Characters:
Ikki: 13
Erika: 12
Koji: 13
Karin: 13
Ivan: 12
Sloan: 12
Spike: 13
Samantha: 13
Date: July 11 2003
Special: I gave Erika a last name: Yatsumi!!!!
Ikki finally had the guts to ask Karin out…and she agreed!
Teacher called Miss Techaki!
Chapter 1: New Kid on the Block
It was 10:36 AM on Friday at Riverview Junior High and Ikki, Erika, Sloan, Spike, Samantha and the rest of the class were particularly eager compared to the rest of the school; They were having a new student join their class.
All of a sudden the classroom door opened and the Principle (followed by Samurai) walked in with his arm around a small-for-his-age boy. He had dark, blonde, untameable hair with a bit of his fringe dyed yellow and a small in width, but long clump of hair wrapped up in a white fabric and where it stopped, a small bit of black hair appeared at the back of his head; Even more to his hair were black sideburns that came down to his neck. He was wearing an almond T-shirt with a Japanese letter on it and was wearing fingerless leather gloves. He had three-quarter length trousers with side pockets and zips.
“Class, thank you for waiting so patiently, there was a problem at the airport so he’s late;” He begun. The boy just had a worried face upon him as he looked around the classroom. The principle then cleared his voice, “Anyway, I would like you all to welcome our new student, Ivan.
“Good morning, Ivan,” The class said in a sarcastic but formal way,
“Say hello, Ivan,” The principle proposed to him,
“Umm…Hi…” He said slowly. He looked around the classroom again noticing that a few people were staring at him but were whispering behind their hand about him. He could just make out two people whispering,
“Look at him! What a dork!”
“He’ll never fit in here,”
“Yeah, I mean, what happened to his hair?! Did his fringe accidentally fall in some paint?”
“He can’t be 13!”
“I’m not 13,” He whispered to himself, “I’m only 12 and I can’t help how tall I am…” The Principle slightly overheard him and he stared a bit at him and ignored it. It suddenly made him think of something to say,
“Now class, I want you to be as nice as possible to Ivan, he’s lived at the other side of the world all his life and has left everything behind him to live here,”
“I don’t have much to leave behind me,” Ivan thought, “I didn’t have any friends…” He lowered his head in depression and prayed that he may find some-NO at least one friend. Samurai felt sorry for him so he put his hand on Ivan’s shoulder,
“Don’t worry, Kiddo!” A sort of robot smile then came across his face and by hearing this; Ivan assumed that ‘Kiddo’ was his nickname coming from Samurai. He looked back at him and forced a smile.
“You should be very happy here, Ivan,” Said the Principle.
“Well, I’ll leave you to take care of him, Miss Techaki,” Both the Principle and Miss Techaki nodded and the Principle left, closing the door behind him.
“So, Ivan, where would you like to sit?” Ivan glared around the classroom yet again and said,
“…I don’t mind…anywhere that’s best for you, Ma’am,”
“Please, Ivan, call me Miss Techaki. Your very polite for your age…unlike some,” She looked around every face in the classroom and almost everybody stared angrily at Ivan.
“Hmmm…Ah! There’s a spare seat, why don’t you sit there?”
“…Ok…” Ivan walked over to the seat and sat down. It was next to Ikki.
“Why don’t you see if you can make a friend or two, Ivan? Why don’t you talk to someone?”
“It’s not likely I’ll have a friend…” He sighed,
“Pardon?”
“Nothing!” Near everyone just stayed in their seats talking to each other about him but Ikki leaned over to talk as he was shuffling his books,
“Hi!” He said in a cheerful way,
“…Hi…” Ivan responded,
“I’m Ikki!”
“Ikki? Ikki Tenryou?! The Third Ranked Meda-Fighter in Japan?!?!?!” Shock suddenly came to his face,
“Heh heh heh! Yeah, that’s me!” He boasted. Ivan couldn’t believe it. He was talking to one of his heroes.
One seat behind Ivan, though, was Erika talking to Samantha,
“Look at that kid, Samantha,” Complained Erika, “He’s just showing off because he wants Ikki to be his friend!”
“Sounds like some-one’s jealous,” Said Samantha as she wiped her sunglasses,
“I am NOT jealous!!!” Erika screamed, making everyone go silent and stare at her, even Ivan!
