Chapter 4: Why should i worry?
(Play Bakugan battle Brawlers opening theme remixed with Godzilla orchestra theme)
"What are you gonna do?
(Dan and Shirō stand across from each other in a battlefield, gate cards in their hands.)
The odds are stacked against you
(The two look at each other as they yell and throw down their cards and Bakugan orbs.)
Back against the wall. Gotta give it your all (Ah ah ah ah ah ahhhhh)
(The bakugan spheres as Drago emerged and roared before the king of monsters himself, Godzilla rose and bellowed as the dimension shook under his power.)
This is the final stand (Ah ah ah ah ahhhh)
(There's an image of several Bakugan, a reaper, robotallion, and seige, as well as several Kaiju, Mothra, Rodan, Ghidorah, And so many others.)
The powers in your hand
(Darkness flowed as Masquerade and a boy with a mask on his right eyes rose as both bared dark grins)
Two worlds Collide, on the inside
(A battle scene between Drago, teamed with Tigrerra and Godzilla plays out as they charge on two gate cards.)
You gotta fight for what's right
(Godzilla faces Space Godzilla, Destroyah and a skeletal humanoid monster as he bellows while his body exploded red.)
Before it's gone, gone, gone
(Shiro and dan yell as they raise their ability cards in their hands and slam them down on the ground.)
This is Bakugan!
(The title appears as a Godzilla roar shakes the title until the scene goes black)
Morning arrived over the city as Brawlers were preparing for their next battle in the tournament.
Dan woke up while he walked down the stairs and yawned. So far, he's had three dreams of his mother almost fucking him. "Mmm, what a night…" he groaned as he entered the kitchen and saw his mother cooking in an apron, which made him blush a bit to how hot she looked...oh no, there he goes again. "Morning…"
"Good Morning Dan." she smiled, continuing to cook. "You sleep well?"
"Eh...I guess so." He replied, sitting at the table while rubbing his eyes.
"That's good. You said you'd be going to america this week didn't you?" the woman asked.
"That's right." Dan replied with a nod.
His mother smiled a bit. "I'll be rooting for you...yet it'll be lonely without you since your father is out on his trips."
Dan gazed at his mother before he stood and approached her until hugging her from behind. "I'll keep in contact with you mom."
"Thank you sweetie." she smiled.
(at Marucho's house some time later.)
All the brawlers were going to Marucho's house, mainly because he had a plane big enough to get them to America in a short enough time. As they entered the runway area, they saw Shiro walking towards them, but his attire was drastically different.
He was now wearing a pair of denim blue jeans, a white shirt with a green godzilla on it, a green plaid button up overshirt, green sneakers, and green sun shades, he also had a green bandana around his neck.
"Whoa..Shiro looking sharp." Dan spoke, liking his friends new attire.
"Oh one minute i'm in central park, then i'm down on delancey street…" the boy hummed. "Oh hey guys, just practicing for the music contest in america. I'm gonna do 'Why should i worry?'."
"Your voice is wonderful." Alice smiled. "I think you'll do great."
"Yeah my youtube fans will like it. And my new outfit." he grinned. "Based it off of the same character who sings the song."
"So are your kaiju bakugan ready for another round in the tournament?" Dan asked with a grin.
"Yep. say isn't this supposed to be a tag team tournament?" he asked as they boarded the plane.
"By my calculations on the rules for the tournament, the next round will be two brawlers battling together, the winning team will move on in the next rounds." Marucho explained.
"Makes sense." Shiro nodded. "So who's gonna be on who's team?"
Everyone looked at each other, before shun pulled out some straws. "We'll draw straws to figure it out." he said.
They all nodded and drew their straws. They all had different colored tips that match up. Shiro looked at his, it was green. Looking at the others, he saw Dan's green as well.
"Hey! We're a team!" Shiro smirked.
"Great." dan grinned.
Runo and marucho were team two, and Shun and Julie were the last team. As they waited to land, Shiro laid back and thought about what his mother told him last night. "Wow...i still can't believe she's actually pregnant."
"Shiro." A voice spoke as he saw Dan.
"What is it bud?" The kaiju user asked.
"I need to talk to you about something." he replied. "Privately."
"Ok." he nodded, following him. When they were in a room, the door shut. "So what's up?"
"I don't know…" Dan groaned while clutching his head. "I feel so strange every time I was around my mom this morning."
