Duplication Dilemma
Chapter 2: It wasn't me!
Disclaimer: No, I don't make any money for this, no I don't get any reviews, and no, I don't own Beyblade...
OH YEAH? Wanna bet? $2? Coward. What do I say? $50... Canadian. What? No, 'cuz I don't have of any other money. Oh, alright, I got like 1 English pound, and like one of them weird American $1 bills. What do you mean, where'd I get it? My mom works in a hotel! Grr... We're practically on the edge of the border! What? No, I don't have an accent! Yeah, I was born in Canada! ...Yeah? Wanna see the Canadian end of my fist? No, this monitor was only like $400. Yeah, Canadian money, so what? ....... You better watch it, buster... you're lucky I didn't rate this a little higher....
~~Tyson's POV~~
It wasn't me. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. The words rolled around in my head a million times as I stared out the window.
"Tyson!"
I jumped. "It wasn't me!" I shouted.
The class laughed. "Tyson, please pay attention," Ms. Kincaid told me. "Now, what is a contraction?"
"Um..." I said the first --- and the second, and third, and so on --- thing to come to my head. "It wasn't me?"
The class laughed again. Ms. Kincaid replied, "That's right, Tyson. 'Wasn't' is a contraction because you use an apostrophe..."
I stared out the window again...
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I snuck over to Kai's after school. Nobody had been filling me on practices lately, and we had a tournament coming up. I walked to a window and peeked in, looking around a vase holding some flowers. There they were, training...
I knelt to tie my shoelace, just as I thought I saw something move in the corner of my eye. There was a loud crash. I stood up quickly. "TYSON!" they screamed at me, pointing at the broken vase on the floor, in a puddle of water with a bunch of flowers.
"Master Kai!" A servant rushed up, concerned. "OH! You!" He pointed at me. I suddenly recognised him as Kai's most trusted guy. "That was my favourite vase, you, you... you little... street urchin! How dare you, coming to this house unwanted, and break a Hiwatari heirloom!"
"That wasn't funny, Tyson," Ray said.
"Wait, there's no proof that... he did do it," Max said uncertainly.
"Max, do you see anyone else?" Kai demanded.
"N-no..." Max stuttered.
"Now hold on guys," I cut in. "I just wanted to talk to you guys about the other day, and I saw you training. Then I went to tie my shoelace, and something brushed by me, and there was this loud crash. I stood up, and everyone's already blaming me."
"Really, Tyson, I expected at least a better excuse from you," Kai said sarcastically.
"What? Guys, you have to believe me. Something weird is going on here, and it's not me!"
"Tyson, we've had enough of this," Kai replied.
I could feel the blood rushing to my face in anger. "Kai! Ray! Max! Kenny! We're a team! We're, we're FRIENDS! ...At least, we were, weren't we?"
"Tyson, what's that expression?" Kai asked. "Oh, yeah, 'that was then, this is now.' When will you grow up, Tyson? Your pranking is getting old."
"Guys... please... just trust me... please, guys..."
"Trust has to be earned," Ray said neutrally.
"Well, haven't I earned it? All these years, guys, we've been through it as a team, as friends. We've been through good and bad, light and dark, evil and more evil, but we came out in the end... together. So I'm asking you guys now, my friends and team-mates, have I earned your trust? Will you please believe me, right now?"
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Me: Should I stop here?
Max, Ray, Kenny: NO!!
Kai: ...You made me sound so stupid.
Tyson: Yeah, look what she did to me! I can't make a speech like that! You should change your pen name to "I love writing OOC!"
Me: Watch your mouth, Tyson, or I could cut you out of the story completely.
Tyson: You wouldn't dare! I'm the main character!
Me: Says who? You're the STARTING character, and you SEEM the most important RIGHT NOW.
Tyson: ... So, then who?
Me: Well... Kai's almost always been my main character... He's so easy to write about... angsty, mysterious, hidden, dangerous, and cute, except I don't think they shoulda given you grey hair in the second season... A bit like me... Ah... "Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover," "Desires of the Heart," and so on.
Tyson: Both suck.
Me: Tyson....!
Kenny: Um... yes, both fics may be found under Every Storm Has An End's profile. She is assuming that pen name at the moment because it's an original fic that's on fictionpress.net, but she likes the pen name she has there, "It's Not Easy To Be Me," because according to her, it isn't.
Me: Kenny... run-on sentence.
Kenny: It is not because I used a lot of commas and other forms of punctuation to allow breaks and pauses for the readers so it is not a run-on sentence!"
Me: No... but that was.
Kenny: (*pouts*)
Ray: Ha, she got you there, Chief.
Max: Why didn't I stick up for Tyson more? We're a team. We should all be listening to him, not ignoring what he says and accusing him of stuff.
Tyson: Now you got Maxie making speeches and acting weird! Hey... since when do I call him Maxie?
Me: Do not, must have been that weird yellow sugar he ate, and you do in the second season.
Tyson: What?
Me: I'm not making Max act weird, I think it's the weird yellow sugar he ate. And you call him Maxie in the second season, which, by the way, in my opinion of course, violates copyright laws of several of my favourite RPGs.
Ray: Like what?
Me: Well... I'll tell you some other time, k? We gotta finish the chapter.
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The Bladebreakers stood in silence for a moment, taken off guard by Tyson's "moving" speech, then simultaneously sat down, and gestured for Tyson to take a seat as well.
5 minutes later, Tyson was sitting in a circle with his team and explaining all of what he knew about the recent events. Kenny and Dizzi recorded this, then went around, and the other boys talked about their own experiences.
"So..." Ray said uncertainly. "It sounds like a prankster, all right."
Max added, "One who knows us pretty well, too."
"But what could anyone get from this?" Kenny asked. "Dizzi?"
"Don't ask me, Chief."
Kai said dangerously, "Well, they better hope that they don't ever meet me."
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"Hah, punks. Idiots can't even figure it out... Hmm... so... time to move on, I guess."
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"Well, I guess we don't have enough information right now," Kenny decided.
The boys headed home, talking most of the way, which is why they missed the figure sticking out of the bushes in the dark.
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Hmm... stupid chapter. Hmm... too many unfinished stories... like "Mind Games." Have no idea where that one's going, but it might be the garbage can...