A/N ello! Now that I've finally finished temptation, I can add another story to my collection! Soo this story is my own idea combined with the story idea of enteryournamehere5. So yeah!

Halloweenravin'Ex : hmph finally I get to speak for an author's note.

Masquerade and hydranoid: ...

Halloweenravin'Ex: now one of you do the disclaimer.

Hydranoid: ..I suppose I will, Halloweenravin'Ex does not own bakugan

Halloweenravin'Ex: we all probably know what I'd want to do if I had been in charge.

masquerade: I never would've left

Halloweenravin'Ex: precisely


Chapter 1

Alice and Runo were sitting right next to each other on one of the luxurious plush couches inside of Marucho's plane. But instead of enjoying their flight in luxury they were watching Shun and Dan's heated argument that was going on right in front of them.

The blue-haired girl sighed and rested her head in her hands. "Oh, Alice I just wish that Dan and Shun would stop arguing already!" She turned to her friend. "I mean we're all friends here why should we be-Alice?" The red-headed Russian wasn't looking at her or at anything else in particular. She was staring off into space her brown eyes unfocused. "Hey, Alice anyone in there?" Runo asked as she waved her hand in front of the other girls face.

Said Russian flinched back her eyes snapping back into focus. She turned to Runo a sheepish expression on her face. "I'm sorry Runo, what were you saying?"

Runo sighed and chuckled a little. "Oh its nothing, it's just, you had me worried there for a second." She forced a weak smile. "It's just you're usually so focused. I suppose I've come to thinking that's the way you always are." Alice smiled.

"It's alright Runo, I've just been feeling a little tired lately." Suddenly she dropped her head and coughed slightly into her elbow. Runo's expression quickly morphed into one of worry.

The bluette reached out and rested her hand on Alice's shoulder. "Maybe you should go into our room and take a nap." She gestured toward Dan and Shun who were looking as if they were about to tear each other apart. "I doubt you'll be missing much."

Alice coughed again and then she lifted her head, her eyes full of gratitude. "Thank you Runo I'll go do that." She got to her feet and hurriedly walked past the two shouting boys. She hurried into the bedroom the girls' had been given to share. She closed the door behind her and locked it. Alice leaned against the door and she closed her eyes. When she opened them again they contained that strange vacant expression once again. She reached down into the pocket of her dress and pulled out a blue glass mask and she slid it onto her face. In a flash of light, her orange hair rose and became spiky blond hair. Her normal outfit was replaced with a cape like white trench coat, purple pants and black boots. the transformation had taken only a few seconds, and now where Alice Gehabich had been standing, the #1 ranked bakugan player-Masquerade-had taken her place.

At the sound of rustling the blond turned his head toward the two queens sized beds. At the foot of the one farthest to the right a small black and purple ball burst out of the tan purse that had been lying there. It rolled up to the boy's foot and popped open.

"Ugh, you have no idea how stuffy it is in there master." Hydranoid grumbled, Masquerade reached down and picked him up and then placed him on his shoulder.

"I hope to get a change of scenery soon Hydranoid, but for now Lord Naga wants us to send more bakugan to the doom dimension as possible, this way I don't have to make a trip back to the mansion." Hydranoid grunted and turned away from him.

"Fine I see your point," He turned back around. "Though I am surprised that you managed to slip away so soon master, won't the brawlers miss their friend?"

Masquerade pulled out a black card from his pocket and held it up to his face. "No, that's one good thing about this confounded flu Alice caught, it gives her reason to…disappear for a while." Hydranoid nodded.

"But aren't you worried that it might affect you battles?" Masquerade didn't answer; he turned to his head to the side and sneezed. "See! Perhaps it would be better to rest and recover from this cold!"

"And have Hal-G get on my back about it? If it weren't for me having Alice as my host, he'd have me and you brawling around the world 24/7." Masquerade finished his sentence with another sneeze. "Besides other than that I'm fine."

"Fine, if you say so master, but where shall we be heading to crush some pathetic battlers?" Masquerade straightened up and smirked.

"I thought we'd change it up a bit, how do you feel about a trip to Paris?"


"So this is Paris?" Hydranoid said as he gazed at the scenery that was below them. He hoped down from Masquerade's shoulder onto the railing in front of him. He turned around trying to take it all in. "Hmph, nice enough place. Do you think that when Lord Naga conquers Vestroia and Earth, that perhaps he'll let us take Paris?" Masquerade chuckled and rested his hands on the railing.

"I don't know, I've sorta set my heart on taking Wardington." The bakugan snickered but continued to sweep his gaze over the city.

"Masquerade?"

"Hmm?"

"This thing, we're standing on, what's it called again?" Masquerade sighed and released his grip on the railing. He scooped up Hydranoid and placed him on his shoulder.

"Come on we have so many battlers to destroy, so little time to do it."

"You didn't answer my question." Hydranoid hissed.

"….."

"You don't know what its called do you?"

"I do so! I think it was….the Eiffel Tower?" Masquerade said, and then he shrugged. "It doesn't matter, let's go." This time the two disappeared in a rain of sparkling light.

The day went by pretty quickly for the two, although the two had a difficult time sometimes trying to comprehend what the French kids were saying, they still crushed them all. To Masquerade's disappointment however none of the bakugan had provided Hydranoid with any form of a challenge, just some more useless small fry. Masquerade sighed as the battlefield closed on yet another crushing defeat for his opponent.

"Non!" The little black haired boy wailed dropping to his knees, his fingers digging into the grass. "Mes bakugan!" He lifted his head and glared at Masquerade. "Toi! Tu est tres méchant!" As the boy continued to babble in French Masquerade glanced at Hydranoid then he folded his arms across his chest and sneered at the little boy.

