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Chapter Three: The Strike Of Pain And Tradgedy
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Authoress' Notes: Okay so I lied, this chapter sux too, but man, I had it all planned out and then I got the flu and since I just write it on the computer as I think of it, I forgot it all and had writer's block for like a week, but I'm back now! So anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter!(Just a warning tho: It's really loooong) ^_^
Disclaimer: Okay, if you honestly think I own Medabots, I suggest you seek severe medical and pyschological help right away! But yea, I don't own Medabots or any of it's characters or components or whatever you'd care to throw at me involving such. So please do not sue! (The only thing in this I own are myself : (Crystaline Ikoda,) Sakura Ikoda, Satoshi Ikoda, and FelaFighter oh and the SCC type, I made it up, unless someone beat me to it : / anyways yea..)
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Crystaline Ikoda and Hikaru Agata stood under their favourite tree in the park, procrastinating the fact that they were about to do the hardess thing ever so far in the youth's young lives. They stood silently until the silence became too akward to bare anymore.
" Sooo, ha," he laughed nervously, " this is it, huh?" Hikaru stood before his friend, not wanting her to go, but knowing she had to.
"Ha, yea, I ummm, I guess it is.." Crystaline was clutching a bag that held some of her more precious items, as well as a few medaparts and such* and she was desperately trying to keep from losing her composure for a more depressed one.
(*A/N yes she does have a medabot but they don't like to robattle so her medabot doesn't show much but yea you'll see it later, anyways yea.XD can you tell what my fav words apparently are?anyways...)
"Ummm, good luck?" Hikaru asked hopefully.
"Yea," Crystaline replied queitly.
"Crystaline, I'm, well we'll ,we..." Hikaru tried to choke out the words but they wouldn't come.
"Don't worry 'bout it Hikaru, I know." Crystaline finished for Hikaru. " 'Sides, who wouldn't miss me?" She laughed trying to lighten the heavy mood.
"Ha! Yea,yea..." They both stood silent for a moment. All though they were constantly argueing, they still were each the best friend the other ever had. They had grown up together, and now it was all about to change. If only they had both known how much it would do so.
"CRYSTALINE IKODA STOP RIGHT THERE!!" Patra and Joe came barreling down the hill nearly running over their friend when they tried to put on their brakes (so to speak.)Patra snatched Crystaline's hand and was holding them up together as she began to to talk to the confused girl.
"You don't think we'd let you get away from us that easily!! And without saying goodbye no less!!"
"Yea!!Do you think we'd just let one of our best friends just slip away without anyone knowing, so you wouldn't have any long goodbyes?" Joe piped in.
"What?"Thought Crystaline, she was sure she hadn't told them.She didn't want anyone to know she was going, that would have just made things harder for her, only she couldn't leave without telling Hikaru, that would hurt her even more than leaving would. But how? How did they know she was leaving?She looked at Hikaru who was avoiding her eye contact. "How could you?" She mouthed in his direction.
"But I-" Hikaru whispered back.
"Hikaru didn't tell us Crystaline," Joe answered the private question that Crystaline had thought she had only asked between her and Hikaru. (A/N confusing I know, but I knew what I wanted to say only I can't seem to word it right...yea anyways)
"Yea," Patra said sheepishly. "We sorta over-heard.." The two lowered their heads in both shame and embarressment.
"What?!You were eavesdropping?!" Crystaline felt her face growing hot, but as she looked at her friends hanging their heads, she stopped and allowed herself to calm down and she sighed. "No, you know what? I don't care! I mean you know, I'm glad you found out, I was kidding myself thinking I could just escape without saying anything...'sides what kind of a person doesn't want to spend their last day in their home town with their friends?" She smiled warmly at them. "It feels good to know someone actually cares." She thought to herself.
Crystaline had always known she had friends, but she never really thought that she had real friends. Well except maybe Hikaru. She had always thought of them as being Hikaru's friends, and she had just been sorta there, inviting herself along because she was supposedly Hikaru's friend.But as she looked up to see her friends looking at her with true compassion, Patra growing more glassy eyed at the minute, all the negative thoughts were washed away.
"Crystaline? Don't tell you're gonna pull that whole spacing out thing on us, not on your last day with us!" Joe exclaimed.
"I'm only going to be gone two years Joe! Not forever!" Crystaline replied back.
"Two years?! That is forever Crystaline! A lot can happen in that amount of time!" Joe argued back.
Hikaru and Patra just stood back in a mix of amusement and concern at their friends actions.
"You know if your not careful Hikaru, you may have some competition when it comes to getting the chance to lose a fight with Crystaline!" Patra nudged Hikaru with her elbow.
"I know what you mean, I mean ..hey!! I don't lose the fights!" Hikaru shouted his last words.
"Unhuh."
They sat back and continued to watch the battle being waged before them.
Crystaline sighed. She knew Joe was right, but Crystaline hated to lose a fight, so she continued the arguement. "Nothing will happen Joe! Nothing ever does, when I get back everything will be the same as it was before! Nothing will have changed!" She shouted frustrated, but her mood took on a more happy demeanor with her next comment. "Only thing that will have changed, is the fact that I won't be coming home to my friends..I'll be coming back to three CHAMPIONS!!!"
