Ok, im back with another chapter! Sorry there isn't an update on Legend Blader Prank War this weekend, I got busy with midterms, hopefully I can get the next chapter up next week though!
Gingka: and this is where it gets serious.
Me: serious? The only thing serious about this chapter is Ryuga.
Ryuga: hmm? I could care less about this…
"So, what is it?" Gingka asked once he and Yuki were safely out of hearing of the others.
"The DNA is up to something, all of their agents returned to the base about five minutes ago, and they have all of the lights in the building on. I sent Kenta and Titi in to check it out."
"Hmm. Guess we should be on our guard then. Anything else?"
"Not really, other than the fact that Ryuga is still complaining about not being in charge."
"Well, he did join only recently, and he did not participate in the battle to decide who would be the leader."
"Which, naturally, you won."
"Well duh, anyway, you should probably get back to home base, I'll see you later!"
"Yeah, you need to get back to your wife anyway" Yuki called, making Gingka turn beet red.
-meanwhile-
"Ryo, did you see the DNA- oh hey Madoka! What are you doing here all by yourself?" Hyoma asked, coming up behind the group, who were watching the bushes for Gingka and Yuki to return.
"Huh? Oh, hi Hyoma! Just hanging out here" Madoka replied, turning to face him.
"So, did you ever find Gingka after you called me a year ago? You never updated me on that!"
"Oh yeah, totally found him! It was only a week after I called actually, sorry I forgot to call you , I got really busy afterwards."
"So, where is he then? Is he doing alright?"
"Yeah, he's fine" Madoka said, just as the rather loud announcement of jetpacks igniting echoed through the forest.
"What was that?" Hyoma was instantly on guard.
"Yuki! I thought you had your silencers on! Do you have any idea how loud that is when you don't have a helmet up?"
"Well, there goes Yuki" Madoka pointed as a fiery streak of light blazed over their heads.
"Flying?" Hyoma was thoroughly confused. "so, how did you find Gingka?"
"Actually, I found her, Hyoma" Gingka said, stepping out of the bushes.
"Gingka? Man, you grew since I last saw you!" Hyoma exclaimed, recognizing the Legend Blader at once despite his long, high-collared coat and different hairstyle.
"Funny, that was Madoka's initial reaction to me" Gingka chuckled.
"One question though, was that really Yuki who just flew overhead?"
"Probably, although I still don't see why he didn't use the silencers that he developed, he almost blew my ears out!"
"Wait, then how come when you kidnapped me, I didn't hear anything?"
"Well, for one thing, you were unconscious, and for another, I had partial silencers on during the time I was at the DNA, Yuki blasted off without them" Gingka replied as a small light started flashing out of his collar. "Hold on a second. Computer, bring up communication system." in response to his command, a small device popped up out of his shirt, hovering in place just in front of his left eye. "nope, this requires full helmet. Just give me a second guys. Computer, activate helmet"
Hyoma watched in surprise as the thin metal bar shot up , poking through Gingka's hair, then extending to the sides, forming his full mask. In fifteen seconds, the whole helmet had appeared, and the blue hair of Stormflight was blowing in a slight breeze that had come up. Gingka leaned against a tree casually, the glowing blue eyes on his mask closing.
"What is that?" Hyoma asked in a whisper.
"That is Stormflight, former false agent of the DNA and current agent of the LBN." Madoka replied.
"LBN?" Hyoma and Ryo both asked at once.
Madoka nodded. "the Legendary Bladers' Network. All ten of them are agents, and all ten, apparently, have suits like Gingka's. the only functions of their suits I have seen are the jetpacks and helmets, but apparently just the helmets themselves are very complex and hold full communication systems and miniature computers, all developed by Yuki.
Suddenly, the eyes on Gingka's mask flew open, casting their blue glow on the whole area. "They need my help, I'll be back as soon as I can!" he called, running to the center of the clearing. "activate jetpacks! Set course for DNA headquarters! Silencers on! Helmet outside speakers off!"
"Be safe Gingka!" Madoka called as he took off.
"Don't you ever try to stop him?" Ryo asked.
"Not really, he can get away from me anyway, and he always comes back, usually on time. But, this morning, apparently he had a helicopter firing at him, so I am not exactly sure about him leaving anymore. He usually leaves without warning too, the roof of the B-Pit has become a landing pad over the last year." Madoka replied, watching Gingka until he was out of sight. A couple of seconds later, he came flying back.
