Chapter 26: Search for the Core pt. 1

(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 siege, 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)

-Misaki family diner-

One by one the Brawlers all started running to Runo's house during the planet wide earthquakes as the sky warped into that of a combination of the two worlds which were now colliding.

"Okay, we're all here! Good!" Dan said as he steadied himself when a small quake hit. "What in the world is causing Vestroia to merge with Earth?!" He questioned as Drago shielded him, Draconoid and Naganoid from the shockwaves.

"My guess? It was probably a result from when Monster X took the Silent Orb and created the Doom Hyperspace Darkus battlefield." Shun said from his spot on top of Skyress.

"I concur with Shun's assessment—Whoa!" Marucho nodded as another tremor hit, but was kept from falling by Preyas and Angelo.

"We gotcha." They said.

"Thanks guys." He smiled. "Anyway, based on my analysis of recent phenomena. By Monster X dragging the Doom Dimension so close to Earth's own space, I hypothesize that it must have weakened the walls between our two worlds to such a degree, that when they collided by Naga arriving here, they started merging together and molding around each other."

"So it's like when you take two balls of play dough and smoosh them together and start rolling them around in your hands until they become an even bigger ball." Julie summarized from her perch on Gorem's shoulder.

"That's basically it. Now we're in our own little apocalypse." Shirõ nodded from his own perch on Mothra's head, the other Kaiju being nearby.

"Is there any way to stabilize our worlds so we don't end up destroying each other in the process of the union?" Runo asked from beside Tigrerra.

"The best I can come up with is us defeating Naga and merging the two cores back together." Marucho stated.

"That sounds pretty dangerous, I won't lie." Zina stated, resting on Zilla's tail.

"Yeah…" Alice nodded nervously, Hydranoid and Nillious beside her.

"Doesn't seem like we have much of a choice." Shiro sighed as they looked at the sky as it shifted again.

(Later)

After managing to figure out that the portal to Earth's core was being shielding by attribute blockers, brawlers traveled to the first place where the convergence started: Antarctica.

Arriving at the continent of ice and snow, they soon found that it was crawling with Aquos and Ventus bakugan.

"This looks…" Julie tried to say but couldn't find the right words.

"Out of place?" Alice offered.

"Kinda. But also peaceful." She nodded as the brawlers noticed that the Silent core's influence on the bakugan in the area was drastically lowered.

"It is nice to see life in Antarctica on this scale, actually." Shirõ nodded. Hopping onto their respective bakugan, they continued to move on to different sections of the arctic.

"So what makes you think caused Ventus and Aquos to merge like this?" Alice asked her two bakugan.

"If we had to guess, it was probably a result of the imbalance that the disruption of the core caused." Hydranoid said.

"Combine that with the fact that the attribute worlds probably merged with areas of Earth that suited their original criteria, it's likely that bakugan of all attributes or two or more could inhabit the same area at one time now." Nillious added.

"That's going to make for an interesting ecosystem." Shun noted.

"Agreed." Skyress nodded.

"I second that." Zina nodded. It was at this point that Gorem spoke up after a minute of walking past several groups of sleeping Juggernoids.

"I feel a faint signal of Subterra energy coming from that direction." He stated, pointing towards what looked like an aurora of some sort.

"Me too." Anguirus nodded.

"Curious, I also sense Haos energy in that direction as well." Ghidora noted. 'As well as something else.' He added mentally.

"Me too." Mothra nodded.

"Me three." Tigrerra added.

"That doesn't look abnormal." Shirõ shrugged before spotting something in it. "Wait, there's a portal in that aurora!" He amended in surprise.

"That must mean it leads to the next section where the other blockers are!" Shun noted.

"Alright guys! Let's hightail it!" Dan called as the bakugan and Kaiju charged forward towards the portal, when Rodan noticed something coming in his peripheral towards Drago and the twins.

"Drago, kids! Look out!" He yelled as he tackled them out of the way right as a blue and green blur flew past them before stopping midair and revealing that it was a bakugan.

It was a male humanoid with grey-blue skin with webbed hands and feet. He was also wearing what looked to be a green jester vest, which went with his jester styled hair made of green tentacles. He also had red eyes and a pair of wings attached to his arms similar to Harpess.

