A/N yay! New chapter! yay! And it only took me 3 days to update. it was going to be 2 days but i got a massive headache yesterday and it didn't help things.

Oh yeah! There's this really epic story you've just gotta read. It's called Bakugan: The masky rewrite (its by a friend of mine and IT'S EPIC) So go read now, and then review and then maybe I'll let you be in my A/N of pure awesomeness.

Masquerade: Your A/N's aren't that great.

JetravenEx; huh! I beg to differ! I am awesome and thus my A/N's are as such.

Masquerade: okay...

JetravenEx: Unfortuantely I do not own Bakugan, or masky...Even if there was a chance for me to get Masky. I'd have to compete with Clonegirl-san. *shifty eyes* Masky does my awesomeness beat clonegirl's amazingness?

Masquerade: You're about the same.

jetravenex: REALLY! *sparkly eyes* Clonegirl-san is amazing!

Masquerade: I meant in levels of annoyance.

Jetravenex: *pouty face* meanie.


Chapter 28

Dan was standing beside Shun his eyes glued to the bakupod waiting for the blue haired girl to call in. Marucho and their new "ally" Jet had checked in a few minutes earlier telling them that they were still climbing down what Jet was beginning to refer as the "Frickin' Long Stairs of DOOM!"

But after loosing contact with Runo, Dan wasn't willing to take any chances with Marucho, because with Shun constantly warning him that Jet could be lying about not working with Masquerade, because she knew so much about the mansion to be considered suspicious. Plus with Runo suddenly breaking contact and being with Viki, he had to admit the suspicions against Jet seemed to be pretty valid.

His worry getting the better of him he hit the call button. "Hey, Marucho are you guys okay?"

"Of course we're okay!" Jet snapped loud enough to be heard by Marucho's bakupod. "You asked us barely a minute ago, we're not going to reach the bottom of these stairs any faster than we currently are." Jet couldn't help but glance towards the edge of the stairs and see how far down it was still. She shuddered and moved closer to the wall, her hand trying to grip the stones in the as if trying to grab onto it for dear life. "Damn heights make me nervous." She muttered under her breath, and glanced to her right to see Skylord happily floating beside her, humming with happiness. "Probably has to do with being floating on thin air up high, must make her feel like she's up in the sky." Jet glanced around at the dark dungeon like stairwell.. "Or close to it at least."

Preyas spared a glance down at the drop and let out a whistle. "We've been walking for 10 minutes and it's still a far drop," He looked towards Skylord and Reaper. "So the question remains, why are you two floating so close to it?"

Skylord snorted. "Then don't call me SKYLORD for nothing I am literally a lord of the sky."

"So you've been claiming." Reaper said as he floated beside Jet. He looked towards Jet. "can we please move a little faster Miss jet."

Jet shot a glare at Reaper as she continued to move carefully down the stairs. "Well, sorry if I don't feel like slipping and falling to my death."

"Masquerade didn't either but at least he didn't move so god damn slowly." Reaper grumbled.

Jet snorted. "Oh sure, he can float in frickin' mid air for some god known reason! I can't! Plus, if he fell he could just use the DT…."

Reaper would've grinned as something clicked in Jet's mind, a light bulb went off, and Jet face palmed.

"God I am idiot! Of course we can just grab this-" Jet reaches over and snags Marucho's arm in one hand while she grabbed reaper and Skylord out of the air and shoved them in her pocket. "And then do this." She finished as she pulled out the DT she'd "borrowed" from Masquerade. "Take us to the bottom of the stairs!" Jet ordered and the card flashed.

Marucho shielded his eyes with his free hand and when the light dimmed he found himself standing in front of a door. Jet released his hand and punched the air.

"Aww yeah, take that Frickin Long Stairs, I win!" Jet said jabbing her finger up at the stairs. Marucho looked up too, and he found that if he squinted and looked really hard he could just make out the platform he and Jet had been standing on earlier.

"Wow, looking up at the stairs from the bottom you get a better perspective of how high it is." Marucho said.

