The teacher rambled on about something Mark Dimond learned 4 years ago. Mark was bored to death. It was last period, only 10 minutes until he got to go to another awesome Sci-clops meet.

Those 10 minutes went by fast and Mark whistled as he walked to Mr. Pike's Room.

He took a seat and eagerly began waiting for it to began.

"Hi guys! We have some news today. Today is the first day registration for the first annual Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island Tri-state Robot Battling Tournament. However, two people will team up to make 1 better robot. The grand Prize is $750 each," he announced, and then looked favoringly at Mark and his friend Eddie "I know some great minds here are up to the challenge."

This was great. Mark had already won the state competition, and Eddie, a new member, was a genius when it came to robotics. It was like a new frontier. Plus, he could use the money. His robot just needed to be tuned up, given a software upgrade, and it would be ready. Him and Eddie signed up and began brainstorming.

Dan Cahill was snoozing in class, as usual. Then his teacher said something his brain didn't automatically send out the other ear.

"Registration for the first annual Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island Tri-state Robot Battling Tournament starts today. If you decide to join, you would want to know that Adams Middle School will be working with Oak Bluffs Secondary School, and the grand prize is 750 dollars each. Two people will make 1 robot"

$750! I could buy a couple thousand baseball cards! Wait, isn't Oak Bluffs where The Starlings go? If I team up with one of them, 750 smackeroos!

The teacher continued, "If you are interested in signing up, go to room 325 where you can pair up and get started."

After school, he went to room 325 and thought, Whoa. This was not the place to be.

The only other person interested in the competition was Sinead Starling.

"Hi Dan. Thanks for saving my life at the gauntlet. We should work together!" she said

"Well, let's see, it doesn't take an Ekaterina to figure out that I need to! Sorry, just kidding, it would be great."

"Ok. Let's start. First there should be a buzzaw…"

"Awesome!" Eddie shouted as their robot, DADO, chopped up his 10th dummy. Eddie controlled DADO while mark took notes. "We did it primed and ready for the competition."

Eddie had done a better job than Mark had expected. He came up with a great idea. First he had the idea to control it with a laptop to utilize the power of a PC. Also, he designed the robot. DADO had 3 layers. The wheel lay on the bottom, attached to a little box with the antennae, then a reinforced 5" virtually indestructible titanium/30% diamond alloy sprung from it, supporting a giant sphere with the CPU in the center and a buzzaw, a blow torch, and a claw that could all rotating around the sphere, sending any weapon anywhere. The competition didn't stand a chance.

"And the winner is Katherine!" Dan Cahill shouted. "Calm down Dan, that was just a dummy." Sinead explained. "God rest its soul," Dan said. "Yeah yeah," Sinead retorted.

Their robot, Katherine, was named after the founder of the Ekaterina branch, Katherine Cahill, after a long battle of Madeleine vs. Katherine. It was controlled be an XBOX controller hooked up to a laptop, so Dan could unleash his awesome gaming skills. That wasn't all he was good for. He had excellent math skills, which saved Sinead hours while doing robotics, had knowledge of what weapons to use. Dan always told her, "You don't log 150 hours on the XBOX without learning a few things."

Katherine was like a headless little dwarf with wheels instead of legs. Her CPU was in the chest, guarded by a diamond, which is the hardest mineral and the Starlings could afford it, breastplate. It had 4 arms that could bend any way possible. All of its weapons were retractable with a buzzaw, a grappling hook, a projectile launcher, and a water gun to make the circuits go haywire. All weapons were harder than rock.

Ready to roll.

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