It's Just For Fun, Right?
by Shadou-sama
Chapter 13 - No Secrets

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade.

Kai crept into Boris' office while the others fawned over Shadra. His first defeat, and to her! The girl who could barely blade with the freshmen. She had driven a sword through his chest. He wished. It would be less painful.

He knew something that would make him feel better. He booted up Boris' computer. Finding out how Shadra could have improved so much in so little time would help.

Keh, stupid man, he hadn't even programmed a password. Boris must have relied on his authority before. That only works on his lame-brain slaves, Kai thought to himself and smirked.

He searched around the hard drives, looking for anything that could be helpful. Beside the computer were a few plastic cases of floppy disks, which he used to find a few empty disks. He also pocketed any that looked interesting.

Ah! Something good. He popped a disk in and copied it on. A few other documents recieved the same treatment. He didn't have too much time, he couldn't go through the documents. Boris would soon notice he was missing.

Once he had a few more floppy disks filled and other helpful documents weren't being found, he shut down the computer. Stuffing the disks into his pocket, he wrote a quick note and made his great escape.

Boris would later enter to find 'I quit' written on his computer screen with permanent marker.


Kai and Mariah sat in her room on her bed. They looked through the files from the training base, the hack-info that Emily and Kenny had procured, and the information Mariah had discovered.

"And Kenny and Emily were all cuddly," Mariah said, flipping the page on a hard copy.

Kai kept silent and kept on skimming the material on the laptop. What the two geeks did was none of his business.

"And Max is so depressed because of that, and you know, you."

"This'll make him happy," Kai answered.

"Sure, it was the good kind of betrayal." She shook her head. "You're really going to have to prove something to them."

"What about all this?"

"It's a start."

Kai sighed. A new light shone on his newly found childhood memories. It hadn't matter if you betrayed someone, because they didn't trust you to start out with.

"Okay, is it just my impression, or are things starting to get very bad?"

Kai grunted. "Never happened before, especially not here."

"Look at his," Mariah pointed onto her page. Kai leaned over.

Someone burst through the door, making the two look up. "Don't touch her, you dirty fiend!" Rei yelled, full of rage, his fangs bared and his pupils mere slits. Kai jumped away, more from surprise than actual feeling threatrened. Like he would even touch her that way! Maybe Rei but… Dammit! One good thing about being on the Demolition Boys was the thoughts had stopped. Argh!

"Rei!" Mariah exclaimed. "It's not--!"

"What it looks like! 'Cause it looks a lot like that bastard is taking advantage of you! And doing… paperwork," he wound down, taking a look at the stacks of floppy disks and paper hard copies.

"Kai only pretended to be on the D-Boys' team so he could get information."

Rei looked confused. "What?"

"It's true. He didn't want to tell you guys because you might, well…"

"Give it away," Kai finished.

"But—"

"You would have acted differently, and they would have picked up on it," Kai interrupted.

"Rei, things just aren't good," Mariah said. "Shadra, Tala, Bryan, Spencer… They're in a bad situation. Really bad."

"So we're going to talk to Mr. Dickinson," Kai said.

"Okay, then let's go," Rei said. "And you will tell me sometime what's going on, right?"

They nodded.


Shadra stood at the beydish, the other three Demolition Boys standing other side. Boris was over by the wall. She clutched the beyblade tighter in her palm. Black Dranzer was right back where he should be.

She closed her eyes, leaning her head down and to the side a touch, and smirked. "You want to see the awesome power of Black Dranzer, don't you?"

Tala's looked down his nose at her. "Yes," he said.

Her eyes snapped open, and she looked straight at them. "Then I challenge you to a beybattle! All three of you at once."

"You're nuts," Bryan laughed. "We could cream you before your precious beyblade even hits the dish."

"Then why are you refusing when you're so sure of victory?"

The other Demolition Boys faltered. "Fine, have it your way," Tala said finally.

Boris walked up to the dish, ready to act as referee. He'd been waiting for the day when he could show off his new creation and her power to the boys. He held out his hand like a starter. "Three… Two… One… Let it rip!"

The four launched simultaneously. Wolborg and Seaborg took to the right, while Falborg took to the left, trapping Black Dranzer in the center. They took turns delivering blows, wobbling the black beyblade.

"Case point," Tala said.

Shadra just smirked, wrapping her arms against her chest. She looked evenly at her opponents and laughed. They looked up, away from the beybattle.

"What's so funny?" Bryan snarled.

"This," she said, while Black Dranzer crashed into Seaborg, sending him out of the dish. The boys only looked down in time to see the whale's flight.

Tala and Bryan glared harder. She had distracted them, and they had suffered. But they wouldn't make that mistake twice. Spencer fetched his fallen beyblade.

"Falborg!" Bryan called. The great wind spirit rose from its bit in a gale of wind. Then it flew straight for the girl. She didn't so much as blink as the transparent bit-beast hurtled towards her. A flash of black erupted, shielding her from the wind's impact.

Always begin the game and keep going
Nobody said that life would be fair

The wind calmed, and the black translucent shield morphed into a great dark phoenix, towering over them. Tala took an involuntary step back, looking up at the huge beast.