“Heh heh heh! Just…joking…!” After a while everybody was talking again,
“So I hear you come from England, it sounds like a nice place…is it?”
“Yeah, it’s cool…I always wanted to come to Japan but this is the first time I’ve been out of it so I guess I’m a little homesick…”
“Oh…sorry,”
“But thanks for your concern,” Ikki then thought for a bit,
“The Principle said that you had just come from the airport, don’t you know where you live?”
“Yes and no,” He replied. He took off one of his gloves revealing a piece of paper that said, “56 Riverview Drive”, “Before we got off the plane my mum gave me this,” He then showed it to Ikki, “So after school it’ll be like I’ve forgotten where I live…I’ll probably get lost,” Ikki stared at the piece of paper,
“Riverview Drive huh? I know where that is! I can help you find your house,”
“Oh! I couldn’t ask…would you?”
“Sure, it’ll be no problem,”
“But what about your parents?”
“They don’t mind, I go to loads of places before I go home,”
“You’re sure?”
“Yeah!”
“Thanks, Ikki! You’re the nicest person I’ve ever met!”
After about five minutes of talking, Miss Techaki spoke, “Because we have a new student,” She began, “We have to have a person to take them around the school and make them feel welcome. Would anyone like to volunteer?” Most people gave a you-want-me-to-volunteer? Look, but then Ikki put his hand up,
“Yes, Ikki? Would you like to volunteer?”
“Yeah,”
“Ok then, it is now your job to make sure that Ivan stays happy and doesn’t get lost,”
“Ok, Miss Techaki, I’ll do my best,”
“Good. Now why don’t you take him a little tour of the school?”
“Ok, C’mon, Ivan,” He jumped a little off of his seat and walked with Ikki to the door. Ikki opened the door and let Ivan go through first, then he did and then he closed the door.
“So…uh…this is the corridor; Probably the only part of the school which you’ve seen apart from the front door,” He then laughed a bit, “Well, I’d better show you one of the rooms which you’d be (at times) most desperate to visit,”
“What room’s that?” Ivan asked,
“You’ll see…” After a while…
“The toilet?!”
“Yeah well, when you gotta go, you gotta go!” He then burst out laughing whilst Ivan just raised his eyebrow,
“Ha ha…oh…lets see some of the other rooms,” he said still sniggering. Ikki showed Ivan all of the classrooms and places where not to go and he made sure that he listened to every word,
“Ivan! Stop staring at that artwork!”
“Where I come from, that isn’t art,”
“Well it is here, so pay attention!”
Just as they were heading back to the classroom, they met up with Miss Techaki,
“Ah! Ivan, there you are!” She began, “The Principle just gave me this to give to you,” She handed Ivan a piece of paper. He held it with two hands close to his face,
“What’s this, Miss Techaki?”
“It’s your lesson plan. It tells you what classroom to be in and at what time too, so you had better keep it safe until you can memorise the school and remember your lessons off by heart,”
“Umm…ok,” He replied, still staring at it,
“You boys are late for your third lesson: P.E. You had better hurry, Coach Mountain doesn’t like to be kept waiting,”
“Right,” They both said as they began to run to the gymnasium,
“Wait, boys!” Miss Techaki called out, bringing them to a halt,
“Tell Coach Mountain to go easy on Ivan; he’s not used to Coach Mountain’s ‘training sessions’!” Ivan felt a bit offended by this but he didn’t care, he was too busy focusing on what she said about the “Tell Coach Mountain to go easy on Ivan,” bit,
“Now run along, boys,” She said as she ushered them away; They ran to the gymnasium once she had gone back into the classroom.
“Say, Ikki. What did Miss Techaki mean when she said, “Tell Coach Mountain to go easy on me”?”
“Lets just say that Coach Mountain is the toughest of the tough,”
“Huh?” Ivan was confused,
“You’ll see soon enough,” As they reached the gym doors they pushed them open and skidded in.
