"Not so fast Remi!" a voice called out in the silence and the battle stopped as the teenagers and Spike turned to see a young girl standing in the doorway.
"Picking fights with kids again Remi? Of for shame! Why don't you pick on someone our own age for once!" the girl said and Spike gulped in confusion.
"Get out of here Lettie, this doesn't concern you!" the teenage boy, who was now known to Spike as Remi, said and the girl laughed loudly before lifting her arm to reveal a Medawatch.
"Transport Demodogg!" she called into the mouth piece and pressed the button on the bottom of the watch and in a beam of light the body of a Medabot appeared.
Spike watched a Remi gulped slightly and he raised a brow before looking back to the new Medabot. It was , like Dagger, a Medabot he had never seen before. In part he resembled Cyandog, but it was black, red, and silver. It also was built differently, but it was plainly a newer dog-type Medabot.
"Remember me?" the Medabot spoke up and a female voice and Dagger made a gulping sound and looked to Remi for a cue, but Remi narrowed his eyes and said "Don't you dare take your foot off that Medabot, we're going to end this. And then, we're going to end you!" Remi said as he turned to look at the girl Lettie who rolled her eyes and smirked.
"In your dreams. Demo, Fire laser cannons and then use your rush attack! Free that Medabot!" Lettie said and Demodogg said "Right!" before she lifted her arms to reveal dual laser cannons on the right, and a single beam cannon on the left.
"Whoa, that Medabot is packing some serious heat!" Spike admitted as he watched Demodogg make mincemeat out of Dagger in a matter of moments.
As soon as the fight had begun between Demodogg and Dagger, it was over and soon the tinkling of an ejected medal filtered through the air and the battle had ended with Dagger lying in a smoking heap on the floor.
"No way! That's-that's impossible!" Remi called out his face willed with shock and anger, and Spike looked over to where the Lettie girl was standing to see her smirking ever so slightly.
"I said for you to pick on someone your own age, I never said you'd win against them. You never learn Remi, just because you have the biggest contender doesn't mean you're going to win." Lettie explained and she walked further into the room, past the small gang of gawking teenagers, and knelt down beside Cyandog and helped him up.
"Take it easy little guy, you're pretty banged up." She said as Cyandog grunted in pain as he stood up.
"Cyandog! You're ok!" Spike shouted and was instantly at his Medabot's side hugging him tightly.
"That was unbelievable! You risked your life to save mine, oh Cyandog you're my best friend ever!" Spike said with tears in his eyes as he squeezed Cyandog so tight Cyandog grunted as his metal was crushed gently.
"You should be more careful of your Medabot kid, if he is your friend then you could at least do him the favor of learning how to command and fight him properly in a Robattle." Lettie said and even though her voice was stern her calm expression told Spike she wasn't in the least mad and he nodded in response not knowing what else to say.
"Good, now come on. You appear to be a bit lost if you wandered into this dump heap of a place; even if it was to get out of the storm." Lettie said and Spike nodded once more and stood up.
"You can't just leave! You may have beaten me but there are others here who will Robattle you Lettie!" Remi barked angrily as Lettie and Spike walked toward the door, and Lettie turned and glared at Remi before replying.
"Oh yeah? And guess what, they'll lose just as quickly as you did. None of you know the first thing about fighting real Robattles which makes you weak and stupid. All brawn and no brains as they say, so go ahead keep talking, all of it is empty promises and lies."
At that she said no more and walked out of the abandoned railway station with Spike following close behind.
"You're pretty tough, I mean for a girl." Spike said and he instantly regretted adding in the last part and prepared for Lettie to turn around and whomp him one in the jaw, but Lettie only chuckled and kept walking.
"When you deal with chumps like that enough you learn to grow a thicker hide and more wit." She said and Spike sighed. If only he could feel the same way, however no matter what he did he just couldn't toughen up enough to be like Lettie. Time for a change of subject.
Looking back Spike saw Demodogg helping Cyandog to walk with an arm around his shoulder and Spike asked "So that's a pretty powerful Medabot you've got, can I ask where you got it?"
Lettie turned her head only enough to glance back at Demodogg and then turned it back ahead before saying "I didn't get her anywhere, if anything Demo found me."
"Oh?" Spike asked tilting his head, hoping for an explanation and Lettie smirked before indulging his obvious wish.
"When I was a little kid my dad was a pretty tough guy, in a way you could say he kind of helped shape who I am today, but he was also kind of a jerk. One day I left home after he and I had a fight and when I was alone a few rogue Medafighters, if you could even call them that, came up to me and started picking on me for not having a Medabot. One of them was about to hit me and Demo jumped in and protected me."
"Whoa, so you mean she just came out of nowhere?" Spike asked and Lettie nodded.
"Pretty much. She was a lost stray Medabot and when she saw I was in danger she came to protect me, and that's how we became friends. Demo isn't my Medabot though, I don't own her. She's free to leave anytime she wants, but she sticks around anyway." Lettie said before she stopped and turned around to look at Demodogg and Cyandog.
"What's your address kid?" she asked as she turned and looked at Spike and Spike replied saying "forty-two-seventy-six Amber Street, and my name is Spike, not 'kid'."
He thought it was clever but Lettie's raised brow made his pride shrink and he gulped with a smirk sheepishly.
"Alright Spike, then we should get you home, and fast. I think your Cyandog needs some serious repairs." Lettie said and Spike looked down at Cyandog to see she was indeed right. The poor dog-type bot was a mess. His paint was scuffed, his chest dented, and his visor had cracked, but Cyandog still looked in fairly good shape after what he's been through.
"You're right, how far do you think we have to go?" Spike asked as he put his hand on Cyandog's head and Lettie looked at the street signs above them and replied "About ten more blocks before we're back in your nick of the woods."
The walk was not as difficult as it was before in the rain but it was pretty cold considering Spike's clothes were still pretty damp, but he showed his best form and tried not to shiver.
Finally he saw his house in the distance and let out a cry of joy.
"My house, I can see my house!"
Lettie smirked and nodded but didn't say anything as she kept walking in the direction they'd be going until they stopped in front of Spike's home.
"Well, here you are." She said and Spike looked as though he was ready to burst into tears like his house was some kind of heaven's beacon.
"You'd better get inside; it looks like it might rain again." Lettie explained as she looked to the sky seeing the swirling clouds threatening another storm and Spike nodded as he took Cyandog from Demodogg care.