Oh my! Has it really been so long since I've last posted? I'm sorry for the long wait, but I've been pretty busy these last few weeks. But here it is, the promised chapter about saving the world. Kyoya?
Kyoya: xxstarsnowxx does not own Beyblade Metal Fight. [Glances at the chapter.] Why are Nile and I so OOC in this chapter? You know we don't like that...
Me: [twiddling fingers] Well, I... it just sort of happened. Be glad you haven't seen the unrevised edition.
Nile: [shudders, holding that very document] Believe me, Kyoya, it could be much worse...
Me: So readers, please enjoy this REVISED edition.
The World's Going To End... According To Gingka
Once upon a time in Metal Bey City, a certain loveable redhead discovered a sinister truth: The world was going to end! Though he was iffy on the details, many people believed him. This is the story of the coming apocalypse that Gingka predicted.
-Outside the B-Pit-
"Madoka! Madoka!" Gingka rushed in as the girl spun to face him.
"What is it now, Gingka? I just fixed Pegasus yesterday. Don't tell me you and Kyoya trashed your beys in another battle again."
"Oh no, that's not it," Gingka was quick to respond. "It's something much more important."
This immediately got Madoka's attention. There was rarely a thing more important to Gingka than Cosmic Pegasus. "Um... are you sure you're feeling alright, Gingka?"
"Yes," Gingka replied promptly. "But don't delay me any longer, I must spread the news that the world is going to end!"
Madoka didn't know how to respond to that, and never got a chance to. Gingka told her to take shelter (although, really, if the world was ending would it help?) and then left in order to tell others about the coming apocalypse.
-In random places throughout Metal Bey City-
"Hyoma, Hyoma!" Gingka cried, racing up to his friend.
"Oh, hey Gingka. Did you know that I'm cured of my ailment? Turns out it was Doji controlling my mind," Hyoma said informatively.
"That's great Hyoma, but I have something very important to tell you." Gingka looked around suspiciously, as though something terrible was about to occur at any given second. He then whispered, "The world's gonna end."
"What?" Hyoma wondered if his ears were working right.
"I said, the world's gonna end."
"Gingka, even if the world is going to end, how would you know it?"
"Because, I saw them," Gingka said, shivering in what seemed like genuine terror. Hyoma was so shocked by this that he took Gingka's advice and locked himself in a storm cellar, hoping to survive whatever it was that would end the world. According to Gingka.
The next person to be informed about the coming end of the world was Kenta, who being the trusting and Gingka-adoring kid that he is, believed his friend completely without even having heard the details. Which, by the way, Gingka was sufficiently lacking in. Kenta soon joined Hyoma in that aforementioned storm cellar.
Gingka then headed over to tell Benkei. Benkei was far more skeptical to the idea than Kenta was, but less criticizing than Hyoma had been. Eventually, Benkei was convinced to join the growing number of people in the storm cellar.
After that, Gingka headed on his way to break the news to Yu, but met two other people along the way and decided to stop and inform them first.
"Hey Kyoya, hi Nile," Gingka greeted the two Wild Fang bladers as he rushed up to them.
Kyoya frowned at him, but Nile, being the nice guy that he is, said "'Sup?"
"Glad you asked, Nile. I have urgent news to tell you and Kyoya." Gingka took a deep breath. "The world is going to end."
Kyoya raised an eyebrow at the suggestion and Nile somehow managed to keep a straight face even though he felt like rolling on the ground laughing.
"You don't believe me, do you," Gingka said sadly. Then he changed tones and said, "But it's really true! You've got to believe me!" with such force that the two took a few steps backward.
Gingka's absolute seriousness was what finally convinced both of them. They glanced at each other before simultaneously saying, "Then we'll just have to stop it." Kyoya and Nile did their signature fist-bump before exiting stage right into a building, leaving the puzzled but relieved Gingka to go on with his self-imposed task of telling everyone in town about the world ending.
-Inside the building-
Kyoya yawned as he stood in the checkout line. He had picked out what he wanted in a few minutes, but now there was no cashier there to check out his purchase. Nile came over and the two stood in silence for a few minutes before Nile said, "Don't you think it's odd that everyone's disappeared?"
