Before we get started, I was supposed to upload this yesterday on the 1st anniversary of DDLC but I may or may not have spent the entire day play a Nazi-related D&D game with my friends.
Chapter 2: 1v1's
Yuri nears the end of the mission called Foucarville Blockade. She's doing really well. She's got still has all of her squad members alive. Sadly, since they're NPC's, they don't know their spacing too well. A well-placed grenade wiped out all of her men. In the midst of her confusion, a second grenade kills her as well. Yuri is now extremely flustered by this change of events.
"Damn… didn't expect that. Grenades get the best of you sometimes. I should know."
My mind flashes back to the time when I was playing MW2 and I tossed an enemy nade back but then they proceed to toss it back again, which lead to no time to react to it.
Yuri spawns back into the mission. She's more determined than she ever was before. After getting the point she died at, she's changed up her tactics. I was stunned. She cleared out the enemies within 30 seconds and just like that she's done with the mission. She then backs out to the main menu and starts up the multiplayer as a grab a controller for myself.
"We will be playing on the map called A Shot In the Dark. You'll be on the American's side for this while I shall support the German's."
Yuri nods with a fiery passion. We pick our sides and load in. What I didn't tell her is that on this map, she is the only member on her team while I control two squads of three men. I chuckle at the sound of Yuri's little noise of shock.
"Is there a problem?" I ask.
"N-No. Just a heads up would've been nice," She replied.
"I understand. The gun in your hand is a sniper. It's a one-shot kill. It gives you a slight edge of over me but I have the numbers. Good luck."
I order my teams to their positions to defend the objective. Yuri needs to find explosives and destroy the bridge or she needs to exhaust my reinforcements. I just hope Yuri knows that.
Yuri advances towards the bridge and tosses a grenade. The explosion wipes out one of my squads. She then proceeds to wipe out my other squad without missing a single shot. I'm able to gun her down.
"I'm having flashbacks," I said.
Two years ago, my friend, Sebastian and I were playing on this exact map. He tossed a grenade and somehow wiped out all of my guys with it. We both laughed but I was also pissed.
Yuri respawns and I call for more troops. I head to Yuri's body from the last life and pick up her rifle. I then spot Yuri in the distance and shoot. A clean headshot.
"WHAT?!" She shouted.
"Hecking calculated." I chuckled.
Yuri spawns again and rushes the bridge. She kills two members of the fire team before the last one kills her. She lets out a low growl. I center myself on the middle of the bridge as Yuri respawns. Yuri shoots the last fire team member dead. I chuck a grenade her way. Unfortunately, the grenade didn't make it over the half-track and ends up killing me. Yuri starts laughing, which distracts her and end up getting killed by the remaining AI.
"I'm a God damn dumbass," I said.
I take control of one of my soldiers and resume command of the bridge. Yuri takes a different route and ends up finding one set of explosives. She heads toward the bridge and goes out of my sight. She plants the explosives, forcing me to go defuse them. I rush the explosives location with my remaining two soldiers. Yuri set herself up in a defensive position, giving her a huge tactical advantage. She sends two sniper bullets into the AI soldiers skulls before hitting me with a fatal body shot. I respawn a try the same plan go but Instead of going with the troops, I flank Yuri's position. Yuri focuses on the AI while I approach her. She kills the troops and I send a single bullet into her, which killed her, meaning she had little health left. Unfortunately, I'm left with no time to defuse the explosives, leaving Yuri the victor as the bridge blows up.
"I've never had a match this intense before but gg," I said.
"Really?" Yuri asked.
"Yeah. I don't really play games competitively but there are a few I do try on."
"Then I want to play one you will try on."
"Okay. Which would you have first: Superheroes or Hockey?"
"What?"
"Superheroes or Hockey?"
"I guess Hockey."
