Here we go, chapter 3. I promise you, the action starts picking up from here, but I won't say how. Hope you enjoy, I do not own LOZ or Medabots, and reviews are greatly appreciated.

Chapter 3- Standing Up and the First Match

The next morning started off well, or at least, until Link woke up to find two neon green eyes staring back at him. Due to the surprise, Link rolled off the other side of the bed with a thump. "It's about time you woke up," The owner of the eyes, Metabee, scoffed, "I've been waiting for the last hour for you to get up." "Metabee?" Link questioned as he rubbed his head. "That's my name? Metabee?" The beetle-type medabot repeated, "Catchy, I like it. Now who are you?" "I'm Link, your medafighter." He answered as he stood up from his spot on the floor. "You? My medafighter? I don't think so pal, Metabee doesn't have a medafighter." Metabee retorted. "What are you talking about?" Link then asked, a little ticked off about the situation, "I built you and put your medal in your body. How does that not make me your medafighter?" "That's a good question." The yellow beetle returned, equally ticked off. "Listen Metabee," Link started, trying to calm down, "You're my medabot and I'm your medafighter, that's how it is." "I don't take orders from you." Metabee crossed his arms. "Great," Link mused out loud, "I use all the money I have to buy him and it proves in the end how much of a pile of junk he is." "What did you call me?" Metabee raged, jerking his head and narrowing his eyes at Link. "You heard me, pile of junk." Link spat back, "That's what you're acting like right now." Well that did it. Metabee was now in a blind rage as he charged after Link when he took off running. "Come back here! I have a little friend for you to meet. It's called laser cannon!" Metabee aimed his left hand arm cannon at Link just as he leapt out from behind the sofa in the living room. "Metabee, stop! Not in here, please, Mom and Dad will kill me if you fire in here." Link pleaded as he put his hands up. "Then take it back!" Metabee hissed, still aiming his laser cannon at him. "Alright fine," Link sighed, "I take it back." Link then looked at the clock in the kitchen to find that it said 8:25. "Oh shoot," He panicked, "The bus will be here in twenty minutes." He then dashed past Metabee and for the shower as Aryll hazily closed the door to her room to get ready for school herself. Metabee was left in the living room, dumbfounded over what just happened.

Just as Link and Aryll walked out the door, Metabee followed close until Link stopped him. "Metabee, medabots aren't allowed in school. You can't follow me." "Who said I was following you?" Metabee snorted, "I was going for a walk." "Oh no you're not. Not after how you treated me this morning," Link firmly told him, and then seeing Kitty at the door, "Kitty, keep an eye on Metabee until I get back." He then dashed for the bus as Aryll got on and left the two medabots on the porch. Aryll went to her usual spot with her friends as Link took the seat next to Sheik. "So Metabee is finally walking around huh?" Sheik asked as Link sat down. "Oh he's doing more than walking around." Link mumbled. "What do you mean?" Sheik then asked. "Well first-off, he says that he has no medafighter when he didn't even know his own name until I told him. And then when I call him a pile of junk because of his attitude, he almost turned me into Swiss cheese." Link sarcastically answered, and then sighed, "Sorry, I just had a long morning." "It seems like it," His friend chuckled, and then handed Link a candy bar, "Here, you may need this more than I will." Link simply smiled as he took the candy bar and started munching on it. "Having medabot trouble?" Saria snickered from behind them, "I couldn't help but overhear." "You could say that." Link replied as he swallowed a bite. "Well experts say that medabots develop their personalities based on their medafighter's over time, but they said that there's always the slight chance that it'll develop its own personality. No one can really explain it though." Saria explained, re-fitting her emerald green hairband on her head. "And it figures that I got the slight chance medal." Link sighed as he finished the candy bar and stuffed the wrapper in his backpack." "Hey, it just happens." Sheik piped up. "Maybe you can summon Metabee after school and we can meet him Link." Saria suggested, "My medabot is always looking for new people and medabots to meet." "It'll depend on what he thinks at this point." Link finished as the bus rolled into the parking lot of the middle school to drop off the proper students.

