"Get ready to lose your medabot!" Juan said.
"Oh!"
"Guardian Sapient, destroy his medabot and then close in on his medapoints!" Guardian Sapient rushes and destroys the medabot Yubel-Rafael had hidden. But something weird happened.
"What?!" said Juan angrily.
Yubel-Rafael just started chuckling. "Why do you look surprised? Did you not realize the medabot I had hidden was Marshmallow Bakunin?"
"That token?"
"And I think you know what that means, don't you? Your turn automatically comes to an end!"
"You got lucky Felix."
"Woo! Nice going Yubel," said Meta-Bee.
"Thanks. But we don't have time to waste. If we're going to win this robattle, then we have to think of a plan."
"Boys, I can tell this robattle is gonna be interesting," said Pamela. "Take some notes on my new role model."
"I thought Rafael was your role model," said Johnny.
"Don't be stupid Johnny," she stuttered. "He's just a brat."
"But didn't you have a crush on him in 4th grade?" asked Kyle.
Pamela was blushing. "And you also said—" began Johnny.
"I never said those things!" she cried. "If you don't shut up you can find yourselves another leader."
"No. Please don't leave us boss!" they cried.
"Good. Now, we can sit hiding and finish watching this match."
Meanwhile on the other side of school, on the right balcony of building 9 in the front upstairs outside in their usual hangout, Rafael's friends were wondering where he was.
"Where's Rafael?" asked Brandon.
"I don't know," said Robert. "He usually meets us here during lunch. Come to think of it, I haven't even seen him all day."
"He's probably studying for our Algebra quiz this Friday," said Shannon. "You know how hard he works to maintain his D average?"
"Pretty hard I bet," said Brandon.
"But Rafael is really smart," said Robert. "He's just lazy." The others agreed.
Berly was sitting in MART. Mr. Crowder was taking role on who was here. "Rafael Felix?" he called. No answer. "Looks like Saturday School for Mr. Felix."
"I'll look for him!" said Berly.
"I don't think so," said Mr. Crowder.
"C'mon! I'm not going to ditch! I'll even leave my stuff here to get him."
"Very well. But if you don't make it back by 12:00 then you both get Saturday School."
"Okay!" She runs off to find him. Back in the robattle, a lot kids started to gather outside the blocked robattle.
"Looks like you'll be losing in front of all these people," said Juan.
"Uh-huh, whatever," said Yubel-Rafael, not caring what Juan was saying. She looked at her cards.
Hey Yubel let me take over for now, said Rafael. You've done enough.
Are you sure? asked Yubel-Rafael.
Yeah.
Okay then. Cross fuse! They switch back and now Rafael is now robattling on the field.
"Welcome back to the party," greeted Juan.
"I thank you. Now I'll place 2 equip cards for hold, and I'll also play my other token, Holy-Oracle in defense mode!"
''SCREEN FLIPS TO SHOW TOKEN STATS''
Holy-Oracle (token) specialty, Arresting Attack
"Unless you're planning to attack my medabots, I wouldn't pull anything funny. Especially with these hidden babies on the field."
He's toying with me, realized Juan. He's trying to get me to attack so he can activate a hidden trap. We'll see about that.
"I'll take my chances! Go Guardian Sapient, destroy his Holy-Oracle!" Guardian Sapient moves to attack.
He fell for it! thought Rafael.
"I'll save my Oracle with this, Under the Magician's Spell! This card can hide my token in one of 3 coffins. And you must choose one. For every coffin you fail to destroy my Oracle, it's my turn again."
"I don't think so Felix! Activate my hidden counter card, Equip Vanishing! By Discarding 2 cards from my hand, I can negate the activation of your card! Too bad for you."
"Is it?"
"Huh?"
"Because you forgot about my second hidden card, Xing Zhen Hu! This card paralyzes the activation of the remaining cards my opponent has laid down."
"No!"
"Yes! And as long as this card stays on the field, you can't use those two cards." Juan growled.
"And it's not all. You still have to attack one of my 3 coffins." Juan struggles to make a decision. "What are you waiting for?" asked Rafael.
"Guardian Sapient, attack the middle coffin!" Guardian Sapient destroys the middle coffin, but nothing.
