Episode 12: Shootout

[Seiki Maki]

"...It's Ahio." The ventus bird chirps as she readies herself for Seiki's next plan of moves.

The ventus resistor had calmed down a bit from her previous rage of anger. She was supposedly back to her normal self, but she still did have a bit of that anger and thirst for vengeance pulsing though her. "Hm, okay then," Seiki said in response to Allen's plans on trying to stop the terrorists that took so much from her not too long ago. "Ability Activate, Senbonzakura!"

Ahio ruffled up her feathers and launched herself into the air with her three legs, now spreading her wings out for a bright green glow engulfing her wings. "Here we go!" Ahio calls, the starting command for the raining attack of the feather kunais, infused with some of Ahio's strangeness (Her three leg predicament is one.)  and shooting many, many, many of them to the field, perhaps striking a few of the terrorists bakugan, maybe not.

[Daniel Andersen]

All Terrorists' Bakugans were pummeled by numerous attacks from Resistors.
This was quite of a challenge to face all Resistors at once, but it wasn't troubling Daniel's mind much since he was not focused on numbers. He just let his crimson eyes emit red light and looked at his opponents. "This blood-spilling ceremony misses something. Ah, it's a sacrificial lamb..."
Then he pulled out a card and uploaded it. A short-lasting light flashed in the gauntlet and soon on the floor. A circle with different kinds of drawings was created at the center of the battlefield.
Shapes and drawings were put together forming a star. Daniel then pulled out five differently-colored Bakugans in their ball forms and said to Noland: "If you think I'm a monster just wait until you see this!"
Then he trew all five Bakugan balls at the battlefield. When they reached the circle they activated their monster forms. There were Pyrus Saurus, Haos Stinglash, Ventus Rave, Subterra Manion and Aquos Juggernoid. Upon activation these Bakugans stepped on the areas which were tips of the formed star. When they reached their positions Daniel said: "These Bakugans were possibly used by your friends and familiy. And look at them now; being sacrificial lambs to the transmutation...My light-self would probably feel sorry about it, but fortunately it won't be as I am in control. Sakura, let the ceremony commence!!"
Sakura jumped in the middle of the star-shape and rose her wand which started glowing along with the circle, star and all those five Bakugans. Those five Bakugans started screaming in pain as their bodies were consumed by the transmutation circle. Their bodies were falling apart from legs to their head until they completely vanished. 
Upon that their energy turned into streams of light which engulfed Belphenoid who was also in the circle. His body started to change shape until it reached an enormous amount of power. He was reinforced and shielded from all attacks.
"Now you have more power than you ever had. Use it, now!" Daniel yelled at Belphenoid who released a dark fireball at all Resistors' Bakugans distracting them and then formed a huge dark fireball which was launched near Gorem. Upon impact Drago, Gorem and Gladion were blasted away leaving remaining Bakugans standing and ready for Makoto and Akane to step in.

[Makoto Nakashima]

"This is making me bored. So much time wasted on nothing. Double ability activate!"
Makoto quickly uploaded two new abilities to make a much more powerful blow to Bakugans who were the weak spots of Resistors' team. "Ten-Thousand Fists plus Demon Vortex".
Ahrangi quickly arrived towards Ahio, Skystar and Gargulion making multiple lightspeed punches on them and fixing them to the western wall. Upon making last punches on his opponents and leaving them in ashes Asmodeus made a horrific screech. When he screeched a vortex with marks of wind appeared at the center of the battle. In no time it grew bigger and expanded a lot.
As this happened hundreds of unknown Bakugans hurled out of the vortex and assaulted all Resistors' Bakugans at once leaving them not too many options for attacking Ahrangi or any other Bakugan except newly summoned ones. "Perhaps this could be entertaining." said Makoto quietly as he observed the horde attacking Resistors.

[Akane Huomoto]

Akane looks around to see Daniel and Makoto to have made their move against the six resistors before she looks over to Torahu who was holding up pretty well against the six.

