There were many things I personally found wrong with Bakugan: New Vestroia, therefore I have rewritten episode one and hope to rewrite the entire season. Please review and give me suggestions as to what you would like to see. Also, there is a Shun/Dan pairing, and there will be only one OC until after Beta City goes down. I do not own Bakugan: New Vestroia or the video game.

"I left a message for Shun," Dan began. "But he hasn't returned my call, he never does. Is that a ninja thing, or what?"

"You probably lost your cool and annoyed him again," Runo teased.

"I never lose my cool!" Dan shouted.

They had been walking through the park with Julie and Marucho hiding in the bushes spying on them.

"Are they pretending to hate each other again?" Julie asked Marucho. She then pretended to be them when a guy wearing jeans, a purple polo shirt, and a belt walked up behind them.

"What's up guys?" He asked as if they weren't obviously spying on Dan and Runo.

"Gah!" They jumped out of their hiding spot and caught their breath for a moment.

"Don't do that," Julie whined, still catching her breath.

"I agree with Julie," Marucho panted. "Just because you're an honorary brawler doesn't mean you can sneak up on us like that."

He brushed his brown hair over to the side, as he always did. He noticed that he had grown an inch taller than Julie was. Just then, a lightning bolt cascaded down and struck right next to Dan and Runo, opening a portal that looked suspiciously like the one in Dr. Michael's lab, after knocking them over.

They heard a voice that sounded exactly like Drago's had, "Sure it can, Dan. Everything is possible."

A pyrus bakugan rolled onto the bench, laughing. A darkus bakugan leaped out of the new guy's pocket and opening on his shoulder. A deep, gruff voice eminated from the darkus bakugan.

"Could it be?" The bakugan spoke. It turned to face his partner. "Let's check it out, Will."

"Let's do it Leo," Will spoke. They rushed over with Julie and Marucho to see what was happening as Dan held the pyrus bakugan in his hands.

"Is it true?" Marucho asked. "I can't believe it! Drago's really back!"

"He is," Dan exclaimed. "Take a look!"

"It's good to see you, brawlers," Drago spoke. "All of you."

Will smiled at the recognition from Drago while Julie celebrated. The three without bakugan began asking about their bakugan coming home. Drago one-upped my entrance. Will realized as Drago received all the attention, Leonidas receiving none.

"I'm sorry," Drago apologized. "But I'm not here for a visit. I'm here to ask for your help."

"What's happened?" Dan asked.

"New Vestroia has been invaded. Most of the bakugan have been captured, and enslaved."

Everyone gasped as Leonidas yelled, "I will crush the oppressors of our people, Drago. That's a promise."

"That's why I came to you," Drago commented. "Dan, I can't save them alone."

"Drago?" Dan asked.

"Will you help me Dan?" Drago asked enthusiastically.

"Hello," Dan replied. "You bet I will! We'll make those spaced-invaders wish they'd never heard of Dan and Drago."

"And Runo!"

"And Julie!"

"Yes, we're all here to help, Drago."

"Don't forget us!" Will chimed in, rolling his shoulder where Leonidas was resting.

"Thank you," Drago said. "The first thing you three can do to help, is to turn around."

Julie, Runo, and Marucho turned around as Drago hopped onto Dan's shoulder.

"Dan, Will, I can't take the others," Drago explained. "It's got to be us four alone. I'm sorry, we have to-"

"Drago," Will interupted. "Why can't we take them?"

"It'll be too dangerous," Drago stated. "New Vestroia is unlike anything they've ever seen."

"To be fair," Leonidas countered. "Neither was the Doom Dimension."

"He's got a point, Drago," Dan agreed. "They can handle themselves until they find Tigrerra, Preyas, and Gorem."

"They've been taken too," Drago angrily replied. "It's not safe."

"Neither was going to Vestroia the first time," Will countered. "We can free the bakugan and they can still brawl at our side, with temporary bakugan until we free Gorem, Tigrerra, and Preyas."

"Fine, we'll bring them along."

Will sighed in relief just before the portal sucked the two brawlers and their bakugan into the portal.

"Now we're not arguing about it," Drago stated regretfully.

"Did you do that?" Leonidas accused angrily.

"NO! The portal was collapsing in on itself and took us in."

"Lousy excuse."

When their journey through the portal ended, the humans and Leonidas looked around. Dan was the first to speak.

"So this is New Vestroia?"

"Wasn't it greener?" Will interjected, brown eyes curiously surveying the equally brown spires and hard dirt.

"What happened?" Leonidas questioned.

"It was a paradise before..." Drago paused. "Before they came."

"Sorry, Drago," Dan apologized. "You must have felt pretty helpless having to watch this all happen."

Drago explained how the Vestals invaded and set up devices that turned all bakugan into balls and captured them.

"How dare they come to this world and enslave so many who had worked so hard for their freedom!" Leonidas exclaimed.

