Chapter 9

A View into a Victory

That was some vacation.

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Samantha is everything I ever wanted.

I don't care about those rich kids who send me gifts, shower me with complements and presents.

How I can't stand to be held by one of them any longer.

I want a girl.

A real girl.

Just like you.

One day, you'll hold me in your arms.

"No!" Samantha screamed.

How could she be losing! And to an opponent like this too.

Peppercat couldn't land a single blow. Her energy reserves were beginning to run low, partly from that first desperate attack and the damage her opponent was effortlessly causing.

She stared at the two in hopelessness. Hand to hand combat wasn't working, all electrical attacks were being absorbed. "Think fast!" she thought. "There has to be a way to defeat them."

Erika in the background started excitedly on her commentary. Each and every sentence drilling into Samantha's nerves. "The Screws are being drilled in!"

She clenched her fists tighter as Peppercat was kicked upwards by her opponent's back flip.

"Looks like a victory ensured to-"

"That's it!" Samantha awakened to the realisation, interrupting Erika. "These moves are my moves. I know them inside out." She thought.

She watched as Neutranurse toyed around with Peppercat.

"Which means…" she grinned as Neutranurse side stepped in rhythm, "they're completely predictable!"

"Peppercat, feint lunge!"

And just as she thought, Neutranurse began to somersault to the side. Peppercat faked her attack perfectly, only going halfway.

"Leg strike to the side immediately!"

She swung her legs round and caught Neutranurse by the shoulders. Neutranurse was knocked to the ground.

"No!" Karin cried.

Samantha grinned "Look who's laughing now!"

She could see and predict every dance move Neutranurse was going to make and every direction it would take her.

Peppercat kept on faking attacks stopping halfway to carry out Samantha's commands.

"69 damage." Karin's medawatch said as she realised this.

"Pull back Neutranurse! Pull back and heal."

"Oh no you don't!" Samantha yelled out another quick command, "Feint Tail slash!"

Neutranurse leapt away in the direction Samantha knew she would.

"Iron claw to the right!"

Contact!

Peppercat's claw dug deep right into Neutranurse's chest cavity.

Samantha's eye's widened with excitement and madness.

"You've got her now! Break off her head."

Erika and some other kids were horrified.

Victory, she needed a victory! And she didn't care how she would attain it.

Peppercat's grip tightened and her eyes glowed red. She placed her other claw onto Neutranurse's upper chest and began breaking her apart.

Neutranurse screeched as her head jerked upwards.

Karin stared grimly and spoke quietly into her medawatch. "Do it."

The bots began to glow.

"What! What's happening?" Samantha had a bad feeling about this. "Pull out Peppercat! Pull out!"

But it was too late.

Neutranurse kept Peppercat's hands in place with her own. Her eyes too began to glow as she discharged electricity into Peppercat.

"Boss! I can't." as she carried on pulling Neutranurse apart.

"Break her two before she can do anything else!" Samantha was desperate to win. She was trembling now.

"Warning. Warning." Both medawatches warned, "Electricity overload."

Both medabots were discharging electricity now. Crackles of light like lightening began to circle around them as the air became static.

Belmont jerked Erika and Brass back narrowly avoiding being hit by one. The news camera began malfunctioning.

Neutranurse was in pain. A connective wire in her neck broke.

She screamed as she lost control of the power surge. An orb of blinding light began to form around them.

"NEUTRANURSE!" Karin cried, tears streaming down her face.

Samantha was rigid. She couldn't move. She just kept staring into the growing light.

Kids around started backing away to avoid being hit by the stray sparks. The flooring beneath them began cracking up as the electricity pounded them.

"Move back!" Mr Referee commanded, "This is too dangerous."

Only Karin and Samantha stayed still, now staring at each other.

Both medabots were in pain. Peppercat couldn't handle the overload of energy. Another wire snapped in Neutranurse's neck as she was torn apart.

"Neutranurse…" Peppercat whispered softly so only they could hear.

"Peppercat. You. You can't possibly want this date to happen, right?" Her grip tightened on Peppercat's claws. "I never want to go back into storage. I never want to be forgotten again!"

Peppercat didn't speak for a while.

"Peppercat?"

"Neutranurse…" she looked directly into the bot's eyes. "We're both just following commands, just like any other ro-battle. But in the end it's all going to be okay. Whatever the outcome may be."

The light shone so brightly they couldn't she see the two bots anymore.
"Warning. Warning." Their medawatches repeated. "99 damage. Critical Head part damage." "Electricity overload. Short-circuiting."

The dome of light finally engulfed them, but they couldn't move.

Samantha felt the charges run through her and sank to the floor clutching her heart. She was slowly being electrocuted.

The world seemed to go silent. In the background she dimly heard Karin and the two medabots crying out.

The light dome suddenly collapsed and swirled into a column of light, extending towards the heavens.

The clouds above began to stir and thundered as the electricity hit them.

It was the final attack.

In the distance, the people of Riverview were still staring. Everyone had stopped to watch as the column of light dissipated and broke up into small sparks. It was certainly a rare sight to behold.

At the centre of it all, two medabots lay on their sides crackling with electricity.

Mr Referee, Erika, Brass and everyone else stood in silence from the sidelines waiting for the scene to clear.

Clink

In the stillness of it all a medal could be heard falling to the ground.

It was over.
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End of Chapter 9

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