A/N: Last time, the Runners are completely surrounded by security rumble robots! Can they escape and recover the A.i. in one piece? Let's get back online!

You, Robot: Part 3

In the underground clubhouse of the robotics club in ULO, the Runners are still surrounded by the virtual robots.

"Yeesh! For a couple of nerds, they have somehow cool traps, even in my standards," Jordan said in an impressed tone. "Reminds me one of the episodes in Kim Possible."

"Less show mentioning, more robot dodging!" Itzal reminded Jordan. "Z, hit me!"

Using his Battle Premonition, Zeus was able to detect the robots' moves.

"Guys! Jump!"

Following his instructions, the Runners jumped out of the robots, who tried attacking them from both sides.

"Split up!" Jordan cried as they ran in different directions. Itzal wound up falling right into the battle pit, where the battle start buzzer sounded, resulting in another robot with talk wheels and victi to emerge and come straight at him. Itzal immediately ran up the wall and flipped backwards over the robot, who crashed straight into the wall of the pit. Itzal quickly scrambled up the robot's body before it could recover, and out of the pit, to where Jordan and Zeus were waiting the former of whom was holding the robot in her hands.

"Come on you guys, I got the robot," she said as the trio took off towards the side exit they'd been thrown out of before. They jumped into a nearby cart and sped off into the subway tunnels. Thinking they were safe, Zeus turned around to look and was shocked at what he saw.

"Uh, guys," he told them tapping their shoulders. Jordan and Itzal turned around to see the same robot who had attacked Itzal earlier at following behind them.

"Come on Jordie, punch it," Itzal said.

"Right, and don't call me Jordie," Jordan retorted as she shifted the cart into the next gear. The cart sped through the tunnels at high speed. The trio turned around after a minute and saw nothing behind them.

"We lost it," Jordan sighed in relief. But she was soon proven wrong when the robot suddenly popped up, flailed it's arms and chomped it's mouth. Jordan drew her Ice Crystal Blade, but the robots flailing arms knocked out of her hands almost immediately afterwards.

"Darn it," Jordan said in frustration.

"Hold on, I'll get it," Zeus said. He crawled out and across the front of cart to retrieve the weapon. He soon reached and grabbed it.

"Got it, Jordan," he said confidently. However the cart reached a sharp turn and in clearing it, Zeus was thrown off and into the distance.

"Z, no!" Jordan shouted as the robot grabbed one of her arms and tried to pull her out of the cart. Itzal grabbed her waist to pull her back. They struggled for a few seconds pulling her back and forth in the cart. Suddenly a loud horn sounded through the tunnel. Looking ahead, the two saw a bright light coming straight at them.

Thinking it was a train, the robot released, Jordan from its grasp, turned and zoomed away. Jordan and Itzal hit the breaks on the cart, and then bailed out. After not hearing a loud crash as expected, they looked up and saw Zeus riding a pump trolley with his Katana drawn and emitting the bright light and with a recorder-like device in his hand.

"Self-perservation program," Jordan guessed.

"Yup," Zeus answered. "But how did you know tha-"

"Same episode, same show," Jordan said. "I'm supposed to ask you how did you know."

"Let's just say I secretly took a sneak peek at the robots' plans in the club's table before we got kicked out earlier," Zeus said. "As for this item, I bought the Sound Simulator at the technology item shop. Kinda a big help on future uses."

"Well, it certainly helped us now!" Itzal said as he picks up the robot they need. "According to the robot's coding, the stolen A.I. is inside."

"We better notify Ms. Reyheart and the space center right now," Jordan said as she activates her Com Holo-Link to call their superior. A few rings in, Tina answered her call, with Dr. Taylor and Dr. Brown standing in the background.

"Yes?" Tina answered.

"Good news, we have the stolen robot and A.I., ma'am."

"And might I say it was not easy getting it," Zeus said.

"Excellent work," Dr. Taylor said. "I knew I could on you kids."

"Indeed, the space center is save, all thanks to you," Dr. Brown put in. "And I couldn't be more grateful."

Suddenly a robot came into view on the hollow and gives Dr. Brown a wedgie, causing him to causing him to scream in pain.

