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Less Than Human

More Than A Medabot

By:

Digimon Lantern 1

Chapter 1

Lost Soul

Quinton had just lost to Ikki. His medabot was badly damaged but that didn't matter. He remembered the complement that Ikki gave him. That he had one of the best battles he'd had. This was of course, high praise coming from one of the best medafighters in Japan. As he carried his medabot home, he didn't notice the van stop and a medabot getting out. The medabot clubbed him and four rubber suited people carried him into the van. The van drove off leaving the medabot and Quinton's meda-watch.

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He was strapped to a cold metal table. Needles and probes were sticking into him and they hurt. He noticed a short man who seemed a little odd.

"You're awake." He said. "That's good. For years now, I've only been able to transfer bits and pieces of myself into medals. But these fragmented copies were not good enough. I wanted to transfer myself completely into a medabot. The reason we've kidnaped you is for the ultimate experiment. Complete transfer of a human soul into a medal. I will see you transcend this weak organic human body into the superior body of a medabot."

Quinton was scared, more scared than he'd ever been in his life. Suddenly, waves of pain shot through his body and he felt something tear away and then, darkness claimed him.

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Dr. MedaEvil stared at the crumpled human body. The human hadn't even had time to scream in pain, unlike the rest of his former test subjects. He thought this was a good sign. Placing the newly formed medal inside a medabot. He waited.

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It was strange. He didn't feel right. Like he wasn't himself anymore. He turned his head mechanically and he saw his own body. Then, he saw the man. The man had a sadistic smile on his face. He was ecstatic.

"I've done it! I've done it!" He exclaimed. "Complete transferral. Congratulations, my young man. You're now a medabot."

He looked at his arms. They were more like flippers. He knew what type of medabot he'd been put in. Non-combative and weak. One good hit from any weapon and his medal would eject.

"You three, dispose of the trash." Dr. MedaEvil said.

Three rubber suited men picked up Quinton's human body and threw it into the ocean. Another rubber suit put him into a cage and they drove off. However, the van suddenly stopped. He found a hole to look out of and saw an Arcbeetle Dash style medabot in front of the van. The night was filled with lightning and thunder echoed loudly. Rain came down like heaven had once again opened the flood gates to flood the world.

"Get out of the way, Medabot. We have nothing against you so stay out of our way!" One of the rubbersuits said.

"But you do. You should never inflict evil onto others for they shall be visited back onto you ten fold. People like you did this to me. I'm only here to stop you." The strange yet familiar medabot said.

The rubbersuits called upon their medabots and a battle commenced. Despite being outnumbered ten to one, the medabot tore apart his opponents like they didn't even matter. The rubbersuits fled in terror as the medabot came towards him. Quinton looked into the optics of this very powerful medabot. Despite the fact that he was quivering in fear, this medabot seemed familiar to him. Like he knew him or rather the medabot knew him. This medabot's optics seemed very sad. If he were human, he might have cried. From the way this medabot's voice sounded, he was crying internally. When he stopped, he looked back at Quinton.

"I'm sorry, but you'll thank me later." He said.

The medabot walked onto the road and turned towards the van. His three horns began to glow very brightly.

"PROMINENCE!" He yelled as he unleashed his special attack.

The enormous energy blast destroyed the van and the bridge. Quinton's medal ejected and it fell into the raging waters below.

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Levi Bryant loved wading in the river by the old bridge. He remembered a story about the legendary Ikki and Metabee. How Ikki found Metabee's rare medal in a river and went on to be the world champion. Then, he saw something shiny in the river. Levi reached into the river and pulled out a medal. It looked good but it had mud on it. The design on it had a Q on it. He'd never seen a medal like this before. It must have been coated with a very good protective film because there was not corrosion. But this wasn't what made him happy. His mom wouldn't let him have a medabot until he chose a medal. It didn't seem logical but he now had a medal. His mom called him and they returned home. Today was his birthday.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" His family yelled.

After blowing out the eleven candles on his cake, he began opening his presents. The presents were typical. Video games and clothes. He had hoped for a medabot. Then he saw his brother, a very large man with muscles the size of watermelons, carried in a large box.

"I know you'll like this." Trevor said with a smile on his face.

Levi began to unwrap his present. When the box was opened, he saw an Arcbeetle Dash style medabot.

"The only problem is that no one can find a medal that can support it." Trevor said.

Levi reached into his pocket and pulled out the Q medal. Looking at the medal and the medabot, he had a thought.

"I wonder." Levi said placing the Q medal into the medal compartment. "Hello, Quantum Fire."

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(I'm switching to a 1rst person perspective)

I awoke and knew immediately I wasn't in the penguin body anymore. This medabot was more powerful. I saw the face of an eleven year old boy with red hair, brown eyes, and he was a little taller than myself.

