A/ N: so got bored went to deviantart looked up Masquerade, then went to the great artist Inesidora's page and looked at her Bakugan R stuff.
And now I wanna try my hand at a humanized bakugan story. One that will prolly have Naruto-esque themes since I've been watching that series like crazy.
But anyways as I announced in The Mighty Fall, I would like to spotlight an author who I think has done very well despite having one piece of fanfiction for this series.
So….
Jet shifted excitedly in her seat as she clasped her hands together eyes shining as she watched the screen displaying the short in front of her.
Tyler was asleep, although he loved to try and make some moves on the ladies, romantic movies weren't his thing. They just. Put him to sleep, all the time. Just boom once they started getting into the mushy gushy stuff he was out.
Aidan didn't even feign to be paying attention to what was playing on the screen. He had his phone out and was boredly reading over some articles and texting. He had only come along because Jet and Alica had just insisted.
Viki was content sitting on one side of Jet she sat there with her chin resting in her hand, gazing up at the screen.
Mike sat on the other side of Jet sitting back in his seat and gazing calmly at the screen.
Alica sat beside Aidan and was sitting forwards in her seat watching with rapt attention at the screen.
On the screen it depicted Alice and Masquerade standing across from each other in the same meadow Masquerade left Alice for good in episode 44.
"You hurt me by leaving Masquerade." Alice said quietly looking up at him brown eyes filled with sadness.
"Huh?" Was all the masked blond managed.
Jet's eyes lit up as Alice began to walk slowly towards the masked blond stopping when they were only a foot apart.
"Oh this is it." Jet whispered, Mike turning to her blinking as Jet wiggled in her seat before settling back down.
"SHHH! QUIET!" Alica hissed from all the way down the row shooting Jet a glare before she looked back at the screen as well.
The Neo Brawlers watched as Alice reached forwards and grabbed Masquerade's hand.
"Please. Stay. Don't go this time. I trust you, I know you won't hurt me." Alice said looking up at the frozen masked blond pleadingly.
Aidan snorted. "I wouldn't be so quick to trust-OW!" He cried as Alica elbowed him. Rubbing his aching arm he glared at Alica who glared back.
"Alice…" Masquerade began to say, drawing everyone's attention back to the screen.
Alice opened her mouth to say anything but before she could speak the screen cut out and went to black in a flash.
For a moment the 6 just sat there blinking before Alica jumped up.
"HEY! Who turned off the TV!" She shouted whirling to face the couch where all the neo brawlers were seated, eyes narrowed and hands on her hips. The other Neo Brawlers just blinked in confusion Tyler stirring slightly.
"Oh, its over?" He muttered stretching his arms up over his head.
"Your break is." Meredith said tapping the remote in her hand. "Come on we've got a story to continue." All the Neo Brawlers turned ot look at the older girl.
"But sissy!" Jet whined and Meredith looked at her sharply.
"There's work to be done, besides." Meredith went over to the lamp table beside the couch where a DVD box lay, picking it up Meredith read the title. "You guys can finish watching Stay by Mana9978 after the chapter."
Superior popped open and looked at the readers "And you guys can to! After oyu finish this chapter go check out Mana9978, with only one fanfic so far she's done great work, so go drop by say hey and give her some support!'
Mana- I'm glad to hear you're excited to know what comes next, but unfortunately College is hard. Like its handing my ass to me hard. I'll do my best to keep pushing on but you have to bear with me that I'm extremely busy.
Jet: Believe me, she's dedicated, and she'll keep writing until DD is done and the story concludes as best as it can
JetravenEx: Its just gonna get a little… Messy in Doom and Docorrus, cause my headcannon for Bakugan is a little different than the shows. Screw you freaking light show in the sky (code eve) bakugan deserves better than you!
Mike: Lets save the hate about what Bakugan did wrong for later and move on, shall we?
Guest: HUZZAH you made my day by saying that :D
Brightcloud- Yeah Masky's being quite the jerk. And you'll have to wait a bit before Naga and Hal-G get theirs.
Jet: But they will get theirs, mark my words.
PreetSalvatore: Glad you think that
FanficNerd: Yes that main character protection shield… I remember when I was in middle school and my teacher was reading us the hunger games and he brought up the possibility of the main character dying and I scoffed at that. Although I had to admit, it would be interesting if they did that. I need to read Game of Thrones to make my killing characters skill improve.