Preyas looked up too, and after some straining his neck he managed to finally see the top of the stairs, just before he nearly fell over. "Ack!" Preyas yelped and then he went tumbling from Marucho's shoulder, he popped closed before hit the floor and bounced away from Marucho. Marucho turned to look at him when Preyas came to a stop and popped back open. "Phew, you weren't kidding seeing how high it is makes me dizzy." Then his voice trailed off. "Hey, is anyone else noticing the sudden increase of negative energy or it just me?"

Skylord was silent as she glanced around, her red eyes flashing. "The source is no longer present, the sense I am getting from the present negative energy seems to be from a while ago, but yes Preyas it is strong," Skylord turned to look up at Jet. "This can only mean that this place is frequented by someone who possesses an abundance of negative energy."

"Yeah," jet thought frowning slightly. "Somebody named Masquerade." But then another thought occurred to her. "But Skylord said 'the source is no longer present'" She mulled this over for a moment before shrugging.

"Regardless, we aren't going to learn anything standing around staring at a door." Jet said stepping forward, figuring Marucho wouldn't want to be the one to open. She hesitated, her fingers inches from the handle. Would Masquerade be behind this door waiting for them? Or would he appear like he did in the episode, right after Marucho and Runo discovered Hydranoid was the most powerful bakugan on Earth. Jet shook off the unease and grasped the handle turning it, the door creaked open, and Jet opened it so that she and Marucho could peek inside.

The dungeon like room was dark and as far as Jet could tell, it was empty as well. Assured by this knowledge, Jet opened the door all the way and she cautiously stepped in. Her eyes instantly swept the room, cringing at the sight of the masks on the wall. They'd looked creepy in the show, but seeing them for real made her skin crawl.

Skylord looked around. "Okay, I think after the freakishly high stairs, the maze like hallways, and now, uh," She struggled to find the right word to describe the room. "And well this, I think I'd shoot the designer and fire the architect."

Reaper shifted in his position on Jet's shoulder. "Aren't they the same thing?'

"I don't know! Fine, I'll shoot them both! Happy?" Skylord snapped, making it obvious that she was as unnerved by the decorations as Jet was.

"Can someone please tell me why we are still here?" Preyas whined. "This place is seriously creeping me out, and I can't shake the feeling that we're being watched." Preyas added

Jet glanced around the room. "Knowing Masquerade we probably are being watched," Jet concluded looking at where the wall met the ceiling for any cameras. "But from where?"

"Hey look a computer!" Marucho said turning away from the wall and spotting the laptop sitting on the only piece of furniture in the whole room, a small desk up against the wall on the opposite side. "I wonder what it's hooked up to," Marucho said rushing over to it.

"Wait! Marucho!" Jet said reaching over to grab him, when the computer flashed on showing a start up sequence on its monitor.

"Um Marucho? What's-AHH!" Preyas yelped as suddenly the walls of the dungeon slid into hidden ports, Marucho latched onto Jet who stood stock still in shock as the walls moved revealing what was hidden behind them.

Jet pressed her eyes shut all too aware of what they were now on.. "Okay, don't freak out, don't look down, and just don't move." Slowly Jet opened her eyes a crack and then they flew open her jaw going slack in shock.

Of course she'd seen Masquerade's computer in the show, but like how the show couldn't convey the true creepiness of the masks, it also couldn't convey the true hugeness of Masquerade's computer. It was so big it could totally go down in the Guinness book of world records as the biggest computer in 2 worlds; her world, and of course, this one.

"Hot damn." Jet muttered under her breath looking around, before letting out a squeak of fear, moving closer to the main computer still perched on the desk, laying a hand on the desk to steady herself. She wasn't terribly afraid of heights, they just made her nervous. Like heights that measured the amount of distance between where they now stood on the platform and the bottom of the room. "Damn it, don't people invest in railings anymore?" Jet whined.

Skylord floated off her shoulder looking around in awe. "Wow! This place is huge!"

Reaper grunted in agreement, "I suppose it is impressive."

Skylord looked at him then gave him something akin to a shrug. "I suppose since you've seen it before its lost all its "wow" factor."

Reaper sighed. "I suppose you could put it like that."

Marucho however looked like he'd died and gone to heaven. "This is amazing! It's like a giant digital scoreboard, that ranks all the bakugan!"

"Or a giant digital computer." Jet muttered under her breath folding her arms across her chest. "That is owned by the 3rd biggest bad guy in the whole show of bakugan."

