I try so hard to protect my friends and the people I care about: Valt, Lui, Xander, Boa.... and I've failed each time. Valt got destroyed by Lui, nearly casting a scar on his eye like mine. Lui thought I was pushing him away and reacted appropriately. Xander was beaten by Valt, which he didn't mind so much, but our giant was pissed for a few days when he trained for two days straight. Nothing like what I'm doing now. And Boa... right now my only friend, the only one I haven't pushed away for their safety. Boa can handle it. He nearly fell to his death because he was a distraction and weak, when he's neither. I've screwed up, again and again. My fault, all my fault.

Yes, all your fault.

I wish there was a way to stop myself from destroying everything. I honestly do. When I was little, I just walked past a vase, and it broke. I got in a lot of trouble for that one. Then, there's the time I accidentally broke a kendo stick at Xander's dojo, which is nearly impossible to do without a heavy object. But no, I just he'd it in both hands, and it snapped. Xander's grandpa forgave him, of course, but I never really forgave myself.

If there was a way to just disappear, forget everything, just focus on one thing that could make everything better, I take it. Just not Valt, and I do anything.

But there is a way, isn't there? You just don't want to admit it to yourself.

I close my eyes, stretching out on the muddy ground. It just rained, and everything's alive. People hate the rain, but I don't understand why. Who cares if your little bags and pretty clothes are soaked? Why would it matter if you have a speck of dirt on you? The rain was here before us, it'll be here afterwards. I can hear the birds chirping and the rustling of grass. An earthworm moves along my hand, and I don't even flinch. They won't hurt me. I'm undefined to them, as meaningless as the ocean is to a bird.

I think about last night: when Boa gaped in awe at those claws, those muscles, that power that felt like mine but wasn't even close. I'm not that strong, not yet.

But Lui is.

There's this anger that I have to keep hidden. Every day, when I smile, when I frown, when I pretend to care about anything, it's fake. My parents are terrible people, but they're strong. Robin's been wilder and wilder for every year. She doesn't care about rules or anything, makes up her own and when someone beats her, she stands back up and punches them in the face. I don't want to be anything like them. Well, didn't.

Maybe they were right. Maybe Lui was right. Maybe Robin is right.

God, I hope Robin's not. That would suck for you, wouldn't it?

I've evolved Spryzen, put him back together, but something's different. I'm a semi-descendant, but I haven't been able to hear him since that day I kissed Valt. But something's wrong with my thoughts. They're weird, a little more obsessed with strength. I mean, I've always been obsessed with it, but these are... I don't know how to explain.

And I thought he was supposed to be smart!

Wait...

I don't think in third person...

Who the hell are you?

The voice chuckled, and then I knew that wasn't me. I'm insulted. You don't remember me?

A cracking sound snapped through my head, and the cracked pieces of my bey burned in the back of my mind. Spryzen.

Yes. You remember last night. Your emotions were the same as mine. That's one way to sync.

But I can't sync, I thought back. I'm only a semi. Much weaker...

No. You're a full descendant. And yes, breaking things is a lame second ability, but that's your power. It syncs with your emotions, and your emotions is the key to syncing with your bey.

This is a bit confusing, I admit to myself. I'll just call it resonance. So... I'm a descendant.

Yes.

And my ability is breaking stuff.

Yes.

A very bad idea spread through my mind. Xander, who teased me. Ruwei, who taunted me. Free, who destroyed me. Lui, who broke me.

Broke me.

I laughed, standing up and shaking the dirt off my back. "Spryzen!"

He understood. Yes.

We're going to destroy our enemies together.

Do it.

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"Robin, there's a call for you~" Ange sang from the kitchen.

Robin sighed and pushed her full plate away. She took the phone, a bored look on her face. "Quien es?"

"Hola, mi novia."

Hello, my girlfriend...

Daigo. She wasn't anyone else's girlfriend, as far as she knew. And this phone only took calls within El Astro, so...

He was at BC Sol right now.

She practically threw the phone onto the counter. "Thanks Ange! I owe you!" and charged out at top speed.

Robin knew instinctively he was in the forest, and there he was. Just in front of that tree, looking around and those dark eyes sparking hopefully. He wasn't wearing that dumb bandanna anymore, his ears on fully display. Daigo looked a bit older, and there was something about him that seemed stronger and overall even more perfect than he had been before.

This was the reason she had become a decent person. This person in front of her that made her want to be better, stronger, to give him a person he deserved to know. Even if she could never be that person.

