Disclaimer: I do not own Medabots or any related names and brand,I am writting this fic out of fun and I'm not making any profit from it and I'm poor,please don't sue me! My friend Palladin created the female Space Medafighter X and certain related concepts.
AN: Just for my reviewers information, I took the idea of giant shurikens (as well as the term 'no jutsu' ) from the manga/anime Naruto. You should see them in the first chapter in the next issue of the US Shonen Jump. You should read it, it's cool.
by:HellRavenmon
Kasumi pushed fiercly with all her strength, pulling away from Kinlyu just as his wicked shuriken sailed right where she used to be in front of the red clad ninja. He too leaped backward and the shuriken took another curve and did the improbable...it hovered right next to him!
"I knew that my Double Dragon Swipe move wouldn't work on you...it was just to see if you had goten rusty over time." Chuckled Fuuma.
"As you can see I didn't.I kept practicing and improved my skills." Replied X, her Shadow Sword becoming slightly larger at each word.
"How does he do that?" Asked Syren, pointing to the hovering spinning shuriken.
"THAT is the Tekage No Jutsu, it's a technique that allows total control over a metal object you touched, even over great distance. In term of power level that shuriken is nothing but a first level Shadow Sword, a slight aura around it for penetration value and speed not power, but it is unpredictable just like it's user." Answered Spiritus.
"Wow." Was all that Syren could say.
Fuuma dashed again toward his opponent, his large shuriken following quickly. Kasumi blocked the ninja's blade with her Shadow Sword before dodging a tackle by going to the left, quickly ducking underneath the flying weapon coming her way. The woman rolled on the ground and recover, just in time to divert the direction of the once again charging Shuriken and the back away from a knife stab. This dangerous ballet continued on for at least 15 minutes. It was holding off two opponent for Kasumi, but she held her ground. Both Kinlyu and the shuriken suddenly charged toward her from the front, if she was to dodge the flying weapon she would be attacked by Kinlyu, and diverting it from it's course with a swipe of her weapon would leave her equally open. X ducked under the weapon and quickly slashed upward with all her speed.
"TIGER FINALE!" She called, sending a powerful wave of dark energy as she slashed at the ninja.
Kinlyu barely had time to bring up his arm and protect his neck. The force of the upward blow sent him in the air where he quickly backflipped and landed gracefully on his feet, but panting heavily. He had a slight scorch mark on his costume, but his shoulder pads, his blocking, the metalic rod and the leather strap protected the most vulnerable area, leaving only his lower stomach hurt slightly. He recalled his shuriken by his side and chuckled slightly.
Kinlyu reached to his back and pulled out his second shuriken"I got better too... my training to use plastic rather than metal paid off! Now fear my all new Triple Dragon Swipe!" And with that he threw the Shuriken into the air.
It spun in circle before twisting around in the air and descending in a spiral formation, before finally stoping to hover on the other side of the ninja. Now both of the large weapons were hovering by his side. Kinlyu grabbed a kunai in one of his side pocket. He now was armed with his long knife with the blade pointing down and his kunai pointing up.
"YAH!"He shouted, sending out his shurikens toward X.
She diverted the first one with a powerful slashing motion, sending to the side, but she was in a bad position to block the second one and thus leapt into the air. With incredible grace and agility she landed ontop of the weapon, pushing it downward to propel herself forward and higher up, sending it to the ground. Kasumi and Kinlyu met in the air, their blade colliding. The ninja was about to stab her with his kunai when she changed the shape of her Shadow Sword, the blade extended, turning into a large shield that blocked the attack. As they begang their descent still locked, X heard it...the unmistakable sound of the shuriken, zooming in to it her from the side. Kinlyu was no idiot, he didn't want to risk being hit by his own projectile by accident. There was a sudden streak of light and the shuriken was sent flying out of control before it hit a tree. It as Seagaru who had seen it coming and used her dragon laser. The two landed and quickly broke apart, returning to their side of the clearing. Kinlyu saw both his shurikens were useless now. He had other tricks up his sleeves, but he quickly realised this was not the perfect time to keep on fighting.