"YEAH!!!!!!!!!!" They all cheered happily and enthusiastically in agreement and pumped their fists in the air.
"Now-" Crystaline began, but she didn't have any more time for conversation, because at that moment, she was tackled by a laughing and giggling Joe and Patra. They enveloped her into a huge hug, but the force was too great and it sent them all tumbling to the ground. Hikaru stood back and laughed at his friends, who were now in a disheveled mess on the ground and laughing like mad men-er persons, (A/N want to be politically correct now don't we!) then he dived to the ground and added himself to the chaos.
After a few minutes of giggling, laughing and trying to untangle themselves from a mess of arms and legs, Joe and Hikaru managed to lift themselves out of the mess and dust themselves off, they then presided to extend out their hands and raise the girls to their feet.
Crystaline found herself blushing when Hikaru raised her to her feet, to her surprise, she noticed Hikaru was blushing too.
"Now Crystaline, what time do you have to be at the airport by?" Patra asked, cutting in to Crystaline's own personal romantic comtemplations, much to her dissapointment.
"Oh yea," Crystaline felt herself growing upset again, "ummm, 4:00. Why?"
"4:00?!Well that only leaves us with only a few hours, but that's plenty of time to show you the time of your life before you have to leave us.Now c'mon!" She grabbed Crystaline by the wrists much to her confusion, "Let's go have fun!"
The rest of the afternoon was spent doing several random things. They spent the first half of the day at an amusement park where Patra, Joe and Hikaru had to drag Crystaline kicking and screaming protest onto a rollercoaster, then having to suffer through her wanting to go on another 5 times. Next Joe, Hikaru and Crystaline had to suffer through Patra forcing them to see the most romantic, sappiest (UGH!) movie there. Innocent bystanders will tell you that it was quite homourous watching Patra drag the three of them in, even trying to push Crystaline in as she clung desperately to the door frame. (XD yes I really do hate sappy movies that much!) Only the funniest part is at the end, perhaps the boys liked it even more than the girls did. If you were silent you can probably still hear their happy sniffling now. But hey I digress..Next came the one part that was probably one of Crystaline's favourites, THE ICECREAM!! (Suprise suprise, she got deluxe cotton candy, the sweetest, most sugary of all icecreams MWAHAHA*ehm* yea,)
Sadly time flys quickly.
" Oh my GOD!" Crystaline looked at her medawatch. It read 3:25 pm. "My plane leaves in a half an hour and I still haven't even made sure everything's packed or anything! I have to get home!" Crystaline tried to remain calm but noted the panic trying to sneak it's way into her voice. She leapt up from where she sat at the table at the 24 HopMart, a place that would become quite valid in the future. "I'm so sorry guys! I mean I had so much fun, and it was so nice of you to do this for me,I appreciate it more than you'll ever know, but I- I have to go!"
Crystaline ran out of the store leaving all her friends dumbfounded as they got up and ran after her.
"CRYSTALINE!!WAIT!!" Her friends called after her, however Crystaline continued to run, she didn't want to turn around and stop, because then she'd never really have to say goodbye. She'd just keep running, then maybe she'd be able to wake up from this dream that was quickly becoming a nightmare.
"I can't say goodbye! I can't! I won't! Why? Because I'm not leaving!! They can't make me I won't!" Her eyes were hot, and they stung as her salty tears were trying to escape. But she held them back. "I won't cry! I will not lose my dignity!" Crystaline's eyes were misty and she had to close them, making it difficult to run. She tripped and landed on her side, just a few feet from her house. Crystaline knew she had to, but her body refused to get up, and she just lied on the ground. Foolishly allowing herself to get engulfed and overwhealmed (A/N sp?) with frustration, anger and pain.
"It's not fair!" She cried. "It's not fair!!"
"Crystaline," Crystaline felt two arms being placed under her own, and she was being raised to her feet.
Crystaline spun around to face Hikaru, as Patra and Joe proped her up until she was certain she could regain her balance.
"I don't want to leave!" She yelled at him.
"I know," He replied sympathetically. "and we don't want you to, but you have to, you said so yourself remember?"
"I know.."
"Crystaline," started Joe, " Don't worry, everything will be okay, I'm sure of it."
"Yea Crystaline, " Patra added, "you said so yourself, you'll come back and everything will go back to the way it was, and it will be like you never left. You'll see!"
"I suppose.."
"C'mon, we'll walk you to your house then we'll all go to the airport together."
Crystaline sighed. "A'right."
"Good."
The three walked ahead, leaving Crystaline a moment to recollect herself. Hikaru paused and watched his friend, standing silently for a moment, lost in thought no doubt.
"Crystaline," he whispered silently to himself. "I wish this wasn't so hard." Hikaru walked towards her.
Crystaline looked up to see a hankerchief (A/N..sp? sorry I don't have spell check : /) being held in front of her face.
"Just incase," said Hikaru, "don't want you to lose your reputation."
Crystaline smiled. "Thank you."
They walked together to the Ikoda residence for Crystaline to gather her last remaining things and get FelaFighter (her medabot, please don't ask about the name I seriously don't know where it came from!). Then they left for the airport.
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Crystaline sat in the plane, waiting for it to take off.
"Oh Hikaru," she breathed.
