Danki and Beatbox



Morning arose and the first few rays of sunlight hit the small blue house on the corner.

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*. With a whack, 10-year-old Danki Renton slammed down the button on her alarm clock. Today. Today was the day she'd be finishing her robot. It was a Music Style Medabot. She had recieved it from the music teacher when she was told she had not time for it. Go figure. Old-School Style MedaBot. She heaved herself out of her bed and sighed. She dangled her legs over the side and she reached over to her bedside table. On it, were two leg braces, and an inhaler. Wheelchair/Brace: Cane bound and asthmatic, Danki as a small child was usually kept inside. Only for short periods opf time was she aloud out. But she was as bright and cheery as she always had been. Snapping the anoying plasic braces back onto her legs, she picked up her cerebral canes and made her way over to her dresser. She had short cropped black hair and bright green eyes, She was of average height and was pretty strong for her age. Running a gloved hand through her wild brown hair she pulled on a pair of over-sized jean cut offs and snapped on a leather belt, and pulled on large blue tee shirt. Then she put on her light blue MetaWatch, the thing she needed to communicate with her MetaBot.

She wheeled herself down stairs and into her workshop. It was already fully assembled and all it needed was the one key element. The Medal. It looked a little like MetaBee, Ikki Tenrios' MetaBot. Man, they hardly EVER got along! She knew Ikki from when he used to come over a few years back. But it looked like a punk a bit. It had the same mask covering almost his whole face, except the dark spot where his eyes were to be. He looked like he was wearing jeans and a white tee shirt too. But in his middle was a cassette and CD player built right into him. And ontop of his shoulders were two double speakears. Next to the cassette and CD player were a number of buttons and knobs. Like bass boost, volume treble, balance control, and things like that. He even looked like he was wearing a backwards baseball cap. Sighing, she looked at the little hexagonal peice of metal. It had a little blue gem in the middle with a music note raised onto it. Her MedaBot was a MSC type. Smirking, she snapped in the medal and almost instantly, the little Medabot burst to life. With a giggle, she said in a calm, clear voice, she announced, "your name is...BEATBOX!". The diminutive robot came up to her shoulders and smirked with his eyes. "And who are you?" He asked her. Smirking, she said, "I'm your MedaFighter. Name's Danki Renton." She replied. "Ohhhhh cool. So your my MedaFighter. That's good. But why are ya in that wheelie thingie? And what're those things on your legs?" He asked. She sighed. "I'm in a wheelchair. It helps me move when I can't walk very well. And the braces are to keep my legs from getting anymore mangled then they already are. I can't feel my legs very well." She said to him. Nodding, he looked at himself, "so this is me, huh? BeatBox....I like it!"He cried. Danki smirked. "Wanna go outside?" She asked. BeatBox's one- color blue eyes looked out the workshop window. "Outside?"He asked. She nodded, "c'mon, follow me. Noone's home, so there's noone to freak over you.". Wheeling herself into the main room of the house, it was filled with the morning sunlight. BeatBox had to squint a small bit. Suddenly, a soft grunting noise reached his ears. Looking over, he saw Danki reaching for her denim jacket. "Want any help?" He asked. She nodded, "thanks.". 'This is getting of on the right foot! I don't believe it!' Danki thought happily.

