A/N: Okay I'm terribly sorry for being a full two days late. I blame Pokemon White for being to addictive. Anyway I finally finished them both. But thanks sooo much for all the reviews I got! 7! A new record :D! Before you continue I have a few things to say. Some minor characters (Nene, Jenny, Komba, etc.) may be a little OOC, there's some miniscule ChristopherxNene, Christopher's last name's made-up along with the majority of the abilities, and finally this chapter jumps around. A lot. Continue :)
Disclaimer: I don't own bakugan or pokemon, just a copy of white which is awesome.
"Oh!" Julie exclaimed groggily as she sat up with a jolt. She took in her surroundings. The last thing she remembered was Spectra, with the knife...trying to kill her. But this didn't look like the room in that house. It was too brightly lit, and she was lying in a cushy chair.
"Julie! You're awake!" Gus cried joyously as he came to her side. It seemed like he wanted to hug her or something, but he just let his arms drop to his side and exclaimed again, "You're awake!"
Stifling a giggle Julie rubbed her head then asked, "How long have I been asleep?" and gasped when she touched her throat, feeling blood, prompting her to add, "And what happened?"
"Well as you're aware, Spectra tried to kill you, but I luckily woke up in time to stop him. I then called your little friends who all rushed out to the house and helped bring you back. All except that masked fellow and the russian that is. Apparently she's sick and he won't leave her side. I have a reason to believe her illness may be our friend Spectra's fault as well though. I am unable to prove or disprove such a theory though due to the fact I'm not allowed within ten feet of her. Oh and you've been asleep a few hours, it's morning now."
"What about my throat?" Julie asked, then added, "And poor Alice. I'll have to go see her."
"Your throat was cut in the attempt on your life. He was so close to really killing you..." Gus trailed off for awhile with an expression a mix of torment and rage.
"Anyway," Gus started again putting on a smile, " there should be no permanent scarring and Runo was supposed to be coming with a first aid kit."
Julie nodded apreciatively at the explanation then thought of one more question, "That all makes sense, but what happened to your side? It looks like a really nasty cut."
Gus paused to examine it. He still had a bandage around it which you could see blood through. "It's a cut from a sword. Really nothing to worry about." he told her, but all the same he decided to see a doctor later.
Meanwhile with Alice
Well at least my head feels better and I'm not puking, Alice thought to herself as she clambered out of bed. After the previous days torment of being sick she was feeling much better. As she remade the bed she thought about Masquerade, He was really sweet yesterday, bringing me things and taking care of me like that. I suppose it's about time I forgive him. By this time she was ready to leave her room and headed into the hallway. Once out she was met by a suprisingly cheery Masquerade.
"Hello M-" Alice began.
Masquerade, completely oblivious to Alice's descicion decided to enact his stupid plan inspired by the conversation with Billy the other day, "Good morning, Alice. Are you feeling better?"
Alice began to answer,"Why yes I am. Than-"
"That's wonderful. Now I'd like to ask you to brawl with me. If I win you'll forgive me." Masquerade cut her off.
"Well that's really not neces-"
"Great! Bakugan Brawl! Darkus Zixhos stand!"
"Alright then." Alice relented as she gave up in trying to tell him she'd already forgave him and prepared to brawl, "Bakugan Brawl! Darkus Alpha Hydranoid stand!"
"Ability activate! Dark storm!" Masquerade cried as Zixhos unleashed the attack.
"Ability activate! General Quasar!" Alice retaliated, but she noticed Hydranoid was holding back.
"Hydranoid, why are you holding back?" She asked him.
"It's nothing Lady Alice." The first head answered.
"Really we're fine." The second chimed in.
"Let's brawl somemore and show how powerful we are!" The third finished.
Alice let it drop for the moment and prepared another ability as Zixhos was still standing from the last one. But again Alice noticed Hydranoid held back and glancing at Masquerade realized why.
"Stop! Masquerade stop for a second please!"
"Giving up?" He questioned with a smirk.
"No, Masquerade. It's about Hydranoid. I'm not sure how comfortable he is brawling against you. He was your partner bakugan."
