[i]One day, all these cards started falling from the sky, like rain, or frogs. Together with my friends on an awesome Twilight forum, we created a FAR-OUT game, and for a while it seemed like harmless nonsensical fun. But on National Bakugan Day when the beasts within started slapfighting, we knew they weren't harmless.
My name's Dan. Together with my friends Runo, Marucho, Julie, not to mention Mr. Coolshot himself Shun, and Alice, we are...the Bakugan Battle Brawlers!
Bakugan! One goal, two worlds!
A, a-a, a-a, TWO worlds COL-LIDE! On the inside! Gone, gone, gone, this is Bakugan![/i]
[center][b]Episode Thirteen
Just For The Shun Of It[/b][/center]
Today we look back on Huaraz, Peru, a city which now looks nearly totally unremarkable thanks to the intense urbanization and mostly-sameness. A bunch of people stared into the MewMew Brawlers Little White Rabbit cafe, mostly perverted men.
"I'll be right with you! Hold your horses!" a tsundery, tsundery, so very tsundery voice cried.
"Aaaaahhh," crowds of grown men swooned.
Those three boys sat at the counter, all raising their hands. "Hey, Runo, get'cher *** over here!"
"I said I'm coming!" Runo ran up from behind a corner. "And, hey, watch where you're grabbing!" But she couldn't help chuckling and blushing.
The one they were REALLY staring at was Alice, who stood behind the counter and gave them all drinks. "Espressos...the usual?"
"Yes, [i]please![/i]" The boys all drank their drinks at once, causing the fat boy to faint AGAIN.
"Oh, who am I kidding?" Runo thought aloud. "They're only using me for touches and giggles. Nothing major. Boys! Who needs'm!"
Dan and a tall Marucho sat at a nearby table, sipping real espressos as she marched by angrily. "Hey, Marucho, she looks an-gry," Dan sang in a whisper.
"Oh, wait, who's Marucho?" the kid asked. "Oh y-y-yeah-y-yeah, I'M Marucho, huh huh!" But trust us, he didn't sound like Ken, just some fat kid, strangely.
"...Yeah! Good thing you figured THAT one out, before it was too late! Heh heh, yeah. Anyways, I hope we get some job interviews today! I'm just so gosh darn excited for this job!"
"Uh, job? I thought we were just sittin' here, eatin' coffee!"
"Too bad, because I signed BOTH of us up for interviews!"
"Daaaaah! I'll admit it, I'm [i]not[/i] the [i]real[/i] Marucho! Daaaaaaaaaaahhhhh..." He leaped and crashed through the window, running far, far away...
"...Wonder what's up with Marucho today. Oh well! Time to prepare for mah interview! Runo, gimme a Bleep Slider, please!"
"Just give me a second here, we've got a lot of hungry and thirsty customers...and ALICE ISN'T DOING A THING! Completely useless!"
"Ruuunoooo~get us our stuff pleeeeeease~"
"Coming!" she growled.
Dan added, "And just to let you know, I'm gonna get a job interview here, so you two won't be alone here for long!"
"Can't laugh right now! Gotta deliver the goods!" Runo rushed away.
Suddenly, Preyus fell down from the catacombs above and smack-dab in the middle of Dan's table! "YO, DAWG, WHAT'S SHAKIN!"
"Hey, Preyus! Where've YOU been?"
"With that Poncho kid, up there in the catacombs!"
"There are catacombs here?"
[center]In the catacombs of MewMew Brawlers Little White Rabbit Restaurant...[/center]
Yes, there were catacombs above the restaurant, and with all the other zany happenings occurring in future-never-real-day Huaraz, it should come as no surprise. Marucho found himself up there, having just awakened from some sort of coma, and decided to wander around, since dead guys were intriguing.
Among the creepy, preserved skeletons and the aging outfits some wore, Marucho found...the coffee bean motherload! A few brand-spankin'-new bags of it sat unguarded on the floor, dispelling all of Marucho's previous fears! "Hey!" he exclaimed. "I think I just hit -"
From the sheer force of his voice, a lot of perfectly-preserved bones came tumbling down from their pedestals, some ruined forever.