Shiro looked at him with a 'are you serious' look. "Dude…" he said. "This is what you had to talk about? That you got a milf crush?"
Dan's face flushed red before a small growl left his lips. "Shiro, i'm being serious on this!"
"Yeah, that's the problem, you're getting exasperated over something that happens all the time." the boy said. "Just let things happen, and if nothing happens just leave it be."
"You're missing the point Shiro. She's my mom for crying out loud." Dan spoke before he groaned and sat at a chair. "This is so confusing…"
Shiro sighed. "Dan dan dan. You're looking too much into this. As teens our hormones rage outta control on a regular basis, if we fell sexual feelings towards someone, our bodies don't exactly care who. It's the natural order of things."
Dan slowly rose his head and faced his best friend. "You're taking this very calmly…"
"What can i say? I'm a casanova." the green haired boy smirked, letting his sunglasses drop down the tip of his nose.
His friend thought through a moment again before replying. "...you really believe it's okay to have feelings for someone...like my mom?"
"Totally. Though acting on those feelings is a different story." he nodded.
After a moment of silence, Dan stood and breathed. "...I understand...Thanks for the talk Shiro. I needed to get that off my chest."
"No problem." Shiro smiled while patting his back.
"Attention guys!" Marucho announced on the mic. "We'll be dropping at California in mere moments!"
Dan chuckled before grinning at his partner. "Ready to get this show on the road Shiro?"
"Totally." Shiro smirked.
Marucho's plane landed at the airport as the group excited and entered the airport. Everything looked so different in America than in Japan. Different signs, people, places and so much more.
"Wow...so this is America…" Runo breathed in amazement.
"It's so….different." Julie agreed.
"Different countries have different perspectives." Shiro spoke. They took a cab and went to the destination of the next bakugan dome. They arrived shortly after and entered as other brawlers that advanced were waiting.
The lights flashed and the speakers boomed. "Welcome to the top 250 brawlers who have made it this far!" The first announcer spoke.
"In this round today, you all will be assigned in teams of two in our tag team tournament!" The second announcer spoke.
"We have already have the teams arranged. Now, it's time to show down whom you'll be facing!" The first spoke as the TV screen showed the paired teams before the wheel spun, the cards played out and showed the teams fighting. "Our first match will be...Team Dan and Shiro, vs. Team Jenny and Jewels!"
"Aren't those pop stars?" Shiro asked. "I've seen them like and comment on my cover song vids online."
"Yeah, they're the best singers in japan." Dan nodded. "Guess we have to face the music this time."
"Yeah right." the boy scoffed with a small grin. The two walked to their positions on panels. They rose up before they entered the arena. They were face to face with a dark cyan haired girl and a purple haired girl. "Jenny and Jewels I presume."
"That's right. Say! You're that cover artist from online!" Jenny said, pointing at Shiro.
"The one and only." The green haired boy grinned. "Call me Shiro ladies."
"Hey~" they waved to him.
"I heard some of your music back in japan." The boy smiled. "I love what you two do...but I guess we'll have to see who the real musician is in this brawl."
"Yeah, let's go!" the girls grinned.
"Bakugan field open!" The four yelled and activated their cards, the field sparkled a bit before they put them away. "Gate card set!" They each threw their cards down and the brawl began.
The field looked different though, it now looked like a greek coliseum, with preyas statues, ramps, rails, and water geysers, and it was surrounded by a huge water pit, odd floating ability cards and crystals were everywhere, and there were floating platforms and coins with G+ on them too.
"Now according to the rules, you can control your bakugan on the field and gain power-up, G power and ability cards to give you an advantage!" One announcer spoke.
"Sweet, so it's like power ups in a video game." Shiro grinned.
"These powerful items are called pick ups, from now on, feel free to use them to your advantage!" the second announcer said.
"Begin!" The announcers called.
"My first move!" The boy spoke. "Bakugan brawl!" He tossed Manda out since aquos would have the advantage for this field. Guiding her to the ramp she went into the water and was shot up into the air and onto the half pipe, as she rolled she picked up several G power pickups before bouncing off the pipe, and a waterfall, before skipping to one of the gate cards.
"Manda stand!" The boy called. The serpent rose up from the light and screeched while lightning electrified around her.
