A/N WOW! I am so good I surprise myself JK. But unfortunately after losing my beloved flash drive that contained ALL my story and fanfic stuff, I thought I was going to have to put DD on a temporary hold. However thanks to one very great reviewer i was inspired to shake off the loss and rewrite the lost words and complete the chapter... and boy was it hard.

Jetravenex: The reviewer who I have to thank for inspiring me is none other than liontamer54321!

Liontamer54321: It's an honor to be here miss JetravenEx.

Masquerade: Hmph you clearly don't know her like i do,

Jetravenex: *quickly pushes Masquerade out* Ignore him, I don't know why he's cranky...

Skylord: It's Masquerade... He dreads every second he has to be with you.

Masquerade: Thank you for that point Skylord.

Liontamer54321: Well I think Jet's a very good writer

JetravenEx: *gestures to Liontamer54321* you see at least they know a good writer when they see one.

Masquerade: I wasn't commenting on your writer skills.

Jetravenex: *eye twitch* whatever, Liontamer54321 do the disclaimer for me please.

Liontamer54321: gladly, JetravenEx does not own bakugan.

Chapter 32

Jet's eyes were still burning to the point that even after the light ceased blinding her, she still couldn't see, and the only thing really registering was the feeling of falling, and her own voice reaching a height she hadn't even known it could go.

Jet forced herself to blink a few times before her vision cleared enough for her to see, only to immediately wish she could go back to being blinded.

Jet's voice went even higher as her eyes widened and she waved her arms wildly as she stared at the floor of the large computer room growing before her.

Suddenly someone grabbed onto the hood of the hooded sweater she was wearing and Jet choked as her air was temporarily cut off and her hands shot for her throat. Her eyes widened as her sun glasses were knocked off her head from her abrupt stop and continued to fall towards the ground, despite her air being cut off Jet whimpered and began to tremble violently as they hit the ground and broke into multiple pieces, a fate she had almost shared. A grunt sounded from somewhere behind her and Jet yelped as she was unceremoniously flipped over so that she was now gazing up towards the ceiling and she found herself face to face with…

"Masquerade!" Jet squeaked her voice breaking and she coughed slightly. The darkus brawler smirked, reveling in the look of shock on her face, his grip tightened around her, causing Jet to start to struggle.

"Stop struggling or I'll gladly drop you." He said his voice cold with dark sincerity, Jet tensed up and cast a glance down and gulped as a shiver passed through her. His smirk widened as she turned back to stare at him. "Good, I don't have to clean you off the floor after all." He said with a chuckle.

Jet swallowed as the other darkus brawler adjusted his grip so he was carrying her bridal style. Then in a flash of light the two of them were back on the platform. Jet gasped as she saw Dan and Marucho on the ground near the edge of the platform, Julio and Klaus standing over them. Dan was clutching at his stomach one of his eyes screwed shut as he gritted his teeth, and from the smug look on Julio's face, Jet assumed that he had been the one for Dan's current state.

Klaus glanced at Jet who glared in return. "You saved her?"

Masquerade snorted as he released his hold on Jet and let her hit the floor ignoring her cries of protest. "Didn't feel like having to clean up the mess she'd make." He said simply as he folded his arms and stepped over the fallen Jet and headed over to where Klaus and Julio halting in front of Dan. He sneered as Dan opened his eyes and glared up at the darkus brawler. He crouched down slightly and grabbed Dan by his hair then he lifted him up so that the two were face to face, Dan wincing in pain from the action, and Masquerade smirking at this.

"What was that you said earlier? Something about you becoming the new number 1? Still, believing that now Daniel?" He asked shaking the Pyrus brawler relishing in the cry of pain that came from Dan. "I am number 1, not you Kuso, now what should I do with you for your insolence hmm? Send your pitiful pet lizard in the doom dimension? Or perhaps I should let Master Naga rip him apart and have you watch?" He asked chuckling as a look of horror crossed Dan's face.

Jet grunted as she rolled onto her stomach narrowing her eyes as she locked onto Masquerade whose back was currently turned to her. Marucho looked towards her and their eyes met. Jet looked towards Masquerade and nodded her head to the darkus brawler before mouthing. "Distract him!"

Marucho's eyes widened with understanding and he looked at Masquerade fear evident in his eyes before he looked back at Jet, then his eyebrows furrowed and he nodded as he pushed himself to his feet.

"Hey leave, Dan alone!" Marucho shouted at the older blond, his fists clenched and shaking slightly as he glared up at the masked blond.

Masquerade paused and slowly turned to look at Marucho, his face blank, Klaus and Julio moved to grab Marucho, but Masquerade dropped Dan who dropped back to the ground with a muffled grunt. The older blond straightened up and calmly walked over to Marucho, who took an uneasy step back, his eyes losing whatever courage they had held as he looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

Masquerade chuckled as he grabbed the smaller blond by his shirt collar, "I think it's high time I sent your Preyas right back to the doom dimension… Or better yet, how about I have him join Jet's precious Skylord as my slave?" He asked as Skylord popped open on his shoulder covered in a dark aura a soft growl erupting from her.

