I'm back! Sorry for not updating last week, i was at a church event and didn't have the chapters even started anyway. But, i'm back this week, and Stormflight is again rolling! Enjoy!

"Gingka, I don't think that I'm ready for this."

"I'm right behind you. You'll do fine. If anything goes wrong, I'll catch you. Come on, you've got this."

Madoka took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Tamashii, activate Stormheart system."

"Activating." the computer reported as Madoka's brown hair and pale complexion were covered by the pink hair and silver mask of her new suit.

"Start with just ten percent power." Gingka's voice came into her helmet. "And relax. The suit will keep you stable,, you just have to tell it what to do."

"Okay." Madoka replied, taking a few deep breaths before slowly lifting off the ground, her jetpacks blazing quietly behind her.

"You've got it, just maintain control."

Madoka looked up from the ground and into the metal face of Stormflight, who was hovering calmly a mere five feet in front of her as she shakily ascended.

"Eyes on me, that's it. You're doing great. Just mirror me, and tell me if you want to do something."

Stormflight leaned slightly to the right, moving away from the landing pad. Madoka hesitated for a moment before following. Before she knew it, her body was almost parallel to the floor, as she and Gingka darted towards the wall before pulling up to hover gently.

"Well, now that you know how to more around, let's do turning."

Madoka could hear the pride in her husband's voice as he began flying away from the wall, then leaned to the left and arched his back to circle around one of the helicopters.

"Come on, your turn." he said as he again reached her.

Madoka nodded and carefully copied what Gingka had done.

"Ready to go a bit faster?" Gingka asked.

"Umm, no." Madoka replied decisively. "I'm not sure i've quite got the hang of this yet."

"Alright. Keep practicing." Gingka replied.

"Turn off jetpacks." Madoka ordered.

"Ahh, Madoka-" Gingka paused mid-sentence and sighed as the brunette landed, hard, and fell over.

"Ow…"

"I should have told you beforehand to have the suit slowly shut them down. My bad." Gingka chuckled as his boots touched the ground.

"Whoa!"

"Look out!"

Gingka suddenly darted into the air to dodge a pair of blazing streaks as they flew past, completely out of control.

"Turn down the power!" he called, chasing after a streak of purple as it careened out of control.

"How?!" Arashi panicked.

"Voice command! Tell it to go to ten percent!"

"Whoa!"

"Anashi!"

"It's chaos up here, isn't it?" Yuki chuckled as he barely dodged one of the flying teens.

"Well, aren't you being a huge help?!" Gingka exclaimed sarcastically as he darted across the room to prevent his son from crashing.

"I try." Yuki called back, then leapt back and yelped as Anashi crash landed in front of him, skidding into a pile of crates.

"Whoa!" Madoka leapt to the side and activated her jetpacks as Arashi nearly slammed into her. The brunette spiraled out of control for a few seconds before beginning to circle the room neatly, avoiding the other two that were still in the air.

"I told you you could do it!" Gingka crowed as he finally caught up to Arashi and hit the emergency shutoff on the teen's jetpacks.

"This is a lot faster than before!" Madoka exclaimed nervously.

"Default is set to fifty percent, enough for a fairly quick takeoff. Look at you! You're a natural!"

"How do i land?!"

"Point your feet down and tell Tamashii to do a gradual shutoff."

Madoka did as she was told, and stumbled forwards into Gingka's arms as her thigh-high black boots touched the concrete.

"That was freaky." she said as hers and Gingka's helmets retracted.

"But you did amazing, for a first try. I barely had to tell you anything, really."

"On the other hand, the twins need work."

Gingka laughed. "I didn't think they'd be taking off so soon. I hadn't told them to only go ten percent power."

Anashi and Arashi looked slightly embarrassed as their helmets retracted.

"Where did you guys take off from, anyway?" Gingka asked.

"The lab."

"A good two or three floors down. Nice job managing to get up here through the stairwell, although you broke the doors."

"Sorry." the two laughed, scratching the backs of their heads.

"Everyone else is ready." Yuki said.

"Have them all come up here then." Gingka said.

Yuki nodded and went downstairs.

"You all have your assignments. Everyone has been assigned to a specific part of the world with a specific partner. Yuki has installed systems on your computers that will keep you connected to the main base, as well as alerting you to any nearby DNA activity. Each of you has been given a bag of sensors. The instructions are in an audio file opened by the command written in your instructions. I expect a report into the headquarters every six hours, on the dot. Yuki, my dad, the women, and the kids will be available at different times of the day so that we have someone in the control room twenty-four seven. We will be taking off in groups of four to avoid attracting too much attention, starting with squad one, destined for the east coast of Europe. Excalibur and Chris, are you ready to go?"

The four masked bladers nodded.

"Good luck!" Sophie called.

"Then, as Sophie said, good luck… And prepare for liftoff." Stormflight ordered, as the majority of the masked group stepped back.

"Liftoff in five." Tamashii said, as jetpacks ignited and boots barely brushed against the ground.

"Four."

A clanking sound came from overhead as the landing bay doors unlocked.

"Three."

A few flakes of snow drifted through from a snowstorm outside as the doors began opening.

"Two."

Everyone fell silent.

"One."

The blazing jetpacks began to lift their wearers slowly off the ground.

"Liftoff."

All at once, the landing bay doors slammed open, as jetpacks blazed at full power and sent the four soaring out of the base.

"Close landing bay doors. Team Dungeon, be ready to take off in ten minutes." Gingka ordered, striding off for the elevator.

"Got it." King replied.

"We're the last group. We've got all of Japan to cover."

"We can do that, no problem." Ryuga smirked.

