XD Guess what guys! I have officially finished writing this story! No, this chapter isn't the last, the next one is, but I am posting both today because #1: it's finally summer! (Or at least close enough) and #2: Because I want to and I can! Oh, and Gingka is back to doing disclaimers after a little persuasion.

Gingka: Yeah, yeah, I'm back, you can stop thanking me now… GalaxyPegasus14 does not own Metal Fight Beyblade, only the Steel Warriors.

Me: Oh, and everyone voted for Ending #2, so the DNA wins in this story… for now… XD

Gingka: WHAT?

"Scythestrike to Warriorbelt, I'm in position."

"Good, me too. Jadebolt?"

"Ready and waiting. Wildwind just called in and said that Stormflight is up and suspects something, so we have to hurry."

Chris laughed. "Well then, let's get this job done!"

"Lizardflight in position."

"Good, you guys know what to do, right?"

"Yeah, of course we do!" Warlord's voice came through. "We're not stupid!"

"We used to be though, but now is not the time to think about that. In and out, that's what Wildwind said, and that's what we are going to do." Dunamis said.

Everyone fell silent.

"Guys, we can't fail. If we fail, we either die or get captured, and either one is really bad." Chris said.

"We won't fail, failure is not in our vocabulary!" King exclaimed.

Chris grinned under his helmet. "Then Operation Retaliate is on! On my mark, get ready!"

Everyone tensed.

"Go!" Chris ordered.

Lizardflight and Warlord blasted off noisily, attracting the attention of a few robots and DNA personnel on the roof.

"Get them!" one of the personnel ordered, pointing.

"Come on, take the bait…" Chris muttered, crouching lower in the bushes as five robots began chasing Titi and King.

"Left now!" King called, and both bladers split off towards where Dunamis was waiting.

"That's your cue Jadebolt! Go now!"

"Let it rip!"

"Yeah! Take that!"

"Don't celebrate yet, Warlord. I only took out three of them."

"Then I'll make another pass! Get ready!"

"All DNA personnel head to the ground floor, we seem to have a few intruders." Merci said, his voice echoing through the building.

"Here they come!" Aguma shouted as he saw the DNA advancing out of their front door.

"Lizardflight, Warlord, DNA at five o'clock."

"Got it. Let's go Lizardflight!"

The two quickly landed in front of the bushes and acted like they were retreating. The entire DNA, or at least all that were there, followed them.

"Go! While it's unprotected!" Warriorbelt and Scythestrike soared out of the bushes and flew through the front door of the DNA, just before it closed.

"Nice try, you two, but this is where you are stopping." Merci's voice came through a speaker.

"Oh, hello Merci! Fancy meeting you here!" Chris said sarcastically.

Merci laughed. "Okay then, we shall play. Computer vs. Idiots."

"I like those odds, two against one huh?" Aguma said.

"Ohoho, you just think it's that way!" Merci said as a door in front of them opened and a small squad of robots poured out.

"No combat, just straight through." Warriorbelt muttered.

"Three, two, one…" Aguma trailed off.

"Blastoff!" Titi yelled as they reached a predetermined place. He and King smashed their grappling hooks into a large tree, then flew in circles, trapping every last DNA blader and effectively tying them to the tree.

"Master, we have a problem." Merci's voice cut into Argo's thoughts.

"What is it now, Merci? Are the workers complaining again?"

"No sir, the enemy seems to have known that most of our forces were there with you, please look at the screen." Merci replied.

Argo stared in shock as two of the Steel Warriors flew past a camera, the numbers at the bottom indicating that it was in the main stairwell. "Do whatever it takes, their target has to be either you or the robotics lab! Don't let them get to either!"

"Yes, Master." Merci said.

"Which floor was it on again?" Aguma asked as he and Chris landed halfway up the stairwell.

"I don't know, but it won't take long for Merci to figure out where we are and catch up. I sure hope that Dunamis is doing his job!"

Meanwhile, a tall figure blasted open the door to the main office of the DNA and sat down at one of the computers.

"Alright Merci, take this!" Dunamis muttered, inserting a small chip into the computer mainframe.

"Yes! I'm in!" Yuki exclaimed as a confirmation popped up on his screen.

"Into what?" Gingka asked, coming over to look as Yuki began typing rapidly.

"Let's see, shipping and commerce, DNA bladers list, banking, no, no, no, that's not it, no, no- aha! Building layouts! Warriorbelt, Scythestrike, can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear Cosmicbark! Are you in?"

"Yup, fifth floor, third door to your right is what you want!"

"Yahoo! Let's go Scythe! Thanks Cosmic! Great job, Jadebolt, now get out of there!"

"Let's see just how much we can mess up." Yuki grinned.

"Ohohoo! That tickles! Please, stooop!" Merci yelped as Yuki began typing again.

