~Chapter 13~








~Virtual Un-Reality~





A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up, I didn't have time to get on the computer...'cause I went to the Gibralter
fair this weekend! ^^ I went on the Megadrop(it's 135 feet tall) 4, count em, 4 times!! ^^ Oh ya. Anyhoo, on with the chapter!





The medamorphs, Prof Sakaru, Merodi and Rocat entered the room closest to the elevator that they had recently exited. It was
old and had cracked paint all over, much like the rest of the building. The door had a small window at the top of it, barely
enough to frame a normal person's head, but was blinded close. The doorknob was golden, but was rusted badly.

Prof. Sakaru opened the door, and inside it was much neater, as well as newer. Everything was organized, and lots of machinary
plagued the place, including a computer.

"This place is a regular Radio shack!" Rokusho gawked.

"What can I say? I shop there often," Prof. Sakaru chuckled. He walked over to the computer, where it layed on top of a desk,
and sat down in the chair. "OK," he started, "All we have to do now is find the file where I saved the lists of materials I used
to make the control, then find the exact oposite materials! Then, well, we have to build the thing."

"Well, what are WE suppose to do in the meantime? Your on the computer, what do we do, grandpa?" Merodi asked.

"Well.."






"What the hell was he thinkin'?!" Rocat fumed, "We're medabots, not painters!"

"This is conpleatly disgraceful," muttered SumiliKoji, strocking his paint brush up and down the door, making it go sugar white.

"Well, I think it's fun!" smiled NeutraKarin.

"That's because house keeping is your hobby, NeutraKarin!" sighed Sailor Erika, following in suite to everyone else.

"Look on the bright side.." Merodi started, "At least we don't have to repare stuff, unlike Rokusho! He's stuck fixing some of my
grandpa's cabnets!"

"He's still cheap! Why doesn't he just get a repair man in here? I guess he rather have us do it, instead of speading ten bucks!"
SumiliKoji chuckled.

"He is NOT cheap!" Merodi replied crossly, "He's just giving us something to do, that's all!"

"Well, he still could have let us train, or something.."

Merodi sighed, looking away, and she continued to paint the hallway walls white. She saw to her left NeutraKarin paint a smiley face
on the wall, which made her smile. But, Rocat painted over it, and shook her head as NeutraKarin frowned. That made Merodi giggle a
little.


Meanwhile, Rokusho was in the other room, with a hammer in her hand, and a nail in his other, and he banged it down into some broken
wood, in an attemt to fix a table. He hummed to himself a song that he had heard on the radio once, while Prof. Hushi, Baton, and
himself, while working. "...Oh why-y-y-y superman is dead.." he recited the chorus to the song 'Superman is dead' by Our Lady Peace
quietly, as he thought to himself. The song reminded him of Prof. Hushi, his medafighter, and how he was like superman to him. And much
lik in the song, he was thought to be dead. 'He's a live,' he thought determendly, 'I know it.' His thoughts then drifted to Meta-Ikki
for some reason. Of how strong his powers were, yet he wasn't even aware of it. He was also like a superman, but not like Prof. Hushi-
superman. Then, his thoughts drifted back to the robattle where he first used the medaforce..





~Flashback~

"MEDAFORCE!!!" Meta-Ikki boomed, streams of light shooting out of her laser cannon shooters. It slammed into Skyraider's dark beam attack,
and pushed against it, even in power.

Rokusho weakly looked on at Meta-Ikki, the look in his eyes. Full of determination, courage, anger, and...love. It surprised the KWG-type
that he wasn't able to stop the CRW medabot with his medaforce, yet Meta-Ikki did. Little did Rokusho know that this wasn't all just a
co-incidince, but meant much more to this whole plot.

With one finale yell out, Meta-Ikki's attack grew stronger, and the shining golden light tore right throught Skyraider, ceasing his function.

~End Flashback~




That day, Rokusho had seen a light aura around him. Not like Metabee had before when he used the medaforce on Robo emperor, it was a bit..
different. Like, it had some significants to it, like good and evil. In this case, his body showered with light(good) energy once he used the
medaforce, and even healed them all, draining himself of all power, of course. And after hearing what he was capable of doing, he had thought
that with the right amount of power, Meta-Ikki could use something like a 'mega medaforce', like he had done that day.

But now, Rokusho feared the worst for him, because Exodia was bound to turn their friend against them, and that he would turn to the world of
evil.

Boy, he had no clue of how right he really was!












Meta-Ikki walked down the dark hallways of M.A.H.E. headquarters, Valentina close by. Every movement he made produced a bit of a squeaking noise
with his parts, because of how long Meta-Ikki's parts were lying on the shelf, when part of him was still Metabee. They headed down the hallway that
Meta-Ikki stared down before they headed towards Exodia's office, which made him shiver a little, since no light hit the hall walls.

Valentina stiftly walked up beside Meta-Ikki, and a minute later, placed a hand in front of Meta-Ikki, stopping him in his tracks.

"Hey, what gives?" puzzled Meta-Ikki.

"We're here," simply said Valentina, turning to the door beside her, which read, 'Medabot training section'.

'Ya, that's why I'm a medamorph..' thought Meta-Ikki quietly.

They entered the room, and inside was..nothing! All was there were bright white walls, and another door nearby the door they walked through, as well
as a small room suspended in the air in the corner, with glass walls.

"Dude, somebody turn down the lights, I'm goin' blind here!" Meta-Ikki whinned, shading his optics with his hands.

"Calm down," Valentina said with a slight growl of impatientiece(sp?), "This is a virtual reality room. The room shifts to different areas, and your
enemies appear in the rooms. You fight them and grow stronger, ok?"

"I guess so.." Meta-Ikki said slowly, looking up at the blonde, "But how do you know who will turn up?"

