Beyblade The Fast and Furious

by Wave Ripper

The special agent traking down the former crimnal and fed finally meets his match agasint a team of criminals that can only be matched by one other team. A former criminal teams up with a former fed one last time to bring down a rival team in exchange for clean records. New readers can start from chapters 55, 77, or 97. (shadow warriors renamed)

34. The Ultimate Race

Chapter 34: The Ultimate Race

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The loud sirens echoed throughout the lab letting everyone know a new Ex Track was about to open. Zero lay on his bed wide wake as he listened to Tez announce the bladers that would enter the next track. "The following bladers will enter the track; Misaki, Ryuga, Ryuto, Metal Maddox, Tone Pasaro, Kenta Yumiya, Ox, Croc, Disk, Sing, Charlotte, Yukihana, Aiai." The teen looked at the speaker that was next to his bed and noticed Tez was choosing a lot of bladers for this particular Ex Track. "And Akashi." Zero noticed that Tez still hadn't chosen Gingka or Akito since what happened in the Junk Realm. The teen could hear Croc shouting in the hall way, once the teen had walked past the door, it slid open.

How many times do I have to tell this guy, start calling me Monkey! Croc glanced to the right to see Zero looking at him. He nodded and waved at him before walking off. "Hey how ya downin'?" Zero's door slid shut after Croc had walked off. The teen stood up and slowly walked over to the sink. He shook his head and starred into the mirror, he thought to himself while looking into the mirror.

I should have gone with them. No, I'm a liability now I just…. I would just put them in more danger. Past Ex tracks flashed through his mind while he thought about what had gone wrong in each track he had been on. The first track that came to mind was the Storm Zone. "I don't know how many Ex Track we've been on since we started battling for Tez." The Swamp Lands and Lava Zone flashed through his mind as he continued to think about how many tracks they had been on. A few of the tracks that he hadn't been on flashed through his head, while he hadn't been on them; Zero had made sure to see what the others had seen. The Neon Pipelines, Junk Realm, and Ruined Plains each flashed through his head as he thought about the last Ex Track he had been on. "Sometimes we beat Gwen and won some Ex Bey parts, but not because of me. I'll I've done is…." The memory of Zero flying out of the Storm Zone with half of his Ex Gear flashed through his mind, only to be interrupted by the Swamp Monster picking him up off of the track. That memory was soon replaced with Tone looking at the Swamp Lands Ex Bey part, which he had won after staying in the groove. This memory was soon replaced by watching Ox fly out of the Midnight Caverns track which earned him that tracks Ex Bey part. Zero then began to remember that Akito had won the Junk Realm Ex Bey part. Zero closed his eyes for a second while he thought about the giant stone statue crushing his motorcycle. He opened his eyes and remembered what had happened to his last Ex Gear.

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(Flashback)

The portal's symbol glowed inside of it showing that no one had won the race yet. Zero smiled a bit and began speeding up. He hit the boost button on his gear to go even faster. The final turn was within the teens reach.

I'm going for the record. Fastest time ever!

Can't fight a battle with your hands in your pockets, better duck cause I'm faster than a rocket-

Zero! Back off the accelerating!

The teen was two distracted by the music to hear Misaki. To his unfortunate demise he spun out on the water of the final turn.

W-whoa! Zero tried to stop but instead was sent flying over the side of the track. The teen's eyes widened a bit when he saw he was on a collision course with a giant coral reef. He quickly hit the Emergency Return button and disappeared. No one was around to see his gear explode when it hit the reef.

(End of Flashback)

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The teen shook his head and put on his new jacket. He thought about what Verts dad had said, for some reason he felt that what he had said was directed to him and not vert. While looking at the mirror, Zero's image was replaced by Jack Wheeler. His words echoed inside of Zero's head. "You should quit what you're doing son." Zero looked at his new jacket while he thought to himself. His new jacket was white with blue lines going down the center of it with dark blue patches that looked like elbow pads. The back of his jacket had the word Teku's street racing symbol on it with the word Teku printed in blue/white lettering. "Yeah….." The teen sighed as he slowly walked out of the room, he flipped the light switch down and walked out of his room while listening to the door slide shut.

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Standing inside of the control room, Tez watched as the second ring of the portal stopped spinning. The ring landed on an oval like symbol. Madoka and Ev began activating all of the monitors so they could see what the other bladers were seeing. Ev glanced up, then stood up, and began walking towards the door.

"I'll be right back, I n-need to go get something to drink." The light blue haired girl lied through her teeth as she quickly ran out of the control room to retrieve her Ex Gear and bey. Madoka had spent most of the night repairing them for Ev so she could enter the next Ex Track with everyone else. Madoka, Tez, Midnight, and Karma had not been told about the plan to get Kyoya back because everyone knew they would do anything to stop them from doing something this dangerous.

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Misaki was the first blader to pass through the speed boosters. The teen shifted her gaze from the track to the golden rings which were just about to stop spinning. Glancing over her shoulder, she could see that Tone and Disk were following right behind her. The teens were soon joined by Metal, Ox, Croc, and Akashi. The other bladers aside from Akito, Zeth, Gingka and Ev, eventually passed though the speed boosters. Misaki was the one leading the charge into this Ex Track with one thing in mind; Get Kyoya back. Everyone else was thinking the same thing, if you could see the look on their faces you could tell they meant business. Unknown to them Tez had finally figured out what Ex Track they were going onto, the track was called the Cosmic Realm. The final ring had stopped spinning and the blue orb appeared inside of the three golden rings. With eyes locked on the portal, Misaki and the other bladers sped up while drifting around the final turn. They all passed through the portal one after another disappearing from Tez's sight.

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Back inside the control room, Tez was watching Aiai and Sing drift around the final turn. The two teens soon disappeared after flying into the blue orb. They were the last two bladers to enter the track, at least that's what Tez thought. Looking down at the speed boosters, the teen saw Akito, Ev, Zeth, and Gingka pass through the first set of speed boosters. Connecting his headset to theirs, he looked at Karma who wasn't sure what they were doing. "Why are they going into the Realm?" Karma looked at Midnight and Madoka to see they had no idea what they were doing.

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Speeding down the orange Ex Track at two hundred and sixty miles an hour, Zeth and Akito could hear Tez shouting at them from the control room. The two teens pretended not to hear him even though their headsets were activated. "Akito, Gingka. What are you doing?" The four teens drifted around the final turn while Tez shouted at them at the top of his lungs. "AKITO! ANWSER ME! AKITO!" The last thing Tez saw was Akito flying into the blue orb with the other bladers following right behind him.

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A giant planet with rings around it, that is the simplest way to describe this Ex Track, but its more than just that. The rings circling this planet are actually orange Ex Tracks; hundreds of them circle around the planet all leading to the finish line. The exit portal of this track is located somewhere closer to the planet. Meteors and Satellite debris bombard the track, and micro-black holes can instantly suck away unwary bladers to oblivion. The blue portal opened up like a rift in time, Misaki was the first blader to fly out of the portal with Metal, Tone, Disk, Croc, and Ox following right behind her. They were later joined by everyone else except for Akito, Gingka, Zeth, and Ev. The bladers that had flown out of the portal were still flying through space; each blader was confused as to why they hadn't landed on the track yet. Croc activated his headset and was the first to say something. "There's something wrong here!" Unknown to them, Karma was watching them fly through the air. She had connected her own headset to everyone else's and began talking to Croc.

You're in a low gravity environment Croc. You need to concentrate on racing AND battling smoothly. One jolt from your bey or your Ex Gear can send you flying off of the track. The teen looked around and watched as Misaki landed on the track and left the other bladers behind. A few more bladers landed on the track next and left Croc behind as he looked over his shoulder. The teen could see Gingka, Zeth, Akito, and Ev fly out of the blue portal next. They looked at each other also confused as to why they were still floating.

You guys need to concentrate on racing smoothly along the track! After shouting at the bladers, Croc landed on the track leaving them behind. Akito looked at Zeth who launched his bey onto the track. The teen used his bey's ability to increase the gravity around him; this allowed him to land on the track with Ev. Gingka looked at Akito and they eventually landed on the track.

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Tone looked up and saw they had just entered an asteroid belt that was also circling the planet. The teen swerved to the right trying to avoid a meteor that came crashing down onto the track but this caused him to fly off the track a bit. He let out a deep sigh and managed to land back onto the track. "Look out!" Swerving to the left and right, tone dodged a few more meteors that were flying towards him.

Two meteors slammed together causing one of them to fly towards Ox, and Akashi. Ox narrowed his eyes and swerved to the left, the teen was now drafting in front Disk. "Incoming!" The impact from the meteor caused Ox to fly off of the track a bit. Noticing this, Disk hit the Jump jets button on his Ex Gear and flew over Ox, the sound waves from his speakers helped Ox land back onto the track. Once disk had landed back onto the track, he sped up and left Ox behind. Gingka flew past Ox next and tried looking for a way to use Pegasus to help keep the meteors away from them. Ryuga flew past Ox as well, he wanted to battle Gingka on this track since it was one of the most dangerous ones he had seen, but he knew rescuing Kyoya was more important than their rivalry. Croc soon joined Ox who was looking around to make sure he was safe from meteors. The group of bladers soon drifted around a turn the lead to the planet where all of the other Ex Tracks were circling around. They soon left the asteroid belt and flew past a black hole that was a few miles away from them.

Hey Ox, how you liking this track? Croc smiled and looked at his brother, his attention was soon drawn back to the track when he saw a meteor flying towards. "Ugh Ox! Look out!" The teen swerved to the right leaving Ox behind. The older teen yelled at the top of his lungs as the meteor knocked him off of the track. "OX!" The younger brother watched as Ox began flying away from the track.

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Flying through space, Ox watched as the other bladers continued to race across the track. The teen realized he wasn't flying towards the track and hit the boost button on his Ex Gear. "Ugh I'm going backwards!" The teen hit his booster button once again leaving a small trail of fire behind him. Unfortunately the booster was no help to him; the black hole began bringing him closer and closer to his death.

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Speeding past Akashi, Metal looked up to see ox wasn't getting closer to the track. Glancing down at his bey, the leader of the Steel Maniac's saw that he had the Swamp Lands Ex Bey part attached to his bey. "You guys keep going!" The leader quickly spun around and hit the boost button on his gear causing him to fly off the track after Ox. "I'll get Ox!" Akito watched as Metal left the others to go help Ox; he hesitated for a moment thinking their plan may not work without their help. His plan required all of the bladers to help him get Kyoya back. Akashi was now racing next to Akito who smiled and him and nodded.

Metal can handle it.

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Flying off of the orange Ex Track, Metal hit the boost button on his Ex Gear which caused him to get closer to Ox. "Hang on Ox! I'm coming to get you!" Metal launched his bey in front of him while hitting the Sprout Road button that would activate the Ex part. Sounds of static echoed from his Ex Gear after he tried to activate the part. Shifting his gaze from his bey to his gear, Metal noticed the bey part was working. "The Ex Part isn't working!" Ox and Metal soon disappeared into the black hole. Everyone looked at Akito who couldn't believe they had just lost two of their bladers. Akashi broke the silence and punched Akito in the air.

Stay FOCUSED!

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Drifting around another turn, Misaki could see four Sweepers, and a few dozen racing drones guarding them. She narrowed her eyes and saw that the last Sweeper in the group had just turned around. The giant green truck was now traveling full speed towards them. A few seconds later the giant truck released a few drones riding motorcycles. Misaki looked at Tone who was now looking at Disk. 'We've got drones." The two teens moved away from Disk as he took the lead, the teen used his jumped jets to do a roll. His speakers were now facing the drones at full volume.

Time to try out my new tracks. The teen smiled as the sound waves created from his speakers knocked the drones off of the track. Looking at the drones he had just knocked off the track, Disk landed back onto the Ex Track and then used his jump jets to jump out of the Sweepers way. The remaining bladers excluding Ryuga all drifted around the Sweeper as it thundered past them. Ryuga, instead, attached L Drago Destroyer to his launcher and launched his bey towards the giant green truck.

Dragon Emperor Supreme FLIGHT! The teen shouted at the top of his lungs as L Drago appeared and tried to ram the giant truck off of the track. His attack wasn't strong enough though and his bey was knocked back into his hand. "Damn!" Ryuga quickly swerved to the left in order to avoid getting knocked inside of the giant truck. Unknown to the other bladers, Metal and Ox had just flown out of the black hole each equipped with a Hyper Gear. Metal was inside of a dragster like Hyper Gear with seven exhaust pipes sticking out the back of it. The other Hyper Gear had two small black wheels attached to a ramp that lead to its Ex Gear slot. At the end of the small black ramp were two giant motors that helped power the giant pickaxe wheels. The two Hyper Gears landed onto the track a minute later and began speeding down the orange Ex Track.

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Croc looked over his shoulder to see his brother and best friend speeding towards them in two giant Hyper Gears. The teen smiled and began laughing once he saw the drones that Disk had destroyed fly past him. "Hahahah Yeah!" His smile soon faded when he realized it was too late for him to avoid being knocked into the Sweeper.

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Speeding down the track in their Hyper Gears, Metal began to leave Ox behind since his Hyper Gear wasn't made to go very fast. The teen smiled when he fired a grappling hook at Metal, which he attached to the back of his Hyper Gear. Due to the extra weight, the Dragster Hyper Gear began speeding up and soon sped off down the track at nine hundred miles an hour. This caused the Climber Hyper Gear to follow right behind it at the same speed. Metal quickly unhooked Ox's grappling hook from his Hyper Gear so he could knock the Sweeper away from Croc. The two teens swerved to opposite sides of the track and jumped out of the giant machines with their Ex Gears in hand. The two teens could hear the loud clanking of metal from the pickaxe wheels as the two Hyper Gears sped towards the Sweeper. Ox smiled when the Hyper Gears knocked the Sweeper off of the track. "Ox! Metal! Thanks' for the help!" The three teen soon sped off down the track to catch up to the other bladers.

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Akito was now racing next to Misaki who was waiting for him to give everyone the signal. Once he was sure everyone was still on the track, Akito began talking into his headset. "Alright, this is it!" Akito soon hit the button on his Ex Gear that disconnected his on board camera along with his headset. Now, only people on the Ex Track could hear him talk.

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Karma soon had a frown on her face when she could no longer see what the other bladers were seeing. She turned to Tez who couldn't believe what was happening. "What's going on!?" Karma turned back to the monitors and tried to see if she could activate the bladers on board cameras.

That's why they went into the realm…. When Kyoya was lost, remember what they said?

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(Flashback)

"Were going back into the Junk Realm." Karma looked at Tez who was just staring at them. Karma was the first to speak.

The golden rings have never opened a realm a second time after its been complete-

We know! Just….. figure something out. Karma looked at Gingka with a sad look on her face. Midnight walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. She paused a moment before speaking.

We've tried. Glancing up, Tez looked at Midnight and shook his head in disapproval. "Midnight…. No."

No, it's time we told them everything. Kadeem and Kyoya aren't the only two bladers to be lost inside of the Ex Tracks.

WHAT!

Alec wood, Lani Tam, Banjee Castillo. They all went onto the tracks, and they never came out. Akito and Gingka looked at each other not believing what Midnight was telling them. Akito noticed most of those bladers were some of the top ranked Ex Bladers in the slammed his fist into the side of the wall and looked at Midnight.

Are you kidding me! Why didn't you tell us?! Walking over to Gingka, Karma tried to calm him down. She knew both teens were ready to start a fight with them.

We thought it might discourage you. Tez grabbed a remote that was lying in front of him and was ready to show Gingka that last transmission from Kyoya's Ex Gear. The teen looked at Gingka and spoke. "Even if you could go back, it would be useless. Kyoya has been captured by Gwen."

NO! I. Don't. Believe. You. Shrugging his shoulders, Tez looked at the remote and hit a button on it. Kyoya's battle with Gingka could be seen on one of the monitors. A few minutes after Gingka had left Kyoya behind. "Believe this." Gingka could see a drone walking over to Kyoya who was still lying on the pile of junk he had been knocked onto. The teen tried to get away but he was in too much pain to move. A few seconds later the video cut to static. "That was the last transmission from Kyoya's on board camera."

I'm sorry Gingka. Pushing Midnight's hand off of his shoulder, Gingka walked out of the control room with Akito following right behind him. The two teens could hear the sliding door shut behind them. Akito looked at Gingka who was ready to punch something.

(End of Flashback)

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Tez looked at the security cameras and noticed that they had never actually made a plan to get Kyoya back. The teen paid no mind to Zero who had just walked into the control room. "Akito and Gingka have gone into this Realm to try and rescue him!" Zero shook his head and sat down next to Madoka who was glad they were trying to get Kyoya back.

They all have. The Synkro and Metal Maniac's. Gingka brought us together, away from your cameras, so you wouldn't know. Zero smiled a bit when he noticed Tez had realized he had been outsmarted for once.

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(Flashback)

Metal slowly walked onto the roof of the lab with Croc and OX following right behind him. Glancing to the right he could see Zero sitting on a rock with Misaki and Akito standing next to him. Disk was sitting on a rock listening to techno music with Tone standing next to him. Akito walked up to Gingka who was ready to talk with the Steel Maniac's. "Why should the Steel Maniac's trust you?"

We're trying to help Kyoya.

You've never really done anything for him before.

That's why I want to help him now. I'll go in with Akito if I have to. Metal glanced at Akito who shook his ahead to agree with what Gingka was saying. Ox stepped in a few second later. "Whoa now, Kyoya's a Steel Maniac."

