Disclaimer: I do not own Medabots, nor any of the characters from the original manga. Horumarin owns Medabots. I own myself and all of my characters, that including both Foxfires, Akura and her mom. Corona89 owns Zagan and Malcolm.

Author's Note: Go read 'The Jackal's Gate'.... NOW! Seriously, I'm not just advertising. Go read it. throws something at you GO!... Wait... Read this first! Stay and read this first!

Foxy leapt off of the basketball net, just as Zagan was preparing to cut it down from the base.

When she landed, she ended up damaging her ankle parts, discovering that she wouldn't be able to make those high jumps in this body.

'20 percent damage to leg parts.'

Ikki looked down and saw that Foxy's stats were already low from that kick to the mid section. He needed to make this work... fast.

Zagan whirled around to defend himself from an attack, but instead found the DFX sprinting to get the blade that Zagan had sliced off. Malcolm rose an eyebrow.

"What does she plan to do with that?" He asked himself. Zagan was wondering the same thing, but whatever she WAS planning, he was going to stop. "Zagan, get rid of it." Malcolm commanded into his watch.

The GDN nodded in acknowledge and ran after Foxy.

But of course she had a major head start and reached the blade first. She skidded to a halt and snatched the metal. Zagan continued to run though.

Foxy jumped over him and back to the basketball net. She needed a free minute. Not even. Just one minute. She glared over her shoulder and stopped.

By stopped, she actually stopped. Foxy stopped running, and to Zagan's surprise, leaned down and ran towards him.

And before Zagan could stop himself he got a full blow to the gut and was flipped onto the ground.

"Alright!" Ikki cheered. Foxy narrowed her optics on the guardian type and scaled the basketball net to get to work.

'48 percent damage to main body.'

Malcolm smirked with a shake of his head. "Talk about off the top of your head." He said. Zagan was winded and would take a little while before getting up. There was a huge dent into his mid-section and his oil systems were going to need a few seconds to start running again.

Foxy however was perched on the basketball net and hard at work.

She pulled out the working kyoketsu shogei in her blade cannon and used the sliced off the chain, taking the blade with it. Foxy then jammed in the single blade into the empty cannon, her other with just the chain.

"Come on, come on." She mumbled angrily, trying to get the blade in as far as she could. That's when her ears picked up movement from below.

She glanced down and saw Zagan pulling out his saber again. Foxy gave the blade one last shove into her cannon before she felt the basketball net start to wobble.

"What the slag--?!"

Zagan was cutting down the base of the net, only a second more and the whole thing would come crashing down. Ikki backed up a little, his eyes wide.

"I-is he allowed to do that?!" Ikki asked incredulously to Mr. Referee. The ref nodded, though his expression was serious with his arms folded.

"It's allowed, as long as he doesn't end up hurting anyone, he's fine."

Foxy dove off the net, just as Zagan was preparing to extract his saber from the basketball net's inside. But as she did, she aimed her cannon at the unsuspecting Guardian. He looked up with his visor wide.

"Chain Cannon!" She shouted. And he didn't have enough time to block; his blade was still slicing through the base.

The chain blasted out from her cannon, wrapping and tangling around Zagan's body. Foxy retracted the chain, dragging Zagan along with it.

She pounced him to the ground and straddled her legs across his chest. Her other cannon, the one with the blade crammed into it was aimed at his neck.

"Boo." Foxy said lightly, her dark red optics narrowed still, mentally smirking.

Malcolm let out a breath and ran a hand through his dread locked hair. "Okay, you win. Let him go." He sighed. 'Beaten by a newbie. Zagan's going to be angry all night.'

"Win goes to Ikki and Foxy!" Foxy got to her feet and helped Zagan up, untangling him from her chain.

"Good robattle." She said, holding out her hand. Zagan nodded shaking her hand.

"You too. Next time you'll be the one pinned though." Foxy nodded.

"Yeah keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll actually believe it."

"I'm just glad it wasn't a submission battle." He said, walking back to his Medafighter. Foxy cursed, realizing he was right.

"Slaggit! I could've gotten new parts outta him!" Ikki laughed and patted her back.

"Meh, next time. Right now we should go celebrate at the HopMart. Heal up some of your own parts. And euh... repair your weapons." Foxy nodded with a sweatdrop and the both of them saw everyone running over.

"That was great! You two did so well!" Karin praised. Koji nodded.

"I'm surprised she was able to win with parts she was unfamiliar to. Good work."

"Thanks Koji." Ikki said, his grin hard to fade. Until he looked down and saw Metabee with his arms folded, looking off to the side.

"Hey Metabee, aren't you gonna congratulate me?" He asked. The KBT just hmphed.

"Oh yeah, yeah. Congratulations for winning your Robattle!" He said, though his tone was obvious with sarcasm. Ikki rose an eyebrow to the others, who just gave shrugs.

"Uh, you guys go ahead, me and Metabee will follow from behind." He said, waving them off. They gave nods of agreement and started walking, Foxy tagged along with the other Medabots.

"... Congrats." Foxfire said, a little awkwardly. Foxy glanced over before looking back in front.

"... Thanks." She replied, holding her hands behind her back. Rokusho walked beside Foxfire, but kept an eye one her 'sister'.

'She certainly knows how to play the role.' He thought, his optics going back to Foxfire. She was uncomfortable, he could see that. Her optics were looking down as she fell into her own thoughts. Rokusho mentally pouted, she looked sad. Worried.

The KWG patted her on the back, keeping his hand on her shoulder. Foxfire snapped out of her thoughts and looked up.

"I won't be very far from your house so if anything does happen, don't hesitate to just yell out the window." Foxfire mentally smiled with a nod.

"Thank you." She leaned her head against him, feeling a lot better with his arm around her. And of course, a lot safer.

"Metabee what's with the attitude?" Ikki asked, looking concerned. Metabee rolled his optics.

"Oh nothing, don't mind me. Why aren't you partying up with my replacement?" Ikki almost doubled-over and Foxy's ears twitched.

"R-replacement? What are you talking about?" Ikki looked up at where Metabee was glowering and smacked his head. "You're mad because I robattled with Foxy?"

"I'm MAD because you didn't even ASK me about taking in Foxy!" Metabee shouted, rather loudly that Foxy didn't even have to pretend to not be listening in. Most of the group were looking over at the two, wondering what was going on.

Ikki sighed, scratching his head. "I'm sorry Metabee. I didn't think you'd be so sensitive."

"Oh that'll make him feel better." Koji said glumly. His remark soon followed by more yelling from Metabee.

The Kabuto type Medabot was practically at gun point with Ikki now. "I am NOT sensitive!"

"O-Of course not." Ikki said with a sweat drop. "Did I say sensitive? I meant euh... I didn't think you'd... react."

"Well maybe you should THINK about things like that before inviting strangers to stay with us, and then ROBATTLING with them, instead of me!"

Ikki bit his lip, he really SHOULD have thought more about these things before jumping in. Metabee had... reacted to much less things.

"I'm sorry Metabee, you're right. I should've asked." Ikki tried to see if his Medabot would respond.

Metabee let out a deep breath in annoyance. "Well I guess I should be used to you being so stupid."

"STUPID?!"

"They never think before they speak." Foxfire said. Rokusho gave a nod.

"Those two seem to have a nasty habit of doing that."