"I missed?"
"So sad," said Rafael. "Looks like it's my turn again." He pulls a card. Juan orders to attack the coffin on the left but no luck. "Oh well," said Rafael. He pulls a card. "I'll hide this in the remaining coffin," he said. He equips a card with the one already on the field.
"At least I now know where your Oracle is hiding. Guardian Sapient, attack his last coffin!" Rafael doesn't say anything. He WANTS Juan to attack. Juan destroys the coffin but fails to destroy Holy-Oracle. At first nothing happens. Then all of a sudden, Guardian Sapient starts to act all crazy.
"My Guardian! What did you do Felix?"
"When you attacked the last coffin, I hid a trap card to surprise you. It was my Medabot Virus card." He holds up the card. "I won this in my previous robattle. This card poisons all tokens, medabots, and kilobots on the field for one turn only if their strength is bigger than 30. Now watch it infect your Guardian!"
Guardian Sapient started twitching and then malfunctioned. Juan's kilodisk, "GUARDIAN SAPIENT ERROR FUNCTION CEASED."
"Now that your Guardian is gone, it's safe for my Oracle to use its special ability. Open Eyes! Reveal the cards in Juan's hand!"
Juan couldn't control his hand from being forced to release his cards. When they did, they maximized larger and turned over revealing what cards Juan had in his hand.
"What?!" Rafael couldn't believe what Juan had in his hand. "You have the Orichalceous Medal in your hand and you haven't played it yet?"
"I don't have any intentions on playing my Orichalceous Medal yet."
"Huh?" Rafael didn't understand why.
"I have bigger things in my mind."
"Like what?"
"You'll see."
"Tell me!"
"Fine. The reason I haven't played it is because I've been testing your robattle wits all this time."
"My wits?"
"And so far, the Orichalceous necklace around your neck Kintora once had emphasizes the fact that you are indeed a cold, and reckless medafighter who only cares about winning, no matter the cost."
"What?!"
"If you don't believe me, all you have to do is look at the necklace. See? It's glowing. That means your reckless and cruelty is beginning to come out of its dark shell."
"That...can't be true," he said holding up the Ex Medal near his face.
I'll weaken his medapoints even more, and then I'll throw out the Orichalceous Medal. That will be an easy victory, thought Juan.
Juan pulls out 3 cards. "I'll summon, Guardian Neos and I'll also play these two cards for later." He then chuckles.
''SCREEN FLIPS TO SHOW TOKEN STATS''
Guardian Neos (token) specialty, Gravity Bind ATK 40
I have an idea he's up to something ugly, but what? thought Rafael.
COMEMRCIAL BREAK ( Medabots! ) Meta-Bee appears on screen and does a flip kick.
Berly was still running around the school looking for Rafael. She then happens to run into Keven, one of Rafael's friends, and who happened to have a crush on Berly was with his medabot, Landmotor. (Obviously since Keven likes cars so much, he would have a car type medabot.)
"Hey Berly, where you going?" he asks grabbing Berly's arm to stop.
"I'm looking for Rafael."
"I think I saw him in the back near the courts," he said.
"What would he be doing there?"
"He's robattling."
"Of course!" She smacked herself on the forehead. She ran off.
"Go Holy-Oracle!" ordered Rafael. "Attack his Neos!"
"Neos! Activate your special ability! Gravity Bind!" Neos creates a barrier and when Holy-Oracle gets near, she starts to float around.
"What?!"
"Neo's barrier penetrates any medabots from attacking it! And I'll also play this card, The Beginning of Suffering!"
"What is that?"
"This rare card can inflict 50 medapoints of damage each turn you fail to destroy any of my tokens. And since you didn't harm my Neos, you lose 50 points! This is the beginning of the end for you." Rafael loses 50 medapoints leaving him at 370.
"And I believe the turn is now mine." He draws 3 cards. "Guardian Neos, switch to attack! Go and destroy his Holy-Oracle!" Neos destroys Holy-Oracle and now Rafael loses 20 points leaving him at 350.
"It's your turn."
Let me have this move, said Yubel.
Sure. Cross Fuse! they both yell. Yubel is now robattling.
