Me: Hello!

Tea: Where have you been?

Me: Uh... *whispers* I do not own Pokémon, Bakugan, Yu-Gi-Oh, the characters, or the awesomesauce creatures. Go!

Runo: Hey!

"Well, that's good," Drago approves.

The laptop-like rectangle Fabia keeps tucked away in her cloak beeps and she pulls it out, examining it. Her eyes widen in shock at its readings. "Oh no," she gasps.

"What's wrong?" Jake asks. "I thought we won. The collision point of our universes was destroyed. Isn't everything all right?"

She shakes her head. "I was too late. The point of impact had spread in the time I spent looking for you guys."

"So, what does that mean?" Ash asks.

"It means the universes will continue to destroy one another until there is nothing left of them," Marucho explains. "Fabia, please, there has to be something we can do."

"I'm not sure what there is to do. I hoped I could stop it at its source, by destroying the source, but I was wrong. I apologize deeply." She bows to her newfound friends, terribly regretful for the failure.

"Don't apologize."

Her head snaps up and her eyes flick around the group. They land on the only two who don't make eye contact with her.

"It's not your fault," Shun continues.

"He's right," Pharaoh agrees. "You are not to blame for the colliding of our worlds, nor are you to blame for the destruction it causes.

"If anything, we thank you for the warning and the attempt to help.

"You are a good person, Fabia."

She smiles. "Thank you."

"And I wouldn't believe you were Fabia if that wasn't true." Shun cracks a smile and finally makes eye contact.

"Thank you," she repeats.

"But what do we do now?" Jaden asks. "Just let the world crumble to bits?"

"No way!" Hassleberry denies. "If I've learned anything from you, Jaden, it's that you never give up without a fight—heck you don't give up then."

"Right."

"But we still have no idea where to go from here," Crow counters. "Shutting down a virtual world is one thing, but what do we do when that digital buffer between the universes is gone?"

"Wait a minute," Marucho breathes. "Fabia, you said destroying the source would stop this destruction. Well, maybe, Interspace wasn't the source."

"What do you mean, Marucho?" Dan asks. "Of course Interspace was the source. That's where this entire mess started."

"Yeah, but you weren't there for the entire explanation. Someone forced the universes to collide. Maybe if we find who did it, we can find out how to stop this."

"That explains the Egyptian Gods' uneasiness during battle," Yugi murmurs, holding up the three cards. "They could sense there was something wrong."

"But how do we find this guy, or even start looking for that matter?" Jack asks.

A police car pulls up beside the transport station, lights flashing and sirens blaring.

"Look who it is," Yusei states.

"Trudge and Mina."

"No, it's Officer Jenny," Ash counters.

The door swings open and out steps a blue haired officer as well as Leo and Luna. "What seems to be the problem?"

"Yusei!" The twins chorus, running up to him.

"No worries, Officer," Marucho excuses. "There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding. Everything here is under control."

Her eyes scan the group for any adults that could be considered responsible for the overwhelming number of children and see Jack and Yusei as fit, then she comes across Ash and Dawn and the two Pokémon on their shoulders. "Hey, I recognize you! You're that kid from Kanto, my sister told me about—the one who blew up the Viridian City Pokémon Center, right?"

"Uh, yeah, that's me, I guess…"

"You blew up a Pokémon Center?" Dawn sweatdrops. "How'd you manage to do that?"

"I was stopping Team Rocket, okay?"

"Focus, guys," Yusei orders. "Thanks anyway, ma'am."

"Just call if anything comes up." She steps back into her police vehicle and drives away.

"You were saying?" Jack asks, returning to his earlier question. "How do we find who did this?"

"I don't know," Marucho admits. "But we have to try. It can't be too difficult. The Battle Brawlers have saved the world once we'll do it again."

"Same here," Joey agrees. "Yugi, know that I'm always right behind you, no matter what."

"Right, Joey," Yugi adds.

"This is nowhere near a first for us," Leo cheers. "Dark Signers and Yliaster are done and over, but now the Signers have to save the world again! Yay!"

Luna shakes her head at her brother.

"Doesn't sound too hard, right Sy?" Jaden asks.

"Easy for you to say," Syrus sighs.

"Hassleberry?"

"You know I've always got your back, Sarge."

"What do you think, Lugia?"

It wouldn't be the craziest thing you've done.

"Count me in," Dawn agrees.

"Pika-chu!"

"Piiiiiip-lup!"

"Well then I guess it's settled," Ash declares. "We're gonna save our worlds."

The words of the group surrounding her bring tears to Fabia's eyes. She can't believe total strangers would help her like this, let alone believe her claim. "Thank you. Thanks to all of you. I don't know how I could ever repay you."

"Don't worry about it," Joey dismisses.

"It's what we do," Marucho adds.

"He's right," Ash agrees.

"Girls gotta stick together, right?" Akiza laughs.

Fabia laughs as well. "You guys are too nice."

"You're right," Jaden agrees. "But who ever said being too nice was a bad thing?"

"No one ever did," Hassleberry states.

"Right," Marucho nods. "Inside Bakugan Interspace is a dimension transporter. Once it's back up, we can do some investigating in both our worlds. What do you say, Fabia?"

"It sounds like a great plan, Marucho. Thank you."

*Days later*

Bakugan Interspace is back up in no time and Marucho starts up the dimension transporter, setting its coordinates for their counterpart dimension.

"Okay," he decides. "I've set it for your Neathia, Fabia. Hopefully we'll find our culprit there."

"Hopefully," Fabia agrees.

A portal opens before the group and they file in one-by-one: Dan with Drago in tow, Shun and Taylean, Jake and Coredem , Yugi, Joey, Ash with Pikachu on his shoulder, Dawn with Piplup in her arms, Jaden, Syrus, Hassleberry, Alexis who found Jaden while waiting for the tournament to restart, Yusei on his duel runner, Jack riding the wheel of fortune, Akiza mounted on her own duel runner, Crow ready with his blackwing deck, and finally Marucho and Fabia bringing up the rear. "You ready, Fabia?" Marucho asks.

Fabia nods. "You bet. I'm not about to let anyone destroy my home."

"And neither are we." He sets the portal to close in thirty seconds and rushes in after the Neathian Princess ,Tristar just behind him.

"Yeah-heah!" the little, blue Bakugan cheers, struggling to keep up. "We're gonna save the world…again! Isn't this great?"

"It sure feels like I'm fighting side-by-side Preyas, Elfin, or Akwimos to stop the bad guy threatening us, our friends, or both, only this time, it's with a whole new friend!"

"You got that right-huh-hey, who're Preyas, Elfin, and Akwimos? I don't think I've met them before?"

"Jealous?" Marucho teases.

"No!"

"Don't worry, they're my past battling partners. I haven't seen Preyas in the longest time." Marucho thinks back to when the Bakugan first arrived on earth and how he and Preyas were part of the original battle brawlers, saving the world from Hal-G and Naga. Marucho can't remember a better time before that. It seems that his life really started when Dr. Michael opened that first portal between earth and Vestroia. That was when he first met Dan and the others and made real friends outside his father's mansion.

Me: Well?

Tea: Well?

Me: That's my line.

Runo: You never answered the question though. Where have you been.

Me: Don't miss out! Peace!