“You boys are ten minutes late!!!” Yelled a deep voice,
“Sorry Coach, I was showing the new kid, Ivan around the school…Miss Techaki told me to,” A dark figure suddenly came into place. Ivan looked up at him; He seemed to be twice the size he was but really wasn’t. He felt as though every second he was getting smaller. Everyone was evilly staring at Ivan, except Samantha who was watching Erika as she pointed and laughed at him,
“Come on, Erika, give the kid a break!” But she wasn’t listening,
“Miss Techaki?” The Coach asked as his face went suddenly red and shy, “Hmmm…well if she said that then it’s ok.”
“What?!?!” Erika said, confused. Normally, whenever it was any other teacher it would be no excuse to him; But there was something about Miss Techaki that he would always agree to.
“I thought you didn’t seem familiar,” Coach Mountain said as he examined Ivan. He was worried that he would make him to something strange like fifty press-ups if there were any imperfection on him,
“Yeah,” Ikki continued, “She also said for you to go easy on him,”
“I know that Miss Techaki is the nicest lady in the whole school,” He then went red again, “But that’s just going to far! Tell me, son, where do you come from?” By hearing this Ivan felt like he had shrunk ten times his normal size and the Coach had grown ten times bigger,
“England…” The coach then just laughed and wouldn’t stop. This was a queue for everyone else to laugh except for the two usual people: Ikki and Samantha. This was it. Ivan had turned red and shrunk to a measly ant whilst everyone else towered above him, laughing. When the Coach finally stopped laughing, everyone else did too,
“England eh?” Ivan then took a hard swallow, “Looks like your going to have to toughen up a bit,” He then did a light punch on Ivan’s shoulder, forcing him to twist his side a bit, “Do fifty laps around the track, Ikki, you do ten. We can’t have you bunking off of lessons,”
“But what about what Miss Techaki said?!” Ikki asked,
“NOW!!!” The Coach pointed to the track and everyone but Samantha laughed away as they walked out of the doors and onto it.
“I see what you mean when you said he’s the toughest of the tough, Ikki…”
“Yeah…” They began doing their laps and wished for a miracle to happen; When Ikki finished his, Ivan was still panting away. At his thirty-seventh lap he was hardly moving at all, but still trying to jog when suddenly the intercom went off,
“Could Ivan Yatamso please report to the Principle’s office? Thank you.”
“Oh God!” He cried whilst hearing this and he collapsed. Ikki ran over to him, picked him up and put his arms around his neck so that he hung from him.
He dragged him inside the building where everyone was vaulting over a vaulting horse and they once again, started laughing. But once again Samantha wasn’t; She just stared at him as she was vaulting and wasn’t paying attention and she landed on Sloan, Spike and Erika,
“Sorry guys…” She said as she got up, Sloan had been knocked out so she pulled him off of Spike, who was on top of Erika,
“I think I broke my spine…” He said as he rubbed his neck,
“EEK!!! Get this thing off me!!!!” Erika squealed as Spike began to get up.
When Ikki reached the Principle’s office, Ivan was still hanging off of his neck. He pushed the door open with his side, walked in and dropped Ivan into a seat; Ikki stood next to him, panting and sweating,
“You…wanted to--PANT—see Ivan, Principle?”
“Ah! So you are Ivan’s voluntary helper, eh? Good job!” Ivan just slouched in the seat with his eyes closed, still breathless and not noticing that his mother was there.
“Hello, Honey!” She said happily. Ivan recognised the voice and slowly opened his eyes.
“Umm…excuse me, Ikki,” The Principle said as he looked at Ivan, “Is there any reason why Ivan looks like he’s been dragged through a bush?”
“Coach Mountain made him do fifty laps around the track but on the thirty-sixth or seventh one you called trough the intercom and he collapsed and got all cut,”
“Oh…I must have a word with Mountain, then,”
“…” Ivan just slouched there staring at his mother,
“Anyway, Ivan, your mother has a few things to give to you,”
“…”
“Right, Honey, here is a picture of the house we’re living in just in case you can’t find it, here’s a house key for it and after I found out you were aloud to have Medabots in school, here’s your Medawatch,”
“Wow! He’s a Medafighter!” Ikki thought. It was white in most parts, just like any normal one was, but had pale blue parts on it as well. Ivan’s mother had it all in a small pile and handed it to Ivan but he didn’t take it,
“Give…it…to…Ikki…” He said, still gasping for breath,
“Ikki? Who’s Ikki?”
