Oh my... It's been way too long since I last uploaded. I'm terribly sorry. Please enjoy this update that should have come out ages ago.
And if you're wondering where Kyoya and Nile are, I used my author powers to banish them to the bottom AN so they couldn't yell at me for 10 pages before you got to read this.
The Documentary
It seemed like your average summer day in Metal Bey City. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and as always, the sound of bey battles could be heard in Bey Park. Through said park walked Osamu, Takashi, and Akira, followed by the camera-toting Kenta.
"Great, great!" one of the OTA musketeers proclaimed. "Keep panning the camera around, Kenta. This is some top quality footage."
By that last sentence, he was probably referring to the battle royal currently going on between the Legendary Bladers, who were having one of their seasonal get-togethers. "Go get 'em Pegasus!" Gingka's shout could be heard above the general chaos of the fight. His bey's figure appeared, whinnying, and charged to the center of the stadium, where it sought to throw Kyoya's Fang Leone out of play.
"Not gonna happen! Lion Gale Force Wall!" A swirling tornado swept up Pegasus in response to Kyoya's yell. Leone's defenses knocked back the rest of the Legendary Bladers as well.
"Hey watch it!" warned Aguma, who was taking on both Dynamis and Chris in a three-way clash of beys.
Kyoya didn't respond, too busy focusing on his arch-rival, Gingka.
Meanwhile, Tithi was yelling "This is fun! This is fun! This is so much fun!" as his Death Quetzalcoatl pushed back Yuki's Anubius.
"Aah! Hang in there Anubius!" Yuki called to his bey as it barreled into King's Variares, which was just spinning around looking for a good mini fight in the battle to join in with. Now King had his target.
"Special move, Variares, Sword of Ares!"
The beys of Yuki and Tithi dodged, but one struck back. "Special Move, Quetzalcoatl, Ascent Spark!" Tithi called out.
Variares and Quetzalcoatl met in a colossal explosion that shook the very ground. Neither came out the winner, but both were still in the battle.
"Man, I should be battling too!" whined Kenta, catching all that on camera. "I'm kinda a Legendary Blader..."
"Key word, kinda," Takashi told him.
"Now keep filming! This is epic!" That was Akira.
Kenta moaned, but moved the camera up to catch footage of Pegasus falling from the sky, being met in midair by Leone; Kyoya was on fire to win. But Gingka wouldn't give up that easily. He pulled out his final card once Pegasus touched ground, visibly weakened by Leone's earlier fierce attacks. "Final drive mode go!"
Pegasus spun faster, gaining speed. Kyoya could tell Gingka was about to use his special move. Sure enough, here it came: "Cosmic Tornado!"
Kyoya countered with "King Lion Crushing Fang!"
Aguma, Chris, and Dynamis were still locked in a power struggle, and noticing all the other battles coming to an end, called their special moves:
"Exploding Fist!"
"Barnard's Loop!"
"Grand Lightning!"
But in the seconds before the beys could collide, a new bey entered the stadium. "Dragon Emperor Supreme Flight!"
BOOM!
At that one instant, with all that power colliding, all the beys were flung from the arena of battle save one: Ryuga's Ldrago Destructor.
"Ryuga!" Gingka responded with a gasp, picking up Cosmic Pegasus.
"You weren't here when the battle started," grumbled Chris as he grabbed Phantom Orion, hinting that it was unfair for the Dragon Emperor to enter after the others had already been battling for a while.
"Hmph. You all wanted me to come earlier," Ryuga commented as Ldrago returned to his hand. "And now you complain when I come? I probably shouldn't even have bothered." Ryuga turned to leave, but Gingka had one more thing to say.
"So now that you've 'bothered' to come, why don't you join us for the rest of our get-together?"
Yuki added, "You are most welcome to join, Mr. Ryuga. We are only heading a block away to the local burger joint."
The white and red-haired blader pondered the question for a minute before making up his mind. "Fine. But only because you all keep annoying me about how I've never come to any of these other 'get-togethers'."
Gingka smartly hid his smile, knowing it would not be appreciated. Kyoya was scowling as usual, and the others didn't have much of a reaction to it at all. As for Kenta, he cut the camera recording, gave it to Osamu, and headed after the other Legendary Bladers as they went off to the burger joint.
Osamu shrugged. He, Takashi, and Akira went back to his place and started editing the film via computer program.
-At the burger joint-
"So Nile and I went out fishing the next morning, and I finally caught a muskie!" Kyoya told the group with an air of excitement that was uncharacteristic of him. "And not a moment too soon. A few minutes after that, Gingka and the others came out in a boat and Masamune pushed Gingka overboard. We didn't catch a single fish after that incident."
Gingka rubbed his nose, embarrassed. Kenta, King and Tithi shared a good laugh. Dynamis and Yuki smiled. Aguma, Chris, and Ryuga smirked. It was pretty funny.
"If you think that was funny, wait until you hear what Gingka caught on our first fishing trip," Kyoya said, barely managing a straight face.
"What was it, Gingka?" King asked, wanting another laugh.
Gingka was silent.
Kyoya began to tell them, as it seemed Gingka was unwilling. "It was-"
"A BOOT!" The autumn blader shouted. "I HAVE IT IN A BOX AT MY HOUSE."
