~Chapter 4~







~A Rubbery Future~







The next day after the robattle with Skyraidar, Meta-Ikki groaned painfully, as his optics opened slowly. Everything was fuzzy for a while, but
after a minute or two, Meta-Ikki could see almost perfectly. He looked around, and saw that hewas lying down on a dirt floor, inside of a room.
It had everything a farmer would need in it, even a kitchen sink!

'Ikki! Ikki, are you there?' asked Metabee.

'Ya. where are we?' Ikki asked groggily.

'Beats me, I just woke up!'

'Same here.'

Meta-Ikki blinked once. "Where...am I?" he said slowly.

"Meta-Ikki!"

Meta-Ikki tried to turn his head, but was still too weak. Instead, he moved his optics to the left, and saw SumiliKoji, NeutraKarin, Rokusho, and
Sailor Erika resting at the side of the room. Sailor Erika's optics brightened, as she saw Meta-Ikki. "Your ok!" she said, releaved, getting up, and
ran towards Meta-Ikki. She hugged him, and Meta-Ikki yelled out in pain.

Sailor Erika stepped back, sweatdropping. "Oops, sorry, guess your still aching, huh?"

"Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner," Meta-Ikki said sarcasticly.

Sailor Erika frowned. "Come on, Meta-Ikki, don't act like that! I was worried about you, you used up all your energy using the medaforce, and you were
out cold for a day!"

Meta-Ikki frowned. "I...did?" he puzzled.

"You don't remember?"

"Well, I remember someone screaming, and golden light, but that's pretty much it," Meta-Ikki sighed.

Sailor Erika sighed, her optics closing. She opened them up again, and said, "Well, I remember, and you saved our lives back there! Who knows what that
lady would have done to us?"

"Ya.." Meta-Ikki said slowly. "But where are we right now?"

Sailor Erika half smiled. "When you went unconiscious, Rokusho went ahead to find shelter until you became better, and, well, he found it! Right now, we're
in another...farmer's shed.."

"Kinda figure, eh?" Meta-Ikki groaned, rolling his optics.

"You didn't,"

"Hey!"

"Ah, your awake, Meta-Ikki," smiled Rokusho, getting up. He walked over to Meta-Ikki, and nelded down by him. "How are you feeling?"

"Like I was just hit by a truck," moaned Meta-Ikki.

Rokusho sighed. "But at least your conscious..we'll stay here for another day, while you recover. Though I still can't understand how your medaforce worked,
and mine didn't..."


* * *


Meanwhile...

"IDIOTS! DUFUSES! COWARDS, EVEN!" raged Exodia, bonking Verra, Valentina,and Robert on the head numberous times, as they let out little yelps of pain. "You were
about to actuelly DO A MISSION PROPERLY, and you failed, because of ONE meda-morphs! How could you have failed?!"

"What if we were to say that the meda-morph that trashed Sky-raidar swindled the medaforce..?" squeaked Robert.

Exodia growled, and narrowed his eyes. "You still could have beaten him, Robert! Skyraidar has a dark medal, which cancels out the medaforce!"

"But, Mr. Exodia," Valentina pleaded, "It wasn't any regular medaforce...it was like, a MEGA medaforce, or something!"

Exodia growled more. He resisted bonking Valentina on the head with a mallet, as he thought to himself. Here called what had happened when the meda-morphs had
escaped them before, and noticed something...it was his...emotions... 'Grr, that meda-morph! He can control the medaforce by his emotions! That twit! And even worse
...he's the first one to unleash his secret meda-power! His is the mega-medaforce...' Exodia sighed, then said to them,"Fine fail me again, though, and you'll wish
you've never been born!"

"Yes, sir!" Valentina, Verra, and Robert all said, saluting, then ran out the door.

'Only time will tell before the other meda-morphs discover their meda-power..' Exodia thought to himself, as he sat down in his black chair.


* * *


The next day, Meta-Ikki had fully recovered from the battle. He would have recovered quicker, if they were able to repare his parts, but they couldn't for two reasons--
#1 was because they had nothing to fix them with. And #2 was because they wouldn't be able to take off his parts to do the job anyways. They were just about to leave,
when someone spotted them...

"ACK!!" shouted a short man in black rubber suit, "Look here, Gillgirl! This is totally freaky-ish!"

"Oh, no..." groaned SumiliKoji.

"It's the..." Sailor Erika said.

"Rubber-robo gang." NeutraKarin finished.

"The Rubber-robo gang." Rokusho growled, more of a statment than a question. They were the ones who had killed Prof. Hushi, them! Rokusho felt rage build inside of him,
but he felt a cold metal hand be placed on his shoulder.

