Last time on Medabots and Hylians, Link and his team finally made it to Kakariko Village and managed to pool enough money for food and a hotel room to sleep in. Meanwhile, Rokusho revealed his past to Zelda and, for the first time in a long time, felt that he had a friend. What'll happen next? Find out now on "Medabots and Hylians- a New Generation of Heroes"
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Chapter 10- A Step in the Right Direction
The next morning, Jedediah woke up early and decided to go for a walk around town and leave the others to rest longer. However, when he got back a couple hours later, he found Malon missing. But that mystery was soon solved as he heard softly singing through the bathroom door. "So she sings," He mused to himself, "The girl's sure got quite a voice." He then found a spot of the wall to lean on as he crossed his arms and listened to Malon's serenade in silence. When she exited the steamy bathroom some five minutes later, her head still a little damp, she began quietly humming the same tune so as to not wake the others. "You've got quite a voice Malon." Jedediah piped up, which easily startled her. "Oh, it's only you Jedediah," Malon sighed, which luckily didn't wake up Link, Sheik, or the medabots, "Thank you." He then motioned her for outside the room to leave the others to sleep as she caught on and followed. "You're sure something special," The cowboy started when the door closed and they headed down to the lobby for breakfast, "Where'd you learn to sing like that?" "Well, I've been singing since I was young." Malon answered, blushing visibly, "My Mom was once a Music teacher for Hyrule High, and she taught me how to sing really well." Malon then looked down, "But, then she fell sick and died all of a sudden. The song you heard me sing was the one that my Mom and I spent more time on than any other song, so it's really special to me." "Oh, my condolences Malon," Jedediah sympathized as they entered the lobby and found a small table to share, "You're Mom sure sounds like she knew her stuff." The country girl cheered up a little and smiled back as they went and grabbed some breakfast. "But what about you?" Malon then started, wanting to begin a conversation, "You've heard things about all of us, now I want to hear something about you. What's your family like?" "Well let's see," He started, "I have two brothers and a sister, and I'm the oldest of the group. And from there, Gramps like to stay with us and take us hunting when he can. And my folks are quite a pair, but very loving to us all. And it was my Pa that taught me from a young age about respect, diligence, and responsibility." "Sounds a lot like my Dad," Malon giggled, "He taught me all those things when I was young, or tried to anyway."
At about 8:30, Link and the others woke up and found Jedediah and Malon in the lobby talking. "They would sure make quite a pair." Sheik nudged his friend. "Yeah, they seem fit for each other." Link added as he gazed at them. "Getting jealous now are we Link?" Metabee snickered, "First Zelda, and now Malon; just what is it with you and girls?" Link blushed slightly and gave his medabots a look as they walked up and met the duo. "Morning y'all," The Texan greeted, "How'd you sleep?" "I slept pretty good," Casey answered, "Thanks." "Same here," Sheik added, "The couch was alright." "I slept enough." Link uninterestingly added. "Something wrong Link?" Malon asked, seeing Link's slightly drooping eyelids. "No, I'm fine." He replied, "I just had a disturbing dream is all." "Well I'm sorry to hear that Partner," Jedediah piped up, "Malon and I already ate, so why don't y'all get a bite to eat before we hit the road?" Sheik readily jumped on the offer as he patted Link on the shoulder as a motion to follow, leaving Jedediah, Malon, and the medabots alone. "By the way," Malon started up, "Where did you go earlier this morning? I woke up and couldn't see you anywhere in the room." "Keeping watch on me are you?" Jedediah teased. "N-No," Malon stuttered, and blushed again, quickly trying to find an answer, "I was just wondering is all." "I'm only teasing," The Texan laughed, "I just went for a little walk is all." "You see Malon," Casey explained, "Me and Jedediah are used to getting up really early in the morning, but I guess I slacked off on the schedule this time." "It's alright Casey," Jedediah chuckled, "We all deserve a little break every once in a while." "By the way Casey," Metabee asked, "What do you do on the ranch? I mean, a steam locomotive doesn't seem to make sense." "Well what I found I can do best," Casey responded, "Is herding." "Herding?" Malon repeated, "How?" "You need to see him in action, but he holds the record for the fastest herder in Texas." Jedediah chuckled.
