Medabots, a special toy, companion, and combat sport all rolled up into the body of a meter tall robot.
Marketed mostly towards children, a Medabot is a child's best friend and constant companion, who grows and matures emotionally with the child. As such, Medabots are not soulless machines, but have hearts and minds of their own located in their medals.
Medabots are known best for the sport that revolves around them: Robattle. In matches of Medabot against Medabot, the child and his partner work together to defeat their opponents.
Robattles are extremely popular and even have a world championships every year that actually involves countries from around the world.
Perhaps the best known robattlers are Ikki Tenryo and Metabee. In less than a year, Tenryo went from being 'the kid without a Medabot' to the number three medafighter in Japan. And he accomplished that feat with an obsolete KBT Hercules Beetle Medabot known as Metabee. And after four years robattling, Tenryo and Metabee are considered the best robattlers in the world.
Tenryo's accomplishments didn't end there. He also aided in the defeat of the thieving gang, the Rubber Robos, and helped put a stop to the evil plans of Dr. Meta-Evil, a man who nearly had the Medabots take over the world. Tenryo then fought against the soulless kilobots, robots that were like Medabots but were only programmed to fight and could never become friends with their partners. And he has claimed the prize of World Robattle Champion twice.
What exploits awaits Ikki Tenryo in the coming year? Keep your eyes here on the Riverview Junior High Gazette for the school's prized robattling team.
-Arika Amazake
Medabots: Impossible
Chapter One: The More Things Change...
By: Lord Archive
Medabots and most characters found here do not belong to me, but to NAS/Kodansha, TV Tokyo. Hiroshi, Megumi and medabot designs besides those found in the original series are mine.
A scruffy black-haired kid stared in horror as an explosion engulfed his medabot. This couldn't be happening. His gallant knight medabot, Lanceabot, was unbeatable, yet the robot collapsed to the ground and his medal, his soul, ejected from its back. He scrunched his eyes closed waiting to hear the heartbreaking sound of the medal clanking onto the ground. It never came.
A vile laugh from the boy's opponent cut through the air. "We'll claim your medal as the medapart."
The boy's eyes widened in fright. "You can't?! That's Lanceabot's soul!"
The man in the rubber suit laughed again. "You want it back? Then we'll make a trade. Either ten medaparts, your medabot's body, or fifty thousand yen. The choice is yours."
Tears leaked from the boy's eyes. He had only started robattling, mostly because the old ranking system of submission robattle had only just been reinstated after the last world championships almost two months ago. He had dreamed to be like his idol, Ikki, and raise through the ranks by street battling as Tenryo had four years ago. But he had only just started competing. He only fought one battle before so he didn't have ten medaparts, counting the ones on his medabot's body. And there was NO way he had that much yen.
Ever so reluctantly, he pressed a button on his medawatch, and relinquished ownership of the fallen body, unwilling to look at the medabot.
The evil man tossed the medal to the boy and took the defeated robot. He left with the final words, "Beware the Neo Rubber Robos!"
The boy trembled as he held Lanceabot's medal in his fist, glaring at the stupid-looking man in a rubber suit with two antennae stuck on his head. "They won't get away with this! I'll get you a better body, Lanceabot! And we'll beat these creeps just as Ikki Tenryo did!"
Arika Amazake checked her dark brown hair in the mirror and then fussed over her white blouse's large red bow and smoothed out her deep blue short skirt. A long time ago she had been rather eager to be a 'big girl' and wear the Riverview junior high sailor fuku school uniform. It was part of the reason why she had chosen the color scheme of her Sailor-Multi medabot, Brass, to match it.
Now Arika wished the skirt was a bit longer and the bow nonexistent. Her active nature made both rather big nuisances to her. The bow for getting caught in something or destroyed, and the short skirt for failing to hide her panties. She doubted there was a single person at her junior high her skirt hadn't flashed. She quickly learned she couldn't wear 'cute' panties during her second day of classes when she tumbled out of the way of a robattle and her skirt revealed her tiny tidy-whities with Metabee's image printed on it. She had considered those her lucky panties when she rooted on Ikki through the Championships. The ridicule she got for wearing them was beyond mortifying. Subsequent flashing drew some rather unwanted attention and was why all her underpants were now larger and the same exact color as the skirt in order to give drooling boys less to gawk at.
