Ebon_Dragon: Damn, I got so many characters now, I've had to make a list, and that's not even all of them… 0.o;;;

Disclaimer: I don't own Medabots or any of the characters but I do own:

Medafighters:

Kirsty, Jordan, Josh, Luke, Simon, Bishop (that name was not my idea ^_^;;;), Gelaria (nor was that one, my friend just objected ho having him self as a character in the story… so I forced him ^_^ but he didn't what his real name), Liam, Mike, Brett, Ian (maybe some more to come)

Medabots:

Deacon (Naoki), Archon (Baatezu), Fenix, Megaton, Shadowsword (Simons idea, he likes the name), Megaton, Sergeant-murder (I really have some wired friends or I've lost it…), Braxis, Titan, Orcar, Harbinger, Mobster, Leon, Ahrok, Aquilla, Bruke, Zenriha, Alzar 

Ebon_Dragon: Feel free to use any of my characters in your fanfic, but do remember… THEY BELONG TO ME!!!

Chapter 14; Wake to a nightmare

5:00pm, Lime Ave

            "What is that thing?" Kirsty asked

"Oh yeah, you act like I'm supposed to know!" Ikki said

"It would help…"

"Who said that?" Ikki asked, "Don't be smart Metabee!"

"Dude it wasn't me-"

"Err… guys, I think that thing said it," I said

"Don't be ridiculous, that thing probably could say a da-"

"On the contrary, I was programmed with over thirteen different languages" The thing snapped back cutting Kirsty off

"See I told you!"

"What the? It didn't look like the talkative type…" Kirsty said

"Wonder if it has a name?" Ikki asked

"I'm more concerned with what it is" Kirsty said, "So what are you?"

"Zelkina core systems, model 11827-2, computer matrix oper-"

"Ok-ok we get the point!"

"Maybe we should call it Ze for short…"

"Sounds good… so Ze why are you here?" Kirsty asked it

"Presumably you ordered this unit from Zelkina core systems," It answered

"No I mean, do you have any idea who ordered you and for what purpose?"

"I can recall no such information in my data banks" Ze said "All I know is an unnamed person ordered me this unit for an unnamed task, to belong to Atoll Corp."

Kirsty's eyes widened "Did you say Atoll Corp?"

"Yes, I was designed to pacifically help that company, but with what jobs I have no data…"

"Why what's wrong with the Atoll Company?" Ikki asked 

"Oh no Dad mad a mistake again…" Kirsty looked embarrassed

"What are you talking about?" I asked

"… This is going to be hard to believe but, my Mum and Dad own Atoll Corp, it Makes and designs Medaparts for the Medabot Corp…"

"Why didn't you tell us, I mean it doesn't matter but still, that's awesome!" Ikki shouted

"I didn't want that kind of attention…" Kirsty blushed and turned away 

"Maybe you should travel to the corporation, to sort this problem out?" Ze suggested.

"But we've got no way of getting there…" Metabee said

"Well there is one way, by train, but how we get Ze on there with out getting spotted is another matter" Kirsty said "And my Mum and Dad wont be there anyway"

"Why where are they?" Ikki asked

"On a business trip, somewhere in Russia…"

"Just a thought here but, will Ze fit a back pack?" I said, it was a crazy thought but it was the best thing I could think off at the moment.

"I dunno, but its worth a try, I guess" Kirsty sighed. She slowly walked up to her room and returned a few minutes later with the biggest back pack she could find in her room, she set it down on the coffee table. "Now Ze, I'm going to need to deactivate you for a while

"Yes, of course" Ze said as it span round to show the hatch on its back. Kirsty opened it and pulled the circuit board out, it fell to the floor slowly.

"I feel so bad about this now for some reason…" Kirsty said as she folded its arms back in and tucked it in to the backpack, she put the circuit board in to her pocket "Well I guess we should go now"

"Are you sure, its almost six and its dark out…" Metabee said, Kirsty looked out the window, it was pitch black

"Yeah I guess we should go tomorrow then" She sighed. She put the bag down on the floor next to the coffee table and the circuit board on the table

Unknown Place

            The same dream that I have every night now came to me again, every time this happens one more part becomes clearer but I've never reached the end of it yet, I always seem to wake up before I really know what's going on, but I can slowly piece it together…

The land before me hadn't changed; it was still the same as always, green rolling hills and one single tree perched on the edge of a cliff that over looked a city. I sat atop one of the middle-sized pillars that were closer to the land with my knees tucked in to my chest, my wings sprawled out across the top of the pillar behind me. The sea below me was calm, almost still, the whole land looked like a perfect picture, and to once think the earth was like this, it was a horrible thought to think that humans had turned the surface of the planet in to a factory covered wasteland, but one could not hate them for that, not when one of your best friends is one, no. I stood up and turned to see the massive crystal pillars that stood before me, they were a sight to behold, a true marvel of Medalorian technology. I turned back to the land and sighed, to think this isn't real was really a nightmare.

