XD I'm back! And it looks like I have to have Madoka do the disclaimer today, because the Legendary Bladers are still mad at me and Zero is sitting in shock, still not believing that I made him a father in this story… Anyway, Madoka?

Madoka: GalaxyPegasus14 does not own Metal Fight Beyblade, otherwise Stormflight would likely be canon.

Me: Oh, and if you didn't know already, the 'Lost Episodes' of ZeroG are online! Well, at least episodes 39-44, but don't search for them on YouTube, you can find them there, but they are really bad quality. The official WBO website has a discussion link to them.

"Twenty years?" Takeshi was surprised.

"That far back?" Anashi exclaimed.

"Yes, before the DNA even existed. Bladers were everywhere then because there was no DNA to consider them a threat and outlaw them. Everyone was excited, because a huge tournament had just been completed. That tournament was the Beyblade World Championships. The tournament was fought in teams of four bladers each, one team from each country. The Japanese team, known as team Gan Gan Galaxy, had won it, their leader being named the official World Champion. There was another team, team Wild Fang, whose leader was originally offered the chance to be on Japan's team, but he refused, because Gan Gan Galaxy's leader was his rival, and both of them wanted to be able to find out who was stronger on a world-class stage. Once the World Championships were over, no one could have been more proud of Gan Gan Galaxy than I was." He paused for a moment.

"Why?" Anashi asked, although she felt she knew the answer.

"The leader of Team Gan Gan Galaxy was a thirteen-year-old boy named Gingka Hagane. He is my son and your father, Anashi."

"My father was… The World Champion?" Anashi was stunned.

"Yes, he is." Ryo replied.

"But what does this have to do with my father?" Takeshi asked.

"Your father was the leader of team Wild Fang, Kyoya Tategami."

"So…our fathers are rivals, like us?" Anashi grinned.

"You want to know the funny thing about that?" Ryo chuckled.

"What?" Takeshi asked.

"I have heard that you have never been able to beat Anashi, correct?"

"Yeah, I always beat him."

"Kyoya could never defeat Gingka, they blew up whole islands trying to break the tie started in the World Championships." Ryo chuckled.

"But, why don't our mothers like hearing or talking about them? What happened to them?" Anashi asked.

Ryo sighed. "That goes back about sixteen years. Do either of you two know the name of the only group that is fighting the DNA?"

"The Steel Warriors, right?"

"Yes, your fathers lead that group. Gingka is the one in charge, but if something happens to him, command goes to Kyoya or Ryuga, another one of his rivals. You both know that the DNA took over Japan fifteen years ago, right?"

Both teens nodded.

"Your mother was pregnant with you when it happened Anashi, and Takeshi, your father had just proposed to your mother. We were living in another village, but when the DNA found out that the Steel Warriors were there, they attacked a couple of times. The second time they attacked, Gingka almost died. After he had recovered, Kyoya had managed to blow up the DNA headquarters, but it was useless, because they had already taken over Metal Bey City. A couple of hours later, Tokyo itself fell, and they won that battle. So, we left the other village and came here, your fathers continued working, mostly undercover, trying to take the DNA down. Two years after Anashi was born, they realized that continuing to go back and forth between here and their new base was going to draw unwanted attention to both locations. So, they made the hardest decision ever. They decided to stay permanently at their new base, and left the village, promising your mothers that they would come back once the DNA was defeated. It has been twelve years since then, and none of us here have seen or heard of any of the Steel Warriors, except for the occasional DNA report that Madoka has hacked into, only to find that it's just another squad being defeated."

"So…they haven't been seen since?"

"No, nobody has actually seen them."

"Oh…well, thanks for telling us what happened to them, we owe you one."

"Come by tomorrow, I'll see if you guys can come with me on my next trip. The DNA would love to get their hands on my map if they knew it existed, I'll explain why later." Ryo stood and led the two back to the village.

-Meanwhile, in Tokyo, at the DNA headquarters-

"So, you want to join us?" Selen eyed the brown-haired boy standing in front of her.

"Yes, Miss Garcia."

"Why?"

"Because I want to travel the world. I have to find someone, and one of your agents gave me an offer."

"Interesting. Do you know how to handle a- never mind, we are always needing new agents and will find somewhere where you can fit in. you don't happen to be scared of needles, do you?"

"Umm, no, why?"

The woman seated across from him reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a small syringe. "This is standard requirement, if you want to work for us, you have to get this injection. What is your name?"

"Arashi."

"Arashi, huh? Well, hold out your arm."

"Umm, if you don't mind me asking, what is it?" Arashi asked as Selen took his wrist and injected the liquid into his arm.

