Alright, I'm back with another chapter of 'Rule of Nemesis!' Congratulations to Swift, who became the first person to guess exactly where Gingka is! To the rest of you, keep guessing! You guys have all guessed fairly close to his actual location! Also, there is a reply to the review of Guest ZEKRO123 in the end A/N, just so that I can answer a question that he/she asked.
Zero: Galaxy doesn't own MFB, only her OCs, A.K.A. all of the beys' humanoid forms.
"Ahh, that felt good." Mao said, flying through the window with a few screams floating on the wind behind him.
"I see you're back. We still have full control then?" Rago glanced up from his computer for a moment.
"Yeah, pretty much." Mao smirked. "They never stand a chance against us, we have total and complete control."
An alert noise sounded from Rago's computer. The dark blader pressed and held down a red button. "Yes, secretary?" he growled.
"S-sir, a squad member is here and says he needs to see you about something important." the secretary replied.
"From what squad? I don't have time for petty things." Rago growled.
"Squad number 234, sir. He says they were attacked and captured, and only he escaped."
"What were they doing?" Rago glanced at Mao, who looked surprised.
"They were searching for reported rebels in the area, sir."
"And they were attacked?"
"That's what he says sir."
"Hmm…" Rago was deep in thought.
"Send squad one up." Mao suggested.
"Send squad one and that squad member." Rago repeated the words.
"Squad one? But sir-" the secretary began to protest.
"I SAID SEND SQUAD ONE UP TO MY THRONE ROOM NOW!" Rago roared.
"Y-Yes sir! S-Sorry sir! They're on their way!"
"Mao, get ready." Rago turned and strode through a door to his right.
"With pleasure." Mao grinned, then drew his sword and grabbed a rock off the side table.
Rago reentered the room a few seconds later, wearing what appeared to be leather armor and a helmet, a golden crown placed neatly over the helmet.
Moments later, a knock sounded on the door.
"Enter, if you dare." Mao growled.
Pluto, a robotic Doji, and the other bladers who had accompanied Rago from the beginning entered, accompanied by a young Nemesis Police member in desert clothing.
"You called, Lord Rago?" Pluto said, bowing. The others quickly bowed as well.
"Yes, we have a slight disturbance in our smooth reign of power, somewhere in Africa. This squad member," he paused and indicated Three, "Is going to take us to the spot where his squad was captured. We are going to find the rebels that did it and wipe them out."
Doji grinned, as well as a robot could grin, and spoke. "They dare threaten your supremacy? Then they deserve to be wiped out!"
Three remained calm, but clenched his fist. He had a hard time playing his part, which he had assigned himself to, when he remembered what Rago had done. Taunts replayed in his mind, as he took a deep breath.
"Lead the way, umm.."
"Three, from squad 234." he replied, his voice completely calm. If he was going to continue leading a resistance movement of beys, he would need to stay alive himself.
"Alright, 'Three,' lead the way. You are to fly the helicopter to where it landed before, then lead us to the exact spot, nothing more." Mao growled.
Three nodded. "Yes sir, when do we start?"
"Right now, lead the way." Rago ordered.
Three bowed and exited the room, the heavy footsteps of the robotic Doji shaking the ground behind him.
The group climbed into the helicopter, Doji loading himself into the back cargo area, and Rago standing to the side, preferring to ride Mao rather than a helicopter.
A couple of hours later, the group landed in the middle of the desert.
"Well, where was it?" Rago snarled as Three stepped out of the helicopter.
"Right over here, sir." Three said, pointing off in the distance. "Right next to those rocks, they attacked from between them."
"I'm going first." Rago said.
Three bowed and stepped aside, letting the others pass him and continue on ahead.
"Yes, they were here! And they were on horseback!" Mao exclaimed, pointing out several hoof prints in the dust a few minutes later.
Suddenly, the ground shook under an explosion.
Doji spread his robotic legs to keep his balance, but the others were thrown to the ground, except for Mao, who immediately let out a roar, shifted to beast form, and flew off towards the direction the explosion had come from: The helicopter.
Rago was the first back on his feet. "What was that?"
"Where's that idiot Three?" Doji asked, looking around.
"I thought he was behind us!" Cycnus replied, looking around as well for the missing squad member.
"This is an outrage!" Mao said, landing next to them and throwing a piece of paper at Rago's feet. The Nemesis blader reached down and picked it up, reading it aloud.
