Archive of Our Own

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Nine announces on the speakers "Alright! Alright! Let's get these two wonderful androids repaired! Because up next is CASSINI VERSUS GALILEO!!!"

Juice and Ten both nodded at each other and walked towards the Repair Stations.

"I got you so good." Ten said smugly

"you got lucky. those metal wires wont keep up for long. i got plaaans." Juice responded cockily.

"Oh I'm sure you do Juice."

When they both arrived to the Fighters Only lounge they stepped into each of their respective Repair Stations. Robotic arms varying in different sizes and instruments came down and repaired every single scratch and... open stomach, in the two androids. As Ten complained about, hers did take the longest to repair.

Juice finished first and was waiting outside Ten's repair station, sitting on a bench he looked up updates on The Bowl Game on his phone. Yells and clamoring could be heard from just another room over, with Nine announcing the winner of a brawl.

Ten eventually stepped out and announced herself to juice, "JUICE!!!"

"huh" he looked up from his phone towards Ten, "what"

Ten could be seen charging up a lazer in her stomach, a yellowish glow emanating from it. "CHECK THIS OUT!!"

A large lazer was shot out of Ten's stomach directly towards Juice. "JESUS CHRIST-" Juice dodged out of the way from the lazer by an inch. Landing against a locker with his hand on his chest. The lazer landed against the wall and left a considerable mark.

As the nanos began to repair the wall, Juice looked back to Ten, "what the hell??"

Ten smiled, "Do you like it? I thought this would be a cool replacement for my stomach"

Juice got up off his feet, sliding back against the lockers, "dude... that was..." putting a hand on his head in disbelief, "awesome!!!"

"Heh. I know right" She said smugly.

"thats gonna be a new factor to consider in our next fight... hm..." Juice thought to himself putting a hand on his chin.

"All in due time, lets go check on the fights before we miss them" Ten pointed to the exit door to the small arena.

"oh yes, i think Nine is actually- wooah okay" Juice was cut off by Ten grabbing his hand and dragging him through the exit door.

"Too Slow! We go now!" Ten didn't even look back to Juice as she did.

Juice felt that weird emotion again. Holding her hand. He has been feeling quite strange as of lately that he couldn't put his finger on, and it related to his best friend Ten somehow. But that feeling was *quickly* overwhelmed as they entered the room with the crowd of hungry fans.

Two Androids were in the middle of the indented arena. The current matchup was Juno versus Phobos 2. On a raised platform was where Nine watched them and the crowd. 

Ten and Juice both took their place within the crowd of people and androids alike, surrounding the hole. It seems as though they caught the near end of this fight. With Juno currently doing multiple punches against Phobos 2, breaking the shield they had on their arm.

Phobos 2 gets completely knocked backwards with broken arms and broken shields. Juno lands the final blow with a kick to the head, "AGH! IM OUT!" yelled Phobos 2.

"WE HAVE OUR WINNERRR!!!" Announced Nine from the speakers, "JUNO!!!" The crowd screamed loudly in excitement, along with Ten and Juice.

When Juice looked over to Ten, he saw the excitement in her face and his heart fluttered just ever so slightly. He was being such a loser right now and he doesn't know why.

Juno waved to the crowd happily with a smile, before turning to Phobos 2 and picking them up and carrying them out of the arena.

"Alright alright..." Nine announced. "Time for the final fight of the night... Introducing... HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE!"

"AND HIS OPPONENT... ME! PIONEER 9!" Nine announced, to the pleasure of the crowd. Including Juice and Ten, who both yelled in support.

Nine jumped down from their platform above the pit. Holding the microphone and its wire all the way down. They dusted off their very dutiful and seemingly expensive red suit. They pulled the stage microphone closer to announce, "ARE YOU PEOPLE READY??"

The crowd went nuts.

Nine laughed, "OKAY! THREE... TWO... ONE..."

"FIGHT!" The microphone zipped its way back upwards, as Nine readied themselves to fight Hubble.

