A/N: thanks for the review, silver swan1, I looked at some of your fics, and they look gooood! ;o) I think I will start reading some of them when I have a little more time. Oh, and Sasuka, yeah, I guess you could say I got a beta. And just because I don't beg pathetically for reviews doesn't mean I don't enjoy them! ;o)

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"Please, please, please, Kenny!" Rockie begged.

"Why can't you do it yourself?" he sighed.

"Cuz I'm a wuss and I need help," she mumbled.

He sighed again and left the room, coming back a minute later with a cordless phone. "What do you want me to say?"

She grinned. "Thanks Kenny, you're the best. All you have to say is...uh... well, could you tell him the whole story?" she said quickly.

"WHAT?!"

"Oh, please do it! I don't know him hardly at all, and you know him very well. You know exactly how to say it. I have no clue. Please?"

He started dialing. 'I'm going to regret this,' he thought while the phone started ringing.

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"Kenny, you're SURE you haven't been using Sharpie markers to color? Tyson did that once, and he started saying strange things, too." Max sounded skeptical, and amused at the same time.

"Yes, Max, I'm sure!! She's sitting RIGHT HERE! I've run tests, and..."

"So why don't I know about her? I mean, if I had a sister, I would definitely know. "

"Not if she was given up the day you were born," Kenny said softly.

"So now she's my twin?! Geez, Kenny, I thought you were the smart one of the bunch. I don't have a sister. My parents would never give one kid up and keep the other." Max was practically yelling, but then his tone softened almost to pleading. "I'm right, right Kenny?"

"Give me the phone," she mouthed silently.

"Max, she wants to talk to you."

"Fine. That's fine," Max said hesitantly.

"Hello?" Rockie said nervously.

"Hi... are you that girl Kenny thinks is my sister?"

"Yeah."

"You're not my sister."

"I am, though. Max... please, at least try and consider it. You don't seem the type to just completely disbelieve something without even giving it a try."

Max was about to open his mouth and start yelling when her words sunk in. 'She's right, whoever she is. I shouldn't just blow this off. Maybe...'

"Fine. I'll meet you, at least. Even though you're not my sister, maybe we can be friends, right?"

Rockie grinned, making Kenny sigh with relief. "Yeah, that would be great. Do you want to talk to Kenny again?"

"Sure, put the Chief on."

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Kenny and Max decided that the three of them would meet up at the park the next day.

On the way to the park, Kenny and Rockie were silent. Rockie held the straps of her backpack with white knuckles, which Kenny noticed but didn't mention. He was holding Dizzi rather tightly, too.

The two of them sat on a bench in the middle of the park to wait for Max.

He finally showed up, with the other Blade Breakers in tow, but he stopped a few feet away and told the others to go away, and he'd come find them when he was through there. Then he came over and stood in front of the bench, looking down at Kenny and Rockie curiously.

"So, you're Rockie, huh?" Max asked with a small smile, nothing like his usual cheerful grin.

"Y-yeah, I am..."

"You think you're my twin sister." Max crouched in front of the bench so his face was level with hers, and examined her features carefully.

"I AM your twin sister." she was silently comparing his face to her own, not knowing that he was doing the same to her.

"You DO look an awful lot like me... but I don't have a sister."

"Listen. Kenny told you the story. It's all true, every word of it. Why don't you believe me?" she looked sad, a lot like Max's sad look.

"I don't believe you because you're lying. Now, if we could get past all of that twin business, maybe we could get to know each other, and maybe we could be friends. But first you have to give this up. I'm not your brother. I've always been my parents' only child. If I had a sister, they would have told me about her." Max looked sad, rather than mad like his words. He looked almost like he wanted to believe her....

She sighed, and broke eye contact for fear that tears might come. "Okay. If I don't mention being your twin, can I still get to know you? I mean... I do want to be friends."

Max grinned for real. "Sure we could be friends! We could start right now, if you want."

Rockie wiped her eyes with the palms of her hands quickly, and smiled back. "Sounds good."

