Archimedes was gradually closing her eyes, physically rotating her body then gracefully stepping around her teammate only to reveal a brunette with forest green eyes.

"Oh ho! There's been a switch a roo, Yuan's captain Archimedes will not face off against Lee but rather Wenling will be his opponent." Blader Ken excitingly announces while he haphazardly leans over the rail of the platform after he moves his sunglasses toward his forehead.

Master Tao momentarily peered over at Yuan's bench only to note that Lin wore a toothy grin along with an expression of satisfaction.

Mao's eyes widen at the actual opponent her brother will have to face off against.

Jaws were agape and eyes bulged out of the crowd's faces at the "sudden" change in Yuan's lineup.

Wenling casually ascends the flight of stairs that leads to a silver circular bey dish and faces off against a mute Lee.

A frown materialized on her face as she witnessed his unusual robotic actions once he removed his blade and launcher.

The brunette merely responds as she removes her blade from a brown burlap blade pouch and dark green launcher from her lower back.

She was twisting the yellow, green and dark green blade until hearing two clicking noises signaling that it was properly securing it to the device.

'My job is to win this match…and hopefully wake this stubborn idiot from his stupor.' She inwardly gave herself a pep talk.

At the same time,

"This is an interesting match up." Hiro mutters to no one in particular as he rests his chin in the gap between thumb and index finger.

Takao merely narrowed his sights on the raven haired male, who stood ready to defend his team from total and utter defeat yet there was something off about Lee's movement.

"He's too stiff." Rei's voice broke him out of his thought.

Max leaned forward to adjust his seat when he verbally commented, "He moves more like a robot instead of than the fierce King of the Jungle."

[Yuan's bench]

Lin continuously beamed a wide smile across her tan face, which started to seriously creep Akane out.

"You look like a creepy clown in a sideshow so stop already." She eventually states since the smile has yet to fade from the woman's face.

"I love it when a plan comes together." The goldenrod with green tips female cheerfully exasperating while repeatedly clapping the palms of her hands together with the wide grin.

After Lanying witnessed her friend's reaction, she finally broke her silence, "Someone's obviously excited."

"Well yeah…a teacher's job is to help their students as much as possible, especially with matchmaking." The Amazonian woman boldly declared, which received a lukewarm reception.

"She does like Lee but why is he all Domo Arigatou, Mr. Roboto?" Audrey curiously quipped, which earned stares before being sternly reproved by Meifeng for the moniker.

'Lee was never like this…so why?' Hiromi, Takao, Rei, Mao and Master Tao privately asked themselves the same query.

"3…2…1…Let it Rip!" The crowd, Blader Ken and Wenling were simultaneously chanting as the bladers were roughly yanking the rip cord to release their tops in the circular dish.

'Good…she has a decent rotation speed.' Hiromi privately thought after she observed the start of the match.

The blades rapidly spins around the silver dish before Galeon swiftly cuts through the center and instantly attacks his opponent.

"Lee wastes absolutely no time striking his opponent." Blader Ken was broadcasting right before Galeon was receiving the command to unleash another flurry of attacks.

"There's something off about his attacks…" Mao spoke to no one in particular as her sights narrowed in on the vibrant jumbo screen.

Both Master Tao and Rei hones their sights on the young male, who is now the captain of China's fiercest beyblading team, simultaneously surmised, 'Those hits…are too shallow.'

Wenling physically tightened her fists since she quickly became annoyed at his recent pathetic excuse of an attack. She would compare it to trying to swat down an irritating gnat that is constantly buzzing in your face.

Her forest green eyes finally glanced upward only to meet downcast golden eyes. 'I've had it.'

"Hey!" She loudly shouts out to him as she waits to receive his full attention. "How can you have a lion as a bit-beast but you're blading like a kitten?"

"You just let some silly little words affect your blading…pathetic." The brunette promptly added.

"Uhm…what is she doing?" Archimedes confusingly questioning after hearing her teammate's comment.S about her opponent.

Audrey folded her arms, closed her eyes and simply answered, "Trash talking,"

"Pull your head out of your butt and face me with everything you have scaredy cat." She was intentionally ribbing him on after smacking the palm of her right hand against her chest for extra emphasis.

"Did she…" Max managed through chuckles, "just call him…" Takao chimed in, "…a scaredy cat." Rei finished the rest of the sentence since that assumed Wenling was a nice girl.

"Oh…he's going to need aloe for that burn." Kevin jokingly teases while the other anxiously awaits for a response.

The brunette saw the black blade suddenly zipped across the stadium except this time, the impact caused her to readjust her stance.

Her reaction earned a comment from the male whose thick bangs still covered his eyes, "And just who are you calling a scaredy cat?"

"I have a lion's pride so I will never back down." He audibly boomed as he raised an open taped fist toward his opponent while he stared at her directly in the face.

"She finally woke the sleeping lion." Akane colorlessly stated, which earned a shriek from Lin, "All of my precious planning,"

"Galeon…" 'Here it comes,' Rei and the members of White Tiger X were predicting while watching Lee gracefully executing kung-fu movements before loudly shouting, "Strike Lighting,"

Black lightning bolts randomly struck and charred the dish's surface until it eventually connected with her blade that sent her blade out of the stadium.

"Without a doubt, the king has reclaimed his throne after a rocky start," Blader Ken excitingly yells in to his microphone as he almost hops off of the platform.

Lee eagerly revels in the crowd cheers when he suddenly hears her mutters, "It's about time the scaredy cat bared his lion's claws."

"Good match." She was politely tossing in while picking up her steaming blade from the left hand side of the stadium.

