Lirin: so many people complained about me killing off Bryan, so as i treat i have redo the chapter to see if people like this ending of Fright Falcon a bit more.
Tala: yays i might not have to completely loose my mind along with all my teammates! (grabs Kai's hands about bounces up and down)
Lirin: so it seems we have to keep Tala away from the sugar just like Max. Kai you have a new job.
Kai: great (rolls eyes) Lirin like in all the other chapters does not own Beyblade or us characters.
Tala: thanks go to Petalwhisker X Fireheart and Beywriter for reviewing to the end and all our other reviews from all the previous chapters. now please enjoy our redo of "Fried Falcon 2"
Chapter 5: Fried Falcon 2
Tom was horrified as he sat in his tank helpless and watched Boris turn on the machine that would lead Bryan to his death. It was true that he was never a fan of the Falcon because of what he did to Rei during the first tournament, but still to kill the guy was a bit harsh.
"Please don't" he feebly tried to save the other, but Boris ignored him finding the entertainment in watching the sparks form as he tapped the two cables together.
Bryan just lay there whimpering as his tormentor drew closer with an insane look in his eyes.
"All this time Bryan, and it comes down to this. No one to save you, no one to cry on their shoulder. It's just you and I, doing something I should have done long ago, before you and the other Demolition Boys became thorns in my side."
Again he tapped the two cables together and the sparks flew over Bryan's head. "Pleasant dreams dear Bryan"
The Falcon screamed as the electricity flowed though his body making him jerk with the current. Boris smiled as he heard a sob from the 'tank' and knew he had gotten to the brunette, but his fun was not over yet.
After a couple of seconds he removed the cables and Bryan was left panting. "Was that fun?"
"G-o to h-ell" Bry snarled out the best he could.
"I will one day. So save me a seat there" he connected the cables again and Bryan jerked on the table for a second time and like last time Boris got bored and removed them again.
"Please just end this" Tom cried feeling bad for the Falcon. He was so caught up in what was happening to Bryan that he had forgotten where he was trapped in a tank crawling with spiders, until one so kindly began to crawl on his hand. "Ahh!"
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"That was Tom" Rei hissed as he pushed Tala aside and kicked the door in. Kai and Tala were both surprised to see the nothing was set off going to kill them. "We're moving now."
"Kai remind me not to cross kitty when he's mad" Tala whispered to his Phoenix as they followed Rei into the old empty office.
"Yeah, you wouldn't make it back in one piece" Kai chuckled and walked over to the old bookcase and removed one of the panel walls. "Rei this is the slide to get to Tom, do you want to go first?"
"Like you have to ask?" Rei growled and positioned himself to slide down. He even gave himself and extra shove to move faster.
"I love you Kai" Tala spoke once Rei vanished in the darkness. Kai looked at his Wolf to see him near crying again.
"I love you too Tala. But where did that come from?"
"Well I was thinking we all might not make it out alive, and if we can, I want you to escape with Rei and Tom, I deserve to die with my team."
"Wolf," Kai hugged the slightly smaller teen, "we'll all make it out cause I won't leave without you. If you die so will I and you can't stop me."
"But Kai..." Tala was silenced with a finger pressed to his lips.
"We will survive and mourn our friends together. Now lets go, Rei will need us."
"Okay." They stood there hugging for a couple more minutes before separating and going down the slide.
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Rei flew out of the slide and landed gracefully on his feet. Before him was a wall of TV screens showing everywhere that Tala had set up for tonight and in the top left screen he noticed that all his friends were still stuck inside looking scared and panicky.
"Shoot" Rei watched the screen intently hoping none of them would vanish from sight. He was so caught up in that he missed hearing Kai and Tala land behind him until Kai put a hand on his shoulder, scaring the poor Neko. "Kai?"
"Sorry Rei, so did you find anything out?"
"The guys are by the door and can't get out."
"Move I'll fix that" Tala pushed his way to the front and searched the control board below the TVs until he found the right button to unlock the door.
Meanwhile Rei looked around the rest of the room. It was shaped like a pentagon with glass walls. The wall immediately to his right was splattered with blood and vines could be seen lashing out searching for something. He looked down and saw one of Ian's shoes covered with blood and the foot still inside.
"Kami" Rei raise his hands to his mouth trying to hide his horror.
"Kitty?" Tala asked and turn to see what the Neko was looking it. He paled seeing the only remains of his friend, and unlike Rei, he caught the dirt covered eye ball.
The next window was not much better. Boris still had the spears up showing the torn clothes and holey bloody body of Kevin, the innocent one that should not be speared like that, at least not here.
"Kevin" Rei reached towards the window with a shaky hand, but knew it was too late for the monkey, he was dead the moment he hit the points.
