I just want to clarify on the kiss that happened on the last chapter. Do not worry this will not be turning into a he cheats she cheats story with the emo angst and crying. Everything in this story has a meaning that is either significantly important or helps move the story forward. It will be coming back later and was not just put in there to make you all hate Yūji or me.

Now that that is settled let us continue:

~Antarctica~

The snowmobiles where pulled up to the base just as snow began to fall down from the sky. Kai pulled down his mask and looked up at the grey clouds.

"It looks like a storm is moving in," Kai said and Hideki looked up at where the Russian was looking.

"Let's get inside," Yūji stated and walked over to the door. He punched in the code and looked at it in confusion. He put it in again and again.

"What's wrong," Hideki shouted over the rising wind.

"Umm…nothing," Yūji said and pulled on the door handle but it wouldn't budge. He grabbed it with both hands and began to pull it growling at the same time. He put a foot against the wall and pulled on it comically.

"I don't think it's working," the gatekeeper said.

"Yeah I can see that," Yūji said rubbing the back of his head trying to figure out what was going on. "The door should open once I put the code in. The only time it goes out is when there's a breach."

"Do you think there was one," Hideki said walking up next to the teen. Kai watched in silent curiosity as the gatekeeper grabbed a metal barrel that was leaning against the wall. She struggled to push it over to a small window that was high up near the roof. She climbed up on it and peered inside.

"The lights are all off," she said.

"What?" Yūji said and pulled the gatekeeper off the barrel to look inside.

"Hey," she yelled.

"Shush," he retorted. She backed up with anger next to Kai.

"If I had my powers I would have made him a mouse," she pouted.

"You could have also gotten us inside," Kai said and walked over to the doors. He began to feel around the sides and then jiggled the door handle.

"Do any of you have a hair pin of something sharp?" he asked. The gatekeeper began to fiddle with her hair while her tongue stuck out from the side of her mouth in concentration. She smiled as she handed a bobby pin to him but frowned as he bent the two parts apart and realized she won't be getting it back. He fiddled with it into the lock.

"You know how to actually do that?" Yūji said his face right next to Kai's looking at the lock intently. Kai stopped for a second and gave Yūji a glare hinting for the teen to back up from his personal space. Kai knew all too well how to shimmy locks; practicing it many times in Bivolt to get out of locked rooms from disobeying Boris's orders.

Kai heard a snap and pulled the door open with both hands. The door opened with a squeal.

"The alarms have been disabled as well," Yūji said seriously as they entered the building.

"Where is everyone?" the gatekeeper said.

"Well if this door was locked then the individual doors are locked too. They are probably either stuck in their labs or went to the cafeteria where protocol tells us to go if a breach happens," Yūji answered.

"We should probably find Doctor Graber," Hideki said taking out his blade and hooking it to his launcher. Kai and Yūji followed in suit. Yūji looked over at the gatekeeper in question.

"Where's your blade?"

"Umm…ano… I left it in my room?" she said innocently.

"You left your blade…in your room," Yuki said glaring at the girl. She walked past him and next to Kai.

"Why didn't you make yourself a blade," Kai whispered.

"Why would I think I would need one? I didn't know that something like this was going to happen," she whispered back. Kai hmphed and turned to look at the back of Hideki's head. His captain turned his head as he felt Kai's glare.

"Can I help you with something Hiwatari-san?" Hideki asked.

"No," Kai said and walked faster so he past his captain.

Hilary groaned as the group continued to crawl through the vents. A while back the shaft had split into two. Most of the people who were with them went to the left that would get them to the cafeteria and safety. The Bladebreakers led by Ling and Carter went to the right. Carter wanted to get to the security room and find out what was going on and of course Max and Daichi had to volunteer to help. She, Tala, and Kenny weren't going to just let them go off by themselves, besides this was their job, they were Yajuu soldiers and they had to protect the base. The problem Hilary was having was all the cobwebs that were getting in her hair.

"How much longer?" she complained.

"Not much," Carter said. Max shivered slightly.

"It's getting really cold," he said.

