A/N yay chapter 9...still one chapter short..but I have more words than Viki's *does the happy dance* what am I talking about might you ask? Simple, I don't want to fall behind my BFF Viki with my story. (Her story Today is a new day? What are you kidding me? has 1 more chapter than mine, though you should read it too ^.^ I highly recommend it) But that doesn't mean I'm going to fall behind! So here's the newest chapter of Dual Dimensions. oh and terradoll? Don't kill me. I cannot get Alica in if I'm dead.
Jetravenex: I am once again to lazy to bug anyone to say the disclaimer so I'll say it myself! I, jetravenex, do not own bakugan...unfortunately.
Chapter 9
Jet was laying on her back staring up at the sky. Viki was sitting down on the ground with her back against the rim of the fountain. She was going through her bakugan and her cards trying to build a decent strategy if they should happen to encounter one of the brawlers, or Masquerade himself.
"Hey, Viki?" Jet called, sitting up slightly supporting herself by her elbows. Her friend paused inwhat she was doing.
"Yeah, Jet?" Viki turned her head toward her friend. "What's up?"
Jet smiled weakly. "Well, uh, how much money do you have on you?" Viki tipped her head to the side.
"My mom did give me 50 dollars I could use in case of emergency, why?"
Jet lowered her gaze. "Well, I don't exactly have any money with me," she admitted. "And… I just realized, we are completely lacking in some necessities that could prove to be key to our survival."
Viki blinked. "That was the most complicated sentence I've ever heard you say, in fact it was so complicated I failed to catch the full meaning of it. Could you please explain?"
Jet scowled at her comment. "Well, first of all, the only clothes we have are the ones currently on our backs, we don't have any food, we do have money which is an up, but we also have no place to stay."
Viki frowned and nodded. "But, it's not like it's our fault! I mean we didn't exactly plan our little trip to the brawlers' world in the first place." She got to her feet and threw her arms up into the air. "the only reason we went to the park was because we thought a guy was challenging us to a brawl, when in reality that guy happens to be Masquerade and he planned on bringing us-" She paused in her rant, her fist connecting with her palm. "That's it!"
"What's it?"
"Simple, Masquerade brought us here thus he should be held accountable for providing for us!"
"Viki, you know what?" Jet said rising slowly to her feet.
"I'm the brightest person in the world?"
Jet scoffed. "More like the dumbest! There is no way in hell I'm going to go to Masquerade and ask him for help!"
Viki frowned. "Why not? I mean, first of all he does have a giant mansion, second of all it's his fault we're here in the first place, plus you are like his hugest fan girl, so what wouldn't be better than actually meeting him?"
Jet flopped down onto the nearest bench. She folded her arms across her chest, her shoulders slouching slightly. Her head turned away from Viki. It was then that Viki put it together.
"It's because you're too shy to actually go up and talk to him face to face?" Jet whipped her head around to stare at her open mouthed. Viki smirked when she noticed her friend's face flush slightly.
"Th-that's not it at all! I don't want to go up and ask him to help us because…"
"Because?" Viki pressed. Jet licked her lips and scanned around hoping to gain some inspiration for a believable lie.
"Be-because I want to brawl with him! And if I go up and ask him for help, it'll make me and my team seem really weak!" Viki cocked her head to the side.
"So? That's usually your basic strategy isn't it? Start off being behind and make your opponent underestimate your true skill. Then you make a huge comeback and give them the biggest smack down of their life." Viki threw up her hands into the air. "You know what the world doesn't revolve around you and what you want you know! And you know what I'm not going to be stuck outside, because you won't swallow your pride for once."
Jet stared blankly at the fountain for a moment. She stood up. "You know what my stomach is growling so much I can't even think!" She turned to Viki and clasped her hands together and dropped down to her knees. "Can we please eat and talk this over while we're eating!"
Viki opened her mouth to argue when her own stomach added its two cents. With a sigh she closed her mouth and rested her hand on her forehead. "Oh, all right." Then she jabbed a finger in Jet's direction. "But, you better pay me back when we get back home!" Jet smiled and jumped back to her feet.
"Yes! Viki you're the best friend a girl could ever have!" She wasted no times catching her friend in a bone crushing hug.
"Whoa! Jet can't-having trouble breathing here….LET GO!" Jet released her friend and Viki sank to the ground and began to rub her throat taking in deep gasping breaths. "Jeez, are you trying to kill me?"
Jet shrugged, she offered her friend a hand and helped her to her feet. "You know…I wonder, what everyone is doing back home?" She looked up at the sky with a sorrowful expression taking over her face.
Viki grunted as she dusted imaginary dust off her. She grabbed Jet's arm and began to drag her away. "Look, you were whining about how hungry you were five seconds ago, so let's go before you make us both homesick!" As she was being dragged away by Viki, Jet spared a glance back at the fountain, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly. She could've sworn she'd just spotted a flash of white among the deep green of the leaves up in one of the trees. Another sharp tug on her arm, brought Jet back to reality and she stumbled out of the park behind Viki.
Hydranoid, was sitting atop the computer desk, watching that darned monitor…again. He turned slightly when his master appeared in a rain of light. He walked over to the computer and sat down in the chair.
"So how was the testing of the second dimensional transporter?" Hydranoid asked, turning to face Masquerade. Masquerade smirked.
