SailorStar9: 11 chapters up and no review. You guys don't love me anymore. (Pouts). Anyway, this is Chapter 14. read and review..
Disclaimers: I do not own both the animes. However, I do own the pairing, I hope.
Chapter 14: Alice Gets Schooled
On Earth, at Alice's uncle's place...
Alice coughed as she awoke from her temporary bed in her aunt's attic.
"Are you still sleeping, Alice? Time to get up." her aunt called to awaken her.
"Just another five minutes." Alice yawned.
"That it, girl. Did you have a nice sleep?" her aunt inquired.
"Yeah, I had the best sleep. Thanks auntie." Alice replied.
Downstairs...
"Okay, let's see." Alice mused, looking at the shopping list. "This stuff looks pretty easy to find, Uncle Ben."
"Just shopping and straight home, Alice." her uncle reminded.
"Would you two please stop worrying about me?" Alice giggled. "I'll be back. In no time!"
"Be careful!" her aunt shouted as Alice took off.
"Okay!" Alice shouted back.
"You think she'd be alright, Ben?" Alice's aunt asked her husband.
"Oh, she'll be fine, dear." Ben assured his wife. "Why, just think of how much better she looks when she first showed up at our house."
Flashback
One night, Ben and his wife peered into the peephole and were socked to find Alice standing in front of the door in the rain.
"Remember how shocked we were?" Ben reminisced. "Here's our only niece, all alone at our front door in the middle of the night."
"But what bothers me the most hun, is why won't she tell us what happened." his wife remarked. "Why all the mystery?"
"What's even stranger, is what happened to her grandfather." Ben added. "It's not like him to just disappear. I just wish Micheal would give us a call and straighten this all out."
In the park...
I can't believe how peaceful it is out here. Alice mused. If only it could stay like this forever. But I guess that's never going to happen. Never.
"You ready to play Bakugan?" a boy asked his friend.
"Here's my Pyrus Saurus and when I use my 'Fire Wall' ability, he's pretty much unbeatable." his friend boasted.
"I'll take him any day." another boy challenged.
"No!" Alice panicked and took off running as a memory of Masquerade entered her mind.
Flashback
"I can't believe Alice is really Masquerade." Marucho gaped.
"Thanks for everything, you guys." Alice wept. "But, but I... can't hang out with you anymore. Goodbye. I have to go."
"But Alice." Runo protested.
"I have to disappear for a while.' Alice concluded.
"Alice, no! Wait!" Runo shouted as Alice's teleportation card flashed.
"Alice!" she cried out when Alice disappeared.
There's no way they'll ever forgive me for what I've done. Ever! I guess I don't blame them. Alice thought, before tripping over her feet.
"I wish I..." she sobbed, guilt-stricken. "I wish I could change everything."
"Huh?" she blinked when she stood up and saw the lake had frozen over. "That's weird. The lake's frozen over. It's the middle of summer. I wonder what's going on and whose castle is that? I've never seen it there before. Strange."
In the pavilion inside his castle...
"What a beautiful day." Klaus remarked. "Don't you think so, Sirenoid?"
"Yes, Master Klaus." Sirenoid agreed. "A beautiful day indeed."
"Everything is perfect." Klaus added. "The universe has finally come into balanced harmony."
"Although..." he frowned.
"Someone approaches." Sirenoid informed her partner as Alice walked in.
"It's been a while, Klaus, hasn't it?" Alice greeted the Aquos Brawler.
"And you are?" Klaus inquired.
"Give me a minute and I'll explain everything." Alice told him.
Inside the castle...
"Interesting." Klaus noted once Alice revealed everything. "So you were Masquerade along."
"I'm sorry for getting you involved in my crazy world." Alice apologized. "It wasn't fair to you. And, it's much too late for an apology, isn't it?"
"When you, or should I say, Masquerade, defeated me," Klaus stated. "I was ready to give up. You took my Sirenoid and I realized without it, I never wanted to play Bakugan ever again. But then, my precious Sirenoid returned from the Doom Dimension."