Suddenly dan piped up reminding Jet that he could still hear almost everything. "Hey let me see!" but thankfully he has selective hearing.

"huh?" Marucho said lifting his bakupod up to see dan's face. "Oh sure, here you go." Marucho lifted his wrist and pushed a button that allowed the little video screen to pop out offering Dan a better view.

"Whoa check out those power levels!" Preyas said bouncing up and down. "I mean there's a bakugan with 410 g's, 420 g's, holy cow even one with 440 g's!"

"Wow that is like really high!" Julie said from her spot beside Dan as she looked over his shoulder at the images.

"But how could they get them up so high." Shun asked.

"Most likely explanation would be, evolution." Drago said from his place on Dan's shoulder.

Skylord seemed to flinch at the word causing Jet to look curiously at her.

"What's wrong with you?" Reaper asked floating closer to her, noting Skylord's reaction as well.

"Nothing," Skylord said hurriedly. "Just a little chilly."

Reaper wanted to say something, but decided against. Besides, he could always grill her about it later.

"What do you mean Drago?" Dan asked turning towards his guardian bakugan.

"When a bakugan gains enough power they can evolve," Drago explained. "When we evolve our power and abilities grow stronger."

"We also can change shape." Skylord added quietly. Everyone looked to her and her head snapped up. "I just said that aloud didn't I?"

Jet and Marucho nodded, while dan's voice came from the bakupod.

"Wait, what'd she say? I didn't hear her,"

Jet rolled her eyes at Dan's idiocy and selective hearing. "She said bakugan change shape when they evolve!" She said making it as loud as possible.

"Ow, jeez take it easy."

"However, there is a point when a bakugan absorbs too much power." Skylord said, again in a quiet tone. "And when they go beyond their limits, it leads to their own destruction."

Jet and Marucho exchanged glances while Dan fell silent, the severity of the words actually reaching him.

"Soo," Jet said at last breaking the uncomfortable silence that had settled upon them. She turned to Marucho. "You think we can find out who has the highest Power level?"

Marucho nodded stepping past her to the computer. He began to punch some of the keys. "I'm pretty sure, that...if I do this..." He said and then Jet looked up to see the Power levels slowly fading away from the score board until one remained hovering over someplace in America.

"The current bakugan that has the highest power level is..." He hit a key and then a picture of Skylord popped up.

"Skylord?" Everyone said looking towards the female darkus bakugan and then back at the screen, jaws going slack from shock. Even jet was a little surprised.

"I had been under the assumption it'd be Hydranoid, boy was I wrong!" Reaper said.

"Yeah, way to go Sky how come you never told us?" Preyas asked floating up on the other side of her.

Skylord was silent she turned to Preyas and stiffly replied. "Do not call me Sky, and I never told you because you never asked." She said finishing it with a hiss.

Preyas and reaper were taken a back.. "But aren't you pleased with this?"

Skylord snorted. "Of course I am, I showed up that dino didn't I?"

Suddenly a light flashed behind them and they heard a soft, grating hiss of a voice speak up.

"I'll show you!" It snarled and Jet and Marucho whipped around to see 3 brawlers, Masquerade, Julio, and Klaus, standing on the other side of the platform.

"Who invited them?" Preyas asked.

"Nobody, that's why they're called the party crashers." Jet snarled narrowing her eyes at the masked boy who smirked in response.

"How ironic, it's the same three we met in the doom dimension." Skylord growled her red eyes flashing. "And you'll show me what Hydranoid? That you're capable of getting your butt kicked two times in a row?"

Hydranoid growled but his voice was interlaced with a sneer as he spoke. "I hope you enjoy having your name on top Skylord, because it won't be there for long."

"Why don't you come over here and say that." Skylord taunted twitching one of her wings at him.

"It's you!" Marucho shouted pointing a finger a Klaus. "You were the one who sent my Preyas to the doom dimension."

Klaus laughed and sneered at Marucho. "Guilty as charged, but what are you going to do about it? Your Preyas might have escaped me once but you won't be so lucky this time around."

Preyas let out a snort. "Let me at him Marucho!" Preyas said jumping up and down in agitation. " I want a piece of that guy!"