Checking her unusually pale appearance in the mirror, Arika frowned at herself. She couldn't afford to be sick today. There was too much to do. The school newspaper needed to be finished today and if she didn't show up to complete it, the supposed 'editor' would have to get off his lazy ass and do it. Which would be a problem considering she had replaced his name as the school newspaper's editor a few weeks ago. He was only the 'editor' because he was a ninth grader while she was the 'newbie' seventh grader, and no one who worked on the school newspaper, nor the student body for that matter, bothered to inform the lazy jerk he'd been replaced. And it wasn't her fault he never read the newspaper that he was the so-called editor of.
Arika shook her head. She had to keep herself focused. A little disagreement between breakfast and her stomach wasn't going to keep her down. And she could always catch a nap in math class to pick up some more energy. After all, Ikki slept through that class all the time.
Exiting the bathroom, Arika found her mother standing at the door, whose hand was immediately at her forehead.
"Arika, are you feeling okay?" Mrs. Amazake questioned.
"I'm fine, Mom." She fidgeted. "Sorry, but... breakfast just didn't agree with me today..."
"You don't have a fever," Mrs. Amazake noted. "But you should stay home if you're not feeling well."
"Mom, I said I'm fine!" Arika retorted. "I only threw up. It's not that big of a deal."
"But Arika..." Mrs. Amazake shook her head wondering with a bit of pride how she got a daughter that put an education over her own health.
Arika went into the kitchen and grabbed a plain doughnut and pulled a lemon-lime soda from the refrigerator. "I'll have these to settle my stomach. I'll be fine."
Mrs. Amazake sighed as her daughter put her shoes on and prepared to leave.
"I'll keep an eye on her," Brass promised, looking very much like a deep blue-haired, pinked-eyed younger version of her partner.
Mrs. Amazake nodded at her daughter's medabot. The robot was her little girl's guardian angel. Always there to help and support her. It may have been an expensive present to give Arika, but the peace of mind the medabot gave her alone was worth every yen.
Ikki stretched as he yawned, and then scratched his somewhat groomed, pony-tailed, black hair as he trudged his way towards school, wearing the school uniform of deep blue slacks and white dress shirt. "Why do they have school so early in the morning?"
"Maybe because if you're too tired to be goofing off, they might be able to cram something into your head," Metabee answered the rhetorical question. The orange and white humanoid robot snickered at the scowl he received from his partner.
"I should be robattling now if I want to stay at the top of the world rankings, not going to school. After all, the prize money for being the World Champion Medafighter will let me live it easy for quite some time," Ikki boasted.
"Hey, half that money is MINE, you know!" Metabee protested. "And a few million yen isn't all that much. We could spend that in a minute."
"I'm NOT getting you those medaparts. We've got enough of them as it is," Ikki retorted.
"How about we relieve you of your excess parts?!"
Ikki and Metabee stared, dumbfounded, at the sight before them. It had been years since they last saw them, at the end of the first World Robattle Championships they attended years ago. "The Rubber Robos?!"
"That's Neo Rubber Robos, to you," announced the woman at point.
"Ms. Caviar?!" Ikki and Metabee chorused.
The woman smiled. "I'm no longer Ms. Caviar. I'm now... Mrs. Slugbottoms!"
The boy and medabot exchanged bewildered looks, and once again said the same thing at the same time, "You actually married that loser?!"
"Hey!" cried out Seymour Slugbottoms, but then he muttered, "It'snotlikeshegavemeachoice."
"What was that?" asked Mrs. Slugbottoms scowled darkly.
"Nothing, Dear!" Seymour chirped. He could swear he just saw her holding a bullwhip.
