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Born2BeGodLike - Fair enough, I admit to not know how it works either. Bit if it saitsfies yor curiosity (Assuming you got to read this chapter) then I'm obligated to tell you that pairings aren't exacly equal to 'Friendship tag is no'. The friendship is meant as a general tag, because let's be honest here: If this fic isn't going to be tagged for friendship then for what it should be? Just adventure or even to be just a general?
Now that I think about it, I should ask you about it since I'm clearly clueless about how it should be.
And for those who aren't here to just discuss tags, here is new chapter.
Narrator pow:
"... Dan? Who the hell are you?" Maken asked, seeing the new challenger enter the battle.
"Dan Kuso, the best Pyrus brawler in the world." The boy responded, smirking as he moved his thumb over the nose.
"The best? It will be my pleasure to prove you wrong." Maken responded, tossing another gate card onto the field. "You can bring your friends, surely. It's not like they will help you given their current performnace-!"
"Oh shut up! And I thought I was insane!" Shadow shouted, throwing his Warius back into play with no thinking whatsoever.
"Shadow?" Mylene asked, as she and everyone else besides Maken felt heavly concerned.
"Listen. All the times your pals were beating me, I admit it. But what they didn't do was bragging about it to the face of me, my friends and my team, even if I purely dislike them and they purely disliked me. But now? You're just dumping away all of the work you did just to become some new egoistic king?"
"I put my God-honest work to come here, all you put was signing up to the baddies." Maken snarled before throwing his Robotallion towards the field. "And while I respect you for chewing it out to the third round with me, I will sweep you out so Dan can learn a thing or two, ok?" He asked as humanoidal robot with multiple holes rised from the ground.
"I'm all in teach!" Dan responded quickly as he threw his bakugan into the battle. "Pyrus Griffon stand!" He added as the creature rised from the ground and roared furiously.
"Wait for me!" Runo shouted, step ping forward as he also make up her mind. "Bakugan brawl! Haos Saurus stand!" She added as bulky humanoidal rhino rised from the ground and clenched it's fists.
Maken - 100%
Robotallion - 600g
Dan - 100%, Runo - 100%, Shadow - 20%
Griffon - 350g, Saurus - 300g, Warius - 350g
"Very well then! Show me why should I be careful!" Maken laughed as he prepared two ability cards and narrowed his eyes. "Because this brawl will be extorciating!"
Blake pow:
"So we're fine?" I asked, as me and Weiss stopped our squabble and listened to what Shun and Adam had to say.
"Only our four here and now, others haven't heard a thing yet." Shun corrected me, looking towards the west. "But now we need to rally up your team and return to Maken, whenever he likes it or not."
"Why so sure? He seems like a guy who can handle it." Adam said, opposing the latter part of his idea.
"Seemingly is a key word here, not truly." Weiss added, making me think a little about the whole situation.
"Maken did tell us to not come with him, or even back for him after the mission... Is he just stalling for us to escape and return to Menagerie?" I asked myself while Shun and Weiss argued about what to do next.
"Something on your mind, my lady?" Ravenoid asked me, making the concern visible even with limitations of expressing himself in a ball form.
"Yeah, I think Maken wants to do something I would do a year or two ago." I responded before swinging my grappling hook towards the nearby tower.
"Now that I think about it, it's something he would totally do." Griffon added, basically agreeing with my statement. "Skyress! Adam! Tell these two to join with the others after this crap and go help us." He added, shouting behind me to inform the rest.
"Got it, now go!" Adam responded as I leaped upwards and landed on top of the tower before going for the another swing to the angled rooftop.
The race against the time was on...
Narrator pow:
"Ability card activate! Robotallion Fury!" Maken shouted as his gauntlet flashed with red light and pillar of fire erupted around his bakugan, causing the latter to roar with power.
Robotallion - 600g = 1200g
Griffon - 350g = 150g, Saurus - 300g = 100g, Warius - 350g = 150g
"Okay team! Let's go for the trick!" Dan ordered, making Runo and Shadow smile.
"Ability card activate! Correlation of Haos and Darkus!/Correlation of Darkus and Pyrus!" The duo shouted as their cards landed inside the gauntlets and forced the power changes.
Robotallion - 1200g = 900g
Griffon - 150g = 450g, Saurus - 100g = 300g, Warius - 150g = 450g
"So your secret plan is to stall me with atribute correlation system? I almost feel bad for you." Maken smiled as he took out two ability cards and loaded them into his gauntlet. "Double ability activate! Double Impact Fire Tornado!" He shouted as two spirals of fire appeared around Robotallion, fusing themselves into overwhelming hurricane composed of flames, plazma and blind rage.