"Crystaline look!" FelaFighter shouted to her medafighter from the seat next to her.
The girl looked first to the cat type medabot and then out her window to where she was pointing.
Crystaline let out a gasp. Just outside her window in large letters printed on a banner were the words : GOOD LUCK CRYSTALINE!! WE'LL MISS YOU!! BE BACK SOON!" and holding the banner she could see Hikaru, Patra and Joe waving to her with large grins. She smiled.
"Thanks guys."
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"Hurry FelaFighter, we're gonna miss it!"
"Coming Crystaline, just give me a second!" The SCC type medabot ran into the room, and turned on the tv.
"I promised them I wouldn't miss their big match, and I always keep my promise!" (A/N she's refering to the Magnificiant Meadfighters for anyone who can't already tell)
" I know, isn't this exciting?" FelaFighter asked her MedaFighter almost as happy as the girl was herself. She was glad Crystaline was finally getting used to her new surroundings.
Much to Crystaline's dissapointment, the phone rang.
"FelaFighter, could you get that?"
"I would love to, but don't you think you should? You said you were expecting a phone call from your parents remember?"
"Hmmm," Crystaline smirked. "You don't wanna miss it either do you?"
FelaFighter laughed. "Guilty as charged."
"Haha, a'right you, tell me what I miss!" With that Crystaline ran to grab the phone.
"Hello, Crystaline?" Sakura questioned.
"HI MOM!" Crystaline exclaimed happily.
"Hello dear, glad to see your finally in a better mood!"
"Yea," there was a small pause.
"Ummm Crystaline, I'm sorry to say your father and I are running a little behind schedule and we won't be able to make it home for dinner tonight, but we'll try to get there as fast as we can. Will you be alright on your own?"
There was another small pause.
"Crystaline?"
"Huh, yea, umm sure, I'll be fine." Crystaline replied sadly.
"Well, I could make some calls so that your father and I can find a way to arrange it so we'll come home if you'd like..."
"No, no that's okay." came the upset voice from the other line. "I'll be fine, FelaFighter and I will just watch the match, and make something quick for dinner, it's no problem."
"If your sure,"
"I am, don't worry about it, you should probably get back to work, umm give my love to dad k?"
"Alright honey,as long as your sure, love you!" Sakura Ikoda hung up the phone.
"Yea, bye." Crystaline said to the dial tone. She slowly hung up the phone, and walked into the television room. Her eyes were wide with shock with what she saw.
There was panic and chaos errupting all over the television set. Fire was engulfing things everywhere.
"What's going on?" She gasped. "FelaFighter do you know-"
The girl turned to look at her medabot and was frightened at what she saw. The SCC was glaring at her, and was beginning to glow.
"FelaFighter, what's going on? Why are you looking at me like that? What happened?" Panic continued to rise in Crystaline's voice, higher and higher with each question.
Crystaline could hear screaming outside her house, and a voice on the television said that Medabots were rebellioning all over and causing mass destruction.
"What? How can this be?" Crystaline returned her attention to her Medabot, who know had a wicked grin on her face. (A/N okay, okay, I know Medabots don't really have mouths, but work with me here!) "FelaFighter, why?" She questioned.
Suddenly like a bat out of Hell, (_) the SCC came charging at her MedaFighter, letting out a horrible battle cry.
Crystaline gasped in sheer terror. Remembering her perdicament (sp?) she quickly regained her composure in evaded the attack to the best of her ability.
"I'm sorry dear friend, but I can't have you going and hurting innocent people." Crystaline said to her Medabot, and with that, tears welling up in her eyes, she slammed her fist down as hard as she could on the back of her Medabot's head, rendering her unconcious, her medal ejected. Crystaline quickly santched it up and returned it to her medawatch.
Sadly Crystaline was not fast enough, and with a last burst of energy before collapsing, the Medabot sent a cold blast of energy through the girl's body. The hot pain surging through her body, the girl let out an nearly inhuman cry of agony, and with the darkness quickly engulfing her, she dropped to the ground into the black.
There she and the Meadbot lay, side by side, unconcious on the floor, awaiting for the hope that some one would find them.
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"Doctor! This one is waking up! They're still alive!"
"What?" The doctor quickly ran to the side of the bed, next to the nurse, staring intently at the unconcious figure lying on the bed, eyelids fluttering, as the body tried desperately to awaken.
Crystaline Ikoda slowly opened her eyes. Where was she? Fear washed over her body as she glanced around at the unusual setting. All she could remember was a terrible pounding in her head. She tried to move, but she found her back and chest alarmingly sore and stiff, and looked down to see bandages wrapped around her upper midrifff.
That's when she remembered what had happened. That horrible moment began to flash before her eyes again, like a movie that just wouldn't stop playing. She squeezed her eyes shut with remorse.
"You had us all very worried miss." The doctor stated, getting up into her face, and in Crystaline's oppinion, invading her space.
She stared at him blankly, still trying to cope with the recent events. She glance past him to see the crumpled up body of her partner.
" FelaFighter!" She exclaimed and extended her hand in false hopes that that would be enough to reach her.
She glared at the doctor. "What have you done to her?!" She demanded.
"N-nothing." The doctor stammered, slightly taken back by the girls anger. "She's perfectly fine, her medals just not in her body at the moment that's all."
