Disclaimer: Gary is fat; Kevin's a shrimp. I don't own Beyblade, but I do like sweet and sour shrimp. BOOO! Gets hit with rotten tomatoes.
A/N - Once again, I would stress that Yaoi is non-existent in this fic, kay? It never was, is currently not, and will never be Yaoi, alright? No matter how much you might be deceived by the closeness of the BladeBreakers and their friends, that is all it is, friendship, not Yaoi or slash or shounen-ai or homophobia or whatever it might be called. Only FRIENDSHIP!!
And about Kai, I have something in store for him, but I'll see what I can do for you in the next chapters.
As the Ice Breaks.
Part 10: Current Awakening.
Where am I? two golden opened to the sight of a white ceilings. Am I dead?
"Rei?"
"Mariah?" he whispered out, weakly.
"Rei, you're awake." Mariah voice sounded cheerful as she hurried over to the bed.
"Mariah, what happened? Why are you here?" Rei coughed and Mariah lifted him up slightly and rubbed his back.
"Max called me, he said something had happened to you, so we rushed over as fast as we could. I was so worried, I thought you were going to die." Her eyes were filling with tears.
"We?" Rei looked at her confused.
"Lee, the guys and I."
"Oh," his eyes shot up in realization suddenly, "Kai. Where's Kai? What happened to him?"
"Kai?" Mariah turned away a little, not meeting his eyes. "He ... umm ... you shouldn't work yourself up so much, Rei. You're not well. You should lie down." Mariah tried to change the subject, but Rei was too smart.
"Tell me about Kai first." He looked straight into her eyes.
"Kai is ... I don't know, you should ask Max." Mariah wasn't exactly lying to him when she said that.
"Where's Max?"
"He's outside with the others."
"Oh," Rei looked down, "then, just tell me one thing, Mariah."
"What is it, Rei?"
He looked away, not willing to ask what he was about to. "Is he ... dead?" He had a look of dread on his face.
"No." Mariah could visibly see his face brighten a tad after she answered.
"That's good." He smiled halfheartedly.
"Do you want me to call the others?" when Rei nodded, she stood up from the bed and walked to the door.
"Mariah, could you help me with one thing first?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"I'm feeling kind of uncomfortable, please take off some of these blankets." He tried to wiggle out of the blankets.
"No." she put her hands on her hips.
"But –"
"No buts, Rei Kon. Try to keep comfortable then, because you will keep those blankets on, they're for your own health." She went to the door and walked out, leaving a bemused Rei pleading weakly after her.
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"Judy." Emily walked up to the head of directors.
"What is it, Emily?"
"The lab just faxed in paperwork of the new prototypes that they have created. They're due –"
Emily was disrupted when Judy's phone rang.
"Judy Tate." She spoke into the receiver. "Oh, it's you Stanley. Is there a problem?" he face changed to shock. "Oh my god." She covered her mouth with her hand, while Emily looked at her. "Alright, I'll be there as soon as I can."
"What's wrong, Judy? And who was that?" Emily enquired when she hung up the phone.
"It was Mr. Dickinson. There has been an accident at Lake Baikal."
"Oh my gosh, are they all ok?"
"He said that Kai and Rei have been admitted to the hospital."
"What about Max?" she looked worriedly at her mentor.
"He's fine. Emily," she looked straight at her. "I need you to inform the team of this, while I tell the pilot to turn around."
"Ok." She rushed off to where the rest of the All-Starz were. Judy went to the pilot cabin.
"Oh dear."
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"Checkmate."
"Oh, man." Johnny slumped over on the counter. "That's not fair, Robert, you blindsided me."
"That is preposterous. There is no such term as 'blindsided' in a game of chess. Only winner or loser, and you, my friend, are the latter."
"Fine," he huffed, "but I would kick your ass if this was tennis."
"Keep telling yourself that, my good man." Robert smirked at the hot-tempered Scottish boy in front of him.
"Yes, yes. I promise, a cruise to the Caribbean for just the two of us."
Robert and Johnny turned to the voice of Enrique.
"I love you too, Claudia. You know you're the only one for me," he walked over and took a seat on the chair left of Robert, "could you hold on for just one minute?" he pressed the number two on the cordless phone and put it to his ear, "Amelia, I was just thinking of you – Of course you're the only girl for me. Tuesday? I – Oh, just hold on for a moment," he pressed the number three on the phone, "Penny. I'm glad you called – Yes, I'm sure. You are my one true love – There is no one else, oh, one second," he pressed number four, "Mary-Sue – me? I'm not doing anything – Saturday? Let me see. A moment, please," he pressed number one, "Claudia – I'm afraid I have to cancel Saturday's date – I'm sorry, but Robert wants us to practice –"
Robert rolled his eyes at his playboy teammate.
"Sunday then – Thanks, you are such a saint – Ok, bye – A kiss for you too," he pressed back to number four, "yeah, Mary, I'm free Saturday – so, we'll meet at the park? – I'll get back to you," he switched back to three, "Penny, I have to cancel Sunday – Johnny wants a rematch – yeah, he's such a spoilt sport –"
"Hey!"
