Tortured Soul

Ok, my longest chapter yet, I've been looking forward to writing this one since I knew where the story was going. Comments and review replies at the bottom, Please don't kill me!!

Chapter 18

Tyson stared up at the ceiling, watching as the light of the new dawn stretched languidly across it. It would be time soon, they would be coming for him. Slowly and almost begrudgingly he swung his legs over the side of the double bed. Stretching his arms out and feeling his muscles twinge at the movement, he yawned deeply. He had gotten a good solid two hours sleep last night, it might even have been three but his mind was buzzing about what he was going to do today.

He had wanted to wipe Boris’s smug look off of his face, well that was a definite with what he had planned. It should also take care of dumb and dumber too, unfortunately it might also take care of him. He had gone over it time and time again in his hours of restless non sleeping and there was just no way he could see that he could come out of this in good shape. Hell, he might not come out of this in any shape.

Standing he walked to the bathroom and headed straight for the toilet, that cabbage had done a number on him last night. ‘Maybe that was the idiots plan’ he thought suddenly, ‘they couldn’t torture me any other way so they chose this’. As he sat there his thoughts drifted to Kai and to all the things he may never get to say to him. ‘I’m sorry Kai’ he thought sadly, ‘I wish it could be different, I wish I’d never run away from you that day, I wish I’d told you how I was feeling but what’s that old saying? If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. I never understood that till now.’

Wiping himself Tyson stood and flushed the toilet and then headed for the sink to wash his hands and face. Using cold water to keep his mind alert he had an idea about something, he just wished the brat was awake enough to understand. Heading back out into the main room he went to the chair where he’d left his clothes and dressed quickly. There really was no time to waste, dawn was just about here.

Tyson walked to Daichi’s bedside and knelt down beside him placing a hand on Daichi’s arm. He shook the boy gently not really wanting to disturb him but needing to say something.

“Daichi, Daichi I need you to listen to me for a minute.” He whispered by the boys ear.

“Mmph” came the sleepy response.

“Daichi, come on Daichi.”

“T-Tyson?”

“Yeah buddy, you awake?”

“Well I am now!” Daichi stated a little irritably.

“Sorry pal but I need you to listen to me for a minute.” The tone of Tyson’s voice caught something in Daichi and his brain woke a little more from its slumber to listen.

“What is it Tyson?”

“Daichi, something’s going to happen soon after they take me.” Tyson said a little cryptically.

“What do you mean? I don’t understand Tyson”.

“I know but you will. I need you to use that to escape, to get help.”

“Use what? What are you talking about?”

“Just promise me Daichi.” Tyson gripped the younger bladers arm a little tighter causing Daichi to wince.

“Ok, Ok I promise.” Tyson relaxed his hold on Daichi’s arm and smiled.

“Good and I need you to do something else for me too”.

“Anything”.

“I need you to tell Kai that I…” Tyson faltered. He needed Kai to know but he wasn’t sure he could admit how he felt to Daichi. ‘It’s the only way’ he thought.

“Tell Kai what?”

“Tell Kai that I…that I…love him” Tyson finished quietly. Daichi smiled up at his team mate.

“Well finally” Tyson’s head whipped up to look directly into Daichi’s eyes, his own showing the confusion that he felt at Daichi’s words.

“Wh-what do you mean ‘finally’?”

“Well I know you all think I’m just a dumb kid but Hillary’s taught me well. I can see how you too act you know and that your battles always get a little nuts.” Tyson smiled warmly at Daichi. ‘Who knew the kid was that perceptive?’ he thought amusedly.

The door to the room opened and the dumb brothers walked in, one pushing a trolley. They stopped when they realised that the two occupants of the room were already awake and amazingly enough smiling.

“Your last meal Tyson and the last one you will share together.” Dumb said rather smugly. Tyson frowned at the words, ‘doesn’t that idiot realise he’s basically just told me that they’re going to take Daichi away again? Or that they don’t expect me to do well with these battles?’

