I don't own beyblade. Own all of the OCs.
The whizz and crackle of the screen was deafening. The feed was cut but everyone just stared at the damn screen. Dumfounded. What had they just witnessed?
"I need a report on the ground team. Now." Samuel was the first to snap out of it. The room was thick with silence. Samuel was on the phone waiting for a reply though he had a pretty good idea that he had sent all those men to their deaths and thus, came the reply. The Kirov base was up in flames, a large explosion, shit, "Keep me updated for any survivors." He cut the call and relayed the message to the room. They were all still reeling from the events they had witnessed.
The blade breakers were pretty much all in tears. What was going on? How could Voltaire abuse his own grandson to this extent? Kai had fallen into the beydish at the end. The thought of him dying was just unbearable. They were all so used to seeing him as an unmoving force to be reckoned with. Seeing him in such a fragile state was nothing less than a shock. He may be fragile, but he is still alive. He just had to be.
Somewhere in the corner, Dizzy made crackling sound. All their eyes snapped to her. "Dizzy, hey!" Kenny had one hand on the computers screen, "you there?"
"Yeah. Still here," she sounded a bit worn out. "all this snooping into Biovault is gonna fry my circuits one day!"
"What we're you snooping for?" Kenny took the seat in front of the screen.
"Well I thought I would go have a look at all of the training stadiums of the company. I tried to match the bases to what was seen in the video. And voila!"
"voila what?" Rei said looking at the screen his heart longing for some good news. Just, any good news.
"well turns out, laurel and hardy wanted to make sure they covered a wide range if beydish styles for their teams. There were no two stadiums that were the same."
This caught Samuels attention and he moved closer to listen in. "I matched the stadium we saw to every stadium Biovault had and it matched positive to an address in our backyard! Behold people.. They are all still in Japan."
"So what? They bought all of that equipment and shipped it to Kirov to throw us off their scent? " Nakano said still a bit flushed.
"Yes, and we fell for it. Like idiots." Samuel rubbed his eyes, "Dizzy, can you tell which Japanese training facility they are using?"
"Well everyone knows that Boivault has only 2 training facilities on Japan, the firewall kicked me out before I could find out the address. Sorry."
"Please, don't apologize. You have managed to put together more valid info in a couple of days than any of us have done in months apparently. " Samuel turned to Nakano. "put a team together and scout both the facilities out."
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Tala cradled his friend's head. "Kai! Hey, wake up, " he could do nothing to keep his thoughts form going to the worst. But Kai let out a little groan, his skin felt hot, burning up like a furnace. Tala could hear faint breaths going in and out of Kai. That was enough for him to hang on to. "Kai! Just hold on. I am going to get you out of this hell hole." He whispered just before a bunch of hands started dragging him away.
"No! Please l.. Let me sta-y.. " he choked on his tears, "Please.. " but they were ruthless, still dragging him away from his dying friend.
Voltaire and Boris had come down to watch the emotional display of love and friendship. One watched with indifference while the other had mocking sympathy plastered on his face.
"Please you have to help him!" Tala begged Voltaire, tears streaming down his face, "please, he is dying."
"You think I will let my only grandchild die? Don't be so rude child." Voltaire turned the black beyblade in his hands, examining it in the dim light of the large room. "You should worry about yourself more than him. I have no more use for you and your merry band. I doubt anyone has any use for you, now that your beasts have been eaten!" Voltaire turned his head to look at the four boys in front of him. "They are all yours Boris. Don't concern yourself with giving me an update on their well-being."
"As you wish my Lord." Boris gave Voltaire a little bow. "Back to the cell with you.." he said to the boys, "it's bed time. It's going to be an early day tomorrow for you rug rats. Come on.. Chop chop.."
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Kai could hear a faint voice calling out to him. He couldn't place a finger on who it belonged to. He was back at the bottom on the ocean, where it was warm and safe. Where all the shit of the world was cut out. The noise muffled. It felt peaceful.
"Kai! Please"
There it was again. But he did not want you leave here, not just yet. Here he felt, nothing.
"Wake up."
Is that Tala? Why was he here? He tried to tell his friend that he was fine. But his lips refused to move. He managed only to groan. It left him a little confused.
Suddenly the warm embrace of the ocean started to drift away. His body felt heavy and completely limp. He could feel his friends arms cradling his head, but soon that was gone and he lay on a cold hard surface.
He managed to open his eyes just a bit to see his friend being restrained. Another voice spoke, a voice that made his blood freeze every time, grandfather. He tried to turn his head to look, but it was no use. His body would just not obey.