In science period, which was Link's next period after first period Math, things turned out a little better. That is, until Ruto snagged the empty seat next to him. "Hey there Link," She greeted in a cutesy way, "I've thought about you throughout the summer and missed you a lot." She then winked at him and giggled. "Great, how much worse can this get?" Link thought. But it only got worse as another 'fan' of Link's walked through the door and spotted him. "Long time no see Link," Malon greeted in the same cutesy manner as Ruto did moments ago as she waved her long red hair out of her face, "I missed you through the summer." "Back off farm girl," Ruto hissed, "I got here first, so Link is my lab partner." "Well what you seemed to have forgotten, little Miss Mermaid, was that there are three seats per station." Malon retorted as she took the seat to Link's right. Ruto was on the school swim team, and one of the best swimmers the school has had. So she earned the nickname, 'Miss Mermaid.' Malon on the other hand was a cheerleader for the school, and it was her country accent and red hair that made her popular on her team as well as most of the football team. So too bad for Link, he had two girls he had no interest in fight over him, and he had no one that shared science with him the same time he had it. "I really wish I had Metabee here right now," Link mused quietly, "Even with his attitude." "Good morning everyone," The teacher, Ms. Farore, welcomed, "Today we'll be continuing what we started the other day with chemistry. Your specimens have been exposed to regular room temperatures for almost forty-eight hours now. So let's finish the other half of this experiment." Unfortunately, because Malon and Ruto silently argued who Link belonged with, Link was barely able to hear anything the teacher was saying, but in the end he was able to complete the project successfully, despite him being the only one at his station actually doing it.

After Lunch, Zelda found Link outside watching Dark cream yet another victim's medabot with his own on the blacktop behind the cafeteria. "Hey Link, what's going on?" She asked when she walked up to him. "Hey Zelda, nothing much; Just watching a robattle." Link replied as Dark's medabot, Belzelga, finished off another foe with ease. No one knew much about Dark, except the fact that he was brutal in Robattles. And like Link preferred green and had blue eyes, Dark preferred solid black and had dark crimson eyes. "Wow, that medabot's really strong," Zelda quivered, "I never knew they could be so powerful." And it was right about then that Dark spotted Link and Zelda from the corner from his eye and started for their direction. "Hey cutie," Dark smirked at Zelda as he leaned on the concrete pillar behind her, "I hope you enjoyed the show." "To be honest, I didn't." Zelda murmured uninterestingly. "Awe, why not?" Dark continued smirking. "Listen, she said that she didn't like watching you, so will you just leave it alone Dark?" Link firmly asked. Link and Dark have been like arch-enemies since elementary school, so what Link said in Zelda's defense was an old flame rekindled. Dark glared at him and pushed Link to the ground, "Back off punk, I wasn't talking to you." He then turned back to Zelda, "Maybe you can come with me after school and I'll show you how to robattle right." "I would rather live on the streets in the city." Zelda flatly told him. Dark was taken aback somewhat, but just as he was about to make a grab for Zelda's neck, Link pushed him to the side. "She said to leave her alone." Link told him as Dark picked himself off the ground. "So you want to play that way huh? Fine then." He then raised the wrist with his midnight black medawatch on it closer to his face, "Belzelga, get ready to show this loser his place." His medabot then readied its battle stance as it glared at Link with its pink optical visor. "Link," Sheik shouted, "Call Metabee. Dark is getting ready to robattle you." "Alright Dark," Link started, "If you want a robattle, then you'll get one." He then called into his watch "Metabee!" as the yellow beetle-type medabot dashed from around the corner a second later and skidded to a halt. "You called?" He asked jovially as he glanced at the medabot Belzelga, which had a face that even a Mother couldn't love. "Get ready for a robattle Metabee, Dark means business." Link answered as he and Zelda backed away a few feet. "Alright, my first robattle." Metabee said out loud, "Bring it on!" "Your first robattle huh?" Dark repeated, "Then I'll make sure that your first will also be your last. Belzelga, destroy this pathetic insect."

