"A powerful robot going up against a cat-obsessed little girl," Dojo murmured as the heartless Dude-bot stepped out into the main room to go up against Katnappe. "Well, this should be fast,"

"Money where your mouth is. I bet that my Dude-bot will destroy Katnappe!" Jack Spicer said, knowing full well that he had no money.

"You're on!" Dojo replied. "What're the wagers?"

"Let's see…" murmured Jack. "Okay, you can have the Jackmobile's remote control if you win. But if I win, and I know I will, I get to have…Kimiko's head," He glanced around suspiciously. "For my bobble-head collection! Honest! Shut up!"

"Okay," Dojo shrugged and turned to watch the fight.

Below, Katnappe and the Dude-bot had just started their showdown. The Dude-bot raised its Woozy Shooter and was about to spray Katnappe in the face when she vanished. Just completely vanished.

"Whoa, that was fast," The Dude-bot said.

"That was lame," Jack Spicer said, pressing a button on an oversized white remote control he had mysteriously acquired.

"It really wasn't that cool," The Dude-bot amended quickly, just as Katnappe reappeared behind it. "Ruby of Ramses!"

The Dude-bot soon found itself being levitated into the air. "React, you stupid hunk of junk!" Jack snapped, hammering on seemingly random buttons while squinting at the battles.

"Hey! Just because I'm made of circuitry doesn't mean I don't have feelings," The Dude-bot replied. It didn't seem to notice its nemesis anymore.

"I-I'm sorry…" said Jack, his lips quivering.

"Seriously. That was harsh and uncalled for, Dude," The robot added.

Jack stared at his feet and dropped the remote control. About a half-second later, the Dude slammed straight into the ceiling, courtesy of Katnappe. "Well, that was lame," Jack said.

"Is that the sound of a new jet-car, I hear?" remarked Dojo off-handedly. The dragon slithered around the commentator's box, trying to avoid having to commentate on the fight itself.

The Dude-bot slowly but efficiently picked itself off of the ceiling and dropped down to the floor, completely unharmed.

"Well, that was a complete waste of a turn," Katnappe said. She jumped out of the way of another intoxicating cloud of smoke from the Woozy Shooter.

"Dude-bot! Go into Overdrive!" yelled Jack. Katnappe raised an eyebrow as the Dude-bot's legs started to extend, as if it was using the Monsoon Sandals. The robot's arms and neck stretched out next, and they curved and twisted as if they weren't even made out of metals and wires. "Excellent, excellent!" Jack cackled. The robot's eyes lit up with an eerie gleam and its body started to expand. A string of grenades slid from a small orifice and wove their way around the Dude-bot's body like so many snakes.

At least twenty twisting tentacles shot out of a series of holes in the Dude-bot's torso and started thrashing about wildly, nearly shattering the commentator's box.

Two massive machine guns that could not have possibly been with the Dude-bot earlier flipped out from behind its back and somehow slipped into its hands. A laser pistol jumped from a small compartment in the Dude-bot's (now massive) head, and landed in one of the gloved tentacles that were flailing around.

"Well, there goes my car," Dojo said.

The Dude-bot whirred and clanked as it took slow, calculated steps towards Katnappe. Likewise the Heylin dragon of the Skies took several steps back to avoid getting stomped to oblivion.

"Ruby of Ramses!" Katnappe tried to levitate the robot into the air. A tentacle flicked out and knocked the ruby out of her hands. "Shard of Lightning," She shimmered and flickered out of normal sight, as she ran outside the normal confines of time and space.

A blur here, a dash there, and Katnappe ran rings around the ludicrously slow Dude-bot. "Ha-ha! I'll win, very fast!" She said, repeating a line of dialogue she had used a long time ago, when she had defeated Omi in a showdown for the Changing Chopsticks.

Of course, had she been watching her back instead of reciting unmemorable lines from previous showdowns, she would have been at least vaguely aware of her time running out. The Shard of Lightning's effect faded, and she soon found herself running at normal speed…and heading directly towards an active grenade.

Only sheer luck allowed her to leap great bounds across the room to avoid getting blown to smithereens. Unfortunately (for her, and Dojo's bet), one of the Dude-bot's tentacles went whipping right towards her.

"You have got to be kidding me," Katnappe said once again as she was knocked backwards by the tentacle. She stumbled backwards and was about to attempt to feign defeat when she looked up and saw the robot about to stomp her into oblivion. "You have got to be kidding me!"

"I win! Go Dude-bot! Go Dude-bot!" crowed Jack as he jumped around inside the commentator's box. Dojo was not amused.

The Dude-bot's foot rushed towards Katnappe, about to crush her, when all of a sudden….

"BATTERIES RUNNING LOW. OVERDRIVE SHUT DOWN TO CONSERVE POWER," thundered a voice from inside the Dude-bot's metal shell. Then, right before their very eyes, the robot's weapons were retracted and its colossal shape collapsed within itself. A little while later, the Dude-bot was back to its original form.

Katnappe sat there and watched the whole thing with a look of mingled surprise and gratitude. Who knew that Jack Spicer's bumbling mistakes would actually be her salvation?

With one careful, fluid move, Katnappe rose to her feet and punched out the Dude-bot. The robot's head spun off its neck and went clattering to the floor. The Woozy Shooter fell into Katnappe's hands, and the Heylin side claimed victory.

"What? No fair! I was robbed!" Jack whined, clawing at the commentator's box in desperation.

"Nope. I won fair and square. Gimme the controls!" Dojo demanded. Jack scowled and reached into his pocket.

"Here!" He said, thrusting the keys to the Jackmobile into Dojo's hands. "I hope your insurance agency ditches you right before a car accident!"

"Gee, how thoughtful," Dojo said in a deadpan voice, jingling the keys in front of his face.