"I don't understand a word you are saying kid, nor do I care." The boy lifted his head, on the verge of tears. Masquerade smirked as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the DT card. "Later, loser."

The boy narrowed his eyes, he clenched his fists and he let out a small war cry. He got to his feet and raced over to the darkus brawler. He leapt forward and tackled the blond head on.

Masquerade stumbled backwards from the sudden impact but managed to stay on his feet. Unfortunately, the DT card had already been activated and in a flash of light the two disappeared.


Back on Marucho's private plane things had finally settled down, well if you counted making Shun and Dan sit in two chairs on opposite sides of the room as settling things down. The two were sitting facing the wall. But, that didn't stop the two from shooting each other icy glares from across the room. In the center of the room the other 3 brawlers sat trying desperately to ease the growing tension.

"Ugh this is like totally pointless!" Julie groaned as she threw up her arms and leaned back against the coach cushions. "How are we going to find the infinity core if our two best guys won't stop fighting?" Beside her the small blond boy with glasses nodded his head in agreement.

"I concur; we should be focusing on how we plan to deal with Masquerade, while at the same time work on finding the infinity core."

The bluette on the other hand turned to them. "That's easy for you to say Marucho," her eyes narrowed in distaste, "trying to get those two to get along is like trying to stop the sun from shining, it's impossible! Argh!" She reached up and yanked at her pigtails. On the coffee table in front of them, a small white bakugan rolled over to Runo and popped open.

"Milady perhaps we should ask Alice for help." Runo released her pigtails and looked at Tigrerra. "I mean coming to a peaceful agreement seems to be her uh, forte milady."

"Yeah, I agree with Tigrerra Alice always know how to make things better!" Julie said jumping to her feet, and prepared to dash over to the girls' room when Runo stood up in front of her. "Hey, whats the big idea Runo?" Julie asked placing her hands on her hips. "Don't you want to solve this problem as quickly as possible?"

Runo shook her head fiercely. "No, we should try to solve this problem without disturbing Alice, she looked like she was coming down with something nasty, besides its not like she'll allow herself much rest anyways.."


Masquerade grunted as he landed hard on his back, the little black boy gripping tightly onto his waist. Masquerade scowled and lashed out with a kick successfully throwing the boy off of him. "Get off me!" He snarled, as he stood up up glaring daggers at the little boy. He stalked over his lips set in a grim frown. The boy cowered fearfully

"Je suis désole! Pl-please don't hurt me.." Masquerade halted in front of him and picked him up by the collar of his shirt. The boy winced in pain. He looked fearfully at the reflection of his terrified face in Masquerade's mask.

"Name one good reason why I shouldn't?" Masquerade said his voice dangerously calm. "You screwed up my teleportation, and caused me enough trouble." Masquerade glanced to the side at the small pond next to them. He turned back to look at the boy a smirk appearing on his features. "I sure hope you can swim." The boy stared at him wide eyed and then Masquerade turned and simply released his grip on the boy's collar. The boy screamed as he dropped into the clear water.

Masquerade sneered as the little boys head burst the surface. The boy turned and stared at Masquerade. "Maybe next time you'll be smart and not try to take on opponents that are obviously way out of your league." Masquerade said. He turned and walked away. As he walked he pulled out the black card from his pocket. It flashed once and then Masquerade vanished in a rain of sparkles.


In the bedroom that the girls shared on Marucho's plane a flash of light filled the darkened room and then a very tired blond battler remained. With a weary sigh the blond collapsed onto the bed. He turned on his side and buried his face in the pillows.

"Ugh," He groaned and lifted a hand resting it on his aching head. After all that, he felt much worse than he had earlier. "Maybe hydranoid was right about taking a rest." Masquerade thought. It was then he noticed something. The darkus bakugan had been awfully quiet lately… "Hydranoid?"He said sitting up in the bed. He glanced around the darkened room. "Hydranoid?" He repeated slowly rising from the bed. "hydranoid you'd better come out or god so help me I will-" His voice trailed off as he heard soft footsteps approaching the bedroom door. "Damn it!" Masquerade hissed.


"Hey, Runo?" Julie said looking up from the board game the remaining 3 brawlers had decided to play while they waited for Dan and Shun to cool their tempers. Runo answered with a grunt. "Alice hasn't come out yet…." No answer from the bluette. "Well, I think that maybe you should just go check on her." The haos brawler looked up at her and then she reached down and picke up a card from the center of the gameboard.

"Sorry!" She announced as she picked up one of her pawns from start and rammed it into one of Julie's yellow pawns sending it flying off the gameboard.

"Okay, fine I'll go check on Alice." Julie said, rising to her feet and dusting imaginary dust off of her. Then she half walked half skipped over to the girls' bedroom. "Hey, Alice you awake in there?" She knocked lightly on the door. "Alice?" She reached out and grabbed the handle and twisted it slowly. She opened the door a crack and peeked through it. She smiled at the sight. The red-headed girl was lying on the bed farthest from the door fast asleep Giggling slightly Julie closed the door as silently as she could and then she went back to join the others.


A/N well what did you think

Masquerade: where is hydranoid? what did you do to him?

Oh wouldn;t you like to know XD wells you'll just have to find out.

If you want to find out please read this and then review! I want to know what you people think of my newest story!

So REVIEW!

Also I'm sorry to all you people who can't read french I just couldn't resist. If you want me to translate it tell me in a review.

Masquerade: I'd also like to find Hydranoid soon thank you very much.

ALL RIGHT SINCE mannnny people want me to translate I shall to the best of my ability XD

Toi! Tu est tres méchant! - trnaslation "You! You are so mean!"

Je suis désole!- I am sorry!