Disclaimer: I do not own Medabots or any of the original characters from the manga. They belong to Horumarin. I own Foxfire and the plot to this story. You cannot sue me because I have claimed my rights and have nothing to give. So NEH. You may use my characters if you want in your own ways, ask my permission first please though.

Foxfire walked along the streets, hidden in the mass crowds. Not even looking where she was going. She was back to her good side, but looked sad and depressed.

She kept walking and walking, not bothering to look up and say sorry to someone she might've bumped into. She just kept going. Which resulted in something worse.

Foxfire left the safety of the sidewalk, she hadn't stopped to see the light to either go or stay. And it still had the blinking orange hand up.

Two car horns sounded off as they screeched to a halt just in front of the FOX. That had definitely gotten her out of Lala land. She jumped back and fell over on the crossing. Her tail had puffed out while her ears were shaking. Three men came out, yelling and shouting for her to watch where she was going and to look up once in a while.

"I'm sorry! I-I didn't see!" She ran off, jumping off of a car hood and onto a lamppost, leaving the pedestrians and drivers either thoroughly annoyed or thoroughly confused.

Foxfire took landing in the forest beside the park. She didn't come here very often so she doubted anybody would look for her here anytime soon. That is if they looked for her at ALL.

Foxfire admitted that the dark side's yelling had been very harsh. She definitely would've said things differently. But some of it had been very true, and she just couldn't believe Metabee could be so dense!

You could say goodbye to her still living in his guestroom. Not to mention him ever talking to her. She had so loved being friends with him. She would miss so many things about him.

She sat down in the trunk of the tree, resting against a large root. And then there was Rokusho. What would he think of her now for yelling at Metabee in such a way?

She hadn't told Rokusho very much about her own little problem with her SEVERE split personality. She never liked complaining about things with him when he had his own problems to share with her. She always liked it that way, but now Foxfire had wished she had told him before.

Now if she tried telling him, he might think she was just trying to cover up for herself.

Foxfire let out a deep sigh. And how embarrassing that had been! Her falling on top of Rokusho like that! Just thinking about it made her cheeks turn red. What if Rokusho suddenly felt awkward talking to her? She'd certainly find it awkward.

And yet... And yet she liked trying to imagine where things might've gone if Metabee hadn't barged in like he had. Her dark side loved ruining it for her by saying things like 'He'd probably just push you off.' Or ' He'd probably say, "Get off you twit!"'

In a lot of ways she thought, 'Yeah, he probably would've.' Because there was no way Rokusho would have any kind of interest with her in that way. 'Only friends' was what she would think when she got thoughts like that.

Then again, he had started blushing as well when... IT had happened. So maybe...?

No, from the day she had met him they had just been friends and she was fine with that.

FLASHBACK

The FOX type was sitting near the creek all by her lonesome. She had her knees scrunched up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them. Her face was hidden in between her knees and head as she looked down.

Her shoulders quivered at times, even shook. You could hear her small cries inside. But no one stopped to see what was wrong, or even bothered glancing. Figuring, 'Hey, not my Medabot. Why should I help?' No one cared or even wondered why the poor thing was crying.

Small whispers came out during sobs or breaths. "I'm so sorry... Why her?... Please let her be okay...."

Finally, a white Medabot came down behind her, just landing from a leap off a tree. He had large blue horns, and scarlet red, almond-shaped optics. A Kuwagata Beetle Type. He had a thin but strong build, his leg parts noticeably made for speed. He wore a long brown and tattered cloak, dirty from age.

His optics had a caring and curious expression. He walked down to Foxfire kneeled beside her.

Foxfire heard the Medabot's footsteps and looked up in surprise. She hadn't really wanted any company and hadn't been looking for any.

"Euh... Uhm." Foxfire had lost words, not so much because that she still had her mech fluid tears down her cheeks, but because the Medabot was... handsome. Extremely handsome. He didn't have an animal based helmet or face. But a visor with caring optics and a space for where a mouth for a human could've been.

"This may be an ignorant question," were his first words to her, " but are you okay, Foxfire?"

"H-hey," she wiped the tears from her face, "how do you know my name?" The Medabot blinked before giving a small laugh. Why was it funny?

"I see you don't remember me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It was long ago when we met, and I'm not much to be remembered."

"We've met?" It was weird; she found nothing familiar about this Medabot. "When did we ever meet?"

"Well I'll tell you. But only if after you tell me what has made you shed such sad tears." Foxfire's optics widened slightly. She certainly hadn't expected that. But then again, she hadn't really expected this Medabot joining her. Foxfire nodded in agreement."

