Chapter 14: Can't keep down a good All star

Back in the hotel of the beyblade teams. The Kalevalans had won a battle against the almighty Destroyers that were almost thought to be invincible. The All starz team were now building up their beyblades' power and were making the decisions on who plays and the attack strategies. Emily on the other hand wasn't really happy about the formation.

"But Judy! I want to fight for once!" Emily said.

"No buts Emily. The formation is Steve, Eddy and Michael." Judy said, as she was really serious.

"But... they hurt Rio and he's a good friend of mine, I want to get back for him." Emily said.

"Busted." Eddy said.

"What? Who's busted?" Michael asked.

"Emily, I know you want revenge for him, as much as I do since he is my son, but we must stick to the game plans." Judy said.

Emily then looked down on the floor. Then she walked to the door and left.

"Emily!" Judy was about to go after her.

"Let her be alone. I think she had enough." Michael said.

Emily was walking down the hallway of the hotel, as she looked really depressed. She really did want revenge for Rio since he is one of her best friends. If Emily was a part of the All starz, then it should mean that she should be able to play as well. She is good in beyblading and has her own bit beast. At the same time the Bladebreakers were practicing for their coming battles.

"So chief. Have we done any progress?" Tyson asked.

"Afraid not. We still have a long way to go 'till we actually come near the Destroyers level. I'd say that even the Kalevalans can be a bad challenge for us." Kenny explained.

"Well we better keep improving. We have to be ready for the battle against the Destroyers, cause we have no idea when that happens." Ray said as he fired his beyblade again.

Kai was just looking up at the ceiling and was thinking of the mysterious girl that was with the Destroyers.

"Hey, Kai? You ok?" Max snapped Kai out of his thoughts.

"It's nothing." Kai said as he continued his training.

Emily was in the lobby of the hotel, leaning to a wall and was still depressed. (Can you guess what's bugging her?) But then Rio walked into the lobby and noticed Emily.

"Hey? What's wrong?" Rio asked.

"Oh. Nothing." Emily said in a depressed tone. "Oh really?" Rio jumped down the three steps that led to the lobby and landed in front of Emily. "I can tell that something's wrong. Emily, you can tell me. We're friends."

Emily looked at Rio.

"I really wanted to blade in the coming battle against the Destroyers. But Judy won't let me." Emily said.

"Why's that?" Rio asked.

"She says that we must always do the same game plan. But I really want to battle." Emily said.

"Well what's the reason you want to battle?" Rio asked.

Emily started blushing as if she felt embarrassed. She finally let it out.

"I want to get back for you. As I saw Nicole frying you with that fire attack we all felt horrible about it." Emily said.

Rio was a bit surprised about what Emily said. Rio just thought that he and Emily were friends, but not that Emily actually liked him. But Rio did admit that he also had some thing for Emily. Rio put his left hand on Emily's left shoulder.

"That's good enough for me. Just tell that to Judy and you'll be battling." Rio said.

"I already said that but she still wouldn't let me." Emily said.

"Got a pencil?" Rio asked.

Emily gave Rio a pen. Rio took out an old recite and wrote something on it. He then gave the 'note' and pen back to Emily.

"Give that to Judy and then you're in." Rio said.

"Thanks Rio." Emily said.

Suddenly, Emily gave Rio a hug and then left. Rio was blushing a bit, but he felt happy for helping a friend. But he suddenly heard snickering from the corner. He looked and saw Karl who had eavesdropped on the conversation.

"Karl!! Sinä senkin! (In English: Why you!)" Rio yelled as he chased Karl.

Emily went back to Judy's room where the other All starz were planning their battle strategies for the coming battle. Everyone was surprised as Emily came in and she wasn't looking disappointed.

"Emily?" Judy was surprised.

"A note from your son." Emily said as she handed Judy Rio's note.

Judy started reading the note.

Dear mother. This is Rio. I heard about the whole thing and I demand that Emily plays in this match. I hear she's supposed to be one of your strongest players so she'd be perfect against the Destroyers.

Judy looked at Emily while the other All starz tried to see what the note said, but couldn't see the small text. Judy finally gave up.