"Merci? Kyoya…" Gingka turned to his rival, who just grinned.

"Looks like Operation Retaliate is working just fine."

"So that's what you meant earlier. Ok, clue me in. what's going on here?"

"If it involves an explosion, WHY DIDN'T YOU WAIT FOR ME?" Ryuga roared.

"It does involve an explosion, a very big explosion." Kyoya grinned.

"They're down! Jadebolt, Scythestrike, let's go!" Chris yelled, planting the two cylinders he had been carrying on his back the whole time, then blasted out the open door after Aguma, who was on his way to the stairwell.

"Warlord, Lizardflight! Release them! We're done here!" Dunamis ordered as he reached the stairwell and flew up, blasting a hole in the roof to get out.

"Merci, what's the status there?" Argo asked.

"They planted something in our robotics lab, I don't know what it is though. All robots have been cleared with the important equipment and are headed your way sir."

"Perfect, good job. You have downloaded yourself to the WBBA computers?"

"Of course I have sir."

"Then evacuate the remaining DNA forces to here, our conquest will begin now."

"Merci Boku, Master. It is already being done."

"Withdraw from the building, we need you here completely."

Chris, Aguma, King, Dunamis, and Titi flew into the top of Yuki's old lab and went underground, just in time as an explosion rippled through the area.

"Merci is offline." Yuki reported.

"Operation Retaliate successful." Chris reported to Kyoya. "The DNA headquarters no longer exists."

Kyoya grinned. "I promised myself I would take care of the DNA before you were back in action, and it looks like I did." he turned to look triumphantly at a stunned Gingka.

The redhead grinned. "Well, looks like you definitely did."

"Kyoya! We have a problem!" Kenta reported, rushing in.

"What is it, Kenta?" Gingka asked.

"A huge, and I mean HUGE amount of robots are coming this way!" Kenta reported.

"You're kidding! But Merci coordinates them! His mind is theirs! They should be offline!" Kyoya growled.

"This fight isn't over yet." Gingka muttered. "Madoka, how long should it take you to pack up all of your tools?"

Madoka looked at the pile. "Neatly, about an hour. Just throwing them in, five minutes."

"Get them packed, we may have to evacuate Koma Village. Kyoya, warn the others. Yuki, start packing up your lab here. Ryuga, you and me are going to be a diversion."

"A diversion!" Madoka exclaimed, then paused, seeing that there was no stopping them.

Kyoya sighed and left, knowing that Gingka was now back in charge.

"Gingka, before you go, there's something you should know." Yuki said.

"What is it?" Gingka paused with his hand on the door.

"I modified your suits, instead of a simple bar of metal up the back, it will now unfold over your whole torso to prevent it from snapping like it did last time."

Gingka grinned. "See Madoka? No problem, Yuki took care of it all. Let's go Ryuga. And this time, don't hit any with bombs, please. I really don't want to go back to the hospital."

"Gingka… good luck." Madoka whispered as she turned and began throwing tools into a bag.

"Scythestrike, Warlord, Warriorbelt, Lizardflight, Jadebolt. I need you back to base now. We are under another DNA attack, it would seem that Kyoya's Operation Retaliate was not quite as successful as we thought." Gingka ordered.

"Well, look who's back in charge. Taking off now, be there in a few hours." Dunamis's voice came.

Madoka felt another little tickle and a sharp pain in her ribcage as she bent over to pick up a tool she had dropped. "Ow…" she muttered, rubbing her stomach.

"You okay?" Yuki paused his work for a moment to look at the brunette.

"I'm fine, just a stomachache or something." Madoka resumed working.

Yuki watched her for a few moments, then resumed working as well.

Outside, Gingka and Ryuga blasted off noisily while Kyoya and Kenta quietly snuck under cover of the trees towards the houses where all the younger bladers were.

The eyes of every robot followed the two streaks, one blue, one orange.

"Come on, take the bait." Gingka muttered, raising his arm and preparing to fire his cable. The robots hesitated at the sight of the gleaming hook mounted on his wrist, then flew forwards again to surround him.

"Dragonfang, you ready?"

"Yeah, are you?"

"Of course I am! Now here's the plan. We get them as far away from here as possible, so that the others can get stuff done and get into hiding."

"We're running?"

"Only far enough to give the others freedom to move however they need to. Then we can turn and fight, but not a lot, since we don't have our beys."

"Okay, I'll go along with this for now..."

Argo was surprised as the cameras implanted into the robots' heads showed only two of the Steel Warriors, retreating. However, he thought that he had them at his mercy, and ordered all of the robots to follow after the two fleeing figures.

For half an hour, Gingka and Ryuga kept up the act, fleeing over Japan to the most rural area they could find. Suddenly, without warning, they shut off and retracted their jetpacks, plunging straight into a dense forest.

