Silver Swiftness: Hey ppl! Here's the next episode of Spin Around. Please read and review! Oh, I also decided that I am going to include some of the Vforce characters, I needed more, lol! I still won't really be following Vforce's storyline except for the fact that the Bladebreakers had their run-ins with the Saint Shields and Psykicks. But no Zeo and Zagart!
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade.
Ray's voice: Last time on Spin Around…Max's cousin, Nikki, came to Japan for a visit and joins the Bladebreakers as the female member. But then we found out that she couldn't Beyblade—she didn't even know what a Beyblade was! Funny how these kinds of things work out for us, huh? But I have a strange feeling that this is only the beginning…
[You don't know how right you are, Ray…]
Spin AroundEpisode 3: Catch Me If You Can
"Let's try this again. Now focus on pulling the ripcord out of the launcher faster and try to land the blade in the dish." Max explained to his cousin for probably the hundredth time, as he launched his own blade into the plastic stadium. "Now you try."
"Pull faster, blade in dish," Nikki repeated as she clicked her new Beyblade into place, courtesy of her uncle's hobby shop. "Let it rip!" she launched the blade and it landed in the dish with a bit of a wobble, before landing with a clink in its side. "That…didn't work too good…"
"Hey, don't sweat it," Max replied kindly and scooped up the two blades in the dish. "Pull the ripcord faster and that will give it more spin."
"Got it dude. I can do this." the brunette ripped the cord as hard as she could and sent the Beyblade whirring around the dish. "It…didn't…wobble…" she spoke in complete awe as she watched the top zip around the stadium. "Awesome…!"
"Alright! Nice rip, Nikki!" Max laughed good-naturedly (being somewhat more or less relieved), "You got it! See, all you have to do is believe in yourself and you can do it!"
"Yeah…makes sense!" Nikki smiled and raised a hand and clasped her hand around her blade as it returned to her.
Nikki's cousin Max had been trying to teach her the basics of Beyblading for the entire morning. At first, Max could've sworn that they were going to have another Hilary when it came to Beyblading, but after about two hours of practice…it seemed like Nikki was getting the hang of things…Or at least starting too, anyways. Max smiled as his cousin launched her Beyblade into the dish with another perfect spin and squealed out in joy.
"Did you see, Maxy?" she clapped her hands excitedly like a kid at Christmas, "I did it! I did it!" she ran up to her cousin and hugged him tight.
Max just laughed and hugged her back.
"Hey guys!" Max and Nikki looked up to see Kenny and Hilary coming down the hobby shop stairs, shopping bags in their arms.
Nikki ran, or rather skipped, towards them and squealed. "I can Beyblade! I can Beyblade!"
"That's…great!" Kenny replied, unsure of what else to say.
"Uh…cool!" Hilary replied, glancing around the basement and noting the many ripped posters, knocked over boxes, and freshly dented walls. "Looks like you guys have been busy." Kenny and Hilary sweatdropped.
"Kay, kay, watch!" Nikki squealed excitedly and ran over to the plastic stadium. "Let it rip!" her blade landed in the dish, and suddenly swerved back out again at an intense speed and found itself a new home in the concrete walls. "Ooopsies…" she blushed and quickly spun around to face Max. "S-sorry, Maxy…"
"It's okay, the basement needed to be repainted anyway," he shrugged kindly. "And new walls." He added. "And windows…"
"And new ceiling and floor tiles, too, right?" an electronic voice added, causing Nikki to bite her lip and her ears to redden at the tips.
"Anyways…" Max began, trying to change the subject. "What'cha guys got there?" he pointed towards the bags his friends were carrying.
"Oh, we just brought the stuff over here for safe keeping." Kenny patted one of his bags.
"Oooh…the stuff…" Max repeated slowly, grinning from ear to ear. "You guys got it all?"
"Yup, now all we have to do is set up the BBQ and decora---aaaAAAAHHHH!" the brunette in the pink top and white skirt at the foot of the stairs shrieked when a piece of plastic came hurtling passed her face.
The gang turned to look at the sheepish looking American girl, launcher and ripcord in hand. "Oops…sorry, Hilary!" she apologized quickly.