"Hello, Quantum Fire." He said.

Quantum Fire, obviously this kid was my medafighter. Isn't this ironic. A medafighter becoming a medabot. I knew I had to answer.

"Hello. What's your name?" I asked.

It was a simple question and one anyone could understand.

"The name's Levi. Can you move?" He asked.

That was a strange question but I did do what he asked. I didn't know what the problem was but evidently, there was no problem.

"Great." Levi said being handed a meda-watch.

"Where did you get that medal, Levi?" A big guy asked.

"In the river." Levi said picking up his back pack. "I'm going to play with my friends. Be back later."

I followed my medafighter out the door and we began to walk down the street. We entered a medabot repair shop and I saw three medabots that looked familiar.

"Hey Crosserdog, Peppercat, Totalizer. Do you guys know where Alex and Salt are?" Levi asked.

I glanced at a calender and almost let out a gasp. It was eleven and a half years later since I was made into a medal. Then, Samantha walked in. Sloan and Spike followed. "Hey Levi. I see you finally got a medabot." Samantha said walking over to me. "I know this model. Modified KBT type. Arcbeetle Dash subtype. This model was originally developed by the Medabot Corporation to compete against Killabots. Fortunately, we all know how that turned out." Peppercat walked over to me and began to check me over. I heard what seemed like a meow from the cat.

"Maybe we should robattle sometime, handsome. Or maybe something a little more intense." Peppercat said.

I must have been blushing because everyone began to laugh.

"I wasn't joking." Peppercat said.

"Damn." Totalizer and Crosserdog said.

"Hey!" Spike said scolding his medabot. "Kids are here."

Just then, I turned around to see a white version of Peppercat. A girl that looked exactly like Samantha when she was her age stood next to the medabot.

MEDABOT: Salt

CAT-9432-324923-674 Cat Type

Specialty: Lightning Jump

Medafighter: Alexandria

"I see you're here for a robattle." Alex said. "You're on."

Then, Mr. Referee came out with a walker.

"I- HACKHACKHACK- declare this an official robattle. Medafighters- HACK!- ready! Medabots, ROBATTLE! HACKHACK" Mr. Referee said.

"Salt! Lightning jump!" Alex ordered.

Salt leaped into the air and I triangulated my fire. My tri-cannon struck the white cat medabot and Salt fell onto me. The electrified claw was caught on my top horn and try as she might, she couldn't get free.

"Oh no." Salt said as I brought my tri-cannon to bear.

"Ladies and gentlemen, keep your hands and claws off the horns!" I exclaimed firing my tri-cannon repeatedly.

Soon, Salt fell off of me as all of her functions ceased. I heard clapping and saw Samantha was clapping.

"You're right, Mom. I shouldn't immediately use Salt's specialty first." Alex said.

"Plus you should have taken into account those horns." Samantha told her daughter.

"That was a good battle." said Alex. "I had fun."

We left and returned home. Levi had dinner which I had wanted a plate but resisted the temptation. Levi went to bed and I went online. After a while of finding information, I went to sleep too.

"Hey, Quantum Fire. Wake up." I heard Levi say.

It was the next morning. Levi had already gotten dressed and had his backpack with him.

"We gotta go to school." Levi said.

I followed Levi to school and it was the same school I'd gone to so I knew my way around. Apparently, times have changed and kids were allowed to take their medabots all over the school. Class hadn't started yet and I noticed a girl about Levi's age sitting alone. She didn't have a meda- watch on her wrist which clearly shown that she had no medabot. What was creepy about her was that she looked familiar.

"Levi, who's that?" I asked pointing to her.

"That's Melissa Jones. Her mom won't buy her a medabot so she's often teased at school. Medabots usually stay on the playground during class, okay." Levi said.

I remembered something important from my past. My sister's boyfriend had just got killed in a car accident with his friends. The same day, she'd found out she was pregnant. This was the same day that I had "died". The girl with no medabot was my niece. The bell rang and I watched her walk into school. After an hour, I used an office computer to find out her locker number. Leaving school, I went to a bank to withdraw money I had in an account that no one in my family knew about. Then, I went to the 24 Hour Hop Mart and was able to convince Henry to allow me to buy a pink version of Brass. I got the medabot and the meda-watch and went back to school. Salt stopped me.

"Where'd you get the medabot?" Salt asked.

"I bought it for Melissa." I said telling her the truth.

"You're a strange medabot. You buy a medabot for someone you never met yet you obviously care about. It's like she's family." Salt said stumbling onto the truth. "She was your..."