I take the disk out and put in NHL Hitz 2002. This game is so goddamn wacky and fun. We got in a custom match. I chose the LA Kings and Yuri chose the Columbus Blue Jackets. We picked our players we were going to use as well. The match started and the puck was on the ice. Yuri had the puck as my player chased after her. I press the button the knocks players down and successfully get the puck away from her. I take a shot at getting a goal but the goalie blocked it. Her goalie sends it to one of her players and forces her to take control of that player. I try to knock her player down again but she passes the puck to another teammate. She shoots at my goal but misses entirely. I secure the puck and rush to her goal. Yuri knocks me down and the little minigame pops up which is a fistfight.
"What's this?" Yuri asked, confused as she mashes buttons.
"You have to defeat the other player and whoever loses has that character sit out."
The fight goes well for me as I know when to attack. Yuri's player goes out and is then replaced by another. The puck face off starts once more as I get the puck this time. I Immediately pass it to another teammate and then take a shot at the goal. It bounces off the goalie and into the net, giving me a point.
"That's bullshit!" Yuri shouts.
"It happens all the time," I said.
The puck face-off happens and Yuri gets the puck. She takes shot at my goal as soon as she has it. The puck magically goes between my goalie's legs, tying the game.
"Like that. Now that what someone would call bullshit," I said.
Yuri starts laughing at my dismay and the fact of what I said was true. The face-off goes on once again. The timer runners out, signaling the end of the first round. We pass the stats menu and other stuff. We start the second round. Yuri gets the puck and keeps passing to back and forth, making me unable to gain possession of it. She tries to shoot at my goal but is stopped by an AI teammate of mine. I now have possession and head back towards her goal. I take a shot and score a goal. I'm up by one. For the rest of the game, Yuri nor I gained a point which left me the victor.
"Tis a shame. The score is now tied. You've won one and I've won one," I said.
"Then the show must go on."
"Indeed. We shall play Injustice 2 next. But whom shall be victorious? The bookworm or the peddler?"
I turn on the Xbox Original, turn on the Xbox One, and put Injustice 2 in. I only have base game but I have a main like everyone else. I start the custom match. I pick Dr. Fate, which is at max level and has the best gear, and Yuri picks Captain Cold. Not a bad character to play but I don't know her skill at all. We then select the map. We watch as the two characters enter.
"Doctor."
"Captain."
"Just need a priest and we can walk into a bar."
Yuri chuckles at the joke they made as do I. I start doing combos as soon as I can move, bring Yuri down sixty-five percent of her white bar. I counite my fury of attacks but Yuri dodges and blocks most of them before unleashing hell upon me bringing my white bar down to eighty-five percent. I respond with a barrage of attack, removing Yuri's white bar. I then follow up using my ultimate ability, getting rid of about thirty-five percent of Yuri's health bar. Yuri attacks and removes my white bar. She continues using her attacks getting my health down to fifteen percent remaining. My next move decides the fate of this battle. I block Yuri's attacks again and again until I noticed that her attacks gave me my ult charge back. She tries to use her ultimate against me but fortunately, for me, misses. I use my ultimate again and bring her down to around thirty percent health. I follow up with a short series of light attacks. We're both trying to keep each other at bay. I was able to break Yuri's defense and finish her off.
"Yeet," I said.
"I'll accept defeat this time," Yuri told me.
"Let us play a bit more relaxing game," I said.
I turn off the Xbox and pull out a game of Battleship. I gesture to Yuri to follow me to the kitchen.
"Sit across from me. You know how to play?"
"No."
"Then I'll teach you. The game is purely based on guessing and luck. You set up the ships on the bottom part of the board. When guessing, if you get a hit, you'll place a red pin in the spot and you'll get another turn until you miss a shot. When you miss a shot, you'll place a white pin in the place instead of a red one," I explained. "If you ship gets destroyed, you say 'you sunk my' and whatever the name of the ship was such as a battleship. The goal is to keep your ships alive while destroying the enemies "
I hand Yuri a board and we set up our ships. I place mine in random locations like always.