"I forgot something" he said, putting his helmet down and walking over. Hyoma watched in surprise as he kissed Madoka, then once again closed his helmet over his face and took off.
"What was that about?" Hyoma almost yelled.
"Oh yeah" Madoka face palmed. "I forgot to tell you that we got married last year."
"Ok then, sorry for yelling. Wait, what? When did you guys even start dating?" Hyoma said as it suddenly dawned on him what she had just said.
"We didn't exactly date, there wasn't really a need to, we already knew each other so well." Madoka replied, showing him the diamond wedding ring on her finger.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Hey, its getting cold out here, why don't we go inside and get something warm to drink and you can tell me all about it!" Ryo suggested.
"Ok, I also have the pictures here, I figured you might want to see them" Madoka said, following her now father-in-law as he opened the door to the house and led her and Hyoma inside.
-meanwhile, in South America, at the DNA headquarters-
"So, they sent you two in? who are you anyway?" Argo thundered at the two handcuffed, masked bladers standing in front of him.
"None of your business" one of them replied calmly in the same monotone voice used previously by Stormflight.
"You will tell us eventually or suffer the consequences!" Argo yelled, standing up from his chair.
The two gold-clad figures did not flinch however, and remained silent, or so the Garcias and their allies thought.
"What should we do Firearrow?"
"Hold on, I'm calling in the Network."
"Good idea. What do we do until they can get here?"
"Stall of course, they cant get us out of our suits and find out who we are, the technology is too complex for them to understand."
"Got it."
"On second thought, could you call the Network while I stall?"
"Sure! Lizardflight to Home, is anyone there?"
"This is Cosmicbark, what is it Lizardflight?"
"We have a problem. We got spotted and are now stuck in the Garcias' office."
"What did you do?"
"Umm, tried to get across the top of the building before a helicopter landed so we could get inside?"
"Fair enough, I'll call Stormflight and we will try to get you out of there."
"Alright, thanks Cosmicbark! We will be waiting and will try to keep you posted!"
"You two sure got quiet, are you too afraid of us to speak?" Argo taunted.
"As if!" Kenta replied, struggling. "Lizardflight, lean forwards and activate your jetpacks!"
"But wont that start a fire?"
"It doesn't matter, if it does, they can put it out or let it rage, just do it! We have to get out of here!"
"Ok, I'm working on it!"
Suddenly, as if on cue, they both leaned forwards and activated their jetpacks, setting the uniforms of the DNA agents on fire and blasting down the hallway through the open door.
"Ready to practice some flying skills Lizardflight?"
"You bet! Lets do this!"
"Ahh! Pull up!"
"Why-" Lizardflight was silenced as he slammed into a metal barrier that had come down from the ceiling, falling unconscious.
"Lizardflight!" Firearrow exclaimed, landing and kneeling beside his unconscious friend. "Firearrow to home base, we escaped their agents and almost got away, but then Lizardflight slammed into a barrier in the hall, I don't know if he is alright or not"
"Cosmicbark here, Stormflight is on his way to home base. Can you carry him out?"
"I'm not sure, but I can try. Any ideas on how to get past this barrier?"
"Use your bey, duh"
"Only one problem with that, if they see it, they will know who I am!"
"That doesn't matter at the moment Firearrow!" Gingka's voice came. "just get him and get out of there!"
"Got it, Firearrow out for now while I escape!" Kenta garbbed his bey from its hidden case on his belt and prepared to launch.
"Stop right there!" the DNA agents yelled, finally appearing down the hall.
"Let it Rip!" Kenta yelled, blasting through the barrier, then picking up Lizardflight and attempting to run down the hall. Glancing back, he saw that the DNA bladers had almost caught up to him, and were preparing to launch.
Suddenly, the hall between them exploded. Kenta was thrown forwards, dropping Lizardflight in the process. He quickly jumped to his feet, bey hooked to his launcher and ready to go.
"Run Firearrow!" a deep voice called.
Kenta took one look at the orange-clad figure that has just blasted through the wall and took off out the hole he had made, scrambling over debris and leaping out the side. Alarms finally began sounding through the DNA building as the other figure carefully bent over and picked up the still-unconscious Lizardflight, a set of engraved fangs gleaming on his helmet, his spiked red-orange hair shining. A squad of DNA bladers rushed around the corner, ad froze as soon as they saw him. Argo rounded the corner as well, and also froze.
"Who are you?" he growled. "freeze and surrender now, or we will do this by force!"
