A/N: I am starting so many stories and finishing none! Man I suck at this job sometimes.

Chapter 1

In the basement of a home on the outskirts of Chicago a black haired girl wearing goggles was holding a dropper over a flask filled with a purple substance. On her head a silver bakugan with purple eyes was peering down into the flask.

"I'd say a drop or two more should do the trick, Meredith." The bakugan informed her its voice sounding male but with a mechanical undertones to it.

The girl nodded as she carefully lowered the dropper so it was just above the rim of the flask.

"All right, easy does it." She said as she pressed gently a drop beginning to form at the tip.

A loud bang sounded from the top of the stairs and Meredith yelped crushing the bulb at the end of the dropper. A rapid cascade of drops fell into the flask which began to bubble and broil before going from a nice lavender colored substance to an ugly murky green color.

Meredith scowled as she yanked off the goggles green eyes narrowed. "Damn it! That's another one ruined!" She said turning and hurling her goggles across the room before whirling around to look towards the stairs. She narrowed her eyes when she saw a flash of brown hair near where the stairs were hidden partially by a wall. "Jessica!" She called as she heard gasps and footsteps hastily racing back up the stairs.

Growling Meredith clenched her fist, eye twitching as she pulled off her gloves.

"Jessica seems excited, I wonder what's up." The mechanical bakugan remarked flying over to the stairs and peering up them.

Meredith snorted as she shrugged off her lab coat leaving her dressed in a pair of jeans, light purple shirt and silver jacket. "Probably some new video game or something she wanted to ask me or Uncle Rob to get her, urgh! Doesn't she get she's not supposed to barge in when I'm working?!" Scowling she went over to the stairs and stomped up them. She reached the first floor and closed the door to the basement behind her. She glanced into the dining room and confirmed that her little sister wasn't there, she glanced towards the kitchen and spotted Superior, her partner mechanical bakugan nodding to the kitchen before flying in.

"Oh hey Superior!" Jessica's voice came from within the kitchen, "Did Mere come up with you?"

"She did." Meredith bit out as she entered the kitchen glaring daggers at her little sister who was seated at the circular booth at the end of their kitchen with her friend Kirsty Douglas across from her, the other black haired girl smiling sheepishly at Meredith. Meredith glared at them. "How many times have I told you not to barge in on me when I'm down in the lab? I could've been working on something explosive for all you know!"

Meredith's eye twitched as Jessica rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Hey you've been down there since last night and all the way to noon today! You need to come out of the basement some time."

Meredith's glare turned up a few degrees and Jessica blinked. "I was working on a new solvent that I'm supposed to give to Uncle Rob by Monday, and I was so close to finishing it, when someone had to barge in and MESS IT ALL UP!" Meredith shouted.

Jessica blinked and then she frowned slightly. "Okay, look I'm sorry I messed up your…. Science stuff. But there's big news!" She said bouncing in her seat before looking to Kirsty, "Show her the flyer!"

The black haired girl flushed but quickly reached down into her bag that was resting beside the booth and pulled out a slip of paper and held it out to Meredith.

Raising an eyebrow Meredith snatched the paper from Kirsty and scanned the page, Superior landing on her shoulder and peering down at the page as well.

"'Bakugan Interspace Grand Opening'" Meredith read and then squinted at the words. "What? But they were saying it was going to take another month or so before they could complete it. How'd they get through all the bugs so fast?"

"Who cares about that stuff?" Jessica's bakugan, Darkus Skylord said popping open on Jess's shoulder. "What matters is that the place is gonna be opening tomorrow and that means we can finally brawl again!"

"And the brawlers are all supposed to be present in Interspace for the grand opening," Kirsty said beaming, "I'll be able to get a great interview for the school's paper!"

Meredith frowned. "So you're telling me they've finished the coding and construction a month ahead of schedule?" She said eyeing the two girls.

Jessica shrugged. "Hey its construction season in Chicago, when crap has to be done, it gets done." She said. "Besides why do you keep questioning it? It's finally done! We can finally go to Bakugan Interspace, meet the brawlers and brawl! Why do you have to overanalyze the whole thing?" She asked pouting.

