Remaking the earlier chapters of Reality Shift in my spare time. Nothing much, just some grammatical changes and a few touch ups to get it to more recent standards.
My story starts on Earth. But, it is not the Earth I am from. My Earth is in reality 1. I'm sorry, I probably should've introduced myself. My name is Atom, and I come from the first world, the first beginning, ect. ect. But, I am not in my world any longer. I have gone through a realital shift. Most people go through them all the time, but nothing much is changed. The exact time of someone's death, maybe a city moved a few feet. Nothing measurable. But me, I have gone through hundreds of shifts. My world has changed greatly.
My first shift occurred when I was six or seven. It was when Bakugan was still a thing that people enjoyed. I never knew it at the time, but I shifted from Reality 1 to reality 2. It all occurred due to the connection I had to the Bakugan show. Over time, my connection vaporized, and I returned to my reality. But, it was with my connection to Digimon that occurred when I was 12 that caused my first major shift. That shift brought me to Reality 4. From there, my connection to hundreds of different things brought me further and further away. It was only when I was fifteen, and regained my connection to Bakugan, that I shifted too far. By this time, I was already past counting the Realities I had been through. They all blended into the one. But the time when I regained my connection, that was when I traveled through them, for the first time, freely. The only one I could not access was my home reality, that is, reality 1. I have bounced from reality to reality since then, trying to find my way back. It was then that I discovered what I was always meant to find.
Powers beyond reality,
Brought about by one.
Crossing time and space,
Changing the race.
Creating a whole new world.
The time to combine is now,
The time to recreate is upon.
The time now to find the power
To regain your lost time.
I began to wake up. This always happened soon after I shifted. I change realities, then I sleep for about twenty four hours afterwards. Time and Time again. But this time, I didn't awaken in an alley. For the first time, I woke up in a bed. I began to look around, and the entire room was unfamiliar, yet I had some strange sense that I had seen it before. Then the door opened. "You awake ye.." The rest of the words were drowned out. By what I was seeing, I was looking right at one of the main characters to the Bakugan show, Dan Kuso himself. I was gobsmacked. Then I heard him again. "You've been asleep for about 24 hours. Man, you had better be glad I saved you from being eaten by the rats." I couldn't focus. I started looking around, and noticed some significant differences from what I knew, and what was here. For starters, it appeared to be before the Bakugan world, Vestroia, made contact with Earth. Then I looked back at Dan.
"What's the date today?" I asked. Dan looked at me in questioning.
"The fifth of June. Why do you ask?" Perfect. The day before the cards are destined to fall. About a month before Dan meets Drago. It pained me to think that I would see a childhood hero go through what I knew he was going to go through. From losing to Masquerade and losing Drago, only to go after him to the Doom Dimension, to being trapped in the Doom Dimension, with having to go through the current of time. Sorry for those of you who were only on Season 1, episode 14. Spoilers are going to be rampant from me in this reality. Anyways, Dan had just told me it was the day before the cards fell. This was good information. I knew I had to leave before then, as to not tamper with the Timeline.
"May I go to the bathroom?"
"Sure, down the hall, first room on the left." Getting up quickly, I startled Dan. I quickly exited the room, making Dan wonder where I got all the energy from. I quickly found the bathroom, and closed the door. Closing my eyes, I focused on my perception of the layers of reality, trying to leave this one. But, something prevented me. I was pushed here by an unknown force, and I was stuck. I was forced into this reality, but for what? If I did any more interfering, the Timeline may fall apart. Then, there was a knocking on the door. "Hey, you almost done in there?" Dan, curse him for his appliance to people he doesn't know, was being curious for the first time I knew him to be. Simple question, but with many answers.
"Yeah, almost." I flushed the toilet to make it seem like I had done my business, then washed my hands and exited. I passed Dan, who looked at me before I was able to get past him.
"So, what were you doing in the alley?"
