Disclaimer: Don't own UT.

Claimer: Lookie here…Tanya and Jack is mine!?? Yay!!

(a/n): You don't know how glad I am that you enjoyed my fight in the Conveyor. Tell you the truth; I hate that map and the Peak as well. I hate the Conveyor because there are just too many people there!!! I hate the Peak because if you make one wrong move or if your opponents happened to use a shock rifle, the ripper, or the rocket launcher then bye-bye, you find yourself floating forever towards the bottom and then you die. Grrr. They made that map on purpose. Anyway, enough with my blabbering and on with the story. By the way, Luther and Dessloch is the same person. Luther is his real name and Dess is his code name.  Well enjoy. ^_^ 

Chapter8:  A Trustworthy Friend

            "Blue team wins the match." The announcer's voice echoed through the whole Sesmar arena. Trinity did her victory dance again and screamed, "Lets Rock!" The two teams, the Blood Reavers and the Red Claw appeared in the arena of the wild crowd. The ugly Skraaj Hybrids were heavily wounded from the blast of the match. Trish had won another match but she didn't care, right now she had to take care of her team, they were badly wounded as well.

            "Trinity!" Trinity turned around at Kyla's voice and saw Boris was hurt the most. He was breathing heavily and his left side was completely injured. "Aahhh!" He screamed out loud when the doctors touched his left arm. "Damn it." Trinity said and came up to him. He really had a tough fight. The Hybrids were very powerful creatures and it was dangerous when they got to close. Fortunately Trinity was all right, a few ribs are sour but that's all that's wrong. Mariana and Kyla had broken ribs and Luther had a sour arm. He pulled it out of the socket by accident but he fixed the problem himself.

            "We need to get him to a hospital fast." The doctors carefully put him on the exam table and rolled him away. Trinity looked at the Hybrids with anger and saw that they actually were staring at her. Dominator, the leader of the goddamned team, came up to her and swung a punch at her face but froze when Luther's rocket launcher was shoved into his face. "The match is over." He said in a deadly voice. "If you disagree tell me now, so I can blow your brains out." The Hybrid stumbled backwards and looked at Luther and mumbled something in his language. Luther cocked the trigger and smiled. "Don't worry, I will be ready." Luther said and the Hybrid was astonished to see that he understood what he said. He turned around and walked back to his team.

            Luther dropped the rocket launcher and the security took it as they were escorted to the blue bunker. "Thank you." Trinity said to Luther and he nodded. "Hey, you are our leader after all. We all have fate in you. Remember, we are a family now." Trinity smiled but Luther didn't see the smile because of the mask and the glasses she wore.

            Her room was quiet and dark when she came in. Not one sign of nature or life. Trinity turned on the lights and closed the door and dropped her backpack where she carries the weapons on her couch. Trinity came up to the large windows that were in the back wall of her living room and closed the shutters. She sighed and sat on her couch, which was opposite of her backpack, near a stand where the telephone was sitting with the answering machine. No messages, just what she likes. Trinity closed her eyes and leaned back her head as she thought about the match they had.

The Skraaj Hybrids were like murderers. They were giants with speed of a fox and strength of a bull. Their intelligence was high and they were skilled warriors. There were rumors that these creatures were experimented on by humans when the mix their DNA with the humans but she's not sure.

The match they competed in today was horrible. It was long, hard and unbelievable. The Hybrids kept in tie with her team and her team barely won by 20 points more. The Hybrids were good in team tactics and they worked well as a team. They were spread across the map near the control points her team was after. The Hybrids also used their size to crush her team. For example, when Trinity was about to be blown to bits and peaces by Berserker's rocket launcher Boris came from the behind and shot him in the head. Boris was then crushed by the two Hybrids and was then picked up by his feet and thrown into the air and they fragged him there, when he was vulnerable. Trinity tried to save him but Pestilence got in the way and she had to escape with her translocator to the upper bridge where the Big-Health stood.

Guilt crawled over to Trinity. If she only would've acted faster, Boris would never be hurt, it is all her fault and she is the leader. She must put her teammates first, her first priority as a true leader.

Trinity got up and shook of the feeling and took off her mask and glasses and put them on the dresser. She looked into the mirror and saw a shadowy figure behind her. Trinity ran for her backpack but she was tripped and was pulled back by her hair. "Ahh!" She screamed and hit the guy in the groin and he let her go. She turned around and hit him in the face with her knee but he didn't move at all. She saw it was a Hybrid and her heart screamed. "No…" She whispered and tried to run away but his strong hand grabbed her leg. "Let me go!" She screamed and hit him in the face with her other leg but all he did was snort and grab her other leg. "Help!" She screamed to the top of her lungs. He pulled her towards him and swung her across her dresser and it broke under her weight.