"Battle begins. Manda starts from 580 Gs, power boost of 30Gs. power total 610 Gs. Ability card, damage field in active, all bakugan lose 50 G power per second in the ring." The bakupod spoke.
"Whoa!" Jenny and Jewels gasped in awe. "That is so freaking cool!"
"Nice start Shiro!" Dan grinned.
"My turn! Bakugan brawl!" Jenny tossed her bakugan next as she too collected a few items from on the board. "Bakugan stand!" Her bakugan landed on Shiro's card as a centiploid emerged with a screech.
"Aquos Centiploid enters battle at 290 Gs. power boost of 80 Gs. Power total 370 Gs. Power loss of 50 Gs from Damage field, power total at 320 Gs." The bakupods buzzed.
"Seriously?" the boy laughed. "You have got to be kidding me."
"Don't underestimate me." Jenny grinned before she threw her first ability card. "Ability card activate! Aquos Drain! This can allow me to drain your bakugan of 150 Gs if your bakugan is an Aquos bakugan as well as mine!"
"Power change sensed. Manda decreases to 360 Gs. Centiplod power increase to 470 Gs." The monitor announced.
"Heh." the boy grinned, doing a two finger taunt like Masquerade. "Gate card open, Ventus revival." The card opened up before wind started gushing all over the place.
It swirled up water as manda was lifted out of the water and into the air along with centiploid. "G power increase, Aquos-Ventus Manda at 470 Gs." the bakupods said.
"They're tied up!" Dan spoke in amazement.
"Aaand here's the tie breaker." Shiro said, holding up an ability card. "Ability card activate, Kaiju Serpent's attraction. "This card nullifies all ability cards activated after this turn, and drops any bakugan who isn't Manda, a serpenoid or rattleoid by 50 Gs."
"Power changing. Centeploid power loss of 150 Gs, additional 50 Gs. total total of 270 Gs." The bakupods buzzed.
"Oh crap! I'm gonna get creamed!" Jenny gasped.
Manda screeched and sent the bug flying, causing it to splash and send water everywhere, drenching the two pop stars as they started complaining, make-up and mascara running down their faces.
"Agh! This is even worse than a bad hair day!" Jenny complained.
Manda was called back as Shiro caught her with a grin. "Now don't be such sour pusses girls, I kinda like seeing you two wet, makes things a bit more...erotic if you catch my drift."
The girls blushed. Jewels' wet body was actually starting to steam with how much her internal temperature rose. "wh-wh-WHAAAT?!" they yelled.
Shiro chuckled. "Like I said, wet is a good look for you two, maybe it might add some more pazaze for your next music video."
The two just shook as Jewels threw in her subterra bakugan. "Bakugan brawl! Bakugan stand! Let's go saurus!" The prehistoric dino bakugan rose and roared.
"Saurus enters the field at 310 Gs." The bakupods announced.
"My turn!" Dan grinned as he tossed his own. "Bakugan Brawl! Bakugan Stand! Let's do this Serpenoid!" His fire based serpent rose and hissed at Saurus.
"Serpenoid enters battle at 320 Gs." The watches mentioned.
The snake bakugan lunged at the creature and coiled around it, slowly squeezing and draining it's G power. 'Saurus g power decreasing steadily.'
"Ha! Don't you ladies know that a snake can eat something more than twice it's size?" dan laughed.
Jewels grinned next. "It should be careful on what it's eating! Ability card activate! Saurus Blow!" Tossing the card, Saurus burst in aura nd roared.
"Power increasing to 350 Gs." The bakupods buzzed.
"Aw snap!" Dan gasped by the sudden power surge. Saurus broke free from Serpenoids grasp and gripped its throat tightly.
"Aw snap i'm gonna get creamed!" Dan yelped.
"I got this, activate correlation between Pyrus and Darkus." Shiro said as his Darkus-Haos Ghidorah entered itself into the fray.
"I LIIIIIIVE!" it roared.
"Haos-Darkus Ghidorah enters battle at 580 Gs. Power increase to both Serpenoids and Ghidorah at 100 Gs. Combined power to 1100 Gs." The watches mentioned.
"Oh no!" the two girls screamed, hugging each other.
Both bakugan teamed against Saurus before blasting the subterra dinosaur out of the ring and verted to sphere form while rolling to Jewels feet.
Both bakugan returned to dan and shiro as they caught them with smiles. "Two down, four to go." Shiro grinned.