"...the motherload," he concluded in a saddened mumble. Without hesitation, he began to walk away., forgetting all about it.
[center]Back at the first floor...[/center]
"Whaaaaa! Marucho and Runo went to visit Shun! Ah no, not Mr. Coolshot!" Dan gripped his head in an effort to come to terms with this madness! "How dare they not LISTEN to me! And they brawled him in an effort to make him join the Brawlers! And, lemme guess, they LOST HORRIBLY. It was a bad idea right from the start! I shoulda -"
"W-w-well, let's not get hasty here," Preyus said. "Besides, what's the worst that could happen? Let's say, uh, they WON against Shun, and, uh, now he's joining the team!"
"[b]NO! I CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS! WE CAN'T HAVE SHUN IN THE GANG, WE JUST CAN'T! IT'S JUST TOO -[/b]"
"Woah, woah, woah! I never said that was true! You're really excited about gettin' a job here, right?"
"Yeah! Totally!"
"Then just focus on that! Shun's not joinin' nobody! Don't you worry your little head off!"
"Great advice, Preyus!"
"Listen to old uncle Preyus more often!"
"I will! I'm just fine, as long as...that guy isn't around!"
Alice noted the angry fire in his eyes...and dropped a mug. "Uh," she said in recoil.
"Eeeeeeeeek!" Runo squealed. She dropped a few espressos. "You made Alice look startled! How dare you! NEVER AGAIN."
"Hey!" the three boys said in chorus. "What're you doing?" They immediately pointed to Dan.
"I was just -"
"You're scaring Alice! Our waitress! And nobody scares our waitress! Except us!"
"And you're not us," one of them said afterward.
"...Lucky Marucho's not here to tell the truth about it," Runo muttered angrily. She wandered off to try and get foodstuffs.
Preyus looked to one side, then the other.
"...[i][b]I'M SORRY! I'M REALLY, TRULY SORRY! THE TRUTH IS, SHUN'S LOST! LOST, I TELLS YA! AND HE'S JOININ' THE BAKUGAN BATTLE BRAWLERS JUST AS SOON AS HE GETS THE IP ADDRESS TO THE CHAT! PLEASE, SPARE MY SOUL![/b][/i]"
Dan put his hand over Preyus. "Don't worry, your soul's -" Comprehending what he had just said, he clenched his hand into a raging fist! "[b]NO! I CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS! WE CAN'T HAVE SHUN IN THE GANG, WE JUST CAN'T! IT'S JUST TOO MUCH TO HANDLE! I NEED TO GO OVER TO SHUN'S HOUSE AS SOON AS I GET MY JOB AND TEACH HIM A LESSON HE'LL NEVER FORGET FOR THE REST OF HIS YEEEEEEEEARS![/b]"
Dan panted and tried to calm himself down. Everyone in the restaurant (read: three boys and some waitresses) stared right at him.
"...What? Why're you staring at me? I'm just ranting."
"Hey, he's right," one guy muttered. Business continued as usual.
"...D'oh," Runo murmured to herself, walking away as fast as possible...but then Dan grabbed her by the arm! "Aah!"
"Runo, why'd you go recruit Shun! You KNOW he's a coolshot! And coolshots are DUMB! With a capital D-U-M-B spells DUMB, which is what a coolshot like him is! And that's DUMB!"
"What the heck is a coolshot?"
"Tell ya later! Anyways, all you need to know is that coolshots like HIM are DUMB, and total JERKS! So lemme just say I -"
A note gently drifted through a window...and jabbed Runo in the eye before sailing off. "Hey! Ow, my eye's got a [i]papercut![/i] It's so painful! Like, I don't deserve this!" She ran off, sobbing.
Dan, not caring, snatched the letter up. He started reading it aloud:
"Hm. Cordially addressed from Shun...ugh...to...Dan Da Man! Hey, I'm liking this! Open it, and..." He put on his best fancy pompous accent. "Dear Dan Da Man, I hereby invite you to a totally rad, awesome, and kewl party at my equally rad, awesome and kewl pyramid house located at the South Pole. Come whenever.
