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(a/n): Thank you SO much for all of your reviews. Okay in this chapter Vicklair and Trish are in the Assaults now. The last Arena before the Final Championship.

Here are some thankyous to my reviewers.

Fun: Of course you were the first reviewer and of course I have noticed that. That is why this story is going, thanks to you Fun. I never thought I will get reviews and then when I saw you keep reviewing, you gave me faith to finish the book. Fun you back me up a lot and I appreciate that. That is why the ending will be dedicated to you. Thank you so much for taking your time and reading my story. I really love your reviews. Hope you keep reading, because I will be writing thanks to you!

Slash the Ironman: Thank you for your review. I also want to thank you for reading this story and continuing to encourage me. I hope you keep reading. Oh and sorry about the last chapter being a little bit boring, I even knew it was a little boring. I just thought it might be useful to point out some winners. Anyway, here is a chapter where Trish and Zack will fight. Hope you will keep reading.

Chapter14: The Winning Strike

            Zack was sitting on the couch with his knuckles bind by dressings as blood leaked through them. He was breathing hard, ignoring the pain that he has endured upon himself. Zack was still angry about getting thrown in the tournament and he has abused his room quite well. Armchairs, tables and couches were overturned and ripped. Glass was shattered with only the metal bars outside of the window left standing, which were bend out. Walls were ripped down until the shine of the metal could be seen from the distance. His room looks like a small battleground.

            Zack shot his eyes up at the door as he saw a woman come into his room. He narrowed his eyes and got ready for any action. The woman wore a red dress and she had dark eyes with dark hair. "Vicklair, right? My name is Kira, the captain of the Red Team. This here is Matrix." A big machine came into the room as well. "He, too, is a captain." She said and they both walked in and looked around the room. Kira's eyes were wide when she saw what he has done and Matrix, showed nothing…maybe that's because he is a robot??

            Kira's wondering eyes set on his soft and yet brutal eyes. Kira studied his left, yellow eye with a scar running down across it. "The Assault matches start soon." She said as she looked at his good eye and Zack nodded. "Okay." He said and than looked at the big guy behind her. "So?" He stood up and came up to the shattered window's, inhaling the fresh air from the outside. "We must get you ready. Trinity, the leader of the Blood Reavers, is leading the whole blue team. We need you to stop her." She leaned on one of the broken walls and studied him in full height. He frowned, crossed his arms and leaned against a wall as well. "Why don't you do it?" Kira looked surprised at his answer and looked at Matrix who shrugged.

            Kira sighed and stood straight up. "I don't want to do this, Vicklair." She said and signaled for Matrix to take his weapon out. "I'm afraid he's going to have to kill you." Zack smiled and soon started to laugh. Confusion over came Kira as she watched the ex-mercenary chuckle. "What exactly do you find so funny?" Her tone was very serious but it did not bother Vicklair. Hell, not even a Skraaj will bother him. After everything he was through. It would be a true gift for someone to come up to him and shoot him in the head to make life a little bit easier. Its true Zack is tired of living. Twenty years in combat is more than a lifetime.

            The weapon, Matrix was holding, switched on and Zack didn't even twitch an eyebrow. "Go on." He said and stood still as a target practice. "Make my day." Kira noticed his dark, deep blue eye darkened and couldn't believe how strong willed he is. He was certainly not afraid to die.

            She nodded towards Matrix and the plasma burned through the air straight into Zack. Zack seemed to crouch and the plasma ball missed him completely. "Damn…" Zack said as he looked back at the titanium wall, which had a hole straight through it. "That puppy sure is hot!!" He looked back to face Matrix. "But its user is terrible." He stood up and smiled. "You could've told me that the reason you need me in combat is because you were embarrassed that the CAPTAIN here doesn't know how to aim." Kira saw his playful eyes wonder on Matrix as he just made fun of him. "I will be glad to replace him, I definitely shoot better than that."

Matrix towered over him. "That's because you crouched like a coward." Zack sighed and gave one his sincere smiles. "You should know that everyone in the tournament are going to move around and not just stand like a target, my young apprentice. This is why we learn how to aim." He said everything so slowly like Matrix was some stupid robot that just joined the tournament.

Matrix loaded his weapon and pointed at Vicklair's heart as he barked. "If you ever insult me again, I will fry you." Zack lowered Matrix's weapon and patted him on his shoulder. "If you ever point that peashooter at me, I'll fuse you." He sounded very serious and yet he was smiling and Kira was about to laugh at how men in this tournament fight over whose better. "Alright, alright, let's go the matches are starting in a few minutes."

They all walked away outside into the hall. "Wait." Zack said and the both of them looked at him. "Who's Trinity?" Kira and Matrix shook their heads as they continued to walk through the hall.

