~Chapter 14~








~Rival's Fight~















"Hey, what are they doing in there, Gillgirl?" questioned Shrimplips, jumping up and down to try and see in the window.

Gillgirl and Shrimplips were outside of the window where the gang was working away, which the two didn't know what they
were working on, and since they were so high up, they were on the porch outside the window; they weren't THAT stupid to
just stand on a ledge!

"I dunno," said Gillgirl, "But they look like they're making something!"

"Well, that's doing something, isn't it?" snapped Shrimplips.

"Don't push your luck, shorty!" hissed Gilligirl, eyeing Shrimplips.

"Shorty!?" raged Shrimplips, "Why I otta--" Shrimplips was cut off by Gillgirl slapping her hand on his mouth.

"Shh!" Gillgirl said, putting a finger against her mouth, "they might hear us..!"

Gillgirl released Shrimplips, as he growled, turned away, and started muttering curses to himself.








"Come on, Valentina! I'm ready, I don't want to wait anymore!" fummed Meta-Ikki, tapping his metallic foot on the ground,
as Valentina entered the room above him, which controlled everything.

"Hold your horses!" shot back Valentina, trying to hold back her anger, but was sort of noticable.

Meta-Ikki didn't, though. "I don't HAVE any horses, so you better hurry up!"

Valentina growled to herself, as she sat down on her chair in front of the control panel, thinking to herself, 'Man, that
guy sounds like he has a split personality! One is rough and tough, the other is still like the other, only shows more...
compassion! It might be because of the chip...by hey, why do I care?' she shook the thoughts out of her head, and ran her
fingers through her strawberry blonde hair, cracking her knuckles afterwards.

"Hey, do you mind? I'm waiting!" Meta-Ikki optics narrowed.

Valentina shot a look at Meta-Ikki, but instead of shouting something back, she pressed a few buttons, and it went dark around
Meta-Ikki once more. This time, it stayed darkened, but there was a slight amount of light, so outlines of figures could be seen.

Suddenly, a voice made an evil laugh, sending chills up Meta-Ikki's spine. He took a step backwards, but felt at where her heel
would be, was nothing but thin air! A few rocks cracked, and fell from the cliff, as Meta-Ikki jumped forward, with a small yelp.
He gulped, knowing that the area behind him was indeed, a cliff.

"Hey, what gives?!" shouted Meta-Ikki, expecting Valentina's voice, but to no availd. Instead, the laugh just came again. A familar
laugh, that the Ikki part of Meta-Ikki reconized.

"Is that..?" Meta-Ikki pondered, taking a few more steps forward, trying to keep his distance from the cliff. Then, suddenly, bright
green optics that were pushed together(like Sumilidon's) glemmed, along with another evil cackle. "I know who that is." breathed
Meta-Ikki, as the light suddenly became a bit stronger, showing the image of a mix between Sumilidon and Koji. "I knew it! SumiliKoji!"
sneered Meta-Ikki.

SumiliKoji simply smirked, followed by a low laugh.

"Stop laughing at me!" shouted Meta-Ikki.

SumiliKoji stopped, but continued to smirk. "Prepare to feel my wrath." he said smoothly, taking a step forward. Meta-Ikki took a step
forward as well. A few minutes passed, as they just stared at each other. As ten minutes passed, Meta-Ikki could have sworn he saw
tumbleweed blow by the two rivals.

"..Are we going to fight, or what?" snapped Meta-Ikki.

"..."SumiliKoji bent down, about to jump, which Meta-Ikki could barely see, "..With pleasure!" he suddenly shouted, jumping into the air,
and out of sight.

Meta-Ikki looked from left to right rapidly. "Hey, were'd he go?" he quietly asked himself, a little nervous that SumiliKoji would kick him
in the face at any moment.













"...Rokusho, I need to ask a favour," suddenly spoke Prof. Sakaru, not looking up from his work on the control.

