Finally! I can continue with the story! There are new Beyblade episodes! They're different because they're the English translations of Beibure-do, the Japanese episodes. They tell about what happened after the Russian Tournament, but I prefer to say otherwise!

8. The Enemy's Arisen

The Celestial Myriad had signed up for the default tournament, and the other teams were there in the audience to watch- except for the Bladebreakers, however. They were in the tournament, too. Now was the battle between the two teams. There would be four sets in this match because there were four team members on each team.

The first set was between Max and Elvin. The two each stepped up to the dish and readied their blades.

"3, 2, 1, Let it Rip!" announced Jazzman.

Max and Elvin both pulled their winders at the same time. Elvin dove right in to the battle. "Ariamar! Meteor Charge, now!"

A blue ram arose from Elvin's grey blade. With great speed and force, it 'charged' across the dish towards Max's Draciel. "Draciel, Metal Ball Defence!" Max yelled.

A protective force formed around the green blade as Ariamar charged closer. Ariamar finally reached Draciel, and slammed with such force that Draciel's attack was proven useless. Draciel was knocked out of the dish, much to Max's dismay.

Ariamar returned to Elvin's hand and he went to sit back down in the bleachers where the rest of the Celestial Myriad was sitting.

Max traipsed to the Bladebreakers' bleachers. "Sorry, guys. Elvin's attack was just too strong ."

"It's okay, Max. You did the best you could, I'm sure," consoled Ray.

"The best he could?!" exclaimed Tyson as he leapt up from his seat. "He could have"

"And next from the Celestial Myriad is Philemon! Who will the Bladebreakers send out?" came Jazzman's voice.

Tyson stormed out of the bleachers and up to the dish. "Me! Tyson! And I'm not going to lose to some deceitful glasses freak!"

Eva and Sarah began to laugh. "Good one, Tyson!" they called from the bleachers.

"Uh . thanks . I think . " Tyson trailed off.

"Are you ready to let it rip!" Jazz Man shouted.

Like Max and Elvin, the two fired at the same time. The Bladebreakers made the first move this time. "Phantom Dragoon Hurricane Attack!"

A zephyr of wind and water appeared in the dish. Philemon's black blade was sucked in and tossed about, but Philemon remained calm. "Don't you see that that's not going to work, Tyson?"

"Oh yeah, why not?"

"Because my Lephar is fast enough to escape your hurricane, unharmed. Just like a real hare, it'll wriggle its way out of tight situations and hop away, safe. So let's show him how it's done! Lephar! Use your Moon Jump!"

Philemon's yellow blade began to jump up and down around the dish, evading debris flung out of the hurricane. Then, it jumped right in to the storm. "There's always calm in the eye of the storm!" yelled Philemon.

Lephar came down from above, not in any way deterred by the hurricane that surged from Dragoon. It landed right in top of Dragoon, and Dragoon ceased its Hurricane attack. Dragoon retaliated, and began to wobble as if dizzy from the collision.

"No! Dragoon!" cried Tyson in despair.

"You're foe's weak! Get 'em, Lephar!" Philemon shouted as Lephar sped towards Dragoon and knocked it out of the dish with one devastating blow.

Philemon simpered smugly at Tyson. "Huh! Battle's mine!" He retreated to the bleachers.

Brad Best made an observation; "The Celestial Myriad's in the lead, but will the Bladebreakers make a comeback?"

Ray walked over to the dish. "Oh yeah . I'm not letting you down, guys!"

Eva stepped up to the other side of the dish. Philemon sighed from the bleachers as she did so. "Man . she'd better keep her focus or she'll give in to Ray . "

Sarah sat back and folded her arms. "Come on, Philemon. You've got to have faith in her."

"Isn't that what the Majestics said? And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they lose the tournament?"

Sarah scowled at him. "Look, I want to keep a four-zero win just like you, so that means we'll have to do the best we can."

"Yeah? Well how do we know you'll win against Kai? He's the former world champion!"

"Notice how you said 'former' . "

"Stop arguing, guys. The battle's about to start," intercepted Elvin.

Eva and Ray fired their blades on Jazzman's signal. The two blades circled each other for a moment or two, and then dove at each other. The impact sent them flying away and to the sides of the dish. "Driger! Tiger Claw!"

'I remember that attack . ' thought Eva. 'That was the attack that Lee and Ray were perfecting when we were young . But of course, that means I know how to counter it!' "Hey Ray! You can't hit me if you can't aim! Pegusar, Quasar!"