"No electricity, no heat," Carter replied, "but don't worry the sooner we get things back up and running the sooner it will get warm. Suddenly the vents began to groan.

"Umm what was that," Daichi said nervously.

"Maybe the vents are getting weak under our weight?" Ling said.

"No listen," Kenny said. The group was silent as the sounds of scratching and growling made its way closer through the vents.

"What is that," Hilary said with wide eyes.

"A Polar bear," Daichi screamed. The group looked at him with an 'Are you serious look' and a sweat drop formed on Daichi's head.

"It's probably a rat or something," Tala said.

The growling got closer and Hilary tried to peek through the darkness behind them. Suddenly two red eyes appeared and Hilary screamed.

Kai and the group looked up at the vent at the sound of a scream.

"What was that?" the gatekeeper said hesitantly. The sounds of thuds were heard and suddenly the vents on top of them began to collapsed over Yūji. Kai just barely was able to get to him and tackled Yūji to the ground before the metal fell to the floor. Kai opened his eyes as Yūji lied underneath him groaning and scratched up but otherwise unharmed. Kai blushed slightly and sat up quickly.

"Are you ok?" he asked looking away from the teen. Yūji sat up as well rubbing his arm.

"Yeah I think so."

"Kai," the Russian heard and turned around. The Bladebreakers, Carter, and Ling were all crumbled on the ground on top of each other with Hilary and Ling on top.

"Hilary," Kai said and walked over to help Hilary up. The rest stood up all bruised but fine none the least.

"What was the scream for," the gatekeeper asked.

"There…there was a bit beast in the vent," Carter said his eyes wide in surprise.

"What," the gatekeeper said. "That's impossible."

"I've never seen a bit beast in person before…it was so scary and disgusting…like a rat," Ling said shaking in fear.

"Mom and dad," Yūji said and the group turned to him.

"Yūji your parents aren't apart of this are they?" Carter asked.

"Wait what are you guys talking about?" Max asked.

"Yūji's parents have been doing experiments on the core of the artificial metal alloy that beyblade's were made of 7 years ago." (1)

"They figured that if they can take the magnetic composition out of the metal and surround the blader with it they can reverse the effects of the magnetic pull," Yūji finished. "It's never been successful though."

"It looks like someone finished it," Tala said. The sounds of scratching and growling made its way through the vents once again and the group looked up.

"We need to find the security room and get everything running again. Also from there we can see what room the blader is in and stop them," Carter said. Yūji nodded his head in agreement.

"You go on ahead. I need to find my parents and make sure they are alright," Yūji said and began to walk away.

"You can't go off on your own," Carter shouted.

"My parents didn't purposely do this which means that someone took it from them and I need to make sure that they are ok," Yūji shouted and ran down the hall quickly. Carter was about to go after him but Kai held him back.

"I'll watch him. Just make sure you stop all of this," Kai said. He looked at Hideki to make sure he wasn't going to have a problem with it. The captain gave him the go ahead with a nod.

"I'm going to," Max said. Kai looked at Max and held his breath. They still hadn't talked about what happened and Kai needed to make sure that Max knew that what he saw wasn't what really happened.

"I'll go too. I know the way," Ling said.

"Fine just stick together," Hideki said. The group split up once again and made their way to their destinations.

~Japan~

Jessica dodged another lightning bolt and crashed to the floor. Chris had always beaten her in practice matches but now that he wasn't holding back she knew she didn't stand a chance, at least not by herself. Sakura peered from behind the desk slowly.

"Jessica is there anything I can do to help," the secretary asked.

"Not now," Jessica yelled as she arched her frozen bow and arrow back and launched it at Chris. He created a long spear from his hand and easily knocked the arrow before it hit him. Jessica didn't hesitate for a second though and slammed her hand on the ground allowing ice to wrap around Chris's legs. He looked down and Jessica shot another arrow just as Chris looked back up. It knocked his helmet off and it fell to the floor. Jessica huffed and Sakura gasped. Chris looked at the two of them with dull eyes as blood ran down the back of his head and dripped down his collar bone.

"He's been hurt," Sakura said.