"Daigo!"

He turned towards her, and his face-more tanned than before- lit up with excitement. "Robin!"

She ran towards him. He was base. She was safe here, just with him.

Her perfect boyfriend.

He hugged her tightly and swung her around. She felt her long hair swish through the air.

She hugged him back, and knew she was crying but it didn't matter. Robin had been scared, but not anymore. And she knew he was crying a little too.

When they pulled apart, Robin already knew what she wanted to say. "Holy shit I missed you."

Daigo laughed. "Me too." He hesitated, then said, "I think I feel better now. Missed you, love."

She blushed and would've kissed him until someone nearly barreled into them. Well, actually barrelled into them.

Her lower back flared when she hit the ground and she was so surprised by the intrusion she forgot to tuck her chin in. The back of Robin's head slapped against the ground, and bright lights sparked against her closed eyes. Daigo hissed when she heard something hit the tree.

Robin groaned and sat up, shaking her head to get rid of the sparkles. "Okay, what the actual f-"

A swirl of yellow and blue met her vision, and she jolted back and hit the tree. "Waah!"

"Stay away from Captain, fiendish girl!" The French accent was so strong and so weird she had to smirk. The swirls of yellow and blue moved back, and Robin saw a woman who looked like an ice cream cone, with pale skin, blue eyes, and twisted-up, light blonde hair wearing an enormous dress. She was currently fanning herself with an actual fan in utter horror. "How cruel of you to attack-"

"She's my girlfriend, Marie," Daigo mumbled, getting to his feet. "Ow... that hurt..."

The living ice cream cone gasped. "Oh goodness! I'm so sorry!" She rushed forwards and pulled Robin to her feet. The colors swirled around her before settling. Just great. She hated dizziness. Marie brushed the dirt off Robin's shoulders. "Apologies, I thought you were attacking him."

It hurt a lot, especially since Robin had been taken by surprise by an eye-melting ice-cream cone. (Get it?) Even so, she grinned. "It's fine. You're from AS Gallus like Daigo?"

"Of course! We're going to get to the top!"

Daigo facepalmed. "Uh, her Japanese isn't perfect. Anyways-"

"DAIGO!" Valt screamed, charging toward them, Honcho close behind. Marie made to intercept them, but Daigo shook his head. "It's fine. Could you go get the rest of the tea- OUCH! VALT, I CAN'T BREATHE!"

He fell back against the tree. "Honcho, please don't-" He suddenly disappeared as Honcho hugged him too. Robin couldn't help feeling disappointed that their individual time was over. From here, Valt would want to battle, and so would Daigo. Both of them took each other at face value, casually, and they usually put beyblade, Robin and Daigo's shared interest, before their relationship.

So for now, their time was over.

Robin watched lazily as Daigo destroyed Valt at a nearby beystadium with his Hunt Launch. They were close to BC Sol, but in El Astro, behind a building. For some reason, the very clean alleys had beystadiums.

He had learned the launch before, sometime when Doomscyther took control of him. Daigo had used it several times afterwards, but never perfected it. He had regained control of his bey surprisingly quick, much faster than Valt and certainly faster that Robin. Despair Phoenix seemed to require a different way of thinking and Robin wasn't entirely ready to give up what made her strong.

"Burst finish!" Allen, the blond called. "Two points!"
"Aww..." Valt pouted. "That was awesome!"

"You know, you could always come join us in AS Gallus. It'd be great to have most of us together again," Daigo said. He sounded hopeful. At the same time, Robin heard a quiet inhale, like someone who didn't want to be found.

Her head snapped up and whipped towards the source of the noise. Who was following them?

"I think we'd better cut this short," Robin said, standing up and looking around. Daigo perked up and checked around him, as did Allen, Ruck, and Jean. Jean moved closer to Marie, who moved casually nearer to the wall. Ruck and Allen went to one side of the beystadium and Daigo went to the other. Honcho glanced around. "Yeah, you're right."

Valt tilted his head. "Huh? Why?"

"So we can leave them alone to practice," Robin invented. "Our first match is in a week, after all."

She waved to AS Gallus, hugged Daigo, and left with Daigo and Honcho. On her way, she thought- no, she knew- she saw a fat someone with a grudge on Valt run away.

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So one of my wonderful, completetly amazing readers was waiting for this, so I decided to speed this up instead of waiting another chapter. Anyways, I hope it was decent or at least mediocre. Please don't hate me~

Robin out!