A white winged horse rose ascended from Eva's white blade. It began to emit a stunningly bright light, and as Driger neared Pegusar, it found itself blinded by the intense light. It threw a hit, hoping to get it lucky, but to no avail. "No, Driger! Ah! My eyes!"

Eva, who had screwed her eyes shut and looked away, opened them and whirled back around to mock him. "Sorry, Ray, but I can't let the Celestial Myriad down!"

'She knew the Tiger Claw's weakness . accuracy, but I never knew she was paying such close attention back in China. Only Lee and I knew that,' Ray said in his head.

From the audience seats, Ian noticed a weird look in Bryan's eyes. One he'd never seen there before, but in Tala's. They looked like Tala's eyes when he looked at Sarah. 'To tease or not to tease . that is the question . with a no-brainer answer!' He unfolded his arms and sniggered. "Hey Bryan! What's with the eyes?"

Bryan glimpsed downward at him. "What do you want?"

"Too involved, are you?"

"With what?" Bryan started to blush.

"Quit it, Ian. We're trying to watch," scolded Spencer.

Bryan and Ian glowered at each other before both folded their arms and turned their heads away from each other. "Hmph!"

"Wow! Check out the light show, people! Is Eva trying to blind us all with her Quasar attack?" A.J. Topper screamed.

"Not intentionally, I'd say! She's very patriotic, doing anything to assure the victory of her team, though there is a certain extent!" Brad countered.

Ray covered his eyes with both hands. 'Man, did it hurt!' He couldn't stand to look- it was just too painful to even squint. While he was protecting his eyes, the downside was that he couldn't see what was happening to Driger. How could Eva stand the brightness?

Ray could hear Eva's command for Pegusar to finish it. He heard a clash of Beyblades, and knew that was it; he had lost-to a girl. "No! Ray!" He heard Tyson yell.

Then, "Oh yeah!" Max's voice. Ray slowly took his hands away to see Driger rebound off the side of the dish and across to the other side. He hadn't lost! What a relief! There was still hope! The look on Eva's face was scary. She thought she had had him for sure.

"How ironic," Kai sighed.

"Ha, ha!" He saw Philemon laugh.

"Out of the cooking pot and into the fire!" exclaimed Elvin.

"Oh, Ray . " Kenny groaned.

Ray glanced at his Beyblade, which lay outside the dish, opposite the side that it almost exited from before. "Oh great . " he mumbled. While the blade had avoided one side of the dish, it had ricocheted and flew out the other.

Eva called back her blade and skipped back to the Celestial Myriad's bleachers.

"That was the funniest thing I've ever seen!" Philemon cried mockingly.

"Hey, I won, didn't I?"

"Exactly. That's what's so funny."

"What?! Why you little!" Eva screamed as she went for Philemon's neck.

Sarah stood up solemnly. Normally she would have laughed at their antics, but not this time. She was still too shaken from the secret she hadn't been meant to know about. She advanced towards the dish, but Elvin's voice stopped her.

"You're up against Kai. Don't lose, or you'll make a fool of yourself. We've won the other three battles easily, and as leader, you're supposed to be the strongest."

'Easy for you to say,' she thought to herself as she nodded and continued to walk. 'You weren't up against the former world champion . You also weren't up against a syndicate experimental human.'

"And the Bladebreakers are down three matches, but will Kai make a comeback, or a fool of the name?" Jazzman vociferated.

Kai placed his hand firmly on his shooter and winder. "We may have been friends when we were younger, but that won't deter me from winning this match!"

"Kai knew her when she was young? Great! That means he has an advantage!" exclaimed Tyson happily. "That also explains the reason for his feelings for Kochab. It's just like you and Mariah, Ray."

"That doesn't mean he has the advantage," Ray replied gravely. "I knew Eva when I was young, and look what happened to me."

"You did?" Kenny, Max, and Tyson gasped.

"Yes . She was a girl who lived in my town, though I never really knew nor noticed her."

"Why do all these girls live in your town, Ray?" Max asked suspiciously.

"The two team captains! Are you ready?" Jazzman yelled.

"As ready as I'll ever be!" Sarah ejaculated.

"Ditto!" Kai shouted.

"Three, Two, One, "

"Let it rip!" Kai, Sarah, and Jazzman cried out in unison.