The third was well lit and that is when they saw Boris standing over Bryan who was screaming his head off, but Boris had this room soundproof so they couldn't hear him.
"NO!" Tala ran to the wall banging his fist against the shatter proof glass. "Let Bryan go!"
Boris looked up when he heard the banging and smiled he raised the cables up and tapped them together to show his guests the charge it was putting off, and as his smile widened he lowered them attaching them to Bryan one last time.
All three teens cried for their lost friend twitch until it stopped and the only remaining movements from the body were cause of the electricity still flowing into him.
"Bryan" Tala fell to his knees crying. Kai dropped down next to him holding him close.
This was better then killing the boys as far as Boris was concerned, after all it was not everyday he could watch two of the coldheartest bladers cry over something so common as death. He would burn this image into his head for the rest of his life.
Rei cried for the fallen Falcon, but his mind snapped and he remember he was there to save Tom. Slowly he turned to the last glass window. He cringed as his eyes focused on the huge webs and an environment that would fit a spider's needs. Immediately he knew that his lover would be frighten if the creepy eight legged critters were near him.
"Tala do you know how to get in there?"
The wolf looked up and he saw Rei's eyes returned to their cat form as he stared into the last room. "Switch on the control panel. They're labeled so you should find it" his voice was broken and Kai hugged him tighter, but his glare was on Boris who was smiling at them.
"Hold on Tom" Rei whispered to himself to feel a little better as he moved away from the glass back to the control panel searching for the switch. Tala was right, they were label, but which one was it. If he opened the wrong one he might release the vines that killed Ian, or worse and set Boris free. He shuttered at the thought, but he had to do something to save Tom before it was too late.
Closing his golden eyes, Rei pulled all the switches opening all the doors. Tala stepped back as the glass between him and Boris rose up taking away his safety. Kai moved forward a couple steps since the wild vines of the plant started reaching out searching for his prey.
"You're mine now" Tala growled as he charged Boris flinging him away from the injured falcon. Kai followed and unbuckled the straps that help Bryan in place and searched for a pulse. He was happy to find a very faint one and started CPR on him.
"You will never hurt my team or my friends again" Tala's voice called the others' attention to him and they watched as he pounded Boris's face in. "Never again you sick mother fucking bastard."
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"Tom?" Rei called as he walked into spider layer. He had his ears perked so he wouldn't miss anything.
"Rei?" Tom's voice was soft and scared, Rei thought he had imagined it, but still went the way he thought he was called.
"Tom, where are you?"
"Over here" this time Rei knew it wasn't his imagination when he heard his lover's quivering voice. Whatever Boris had set for Tom was scaring him.
"I'm coming" Rei stared to run to get their faster. He dodged under a webbed branch and saw Tom on the other side stopping him in his tracks. He was propped against a wall with several big hairy spiders on him. Two on his legs near a rip in his pants, and a few more crawling up his arms and chest to his neck and face. Rei's eyes widened as he watched the creatures crawl over his lover.
"Help" Tom was crying as the spiders make contact with his skin. Every leg it moved made him shiver and increase his fear making any other movement impossible.
Rei shook his head snapping him out of his own fright and he quickly closed the rest of the distance between them. "I'm here now" Rei caressed Tom's right check to calm the teen.
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"You've hurt us too much" Tala was still wailing on Boris using his fists.
"Tala stop" Kai finally stepped forward to stop his love. "He's unconscious now, he can't hurt us at the moment."
"I don't care" Tala had let his rage control him. "This is pay back for all those years ago. For hurting all the kids here, for causing you pain."
"Tala" Kai wrapped his arms around the Wolf holding him still. "Thank you for that, but I don't want anymore of his blood to cover you." Tala looked down and finally noticed that when Boris's nose broke it covered him in blood. "We can let that mutated plant finish him. But not you. Okay?"
Tala nodded and began to cry. Kai was being too nice protecting him this way. Any of the others would just let him kill Boris and be done with him. But Kai really cared, he didn't want his lover to stain his hands with evil blood.
Together the two dragged the body out and towards the vines. When they were just out of reach they lifted the body and flung it closer. They watched as the vines snaked around Boris and pulled him close. Then they went back to get Bryan who was still on the table and went to find Rei and Tom.
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In the short moment that Rei took to calm his love, the spiders decided now was the time to act. Tom let out a scream as five sets of fangs bit into his skin injecting their poison into him. Rei panicked again for a brief second before doing what he should have done and ripped the spiders off him.
"It hurts" Tom whimpered as the poison burned in his blood stream.
"I'm sorry" Rei cried over him hugging him to keep him still.
"What's going on?" Kai asked as he and Tala helped Bryan walk.