"Can we get to the point at hand?" demanded the third Neo Rubber Robo, Shrimplips.
"And that is?" Ikki demanded.
"Submission robattle!" Shrimplips announced. "WINNER decides which medapart he wants from the loser."
"Three on one, I take it?" Metabee commented.
"Of course. Have to give the 'World Champion' a challenge, after all," Seymour returned.
"How about we even up the odds a little more?" Arika called out, rushing to Ikki.
Tenryo smirked. "Glad you could make it."
"Let's show these outdated losers the power of beetle medals!" Metabee said to the Sailor-Multi.
Brass's body tightened up as she prepared for battle. She wanted to warn Ikki and Metabee that Arika was ill, but there was no time to do so at the moment without her partner knowing.
The water in the river began to turn violently and then a figure burst from it.
"Then it's agreed! This will be a submission robattle! The Neo Rubber Robos versus Ikki Tenryo and Arika Amazake!" Mr. Referee announced, looking rather odd being an elderly man with gray hair and mustache wearing white and black scuba wet suit and red bow tie. He then began to cry. "It's great to have my old job back."
Shrimplips palmed his head. "Why does he ALWAYS have to show up?"
"To annoy us, I guess," Seymour replied.
"Kind of like old times," Arika commented.
"Yeah. But does he have to act like such a goofball?" Ikki returned.
"You're one to talk," Arika shot back playfully.
"At least he'll make sure it's a fair battle," Metabee noted.
Brass nodded.
Mr. Referee sweat-dropped.
The three Neo Rubber Robos grinned. "Transport medabots!"
Ikki and crew looked on in dismay. Those were not normal medabots by any stretch of the imagination.
"Behold the Mrs. Slugbottoms specials!" announced the married woman. "Mephistron, a demon medabot with the deadly Hellfire attack."
Mephistron unleashed a deep howl, spreading the four-meter wingspan from the two-meter tall body. Light glinted off the dark medabot's viciously sharp-looking fangs and claws.
"Bladerunner will slice you up!" added Mr. Slugbottoms.
The two-meter, steel gray medabot looked to ONLY be made out of blades, as every point on it glinted with a razor's edge.
Shrimplips smirked. "Last and certainly not least, Tonrocks."
The earthen colored medabot was three meters tall and almost as wide and looked more like a wall than a robot.
Ikki looked down at his meter tall medabot. Power was obviously not on their side.
Arika sweated nervously. "You can never pick an easy fight, can you?"
Metabee chuckled coldly. "We beat these chumps before, we can beat them again."
"Medafighters ready?" Seeing them nod, Mr. Referee brought down his hand. "Roooooooobattle!"
"Metabee, target Bladerunner's legs and take him out first!" Ikki commanded.
"Brass, you take Tonrocks. Keep your distance from him!" Arika ordered.
Bladerunner moved incredibly fast, but Metabee had been dealing with fast medabots for years. With his experience, it wasn't hard to predict the blade bot's movement and blow off his kneecaps with his wrist cannons.
"DAMN IT!" Mr. Slugbottoms cursed as his watched beeped with, 'Both legs damaged: one hundred percent.'
"Dear," Mrs. Slugbottoms said coldly, which made her husband look at her sheepishly.
Brass wasn't nearly as experienced in robattles, and wasn't entirely sure where a weak spot on the walking wall would be.
After focusing on Bladerunner, Metabee had to rush his dodge against a claw swipe from Mephistron.
Ikki looked at the large demonic robot. It obviously could fly, but its large wings would put the aerial maneuverability at a disadvantage, which an alteration to Metabee's armor last year could give the beetle the edge. "Metabee, Jet Action Mode!"
"Let's fly the friendly Metabee skies!" chirped Metabee. He did a back flip into the air. His legs turned an unnatural ninety degrees and the back of them joined together and his feet stretched out to form a nose cone. The robot's arms became flush with his sides and metal plates moved over his hands to give better aerodynamic flow, but left the wrist cannon unobstructed and capable of firing. The head bowed down until his chin connected to chest with the armor adjusting for the movement no normal tin-pet skeleton would allow. Wings sprouted from Metabee's back and the thrusters attached to them launched the robot into the sky.