“Thank you room service” Tyson said in his best and brightest sarcastic voice. “That will be all” he made a move with his hand as if to dismiss the two giants, the looks on their faces making his smile even broader. It’s not like they could hurt him now, what was the point in trying to hide some of his childishness? The giants looked at him like all they wanted to do was swot a fly and he was the fly but they seemed to think better of it and held their ground.

“We’ll be back in 15 minutes to take you to the lab” dumber said quickly to Tyson, then the two turned on their heals and stormed out, pulling the doors closed behind them.

“You know, you can be so childish at times” Daichi said to Tyson in exasperation. Tyson just looked at him and laughed.

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A black unmarked truck pulled up in front of the old manor house shortly before dawn, its occupants all looking determined and grim.

“How’s it coming Kenny?” asked a slightly agitated Mr Dickinson.

“Almost got it” came the quiet reply.

“We can go in anyway even if this doesn’t work right?” Max asked a little hesitantly.

“It’ll work Max, after all since when has the chief failed at anything?” Rei pointed out.

“Got it, I’m in” came a triumphant declaration from a rather relieved Kenny. He hadn’t been sure this would work until now.

“How bad is it?” asked Hillary already handing out the headsets that would allow everyone to keep in communication with each other and allow Kenny and herself to guide the others through the building.

“Not as bad as it could be” Kenny said optimistically.

“That doesn’t really answer the question does it?” Kai pointed out, his leg twitching in anticipation of hurting a lot of bad guys.

“It looks like the infra red won’t be a problem, it’s down today.”

“Why?” Kai asked curiously.

“According to the system, there’s some big test going on today that could damage it so they’ve shut it down.” Dizzy supplied.

“That could mean there may be extra guards to make up for it” Kenny pointed out reluctantly.

“Good” growled Kai.

“Now remember boys, the guards just work for Boris, they may not know the full extent of what is happening. Go easy on them.” Mr Dickinson said, he really didn’t think that the words would get through to any of them. And by the look on Kai and Brooklyn’s faces, he was right.

“I make no promises” Kai said gruffly.

“Agreed” added Brooklyn. “If they’re carrying weapons they are just as guilty as Boris.” This statement received a nod from everyone in the truck. They would take no prisoners, they were going home with their friends today no matter how many of Boris’s men got hurt in the process.

Mr Dickinson just sighed, he knew he shouldn’t be surprised that they felt like this. He just hoped that none of the casualties today would be any of these teenagers or either of the two being held inside.

“Very well” he said, effectively giving them his blessings.

“Radio checks guys.” Hillary went to each of the five bladers and checked that they had their headsets on correctly then signalled to Kenny that she was done. The five bladers exited the truck and stood next to it, hidden from the manor grounds by the truck itself.

“Testing 1 2” was heard over each of the headsets.

“Got you loud and clear chief” Rei said back to test that Kenny could hear them in return. Kenny leaned his head out the side of the van.

“Ok guys, you’re good to go. Be careful.”

“Sure chief.” Max replied.

“And bring our boys home safe” Hillary added to which everyone nodded. This was it, the time had come to rescue their friends from the clutches of a madman and none of them knew just what lay in store for them inside that building.

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Breakfast had passed quickly, Daichi constantly shooting glances at Tyson trying to puzzle out exactly what the bluenette had been getting at. All too soon the doors to the room had opened and the brick walls had walked in and told Tyson that it was time. Tyson had stood and walked over to Daichi giving him a quick hug which had received slight giggles from the two towering men. Daichi had decided that nothing was more frightening than two giant men giggling like school girls.

He had just come out of the bathroom when the door to the room had opened again and a man in a white lab coat had entered sporting a rather nice bruise around his eye. When Daichi looked again, the man appeared to be limping as well. Warily, Daichi picked up the deodorant from the sideboard, it wasn’t much but it would do, and he stalked quietly towards the man that had entered the room.

The man seemed to be checking the corridor before closing the door as quietly as he could. He turned and saw Daichi brandishing some sort of weapon and he held his hands up and took a step back to show that he was not armed.

“Are you Daichi?” The man asked quietly.