"Hmmm it's nonsense. Hydranoid doesn't feel that way do you, Hydranoid?" Masquerade asked the towering dragon then continued, "Besides I'm not going to take him and leave you with no bakugan. He's grown attached to you, Alice. I'm sure he doesn't want to leave your side."
Alice sighed, seeing she was getting nowhere.
"Let us commence with the battle!" Masquerade yelled.
5 minutes later Masquerade had won and was proudly congratulating Zixhos. Hydranoid on the other hand was curled up in his ball and wouldn't speak. "Hydranoid, you can tell me if you'd rather go with Masquerade. I'll understand." Alice whispered to the defeated darkus bakugan. Briefly opening up Hydranoid explained his plight, "It is not that Lady Alice, it is just having two masters and then they battle each other...It creates a conflict of loyalty."
"Hey everyone! Lady Runo says we should get ready to go!" Baron called to Alice and Masquerade, who quickly followed the purple haired boy.
Julie and Gus
"Julie, can I ask you something?" Gus said.
"Sure Gus, anything." Julie answered from her spot next to him with her head on his shoulder.
"Could you do me a favor and...stay here. You'll be safer and I don't want you getting hurt."
"I can't believe you'd ask me that! Your just like Dan and the others! Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't brawl too!" Julie shrieked angrily as she stomped off to go vent to Runo, who would surely sympathize with her.
"I try and protect her and she now hates me. But I just wanted to keep her safe...Spectra almost murdered her!" sighing Gus resignedly trudged off to find the others. They'd be setting off soon.
Team A consisting of Chan-Lee, Julio, Baron, Jenny, Christopher, Nene, Komba, Jesse, and Zenet stood in one mob off to the left as Runo, Alice, Julie, Gus, Billy, Masquerade, Mira, Ren, Lena, Klaus, and Jewels stood off in another to the right making up Team B.
"Does everyone remember their assignments?" Yes. "Then let's go kick some Gundalian-" Runo got some offended glares though she still finished her statement(albeit less enthusiasm), "butt."
End part one: A few things I'd like to cover before you continue. I did not write about all of Team A's characters and some of them have very miniscule amounts. So I'm sorry if it was too brief for you. Oh btw I made up Christopher's last name because I really don't know what it is. Also I apoligize if some of the more minor characters (Christopher, Nene, Jenny, etc.) are OOC. Proceed.
Team A:
"So, like anyone wanna hear me sing something?" Jenny asked again as they trudged toward the castle in the horrible weather. Everyone again answered her with no and kept marching.
"I wish I was in Alice's group." Christopher whined. Ever since she'd helped him battle that time the little boy had been very fond of the darkus brawler.
"Quit whining! We're charging into battle! It's exciting!" Nene yelled at him as her eyes blazed with excitment, "What's your name anyway?"
"Christopher Blue."
"That's too long. I'll call you Chris." Nene decided then marched purposefully to the front of the group.
Chris stared on in fascination at the daring girl until he remembered he should be walking.
With Team B:
"Ugh all this icky mud." Julie complained shaking it off her designer boots, "And all over my new boots too. I got them for 35% off at that one store."
No one paid any attention to Julie's unhelpful comments, with the exception of Gus who for the first few times she'd said something had tried apoligizing with a smile, which had ultimately been brushed off by the fashionista. Team A was walking behind B so that by the time they arrived the Gundalian's would hopefully be to distracted to notice them sneaking around back.
"Looks like the soldiers just spotted them." Runo pointed to where a group of soldiers was descending on Team B.
"How many are there?" Baron asked increduously as they scurried around the confrontation.
"My guess is about 50 there. Of course there's another 950 around somewhere so we best be careful." Mira explained to the Haos brawler.
"Do you think they can handle that many at once?"
Masquerade replied,"They'll be fine. Come on!" And so they all hurried toward the belly of the beast.
Spectra
"Spectra? You are in here right?" Clarissa whispered.
