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Disclaimer: YES! (waves paper around in hand) MUHAHAHAHAHAHHA I own Medabots! Ha! Take THAT! ( looks down at the crumpled papers in her hand) okay okay I admit it, this is my last science test, I don't own medabots. (sigh) But I do own this plot! Read on I say! Read! Read!

Erika drummed her fingers on the wooden table.

'For having some of the best service in Japan, these guys sure take a long time.'

The waiter had finally gotten their menus and orders after ten long minutes of waiting, and now they were waiting for their food.

"It might help you practice patience." The waiter said a smirk prominent on his face.

Ikki was looking across the water fountain, which incredibly enough, was where Koji and Karen were sitting.

"So why aren't you taking and pictures Erika? It might help pass time." Ikki asked, taking a glance at the camera securely placed away in Erika's bag before returning his attention back to Karen and Koji.

Her face turned slightly green before she replying.

"Nothing good has happened yet, I'll take a picture. Eventually. Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe the day after tomorrow." Erika replied, her dream coming back to her.

"Here you go! One chicken stir-fry, and one quarter chicken meal with fries!" An enthusiastic girl exclaimed giving Erika the stir-fry and Ikki the chicken meal.

"I'm your new waiter! I hope you enjoy! If you need anything just wave your hand! Okay! Bye!" The girl animatedly said, her voice punctuating every sentence with an exclamation mark.

She gave them a huge grin before skipping away.

"O—kay, that was different."

The platters of steaming food in front of them looked pretty good, so they dig in.

"AHHHHH!"

A scream from outside interrupted them before they got a single bite in. Erika and Ikki got up immediately to see what had happened.

Erika snapped a few pictures before she got a clear view of what had happened.

In front of the store window, was the Phantom Renegade, in his hand was something that looked like a microchip.

"Stop! Thief! Come back!" A distressed chief screamed, waving a spatula at the Phantom, flicking bits of mashed potatoes everywhere.

"Don't worry, this will be put to good use." The Phantom stated mysteriously before he grabbed a ladder connected to a giant hot air balloon.

"Why are you taking that?" Erika shouted up to him, taking a dozen pictures a second.

"To benefit mankind! Farewell, the Phantom Renegade makes another perfect gettaway! Ha!" He shouted, his arms outstretched as he made a triumphant pose.

"Watch out!"

The crowd winced simultaneously as the Phantom hit a light pole on the head.

"That's gotta hurt." Erika said, as the Phantom climbed into the balloon and disappeared into the night.

Almost immediately, the reporter instincts kicked in.

"What was stolen?" She quizzed the crying Master Chief.

"My beautiful recipe! He stole my recipe! Oh the agony…..the pain….the cruelty…..the injusi-"

"Oh put a cork in it!" Erika told the weeping man harshly. Erika turned to him and faced Ikki. Ikki gave her 'the look' and she sighed and turned back to the chief.

"It can't be that bad can it?" She asked with fake sympathy, patting the man on the back.

"Yes it is! He stole my world famous recipe! I am the only one who knows it." He told her. Erika gave him a kleenex.

"What sort of recipe?" She asked, her mind racing with possibilities.

The man jumped up, wide grin prominent on his face. "World Famous!" He shouted.

Erika groaned. 'This is going nowhere.' She thought miserably.

"What she means is, what kind of recipe? Is it chicken? Beef?" Ikki asked from behind her, trying to help the Chief answer the obvious.

The chief looked around him. The crowd moved in, their sense of hearing centered keenly the chief's every word.

"Come with me." The chief whispered, grabbed the two kids and quickly ducking back into the kitchen where the crowd couldn't follow.

Finding a small corner in the kitchen, the chief sat down on a stool and began talking.

"The microchip the Phantom Renegade stole was a recipe for my world famous recipe for pudding."

Erika and Ikki looked at each other in disbelief. Why in the world would the Phantom Renegade want a pudding recipe?

"But…"

The two paid the chief' their full attention as he continued.

"This recipe is like no other. It is made with a special chemical, capable of multiplying at a rate of two cups of pudding per hour."