"It was a miracle." Sirenoid added. "And it's all thanks to the grace of our dearest Messiah."
"Indeed." Klaus agreed. "That gentle yet benevolent aura I sensed is truly suited for the one who is the Pillar of all of Vestroia."
"My life has become simple." he turned to his visitor. "Now, all I yearn for is surrounding myself with tranquility."
"It's starting..." Sirenoid winced as a ripple of energy hit her.
"What Sirenoid?" Klaus asked.
"Our worlds..." Sirenoid replied. "They're beginning to vibrate! And the Princess... I can sense her in this world. But her aura... it has grown so weak."
"Are you sure?" Klaus asked.
"A mysterious giant hole is discovered early this morning in the Pacific Ocean!" the reporter announced as Klaus switched on the TV. "With each passing minute, it appears to grow larger n diameter and so far, there has been no official explanation from the scientific community."
"Is that..." Alice gawked.
"It is the portal to Vestroia." Sirenoid confirmed.
"So, that would mean..." Alice trailed off.
"That our world and Vestroia are connecting." Klaus finished her sentence.
"And soon, if they aren't stopped, they will unite as one." Sirenoid added.
"Our greatest fear." Klaus concluded.
"Alice?" he blinked at the screaming girl as Alice was struck by flashes of memories of Hal-G and Masquerade.
"No! It's all my fault!" Alice exclaimed. "It's all my fault It's because of all the horrible things I did, that Masquerade did. Everything that's happening to the world right now, is all because of what I did to everyone! I stole their Bakugan and now everyone has to suffer. I want nothing to do with Bakugan ever again!"
"Alice, you can't be serious." Klaus scolded.
"What?" Alice stammered. "What do you mean, Klaus?"
"I think you're just..." Klaus smiled. "Overreacting. And to prove it, I challenge you to a battle."
"Huh?" Alice was stunned. "Serious?"
With a clap of his hands, Klaus turned on the security system of his castle.
"As you can see," he added, when a stone table with Bakugan balls on it appeared. "This is my extensive Bakugan collection. After you defeated me, I began collecting in hopes of one day, getting my revenge against you. That day has come, and then you can retire after our little battle."
"But, I can't." Alice protested. "I won't!"
"I hope you don't mind that I've taken the liberty of choosing your Bakugan." Klaus remarked, tossing the Bakugan he had picked from his collection.
"Subterra, Ventus, Darkus." Alice looked at the three Bakugan in her hands. "But they all have different attributes?"
"My pets." Klaus clarified. "Aren't they the most extraordinary treasures?"
"But Klaus," Alice protested. "I told you I won't battle."
"You will!" Klaus snapped. "After what you did to me and others, Masquerade, you don't have the right to refuse me."
"Field!" Alice revealed a Field Card.
"Open!" Klaus followed suit.
A/N: I'm skipping the Bakugan battle because I know you guys know what happen.
Meanwhile with Eva....
The Vestroia Princess was breaking out in cold sweat as a vision came to her.
Vision (This is from the Sailor Mon dimension and set straight from episode 61 - except that Chibi Usa isn't at Mamoru's apartment when Usagi goes round.)
"I'm sorry Mamo-chan, but I need you too much..." Usagi said with a very odd unyielding tone of voice that Mamoru had never heard her use before, and which sounded completely out of place coming out from the mouth of the normally very forgiving Moon Princess.
The Ginzuishou had always been her anchor, her most reliable ally in her quest to re-shape the world into a place where only she could be happy, with the ones she loved by her side. Deep inside, some deep part of her heart cried bitter tears up to this day at the injustice of always having to force people into caring and not once have had them choose her of their own free will. But that part of her heart was deeply buried and silenced by the imperious need to provide herself with people's affection. As long as the Ginzuishou was there, no matter how cruel the world decided to be towards her, nothing would prevent the Moon Princess from taking other people's love for herself whenever she felt she needed it.
