Scissors, Paper, Rokusho!
One dark night in Equestria, four ponies in rubber suits scampered around the corner, one of them clutching a metal briefcase in his teeth.
"Heh heh heh... Looks like we've caught the big fish robo!" One of them sneered
"Open it up!" One of them replied in a shrimpy voice. As the briefcase opened, the four gasped in amazement at what was residing in it.
"It's a medal..." A big burly one spoke "A rare one robo!"
"And it's all ours!" A female voice spoke. "Now we can do all the evil robo stuff we want!" And the four started laughing menacingly
"Or are you?" A voice echoed out. The four turned their heads to see an armored silhouette standing on top of the building.
"Huh?" The first one gasped "who are you!?"
"Ha ha ha!" The mobile armor laughed with a tone of intimidation. "I believe this is how you should laugh. I am known as the Revolutionary Wraith. And my main target is that rare medal you have in your possession."
"Oh yeah?" The big one taunted "you'll have to get through us first!"
"The four enemy units are now at hostile level. Proceeding with neutralization." The armor analysed and launched a few silver medals that had the R insignia on it. It was obvious to see that an item like that is non-lethal to the pony body, but it certainly knocked the 4 ponies in rubber suits off-balance, and for one second.
"Is that all you got?" The shrimpy pony taunted "all you just did is distract our balance!"
"And that frame of time is all I need." The Wraith responded holding out one his left hoof... With the medal attached to it.
"Wha!?" The female turned to see the briefcase completely empty. "H-He's actually got it! Get him!"
"My target is this medal, I have no interest in kidnapping or taking you out. Only rare medals are my target anyway." And he leaped high into the sky. "And with that," The Wraith continued "I shall retreat with a blast!" And he threw a highly explosive smoke bomb to shield himself from view. As the smoke settled, the Wraith was gone.
"Stop Thief!!!" The four ponies yelled as they galloped in hot pursuit.
"Heh heh heh..." The Wraith chuckled as the four ponies in rubber suits galloped in the opposite direction. "Mission complete. The target has been acquired."
"Well done! I'm sure they don't call you the Revolutionary Wraith for nothing!" A mare's voice echoed in his head
"No, you are the one who has provided the information and location. I am merely a pawn that follows orders."
"Don't sell yourself short, if I didn't have you, those medals would have gone all over the place and even into unwanted hooves! You're no pawn, you mean a lot to me!"
"It matters not." The Wraith replied as he flipped the gold medal in the air and landed on his hooves. A picture of a Hercules Beetle etched onto the medal with a magic green marble embedded to it as its eye. On one vertex has the capital letter B on it. "I shall be on my way to transfer the medal to you."
"Thank you. Now I have both the Kuwagata and Kabuto medal in my possession!" The female voice thanked with satisfaction. "Don't rest easy yet, I'll need your skills in the future."
"Understood." The Wraith obeyed "I shall obey your every command"
"Will you? Okay then, how about this?" The mare tested "I shall keep the Kabuto medal with me for time being but... I don't want the entire of Equestria berating you."
"Am I receiving feelings instead of orders from you?"
"Silence!" The mare snapped, a tone of embarrassment in her voice "anyway, I have plans for one of Equestria's ponies."
"Who shall be the target?"
"That, is up to your decision. I want you to find a pony with potential, one who is worthy to your eye."
"Do you still require any further requirements to this target?"
"I'm pretty sure you know a potential pony when you see one, even if they haven't started. When you do, notify me and I shall donate one of the medals you 'stole' of your own choice to that lucky fellow. Do you understand your mission, should you choose to accept it?"
"I accept." The Wraith nodded without a word,
"Well then, see you later!" The mare giggled before cutting the telepathy link.
"A pony with potential..." The Wraith thought to himself "one that shall become a rising star, yet hasn't even started. The path to find such a target shall be treacherous..."
The next morning, the bell of Cheerilee's school started to ring, to signify the end of school.
"Alright everypony!" Cheerilee smiled as she addressed her students "It's time to go home now!"
"Bye Miss Cheerilee!" The students chorused as they walked out the door. Meanwhile, a brown Earth Pony was busy filling his bag with the important things he needed to do.
"Button Mash, you seem to be taking some time getting ready to go home." Cheerilee confronted "what have you been up to lately? Playing all night again?"