Hey Rago, next time you decide to go first, make sure your 'guide' doesn't have a grenade. Good luck getting everyone back to Metal Bey City!
-'Three'
P.S. I'm not as much of a worm as you thought I was, am I.
"That idiot, traitorous, no-good…" Rago went off into a rant as the others began looking around for some way to get out of Africa.
"Stay here and find those rebels! I'm heading back, I will not send anything to pick you up until you have found them!" Rago finished his rant and flew off riding Mao, headed back to Metal Bey City.
"Well, that went well." Three commented from his hiding place in a group of trees about a hundred feet from where the helicopter had been.
"Yeah, it produced about the effect you wanted, correct?" a long, snakelike body slithered out of a tree, dropping to the ground as it spoke.
Three turned. "Yeah, pretty much. Let's get going, Vulca."
"With pleasure." the dragon behind Three grinned, revealing rows of sharp fangs. Three climbed onto her back, and Vulca slithered smoothly into the sky, making sure that the group Rago had left behind on the ground didn't see her as she flew off towards the East Coast of Africa.
-Back in the caverns-
"Alright, so now all we have to do is figure out how to get all of these bladers across the ocean and Asia to get to Mist Mountain." Shinigami said as he, Isamu, and Fukiko exited the Chat.
"Yeah, I can only carry about two, maybe three if they're small." Isamu said.
"My limit is probably one, maybe two." Shinigami muttered.
"I could carry quite a few, as many as could safely fit on my back." Fukiko said.
"Could we take two trips?" Isamu asked.
Shinigami shook his head. "It would be too dangerous, if we can avoid it, we shouldn't do it."
"Yeah, let's go figure out how many we can carry, and see what we might need to do. We could call Kaoru and ask him to help us carry a few if we need it." Isamu suggested.
"Alright, let's go see how many we can fit." Shinigami agreed, pushing aside the rock between them and the group in the outer caverns.
Several bladers glanced up as the three beys entered.
"Alright, we just talked to the other beys, and we all agreed to group up at Mist Mountain. However, we plan on bringing you guys with us, so we need to figure out how many we can carry." Shinigami announced.
"Alright, just tell us what to do." Ryo said.
The three beys shifted to their beast forms in a flash of light.
"Simple, climb on." Fukiko said, laying her long body down along the ground.
The bladers hesitated.
"Come on! We need to know if we have to call Kaoru!" Isamu said, kneeling down and helping a couple of bladers on.
"Pile it up, you won't hurt me, as many as we can fit on my back, that's how many I can carry." Fukiko said.
"Room for one more small person over here!" Isamu called, with Zero and Ren already seated on his back. Maru walked over, and the combined efforts of Zero and Isamu soon had her comfortably seated.
"Come on, I'm not that scary." Shinigami said, watching as all of the young bladers climbed on the backs of either Isamu or Fukiko.
Madoka laughed. "Guess we're with you then." she and Ryo walked over.
Once all beys were full, there were still a few bladers standing around. Iwayama and Kira glanced around, wondering what to do.
"Only two more? That's more that we could fit than I expected." Fukiko said.
"Yeah, but more than we can carry is more than we can carry." Isamu said. "I could carry one in my arms, but not one of those two, I might not be able to see where I was going."
"Eito, go to Isamu. Kira, take his spot on Fukiko." Ryo ordered.
"Hmm… just one more…" Shinigami thought. "Do you think you could hold on to my back long enough to get there?"
"I can try." Iwayama replied.
"Then climb on." Shinigami carefully knelt down and Iwayama climbed onto his back, avoiding the sharp blade of the scythe hovering above his head.
"Alright, remember your places, we aren't leaving right now, but we will in a couple of hours." Shinigami said.
"Got it. Start packing up guys!" Ryo called.
"Maybe we should call Kaoru anyway, we forgot about the luggage." Fukiko laughed.
"Yeah, you go do that." Isamu said as he set Eito down and helped the others off his back before shifting to humanoid form.
"On it." Fukiko flew out from under the few bladers still on her back and disappeared into the inner cave.
"We'll help you guys pack up." SHinigami said.
"What about you-know-who? What do we do about them?" Isamu asked, motioning towards the inner caverns.
"I don't know, we know we can't carry them right now." Shinigami replied, helping a few younger bladers roll up their sleeping bags.
"Kaoru's on his way right now." Fukiko reported. "What about-"
"Isamu just asked, if we can bring them, we should. They will have to be in the loop eventually anyway, and the sooner they are, maybe the better." Shinigami interrupted her.