"Excuse me," Dr. Taylor said as she ran to help her colleague.

"Either, he has really bad luck or robots just don't like him," Itzal pointed out.

"We'll bring the bot back to the center ASAP," Jordan told Tina.

"Good, I'll see ya then," Tina said before ending the transmission.

"We have to get to the space center quick before our folks noticed that we are gone."

"Agreed, let's try using Convert Log Out to get there," Zeus said as he opens his menu. "I'll see you there."

He was then logged out as Jordan is about to do the same thing, but not before noticing Itzal's grim expression.

"What's the matter, Itz?"

Realizing her worry to him, Itzal just casually answers, "No, I'm fine. I'll see you back in the real world."

"Okay..."

With her worry still in her, Jordan logs out of the game.

"Something's not right about this. But what?" he said to himself as he activates his Com Holo-Link.

"Hey, it's me. Can you do another job?" Itzal asks to his mysterious caller. "It's hard, but can you find a news article about the space station? Someone about this certain person me and my friends are looking into."

Meanwhile Calla and Layla were behind the school waiting for the person to arrive with the tickets.

"Now you're sure this guy has legit tickets," Layla said. "Because I've heard way too many stories about how people buy tickets that turn out to be fake."

"Don't worry, he's legit," Calla said as she saw her acquaintance coming towards them. "And here he comes. Hey Dan."

"Hi Calla, how are your folks?" Dan said.

"They're good, so got the tickets?"

He pulled two tickets out of his shirt pocket."Right here. Got the money?"

She took a wad of cash out of her purse. "1,200. It's all there."

"Now your sure these are real?," Layla asked.

"Of course. Got them straight from the man in charge himself for my hard work on the preparations," Dan replied.

"Well you did good, Dan," Calla commented.

"Excellent. And tell your mom I said hi."

"Sure thanks, Dan."

As Dan left, Calla and Layla started to celebrate.

"We got the tickets!" Layla screamed.

"I told you I'd get them for you."

"Thank you so much, Calla. Man, wait until Kevin sees this!"

At Jordan's house, she is trying to find more info in her computer about Elly, one of the models who got some mysterious love letters, but found nothing as she groans about this.

Noticing her disappointment as she enters her room, Vina asks to her daughter, "What's the matter, honey?"

Realizing that her mom's in her bedroom and not wanting to keep secrets from her, Jordan decided to ask, "Uh, just trying to find out more about Ms. Elly, but didn't found a single one about her. Do you know more about Elly, mom?"

"It's about those letters yesterday, huh?" Vina asks, seeing that she is worried about the letters. "Jordan, you can't butt in into some people's privacy, you know."

"I knew that, it's just I have a bad feeling about those love letters. And of course, I heard that Elly has a boyfriend or something."

"Now that I think about it, you're right about the boyfriend thing. Elly told me his name is Ace, and that he's a real hunk."

"Ace? Um didn't he used to date that other model, uh…what was her name?"

"Victoria? Oh yeah, he did. But they broke up not long after I let her go."

"Wait you fired her?"

"Unfortunately, yes. Her perfectionism causes her to develop anorexia, and she started starving herself to death and acting like a diva, sayng that she was the superior to all. So I dimissed her and told her to get some help. Ace stuck around like a good boyfriend would, but eventually her drama got to be too much for him to handle, and…"

"He dumped her. Wow."

"I know, it's sad. I always wonder if Victoria was ever able to bounce back from that?" Vina said as he left the room. Jordan continued to sit deep in thought about what he mom had told her.

Back at the Mid-Zone Lounge, Zeus was studying for his pop quiz when he notices Itzal in a deep thought.

"Itzal, what's bothering?" he asked.

"Oh, just nothing. It's about the space center incident," Itzal said. "I got a feeling we're missing something here."

"Well, we did recover the A.I. to Brown. What do you think it's missing?"

"Like I said, nothing! But something's not right."

Then, he felt a pat on his back, revealing to be Jordan as she says in her usual casual tone, "Come on, that's just your avatar talking. Go back to your old you, okay? We recovered the A.I., save the center's reputation, and just got another mission successful. Cheer up!"