"Tuesday – Alright. I'll see you then. Bye," he pressed two, "Amelia. Tuesday is not good for me. How about Monday? – Great. I'll pick you up at your house – Ok. I love you too. Bye," he pressed four, "Mary, everything's set. I'll see you then – I love you too," he hung up the phone and sighed, "its hard being so good looking."
Johnny snorted into his cup of tea, "Good looking? Yeah, as good looking as a monkey's uncle," he smirked and looked at his cup, "hey, Robert, what is it with you and tea anyway? Pretty unusual fetish, if you ask me."
"That's just the point, Johnny, I didn't," Robert sipped his own cup, "Where is Oliver?"
"Don't know. Probably in the back somewhere, looking at nude pictures of unicorns." Enrique studied his nail.
"That's a good point you have there, Enrique, he does have an unnatural obsession with Unicoliyon, doesn't he?" Johnny smirked at him.
"Probably," he ran his hands through his hair, "I wonder what the BladeBreakers are doing right now."
"I have to agree with you on that. The last time I heard, Kai had betrayed them and joined the Russian team." Robert lowered his cup.
"Really." Johnny eyebrows shot up. "Well, I can't really say that I'm surprised. The blue haired freak does seem the type."
"You're just bitter that he beat you the last time."
"That was just by a technicality."
"The technicality was that he totally wiped the floor with you. I mean, for a second there, I couldn't tell the difference between you and a mop." Enrique snickered. "Speaking of which, you really should get a hair cut, Johnny, It is starting to look like a mop top. If you want, I know this cute girl who works down at My Hair Lady –"
"Stuff it, Enrique."
"Fine, fine," he held his hands up in defense, "but don't blame me when the ladies mistake you for a blusher –"
"SHUT UP." He slammed his fist on the table.
"Enrique," Robert looked disapprovingly at him, "you know that Johnny hates when people make fun of his hair," he thought for a moment, "and his eyes ... and his head ... and his feet ... and his –"
"We get it." Johnny stood up to leave.
"Not to mention his skinny butt. Unlike like mine," Enrique stood and pulled up his shirt, "look. This," he pointed to his backside, "is what get the ladies into a frenzy. Johnny's just jealous of my buns-of-steel." He grabbed his right buttock.
Robert snorted into his cup, while Johnny turned as red as his hair. He was just about to yell at the laughing Enrique, when Oliver walked in.
"Yo, Oliver, where have you been?" Enrique asked him from where he sat.
"I was just on the phone with Mr. Dickinson."
"What's the matter?" Robert looked at Oliver's face.
"He said that we don't have to go down to Russia for the plan."
"Why?" Enrique spoke up.
"Is everything alright?" Robert put down his cup and added.
"Hey, what plan?" Johnny looked crossly at Robert. "Why didn't I know of this plan?"
"I thought Enrique had informed you of it already." Robert cast a glance in Enrique's direction, who just looked away and started whistling. "I should have known." he shook his head.
"Anyway, Mr. Dickinson wanted us to fly down to Russia to surprise the BladeBreakers and help them train some. Help them get more in tune with their bit-beasts, like us." Oliver finished for Robert.
"So, why cancel it?"
"I don't know. Mr. Dickinson said that something terrible had come up."
"What?"
"I don't know. We were disconnected before he could tell me."
"This is very peculiar. We should head down to see if it's anything we can help with."
"Robert's right." Johnny stood up.
"Yeah." Oliver also agreed.
"Sure – oh, no." Enrique slapped his forehead.
"What is it now, Enrique." Johnny looked at him in annoyance.
"Now I have to call Mary-sue, cancel Saturday's date and move it to Sunday. And then, call Claudia to postpone it to Wednesday, so that Penelope and I can go out on Monday, because Amelia can only go out in the morning, but I already have that time set with Alexandra, and she can't do it at night. I'll have to move Amelia to Thursday right after Crystal, but be back before Oksana," he held his chin in contemplation, "or, I could move Oksana to Friday, and set Jing Mei for five o'clock next Saturday. But, then I'll have to move Mimi to –"
The others had had enough by that time, and tuned him out.
End Part 10.
At last, Rei is awake and the teams are finally getting together. Whoopee!! So, if in the next chapter you want Tala and the Demolition Boys to come, you know what to do. Review! o
I'm so glad you liked the last chapter. I was worried that you thought it was boring Happiness! Only a few more chapters till the action starts, weehee! Thank you all for the wonderful, overwhelmingly heart-warming reviews, so many in such a short time, they really get my spirits up, and high spirits mean updates, yay!
TechnoRanma: I read somewhere that in the manga, Voltaire is not associated with Boris, and Boris is really called Voltaire? Oo;;
Frostt: I wrote it longer than it was, actually, but changed it because it started to get boring. I tend to ramble when I write chapters that are too long ;; I'll try to describe more in future chapters, kay? I don't feel pressured to update, either, worry not. Wouldn't want to let my faithful reviewers down, would I. Anyway, I try to be consistent and update on weekends.
Maeris: Thanks for the offer. I wrote one Tala fic to the song Behind Blue Eyes, I'll post it up soon. Would you guys read it? o;;
Dazzog: I dunno, Kevin's probably about Kenny's age, around 12. Even if it's not, let's just pretend it is, kay?
Arigato gozaimasu, minna.