"I hope that I'm not in this one, Silverwing," Lync says. His arm is in a sling and he has a black eye from fighting with Katie. Shun grins at him.
"Oh, cheer up, Lync. Nothing bad happens to you in this story," Shun reassures. He blinks at Shun and shudders.
"I don't think that you read the whole thing, Shun," Barron says, pointing at the screen. Shun looks at it and laughs.
"That isn't even the right story! That's just another Fan-fiction that Silverwing was reading earlier," Mylene says.
"Oh, you mean the one where Lync-" Julie starts, but then Dan jumps on her and covers her mouth. She glares at him.
"I think that you should get reading before we say things that should be censored," Dan says, trying to pin down a struggling Julie. Lync and Shadow are howling with laughter and Runo pounces on them, claws out. "GET READING!"
"Dan," Runo shouted, but then Hydron barreled into her, making her slam against the concrete. "Ah," she gasped, her tail hanging limp.
"Runo," Dan shouted, elbowing Spectra in the ribs. Spectra only tightened his grip, causing Dan to struggle to take a breath.
"Are you done trying to get free yet," Spectra asked with a smirk. Dan hissed. Then, Shun appeared and managed to get Spectra to release Dan. Then, Volt grabbed shun, who poked him in the eyes. Dan spread his wings and jumped up, ascending rapidly, and then gasped. Gus was hanging onto his leg!
"Gus! Let go," Dan shouted, kicking out with the same leg that Gus was hanging onto.
"Yeah, right, Dan Kuso! Master Spectra always gets what he want! I don't intend to let you make that streak broken," Gus shouted, his feet lifting off the ground. He gasped and then Spectra grabbed onto him.
"Dan Kuso, you will give me the Perfect Core energy," he shouted. Dan continued to kick out with his leg, but then Mylene whipped him and he froze, his wings also becoming stationary. His eyes closed and he started to fall, causing Gus to slam into the concrete under Dan. They both moaned and then Gus crawled out from under him, grinning.
"Dan," Drago shouted, flying over to where Dan was lying. Shun and Ingram followed close behind, Tigrerra too caught up in helping Runo to escape Hydron. Dan blinked at Drago and closed his eyes again as Spectra pressed his foot down in Dan's wing and tail.
"The Perfect Core will be mine, Dan Kuso," Spectra said. "All that you have to do is release it to Helios and the pain will stop."
"Dan, don't listen to him," Runo shouted, still wrestling with Hydron. "Don't you dare let him- aiieee," she screamed.
"RUNO," Dan shouted, his eyes going wide. Hydron held the tazer thing to her side and then removed it, electrical charges still running up and down her body. Hydron let her down and Tigrerra instantly caught her despite the electricity pulsing through her. Dan's diamond started to glow white like the Perfect Core and Spectra gasped. Masquerade and the others stared in shock, Julie, Alice, and Marucho with their mouths open. Dan had his eyes closed tightly and his brows creased in anger, as did Shun and Drago. Runo moaned and her eyelids fluttered, then she blinked the blurriness out of her eyes.
With a jolt, she realized that her forehead gem was glowing white, like Dan's diamond. Shun's wings glowed, as did Drago's chest gem. "Burning Infinity," Dan and Drago shouted.
"Perfect Twister," Shun cried.
"Photon Axis," Runo yelled, standing up. Tigrerra put her hands on Runo's shoulders, as did Ingram with Shun. A rupture of white energy shot out of all of them, illuminating the city.
"Infinity Waver," Joe cried, and suddenly, a beautiful woman was behind Joe. Her purple eyes were smiling, and her silver hair trailed down her back. Drago's eyes widened as he stared at her in shock. The woman also had white wings like bat wings attached to her arms and a white tail. Her white claws held to Joe's shoulders as she smiled at Drago.
"Wavyrn," Drago whispered, staring at her. She looked Drago in the eye with her smiling face and lifted her hands. The shield around the others vanished, allowing them all to dash out. They all formed the hexagonal circle, Alice, Masquerade, and Exedra at the bottom, Dan, Drago and Chan at the top, Runo, Julio and Tigrerra at the bottom right hand corner, Marucho and Klaus at the bottom left hand corner, Shun, Ingram, and Komba at the top left hand corner and Julie and Billy at the top right hand corner. Katie stood in the middle while Joe and Wavyrn hovered above them.
Dan and Runo met gazes and Dan dropped down from the air, as did Joe and Wavyrn. Suddenly, a silver thread connected each of the original Battle Brawlers and wove itself around all of the others. Katie and Joe were surrounded by it in the middle, Wavyrn's hair shining in it's brilliance. Drago was blushing while Dan turned his attention to Spectra and the Vexos, who were standing in a group a few yards away from their circle.
"Perfect Crystal Shard," Dan, Runo, Shun, Drago, Julie, Exedra, Alice, Masquerade, and Marucho all shouted. Spectra gasped, a sound that was mimicked by Hydron and the rest of them. The silver light shot toward Spectra's face, knocking his mask off while he gasped. The light then swerved to the left and formed a rapidly moving circle around them, while they all stood back to back in the center of it.