Meredith threw her hands in the air. "Because it could be dangerous!" She said gripping the flyer tightly. "If there's something wrong with the code and it causes an error we could all be in danger!"

"I'm sure the brawlers would make sure something like that didn't happen." Jessica said waving her hand dismissively, "I mean they have like the richest and most genius kid on the whole planet running it there's no way they'd let something like that slip.

"And if you're that scared by it, then don't go," Skylord said dismissively flapping her wings.

Meredith growled crumpling the flyer in her hand, Superior flew up beside her.

"Perhaps it'd be best if we go," Superior said softly to her.

Meredith glanced sideways at him. "Why do you say that?"

"Because if there is something wrong with Interspace I'll pick up on it," Superior said optics flickering changing colors as he swapped between functions. "Although I have to admit Jess has a point, they wouldn't open interspace if they weren't sure it'd be okay."

Jessica pointed towards Superior. "See! Supers agrees with us! Come on Mere! It'll be so much fun! Please?" Jessica said clasping her hands together and fixing Meredith with her pleading blue eyes.

Meredith sighed then she relented holding up her hands in surrender. "All right, all right, we'll go." She said Jessica, Kirsty and Skylord cheering.

"YES! We're finally going to get to brawl again Sky!" Jessica said Skylord bouncing up and down on the table.

"I'm so excited!" The dragoness said landing on Jess's head. "I wonder if we'll meet the famous Alpha Hydranoid!" The dragoness flapped her wings. "What if I get to battle him." The dragoness shivered. "Imagine how exciting that'd be!"

Jessica smiled at her bakugan while Meredith heaved a sigh.

Superior snorted floating closer to Skylord. "It'd be exciting for all of three seconds, then you'd get creamed." He said.

Skylord twitched and rounded on Superior. "Why you! It wouldn't be that quick!" She rushed at Superior the mechanical bakugan drawing back.

"I'm just stating facts!" Superior said evading a swipe from Skylord's wings. "He's at 500 gs you're at 360 gs! That's a 140 g's starting difference! You wouldn't stand a chance!"

Skylord growled as she continued to chase after him in mid air. "Shut up! I would too!"

"Fine you'd last 10 seconds, give or take 5 seconds." Superior said.

"I would not!" Skylord snapped continuing to give chase.

Meredith sighed shaking her head as Jessica and Kirsty watched the two darkus bakugan chase each other around. "This is going to take a while…" She muttered.

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Several hundreds of miles away from Chicago, in New York City a brown haired young man with silver eyes sighed as he dragged himself into his apartment his black backpack slung over one shoulder.

"Guys I'm home." He called into the apartment kicking off his shoes by the door as he entered. He frowned as he glanced around seeing the living room empty with the exception of one knight like pyrus bakugan ball sitting on the coffee table. "Hey Siege." His bakugan turned to him before turning back to the screen

"Oh hey Justin," The knight like bakugan said. "How was your class?"

Justin sighed as he tossed his bag into a corner. "All right," He said plopping down onto the couch. "Just glad it's over for the day." He sighed as he got comfortable. "These Saturday review sessions suck though." He frowned as he glanced around. "Hey where's Tig and Drake?"

Siege winced. "They got into a fight, again, now they're both in separate rooms being irritated with each other." He said Justin letting out a ragged sigh as he threw his arm over his face.

"Ugh, can't they give it a break?" He muttered as he leaned back. "I'll go talk to them in a bit, see if I can get them to be on peaceful terms with each other for a while. That should give us peace for a little while."

"Until they get in a fight with each other again." Siege said both Justin and Siege heaving aggravated sighs.

"Seriously why can't they get along," Justin muttered uncovering his eyes as he glared at the ceiling.

Siege shifted his toy shoulders in a make shift shrug as his show went to commercial. "They might just be stressed out from being cooped up for too long, we've gone a long time without battling."

Justin grunted. "Not much I can do about that," He glanced at the TV, "Anything good on?"

