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Summary: The threat of higher level competition in the tournaments to come makes Mr. Dickenson assign Riley Phillips to help train the G Revolutions. Tyson knows her. She was the one who taught him to really beyblade. But how much does he know about the time between back then and now? And why is she singling Kai out?

To Turn The Tides

Chapter Three: The Results Are Infinite

Distant Storm

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September had quickly become October, and the seasons had pulled a massive change, with the bitterness of winter creeping up on them at night. Training had become slightly less intense for the group, who had learned to deal with Riley's intense style. Kai's training however, had yet to become normal. For some reason unknown to the rest of the team, Riley still ran him into the ground. They didn't think it was because of Kai's remarks anymore, because outside of training, she was completely normal. One might think they actually got along, if the snowy haired captain would say something in response that was gauged at more than two syllables.

"Where are you going?" Tyson asked, to the retreating back of the captain. In his hand was his launcher, and in the other was his beyblade.

"To train."

The blunette scratched the back of his head. Didn't he do enough of that with Riley and the rest of the team? Or did he have something to prove. Maybe she had something she wasn't telling them... Tyson's head spun with thoughts that he couldn't quite make sense of. He figured he'd leave Kai alone, since he was probably out of earshot anyway. Riley might be able to answer some questions.

With this information, the champion went into his home and began yelling her name at the top of his lungs.

"For Pete's sake, Tyson, she's not here!" Hilary huffed in frustration. Sometimes that boy gave her quite a headache.

"Where is she then?"

"Hiro and Riley had to go meet with Mr. Dickenson."

"They're always meeting with him!"

"They're the coaches," Ray explained. "Kind of their job."

Max agreed, and took a swig of soda. "Yes, pepsi!"

"Only one a day, for all our sakes," Kenny pleaded. Max rolled his eyes. So what if he got hyper after a few caffinated beverages?

"Back to what I was talking about," Tyson stated, growing annoyed. "Did anyone notice-"

"It's not all about you!" Hilary said, leaning back in her chair. "Some of us have lives too, you know."

"I was just wondering why Riley makes Kai work so hard at practice, jeez!"

"Speaking of Mr. Insensitive, where is he?" Hilary looked around. There was no human ice block lingering in any dark corners of the dojo.

"Training."

"Again?"

"God! Don't use that word!" Daichi covered his ears. "I don't like that word."

"Who does?" Max asked. "That word is the devil."

"Agreed."

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Meanwhile, in the office of Mr. Stanley A. Dickenson...

"How's the training coming along?" The chairman's hands were folded together across the desk, and he rippled them every now and then.

"Good." Hiro stated. "They're responding positively to the programs Riley's been using."

"What program would that be?"

"To work 'em into the ground. I don't think anyone's done that in a while."

Hiro shrugged, and Dickenson shook his head. "Kai's been known for a vigorous training session, but he's too passive and 'whatever', so they don't like to listen to him."

"He is a chunk of ice, isn't he?"

"Very much so." The trio chuckled. "Riley here has been quite the motivation for him though. He's been training like crazy."

"Not that he wouldn't already, but he's got another opponent to beat other than Tyson. It would be great if he could figure out my edge, but I don't think he's going to anytime soon," she said with confidence.

"You never know. They just think you're strong for now, which is a good thing." The chairman nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, they probably wouldn't took at me the same if they knew I was an Infinite," she said, quieter than before. "With all the talk that's been on the news lately, and especially since Infinity has been gaining quite the bad reputation."

"Yes, I heard about that," Dickenson chimed in. "I can't believe they'd destroy bit beasts. It's practically murder."

"It is murder. Sometimes I wish I could go and take them all out..." She trailed off and shrugged. "But I guess this is the next best thing, you know?"

"There's nothing we can do about it now, but I have another question for you two."

"Go ahead," Hiro said, pressing his hands together. "What's up?"

"What do you think we should do when... I mean if they win again?" The chairman looked a bit confused. "I don't know if we should just leave it at that, or if we should go for a four way-"

"Yeah." Riley nodded. "Or another Tyson vs. Kai. I think that the five of them know that that would be the battle to remember, so you should hold a special exhibition match."

"I agree," Hiro said, nodding his approval. "Everyone knows that the tides constantly turn between the two, and then we'll see who's trained harder during the year."

