A/N: Hello beloved readers! *ducks bricks* Yes yes it's another story. But I have a VERY good excuse.
Echo The Slowpoke: *eyesmiles* It's because I badgered her until she wore down. I can be rather persuasive when I want after all * happy smile*
JetravenEx: Yup I teamed up with Echo here to write a fic that featured us tormenting Masky, my favorite past time.
Masquerade: Joy.
JetravenEx: To be fair you do kinda have it coming this time around you are a bit of an ass in this story
Echo: *snickers softly * Well, I was practically dying of laughter while writing this- We had too much fun… didn't we? Haha *grins*
JetravenEx: Yeah it was pretty fun, but man it's been awhile since I've been up this late writing. *cracks back* ugh I have to remember I'm not as young as I used to be. Haha XD
Echo: *snickers* old timer. - Meanwhile, I'm nocturnal now so I'm all good! - Soon I'll have raccoon eyes huehue
JetravenEx: I'd miss the sun after a certain point. And I mean when I was at least 6 years younger I was able to stay up late reading fanfiction till 4 in the morning with minimal problems. Ugh I feel old and I'm only going to be 20 in less than a month.
Echo: Speaking of which…. *eyesmiles and pulls out my gun* I'll be ready to shoot you in four more years! :333
JetravenEx: College might beat you to that my friend. But enough banter. *ducks another brick* Hey! The readers are getting restless, time to get to the main event. I, JetravenEx and my compatriot Echo the Slowpoke don't own Bakugan, but we enjoy tormenting the characters.
Echo: o^o Enjoy the tormenting and what not then my darlings *snickers and waves a bit*
Chapter 1
The Doom Dimension. A dark and empty void, a plane of negativity that continuously feeds off of the misery of its inhabitants to make itself stronger and stronger.
However, in the dark barren empty landscape of the doom dimension there was one place that had a bit of life.
Well if a silent, empty half destroyed temple like structure of obsidian could be considered full of 'life'. The main entrance was intact, its obsidian spires reaching high to the dark purple heavens above. Beyond the grand entrance and hidden between spires a dome like structure could be noted in the back. Inside that dome was a large space, the floor was made of black marble and onyx crystals were embedded in equal distant spots on the wall encircling the room. In the middle of the room sprawled out looking blankly at an opening in the ceiling, was a large black dragoness with ruby red eyes.
This was Oserian, the guardian of the doom dimension. Her scales were as black as night, her eyes like bright cut rubies, her horns resembling that of a ferocious beast. She was laid out like a weary cat after a day of chasing mice.
She was looking at the opening which had a rippling effect at its borders, for it was no ordinary open but a spacial window that allowed the dragoness to look upon the six worlds of Vestroia. Watching, observing, likely thinking godly thoughts.
Oserian groaned and threw back her head. "I'M BORED!" She declared glaring at the world of Vestroia, as if demanding it deliver something to assuage her boredom. Now.
In answer to her silent demands the beating of wings sounded nearby and a black and green great horned owl flew into view a scroll clasped in one of her talons. "Well if you're bored, then perhaps it's time to do the decennial population census of the Doom Dimension." The owl said lighting down beside Oserian.
This old bird was none other Nocturna, wise, old, and often cranky aide to Oserian for several millennia.
Oserian groaned shifting to her feet and folding her wings at her sides. "Fine, but let's not do it in here," She said waving her tail to the spacial window disappearing in a puff of smoke. The black dragoness turned away from the image.
Nocturna tilted her head, "If you don't like looking at what Vestroia's become why do you keep staring at it?" She asked narrowing her eyes. "It's not going to get put back together overnight you know."
Oserian's tail lashed nearly hitting the entranceway on her way out of the domed room. "I don't know if you've noticed Nocturna, but there is no day or night in the Doom Dimension. It's the same dark barren wasteland as it was yesterday, last century, and last millennium! There is no way to tell time here!" She growled, "I can't even say for certain how long Vestroia's been without the cores now, so I keep watching, and hoping that the morons that have them will stop being foolish and put the world back together already." She stamped her foot, "It's the only reason I let them take the cores in the first place," She grumbled continuing in the direction of her chambers.
Nocturna sighed and flew after the guardian, "Perhaps you could've chosen better bakugan to repossess the cores?" She asked.
"Oh yeah, I'll just hop right out of the Doom Dimension and pick out someone. Nevermind the prisoners that would escape and the chaos that would be brought by my sudden reappearance." Oserian snapped turning the corner and continuing down the hallway the torches igniting themselves as they drew near, and then put themselves out as they passed. "Frankly I'd rather deal with the fools with the cores then the nonettes. Do you know how infuriating they are?! I nearly blew up two planets in the process of trying to capture them the first time!"
Nocturna blinked, "Two? But Oserian you were only fighting on the one, and you did do quite a number on it…"
"The second would be the one I'd blow up in pure frustration," Oserian deadpanned. "Or I'd shove them in the core of a small planet and then blow it up. Pains in my tail, and don't get me started on Phantom Dharak." She rolled her eyes, "Always 'I am the greatest thing since the sacred orb! Genesis Dragonoid stole Vestroia from me! I am the superior ancient, you should all bow down to me!'" She pulled a face, "If he's not being condescended he's bitching about how he lost to Genesis and got locked up in the first place. Why do I spare these morons? It's been millennia and all being trapped in the Doom Dimension has done is make them even worse. I wish there was a negativity dial somewhere, someone turn it up, those guys seriously need to be put in some misery."