"It's okay, here." Hilary passed the fallen Beyblade to Nikki. As Hilary handed the top over to the other brunette, she noticed something glowing faintly under her white, quarter-sleeve shirt. "What's that?"
"What's what?" Nikki paused, a blank look clouding her eyes. "Oh! You mean, this?" Max's cousin pulled out a small crystal fragment attached to a thin silver chain.
"Hey, would you look at that?" the Chief came closer to inspect the gleaming pendant. "It's glowing! Is it battery operated? No, too small…Or maybe it's one of those solar powered crystals that react to the sunlight! Or maybe…"
"Here," Nikki unclasped the necklace and handed it over to the ginger-haired boy with glasses. "You can give it back whenever, just don't lose it, kay?"
"Thanks. Hm, very interesting…Where did you get it?" Kenny inquired and the Californian girl shrugged in return. "I think I'd like to do some research on this, do you mind?"
"No problemo, dude." She turned to face Max and Hilary. "So what's this stuff you got--?"
"Incoming email, Chief!" a feminine voice announced from the laptop tucked underneath the short boy's arm.
Kenny flipped open his laptop and quickly opened the email as the group crowded around curiously.
"Who's it from?" Hilary asked, peering over at the screen.
"It's from…the BBA!" Kenny read excitedly. "It's about the prior to final updates for the World Tournament, and an invitation for an upcoming tournament! Kind of like a warm-up competition, a fund-raiser for charity. Interesting…Mr. Dickenson never mentioned anything about this…"
"Nice!" Max exclaimed. "Who else is invited?"
"Let's see…Hey, cool! The White Tigers, the All-Stars, the Majestics, the Saint Shields, and team Psykick are all invited!" Nikki exclaimed as she read over Kenny's shoulder and then paused. Her brow furrowed and she continued, "Who are they?"
Max laughed and patted his cousin on the back. "They're some of the World's top Beyblading teams! I think you've met the All-Stars though, haven't you?"
Nikki smiled, "Oh yeah, I remember them!" she tapped her launcher on her chin, "I think…"
"What kind of tournament is it, Kenny?" Hilary asked. "Is it a team thing or a tag-team thing?"
"Yeah, and where is it?" Max added.
"That's what's so interesting." Kenny replied thoughtfully. "This tournament's on a ship, the Champion Ship to be specific. It was specifically constructed for this tournament sponsored by Kilauea Corporations. Hm, it doesn't say what kind of tournament this is…but it'll be a great way to introduce Nikki into the game anyhow!" he paused shortly to tap his fingers on his chin with a thoughtful expression on his face. Kilauea Corporations…I don't recall hearing of that company before. And to sponsor an event such as this… Kenny wondered. Isn't "Kilauea" a volcano in Hawaii…?
"Yeah, cool!" Hilary, Max, and Nikki chimed.
"Let's go tell the others!" Nikki said excitedly.
"But what about the stuff?" Hilary asked.
"Oh yeah…" Max got an idea. "I know! How about we all go over to Tyson's and Hilary and Kenny will stay behind and decorate the dojo. Meanwhile, the rest of us will distract Tyson and show Nikki around the city!"
The group agreed and left the Mizuhara hobby shop for the Kinomiya's dojo.
"An entire gym…completely dedicated to Beyblade training?!" Nikki gaped in awe as they entered the lobby of the town's Beyblade gym. "I can't believe I've never heard of Beyblading before, and it's so popular here!" Her cousin and some of his friends were currently giving her a small tour of the city.
"Yeah, it is getting more popular now." Ray commented. "Especially with the girls these days, I guess that's why they needed to enforce that new rule."
"Hey!" one of the Beybladers in training exclaimed. "It's the Bladebreakers!"
"Oh wow!"
"Cool!"
"Uh oh…"
"Where?!"
"I wanna' meet them!"
"Let me see!"
"Sweet!"
"Over there!"
"Awesome!"
"Not…good…"
"Over where?!"
"What?! What's happening?!"
"The Bladebreakers!"
"By the doors!"
"I can't see them!"
"Omigod! It's Kai!"
"Shit…"
"Is it really?"
"It's a dream come true!"
"Are you blind?!"
"By what doors?"
"Back away slowly…"
"Get outta' my way!"