"Ok ladies, your up, again." Dan laughed.
Jenny growled. "Gate card set!" She tossed her next gate card out on the field. "Bakugan Brawl!" She tossed her next bakugan and rolled it around the field, collecting a few G+ and an ability card. "Bakugan stand!" She had her bakugan land on her card before it emerged and revealed juggernoid.
"Juggernoid enters battle at 230 Gs. Power boost of 60 Gs. Combined power of 290 G. Ability card gained. Confusion. Opponents will hallucinate for their next throw." The bakupods announced.
"This doesn't sound good." Shiro stated.
"Your turn Shiro." Dan spoke.
Shiro tried to aim, but was having trouble concentrating, everything was blurry and backwards, like looking in a watery mirror. "Bakugan brawl!" he tossed out Mothra this time. He tried to control it, but the confusion ability card threw him off as he made her land on Dan's gate card as she emerged with a chirp.
"Haos-Ventus Mothra enters battle at 480 Gs." The bakupod said.
"Crap, i over shot it." He said in irritation.
"Now we got him." Jewels grinned before tossing her bakugan. "Bakugan Brawl! Bakugan stand! Rise Falconeer!" A humanoid bird appeared with a screech,
"Falconeer enters battle at 310 Gs." The bakupod mentioned.
"Oh come on!" Dan groaned. "My turn bakugan brawl!" he threw his ball but due to confusion he over shot his target and sphere attacked Jenny's bakugan instead of jewels'. "Aw yeah!"
'Sphere attack recognized, G power decrease by 50 Gs.' all bakupods said. 'Serpenoid enters battle at 320 Gs."
"At least we're on the right track." Shiro smirked.
"Not quite." Jenny grinned. "Ability card activate! Double Team! Now Jewels bakugan will join the party!" jewels falconeer flew off the card it stood on before joining with Juggernoid.
"Combine power of Falconner and Juggernoid 550 Gs." The bakupod buzzed.
"Oh shit!" Dan yelped.
The two charged towards the snake and sent it flying, sending it back to it's brawler. Shiro growled, before he pulled out his 'sylvineer' from Masquerade.
"You'll pay for that! Ability card activateactivate! Power gust!" he called and played his card. "Not only will it boost mothra a hundred Gs, but she can attack any bakugan on the field!"
"What?!" the girls gasped.
"And that's not all, Doo-" but before he could finish, Dan grabbed his arm. "Dan? What are you doing?"
"What are you doing? That's a doom card!" dan whispered.
"I was going to give them a taste of their own medicine...wait a second, this isn't the doom card i got." he examined it closer, instead it had the image of a Gargonoid being imprisoned. "Baku-capture. Throw after beating a bakugan by 500 Gs or more, and you get said bakugan."
"That card can do that?" Dan asked in surprise.
"Let's find out." he said. "Mothra, attack a bakugan that has 500 less Gs than you!"
Mothra chirped before she swung her large wings and blasted Falconeer out into the air. It returned to sphere form, but instead of returning to Jewels, it flew to Shiro and landed in his palm.
"Ha! I can't believe it! Baku-capture worked!" he laughed.
The crowd gasped, as did the girls and the announcers. "Is that even allowed?"
In the private dome, Marduk witnessed the might of the card and was surprised a bit himself. "He has an ability card to capture bakugan...interesting."
Masquerade however was laughing next to him. "So he's figured out the secondary function of the doom card...excellent, all goes according to lord Naga's plan."
"Indeed." marduk grinned.
Meanwhile Shiro looked at his partner Kaiju. "Time for the king to make his royal entrance." he flicked gojira from his thumb before tossing him. "Bakugan brawl! Gojira stand!" The king of monsters rose before releasing his famous roar that shook the arena.
The godzilla theme started playing as he walked out of the water-like gate card. Everyone gasped as several japanese spectators started screaming 'Gojira!'.
Aquos-Pyrus Gojira enters battle at 580 Gs." The bakupod buzzed.
"Wh-what the?!" the girls gasped.
The announcers sputtered before announcing in shock about the mighty beast, pale panic stricken faces not even trying to comprehend the scene before them.
"Now, let's end this battle with a bang! Ability card activate! Kaiju's challenge!" Shiro yelled and tossed a card. It hit Godzilla before he roared loudly. "The power of this card forces you two to summon your remaining bakugan to the gate card Gojira is."
