Hi everyone! I'm back and been on spring break! Sadly I've been slacking on posting more chapters but to compensate I'll be posting two chapters this time. Okay now for the disclaimer.
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Tyson belched loudly as Kenny flinched in disgust.
"Ugh Tyson, that's so gross. " Hillary complained.
"That was some good pizza, that's for sure," Tyson smiled, ignoring his friends' looks and complaints.
"Too bad not everyone could eat because of that vacuum mouth of yours," Kai quipped, taking a smaller bite of his own cheesy pizza.
"You shouldn't talk Kai because at least I eat."
Kai glared as Tyson reached for another heavily topped slice. "I eat, just not everything I set my eyes on."
Kai and Tyson stopped eating and began glaring each other down.
"You guys…" Max signed as Rei reached for another slice of pizza from the box and took a bite. Suddenly Rei jumped up and yelled, "Water! I need water!"
Max smiled as he handed Rei his glass. "Here Rei."
As Rei took the glass and swallowed. Instantly his face contorted as though he had just sucked on a lemon. Rei set the glass down before he coughed into his hand. Hillary saw his discomfort and handed him her water. Rei graciously took it and gulped the whole glass down.
When Rei had calmed down, he glared in Max's direction. Max only looked back at him innocently. "Did you put something on my pizza?"
"Rei, I have no idea what you're talking about?" Max replied with a small smile growing on his lips.
"Oh really? Then how come your glass was filled with lemon juice." Rei stated angrily.
Max tried to hold back his laughter but failed. "That was great! I thought adding a hot pepper would have been funny if Tyson had eaten it but with you Rei, it was priceless."
"Huh? What was for me?" Tyson broke in after hearing his name mentioned.
"It's nothing Tyson. Oh and don't worry Max. I'll get you back." Rei glared.
"I'd like to see you try." Max laughed before taking a bite of his pizza.
Rei ignored Max, poured himself his own glass of water and took several more sips. Satisfied that the lemony taste was mostly gone, he turned and talked to Kenny. "Has the Director told you today's schedule?"
Kenny shrugged as he replied, "Not sure what's going on but I did overhear that he's sick today. I doubt that we'll be shooting anything until tomorrow. We're actually ahead of schedule what with Tyson's improvements in acting."
Tyson's attention quickly turned to Kenny as he huffed, "I happen to be a very good actor."
"We all are good actors except for Kai. He's amazing; even was offered the part after his first audition." Rei added.
"What? Mr. Sourpuss is that good? Unbelievable," Tyson answered in surprised.
"It's true. It took me a second audition to get hired," Rei replied.
"Same for me too," Max broke in. "What about you, Tyson?"
An inaudible mumble came from Tyson as his teammates leaned in to hear him.
"Huh? What did you say, buddy? I couldn't hear you." Max asked as all eyes focused on Tyson.
"Five times, okay?" Tyson replied sulkily.
"Oh…" Max answered as Rei cut in to ease the situation. "That's not bad."
Tyson looked at Rei incredulously.
"Tyson, you got the part. You beat out all the others, now drop it." Kai replied, annoyed.
"Easy for you to say, you got the part on your first audition." Tyson argued.
"I just happened to be what they were looking for," Kai replied.
"Well excuse me for not being perfect," Tyson stood up and walked away, leaving his teammates to watch him go.
"Nice one Kai, real smooth." Max retorted.
"He'll get over it." Kai answered as he returned to eating.
Max meanwhile got up, grabbed his and Tyson's plates and threw them out in the garbage can. Turning back to the table, Max locked on Rei. "Want to come with me, Rei?"
"Sure," Rei answered as he grabbed his plate, quickly waved bye to Hillary and Kai, and joined up with Max. After Rei tossed out his own plate, both Max and him took off in the direction that Tyson had gone in.
"That was real charming Kai but what would I know about guys and expressing their feelings." Hillary signed as she got up, then threw out her plate and left in another direction from Max and Rei.
