Alright, I am back again! Love the feeling of updating weekly! I am going to try to get updates on my other stories as well this week, so be on the lookout!

Gingka: GalaxyPegasus14 does not own MFB, as usual.

Me: You seem a bit happier than normal.

Gingka: Well, you didn't try to kill me in the last chapter so… My threat to quit still stands though.

Me: Great…

Gingka: Uh-oh.

About fifteen minutes later, Stormflight returned, with Cosmicbark and a bunch of equipment in tow.

"So, you want a barrier that can alert us if someone tries to break through it?" Yuki said.

"Yeah, pretty much. With your technological genius, we figured you could do it quite easily." Stormflight replied.

"Well then, I'll get on it!"

Gingka smiled underneath his mask. "Thanks Cosmicbark, we still owe you a whole ton for all you do."

"Ehh, no problem! It's fun to do anyway!"

"Well, have fun! And call me if you need anything."

"Got it, will do!"

Stormflight turned and left, heading the opposite direction that Dragonfang was going, both headed for training.

A couple of minutes later, Stormflight suddenly found his feet yanked out from under him, hanging by one foot from a trap that he had not seen.

"Ok, I see you guys over there, now let me down." he ordered, catching sight of the troublesome group from earlier.

"Why should we?"

"You know, if I didn't know any better, I would say that you were DNA agents. Fine then, I'll just get down by myself."

"Good luck with that, we used the strongest rope we could find, and you shouldn't be able to untie it while you are hanging from it." the leader said, running off with his group.

"Who said anything about untying it?" Gingka muttered, reaching back for his bey and launcher. "Let it Rip!"

"That should keep him occupied long enough for us to find another way up the mountain."

"Why do you want to go up it so much anyway?"

"Because, there must be something up there that is really awesome, but they don't want us to know about it! I bet that Gingka-san is even up there, now come on!"

"You think so?"

"It has to be! Why else would they want us to stay off of it?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe because it's actually a volcano and one misstep while inside could cost you your life." a now-familiar voice said sarcastically.

The group jumped in surprise. "How did you get free so fast?" the leader growled.

"You underestimated me." Stormflight replied. "And that is something you should never do. Why do you guys always insist on trying to break the rules?"

"What is up that mountain?"

Stormflight sighed. "Exactly what I said, a whole pit full of lava that you would die in if you happened to fall. It's too dangerous for anyone to go into."

"But Gingka-san could have done it!"

"Yes, but you are not Gingka, are you?"

The group was silent.

"Tell you what, if you guys can behave, maybe I will take you up there, and I will tell you a secret about this place."

"How long would we have to do that?"

"At least until midnight tonight, and then you would have to continue to do so afterwards, unless you want me to take you back to Metal Bey City to face the DNA alone."

"Alright! Let's do that then!" the leader finally agreed, the final threat of being left to the DNA finalizing the deal.

"But, how did you get free so fast?" one of the girls asked.

"Simple, I used my bey." Stormflight replied.

"You can cut through ropes with a bey? Show us!" the leader demanded.

"Atsushi! Be polite!" one of the girls exclaimed.

"No, it's okay." Stormflight said. "Yes, you can cut through ropes with a bey. You can also smash boulders, blow up mountains, islands, forests, and tons of other stuff, if you have the power to do so."

"Wow, cool! Our beys have enough power to do that?"

"They at least have the potential for that amount of power. Come on, I'll show you a good place to train smashing things." Stormflight offered, setting off towards Snowy Mountain.

"Alright, let's go!" the group was excited.

"Noriko, was it?" Stormflight paused at a clump of bushes. "Why don't you come with us?" he held out a hand to the black-haired girl crouching in the bushes.

Trembling with nervousness and wondering his he had seen her, Noriko placed her pale hand in the strong, gloved hand of the Steel Warrior and allowed him to help her up.

"Hey, the sun is setting! Shouldn't we be getting back to the village?" Atsushi said.

Stormflight looked up. "So it is, but we should be fine."

"B-but, what if there are wild animals out here?" Noriko stammered.

"Oh, there are plenty of them, but we can fend them off if they show up."

"W-wild animals? L-like, like bears?" the whole group was trembling.

"Yeah, bears, wild boars, bees, you name it, and it's probably out here." Stormflight replied casually, continuing on towards the mountains.

The whole group followed closely, still trembling.

"C-can we just do this tomorrow? It's getting really dark." Noriko said suddenly.

Gingka turned, the blue glow from the eyes on his mask lighting up the faces of the group. All of them, even Atsushi, looked extremely frightened. "We might as well, there's no use training if you guys are scared. It is true that it is dangerous out here at night. Come on, let's go back. Dinner is probably ready anyway."

The entire group looked relieved as the blue figure, now barely visible in the ever-dimming light, turned and started heading back towards the village. As they got closer and closer, they heard explosions. This scared the group, but Stormflight reassured them that it was probably just the others training.

