Games without Frontiers

Games without Frontiers

02 vs. 04

by LadyRivka

NOTE: before I get going on this chapter, I'd like to state the ownership rights to the various series.

Dragonball/Z/GT is owned by Akira Toriyama, Shueisha/Bird Studios/Toei, FUNimation, and others.

Gunnm/Battle Angel is owned by Yukito Kishiro, VIZ Comics, Inc., and others.

Flavius is owned by Amanda V. Brouty (alias LadyRivka…i.e., ME!).

Another repetitive morning aboard the space station for Becky. Wake up, put on uniform, eat "breakfast", wander down half-mindedly to the arena to watch the day's fight. And it'd be a good one this time, since, as she understood, both competitors had closer odds to each other than 01 and 03 did.

She watched as Juuhachi and Alita entered the arena, dragging their rackets behind them.

The robotic voice commanded, "Go!", and the energy ball was dropped in the middle of the arena. Alita, using an intricate system of flips and gyrations, was first to hit the ball, although 18 returned it right back at her. Alita immediately sensed the location of her target, and the ball whizzed by 18 to score a point.

They kept at it, a fury of motion, a veritable tempest in the "cube". But every time, Alita seemed to sense how to get the ball past 18 and into the goal…until the 6-point victory had been reached for Alita.

Juuhachi felt her head ache. The crowd roared, "Ex-PLODE! Ex-PLODE!!!"

But Juuhachi was not built like that; she just was deactivated and somehow faded away into nothingness…

Juuhachigou awoke to find herself back in her bedroom, with Kuririn pacing madly and crying.

"What's the matter?" she asked.

"Huh?" Kuririn turned around to see that his wife had not died after all. 'Thank Kami you're okay! I was worried sick about you, honey!" He ran up to her and hugged her tightly. 18 returned the favor by patting him lightly on the back. It was a gesture Kuririn understood, as she was probably… scared, perhaps?…by her near-death experience.

Meanwhile, back at the space station….

The crowd of aliens was beginning to thin out. Becky just sat in the stands and sulked. Alita had just taken it all; she seemed like a good upstart. Becky feared for the worse…

Then she felt a tap on her shoulder.

"Hey. Rivka. Rivka Kibernetes. Behind you."

She turned around to find that Juunana was standing right behind her.

"Juunanagou! What do you want… with me?"

"Rivka…I'm one of your biggest fans. I own all of the Kibernetes tankoubon, watch it every day on TV, just because of you… I draw inspiration from you. I never would have guessed we would meet…I thought you were fictional. But I ogled you, fell in love with you, just the same."

"I would say the same thing about you," said Becky. "I always thought you were just a drawing on a piece of paper! But I fantasized about you, kept you in my thoughts."

"There are tankoubon about ME here?" asked 17.

"Yeah…and a TV show, too." Becky smiled a cheesy grin.

"I should stay here longer!"

"Well, you can't. You have to fight. Against that Alita girl… and she looks pretty damn formidable, if I do say so myself."

"Damn!" He looked down at his feet, which were unconsciously wandering to the seat next to Becky. He sat down, and he looked at the girl with the dangerous curves, the silky dark brown hair, the girl whose name he'd sometimes call out in the heat of passion, much to the annoyance of his wife, who threatened to throw all of his copies of Kibernetes away….

And he noticed she was looking back at him, her eyes traversing his body in much the same way his eyes were feasting upon her.

And, as if by magnetism, they pulled in together and kissed, passionately. Becky broke the kiss, as she was running out of air.

"I guess this is where obsession leads…" said Becky.

"Yeah, I guess," answered Juunana.

"I just want to remind you that you may die here and return to your own dimension, never to be heard from here again…" With that, she leaned in and kissed him again.

"What? Own dimension?" Juunana yelled as he broke the kiss.

"Yeah, your body in the other dimension's unconscious… I'll explain more of it to you later."

With that, the pair walked out of the stadium to wander the ship.

TO BE CONTINUED…

NOTE: I will have a 17/Becky lemon up shortly; it will be under a different title and fall b/t Chapters 6 and 7… it's not really necessary to the plot of Gw/oF. -Rivka