It was a bright and clear day in the futuristic city of San Fransokyo. The streets were busy with people who were bustling around to get to their destinations. But on a certain street, a yellow taxi cab was parked in front of a house, waiting to pick up certain people to the airport.

"So… how long are you and mum going on a vacation for?" A young, fourteen year old brunette teen questioned, standing outside the door of the family home.

"For a month… so don't get yourself up to any trouble young lady!" A middle aged man chuckled before giving in to his daughter a large and warm embrace.

"Ha-ha! Dad!" The girl exclaimed as she returned the embrace before lightly shaking her father off "Does it look like I'm the type of person to get in trouble?" The girl drawled out jokingly, earning a laugh from her father.

"Oh… I don't know… I mean, ever since that Maya had built that kiddie scooter for you, you seem to have taken up most of your time of the day outside the house, doing who knows what in who knows where…"

"Dad, I've told you before, I like to go outdoors to find good story ideas… and just, you know… watch Bot fights… and the scooter's not kiddie!"

"Wait, what am I missing? Since when did you like Bot fights?" The girl's mother piped up. She wasn't concerned about this statement, but more amused at her daughter's interests.

"What? They're interesting! And Maya likes watching them sometimes… so she basically introduced it to me…"

The parents chuckled at the statement before turning to their other daughter, the oldest in the family, an eighteen year old girl with short brown hair tied into a mini ponytail.

"Seriously, take care of this one while we're gone..." the father joked.

"C'mon Dad, of course I will take good care of my cute, adorable little sister!" The oldest daughter teased before giving her sister a big bear hug "Besides, I really do think that Tori could take care of herself! She's not like any girl you know! She learns from the best!"

"Haha, okay then…" the mother replied before giving both of her daughters a hug.

"Take good care of yourself you two… when we get home, we'll bring back some of Aunt Ami's brown salted pudding…" The two sisters tried to hold in their temptation to gag in front of their parent's.

"Okay, bye Mom! Bye Dad!" The two girls said in unison "Have a safe trip!" The parents gave them a wave before going in to their Taxi and driving off. When the Taxi fully disappeared out of sight, the girl's looked at each other, with mischievous grins appearing on their expressions.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Tori questioned. You could see a glint of mischief in her eyes.

"I think I am…" Maya replied.

"Bot fights…" The girls replied in Unison

"Ouch! That looked like it would've hurt… that's a cruel move…"

"Well, as sad as it sounds, that other robot did have poor co-ordination wires… and its armour was poorly made…"

"Yeah… I don't think that guy even tested his bot before a fight…"

Maya and Tori had been watching the Bot fights down below from a nearby building all afternoon… Well… more like spying above a building, which they got up in the first place with Tori's scooter, which was also a built in high tech hover board in disguise.

Every time the two sisters go to bot fights, they had made each match that they attend to a bit more fun by giving a commentary of each match. The fun part was, you could speak your mind of whatever you say about the robots that each contestant made and have a non-money bet on who you think would win. Nobody would complain because they would have never known that a young wannabe story writer slash illustrator and a university technology robotics student watching the contestants from above.

"Hey, there's an annual exhibition at my university in three weeks and I'm showing off my latest inventions, are you up for coming along?" Maya asked her younger sister as she popped a piece of popcorn in her mouth from her snack stash. "I'm just telling you know so you could prepare for the big event…

"Yeah, sure! That sounds so cool!" Tori exclaimed with enthusiasm.

"Sure is! I'm bringing along my visual reality game simulation software for people to try out! And maybe I'll nring that miniature hover board that I built as test of a new level of transportation… you know… and help put up the decorations and organize where the exhibits go… Hey! You could probably write a creative article or story about the event!"

"Heh… maybe…" Tori added on.

The two continued watching the match with full on concentration, with humorous or serious commentaries flying back and forth at each other until a beeping sound came out from Maya's green pant pocket. Maya had pulled out her phone and took a moment to look at the screen before gathering up her strap bag and packets of popcorn and stood up.

"Hey, what's wrong? Something happened?" Tori asked her older sister, a look of slight concern spreading across her face.