“Who are you?” Daichi asked suspiciously, not answering the mans question.

“My name is Doctor Taylor and I want to help you.” Daichi furrowed his brow, that name sounded familiar, something Tyson had said.

“You helped Tyson didn’t you?”

“Yes. After they brought him to me and I saw just how strong he was I started to think.” Doctor Taylor said, still keeping his voice low.

“About what? And what happened to your eye?”

“Boris was not pleased when I insisted that Tyson have at least a day to rest” Doctor Taylor replied, a sad smile on his face. He reached up and gingerly touched the bruise that was just starting to turn a brilliant yellow. “When Boris is not pleased, people tend to get…injured.”

Daichi stared at the man stood before him, he didn’t seem bad and if Boris had done that to him for helping Tyson then there had to be some good in him. Also Tyson had said that when they had talked he had seemed kind and caring, the bluenette not understanding what could be so bad that had him working for a mad man like Boris.

“So what were you thinking about?” Daichi asked again, dragging the man back from his remembered pain.

“Tyson’s strength made me realise that this is the worse fate, that prison would be a welcome relief after the things I have had to see and endure. They will be coming for you soon, they want to put you back in that machine and I just can not let that happen.”

“What can we do about it? It’s not like I can just walk out.” Daichi pointed out.

“You can if you are with me. I know this building, I can get us out. Also I brought you this” the doctor put his hand in his pocket and brought it out closed tightly around something white. Daichi’s eyes widened when he realised just what it was that the doctor had brought him.

“Where did you get that? How?” Daichi breathed staring at the object in the mans enclosed fist.

“Being the doctor on site has some benefits. I can walk around without causing suspicion. I found this in one of the labs, they hadn’t gotten around to testing it yet they were too focused on Tyson.” Doctor Taylor stretched his hand out towards Daichi and placed the item in the boys open hands.

Daichi stared at it with reverence, he thought he’d never seen it again and he couldn’t begin to thank the man that had brought it back to him.

“Strata-Dragoon, I missed you buddy” Daichi said lovingly to the beyblade in his hands. The chip began to glow sending a jolt of pure energy through the boy straight to his heart. Smiling, he looked up to the doctor and saw the look of fascination on the mans face at what he had just witnessed. “Now doc, what’s say we find a way out of here.” The man looked at him and smiled back. Walking to the door, he looked out to see if anyone was around and when he found the hallway empty he signalled to the boy and together they made their escape.

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Tyson had been escorted down to the lab that wasn’t really a lab, it was a huge beystadium complete with the new battle ground. The huge open expanse that would allow him and whoever he was blading to use all the power at their disposal. Boris was waiting for him their with that same smug grin on his face. ‘That grin’s not gonna be there much longer Boris’ Tyson thought with what could pass for amusement.

“Ah Tyson, so good of you to join me. Well rested I hope” Boris said in his voice that was like golden syrup only not as nice.

“Like I had a choice you sadistic freak” Tyson shot back.

“Already with the name calling, really Tyson that will not do.” Boris said sounding bored, not even acknowledging the tone of Tyson’s voice.

“So how’s this gonna work Boris?” Tyson asked just wanting to get it over and done with.

“Straight down to business I like your attitude.” Boris said, his grin getting even wider at the thought of what was to come. “Ok, let me explain. You will take Dragoon and you will do battle against one of my new and improved bit beasts, it is that simple.”

“Only, I don’t have Dragoon do I? You do.” Tyson pointed out smugly.

“Well of course we will be giving him back to you” Boris looked to one of his assistants who took the prompt and walked over carrying a box. He handed the box to Boris and turned to go back to his work. Boris opened the box and presented the contents to Tyson.

Carefully Tyson reached into the box and put his hand around his beyblade, his eyes telling him that nothing was different and the familiar warmth telling him that Dragoon was ok. ‘Ok, so far so good’ he thought.

“So who’s my opponent?” He asked, looking back up at the man he had come to loath three years ago and completely despised now.

