"Alright!" Diane exclaimed, catching Circe as the ball flew towards her. "I won!"
"Great brawl!" Baron said, picking Nemus up off the ground.
"Yea, you got him good! My turn!" said Dan, jumping forward.
"Anytime! I'll be happy to kick your ass right here and now!" Circe was beside herself with excitement.
"Let you have all the fun? I don't think so. The Dragonoid is mine!" said Anacondra, Diane's favorite darkus bakugan.
"Now you're starting to sound like Spectra." Dan grumbled.
"Oh, whoops. I know him. He seems to hate me." Diane said.
"Well duh! He's a bad guy. We're good guys. It's how the cycle works. And not just him, all the Vexos are creeps." Dan clarified.
"Hey, that's not fair! Most of the Vexos are nice..." Diane's voice trailed off as the Resistance's mouths dropped.
"I mean, I'm a Vexos myself, I should know." Diane started again, trying to fix the apparent foot-in-the-mouth that she had made by complete accident, but to no avail.
"You're a WHAT? What did you just say? You can't be! You're so much nicer than the rest of them!" Dan screamed. Then, calming down, "But...you know the Vexos are evil, right?"
Diane's eyes got wide, for this had never occurred to her. But before she could say anything, Gus hovered in on his hoverboard/mini...ship...type...thing.
"Diane! It's late! Where have you been? And what are you doing with these idiots? Come with me, NOW!" Gus screeched, stepping off his little ship thing.
"I got bored so i snuck out after lunch, ran into them, and sharpened my brawling skills. No big deal." Diane said with a shrug.
"No big deal? That's the Resistance, you moron! Our enemies!" Gus yelled, wacking Diane upside the head.
"Gus, you jerk! How dare you hit a girl?" Dan hollered.
"Heh...what does it matter what gender you are? Where i come from, girls are tough enough...to fight back!" Diane shouted, socking Gus in the nose.
"Yow!" Gus yelled, his hand flying to his face. When he held it away, his nose was bleeding.
"Oh my God, Gus!" The ferocious tiger-like look fled from Diane's face. "Oh, look at what I've done! I'm so sorry!" Diane said, feeling very guilty. "Gus...are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Get in the hovercraft." Gus growled. Diane obeyed.
When they were a ways away from the Resistance, Diane said again, "I am so sorry. I didn't mean to make your nose bleed."
"I guess I'm sorry too." Gus muttered, staring into the distance. Diane continued,
"I don't know what happened to me, it's like...GUS WATCH THE DAMN ROAD!" Diane shrieked as they nearly hit a tree. It was silent for a moment.
"Gus?" Diane said quietly.
"Huh?" Gus answered. Diane scooted closer to him. she slowly reached her hand up, touched his hair...and pulled out a little paper ball.
"You had something in your hair." she said, showing him the ball.
"Shadow's spitball. I'm gonna kill him." Gus muttered.
The next morning, after they came back to the Vexos ship, and Diane had explained everything to Hydron and went to sleep, Diane was wandering around the ship, trying to find the girls' shower room, Circe on her shoulder.
"Circe, I'm thinking about what Dan said yesterday. About the Vexos being evil. Do you think that's true?" Diane asked her bakugan.
"Maybe." Circe replied from Diane's left shoulder.
"If they're evil..." Diane continued, "then this is an evil ship. And there is the evil boardroom, where they scheme evil scheme, and there's an evil bedroom, where they dream evil dreams..."
"Sure, Dr.Suess." Circe muttered, annoyed. Diane kept going, ignoring her.
"And this is the evil dining room, where they eat their evil meals-"
"And there's the evil bathroom that has an evil toilet that's clogged with evil toilet paper." Circe finished for her.
"Yes! I think that's the shower room." Diane said, opening the door. She saw several shower stalls. "Yep. Circe, wait outside. I'll only be about ten minutes.
"Sure." Circe said.
Diane entered the room. She set her towel and shampoo on a bench. She turned around, and her eyes met with a pair of stunning green ones, framed by thick blue eyebrows...framed by wavy blue hair? Gus? Diane thought. As their eyes met, and they both realized who they were looking at, they both screamed.
"Oh my God!" they yelled in unison.
"What are you doing here? What am I doing here? What are you doing here? It's my shower room! No it's not! Yes it is! GRRRRRR!" they shouted at each other at the same time.
"Gus, um...what are you doing in the girls' shower room?" Diane asked, glancing at the towel wrapped around his waist.
"Diane, I know you're new so I'll cut you some slack, but someday you'll have to learn that THIS IS THE FUCKING BOYS SHOWER ROOM!" Gus yelled. "Ever since you got here, you've nothing but trouble. You've picked a fight,"
"You started it." Diane muttered.
"You have the jackassiest bakugan alive, you're Hydron's pet, you've almost seen me naked, you've played with the Resistance, plus you've criticized my driving!" Gus finished.
"Okay, the first two aren't up to me, I got lost, the Resistance looked nice, and you were about to run into a damn tree!" Diane shouted in her own defense.
"Diane, you know that..." Gus stopped. "Eureka!" he shouted, nearly jumping out of his towel. "I've got to tell Master Spectra!" He ran out of the room, towel on and nothing else. Slowly, Diane stepped out of the.
"So what's up...?" she asked the gawking Circe.
"Not much. Gus just ran by, half-naked..." She said, apparently having a hard time believing her eyes.
"Yea, I can explain..."
"Wrong shower room?" Circe said.
"Pretty much..." they were still gaping.
Later, at breakfast, Diane took a seat. Lync sat next to her, Shadow on her other side.
"Could you explain to me why I saw Gus running around half-naked, screaming, 'I got it, Master Spectra, I got it, I got it!' half an hour ago?" Lync inquired.
"I have no idea." Diane answered simply.
"Yea, that's something I wish I didn't see." Shadow joined in.
"You guys didn't see anything." Mylene said from Lync's right. "When he ran by me, his towel fell off!"
Everyone dropped their utensils and stared at Mylene.
"Lucky dog!" Circe muttered. The team gave her a funny look.
A few minutes later, something weird happened. The room was quiet, until there was a faint "ding" sound, as if you touched a glass goblet with a crystal rod. Diane spat milk in Spectra's face.
"God damn it, Command Base, not now!" Diane yelled and fled the room, leaving Spectra's face the same color as his cape.
"Where are you going?" Volt called after her. She didn't answer.