"He goes by many names: the Miracle Boy, the Dark Horse, the Little Spark, Twinkle Toes, the unpredictable Wild Card, the Wonder Boy, and the Legend of Legends, Valt Aoi!"

Valt let out a joy of wonder and spark, happy to see the crowd happy.

"My number one favorite thing in the world has and always will be Beyblade! Everyone, let's have some crazy awesome battles!"

Valt and Gingka nodded. He was the real deal.

Then Hanami started going into Valt's backstory.

"He may have started out rocky, from a novice who couldn't even struggle to shoot his own Beyblade properly into the stadium."

Everyone started laughing, and Valt was a little embarrassed, but kept a smile on his face.

"Let his nerves get the better of him several times, fumbled several speeches, lost his Beyblade on the way to the stadium," and more that got everyone else feeling second hand embarrassment.

"But he's now a blader many of the legends have looked up, inspired different prodigies and icons, formed intense rivalries with the world's strongest, and remains a legend amongst the leaders! With his Valkyrie, they'll rush to victory!"

Tyson and Gingka were suddenly eager to battle with him, though Zero went up to him first.

"Your avatar is so cool," pointing to his beyblade that Valt took out to show everyone. Valkyrie came out and the other bladers around looked at the androgynous light blue armor and V shaped vest clad humanoid with their yellow eyes, helmet, wielding a powerful mighty sword. It was on top of a majestic red, white, and blue horse with no wings, but showed it's power via the dark plates and armor on the knees and hands.

Zero showed off his Samurai Ifrit. The samurai and the warrior raised their swords at one another, jousting as a token of acceptance and appreciation.

"Wow, you're one of the Legendary Bladers, aren't you?"

Zero shook his head. "I'm the Blader of Fire, and my mentor is the Legend I'll surpass," showing him Gingka.

Valt took the time to shake his hand. "Pleasure to meet you. I'm really looking forward to our battles, though I'm the one that's going way."

Gingka took it. "Sounds great, but my Pegasus and I are going to be the winners."

"Hey, don't leave me and Dragoon out of this," Tyson claimed, grasping their head.

"If you think you can stop Ifrit and I, bring it!"

Tyson, Gingka, Zero, and Valt were all getting excited with the thought of taking each other down. Dragoon, Pegasus, Ifrit, and Valkyrie all stared each other down with a nod.

If any of them would meet in the ring, they each knew they were in for one heck of a battle.

Many of Valt's friends and minor rivals were in the stands, though not anyone that made anyone question why they weren't on his team. The question was now who would be on Valt's team, which Max and Ray took note of.

"He's sort of like a big deal."

"Yeah, I haven't seen a crowd this excited about a person since Tyson at the World Championships. Hope it doesn't go to his head."

Hillary snarked. "Again."

"Hanami, introducing the coach of the Bombers, founder of the Beigoma Academy Bey Club alongside Valt, The Boss, the Head Honcho, a true man, and the Smooth Samurai, Rantaro Kiyama!"

Rantaro came out in a full gakuran attire, a tall build, a well groomed jacket with a red interior and gold buttons under an orange blazer, and tight black pants, as well as a blue sash, carrying a large white paper fan.

The crowd's mixed reactions let it known that reception wasn't as kind.

"Why him? I'd rather have Shu instead."

"He's just going to drag Valt down."

"He just beat the weakest member of Rideout."

"And in BC Sol's final match. He never won outside of that."

"At least he's better than his family. Ragnurak's such a lame bey, it just has a tornado attack anyone could beat."

"But what about the Legend Super Tag League, he and Valt did well."

"Yeah but Valt lost all his battles in there because of him. Drum, Aiga, and even his younger brother took him out no diff."

"And Valt didn't even need his help to beat Shu and Lain, he did all the work himself!"

The endless chatter was getting on Rantaro nerves and it was getting pretty clear that no one wanted him there. He stood proud, but his heart sank.

"Everyone stop!"

Valt's voice ripped the chatter into nothing.

"Rantaro has been my number one since the start. The two of us have had each other's backs since we formed the Bey Club. My team was chosen by me, and everyone there has helped me be the blader I am today. If you have a problem with Rantaro, then you have a problem with me too!"

It was the first time in a while Valt was angry, something that was genuinely unusual.

He slapped Rantaro in the back with the same smile almost immediately shaking it. "Let's show them what we're made of."

Rantaro's fiery spirit was reignited and pumped his fists. "You got it Valt," fanning his fan so hard that many people in the crowd were blown back into their chairs.

"Now that's power," Ray thought.

"A samurai eh," Tyson thought. "Gramps is going to love him."

Daichi was proud of Valt for standing up to his teammate. "I can't imagine having to deal with some jerk who can't appreciate their own tag partner."

Hanami introduced the third blader to come out. They were smaller than Valt and Rantaro, with a pale complexion, shadow under their black eyes, spiky black hair and a red bandana holding it up with a skull and other accessories, a belt buckle, necklace, while his intimidating black jacket jacket with purple stripes and red flames over his orange shirt and black clothes below the waist brought in an unknown atmosphere. He was ready to strike.

"Enter the leader of AS Gallus, Daina Kurogami!"

He walked in, calm and collected. "I'm ready. South, that prize money will be ours!"

In the crowd, the monitor was on Souta. "Do your best big bro!"

Hanami explained Souta was recovering in the hospital. Daina's efforts helped the pay to ease the burden off their parents.

The crowd rejoiced in awnh before realizing Monica was next to him.

"Your big brother is fighting for you too?"

