I just want to thank everyone for their reviews. They really inspired me and so here is another chapter in just a couple of weeks (Go me)
So I was asked if I can summarize the arcs but I am absolutely horrible at summarizing things and keeping them vague so I really can't do it. It literally took me a couple of hours just to write the summery for the story and keep it from ruining anything. If you would like me to try and summarize something or explain anything please let me know and I can send you a private message. I'm really sorry about that.
And thank you Sylvia F. I didn't notice my grammar mistakes with your and you're. Now I will look out for them and I will hopefully catch them.
Kai woke up to the sound of his alarm going off on his cell phone. He stretched over and turned it off and got ready for the day. It was only eight in the morning but people were already hustling and bustling back and forth through the hall ways. With his soap and toothpaste Kai made his way to the public bathrooms where he was met with a long line waiting to do the same thing he wanted to do.
"Uhh forget this," Kai sighed and turned around to come face to face with Yūji.
"Hi," the younger man said already dressed in a black top and jacket. "Should have gotten up earlier."
"Well what time did you wake up," Kai said as he began to walk back to his room.
"About ten minutes ago. My room has a bathroom." Yūji answered. Kai turned around in surprised and Yūji laughed. "Come on you can you use mine."
Kai followed the black haired teen down a second hallway where more people were getting ready for their day. Yūji put in his key for his room and Kai was surprised to not be met by a small bare room but a nice size house. Kai and Yūji took off their shoes and proceeded into the home.
"Why do you…"
"Have an actual house. Well people who live and work here get actual homes. You got stuck with a guess room," Yuki laughed as he closed the door behind him. "Mom, dad a friend of mine is using the bathroom!" Yūji called out.
Kai could see into the kitchen where a black haired man and women; both with glasses looked up from books they were reading and a small breakfast of bread and jelly.
"Sure honey," Yūji's mother yelled. Kai walked into the small bathroom and got ready. Coming out he heard music coming from the room next door. Looking into the room Yūji was in there combing his hair singing along to the song. Kai was surprised to see posters on the walls of old beyblade teams; the White Tigers, Blitzkrieg Boys, The Majestics, and of course the original Bladebreakers, one that was so old Daichi wasn't even in it. Kai looked up at the poster with nostalgia as the picture had him standing on the side with his arms crossed and Tyson in the front smiling wildly.
"No fusion teams?" Kai asked quietly and Yūji jumped in surprise.
"Ha yeah like I said fusion isn't really that big here. I've only seen one game when I was 14."
"Yeah," Kai said continuing to look around the room. When Yūji finished he yelled a good bye to his parents and he pulled Kai down the hall. Kai looked at his hand that was being lead and felt a warmth run up his arm. It was that feeling again and every time he thought about it he would see a younger version of Tyson in his head.
"Kai!" Yūji yelled right in Kai's face. Kai blinked quickly.
"Wha…"
"I asked if you were hungry. They're going to announce the morning news in the cafeteria," Yūji said his face dangerously close to his own. Kai walked past Yūji and with a shrug the teen followed.
When Kai got to the giant dining hall his team was already there including the gatekeeper and Hideki. While Yūji made his way to his friends Carter and Ling, Kai went to his own. After another half an hour of eating the room became filled with scientists and officers including Yūji's parents. The noise was starting to get to Kai and he was just about to get up and leave but Doctor Graber got up on a table and the room became quiet. She looked at them sternly with a folder in her hand.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen…now usually the mornings are filled with good spirits as we make fun of…typo errors and mistakes made on the field that we have to store." the doctor said. The room was filled with laughs and jives having the Bladebreakers group believe this is a usual morning.
"Sadly I am going to have to say that today is not one of those days," she said and the room fell silent. "I was given the news that at 700 hours eastern time…Major Lily Morgenstern was attacked and murdered in New York City."
A man shouted in anger and a woman cried out. No one could believe that Lily was gone including the Bladebreakers. Kai stared around the room in shock. He spotted Yūji as he and his father held his mother in a heavy hug as she cried.
"Major Morgenstern was one of our closest friends visiting as many times as possible, giving us the most funding and of course purposely trying to make her documents as interesting as possible so we can have something to talk about in the mornings…she will be missed greatly and we will be having a memorial service tomorrow evening…That is it for now and I will need everyone to get back to work as soon as your able, thank you," the doctor finished and got off the table wiping tears from her eyes.
"She was such a nice person," Hilary said trying to stop the tears from her own eyes. Max looked next to himself and saw the gatekeeper stare at nothing with wide eyes.
