Disclaimer: Blah, blah, blah, you know the drill. I don't own UT or UT2003 it would be wonderful though, eh? Hehe
(a/n): Thanks for the reviews you'll. I really appreciate it a lot. Well almost everyone just can't wait to see her enter the tournament. Well in this chapter, Tanya joins the tournament but the matches don't start yet. I can tell you that next chapter will be all about competing and so much action will take place Tanya will change her name and meet her team and give them the courage to win. She will meet a few people that should be familiar to you if you played UT. Well enjoy. ^_^
Chapter5: A New Family
The flying units (flying cars) zipped by everywhere and Tanya was walking through the streets. She is one block away from the Liandri, where she will enter the tournament and rise in the ladder. She walked with a black cape with a black hood over her head as she moved through the crowd of people.
She crossed the streets and looked up towards this black building with green lights running upward in lights making it look like lighting. She looked straight up and saw the magnificent lettering of Liandri Corporation. "I'm here…" She slowly said and walked to the front desk.
There was a robot sitting there with an energy-pad with bunch of names there in green. "Hi, I would like to join the Unreal Tournament." "Name please." The robot said in response. "Tri—" "You can't do this to me!" Tanya turned around to see a young man being held down by two Liandri soldiers. "I haven't done anything!" "What is going on?" She asked the robot who only said, "Prisoners must compete in the tournament." She looked back at the young man who retaliated harshly. He pulled one of his arms out of the soldiers grip and punched him hard in the face that knocked him out. "We need backup!" The young man threw in another punch at the other soldier and now he was free. He was running for his life.
"Why are you standing here? Go help them." The robot said staring at her with its black eyes. She looked back at the man and felt he was totally innocent. "There he is! Shoot him in the leg!" Tanya crouched and covered her head and fire zipped passed her. "Did we get him?" "I don't know…" The soldiers communicated with each other. Tanya felt anger seeing these troops again; they worked for Xan, who killed her father. What if that man was really innocent? What if he didn't do anything what if he just that stands in Xan's way. Tanya gritted her teeth and saw that young man was shielding himself behind the desk looking around for something and then he looked over to her and their eyes locked. Tanya felt petrified at how he looked at her. His eyes were colorless yellow, which made him look like someone operated on them. He froze staring straight at her, not moving any limb.
"I think he's over there." The man unfroze when he heard the voice and started to crouch through the tables. Tanya widened her eyes when she saw a man in a metallic suit come in. He wore a mask and everything was covered with metal. She opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out. It was the nightmare that haunted her all of her life, the one and only man she went to kill, Xan Kriegor. He stood above the young man and started to laugh in an inhuman voice. He's no longer human anymore, just a machine. Tanya thought and watched him pick up the man who seemed to skip out of the view. Xan turned around to watch him and started to mock him. The man seemed to get angry but stood his ground. "Humans are so pathetic." Xan said and picked him up with one hand by his throat.
Tanya felt pain running through her as she remembered her father fighting him on the TV. Tanya got the courage and ran straight for him, making a flying right side kick which brought Xan down with her. Soldiers came in and surrounded them. I'm dead…She thought as she stood up and saw the man gasping for air. Xan stood up and looked at her and started to laugh. "What is your name?" Tanya was too afraid to speak. "Are you joining the tournament?" He asked her and she nodded in fear. Xan started to chuckle. "I like you already, so much spirit and courage. You were the second to bring me down without my guard. Who are you?" "Trinity." She said and backed away. "No need to fear me, my child. I am Xan Kriegor but you must have known that. Let her go and give her one of our best rooms and sign her up of course. I am looking forward on meeting you again, Trinity, but I must go and compete in a match. Take him away." He said looking at the man. "No!" Trinity cried. Xan stopped and looked at her. "My lady, please understand—" "I'm not your lady." She cut him off. Xan seemed to nod. He was already on her nerves. He is so calm in all the situations and that just killed her. "You must understand." He said. "He is a criminal and we don't want him to be on the loose." She looked at him. "But if you wish so, instead of sitting in jail, he will be given a room." "Yes." She said. "That will be better, thank you." Xan nodded and moved his hand and the soldiers picked up the man and brought him to Xan. "What is your name?" He asked with much crueler voice. "Des—Dessloch." He said and lowered his head. "Bring him to the Blue Bunker, he seems to be weak, probably another blue team member." Tanya stared at him how he put him on the team her father served proudly on.