"You and your pathetic attempts? Ha! You make me laugh at your foolishness!" the blader replied.
"Pathetic? I repeat, who are you? Are you allied with that traitor Stormflight?" Argo challenged.
"My name is Dragonfang, and yes, I am allied with that blader you speak of. I would be leader, except that I only recently joined forces with him."
"Again, I order you to freeze!" Argo thundered.
"I don't take orders from you Garcia" Dragonfang replied calmly, readying his white launcher grip and bey. "Go ahead, just try to make me! Let it Rip!" the DNA bladers soon found themselves enveloped in flaming red light. Half the squad fled at the sound of a roar coming from Dragonfang's bey. When the light cleared, the red-clad blader had left, taking Lizardflight with him.
-five minutes later, LBN headquarters (also known as Yuki's observatory)-
"Don't you guys know how to do anything right?" Ryuga growled, landing and passing Lizardflight to a waiting Aguma.
"Well I was trying!" Kenta protested.
"Would you two quit arguing and get inside? Kenta, I need a report. Did you find out what they were up to?" Gingka called, interrupting them before they started arguing.
"Hah, their pathetic attempts at world domination wont stop us" Ryuga muttered as he and Kenta joined Gingka inside.
"Maybe not, but it will be easier for us to react if we know what they are trying" Gingka replied.
"We didn't find out anything, they caught us before we could get inside. Is Titi alright?" Kenta asked.
Gingka glanced over at the other gold-clad blader, code-named 'Lizardflight' due to the winged lizard bey he possessed. "I hope so, just what happened to him anyway?"
Kenta sighed. "We were flying down the DNA hallways trying to get away after breaking free from their agents, and they dropped a metal barrier in front of us. I tried to warn him, but I wasn't quick enough and he smashed into the wall at full speed."
"I see. Assuming you guys had your helmets up, he should be fine then"
"Yeah, he's fine, but his helmet is damaged, he just barely avoided snapping his neck thanks to the ring of metal that makes the collar around these and connects to the jetpacks" Yuki said, examining the helmet in front of him.
"Well that's good, can it be repaired quickly?" Gingka asked.
"It should be easily repairable, but its not going to retract any further than halfway and I will have to fix the system that does that"
"Alright. If I am not needed here then, I have a family to get back to" Gingka said, getting up from the couch. "thanks for rescuing them Ryuga, your timing couldn't have been better" he shook hands with the white-haired blader, who grinned at his comment.
"Well, you weren't getting here fast enough" he smirked.
"We have a problem!" Dunamis suddenly exclaimed, rushing out of the control room.
Gingka instantly became serious again. "what is it?" he asked.
"I think they followed Ryuga and Kenta, you should probably come see this!"
Gingka quickly followed the purple-haired blader into the control room, where the outdoor security cameras were showing dozens of DNA bladers, as well as other, unfamiliar figures that bore the DNA's crest on their chests. Gingka slammed the alarm button down, alerting the other Legend Bladers, then connected pressed another button. "This is Stormflight, everyone pack up and move out! They found us, repeat, they found us! Head to secondary base, otherwise known as my original home base! Leave nothing important behind, I want us out in ten minutes, helicopters and all!"
In response, the LBN Home Base exploded into a flurry of activity. Aguma grabbed Titi and got him into a helicopter. Yuki rushed around his technology development lab, packing stuff into suitcases and retracting all the items that could be retracted and made smaller, then loaded them into a helicopter as well.
"Ryuga! You and I need to hold them off while everyone else gets ready to leave!" Gingka called, running to the front entrance.
"On it!" Ryuga passed the crate of tools he was holding to Chris and ran after Gingka, the two quickly switching to their alter egos of Stormflight and Dragonfang as they got to the entrance.
"Ready?"
"You bet, bet I can defeat more of them then you can with your pathetic attempts!"
"You're on! We'll see whose attempts are pathetic after this! Wildwind, Warriorbelt, want to join us?"
"Heh, I can beat you at this game Stormflight, bring it on DNA! Me and Leone will take any challenge!" came Kyoya's reply.
"Warriorbelt?"
"I'm getting to the roof to snipe them now."
"Good, then let's do this! As soon as the Solar System bladers are out, we leave too, got it? We'll let them overrun our base, they wont find anything they can use against us if we can hold them off!"
"Then let's do this, I'm tired of waiting for their pathetic attacks. L-Drago!" Ryuga stepped out the front door and launched his bey into battle.
