Wow, Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while. Everything's being updated this week, so yeah! Anyways, here's the next chapter: the guys are finally going to Russia.

Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade or the characters, I just use this wonderful sight to humiliate and torture them.

Of Airplanes, Snow, Friends, and Evil Old guys:

"Where are they?!" Teara yelled earning some looks. The week was finally over and the team was at the airport awaiting the plane that would take them to Russia. They had just deposited the entire luggage when Liz noticed Chris and Tyson were missing.

"If they make us miss this plane, "Teara growled frustrated and stressed out, "I swear they'll be doing triple work outs the rest of this month." Liz shuddered at the thought and Renee absently rubbed the back of her neck. The rest of the team was sitting on the bench watching their female team captain curse and pace the walkway while Kai was leaning against the wall in his own little world.

"Flight 26 to Moscow, Russia now boarding," the automatic voice of the intercom spoke.

"Ugh!" Teara let a hand rest on her hip as she sifted her weight to one leg. The other hand pinched the bridge of her nose. "Has Tyson ever done anything like this before?"

"Well, umm, there was this time in China," Max hesitated, "and Japan, Germany, Russia," his voice faded.

"Do you have any idea where he could be?" Teara asked hopeful. She sent a glance at Hilary; surely the girl knew where the boy could be.

"How should I know?" Hilary crossed her arms. "I'm not his keeper."

"You're his girlfriend and since Tyson's an animal in almost every sense,' Liz smirked. "You are his keeper. You know, you should keep him on a leash. But than what do I know? He's your boyfriend."

"Ohh, good one Liz!" Dizzi encouraged from her computer prison.

"Thank you Diz," Liz smirked triumphantly.

"Those two girls always get at it whenever they can. In fact, all of the girls usually get into an argument with Hilary. Wonder if it's a territorial thing," Rei thought idly.

"Last call for flight 26 heading for Moscow, Russia. Departure will be in twenty minutes."

Teara growled up at the intercom, "I give up," she sighed.

"Hey guys" Chris and Tyson ran through the crowd, their hats fluttering against their heads. Tons of food was in both of their hands as they stopped.

"Airport food," Renee muttered and put a finger pointing into her mouth.

"I know what you mean," Rei laughed catching the movement.

"Where have you been?!" Teara yelled. The guys glanced at each other wondering the same thing, since when had Hilary and Teara switched personalities?

When Tyson opened his mouth to speak she cut him off. "Never mind, let's get going now!"

Some guy in an airport uniform was about to shut the gate off when the bladers had just gotten out security.

"Wait!" Tyson yelled in desperation. "World Champion!"

The man raised his eyebrows; on his name tag "Joe" was printed. When he saw the young teens, he quickly ushered them through remembering what it had been like to be young with a wide smile.

The bladders quickly took their seats, Kenny and Tess in the first, Hilary and Tyson behind them, Rei and Max next, than came Renee and Liz. Chris ended up sitting with and elderly lady behind them and Teara was stuck with Kai once again. That was just her luck.

"I swear I'm cursed," she muttered sitting down. Kai sent a look her way which she completely missed.

Near the last portion of their trip, Kenny had already fallen asleep over his keyboard. He, Dizzi, and Tess had been going through team stats and strategies the whole night, trying to get an edge on the competition.

Tess carefully removed the lap top and shut Dizzi down for the night. She gently placed a hand on his chest, her face hot and pushed him back in a leaning position. Tess took off his glasses and giggled at his light snoring before covering him with a blanket and continuing the research.

Hilary was sitting behind them engrossed in a magazine with Tyson lying in his own mess of food. Sometimes she didn't understand what she saw in him, but he always gave her butterflies. When he was awake and wasn't eating that is.

She had placed a clothes pin on his nose not to long ago to stop the snoring. She knew from previous trips that it would be annoying if she didn't. She glanced forward when she heard shifting up from and watched in amusement as Tess gently moved the boy genius. A loud snoring caught her attention and she quickly picked up the clothes pin and stuck it back on Tyson's nose before he could disturb anyone.

"And I thought the girls fell asleep on a date first." Hilary muttered to herself in slight annoyance. She picked up the magazine and sniffed a sample perfume.

Max was popping gummies into his mouth steadily as his head bobbed up and down with the music on his portable cd player. Rei was reading a new book he had just purchased before leaving China.

"Um excuse me," a female about 26 was leaning over with a book and pen in her hand. She had straight blonde hair and brown eyes and her face was slightly pink with too much make up. "Would you mind signing this booklet, it's for my nephew. He's really big fan of beyblade and would just be tickled if I got the Bladebreakrs autograph."

Max had taken off his earphones and nodded with the pen in his hand and signed it gracefully before giving a big smile. Putting the earphones he began listening to the music again.