Marucho staggered back as he grabbed his Preyas from his shoulder and held him to his chest as if to try and protect him.

Masquerade laughed as he offhandedly tossed Marucho over to where Dan lay and sent the two brawlers sliding closer to where Jet lay, the girl still struggling to regain her feet, but fear held her down weakening her mind and in turn her body.

Masquerade laughed as Klaus and Julio came up beside him. "When will you pitiful brawlers learn that no matter what you try I cannot be beat?" He asked laughing.

"You're wrong!" Jet spat cutting him off as she pushed herself to her feet, she glared at Masquerade and jabbed a finger at him. "You're doomed to fall! Be it by Dan's hand or by Naga's hand or at the hands of the time you're doomed to fall." She growled.

Masquerade chuckled as he folded his arms across his chest. "Really now? I notice you didn't include yourself in the above list," He smirked. "Finally admitting to your own weakness now are you?"

Jet was taken aback before she gritted her teeth, it was too late to try and take the words back. She glared at him and clenched her fists.

Masquerade snorted. "What, nothing to say? Then again it was obvious at the beginning that you didn't stand a chance."

Jet looked down shoving her hands into her pockets. "Maybe your right, but…" She lifted her head up and glared at him defiantly. "That won't prevent me from trying!" She said as she pulled her hands out of her pocket, and she ran at the darkus master one hand clenched into a fist while the other held a black card.

Masquerade didn't move he just stood there calmly smirking at Jet.

Jet let out a small war cry as she leapt at him punching out with her right hand while she tossed the black card to Marucho and Dan who scrambled to catch it.

Masquerade immediately caught on as he grabbed onto Jet's fist and onto her leg that she had been lifting to kick him with. With practiced ease he flipped her over and slammed her into the ground. "Get Dan and Marucho before they get away!" He barked at Julio and Klaus.

His minions jumped and rushed towards the two brawlers who lifted the black card and disappeared in a rain of sparkles. Klaus and Julio skidded to a halt stopping inches before the edge of the platform.

Masquerade scowled as he kicked Jet in the side, the girl winced but managed a small smirk up at the darkus brawler.

"How do you like them apples?" She croaked rubbing her aching ribs.

Masquerade remained silent for a moment before he smirked, grabbing onto Jet's arm and yanking the girl up onto her feet. "Go after the brawlers, we still have Viki and Runo in our clutches, they undoubtedly will go to save them first."

His two minions nodded their heads vigorously before they disappeared, and Masquerade turned back to Jet who glared defiantly at him though he could feel her tremble ever so slightly. "I'm thinking a change of scenery is in order…" He said with an evil chuckle as the two disappeared from the computer room as well.

Once all of the people had left the computer room shifted as it reassumed its original disguise.

Viki groaned as she came to reaching one hand to rub the back of her aching head as she slowly

sat up. She looked around her and spotted Runo lying on her stomach farther off. Viki frowned as she looked up into the same chute that she and Runo had tumbled down in the first place. Then her gaze returned downward as she pushed down on the ground next to her, and she felt the ground give just slightly when she put pressure on it. "I'm not surprised; Masquerade wouldn't want his prisoners to die before he could put them through hell. That'd be too easy." Viki grumbled. "And now how the hell are we going to get out of here?" She demanded throwing her hands up in the air as a bakugan exited out of her pocket and popped open on her shoulder.

"Calm down Viki, we'll get out of here." Fireblick assured her flapping his wings slightly as he floated off her shoulder.

Viki heaved a sigh as she let her arms drop down to her sides. Then she looked over at the unconscious Runo and then snorted and looked away, before dragging her gaze back to the girl. With a sigh the Pyrus user crawled over to the other girl and began to shake her shoulder.

"Runo, Runo wake up." Viki said, continuing to shake the girl's shoulder. In the corner of her eye she could see a small ball roll out from underneath Runo and pop open to reveal Tigrerra.

"Wh-where are we?" The tigress asked as she looked around at their current surroundings.

Viki sighed. "If I had to hazard a guess I'd assume we are in one of the many traps Masquerade had put in his mansion." She looked around pointedly. "We entered a trapdoor to investigate, looking for…well anything that could be of some use, or give us something on Masquerade, but all we found was this trap that was hidden in his secret passageway."

Tigrerra sighed wearily. "Oh well, a minor setback I am sure." She said as she turned to Viki. "Anyways have you two been able to devise any potential ways to escape?"

Viki paled as she looked back up. "Um, no… I think the only real way for us to get out would be only if…" She trailed off glancing around warily.

"If Masquerade chooses to release us," Tigrerra finished growling softly looking around. "And his reasoning for that being anything good is slim at best…" She murmured softly.

Viki sighed as she continued to shake Runo, and then gave up as she was unable to do anything to rouse the girl. She scooted back to lean against the wall of the chute and stared up at the dark abyss above them and she knew some many feet above was the point where they'd fallen.

A few minutes after she'd given up on trying to rouse Runo, Viki was beginning to doze off when the sound of rock scraping against rock coming from above caught her attention, the sound was shortly followed by a loud male voice.