"I'll call Garant-Lady to the field!"
''SCREEN FLIPS TO SHOW TOKEN STATS''
Garant-Lady (token) specialty, Arresting Attack
"I'll give her this too. Shield and Spear! This equip raises my Lady's attack with an extra 10 bonus points matching your Neos and my Garant-Lady the same."
"Oh wow." He pulls 3 cards. "You didn't order your Garant-Lady to attack my token. That means you lose 50 points!" Yubel has 300. "I'll match his power against your own! Activate equip card, Astronomy! This card can allow my Neos to destroy any medabot on the field. Go Neos, destroy his Garant-Lady!" Garant-Lady was demolished.
"My turn." Yubel and Rafael change back. Cross Fuse! "Okay then, I'll play Not-Touch in attack mode and I'll equip it with my Vine Whip battle card! Now Not-Touch is stronger than your Neos. Attack!"
"Not so fast Felix! Activate Mirage of Nightmare! This takes half your token's power and increases my token even more! Go Neos, trample it!" Noes murders Not-Touch into explosion. Rafael's points lowered down to 250.
Rafael, this is getting too dangerous, said Yubel. Let me take over now.
You're right. Cross Fuse!
"Not bad Juan, but now it's time I turn things around," said Yubel-Rafael with confidence. She pulls a card. Nothing! "I'll just play this down."
"How sad. The World Robattle champion being reduced to blemish. I actually expected a more fight from you Felix. But I guess I can see you were a joke all this time." Rafael was getting angry. "Neos attack!" Neos destroyed the hidden token.
That's it! yelled Rafael. I've heard enough of hisbull! Move over Yubel.
But Rafael—
I'm not just gonna to stand here and let Juan make me look bad in front of everyone. My whole life I've worked hard to get where I am. I'm not going to let Juan ruin my reputation with lies just because things look bad.
You don't stand a chance. We don't.
I wanna try.
Yubel could see the adrenaline in Rafael's eyes. Okay, she agreed. But if you need any help, I'll be right beside you.
They change back.
"Juan, this is the beginning of the end for you!" He draws a card. He then smiles. Juan was startled. "Are you ready?" he asked. "Because from here on out, it's gonna be a whole, different game. I'll play this, Medabot Resurrection to bring back Garant-Lady back from the junkyard." Garant-Lady reappears. "And I'll also call Bronze-Knight to the field!"
''SCREEN FLIPS TO SHOW TOKEN STATS''
Bronze-Knight (token) specialty, Judgment
"And I'll activate his special ability! By giving up 20 of my medapoints, I can bring back an equip card back from the discard pile. I'll use Fusion Concept once again to fuse Garant-Lady and Bronze-Knight together to form—Gun-King! With his strength nearing a perfect 100!"
''SCREEN FLIPS TO SHOW TOKEN STATS''
Gun-King (fusion token) specialty, Set the Countdown ATK 100
Juan gasps.
"Destroy his Neos!" Gun-King destroys Guardian Neos and Juan loses 60 medapoints leaving him at 440.
"Yes!"
The kids start to cheer again for Rafael. Juan just looks around.
"And to finish, I'll set this token hidden. I turned things around! Now the game is set!"
"Wow he turned things around boss," said Kyle.
"I gotta admit it, that was impressive," said Pamela. "Now let's see if he can continue this up."
Good job Rafael, said Yubel.
"Tell me something Juan," began Rafael. "I've been observing the way you've been robattling in this match. You have a lot of honor and respect for your kilobots. Why would you work for a guy like Kam?"
"It's none of your business!"
"Why is it because you had a bad experience with medabots?" Juan was getting angry.
"Or maybe because you weren't a very good medafighter and blamed medabots for your failure." Juan looked like he was ready to scream.
"If it's something else, you should tell me. Maybe I can help you."
"The 10 days of darkness!" he spit out.
"Oh!" Rafael gasped with surprise.
Juan has a flashback.
The sky is red and everything is dark. There is fire everywhere. Juan is in a corner. All beat up and bruised up. He is terrified. He tries to hide himself in as an army of medabots walked in a straight troop line and then a Nin-Ninja spotted him and started coming toward him. Juan is scared as Nin-Ninja is about to strike him. Suddenly Nin-Ninja falls and Juan looks up. There stands Kam, with Red-Run.
