In the pits, the toons were all either relaxing or getting prepared for the 2nd round of the event.
Furrball & Fifi were wandering around together, seeing if any of their friends needed any help with their robots, until they heard Cosette call out from behind.
"Furrball! Fifi!"
The cat & skunk turned to see Cosette running up to them.
"Hi Cosette", Furrball greeted. "What's up?"
"Mon family eez here."
"Really?", Fifi asked.
"Oui, and zhey saw moi win zhe first fight against Mega Morgue."
"That's great", Furrball said with a smile, "I'm sure they were quite happy."
"Oui oui, zhey are tres proud of moi."
Fifi then asked, "Do vous know who you are fighteeng next?"
"Not at zhe moment, non."
"What about Calamity?"
"Non."
After a moment, Furrball asked, "Say, where is Calamity anyway?"
Cosette was about to answer, until they heard a voice shout out from a distance.
"Incoming!"
The trio turned to see Razer, claw down & wedge lifted up, charging straight at them. They all quickly moved out of the way, with Cosette falling to the ground & Furrball jumping into Fifi's arms, just in time as Razer zoomed right past them.
"Lookout!", Calamity shouted, chasing after his robot. He stopped near the trio as Razer continued accelerating.
CRASH!
The silver robot ran right into a wall, with its wedge penetrating into it. The wheels of the robot were still spinning, as a few of the arena crew stepped in.
"Back off, everyone", one of the crew members said to the spectators as the others started pulling Razer out of the wall.
"Calamity, what happened?", Fifi asked as she let Furrball down.
"Somebody sabotaged my robot", the grey coyote replied. As the arena crew lifted Razer up, one of the members lost their grip, and as Razer's wheel touched the ground, it started shoving all the other crew members aside. Everyone backed off as Razer started spinning uncontrollably on the spot.
"Stay back! Stay back!", shouted one of the crew members, as more of the arena crew arrived with some 2x4s.
Calamity then approached his robot as the arena crew slowly pushed the 2x4s toward Razer, to try to slow it down, but they were no help.
However, Calamity saw Razer's tail sticking up, and once he got close enough, he quickly reached forward, grabbed Razer by its tail, and lifted it off the ground. He then deactivated his robot, and the wheels stopped turning.
"There we go", Calamity said with a sigh of relief as the spectators cheered. At that moment, Derek showed up.
"What's going on here?"
"Calamity's robot was malfunctioning", Furrball replied.
"It's taken care of, Derek", Calamity said as he started inspecting Razer. "I just deactivated it."
"What happened?"
"Hees robot was out of control", Cosette answered. "Eet drove straight toward us & right into zhe wall."
"How did that happen?", Derek asked Calamity. "Why was your robot activated in the pits?"
"I don't know", the grey coyote replied, "I was just about to charge the batteries, then all of a sudden, the thing came alive & drove off. I'm trying to figure out what caused that."
"Is everyone all right? Did anyone get hurt?"
"Non, we're fine", Fifi said. After a moment of inspecting Razer, Calamity saw something that made him gasp. He reached inside Razer & pulled out what appeared to be a tiny microchip.
"I found the problem", Calamity said, holding up the chip.
"What eez zhat?", Cosette asked.
"It's a circuit override chip. Someone slipped this inside my robot while I was away. This explains how my robot sprung to life."
"Someone else was controlling your robot", Furrball said.
"Exactly. And I think I might know who's responsible for this mess."

Elsewhere, Buster & Babs were getting their robots ready for Round 2. Buster's refilling Chaos 2's Co2 tank, while Babs is filing the blade of Mortis's axe.
"I'm so glad we won our first battles", Buster said.
"Me too", Babs replied. "I think we both might make it to the championship & fight each other."
"Heh. Don't keep your hopes up, Babsy. Remember what Shirley said about confident people?"
"Yeah yeah, the more confident ones don't usually win."
At that moment, David showed up with the top cover of Terror Australis, riddled with holes caused by Mortis's axe.
"G'day", the red dingo greeted.
"David?", Babs said. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to give you a little gift."
David held up the piece of Terror Australis & gave it to Babs.
"It's yours to keep."
"Aww, thank you", Babs said as she checked out her souvenir. It had black Sharpie writings on it that says:

Mortis vs Terror Australis
David Dingo

"This is very nice of you", said the pink bunny.
"Heh, don't mention it. Anyways, I should get going. Later."
David then left Buster & Babs's pit area, then quickly ran around a corner, where Roderick, Rhubella, Bert, and Ronald were waiting.
"Did she get the gift?", Roderick asked.
"Yes", David answered.
"Excellent. Now all we have to do is wait. Since the edges are so sharp, she will cut herself, and once she does, she won't be able to work on her robot anymore."
The group all laughed evilly. Then, after a moment, they heard Babs's voice shout out.
"Oh no!"
"Yes!", Roderick exclaimed. "She's done it! She cut herself!"
But before they could celebrate, they all looked down at the floor & spotted a stream of red fluid in front of them. They all made faces of shock.
"Oh, crikey!", David shouted as Rhubella shrieked.
"What have we done?!", Bert exclaimed as Ronald fell backwards & passed out.
"Run for it!", Roderick said as he grabbed Rhubella's hand & parted from the group. The two rats then ran past Plucky, who's pushing a cart with Diotoir on it. His robot is now covered in charred fur.
"What's with all the commotion?", Plucky asked himself. Plucky then saw the red fluid & started following it, until he heard Babs.
"Oh, this is terrible!"
Plucky ran up to the pink bunny & asked, "What happened?"
Babs turned to Plucky with a soda can in her hand. "I spilled my carrot soda!"
Roderick & Rhubella continued running until they ran into someone & bounced backwards to the floor. The two rats looked up & saw Derek & Calamity, neither looking too happy.
"Derek!", Roderick greeted, laughing nervously. "Um, what a surprise to see you here."
"Roderick, do you or Rhubella have anything to do with Razer being sabotaged?"
"What? No! I mean, what do you mean by that? I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Then how do you explain this?", Calamity asked as he took out the microchip & held it in front of Roderick's face.
"What is that? I've never seen that before."
"Somebody planted this chip into my robot & caused chaos in the pits."
"Well, whoever did that was quite a fool. I would never do such a thing."
"Oh really? Well, does this ring a bell?"
Calamity pulled out his iPad & showed it to the two rats. It played footage of Calamity's pit area, where Razer & Firestorm were laying dormant.
"Wait", Rhubella started, "who would put a camera over their pit table?"
"I hooked up a surveillance camera because I knew I couldn't trust any of you guys. And I wasn't surprised when I saw what happened."
The two rats continued watching the footage when they saw Roderick appear, carrying a thin stick with the microchip at the end of it. The black rat then placed the stick into the back of Razer & jabbed it into its internals, before he pulled the stick out. Roderick made a face of worry; he knows that he's been busted.
"Now", Calamity spoke up, "I will admit, I was surprised when I saw what happened next."
The footage continued playing, and Rhubella stepped into the shot with a large wrench. She looked around to make sure no one was watching, before she used the wrench to pull open Firestorm's flipper. Then she reached in, yanked out a few wires, then closed the flipper. The two rats then walked away from Calamity & Cosette's robots.
"So not only did you sabotage MY robot", Calamity said, "but also my girl's robot."
"You do know what this means, right?", Derek asked as he & Calamity slowly stepped toward the two rats, who both backed away against a wall, both shaking & sweating nervously.
"Uh, n-n-no, no!", Roderick stammered. "That wasn't us, I swear! Those were our, uh, our- our evil twins!"
"You don't have any siblings", Calamity commented.
"Yes we do. They, uh, they don't come out very often because they're always scheming. We- we had nothing to do with this! We were helping our friends with their robots!"
"By sabotaging other robots?", Derek asked.
"No no no, you don't understand! We're...we're...we're...in very deep trouble."
The front doors of the warehouse opened, and the two rats were both booted out of the place, flying nearly a hundred yards before they landed on their bums.
"That's it!", Roderick shouted in anger. "That does it! I am tired of losing to those Acme Loo morons!"
Rhubella then said, "It's amazing how they always remain one step ahead of us!"
"Well, this is the last straw!" Roderick then turned to the warehouse. "You hear me, Acme Loo-sers?! You may win this time, but next time, we will kick your butts so hard, you'll all go crying for mommy! CRYING FOR...!"
At that moment, they both looked up, and saw both of their robots in the sky & falling straight towards them. The two rats looked on in fear.
"Mommy", Roderick whimpered as he & Rhubella tried to run, but Rattus Rattus landed on Roderick, and Rat landed on Rhubella.
"I could just cry", Roderick muffled.