"I can't see!"
"Seriously?"
"No…but they are famous, right?"
"Let's get 'em!"
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!"
The gang's eyes widened as the swarm rushed to engulf them in the crowd, and they all raced back out the door of the gym and shoved the doors closed. Confused, Nikki paused to ask what they were doing, but was roughly pulled along with the gang as they tore down the street. Some way down the street, the gang glanced back quickly to see the doors of the Beyblade Gym burst open and an entire sea of kids flooded out the doors and into the street.
"Okay," Nikki panted when they had finally stopped and were now crouching in some leafy bushes on the side of the road. Her blue eyes were as big as dinner plates and she looked as puzzled as ever "What the hell was that?!"
The rest of the gang looked at each before glancing back towards the freaked out Nikki and grimaced.
"Fangirls." Max finally answered. "Rabid fangirls."
"Rabbit fangirls? They looked pretty darn human to me…But don't you guys like your fans?"
"Rabid fangirls." Kai corrected her. "Are very different from regular fans. Rabid fangirls are obsessed, psycho freaks of nature that will never stop harassing you until you are long dead."
"And even then…" Tyson added, and the Bladebreakers shuddered.
"I see…" Nikki replied looking even more confused, if that was even possible. "But are there always this many of them?"
"Well, not usually here…There must be something big going on." Ray said and they all turned to look at Tyson.
"What?! Why are you guys looking at me like that? Whatever it is, I didn't do it!" Tyson defended himself.
But they all continued to stare at him. "Tyson."
"I DIDN'T…" he paused. "I…might have done something…indirectly…" the navy-haired boy felt his friends' stares burn right into his skull and he couldn't hold it in. "Okay!" he stood up in the middle of the surrounding shrubbery and yelled. "I did it! I confess! But I was just trying to help! When no one showed up, I realized that I put the wrong date and place and stuff on the posters! I was tired!" Still crouching down in the bushes, the rest of the gang froze and went silent. "What? I'm sorry! Guys, speak to me!"
When no one answered, Tyson froze in horror and looked up. He was standing up, out of the bushes, surrounded by a swarm of rabid fangirls. "Eheheh…uh oh…" he slowly stepped out of the bushes and onto the grass, carefully watched by the fangirls. Then he broke out into a run. "RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVEEEESSSS!!!!"
The rest of the gang leapt out of the bushes and darted off after Tyson, closely pursued by their stalkers. After sometime of running, the gang was getting very tired, but their pursuers were still close at hand.
"Let's spilt up, that way it'll be easier to escape from them." Ray concluded. "Okay, on three."
"One, two—" The guys counted down.
"Wait! What's happening? What--?"
"THREE!"
With that, the Bladebreakers all shot off in different directions, leaving poor little Nikki standing there alone in the middle of the park. "Well, that was easy…" she looked around to see that she was completely abandoned, not even a single fangirl had strayed away from the guys to torment her. She shrugged and turned to go back to the dojo to help Hilary and Kenny set up, but froze instantly in her tracks.
A short, dark figure peered at her from the shadows of the trees. She blinked to check if she was just seeing things, but when she opened her eyes, the person was gone.
Nikki frowned. "Hey! Dude, come back!" but there was no response. "Where'd he go?" Then she remembered the other person in the shadows that she had seen in the park the other day. The other one was much taller than this one. "Strange…" she shrugged and gave a small laugh. "If I were a World Class Beyblader, I'd swear someone was stalking me! It's probably just a stray fan." She concluded. With that she proceeded to walk towards the dojo, humming happily, as if nothing had ever happened.
The boy with the two-toned hair leapt over a fence with awesome agility and continued to tear through the woods. After climbing up a tree at the edge of the forest, he stopped to catch his breath and listen. Trying to make his breathing as quiet and unnoticeable as possibly, Kai peered down from the trees as soon as he heard footsteps draw near…
"Where'd he go?"
"Yeah!"
"He was here a second ago!"
"The little sneak!"
"Awwww!" a chorus of depressed wails rose up to Kai's ears. The boy with the blue markings on his face couldn't help but snort and roll his eyes.
"He got away!"
"We're gonna' get you, Hiwatari!"
"Yeah, we'll be back for you later!"