"Are you okay?" he asked. Juan nods with fear.
"Don't be afraid," said Kam. "The world will never be a peaceful place with all these evil medabots roaming around." Red-Run shoots another medabot. "Come join with me, and together we will destroy all the medabots and end their reign of terror. All you need is a kilobot, one of the most nicest and trustworthy medabots, and you'll always be safe."
Back to the robattle.
"I must say I didn't think you had it in you," Juan finally says. "But now it's my turn." He pulls out 3 cards. He then places 2 he already had on the field. One set for hold, and one token hiding down. "Activate Card Exchange! Since were each holding 3 cards in our hand, we each select one card from the opponent and we get to keep that card throughout the rest of the robattle. I'll go first."
Rafael holds up his hand. Juan chooses the card on the left.
"Recycle the Broken huh? This card could have brought back any medabots from the junk yard. But I don't have any medabots in mine, so this card is useless to me. Okay, now you get to choose one of my cards, and hurry up! I have a robattle to win."
Rafael chooses the middle cards and Juan hands it over. Rafael looks at the card he chose and gasps. "Oh no, not this! Not the Orichalceous Medal!"
"What?" Juan notices he doesn't have it anymore. Oh great, he thought. I knew I should have played it face down.
"Dude, you better be careful," began Meta-Bee as Rafael walked back to his side. "Who knows what could happen if you play that thing."
"Well I'm not so there's nothing to be worried about."
"Are you sure?" asked Juan. "Just look at the Ex necklace. See? It's glowing." It glows red again. "That proves that you WANT to play it and have power."
Rafael looked uncomfortable. "Forget it! It's not gonna happen Juan. I won't risk both our life forces just to win a robattle!"
"As long as justice is served in the end, I don't give a damn about myself."
Rafael sighs. "He just doesn't get it. Go Gun-King, destroy his hidden kilobot with your Judgment call!"
"I don't think so! Activate Parallelization Chamber!" Gun-King gets trapped into a giant, cage with no way to move.
"What have you done Juan!"
"I've sealed your Gun-King in a gigantic cage with no way to escape! And don't forget, my Beginning of Suffering card is still in play, and since I stopped you from destroying my token, you lose another 50 points." Rafael loses 50 points leaving him at 200.
"It's my turn." He draws another 3 cards. "I'll play Water-Mermaid!"
''SCREEN FLIPS TO SHOW TOKEN STATS''
Water-Mermaid (token) specialty, Water Ball ATK 30
"Attack Rafael's hidden token!" Water-Mermaid shot a few water balls and destroyed his hidden token.
"No! I'm defenseless!"
"That's it!" yelled Meta-Bee. "I want to fight!"
"No way."
"But Rafael, if you don't give me a chance, then we won't win."
"But you'll never stand up to Juan's kilobots."
"I wanna try!" argued Meta-Bee.
"Alright then." Rafael sent out his strongest weapon. "Go Meta-Bee, fusier blasters!"
"Take this, mermaid!"
"Dodge and use your water blasters!" ordered Juan. Water-Mermaid throws a water ball but Meta-Bee shoots one through.
"Jump now, and launch rockets!"
"You're going down!" yelled Meta-Bee as he launched his rockets.
"I don't think so, reflect and use tidal wive!" Water-Mermaid created a wave and threw it against Meta-Bee.
"META-BEE FULL BODY DAMAGE 40 PERCENT MISSILES OFF LINE," said Rafael's medadisk.
The entire field was covered in water for a short moment. During that time, Water-Mermaid swam under and struck Meta-Bee from behind.
"META-BEE RIGHT ARM 100% DAMAGE FUNCTION CEASE," said Rafael's medadisk.
"I'll use my Medabot Resurrection card to bring back Guardian Neos from the junkyard!" Guardian Neos reappears on the field. "And I'll also equip it with my Milky Way card. This card increases Guardian Neos with more power. Go Neos, attack his medabot!" Neos attacks Meta-Bee with a gigantic fist.
"And use your gravity bind!"
"Dodge!"
