Beyblade | The Girl Hagane

Metal Fusion : Chapter 12 : Behind the Mask

Gen was outside of the room of the hospital where Tsubasa was. The nurse came out.

"You can come in now", she said. Gen entered the room and saw Tsubasa was in a deep sleep. A lot of wires were connected to him. She came near his bed.

"I am going to give it my all, just watch!!"

"Tsubasa....", said Gen looking down.

"Just like Hikaru's condition, but it seems a little bit more serious, the power he absorbed is still unknown which made him go to a coma. He is gonna be here for a long time...", said the nurse.

"He will get better right?"

"I am not sure...but we will try our best to help him recover..."

"(smiles weakly) I see...", said Gen looking at the unconscious Tsubasa. A memory of her holding Tsubasa in her arms flashes before her.

"I...did...my best...right?"

The memory ends. "You gave it your all...Tsubasa...", said Gen smiling weakly.

"Had to break it to you (Gen looks at the nurse and who shows Eagle to her) but I believe this is his bey, they gave to me to give to you...", said the nurse giving Eagle to Gen. Gen takes it and looks at it.

"Thanks, I will take good care of it", said Gen as she looks at the sleeping Tsubasa one last time and she leaves the room.

She meets the gang at the locker room.

"How is Tsubasa, Gen?", asked Yu.

"(looks down) Its more serious than Hikaru but they said he will be okay but....they don't how long will he be that state...", said Gen in sadness.

"Oh I guess we have to wait", said Madoka.

"But he put up a great fight, he tried his best", said Kenta.

"Kenta is right, he did a great job to stay that long in the battle with Ryuga, I will do it for him, not only him but for Hikaru, Hyoma and Kenta also. But first lets deal with the poison serpent, right Pegasus", said Gingka cleaning Pegasus. Gen looks at her brother and then finally speaks up.

"Gingka....(he looks at her) Don't lose, you got that?", said Gen as he shocks. But then he smiles.

"You won't regret it...I will make sure of it...", said Gingka. Gingka knows that he has to win and to stop Dark Nebula even if it means defeating Kyoya.

As Yu grabs sodas from a vending machine, he is confronted by Doji and his elite squad of Bladers. He reminds Yu of their deal that if Yu beat Reiji, they would spare him but Yu lost. Doji then commands his henchmen to launch their Beyblades onto Yu. Later, Kenta and Hyoma are searching for Yu, who has gone missing while the match between Gingka and Reiji begins. They go to room off-limits but are spotted by Merci. Merci then tells Doji of Kenta and Hyoma and commands his henchmen to find and capture them. Meanwhile, as Gingka and Reiji are battling, Gingka discovers that Poison Serpent has gotten stronger. Reiji tells Gingka that he reversed Serpent's Spin-Track and due to this, it allows it to deflect any other attack and when it needs to get real fangs to bite the opponent with. While, Kenta and Hyoma desperately try to find Yu, they are stopped by Doji's Elite Squad of Bladers. They both attack them with their Beys. Hyoma tells Kenta to go find Yu while Hyoma will fend off the Bladers. As Kenta enters a dark room, Doji finds him and launches his Dark Wolf at him to get Kenta's energy and give it to Ryuga. Kenta's Clay Leone's energy ring is badly scratched so it can't fit into the Rip Launcher. Hyoma then returns to block Doji. A battle emerges between Hyoma's Rock Aries & Doji's Dark Wolf. Then just when Doji is about to finish him off, Kenta launches his shattered Flame Sagittario at Dark Wolf and blocks the attack. Despite this, Dark Wolf defeats the two Beys. However, out of nowhere Burn Fireblaze comes striking down at Dark Wolf while Phoenix shows himself.

After a long battle, Pegasus defeats Serpent as the crowd cheers on Gingka Hagane. Madoka and Gen tells Gingka that Kenta and Hyoma are in trouble and they go to find them. Due to the strike from Phoenix, crystal shards start falling from the ceiling while Phoenix grabs Kenta and Hyoma in order to save them while Doji just sits there trapped by the shards. One shard strikes Phoenix's mask and shatters it. As Gingka, Gen and Madoka arrive Gingka looks at Phoenix with a surprised face and gasps. It was Ryo.