"This battle'll be a cinch! I've analyzed all your moves by now, Kai. You should've been more careful about allowing Kochab to follow the Bladebreakers around!" gloated Sarah.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch, Sarah! I've some tricks up my sleeve you haven't yet seen!" Kai revelled. "Dranzer! Fire Arrow!"

Dranzer shot up from the blue blade and aimed a stream of fire at Sarah's purple blade. Sarah watched nonchalantly. "Hmm . Impressive. You got a new Bit Beast, did you?"

"That's right."

Sarah lowered her head slightly. "Well, let me tell you: sometimes old is just as good! You'll remember this one! Fovular, Black Hole!"

"Fovular?!" Bryan, Spencer, and Ian exclaimed.

"How the heck did she get that?!" Ian questioned.

Tala slumped down in his seat.

Sarah's Beyblade flew into the middle of the dish and out of Dranzer's line of fire. It spun around faster and faster, creating a black vortex. It beckoned for Dranzer and everything else with an unavoidable gravitational force.

Kai could feel himself being pulled towards it, and he knew the same thing was happening to Dranzer. Dranzer struggled madly against it, along with everyone else in the stadium, save Sarah and the rest of the Myriad. Dranzer fought a while longer before finally giving in. It disappeared from sight in to the black hole in the middle of the dish. "Dranzer! No, I can't lose like this!"

Sarah grinned heinously at the petrified Kai. "Your goose is cooked." She taunted.

Just after she said that, the darkness dissipated and the two switched expressions. "That's not right! What happened?" Sarah queried rhetorically.

"Your plan backfired, that's what!" Kai answered.

Both the blades had stopped spinning, and were locked together by their attack rings.

"Whoa! I'm not sure who lost! They're both 'locked' in combat, but neither one is spinning!" declared Jazzman.

"Ew, Sarah!" came Philemon's discouraging cry.

"Maybe this is foretelling something of the Beybladers," Tyson suggested, only to be whacked over the head by Kenny.

"Stop being so immature! It doesn't mean anything!"

Robert seemed impressed. "A truly interesting turnout."

"Though it has no winner," added Johnny. "I thought for sure Kai would lose."

"You don't like Kai, do you, Johnny?" asked Oliver.

"You only noticed now, Oliver?" Enrique questioned sarcastically.

Jazzman had finally come up with the winner. "And this battle ends up in a tie! Yet, the Celestial Myriad takes it!"

The Bladebreakers sulked as the Celestial Myriad jumped for joy. Kai jumped in to the dish and picked up their Beyblades. He separated them carefully and glanced up at Sarah who was staring at him with wide, fearful eyes. He climbed out of the dish and advanced on Sarah, who glared at him in shock. He stood barely a foot away from her, the closest he'd been to her in years, and handed her her Beyblade. "Good battle."

Sarah took it gingerly from his outstretched hand. "Thank you," her voice squeaked, feeling xenophobic.

Tala shifted uneasily in his chair as he watched the scene.

The next day, after the Celestial Myriad had won the first match against the Bladebreakers and now they were advancing to battle a new team; Vitality Extortion. The Celestial Myriad sat in their bleachers facing the other team. They were thinking of the Bladebreakers' losing statement: "If you lose to another team and win to us, you'll embarrass yourselves in front of the whole world!"

"What an encouraging statement," Eva said sarcastically.

Sarah surveyed the other team. There was a girl with navy blue hair tied by a gold band in a long ponytail, supposedly their leader. She wore a crimson red jacket that reminded Sarah of blood. And just like the Celestial Myriad's moon belts, the 'blood' jackets must have been Vitality Extortion's trademark clothing article because all three members had a jacket. It had an odd symbol on it, like a specific company's. Under the girl's jacket, she wore a black dress with short skirt. She had matching black wristbands and knee-high red boots. She looked oddly familiar, as if a fusion of her and Kai, with those solemn brown eyes and bangs like his.

Another member, a male, had brown hair and green eyes. His hairstyle was similar to that of Tala's, only shorter and with Sarah's bangs. He wore the red jacket and black shorts with red boots. He also had black wristbands. He seemed like a mix of Sarah and Tala.

The third and final member was also a male with Kai's hairstyle and Tala's bangs. He had red hair and blue eyes. He also wore the jacket with full- length black pants, black wristbands, and red running shoes. He was the combination of Kai and Tala.

"I'm the one who's not battling, right, Sarah?" Elvin asked, startling her.