"Hmm... I guess you're right. But I-"

Suddenly, they heard Bren and Andre's voices as a robot they created entered the lounge while the two boys chased it.

"Stop!"

"Get back here!"

"I'm guessing you're 'robot' is finished, huh?" Jordan asked with little sarcasm.

"Yeah it is," Bren said.

"And it's ready to rumble," Andre said. Suddenly the robot picked him up and swung him around the room. "Stop this thing!"

"I can't, it won't respond," Bren said as he fiddled with the controls. "It's unstoppable!"

"Cool," they said in unison as the robot grabbed and swung Bren around as well.

"Man you guys are as bad with bots as Dr. Brown is," Zeus shouted, which Itzal realized what he just said.

"Hang on a second, what did you just said?"

"Well, come on, when it comes to robots, the dude's clueless. Makes me wonder how he could be such an expert."

"That's it," Itzal gasped in realization. Suddenly his RunCom beeped.

"Yeah?" he said as he answered it.

"Hey, it's Janus," the person answered.

"Hey, my informer bud. Whazzup?"

"I did than search you wanted for Dr. Brown's scholarly publications."

"And there are none, are there?"

"Nope, all the articles were writing by…"

"Dr. E.J. Gordon," they said in unison.

"That's right," Janus said. "Wait if you knew then why'd–"

"Didn't figure it out until just now," he said as he hung up and turned to Jordan and Zeus. "Let's go guys, I just cracked this case wide open!"

Despite confused at this, Jordan and Zeus decided to follow him, but not before stopping to look at the boys still being swung by their robot.

"Something tells me that you two might be the next ones that might make our principal unhappy about this mess," Jordan remarked.

"Hope you guys tune up your robot in detention," Zeus added as they left the lounge.

At the space station, the Runners are now in their avatar forms, ready to defend themselves in case of traps. But to Jordan and Zeus, they aren't ready at what Itzal just told them.

"SAY WHAT?!"

"Please don't tell me your jumping the gun as your original again," Jordan said in worry.

"I'm afraid I'm in a PKer mood here, Jordan. I'm very serious," Itzal said in a mentioned tone.

"But if Brown didn't invent the A.I., who did?" Zeus asked in confusion before they realized they're at their destination.

In the space center lab, Dr. Brown was tinkering with the bot the Runners had retrieved when all of a sudden, the lab's door opened and Ben stormed in and shouted, "I built that robot and you stole it from me!"

"That's a dangerous accusation," Brown said.

"I'm all about danger, as you're about to see for yourself," Ben said as he prepared to lunge at Dr. Brown. Emilia, however, grabbed his shoulders and stopped him just in time.

"Ben, calm down!" she told him.

"Hello, Emilia," Brown said drolly.

"Harold," she retorted with a snarl.

Then, the Runners entered the lab, which Brown was able to noticed as he approaches them.

"Ah, the heroes who saved my A.I., thank goodness you're here. Call security."

"Oh, we will. And you'll get back that YOU stole!" Itzal declared to Brown, which he was completely shocked at his accusation, too. "You staged the whole theft to hide the fact that you never developed the A.I. You're not a good-enough scientist."

Realizing what he said, Zeus realized something and says, "So explains it. You plot the whole thing so we can steal the A.I. for you!"

"And avoid letting us knowing the whole thing without dirtying your own hands, too!" Jordan added. "You no-good coward!"

"So what! I got the reputation, I got the A.I., you stay away!" Brown angrily said before he flees from the lab with the bot in hand.

The Runners, Emilia and Ben pursued him into a hallway where he turned a corner and vanished.

"This way," Zeus said pointing in one direction. "We can cut him off this way."

The five all then ran in that direction that Zeus had pointed.

Dr. Brown, meanwhile, ran through a doorway into another room…and right into the Runners, Emilia and Ben.

"Nowhere to run, Harold," Jordan said.

"Oh, I'm not gonna run," Brown said. "You're letting me go, for in case you forgot, I have the precious robot in my hands."

"Wait," Itzal said as he slowly backed up to the ON switch of a giant magnet in the room. "Don't do anything stupid."

