Ok, so since Gingka quit after the last AN and I can't find him, Zero is going to do the disclaimer! I'm leaving for a while to go look for Gingka, so bye! Zero, it's all up to you now! Don't let me down!
Zero: Okay! Wait, you didn't tell me you were leaving! What am I supposed to do?
Me: -running off- Read the cue cards!
Zero: Cue cards? Oh, those cue cards. -picks up cue cards- GalaxyPegasus14 does not own Metal Fight Beyblade.
A few hours after the DNA attack, Madoka woke up to find herself lying on the couch in the living room of Ryo's house. The brunette sat up, confused for a few moments, until she remembered the events of the day before. Her eyes widened.
"R-Ryo!" her voice echoed back at her in the empty house. Madoka put on her boots, which were lying next to the couch, and went outside.
The village outside was eerily silent, and a few embers still glowed around the area where the battle had occurred. Madoka walked nervously through the village.
"Hello? Is anyone here?" she called, but nobody was in sight. Madoka walked silently over to the house that Gingka had assigned all the girls to earlier, and peeked inside. She could see several sleeping forms, as well as the familiar figures of Ren and Maru sitting up next to each other.
A peek a few minutes later across the street revealed that Zero, Shinobu, Kaito, and Eito were also sitting up, chatting in low voices on the front porch of their assigned home.
"What are you guys doing up so late?" Madoka whispered, walking over.
"Oh, umm, we were just chatting, what about you?" Zero replied.
"I was just wondering where everyone went." Madoka replied.
"I think all the Legendary Bladers are in there" Kaito pointed to a light on the other side of the village.
"Alright, thanks Kaito. I guess I'll head over there now." Madoka turned and headed towards the building the young blader had indicated.
Reaching the building only put more stress on the worried mechanic's mind, as the building, the only one in the entire village with lights on inside, turned out to be the hospital. Trembling, the brunette opened the door and went inside. A nurse greeted her, and took her into another room, where Ryo, Kenta, Dunamis, Aguma, Titi, Kyoya, and Hyoma were waiting. Kenta was chatting casually with Yuki, who was having his left arm treated for a few minor burns. Chris, seated in another chair, was being examined by a nurse to make sure nothing was broken, and King was complaining loudly as a third nurse put his left arm in a sling so that his shoulder could heal.
Ryo lifted his tired eyes from the magazine he was reading as Madoka came and sat next to him.
"Did you find him?" Madoka whispered.
Ryo nodded. "Yeah, he was injured pretty badly, but he should be just fine."
"Can I go see him?"
"They aren't letting anyone in yet, they are still working on making sure his condition is stable. I haven't been in to see him myself yet."
At that moment, a nurse entered. Ryo stood.
"You should be able to go see him now, we finally got him to stabilize." the nurse said.
"Alright, thanks. Come on Madoka, let's go." Ryo replied, starting off down the hall.
"Third door to your left!" the nurse called.
Ryo nodded and counted. "One, two, three. Here it is!" the redhead opened the door.
Inside, Gingka and Ryuga were lying in separate beds, both with an oxygen mask over their face. Both had their eyes closed, but Ryuga seemed to be muttering something inaudible in his subconscious state. Both were equally pale, and both were hooked up to a machine that was replacing the blood that had been lost in their injuries.
"He's going to be okay." Madoka whispered, mostly to reassure herself.
"Yeah, looks like they both will. The only question now is what to do while they are out." Ryo said.
"Huh?"
"Well, we can't stop just because the leaders are out. We still have to deal with the DNA, with or without them."
"Yeah, I guess you're right. But what do we do?"
"Well, I think that Kyoya should be put in charge of the Steel Warriors for now, but of course, that is their decision. We need to not let the DNA know that they almost took out their two strongest opponents. That would give them a huge confidence boost if they found out about this."
"Yeah, no kidding, even though it wasn't even really them."
"Yeah, it was all Ryuga's fault, although I thought he was smarter than this." Kyoya's voice came from behind them.
Madoka and Ryo turned.
"We have decided to continue what these two started, with or without them." Kyoya began. "They put me in charge, although I would rather be in charge due to beating Gingka than him being unable to lead, this way of becoming leader, even if it's temporary, really sucks."