Mephistron leapt into the air after him.
Arika looked up at the aerial battle as it commenced. The demonic robot was now spewing fire while Metabee was forced to keep dodging. She really wished she had her camera, but somehow had forgotten it at home. She then looked at Brass as she continued to fire at anything that looked like a joint on Tonrocks. She tried to think of something to do, but she couldn't keep her thoughts straight.
"Arika?" Brass questioned, noticing her partner looking pale and swaying.
"Tonrocks, now," Shrimplips said calmly.
Panels opened up on Tonrocks's massive form, revealing rows of missiles. All of them fired.
Arika's eyes widened. "BRASS!"
A series of explosion rocked the area. When the smoke subsided, Brass laid on the ground, her body sparking from frayed and exposed electric wires. Her medal was embedded into the ground.
Tonrocks strode forward and moved to collect the medal.
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THAT!" Metabee screamed. He landed and transformed back into his humanoid robot form as a rainbow of lights engulfed his body. "Eat this! MEDAFORCE!" He flung his arms towards giant wall of a medabot sending forth the energy around him in one gigantic blast.
Tonrocks flew from the enormous energy attack and landed a few meters away. He then struggled back to his feet.
"No way! How can he get back up?!" Ikki cried in shock.
"Don't forget me," Mephistron hissed.
Before Ikki could utter a word, or Metabee to do more than look up, Mephistron's claw ripped through the medabot's neck. Immediately the medal ejected and the demon caught it before it hit the ground.
"METABEE!" Ikki screamed.
"Functioned ceased. The winners are the Neo Rubber Robos!" Mr. Referee announced loudly. He then pouted and muttered, "I hate when the bad guys win." He then cowered slightly at the glares from the winners.
Arika looked up, having secured Brass's medal and teleported the broken body home.
"This is the medapart we claim for our victory!" Mrs. Slugbottoms announced, pointing at Metabee's medal in Mephistron's claw.
"You can't mean that?!" Ikki cried out in shock.
"Oh, but we do," Mr. Slugbottoms returned.
"And seeing as how we beat you two and Metabee's medal IS a rare one, we'll ask a bit more to trade it back to you," Shrimplips added evilly.
"THAT body of Metabee's, fifty medaparts or five million yen. What will it be?" Mrs. Slugbottoms asked, hoping for the first option as there were lots of things she could learn from his transformation circuits.
"Why are you doing this?" Arika demanded.
Shrimplips shrugged. "We ran out of the money we embezzled from the World Championships we officiated."
Ikki looked confused. "How do you run out of BILLIONS of yen?"
"Dr. Meta-Evil didn't leave THAT much money. These guys weren't cheap to make either, you know," Seymour replied as he pointed the giant medabots. "Not to mention other... unexpected expenses."
Shrimplips tapped his foot. "We don't have all day. What will it be?"
Ikki growled. "Fine, fifty medaparts." He then muttered, "Mom did suggest getting rid of them." He then cycled through his inventory of parts and transported them to the Robos.
"Look at this haul!" Seymour's eyes sparkled at the growing stack of medaparts.
Mrs. Slugbottoms scowled slightly. There were a few good parts in this mess, but most of them had been damaged. Ikki never did believe in using medaparts he won in battle and the collection of parts proved it. She'd have to spend time repairing them before she could sell them for any decent price. When fifty parts were piled before her, she nodded at her medabot, who threw Metabee's medal to Ikki. She then used a secondary watch she had to transport the medaparts away.
"Nice doing business with ya. Be seeing you!" Shrimplips laughed as he left with the married Robos.
Ikki muttered some obscenities as he placed Metabee's medal in his medawatch and transported Metabee's body home. He then stomped over to Arika, who was still on her hands and knees where Brass had fallen. Tenryo shouted, "WHAT happened with you? I thought you were going to be of some HELP!"