The orbs did so and flung themselves to the card, first an aquos Siege, second a subterra Centeploid, and third was Drago. "Now boys, break them!" Shiro yelled.
"Subterra Cenploid at 320 Gs. Aquos Siege at 340 Gs. combine power of 660 Gs. Drago power at 340 Gs. Combine power with Gojira at 820 Gs." The bakupods buzzed.
"Oh snap! We got 'em now!" Dan Cheered.
The girls cried out in panic as they held each other while Drago and Gojira charged their attacks.
"Atomic blast!" Godzilla roared and fired his blue beam of radiating energy.
"Boosted Dragon!" Drago bellowed and blasted a fireball.
'Game set and match. Victors Team Shiro and Dan. awarding bakugan points. Ranking now at 12th place for Shiro, 5th place for Dan.' the machines buzzed.
"That's my skills talking!" Shiro grinned with a thumbs up.
"I'm the man." Dan grinned while brushing his thumb across his nose.
After this specticle Shiro had to leave, the National Idol competition tryouts were starting soon, and he had to hurry.
Dan meanwhile returned to the lobby where his friends met him.
"That was amazing Dan, you and Shiro beat Jenny and Jewels easily." Alice smiled with a clap of her hands.
"Thanks Alice." Dan smiled.
Julie ran up to him before hugging Dan's arm into her ample bust. "You were great Danny!"
Dan blushed a bit when he felt his arm sink in between her breasts but chuckled. "Aw it was nothing Julie. Shiro was the one that did get us out of the jam."
"Yeah, it seemed like he was doing all the work. Some tag team." Runo chidded in.
"Hey!" dan snapped at her, only getting her to stick out her tongue.
(Later that day)
The rest of the others finished their brawls for the day until they left the dome to get to the concert where Shiro would be playing at. When they arrived, there were hundreds of people already packing the area.
As they waited, the lights dimmed an spotlights lit up a spot on the stage where Shiro was standing, holding a Keyboard guitar and was wearing a green scaled fedora, he had the tip down over his face as he started playing.
"Whoo whoo! Oh one minute i'm in Central Park, then i'm down on Delancey street. From the Bow'ry to St. Marks, there's one syndicated beat." he started to sing. "I say whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo, i'm streetwise, i can improvise, i say whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo, i'm street smart, i got New York City heart, come on!"
"Why should i worry? Why should i caaaare? I may not have a dime, but But I got street savoir faire, why should i worry? Why should i care? It's It's just bebopulation
And I got street savoir faire."
"He's doing why should i worry? That's the song he was practicing earlier." Dan noted.
"He's doing very well, his voice is nice." Alice smiled while listening to his voice.
"He certainly is good." Runo nodded.
After Shiro finished his sing, the cowed cheered and clapped at his performance before he bowed and left the stage. Moments later, he returned to the others. "How'd I do guys?" He asked with a smile.
"You were great out there Shiro." Dan replied with a fist pump.
"Thanks guys." he smiled. The competition went on a while longer, before the winner was picked, Shiro didn't win, but he did get second place, which got a check for 10K in cash.
After the concert and competition, they returned tot he dome for the last announcement. "You all have fought well today!" The announcer spoke. "We are now down to the top 125 brawlers, the next tournament round will be held in China for our Battle Royal. Four brawlers will duke it out, no holds bard, and for the remaining brawler of the tops 125, will battle one short round against the champ, Marduk!"
"This sounds like fun." Shiro grinned.
"Yeah but if i'm not mistaken the battle royal will be in the subterra field." Julie grinned. "My home turf."
"Now, we will spin the wheel for the lucky contended who will be facing the champ at the battle royal rounds!" The second announcer spoke as the wheel spun the brawlers. "And the brawler is….Dan Kuso!"
Dan grinned, but was secretly paling. "Aw yeah!"
At the private view dome, Marduk's kaiju growled. "We have to battle that wimp? I was looking forward to Crushing Gojira!" Space Godzilla snarled.
"Patience oh partner of mine. All good things come to those who wait." Marduk said, calmly.
"Allow me to fight him." destroya spoke with lust of destruction on her tone. "I will break his bakugan Drago and give Gojira a message he will hear loud and clear."
"Excellent." The masked man smiled as he walked off, coat bristling in the air. "And soon all of earth and vestroia, of all dimensions, will kneel before me."
