Episode 31: Final Moment of Peace

[Noland Hardy]

Infinity Arrow was the perfect reason for Drago to want to re-adjust as soon as possible. It didn't seem like Drago was behind Dante in power, but the latter may have him beat in ranged combat if attacks like that are considered normal. This is where Tank's skills came in handy from Noland watching him. When there's a weapon, there's a way.

"Ability activate! Nova Sentry!" This was an ideal defense against an immeasurable attack like Infinity Arrow. Drago's covering of himself using his wing wasn't going to cut it for too long if the projectiles are discharging electricity. At the very least, the spawning of two Nova Sentry would ensure that any further projectile that comes his way would be eaten whole by their siphoning abilities rather than Drago taking all of it himself and getting him beaten.

"That's a lot of energy..." Drago remarked about Dante's power. The portions of the Switch Code shielding that were singed by the arrows were steadily regenerated. The only problem now was that the Nova Sentry were just about maxed out in how much energy they can take in. It wouldn't have been an issue if Dante hadn't shot so many.

That could end up working in Noland's favor though. The Nova Sentry rested around Drago's waistline and began shooting the same projectiles Dante had sent his way. The only difference was that it was bathed in Dextra energy, just as anyone might guess. It's sheer might was high enough to burn its way straight through the ships it made contact with through stray fire.

"Maybe it was foolish to hope in humanity in the first place," Noland guessed. "There's no doubt that there are good people out there, but just like everything, the bad just seems to overshadow the good. We generally seem to pay more attention to the negative, and in doing so, we make ourselves blind to the positive. I even see it that way now despite what I'm saying. The best way I can look at it is to think of other people out there that could be like us rather than the ones who want to stab us."

[Alex Andersen]

Dextra-attribute attacks are very tricky and Alex knows that from personal experience in the past. Drago is not the first Bakugan with that sort of power that fought Alex and Dante. Before Drago there was another Bakugan, Delta Psyche Warden, and his brawler, Jason Sylvester.
Unlike Drago, Warden does not use any other form in order to access Dextra, but successfully uses it on his second evolutionary stage which makes him overpowered already. And considering he can use a transformation to push that even further it makes people wonder if Valiant Strive could defeat Warden at all.
But thanks to Jason and Warden, Alex knows exactly how to deal with Dextra; after all, his Bakugan now controls powers of Pyrus, Haos and Clear.

Alex clicks a button on his gauntlet and interface pops up showing Valiant Strive and Drago in Switch Code. "Hmm...it is going well so far. Both are still ok with energy, no ailments..." Alex analyzes stats and status of both Bakugans and realizes one detail there. "His power is 'unknown'? I guess that should be normal now." Alex notices and assumes it is because of the Switch Code that Drago's power is not being shown among the data.
It could be completely natural since it is not everyday power. When fighting Zero Hydranoid gauntlet only says 'danger' instead of 'unknown', so it could be natural and not some bug.

And now Alex intends to implement the move to get rid of that Dextra attack incoming towards him. "Special Ability, unlock! Harmony: Haos Descension!"
Harmony-class abilities are a very rare kind in general and not even Alex uses them that much. Rare occasions like this, when there is a lot of Dextra being used, definitely brings out this kind of ability.
Dante's golden parts of the body start to glow intensely producing a divine aura around his body; almost godlike impression. Energy accumulates in the golden parts and then is transferred to Dante's wings. Wings convert that energy into light and emits golden-colored light forward. It reaches Drago's attack and Drago in a second.
Projectiles that Drago sent are caught inside the light Dante emits and suddenly lose their colorful appearance; they become completely white symbolizing Haos attribute. On top of that, Drago has been affected and his red skin turns completely into white resembling Haos.

Dante opens his mouth wide and breathes in deeply vacuuming all of the Haos projectiles that have previously been Dextra. In less that a few seconds he devours all of them and his body flashes in abundant Haos energy he now has.
Harmony: Haos Descension is a Harmony-class Special Ability unique to certain transformed Bakugans. It can be used defensively or as a debuff-ability.
It eliminates all other factors and elements from another targeted ability leaving only Haos elements and factors. Also, it lets user absorb all of the Haos from targeted ability which just happened. Another effect is that opponent's Bakugan; in case it is multi-attributed (with Haos included in the mix) their body will take properties of only Haos attribute.
Latter is not as dangerous as it seems because easy revert is always possible, but it might be dangerous if person cannot revert it.
And now that Dante absorbed the energy he converts it once again and flaps his wings once creating a storm of fire that heads towards Drago now.

