Connection Terminated

By: Pyroteknix

8:20, Zeus' computer defense system, Virtual World

Draciel's left arm spun behind him to connect with the jaws of virtual forms of the Vire and it planted itself firmly onto the shiny floor of the Zeus' defense system. He flipped himself onto that one arm and twirled his legs around, smashing the frail heads of the Vire like eggshells. He flipped backward, sitting deftly atop of another's shoulders and delivering a quick neck snap before ducking to avoid a swipe from a Vire's lethal claws. "Yeeps!" Draciel mumbled before rolling off the Vire he had, er, incapacitated and shot out both of his legs into the chest of two Vire, sending them flying through the digital air. "Max, I need a speed upgrade." Draciel said into a microphone that hung from his ear.

"On it's way." His master said calmly and opened up a window that displayed all of the current upgrades that he had in his computer. "Speed upgrade version 7. Developed by Quicksilver in Sector SEA." The blonde American thought aloud as he read the various lingoes used by rebels like him when they created upgrades or programs. Max narrowed his eyes as he scanned through the vital statistics of Draciel. "Battle capacity down by 27% . . ." He mumbled before rapidly typing in the code he had just read and jammed the "ENTER" button, instantaneously sending the upgrade to his bitbeast. "Fire away." He said optimistically.

"Woohoo!" Draciel said as the wind whipped by his air, reacting to the speed created by running up and over a wall. He landed deftly on all fours, crouched in the middle of a group of Vire, and swung his left leg through them. He somersaulted back towards the wall, kicked off, spun in midair and began assaulting the stunned Vire with the average reflexes of a spider as he zoomed through them like a bullet. "Max, I'm in. All Vire have been deleted."

"Great work, Draciel! Head for the third door from the right." Max said into a microphone attached to his ear and typed in a complete area scan for Zeus' computer defenses. "What the?" He said in worry and his fingers began typing in various commands and orders as he watched a highly unusual combat program zoom through the screen. "Partially identified as bitbeast Zealous. Battle capacity: 150%. Battle motivation: 231%." A computer voice stated blandly as a 3 dimensional picture of the now encased in death black armor Zealous rotated in his screen. Max pressed a button on the side of his microphone as he simultaneously scanned the various stats that Zealous had. "Bad news, buddy. Zealous is heading straight for you!"

"Target: Draciel. Mission: Destroy at all costs." Zealous' now inhumanly cold voice hissed as the two black feathery wings resting on his shoulders propelled him forward and to his target. "Chance of success: 92%." He said before spinning in midair, his wings folding back into his body. He skidded to an abrupt halt a few meters away from Draciel, kneeling on his left knee. "Begin assimilation." Zealous' arm shot out above him and a huge, glowing portal suddenly appeared above him. All the unused data of the deleted Vire suddenly hovered upwards, shimmering under the light of the portal. Without warning, the particles rocketed into the warp that hung precariously over the imposing figure of Zealous, causing the portal to suddenly implode with a spectacular bang and zoom back into Zealous' awaiting hand. "Assimilation complete." Zealous hissed and slowly stood up, reaching for the long digital wakizashi that was hanging from his belt. He pulled it out at an excruciatingly leisurely pace and held it out before him, pointing at Draciel's neck. "Surrender now, Draciel, and I'll save you from the pain that is my sword." He said calmly, raising the visor of his ancient-looking helmet to stare back at his opponent with cold silver eyes.

"Jeez, that's so original. Max, upload twin pistols for me." Draciel said in response, grinning confidently at his opponent. Two powerful guns materialized into Draciel's gloved hands and the bitbeast held them out, setting his sights for Zealous.

"If that's the way you want it, this is goodbye." Zealous replied icily and his black wings shot back out, propelling him into the air, reminding Max and Draciel of a dark angel. He spun around the wakizashi as a crazed fire lit up his eyes and Zealous catapulted himself for Draciel.

Draciel shrugged and twirled his pistols in the air, firing endlessly at Zealous. "No way!" He shouted in surprise as Zealous grinned and deflected the virtual bullets with the sword that rested in his hands. "I can't get past his damn sword!" Draciel shouted, frustrated. Suddenly, a wakizashi appeared in Draciel's hands as well and the bitbeast stared at the weapon he was holding in disbelief. "Max! I have no idea how to use this!" He said nervously as Zealous drew closer and closer by the millisecond.

"That's what I'm here for! Draciel, prepare for a crash course in dueling!" Max said optimistically as he finished typing in a lesson program and pressed the "ENTER" button once more, causing hundreds of data packets to stream into Draciel's virtual mind.

