Chapter 1

Hiro and his twin sister Akari walked down the alleyway with their megabots. They were hoping to get a lot of money off of tonight's bot fight. They entered, and heard the announcer say, "And the winner… by total annihilation… Yama!"

"HAHA! Who is next?"

There was utter silence. The twins walked up to the front of the crowd. "C-can we try?" Akari purposely stuttered.

The crowd opened up and the twins were facing the undefeated bot fighter Yama. At least, undefeated until tonight. "We have some robots. We built them ourselves," Hiro said quietly.

"Beat it you two. House rules: you gotta play to play," the announcer said sheepishly.

"Oh… is this enough?" Hiro pulled out some money from his pocket.

"Ha... What are your names little ones?" Yama asked.

"I-I'm Akari, and that's Hiro. Akari and Hiro Hamada," Akari stated.

"Well then… prepare you're your bot Akari," Yama began, "Your next Hiro."

Akari sat down on the mat across from Yama, and placed her bot in the ring. The bots fought and Akari's bot was cut in three places. She made a sad face, but this was all part of the plan. She stood up and grabbed her bot, allowing her brother to place his bet, put his bot in the ring-which looked exactly the same as Akari's-and sit down on the mat across from Yama.

The bots stood in their fighting stances, and Hiro stretched out his controller, and said confidently, "Megabot destroy." Yama was confused and watched Hiro's bot's face change expressions. They fought until Hiro's bot took apart Yama's bot, Piece-by-piece. The announcer gave Hiro his money, and Yama's crew pushed the twins into a wall.

"How dare you hustle me?" Yama exclaimed and grabbed their bots, "teach them a lesson boys."

Just as one of the men were about to punch Akari, Hiro heard an engine in the distance. A man on a motor bike pulled up in front of the other men and shouted, "Hiro! Akari! Hop on!"

"Tadashi! Great timing!" Akari shouted back.

"Yeah! Thanks," Hiro thanked

Akari and Tadashi hopped on the back of the bike and Tadashi put helmets on their heads. The three of them headed down the alley, with the Megabots sliding behind them, eventually catching up and Akari grabbed them.

"Are you ok?" Tadashi asked.

"Yes," the twins answered simultaneously.

"Are you hurt?" Tadashi asked again.

"No," the twins answered in unison again.

"What were you two thinking?" Tadashi yelled at them and hit them at the same time, "You two graduated high school at thirteen and this is what you're doing? You know that bot fighting is illegal! You're to get yourselves arrested!"

"Bot fighting isn't illegal," Hiro stated.

"Betting on bot fighting, now that's illegal, but so lucrative," Akari admits while pulling some money out of her pocket.

"We're on a role big brother. And nothing is going to stop us!" Hiro shouted as the police blocked the alleyway exit.

"Oh great. We're screwed," Akari mumbled.

"Aunt Cass is going to kill us," Hiro added as the police handcuffed the three siblings.