"Huh?" Button Mash jumped to see the teacher right next to him "no uh, It's nothing madam. I'll be on my way home now." And he quickly picked his bag and trotted out the door.
"See you tomorrow!" Cheerilee waved as Button stepped out into the warmth of Celestia's sun, seeing all the school fillies embracing their parents that came to take them home.
"Ahh... School time's over..." Smiled lazily
"Hey! Button!" A voice called out. Button spotted a foal dark orange pony with dark blue hair and a baseball cutie mark. Button rushed out to him.
"Heya First! How are you doing?" Button greeted his best friend First Base.
"I'm doing great! So, off to the Princess' castle? Or do you want to play scissors, paper, rock?"
"I'm not bothered to find a rock, and the Princess is in another castle!" Button joked "not that it matters anyway."
"Of course! We're there to look at--!" First was interrupted with a large kerfuffle. The two turned to see a group of students surrounding something.
"What's going on?" First replied as he tried to go through the crowd "don't tell me it's--"
"Oh I'm sure what it is..." Button grinned, to which First returned the grin back.
"A robattle!" They both cried out in joy as they reached the front of the crowd. There, they saw Diamond Tiara, the rich kid of Ponyville, hoisting up her prize of victory, a medapart from her opponent's medabot. Teacher's Pet sulked over his defeat and looked sadly on his medabot, Dr.Bokchoy. The pony who was refereeing the match was announcing out the results of the battle outcome.
"Aww... It ended." First sighed
"Diamond Tiara wins again!" Button spotted "if only those three fillies continued fighting..."
"Who? You mean Big Sis and her friends?" First asked
"Yeah..." Button sighed, "why'd they give up Robattling? I bet their medabots are feeling lonely."
"Ha ha ha!" Diamond laughed "who dares challenge me and my Auroraqueen?" Beside her, her dual legged medabot posed elegantly to the crowd.
"Seems Auroraqueen is doing pretty well today." First noted
"Hah!" Button laughed "only because her opponent, Dr. Bokchoy, is a scouting medabot mostly used for support. No matter how much Teacher's Pet trains Dr. Bokchoy in the offence, if he doesn't have a medapart for combat, he's dead meat."
"That's harsh."
"Don't worry, I know just about any Medabot's advantages and disadvantages on the Medabot catalog. If I were fighting, I'd definitely beat Diamond and Auroraqueen in a single swipe of a sword."
"Oh really?" Diamond overheard. The two foals turned around to see a the Tiara filly glaring down at the propeller hat foal. "If you know so much about my Auroraqueen, then why don't you fight me right here, right now?" The other fillies and foals looking and listening to the conversation
"Uh..." Button stammered with anger and embarrassment.
"Oh that's right!" Silver Spoon continued "you don't have one!" And the two started laughing. "You're not just a blank flank Button."
"You're also a Penniless Peasant!" Diamond Tiara finished and they laughed even harder, to which the rest of the crowed joined in the laughter, infuriating Button.
"Don't laugh so hard." Button threatened "someday, I will get a medabot. And I will give you the fight that you challenged!"
"Hey Silver, when do you think 'someday' will be?" Diamond asked
"Oh I know!" Silver answered with delight "to Button, 'someday' would probably mean 'never'!" And they continued laughing again.
"Come on Button." First comforted while glaring at the horde of laughter "let's just go to the castle."
"It's not that I 'can't' get a medabot." Button ranted to First during the trip to the castle "seriously, why can't I be like every other pony and foal in school?"
"Then why don't you ask your parents to buy one for you?" First replied
"Mom won't let me! She always says that they're unnecessary toys and that 'you'll be able to get one if you save up your allowance'! Well all I can afford right now is a rock, and the time when I'll be able to afford a medabot with what I get, is when I've gotten as old as mum!"
"Don't be that exaggerating" First cheered "it's not like you get 50 cents per week for your allowance!"
"Umm..." Button tried to speak
"... You're kidding me right?" First replied gobsmacked. Button Mash shook his head. This received stifled laughter from the Earth Pony.
"Sorry." First giggled "I shouldn't have laughed."
"Nah it's alright." Button replied "I find a 50 cent per week allowance laughable."