Arika looked up at Ikki... then threw up onto his shoes.
Ikki jumped back. "EWWWWW!"
Arika coughed a couple times. "I'm so sorry, Ikki. I... I'm not feeling very well."
"Why didn't you stay home?!" Ikki demanded.
"Have to finish the newspaper," Arika replied. "Can't let Hitachi get the credit for other people's work."
"Of all the stupid... You shouldn't..." Ikki screamed, "GAH! No matter what I say, you're going to school, aren't you?!"
Arika shakily got to her feet. "I have to."
"Fine, fine. Just stay there for a second." Ikki tossed his hands in the air, knowing how stubborn the girl could be. He rushed over to the nearby river, slipped his shoes off and let the river water wash them clean. He put the shoes back on and squished as he walked back to the girl and put his arm around her. "I'll help you to school."
Arika sighed as she leaned against him. "Thank you, Ikki."
"Are you sure you're going to be all right?" Ikki questioned.
Arika nodded as she sat down at the school's newspaper office. "I'll stay here and work on the paper. Just tell the teachers I have a major scoop to work on."
Ikki gave a short laugh. "The return of the Robos certainly counts for that. But do take it easy, okay?"
Arika nodded and began typing on the computer.
Ikki watched her for a moment before retreating to his classroom. He couldn't afford to be late... again.
Author's Notes:
Who is the boy who lost Lanceabot to the Neo Rubber Robos? What are the Neo Rubber Robos up to? Can Ikki ever defeat the Mrs. Slugbottoms Specials? Can Arika keep from throwing up on the computer? Find out next time in Medabots: Impossible
Never seen Medabots or just a few episodes?
Well, this is to explain everything you'll need to know and then some about Medabots.
Glossary:
Ancient Medabots - Contrary to the popular belief in the Medabots series, they were not created by Dr. Aki and others. They were actually reversed engineered from the archeology discovery of a race of medabots that ruled the Earth long before man appeared. These Ancient Medabots drove themselves to extinction from constant warfare. Medabots who were online at the end of the first World Robattle Championships that Ikki competed in do know of their past civilization due to a mass shared dream between all medabots.
First Medals - A medal cloned and almost perfectly copied directly from a rare medal, giving the medabot many advantages that a rare medal medabot would have. Ginkai's Arch Dash and Zuru's Rok's are both first medal medabots.
Kilobot - A robot with a soulless medal operating it. Unlike normal medabot medals, there is no ability for emotional growth or self-awareness. The ruthless destructive nature of these robots is better suited for military than for young children wanting an edge in robattles no matter what the cost.
Medal - The heart, soul and mind of a medabot all located in an octagon disc that can fit in the palm of a child's hand. While some may argue against it, medabots are sentient and are capable of independent thought. Most medals begin with only the barest personality common to the medal type, from which the unique life experiences mold and develop them into unique individuals.
Medal Type - There are several types of medals, including beetle, dog, monkey, queen, devil, and others. The type of medal influences what kind of body the Medabot should have as some types are better at shooting while others specialize in hand-to-hand combat.
Medalorians - An alien race that removed the threat of Dr. Meta-Evil by taking him into space with them. What connection, if any, the Medalorians have with either medabots or humans is unknown.
Rare Medal - These powerful medals are the souls of the Ancient Medabots who survived the fall of their civilization. All other medabot medals are cloned from these rare medals. A medabot with a rare medal has a much higher skill level than a normal medal would, plus he can call upon a powerful energy attack known as the medaforce. Metabee and Space Medafighter X's Arc Beetle are rare medals.
Select Corps - A secret military group that deals with policing special crimes, particularly those involving medabots.
Submission Robattle - Medabot verses medabot battle that follows specific rules where the loser is required to give a medapart to the winner. This was also used to create medafighter rankings in Japan during Ikki's first year of robattling, but was not in effect during Ikki's second year.
Ten Days of Darkness - Before Ikki was born, there was a World Robattle Championships that ended in disaster as EVERY medabot on Earth went berserk and started destroying everything in sight.
