The Winning Prioirty

Disclaimer: I do not own Medabots

Chapter 2:

Words: Fire,Beauty,Poster, First,Stairs

The red dot was quite far away and Metabee and Ikki were running on foot, they were completely wiped out before they even reached it.

"What do you think it could be?" asked Metabee.

Ikki squint his eyes as he looked into the horizon and caught his breath, "I have no idea," he finally managed to blurt out.

Metabee turned to look at Ikki, "What if it's a kilobot?" he asked.

Ikki shook his head, "He said Medabot, so it's gotta be a medabot!"

Metabee's eyes glowed, "Okay! Let's get going!".

The two picked up the pace and continued to chase the red dot again, the low and distant rumble could still be heard, and Ikki imagined how big the medabot really was. They were getting near Ikki's house and the red dot was beeping, and blinking, it was just off to the side of the road in front of his house. Ikki's mouth dropped when he saw it. It was almost as big as his house. It stood almost on two legs and looked like an abonimial snowman instead of being covered with snow it was covered with completely with fire. It looked like something had lit the medabot on fire and it was angry, with it's eyes glowing a firey red.

Ikki looked at his medawatch for information on the medabot. 'Ifrita, type: fire element , specialty: fire attack ' the medawatch buzzed.

"Metabee, you ready?" he asked as looked at his medabot starting at the giant sized medabot before them.

Metabee looked at Ikki and sternly nodded, "You got that right!" and with that Metabee raced towards the towering monster.

Erika felt so free, she was finally out of her skirt. Erika wore a long blue shirt which had a red design on it, and wore white pants that had a light blue tint. She went downstairs and pulled out her sneakers, they felt good on her feet and way better than her high heels, which had left her feet in blisters. Erika somehow felt a little lifted after her talk with Ikki. She felt better, even though her heart still drowned at the fact that he didn't like her back as much as she liked him. But still she continued to ignore this and hoped that Ikki would always be her friend, if they couldn't be anything more.

Erika pulled open the door and walked out, she felt much better and this time she could breathe in the clothes that she was wearing. She decided to go look for Ikki, his battle must of been done by now. It had been a couple of hours already. And the sun was softly losing its touch over the sky, letting it get darkened by the rest of space. As Erika strolled down the street she passed by Henry's store, she looked inside and saw Karin. Erika stopped in her tracks and decided to pay a visit to the store. She popped on it and the door ringer made a beeping noise as she entered.

Karin had beautiful long redish orange hair that she always tied into two ponytails with pink bands, her skin was fair like snow and her cheeks always glowed a soft rose like colour. She wore a pink coloured blouse that was just a little loose on her and she wore a lavender skirt that came up to her knees and on her feet were always the best designer shoes. Erika envied her beauty, grace and that the fact that Ikki totally crushed on her.

"Hi," said Erika with a smile.

"Oh, Hi Erika," Karin answered.

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh, nothing, I was just came here to talk," she said with no hesitation.

Erika raised her eyebrows, "Where's Henry?" she asked.

"He went in the back to get something," Karin replied.

Erika was quiet.

"So how's Ikki?" Karin asked.

Erika almost cringed, "He-"

"I heard he's part of some elite medabot group now," Karin said.

Erika was shocked she didn't know that, Ikki never mentioned it to her.

"Well, I just heard it earlier, today."

Erika tried to remember if Ikki told her anything about that. Erika came to a sigh, "No, I didn't anything like that."

"Well, maybe it's just a rumour, if anyone should know about Ikki, it would be you."

Erika's eyes suddenly lit up a little, as she was proud that other people saw how close Ikki and her were. "Yeah," she said with a grin.

Henry came out of the back door carrying a brown cardboard box, his brown hair falling into his eyes, he almost tumbled with that boxes in his hand but regained his balance. There was a rumour once about him being the famous Space Medafigther X, but obviously that couldn't have been him. "Hey Erika," he said a glowing smile. Erika waved at him.

Henry placed the box on the floor beside the store's large glass window and opened it. Erika followed him to see what lie in the box. When he ripped the cardboard box open, there were lots of posters in it. "I have to put these up," he admitted. Erika pulled one out, it was a huge poster with a blue medabot that was wearing a golden chain around its neck and the chain had a whistle on it, there was another medabot in the picture and he looked like if he was going to attack the blue medabot. A huge title smothered across the poster and said: ELITE MEDAFIGTHER LEAGUE and near the bottom of the page it said in bold letters: ARE YOU UP TO IT?