"Here we are!" First announced as they approached the beautiful purple castle.
"Halt! State your name and business citizen!" One of the two door guards spoke
"I'm First Base! Little Brother of the Royal Guard Lieutenant in the castle of Princess Twilight!"
"Hmm... Can you run a check?" The guard asked the other guard, which is a unicorn. The unicorn concentrates for a moment, looking into some archives through telepathy then stops and replies "the little brother has clearance."
"Understood and your--" The first guard turned to Button until he realised the familiar face of the foal before him and with that, changed his demeanor "Button Mash! Good Afternoon to you! I presume school went well?"
"It sure did Mr Royal Guard!" Button happily replied
"WHAT!?" First and the other guard were shocked, performing double-takes due to the guard's drastic change.
"Are you're here to look at our medabots again?" The guard asked
"You bet!"
"Sir, do you know this foal?" The unicorn guard asked
"why yes, I do! He's quite well known by, I don't know... 80% of the royal guards in this castle."
"H-How did you?" First base stammered and stuttered,
"I've been here more than you have kiddo." Button teased,
"Wait..." The unicorn guard tried to remember "was he the one that--"
"Yes." The guard nodded "not only does he come in almost everyday to spectate our medabots fighting and browsing around the gallery of medabots and medals, but also chips in by inspecting, polishing and checking up our medabots! Button is very knowledgeable when it comes to Medabots. If I recall correctly, he was the one who polished your Medabot last week!"
"Really?" The Unicorn guard gasped and quickly galloped over to shake Button's hoof. "Thank you very much for helping out my Sumilodon! I should be taking care of them myself though. I'm sorry that you had to do my job."
"No problem sir..." Button embarrassingly chuckled "I'm always glad to help!"
"In any case." The First guard replied, opening the castle doors "both of you may enter!"
"Hello Mister First, and to you too Mister Button!" The guide guard greeted "are you here to gaze at the medabot gallery and the training of the Sumilodons?"
"Yes sir!" Button replied "and First is my best friend!"
"It's very wonderful that you have good caring friends Mister Base," the guide complimented "very lucky for your friend to be Mister Button too! Well then, let's go to the training grounds." As they were about to walk out, Button turned to face a wanted poster with a picture of an earth pony in a high tech armor suit that had the cutie mark a screaming wraith.
"That's the Revolutionary Wraith." First explained "this guy's notoriously known for stealing countless medals, some which are even considered rare. Big Bro's always on this guy's tail."
"A hard to get criminal eh?" Button examined the picture "I wonder if I'll ever meet him in person." The three stepped out into the courtyard, where a legion of royal guards were busy training with their weapons, stepping in and out and swinging their lances to and fro.
"Mister Button!" A platoon, as well as it's sergeant, simultaneously put their weapons down and greeted the brown earth foal.
"Hello!" Button greeted back and with that, the platoon simultaneously picked back up their weapons and continued training.
"Medalestia! You really are popular here!" First exclaimed
"The platoon back then only sums up 1% of the total royal guard, residing in this castle." The guide added.
"Yeah, I rock!" Button laughed. The group then stopped in one of the halls of the castle. There, a large audience of Royal Guards were watching a Medabot battle between two Royal Guards and their Sumilodons.
"Unfortunately, the Lieutenant has been very unhappy about the majority of the Royal Guard not taking care of their own Medabots, so he's made sure everypony was keeping their Sumilodon up to shape, unless they dare to face the consequences and punishments. So I'm afraid there's no bits available to fund for your medabot, I'm also worried that chances like these may not happen in the future."
"Aww..." Button sighed,
"Don't worry, I'm sure that things will look bright in the future. For now, we can watch how these Sumilodons try to find a weakness in their opponent, in order to cease their functions." As the battle continues, one Sumilodon managed to catch the other off guard by tripping him with his leg and finishing him off with his straw hammer fist. The defeated Sumilodon's back opened and his medal was ejected onto the floor.
"Function ceased!" The referee announced "the winner is Sumilodon!" Funny enough, Button recognised this referee as the one refereeing the battle between Diamond and Teacher's.
"Wow!" First exclaimed "so this is what a robattle between royal guards are like!" Button however, just sighed in sadness.
