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Okay, this is going to be a little author's note, I suppose. This story is
based heavily on Unreal Tournament/Championship. I'm placing this under
Video Game Crossovers, because, well, it is one, heh. But, can't disclose
what other game it'll be about yet, heh. That'd ruin all of it! Anyway, uh,
R/R and just enjoy the story I suppose, heh.
Disclaimer crap: I don't own any of the characters that actually come from the game, or the concept of the Unreal Tournament, those belong to Atari. The rest is mine.
This story really has little to do with the storyline of Unreal Tournament; I just made up most of it. Names like Xan Kriegor and Malcolm and several other teams/members as well as Liandri Corporation are all from the game. Their roles in the game may be different, but whatever...
Yeah... ----------
The Marine
-Prologue: History of the Tournament-
The Liandri Corporation was quite well known for its evil ideas and plans. Their most hideous yet extremely entertaining project was the infamous Unreal Tournament, held every year in a variety of suitable locations. Liandri's technology was wired and fixed into each location, and it was ready for a Tournament battle.
The Tournament begins every year with every participant save a select few trying to qualify for placement on a team. After these rigorous qualifications, placement in the Tournament is still not guaranteed. Only the top few teams actually are placed in the Unreal Tournament ladder. The rest are doomed to try again the next year.
The teams compete each year in the ladder in several different events, trying to become the best in the events. The top two teams in the overall ladder standings duke it out in the championship match. The member on each team that does the best in this team match will go on to face the other in a final 1 on 1 all out death match. The winner will be the champion of Liandri Corporation's grip and are free to leave.
The Unreal Tournament is extremely arduous, painful, and sometimes fatal to its contestants. The fans love it and every bloody moment of it is aired on national television. The Tournament is the most widely watched sport in the world. Last year, 2003, over 5 billion people were tuned in to the gory final match which saw one codenamed Dante defeat Malcolm to become the Tournament champion. Several contestants die over the course of the tournament every year. While you respawn after you are 'killed' in a Tournament arena, the pain, among other things, remains. It takes a great deal of strength and stamina to stay alive. Agility is also important, as if you're too slow to dodge a piece of flak, you could lose.
From the sound of it, no one would ever wish to enter such a tournament but the insane, and the foolish. Liandri had their fair share of morons enter willingly, but there wasn't nearly enough fresh meat for the Corporation to use as pawns to grow rich. Liandri's top executives made a horrible deal with the United States government. The deal stood that instead of sentencing its worst criminals to death, Liandri could take them and enter them into the Unreal Tournament, forcing them to either win the Tournament or die in the Tournament be it from the action or from old age. This cruel idea went straight through Congress, and also went well with the people of the country. Crime rates went down slightly, but Liandri still got enough criminals from Death Row to become entrants into their sick Tournament.
That was 12 years ago, in the year 1993. Gun research was entering its golden age, and the weapons produced through the genius minds around the country made perfect weapons for the Tournament. Liandri's mind blowing system allowed contestants to actually kill their opponent, then have the dead person respawned and be seemingly unharmed. The pain and soreness and the mental stress remained, however. Liandri had previously spent 10 years planning and researching this technology, and they used it for the Unreal Tournament. Many companies were fascinated and invested millions of dollars in Liandri's brilliant technology. Liandri Corporation was soon boosted to the top of the map in the stock market. They were one of the most powerful companies in the country at the time.
With Liandri's research implemented and the contestants ready, the Unreal Tournament 1993 commenced. Every year the death rate climbed, every year it grew more violent and more intense, and more and more people grew interested. Soon, Tournament Ladder matches were aired all over the world. The Super Bowl and the World Series were small fries compared the magnitude of talk over the Unreal Championships. People lined up across four blocks to place bets on the final matches. The money spent each year gradually grew. The Unreal Tournament was a phenomenon. It was so brutal and violent, yet people loved it. They loved every second of it. They cheered when someone's face was blown off, and they roared applause and admiration at Multi-Kills. The Tournament single-handedly turned America into a downright disgustingly brutal place to be. Instead of soccer, little kids would play make believe Tournament matches. The murder rate soared.
