with him. "We have to move it! Heave!"
The two of them combined managed to get the brakes engaged. The cart slowed down... slowly. Just as they were exiting the tunnel, they went up a small rise, and stopped just before tipping over the end of the rails.
"Phew... Well, we're out of there at least." Tyson said.
"So what's Ryu doing here?" Kai asked.
"Short and to the point." Ryu replied. "To be honest, I don't know. I don't have a BitBeast like the four of you, so what could they be after?"
Deep in the only urbanized area of the island, Doctor B. watched his seven captives with great attention. Only the sparse computer messages distracted him.
(Oh, don't worry Ryu. I know your little secret. That's technically the truth - your Spirit Dragon beyblade doesn't have a BitBeast... right now. But you're special. The Spirit Dragon BitBeast will appear for you when you need it. You are the most likely person for it to pick.)
The doctor motioned for their first opponent to appear. It was time to strike.
After walking for a few minutes, Ryu and the Bladebreakers came across a beystadium in the middle of a forest. Normally this would have been odd, but with as much as they had already been through that day, it didn't really surprise them. Tyson, however, had an idea.
"Hey Ryu! Let's see how good you are."
Ryu looked at the stadium. He hadn't really played in this type much; He was in America for a while when he'd picked up the sport. Still, a challenge was a challenge.
"Alright." He and Tyson walked up to the stadium. Ryu pulled out Spirit Dragon. It was a beyblade made out of mostly standard parts: a four-spike attack ring, medium-mass weight ring and left spin-gear. The spin-gear was Ryu's only custom part.
Ryu whispered to his blade. "This is our chance. We're going up against the world champ - let's do our best." The picture of Spirit Dragon on his bit chip looked fierce. It seemed to move as Ryu talked to it.
"Three!" Tyson shouted.
"Two!" Ryu responded.
"One! LET IT RIP!"
"Not so fast!"
Just before the two beyblades entered the stadium, a third one knocked Dragoon out and took its place. This one was a dark green, even the weight ring, and was partially blending in with the stadium. Some kid dropped out of the trees, wearing the same getup as the Team Psykik members did.
"What do you want?" Tyson asked.
"This battle is for Ryu!" The kid said. "And if he doesn't win, this part of the island will explode!"
"Fine by me! Now I don't have to worry about holding back!" Ryu said. "Spirit Dragon, go for it!"
"Go Chameleon!"
Launch RPMs
Spirit Dragon: 32000
Chameleon: 31500
Dragoon: 50100
Spirit Dragon took on an immediate offensive. He smashed into Chameleon several times and knocked it off balance, then circled around and flipped it right to the other side of the stadium!
"Yeah! That's how you do it, Ryu!" Max said.
"Don't get to excited!" Chameleon's owner said. Chameleon then started shifting somehow - then blended into the stadium completely!
"What? Where'd it go?" Tyson asked.
Kenny opened his laptop and flipped the camera over to the stadium. Dizzi booted and ran an analysis of Chameleon. "Don't overthink this one, guys, he's just spinning at a precise speed to use his magtram and leaving the visible spectrum!."
"Ha! No camouflage is perfect!" Ryu said. "Go find him, Spirit Dragon!"
Chameleon was going in a slow, intricate pattern around the stadium, but Spirit Dragon suddenly darted around in an unpredictable motion. Chameleon tried to dodge, but it wasn't fast enough while cloaked. Spirit Dragon eventually hit him, literally knocking the beyblade back into the visible light spectrum.
"Alright! Spirit Dragon, Esper Slash Attack!"
Spirit Dragon began glowing with a rippling white energy, then increased its rotation speed drastically. It started darting around because of the sudden power, then charged up the side of the stadium it jumped off the edge, then flipped in the air twice. The light it emitted focused to a thin ring around the attack ring, and it slammed right into Chameleon! Several pieces of it flew off as Spirit Dragon sliced them off. As the actual body of Spirit Dragon hit, Chameleon was launched out of the stadium!
"NO!"
Spirit Dragon wobbled a couple times, then straightened out and jumped into Ryu's hand. He looked at it with great pride, then focused squarely on the kid he had just beaten. He looked shaken and scared, then ran over to his beyblade, retrieved it, and took off as fast as he could.
"Wow! Nice job, Ryu!" Kenny said. "Did you get all that, Dizzy?"
"Sure did, I'm running an analysis now."
"Well, I can tell without fancy data processing that Ryu is a serious blader." Tyson said. I did have one problem with that battle, though."
"Yeah? What would that be?" Ryu asked.
"What was with you talking about holding back on me!" Tyson shouted. He looked genuinely angry.
"Heh. I probably wouldn't, but you might have not gone all-out on some random beyblader. You proved yourself the best in the world - don't let it get to your head." Ryu answered.
"Grrr... Come on, let's find a way off this island." Tyson said, and walked off. The others soon started after him.