He flipped the switch and the magnet roared to life, snatching the bot from Brown's hands, and sticking it to the surface of the magnet.

"Looks like your bargaining chip just flew away, Brownie," Jordan said. Dr. Brown, stunned, ran for the exit, but found himself unable to open the door's handprint security lock.

"It's locked down, Brown," Zeus said. "You're finished."

Just then, the magnet turned towards Ben, and started to pull him in for an unknown reason. Jordan then grabbed his arms to pull him back down.

"What's going on dude?" she asked.

"Well there is something you need to–" Ben started to say, but then the magnet pulled him away and stuck him to his surface.

"Okay, that's the weirdest thing I ever saw," she said in disbelief.

"Please don't tell me he hid some small robot parts in his pocket," Zeus said in a same shocked tone.

Not fazed by this strange event due to being aware what was going on, Itzal turns off the magnet, which Ben and the robot fell down on the ground. After that, he unmasks Emilia's boyfriend as he declares, "Ben's a robot!"

"Emilia is dating a robot?! Either this is a new type of forbidden love or that just plain creepy," Jordan said in a disbelief tone.

"Me too. If Ben's a robot, then who built him?" Zeus asked in a same, but confused tone.

"The inventor behind Ben is Dr. E.J. Gordon," Itzal answered in a casual manner.

"Who's he?" Jordan asked.

"If you mean 'she', then she's right here," he said as he pointed to Emilia, much to his friends' shock. "Dr. Emilia Janice Gordon, noted robotics authority."

"Good guess, kid. But how did you know?" Emilia asked in an impressed tone.

"Even though I'm just an impatient kid, I can sometimes do a little digging," Itzal replied. "But why the secrecy?"

"My colleagues weren't ready to take someone like me seriously," she answered.

"Hey, even if you're look like a model, that won't stop you from being a scientist," Jordan said to Emilia. "Even I'm a little ticked at Ben's robot, I have to admit, you got a cool robot perfect for the space center."

"She's right, you don't to care what's on the outside, just be yourself and show everyone what you can do," Zeus added.

"Appreciate the compliments, guys. Thanks," Emilia said in gratitude.

Suddenly, Dr. Brown comes in swinging an axe.

"Back off, or both robots become scrap metal," he shouted as he raised the axe to destroy the bots much to Emilia's horror. Before he could bring it down, however, the stolen bot, using it's self-preservation programming, grabbed the axe with it mechanical arm, and lifted Brown in the air.

"Hey, put me down," Brown shouted as he struggled to free himself.

Then, Tina and Dr. Taylor arrives with some police following them.

"Runners, are you all right?" Tina asked in worry.

"Are you three hurt?" Dr. Taylor added.

"We're fine, Ms. Reyheart. The robot is programmed for self-preservation," Jordan answered in a casual tone.

Confused, Dr. Taylor asks, "You might want to tell us what happened."

"Long story short, Emilia's a genius. Brown is a fraud and robber," Itzal explained. "She built and programmed the A.I., which somehow works in ULO."

"I have to admit, I'm surprised about this, you three," Tina said.

"You and me both, Tina," Dr. Taylor said before turning to Emilia. "As for you Doctor, we seemed to have a vacancy in the robotics lab. Would you be interested in the job?"

Hearing this, Emilia gladly nods in approval before turning to the Runners, "Thank you about this, you three. I don't know how will I repay you."

"Other than giving us the 411 on your projects and giving us robot tips on the robot battle, it's nothing," Jordan said.

"Yeah, we're just doing our job, both as protectors and friends, right guys?" Zeus said.

"Yup!" Itzal answered.

Then Tina approaches to the Runners and says, "Yes, you did an amazing job today, Runners."

"Hey, you have to thank Itzal. Without him, we wouldn't have solved the whole robbery," Zeus said.

"It's nothing, guys. Really," Itzal said with a blush on his face.

Then, Jordan remembers something and says to her friends, "Speaking of mysteries, we have to get back to Hilton PAX Hotel before my mom's fashion show starts!"

"Huh? Why?"

"I think I might have some clues about those love letters. But I'm going to need your help to solve the whole thing."