Golden eyes hones in on the brunette as she gently places the blade inside of her pouch when his mouth surprisingly moves on its own, "Thanks,"

An expression of embarrassment unexpectedly surfaces to her face as her cheeks tints a bright pink. Wenling immediately rotated around and speedily dashed back to her bench with her head pointed toward the ground.

"Did you see that?" Max eventually broke his silence after he witnessed the interaction between the two bladers.

'So she really likes Lee, huh?' Rei inwardly noted to himself for future purposes.

Lee, the ever oblivious stubborn teen, briefly spared a thought at the reaction from his opponent yet instantly dismissed it altogether.

He stuffs his hands inside of his pants pockets and softly scoffs, "Yeah right," as he ventures back to his team's bench.

"What a thrilling and emotional battle we just witnessed between two fierce competitors!" The crowd of fans goes crazy with excitement and anxiousness for the next bey battle.

Wenling hastily shuffled over to the bench as her mind continuously cycles that one word he uttered to her. A touch to her shoulder brought her out of her reverie only to hear her teammates expressed their excitement.

"That was amazing!" Hiromi spoke while Audrey teasingly gushed "Way to put it on 'em Wen."

Her forest green eyes cut over to White Tiger X bench to witness Lee's teammates swarm him with hugs and congratulations.

A small smile graces her face until movement from her peripheral diverts her focus on to a back that ventures up to the bey-dish.

'So you finally grace the stage, Archimedes.' Tala inwardly thought as he adjusted his high collar to cover his lips to conceal his lower face.

The piece of grass shifts from the left to the right corner as the thought of 'Finally,' was from the captain of the current champions.

As she ascends the steps, it was if the crowd's volume starts to decrease until was eerily quiet until she hears, "Ladies and gentlemen, it boils down to the final battle in this contest!"

"Each team has exactly one victory under their belt with the latest battle locked in a tie. Can the last White Tiger X blader bare its fangs in defiance or are we just destined to follow our fate? We'll see."

"That was a rather nice pun." Meifeng genuinely complimented with a smile before she sensed a shift in the air.

Her gray eyes were steahily observing men in black suits with dark glasses and ear pieces were standing on both side of the tunnel. 'There are security guards around the walkway?'

'Did something happen?' She then casts her sights up to the Executive suite usually occupied by the President or some other very important people.

'I don't sense any hostility or distress nearby so…why?'

[Hallway]

Mr. Dickerson notices his Executive Assistant hurriedly approaches with a white envelope within his grasps.

He merely adjusted his glasses before he carefully studied the embossed seal on the back when he heard, "It just came not too long ago."

"May I presume a private room was immediately made available?" The elderly male automatically questioned if they fell through with hospitality protocol.

"The staff responded in a friendly and timely manner." They positively confirmed.

"I will send updates on our guest as well as maintain eyes on them. They added right before they excused themselves from in front of their boss.

'I wonder why…of all times?' Mr. Dickerson curiously pondered.

[Arena floor]

"3…2…1 Let it rip!" Two blades speedily circles the bey dish as Kiki was left to conjure up a plan on how to achieve victory.

'She doesn't have much stats since she's new.' He was repeatedly weighing his options but was coming up short every time.

"Looks like Kiki is sticking to his calling card." Blader Ken spoke in to the microphone while Archimedes felt the need to act as she headed full speed ahead.

The green haired teen patiently bids his time before he shouts, "Galman,"

Her blade finally connects or at least she thinks it does until her blade dangerously tips toward the edge of the dish.

"Whoa…that was to close for comfort!" Blader Ken announces after he completes the play-by-play for the radio listerners.

Tala happened to hear a crowd goer shockingly commented, "This chick has crazy balance! She's teetering on life or death."

"Oi ice cube…" Audrey called out to her as tightened her raised fist and screamed, "If you lose to this moss headed brat, I won't let you live it down.

Yuan could only listen as she continued to ramble off threats repeatedly toward her teammate.

"She sure has a mouthpiece on her." Spencer openly mentions while Ian twists his pinkie finger inside of his ear and bluntly utters, "Annoying,"

"Ozuma…tell your girlfriend to shut up!" Miriam was irritably grumbling while covering her ears with the palms of her hands.

Max merely smiles at the dirty blonde's verbal jabs at her teammate.

Obsidian eyes were rolling at the annoying rambling, which was causing her focus on the match to waiver.

"Looks like someone's having trouble with their balancing act." Blader Ken stated the audience once the red, scarlet and crimson blade began to wobble toward the rim of the dish.

'Focus,' She continuously chanted as her blade dove back in and headed toward the multi-cloned Galmans yet the result was the exact same.

"Kiki can win this!" Mao excitingly prophesied as the opponent's blade struck another fake instead of the real Galman.

The raven haired teen grunted aloud, "Enough" as she tightly squinted her eyes and a vein painfully throbbed against her forehead.

Archimedes eventually closed her eyes, deeply inhaled and calmed her nerves, 'Focus...'

"Go Pixiu," A winged lion with two horns surfaced and eliminated the clones as it executed a zig-zag pattern that left a path of fiery flames toward her enemy.

A small smirk tugged at her lips when she caught sight of her opponent's blade took flight until it clanked on the floor and out of the stadium.

"Our winner is Archimedes and team Yuan!"

Violet eyes behold the curly raven haired teen, who managed to secure her first victory as a beyblader.

'Naturally,' he thought as he closed his eyes and relaxed in his seat as they awaited for Blader Ken to announce the next two bey squads to battle.

"Will…."