"The test ran smoothly, damn that scientist for making such a big deal when in fact he had another one lined up and ready, though the results did provide me with something I might not have noticed otherwise." Hydranoid raised his little head.
"What do you mean master?" Masquerade's smirk grew slightly, as he logged into the brawling site, despite what some might've thought Masquerade had acces to the site as an anonymous user-as well as a hacker of course. He opened the rankings and scrolled down a little. He glanced down at Hydranoid and gestured to the screen,
"Why don't you see for yourself?" Hydranoid hopped onto Masquerade's shoulder and studied the computer screen, and stared blankly at the faces of the kids in the 400's. Then his tiny eyes caught sight of a familiar brunette girl with fierce blue eyes and dark shades that rested atop her head.
"It's her!" Hydranoid gasped. Masquerade frowned slightly and glanced sideways at him.
"You know of her?'
Hydranoid shook himself. "I was just watching the screen like you'd asked master and, well a battle began at a park that was near where the brawlers were, and well, I watched the battle, which was between her and her friend versus two wannabe's."
"And what were the results of the brawl?" Masquerade demanded.
"Well, the girl who is now ranked at 457 defeated two of the boys' bakugan. Her friend crippled the boys but didn't do much else. And after the 2nd bakugan the girl sent out returned to her, the boys, well they surrendered out of fear." If Masquerade hadn't been wearing a mask Hydranoid would've seen him raise an eyebrow questioningly.
"They just surrendered the brawl because of one bakugan?" Hydranoid let out a hiss of anger, as the image of the fake copy of him standing triumphantly on its master's gate card.
"Yes and it's all because that girl had a clone of me!" Masquerade was silent for a moment, then his lips curved up into a smirk.
"Hydranoid, did you ever pause to consider why she had a copy of you in her possession?" Masquerade questioned.
"Who cares about why? All I care is that, that-that fake cannot be allowed to continue to exist!" Hydranoid snarled. Masquerade didn't answer, instead he clicked on the female brawler he and Hydranoid had been looking at opening to her stats page. If Hydranoid's eyes could've widened they would be the size of dinner plates.
"That's why," Masquerade said. On the computer page beside the picture of the girl's face, in glowing white letter was the words:
Jet Raynet Age: 13 Attribute: Darkus Rank:457
"Th-then that means that-"
"Yes Hydranoid, we've finally found DarkusJet," Masquerade murmured rising from his chair, he reached into his pocket and pulled out 5 envelopes. "And now to see how good she truly is."
"Well, how about we go eat at that place?" Jet suggested pointing at yet another pizza place, Viki lifted her hand and smacked her forehead, letting out a groan.
"Jet, I already told you, WE'RE NOT GETTING PIZZA!" Jet let her arm drop back down to her side. She turned to Viki with a pouty expression on her face.
"Bu-"
"No." Viki said firmly. Jet turned away and folded her arms and continued to pout. Viki sighed and rubbed her aching head. They'd been walking down this street for a while now, and thankfully there were quite a few restaurants in the brawlers' world. Unfortunately, none of them were familiar to Jet and Viki or they were just too expensive for the girls' liking. Although that didn't stop Jet, from pointing out every pizza place she saw and begging Viki to take them there to eat regardless of price.
"Viki, can't you make up your mind and let us get some grub!" Jet whined turning back to look at her friend with pleading eyes. Viki removed her hand from her head, and glanced at the shops and restaurants that covered.
"Too pricy, that place looks disgusting, ugh I don't eat fish."
"Viki, come on less criticizing and just pick a place for us to eat." Viki scowled at her friend but, she let her eyes sweep over the street one more time when they stopped on a little café at the corner of the street.
"How about there?" Viki suggested pointing toward the cafe on the corner.
"Sure sure!" Jet replied hurriedly, she was just glad that her best friend had finally made up her mind on some place for them to eat. She grabbed her friends hand and began to drag her toward the restaurant. But, as they got closer Viki noticed that it seemed to be a bit familiar to her, as if she'd seen it somewhere before. Viki glanced at her friend, Jet's eyes were fixed on the place, driven by the hunger that was clawing fiercely at her stomach.
The next thing Viki knew Jet, was dragging her inside, the restaurant. Viki drew her hand away from Jet's and stared at the interior of the building. All of their thoughts were cut off when a friendly red haired girl approached them.
"Hi there! We weren't expecting to get any customers your age at the moment, but oh so sorry, where are my manners! Welcome to the Misaki restaurant, please have a seat and we'll serve you as soon as possible!" Jet and Viki nodded stiffly as the girl walked away to tend to the other two customers in the restaurant. Jet turned to Viki a glare fixed on her friend. Viki frowned slightly.
"I thought I recognized the place." She murmured, beside her Jet snorted.
"Gee, ya think? I wanted to avoid meeting up with any of the brawlers as much as possible and know we've practically walked right up to them. Yeah, real nice!" Viki elbowed her sharply, cutting off her friend's rant.
"Shut up, it's not like you did anything to help the situation! Now look let's just sit down get something to eat, and then we'll leave," She fixed her friend with a glare. "We are nothing more than a couple of teenage tourists from another town, got it!" Jet glanced sideways at Alice before nodding her head.
With that said the two girls walked over to a table and sank into the chairs, weary from the day's events.
A/N that was a total filler chapter. I just had to keep the plot moving. *falls back in her seat and lets out a long tired groan.* expect 10 in a week or so.