"Hey champ we need to talk"

"What the… I remember you" Mitch says not trying to show his slight shock at being confronted

"And we remember you," Miko says without missing a beat. She glares at the dark skinned british boy in the Hinobi truck. Trying to not let too much of her anger show.

"You stole my win. Uh apparently,"

"How can you know about that? I reset you myself." Mitch grumbles getting out of the truck staring at the two with a quirk of his eyebrow "Everybody resets." lifting his gauntlet and activating his goggles he resets the two.

"Is zapping people your solution to everything?"

Mitch gapes as the purple haired girl before him. It didn't work? She didn't reset. Miko closes in on him. Shock, confusion and even a bit of intrigue showed on his face as he couldn't believe what happened. Immediately he moves to up the power on his gauntlet

"Pretty sad if you ask me. Especially since a tool like that could be used to help people." Mitch tries to reset her again in hopes of ending this, but it doesn't work. Just an error message above her. Not one to be deterred, Miko crosses her arms and continues "Instead of cheating" she emphasizes.

Standing there completely frozen, Mitch gasps and goes for his gauntlet again. This can't be happening? Who the hell is she? So focused on the girl in front of him Mitch doesn't notice Five ducks out of their way. "Everybody resets!" he yells, well frustrated with each step Miko takes and the reset not functioning.

"You love to play the hero, but, you're really just some bully!"

Mitch panics as she says this forcing him to take a step back. Maxing the mind wipe "I'll wipe you clean!" letting this anger get the best of him Mitch was solely focused on the girl in front of him.

"Stop it!" Five yells, throwing himself at Mitch managing to get him to the ground. The two struggle as Five tries to get the gauntlet.

"Let go? You don't know what this thing does!" Everyone stops as the glitch contained in the gauntlet is released. The glitch crackles and hisses with energy as its sporadic movements head away from the teens. Kicking Five Mitch immediately gets the glitch back in his targeting area trying to keep his annoyance in check as Phil calls him. "Got it under control. Don't send backup." The glitch escapes heading to the arcade. "Oh, boosh. I am done with you two whack a moles" opening a portal he traps them in the truck. " This is a serious Mitchuation. I can't have you morons make it any worse!"

"Wait wait wait wait. Seriously? a Mitchuation"? Not sure whether to laugh at the absurdity or rolled her eyes at his arrogance.

"I used to look up to you…" Miko turns to Five with a deadpan expression at his dramatics "and now I don't even know who you are!" tears forming in Fives eyes as he stares at his idol.

"I'll tell you who I am. I'm the guy who's gonna send you back to the alley you crawled from. And this time, you're gonna stay there… where you belong" slamming the doors to the truck Mitch activates the security system.

Mitch heads to the arcade to deal with the glitch. A girl who doesn't reset. It shouldn't be possible. And she's with that fanboy tosser to boot. His win yeah right like he could ever win against me. But she did. Another voice in his head pipes up reminding him how he hadn't actually won the first tournament. Mitch shakes his head trying to focus as he searches for the glitch. Urrrgh none of this makes sense. He thinks still letting his thoughts wander to the purpled haired girl and how she stared him down confronting him. Who does she think she is? So lost in thought Mitch let out a scream as the glitch appeared. He didn't reach in enough time as it found its way to Chomp kitty. The plixels materialized in front of him "I hate retro titles" he smirks finally putting his thoughts on the girl to the back of his mind as he gets ready to face the glitch. But some part of him knows they won't stay back there for long.

Chomp kitty lets out a roar sending a bunch of kids running past Mitch. He mind wipes them just as his headset beeps and says glitch techs detected.

"I said no backup!" the next thing Mitch sees is that the two of them come crashing through the wall with BITT. "I've had it with you griefers" he groans. "I'm trying to clean up them mess you made, and you keep making it worse!"

"Chomp kitty?" Five exclaims watching the glitch devour Mitch and spit out his gauntlet.

"Strategic update run away!" BITT robotic voice calls out, moving to safety with the two techs trying to dodge the giant feline.

"Uh, is there an instruction manual?" Five panics as the glitch destroys the arcade. Miko and Fives gauntlets begin beeping "Mitch? You're okay?"

"I am stuck in the belly of a malevolent digital construct, so, no, I'm not okay! Help me you morons!"

"You want our help?" Five's eyebrows reach his hairline almost in disbelief

"You're gonna admit what you've done and help us put things right again!" Miko demands before she even wants to consider helping this jerk.