"I told you not to interfere!" Complained X. "But thank you Seagaru."
The Medabot bowed in apology"I couldn't let him hurt you."
"I could go on fighting you, but as long as your Medabots are there we will be interupted. I'll find my dear RedShadow first and then we'll come back and defeat you X. I hope you don't have trouble sleeping... you never know what hides in the shadow hehehehehe." And with that, Kinlyu dissapeared in a blur. Smoke erupted from around his shurikens and they dissapeared.
X and her Medabots stood there for a minute before the woman collapsed to her knee, her Shadow Sword dissapearing.
"Kasumi!" Gasped her Medabots.
"It's nothing, just a little fatigue... and exasperation. I'll have to find him... but I also need to help Ikki... I think the guys at the Select Corps owe me a favor. I should have think about it sooner, I think the letter will be enough proof to allow a legal offensive against the hideout." X fished a small cell phone from her pocket. "Let's hope SHE can handle the robos alone if things get out of hand before the Select Corps arrives."
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Ikki and Metabee carefully walked through the tunnel. Luckily for them there was only one they could use, all the other old mine tunnels seam to have been block off, the Rubberobo probably only kept this one in shape and let the others collapse by themself. soon they entered a large dark room, it was so dark the ceiling and the opposing wall were not visible. It wasn't the most welcoming sight of all.
"I'M HERE ROBOS! ANYBODY HOME?" Called Ikki.
"COME OUT OF HIDING YOU RUBBER CHICKENS!"Shouted Metabee, angrily.
"Welcome Ikki Tenryo!" Called the all too familiar voice of Seaslug.
Suddenly light bursted on the other side of the room. The opposite wall was raising! Once the original blindness dissipated Ikki and Metabee saw that on the other side of the wall was a large grey room with tiled floor and many columns. It looked much more civilised than the rest of the old mine. Seaslug was standing beside Gillgirl, with Shrimplips, Squidguts, Crableg and Fingal slightly behind them. Further into the room Ikki saw many low tables with Robos eating... soup apparantly.
"Are you sure that's Metabee? I mean...his head's blue and his arm looks funny!" Noted Squidguts, pointing to Metabee's borrowed Medaparts.
"SURE IT'S ME! CAN'T A 'BOT CHANGE MEDAPARTS ONCE IN A WHILE?" Raged on Metabee.
"WHERE'S MY MOM?" Asked Ikki, raising his fist in defiance.
"Oh, your mother is fine. We're thinking of keeping her around, her soup is wonderful. Say hi to you mom Ikki!" Answered Gillgirl, pointing up toward another wall.
At about a two story high height a small window was revealed in the same manner as the room, with a portion of the wall rising. Ikki caught a glimpse of his mom, cutting vegetable. chidori realised the window was open and spoted her son and his Medabot. She smiled and wave at him before turning around and dissapearing from view.
"MOOOOM! You're not suppose to feed the bad guys." Groan Ikki, not really caring if his mother could hear or not.
Metabee blinked."Man...talk about Stockholm Syndrome..."
"The what now?" Asked Ikki confused.
Metabee put on a university graduate hat and raised a finger "The Stockholm syndrome is when an hostage starts to like his or her keeper/s and roots for him, her or them." He explained with a very 'professor' like voice, even tough his explainations sounded less than academic.
"Enough chit chat! You're here to Robattle Tenryo! " Shouted Seaslug, really annoyed, his loud voice knocking the cap off of Metabee's head. "Fingal! Crableg! You're up first!" Then ordered the Robo General.
"Yes sir!" Agreed the two lieutenant, rushing to the natural part of the room.
"You defeated our Extreme Medabots, but we learned our lesson and this time we'll use our head." Declared Crableg, showing off a new Medawatch.
"You know my head's harder than yours, your gonna get hurt." Joked Metabee.