Robotallion - 900g = 1300g
Griffon - 450g = 50g, Saurus - 300g = - 100g, Warius - 450g = 50g
"How you like that? All three of them are getting captured now." Maken smiled, holding himself from laughing as the burning vortex came towards the trio of opponents.
"Double ability activate! Rapid Fire plus Boosted Dragon!" Dam shouted, activating his own card as his second bakugan came straight into the battle and rised in between his allies and incoming attack.
"BOOSTED DRAGON!" The creature shouted, unleashing a blast from it's mouth and thinning the pillar of flames into nothingness.
Robotallion - 1300g
(Delta Dragonoid - 500g = 600g, Griffon - 50g, Saurus - 100g, Warius - 50g) - 700g = 800g
"Hold on here, pal! Shouldn't your weaker g-power just sweep your guys out?" Maken asked, seemingly unimpressed by appeareance of the literal dragon on the battlefield.
"Not when I use Boosted Dragon combined with Rapid Fire!" Dan smirked, preparing another card. "Now then, ready for more-?"
"Ability activate, Ability Burner!" Maken said, activating his next card as Runo began squeaking.
"Hey! That was my Lightning Shield!"
"A what!?" Shadow exclaimed, confused about the whole situation.
"Did you really thought your ace will distract me from her deactivating my gate card?" Maken asked, closing his eyes in to present his disappointment. "But I guess I can grant your move now, I play by the rules." He added, sending his opponents a confident look.
"Ability activate! Lightning Tornado!" Runo shouted first, taking her next ability card and loading it inside her gauntlet.
"Wait for me girl! Ability activate, Destruction Mace!" Shadow added, joining with his move while Warius accumulated the dark energy in his weapon and Saurus roared into the sky as the white and yellow sparks turned into a spiral vortex around him.
"I'll join too!" Dan added, taking out his own ability card. "Ability card activate, Wing Burst!" He shouted as his Griffon's wings engulfed in flames and the bakugan itself rushed forward for a tackle.
Robotallion - 1300g = 900g
(Delta Dragonoid - 600g, Griffon - 50g = 250g, Saurus - 100g = 300g, Warius - 50g = 250g) - 800g = 1400g
"We got now, prince!" Runo boasted as Saurus and Warius rushed forward to attack their weaker opponent.
"Oh yeah?" Maken asked, taking one of his bakugans. "I can overstack too, dummies." He said calmly as he threw his second bakugan into the field without naming him and took out the ability card. "Ability card activate! Power Charge!" He added as power-boosted and straight-up angry Pyrus Saurus joined into the battle.
(Robotallion - 900g, Saurus - 300g = 600g) - 1200g = 1500g
"What?!" Shadow exclaimed while Dan and Runo only watched helplessly as Maken's Saurus caught Griffon by the arms and crashed him into Runo's bakugan of choice while Robotallion punched the Warius in the jaw before Saurus finished him with a headbutt, sending all three out of four opponents back under the legs of their owners.
Dan - 100% = 80%, Runo - 100% = 80, Shadow - 20% =0%
(Robotallion - 900g, Saurus - 600g) - 1500g
Delta Dragonoid - 600g
"And then you all act crazy when I get overconfident... Your kind is responsible for this." Maken smiled as he looked up and send Drago a cheeky smirk. "As for you, Dan doesn't deserve your power. With me it will go all smoothly-!"
"Leaving Daniel is NOT an option!" The dragon roared in response, heating up enough to glow red.
"Fine, fine, fine. Just remember that it still is within the rules." Maken smiled, looking down at the ground. "Actually, I have to end this quickly for my own team." He said to himself, his face painting what seemed to be a sudden realisation.
"Hold in Drago!" Dan shouted, preparing two ability cards from his pocket. "Double ability activate! Fire Tornado plus D Strike Attack!" He added as Drago sweeped into the sky in flames while a barrage of rocks falling from the sky gave him the time to prepare.
(Robotallion - 900g = 700g, Saurus - 600g = 400g) - 1500g = 1100g
Delta Dragonoid - 600g = 1000g
" Thanks ofr the turn waste, bozo!" Maken smiled as he prepared one of his ability cards. "Gate card open! Character!" He shouted with enough accent on the last word to make mountains shake as the ground turned into Robotallion's illumination while said bakugan allowed the power surge to enter his body.
(Robotallion - 700g = 1400g, Saurus - 400g) - 1100g = 1800g
Delta Dragonoid - 1000g
"Daniel! He's charging up something big!" Drago shouted from above, seeing as meteors bounced off from Robotallion while Saurus turned into his ball form and landed in Maken's hand.
