Kira hesitantly nodded and followed Miles out the door.

Both of them started walking down the street.

"Where are we going??" Kira asked.

"Don't worry. You'll see..." Miles replied.

"But, how do I know what to expect if I don't know what's going on?" Kira asked again.

"Exactly the point..." Miles answered.

Kira was more confused now as he and Miles walked down Quarterhorse Road, right on Progressive Church Road, and left onto Old Smithfield Highway.

The walk on Old Smithfield felt like one of the longest walks you would ever take. It continued for what seemed like hours, and not one single car passed them.

Miles kept walking, very nonchalant, as they entered Goldsboro from Princeton. They crossed over 581, walked by Cherry Hospital, and into downtown.

Miles then walked down George Street and then right on Holly Street. Finally, after nearly 2 hours and 30 miles of walking, Miles finally stopped at an old rundown house.

Kira still had no idea. Miles walked up to the door, and walked in. Unsure, Kira followed him.

Inside, the house was definitely unused. There was nothing but broken furniture and papers all over the floor. The walls were cracked in many places.

"Nobody has lived in this house since it was first built..." Miles said. "I heard many stories about this house, that it was haunted or that it was going to fall down soon... However, I know what it is..."

"What?" Kira asked.

"This..."

Grinning, Miles reached into the crack in the wall, and pushed what sounded like a button. The floor between Kira's legs started opening. Panicked, Kira jumped out of the way. The open floor revealed a staircase, and Miles walked down. Kira quickly followed.

When they walked in, Miles took a look around. "I remember this..." he said smiling.

Kira looked too. It was a giant almost factory-like area. Metal and machinery all over the room...

"Let's see if it still works!" Miles said. He turned on the machine, and it started. Miles typed in 5 on the keypad, and pressed enter. 5 robots, all carrying beys on a beylauncher walked out.

Kira thought this was bad news, and hid.

"Ha!" Miles said. "It works!!" He pulled out Pegasis^2 and fired at the robots. They fired back. Miles battled with the robots and Kira watched as Miles defeated all five of them.

"Now, Kira, it's your turn!"

Miles walked over to the machine, and typed in a number. Suddenly, Kira's eyes widened as 100 robots came out, all using different types of beys.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?!" Kira yelled at Miles. "I can't possibly take all of them down!!!!"

"Yeah you can..." Miles responded. "I know for sure, you can..."

Kira readied his Gryph Begirados LW160LRF, and the robots readied theirs.

3! 2! 1! LET IT RIP!!!

Miles and Kira trained with the robots til they almost passed out. Nevertheless, they walked, sometimes, Miles dragging Kira, back to their house.

They walked in the door just as it turned 9pm. Bri took Kira off Miles' hands, and Miles walked upstairs to catch some sleep.

When he arrived, Bryan was waiting up there for him.

"Hey, Bryan~" Miles said.

"Hi, Miles..." Bryan replied. "Tired, aren't ya?"

"Heh, yeah..."

"Sure looks like it!"

"Dragged Kira home, soooo...yeah..."

Well, no wonder you're tired! Come on, you need to get some shuteye..."

Miles nodded and laid down beside Bryan.

The next morning, Mile got up to find a note beside him. He read it...

"Going to the tennis courts in town to do some practicing. See ya around noon!!

~Bryan"

Miles nodded and threw the note away, as he waited for Bryan.

Time passed, and the clock turned 1:30, and Bryan still wasn't home. Miles was worried, so he went to go find him and check on him.

Miles arrived, and found out what was taking Bryan so long; R-Dev and A.E.M.

A.E.M. had Bryan surrounded, and it looked like they were gonna land a physical wallop on him.

Miles flashed back, to a moment where this same thing happened to him. But he had to time to waste on thinking back. He had to save Bryan, now...

So, Miles charged onto the courts. R-Dev commanded the gang to charge him.

Miles started by landing an easy punch to Dark's stomach, dropping him easily, then when Lashie grappled him, Miles landed three elbows to his stomach, taking him down.

Next was Jakester. He had the speed to land a few to Miles' face, but Miles stopped him by tripping him, to where Jakester fell and faceplanted on the concrete. Star, the brute force charged blindly at him. Miles sidestepped at just the right time to send him charging into the fencepost.

G-A mirrored all of Miles' punches, and wasn't letting up. Then, Miles pulled a fake, and instead of going high, went low. That stopped G-A. Lastly, there was CD, the tallest guy. CD had the speed and force to make it happen, but Miles was faster than fast, and got CD with an uppercut to the chin, causing CD to fall like a tree.

All of them were knocked out. When Miles turned to R-Dev, he had Bryan in a choke, Bryan tearing up in pain.

"Let go of him, now!!!" Miles commanded.

"No..." R-Dev replied. "You do what I say..." R-Dev started building a power in his fist. " or Bryan may not be the Bryan you, or he, remembers..."

Bryan looked at Miles, panicked. Miles sighed. "Fine...what do you want...?"

"Pegasis^2..." R-Dev said.

Miles was internally stunned for a second. Even Bryan was stunned. He couldn't say anything, maybe because R-Dev's arm was blocking his mouth.

Miles had to choose; either lose his bey or possibly lose his best friend. Miles thought carefully, then made his choice...

He calmly pulled Pegasis^2 out, and placed it on the ground in front of him.

"Good boy..." R-Dev said, still holding Bryan in the headlock. He walked up to the bey, and picked it up.

Miles stayed still. As R-Dev turned, he then realized something. "Wait..." he said. "This is too light to be--"

As he turned back to Miles, -CRACK- , Miles lands one of the strongest kicks to R-Dev's chin, knocking out a few of his teeth. Bryan fell free of R-Dev's grip, and he scattered away.