Jet: Are you trying to make everyone paranoid?
JetravenEx: Course not, I got everyone jumping through enough hoops wondering what Masky's deal is besides love you guys too much at the moment to off ya.
Mike: Well that's a relief
JetravenEx: Unfortunately we're going to not be going with any of those characters at the moment, we're going to take a detour cause we have one last kid from our world to pick up
Tyler: ME!
JetravenEx: *sighs* Yeah yeah now sit down and shut up before I kick you out again.
Tyler: *shuts up*
Breezyfeather-I wouldn't go hailing her as the next darkus soldier yet… See I've got a bit of a twist coming when its gonna come to the six ancient warriors. But that won't happen for a bit longer. No Joe hasn't entered the picture yet, I think he'll come into play sooner or later. Like in Doom and Docorrus, just can't think of where to shove him in, unless I shove him in next chapter. Maybe.
I want you to draw more of this too! With Halloween coming up I just pictured all the Neo Brawlers dressing up as characters in the bakugan battle brawlers. Jet wearing Masky's outfit, Viki wearing Spectra's, Alica wearing Shun's, you could have Mike in Dan's outfit since the two of them are similar, but it looks like poor Aidan and Tyler will be forced to cross dress as Runo or Julie, or Tyler could dress up as Billy and Aidan as Julio. Jeez that'd be funny, a nerdy guy trying to imitate the buff bald headed Julio? Hilarious XD.
Mike: Don't worry Jet's just wishing for awesome artwork.
JetravenEx: Why do I have no art skill, I want to be able to draw this stuff! T.T but I can't.
Antex- Jet'll learn, just might not be any time soon XD
Sierra- Yes that is predictable, however will I have her fight the Six Ancient warriors…. Hmmm. *shifty eyes* and sorry Sky's evolved form isn't Omega Skylord, (though it'd be a fitting opposite for Alpha Hydranoid) but Sky's evolved form has a different name. What is it? Well that'll be revealed when Sky evolves.
Lightus- Thanks but no thanks, we'll pass on the tank.
All right with all that done! ONTO THE STORY!
Chapter 71
Tyler frowned as he surveyed the area before him. Snow was falling wildly around him. Lifting a hand to shield his hand he squinted out into the distance, then straightening up when he spotted the wooden shack up ahead.
"There!" He said pointing towards it as Meredith turned off the car and stepped out moving to join him. She zipped her parka up higher so it wrapped even more snugly around herself. She frowned as she squinted in the distance towards where he was pointing before she nodded.
"Yeah that looks like the place." She said as she began to make her way towards it, "Man the snows getting pretty deep, we're almost at 8 inches or so." She mused as her boots sank into the snow as they walked Tyler moving quickly beside her.
"Hopefully the snow won't have disturbed the ashes too much." Tyler murmured leaning forwards to speed up his progress. "Even if," He bit his lip. "If it is them," He said softly his throat tightening at the idea. "Then I want to be able to utilize the evidence there, to find the one who did it." Clenching his fist at the promise and with a new fire in his eyes Tyler began to jog through the snow, it was slow going but it was slightly quicker than walking.
Frowning to herself Meredith followed after him. 'You poor thing Tyler, it must be so hard to be the last one here, wondering what's going on. Not realizing you could tip the scales in that other world." She moved her hand to touch the pocket in her jacket where Superior was hidden inside. 'I wish I could tell you that everything's all right and that no ones dead. Yet," She added as an afterthought, because there was no certainty that this whole endeavor would go as well as it was hoped it would.
Tyler however paid no mind to Meredith acting strangely, he was too focused on reaching the abandoned shack of a building that stood near the quarry; pressing harder and harder on his legs till he was sprinting and kicking up a cloud of snow with each step. He didn't slow down, or turn his gaze away from the building that lay ahead until he was standing in the gaping hole that led into the damaged building. Panting slightly from exertion Tyler walked forwards ducking underneath the yellow tape that had been placed over the hole. While a thought nagged at him that any traces he left behind here now would only be used to incriminate him further. But, then again he was already the prime suspect already, and that was with the police using only theories and bitter relations to go on.
So shrugging off his concerns Tyler stepped carefully into the warehouse and glanced around taking stock of his surroundings. The warehouse had several holes in the roof which the police had hastily patched with some kind of tarp to try and temporarily keep the weather from disturbing the evidence.