"Thank you for taking us back to the entrance sir." First thanked as the three walked back into the main hall
"It's no problem, do you want me to guide you to the medabot gallery? Or do you already know your way there?" The guide asked
"Actually..." Button answered "I think we're done for the day. Thank you for taking us around."
"Corporal?" A stern voice echoed around the castle. The three turned around to see a royal pegasus guard that is orange in colour and with a saddle patch underneath his guard armor, it was easy to see that this is a high ranking officer of the royal guard. None other than the most loyal, strict, deadly but kind and caring Lieutenant Flash Sentry.
"Lieutenant!" The Guide saluted almost immediately
"what are you doing, taking two citizens around the castle? Kids even?" Flash asked
"Sir, these kids are frequent visitors here. Most of the Royal Guard don't seem to mind. They mostly go around looking at the combat between the guard's Sumilodons and looking at the Medabot gallery."
"Hmm..." Flash glared at the kids "are both of you satisfied with the tour of the castle and with the guide's company?"
"Yes." Button stated "why would we not?"
"In that case." Flash turned sternly to the guard "for your work, taking these kids around, you may be dismissed early today. Leave these kids to me."
"Thank you sir!" The corporal saluted and marched off.
"Hey big bro!" First greeted
"That's Lieutenant Sentry to you." Flash corrected "even though we are related. Ponies are to be addressed formally in the castle."
"Sorry Lieutenant." First apologised
"What are you doing here?" Flash continued "I thought you'd be home right now. Doing homework with your sister."
"Well when I visit, I rarely see you around. I'm joining my friend Button here on his regular daily tour of the castle, watching the Royal Guard's medabots fight all the time, as well as looking at the medabot gallery, not to mention helping them tune and polish their Sumilodons. Is there a reason why the Royal Guard is still using Sumilodons?"
"Unfortunately, that type of information is confidential." Flash sighed then turned to Button "so you're the one who's been tuning and polishing the Royal Guard's medabots and taking their money for your own." He moved his head closer, angrily staring into the foal's soul, entangling him in the web of fear "as a result, the Royal Guard is becoming lazy with their medabot duty, which is a very big nuisance for me. Now, you are stepping in as their 'medabot foal' without any authorization, do you know what I should do with you?"
"Uh..." Button was too scared to speak until he managed to blubber "kick me out of the castle? Or lock me up?"
"No!" Flash roared, his voice echoing through the hallways of the castle, striking fear to anypony who perceived the voice. After the split roar, he calmed down and spoke "I should apologise, for my soldiers' incompetence and laziness. Why should I kick you out or lock you up when all you do are good intentions for the Royal Guard? They are adults, they shouldn't leave their responsibility to a bright-minded child such as you."
"Uh... I don't really know." Button answered, shocked and confused about the lieutenant's change of demeanor.
"So you come here almost everyday I see." Flash added "to view the ever expanding medabot gallery as well as to see how the Sumilodon are busy fighting."
"Yeah!" First added "Button's has an awesome knowledge when it comes to the Medabot franchise, he knows the names for a lot of medabots, their medaparts and their functions, all the gadgets of the medawatch, pretty much everything!"
"Oh stop it First, you're embarrassing me in front of your older brother." Button replied
"Ha ha!" Flash laughed with a smile "to my younger brother, it does seem that you do know a lot about medabots. In that case, why don't you show me yours? Convince me that your Medabot knowledge is not just for show. As a picture tells a thousand words, so can a medabot."
"Umm... That's a problem you see..." Button replied, uncertainty coursing through his bodies
"Why's that?"
"I... I don't have one."
"I beg your pardon!?" Flash stepped back in horror,
"I can't ask for one, let alone afford it." Button sighed,
"I... see" Flash concluded "hmm... Due to the popularity of medabots, it appears that the prices for them have gone quite high. Tell me, how much allowance have you saved right now? I am positively sure that you may be able to get one." Button leaned forward and whispered the amount to the Lieutenant. The Lieutenant just shook his head and sighed.
"I'm sorry, that's not enough to purchase the most decent medabot, even if every medabot is decent. Judging from mathematics, it's like you only receive 50 cents per week."
"Yeah..." Button sighed "that's exactly what I get." Then started ranting "why does mom always have to be so stingy!? It's like she prefers video games rather than Medabots!"