Spectra looked up through his cell's bars. The brawlers and Gus were keeping him locked in the palace dungeon. He was quite frankly suprised his loyal servant Gus would betray him. No once had he ever shown disloyalty, but all of a sudden he'd slammed him over the head, deserted him, and had him locked in a cell within 24 hours.
"Clarissa, what are you doing here?" he asked as he exited his reverie.
She stared at him, "Duh! To break you out!"
"Thank you, Clarissa."
"Don't thank me just yet." She replied as she inserted the key and the lock clicked open.
Spectra got up from the floor, then walked out of the cell,"Can I thank you now?"
"Nope. 'Cuz my help has a price."
Spectra quirked an eyebrow as he inquired as to what it was.
"You have to agree to be my boyfriend."
The pyrus brawler laughed, "I should have guessed. Alright. You win, Clarissa."
"Eeeeeeep!" Clarissa squealed in delight.
Mason
"What do you mean you quit?" Mason screamed in fury at the pyrus brawler before him. There was also a blond girl who stood next to him clinging to his arm. Sometimes during the conversation she would nod in agreement, but she was silent the whole time.
The picture of confidence Spectra stood in front of Mason radiating daggers,"I've lost my most loyal companion, trust from any of the brawlers, and your pathetic plan is doomed."
Mason fumed.
" Besides," Spectra continued to stare him down and his tone darkened,"Spectra works for no one."
"Be lucky I let you live." Spectra spat and swirled out of the room with the blond girl happily following.
Team A:
Chan-Lee's battle:
"Is that all you've got?" Chan-Lee cried at the hypnotized Vestals. She was battling two at once and being skilled as she was still holding her own.
"Now Fortress! Finish them off!"
Some brawlers however had but one opponent and were still struggling.
Christopher's battle:
Christopher was one of these brawlers. Ok, Christopher was the only one of these brawlers.
His opponent was a pyrus brawler. "Ability activate! Tsunami!" he yelled. His aquos Juggernoid summoned a huge wave of water at the Vestal.
Laughing pitiously the Vestal prepared to finish a trembling Chistopher off. Then Nene stepped in. "Ventus Ravenoid go!"
"Ability activate! Raging storm!" Nene blew the Vestal's bakugan away, quite literally.
Blushing at his lack of strength Christopher shakily thanked Nene for sving him.
"Don't mention it, Chris." Nene replied, "But how about you stick with the easier ones over there. They all like to hang out at the edge of the group so they don't have to brawl." Then she pointed out a cluster of maybe 5 or so Vestals who liked like they had no idea what they were doing.
Jenny:
"Get 'em Siege! Yah! Rock on!" Jenny encouraged happily as her aquos siege took out the subterra mantris. After the stress of touring as the J.J dolls there was nothing Jenny loved more than a good brawl. She was at a total of three Vestals taken down already.
Baron:
Baron launched his bakugan into the fray,"Go Nemus!"
He was facing a hypnotized Vestal he recognized as one of his neighbors. Just last week the little girl had got her kitten stuck in a tree and Baron had to get it down for her. She was using a fierce bakugan Baron had ever heard of. He suspected it to be of Gundalian origin though.
"Sorry,Sarah," Baron told her before Nemus's latest attack sent her bakugan flying back in a dazzling blast.
"No!" the little girl sobbed as her eyes turned from gold to blue, "My bakugan!"
Apparently if they were beat in a brawl it broke the hypnosis, which Baron announced to the other brawlers. Then he went over to comfort the little girl
Becky:
"Come on, Lyriconoid. Let's see if we can win for once!" Becky exclaimed gleefully as she threw her partner.
"Hello, Becky." A familiar face greeted.
Becky paled, "Hi, Melissa."
"How's the traitor's life going?" he mused.
"Perefectly fine thank you very much." Becky snapped as she activated an ability that bowled over his pyrus Fiammata.
"Not to shabby. Let us see how you handle this!" He then sent out a Gundalian mobile assault vehicle thing.
"Are you crazy?" Becky screeched a few minutes later with Lyriconoid in her hand and scratches on her face. She continued, "I could have died! You don't just go using those things all crazy! Someone could really get hurt."
