Hello everyone! Aren't I nice? *sees the people nod their heads* I thought so, getting this chapter out a day early. I'm so wonderful! Thank-you so much to everyone for reviewing! Seriously, you guys make my day! (correction) You guys make my week! No wait, Year! ^-^
To Hitokki Awww…thank-you! Are you going to do a chapter soon? *glares* I sure hope so! I'm writing, you have to write too! (I'm so mean am I not?)
The Black Ninja: I will write more, in fact, I have written more. Yummmmm milk chocolate….
Sakura_miyoyo: I agree, gemmei any kind of chocolate and I'll eat it! Well…almost any kind. *long- suffering sigh* I'm allergic to coconut. Thank-you for pressing the review button a lot!
Chiquita: I know a few good places to get e-mail, like hotmail or yahoo, they're both really good. Then when you get your e-mail you can post your stories! Yeah! By the way…I'll consider making this an Ikki and Erika fic. (But I'm telling wither I am making this an E/I fic or not. You'll just have to find out…MUHAHAHAHA!) *cough* ahem.
Henry fan: Yeah! A chocolate pudding fan! I bet you an Doctor Aki would really get along well.
Jenrukato Leekinoda 2: Don't worry. *gulp* I won't forget.
Lynderia: That's right! This is the Mystery Of The Stolen Pudding! The Horror of it! To think somebody would actually steal pudding! Shame…shame…shame…
DestinyLord7381: Thank-you! ^-^
Medafan: I looooove dark chocolate too, it's one of my favorites!
Kawaii Chibi Sora Tenshi: aww…I'm getting so many complements! Really! You guys are all out to get me on a permanent blush! Thank-you.
AnT: I hope you write your story soon. Mallory and Terra, you are forgiven. (umm…chocolate burgers? *checks chocolate record* nope, haven't tried that one…
Chibi~Hamsta: I guess the chapter was pretty yummy wasn't it?
Disclaimer: *whine* Do I have to do this every chapter? *sigh* Seriously, if you really think I own Medabots after all these chapters…well guess what? Your WRONG!
Here's another chapter dedicated to my *sniff* wonderful *sniff* reviewers, seriously I love you guys. ^-^
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"Ikki and Erika sat silent, watching in the bushes. Everything was quiet, not a sound in the air. The scene? At Doctor Aki's house. What they were watching? The Doctor. Doctor Aki to be precise. Why? To find the culprit of the stolen pudding. This scene is serious. Very serious. Any moment, any sound would alarm the auto machine gun medabots, designed specifically for security purposes."
"Uh…Erika? If everything is supposed to be quiet, why are you talking to yourself?"
Erika sighed in disappointment, shaking her head.
"Ikki, Ikki, Ikki. I thought you were smarter then that."
"Huh?"
"Tape recorder Ikki, so I don't miss a thing, it'll be easier to type this up later with this baby." Erika said, showing Ikki her new state-of-the-art microphone hidden in her locket, which was connected to a tape recorder hidden in her pocket.
"Where do you get these things?" Ikki asked, amazed at the high-tech designs.
"Henry's store."
"Oh."
Erika watched Doctor Aki pace back and forth in the room they were spying on. His face seemed….agitated. He was waiting for something….but what?
"What do you think he's doing?" Ikki asked, observing every movement with a sharp mind.
"Waiting, probably for the pudding in another room to duplicate." Erika answered him, waving little flies away from her face.
"That doesn't make sense, wouldn't he be waiting in the same room with the pudding?" Ikki asked, shooing the persistent flies flying near his face with hands.
"I don't know. Ugh! These flies are driving me nuts!" Erika whispered frustrated, the flies hounding her, evading her swinging arms.
"Me too, I wish I brought my bug spray." Ikki whispered back, one especially persistent fly seeming determined to get up his nose.
"Hey Guys!"
"AH!" The two screamed, startled at the sound of another person's voice.
Turning around, Erika gave a sigh of relief, it was only…Henry?
"Henry what in the world are you doing here?" Erika asked, her attention diverted from the drama played out in the other room.
"I'm here on business, what in the world are you doing here?" Henry asked back.