"If it weren't for that tiny few people... I would not have been much different than Kyuki or Virus." Alex admits. It went through his mind many times and even Kyuki asked him why he risks so much for the sake of selfish humans when he could tear down everything and rule if he wanted to. Alex's only reply to that is usually: "Maybe I'm just stupid."
In all honesty, all he wants is a little peace and quiet so he can put his thoughts back together.

[Noland Hardy]

Noland was definitely ready to place a block on Alex's momentum. He might think the Valiant Strive's power was overwhelming in nature, but Drago already knew the mechanics behind those attacks. He knew how to stop them. He knew how to overpower them. Intimidating him was nearly impossible.

"Drago, brace yourself. We're linking up," Noland signaled. "Ability activate! Slip Damage!"

Dante could change Drago's attribute to anything that he wants. It will not matter. The Switch Code is layered in the power his genetics carries, not the attribute combination itself. The Switch Code's energy could be used even if he was Clear.

Reality became warped from Noland and Drago's point of view. Dante's form in Valiant Strive was no longer present in their eyes. The only thing they saw was Dante in his base form, and that's all they'd have to fight for a limited time. Even the fire that Dante pushed out had power proportionate to his base. Was it enough to get Drago to crack?

They're all about to see.

"This might be dangerous..." Drago used his improved speed to jet through the flames without much deterrence. The Nova Sentry unwrapped themselves from his waist and appeared in his hands. He then used the added momentum he carried to them at a very high speed.

"Ability activate! Novia Charge!" This should be automatically be canceled since Drago was prevented from using a melee, but there lies the inherent flaw with Dante's ability. Drago wasn't using the attack; the Nova Sentry, completely separate entities, were going to use it.

They spiraled into each other to take on the appearance of a makeshift drill. The energy that bolstered their force made them appear like a comet. It drove into Dante, only taking his durability in base form into account.

"Apollonir revealed to us that users of the Switch Code have certain characteristics unique to them. Drago's unique ability is to temporarily alter reality itself. What we see is what we fight, and all we see is a Dante without Valiant Strive," Noland explained in a very condensed manner.

[Alex Andersen]

Drago's move sure was interesting to Alex.
Ability to bypass someone's defenses by hitting them as if they were in base form. Smart tactic, but it is not very new in the system. Alex recalls terrorists who used 'Stat Modification' abilities against Dante; they would bring a weak Bakugan and swap its stats with Dante's. That would make Valiant Strive very weak in a second if his stats were swapped with, let's say, a Serpenoid. Only a few hits from strong Bakugans would be enough to take him down.
That would be in an ideal case.
If Alex was so easy to break down with such move he would not be where he is right now. Experience might have helped him a little bit while dealing with such debuff skills.

"Well, well... that looked impressive." Alex admits in a relaxed tone. "Ability unlock! Proof Of the Dragon Emperor!" This is one long name for an ability, but it does take its meaning seriously. In the past, living-breathing Valiant Strive was known as the 'Dragon Emperor'; he ruled over vast armies of dragons and led them to victories in wars. Specialty he had was an ability to control dragons as well, make them overpowered or erase their power completely, make their attacks ineffective against him... no dragon could do anything at the time. He shares this ability with Deathcrown, but Deathcrown, being a demigod, has this as a passive ability and is practically invincible when fighting a dragon; reason why Dante could not defeat Virus comes from the fact that Virus partially used that passive ability.