"Well, Mrs Mash does play video games, she's even better than you are!" First chuckled
"Such behavior is not that of a gentlecolt!" Flash strictly bellowed "stop your rabble! It is not the right time nor place!" To which Button fell silent in fear.
"Mail delivery!" A grey pegasus flew in the windows "Message for Flash Sentry!" And the mail courier let the mail float down into Flash's hooves. The messenger pony then flew out of the window, though she hit the wall instead.
"Oops! My bad!" The pegasus apologised before flying out. Flash opened the envelope and began reading. As he finished reading the contents of the letter, he turned his envelope around and a few bits came out. Folding the envelope and letter away. Flash turned to the two foals.
"Mister Button, it appears Celestia and Equestria's creator has something in store for you." Flash noted
"Really?" Button's eyes widened,
"Recently I sold an unopened medabot, still in mint condition, to the 24-hour convenience store FF One-Five. They just sent me my earnings right now. If my math calculations are correct, the price that they will be selling it for is just enough for you!"
"Yes! Yes! Thank you so much Mr Sentry!"
"Big Bro..." First asked with colour drained from his face "is it... That?"
"Yes." Flash nodded, though his face was devoid of emotion, Button and First could sense regret. "It was the gift from father."
"But... Why?" First asked, tears welling up in his eyes.
"What's going on?" Button asked "what's with the sadness over a medabot?"
"When I was still a foal, I always wanted a Medabot like you. My father and mother would refuse to buy one because to them, they had suffered through countless wars and battle in the field that they were too detached with society, and were always worried about us befalling the same fate of feeling the pain of our social and normal lives when we were drafted away to battle. After Nightmare Moon's return, there has been no occurring wars, and everything is solved diplomatically or through Princess Twilight and her five friends. In addition, the Royal Guard uses medabots now."
"But, what about your parents?" Button asked "did they have a choice?"
"No." Flash shook his head in sadness "they were forcibly conscripted."
"Man..."
"On my 7th birthday, father gave me a present that I had longed for my entire life: The medabot and with it, came along its corresponding medal. You never knew how much I loved them after that. My father just told me to 'always cherish the gifts of life, and what you would do in it.' Realising how much my parents loved me so much, that even though I may be conscripted, they still want me to cherish the time I would have as a normal pony. A few days later, my father was called to war. A few months after my siblings, First Base and his older sister, were born, we received what's left of our father." Tears began to drop from First's eyes.
"I-I'm sorry... For your loss," Button apologised,
"No matter how much the Princesses tried to compensate for every Guard killed in action, most loved ones never recovered from that grim truth. In the end, Mother couldn't take it, and died of a broken heart." Flash closed his eyes in regret "with my sadness, I never activated my medabot and kept it unopened in the storeroom. When it came to the burial of my mother and father, I threw the medal into the river, and I never saw it again."
"Then were you forcibly conscripted?" Button asked "or is that too much to ask?"
"A few weeks after my parents passing, a royal unicorn guard approached me. I figured that he had something to do with my father which in turn, he did. He told me that he was rescued by my Father and encouraged me to follow my father's legacy. Even though Equestria has been peaceful, I joined by my decision not just to preserve my parent's memories, but also to financially stabilize my younger siblings, the only family I have left."
"Big Bro..." First weeped
"Now, the medabot has been nothing but a distant memento of the kind and fond memories of my parents and I have decided to let it go... With regrets." Flash concluded "Just like the medal, I would never see the medabot again, but that's when the maze of life has crossed my path with yours. Though it is still your choice, would you claim the medabot as your own?"
"It's the only choice and chance I have Lieutenant! My only chance of having a Medabot! And my only chance of being a great medafighter." Button Mash nodded "you'll see that your memento will pay off!"
"In the future, maybe." Flash nodded "when you buy it from the store, drop by First's house. I'll be home then so I can help you with building the medabot. I'll also give you its tinpet for free. Now make haste, before anyone else lays their eyes on it."
"I will. Thanks for everything Lieutenant." Button thanked and he dashed out of the castle towards the store.
"Such strong spirit and determination." Flash noted "you're so lucky to have a friend like him."