I stretched my wings and jumped off the edge of the pillar, I flew low across the city rooftops, no one looked up they all knew who I was and weren't bothered by me flying overhead. I landed next to the tree perched on the cliff that over hung the city, Metabee's favourite tree. It reminded me of him too much, so I walked on through the long grass at the bottom of the hill, away from the business of the city, the blades of grass swayed in the breeze.   

"Hey Naoki!" shouted a familiar voice, I didn't need to see him to know who it was. I picked a flower up off the ground, one that had fallen off the stem, it was dieing, just like this civilisation was.

"What is it now Keyumou?" I sighed

"Baatezu wants to see us both, he says its important" Keyumou said, he put his hand on my shoulder. I turned to face him, but he looked away "Come on, we'd better go… he'll have our heads if were late"

Keyumou walked off, back to the main temple, I caught up with him and we walked side by side. It was nice to know that even after this dream was all over, I could still be friends like this with him in reality, and have some link remaining to my past. As we walked to the temple, we joked and laughed at things, at other Medabots. Finally the temple came in to view, built on a hill but surrounded by a valley, we looked down upon it from a hill, magnificent, and it really was.  

We walked through the temple grounds, no Medabots what so ever, they must have been busy doing other jobs. When we entered the temple there were again, no Medabots around, it was starting to get creepy, and normally the corridors of this temple were filled with Medabots. There was a scuffle from one of the corridors that connected to the one we stood in, and a tyrannosaurs type ran out.

"Whoa, slow down buddy!" Keyumou said as he stopped the Medabot from running any further "Where is every one? And why are you running so fast?"

"They're all in a meeting, and I'm late!!" The tyrannosaurs type shouted. Keyumou and I followed the Medabot to a dark room; it was like a lecture hall, all the seats were filled. Baatezu, who in reality would bare an uncanny resemblance to Archon, stood at the front of the hall, he called Keyumou and I down to the front.

"You two are both late…" He said, so none of the other Medabots could hear him, they wouldn't have been able to anyway, because of the big noise they made while talking amongst them self's

"Sorry Baatezu, it won't happen again" Keyumou said

"See that it doesn't… SILENCE!!"  Baatezu shouted, every single Medabot in the room shut up. This was as far as I got in this dream world before I was torn away from it other times, but this time every thing continued, this must have been the next big event that I was to learn. Baatezu started pacing the stage area, thinking what to say and how to put it I would imagine  "Now, so far our military forces have only just been defeating our rival states military, but of lately they have not prevailed…"

Baatezu looked at Keyumou, he looked down away from Baatezu's judging relentless stare "This is why I ask you, Naoki, would you fight along side our military armies, with your powers we will triumph!"

"My powers?" I said, so no one would hear me. I looked around the room at all the Medabots, and then I looked back at Baatezu. I wanted to say no, but something compelled me to say yes, like it was meant to be, like it was destiny. "Yes, I will help…"

There was a roar from the Medabots behind us as they cheered and clapped, "Then it is decided! Tomorrow at dawn, we will march in to there capital and destroy it! We will leave no one alive!" Those words that came from Baatezu chilled me; I didn't want to be part of a mass annihilation of a city and its inhabitancies, but something deep down in side said I was meant to help. All the Medabots behind use walked out, and went back to there usual jobs, then Baatezu walked out leaving me and Keyumou in the room by our self's.

"Why? Why would you risk your life, just to help me?" Keyumou asked, I smiled and looked down at the floor, and tried to think of something to say.

"I dunno, I may as well, I mean I'm the only one not doing a job around here…" I said, but again it was like a play and I was just watching, and had no control over what happened "…I might be able to make a difference…" 

Keyumou walked out of the room and left me by my self, while alone I thought of all the things that could possibly happen and what I would do if the situation did arise. I didn't stay for long, I quickly walked out of the temple, it was dusk already, the red sun set in the distance and warmed the lands nicely. I stretched my wings and pushed off the ground vigorously, just enough to get me in to the air, then I headed south, past the mountains that bordered the city, past the battle grounds where may a Medabot had lost there lives; to the cause of the civilisation, it sickened me to think that Medabots would fight and kill other Medabots. When I had passed the battlegrounds, there was another mountain range but this one was much higher than the last, it reached through the clouds, but not by much, on the other side of the mountains was a large metal arch way. It stood in the sea; it was a dull grey colour, almost white. It was made of twisted metal, shredded as each long twine twisted at a corner, it wasn't a perfect arch it was jagged and both the struts crossed each other at the top. It resonated with a strange energy and every time I was near it I felt, at one with it, the reminiscence of an ancient civilisation maybe, but then I didn't think any thing could have been older than the Medalorians.