"Who do they think they are?" Dan questioned angrily. "If they think they can just waltz in here and take over the bakugan, then they'll have to answer to me!"

"Us!" Will interjected.

A high pitched voice called from the right. "What're you going to do about it?" They looked over and saw two men, one was skinny and dressed in various shades of green with pink hair. While the other was ripped to the bone and dressed in yellow and white with spiky red hair. Both had blue eyes and a bad fashion sense. Greeny was leaning on the rocks, while spiky was standing with one foot on a rock, trying way too hard to look intimidating.

"Just who we were looking for!" Dan shouted.

Spiky replied, with a surprisingly baritone voice, "Go home to your toys, children."

"You better go back to where you came from!" Dan yelled.

Greeny looked slightly confused, "Surrender, to you?" He burst out laughing. "This I gotta see"

"Pretty big talk for a little kid," Spiky commented. "Come on, show me what you got."

"I'll send you home crying to your mommies!" Dan was getting angrier now.

"Dan," Will whispered urgently. "I hear an engine."

"What kind?" Dan whispered, clearly still pissed off.

"Motorcycle maybe, but it's moving towards us, fast."

"What do you think Volt?" Greeny interrupted their train of thought.

"Should we teach these little squirts a lesson? It should be easy, they don't have gauntlets."

"What're gauntlets?" Dan asked. Will facepalmed and started to define the word gauntlet, but was frantically waved off and interrupted. "Bahh, who needs 'em? All I need is Drago." Dan held Drago confidently out in front of him.

Greeny burst out laughing and exclaimed, "Too funny!"

A yellow motorcycle flew over the rock and nearly flattened Dan and Will as Dan fell out of the way and Will jumped backwards, landing on his feet next to Dan.

"Not her again," Greeny sighed with exasperation.

The driver got out of her seat and put an object on her forearm, which made the satisfying click of a magnet attaching to steel. The object was rectangular, with a triangular end and an end with a handle. It was white and had brown outlining.

"I don't know who you are or where you came from, but you'll need a gauntlet to brawl in New Vestroia," The redheaded driver stated. So that's a gauntlet. Will realized.

"I don't take orders from Vestals." Dan exclaimed.

"Dude, chill," Will tried to calm Dan. "She just stated facts, don't snap at her."

"I lead the Bakugan Brawler Resistance." She smiled at Dan's ignorance. "My name is Mira."

"Nice to meet you Mira." Will greeted and bowed his head a little. She tossed them a pair of gauntlets that looked almost exactly like hers, white and slightly triangular. However, unlike hers, one had red lining, and the other with purple. Dan fumbled with the red, while Will caught the purple one in both hands.

"First," Mira chuckled at Dan and walked forward. "Let's see if you can keep up with the Vexos."

"Those guys?" Will questioned. Mira nodded. "One's trying too hard to be intimidating, while the other is failing to unnerve us by laughing at us."

"They're Vestal's top brawlers," Mira acknowledged. "The big one without brains is Volt, and the baby who thinks he's cool is Lync."

"Hey," Lync interjected. "Watch your mouth."

"Like he said," Volt agreed.

"So tell me Humans," Mira got right in their faces, her head angled slightly down. "Are you chickens, or brawlers?"

"I'm no Chicken!" Dan exclaimed.

"It's odd that you know human idioms," Will commented. "But no, I'm not a chicken."

"C'mon, let me at those creeps," Dan angrily stated. "I'll show them!"

Dan placed his gauntlet onto his forearm. Will did likewise before adding, "We'll take 'em together, Dan!"

Link and Volt jumped down from their perch onto the ground. "Finally," Lync commented. "The talking stops." Link put his gauntlet on. "We accept your challenge."

"It's almost to easy," Volt taunted. "To be fun."

"Want fun?" Mira replied angrily and pushed a button on her gauntlet as Dan screamed a little. Gauntlet: Activated, Spoke the gauntlet. Mira and the two Vexos put strange looking cards into their gauntlet's slot and yelled, "Gauntlet, power strike!"

Dan and Will stared at their gauntlets, trying to figure them out. Will pressed the large purple button and the gauntlet spoke, Gauntlet: Activated. He put his card in and saw it glow as Dan yelled, "Yeah, I rock!" Will saw that Dan's was glowing red.

Mira's face was disappointed as she looked at Dan. Will walked over next to Dan and whispered, "Dude, you're making yourself look like an idiot, play it cool."

"Right," Dan confirmed. "I got this one."

"I'll cheer you on." Will gave him a thumbs-up. Leonidas growled on his shoulder, mumbling something about never getting the good battles.

"I'll start this, kiddies," Lync yelled. "Gate card, set!" The card flew from Link's hand onto the ground, landing in the center and spreading out to about the size of a football field. "Bakugan Brawl. Bakugan stand, Ventus Flybeetle!"

The green bakugan rose, a beetle with wings and a proscubosis with many sharp parts. Volt was next, rolling out a Haos Furious. This one was a monkey with a staff. Both Bakugan had power levels of 350.