"Akane, the other have made their move, now we should make ours! I have a big fire within me that's gotta be released!" Torahu roars as her partner gave her a puzzling look.

"What do you mean Torahu? You are already on fire, blue fire to be exact... And you're releasing blue fire from your... body?" Akane says, trying to process everything through correctly, making sure what she said didn't throw the her and her bakugan completely off track of what they were talking about, and wondering why Torahu make those choice of words to begin with.

"I really dunno... I heard that line somewhere and it sounded cool, so I decided to try it out now... But it doesn't make too much sense, never mind that, just activate an ability already!" Torahu snorts, simply eager to continue fighting.

"Okay, okay. No need to be so pushy. Like someone who does that sometimes," Akane says, glancing over at Daniel momentarily before making her move. "Ability Activate, Tiger Rage!"

Torahu's blue fire started to shoot from her back, being fired towards the six opposing bakugans, hitting them head on.

[Daniel Andersen]

Daniel saw his teammates neutralizing opponents and realized that keeping his opponents under control could be done only with enough force and constant attacks. His transmutation attack gave Belphenoid a hell of a boost and he had enough power to spend on a critical ability; Demon Excavator.
"Makoto, Akane! Don't give them time to recover! Attack with all you have!" Daniel yelled as he uploaded an ability and turned to Resistors. "Special Ability, Demon Excavator!"
"Remember this? Enjoy, pawns!" Daniel said with a sarcastic laughter.
Belphenoid released his extra power turning it into a massive eclipse tornado.
Mass of unknown Bakugans hurled out of the portal and assaulted at Resistors.

[Tracy White]

"This isn't good. This isn't good at all." Tracy soliloquized. She was astonished at the massive force opposing them. Hundreds and hundreds of bakugans were summoned to face them, and with immediate action, these bakugans attacked.
"Tracy! Do something! We can't just let them go away with this!" yelled Skystar who just recovered from the attacks on her.

The situation aggravated with more bakugans being spawned. At this point, Tracy began to think on what to do. "Guys!" Tracy called out to her teammates, "We can't attack them singly. We need to work as a team. We are greatly outnumbered, but with teamwork, we can win." Then Tracy grinned as she said, "Allow me to begin." Taking a step backward, she pulled out a card and placed it on her gauntlet. "Ability card activate! Solar Thunder!"

Skystar gathered enough energy to engulf herself in flames and fly up. From her altitude, she could she the horde of bakugans. At first, she wanted to give up, but she then remembered what Tracy once said to her. "We can't give up, Sky!" was the statement. Then she summoned courage and flew higher into the sky. Few seconds later, the sky turned dark, and ushered in lightning and thunder. Skystar then dove down with her flame engulfed body, and swept a number of bakugans by striking and slashing them with her sabers which were covered in flames too. "Here are your chances, guys! Go for it!"

[Akane Huomoto]

Yeah yeah," Akane snorts, not enjoying taking too many orders from a crazed Daniel. "Torahu, we'll be calling on those fire wyverns!" She shouts, twirling a card in her fingers.

"Right!" The blue pyrus tiger roars, beginning to chant the summoning for the dragons. "From the dying flames from long ago, deep in the darkness within one's imagination, I call upon the dragons of those dark flames that have been turned to ashes... Come forth! Wyverns of the dark flames!”

And as Torahu shouted the last part, Akane went along and activated the supporting ability that would allow the summoning to be done, “Special Ability Activate, Wyvern Convoke!”

A dark red portal appeared and out came many red dragons, wyverns to be more exact, too many to be counted at the moment, they were in a heated battle. “They’re here! They’re here!” Torahu cheers, happy to see the strange fire creatures once again.

“Yeah, let’s see how much damage they can inflict this time… The scent of fear and agony seems to power these guys…” Akane says in thought, skimming the battlefield.

