Hello! CRSW has brought another chapter with her! And it's not even the end of the world yet! XD

No, seriously. I hadn't expected to get any ideas for a brand new storyline for this. Yes, I SWEAR on my... my headphones that I WILL update earlier from now on.

And sorry for the last cliffhanger. It was unintentional XD

So let's not wait any longer. Go read!

"You've done a wonderful job, Boris. Now with the power back in our hands, we can rule the world."

Boris Balkov bowed to the voice with a smug grin on his wrinkling face. "We had almost done that the last time. But those annoying kids, those Bladebreakers have kept us from our victory. The first thing we need to do is make sure they don't intervene again."

The figure in the shadows nodded. "Hm. I see where you're heading, Boris."

"For now, we'll get those interfering kids out of our way."

"You don't need to take everyone down at once, Boris. First, handle Ray and Tyson. Max can easily be defeated, and as for Kai, he can be easily manipulated. His friends are his weaknesses. When Ray and Tyson go down, he won't be able to do anything when we start expanding our powers."

"As you wish, master."

"And make sure the bitbeast power extracting machines are working. We're going to need them soon."

"This time, BIOVOLT won't fail."

The Bladebreakers and Blitzkrieg boys were returning home after seeing off Kenny at the airport. The chief had been invited by Emily from the PPB All Starz to help and aid them in making a new, powerful beyblade.

"Why did we have to come with you? He was your teammate." Bryan grumbled.

"Because, we don't trust the house to you idiots. Who knows when you might blow up the place?" Kai voiced the thoughts of every Bladebreaker.

"Oh, and does that include Tala?"

"Yes."

"No."

The simultaneous responses came from Kai and Tala respectively. They turned round to face each other and began a round of intense staring contest. Ian decided to play the commentator.

"And we all can see Tala's eyes watering. Yes, he's about to blink and..."

Tala grinned cheekily as he snapped his fingers in front of Kai's eyes. As a result, Kai blinked.

"Tala!"

"Hehehe, I won."

"And our dear wolf cheated to win, which disqualifies him." Ian sighed and dropped the imaginary microphone.

"Shut your mouth you midget, before I shove Hilary's heels down your throat." Tala glared at the snake.

"Hey! How did my heels come into the equation?" Hilary cried, outraged. Behind her, Max chuckled. Ray, grinning, too a few steps backwards.

"BANG!"

The deafening sound of a gunshot rang, and the neko-jin fell, landing on his back. The concrete cracked, and a bullet was clearly seen, just inches from where Ray was stood a few moments ago.

"Ray!"

"Ray, are you alright?"

Still recovering from the unexpected shock, Ray swallowed thickly and nodded, wide amber eyes still fixed on the hole.

"Somebody's there!" Spencer pointed up the roof of a nearby building. A figure clad in a black cloak stood there with a gun in his hands.

And at the exact same moment, Hilary happened to glance back. She widened her eyes at the sight. A man wearing a mask held a gun pointed towards Tyson, ready to fire.

"Tyson!" Hilary screamed and lunged forward to save her friend.

"BANG!"

The second gunshot sound was drowned out by Hilary's pained scream.

"Hilary, no!" Tyson, who lay on the ground after the brunette pushed him, jumped up with a start and rushed towards the injured girl.

"She's been shot in the stomach area!" Ray cried. "We need to call an ambulance right now!"

Bryan sat down to examine the wound. "The wound is too deep," he said, shaking his head.

Spencer supported Max and Ian, both of whom were too shocked by what had happened. 'Was somebody after them?'

By then, a large crowd had gathered around them. Tala and Kai shared one look and signalled each other to catch the one on the building, as the one in the alley would've ran away by the time they got out of the crowd.

"They, they're gone Kai!" Tala exclaimed, looking around frantically to see if the attacker had hidden himself somewhere.

"He couldn't have got away this easily," Kai said.

"Damn it! We missed him!"

The two raced back to Hilary and the others. Tyson was trying to calm the brunette and Bryan was making sure there was minimal blood loss. In a few moments, the ambulance arrived. Ray and Tyson went with Hilary to the nearest hospital.

"Spence... do you think Boris has got something to do with all this?" Ian said, looking up at the whale.

"What makes you say that, Ian?"

"From what Tala and Kai said about him yesterday, I've got a bad feeling about this."

Max nodded in agreement. "Maybe Ian is right. And if the assumption is correct, and this is only the beginning..." he trailed off.

Bryan completed the sentence for him. "Then things are about to get worse. Much, much worse."

Did anyone notice there was no Voltaire in this chapter?

He's not here because he's busy buying me a notebook to write the next chapter. I bailed him out of jail. And as a result, he'll appear in the next chapter, which is scheduled to three months from now (and add an extra month or two as tax) XD

Anyways, thanks a LOT for reviewing the last chapter and bearing with my terribly slow updates, repeat it for this one, too ^_~

And keep sending in the love!

CRSW~