"(Sigh) Alright Emily. You can blade. I'll put you in Steve's place." Judy said.

"Hey, why do I..." Steve was interrupted by Michael who kept shaking his head to say no.

"Oh alright." Steve said.

"Thanks Judy." Emily said happily.

The next day, the bridge stadium is crowding once again as the next beybattle is about to take place.

"So today is the battle between the All starz against the Destroyers. Lets keep our fingers crossed." Tyson said.

"Hello again good people of Helsinki and welcome as we begin today's first battle. This is A.J Topper coming live from the bridge stadium."

"This could be called a battle for America as the All starz take on the scary and powerful Destroyers. Will the All starz have a chance or are the Destroyers going to take again another win?" Brad Best said.

"Karl, don't you dare say anything about yesterday." Rio warned.

"Alright already, just don't noogie me again." Karl said as he covered his head with his hands.

The All starz and the Destroyers are at their booths ready to take action. Michael and Emily seem angry since the Destroyers had hurt their good friend. The Destroyers for once had angry smiles on their faces, as they felt humiliated of losing to the Kalevalans. The floor rolled back and showed the next playing dish. This dish was made out of stainless steel so it was metal colored. There were three towers in the dish that had smaller dishes on them.

"So now we're using the tri-tower dish. This dish has three towers for the players to spin in cause spinning in the lower part can prove difficult to attack with the towers' bases. This dish can prove to be a big challenge even for the Destroyers." A.J Topper explained.

"Well now that that's been cleared, let me introduce the next competitors! Introducing Eddy from the All starz and the wrathful Ronny from the Destroyers!" D.J Jazzman introduced.

Eddy and Ronny step up to the dish. Eddy now has a more serious look on his face than usual and Ronny seems somewhat... angry.

Eddy's stats are shown.

"Eddy doesn't seem so care free these days. Are the Destroyers making the All starz anxious or just plain grumpy?" Brad best wondered.

"Hey, kid. If you think I'm going to wish you good luck, you got another thing coming at ya." Eddy said.

"Just shut up!" Ronny said.

Ronny's stats are shown.

"Ronny appears to be on a bad mood. Must be because of that loss to so many players during this tournament." Brad Best said.

"Players, get ready for battle! 3... 2... 1... let it rip!"

Eddy and Ronny fired their beyblades. Both of the blades fell on the lower part of the stadium. Ronny's beyblade was continuously crashing onto Eddy's blade, but because of the suction under Eddy's propeller-like attack ring kept Eddy's blade in place, making Ronny just angrier.

"Eddy. Go immediately to plan DES-3." Judy instructed.

"Oh you got it. Trypio!" Eddy called forth his scorpion bit beast. "Sting shoot attack!"

Eddy's blade leaped on Ronny's blade and started damaging it.

"Metal Serpor! Destroy him!" Ronny called out his bit beast, but that was a bad idea, as Trypio used its stinger and paralyzed it.

"What in the world! Stop wimping around and attack!" Ronny angrily commanded.

After a few seconds Eddy's blade got off its opponent and started spinning next to Ronny's blade, which stopped spinning after a few seconds.

"The winner of session one is Eddy! The All starz defeated a Destroyers member in just a few seconds! This could really be a big match for America!" D.J Jazzman announced happily.

"You know A.J. I really enjoyed watching that battle. No carnage or burning the player." Brad Best said.

"Same here B-man. I agree that the Destroyers are going to have a really bad time here if these losing keeps up." A.J Topper said.

"Wahoo! Way to go All starz!" Karl cheered.

"That was cool. It's incredible how the All starz made a plan like that." Tyson said.

"I got this feeling we're going to see more of that." Ray said.

Even Kai was smiling as the Destroyers were taking a beating.

"Oh goodie. Oh. Alright, lets prepare for our next battle. Introducing Emily from the All starz and Nicole from the Destroyers!" D.J Jazzman introduced.

Emily's stats are sown.

"Well that's new. Emily mostly just sits and scans data, but now the Destroyers may be in for a surprise." A.J Topper said.

"You're going to pay for hurting my good friend Rio. And then you'll see that you're not unbeatable." Emily said as she went into that tennis pitching position.