Dante's eyes flash and his body creates bloody-red flames with shadows inside them. Flames wrap around Dante and once Drago's attack collides it is soon dispersed into thin air. Flames spread all around Dante and wrap around him. Now, at the first glance, Dante looks like some demonic dragon brought from Hell to destroy everything...appearance given thanks to those flames really does a good job.
Proof Of the Dragon Emperor cannot be Dante's passive ability because he is far behind 'real' Valiant Strive and Deathcrown. Also, it cannot just simply control a dragon, empower it drastically or take away all its power.
However, it does not mean it is useless. This ability makes Dante nearly invincible against dragon Bakugans; it gives him a drastic buff in offense and defense when facing a dragon. And in such amount that at this point he could freely let Drago hit him while using Slip Damage. Almost as if Drago was facing a Gorem. And offensive strength he now has raised to the point where Drago should probably consider avoiding the attack rather than blocking it.

"Short explanation: get hit and you regret it, try to hit Dante and same thing will happen as with that attack you sent earlier. But you're a quick thinker; I doubt this is even a challenge." Alex says in a relaxed sarcastic manner knowing that Noland has a wide array of options in his arsenal that could get him through this virtually perfect offense+defense ability. As he says that Dante flaps his wings launching crimson comets towards Drago. Comets soar at alarming speed, ready to do heavy damage. The more Dante launches this fire the more of it is additionally generated.

[Noland Hardy]

Drago was spot on with his assessment. This was going to be dangerous. Dante's buff was monstrous, but not impassable. Dante seemed to contain power that could counter Drago's Slip Damage, but then there was a flaw in that idea: timing. If Slip Damage were used again, Drago could ignore that technicality completely and target the base form again, but at what cost? Drago's power itself was on par with forbidden abilities. If that ability was used again so soon, the risk of Drago burning out may be high as his body isn't fully attuned with this power. What's the point of appearing desperate through sheer recklessness if he didn't have to?

Then again, there was an underlying counter that could still net him a hit without having to use any more power than necessary. If Dante wanted to have a perfect offense, then Drago would utilize the perfect defense.

"The same thing will happen? Are you sure?" Noland asked him with a slight smirk on his face. "Ability activate! Absolute Defense!"

Drago's ball form was shown briefly. His wingset combined to form a bulkier set. He used this as a shield, covering himself with them. A bright light shone from them to indicate that he was linking his Slip Damage effects onto it rather than using this at full capacity. This enabled him to do what Alex thought would be a death wish to do: block it as if Dante was in normal Valiant Strive without this overpowering advantage against a Dragonoid.

Once the comets hit the shielded Drago, he unfolded them and was about to use a reactionary attack. He flapped them once. The sheer force of this action was powerful enough to swamp the entire scene of battle with a repulsive force of wind that hit like a wrecking ball. The surprise hit left its mark on Dante who had been forcefully repelled by this ability. This also unintentionally sent the airships off course.

"This reminds me of fighting Baalenoid...but much worse..." Drago stated, indirectly complimenting Dante's strength.

[Alex Andersen]

It was expected that Noland would find a quick solution.
Ability was overpowered, but not overly complicated.
Noland's position would not be deserved if he was so simple.
Once Dante's ability was repelled it was required to act and act fast. "We still got plenty, don't you worry about it." Alex sarcastically replies to Noland. He rises his heavy gauntlet and shouts: "Ability unlock! Red Aurora!"

Ability primarily classified as debuff-class, with some brutal sheer strength on the side. Red Aurora is not a Fusion Ability, but it comes in combo so often that is practically became a norm. Dante's last ability played, Proof Of the Dragon Emperor, produced dark-red flames upon its activation. Red Aurora makes dark-red flames align along with Dante's massive body; they align along the edges of his body creating an illusion of dark-red aura, which furthermore creates a demonic impression of Dante. "Go!" Alex gives an order.

Power of Red Aurora comes with three astonishing effects. First, being a base for second and third, requires to be executed immediately; it increases Dante's speed for a very short duration for purpose of reducing the distance between Dante and his opponent. One swift flap of his golden wings and Dante finds himself only a few meters away from Drago. Activation of second and third effect is simultaneous, but played in a tricky combination.
Dante quickly connects his fists, which consequently produces an orb that releases furious thunder whips in all directions. Because it requires a few seconds for execution Drago might be able to dodge or counter it, but this is where third effect comes. Aurora colored in red forms above Dante and Drago, followed by a red stream of energy descending from the heavens. Once stream hits its mark, all buffs opponent had accumulated through the battle (transformations excluded) will be dissolved. And it is precisely what happens to Drago; he is hit by the stream, which does low damage to Drago, and his buffs vanish.
This distraction prevents Drago from focusing. Consequently, Dante is able to cast second effect without interruptions. Orb of thunders explodes releasing a golden stream at Drago (heavy-damaging move). He is soon hit and sent flying. Force slightly pushes Dante away, but he lands on an airship. Drago painfully crash-lands into a turret on another airship.