"I know that!" First chuckled
"Perhaps you should take on robattling too." Flash advised
"I wish." First sighed "but no thanks"
"Well well well!!!" The clerk looked down to see young Button over the counter. "What may I do for you today little foal?"
"I heard there's a medabot that was recently sold here by Ponyville's Royal Guard lieutenant. Do you know where it is?"
"Oh, you mean this?" The clerk pulled out a set of medaparts. "The Guard sold a KWG-11237 model. It may be a bit old, but it's got potential!" Button admired the white and purple colour and the stag beetle design of the medabot, "It's on for a pretty good price!" The store clerk replied. Button responded by taking out his piggy bank and emptying out all the cents that he had.
"Is this good enough?" Button asked. The clerk peered at the amount of bits presented to him. "I don't know why you've given me all cents, but it's enough. This medabot is now all yours!"
"Yay!!!" First jumped for joy as he embraced the packaged medaparts set.
"You're one lucky kid you know, my name's Flam. Owner of the Flim Flam One-Five convenience store!" Flam introduced
"Oh, so you're those merchants from before with that Apple-Cider and tonic incident!" Button remembered,
"Well, after those... Incidents, we decided to stop being so big and open up a normal convenience store. Currently, the brother of mine is out dealing with business matters about opening up in other stores. So I've been left in charge here!"
"I see..."
"Do come back later though!" Flam waved goodbye "apart from freshly stocked food and beverage, I also receive medapart shipments from time to time!"
Ding-Dong! The doorbell of Flash's house echoed throughout the living room.
"Coming!" First replied as he opened the door "why hello there Button! It's great to know that I'll always be seeing big brother's memento safe in your hooves!"
"So you've finally come." Flash greeted as he stepped out of the kitchen, wearing an apron. "And you've bought it too. I'm grateful to see that my father's gift is in the care of somepony that I can trust."
"It's no problem!" Button smiled "I'll take good care of it!"
"You'll take good care of it AFTER we build him up." Flash corrected and he pulled out the tinpet skeleton "shall we?"
"As you know from your experience in tuning the Sumilodons, assembling and disassembling a medabot manually should be easy for you to remember by heart." Flash explained as he helped Button cover the tinpet with the KWG parts. "This model specializes with grappling. In order for the parts to be proficient, you need to use a medal that has an affinity for grapple attacks."
"OK" Button nodded,
"First off is the head and body." Flash watched Button screw the nuts and bolts in order to tighten the head and body part on to the tinpet. "These are the most vital medaparts of a medabot. If this gets destroyed before all the other parts, it's function will cease and the medal will eject. Be sure not to let the enemy attack these parts at all costs. By the way, the ability of the head part is able to be used as an antenna to scan the medabot's surroundings of the battlefield and be able to hit evasive targets."
"Right" Button nodded
"The next part is the left arm weapon. According to this KWG model, this is the Pipo Hammer. Though they look like knuckle weapons, the Pipo Hammer requires the physical ferocity of the medabot. Simply put, this weapon requires a berserk action. It's very powerful, but it can leave the medabot vulnerable when being attacked before or after the hammer strike, so be careful."
"Uh-huh..." Button continued nodding in response.
"In times when you want to play it safe" Flash continued "that's what the Chanbara Sword for the right arm is for! But due to the over-complicated name, ponies just call the arm weapon 'sword' now. This weapon delivers quick accurate attacks."
"Understood."
"Lastly, the legs. This model's legs is called the Tatacker. These legs have quite good armor, and has decent evasion and defence. Perfect for a grappling type medabot."
"Right." Button replied as he finished tightening the leg joints onto the tinpet. Button proceeded to stand the medabot up.
"And there it is!" Flash replied, examining the KWG type medabot from top to bottom. "I think you've done an exceptional job putting it together."
"Wow!" First gasped "it looks so gallant!"
"Two more things." Flash added "and it's the most important thing of a medabot overall, not just robattles. The functions of a medabot only operates when it has a medal inside it. The medal is basically the heart, soul and mind of a medabot. Thus, a robot that is powered by a medal is the reason why it's called a medabot."
"And the second thing?"
"The medawatch." Flash answered and passed a special analog watch to Button. "As you well know, it's magic allows you to constantly monitor the condition of your medabot, summon your medabot, swap and transfer medaparts onto your medabot. Apart from all the special functions, wearing the medawatch is proof and a symbol that you are a medafighter. I too, shall present this from me to you."