A chuckle escaped Madoka's lips. "You never change, do you?"
Kyoya grinned. "You shouldn't need to worry about them, even when unconscious, bladers are still connected to their beys, and their beys can give them quite a bit of strength."
"Really?" Madoka was interested.
Kyoya nodded. "Looks like Pegasus is doing just that right now." he said, pointing. Madoka turned and gasped, her turquoise eyes widening. Gingka's Legend Aura, normally only visible when he was using his full power in a battle, was now shining around him, casting a warm blue glow on the room. Just beyond him, L-Drago was apparently also responding, causing the room to be bathed in a mixture of red-orange and blue light.
Ryo smiled. "Bladers never give up. Kyoya, if you need any help, me and Fireblaze would be more than happy to offer it, even if we probably couldn't do much compared to you guys."
"I'll keep that in mind." Kyoya said. "We should probably go, and get some sleep ourselves."
"Agreed." Ryo replied. "Madoka?"
The brunette placed a kiss on Gingka's forehead, then turned. "Yeah, let's go so we can be ready in case they attack again.
"Their beys are at my house, all of them need repairing." Ryo said.
"Alright, I'll go get started on them."
"Do the beys of the bladers that are still able to battle first." Kyoya spoke up. "That way, we can be ready faster if they attack. Ryuga and Gingka's should be done last, since they won't be able to blade for a while."
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense." Madoka said. "One problem though, I don't have any of my tools with me right now."
"That isn't a problem, I'll send Titi and Kenta to sneak in and get them."
"Alright, I guess I'll get some sleep then, see you later Kyoya." Madoka and Ryo left.
"So? How are they doing?" Kenta asked as soon as the door closed behind Madoka and Ryo.
"Just fine, give them about another week or so and they should at least be awake." Kyoya replied. "Meanwhile, we have a huge job on our hands. Kenta, Titi, I need you guys to sneak back into Metal Bey City while it is still dark out and get Madoka's tools from the B-Pit. Dunamis, Aguma, you guys figure out just how much resources we have left. I will help you guys."
"And what about us?" Chris asked.
Kyoya grinned. "You guys are just going to sit back and rest for a couple of days and let us do the work while your minor injuries heal, nothing more."
"If you can get my tools and stuff, I can start working on the Stormflight and Dragonfang systems." Yuki spoke up.
"Tomorrow, as soon as Kenta and Titi get back they will be going to bed, which is what the rest of us are going to do right now." Kyoya said.
"Wait, I thought we were-" Dunamis began, but Kyoya cut him off.
"Tomorrow, we all need to rest first from the battle earlier. Tomorrow however, we will start as early as possible, but not before the sun rises."
"I guess we should take off then, see you guys in about an hour or so." Kenta said, getting up and leaving with Titi.
"Alright then, let's get back to the houses we took over, hopefully none of them burned, but I forgot to check" Kyoya said.
"So, how far from his helmet was he?" Madoka asked Ryo as they walked back to the house.
"Not very far, he and Ryuga were almost side-by-side."
"Madoka-chan!" Zero called from the front porch of their home. Madoka paused as the younger blader came running over.
"What is it Zero?" Madoka asked.
"Is Gingka-san okay?" the Ifraid wielder panted.
"He's going to be just fine." Madoka reassured the young blader.
"Phew!" Zero seemed relieved. "That's good, we were all worried. Guess I'll go tell the others and then go to bed." he ran off towards the group of his friends waiting for him between the two houses assigned to the guys and the girls. After talking among themselves for a few seconds, the group dispersed to head for their sleeping bags.
-Meanwhile-
"Okay, so the plan is to not get seen, but if we do, we have to avoid getting captured. Our beys are too damaged to be used safely, and would only attract more attention, so if we get spotted, just take off and fly a randomized course until we lose most of them, then take off at full speed back to Koma, unless we haven't gotten the supplies yet, then we have to try to get them first. Got it?" Kenta whispered through the communications system in his helmet.
Titi nodded. "Yeah, but why are you whispering? Our outside helmet speakers are off, and only I can hear you unless you like, scream at the top of your lungs."
