Eugene: *coughs* Ugh…. it hurts so badly.. *blows nose* I wonder if the others are doing what I've told them to…

Meanwhile somewhere not-so-far away..

America: Dude! She's that sick?

Shun: Kind of…. Eugene said that she only got a stuffy nose and a sore throat… but it will make her hard to focus at school so she had to stay in bed today.

Dan: Lazy… -.-

Eugene: I'M NOT LAZY! I WAS JUST FORCED TO SLEEP, OK? *yelling far away* Geez..

Canada: Maple.. I wonder how did Eugene, Shun, and I got to stand America and Dan in the first place..

America: ONWARD WITH CHAPTER 10- *got hit upside the head* OWWW~! ACE! STOP HITTING ME! DX

Ace: Sorry, can't help it. *smirks*

Canada's P.O.V:

"We're here already?" Marii piped up from my jacket pocket.

"Oui, Marii…." I said. "Eh… Where are we again?"

"This," Mira explained briefly. "is Alpha City. This is where all of us Vestals live. My apartment is over there. See the second tallest building on the right?" She pointed at a tall modern skyscraper; it looked a bit like one of the buildings back in Toronto (Ontario's capital city) or Vancouver (British Columbia's most populated city). In fact, the entire city looked futuristic. Not as much as the ones from America's sci-fi and/or fantasy movies but it's close; I've never seen an "alien" city before. Neither had America. I looked up "Alpha City" in Japan's journal. This is what he wrote:

It rests in a New Vestroian canyon. There is not much plant life close to the city and like every Vestal city in New Vestroia, it has a dome and an arena. It is very urban and many people live there as well, making Bakugan brawling very popular. It is also the only New Vestroian city shown that has a population.

"Dude! This place looks totally cool!" I heard America burst out.

Shun nodded. "I agree, but we'll have to sneak in there in case of the Vexos notice us…"

"How? Just diggin' around in the pipes like moles to get in?" America teased the Japanese ninja.

Mira made a face at him before realizing with, "Well, now that you mention it, Alfred, it's not a bad idea…"

"Huh?" Was all Alfred can say.

America's P.O.V:

"Dude! Of all the places in here, why the sewers?" I complained.

"Because, America- I mean, Alfred, you came up with this in the first place." Skyrock informed me in a no-nonsense tone.

"What? No, I didn't! I only came with the 'diggin' around in the pipes like moles' part, NOT THE SEWER PART! It's all Shun's idea!" I pointed at him.

"Shh! Quiet!" Ace shushed right at my face, his gray eyes glaring at my own blue ones. I covered my mouth in silence and mouthed out "Sorry.".

"Aw snap! I think I stepped on something squishy!" Dan's voice alarmed us suddenly. Startled, we stepped back to find that Dan's foot covered in… mud. Freaking, squishy, brown mud. -_-

"Dude! You nearly scared us to death, man! Besides, it's only mud!"

"Uh.. I know that! It was just too dark!" Dan tried to explain in mock surrender, sweatdropping.

"Right…" Drago rolled his eyes.

The sewers sure are dark… and wet…. and it stinks.. and it sucks. It sucks balls. Just sayin'. Anyway, Shun leaped up to prop up a hole in the ceiling, which shone light from above. He gave a gesture meaning "I'll boost you up" and we all had to climb up, trying to get out of the sewers (Dan's trying to do it without his muddy foot.. He nearly fell down twice and squished me and Skyrock).

We all found ourselves in the middle of the road when a huge line of cars tried to run all of us over! We freaked out and tried to run to the sidewalk. Dan took the slowest though, since he's that scared. -.-

"I think we're in a rush zone…" Marucho pointed out.

"Can't you at least lead us to a place with less cars this time?" Dan complained.

Shun sighed. "Sorry, Dan. But it can unpredictable and I only got to far as the end of the sewer.." He shuddered at that thought.

We all walked in the streets, trying our very best to blend in. Weird.. I thought that the city's gonna be all like, more evil and menacing, but really, it's kind of like New York (and maybe Tokyo, Japan's capital city)! Only… futuristic. Yeah, that's about it. Futuristic. ^_^ There's colourful arches, shining glass, interesting writing, exotic food and drinks, and the people here are all happy and like Mira, Ace, and Baron, they all wore futuristic wear and had colourful hair.

"Maple… this place doesn't look too bad." My lil' bro said in awe while holding Marii close.

"Tell me about it! It's the next best thing to our original planet!" Baron said.

Mira solemnly nodded. "Yes. The only problem is that there's a hint of cruelty behind it.."

"There! I found it!" Shun pointed at the tallest building. "This is the Dimension Controller I heard about. The only problem is that we can't interfere, destroying it, as there's a tournament about to go on today.."

I leaned over to Cana- wait what's his name again? Whatever. I leaned over to the dude's ear and whispered, "Dude, gimme the journal. Gotta check out something."

Sighing, he handed me Japan's journal and I found a page about the Dimension Controllers. It said this:

The Bakugan Tournaments that were held here generated power for the Dimension Controller. Too much power would overload it, causing the controller to explode.

"Hey guys," I piped up, giving everyone else attention. "Maybe we should just battle in that tournament. If we can just, I don't know, battle so hard, it'll explode and get busted."

The brawlers and the Resistance all gave me weird looks as if I'm crazy. Or I'm smart. Or both.. I dunno.

"Alfred, that's a great idea!" Dan beamed. The others, including my brother, nodded in agreement. Ha! And here I thought that England would scold me for having lame ideas. :P

"…..yes, but I need to head back to do.. something." Mira then ran off, with her Subterra guardian bakugan hovering after her. Wonder what's up with her?

We explored around Alpha City for a bit more before stopping at the sight of a few younger kids gazing up at the holograms of the Vexos's images. Man, they sure look less scary in pictures than in real life; those show the real evil in there. Before we can head back there and start planning to destroy that Dimension Controller, we heard an explosion somewhere.

"Is that-"

"Go that way!" Ace's voice suddenly rang out. We tried to take the nearest hi-tech taxi but that jerky robot driver got busted halfway so it was tricky getting to where the explosion happened. But eventually, we found the place. ….ok, technically, we crashed the place, due to the taxi out of control.

Woah… I can't really remember much after that but one thing I do remember is that some kind of hi-tech m-m-monster just appeared outta nowhere! Canada and I just stood there, shocked. And I squeaked out,

"D-D-Dude, what is that thing?"