What I hope for in this chapter is that the people who review bad things about my other stories don't find this story. I will be away from internet for nearly a week at a cottage so be prepared please for a long wait for an update. Lift is hard, your busy with everything, and no one can stay awake forever. The most I can tell you is if your tired don't just fall asleep in the morning; you'll feel better if you take a ten to thirty minute walk even if there's snow on the ground or it's hot. And who says my stories aren't educational? And never of course sleep on the job. Please read and review.
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Aqualyss roared at the president snapping her claw hands. He wasn't scared of a newly created Bakugan. He wasn't afraid of any Bakugan with Zodiac on his side.
Without Leo uttering a word Aqualyss jumps and uses her to spheres and activates their crab claws and one pinches one of Zodiacs feet while the other went to the tail. Zodiac roared in pain and two Bakugan [Taurus and Cancer] separated from the beast, each glowing their respective Bakugan colors and then bursting into clouds of the colored dust.
" I lost two of the Zodiac's," the president said unemotionally. " It's a good thing I still have ten more to fight your animal."
'Good Leo.' The Zodiac says inside the teenagers mind.
Aqualyss attack counted as a move on the president's side. He could throw another Bakugan on the field. Unfortunately he didn't have any Bakugan to use.
"Leo, now is a good time for you to activate a card and I can attack." Drago told the teen.
Leo nodded and raised Dan's card. " Ability Card activate!"
Drago could attack now.
Flames engulfed the Pyrus Bakugan and he started to spin towards Zodiac. Capricorn and Aquarius broke apart and exploded in clouds of color dust.
" Zodiac, don't let him take anymore of the Bakugan merged inside you!" The president ordered. " Attack him! Attack Drago!"
Zodiac looked dazed. As though he could barely comprehend what was being said to him.
The president was disappointed. ' Why did I bring back the dumbest Bakugan in the world?'
"We have to aim for Leontess and Darkon. We need to free them before we keep destorying any of the other Zodiac Bakugan." Drago informs. Leo nods. The teen has a sinking feeling that if the Zodiac Bakugan were destroyed before they freed Leontess and Darkon then those two could be lost, forever.
It was Leo's turn to make a move against Zodiac. Leo ordered Aqualyss to attack the Leontess and Darkon parts of Zodiac.
" Zodiac, use Gemini's power!"
A green light started to glow around Zodiac and he sent the light towards Drago.
Aqualyss attacked a copy of Drago. It was Gemini's power to copy Bakugan. Unfortunately another popped out and hurt the real Drago claiming to be the real one.
" Is that you, Drago?" Leo asked.
"Yes!" The one flying says. "Destroy the one on the ground now!"
"No! The one who's flying is the imposter Leo!" The one on the ground groaned out.
This was a decision Leo only saw on TV. He tried to remember how they figured out the imposters.
An idea popped in his head. "Only the real Drago will know this: Who is Naga's twin sister?"
"Natalie?" The one in the air wonders. Aqualyss attacked the flying dragon and he goes away in a green light.
"...Wavern..." Drago groaned. Leo knew that Wavern may have been a hard topic for Drago to talk about.
" Where did you here about that?" Drago asked.
" Leontess told me because he knew you were thinking about it."
"And where did Leontess hear it?"
" I told you, he heard it from you. He was reading your mind Drago. Apparently he says you were distressed enough to let your mind open for new ideas," Leo said.
Drago was stunned. He must've subconsciously thinking about Wavern. If he wants to consciously have her on his mind he would ask to be left alone.
" Leontess says you are going to defeat Zodiac." Drago looked at Aqualyss. She was smiling at him. " Your the Bakugan, Drago."
Drago nodded then sent a fire blast at Leontess and Darkon. The flames burned Zodiac with Leontess and Darkon inside it. Leontess and Darkon broke away and flew to Leo.
" Thank you for saving us," Leontess said. He used his real voice instead of projecting his thoughts into Leo's mind.
"Yes." Darkon agreed. "Being apart of Zodiac felt like a nightmare."
" Well the nightmare is going to continue." The president made Zodiac do something with the rest of the Bakugsn still inside him.
Virgo, Aries, Libra, and Scorpio appeared out of Zodiac in their ball forms. They started spinning around into a circle of fire that went inside Zodiac. Zodiac had wings and gauntlets made of dragon scales.
The remaining Zodiac Bakugan morphed into something that sent fear shooting through Leo. Zodiac had wings and gauntlets made of dragon scales. The eyes of Zodiac were red, his teeth were sharp like wolves. He had Scorpio's tail in his rear, a long purple strip on his chest that resembled Virgo's hair, Aries horns, and two halves like the two scales of Libra on his face. One side was red like Aries and the other was purple like Virgo.