"We would have assisted you, but destiny had other plans." Dante silently replies making reference to the 'Baalenoid Incident'. He and Alex would have been there if it was not for damned Infernal Order; their interference was a perfectly inappropriate mix to the 'Baalenoid Incident'.

[Noland Hardy]

The turret Drago landed on was crushed by Drago's weight. While not overly hurt by the assault, Drago knew he had that one coming. To have an ability like his being thrown around was too threatening to take quietly. Dante's attack sure made some noise.

Noland did seem to have a plan in mind, but it had to hit to see where he stood in line with Alex's power. Despite knowing about the ridiculous buff Dante now has, Noland felt content knowing that even Allen has trouble dealing with this one.

"Heh...I believe you," Noland accepted of Alex's statement. He got two abilities ready, one of which he played immediately. "Ability activate! Oppressive Air!"

Releasing heat was enough of a hazard on its own with this ability. The Switch Code made this technique much worse. The Dextra energy released from Drago's body was shown to form distortions in the sky around them. The weather became very stormy from this, thunderclouds appearing all over the now-black sky in preparation for a weather catastrophe. No airship could stay on course from this phenomenon, so many began to drift. Many converged onto the one Dante was standing on, threatening to destroy it. The outpouring of energy did cover Dante, but his ability would more than likely prevent him from feeling too much of a problem from this.

In all of this, Drago's position was masked. The debilitation of any visual cue from the Dragonoid could not be detected until he found his way into Dante's backyard. He then positioned himself to launch a boosted attack thanks to this field advantage he now has.

"Here! Ability activate! Novia Edge!" The trident on Drago's tail became saturated in energy to make it appear like it was a sword. He detached it like a ballistic in addition to releasing the spikes - now staves thanks to the Switch Code - from around his body. The sword grinded into Dante's back. The sparks coming from it were almost as bright as the light of a Haos Bakugan.

[Alex Andersen]

Battle becomes more intense by the second.
Power of two Bakugans led the entire fleet of battleships to their doom.
It is only appropriate that they are given a training with such intensity.

Drago's attack scratches the surface of Dante's skin.
However, Dante's skin is made of multiple layers that consist of different gemstones; mainly rubies. Attack is stopped and cannot reach further in, which is perfect for avoiding piercing damage. He had his 'armor' tested against numerous foes such as phoenix 'Distortion' whose flames were said to be strong enough to kill gods. When he was left alone to fight both Metallius and Warden in their high forms they still could not break through the armor despite their united and coordinated efforts.

Dante does not counterattack immediately. He takes a leap, which consequently pushes the airship into another one, and then turns towards Drago. Around Dante reside 5 more airships out of control due to Drago's previous move. "Ability unlock! Battlefield Control!" Ability unique to high tiers of Silver Knights and Eden; allows them to control properties of the battlefield into their own favor and against opponent's favor.
Alex's tier uses Battlefield Control, which controls battlefield's properties.
Generals' tiers use Battle Control, which is beyond previous one. Marshal and Admirals use Absolute Control, which allows them to control any property of anything in a fight. Clearly superior to previous two.

With Battlefield Control Dante initiates an attack certainly of threatening nature. He spreads his arms and each arms release a string of energy which travels into airships around him. There are 5 airships around him, which results in 5 strings being attached to them.
Airships change course all of a sudden and target Drago specifically. Five strings disappear and at that moment ships start glowing in red. Red grows stronger and stronger until ships lose all other colors. They become five huge masses of red. "Descend!!" Dante shouts.
Five airships have already changed course for Dante. They start charging into Drago at alarming speed and this time they are filled with mysterious red power. Each airship is at least several thousands of times bigger than Drago, which means that one collision could wipe Drago out easily. Mass and speed of those things is not to be underestimated.

"At least we get to use them for something." Alex comments.