"Take it easy, man," comforted Meta-Ikki, "We all have some thing against them,but right now, we have more important things to worry about," said Meta-Ikki seriously.

Rokusho just nodded at Meta-Ikki, and cooled off a bit, calming down.

"Yo, what's the trouble, Shrimplips?" questioned Gillgirl, running up to him. Gillgirl took one look at them, and screamed. "What the hell are they?!"

"Hey!" Meta-Ikki fumed. "What breed of garbage did you come from?!"

Gillgirl made anime arrows appear on her head. "You...brat! I'll have you know that we're the rubber-robo gang!"

"We already know THAT!" sneered Sailor Erika.

Shrimplips raised a blonde eyebrow. "You do?" He looked over all the meda-morphs, but he didn't look at Rokusho, because he already knew who he was, and thought back...
why did those four look familar? He looked at their parts, their clothes, and hair. He put one piece together to another, until he figured out who they were! "I know
who you all are!" Shrimplips gasped.

"Figured it out?" Rokusho snarled.

"Who are they, Shrimplips?" Gillgirl puzzled.

"Those four, the ones who are on milk cartons, just to be found! The ones who we've robattled numberous times! Ikki, Metabee, and his friends!" explained Shrimplips.

"Them?" Gillgirl said, dumfounded.

"(Metabee)Wow, we're on milk cartons?" said Meta-Ikki, amased. "(Ikki) Don't be surprised, Koji has a rich family, they probably paid for it."

"(Koji)Hey!" SumiliKoji yelled defensively.

"Ack!!" shouted out both Shrimplips and Gillgirl, falling down in shock. "What the hell happened to them?!" Shrimplips asked.

"We don't know ourselves," NeutraKarin sighed.

"...Wait a sec," said Shrimplips, "If that other one is part metabee, and the real medabot is Rokusho..."

"Then they have rare medals!!!" finished Gillgirl, as Shrimplips and Gillgirl both stood up.

"Aw, darn," whispered SumiliKoji, taking a step back.

"Why are you afraid of THEM?" puzzled Meta-Ikki. "I can just meda-bop them down the road! Besides, your NEVER afraid!"

"Don't you get it? Last time we fought them, they had that robo-emperor medabot!" SumiliKoji explained, in a whisper.

"Good point.." agreed NeutraKarin.

"Well, I'M not afraid of them!" hissed Meta-Ikki, pushing up his sleeves of his red shirts as much as he could, "We can take 'em!"

"Meta-Ikki's right," pointed out Rokusho, "He's beat them many times before, so there's no way they will beat US!"

"Try us," growled Shrimplips. He lunged at the meda-morphs, ready to strike at any moment.

"Oh, for crying out loud!" said Sailor Erika, rolling her optics. She placed her left arm in front of her, and shot out a bullet from
her shooter, just in front of Shrimplips's feet. Shrimplips screamed like a little school girl, and fell back, out cold in shock and
fear.

Meta-Ikki sweatdropped. "Now why didn't I think of that..?"

"Because your you, I'm me, and the world's the world," smiled Sailor Erika, walking by him she then declared, "We better get out of
here, before Gillgirl goes after us, and Shrimplips wakes up!" Sailor Erika started to whistle, as she walked away.

Meta-Ikki blinked a few times, as SumiliKoji, NeutraKarin, and Rokusho all ran after Sailor Erika. Meta-Ikki blinked once more, looking
around to see that everyone had left him alone! "Hey! Wait for me!" he shouted, running after them.



Half an hour later, Gillgirl was trying to wake Shrimplips up, with no availd. Gillgirl made anime arrows appear on her head in fustration.
"WAKE UP!!!!" she shouted, slapping Shrimplips on the cheek. Shrimplips' eyes snapped open under her sunglasses, as he shouted, "Ow!" he sat
up, and screamed in Gillgirl's face, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!"

"Those freaks scared you half to death, and you fainted! And...sprung a leak.." Gillgirl snickered.

"Huh?" Shrimplips looked down, and saw a wet patch on his crotch. He blushed furiously, and muttered, "But I was wearing a diaper...!"

Gillgirl heard, and smirked, "Well, you must have been holding it all in for weeks, because it soaked right through it!"

Shrimplips growled, and vowed, "I'll get those twits for this!!" Shrimplips got up to run after where ever the meda-morphs and Rokusho had gone,
when Gillgirl placed a hand on his suited shoulder.