"Sincerely, Shun.
"Wait, what's this at the bottom - SEGA SYMBOL!"
[i]SEGA[/i]
The very mention of it gave him nightmares. Sega, the rival and eternal mortal enemy of Nintendo. Sonic and Mario may have gone to the Olympic Games, but oh ho ho, that was only the start of an escalation in their battles! They were opposites, almost like Infinity and Silence, only they made more sense!
[i]The nerve! He writes me a fancy letter and is all like "Dan Da Man, you ah da man" until he pulls this out and BOOM! he pulls out a bombshell like this! It was all to get the rumble rollin'! All to get me riled up and ready! All to add fuel to the flames of our burning, never-ending argument! He KNOWS I always liked Nintendo better! Nintendo's da best! And it always will be, forever ever and forever ever![/i] Dan shook his head around in denial.
He slammed his fist on the table, spilling a delicious cup of coffee. [i]That's it! This is the last straw! The final bambino! The Fourth Child! The bad boy of this whole bebop stand! I'm postponing my interview and going straight to Shun's house, which is just where he wants me to be![/i]
[center]In a dark, secluded area...[/center]
Shun and Hammy the Hamster sat in a sooper-seecret room. Shun turned on one of the lights with a tug of its chain. He pointed to the blueprints on the wall with a pointer stick.
"Um, Shun? Do you really want to do this? I mean, we want you to be level-headed, don't we?" The hamster was worried, and it showed.
"If I hate Dan as much as I remember hating him, yes, I'm sure!" Shun, wearing a KISS THE COOK shirt, said. "From what I recall, he was a complete idiot. Much worse than I used to be. Oh SO much worse."
"If you insist...go on, Shun."
"Okay, then!" He pointed to the first step on his blueprints. "The first step involves Dan sitting on this chair, a rolling chair. Little does he know that the chair is being pushed by me onto an elevator, which is moving up. Then, the elevator stops at an angle and he rolls through a parking deck, going through all the floors. Then he falls into a vacuum tube, which sends him far up into the stratosphere. Then I send out one of my private jet reserves, which is specially equipped with a large net to catch him, and then it flies over the ocean! Then it flies over a volcano and releases him, and Dan thinks it's all over, but then he lands on a trampoline and falls into the ocean, and he thinks he's safe, but it's not, because then (here's the best part) he gets attack by antarctic sharks!"
"Shun, you're sounding like you had a lot of fun devising this impossibly long plan."
"That's because I did!"
"When did you get the time to plan and set up all of this?"
"I planned it some time before I gave that house to the bums."
"Oh, that explains it. Sort of. But I digress!"
[i]Ding-dong![/i]
"Someone's at the door!" Shun said with a start. He immediately opened the closet door, ran down the icy hall, and opened the front door. It was...Mask the Money!
"Ahem. Excuse me, kind sir -" Shun slammed the door.
[i]Ding-dong![/i]
He opened the door again. "Kind sir, might I interest you in this Doom -" Shun slammed the door.
[i]Ding-dong![/i]
"Want some free Bakugan?"
"Sure." Shun took the Bakugan out of his hand and slammed the door.
"Wait, you have to use - ah, this plan was flawed from the start." Frowning, Mask the Money made his way back to base.
"Who WAS that guy?" Hammy wondered.
"Just an evil guy."
"Don't you think using these evil Bakugan might make YOU evil?"
"Nah. All his evil plans involve using the Doom card, which I don't have. So don't worry, Hammy. Dan should be coming any moment now, so lemme just set up this trap..."
[center]Outside of Shun's house...[/center]
"Thanks, Marucho's Butler!"
"Anything for a friend of Master Marucho's!" Butler waved to Dan with a big smile.
"Hey, butler, let us off here, too!" Suchi and Akuma were in there with him! But before Dan could notice, Butler shut the door.