"He's right, he is hard-headed." Added Ikki, drawing an indignant 'EH!' from his Medabot.
"Ha ha. Very funny. But we'll see who will have the last laugh! TRANSPORT MEDABOT!" Replied Fingal.
Crableg joined in "Transport Medabot!"
This time, no Extreme Medabots, just real ones, the right size and the right teleportation beam color. Crableg's Medabot was male, it had assive legs and feet, wearing what appeared to be a fur loincloth attached to a big metal belt covering his entire lower torso, his upper torso look bulky and muscular, same for his arms. His whole body was colored in brown tone, the main one being an redish dirt brown. His left arm was ending by a round pewter colored shield while his right arm was finished by a double side axe. No hands whatsoever. His head had a big lower 'jaw' from wich two tusk like fangs sprung up, his eyes were only a black visor at the edge of a silver viking helmet. To complete the barbaric look it had short spikey red hair coming from the back of his helmet and seam to growl as Crableg brought it to life, poping the medal in.
Fingal's Medabot was female. It was mostly a dark blue color with blueish green highlights at the joints. It had a long serpentine lower body, her chest had small spike at the tip of her breastplates. Her face seam to take the place of the lower jaw of a snake's head, the head apearing like a helmet. She had a deep blue long face with red eyes, no other features and the eyes of the snake head helmet were black. Her most usual feature were her...arms. Both her arms were like snakes themself, ending by an head with a razor sharp fang filled mouth, slightly open in a menacing way. The eyes on the left arm were green, while they were pale blue on the right one. What was even odder was that she had an extra pair of 'arms' like those... on top of her round shoulder pads!The left one with yellow eye and the right one with purple eyes. She was like a five-headed hydra!
BOR-5381
Battleswine, Boar -type
Medafighter: Crableg
Special Attack: Battle Axe
Vital Stats
HDR-80522
Hydriana, Hydra -type
Medafighter: Fingal
Special Attack: Multiple Bite
"Let's Robattle!" Both Rubberobos shouted.
"Two against one, it's so unfair!" Complained Ikki.
"Yeah, they're so gonna get their asses kicked." Added Metabee.
Ikki facefault. "That's not what I meant."
Suddenly a shovel broke through the floor near the two opposing team on Ikki's right and a familiar voice was heard...
"THEN IT'S AGREED!" Called Mr. Referee, popping a dirty head wearing a white miner helmet and goggles out of the hole he just made "I officially declare this a Submission Robattle! The rules are simple and I don't need to repeat them!" He added, pulling out of the hole, dumping his gear and finally cleaned up his face once he finished his little speech. "Medafighter ready? Medabots... ROOOBATTLE!!"
Battleswine didn't wasted anytime. He growled what could be interpreted as 'charge' and did just that, dashing toward Metabee and leaving Hydriana behind. Metabee quickly aimed his Mark 3 laser canon and started shooting, only to see his shots being deflected by the boar's small but effective shield. In a seconds the heavy opponent was really close to him and swiped with his axe-hand. Metabee dodged to the left and quickly shot a few rounds, hitting the boar on his right side. Battleswine didn't seam faze much but he did loose his balance. It is when Fingal ordered Hydriana to get involved.
Ikki realised something... an Hydra -type is pretty fast for Medabot with a snake tail. Hydriana dashed toward Metabee as he finished shooting and she was right behind him! Ikki barely had the chance to warn his Medabot that Hydriana's arms seam to shoot forward, stretching by a few inches. The vicious snake jaws chomp on Metabee's arms before he could do a thing, catching him at the forearms. Hydriana pulled the KBT toward her, his back to her, holding him off the ground with her arms. Metabee shouted in pain as the two maws crushed his arms part betweem their jaws. Ikki's Medawatch was warning him constantly.
"Warning 5% Damage to Left Arm. Warning 10% Damage to right arm. Warning 15% Damage to left arm. Warning 15% Damage to right arm. Warning 30% Damage to left arm. Warning 25% Damage to right arm..."