As he moved deeper into the warehouse he could see five cards of bright yellow with numbers printed on them, and after getting a little closer, the piles of ashes beside them.
Tyler went over to them his pace slowing as he drew near before coming to a halt near the piles. Frowning to himself he tilted his head back and sniffed the air, taking loud inhales for several moments. However before he could come to any conclusion his eyes widened and he covered his nose as he sneezed.
"Ah-choo!" He cried covering his mouth with his sleeve wincing as he pulled back wiping his sleeve off on his pants. His eyebrow furrowing as he looked around.
"Smells off." Tyler murmured as Meredith ducked under the tape and went over to him.
"The smell?" Meredith echoed.
"Yeah," Tyler grimaced. "I've burnt a lot of stuff, and been present at the burning of a lot of stuff." He shot a pointed look at Meredith. "I helped with the cremating of an old lady who befriended my family when we moved to Texas." Meredith's face screwed up her lips curling slightly.
"Really? They let a kid do that?" Meredith muttered frowning suddenly wondering if perhaps Tyler wasn't as innocent as she thought she reached into her pocket and gripped Superior in her hand.
Tyler shrugged as he knelt down beside the pile that Aidan's messenger bag had been laid reaching into his belt to pull out a set of tan gloves, slipping them on before reaching down to pick up Aidan's bag.
While Tyler was absorbed with inspecting Aidan's bag, Meredith pulled out Superior the mechanical bakugan popping open in her hand. Meredith cupped her hand around him as she shifted so her back was to Tyler and Superior was hidden by her body.
"I want you to analyze the ashes, just in case." She whispered to the mechanical bakugan. "I don't think we're wrong, but we can't be too certain." Superior nodded turning to the nearest pile of ashes his optics going from purple to green.
While he was scanning the pile, Meredith kept shooting glances towards Tyler to make sure the blond haired boy didn't turn to see what she was up to. But the boy was too busy running his hands over the bag inspecting it.
Meredith turned back to Superior just as his optics went from green back to their normal purple. "I've analyzed the ashes, and although it's a little difficult to get a completely accurate reading, I can tell you this, while it is burnt flesh. There lacks any traces of fabrics or a large amount of hair." Superior said glancing at the piles. "Also I do not think these piles are big enough to be from the burnt remains of 1 human being, much less 5 of them."
Meredith looked at the piles again, the piles were fairly small. But why would Alica have a picture of a warehouse with 5 separate piles of ashes made to look like five humans had been burned there? And what was Aidan's bag doing here?
"Meredith this is awfully suspicious." Superior said. "I think someone set this up." He said quietly.
"But why?" Meredith asked.
Superior shifted his wings in a shrug. "Perhaps, there's-"
"Meredith?" Tyler said walking over to the black haired girl. Meredith hastily forced Superior shut and shoved the mechanical bakugan into her pocket before whirling around to face Tyler making sure to take her hand out of her pocket. The blond haired boy had his head tilted as he looked at her, holding Aidan's messenger bag in one hand and a familiar Green stuffed Dinosaur in the other. Tyler's eyebrows furrowed. "Were you just talking to someone?"
"Ah, just talking to an idiot at work," Meredith said quickly rubbing the back of her neck sheepishly as she pulled out her phone from her other pocket, hoping Tyler would be the idiot he usually was and not take note of the round bulge now in her pants pocket.
Tyler nodded. "Oh, okay." He said then he raised the dinosaur for her to see. "This is Jet's right?"
Meredith nodded "Dino, yes," She said.
Tyler frowned. "It was in Aidan's bag, along with a towel, a copy of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and his laptop case."
Meredith blinked. "And it's all still intact?" She said sounding surprised.
"Well the towel's a bit singed since it was the closest to the corner that was burned, but aside from that, yeah everything's still in one piece." Tyler said as he placed the bag on the ground and fished around in it setting down the stuffed toy on the towel, and the book down beside them. He also yanked out a tooth brush which he tossed into the pile as well.
"It's almost like Aidan was planning on going away for a while." Meredith mused crouching down beside the growing pile, while picking up 'The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy'. 'Did you know you were going to the bakugan world Aidan? But if you did, why is all your stuff here besides a pile of some creatures ashes, and not with you?"
Tyler nodded as he grasped something in Aidan's bag. "Oh! I think I found his phone!" He said as he yanked out the silver colored smart phone wincing slightly at the sight. "Oh, looks pretty battered." He said turning it over to show Meredith the cracked screen of the phone.