"That idiot," Jessica whispered to herself. She knew she was in trouble now. Being in fusion form it wasn't just her and Chris fighting but also her Chirpen and his Reimod and with Chris being hurt Reimod will fight like hell to protect its partner. She asked Chirpen to lend her all her strength because they were going to need it.

"Don't hurt him too much," Sakura called out and Jessica nodded once holding her hand out to the side. A sword made of ice appeared from her hand, she just had to get it close enough to break the crystal. Chris made his spear disappear and his sword took its place. He charged Jessica and the red head was ready for him. He brought the blade up over his head and was about to swing downward when he suddenly stopped short and was pulled backwards.

"Need some help princess," Jessica heard and turned to the doors where Elisa stood in her fusion form. A vine led from her hand down to Chris's leg where it wrapped itself around up to his knee and pulled him back. Chris looked at the vine and gripped it. Electricity bolted from his hand up the vine and Elisa had to let go before frying her arm off. She jumped out of the way next to Jessica.

"Elisa what are you doing here," Jessica said angrily.

"I came here to help and this is the thanks I get," the black haired girl said.

"After what you did you shouldn't even set foot in this building."

"Funny. Kon said I was welcomed here any time. Any way I think we should stop your boyfriend here before we get into petty arguments don't you think," Elisa said.

"He is not my boyfriend," Jessica said and looked at Chris getting up. He stared at the two girls with no emotion and held his sword up again ready to strike.

"Look we can take him down easily if you just work with me. I'll distract him just end the fusion," Elisa said and before Jessica had any time to retort Elisa has already run straight at Chris. She created a whip in her hand and jumped up flipping in mid-air over Chris's head so she was directly behind him. She landed gracefully and coiled the whip around Chris's legs pulling him again.

This time he was ready for it and with a twist he cut the vine before Elisa had time to pull it back. He took a step forward and held his hand out to shoot electricity. It sizzled in his hand and he before he could shoot it his breath came out in a puff of cold air. He turned around sharply and Jessica was right behind him; a small dagger made of ice in her hand.

She stabbed him in the chest and Chris defused. Once the light was gone he opened his eyes and the light shone back in them.

"What," he said weakly. He held the back of his head and when he pulled his hand away he saw the blood smeared on his hand. "That's…my blood," he said before fainting. Jessica grabbed him and she was brought to her knees and she held his head in her arms. She defused as both Sakura and Elisa walked up to them.

"Chris," Sakura said and took a handkerchief from her pocket and pressed it to Chris's head.

"Pretty boy here will be fine," Elisa said.

"Thanks…I guess," Jessica said and Elisa smirked. The doors burst opened as more soldiers showed up and held there blades up directly at Elisa. The girl put her hands up and defused back into her purple summer dress. She placed her blade lightly on the floor and stood back up.

"I have information that the higher ups are going to want to here. It has to do with what just happened," she said to Jessica. Jessica looked up at her and nodded.

~Antarctica~

Kai and Max silently walked behind Ling as she navigated through the dark halls. Kai looked over and saw Max shift his eyes uncomfortably. The Russian couldn't take it anymore.

"What did you think you see," Kai said causing the American blader to jump.

"I told you I didn't see anything…"

"Cut the crap Tate what you saw wasn't what you thought it was."

"Well then what was it," Max said stopping in his tracks. Kai stopped and turned and so did Ling.

"He kissed me. It was a misunderstanding and nothing happened. Nothing is going to come of it and you should know better than to think that I would cheat on Tyson."

"Well we all know that you've struggled in doing the right thing in the past don't we," Max shouted breathing heavily. He looked away and down to the floor as Kai stared at him with wide eyes. "Sorry…" Max said. "I shouldn't have said that."

"I know that I've messed up in the past before but this isn't the same thing as leaving the team or siding with the wrong people and you should know that," Kai said quietly.

"I know…but when I saw you and Yūji I just freaked. It's still just really hard to let everything that happen sink in. I still wake up thinking Rei's next to me in Tyson's Dojo and that you're down the hall with Tyson. When I saw you I just thought it really is all different."

"It is all different Max. We won't ever be able to go back to the way it was before but we have to just keeping moving forward and right now that means stopping whoever is doing this now."