Tin-pet - The skeleton and nervous system of a medabot. As such, it's by far the most complicated part of a medabot apart from the medals.
The Cast:
Ikki Tenryo Despite his grades, Ikki is a genius at strategy. In a robattle his partner can't overcome on pure skill and power alone, it's Ikki who comes up with the game winning plan.
Ikki would knowingly jump into a death trap to save someone's life. He'd also risk his life for his pride. While Ikki isn't reckless, he can be pushed into doing stuff by either hurting or inflating his ego.
Metabee Ikki's medabot and best friend. They share a rough and tumble kind of relationship where they'll fight, play and laugh to the fullest. They know each so well they can almost communicate to each other without speaking.
Metabee's value of his pride and ego are as bad as Ikki's, but so is his willingness to defend and help others. However, Metabee is less likely to fall into a trap attacking his pride as Ikki would, but the medabot is reckless enough to jump in anyway. While not the best with coming up with strategy, Metabee is more observant in dealing with people and other medabots than his partner.
Metabee is a rare beetle medal and currently uses a custom golden KBT type body with fixed wrist canons and a missile launcher on his head. His custom armor gives him transformation abilities that include Demolition Mode, a fixed position cannon. For 'Medabots: Impossible,' he also has Jet Action Mode, flight ability that can fire the large cannon of demolition mode, but at a much reduced power.
As a rare medal, Metabee has lived before as an ancient medabot. He wasn't just any medabot from that time, but one of the greatest warriors. However, the titanic battles he fought helped to destroy the ancient civilization and the death of his love, a female medabot that held more than a passing resemblance to Brass.
Mrs. Tenryo Ikki's mother and the kindest woman you could ever meet. She loves helping others and cooking. Though she can be blind to people wanting to do harm, not understanding why they would want to do that.
Mr. Tenryo Ikki's father is office worker by day and one of the leaders of the militant Select Corps by night. He loves his family dearly, but because of his jobs he's rarely home.
Arika Amazake (Erica, Erika) When Arika sets her mind to something, she attacks it with a stubborn determination that can be rather scary as she develops tunnel vision and ignores almost everything else but what she wants to accomplish. Excepting a certain, ahem, time of the month, she has limits as to how far she'd go and wouldn't intentionally hurt her friends or endanger anyone. If she's having her period, well, it best to not get involved with any special project she may have. (Taking reference of her period from the episode 'Arika's Secret Garden' where she has extreme mood swings, forgets lessons learned earlier in series, and has Brass wondering why her partner was acting out of character and voiced that.)
Arika has two passions in her life: being a reporter and gardening. While everyone is aware the former, only a select few know about the latter. This is mostly because Arika doesn't want to be viewed as being a girl while in a man's world of investigation journalism, and gardening is girlish. She firmly believes a girl can do anything a guy can do and would go as far as piss standing up with boys watching to prove it.
Brass Arika's demure partner. While she would willing follow Arika anywhere and does anything the girl asks, she will question her partner if she's not comfortable with what they're doing. As such, Brass has become Arika's conscience, though Amazake doesn't always listen to her.
Brass is a normal beetle type medal and uses a Sailor-Multi body. While the appearance is more of a schoolgirl, the design isn't very different from Metabee's base form with two wrist cannons.
The Screws A gang, using that term rather loosely, of three kids who caused trouble to attract attention as they were unlikely to receive any notice by any other means.
Samantha She was the leader of the Screws and very much the tomboy. She could easily make her cohorts do what she wanted. If there's something she wants, she's selfish enough to stab her friends in the back to get it. While she would work for the 'bad guy' if it's to her advantage, she would take off as soon as she gets what she wanted or the person she's working for goes too far in hurting someone.
Samantha's robattling style is to go for power, but all too often she defeats herself by equipping her medabot, Pepper Cat, with more power than she can properly handle.
