Bot Brawls

[At Ace's house…]

"Hurry up, Lancer, Bot Brawls is on," said Ace.

"What's Bot Brawls?" asked Lancer.

"Hurry up getting the food and you'll find out," said Ace. *Lancer gets out the food and watches*

"Welcome to another smashing episode of Bot Brawls, I'm your host Michael Warner and here is my co-anchor Mark Vero," said Michael. If you're new to the sport, let me fill you in. In each episode of Bot Brawls, we have robots from all over the world compete in the arena behind us. The robots aren't just about fighting each other, it's to use the arena dangers to their opponent's disadvantage. We've got Buzzsaws, which will bite into the underside of the robot and send it flying across the arena floor, sharp spikes that pop-up from the floor to dent the underside of the robot and lining the arena are what we call Micro Buzzers, which are essentially mini saw blades to really cut up the competition.

"We also have dangers lurking in each corner," said Mark. These are robots that if your robot enters their corner, they get 30 seconds to have at whatever you own. We have 3 judges to spice up the entertainment.

"In the left corner, is Chaos Squared, which has a powerful flipper and great builder Greg Francine," said Michael. For the other corner is a wedge robot with front jaws named Razor Sharp.. It's got two builders named Ivan Leroy and Shane Scaro. We have two of what we call Robo-Thrashers or RTs, which are the robots that lurk in the corners and here they are.

"The first RT is named Crushalot," said Michael. He's a tank robot with a saw blade on one arm and a drill on the other. Our other RT is an armadillo-shaped robot with a front-mounted flywheel and a rear wedge and we call her evil and malicious as well as Miranda.

"Oh man, this is awesome, isn't it?" asked Ace.

"Totally," said Lancer.

"We should try and build a robot for this competition," said Teddy.

"The competition already ended, Teddy," said Ace. This is what they filmed. We can build one for their next competition, which I've read on Ponypedia is next fall.

"Awesome," said Lancer. We need to find out how to build a robot though.

"No problem, a friend of mine does this stuff for a living," said Ace. I'll go talk to him tomorrow.

"Okay, cool," said Lancer.

"He better be good," said Teddy. [The next day…]

"How'd it go?" asked Lancer.

"Check this robot out," said Ace. *he drives the robot in*

"Whoa, cool," said Lancer.

"Does it fit within the tournament's rules?" asked Teddy.

"Of course," said Ace. My friend checked the rules of the competition and he didn't find any rules that our robot broke.

"Cool, let's go fight with this robot!" said Lancer. *Melody and crew arrive*

"What are you 3 doing?" asked Bright Eyes.

"We have a robot," said Lancer.

"A fighting robot," explained Ace.

"For what?" asked Starlight.

"This competition called Bot Brawls," said Teddy.

"Never heard of it," said Bright Eyes, Melody and Starlight together.

"Well you're all girls, of course you haven't heard of it," said Ace. You all wouldn't be interested in this stuff anyway.

"You're right about that, Ace," said Bright Eyes.

"Why would we be interested in it anyway?" asked Melody. It's just a dumb robot competition.

"Dumb robot competition?" questioned Ace, Teddy and Lancer together.

"We'll show you all how dumb it isn't when we win it," said Ace.

"Well have fun, then," said Bright Eyes.

"Yeah, enjoy your silly little contest," said Starlight.

"We will enjoy it and it's not silly!" said Teddy.

"We don't need them," said Ace. We should be focused on driving this thing. After all, we don't want it taking too much damage in the arena do we?

"Let's do this!" said Ace, Teddy and Lancer together. *they start practicing to drive the robot*