"But then you'd impact the six ancient warriors." Nocturna reminded mildly,
"Bah! Who gave them that title? You're older than most of them and you fought in way more important battles, youth these days no respect for their history." Oserian grumbled, "They hardly remember me and Aravian!"
"Perhaps it's for the best given… Past instances?"
Oserian went quiet at that, then she let out a huff, "Perhaps…" She conceded.
The two arrived at the entranceway to what resembled a throne room, although there was no throne, the far end was raised a couple of steps and two soft plush cushions were set up on the raised platform. Oserian stalked up to the raised platform and settled herself comfortably on the cushion. After all if she was going to have to deal with going through paperwork, she wanted to be comfortable.
Nocturna chose to perch upon an intricately designed near Oserian's cushion settling herself there. She pulled out the scroll, "Oserian if you could be so kind?"
The dragoness rolled her eyes as she focused her powers and a dark aura surrounded the scroll unfurling it for Nocturna and holding it aloft for the owl to read.
"Where's Alicorn? Isn't this usually her job?" Oserian asked.
"Alicorn is still busy sorting books like you ordered her to in the library, and has likely gotten wrapped up in one or two."
Oserian huffed, "I will never understand her, she could just ask us about history if she wanted to learn it. Be far more entertaining than reading it from dusty old texts by bakugan who didn't understand what was going on,"
Nocturna narrowed her eyes, "Sometimes it's beneficial to see others perspectives, because not always what we say or know is the absolute truth. Plus, it helps her learn how to discern what is true from it all."
The dragoness sighed, "All right, so let's do this population census, all it is is going over the prisoners right? Are the Nonettes still locked up."
Nocturna glanced at the scroll. "Yup, locked in sub-level three."
"And where they will stay for eternity," Oserian grumbled. "Unless I get annoyed enough to where I'll put the in sub-level four with phantom dharak." She lifted her head eyes widening. "That's it! I can put them together and they'll annoy each other to death!"
"Unlikely, that could have the opposite result, like leading to a break out."
Oserian curled her lip, "Point taken, drat, need to figure out worse punishments," She grumbled. "Let's see. Vladitor's still locked up?"
"Um," Nocturna narrowed her eyes, "We've got a maybe on that one."
Oserian growled, "Wonderful that means I have to go check later. If he's not there I'm booting him to sub-level two. I hear the acid pits there are nice this time of year."
"We don't have any acid pits."
Oserian frowned, "Dang it I could've swore I put those in a century or two ago."
"Would that have been the time you found that stash of inebriants Aravian had hidden in her chambers?"
Oserian narrowed her eyes, "Hmm, might've been actually, because I also recall there being dancing wontu and the Sanctuary getting flipped over as well."
"Well, except for you flipping the Sanctuary, none of that happened." Nocturna said sharply. "And I was forced to confiscate all the inebriants to avoid anymore drunken instances."
"Ah, yeah I wondered why the stash was always empty after that." Oserian muttered. "Well whatever, Vladitor was just a petty crook anyways."
"He attack various bakugan and defeated the six ancient warriors, attempted to conquer, then he went on to call you and your sister fat and ugly." Nocturna said.
"He clearly wouldn't recognize beauty if it went up to him and smacked him upside the head," Oserian growled baring her teeth at the memory of the annoying warrior bakugan "He deserved that silent ender to the face, no matter what Aravian said afterwards/."
"It was a bit harsh and she and Lars Lion had to spend a lot of time trying to heal his wounds afterwards. They had to reach out to as many healers as they could."
"Well he should've known better than to call me fat." Oserian said flatly and at a look from Nocturna added. "And to try to take over Vestroia."
"Perhaps he's since learned his lesson?" Nocturna ventured, "And we can let it go?"
"Not like there's much to conquer." Oserian conceded. "Kinda hard to conquer all the attribute worlds, I'd love to see him try though."
Nocturna sighed and shook her head. "Anyways, the six ancient warriors are still held in the base level of the doom dimension."
Oserian hissed at that and narrowed her eyes.
"Come now, it's been centuries."
"They attacked me."
"That was millennia ago, and they've demonstrated remorse."
"They blew up half the Sanctuary."
"That was several centuries ago."
Oserian snorted and turned away. "They keep cheating at cards."
"Now you're just being petty."
"They do though," Oserian grumbled.
Nocturna sighed but left it, "And now to deal with the… hmm?" Nocturna leaned in closer to the scroll that listed many more bakugan after the ancient warriors. "What is this?" She shreed in alarm flaring her wings out as she looked at the long list of names.
Oserian lifted her head raising an eye ridge. "What is what? Someone missing?"
"No, look!" Nocturna turned the scroll around for Oserian to see, the dragoness blinking and looking closely at the paper. "The population of the Doom Dimension has increased ten fold! There's thousands of bakugan occupying it now!"
Oserian's eyes widened as she took in the list of names, "Pyrus Serpenoid, Pyrus Saurus, Ventus Monarus, Haos Saurus, Darkus Reaper, Darkus Laserman, Subterra Tuskor, Subterra Manion, Aquos Limulus, Aquos Terrorclaw - what is the meaning of this?!" She declared the list going on and on. "There are thousands of normal bakugan in the base level now, when did this happen?!"
Nocturna narrowed her eyes. "You mean you didn't bring them here?"
