knowlee- Well, here's the sixth chapter! Hope you all enjoy! Please read and review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade nor it's characters. Nor do I own any Jak II element that appears within this fanfic. I do own , however, the dictator, Darren Michaels in this fanfic.

Chapter 6

The Underground Village of Beybladers

Darren looked at the rubble of what was once the ammo dump. Just an hour ago, Shane called him and told him about this. Shane insisted that he should stay at the palace and let him handle it. Darren refused. He wanted to see the damage first-hand and find out who the culprits were. But he already had a hunch of who it was and he couldn't wait to get his hands on them.

Darren turned his head to see Shane heading towards him. Once he reached him, Shane bowed.

"What have you found out so far?" Darren asked him.

Shane rised and replied, "We've discovered that the explosion was triggered by someone who hacked into the system. Unfortunately, we haven't found out who it was yet."

"Well, get to work on it!" ordered Darren.

"Yes, sir." Shane replied as he mentally gulped.

Darren inwardly sighed. He was tired of waiting. He wanted to know right now who was responsible for this! Then he remembered the three beybladers who he had used as lab rats for a prisoner of his' latest invention.

"Beybladers, come to me!" he called out to thin air.

Suddenly out of nowhere, three young adults appeared and bowed before Darren.

"You called, my master?" the blue-haired boy asked.

"Yes, I did. Now would you three kindly tell me who was the cause of the ammo dump's explosion?" Darren asked them.

"Sire, it was the GRevolutions." the pink-haired girl answered.

A smile crept upon Darren's face as he spoke again, "Oh, really? Did you three really do your best against them or did you just let them get away with it?"

The red-haired boy replied, "We used our full power against them, sire, but they were able to knock us all out even with us using it. We barely managed to escape in time."

Darren groaned and spoke, "Very well. Return to your dungeons. You gave me all I needed to know."

The three adults bowed once more and dissappeared. Darren turned towards Shane with a look of anger shown on his face.

"Shane, triple your patrols! And make sure this time you find the GRevolutions!" he ordered.

Shane gulped and bowed, "Yes sir! I will do so."

"Be sure that you do." Darren warned before he turned around and summoned two of his police force to escort him back to the palace.

As soon as the darkness engulfed the area, the arms that were around the GRevolutions let go of them. The gang turned slowly around towards the people who saved them. They weren't sure whether to trust them or not.

Once they completely turned around, their eyes came in contact with three familiar figures.

"Mr. Dickenson? Salima? Lee?" Hilary asked in shock.

Salima smiled at her friends, "Yeap, that's us."

A smile spread across Hilary's face as she ran over to Salima and hugged her.

"You have no idea how much I missed you guys!" Hilary said to them.

Kai smirked. He was glad to see that Hilary was happy. As he saw her smile, he felt his heart skip a beat. 'What's going on with me? Why do I feel this way around her?' he thought.

He would have continued thinking about the emotions he was feeling if Mr. Dickenson hadn't spoken up then.

"Well, it's nice to see you again, boys and girl. I bet you had a heck of a time in the ammo dump." he said.

No one noticed, except for Lee, the look of sadness and despair on Ray's face. He had no idea why his long-time friend was depressed, but he was determined to find out.

Tyson ran over to Mr. Dickenson and said to him, "You betcha we did, Mr. D! We sure showed that dictator not to mess with us!"

The old man chuckled and replied, "I'm sure you did, Tyson. Now, if you don't mind, follow me, I'll lead you to where you'll be staying for the next two nights. Don't worry, I've already told Kenny where you are."

The GRevolutions looked over at Mr. Dickenson and nodded. Each of them, well almost, was curious of where the former BBA chairman was taking them. Darkness engulfed the group once more as they began to walk down a long tunnel that seemed to be heading down underneath the ground.

After a few minutes passed with them in the dark, they each saw bright lights that stood at the end of the tunnel. As they walked towards them, they slowly began to see hundreds and hundreds of pitched tents sitting in long rows. As they walked in between two rows of tents, they noticed a bunch of young kids standing around something they couldn't see, screaming and hollering.

"C'mon, go get 'em, Carter!"

"You can beat him, Joel!"

Curious of what the kids were doing, Daichi ran over towards them and made his way through. Once he was through, he gasped in awe at what he saw. There, in front of him, were two boys beybattling in a beystadium! It had been a while since he saw a beybattle, let alone a beystadium!