"Now, sign up this young lady and all the best luck to you." He bowed and walked of into one of the hallways. She watched as they took Dessloch away but noticed he was looking at her. She saw him mouth the word 'thank you' and they took him away. She sighed and looked at her escort and smiled. She was proud of what she did. She doesn't believe Dessloch was a criminal, she thought of him as just another victim under Xan's control. Now she wondered, was the whole blue team like that. Are they her father's supporters or something? So she decided to enter the tournament on the blue team. "What is your name again?" The escort asked her. She looked at him and took off her hood, revealing her black mask with glasses. "Trinity. My name is Trinity." The man seemed to nod and wrote that down on his energy-pad. "Which team color are you picking?" "Blue." He looked at her and wrote that down as well. "Follow me." They walked to a large monitor that set against the wall showing different people and their descriptions. "Which team would you like to join, the Blood Reavers? They are a team of ex-mercenary's who wants to win the tournament for fame and fortune." The team was shown to her. She saw a young lady with a suit that reminded her of her father's. "Kyla." He said to her. Another picture was shown. This guy looked a lot like Dessloch but more older. "Boris." Another picture was shown, it was a woman but with tans across her face. "Mariana." He said to her. "Finally last but not least. Luthor." The same young man that looked like Dessloch but his face was tanned with all these mercenaries' marks. "I want this team." She said to him and he only looked at her in an awkward way. "You haven't seen the rest of the teams." "Yes I have, the teams are Black Legion and Dark Phalanx, right? They are the only teams on blue." The man didn't say anything but just looked at her. "I see you have been observing." "Who wouldn't? You have matches posted almost on every channel." He nodded and said. "Very well. Please go to the blue bunker. You will be the leader of the Blood Reavers. You may go to practice sessions before or after the ladders to train. Welcome to Unreal Tournament." He said to her and she just nodded and looked out through the crystal glass doors that led outside. "If only you saw me now, daddy." She said and walked towards the bunker.
The bunker turned out to be just ¼ of the building, which contained many people that were on the blue team, had long and large hallways with different rooms. It looked like part of a mansion with many, many rooms. In the basement, where the prisoners are kept, is most populated. She is like the only person that is not a prisoner and is on the blue team. She is going to search for that young man that should be here…somewhere. There is a location that will be difficult to find. She thought about going to the prison to get her team out and start to practice with them, she really wants to get to know her team and behind the Liandri operation. She, also, wants to know why are they all prisoners.
"I have to thank you." A calm voice said behind her and she turned around as lighting to find Dessloch standing there looking at her. "Dessloch!" She said and looked into his yellow eyes. He was in his Blood Reavers uniform her father once used to have with a tan on his face like a true mercenary. "Yep, that's my name, alright." She bent her head to her left and observed how perfect he looked in that suit. He seemed to arc an eyebrow and Trinity stared back into her eyes.
"Oh. I mean, you welcome. How long have you been here?" She asked him.
"Since I was 19 years. I was taken as a prisoner to fight for the blue team. My father, he used to fight for the blue team."
"I heard you were a criminal."
"Oh that's what you heard." He's deadly voice said as he approached her, watching her eyes carefully that were covered by her dark glasses. "Well that's what they say, anyways. They have nothing better to make up. I haven't done anything except be a mercenary that fought a few wars here and there." She looked at him in despair. "They took you in, for nothing?" Dessloch seemed to chuckle. "No, no, Trinity." He came up closer to her but she didn't move, she wasn't scared of him, she saw so much pain and this is nothing compared to what she experienced before. "They took me in for fun. They need someone to fight the tournament so they used criminals. Sure there are some real criminals and than there are people that are not. How did I get into this bunch? Because of my father, he served for the Blue team but died after Xan Kriegor took over the operations of the Liandri Corporation." He looked down at the floor. "Well, that's my story. What's yours? Why did you join?" She looked away and remembering her reason. "My reasons are my own to consult with. Don't ask me again." Dessloch looked at her. "Very well, after all you are my leader. So why don't we go down and meet our team? By the way, you have to go through Deathmatches in order to compete in the team arena. So you better warm up, because you will fighting with a few criminals and people that have nothing left in their lives." "Don't worry about me." She said. "I will be just fine." Dessloch smiled at her response and walked down the staircase.