Erika though about what Karin told her, elite medafigther league. Erika looked at the poster again; maybe Ikki did just join it. She had to meet him, she knew it. Erika shoved the poster into Henry's hands and almost raced out of the store with a "Bye!"

As she raced down the street, Erika thought of where Ikki could be. She firstly raced to the park, she looked around but no sign of Ikki anywhere. She even tried all his favourite restaurants but she couldn't find him. Erika then strolled down the street for any sign of the boy, she crossed over the bridge that ran over the river and then decided to go check near his house. As Erika got closer to his house she saw a huge crowd gathered around, she moved her way through the rush and eventually reached the centre of the crowd and saw a huge medabot almost as tall as a building and he was fighting Metabee. Ikki was there yelling out directions. Erika gasped, she hadn't seen a medabot like this one before. Erika raced to Ikki's side. "Ikki!" she cried out. Ikki looked at her and did a small smile and his eyes drifted back to the battle. "Metabee! Quickly race dodge his attacks!" he yelled out. The huge monster like medabot shot huge fireballs out of his mouth, the crowd quickly dispersed and moved further back; they were completely far out back now. Metabee raced to dodge Iftrita's attack.

Ikki looked at his medewatch, Metabee was losing power. Ikki looked for suggestions a way to end this battle in his favour. He glanced around his neighbourhood and then saw his answer. "Metabee, listen! Get Iftrita to chase you!" he ordered.

"What?! First you tell me to dodge this guy and now you want him to chase me?!" Metebee blasted.

"Just trust me!" Ikki cried out.

Metabee nodded and yelled out to Ifrita, "Hey, come on you big dummy! What's the matter can't catch a bit sized medabot?!"

His taunts succeeded as Ifrita began chasing after Metabee, "Now what?!" Metabee yelled.

"You see that green jeep Metabee?" he asked.

Metabee quickly glanced around with Ifrita on his tail, and spotted a olive green car, " I see it," he responded.

"Good! Head towards it!" Ikki demanded.

Metabee took the advice and dashed towards the jeep, Ifrita was trailing behind Metabee with this large legs quickly catching up to him, Metabee jumped onto the tall car and then looked back at Ifrita chasing him, "Now what Ikki?" he asked hurriedly.

"Quickly Metabee from that car jump on the balcony to the right of the car and then go for the roof of that house!" Ikki yelled.

Metabee obeyed his orders. He saw the cement balcony of their neighbour's form the car jumped on the ledge of the balcony and almost slipped but quickly regained his balance and then carefully slid his feet to the side of the balcony that met the roof. Metabee reached for the top of the roof with his mechanical arms stretched as far as they could but he couldn't reach the edge of the roof. He had to jump; just a little to get that ledge, Metabee took a deep breath as he jumped and reached for the edge of the roof and just barely caught it. He pulled himself up and then completely climbed onto the roof of the house.

Metabee looked at Ifrita now, from the roof Metabee could see the medabot's head.

"Hey dummy, betcha you can't get up here!" Metabee taunted.

The medabot steamed with anger and took two giant steps back and leaped forward. Metabee got the best shot from here, while Ifrita was in the air, right above him, Metabee fired his seeker missiles. Metabee saw everything happening in slow motion, the missiles leaving the canon on his head and heading right for Ifrita. Just a few seconds before the seeker missiles would hit Ifrita right on target, it came to Metabee's mind that fire from Ifrita and fire from his missiles would result in a big explosion. The missiles were extremely close to the monster and Metabee took this chance to escape, "Run!" he shouted and the crowd panicked and ran and completely escaped, Metabee jumped down from the roof and also ran. Ikki grabbed Erika's hand and pulled her as he ran into his house for safety; he pulled the door open and pulled her in. He shut the door and pushed her against the wall.

There was a big explosion, the sound itself was devastating. But somehow it brought a smile to Ikki's face.

"We did it!" he cried with happiness.

He held onto Erika's arms with his hands, she shook her with happiness, Erika laughed.

"Did you see- That was- I can't believe-We beat him!" Ikki was filled with excitement and happiness.

Erika looked at Ikki and smiled, "Robattling always makes you this happy," she said.

Ikki looked at Erika, his hands were still grasped around her arms, and with a jolt he pulled her close to him and pressed his lips onto to hers.

Erika was shocked, she couldn't breathe, was Ikki just kissing her. No this had to be one of her dreams, she knew it. But it felt so real, she felt his heart thumping against her chest, his lips pressing hard against hers, his mouth trying to envelope her , his arms around her back. Erika couldn't believe it...this was...real.