Meta-Bee couldn't dodge and he took an explosion full of damage.
"Meta-Bee!"
"META-BEE FULL BODY DAMAGE LEGS ARMS AND HEAD NEAR FUNCTION CEASED 95 PERCENT DAMAGE," said Rafael's medadisk. After the smoke cleared out, Meta-Bee was on the ground on his stomach, all beat up, scratched. He was down.
"And to finish, I'll equip Water-Mermaid with this card, Bow & Arrow! This equip card gives my Mermaid an extra 20 percent of power." Water-Mermaid's strength goes up to 50. "And it also lets my mermaid attack my opponent directly. Go Water-Mermaid, attack!" Water-Mermaid shot Rafael in the chest with her arrow.
Rafael cried out in pain. He lost 50 points plus another 50 for not destroying any of Juan's tokens. He has now only 100 points left. He collapsed on one knee aching in pain.
"1 more turn and this robattle is over!" said Juan. If only I still had the Orichalceous Medal, I would have played it now and ended this robattle with a perfect victory. But no, this faggot had to take it from me so he can have power. Selfish. That's just something a reckless medafighter like him would do.
"I can't lose!" Rafael struggled to say those words. "If I do, then innocent medafighters will suffer and all medabots will be destroyed." He struggles to get back up. "I won't lose this robattle! I'm taking you down Juan! So I activate my Hand Recovery! I can put my hand back into my deck and draw the same amount of cards I had before." He draws 5 new cards.
"You're wasting your time," said Juan.
Rafael looked at his hand. The Ex Medal around his neck glowed red once again. No! I'm out of options! He looked at his side of the field. Gun-King was trapped. Meta-Bee was out of commission, and he was down to his last 100 points. If I play the Orichalceous Medal, my medabots will get stronger and might stand a chance against Juan's. It's the only way to reverse the situation. He struggles to make a decision.
"Do it," whispered a voice.
"Huh?"
"Play...the card." Meta-Bee groans and struggles to get on his feet.
"Meta-Bee...?"
"Play it!" he screamed as he got back up.
"Alright then." Rafael is scared. He reaches for the card and is about to play it.
Rafael no! cried Yubel grabbing his arm.
"Let go Yubel!"
You're making a mistake!
"F**k off!"
Listen to me, your mind is being manipulated by everything Juan has been saying. If you play this card, you're no better than a roged medafighter!
Rafael just looks at her.
You don't have to do this, she said. We can still win. We just have to find another way.
Rafael closes his eyes and smiles still raising his arm holding the card. "You're right. If I play this card, everything I stand for would be a lie. I rather lose with honor than win by cheating." But before he set the card down, Berly rushed through the big crowd of students; she tripped while yelling "Rafael!" She falls to the ground.
"Huh?" He turns. Due to the distraction, he forgot he was still holding the Orichalceous Medal. He accidentally drops the card and it fell on his medadisk a bit crooked on one of the layers on the medabot zone. It activates. Everyone including Juan gasps. Rafael screamed as the card did its thing. So does Yubel as they get separated with force. The giant red hexagon quickly appeared on the field. Pam and her posse were stunned. Berly gasped with fear. And from a distance, a mysterious kid wearing a gray cap and a long dark, dark blue cape with 2 KBT medabots were walking about half a mile away from Rafael's school spotted the red light. They looked up at it and continued walking to their destination. From Building 9, Rafael's friends also saw the red light. They ran to the edge of the balcony.
"Do you see what I see?" asked Brandon.
"Is that light what I think it is?" asked Robert.
"The Orichalceous Medal!" responded Shannon. "C'mon guys, we better get over there!"
"I can't believe you just did that!" said Juan. "And to think everything I said about you was just talk. But I guess this is going to be the real deal."
Rafael just glared angrily at Juan with a look that said "Get ready for the fight of your life!" Rafael's eyes were the same, except the little dash line across his pupils was red. The little red hexagon with the X in the middle was glowing red on his forehead.
"TO BE CONTINUED"
"HAS RAFAEL GONE NUTS? HOW WILL HE HANDLE THE POWER OF THE ORICHALCEOUS MEDAL? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON
Medabots – Waking the Kilobots!"