Beyblade: Metal Masters S2 E33

## Plot

Oh boy. I'm about to summarize *five* episodes. It's partly because I'm not a fan of this arc. The characters even lampshade the absurdity of it! Ginga faces Julian, and even though he's tired after battling Ryuga, his bey spirit is burning brighter than ever, and he comes up with a new special move to defeat Galaxy Destroyer. This means that Team Gan Gan Galaxy is the winner of the A block finals. However, instead of just battling the winner of the B block to determine who will win the World Championships, they have to face the runner-up, Team Garcia of Brazil. They're all siblings. It looks like they only have three members, and Yu realizes that this means that it will likely be three one on one battles, which means that he won't get a chance to battle. Team Excalibur has another chance to reach the top, if they can defeat Team Starbreaker, the U.S. team and winner of the B block. Kenta came to Brazil to cheer his friends on in person. He also gives them the battle footage of the B block finals, which he got from Ryo. There's something off about it though. Each blader is defeated in only one hit. They realize that no one used their full strength during the battle because they didn't want to give away their secrets, and their beys wouldn't take much damage. Regardless of who won or lost, they'd have another chance because of the way the tournament was set up. This makes the others mad since they and Excalibur fought with all their strength during their final. Unbeknownst to anyone else, Yu sneaks out and decides to ask about the Garcias on the street, ignoring their driver's warning that it's dangerous for strangers to go walking around there. Brazil is very much on the side of their home team. The three youngest members of the team, Enzo, Selen, and Ian, followed them back to their hotel, and they follow Yu when they see him leave. No one knows what the youngest one, Enzo, looks like, because they've never seen him battle before, so he pretends to act friendly with Yu and challenges him to a Brazilian street battle. They're going to race around, and other beys can get in the way. Meanwhile, the others are still watching the battle footage. Masamune is shocked when he sees that Ian's American opponent is Zeo Abyss. He reveals to the others that Zeo is an old friend of his. They both trained at the same gym in the U.S. They think that means he must be pretty strong, but Masamune says that he's weak. He had twice the drive as most, but he never developed his blader's spirit, so it doesn't make sense that he'd be on the U.S. representative team. He refuses to accept that Zeo simply could've gotten stronger since the last time he saw him, and thinks the Garcias are just bladers who are even weaker than him. He refuses to face a team like that in battle, and offers his spot to Yu, and only then do they notice that he's missing. He's ganged up on by all four members of Team Garcia, who reveal who they are. The oldest, Argo, damages Libra. The others find him unconscious in the street. He's okay, but Madoka won't be able to fix the damage to Libra in time for the battle the next day. She wants to report the Garcias to the WBBA, but Yu and Ginga ask her not to. They have to pay them back during the battle. However, the Garcias propose that they make this battle a four against four knockout battle with no intermissions. Once someone is defeated, another member of the team swaps with them until all of the members of their opponent's team are defeated. Yu agrees so he can pay them back for what they did to him. Madoka warns him that Libra still isn't fully fixed yet, so he can't use a special move. Despite this, he does so when Enzo uses a special move, and he's defeated. Masamune easily defeats Enzo as revenge, but loses when he faces Selen, who distracts him easily with Tetsuya style tactics. Tsubasa wants to go up next, but Ginga goes instead because he can't stand this anymore. However, Selen just dodges Pegasus's attacks in order to drain its power and forfeits. Despite this and a strange cyclone battle stage that moves, Ginga is still able to defeat Ian. Unfortunately, Argo is able to defeat him in one hit because he was distracted by his win. It's all up to Tsubasa now. He realizes that everything they've done since attacking Yu was leading up to Argo's battle. The Garcias justify their behavior because they've always had to fight to survive, and winning the tournament means they wouldn't be poor anymore and could leave the infamous slums of Brazil. They assume that the others have all had cushy and easy lives, and that their battles weren't filled with hardship and sacrifice. While it's true that none of them have ever been penniless or close to starvation before (that we know of), that doesn't mean their lives have been easy, and their battles to get to this point definitely weren't. Ginga thought his father died, watched his friends get hurt, and then had to sacrifice his old Pegasus bey to save Japan, maybe even the world and all of Beyblade from Ryuga, the Dark Nebula, and the dark power of L-Drago. Madoka and Yu were both kidnapped in the first season, Yu was used and betrayed by Doji and Ryuga, and Tsubasa had to fight the dark power and reclaim his true self. Argo's wild behavior reminds him of his dark side. Now he has to win, to prove that he's back. Tsubasa was able to get this far because his friends never gave up on him, even when they found out about the dark power. He's able to defeat Argo, but Eagle is damaged in the process. Meanwhile, Ryuga is ambushed by five goons in the middle of nowhere. He's able to easily defeat them all, except for a mysterious higher ranking figure in a cloak.