"Thank you Flash." Button thanked, putting on the medawatch on his left leg "for the medabot, and everything that comes with it."
"Perhaps you have thought of a name for your medabot?" Flash asked "what's more important for a medabot is that it has it's own name to itself, far better than being called by its model number."
"Hmm..." Button replied "I haven't thought about a name yet..."
"Big Bro! Little Bro!" A filly's voice called from one of the rooms. "I'm hungry! When is it dinnertime?"
"I almost forgot! I need to go home for dinner!" Button gasped. "Thanks for everything guys, again. See you later!" He bowed, placed the medabot onto his back, then galloped out the door.
"No wait!" Flash called back but the foal was too far away to hear, "you forgot about the most important thing!!!"
"Sorry Big Bro." First sighed with embarrassment. "That's Button for you, once he realizes he's late for something, he just shoots off, forgetting other important things like his books or stationary and all that."
"Big Bro! Little Bro! I'm hungry!!!" The filly's voice came again, even more harsher this time.
"I'll go after him," Flash replied "be sure to get dinner ready."
"Mom! I'm home!" Button called as he opened the front door.
"Button!" Button's Mom greeted him with a strict and stern look "Didn't I always tell you that you must come back home 20 minutes before dinner starts?"
"Sorry ma." Button chuckled "I was at a friends house."
"But Button," Button's Mom sighed "you're way busy into the school year, and you still decide to find time to play with your friends? I think time would be better spent studying and doing your homework."
"I wasn't really playing games with my friends..." Button chuckled and showed her the Medabot.
"Button? Don't tell me... Is that?" Button's Mom pointed, looking at the white-purple medabot.
"Yep! It's a medabot." Button replied, "bought with my own money."
"Button!" Button's mom snapped in frustration "I thought I told you to save up your allowance for something with more value!"
"But ma..." Button replied, full of confusion and fear.
"and why isn't it working?" Button's mom interrupted "doesn't the toy's eyes glow or something?"
"It's working!" Button attested "unless there's-- OH NO!!! I forgot the medal!" Button gasped
"Button, did you buy a toy that requires something you DIDN'T have!? And that it would require more bits!?"
"I think so..." Button replied, feeling very guilty.
"Then think about it in your room!" Button's mom commanded with anger. Button unhappily complied, dragging the medabot with him.
"Sorry pal." Button sighed as he shined the medabot "looks like I forgot your medal. As for that, I don't get any dinner. Better do my homework and get ready for bed!" With that, Button placed the medabot next to his bed and started doing his homework.
"Are you sure about this?" The mare's uncertain voice echoed into the Wraith's mind. It was night time, and the Wraith was prowling in the shadows once again.
"My target is absolutely vital." The Wraith replied "I also act in the day. That's how I managed to find my target. I can easily have eyes anywhere, and on anypony, and that target just bought a Kuwagata model out from that convenience store."
"But that means you require the Kuwagata medal. It's quite risky to give it up you know!" The voice rasped, "besides, isn't he in cahoots with--"
"I have faith in him, just like Ponyville's Lieutenant. In the end though, it's the foal's choice on which path he decides to take. Besides, it's going to be a long time before the Lieutenant throws me behind bars. "
"Okay then, I trust you too. So don't mess it up!" The mare's voice answered before cutting off.
"As you wish, approaching target now." The Wraith said to himself, and sneakily opened the window into the room of Button Mash.
"Button... Button..." A voice echoed inside Button's mind. Button looked to see a white unicorn filly calling out on top of a knoll towards him.
"Button?" The filly called
"Sweetie Belle?" Button stood up and recognised the smiling filly.
"This way Button!" Sweetie called as she galloped beyond the knoll. Button hurriedly chased after her until he stopped right next to a cliff.
"Sweetie, what's this all about?"
"Don't worry Button, this cliff is well known for ponies that leap to their deaths here.
"Umm... What ponies?"
"Ponies that lost their loved ones, suck in life and especially, medafailures like you!" Sweetie evilly accused
"What? I'm not a medafailure!" Button pleaded
"Oh really? Then who forgot the medal of a medabot huh?" Sweetie replied "face it Button. Your first medabot and you already forgot to give it it's heart and soul. You are a medafailure Button, and you'll always be a medafailure!!!" And with that, Sweetie kicked Button off the Cliff.