[i]Good thing he has no idea what Marucho thinks of this![/i] a kid named Dan thought. He poked the gate a little, and it opened! From there, being completely calm and focused on pwning Shun in a marble game, Dan passed by all of the awesome things in his front yard. It was too easy.
He came to the actual hallway, and was surprised to see something in the middle of it...a rolling chair.
[i]If it's Dan sitting in a chair he wants...then it's Dan sitting in a chair he gets! But his other victories won't be so easy! I'll get past your plans, Shun! Just you wait![/i]
Dan sat in the chair...just before Shun ran over from out of nowhere and started pushing it slowly! "Wha! How'd you get here, Shun!" Dan cried. "And why can't I get out of this chair?"
"I should be asking you that," he replied coolly. "And you can't get out because there's tape on the seat!" He held in the urge to laugh.
"This is just evil, man! EVIL! Almost like YOU'RE evil or something! Almost like you've gotten taken control of by Mask the Money!"
"Yeah, sure, whatever."
[i]First coolshot, now this![/i]
"Elevator going up. Seeya."
"Huh!" Dan looked around just as the doors closed. "I got pushed into an elevator?"
He completely ignored the panel of useful buttons until it was too late. The elevator opened...into an angled and near-empty parking deck! He helplessly rolled down one floor, then another, then narrowly dodged a speeding Ferrari! "Somebody help me!" he screamed, but nobody heard.
Finally, after twenty floors of torture in five long, long minutes, Dan thought it was all over...but it wasn't! Now the private jet reserve was coming in with a large net to catch him!
"Aaaaah! It can't be over just yet! I'm Dan! Dan Da Man! Don't -"
He flew right through the gigantic hole in the net, passing by a volcano with a trampoline over it.
"Phew," he said to himself, flying through the stratosphere of who-knows-where. "I thought for sure that thing was going to catch me. See that! Nobody messes with Dan Da Man! Especially not crappy Sega lovers! I hope you hear that, Shun! [i]I hope you he-[/i]"
He landed in a pile of smothering snow. Well, at least he was safe...UNTIL THE ANTARCTIC SHARKS STARTING CRAWLING ON THE ICE FOR HIM, HUNGRY FOR BLOOD!
"SHAAAAARKS! WHERE'D THESE SHARKS COME FROM! AAAAAAAHH!" he screeched scratchily, scrambling to get out of the snow. The rolling chair tape easily peeled off, and he tried to get up and use the chair as a weapon! "Get back, or I'll make you eat this! Nyeh!"
The three sharks looked around. One looked at the steel wheels of the chair and began to nibble...straight through the first one. Then the other two joined in and they all started taring the chair limb from limb!
"Ha! Decoy strategy!" Dan laughed and ran away. "Now, where's Shun? I gotta get revenge! Probably through a marble game!"
Shun was watching the whole thing in his closet via a satellite video camera thing filled with techno mumbo-jumbo. "I can't believe this! The plan actually failed! I mean, it wasn't actually plausible, but if it HAD worked the way it was intended to it would've been the most awesome thing EVER!"
"Well, maybe Dan's not so bad," Hammy chimed in. "You don't want another murder to happen, do you? Besides, he's a strategist! He fed the chair to the sharks and now he's getting away! Such determination..."
"Don't honor him just yet. He's got immediate bias toward any Sega lovers, obviously thanks to his deep hatred of me. And he didn't even bother the elevator controls! Although I was surprised to see that he could pull the rolling chair off towards the end."
"OH MY GOSH, SHUN, DAN'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU! AND HE'S ARMED! ARMED AND DANGEROUS!"
Dan found their sooper-seecret hiding place! "Come on out, Shun, and stop hiding like the Sega-endorsing evil Mask the Money-luvvin' coward you are!"
Shun slowly turned around. He looked to the side, at what he was holding. It was an antarctic shark, caught in a chokehold!
"[b]OH my GOSH, SHUN, LOOK! HE'S GOT AN ANTARCTIC SHARK caught in a FREAKING CHOKEHOLD! DO SOMETHING, QUICK![/b]"
"Quiet, I can't concentrate!" He quickly found a huge, heavy sword on the wall and wielded it with ease!