Daichi looked in at the beybattle going on in front of him. It seemed that the guy he guessed was Joel was losing to another guy he guessed was named Carter. He could see that Carter's beyblade was ramming Joel's beyblade a lot faster than he could react. Daichi also saw that Joel was straining to control his beyblade while Carter looked as if he wasn't even breaking a sweat.

Knowing Joel could do better, Daichi called out, "C'mon, you know you can beat this guy!"

Joel recognized Daichi's voice and he found himself looking at one of the world's class beybladers. He was about to say something to Daichi, but then he turned his attention back to the beybattle. He managed to move his beyblade out of the way before his opponent's beyblade could ram into him once more.

Then, gathering strength from Daichi's belief in him, Joel made his beyblade ram into Carter's and it caused it to fall out of the beystadium! Carter stared down in disbelief at his beyblade and then he looked back at Joel. How could this guy beat him?

Carter noticed Joel wasn't looking at him so he followed his gaze towards the person he was staring at. He gasped when he realized who it was.

"You're Daichi, aren't you?" Carter asked as a shocked look formed on his face.

At those words, everyone in the crowd turned their heads towards Daichi. A smirk formed on his face as he watched the people begin to crowd around and stare at him like he had something on his face.

"Omigosh! You're really Daichi!"

"Can I have you're autograph?"

"I'm you're biggest fan!"

"Where have you been all this time?"

"Can I see Stata Dragoon?"

Daichi felt himself growing embarrassed at the amount of kids that were beginning to hound him with questions. He probably could've been buried underneath them if his teammates hadn't shown up just then.

Suddenly Kai, Hilary, Max, Tyson, and Ray felt the stares of the young beybladers. A smile came to Hilary's face as she remembered what life was like before the dictator came to power. She remembered when kids would line up to meet the team and get their autographs. Now they had to hide their love for the sport and for this team. Hilary sighed. Times were much happier then.

A little girl's voice broke Hilary out of her thoughts when she heard her say, "Is Kai bleeding?"

Hilary turned to look at Kai and sure enough she saw blood trickling down the left side of his face. Hilary gasped. She remembered when he got up after getting knocked into those crates that the side of his head was bleeding. How did she forget about that?

Confused, Kai lifted his right hand up to his head and touched the place that they were talking about. He winced in pain when his hand came in contact with the cut.

By then Mr. Dickenson and the others came over. Mr. Dickenson was the first to see the cut on Kai.

"Oh my! I think that you might want to get that cut checked out, my boy." he turned to Salima, "Salima, can you take Kai to the first aid tent?"

Salima nodded, "Sure."

Then she turned to Kai and motioned for him to follow her. Kai walked after her and Hilary followed them. She wanted to make sure that he was going to be okay.

Mr. Dickenson watched the three people as they headed for the first aid tent. After a few seconds, he turned back towards the other beybladers.

"Are you boys hungry?" he asked them.

Tyson's and Daichi's faces lit up as they both replied simutaneusly, "Are we ever!"

The old man chuckled and said, "Well then, follow me. I'll lead you to the tent where the food is held."

Everyone felt excited as the thought of food came to them. They followed Mr. Dickenson to the food tent and once they entered it, Tyson's and Daichi's jaws dropped at the amount of food that was layed out before them.

"I've just died and went to heaven!" Tyson exclaimed as he ran towards the food and began to dig in.

"Hey, wait for me!" Daichi called after him as he began to dig in also.

A few minutes had passed when Tyson heard a familiar voice say to him, "Seems like you're appitite hasn't changed a bit since I last saw ya, g-son!"

Tyson stopped automatically. It couldn't be! He looked over at the source of the voice and saw his grandpa!

"Grandpa! It's you! It's really you!" he exclaimed as he jumped up off the ground and ran over to his grandpa.

As Tyson was hugging his grandpa, Tyson's older brother, Hiro, walked in. Tyson stopped hugging his grandpa and looked over at him.

"Hiro!" Tyson cried as he began to hug him too.

When Tyson began to squeeze the breath out of him, Hiro said, "I missed you too, Tyson. Now can you let go of me? I'm losing oxygen here."

Embarrassed, Tyson let go, "Sorry, Hiro."

"Ahem!", Mr. Dickenson spoke as everyone turned to look at him, "Now all of you may eat your fill of food. Dig in and enjoy!"