It was droping fast. And when Ikki tought it would soon be over, Hydriana's shoulder snake slamed down on Metabee's shoulder! Starting the crushing process on his shoulders as well.
"HAHAHA! Hydriana is going to chew your Medabot and spit him out like used gum!" Taunted Fingal.
"Unless Battleswine's axe makes mince meat out of him!" Added Crableg.
Slowly, as to let his partner inflict more pain on the strugling Metabee, Battleswine aproached him. With a growl he raised his arm up slowly, preparing to deliver a crushing axe blow. Ikki quickly assesed the situation and saw a BIG opportunity.
"METABEE! Your feets and head part are still free! Push him away with your legs and send him to the scrap heap!" Called the young boy.
Metabee groaned in both pain and acknowledgement "Gruh! RIGHT! Take...THAT!"
He raised his feet up and with all his might pushed on Battleswine's exposed chest. In his pre-striking position the boar -type was highly unbalanced by the sudden push on his chest and he stumbled backward. And then after a few more seconds of stumbling and trying to regain his balance he triped and felt right into Mr. Referee's hole! There was a moist 'thud' as he hit the dirt below. Metabee knew what to do next, and he had to act fast before his arms were goners, especially since had borowed one from Kantaroth.
"FIRE IN THE HOLE! MISSILE LAUNCHED!"
Metabee shot his missile with all his might, sending them wizing down the hole. There was a large explosion, the tunnel focusing the explosion and making the burnt remains of Battleswine shoot out of the hole. There was also an interesting effect to the attack. The recoil from the missile launcher had sent Metabee's head railing backward with incredible force, striking Hydriana's forehead! The impact made her loose her grip and Metabee was freed, he rolled on the ground, slightly dazed by the collision but in better shape than Hydrianna and he quickly recovered. The KBT turned around and grin inwardly.
"PAYBACK TIME! MISSILE LAUNCHED!"
In yet another explosion, Hydriana was taken out.
"FUNCTION CEASED! THE WINNER IS... METABEE!" Called Mr. Referee.
"NOOOO!!!" The entire Robo Headcrew shouted as time in defeat.
"Give me back my mom now!" Demanded Ikki.
"Who said it was over?" Asked Seaslug deviously as Gillgirl chuckled.
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The Phantom Renegade silently walked through the forest, accompanied by his Medabot ArcBeetle who was doing his best to keep his servos silent, wich wasn't as easy as it sounds. Henry knew the entrace was nearby, and he was relying on his burglar skill to avoid being detected. Altough it was much harder to be inconscpicious in the middle of a forest at dawn than it was at night in a museum or any part of the city. ArcBeetle's audio sensors suddenly started to pick up a strange whistle...some sort of aproaching sound.
"Henry...do you hear what I'm hearing or are my audio sensors on the fritz?" The Medabot asked.
"Yes I do... GET DOWN!" Shouted Henry, tackling his Medabot to the ground.
There was a large explosion and the tree behind them burst into flames as it was brought down to the ground due to the large gap in it's middle. A laser beam swiped right above Henry and ArcBeetle's head, almost grazing the Medabot's horn, as he was layng on his back. Trees felt down and started to burn all around them and they heard a powerful roar as they got up. They were encircled by fire in a relatively cleared area, and there was a lot of stumps around them. In the middle of the flames a creature started to apear...it seamed to be a Medabot... it had long tendrils for legs tough. As it 'stepped' forward out of the firey area, Henry recognized it... a weapon type mark 0! The prototype for the mark 1 WEA type, one that was judged too powerful for the mass market and suposedly destroyed...then how did the Rubberobos get hold of it? A puff of carbonic snow stopped some of the flames behind the Medabot as a rubberobo stepped forward as well, still armed with an extinguisher, it was Carpeye. He threw the device toward the Phantom Renegade who easily grabbed it and started spraying his surrounding.
"If it isn't Newteye!" Said Henry.