"Are you telling me to be quiet, Shun?" Dan said in a serious tone. "Are you telling [i]me[/i] to be quiet? Are you telling [i]ME[/i] to be [i]QUIET[/i], SHUN! Well, that is IT, yo, the FINAL STRAW in the PIGPEN! We're fighting HERE and NOW and I DON'T care if we get your TV trashed in the process!"
Shun turned around to the television screen. It was displaying exactly what was happening right now. [i]Wow.[/i]
"No. We're taking this fight outside, in my yard, and that is final."
"Why should I care where we fight? Why should ANYONE care if it's in YOUR house? Because nobody cares about you, Shun. Nobody!"
"Well, if you had any game at all, you would let your opponent choose the arena in which you choose to fight."
"He would! Well, in that case feel free to fight in your yard! Because, you know, [b]I don't care![/b]"
They proceeded to exit his house and prepare to fight in his awesome garden.
"And now we have a fair fight!" Shun shouted across the forested yard. "Let me lay out the rules...which you will follow if you have any game! ONE: we may use any resources found in this front yard! TWO: don't kill anybody! THREE: if nobody is knocked out within five minutes, we will be forced to...um..."
"Play Bakugan," Dan said. "If nobody wins this, we'll do a Bakugan brawl."
"...Okay. FOUR: no calling for help!"
"Can I just tell the rest of the brawlers about this?"
"No. I'm getting this all on tape. We can post the video on YouTube after we're finished. And if I see you break these rules, I'll be the winner, there won't be another match, no exceptions, no way to get around it, and you'll be shamed for life. Understood?"
"Understood."
"And we begin...now!"
"Shark attack!" Dan immediately threw his shark at Shun, taking the opportunity to run away into the cover of the trees.
Shun faced it head-on, slapping it away with the side of his sword. He kicked it lightly, persuading it to uneasily flop away. He found a winged pygmy hippo and flew high into the sky.
"Bob, find this!" While nobody was looking, Shun stole one strap of Dan's goggles! The hippo known as Bob sniffed it a few times before instantly knowing the other's location. Bob nosedived straight into the trees, and Shun held on with his free hand.
Dan was sitting on top of a giant herbivorous raccoon. "Come on, boy," he said, trying to get it to move. "Come on...we need to hunt and kill a coolshot here...work with me..."
"Hyah!" Shun whacked Dan on the head with the side of his blade, knocking him off of his mount! The raccoon ran away from the premises. Bob landed safely, and Shun motioned with one hand for it to run off somewhere.
With an "ow" Dan backed away. He dug into his pocket for a weapon, and he took out...his McAfee Firewall card! "Papercut!" he cried and, aiming for Shun's eye, he threw a card - successfully.
"You hit my eye!" Shun's left eye fluttered, trying to stay closed. "You dirty *******!"
"Don't use such language, Shun!" Hammy said.
"Shut UP!"
"I didn't say anything!" Dan said, running behind him in order to pick up his painful card. "But now I am! That was revenge for sending the letter which scraped across Runo's eye! You just don't do that kind of stuff! And you never said never play fair! That's not in the rules!"
"Shut UP!" As Dan reached down for his card, Shun slammed his sword down in front of it to stop him. "If you had any game you would get this over with! Urgh!" He tried to elbow him in the throat, but Dan ducked quickly.
"Ultimate kick!" Dan kicked just as Shun backed up, having used so much force that he flipped over somehow! "Ow! How'd [i]that[/i] fail?" Shun kicked him in the back of the head with a surprisingly hard foot. "Ouch! I think I'm dying!"
"In that case, I'll win soon. ...Wait, you-"
"Psych!" Dan kicked his feet, making Shun lose balance and fall over while he got back up! "Ha! Dan Da Man is never out for lo-"
"Sword push!" Shun shoved the blade forward, bruising Dan in several areas and pushing him back down!