And right behind him sprang out a giant four legged fish that reminded the kids of a Dunkleosteus, which had the top half of a beautiful girl on its head.

"You two have a lot of nerve, attacking me and my children!" Drago growled. "Who are you?!" He questioned.

"I'm Aquos-Ventus Tayghen, and this is my partner Ventus-Aquos Hairadee." The fish bakugan proclaimed.

"We are the gatekeepers of this area, holding up the first of the three attribute blockers protecting our leader, Naga." Hairadee added.

"Two attributes?! They're just like the Kaiju!" Alice gasped.

"And Angelo and Diablo. A double whammy!" Preyas added.

"Ha! They don't look so tough!" Diablo laughed.

"Don't get overconfident. They can still fight." Mothra stated. Shiro meanwhile quickly tossed a stack of cards to Marucho and Shun.

"Rodan, Manda." The Hybrid said. "Stay with Shun and Marucho. If we want to keep going before the portal closes, we gotta split up." He told them.

"Right." The two Kaiju in question nodded in unison.

"And Shun, Marucho when you guys see that Preyas, Angelo, Diablo, Rodan, Skyress and Mothra's power levels are all 500 Gs higher than these two, use the cards at the very bottom of the decks I threw you." Shiro told his friends, the two boys looked at the cards in question and saw that they had Aquos Vexos and Ventus Vexos respectively. "Remember, we wanna capture these guys, not kill them." He added.

"Got it/Right." Shun and Marucho replied in that order.

"Alright guys, let's move!" Dan said as he and Drago flew off with the twins in tow while Hairadee and Tayghen tried to stop their advances.

"Quick! They're getting away!" Tayghen yelled at the jester bakugan.

"Did we say you could- GAH!" Hairadee started to say before crying out as Rodan smacked him to the side with a fire wind gust.

"Shut up!" The pterosaur growled as the other brawlers disappeared into the portal and left them alone.

"Alright guys, let's do this!" Shun said as he threw a gate card down. "Gate Card set!" He called as it landed on the ground.

"Okay, it's just us and them." The blue eyed teen said with narrowed eyes.

"We can handle them, Marucho, don't worry." Preyas grinned.

"Aquos Cyclone!" Tayghen roared as a tornado of water was shot at Preyas and Angelo before it was blocked by Skyress and Rodan.

"I'm afraid not." The magma pteranodon said.

"Allow me to return the favor." Manda said before she sent a tornado at Tayghen in retaliation. "Ventus Storm!" She roared.

Tayghen screeched as she was sent flying back before she was suddenly bashed onto land by Diablo hitting her from behind.

"Peek-a-boo!" He grinned as he bashed into the fish bakugan.

"Blow away!" Hairadee yelled as he tried to hit Diablo but was soundly blocked by Rodan again.

"Let's see how long you can last against me!" Rodan exclaimed before letting out a screech as he charged. Bashing into Hairadee with his wings, he then sent him flying towards Diablo, who punched him into another direction.

"Ability card activate!" Marucho called. "Blue stealth!" He added as an invisible Preyas shot out of the water and kneed Hairadee in the stomach and sent him flying into Skyress, who caught him in her talons and threw him on the ground next to Tayghen.

"Do you two surrender?" Shun asked. Both bakugan growled as they slowly got up.

"Never." Hairadee growled.

"In your dreams." Tayghen snapped.

Shun checked his Bakupod before pulling out three ability cards and Marucho doing the same with around four.

"Ability card activate! Destruction Meteor Storm, Fire Demon Bird Blaze!" Shun yelled as both Rodan and Skyress charged up against Hairadee.

"And Ability Activate! Pyrus Darkus alignment, Haos Ventus alignment, and Leviathan strike!" Marucho added as Preyas changed to Darkus, allowing all the bakugan on his side to power up before he, Manda, Angelo and Diablo attacked Tayghen all at once.

Falling on the ground hard, both Hybrid bakugan groaned as their power levels were now five hundred Gs lower than all of the bakugan opposing them. This allowed Marucho and Shun to pull out their last cards.

"Ready, Marucho?" The ninja asked.