Metal smiled a bit and then looked at Gingka who was waiting to hear his decision. "Welded." Panicking slightly, Croc jumped into the conversation to talk some sense into Metal.

"Whoa now wait a minute guys, hit the brakes." Croc pointed to Gingka and then to Akito. "They want to go into Gwen's base, now, do you think I'm crazy enough to do that?!" Ox looked at Metal who then looked at Croc.

Well….Arent'cha?

Yeah, probably, I guess. Alright let's do it! Akito smiled and took over the conversation at that point. He stood in between both teams and spoke.

It'll take all of us! Tone smiled and shook his head. Disk looked up and listened to the conversation while he turned down the volume on his techno music.

He's not Synkro Gingka….. But if he's your rival, then I'm in. Misaki stood up and walked over to Akito and smiled a bit. She nodded saying that she was in to. Gingka looked at Disk who stood up and spoke.

Giddy up. The rest of the team walked over to Zero who was thinking about what had happened on the Ruined Plains track. Akito looked at him and then spoke to him.

What about you Zero?

I ugh, probably wouldn't be any help to you….. Not with my leg all banged up. Zero pointed to the metal brace that helped him walk around.

Suit yourself. Akito walked over to the two teams and began speaking to the people that were going to help him get Kyoya back. "Here's the plan."

(End of Flashback)

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"That's why I didn't go." Zero's smiled faded when he watched Tez slam his fist into the wall. He shook his head and looked at Zero.

"They're risking everything!"

For Kyoya? Midnight looked at them with a confused look not understanding why any of them would want to try to rescue Kyoya after the way he had treated most of them. "How do they even expect to get into Gwen's HQ?" Tez thought about this for a moment and then showed them Akito's on board camera from the Water Realm.

The way Akito did it, at the end of the Water Realm. Drawn through the portal while attached to a drone. Zero nodded when Tez had figured out how they were going to get into Gwen's HQ. Midnight still had a confused look on her face.

"But…. How do they all expect to get through together? They would almost have to….." Midnight looked at Zero and starred at him in disbelief. She had figured out what they were going to do. Zero shook his head once he was sure she knew what the plan was.

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Thundering down the orange Ex Track, the remaining three Sweepers were still blocking the path to make sure the other bladers didn't reach the finish line before the lead racing drone. Drifting around another turn, Akito lead the other bladers into battle. Sweepers, dead ahead." He waited for Ox, Metal and Croc; they still hadn't met up with the rest of the group. A few seconds later, the three teens finally met up the group. Tone was the first to say something after they arrived.

What up with the drones?

Yeah I mean why don't they turn and FIGHT! Ox chimed in as he sped next to Misaki. The white haired girl turned to him and spoke.

They're all pathetic. Ryuga looked at Ryuto who was ready to smash some drones to pieces.

They only care about winning now. Her attention was soon drawn to Tone who had begun talking again.

Maybe that's why the Ex Bey parts don't work. This must be the end! Akito shook his head and looked over his shoulder.

"Forget the Ex Bey parts! We don't need em' if we stick to the plan." Narrowing his eyes, Akito could see two Silencerz appear behind the three main racing drones. They quickly knocked the two body guards off of the track and launched their beys at the drone. His attention was soon drawn to a Sweeper that had just turned around. Looking at Charlotte, the teen watched as she waved to them and flew off of the track. "Charlotte, where are going?!"

I'm going to get us something that may be able to help us! Just continue on with the plan! The blonde haired girl smiled and flew off of the track heading towards the black hole the Ox had gone into. Tone smiled and looked at Akito who was ready to begin the plan.

Let's do it Akito! The remaining bladers began swerving in and out of each trying to confuse the drive of the Sweeper. Ryuga and Gingka stayed close to each other, they were part of the muscle of the team. They were going to stay behind the rest of the group so they could take out any extra bladers that may try to ambush them. Ryuto and Kenta were the second line of defense. Every other blader was used to combat the Sweeper. While swerving in and out of the group, Akito could see a few drones fly out of the Sweeper. They were riding motorcycles and speeding straight for them.

Hold…..Hold….. NOW! After Akito finished talking, every blader formed a line behind him causing the drones to fly past them. The drones quickly tried to turn around but due to a sharp movement they began floating off into space. Turning his attention back to the Sweeper, Akito narrowed his eyes and waited for it to get closer to them. "Get ready… NOW!" The bladers all swerved to the left aft listening to Akito and dodged the Sweeper as it thundered past them. Glancing over his shoulder, Akito watched as the Sweeper tried to t urn around quickly only to be lifted up off of the track. Everyone watched as it slowly flew through the air, a few seconds passed and the Sweeper landed back onto the track. The giant green truck began speeding towards them a few seconds later. Ox was the first person to say something.

Here it comes. Croc, are you ready?

Awwwwww man. How'd I let them talk me into doing this? After shaking his head, Croc formed another line with the group of bladers that stretched across the orange Ex Track. Once they had formed a line across the Ex Track, they slowly started to form the shape of a V. "Here goes nothing!" Croc was at the very end of the formation and slowly began to leave the group.

"Be careful monkey man." Ox looked over his shoulder and watched as Croc slowly left the group to enter the Sweeper.

Croc looked over his shoulder and saw the Sweeper speeding towards him. The teen saw a few Sleeper drones sped past him and begin chasing the other bladers. "NO!" A few seconds later he was knocked into the Sweeper.

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Static still filled the monitors in the control room as Tez thought about what Akito and Gingka were doing. He shook his head and looked at Zero who was happy that they were going through with their plan. "Even if they could take over a Sweeper, it's madness to enter Gwen's HQ without working Ex Bey parts!" Midnight looked up from her bey and turned her attention to Tez.

If the gears aren't reading the Ex Bey parts right, maybe it's something they can fix. Karma stepped into the conversation after hearing this.

I checked all of the Ex Gears, they were operating perfectly. Zero thought about this for a second while he watched Midnight slowly take the scanner from where it was sleeping. The scanner she was taking was the same one she had used to scan Akito for traces of energy that came from an Ex Bey part.

Did you check all of the Ex Bey parts?

There was no need. Only Tez has access to the Ex Bey parts. Karma turned her attention to Tez who was now trying to contact the other bladers. Midnight slowly walked over to Zero trying not to draw attention to herself. She whispered into Zero's ear before she left.

Keep trying to get through to the other bladers. I'm going to go check on my….. Ex Gear. Zero starred at her for a second, and then glanced down at the scanner. He nodded his head and joined Tez.

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Staying a good distance away from the Sweeper, Akito could see a few Sleep Drones speeding towards them. "Metal, Tone!" The two teens looked at each other and smiled as they hit the NO2 button on their Ex Gears. After hitting the booster button, the two teens flew past the others leaving a trail of fire behind them. The Sleeper Drones sped past the other bladers and tried to attach themselves to the leaders Ex Gears. A few seconds later, the Sweeper finally caught up to the other bladers only to be boxed in. Misaki, Sing, Aiai, Yukihana, and Akashi boxed in the Sweeper from the left. Ryuga, Gingka, Ryuto, Kenta, Ox, and Akito boxed in the Sweeper from the right. Ox shifted his gaze from the track to the giant green truck and immediately sped behind it.

The teen hit a button on his Ex Gear that caused a giant spike to stick out of it. Hitting the boost button on his gear, Ox flew forward and rammed the Sweeper with his Ex Gear causing it to get stuck. He smiled and pulled out the small anchor from his backpack. "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHA!" Spinning the anchor around, the teen tossed it as hard as he could and listened for the sound of his anchor. A few seconds later he heard his anchor get stuck on something, he quickly pulled on the chain to make sure he could use it as a rope. Once he was sure his anchor was secure, Ox began climbing the back of the Sweeper. "Hang on monkey man; I'm coming to get you!"

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Speeding down the track with Sleep Drones chasing them, Tone and Metal looked at each other as they swerved to opposite sides of the track. Exchanging glances, the two teens smiled when they realized they had the same plan. They quickly slammed into each other causing the Sleeper Drones to break apart.

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Inside of the giant green truck, Croc had finally jumped off of his Ex Gear. The teen watched as the giant metal hands inside of the truck began dismantling his new Ex Gear. He sighed and walked over to a ladder. The teen slowly began climbing it as he listened for any drones that might be inside of the truck. "Not this time! You can't catch the monkey man!"

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Standing on top of the Sweeper, Ox noticed a few meteors were flying towards him. The teen dove to the right and avoided being hit by them. A few more Sleeper Drones were launched from the bottom of the Sweeper causing Akito to try and stop them.

Misaki saw the Sleeper Drones drift to the right and try to take on Ryuga. She quickly spoke into her headset to warn Akito. "Their closing in on the outside."

"I've got em." Ryuga and the others dodged the Sleeper Drones leaving Akito to battle them. The teen swerved to the right trying to knock them off the track but failed and watched as a few of them attached themselves to Ox's Ex Gear. The remaining Sleeper Drone attached itself to Disk's Ex Gear.

The teen glanced down to see the drone climbing on his speakers. His smile changed to a frown when he noticed the drone was about to re-wire his Ex Gear. "Yo, get outta my space." The teen slowly slid his finger up the touch screen on his wrist band to increase the volume on his Ex Gear. The loud sound waves caused the drone to fly off of his Ex Gear. The teen became slightly mad when he noticed the drone had damaged the subs on his gear. "Awwwww man there go the subs!"

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Slowly opening up the hatch that led to the control room in the Sweeper, Croc slowly closed it and noticed the only drone inside of the Sweeper was the drive. Looking around, the teen grabbed his flashlight from his tool belt and smiled. He whispered to himself as he walked closer to the drone. "Glad I brought my flashlight." The teen tripped over a wrench as he got closer to the drone, the noise caused the racing drone to stand up and face the scared teen. Croc cowered in fear as he noticed the drone was twice his size and ready to toss the teen out of the sweeper. The next thing Croc knew, Ox was running past him.

PORK CHOP! The older brother slammed his fist into the drones head causing it to fly off of the drone's body and break one of the windows. The two teens quickly connected the Sweepers radio to their team's headsets once they had made sure there were no more drones hiding.

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Akito rammed his Ex Gear into Ox's causing the Sleeper Drone to fall off and fly off into space. The teen was relieved to hear that Ox and Croc were okay. "Way to hand him his head Ox." Laughing slightly, Akito remembered they were on a mission and quickly spoke to the teens.

What are guys doing in there?! We need that Sweeper now!

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Glancing down at the controls, Croc sat down in the driver's seat trying to figure out how to make the Sweeper work. The teen hit the control panel a few times. "Now if I can just figure out how to make this thing stop… ummmm…." Ox turned his attention to the window to see that the other two Sweepers were now driving towards them.

"Croc, look!"

I can't figure out how to make the Sweeper work! HELP! Ox quickly slammed his fist on top of the steering wheel. Croc began moving the steering wheel and realized that the Sweeper was now under his control. "I GOT IT!" Ox shook his head and laughed slightly.

Listen to that horse power!

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Thundering down the track at full speed, the two remaining Sweepers launched a few racing drones to capture their Sweeper again. The drones were quickly stopped by a meteor that destroyed them. The remaining drones were knocked off the track thanks to Croc using the Sweeper as a battering ram. Tone and Metal were right in front of Croc's sweeper. They glanced over their shoulders to see that Croc had made the giant propeller stop moving. They watched as it moved up into the Sweeper giving them enough room to go inside of the giant truck. "We disabled all of the Sweepers mechanical arms, you guys are safe to back inside of the Sweeper now!" Tone quickly backed into the Sweeper with Metal following right behind him. Metal quickly swerved to the right to avoid being hit by a meteor. The teen quickly backed into the Sweeper making sure he wasn't in any more danger.

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Flying out of the black hole, Charlotte smiled as she flew through space in her Hyper Gear. She was in a black Hyper Gear that resembled a small jet. On the wings the words "Stratosphere" were printed across in white lettering. The blonde teen quickly increased the Hyper Gears speed and began flying close to the track hoping to catch up with everyone. She smiled and hit the boost button on her gear which made the Hyper Gear speed up.

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Speeding down the track at full speed, Croc realized that they were on a collision course with the other two sweepers. The Sweeper the two teens were in was soon hit by a meteor causing them to fly off of the track. Their Sweeper was now flying straight at the remaining two Sweepers. The group of bladers took shelter behind Croc's vehicle as it moved towards the remaining Sweepers. Akito quickly grabbed Ox's Ex Gear and pulled it out from where Ox had left it. The teens watched as the remaining trucks tried to avoid being hit by Croc; they swerved off of the track causing them to float helplessly through space. Croc's Sweeper eventually landed back onto the track without so much as a scratch. The rest of the bladers quickly flew into Croc's Sweeper. Akito looked up to see two meteors slam into the remaining drones causing them to explode. He sighed and walked into the giant truck with everyone staring at him. "WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLOTTE?" Akito starred at them and then ran out of the giant green truck looking for their friend. Ryuga and Gingka laughed slightly realizing that he had forgotten about her.

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Standing outside of the giant green truck, Akito looked around for Charlotte who hadn't been seen since she left. The teen slammed his fist into the giant wheel and shook his head. Akito turned around when he felt someone place a hand on his shoulder. The teen's gaze was shift to a girl with blonde hair. She was wearing a tan shirt with a black jacket that had two white lines going down the sleeves, and blue pants. "Did you miss me?"

Charlotte don't scare us like that again! The teen smiled at her friend and pointed to the Hyper Gear she had captured. Akito watched as she made the wings fold up a bit so it was small enough to fit inside of the Sweeper. He smiled a bit and watched as Croc used the propellers inside of the Sweeper to knock the Hyper Gear inside of it.

"I won't scare you guys again but we are taking this awesome machine with us! I'm going to cause some chaos and havoc with Stratosphere!" Akito laughed slightly and made sure everyone was inside of the Sweeper before they began moving again. The teens made sure Charlotte had her Hyper Gear parked at the very front of the truck so she was the first person to leave. Everyone one else lined up into two lines behind Charlotte.

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The symbol of the Cosmic Realm still glowed inside of the exit portal. No one had completed the Realm yet but that was about to change. Speeding down the track were two Silencerz and RDL. The lead Silenzer slammed into RDL trying to knock him off the track. The lead racing drone was knocked off the track thanks to the Silencerz friend. The two bladers quickly drifted to the left and sped off of the track, they disappeared once they reached the exit portal. A few seconds later the symbol of the track disappeared from the exit portal.

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Flying out of the purple portal, the two Silencerz landed inside of a top secret base that was miles away from any civilization. The lead shadow warrior watched as the Cosmic Realm Ex Bey part materialized in front of him/her. The Cosmic Realm bey part was a performance tip that was shaped like an oval.

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Speeding down the final turn of the Cosmic Realm, Croc looked out the window to see the portal wasn't that far away. Metal and Tone stood inside of the control room with the driver. Metal glanced down to see Tone looking at his necklace. "I'm sorry about what happened to your brother Tone." Tone looked up to see the Metal was being completely honest with him. He shook his head and spoke.

He drifted too far, lost it in the turn. It wasn't your fault. Croc listened to this and laughed slightly. He knew they had been fighting a long time and now the fighting was finally over.

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(Flashback)

Speeding down the Coast road, Tone's brother slammed into Metal who was drifting around another turn. The teen tried to counter attack with his bey but his attack failed. Tone's brother sped up and began drifting into another turn. He eventually spun out and fell over the guard rail.

NO!

(End of Flashback)

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Croc, just drive.

Hey I know how to drive it! I know what I'm doing. The teen hit a button on the control panel and connected Disk's Ex Gear to the speakers inside of the Sweeper.

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The inside of the Sweeper was soon filled with techno music, which was being played at a reasonable volume. To Disk though, the music wasn't loud enough. Akito smiled and glanced at Misaki who was walking over to him. She gave him a hug for completing the first part of the mission without any casualties. His gaze shifted to Scarlet who was looking at Akashi.

Akashi had pulled out a small table that was inside of the Sweeper, the teen was using it to work on his bey and Ex Gear while they traveled to the exit portal. The teen looked up and then glanced to the right to see if someone was looking at him. Scarlet responded by looking away as if nothing was wrong. Akito smiled at this and began talking to Misaki.

Ryuga and Gingka sat next to each other while they waited for Croc to give them the okay to attack the drones. The L Drago user looked at Gingka who was lost in thought. "You know, it wasn't your fault that Kyoya got captured. He got what he deserved for being a pathetic scoundrel. You couldn't have known he was going to be captured by the drones. All that matters now is that we get him back." Gingka nodded and looked at Fang Leone.

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There's the portal. Metal pointed towards the portal that wasn't too far from them. Croc looked up turned the tearing wheel to the left causing the Sweeper to turn and begin moving towards the portal. A few seconds later they flew off of the Ex Track and disappeared into the portal.

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On an island far away from any civilizations, Gwen's shadow warriors and racing drones were all waiting for the return of their last Sweeper. The Sweeper flew out of the green portal and landed on the ramp that was leading from the ground to the portal. Croc began shaking as he drove the enormous green truck down the ramp and onto the ground. "I c-can't believe, w-were in Gwen's headquarters." The teen came to a stop and looked around to see all of the drones staring at the Sweeper. Metal placed his hand on Croc's shoulder and gave him a smile.

Whoa, easy there Croc. Drive like you own the place.

Like I own the place, that's right. The teen gripped a leaver next to him and moved it forward; this caused the Sweeper to start moving forward again.

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Kadeem sat in Gwen's seat and looked out the window of a tall tower that overlooked the whole city. The new drone smiled and contacted Gwen through his old headset. "The Sweeper has returned, under control of the humans." Gwen appeared on a screen a few seconds later. She looked at Kadeem at began speaking.