“Oh! I am,” Ikki stood forward and bowed to her,
“Hello there, Ikki, I am Mrs. Yatamso,”
“Pleased to meet you,”
“But Ikki…that name seems familiar…” Ivan finally could talk normally; in fact he became energetic all of a sudden,
“It’s him, mum! Ikki Tenryou: The Third Ranked Medafighter in Japan!!”
“Oh that’s where I heard it from,” She giggled, “My son never stops talking about you, you’re quite popular in his world actually!” She laughed some more then handed the things to Ikki,
“Don’t worry, Honey, Firefly’s Medal is inside the Medawatch. He’s been very helpful today, unpacking things. I think he deserves a treat!” She then stood up and said to the Principle, “Well, I’m all done here!”
“Ok, then,” He replied, “The entrance is just down the left side of the hallway,”
“Thank you. Ivan, when you come home, I might be out shopping so don’t panic if I’m not back, but if you are, don’t forget, you can just call my phone. Goodbye, Sweetie!” She then walked out of the door,
“Ok, boys you are dismissed,” Said the Principle. They walked outside and Ivan pulled out the piece of paper that said the lessons and looked at the clock,
“We still have eight minutes of P.E,”
“Oh! And by the way, Ivan, you are also dismissed from doing the laps,”
“Thank you, Sir,”
They then headed back to the gymnasium where Miss Techaki was screaming at Coach Mountain,
“I don’t ever want to see you doing such a thing to that poor boy!!!”
“But I-”
“Do you know what he’s been through?!?!” Now it was Coach Mountain who seemed to be shrinking. They sat down with everybody else and watched the argument; Ikki sat down next to Spike and Ivan next to Erika. Erika punched Ivan’s shoulder,
“Ow! Hey! What was that for?!” He yelped,
“For coming here, dumbass!”
“I’ll show you dumbass!!! He pounced on top of her and began hitting her, but she fought back,
“Stop that fighting, stop it I say!” Samantha jumped in,
“Shut up, Sam, can’t you see I’m busy?!” Erika complained as she had her right hand over Ivan’s neck, stopping him from hitting her. Samantha just stood there with her finger to her mouth,
“Umm…” As soon as Miss Techaki had stopped arguing with Coach Mountain and had turned around facing them, that they immediately stopped; Still hitting each other secretly. She stormed out of the room, leaving Coach Mountain red, sweaty and still. A boy walked over to Ivan and kicked him,
“This is all your fault!” He said. The Coach still remained still until the bell rang two minutes later when he screamed, “GET OUT!!!” to the class.
Chapter 2: Firefighter
It was now break time and Ikki leaded Ivan out to the playground where at least a hundred Medabots were waiting for their masters. They were scattered all over the place, on the climbing frame, the swings even the sea-saw.
“When we were talking to your mum she said you had a Medabot, can I see it?”
“Sure, pass me my Medawatch, then!” Ikki gave the Medawatch to Ivan and he put it on his left arm. He opened it to make sure the medal was in there and it was,
“Transport Medabot!” He commanded and all of a sudden in front of him, appeared a rather strange looking Medabot. Most of it was red and looked a bit like a cross between Medabee and Rokusho,
“Hey bud’!” Ivan said whilst sticking his thumb up at it,
“Hey, Ivan!” Firefly said as he stuck his thumb up too,
“I bet Metabee would like to meet him,” Said Ikki,
“Ikki?” Firefly interrupted, “Ikki Tenryou? Is that you?”
“Yep, that’s me!”
“Wow! Ivan never shuts up about you,”
“Yes I do and you know it!” Firefly then walked over to Ikki on bowed down to him,
“`Tis an honour to meet you, Sir,”
“Just call me Ikki ok?”
“`Kay!” They walked around the playground a bit whilst discussing what type of Medabot Firefly was,
“Yeah! Only available in England and very rare. He’s a BTK type,”
“Wow,” They then walked over to a tree and stood next to it, still talking when all of a sudden Medabee dropped down without them noticing,
“HEY IKKI!!!” He yelled, shocking both of them,
“Medabee, how many times do I have to tell you not to do that?”
“I dunno, but who’s your gimpy little friend here?”