The Medabot smiled mentally before sighing. "Let me see. It happened so long ago, we'll be lucky if I can ever remember. As I recall it happened, maybe 6-7 years ago? It was fall, I think."

FLASHBACK 2!

Rokusho took in deep breath of the fresh SPRING air. He was on his back with his cloak looking a great deal cleaner. The wind rushing through the grass blades, brushing against his white armor. He closed his optics and settled comfortably on the ground.

His thoughts drifted along what places he would look this time. He'd been on his own and searching for about 8 months now. He had no idea if he was doing any good by only going from place to place. But it wasn't like he could do anything else.

"Mama, Mama! Look at me!" Rokusho opened one optic and saw a small child trying to balance herself on a beam across the bridge over a riverbed. She had large blue eyes and short red hair. She was thin and had fair skin.

"Akura! Get off of there before you fall!" A strong wind, inconveniently, blew past them. For being such a light girl, the child lost her footing and was falling over the beam. The mother screamed in fright.

Rokusho leapt up and dashed over to the girl. He leaned down and held his arms out to catch her. And he did. He snatched her from the air. He landed on the other side of the river, where the mother ran over and hugged her child closely to her. The woman also had red hair, tied carelessly in a ponytail. She had fair skin as well and had glasses on, framing her worried blue eyes.

"Oh Akura, I almost thought I'd lost you! Don't you scare me like that again!" The woman then turned to the KWG.

"Thank you dearly for saving my daughter! She means the world to me. If there is anything I could do, just name it."

"I need no repay. The fact that I have helped is all I need, ma'am."

"Could you help me pick a Medabot then?"

"Hunh?" Rokusho looked over to the child who was grinning at him. She looked at him expectantly.

"Could you help me pick a Medabot? Me and my mama are on our way to get me a new Medabot 'cause the one my mama was gonna give me got STOLEN!" The child put down the last part to a loud whisper. The mother sweat dropped.

"Akura, I'm sure this Medabot has better things to do then hang around with us and help you pick a Medabot. Now say thank you to -"

"Actually," Rokusho cut in, "I would enjoy an activity like that."

Such a thing would confuse some. But Rokusho had so missed the company of people, that going with the child to help choosing a Medabot... sounded fun.

"Yay!" The child jumped over and hugged him. Rokusho mentally smiled.

"Well, I guess it'd be okay. Are you sure? Akura tends to be a handful."

"I would be honored to."

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Akura skipped down the sidewalk freely, swinging her arms at her side. Rokusho and Akura's mother following behind. He had become very interested in the stolen Medabot, hoping to know more things about it.

"So a FOX type? I'm not sure I've ever seen a FOX Medabot before." Rokusho said, wondering what it would look like.

"Well that'd be because it was the only one of its design. It and the medal were both artificially created in the lab, so it was definitely worth a lot." Akura's mother explained. The KWG nodded in acknowledgement.

Sharing a discussion with another person was something he had missed so much. He was always a solitary Medabot so it was great talking with her.

"Yay! We're here!" Akura ran into a 24 Hop Mart. The mother stayed outside while Rokusho went in.

The place was definitely different than he had expected. He had thought there would be isles and isles lined up with Medabots packaged in different things. But it was more of a corner store with Medabots on the side.

Rokusho found Akura browsing through files in a computer; somewhat shaped like an ATM machine, going into different programs with different Medabots the store had in stock.

He walked around a little more and saw a large display where a Medabot, apparently pre-assembled and sitting lifelessly on a chair.

It was most definitely a FOX type, according to the sign beside it. A pretty femme Medabot. Her color scheme was mostly red. She had red metal hanging around her head as hair, and two small red fox ears perched on her head. Her face was silver and two lines crossing down from her black optics. Her chest plate had a circle of white, continuing down her thin stomach plate.

Her arms were red and had a blade coming out of the left side of the lower arm part. Her hands were hidden with small fox paws. Both the hands and her feet had sharp claws. And to top off the whole Medabot, she had a red tail, resting beside her feet.

Rokusho, at first thought that he'd never such a Medabot in his life. And he had been many places! The second thought was that this MUST'VE been the FOX type that had been stolen!

"Wow! She's so pretty!" A voice squealed from behind. Rokusho jumped and looked to see Akura gazing at the femme. "You found a really, really good one!"

"Euhm, but-" But it was too late. Akura had already rushed over to the counter and was making the purchase. There were two men at the counter, a couple of thugs. Greasy hair and unshaven faces.

