The pink haired girl, Nymph, happily skipped her way into the bar while humming a high-pitched song.

We love each other~ we love each other!~ you and meeeee~~~ I'm so happy today~

Triton blocked his ears.

"Will you stop?" He groaned. "Your singing is disgusting."

Instead of arguing back, Nymph stuck her tongue out. "Never!" She giggled.

Scythe, who was sitting on the bar table, raised an eyebrow. "You are unusually hyper today."

"Tch, isn't she always this hyper?" Triton muttered.

Ignoring Triton, Nymph said, "Nothing, I'm just happy! Lord Heracles will be pleased with me!"

"Ha! Seriously?" Triton mocked.

"Of course— Ah! Lord Heracles!" Nymph ran towards the cloaked man and bowed. The other two did as well.

Triton looked at Lord Heracles' side. "Wait... Isn't that Azuki Ben from now, my lord?"

Lord Heracles placed the still unconscious Kensuke on a table and yanked the chained boy forward, a sadistic grin growing on his face. "Yes, indeed. Ben will be joining us today."

Ben's head snapped towards Lord Heracles, not caring that his neck was chained. Ignoring the pain, he growled, eyes flashing dangerously, "I will never join you."

"We'll see about that," Lord Heracles chuckled.

"Oh and my lord," Nymph started.

"Yes?"

"I have some good news!" She exclaimed.

"Do continue," Lord Heracles said. Triton and Scythe looked very curious.

"Just half an hour a ago, I have seen Kurenai Shu and Shirasagijo Lui!" Nymph said. Ben's eyes snapped wide. She continued, "It had been ages since I last saw their adorable, teenager selves!"

But Lord Heracles didn't look as joyful. In fact, he seemed to be seething in hate and anger as his expression darkened.

"Where are they now?" Lord Heracles asked, his voice soft but icy.

"I think they are still at the restaurant..." Nymph said. Suddenly, her eyes twinkled. "My lord, do you want me to kill them for you?"

Lord Heracles' expression darkened even more. Eyes glowing, he demanded, "Not yet. Nymph, Triton and Scythe, toy and mess with them for a little. Let them know that we're here for their lives."

All of the three bowed once more. "Yes, Lord Heracles," they promised in union. With a flash of light, they disappeared. Only the smiling Lord Heracles, the unconscious Kensuke and Ben were left in the bar.

"You," Ben hissed. "Where are you from? What are your intentions? And more importantly, who are you?"

Lord Heracles laughed. "I won't tell you the answers to the first two questions. However, I will let you know who I am."

Still grinning, the man slowly lifted the hood of his cape.

Ben screamed in horror.

~~~

Shu took a bite of his salmon sushi. Lui grimaced.

"Ew," Lui said. "You like raw things?"

Shu raised an eyebrow. "Who doesn't?"

"Me, apparently," Lui replied and sipped his iced lemon tea quietly. "I always throw up after I eat raw things." He slowly took off his eyeglasses. "Urgh, sunglasses can be freaking annoying. You can take them off now, Shu, most of the people have already left."

"Alright," Shu replied. "Hey, do you want some fried chicken? I feel like what we ordered is not enough."

"No thanks, I don't eat fried things."

"Wow, seriously, you sure don't eat a lot of things do you?"

Lui said, "Well, I don't eat fried things 'cause I always get sore throats after eating them. I don't want sore throats, considering that I must have a healthy and clear voice in order to sing—"

"You sing?" Shu asked. "How wide is your vocal range?"

"Four and a half? I think," Lui answered.

Shu looked both shocked and extremely impressed. "That's crazy! Holy mother of God... How? Four octaves is already impressive... The hell, are you an alien?"

Lui shrugged, "Thanks, I guess. What about you? What are you good at?"

"Well, I pretty average at most things... But I can say that I'm pretty good at gymnastics. I mean, I can do acrobatics stuff like balance beams and double back handflips."

"...wow."

"Thanks. But, compared to you... You can enter a talent show and win for sure."

"So can you. Double back handflips are insane."

Their conversation seemed to go on forever until the two finished their food and paid. After exciting the restaurant, they started to talk about Beyblade (complete forgetting about their sunglasses).

"By the way isn't the tournament this year coming up?" Shu asked.

"Hell yeah it is, and I'm going to fucking crush you again this year," Lui declared with a smirk.

Shu glared, "I'd like to see you try." He reached for Spriggan and held it up, facing Lui with a matching smirk. "Because this time, I will win for s—" he stopped midway. Expression turning into fear, Shu said, "Lui... Spriggan's aura is fading."

"What?" Lui stared.

"Quick, take out Longinus."

Lui did so, only to find Longinus's aura fading as well. "Shu..." Lui started in panic. "I think... I think Longinus... And Spriggan... They're dying."

Before Shu could saying anything, the two heard a laugh. They whipped their head towards the sound source.

"That's right," A masked Scythe said, follow by the also masked Triton and Nymph.

"Who are you?!" Lui demanded.

Nymph didn't even bother to answer and beams of pink sparkles shot out of her fingertips...

~~~

The Beyclub members were bored; at least until Zac showed up.

Valt's eyes sparkled. "Zac!"

"Yep, that's me~" Zac twirled around smoothly. "So, what are you bladers doing on this lovely, sunny day~?"

"I see you're back to your usual stupid, sparkly self," Wakiya muttered under his breath.

"Nothing," Rantaro answered Zac grimly. "We are doing nothing. We don't have school today, so we can't use the stadium in our school's rooftop, and the Bey park is occupied by a bunch of kids. We can't practice and we don't have anything to do. Plus, the only movies airing today are chick flicks."

Zac raised his eyebrow. "You can always ask Lui for permission to use his training room."