"Tom...he was poisoned" Rei replied not looking away from his lover. He was shocked to see usually bright warm brown eyes dulling as the poison spread.
"We have to get him out and to a hospital" Tala said and pulled his phone out. "Rei carry him, but try not to jolt the body too much as it will spread the poison faster. The door in this way."
Rei followed behind cradling Tom in his arms being careful not to shake him too much.
"I love you Rei" Tom gave a weak smile and kissed Rei's neck where his head was resting.
"I love you too Tom" Rei replied with a similar weak smile. "Just don't make this goodbye. We'll get you out soon and the doctors will make you better."
"Rei I can tell I don't have much time left. The poison is spreading too quickly."
"No it's not. Tom you're going to be fine, I promise."
"Rei, please kiss me"
Golden eyes looked down. Tom was barely breathing now and his body was beginning to chill. Rei refused to believe this was happening, they had only been together a few months now, and he couldn't loose his true love, not to something so simple. Yet he still did as he was asked and leaned down to kiss petal soft lips.
Tom let out a soft moan before going limp in Rei's arms.
"Tom?" Rei pulled up crying. He searched for a pulse and found nothing. "TOM!"
Rei's cry stop the front trio and they turned around. They all know it was a lost cause now, Boris had claimed another of their numbers, and like Kevin, Tom as an innocent victim in this.
"Rei we're almost out" Kai told him. "Maybe the EMTs can do something, don't give up on him yet."
The Neko nodded and continued to walk. When they finally got out of the tunnel the others rushed to their side wondering what happened. Rei found a way out of the mob and sat on the front steps waiting for the ambulance, Tom still safely held in his arms.
A couple minutes later and a siren and flashing lights make it's way up the drive way stopping before the steps. Rei easily gave Tom to the men so they could work, and they tried. But the poison the spiders had was too strong, Tom's fate was sealed the second the bites happened.
The ambulance took Bryan and Tom's body to the hospital where Bry could get treated and Tom to the morgue until the funeral was arranged.
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A few weeks passed since the incident at the Abbey, and now all the teams there found themselves in Beycity because Rei insisted on having a private funeral for Tom. He felt it was the least he could do for the chocolate hair boy who he loved and could not save.
Now the teams and families were gathered to remember the lost Bladebreaker. The priest had done his job and now Rei was getting out of his seat to talk. He had spent all his time over the weeks to prepare something, but he never through he had it exactly right, so he would just wing it with only one thing he had to do.
"I would like to thank everyone for coming today, putting aside you're busy schedules to remember a friend or a family member.
"Tom was not a Breaker long, but since he joined our team everyone seemed to get along better. He turned out to be the missing wheel in out group that made us work flawlessly. And to think he was only a temporary replacement while Kai's leg healed from a bad break. But that was over a year ago and we refused to let him go after that.
"As the month went on Tom and I got closer on a personal level, and several month before he asked me to be his boyfriend, I was thrilled that he wanted me and immediately said yes. That was the happiest day of my life, meeting him is a close second.
"I thought I would have longer with my boyfriend to do things we always wanted, but as we can all see I was wrong. Boris took him from me and I never had the chance to ask him something I had wanted to, I was just waiting for the right time, which will now never come." Rei pulled small and round out of his pocket and held it up for all to see.
"I was waiting for our six month anniversary next month to give him this. You see I was planning on asking his hand in marriage," he turned to the open casket, "Tom I know you can not answer me now, but I only want to be with you and I will wait for us to be together again in the next life. I hope there you will agree to marry me."
The room was in tears as Rei pulled out a delicate gold chain and put the ring on it before carefully putting it around Tom's neck and softly kiss his check. When Rei straighten himself out he was crying silent tears. "I love Tom and I always will." He took his seat next to Kai and cried harder as the Russian pulled him into a side hug.
After that no one could find strength to get up and talk, Rei speak said it all and more.
Lirin: so are people happy that Bryan survived now?
Tala: i am!
Rei: I'm not (pout) Tom come back to me :'-(
Lirin: (hugs Rei) I'm sorry Rei, but someone had to die.
Rei: i'll drag you back to the snake room for this. (hauls Lirin off)
Lirin: save me!
Tala: special thanks go to our friend Tom, we know killing you off like that wasnt pleasant, but if it makes you feel better you make write a story and kill Lirin off in a pit of snakes, fair is fair after all. but she did add the ending in just for you as her own way for apologizing, and it made her cry so much, we all cried reading it too.
Kai: now it is done, bonus chapter up, but please be kind and review. we love you comments it keeps everyone going and feel like their time was not wasted work hard. thank you
Lirin: KAMI GET ME OUT OF HERE! NO REI PLEASE KEEP IT AWAY! JOHNNY!