"Dad?", said Gingka and Gen.

"It's been a while, Gingka and it's great to see you again, Gen", said Ryo.

"Gen? You knew who Phoenix was?", said Gingka.

"What? No, Phoenix saved me and Tsubasa from the Dark Nebula....I didn't know it was Dad", said Gen freaking out.

"What? Why didn't you tell me that?", said Gingka.

"Well it seems that Gen does not mention anything about her adventures with boys, especially her new boyfriend", said Ryo in a weird way.

"Boyfriend? (She shocks and starts blushing and angry)....What? Tsubasa? He is not my boyfriend! Dad! (Ryo laughs which makes Gen calm down)...I missed you, Dad", said Gen.

"How could you keep it a secret from me? Why didn't you come visit me, Dad", said Gingka as he started to cry and hugged his dad.

"Gingka, oh you cry baby", said Gen with a smile.

"Why don't you try not to be show off and come here", said Gingka as he pulled her towards their dad and hugged. Gen felt embarrassed at first but then started to have tears on her eyes.

Ryo tells them that they need to rescue Yu right away. The gang go to a Dark Nebula cell, where Bladers who are to be drained of their energy and given to Ryuga like Dan and Reiki, Tobio, and Tetsuya are kept. Yu hears them comes and they rescue him. Meanwhile in Battle Bladers, Blader DJ announces that Gingka has made it into the finals. However it is unknown who he will face, Kyoya or Ryuga. As Benkei watches some battles, Kyoya tells him to turn it off as he's seen enough and tells Benkei to follow him. When the gang sit down to take a break, Gingka asks Ryo why he didn't tell him that he was alive. Ryo decides it's time to tell them the story of the history of Beyblade. Long ago, meteorites fell down on Earth. Hyoma recalls this, as one meteorite made his favourite Green Hades arena. However there were much more, and one had filled itself with Dark Power. The ancient people of that time, used that power for the basis of L-Drago. With that power, they were able to control the world of war. As with the hatred and anger of the army's servants it turned into dark power and was able to make L-Drago very powerful. Over time, in the battles it fought, it's power and shape differed to make the L-Drago people know today. It also has been passed down from generation to generation. However others made a Bey to represent the light of hope, and would become the basis of Beyblades today - Pegasus. Pegasus was barely able to defeat L-Drago. Due to the immense power of L-Drago the people of Koma Village had locked away for all eternity and it would become known as the "Forbidden Bey". However, there were still people who wanted to control that power, Dark Nebula. When they invaded Koma Village in search of it, Ryo tried to stop Ryuga from controlling that power. He failed and Ryuga took L-Drago with him, making the world in danger. At this moment, Ryo looked like he was going to die and gave Gingka his Storm Pegasus and made an exit for him to leave in. However, Hokuto rescued Ryo and got him out safely. Since Ryo had scars he though it would be better if he would stay for a little until he recovers. When Gingka got sidetracked to Koma Village, Ryo was recovered. When he saw how Gingka fought with the bond of his friends he knew he had to put on a disguise in order to see how Gingka was doing and thus, Phoenix was born. He revealed that he was watching Gingka in Battle Bladers from the shadows and would help in his time of need or to become an obstacle. Ryo tells Gingka that in the end, the final battle with Ryuga, the bond of Gingka and his friends in his journey will help him to defeat Ryuga and L-Drago. Gingka realizes what his father did to protect him and thanks him for that. On the other hand, Kyoya dismisses all this power of friendship and tells Gingka that he will face not Ryuga, but him, Kyoya in the final battles. Kyoya states that Gingka's not the only one who's been through tough challenges and this whole journey Kyoya made was so that he would be able to defeat Gingka once and for all. Gingka acknowledges this and tells him that he's ready to fight Kyoya whenever the time comes.