Crud, he asked directly. But, then again, what else was I to expect from Dan? "I sometimes fall asleep at random times, and I just so happened to be there." The lie, the one I had told countless others. It was mostly the truth, except for the random part. I do sometimes fall asleep, after I shift, and I did just so happen to be there. But, the random part is the lie. Dan looked at me as if he didn't believe me, then he shrugged and walked back to his room. I heard the clacking of his keyboard, and knew he was doing something on his computer. However, because it was before Bakugan, I didn't know what he was doing. He could've been logging in to talk to his friends, or checking email, or anything. Then I heard the sounds of a game. It was uncomfortably soothing, hearing something normal. I then noticed a window on the other side of the hall. Walking over, I noticed something in the sky. Looking, it seemed to have been the attribute wheel. Something I had not expected to see before the cards fell, but I suppose something must happen to show what was to come. Then, I saw the symbol come closer. Startled, I jumped away from the window. Yet, I still saw the wheel. It was still coming closer. Soon, it seemed to be just outside the house. I wondered why nobody was freaking out. Then, the symbol shrank to roughly the size of a bracelet. It fazed through the window, and approached me. I held out my hand to try and stop it, and closed my eyes. For a minute, I didn't move, but didn't feel anything. Instinctively, I opened my eyes. The wheel was gone from the air, but it had found a new home. Namely, on my hand. Naturally, I freaked out. I did something different though, I was quietly freaking out. Something was happening in this reality that shouldn't be happening. Something beyond my understanding.
The cards fell all over the world. The Bakugan were now known, but only as a game. I, too, had a set of these cards, but no guardian bakugan. Dan had met Drago, and they had already had their disputes. But they were a team now, and forever. I still have the symbol on my hand, but haven't yet figured out it's meaning. I have made sure to keep my ranking low, as to not disrupt the Timeline. I am somewhere around 900, but I have no drive to go further. This reality needs to be kept the way it is supposed to play out, regardless of my wants. If I were to try, I could easily beat anybody in this world. But, I restrain myself. I keep out of the way of others. I stay out of the school, I stay out of brawls. I even stay away from Dan, despite us living in the same house. Yeah, his mom and dad took me in after the lie that I was an orphan. Not too far from the truth, but still a lie. And Dan, being himself, always wanted to brawl me so that he could 'teach' me how to be better at brawling. I keep on telling him that I am still working on my strategy, despite me having all the pieces in place. I feel as if I wouldn't hold back against Dan, and I would disrupt the Timeline by overtaking his spot, and thus making it impossible for him to ascend the ranks up to number one. Yet each time gets harder.
July 9
"Atom, you really should brawl me. There's a lot I could teach you."
I shook my head. "Still don't have a strategy. Can't battle you without a strategy."
He looked down in disdain. Then, looked back up with his jovial smile.
"Still the same excuse. The same lie." I was taken aback. How did he know it was a lie? He continued. "You have had a strategy from day 1, yet you never execute it. You always purposefully make a mistake, just so that you don't rise the ranks. I don't understand it."
"You wouldn't understand it even if I told you why."
He fumed. "What exactly is THAT supposed to mean? That I can't understand it?" I knew he would react this way. So, I had come up with a plan beforehand.
"Fine, you want to know the truth? Battle me, show me that you can win, then I will tell you everything." A loose play, I admit. If I win, I break the timeline. But, I'm not going to win. My strategy is custom tailored to not be able to beat Dan before he got Drago. Now that he has Drago, there is nothing I will be able to do against him. My secret will be revealed, but the timeline won't break. I just have to hope that everything works.
"All right, you're on. You don't stand a chance against me and Drago!"
"Careful Dan, I am sensing something strange here."
"Relax Drago, Atom doesn't even have a guardian Bakugan yet. Soon, we'll learn what he is keeping from us." We soon stood against each other, holding a card each. We flipped them around, and they began to glow. Mine was yellow, while Dan's was red. The attributic wheel began spinning underneath us, causing the one on my hand to itch a little. The field opened, and I felt time outside of it stop. I saw the Six worlds of Vestroia in the background. Dan held up a card, and I mirrored him.
"Gate Card, Set!" Two giant versions of the cards appeared on the ground, and Dan made to shoot a Bakugan.
"I'll take first. Bakugan, Brawl!" I saw that he was shooting a Pyrus Robotallion. It landed on his card, and transformed. I squeezed my fingers around my first bakugan, Haos Terrorclaw. Deciding against it, I grabbed a gate card, and threw it next to Dan's, to my right. I grabbed my weakest Bakugan, my Haos Juggernoid, and threw it upon the new card. My strategy was flowing, working. This was worrying. Dan, knowing him, would go on the offensive as soon as I went defensive, like I did.
"Bakugan, Brawl!" True to form, his bakugan, Mantris, flew across the field, but landed on my first card. This was surprising. Dan never took the defensive route in any of his battles. Then he spoke. "What the! I threw my Bakugan to Atom's Juggernoid! Why did it land on his First Card?" This was at least more like it, except for the fact that it was impossible. Dan never missed his shot. At least he was still aggro.