"I'll wait outside for Kaoru, and give a warning call if I see anything dangerous." Isamu said, slipping through the small opening in the rock.
"Kaoru can carry quite a bit, he could take care of them." Fukiko said, helping Madoka pack up her tools.
"Yeah, we'll see if there's any extra space when he gets here." Shinigami replied.
The group worked for the next two hours in silence, until everything was packed up and piled in the center of the cavern floor.
"Kaoru's here!" Isamu replied a few minutes later, walking in with two more figures. One had spiked golden hair with streaks of blazing pinkish-purple flame, matching his eyes, and wore leather armor with a sword and shield strapped across his back. The other also had golden hair, with lavender-colored eyes peering out from under his bangs at the group, and he also wore leather armor, only he had a belt with bey gear on it rather than a sword and shield.
"Chris!" Madoka and Ryo exclaimed at the sight of the Orion blader.
Chris grinned. "Long time no see. Kaoru won't tell me how long it's been since Nemesis took over." The blonde blader glanced at his bey as he spoke. "And where are your bladers?" This question was directed at the three other beys standing nearby.
"Safe, out of Mao's reach." Shinigami replied.
"In the back of the cavern, sealed." Fukiko said.
"Just outside of Tokyo." Isamu sighed.
"You should get them, they will be needed." Chris said.
"We know they will be needed, but there's also the matter of keeping them safe." Shinigami said.
"We have to take the risk. I know what you are thinking, i thought the same thing, but in the long run, having our bladers in on this is really the best option. We can't defeat Mao without them, so i freed my blader. Plus, it will be harder to go back and free them later." Kaoru said.
"You're right." Shinigami sighed. "I'm just worried that-" he stopped and bit his lip.
"We can't let what happened to Kaminari and her blader scare us away from defeating Mao. We should have risen up and attacked long ago." Kaoru said. "Go, free them, we need them."
Fukiko nodded and disappeared into the back of the cavern. Shinigami sighed and followed suit.
"I'll be back in a couple of hours then." Isamu said, exiting the cavern.
A few moments later, a combination of gold and purple light blazed out of the back of the cave, followed closely by a deep, yet familiar voice.
"Took you long enough to unseal me, Shinigami."
"Well, we decided to let you guys into the loop." Shinigami's voice replied.
"Hey Fu-Fu! Whoa, my voice sounds weird!"
Fukiko laughed.
"Come on, Ka-Ka and Chris are outside. Isamu was here, but he left."
A few seconds later, Fukiko and Shinigami entered, followed closely by two other figures, who were easily recognizable as Aguma and Titi.
"Aguma! Titi!" Madoka and Ryo exclaimed.
"So, we're going to Mist Mountain?" Aguma said.
"Yeah, and we're meeting the others there. Kaoru, do you think you could carry the luggage and our bladers?" Shinigami asked.
"Probably, I can at least try." Kaoru replied.
"Let's load up and find out then. The sooner we can get to Mist Mountain, the better." Shinigami said. "Everyone climb on wherever you were earlier."
Fukiko and the other beys began glowing, shifting to their beast forms in a flash of bright light that lit up the whole cavern.
"Right, we're missing Isamu." Fukiko said, glancing around.
"Well, let's see if we can fit everyone else. Anyone who was on Isamu, just wait off to the side. Kaoru, make sure that there is room for one more, you will need to be carrying Master Kenta as well."
"Got it." Kaoru replied, as the bladers all climbed onto the three beys in the cave.
Me: XD And the Legendary Beys are moving! We're actually almost halfway through the story now!
Gingka: When will we be halfway?
Me: Right in the middle of the next chapter, of course! There's only nine chapters total. Anyway, on to replying to that question that you asked, ZEKRO, which, for everyone else, was: 'why does it say Gingka, Rago'?
Assuming that you are referring to the list below the title, I put Gingka and Rago because Rago took over the world, and then Gingka is going to come into the story majorly in the later chapters. (Specifically, he actually won't officially come in until chapter 9 itself.) Basically, since I couldn't put all of the Legendary Bladers, and Gingka is the one mostly involved with taking down Mao and Rago, (although he isn't majorly involved as far as you and the other characters know) I put him in… I'm not sure that makes sense, and I'll try to explain it better if I need to. Anyway, see you next chapter, and please check out the new poll on my profile!