Slowly, Kai let out his breathe and waited until he was sure he heard the last of his stupid fangirls walk away. "Damn rabid fangirls." The slate haired boy jumped down from his perch and decided to return to the dojo, having nothing better to do.
After only taking a few steps towards the Kinomiya dojo, the boy sensed the presence of someone nearby and stopped in his tracks. It better not be one of them, he muttered angrily to himself. Kai slowly whirled around and came found himself glaring into the eyes of someone so very familiar. And not familiar in a good way.
Kai narrowed his eyes at the boy who was about half the size of him and addressed him in a low, threatening voice, "What do you want?" The smaller boy with the royal blue hair and fairly large nose just smirked in return. "Where is he?"
"Oh wouldn't you like to know? Are you going to comply or do you want to do this the hard way?"
"You will never take Dranzer from me." Kai replied sternly.
"Is that what you think we're after?" Ian chuckled, returning Kai's cold manner, only with more of a sarcastic edge. "No, Kai, we're not after your precious Dranzer and not even Black Dranzer." Now Kai was a bit taken back by this new piece of information, but he, of course, did not let it show. "We're here for you."
For me? Kai wondered in slight confusion. What's Voltaire scheming now?
Ian loaded his gun-like launcher and laughed. "What's the matter, Hiwatari? Scared?"
Kai grunted in reply and the shortest Demolition Boy laughed again. "So, are you coming or do I have to do this the hard way?"
In response, Kai whipped out his gear and clicked his Beyblade into place.
"Very well then, have it your way."
Ian and Kai positioned themselves and began the countdown. "Three—Two—One—Let it rip!" With that, Dranzer and Wyborg were launched onto the firm forest ground.
"Dranzer, let's scorch this shrimp!" Kai summoned the great firebird right on the get-go, wanting to end the battle as quickly as possible.
"So that's how you wanna' play, eh? Fine, short and sweet it is! Wyborg!" a giant, cyber-enhanced worm materialized above the two battling blades.
The two Beyblades continued to ram into each other like there was no tomorrow, and even Kai was starting to break out in a light sweat.
The midget's improved. The boy with the blue triangles on his face gritted his teeth. But he's still not good enough to beat me! "Finish him off, Dranzer!" Kai felt a great strength from deep within him and the phoenix emerge into a powerful force that Kai used to his advantage.
On and on the battle continued between the two bitbeasts, where when one would lunge, it seemed that the other would just swerve away in the knick of time. As much to Kai's surprise and slight dismay, the battle appeared to be evenly matched, as the advantages and disadvantages kept rotating between the two.
"Ian, stop the battle, I repeat, stop the battle immediately. The rest of the brat pack is coming." Ian heard his fellow team mate Spencer inform him through his earphones.
No, he can't be this strong. I can't lose. Kai balled up his fists and was about to release Dranzer's mighty wrath upon the unsuspecting Wyborg, when the opposing bitbeast suddenly faded away and the Beyblade returned itself to Ian's clutch.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing, squirt?" Kai demanded angrily as Ian turned and began to walk away. No chickened out of a match against him!
"This match is done." Ian replied with the wave of his hand, not even bothering to stop and turn back around, which pissed Kai off even more. "But don't worry, we'll be back for you later."
Annoyed, Kai snatched Dranzer back up and growled. This was not good, not good at all. The Demolition Boys were back…he was back. And they wanted him back. "But there's no way in hell that I'm going back."
With that, the Russian boy turned to head back to the dojo, and found himself staring at two of his fast approaching team mates.
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Okay, so I guess Nikki can't Beyblade…what are the Bladebreakers going to do? And what's this? The Demolition Boys?! Looks like the Bladebreakers are in for one heck of an adventure!
Silver Swiftness: So that's the third part Spin Around, how'd you guys like it? I don't think this fic showed up in the Beyblade section as updated when I uploaded the last chapter…odd…Anyways, I'm writing chapter 4 now, and it's called "Undercover Bladers". That should give some kinda hint to what happens next. Don't forget to review!
Mizu_Tenshi: lol! Yeah, the Bladebreakers are really in for it now aren't they? That's okay, any review is a good review, lol! Update your fic soon too!