A/N Editing is a long and arduous process. Thus only a few edits with this one thankfully.

Edited: 6/17/2014

Chapter 4

Jet stared with a longing expression on her face. She'd been waiting 15 minutes for the mysterious user to reply and so far she'd come up with naught. She sighed and was reaching for the shut down button when the laptop emitted a small beep. Jet moved her hand away from the button to look at the message that Darkusmaster had sent her.

Darkusmaster - you called?

Jet smiled a little, she was happy to find that he'd come online. She cracked her knuckles and began to type up her response.

DarkusJet - Hey, how's it going?

Darkusmaster - Hmph, fine but bored, the brawling competition where I come from are hardly a challenge.

Jet frowned, well that made her wonder if he really all that. Or just though he was. But anyways, she might as well get to the point of why she contacted him.

DarkusJet - are you entering the international tournament?

Darkusmaster - Tournaments aren't my style, besides they'd hardly have anything I'd want.

Jet stared at his response for a minute, before creating her reply, which was cut short byy him adding a new reply to his earlier one.

Darkusmaster - Are you entering this tournament?

Jet sighed, might as well tell him the truth.

DarkusJet - No, I'm not high enough in the rankings.

Darkusmaster - what are you ranked?

Jet bit her lip, by the way he was talking he was probably way up there in the rankings, but she sighed, hadn't she just agreed she'd be honest with the guy?

DarkusJet – 43rd

Darkusmaster - With your skill? I'm shocked.

Jet smiled a little at the comment.

DarkusJet - I suck at getting my bakugan to land on my gate card. Plus I don't own an arena and can't practice.

Jet briefly wondered if it had been a good idea to admit that to him, what if he thought she was less impressive than he'd originally thought. Heck why'd she even care?

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"If they can't make their bakugan stand on their gate card most of the time, than that's just sad." Hydranoid said turning to look at Masquerade who's gaze was once again locked on the screen. Masquerade glanced down at him.

"You misunderstand Hydranoid, the way they play, their gate cards do not increase in size like ours do, in fact their bakugan don't even have battle forms." He raised his eyes to look back a the screen. Had Hydranoid had a mouth it would've been hanging open in shock.

"What do you mean they don't have battle forms?" Masquerade let out a sigh and lifted his hand to rub the side of his head.

"They're just toy copies, Hydranoid, after I conversed with DarkusJet the first time I learned more about the way they play in there dimension," He kept his eyes on the screen. "Had I had time I would've shown you but, I'd rather not lose this chance to talk to Jet so I'll explain it as best I can. Basically, they set down this small arena and set the gate cards down in the middle, then they shoot the bakugan like marbles onto the gate cards and thanks to the gate cards being metal and the bakugan having magnets underneath them, they pop open in their ball forms." Masquerade began to type out his reply to DarkusJet. "After that it's just more of a board game like version of our game. But, getting the bakugan on the right gate card is a challenge in itself." He shook his heead slightly. "I have no doubt that without that little roadblock DarkusJet would be a great…" he trailed off an idea sparking in his mind, a wicked smirk reappearing on his face. "They'd be enough to take out the pests!" Hydranoid nodded.

"But master, how-" Masquerade glared down at him.

"Don't question me! I know what I'm doing." He deleted his earlier reply and retyped it. "I know what I'm doing."

Jet glanced at her watch and let another impatient sigh. Great, 5 minutes later and no response. She really shouldn't have mentioned the fact that she sucked at rolling her bakugan onto the gate cards, now he probably thought she was a loser!

Darkusmaster - that's too bad, do you think you'd be higher ranked if landing on the right gate card wasn't such a hassle?

Jet decided she'd once again give him a completely honest answer, it was better than getting caught lying.

DarkusJet - Heck yeah! Most of the time I lose the ability cards I was going to use in a great strategy in order to prevent my bakugan from losing when I accidentally land on my opponents gate cards.

Jet leaned back in her chair feeling a little better to get that out of her system, maybe he'd offer her some tips to improve or maybe-

"Jet? What are you doing?" Jet whipped around in her chair to see Viki standing there holding a pop tart in her hand. Viki narrowed her eyes at the sight of jet on the computer and started to walk over. Jet quickly closed her laptop and got out of her seat trying to look as innocent as possible.

"Er, nothing! Nothing at all!" Jet managed to force a grin, but she could already tell that Viki wasn't buying it. "Drat, why does she have to be so dang sharp! Oh wait, it's because you suck at lying dummy!" Jet shouted at herself, while she put her hands behind her back and rocking a little on her heels. Viki rolled her eyes and walked over to Jet's laptop and reopened it. But not before Jet slipped past her and into the chair.

"Fine, take the chair, I just want to make sure you aren't doing anything too stupid." Viki reached over jet's shoulder and grasped the mouse. She began to scroll through Jet's and Darkusmaster's replies, Viki glanced at Jet who grinned sheepishly. Viki released the mouse, but walked to Jet's side. Jet turned in her chair to face her. Viki folded her arms across her chest, her brown eyes boring into Jet's blue ones. Viki jerked her head in the direction of the laptop. "Who's darkusmaster?"

Jet shrugged. "I dunno, I just happened to meet him when you guys locked me out of our chatroom yesterday, he was a nice guy so we started talking. I left a message in the same chatroom and he replied."

Viki glanced at the computer again before turning back to Jet. Then a huge devioush smirk appeared on her face. She leaned forward and rested her hand on Jet's shoulder.

"You like the guy don't you?" Jet let out a gasp in surprise and wrenched herself out of Viki's grasp.

"What! No!" Jet retorted although her face turned a slight shade of pink.

Viki's smirk broadened as she lifted her hand to brush against Jet's cheek gently. "If that's true than why are you blushing?" Jet slapped her hand away, blushing harder now.

"Well, you would too! I mean if someone said something like that to you!" Viki rolled her eyes.

"Yeah sure what-" She was cut off by the laptop as it let out the little that informed them that Darkusmaster had posted a reply to Jet's message. Viki walked behind Jet so she could view the message too. "Okay than Jet, why don't you show me what this boy-friend of yours sent in response to your message."

Jet turned in her seat and stuck out her tongue at Viki, before she turned around and opened her laptop so she could see his reply.

Darkusmaster - Hmm. I would like to offer you something that I don't usually offer to othesr but, I will make an exception with you because I can tell you are a skilled brawler.

Viki snorted. "Suuuurrree. He's just using that as an excuse to ask you out." Jet turned in her seat and punched her before she continued reading his message.

Darkusmaster - What am I offering you may ask? Well meet me at the Rosedale park. If you show up… I will teach you how to reallybrawl.

A/N Meh, still shorter than 2000 words. But it fixed any issues.