They are not to make it back through the portal!

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Speeding through the desert in her car, Gwen looked at Kadeem and finished talking to him. "But even if they do, there will be nothing left for them to return to." She smiled as she looked at the drones that were following her to Tez's lab. Glancing to the right she could see someone else driving in another car. The car was purple and had the words "Teku 9" printed across the door. The teen that was driving rolled down his window and pointed to her window. Gwen rolled her window down and looked at the teen. The drive had blonde hair with a goatee.

Hey, you not supposed to be here.

And you're going to be sorry if you get in my way!

And you're going to be sorry if you mess with the World's Fastest Drive. Which has also obtained the title of Acceleracer. Now pull over. The teen got his reply when Gwen slammed her car into his causing him to spin out. Shaking his head a bit, the teen watched as a Sweeper and a few dozen drones sped past him. "No way." Glancing down at the touch screen on his car, the blonde haired teen hit a button that connected his helmet to one of his friend's cars. He could hear a familiar voice a few seconds later.

What's up Surf rat? Kurt's voice echoed inside of his helmet as Vert began to speak again. "Kurt, I need your help, I think something bad is about to happen to my friend." Hesitating a second, Vert waited for Kurt to say something.

The rest of the Teku are at some race, I'll be there as soon as I can. The sound of loud screeching tires caused Vert to take off his helmet and throw it into the passenger seat.

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Driving down the freeway as fast as he could, Kurt looked around for the road that led to the desert. The teen knew that Vert never contacted anyone unless he wanted to race, or something was seriously wrong, this was one of those bad times. Looking in his rearview mirror, he could see the headlights of another car following right behind him. The car was rusted orange with the symbol of the drivers racing team on the door. A few seconds passed and Kurt could see the driver of the other car, the drive rolled down his window and began to speak.

Kurt, what's wrong? You're supposed to be on your way to the race.

Vert's in trouble, the rest of the team won't be able to get to him in time.

Then it's a good thing I'm here.

Thanks Taro. Now let's go find the Surf rat.

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The doors to the garage slid open as Midnight walked out of the elevator. The teen looked at the Ex Energy radar as she walked around the garage. She glanced up every so often and saw the Tez had finished working on Zero's Ex Gear. Walking past the surf board Ex Gear, Midnight began walking past a few NO2 fuel tanks. She came to a stop when the radar began pointing to one of the containers. The radar began beeping louder as she moved the radar next to the barrel. Opening up the container, Midnight could see the Swamp, Reactor, Caverns, Wind Tunnel, Blizzard, and Junk Realm Ex Bey parts. They were placed inside of a gantlet that had a specific shape for each of the bey parts. Taking the gantlet out of the container, Midnight examined it and realized that they were the real Ex Bey parts. She jumped slightly when she heard Karma's voice. "The Ex Bey parts, Tez gave the other bladers copies and hid the real one's here." Karma slowly walked away from the elevator and stopped in front of Midnight who was giving her a suspicious look.

Why would he do that?

"Tez has become obsessed with protecting the Ex Bey parts. He no longer trusts anyone… not even you," Midnight slowly walked around Karma who blocked her path. "That's why you can't tell him you know where they are."

I'm taking the Ex Bey parts to Tez. Karma stepped in front of her. The teen starred at her for a second before speaking. "I can't allow that." Midnight took a few steps back and bumped into something that was invisible. After bumping into the invisible object, the object let down its camouflage. The object was a car; inside of the car was a Silenzer that was staring at Midnight. Glancing down, Midnight could see all of the other bey parts that the Silencerz had won.

You're in no danger Midnight; he's only here for the Ex Bey parts.

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Static still filled the monitors; Zero tried connecting his headset to the other bladers but had no results. The teen cursed and tried contacting them again. "Croc, anybody?!" Zero shook his head and looked at Tez who was giving him a mean look.

If you had talk to me earlier, I could have stopped them. Zero sighed and shook his head; the teen didn't listen to Tez and went back to his headset. A few seconds later, his attention was drawn to the loud sirens that were letting everyone now that there were intruders driving towards the lab.

They're back! Zero stood up and smiled as he waited for someone to fly through the holographic image.

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Midnight stood in front of the car and looked at Karma who was waiting for Midnight to give her the Ex Bey parts. The teen shook her head and looked at Karma in disbelief. "You're working for the Silencerz." The door to the car slid open and the drive got out of the car. Karma smiled and looked at Midnight.

As did Tez, until her stole some of our technology, including the black power fist he uses in case he needs to fight. The driver, Karma, and Midnight looked up when they heard the loud alarm echoing throughout the lab. Taking this as a chance to escape, Midnight slammed the back of her fist into Karma causing her to fall to the ground. Unknown to the three of them, the drones had just landed inside of the lab with Gwen following right behind them.

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Landing inside of the lab, Gwen came to a stop and got out of her car with her Ex Gear in hand. She looked around and then shifted her gaze to the control room. She smiled and began walking to the stairs that would lead up to the control room.

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Tez began shaking as he watched his nightmare come to life. Zero placed his hand on Tez's shoulder and quickly brought him back to reality. "I s-saw t-this."

We, have to get out of here! Now! Zero looked at Tez who shook his head. The teen glanced at his metal braces which were still being used to help him heal from his injuries. Zero quickly took off his leg brace and realized his leg had already healed.

It's no use Zero, we can't get past them.

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Midnight ran past Karma and ran down the hall that led to the elevator. Glancing over her shoulder, Midnight could see the Silenzer chasing after her with Karma following right behind him. She jumped through the closing elevator doors and let out a sigh of relief.

The Silenzer punched the closed doors as he looked for a way to open the doors. Karma smiled and looked at him with a calm attitude. "Don't worry, we can still catch her."

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Walking out of the elevator, Midnight was staring at the ground thinking of a way to get to Tez before Karma did. Slowly walking back to the elevator, Midnight began sliding her hand over the control panel trying to find the nerve to hit one of the buttons. She was soon spotted by one of the drones which made her quickly hit one of the buttons on the control panel. With the doors closing fast, the drone began running towards the elevator and quickly smashed the doors apart.

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Walking back down the hall, Karma began thinking of a way to get to Midnight before she could get to Tez. A few seconds later a green energy ball struck her causing her to fall unconscious. The Silenzer ran next to his teammate, and noticed she had been shocked badly by a green energy ball and quickly stood against the wall. Hitting a button on his suit, the blader disappeared from sight. A few seconds later, a drone picked up Karma and looked around for any remaining humans.

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Walking past a few empty tanks of nitro fuel, two drones were listening to a leader unit give them commands. The leader began speaking after he listened to their report. "Search everywhere, there may be more humans hiding." As they walked past the empty nitro fuel tanks, a baseball cap slowly rose up out from behind the tanks. Sparky began to shake as the robot slid back down behind the giant empty nitro tanks.

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Walking out of the control room, Zero watched as Midnight was captured. He noticed Karma was unconscious as one of the drones brought her over to Midnight. "We can climb down, try through the garages." Tez shook his head as he looked at the metal braces.

No, I can't. Zero looked at Tez who knew he wasn't going to be able to make it out of the lab without being caught.

Y-you can take off the braces. I-I could help you!

Zero….. It's too late for me. Tez gave Zero an assuring look and glanced down at the electronic key he had in his hand. Their attention was soon drawn to the elevator which was about to reach them. Zero looked at Tez one last time before he had made up his mind. "Here, take Reverb. I added the Nitrox 2 Afterburner." The injured teen tossed Zero the key that would start his Ex Gear and smiled.

If I can get away, I'll get in touch with the others.

They can't be reached Zero, YOU have to stop Gwen. Tez watched as Zero hesitated for a second. The teen glanced down at the electronic key and then back at Tez. He had a half smile as he spoke.

I'll do what I can. Zero looked at the elevator and jumped down the first flight of stairs. The teen was already too far ahead to hear what Tez said next.

Good luck. The next thing Tez knew, there were drones walking towards him.

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Walking out of Yukihana's room, Kasenhana knew she had over slept. She had missed the mission but she knew that they could get Kyoya back without her help. Glancing to the right, she saw Drake fighting off a few drones that were trying to capture him. She slowly stepped back into the room and tried to figure out what to do.

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Running down the metal stairs, Zero came to a stop and looked over the metal guard rail. Looking down, the teen could see two drowns guarding the bottom of the stairs. If he tried to fight them he would most likely win but then the other drones would be aware of him. Five flights of stairs separated Zero from the two drones, glancing over his shoulder, the teen could see a two stone support beams that had stone platforms connected to them. The space wasn't very big but it was big enough for a person to stand on. Smiling slightly, the teen walked over to the metal guard rail and quickly lifted himself onto it. Jumping from the railing to the stone platform between the two support beams, Zero landed safely onto it without alerting the two drones below him. Next to the support beams was the orange Ex Track, Zero quickly stepped back and took a running start before jumping to the orange Ex Track. As he landed on the track he did a slight roll, he stood up once he was sure none of the drones had seen him jump. Taking a few steps down the track he could see the side entrance for the garages not far away, the only thing between him was a slight drop and a few nitro fuel tanks. "This should be fun." Jumping off of the track, the teen landed next to a few nitro tanks which he quickly hid behind when he noticed a few drones about to walk away from the track. A row of large canisters hid him from view while he caught his breathe, the thought of not making the jump from the stone pillar to the Ex Track was still in his mind. Leaning against the canisters, Zero slowly stood up so he could see where the drones were at. The one's he had seen were now walking away from the canisters.

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Tapping his hand on the steering wheel of the Sweeper, Croc sighed as he looked out the giant window. Tone and Metal were also looking around but didn't see any places that looked like a prison. "Does this look familiar? I think we've been this way before."

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The other bladers sat inside of the room that was used to take apart Ex Gears. Charlotte was lying on her Hyper Gear listening to Disk work on his Ex Gear. The others were either fixing their beys or improving their Ex Gears. Ryuto sat next to Gingka and began asking him a few questions. "What exactly happened to Kyoya anyway?" Gingka sighed a little and hit his head against the wall before speaking.

"We were in the Junk Realm when it happened. He was giving me no choice but to battle him so I launched Pegasus onto the track. Ryuga kept his distance and decided to watch the battle while making sure no drones attacked us." Gingka took Pegasus out of his pocket and looked at his bey while he spoke. The teen could still remember the battle as if it had just happened. "We had just entered the final part of the track that had these giant spinning malice's. Leone was trying to use its special move to knock me into one of them so I would lose the battle but Pegasus kept fighting as hard as he could. Once Kyoya realized that I wasn't going down easily, he started ramming me into piles of junk that were scattered on the track. Eventually I ran into one that made me lose my balance. He took advantage of that and sped ahead of me, he didn't see the malice flying towards him until it was too late. After he saw it the giant malice slammed into him and knocked him into a pile of junk that was right below the track. I figured he could still get onto the track so I made sure to take his bey so he would at least leave me alone until the end of the race. He was just too stubborn to quite the battle."

Ryuto couldn't believe the battle had been that epic and tragic at the same time. He had seen the many of Gingka's battles in the past but they didn't sound as good as this one. The short time they spent talking was then interrupted by a familiar voice on the intercom. "C-can a-anyone h-hear me." Misaki looked up and spoke.

That sounds like Kadeem. Akito quickly activated his headset after hearing this so he could talk to Kadeem. No one had heard from Kadeem or his whereabouts since he had been lost in the Storm Zone along time ago. "Kadeem! This is Akito!"

A-Akito, I know where they are holding Kyoya. I can lead you to us.

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Walking to the window of the building that Kyoya was being kept at, Kadeem looked out the window to see a Sweeper not too far from where they were at. He smiled slightly and continued speaking. "Were in the tallest building."

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The same drone that had knocked Karma unconscious was now opening up the door to the Silenzer's car. The energy radar inside of the drone had detected a large amount of Ex Energy coming from the car; once the machine had found the car he immediately found the Ex Bey parts. "More Ex Bey Parts for Gwen." With the parts now in his hand, the drone quickly began walking out of the garages. Unknown to him, the Silenzer had seen him take the parts he had worked so hard to earn.

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Loud sirens began to echo throughout the lab once again as the portal to the Cosmic Realm closed. The three golden rings began to spin around once again before joining back together as one giant ring. Tez shook his head and slammed his fist on the metal railing. The teen couldn't help but feel sorry for all of his friends who were now trapped at Gwen's base until the next track opened up. A loud sound echoed from the elevator as it opened up. Midnight was pushed out of the elevator along with Karma. A few drones stepped out of the elevator with them making sure they didn't try to run away. "Midnight, are you alright?"

Yeah… the drones have the Ex Bey parts Tez.

WHAT! He shook his head in disbelief as heard Midnight say this. Karma had kept silent until now; she had finally decided to say something. "The drones took them from Midnight." The teen was soon punched after she had said this. "After she had discovered where I had hidden them." Tez tried to make sense of things but couldn't seem to come up with a logical reason as to how Karma had gotten a hold of the Ex Bey parts. "I altered your medication to render you unconscious. Then I took control of your bio-suit and unlocked the vault that had the Ex Bey parts in them. I took the Ex Bey parts, and replaced them with powerless duplicates."

She was following orders from the Silencerz.

But why? I thought we were friends.

Like all Silenzer X88 agents, I complete any mission that I'm asked to complete. No matter whom I have to hurt in the process. Tez couldn't believe what he was hearing from Karma. He finally understood why some of the bladers that went missing on the Ex Tracks had gone missing.

Then it was YOU who showed the Silencerz how to enter the Ex Tracks. It was YOU that made sure some of our bladers got hurt to make sure they couldn't help us. You were a spy from the very beginning!

I must do what I was told to do. The sound of clapping hands could be heard as Gwen finished walking up the stairs. She was slightly laughing as she finished clapping her hands together. The teen got a mean look from all three bladers as she began to speak. "Well done Karma, I had no idea you would ever try to hurt one of your friends. A great twist I must say, I never would have thought that out of all of the bladers that had helped Tez that you'd be the one to end up giving away all of his secrets."

Gwen. Tez couldn't stand to be in the girl's presence after everything she had put them through. She had taken down some of their best bladers and didn't even seem sorry for it. "Thanks for doing some of the work for me. I knew you would have won a few Ex Bey parts that I could use later on. When I found out how strong these drones were I just had to use them against you. They were made to race and battle, to win at ALL costs. They're even willing to sacrifice themselves in order to take down a strong blader, as you've seen with Kadeem. Now that you've given me the power to face the original creators of the Ex Tracks and Drones, I'm going to complete their final test and destroy them. Along with take over the world with that very same power."

The teen thought about what she was talking about and realized that the Ex Bey parts were the key to testing a blader once they had collected enough parts. "The Ex Bey parts….."

Yes, you see the Ex Tracks are the final test. The test that proves you deserve to race against the creators. Now I've collected enough Ex Bey parts to pass that test.

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Glancing over the canisters once again, Zero could see a few drones walk past the nitro containers once again. The teen slowly hid behind the canisters again only to be scared by Sparky who had just tapped him on the shoulder. "UGH, S-Sparky? Don't scare me like that." The robot nodded as a few sparks flew from the side of his neck. Sparky had finally gotten his new legs not that long ago, when Disk gave Croc the broken legs he had received in the Junk Realm, the teen had made sure to attach them to Sparky so he could move around more. "Sparky, do you know where Kasenhana's at?" Nodding his head once again, the robot pointed to the hallway that led to the bedrooms, which was all the way across the lab.

Hello. The robot watched as Zero looked over the canisters once again; he looked around to see a purple car fly through the entrance of the lab. Zero knew who it was but was surprised to see him get captured so easily. "Sparky, I need your help. Can you go and help Vert?" Nodding his head, the robot quickly started finding his way to where they were going to take Vert to. Zero made sure that Sparky was still unnoticed by the other drones, once he was sure that Sparky was safely away from the main floor of the lab he made his way to the garages.

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Looking over the railing, Gwen could see her Ex Gear glowing a bright golden color. She smiled and looked back at the other three bladers who were still giving her a mean look. Karma took note of the glowing Ex Gear and spoke. "The Ex Bey parts must be combining their energy." A few seconds later, a large wave of gold energy was released from the Ex Gear; the wave was strong enough to knock the four bladers off balance. Once the wave of energy had finally disappeared, the three golden rings start spinning rapidly.

Time to go. Taking a few steps away from the railing, the three bladers watched as Gwen began walking down the stairs once again. Karma slammed her fist into the wall knowing she couldn't do anything to stop her. "And Tez, when I return, you will be the first to be destroyed."

It's all over, Gwen has won.

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Kasenhana ran down the hall with Drake right beside her. The two teens had made sure to destroy any drones that stood in their way. Drake ran into Zero as they ran around the corner. "Kasenhana, Drake!"

Zero! The future daughter quickly hugged Zero and looked around for any drones that might have followed him. "Kasenhana, I need you to do me a favor."

Sure, anything. Drake quickly ran off a few seconds later to go and find more drones to destroy.

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Once Vert was sure no one was around, he quickly pushed the drone that had captured him out of the elevator before it closed. He was soon frightened when another robot met him on the way out of the elevator. The drone had a baseball cap on with a pair of broken goggles for his eyes. "Hello?" Waving his arm at Vert the robot began flailing his arms around trying to tell the teen something.