Virtual steel met virtual steel as Draciel parried the advances of Zealous like a professional, thrusting, slashing and blocking with his newly found ability. "I see you've learned the way of the sword. No matter, what will be done, will be done." Zealous commented, blocking a blow from above and twisting his sword so that Draciel's flipped the holder onto the floor. Zealous kicked his opponent in the stomach and quickly held his sword downwards to block a desperate blow from Draciel. "My good friend, never trust a version 3 upgrade." He hissed and raised his sword for the kill. Zealous hesitated and lowered his sword as he thought of something. "Just about now, another rebel bitbeast should suddenly blast me with a shotgun heroically . . ." He thought aloud and on cue, shotgun fire sent him spiraling away from Draciel. "Damn! I hate movie clichés!" He said as Trygator, holding a smoking shotgun, and Dragoon, twirling his own wakizashi, appeared from the murky fog that seemed to plague all of Zeus' systems. "Oi, Zealous! I'll show you what living in a sword for a couple of generations can do to your sword fighting skills!" (A/N: Dragoon was trapped in a sword before he zapped himself into Tyson's beyblade.) Dragoon shouted before going all "Samurai X" and zipping towards the fallen government bitbeast like a rocket. Trygator ran up to a bleeding Draciel, who was slowly getting up to his feet. "Er, weren't you two going to help out Mariah and Galux with destroying the government's air force or something?" Draciel asked stupidly just as Galux hopped down from a hole in the ceiling. "Ehehe, wrong address." The female mountain cat bitbeast explained sheepishly as a very demented-looking Dragoon attacked the damaged Zealous with a sword.

"Where did you guys come from?" Max asked in disbelief as he watched Tyson and Mariah sit down beside him and then did a lot more than just watching when Emily came. "We got some help." Tyson explained bluntly as he typed in a bunch of codes to help Dragoon catch up with the fleeing Zealous. Max opened his mouth to ask but Emily quickly put her fingers on his lips. "Don't ask." She said to Max and he shrugged before returning his attention to the screen. "Oh well. Draciel, head for the central computer."

8:37, above super-destroyed rebel base, Shanghai, China

"Two hundred Vires going down the drain, Two hundred Vires going down the drain . . ." Ray hummed to himself as Vector fired another burst of black lightning. (A/N: I suddenly realized that's Galeon's attack.) A group of the airborne Vire screamed inhumanly as the energy zapped their bodies to less than the size of a cookie, and even browner and crispier too. "Er, Ray? It looks like they've repaired the stupid laser cannon you destroyed a while ago." Driger's worried voice said through a bunch of staticky signals that filled his connection with his master. "Shit! These Vire were a distraction!" He realized and pulled his Frame down and banked hard to the left, avoiding the sporadic bursts of fire that came from the rebuilt laser cannon. "Get a lock, Driger!" Ray shouted as he frantically evaded a few thousand blasts of laser fire from the same cannon he had all so easily destroyed a couple of minutes ago. "We should have blasted that stupid cannon ages ago!" He added as Driger began hastily trying to keep his sights set on the laser cannon. "I can't! The Vire have created some kind of anti-lock thingy!" Driger retorted and Ray turned his attention to the hovering Vire and watched as their wings created some kind of distortion as they flapped. "Wait, I've got a plan." He said, his eyes narrowing in focus as his grip tightened on the control spheres. "Just a little less . . ." Ray mumbled as his fingers dug into the spheres, slowing down Vector to a crawl. "Jeez, I had to get a suicidal master . . ." Driger said as it left control completely to Ray and waited for the effects of his plan. "Lower the diffusion range of the lightning." Ray ordered Driger and the bitbeast immediately complied.

8:45, Inside Zeus, above really really destroyed rebel base, Shanghai, China

"What the hell is that Ray guy thinking? Maximum power to laser cannon!" Ivan ordered, spraying Jex with his spit as they readied to attack the immobile Vector. "Ivan, that might not be such a wise idea." Blaze commented from behind him as they charged up the laser cannon on the nose of Zeus. "Shut up, Blaze." He snapped back, unusually tense. "We warned him, bro. Let's grab a couple of coffees at the lounge." Ice said to her elder brother and the two walked back into the depths of Zeus. "Forget them, Jex! Fire!"