"Double papercut! Think fast!" Dan threw two more Bakugan cards. They missed their target, but they got Shun's scalp and drew blood!
"Ah! Sword slice!" Shun made two quick slices on each of Dan's arms, also drawing blood!
"Second ultimate move!" Dan tried to punch Shun in the face, but failed and flew forward somehow.
"Sword poke!" Shun pushed the blade of his sword slightly into Dan's stomach. It didn't touch any vital organs, but it also drew blood. "****it, I should just kill you now!"
"If you did, you wouldn't have any game!" Dan said.
"Well, then I'll -"
[i]Beep.[/i]
"Well, time's up." He revealed a timer in his back pocket. "That was a bit less awesome than I expected. Today's a bit of a disappointment. Looks like we'll, uh, have to settle things in a brawl. I'll just let the two of us heal our wounds some and -"
"If you had any game, you would be able to brawl even [i]with[/i] the wounds, like [i]me.[/i]" Dan stood up.
"...Fine. Whatever." He brushed a red streak of hair out of his open eye and set his sword on the ground. "Now seems like the perfect time to use the new Bakugan some guy gave me."
"Let me guessMASK THE MONEY!" Dan said ferociously.
"To tell you the truth, yes. But -"
"I knew it! I knew you were a traitor all along! A traitor to Bakugankind!"
"...Whatever."
"Field, open!" they chanted before being transported to another dimension.
"Gate card, set!"
FWEEEEEOWWWW SHWOOWOOWOOP.
"Well, if Mask the Money's gonna give you a Bakugan, it's probably not complete crap! Brawl! Stand!" He summoned...Laserman, a Marcus-attributed machine gun-wieldin' robot ready for action and deliverin' a hearty helpin' of PAIN! Shun punched in some fancy numbers on his BakuGantlet. "Hey, this actually seems pretty useful. Good thing I suddenly have his matching ability card."
"Whatever happened to using your Doom card?" Dan hollered.
"I told you, I [i]don't have one![/i]"
"Wh-wh-whatever! Bakugan brawl! Pirate HeadMantis, stand!" He summoned a never-before-seen scorpion pirate with a big nose.
"CALCULATING POWER LEVELS."
"Stupid dial-up!"
"Ability activate! Leap Sting!" Laserman's Boba Fett-like mask glowed purple before revealing twin pairs of machine gun cannon thingies!
"Good thing I'm not on the same card as him!" Dan said in relief, just before the guns fired at a not-moving Pirate HeadMantis. "Oh no!" And no, the pirate did nothing as the machine guns fired. It's a shame, too, because he died. Kind of.
"Well, I can't lose round two! I'll set another gate card" - shwoop - "and play my Rhino Demon! Stand!" Instead of being a standard football, Rhino Demon leaped out of its marble, somewhat more spectacularly.
"Air Vent Butterfly Man, stand!" The AVBM, a long-time rival of Dan's, appeared in a flurry of sparkles. "Ability card, activate! Air Battle!" AVBM started gliding around the field, probably to show off how pretty he was.
"It's flying [i]outside the card spaces![/i] Unbelievable!" Dan cried. "My brain is totally racked!"
"Well, YEAH," Drago spoke up.
"You were here this whole time! I was starting to think I left you at the restaurant!"
"You didn't. I saw the whole thing, yes. And this card lets AVBM attack anywhere on the field, meaning you're going to be attacked right now."
"Row, row!" AVBM said in a deep voice, sprinkling pixie dust all over Rhino Demon.
"SCRYYYYYYYY," it cried in a blood-curdling scream. It transformed back into a marble.
"I guess my last option is to use you, Drago!" said a certain Dan.
"I expected as much!"
[i]Bakugan Battle Brawlers continues after this! And don't listen to Shun! He's dumb!
Bakugan Battle Brawlers are back! And you SHOULD listen to that, because it's true![/i]
"Hey, Shun!" Hammy alerted. "Use that second marble Mask the Money gave you!"
"This one?"
"No, the one in your other pocket!"
"Oh, this one?"
