Maris' POV

Me and the others were going out. We invited Goldie along, since he's been pretty much rejected by Freddy. We weren't going anywhere in particular, just wandering. We started the night by getting something to eat. We then went to the local fair, it was a lot of fun. We eventually got bored and went back to our own dorms. I started playing on the computer when Goldie sent me a message saying 'Do you like RTS games?'. I replied by saying 'I'm the RTS champion in this building'. I know what your going to say, but I've got a lot of spare time and just got pulled into gaming, specifically RTS games. His next message said 'Okay, I challenge you'. 'Your on'. A few hours later, I won. 'Good game' he messaged me. 'Thanks, you too' I replied.

The next day

Nobody had any lessons today, except TC who was taking cooking classes all day. So we told the others about last night.

"A few hours! Mari, what happened? We've seen you beat other players in less than thirty minutes" Mangle said, shocked.

"I know, but it seemed that he was mimicking my strategy" I said.

"I was" Goldie said.

"But how, I've seen players try to mimic Maris' strategy, and failed" Bon said.

"Because they didn't scout you out first, they just built up their forces first, that's not how your strategy works" Goldie said, looking at me.

"Well then I might just have to work my strategy around that vital intelligence you just gave me" I said, smiling.

"Damnit" Goldie muttered.

We were talking and laughing and just having a good time. We went back to my dorm and continued. Shadow vanished again, probably to be with Shade. It was great. I might just survive my first year. We decided to go out into the town, me, Mangle and Shadow went of to do some shopping, while Fredrick, Bon and Goldie went to the arcade.

"Do you think that this'll work for our project?" I asked the other two.

"Not really, I mean black and white is the standard chess colours" Mangle replied.

"So… red and blue?" I asked.

"Yeah… or we could do something different" Shadow suggested.

"Like what?" Mangle asked.

"So both teams are white… but they have banners with emblems on" Shadow said.

"Hmmmmm… I like that idea" I said.

"We'll need to go to the textiles store" Mangle said.

"Or we could make the banners out of wood" Shadow suggested.

"Just let me buy some red, blue, gold and silver paint" I said.

"Why the silver and gold?" Mangle asked.

"For the emblems" I said.

"Makes sense" Mangle said.

I purchased the paints and we left the store deciding what to do next. We decide to get something for lunch. We decided to go to Subway for lunch. We weren't doing much of anything so we decided to go find the boys. We found them, but not in the arcade. They looked like they'd been running.

"What happened… have you been running?" I asked them.

"Freddy… chasing us…" Fredrick managed to say between breaths.

"Why was Freddy chasing?" Shadow asked.

"Because of… me" Goldie said.

"Why because of you?" Mangle asked.

"Because... because I punched him in the face… after he punched me in the stomach" Holdie said.

"GOLDIE… I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU APART!" Yelled Freddy from somewhere else, close by.

"Come on we better get going" I said to everyone.

"Agreed" Everyone said.

We started to make our way back to our dormitory when we heard…

"FOUND YOU!" We heard Freddy yell.

We turned around to see Freddy, his eyes filled with rage, and the other three.

"What is your problem, Freddy?" I said.

"GOLDIE PUNCHED ME IN THE FACE!" He replied.

"After you punched him in the stomach!" I said.

"MOVE OUT OF THE WAY, SO I CAN FINISH WHAT HE STARTED" Freddy said to me, looking at Goldie.

"No" I said.

"MOVE… OR SUFFER"

"So your warning me now… since when do you warn anyone?"

I made some hand gestures telling the others to leave.

"So your friends are abandoning you? I guess they were never truly your friends" Freddy said.

"No, we're leaving" I said to him.

Foxy was going to chase us but for some reason Freddy stopped him. We went back to our dorms and started preparing for tomorrow.

Wednesday, early morning

|Beep Beep Beep Beep| Wednesday. Three, Two, One |Bang Bang Bang| right on time. I went to the door and told Mangle we'll be down in about an hour. Shadow had a shower while I made us breakfast, then we switched. Then we left. We met Mangle at the same café we found her at on Monday.

"Let's hope none of your tools go missing" I said to Mangle.

"Yeah, hope they don't vanish either" Mangle said.

We went into the classroom, and got our project out.

