he's not [that] bad / magdan

episode 34

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recap: the awesome brawlers have all landed on a strange island with a weird atmosphere and both dan and magnus feel like something is wrong..

knowing they'll be stuck for a bit, wynton and lia build a shelter to keep time and meanwhile shun investigates coming across a gate and a mysterious virus spreading around it. he reports his findings to the two only to then be sucked inside by strange tendrils.

dan and magnus hear their screams and maria never updated for a long fuckin time so that's where we're left off..

will dan and magnus rescue their friends in time?

who is tiko and what does he want from our favorite raven haired boy and will I ever find a decent update schedule?

the answer to the last one is no but find out in this months epic installment of hes not that bad! brought to you by whatever shitty ad wattpad decides to play after this chapter.

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present story:
the red streaked and his dark cloaked boyfriend stare into the gate they had come across. it's where the screams of their friends had led them and judging by its presence they had assumed they were sucked inside and its where they've found themselves to be.

"it's strange.. a gate has never forced us inside or anyone else that I've known of.." dan said with a skeptical look on his face.

"someone or something is behind this i can feel it.." magnus growled. obviously he knew who it was too. "something must have grabbed them and pushed them inside."

"..can that really happen?"

"once you know what we're up against, yes." the ravenette answered. dan had no idea what he meant and was about to question it before mag then stepped closer to the portal. "anyway, let's go inside and save them." he reached his hand for the younger. "we'll get through it together."

dan looked at his hand and nodded determinedly before he grabbed the taller boy's hand and let himself be led inside. once dan and magnus were on the other side, the gate closed keeping them trapped inside the collided universe..

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it only took mere minutes for the three to be dragged inside the gate and forced into their current perdicamint but after they were sucked in they completely blacked out due to an unknown substance in the air so to them, it felt like hours after they woke up.

lia murmured a stirred noise as she got up finding herself encased in a huge strange clear case.

at first, she stayed laying on the ground staring at she thought was a black and purple sky before the memories of what happened came rushing in and she gasped sitting up.

right next to her were her two friends knocked out cold. she crawled over to them and shook both the aqous and ventus brawlers up.

shun! wynton! get up already!" she yelled at them both in panic and worry. she had no idea where she was but the fact that she wasn't alone kept her cool down at least by a bit.

shun stirred awake and wynton gasped and sat up just as quickly as lia did.

"oh no we were kidnapped! where are we!? oh god, please don't do anything to us i have friends and a loving family i'll do anything please!! i can't see i cant see!" wynton cried frantically.

lia thought she was being overdramatic in her panicking right until she saw how wynton was. she picked up his dropped glasses and put them on him.

"oh." wyn said, his vision now cleared. he looked at lia and shun and laughed nervously. "w-well.. glad to see we're all okay.."

"not completely, where even are we..?" shun asked looking around the case they were put in. it was like the kinds of tanks you put fish in but bigger and much more taller preventing them from leaving. the top was being kept closed by a thin layer of the black and purple substance. touching it would infect the children inside so there was seriously no means of escape.

wynton walked to the glass and tapped on it with his fist. "thing's awfully sturdy.." he said. "who would do this to us?"

"allow me to be the answer to your question." a dark voice said outside the cage. the three brawlers turn their heads beside them only to see a familiar golden bakugan float down. he looked at them through the glass menacingly like an evil little girl and her new poor pet fish.

"it's that same bakugan that made the plane crash..!" the youngest boy of the three gasped.

"that bakugan has a name." tiko growled. "it's tiko. after I take over vestroia as your new ruler, I'm sure you won't forget it!"

"..new ruler?" lia tilted her head in confusion. "you're delusional! what do you want from us?!"

"a partner that will help me achieve my ultimate goal and I already have my eyes on a certain someone."

the three looked at eachother. they weren't working for him if it was the last thing they did. tiko then chuckled at their reaction.

"no. I dont mean any of you, you're all simply bait for luring him here." the evil bakugan grinned. "I'm talking about your 'newest recruit': magnus black."

"magnus?" shun questioned with his hands on the glass eyeing the gan up and down, hiding the fear he felt deep inside him. "why could you possibly want him?"

"yeah?! and what's your 'ultimate plan'?" wynton asked standing next to shun.

"no! how about you go back on that 'new ruler of vestroia' bullcrap and tell us what you mean!" lia growled now standing next to wynton.

tiko laughed. "well, for being bait you sure are curious." he sat down and told them everything. about his plan to take over all of earth and vestroia and infect every corecell in existence making them control every brawler and their bakugan. he told them why and how magnus was the perfect partner for mastering his plan and the fate they would all endure. in the end, the three were all left shocked and albeit still confused. where did this bakugan even come from and just who did he think he was thinking he could get away with it?!

"theres no way we'll let you get through your plan!" wynton yelled and reached into his pocket.

"yeah! we'll defeat you and won't let you have magnus or vestroia!" lia growled and reached for her pocket too only to find them empty.

"h-hey where's.." shun asked worried as did wynton and lia.

in response, tiko chuckled evilly. "looking for them?" lia wynton and shun looked up through the glass and gasped. behind tiko were their bakugan: pegatrix trox and hydrous were all in their large form with their eyes red and surrounded by the black and purple substance. theyd been infected!

"no.." shun gasped.

"pegatrix! get us out of here right now!" lia yelled but her bakugan didnt answer. she just stood still and looked back emotionless.

wynton looked up at trox with worry. "i.. dont think they can hear us.." he said.

"what?! impossible! we're they're partners!"

"not anymore. I've infected them with my power, from now on they only listen to me." tiko laughed making all three brawlers gasp.

"you monster! how could you have taken pegatrix and all our bakugan away from us!" the only girl in the cage yelled, almost at the brink of crying after hearing that..

"and I'll do that to every other brawler in the world! you're all scum, controlling us like we're your slaves! it makes me sick.."

"that's not true!" shun cried. "we love our bakugan like they're our friends, you're the one who's controlling them!"

"I dont want to hear it!" tiko snapped back. "that's besides the point though, I know magnus will get here eventually and be at my command. for now, you'll all sleep because I don't even want to deal with you."

they were all about to protest before a wirring noise could be heard and the cage began to feel with clouds of gas. the three back away trying not to fall into the bakugan's trap but it was too late as they inhaled the gas and began to fall into unconsciousness once again. shun lia and wynton fell onto the ground asleep and when the gas cleared out, tiko saw this and grinned.

"I know my ultimate goal will be accomplished once magnus comes crawling to be by side." the aurelus smirked before looking up at the infected bakugan beside him. "you three. make the process quicker and go find him."

trox pegatrix and hydrous nodded and ran into the gate once tiko summoned another one.