"No problem," Zeus told her

"Of course, anything for my girl," Itzal said. However, he quickly realized what he'd said and corrected himself. "I mean, 'my friend' who's a girl."

Jordan simply rolled her eyes as she said, "Good, now let's go!"

Meanwhile at the Hilton PAX Hotel, Jordan's mother Vina was about to start her fashion show.

"Hello everyone, I'm Vina Waters, and welcome to my Springtime at Day and Night fashion show," Vina announced. "Tonight, we'll showcase many designs for my upcoming spring lines for teens and adults along with–"

"Mom, wait!" Jordan shouted as she, Zeus and Itzal ran up on stage.

"Jordan, what are you doing here?" Vina asked to her daughter in shock. "Don't you know I'm about to start the show?"

"I'm sorry, Mom. But it's really important and you really need to listen along with everyone in backstage, like now!"

Vina looked at her daughter, and saw that she meant business. She then turned back to the audience.

"Um, pardon me, there will be a slight delay, I do apologize for the inconvenience."

She and the Runners then exited to backstage where all of the models and several security guards, including a particular female guard who was one of the ones that had thrown them out before, were waiting. Jordan then stood next to one particular model.

"Hey, Elly," she said.

"Hi, Jordan, how are you?," Elly responded.

"Just fine. These are my friends Itzal and Zeus."

"Pleased to meet you both," she said shaking hands with both boys.

"Likewise," Zeus said.

"Jordan's told us quite a few things about you," Itzal said.

"Jordan would you mind telling us what is going on," Vina asked her daughter.

"Mom, do you remember what you told me about Victoria and her connections to Ace?" Jordan asked.

"Yeah, why?" Vina asked in confusion.

"Well we searched for articles about their breakup," Jordan said. All the models started murmuring like they had no clue about this.

"Well there are none, she has never spoke to the press since her rehab stint and he didn't tell anybody except me," Vina said.

"Exactly, and nobody knew that Ace and Elly are a couple now, right Elly?"

"No, nobody."

"Right," Zeus said, "Which is why the letters were planted in Elly's purse."

"What?"

Everyone gasped and whispered and looked around in suspicion.

"You see, whoever did it knew that everyone still assumed that Ace and Victoria were still together, even though both had laid low since the breakup," Itzal said.

"So they planted the photos in order to damage Elly's career, and create as a scandal within my mom's business," Jordan added. "And they probably have plenty other stuff planned as well"

"But how could they have gotten in the backstage when it was under guard?" a model said.

"It must be somebody who works here, someone who has all-access to the hotel…like a security guard."

Everyone looks at the four guards who were standing there, as Jordan approached the four.

"Mr. Yates," she said to the lead guard after reading his nametag, "Who's the newest guard here?"

"Vicki, here," Yates said, as he gestured to the female guard. "She started working here two months ago."

"What!" the female guard said. "That is all ridiculous, a bunch of imaginary bull made up by a child."

Jordan came up to Vicki and got right in her face.

"Oh, is that so, Vicki, or should call you…" Jordan said as she snatched Vicki's hair off, reveal it to be a wig and her to be…

"Victoria Breaux!"

Stunned at her exposure, Victoria tried to run for the exit, but was quickly stopped by Zoe.

"Not so fast!" Zoe said as the other guards grabbed and held Victoria.

"Okay, it was me. So what?" Victoria said in anger.

However, Vina was shocked at this as she asks, "Victoria?! But why?"

"Simple, she's a perfectionist, like you said, right? You fired her after her erratic diva behaviors caused her to develop severe anorexia and started affecting her and everyone around her. And as a result of the publicity from this, her boyfriend silently dumped her, and her career was severely damaged," Jordan explained.

"Plus, since you include some expensive jewelry to match your collection, Mrs. Waters, I bet she figured she could steal those too," Zeus added.

"But deep down, you never forget how you lost your old modeling career," Jordan elucidated. "So when you heard that Elly, your old BFF, was not only taking your old spot as my mom's top model, but was dating your ex, you're jealously be came too much for you to handle and you used an alias to get a security guard job here, and take revenge on both her and my mom by framing her for stealing your boyfriend and later on, both my mom's and her fellow model's jewels, which would have meant scandal and ruin for both."