Ikki stopped and slowly pulled his mouth away from hers and he looked at her. Erika was almost in tears of joy. Ikki glanced at Erika, her eyes watery; he wanted to smack himself in the face. How could he do this, he could've of offended her so badly.

"Er-" he started but stopped, he couldn't speak.

Ikki felt so dumb, how could he have just done what he had done. What ever respect she had for him was now probably gone.

"Erika-I'm so-" Ikki began again, his voice filled the silence between them.

Metabee rushed into the house, he was just as glad as Ikki was a moment ago, "DID YOU SEE THAT?!" he yelled out loud.

Ikki gave him a small smile.

"We totally booked him!"

"Yeah..."

"Ifrita! Ha! It didn't stand a chance!"

"Yeah Metabee..."

"Did you see me, how I fired those seeker missiles!"

"You were great..."

"WOO!" Metabee hollered.

He looked at Ikki who didn't look as happy and then saw Erika; she was standing in an awkward position.

"Did I miss something?" Metabee asked confused.

"Me goofing up," Ikki whispered to himself.

There was a sudden silence in the room.

"I have to go home," Erika said breaking the silence.

Metabee looked at her and nodded, "Say hi to Brass for me."

"Metabee...we should drop her home," Ikki suggested.

Erika blushed, "Thanks," she said ever so softly.

The trio walked out of door, and down the porch stairs which led to his house, and then they walked on the sidewalk. Erika walked ahead of them as Ikki whispered the problem to Metabee.

Metabee tried not to laugh at Ikki, "You kissed a girl?" he said out loud laughing.

Ikki quickly put his hand over Metabee's mouth. "Shut up!" he hissed angrily as he looked at Erika and hoped she didn't hear anything. Ikki looked at the ground the whole way to Erika's house.

"Well, thanks," Erika said after they reached her house. Ikki tried to smile, but he knew what he had to say. Just as Erika was about to leave into her house, Ikki cried out, "Wait Erika!"

"Look..." he trailed off.

Erika looked at him, waiting for a response.

"I-I-I'm sorry..."he said.

Erika looked confused.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't of have kissed you like that, you probably didn't like it."

Erika looked at him with anger and then took her hand and slapped his head.

"Ow!" Ikki screamed as he rubbed his head and looked at her, "I probably deserved that."

Erika was blushing red, her expression showed anger, "Ikki! How could I be mad at you kissing me, when I was kissing you back!"

Metabee was shocked; maybe Ikki didn't goof up this time.

Ikki's expression when from showing pain to shock, he looked at her surprised.

Erika smiled at him.

Ikki smiled at her too.

"Well...I guess then tomorrow I can ask you on a date," he asked.

Erika moved up closer to Ikki, "You can ask me right now," she said blushing.

"Alright, then it's a date, tomorrow!" he said with a smile

Erika smiled at him and then moved closer to him and pecked him on the check and with that she ran off into her house. Ikki was blushing. Metabee looked at him, "Since when does Ikki become popular with girls?" he asked out loud.

Ikki placed his hands behind his head in a lay position, "Metabee all the girls dig me!" he exclaimed.

Metabee burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" Ikki posed.

"Ikki please, you can never get a girl," Metabee said.

"I just got one, didn't I?" Ikki said rhetorically.

Metabee shook his head.

Ikki and Metabee walked down the street watching the sun set, Ikki felt as this was the best day of his life. He got the girl of his dreams and he was in the Elite Medafighter League, what more could he ask for. Ikki looked at Metabee, his yellow medabot, although he was a bit cocky and annoying he was his best friend. A smirk grew on his face as he looked at Metabee and said, "Race ya home!"

Erika walked into her room and collapsed on her bed. She thought about the day and pinched herself, this wasn't a dream. Brass entered Erika's room and saw her laying on her bed, Brass came up to her friend.

"Miss Erika how was your day?" she asked.

A big smile grew on Erika's face, "It was the best."

Brass looked at her in confusion, in the morning she was all teary and sad and all of a sudden, a brimming smile was on her face and it was glowing with happiness.

Erika sat on the edge of her bed, her feet on the floor and looking straight at Brass, "Couldn't ask for anything more," she said.

A loud ringing noise filled the room, it woke Erika from her deep sleep, she somehow managed to feel for the cell phone on her side dresser. Erika felt the cold metal of the cell phone and pulled it up to her ear.

"Hello?" she asked almost half asleep.

"Hey, Erika," The voice on the other end said.