Hubble smashed his fists together and began running towards Nine. "NINE! HOW ARE YOU?"

Nine, with their extreme speed ran out the way of Hubble, "I'M GOOD, ITS BEEN A WHILE HASN'T IT?"

Hubble slammed the ground where Nine was, and began firing lazers beams from his hand once they had moved. "IT HAS! DID YOU CATCH THE GAME LAST NIGHT?"

Nine kept running in circles around Hubble, occasionally getting in punches when there's an opening. "I DID! JOHN SMITH PLAYED AN INCREDIBLE MOVE!" 

Hubble predicted their movement and caught Nine and punched them hard towards a wall, and slammed his fist against them, but Nine managed to snaggle their way out. "HAH! OH GOOD! I WAS WORRIED WITH YOUR--" He fired lazers from both his fists as Nine ran on the walls, "--BUSY SCHEDULE LATELY THAT YOU WOULD'VE--" Nine began shooting spikes back, "--MISSED IT!"

Nine grabbed one of the missed spikes off the wall and began using it like a makeshift knife against Hubble, "HAHA! YOU'RE SURE RIGHT ABOUT THAT!" Nine sliced open parts of Hubble's suit. 

Hubble grabbed Nine by the throat and slammed them into the floor, "WE NEED TO CATCH UP! ARE YOU FREE--" and began slamming them repeatedly again and again, "--AFTER THIS?"

Nine grabbed his hand and began shooting several longs spikes into it, causing Hubble to momentarily let go of them to make a get away. "I AM! YOU ACTUALLY CAUGHT ME AT A GOOD TIME!"

Hubble took the spikes out of his hand and threw them towards Nine, "OH GREAT! IM GLAD!"

Nine dodged them and ran and jumped on the wall, and then onto Hubble's back, climbing up Nine then wrapped their legs around Hubble's neck and began squeezing, all whilst shooting long spikes from their hands into him. Nine began yelling, "THE BIGGER THEY ARE..." 

Until finally, Hubble's head snapped right off, launching into the air. His entire body going limp. , "...THE HARDER THEY FALL!" and falling with a *SLAM* onto the floor.

Nine jumped onto Hubble's limp body and zipped the stage microphone towards themselves and announced "I AM TONIGHT'S FINALLLL WINNER!!!!" They managed to catch Hubble's severed head.

They put the microphone up to Hubble and he announced, "CONGRATS NINE!"

The crowd went absolutely nuts in excitement. "ALRIGHT ALRIGHT... Let's get Hubble repaired..." They pointed towards their friends in the audience, "Ten, Juice? Could you do me a solid?"

Ten and Juice jumped down without question and began lifting Hubble's limp body towards the Repair Stations. Juice will ignore how his heart fluttered when he heard both their names together.

"hey thanks guys i appreciate you" Hubble's severed head told them which was now sitting on top of his body after being placed every so gently by Nine.

"Of course!" Ten said happily.

"no problem hubbs" Juice replied without a worry.

Nine continued talking down the crowd about various things to end the night proper. From the competitors themselves to their fancy red suit which was now ruined and had to be replaced.

"you guys free later too?" Hubble asked.

"hmmm... well..." Juice began to respond.

"Yeah I should be free, where are we gonna go?" Ten answered unmistakably.

"Yep. Im free too. Yep." Juice responded too quickly.

Hubble and Ten looked at Juice suspiciously.

"are you-" Hubble began to ask

"yes im fine." Juice closed their eyes in embarrassment. What was wrong with him right now???

"okay." Hubble turned their head back to Ten, "i was thinking dinner maybe?"

"Ohhh! That could be fun! I'll check my schedule" Ten said assuredly.

Juice kept quiet in thought while they talked. He knew he was gonna have to cancel the plans he had unexpectedly. Something strange has been going on and he was going to get to the bottom of it. Maybe he was infected with malware, or the Repair Station messed something up.

...Or maybe it was something else.