"Where's my medawatch?" She demanded again.
"O-over there." The doctor pointed in the direction of a end table. "But don't you think you should rest now?" He watched as the young girl struggled to raise herself out of bed. Her persistence was immence, despite the obvious fact that she should be felling extreme pain right now. The doctor marvelled at this.
Crystaline grew ever more frustrated at her own incompetence. She tried again.
" AHHH!" She let out a great cry of pain and desperately grasped at where the pain was in her chest. She breathed heavily for a moment, before again trying to raise herself out of her bed.
"Miss Crystaline please! You must try to relax!" The doctor argued, hoping he could somehow get through to the young girl.
"How can I relax?! I don't even know where I am, or what's going on!! Where are my parents?!" Crystaline screamed at the doctor.
The doctor and the nurse looked at each other nervously.
"Crystaline," the doctor began softly and sympathetically. "you should feel happy, you're one of the survivors."
Crystaline looked at him with disgust. "Why are you avoiding my question?! And why the tone?"
Again the doctor looked first to the nurse and then to disgruntled young girl. "Crystaline," he began again, his voice soft, but sad. "I'm afraid we have some bad news."
Crystaline studied the doctor and nurse's expressions, unsure but deep in the pit of her stomach already knowing.
"Your parents you see, well once the Medabots began to riot, the tried to rush home to get to you and, and...well, they were *ehm* unsuccessful." he said at last.
Crystaline started at him in disbelief. Basically in the kindest terms possible he had just told her the unthinkable. Her parent were dead. She stared at them, her eyes growing wider and wider with each word, grief overwhelmed her.
"No," she breathed. "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
The doctor tried to put his arm around her in an act of sympathy.
"NO!" Crystaline threw the doctor's arm off and away from her. Next she threw off her covers and leapt out of the bed.
"Crystaline, what are you doing? No! Wait!"
"NO!!NO! I WON'T BELIEVE IT! I WON'T!!" Crystaline cried. She grabbed her Medawatch and Medabot, and began to run out of the hospital.
"Crystaline please, wait! Stop!" The doctor called out after her.
Crystaline ignored them and just kept running. She wouldn't stop. And noone would make her. She wouldn't believe what they said. She'd just keep on running.
Crystaline continued to run, wiping her eyes serveral times as she ran, to prevent any tears from escaping. That's when she felt herself stop.
She opened her eyes. It was her house. Crystaline slammed the door open and ran into the house. Crystaline heard a woman's voice coming from one of the rooms.
"MOM!!" She exclaimed running into the TV room. Her heart sank at what she saw. An empty room. "So they really are gone.." she thought sadly. "Then that voice, it was just, just the television."
She glanced around the room for some sign that everything was still okay, but she found nothing. Her house lay in total ruins, a great deal of things broken and chared. "So, I guess FelaFighter wasn't the only Medabot here today."
The voice on her television quickly caught her attention. She had forgotten it was even on till that moment.
Crystaline stared at her televison set in disbelief and shock. It now retained a fixed gaze of horror at what she saw. All the mass destruction, the pain, the suffering, fire everywhere.
"No.." she uttered.
But what the voice said next was far to overwhelming for the young girl to handle.
"And the person responsible for all of this.." the voice began spitefully inbetween sniffles, "..is Hikaru Agata!"
"What?" Crystaline felt herself falling into a pit of darkness and nothingness. She couldn't escape. She could not believe what she just heard. She wouldn't. Her best friend. HER BEST FRIEND!!! Crystaline felt overwhelmed, her body shook uncontrollably.
"No," she breathed, "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Crystaline couldn't handle it any more, she slammed her fist against the wall. "No," she continued to repeat. "No." She felt the tears well up again, but this time she let them fall, she cried in pain, leaning on her hand the wall. Her hand balled into a fist, she shoke uncontrollably and eventually collapsed to her knees, she still couldn't help but feel herself repeat "no," over and over again.
She wrapped her arms around her knees, and for perhaps the first and only time ever in the young girl's life, Crystaline truly and genuinely cried . Cried long and hard with true anguish, her medabot lying a few feet in front of her in a disheveled lump, she cried, as her world came crashing down around her. She had lost everything, her parents, as well as her best friend. Her life was over. Now she truly felt dead to the world , because her world was now dead to her. And for that, she truly cried.
******************************************* Authoress' Notes: *yuck* I said I hate sappy movies with a passion and here I'm writing a sappy fic!! *shakes fist at the irony*Whew!! Man my fingers hurt! Okay, this really should have been two seperate chapters but I messed up. Plus in the end of chappie two I said that the life influencing events would take place in chapter three, and I couldn't go back on my word now. Anyways I don't really like this chapter I think Crystaline's (well my feelings) are carried out for far to long in exageration, but it's just that I couldn't find the appropriate way to write about Crystaline's emotions at this heavy time. So yeah, this chappie sux, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update but I've been really sidetracked so yea, ummm don't worry chapter four hopefully won't take as long to update and I promise to post new chapters hopefully soon of my other two fics in the Medabot's category as well. But anyways still review with your thoughts and constructive criticism is always appreciated as long as it isn't to harsh, so please tell me what you think! And until then-Crystaline ^___^
Authoress' Notes: Okay so I lied, this chapter sux too, but man, I had it all planned out and then I got the flu and since I just write it on the computer as I think of it, I forgot it all and had writer's block for like a week, but I'm back now! So anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter!(Just a warning tho: It's really loooong) ^_^
Disclaimer: Okay, if you honestly think I own Medabots, I suggest you seek severe medical and pyschological help right away! But yea, I don't own Medabots or any of it's characters or components or whatever you'd care to throw at me involving such. So please do not sue! (The only thing in this I own are myself : (Crystaline Ikoda,) Sakura Ikoda, Satoshi Ikoda, and FelaFighter oh and the SCC type, I made it up, unless someone beat me to it : / anyways yea..)