“There will be no opponent Tyson.” At the quizzical look from Tyson the purple haired man continued. “I have already said that these bit beasts are new and improved, there is nobody who can handle them. Therefore a computer launcher will fire them and they will be controlled from here.” Boris spread his arm wide to indicate the small lab area that was set up. “We will record the data from the match and if you manage to beat your first opponent then we will give you another one. It is as simple as that” Boris finished his rant and looked down at Tyson as if expecting applause for his genius.

“You really have lost it haven’t you?” Tyson asked of the man stood before him. He had realised that Boris was mad but this seemed to be worse than just that. Something in Boris seemed to have snapped completely and this psychotic escapee from a loony bin was the result.

“Nick, Mike take Tyson to his place will you” Boris asked of the two giants stood either side of Tyson seemingly not hearing Tyson’s question or just choosing to ignore it. Nick and Mike pushed Tyson forward and he walked mechanically towards his place on one side of the stadium. ‘This is worse than I thought’ Tyson told himself, ‘I just thought Boris was mad but this is just too much. I really have to get Daichi away from him.’

Dumb and dumber left Tyson at one side of the dish, setting him with a glare that told him just what would happen if he tried to run. Tyson just looked at them like they were stupid, of course he wouldn’t run; there was still Daichi to think about. He closed his fist around the cool metal of his Beyblade and spoke to Dragoon they way he always had.

‘Hey buddy, I really need your help right now. I seem to have gotten myself into a little bit of trouble and I could use a hand to get out of it.’ The chip glowed and Tyson smiled, he could feel the power coming from Dragoon and he closed his eyes. ‘I have a plan and I’m gonna need you to trust me.’ Again the feeling of trust and love entered him from the glowing chip and Tyson felt stronger than he had before. ‘Thank you Dragoon’.

Opening his eyes and lowering his blade he pulled out his launcher and place Dragoon in it. He held his arms up steady, ready to launch his best friend for what might be the last time. Looking over towards the lab area, he signalled that he was ready and the count down began, 3…2…1…Let it rip. Tyson pulled the cord and Dragoon entered the dish with only one purpose in mind, to save Daichi and hopefully Tyson as well.

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They had made it safely over the perimeter wall, Kenny’s prompts helping them to ease past potential hazards easily. They knelt in the bushes close to the house and watched as two guards passed by their location, both carrying guns. Once that danger had passed by without incident they cautiously moved forward towards the side of the building to where Kenny had said there was a door.

“We’re at the door chief” whispered Rei into his headset.

“Good, just give me a minute and…” there was a barely audible click as the latch on the door opened. Smiling, Rei turned and signalled to the others to wait while he checked it was clear. He opened the door and peered into the lit corridor beyond, hearing no footsteps and seeing nobody in the area he motioned for the others to follow him in.

“Head to the left” came the command from Kenny. “When you reach the third door on the right, go in.”

As one the group of teens headed in the direction Kenny had told them. Suddenly they heard footsteps getting closer but there were no shouts of hey stop or sounds of gunfire so they just quickened their pace to the door. Opening it, they all fell inside and Kai closed it without a sound behind them just in time, the footsteps seemed to have rounded the corner, a second longer and they may have been caught.

“That was a close one” Garland whispered after the footsteps had gone.

“No kidding” added Max.

“So what now chief?” Rei asked into his headset.

“Yeah, why’d you send us into a closet? A big closet yes, but still a closet.” Brooklyn asked looking around himself and seeing all kinds of cleaning equipment.

“I need a few minutes to check the schematic, and to turn off the motion detectors.” The group of teens stood in silence for a few moments listening to frantic clicks on the other end of their headsets. “Right, you’re at the east side of the building. I sent you in that side because it’s closer to the cells so presumably closer to Tyson and Daichi.”

“Presumably?” asked Kai, the first thing he had said since the operation had begun.

“Well isn’t that the usual place to put prisoners?” Kenny asked slightly unsure now that Kai had voiced a concern.

“We’ll work with what we got chief” Max put in.