8:47, you-know-where, Shanghai, China

"Let's go!" Ray shouted as he dug in his right forefinger, unleashing a very thin burst of black lightning that more closely resembled a chopstick than anything else. The two beams of energy, one blue and one black, zoomed straight at each other with the average precision of a sniper bullet. "Quick, put out the camera!" Ray said frantically as Driger shut off the camera, which provided the view of the outside. The beams of radiance collided and an immense flash occurred as the laser that originated from Zeus dissipated into smaller, thinner beams that were refracted by the black lightning and were sent towards the horde of insectoid Vire. Driger reopened their visual contact and Ray pumped the air inside Vector with his fist, accidentally hitting the ceiling, and gave a whoop of delight as hundreds of Vire fell towards the one-sided battle below them. "Eat that, Ivan!" Ray shouted in the face of his hated enemy.

8:50, you-still-know-where, Shanghai, China

Ivan was staring at the screen in front of him; his shoulders slumped as he stood in disbelief of what had happened. He sighed and rubbed his hands together excitedly before turning to face Jex. "Keep him thinking that he's winning. Ready the photon laser cannon for fire on the rebel airship." He said calmly just as the two other government agents, Sarah and Drake, came limping into sight. "Er, Drake, get Sarah to the clinic. Looks like she needs medical attention." Ivan said, noting the blood that was dripping from Sarah's injured stomach and shoulder. A very pale and obviously sickened Drake nodded and led his comrade to the clinic for a quick check-up. "My, this is really one of our off days." Ivan commented and shook his head.

9:07, Central Control System of Zeus, Virtual World

"Damn it, Zealous!" Arcford shouted, folding his arms across the same yet silver armor that his counterpart was outfitted with. "Look, Arcford. We can still get them here. There's no way they can beat five of us." Ris commented, dusting off the newly equipped blades that were attached to her arm. "Yes. I want payback for that last battle we had." Riwin said through gritted teeth and loaded the two rifles that were resting on his gloved hands. "Don't we all. Stay focused guys, they're coming." Rizel said, his eerily quiet voice resonating through their ears. "Zealous, you better not mess up this time." Arcford threatened, moving his open palm over a stone that lay on the ground. He clenched his hand into a fist and the stone exploded into little data particles. "Unless you like living in my body." Arcford finished as he absorbed the meager amount of data the stone had revealed. "Yessir."

"Bad news, 4 bitbeasts at 12:00." Trygator commented as the four rebel bitbeasts stopped a few meters away from their also immobile opponents and traded death glares at each other for a while. "I'll take Zealous." Dragoon said excitedly and his comrades nodded as the blue-haired bitbeast pulled out a sword from behind him. "Arcford is mine." Galux's angry voice hissed and she flicked open to knives that were concealed in her sleeves. "Then I'll take Ris. Draciel can handle Riwin." Trygator said with authority in her voice and loaded the twin pistols she was packing. "How about Rizel?" Draciel asked, readying his fists for some close combat action. Galux shrugged and crouched, ready to charge at her target. "We'll get rid of him later." She said quickly and grinned. "In the meantime, let's have some fun."

A couple of seconds later . . ."I assimilated your skills in our last battle, Dragoon! It is hopeless for you to win!" Zealous said confidently as he raised his sword to block a blow from Dragoon's, ducked and spun around to slice off his opponent's legs.

"Yeah well, I've won some pretty hopeless battles before." He replied, jumping to avoid the cold blade that was swung below him.

Zealous immediately got back up and attempted another slash, only to find the steel of Dragoon's blade. He gritted his teeth and lowered his wakizashi to parry a low stab by his opponent and Dragoon grinned at him before throwing his sword and arms upwards. The result was Zealous' sword flying out of his hands and leaving him very much open for a stab in the stomach area. Zealous gritted his teeth and performed a bit of acrobatics, flipping backwards, catching his wakizashi in midair and landing on all fours before getting back up to his feet. "Nice try, rebel." He said and charged at his opponent, who held his sword in front of him like a fencing saber.

"Why don't we change the forte?" Dragoon replied with a smile and his sword really changed into a fencing saber.

Zealous' eyes narrowed and the government bitbeast ducked to avoid a thrust from the pointy sword that rested in Dragoon's hands. He smirked at Dragoon and rolled backward, gripping his wakizashi with one hand, as it too became a fencing saber.

"En guarde!" Dragoon said in an irritating rendition of a musketeer as he flicked his sword right and left, back and forth, trading glances with the sword of his highly skilled opponent, Zealous. Both swords went down, up then separated as the two bitbeasts tried to stab each other.

"Close shave!"

"Whoa!"

The two said as their fencing sabers nearly stabbed each other in the ribs. They grinned at each other and continued their little sword fight.

"Ahahaha!" Dragoon said in triumph as he flicked of Zealous sword and he secretly slid his other unused right hand into his pocket.

"Ahahaha!" Zealous said as he tripped his opponent and ran off to his sword.