"Yes, what is it?" replied the KWG medabot.

"I need you to go out and find me a plant."

"Why a plant?" Rokusho questioned.

"There's a plant not too far away from here that has special oils inside of it, that can act as a battery. It never wears out, and this control
is going to take a lot of juice, and we don't want to risk it running out of power just when we're starting to disrubt the other control midway.
It's a white flower with blue tips to the petals, and has a orange tinted stem. Can you go get it for me, please?" Prof Sakaru explained, looking
at Rokusho.

Rokusho blinked, and before he could reply, Merodi spoke up, "But grandpa, why can't me and Rocat get it? We have nothing to do!"

"Well," Prof Sakaru said, "It's because Rokusho would probably notics it better than you two, because he's a bit more intune with nature. Besides.."
he chuckled softly, "I think Rokusho would like to search for a flower named after himself. And if your bored, you *could* always go paint the walls
again.."

"Gottogo, bye!" Merodi and Rocat raced out of the room, the find the others, and to avoid painting again. Prof. Sakaru laughed a little. 'Kids today.."
he looked back at Rokusho, who's cherry red optics were wide. "There a flower named Rokusho?"

Prof. Sakaru nodded. "So, are going or not?"

"It would be my honor, Prof. Sakaru."










"Dude, I think this place is broken or somethin'!" sighed Meta-Ikki, kicking the ground after a few minutes passed. Then, suddenly, SumiliKoji slammed right
into Meta-Ikki face, taking him by full surprise, and knocking the wind out of him. "Ik-ik-ik-ik-ik-ik-ik!" Meta-Ikki stuttered, his optics rolling as dizziness
took over him. SumiliKoji silently kicked him in the gut once more, and used his hammer fist on his arms, which made 30% damage to them, all the while Meta-Ikki
was trying to regain his balance.

"Wooow, when did you get a twin, SumiliKoji?" Meta-Ikki said with a slurr, forgetting where they were for a minute. He shook his head, then noticing the
pain in his arms. "O-ouch! Oh, now I'm REALLY angry!" fummed Meta-Ikki, regaining his senses. He charged forward, shouting, "Ya-ya!" as he shot out many laser
cannon attacks, hiiting his legs, and stopping SumiliKoji in his tracks. Meta-Ikki stopped in front of a stunned SumiliKoji, and punched him in the chin. SumiliKoji
yelped, and rubbed his chin, as Meta-Ikki kicked him in the chest, knocking him backwards. SumiliKoji jumped up, and flipped towards the KBT medamorph, using his hammer
fists once more, but Meta-Ikki dodged. The attacks continued like so, attack, dodge, attack, dodge, and went on for a while, matching each other's movement almost
perfectly.









Rokusho jumped from a top of the old building that Prof. Sakaru owned, onto a tree, since the place was deserted, and nobody else had made any buildings around the area.
He clasped his fingers on a branch, and hoisted himself at the top of the large maple tree. He put his sword hand over top of her optics, and scanned the area for any signs
of the Rokusho Flower. His optics narrowed, looking to the east, and seeing something white and blue, with a hint of orange in it's steam. "That must be it," he muttered,
getting ready to jump to the next tree.



"Hey, look what Rokusho's doing now!" Shrimplips pointed towards the medabot, and Gillgirl looked. Rokusho jumped to another tree, landing gracefully on a huge branch.

"What's so special about that? He always just WANDERS.." scoffed Gillgirl.

"Well, why would he be OUTSIDE when he's friends are INSIDE..?"

They looked at each other for a brief second, then scrambled down the ladder that Gillgirl had placed beside the balcony, and sneaked off after Rokusho.



Rokusho hummed to himself 'superman's dead' (I mentioned that song before, lol) as he jumped to the next tree, and nearly fell off, but pulled himself up with a flip. He looked
down, and saw the Rokusho flower from before. He would have smiled if he could, as he jumped down from the tree. He walked towards plant, and bent down to pick it up, when suddenly,
thousands of angry crows swooped down at him, cawing like mad!