"I wanted to win you silly girl. I will get half of this planet just like Mason says and they'll be no one to stop me!"
After a pathetic evil laugh (Becky thought he was choking) the aquos brawler rose to her feet. She walked over to him slowly, but surely. She punched him in the face. Melissa stumbled backward and Becky went at him again. She hit him over and over again relentlessly (Witnesses would have noted she fought with about as much fury as an angry Runo, or to a lesser extent a Julie when you've stolen her make-up. But that's another story) until he fell unconcious.
"Who's silly now?"
Jesse:
"What a wonderful antagonist you do make, sir. 'Tis a pity I shall have to stifle such creativity. Now get him." Jesse narrated during his time on the battlefield.
With Team B:
"So what do we do now that we're inside?" Julie asked as they scanned the narrow hallway for Gundalians.
"We search for Mason. Force a surrender out of him. If he won't cooperate the bakugan can eat him." Everyone stared at Masquerade in horror. "What? I was just joking. Get a sense of humor. No one's eating anyone."
Then they heard shouts and the sound of breaking glass.
"I think he's somewhere ahead."
Peering around the corner into the small room they saw Mason relaxing on a plush chair surrounded by as many Vestals as was possible to fit in the small space. As an insult to injury he was also holding a cup of soda with a little umbrella in it.
"Ah the brawlers. I knew you'd come. Didn't I Frank?" he turned to a nearby Vestal. Frank didn't say anything and continued staring into space. "Well nevermind Ferdinand-"
"I thought his name was Frank." Billy interrupted.
Mason shoved Frank/Ferdinand aside and Frank/Ferdinand fell over. Sighing Mason stood up all the while glaring conteptuously at everyone else.
"May I continue? I knew you were coming and so I've surrounded myself with the best brawlers Vestal has to offer."
"Wouldn't that be Mira, Baron, and Ace?" Runo commented.
Suprisingly Mason didn't begin beating his head against the wall in frustration. Instead he continued that to defeat him they'd have to find him first. With that announcement he teleported out of the room.
"Oh crap." Gus summed up the situaton nicely.
"Oh my gosh!" Mira exclaimed suddenly as she saw none other than Ace approach through the crowd of minions.
"Well I guess that's why we couldn't find him." Baron mumbled.
"You will all perish." Ace stated calmly in a suspiciouly robotic way.
"Okay," Mira said devising a plan, "There are only like three ways he could have gone, so we'll split up. Gus, Julie, Lena, and Ren can go up that staircase. Alice, Masquerade, and I will go right. Jewels, Billy, Klaus, and Runo will go left."
Team A:
"Yes! We got them all!" Jenny shouted.
Zenet replied, "Um I'm not so sure. That can't have been a thousand. Maybe 50."
"For the love of all that is chocolate! This sucks!" Becky pouted.
"Where are the others?"
"Behind you."
Team B:
"Lena?" Ren asked.
"..."
"Lena please! Just talk to me! I'm sorry I hurt your feelings."
"..."
"What do I have to say? I'm really sorry Lena. And the truth is I really l-l-l" at this point Runo hit him on the back as if he were choking and he finally told Lena, "like you!"
As you can probably guess Lena forgave him. Then it got too mushy for Runo who went on ahead to look.
"What the heck?" Masquerade cried when as his group was calmly walking along, a large pit opened in the floor filled with fire. Being so close to it naturally he fell and was clinging to the ledge as in most cliche stories. Of course since we're being cliche here Alice fell too. Now Hydranoid would have to chose who to save. Oh no! The pressure! Not. Hydranoid's a giant dragonoid! He can certainly save both humans who're dangling only a few feet away from one another, can't he?
"Thanks Hydranoid." Alice told him as she hugged the large dragon (well it's hard to hug a dragon but you get the point)
"Your welcome Lady Alice."
"Yes, Hydronoid we owe you our lives."
""Master Masquerade?" The first Hydra head began.
"What is it?"
"We realize you have a new bakugan now." the second head chimed in.