"He might have joined us, but he's still the same Ryuga as before" Gingka thought, grinning as he followed suit with Pegasus.
"Let it Rip!" came from the roof as Leone and Orion joined the battle as well.
Gingka ducked as one of the new figures raised an arm and fired a stream of bullets at him. "Watch out for those guys!" he called, knocking out several beys with Pegasus.
"No kidding!" Ryuga replied, blasting off out of the way of a second stream.
"Wildwind?" Chris called, sending Orion into the center of a group of enemy beys.
"Yeah?" Kyoya replied, blowing a group away with his Lion Gale Force Wall.
"Think we can defeat more than either of them if we join forces?"
"Of course we can. Leone!"
"Orion!"
"Pegasus!
"L-Drago!"
The four seasonal bladers continued fighting as their friends packed up the entire headquarters inside. The Network Headquarters had been specially designed by Yuki to be mobile, especially with its location so close to the DNA.
"Hurry King!" Kenta called to the red-clad blader struggling up the steps with a large crate.
"This thing isn't exactly light you know, even a number one blader such as myself cant go very fast with it!" King puffed, finally reaching the top of the steps.
"Great, now go get another one. Kenta, you could be helping him" Aguma said, taking the box from King and loading it into the waiting helicopter.
"Right, sorry" Kenta replied, following King back down the stairs, where Dunamis and yuki each handed them a large crate.
-outside-
"Cover me!" Gingka called, diving behind a tree and wrapping his grappling hook around a tree across from him as Ryuga directed the fire of the DNA gunners towards himself, using L-Drago to take some out.
Kyoya and Chris both dove behind trees across from each other and fired at each other, catching the hooks as they came towards them and flying together, turning themselves into a 'huge electrified whirling disk of flame' as they activated their jetpacks, catching many of the strange DNA agents in their crossed wires.
"Think we can one-up that?" Gingka asked, pointing to Kyoya and Chris as they took out a whole group of what turned out to be robots.
"I think we can more than one-up that, I think we can make it look like a child's game!" Ryuga replied, sending L-Drago into another robot.
"Good idea!" Gingka said. "Let's use our beys, Go Pegasus!"
"L-Drago!" Ryuga called, firing his grappling hook. Gingka attacked Ryuga's hook firmly to his belt, then fired his own hook over to Ryuga. The two bladers flew together, then circled a group of robots, Gingka going to the right, Ryuga to the left, wrapping the robots in electrified wire and slicing them in half with the heat, using L-Drago and Pegasus to take out a second squadron a few feet away. One of the robots took aim at them and fired a rocket, severing their connection and sending both bladers flying out of control as their controlled momentum was let loose. Gingka slammed into a tree full force, managing to pull up just enough so that he didn't injure himself in the process. He quickly jumped up and retracted the remaining wire back into his wristband, then tried to take off, only to find that the impact with the tree had disabled his jetpacks, which began sparking and set fire to a few wet leaves behind him. Gingka quickly turned them off and retracted them, then checked to see if his communication system was still working.
"Stormflight to Dragonfang, can you hear me?"
"Yeah, what's up? I think they messed up my onboard computers, I cant see out one eye on my mask"
"My jetpacks aren't working, mind coming over and giving me a lift?" Gingka asked, tensing up as the robots surrounded him.
"On it, jump now!" Ryuga shouted, coming to the rescue.
Gingka jumped and grabbed Ryuga's outstretched hand, then glanced up. Sure enough, as he had said, one of the eyes on his mask was damaged and sparking dangerously. "Dragonfang! You have to get that eye to close, it looks really bad! If you cant see, its shooting sparks, and that could short-circuit your whole helmet!"
"Got it, but I have to close both eyes to do that!"
"How about this then, you be my jetpacks and I will be your eyes, you cant let that continue or your helmet will short out, as well as your entire system!"
"Ok, ok, helmet, open video transmission link, shut off video cameras"
"Helmet, transmit outside video to Dragonfang. Is it working?"
"Yup, lets do this! We have to get-" Ryuga was cut off as a steady stream of bullets fired at him and Gingka, narrowly missing them.
"We have to get out of here! Cosmicbark, come in, are you guys done yet?"
"Yeah, we're done!"
"Good. All agents get into the helicopters and take off!" Gingka reluctantly gave the order.
"Let's go Warriorbelt!" Kyoya called, disconnecting his grappling hook from his comrade and flying back into the building.