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Crystaline Ikoda and Hikaru Agata stood under their favourite tree in the park, procrastinating the fact that they were about to do the hardess thing ever so far in the youth's young lives. They stood silently until the silence became too akward to bare anymore.
" Sooo, ha," he laughed nervously, " this is it, huh?" Hikaru stood before his friend, not wanting her to go, but knowing she had to.
"Ha, yea, I ummm, I guess it is.." Crystaline was clutching a bag that held some of her more precious items, as well as a few medaparts and such* and she was desperately trying to keep from losing her composure for a more depressed one.
(*A/N yes she does have a medabot but they don't like to robattle so her medabot doesn't show much but yea you'll see it later, anyways yea.XD can you tell what my fav words apparently are?anyways...)
"Ummm, good luck?" Hikaru asked hopefully.
"Yea," Crystaline replied queitly.
"Crystaline, I'm, well we'll ,we..." Hikaru tried to choke out the words but they wouldn't come.
"Don't worry 'bout it Hikaru, I know." Crystaline finished for Hikaru. " 'Sides, who wouldn't miss me?" She laughed trying to lighten the heavy mood.
"Ha! Yea,yea..." They both stood silent for a moment. All though they were constantly argueing, they still were each the best friend the other ever had. They had grown up together, and now it was all about to change. If only they had both known how much it would do so.
"CRYSTALINE IKODA STOP RIGHT THERE!!" Patra and Joe came barreling down the hill nearly running over their friend when they tried to put on their brakes (so to speak.)Patra snatched Crystaline's hand and was holding them up together as she began to to talk to the confused girl.
"You don't think we'd let you get away from us that easily!! And without saying goodbye no less!!"
"Yea!!Do you think we'd just let one of our best friends just slip away without anyone knowing, so you wouldn't have any long goodbyes?" Joe piped in.
"What?"Thought Crystaline, she was sure she hadn't told them.She didn't want anyone to know she was going, that would have just made things harder for her, only she couldn't leave without telling Hikaru, that would hurt her even more than leaving would. But how? How did they know she was leaving?She looked at Hikaru who was avoiding her eye contact. "How could you?" She mouthed in his direction.
"But I-" Hikaru whispered back.
"Hikaru didn't tell us Crystaline," Joe answered the private question that Crystaline had thought she had only asked between her and Hikaru. (A/N confusing I know, but I knew what I wanted to say only I can't seem to word it right...yea anyways)
"Yea," Patra said sheepishly. "We sorta over-heard.." The two lowered their heads in both shame and embarressment.
"What?!You were eavesdropping?!" Crystaline felt her face growing hot, but as she looked at her friends hanging their heads, she stopped and allowed herself to calm down and she sighed. "No, you know what? I don't care! I mean you know, I'm glad you found out, I was kidding myself thinking I could just escape without saying anything...'sides what kind of a person doesn't want to spend their last day in their home town with their friends?" She smiled warmly at them. "It feels good to know someone actually cares." She thought to herself.
Crystaline had always known she had friends, but she never really thought that she had real friends. Well except maybe Hikaru. She had always thought of them as being Hikaru's friends, and she had just been sorta there, inviting herself along because she was supposedly Hikaru's friend.But as she looked up to see her friends looking at her with true compassion, Patra growing more glassy eyed at the minute, all the negative thoughts were washed away.
"Crystaline? Don't tell you're gonna pull that whole spacing out thing on us, not on your last day with us!" Joe exclaimed.
"I'm only going to be gone two years Joe! Not forever!" Crystaline replied back.
"Two years?! That is forever Crystaline! A lot can happen in that amount of time!" Joe argued back.
Hikaru and Patra just stood back in a mix of amusement and concern at their friends actions.
"You know if your not careful Hikaru, you may have some competition when it comes to getting the chance to lose a fight with Crystaline!" Patra nudged Hikaru with her elbow.
"I know what you mean, I mean ..hey!! I don't lose the fights!" Hikaru shouted his last words.
"Unhuh."
They sat back and continued to watch the battle being waged before them.
Crystaline sighed. She knew Joe was right, but Crystaline hated to lose a fight, so she continued the arguement. "Nothing will happen Joe! Nothing ever does, when I get back everything will be the same as it was before! Nothing will have changed!" She shouted frustrated, but her mood took on a more happy demeanor with her next comment. "Only thing that will have changed, is the fact that I won't be coming home to my friends..I'll be coming back to three CHAMPIONS!!!"