"Gate…I mean Alice…are you ok?" Max asked.
"I…I didn't know…I didn't feel it…I need to go," the small girl cried and got up running out of the room. Max stood up to go after her but Hideki stopped him.
"Let her grieve. To the gatekeeper the Seers are like her children," he said. Max took a last look at the fleeting black haired girl but let her go. Kai on the other hand saw Yūji walk out with his parents and silently followed them.
"Wait," he called out once they were in the hallway. Yūji turned around and smiled lightly. "I was wondering if…if we can talk?" Kai asked. He knew this wasn't like him and he could understand why Yūji was staring at him like he grew another head.
"Umm," Yūji said looking back at his parents. His father gave him a quick nod and he turned back to Kai. "Yeah sure."
~South America~
The shadowed man sat in the dark breathing slowly. A woman came in with a cart of silverware and trays of food. Just as she entered the phone rang and the man lifted it up.
"This better be important, I'm about to enjoy my dinner," he said as the woman placed a lobster dinner in front of him and began pouring him wine. "Antarctica?" he said in surprised. "They are there now…this could not have been more perfect…What should you do with them you say," the man laughed at the question and contemplated the answer, "Dispose of them…in fact why not take advantage of the situation and dispose of all of them, get rid of the whole facility…are you having trouble understanding the words that are coming out of my mouth, do whatever you want blow it up, start a fire, leave all the windows open for all I care just get rid of anything and everything that could link us to what we are about to do doctor," he said slamming the phone down and started breathing heavily.
"Are you all right sir?" the woman asked.
"Fine just let me eat in piece."
The woman bowed and took the cart out as the man laughed maniacally.
~Antarctica~
"She was like a mentor to me," Yūji said as he and Kai sat in an alcove in the hallway. "She was the first Seer I met and while the others where great she came to visit all the time…she liked to come surprise us in the middle of class and tell us things that we miss out on while stuck here ," Yūji smiled as he remembered all the times she opened the door interrupting the small classroom.
"I only got to meet her a couple of times but she seemed nice enough to me," Kai shrugged. He was still trying to figure out why he did this. He was no good at people's emotions.
"Nice! She was the one who taught me how to blade. She was the one who took me to that fusion match I told you about and she would always listen to my problems."
"Sounds fun."
"But it wasn't all fun and games though. When we got the file on Serenity we all took it pretty hard. We didn't want to believe it but Lily she came over and explained it to us as best as she could," Yūji said and burst into tears. Kai jumped back and looked around. He pulled his hands up to put on Yūji's shoulders but brought them back down.
Yūji on the other hand had other plans. The younger man pulled Kai in tightly and shook into his shoulder.
"Yūji," Kai said sadly pulling the kid up. Yūji looked up at him and before Kai could do anything the teen had his lips upon his. Kai's eyes widen and his hands went straight to Yūji's shoulders. Before he could do anything a loud clang was heard down the hall way. Yūji pulled away and they looked over where Max stood with a tray of food spilt at his feet.
"I…I'm sorry…I must have gone the wrong way," the blond said. He reached down and picked everything back up on his tray and ran back the other direction. Kai didn't know what to do. Yūji wiped the tears from his eyes.
"Sorry. Got a little over emotional," he said.
"You think," Kai said angrily finally processing the situation. He got up and walked after Max realizing he had no idea where the blond had gone.
Max was actually just down the other hallway knocking on a door. It opened slightly and a tear eyed gatekeeper let him in.
"What is this for," She said seeing the toast and orange juice in Max's hand.
"I thought you might want some food. It always makes me feel better," he said as they both took a seat on her bed. He sat across from her Indian style and she looked at him.
"It looks like you might need some as well avatar of Dracial," she said handing him a piece of toast. He took and took a small bite.
"Needs some mayonnaise," he said sadly.
Kai and Hideki bundled up into their jackets and winter accessories ready to brace the icy winds to ground zero; the first portal. While the news of Lily's death had everyone upset they knew they still had to get what they came for done.
"Hilary walked over to Kai and fixed his scarf.
"Just be careful out there ok," she told him. He nodded and walked over to the door where Hideki waited for him.
"Where's the gatekeeper?" Kenny asked.
"I'm here," she yelled running down the hallway putting on a jacket. Kai looked behind her and didn't know if he should be upset or relieved that Max was nowhere to be seen.
"Are you all sure you will not join us?" The girl asked.
"I'm good in here, "Daichi said and for once Hilary agreed.
"We thought that it would be better if we kept looking through the library. No reason to have so many people out there," Hilary said. "But are you ok to be going out there?"