"You know it, Shun." The blond boy nodded. With that, they held up their cards. "Ability card activate! Aquos Vexos!" He exclaimed.

"Ability card activate! Ventus Vexos!" Shun added as both Tayghen and Hairadee glowed their respective primary colors before they turned into orbs and were sent to the two boys.

"Alright… You got us." Tayghen conceded. "What now?" She asked.

"Now, you two will be working with us from now on." Marucho stated.

"Yeah! So you better be on your best behavior." Preyas added.

"Or else." Diablo warned, fist raised before Angelo swapped with him. "I would advise you to listen, my brothers can get very rough." The angelic bakugan said.

"I can tell." Hairidee remarked.

"Come on guys, we should get to the Pacific rim and wait for the others until they take down the last of the attribute barriers." Shun said as they started leaving the frozen continent.

(Elsewhere)

Meanwhile with the others, they were going into the wormhole to the next continent where Vestroia had created another base biome.

"Hey Drago, the next environment's coming up, you ready?" Dan asked as his dragonoid partner carried him and the twins on his head..

"I'm ready, but I'm concerned about Draconoid and Naganoid." Drago replied as he looked at his kids in concern.

"Any dad would be Drago, any dad would be." Shiro told him.

"Don't worry, Drago. None of us will let anything happen to them." Battra added.

"How much farther do we have to keep going?" Runo groaned.

"We'll be entering an unknown domain so we should keep our guards up. You don't know what kind of monstrosities could be lurking there." Tigrerra notes.

"Hey! What's wrong with monsters?" Junior huffed indignantly.

"This is taking forever." Runo sighed.

"Quit whining!" Julie hissed.

"I swear, you never know when the exit is coming up with these wormholes." The blue haired girl continued.

"We're all in the same boat, Runo." Zina sighed.

"Yeah, so stop before something crazy happ-eeeens!" Dan said before screaming the last part as tendrils of light suddenly grabbed him and started pulling him into the wormhole.

"Dan/Daniel!" Runo and Drago exclaimed in panic as everyone rushed after him.

"Quick, Tigrerra, Mothra, grab him!" Shiro said.

"Grab him? Somebody grab me! Whoaaaa!" Gorem and Anguirus exclaimed as they all fell into the wormhole before disappearing.

The search for the core had begun.

Dragon Emperor0: Alright everyone, here it is, the first of two arcs in the final act of this story: The search for the core arc. Which by my best and latest estimates will be a total of three parts long at most. The arc after this will be the battle for earth arc where the story will reach its final stretch, which will probably be two or just a single chapter at most, before the final chapter comes out. Then it's over.

ThermalsniperN7: This is it, people. We're closing in on the endgame, and it's gonna be glorious. When it's all over, Earth and Vestroia will cease to exist while Gaia takes both of their places.

Dragon Emperor0: Speaking of which, for all of you who're worried about Angelo, Diablo and the other Hybrid bakugan disappearing. Fear not, we're not going to get rid of them, they're going to become the guardian bakugan of some of the next gen brawlers. In fact, here's a list:

Mikoto Kuso

Partner: Naganoid

Jett Kuso

Partner: Draconoid

Elisabeth "Elsie" Kazami

Partner: Ventus Ingram

Anastasia "Ana" Kazami

Partner: Ventus-Aquos Hairadee

Georgia "The Babe" Gilbert

Partner: Haos-Subterra Rabeeder

Satsuki Marukura

Partner: Aquos-Ventus Tayghen

Ryuko Marukura

Partner: Aquos Elfin

Ryuuga Hiroshima

Partner: Godzilla Jr.

Magnus Oliver (Marduk's son)

Partner: Darkus-Pyrus Centorrior

Primrose Gilbert (Georgia's little sister [five years old])

Partner: Subterra-Haos Tri-Cloid

Kaguya Kazami (Ana and Elsie's little sister [seven years old])

Partner: Pyrus-Darkus Druman

ThermalsniperN7: That's right, these kids are taking up the trade. Gotta give 'em the spotlight after this story ends.

Dragon Emperor0: I won't say their characters were wasted after the series ended, but it was a shame to see them disappear. Hopefully we can fix that. Anyway guys, see you next week!