A/N: Okay, I am way behind here. My brother hogged my iPad the entire time we were up at our summer cottage.

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"How come you're in Venice?" Gingka asked. Frieda looked like she wanted to roll her eyes.

"I live here!" she said instead. "Duh!"

Gingka reddened, and said a bit lamely, "Oh."

"What I wanna know is why you jumped into the battle." Alex said, trying not to sound like she demanded an answer.

"Yeah, again, I'm sorry about that," Frieda replied apologetically. "This might sound weird, but I interfere with battles because it makes me and the people already battling get stronger. I'm just like every blader: I want to get stronger."

"Well, if you want to get stronger," Gingka said, "you could battle one of us!"

Frieda looked surprised. "Really?"

Gingka nodded. "Yeah! And if you want, I could-"

"I'll battle you."

Everyone turned to Kimiko, who was looking at Frieda with a challenging gleam in her eye.

"Kimiko?" Alex asked. "Why?"

"My Dark Nightmare is now Cross Nightmare. Ever since the Kyoto City Battle, I've been wanting to test out Nightmare's new strength. So if you want to become stronger," Kimiko said to Frieda, "then I'll battle you. I want to see what my new Nightmare can do."

Frieda blinked in surprise, but then smiled.

"Okay, then. I'll battle you. But be warned: Just because you have a new bey doesn't mean I'll go easy on you."


A Couple Minutes Later

Frieda and Kimiko stood on opposite sides of the stadium, aiming their launchers at each other.

"Aw, man!" Gingka complained on the sidelines. "I wanted to battle! But then Kimiko had to jump in and say she would-"

"We were there, Gingka," Madoka said sarcastically, as Alex and Yuki facepalmed. "We know what happened."

"Okay, Frieda," Kimiko said. "You ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be. 3!"

"2!"

"1! Let it rip!"

Frieda started attacking immediately. "Get 'em, RadiantRay Virgo!"

"RadiantRay?" Kenta questioned. "I've never heard of that before."

"That's because no one's ever heard of it before," Madoka said. She was on her computer, analyzing Frieda's bey. Alex took out hers and began to analyze too.

"The performance tip is a Semi-Flat, and the spin track is 100, but it..."

"... can change to 125 and 150 in emergencies," Alex finished. "Just like that jerk Johannes's Lynx."

Obviously that battle was still on her mind.

"Exactly," Madoka agreed. "But the thing that's tripping me up here is the fusion wheel."

"Yeah," Alex agreed, nodding. "That is a weird."

"What's weird about it?" Gingka asked.

"Yeah, spill," Benkei said. He and Yuki looked at Alex's computer screen, while Kenta and Gingka looked at Madoka's.

"The thing about the fusion wheel is that it's just an Earth fusion wheel," Madoka said.

"With some modifications," Alex added. "The fusion wheels on beys get worn down over time, you know? But this fusion wheel is smooth, with no signs that another beyblade moved against it. In fact, I'd be willing to bet my college money that this beyblade is totally new!"

"So this RadiantRay fusion wheel is just a modified Earth fusion wheel?" Kimiko asked. She snorted. "Whatever. My Nightmare would be able to take it down either way! Go, Nightmare!"

Nightmare began a flurry of attacks on Virgo, pushing it back.

"Sorry to burst your bubble," Frieda said to Kimiko, smiling, "but the RadiantRay fusion wheel isn't just a modified Earth fusion wheel. Here we go, Virgo! Special move... Earth Wave!"

Virgo began to spin faster than before. Faster and faster it spun.

"What the heck is going on here?" Alex exclaimed. She shoved her computer into Yuki's hands, so that her two hands were free, and began to type rapidly. Madoka did the same thing with Gingka. But everyone looked up when they heard the sound of metal on metal.

Kimiko had tried to knock Virgo off balance by sending Nightmare in for a hit. Nightmare kept ramming into Virgo.

"Keep it up, Nightmare!"

Just then, Alex's computer dinged. She looked at her computer, and her eyes bulged.

"Not good not good not good!" she said frantically. Then she shouted to Kimiko, "Get Nightmare out of range, Kimiko!"

"Out of range?" Kimiko asked. "What are you talking about?"

Her question was answered two seconds later. Virgo released waves into the stadium, and Nightmare didn't get out of the way fast enough. It got knocked back into a stadium wall, where it began to wobble.

"Ah! Nightmare!"

Frieda smiled, saying, "You should've taken your friend's advice! Earth Wave makes Virgo conjure up sonic waves so strong that they knock your bey off balance!"

Then she widened her stance, and said, "But this is where the battle ends! Go now, Virgo!"

Virgo spun towards the now wobbling Nightmare, faster and faster.

Suddenly, Virgo began to glow green, and a pillar of leaf-green light burst out of Virgo. Everyone on the sidelines (and Kimiko and Frieda) gasped.

The pillar rose up in the air, and then landed right on Frieda, and then some of it bounced off and hit Virgo again. It repeated the pattern, from Virgo to Frieda and back to Virgo.

When the pattern stopped Frieda had changed to the appearance exactly like Kimiko had changed into, but with different colors.

Frieda's now straight, waist length hair was also leaf-green, with side bangs. A gold instead of silver circlet ran under the side bangs and around her head. Her clothes were now the same knee length white Greek toga, same brown strap sandals, but the arm bracelets were also leaf-green.

Then the flames around Frieda subsided, along with the flames around Virgo. Frieda looked down at herself.

"What just happened?" she said aloud.

"I can't believe this!" Alex exclaimed. "Yuki, remember the picture I showed you? I think we just found who has possession of the green one!"

"Alex, you're gonna want to look at this data," Madoka said.

Alex looked down at her screen, then looked at Frieda's Virgo. Then back again. The pattern repeated itself about eight times each.

"This is just blowing my brain apart!" she exclaimed finally.

"I don't believe this!" Kimiko said. "You have a star too?"

Frieda felt like her brain was going to pop.

"Will someone please tell me what's going on here?" she said aloud, a little furiously at that.

"More than happy to," Madoka said. She and Alex were typing furiously.

"Yeah," Alex agreed. "Just call it a tie and came with us back to our hotel."

And that's what they ended up doing.

But as Frieda was following them back into Venice, she happened to glance back and saw something.

It was too blurry for her to see, since it was pretty foggy now, but she could've sworn that it was a person.


At The Hotel

It took a while for them to explain things to Frieda. When they finally finished, Frieda was sitting in a shocked silence.

"Wow," she finally said. "So you've found two stars, including me, and there are four more left for you to find?"

"Yeah." Alex confirmed. "The problem is, Yuki doesn't know where the other four are."

"Miss Alex is right. I could only find two."

Frieda raised her eyebrows. "Well, if you guys want, I would like to come with you. I want to see what my new Earth Virgo can do."

"But we already know what an Earth fusion wheel is capable of doing." Gingka said matter-of-factly.

"Actually," Madoka said, and held up Virgo for Gingka to see. "This isn't the type of Earth fusion wheel we know of. This fusion wheel is a new type, but it still has qualities that belong with an Earth fusion wheel."

"A new type?" Gingka questioned. "Cool!"

"So does that mean I'm coming?" Frieda asked.

"Welcome to the team!" Kenta replied.

Frieda punched the air with her fist. "Sweet!"


Outside The Building

"Sir, another one has been found. They still don't know where to look for the next one. No, they haven't found the bug yet, which is actually pretty surprising, since the Amano girl's eyes are supposedly sharp. Yes sir. When you tell me to come back, I'll be ready. Yes, sir. Roger that. Over and out."


A/N: TA DAAAAAA!

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