"It's called the Evil Gene, now you will probably black out after feeling dizzy for a few seconds." Selen smirked as the boy dropped. "Assign him to the sniper department, we are short on people there."

Two guards came and dragged the boy off to a room, where he would wake up several hours later.

"Next." Selen called, entering Arashi's name into her computer.

A couple of hours later, Arashi woke up to blank, white walls and a severe headache.

"What was that stupid thing? Ughh, my head hurts…" he muttered, sitting up. His eyes soon adjusted to the bright, glaring lights, and he caught sight of a black uniform hanging from a hook on the wall.

"Standard DNA issue, you are to wear this at all times except when sleeping. Your department is on floor three, you will begin training under the supervision of Enzo Garcia, who you are to obey at all times, with no exceptions." Arashi read the note on the hanger, then looked at the uniform.

"Well, guess I'd better put this thing on and get going then." He said.

A few hours later, Arashi arrived at the training area of Floor 3.

"Snipers, huh? Sounds interesting!" he said with an evil grin. The brunette pushed open the door and went inside. The moment he entered, he was approached by a rather short man in a suit.

"You are Arashi?"

"Yes sir."

"My name is Enzo Garcia, I am your superior. First things first, I want you to run over to that case, grab a gun, and come back to me."

"Yes sir." Arashi instantly did as he was told.

-At the Steel Warriors' Headquarters-

"Hey Yuki! How's the research going?"

"There you are, Gingka! It's going great, but I need more of this testing solution. Think you can get it for me?"

"Yeah, as long as you can get that antidote finished. Once you do, all of us will be carrying a stash."

"I can't believe that they started recruiting! Who knows what they're up to!" Kyoya exclaimed, looking up from his work.

"Trying to defeat us, that's what." Gingka laughed. "But, they still haven't even found our base!"

"We're too fast for them, and they haven't considered that their robots can't respond as quickly as they can, and the time it takes for them to respond increases at about the same rate as the distance between the robots and headquarters." Kenta said, taking off a pair of goggles that he had been wearing and setting them aside.

"Well, I'll leave you three to keep working. I'll get that solution from the basement for you, Yuki." Gingka smiled and left.

"What's the status of the testing Warriorbelt?"

"Almost done, it looks like it is working!"

"Good, those pathetic robots won't stand a chance if we can get this perfected."

"No kidding, they-whoa!"

"Turn it off!"

"I can't!"

"Ughh, you have to be kidding me! L-Drago!"

"Uwahh! Ryuga! You broke it!"

"Better than it going off in our faces. Let's fix it and figure out what went wrong."

Chris sighed and opened up the side panel, tossing a few broken pieces to Ryuga. "Look what you did." He chuckled.

"What can I say, blowing stuff up is my thing."

"Yeah, but blowing up technology isn't such a good idea, Ryuga. Is there any more of that solution around here?" Gingka asked, entering the basement-combo-testing facilities.

"What solution?"

"Whatever one Yuki is using to try making an antidote for the Evil Gene."

"Oh, I think it's over in the corner of the south and east walls."

"Found it. Keep up the good work guys!" Gingka encouraged as he went back upstairs.

-A couple of hours later-

"Sunset! You guys know what that means!" Gingka exclaimed, stepping into the lounge, where all the others were waiting.

"Finally! We haven't been out of this base in forever!" Titi exclaimed

"Time to go do some field work." Kenta grinned.

"Exactly. Kyoya and I will go to Tokyo, Kenta, you and Ryuga go to Metal Bey City. Chris and Dunamis, carefully check on the Hikou Village, don't let anyone see you, blah, blah, blah, you know the drill. Yuki and King, Koma Village, Titi and Aguma- how did I pair up you guys?- hmm, actually, come to Tokyo with me and Kyoya. Those are our assignments until I change them, so let's go!"

"We're leaving the base unguarded?" Kyoya said as he, Gingka, Titi, and Aguma walked to the launching pad.

"Not entirely, we have Tamashii to guard, right Tam?" Gingka replied.

"Of course sir. Good luck!" the computer replied.

"See, home base will be fine. Tamashii will alert us if anything happens. Now, let's go!"

"Opening launch bay doors." Tamashii reported. "Preparing for launch."

"Activate all systems."

"Activating Steel Warrior systems."

Four helmets slammed shut over four faces as four pairs of eyes, blue, green, purple, and gold, glowed through the near-darkness.

"Ready for launch, you are clear."

"Let's go!" Gingka called as he blasted off with the others, their jetpack silencers doing their job and making launch completely silent.

"Look Takeshi, meteors!" Anashi called, pointing up at the blazing streaks of light.

"You're right! Quick, make a wish before they're gone!"

The two watched the 'meteors' until they disappeared, never suspecting that it was actually their fathers that had just flown overhead.