"Huh? Oh! Yeah . "

A.J. Topper was ready to start the battle. "Hey everyone! We're here today to see the battle of the Celestial Myriad and Vitality Extortion! As you saw yesterday, the Myriad defeated the Bladebreakers 3-0 and a tie, so we have an interesting match today with two teams who have never shown their faces at a tournament before this one!"

"Tala."

Tala jumped and whirled around to look behind him. Boris stood in the aisle, glaring down at him. "Yes sir?"

"I thought you were supposed to be training."

Tala leapt up from his seat and stood at attention. "Uh, sir . sorry, I just had to watch."

Boris looked at the match-ups below. His eyes widened on seeing the other team, Vitality Extortion. "The others aren't here, so I'll forgive you, so long as you give this to my niece."

"You mean Sarah?"

"Yes."

"Why? Why don't you?"

A look from Boris silenced him and answered his question. Boris handed him a gold bracelet. Tala took it and looked at it queerly. "What's this for?"

"Good luck and . protection." With that, Boris turned and left.

"From what?" Tala called back after him. There was no reply. "Fine then . "

"And the first two players are steeping up to the dish! Both the leaders of the teams; Sarah from the Celestial Myriad and Spica of Vitality Extortion!" exclaimed Brad.

Sarah moved towards the dish, but then heard someone call her name. She turned around to see Tala emerge from the hallway behind the bleachers, running at her. When he caught up to her, he paused to catch his breath and then shoved the bracelet into her hand. "What's this?" she questioned.

"It's from Boris," he explained. "It's for good luck he says, and he wants you to wear it during the battle."

Sarah unfastened it and put it on slowly. "Okay . thank you."

She ascended the stairs to the dish. The Myriad invited Tala to sit down with them instead of in the audience. He obliged and watched Sarah with worried eyes. 'Does Boris know something that we don't? Protection from what will she need?'

Spica and Sarah fired their Beyblades on Jazzman's signal. Spica's black blade and Sarah's purple one clashed in the middle before flying in opposite directions. "Revenost, use Return!" Spica commanded.

Revenost, her purple Bit Beast, flashed and then moved as if it had just been fired again and flew into the middle. It had regained spin that it had lost from the initial collision.

"Fovular, White Hole!" adjured Sarah. An opposite of the attack she had used on Kai yesterday, it flew in to the middle and slightly knocked Revenost out of the way. A white light emanated from Fovular and the gravitational force was placed in reverse. It sent Revenost to the edge of the dish.

Spica wasn't about to give in. Almost immediately after the attack started, it ended because Revenost used Return again, and Fovular was back at the side of the dish with Revenost on the other.

Sarah withdrew slightly from the dish. "Huh? What happened?"

A heinous smile crossed Spica's features. "Don't you see? Whenever my Bit Beast, Revenost is a revenant, or ghost that returns to a specific place. When it uses its return, it takes the battle back in time, returning one or both of the users to its previous condition." 'Though I have one question for you; why aren't you succumbing to my attacks?'

"Sarah! Don't let it use that attack!" Philemon cried.

"Use your head, kid! It's easier said than done!" she shouted back. "Unless . "

"Fovular! White Hole!" Fovular swiftly obeyed the command, diving into the middle. It once again exerted the gravitational force. "Now overlap with Black Hole!"

Fovular slowly died off with the White Hole and began to start Black Hole as the White disappeared, but before it did, grey started to swirl and the grey circle formed like a safeguard around Fovular.

"I don't know what you're doing, but it's not going to work. Revenost! Return!" Revenost followed Spica's command and attempted to turn back time, but to Spica's surprise, nothing happened. "What? What the?"

It was Sarah's turn to smile. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Don't you know that when a black hole and white hole collide, they form either a quasar or wormhole? While a quasar has entirely different purposes, a wormhole is a portal for time, so the wormhole my Fovular created cancels out your Revenost's Return!"

Spica growled as Fovular charged at Revenost. Spica would have fought back, but knew she was done for, and didn't bother to fight it anymore. She watched as it was knocked out and flung back in her teammates' direction.

Tala settled down on seeing the win. She wasn't hurt. But what injuries could she have suffered in the first place?

Sarah came and sat down on the bench beside him as Philemon stood up and advanced on the dish. "Knock 'em dead, Philemon!" she called.

"With Vitality down one, the Myriad's spirits are soaring, but for how long? We'll find out in this next match between Telesto and Philemon!" Jazzman vociferated. "Three . two . one . Let it rip!"

