Beyblade: Shogun Steel S1 E2

## Plot

Instead of letting Zyro battle with his bey, Benkei is having him do intense physical feats instead, like running uphill while dragging a tire that Maru is sitting in. This reminds me of when Benkei trained Kenta all those years ago so he could beat Hikaru. He even references it, saying that Kenta grew up and became strong enough to save the world. Meanwhile, Shinobu is thinking about his battle with Zyro when he sees him training. Things could've turned out differently if he hadn't dodged Zyro's special move in time. Maru goes to the B-Pit and tells Madoka about the training. When a blader isn't allowed to use their bey, they can get… antsy. A little kid on a skateboard sees Zyro training and makes fun of him. He tells him that if he has no talent, then he won't get better no matter how hard he tries. He believes that talent and strength is something you're born with. You either have it or you don't. The kid challenges Zyro to a battle at the bey park later to prove him wrong. Maru recognizes him as Eight Unabara, and tells Zyro that he's strong. He finally gets frustrated enough with Benkei refusing to let him use his bey that he skips out on training and heads to the bey park, where he sees Eight easily defeat someone, and then draw stars on his face, which he does as a penalty to those that lose to him. Zyro tells him that once a battle is over, it's over. Eight tells him that the guy agreed to his penalty, and he was reckless for challenging him in the first place. Zyro challenges him. Eight tells him that he never actually promised to battle him, but he'll do it, if Zyro agrees to his penalty, and he does. Maru tells him that going up against Eight so soon is careless, but Madoka shows up and says this is getting interesting. She also wants to see the results of his training. Eight's bey is called Pirate Orochi. Benkei shows up. He figured that Zyro would go here after he didn't come back from his run. Like Maru, he also thinks that Zyro is being too reckless, but Madoka wants to wait and see. Zyro finally figures out how to use the tilt of the stadium to his advantage and starts hitting Eight's bey, although he's barely able to avoid a stadium out, as does Eight. Madoka, Maru, and Benkei are impressed that he's learning how to battle in this kind of stadium on the fly, by studying and copying his opponent's moves. Eight sits down and pouts, saying that this is boring now and isn't any fun. His bey stands still. He's refusing to fight. He can't lose in an endurance battle. He's going to drag the match into a sleep out. Whenever Ifrit tries to attack now, it's knocked back by Orochi's counter. However, Ifrit's power isn't dropping. Madoka says that all of Zyro's training has increased the power of his launch, which has also resulted in an increase of power in Ifrit as well. Zyro makes the stadium shake to make Orochi lose its balance and drag it towards Ifrit. Zyro is able to get a stadium out this time. Eight is upset that he lost, but Zyro thanks him for helping him figure out how to fight in the Cyclone bey stadium. He wants to battle again sometime, but Eight says he doubts he will. Maru draws on his face since he lost. Eight says he'll get his big brother to take care of them. Madoka tells Tsubasa that she's met an interesting blader, and he'll want to meet him too. He also recognizes Samurai Ifrit.