However, when they reached the village, several houses were on fire, and three DNA helicopters were trying to land at the center of the village.

"Get back into the bushes!" Stormflight yelled, diving out of the way of a stream of bullets as one small group of robots noticed him and began firing.

"Alright then, take this and leave the village alone!" Gingka yelled through his helmet speakers, activating his jetpacks and taking off, along with the other Steel Warriors. However, the group of ten was surprised as half of the robots promptly took off using their engines and followed, leaving the other half to continue attacking the village.

"Aww come on, really? You guys just had to make it harder for us?" Gingka muttered, rolling to the side as another steady stream of gunfire came flying past.

"Well, they kinda are trying to take over the world." Kenta pointed out.

"I know that much! Take evasive action!" Gingka said.

"That sounds like something out of a movie!" Titi called.

"Well, it is, but it works very well for this situation!" Gingka called as the group broke up to deal with the robots separately.

On the ground, Ryo, Hyoma, Zero, Shinobu, Ren, Kaito, Eito, Takanosuke, and Sakyo were taking out as many of the robots as they could with their beys.

"Let's go help!" Atsushi called to his friends after watching Zero blow up several robots with Ifraid.

"Let it Rip!" the group launched their beys in, only to have them repelled as they attacked the nearest robot, which turned in response and focused its attention on them.

"Ifraid!"

"Dragoon!"

Zero and Sakyo soon saved the group.

"Well that's embarrassing, they are younger than us and still stronger! Just how much does it take to blow up one of these things anyway?" Atsushi wailed.

"We have to get rid of the helicopters, they are bringing reinforcements about every forty-five minutes!" Yuki called.

"No kidding! One they return, we are taking them down before they land! Everyone, get into the two triangle formations we used this morning and let's go!" Gingka ordered.

Fifteen minutes later, two helicopters appeared, making their way to reinforce the group already in Koma. Several of the robots were guarding them, and were soon tied to the rails by the expert aim of a few of the Legendary Bladers as they all fired their cables.

"Go now! Operation Crash Landing!" Gingka called.

"You sound way too excited about this. Let's do it!" Kyoya laughed.

A few moments later, the Steel Warriors and their beys joined the group fighting in Koma Village.

"All younger bladers, get inside now!" Gingka ordered, diverting the fire of the robots towards him and Ryuga as Zero and the others ran inside to control their beys from there.

"You want a piece of me, you pathetic excuses for warriors?" Ryuga growled. "L-Drago!"

Gingka chuckled as Ryuga continued yelling threats at the DNA robots. "Pegasus!" he landed and immediately smashed his own bey through several metal figures.

The younger bladers, plus Madoka, Maru, Ryo, Hokuto, and Hyoma, huddled inside several different houses, the older bladers trying to comfort the younger as explosions and gunfire continued sounding outside.

"Keep it going!"

"Don't give up guys!"

"Those pathetic things don't stand a chance against us!"

"Firearrow, get up! You can do it!"

"Come on Lizardflight!"

"Look out Wildwind!"

"Jadebolt, behind you!"

"What was that for?"

"Dragonfang, that was very stupid of you!"

"So? At least it worked!"

"Yeah, but you almost killed me!"

"I wasn't even close!"

"Look out!"

"Uwahh!"

Madoka flinched as something, or someone, hit the window. The glass held, but she heard a dull thud outside.

"Are you okay, Scythe?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, look out behind you!"

"Ahh! Where did that come from?"

"Another helicopter guys! Jadebolt, Scythestrike, Wildwind, Lizardflight, Firearrow, take it down!"

"On it!"

Another huge explosion sounded, marking the end of yet another DNA helicopter.

"Stormflight, behind you!"

"Ahh!"

Madoka held her breath as a few more explosions sounded.

"Are you okay?"

"Stormflight, can you hear me?"

"Ughh, yeah, I'm fine!"

Madoka let her breath out, relieved, then noticed Ryo's worried face. The brunette gripped the redhead's hand and they exchanged glances.

"Almost! Just a few more left!"

"And another helicopter!"

"Same group as before, go!"

"Yeah! That's the last helicopter, unless they send a new batch of them!"

"The DNA only brought four helicopters with them from their headquarters, and they only have about six total left, after the two we crashed earlier this week!"

"That means they now have two, and are very unlikely to send more of them!"

"Exactly! Now we just have to take out this last group!"

"Look out! These guys are different from the others!"

"Oh dear, that's a problem!"

"You said it! L-Drago!"

"Wait! Those are-" Stormflight's voice was cut off as the biggest explosion of the night filled the air.

A few seconds later, another explosion marked the end of the fourth helicopter of the night, and the forest and village fell silent.

"What happened here while we were gone? Looks like something big blew up!" Firearrow's voice came a few seconds later.