Erika realized it was Ikki; she immediately felt more awake and quickly bolted an answer, "Ikki!"

Ikki laughed on the other end, "That's me."

Erika was blushing and she was glad Ikki couldn't see her face.

"So...today you wanna get together..."

"You mean for our date?" Erika asked in a taunting manner.

"Yeah, so I was hoping we could meet at Henry's store and go somewhere from there."

"Henry's store?" Erika repeated softly, for some strange reason she didn't find it a good place for them to meet up.

"Is there a problem?" Ikki asked concerned.

"Uhh...no...Well...Henry's store...I-"Erika didn't know why she herself didn't want to go there; maybe it was because they might run into Karin and she didn't want Ikki to see Karin. Even though they were together now, still the thought of Ikki suddenly running after Karin seemed to scare her.

"Alright, how about..." Ikki trailed off into thought.

"How about the park?" Erika suggested.

"Okay, that's great," Ikki responded, "See you at 2 then."

Erika smiled at the end of the phone, "See you there."

With that she put down her phone. Erika sat for a while, she didn't move, she did almost nothing. After the thought of them dating finally sunk in, she got up and ran to get ready. Erika took that longest shower she combed her hair completely straight and dare didn't tie it up. She rushed to her closet to see what she should wear. Erika couldn't decide what to wear, she pulled almost every piece of clothing she had from her closet, and it was now lying on the floor. She had to wear something special she knew it.

"Brass!" she called out.

Brass immediately appeared in her doorway, "Yes, Miss Erika?"

"Help me!" Erika cried out in desperation.

Brass giggled at her silly friend.

"I can't decide what to wear," Erika groaned.

Brass came up to her closet and looked at the mess Erika had made, her clothes were everywhere. Brass looked around for a way to help her.

Erika looked at her, eyes gleaming for an answer from her.

"Hmm...I have the best outfit," Brass said.

Erika's eyes lit up, "What is it, please tell me..."

Brass paused, "I was saving it for your birthday, but I guess this is as special."

Erika's ruby amethyst eyes sparkled as she saw her medabot walk out of her room and then come back later with a purple dress in hand.

"Try it," Brass exclaimed.

"A dress?" Erika cried out, suddenly she didnt look so excited.

But Brass forced Erika to try it on. She pulled the dress on and looked at herself in the mirror. The dress was strapless, it was a deep purple colour, and it barely came up to her knees, it fit her nice and a shiny beaded broach was arranged in the middle of the chest area. Erika looked at herslef in the mirror, hmmm, who ever that girl she sure wasn't Erika for sure. But the dress made her look stunning.

"Brass, it looks so nice," she exclaimed, "But im going to the PARK!" she laughed.

Brass burst out laughing, "Oh dear, i guess that is a little too fancy then i guess."

"Thank you so much though Brass," Erika said as her hugged her medabot.

Erika looked back to the pile of clothes she had on the floor, she picked up a plain white tee, with a denim navy blue skirt. She hadn't worn a skirt in a while, maybe she could "wow" Ikki with smiled, as she watched her friend get ready. Erika pulled on her outfit and race downstairs, she put on her dark brown boots and practically ran out the door. The stroll to the park was great, and lifting the small breeze awoke her senses and gave her a refreshing feeling.

The park was filled with trees bearing green luminous leaves, and people walking their dogs or skating. Erika walked to a wooden park bench and sat down as she waited for Ikki to come. A couple of boys passed with black hair and she thought they were Ikki, but unfortunately they weren't. Erika pulled out her cell phone and checked the time; 2:45.

"Where is he?" Erika asked herself.

A couple of times she thought of calling, but she thought that would make her seem too desperate. He did say 2:00...maybe she heard wrong, she was half asleep anyway. She pulled herself up from the bench and paced around the park looking for him. Soon Erika got tired to looking around for him and then went back to the bench to wait for him. But still no sign of him, and it was 3:23. Erika decided she should call him; she pulled out her cell phone and dialled him. No one picked up. She tried a couple more times but still no answer. Erika began to worry, he was nowhere to be seen and he wasn't picking up his cell phone.

Erika got up and tried again after a couple of minutes while walking to his house. No answer. She reached his house and rang the bell. answered the door, she smiled when she saw Erika.

"Hi sweetie," she spoke.

"Hi , I was-" Erika started.

"Are you looking for Ikki, honey? He left home a long time ago," she said.

Erika looked shocked, "I didn't see him."

"Oh dear, did you try his cell phone," she asked.

"He's not picking up," Erika replied.