"Yep! That one's really strong, so use it! Keep the other one in handy, though."
"Thanks for the advice, Hammy. I appreciate it, even if it looks like I don't sometimes."
"Don't worry. I know you care, Shun. Hey, where's Skyress?"
"Not here right now."
"...And where would that be? We're working on being more descriptive here, Shun!"
"She's in the closet, probably watching everything on tape. And yeah, she was there the whole time. But there's a battle going on, Hammy! I can't talk right now! Dan's firing insults at me and calling me a little yellow-bellied chicken! You think I can take that?"
"Work on your self-tolerance, Shun!" Hammy the Hamster disappeared for the time being.
"Mr. Coolshot's gonna make his next move," Shun said to Dan. "Bakugan Brawl! Hydranoid, stand!"
Now, right now, at this very moment, Shun tossed the strongest Bakugan in existence onto the field. It was Hydranoid! This beast came fully equipped with a heavy, wingless, dragon-like body and a multitude of spikes covering its whole body. It had an extra large horn on its nose. Also, it had big purple teeth in the front.
"HYDRANOID POWER LEVEL 450 G'S."
"WHAAAAA!" Dan said, astounded. "That's the highest power level I've ever seen in my life!"
"Same for me," Shun said, more calm but still caught by surprise.
"You should be surprised," Hydranoid said in a surprisingly young, mannish, kind of bland voice. "I'm the strongest Bakugan ever created. And I feed off of the Bakugan I send to the Doom Dimension. But that's all you need to know about me. Cower as I become your bane, Drago, and give me power."
"Um, I don't have a Doom card," Shun pointed out, "so that might be disappointing to know..."
"What? No matter. I'm strong enough. You're just a small stepping stone on the path to my ultimate goal."
"This ends here and now, annoying whoever-you-are!" Drago said.
"Ability card, activate! Boosted Dragon!" Drago gained a bunch of power!
"You still don't have enough power to beat me," Hydranoid scoffed.
"Bring it on!" Dan demanded.
"...As you wish. Fear my tail!" Hydranoid turned backward, shook his butt around, then slapped Drago in the face with his heavy tail!
"Yeowch! ****, that looked dumb!" Drago turned back into a marble.
They appeared in Shun's front yard again.
"...So you WEREN'T under Mask the Money's control!" Dan said. "I knew it!"
"No you didn't!"
"Silly Drago! Anyways, guess you won fair and square, even if you were using Bakugan that someone ELSE gave you."
"So? Still fair. And you've have to be pretty low game-wise to say it's not."
"You're right, Shun. So, did brawling today teach you anything?"
"Nope."
"Nothing?"
"...Well, it told me that when Mask the Money comes to your door and offers free Bakugan you should take them and slam the door in his face."
"Oh."
"Also, I'd be glad to have the IP address of the Bakugan Battle Brawlers."
"Wha? But I thought -"
"Thought what? I was beaten by Marucho and Runo in a game of checkers -"
"IN a GAME of CHECKERS! Man, that's low!"
"Yeah, much. Anyways, I just needed the IP address to get onto the chatroom. I don't know what would've happened if you'd released all of your anger on there. But...guess I should be honored to join your team." They shook hands.
"You should be! Heh!" Dan smiled. They weren't quite friends, but hey, at least they'd settled things.
"...Wait, where's the other strap of my goggles? And, hey, is that the butler flying away?"
"Don't worry. We can take my private jet reserve."
"Oh, good. Wait I forgot all about that job audition!"
[i]Hey, this is Dan, and coming up on Bakugan Battle Brawlers, we try to get the lowdown on that creepy dude Hal G. We go to a totally less-creepy mansion out in the country. Once there, we find out it's pretty high-tech! It's like a sci-fi B-movie! But creepier! And multiply that by...two! You've just gotta see it! Bakugan Brawl! Seeya there!
We leave our audience today with...the Bakugan dance.
Dooby da doo DEE dooby da doo DEE, dooby dooby doob DEE dooby dooby doob DEE, dooby da dooby doo dee![/i]