Ugh, hello? Are you a friend? His question was answered with a nod from the robot. The teen smiled and quickly asked him another questions. "Do you know where they're keeping my car?" His question was once again answered with a nod. "Can you tell me where it's at?" The robot once again began flailing its arms around. "In the garages?" Nodding his head once again, Sparky pointed in the direction of the garages. "Can you do me favor….. ummm….. Sparky?" His question was answered when the robot nodded his head and a few sparks flew from his neck.

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As the door to the garages opened up, Zero ran into the garages to see his Ex Gear resting peacefully against the wall. The teen took out the electronic key from his pocket and hit a blue button that activated his Ex Gear. Once the gear knew it was Zero, the purple neon lights lit up and the side wings slid out of their slots. Zero smiled when he saw the Ex Gear was ready to be taken onto the Ex Tracks again. A low humming sound could be heard from the gear as Zero took a few steps towards it. "Sweet." The teen's attention was soon drawn to the loud chanting of Gwen's name.

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With each step she took the louder the drones chanted Gwen's name. The three golden rings were still spinning rapidly around not showing any signs of stopping. Stepping onto her Ex Gear, Gwen activated the gear and quickly sped off to one of the speed boosters. With a few more spins the three golden rings came to stop, and landed on a symbol in the shape of a circle. Instead of the blue orb that usually appeared inside of the rings, a golden orb took its place to open portal. Gwen smiled as she passed through the first set of speed boosters, no one could stop her now. The drones chanted her name loudly as she continued to speed down the Ex Track. Glancing down at her bey, Gwen could see that it was now a golden color.

On the main floor of the Ex Track a few drones were standing next to a blue circle that happened to lead to the garages. When a person stood on it while in the garages, an elevator would take them to the top. Two loud voices soon stopped the drones chanting, they turned around to see Kasenhana and Sparky singing loudly. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAAYAYAYAY! WHO Goes AWESOME, AWESOME." Kasenhana copied whatever Sparky was singing in order to keep the drones attention away from the blue circle behind them. A few seconds passed while they continued to dance around, unknown to the drones the blue circle that was covering the elevator had slid into a slot that would allow the person below it to reach the main floor. "OH GO AWESOME, AWESOME!" Zero soon appeared behind them, keeping quiet to avoid being heard by the drones. Quickly jumping onto his Ex Gear, the teen turned his attention to a car that sped past him and ran over the drones about to attacked Kasenhana. The teen quickly flew over to Kasenhana and spoke to her.

Kasenhana, get on! Grabbing Kasenhana's hand, Zero pulled her onto the Ex Gear and sped off to try and stop Gwen.

Stopping next to Sparky, Vert opened up the passenger door and motioned Sparky to enter the purple car. "Come on Sparky!" The robot nodded his head and jumped into the air flashing red, yellow and green lights for a second.

Sparky! Running over to the purple car, Sparky sat in the car and pulled the door closed while Vert began driving away from the drones that were trying to capture them once again. Stepping on the pedal, Vert spun the steering wheel to the right and began driving to an open place in the lab that he could use to keep the drones busy.

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The few drones that were ready to attack Zero had blocked his path and kept him from passing through the speed boosters on the Synkro side of the lab. He quickly drifted to the left and slightly hit a machine that was used to make Ex Gear fames, a small spark flew off of the machine as he sped away from the drones. Kasenhana pointed to the other side of the lab that had speed boosters. "Zero, try through the Steel Maniac's speed boosters!" Putting his Ex Gear into its second gear, he sped up and drifted around a corner that led to the speed boosters. When the two teens saw more drones blocking their path to the speed boosters they quickly came to a stop.

What the hell do we do now? Kasenhana looked around for something they could use to fight them but she couldn't see any weapons they could use. Their attention was soon drawn to a drone that seemed to be malfunctioning. At the very back of the pack of drones, one of the drones had begun surrounding itself in purple lightning, a few seconds passed and the drone released a small energy wave of purple energy. The two teens soon looked at each other with confused looks on their faces. Glancing back at the drone, they watched the camoflauge of the blader disappear to reveal a Silenzer. "Thanks!" the Silenzer gave Zero a nod and a high five as he passed him to enter the speed boosters. Once he was sure Zero was okay, the Silenzer reactivated his camoflauge to look like a drone once again.

Passing through the speed booster, Zero's Ex Gear reached two hundred and fifty miles an hour. Kasenhana smiled as they passed Tez and the others while speeding down the Ex Track.

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Gwen kept her smile as she noticed someone else was on the Ex Track trying to catch up to her. She laughed slightly as she drifted around the final turn. Speaking into her headset, Gwen spoke only a few words. "Fool…. DESTROY HIM!" Passing through the final speed boosters, Gwen's Ex Gear reached three hundred miles an hour. Flying off of the Ex Track Gwen flew through the air and disappeared as she reached the golden orb. The drones soon began following Gwen's orders by firing green energy balls at the track in an attempt to hit Zero.

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Swerving to left and then to the right, Zero managed to dodge a few green energy balls before being hidden behind the portion of the track that went inside of the cave. The teen could see the final turn and spoke to Kasenhana just before drifting around the last turn. "Dunno' where going Kasenhana, but here go." Drifting around the final turn, Zero passed through the final speed boosters and flew off of the track. His Ex Gear reached three hundred miles an hour as he and Kasenhana disappeared inside of the golden orb.

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(Solar Space)

The Solar Space Track is a track that circles a blazing fire ball known as a star. Speed is the key to dodging the solar flares from a sun that blazes beneath the track. So step on it, use Sun block that protects you from heat surpassing one thousand degrees, and hope your Ex Gear doesn't melt. A portion of the Ex Track that wasn't near the sun was the beginning of the Ex Track, a blue portal opened up with Gwen flying out of it. Glancing down at her wrist band, Gwen could see a button that was labeled "Anti-Gravitation." Pressing the button, her bey began to glow and made the solar flare that was about to hit her stop in its tracks. Her smile soon disappeared when she saw Zero fly out of the portal.

Flying out of the portal, Zero could see Gwen flying down the course with her bey in front of her. The golden bey was being used to protect its owner from solar flares. His attention was drawn to Kasenhana who had begun speaking. "I've never seen this track. Have you seen this track before?"

No I haven't, but no matter what track this is we'll still beat Gwen!

Let's catch up to her then!

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Looking around for Akito and the others, Kadeem kept his eyes locked on the road that led to the tower he was in. The teen had two cannons prepared to destroy anything that was not on Gwen's side, they were mounted on the top of the tower so they could reach anyone that was trying to hide as well. "Turn right once you see a factory that makes the beys for the drones."

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On the Desert Pyramids track, bladers must contend with treacherous quick sand, deadly rock passages and scathing sandstorms. Those giant scorpions you see in the distant, those aren't a mirage. The blue portal soon opened up with Gwen and Zero flying out of it, landing on what was supposed to be the track the three teens could tell the track had been covered with sand. Gwen looked at the two teens and smiled as her Ex Gear began flying over the sand. Glancing down at her wrist band she could see two Ex Bey parts had been activated, they were called "Sand Speed" and "Total Traction." Leaving the two teens behind, Gwen laughed as her bey began carving up a path for her to race through.

With anger in their eyes, Kasenhana and Zero tried to figure out a way out of the sand. Glancing down at his wrist band, Zero could tell that Vert hadn't given him the option to use the sand spikes that Tez had given everyone else. "How are we supposed to race or battle through this sand!?" Looking at a few bones that were sticking out the sand, the teen noted that the sand that was flying into it looked like a wave. "Not race through it, surf it! Jump Jets time." Kasenhana smiled as she hit the Jump jets button on Zero's wrist band. The Ex Gear quickly began flying into the air with four pillars of purple fire sticking out from underneath it. "A dune is nothing but a big wave of sand. Now let's ride it out of here!"

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(At the End of the Desert Pyramids Ex Track)

The two teens quickly sped around a large pyramid that looked blue and digital towards the middle. The pyramid seemed to contain large amounted of energy that was supplying Reverb with more energy. Narrowing her eyes, Kasenhana could see Gwen flying into the exit portal. "There she is…. Was!" Zero smiled and quickly sped up as he flew into the exit portal.

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(Monument Ex Track)

The Monument Ex Track is a place where speed is the name of the game. Large arcs around the Ex Track that supply a blader's Ex Gear with energy will send a blader flying at three hundred miles an hour. The only way to exit the ancient tombs of the Monument Track is to their mysterious hieroglyphics – a bit of a challenge when you're racing at three hundred miles an hour. The beginning of the Ex Track is located near a few trees just outside of the ancient ruins. A blue portal soon opened up with Gwen flying out it, she landed onto the track and quickly sped off down the track. Glancing over her shoulder she could see Zero flying out of the portal. Falling in front of Gwen was a large pillar of stone that had a small crack going through it; the teen smiled when she saw it and hit the button labeled "2-D" on her wrist band. Once she hit the button, her bey helped her turn 2D and pass through the crack in the wall. Once Zero got to the giant pillar he used his Jump Jets to jump over it.

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(Warped Space Realm)

Space, Reality, the Laws of Physics, everything in the Warped Space Realm follows no logic. In the Warped Space Realm normal physics no longer apply, the track twists in on itself like a knot, gravity appears to have gone on vacation, and reality itself get… well… warped. The blue portal soon opened up causing Gwen to fly out upside down, the teen quickly fell down and fell off of her Ex Gear. Before Zero could fly out of the portal, she quickly jumped onto her Ex Gear and began speeding down the track which was bent to the side.

Flying out of the portal upside down, Zero put his hands up and quickly pushed off of the track to land right side up. Kasenhana looked around to see parts of the track twisting around and collapsing in on itself, she spoke to Zero who had just entered a knot in the track that collapsed in on itself. "This track is scary." Speeding down the track, the two teens were soon hit with a giant wave of gravity that sent them flying onto another part of the track. They were able to see Gwen not far ahead using the Teleport Ex Gear to warp away from some of the warped parts of the Ex Track. "This Ex Track is making my head hurt!"

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(Chrome Speedway)

BEWARE: Objects in mirror are FASTER, more REFLECTIVE, and closer than they appear! Reality and reflection blur in the Chrome maze where huge silver spheres threaten to crush bladers like tin foil. The track itself is a long orange strip of track that has huge silver spheres speeding down its long and winding course. The trick for mastering this track is to tell what parts of the track isn't a reflection, easier said than done since everything is being reflected off of the silver spheres. Flying out of blue portal first was Gwen who switched her bey's Ex Bey part to the one you would win if you completed the track, the bey part for this track was known as "Undistorted." The Undistorted Ex Bey part gives the blader the ability to pierce through any form of illusion, be it a mirage, reflection, or holographic camoflauge technology. "Time to look good and complete another Ex Track." Putting on her orange sunglasses, Gwen's vision eliminated all of the reflection on the track allowing her to see what the real threats were. Zero followed right behind her even when it seemed she was going run right into a silver sphere. Kasenhana panicked when she thought they were going to crash but was relieved when they went through the sphere's that seemed real.

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Tez and the other bladers had been forced to start walking towards the conference room a few seconds after Gwen and Zero had disappeared into the portal. They had noticed that the three rings had moved around every few seconds and would stop on a new symbol. Not much time had passed while they watched the three rings start to spin around again, they watched as the three rings stopped once again on a new symbol.

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(Micro Zone)

Racing and battling goes miniature in the Micro Zone where bladers are shrunken down to the size of toy cars. Bladers are dropped in the middle of traffic filled freeway like Ex Track for them to complete, or be crushed. The blue portal soon opened up with Gwen and Zero flying out of it, the orange haired girl swiftly kicked Kasenhana in the ribs causing her to fall off of the Ex Gear. "Have fun being crushed!" With a smile on her face, Gwen left Zero behind to help his future daughter. The teen quickly jumped off of his Ex Gear and pulled Kasenhana away from a giant car that was about to run over her.

Kasenhana are you okay?!

Yeah, let's just get out of the zone and on to a new track. Stepping back onto the Ex Gear, the two teens quickly sped off after Gwen who was dodging cars left and right. The teen had taken a large lead but the two teens knew they could catch up to her. Hitting the regular boost button on his Ex Gear, the two teens sped forward down the track dodging the giant tires that were close to crushing them. Loud horns could be heard in the distance as they got closer and closer to the finish line. Zero swerved to the left in order to dodge one of the giant cars but almost got hit by a car going the same direction he was. Thanks to Kasenhana, he was able to avoid being hit by the giant car; she had hit the Jump Jets button on his wrist band in order to jump out of the way. "Thanks for the save Kasenhana."

"You can thank me by not getting mad when I accidentally ruin one of your Ex Gears in the future." She grinned shyly as she said this because a few years after she would be born, the teen would end up ruining one of Zero's new Ex Gears.

"I won't get mad so long as we make through this race and actually make it into the future." Kasenhana thought about what would happen if they didn't make to the future she was from, she shivered thinking off all of the bad things that her future could have led to. First thing she had to do was make sure her future mother and father ended up together. "Duck!" Kasenhana snapped back into reality only to see a giant pipe about to hit her. Zero managed to grab Kasenhana's arm and pull her closer to the board to make sure she didn't get hit.

"For the record that wasn't a duck that was a pipe."

"For the record, you're lucky I didn't let you get hit." They laughed slightly and stood back up only to swerve to the right in order to avoid being flattened by a giant tire. Kasenhana let out a sigh of relief when she noticed there were no more cars around, only an ocean and a long Ex Track. "Time for some pay back, Kadeem, I hope you're watching this! LET IT RIP!" Launching his bey towards Gwen, Zero's bey spirit appeared flying at full speed towards the enemy. "Gear Third, CEMTERY FIRE!" Kasenhana could see Gwen look over her should and pay no mind to the special move. She soon knew why when the antagonists bey spirit appeared in front of her, the enemies bey spirit was a large mechanical nightmare. It resembled one of the green drones that Gwen used a lot against them, although this one seemed more threatening than the others. It had three large blades sticking out of its shoulders and was a giant compared to the other drones; it was large enough to rival Gandora in size. The chest plate was a dark green color that should some of the wires holding the mechanical monstrosity together. Gandora began breathing grey fire at Gwen's bey spirit but this proved to be useless as the bey spirit stood their motionless seeming to not be affected at all. The monsters response was grabbing Gandora's neck and choke slamming the dragon into the side of the cliff, large boulders and debris began falling onto the track causing all three teens to try and avoid being hit.

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(Fog Valley)

An Ex Track twisting and turning around a valley is great way to describe this Ex Track, although that would be putting it lightly. A dense fog covers the track making it nearly impossible to see where you're going; even the track itself is covered by fog. A thick fog hides gigantic obstacles and treacherous switch backs that twist the bladers into each other. The blue portal opened up at the beginning of the track where fog seems to be nowhere near the track, Gwen landed onto the track and looked around noticing the track seemed easier than the first time her shadow warriors raced on the track. The second she finished that thought the teen entered the valley and could no longer see anything; she lifted her hand up and couldn't even see it in front of her face. She smiled and activated the Ex Bey part that was won at the end of the track, the Ex Bey part was known as "Fog Vision." Fog Vision allows the blader using this bey part to see through foggy conditions, no matter how dense the fog is the blader will always get near perfect vision while racing or battle through fog. Zero flew out of the portal not long after Gwen had activated the part and had trouble finding his way through the fog. The teen looked around frantically for another track to take when he realized he was going in a complete circle, or square in this case. Kasenhana narrowed her eyes and pointed to the left; Zero veered off to the left and found a new track that took the bladers along the side of the valley. "This track is too foggy!" The young girl whined as she looked down into the valley to see something shiny, Zero looked down when it caught his eye and noticed it was an Ex Gear that belonged to one of his friends from the World Ex Race.

"Looks like Banjee wasn't the only blader lost on the Ex Tracks."

"I can see his Eye in the Sky hanging from a vine." The teen pointed to the one of the objects the teen most likely tried to use in order to survive the track. She looked at Zero who shook his head as he drifted out of the dense fog.

"Odds are he's probably dead now. We've already been through a lot of tracks I haven't even seen or heard of before. He was probably lost long before we ever entered the Storm Zone." Once they had drifted around the final turn of the Ex Track the two teens were able to see Gwen flying into the exit portal.

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Thundering down the road in the giant Sweeper, Croc listened to Kadeem tell him where to go. They eventually reached the main green road that would take them to the tower. Kadeem's voice echoed throughout the Sweeper as he spoke to Croc. "I can see you now Croc! Keep going straight ahead." Leaning against the controls of the Sweeper, both Tone and Metal looked out the window and noticed that no drones had caught on to them yet. Croc laughed slightly while speeding up.

You ever get the feeling someone's watching you?

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In the room that took part Ex Gears, everyone was getting ready to fight any drones that may be waiting to attack them. Misaki had been listening to what Croc had said carefully. The teen started shouting at the top of her lungs a few seconds later. "Croc STOP THE SWEEPER!" Everyone else in the Sweeper looked at her like she was crazy until they heard Croc say something to her.

Why what for?

JUST STOP IT, STOP IT NOW!

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The Steel Maniac looked at his two friends with a confused look on his face. Croc shrugged his shoulders but turned his attention to Tone who had placed a hand on his shoulder. "Croc, do it!"

Alright, alright! Pulling back on the steering wheel, the Sweeper began slowing down slowly as Croc stepped on the breaks. Tone and Metal quickly grabbed the steering wheel and pulled back on it.

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Tez, Midnight, and Karma were all shoved into the conference room with Madoka who had been caught when the drones had just entered the lab. She sat at one of the spinning chairs while fixing a few bey blade parts she had found lying around. "Gwen has spared your lives, until she returns." The drone soon walked off and closed the door behind him; a few drones were just outside of the door to make sure no one got in or out of the conference room. Tez shook his head and spoke.