Oserian shot her a look, "If I'd been going out to banish bakugan to the Doom Dimension, you would've known, plus, I had enough problems with all the bakugan that were in the Doom Dimension before I don't want to deal with thousand of normal bakugan who have somehow been displaced to here!" She lashed her tail and rose to her feet hopping off her cushion. "We need to find one of these normal bakugan at once and get an explanation!" She declared gathering energy in her mouth that she spat out a portal forming in front of them. "This should take us to where most bakugan appear when they first arrive in the Doom Dimension."
"If you sent them here," Nocturna pointed out.
"Whatever, if someone else has decided to dump bakugan here, they shouldn't be far off from my normal access point. After all you put a crack in the ground, that's where the waters gonna flow." Oserian remarked entering the portal, Nocturna rolled up the scroll and tossed it by Oserian's cushion before heading after the dragoness.
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The two stepped out of the portal on a peak overlooking a valley in the doom dimension. A valley that was filled to the brim with bakugan, of all colors, of all attributes, and all of which looked to be absolutely miserable. Oserian looked around narrowing her eyes her teeth clenching.
"Who the hell did this," She growled her tail lashing. "Look at this mess! These bakugan are all just lying there on top of each other waiting to die! Last I checked my job was guardian of the time stream, guardian of the doom dimension, WARDEN of the doom dimension, not UNDERTAKER!" She curled her lip. "When I find out who did this, they are so getting a silent ender to the face."
"If they set foot in the doom dimension,"
"I will leave the doom dimension and find them and then Silent Ender them in the face." Oserian said flatly. "I will let the prisoners escape because No One uses my doom dimension without my permission, and escapes retribution." She snapped. She looked around, "Do you know how much work organizing this is! I think some of them are even eating each other! By the Sacred Orb it's like one of those human zombie movies!"
Nocturna blinked and turned to Oserian, "How would you know that,"
Oserian gave her a deadpan look, "I was bored, and the viewing pool happened to allow me access to an Earth drive in, and I watched Night of the Living dead or something. It was rather entertaining, better than The Blob at least." Oserian said waving her tail, "But anyways point is, we have to get this fixed," She gestured to the mess of bakugan in the valley.
"I'll get Alicorn on it," Nocturna said immediately.
"Heck, tell the six ancient warriors to get off their asses and help their people, for Genesis' sake they're supposed to be the great warriors for the bakugan, where the hell are they in all this?" Oserian grumbled. She looked around, "Go get Alicorn and then track down the ancient warriors, they could do something useful for once rather than break my dimension." She said turning and scanning the clusterfuck of bakugan. "Meanwhile I'll try to figure out who's getting Silent Endered in the face."
"That's not a verb," Nocturna said before taking off.
"It is if I say it is!" Oserian shot back, "I'm in charge here I can make up verbs if I want to!" She grumbled before stalking along the edge of the cliff looking around for someone sensible to ask. Most of the bakugan were too busy crying, wailing to the heavens, and some were fighting.
A shriek of pain drew Oserian's attention and she lifted her head noticing a group of bakugan attacking a smaller scrawny figure. It took her a moment to recognize it as a reaper.
The Reaper was trying to climb up the cliff face, its wings were starting to look a bit battered and there were scratches all along his bones and face. Particularly near one of his eyes.
The bakugan were watching him, a serpenoid, a terrorclaw, and a few saurus. A falconeer and Monarus were circling above. Then with a screech the falconeer dove forwards and rammed into the Reaper knocking him free from the cliff face and sending him falling back towards the waiting bakugan below.
"No!" Reaper cried the bakugan drawing near reaching out to grasp the Reaper. Only to let out cries of surprise as their shadows erupted upwards stopping his fall several feet above them and out of their reach.
The Monarus gave a cry and darted to attack but was blown back by a blast of wind followed by an angry roar.
"ENOUGH!" Oserian bellowed leaping from the cliff edge and spreading her wings. She dove down and landed in the middle of the bakugan the ground rippling with her landing, moving like waves that threw the gathered bakugan back. Oserian then lowered the Reaper to the ground beside her and looked at all the bakugan. "What is the meaning of this?!" She demanded.
The bakugan looked at her in shock and then the pyrus serpenoid moved forwards.
"He'sss the one who sssent usss here." The Serpenoid hissed. "We were making him pay for banissshing usss to thisss place of horrorsss."
Oserian turned to Reaper, "Is this true?" She asked coldly her red eyes narrowed into slits.
Reaper shivered under her cold gaze and looked to the ground "I-I did assist in sending them here, but please have mercy on me!" He cried throwing himself to Oserian's feet. "I was threatened by this bakugan, a white one! Naga! He had the Silent Core! If I didn't obey him he would've ended me!"
Oserian's eyes widened, "Naga?! A bony white one? Very curious, manipulative and a bit of a jerk?" She asked.
"He's a jerk and manipulative alright, as is the company he keeps." Reaper growled.
"Explain," Oserian said.
"Well, I used to serve one of his minions, a boy, Masquerade. He would force me into battle and command me to banish bakugan to here using his doom card, it's all to help Naga stabilize the Silent Core he's trapped within!" Reaper bowed his head, "It was awful! Then when he got a more powerful bakugan, he banished me here too!"
The ventus monarus scoffed, "You weren't forced, you enjoyed banishing bakugan just as much as your master." She said sharply, she turned her gaze to Oserian, "If I may I wouldn't trust his words, he is just as bad as the ones he detailed."