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            Trinity was standing in the Blue Corridor that leads to the stage. She was with her whole team except for Boris. Luther replaced him today and he looked like he was ready for action. He was sitting in the corner wrapping his hands in a cloth and then putting on his gloves. He tanned his face with green marks and leaned back as he closed his eyes.

            Well this is the Assault match, the last Arena Tournament before the Final Challenge. They have to win every match to make sure they enter the Final Challenge, where the leader will challenge Xan. They cannot afford to be tied as well, there is too much at hand and this is her only chance to avenge her father's death. Yes. Xan will pay after all. He has taken her loved one life and now he will repay it with his life.

            "I'm worried." Trish looked at Mariana who was hugging her knees as she sat down on the floor. "I mean, Brock and Lauren are doing great and they are the same team. Imagine what happened if Malcom would be on their team." She buried her face. "Well he's not." Luther stood up and came up to her. "And who cares about Lauren and Brock. Sure they are one of the best, but look at our team. We have a real teamwork. And plus." He looked at Trinity. "We have a good leader who has been to many battles. Don't say that. We have worked the hardest we can and look where are we now."

Mariana looked at him but she didn't smile like Trish would expect her to do. "But you don't understand!" She stood up and came up to Luther and looked into his yellow eyes. "If a team gets up to the Final Challenge with another team, the leaders must fight to the death!" She looked at Trinity. "I'm worried that something wrong will happen. All of our leaders died." 

"Don't worry about me." Trinity this time said. "I will be fine. I'm more than you think, Mariana. I thank you for caring but what has to be done must be done. Xan…" She sighed. "I never knew when to tell you this guys but you are like a family to me. I mean." She smiled. "I treat you as my sister…and Boris." She chuckled. "He gets too overworked to see if I'm okay. I mean he acts as an older brother. And Kyla." She turned to her. "You are like a sister to me as well." She looked at Dessloch and smiled very sweetly but no one knew she did. "And you Luther…" She closed her eyes and turned around.

"Welcome to the Assault Match Arena!" Trinity smiled and addressed her whole team. "No more worries." She said. "We will win this tournament. We will defeat Xan, this is not his tournament but ours." All of her team members stood up and nodded. "Welcome to Neurovision this tournament is sponsored by Liandri Corporation! Welcome to the real blood sport! Today the two teams will be battling in the first map the Frigate!! The two teams are the legendary Blood REAVERS!!!!!!!!" Trinity forced her hands into knuckles. "Let's go out there and show'em what we are made out of!" She screamed and her team cheered. "Let's Rock!" They all ran out into the stadium and the crowd roared.

"Looks like the team is psyched up and ready for battle!!!" The crowd soon chanted their names. "REAVERS, REAVERS, REAVERS!!!!!" "Look at the crowd folks!" The announcer said. "The crowd is going wild! Hope everyone sees this back home. Now onto the next team!"

The lift started to go up from the Red Corridor and the Necris came out. "Well, well, well. It's the alien race Necris! The BLACK LEGION!!!! It believes by destroying Xan Kriegor, the tournament leader, it can gain the control of Liandri Corporation. As if that will ever happen." The crowd of course booed at them and Trinity felt it wasn't right. She heard the Necris were a noble race. And by trying to destroy Xan Kriegor, they should be best friends by now.

Trinity spotted Freylis, the one who was one of the toppest ten winners. "We once meet." The leader said of the team. Her skin was very pale white but her hair was dark, dark black. She had a tattoo of some sort on her forehead above her white eyes. "My name is Cryss. I am the leader of the Legion." Trinity bowed her head. "It is an honor." She said. "May the best team win." Cryss nodded. "Good luck to both of us." Cryss slammed down the button and they were transported to the Frigate.

"Welcome to the Unreal Tournament Assault Matches." A female computer voice has said into Trinity's headgear. "This match requires the activation of the vessel. You must hijack this vessel through the blast doors and out of the harbor. Before you hijack the ship you must enter the ship through several locations, which you must discover for yourself. Your first key location that you must destroy is the Hydraulic Compressor in the aft cabin. This is required to open the passage to the control room where the next objective is completed.

"In order to hijack the warship you must run to the highest floor level into the control room of the ship. There you will find a red button that will activate the ship's cannons and allow the vessel to leave the harbor.

"Now you are in a spectator mode. Feel free to look around and get to know your surroundings. When you have finished, activate your wristcom and the match will begin shortly." The computer voice has finished the direction and Trinity activated her wristcom. She knew this map already. And she has a perfect plan. There are two ways to get into the ship. One is through the bottom of the ship or through the main entrance. The main entrance is always heavily guarded. There is a minigun set on top of the entrance that shoots at anything that moves. Also, there are usually 2 people standing in the entrance with either miniguns or rocket launchers. She will send two people through the entrance to distract the whole team. She and Dess will go through the water and through the bottom.