Rokusho's optics widened, and yelled out and started to run away. "Why...are...these...birds...chasing..me?!" he panted, as he continued to run. But then, he got an idea. He was
able to jump far distances! He mentally hit himself for forgetting, and jumped to the nearest tree, and hid in the leaves, waiting for the crows to go away.

A few minutes passed, and no sign of them. Rokusho sighed, and jumped out of the tree. 'I wonder why they attacked me..?'



"Idiot!" raged Gillgirl, bonking Shrimplips on the head, "You should know better than to throw rocks in a bird's nest!"

"Hey," said Shrimplips defensively, "I just wanted to see if there was anything was in there, that's all!"

"Well, you shouldn't have, you idiot!"

"Well, I bet you would have done that, too if you wanted to know!"

"Wha-? No! And want to know why?" Gillgirl glared at Shrimplips, and said before he could reply, "You are stupid, you are stupid, and don't forget, you are stupid!"

Shrimplips went bright red, and growled at Gillgirl.

"Well, it was stupid!"

Shrimplips growled, "I'm gonna tear ya limb from limb, right here, right now!"

"Bring it!"

And so, the classic fight of the two went on, but you probably don't wanna hear it, right?



Rokusho looked around, as he approched the flower once more, and picked up the flower, and looked around cautionly. No crows. Rokusho sighed, and looked at the flower,
grasping it in his hand. It was really pretty, and it must have been rare since there was only one around the area. The petals were white, and had power blue tips to them,
and it had an orange glow to the stem. Rokusho felt as he jumped from tree to tree, that the flower would play more than one important role to the plot.












Meta-Ikki striked a punch towards SumiliKoji, who blocked it. 'This is getting boring,' thought Meta-Ikki, 'I better do something different to catch him off guard.' Meta-Ikki
blocked another attack by SumiliKoji, and attacked, and when SumiliKoji blocked that time, Meta-Ikki grasped onto his hand, and flipped away from him. SumiliKoji looked startled,
as Meta-Ikki shot his seeker missles at SumiliKoji, but had forgotten about his disrubtors! SumiliKoji glowed green, and the missles flew back towards Meta-Ikki! Meta-Ikki
narrowly dodged them, and got hit in the leg. He hissed in pain, falling towards the ground, and landing on his knees. He placed his hands on the ground, and started to pant. He
glared at the smirking SumiliKoji, who stood calmly. Meta-Ikki got up slowly, his parts squeaking a little, and raced back to SumiliKoji, yelling out. SumiliKoji stuck out his
sword arm, and disappeared before Meta-Ikki's laser cannon could hit. SumiliKoji appeared behind a puzzled Meta-Ikki, and used the shadow sword on him, and Meta-Ikki screamed out,
taking a lot of damage from the counter attack of the medaforce. He winced, as SumiliKoji cupped his hands together, and slammed them into his metal plate. Meta-Ikki fell to the
ground, weakened, but not beatened, and his anger rising.

He stood up, glaring at SumiliKoji, and said calmly, "...Kiss your 'bot goodbye." He aimed his laser cannon at SumiliKoji, with a plan in mind. SumiliKoji couldn't dodge the golden
wrapped laser cannons(they were golden cause of Meta-Ikki's anger), and took the hit. While he was still recovering, though, Meta-Ikki took his moment of weakness to attack once more.
"Missle Lauch!" He shouted, and the attack hit dead on, and he hit the ground, and melted away.

Meta-Ikki smirked. "That's what you get for messin' with the champ!" The room shifted once more, and turned back to normal. Meta-Ikki was still pretty weakened, and collasped to the
ground, panting. "I know this is for training, and I'm not quite ready..it shows..." he said quietly to himself, narrowing his optics, "..But it's not enough."













~To Be Continued...~





A/N-Well, what did you think? R/R! ^^