"I guess it's my turn." I grabbed my Haos Siege, and before throwing it, I threw another gate card, this one to the left of my first one. Then, my Siege flew through the air, right to the center of my card.
"Come on, Atom, face me!"
"Make me!"
"As you wish! Ability card, Activate! Marionette!"
Dan's Mantris began glowing from its scythes. My Juggernoid was then dragged to Dan's Robotallion. The gate card glowed.
Calculating G Levels. Haos Juggernoid at 280 Gs. Pyrus Robotallion at 300 Gs.
His Bakugan had more power. Just as I planned. Then Dan shouted for the gate card to open. Glowing, it showed a command card. "Freeze Frame!" My Juggernoid stopped moving, and Dan's Robotallion was unaffected. Let's just say it was a quick victory. Juggernoid was soon going back into ball form before my eyes. Dan caught Robotallion with ease as his HSP went up. "Is that all you got Atom? I would've expected more!"
"This isn't about winning."
"What?"
"My turn, Dan. Bakugan, Brawl!" It went right to my gate card, next to Mantris. But without another Marionette card, he couldn't do anything. Dan definitely seemed upset about it somewhat. Then he regained his composure.
"Bakugan Brawl! Stand, Drago!" Drago stood next to my Siege. Sticking to my strategy, I held up one ability card.
"Ability activate, lightning joust!" Siege began to spark a little bit, then dashed towards Drago.
Haos Siege at 400 Gs, Pyrus Dragonoid at 340 Gs.
"That's all you got?"
"Not even close, but I am holding back."
"What? Why?"
"I'll tell you if you win. Remember that!"
"Whatever. Ability Activate!"
Drago then said "Boosted Dragon!"As would be expected, Siege got consumed in a giant fireball. Drago went back to Dan, and his HSP rose. That left me with my strongest on the field, Haos Terrorclaw. I had nothing I could do, so Dan went again.
"Bakugan, Brawl! Stand Drago!"
Drago was right next to my Terrorclaw, but I was not worried. I simply smirked and stated "Gate card open. Dimensional Shift Quad Battle." Dan's Marionette was dragged to the card, and the field changed.
"What is this?"
"This, Dan, would be the Dimensional Shift Quad Battle. The Quad Battle is the same as the command card Quartet Battle, but the Dimensional shift causes the field to go to a different Dimension. That's how I've gotten all my Bakugan Dan, The Quad Battle forces me to have another bakugan, so if I don't have enough, it asks other bakugan if they would be willing to battle with me. It does that until one is found." Then, the field began to stabilize. Another form was beginning to materialize on the card. Then, the field completely stabilized, in a dark and dreary dimension.
"What is this place? Atom, do you have any idea?"
"Yeah, Dan. And none of them are good." We were situated in the Doom Dimension. Drago looked a bit woozy, as his most pre evolved form was unable to resist the Doom Dimension in any way. Then I looked back to the card. Upon it was another Dragon. Just saying, it is a Haos Leonidas. That way, I don't have to describe him. I then realized that the card had chosen a partner for me. Then, the Doom Dimension vanished, to be replaced with the regular field. Leonidas was still there, although he looked more than a little miffed.
Calculating G power levels. Haos Terrorclaw at 300 Gs, Unknown Haos Bakugan at 450 Gs, Pyrus Dragonoid at 440 Gs, Pyrus Mantris at 290 Gs.
Leonidas has a very high power level. And my team was 20 Gs ahead, which meant that if I did nothing, my team would win against them. Then Dan would have nobody left except his Robotallion. Then he screamed. "Ability Activate! Pyrus Enhancer!"
All pyrus bakugan G level increase by 50 Gs. Haos team at 750 Gs, Pyrus team at 830 Gs.
"It's a done deal now, Atom!" Drago and Mantris went to work on my Bakugan. Drago was taking on Leonidas because he could fly, and Mantris was taking on my Terrorclaw. It was over before I knew it. The field closed around us, and I had lost. Dan came over and stuck out his hand. "Nice Brawl. I never thought you would bring in another bakugan with a card!" I took his hand, and we stared each other in the eyes.
"But now, it's time for me to fess up. About who I am, and what I am doing here."
Hey guy's, Atom here. I was explaining things to Dan when Masquerade showed up. He claimed not to want to battle Dan, but me! That's going to be a problem, considering the Doom Cards. Luckily, Leonidas has powers I had never dreamed of. You guy's will need to tune in to find out how it goes! See you there.