"Do you blade?" Max asked, pulling Draciel out and holding it on his open palm.

"Yeah! I started a few years ago." she opened the snap-shut pocket on the front of her backpack and brought out her own beyblade, a light purple one with three wings and five balls in the base for balance and endurance (like Draciel Fortress, sort of).

"Cool blade! Wanna battle me?"

"Sure!"

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The battle was quick. Max wasn't trying; he wanted to see how good Rockie was. She beat him and then growled. "Why did you let me win?"

"I just wanted to see how you bladed. I wanted to get a feel for your strategy, because you had the advantage of knowing mine." He grinned once again and set his beyblade back into his launcher. "This one is for real."

They launched again; the blades hit in air before bouncing into the dish. Max was winning again, even with Rockie concentrating as hard as she could, until she got fed up.

"Drayera!!" she yelled. There was a flash of reddish light, and her bit beast was out. It was a reddish-brown hawk, with a lighter color of feathers on its underside. Its beak and talons were metal. It had large fanned out red tail feathers, and red feathers on the ends of its wings.

Max grinned wider than ever and called Draciel out, too.

That's when the battle got interesting. Instead of beating the crap out of each other, the bit beasts actually looked at each other, with puzzled expressions.

::Do I know you?:: Draciel asked.

::I don't think so. but you seem familiar,:: Drayera thought for a moment. ::I remember! I do know you! Robin and Derek, remember them?::

::Yes! That's what it was!:: Draciel seemed happy. ::Have you seen either of them recently?::

::Derek gave me to Rockie's adoptive parents so they could give me to her when she was old enough,:: Drayera answered.

::Robin gave me to Max through a necklace a few years ago. Good to see you again!::

Rockie and Max stared in disbelief as their bit beasts had a conversation.

::Drayera, you're supposed to ATTACK him, not chat with him!:: Rockie yelled in her head.

::Calm down, sweetheart, this is a good friend of mine. Don't make me battle him, please? Not right now.::

Rockie sighed. ::Fine. Go back in.::

The bit beast happily went back into the beyblade, still chatting away in the back of Rockie's mind to Draciel about some guy named Derek.

Max allowed Draciel to go back into his beyblade as well. "That... that was about the strangest thing that has ever happened to me."

"Same here. Who are Derek and Robin?" Rockie caught her blade as it flew into her hand.

"I think those were my grandparents' names," Max said. "I know my Grandma was Robin... but Grandpa died when I was little. I never learned his name." He looked a little sad.

"Max, don't you get it? This is proof! Why would I have your grandfather's bit beast if I wasn't your sister?"

"Maybe you're right..." Max sat on the grass and thought for a second, his eyebrows bunching up in thought. "I need to talk to my parents. Can you give me your phone number?"

She pulled a piece of paper out of her backpack and scribbled some numbers on it. "Here you go."

"I'll call you when I've found something out. You'll tell Kenny about all of this, right?"

"Sure..."

"Good. See ya later." Max threw her one last grin before he stood up, grabbed Draciel, and walked away, out of the park.

Rockie headed back to the place where they left Kenny, to see him surrounded by the rest of the Blade Breakers, answering questions.

"So that's her?" Hilary asked curiously as Rockie approached.

"Yeah, that's me, Max's twin," Rockie rolled her eyes. "He's going to go talk to his parents. I was told to tell you that..."

"I hope they don't start fighting or something..." Rei said quietly.

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A/N: okay, now, before you attack me with M-S flames because she almost cried and because she was agreeable yet determined and nice to Kenny and a reasonably good beyblader and everything, let me say this: if you met your brother for the first time tomorrow, and he didn't believe you were related, even though you had proof, wouldn't you be upset? Wouldn't you be happy just to get to talk to him for a while? Maybe you'd be all cold and Kai-like, but you know how Max acted when he found his mom and stuff... and Rockie is all like Max, just a girl so therefore she's slightly different. Alright, just felt that I had to say that. That whole Anti-Mary-Sue thing is so stupid it's unreal. Done ranting for today! ~bmw