RTC: Ahhhhhh! It's the dreaded writer's block again! Someone save me!

Kari: Calm down.

RTC: Easy for you to say. This means that you won't suffer as much. Where is everyone anyway?

Kari: Ask him. (Points to Kai.)

RTC: That's right, he took them away. (Freaks out.) Where did you put my muses! Give them back!

Kai: (Looks smug.) What are you talking about? I didn't do anything.

RTC: Liar. (Opens backpack and dumps loads textbooks and paper on him.) Take that.

Kai: Ow, those things hurt! What is all this stuff? (Looks at papers.) The quadratic formula, Newton's laws of gravity, pens, lip gloss... Why do you carry all this junk?

RTC: It's not like I have a choice. (Gets thoughtful-and insane-look.) If you don't giveback my muses, I'll force you to do my homework! And I've got make up and I know how to use it too!

Kai: Are you threatening me with make up and homework? (Thinks about it.) Do your worst.

RTC: Okay, I will. (Starts attacking him.)

Kari: (Sighs.) I'll leave them to duke it out. Ray-Tiger-Cat still does not own Beyblade.

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Destination: Biovolt Abbey

"What are we going to do!" Tyson was yelling.

"Calm down, Little Dude! Panicking won't solve anything," Tyson's grandpa shouted back, menacing Tyson with his kendo stick.

"I get it! I get it!" Tyson replied, backing off and hitting a wall. The others just laughed. Tyson had managed to break the tension.

"No, seriously, what are we going to do? Should we fly out to Moscow and bust into the new Biovolt?" Ray asked. He had been acting a bit recklessly lately, probably because the thugs that took Kai, Kari and Tala had tied up his little sister and that obviously made Ray mad.

"Do you think that's a safe idea?" Hilary asked, voicing all of their concerns.

"Uh, probably not," he admitted.

"Well, how about you guys contact some friends, like the Blitzkreig Boys, White Tiger X and the PBD All Starz?" Hiro suggested. "Then you guys can all form a plan. It'd be good to have back up." Hiro had stayed at the Granger household ever since the tournament, but he had been too busy to see much of his brother and his brother's friends.

"That's actually a good idea," Max agreed. "I think we should call them now and see what we can come up with." He ran off to call his mom and her team.

Two hours, multiple long distance phone calls-and Grandpa Granger yelling that his phone bill would be through the roof-they had come up with a plan. Not a very safe one, but a plan nevertheless.

"So, the ingenious plan is that we get everyone together at the B-Boys' place and infiltrate the abbey!" Chief yelled. (He was being very sarcastic.)

"Looks like it," Tyson replied, not noting the sarcasm. "So, Byran, Ian, Spencer and all of us will go in, except the Chief , Hilary and Daichi, who will stay with the other teams and patrol the property. The B-Boys have some idea as to what the new abbey looks like, from Tala's research and they should be able to guide us to the guys. While we're there, we can poke around and see if they've got any information on Ray's mom and then we take out about a million guards and leave."

"Does that sound incredibly stupid to anyone else, or is it just me?" Hilary asked.

"No, you're right, it's really stupid and dangerous, but what choice do we have? Wait for them to get us too?" Max replied.

"Well, okay, that's true. What are we all sitting here for? Start packing your bags, we're returning to Moscow!" Hilary shouted, and when Hilary shouted, things went her way. Once the others were out of the room, she gave Tyson a quick kiss on the cheek. "You be careful, got that?"

"Aren't I always?" he said.

"I'm not going to answer that."

A little bit later they were all packed and had bought plane tickets to Moscow that was departing that night. But before they left, they had someone to break the news to.

"Hey Lizzie," Ray whispered, waking her up.

"Hi Ray, hi guys. Wait, what are all of you doing here? Something's happened, hasn't it?" she replied, her eyes narrowing in suspicion.

"There's no way to say this easily. We're leaving for Moscow to see if we can get Kai, Kari and Tala back," Hilary mumbled, looking away from Lizzie. It had been a while since the team had been to see her, and she looked thinner than before because of the medicine she was taking.

"You're going to break into the abbey!" she screeched once they had outlined the plan for her. "You have got to be kidding me! Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? And what about Lynn, I hope you're not taking her along!"

"No, no, of course we wouldn't take her along. We're leaving her with Tyson's grandpa," Ray reassured her. "And don't worry, we won't be gone long." He gave her a guilty look. "I'm sorry for having to leave."

She got the message. "For crying out loud! I'm fine; seriously, I'll probably be getting out of here in two weeks."

Ray smiled, "Okay, take care of yourself, we'll be back in about a week or so."

The plane ride went smoothly, the team thought that maybe Biovolt would strike again on the plane, but they didn't. The B-Boys met them at the airport. The other teams weren't due to arrive until the next day, so they all went back to the B-Boys' place, which was a small apartment.

"Are we going to be able to fit everyone in here?" Chief wondered as he entered the place.

"I honestly don't know. But they're only staying a few days, so we can probably make do," Spencer said. "The apartment does have four rooms plus the living room, where people can sleep. We can put each team in a room and one person from each team can have the last room."

"That's true. Now where's the food?" Tyson asked, causing everyone else to roll their eyes.

A few days later, all the teams were in Moscow and ready to go. "So, everyone got the communicators? And their first aid kits? Beyblades, launchers-" Spencer started, but got cut off by Daichi.

"Yes, we've got it! Come on, let's go!" he shouted.

Kari's POV

"Come on, Kari, wake up!" I opened my eyes find Tala shaking me really, really hard, which really hurt after the stuff they had just put us through. They'd come to our house in Japan and attacked us. What were we to do? We were outnumbered 3 to 1. Don't bad guys ever play by the rules? Well, after they got us to their new headquarters, they wasted no time and got straight to business-hurting us. We'd been separated most of the time, except for a few hours at night when they shoved us into a tiny cell and allowed us to sleep. Needless to say, we didn't sleep much and when we did, one of us was always awake to keep watch.

"What's wrong?" I asked, still half asleep. "Where's Kai?" I added as I looked around the room. Tala's looked down at the ground as though he found it fascinating.

"They took him. They're going to kill him."

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RTC: All done!

Kai: (Covered in make up.) I can't believe she actually did it. And tortured me in the fic too.

Kari: I think it's cute. Did you learn your lesson?

Kai: What lesson? Make up is evil?

Kari: No! Don't mess with RTC 'cause she always wins in the end.

RTC: Well, I figure out a way to get my muses back, don't you guys worry. Until my next update, this is the ever-frazzled RTC signing off.