"No kidding, but where are the others?" Lizardflight asked.

Ryo got up from the corner they were all huddled in and peeked through the curtains. "Looks like it is safe to come out!" he said, running for the front door.

Once the group got outside, all they could see was a blackened area in the center of the town. Ashes were falling from the sky as a few nearby empty houses burned, and were soon put out by the combined efforts of half of the Steel Warriors, the group that had been sent after the helicopter. The others were nowhere to be seen.

"We have to find them!" Jadebolt replied once Madoka had asked him where the others were.

After about five minutes of searching, Madoka's attention was attracted by the sound of a cough near the blackened remnants of a house that had been destroyed in the explosion. A few seconds later, the now-blackened figure of Cosmicbark broke through the thin layer of ashes and blackened wood that was lying on top of him.

"Are you okay? Where are the others? What happened?" Madoka asked, rushing over to him.

"Deactivate Cosmicbark system." Yuki coughed as his helmet retracted in response to the command.

Hyoma soon came running with a glass of water as Yuki started on a coughing fit, waving away the smoke from his face.

"Isn't he one of the Legendary Bladers?" Atsushi asked once he caught sight of the brown-haired blader.

"Yeah, he is! I think his name is Yuki!" one of the others replied.

"Yuki, what happened?" Madoka asked once Yuki's coughing had died down.

"There was a group of robots with rockets strapped to their backs, Ryuga hit one of them with L-Drago and everything blew." Yuki replied.

"Where were the others? Can you figure out where they might have landed?"

"I can try, I was the farthest away from the blast, Warriorbelt and Warlord were on the opposite side of the robots, just across from me, they should be somewhere over there." Yuki pointed across the blackened space to the blackened brush, which had been put out by Ryo, who was now searching the bushes.

"What about Gingka and Ryuga?" Madoka asked.

"They were the closest, and were both on that side of me." Yuki pointed to the left. "They were only about ten feet away from the one that Ryuga hit, Gingka was diving in to try and stop Ryuga from blowing it up, making him the closest."

Madoka panicked inwardly and rushed over, flipping over blackened pieces of wood and debris. After a while, she spotted something shining a few feet below her, completely buried. "Ryo! Over here!" she called.

The redhead turned from helping a helmetless Chris out of the bushes and rushed over. Together, he and Madoka dug almost frantically through the debris, only digging faster once they caught sight of the full metal face of Stormflight.

"No way! It can't be!" Ryo exclaimed once they finished. The mask was half-open, a metal bar protruding from the back of the neck, snapped off about five inches down, and the blader was nowhere to be found.

"Ok, ok, he has to be over here." Ryo muttered. "We just have to keep digging, and- Madoka!" he caught the brunette as she fainted. "Tsubasa!"

The silver-haired blader looked up and caught sight of the limp mechanic. "Is she okay?" he asked, rushing over.

"She should be, just get her inside, she had quite a shock." Ryo said quickly, passing Madoka to Tsubasa and turning back to digging frantically.

"Ughh, did a water pipe burst or something?" Ryo lifted his hands out of the black pile to dry them off on his shirt, then froze. "This is- Benkei! Come quickly and help me dig!"

The purple-haired blader rushed over, and the two soon uncovered a blackened figure. No, make that two of them. Gingka and Ryuga were lying almost side by side, the face of Ryuga's mask was bashed in, and Gingka's coat was almost nonexistent. What scared Ryo the most however, was the jagged edge of the steel bar that had held his helmet in place, the edge of it seemed to have created a large gash in Gingka's back, and Ryuga's arm was bleeding as well.

"Yuki! Get over here! You too Kenta, and bring the first-aid kit! Quickly!"

The two bladers, having removed their helmets and reintroduced themselves to the younger bladers, snapped into action at Ryo's call.

Benkei backed off as the two, plus Ryo, jumped into action, stripping Ryuga's coat off of him and applying pressure to his arm. Kenta and Titi soon had the bleeding stopped on Ryuga's arm, as Yuki and Ryo worked hard on Gingka, with Kyoya and Dunamis running supplies back and forth.

"Hyoma, keep Madoka inside when she wakes up, we don't need her panicking here." Ryo said.

Zero and the others kept their distance under orders from Chris, who was trying to pop King's arm back into place.

"Ouch!" King jerked his arm out of the blonde blader's grasp. "That hurt!" he rubbed his shoulder.

"Well, it would have hurt more if I didn't pop it back into place." Chris muttered, leaning back against the wall to watch the activity across the clearing worriedly.

"Is he going to be okay?" Zero whispered.

"I don't know." King sighed. "I hope so though."

Gingka: What. Did. You. Do?

Me: Umm…

Gingka: -glares- That's it, I'm done!

Me: No! don't leave, Gingka-san!

Gingka: Forget it!

Me: I'll make you a burger!

Gingka: I don't care! I'm leaving!