Pepper Cat Samantha's partner in crime, though she wished her attempts to give words of caution was heeded. Pepper Cat is a normal queen medal, and with her humanoid feline body has the advantage of speed with an electric shock from her hand as her primary attack.
Sloan Samantha's right hand man. If there's anything she needs done right, she usually goes to him. He's not one to talk much, often letting his actions speak for him. He has a methodical and predictable manner that causes him to lose battles against opponents that know how he fights. During the series, he operated a Totalizer, a tank medabot designed for offensive firepower.
Spike The third member of the Screws and functional 'yes man.' Hardly the brightest bulb of the bunch, more like burnt out. He thrives on being a member of the Screws because they're the only ones to accept him. He has a dismal robattle record in part because while he favors shooting dog type bodies, the medabot medal he uses is that of a monkey which are better suited for wrestling. Spike's major redeeming trait is that he'll do anything for a friend, even something that commonsense would say to never do.
Medabot Corporation The primary company behind creating the modern day Medabots. Run by Dr. Aki, they produce over ninety percent of all Medabots on the market.
Dr. Aki He was instrumental in reverse engineering the Ancient Medabots and creating the modern day version. And it was his idea to create medabots for children and allow them battle their special robots against each other.
Dr. Aki is rather frugal when it comes to his own money and would rather have someone else pay the bill if he can.
There is a lot Dr. Aki knows about medabots that he's not telling others, and some of that knowledge may be why he decided to place powerful and lethally armed robots in the control of children.
Karin (Karen) Dr. Aki's sugary sweet neice. If an angel ever did fall from heaven, it's her. She used to hold the title of 'Legendary Undefeated Medafighter' because no one could bring themselves to fight her, though she has lost robattles under another identity. Her partner is Nutra-Nurse, a healer medabot with no real attacks, but can generate a powerful energy shield.
Karin's favorite hobby is cleaning. She's also extremely naive, both in believing in the best of everyone and in being clueless about the attraction she holds over boys. At least she acts naive like that.
Henry He used to be Dr. Aki's protege, but when Ikki met Henry, he worked at a convenience store that also sold Medabots.
There is ample evidence to support that Henry moonlights as: Phantom Renegade, a.k.a. Space Medafighter X, a.k.a. Hikaru Agata
Phantom Renegade was a thief of rare medals, though he was working for Dr. Aki in procuring these medals to keep them out of the wrong hands.
Space Medafighter X was the number one Japanese medafighter with his new model KBT Arc Beetle during Ikki's first year of robattling. Arc Beetle not only had the medaforce power that came with his rare medal, but also had an enormous energy attack known as the Prominence. While extremely skilled in tactics, he also had an overly developed flare of dramatics.
Hikaru Agata, a champion medafighter who fought his way up the ranks using a KBT Medabot known as Metabee. While that Metabee had the same body and medal type as Ikki's they are not the same. To put an end to the 'Ten Days of Darkness,' Hikaru Agata destroyed his partner's rare medal.
Dr. Hushi It was from the Dr. Hushi's work prior to his sudden disappearance that Dr. Aki was able to re-introduce medabots to the modern day.
Rokusho Dr. Hushi's medabot who wandered aimlessly for years trying to find his missing master only to learn that the doctor was now traveling with the alien race known as the Medalorians.
Rokusho is perhaps the first modern day medabot having been made by Dr. Hushi prior to Dr. Aki's success at mass-producing medals. He can be found with Baton, a mechanical parrot that appears sentient and yet doesn't have a medal.
Ms. Nae An ex-employee of the Medabot Corporation. She used to design the new models, but quit when she felt she had lost touch with the reason of why she had loved Medabots. Her future goal is to set up her own Medabot production company.
When Ikki first met her, she operated a medaparts and medabot repair store out of her van and greatly aided Ikki and Metabee against the kilobots by making custom to upgrade Metabee's fighting ability.
Ms. Caviar Another ex-employee of Medabot Corporation who had working in testing the capabilities of new medabots. She was last seen at the end of Ikki's first World Robattle Championships running off with the man she had fallen in love with.