"A reporter's day never ends, I'm here on a major scoop. What kind of business are you doing here anyway?" Erika asked back.
"No, the real question is why are you in the bushes." Henry said, not answering Erika's question.
"Because!" Erika turned her back. "I'm on a major scoop."
She heard Henry sigh in defeat and walk away, the leaves and small branches crunching under his feet.
Erika pushed the microphone closer to her mouth and began talking quietly in it.
"Henry has just arrived with business to do with Doctor Aki. Probably about pudding. We're so close to the answer, I can almost taste it! Anyway, right now I'm looking in the window." Erika paused so that she could gain a better view-point of the pacing doctor.
"Doctor Aki is very agitated about something, he won't stay still for a minute. Something is going down, now only to find out what."
"Erika?"
Erika looked down at Ikki. He was looking at where she was standing.
"Yeah? What is it?" She asked, stepping down from the window.
"If you're not careful you could fall. The ground is pretty slippery the higher up you go."
Erika looked all around them. They were in the bushes, but closer to the window was bare ground. It did look a little wet, but not really slippery.
"It's all going to fine, don't be such a worrywart." Erika told him, climbing up higher just to annoy him.
"Erika! No, get down from there! I'm not a worrywart!" Ikki hissed, trying to keep his voice down, while trying to keep his frustration down too.
"You're so stubborn." He told her, hands on his hips, upset that she wouldn't take him seriously.
"Come on Ikki, what trouble could I possible get into?" Erika asked.
"Watch out!"
"Ah oh…" Erika clamped one hand over her mouth to prevent a scream and detection, while another hand firmly gripped the window sill. The ground was crumbling under her feet, she couldn't get a foothold!
Erika gasped as her hand slipped from the window, a sharp pain and a 'ouch' from beside her told her she had hit Ikki.
Something sharp hit her head, and all faded into darkness.
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"Is she going to be okay?"
"Probably, but Erika hit her head pretty hard, it might take a little while longer for her to wake up."
"What were you doing anyway?"
"Just….playing….that's all…nothing else."
Erika struggled to open her eyelids. 'They feel as heavy as lead, come on, open!' Erika felt a hand grip hers.
"Wake up, come on, wake up."
'I'm trying! I really am, but nothing seems to be working!' Erika shouted mentally, her mouth shut up tight, her feet motionless. Putting as much effort as possible, Erika felt her hand lightly squeeze the other hand.
"I felt her hand move!" A voice exclaimed.
After much effort, her eyelids parted slightly, revealing a fuzzy picture in front of her.
The whole gang was there, Doctor Aki, Karen, Koji, Henry, Medabee, Nutranurse, Sumilidon, and….Ikki. He was hovering over her with a worried look on his face.
'Aw, he cares.' Erika thought happily, the happiness, though, doing nothing to alleviate the pain shooting through her entire head and shoulders.
"What…happened?" She croaked out, her voice sounded like it hadn't been used in a while.
"You hit your head pretty hard when you fell. You've been out for a few hours." Ikki told her.
Erika stared at him intently, even though she couldn't see very well, it was obvious that he was blushing.
She wanted to tease him about it, but she couldn't say anything.
'This is so frustrating! I want to move, to talk, to see even!'
"The doctor told me that you'll be up and moving again in a few days, there was no major damage done to anything, although you'll probably have a killer headache and a few bruises." Henry told her, placing her muddy tape-recorder on the table.
'It must have fallen out when I fell. What is that?' Erika squinted at the tape recorder. 'NOOOOOOO! It can't be! There's no tape!'
"We have to go now, but I hope you fell better soon." Karen told her, giving her a small hug before leaving the room.
"Bye Erika." "Get better soon." "See you at school."
One by one they all left.
Erika stared at Koji. He was the only one left and he seemed to be thinking hard.
"What?" She asked him in her croaking voice.
"I just wanted to tell you that my date with Karen went well, and that we're going out again tomorrow, and I wanted to thank-you for your help in keeping Ikki out of the way." Koji told her, leaving the room.
'No problem. I can't he's going out again! And me, stuck here when I could be doing some major reporting! Urg, Life isn't fair!'
With that thought, her eyes became even heavier, and soon she was fast asleep.
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