This girl again ugh. I've never met anyone so infuriating "Fine, just get me out of here! The static discharge is frizzing up my hair!" Mitch complains before the call gets cut off. Stuck inside a glitch. It's all their fault. And how dare they pretend to be techs. They don't deserve to wear the suits. Even if she doesn't look half bad in it. The same voice from earlier chimes in. What the… oh sod it. Before Mitch has time to dwell on his thoughts he feels the glitch absorb the power up. What are those two noobs doing?! He uses his gauntlet to calls them again "Use your gauntlets to drain its power. And get me out of here!" he can hear Miko ask BITT if the gauntlets have multi targeting just as the call gets cut. Heh smart girl, Mitch begrudgingly thinks to himself. "I take it back" he says aloud frustrated as the kitty's stomach starts to fill up. "Hurry! I am surrounded by toddler snot!"

Miko manages to lure chomp kitty back towards Five "Chomp on this." he smiles before blasting it with the modified power up. The glitch explodes freeing the plastic balls, kids and Mitch.

Mitch groans as he hits the floor hard. "Huh?"

"Hey, pro how'd you like your memory reset?" Mitch stares up at Five in disbelief as he has a gauntlet pointed right at him. If it wasn't for the fact that he was possibly about to get his memory wiped he'd scowl at the matching smug grins the two of them held.

"Wha-" BITT interrupts chiming in that the tech gauntlets aren't to be used aggressively and meant not to harm?

"Yeah?" Miko starts and Mitch frowns at the tone in her voice. "Well, your MVP here really needs to read the dang manual." not bothering to hide the bite in her voice as she glares at Mitch.

"You gotta believe me, i wasn't really gonna do it! I was freaked you wouldn't reset. Everybody resets!" Miko rolls her eyes, not completely believing him.

"You stole my win. Why?" keeping the gauntlet trained on Mitch.

"To protect your lame gamer status?" Miko rolls her eyes again as she steps forward.

Briefly Mitch wonders if her eyes will get stuck that way as much as she does that "I am Mitch williams. I am the number one gamer in this city. You take that away from me, you may as well take everything." He stands up getting annoyed especially with what he was about to say next "besides, that win was bugged. He wasn't even the real winner. She was" pointing at Miko.

"What?" the genuine surprise overriding her anger "But Five made the winning shot." She states like it was obvious gesturing to Five.

"Yeah with your ball remember?" Mitch wonders how she was smart enough to get Five and track him along with quickly accommodating too using the gauntlet, but not smart enough to recognize it was her who beat him.

Turning his head he looks at Miko with mild surprise "So I guess you won."

"Huh" is all she says before the two break into smiles.

"No matter which one of us won, he still loses" both of their smiles become a bit more smug as Five activates the gauntlet again pointing it at a cowering Mitch.

"Please, don't!"

"If we wipe your precious gaming career, you've got nothing left to protect."

Five keeps his gauntlet trained on Mitch. "I know I went too far, but do not take this from me. It's what I love. It's who I am."

Miko's expression softens as his words sink in. Oh buttersnaps. We can't do this. She thinks almost regretfully "Me, too." looking at Five for solidarity

"Me, too" he deactivates the gauntlet, letting Mitch stand back up. Mitch looks between the two of them as their gauntlets start to chime.

"You wanna tell him or should we?" Miko steps up to Mitch challenging him again.

Ugh this girl doesn't know when to quit. He thinks as he glances down at the image of Phil on his screen. After explaining everything to Phil Mitch ends up at Miko's house. I cannot believe I'm doing this. He looks around as he stands in front of her parents with Phil to his right and Miko, Five and BITT to his left. "So… your daughter wasn't lying when she told you a no joke giant monster hand came out of your TV and trashed your living room." Her parents are staring at me like I'm nutters.

"I'm sorry, what exactly are you people talking about?" Her father asks.

Phil jumps in to smooth things over "we're talking about offering your daughter and her friend here part time jobs in the Hinobi Store's new technical support department."

"A job? I do like the sound of that" her mother smiles as her father nods in agreement.

"Especially if it makes you happy." He adds.

"Whoo-hoo" Miko gasps while doing a happy dance thanking her parents. "Okay guys you can do it now."

Phil resets her parents and they all leave before it finishes. Miko stands outside saying bye to Five as he bikes away and Phil drives off. Mitch is leaning against the truck glaring at her. "You got something to say you overrated waste of hair gel?" She feels some of her annoyance from earlier at what he had done creep back into her.

"You got lucky" is all he says pushing himself off of the truck taking a few steps closer to invade her personal space.

"Luck had nothing to do with it, mega cheater. It was all skill." She spins around and smirks not backing down.

"Oh yeah well" Mitch gets cut off as his gauntlet chimes. He huffs in frustration not wanting to leave the purple haired girl just yet "Well when you realize your skills aren't up to par I'll even offer you a shoulder to cry on. Later noob." He gets into his Hinobi truck looking in the mirror. He can see her sticking out her tongue and making faces at him. Shaking his head with a chuckle he drives off.