Dickenson nodded as well. "I think you are right, we should do that. That's-"

The sound of Hiro's cell phone interrupted the thoughts of the three occupants of the office. "What is it Tyson, I'm in a meeting?"

"I just wanted to know when you'd be done! Jeez, everyone's being all spazzy."

The chairman laughed. "Tell him you're done. I just need to speak with Riley for a moment. I'm sure she'll catch up with you later."

"Okay." He moved his hand from over the speaker on the phone. "We'll be there soon bro, chill out."

"Fine. Bye." Hiro said his own goodbyes to the chairman and stepped out of the room.

"I talked to your social worker," Dickenson said, quietly. "I should be getting everything to take care of the final step within the next few days by fax."

"So everything's basically taken care of?"

"It should be."

"Yes!" She nearly jumped across the desk, wrapping the man up in a hug that caught him off guard. "Thank you so much!"

"Anytime, Riley, anytime."

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Kai launched his beyblade for the thirty-second time that day. He'd counted. It was frustrating. She made it seem easy, like he should be able to beat her, but every attempt was futile. Even Dranzer was getting annoyed, and it was hard to bother her. She seemed to have an unbreakable focus and determination, but this new addition to their training staff was starting to drive both of them mad.

After deciding to take a break, he recalled his beyblade and walked out of the park, headed down the main road of the city. The B.B.A. building was approaching on his right.

/Master Kai./

'What do we need to do? We've always come up with an edge from somewhere, and it has never taken this long to figure out. I don't even know if she has a bit beast.'

/That is one thing I know for sure. I feel the fire in her heart. There is a great force within her beyblade, though we have never seen it. I can sense it, I've felt that power before. It is a fiery creature, but I do not know which one./

'Would calling it out do us any good?'

/We'd see it, but I don't know if we'd be able to stop it. This young woman is talented enough to take out all of us without revealing the being within her beyblade./

Kai didn't like knowing that, but it was true. 'It isn't Black Dranzer, is it?'

/No, young one, Black Dranzer was destroyed for good by Tyson./

'Well then, we keep practicing until she does reveal it.'

"HEY!"

Kai looked up to see a short young woman with jade colored eyes and spiky brown hair. She was dressed in baggy clothes and had a beyblade, ready to launch. "What do you want?" The Russian asked, annoyed that someone had bothered him in the middle of a conversation with his bit beast.

"A beybattle. Right now."

"Fine." Kai loaded Dranzer onto his launcher.

"Not with you, kid." She paused. "You know where Riley Phillips is?"

"No, but I'm here right now. Let's go."

She laughed, and a group of four people came up behind her, three men, and one girl. "See, and I wasn't going to fight you, but since you insist..." She launched her beyblade with such an intense fury, that it nearly knocked the Russian to the ground. The white beyblade ricocheted past him, and he narrowly avoided it, ducking out of the way.

"We do this fair," Kai asserted.

"We do it my way," The woman said darkly. "Or else."

"What are you," Kai started, unimpressed, "The ghetto bitch from the maffia or something?"

"No, I'm the leader of Infinity, asshole. I teach kids how to take care of World Class idiots and their bit beasts. Idiots like you." In the back of his mind, he registered something that Dickenson had said about how dangerous Infinity was, much less any beyblader of that rank. But he was Kai. He'd faced tough opponents, and found ways to defeat them. He wasn't afraid of anyone or anything.

"Let's just do this." He launched Dranzer, and within a fraction of a second, the white beyblade was slicing his into pieces. He swore he had just seen the attack ring sliced off. And damn, he felt the attack just as much as Dranzer did. It flipping killed. He doubled over in pain, cursing in Russian. What the hell was the deal with these random opponents again?

"You had your chance to get Riley, you should've listened and done it. Then it wouldn't have hurt so much. I'm not your average opponent, Mr. Hiwatari." His mind suddenly focused on Riley. What did Infinity want with her? She was just some B.B.A. trainer, right?

"Dranzer!" The phoenix emerged in a bout of fire from his blue blade and shrieked in anguish at the woman challenger. "Blazing Gigs Tempest!"

"I don't think so." The woman, up until this point had her hands at her side, like they had been weighed down by invisible weights. Now, she extended one forward, and raised it into the air, Kai felt a splitting pain in his side, like he was being sqeezed around the middle. Suddenly it subsided, and he realized that Dranzer had been privy to the same attack, if not of a larger magnitude. "You should learn to stop running blindly into challenges, sweetheart. I could kill you right now and not have a second thought."