She wailed as pain welcomed her. She stood slowly and looked at the creature through her bloody eyes. "So, you are Tanya Menace." He said slowly and started to come up to her. She crawled away and tried to grab anything she could find and it happened to be a piece of the mirror. She took it and stood up as she ran towards the back and saw him chase after her.

His speed was unbelievable as he reached her fast and she slammed the mirror into his left eye with her free hand and he screamed. She crawled between his legs and ran for the living room again. She grabbed the phone and started to dial just when the Hybrid slammed through the wall and grabbed her by the neck. "Ooo." She gasped as her air was taken from her. "Hello? Hello?" Luther's voice could be heard from the phone and the creature smashed it with his foot. He looked into her eyes with his inhuman stare and chuckled. "Isn't Xan going to be amused?" "Xan?" She wailed and he started to laugh which filled her ears like death. He threw against the couch and it fell backwards onto its back. "Ahh!" She screamed and grabbed her ribs. "Somebody help me!" She wailed and crawled through a hallway and into her bedroom and ran for the window to jump out of it.

The Hybrid grabbed her by her waist when she was in the midair. She screamed and hit him in the other eye with her fist and he threw into a wall and she slammed through it. She cried out in agony as she felt pain in her chest. She stood up in the kitchen and ran for the exit which was through the living room. She picked up her mask and glasses as she rolled and ran for the exit. The Hybrid slid towards her and blocked her escape and hit her in the face and her mask and glasses flew away and she fell to the ground. He stood over her and grabbed her by her long beautiful hair and pulled her back and hit her in the face again. She screamed out in agony when he stepped on her back and started to laugh like a devil. "Help!" She choked on her blood and her eyes began to darken with dark red blood. She cried and the Hybrid picked her up and threw against the glass coffee table and she screamed again.

He came over to her and picked her up by her neck and pulled his other arm back to hit her. Trinity closed her eyes and heard a beam shot out and she was dropped to the floor. She saw Luther standing in the doorway his lethal weapon aimed perfectly at the Hybrid. She looked over at the Skraaj and saw an ugly wound in his chest that was fried. He ran towards Luther and he fired off another shot and he flew back into the wall, breaking it, revealing her bedroom. He stood up so quickly and jumped at Luther and Luther ducked and backed away and the Hybrid tripped him with his long powerful leg.

Luther fell and quickly rolled but the Hybrid was already on his advantage. He hit Luther in the stomach and took his weapon and fired it off into his leg. Luther screamed and fell on his knees. The Hybrid pointed it at his face and Luther's eyes widened and Trinity ran into the Hybrid, making him miss. She fell with him and the Hybrid hit her in the face with the Shock Rifle and she screamed as she rolled across the floor.

Luther hit the Shock Rifle out of his hand and fell on the floor quickly and twisted the Hybrid's leg and made him double over. Luther rolled backwards and grasped the Shock Rifle and quickly jumped onto the Hybrid's chest, making him fall back again. Luther pointed the Rifle in his face and fired but the shock rifle was out of ammo. "Shit." Luther cursed and the Hybrid gripped his leg and threw him in the wall. Luther slammed into the wall and rolled against it and the creature was already running at him. Luther kicked of the wall, jumping high into the air and landed on the shoulders of the Hybrid with his knee. Luther forced him down to the floor and broke his neck using his knees.

"Trinity!" He ran towards her and she hid her face as he grabbed her by the back of her waist. "Trish, it's okay it's me." He said as she punched him in the face and then his stomach and he groaned. She started to run away from him but Luther jumped and reached her legs and she fell along with him. He climbed up towards and held her in his strong grasp. "Trish what's wrong with you? Are you alright?" "Let me go!" She screamed and struggled in his grasp and he seized her harder. "Trinity, god damn it, it's me Dessloch." She struggled more and he picked her up and she shrieked kicking him everywhere. "Ow." He said innocently and dropped her on the bed in the bedroom. He stopped dead when he saw her face and she stopped struggling when she realized her identity was revealed. "Menace? Tanya Menace?" He said and stared straight into her eyes. She looked at him in despair. "That's right. I'm Menace." He looked at her and smiled and she was confused. "Well then, aren't you happy that the Hybrid is dead?" She looked at him and understood that he won't tell anyone. She smiled and said, "Yeah, I am." She hugged him and he hugged her back. Finally Tanya found someone to rely on. "Thank you." She whispered in his ears and he nodded and pulled back. "Come on, you better clean up, we have the last Domination match to go through." She smiled and nodded. "Yeah, lets do that."                  

(a/n): So what did you think? You like it? In the next chapter I will write the Domination match Trish will attend to, the one and only Metal Dream, the last match of the Domination ladder and the hardest to accomplish. Trinity will finally learn to give and receive. She will finally trust her team as though it really was her family, starting from Dess. Review plzz. ^_^

-Lacrease Menasea