"Where is that boy?" said looking concerned.

"No, , he's probably at the park and I probably just missed him. I'm going to check the park again," Erika said, so she wouldn't worry his mom.

"Alright honey," replied.

Erika walked back to the park but still no sign of Ikki. Erika couldn't believe it, Ikki didn't show up. Couldn't he have called her? She ditched the park and began to walk into town towards Henry's store. Maybe he was there. It was practically 4:30 and she was beginging to feel devasted. Erika looked up at the sky, it was getting covered in dark grey clouds, and still no sign of Ikki. As Erika strolled down the street she couldn't help but see a huge crowd in the way, blocking her. Erika wondered what the commotion was about. She tried to squeeze past it and then suddenly she caught a glimpse of a tall boy, black hair in that same funny hairdo as Ikki's. She stopped in her tracks. The crowd then became to lessen as people began walking away, whatever the commotion was, it was over now. The middle of the crowd could now be seen, it was Ikki and Metabee they were jumping in happiness.

Erika's eyes filled with tears. Ikki was jumping with joy with Metabee and as he leaping in the air, he caught a glimpse of Erika and her expression did seem as happy as his. Ikki stopped jumping and looked straight at her, Erika tears fell down her cheek as she ran. She ran away from Ikki as fast as she could. Ikki immediately chased after her. Metabee was confused at first but then when he saw Erika running, he could make out what happened.

"He's a goof," Metabee mumbled under his breath and watched his friend clothed in a blue shirt and black pants race after the girl of his dreams.

"ERIKA!" Ikki yelled out.

But Erika wasn't stopping, she ran even faster, even though it was hard to run in her boots.

"Erika wait!"

The sky was darkening and the grey clouds were finally leaking the rain onto the world. The rain began to pour and the streets were completely wet in a few minutes as well as Erika. But she couldn't think about her hair, her new dress and her new shoes getting wet, all she thought of was Ikki, standing her up. Erika had been running as fast as she could to get away from Ikki and her legs were hurting and she couldn't run as fast. Ikki on the other hand was still dashing behind her, dying to catch up to her.

Ikki was awfully close to her now, "Erika! Please wait!"

Erika was crying, she couldn't help it. Ikki had stood her up, he had chosen robattling over meeting Erika at the park. She wasn't special to Ikki at all, and she was stupid for thinking such. Her whole body was drenched in water, water dripping from her head and from her beautiful lavender dress, the weight of the water was slowing her down. Ikki reached out his hand and caught her wrist and then pulled her to a stop, Erika tried to escape from his clutches but it didn't work. She pulled her wrist and tried her best to run away from him. But his grip was strong and held her in place.

"Erika..." he said softly and pulling her closer.

Erika resisted his every movement as she tried to get away from him. Ikki managed to pull her into his arms and held her close. Erika was crying out loud now and tried to escape from his arms, but they were firm and held her tightly. Her crying soon lessened and Ikki loosened his grip, he took his hand and slowly moved her brown wet hair away from her face. He stared at her face, it wet from her tears and the rain. Ikki peered into her eyes, but Erika looked down at the floor, she refused to look into his eyes.

"Erika-" Ikki began.

"No!" Erika yelled, "Ikki-you lied...you-! You made me wait, I waited almost two hours for you! You know how worried I was!"

"Eri-"

"But I go and see you and that your robattling! You couldn't have called me, told me your were alright, nothing, you didn't even think of me once!" Erika screamed.

Ikki felt his heart sink, "Erika..." he didn't know what to say, "I'm sorry," was all he could think of.

Erika cried, tears falling down her cheek and she buried herself in his chest. Ikki wrapped his arms around her. They stood here in silence and in the rain, as Erika continued to weep softly. Ikki realized he had goofed up and he had goofed up bad.

"I'm sorry Erika...can you forgive me," Ikki replied.

Erika diminished her crying and pulled her face up from his chest, she looked into his eyes, they were filled with sorrow and she knew he was sorry, his face and hair were all wet. The hair was stuck to his head and was heavy with all the water. Erika's brown hair also was draped in water, Ikki ran his fingers through Erika's hair, and held her close.

"I promise..." Ikki started, "I'll always..."

A soft breeze picked up and the rain began to slow down.

"Put you first."

Well thats Chapter 2 down!

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P.S. Sorry for my stupid mistakes

Sneak Peak into the next chapter:

'It was ghastly place, no one ever went there. The kids used to say it was haunted. Only a fool would enter such a place, but for Ikki it was place that would lead him to his future.'