“Medabee, show some respect! He’s come from England and it’s his first time out of that country!”
“Oh, sorry dude,” He held out his hand to shake and Ivan took it, but as soon as he touched Medabee’s hand he had a big electric shock. It was an electric buzzer,
“AAAAAARRRGH!!!!”
“Medabee!!!”
“Ha ha ha! Sorry, kid I couldn’t resist!” He took the buzzer off and shook hands with Ivan, who was holding his head with the opposite hand, but then noticed his Medabot,
“Hey, that Medabot looks a bit like me…!”
“Yeah,” Ivan said as he came back to normal, “He isn’t that much different than you except for some curves and is red all over; He’s a BTK type,” Firefly just stood there, listening to what they were saying,
“He reminds me of a ninja…” Said Medabee as he observed the sword on Firefly’s back,
“That’s ‘cos he is!” Explained Ivan, “He’s supposed to be incognito!”
“Well he isn’t,” Ivan then put his wrist up to his mouth,
“That’s what you think!” He said, “Firefly! INCOGNITO!”
Suddenly, Firefly seemed to disappear, not become invisible, but just the colour of his surroundings, just like a chameleon.
“Huh?” Medabee was confused, as was Ikki.
“He’s…gone!” Ikki said, stunned,
“Ha ha! That’s what you think!” Said Ivan, smirking, “Firefly, reverse,” Suddenly Firefly reappeared behind Medabee and delivered a very light kick to his back, just so much that he jerked forward.
Chapter 3: The Battle
“Ah! I take that as a challenge?” Asked Medabee,
“You got it! Just a quick one though, I don’t do submissions on people who I’ve never fought before,” Mr Referee suddenly jumped out of a bush whilst Ivan was saying this, “Then it’s agree--…! …Oh…” He then walked away.
“Okay, then,” Said Ikki as he nodded. Both challengers stood back 10 metres apart and faced each other,
“Ready?” Ivan asked,
“As ready as I’ll ever be!”
“Ok! 3…2…1…ROBATTLE!!!”
“Go, Medabee!”
“Come on Firefly!” Both Medabots charged at each other, letting out war cries and Medabee jumped into the air and pointed his arm at Firefly and fired. Just before the bullets hit him, he disappeared, not camouflaged, really disappeared just leaving a puff of smoke after him. The bullets hit the floor, “WHAT?!” He then reappeared in the air just behind Medabee, quickly took out his sword, too fast to be seen and struck him,
“AAAAARGH!!” Medabee cried in pain,
“Yeah, Firefly, that’s it!” Medabee landed on the ground with one knee and hand to suppress the fall as did Firefly, but Medabee was struggling a bit to stand up and was shaking a bit,
“MEDABEE!!!”
“Torso, 27% damage, right arm, 7% damage, right leg, 13% damage,” Said a digitised voice from Ikki’s Medawatch,
“Firefly, spinning flamethrower attack!” Suddenly, two small hatches out of Firefly’s head and arms opened and smaller versions of Medabee’s seeker missile launchers appeared. He jumped into the air, span around really quickly and fire emerged from the small launchers creating a fire spiral and him. Medabee got up and stared at the fire, thinking that Firefly was exploding or something and the kids gradually all came over to watch. Ivan was staring calmly at his Medabot as its ‘ring-of-fire’ grew bigger, when all of a sudden, Firefly stopped and spread out his arms and legs as quickly as possible which flung the fire forward,
“…That can’t be good!” Said Medabee, stunned. He tried to run away from it, but it was too fast for him; From Firefly’s view it looked like a huge sound wave,
“Ikki! Help me!!!” Medabee screamed as he sprinted towards him,
“Medabee! I don’t know what to do!!!”
“Well do something! Before my ass is burned off!” He shouted as he looked back at the fire, which was only a few centre metres away from him; He could feel the heat through his sensors and no longer after he said that, the fire engulfed him.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!!!”
“Head, 28% damage, torso, 63% damage, arms, 57% damage, legs, 56% damage,”
Ivan stood there, astonished, “Woa! I can’t believe I’m actually doing it!”