Max nodded in agreement and he walked over to Kai and held his hand out. Kai took it with no hesitation and when they let go he put his hand on Max's shoulder for reassurance. Their moment ended when Ling gasped.

"Guys," she whimpered. They looked at her as she stared past them with wide eyes and pointed her finger. They turned around slowly and saw down the hall a giant rat like bit beast with black armor on its arms and tail. There were spikes coming out of the armor on its tail and drool hung from its teeth as it opened its mouth and roared.

"Run!" Max shouted. The three bladers turned and ran down the hall. Kai felt heat behind his back and looked behind him. Fire from the bit beast mouth flew down the hallway. He turned around and instinctually put his hands up to absorb it but when he didn't feel his powers he remembered horrified that he couldn't use them. Max grabbed him and pulled him down and they fell to the floor with Ling as fire whipped past them. They looked up and heard the sounds of the bit beast running towards them. They stood up quickly and ran again.

"Over here!" the group heard and they saw Yūji holding a door open. They ran through the door and Yūji slammed it shut. Breathing heavily the group waited for the sounds of the bit beast. Through the small window on the door they saw the hair on the back of the creature walk by slowly. Ling whimpered and Yūji held her closely. Finally after what seems like hours the bit beast moved on. Max let go of the breath he didn't even know he was holding.

"You guys followed me? Are you nuts?" Yūji said angrily.

"You're the one who left by yourself with a bit beast hunting us down," Max said back. Yūji glared at Max and walked off. Ling's eyes widen when she saw two people lying on the ground where Yūji was walking to.

"Your parents," Ling cried.

"Their fine, someone knocked them out and stole the magnet," Yūji said looking to the side of the room where a glass cabinet was broken and hanging open.

"So it wasn't your parents who did this," Ling said happily.

"I told you," Yūji said back.

"That's great so can we get out of here now," Max said looking through the door window. He looked down at the door handle. "How did you get this thing open anyway, I thought all the doors were locked?"

"I watched Kai shimmy the front door open, so I took the edge of my beyblade and did the same thing. It was surprising easy," Yūji said smiling proudly. Kai rolled his eyes and moved his way next to Max and peered through the window. He also saw that the coast was clear.

"If we're going to go we should go now," he said.

At the same time the other group had made it to the security door. Tala, who learned the same tricks as Kai growing up got the door open with one of Hilary's hair pins easily. Pushing the door open the room was empty of all life. A bunch of security camera's filled the room and Carter sat down in front of the one computer. He began to type away on the computer and got the camera's to turn on one by one. He soon began to become frustrated.

"Whoever did this lock us out of the computer. I can't get anything outside of this room running," he said angrily and Kenny came over and began to type and bypass the locks.

Hilary and the Daichi looked at the cameras. Most of it them held empty rooms and some had trapped scientist, the cafeteria though was full of people huddling together waiting for help.

"Hey look its Kai and Max," Daichi said pointing at one of the TV's. Kai was looking through the door window with Max while Yūji and Ling sat next to Yūji's unconscious parents.

Carter got up and pressed a button next to the TV.

"Hey guys," he said and the four people on the screen looked up at the screen.

"They can hear you," Hilary said happily.

"Carter you got in," Yūji said.

"Yeah," Carter said back. "But I've been locked out of the system. Your friend is trying to bypass it but I don't know how long it will take," he said indicating Kenny by the computer.

"Can you guys see all the halls?" Max asked.

"Most…why?" Carter asked,

"Can you see the bit beast? We need to know where it is so we can get out of here," he said. The group looked through all of the cameras.

"Oh I see it," the gatekeeper said. "Oh it's Tessomi," she said.

"How do you know that?" Carter asked.

"Ahhh," the gatekeeper said sweat beating down her face.

"You mean Tesso," Hilary said quickly with a laugh, "Yeah it's an old Japanese folklore of a rat demon."

Carter looked at the two girls skeptically.

"Ah yeah sorry Tesso. My Japanese still isn't that great," the gatekeeper said.

"Hey guys does she look familiar to you?" Kenny asked looking at one of the top TV screens. A woman was walking down a hallway with long black hair and a white lab coat.