Nicole's stats are shown.

"Nicole is defiantly on my least favorites list for the dirty play from yesterday. Nicole may be strong in attacking but that won't help against her opponent." A.J Topper said.

"Friend? He's more like a pest for insulting me in front of this whole crowd and on television. And since you guys are his buddies, I'll just finish you off fast." Nicole said.

"Learn something about types, my simple minded enemy." Emily thought.

"3... 2... 1... let it rip!"

Emily and Nicole fired their beyblades. Nicole and Emily went immediately to attacking, but Emily's blade kept knocking Nicole's blade back.

"What! My attack's supposed to be far higher than any of yours!" Nicole said angrily.

"Humph. You should also concentrate on weight. I use both, attack and defense in my battles as a heavy defense with a mix of speed and power, makes my attacking heavier and far more superior than yours. You don't seem to do your home work." Emily said.

"Who needs that? Power is the key in beyblading. Nerd!" Nicole said, trying to annoy Emily.

Emily's face turned angry and her left eye twitched.

"Nerd? Did you call me a nerd?" Emily asked.

"Uh oh." Michael thought.

"Bad move Nicole." Rio said.

"What? She's agitating Emily, so why's that a bad move. You know that getting angry during a beybattle just leads to bad control." Mike said.

"Emily's a different case if you call her nerd. Back when I lived in America, Emily always got hard with her fists if someone called her that." Rio explained.

"Ooh. This is gonna be good." Karl said as he ate some popcorn he got from nowhere.

"Where'd you get those?" Ann asked.

"I found'em." Karl said.

"Hey!" Said a man from behind Karl.

"That's it! You're going down Nicole! Trygator!" Emily called out. Emily's armored alligator bit beast came out and hissed. Right when Nicole caught cite of Trygator, she seemed to get a disgusted or scared face as the middle of her eyes turned blue.

"Eew! Get it away!" Nicole yelled as she backed away, letting her beyblade just spin out of control.

"It looks like Nicole is scared of Emily's Trygator." Brad Best said.

"I'd be scared too, if I'd even have to stand near a normal, live alligator that's not in a cage." A.J Topper said.

"What's the matter Nicole? Scared of reptiles?" Emily asked with a devilish smile.

"Oh great! Why'd we choose Nicole for this battle?" Jake wondered.

"It's just because she had to have an opponent with a reptile bit beast. You know that Nicole's scared of bugs, frogs, reptiles and other slimy things." Ronny said.

"Nicole! Snap out of it and battle! For goodness sakes!" Marcus angrily yelled.

"It's so gross!" Nicole yelled, as she was still disgusted and scared.

Trygator glared at Nicole and opened its jaws and hissed even more and turned its attention to Nicole's out of control blade. Nicole got so scared that she had to fall on her knees and cover her eyes.

"Trygator, water smash now!" Emily commanded.

Trygator growled as it charged at Nicole's blade. Also Emily's blade charged in great speed and whacked Nicole's blade out of the dish, but when it landed in to the Destroyers' booth, the blade split right down the middle, including the bit chip. Suddenly Metal Foxor appeared and roared in pain as it fell into bits and disappeared out of existence. The other bladers were surprised of Metal Foxor's disappearance.

"Nicole's beyblade and should I also say, bit beast are history! The winner of session two is Emily of the All starz!" D.J Jazzman announced.

The crowd went wild again for the spectacular victory.

"Alright Emily! Yeah!" Rio cheered.

"Hooray All starz! Wahoo!" Max cheered.

"And it's almost all thanks to Nicole's fear of reptiles." Karl said.

"I don't know Karl. I sort of feel sorry for her. She's still looking frightened of Trygator." Ann said.

"Sorry? Have you forgotten how she hurt Rio? I don't feel sorry at all for injuring my best buddy." Karl said.

"Good job Emily. That was a spectacular victory." Judy said.

"Yea. And you can thank your Trygator for that. If I'd battled, she wouldn't have gotten such a shock out of Tryhorn." Steve said. "So now I put this in the bag and we All starz are closer to competing in the finals." Michael said as he was flipping his baseball into his glove.