“MEDABEE!!” Medabee was laying on the ground, scorched, “Medabee! Get up!” Everyone gasped. It took a while for him to get up, but he did,
“Thank God Karin isn’t here to see this!” Ikki thought. Firefly charged at Medabee, and just as he was about to cast a punch, Medabee stopped him, so he tried with the other arm, but he blocked again. As both of them struggled to stop them from hitting each other, Medabee shot Firefly’s left arm and he pulled it away and held his wrist with his other hand, “Agh!” Then he launched a Seeker Missile attack on Firefly,
“Firefly!” He was blown back a few feet,
“Head, 49% damage, torso, 55% damage, arms, 28% damage, legs, 23% damage,” Said Ivan’s Medawatch,
“AAAAARGH!!”
“Wahoo! That’s the old pepper, Ikki!” Cheered Erika, Samantha stood there thinking, “The kid doesn’t even stand a chance against Medabee!”
“Woa! Damn, that’s painful!” Ivan said as he flinched. Firefly was still on the ground, trying to gain reality and Medabee did not hesitate to charge,
“Huh?” Firefly was rubbing his head, not really knowing what happened, “AAAAA-fffrrrttzzzzz-AAA-fftz-AAARGH!!!” Medabee head-butted him and Firefly flew backwards and landed on his side.
“Firefly!! …Ikki! You’re doing serious damage to Firefl--”
“Head, 39% damage, torso 32% damage, right arm, 82% damage: function ceased, left arm 37% damage, right leg, 67% damage, left leg, 49% damage, warning: voice chip damaged, mother circuit board damaged,”
“Oh no…! Firefly, get up!!” Firefly’s left hand twitched and he tried to get up. Medabee hesitated to attack to give him a chance to get up. He slowly struggled to his feet, shaking and looked up at Medabee and his burned body parts,
“Now –fffrtz-it gets-ffrtz-p-p-personal!”
“Oooh! Scary!” Some people yelled out in the crowd as others just laughed at him. He then regained energy to charge at Medabee; He was half way there when…
TTTTRRRRRRSSHH!! “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH!!!!!” Something had seemed to explode inside Medabee and he collapsed to the ground, the noise of the explosion seemed to keep on going on inside him. Smoke began appearing out of Medabee’s chest plate and he shouted in agony.
“Medabee?!” Ikki said, worried. Firefly stopped dead in his tracks and stared at Medabee in confusion,
“WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?!” Everybody screamed out from the crowd,
“But I didn’t! I-” Ivan tried to explain,
“MURDERER!” Erika bellowed at the top of her voice,
“I don’t know what’s going on!!”
“What have you done to him?!” Ikki pointed at Ivan,
“…” Ivan just stood there, gawping,
“Answer me!”
“…”
“ANSWER ME NOW!!!”
“I DON’T KNOW!! I HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING!!!”
“TELL ME NOW!!!”
“I SWEAR I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! HE JUST WENT LIKE THAT!!!!”
“STOP LYING!!!”
“I’M NOT!!! ONE MINUTE HE’S OKAY AND THE NEXT HE’S NOT!”
“DON’T THINK YOU CAN PLAY TRICKS WITH ME!!!! YOU DON’T DESERVE TO A MEDAFI-”
“Ikki…leave him alone…” Said a familiar voice, Medabee slowly stood up, clenching his stomach and everyone fell silent,
“Medabee…”
“I think something chipped my mother board…” He squeezed his what-would-be stomach even harder but then relaxed his fingers, “…But I’ll be alright…”
“Medabee…” Ikki repeated. Medabee then faked that he was all right by standing normally, smiling and giving the peace sign. A big smile then spread over Ikki’s face whilst Ivan stood there looking confused,
“Warning: Mother circuit board damaged, warning: mother circuit board damaged,” Said Ikki’s Medawatch, but he ignored it.
“Ok, Medabee! Lets get it on!” Ikki said confidently as he quickly brought his Medawatch near his mouth.
“Aha! Now we’re back in business!” Said Ivan confidently too. Everybody started cheering in the crowd as Medabee charged, as did Firefly. The two Medabots locked onto each other like sumo wrestlers, both with fire in their eyes and determined to win,
“You should back down while you can…Nrrrrgh!” Snarled Medabee,
“There’s no way I’m backing out now…Nrrrrgh!” Firefly replied,
“Come on, Firefly you can do this!” Ivan called,
“Medabee! Think of all the battles you’ve won before, this is just another simple one!” Yelled Ikki. Both Medabots were trying to find out one way to get the other off of their back just for a moment, when suddenly it struck Firefly. He quickly tripped Medabee up but he then launched a seeker missile attack; But he was too close. The blast blew both of them back and did them damage.