Then he heard Boris. He had to do something to help his friends. It was frustrating that he could not move, that he felt so sluggish. So useless. Even the process of thinking completely exhausted him and his eyes refused to stay open anymore. He felt himself sinking again.
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"We should do something to help," Tyson stood up so suddenly it startled everyone in the small safe house. Nobody had spoken since the detectives had left.
"What? " Max said from his spot on the bed.
"I don't know.. Anything. Anything is better that sitting on our thumbs all day and doing nothing. I mean that bastard SHOT Kai! " he said addressing everyone in the room. "he shot him!"
"Yes we all saw that Tyson. " Rei said from his perch on the only little window in the room. "tell me what you want to do? What's your plan? Barge into wherever they are being held and go all gung-ho on their ass?"
"That's one way, but I am open to more suggestions."
"We need to be patient guys" Rei jumped down from the window sill, "I know it feels like shit to do nothing, but I don't think we should storm out of here and make things even more messy than they already are."
"He fell.. Did you see? He fell.." Kenny was staring at Dizzy. "I mean it would be hard to survive a fall like that.."
"Shut up Kenny! Keep your shitty thoughts to yourself."
Kenny coiled away at that. Hillary jumped to Kenny's side, "don't be a heartless jackass! We are all in shock. You can be little nice. "
"Take your 'nice' and stick it! Kai is alive. He has to be. Because I am the one who is gonna kill him!" Tyson was pacing around the room now. "that moron! Could have said something! Isn't the captain supposed to trust his team? I mean what the hell!!" he was fuming.
"He must have had his reasons, Tyson." Hillary said, one hand around Kenny's shoulders.
"MY ASS!"
The door slammed open, "I can hear you all on the street! The point of a 'safe house' is to keep you safe. Not announce your existence to the world! Keep it down, will ya? " Samuel was back from wherever he had gone to, and he looked shaken. He stalked to his laptop and plopped down on a chair, flicked his cell phone open and dialled Nakano, "report? ", he said listening to all of the information being conveyed. "Good, hold your positions. Keep me updated for any movement. "
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They were back in their cells. Tala was pacing the small quarters. The machine hooked to his dying friend beeping a regular intervals in the background. Dr.Seiji had managed to stabilize him but his heavy breathing and fever were worrisome. It had been a couple of hours since the whole fiasco, must be some time in the night now, Tala calculated mentally. There was no way of knowing day or night in this dingy place.
Kai stirred and his eyes opened to slits. "Kai hey, bro! " Ian called out. They were all looking at him, he looked like shit.
"Wat-er."
Seiji held a glass with a straw near his mouth. Kai took a swig but coughed out most of it. "Don't rush," Seiji said concern spilling into his tone.
Kai tried to sit up, but it was no good, his body was too heavy. Finally he gave up on the idea and spoke from where he was, "spill it."
"if you are talking of an escape plan, I don't have one yet." Tala said looking at Kai, hands crossed over his chest.
"He is gonna turn you all into dog chew when he is back, so think harder." It was scary how small Kai's voice was, they had to all strain their hearing to listen to what he had to say.
"Yea if you have any ideas as to how we can cut the electricity to these bars on the cell and how we can haul your injured ass out if here, and then swim all the way back to Tokyo let me know."
"leave me"
"Save your breath and say stuff that you know we will agree to."
"Tala, he isn't going to kill me."
"Oh yea? Just torture you and have you become black dranzer's little bitch." Spencer pitched in.
"Guys please, I will just be dead weight. Go and find Tyson and the others. And work on taking these assholes down for good."
"You were more helpful when you were asleep."
Kai mustered all of his strength and moved trying to sit up. The Doctor knew telling him otherwise was futile so he helped him. The effort was too much for him and for the next several seconds he sat there trying to catch his breath.
"Lay back down, you idiot!"
"look," he said through short breathes, "I am not going any-where for a while. It – is pointless to throw yourselves to that – maniac – just because I can't move."
"told you, leave the thinking to us."
"Please – Tala, " Kai looked up at his friend, his eyes lack-lustre. The fire in them was completely gone, "I'm tired."
Tala took a deep breath and averted his eyes, "fine.. Ok..." he knew he had to say it to keep Kai from stressing out.
"and please include the – good doctor in your plan. – he has no – business being here."
"my wife.." Seiji's eyes we're wide with worry.
"Don't worry, he has use for you. If you escape, he will want - to get you back. He needs - leverage. Think of how you will get to her first - Once you are out."