"Attack!"

"Bad move."

His beyblade gained some speed and surged toward the white one, which slammed right back at it, knocking it into pieces, which vaporized with the sudden shock waves emmited by the white blade. Kai stared in shock. That was it? It was over... Shit. He suddenly realized that this was very real, no game, and this woman was probaby going to kill him. She was an Infinite, he realized. This was the power they were talking about. Dranzer's bit landed in front of him, and though piercing pain was running through every fiber of his being at this point, her latched himself onto her bit, as she began to vaporize into particles of light.

'I'm sorry,' He said, through their link, dropping to his knees.

/Luck is not with us, is it/

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"So I'll come down here later and we'll make everything final."

"Alright, I'll talk to you later." Riley gave the man a quick hug and opened the doors to step into the sunlight of early afternoon.

She heard the sound of a shattering beyblade. Oh crap, she thought, looking around. It had come from pretty close to her. The B.B.A. headquarters was located on the corner of two streets. So, she decided to take the obvious route and round the corner.

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"Don't worry, sweetheart, it'll be over soon." The girl took a few steps toward him, pulling something outside her pocket, which he recognized as a knife. Did he mention he hated knives?

Kai bowed his head in shame. He was going to die, he just knew it. There was no way that he was going to live through this, with no beyblade, no defense.

From a short distance away, Riley cringed. She knew that voice. And she loathed it. Without a second of thought, she had her beyblade launched, surging in front of the boy. It collided with the white one in a shower of sparks before they both bounced back, in opposite directions.

Kai's head shot up. What the hell was going on here? He wasn't dead yet?

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the traitor. How's it kickin', Riley?"

"Get the fuck out of here, Amanda." Her voice sounded venomous. His head spun, and he didn't think it was from the wounds on his sides, which appeared to be leaking crimson themselves. Wait a second. They're on a first name basis? Something was definitely messed up.

"I don't think so. Arcana, frenzy attack!"

From out of the white beyblade came purple sparks, and finally a large demonic dragon that towered about fifteen stories high. It was at this time that Kai backed a few steps, realizing the situation at hand. "Holy bit beast."

"Get them. Now." Riley didn't bother to turn around, nor did she seem phased. The creature's head came rushing down at them, fangs beared.

"Run!" Kai shook himself a bit, and turned around in the opposite direction, headed for the B.B.A. building, the closest one. He shut himself inside, then ran straight for the elevator. Dickenson was not going to believe this.

Once she was sure he was out of the way, Riley threw a hand out in front of the beast. "That isn't going to work on me, Amanda. Try again." The dragon froze at her fingertips, paralyzed, before it retreated with an enraged cry.

"I'll rip you to shreds, Phillips." Amanda ran a hand through her spiky scalp and called out another attack, seemingly catching Riley off guard.

"The hell you will, bitch!" The crimson eyed girl cursed a moment later, as the attack knocked her beyblade out of sync. However, she realized that the competition was probably some of the best she'd had in months.

"Again, Arcana. Destroy her!"

Riley jumped back, mimicing her beyblade, and then extended her hands, causing her beyblade to surge forward into her opponent's. "It is time," she called, her voice rich and taking on more meaning than before.

"You aren't in some movie. Cut the dramatics and let's see what you've got. Arcana, do it!" Arcana swooped down, from its previous position in flight.

"Alright. You're asking for it."

"I've been," Amanda said, her patience dieing. "I want you to fight me. Seattle style. You still think you're hot, you're fresh off the streets? Let's go go. Prove it to me. Arcana, let's just go!"

Riley closed her eyes, and waited for the attack and the beast to come to her. "Taidra!"

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Kai took the steps two at a time, while trying stupidly to catch his breath. Stupid elevator would've taken him all day if he waited, and this seemed to be a pretty important matter. The building was thirty stories high, and the chairman's usual office was located on the seventeenth floor. He threw himself at the door, having it fly open.

"Kai? What are you doing here?" The Russian teen said nothing, instead going to the northern side of the room, glowing with sunlight. Suddenly, the sunlight was blocked out by something purple, causing the room to be nearly pitch black.

"Some girl showed up."