Erika gasped, this was fantastic news! She would make the front page! Set her career! All thoughts of Koji's plan, sweet Karen, and even Ikki fled her mind. This was by far, more important.

"How could the Phantom find it? You did keep it safely hidden right?" Erika asked, her notepad filling up with her jumbled words.

"If course it was safely hidden!" The chief said indignant, frowned at the thought that this mere girl reporter dared to ask him if he kept his prized recipe hidden from the eyes of the thieving, conniving, greedy public.

"Where was it then?" Ikki asked, looking around him in the busy kitchen, where everything seemed out in the opened.

"I hid it on top of my chief hat." The chief said. Erika and Ikki stared at him in disbelief.

"That crazy! What if it fell off?" Erika shrieked, almost throwing her notepad at the chief.

"Well…" The Chief thought thoughtfully for a minute.

"I have good balance."

Erika and Ikki left without saying a word.

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Walking down the street with Ikki, Erika couldn't help but feel extremely disappointed.

'It was a good plan, maybe Koji got Karen to go out with him again, maybe go girlfriend/boyfriend, but did anything come out of my night with Ikki? Nothing! Besides the fact I got a somewhat major scoop on a burglary of a world famous multiplying pudding recipe, and got nothing to eat. I'm hungry.'

Ikki, on the other hand, was thinking along the same lines as Erika….sorta…

'What a waste! I go on a night with Erika to stop Koji and Karen's date, and we got interrupted by the Phantom Renegade. Koji is probably going to go out with Karen again. It's not fair, I like Karen. Why would the Phantom take a pudding recipe anyway? He usually goes after rare medals. What does pudding have to do with anything? I'm hungry.'

"YO IKKI!"

Ikki and Erika turned at the sound of a familiar voice.

"Hey Medabee." Ikki said when Medabee came to them.

"So…" Medabee's bright eyes flashed with something that looked a lot like mischievous. "How was your date?"

Ikki growled. "It was NOT a DATE!" He yelled, turning around and walking down the street without looking back.

"Huh?" Erika felt totally lost.

"Ikki won't admit he was going on a date with you, so come on, spill the beans, what happened?" Medabee asked, practically begging Erika to tell him, but too proud to actually go down on his knees. (Not dignified you see)

"We weren't on a date-"

"Not true! I saw Ikki actually comb his hair! You went out on a date!" Medabee interrupted.

Erika looked in Ikki's direction. His figure fading the father he went down the street. Hey, his hair was actually combed! 'Probably just in case Karen saw him.' Erika thought bitterly.

"We really weren't out on a date, I was just out in a restaurant with Ikki so it wouldn't look strange. I was taking pictures of Koji and Karen's date."

"Too bad, I always liked you better anyway." Medabee muttered. Erika's eyes widened. 'Did he say what I think he said?'

"Pardon?" She asked, just to make sure.

"No offense to Karen, but she has no real spirit, you do! Besides, she may be pretty, but you are kinda cute too." Medabee might have been making her feel better at the start of his sentence, but the end made her feel indignant.

"What do you mean kinda cute?" She asked him, her voice dangerously low.

"Hee….hee….gottarunseeya!" Medabee shouted, running after his medafighter.

"COME BACK HERE MEDABEE!" Erika shouted shaking her fist at him.

Erika moped, she was only kinda cute, compared to Karen who was pretty, very pretty. And, in reality, Karen did have some brains, she was really sweet, and well, docile.

Erika glanced at a store window, looking at her reflection critically. She really was kinda cute, she had brains, but she wasn't sweet, no, she was forceful most of the time, and was anything but docile.

After another minute of critical surveying of the girl in the window, Erika began to head home.

Maybe tomorrow would be better.

Besides, she still had to type up that report on the burglary, do her homework, eat something, make another plan to get Ikki to notice her, make sure she keeps her side of the bargain and keep Doctor Aki away from the pudding…

'Oh boy.'

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Poor Erika, all that work to do….Well, it's the end of the chapter! You know what you have to do… That's right! Review! ^_~!

The next chapter will be out by Saturday at the latest.