"And I would have gotten away with them if it weren't for you, meddling kids!" Victoria angrily said.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Saying that Scooby-Doo quote won't change anything," Jordan said to her. "Take 'em away, boys!"

"Rest assured you haven't seen the last of me, you little brat!," Victoria said as the guards dragged her away. "I will get you for this!"

Then, Vina approaches her daughter and starts to hug her as she says, "Jordan! I don't know how you do it, but even if you watched too much cartoons, I'm really proud and impressed of you!"

"Hey, I just rely on my own skills, plus with a few help from my friends," she said as she looks on to her friends, which they blushed at her compliments to them.

"Yeah, well thanks for your help, Jordan," Elly said. "I owe you one."

"No problem."

"Well you kids be grab some seats," Vina said. "The show's about to start."

"Right," Jordan said as she and the boys returned to the audience area.

Then, as the Runners were about to take their seats to the fashion show, Zeus realizes something and asks, "Wait a minute, did you forgot about Calla?"

"Don't worry, she just texted me and turns out, she decided to skip the fashion show to accompany Layla to the concert instead," Jordan answered. "Who knew she's a big Hatsune Miku fan, too?"

Speaking of the concert, the girls are cheering on their virtual idol singing "Black Rock Shooter" as they wave their green leek-shaped glowsticks.

"This is incredible!" Calla shouted.

"I know, I can't believe that your friend got us seats right at the foot of the stage," Layla said. She then saw Kevin walking up the isle.

"Excuse me a second, Calla."

She left her seat to go confront Kevin.

"Hey Kevin, just thought you should know, I got the tickets, and I'm sitting right in front of the stage."

"What?! The–there's no way you could have gotten better seats then me?" Kevin said aghast.

"Oh, yeah, well where are your seats?"

"All the way up there," he sighed pointing at one of the higher sections of the venue.

"Aww, ain't that a shame," Layla gloated. "Enjoy the show, Kev."

Layla then walked back to her seat as she and Calla continued to watch the concert together.

The next day at Fils-Ame Moffitt School, Calla is browsing through some pictures of last night's fashion show on Jordan's smartphone.

"Do you like them? One of them was inspired by me," Jordan said. "Although, it would be better if you see them in person."

"Like them. I LOVE THEM!" Calla said as she hugs her best friend in glee. "And I don't care if I'm not in the fashion show, I only care that I see the collection. Thanks a lot, Jordie."

"Usually, I say "Don't call me that again.", but I'll make this an exception," Jordan said with a smile.

Then, Layla approaches the gang as she greets, "Hi, guys!"

"Hey Layla. How's your first week's going?" Itzal asked.

"Just great. Maybe I can find some friends with same interest like Calla," Layla said with a wink.

"I'm glad to hear that. And don't worry, Calla, Itzal, Zeus, and I will make sure you will have a great first week in Fils-Ame Moffitt School."

"And us too," Andre said as he and Bren approached with their robot.

"I figured that you two would be in detention by now after all the trouble that thing's caused," Kani said.

"You'd think," Bren gloated. "But luckily, we managed to clean up the messes before Principal Roenick saw them."

"And we fixed, I'd say all of the bugs in this bot," Andre told them. "So it should be all ready for the Robot Rumble!"

Suddenly, the robot squirted a stream of oil in one direction, splattering it all over Lena, who was walking down the hall.

"AAGGGHHHHH! My new camisole!" Lena said in shock. "It's ruined!"

As the boys saw this in shock, Jordan slyly tells them, "Yeah, your going to a rumble all right, just not the "robot" type."

"I hope you two got some 'bad boy' weapons for your opponent over there," Zeus added.

"YOU TWO!" she said as she charged at them. The boys screamed, grabbed their bot and ran with Lena chasing after them, screaming furiously.

"Well, this should be a very interesting battle," Jordan said as she and her friends laughed out loud.

A/N: Wow, those two have really bad luck. Anyways, watch out for the next episode announcement in our forum, Unitas Lounge and make sure you stay tuned for an announcement after UR Spotlight! Review and I'll see ya later!