Kyoya nodded. "You know, I'm just gonna put this back on the shelf and get out of here. I get the feeling that Gingka's word got spread around and this place is turning into a ghost town."
"True enough," Nile said, replacing his purchases as well and vacating the building along with the Leone blader. Once on the streets, they realized that Metal Bey City truly was a ghost town. Nile even swore he saw a lone tumbleweed rolling past.
After a half hour it was clear that no one was out and about. "It just doesn't add up," Kyoya said. "How could Gingka know the world would end? And why does everyone think they'll be safe in those storm cellars?"
Nile agreed. "And one more thing... I know one person who would never believe Gingka. I think it's time to pay him a visit."
-At that one person's house-
Before they even walked up the steps, Kyoya noticed a note on the door. He bounded up the stairs and tore it off the door. "Don't bother knocking, 'cause I'm off training."
"Hmm. Was that Ryuga's attempt at poetry?" Nile mused. "If so, he failed. Not that he would care..."
"Well, that takes care of that option," Kyoya said. "It's up to us to 'save the world'. What do you say we walk around town and find out what it was Gingka saw that freaked him out so much?"
Nile shrugged. "Sounds like a decent plan since we don't have much to go on."
-One hour later, outside a supposedly abandoned warehouse...-
"Nile, I think I heard someone in there," Kyoya whispered.
Nile whispered right back, "Let's sneak up and check it out."
The two teens sneakily peeked into the warehouse and discovered just what Gingka had, only they didn't freak out like he had. Some men in white lab coats were bent over an object on the ground. When the shifted positions, Kyoya and Nile realized that it was a bomb! The two drew back and had another whisper conference.
"So Gingka was right in a way," Nile said softly. "If those scientists bomb Metal Bey City, it could just be the beginning of their plan to have world domination!"
Kyoya grinned, cracking his knuckles. "Time to save the world, Nile. Here's what we'll do..."
One of the scientists turned and saw a green blur race around the room. He picked up a megaphone. "Our security has been compromised. I repeat, our security has been-" The green blur struck his megaphone, knocking it out of his startled grip. It then raced out the door.
"Follow it!" one of the scientists commanded, racing after the blur himself. He emerged from the warehouse just in time to see a hand catch it from around a corner. Unbeknownst to them, Kyoya took off sprinting down the street. The scientists tried to pursue him, but unlike him, they had been in a lab environment all the time while he had been beyblading. They never even got close to catching him.
Meanwhile, Nile had entered the warehouse and knocked out the other scientists with his bey. He took a deep breath and then launched Horuseus at the bomb. His bey stopped right before it touched the bomb. "Special move, Mystic Zone!" Horuseus created its special move around the bomb so that the explosion was confined by its walls and sent straight up into the sky, completely harmlessly. Nile grinned as Horuseus returned to him. The plan had worked!
Kyoya came in and high-fived his friend. They then promptly left as the other scientists Kyoya had lured away came back and moaned over the destruction of their world domination plans.
"Honestly, how did they expect to take over by bombing Metal Bey City?" Nile was saying with a laugh as he sipped some lemonade from an abandoned lemonade stand. (Didn't they deserve it for saving the world?)
"Yeah, it's more like they would end the world like Gingka thought." Kyoya, too, was enjoying his refreshing drink.
"Speaking of Gingka, shouldn't we tell him and everyone else that the world's not going to end?" Nile asked.
"Yeah, but first let's enjoy the public pool without Kenta and Yu and their friends jumping in yelling "cannonball," soaking everyone, and creating mayhem in general," Kyoya said with a smirk. "After all, we deserve it for saving the world."
The two friends did just that, and after a few refreshing hours with no one bugging them, they decided to finally tell everyone they had saved the world, which wasn't a lie.
Nile: So, what's our next adventure, all-knowing authoress?
Me: Oh, this next one's going to be a surprise!
Kyoya: [sarcastically] I can't wait...