Valentina halfed smiled, "It depends on what the medabot, or in your case 'medamorph' finds their enemy."

Meta-Ikki found it strange that Valentina knew what he was exactly, but a voice in his head said to dismiss it, in which he did. He nodded at Valentina,
and stepped into the middle of the room. Valentina walked into the other door, and was within less than a minute in the glass room above him. "You ready?"

Meta-Ikki nodded, his optics narrowed a little.

Valentina smiled a bit fiendishly, cracked a few of her knuckles. She pressed a white button on the control panel in front of her, and then suddenly,
everything went dark around the KBT-type medamorph.











Rokusho was snapped out of his thoughts by his own yelp of pain. He dropped the hammer and nail, and swung his thumb around as if it was on fire, but of
course it wasn't; it was in pain. 'Sometimes I wish I wasn't a medabot,' he thought grimly, 'If I was a regular robot, I wouldn't have to feel PAIN!' He
chuckled to himself a little, and picked up the hammer and nail, and started pounding the hammer against the nail, being careful about his thumb.

Before he could even get that nail finished, he heard NeutraKarin call out, "Rokusho, Prof. Sakaru found something!"

Rokusho's head jolted up, and let the two metals slide from his fingers. "I'm coming!" He called back, getting up, and leaving the room.







"What is it, Prof. Sakaru?" questioned Rokusho, as he entered the room.

Prof. Sakaru wore a small grin on his face as he stared at the computer, but looked up as soon as Rokusho and the others entered his room. "I've found the
blueprints to the control, of course," he smiled, "And I think we have everything we need right here, in the lab! Batteries, metal plates, computer chips..
I think we really CAN pull this off!"












Meta-Ikki suddenly saw the darkened room change a bit, as the scenery shifted to a forest, much like the forest where...
Meta-Ikki couldn't remember much after that. He just remembered that he'd been there before, but not really anything else, except for...shadows of people, and
some pain.

Meta-Ikki got placed in front of a tree, and the the room suddenly became still, no noise what so ever. "Hey, what gives..?" mumbled Meta-Ikki, taking a step
forward towards the tree. Then, the silence was broken by some crackling of twigs. Meta-Ikki stopped, and tunred around, pointing his shooter arm in front of him.
"Alright, show yourself, you wuss!" he growled.

"You were looking the right way before, Meta-Ikki,"

He turned around, and saw a figure step out from behind the tree, The brown hair and pink optics were hard not to reckonize, as Meta-Ikki said in awe, "Sailor..Erika!"

"No. It's the Easter Bunny," sneered Sailor Erika, rolling her optics. She took a step forward, a scowl on her face, "You stupid hunk of junk."

Meta-Ikki's face made a bit of a hurt expression. Even though she had been so mean to him, and he wanted revenge..he just couldn't hurt her; the fact was, that he loved
her, and deep down, past the implanted memory chip, he knew that she didn't mean it. He took a step backwards, and she took a step forward. "I don't..want to hurt you.."
he muttered softly.

Sailor Erika heard, and replied, "Well, I do." She put her arm forward, and shot a small bullet at him. Meta-Ikki took an another step back, and the bullet missed. He
looked back at Sailor Erika, who's expression didn't change. "This time, I will not miss," she snarled.

Meta-Ikki gulped a bit, not knowing what to do. One part of him said to attack her, the part where he was being controled, but his heart disagreed. He grasped onto his
head, and let out a small whimper.

Sailor Erika shot at Meta-Ikki again, this time shooting more than a dozen, and hit his arm, knocking him back. He fell down, but got back up soon afterwards. Sailor Erika
shot again, and hit his left arm. He felt pain shoot up his arm, as he grasped it with his right arm. He stared at it, a bit of oil spilling down from his wound. He looked
back at Sailor Erika, as if he was about to cry.

Sailor Erika showed no mercy, and kicked him square in the face. He fell back again, with a short yell out. He slowly got up again, with his optics narrowed a bit. Now he
was mad. He narrowed his optics even more, taking a step closer. "You've left me with no choice.." he whispered, looking at the ground, then looking up. "It's time to kiss
your 'bot goodbye!" Meta-Ikki ran forward, his optics closed, as he punched Sailor Erika in the chin. Sailor Erika rubbed her jaw, and had barely enough time to dodge another
punch from Meta-Ikki. Meta-Ikki kicked her down to the ground, and shot his laser cannon attack on her. She screamed a little, as Meta-Ikki shouted, "Missle Lauch!" The attack
hit dead on, weakening his target enormously.

"Please...have mercy.." she cried out.

Meta-Ikki clenched his fists together, and closed his optics. A small oily tear dropped down, letting out a small sob. He gripped his fists tighter. "No.." he said venomously,
"You never showed me it...so why should I?" He roared out, shooting laser cannons at her, and knocking her back more. She slammed into the tree, knocked unconscious. Meta-Ikki
like he said, didn't show any mercy for her, and shot his seeker missles at her again, making her disappear into nothing.

The area then shifted to darkness, and back to the white room. Meta-Ikki fell down to his knees, and faced the floor, his optics wide, as he cried.

Valentina ran from the room, and stopped into front of the KBT morph. "You had to do it."

"I know.." Meta-Ikki whispered, "But..I LIKED it." Meta-Ikki let out a sob, and pounded on the floor, as Valentina grinned. "Excellent." she said to herself quietly. She thought
that he was starting to turn good again, but now she knew the plan was safe..for the time being. "Shall we continue?" she asked Meta-Ikki.

A couple of tears rolled down Meta-Ikki's cheeks, as he looked up at her. His optics narrowed, and nodded, standing up. "Time to get Meta-busy!"












~To Be Continued...~







A/N: What can I say? R/R! :)