"IT'S CARPEYE! That's how you thank me for that fire extinguisher? You'll stop laughing when I will have detroyed you and your Medabot. Let me introduce you to our marvelous secret weapon: Robo-Emperor!" Replied the enraged Rubberobo Lieutenant.
WEA-2351-0
Robo-Emperor, Weapon -type
Medafighter: Rubberobo Gang
Special Attack: Powerful Missile
ArcBeetle took a fighting position. Both him and his Medabot knew this was not going to be easy, Weapon -types are known to be among the most powerful Medabots in the world, and also the most expensive, but they simply rely on brute force and the best way to defeat one is to outsmart it...the hard part is getting through all it's weapons and hard armor. The were still surrounded by fire, luckily it had rained recently and the forest was still humid, so it wasn't spreading too fast and the already burnt ring around them would protect them, but the Robattle was surely going to be heated.
"I don't think we should wait for Mr. Referee, he's going to be very busy with the others and your little friend Ikki! Robo-Emperor! CRUSH THAT BUG!" Ordered Carpeye.
Robo-Emperor's 'mouth' open wide and he roared, before letting loose a barrage of missiles from his right arm.
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Squidguts and Shrimplips stepped forward, replacing Crableg and Fingal. Ikki realised he was gonna have to Robattle all the Rubberobo high ranking member... Gillgirl was probably out since he had already trashed her Mahiro, and he hadn't seen Carpeye so he guessed Seaslug was the only one left after those two.
"You think you can handle them Metabee?" Asked Ikki in his Medawatch "We might still have to robattle Seaslug after that."
"That's nothin'! I'll give 'em a Metabee Boppin'! Let's do it Ikki, for mom!" Answered the Medabot.
"TRANSPORT MEDABOT!" Called Shrimplips and Squidguts.
They too had good old fashion Medabots, no Extreme. The two shapes appeared and Ikki and Metabee studied them while the two Robos popped the Medals in place. Shrimplips Medabot looked like a variation on a Phoenix -type, only it was white and yellow instead of red and yellow. It's lower body looked mostly the same, with the flying parts, his chest was rounder and had strange marking all over, on top of his head it had a crown of brown-tipped white feathers rather than the pigtail formation of a phoenix -type and it's visor was blue. Instead of flame thrower arms it had real arms and hands with a large white circle on each forearm, one had a black '+' sign, the other a big black '-' sign.
Squidguts's Medabot looked more muscular. It actually looked like a miniature whitey grey ape. It's feet were large and flat and looked like human feet and his head looked more like a bump, as he had no visible neck. It's head was cone shaped and was entirely grey exept for a little white face patch and it's red eyes. It's arm where ended by two large fist that would form wrecking ball formation when closed.
THB-42135
RaiWing, Thunderbird -type
Medafighter: Shrimplips
Special Attack: Thunder Bolt
Vital Stats
YTI-7059
Harry, Yeti -type
Medafighter: Squidguts
Special Attack: Hammer Fist
Shrimplip's Medabot was brought to life "RaiWing!" He shouted
"Go Harry!" Added Squidguts.
"Let's kick some BOTS!" Ordered Ikki.
"THEN IT'S AGREED!" Declared Mr. Referee, who was still around after the last robattle. "I officially declare this a Submission robattle betweem team RaiWing and Ikki's Metabee! Medafighter Ready? MEDABOTS...ROOOO-BATTLE!"
"THUNDER BOLT!" Ordered Shrimplips.