R-Dev stood up, obviously pissed. He grabbed Bryan by the ankle before he could escape, and started torturing him by twisting his ankle slowly. Bryan screamed out.

Now Miles was angered. He defended himself, now his best friend was getting hurt. That was taking it too far for Miles. He tackled R-Dev to the ground, forcing him to let go of Bryan. Miles threw as many strong punches as he could to R-Dev, and stpped when Bryan pulled him off.

R-Dev was knocked out beyond belief. He was still alive, but definitely beat up. Miles pulled out the real Pegasis^2 from his pocket.

"I care a lot about my bey..." Miles said. "But I care about my friends more..."

"Thank you, Miles..." Bryan said. "There's no way I could possibly thank you enough for this..."

"It's alright..." Miles replied. "Come on, let's go back to the house..."

When the two arrived back, it was time to get down to business. Miles and his six friends were gonna need a plan to get R-Dev back.

The group decided that Miles had to be the one that was going to get him back. His friends could help, but the battle to get him back would have to be up to him. Confident, the group went to go get R-Dev.

However, when they went there, he and his gang were gone. They split up and tried to find him again, with no luck. The sun sank, so the group went back home.

Laying down, Bryan and Miles talked to each other.

"Ok, now tell me this' why play tennis when it's snowing?!" Miles scolded.

"I thought it would be fun!" Bryan said with a grin.

Both of them covered up.

"So Miles..." Bryan asked. "Do you think we'll ever get him back?"

"We have to..." Miles replied. "We just have to..."

"What if something happens?"

"Nothing will happen..."

"How can you be sure??"

"I just a--" Miles paused. He had a flashback to when he was a kid, and his dad was telling him a story.

"And unfortunately..." his dad had said, "after the battle, he didn't make it..."

"So..." Miles had said, "Mr. R-Sev isn't here anymore?"

"Mhm..." his dad replied. "his son R-Dev is devastated... I just hope that never happens to poor R-Dev..."

Miles snapped out of the flashback with a gasp.

"Miles, something wrong? Did you see anything?" Bryan asked.

"Uh, no, uh, nothing important... Cone on, let's rest up for tomorrow..."

Bryan nodded and fell asleep. Miles was even more scared now. "It can't happen...." he thought to himself. "I won't let it..."

Miles woke up the next morning to find Bryan not beside him.

"Oh Bryan, what did ya do this time?" Miles joked to himself.

Unusually, however, Bryan didn't leave a note. He then went to ask Dan if he knew, but he wasn't in his room.

"That's...strange..." Miles said. "Dan's always in his room!"

He then went to find Cloud, who usually always sat downstairs. However, downstairs, there was nobody. Miles listened carefully. There wasn't a single sound in the house, not even as much as the A/C. It was nothing but quiet.

"W-Where is everybody?" Miles said, worried.

Then, from the front door, Cloud came in with his head down and a sigh.

"Cloud! Man, I'm so glad I found you!" Miles said relieved. "Nobody's here, and I can't find them. They didn't leave a note or anything! Do you know where they might've went?"

Cloud groaned, almost as if in pain.

"Cloud? You alright?" Miles asked.

Cloud rose his head, and as soon as he looked at Miles, his eyes flashed red. He then started, almost zombie-like, walking towards Miles.

Miles freaked, and ran to his room. As soon as he made it inside, Dan was trying to get in, also taken over. Miles pushed Dan back, and locked the door.

"I can't fight them!!" Miles thought, "I just can't! They're my friends!" He looked for Pegasis^2 so he could maybe fend them off. He couldn't find it.

He heard their numbers increase. Devin was now there at the door, then Bri, then Kira. Even Bryan was taken over. The force of Miles' six friends was way too much for the door to handle.

In a last ditch effort to get away, Miles jumped the two stories from his room's window to get away. He then tried to make a break for it. But he then realized; He couldn't move!!

His possessed friends came out from the house, and slowly started getting closer.

"No!" Miles yelled. "It can't be possible!!!"

Across the street from him stood R-Dev. Miles grew furious, then realized; R-Dev was controlling them.

R-Dev motioned his hands for them to attack. Afterwards, he disappeared into nothingness.

They kept getting closer. No matter how hard Miles tried to move his feet, he couldn't.

"No! No! No!" Miles screamed, "NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Miles jolted awake. He was breathing very heavily.

"So...that moment...all of it..." he thought to himself. "It was all....a dream??"

He looked next to him at the clock. 1:37 A.M. Then he looked at Bryan, who woke up to the sound of Miles panting.

"Miles..." Bryan said, exhausted, "It's 1:37. There must be something wrong if you're up right now..."

Miles looked to the window. It was open, and who was there watching?

R-Dev was, and he was controlling Miles' dreams the whole time. Enraged, Miles picked Pegasis^2 beside him, and fired.

R-Dev dodged, and Pegasis^2 ricocheted back to hit Miles in the head. R-Dev fired and landed a direct hit in the side of Miles' head. Miles fell off the bed, and as Dragoon^2 returned, R-Dev made an escape.

"Miles!" Bryan yelled out.

Miles got up and went to the window, and fired one more shot at R-Dev. It was a direct aim. He had to hit him.

But before it touched him, R-Dev turned to dust, vanishing right before Miles' very eyes. He called Pegasis back.

"The hell was all that, Miles?" Bryan asked.

Miles was too tired and stressed out to tell the whole story. He simply answered with a sigh, "I'll tell you in the morning..."