"Our team was never a pushover. We are one of the best and usually all of our leaders died because we reached the top." Dessloch explained as they went to the their team. "Our biggest enemy is the 'Iron Guard'. They are very close to us and we have lost a few matches to them. Whichever team wins, the leader of the team goes into the Final Championship and before you fight Xan, you must prove yourself. You will fight different robots that were once human. I wouldn't call them robots they are more of like biological weapons." Trinity looked at him and asked him. "You know this from??" "The leaders. They tell us everything, because we are the only ones left for them. Kyla, our second in command leader, lost a friend who used to be the leader. So far the best leader was Jack Menace, but we were kids when he was celebrating his reign. My father, too, used to be the leader, got up to the top and died, I was drafted in the army in my early teens and then…I was arrested at the age of 18 and enslaved into the tournament at age of 19. Since then I fought the tournament along side my friend Boris, or Zenith as you might know him."
"The way your words sound its like some sort of imprisonment." Trinity said to him when they walked down through some long hallways that should lead to…somewhere, which reminds her…"Where are we going, again?" She asked him. "The cells." "Why?" "That's were our team is kept, you have to win the tournament to free us and gain control of Liandri."
Trinity only nodded and they finally came into the holding cells. The cells were not made out of bars; they were more of like private rooms that they can't get out of. "May I help you?" Some sort of a robot…no sorry, a biological weapon has said. "Yes, Trinity is the leader of the Blood Reavers, she has come to get them out to compete." "The leader must complete the deathmatches first, before she is allowed to free any of her team members." Dessloch rolled his eyes and put two hands on the table and looked dead into the 'biological weapon's' eyes. "Get them out, now, Visor, before I have to kick your sorry ass in the practice sessions in front of your entire freaking Red Team! Don't you have a clue why you are -here- and not -there-? Because you are failure, now let them out before these prisoners will watch me beat your ass!" The robot seemed to back off. "One day…Luthor," He said. "You will pay for this." Dessloch laughed out loud and proceeded to the cells. "By the way." Dessloch said. "It's Dessloch, not Luthor, few people call me that, and you are not those few." Dessloch said and motioned for Trinity to come with him.
"I see you have many friends." Trinity said as she followed. "You noticed?" He asked her and smiled gorgeously. Trinity chuckled at his response but kept silent. She didn't want to spoil his perfect smile, because whatever she has to say wasn't as welcoming.
She came inside and saw 3 people sprawled against couches and the sofa bed. "Luthor! Damn! Your alive!" A guy came up to him who looked older than Dessloch and had blue eyes unlike Dessloch's. "Hey Boris. Yo! Reavers! Meet our new leader! It's Trinity!" Everybody seemed to liven up and look bright. "Your our new leader??" A girl with jade eyes asked her with such happiness while the other kept silent but she was smiling. "It's a pleasure to meet you." She extended her hand for her to shake and Trinity did so. "Same here." She said. "Reavers I have only one thing to say." They all looked at her. "This time, we will win the tournament! I come from miles away, I have traveled the world and I know what combat is. And you my friends are going to be shown different way of competing and I suggest you learn. Because this time, its our tournament not Xan's!" The room was filled with cheers and joy as the whole team gave five to each other.
(a/n): Did you like this chapter? In the next chapter Trish will compete in the tournament and Xan will notice her rise in the tournament quickly. But he has a backup plan, if Trinity will succeed, as he fears. Plzz review this story!! I hope you are enjoying reading this because I'm enjoying writing this. I apologize it took me a long time to write this but school can do terrible things to you! Catch ya later!