[Noland Hardy]

It was very clear to Noland and Drago what Battlefield Control was aiming to do. When they saw those ships line up, they knew they were in serious trouble.

"That power is incredible..." Drago thought out loud.

"So is ours," Noland responded. There's not too many Bakugan that can last this long against an opponent of this caliber. Anyone can say what they want, but Drago's strength was an absolute force to be reckoned with. He was only getting better by fighting against a Valiant Strive user. Drago could feel his body powering up, but this wasn't the end. He could still move up. That's the only place Noland and Drago would like to go.

"Ability activate! Sky Supremacy!" The ships were coming too fast to dodge. He could just blow them up, but he'd get at least three ships before he gets absolutely dump trucked by the others. If Drago was going to be stressed to make it, then he'd better go with the option that wastes the least amount of energy.

"Here it goes!" Drago put his left palm forward. As the airships were about to collide with Drago, an invisible force field appeared that slowed down their movement. They were progressively moving forward while Drago was being pushed back. As each second passed, the amount of dragging began to become slower until it stopped completely. "Whew...that was closer than I imagined."

"Win or lose, Drago...let's take control of this! Go!!!" Drago expelled energy out in front of him to repel the ships away from him. He didn't really care about what happened to them as they were useless from that point on. He then flew in Dante's direction, ready to finish the fight.

[Vince Hardy]

Some time passed after those training battles. It was one day before the Resistors and Spartans go out there like headless chickens and dance for Kyuki's amusement. While everyone was gearing up to play puppet master with the evil doctor, Vince had returned to the Silver Knight HQ from the main entrance alongside two legendary soldiers: Frosch and Excedra. He was respectfully greeted by many of the Knights, that's if you call blatant worship respect.

Vince went all the way to the medical wing to check on a certain Admiral. He thought it was ridiculous when Alex got himself admitted to the hospital. An Admiral getting put in here was simply unacceptable. This had to be checked on now.

"Knock, knock," Vince announced at Maria's hospital room door. He was allowed access in there. The door split into two and separated to their respective directions. Vince, Excedra, and Frosch enter the room and see Maria lying in bed. Zero Hydranoid was also present in there.

"Good afternoon, ladies. How's the treatment coming along?"

[Maria Zenovia]

Maria has been in the hospital bed for some time.
Surgery on her leg was completed successfully, but she is still unable to walk and will be in need of wheelchair for some time until her leg is completely recovered. Statistically speaking, chances that Maria would survive the surgery were 50:50; especially because it took several minutes to prepare equipment for the surgery.
Using healer Bakugan would be ineffective before removing the bullet, but it appeared that content of the bullets caused healing to be impossible even after removal of the bullets. Because of this surgery and healing had to be manually performed. And because of bullets' current influence that cannot be removed by healing. Maria has to wait out until her leg is healed so she can visit a special healer to remove the negative influence and while her wound is still 'active' she cannot do it.

"Oh..." Maria silently mumbles.
She is surprised that Vince came to see her, off all people.
She did have a few other visitors; mainly Silver Knights' Generals, then Admiral Izumo, Daniel, Keto and, of course, Maria's younger sister, Sylvia.
Generals were deeply worried about Maria's state and came to visit her and talk to her. This situation is especially worrying because a few months ago Admiral Amagi was killed. That caused panic among Knights, but calmed down after some time. Death of another Admiral would certainly give Chrono Elite the upper hand in their war against Silver Knights.
Maria's colleague, Asuka Izumo, came after Generals. She expressed her relief that Maria is alive and was talking with her for a few hours.
Daniel visited Maria before everyone else, actually, but had to leave because everyone was so pushy to see Maria.

Next visitors, Keto and Sylvia, were most worried. Maria saved Keto's life and ensured her a safe and promising future, which made Keto very happy and thought of Maria dying before they could talk for one last time would break her. After finishing a mission inside the Doom Dimension, Keto heard about Maria and rushed in the hospital where she cried her heart out of worrying.
Seconds later Sylvia rushed in as well. Daniel told her what happened and poor girl could not help, but rush there in tears. Keto and Sylvia nearly choked Maria of hugs after seeing she is alive and not in danger anymore.