Each of the GRevolutions, excluding Kai and Hilary, sat down and began to eat. But one of them, Ray, stopped after his first bite and he silently got up and walked out of the tent.

No one else saw this except for Lee. He, too, quietly snuck out of the tent and began to follow his friend.

Salima, Kai, and Hilary walked into the first aid tent. Inside, there was no more than a cot, a few doctor's tools, and a first aid kit. 'Supplies are probably really scarce since they're in hiding like this.' Hilary found herself thinking.

Salima moved away from them and walked over to the table that had the doctor's tools and the first aid kit on it. She grabbed the first aid kit and walked back over to them.

As she handed the kit over to Hilary, she said, "I'm going to go see what the others are doing. Hilary, you can tend to Kai's wound, okay?"

Hilary took the kit and was about to protest against Salima's request, but before she could, Salima had walked out of the tent, leaving her and Kai alone.

Hilary turned her gaze from where Salima left to where Kai was now sitting on the cot.

She nervously chuckled and said to him, "Looks like I'll have to take care of you then."

She then walked over and sat down next to him on the cot. She opened the kit and found some bandages, gauzes, and some anaseptic. First, she took out a gauze and the anaseptic. She twisted the cap on the anaseptic bottle until it was opened and she took it off.

Next, she placed the gauze onto the opening of the anaseptic bottle and tilted it over. Once the gauze had a sufficient amount of anaseptic on it, she moved the bottle back into its upright position and twisted its cap back on it. Then she put the bottle back in the kit.

Though Hilary didn't know it, but Kai was watching her with interest. He didn't know why, but he found it fascinating how she was still able to care for others even after all she had been through the past five years. He continued to stare at her until when she began to look at him, he averted his gaze.

Before Kai realized what she was about to do, Hilary had placed the anaseptic-soaked gauze onto his cut. He yelped in pain and moved back from the gauze.

"That really hurt!" he yelled at her.

"I'm sorry, but that cut has to be washed throughly or it'll get worse!" she snapped back.

"I know that, but can't you do that a little gentler next time!" Kai said back to her.

Hilary snorted and replied, "Fine then, Mr. Sunshine!"

Kai grimaced at the nickname that his teammates had given him. He never liked it when they called him that. He grimaced once again when he felt Hilary press the gauze against his cut. He prepared himself for the pain, but none came.

He looked over at Hilary and saw her gently pressing the gauze to his cut and cleaning it. Once she had finished cleaning it, she took a new gauze out of the kit and placed it over his cut. Then she pulled out some bandages and began to wrap it around his head.

Once the gauze was securely on his head, she cut off the remaining bandages and taped the end of the bandage that was wrapped around the gauze onto his head. She placed everything back into the kit and sat it down next to her.

Hilary turned to look at Kai and she said, "Better?"

Kai smirked and replied, "Much."

They continued to stare into each others' eyes for a few minutes, then slowly, they began to move towards each other. They're eyes closed as their faces were getting closer by the second. Then as their lips were centimeters apart, a familiar and annoying blue-haired girl ran into the tent.

Kai and Hilary quickly parted and they found themselves both looking at Ming-Ming, the singing beyblader who Kenny had a major crush on.

"Hiya, guys! I didn't believe it at first, but I'm so glad to see you guys again!" Ming-Ming said with her usually cheery voice.

"Hi, Ming-Ming. Nice to see you too." Hilary said sarcastically. 'Not! I'm gonna get you for ruining my moment with Kai!' Hilary thought evilly.

Kai simply turned away from the two girls and closed his eyes. 'Hilary and I almost kissed! And I was actually looking forward to it! What's going on with me?' Kai thought. He wasn't sure what was going on, but if he didn't know any better, he could say that he was beginning to like Hilary a lot more than a friend.

Lee found Ray sitting by himself at the entrance of the tunnel leading to the surface. As he stepped towards him, Ray heard and he looked up at him.

Ray sighed. He knew Lee was going to find out sooner or later.

Lee looked down at his depressed friend and asked him, "What's wrong, Ray? You're not acting like yourself and it takes something really big to make that happen."

Ray sighed once more. He looked at Lee with a look of hurt and sadness in his eyes. Lee gasped when he saw it. Something definately had to be wrong.

"Ray?" Lee asked again.

Ray took a deep breath and spoke as tears began to stream down his face, "Mariah's gone, Lee. She died in the ammo dump explosion."

The look that appeared on Lee's face was one that Ray would never forget.