"YEAH!!!!!!!!!!" They all cheered happily and enthusiastically in agreement and pumped their fists in the air.
"Now-" Crystaline began, but she didn't have any more time for conversation, because at that moment, she was tackled by a laughing and giggling Joe and Patra. They enveloped her into a huge hug, but the force was too great and it sent them all tumbling to the ground. Hikaru stood back and laughed at his friends, who were now in a disheveled mess on the ground and laughing like mad men-er persons, (A/N want to be politically correct now don't we!) then he dived to the ground and added himself to the chaos.
After a few minutes of giggling, laughing and trying to untangle themselves from a mess of arms and legs, Joe and Hikaru managed to lift themselves out of the mess and dust themselves off, they then presided to extend out their hands and raise the girls to their feet.
Crystaline found herself blushing when Hikaru raised her to her feet, to her surprise, she noticed Hikaru was blushing too.
"Now Crystaline, what time do you have to be at the airport by?" Patra asked, cutting in to Crystaline's own personal romantic comtemplations, much to her dissapointment.
"Oh yea," Crystaline felt herself growing upset again, "ummm, 4:00. Why?"
"4:00?!Well that only leaves us with only a few hours, but that's plenty of time to show you the time of your life before you have to leave us.Now c'mon!" She grabbed Crystaline by the wrists much to her confusion, "Let's go have fun!"
The rest of the afternoon was spent doing several random things. They spent the first half of the day at an amusement park where Patra, Joe and Hikaru had to drag Crystaline kicking and screaming protest onto a rollercoaster, then having to suffer through her wanting to go on another 5 times. Next Joe, Hikaru and Crystaline had to suffer through Patra forcing them to see the most romantic, sappiest (UGH!) movie there. Innocent bystanders will tell you that it was quite homourous watching Patra drag the three of them in, even trying to push Crystaline in as she clung desperately to the door frame. (XD yes I really do hate sappy movies that much!) Only the funniest part is at the end, perhaps the boys liked it even more than the girls did. If you were silent you can probably still hear their happy sniffling now. But hey I digress..Next came the one part that was probably one of Crystaline's favourites, THE ICECREAM!! (Suprise suprise, she got deluxe cotton candy, the sweetest, most sugary of all icecreams MWAHAHA*ehm* yea,)
Sadly time flys quickly.
" Oh my GOD!" Crystaline looked at her medawatch. It read 3:25 pm. "My plane leaves in a half an hour and I still haven't even made sure everything's packed or anything! I have to get home!" Crystaline tried to remain calm but noted the panic trying to sneak it's way into her voice. She leapt up from where she sat at the table at the 24 HopMart, a place that would become quite valid in the future. "I'm so sorry guys! I mean I had so much fun, and it was so nice of you to do this for me,I appreciate it more than you'll ever know, but I- I have to go!"
Crystaline ran out of the store leaving all her friends dumbfounded as they got up and ran after her.
"CRYSTALINE!!WAIT!!" Her friends called after her, however Crystaline continued to run, she didn't want to turn around and stop, because then she'd never really have to say goodbye. She'd just keep running, then maybe she'd be able to wake up from this dream that was quickly becoming a nightmare.
"I can't say goodbye! I can't! I won't! Why? Because I'm not leaving!! They can't make me I won't!" Her eyes were hot, and they stung as her salty tears were trying to escape. But she held them back. "I won't cry! I will not lose my dignity!" Crystaline's eyes were misty and she had to close them, making it difficult to run. She tripped and landed on her side, just a few feet from her house. Crystaline knew she had to, but her body refused to get up, and she just lied on the ground. Foolishly allowing herself to get engulfed and overwhealmed (A/N sp?) with frustration, anger and pain.
"It's not fair!" She cried. "It's not fair!!"
"Crystaline," Crystaline felt two arms being placed under her own, and she was being raised to her feet.
Crystaline spun around to face Hikaru, as Patra and Joe proped her up until she was certain she could regain her balance.
"I don't want to leave!" She yelled at him.
"I know," He replied sympathetically. "and we don't want you to, but you have to, you said so yourself remember?"
"I know.."
"Crystaline," started Joe, " Don't worry, everything will be okay, I'm sure of it."
"Yea Crystaline, " Patra added, "you said so yourself, you'll come back and everything will go back to the way it was, and it will be like you never left. You'll see!"
"I suppose.."
"C'mon, we'll walk you to your house then we'll all go to the airport together."
Crystaline sighed. "A'right."
"Good."
The three walked ahead, leaving Crystaline a moment to recollect herself. Hikaru paused and watched his friend, standing silently for a moment, lost in thought no doubt.
"Crystaline," he whispered silently to himself. "I wish this wasn't so hard." Hikaru walked towards her.
Crystaline looked up to see a hankerchief (A/N..sp? sorry I don't have spell check : /) being held in front of her face.
"Just incase," said Hikaru, "don't want you to lose your reputation."
Crystaline smiled. "Thank you."
They walked together to the Ikoda residence for Crystaline to gather her last remaining things and get FelaFighter (her medabot, please don't ask about the name I seriously don't know where it came from!). Then they left for the airport.
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Crystaline sat in the plane, waiting for it to take off.
"Oh Hikaru," she breathed.