"Anashi! Dinner!" the young girl heard her mother calling from the front porch.

"Coming! See you tomorrow, Takeshi!" Anashi called, running for home as Takeshi stepped onto his front porch.

"Bye Anashi!"

Eiichi waved at Anashi as she ran past his house to her own, smelling dinner and seeing her mother on the front porch.

"So, was your grandfather there?" Madoka asked once they were sitting down for dinner.

"Yeah, and he wants me and Takeshi to come over tomorrow, he wants to take us on his next exploring trip."

"Well, we'll have to see about that. What did you need to ask him?"

"Well, I was asking him about dad."

"Oh, I see…" Madoka fell silent.

"Dad was a great guy, wasn't he?"

"Yes, and a strong leader…" Madoka seemed hesitant to talk about her husband, having not seen or heard from or about him directly for over twelve years.

"Sorry for bringing it up, we don't have to talk about it." Anashi muttered.

"No, it's okay. I just really miss him."

"What did he look like?"

"Well, he had red hair, like you, and the most beautiful, golden-brown eyes."

"Golden-brown? So, like-" Anashi suddenly fell silent.

"Yes, exactly." Madoka said quietly.

"I hope he's safe."

"Me too Anashi, me too."

-Back at the DNA headquarters, two weeks later-

"Let me out! I told you, I don't want to be here anymore! I won't be a part of any more schemes!"

"It didn't work?"

"Looks like that antidote is more powerful than we thought."

"We can't waste any more of it on him, just drop him off in the middle of a forest or something."

"Got it, how about the deep one near the south where all those robots were destroyed fifteen years ago?"

"Sounds good to me, just do it quickly."

"Kira!"

"Yes sir?"

"Take the prisoners in cells 2035 and 2036 and drop them off in the southern forest."

"Yes sir." Kira turned on his heel and strode out of the room.

A few minutes later, Arashi stepped back, startled, as the door slid open to reveal the DNA's top agent, Kira. The man was the literal definition of evil, having had the Evil Gene in him since before Arashi was born.

"W-what do you want?" Arashi asked fearfully.

"I have orders to take you out of here, come with me and don't you dare try to escape." Kira sneered, stepping aside so Arashi could walk out.

Kira repeated the procedure with the occupant of the cell next to Arashi's, a young man with curly, cream-colored hair. The pastel-haired blader led the two down the hallway after warning them not to talk, and they soon came to a door that Arashi recognized as the roof access.

"Where are we-" the cream-haired blader began, but Kira turned and sent him a death glare.

"Don't talk, didn't I tell you that?" he snarled, and the other man again fell silent.

Arashi was surprised as the other man stuck his tongue out at Kira once the pastel-haired blader's back was turned.

Once they were on the roof, Kira shoved them both into a helicopter and shut the door.

"Have a nice flight." He sneered.

Arashi looked out the window and saw him step back and signal the pilot.

"Yup, I waited long enough, and they finally released me. And they never found my bey either!" the cream-haired blader exclaimed as soon as they had left the ground.

"Who are you?" Arashi asked.

"My name is Shinobu Huriyin, the DNA captured me about ten years ago when I was trying to infiltrate them and take them down, I should have just waited for the Steel Warriors to do something, but I got too impatient. How did you get in?"

"Huh?"

"Into your cell, what did you do to make them mad?"

"Well, I did nothing, but I was one of their agents and got the Evil Gene, then they sent me on a mission to… and I got injected with the antidote and now I guess the Gene doesn't work on me."

"They sent you on a mission to do what?" Shinobu suddenly became very serious.

"To take out a Steel Warrior that had been spotted in the city, I actually succeeded, but now I wish I hadn't. If I had known this was going to happen, I would have never agreed to join the DNA."

"Which one was it?" Shinobu asked.

"How am I supposed to know?"

"Well, what color were they wearing?"

"I don't know, it was nighttime and it's all a bit fuzzy now."

"We have to think about it, try to remember, umm, what's your name?"

"Arashi, I can't remember, but why is it that important?"

"Because, if you took out the one known as Stormflight, it is a huge problem for them, because he's their leader. Just give me the color of his eyes, anything! Their eyes glow brightly in whatever color they wear."

"I don't remember…"

"Tell me if you ever do then. Arashi, why does that name sound familiar?"

Me: Well, that's all for this chapter, as the plot thickens… XD Oh, and some of you might be a bit mad at me for this, but you aren't going to find out who Arashi met until chapter 6. XD However, more Warriors show up in the very next chapter! Next week's update will be a little bit late, and I will not be replying to any reviews from Monday-Thursday next week, just to give you guys a heads-up. Anyway, hope you are enjoying reading this as much as I do writing it, and see you next time!