"Stay away from Tokyo for now. The DNA will be on high alert to look for us. If we stay low for a while, then they should relax their guard slightly."

"Logical. Now let's go." Kyoya muttered.

"Wait, what are our pairings here?" Kenta asked.

Gingka shrugged. "I figured that you'd go with Ryuga."

"What, leaving me stuck with you?" Kyoya smirked.

Gingka grinned. "If you want to put it that way. Or you could go with Kenta and I'll go with Ryuga."

"No way, i'd rather have Kenta with me than you, Hagane."

"Suit yourself. You two have southern Japan."

"And you've got northern then?"

"Yeah, i'd prefer to stick close to the base, just in case i'm needed."

"Good plan. Let's go."

"Tamashii, open landing bay doors." Gingka ordered, taking a few running steps before blasting into the sky, with Kyoya, Ryuga, and Kenta following close behind.

"Good luck…" Madoka whispered, watching the four on the screen in the control room.

"Well, wake me up when it's my fern. I'm going to take a map." Mei Mei sighed, heading for the door.

"You mean turn and nap?" Madoka chuckled.

"Riiiight." the Chinese blader looked embarrassed as she left.

Madoka sighed and sat down in a chair, closely watching the moving icons on the large screen in front of her and smiling slightly as she noticed that Wang Hu Zhong, Aguma, Dynamis, and Bao had already reached China, and were apparently splitting up into their groups. Her eyes hovered for a few seconds on the six before turning to look at the pair of icons flying wide around Metal Bey City, obviously avoiding it. Red dots on the screen turned green every once in a while, indicating a new sensor being placed.

The brunette frowned suddenly as a sensor that had just turned green began flashing red.

"Stormheart to Stormflight."

"Yeah Madoka?"

"One of the sensor icons is flashing red."

"Which one?"

"The one you just placed."

Gingka muttered something under his breath inaudibly.

"Alright, thanks for the warning. It just popped up on my screen. Stormflight out."

Madoka accessed the sensor's camera, and soon spotted the squad of DNA robots marching through the desert.

"No, don't go back…" She whispered as the icons indicating Gingka's and Kyoya's positions turned around and began heading back towards the sensor.

"How's it going up here?" Hikaru asked as she entered the room.

"Gingka and Kyoya are being reckless." Madoka sighed, indicating the screen.

Hikaru sweatdropped. "Tell me something i don't know."

"My Warrior name is Stormheart."

"And mine's Wildwave. Kyoya helped a bit. He wanted it to match his."

Madoka chuckled. "Gingka made our entire family's names match. Arashi's is Stormlight, and Anashi's is Stormfire."

"Takeshi's is Wildstorm." Hikaru laughed. "Names match the beys and the rest of the family's."

"Apparently." Madoka replied.

'Madoka! These flamethrowers work great! Booyah!"

"Huh?" Madoka and Hikaru turned their attention to the screens, only to see Gingka and Kyoya blowing up robots left and right.

"Take that, Argo!" Gingka whooped.

"They're so childish sometimes…" Madoka chuckled.

"No, really?" Hikaru said sarcastically, laughing.

"What's so funny?" Ryo asked as he entered the room.

"Gingka and Kyoya are having way too much fun with those flamethrowers. They're being extremely childish." Madoka replied.

"You do know that i can hear you, right? We're not being childish, just having fun." Gingka's voice said from the speakers.

"Way too much fun, like i said." Madoka replied.

"Whoa! That guy almost shot me. Not cool." Gingka said, laughing.

"Not funny either!" Madoka exclaimed.

"Relax, Madoka. I was kidding."

A small tick mark appeared on Madoka's forehead. "Joking about it is even less funny!" she yelled.

"Okay, okay, i get it. I won't do it again. Sheesh…" Gingka muttered. "Don't blow out my eardrums like that."

"You deserved it." Madoka said stubbornly.

"Whatever…" Gingka chuckled. "Stormflight out."

Madoka sighed and turned the camera access off, noting that all of the robots were lying on the ground, blazing and exploding.

"Sir, we've got some new intel. The Warriors have begun to move, and managed to take out an entire patrol squad."

"What?!" Argo was shocked. "How?!"

"We're not entirely sure, sir, but they seem to have flamethrowers now. I must admit that we didn't think of fire danger in our robot design."

"We can't pull them all back to upgrade now… Come up with a design to make them fireproof, then we'll pull them one squad at a time and upgrade them. In the meantime, double production rate."

'Yes sir."

"Anything else?" Argo sighed.

"They have spread out over the entire globe, and we believe they are staying in pairs of two."

"That only gives them five locations. Spreading out will be their downfall."

"I don't think so sir. These Warriors are unfamiliar. They seem to have expanded their numbers."

"Show me." Argo growled.

The DNA worker nodded and plugged a small drive into the computer, causing images to come up onscreen. Argo growled at every new picture: Two Warriors dressed in orange and red, using synchrom beys to slam robots together; a pair in blue, combining their power and blasting robots with flames; two more Warriors flying over southern Europe.

"When did we start getting these images?" Argo growled.

"Well, i don't know when you got them, but i see you've figured out that we've expanded."

"Hagane…" Argo snarled as an image of Stormflight hovering in midair replaced the images on his screen.

"Your robots are ridiculously easy to beat with fire. We've got the upper hand now." Stormflight said.

"Oh, do you? You're still small in numbers compared to our robotic forces." Argo smirked.

"I'll just let you think that. Meanwhile, why don't you watch this robot, that i've borrowed the cameras from to talk to you, get blown up?" Stormflight replied calmly, pointing his right arm at the camera. Moments later, flames blazed into Argo's view, and the computer reported that it had lost contact with another robot.