"Lephar, attack!" Philemon commanded.

The yellow blade charged at Telesto's grey one. "Doppelgost, Double-Go!" ordered Telesto.

Just before impact, Doppelgost split into two separate blades, and moved in opposing directions in the dish away from Lephar. Philemon paused a moment to analyze the situation. He told Lephar to retreat to the middle. It spun there for a moment as the two Doppelgosts revolved around it on the outside and then dove in. They tackled Lephar from different sides, battering it badly. Philemon could strangely feel Lephar's pain. It was excruciating and relentless. He felt like he was being pounded by the red doppelganger Bit Beasts themselves.

The Celestial Myriad and Tala noticed Philemon recoiling and wincing. "What's happening, Philemon?" Eva questioned.

"No . idea!" Philemon replied with an extremely pained expression. "Lephar! Keep . fighting! Don't . give . in!"

Lephar did as it was told, and began to tackle both of the blades in a Ping- Pong ball's motion, back and forth, bouncing between them. Slowly, the blades were pushed away, but then went in pursuit of the hare Bit Beast. Philemon was now on the floor, trying to recover from the pain, and too injured to give commands. Lephar, knowing this, decided to take control of itself. Making a suicidal move, yet knowing that the Doppelgosts would follow, it flung itself from the dish, all three blades landing on the floor at the same time: a tie.

The rest of the Celestial Myriad rushed over to Philemon who was on his knees. They bombarded him with questions like, "What happened?" "Are you okay?" "Do you need a doctor?"

Philemon didn't reply, and so they just lifted him up and took him back to the bench. Tala stared in wonder. 'So that must be it . The protection that Sarah needed . "

Eva stood in front of the bench, glowered at the last boy, and clenched her fists. "I'll win this one, and I won't let your suffering go unpunished, Philemon."

She stormed over to the dish and fit her blade to her shooter. "You're going down, whoever you are!" She yelled at the boy.

"Please call me Kuiper," he answered politely.

"Three . two . one . Let it rip!" Jazzman yelled once more. Kuiper and Eva both fired.

"Poltost, Invisivandal!" Kuiper yelled, making the first move. The white Beyblade itself didn't seem to do anything, but suddenly Eva began to hear strange noises all around her head, noises that don't usually occur in a Beyblade battle. She turned her head away to see what was happening, but she couldn't find the noises' sources.

The next thing she heard was sounds of a dish crumbling. As she whipped back around, she felt a sharp pain, one similar to that which Philemon had felt. It felt as if something was being thrown on her, something heavy, but there was nothing. She observed the dish to see chunks of cement from the dish being thrown at Pegusar, though. "Pegusar, Quasar!" she managed to yell.

The bright light appeared, blinding Kuiper. The blue poltergeist Bit Beast, Poltost, flashed and then sunk back down into its blade. Pegusar made a go for it, knocking Poltost out with one hit, but was then knocked off balance and stopped spinning as it was it by a cement chunk hurled by Poltost. It was another tie, and like Philemon, Eva was in severe pain.

Sarah ran over to her and helped her up. "Eva! Are you okay? Why was I the only one who wasn't hurt?"

"Because you had protection," Tala explained as he stepped over to the two.

"What do you mean?" Eva moaned.

"I mean that Sarah must have been protected by some strange force field or something. Remember that bracelet I gave you? Boris said that that would protect you from Vitality Extortion's onslaughts. Well, not directly, but I can make the inference."

Sarah looked discouragingly at her wounded friend and then back up at Tala. "But why would Uncle Boris only protect me and not the rest of the Myriad?"

"Have you ever thought that maybe we're not his relatives?" Elvin asked sarcastically as he staggered up to them, Philemon supported by his arm.

"How disappointing. Two ties and a loss. When you work for Goadbwa, that isn't acceptable. I shall expect better from you next time. Especially you, Spica," a tall man said as he scowled downwards at Vitality Extortion. The man had dark brown hair and grey eyes. He wore a red turtle neck and black jacket with gold linings. He wore white gloves and black pants and dress shoes that matched his jacket. On the jacket was the same logo that was on Vitality Extortion's red jackets. He had a moustache and glasses with reddish-brown lenses. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Boris in both mental and physical appearance.

After a succinct "Yes, sir," from Spica, Telesto, and Kuiper, the man led the three out of the stadium. The Celestial Myriad and Tala watched them depart down the corridor.

