Disclaimer: I no own still! See the last few chaps!

Roks: What's goin' on?
Me: You'll see! I think you'll like the ending! Roks and Beebe sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love, then comes marriage...
Roks&Blakbeetle: Here we go again...

Chapter IV Part One: Troublesome Twist

It's Friday. I had nearly made it through the week. Little did I know that things would change today. For one reason or another, I am now 'brothers' with Zuru and Tyrelbeetle, and Blakbeetle and I are something of an official couple. I still didn't know how 'bots could love, or if I was taking advantage of her. Still unsure about being brothers with Zuru, about it making us equal and that not being a good thing. My 'brotherhood' with Tyrelbeetle seems to be the only steady thing. Thinking that's strange, I looked for something wrong with it. I couldn't find anything. I spent as much time with Tyrelbeetle that day to try to get rid of my troubles with my other relationships, mostly sitting on the back porch steps. But just running from problems never helps. They'll just come back stronger when I stop running from them, and I can't run forever.

"Just ask," was Tyrelbeetle's best piece of advice, "Just ask them. And believe them. I know they wouldn't lie, whether or not you believe it."

"I want to believe them. I really do. But I don't know how to know when they're lying or telling the truth. What's the trick?"

"Trust. You love them, right?"

"Right! Of course!"

"Trust is part of love." I simply nod and look down at my nervously twiddling thumbs.

"Can I trust them if they don't love me back?"

"…I don't know. I'm sure they love you back, though. Don't worry about that!"

"I'm just scared that, after Zuru's history with his dad concerning 'bots, he, at least him, will be out to get me. What if he's roping me in, pretending he cares, so it'll hurt me more when he…does whatever he's planning? What if it's all a lie? What if he's been deceiving me all this time?!" Tears formed in my eyes, slowly making their way out of my eyes and down my face as I trembled.

"Your mind works in a weird way, bro…" I hugged myself, looking down and curling into a ball. I felt his hand on my back, gently rubbing in circles. I leaned on him.

"Don't even think about what could be, think about and thrive in what is!"

"And what is?" Not even he could answer that.

Not too much later, I find myself sitting against a tree in the shade in our backyard, head bowed, eyes closed, hands clasped, and deep in thought. My internal issues seem to override the stomach issues. I'd prefer physical pain over this any day, though…

A rustle in the branches above causes me to jerk my head up, eyes opened suddenly. I see a faint figure dart out of my field of vision, and dismiss it as a squirrel or a bird or some other tree-dwelling animal. But something keeps me looking up. I let my mind wander while staring up at where I saw the figure…

'That didn't LOOK like a squirrel…or a bird…' and it left the subject.

"What am I getting myself into?" I questioned myself aloud, as if I thought I would get an answer that way. But it was as good as asking myself in my mind. I sighed and broke my gaze toward the branches, but looked back up when I caught a glimpse of four circular red glows. I stared for a moment. The glows stared back. Then they disappeared as quickly as they came.

'THAT was scary…' I shook my head, but heard another rustle. My eyes popped open, but I didn't look up again. It seemed that when whatever was up there noticed I noticed, it stopped what it was doing until I dismissed it and went back to whatever I was doing. I sat still, trying not to look suspicious. I felt that strange feeling in my stomach that one gets when someone's staring at him or her. I let out a sigh, but my breath catches in my throat at a series of rustles. Something was up there…something was watching me…

I hear a roar. A thud. I look up and to my left to see…myself? I'm staring into the red eyes of myself. I stare back…this could get confusing. Another appears beside him. This one mostly pink with a few white parts, disproportioned with a small body and legs, long arms, and a big, round head with the look of a Churlybear. The disproportioned Churlybear advanced on me. I was frozen in shock. My breath was caught in my throat. I couldn't scream. My stomach lurched, but I barely noticed. Next thing I know, the strange, pink Churlybear has me in his grasp and leaps away, landing on the highest branch and giving me a chance to look down at my look alike before we continued.

He sat down in my spot, in the exact same position as I was sitting. What was he doing?

The 'bear jumped off the highest branch and spread his pink, bony-bat-like wings with white ends, and we flew. I was about to object, to ask what was going on, where he was taking me, why, who…when, with a metal clank, I felt an unbearable pain in my head, I let out a short, muffled cry, but it didn't last long. I passed out.

I sat up with a scream, my head throbbing with pain, and looked around. All I could see was blackness, and a little bit of brownish where the light from my eyes hit. Looking around, I could faintly see the place I was in was small, a little bigger than a dumpster. Some sort of a dungeon-like thing. Perfectly rectangular. I didn't know how high it was or anything, I could only see my eye-level, but when I looked up it felt like I was looking down into an endless abyss. I found myself breathing heavily. My eyes were wide. My metal chest--or more like my entire torso through chain reaction--heaved with each breath.

"Where am I?!" I called to the ceiling, not expecting an answer from it, or anything else. No one else was here.

I curled into a ball. Wherever I was, I was cold. I shivered. My stomach lurched, and I started coughing. I struggled to breathe as I fell forward onto my knees, bracing myself up with my hands. My head hurt…must've been from whatever knocked me out. Oil slowly trickled from my mouth, down my chin. The only thing I could think of…I needed help. It wasn't supposed to hurt this much. It never had before. I will see to it that it never will again. I gasped for breath, and let out one word…

"Help…"

How was that? Short, I know. That's why it's part one! See part two soon! PLZ R&R! I'm gonna' start doin' review replies, so ask questions!

Next, I want to add something, seeing as it's taking so long to finish the next part (bleh! Writer's block). Couple Requests! Just review and tell me a couple you want to see a short story about!

Rules and Regulations:

Particularly an uncommon couple (as in I'd be the first to write about them, but I will acknowledge that you gave me the idea)

And, if you can, a short plot summary. Otherwise I can come up with it.

This is just to keep my fans (if I have any; not meaning to toot my own horn, but…TOOT-TOOT!!) entertained until my writer's block goes away and I can finish this story.

Also, I have named this series. I was going to list everything (just about…don' wanna' spoil it for ya'!) I know about this series at the beginning of the next part of this chap. But, I'll put it here!

Pattern--A Medabots Fanfiction Series

By: KiumuRo-Ku-Bee

1. Kuwagata Virus

2. A Rough Road

3. The Straight and Narrow

4. Confusing Complications

5. Kabuto Virus

6. Transformation

7. The New Enemies

8. Karma

'Pattern' because of the pattern: an action/adventure/suspense kinda' story (like Kuwagata Virus), and then a love and romance kinda' story (like this one, A Rough Road). 'The Straight and Narrow' will be more of the genre of K.V., and then Confusing Complications will be more like this one. Get it? Somewhere in the next chap I'll put short, spoiler-less plot and storyline reviews, if you say you want them when you participate in the Couple Requests, which you will! (Evil look) (Smile sweetly) Thankies for reading this! Arigatou to ja ne!!!