Yami: Well, here's another chapter! A bit longer than the last one, but still a bit short to me. Oh well.
Kai: You missed Beyblade this morning!
Yami: Don't remind me.
Kai: Don't miss Beyblade!
Yami: I KNOW!
Kai: As long as you do.
Yami: Huh? Never mind. Anyway, what with the school year drawing to a close (Yay! Summer!) I should be updating a bit more frequently.
Kai: No promises.
Yami: Why?
Kai: I may decide to let Dranzer in to wreck the hard drive.
Yami: My mother has a baseball bat, you know.
Kai: Oh. I'm sorry. Has she hit you with it too many times?
Yami: Ok, now you've done it! *censored*
Kai: Owie…
Yami: I had to censor it. Unwanted violence.
Kai: She hit me in the head with her mother's baseball bat!
Yami: Serves you right, too.
Kai: Hey, you forgot about the fic!
Yami: Oops! Sorry!
Kai: She doesn't own anything except the plot of this story.
Yami: What he said!
Gundam Dranzer: Chapter Nine
The command center was a hub of frenzied activity. Kenny dodged around people until he reached the person who seemed to be in charge.
"No civilians are supposed to be here!" the commander roared. "Danny, tell squadron two to take out the enemy command carrier!"
"Please, sir, but me and Dizzi would like to help if we can." Kenny opened his laptop.
"Hola, commander! Need any help?"
"Can you interface with our computers?"
Kenny nodded. "I have the cables with me. Just tell me where to set up and what to do."
"You're the beyblade expert, aren't you?" The commander studied him closely.
"I am, sir."
The commander handed him an earpiece. "We're fighting with bitbeasts on the ground and in gundams. Find out what you can and relay that information to our troops."
Kenny put the earpiece in his ear and went to a relatively quiet corner of the room. (A/N What I'm thinking of is like those microphones that you can hook onto your cell phone, you know, so you can drive or something.) Hooking up the laptop to a nearby communications console, he found photos of the enemy bitbeasts and set Dizzi to digging up info on them.
"Hey! Can anyone tell us what these bitbeasts are made of?" Tyson's voice rang out in his ear. "They're, like, not being slowed down an inch!"
"Tyson!" Kenny cried. "I forgot you were down there. Hold on a while and blade defensively until Dizzi and I can find some info for you guys."
"Roger that, chief. Hey, what's for lunch?"
"Tyson, be serious!" Ray laughed despite his own warning.
"We can take 'em no matter what!" Max's grin could be heard even over the radio.
"Uh-oh, Kenny. I've got some bad news," Dizzi said.
"Spill it."
"The enemy bitbeasts are artificially enhanced, making them more powerful then our own! And the bitbeasts in the gundams are even more powerful than that!"
"Tyson! Play defensively and wear them down! That's the only chance you have of beating them!"
"Ok, Chief. Thanks for the tip!"
Kai listened to Kenny with half an ear. "Okay, Dranzer, according to the Chief, the enemy is powerful."
"I've noticed," Dranzer grunted. He was in the process of blocking a particularly nasty blow from an enemy mobile suit.
"But we can beat them. We have to!"
"Agreed. Now, a little help, please?"
Dranzer allowed Kai to regain control of the gundam. With a deft parry, Kai blocked the enemy, leaped up, and hit the unfortunate man with a full buster rifle blast. The mobile suit exploded in a spectacular fireball.
100 mobile suits vs. 100 mobile suits plus five gundams. The odds were probably never going get better.
Kai turned on the news. He let it play in the background while he fought.
"The evacuation of Moscow continues at a rapid pace. I'm here a few miles away from the main battle. It is unknown as yet why these two parties are fighting, but we have confirmed that a number of beybladers are involved. Eyewitness accounts from the evacuating people have reported that no less than 1000 beyblade matches are going on right now in the heat of battle. More beybladers continue to arrive, they say drawn by their bitbeasts. This battle is unprecedented, equaled by nothing in the history of man. Speculation says that the battle is for control of the world's bitbeasts. Although the second most popular opinion is that the battle is to determine whether aliens have the right to make their home on Earth." An explosion rang out in the background. "The battle is moving this way. I'll report again once I've moved to a safer location."
"They're half right," Kai commented, slicing an enemy in half.
"Hey, Kai, exactly how powerful are these enemy bitbeasts?" Duo asked him. Deathscythe's bitbeast sliced an enemy into quarters.
"Very. Watch your back."
"Thanks for the tip."
"Your welcome."
Yami: Hope it was good.
Kai: *grumbles*
Yami: You're still angry about the baseball bat?
Kai: Yes!
Yami: Get over it.
Kai: *grumbles*
Yami: Anyway, please review!