Argo hesitated for a moment, then pressed a few more keys, sending his army straight into the forest after the two.

"Ouch, okay, now my back hurts." Gingka muttered once they landed.

"No kidding, I didn't even know I used those muscles when in the air!" Ryuga growled.

"No time to lose, they're already on the ground." Gingka said as he heard crashing.

"Then this is where the fun begins." Ryuga said.

Gingka grinned under his helmet. "Activate nightvision."

When the robots landed, Argo used their eyes to scan around for the two.

Both Steel Warriors crouched in the trees, keeping a close eye on the robots.

"Now what, smart guy?" Ryuga asked.

"I don't know, I actually only thought it up to here, but we have two options. Either we leave them here to look for us and head back, or we stay and fight them hand to hand in a skill vs. skill battle." Gingka replied, watching as the robots turned on high-powered searchlights and began to scan the trees.

"Well, I'm not one for running away." Ryuga stated as he crouched lower behind a large branch, away from the searchlights.

"I know, and I don't like running either. However, a hand to hand combat with these guys could end badly, since we don't know everything they can do."

"Yeah, but getting out of here could also be dangerous. Why don't we set up a sort of trap for them and use one of us as bait?"

"Well, since you suggested it, you can be the bait, but what kind of trap can we really make with what we have?"

"Well, lets see, we have you and I, our grappling hooks, the 'whirling electrified disk of flame' technique, and practically an infinite amount of wood."

The sounds of wild animals roaring punctuated Ryuga's sentence.

"Add a few tigers to our arsenal then." Ryuga said.

"Well, if we could use a cable, preferably mine, and wrap it around a few trees, we could create a net that, unless they shone their searchlights on it, would be invisible. You could lure them into this trap, then close it off with your cable to create a sort of cage. We could then show ourselves and lure them into the electrified wire, which would either drain their batteries or overload them, either way taking out the whole group."

"I like that idea, now we just have to find a spot nearby, where they wont see us, that has a good arrangement of trees that we can use."

"Yeah, and that's our problem."

"They practically lit up the whole forest, great."

"One, two, three, about ten feet apart, all within a small area..." Gingka broke off into near-silent muttering.

"Huh?"

"The area they are in is perfect, we just need to create a web before they move and without them noticing us."

"I see, a triangle would he easiest to do with those trees and their current formation."

"Lets start by firing into that tree right there," Gingka indicated a large tree in the center, "and then sneak around in opposite directions until we have about two layers. Then, we activate our jetpacks and count on their speed to evade the arsenal of the robots while completing our web, keeping it electrified the whole time. Hopefully, they will try to follow us and fall right into it."

"And if they go up?"

Gingka looked at the branches above the robots. "First wrap your cable under a branch, the first direction we fly should be up to make an X shape above their heads. After that, just fly all over until you run out of cable."

"I like this plan already." Ryuga said, sneaking away from his hiding place the moment the robots' searchlights were pointed away from him.

Gingka began to move after his rival, but Madoka's voice broke into his helmet before he fired his cable.

"Gingka? Are you there?" The brunette sounded extremely worried.

"Yeah, I'm here." Gingka replied.

Madoka let out a sigh of relief on the other side of the connection. "Oh, thank goodness! I was beginning to get really worried and Yuki let me call you from his helmet. Are you safe?"

"Well, for the moment, as long as these robots don't see me. That will change in a few minutes though, me and Ryuga are laying a trap that requires us using ourselves as bait. We are in a forest about thirty minutes' flight from you, in the extreme south of Japan."

"Be careful Gingka, you could get killed." Madoka said.

"I know, Madoka. Listen, if I don't make it back, just know that I love you and always will. I have to go now, Ryuga is waiting to help me set this up. I'll call you back the minute I'm done here if I succeed."

"O-okay. Good luck, Gingka." Madoka sounded like she was about to cry as she cut off the connection.

Gingka closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and looked at the figure crouched close by in the darkness. "Let's do this." He said quietly.

"Gingka." Ryuga said, still hiding.

"Yeah?"

"If we don't make it, you were a great rival." Ryuga said through clenched teeth before firing his cable into the tree and darting for another.

Gingka smiled and fired his own cable. "I wont even ask if that was a compliment, the same goes for you."

Madoka, biting back tears, unclipped the Cosmicbark system from her belt and handed it back to its owner. The brunette then ran out of the building covering her face with her hands.

"Let me handle this." Kyoya said, chasing after her.

He soon found the mechanic in the Hagane home, seated on the couch and sobbing into a confused Ryo's shoulder.

Ryo raised an eyebrow as Kyoya entered, silently asking what was going on.

Kyoya shook his head sadly and left.

Ryo absentmindedly stroked the brunette's hair, wondering why she had cone to him and not Gingka. Then, it struck him: something had happened to his son.