"But we would be honored to brawl alongside you again. Not to discredit Lady Alice of course." the third Hydra head finished. Alice nodded and assured them she would be fine if they chose to be Masquerade's bakugan again.
"Hydranoid of course you may be my partner again." He told the Darkus bakugan then turned to Alice, "But you no longer have a bakugan."
"Perhaps I can be of assistance." Zixhos offered. Alice smiled and held out her hand for the bakugan to waddle over to it.
There was only one room down the path Gus, Julie, and company went so naturally it was where they found Mason. He still refused to admit defeat and stated there would be a winner-take-all final battle.
"Bakugan Brawl! Subterra Avior stand!"
"Bakugan brawl! Subterra Premo Vulcan stand!"
"Bakugan Brawl! Subterra Gorem stand!"
"Two against one? Well that's not very fair. No matter. I'll take you both down at once! Ability activate! Sand vortex!" Mason yelled as Avior attempted to hit Vulcan with the attack.
"Gorem use Grand iron hammer impact!" Julie commanded countering Avior's attack on Vulcan.
Then Ren threw in Linehalt, "Darkus Linehalt stand!"
"What are you doing, Ren? I think they've got it under control..." Lena commented.
"Ability activate Dark chaos!" Linehalt started to follow through with the ability when the ground began quaking.
Lena watched on in horror as the magnitude of the shaking increased and Linehalt began to glow. "Stop him, Ren!" she yelled, "He'll destroy the whole building."
"What's happening?" an agonized Linehalt bellowed.
"Not again! It's the forbidden power! Fight it Linehalt!" Ren cried in dismay.
'Whoa!" Julie screeched as she lost her balance.
"Everyone get out of here now! It's going to collapse!"
"Gorem that way!" Julie told the Subterra bakugan as he carried her in his outstreched hand.
Gus was riding with Vulcan in a similar fashion. Lena and Ren however where still back with the Linehalt. Ren did not want to leave his partner's side, but the situation was becoming increasingly desparate as the buiding collapsed further. On top of all this Mason was encouraging Avior to continue attacking.
Finally Linehalt got out, "Run Ren! I'll be okay. Just go! Now!"
Still conflicted Ren stood for a moment before he and Lena raced out. Mason still stood by Avior calling out, "Wait you can't leave! I will rule the world!" and other sych phrases whilst laughing derangedly. He'd clearly lost his mind.
Panting and out of breath Team B was once more assembled outside. Worse for wear, but alive.
"Did...anyone...*pant* find...Mason? *pant*" Runo choked out.
"*gasp* Yeah...he's still inside. Linehalt's destroying the place."
"We all ran when it started shaking." Mira told everyone and Runo's group said the same.
"I've got to help Linehalt." Ren nnounced worriedly.
"Hey everyone! Did you guys do it?" Chan-Lee came up followed by group A with the exceptio of Nene and Christopher. The two were curled up sleeping against a tree a short distance away, Nene's head on Chris's shoulder and a smile on his face. They'd been tired after the battles of the day and had collapsed from exhaustion.
"Mason's still inside. How did you manage to beat a thousand soldiers?" Masquerade questioned.
"A little while ago they all snapped out of it. I don't know why." Chan-Lee responded.
"Then Mason must be dead. It's the only way something like that would happen." Ren explained.
The group stood silent, processing this as the building finally collapsed with a CRASH!
"Linehalt..." Ren muttered numbly.
The darkus brawler didn't have long to grieve however before Linehalt burst from the wreckage.
"We won."
A/N: Again terribly sorry. Feel free to chew me out. Also it is time for a lengthy author's note thanking people! If you have no interest in that you may stop reading here.
Thanks to Rin Ryuu Fake name for all the ideas (and reviews too of course)
Thanks to Jazzgirl123 for taking the time to read this whole thing and reviewing for every chapter
Thanks to shadowwing1994, ventusbrooke, and Sharpay Evans 11 for consistantly reviewing.
And finally thanks to everyone who's ever reviewed or even just read this far! You rock! :D