Smoke: Great now because of Sapphire my medal feels funny
Striker: Are you sure it's funny or something else
Smoke: what do you mean
Neo: He means love
Smoke: I loathe the word
Neo: Sure you do
Smoke: The only thing I "love" is robattling
Striker: Nothing else
Smoke: Nothing else
Neo: You are crazy

I walked into the dining area and saw Marc waiting for me, "Hey, where is Dessy?" When I asked him the question he tensed up and kept eyeing behind me. I look at Striker who is turned around and Neo who did the same. I started to turn around but Static shot the floor near my foot causing me to focus on him. "Striker, please control Static." Striker leapt at Static and tackled him to the ground. I turned around and saw that some guy was making moves on Dessy not to mention his medabot was also flirting with Sapphire. The medabot was a NIN model. "That's Nin-Ninja. He's a ninja type medabot, I never really liked him." I looked at Smoke and smirked, "Smoke, you know what to do." Smoke nodded at me then ran and tackled the medabot to the ground, "I do believe you should watch your tongue when talking." Smoke bragged as the medabot fell to the ground. I ran over to them but the medabot dropped a smoke bomb and vanished. "Hey, where'd he go?" Smoke turned to the right and gets cut with a ninja sword multiple times in his arms and legs, "Warning! Right arm 70% damage. Left arm 70% damage. Legs 60% damage, weapon systems offline!" I began to panic and my heart began to race. Smoke looked at his arms and began to run with me following him. Dessy and Sapphire followed us outside and Smoke was beginning to panic as well, "WHERE IS HE?!" All of a sudden, his head jerked up and he went flying back, "Warning! Head at 80% damage, vision sensors offline!" Smoke's eyes shut off and he kept looking around. I looked to my right and saw that medabot watching Smoke panic and beginning to laugh. I had to act fast, so I called in for backup, "Neo and Striker quickly get here and help out Smoke!" The medabots ran at Smoke and brought out his sword and leapt at him only to be intercepted by Striker. I took a sigh of relief and watched as Striker held his own against this new medabot. Neo went to check on Smoke who he said was unusually warmed than normal, "Warning, all systems 99% damage and reaching critical output! Danger! Danger!" Before I could say anything, Smoke's medal ejected and Neo quickly threw his tinpet away. I watched as Smoke's tinpet exploded. Striker turned around and saw Smoke's body lay there in pieces and became, "YOU DESTROYED SMOKE! NOW YOU WILL SHARE THE SAME FATE!" Striker ran at Nin-Ninja and slashed him causing him to fall back. Neo grabbed Smoke's medal and threw it at me then use his claws and raked his opponent until his medal ejected. I picked up Smoke's medal and was filled with anger, "Striker…destroy the medal." Striker looked at the downed medabot then walked slowly to the medal. Dessy pleaded to me but I ignored her and watched as Striker stepped on the medal crushing it instantly.