"Oh, it's just this guy at the university has lost one of his tools that his friend apparently 'borrowed 'and he want's my help to lend him some of mine. I swear, that guy keeps his tools in perfect place and shape, but his friends always keep taking them!" Maya giggled. "But he's such an awesome person, and so are his friends! They may be called 'Nerds ', but his group of friends are a bunch of all ultra-cool geniuses.

"Really? Wait, why don't he just get some tools for himself?"

"Apparently, he once made a comment that my tools were 'top notch for the job ', meaning high quality, and as crazy as it sounds, I always keep my high quality and best made tools in a small safe in my office, wouldn't want people taking them now would we?" Maya stated with a smirk. "Anyway, there's a likely chance that I won't be able to come back here and watch the rest of the matches with you, so if the fight finishes for the day, just go home without me okay?"

"Got it" Tori quipped back.

"Right! gotta go! Bye!" Maya said her final greeting as she sprinted down the building's side stairs, leaving Tori alone on top of the building by herself.

"Well… if I'm gonna be here all day… might as well buy some food from the nearby store…"

Tori was riding her scooter on her way to the bot fights, her green strap bag filled with snacks for during the fight. It was getting darker which meant that less people were out on the streets, but the places where most people seem to be gathered at were the bot fight areas. Honestly though, the brunette loved to watch bot fights as much as her sister, but she would never think of participating in one.

The young brunette was too wrapped up in her random thoughts that she didn't see that someone was walking right in front of her, which resulted to crashing into the random stranger and falling off her scooter.

"Ow…" The stranger underneath her strained a groan.

"Oh, whoa, I am so sorry!" Tori apologized as she quickly got up and extended a hand to the stranger "I didn't see you there!" Well, to tell the truth, Tori probably did notice that the stranger was in front of her, but she probably was thinking too much to actually bother moving around, so as quickly as the teen she was, she covered up her little incident out of guilt.

"Nah, it's ok, I'm fine…"

When the stranger stood up, Tori noticed that the stranger was actually a guy "Oh wow, I actually bumped into a guy… geez that's embarrassing…" she thought to herself. Tori quickly gave a once over with the stranger so that she knew who she was dealing with. The guy looked to be somewhere around her age, a teen with messy and thick black hair. He was wearing a dark blue hoodie over his red shirt and grey pants. Ok… he seems harmless… and he looks like he was Japanese or half Japanese or something…

The guy started to look frantically around with a look of slight panic on his face. "What the? Where is it? Oh crab…"

"Hey, you okay?" The stranger looked up when Tori had called him out.

"Oh, uh ok… by any chance, have you seen a little robot with a yellow smiley face on it anywhere?"

"A…Robot?"

"Yeah… I kinda need it for a bot fight I'm going to tonight…"

"Ah, okay… I'll help you look for it…" Tori stated with a smile. Tori could afford to miss a few matches to help a person in need.

"Thanks…" The guy gave her a small smile. Tori started searching around on the curb, using her phone as a torch.

"So this robot… you say this robot's got a yellow smiley face on it?"

"Yeah!" The guy replied back.

"Hey! I think I found it!" The brunette called out as her hands closed around a small silver object. She examined the object in her hand.

"Wow… this is a robot? It's pretty small… maybe the guy is just joking about the bot fight part..." Tori's thoughts were interrupted when she heard a blaring noise and a pair of bright lights coming towards her. She then remembered that she was still standing in the middle of a road.

"Hey! Move over will ya?" The driver from the car yelled at her.

"Oh! Sorry!" Tori quickly apologized as she moved out of the way to let the driver pass. She walked over to the black haired stranger and handed him his 'robot'.

"Hey, thanks again!" He smiled at her, before his face turned into slight panic again.

"Ah! The bot fight!" He exclaimed as his hands flew up to his head in realization. He quickly took off in a hurry.

"Oh, and thanks!" He called out to her as he ran.

"Hey, don't mention it! Well actually, you've already mentioned it three times!" She yelled back jokingly. Tori could've sworn that she saw the guy shook his head before smirking right at her.

When the stranger had gone, Tori was left standing on the quiet street, reevaluating what had just happened.

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"What a weird guy …" Was the first thing about the guy that came into her mind "But he seems like a pretty cool person though…" She giggled at her own comment before hopping back on her scooter and riding off to continue watching her bot fight matches.