"What're you waiting for," Volt taunted. "Christmas?"

"Again with the idioms!" Will commented.

"I'll take the lead," Mira ordered. "You follow." Dan's not going to like that, Will mused.

"Bakugan Brawl!" Dan yelled, throwing Drago onto the card. Drago stood in a flaming tornado, instantly turning Furious back into ball form.

"Wha-What is that?" Volt asked.

"Flybeetle," Lync yelled. "Look out!"

"Got 'em now!" Dan yelled. Ability card: set. The gauntlet announced. "Ability Activate!"

"Burning Dragon!" Drago yelled. His flaming form chased the Flybeetle until slamming into it, transforming it back into ball form as well.

Will smiled at the disbelief of almost everyone on the field. The flame around Drago died and the Pyrus Bakugan was majestic. He was red with accents of gold, the horns running down his back were gold as well. In the center of his body, he was tan, with large white scales on the side. However, the most interesting part of his body was where the connection to the perfect core lay, a blue diamond, outlined in white.

"Drago!" Dan yelled. "How does it feel to be back in the saddle?"

"Great, Dan," Drago replied. "I've missed you, partner."

"Lookin' good, buddy!"

"Feelin' good." Drago returned to ball form and flew to Dan's hand. Looking at his gauntlet, Will saw Lync's meter drop to what looked about half.

"Hey, what is a life gauge anyway?" Dan asked Mira.

Mira explained the Life Gauge to Dan and Will. "Then how come Volt's dropped by 10%?"

"It's softened because their gauntlets are better than ours." Mira explained. "Once you become a Vexos, you get one of those gauntlets that give you special benefits in battle. Volt chose to decrease the damage he receives, while Lync chose to have his gate cards be more powerful.

"It's my turn to play!" Mira yelled. "Gate card: Set!" The gate card landed and expanded in a glow of brown-orange light. "Bakugan Brawl, Bakugan stand; Subterra Wilda!"

Volt put out a Haos Freezer, and Link threw his Ventus Atmos. Once again both at 350 G's. "Gate card open: Subterra Reactor" Many earthen spikes rose from the ground, matching the ones already there. Wilda's power level went up by 400 G's.

"You think you're so clever," Lync chided. "Ability Activate: Typhoon Chaser." The earthen towers were damaged as Atmos' power increased by 100 G's.

"Man this guy really is a blowhard," Dan yelled to be heard.

"Double Ability, Activate," Mira yelled. Ability Card: Set

"No way!" Dan and Will yelled at the same time.

"Power winder plus Gun lock!" Orange energy rippled out from Wilda and Atmos lost the green glow. Power Surge Detected. Wilda had siphoned 200 G's from Atmos.

"That's pretty damn sweet," Will commented.

"Awesome," Dan noted. "I didn't know it was possible."

"I'll take this one, kid," Mira stated with bite in her voice. Oh, shit. "You've got a few things to learn."

Dan pouted like a child not getting what he wanted, which caused Drago to try and make him calm down. Will leaned over to Mira and whispered, "Give me a signal if you need help."

"I've got this," Mira waved him off. "Go, Wilda attack!"

"Bring it!" Volt yelled. "Ability activate: Freeze jam."

Wilda froze in place as Breezer rose a tentacle and let out a yellow energy.

"You take too much for granted," Lync taunted. "Abilities don't help if you can't use 'em." Mira nodded at Will.

"Bakugan Brawl!" Will yelled as he rolled Leonidas into the battle. Leonidas stood, a black humanoid dragon hybrid with three purple talons for fingers and toes. He had purple symbols on his giant scaled body, with purple outlining his wings and purple horns on his head. He entered the battlefield with 450 G's.

Leo roared and spoke in his deep voice, "Let's get this party started."

"Couldn't have said it better myself," Will agreed. "Ability Activate: Alpha Blaster." Leonidas Increase By 2-0-0 G's. Leo gathered energy in his mouth and fired at Atmos, knocking him back into ball form. "Fusion ability activate: Theta Booster." Leonidas Increase By 2-0-0 G's. Leo faced Atmos and gathered a larger purple energy ball in his mouth and fired, turning Freezer back into a ball as well.

Both Lync and Volt's life gauges dropped to zero as Leonidas returned to Will's shoulder, while Freezer and Atmos had gone to Will's hand. Dan raced over and gave him a high-five, while Mira had a shocked look on her face.

"Dude, how did you take those Bakugan?" Dan inquired excitedly.

"I don't know," Will replied in a state of post-battle giddiness. "But that was cool!"

"It's because of the power level difference," Mira explained. "When the difference in power is more than 500 G's, you take the other player's Bakugan."

"Sounds like a good way to get started in saving the Bakugan," Will acknowledged.

Let me know what you guys thought of the first episode, I'm entirely open to new suggestions and will reply to your reviews in my next chapter.