Two of them stayed with Maria, unlike other visitors. Keto is in the next room, looking for a good book to read to Maria until she feels better. She walks out of the room with a big book and after seeing Vince just lowers her head in a silent way of saying 'hello' and then sits by Maria's bed. Once she moves aside Vince can clearly see parts of the room she came out of.
In that room he can easily spot another white-haired girl, like Maria, on the ground in a sleeping bag. That is Maria's younger sister, Sylvia. They do not look much alike except for that white hair. And Sylvia looks like much 'less-deadlier' girl compared to Maria.

"Good afternoon, sir." Maria politely replies. "Good afternoon." Zero Hydranoid replies as well.

"It is going splendidly, thank you. I feel much better seeing so many people come and visit." She says pleasantly and reaches out with her hand to pat Keto on the head for being so nice and taking care of her. "How have you been, if I may ask?" Maria asks Vince.

[Vince Hardy]

Vince wasn't going to bother asking about the state of her leg. It was obvious what was wrong with it. If Maria's in good spirits, then that's all that matters.

"Good to hear it," Vince replied. Before he got to the reason why he was there, he pulled up a chair and sat down. It looked like he wasn't going to be in-and-out.

"I've been doing really well...might be some problems later, but everything's okay for now," Vince alluded to very casually. "I've been monitoring our masked friend. I'm guessing Montai has no problem with him being in areas that would get normal people shot; nevertheless, that hasn't stopped Kyuki from trying to attack him, emphasis on trying. That mechanical Bakugan he commands annihilated a great deal of the Infernal Order and Chrono Elite all at once. I'm told that Hades is being adjusted accordingly to gear up for an attack of some kind. Whether that's Kyuki, Vestal, or even all of you remains to be seen, but someone's about to be blown up."

"I doubt he'd waste his time coming here to kill anyone. Love him or hate him, he does seem to have a sensible nature as to know who the actual enemy is," Frosch added on.

"Apollonir and Oberus are taking shifts watching what's going on over there at the CIA, so we'll know if there are any sudden moves. As for my well-being, Kyuki has been trying to give me a workout by sending the terrorist groups he now has influence over to attack me. I'm still alive, so you can guess how that went."

After giving an update about his side of the battle, he asked, "You do know you can call on Frosch and Excedra if things get dicey, right? I'd rather not see someone with your influence being taken out, so if there's anything I can do to make your jobs easier, then I'll gladly be of service. How did this happen to you anyway?"

[Maria Zenovia]

Maria shrugs at that question; not like she does not know, but is not very comfortable with talking about it. It should be pretty clear on 'who' happened though. "Those damn machines." Zero Hydranoid speaks up angrily. Maria is not in the best mood to recall the horror that happened, but keeping it away is not good either. She sighs after hearing Hydra's outburst; she knows how worried Hydra must have been after seeing what happened. Who wouldn't be, after all?

"Kyuki sent his scout 'Reavers' to attack our Mirage Towers and Crystal Cell Factories." Maria briefly explains the goal. "In case you don't know, Mirage Towers are our top research building. Crystal Cell Factories produce 'crystal cells' that serve as nearly limitless source of energy. Mainly for destructive weapons of our own and mechanical Bakugans we have. And for powering up all our facilities as well." Hydra jumps in with an explanation.


"After Knights defeated 'Reavers' I and several others were sent to clean up the field. And then dozens of others appeared out of nowhere. They started shooting at the civilians..." Maria recalls that intense moment where everything went to hell. "There was a little girl and...uhh..." Her memory starts to get foggy at that point as pain and agony probably have erased the rest back then. "One targeted the girl and my partner pushed her out of the way. She got in the line of fire instead." Hydra explains it for Maria.

"I would have called for help if I knew I'd need it..." Maria disappointingly replies. "...who could have known those machines could hide inside buildings like that..." Several of those mechanical Bakugans were inside houses and tall buildings before they jumped out and started wrecking everything.


The whole attack thing on Silver Knights is suspicious. "Send scouts against us...?" Hydra curiously asks seeing how all that unfolded. Kyuki sent a large number of weak scouts. "That was just a test... If he intended something bigger he would have sent that monster, Traqdrach... or Andrew and Jennifer Andersen..." Maria replies to Hydra.