RaiWing brought his hands forward and suddenly a crackling bolt of lightening erupted from each of them, fusing together halfway before hitting the ground where Metabee stood a few seconds earilier. The attack left a scorch mark on the ground. RaiWing flew toward the KBT, sending another electric blast, once again Metabee barely avoided it, it was much faster than a laser blast. He suddenly remembered there was another opponent! Harry had took the opportunity the distracting bolt offered and he was getting closer. The massive and probably powerful Yeti type wasn't fast enough to hope to catch Metabee, but with lighting raining down on him it might be much easier. Metabee dodged another lightning attack and this time Harry was really close and swung his large left fist, our hero barely had time to step backward, but he was in a bad position and was hit full force by one of RaiWing's thunder bolt! The electricity coursed through him, making him lock in place as he could only shout in pain. RaiWing's assault continued as Harry swung his fist backward, ready to strike. Squidguts only had to mutter the word 'attack' that RaiWing's thunder bolt died down, only a few seconds before Harry's massive fist sent Metabee flying several feet away, sliding to a halt on the dusty ground, close to Ikki.
"Warning! 65% Damage to Left Arm. Warning, 80% Damage to Right Arm, laser offline. Warning! 95% Damage to legs, mobility reduced. Warning! 90% Damage to Head Part, shut down iminent." Droned Ikki's Medawatch.
"Man...Kantaroth's...gonna be pissed...same for my bro." Groaned Metabee, trying to get up.
"HAHAHAHA! What do you think of the combine might of a Thunderbird and a Yeti?" Taunted Shrimplips.
"Give it up kid, ya can't win with yer Medabot in that state. We'll keep your mom and she'll clean the hideout and make soup for us for ever!" Added Squidguts. "Unless you hand over that Rare Medal."
"But if you still want to fight, you'll loose both your Medal and your mom!" Pointed out Shrimplips.
"Ikki don't listen to them." Suddenly declared Metabee, as he finally managed to get up.
"I'm...no...going...to let...them...WIN!!!" He shouted as he suddenly was envelopped in golden light, it seamed to come from within him as his tin pet briefly appeared.
Ikki took a step back, his Antvara had flare up! It was lik anything he had ever felt...wait...he did felt it before... when Dran attacked Metabee! He knew what was that power he was feeling, an emotion based Antvara attack called...The Medaforce! Metabee was majorly pissed!
"I'm up and I'm gonna take YOU DOWN!" Roared the Medabot, making Shrimplips and Squidguts tremble. "AAAAAAAAAH MEDAFORCE!"
Metabee brought out his hand and shot a powerful beam of golden light. RaiWing and Harry barely had a moment to gasp as the beam hit both of them full force! The large blast engulfing them both. The two Medabots were sent backward and landed at their Medafighter's feet, singed.
"FUNCTION CEASED! THE WINNER IS METABEE!" Declared Mr. Referee.
"YEAH! WE WON!" Cheered Ikki, but suddenly Metabee collapsed to his knees."Metabee! What's wrong?"
"I...I didn't...know how to control it...it drained me...I used too much energy." Panted the Medabot.
In the meantime Seaslug was getting pissed, but he wasn't glowing with golden light, but he was red and steaming. His opponent had managed a miracle, pulling power from who knows where, it was time for some more seriously devious methods.
"THAT'S ENOUGH! ROBOS! ATTACK METABEE OR THERE WILL BE NO MORE SOUP!" He ordered.
The two dozen Robo grunts reacted and quickly rushed to the limit of the natural and man-made floor, with their usual 'robo robo robo' chant. They all showed a Medawatch and brought it up to their face.
"ATTACK NOCTOBAT!" They all called.
An army of bat Medabot appeared out of the darkness, floating above the Robos. There was one for every Robo Grunt, in other words... A LOT.
"Hmm...Metabee...I think this would be a great time to wake up that Warlord inside of you." Commented Ikki, scared.
Metabee was panting, something hard for a robot without lungs. "I...I...can't...I'm too...weak."
"Then we're in trouble." Added the boy, looking up to the flock of Noctobat, ready to unleash their Psycho Missile on them. "BIG trouble."
To Be Continued...
Will Space Medafighter X ever catch Kinlyu? Who is this mysterious 'she'? Will the Select Corps get there in time? Will ArcBeetle survive his encounter with Robo-Emperor? Will Ikki and Metabee escape the Noctobats and save Chidori? Don't miss the next chapter of Third Challenge!