After all the teens had a bite to eat, they checked out of the hotel and now stood in the middle of the town. "Alright Link," Sheik started, "Any idea what we need here in Kakariko Village exactly?" Link thought hard, but his gaze was continually drawn to the medabot testing and research center down the street. "Something tells me that we need to check out the research center over there." He said at last. "Maybe it's just the part of you that wants to see the latest models." Sheik muttered as they headed for the specified destination. But Link still thought hard, as he thought about what he would say to get inside. "Something up Link?" Metabee asked, seeing the blank look in his face. "I'm just wondering what I would say to get us in." He answered. "Leave that to me," Sheik stated, "I already have something in mind." When they all entered the lobby, Sheik proudly walked to the front desk. "Excuse me," He started, "But where could we find the one in charge of the research?" "Ms. Midna is currently in the middle of research and cannot be disturbed, but…" The receptionist trailed off when he glimpsed at Casey, "Oh, I've never seen a model like that. She will certainly be interested in seeing it." He then pointed towards the hallway to his left, "Take this hallway down to the farthest room on the left and look for Midna. She's in a black lab coat, so you can't miss her." The group shrugged as they thanked the receptionist as they walked down the hallway and entered the specified room. "That went better than expected." Metabee piped up as they got to the door. When they entered, there were no more than fifteen scientists in the room, and each working on their own project and talking amongst themselves. But sitting alone at a table on the nearest wall to the teens was the scientist in the black lab coat they were told to find. Her coat was black, like a pitch black, but it had various stripes and lines of neon blue woven all through it. She looked to be easily a head taller than the teens standing up, and seemed to easily be in her early twenties. And her fiery crimson eyes showed that nothing would easily distract her from her work. Her skin was pale, but her hair, like her eyes, was a very intense mix of shades of fiery red with two large locks of her hair being held together by a hairband in front of her neck, and the rest down her back was tied at the end with another similar band.
"Excuse me," Link started, "Are you Midna?" "I am," She answered, not turning her head, "My tour hours of the facility aren't for another couple hours if that's what you came for." "We didn't come here for a tour," Metabee told her, "We came to ask you about something." "Sorry to disappoint, but I can't help you right now as you can see." Midna finished quickly. "Midna ma'am," Jedediah started up, "We apologize for bothering you, but what we have to say is important." Midna then sighed as she turned her chair to face the group, "Alright, you got my attention. What is it?" "What can you tell us about this?" Metabee asked, popping his medal hatch open to reveal his medal, which still bore the Triforce etching on it. "I haven't seen a medal etching with that before," Midna inspected interestingly, "What kind of medal is it?" "Well, it was a Kabuto medal," Link explained, "But we were wondering if you could give us an explanation on why the mark changed." "Well, my only guess is that this medal had enough battle experience to level up," The scientist answered, "How long have you been robattling?" "Not long actually," Link replied, "Metabee and I have only been a team for a week now, and we've only been in one robattle." "One robattle huh? Then in that case, I don't really know what to tell you." Midna shrugged, "But I am interested in that etching and would like to study that medal a little closer if you don't mind." "Sorry, but I do mind." Metabee fussed as he had Brown Bison close his medal hatch. "How long would you need him for to study the medal?" Sheik asked out of curiosity, only for Metabee to call out "Traitor" and for Brown Bison and Casey to hold him back. "Oh I don't know," The female scientist thought out loud, "I think I could have it back to you in about six months." "Six months?" Casey piped up, "But we don't have that long." However, at seeing Casey, Midna was now fully engrossed with the train type. "I haven't seen that sort of model before," She mused, using her hand to turn him around by the shoulder to get a better look, "What type is it?"
