I'm back! I'm a week late, but I'm back and I am going to try to double update! This is the second to last chapter! Enjoy!

"Yuki!"

Yuki looked up in surprise as Gingka raced down into the lab, a tone of urgency in his voice and face.

"Gingka? Is something wrong?"

"I just talked to Dynamis and apparently he has been seeing increased enemy activity. Scouts in uniforms. He thinks they may be working for the Garcias and if they're in his area, then the Garcias may already be looking to take us out. They're making their move. It's about time that we made ours."

"Good thing I already had several parts laying around. If we work together on this overnight, we could have the changes that you mentioned made by morning, noon tomorrow at the latest."

"Well then what are we waiting for? Tell me what to do." Gingka said.

Yuki pointed to a large box in the corner. "I have all sorts of different camera parts over there, leftover from when we put security and spy cameras around the Garcias' base and those other locations. Find the smallest ones in there and bring them over here. I already have part of the wiring in place for them and I'll get working on a display screen."

"On it." Gingka darted over to the box and opened it, peering inside at the different labels.

Yuki turned back to his worktable and put his safety goggles back on, grabbing a small welder and turning it on, then using it to connect two wires, one of which was in the back of the mask that was laid out in front of him.

"These?" Gingka asked, coming over with a small box of nearly microscopic objects.

"Yeah, thanks." Yuki said. "I'll start putting these together. You mind running upstairs and getting some sort of lunch made? I think we still have some leftovers from yesterday that you can just heat up for a couple of minutes."

"On it." Gingka said, darting off before Yuki could detail any further what needed to be done.

"Well he's got enthusiasm." Yuki chuckled under his breath as he began connecting cameras and lenses to the inside of the metal face.

By the time Gingka returned with lunch nearly an hour and a half later, Yuki was lining the inside of the helmet with sound absorbing materials, having finished and tested construction of the eyepieces on the helmet.

"What took you so long?"

"Uhh… I think I broke the microwave." Gingka said. "It… Might have sorta… Exploded."

Yuki animefell out of his chair, nearly dragging everything on the table with him. Gingka looked sheepish, hanging his head slightly and turning red.

"You… Blew up… The microwave…?" Yuki said slowly as he got back up.

"... Apparently so." Gingka said. "But I did find stuff to make sandwiches, which luckily don't require a microwave."

"As long as you didn't try to pan fry them again."

"... That was one time!"

"You set half the kitchen on fire."

"Once!"

"It took us three weeks to repair and delayed construction on our secret network."

"But nobody got hurt!"

"Kyoya pummeled you into the ground because his hair got lit on fire while you were trying to put the fire out."

"... Nobody else got hurt."

"Kenta nearly died when the ceiling caved in."

Gingka facepalmed. "He got a gash on his arm and that was it!"

"You told Tithi to take care of him when Tithi was already in full panic mode and couldn't think straight, so Kenta nearly bled to death. Seriously, did you actually forget this?"

"... Well I was unconscious after Kyoya threw me into the wall."

"Actually he threw you into the fridge."

Gingka threw up his hands in exasperation. "Well nobody died!"

"Kenta nearly did."

"That doesn't count since he's still alive." Gingka grumbled.

Yuki chuckled and took a bite out of his sandwich, only to pause for a moment before making a disgusted face and spitting it back out. He looked over at Gingka, who had already finished his sandwich and was setting the empty plate aside.

"Gingka, what did you put in that thing?!" Yuki demanded.

"Should be peanut butter and jelly, why?" Gingka asked, turning to Yuki confusedly.

"... I think you used mustard instead of peanut butter." Yuki gagged.

"... I thought that peanut butter smelled off." Gingka said in a sheepish tone.

Yuki groaned. "I don't know how you ate that…"

"... I ate it too quickly to taste it." Gingka chuckled. "But hey, in my defense, you did put the mustard in a peanut butter jar after I accidentally broke the mustard jar."

Yuki turned away, grumbling something under his breath as Gingka took the rather disgusting sandwich back up to the kitchen. Honestly, as Yuki thought about it, he worried whether Gingka could pull this off. The redhead had always seemed to be smart in only one topic: beyblading. Everything else seemed to be out of his grasp in one way or another. Especially technology and cooking. And the former was what Gingka was going to have to pretend to be if this was going to work. If the act was not flawless, who knew what could happen? The stakes were high, and growing higher by the second.

Yuki took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He knew that he was going to just have to trust Gingka with this. Despite the redhead's apparent stupidity, he had a certain brilliance about him when it really counted. Yuki just hoped that this same trait would carry over to this mission. If it did not, then at least their lives, and perhaps those of the whole world, were doomed.