Everything we worked for, fought for. It's all up to Zero now. If only there were some way we could help him. Karma looked at one of the monitors and smiled as she walked over to it and began hacking into the control room. "Maybe we can Tez, if I can patch into the control room we may be able to connect to his headset from here."

At least until the drones discover what you're doing. Glancing at the holographic portal through the window of the conference room, Midnight could see that it had starting spinning once again; it stopped a few seconds later and landed on a symbol shaped like a lightning bolt. Turning her attention to the monitors in the conference room, the four teens could see dark purple clouds and lightning filling the screen.

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At an unknown altitude high above the ground, dark purple clouds and giant conductors filled the sky. The loud boom of thunder could be heard in the distance with lightning striking the orange Ex Track every now and then. Kasenhana held onto Zero tightly not wanting to get struck by the lightning. "Z-ero ca-n you r-ea-d m-me?" Zero could a faint voice on his headset; the teen quickly turned up the volume on his headset and could now hear Midnight's voice.

Midnight?

What's happening?

"We're going through the Ex Tracks again," the teen quickly swerved to the right in order to avoid being hit by a lightning bolt. Turning his attention back to his headset, the teen spoke once again. "We're in the Storm Zone now. I've already been through some Ex Tracks I haven't even seen before."

Zero; remember the Ex Tracks are meant to test your racing and battling skills. You need to forget about the lightning, ignore distractions! Focus on the track.

Yeah…. Focus on the track. Ignoring ALL distractions now, Zero narrowed his eyes and began focusing on the orange Ex Track as he sped down the track after Gwen. Kasenhana decided to keep an eye on Gwen while Zero was focusing on racing. She became a little mad when she saw Gwen being struck repeatedly by lightning bolts which seemed to do nothing.

Gwen sped down the track smiling as she was struck over and over again by lightning. Her bey was still ahead of her and was now glowing purple, the effects of the Storm Zone Ex part had been activated which kept Gwen from being hurt by lightning.

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Pulling as hard as they could on the steering wheel, the three teens controlling the Sweeper continued to slow the Sweeper down with each passing second. The Sweeper soon came to a stop with a large explosion erupting just a few feet away from them. Tone quickly looked out the window to see two giant cannons at the top of the tower. "Everyone out of the Sweeper, were taking these guys down!" Tone and Metal left the control room of the Sweeper a few seconds later and began climbing the ladder that led to everyone else. Stepping down from the ladder, Tone quickly jumped onto his Ex Gear and gave Metal a fist bump before watching Akito help Charlotte push her Hyper Gear out of the Sweeper.

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(Swamp Lands Ex Track)

Giant trees and vines filled the large mosquito infested swamp lands. Vines and moss hung from the thousands of trees that were scattered around the swamp. The Ex Track had moss growing on it after years of not being used. Any Ex Gear that tried to ride over the moss would cause the gear to lose speed and traction. The moss covered track stretches around trees, vines, and any things else you could find in a swamp. A few feet above the track a blue portal opened up. Gwen flew out of the portal a few seconds later, after she landed on the track her Ex Gear began swerving to the right thanks to the moss that was growing on the Ex track. Glancing over her shoulder once again, Gwen could see Zero catching up to her.

Kasenhana held Zero tightly as she saw giant mutant worms slithering down some of the tree branches. She glanced down to see a swamp not far from them. "Eww I don't like swamps!"

Tell me about it! Who can race in a place like this? The two teens sped up and watched as Gwen began taking a track that got closer to the swamp water. Hitting the regular boost button on his Ex Gear, Zero left a trail of blue fire behind him as he sped past the fork in the road that Ox and Croc had once used a long time ago. Glancing to the left, Kasenhana tapped his shoulder.

Not even Banjee could race in a place like this. Zero looked at the water and could see a moss covered Ex Gear that was more than half submerged in green swamp water. He could tell it was Banjee's due to the Ex Gear having the word Ballistik printed across part of the gear.

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With a smile on her face, Charlotte climbed into her Hyper Gear and connected her Ex Gear into the slot that was used to control it. She glanced at the Sweeper when she saw Ox fly out of the giant green truck. "Heheh alright, let's move some metal." Laughing slightly, Charlotte activated her Ex Gear and began flying into the air to watch over everyone.

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(Lava Inferno)

Smoke filled the sky of the blazing inferno that was the lava track. The orange Ex Track twisted around a few volcanoes and even went extremely close to the lava. The heat from the lava was hot enough to melt the metal frame of any Ex Gear that got to close. It had been thirty minutes since the bladers had entered the Ex Track and they were having a more than difficult time racing on the track. They couldn't launch their beys due to the lava being hot enough to melt them if they were knocked off the track, and the extreme heat conditions made it even more difficult to battle if they could. Lava pillars erupted from the sea of lava as the bladers sped down the track. "The heat is killing me." Kasenhana shielded her eyes from the lava as they got closer to the lava sea. Zero hit a button on his Ex Gear a few seconds later that switched his gear into a mode that kept the lava from melting any part of it. Looking a bit further, the two teens could see Gwen having no trouble racing through the lava.

We need to get those Ex Bey parts away from her. As long as she has them she'll have an unfair advantage.

Then let's take them away from her! Speeding down the Ex Track a bit longer, the three teens eventually reached the exit portal and flew through it.

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Akito gave Misaki a kiss before jumping onto his Ex Gear; the white haired teen tapped his shoulder to get his attention. "Don't die you noob, if I'm going to marry anyone it's going to be you!" She quickly flicked him in the forehead just before she stepped on her Ex Gear.Laughing slightly, he gave Misaki one last hug before jumping back onto his Ex Gear. Glancing over at Akashi, he could see Scarlet standing right behind him. Disk quickly walked past them and jumped onto his Ex Gear, the teen sped past Akito a few seconds later. He watched as Ryuto, Ryuga, Gingka, and Kenta flew out of the Sweeper with their bey's ready to go. "Let's go!" Hitting the boost button on his Ex Gear, Akito flew out of the Sweeper with Misaki following right behind him. Akashi joined them with Scarlet not far behind him.

Back inside of the control room, Croc made sure everyone was out of the Sweeper before he activated the giant propeller that spun inside the mouth of the Sweeper. Glancing up for a second, Croc could see hundreds of drones riding motorcycles towards them. Pushing a lever forward and slamming his foot down on one of the pedals, the Sweeper began moving forward quickly. He soon passed the other bladers while they stayed close to the Sweeper. A few seconds later, the Sweeper began knocking dozens of drones out of their way while everyone else launched their beys at the other hundreds of drones trying to attack them. Each blader began shouting his or her special move one after another, taking out as many drones as they could. Croc watched as a drone almost knocked Tone off of his Ex Gear, the teen was saved thanks to Charlotte diving into the drone with her Hyper Gear. "Who's Sweeping now HUH?!"

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(Midnight Caverns)

Loud screeching bats dove down from stalactites that rested peacefully above the orange Ex Track. The cavern was pitch black aside for the purple neon lights on Zero's Ex Gear. Gwen could be seen not far ahead using the Midnight caverns Ex Bey part to complete the track without any problems. To Gwen, everything was bright since the part allowed her to see in total darkness. Zero was having a difficult time since the only light he had to use was his purple neon lights. "Zero look out!" Glancing up, the two teens could see stalactites falling on top of the track. He quickly swerved to the left in order to dodge a bat that was trying to attack him. A few mutant bats that were flying around trying to attack Gwen while she continued to stay in first place, the teen quickly became annoyed and began attacking the bats with her bey. Drifting around the final turn, the three teen's soon found the exit portal and disappeared after entering it.

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Madoka looked out the window to see if Drake had been captured yet. The bey mechanic hadn't seen him at all since the drones had taken over Tez's lab. Midnight and Tez had been trying to help Zero while he was racing against Gwen but they started becoming less sufficient in supplying Zero with the skill needed to beat each Ex Track. Turning her attention to the golden rings, Madoka watched them spin around once again. A few seconds later they spun around again and landed on a symbol shaped like a giant N. Her attention was soon drawn to Midnight who hadn't noticed that Zero was now on a new Ex Track. "Zero, the skill for this Ex Track-" Midnight was cut off when Tez tapped her shoulder and spoke to her.

He's already on another Ex Track Midnight.

W-what? How can they go so fast?

The golden orb inside of the rings must have reconfigured for the ultimate race through the Ex Tracks.

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A world filled with water. That is a simple way to describe the Water Realm, but it's much more than that. At an unknown depth deep beneath the surface is a long see through pipeline surrounded by mutant jelly fish, sting ray sharks, and many other mutant sea creatures. Far beyond the start of the Ex Track, Gwen flew out of one of the see through tubes and smiled as she landed on top of the water. She immediately began flying over the water as if it were a regular Ex Track. The teen drifted to the right and got back onto the orange Ex Track a few seconds later.

Zero kept calm and made sure not to speed up as he entered a part of the track that had water covering it. The teen glided over the water like he had been doing it his whole life. Kasenhana listened to him as he concentrated on finishing the race. "Watch the over steer." As they sped down the final part of the track, Zero splashed some water into the air that hit Kasenhana in the face.

Hey! I'm still here you know!

I know. They laughed slightly and flew off of the ramp and into the exit portal.

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Only a matter of seconds had passed to the other bladers that were fighting the drone's army in Gwen's HQ. Akashi and Scarlet had been separated from the group; they had taken a different portion of the track and were trying to find their way back to the group. Everyone else still remind relatively close to the Sweeper while they battle the drones. Glancing at the two canons mounted to the tower, Metal could see a giant green energy ball flying towards them. "Croc look out!" A large explosion erupted after the energy ball collided with the Sweeper, due to the Sweeper being made of drone technology it was unaffected by the energy's ability to destroy any kind of Ex Gear or machine. That didn't mean that the explosion wouldn't affect it. The giant Sweeper had begun to swerve to the side due to the amount of energy that had collided with it. Croc used this to his advantage and was able to use the Sweeper as a giant battering ram to knock out even more drones as he sped onto a different part of the green Ex Track.

Following Croc, every other blader followed him down the same path so they wouldn't get separated. A few bladers could see Charlotte flying above them in order to keep the drones from attacking. Disk smiled and flew closer to the Sweeper as he began to talk to Croc. "Nice timing Croc."

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(Labyrinth Zone)

The Labyrinth Zone is a track filled with giant stone walls. The track itself was a labyrinth that had endless twists and turns. The Labyrinth Zone's infinite tangle of twists and turns can totally confuse careless bladers that happen to land onto its cruel track. If they're lucky, they'll drown in the murky water traps. If they're unlucky they'll meet one of the many savage Maze Minotaur's that are lurking in the shadows ready to thrash them across the labyrinth. Opening up at the beginning of the track was a blue portal; flying out of the portal first was Gwen who still held a slight lead against Zero. She laughed when she looked at the bey part she had to use in order to beat the Ex Track, the teen knew that the Silencerz had won this part and even though they were good enough to rival her and her drones they're bey parts were hers. Glancing down at her wrist band she pressed a button labeled "Navigator." This Ex Bey part could pinpoint any bladers way to the finish line no matter where they were at, you could be in another dimension and it could still show you a way to the finish line, and it ALWAYS shows you the fastest way there. It would ensure the blader that they could get to the finish line first. Gwen could hear Zero fly out of the portal, she activated a second bey part that made her start slipping around ninety degree turns like they were straightaway's. Zero hit the regular NO2 button on his wrist band and tried to catch up to the antagonist who was slowly increasing the gap between them. Looking into the air Zero could see Gwen's bey spirit destroy part of the labyrinth that was hovering above them; he swerved to the left and became stuck inside of a Hyper Gear that was in the shape of a jet. It had black wings with the word "Stratosphere" printed on them in white lettering. "Time to find out why Charlotte loves this Hyper Gear so much, let's go buddy!" Once it heard its users voice the Hyper Gear took off into the air and began dodging all of the falling debris that would have killed the two teens if they hadn't used the Hyper Gear. Zero was able to see Gwen once again and didn't like what he saw. Below him he could see Gwen snapping around turns like they were nothing and quickly getting to the finish line. Hitting the NO2 button on his wrist band cause the Hyper Gear to pick up even more speed, the two teens began closing in on Gwen as she began closing in on the exit portal.

"I must give you two credit, I never expected you to follow me all the way into the Ex Track but I can't let you keep that Hyper Gear. Gelorum!" Announcing her bey spirits name Gwen smiled and watched as Gelorum appeared in the air. The giant mechanical bey spirit brought down its fist which was aimed at Zero's Hyper Gear, the teen quickly used his Jump Jets to jump out of the gear and avoid being hit by the giant fist. Kasenhana looked over her shoulder to see Charlotte's favorite Hyper Gear explode from the impact; she tapped Zero's shoulder and warned him the empty shell of the gear was falling towards them. The teen looked over his shoulder but saw a giant maze Minotaur catch the empty shell and toss it away from them; Zero got the feeling it was the same Minotaur that had attacked Scarlet back when the bladers had first entered the track. Gwen entered the exit portal with Zero closing in on it. Kasenhana waved to the Minotaur and smiled.

"Thanks Mr. Minotaur sir!" Her comment was answered with a loud roar that echoed throughout the entire Ex Track. Zero giggled slightly but snapped back into his serious self and sped through the exit portal.

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Scarlet veered off to the right and onto another green Ex Track that split off from the rest of the group. She knew that if they stayed in a group the drones would take aim at the Sweeper and if it were to be destroyed they would lose the only power house in their arsenal. The Italian girl looked up to see Charlotte giving her cover from above in her Stratosphere Hyper Gear. "Let it RIP!" The teen launched her bey off the side of the green Ex Track so it would land on the track below her; she quickly followed her bey by jumping over the edge of the track and landing next to the spinning top. A few drones sped towards her but she just laughed and began speaking. "SPECIAL MOVE; Ice Breaker!" The drones were suddenly frozen solid and then exploded into millions of snowflakes. "Nice try but no dice!" Scarlet's joy faded just as fast as it had appeared when she saw an energy ball flying straight for her, the teen tried to avoid it but knew it was too late to dodge it.

The next thing she heard was Ryuto's voice, "Special move Terror VOLT!" The two colliding special moves resulted in a special move that saved Scarlet's life. "Try not to get yourself killed!"

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Kenta launched his bey towards a few drones that were closing in on Gingka, using his "Flame Claw" special move he was able to destroy them and keep Gingka safe from harm. The teen looked to his right only to be knocked off the main Ex Track by a drone; he landed on another track that was leading to another part of the city. "Dang it! Guys I'm going to have to meet up with you someplace else." Hitting the boost button on his Ex Gear, the teen entered a giant loop with a drone following right behind him. He swerved left and right, and eventually came to a complete stop at the top of the loop causing him to plummet to the ground. The drone tried copying the teen but wasn't ready for the teen's bey spirit to catch the blader and toss him on another Ex Track.

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Ryuga began laughing as he dodged and weaved out of the drone's way; he smiled and grabbed L Drago from his gauntlet. Tossing the bey onto the Ex Track it slowly spun around as if it had been spun by a toddler, the drone's chasing after him launched their beys at L Drago to find that their attacks had no effect on the forbidden bey. Ryuga just gave them a smirk and watched as the drones began retreating when L Drago began absorbing the spin strength their beys, the teen wouldn't let them get away that easily. L Drago appeared as L Drago Destructor charged towards the retreating drones; the next thing Ryuga saw was his bey spirit tear the machines apart. "HAHAHAHA! ROAR L DRAGO! ROAR LOUDER!"

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(Cybergrid)

The Cybergrid was an electric charged track with lightning bolts flying in every direction. A giant, supercharged circuit board, the Cybergrid track is a maze of ninety degree turns policed by electronic countermeasures that hunt down bladers and burn them to bytes. Flying out of the blue portal and onto the yellow Ex Track first was Gwen who had just barley left Zero in the dust, she looked up into the air and could electronic countermeasures trying to burn her to bytes. Using the same Ex Bey parts as last time she laughed as her Ex Gear told her exactly where to go and smiled when her gear snapped through ninety degree turns with the help of the "Folding Corners" Ex Bey part. The Folding Corners Ex Bey part granted the user the ability to snap through ninety degree turns and not lose any speed; simply put you could be going five hundred miles an hour and turn immediately without losing any speed. Zero flew out of the portal next and could see that Gwen was already widening the gap between them, the teen hit the NO2 button and sped off after her hoping that he could catch her soon. Kasenhana launched her bey at one of the walls and caused it to collapse in front of Gwen, the orange haired teen tried to avoid the debris but the Ex Bey part she had made her snap a ninety degree turn right into a wall. "That daughter of a bitch… nice move." Gwen brushed some debris off her coat and quickly jumped back onto her Ex Gear; she launched her bey once again and began blasting debris out of her way. She swerved left and right to avoid being zapped by one of the counter measures. Almost an hour passed for the three bladers when they finally saw the exit portal.

"Kasenhana get ready to launcher your bey at Gwen once again. We're going to use the speed boosting part of the track to sling shot us into first place." Kasenhana pushed against the wall to make Zero veer off to the right, this was to have them dodge a counter measure from zapping them. Due to the counter measure the speed boosting portion of the track was destroyed. "Scratch that, we're just going to do what we do best." The two teens eventually reached the goal and passed through the portal that would take them to the next track.