Another shower of bullets just missed Gingka and Ryuga as they flew inside. Seconds later, the whole LBN headquarters were evacuated, and the DNA had overrun them.
"Retract helmet" Ryuga grumbled as soon as he was seated in the helicopter.
Gingka took off his blue overcoat and the Stormflight control system, handing them to Yuki for repair, then examining his sore arms and finding several cuts and bruises from smashing into the tree. His whole body was sore from that.
"They had weapons we weren't ready for" Chris commented, examining a dent from a bullet made in his own helmet.
Kyoya said nothing, only sat with his eyes closed, obviously tired from the fighting.
"You have that right, at least we have some footage from our helmets that we can try and figure out" Gingka said, holding his arm still as Kenta carefully bandaged it with a strip of cloth.
"Heh, I still find their attempts at world domination pathetic" Ryuga smirked.
"You never change, do you?" Gingka said, biting his lip as Kenta applied antiseptic cream to a large cut on his wrist.
"Ok Ryuga, I saw you smash into a tree as well. Coat off, now." Kenta ordered, finishing up with bandaging Gingka's arm and turning to the white haired blader.
"I'm fine" Ryuga insisted.
Gingka rolled his eyes. "Then what's that wet spot on your shoulder?" he pointed to the dark spot on Ryuga's coat. Ryuga glanced down in alarm and pulled his coat off his shoulder, only to see a large gash.
"You had better let me treat that, or it will be trouble later" Kenta threatened.
Ryuga shrugged, finally giving in and pulling his own coat off.
"Hey Chris, what time is it?" Gingka suddenly asked as Kenta began applying the cream to Ryuga's shoulder.
"Nearly midnight, why?" the gold-haired blader replied.
"Oh dear, I should call Madoka, she's probably getting worried!" Gingka exclaimed, whipping out his phone.
-in Koma Village-
"I hope he's ok, he usually isn't gone this long. Usually its only a few hours" Madoka was saying, looking out the window into the darkness for Gingka to return.
"I'm sure he will call if anything unexpected happens" Ryo said, just as Madoka's phone started ringing. "see?"
Madoka walked over and picked it up. "Yup, its him alright. Just give me a second…. Hello?"
"Hey Madoka, I'm on my way back now, but I'm in a helicopter. I should be there by dawn" Gingka's voice came.
"Are you alright? You sound a bit shaky"
"Do I? we were just hanging around with a few DNA bladers, nothing major"
"Gingka, what really happened?"
Ryo and Hyoma looked at each other, slightly alarmed.
Gingka chuckled. "Ok, ok, they found our base and we were evacuating" he admitted.
"So you guys are coming here then?"
"Pretty much, we did manage to get everything out and are on our way now. They aren't going to find anything related to the Network in the building, it should all be in the helicopters. They did catch us by surprise though, but its not bad" Gingka said, trying to hide from her how serious it had actually been.
"Are you guys doing alright? They didn't get any of you guys with like, weapons or something?"
"Well, me, Kyoya, Ryuga and Chris all have a few scrapes from battling, but nothing serious"
"Define a few scrapes, I know you usually try to play down an injury like that"
"Seriously, its just a few scrapes"
"And you got them by?"
"Smashing into a tree full force and damaging my jetpacks" Gingka sighed reluctantly, knowing Madoka all too well to try hiding it any longer. "but seriously, its not bad at all"
"Ok, just hurry up and get over here then, I was getting worried"
"Will do. See you in a few hours!" Gingka hung up.
Madoka sighed as she put down her phone.
"Is he okay?" Ryo asked, concerned.
"He's fine, nothing serious, assuming that he's telling the truth" Madoka replied calmly.
"Ok, good, you had us worried with the one side of the conversation we could hear" Hyoma cut in.
"Yeah, sorry if I worried you. All ten are coming here, apparently the DNA found their base and they had to evacuate. They should be here in a couple of hours or so"
"Well, wake me up when they get here then, I'm going to try and snatch a few hours of sleep" Ryo said, getting up and going to his room. "feel free to make yourself comfortable anywhere you would like Madoka"
"I'm going to go to bed too, and don't forget to wake me up when they get here either" Hyoma said, putting on his jacket and leaving.
Madoka locked the door behind him, then grabbed a spare blanket out of the corner and settled down on the couch where she could see both the window and the front door. After lying there, worried, for a few minutes, she finally fell asleep.