"Nooooo!!!!" Button cried as he fell into the endless chasm... Waking up as he finds himself in bed in the middle of the night.
"Oh, it was just a dream..." Button sighed with relief "I'm not a medafailure..."
"Are you really?" A voice replied beside him. Button yelped in fear to see an armored pony right next to his bed.
"W-Who are you?" Button screamed. The pony firmly put a hoof on Button's mouth.
"It is best that you lower your volume, the current time is 0148, way into the very early mornings and still in your bedtime." The mysterious pony spoke Button tried to speak but all that came out were muffled sound.
"I beg your pardon?" The pony asked. Button tapped his hoof to let go and he spoke softly. "Who are you?"
"Me? I am the Revolutionary Wraith." The Wraith introduced "and you are my target."
"M-Me!?" Button screamed quietly "I-I don't have any medals though!"
"It is amazing that you never thought about it once you spent your money on that medabot. The poor Lieutenant tried to catch you, but he failed as he fails catching me several times. Perhaps you may be a medafailure as you said yourself."
"Wait, I never said I was--"
"When I sneaked in, it seems you were in the chains of a nightmare." The Wraith interrupted "something about somepony calling you a medafailure because you forgot the medal. Though it may be a dream, the fact stays true that you forgot a medal. So you are in a way, a medafailure."
"Aww..." Button sighed,
"Though I may be stealing medals, that doesn't mean I would steal medals for the sole purpose of it. The reason why you're my target is for this package." And the Wraith flips a gold hexagon onto Button's bed.
"Wait..." Button gasped as he picked it up. "This is a medabot medal!"
"The Kuwagata medal." The Wraith replied "if my medabot memory serves me, it should be compatible with that medabot of yours. I guess that will prevent you from becoming a medafailure."
"I... I don't know what to say." Button replied
"When one has a medabot, they take on very important responsibilities. Medabots aren't just servants or gladiators, they are just like any other living pony, and can be your closest friend, if that was what the Princess of Friendship says.."
"Thank you." Button replied,
"But be careful with you and your medabot, as I will always be watching. If you don't treat your medabot with respect, I will steal that medal and you will be a medafailure once again, and a lame, soft rock that even scissors can cut. Understood?"
"Y-Yes Mr Wraith." Button nodded
"Although my mission is complete now, you must remember that my identity is a secret. You are not to tell anyone, especially Ponyville's Lieutenant."
"I understand."
"Good, now go back to bed. Put the medal in your medabot tomorrow morning. Your mother won't be so cranky once you show her how amazing a medabot can be."
"Y-Yes sir."
"Goodnight young one, it was a pleasure and a blast meeting you." And as the Wraith exited the window, an explosion of smoke shielded the Wraith from Button's view. Making sure the mysterious pony was gone, Button immediately opened the back flap of the medabot and stared at the medal slot.
"Alright pal, It's time to show Equestria that I'm not a medafailure. With you and me, we'll show all of Equestria and the world that I'll be the best medafighter!" And with that, inserted the medal into the medabot and closed the back flap. The medal inside started releasing magic which coursed through the veins and circuits of the medabot, enveloping him in a transparent light. As the veil of light faded, there was still no reaction from the Medabot.
"Still not working huh? Maybe you'll come by tomorrow..." Button cheered before he realised something "that's right, I need to give you a name. Still can't think one up though." Button sighed as he hopped back into his bed. As he looked at the ceiling, he starts to think of a few names.
"Button Basher? Staggy? Beetle blade? Button Mash Jr! No wait, that sounds too mean..." Button sighed until one special name popped into his mind.
"That's it! Rokusho!" Button gasped and decided then turned to the frozen medabot "that's right pal. I'm going to call you Rokusho. It's not like I got it out of a game or anime! Anyway, good night Rokusho!" And Button fell back into a deep sleep. In the middle of his rest and recuperation, the white and purple medabot tilted left and right, before opening it's eyes. Slowly, it turned it's head to face Button, then back to the front, moving nothing but the head.
"Rokusho..." The medabot whispered in a low and formal tone. "My name, is Rokusho."