"Well there's-" Siege trailed off as a new commercial came on the image of a girl with silver hair pulled up in a high ponytail dressed in a pink blazer came on the screen.

"Hey all fellow brawlers out there! I'm Julie from the Bakugan Battle Brawlers and I've got big news for you! Bakugan Interspace's grand opening is going to be taking place tomorrow!" She smiled brightly. "After all the planning and hard work, the brawlers have finally finished it! Now there's a safe place for everyone all over the world to get together and engage in intense brawls!" B-roll depicting the bakugan ball shaped building that was the interspace access point, and the inside of Interspace was played as Julie talked. " Not to mention that you could get the chance to brawl me or one of the brawlers!" The pictures of the brawlers flashed on the screen before going back to Julie. "All the brawlers will be there for the grand opening, and we hope to see you there too!" She said pointing at the audience. "Catch ya later brawlers!" She said with a wave before the commercial ended.

Justin and Siege sat there staring at the TV before Siege jumped up.

"Well it looks like we have a solution."

Justin grinned. "Yeah, it looks like we're going to Bakugan Interspace tomorrow!"

Silence fell upon the two then Siege sighed.

"We'll still need to talk to Tig and Drake."

Justin sighed. "You're right, well I'll go talk to Tig, you handle Drake."

"Got it." Siege said as he headed for the bedroom where the dragonoid was holed up while Justin headed to the guest room where the tigrerra was likely hiding.

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Kain frowned as he and Naga's spirit appeared in the space where Naga's statue was. He narrowed his eyes as he took in the sight of the four other figures gathered around.

Three of the other figures were wearing cloaks, and the other was dressed in his normal attire of a silver duster edged in gold over a white shirt and blue jeans. One of the four was a girl with long curly black hair and red eyes her hood down; the other was a guy with his hood covering his head and face like Kain's; one other had his hood up, but messy brown hair could be seen poking out from beneath his hood; the last one had no cloak on at all his arms were crossed across his chest and he had on a brown fedora that covered up most of his white hair though a few strands poked out from underneath it.

"So he's the last member?" The girl said narrowing her eyes as she sized up Kain. "I thought you said we were getting two more members?" She inquired looking at Naga.

"I was unable to find anyone else worthy." Naga said with a hiss. "Besides I'm sure you five will do, if you want your desires to be granted that is."

The girl nodded smirking. "You don't have to worry about me sir, I won't let you down."

Naga snorted as he glared at the five. "Listen up, Interspace opens tomorrow, I want you to go there and scout out the place and find opponents that will give me the most energy to help with my resurrection."

"Then we engage them and completely mop the floor with them," The guy with the fedora said, Naga's eyes gleaming.

"Precisely," He said. "Now I'll leave you five to prepare, don't fail me." He said with a last glare before he faded away.

"So shall we leave?" The fedora wearing guy asked.

"Perhaps we should at least get each other's names, ya know so we've got something else to call each other besides 'you'." The girl said glancing around at the others. When no one said anything she scowled. "Fine, but just so I don't have to deal with you lot being irritating and getting my name wrong, my name is Nyra, call me anything else and you'll face my dark phoenix Wrensa's wrath." A dark bird like bakugan that resembled skyress with some alterations popped open on Nyra's shoulder nodding her head in agreement.

The fedora wearing guy snorted. "Pitiful, I'm Jake. That's all you need to know."

"Skyler," The guy with his messy brown hair poking out from underneath his hood said.

"Okay what about you." Nyra said turning to look to the other guy with the hood who stood near Kain.

The guy didn't say anything instead he drew back shaking his head.

"Okay fine you're stuck with 'that guy'." Nyra said before turning to Kain. "And what about you?"

Kain was silent for a moment he considered the group of people before him, they all like him had been drawn in by Naga, they, like everyone else in the world did not deserve his trust, and therefore he would take up an alias.

"My name is Zed."

A/N: Phew well that's done. Not the greatest ever, but I needed a chapter to give an introduction to some of the OC's and villains you'll be seeing.

I wasn't planning on updating this but I reread the prologue and decided, ah what the heck could be fun to continue this story. So there you go an update.