Both of them lay on the floor, their bodies a darker shade of what they were, everyone was silent until Ikki and Ivan’s Medawatches said,
“Function ceased,” At that they both just stared at each other…
“Uh...I-it’s a full way tie...THERE ARE NO WINNERS!” Erika said as she stood up, apparently she had video-taped the whole thing on her camera., and the crowd seemed disappointed and slowly went away,
“Well a tie is good enough for me…against Medabee anyway!” Ivan said happily,
“Hey shut up, kid! Ikki would have won if you hadn’t cheated by weakening Medabee!”
“What?! I didn’t pull any trick on Medabee!”
“Oh shut up, shrimp! You’re too small to be heard!”
“Bite me, bitch!”
“No, you would enjoy that too much!” They both held their fists up at each other,
“Break it up you two, break it up!” Ikki suddenly stepped in and pushed them away from each other, “I’m sure that if we take the Medabots off to Henry, he’ll find out what’s wrong with them,
“I don’t care about his Medabot, I only care about Medabee!” Ivan then went angry,
“I can’t believe you! You make me sick! Caring about the Medabot who belongs to a friend of yours,” He then caught a glimpse of Brass, who had suddenly emerged from behind Erika, “I’m surprised your Medabot hasn’t run away!!” He was steaming. Erika was freaked out by Ivan’s sudden outburst. She just stood there for about five seconds then turned on her heel and walked away. Brass watched her walk away, “Miss Erika…” She then ran off after her.
“Woah! Ivan I didn’t think you had it in you, you know, seeing as she towers above you and all,” Said Ikki, impressed as he put his hand on Ivan’s shoulder, “Listen…I’m sorry I lashed out at you like that…I-I was just angry that’s all…”
“Oh! Don’t worry about it…I’m used to it from back in England…that was a great fight!” They then both smiled, “…But…what do we do about our Medabots until the end of school?”
“Hmm…I don’t know…”
“Maybe we should ask the Principle?”
“Good idea!” They both picked up their Medabots and walked to the Principle’s Office.
Chapter: 4: They’re Off to The Hop-Mart
“Uh…Mr Principle, Sir?” They peeked through the door, the Principle was waiting there as if he new they were coming,
“Ah! Boys I new you were coming!”
“Uh?” They were confused,
“I saw the whole thing from my window! What a fight!”
“Well…what should we do?”
“Hand them here and I’ll send them off to the Hop-Mart,”
“Uh…ok…” They both handed their ‘dead’ Medabots to him and he started telling them what a great battle that was. Ivan wasn’t listening however; he was looking around the office looking for Samurai. He was no-where in the office.
The Principle then sent them off seeing as it was near enough the end of first break. Ivan looked at the clock and then rummaged in his pocket, looking for the timetable that Miss. Techaki gave him. He started to panic as it was not in his left pocket; He checked all of his pockets frantically but found it in one of his side-pockets,
“Phew! For a minute there I thought I’d lost it!” He said with relief. He unfolded it and looked at it; He opened his mouth to talk but then Ikki interrupted,
“Maths.” He said blankly,
”Oh! Why didn’t you tell me before I started to panic?!”
“I just wanted to make sure you had your timetable!” Ikki chuckled,
“Hmm…”
Ivan automatically followed Ikki to the Maths room, trying not to catch eye of anybody who was looking at him strangely. To his surprise it was actually in his form room. They walked in and most people were already, sitting in their same chairs as before in registration. Ivan and Ikki walked over to their seats. Ivan tried not to catch eye of Erika because she was looking curiously at him as he sat down.
Miss. Techaki wasn’t in the room so Samantha walked over to him, he did not notice that she was there until she coughed,
“Ahem!” Ivan turned round,
“Uh…yeah?”