"Ready?" I asked Yuri.
"I am," She replied.
"You go first. Call out a place on the board."
"B6."
"Miss. C4."
"Miss. H9.
"Hit."
"H10."
"Miss."
We kept at this for a good while with both of us winning multiple games. Everything was fine until a certain miss.
"How is C7 a miss?" Yuri asked. "C6 was a hit and C8 was hit, therefore C7 must also be a hit."
"Not if the ship already a giant hole in it."
That response frustrated Yuri very must. She doesn't realize that she's hit two different ships. It's interesting that she hasn't figured it out despite being smart.
"What if in the world of possibilities that you hit two ships of mine and not just a one?" I asked her.
"That impossible for th… oh…"
Yuri hides her face in embarrassment. It's a bit cute actually.
"Yuri, it's okay. Everyone makes mistakes."
Yuri slow reveals her face and we resume our match. At the end of it, I realized that I'll have to take Yuri a store and get her things she'll need like more clothes and such. That will be an experience for us. I glance at the clock and see that it's 10 am. Mail usually comes around this time.
"Yuri, I'll be back. I'm going to get the mail if there's any."
I walk out and open the mailbox. Junk, junk, junk, and an unmarked envelope? I open the envelope. Inside of it is official government documents about Yuri. Birth certificate, Medical records, passport, etc. Her given name is Yuri Yano. I'm positive that the Linker of Worlds did this. It looks official as well. I'm not sure if someone can tell that it's even forged. I need to show Yuri this. I walk back inside to find Yuri still sitting at the table. I set the documents on the table.
"Do you mind taking a look at these?" I asked Yuri.
Yuri looks over each document thoroughly, looking confused at the same time. She keeps looking over them again and again.
"You know anything about this?" I asked.
"I, unfortunately, don't," Yuri replied.
"I figured so but I'm positive that the Linker of Worlds in responsible for this. We don't have a clue he or she is but they've gone great lengths for you and likely the other girls as well. Do they have a plan for us? Did they want to save you from that hell? I don't know much but I know I have to watch over you."
I feel worried. I have no idea if an organization would be keeping tabs on any odd event recently but we and possible any others will need to be careful. I look at Yuri see that she's slightly nervous.
"Look, Yuri, we shouldn't worry about this too much but we should be careful just in case, got it?"
"I understand."
"I hope but more important matters are ahead. We need to get you stuff."
"Stuff? What do you mean by stuff?"
"You know… Clothes, books, snacks. I don't know. You pick something and I'll get you it."
"You mean it?"
"Yes, I do. Go get changed into something more suitable more public situations."
Yuri nods and heads off to change, leaving me here to wait.
NSA HQ, Fort Meade, Maryland.
An agent is going through activity that has happened between of 12am-6am. He finds all kinds of stuff worth looking into. Around 2 am is where his interest truly peaked. A huge energy spike happened in Ohio. It appeared purplish on the radar and lasted for about a few minutes before disappearing. The agent decided to correlate this with other members of the UKUSA agreement
"Dempsey here. I got a weird energy signature at2 am EST. Does anyone have others like it? Dempsey out," He sent
Within minutes, he got responses from the GCHQ and the ASD.
"Thompson here. I've got two. They read the same as yours but their colors are different. In the province of Munster, Ireland has a pink one. I've been unable to pinpoint which city. Hopefully will have new information ASAP. We also got a coral-pink one located around Manchester. Will investigate ASAP. Thompson out."
"Martin here. We got coral-brown one here in Sydney. Reads in the same wavelength as yours as well. Martian out"
Dempsey concluded that all these energy signature were likely caused by the same thing and that they definitely happened at the same time but what caused it? It's unlikely that it was random or the work of a higher power. It could be the work of an unknown terrorist organization. All that Dempsey knew to do was to report this to his higher-ups.
"Dempsey here. I recommend that you should report this to a higher-up ASAP. We might have a serious threat on our hands. Dempsey out."