"Madoka, what happened?" He asked quietly, trying to keep himself from trembling as he stroked her hair.

Madoka's sobbing quieted for a moment as she lifted her face and locked her turquoise eyes with Ryo's golden-brown.

"What happened?" Ryo repeated the question.

Madoka sniffled and began. "Gingka... Got out of the hospital, a few hours ago, more robots attacked and he-" she paused as a fresh storm of tears broke out.

"He what?" Ryo struggled to maintain his composure.

"He and Ryuga left, using themselves as bait to get the robots to leave. I called Gingka a few minutes ago on Yuki's suit, and he said he was in the far south of Japan in a forest, with Ryuga and the robots, who were searching for them." She paused again.

"And?" Ryo prompted.

Madoka suddenly put a hand on her stomach as she felt another tickle. "H-he said there was a chance he might not make it."

Ryo just stared into the turquoise eyes that had now broken contact with his and were staring around the room with a new realization dawning in them, all emotion caused by her conversation with Gingka suddenly gone. However, a few minutes later, the cascade broke out again.

"What if he never meets him?" Madoka's voice was barely above a whisper.

"Huh?" Ryo was confused.

"I-I think I'm pregnant!" Madoka lifted her eyes to meet Ryo's again as she grabbed his hand and placed it on her stomach.

Ryo smiled. "I think you're right!" He replied.

"What if he-or she- never gets to meet Gingka?" Madoka sobbed.

"Whichever it is, I'm sure Gingka will be there." Ryo replied, pulling the scared brunette close.

"Here goes nothing." Gingka said quietly. "You ready for the last stretch Ryuga?"

"Yeah, my cable is wrapped underneath a branch and ready to go."

"Then go." Gingka and Ryuga blasted off, their silencers on to avoid attracting attention instantly.

"There they are." Argo grinned evilly as two flaming streaks shot upwards on his screen. "And fire." He pressed a button.

"Here it comes!" Gingka shouted as the metal figures started firing.

"Not enough bravery to risk a straight getaway path?" Argo sneered.

"That doesn't look like they are trying to get away." Selen commented.

"Looks more like their jetpacks are malfunctioning." Enzo said.

"That's too controlled to be a malfunction though." Ian seemed confused.

Suddenly, both landed on opposite sides of the clearing and put their helmets down. A triumphant smirk was spread across both faces as they stared down their opponent.

Argo smirked and ordered the robots to fire, only to be given the notification that every robot in the group was out of bullets. Frustrated, the Brazilian blader pressed the button to fire a rocket at the two bladers, only to be again faced with the notification that they were both out of range of the short-range missiles that had been installed more recently into the arsenal. Angered, Argo slammed the button and ordered the robots to advance quickly, sending some into the air.

A loud buzzing and crackling noise filled the air and the screen went blank as the robots encountered the near-invisible webbed trap that had been so skillfully laid for them.

Argo growled and flipped the control table at the notification that all of his robots were now offline. "Move the robots patrolling the city to the capital, we will deal with those pesky Legend Bladers later!" He roared.

"A little shock goes a long way." Gingka chuckled, starting to trace his elaborate web backwards to its starting point.

"That. Was. AWESOME!" Ryuga exclaimed as he followed suit.

"And I couldn't have had a better comrade to help me." Gingka said with a smile, putting his helmet back up and using it to trace his web.

Ryuga smiled and put his own helmet up. "Me either."

Madoka and Ryo remained tense for what seemed like hours. The only thing Madoka could think about or even focus on was the tiny movement in her stomach. "What if Gingka never makes it? What if this child never has a father? What if-" the thoughts kept replaying themselves over and over again in her mind.

Exactly one hour after Madoka had called Gingka, Kyoya walked in holding a headset, a look of relief on his face.

"It's Gingka." He confirmed, handing the headset to the brunette, who whispered a 'thank you' before putting it on as fast as her trembling hands would permit. Kyoya soon left.

"Gingka?"

"We did it Madoka, we did it." Was all the redhead on the other end of the line said, but that was all Madoka needed to hear.

"Gingka, come home."

"On my way already, I will see you in half an hour if nothing happens."

"And Gingka-" Madoka said quickly before he could hang up.

"Yeah?"

"That tickle earlier that caused me to jump- I'm pregnant."

The other end of the line was silent.

"Gingka?"

"Geez Hagane, watch where you're going, will you?" Ryuga's voice broke in. "You almost hit me!"

"Sorry Ryuga." Gingka said at last. "Madoka, are you serious? This isn't a prank of some sort?"

"No, it's definitely real. Come back quickly, okay?"

"I'll make a new speed record." Gingka said as the line cut off.

Me: Oh, I forgot to mention that I blew up the DNA headquarters because I wanted to as well…

Kyoya: Umm, we blew up the DNA headquarters…

Me: Well, I am the one writing the story…