“Ok, so according to this you need to go straight down the corridor you were on towards the T junction and then take a left. There aren’t any detectors yet and I can cause interference to the cameras along the way.”

“Ok chief, just let us know where to go after that” Rei said before moving to the door to peer out. The coast was clear and they couldn’t hear anymore footsteps coming their way. ‘Thank God for no carpets’ Rei thought ‘that will make this just a little bit easier’. They reached the end of the hall and turned left like Kenny had told them.

“Keep going down this corridor until the second right, when you get there stop so I can delay the cameras.” Listening to Kenny’s words they followed his instructions and stopped at the second right. Footsteps were coming, one set was quiet and the other set uneven. There was nowhere to hide, they were going to have to face them. Kai shot out from the cover of the hall, his beyblade raised and stopped short.

“Kai!” The other four teens came out from cover at the recognition of the voice.

“Daichi, you’re ok” Max moved forward and took the young blader into his arms for a brief hug. Daichi wriggled out of it complaining that it was girly to hug and that he most definitely wasn’t a girl. “That was from Hillary” Max explained to the pre-teen smiling.

“Where is Hillary?” Daichi asked confused “and Kenny?”

“They’re outside in the truck, here,” Max unhooked his headset and passed it over to Daichi. The red head just stared at it in confusion until the blond reached over further and hooked it behind his ear. Almost immediately his ears were assaulted by the sound of a very angry Hillary.

“DAICHI, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’VE PUT ME THROUGH?”

“Gees Hillary, tone it down a bit will you” said Rei pulling his headset away from his ear slightly.

“Sorry” Hillary’s voice did not sound apologetic.

“It wasn’t my fault, they caught me unaware” Daichi said in a very small voice, not wanting to bring Hillary’s wrath back down upon himself.

“How did they catch you in the first place?” Max asked still stood protectively close to the younger blader.

“Well I kinda came here looking for Tyson and wasn’t really watching what I was doing and…”

“YOU WENT THERE ON YOUR OWN” came Hillary’s screech.

“Well I didn’t know it was Boris did I? Or that I’d end up running into a brick wall called Nick!” Daichi tried to defend himself but he knew there was no point, he had been wrong and he should have known better.

“I’m just glad you’re ok buddy” Max said placing his hand on Daichi’s shoulder.

“Who are you?” Kai’s voice seemed to bring everyone back to the moment as he addressed the man that he hadn’t taken his eyes from since they had found Daichi.

“My name is Doctor Taylor.”

“Don’t worry guys, he helped me escape and he helped Tyson” Daichi told the others, putting himself between his protective friends and the doctor.

“Tyson, what about him? Where is he?” Kai’s eyes had shot straight to Daichi on mention of the bluenettes name.

“They took him this morning.” Daichi said sadly. “Boris wants him for some test or something, I don’t know where they took him.”

“He’s in the lab” Doctor Taylor spoke up. Nobody was quick enough to stop Kai when he shot forward and wrapped his hands in the doctor’s collar, or when he had him pinned against the wall.

“What lab? Where?” Kai spat the questions out, just wanting answers, just wanting to find Tyson.

“It’s that way” the doc pointed shakily in the opposite direction they had come. “Take the right instead of the left and then take the fourth left. It’s a huge stadium, you can’t miss it.” Kai’s hands left the doctors throat as quickly as they had grabbed and then Kai was gone, running up the hall with Daichi calling behind him.

“He said to say he loves you Kai. Did you hear me? Tyson loves you.” Kai heard the words and it only made his feet move faster along the corridor, he had to get to the man he loved, the man who loved him and he had to save him.

“We have to go after him” Garland said, his feet already beginning to move to follow Kai. Nobody noticed when two hulking figures came up behind them from the same direction as Daichi and the doc. They only noticed as they saw and heard the doctor flying past them and hitting the wall.

“Doc!” exclaimed Daichi, turning to see who had thrown the man. When he saw who it was he unashamedly hid behind Rei and Brooklyn.

“Daichi, what is it? Who are they?” Max asked the rather frightened red head.