"Crystaline look!" FelaFighter shouted to her medafighter from the seat next to her.
The girl looked first to the cat type medabot and then out her window to where she was pointing.
Crystaline let out a gasp. Just outside her window in large letters printed on a banner were the words : GOOD LUCK CRYSTALINE!! WE'LL MISS YOU!! BE BACK SOON!" and holding the banner she could see Hikaru, Patra and Joe waving to her with large grins. She smiled.
"Thanks guys."
**********some time later*********
"Hurry FelaFighter, we're gonna miss it!"
"Coming Crystaline, just give me a second!" The SCC type medabot ran into the room, and turned on the tv.
"I promised them I wouldn't miss their big match, and I always keep my promise!" (A/N she's refering to the Magnificiant Meadfighters for anyone who can't already tell)
" I know, isn't this exciting?" FelaFighter asked her MedaFighter almost as happy as the girl was herself. She was glad Crystaline was finally getting used to her new surroundings.
Much to Crystaline's dissapointment, the phone rang.
"FelaFighter, could you get that?"
"I would love to, but don't you think you should? You said you were expecting a phone call from your parents remember?"
"Hmmm," Crystaline smirked. "You don't wanna miss it either do you?"
FelaFighter laughed. "Guilty as charged."
"Haha, a'right you, tell me what I miss!" With that Crystaline ran to grab the phone.
"Hello, Crystaline?" Sakura questioned.
"HI MOM!" Crystaline exclaimed happily.
"Hello dear, glad to see your finally in a better mood!"
"Yea," there was a small pause.
"Ummm Crystaline, I'm sorry to say your father and I are running a little behind schedule and we won't be able to make it home for dinner tonight, but we'll try to get there as fast as we can. Will you be alright on your own?"
There was another small pause.
"Crystaline?"
"Huh, yea, umm sure, I'll be fine." Crystaline replied sadly.
"Well, I could make some calls so that your father and I can find a way to arrange it so we'll come home if you'd like..."
"No, no that's okay." came the upset voice from the other line. "I'll be fine, FelaFighter and I will just watch the match, and make something quick for dinner, it's no problem."
"If your sure,"
"I am, don't worry about it, you should probably get back to work, umm give my love to dad k?"
"Alright honey,as long as your sure, love you!" Sakura Ikoda hung up the phone.
"Yea, bye." Crystaline said to the dial tone. She slowly hung up the phone, and walked into the television room. Her eyes were wide with shock with what she saw.
There was panic and chaos errupting all over the television set. Fire was engulfing things everywhere.
"What's going on?" She gasped. "FelaFighter do you know-"
The girl turned to look at her medabot and was frightened at what she saw. The SCC was glaring at her, and was beginning to glow.
"FelaFighter, what's going on? Why are you looking at me like that? What happened?" Panic continued to rise in Crystaline's voice, higher and higher with each question.
Crystaline could hear screaming outside her house, and a voice on the television said that Medabots were rebellioning all over and causing mass destruction.
"What? How can this be?" Crystaline returned her attention to her Medabot, who know had a wicked grin on her face. (A/N okay, okay, I know Medabots don't really have mouths, but work with me here!) "FelaFighter, why?" She questioned.
Suddenly like a bat out of Hell, (_) the SCC came charging at her MedaFighter, letting out a horrible battle cry.
Crystaline gasped in sheer terror. Remembering her perdicament (sp?) she quickly regained her composure in evaded the attack to the best of her ability.
"I'm sorry dear friend, but I can't have you going and hurting innocent people." Crystaline said to her Medabot, and with that, tears welling up in her eyes, she slammed her fist down as hard as she could on the back of her Medabot's head, rendering her unconcious, her medal ejected. Crystaline quickly santched it up and returned it to her medawatch.
Sadly Crystaline was not fast enough, and with a last burst of energy before collapsing, the Medabot sent a cold blast of energy through the girl's body. The hot pain surging through her body, the girl let out an nearly inhuman cry of agony, and with the darkness quickly engulfing her, she dropped to the ground into the black.
There she and the Meadbot lay, side by side, unconcious on the floor, awaiting for the hope that some one would find them.
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"Doctor! This one is waking up! They're still alive!"
"What?" The doctor quickly ran to the side of the bed, next to the nurse, staring intently at the unconcious figure lying on the bed, eyelids fluttering, as the body tried desperately to awaken.
Crystaline Ikoda slowly opened her eyes. Where was she? Fear washed over her body as she glanced around at the unusual setting. All she could remember was a terrible pounding in her head. She tried to move, but she found her back and chest alarmingly sore and stiff, and looked down to see bandages wrapped around her upper midrifff.
That's when she remembered what had happened. That horrible moment began to flash before her eyes again, like a movie that just wouldn't stop playing. She squeezed her eyes shut with remorse.
"You had us all very worried miss." The doctor stated, getting up into her face, and in Crystaline's oppinion, invading her space.
She stared at him blankly, still trying to cope with the recent events. She glance past him to see the crumpled up body of her partner.
" FelaFighter!" She exclaimed and extended her hand in false hopes that that would be enough to reach her.
She glared at the doctor. "What have you done to her?!" She demanded.
"N-nothing." The doctor stammered, slightly taken back by the girls anger. "She's perfectly fine, her medals just not in her body at the moment that's all."