Yuki sighed and shook his head, pushing the worry out of his mind and focusing at the task at hand. If he did not finish the task at hand, then the world was definitely doomed. Well, perhaps not doomed. There were others who could fight, but the Legendary Bladers were the first line of defense against this sort of threat, so to speak. This was especially true when one factored in that they knew more about this threat than anyone else. As a matter of fact, they were likely the only ones who knew that the threat even existed. That was why they had to take it down before it grew bigger. That was why they had to stop it before it was strong enough to make the attempt. And they would.

Yuki smirked in his newfound determination as he began slotting all of the pieces back together. He would get this done. And then he, Gingka, and the others would defeat the forces of evil once more. They had done it once. This time, they had a larger chance, which meant that it would be easier, although more complicated.

"Come on Gingka, you'd think you could make a stupid sandwich without making some stupid mistake." Gingka chuckled to himself as he reached the kitchen and grabbed the peanut butter, this time making sure it actually was peanut butter. As he began making a sandwich that Yuki could (hopefully) actually eat, his thoughts turned to the task they had at hand. A slight annoyance grew in his mind at the thought that he couldn't just take the threat down the usual way, with Pegasus blazing.

As Gingka finished making the sandwich, his thoughts turned to those he was protecting. He sighed slightly, wondering how all of his old friends were doing. He hadn't spoken to anyone he knew other than his fellow Legendary Bladers for at least a year or so, with the exception of Hyoma. Gingka hoped that Hyoma and Hokuto were not panicking and trying to find him with his sudden disappearance, although perhaps it would be better if they were. If the news were to spread that he had disappeared without a trace, it would solidify his cover story with the Garcias.

"You know, for this to be convincing, our friends are going to have to think the same information that the Garcias are going to be thinking." Gingka said as he came down a few minutes later with an edible sandwich, which he set down next to Yuki.

"Yeah." Yuki said, nodding slightly as he slid two metal pieces together. "Since, if you were to be ordered to attack them, it'd be more convincing if you did so without them knowing that it was you."

Gingka nodded. "That could pose a problem though. If we present me as good at capturing, I may be ordered to capture anyone they want out of the way. That could significantly decrease our chances of winning if they target anyone and everyone who is against them."

"Well, we don't have a better plan or time to come up with one." Yuki said. "However, I do have a way to keep them from wanting to get you out and to their base."

"And that is?"

"To have you supposedly sealed in with no way out." Yuki said. "But the trouble will be making it convincing and still being able to actually get you out."

"... Maybe we don't need to actually seal me away." Gingka said. "How much time do you need until it's finished?"

"Like I said, I can probably have it finished tomorrow if we can work through the night." Yuki said. "That's including testing and assuming that nothing goes wrong during testing. I have figured out everything else."

Gingka nodded. "Leave fake trapping myself to me then."

Yuki raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure about that?"

"I can handle collapsing something." Gingka grinned.

"You mean… You're going to fake being permanently trapped somewhere?" Yuki said, raising an eyebrow.

Gingka grinned. "I'm going to partially collapse some of those random ruins so that they cannot be cleared. Once we try to convince the Garcias of my capture, you just have to show them Pegasus. Having my bey would be a pretty solid proof of having me trapped somewhere, because they'd know that nobody could just take Pegasus without being able to defeat me."

"Well I can't deny the logic of that plan." Yuki said. "And it'd save you from having to rush and get into this suit before I got the Garcias to the location of it. You'd already be there."

Gingka nodded. "And we have the building ready already, since Ryuga and I got that done previously."

Yuki blinked. "You got Ryuga to help you on a building project?"

"... We were both bored and battling was off-limits, so…" Gingka chuckled sheepishly. "Actually I think I did most of the work while he stood around and taunted me for not being able to carry the entire stack of building materials. He stopped when I whacked him with a giant beam of wood."

Yuki snorted. "You would do that, wouldn't you?"

"Knocked him out cold for a good two hours and got me some peace and quiet to work." Gingka chuckled. "And he stopped complaining and started helping a bit more after that."

"And this looks actually like a legitimate science lab and not some random conglomeration of boards and drywall, right?" Yuki said, raising an eyebrow.

"Modeled it after your lab here on the inside and built it inside some ruins so that it was disguised and looked like a ruin, making it the perfect evil scientist lair." Gingka chuckled.

"I'm tempted to say I'm impressed, but I think I'll have to see this 'perfect evil scientist lair' for myself." Yuki chuckled.

"Well you'll get to since you'll have to set it up like an actual lab using some of your materials." Gingka said.

"Well that'll be easy." Yuki said. "Now shoo before you mess up something and go mess up something else."

