Suddenly the entire arena was plunged into darkness. The crowd fell silent, waiting, and wondering what was about to happen. The arena was filled with the unmistakable sound of a computer trying to connect to the Internet, instantly recognisable robotic sounds. An intense bright white light shone down on the centre of the ring, starting as a small pin of light, almost like a white laser beam. As the computer sounds faded, the light began to expand, illuminating an ever-increasing circle in the centre of the ring. The crowd gasped as a bluey, green shimmer emanated from the centre of the spotlight. In the middle of this shimmering there appeared a pair of feet. Gradually the shimmer moved up revealing legs, then a body and finally a humanoid shape was visible, arms outstretched, a cloak hanging down from it’s shoulders. The music reached a crescendo as the entire ring was bathed in an intense white light that made the audience shield their eyes.

The giant screen above the auditorium exploded in to life with the words,” the human cyborg has downloaded…welcome to Creature wrestling, the phenomenon that is the Internet…DANEEL OLIVAW”

At this, the entire arena was suddenly bathed in white light. From the ring there came an almighty explosion of firecrackers as Daneel threw off his cloak and before everyone’s eyes seemed to grow to twice, no three times his own height. Overhead, the giant screen had now changed to show a live feed from Daneel’s eyes as he surveyed the arena. In the corner of the screen was a live feed from his irc chatroom where users logged in were typing messages such as, “go Daneel” and “sticks and stones may break my bones but bytes will never crash me”.

Daneel spun round in a circle on the spot, as he did he pointed to each corner of the ring in turn and from each corner came an explosion of fireworks, 1 boom, 2 boom, 3 boom, 4 boom, then five, he pointed both hands upwards towards the roof, BOOOOOMMMM!!! A fountain of multicoloured fire rained down on the audience who by now were on their feet screaming and hollering Daneel’s name in a complete frenzy of excitement.

Daneel ran around the ring and seemed to shrink back to his normal size. When he reached his corner he turned to stare at the centre where Brandon was standing. Brandon was staring back at Daneel, at least he supposed it was Daneel. Was this the same person who, hours earlier he was talking to in the kitchen of the B4pro house and who had seemed so nervous and tiny?







As Brandon looked at Daneel he noticed something strange about the cyborg’s eyes, they seemed to be changing colour, first red, then green, then blue and back to red again. Brandon was a bit spooked by this as it made Daneel look completely unnatural.

Then his eyes were drawn to Daneel’s ring assistant, standing just outside the ring by the turnbuckle. He had never seen a more beautiful woman, but something didn’t seem quite right with her. She stood totally motionless, like a shop window dummy, but she seemed to be breathing and looking straight at him.











He was puzzled and a little nervous by all this, however, Brandon shook himself and took a deep breath, this was sufficient for him to regain his wits. He swaggered over to Daneel, staring him in the eye as he did so...