Here today, in the year 2004, the United States is one of the most disrespected and hated countries of all, for the evil Unreal Tournament. More and more are convicted to fight in the Tournament every year, and all those had long forgotten the original few who entered the Tournament willingly. They had not known what they were getting into. They all died quickly. As terrible as it sounds, the nine who have won the tournament all came back for more. They were the ones who lived for the kill. They were the serial killers, the trained professionals, the assassins, and the downright scum with street smarts.
Xan Kriegor, arguably the best to ever fight in the Tournament, never lost a death match; he won the Tournament 3 times after being convicted of murder in the first degree along with resisted arrest. He retired and left the Tournament a hero of sorts. His reign came during the time in which the Tournament started to be popular. His name was shared in the ranks of such people who were immortalized in the history books. He was a sort of demigod, the superstar who was above all else. This was the main reason as to why he disappeared from the Tournament front after Unreal Tournament 2000.
Malcolm took over where Xan left off, leading the seemingly flawless team who had always been third or second thanks to Xan's unbeatable deathmatch skills. Malcolm won two in a row, although definitely in a less dominant fashion than Xan. However, last year at Unreal Tournament 2003, a new power emerged at the Tournament. Team Lords of Chaos led by a man codenamed Dante defeated Malcolm and shocked the crowd. Malcolm's team had been the heavy favorites to win. In fact, Dante beat Malcolm in the Unreal Championships by a final score of 20 - 2. It was the most dominant blowout in Unreal Tournament history. A conspiracy theory was formed, but none was ever found. The members of Lords of Chaos, codenamed Dante, Diablo, Mephisto, Baal, Chaos, and backup man Demon posted the best frag-death rate in Tournament history at a blistering 1263-41. This year, at Unreal Tournament 2004, Lords of Chaos return to destroy all the new competition. Malcolm is returning, out for blood, and the infamous undefeated Xan Kriegor returns from the shadows to form his own team and challenge the unbelievably powerful Lords of Chaos. But behind all the drama in the top of the ranks, one of the biggest stories in the Tournament comes with me, a soldier in the Marines. For the first time since the initial Tournament, someone enters the Tournament willingly. Me. This is my story, the story of disbelievers and doubters and how one man rises to the top that you've seen so many times. But, it's a little different this time...
-------- So yeah, there's my first bit of story. This chapter/prologue basically set up the storyline, and the next chapter won't be much different, heh. Don't worry; the real action and drama will come soon. Hey, you never know, a form of romance may come outta this, even I don't know yet! So, R/R, the first chapter will be up later. --------
Disclaimer crap: I don't own any of the characters that actually come from the game, or the concept of the Unreal Tournament, those belong to Atari. The rest is mine.
This story really has little to do with the storyline of Unreal Tournament; I just made up most of it. Names like Xan Kriegor and Malcolm and several other teams/members as well as Liandri Corporation are all from the game. Their roles in the game may be different, but whatever...
Yeah... ----------
The Marine
-Prologue: History of the Tournament-
The Liandri Corporation was quite well known for its evil ideas and plans. Their most hideous yet extremely entertaining project was the infamous Unreal Tournament, held every year in a variety of suitable locations. Liandri's technology was wired and fixed into each location, and it was ready for a Tournament battle.
The Tournament begins every year with every participant save a select few trying to qualify for placement on a team. After these rigorous qualifications, placement in the Tournament is still not guaranteed. Only the top few teams actually are placed in the Unreal Tournament ladder. The rest are doomed to try again the next year.
The teams compete each year in the ladder in several different events, trying to become the best in the events. The top two teams in the overall ladder standings duke it out in the championship match. The member on each team that does the best in this team match will go on to face the other in a final 1 on 1 all out death match. The winner will be the champion of Liandri Corporation's grip and are free to leave.
The Unreal Tournament is extremely arduous, painful, and sometimes fatal to its contestants. The fans love it and every bloody moment of it is aired on national television. The Tournament is the most widely watched sport in the world. Last year, 2003, over 5 billion people were tuned in to the gory final match which saw one codenamed Dante defeat Malcolm to become the Tournament champion. Several contestants die over the course of the tournament every year. While you respawn after you are 'killed' in a Tournament arena, the pain, among other things, remains. It takes a great deal of strength and stamina to stay alive. Agility is also important, as if you're too slow to dodge a piece of flak, you could lose.