"Oh yeah! I guess it's just because I would normally be whispering if I didn't have a helmet. Now, let's go! Computer, activate night vision!" Kenta ordered. The golden glow coming from the eyes of his and Titi's helmets soon shut off, leaving the area in front of them in complete darkness to everyone outside, but they could see their way perfectly.
"Looks like the DNA took over the whole city, not just the WBBA, otherwise the street lights would be on." Titi commented as they passed rows of darkened lamps and buildings.
"Yeah, and it's too quiet for normal Metal Bey City, there is usually a hum of traffic in the background."
"I don't even hear planes taking off and landing, and the airport is right there."
"Is there supposed to be any planes arriving or departing at this time of night? Titi, it's only two in the morning!"
"True, but I cant risk connecting to the internet here, if the DNA took over the whole city, they are probably closely monitoring any internet and phone services to make sure nobody can call for help from the outside."
"Yeah, good thing our communication systems run on their own separate network, otherwise they would have picked us up already."
"Robot patrol, hide!" Titi pulled Kenta down and the two rolled underneath a nearby parked car as a group of DNA robots marched past. The two Steel Warriors held their breaths as the robots passed, then released them once they were out of sight.
"Careful, they may have left a few behind." Kenta said as Titi peered out from under the car.
"All clear, how far are we from the B-Pit anyway?" Titi asked, darting out from under the car and into the darker shadows as the moon came out from behind a cloud, lighting up the city a bit more.
"About a few more miles I think, we should start taking the backstreets now, they are bound to have more patrols out looking for anything suspicious." Kenta said, joining the other gold-clad blader in the shadows.
"Yeah, good idea. Lead the way, Kenchi!"
Kenta nodded and crept off into a nearby alley.
"Dang it! It's a dead end!" Kenta muttered as the two came up against a wall.
"Another patrol is coming!" Titi said, hearing the rhythmic marching sounds of metal feet coming in contact with the concrete pavement.
"Over the wall, quickly!" Kenta fired his grappling hook onto the ledge of a nearby window and climbed up, Titi following close behind. From there, the two jumped over onto the wall and looked down.
"The river? We can't jump in there, I don't know if our suits can handle it!" Titi exclaimed.
Our suits can, but our jetpacks cant, if they get wet we have to wait for them to dry out before we can use them."
"Yeah, and we need to keep them dry."
"Uh-oh, those robots are getting closer."
"There! Into that tree!"
"Across the river?"
"Yeah! If we can get our grappling hooks into it, then retract them as we jump, shouldn't get wet!"
"Well, I guess it's our only choice if we don't want to get caught, using our jetpacks creates too much light. Let's do it!"
The two quickly pointed their right arms at the tree and fired, catching two of the tree's strongest branches with an expert shot. A few moments later, they landed safely in the tree, getting their legs wet up to their knees, but otherwise dry.
"Great idea Titi, that worked great! Now we just have to get to the B-Pit without getting spotted, going through that alleyway was actually a lot faster."
"Yeah! Let's get going, my legs are cold and I am starting to feel tired."
"Me too, we are almost there."
The two continued on their mission in near-silence, reaching the B-Pit within the next twenty minutes. They quickly went in, and collected as many of Madoka's tools as they could, placing them carefully into a case. Kenta locked the front door and lowered the metal doors that blocked the front of the shop from the street's view, and the two headed up to the roof unseen. Clouds had once again covered the moon, and the city was again completely darkened. The only lit buildings in the entire city were the WBBA and the city's capital building.
"So they did take over the city after all. This is worse than we thought, we should tell Kyoya right away." Kenta said.
"Yeah, let's get back to Yo-yo quickly!" Titi exclaimed as his jetpacks unfolded from the steel bar that was running from the steel belt around his waist to the back of his helmet. Kenta's jetpacks did the same, and two bright flashes of light attracted the attention of a patrol below, but only for a moment as the two gold-clad warriors soared up into the safety of the clouds, then set off for Koma Village.
Early the next morning, Kyoya woke up to the sound of beys clashing outside. The Spring blader rubbed the back of his neck as he walked to the window and looked outside. A battle was in progress between Zero and Shinobu, with the other young bladers cheering them on. Kyoya smiled and reached for his coat, clipping the Wildwind system to the back of his belt as he stepped out onto the porch, realizing suddenly that he didn't only have the other Legendary Bladers, he had what could easily become an unstoppable force of younger bladers, just waiting for him to ask them to work for him, with him. Determination filled the blader's brain as he stepped towards the group of younger bladers, determination to finish this perpetual war against the DNA before Gingka woke up.