Rei smiled and gracefully signed his name under the heading Bladebreakers. He noticed Tyson and Kenny had already signed, although it as kind of hard to make out Tyson's 'o' and 'n' from the rest. He stopped a laugh in his throat when he saw what Max had written, "Stay in school and practice hard."

He wondered how many times that line had been used. Looking further down he was surprised to see Kai's signature neatly written at the bottom. "His signature is probably worth trillions,' Rei metal thought handing the woman back the pen and pad. Kai didn't sign autographs, he wondered if it was his first one.

"Do you want my signature too?" Chris asked smiling at the woman. She had just come back from the bathroom.

"Who are you? The woman asked confused. "I'm Chris, short for Christina. I'm a world class blader; I've just joined the Bladebreakers as a matter of fact for this tournament."

"Are you famous?" the woman questioned.

"Well not yet but..."

"I only want the autographs of 'known 'bladers." With that the woman turned and walked away. "

Rei and Max both sent her an apologetic smile. "Don't worry Chris," Max grinned. "After this tournament there are going to be hundreds of people yelling your name and wanting your autograph. In fact they'll probably be so many you'll get sick of it."

"Humph," Chris sat down mumbling" wait and see lady, when your nephew fall in love with me, you'll have to tell him you had a chance to get my autograph and didn't."

"Keep telling yourself that girl," the old woman with grey hair and an old fashioned dress from the twenties looked at her.

"You silly little girl, have no manners no respect."

"Aw can it lady," Chris snapped at her. "your not my grandmother and you sure aren't' my mother so stop scolding me." The woman looked horrified and if she wasn't so pissed of, Chris was sure she would have died laughing. Chris turned and ignored the woman and began watching the airline movie. Whatever it was.

Renee shook her had at the scene taking place behind her. She didn't dare look back, but she could hear everything. She closed her eyes and turned put the music down and started reading over the poem she had just written

"Lost and alone,

you insist on standing their like stone.

"Join the party," they say.

But you're too busy keeping the demons inside at bay.

No one but you understands.

Only you can save yourself."

So far that was all she had gotten and realized that maybe she was writing about herself instead of just writing. She knew that day still played over and over in the back of her mind. But she could stop it. The pain had intensified ever since they had gotten back together. He was missing now more than ever.

Renee sighed and shut the book a little scared over her own thoughts. It happened years ago, why wouldn't her demons inside leave her alone? Liz was beside her eating popcorn and watching the movie intently. It had her undivided attention. She never even noticed the change in her best friend mood as the airplane continued on its way.

Behind them all, Teara was fighting her own battles. For some reason all most all the girls, teens, women, and a few men were glaring at her. She had reason to believe it was because of the blue haired guy beside her. Didn't those people realize she would give up anything to be in their seats?

Kai had been his antisocial self throughout the entire trip. Not that she minded though, it gave her time to think which was one of her favorite pass times. For some reason wired questions would pop up I her mind like; 'is the sky really blue, is this reality or are we living in the mind of someone carrying out the actions he decides, do aliens exist? Did E.T. really every make it home?" Now however, she had run out of things to think about and was waging another with someone or rather something, sleep. All she wanted to do curl up somewhere and nod off into dream land. The seat however was completely uncomfortable and she couldn't find a nice spot. She moved and bumped her elbow in to Kai's ribcage. The male opened his eyes and jerked her way.

"Um...hehehe. Sorry. This seats uncomfortable and I was moving to find a spot to sleep." She looked at him apologetically

Kai sighed and pressed a button that sat between them. Her seat immediately reclined a little giving her a laid back position and he turned looking at the clouds as they started thickening. They were close to Russia.

"Thanks Kai," Teara cuddled in a blanket which he really couldn't understand why. It was almost 75 degrees Fahrenheit in here. Kai had just nodded his head though and looked out again wondering why he had a feeling to run. The pit of his stomach had fallen and his legs were anxious to move. Without his memories, his had learned to trust instinct more than anything else. It was the next best thing since his memory loss and right now it was saying no while the plane continued to say yes. The teen sighed and decided to wait and see what would happen. He wasn't sure if he and Dranzer could survive but that didn't matter anymore. Kai had nothing more to live for.

"Ah cold free...free…free…freezing Russia," Tyson stuttered holding his jacket close to his body.

"Mr. Dickenson and Hiro caught an earlier flight. They said that they'll meet us at the old Biovault briefing building beside the stadium. There's supposed to be a mandatory press meeting tonight," Kenny informed them.

"A car should be coming soon to pick us up," Tess added.

"So, we just take in the wondrous sights of Russia while we can see and wait for them to come." Chris sat down on a bench before hopping up again. "Jeez it's cold."

"Welcome to Russia," Teara spoke sarcastically.

"It's just as dead as I remember it," Tyson looked around. For a capital, Russia was lacking in livelihood. The streets were basically bare and the few people around had cold expressions.

