ME: HI GUYS!

DREN: THAT'S THE BEST THING YOU COULD COME UP FOR A GREETING?

ME: WAIT, HOW DO YOU SPELL YOUR NAME?

DREN: UMM... D, R, E, N, WHY?

ME: *CHUCKLE* YOUR NAME IS NERD BACKWARDS.

DREN: AND I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIDN'T LAUGH OR MAKE FUN OF MY NAME!

ME: OH WELL. GO TALK TO A DUCK. WHEN IT LEARNS YOUR NAME IT'S GOING TO GO QUACKERS!

DREN: HAHA. I'M CRACKING UP.

NICKY: —

DREN: THE INSANE WOMAN, OWWWWW!

ME: I'M AS SANE AS YOU NERD!

NICKY: DOES NOT OWN BAKUGAN—

DREN: STOP INSULTING ME, IDIOT!

NICKY: BUT SHE DOES OWN THE OC'S AND THE OC'S BAKU—

ME: WHY DON'T YOU SHOVE THAT INSULT UP YOUR BUTT!

NICKY: I GIVE UP!

Fabia's POV

I opened my eyes once I felt the teleportation finish. I saw many buildings and tons of kids. Looks like I got to the right place.

'So this is where the humans come to battle: Bakugan Interspace. I wonder if anyone here has received the message I sent.'

I walked down to the main lobby trying to find my way. This place was very unfamiliar to me. There were so many people here, how would even find the people who got my message?

'Hey cute stuff.' I turned around and saw a boy with brown hair and grey eyes walk up to me. 'You lost? You need someone to show you around?'

'Actually…' I started, but he didn't let me finish.

'I'd be happy to be your tour guide. My name's Koji. What do you say?' He winked at me.

I was unfamiliar with his mannerisms. Was he trying to tell me something? Was he speaking in a code? Wait a minute…maybe…

'So are you the one who received the message I sent?' I asked him.

'Huh? Message? Uh, yeah I got your message.'

'Very well then, prove it.' I smirked. We headed to an arena filled with children. 'Gate Card set! Jetro stand!'

'Where'd a cute girl like you get such a scary looking Bakugan?' he asked. 'Luxtor stand! Eye-Ray Hammer!' Luxtor fired a beam at Jetro.

'Gate Card open! Haos Saver!' A gold shield appeared over Jetro, defelcting the beam.

'Crush Cluster!' Luxtor burrowed into the ground before jumping out and firing a beam at Jetro.

'Spark Storm!' Jetro emitted a yellow light that dispersed Luxtor's beam, returning him to back to Koji.

'What's wrong? I hope you weren't holding back on my account.' I taunted.

'Looks like she fooled me with her innocent act. You asked for it! I'm going all out this round! Gate Card set! Luxtor stand!'

'Jetro stand! Match Wave!' Jetro's antennas emitted a yellow wave, confusing Luxtor.

'Metal Break Through!' Luxtor became coated in a metal armor. 'Check this out! This ability coats my Luxtor in a protective shell which makes him immune to your abilities.'

'Interesting…well then…' I said. Koji was tougher than I gave him credit for.

'You wanted to go all out. Gate Card open! Active Ghost!' The field exploded, Jetro was surely finished, but I hand another idea. 'What the?' Koji saw Jetro still standing.

'Conjure Light. I just nullified your Gate Card. Flash Storm!' Jetro shot a gold beam at Luxtor who returned to ball form. I won.

The announcer declared me the winner as I reclaimed Jetro. 'Clearly you're not the skilled brawler I came here looking for.' I left the arena and continued walking through Bakugan Interspace.

'I should've known he was lying about receiving my message.' I thought furiously. 'The person I'm looking for is a mighty battler.'

I was ready to walk around a corner when a boy with brown hair suddenly ran into me. My instincts quickly kicked in and I flipped him. He landed a few feet away on his butt.

'OWW! What was that about?' he cried looking at me while grabbing his behind.

'Oh, I'm so sorry. My reflexes just kicked in.'

'That smarts.' He said, getting up.

'Haha she flipped you, flipped you for real.' A Pyrus Bakugan popped open on his shoulder. My eyes widened when I saw and heard it talk.

'Quiet, I don't need you rubbing it in.'

'Excuse me, do you hang out in here a lot?'

'Uh, yeah. Why?'

'I was wondering if you could tell me who the strongest battler in her is.' I asked.