Oserian narrowed her eyes and nodded. "I see, so you worked with them," She said to Reaper, "And that Naga is banishing bakugan to here to stabilize the Silent Core? How-"
"Ah well, you see there was an incident and bakugan started ending up on Earth," The Monarus said. "It's a bit of a long story…"
Oserian sighed and settled down on the ground, "Well, fortunately I have nothing but time, the sooner you tell me the sooner I can work out a way to fix this," She said. "And everyone," She cast a look at Reaper, "Will receive justice."
The grim reaper looked appropriately nervous at Oserian's look, but a glance at the other bakugan told him that if he moved away from the dragoness he would regret it. So he reluctantly remained near Oserian.
"In the meantime, tell me all that you know,"
Monarus took a deep breath, "Well our whole world changed one day, when all of us were pulled from Vestroia and sent to Earth and after that the games began…"
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It had been a rather uneventful and normal morning by Neo's standards, that is until he had received a challenge from a guy named Masquerade who had a glass mask and spiky blond hair that reminded Neo of a troll doll.
Neo had been quite surprised, after all rumor had it the boy was ranked number one. But then what did he want with Neo? He wasn't a stellar brawler or anything, his ranking being somewhere up in the 100s. But the orange haired boy with mismatched eyes wasn't about to turn down a challenge from the number one brawler. He'd be a tough opponent, the toughest he'd faced. But he relished the challenge, after all, brawling is all in good fun.
Except when it wasn't.
They'd met up at the park near Neo's house. They exchanged a few brief words before opening the field, and then the brawl began. It had gone pretty well at first for Neo, he'd managed to take out two of Masquerade's three bakugan without taking any losses. Just as he'd been wondering if he was really brawling the number one brawler, the masked blond smirked.
"Well, I must say Neo, I have underestimated you," Masquerade said, the smirk still pasted on his face.
"Well, what can I say, everyone always underestimates the short people. " Neo manages a rather sly smile at Masquerade "So, are you really the number one brawler? You don't seem like much."
Masquerade chuckled, "Ha, I was going easy on you, didn't want this to be too easy for me, but now the fun's over kiddo," He pulled out a bakugan. "I have a job to do, but don't feel bad, you'll have the honor of losing to my precious pet." He said loading his bakugan into the shooter.
"Bakugan Brawl! Darkus Hydranoid stand!" He shouted shooting Hydranoid out onto his gatecard.
Hydranoid rose up in front of Neo, he chuckled, "Still feeling so hot kid?" He asked letting out a roar.
Darkus Hydranoid enters battle at 450 gs.
Neo had frozen as the giant bakugan was tossed out, he hadn't seen another hydranoid before, he had honestly thought that maybe Mephititous was the only one he'd see since they seemed so rare "How.. Did you find one of those?!" The words had taken a bit to get out of course form the shock.
Masquerade laughed, "Oh good, I was worried I had received bad intel for a moment and that this brawl was for nothing. As for where I got my precious Hydranoid, that doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is that by the end of this there will only be one Hydranoid in existence." He said. "So let's get this show on the road why don't we?" He said waving his hand.
Neo grits his teeth slightly at this"Why are you like this? Bakugan are living creatures! Why do you act like they're just some toys? They can talk, they can breath, why are you so.. .So..- So fucked up in the brain!"
Masquerade scoffed. "Oh believe me, I'm well aware of them being alive, and quite frankly I don't care. All that matters to me is that they help me fulfill my mission of attaining the ultimate bakugan. Every bakugan that my Hydranoid defeats makes him stronger and stronger, and soon yours will do the same. What's wrong?" He tilted his head sneering. "Lost your nerve? Realized just how in over your head you are now?" He laughed. "Well it's too late now, so throw out your bakugan I have better things to do than waste my time on the likes of you."
"Or are your bakugan too cowardly to step up against me?" Hydranoid taunted.
Neo licks his lips and he looks away "I won't give up… I believe in my bakugan! They're my friends, my family and family sticks together" Neo says this, looking at the bakugan balls and then he smiles a bit "I believe that they can do this."
Masquerade chuckled and lifted his hand and gave Neo the 'bring it' gesture, "Then let's see them try." He said.
Neo looks down at his hand again before he takes a deep breath before he finally throws out his Serpenoid "Bakugan brawl! Darkus Serpenoid stand!" He was worried as his bakugan stands on the card, his stomach twisting in knots.
Darkus Serpenoid enters battle at 330 gs, advantage Darkus Hydranoid.
"Heh, get him Hydranoid," Masquerade ordered.
Hydranoid chuckled, "With pleasure," He growled before he swung his tail at Serpenoid.
Neo smiles a bit, somewhat calm as the Serpenoid darts forward, curling around Hydranoid's tail, easily slithering upward in an attempt to hopefully strangle the dragon like bakugan.
Hydranoid snorted. "Sure you want to try that?" He asked as the spikes along his neck dug into Serpenoid's body. He laughed as Serpenoid recoiled slightly from the spikes. "If that's the best you've got," Hydra growled twisting his head around and grasping Serpenoid's throat with his wicked fangs. Then with a twist of his neck he yanked Serpenoid off him and threw him across the gate card a dark portal opening behind the snake.
Neo's face went pale as his mind went blank as he watched this, his mouth was dry, he couldn't muster any words when he saw one of his best friends thrown away like that, like he didn't mean anything to Hydranoid. As if Serpenoid was just a bug to be crushed. Just some snack.. Just a warm up for the giant dragon.