"Hey, guys." The younger bladers jumped, startled, as a voice interrupted their battle. Ifraid and Saramanda froze in their places as their bladers turned to face the green-haired blader who was addressing them.
"Y-yes Kyoya-san?" Shinobu was the first to speak.
Kyoya grinned "How would you guys like to help me with something?"
"Sure! With what?" Zero replied.
"Cleanup and searching for our equipment, two of the houses that burned down had our stuff in them, and we need it all in a pile here in the middle of the clearing so that we can know what we lost, if any, and what we still have."
"Okay! How do we know it's yours though?"
"Anything that is ours will be in crates with the Steel Warriors logo on it, that logo looks like this." Kyoya pulled open his coat to reveal a logo with SW printed on it in grey on top of a red circle with a golden lightning bolt through it. "Look for that logo, and you should find everything."
"Alright! Let's go guys!" Zero lead a small army of the others towards one of the blackened frames that marked a former house.
Kyoya smiled at the enthusiasm as the younger bladers began searching excitedly. "Dunamis, Aguma." he said as the two purple-clad bladers stepped out of an untouched house nearby. The two turned to face him. "I got the younger bladers working on finding stuff, you guys just be available if they need help and go to the center of the clearing to find out what we are missing."
"Got it, why didn't we think of asking them to help before?" Dunamis replied.
"I guess we were just thinking of our own abilities as usual, it has only been us for the last few years anyway." Aguma said, turning towards the center of the clearing, where Shinobu and Kaito were already depositing a couple of small boxes.
Yuki, meanwhile, in a nearby house, began working on repairing the shattered pieces of Gingka and Ryuga's suits. Both were extremely damaged, and would take a while to repair.
"Need help, Yuki?" Madoka's voice came from the doorway as the mechanic walked in carrying a box that contained everyone's beys.
"Well, help would make this go faster, but don't you have a job yourself?"
"Yeah, but Maru could help, she is quite good at fixing beys already and I can have her take care of the minorly damaged ones, which will free me up to work on the heavily damaged ones and to work with you if I need to."
"Why don't you go get her then, we can use all the help we can get here. If there is anyone else who has enough technical knowledge to be of help, get them too." Yuki turned back to disassembling Ryuga's mask, laying out the parts carefully in a specific order. After a few minutes, Madoka returned with Maru and Kaito, as well as Eito, who was not able to help very much outside due to his small size.
"Alright, I got two people who do have technical knowledge, and Eito here should be able to help somehow, he has watched Kaito at his work before." Madoka said.
Yuki turned towards them. "Great, I needed someone to hold something in place anyway. Why don't you guys get working on the beys."
Eito joined the brown-haired Legendary Blader at his work desk, and the two were soon deeply absorbed in their work of taking apart Ryuga's helmet.
Meanwhile, Madoka, Kaito, and Maru were busy repairing the many scratches and gashes across the surfaces of the beys. Madoka immediately handed Quetzalcoatl to Maru after noting that it did not have very many scratches, and the ones it did have were shallow. Kaito was soon polishing away scratches on the fusion wheel of Scythe Kronos, and Madoka began work on Leone. The five worked diligently, intent on completing their assignment, as Kaito put it, "Perfectly, within the smallest amount of time possible."
Overall, the entire village was bustling with activity as the Legendary Bladers and their allies, both new and old, got back up and dusted themselves off, readying for another round against the DNA.
Zero: Ok, these cue cards are perfectly useless… -throws cards out window- Shinobu! Can you come help me with this?
Shinobu: What is it, Zero?
Zero: I think we are supposed to do something after the chapter, but I don't know what it is.
Shinobu: Oh, umm… let's go read the previous ANs and get some ideas. See you later, readers!
Kyoya: GalaxyPegasus14 wanted me to tell her amazing readers that if they have any information as to the whereabouts of a certain redhead, that they would please tell her in a review where he is. Thank you for reading, and she, or rather, Zero, will see you next week!