"No," Daichi said.

"Oh that's Doctor Kawano. She must have gotten locked out when the power went off," Carter said. "We should let her know about the bit beast," he was about to pressed the button to let the doctor know when Hilary gasped.

"Kenny it's that woman from the world championships. Remember when Tyson was fighting King and she used that laser thingy," she said.

"You're right," Kenny said. Hilary hit the button to the room Kai and Max was in.

"Guys that creepy woman from the championship with Zero is here...Doctor K,"

"Her again?" Max groaned.

"Wait but Doctor Kawano isn't like that. She's really quiet and nice," Carter said.

"How long has she been working here?" Kenny asked.

"I don't know…before my family got here," he said.

"I bet this is all her doing. I can't believe she was here this whole time and we didn't know," Max said through the TV.

"Look," the gatekeeper said "Around her arm."

Around the doctors arm was a metal band with a green light blinking.

"That's the magnet that we were talking about," Carter said.

"That small thing is letting her control the bit beast?" Kenny asked.

"Yeah it makes a field that surrounds your body and if you keep the blade spinning near you it will surround that too," he said and the group looked at the screen where a small black blade followed the doctor's step.

Yūji stood up and made his way to the broken glass in the corner of the room.

"Yūji what are you doing?" Carter said through the speaker. Kai and Max turned around as Yūji pulled something out from under the wreck.

"She left the other proto type. We have to fight fire with fire…literally," Yūji said and threw the band to Kai. The Russian caught it and looked at it skeptically.

"You want me to fight?" Kai said looking at it.

"Why not? I don't know how to even bring Drasule out so it's either you or Max."

Kai and Max looked at each other.

"You should do it Kai, we both know that you're the strongest," Max said. Kai unhooked the band and clicked it around his upper arm.

"Press the button," Yūji said and Kai tapped it. It made a whirling sound and a light on the side light up red. "It still doesn't work," Yūji said in disappointment. "How did she get it to work?"

"Kai," Kenny's voice said over the loudspeaker. "Can you hold the band up to the camera? Maybe I can get it to work."

Grabbing a chair Kai stood up on it and held the band to the camera.

"Look my parents haven't been able to get this to work I don't think your friend can do it," Yūji stated.

"You don't know the Chief like we do," Max said defending his friend.

Kenny had Kai open up the band and after about twenty minutes Kai placed it back on his wrist and turned it on. It whirled up and the small light turned green.

"You did it Kenny," Max said happily.

"How did you do that?" Ling asked in surprised.

"It was pretty much finished. It just needed some tweaking," Kenny stated.

"Ok we are going to head out," Kai said. "Try and get the power running again."

"Got it," Kenny said. Kai took his blade and launcher and connected it.

"Let It Rip!" he shouted and launched Dranzer. "Fusion," he yelled out and he was embraced in a warm light when it died down he was in fusion form back in the red l Indian tunic and black leather pants.

Yūji stared at him with impressed eyes.

"Wow you look so cool," Ling gushed.

"You sure do," Yūji said walking up to Kai and touching the golden yarn in Kai's hair. Max coughed loudly and Yūji dropped the hair piece.

"First let's get your parents to the cafeteria and then we can work out the rest from there," Kai said. Max and Kai both took and arm of Yūji's mother and Ling and Yūji took his father. Checking to see the coast was clear they made their way down the hall to the rest of the people in the building.

Ling stopped for a second and turned her head down the hall they just came down.

"Do you guys hear that?" She asked. They stood silently in the dark at the soft sounds of clawing.

"It found us," Max said. Kai took Dr. Ishida's hand off his shoulder and walked towards the noise. He produced a small flame from his hand but it still wasn't enough to see all the way down. He crept further down the hall and the rest of the group waited in silence.

Suddenly the light's all turned on blinding them all. When they looked back up at the end of the hallway was a giant rat staring at them all; drool running down its mouth. It roared loudly and charged at them. Kai threw his hands up and produced a ball of fire throwing it at the bit beast. The rat ran right into it and was blown backwards slamming into a wall and then falling to the ground.