"Your right Tyson," Max observed. "Russia hasn't changed much."

"What do you guys mean "remember it" and "hasn't changed"? Have you been here before" Hilary asked glaring at Tyson.

"Well actually we have," Rei caught her attention. "About three years ago…"

Max and Tyson suddenly got gloomy and stared at the ground while Rei took refuge in looking at the sky. Kenny himself looked down at his shoes and got quiet.

Kai remained frozen looking out at the city streets as if he wasn't affected by those words, his tiny pack thrown over his shoulders.

"What happened three years ago Tyson?" Hilary growled accusingly. The other girls looked at each other and made a silent agreement not to ask, it wasn't their business. Something awful must have happened anyway.

"It was just the first tournament they competed in," Liz saved them. "That's all Hilary."

"No," Rei spoke looking at the group. "That's not all." He stared at Max, Tyson, Kenny and Kai in turn. "They deserve to know. We can't ask them to risk anything unless they know the truth. So far we've been fooling ourselves into thinking this is going to be a cake walk that fighting in the bey stadium is the only thing we're going to have to do. If anything, Biovault will want revenge and anyone with us is in danger."

Kai almost shook his head in disbelief. "You really are a genius Rei," Kai thought sarcastically. "You just don't know the half of it."

"Your right," Max spoke softly.

"Fine. Maybe they do deserve to know, but I'm not telling it," Tyson spoke stubbornly.

"I wasn't going to ask you to," Rei growled frustrated. "I am."

"Have at it then," Tyson grumbled and moved to sit on the bench. "Ow, it is cold!" He jumped and the others laughed trying to relieve the tension that had grown.

"Are you the Bladebreakers?" A man in a black suit asked. He was about thirty five and wore a very heavy mustache to match his heavy Russian accent.

"Yes."

"I'm Gus, Mr. Dickenson sent me to escort his team to the Biovault building for the conference that will begin within an hour."

"Alright, let's go!"

Once they had gotten over the initial shock of being picked up in a limo and stopped Tyson's from drooling, they all got into the spacious back and silence soon took over. Rei once again had the floor.

"What you have to understand is all of us come from very different back grounds and situations. In the beginning, this made it very difficult for all of us."

"So how did you all meet exactly?" Renee questioned trying to help Rei along.

"I met Tyson, Max, Kai and Kenny at a local tournament that Mr. Dickenson had asked me to attend." Rei paused thinking, "I know the others had already met, though I'm not completely sure how. We never discussed it." Rei looked at the others.

"Tyson and Kenny were friends first," Max shrugged. They all looked at Tyson who was busy playing with the buttons controlling the window. His head was on his fist and he looked happy and bored at the same time.

"What?" he asked noticing every one of the looks he was receiving.

"Will you just tell us what happened?!" Hilary yelled.

"Why should I? It doesn't matter anyway!" Tyson yelled louder.

"Yes it does!"

"No it doesn't!"

"Quit being a selfish pig and tell us what happened! We deserve to know!"

"No you don't! It doesn't matter Mrs. No It All!" Tyson yelled back.

"Garr…" Hilary hit him the back of the head, her own head growing twice its normal size. "Tell us now!"

"Ow!" Tyson rubbed his head. "Why should I?"

"Because I would love to know what I'm going up against." Renee gave him a cold grin, "Of course I would also love torturing it out of you painfully more."

Tyson gulped. "Fine, I'll tell you how everything started alright? But that's it, after that it's Rei's story."

"Just get on with it," Liz huffed.

"Alright, it started the day I bailed out on one of grandpa's fighting lesson for a beyblade match. When I got there some kid named Carlos had already fought everyone and stolen their blades. Turned out he worked for a gang called the Blade Sharks. I challenged him to a battle, winner take all the blades.

He accepted and that's how I and the chief became best friends. I needed help for the match and he knew all about beyblade so we formed an alliance and became friends. I fought Carlos and won, that's when Kai came around. Turned out he was the leader of the Blade Sharks. He wasn't happy about the outcome and slapped Carlos right across the face."

"You're kidding?" Liz spoke up.

"Nope, and after that Kai was enemy number one. We battled once and I saw Dranzer, Dragoon didn't even exist then. He was still just a legend in a sword. Than Kenny was kidnapped by the Blade Sharks and I asked the sword for help. It seemed stupid at the time, but Dragoon must have heard."

Tyson smiled at the blade in his hand. "I battled Kai for Kenny and when Dragoon came out, Kai had to explain everything. It was a tie but Kai let him go anyway."

"Wow, Tyson you we're actually brave," Chris spoke in admiration. "What happened next?"