The last time she did was during the Silver Millennium when Princess Serenity had tried using the Ginzuishou to force the Mercurian Knight to love her. When that failed, the Moon Princess then killed Mercury's Soul Twin in vengeance.
Flashback
The vengeful blond Princess Serenity stood before a gravely wounded Shun lookalike, a silver spear in her hand.
"You could have been mine, Seito, but you stupidly chose her." the Moon Princess sneered, "If I can't have you,then neither can Amiee."
With the spear raised, she stabbed it through the Mercurian Knight's chest.
A wail of pain and rage then wretched from the Mercurian Princess when she saw the fall of her Soul Twin. That surge of emotion triggered her ultimate transformation; the Silver Wing symbol on her shoulder blade started to pulse a silvery-blue light before bursting into full.
Her Sailor fuku was no more as silver markings, of a type the Moon Princess had never seen before, appeared on Amiee's face and arms. Over the chest area of her dress, was the symbol of a large bird, wings open in flight, in pure, glittering silver. Two long pieces of hair that aligned Amiee's face were now pure white and a great contrast to her naturally dark hair. But most striking was what was on her back.
Two large, long silver-white wings glowed in the dark.
The Silver Wing had awaken and low to he who has awakened her.
During the battle...
"Now, what's going on?" Klaus inquired as the earth shook again.
"I can think of only one explanation." Sirenoid told him. "The Earth is trembling because Vestroia and your world are on the verge of coming together."
"No way!" Klaus gasped when the portal in the sea revealed itself above them.
"Dan?" Alice gaped.
On the helicopter...
"Okay!" Dan started. "Are you ready?"
"Yeah!" the group chorused.
At that, the five jumped right into the portal.
"They're all headed to Vestroia to save the world." Alice realized. "And I should be there with them."
"Wait!" she hollered, as the portal above them closed.
"Everyone is trying to save the universe." she muttered. "That's everyone, except me. How can I be so selfish? What was I thinking?"
"Why? Why?" she belated herself.
"No!" she exclaimed, throwing down an Ability Card as the battle continued.
After the battle...
"That was some battle." Klaus noted. "There were times that I thought for sure I was never going to recover and lose."
"You know," Alice admitted. "I tired my best, and even though I wasn't going to brawl against you, why am I still disappointed that I lost?"
"Because you're a true Bakugan Battle Brawler, Alice." Klaus told her.
"Huh?" Alice blinked. "Are you being serious?"
"Hey, I couldn't be more serious." Klaus knelt to her level. "And think about it, you didn't even bring your own Bakugan, yet you put up some fight back there."
"I guess so." Alice remarked, looking at the six different attributed Bakugan on the floor.
"And think about what this game means." Klaus added. "It's like my Bakugan. Water, wind, fire, earth, light and darkness. All six attributes create one thing; perfect harmony; the way the world should be. It all makes sense. When you stand back and look at it, everyone and everything has a purpose, Alice."
"I think I understand, Klaus." Alice remarked.
"Now, I'm sure there's somebody out there that's pretty worried about you." Klaus commented.
"I'm a little curious." Alice stated. "Was this battle all about teaching me a lesson?"
Flashback
That's it! Bakugan represent everything about us here on Earth. But why was he using both Fire and Light attributes in our battle? Alice wondered.
"It is time to repay my master for what you did to him, Masquerade." Sirenoid swore.
"Thank you." Alice smiled. "And goodbye, Klaus."
Klaus nodded and released his security system.
"Pretty." Alice looked out at the window.
"Yes," Klaus agreed. "The world is a beautiful place if you just look for it, Alice. And it's everyone's responsibility to protect it."
"You're right." Alice noted. "We all have to do our part, don't we? And it's about time I start doing what I can to save it. Afterall, I am a Bakugan Battle Brawler."
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