"Yes I am fine. It was not that she passed away that had me upset it's just that I didn't know and I won't be there to send her off. As soon as we get out of here though I will visit her and make sure she is making herself comfortable," the gatekeeper said and walked up to the two men accompanying her.
"So who's your guide," Tala asked.
"I am."
The group turned to see Yūji making his way down the hall. If Kai wasn't already so pale he would have visibly turned white.
"My parents need some more samples of the gate anyway so I'll be taking you with me," he said. He passed Kai without saying a word and opened the door. The wind took the opportunity to shove its way into the building and Hilary had to hold her skirt down and even with her heavy stockings it still felt like she was standing in frozen water.
Yūji closed the door shut behind him after letting the other three ahead of him. The door shut with a beep and a small green blinking light on the handle let Yūji know it was locked and secure. He got onto a snowmobile with the gatekeeper behind him while Hideki held his hand out for Kai to take. The Russian looked at him where he swore Hideki was smile behind his scarf. He took it anyway and the four was off.
Back in the building the others made their way to the library not noticing the green light on the door had now turned red. Up in the security room where multiple security cameras watched the building inside and out a shadow of a woman smiled and began typing away on a computer.
~America~
Tyson shifted uncomfortably on the couch in the Morgenstern's home. He hated being at funerals and it was even worse when after the funeral they all went back to the home; he never knew what to do. Rei walked over to him and sat down next to Tyson.
"How are her parents?" Rei asked.
"Pretty well I think for losing their daughter so suddenly."
"I can't believe this happened. I always thought that if any of us was going to go that it would be by a bit beast not a gun."
"Well at least she made sure to take him with her. That man deserved to die," Tyson said taking a gulp of wine.
"Whoa partner," Rei said taking the glass from Tyson. "That's like you're forth glass." Tyson looked away for a few minutes.
"I can't get in touch with the gatekeeper…I wouldn't be having such a hard time with this if the gatekeeper at least told me that Lily's ok," the blunette said.
"Kira can't get in touch with her either?" Rei asked and Tyson shook his head.
"This just doesn't make sense. We can't get in contact with the keeper, we found out the man who shot Lily was a gun for hire which means someone wanted her dead and there are more upper level bit beasts attacking than ever before. Why and why now?" The blunette asked.
"I don't know Tyson. We've been keeping everything wrapped up pretty well for the past 5 years. Maybe it's all just finally breaking apart."
Tyson leaned back and rubbed his eyes with his hands.
"Ugg I just want everything to go back the way it was," he whined.
"Me too buddy, me too."
~Antarctica~
Max flipped another page in the book as Kenny, Hilary, Tala and Daichi walked up to him with their own books.
"You didn't come to see everyone off," Hilary said to Max.
"Yeah I thought I get a head start on some more research. Look I found one written by Mr. Granger," Max said holding a book that read "The secrets unveiled: the portal" by Tatsuya Granger.
"Does it say anything useful?" Tala asked flipping through his own book.
"Nothing yet," Max said and the group fell into a silence. Max looked back up "Hey umm what do you think of Yūji?"
The group looked up at him in surprise.
"I guess he's alright," Hilary said. "I mean he seemed nice enough when we had dinner with him."
"I think he's just a Tyson wannabe," Daichi said.
"No you're a Tyson wannabe. Yūji just happens to look like him." Tala said and Daichi snorted.
"Do you think Kai likes him…I mean really likes him?" Max asked.
"Are you kidding me? Kai only has eyes for Tyson you know that," Hilary said loudly. A man at the next table over shushed her and she looked down sheepishly.
"I can see Kai and Yūji together," Kenny said quietly not looking up from his book.
"What!" everyone shouted and got shushes from everyone else in the room.
"What are you talking about Chief," Hilary said. "Tyson and Kai are mean t to be together. They're like soul mates."
"I never said that I don't think they weren't meant to be together but that was 5 years ago. Our destinies were altered."
"You're still confusing me," Daichi said. Kenny sighed and put his book down.
"You have to think of it this way. 5 years ago Kai, Tala, and Rei were 17 years old, Daichi was 12 and the rest of us were 16. Even though physically we have all grown up we can't change the fact that mentally we are a little behind from everyone else."
"Hey are you calling me stupide," Daichi argued.
"No I'm saying that even though you're 17 you still act like you're 12. Yūji is like Tyson before this all happened, when all Tyson did was goof off." Kenny said.
Max burst into tears.