"Get out of here," Kai shouted and the group continued their way down the cafeteria as fast as they could. Kai watched them run and when he turned back the rat was already up and jumped at him. It dug its yellow teeth into Kai's neck and the two tone hair man screamed in pain.

He made a dagger appear from a flame and plowed it into its neck. The bit beat let go of Kai and Kai jumped back doing a back flip in the processes. He gripped his neck and fell to his knees. Blood came out from under his hand and he growled in frustration. The rat clawed the dagger out of itself and was ready to go after Kai again.

"Stop!" he heard a woman cry out and the rat stopped. Kai watched as Doctor K walked past her bit beast, the blade spinning next to her legs. In her hands Kai could just make out a large rock under her arms. "Ah Kai how nice to see you. I see you got the second prototype working," she said with a smirk.

"Why are you doing this," Kai demanded.

"I was told to get rid of you and your team; you've been causing enough trouble as it is we don't need you interfering in the future."

"We haven't done anything to you," Kai yelled.

"Please, because of the Bladebreakers no one would hire me. I spent two years stuck in this frozen tundra watching bacteria grow in ice. Suddenly I get a package with the bit beast stone in it and a message that said that I was the only one who could decipher it and to do as it instructed. I worked on it any chance I got and while the translating was easy enough it was the getting it to work in this magnetic field. After that it was a piece of cake."

"Wait, are you saying…"

"Ah the boy is getting it. One of my co-workers had a ten year old son. I just had to pay him 8 dollars to carry the stone out in the snow for me. Once there I placed my magnetic device on top of the stone and Doriton came out and stole the boy's body. They hijacked a helicopter and…well you know the rest."

"This was all your fault," Kai shouted.

"Oh boo hoo cry me a river. You got to take a nap for a couple of years and I got stuck being a lackey for developing the technology I already created. We both lost but now I'm making my comeback."

Kai growled and tried to get back up but the rat bit beast put its paw on Kai's chest and pushed him back down.

"Don't take this personal but I have to kill you now. Don't worry I'll tell your boyfriend that you died bravely."

The bit beast opened its mouth and fire began to form in the back of its throat. Kai got ready for the pain but it never came. He heard doctor K yell and her bit beast disappeared.

"Kai," the Russian heard and turned to see Yūji. The teen had taken his beyblade and knocked the doctor's out from under her magnetic field nullifying the bit beast. Yūji ran to Kai's side and helped him up.

"Are you ok," he asked.

"I'm fine, thanks," Kai said straightening himself up. Doctor K ran towards her blade to bring her bit beast back out but Kai threw fire in between the two of them. She clenched her teeth as she backed up from the heat.

"Sorry to disappoint doctor but it looks like you're the only one who lost," Kai said.

"Wind whip!" Yūji shouted and he knocked doctor K's blade down all together. Kai walked up to her and held his hand out. She tried to back away but found her back to the wall. With anger written on her face she gave the stone to Kai. She then took off the device on her arm and threw it against the wall having it shatter into two pieces and Kai smiled.

~Japan~

Jessica watched Elisa through the two way mirror. The blader on the other side sat at a table drumming her fingers in boredom. A door opened and Jessica stood with a salute as Rei and Tyson came in.

"Hey Jess," Rei said.

"Major…lieutenant," she said back.

"I just spoke with Sakura at the hospital. She said Chris is going to be ok," Tyson said.

"I didn't ask," Jessica said looking back through the window. Tyson snorted a laugh and Rei smiled. "Elisa has something important to tell you," she said. Tyson nodded and he and Rei walked in.

Elisa smiled and sat back. "So the home boys have grace me with their presents."

"Look we just got off the red eye flight so let's just get to the point," Tyson yawned and took a seat across from the girl.

"Sure," she said leaning closer to the blunette. "I know what Bivolt is trying to do."

Gonna have to brush up on your V-force if you don't remember this. Bladers made their blades out of the material after discovering it I think around episode 5 or so.

Another chapter down and the mysteries just keep coming. I can't wait to begin clarifying everything but you know you got to build them up before knocking them down.

As always,

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