"I am glad that everything went well on your side, sir. It is a relief at the very least." She admits to Vince. At least he went in the action with a plan. Unlike Alex who nearly got himself killed by those horrific weapons inside Kyuki's laboratory. "On our side there are few new discoveries on Kyuki's new weapons... and some people who should not be alive..."

[Vince Hardy]

Hearing talk of beings who should not be alive sparked a thought in Vince's mind. "Speaking of people who should not be alive..."

"We are concerned that there's someone tampering with the beings who have been sent to the Doom Dimension," Frosch expressed.

"You may recall that Noland and Alana lost Bakugan to the Doom Dimension. The two I'm referring to have returned, Krakix and Siege. They are in Hurranian hands and they have both evolved. I only bring this up because you don't just get dropped out of the Doom Dimension on accident. Either they were released to wreak havoc by a god-like Bakugan who Apollonir says is down there, or the Hurranians have gotten their hands on a power that can access the dimension. I'm not sure which one to go with just yet, but I am sure about the threat they pose to society in their states. I'm hoping Noland and Alana do not find out about this too soon. There's enough going on right now as it is."

"Hm..." Excedra looked closely at Maria and Zero Hydranoid. There was something he could detect from them that he didn't quite like. "I have a question for you. When and where did you acquire your Doom Card?"

[Maria Zenovia]

Maria recalls those two names from the files he had been ready.
Before Noland was taken by Silver Knights certain documents needed to be analyzed and approved (which was one of Maria's jobs) and from those materials Maria recalls that Noland used to have a Bakugan named 'Krakix'. However, it was not her job to do analysis on documents about Alana so she does not recall much about her.
Vince and Frosch see this 'revival' process far differently than Maria. While it seems a bit unusual to them Maria is more than used to dealing with beings pulled out of Doom Dimension or brought back to life using different technologies.

"Possibility of both still persists. Hurranians target person in the mask, Kyuki targets person in the mask. Hurranians have control over 2 Bakugans from the Doom Dimension. Common thing between the person in mask and these 2 Bakugans you mention is that they come from the Doom Dimension... maybe Hurranians' interest for that person is beyond the fact that he has Hades... maybe it has to do something with stench from that dimension... But that is just a theory." Maria says theorizing on the spot on what the case might be. It could be that Hurranians are chasing after beings coming from the Doom Dimension, but that has equal chance of being wrong as well. There are many theories that can be implied, but that is not Maria's job, after all.

Excedra's question is certainly rarely asked by anyone. Whoever learns that Maria can open a portal to the Bakugans' Hell just mainly accepts it without wondering or asking questions. The only ones that notice the importance of this are people on high positions and those whose job includes knowledge on Doom Dimension. "That's a good question... hmm..." Maria mumbles trying to recall when she received the card. "Oh, right... ten years ago, I think. My father gave it to me. Every member of the Royal Family had one in case of the... worst-case scenario." Maria replies after she finally recalls how she received the card.

"Regardless of that, certain Silver Knights are given this card for same purpose. Knight must be a General or higher tier and have certain 'something' that makes them immune to the influence of the Doom Card. That 'something', for Maria, is me; I can draw power from Doom Dimension and remain uninfluenced..." Zero Hydranoid explains. Except for this fact, many Knights' Bakugans who can do this are somehow related to the Doom Dimension. "It might sound ridiculous, but certain Silver Knight regularly goes inside the Doom Dimension where she performs mind-recovery rituals on 'lost Bakugans'... How unfortunate that she has not stumbled upon Krakix and Siege... real shame..." Hydra explains. Moreover, Krakix and Siege were not that 'deep' in the darkness considering the time when they fell into the Doom Dimension; if this Knight found them she could have possibly saved them, but luck is not on their side.
It does seem strange to these three, but Silver Knights have been doing a lot of research on the Doom Dimension. Not to control or use its power, but realize mysteries and threats behind it considering it is Bakugans' Hell. They did not let numbers of innocent Bakugans to be lost forever once they are plunged inside. Power of Doom Dimension might be horrifying, but some realized to keep it in their hands instead of their minds. "Hmm... could you tell me more about this 'god' you mentioned? I might know him." Maria asks curiously.