As they left the house, BeatBox bumped into what looked like a walking bananna. It immedaieatly began to shout rather loudly. "Hey buddy! You better watch it or I'll-!" "Or you'll what!?". Danki gasped. BeatBox was barely ten minuets old and was already getting into trouble! Wheeling a little quicker, she bumped into another person. "Sorry!" She cried. "It's okay, Danki. Is that your MetaBot?"A familiar voice asked. Danki looked up to see Ikki Tenerio. Looking past him, she saw MetaBee trying to sike BeatBox out, but with no avail. "You mean the one that NOT jumping around like and idiot making noises like a rattling old JUNKBOT?! (Think MetaBee see Watermelon sound)"Danki asked, raising her voice rather purpously. Ikki groaned, "yea, Danki. That one.". Smiling she said, "yup. He's my MetaBot. Hey BeatBox! Come ere'!" He cried. Ignoring MetaBee, he brushed past him and walked to Danki's side, "yea? What's up?" He asked. "Ikki and MetaBee, meet BeatBox, BeatBox meet Ikki and MetaBee, the junk bot'!"Danki giggled. MetaBee looked so furious, that steam sprouted from his missle launchers. "Better watch that temper of yours...MetaBee." Came a ruleful voice. The quartet looked up to see what looked like a MetaBot. "Uhhh, Ikki? Who's that?" Danki asked. "Oh that's just Rokusho. Don't worry, he dosen't pose much of a threat. He dosen't like to fight."Ikki explained. Danki nodded and called, "hey Rokusho! Come down here! I'd like to meet you!". The old sounding bot' sighed, but jumped down from his place in the tree branch. "Name's Danki Renton." She said as she stuck out her gloved hand. Reaching foreward, he shook her hand lightly. Sighing, she turned herself around to face Ikki. When she turned back around, he was gone. She sat there, bewildered. "Does he do that alot?"BeatBox asked. He was returned with a shrug. Running a hand through her wild black hair, she sighed, "what a day...and Hell hasn't even begun yet...". "Ikki! Metabee! Look at this!"Cried a sudden voice. Turning her head, Danki saw a girl in pink overalls and a video camera in hand racing tward them, a Sailor-Type Medabot hurring to keep up. "Who's that?" she asked. "That's Erika, Ikki's GIRLFRIEND..."Metabee chucked. He abruply recieved a fist over his head from Ikki. "Not, but I know for a fact, that Metabee's got somethin' for Brass!"His MedaFighter shot back. By this time Erika and Brass had caught up and Erika was staring quite amuesdly at the fighting two. "Who're you?"Erika asked, suddenly noticing Danki and BeatBox. She stuck her hand out and said, "Names Danki Renton, I uhh don't get out a while lot. But this is BeatBox."Danki said with a gesture to her MedaBot. "My names Erika, and this is Brass.". Smiling Danki shook hands with her and sighed. "Do they always try to kill eachother like this?"BeatBox asked. Brass nodded. "I always had thought that Medabots and MedaFighters were meant to get along peacefully. Apparantly, I was wrong.". Wheeling herself around to face the two, all she saw was a huge dust cloud, a flurry of fists and little pepper shots, and yelps. Shoving two gloved fingers in her mouth, she whistled sharply. "Yo! Break it up!"She yelled. The sudden whistle caused the two to stop, and look around. "Oh, hey Erika.". "Hey Brass.". Ikki brushed some dirt out of his black hair, and smirked. "Metabee got pissed.". "Did not!" "Did too!" "Here we go again....". "Lets just leave them here and see how long it takes them to realize were gone."BeatBox suggested. Nodding, the four left.



"So Erika, do you know any good places to hang out around here?"Danki asked. They were making their way around town. Since Danki didn't really get out much, Erika was showing her around town. "There's the Hop Mart, and the park." She replied. Erika kept noticing how close BeatBox kept getting to Danki everytime someone walked passed them. "BeatBox, it's okay, noone is going to take Danki away from you."Brass reasoned. The MedaBot only shook his head. When they came to the bridge, Erika and Brass began to walk across, but then noticed Danki and BeatBox at the one side. Danki's green eyes were locked on the water below them. Erika came jogging back over and asked, "Danki, what's the matter?". "The water. I can't swim."she muttered embarassedly. "Oh." was all her friend could utter. BeatBox reached foreward and took his MedaFighters' hand. His own hands were larger than her's. "Don't worry. I won't let you fall in." He said firmly. Danki nodded. Erika took the handles of her chair and began to move across the bridge. "Why is the bridge creaking?"Danki asked, her voice raising slightly in her fear. BeatBox held her hand tighter. "Don't worry.". Half way through, Brass stopped. "There's weak wood here.". As if on a cue, a groaning and creaking noise reached them.

The very wood beneath them cracked and they fell through.BeatBox and Brass managed to hold on to their Medafighters in the water. "BeatBox!"Danki cried. "Miss Erika! Where are you!"Screamed out Brass. A small bobbing blotch of brown, white, and pink emerged out of the water, an unconsious Erika. "Miss Erika!". Danki's wheelchair was dragging her down pretty hard, she only had time to let out a loud scream before she fell under. "Brass! We have to get them to shore!" BeatBox called. He recieved a nod. "Erika!" cried out a voice. BeatBox turned to see Ikki and MetaBee running along side the shore. The current wasn't very strong, but still restriced movement. Ikki jumped in and swam over to the exausted Brass. MetaBee was quick to follow. "Where's Danki?"Ikki asked. BeatBox gasped. "She went under!". Ikki's eyes' went wide. "Her wheelchair!"He cried out. His mind flicked to remembered seeing straps to hold her legs incased in braces. And the one across her lap. "She won't be able to get out of her chair!"Ikki cried. Then Ikki noticed the powerful speakers on BeatBox's shoudlers. Before he could utter a word, a slight rain had begun to fall, clouds darkening the sky. That drizzle in a matter of seconds, was an all out downpour. Wiping rain from his eyes, he fumbled for Erika, she was cold. But she was still breathing, that was good. "MetaBee! How's Brass?"He called out as he and BeatBox searched the water for Danki. "There's alot of water in her stystem! She's shutting down and I can't stop it!"He cried out. Ikki noted the slight panic in his MedaBot's voice. Ikki knew that if a MedaBot shuts down, from extreme heat or cold, or something forgien in it's stystem, in this case, very cold water, there was a good chance the MedaBot wouldn't wake. "Well shock her, shake her, kick her, call her a broad do something!"Ikki cried back. "BeatBox, I want you to fire your most powerful sonic attack into the water and listen to when it comes back."Ikki ordered, trying to stay calm. BeatBox look at him, and for a breif moment, Ikki thought that the MedaBot was going to pull what MedaBee did. But he nodded, "okay.". "Dude! Ikki! Why are ya all out in the water!" screamed a hyper voice. Ikki would of slapped himself in the for head, but both hands were holding a soaken and shivering Erika. "Rintaro! I need you help! Get in the water!"He cried out. Thr smaller, but older boy jumped into the river, Kantroth right behind him. 'All this for one kid, good gravy.' Ikki thought angrily. "My friend's in a wheelchair and she went under. I need you and Kantroth with her MedaBot to go down and find her!"Ikki shouted to him. "Okay dude! Come one Kantroth!"He cried. He, his MedaBot, and BeatBox dove beneath the waves.