“That’s the brick wall I ran into and his friend. They’re the ones who tortured Tyson.” Daichi’s voice was small but strong, these two men scared him yes but just remembering what he had seen them do to Tyson was enough to push him forward again.

“They tortured Tyson?” Brooklyn said through gritted teeth.

“Yes, that would be us. The names Nick and this here is my associate Mike” the two giants smiled to themselves, they had someone new to play with. The smiles suddenly vanished however when they saw five beyblades pointed at them ready for launch.

“It looks like they wanna play Nick” Mike said reaching into his pocket. The teens looked on with grim determination as both Nick and Mike brought out rather large launchers and beyblades.

“You blade?” Daichi asked the shock evident in his tone.

“Of course, you really think Boris would keep us around just for our ‘entertaining’ abilities?” Mike asked back his grin getting even wider.

“Kai’s gonna have to look after himself guys” Rei said “we need to take care of this problem first.”

The group stared each other down, neither side wanting to make the first move. Suddenly the larger of their two opponents pulled his ripcord and the other one was not too far behind.

“Go Drigger” Rei shouted as he released Drigger from the launcher.

“Draciel” Max said, following Rei’s lead.

“Zeus.”

“Strata-Dragoon.”

“Go Appollon” Garland was the last to release his blade. The group formed into a unit, heading straight for the two enemy beyblades. The resulting crash sent shockwaves through everyone and sent the blades flying. The shockwave had been so strong that Daichi had been blown off his feet, still weak from his time in the machine. He felt strong arms lifting him and he looked up into the slightly bloody face of Doctor Taylor.

“You shouldn’t be doing this Daichi, you’re still weak” the doc pointed out. Daichi just scowled at him and returned to the match. Neither side seemed to be gaining the upper hand even with the odds at five to two.

“Go Zeus, King of Darkness attack.” Light came from the chip in Brooklyn’s blade and his bit beast rose gracefully into the air. Suddenly a spot of black began to form in between the two opposing sides, creating enough drag to pull at Nick and Mike’s blades. “Now” Brooklyn shouted to the others.

“Drigger, Gatling Claw attack.” The white tiger known as Drigger rose quickly from its blade and shot towards its intended victims, lashing out as it did. Faint scratches appeared on the surface of the blades but no more damage appeared to have been caused. “What is it gonna take?” Rei asked the universe.

“Strata-Dragoon Great Cutter.” A light formed around Daichi’s blade turning into a razor sharp edge and proceeded to rip up the floor towards his opponent’s blades. Crashing into Nick’s blade, Daichi used all his strength to push forward, a fine white light appearing around the blader himself. Nicks blade didn’t stand a chance and was ripped in two by the shear force of Daichi’s will.

“Wait to go Daichi” cheered Max momentarily taking his eyes away from the fight. He was brought back to it when he heard a laugh from the other side of the hall.

“You should keep your eyes on what is happening I think.” Mike said with some humour. Max saw that Mike’s blade was on a direct course for Draciel and the angle they would hit at could seriously damage his blade.

“Draciel defence” Max shouted just in time. Mike’s blade rebounded off of Max’s and the look on the large mans face told them he was shocked.

“Now Appollon, Radiant Thunder.” The sound of Garland shouting to his blade brought Mike’s head around but the blade was nowhere in sight. “Made you look” Garland said. Just then Drigger came up behind Mike’s blade seemingly from nowhere and hit it hard enough to send it towards the black hole that was King of Darkness. Mike watched in shock as his blade vanished and their hope right along with it. The five bladers recalled their blades and looked down on the two seemingly broken men.

“You deserve more pain than that and we’re going to see that you get it in jail” Rei said to the giants. There was a noise above them, a noise that really shouldn’t be there. Rei looked up just in time to see a large crack running quickly along the roof. The section moved slightly and Rei knew what was about to happen.

“Guys look out” Rei yelled throwing himself and Max back towards the doc. Thankfully everyone else had already been back far enough when the roof finally gave out, the strain of the match too much for the supports. A section as large as a car had fallen and landed in the corridor revealing the corridor above them.