Meredith frowned. "That looks like it was thrown." She said noting the damage on the phone. "Does it still work?" She asked reaching for the phone.
Instead of handing over the phone he scooted over so he was sitting beside her pressing down on the power button the phone reluctantly powering on, showing the plain white screen broken apart by the cracks in the screen.
"Hey it works," Tyler said as he yanked off the glove on his right hand and moved his thumb along the slide bar to unlock the phone. The bar disappeared and the pictures of the apps appeared on the screen.
"Check his call history." Meredith said leaning in pointing to the call app.
Tyler nodded as he went over to that app, and located the call history.
"Hmm, looks like, Mike was the last person he called." Tyler said frowning, "Just as Aidan was the last person Mike called."
Meredith shook her head. "I wouldn't be so sure, look at the date." She said pointing at the numbers listed beside Mike's picture in the history.
Tyler blinked and focused on the numbers eyes widening. "Oh! That's the day after Mike disappeared!" He cried.
"And the day before Aidan and Alica disappeared." Meredith finished.
Tyler frowned and looked at Meredith lips turning down in a befundled frown. "But what does that mean?" He asked.
Meredith shrugged. "It means that despite disappearing Mike could still reach out to Aidan, but for what reason I don't know."
Tyler frowned as he touched Mike's number, "I'm gonna try calling him." He said raising the phone up to his ear.
Meredith nodded. "It's worth a try."
'And it might shed some light on what's going on over there.' She thought as the phone rang.
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At Masquerade's mansion a small group had assembled in the dining room seated at the dining room table. At the head of the table sat Hal-G the goblin like creature cackling like madly. The chair next to him was taken by Alica who had Aidan seated beside her, the blond boy sitting up and tall in his seat his eyes glancing over the others. Beside Aidan was Viki who was seated across from Spectra. The pyrus birdbrain was seated beside Vanessa, and their respective lapdogs sat beside them on the other side of the table.
The only empty seat at the table of villains was at the head of the table on the other side.
"So now that everything is proceeding as planned." Alica said turning to look at the Docorrians, "I do not think your services will be required." She added tilting her head up and glaring at Vanessa. "So why are you still here?" She asked icily.
"Yes, I am wondering that too." Hal-G said looking towards Vanessa. "You agreed to do the task without payment."
Vanessa nodded. "I did, however, given the circumstances, we have to return to our previous agreement." She said.
Aidan snorted. "I see, now that you managed to get the job done just barely you want to try and milk this for all its worth." He pushed his glasses further up his nose with a snort. "How foolish, as you're more likely to leave with nothing."
Vanessa snarled. "I will not leave without some form of compensation for the work and effort me and my peers have so graciously dedicated towards your efforts." She calmed herself exchanging glances with Pierce who sat beside her.
"What do we owe you!" Alica hissed green eyes narrowed to slits. "The plan would've run much smoother had you captured Masquerade the first time."
"You lot couldn't even defeat him! If you could've you would've done it yourself and not gotten us involved in the first place!" Vanessa snapped at them slamming her hands on the table. "I have even lowered the cost, but Docorrus needs males, and thus I demand no money, but I demand one able bodied young male."
"Your species are disgusting." Alica shouted rising as well. "You said you'd do the job free of charge, and now here you are turning around and changing the rules!" She jabbed a finger at the woman.
"Better put that finger away before you lose it." Vanessa snarled her claws unsheathing and digging into the table below her fingers.
Vanessa and Alica stood there inches from each other, faces twisted into a mix between a scowl and a snarl. Everyone else at the table remained silent, afraid that breaking the silence would result in a fight between the two breaking out.
"Now, now there's no need to fight." A flash of light erupted at the other side of the room and a familiar masked blond dropped into the seat at the other end of the table. All heads turned to look at Masquerade who rested an arm on the back of his chair and crossed one leg over the other. "So seems like I missed quite a bit while I was gone."
For a moment no one said anything before Hal-G grumbled and gave a gruff "You're late." To Masquerade.
"Oh? Am I? Sorry bout that, had to take out the trash, it took a little longer than I thought but I disposed of it readily enough." He said with a sigh rolling his shoulders. "And that leaves hmm lets see, 7 brawlers left to dispose of now?"
Hal-G settled back in his seat. "So you took care of Jet then?"