Masquerade smirked as Serpenoid disappeared into the portal to the doom dimension. The portal sealing itself closed after the bakugan was sucked inside. Then in a flash of purple Hydranoid reverted and flew back to Masquerade who chuckled. "One down, one more to get through before I get what I came for." He said. "So let's not wait around. Gate Card set!" Masquerade shouted throwing out another gate card beside Neo's that was out on the field. "Bakugan Brawl!" He fired Hydranoid onto his gatecard. "Hydranoid stand!"
Hydranoid roared as he rose up on Masquerade's gate card sneering down at Neo.
"Who will you send to feed me next? That last was barely a snack!"
Darkus Hydranoid enters battle at 450 gs.
Neo was shivering as he looked at the bakugan- no, it wasn't a bakugan… It was a monster who wanted nothing more than to kill and destroy.
"Neo, boy… Snap out of this and throw me in.. I won't let him get away with what he did" A slightly dark, husky voice says this lowly as Neo looks to his left, his darkus Griffon looked back at him, Neo was shivering a bit before the bakugan speaks up again "I'll end this once and for all Nathan. So let me do this" Griffon's voice was slightly pleading- and at that moment was when Neo snapped out of his sudden depression before he looks back at the bakugan and slowly reaches out, grabbing the bakugan
"If.. If you say so." Neo says this softly, already knowing how this was most likely going to end as he threw out Griffon.
"Bakugan Brawl! Bakugan Stand! Darkus Griffon"
Darkus Griffon enters battle at 350 gs, advantage Darkus Hydranoid at 450 gs.
Masquerade sighed and shook his head, "You might as well just throw them into the Doom Dimension yourself, but whatever. Hydranoid, take care of this, then we'll finally get to our target. Finish it quickly."
Hydranoid chuckled, "As you wish master." He said baring his teeth at the griffon. "Say your prayers," He swung his tail at the Griffon.
Griffon had been expecting that and caught the tail in his mouth, eyes feral as he growls out "I'll get you for what you did to my friend!" Before he starts to rip at the tail with his teeth, wanting nothing more then to see the bastard torn to shreds.
Neo was frozen- He couldn't even play an ability card to help his bakugan as the bakugan growls ferally, losing himself in the want - no, he was losing himself in the need to avenge his best friend and comrade, Serpenoid.
But not even Griffon could stop that monster of a bakugan.
Hydranoid laughed "Ah that still itches, bite down a little harder," He said mockingly.
"Hydranoid," Masquerade said in an annoyed tone, "I told you to finish it quickly."
Hydranoid sighed, "Pity, it would've been nice had you gotten that itch." He said then he lifted his tail griffon still clinging to it stubbornly by his teeth and then Hydranoid whipped it around swinging it wildly to throw Griffon off.
The bakugan struggled valiantly but he couldn't hold on forever. Griffon's grip let up and he was sent flying off the gate card. He let out an anguished roar as the doom dimension portal opened and sucked him in.
Masquerade sighed as he caught Hydranoid. "Finally!" He said, "Now, for the Hydranoid." He said. He smirked, "I'll be nice and even battle on your gate card. Just to show you how hopeless it is!" He laughed, "Bakugan Brawl! Stand Hydranoid!" He ordered.
Hydranoid roared and rose up on Neo's gate card. "Send out your last bakugan so that I may reunite him with his friends. I'm sure they'll all be quite happy in the Doom Dimension together."
After watching Griffon disappear as well Neo froze up. He stood, staring at the ground, frozen in horror. How could Masquerade have just done that to two innocent bakugan who wanted nothing more than to just brawl and have fun?
Neo's heart beats a bit faster, skipping a few beats as he looks up and finds himself staring at the Hydranoid on the gatecard before he swallows thickly, that's when a voice catches up in his ear.
"Send me out Neo." The voice was strangely calm as it spoke up, making the boy's focus snap up towards the bakugan who turns to look at the darkus bakugan waiting for the next and last Bakugan to be played, Neo looks from the other bakugan and looks back up at the bakugan before him, fear gripping his heart- He couldn't lose Meph as well, he couldn't.
"I don't want to- I can't.. I don't want to lose you Mephititous… What will happen if you lose? I can't just lose you too... " Neo says this, his mind settled in panic mode as he says this to his first bakugan- the very same one who he's been so dependant on, so dependant for the bundle of (rather flamboyantly gay) happiness that had brought him out of the depression he had been in before he had met him.
"Don't worry… Calm down okay? Just let big Daddy dragon show that little tiny hotshot who's boss alright?" Mephititous says this softly, careful with his words as he falls into Neo's hand, mentally smiling at his partner that had showed and taught him so many wonderous things through their time as partners. "I won't lose.. I promise."
Those words had dug down into Neo's heart, Neo was terrified yes, but he couldn't help but smile at the soft words his partner had said, and with that in mind, his decision was made as he stands up and throws out Mephititous.
"Bakugan brawl! Mephititous knock this jerk out! Darkus Hydranoid Stand!"
Mephititous' ball had continued moving, hitting Hydranoid right in the eye before he finally 'stands'
A angry look in his eyes as he slowly lifts himself up on his hind legs, bones popping as his eyes glow a bit. "Congratulations. You've officially pissed off Big Daddy…"
Hydranoid winced closing his right eye slightly growling. "You're going to regret that."