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(Reactor City)

Reactor City is place that appears to be a rundown old factory. In reality it's a city that has been almost destroyed by toxic waste. The track itself has toxic spills on it; any unlucky bladers that fall of their Ex Gears could end up landing on top of a giant toxic waste puddle. If a blader is unlucky they'll meet one of the many toxic gators that are lurking in the toxic ocean. Entering the Reactor City is easy, but leaving is another story. Flying out of the blue portal Gwen immediately drifted to the right, Zero flew out of the portal a few seconds later and did the same. Gwen veered off to the left in order to take the Ex Track that was close to the green toxic sea, she was using the Navigator Ex Bey part to find her way through the track again. Zero followed right behind her knowing that the only way to keep up with Gwen would be to take the same Ex Track as she did, he looked down at the toxic sea and saw three toxic gators swimming passed them and straight for Gwen. He smiled and knew that she wouldn't be getting away without a scratch this time.

The next thing Gwen saw was three toxic gators jumping out of the sea, they began firing toxic sound waves towards her but they were canceled out due to the Ex Bey part that had been activated. "Sound Buffer" was the Ex Bey part that a blader would win after completing this track, it's special ability allowed a blader to cancel out any and all sound wave based attacks, this proved to be effective against most of the toxic creatures living in the run down city. "This is too easy, why can't there be a track that can give me a real challenge?" Not long after defeating most of the toxic gators the three teens found the exit portal and quickly left the city to race on the next Ex Track.

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(Canyon Realm)

The canyon track was a track that crisscrossed above an impossibly deep chasm. The Canyon Realm challenges bladers with sheer drops at every turn. Racing along this track tests the skills of even the most talented bladers. Gwen immediately began using the Canyon Realm Ex part when she flew out of the portal, the bey part was known as "Hyper Jump." The Hyper Jump bey part allowed any blader to gain the ability to always land a jump, you could fall off of a cliff and still land perfectly on the ground below without any scratches on you. The teen managed to land on the track due to the Ex Bey part, at this point she wasn't even trying to out race Zero since she knew he could never beat her while she used the Ex Bey parts. As the antagonist thought this Zero flew out of portal doing his best to keep up with her.

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(During the time the other bladers were getting separated)

"Thanks…. Disk, behind you!" Glancing over his shoulder, Disk could see a few drones firing energy balls at him. Swerving to the left, the teen avoided being hit by a few of the attacks but as he swerved back to the right he hit one of the giant wheels the Sweeper had and spun out.

"AHH!" The music loving teen fell off of his gear as everyone passed him. Metal saw the teen's gear had been severely damaged and was about to be captured by a few drones, he looked at Ox who looked back at the leader knowing what he wanted him to do.

"Ox can you get Disk?"

"Pffffft If I have to." Swerving the gear to the right Ox managed to turn around and start traveling back towards Disk who was fighting off a few drones that were trying to capture him.

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(Metro Realm)

The Metro track seems eerily familiar at first, an ordinary city with cars and semi-trucks. Freeways and regular city streets are scattered all around. This is no ordinary city though; this cityscape is devoid of life. Driverless cars and semi-trucks careen along the deserted streets hunting down bladers one collision at a time. The blue portal opened up inside of a tunnel. The tunnel lead to a giant island that had hundreds and thousands of buildings on it, if an unlucky blader falls off the track he or she will fall into a never ending glowing yellow light that lays below the track. With her eyes narrowed and the Ex Bey part activated for this track, the teen rammed all the cars that were in her way either upside down, on their side, or off of the Ex Track. The Ex Bey part known as "Battering Bubble," allows the blader to knocked any and all obstacles out of their way. Zero weaved in and out of the cars that had been knocked in front him in order to keep up with Gwen; he eventually stopped drifting and focused on the skill for the track. "I need to stop drifting and maintain my balance," as he said this, a loud horn from a Kamikaze Semi truck wailed behind him, "Balance increase traction." Kasenhana looked over her shoulder to see the semi-truck getting ever so closer to them. She began shaking a bit hoping they would make it out of the track alive.

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Charlotte looked over the side of her Hyper Gear to see a few energy balls flying towards her, the teen groaned and spun to the side in order to avoid being hit. Grabbing her launcher Charlotte connected her bey to it and launched it at the drones controlling the cannons that were firing energy balls at people. "LET IT RIP!" Charlotte looked over the side of the Hyper Gear once again to see how close her bey was to the building, once it was close enough she announced her special move. "BLACK HALBERD!" She looked at the building and watched as her bey spirit appeared and destroyed part of the building causing a few of the drones to fall of the building. The cannons were still active though; Charlotte noticed this and tried to go back for another attack but was driven off by a few green jets. "How come they get jets to?! Awww my bey!" Charlotte groaned again when she realized she had to go back and get her bey.

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(Wind Tunnel Ex Track)

Grey clouds covered the skies of the Wind Tunnel Track. Tornadoes swirled everywhere throughout the track. Instead of an orange Ex Track, bladers have to race and battle on track made of stone. A savage vortex of wind batters bladers with car-swallowing tornadoes, furiously swaying tracks and windblown debris that flies at supersonic speeds. Flying out of blue portal while taking her sunglasses off, Gwen landed on the long stone bridge that spilt apart into multiple tracks, she looked around and activated the Navigator Ex Bey part and the bey part that was won form this track. The bey part from this track was known as "Wind Shark." The "Wind Shark" Ex Bey part allowed the blader to stay stabilized even during the worst wind storms, no matter how strong the wind was the blader could race/battle through it without any problems. Zero flew out of the portal next and hit the regular NO2 button on his wrist band; he left a trail of fire behind him as he closed the gap between him and Gwen. Gwen looked at the two teens and shook her head.

"You'll never catch me!" She then jumped off of the track in order to keep Zero from following her. Kasenhana cursed and looked at Zero who was trying to figure out where to go.

"Take that track!" She pointed to a track that looked like it held some potential. The black haired teen looked at her and hit the regular NO2 button again in order to speed up.

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Sing looked around for Aiai while she drifted around one of the millions of buildings inside of Gwen's base. She sighed and noticed a team of drones flying towards her, they hadn't noticed her yet which gave her the chance to hide. The teen dove into one of the buildings and closed the door, she watched as the drones sped passed the building paying no mind to where she had hid at. She ran out of the building and quickly connected her bey to her launcher. "LET IT RIP!" Her bey flew through the air towards the drones who were now alerted of her presences. "Special move; Melody Chimes!" Spinning towards the drones the bey blade activated its special move by firing large musical notes towards the drones. Upon impact the exploded and destroyed each and every one of the drones that were in the small pack. "TAKE THAT!" Aiai placed a hand on Sing a few seconds later and began laughing.

"You're starting to sound like Charlotte now." Her comment was greeted with a punch in the shoulder, Aiai just laughed and jumped back onto her Ex Gear; she took off with Sing following right behind her.

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The Blizzard Zone is a track that starts at the top of an extremely tall mountain, and if that seems to easy the track also starts inside of a vicious snowstorm with zero visibility. The sleet is strong enough to even punch through the windshield of a car. Gwen flew out of the blue portal and quickly stopped to look around, she had gotten far ahead of Zero and Kasenhana since she had used the Navigator Ex Bey part. The teen couldn't see anything due to the snow completely blurring her vision. "Even though it's not sunny I think I'll put my sunglasses back on." While putting her sunglasses on the orange haired teen activated several Ex Bey parts at once. The first was the "Total Traction" Ex Bey part which had been won by Yukihana. The Total Traction Ex Bey part allowed the blader to be able to gain traction on any type of surface, whether it was water, sand, mud, or even bone dry pavement the blader could always get traction on it. Gwen laughed slightly thinking it was ironic that a bey part won by Zero's unofficial girlfriend would help her win the race/battle. The next bey part she activated was the "Fog Vision" Ex Bey part since the snow was acting as a fog like condition, and the last one she activated was the Navigator Ex Bey part. The teen was soon able to see through the snowstorm and began carving her was through the snow. Not long after she had left, Zero flew out of the portal looking hopelessly lost. He frantically looked around for the track but couldn't find it anywhere. Kasenhana placed a hand on his shoulder and pointed to where he needed to go. Zero gave her a confused look but she spoke.

"We live in Yukihana's home town and since we live near a mountain with fierce snowstorms my eyesight has become very good at seeing things even when it's nearly impossible." He smiled at her and quickly sped off down the snow in order to catch up to Gwen who was somewhere further down the track. Not too long later, Kasenhana pointed to the tunnel that had been destroyed by the Sweeper way back then. She explained to him that the Sweeper had carved out a path down to the bottom of the mountain which could be used to get the lead on Gwen, or at least close the gap between them.

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Zeth grabbed one of the Drone's by the arm and managed to through the robot over his shoulder and into another drone that was trying to capture him. The teen looked around and noticed he was now surrounded by drones; he cursed and wished that his teammates were here to help him out. He tried counting how many drones were about to attack him but lost track after one hundred. The next thing the teen saw was a giant orange Chinese dragon destroying them. "Roar L DRAGO!" While he wasn't Zeth's friend, the teen was happy to have Ryuga help him out.

"GRAIVYT…." Zeth jumped onto his Ex Gear and began charging up his attack while L Drago kept the drones away. He waited a few more seconds before unleashing all of the energy he had stored up. "BOMB!" After announcing his special move a large blast of energy engulfed the two teens and drones causing a massive explosion, Ryuga sped out of the smoke unscratched with Zeth following right behind him.

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Ev dodged and weaved in and out of the drones that were trying to attack her, she sighed and wished she could just be home reading a good book. The teen was then back handed off of her Ex Gear and into a wall, she managed to stand up but her vision was slightly blurred due to being hit in one of her eyes. She grabbed her Ex Gear and jumped onto it trying to get away but failed when she ran into a wall due to her blurred vision. The teen looked around shaking her head around trying to get her vision to go back to normal, when her vision finally returned she saw a large jet like Ex Gear knock all of the drones off of the Ex Track and away from Ev. "You're welcome Ev! Go kick some bey butt now!" The blue haired teen smiled and jumped back onto her Ex Gear while launching her bey onto the Ex Gear.

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Gingka and Tone sped down one of the many Ex Tracks that split from the main track. A few drones had ambushed them and were now keeping them on the run. Tone sped up and quickly matched Gingka's speed; he looked at him and then looked up to see a giant energy ball heading straight for them. They both hit the NO2 boosters on their wrist bands and flew off of a ramp and onto another track not too far away. The drones following them tried to catch up but were destroyed when the green energy ball exploded after hitting the track. "Go after Kyoya Gingka," the teen quickly spun around and began heading back to the drones that were chasing Kenta, "We'll hold off the drones." Gingka smiled and give him a thumbs up before speeding off towards the tower.

"Thanks!"

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(Cliffside Ex Track)

On top of a large mountain overlooking a drop of unknown heights, the Ex Track twisted to the left and right challenging a blader's ability to drift. The Cliffside track is perfect for bladers ho like hairpin turns, rockslides, and waterfalls. And for those who want additional thrills there's always a giant vulture or two. Landing on top of the orange Ex Track first was Gwen who was now focused on winning, she no longer had any intention of taking any chances in this race. Zero landed only a few feet behind her which annoyed Gwen to no end, the three teens entered the giant loop and began drifting into the turn that would take them to the part of the track that swirled around and around. The teen looked at Zero and smiled as she spoke. "You cannot defeat me; I have the Ex Bey part!" The orange haired teen activated the Ex Bey part known as "Turn and Burn." The Turn and Burn Ex Bey part allowed the blader to go as fast as they wanted and be able to make any turn, you could be going five hundred miles an hour and still make a hairpin turn without losing any speed or power. Gwen smiled as she sped around several turns without losing any of her speed; she left a small trial of orange lines every time she sped around a turn. Zero found this difficult since he would lose a lot of speed having to drift around each turn; he knew that he would lose for certain if he didn't find a faster way down the Cliffside.

"I don't need, Ex Bey parts," Zero looked at the edge of one of the turns and smiled as he sped towards it with no signs of slowing down. Kasenhana began freaking out when she thought Zero had gone crazy. "Hang on Kasenhana!" Flying off of the side of the Ex Track Zero fell through the air avoiding the Ex Track's twists and turns, the teen could see Gwen leaving the triple loops towards the bottom of the track. A few seconds later he landed safely onto the track without as much as a scratch.

"You got lucky with that!"

"It was all skill."

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Disk leaned against the guard rail of one of the Ex Tracks while he looked at the two drones that were walking towards him. He gave them a nod and then pointed to the Ex Gear flying towards them, by the time they saw Ox they were already flying through the air. The teen quickly stopped a few feet away from Disk and motioned for him to get on. "Hey Synkro, come on, get on."

"Heheh yo." The teen looked around a slowly walked over to the Ex Gear. Ox's eye twitched slightly while he waited for Disk to get on his Ex Gear, he mumbled to himself when he noticed the teen was going to be a while. "Dang Synkro I can't believe I'm doin' this."

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(The Ice Realm)

An unstable plain atop a huge glacier, the ice track suffers massive geological disruptions. Bladers will have a challenge avoiding the skyscraper sized icicles falling down on top of them. If they can survive those, they should worry about running into the ice yeti that lives near the track. A few feet above the frozen Ex Track the portal had opened up with Gwen flying out of it, yet again in first place. She landed on top of the frozen track and activated several Ex Bey parts. The bey parts she had activated were Total Traction, and the part won from the track itself, the "Slip Grip" Ex Bey part. The Slip Grip bey part would increase the friction of the bey being used which would also affect how the blader would travel on a slippery surface such as ice. This would allow the blader to race across ice or any slick surface like it was bone-dry pavement. The teen flew over the ice as if it were just another walk in the park; she flew off of the track a few seconds later and landed on top of the orange Ex Track. Zero flew out of the portal next and immediately used his Jump Jets to avoid sliding on the ice; he could eventually see the Ex Track but could tell something wasn't right. "Zero, is it just me or does it feel like were being watched?"

"I was just thinking the same thing."

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Sparks flew from Sparky's neck as Vert drifted around one of the many machines that were used to fix Ex Gears; the teen rapidly moved the steering wheel to the left in order to avoid being hit by some of the green energy balls that were flying towards him. "HEY! I just had this thing repainted!" His attention was shifted to the voice that was trying to talk to him through his helmet; he hit a button on his helmet that allowed him to talk to the others that were in the lab. He could hear the voice of a young girl after he had activated his helmet headset.

"Who exactly are you?" The voice belonged to Madoka who had helped by contacting the other people who hadn't been caught yet, although that was only two people at the moment. Vert spun the steering wheel to the right in order to have his car avoid hitting the pole that was right in front of him, as he did this a drone flew past him and collided with the pole causing the robot to explode.

"I'm a friend of Zero's, the names Vert. Hey, is there any sign of the person that I contacted to come and help me out?"

"No, we haven't seen anything yet." Vert thought about trying to contact Kurt once again but his train of thought was lost when a drone ran into him causing him to spin out. His car spun around a few times before finally stopping; when it did it slowly began moving backwards. The next thing he knew he was sent flying backwards down the orange Ex Track. His car had rolled through the speed boosters before he had gotten the chance to start driving again. A few drones had followed him onto the Ex Track and were quickly closing in on him.

"Hang on Sparky!" The blond haired teen pulled up on the emergency brake and spun his steering wheel to the right in order to turn around and drive forward again. A trail of blue fire was left after Vert had hit the Nitrox button on his steering wheel, the drone that were chasing him weren't going to let him go that easily. Sparky looked out the window to see every drone was trying to get onto the track in order to capture them. What caught both of their attentions next was the car that flew through the holographic entrance.

"We're here to help surf….. Whoa….."

"Yeah, a lot of drone's I know listen. Can you keep them from entering the portal after me? I can't get off of this track because if I do these drones will enter and catch up to Zero. He already has enough to worry about."

"You got it, we'll do our best but you make sure to stay alive in there. You don't know what kind of places you could end up at." As his friend said this Vert passed through the final speed boosters of the lab's Ex Track, his car reached three hundred miles an hour and disappeared as it reached the portal. The drones that had been following him had also passed through the speed boosters and were not going to let him get away.

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(Solar Space)

The Solar Space Track is a track that circles a blazing fire ball known as a star. Speed is the key to dodging the solar flares from a sun that blazes beneath the track. So step on it, use Sun block that protects you from heat surpassing one thousand degrees, and hope your car doesn't melt. Opening up once again was the blue portal to the Solar Space Ex Track with a new person flying out of it. A purple car flew out of the portal first and managed to land onto the Ex Track without any problems. The teen looked into his rear view mirror to see the drones fly out of the portal after him; Sparky looked out the window and could see a flare of fire coming towards them. "Don't worry, I've been in a tight spot like this before," The teen quickly drifted to the left and avoided being hit by the flare.

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Ramming into a few of the drones with his car, Kurt began backing up to make sure his car didn't go through the speed booster like Vert's did. The teen looked into his rear view mirror to see a green energy ball flying his way, "I don't think so," He quickly hit the nitrox button on his steering wheel and passed through the first set of speed boosters.

"Kurt, you need to get off of the Ex Track."

"That's little easier said than done Taro." The next thing the teen heard were the loud screeching tires of Taro's custom made car being set through the speed boosters. A few drones were trying to follow them as well but were destroyed by a large dragon like bey spirit. They looked down to see Drake give them the okay to follow their friend through the portal.

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(Neon Pipelines)

The Neon Pipeline track is exactly what the name would suggest. It is track filled with pipelines. The so called "Neon Pipelines" three hundred sixty degrees track unnerves most bladers because it forces them to race and battle at all angles, even upside down, to complete the track. Flying out of the portal first was Gwen, and a few moments after Zero flew out with her, they landed inside of the pipeline and took off towards the exit portal. The two teens raced side by side and soon approached the large Sweeper that had gotten stuck inside of the pipeline, Gwen shook her head and laughed as her bey flew forwards and destroyed the truck giving both teens a way through the pipeline.