"What did he do to Zodiac?" Drago wondered in a mix of shock and horror.
"I don't know." Leo was in a daze of horror looking at the powerful Bakugan.
" I did something far more powerful than merging with Zodiac," the president said with a nasty smile on his face. " I sacrificed them to give all their remaining power to my god."
"You're still on that? Give it pres, you're not winning." Leo said.
" That is foolish of you to say, Leo. The power of the Zodiacs are beyond-"
" I get it!" Leo yelled. " You have new Bskugan and you think their better than the old Bakugan. Join every single Brawler five to ten."
The president smiles. "But there's one thing you forgot: You don't have all twelve Zodiacs, and I've managed to defeat them!" Leo said.
" That's right. I don't have all twelve Bakugan." The president put his chin on his fingers squeezed together and smiled evilly. " It's a good thing I don't need them anymore. Zodiac has evolved where he can defeat any Bakugan."
The president laughed evilly. Leo hated his laughing but noticed something different about Zodiac. He was actually moving his eyes on the president.
" I will be the master of all Bakugan and destroy the ones I cannot convert to my side."
" Your side?" The president froze. The voice sounded loud and fierce. He looked up. It was to his horror that Zodiac was looking at him with his many sharp teeth sticking out. " You are an insect, a follower of me. You are right to call me a god, mortal. But what god listens to mortals?"
Leo and president looked at Zodiac in shock.
"I created you!" The president told Zodiac. "You have to obey me!"
"No, I don't. You may have created me but that doesn't mean I have to listen."
" H-How...When did it get smart enough to talk?" Leo was scared. First it was just the president, then he brought back Zodiac, then he merged Bakugan with Zodiac, and now Zodiac was talking/disobeying the president and it was weird.
Zodiac turned around to look at Leo. "He wishes to use me for his own benefit, yet you are trying to save others."
Leo was still scared and more so since Zodiac was talking to him.
" We are sorry. We didn't know-"
" That I was smart enough to talk?" Zodiac made a loud growling sound like a cheetah. Red veins grew on its eyes. " I wasn't. Not until he made me eat those four Bakugan. Now I know how to talk and how to kill."
Leo was stuck. Since Zodiac can kill now that means he could go after Drago and Aqualyss then after him and the president.
" I can leave a path of death and destruction everywhere I move." Leo saw firsthand the anger and hatred on his face. " I'm not a Bakugan. Never was and never will be. You poor little boys. Be honest, if I don't kill you will you do the same to me."
Leo thinks. 'Where are the other brawlers and the other guardian Bakugan when you need them?'
' Do not lose hope,' Leontess spoke in Leo's mind. ' Ian and Neon I am opening up a portal for them to come through.'
In a flash Neon and Ian were by Leo's side. Ian asked what was going on and why there was an unconscious Dan and Leo quickly filled them in.
" Dan and I were facing the president here because it's the only realm on Earth where Bakugan get to be their normal size. The president played dirty, made Dan order Drago to punch him so he wouldn't hurt Runo. Drago, Aqualyss and I freed Bakugan including yours...the rest Zodiac swallowed and now he's gotten stronger and smarter."
Neon and Ian looked over at the president to see a passed out Runo in a headlock. "Let's get this guy."
Neon did the thing Leon didn't try. He ran at the president and hit him. He hit in the stomach, the third hardest place to hit a man next to his face and the other place everyone knew. Zodiac laughed at the president's pain.
"Yes, humans, turn on each other. Now, why don't the rest of you Bakugan join me?"
Drago got up and looked Zodiac straight in the eyes. "Just because some humans want to destroy the worlds and treat Bakugan like they're animals doesn't mean all are like that. Dan showed me that."
" Correct me if I'm wrong but are you aspiring to walk in the same shoes as humans. What have humans ever done for us?"
"For one, Dan and the other Brawlers fought to save Vestroia from Naga and New Vestroia when the Vexos took over." Drago argued.
" Whatever those threats were they didn't concern me. I have no part in Vestoria. I come from a world where humans and Bakugan co-existed. They hated me and hated my children the Zodiac Bakugan. They chased them through every dimension to stop my rebirth."
Leo, Drago, Neon, Ian, Leontess and Darkon were all at a loss as to what they should say. Zodiac has some anger management issues and they are sure that if they say anything it'll only make him more angry.
" Zodiac." Leontess approached Zodiac. He bowed in Zodiac's presence. " You created me so you know I follow you. But, why do you wish to destroy humans? Very few ever want to hurt others and use Bakugan to get what they want." The Aquas Bakugan said.