Belzelga made the first attack by swinging its arm around behind it and attempted to punch Metabee, but missed as Metabee jumped out of the way. "Yo Link, some orders would be nice." Metabee called. "Right," Link called back, "Metabee, use your rifle." "Right on, take this!" Metabee shouted as he began firing at his foe, but missed as Belzelga dashed out of the way. "You'll have to do better than that to beat me," Dark laughed, "Belzelga, get in close and knock the wind out of that yellow windbag!" Belzelga snarled as it was finally able to make contact with Metabee and punched him straight into the air. Metabee screamed as Belzelga made a running start for one of the pillars and used it as a springboard as he flew straight for the yellow medabot, with an over-sized fist ready to slam Metabee back into the ground. "Metabee, Try to fire at Belzelga again, he may not be able to dodge your attack while he's in the air." Link called through his medawatch. "I'll try," The beetle-type medabot replied, "Laser cannon!" He then twisted his body around to face his foe and used his left arm gatling gun, and this time was able to nail a flurry of meda-bullets at his opponent's face. This in turn caused Belzelga to drop his attack and land on the ground as Metabee landed on the ground with his feet as well, but nearly fell over from the loss of balance. "I'll admit," Dark smugly smiled, "You're good for a beginner, but this is where your luck ends. Belzelga, throw everything you've got into a focused punch and eliminate that pesky insect." Belzelga roared again as he charged for his opponent with his right fist cocked and ready for another punch. "Metabee, get out of the way!" Link called with a panicked tone. "What else is there to do?" He asked rhetorically as he narrowly missed the huge fist, but got hit with a couple pieces of mid-sized debris from the blacktop when he landed a few feet away. When the debris cleared, everyone who had come to watch to fight was silenced in awe as they gazed at Belzelga's arm. He punched the ground so hard that he shattered his own fist; and the mangled tin-pet hand within was clearly visible from the shattered remains of the arm.

"Impressive," Dark smirked, "It takes skill to dodge a sacrifice fist. But I can still destroy that bug with one. Belzelga, finish him." Belzelga grunted a little as he took a moment to build the momentum to begin moving, it seemed that not only did the sacrifice punch destroy the arm, but it also passively damaged his other parts too. "Metabee, this is our chance," Link shouted, "He's slowed up. Now finish him!" "You got it," Metabee answered with a determined tone, "Missile launch!" He lowered his head a little bit as two small seeker missiles then launched out of the horn on Metabee's head and soared straight for Belzelga, and exploding upon impact with their target. When the smoke cleared, Belzelga was lying motionless on the ground with huge blasts in his head and torso. And silence ensued, until everyone heard the clinging of Belzelga's medal hitting the blackened pavement. Belzelga had ceased function. "I… Impossible," Dark stuttered as he fell to his knees, "I… lost? I never lose." "Dude," Metabee dramatically chuckled at Dark as he raised his head back up to face him, "I rock." "Link… beat Dark?" Sheik stammered, "I can't believe it. Even I couldn't beat him, and then Link and Metabee… man." "Metabee," Link called through the many shouts and cheers of the crowd, "We won." "We won!" Metabee repeated with a happy shout as he ran towards Link. "I was wrong about you," Metabee started, "Metabee has a medafighter, and I'm glad it's you." "You got that right Metabee, and I'm glad that you're my medabot." The two the shook hands as the Gym teacher, Mr. Postman, stormed out the cafeteria door. "What is all the noise about? And what are medabots doing here? You all know that medabots aren't allowed at school!" He then narrowed his eyes at Dark and Link, "You two are coming with me." He then grabbed the two by their shoulders and led them back inside. "Get to your next classes! There's nothing to see here!" He boomed at the other students as they scurried back through the doors in hopes that they wouldn't get brought into the punishment.