"You did your part great, pal." Prince of Menagerie smiled, hiding Saurus inside his pocket. "And now for the frying part. Ability card activate, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!" He shouted with full power while his bakugan let out a mufffled roared before blasting laser beams from his chest holes.
Robotallion - 1400g = 2800g
"DRAGOOO!" Dan shouted, looking into the air as he witnessed hib guardian being vaporized by the double-barrel blast.
"Damn, he geniuenly cared for him..." Maken sighed, seeing how the whole opposing team more or less loudly observed the tragic blasting. "But I can't be remorseful about doing what's necessary. They still could join me, after all..."
"I NEVER SAID I'M OUT!" A louder and a lot more thunderous roar sounded from above, as everyone at the place saw Drago still flying while a Pyrus Griffon asisted him with a red bubble that was slowly decaying into nothingness.
Delta Dragonoid - 1000g, Griffon - 350g = 1750g
"Maken! That's enough!" An abrupt and somewhat raging voice of Blake joined shortly after, as Maken turned around and saw her Adam, Weiss and Shun ending their run behind them.
"You weren't supposed to be here." Maken responded with decisive, but somewhat suprised tone.
"Neither you were to go for the overkill attacks."
"I never said that, and neither did you."
"I don't appricieate it, but he's right." Adam added from the side, just in time for Maken to realise something obvious at first, but too important to leave it as such.
"Alright, I'll let them be but on my terms. Can I ask you for that much?"
"Just nothing crazy please." Blake responded while Adam went back to explain things to the two travel companions and rest of his team who just now catched up.
"Alright guys, listen up." Maken said, waving to his Robotallion. "I let you be and return all bakugans you lost to me, but in response you get the hell away from Salem, Cinder and other stuff associated with her. Otherwise I'll throw you all into oblivion without a second thought. Do, you, understand?" He asked, catching the returning Robotallion into his hand.
"... Fine by me. She didn't came close to tackling Ozpin anyway" Hazel responded first, in return catching the Subterra bakugan he used.
"Sure thing, I only had a favor to do for a friend after all." Dan smiled as Drago silently turned back into the ball and came back into his hand.
"And that's all I wanted from you." Runo added, hugging him from the side.
"Hold on a minute! Could we join you guys?" Komba asked all of a sudden, making Maken lower his chin before turning his head around to exchange nods with Blake.
"Only as joining the side, you're not in the elite club." The Prince responded, a single sweat drop going down his forehead.
"Meh, that's fine." Mercury responded first, somewhat satisfied with this outcome. "Better than losing for a mere living."
"I don't have much to come back to anyways I'll join too." Hazel added, as the first trio went over to the other side as the battlefield deactivated, Griffon went back into Maken's hand and the whole Remnant began to move again.
"And how about you?" Blake asked, looking at the remaining group while Maken went onto the side to talk with Griffon.
"I'm not sure if we're both welcome." Mylene responded, rather reluctant whiel Shadow just starred into the ground.
"I'm still your friend. Besides, you aren't the first enemy to join us." Volt responded, while Lync came out from his side to face them.
"Exacly! Can you imagine that my first encounter with them was me bullying Blake?" Ventus brawler added, sending to now intretsed Shadow a pair of finger pistols.
"I guess we can, especially since us joining Salem wasn't exacly a good idea." Shadow smiled weakly, before he grabbed Mylene by the arm and they both went forward to join the suprisingly chatty gathering.
"And you two?" Sebastian asked, looking at Dan and Runo.
"No, thank you. We need to think about ourselves." Dan responded a bit hastly, looking down at Runo, who suddenly saddened.
"It's about Tigrerra, isn't it?" Velvet asked, giving her a suprise.
"H-how did you know?"
"She told me everything. And there is no such memorable brawler as the first one." Bunny faunus responded as the white orb flew out of her pocket straight towards Runo.
Maken pow:
"Thanks fot that pal, but sorry that I had to use your friendship in such a way..." I stopped as I turned around to see Runo having an emotional moment with Tigrerra while Velvet returned back to our group.
"That's the tenth time you apologised Maken, blaming yourself will never replace an actual change." Griffon responded before tilting to the left as Blake and Ravenoid joined us.
"Anyways, how about we solve this issue when we return to Menagerie?" Blake asked me, while our guardians went into discussion with lowered tone on the side.
"Sure thing, I owe you this one." I responded, making her look suprised." I know, I know. Why should I be? But first tell me this..." I paused for her eyes to went from suprised back to normal.
"Do you know how one gets obsessed with power?"