Masquerade grinned. "I sent her to the darkest corner of the doom dimension you can find." He said with a chuckle. "She won't be a bother any time soon." Then leaning forwards and clapping his hands together. "But anyways, along the line with bothersome trash, I've been thinking, if we throw all the brawlers into the doom dimension well they'll just rally together, and find some way to win. They're irritating like that, so I have an idea that might make both you," He said nodding to Hal-G, "And you." He added gesturing to Vanessa. "Very happy."
"Spit it out already." Vanessa said sitting back down in her seat sheathing her claws as she did so. Alica did the same across from her the two still giving each other the evil eye every so often.
"Well I have a brawler I'd like to dispose of, and your pet birdbrain over there has already approached me about requesting to take his bakugan off his hands. And well, throwing him to the doom dimension without his bakugan sounds kind of redundant. Plus the moron's more likely to give me trouble that way, so how about instead of making my life harder we'll make it even easier."
Vanessa's eyes gleamed as she followed what Masquerade was saying, Spectra grinning beside her. Victor and Trent however looked lost. Victor leaned over to Trent.
"Dude what's he getting at?" Victor whispered, not as quietly as he could to which Trent merely shrugged.
"If you'd keep your mouth shut for more than a minute, you'd find out." Masquerade snapped glaring at the two. "I was suggesting, that we kill two birds with one stone, we send the brawlers to the doom dimension, we take Drago away from them and give them to Spectra to use against them instead should they recover," Then smirk growing he added, "And then we can do one better."
"I'll get to take Dan Kuso back to Docorrus as my payment." Vanessa finished leaning back in her seat smiling smugly. "To which I will gladly accept."
Silence fell upon the group, before Hal-G laughed. "Well in that case I'd say that takes care of everything!"
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Mike was seated, once again, in the waiting room at the hospital, waiting with the other brawlers to be allowed to see Dan. The brown haired teen sighed slouching slightly in his seat as he glanced around at the group seated all about in the waiting room.
Runo was sitting in the chair in the corner, the bluenette slumped forwards chin propped up by her hands as she looked blankly off in the distance.
Julie was looking down at her hands fiddling with a small strip of paper she'd found and had been passing time folding it and unfolding it in various ways. Although she'd made multiple creases she'd failed to make anything out of the piece of paper. Not only did the silver haired girl not know how to do anything else, she was too burned out mentally to try.
Marucho was seated beside Mike sniffling a bit, a box of tissues seated beside him, and a large pile lying next to him. Oddly enough Preyas was silent, unable to find the spirit to crack a joke in the grim setting surrounding them.
Mike frowned as he glanced over them all once more before looking down at his hands clasped together in his lap. The brawlers were battered, and in such a way that even Mike wasn't sure how well they could bounce back. When Shun had been taken down, he could see that it threw them off to not have the ninja around to support them and Dan, but Dan had managed to keep them going forwards. But with Dan now being bedridden-a result of some sort of mental breakdown as Drago had described it-the brawlers were now left without any sort of obvious leader figure.
Granted, Shun was recovering but Mike had his doubts about the ninja being eager to jump into Dan's place so soon after being injured as badly as he was.
"This is terrible," Hydrogator muttered popping open on Mike's shoulder. "Can't we get a break? Ever since we arrived it's been nothing but bad news, worse news, and then absolutely horrible news." The aquos alligator bakugan shook himself. "It's so frustrating, some good news would be nice."
Mike sighed. "Well Dan might be able to shed some light on what happened when he wakes up." He said folding his arms across his chest as he glanced up at the ceiling. "I mean seeing Billy's nearly dead body probably scared the crap out of him, but was it really enough to make him shut down?" He asked eyes narrowing slightly as he lowered his head to look at the coffee table in the middle of the table. Then he shut his eyes and heaved a sigh. "Then again, I don't think I would've been able to completely hande just tripping over a kids cut up body, and getting covered in their blood without having some form of mental breakdown." He said.
"But, you don't sound convinced," Hydrogator noted.
"That's cause it smells rotten, this whole situation, Spectra 'defeating' Masquerade and then suddenly Billy, the only one Masquerade spared gets cut up." Mike's eyes narrowed, "Then after stumbling upon him, Dan ends up collapsing from a mental breakdown in relation to it. Its just way too convenient. It cripples Dan and leaves him open to attacks from either Masquerade or-" He trailed off glancing around at the quietly grieving brawlers. He bit his lip. As much as he'd like to slander Spectra, he knew the last thing the brawlers needed right now was more bad news. And try as he'd like, he had little to no proof of Spectra's ill intentions, with the exception of the gut feeling that there was something off about him. And Viki too as of late, considering the girl had turned on Jet, and slandered their friend so brutally right to her face.