“Kenny do the cameras tell you what happened to them” asked Garland quietly. They could hear crying over the communicators and knew that Hillary was telling them that the two big men had not survived.

“They didn’t even move” Kenny said in shock. “They just sat there and it fell and…”

“It’s ok Kenny, it’s not your fault so don’t worry.” There was silence on the other end of the radios except for Hillary’s soft weeping.

“They may have been evil” Doctor Taylor said “but no one deserves that.” The group stood for a few moments longer offering up their prayers.

“We need to go after Kai” Brooklyn said, breaking the silence.

“Alright, doc are you ok to lead the way?” Rei asked the doctor.

“Yes but let us go quickly, that will not have gone unnoticed.” The group headed off the way Kai had run but as they neared the T junction they all skidded to a halt. The roof had collapsed here too.

“Is there another way round?” asked Garland.

“No, I’m afraid this is the only way I know of” the doc replied sadly.

“Chief, anything your end?” Rei asked hope tinting his words.

“Afraid not guys, the doctor is right, Kai’s on his own.”

“Fine then we best get out of here” Rei said his heart sinking at the thought of leaving both Tyson and Kai in here.

“But…”

“No buts Daichi, can you hear that? That is the sound of the roof not wanting to stay where it is anymore. We have to go.” Rei headed back towards the door they had entered through, the others reluctantly following behind. ‘Be safe guys and come back to us’ he sent the thought out into the universe, hoping with all his heart that it would listen and send his friends home.

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Something was wrong, there was a loud explosion somewhere in the building and he did not like that. That meant things were slipping out of his control and he was always in control, he controlled everything. Boris looked at the monitors before him, a few large sections of ceiling had fallen in and blocked some of the corridors. ‘This was not meant to happen’ he thought quickly.

“How are the tests going?” he asked one of his technicians startling the poor man.

“F-Fine sir. He has a lot of power but we’re managing to keep up with it.” The technician hoped that would be it and he could get back to work. The sight of his boss smiling was really rather unnerving.

“Good, good back to work then.” Boris smiled and looked at the screens showing the new bit beast. It really was a thing of beauty, so much power and grace. But this young boy who had caused him so much trouble in the past seemed to be holding his own against it. “Turn up the power” he shouted to the room.

“Yes sir, of course sir” the technicians scurried around pressing buttons and allowing more power to flow into the new bit beast. Boris smiled even wider until he saw something that made his blood run cold. Tyson was just stood there talking to Dragoon. ‘He stops in the middle of a battle to talk to his bit beast?’ Boris thought angrily. Suddenly the smile fell from his lips, ‘oh this is going to be bad’ he thought as he headed for the secret door ‘but I won’t be here when it reaches that point’.

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Tyson had heard the explosions and wondered what was going on but he didn’t have time. Every time he took his eyes away from the match he started to loose ground and he couldn’t let that happen. He was barely holding his own as it was, the bit beast was definitely strong but his was the strongest blade ever and Dragoon was stronger than any opponent.

Suddenly there was a flash of light from the other blade and it started to push him back. ‘They must have turned up the power’ he thought with despair ‘it’s now or never’. Letting his blade carry on its attack without him, he looked up at Dragoon. The blue dragon looked back at him unwaveringly, to Tyson it seemed like he was smiling.

‘It is time’ Dragoon said to him.

‘I know it’s just…’ he stopped knowing that Dragoon could tell how he was feeling without him having to voice it.

‘Tyson, I am sure he knows but now we must end this’ Tyson smiled warmly up at his best friend, taking a deep breath he nodded ‘well, here goes nothing’ he thought.

“Dragoon, final attack Galaxy turbo twister.” The air seemed to be sucked from the room as a tornado began to rise from Tyson’s blade. A bright white light surrounded the bluenette, his inner beyblading spirit now showing through for the world to see. So much power almost unthinkable for one person to have. Tyson felt safe in the white light as he watched Dragoon going for the kill, he had never put this much of himself into one attack and Dragoon seemed to be shimmering with power too.

