Duplication Dilemma
Disclaimer: I do not own and will never and have never owned any part of Beyblade. Just ask the people who do own it!
Summary: One Tyson, one super-hyper Max, one serious Ray, one scientific Kenny, and one Kai was enough... but what happens when doubles wreak havoc and spread the curse?
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"Oh, Grampa!"
"No excuses, my man! You have to clean out the basement, dawg!"
Tyson finally made his way down to the basement, groaning and complaining. He cleaned everything in sight moodily for an hour or so before stepping into what Tyson was convinced was THE LAST CORNER. Tyson dusted until he found a small jewellery box behind a pile of junk and covered in layers of dust.
He blew off all the dust. Tyson coughed a bit, then sneezed. Through all the lifting dust, he didn't see that the box had glowed blue for a moment, then returned to normal. He stared at the jewellery box, and tried to open it, but it was shut tightly. Frowning, Tyson carried it upstairs to his grandfather.
"Sorry, dawg, I've never seen it." was all he could offer.
Tyson shrugged and put it in his room, but his curiosity nagged at the back of his mind. He had to run his fingers over the majestic dragon on the front again. Tyson pulled out his blade and saw the striking resemblance between the dragon and Dragoon. He sneezed again.
His grandfather called, "Tyson, my man! Dinnertime!"
Tyson quickly put the box and Dragoon on his desk, side by side, and rushed out for dinner eagerly. This is why he was not present when:
1) the box glowed blue again, and Dragoon glowed with it.
2) Dragoon rose out of the blade and dove into the dragon symbol.
3) The box flashed with blinding light for a moment, then cleared.
4) Dragoon shot out of the symbol and into it's blade again, then one blade became two.
5) The box glowed red and shot out one beam of light that focused on the floor of Tyson's room.
6) The light cleared, and an identical clone of Tyson stood there.
7) "Tyson" grabbed the cloned blade, and jumped out of the open window, ready to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting world.
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"Grampa, I'm done!"
His grandfather was too exhausted to argue about the dishes and grabbed a sponge.
Meanwhile, Tyson headed to his room, and looked at Dragoon for a moment, as if all the answers would shoot out of him.
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"Ray, you have a visitor!"
"Coming, Mom!"
The boy quickly ran down the stairs. He walked to his door, where Tyson stood.
Tyson said to him, totally serious, "Can you meet me at the park in 15 minutes? I have to tell you guys something important. I'm gonna get the other guys, alright?"
Ray blinked at him curiously, but nodded. "I'll be there."
On the way to another house, 5 minutes later, the clone spotted a payphone. He grinned and pulled out several quarters.
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"Phone, dawg!"
"Alright, Grampa!"
"Hello?"
"Tyson?"
"Yeah? Who is this?"
"It's... Ray. I need to talk to you. Can you come to the park in about 10 minutes?"
"...Alright, Ray. Your voice sounds a little off."
"Sorry. I got a cold."
"You sounded fine yesterday."
"Well, I waited for someone in the cold for about 3 hours this morning."
"Oh... okay, then, bye."
"Bye."
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"Kenny, get the phone! We're busy cooking out here!"
"Yes, Mom!" He rushed to the phone and picked it up. "Hello?"
"Kenny?"
"Yes?"
"It's Kai."
"Oh... hi, Kai. Are you sick? You sound weird."
"Just something with my phone."
"So, Kai, um, what did you want?"
"We need to talk. The park, 10 minutes."
"Sure, Kai..." The line went dead. "Bye, I guess."
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"Hey, Tyson!"
"Hey, Max."
"What's up?"
"Um, Max... I have to tell you something, the whole team, I mean. Wait, meet me in the park in 5 minutes, ok? I'll go get the others."
"Yeah, sure." The blond boy looked as worried as he ever got.
Tyson walked away. Max called back to his dad, who was fixing a blade, "Dad, I'm going out for a while!"
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"Kai?"
"Tyson?"
"Yeah. I have an important message to give you guys. Meet me in the park in five, and I'll get the others."
"Whatever."
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The five boys met in the park, in a very confused scene.
"Hey, Ray," Tyson called.
"Hey," Ray replied.
"Hi, guys!" Kenny cried, walking up to them.
Max said, "Hi!!"
Kai just said, "Look, Tyson." Tyson turned to face him, as did everyone else, with confusion. He went on, "Whatever you have to say, can you hurry up?"
Tyson started to open his mouth to ask Kai what he was talking about, but Max said, "Yeah, Tyson, why'd you call us here?"
"What are you guys talking about? Ray called me here."
Everyone turned to look at Ray. "What? Tyson, you showed up at my front door and said you had something important to tell us."
Now all the attention was on Kenny, who seemed even more confused. "But... I got called here by Kai," he protested.
Kai said, "Don't look at me."
Everyone blinked at each other, thoroughly confused. They all started talking.
Ray noted, "All of us got called here by Tyson, except Kenny." All of them went silent.
"Hey!" Tyson suddenly shouted.
"What now, Tyson?" Kenny asked.
Tyson pointed a finger at Ray. "You don't have a cold at all!"
Nobody understood him. Ray replied, a little angrily, "Tyson, the White Tiger clan is immune to colds. It's an inherited trait, and we consider it an insult for anyone to suggest it."
"Tyson, whatever prank it is this time, it's not funny," Kai said coldly. "You probably called Kenny, and made up that part about Ray. A simple prank is one thing, Tyson, but to get us out here at this time for nothing, that's NOT funny. And I'm sick of it."
"The voice on the line did sound weird," Kenny noted quietly. Kai turned and started to walk away.
"Wait!" Tyson cried out.
Kai stopped but didn't turn around. "Call me when you grow up, Tyson," he said icily.
The others walked off sadly, with no cruel parting words, but no joyful ones either.
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Ooh, tell me what you think! I know, not exactly an original idea, but I just wanted to try it out. And I dunno if Tyson has a basement, and I know Kai was OOC, but sorry!