'Well I don't mean to toot my own horn but that's me on the top of the board right there.' He pointed to a ranking board showing the tope 4 ranking brawlers: a blonde kid, a green haired girl, a black haired kid and the boy in front of me.

'Dan Kuso. So then you're the number one battler.' I found him at last!

'Sure am, gotta run! See you!' he disappeared into a portal.

'No wait! Please!'

Normal POV

'Shun, what's wrong?' asked Rin.

'There's something about Ren that doesn't seem right.' He said.

'What about him?'

'I don't trust him.'

'That makes two of us. There's something about his story that doesn't add up. Oh man, what was it…'

'Do you know something about Gundalia and Neathia?'

'I might. Arri gave me a big book about different bakugan and planets in the universe. It's pretty recent and I'm sure Gundalia and Neathia should be in it.'

Suddenly, Shun and Rin's Bakupods began ringing.

'It's Marucho. He wants us to meet him.' Said Shun.

'You go on ahead, there's something I need to look at first.'

'You sure? I could come with you.'

'That's ok, Shun. I'll meet up with you in Bakugan Interspace.'

'Ok, if you're sure.' Shun kissed her before he ran off towards the nearest BI Access Point.

'What are you doing Rin?' asked Nightwing.

'Ren's story doesn't make sense, so I'm going to find out the truth.' Rin strapped on her new roller-skates that her mom bought her and headed straight home.

'Sid Arcale and Lena Isis, man were they tough.' Said Marucho.

'Well have you gotten any information on the other Neathian moles, Ren?' asked Shun.

'Actually yes. I've put together a dossier.' Ren went to the computer terminal and pulled up three images. 'Zenet Surrow, Jesse Glenn, and Mason Brown, these are the latest Neathian moles that I've found.'

The door opened and Jake walked in. 'Sorry guys, I was waiting for Dan outside the access point but he didn't show.'

'I wonder where he is.' Said Ren.

'I called his house and his mom said he overslept. I bet he's racing here right now.' Laughed Jake. 'Speaking of which, where's Rin?'

'She wanted to do something before coming here.' Said Shun.

'Did she say what she was going to do?' asked Ren, with a strange look in his eyes.

'How should I know?'

'I'm sure she'll show up soon then.' Sighed Ren.

'That was close, nearly dodged a bullet there. I can't let Ren know what Rin's up to. If she's successful, we may get the real story for once.'

'Ren, can I ask you something?' asked Shun, standing up.

'Sure, what is it?'

'So how have you been tracking down these Neathian agents?'

'Actually, it was really quite easy. You see, the Neathians don't enter BI through Access Points like we do. They have their own way of entering. So, we have records of their battles, but no records of them entering and leaving.

'That's awful convenient.' Said Jake.

'Basically I just had to filter through the list of people and I got these results.'

'But that list would be incredibly long. Thousands of kids from all over the world play BI.' Said Marucho. 'It should've taken you a week to filter through the whole thing!'

'I guess I got lucky. I found all three in just one day.'

'I don't think luck had anything to do with it.' Thought Shun. He looked down at the watch on his wrist.'Where is she? I hope she found what she's looking for.'

'Hey guys, sorry I'm late.' Said Dan, finally entering the room.

'Where have you been?' asked Marucho.

'Get this, on my way here, I ran into this cute girl and she totally flipped me!'

'What did you do to her?' asked Shun.

'He ran into her, literally.' Said Drago.

'She had to be some kind of kungfu master to have that kind of skill.' Said Dan.

'Did this girl, by any chance, ask you any questions?' asked Ren.

'Yeah, she wanted to know who the top brawler was and I told her it was me.' Replied Dan.

Shun noticed Ren's uneasiness. 'Hey Ren, what's wrong?'

'I think this girl may be another Neathian agent.'

'What?' they all exclaimed.

'But what makes you say that?' asked Marucho.

'Neathian are known for the excellent hand-to-hand combat and I bet she was asking who was the strongest battler in order to recruit them.'

'Alert! Alert! Access breach! Intruder alert!' All of a sudden the blue haired girl appeared in the meeting room.

'Hey, not you again!' cried Dan.

'She must have followed you.' Said Shun.

'I'm sorry, I know I'm trespassing, but it's an emergency. So I hacked into your system to gain access, but it was a risk I had to take.' Dan walked up to her. 'So Dan, did you receive my message?'