Gingka laughed and saluted before darting off. If there was one thing that he and any of the others were good at, it was blowing stuff up. They did it to train sometimes, after all. Sometimes they blew up stuff that they hadn't wanted to blow up, as the excitement of battle often took over when they locked beys and fought. However, the chance to blow up something on purpose, after being forced to not use a bey for weeks on end, was something that Gingka was going to take on with the greatest level of enthusiasm possible.

Soon enough, Gingka reached his destination, which was a small ruin sitting atop quite the network of caverns. Gingka knew his way around the caverns quite well, having explored them extensively during all of the free time he had been having lately. Collapsing one part of them and sealing it off would be quite simple.

"Alright Pegasus, let's do this." Gingka said, an excited gleam appearing in his eyes as he raised his launcher and attached his bey onto it. The silver and blue bey gleamed and pulsed slightly, as if it were also excited.

"Now what do I have to hit to knock this thing down..?" Gingka wondered, looking around him at the cavern. "Everything, I suppose. Let it rip!"

Pegasus leapt from the launcher, flying and hitting what looked to be the main support for the roof. Gingka smirked in triumph as the roof began to cave, only to realize that if it caved now he actually would be trapped. This sudden realization caused the redhead to yelp and dart out as fast as his legs could carry him, diving out the cave entrance. Luckily, he had realized it soon enough, for the cavern collapsed entirely in on itself the moment Gingka was outside.

"That was too close." Gingka breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled, picking himself up off the ground and dusting off his clothing before looking back at the rubble filling the mouth of the cavern behind him.

"Oh, but I could blow that away easily if I had Pegasus. Or I could dig it away. So… To seal it…" Gingka muttered, his eyes glowing blue. "Heat it up, Pegasus!"

With a flash of brilliant blue light, Pegasus began spinning even more rapidly, moving in a tight circle and smashing against several rocks until they began to melt.

"Now!" Gingka whooped, making a punching motion with one arm as Pegasus flew and bounced against the rocks blocking the entrance, melting them just enough so that, when they cooled, they became a single, solid boulder that nothing short of Pegasus's power could possibly break through.

"Yeah! That oughta do it!" Gingka whooped again as he caught his bey out of the air before yelping and dropping it.

"Ow ow ow! Still hot!" Gingka groaned and used part of his scarf to protect his fingers from the heat of his bey as he picked it up from the ground.

"Well Pegasus, we did it. Perhaps soon there will be another battle that you can fight, but for now, I have to do it on my own." Gingka said, staring as usual at the gleaming silver edges of Pegasus. He smiled before putting the bey safely away in his carrier case and looking up towards the sky, watching as the sun began to slip behind the trees.

"I suppose it all truly begins tomorrow." Gingka sighed as he began heading back to the observatory.

"You ready for this?" Yuki asked a few hours later as Gingka arrived.

Gingka blinked. "You finished it while I was gone?"

"Yep." Yuki chuckled. "It should be all ready to go. We just have to test it and make sure you can actually fly."

Gingka whistled. "I hope I'm even ready for this."

"You should be." Yuki chuckled and handed Gingka a silvery metal box with a strong-looking harness-like thing attached.

"What is this?" Gingka asked, blinking.

"This is the entire thing folded up into one small package." Yuki grinned.

Gingka's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "Helmet, jetpacks and all?"

"Yep." Yuki chuckled. "And I know that it unfolds and folds back in completely. I had already had it partially unfolded last time you tried it. This time it's completely folded down. Of course, it won't often be like this."

"Yeah. I'll have it out most of the time." Gingka said. "I'll have to to keep the Garcias fooled."

"Yep. But now it should work beautifully. Try it out." Yuki said, helping Gingka put it on before grabbing the long blue coat that Gingka wore over it and handing it to him.

"How?" Gingka asked.

"It's voice-controlled except for the controls to turn the outside speakers on and off." Yuki said.

"Outside speakers?" Gingka raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah. I gave you the ability to talk and have nobody outside the helmet hear you, or to have your voice heard outside the helmet." Yuki said. "It'll help a lot for our communications, if you need to talk to me or one of the others but don't want them to hear. The controls for that are also subtle. Just tap these two fingers together." Yuki said, holding up one hand and pressing his pointer finger and thumb together. "That'll toggle it and a voice inside the helmet will tell you whether it's on or off. I also added something to distort your voice beyond any recognition by making it monotone."

"And the activation code?"

"Well, you can figure that out." Yuki chuckled. "I made it pretty much what you asked."

"Well then… Activate Stormflight system."

Welp, this should be the second to last chapter, so it is once again time for the usual second-to-last chapter cryptic paragraph!

When things become blurred and flipped around, how is it possible to flip them back to normal? When what worked previously now fails, what can even be tried? Can anything be won when the tables are turned and evil prevails?