"Mhmm. He's the coolest. Yours is here?"

She pointed down at Crusher. "Yeah, look!"

The two waved down to Daina and Crusher.

"Good luck you two. Do your best!"

Crusher suddenly approached Daina. The smaller blader of the Scythe wielding blade held his ground when Crusher extended his hand.

"Do your best. We have to do it for them."

Daina nodded. "Right."

Hikaru started shedding tears. She hadn't been back to Japan in so long, and wanted her mother to be here to watch her, almost shed tears. Sophie asked her if it was alright.

"Family's just important to me."

"You're making her proud."

Then the fourth person arrived on the scene, and Valt, Rantaro, and Daina's jaws dropped.

"No way!"

"You're back!"

"I thought you were on tour."

That spiky black hair, green eyes, sharp fang, green goat with the chain circle, and two familiar sock puppets had Valt crying and rushed over for a massive glomp as Hanami called out their name.

"The fourth member of the team, Kensuke Midorikawa!"

Kensuke wrapped in all the hugs as Rantaro joined in on the group hug and even Daina couldn't resist petting him.

"We thought you weren't going to show up again!"

Many people were sharing similar regards. Ken smiled.

"I couldn't just leave you guys hanging in such a big stadium," Kensuke claimed.

Ker snuffed. "Besides, we got a surprise for you!"

Beus laughed. "Be careful or your Beys are gonna Burst."

He threw out flyers for his family show, which others including Souta and Monica were eager to attend to but addressed his team.

"You've all gotten so much stronger since I last saw you all. It's time we connected again."

"Wait, are you sure? Kerbeus needs an upgrade."

"I wouldn't worry about that too much."

Valt wiped off the tears from his eyes. "I'm just," sobbing, "it started with just me and Rantaro and then for a while, it was the four of us," clearly thinking about the old times.

"It's been almost four years since then," Ken thought. "We've changed so much from when we started."

"We'll win this together guys."

The four of them performed a group high five as their support members in Nika and Principal Shinoda walked out.

"Well, he's late," Valt's younger sister pointed out to the final member, "but it's good to see you Ken. Mom bought some Beybread for everyone," handing them their own versions based on their Beyblade.

"Beyblade, that looks like food?" Madoka seemed interesting. "Gingka, would you mind if I did that for you?"

He shook his head. "Not at all!"

Principal Shinoda smiled. "You've all graduated from Beigoma, but now it feels like you're still my students. Beigoma and your families are proud of you."

Tyson was just enjoying the good vibes, though there was an old friend he hadn't seen in a while, and wondered if he could reunite with them soon.

Then Hanami called out for the final blader to arrive. And the audience made it very clear who was next.

"Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu! Shu!"

Suddenly an airship the size of a whale above the stadium caught almost everyone's attention. The stadium's ceiling opened up and a rope ladder dropped down. The person came down with blonde spiky hair, and a regal-purple attire from the dark best to the gold buttons with the stylized purple jacket and belt buckle.

And dropped down.

"The Commissioner of the WBBA? Wakiya Komurasaki?"

The bladers from Tyson's world had questions. "He works with the organization. Isn't that a bit of cheating?"

The bladers from Valt's world were equally stunned to see him. Rumors summarized he helped coach the Asahi brothers and defeated Ranjiro, Aiga, and Drum at one point, but no one knew all the details.

"Why are yer surprised to see me? Did you forget I'm an S-Ranked Legendary Blader?"

Hanami gave everyone the details on Wakiya. His rich family, owning an entire Beyblade team in Sunbat United, and using his money to develop programs to improve his skills and creating VR training to help rising bladers...with mixed results.

Rantaro groaned. He let the others know he was a strong blader but had a bit of.....issues.

Wakiya didn't seem to be happy by the bizarre reputation. "Valt, did something happen before I got her."

Valt giggled. "It's a long story."

Sophie cocked her head. "He kinda reminds me of Julian, but much, much more immature."

"What was that," Wakiya said, turning to her. "If you wish to test me and Wyvern, I'll be sure to remind you of all of my strength."

Gingka's mood soured. "Well he's definitely got Julian's level of pride."

Garland wasn't as pleased.

"Don't talk about strength when you hide behind all your fancy wealth. If you think you can earn respect coming in all high and mighty, I'm sure you're prepared for when I Burst your blade into pieces."

"I see the Siebald name isn't known for their hospitality. I don't need a dumb book of family principals to fight my battles for me. Or does your family consider you that much of a disappointment that you couldn't even secure the win despite somehow being second most powerful blader on your own team."

"At least my Beyblade can do more than swing up and down the stadium to do damage."

"At least I didn't join a sociopath who got used like pawns for money. If it took you long to realize Boris was corrupt, maybe you Justice Five or whatever you clowns call yourself now should rethink that name."

Wakiya and Garland took out their launchers, tonfa and standard ripcord, ready for Apollon and Wyvern to duke it out.

Tensions were getting really high between everyone involved when Valt and Kai had to rush in to get everyone to chill out.

Daina and Kensuke wonder about Shu.

"If he's not with us-"

"Then that means he's our-"

"That's everyone from Team 8. Give a round for their team, the Beigoma All Stars!"

After a brief intermission, Hanami asked for the future arrivals to hurry up. The ceremony was going to begin and they needed to hurry up.

"Now, for the leader of the Ninth team to come out, Shu Kurenai."

The other Beigoma members barring Valt gasped. He just smiled as his eternal rival showed his face.

The tournament selection was just full of surprises.