"Ahahaha, gak, gak!" Dragoon said and rubbed his sore throat before pulling out a pistol and shooting Zealous in the head with it, causing the government bitbeast to finally dissipate into little particles that Dragoon readily absorbed. "That wasn't so hard."

As for Galux, well, the battle wasn't really going in her favor. She was ducking, rolling and blocking the shots fired from Arcford's rifle as the fight progressed and was unable to get grips in this one-sided fist fest. "I'm bored." Arcford finally hissed and he yawned, firing a shot right in front of Galux, causing dirt to spray into her face. He reloaded the rifle and took somewhat relaxed aim before shooting Galux the shoulder with a patented degeneration bullet Rizel himself had designed.

"Oi, Arcford!" The silver-plated bitbeast turned around to face the pistol of Dragoon. "Shit!" Arcford shouted before going "ninja" and disappearing, leaving Dragoon with nobody to shoot. "Need some help, miss?" Dragoon said and offered his hand to the stumbling Galux.

"Shut up, lucky boy."

"I resent that."

"C'mon, while everyone else's distracted! Let's delete that control system!" Galux hissed and the two ran towards the giant glowing sphere that hovered in the middle of the area, leaving Draciel and Trygator to finish off the losing government bitbeasts, Ris and Riwin. The pair stopped at a glowing circular platform and waited as the circle elevated them at an exceedingly slow pace to the core of the sphere. "Okay, if we just disconnect this little plug here . . ." Dragoon's voice trailed off as an arm collided with his head and sent him flying across the chamber, unconscious.

Galux whirled around and raised her arms to attack the considerably weaker Rizel but, without warning, a spasm of pain shot through her shoulder and spread into her body.

"Like my degeneration bullet?" Rizel asked in a taunting voice as Galux fell to her knees, eventually falling flat on the floor and shaking uncontrollably. "I just want a little sample of your data for a new breed of Vire . . ." Rizel said quietly before kneeling and extracting an injection from his chest pocket.

"Sample this!" Rizel's head promptly turned upwards to face a rappelling bitbeast in a black coat, who had an eerily familiar sniper rifle pointed at his head. "Dran . . .!!!" Rizel's voice croaked as a sniper bullet pierced his head and he immediately exploded into shiny little sparks.

"What would you do without me, Galux?" The bitbeast said in a cold voice, helping up the choking Galux and resting her on his shoulder.

"Stupid Dranzer! You made Kai go all loco 'cause he lost you!" Galux said angrily, spraying Dranzer with spit.

"Hey, I saved his life a couple of hours ago." Dranzer snapped back before scooping up Dragoon as well and walking back to the small box that Dragoon was defusing a while ago, kicking a hole into it. "And that's how you disable a system, you bloody psychos." He finished and kicked another hole in it for good measure.

9:23, Inside Zeus, above not so smoldering ruins, Shanghai, China

"Please tell me the system's still working." Ivan said in a very calm voice but, as the poor technician he was choking knew very well, it is always calmest before a storm. "The system's still working." The technician said sheepishly and Ivan promptly pulled out his black pistol, twirled it and fired it so accurately so that it just blew of the technicians' ear. "Again." Ivan said in a bit more serious tone and pointed the shiny gun to his forehead. "5,4,3,2,1 . . ." The black-haired evil mastermind counted, narrowing his eyes as the technician began rambling on about a bitbeast strike team attacking Zealous and the others or something. "Damn them. The proton laser will need repairs. Jex, pull back Zeus." Ivan said in recognition of defeat, resting his forehead on the palm of his hands and sweeping them into his hair. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth before whipping out a cellphone from his pocket. "Einhart? Start up the chambers again. I will be redesigning our Vire army." He listened to the other man's voice for a while, nodding to some of his comments. "Excellent. Prepare for reprogramming of Moritsune and Hotsuma's original data. I'll send you the blueprints for their new design later." He continued and his mouth narrowed into a cold grin. "By the way, ready one grave please." Ivan finished his dialogue, snapped the cellphone shut and twirled the pistol in his hand. He loaded and pointed it at the technician's head. "Die, spy. I never told you about placing our bitbeasts in the control system." Ivan said coldly and a millisecond later, blood was splattered around the steel floor of Zeus. "Jex, I told you to retreat!" Ivan said a tad bit impatiently and turned around to face his esteemed pilot. He sighed and closed his eyes in deep thought before looking out the giant window that separated him from the rushing air outside. "Ah, Ivan Elmdor thinking. Now, that's original." Blaze chuckled from behind his employer's back and Ivan presently turned around to face the somewhat notorious mercenaries. He twirled his pistol and pulled out a second one before pointing at the heads of his obnoxious hired hands. "I've had quite enough of you two." He said dryly and narrowed his eyes as Ice and Blaze looked at each other and grinned. "We're not ready to meet the eternal darkness." Ice replied as her hand darted into her pocket and so did Blaze's. Four clicks of fired guns echoed through the hall as the mercenary known as Blaze did a couple of fancy moves with his newly drawn gun, blew off the smoke, stared at his twin sister, stared back into Ivan's cold and disbelieving eyes. "Impossible . . ." Ivan mumbled as Ice and Blaze walked away from him with cocky grins plastered on their faces. He came back to his senses and spat in distaste before walking back to Jex, ignoring the four bullets that had met in midair and had since clattered to the floor harmlessly. "Cheap shot."