From the sound of it, no one would ever wish to enter such a tournament but the insane, and the foolish. Liandri had their fair share of morons enter willingly, but there wasn't nearly enough fresh meat for the Corporation to use as pawns to grow rich. Liandri's top executives made a horrible deal with the United States government. The deal stood that instead of sentencing its worst criminals to death, Liandri could take them and enter them into the Unreal Tournament, forcing them to either win the Tournament or die in the Tournament be it from the action or from old age. This cruel idea went straight through Congress, and also went well with the people of the country. Crime rates went down slightly, but Liandri still got enough criminals from Death Row to become entrants into their sick Tournament.
That was 12 years ago, in the year 1993. Gun research was entering its golden age, and the weapons produced through the genius minds around the country made perfect weapons for the Tournament. Liandri's mind blowing system allowed contestants to actually kill their opponent, then have the dead person respawned and be seemingly unharmed. The pain and soreness and the mental stress remained, however. Liandri had previously spent 10 years planning and researching this technology, and they used it for the Unreal Tournament. Many companies were fascinated and invested millions of dollars in Liandri's brilliant technology. Liandri Corporation was soon boosted to the top of the map in the stock market. They were one of the most powerful companies in the country at the time.
With Liandri's research implemented and the contestants ready, the Unreal Tournament 1993 commenced. Every year the death rate climbed, every year it grew more violent and more intense, and more and more people grew interested. Soon, Tournament Ladder matches were aired all over the world. The Super Bowl and the World Series were small fries compared the magnitude of talk over the Unreal Championships. People lined up across four blocks to place bets on the final matches. The money spent each year gradually grew. The Unreal Tournament was a phenomenon. It was so brutal and violent, yet people loved it. They loved every second of it. They cheered when someone's face was blown off, and they roared applause and admiration at Multi-Kills. The Tournament single-handedly turned America into a downright disgustingly brutal place to be. Instead of soccer, little kids would play make believe Tournament matches. The murder rate soared.
Here today, in the year 2004, the United States is one of the most disrespected and hated countries of all, for the evil Unreal Tournament. More and more are convicted to fight in the Tournament every year, and all those had long forgotten the original few who entered the Tournament willingly. They had not known what they were getting into. They all died quickly. As terrible as it sounds, the nine who have won the tournament all came back for more. They were the ones who lived for the kill. They were the serial killers, the trained professionals, the assassins, and the downright scum with street smarts.
Xan Kriegor, arguably the best to ever fight in the Tournament, never lost a death match; he won the Tournament 3 times after being convicted of murder in the first degree along with resisted arrest. He retired and left the Tournament a hero of sorts. His reign came during the time in which the Tournament started to be popular. His name was shared in the ranks of such people who were immortalized in the history books. He was a sort of demigod, the superstar who was above all else. This was the main reason as to why he disappeared from the Tournament front after Unreal Tournament 2000.
Malcolm took over where Xan left off, leading the seemingly flawless team who had always been third or second thanks to Xan's unbeatable deathmatch skills. Malcolm won two in a row, although definitely in a less dominant fashion than Xan. However, last year at Unreal Tournament 2003, a new power emerged at the Tournament. Team Lords of Chaos led by a man codenamed Dante defeated Malcolm and shocked the crowd. Malcolm's team had been the heavy favorites to win. In fact, Dante beat Malcolm in the Unreal Championships by a final score of 20 - 2. It was the most dominant blowout in Unreal Tournament history. A conspiracy theory was formed, but none was ever found. The members of Lords of Chaos, codenamed Dante, Diablo, Mephisto, Baal, Chaos, and backup man Demon posted the best frag-death rate in Tournament history at a blistering 1263-41. This year, at Unreal Tournament 2004, Lords of Chaos return to destroy all the new competition. Malcolm is returning, out for blood, and the infamous undefeated Xan Kriegor returns from the shadows to form his own team and challenge the unbelievably powerful Lords of Chaos. But behind all the drama in the top of the ranks, one of the biggest stories in the Tournament comes with me, a soldier in the Marines. For the first time since the initial Tournament, someone enters the Tournament willingly. Me. This is my story, the story of disbelievers and doubters and how one man rises to the top that you've seen so many times. But, it's a little different this time...
-------- So yeah, there's my first bit of story. This chapter/prologue basically set up the storyline, and the next chapter won't be much different, heh. Don't worry; the real action and drama will come soon. Hey, you never know, a form of romance may come outta this, even I don't know yet! So, R/R, the first chapter will be up later. --------
