Chapter 4 - Looking for Answers
POV: Ren
"Ability activate! Razen Breaker!"
"Drago, fire up the Blaze Reflector now!" Dan cried out. Drago's shield surrounded his body, blocking Linehalt's attack of purple lightning bolts.
"Your puny, little shield won't work," laughed Sid. He held out his hand and red electricity sparked from it, creating Sid's Battle Gear. "Battle Gear boost!"
As Sid threw his Battle Gear, my thoughts were clouded with questions, along with amazement and confusion. I still couldn't believe that Sid had been alive the whole the time and I had never known about it. Why hadn't anyone told me? What had been happening? And, more importantly , since Sid was alive, did that mean that the others were alive, too? If so, then where were they?
"Battle Gear Ability activate! Destrakon Gear Brinel!"
Sid's yell broke me out of my thoughts before red blasts shot out of the mouths of Rubanoid's heads. My questions had to be answered, but I just couldn't think about them and concentrate on the battle simultaneously. I knew would tell me everything, but for now, I had to focus on the battle.
POV: Kazarina
"How did he escape?!" I yelled. "They were all in a deep slumber because of the sleeping chemical I created. So how did he manage to wake up?"
I couldn't understand it. I kept pressing this and that, trying to find answers. The chemical had been strong enough to force the others teammates to remain unconscious. So what had made Sid wake up? Was there something in his DNA that repelled the chemical? If so, then I had to figure what in order to make the chemical stronger. I needed answers. Exodor's upgrades needed to completed, but I couldn't finish with only three Minor Twelve Orders members. I needed all four.
POV: Lena
So... dark. And... cold.
...
Something felt lethal... And yet, it felt like I was still living...
It was like an energy... It...
It grew and grew... until a voice in my head was telling me to release it.
POV: Kazarina
Nothing. There was nothing I could find. Not a single clue.
Because there was only three captive teammates, this process for Exodor's upgrades was going to take longer than I'd planned. So, I guessed that I had to work with what I had. I pressed several buttons to drain more energy from the remaining members.
Suddenly, one of the red and blue DNA chains on the screen began changing to a dark grey colour. This DNA chain belonged to Lena Isis. I quickly clicked on Lena's DNA chain and zoomed in to examine it. There were small orange particles - the sleeping chemical I'd created - and a vast amount of the dark grey colour. The greyness was getting larger and larger by the second. It was destroying the chemical!
I couldn't let that happen. I rapidly pressed a different set of buttons and then flicked a green switch.
A new green substance appeared on the screen and met the greyness. But it couldn't get passed. It -
Wait. It started to cover the greyness. It was consuming it!
The greyness was finally gone.
I flicked another green switch that released my chemical from a tube hidden in the lid of Lena's stasis tube - each of the stasis tube had one tube of my chemical - and it flowed through Lena's wires.
POV: Lena
This energy so quite intense, I could just let it escape. It felt strong. And it felt like it was fighting something. Something that was keeping me in whatever state I was in. I needed to keep this energy up. I needed to keep fighting.
Suddenly, the energy got weaker and weaker. What was... happening?
'Come back,' I thought as the energy was disappearing. 'Come... back...'
Gone.
POV: Gill
For the past few hours, I'd been trying to pinpoint Sid's location by tracking Rubanoid's teleportation. And I finally found them. They were on Neathia.
I walked into the throne room and said to the Emperor, "I found Sid and Rubanoid, Sire. They're on Neathia."
"Very well, Gill," Barodius said. "Nice work. Dharak?"
"Yes, Master Barodius?" Dharak asked, floating to the side of Barodius's head.
"I need you to teleport to Neathia and get rid of Sid and Rubanoid. At any cost."
"Consider it done," Dharak said without any hesitation.
POV: Ren
"Sid," I said, walking up towards my teammate whom I had thought was dead. I knew he was actually standing in front of me, but a small part of me figured he was nothing but an illusion. I stopped beside Sid. "I thought you were..."
"Huh? No way, dude," Sid said, knowing what I was going to say but didn't. "The others are still around, too, but they're all bottled up right now."
"They're... still alive?"
"Yup," Sid replied.
I smiled at that, glad that my friends are still alive. "That's great!"
Sid suddenly looked up and then straight back at me. "Look out!" Sid cried out, tackling me out of the way of something. I caught a glimpse of a black and purple blast coming towards us. It hit the ground, causing us to fall several feet away.
"What was that?" I heard Dan shout. I saw a black and purple dragon-like bakugan floating in the sky. "Is that –?"
"Dharak!" Drago finished Dan's question with a sense of shock in his voice.
"Insolent fool," Dharak said. "How dare you try to escape!"
"You okay?" Sid asked, helping me to my feet.
"Still in one piece," I replied.
Dharak suddenly shot more energy blasts at us, leaving us no time to teleport out of here. Sid and I ran and ran, dodging the blasts along the way.
I noticed that we were getting close to one, so, without thinking, I nudged Sid away before it made impact. The blast landed right next to me and I ended up flying through the air. Pain exploded in the back of my head.
Blackout.
POV: Sid
Ren nudged me out of the way of an incoming blast and he flew through the air, right into a rocky cliff.
"Ren!" Dan and I shouted as he fell onto his side, completely out cold from the blow in his head. His clothes were ripped in so many places because of the impact. His left sleeve was missing, as well as the bottom half of his other one. There were holes in his grey slacks and there were torn flaps on the front of his black shirt. And even though I was around twenty feet away, I could see the bruises and cuts on his pale grey skin.
I rushed towards my unconscious teammate and quickly wrapped my hand around Ren's wrist. "Rubanoid," I said to my partner bakugan in my other hand. "Teleport us. Hurry!"
"Say no more!" Rubanoid said.
"A prisoner who escaped and Barodius's loyal subject," Dharak said. "No matter. Barodius is through with both of you!" Dharak was ready and poised to strike as he shot one final blast to finish us off.
Rubanoid lit up bright red and I managed to glance at Dan's worried face across the canyon. Then, Rubanoid teleported us away before we could get blown up by Dharak.