Alice is serving food at Runo’s parent’s restaurant; everyone seems pretty smitten with her. She wishes she could tell Runo or anyone that Michael is her grandfather. Runo seems distant: she’s remembering Preyas and Tigrerra losing to Shun. Alice surprises her and she drops a cup, breaking it on the ground.

Shun is sitting on a rooftop, with his Bakugan asking him if everything is ok. Dan is looking at rankings: he’s 97 of 100. Runo is now in the rankings too, and Masquerade is still at #1. Shun has dropped to #6. Drago asks Dan more about Shun. Dan tells him they used to be best friends and that when Bakugan started, it was the two of them who laid down the law. They worked out abilities and then he would start disappearing in the middle of their sessions. Dan thinks something changed with Shun when his mom went into the hospital.

Shun is still sitting on the rooftip; his Bakugan is telling him not to beat himself up over the situation. We see Shun visiting his mom in the hospital. She asks him to get her purse for her. He’s worried that his Mom is still trying to take care of him when he feels it should be the other way around since she’s sick.

When Shun arrives in the other room, his grandfather is on the TV. He tells Shun he has to move to his house which upsets Shun quite a bit. Things will change there: his grandfather wants him to spend less time playing with his friends and more time studying to be a real warrior. Shun takes off from the hospital and we see him on a rooftop ready to battle Dan.

Dan plays Saurus and Shun plays Ravenoid (310). Dan plays Warius (290 – who we’ve never seen before) and the Ring of Fire ability card which decreases Ravenoid to 260. Dan thinks he’s won, but Shun opens his gate card which raises Ravenoid to 360 and Ravenoid wins.

Shun plays Falconeer (290) – Dan is wondering why Shun never bothers to attack first and taunts him as if he’s playing chess. Dan plays Griffon (300). Shun plays his gate card which takes Falconeer to 390 and Dan plays his gate card which lets Griffon win the battle.

Shun plays Ravenoid (310) and again refuses to do anything else. Dan plays Griffon (300) and again Ravenoid refuses to fight. Shun finally opens his gate card and Ravenoid increases to 520 who wins.

Shun plays Monarus (who we’ve never seen before) with the Backdraft ability card which immediately knocks out Saurus. Dan’s annoyed at Shun and throws Saurus back into the game. Shun activates Backdraft and takes his own Bakugan off the field. Dan is really confused now and asks Shun what’s going on: he says he never wants to stop playing.

Shun finally explains what’s going on with his mom and grandfather and how he won’t be allowed to play anymore. He plays Ravenoid; Dan opens his gate card and Saurus wins. Dan points out they are just shadow boxing; it’s not a real game – Shun is just using him to avoid facing the real world.

Dan is trying to end the game. Shun makes a mistake overshooting his Bakugan and Dan wins. Back in the real world at the bottom of the parking garage, they run into Dan’s father who drives the boys back to the hospital where Shun’s mother is. Shun makes it back just before his mom goes under for the operation. She wanted to give him a Bakugan, which he takes just as his grandfather informs him that he won’t have any time to use it. The flashback ends and Dan says neither he nor the game will miss Shun.

Masquerade is looking at all the players joining Bakugan and trying to find the one with the highest power level. His Hydranoid is still in the lead. Meanwhile Alice’s grandfather appears behind him and wants to know Dan and his crew are still getting stronger.

We find out that Masquerade doesn’t care about the people that lose: he just wants the most evolved Bakugan to get to the Infinity core. They just want to pool all the energy into one entity – it doesn’t matter if it’s Dan. We see Naga has a grudge against Drago. Masquerade plans a brand new battle that will seemingly involve Shun.

Related posts:

  1. Episode 11 – Grandpa’s Got a Brand New Bakugan
  2. Episode 5 – Runo Rules
  3. Episode 13 – Just For The Shun Of It
  4. Episode 6 – Combination Battle
  5. Episode 1 – The Battle Begins

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