Mephititous at 450 gs power levels equal\
"Finally, the other Hydranoid!" Masquerade said, studying Mephititous. "Hmph, hardly even seems worth the effort. However, your continued existence risks negatively impacting the reputation of my Darkus Hydranoid. So sorry to say, but you're going to have to go," Masquerade sneered pulling out an ability card, "And this will help me ensure it! Ability Activate!" He drew back his arm and hurled the card up to the sky. The sky flashed and clouds gathered overhead. "Chaos of the Darkness!"
A bolt of purple lightning came streaking down from above and hit Hydranoid on the head, Hydranoid reared his head back and fired a blast of dark electricity at Mephititous.
Mephititous down 100 gs to 350 gs, Hydranoid increase to 550 gs.
Mephititous growls a bit as he looks at his partner who then wordlessly plays the same ability card. "It's going to be a stalemate you miserable Troll Doll" Mephititous growls this out, a feral smile on his face as he bolts at Hydranoid, slamming him to the ground.
Mephititous' eyes glow a bit brighter as he looks at hydranoid, and he growls somewhat darkly. "Normally I would be jumping at the chance of fucking with someone as sexy as I am, but alas, your personality is too ugly for me darling. Therefor, I must wipe you clean and out of Earth." Mephititous says this as if it were for execution- then again, it might as well be one.
Hydranoid snarls from beneath Mephititous and fights to roll him off of him.
Masquerade curls his lip, "You are going to regret that insult," He said, "Ability Activate! Auragano Revenge!" He threw the card out to his partner, a dark aura flowing off the card as it rushed to Hydranoid.
The dark aura wreathed around Mephititous and drained his energy and transferred it to Hydranoid. This enabled Hydranoid to push up and knock Mephititous off of him.
Transfer detected, Mephititous decreased by 100 gs to 350 gs, Hydranoid increase to 550 gs.
Hydranoid rolled to his feet and snarled firing another blast at Mephititous. "It is you who will be wiped from existence," He retorted, following this statement up with another blast of dark lightning.
Yet again the same ability is played, their attacks crashing into each other, Mephititous grins somewhat darkly- He would keep fighting this grimy bastard til the end. He won't stop until Griffon and Serpenoid are avenged- Becuase no one will get away with hurting his babies.
Masquerade frowned looking thoughtful, he'd purposefully allowed the boy to defeat his bakugan earlier but as a result the boy had used up his last ability card just then. Masquerade grinned, and now it was time to go in for the kill.
"Checkmate," Masquerade said raising another ability card. "Merge Shield!"
Hydranoid roared as a shield of energy erupted around him absorbing Mephititous attacks and he glowed purple.
Hydranoid laughed, "You're finished this time,"
Hydranoid increased by 200 gs to 650 gs.
With a roar Hydranoid rushed forwards actually bringing his claws to bear slashing at his copy.
Mephititous barely catches the arms, growling a bit as he digs his feet into the ground "I will not FAIL!" HE hisses this out before he somehow manages to grapple Hydranoid, slamming him into the ground, Mephititous' tail lashing out at the other darkus bakugan.
"What?" Masquerade mutters frowning, then he scowls. "Hydranoid! Finish it!"
Hydranoid snarled crouching low and ducking under the tail before he fired several blasts into Mephititous' belly.
Mephititous couldn't move out of the way, and so the blasts hit their mark.
Mephititous hisses a bit and growls in pain as the blasts hit him - he was going to lose - he was losing.
His eyes quickly trail to where his partner and beloved friend is watching, and he looks back at Hydranoid before growling a bit. "At least I'm not going down without a fight you damn virus." Mephititous lunges his head out, using his long neck to reach his target- Hydranoid's own neck.
Hydranoid snarled as Mephititous' teeth caught in his neck. "Just give up already! You're weaker! You should be in the Doom Dimension already!" He snarled lashing out at Mephititous with his tail.
Mephititous however doesn't give up as he tightens his grip with his teeth, slightly puncturing Hydranoid's neck "I'll rip your neck out if I have to" Mephititous hisses this out, eyes narrowed as he ignores the pain of the tail hitting him over and over again.
"This is ridiculous, I don't need another one who can give me trouble," Masquerade growled, pulling out an ability card. "Fusion Ability Activate!" He shouted "Destruction Buster! Finish it now Hydranoid!" He bellowed.
Hydranoid roared as energy rushed through him, he swung his neck ripped it free from Mephititous' grip ignoring the deep gash there, the wound quickly healed by the dark aura.
Hydranoid increase by 100 gs to 750 gs.
"Die!" Hydranoid roared opening his mouth and firing blast after blast at Mephititous.
Mephititous' eyes widen in pain at this, he could barely feel anything as he loses his grip and begins to fall before his eyes turn to look at Neo who was frozen in fear.
"Don't.. Give… Up.. Neo" Everything was going out of focus as a portal opens underneath Mephititous, and he falls into it- The last things he heard was Hydranoid's booming laughter and Neo screaming his name.
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Mephititous dropped through the air, he paid it no mind. Until he landed on something big, scaley, and muscular, which left him groping around before opening one eye, and a blush was instantly on his face before he huskily mumbles. "Why hello there Handsome." if this was the after life, then he was much rather happy with this predicament as he curls his tail around the rather handsome dragon's tail, purring sensually as he looks into the other dragon's eye "I must be in heaven because I think I see an angel" he murmurs this lowly and huskily- yes, he was thinking with his dick at the moment but hey, he couldn't care since there was a rather beautiful dragon under him that he would love to tap long and hard. And then, Mephititous speaks up yet again- still ignoring the rather large crowd of Bakugan as he huskily says "How does finding a room and playing cowboy all night long sound Hot Stuff?"
