Two weeks after the American tournament...

Judy walked down the corridor leading to the All-Starz dorm. Douglas hadn't been very happy with their performance at the tournament but he had given her the green light for her experiment. The question was whether the All-Starz would agree to it too.

She pushed open the door and saw three members of the team in virtually the same positions they'd been in for the past two weeks. Emily on the sofa tapping away at her laptop, Eddy wrestling with the controls of his hand-held video game and Steve playing on the PS3. Michael, as usual, was no where to be seen. Emily looked up.

'Oh, hi Judy. Anything wrong?' she asked. Judy began to answer, 'No, but I need to tell you guys-' Suddenly Eddy leaped into the air with a whoop. "YES!' he yelled. 'YES! YES! YES!' 'Dude, what's with all the yelling? You're distracting me!' Steve shouted. Eddy only yelled louder, 'I passed level 13! That's what! YES!' Steve's attitude changed completely. "Seriously? Oh man, gimme five Eddy!'

'Sorry to interrupt the celebrations, but would you guys shut up? Judy's got something to tell us.' Emily crossed her arms and glared at the duo who were now doing a victory dance around the room. They didn't stop. Emily sighed and looked at Judy with exasperation written all over her face.

'It's like this every time they complete a level. Yous should have seen them when Eddy passed level 10. It was beyond...belief, to put it mildly. I couldn't get any sleep.' Judy smiled. 'I have to admit, they are overdoing it. Okay guys, can we have a little order here, please!'

Eddy and Steve finally stopped, and collapsed on top of the sofa. Emily jumped off and went to stand next to Judy. 'Have you guys got your self-control back yet? You've only been playing video games since the tournament ended!' Judy sighed.

'Eddy, Steve, where's Michael? I need all of you to here what I'm about to say.' Steve scratched his head. 'He said he was going...yeah, to practice his pitch!' 'I thought I'd told you guys to stay out of the sports ground till the new facility had been constructed!' Eddy shrugged. "We know, but that's where he said he was going.'

Judy exhaled sharply. 'Why does he always disappear the second we need to have a meeting? If he's not here in two seconds, I'm making Emily the captain.' Then they heard footsteps pounding down the corridor outside and as if on cue, Michael burst in. 'Hey guys, guess what? I...' His words trailed off when he saw Judy. She frowned. 'Ah, Michael, so glad you could join us. Why don't you sit down?' Michel grinned sheepishly and adjusted his baseball cap. "Um, yeah, sure Judy.' and sank into the sofa next to Eddy and Steve. Emily sat down in one of the chairs. Judy began.

'Right, I'm sure you know that Douglas wasn't exactly happy with your performance at the tournament. But I've explained everything to him and he's agreed to let me try out an experiment. You understand that we'd only concentrated on data collection and on improving your Beyblades further, but we never focused on you and your bit-beasts apart from the development stage of the latter. We need to find out what makes bladers like the Bladebreakers tick.'

'So what's the experiment?' Emily asked. Judy took a deep breath. She hoped they'd take this well. 'We're bringing in a blader from outside the research center to join the All-Starz. The blader has had completely different training from yours but seems competent enough to be a research subject as well as a part of the All-Starz.'

'So will he be staying on permanently or something?' Eddy asked. Judy nodded. "Yes. The blader's flying in from Maryland tomorrow, so be up bright and early.' 'How good is he?' Michael asked. 'Seven time winner of the Eastern States Beyblading tournament, obviously Eastern champion. Emily can dig up more if you want. Oh,' she glanced at her watch. 'I've got a meeting. I'll see you guys tomorrow.' She started to open the door. Steve stood up. 'Hang on Judy, what's his name?' Judy's eyes twinkled. 'I didn't say that the blader was a guy. Her name is Milia Barnes. Bye bye!'

Judy slipped out before either of the All-Starz could say a word. The silence broke the second she left.

'What the heck!'

'She had got to be kidding!'

'Was she serious?' Michael looked at Emily. Emily rolled her eyes. 'Of course she was. Now do you want to find out anything about this Milia Barnes or not?' 'Fine, show us whatever you can get.'

The team crowded round to get a look at the laptop screen. 'Okay, Milia Barnes.' Emily muttered under her breath, tapping the keyboard at an astounding rate. 'Got it!'

'Well, what is it?' Michael raised an eyebrow. Emily scrolled through the file. 'Right, like Judy says, she's seven time winner of the Eastern States Beyblading tournament, she's been overall champion since she was seven. Quite a prodigy.' Eddy rolled his eyes. 'Nothing we can't handle. Anything else?' 'Yeah, what's her game?' Steve interjected. 'It says here that she's an archer.' 'An archer? Now I've seen everything.' Michael started toying with his baseball.

Emily rolled her eyes. 'Yeah, whatever. But it'll be good to have another girl on the team. That would really make it a lot easier to put up with you idiots. Good night.' She slipped into her room that she would now share with Milia before either of the guys could retaliate.

'Great. Another girl is the last thing we need for the All-Starz.' Michael deftly caught his baseball in one hand. Eddy shrugged. 'So what're you going to do about it dude?' "I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to challenge her to a Beyblade match. Then we'll see if she's any good.'

'And if she is?'

'Then we accept her as an All-Star.'

'Oh. Okay. Well, night dude. Steve looks like he's going to crash out.' Eddy staggered into the room supporting a very drowsy Steve and shut the door. Michael started tossing his baseball again. Well, Milia, he thought. Whoever you may be, I'm sure of one thing. You're going down.

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