"Black Dranzer!" Shadra called. "Dark Pyre Attack!"

Black Dranzer dived onto its enemies' beyblades. The ground seemed to catch fire and burned all around the beyblades, its fiery tongues licking at their attack rings. The only hope the two had of surviving the fire had been knocked out of the dish first.

"Forward!" Tala commanded. Wolborg crept forward, the fire acting like molasses, but he managed to escape the flames. Falborg wasn't so lucky. He had used most of his strength on that one failed attack, and he had slowed to a stop.

Always begin the game and keep going
Step up; get in the ring if you dare

Black Dranzer's attack faded away leaving black burn marks along the plastic.

"Wolborg!" Tala called. The giant white wolf appeared. Wolborg was nearly as big as Black Dranzer! The spectators looked up in awe of the two giant yin-yang bit-beasts, and stepped away to allow more room for the fight.

"Attack!" A blizzard appeared out of nowhere, it's fatal winds sending the snow into Black Dranzer. The dark phoenix just hung there, suspended in air as the snow beat harmlessly against it.

"Now, my phoenix!" Black Drunzer flew straight as an arrow at Wolborg. The great white wolf was unable to dodge the tackle, and consequently wounded enough to dissipate. One final blow from the black beyblade sent the wolf beyblade out of the dish.

Always begin the game and keep going
Nobody said that life would be fair

"And the winner is Shadra!" Boris announced.

"Hmph, you sound surprised."


"What the hell is he doing here?" Tyson yelled, pointing at Kai. Max, Kenny and Emily stood by their friend.

Mariah, Rei, and Kai sat beside Mr. Dickinson at his desk. Dick sat across from them with the Bladebreakers and friend behind him.

"Hey, what's going on?" Kenny asked, noticing the others' grim faces.

"Please sit down," Mr. Dickinson said. They obeyed.

"These two," Mr. Dickinson motioned to Mariah and Kai, "With the help of Emily and Kenny have discovered a rather disturbing plot."

"And why exactly am I here, Stanley?" Dick asked. He felt rather out of place among the child beybladers.

"Because it involves you. It involves all of us." Mr. Dickinson paused. "Twenty years ago, an Abbey in Russia was renovated into a school for beybladers. Or so the students' parents thought. In reality, it was a program funded by Biovolt Corporation to test their experiments on suitable candidates.

"We don't know exactly what their goals were, but we believe it was to create and train the perfect warrior. They developed training programs designed specifically for this, often torturous. The candidates were rendered emotionless and sadistic, but very powerful.

"To test their warriors, they created a team to compete in the Russian beyblade circuit called Neo Borg. They were the national champions for thirteen years running.

"A year ago, a Neo Borg member brought to the police's attention evidence of the Abbey's violation of federal laws. With that, team Neo Borg and the Abbey disappeared from Russia. Of course, Biovolt wasn't charged because it had merely funded the Abbey, not run it."

"Why tell us this?" Dick asked. "That's done, it's over."

"Because the head of the Abbey was Balkov Boris."

A collective gasp went through the room.

"With our new information, we believe Boris has began a new Neo Borg, which we all know as the Demolition Boys. We also believe that Boris is once again running illegal experiments."

They were afraid to ask. But Kenny, the least expected of all of them, piped up. "Like what?"

"A behavior modification chip."

"Huh?" Tyson grunted.

"It is a computer chip is embedded into the brain, changing the mental processes, the thinking pattern, of the person. With just that, someone could change a person's total behavior to whatever they please."

"Shadra…" Dick said.

Mr. Dickinson nodded. "From the data we have, it looks like the chip isn't removable without serious brain damage. The best we can hope for is that the chip malfunctions harmlessly and the brain can return to its normal thinking pattern."

"And the worse?" Dick asked, his voice low.

"Well, I like to think that the worse is that the person stays the same, but we can try our own sort of behavior modification, the traditional way. But that's only if we can obtain her," Mr. Dickinson said. "Please don't sue the school."

"What do you mean, if we can obtain her?" Dick asked.

"If Boris finds out all that we know, then he could run for it along with the Demolition Boys."

"Then we'll get him arrested," Tyson said.

"We don't have enough incriminating evidence… yet. That's where you boys come in."

"How?" Max asked.

"By winning the Finals."

"We don't have a fourth member!" Tyson exclaimed.

"And how would that help?" Kenny asked.

"Kai is." Mr. Dickinson ignored Kenny's question.

"But—"

"Kai was only pretending to be on the other team to gain information and to find out how good they really are," Rei said, feeling a bit proud that he knew before they did.

"The news isn't good," Kai said.

"No, it isn't. Boris has somehow procured a more powerful version of Dranzer, a darker version they call Black Dranzer."

Tyson snorted. "Well that was original."

"There's nothing funny about Black Dranzer," Kai snarled. "It's merciless and vicious. It has depths deeper than any bit-beast we have faced. It's greatest power is that it is as strong as its beyblader. And Shadra is strong. The silly girl you once knew has been replaced by a stronger, disciplined, and emotionless warrior."

"Wow Kai, I think that's the most you've ever said."

To be continued...