Meanwhile, back in the pits, Furrball & Fifi continued walking around together, watching their friends doing repair work on their robots. Up ahead, they spotted Sweetie working on Pussycat.
She's loosening the nuts holding the spinning disc in place, but seems to be having a bit of trouble. She hanging from her wrench, trying to yank it down with her body weight, but to no avail.
Furrball & Fifi approached the pink bird.
"Hi Sweetie", Furrball greeted.
"Oh, hey Furrball", Sweeted replied. "I can't talk right now, I'm busy."
Sweetie continued yanking on the wrench, grunting, still trying to get the nuts loose.
"Do you need help with that?", Furrball asked.
"No thanks, I got this."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am...I got this."
After a few more yanks, Sweetie fell from her wrench & onto the table. Furrball knew that he needed to step in.
"Let me give you a hand."
Furrball took the wrench & started loosening the nuts one by one. They were all on pretty tight, since he struggled starting on each one.
"My goodness", Furrball commented, "why did you have these on so tight?"
"I don't know", Sweetie replied, "my arena crew did most of the work on my robot."
Fifi then asked, "Then why don't vous have your crew work on your robot instead?"
"I told them that I could work on my robot myself. But I'm only starting to realize that that was a mistake."
Once Furrball removed the remaining nuts, he set the wrench down & pulled the disc off of Pussycat.
"Careful, that's sharp", Sweetie commented as Furrball set the blade down on the table, along with a few other different blades.
"Man, you got a lot of blades here", Furrball said, looking at the designs of each blades. There was one disc that was perfectly circular, one shaped like a square, one with only 2 teeth, one with 8 teeth, and a regular sawblade with red teeth.
"Yeah, I've been busy", Sweetie said, flying over to her blades. "But, I can't make up my mind what blade I want to use for the next fight."
"Do you know who you're fighteeng?", questioned Fifi.
"I think I'm fighting Fluffy next. I don't remember."
"Would you like me to pick one for you?", Furrball asked.
"Sure, if you want."
Sweetie stepped aside as Furrball looked at each of the different discs, before he finally picked the 2-toothed one. He placed it on Pussycat & placed the nuts back on, making sure all 4 of them were on tight.
Furrball grunted as he tightened on the last nut, then said, "There we go."
"Thanks, Furrball", Sweetie said, "that was quite a lot of help."
"No problem."
"I must admit, I'm starting to believe you've really...changed."
"You mean, you're actually starting to trust me?"
"Maybe."
The blue cat & pink bird smiled, but the moment was ended abruptly when a loud POP was heard, followed by the spurting & hissing of compressed air.
"What was that?", Furrball asked as he & Fifi made their way to where the incident occurred, with Sweetie flying along with them.
They arrived at Buster's pit table, where the blue bunny was shutting off an air tank full of Co2.
"Buster, are vous okay?", asked Fifi.
"Yeah, I'm fine", Buster replied.
"What the heck happened?", questioned Sweetie.
"I was refilling my robot's tank with Co2 & the connector broke off."
Furrball then asked, "Are you sure you're okay?"
"Don't worry, I'm all right. But it gave me quite a scare."
Buster laughed upon finishing his sentence, which made the others smile.
Afterwards, Furrball & Fifi went up to the fight bracket & read the line-up for Round 2.

CHAOS 2 vs FIRESTORM
RAZER vs KRONIC THE WEDGEHOG
TORNADO vs GEMINI
PUSSYCAT vs FLUFFY
BEHEMOTH vs KILLERHURTZ
WHEELY BIG CHEESE vs TYPHOON 2
PANIC ATTACK vs MORTIS
HYPNO-DISC vs STORM 2