"Max?" Hilary said rubbing his back. "What's wrong? You know that this will never actually happen…"
"I saw Kai kissing Yūji," Max cried.
"What?" Hilary yelled standing up. The rest of the room turned to tell them to be quiet once again but the lights shut off, the sound of the heaters died down and a metal door slammed down over the only exists. Red lights lit the room in a glow and everyone looked around.
"A black out?" Tala said.
"Why aren't the backup generators kicking in," A woman's voice said. "What's going on," another man cried out.
"Wow they're all really freeing out," Max said sniffling.
"Well we have 6 generators and for all of them to go out all together without another one turning on is a little unsettling," A teen said coming up behind them. "Oh sorry I'm Carter and this is Ling," he said nodding to a girl who came up next to him looking around nervously. She squinted in the dark to see who Carter was talking to and her eyes widen.
"You guys are the Blademmmm," she said as Carter clapped his hand over his mouth.
"Not time to have one of your freak outs Ling. Time to find a way out," he said and Ling nodded and walked away.
"What's happening," Kenny said.
"I'm not sure. If there was something wrong with the power grid then as I said there are 6 other backups and the doors only close if there's a security breach but a black out and a security protocol shouldn't happen at the same time."
"So we just stay and wait for someone to bust us out?" Daichi asked.
"Well unfortunately if no one lets us out of this room in at least 12 hours then we would run out of air. Of course that's if we don't freeze to death first," Carter said.
"I don't want to die," Daichi cried out.
"Got it," Ling said from the other side of the room. She held a cover for one of the vents in her hands and some of the other scientists were already getting out through the hole.
"Let's go," Carter said.
Yūji stopped the snowmobile in front of an electric fence and Hideki stopped behind him. Kai pulled his scarf away from his mouth and stared at the vast nothingness around him.
The fence hummed slightly at the sound of the electric current going through it. Yūji pressed a password into a number pad and a door opened with a buzz. Once on the other side the gatekeeper ran to the middle of the white field and kneeled on the ice.
"I don't see anything," Kai said.
"Portals are temporary. That's why you never see them in the city," Hideki answered. "What I always wanted to know is how a portal opened up here in the first place. It should be impossible."
"Because this is not a natural made portal," the gatekeeper said.
"What?" Yūji said calmly walking up to her. "How do you know that?"
"You see these striations," she said pointing to a zigzagging line going around in a circle. "Natural ones make a smoother and spiral pattern. Someone ripped opened a portal here. I still don't know how though."
"So someone came all the way out here in the middle of nowhere and for some reason decided to start the bit beast restoration." Yūji said.
"Yes…someone who must have been working for the environmental facility must have come out here and done an experiment that went terribly wrong," she said.
"Or right," Kai said. "What happened if this is what they wanted?"
"Who would be stupid enough to do that," Yūji said. Kai glared at him and began to walk away. He still didn't want to deal with what happened earlier that day.
"Are there people who work here now that worked here before hand," the gatekeeper asked.
"A few," Yūji said "Why?"
"What if they're still here?" she said.
"We should go investigate." Hideki said heading back to the snowmobiles.
"Wait, do you here that?" Yūji said. The group stood in silence hearing nothing but the wind howling.
"I don't hear anything," Kai said.
"Exactly…the fence has been turned off," Yūji said. The rest listen closely and realized that the low hum was now gone all together. "We really need to head back now," he said in a hurried voice and the four made their way back to the base not knowing what they were going to get themselves into.
~Japan~
Sakura sat at the secretary desk in the lobby, her black hair pulled into a low bun to keep it out of her eyes. She was busily filling out papers and placing them in their envelopes. The door opened to the base and Sakura smiled.
"Ah Hello Amanda," the secretary welcomed the blond haired girl.
"Good morning Miss Sakura. It is a lovely day today isn't it," the young girl said. Sakura nodded and went back to work. When Amanda hadn't moved to go up to the elevators Sakura looked up again.
"Can I help you with something private?" Sakura asked.
"Well Major Granger has asked me to check up on the bit beasts in section zero but because he's in America I couldn't get a pass. Can I have a temporary one…please," Amanda said sweetly.
"I'm sorry Amanda but you know the rules, no pass or authorization, no entry." Sakura said and went back to work. Amanda sighed with her eyes closed.
"I wish I didn't have to do this," she said and Amanda looked back up.
"Excuse me?" she said but her eyes widen and her green eyes hazed over. Amanda's purple eyes were mixed with red and her pupils were now slits like a reptile. She liked her lips greedily and the sound of hissing welled up in the back of her throat.