"Not my medafighter. That's Levi. I use to be human. Some cruel people changed me into what I am now severing me forever from those I love. So please. Don't tell anyone." I asked her.

"Okay. What is she? Your niece." Salt said.

"Yah." I said.

"I'll get you in." Salt said.

At the end of the school day, I watched from a window as Melissa opened her locker and saw her medabot. She opened her card.

"Consider this a few years worth of birthday presents. Q." She read.

Melissa looked around confused but a friend of hers seemed happy.

"Wow, Melissa. You got a medabot." She said.

I heard Levi call me and I went back to him.

"Hey, Quantum Fire. That girl Melissa just got a medabot and was challenged by Juan. Want to watch?" Levi asked.

Of course I did. I wanted to see how good my niece was. We walked over to a small arena that had been built and watched. Anara looked a lot like my sister. She was tall, brown haired and was confident.

MEDABOT: Anara

Specialty: Shooting

MEDAFIGHTER: Melissa Jones

I looked at Juan's medabot. It was black and had flight meda-parts.

MEDABOT: Tomcat

Specialty: Flight

Medafighter: Juan

"I, Mr. Referee III, declare this a submission robattle. Medafighters ready, Medabots robattle!" The referee said.

Before Tomcat could be given an order, Anara jumped into the air and delivered a devastating punch to the right wing.

"Right wing, 91 percent damage." Juan's meda-watch said.

Tomcat took to the air and Anara began to fire. The heavily damaged right wing caught on fire but the fire was quickly extinguished.

"Right wing, 100 percent damage. Function ceased." Juan's meda-watch said.

I saw that another medabot had joined in the battle. She delivered a massive punch to Anara's head.

"Head, 63 percent damage." Melissa's meda-watch said.

"She won't be able to stop both of them." I said.

MEDABOT: Queen Kong

Specialty: Wrestling

MEDAFIGHTER: Juanita Juanita was obviously Juan's twin sister. One thing was for sure. They were cheaters.

"Ref, permission to make this a two on one robattle." Juanita said.

"Agree-." The referee almost said.

"Ref, permission to make this a two on two robattle. Just to keep it fair." Levi said.

"What?!" Juanita and Juan said.

"You don't even have a medabot!" Juan yelled out.

Then, I stepped forward with a fist raised.

"Then obviously you need to see an optometrist cuz here I am!" I yelled at him.

"Agreed." Mr. Referee III said.

I got onto the arena floor and took a defense position near Anara.

"Thanks for your help." Anara said.

"Anytime. Com'n, let's take out a couple of cheaters." I replied.

"I'll take Tomcat. Think you can handle Queen Kong?" Anara asked.

"Just leave monkey butt to me." I told her.

Queen Kong raised her arms into the air and beat on her chest.

"Monkey butt! I'll show you monkey butt!" Queen Kong yelled charging me.

Queen Kong hit me hard and I hit the floor.

"Head, 15 percent damage. Arms, 21 percent damage. Body, 34 percent damage. Legs, 22 percent damage." I heard the meda-watch echo in my head.

Queen Kong had me on the ground and lifted an arm to strike another blow. That is where she made her mistake. The arm she lifted was the same arm that my tri-cannon was attached to. Immediately, I raised the weapon and began to fire repeatedly. Soon, I was glad I heard a clinking sound. The same sound a medal made when it hit the ground after being ejected. Queen Kong fell away from me and I turned to see Tomcat and Anara.

"Quantum Fire, charge the Prominence." Levi ordered me.

Then, I remembered something about the Arcbeetle Dash type. They had a very devastating special weapon. The three horns could charge up allowing a very powerful energy blast to occur. Space Medafighter X, a.k.a. the Phantom Renegade's own medabot had the weapon. I charged up the weapon. Fully charged, I turned towards Tomcat.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty." I said to irritate the medabot.

"WHAT?!" Tomcat said infuriated quite easily.

"Buh-bye. Prominence!" I yelled.

Tomcat's optics went wide as the powerful energy blast hit him and when the bright blast faded, Tomcat's medal ejected. I cheered. Levi cheered. Anara and Melissa cheered. We left the arena and Melissa stopped us. She slapped Levi.

"Don't ever do that to me. I don't need anyone's help." Melissa said walking off.

"Ouch." I said.

"I don't see what her problem is. I let her have the meda-parts." Levi said.

We passed a Medapart store while going home and eyed a Bombarder. Levi shook his head and we walked away. Later, after he fell asleep. I walked back to the store and I was glad it was a twenty-four hour store.

"Hello, I'd like to buy that Bombarder." I said.

"Well, this is a first. A medabot buying his own medaparts." He said when he saw my money.

I walked out of the store and returned home. With the Bombarder still in its box, I went into sleep mode.