"What?" Dickenson appeared next to him at the floor-to-ceiling windows that covered the northern wall. "Who was she?"

"Amanda. The leader of Infinity."

"Excuse me?" Kai was no longer paying attention to the chairman. His eyes were focused on the battle playing out before him. Dickenson opened the window on the end closest to the battle, and sound became available to the two male spectators.

"Infernal rush!" The dragon reared, and began emitting shock waves, which seemed to slice through the air all the way up where Kai and Mr. Dickenson were. Suddenly, a dark purple orb began to form from the heart of the dragon, expanding outward, covering where Riley was. A boom, probably an explosion came from the side of the orb, where Riley was located. As quickly as it had come, the orb disappeared, and smoke blanketed the area where their battle was taking place.

"Clear it out!" Dickenson sighed in relief as he heard Riley's voice echo among the taller buildings in the city. The smoke began to clear, and cherry red tips began to waver through the smoke that remained, and eventually, a large beast was revealed.

"What the heck is that?" Kai asked, to no one in particular.

/Taidra, young one./

It was a black four legged creature, with an almost dog-like face. Piercing red eyes and a mane of red flames trailed behind it, as well as a matching tail of flames. Around each of its four paws was a crown-like guard of red titanum, on the top of its head there was an overgrowth that rose up with a gem shaped hollow in the center, and the color faded from black at the bottom into red at the top. Three diamond shaped red spots decorated her left flank, just below the flaming mane.

"Taidra," Kai repeated, and the B.B.A. founder turned and gave him a crazy look. Meanwhile, a beeping sound errupted from the fax machine, and some papers were processed through it.

"How did you know that?"

"Dranzer," he said, keeping one fist clenched around his bit chip. His focus shifted back to the battle.

The beast rose about fifteen stories, and a ferocious roar was emitted into the air. It was angry, very angry.

"I'll tear you and that- that creature limb from limb." Their beyblades collided again, and this time, Riley jumped back, out of the way.

"The hell you will." She sent her beyblade back at Amanda's and the gang leader extended her hand to move the two spinning tops back away from her. Riley rolled her eyes. She was wasting energy doing that.

"I beg to differ."

"I don't think so." Taidra turned and looked at Riley, her mistress. "Omegacide."

Amanda's eyes widened in horror, while a smirk remained on Riley's face. "You- you can't control-"

Everything within a fifty foot radius, including both beybladers and their beyblades, became enclosed in a glowing orb of an cherry crimson hue. Suddenly, there was an earth shaking tremor and a fierce roar, followed by the sound of earth being lifted up from underneath itself. Afterwards, it sounded like a long, hard explosion.

Their battle had been held in the center of an intersection, where traffic was currently being redirected, if there was any. Hell, who wouldn't be a little miffed by the presence of two huge towering beasts. It was like being there when Godzilla was about to trample the city.

"Oh dear lord," Dickenson said, rushing to his desk and pushing a button on the intercom. "Get a team of medics out there. Stat!"

Kai figured he'd be of no use in his current location, and sprinted out the door, taking on the stairs again. After nearly jumping down the flights, he took on the main doors, still running. If she lived through that battle, he might actually have to thank her for the intense training. His endurance was impecible.

He rushed into the clearing smoke. Her bit beast was gone. Hell, once he stepped into the clearing smoke, he realized that he had gone down a few inches. It was a crater, he realized. Everything inside it was gone. Obliterated. Resolved to nothingness.

"Oh man," Kai said, suddenly devastated. There was no way anyone could've-

From out of the smoke, Kai made out a figure edged in red, and another figure in her arms. Dickenson appeared at Kai's side, his face revealing concern that the Russian teen had never seen on him before.

Riley caught sight of the two men waiting anxiously at the edge of the crater. A team of paramedics appeared, taking the girl from her, as well as the fragments of her shattered beyblade. The red edge faded away, and Riley sighed, her strength still there, but weakening a bit. She felt good. The last time she'd faced off against Amanda, she'd lost terribly. Now she had beaten her, and she couldn't be called a traitor anymore.

As she passed Kai, she glared at him darkly. "Don't you ever make me have to do that again."