Wakiya snorted. "As if he would let us use it. He would only let us in for emergencies like the last time. Besides," a devilish smirk spread upon his face. "He isn't free right now."

The idol looked confused as all the other bladers shared amused looks. "Why?" Zac asked.

"Oh, nothing important," Wakiya continued, smirk still in place. "Lui's just enjoying his lovely date with Shu. Quite romantic, isn't it? Starting off as enemies, then now they are happy and gay."

Daina swallowed his laughter. "You sure? And mind you, they were brothers in the past life."

Valt (surprisingly) rolled his eyes, "Past life. You could be my mom in the past life"

Zac checked his phone. He smiled.

Wakiya looked at Zac. "What are you smiling about, Showoff?"

Zac's smile grew wider. "Shu and Lui both, coincidentally, turned on their locations. And, also coincidentally, they are at the same place."

Daina looked uncomfortable. "Okay guys... this is wrong... don't do it..."

Zac pouted. "Sorry Daina, but a little bit of stalking won't hurt, right?"

Wakiya, Valt and Rantaro snickered evilly.

~~~

As quietly as possible, the bladers crept along the shadows. Zac looked at his phone, "Shu and Lui should be around here."

"Damn, we should have asked Ukyo to teach us  a few ninja skills before we do this," Rantaro said before hiding behind a line of bushes with the others.

Wakiya took out his phone and licked his lips. "Everyone, start taking pictures once the two shows up. This will be blackmailing gold."

Daina's eyebrows twitched. "Wakiya. No. We are not invading their priva—"

Daina was cut off by a shout. A very, very familiar shout.

"...Shu?" Valt gasped.

Before the blue haired blader could get out of the bushes and see what was going on, Zac pulled him back forcefully.

"Not yet," Zac said quietly while shaking his head. "We mustn't go out unarmed. We are not even sure what's happening."

The Superstar peaked through the bushes and his eyes widened. He looked at his companions. "Shu and Lui... they were being attacked by three people."

Daina looked shocked. "Then... then we must help them. Quick, let's summon our souls."

"No. Something's... something's wrong. Why aren't Lui and Shu summoning their souls then? The attacks from the three unknown people are not very strong. If Shu and Lui used their spirits' powers, they would win for sure. But why— Valt!" Zac shouted in alarm. 

The moment Triton's spear landed on Shu, Valt sprinted out of the shades as his first instinct. "STOP!" Valt yelled.

All heads, including the three attackers, turned towards him. 

"Valt?" Shu said. "No! Leave! Don't mind us! You'll get killed!"

"I won't leave!" Valt said back. "I'm going to save you!"

Scythe rolled his masked eyes. "Save? Funny, you should think about saving yourself first." Waving his hand, a string of dark silverish-purple flew out. 

"Valt!" Daina pulled Valt out of the way. The boy was a centimetre away from the attack. The purple beam scraped the ground bellow, leaving behing a trail of smokey black.

Wakiya, Rantaro and Zac jumped out of the bushes as well. Shu and Lui's eyes widened.

"Guys..?" Shu murmured.

"Scythe, Lord Heracles said not to kill them yet," Triton reminded.

"I know," Scythe said. "I just don't like naive brats."

Triton let out a single chuckle. "Trust me, Valt can be more naive and stupid than this."

"How do you know my name?" Valt asked loudly.

Triton looked at Nymph. "Do we tell him?"

Nymph shook her head. "Later."

"Hey, answer me!" Valt shouted again.

Nymph sighed and shook her head. "Heh, as annoying as usual. Sorry, we won't tell you our names yet. That would ruin the fun."

Lui seethed. "Then what are you here for? You know, you kept attacking us like some sort of lunatics and we didn't have time to ask for explanations," he said. With balled fists, he yelled, "LONGINUS!"

The Beyblade's signature blueish white light flashed.

That's it.

The light faded away in a second.

Everyone was silent. Lui gapped.

"LONGINUS!!!" He tried again through gritted teeth.

Nothing.

As Nymph laughed hysterically, Lui pulled Longinus out of his pocket, eyes widening fearfully.

Longinus felt like a piece of hollow metal on his hand, heavy and lifeless.

In panic, Shu tried the same. Beyblade in hand, he prayed, "Spriggan!"

The fire looked extinguished.

Lui glared at the three masked people. "What have you done to our Beys?" He breathed.

With a sadistic expression, Scythe said, "Not much. We just wrecked the spirits inside them for a bit. That way they'll die slowly and painfully."

"How dare you," Lui stepped forwards but was pulled back by Shu. The white haired teen shook his head.

"We can't win if we don't have the souls," he whispered. Lui snarled lightly.

Then, Zac spoke up. With narrowed eyes, he asked, "I forgot to ask an important question. Where are you from?"

Triton looked at Nymph impatiently. "Do we tell him now?"

Nymph shrugged. "Fine," she looked at the bladers in a weird sense of excitement. "You'll find out where we're from after you know our identities."

Slowly, the three took off their masks.

They looked the bladers age, or not a bit older. They had brownish black, pastel pink and sky blue hair respectively. On their faces were lines of complicated deep red, almost black, marks that resembled  tattoos. Their skin tone were pale as paper. Swirling their left eyes were hidden anger, sorrow and hatred. Their right eyes were smoking with blood red.

They looked so unrecognisable, yet so very familiar.

Valt felt faint at the sight of the unmasked Triton and Nymph. "Toko? Nika?" He whispered.

Daina barely hid his shocked and fearful expression as he faced the older version of his younger brother. "Souta... What have you done to yourself?"

All three had the same kind of smirk on their faces.

"Greetings from the future," Kurogami Souta, Aoi Toko and Aoi Nika chorused in perfect union.