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(At the Beginning of the Track)

The blue portal remained open as a purple came flying out of it, the car landed inside of the pipeline and continued going forward. Sparky looked out the window and saw they were completely surrounded by a pipeline. "Cool track….Whoa." The blonde haired teen quickly drove around the pipeline in order to avoid falling through the gap at the bottom of the pipe. The teen looked out his window when he heard the screeching of another set of tires. He looked into his rear view mirror to see his two friends following right behind him.

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Everyone that had joined Gingka in order to save Kyoya had all been separated from the main path. Gingka had to take a different course in order to get to the tower see he would avoid running into anymore drones, now he was drifting around a turn that lead all the way to the top of the green tower. The track spiraled around the tower leading all the way to the very top; he entered the room and came to a stop to see nothing in the room. The red haired teen stepped off his gear to find a green light beaming from the center of the room; he slowly walked to the light. "Kyoya….!" He looked around while he cautiously took one step at a time, once he had reached a certain distance from the light the floor had collapsed inward only to rise back up and form steps. At the top of the steps was a wall with the Leone blader seemingly stuck to it, he was unconscious and had a drone arm for his left arm. Gingka was horrified to see what they had done to his arm and shook his head, "I'm so sorry Kyoya…." He looked over at a chair that had spun around to reveal an Egyptian blader that had gone into the Storm Zone with Zero some time ago.

"If you're here to rescue me, I'm afraid you may be too late." His eyes were no longer brown, they were as green as the drones they had been fighting, and his arms had been replaced with drone arms as well as his legs. The only thing that looked the same was his chest which still had his light brown jumpsuit; everything else though had been replaced with mechanical parts. "K-Kadeem…. Wha- What have they done to you?"The teen jumped out of his seat and landed on his feet with a loud thud, when Gingka saw how tall Kadeem was he started getting ready to bolt for his Ex Gear knowing he would need the others to help him. "They made me STROGNER!" Once he heard this the red haired teen dashed to his Ex Gear only to have Kadeem jump over him and block his way. "Faster to, do you remember when we fought before, at the World Ex Race? I won."

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(The Junk Realm)

The loud clanking of rusted metal echoed throughout the old rusted Ex Track, black and dark orange clouds filled the sky along with grey smoke from some of the machines off in the distance. Large debris of rusted cars, metal, and just about anything else you could think of covered some of the track making bladers have to stay on guard when racing or battling through the track. The appearance of the Junk Realm was enough to make even the cheeriest of people depressed, it even put bladers in some of the worse danger they could ever be in. Flying out of the portal at the exact same time was Gwen and Zero, at first they seemed evenly matched but Gwen quickly stopped this illusion by activating the "Friction Less" Ex Bey part. The Friction Less bey part allowed a blader to avoid any kind of debris on a track by making wind and road resistance disappear, a blader could safely make small jumps and fly over debris without worry. The two bladers swerved in and out of the junk piles each trying to reach the goal before the other blader did, little did they know three cars had just flown out of the portal and were heading down the track as fast as they could. Not long after that, two Sweepers joined the two bladers which Zero knew had just made his task of beating Gwen nearly impossible. "K-Kasenhana….. How are we….?"

"I don't know…. Zero….?" The Sweepers began closing in on the two teens as they frantically tried to figure out a way to out run the Sweepers. Zero had figured out why two of the green trucks were still on the track, while Ox may have destroyed one of the Sweepers the second one had only fallen on its side giving the drones a chance to push it back up with any of the materials they could find in the Junk Realm. The third Sweeper had only gotten stuck on a magnet which would have eventually released the Sweeper from its hold. The next thing the two teens saw were three cars fly over from a track above them. The cars landed and were immediately recognized, Zero knew who was in each car and a smile slightly appeared on his face. He could hear Vert's voice on his headset.

"You okay Zero?"

"Yeah… Just winning for the Teku and Wave Rippers."

"We've got these behemoths, go and take her down." Zero looked at Kasenhana for a moment, and then looked at Taro's orange car. He spoke into his headset when he made his decision. "Taro…. Can you take Kasenhana for me?"

"Sure thing kid." The mentioned driver quickly drove over to Zero who pulled open the passenger door so Kasenhana could get in. She argued with Zero for a second but he managed to put her in the car before he hit the regular boost button to chase after Gwen. Kasenhana had an irritated look on her face while Taro looked into the rear view mirror to see the Sweepers were gaining on them. "Don't feel bad, he needs to take that girl on right now, by himself."

"S-sure…."

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The loud clanking of metal echoed throughout the track as Gwen and Zero flew down a hill and into the valley that had machines that spun giant twin malice's around. Gwen flew over a few debris of junk that lay on top of the track while Zero drifted around it, after avoiding a few malice's Gwen final spoke to him. "Why sacrifice yourself for all of them?" The orange haired teen flew over another pile of junk and drifted around the next turn with Zero following right behind her. "After all you're just going to end up being killed at my hands anyway." The teen didn't answer her question and instead hit a button that activated the speakers on his Ex Gear; loud music began playing as Zero started focusing on the track.

"Stay focused Zero….. gotta hit the," as the black haired teen said this a giant malice was on course to collide with Zero who seemed not to pay attention to it. WHEN I HIT THE GROUND I HIT IT RUNNIN', GO GO GO! "Apex!" The teen quickly drifted as close as he could to the inside of the turn while the malice missed him, Gwen looked over her shoulder to see Zero was dodging all of the malice's that were flying towards him. WITH THE PEDAL DOWN AND THE ENGINE PUMPIN' GO GO GO!

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Explosions filled Gwen's HQ as another team of drones sped towards the Sweeper which was not too far from them, as they reached a part of the track that branched off from the track one of the drones broke apart from the pack and sped off down the track.

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Gingka's was forcibly thrown against one the walls of the green tower as Kadeem slowly walked towards him. The teen looked at his Ex Gear which was still too far away to reach. He looked up and watched as Kadeem towered over him getting ready to punch him yet again. "What about you're people Kadeem? Your home?" The former ally stopped for a second and thought about what Gingka had said.

"Home…" The teen moved slightly so Gingka could see Kyoya as he spoke. "You'll understand home, when you become one of us, just like….." Kadeem looked over his shoulder to see Kyoya was no longer strapped to wall. Gingka smiled and turned his attention to Kadeem before he spoke.

"Kyoya."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Kadeem flew backwards after being kicked in the chest by Kyoya who had managed to stay hidden long enough for him to find an opening to attack Kadeem. The robot teen stood up and shook his head as he began running towards Kyoya who blocked the punch that he tried to hit the Leone user with. The Leone user blocked a few more punches before sweeping Kadeem off of his feet causing him to fall to the ground. Kyoya ran toward the fallen teen who managed to catch Kyoya with his giant metal feet, the drone smiled and thrust Kyoya into the air who disappeared after a few seconds. "AHHHHHHH!" Kadeem stood up shortly after and jumped into the air after Kyoya; Gingka placed a hand on his side and looked around for a way to get up the tower. "Kyoya!"

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Akashi swerved left and right as he tried to avoid being shot by one of the drones following him, the teen got his bey ready for another battle while not paying attention to the giant cannons on top of one of the towers. A green energy ball had just been fired which was on a direct course for the red orange and red haired teen, the energy ball had missed its target when Akashi veered off to the right. Due to the aftershock of the explosion had caused him to fall off of his Ex Gear and land on another track just below the one he had been on. He lay on the ground and looked up when he saw a drone stop near the gap that had been created; the drone had begun charging up another energy ball which was going to easily hit its target since he was in no shape to move out of the way. "Bring it….." The teen looked away as the drone exploded from someone's special move. Scarlet landed next to Akashi and held out her hand to the teen who managed to stand up on his own.

"Need some help?"

"…Maybe."

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(The Ruined Plains)

Enormous statues, falling columns, and a precarious marble track sprawl through the Ruined Plains. It rumored that the statues come to life when bladers enter their track. That would explain the giant fist prints in all of the wrecked Ex Gears and cars. After completing the Junk Realm, Gwen, Zero, and the four others eventually found their way into the Ruined Plains Ex Track. Taro had let Kasenhana join Zero once again after he had done his best to catch up to Gwen in the Junk Realm. The three drivers had been separated from Zero and Kasenhana after a few large statues started to attack them. Not long after they had been separated, the three teens found their way to the portal to complete the next track.

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At the top of the giant green tower was a long bridge that had no guard rails, the bridge was connected to another building right next to the one Kyoya was trying to escape from. The Leone user stood at the other end of the bridge waiting for Kadeem to show up. A few seconds later, the drone walked onto the bridge and smiled as he saw that if one of them made a mistake while fighting they would fall to their death. "Alright Kadeem, let's see what you've got." The drone smiled and laughed slightly as began running toward Kyoya. "Still human after all." The two teens broke out into a run after Kadeem had finished speaking, Kyoya managed to kick him where his shins would be only to be punched in the face. The drone went in for a punch to Kyoya's ribs but was blocked; he tried to strike him in the head but failed when Kyoya raised the arm he had used to block the first attack up to block the punch. Kyoya retaliated by slamming his fist into where Kadeem's stomach should have been. He then managed to kick him once and then once again by spinning around and slamming the heel of his foot into the teens shoulder. Kadeem staggered a bit and then looked at Kyoya who had stopped his barrage of attacks.

"You race for me now Kyoya." Kyoya tried to punch the drone with his mechanical arm but this failed when Kadeem caught his arm. The drone smiled and punched Kyoya three times in the ribs before tossing him across the bridge close to where he had entered from. Kyoya tried to catch his second wind but was soon lifted into the air by Kadeem who was now holding him off to the side of the bridge. Kadeem wasn't prepared to be punched in the face by Gingka who had caught the drone off guard, he had dropped Kyoya who had managed to grab onto the bridge and pull himself back up. The antagonist had fallen off of the bridge but had managed to grab the side to keep himself from falling; Gingka knelt down and offered his hand to Kyoya.

"Kadeem come back with us, it's not too late." Gingka reached for one of Kadeem's hands but he let go of the bridge so only one arm was keeping him from falling. The drone shook his head and starred into Gingka's eyes before speaking. "KADEEM is gone!" The teen pushed off of the ledge and plummeted to his death while he laughed at the two teens.

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Madoka smiled when she saw the three teens in the Cosmic Realm Ex Track. Midnight looked at Tez who knew exactly what this was. "The last one."

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(The Cosmic Realm)

A giant planet with rings around it, this is the simplest way to describe this Ex Track, but it's more than just that. The rings circling this planet are actually orange Ex Tracks; hundreds of them circle around the planet all leading to the finish line. The exit portal of this track is located somewhere closer to the planet. Meteors and Satellite debris bombard the track, and micro-black holes can instantly suck away unwary bladers to oblivion. Two large meteor's collided with each other as Zero and Gwen raced through the Ex Track at almost the same speed, the only difference between the two was the Zero was little bit behind the orange haired girl. Kasenhana whined slightly when she saw a meteor collided with the track causing the two teens to fly off of the track for a second, Zero quickly hit his gear causing it to land back onto the track. Gwen's voice could be heard on Zero's head set as he tried to catch up with her. "Still following?"

Zero looked at Kasenhana who smiled at him when she tried to figure out what he was going to do, even though she knew their NO2 booster wasn't enough to catch up to Gwen she knew Zero had a plan to catch up to her. "Alright, let's see if this Nitrox Afterburner really works," the black haired teen hit a red button that had been added onto his Ex Gear just for him. The Ex Gear was soon surrounded in a blue flame along with Zero and Kasenhana, not long after that a large trail of blue fire was left behind as Zero's gear sped up to five hundred miles an hour. A large sonic boom could be heard in the distance as the two teens quickly caught up to Gwen. The effects soon wore off and the blue flame surrounding the teen disappeared, as it disappeared Gwen could be heard shouting at them as they passed her.

"NO!" The teen looked down at her wrist band and could see the last bey part she hadn't activated yet. The bey part was known as "Light Speed." The Light Speed bey part gives the blader the ability to propel themselves into speeds that rival even the speed of light, as the awesome blader that claimed this part you can laugh at the world as they move in slow motion compared to your light speed. The teen was soon surrounded in a blue light as she shot forward after Zero who was looking at Gwen in disbelief. He smiled when he saw she had deactivated the Ex Bey part, she was determined to finish the race without using the bey part. The two bladers drifted around the final turn and began traveling to the exit portal that had a golden ring inside of it instead of the Ex Tracks symbol. Gwen slowly pulled forward ahead of Zero who looked at his wrist band.

"No way!" The teen punched he red button on his wrist band causing the two teens to once again be covered in blue fire as they shot forward at five hundred mile and hour. They flew off of the track and closed in on the portal perfectly a lined next to each other, as they entered the portal Gwen turned into a golden light as Zero and Kasenhana turned into a blue light.

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Gingka activated his Ex Gear and sighed thankful that he was still alive and now had Kyoya with him. The Leone user walked over to Gingka who smiled and stood on the Ex Gear with his friend. They sped off down the same spiraling ramp that had brought Gingka into the tower; Kyoya spoke to him a few seconds later. "They made me tell them things Gingka, I don't what I told them, I can't remember."

"We can worry about that once we get back to Tez's lab." As they sped down the spiraling Ex Track, the red haired teen spoke into his headset which was currently connected to Tone's. Everyone heard the good news when Gingka told him about Kyoya. "Tone I've got Kyoya."

"That's great! We've got to use the Emergency Return button to get back to the lab."

"You heard him everyone, let's go home." Kyoya smiled slightly and looked at Gingka who had deactivated his headset. The teen laughed and sped up as they left the green tower behind them.

"Hey…. Thanks for … Coming after me. We're even now." Gingka smiled slightly but shook his head, this gave Kyoya a confused look on his.

"Just because we're rivals, doesn't mean I keep score. We're like brothers, we fight yet we still get along, and brothers…. They don't keep score." Gingka looked at the red button on his wrist band and hit the button which caused both teens to vanish from the Ex Gear.

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Back at Tez's lab the golden orb was still active inside of the three golden rings, flying out of the portal was Gingka and Kyoya who slammed into the crash pad. They fell to the floor and stood up only to see Drake being held captive by the drones, they also realized they were surrounded by drones and weren't in any position to fight back knowing it wouldn't help.

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(The Sphere)

White clouds filled the empty space that this Ex Track was made in, there were no lightning bolts striking the track, or swamp monsters trying to chase them. Instead, there was only a floating futuristic looking stone Ex Track, the two teens could see Gwen just a few feet ahead of them. The orange haired teen seemed fixated on some sort of object that lay a bit further from them.

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The drone that had previously split off from the pack had finally come to a stop inside of a room that was far beneath the other buildings. Inside of the room was the bey that created all of the portals for the Ex Tracks, it spun slowly in place with a golden light surrounding it. The drone let down its camoflauge to reveal a Silenzer.

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Scarlet sped down the Ex Track with Akashi as she looked for the rest of her friends, the orange and red haired teen looked up to see an energy ball flying towards them. "Scarlet it's time to leave." She nodded and hit the Emergency return button causing both of them to disappear without her Ex Gear. The Ex Gear flew forward with the energy ball locked on target, the drones Scarlet was about to run into ended up exploding due to them not knowing there was an energy ball flying towards them.

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"TERROR VOLT!

"DRAGON EMPEROR SUPREME FLIIIIIGHT!" Ryuga and Ryuto had become surrounded around the time Kadeem had jumped off the bridge; the two teens had stepped off their Ex Gears and had begun battling their way out of a crowd of drones. L Drago would occasionally appear to get rid of another wave of drones that happened to be very unlucky at the time. As their finally move, the two teens had targeted each other before using the emergency return button to leave the city, their special moves created an explosion powerful enough to wipe out a few buildings that were strong enough to survive most of the battle that had taken place there.

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Sing and Aiai managed to destroy a few more drones before finally deciding to leave the HQ, they made sure to deal as much damage as possible before almost getting killed by a few energy balls.

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Charlotte did a few more barrel rolls to avoid being hit by the hundreds of energy balls flying towards her, she still hadn't managed to take back her bey and it was driving her crazy. The teen finally flew up high into the air and prepared for one finally assault on the tower that was giving her the most trouble, she smiled and laughed as she sky dived straight for her bey. "Halberd!" The teen narrowed her eyes and smiled when her bey came soaring out of the debris it had caused before, she caught her bey and quickly hit the Emergency Return Button, and she managed to say one more thing before leaving. "Bye Stratos, you were the best Hyper Gear EVER! And so was my EX GEAR!" After she vanished the Hyper Gear exploded taking out a few buildings with it. What Charlotte didn't know was that Akito and Misaki were leaving one of those buildings as it came crashing down on top of them.

Misaki pushed Akito out of the way before some debris came crashing down on top of him, the two teens quickly hit the Emergency return button on his Ex Gear to avoid being killed by the falling buildings.

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"Snow Storm of Glaciers!" Yukihana shouted at the top of her lungs as her special move destroyed hundreds of drones flying towards her, the teen smiled but was knocked off her Ex Gear by a drone that happen to fall off one of the buildings Charlotte had destroyed. The teen looked up to see a giant building falling towards her with not enough time to get out of the way. "I've got you!" She looked to her left to see Kenta fly past her and grab her arm, he pulled her onto his Ex Gear and hit the emergency return button before they were crushed by the building.