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Dickenson had guided both teens into his office. Kai looked considerably indifferent, though his eyes gave away the fact that something had just happened to shock him. On the other side of the room, looking out the window was Riley, who seemed to be alright, though a flare of anger seemed to resonate off her. The chairman promptly began calling people and places looking for damage control alternatives, seeing as he'd never seen that type of attack before, and had to deal with how to repair the damage. Then he would ask her just how she did that.

"Did she challenge you?" Riley asked quietly, after a long silence between the teens. Kai turned his head over his shoulder and looked at her.

"No."

"You challenged her?"

"Hn."

Her eyes returned to their previous stance, gazing out the window at the mess that both she and Amanda had made. She had just destroyed the area. Amanda would've punched a few holes in the ground. But she couldn't afford to lose, and beyond what anyone else knew, had she not used that attack, she would've.

"Do you know how stupid that was?"

Kai said nothing. And then, "She was asking for you."

"So you decided to be the tough guy and say 'why don't you battle me instead?' Great job, Hiwatari, you are an asshole."

"Riley, that's enough." She nodded at the elder man's comment, and sat down in a chair on the opposite side of the room. "Why didn't you tell me that you could inflict that kind of damage?"

She closed her eyes. "I told you Omegacide was a powerful attack." She glanced back at Kai, who had his eyes closed, still appearing like he didn't care.

"Still." He clasped his hands together on the desk. "Are there any more beybladers who can use that move?"

"No. It's an attack I created. Only I can use it, or someone I choose... you know. Someone who has seen it could try." He nodded. "And I just threw the leader of Infinity into the back of an ambulance, so once she gets back to Seattle, I'm pretty sure she'll tell them that they need to train harder, even though she'll lie and say she beat me."

"Have you beaten her before?" She whipped her head around in Kai's direction.

"No. No I haven't." Kai nodded, and returned to his emotionless state.

Dickenson leaned back in his chair. "I will admit that that was amazing."

"Thanks. I just wish I didn't have to keep her locked up all the time. She was quite annoyed up until today."

"Competition of your level in these parts are scarce."

"Well, obviously, since the only decent competition flew in from Seattle." She rolled her eyes at the mention of the gang leader. "Perhaps someday one of your teams will become members of the Infinite Class." She looked over to Kai, who cracked an eye open at her comment. He had a feeling it was directed toward his team.

"Perhaps. Just please, the next time you decide to do that, locate yourself in a field that we can replace with dirt, not a major intersection of the city." She grunted in agreement at the chairman's pleading.

"But still, it was cool, right?"

"Beyond."

Kai found himself nodding, though she couldn't see it. "Not too many beybladers can total that much area in such a short amount of time."

"Are you okay?"

"What?"

"The reason I've been yelling at you. You have Dranzer, she's alright?"

"Yes." Kai settled back in his chair.

"Good. You don't want to know what they'd do to her after they'd take her."

"What?"

Riley sighed. She'd set herself up for that one. "After they'd beat you up a bit, they'd strip her. Feather by feather. Then they'd destroy her. Then they'd kill you."

"Who the hell are these people?" Kai asked, outraged. That was sick, and even he knew it.

"The gang name is Infinity," Dickenson said. "Be grateful Riley knows how to deal with them. Otherwise that would've very much been the case."

"So she was an infinite," Kai mused aloud.

"Yes."

"So am I."

She figured Kai had realized that by now and turned her attention back to the chairman. "I'm sorry about the damage, but I figured one intersection was better than half the city, which Amanda would've done, if given the opportunity."

Dickenson nodded. "I agree, though the damage was incredible from just a single attack. I don't know how you can control that destructive power."

"It took a lot of practice."

She took a look at the fax machine in the corner. "Hey, you got something, Mr. D."

He walked over and pulled out the paper. "Do you know what this is?"

"A ton of forms for me to fill out?"

"Well, not exactly, but you have to sign it. It's the last step."

"Alright." He picked up two pens, handing her one. He then signed his name in neat, English cursive, and handed it to her. She did the same. "Hey... wait." Glancing over at the Russian, whose eyes were closed, she thought about it for a moment. It wasn't like he didn't already know her biggest secret. "Hiwatari, get your ass over here. I need a witness."

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Author's notes: Well, there's the third chapter, I'm glad it's longer than the others... Anywho, I'm sure most of you know what the witness thing is for. And about Taidra, if anyone has seen Suicune, think no ribbon-y things, and a different color scheme. And that's about it.

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