"Wait," she said calmly, "I have a better idea...let's HELP them,"

"What kind of STUPID idea is that?!" Shrimplips snarled.

"A good one," Gillgirl smirked, "First off, we help them reture to their 'normal' selves, and when their guard is down, since they trust us now,
we sneak attack them, and steal Rokusho and Metabee's rare medal!"

Shirmplips half smiled. "Brilliant!" he declared happily, "We better go tell Seaslug and Squidguts about our plan!"

"But first...." Gillgirl said, "Change your suit, please,"

Shrimplips went redder. "Oh, right,"


* * *


Meta-Ikki, Rokusho, and the rest of the meda-morphs continued their journey towards the energy wave was coming from, which happened to be the place where
their new eminies, Robert, Valentina and Verra, worked at. Meta-Ikki was humming a japanese song(the gundam wing theme song) as they trudged along. He was
happy because he had found out that he had the medaforce, even though he didn't know how, and was able to defend his friends at any trouble's notice.
Sailor Erika was just walking along, wishing she had her camera with her, beside NeutraKarin, who was busy looking up at the sky. SumiliKoji was slicing
his sworded arm back in forth, as if in a daydream, of robattling. Rokusho, meanwhile, was deep in thought.

'Why would that woman be after Meta-Ikki and his friends..?' he wondered, 'Could she be the key to giving back their humanity..?' he thoughts continued
to resemble those kind of questions.

Soon, they reached one of their key clues to their mystery--an old building, that reminded NeutraKarin of something.But, sadly, she couldn't remember.
Not knowing this site was important, they continued to walk along the gravel road, paying little to no mind to that tall white building...


* * *



"What, have you gone compleatly mental, Shrimplips?!" yelled out Seaslug, falling out of his chair.

Shrimplips made a frown of aggrivation. "No, I haven't!"

"Yes, you have!" Seaslug shot back.

"If you think about it, Seaslug, you'll see it my way," Shrimplips said as calmly as possible.

"Sorry, but I'm not seeing 'the light'," Seaslug sneered.

"Fine," Shrimplips huffed, "I'll explain it once more. If we help those four return back to normal, then while their guard is down after they're back to
normal, we can swipe Metabee and Rokusho's rare medals!"

"No, no," said Seaslug, waving his hands around the dimmed room of the Rubber robo gang's hideout, "I understand the plan, in fact, I'm ok with it,"

"Then what the problem?"

"You've gone MENTAL that those four and their medabots have morphed together!" Seaslug exclaimed.

Shrimplips made an exasperated groan, falling back on his back. "But it's true!" he cried, getting back up.

"He's right, I saw them, too," said Gillgirl, stepping out of the shadows. "They were all...mixed up, let's just say,"

"You've ALSO gone mental!" Seaslug gawked.

"We haven't!" Shrimplips and Gillgirl shouted at the same time.

"Prove it, then!"

"Fine," Gillgirl huffed, "I have proof right here!" Gillgirl ran away from the room, and a few minutes later, she was wearing black rubber gloves, and carrying
Shrimplips' rubber robo uniform he was wearing before, with a...weak spot in it crotch.

Shrimplips went bright red, "Hey! Don't show him THAT, it's embarrassing!"

"Sorry," Gillgirl apologized, "It's the only proof I can think of at this time. Anyways, this, Seaslug, is Shrimplips' suit that he was wearing at the time,
when he had an 'accident' due to fear of the girl Erika mixed with the SLR-type medabot, when she shot at him."

"That's not good enough, Gillgirl," Seaslug sneered, "He could have gotten scared simply because a wasp flew by him!"

Shrimplips went even more scarlett shaded. "But it's true! What more proof do you need?!"

"Well..." Seaslug started, rubbing his chin, "You could always bring me a picture of them. Only then will I believe your tall tale,"

"But--!" Shrimplips stuttered, "They scare me! And besides, if they catch us, it's more likely that they WON'T trust us!"

"That's a risk I'm willing to take," Seaslug sneered, "And besides, if you're afraid of them, how will your plan work if your AROUND them almost all the time?"

Shrimplips bowed his head in defeat.

"Fear not, Seaslug!" Gillgirl smirked, "We'll get those pictures, that's a promise!" And with that Gillgirl grasped onto Shrimplips' uniform, and ran out of
the room, dragging a yelling Shrimplips behind her.

'They better not be lying,' Seaslug thought to himself, leaning back in his ripped up chair, 'Or they'll be sorry...!'





~To Be Continued....~



A/N- Remember to r/r, readers! I'll get the next chapter up ASAP! Peace! :)