"Where's my medawatch?" She demanded again.
"O-over there." The doctor pointed in the direction of a end table. "But don't you think you should rest now?" He watched as the young girl struggled to raise herself out of bed. Her persistence was immence, despite the obvious fact that she should be felling extreme pain right now. The doctor marvelled at this.
Crystaline grew ever more frustrated at her own incompetence. She tried again.
" AHHH!" She let out a great cry of pain and desperately grasped at where the pain was in her chest. She breathed heavily for a moment, before again trying to raise herself out of her bed.
"Miss Crystaline please! You must try to relax!" The doctor argued, hoping he could somehow get through to the young girl.
"How can I relax?! I don't even know where I am, or what's going on!! Where are my parents?!" Crystaline screamed at the doctor.
The doctor and the nurse looked at each other nervously.
"Crystaline," the doctor began softly and sympathetically. "you should feel happy, you're one of the survivors."
Crystaline looked at him with disgust. "Why are you avoiding my question?! And why the tone?"
Again the doctor looked first to the nurse and then to disgruntled young girl. "Crystaline," he began again, his voice soft, but sad. "I'm afraid we have some bad news."
Crystaline studied the doctor and nurse's expressions, unsure but deep in the pit of her stomach already knowing.
"Your parents you see, well once the Medabots began to riot, the tried to rush home to get to you and, and...well, they were *ehm* unsuccessful." he said at last.
Crystaline started at him in disbelief. Basically in the kindest terms possible he had just told her the unthinkable. Her parent were dead. She stared at them, her eyes growing wider and wider with each word, grief overwhelmed her.
"No," she breathed. "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
The doctor tried to put his arm around her in an act of sympathy.
"NO!" Crystaline threw the doctor's arm off and away from her. Next she threw off her covers and leapt out of the bed.
"Crystaline, what are you doing? No! Wait!"
"NO!!NO! I WON'T BELIEVE IT! I WON'T!!" Crystaline cried. She grabbed her Medawatch and Medabot, and began to run out of the hospital.
"Crystaline please, wait! Stop!" The doctor called out after her.
Crystaline ignored them and just kept running. She wouldn't stop. And noone would make her. She wouldn't believe what they said. She'd just keep on running.
Crystaline continued to run, wiping her eyes serveral times as she ran, to prevent any tears from escaping. That's when she felt herself stop.
She opened her eyes. It was her house. Crystaline slammed the door open and ran into the house. Crystaline heard a woman's voice coming from one of the rooms.
"MOM!!" She exclaimed running into the TV room. Her heart sank at what she saw. An empty room. "So they really are gone.." she thought sadly. "Then that voice, it was just, just the television."
She glanced around the room for some sign that everything was still okay, but she found nothing. Her house lay in total ruins, a great deal of things broken and chared. "So, I guess FelaFighter wasn't the only Medabot here today."
The voice on her television quickly caught her attention. She had forgotten it was even on till that moment.
Crystaline stared at her televison set in disbelief and shock. It now retained a fixed gaze of horror at what she saw. All the mass destruction, the pain, the suffering, fire everywhere.
"No.." she uttered.
But what the voice said next was far to overwhelming for the young girl to handle.
"And the person responsible for all of this.." the voice began spitefully inbetween sniffles, "..is Hikaru Agata!"
"What?" Crystaline felt herself falling into a pit of darkness and nothingness. She couldn't escape. She could not believe what she just heard. She wouldn't. Her best friend. HER BEST FRIEND!!! Crystaline felt overwhelmed, her body shook uncontrollably.
"No," she breathed, "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Crystaline couldn't handle it any more, she slammed her fist against the wall. "No," she continued to repeat. "No." She felt the tears well up again, but this time she let them fall, she cried in pain, leaning on her hand the wall. Her hand balled into a fist, she shoke uncontrollably and eventually collapsed to her knees, she still couldn't help but feel herself repeat "no," over and over again.
She wrapped her arms around her knees, and for perhaps the first and only time ever in the young girl's life, Crystaline truly and genuinely cried . Cried long and hard with true anguish, her medabot lying a few feet in front of her in a disheveled lump, she cried, as her world came crashing down around her. She had lost everything, her parents, as well as her best friend. Her life was over. Now she truly felt dead to the world , because her world was now dead to her. And for that, she truly cried.
******************************************* Authoress' Notes: *yuck* I said I hate sappy movies with a passion and here I'm writing a sappy fic!! *shakes fist at the irony*Whew!! Man my fingers hurt! Okay, this really should have been two seperate chapters but I messed up. Plus in the end of chappie two I said that the life influencing events would take place in chapter three, and I couldn't go back on my word now. Anyways I don't really like this chapter I think Crystaline's (well my feelings) are carried out for far to long in exageration, but it's just that I couldn't find the appropriate way to write about Crystaline's emotions at this heavy time. So yeah, this chappie sux, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update but I've been really sidetracked so yea, ummm don't worry chapter four hopefully won't take as long to update and I promise to post new chapters hopefully soon of my other two fics in the Medabot's category as well. But anyways still review with your thoughts and constructive criticism is always appreciated as long as it isn't to harsh, so please tell me what you think! And until then-Crystaline ^___^