Kai just remained sitting and staring at his half empty plate, his appetite completely gone. Meanwhile Tyson, still angry, walked aimlessly throughout the studio.
"Grrr...Mr.-I'm-so-perfect-that-I-got-hired-on-the- spot. I mean seriously, the only reason Kai got picked was for his good looks and his "Hn"-ing ability. Man, it makes me so- ugh." Tyson ranted as he didn't watch where he was going until he collided into a soft yet hard body, and fell back on his butt.
Rubbing his rear end, Tyson looked up to see a red-haired boy standing in front of him.
"Oh, sorry dude didn't mean to walk into you. My head was down and..." Tyson trailed as the stranger turned around.
"K-Kai!" Tyson stuttered as the boy in front of him looked exactly like the sourpuss he knew except with two-toned red hair.
"Tyson, what're you doing on the floor?" The redhead cocked his head, puzzled as he peered down at Tyson. He stretched out his hand to help Tyson up while Tyson just stared at the boy, dumbfounded.
That can not be Kai. Tyson thought as he grabbed the boy's hand and stood up. "Who are you?"
"My name's Kei 57." The boy smiled as Tyson noticed the exact resemblance to Kai's voice with no flaws attached to it at all. In fact everything about the boy seemed to scream Kai, but something just felt off.
"Kei...57?"
"Yeah."
"What's with the number?" Tyson asked as Kei tilted his head and touched his chin in thought for several moments before he shrugged.
"I don't know. That's the name I was given after my creation was complete."
"Um...okay. So why are you here? Are you a new actor or a fan?"
A wider grin formed on Kei's face as he stepped closer to Tyson. "I came for you. I came for all the BladeBreakers."
"And what exactly do you want from us?" Tyson replied as he stood his ground.
"Hey Tyson! Wait up!" A voice yelled from behind as Kei looked past Tyson as Tyson turned around. Tyson saw Max and Rei running towards him. Although he would of preferred to have dealt with this stranger alone, he couldn't help but feel relief in seeing his friends.
"Man, are we glad we caught up to you," Rei said as Max and him were just a couple of steps away from Tyson.
"Yeah, and ignore what Kai said Ty. You know he didn't mean it." Max added.
"Oh who's that behind...Kai!" Rei looked at the redhead in surprise.
"Wow Tyson. I know you were mad but I mean to go after Kai's hair, that's just wrong." Max stated as Tyson pouted.
"It's pretty obvious that this isn't Kai, Max and even if it was I would never do anything so low." Tyson huffed.
"Hi Max, Rei, my name's Kei 57." The Kai look-alike smiled as Rei and Max looked at him, puzzled.
"Uh, how does he know our names?" Max asked as Rei followed with, "And what's with the 57?"
"I know all the BladeBreakers' names- Max, Tyson, Rei, Kai and Kenny. And as for my name, that's what I was given after I was created." Kei smiled warmly as he spoke.
"Uh, yeah…okay." Max said when Kei finished.
"Tyson, can I talk to you for a moment?" Rei asked as he moved Tyson off to the side so Kei couldn't hear or so they thought.
Max smiled at Kei, "We'll be right back. Uh, team talk."
Max joined in as Rei asked, "So what's the deal with this guy? Is he a fan?"
"Translation- this guy is strange? Why?" Max added.
Rei ignored Max and continued, "Has he told you anything?"
"Not really, just that he knows us and that he's here for us. I didn't get anything more out of him before you two showed up." Tyson answered.
"Well that's helpful." Kei stated as he leaned in on the whispering group. The group separated in surprise.
"Man that scared me." Tyson told Kei as he calmed down.
"Sorry, it's just that you guys were taking a long time." Kei replied, apologetically.
"It's okay," Max broke in. "We just didn't hear you from behind that's all."
"Okay, now that that's over. Kei, why are you here? Are you lost?" Rei asked, returning to the original issue.
"I can't remember. All I know is that I want the BladeBreakers or at least one of you badly." Kei reached and softly rubbed Tyson's cheek. Tyson instantly jerked at the touch and backed away.
"What was that?" Tyson replied angrily.