"Hey! Check this out Marucho!" Viki jumped slightly as she heard the familiar voice come from above. "It's some secret entrance or something!"

Viki blinked. "Dan?" She thought to herself before using the wall to push herself to her feet and then taking in a deep breath she shouted. "DAN! DAN! HELP! RUNO AND I ARE TRAPPED!" She shouted as loud as she could up the hole and based on the sudden movement into the passageway and the shouts of exclamation as the trap door closed behind them.

"Hang on Runo and…" Dan called his voice sounding still far off from where she and Runo were.

"Viki!" Viki shouted her eye twitching slightly.

"Er…Yeah you toooooo!" He shouted his voice becoming louder and Viki wisely pressed herself against the wall just as a red and orange blur came falling from above and landed on top of the sleeping Runo.

Runo jolted awake immediately with a screech of pain and slugged Dan across the face before shoving him off and jumping to her feet her face so red with rage that even in the dim lighting Viki could see it. "DANIEL KUSO!" She roared as one hand reached behind to rub her aching back.

Dan winced as he stepped back his back bumping against the wall of the trap. "R-Runo it was an accident I swear! Look I didn't mean to land on you… I really didn't, it was just an accident I-"

"AHHHH!" A scream from above made everyone cast their eyes upwards and draw away from the shaft.

"Incoming!" Preyas shouted just as he and Marucho tumbled down the hole and proceeded to land in a heap on the ground.

Everyone paused and stared at the two for a moment before Runo rounded on Dan once more, the momentarily distraction forgotten.

"What are you doing here in the first place Dan? Last time I checked you were still at the other castle." She growled putting her hands on her hips and glaring at Dan.

Dan sighed as he ran a hand through his brown hair. "Look, we seriously don't have time for this, Jet's keeping Masquerade busy, but who knows how long that'll give us…"
Viki blinked and then swallowed. "Oh, Jet," She thought.

"Well genius if you hadn't noticed there isn't anyway for us to climb out of here!" Runo spat clenching her fists at her sides.

Dan smiled as he pulled out a card from his pocket revealing a black card "Right before Jet attacked Masquerade she gave this to me and Marucho, it's like a teleporting card or something!" He said lifting it up to show them.

Runo blinked and her glare eased. "So, you're saying that that black card can get us out of here…" She said her eyebrows furrowing slightly as she looked at the card.

"It. does…seem logical." Marucho said weakly rising up rubbing his aching face slightly and picking up his fallen glasses. "After all our field cards open the field around us, wouldn't it be possible then that a card could warp us to anymore we want?"

Dan grinned at Marucho as he nodded his head. "It's just like Marucho said, and plus he and I have tried it, in fact we were able to warp right out of the computer room or something with it when Masquerade attempted to send Masquerade's goons after us."

Runo waved her hand. "Alright already! Then if you're so sure it works then why don't you stop talking and teleport us out of here already?" She demanded angrily.

Viki remained silent. "That's Jet card… If we take it and leave… Jet will be trapped here with Masquerade." She said quietly. She raised her head and looked at the three.

Runo scowled and snorted. "I'll bet she'll be thrilled, means she can be with her beloved oh so much easier, under the guise of his poor helpless prisoner."

Dan frowned as he looked at Runo then back at Viki seemingly torn.

"Viki… Please try to understand, we're not trying to abandon Jet, but-"

"But we need to get out!" Runo barked. "You see, she's trying to keep us here so that way we can be trapped by Masquerade!" She said jabbing a finger at Viki.

Viki held up her hands. "Look I don't like being trapped anymore than you but…"

Suddenly the sound of the rock sliding open once more made everyone freeze and then stiffen as loud footsteps echoed as they entered the passageway.

"Viki, there's no choice." Dan said as he raised the black card and Marucho and Runo crowded around. "You don't have to leave but we are," Dan said firmly as Runo wrapped an arm around Dan's and shot Viki a look. Marucho looked up at her with pleading eyes while the footsteps above grew louder.

Viki swallowed the tears that lumped up in her throat. "I'm sorry Jet." She thought, before she hurried over to them, and grabbed onto Marucho. Dan smiled sadly at her just before the card began to glow spreading to the rest of them, illuminating the dim space with bright light and then they were gone.

A/N Eesh if it weren't so late I'd continue it more, but's it already more than 2000 words and Im worn out.

Liontamer54321: I'm grateful you updated.

JetravenEx: yeah i just hope I didn't make you sound too odd Liontamer

Masquerade: you mean OOC Jet, you of all people should know that word. *smirks* since you make me be 'Out of character' too often.

Jetravenex: bite me.

Masquerade: dont worry I'll enjoy whatever torture i get to inflict upon your OC next chapter.

Skylord: OKAY! I think this is a very good point for us to cut out! We need reviews people, tell us what could have been done better, rather than just say 'This story is cool/awesome/epic/fantastic' or 'UPDATE SOON" we watn quality reviews because as was shown by Liontamer54321, a good review can be that little flame that relights a writers inspiration.

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