Mike groaned as he buried his face in his hands reaching up to yank at his hair. Suddenly he felt very lonely. With Jet gone, and Viki acting strangely he was all alone in this crazy world; surrounded by broken, frightened kids who Mike worried might turn to him to be the leader if neither Dan nor Shun got their ass in gear anytime soon.
On one hand he worried what might befall his other friends should they come here, but he'd take comfort in some familiar faces, in Aidan's calm logic and in Tyler's optimistic idiocy. Instinctively he found himself reaching for his phone he had stashed in his jean pocket, freezing when he suddenly felt it vibrate.
Blinking slightly in confusion, Mike reached into his pocket and drew out his old sliding phone. Bringing it up to his face so he could look at the caller ID. He raised an eyebrow as his phone recognized the number as Aidan Baxter's cell. Which he'd last contacted…
Hastily he hit answer call and put it to his ear heart swelling with hope. "H-hello?" He said hardly daring to believe that his friend had called him again.
"Mike!" To his surprise it wasn't Aidan's crisp, intelligent voice that answered his greeting, but the loud and hyper Texan's voice. Blinking slightly Mike pulled the phone from his ear and looked at the contact info again, reconfirming that once again, this was Aidan's number that Tyler was using.
"Tyler?" Mike said eyebrows furrowing. "Why do you have Aidan's phone?"
"I found it in his messenger bag in this warehouse beside a pile of ashes." Tyler said. "Oh man you have no idea how good it is to hear you're voice and know that you're alive! You've got me, your uncle, Meredith and the police all worried for ya."
That made Mike wince, he'd gotten so absorbed into the whole being in a new world thing that he'd forgotten about the friends and family he'd left behind in the real world. "Ah, sorry, it kinda slipped my mind its kind of busy over here." Mike said. "But you can probably guess, did Aidan tell you what I told him earlier?" Mike asked.
There was a pregnant pause that made Mike's eyebrows furrow, which developed into a full blown frown when Tyler began slowly.
"Uh, no he didn't, all he left me and everyone else was a whole lot of nada. He just upped and disappeared along with Alica. Although she left a picture leading to a warehouse filled with piles of ashes that everyone back home…well everyone as in the police, think might be you guys." Mike's heart plummeted into his stomach. "But since I'm talking to you, it couldn't be." Tyler said softly.
"Trust me Tyler, its not us, I mean, I haven't seen Aidan or Alica." Mike ran a hand through his hand. "But I've reunited with Jet and Viki, granted things have gotten crazy here." He said with a snort. "Like you wouldn't believe."
"Uh, where's 'here'?" Tyler asked over the phone
"The bakugan world-… Oh right, you didn't believe me either." Mike said with a sigh. "I really don't have the energy to prove it to you…"
"Mike? Who are you talking to?" Preyas asked looking up from Marucho's shoulder.
Mike glanced down at Preyas then he smiled slightly. "Actually Tyler, I'll put preyas on the line, see if this convinces you." He lowered the phone so it was level with Marucho and his bakugan the blond boy perking up as the phone was brought in close proximity to him.
Preyas waddled over to the phone Tyler surprisingly remaining silent on the other side, like he was holding his breath.
"Uh, hello is this Mike's friend? The one who apparently doesn't believe in Bakugan? Well what kind of bull crap is that you little man!" Preyas said bouncing up and down as he spoke into the phone. "I am very much real, and how did you miss the cards falling from the sky?! It was like a major weather event!"
With Preyas still fuming Mike hastily pulled the phone back and returned it to his ear. "Believe me now?"
To his surprise Tyler said. "I thought Preyas was supposed to be funny…."
Mike sighed as he ran a hand through his now very messy brown hair. "Well its been a real rough ride over here Ty. Things aren't going well, and well, we could use a little help man."
"You want me to go over and join you guys?" Tyler asked sounding surprised. "Seriously?! Can I bring my explosives?! Can I?" The boy's voice going up a pitch in his excitement.
"Do you ever go anywhere without them?" Mike asked rhetorically rolling his eyes as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Sure, just try to avoid blowing up something IMPORTANT okay?"