"We never got the chance to pay your bakugan back for what they did to us in the doom dimension." Julio said whipping out a field card. "I think we'll exact some pay back right now.

"Wow, you are pathetic then." Jet growled, as she slid her field card from her card holder on her belt. "If you can't take on a few bakugan, then how do you plan on beating us?"

Masquerade laughed. "With practiced ease." He said as he and Klaus also pulled out their field cards.

"It's two against three." Reaper whispered uneasily to Skylord. "Not the world's greatest odds."

"You want to back down from these clowns?" Skylord hissed back.

"Well no, but-"

"Then shut up."

Marucho hesitated for a moment before he whipped out his own card. "I'm going to make you guys regret sending my Preyas to the doom dimension."

"Field Open!" they shouted flipping their cards over to reveal the attribute hexagram that was on the other side.


On the other end of the bakupod, Dan was listening to all this. His fists clenched at the sounds of his enemies voices, and his teeth clenched at the sound of his rival's voice in particular. He would not let them get away, Masquerade was going to pay for all he'd done.

"There is no way I'm missing out on this action." He thought to himself whipping out his filed card and flipping it over.

"Field Open!" he shouted as it glowed red just before time stopped.


Jet and Marucho stood glaring at their three competitors as the field opened before them when suddenly another attribute hexagram appeared and Dan joined their side of the battle.

"Wah! Dan!" Jet said jumping in surprise at the sudden appearance of Dan. She'd been so focused on Masquerade she'd forgotten that Dan joined the brawl by opening the field at around the same time as Runo and Marucho.

Dan looked surprised that he'd made it and looked around. "Aww sweet, it worked!" Drago popped open on his shoulder.

"Yes Dan, but now we have 3 problems we still have to deal with." Drago said looking towards their enemies.

"I hope you, don't think that just because you may have evened the playing field that this gives you even a slight chance of beating us." Masquerade said with a cruel laugh. "In the end you will all fall." His eyes fell upon the female darkus brawler on the other side. "This includes you Jet." he thought to himself smirking.

"Enough talk," Dan said waving his hand flippantly at Masquerade.

"Yeah, less talking and let's get brawling!" Skylord said from where she hovered beside jet.

"Doom card set." The three villains said as they threw down the doom card. Masquerade looked at Jet the smirk still plastered on his face.

"I warned you Jet," He said. "And now you're about to pay the price. You're going to be begging for mercy when I'm through with you."

Jet snorted narrowing her eyes, "Funny, last time I checked I'm pretty certain that, I was the one who beat you, Masky."

Masquerade spluttered in indignation while Dan doubled over laughing. The masked darkus brawler clenched his fist and gritted his teethe while Jet smiled wickedly.

"Enough!" Masquerade said pulling out a gate card. "Gate card set!" He shouted throwing down a card that landed on the ground and expanded in a flash of purple light before the three brawlers.

"Haha, Masky, yeah that's a good one." Dan said wiping away fake tears. He pulled out a gate card of his own, which was mirrored by the rest of the brawlers.

"Gate card set." They cried in unison, their cards expanding in flashes of blue, red, purple and yellow.

"And the battle begins." Jet said with a smirk.


Chapter 29 preview

Hi, it's Jet. And coming up on Bakugan: Dual Dimensions, one of the biggest brawls in history breaks out and man is it hot. Of course not all the brawling is against the enemy. Darn it Dan Kuso you're such an idiot! So who'll be victorious this time? Find out in the next chapter of Bakugan: Dual Diemnsions! Bakugan Brawl! You're going down Masky!


A/N Oh yeah, I'm awesome.

Masquerade: there is still no brawl, you just got the start for one.

Jetravenex: Of course, the next chapter is going to be centered on the brawl.

Masquerade: Finally I can avenge my defeat.

Jetravenex: maybe.

Masquerade: what we both know I can easily beat you!

Jetravenex: suuurrrreeee you can. *to readers* or so he says

Masquerade: *walks away coat floawing behind him awesomely* I heard that and go find somebody else to do your disclaimers.

Jetravenex: sure fine, I'll have somebody else do it next time. *louder* WHO WANTS TO DO MY DISCLAIMER?

Skylord: oh yeah, and all you reading this story you better review or I will come and eat you!