[Noland Hardy]

Drago looked above him with a stern expression on his face as he started to accept what was currently happening to them. "Noland, we're fighting a losing battle here," Drago noted. "We don't have too much power left to deal with this many. If it was only one of them doing that, then I wouldn't think this way, but all three of them summoned their armies. At this rate, we'll end up being the losers." Noland didn't want to admit it out loud, but he knew that what Drago was saying was completely accurate, but he didn't know what to do about the current situation that could turn the tide of the battle at this point. Before he could even think of a possible method of at least taking out a large portion of them in case they do end up losing, a voice was heard behind him saying, "Allow us to deal with this army. You six just focus on defeating the main enemies."

Noland turned around and notice the chief ordering multiple squads of officers to launch their Bakugan onto the field. A large army consisting of Laserman, Robotallion, and Saurus. "So the police are actually doing their job now, eh?" Noland asked himself as the Bakugan began attacking the Terrorist's army. He then uploaded an ability onto his gauntlet in order to help both their attacks and the Resistor's recovery. "This better not be a one-time thing, chief. Ability activate! Rapid Fire Takedown!" Drago flew into the air and released a huge amount of energy that amounted to the creation of close to a thousand clones due to how many Bakugan they were facing. The ability did leave Drago exhausted for a brief moment due to using his power on that scale. "I'm sure that was overdoing it a little... Drago commented as the clones dove towards the opposition with the intent on crashing into them, detonating on impact. Multiple explosions occurred as each clones exploded, shaking the area due to how much power was being used.

[Allen Silva]

Allen prepared his next card without any sort of snappy comment or witty remark. This was way to serious to have any sort of fun." Ability activate, Rolling Quake." Allen activated this ability for the first time against the terrorists. Maybe the surprise would stun them enough to give the Resistors a win. Allen glanced up into the large golem bakugan's eyes." Lets try this out. We can't lose this opportunity."

Gorem nodded, raising his fists in a boxing style stance. He let his energy flow into his fists, giving his punches more power. He charged at the waves of oncoming bakugan, striking as many of them as he could with his powered up attacks. The problem though was also dodging the multitude of revenge shots sent out by the seemingly infinite army of bakugan. That is, until the police showed up, launching thier own bakugan out to help the Resistors." Thanks for the backup. Great to see that you guys know who isn't a psychotic masked man." Shatter Gorem joked, mocking both thier opponents and the polices hesitancy to back up the obvious good guys.

[Tank Stryker]

Gladion got up slowly from Belphenoid's hit. His energy was waning. These abilities required an astounding amount of power that even he didn't know he had. His limbs felt heavy, but he knew he had to continue on.

"Gladion, take Belphenoid down!" Tank yelled, swiping another ability through his BrawlX, "Ability activate! Weapon of the Gods - Warhammer of Ares!"

"Yes, sir!" Gladion yelled back, getting ready for another attack. He didn't know how much longer he could go on. Thinking about nothing but the feeling of victory and revenge, Gladion mustered enough strength to continue on.

Positioning the Trident above his head, Gladion took a couple steps back before lunging forward and throwing the three pronged instrument of death as hard as he could at Belphenoid. The Trident struck true and buried itself in the side of Belphenoid's chest area, wounding the bakugan severely before disappearing in a flash of blue light. Thunder clapped and lightning struck as the next ability activated. The clouds had stopped the torrential downpour long enough for them to part for a blood red light. In the center of that light was an ornate warhammer only seen a few times in battle by the spectators and other battlers.

Gladion lifted his arm into the sky, grasping the warhammer in his right hand before bellowing a frightening cry that cut through the sounds of battle, leaving silence in its wake. Charging Sakura with a surge of energy, which could only be attributed to the power of the legendary weapon, Gladion wound up, and slammed the warhammer into the Darkus bakugan's head, hoping that would be enough. Sakura flew through a building before slamming into the side of the W Hotel, where a cloud of dust blew up.