The dragon beneath him gave him a harsh glare then it bucked slamming its back legs into him and throwing him off its back. Then it whipped around and fired a massive beam of energy right into his chest. He grunted the pain erupting where the beam hit and flung him back into the wall of the canyon they were in.
"How dare you!" The voice that he registered was a female voice, so his dragon was a dragoness, and an extremely angry one at that. "How dare you speak to me in such a disrespectful way, you beast!" She snarled stamping up to him wings flared, red eyes blazing, energy crackling around her waiting to be used to make Mephititous regret every decision he'd ever made. "Explain yourself or my next Silent Ender will put a hole through you."
Mephititous whistles a bit at this as he looks at his dragoness "Just decided I'd drop by after battling a pompous asshole- Mephititous at your service my beautiful queen" Mephititous doesn't seem to be rather scared of his most likely pending death as he saucily bows to the female dragon seemingly smiling at her as he gives her a slightly suggestive look.
Oserian's eyes narrowed. She debated simply blasting him anyway for his actions. However, all hopes of doing that disappeared as she heard two familiar voices calling her name as they drew near. Nocturna and Alicorn, neither of which would condone her killing Mephititous. Scowling she glared at him."You will watch yourself, you try anything like that again, and there will be nothing but atoms left." She said flatly before turning away and heading over to greet Nocturna and Alicorn.
Mephititous had never been one to take no as an answer so he happily follows his 'queen' a sly look on his face as he wraps his arms around her- most likely shocking her as he mumbles"You are nothing but my queen.- Let's make a family of tiny queens and kings… my love"
Oserian turned to glare at him. "I'm about to render you sterile if you don't keep your hands off me," She said flatly. "And if that doesn't stop you, then I'll relieve you of your hands." She said and then bucked him off her once more, her tail whipping him across the face for added measure. Then to put even more distance between herself and the perverted hydra she spread her wings and flew to meet Nocturna and Alicorn.
"What is the news?" Oserian asked once she came into speaking distance with the two.
"Well I've spoken with the Six Ancient Warriors," Alicorn said, "And they've agreed to take over caring for all the bakugan banished here. They've stated that they'd rather handle it themselves if we're willing to allow it."
Oserian snorted, "Don't tell me they're still leery of me after what happened at our last card game,"
"You did threaten to put a hole through Apollonir." Nocturna pointed out mildly.
"He was cheating." Oserian retorted, "And if they aren't used to receiving threats like that from me over the millennia then they need to get over themselves, the fact they're still alive means I don't intend to end their stupid lives." Then she sighed and composed herself. "Regardless, that relieves us of the burden of handling the bakugan trapped here, and we can address the issue of dealing with the problem that's arisen on Earth."
"Earth?" Nocturna echoed.
"I read about it!" Alicorn jumped in, "It's a planet inhabited by humans, on that planet bakugan are forced into ball forms there unfortunately."
"That's not all the humans have decided to make a game using us as their game pieces." Oserian told them, Alicorn blanched and Nocturna narrowed her eyes.
"That is disturbing news." Nocturna murmured, "What are we going to do?"
"From what I hear the brawls are harmless to us, many bakugan I spoke with even seem to miss them. They found it enjoyable battling alongside the brawlers and testing their skills and strengths against their fellow bakugan." Oserian said. "There are those who aren't happy about the humans, but there is one human that they all share a discontent with."
"Who?" Nocturna asked. "And why just one human?"
"This human calls himself Masquerade, he's the one banishing most of the bakugan. According to the Reaper he serves a being called Naga who's currently the one in possession of my Silent Core."
Alicorn narrowed her eyes and she lifted a fore leg. "Why not go take it back?" She asked.
"Because I still need him or whoever has the infinity core to bring them together to reform Vestroia. Taking it back would prevent that from happening as I alone cannot bring the cores together to create the perfect core. Thus I must unfortunately allow someone else to do it in my stead."
"But to allow that monster the possibility of gaining the power of the perfect core is foolish!" Nocturna said.
Alicorn nodded, "We must do something to enable the one who has the infinity core to be able to get the silent core rather than the other way around."
"So we'd have to somehow impair the one in possession of the Silent Core, Naga." Oserian said frowning. "But he's already trapped in the Silent Core which is highly unstable with him trapped inside it." She narrowed her eyes,
"If it's unstable why hasn't it simply vaporized him and gone to join the Infinity Core?" Alicorn asked.
Oserian narrowed, "The boy Masquerade, helps him stabilize the core by sending bakugan to the Doom Dimension."
"Then we somehow impair the boys ability to do so?" Nocturna suggested.
"And how do you propose we do that?" Oserian asked as the trio lighted down on the edge of the canyon.
At this moment, something lands on Oserian's back, startling her until the already annoying voice speaks up from her back. "If you're talking about the Troll Doll kid.. Masky or what ever, it wouldn't be hard. Just switch out his ace bakugan with a lookalike." Mephititous happily speaks up as he nuzzles Oserian's neck. "And it just so happens that I know what his ace bakugan is. Its a hydranoid who is way too cocky" He mumbles this softly as he continues to nuzzle into Oserian's neck. "Good thing I can jump really high." He says this happily, obviously enjoying the one way cuddle session he's having with 'his 'queen ''
Oserian's eye twitches, and she turns towards him, energy already starting to gather around her, and it's only Nocturna's action of placing a wing on Oserian's side that prevents her from vaporizing the annoying hydra.