"Well for starters," Jedediah began, "His name's Casey Jones, model name Steamer, and medabot ID is TRN-00X. And secondly, he's an American made steam locomotive type." "American made," Midna repeated, "I haven't seen any models built from there." She then let go of him and looked back up at the group. "I'd love to see him in action and get some data." She told them, but then snapped her fingers as she got an idea, "I know; you want answers, and I want data. So here's what we'll do, Casey here can take on my medabot Blakstag in a robattle. If he wins, I'll answer any questions you have, and some you didn't even know you had. But if Blakstag wins, I get to study that medal." "What?!" Metabee stammered, "Come on Casey ole pal, you can't possibly be thinking of taking her on, could you?" Casey simply glanced up at Jedediah, who in turn looked over at Link, who hesitantly gave him a nod. "Miss Midna," Jedediah started, "You're on." "Excellent," She excitedly stood up, "I haven't robattled anyone in forever, and this one's going to be against a foreign model no less." She then motioned the group to follow her outside and around the building to an enclosed robattle arena. And once she used her clearance card to gain entry, the teens were left to gaze at the immensity of the field. "This arena is where we test the combat capabilities of the latest models before we approve them for production," Midna explained as she walked down to the left side of the arena, summoning her female stag-beetle type medabot into action at the same time. "Casey," Metabee called, "Whatever you do, don't lose." "Do not be so anxious," Nin-Ninja spoke up, "Casey will be fine." And the train type medabot simply gave his friends thumbs up as he followed Jedediah to the right side of the arena, and then made for a spot a few feet in front of him. "Begin recording," Midna called to a voice activated camera, and then looked towards her medabot, "Blakstag, get ready to robattle." Her medabot then readied its battle stance as camera appeared and began recording. "Alrighty now Miss Midna," The cowboy called back, "Get ready for your first look at how we Americans robattle. Casey, you with me?" "I sure am Sheriff," He answered, with a steady amount of smoke now coming out of the smokestack on his head, "Bring it on!"
When the horn sounded, the battle started. "Alright Casey," Jedediah called, "Let's start this fight with a full head of steam. Medachange and ahead full!" "You got it!" Casey shouted back as he medachanged into a small steam locomotive and charged for Blakstag full speed. "Blakstag," Midna ordered, "Catch Casey and hold your ground." The stag-beetle type medabot the spread both her legs apart to give herself more traction as Casey sped right for her. It was a good thing that Blakstag tried to gain ground before Casey slammed into her, as she still held her footing, but was dragged backwards a few feet and was beginning to struggle. "Blakstag, keep holding your ground." Midna shouted. "Sorry Miss Midna, but she won't be doing that much longer," Jedediah smirked, "Casey, throw the Johnson bar and take that medabot for a little ride." Casey tooted his whistle in agreement as his wheels came to a sudden halt, and furiously began spinning the other way. Due to the sudden change in direction, Blakstag lost her stability and was dragged along the ground. "Hey Jedediah," Casey called through the medawatch, "This girl's grip is hard as nails, and she's digging into my armor." "I get you," The Texan called back, "Change back and shake Blakstag off." He then did as told as he forced the stag beetle's grip off of him and threw her backward. "Impressive strength and speed," Midna commented, "But you'll need more than that to outdo Blakstag." "That's fine with us because we still have a few tricks up our sleeves." Jedediah called back. Link, Sheik, and the others were in simple awe at not only Casey's speed, but also at Blakstag's agility. After a few minutes, Blakstag began simply evading Casey's attacks in an attempt to just wear him out instead of fighting. "Alright, that medabot's jumping around is starting to get a little irritating," Jedediah shouted, "Casey, smoke bomb!" "Fire away!" Casey added as he aimed the smokestack on his head at Blakstag like a cannon, and fired a ball of black smoke like a cannonball. "Blakstag," Midna shouted, "Evade!" But it was too late as the smoke bomb hit her and exploded into a huge blackout upon impact. "Whoa," Link stammered, "He blacked out the whole arena." "And reduced Blakstag's accuracy too." Sheik added as they watched Casey run into the smokescreen.