9:56, Inside Osiris, above vast blue sea, near not smoldering ruins, Shanghai, China

"Ray! We finally got them back for destroying our village!" Mariah shouted enthusiastically and wrapped her arms around his waist, then stopped as she realized Kai was watching. "Ahem. Maybe we should focus on the current topic first?" Kai said, narrowing his eyes as he stared at his somewhat jubilant and hysterical comrades. Tyson was happily munching down on a huge sandwich that was approximately the size of Kenny's laptop, belching on regular intervals. As for Kenny himself, the brown-haired boy was nowhere to be seen and Kai figured he was sobbing over the extremely busted Frames that lay in Osiris' hangar. Max and Emily were hugging and looked like they were going to kiss when Kai shot a nasty glare in their direction. "Why do I even bother?" Kai asked and shook his head before throwing his hands up in surrender. A cheer echoed through the halls of the huge airship as each of the triumphant rebels celebrated. Strangely enough, four of them disappeared right after that and Kai didn't want to know what the sounds that were coming from their rooms meant. "So, Kai, where are we headed to next?" Tyson said with excitement lighting up his voice, rubbing his hands like a little child. "Enrique says that the European branch is fine and I received notification from Tala that they already have the situation under control in Russia." Kai replied, ticking off fingers as he continued. "Aside from being kinda upset over Emily's leaving them, Michael says that they fixed up the damages from Ivan's attack and have a new base in Colorado. Which reminds me, I forget to tell Mariah they gave Lee and her parents quite a funeral." He continued and closed his eyes in silent punishment. Kai stopped counting off his fingers and stared at Tyson, who was snoring away in his sleep. He frowned and walked over to his temporary room, slamming open the door and activating his computer via voice command.

"Hello, Kai."

"Dranzer, you ass! I thought the government had gotten you already!"

"That's not what Galux said."

"Never trust a bitbeast that runs around in pink."

"Ah, but Driger does and I bet Ray does too."

"Stop teasing me about the fact that Ray and Mariah are probably going to repopulate our decimated army!"

"Hear that noise from across the hall? Do you want to know what that is, Kai?"

"No, Dranzer."

Kai said before closing his window that featured Dranzer's smug face and opening a list of all the branches where they could land Osiris. "Japan is too busy with the government's construction of a thermo-nuclear bomb, Canada's airstrip was destroyed, Africa's base was completely wiped out, Antarctica is out of the question, New Zealand is preoccupied with the civil war . . ." Kai rubbed his forehead and entered in a more specific search item, revealing the closest available rebel branch. "The Southeast Asian branch? That's the low-tech base if I remember correctly." Kai commented and began reading the specifications of that particular branch. "Wow, talk about lame computer defenses." Kai rubbed his rough chin before typing in a quick email to Kenny that contained the coordinates for the Southeast Asian rebel branch. "Send estimated arrival time back to me." He mumbled absentmindedly and ran a hand through his hair before reopening the window that contained Dranzer.

"So, what now, Kai?" Dranzer asked as the phoenix bitbeast polished a sniper rifle that lay on a rack for easy use. The bitbeast sighed and looked straight at his human counterpart.

"How about some battle simulation calisthenics for the morning?" Kai suggested and his bitbeast groaned in reply. "In my beyblade." Kai added, smiling before holding out his relatively worn beyblade in front of the monitor.

A few seconds later . . .

"Oi, Ray, Tyson, Max, Emily, Mariah! How about a five on one battle with Dranzer and me?"

"Shut up, Kai!"

End of story

If this felt short to you, don't worry! I already have a sequel planned for this two-part story. If we get that scanner we want and my sister doesn't mind, I might be able to have pictures of the various antagonists and the new characters in the sequel put up in another website.

Super Disclaimer: I only own the story, the original characters, basic idea and the penname that comes under the title above this fic. I don't own any of the Beyblades characters and I don't want to anyway. Just the nice little tops they have.