The first thing thing that shocked Danki wasn't the fanct that she couldn't breath, but the cold. It jarred what air she had out. She fumbled frantically for the straps holding her in, but her numb fingers' couldn't grasp the thick nylon. She remembered what she had been taught if this perdicament ever happened. She relaxed and remained as still as possible, pinching her nose shut tightly. She stayed that way. But her chest was burning! 'BeatBox...Help me...'She thought. Her brain was slowing down, she could feel it. Her starving heart began to pound, trying to keep functioning. She was so cold, she couldn't hold he breath any longer. She exhaled. On instinct, she inhaled deeply through her mouth. But insted of air, cold water invaded swiftly. Her vison was swiftly darker as she felt a stinging weight somewhere in her chest. 'BeatBox, I'm sorry.' she thought, and went limp.

BeatBox fumbled around for his MedaFighter in the freezing water. 'She won't last long in this!'He thought. Since MedaBots didn't have lungs, or mouths, they could speak underwater, if and when they were. "Kantroth! Can you see her?"He called. "No! Try using a sonar!"He called back. BeatBox flicked on his speakers and flipped to one of the CD's Danki had put in him before. Linkin Parks' Track 6 'Run Away'. He flicked on the track and flicked on an internal switch that made the music sonic. Sound waved rippled through the water and bounced back to him. "She's about 20 feet infront of us!"BeatBox shouted. Rintaro's hand brushed against cool metal and poked his MedaBot. Kantroth and BeatBox grabbed the wheechair handles and began to haul her to the surface.

"Brass! Hey come on Brass! Don't shut down!"MetaBee pleaded. He was getting desprate. Her shining eyes were dimming. "Brass, come on...if you can hear me, squeeze my hand. A tiny pulse on his hand. "Ikki, this isn't looking to good! But I can't move her!" MetaBee screamed. He wouldn't openly admit it, but he had some strong feelings for the Sailor-Type Medabot. "Keep her functioning!"Ikki shouted as he continued to talk to Erika to keep what little consiousness she had there. "Brass! Come on!"He screamed. He swore never to hurt her, not even in RoBattles did he try any full pain on her. It was harmless when they RoBattled. He took her firmly by the shoulders, and shook her as hard as he could, digging his robotic fingers onto the metal shoulders. "Brass! Wake up now!"He screamed. Then just as he finished shaking her, her pink eyes dimmed and went out fully. "Brass? Brass if you can hear me squeeze my hand."He demanded. No response. He remembered that sometimes Mrs.Tenryo would squeeze Ikki's hand first if he was sick, and he would squeeze back. He gently squeezed her metal hand once. No response, her fingers stiff and heavy from the amount of water in her small body. "No...Brass..."He whispered.



To Be Continued......

Next Time On MedaBots:

MetaBee sat just as nervous as BeatBox, Kantroth, and Rintaro. They were at the hospital, and one part was for MedaBots. Brass was in a critical state when they had reached the hospital. Ikki, Danki, and Erika had been taken away too. Erika and Danki for hypothermia, and for Ikki to dry off. Danki's lungs were still weak. "This isn't good."He sighed. Then the MedaBots' hospital mechanic came out, a peculair expression on his face. 'MedaBee does NOT like that look.' He thought. BeatBox went ridgid as the emergency room doctor walked out behind the mechanic, his face emotionless. "Oh no...."was all the Music Style Bot' could muster.

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