"He has a point Oserian," She said, "We take away his strongest bakugan and stick him with another bakugan it would likely impair him. Or at the very least cause him a great deal of grief. Plus with our assistance utilizing the viewing pool we can ensure that we impair the boy as much as possible." She leaned even closer, "Plus it'll get rid of him," She glanced towards Mephititous.
Oserian considered this after kicking Mephititous off her again. "Very well, you have made a good suggestion Mephititous, and as the only Hydranoid present you will have to switch with Masquerade's Hydranoid."
She turned to face Mephititous fully. "Your mission is simple you must do everything you can to frustrate him, keep him off balance, find out whatever weak points you can and extort them to the best of your ability." Oserian told him. "Think you can handle it?"
"Perhaps we should send others to back him up," Alicorn said, "After all, the boy does have other bakugan, the more bakugan we trade out with ones loyal to us will only make things harder for him."
"Let's try with Mephititous first," Oserian said, "Do you agree to accept this mission?" She asked him.
Mephititous smiles at them "No. I won't agree" Of course his instant reply nearly made them fall over as he continues to smile. "I won;t do it unless you promise me three things."
Oserian narrowed her eyes, "You won't be smited in the next few-" A nudge from Nocturna made her stop.
Nocturna sighed and considered Mephititous. "What do you want?"
Mephititious takes on a rather serious look as he begins to reply "I want you to send back the Darkus Serpenoid and the Darkus Griffon that fell in here before me… I want them to go back to my partner… - the second request is that the hydranoid of Mask boy's goes with them as well to my partner.. Because if there is anyone who could crack that tightass it would be Neo.. " Mephititious smiles a bit before it turns into a sly smile as he looks at Oserian. "As for the last one….." He trails off and then gives off a beaming smile "I want Oserian to become my queen. - And no take backs either"
"You will get the two requests, you will not get the third." Oserian said flatly. "If you want my heart you will court me properly not try to bribe me with your services."
Mephititious' eyes light up at this "Alright.. I'd like to change my last request, instead of being my queen… I want Oserian to give me a shot at possibly being her king…" Mephititious mumbles this softly eyes avoiding Oserian now- normally he just jumps head in first with these kinds of things- but this time? He felt like this one would actually mean something to him..
Oserian huffed, "A shot, you will have a fair chance but if you keep touching me when I don't want it you can kiss any chance at me goodbye." She said simply, her tail lashing. "But if you do this for me, and the bakugan, and mind my personal space, you will have a chance."
Then Oserian turned to Alicorn and Nocturna. "All right listen up, Alicorn you go find the Serpenoid and Griffon. Nocturna go to the viewing pool and get an idea of the patterns of the masked one, and let me know when night falls where he's at on Earth. The switch with him will be the hardest, so I'd prefer to attempt it at night when he's asleep." She said. "Giving Neo his bakugan will be easy to do whenever. Meanwhile I will begin making preparations to open a portal to Earth," Oserian said.
Alicorn nodded. "Understood," She said she turned to Mephititous, "Perhaps you should come with me you will likely be able to recognize them better than I will." She said.
Mephititious' eyes light up and he smiles at the bakugan and nods slightly "Thank you.. All of you… At least Neo won't be alone too much longer." He says this softly and he smiles a bit more. Nocturna huffed, "Think of it this way, if you impair the boy causing this enough, no other kid or bakugan may suffer again." She said. "Now I'm off to prepare."
"As am I, Alicorn I trust you'll be able to teleport yourself and the 3 bakugan to the Sanctuary?" Oserian asked.
Alicorn nodded. "I can do that Oserian." She said.
"Then I take my leave as well, preparing a portal will take a bit of time," Oserian said spreading her wings. "I hope you find the two bakugan quickly, the sooner we get this plan enacted the better." Then the guardian of the Doom Dimension pushed off the ground and took to the air flying off in the direction that Nocturna's shrinking form was heading.
Alicorn flicked her tail and turned to Mephititous, "Come, let us find your friends." She said and headed back towards the valley.
A/N:
JetravenEx: This chapter was long. I think it might beat out some of my longest chapters.
Echo: to tell the truth, I'm sure this story will out length my own stories that I completed… Lets just hope neither of us get too lazy on completing this! *chuckles nervously*
JetravenEx: It won't be laziness, I'm on spring break but the trouble is my plot bunnies decided to start breeding again, now there's several story ideas bouncing around in my brain. Not to mention that I've got Shattered Masks, Masking Humanity, Doom and Docorrus, and Fighting bakugan.
Echo : You should really make a sequel to Just a Dream. I wanna see what happens next dang it!
JetravenEx: I have been thinking about it, and it wouldn't be a 'sequel' it just would add an extra chapter to it.
Echo: *leans in and whispers* It should happen. That story made me snicker and smile
JetravenEx: I mean the goal was to write my first lemon and it went well enough, although I think Masky's not too happy about bottoming XD but I can't help it.
Echo: *snickers* But hey, now he has blackmail! *grins* Won't that be fun! There's more than one way to keep Dan's mouth occupied I suppose!
JetravenEx: *tilts head* Anyways, I think I'm gonna have this story at T for now, and depending on how things go we'll raise it if needed.
Echo: Well, knowing Mephy, it'll go up to M because of him.
JetravenEx: Possibly, but anyways thank you all for reading and if you could please be so kind to review and give some criticism that would be most appreciated!
Echo : yee! See you guys next time (Who knows whenever that will be- but hopefully it wil be SOON)