I landed on one of the shredded pieces that stuck out over the sea, and spent the night there, like I always did and always used to.

Unknown place

The night seemed to pass so quickly; I pulled my self off the metal ledge and leapt off the metal structure. It didn't take me long to get back to the temple, the armies had already gathered out side the temple, I flew down swiftly and landed at the front next to Keyumou.

"I thought you weren't going to turn up…" Keyumou smiled, I smiled back. The Medabots behind us stood in formation and talked amongst them self's, they were big black KBT types, newer, but pacifically designed and made for the military. Some of them held banners with this temples symbols on it, others energy shields, and the rest there own weapons. There were three rows of ten hover tanks at the back with different assortments of weapons on them.

"Well couldn't not turn up, after all I made a promise" I said, the Medabots behind us quietened down when Baatezu, Alzar, and Zenriha walked on to the balcony above us, they stood at attention.

"Today marks the end of our rival nation, we will march in there and destroy them, we will leave no survivors, we will take their city and turn it in to one of our own! And when we are done with their capital, we will find and destroy their towns, their hopes, their dreams! All that oppose us shall fall!" Alzar shouted at the top of his voice. He was a decrepit mad man, and his looks added to the affect. He was a light purple dragon like beast, with dark blue muscles showing on his arms and legs, he had dragon like wings, and dark purple plumage down his back, his eyes were golden pools of yellow, his shoulders were covered in giant shoulder pads that covered his chest as well, and two long horns sprouted from the top of his head. It was hard to tell if he was a Medabot or some other type of being, but what ever he was he was truly mad. "Now go and bring death to your enemies!"

Keyumou and I lead the army away from the temple and towards the opposing city, the troops behind us both trampled the long grass down with out caring, they stepped on any living thing that got in there way, with out caring. We crossed the battlefields; the place stagnated of death and decay. Then the army marched over a mountain pass, the tanks could only go two after each other because the road wasn't wide enough. After the pass was a desert with a huge white city in the centre, it was like an illusion.

"Well, here we are…" Keyumou said as he gave a sigh, I nodded. Keyumou gave the order to the tanks with artillery weapons to open fire on the city, they raised the long barrelled cannons and opened fire on his mark. The rounds impacted on some sort of shield, but with enough rounds being emptied in to it, it was sure not to hold for very long. But in the short time that it was up the opposing forces massed in side the shield area ready to leap out and attack when the shields went down. "Get ready!"

"It would take every thing we have to take that army out," I said as I formed wrist blades out of Bio-Metal. Suddenly the shields went down and the shots impacted on the city, binging some buildings down. The other Medabot army charged it was being lead by a Stag beetle type Medabot; the soldiers of the army were more advanced versions.

"First line, open fire!" Keyumou ordered, the first line of black KBT types knelt down and fired there repeaters in to the other army, the first line dropped to the floor as did the second, but there army was ten times the size of ours. Once the front line had run out of ammunition the second line took over while the others reloaded, again the second and first line of the other army went down. Our tanks took out more of the army but there were just to many of them. "Well never win, well have to retreat…"

"Attack!!" Shouted another Medabot from behind us. Keyumou and I turned to the pass, thousands more Medabots ran down, but they weren't here to help us they were here to help the other side.

 "Oh no! It's a trap!!" I shouted. Our forces were trapped, we had no way to retreat back and we were out numbered. The new Medabots to join the battle ripped though our tanks, then through the back lines of our forces until it was just ten of us left, we managed to hold them off a bit longer but not by much. The opposing army killed every single one of them except for Keyumou and me. We stood back-to-back, ready to fight them off, but they just stood there in a circle around us, then the leader stepped though the ranks, and the soldiers restrained us.

"Humm… you must be Keyumou, the famed military leader… and you! Zenriha's creation! It is a pleasure to finally come face to face with such a legend I must say!" the Stag beetle type said, he laughed and raised his Chambara-sword to my chest "It's a shame that they say, death comes for us all…"

"You wouldn't dare!" I spat

"Leave her alone!!" Keyumou shouted as he struggled to get free.

The Stag Type lifted my head with his sword. "You have something I want… no, you have something I need!"

"Witch would be?" I said

"The Athenry shard!" I really had no idea what he was talking about, but I took the advice that Metabee gave me the first time, 'Just play along' seemed like a good idea at this point or so I thought.

"Yeah, well you aint getting it!!" I shouted, the stag type was handed a sword with weird markings on it by on of the soldiers, raised the swords tip to my chest.

"Death comes for us all…" He said before plunging the sword in to my chest…