The stunned silence lasted for an almost uncomfortable amount of time before a laugh broke through it. "Ha ha ha! A boot you say? Tell me Gingka, did you catch any... living specimens on your trip or only lake garbage?"
Gingka's face grew slightly redder as he answered Ryuga. "I caught plenty of fish. But that boot was my first catch and so I love it!"
Ryuga frowned at the logic of the redhead, and the other bladers all face-palmed, but Gingka stood firm. Another silence ensued until what sounded like the amplified voice of Ryo Hagane was heard outside the burger joint.
"What the..." Yuki trailed off. The other bladers, save Ryuga, all stood and exited the joint. He quickly followed their lead.
-Outside the burger joint-
"And so I, the Immortal Phoenix, have invested my time to help explain the origin of beyblade for a documentary which I'm sure has great promise," the giant Ryo head on the WBBA headquarters screen that covered several stories of one whole side of the building was saying.
"What is the meaning of this?" Kyoya asked, walking over to where Nile was standing looking at said screen.
"Oh hey Kyoya. Good afternoon to you too." Nile turned his vision from the screen to his friend. "While you and your Legendary Blader buddies were battling and hanging out, I was editing the earlier Doji failure footage that Kenta captured for those OTA guys. I think the special effects I added in were fantastic!"
Kyoya had to smirk at that one. "Cool. But what is this garbage with Ryo explaining the origins of beyblading?"
Nile shrugged. "I assure you I had no part in this particular section of the documentary. The only reason I helped at all was to make the parts with Doji as good as possible. Well, as bad for Doji as possible..."
Kyoya nodded. "I think Kenta gave the camera to those three friends of his after Ryuga blew up the Legendary Blader battle and we all went to the burger joint. They must have edited in this segment with yours. And whatever other footage they have got."
Now it was Nile's turn to nod. He and Kyoya turned their gazes back to the screen. By now, Ryo was waaaaay into his speech on the origins of beyblade and blah blah blah.
Somehow managing not to fall asleep during the dull talking, Kyoya and Nile yawned and stretched when some images (very roughly edited together) of beyblading began to appear. Finally, Tsubasa was shown, and the two knew the time was close at hand. The eagle blader had finished his Shining Tornado Buster move, and was preparing to return Eagle to his hand when Doji's Dark Wolf came out of nowhere, clashing with it. Then came the almost-missed catch of his bey by Doji. Kyoya smirked when he heard a "wha wha" sound effect in the background, obviously part of Nile's ingenious editing.
"Butter fingers," Kyoya and Nile whispered along with their on-screen selves. Then, the choppy footage of Doji's river of tears (as Kenta had been dragged up the tree to safety) was cleanly spliced and put together, making it seem smooth. The next segment showed the restaurant scene, just as the Wild Fang members recalled it. Up after that came the scene of Doji lying in ambush and self-defeating in his battle against Gingka. Out came the tissue and the second river of tears.
And then, Kyoya took a side-glance at Nile, who nodded in affirmation. At the back of the crowd that had now assembled outside WBBA headquarters for a view of the screen, Ryuga stepped out from the burger joint with a slightly evil looking smirk on his face.
Back up on the screen was a scene the three of them plus Gingka had known full well would occur.
"Well well well, if it isn't Team Wild Fang and Gingka Hagane."
Gingka raised his hand and spoke, "Actually, Benkei and Demure are also part of Team Wild Fang, so technically you're incorrect."
"Well, technically, I don't care."
"Oh, just get to the point, Ryuga," Kyoya said with a sigh.
"I just wanted to tell you guys that I just saw Doji headed out of the area. When he slipped and fell off a slippery rock into a river I couldn't resist saying 'Butter feet' for some reason, and that made him really mad," the Dragon Emperor said proudly. "He then walked off saying 'curse that blasted Kyoya and his friend! They must have spread the story!' My question is, what story?"
"Kenta, let's play over that film for Ryuga," Nile suggested.
Kyoya and Nile shared a fist bump after that. The two friends had gotten together with Gingka (who was glad to help out with almost anything) and Ryuga (who was more than happy (if the Dragon Emperor can ever be considered happy) to make Doji look like an idiot) in order to recreate the one scene that Kenta had not filmed. In the end, Nile had even used his genius skills to create a cartoon of chibi-Doji slipping off a rock into a river with his arms flailing like crazy while funny music played in the background. The entirety of the citizens and visitors of Metal Bey City who were watching the documentary laughed.
The documentary continued on, though the most hilarious part was finished. At least the epic Legendary Bladers' battle had been saved for the very end, with Ryuga yelling "Dragon Emperor Supreme Flight!" and the huge explosion being the final scene shown before credits started rolling to show those who had been involved in the production. Kyoya and Nile decided it had been a decent project, though the former was slightly upset about his loss from earlier that day being caught on film. But still, it wasn't as bad as all of Doji's fails.
-Wherever Doji is-
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Kyoya: I can't believe you banished me and Nile to the botttom...
Nile: HOW COULD YOU NOT UPDATE FOR SO LONG!
Me: This is why I banished you to the bottom...
Ryuga: At least you kept your promise. Otherwise Ldrago and I would not be very happy...