"Now Sakura, you want to give me the pass don't you?" she asked sweetly.
"Of course I do," Sakura said. She got up from her seat and took a key from around her neck. Opening a small safe behind the desk she grabbed a key card and handed it to Amanda.
"Thank you, that was very kind of you," She said spinning the card in her hand.
"You're welcome," Sakura said in a dream like voice.
"Now I'm going but none of this happened ok. I was never here," Amanda said and Sakura nodded happily. Amanda went to the elevator where two guards stood. Her eyes changed once again.
"You boys are sleepy," she said and the two men fell to the floor and began snoring. She slid the card through the slot and went down the elevator. Once down there she smiled at the walls covered in glass cases with bit beast's chips in them. All the most dangerous bit beasts were caught and kept here out of harm's way. She walked up to the Bit Beast Salan she sighed.
"Father of Darkness my ass. I spent all that time freeing you and you get beaten in less than three minutes," she laughed and moved on pass Doriton and Black Dragoon. Amanda walked straight to the bit beast she came for; Black Dranzer.
"Come to mama," she said gripping Black Dranzer gently from the glass case.
"Put her down Amanda, I already called for back too so don't try any funny business," the girl heard a man say from behind her. She turned around slowly where Chris stood; his blade out in its launcher pointing straight at her.
"How did you know," she said.
"You shouldn't have left sleeping guards on the floor."
"I'll remember that for next time."
"Why are you doing this?" he asked.
"Why am I doing this, well let's think for a moment. I have been here since the beginning. Even longer than you and you get moved up to Lieutenant Rei's squad and I'm still stuck kissing ass. Every year I signed up to be on Major Granger's team and every year I get turned down."
"That's because you a psychopath. Good thing they all saw that earlier."
"Shut up," she said angrily. She moved her hand to get her blade but Chris got into position with his own. The air conditioning kicked in at that moment and Chris jumped in surprised looking up at the vent. This gave Amanda her chance. She jumped towards him and pushed Chris to the ground. With a grunt his head hit the ground hard, blood pooled around the back of his skull. She pulled his face so he was looking directly in her eyes and with a smile her eyes changed and Chris's blue ones dulled. She sat up on top of Chris's hips and pushed her pig tails back.
"Whew that was a close one," she said. She placed Black Dranzer in her pocket. "Ok Chris you are going to get me out of here. I mean we are both American aren't we. We have to stick together you and me.
"I'm Canadian," he said with a loose smile staring at the ceiling with his dull eyes.
"Whatever," she said with a roll of her eyes.
Jessica and a few other soldiers surrounded the elevator.
"I don't understand," Sakura said next to Jessica. "I didn't even see anyone come in so how did they get down there."
"I don't know," the red haired girl said sternly. The elevator beeped and began to come up. "Get ready," she said and the soldiers held up their blades. The elevator doors opened and Chris stood there in his fusion form; A black Greek armor with a golden lightning bolt across his chest and a Greek helmet covered his face hiding his eyes under the silver.
"Chris?" Sakura said. "Was someone down there?"
"Something is wrong," Jessica stated. "Get back!" she yelled just as Chris held out his hand and lighting struck outwards from his hands. Some of the soldiers got hit and fell to the ground instantly. Sakura and Jessica ran down the hallway and were thrown forward when another attack of lighting hit. The two girls ducked behind Sakura's desk in the lobby.
"What the hell," Sakura cursed.
"That idiot is under some sort of control or something," Jessica said. Just then Amanda came strolling in from down the hall they just came from. Jessica watched in in surprise.
"Amanda watch out Chris is on a rampage!" Sakura shouted. Amanda looked over at them and then Chris came walking into the room. Amanda looked at him and then looked back at them giving them a salute as she left the building. Sakura looked in horror as Amanda left and was pushed down by Jessica as Chris raised his hand to attack again.
"It was Amanda?" Sakura asked with wide eyes.
"It looks like it. At least we know why you don't remember her walking in and why Chris is doing this. She hypnotized you and him."
"So you're going to have to defeat him now?"
"I'll try," Jessica said with a sigh.
"What does that mean?"
"I've never actually beaten Chris in a battle before," Jessica said connecting her blade to her launcher.
"What?" Sakura asked in disbelief.
"Wish me luck," Jessica said dully. She took a deep breath and stood up. "Let it Rip!"
So there you have it more cliff hangers and this will probably keep happening until the story really starts to get underway so I apologize for that but I find that it's like keeping you hostage. If I do it like this and that you will have to keep coming back for more o_O
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