"I only touched you. I couldn't help it. You looked so cute just then." Kei smiled innocently.
"Well don't do that," Tyson blushed from embarrassment.
"Wow Rei," Kei replied happily as the others stared at him. "You have such beautiful eyes. Can I see?" Kei asked as he leaned closer to Rei's face.
"Uh…" Rei replied as he backed away from Kei's presence invading his space. Kei glimpsed at Max and paused. Turning to face Max, Kei's mouth dropped. He stopped leaning towards Rei and tilted his head to the side as he scrutinized Max. "And Max! I mean, your butt is…"
"My butt! What's wrong with my butt?" Max asked worriedly.
"It's so huge!" Kei finished as Max's face dropped as Rei and Tyson burst out laughing.
Max folded his arms and pouted. "That isn't funny."
Kei noticed that his comment was taken wrong and grabbed Max's ass in response. "See I meant that it's nice and firm; very easy to grab and hold."
Max's face turned red as he pulled away from Kei's grasp.
"I-I…pervert!" Max yelled as he ran behind Rei.
"Hey, what's your problem?" Rei asked as he clutched his fists and stared hard at Kei.
"I-I'm sorry, I don't understand why you're so mad. I was just telling the truth." Kei replied downtrodden.
Rei lessened his stare as he looked guilty. "Uh, what you did was wrong Ka-Kei, I mean."
"Darn right it was wrong!" Max added.
"Max, I think I got this covered," Rei turned and said to Max before facing Kei again and continuing.
"We'll just take you to security and hopefully they'll help you get to where you need to go, okay?" Rei asked.
"Hopefully they'll kick you out," Max mumbled.
Kei seemed to think it over before replying, "No."
"What?" Rei asked confused.
"I can't leave yet without knowing why I'm here." Kei replied.
"What are you talking about? Security can help you out more as long as you have your badge, pass or permission sticker, everything should be okay. I mean, you do have one of those, right?" Rei asked.
Kei looked at Rei confused.
"See, he's a pervert! He doesn't even have permission to be here." Max stated loudly.
"I'll be back." Kei replied as Rei, Max, and Tyson looked at him confused. "Once I figure out why I'm here, I'll meet up with you guys again!" Kei smiled before he ran off and disappeared.
"Okay does anybody find that as weird as I do?" Rei asked as the Max and Tyson nodded as they continued to stare in the direction Kei ran.
"Yeah," Tyson answered.
"But one thing I don't understand is why he looks like Kai." Max stated as they all turned and faced each other.
"I don't understand either." Rei replied.
"For all we know, it could be Kai," Max added.
"I highly doubt it." Rei responded. "I guess one of us should ask Kai about this. So who's it going to be?"
"Nuh-uh, not me," Max and Tyson answered instantly.
"Well I don't want to either. How about Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide?" Rei suggested.
"Okay," Tyson replied as Max answered, "Fine."
"Okay, ready?" Rei asked as they all had their fists out and nodded.
All together, though not completely at the same speeds, they all shouted "rock, paper, scissors, shoot" as they raised and lowered their fists with the words. On "shoot," they all picked one of the choices. Rei choose paper as did Max while only Tyson was left standing. His hand is a tight fist. He had chosen rock and lost.
Meanwhile Kei had taken to hiding himself in a small corner filled with shadows and darkness.
"Why am I here?" Kei sat down, pondering. "It must be because of the BladeBreakers since they're one of the few things I remember… and I want them so badly, but for what?"
Suddenly images flashed through Kei's brain and names formed with them. A purple-haired man called Boris and an angry man with slicked black hair with a white semi-thick line down his scalp known as Voltaire, scientists, tubes, orders, death, teeth, stakes, and a woman in a white gown. Kei clutched his head with his hands on either side. As suddenly as the images had come, they abruptly stopped. Kei finally understood who had sent him, what he was and why he was there. Now all he had to do was find the BladeBreakers and decide. He wouldn't fail his mission; not for his creators and definitely not now that he remembered his purpose for being here.
