Ever since getting rid of Drago, Dan has become more and more reckless. He even lost a bout with a kid named Ryo, who used cunning and Darkus to beat him. As for Drago, he would've hit the river, were it not for Juvia passing by.

"Thank you so much, Rain Woman." Drago said as he talked with her aboard the Sunny.

"No worries. But why were you about to hit the river in the first place? Lose your balance?" Juvia asked.

"Daniel had a falling out with me. If he doesn't learn to balance Pyrus with strategy, who knows how many more could fall?" Drago said.

"Yeah, good luck with that." Juvia said under her breath. "But still, shouldn't you two at least try to make up. You are a good team like me and my boyfriend Gray."

"Not her boyfriend!" Gray shouted on top.

"Youre right, and I'm thinking Daniel is thinking the same thing." Drago said.

"Well, allow me to assist you." Juvia said.

A moment later, she had joined with the river with Drago inside her. "This is your assist?" Drago said.

"Yes. Dan will risk his life to save you from the raging river and you two will become closer than ever." Juvia said. "I've seen it work before, it can work for us!"

"Hey! Come back!" Dan shouted as he jumped into the river after Drago.

"See, it's working already." Juvia said.

Dan quickly reached his hand into Juvia and plucked Drago out of her body. "Okay, buddy?"

"Daniel, is it really you?" Drago asked.

"Yeah. I'm glad your back, buddy." Dan said as Juvia floated off.

"I can't believe I let him inside my body. I feel so dirty." Juvia said as she vanished from sight.

Soon after, Dan and Drago were lying on the hill next to the river talking.

"Drago, I'm sorry….about what I did. And can you find it in your heart to…" Dan began.

"Be a team again?" Drago asked surprising Dan. "I couldn't have said it better myself."

"Yeah. Now we got a rematch to win." Dan said,

Dan soon came to Ryo.

"Didnt think you'd show. Ready to lose again?" Ryo asked.

"I'm ready this time." Dan said.

"Room for one more?" Juvia asked as she walked up beside him. "I wanted to see...how your teamwork will do now."

"Yeah. Let's do it!" Dan said.

"Bakugan… field, open!" The three said as the field came into view and set the gate cards.

" Doom Card set! Gate Card Set! Bakugan Brawl! Bakugan Stand! Darkus Fear Ripper!" Ryp said as Fear Ripper came onto the field.

"He's leading with Fear Ripper, just like last time. He has to be planning something." Dan said. "Fine. I'll step in, but lets see who gets trapped. Bakugan Brawl! Gargonoid, stand!"

A gargoyle like creature then appeared on the field on the gate card away from Fear Ripper.

"Gate Card set!" Ryo said setting another gate card. "Bakugan Brawl! Mantris stand!" Ryo shouted as Mantris appeared. "Ability activate, Marionette! Mantris, move Gargonoid over to Fear Ripper!"

"Not so fast! Bakugan Brawl!" Juvia said. "Mantris Stand!" Juvia said. "Guess we get to play copy cat. Ability Activate, Marionette! Move Fear Ripper over to his teammates card!"

"No don't! That's a Mine Ghost!" Ryo shouted as Fear Ripper landed on the card, taking both Bakugan out.

"Gotcha!" Dan said. "I knew once you used marionette with Mantris, you'd set me up for that by going for it. Instead of using the Doom Companion card like last time, you would use Mine Ghost to take out my Bakugan." Dan said.

"He was going to sacrifice Mantris just to win." Juvia said.

"Why you! Bakugan Brawl! Reaper Stand!" Ryo shouted as Reaper landed on the same card as Juvia's Mantris.

"Take this!" Reaper said slicing through Mantris, sending it right into the Doom Dimension.

"He's down to reaper now, and no Gate cards are left." Juvia said.

"So that means his next card has to be… Dimension 4!" Dan said.

"You have a plan, Daniel?" Drago asked.

"Yep. And it's a pretty good one too." Dan said. "Gate Card set! Bakugan Brawl! Drago Stand!"

Drago then appeared on the new gate card as Reaper soon joined him on it.

"This time we're not ending in a draw!" Reaper said.

"Gate card open!" Dan said,

"Ha! Battling with power, is that all you know? Ability Activate! Dimension 4!" Ryo said.

"Sorry, that might work on an attribute card, but the gate….is a character card." Dan said.

"What? But that raises the power level of a Bakugan no matter what!" Ryo said as Drago's power lever rose to 680 Gs.

"Boosted Dragon!" Drago shouted as his power level rose once more to 880Gs and easily took out Reaper.

"Game Over! Winner: Dan Kuso and Juvia Lockser." A voice said.

"So then Juvia told me it was a set up, but I wasnt mad. Drago and I finally clicked for real." Dan said to the others.

"Speaking of which, I found my own partner to replace my Terrorclaw." Runo said showing a new Bakugan. "It's a Tigrerra and we are meant to be. It can talk too."

"Ooh, a fellow cat Bakugan!" Jibanyan said walking in, shocking the five.

"Dan, did your new pet cat just talk?" Julie said.

"Okay, I give. I'm not a real cat. Well, I am. But, I'm actually a Yo-kai." Jibanyan said.

"This is so weird." Runo said.

"But intriguing to say the least. Mysterious attribute teams and the Bakugan they wield."Tigrerra said.

"Yeah. I've known those guys for a while. We actually came to this town together." Jibanyan said.

"Whoever Masquerade is, or who he's working for, I bet all of us are being together is gonna be what brings him down once and for all." Dan said.

"I have to agree. We need to learn as much as we can about these new brawlers." Marucho said.

"Well, lets do it." Dan said.