After school, Metabee, Link and Aryll boarded the bus when it picked them up and headed home. "Link? What's your medabot doing here?" Aryll asked. "First of all, his name's Metabee. And secondly, it's a long story that's not meant for you." Link simply answered as he and Metabee took the seat in front of Zelda. "Where did you go after the match?" Zelda asked, relieved to see her friend again, "I was worried about you." "We got stuck in the principal's office for robattling in school grounds and got a huge lecture on respect for school rules and property." Link explained as he turned around to face her. "Man, I never knew that one man could say that many words in one breath." Metabee pondered out loud. "Guys." Sheik called as he took the seat opposite of Link and Metabee. "You guys were awesome!" He exclaimed, "I mean, even I couldn't beat Dark. And then you guys mopped the floor with him and trashed his medabot like it was nothing!" "It's just because we're that awesome." Metabee answered proudly. "By the way Metabee," Link cut in, "I think I have some introductions to make." He pointed at Sheik, "This is my friend Sheik." And the he motioned for Zelda, "And this is my friend Zelda." "I have to say Link; you have a good taste in friends." Metabee responded. And just as Link, Aryll, and Metabee's stop came, they got up and were about to leave. Until Zelda called Link back. "Thanks for standing up for me earlier today. It was really brave of you." She simply smiled. "Don't mention it," Link smiled back, "As Sheik and I tell each other all the time- friends help each other out." Zelda seemed pleased to hear that Link thought of her as a friend as he and Sheik agreed to meet later today and got off the bus.

However, the inevitable happened for Link as his parents were waiting for him then they walked through the door. "Hello son," His Father greeted, "School go well today?" "Yeah, I guess so." Link stammered. "Oh boy, we're in for it now." Metabee sulked as he hung his head in shame. "We got a call from the principal today." His Mother explained simply. "Link's in trouble." Aryll quietly teased as she took Kitty into her room and closed the door. Metabee, Link, and his Parents then all sat down in the living room silently. "It's a long story," Link started, "And we have a good reason for doing what we did." "Well son, we would love to hear it," His Father replied, "From you and Metabee." Metabee sighed heavily and hung his head low as Link began the long explanation. "Well, you remember Dark from third grade, right?" Link asked. "Yes, we remember him. Why?" His Mother asked. "There was a new girl in the school that I met at Lunch on the first day. And Dark tried to show off to her today when she didn't have interest at all. And it ended with a robattle when I tried to stand up to him in her place." "And you should've been there," Metabee stood up on the floor, somewhat excited, "We gave Dark and his medabot a Metabee-bopping they're never going to forget." "Metabee, that's not helping us at all." Link sighed. "Hmm…," His Father started, "Dear, could you please leave Link and I alone for a minute? Metabee, you go too." Metabee quietly left and headed to Link's room as Link's Mother left to see Aryll. Link was mentally a nervous wreck at what his Father was about to say. "Son, I'm proud of you." His Father simply smiled. "You… what?" Link stuttered. He was completely blown away from what his Father told him, and he never saw it coming. "I said I'm proud of you son. Not at the fact that you destroyed public property of course, but at the fact that you stood up for someone else despite the risks present from your actions. And for that, your Mother and I are not grounding you... extensively. But we do expect you and Metabee to give the principal an apology tomorrow." He explained. Link took a deep breath, "I felt good about what I did, except for destroying the blacktop." His Father chuckled, "You take after your old man. I did the same thing at your age, but that's a story for later." "I would agree." Link smiled as they both embraced with a hug. "Hey Dad?" Link asked when they separated, "Can I take Metabee and head over to Sheik's house?" "Yes you may son," His Father answered, "After you and Metabee write an apology note to your principal."

Today's robattle did not count due to not having a referee present to oversee. Therefore, no parts were forfeited and no wins or losses were recorded. What'll happen next time? You'll have to read on to find out.