Beyblade: Metal Masters S2 E26

## Plot

In the previous episode, Chi-yun lost to Klaus, which meant that Team Gan Gan Galaxy would have to face Team Excalibur in the A block finals. Dashan assured Chi-yun that he wasn't upset, angry, or disappointed, and they'd start their training again from scratch. It turns out that the two have known each other since they were little kids. Okay, that's kind of cute. Tsubasa regained consciousness and watched Chi-yun's battle on TV. When he mentioned his desire to not lose though, Tsubasa remembered those same feelings, and his chest hurt worse than ever. At the end of the episode, Hikaru received a call that he had gone missing from the hospital, and Hyoma found Ryuga training with L-Drago in a volcano. This episode starts with the other team members, Kenta, and even Hikaru looking for Tsubasa, but they can't find him anywhere. While flying back to Italy, Klaus asks Sophie and Wales if Team Gan Gan Galaxy is going to give them any trouble. They tell him that they're nothing special, but Julian says they can't take their enemies too lightly. After all, Masamune and Ginga were able to break through their joint special move at the Festival of Warriors. Julian expects nothing less than a perfect victory. Sophie and Wales tell him that they and Klaus will take care of everything, so he won't have to battle at all, just like all the other times, even though his home country's citizens *want* to watch him battle. They land in Italy and are greeted by reporters, who insisted on interviewing Konzern. It turns out that he's the heir to a large fortune though, so he has a busy schedule. It's expected that every Konzern reach the top of every feat, and Julian is no exception. The only thing he's not the best in yet is Beyblade, which is why he's competing. In reality, if he's known throughout the world, then his family businesses will make even more money. Beyblade is just a means to an end, whereas even his own teammates think that it truly does mean everything to him, just like it does to them. It's been five days since Tsubasa went missing. Ryo tells the others that Hyoma is attempting to contact Ryuga. He's dangerous though, and he might not want to help them. For now, the others have to go to Italy, where the final battle of the A block will be held. Yu assures everyone else that Tsubasa will come. However, it turns out that he's already in Italy, and he's stalking Julian. He confronts him when he's by himself to practice beyblading and challenges him to a battle. Tsubasa wants to defeat him to prove that he's the best in the world, and he wants to do it as himself, but the dark power quickly overtakes him again. The moment their beys clash, it causes a large explosion, which Sophie, Wales, and Klaus see. Tsubasa tells Julian to use reverse rotation and fight with everything he's got. Ryuga sees the dark power in the sky. Before the battle can continue, Sophie and Wales intervene. Tsubasa lets the dark power loose on them. Julian can tell that they're in the presence of evil. Tsubasa tries to stop himself, but can't. He just wanted to test his power against the best in the world, but this isn't the power of his true self. His dark self claims that he created him from the darkness in his own heart, but Tsubasa denies that he did. He's afraid of losing. Everyone has darkness in their hearts. His bey responds to his conflicting sides and goes wild. Sophie and Wales take the opportunity to try and use their special move on Eagle, but they're interrupted by Ryuga, who calls them all pathetic and easily stops the move by causing meteors to rain down from the sky! Say what you want about Ryuga, but that guy knows how to make an entrance. He tells them that the piece of Tsubasa's dark power is the last left in existence, and it's nothing compared to the real thing. And even that's nothing compared to the new power that he's gotten his hands on: Meteo L-Drago. He tells them all the story of the two star fragments. The true dark power was really the ambition and negative feelings that L-Drago absorbed over the centuries, meaning that it was really created by human beings. Through intense training, Ryuga was able to free himself from its influence, and became one with the power that the star originally held for the first time. He advises Tsubasa to become one with the dark power instead of fighting it. The more he tries to resist it, the more it will control him. Ryuga attacks Wales. Since this is his first battle in some time, he wants to be entertained until the very end. Before he can attack Sophie though, Julian stops him, and tells him that he won't permit anymore destruction here tonight. Ryuga calls his bey a toy, and tells him that there's only one true left rotating bey in existence, but Julian disagrees, and he's told that one day soon, the two of them will settle this. They never meet again or directly battle each other at any point in the series.