Shouts and cries of alarm from the reception area made Mike and the others jump to their feet, eyes jumping to look at two girls who just walked in. Julie covered her mouth as Runo's eyes widened.
Standing in the doorway was Jenny with Jewls supported over her shoulder. Jenny was breathing hard as Jewls was whimpering beside her, the brawlers eyes widening as they noticed the drops of crimson liquid that were dripping down Jewls's back.
"Oh my god Jenny! Jewls what happened?!" Julie shouted rushing over to them as Jenny sank to her knees Jewls sinking with the girl who was supporting her.
Jenny sniffled. "It-Masquerade-he-Jet, Jet's…" Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked helplessly at Jewls and then back at Julie.
"Masquerade?!" Runo echoed eyes wide with horror. "But he's gone! Spectra assured us, are you telling us he's still around!" She said clenching her hands into fists as she stamped her foot. "That creep! I'll get him and make sure he's gone for good!"
Jenny let out a sob as Mike cast aside his phone Tyler shouting at him from the other end, and Mike vaguely thought he heard Meredith on the other end as well demanding that he explain what's going on on his end.
Mike went over to Jenny and moved to take Jewls, "Here Jewls let me…" He trailed off as he got a look at her back his eyes widening. "Oh god," He whispered as he gently held her up by her shoulders Jewls whimpering as Mike's eyes traced over the words that had been cut into her back, with blood trickling down them.
'Jet crashed and burned. You're next.'
Mike's heart stopped. "Jet…" He whispered.
Jewls bit back a sob as she covered her face. "He-Masquerade he he showed up, and he-Jet tried to stop him-but he-he threw her into the Doom Dimension! Then he-he! BWAHHHHH!" Jewls wailed as Julie rushed to embrace her fellow Subterra brawler as several nurses rushed over to help them.
Jenny remained kneeling on the floor looking dazed, Runo and Marucho going over to help her to her feet.
"Here-lets take you to somewhere you can rest." Runo said gently, more gently than anyone had heard her speak in a long time. "We'll make it all better, I promise." She said despite the promise being an empty one as she and Marucho led her after Jewls towards the hospital rooms to take care of the battered and frightened Pop Stars.
Now alone in the waiting room Mike stood grimly in the center fists clenching and unclenching as he worked his jaw.
"MIKE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" Meredith's voice erupted from his phone.
Numbly Mike forced his body to move, he went over to the table, and picked up the phone. He swallowed the lump in his throat and forced himself to speak. "Jet's been sent to the doom dimension." He said quietly but steadily a tear appearing in his eye. "Please-Please get here as fast as you can." He said as the tear streaked down his cheek. "I can't do this alone."
Silence for a moment except for the plit plit of the Aquos Brawler's tears on the table below.
"We'll be there as soon as we can. Just hang on a little longer Mike." Meredith assured him.
"I'll try." Mike said. "But I don't know how much longer we've got." He said quietly.
'But I don't think we have any time at all left.' Mike thought swallowing.
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A/N HUZZAH ITS DONE.
Sorry if some parts aren't very good, if you have any advice on how to improve don't hesitate to speak up.
Oh boy, looks like Masquerade's confirming his existence to the battle brawlers, and Tyler and Meredith are going to be joining in on all the madness. But can Mike and the battle brawlers hold out long enough for back up to arrive?
Also as I stated that I wanted to write some bakugan humanized stories, so I think I'll start with several one shots featuring the main OC bakugan who will be featured as one of the major characters. But don't worry most of the OC's will either be bakugan from here whom you've met, or bakugan from the other seasons. Don't worry you'll recognize most of them.
The first oneshot will have humanized Ingram battling a humanized Superior. Over what and for what reason? Well you'll just have to wait till I post 'Dancing Shadows' to find out. ~.0
Anyways, as always your support is appreciated in DD and in all my future stories. So what do you guys think, you want to see a super cool battle between two cool humanized bakugan? Do ya? Do ya?
Ingram: Say yes damn it
Superior: Yeah, I'd like to be a major character in a story once again, rather than just my tiny cameo in DD
JetravenEx: Hey I'm trying here! And look I changed it so that you and Mere are coming to the bakugan dimension with Tyler! So you'll get more of a role.
Superior: Still not enough, anyways its up to you readers, will we have your support in our endeavors of a humanized bakugan story?
JetravenEx: Thanks for reading and please leave a review before you go!