As Larry, Mari, Mike, and Tom ate breakfast all Tom could think about was the 'dream' he had last night. *That was crazy.. where the Hell was I and how did I get there?* as Tom spaced out thinking about the voices Mari reached to snatch a cinnabon off of his plate.
While Mari cheered and ate her spoils Tom shook his head and went back to eating, temporarily forgetting about his dream. "So you have four robots and there are four of us.. do we get to battle now?" Larry asked while looking as excited as a kid on a firetruck.
"No way in hell am I tearing my babies up just to satisfy your destructive needs man.." Tom says resulting in Mike putting his croissant down to ask, "Why do you build them then? they literally go into a ring to break each other."
"Wrong they go in to the ring and break other people's robots, to fulfill my destructive needs, why would I trash my own? But I guess we could race them around a little and I'll let you guys play with the weapons, But not on each other and no pushing fire buttons, that thermite is no joke and it ain't cheap."
After everyone finished eating Larry and Mike went down to the basement for a late wake and bake. While Mike and Larry where down stairs Tom and Mari cleaned up the kitchen and went to the garage to get his bots.
Mari was acting normal around Tom, so he decided to play it cool and wait a while before asking her out, they still had a few months left of highschool. After the two of them made it inside and started setting the robots in his tote Tom looked up at Mari. "Very funny locking me out last night, I would have had to slept with these guys if I didn't have my keys on me".
"What are you talking about?? I didn't lock you out" Mari says with with a look of confusion on her face. "The lock must of slipped then huh?" Tom says and Mari starts to look a little annoyed. "Seriously Tom I didn't lock you out I ran inside and went to sleep.." "Ok my bad, my bad, the door was locked so I thought you were 'Trying' to be funny.. the lock must have really slipped then.."
After the two of them got the bots to the back yard they set them out just before Mike and Larry jump out of the door leading to the basement from the back of the house. In between Larry's lips was a lit blunt after inhaling and passing to Mike he blows out a smoke ring then looks at the box. "Dibs on the cockroach dudes".
"That's fine with me I want Mrs Crawley" Mari says while picking up her controller. "I'll let you pick Mike, You want the snail or the Mantis'?" Tom holds up the last two controllers "I want to shoot sh!t so what do you think?" Tom hands Mike the controller for the Snail Gunner and boots up the Manic Mantis.
As they have the robots run a few laps and random patterns throughout the yard Mike starts getting bored, so he pulls the snail over to aim at an old stump and starts firing. "Hey man did you take the ammo out? I don't see anything".
"Dude that thing is designed to pierce metal, you honestly think those spikes are gonna stick out of a rotten stump? Aim at yourself if you think it's empty.." "Nah dude I'm good I like having my blood on the inside".
While Tom and Mike bicker Larry starts piloting Mr Crawley in big circles around the mechanical tarantula. "That spider is so slow Mari I don't know if it's gonna be able to get Tom too far in the tourney this year". Getting slightly agitated Mari tries to get Mrs Crawley to catch the robo-roach only to miss every time.
"Might be slow but I'll bet she packs a hell of a punch compared to anything she faces off against". "She? that things so ugly you should say 'it'." Hearing Larry talk smack about his latest creation Tom walks over and hits the kill switch on the controller in Larry's hand.
"Dude!! that's cheating". Before Larry could get Mr. Crawley up and running Mari walked Mrs Crawley right on top of the roach effectively pinning it in place. "Look Larry Mr Crawley is more like you now" she says with a grin.
"What do you mean by that?" Mari laughs before telling him "He's dominated by a woman much better than him.." as Mike and Tom laugh Larry just hands Tom his controller and goes inside the house mumbling about having no real friends.
"Aww Mari I think you hurted his feelings" Mike jokes before running the snail Gunner over to the tote and handing Tom his controller as well. "I'm gonna go rub some salt in the wound" Mike continued before running after Larry.
Mari shuts off Mrs Crawley before turning to Tom "you realize they just ditched us to pick up everything right?" Tom stares blankly before replying. "You mean like everyone does when they leave my house? I'm gonna have to buy a gallon of Draino just to get all hair out of my shower, seriously do you girls just pull it out of your head when your in there?" Mari laughs sarcastically as she helps Tom put his robots up. "So when are you going to drop us off at our houses?"
After the robots were placed in the garage Mari ran down to the basement to grab Larry and Mike, while Tom hopped on the couch and started looking up something to watch. After a few minutes the three come upstairs smelling like smoke and Febreze. Mike hops next to Tom and kicks his feet up on the coffee table while Larry and Mari snag the two recliners. "Oooh throw it on good eats man" Larry says spying it on the guide as Tom scrolls through.