"Alright… let's get started"

Me, Shadow and Fredrick set to work on designing the pieces, Bon worked on the sensors, so that the pieces could detect a square, another piece or when to go around a piece, and Mangle and TC worked on getting the bases movement working. About an hour into the lesson, our materials, not our tools, were going missing. Great, because we could make do with the schools tools, yes I said we're supposed to have our, but the school can lead us some if say the blade on the saw breaks, or they go missing, but we can't do anything without our materials. But it wasn't things like wood or fabric, it was screws and motors, that were vanishing. I think I know who was taking them. You see Freddy and his gang were building remote controlled drones, large drones with wheels that could climb stairs, and would need large, powerful motors, not the small, weak motors we had. However, losing too many motors would severely hinder our progress. And Freddy knew this. Foxy, being the fastest and quietest of all of them, would be more than capable of stealing the motors from us, without any of us knowing. It was going to be a painful four hours. The problem is, is that after two hours we have a half hour break, and we can't stay inside. So one of two things could happen, one, they sneak back in and break our project in a way that it looks like an accident, two, they sneak back in and steal all of our materials. Oh yes, this will be very painful. Not literally painful. So the next hour passed bits and pieces vanished and then we were told to go have a quick break.

"Why is my brother such a prick?" Mangle asked rhetorically.

"Yes, I just hope nothing happens to our project" I said.

"Why do you think anything would happen to our project?" Bon asked.

"One word… Freddy" I said.

"Ah yes… now I can see you concern" Bon said.

Goldie came over to us.

"Hey Goldie, what's up" Shadow asked.

"My brother… he was just being a prick, whispering to the others" Goldie said.

"What about?" I asked.

"I couldn't hear much, but I could make out bits and pieces… he said something about 'a project' and 'sneaking in', that's about as much as I could make out" Goldie said.

"We'll probably know soon enough" I sighed.

When our break was up, we went back to our classroom and I was right… our project was trashed. Mr. Trap walked back in the room.

"What the… what happened here?" Mr. Trap demanded.

"We don't know" Fredrick replied.

The board was snapped into several pieces, the bases for the pieces were smashed and the blueprints were all torn up. Our tools were also all broken… AGAIN. I did notice something though, there was a small tuft of red fur, and there is only one person in the class that has red fur.

Everyone went back to work and I handed the tuft of fur to Mr. Trap.

"Sir… perhaps this could tell us who did it" I said handing him the fur.

"Hmmmm… FOXY, could you come with me for a second" I returned to my table and helped the others clear up the mess.

"What did you tell him?" Mangle asked.

"Hold on… Three, Two, One…" I said.

"YOU THINK IT'S OKAY TO DESTROY ANOTHER GROUPS PROJECT?" Pretty much the entire room heard Mr. Trap yell at Foxy.

"…" (Foxy)

"FOR SOMEONE AS STUPIDLY BRAVE AS YOU… I FIND THAT TO BE A PRETTY POOR EXCUSE" Yelled Mr. Trap.

Mr. Trap is one of those people who doesn't shout often… but when he shouts, he shouts so loud that you can hear him over the sound of the machinery.

"…"

"I'LL BE SEEING YOU LATER!" Mr. Trap yelled.

Foxy came back in on the verge of tears, followed quickly by Mr. Trap. I've never seen Foxy like that before… it was pretty amusing. We spent most of the two hours cleaning and trying to come up with a new project that we could do in lesson. Me and Mangle asked Mr. Trap if we could do our original project in our own time and he said yes, and he also said he'd grade it. So yeah all in all, to some extent it worked out in our favour. We went back to my dorm and started discussing what we could do for our project as we only had Monday and Wednesday to complete the project.

"So what could we do?" Shadow asked.

"We could do a variety of 'Gladiator Robot'" TC said.

"That's a good idea" Bon said.

"Well I do have a small 3D printer my parents sent me for my birthday" Fredrick said

"I could print the casings for said robots" Fredrick added.

"Well if that's what we agree on" I said.

"What will we need?" Mangle asked.

"Well we'll need wires, metal, screws, circuit boards, antennae and controllers" I said.

"Oh and motors, the strong kind, pistons and I think that's about it" I added.

"That's one expensive shopping list" Mangle said.

"It is, but if everyone, except Fredrick, puts some money towards it we should easily get it all" I said.

"Why doesn't Fredrick have to put any money towards it all?" Bon asked.

"Because Fredrick is 3D printing the casings for them" I said.

"Good point" Bon replied.

"Now this what I'm thinking, we split up into smaller teams and make differently designed robots" I said.

"Who's with who" Shadow said.

"Me and Mangle, You and Bon, and Fredrick and TC, any complaints?" I said.

"Nope, all good" TC said.

So we all went into town and bought everything we needed. Me, Fredrick and Shadow drew multiple blueprints and then decided which ones we liked best. The blueprint I liked the best was this Samurai styled one with a sword and shield. The blueprint Fredrick chose was this one with an alternative form that had a battering ram. The one Shadow chose was the one styled after a medieval knight with a pole axe. Once we had worked out how they would all work and the measurements we were ready to work on them on Monday. But in the meantime I had other lessons in the way, such as Computer Science and Mechanics. Everyone, except myself and Shadow, left to go to bed as it was getting late. Me and Shadow stayed up to about midnight, just talking about random things.