'What message?' asked Shun, eyeing her suspiciously.

'What do you want?' shouted Dan.

'Well…I…uh…'

'You're from Neathia, aren't you!'

She gasped. 'So you did receive my message!'

'Give it up, we're not falling for it.' Said Marucho.

Ren walked up to her. 'Hey, I'm Ren, from Gundalia. I don't believe we've met before.'

She eyed Ren before backing away. 'Oh no, I'm too late. The Gundalians got here first. Who knows what lies they've been fed…' 'If you are helping Gundalia then you are my enemies!'

'Well then if we're enemies, I can't let you leave! Time for us to battle!'

Rin arrived in the meeting room that the brawlers usually met in but found it was empty. 'That's weird. This is usually where everyone meets.'

'Perhaps they finished early.' Said Nightwing.

Rin walked to the computer terminal and began typing. 'Maybe I can track them from their BI ID numbers. Here they are. They're at a private arena. Looks like Dan's in a battle with a Haos brawler.'

'Let's get there, it looks serious.'

Despite the fact it was a private arena, Rin was one of the few granted access.

She walked up to the top of the stairs of the seating area and saw Dan on one side of the arena opposite to a blue haired girl in white and yellow while Marucho, Jake, Ren and Shun stood on the other side.

She walked over to Shun while no one was watching and pulled him into the entrance of the private arena

'So what did you need to do?' he asked.

'Here, look at this.'

Rin handed Shun a book.

'What's this?'

'Read the first page I marked.' Shun opened the book to the first post it note. On the page was a large white planet with pictures of elegant buildings.

''Of the many beautiful planets inhabited by races similar to Vestals, Neathia is one such planet. A single monarch, usually a Queen, rules Neathia along side a council. The current sovereign is Queen Serena. The Neathians are known for their peaceful nature and co-existence with Bakugan from New Vestroia.'' Read Shun.

'Now go to the next page.'

Shun flipped to the second bookmark and began reading.

''Gundalia is a planet inhabited by creatures with lizard-like characteristics. Ruled by a single sovereign, the current being Emperor Barodius, Gundalians are known for their rough nature and brutal warfare as well as cruel treatment of 'lower life forms'. When it comes to wars, the Gundalians are usually the ones who start it.''

'Ren said that the Neathians attacked them. But it says right here that the Neathians are peace lovers, they'd never attack anyone!'

'You're right. What's this last page here?' asked Shun pointing to the last bookmark.

'Now that is the cherry on top.'

Shun flipped to the page and began reading the first paragraph.

''One of the many ongoing wars in our galaxy is the Neathian-Gundalian war. It started when the Gundalians launched an attack on the Neathians using Bakugan as their weapons. To this day, no resolution has been reached and the Neathian continue to defend themselves.'

'Well this proves it: Ren has been lying to us.' Said Shun.

'I bet he lied to get us to join Gundalia's side against Neathia.' Said Rin. 'So who is Dan battling?'

'She's a girl from Neathia, and I bet she came here for the same reason Ren did: to get us to join her side.'

'Well I know which side I'm joining.' Said Rin.

'Me too.'

'Ow! Not again!' Rin and Shun looked over and saw Dan get flipped by the girl.

'You do not know anything Dan Kuso. Perhaps you should get all the facts before you make assumptions.' Said the girl before disappearing.

'Dan you ok?' asked Marucho.

'I think she fractured my butt.' Said Dan.

'Dan I don't think you can fracture a butt.'

'We should find that girl and get her side of the story.' Said Shun.

'What do we do now Princess? Perhaps we should return home for the time being.' Said Aranaut.

'We can't do that Aranaut. We came here to get help, and I can't go back to sister empty handed. She has enough to deal with already.' Replied Fabia.

'So what is the plan?'

'We have to get Dan and his friends to switch to our side, otherwise Gundalia could destroy Neathia.'

'There you are.' Fabia turned and saw a boy with black hair in green and black and a girl with light green hair dressed in white, yellow and black.

'You. You're Dan Kuso's friend right?' she asked.

'Yeah, I'm Shun Kazami and this is my girlfriend Rin Black.'

'It is nice to meet you, but I do not think your Gundalian friend will appreciate you talking to me. I'm sorry.' Fabia began walking away.

'Wait, we know that the Neathians aren't using Bakugan as tools.' Said Rin, holding up her book.

'We'd like to hear your side of the story.' Said Shun.