I then called Striker and Neo to me and walked off towards the Medabot Corporation. "We need to get a body for Smoke pronto." Striker changed into action mode and Neo and I got on top of him. "Master?" I looked down at Striker, "Yes?" "Do you think it was right of me to destroy the medal?" I looked down and started to feel remorse for my actions, "At the moment, I just wanted revenge for what happened to Smoke." Striker stayed silent and I got a message on my phone, "I guess Smoke won't be able to robattle for the first bracket, that's a real shame. I guess my work was a job well done." Neo looked at my phone, "That she devil did this to him." I soon came to a terrifying realization, "I…I…I just k…killed and innocent medabot." We arrive to the lab and Neo looked at me, "What do you mean?" I looked at him and Striker and nearly came to tears, "That was a male medabot sent to take down Smoke. I got the message from Empress telling me that her job was complete. That medabot was one of hers and she sent it to die trying to destroy Smoke." They were both shocked at the story, "I will never ask any of you to destroy any medals, understand?" Both medabots nodded and we entered the lab and went straight to Dr. Aki, "Oh there you are. Where's Smoke?" I showed Dr. Aki the medal and gave him the story, "I see. I will make a new tinpet model for him." Before we left, I turned back around and called to the scientist, "Dr. Aki! Do you think you could make a medal for medabot model NIN-14914?" He brought his and to his chin and began to this for a second, "I'll see what I can do." I smiled and left the lab. "Man, ever since the tournament started, I've been on edge. I really need a milkshake." Striker transformed into action mode and I got on Neo insisted on staying behind with Dr. Aki. Striker drove me down to the parlor and tried to cheer me up, "Well, look on the bright side Master, at least we know Smoke is going to be ok. I trust the doctor because I was the same way." I looked down at Striker, "Wait, what do you mean you were the same way?" Striker started slowing down, "When the doctor found me, I was just a beat up, broken down and completely rusted medabot in the junkyard. He took me in, fixed me up, cleaned me and helped me get back on track. Then he told he had someone for me that I was going to like. That's when you showed up." I smiled again and remembered the day I met Striker. We had arrived at the parlor and went in. For once I was happy not to see a bunch of girls staring me down. "What's up, Geoff?" We fist bumped and he began to make my usual milkshake, "Congrats on making it to the tournament!" I smirked and shrugged it off like it was nothing. "Well, I needed this. Trust me I've been on edge ever since the tournament." Geoff and I were able to share a laugh and chat a little more before I got up and left.

When I walked outside and saw someone with a CAR type medabot, I instantly knew, Striker was next, "STRIKER, RUN!" Striker took off and began zig-zagging down the street so Landmotor couldn't get a lock on him. Landmotor changed into action mode and began to follow Striker, "Striker look out!" Before Striker could even react, Landmotor crashed into him and made him roll on the ground. "Warning! Legs 50% damage." I had to act fast or Striker might end up like Smoke or worse, Nin-Ninja. "Striker, get to high ground!" Striker quickly got up and leapt onto a building. Landmotor looked at and locked onto Striker and began shooting missiles at him. Striker dodge the first couple blasts then jumped down at his opponent only to get shot with some more missiles, "Warning! Head 20% damage. Right arm 40% damage. Left arm 30% damage. Legs 60% damage." I had to think of a plan and fast. It came to me, "Striker, those CAR type model always got easily disoriented with bright lights! Go up as high as you can and come down on him with the hammer fist!" Striker leapt up into the air and got into the view with the sun. Landmotor looked up and lost target on Striker but locked on him too late as Striker pounded him as hard as he could with his hammer fist. Landmotor stumbled back and I looked at his medafighter. "Will you leave us alone now?" The medafighter looked at his medabot and smirked, "Landmotor, plan B." Landmotor grabbed Striker in a tight hug and aimed at the ground as Striker struggled to get this medabot off him. "I can't get him off!" I looked down and closed my eyes as tears streamed out, "Striker, I'm so sorry I couldn't help you." "Master, don't cry. I promise it will be ok." I looked up at Striker and wiped my tears away. "They can't split up a good team like you, me, Neo and Smoke." He gave me one last thumbs up before Landmotor self-destructed causing him to fly back, "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Striker's medal ejected and I grabbed it quickly then got his body and ran to Dr. Aki. These attacks aren't just accidents, Empress feels threatened by me and my medabots because of what we are capable of. I showed up to the lab and ran to Dr. Aki, "We were ambushed by someone Empress sent." Dr. Aki looked at me the then Striker and asked me to set him down on the desk next to him and come back in 3 days for both Smoke and Striker. I nodded and got Neo to come with me. We ran back to the hotel only to find out Empress won and my match was tomorrow with a kid named Walter Goodman. We ran to the dining area to look for Marc and Dessy. I spotted them at one table and walked over. Dessy was the first to look at me, "There you are, I've been looking for you all day. Uhh, I know where Smoke is, but where is Striker?" I looked down and shook my head, "Let's just sit down and order dinner." I sat down and looked at the menu but couldn't take my mind off tomorrows match. This is not a good time for things to go wrong.

Neo: Smoke and Striker were targeted
Sapphire: That's terrible who would want to harm my Smoke
Neo: Who wouldn't they're a threat to the tournament so everyone would want them taken down
Crystal: I hope they get better soon
Neo: Me too