Beyblade: Metal Masters S2 E16

## Plot

In the previous episode, Yu battled Alexei and was able to win despite the fact that Anton and the Russian team cheated, thanks in part to Masamune coming back and catching Anton in the act. At first the Russian kids were sad that they lost because it meant that they couldn't go to space, but they still ended up getting a sponsor. This episode starts with Team Gan Gan Galaxy in Greece to see the Festival of Warriors, a huge competition where European bladers from all over come to show off their skills. They're sure that Julian will be there too. While on the beach, they see a woman with light blue hair on a high cliff and pull her away, telling her that she could've slipped and fallen. She was busy examining the ruins. She wants to be an archaeologist someday. Yu can't see anything in the ocean and asks her where the ruins are. She pulls out a bey and uses it to hold back the water and reveal an old ship. Tsubasa wonders who she is. While they're eating lunch, they see a man get into an argument with a guy who is eating lunch, and he insists on settling it now, so the guy gives him exactly three seconds of his time, and completely annihilates his bey. Later on, the kids are told that because they're not members of the EU, they can't enter the arena. The guy from before tells them that people with no business here should just leave. He's also on the E.U.'s team. He's England's representative, Wales. The woman from before tells him that he's being rude. She's France's representative, Sophie. She tells them that the building has been used for ages to appeal to the gods for victory, so no one can come in unless they're from the European Union. Madoka and Tsubasa want to leave, but Ginga, Masamune, and Yu refuse to give up and convince them to go in through the "back door", i.e. parkour-ing their way alongside some cliffs. With so many bladers there, they wonder how they'll figure out who the other members of Team Excalibur are. They're clearly Wales and Sophie. When the kids get clumsy and fall over each other, they're discovered. The other bladers are angry and decide to battle them, which Ginga, Yu, and Masamune are excited about. They decide to have a team battle between the three of them and Wales, Sophie, and Julian, who represents Italy and is the team leader. However, Striker and Pegasus's attacks do nothing to Wales' and Sophie's beys. The way they're built makes them the ultimate defense types, and they seem to be protecting Gravity Destroyer. Wales' bey takes Yu's sonic wave for it, and it's deflected back towards the arena wall. Yu tries turning the arena into sand, but Sophie stops him with her bey's special move, which creates a big spiral of air that looks like a whirlpool of water. When it's over, Libra has stopped spinning. No one has ever been able to get past Wales' and Sophie's beys. They're known as Konzern's twin jewels, or the iron wall, and they're the real strength of their team. They create a tidal wave to take care of the other two, but Striker is able to make a path through the wave for Pegasus to finally attack Gravity Destroyer… who easily defeats it. Ray Striker is swallowed up by the tidal wave. When it's all over, Ginga and Masamune have lost.