"Well, we met Max. This kids little puppy fell into the stream and Max saved it with some cool moves. "

"I was new in town and for some reason Tyson, Kenny, and I hit it right off. Than Mr. Dickenson came into the shop while we we're playing in a dish. He invited us to the tournament and man we're we exited. Remember?"

"Oh yeah," Tyson sounded like his normal self. "Anyway, Maxi and I sailed right through the competition until it got down to the semi finals. Rei vs. Me and Kai vs. Max, Max didn't even have Draciel yet, but I was sure he was going to win. Rei was just too cocky and annoying."

"Rei was cocky?" Teara raised an eyebrow. "Now that's something I got to see."

"Yeah well, things we're different back then, "Rei defended himself halfheartedly. "Anyway, Tyson won against Drigger and Max lost to Kai. Although he did get Draciel out of it. The finals came down and it was your typical Kai and Tyson match up. I swear those two have been rivals forever."

"Hmp," Renee looked at Kai who was lying back in his typical eyes closed action and Tyson. A smile across her lips.

"It was Tyson's birthday and he actually forgot it."

"You're kidding?" Liz asked laughing.

"Nope," Max laughed. "He wouldn't have remembered if grandpa hadn't shown up with cake and presents."

"Hey," Tyson broke everyone's laughter. "I at least won the match. Than we became the Bladebreakers. Mr. Dickenson asked Kai to be our team captain, and I'm still surprised he took it. "

"I didn't have much of a choice," Kai thought remembering the conversation with his grandfather.

"So anyway, the first stop on the tour was China, Rei's hometown China that is. Anyway it turned out he left his own town and team to explore the world, needless to say the White Tigers didn't like it one bit," Kenny continued. "It took us the whole tournament to make them realize that just because Rei had left their team didn't mean he wasn't their friends."

"So much for you telling the story," Renee whispered. Rei just laughed.

"Don't worry, I'll get my chance."

"Than it was New York," Max spoke up. We met up with my team and they thought science was the only way to win a match. Than Tyson decided we sneak around like James Bond and I almost got killed by glass if Kai hadn't come after us and saved my life!"

Max was talking ten times a minute and Liz spotted the pack of open candy and shook her head in amusement after grabbing a couple for her self. "What next Max?"

"We won and now the All Stars know the meaning of heart and I got reunited with my mom. It was great!" Max fell against the chair completely exhausted.

"After that tournament we took a trip around Europe and met some interesting characters, like the Majestic's and that dark and gloom team," Tyson continued bored. "After that, we came to Russia."

The girls looked at all the guys, but none of them seemed like sharing. They were all looking at one another begging the other to take over where Tyson had left off.

"You wanted them to know Rei," Kai spoke up looking at the raven haired teen intently.

"Yeah, but it's really not my story to tell. It's yours." Rei spoke up. Seeing that Kai wasn't going to speak and that he did have a point, the earth wielder sighed and started retelling the story.

"When we came to Russia," Rei spoke up. "We met Boris. At first he seemed like a nice instructor over a school of blading students. Turned out he was an evil tyrant bent on taking over the world with his financer Voltaire, leader of Biovault industries."

Rei took a breath deciding how much of the truth he could leave out and how much they really needed to know. "Boris would make the students weapons without feeling and their top group was the Demolition Boys; Tala, Bryan, Spencer and Ian. Kai checked out the institute by himself, Boris offered him Black Dranzer, Kai took it and joined their team afterwards. He stole all the All Stars and White Tigers team bit beasts. We had thought he was sick that is until he stepped in the arena under the Demolition Team."

The girls seemed completely shocked. "When we confronted him, he threw Dranzer at us and told us it was over. We saw him later one last time before the finals, us vs. them. In that battle we convinced him that he should give back Black Dranzer and rejoin us with Dranzer. He took our advice.

The next day on our way to the hotel with Kai, we were attacked by Ian in a plane. Max sacrificed Draciel to save us than Tyson got a lesson from Robert, the leader of the Majestics. After that, we decided Kai go first," Rei paused.

"He lost the match and Dranzer to Spencer. Next it was my turn and I beat Bryan, but ended at the hospital in critical condition. You see, Boris doesn't play clean and he had Bryan hit me with tiny pieces of the stadium that had broken off. I lost Drigger, not to Bryan, but just because. He came back though. Tyson won the last match against Tala but not before Tala had pulled every dirty trick in the book. It's a wonder Tyson won at all."

"I don't get it," Chris spoke up after a long silence. "Why should we be so wary of Boris and Voltaire?"

"They don't care about your safety, that's why," Kai spoke up. "They would gladly eliminate you before you could even reach a bey dish; it wouldn't matter if you're a twenty, ten, thirty or two hours old. They'll do anything to get what they want."

Not that good, sue me… I was meaning to write the whole meeting and get it over with…and I did…but then my computer lost the doc. Sorry…maybe next chapter which will be longer and better. Bye Bye

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