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Tone and Metal looked over their shoulder to see they had a clean get away; they looked around to make sure no one else was in need of help. Once they were sure it there was no one else around they used their emergency return buttons and escaped the Gwen's HQ.

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Hundreds of green energy balls flew through the air colliding and exploding upon impact when they hit the Sweeper. Croc had taken up at least five times as many drones as everyone else and it was almost time for them to leave to. Ox flew next to the Sweeper with Disk still with him. "Well were the last one's Croc!" The teen looked out the giant window and gave him a thumbs up.

"Right, I'm hitting the Emergency… Wait this is a Sweeper….. I don't have an Emergency Return Button!" The younger brother looked out the window and saw his brother laughing his ass off as Croc began climbing out the window.

"Jump CROC!"

"Pfffft yeah right, jump." The teen rolled his eyes and quickly jumped onto the Ex Gear. Ox looked over his shoulder to see more drones trying to catch them. He laughed and pressed the Emergency Return button while shouting, "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" All three teen vanished soon after.

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Back in Tez's lab all three teens came flying out of the golden orb, they each hit the crash pad and landed on the floor only to be trapped like the rest of their teammates. The teams all looked up to see Tez and Madoka trying to help Zero, they couldn't see the monitors but knew something good would hopefully happen.

Inside of the conference room, Tez sat in Karma's seat while watching Zero get ever so closer to the sphere like object. Midnight tried to warn Tez everyone had been captured but he snapped at her saying that he had almost reached The Sphere. "What exactly is The Sphere?" The older teen thought for a moment and gathered the information needed to answer the question.

"Simply put, it's the perfect shape….. The Gateway to the world of the beings responsible for bringing beys to this world and creating the Ex Bey battles," the teen spoke into his headset after explaining what it was. "Zero you can't let Gwen reach the sphere ahead of you!"

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Zero looked at Gwen who didn't care what Zero did to try and stop her, she knew she had won; she would reach The Sphere first and then get whatever the prize was at the end of the track. Supposedly it was a wish; other evidence proved that you became known as one of the fastest Ex Bey Bladers in the world. The teen veered off to the left and rammed himself into Gwen causing the three teens to fly off of their Ex Gears; the wings on Gwen's board broke off as she landed onto the Ex Track with only a small scratch. Kasenhana fell off of the track and had somehow hurt one of her arms, the other had grabbed onto the Ex Track, she then looked up and saw Zero had only a few scratches on his jacket. The two teens still on the Ex Track looked up and could something flying out of the portal, the being stood in front of them with clothes that showed the different symbols of the Ex Tracks, he wore a helmet to hide his or her face.

"I-It's an Acceleron, one of the beings that helped shape the beyblade world….." Gwen smiled and walked over to the being while Zero looked at Kasenhana who motioned him to stop her. He looked back at her but she gave him a cold look that told him to go and that she would be just fine. "I completed the Ex Tracks; I have won the right to whatever prize is earned from completing them. And now you have to race me." The being floated in the air slightly and looked at her, the golden glass covering the beings eyes from being seen made it hard to tell what he was thinking or what he even looked like for that matter. He looked at Zero and then back at Gwen before speaking, the beings voice echoed throughout the Ex Track as he spoke.

"You used the Bey Parts to complete the tracks, the other blader used his own skills. That was the test."

"I was first!"

"He is a true Ex Blader, and a true Acceleracer." The being held out its hand and began changing Zero's clothes into something new, the old ones slowly vanished as the new ones took their place. In his old clothes place were the same one's the being was wearing, it was black for the most part except for the triangle shaped orange piece in the middle of the suit. The shoulder pads and neck line were white with the symbols of all the Ex Tracks he had been on. The sleeves of the suit had white and blue lines going down the sides and his shoes were now blue and orange boots. Gwen looked at the being with fire in her eyes and she shook her head and laughed slightly. "Not for long." She turned to face Zero who couldn't believe the outcome, he looked at Kasenhana who had a big smile on her face. "You think you've won but the only real victory…. Is SURVIVAL!" The orange haired girl pulled out the pistol she had stolen a long time ago during the battle in Metal City. She smiled and pointed the gun at Zero who didn't have any way to protect himself. Kasenhana pulled herself up and grabbed the broken wing from Gwen's Ex Gear; she used her good arm to toss it to Zero who held it in front of his chest. Gwen pulled the trigger and fired a bullet but the black haired teen managed to deflect the bullet with the broken wing, after firing several more shots she turned the gun on Kasenhana who became very scared. "Let's see what happens when I fire the gun at HER!" Just as she began to pull the trigger, Gwen was surrounded in bright blue light, Zero looked at the being to see the being had his hand held out and was using some sort of power to control Gwen. They watched as the being slowly moved its wrist to the right causing Gwen to fly off deep inside of the Ex Track. All they could hear were her screams as they died out from being too far away. Kasenhana then began moving the arm that had been injured and noticed that the Acceleron had fixed her arm along with any damage to Zero's Ex Gear. The being then motioned for Zero to go with him to their world, Kasenhana smiled and urged Zero to go but his headset inside of the helmet he was wearing went off.

"Zero, ZERO can you hear me? Do you see the Creators Zero?"

"I've got the Ex Bey parts Tez, and some pretty cool threads." Zero walked over to Gwen's Ex Gear and picked up the bey she had used, each part had gone back into the gantlets that had been inside of her Ex Gear, the teen tossed them to Kasenhana who held them in her hands. He could hear Midnights voice on his headset next.

"Zero, the drones have captured the other bladers can you use the Ex Bey parts to help them?" Tez could be heard shouting something about what this has all been for. Zero tuned them out when the being stood in front of him, he took off his helmet to reveal that he had no hair, he had light blue color for skin and had clear yet calming clear eyes.

"My friends are in trouble…," The Acceleron stood there and had a disappointed look on his face when he figured out what Zero was going to say. The being still waited for Zero to speak though, "I have to save them, I can't go with you." The disappointed look on the Accelerons face showed he wanted to challenge the teen to an Ex Bey battle but wasn't going to get the chance. He smiled and began moving his finger in a circular motion; he created a golden ring that looked like it belonged to the holographic portal back at the lab. Zero took hold of it and looked at Kasenhana; "A circle…," the teen handed it to his future daughter and could here Tez talking to him again.

"Zero, what's happening?"

"Wisdom is a circle Tez, what you receive….. You must give back." Zero turned off his headset after this and made it to where Tez couldn't talk to him until after he got back to the lab. Zero stepped onto his Ex Gear with Kasenhana right behind him; she smiled and waited for him to say something. "We're going back." She let out a sigh of relief as her future father sped off down the way they had come. The Acceleron could be seen putting his helmet back on, he used his powers once again before leaving to open up an exit portal just for Zero to leave through. Zero had the golden glass cover his face before leaving the Ex Track, in the distance he could hear the being's voice, "When you return Acceleracer, you will now be alone." The teens soon disappeared into the portal leaving behind The Sphere Ex Track.

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Standing near the conference room, an RDL unit began shouting at the top of its lungs that Gwen had been defeat and to destroy all humans. Everyone's attention was focused on the golden orb as three cars flew out of it. The drivers weren't sure how they had left the Ex Track but didn't care since they were back; following them out of the portal was a blader wearing an outfit now one had seen before. Kasenhana waved to everyone but they were focused on the blader with her, when the glass retracted into the helmet everyone was surprised to see that Zero was the one that was wearing the outfit. He could some people saying "No waaaay!" And others were giving him a thumbs up for beating Gwen. Everyone snapped back into reality when the lead RDL unit shouted to destroy all the humans again. Vert and the two other drives took this as a sign to drive off and start running some of the drones over. Every other blader began beating up the drones with different fighting styles. Disk jumped up and kicked one of the drones into a few others that were trying to capture Sing. Metal and Tone worked together to take down another drone while Kyoya slammed his drone arm into a drones face, Gingka swept the same drone off of its feet to make sure it really was finished. Yukihana realized something bad was about to happen and ran off to her room to retrieve something.

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The door to the conference room slid open with a racing drone walking through it; it kept mumbling how it had to destroy all humans. The robot scanned around and noticed that one person wasn't there, Karma was missing but by the time the drone realized this she had used Tez's stun glove to overload the drone's circuits. "I suggest we take this opportunity to escape." Midnight gave her a cold look as they left the room; both teens were still extremely made at her for double crossing them.

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Zero knocked over a few drones as he sped passed them trying to get their attention, eventually Kasenhana waved the Ex Bey parts around which definitely got their attention. "Hey are you looking for those?" Everyone began running around making it hard for the drones to capture them while Zero and the three drivers kept some of the drones away.

"DRONES, GET THE EX BEY PARTS!" Vert slammed the back of his car into a few of the drones causing them to fall off the platform they were on, the teen put his car back in drive and continued taking out waves of robots. Metal caught something that he could use as a weapon and looked at the rest of his team which was keeping a few drones away.

"LET'S MOVE SOME METAL!" Soon the teens were kicking even more butt then they had been before. Zero passed them a few times taking some of the tougher ones down while still holding onto the Ex Bey parts. Ev and Zeth ran passed a few drones and could see a Sweeper not far from where they were at.

"EVEYONE! Get to the Sweeper!" Everyone that didn't have an Ex Gear began running to the Sweeper for shelter, OX and Croc had agreed the older brother would drive and get them to safety. While running to the Sweeper they were blocked by a giant drone used to control the Sweeper, Ox looked at the robot and charged towards it. The teen through his fists up causing the drone to fly into the air and fall off of the platform they were on. Croc laughed a little while shouting, "It's GOOD!" Everyone managed to get inside of the Sweeper excluding, Drake, Yukihana, Tez, Midnight, and Karma, and the three drivers who were still keeping the drones at bay.

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Zero sped up and continued going faster and faster but was unable to lose the drones that were still chasing him. The teen sighed and could hear someone's voice on his headset; he tuned into the voice and could tell it was Tez. "Zero, let me know as soon as you're outside the lab." The teen made sure to keep buying the others time but knew he would eventually get caught, he looked over his shoulder to see two drones ram into the others that were chasing him. Their camoflauge was deactivated to reveal they were Silencerz. The next voice the teen hear on his head set was Akito's, "Get everyone out of here Akito."

"There are too many drones. You can't-" Zero could hear someone speaking with the teen, he heard him say something about that he could handle them. Which he knew he could keep them busy long enough for everyone to get out of the lab, he snapped back into reality when Akito spoke again. "Good Luck."

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Vert sped up once again and knocked a few drones into a wall before speaking to his friends once again. The teen thought about how many drones were left and noticed that everyone was starting to leave, the Sweeper was starting to take off with Yukihana running after it. She had gone back for her kitten which would have been stuck inside of the room if she had left it behind. "Kurt, Taro, you guys need to get out of here now. I'll help Zero keep the drones busy and then leave before everything gets out of hand." The teen looked out his window to see the Sweeper and two cars fly off of the ramp and out of the lab. Vert smiled and began talking to Zero who was thought to be the last person in the lab. "Alright Zero, time to go out with a bang, let's show them what two Acceleracers can do."

"Let's do it!"

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Tez walked with Madoka, Drake, Midnight and Karma as they reached the garage that had the NO2 storage tanks in them. The teen had to make a few rash decisions and had Karma get the two reaming Ex Gears ready, each on could hold two people meaning one person would have to stay behind. "Midnight, take my Ex Gear Nitrium out of the escape tunnel far from the lab. When I cross these cables," Tez opened up a small box that controlled how much NO2 fuel was made for the bladers. "It will send an electrical surge into the nitrox storage tanks, the resulting explosion will destroy the drones…. And my lab."

"So, how much time will you have to get away?"

"The tanks will detonate as soon as I cross the cables, I won't be getting away."

"N-No I won't let you." Drake pushed Tez and Midnight out of the way as he began looking at the two cables that had been cut. He smiled and looked at some of the left over parts.

"I've got this you guys, I'll just make something that can keep them apart for a certain amount of time. I used to do this with makeshift bombs all the time back in my home town." The two teens looked at him for a second noticed he was being serious, they looked at each other and stepped on the same Ex Gear while Karma and Madoka got on the same Ex Gear to. Drake got to work while the four teens left him behind in the lab. Drake took his bey a few seconds later and spoke to his bey spirit. "So, are you ready to finally die?"

"No, but of course you would find a way to put an end to me wouldn't you. Make a selfless act like sacrificing yourself and I can't survive."

"Yep," the teen grabbed his headset and made it so everyone in the lab could hear him.

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Zero sped through the lab and spun out after being hit by one of the drones, the teen came to a stop next to the speed boosters and could tell he was out numbered. He looked up and saw Vert heading straight for the portal which made him think about doing that to but he didn't want to risk going through the Ultimate Race once again. His choice was made up for him when one of the drones slammed into him causing him to fly backwards on the labs orange Ex Track. "Whoa! Hang on Kasenhana!" Zero quickly drifted to the right causing his Ex Gear to spin around and face forwards once again, the teen watched as Vert disappeared inside of the portal with Zero not far behind him. The teen hit his regular NO2 booster to get some distance between the drones that were chasing after him. Zero quickly spoke into his headset which connected itself to Drake's. "I'm going to go for the portal!"

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Drake leaned against the wall and smiled as he heard Zero's voice, he knew what had to be done and spoke into his headset. "Let me know when you reach it," he then switched his headset back to where he could have everyone hear him. "Attention, the lab is about to be destroyed, ALL bladers and drivers must leave immediately." After hearing about the lab being destroyed, the few Silencerz that were in the lab used their own version of the emergency return button to escape the lab before something bad happened.

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Zero swerved to the right and left making sure he dodged the energy balls that were flying towards him; he looked at Kasenhana who smiled and looked at the portal. "Let's get out of here." The future daughter smiled as she watched Zero hit the Nitrox Afterburner button, they were soon engulfed in a blue fire as their Ex Gear hit five hundred miles an hour and left the drones behind. They soon reached the final turn of the Ex Track which was their sign to tell Drake they were almost gone. "Feel the BURN!"

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Drake leaned against the wall while he waited for Zero to let him know he was out of the lab. The teen had thought back on all the fun he had during his time in Metal City, he got to battle and kick the crap out of a few strong bladers and now he was about to pay for using a forbidden bey. "We're coming up on the portal, wish you could be with us Drake."

"I wish I could be….." The teen looked at his bey as he moved the two cables closer together, he hesitated a moment, he thought maybe he could make a break for it now and still live. Drake pushed that thought out of his mind as he crossed the cables and died instantaneously.

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Time seemed to slow down as Zero passed through the final set of speed boosters, the effects of the Nitrox Afterburner had worn off and the drones were now closing in on the final set of speed boosters. Kasenhana looked down to see a giant explosion being created underneath them as they flew off of the Ex Track and through the air to the portal, the time that passed seemed like it was going by extremely slow, that was until they disappeared into golden orb to leave the drones to die in the explosion. Once they left all of the drones exploded along with the entire lab.

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In an unknown part of the world inside of a secret base where there was only one last portal opened up, Vert and Zero flew out of a purple portal and into a lab that seemed very advanced in technology. The two teens came to a stop to find themselves surrounded by six bladers; Vert tried to hit a special button in his car but was pulled out before he could press it. "Sparky, hit the EDR." The robot did as he was told and disappeared as he hit the button. Zero was taken off of his Ex Gear with Kasenhana as the bladers next target, the black haired teen looked at Kasenhana and quickly spoke to her.

"Kasenhana hit the Emergency Return Button, now!" The future daughter did as she was told and disappeared the second she hit the button on Zero's Ex Gear.

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Tez watched as his lab burned up in cool desert air, the teen had worked hard to fix that lab up and now he had to watch it burn. Midnight sat on Tez's Ex Gear while she listened to Tone. "Everyone's here, from Kyoya to Yukihana's little kitten." Midnight smiled but that soon faded when he spoke again. "We're still looking for Vert and Zero, they haven't shown up yet."

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Ox sat inside of the Sweeper as he drove it down the road trying to find Zero or Vert, Croc sat next to him and could see Sparky waving to them. Ox quickly stopped the Sweeper and ran out with everyone else to ask about Zero. "Sparky my man, slip me some metal baby." Croc gave his invention a high five before asking him any questions. "Sparky, where's Zero?" The robot pretended to drive around as he tried to tell them what had happened, after a few seconds Croc gave up and had Spark stop. "Well, I've got nothing. Kasenhana joined them next and quickly answered their questions.

"He's in the Silencerz HQ." Everyone looked at her for a second and realized they didn't know where to find the HQ or where to even begin looking. Metal then got everyone's attention and pointed to the Sweeper.

"We've got a driver and a blader lost out there, let's go fine them."

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Vert and Zero sat in the Silencerz HQ while watching the scientist work on a real version of the holographic portal that they had seen in Tez's lab. They had taken the ring Zero had received and were placing it around the rings that generated the portals. They stood up and tried to find a way to Vert's care but were stopped by six bladers and a scientist. "Who are you guys? What are you trying to hide?" The two teens watched as two of the people stepped out and removed their helmets, the first was a blader with silver hair that Zero recognized real quickly. The second person was a person that had blonde hair and looked similar to Vert. "Dad…."

"Aermos….."

"Guys, we need to talk."

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FINALLY at long last this chapter is finally DONE! I'm soooooo sorry for the long wait; I hope this chapter was worth it! Sorry for being a bad author DX I hope you guys loved the chapter because it was a blast writing it! So now let me ask you, which was your favorite Ex Track out of all one's you got to see? Mine was the Junk Realm! And to make up for the long wait I also posted a one-shot to! Not sure which you read first but I hope you (will) or have enjoyed them both!

Review and thanks for reading this long chapter!

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