“Um…I just thought I’d come to say hi,” Ivan just stared at her,
“Well…um…bye!” She said sounding embarrassed as she walked back to her seat,
“Er…” He watched her as she went back, confused,
“I think Sam likes you,” Ikki had caught him by suprise; he was standing with his hands on Ivan’s desk, leaning over at him. Ivan quickly turned around,
“Ya think?” He asked confused and surprised. A cheesy grin quickly spread across both of their faces and they burst out laughing,
“Hey! They’re laughin’ at you, Boss!” Spike gasped as he pointed at them. Samantha rested her head in her hands with her elbows on the desk, looking sad,
“Come on, Sloan! We’ve got to teach that kid a lesson!”
“No wait!!” Samantha called out at them but they didn’t notice. Ivan was now standing but both him and Ikki were still chuckling away,
“Hey kid! You’d better watch what you’re saying or laughing about!” Spike burst out. They both stopped laughing immediately,
“How dare you be so mean to our boss!” Spike then pushed Ivan over and everyone laughed,
“Ow…! Hey!” Ivan said angrily,
“When a lady wants to say hello to you, you should at least sweep her off her—Waargh!” Samantha suddenly ran up and pulled Spike and Sloan away from him,
“Hey! Ivan, will you please excuse us for a moment?”
“Uh…sure I guess…” She pulled them back a few feet and whispered,
“What the hell are you doing?!”
“Well he was being mean to you!”
“So? It doesn’t mean that you should trip him up!!” She then looked back at Ivan, who was just getting up with his eyes tightly shut and he had one of his hands on his back; Ikki just stared peeved at them. She then finished scolding them and ran over to Ivan who was half way of getting up,
“Here, let me help…” She supported Ivan back on to his feet,
“Hey Sam!! What the hell are you doing with him?! He’s not worth the trouble!!!” Erika called out from her seat. Samantha then stopped and went scarlet with embarrassment; Everyone was staring at here. She finished helping Ivan then went quickly back to her seat, still scarlet. Ivan and Ikki stared at each other.
“What was that all about?” Ivan asked, still rubbing his back,
“I don’t know!” Ikki answered, surprised.
Miss Techaki then entered the room and everyone sat down,
“Sorry I’m late,” She apologised, “I wasn’t sure where Ivan was but the Principle told me that he’d already left for the lesson…” Everyone accept Ikki and Samantha gave him an evil look,
“O.K so…lets start the lesson off. Today we are going to be learning how to cube numbers, Ivan, you are acquainted with this back in England are you not?”
“Oh! Uh yeah!” Ivan wasn’t paying full attention. Maths wasn’t his best subject.
“Good. I guess that seeing as we are only starting this, you will find this particularly easy, no?”
“Uh…Yeah…”
“Ok. So…” She then drew a number: 3, “Does anyone know the cubed sign? Ivan?”
“Oh! Yeah…a cubed sign is a little three, just like the squared sign but with a three instead…” He then caught a few people doing an impression of him as a boffin, dying to answer a question,
“Very good, Ivan! You won’t find these hard at all!” She then added the cubed sign on the end of the three,
“So then, Ivan, can you tell me what three cubed is and how you can cube a number?”
“Uh…” Ivan had forgotten, was times the number by three, or times the number by three, then another three and then another, he had to guess,
“…Eighty-one because you times the three by three, then another three and then another…” He wasn’t sure that he had got it right; he had too much to think about, friends, finding his new house and the neighbourhoods. He didn’t care if he got it wrong, he’d never been that much bothered about maths,
“Very good, Ivan!” She said happily,
“Hey! Kid! Stop bein’ such a boff’ will ya?” Erika whispered from behind him, Ivan just ignored it.
For the rest of the lesson Miss Techaki was going on about how cubing numbers work and Erika kept on coming up with the same complaint. Ivan found this extremely annoying and because of that Ivan couldn’t stop thinking about her,
“Oh! I wish she would shut up! Now I can’t stop thinking about her!!”
After Maths, the day went pretty smoothly. Science, Geography, French. Then it was the end of the school day. Ivan and Ikki were just walking out of the building when the Principle stopped them,
“Ah! Boys! I’m glad I caught you. Here are your Medabots,” Firefly and Medabee then walked out of the office, “They’re nowhere near being repaired, they just have enough energy do walk around; Just remember, boys, no Robattles!”