Dylan put the finishing touches on WhipCoil and went over to scout out the competition. He saw some old foes and some new ones, including a brightly colored flipper that looked to be Kody's robot and a low to the ground pneumatic flipper named Air. There was also a boxy scoop robot he didn't know the name of, but definitely looked like a fierce competitor. For familiar robots, he saw Revolver Ocelot, Wedge Devolution and Parasite, among others. The crates containing Marti's and Joey's robots remained unopened, and Dylan didn't know what would become of them.

Ever since Joey and Marti's untimely deaths, the tension was so thick that, to reuse an already overused cliche in robotic combat, you could cut it with a knife, or more appropriately a circular saw. No one knew who would be next, and the ever-real danger that perhaps their robot could go out of control and kill them was making everyone nervous. Dylan restrained from plugging the battery in on his robot until the last second just in case.

He went over to talk to Alex, who was also working on his robot Dreadnought. Perhaps it would relieve the tension a bit...

"Hey, dude."