"Nice going, Spectra," Hydron said. "Now you made them all use the power of the Perfect Core and their attributes. Do you remember the legend of how they defeated Naga and created New Vestroia? They all did something similar. Do you think that...?"
"I don't know, Hydron," Spectra muttered. Suddenly, a dimensional gate opened beneath their feet, sending them all back to New Vestroia. But, Spectra managed to grab the edge of it and look over at Dan. "This isn't over between us, Dan Kuso!"
"For once I agree! We'll settle this the next time we meet, creep," Dan shouted as Spectra was sucked into the port and the port closed after him. Then, the spiraling silver thread vanished, leaving the Brawlers in the center of the city with no purpose. The silver thread around them also vanished, leaving them in the dark. Dan grinned and turned to Runo, who looked stunned. Then, she turned to him and smiled. Dan laughed and the two ran at each other, Runo launching herself into a hug much like Mira had done when she realized that Dan wasn't dead from the battle at Ves Palace. Joe and the others smiled at the two of them.
The two of them laughed for a little while, then turned their attention to the glowing figure a few feet away. "Wavyrn," Drago whispered, stepping toward her. She smiled at him and took her hands off of Joe's shoulders.
"Drago... is that you," she asked, taking in his appearance. He nodded eagerly and opened his arms, allowing Wavyrn to step into them. She did and they hugged while Dan and Runo did, and then Dan yawned loudly.
"I dunno about you guys, but I'm beat," he said, locking his hands behind his head. "I think it's time that we all head back to Marucho's place and catch up on some sleep." Marucho smiled and nodded, pulling out a cell phone.
"Kato, do you think that you can drop by the southern part of Wardington Tower with the big limo and pick us all up? Also, can you prepare seven rooms for all of us," he asked.
"Of course, Master Marucho," came the reply a second later. Wavyrn and Drago smiled at each other while Joe circled around in the air. Dan followed with a grin, Runo watching him wistfully. Then, wings made of pure, Perfect light appeared on her back and she followed Dan into the air, her iris's and pupils merging together. She soared up higher than Dan and floated there in front of the moon.
"Runo?" Dan asked. She slowly turned her gaze to him, but he could only see a dark, dark turquoise color where her pupil should be. "Runo!" She didn't blink, just turned back to the moon. Dan flew up to her and hovered in front of her face. "Runo! Talk to me! Runo," Dan shouted, grabbing her arms.
"Runo," Julie shouted. Drago wrenched his gaze from Wavyrn and turned his attention to Runo, who still wasn't acknowledging his presence. Drago looked at Wavyrn, who also seemed concerned, and the two took off toward Runo. Tigrerra was pacing below, finally deciding to become a Bakugan ball again and fly up to see what the problem was. The others below had realized that something was wrong, and Shun jumped up in pursuit, followed closely by Joe and Ingram.
"What's wrong," Drago asked. Wavyrn looked Runo over and placed a hand on her head, then drew it back quickly.
"She's drawing too little power from the Perfect Core," Wavyrn said. "Because you became part Bakugan, you must have a little bit of the Core's power in order to sustain yourselves. If you don't get enough, you could end up seriously sick or even dying."
"What," Dan shouted. Guilt washed over him. He couldn't believe what he had done. Now, Runo might die because of him. "How do we help her?"
"There's no way that we can," Joe said. "She's going to have to draw enough power herself in order to stay alive."
"No! There can't be nothing that we can do! We have to do something," Dan shouted. "Runo! Runo, please, speak to me! You're going to be okay, you have to be okay! Runo!" He grabbed her and pulled her into a hug, then dove for the ground and landed, lightly, on his feet. That's when he noticed the wings again. "How can she not being getting enough power from the Perfect Core? She has wings made out of the Perfect Core energy!"
"That makes no sense! That's impossible," Drago gasped.
"Wait a minute," Tigrerra said. Suddenly, Dan's eyes went blank, like Runo's. He stood there, Runo in his arms, without any perception of the world around him.
"Dan," Drago asked. Dan didn't respond. "Tigrerra, what's happening?"
"Drago, do you remember that old legend," Tigrerra asked, becoming part human again. "The one about the time when the Cores would be fused and two humans would become part Bakugan?" Realization dawned on Drago and Wavyrn, both of them staring at each other in shock.
"Dan and Runo... are the Ones," Drago gasped.
"Say WHAT," Shun yells. Silverwing blinks at him and pulls out her golf club. "Dan and Runo... ARE YOU GOING TO TELL US WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?"
"As she usually says," Dan starts, but Silverwing swings her golf club at him. He's prepared this time and jumps out of the way.
"Shut up! That's my line! You are going to have to read to find out," Silverwing shouts at him. He glares at her.
"I am part of this story. I think that I deserve to know what I am going to have to do in the next story," he counters.
"You just read the script, moron," Mira says. Shun throws something at her and she ducks.
"NO CAN THROWING NEAR MY COMPUTER," Silverwing shouts, throwing her soda can at Shun.
"Didn't you just say no can throwing?"
"Hey, my room, my rules," Silverwing counters.
"Ugh," Runo groans and Silverwing gets up and starts chucking golf balls at Shun while he runs around the room.