The Rubber Robos A gang of thieves with the ultimate goal of taking over the world, and doing so by stealing medals in hopes of getting the elusive rare medals. They were last seen at the end of Ikki's first World Robattle Championships.
Dr. Meta-Evil The ultimate boss behind the Rubber Robos, guiding their activities to accomplish his grand goals.
Dr. Meta-Evil so embraced medabots as being a superior race over humanity, he turned himself in medabot. He sought to bring back the 'Ten Days of Darkness' using rare medals acting in resonance to awaken the dormant memories of their ancient past. While Meta-Evil succeeded in waking those memories, the modern day medabots reacted with abhorrent shock at what they had done to the world and sided with working with humans and against Meta-Evil's plans for a new world order.
Seaslug; real name: Seymour Slugbottoms; alias: Mr. Tunahead The figurehead leader of the Rubber Robos. He has many grand ambitions, but often lacks the skills required to achieve them. Part of his problem is that he lacks the self-confidence needed to go after his goals. His only major successes were Ms. Caviar's refusal to give up on her love for him and the rest were given to him by Dr. Meta-Evil.
Shrimplips; real name: Shrimpy Lipowitz The diminutive and childlike member of the Rubber Robos and the brains behind Seaslug. An extremely skilled medafighter capable of operating three Medabots at the same time.
Gillgirl A shapely woman in rubber. She is full of attitude, but lacks in having any skills of note. At times she acts as Seaslug's second in command.
Squidguts; real name: Guido Guttalucci The token idiot of the Rubber Robos, though it's rarely his fault if their plans go wrong. He can be very intimidating being both tall and overweight. And while not the best medafighter around, he does have some talent in robattling.
Other Cast Members of Note:
Kouji A snobbish rich boy who was Ikki's rival during Tenryo's first year of robattle competitions. Though the rivalry didn't end with medabot battles, but for the interest of Dr. Aki's niece, Karin, as well. Kouji developed a grudging friendship and respect for Tenryo over time.
Sumilidon Kouji's partner in robattles. Always willing to put everything he has to prove himself to Kouji. Despite having a normal cloned medal, Sumilidon proved his determination by learning how to harness the medaforce. Though there is a chance that ability is from being a First Medal. He's a golden fighter specialized in sword attacks using blinding speed.
Kam Son of the man behind the company that made kilobots. He was determined to prove his worth to his father by making the kilobots as strong and profitable that he could. And he went to any length to do it, even going as far destroying innocent medabot medals and attempted to murder Metabee.
Black Beetle A kilobot programed with a soul of a medabot. She served Kam fatefully despite that he cared nothing for her.
Ginkai Kam's main lackey when the kilobot battles began. Ginkai is a skilled medafighter but has trouble relating to others and ended up burying his medabot's medal after a nasty arguement. From Ikki, he learned the value of friendship and has reawakened his partner and fought against Kam's ruthlessness as a true Medafighter would, with honor.
Zuru a.k.a. Mysterious Medafighter Zuru joined Ikki's class in the fourth grade where he raged a private war against the kilobots with his KWG beetle, close-combat, medabot Roks. He so dispised the kilobots not because they were overpowered, but because he believed they stole his father. A man who once loved medabots, but lost sight of that wanting to prove winning meant everything to children.
Roks His existence began and ended with the fights against the kilobots. As such the only thing he knew outside of battle was his friendship with his medafighter.
Series Notes:
The dub of Medabots is not consistent in their treatment of characters.
There is no evidence beyond Nelvana's word that Medabots occurs in the distant future. In fact, with the exception of the reverse-engineered Medabots, technology is about at the same level as modern day Earth. Actually, Arika's digital camera is out-of-date by our standards. While I won't be referencing specific dates, I will be treating the series by the perspective of being modern day Japan.
Dub names will be used for this series as very little information on the original Japanese version Medabots can be found in America.
Considering Ikki's childhood friend's name has not been spelled the same on official products, so I'll be using the Japanese name for Arika rather than Erika/Erica.