[Noland Hardy]

The battle continued to intensify as both sides continued to attack each other. Noland initiated an attack order to eliminate the Terrorists into one large, coordinated attack. Daniel followed a similar offensive and commanded his army to do the same. Both forces met in the center with a variety of attacks that ultimately caused an outpouring of energy to occur in the center due to the high amounts of energy all of the combatants exerted. This caused a violent explosion to occur, which sent all six of the Resistor's Bakugan back to ball form as well. On the other hand, the Terrorists had all six of their main Bakugan defeated as well; however, the Bakugan that made up their army remained in healthy condition on the field. Daniel declared his side the victor and proceeded to exercise his dominion over the entire population, but this was short lived.

The group of people that the Resistors worked so hard to defend became inspired by their fighting spirit and sought to help them in this desperate time of need. Every civilian that was armed with a Bakugan threw them into battle to aid the Police in taking down Daniel's army. Not wanting to give up the opportunity he has, Daniel mercilessly ordered his army to eradicate the remaining Bakugan and to leave no survivors once this battle was over. Fortunately, the Police and the civilians gained a foothold over Daniel and crushed all of the Bakugan he had left. Daniel became frustrated about his missed opportunity and cursed everyone who was involved with that mob before Akane had to drag him away from the area in a childish manner with the Pack aiding their escape before the Police had a chance to place handcuffs on them.

Relieved that the Terrorists were stopped in a timely manner, the chief offered his gratitude of the Resistors ability and kindness to fend them off as much as they have and promised that they would do a better job at tracking them down to ensure that justice is served. Noland was reluctant to believe this due to how notorious DC police are in their slow reaction time to crime, so he stressed how important it was for them to be consistent with their promises. Tank was more furious about the situation and asked what took them so long to finally join the battle considering that's all they talked about with the short time they had in the previous meeting. It was no secret that the community had begun to lose faith in their ability to protect the citizens. This battle made them realize that they might just have hope in these six young brawlers.

[Nero Bullock]

The scene shifted to Nero who hid himself among the crowd to avoid being detected by the Resistors. He quietly observed what happened in the entire battle from a distance to see the result of the battle. The Terrorists ultimately couldn't achieve total victory from this ordeal, but Nero still considered the battle an interesting step towards one of his goals. "I'm actually surprised I didn't tell him to attack the Capitol building earlier," Nero started saying to himself. "I didn't tell him to bring the battle all the way out here since these are places of great political and historical significance, but I like the fact he didn't follow my instructions THIS TIME. It makes me wish that I would have told him to do it initially since their activity is going to take this country into a whole new direction. I'm excited to see what comes out of this one."

Nero then excused himself from the area and strolled across the street from the Capitol building. As he walked in front of the Supreme Court building, he resumed his continuous banter to himself. "Each year, there is always a case that gets sent here involving the outbreak of criminally-insane Bakugan ransacking our architecture and finances, and those justices always refuse to hear it. It's ridiculous how this country can regulate gun usage but can't even touch the Bakugan with the law. That's ridiculous, and it will change one way or another; change could come real soon since the setting of that battle was absolutely perfect to set the stage for one to occur. This particular Supreme Court is the highest court in the entire country, and it almost got demolished by what just took place here by those things. They'd either be dumb or fearless of their livelihood just by rejecting another case about it. I'd doubt they will be stubborn another time since it was close enough to getting them WHILE they were still in session."

He noticed that multiple people along the street continued to make comments to each other about what just happened and shared a completely different viewpoint on the matter from the ones who celebrated the Resistors and their Bakugan as heroes. They noted how dangerous they were and discussed the necessity that something should be done about due to the lack of efficient policing from the cops. "We're moving along now. Now we'll see what the judicial branch is good for once they state their position. This attack will suffice, so I'll hold back on you all for a little while. We'll be back, and we'll be watching," Nero concluded.

[Noland Hardy]