"Yes, but remember Michael. They're still very dangerous since Marcus is obviously your challenge." Judy warned.

"Yea, yea I know." Michael said.

"Do you remember your battle strategy fully?" Emily asked.

"Yea. From A to Z." Michael said as he walked to the dish.

Nicole walked back to her teammates who were no really happy about Nicole's loss.

"Uh. Guys? I'm sorry. I fear alligators, you know that." Nicole said.

Marcus stood up in front of Nicole. Suddenly Marcus slapped Nicole on the cheek hard, making Nicole fall on her knees as she held her palm on her cheek.

"Boris will hear of this Nicole. You lost because of fearing a bit beast. Our bit beasts are scarier than that and you managed to control it. You disgust me." Marcus said.

"Please, don't tell him Marcus. Just let me fix my blade and I promise I'll win my next battle. I promise." Nicole begged.

"It won't make any more difference. Your bit beast is gone, because you let nerd hit you so hard that it shattered your bit beast's chip and it disappeared, as it had no original origin point. Jake. Ronny." Marcus said as he walked to the dish.

Jake and Ronny looked at Nicole who was now standing, but still felt pain in her face. Ronny punched Nicole on the chest, causing her to fall and Ronny kicked her after it. Everyone else was frightened as how the Destroyers treated their own teammate.

"Hey, that's harsh." Brad Best said.

"The Destroyers are starting to show a little image of the Demolitions boys' old characteristics. But the final battle must be done." A.J Topper said.

"Well as the rules say, I must start this battle as all injuries that are taken out of the beystadium are not recommended. From the All starz is the strong and fan favorite Michael and Marcus from the Destroyers!" D.J Jazzman announced.

Michael's stats are shown.

"Michael hasn't won or lost during this tournament so taking this victory against the Destroyers would be good for him." Brad Best said.

"How dare you guys think that you're actually a team? That's cold and heartless. And now you'll see what happens to those who are enemies of my friend." Michael said.

"A true beyblader doesn't go for that emotional mumbo-jumbo. In this game only the strong, fearless and wrathful survive. And you are none of that." Marcus said. Michael growled in anger.

Marcus's stats are shown.

"Marcus is now so mad of losing that he actually hit his own teammate. Now that I call an opponent with a heart of stone." Brad Best said.

"Players, prepare for battle! 3... 2... 1... let it rip!"

Marcus fired his beyblade in his normal way with the chain whip, but Michael did his strongest launch he can.

"You just crossed the line buddy! Maximum cannonball flame attack!!" Michael said as he did his power pitch launch, making the baseball look more like a fireball.

Both of the blades fell in the tower that was in the center of the dish. Michael's Trygle appeared immediately. Michael's blade crashed onto Marcus's blade and did his jumping move, making Marcus's blade fly out of the center dish and on to the dish's lower part. Then Michael's blade fell on Marcus's blade with extreme force, causing sparks to fly everywhere. Finally Marcus's blade gave in and got knocked out by a sonic boom. Marcus's caught his beyblade from the air and it was fine, though it had a few burn marks.

"Well that was fast." Brad Best said.

"And the winner of session three is Michael of the All starz! The All starz won a perfect three out of three set against the mad Destroyers!" D.J Jazzman announced.

The crowd went wild as Michael waved to the audience.

"Alright! The All starz won! The All starz won!" Tyson cheered.

"Way to go!" Rio cheered.

"The crowd's getting completely restless A.J. And I think I know the reason." Brad Best said.

"Join the club Brad. Everyone cheers so loud since the All starz pulled out a perfect victory." A.J Topper said.

"Ladies and gentlemen! The next battle will take place shortly. Featuring this next battle will be the Majestics verses the Destroyers! Will the European champions stand a chance in this massive demolition durby?" D.J Jazzman announced.

Will the four European champions defeat the raw power of the Destroyers, or will the Destroyers' winning streak start rising again? Find out in the next chapter.

Current points for each team:

Wins Losses Ties

Bladebreakers: 2 1 0

White tigers: 2 2 2

All starz: 4 1 1

Majestics: 1 2 0

Demolition boys: 2 3 1

Kalevalans: 4 3 2

Destroyers: 4 9 1