Two days later, while everyone was busy doing their own thing, such as the Celestial Myriad battling against a team called the Blade Sovereign (a team of four), the Bladebreakers watching them, minus Ray who was recovering in the hospital, and the Demolition Boys who were training at Biovolt, the other teams arranging flights back to their homecountries. But the actual teams were waiting for their adult supervisors such as Mr. Dickenson, Judy and Gustav to arrange the flights. The teams were given free time to hang around Russia.

Mariah was with Ray, and the rest were doing various things. An example was Enrique, Kevin, and Eddy. They were just walking around together, seeing all that Russia had to offer. They then decided to face off in a Beyblade battle against each other. They found a back alley where they wouldn't cause a disturbance.

They were halfway through their battle when three other kids appeared. "What do you want?" demanded Eddy.

"We want to battle," one of them replied, they sounded like a girl. As they stepped into the light, Eddy, Kevin and Enrique could see that she was a girl, with two boys.

"Hey, I remember you three! You're Vitality Extortion, the team that the Celestial Myriad battled two days ago, " cited Kevin.

Telesto placed his hands akimbo. "Right you are. Since we tied with them, don't you guys want to see if you're better than we are?"

"Hang on a sec, technically, you guys didn't win because you lost the first match to Sarah. So, why would we want to battle a loser team? Besides, you 'tied' in a default tournament." Enrique stated.

"Yes, but we weren't putting our full heart in it yesterday," Kuiper said, cockiness in his voice.

Eddy turned to Kevin and Enrique. "Well, what do you say, guys?"

"I say we take 'em on!" Kevin exclaimed.

Enrique shrugged. "I guess so . "

They all readied their blades, to fire at the same time in a team elimination round. They shot on the "Let It Rip!" of the countdown, and to Enrique's, Kevin's, and Eddy's astonishment, were beaten, literally and badly.

"What? How'd that happen?!" Michael, Lee, and Robert cried in unison.

"This means our flights will have to be postponed . " groaned Michael.

The three leaders were surprised to find members of their team in the hospital the next day. All six teams had come to visit, and to see what had happened. Boris and Mr. Dickenson had also come. Boris for the story and Mr. Dickenson out of concern.

When Boris left early, the Demolition Boys naturally followed him, but so did Sarah. Kai decided to, too, after seeing the look on Boris' face when he saw the three injured boys.

At the Abbey, Sarah, Kai, and Tala were called to Boris' office. He flopped down at his desk and clasped his hands as the three stood in front of him with blank expressions. "I don't suppose you know why I've called you here?"

The three shook their heads.

"Well, I have a strange suspicion about that team, Vitality Extortion and their adult supervisor, Gilepse. You see, like me, Gilepse is a president, but of Goadbwa Enterprises. Like the Demolition Boys, Vitality Extortion is a product team, mascots for the company. What I need you three to do is to persuade Mr. Dickenson and the rest of the BBA to help Biovolt in exposing Goadbwa for the fraud they are." Boris explained.

"But aren't Goadbwa and Biovolt partners?" Sarah questioned innocently.

"They were, and Gilepse and I were best friends. But there was an estrangement between us after the Black Dranzer incident . " he growled as he glared at Kai, who turned away. "Ever since, the two companies have been rivals. The worst we've done for years is try to get at each other's material by sending in spies or things like that, but I now have suspicions that Goadbwa has found a new way of reinforcing Bit Beast powers in an inhumane way. They have mundane ambitions and will stop at no lengths to reach them."

"Sounds like Biovolt to me," Tala quipped.

"What was that?"

"Nothing, sir!"

"But why of all people did you choose us, and why do we have to convince the BBA? Why can't you, Boris?" Kai asked, obviously reluctant to accept the mission.

"Because Mr. Dickenson won't listen to me. Goadbwa is in his good books and Biovolt in his bad. He'd sooner slaughter than help me."

Sarah glanced at Tala and Kai's expressions and then at the determination in her uncle's eyes, though covered by the red and black glasses. "I'll help you, Uncle Boris."

"Thank you, my niece," Boris replied, a look of relief on his face.

"I'll help, too!" Tala and Kai exclaimed in unison on hearing Sarah's consent.

Okay, sorry for any Eddy, Kevin, or Enrique fans (if they even have any) but I had to hurt someone. No, actually, Vitality Extortion had to hurt someone. So anyway, now the plot of the story is really beginning to unfold, huh? This is only the beginning .