"I have to say," Midna laughed, "That's quite remarkable, but how're you going to see through smoke?" "That's real simple. Casey, turn on your headlamp!" The cowboy ordered, even though there was no visible response. Inside the blackout, Blakstag was on high alert and never once dropped her battle stance and slashed at anything that looked strange with her right arm sword-claw. However, from behind her, a bright floodlight burst through the smoke directly on her and caught her by surprise. And before she could react, Casey used his specialty, the Tender Punch, and knocked Blakstag out of the blackout and onto her back. "Warning," Midna's medawatch alerted, "Blakstag's left arm at seventy percent damage, head part at forty-four percent damage. Optical shield compromised and vision now at thirty percent. Legs at fifty-three percent damage. Speed and evasion down thirty percent." "Not a bad hit," Midna smirked, but now we have a little trick to show you. Blakstag, Twilight Claw!" And in a mere second, her medabot disappeared from view and reappeared another second later in front of Casey as she gave him a good slash that forcefully knocked him onto his back. "Casey, you alright?" Jedediah called. "Yeah, I'm fine," He answered as he got up and noticed three huge scratches that now occupied his torso where his opponent hit, "It was just a case of now you see her, now you don't." "It's still like that Casey," His medafighter corrected, "Keep your guard up." But it was all he could do, as Blakstag was now moving too fast to hit; and hitting from all angles. "Ready to give up?" Midna laughed as her medabot continued her barrage minutes later. Jedediah looked at his medawatch. "Warning," It alerted, "Head part at sixty-five percent damage. Right arm at thirty-seven percent damage. Left arm at forty-two percent damage. Legs at twenty-five percent damage." The Texan ten glimpsed over at his friends, who were anxious to see how he would fight his way out of this predicament. "I can't lose my first robattle in Hyrule," He mused, "And not with what's at stake." "I will never surrender!" The cowboy then shouted as he clenched a fist, "That is the American way; you fight to your last breath! You hear me Casey? Fight to your last breath!" "I…will…" Casey repeated, "Fight!" He then wound up his left arm and released it just as Blakstag was about to attack and countered the stag beetle type medabot with an uppercut that sent her skidding backwards to her original spot in front of Midna.
Casey now started a growling that steadily rose audibly in volume. The smoke output from his smokestack now doubled its rate, and his scream was that of a mighty steam locomotive's whistle. "I will fight to the end!" Casey screamed. "You've got the true fightin' spirit now Casey," Jedediah shouted, "Now show them your true power with the Crazy Train!" Casey made a deafening whistle as he medachanged and shot around the field faster than previous. And just as he neared the far wall behind Jedediah, he drifted into a tight U-turn and sped straight for Blakstag. "Blakstag," Midna called, "Counter Casey!" Blakstag however wouldn't, and couldn't, move. She was struck frozen with fear at the power of the locomotive type medabot. And when Casey was just a few feet from impacting her, he made a short hop into the air and charged into Blakstag's torso full tilt, screaming his whistle, and then changed back and used her as a launch pad and landed back on the ground. The stag beetle type medabot was sent reeling into the wall far behind Midna with a mighty crash. Everybody watched the wall in dead silence. And as the smoke and debris cleared, the dented and mangled body of Blakstag fell from the indention she made from the initial impact and to the ground with a metallic clang. Her medal hatch then flipped open and ejected its contents, announcing that Blakstag had ceased function. "In-Incredible," Midna stammered, "I've never seen that much power and determination housed within a single blow." Casey then fell to his knees from exhaustion as Jedediah rushed to catch him. "You alright Deputy?" The cowboy asked. "I'm alright Sheriff," Casey sighed, "Just a little tired is all." "Jedediah and Casey won!" Link, Sheik, and Malon shouted in unison. "And I don't get to be a test subject!" Metabee happily added as he and the rest crowded around the Texan carrying his medabot piggyback style. "It seems I got careless and underestimated you," Midna started when she got up from her spot on the ground and moved to stand before Jedediah, "But that was a great robattle nonetheless. And the data that was collected will be very useful." "Well I'm glad you got what you needed." Jedediah smiled as he extended a free arm out and was received by Midna's tenderly in a symbol of sportsmanship.
You gotta admit, Casey can put up a fight, and prove victorious. And now Metabee gets to keep him medal too. What'll happen next? The only way is to read on.
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