" I don't expect you to understand, creation. I am on a path some might say is genocidal. This world needs to know that nothing is to survive. You will fight me only to lose and feel helpless. I will have dominion, complete power over these humans. I may be new to this world but I'm tired of it already."
"Can't you give it a try, before you destroy it?" Ian wondered.
Zodiac stayed quiet thinking about what Ian suggested. Ian waited and hoped Zodiac would see reason. He hoped this Bakugan would see reason, but he gave the answer Ian was hoping he wouldn't hear. " No."
"Zodiac, please, see reason!" Ian begged. "You haven't even seen what our world even looks like!"
" Even if I cared about your world, and I don't in the slightest, your race is small and my Bakugan stay small in those balls. I would be called a monster and a destroyer so that is what I will become."
"You don't have to be what people make you out to be." Ian tried to reason. "Just because people call you a destroyer and a monster doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be that."
Zodiac stood still thinking about what decision to make. Ian hoped this time Zodiac would give him a better answer than 'no' and maybe stop before it used whatever new powers absorbing four Bakugan gave to it.
Zodiac narrows his eyes on Ian. "Fine. I'll give your world a chance."
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Zodiac was not giving a good form to see what was so special about the real world. He was transformed into a tiny ball and carried through Wardington out of the orphanage on Ian's hand with Leontess on his hand.
"Tell or show me what is so great about earth."
" Hold on," Ian said. " I'm going to show you everything. But first...are you hungry?"
" In this form I don't think I can eat."
"Doesn't matter." Drago tells him.
" I feel like hamburgers," Ian said. " A cheeseburger with a salad of nuts and berries. What do you feel like, Zodiac?"
"I am unsure. I never had food like this before."
" Ian has shown me something nice called chips," Leontess said. " He says with our small size we get to play with them and taste them. He had suggested barbecue chips."
Zodiac looked at the Subterra Bakugan quizzedly but agreed to try them. Ian walked into a convenience store to buy the chips for Leontess and Zodiac. Barbecue chips were the chips he hoped would bring Zodiac joy and not made him destroy the world. As they were leaving the store with the chips Ian opened the bag and Leontess and Zodiac jumped inside.
Zodiac and Leontess landed on a landslide that crumbled open. He then shook the bag moving them everywhere inside the bag. When Ian stops shaking the bag the two Bakugan began munching on the chips.
" What do you think about your food?" Leontess asked.
"It's not bad."
" That's only food that people eat when something entertaining is going on," Ian said. " I can show you more entertainment if you just stick with me."
Zodiac hopped out of the bag and asked Ian what other entertainment. Ian smiled and decided to take them to the movies, there was an action-comedy he's been wanting to see.
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Ian felt hot after a medium sized popcorn bag with butter. He needed something to heal his hot head.
"Ian, if you're feeling over heated why not get ice cold water?" Leontess suggested.
The only water they had in the movie theaters were the sinks. Ian had the choice of buying something cold from the consecion stand or walk to the nearest fountain sith a tongue that could crack at any moment. Not wanting to waste time Ian went to the concession stand and bought a bottle of water.
' Be sure to take deep breathes outside,' Leontess said in Ian's mind. Talking to him now would cause the people,working at the concession stand disappear.
'Yeah, yeah.' Ian replied.
Leontess was barely wrong when it came to advice. After taking a breath Ian felt like a calm and rejuvenated man. He was ready to go to his next destination.
"Where are we going now?" Zodiac wondered as they left the movies.
" I'm going for a jog," Ian said. It wasn't exciting for the Bakugan but after sitting for almost two hours eating popcorn he needed to get some exercise.
Even though Ian couldn't see it, Zodiac nodded.
Something strange was happening with Leontess and Ian. Leontess was going to remind Ian not to run very fast on account of how easily he gets tired, but his communication was blocked off.
' That's strange,' Leontess thought. ' I've always been able to talk to Ian. Something is stopping me.'
After a few minutes of running Ian started to feel winded and was coming to a stop.
'That's weird, usually Leontess reminds not to do stuff like that. Hey, Leontess, why didn't you remind not to run?' Ian thinks. 'Leontess?'
Ian started to panic. He usually talked with his Bakugan partner in thought if neither of them wanted to talk out loud.
" I'm sorry, Ian," Leontess floated off Ian's shoulders and came out looking at Ian with his small Bakugan face. " I think your tumor is preventing us from speaking telepathically. We have to talk with our mouths."
" Have you been speaking telepathically because you don't want me to hear the things you say?" Zodiac asked so angry he was about to break Ian's shoulder.
"No!" Leontess panicked. "But sometimes I need to remind or tell Ian things, that are probably best left not said out loud."