Suddenly there was a noise and Tyson turned to where he thought someone had been shouting his name. Kai was stood watching him carefully and a sad smile graced Tyson’s lips. There was no way he could stop the attack now, it had gone too far.

“I love you” Tyson whispered as the blinding white light clouded his vision.

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Kai had heard the others shouting and he had heard the sounds of beyblades clashing but he didn’t slow down. Daichi had said that Tyson loved him; just those words were enough to spur him on and make his feet move faster than they ever had before. He passed the T junction and kept on running, ‘what was it that doctor had said? Oh yeah, the fourth left’.

Kai’s feet moved quickly and quietly along the hallways slowing only slightly when he began to feel the pressure of a beyblade match. That’s where Tyson would be so that was where he wanted to be. He heard the loud crashes behind him and stopped only briefly to see that some of the ceiling had caved in effectively trapping him and stopping him from going back, not that he was going to anyway, ‘not without Tyson’ he thought with determination.

He could hear over the headset that the others were ok and for a second he felt guilty that the thought hadn’t actually occurred to him. It didn’t matter; all that mattered was getting to Tyson. He came to a set of double doors the pressure now becoming almost unbearable. Pushing them open without a second thought, not even worried that somebody could be waiting on the other side he took in his surroundings.

The room was indeed huge with the stadium in the middle and just off to the side a lab set up taking what looked like readings. The lab held no interest for him, what he wanted was in the stadium. He could see Tyson battling hard, a bruise around his eye and burns and cuts up his arms, or at least as much of his arms as he could see.

Kai’s eyes widened when he saw Tyson stop in the middle of the battle and start to talk to Dragoon. Something was up and he needed to know what. A movement in the corner of his eye caught his attention, purple hair disappearing through a door. ‘Boris’ Kai growled to himself, the bastard was escaping but they would have to deal with him later, something was happening.

Kai heard the words but at first could make no sense of them, when light finally dawned he began to move forward to stop Tyson but he was not quick enough.

“Dragoon, final attack Galaxy turbo twister.” A white light enveloped Tyson and Kai was shocked at how much power the teen had. ‘He must have hid some of it in his battles with me’ thought Kai shocked, ‘if he had let it out there’s no way I’d even come close to him.’ He was in awe of this man, the man he loved but he had to stop this, it might already be too late but he had to try.

“TYSON!” Kai yelled as loudly as he could, hoping that Tyson would hear him. There was a noise overhead but he ignored it. Tyson’s head turned to him and he saw the bluenette smile sadly. He began to move forward but it was like he was rooted to the spot. He thought he saw Tyson mouth the words I love you before the white light became too much and he had to look away.

The noise he had ignored returned and he looked up in time to see the roof cracking above both himself and Tyson. He screamed Tyson’s name but it was no use, the noise above was too loud and the white light was too much. ‘Tyson I’m sorry, I was too late’ Kai thought sadly as the first chunks of the roof began to fall ‘I love you’ was his last thought before everything went black.

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Ok guys, before you kill me at least hear me out. (Ducks heavy object and just narrowly avoids a rather sharp knife). I need to ask you all a question and I need you to leave me an answer in a review ‘cos what happens next is kinda up to you. Do I:-
a) write a happy happy ending
b) write AN ending – leaving it open for a sequel in the future or
c) leave it there and start the sequel from this point?

Bare in mind that I may not be able to start the sequel for a while because I have other stories I wanna write, I’ve kinda been putting them on hold to write this. Please let me know soon. Thank you all for reading and I hope I didn’t traumatise anyone.

Drake294 - Yes Boris is a little too clever isn't he, never mind he can't beat our heroes. Yes Kenny is a little bit more mature in this, This is his forte, all the work to get in is his domain he's the only one who can do the computer stuff so he's staying strong 'cos that's what he thinks Tyson would do. There's time to break down later.

Demonashes - Sorry, another cliffy for you and it's not even a teaser chapter. Hope there's enough action in this one for you and I hope the beyblade match was good, I'm not very good at writing them.