Rokusho ran outside to Akura's mother and was on the verge of telling her about the FOX type, but as soon as he did so, the small child came out with the FOX on her back.

The mother stared incredulously at Akura and the Medabot on her back.

"Would you two excuse me for a moment, I need to make a phone call." She said shortly before pulling out a cell phone and dialing three familiar numbers to the police.

Rokusho looked at Akura trying to prop the FOX type up against the wall outside of the Hop Mart. The KWG helped Akura lean it up.

She pulled out a small gold medal from her pocket and rubbed it with the hem of her shirt to shine it up a little. Rokusho spotted it with his red optics; surprised she would already have a medal for it. He knew that they were pricey and hard to come by because they were constantly sold out.

Akura noticed his surprised look and grinned again. "My mama said that she made this medal especially for me." She said.

Rokusho blinked and looked back at the medal and thought that the medal must've been the artificially created medal the mother had been talking about.

"You wanna see?" Akura held the medal in her palm out for him to look. Rokusho nodded slowly and picked it up.

'How strange...' It was strange, because both sides were covered with the same design. He knew that all medals had only one side with a design. So it was definitely new for him.

The design was a cloud with two eyes in the middle and the green jewel inside.

That was when Rokusho and Akura heard police sirens sounding off. Two police cars came to a quick halt and a couple of men and women complete with uniforms and all piled out and entered the store.

"Ooh, I wonder what happened!" Akura was about to walk in herself, but Rokusho held her back. Akura's mother ran up to them and smiled.

"Bunch of crooks stealing Foxuna. How dare they!"

"Foxuna?" Rokusho looked over to the mother. She nodded. "That was the project name of the FOX type and that's basically what we named it. Not very original though with seeing as the guy who named her got it from that recent Medabot they came out with, FoxunO."

The police came back out with the two men who had been at the counter in cuffs and reading them their rights. Akura's mother sighed and pulled back a strand of hair behind her ear.

"All right, Akura. Are you going to put the medal in your Medabot?" She asked sweetly. Akura nodded and Rokusho gave the medal back to her.

She popped open the medal-hatch and placed the medal into the slot. She then closed the hatch and stepped back.

The Medabot opened up her optics, revealing soft purple lights emitting from them. She blinked a few times and stood up properly. She looked around at Rokusho, Akura and her mother. She blinked again and smiled mentally. She bowed down to them in greeting. Rokusho and Akura did the same.

"What are you going to call her Akura? Don't use Foxuna, I'm sure you can come up with better." The mother said, smiling with pride and joy at her daughter's first Medabot.

But Akura shrugged. "I dunno. What can you do?" The Medabot looked over to Akura.

"I can use elements like water, fire and earth." She said sweetly. Her voice and tone was very innocent, like a child herself. Rokusho suddenly thought of an idea for a name, remembering an old movie he had heard of.

"Perhaps... Foxfire?" Akura blinked and gave her little grin.

"That's great! I like that name! I wish I had thought of that!" Foxfire nodded.

"I do too! From now on, I am Foxfire." She tilted her head to the side with a cute expression, closing her eyes in delight. "I am Foxfire, what is your name?"

Rokusho was taken aback. He didn't like giving his name to people he barely knew. It was really all he had left to keep.

"Oh, that's right! We never did catch your name!" Akura's mother said with sudden realization.

Yet it wasn't like they were strangers anymore. More like very good acquaintances. Still, Rokusho hesitated and said slowly.

"My name is Rokusho. It is a pleasure to meet you Foxfire." Rokusho bowed to the FOX. Foxfire seemed to have inherited Akura's constant grin.

"The pleasure is all mine, Rokusho."

END Of FLASH BACK 2

"And that, Foxfire, is how we met. I left that day because of my travelling and I haven't seen you since that very day." Rokusho was now fully sitting beside Foxfire, while the FOX herself was listening attentively to him.

To Foxfire, it made perfect sense. The way he described it, it was like she was reliving that day again. She could now remember the day so clearly. How could she NOT remember Rokusho?

"Now that I have told you my story, you tell me yours. Why are you so sad?" Rokusho asked, his voice full of concern.

Foxfire's expression saddened as she thought of what had gotten her down in the first place.

"W-... It's Akura. Sh-she got injured... badly." Her audio transmitters began to choke up.

END OF FLASHBACK

Foxfire drifted to sleep as she continued dreaming of what had happened so long ago. Her optics closed and she slipped into a peaceful unconscious state.