"Dessloch, cover me. Kyla and Mariana, assault the base."  Trinity quickly ordered them. "I'm on it, Trish." Dessloch responded through the earphone and Kyla and Mariana agreed. "The match will start in…5…4…3…2…1." Trinity appeared below the dock near the water and she quickly ran underneath. She took a long breath and dived.

Propellers of the back of the ship could be seen on either side as she swum through the blue, clean, summer-fresh water. Dessloch dived into the water as well when she has reached the ship. He made a signal for her to move on and she nodded. She kept swimming and went up through the diving pool of the ship. She inhaled harshly and sharply when she got out of water. She jumped to the back of the diving pool and equipped herself with a flak cannon and waited for Dessloch to come up.

Dessloch came out of the water nice and easy. He didn't inhale like she did and he seemed to still have enough oxygen. Dessloch ran up to her and picked up the flak cannon and they both ran through the corridor. Malakai was awaiting them on top of the ramp in front of the minigun pickup area and she shred him to pieces. A few metal scrapped back at her from the walls and hit her legs and shoulder. Trinity ignored the pain and ran through the open door next to stairs on the left as Dessloch picked up and switched to the minigun.

They ran up a few steps and across a grated floor and Trinity saw Cryss facing with her back to her, behind the entrance. Trinity fired of one ball of metal and killed Cryss in one blow. Her limbs flew in all direction and one of her arms has smacked Dessloch and he frowned at the corpse. Trinity held back a laugh and went into the entrance corridor where she has spotted Freylis with a shield belt, running to the back of the vessel where the Hydraulic Compressor is.

"The ship has been entered." The announcer has said the minute Trish stepped foot into the corridor. Another ball of metal was fired straight into Freylis causing her shield to drop to zero. All of a sudden Trinity was forced into the floor as she felt hot, boiling metal hit her back and legs. Trinity struggled to her feet and ran behind the staircase on the left but the metal stuck in her legs and back has hurt her even more.

She turned around to see Kragoth run around the staircase to bring her to her doom. He aimed a perfect shot into her. Trinity screamed the minute she saw his head get blast of from its shoulders and roll to her. The blindness eyes stared at her lifeless and Trinity gulped. She looked back at the body and blood was spouting out from where the head once stood like a fountain, painting walls and ceiling and most worse, her face. When the blood has been cut off the body fell on its knees and then to the ground. "Die, bitch." She heard Dessloch taunt as he ran after Freylis and finished her off as well.

Soon afterwards Dessloch ran to her aid and helped her up. "What would you do without me?" He asked her as he picked her up and ran into the back cabin. Trinity used the Health Pack and took out the metal in her legs as Dessloch helped her get it out of her back. He heard Kyla and Mariana run through the hallway. Dessloch aimed at the Compressor and destroyed it in one shot. "Get into the control room." He ordered them and they nodded.

Trinity stood up after healing herself a little and she jumped down where the Compressor is and ran behind the stairs and picked up the Big Keg O' Health which rejuvenated her strength. "Are you ready now?" Dessloch asked her and she looked up at him. "Yes, thank you." She ran up the stairs and back into the hallway.

She ran straight up the stairs she was once hiding behind and met up with Malakai, who was trying to ambush her in the strategy room. But when she ran out of the staircase hall she has surprised him and has fragged him before he even took aim. "5 minutes remaining." The announcer has said. His corpse was pinned to wall by the metal and she continued on into the second staircase hallway that should lead into the control room.

What happened to Kyla and Mariana? Shouldn't they be up at the control room? Trinity's question was soon answered when she has entered the first floor of the control room. Freylis was standing below the staircase and Trinity ripped her to pieces. An army of hot metal was shot out from Cryss and Kragoth on the second floor of the control room as Trinity ducked below the stairs. She strafed out into view and shot out a ball of metal straight into Cryss, decorating the control room with her inner organs. She strafed back behind the stairs to hide herself from Kragoth. She learned that Kragoth was dangerous.

Kragoth wasn't showing his face and Trinity knew she does not have all the time in the world. She ran into view and up the stairs. She found Kragoth standing next to the red button and firing of at her. Trinity rolled to her left in the far left corner and Kragoth missed completely. Trinity stood on her knee, aimed and fired a good shot that ripped Kragoth in pieces as his brains splattered across the windshield.

Satisfied, Trinity comes to the button and pushes it hard. "The Blue Team has captured the Base in one minute and 17 seconds." Trinity looks out through bloody windshield and sees the two cannons power up and rotate towards the blast doors and fire off two magnificent shots at the gates. The two fireballs blazed through the morning air and crashed into the blast doors.

Trinity appeared in the spectator mode as the map has restarted. "Congratulation, Blue Team." A female computer voice has said. "Now that you have captured the ship you must protect it from the apposing team. They will not let you leave. Defend the base for one minute and seventeen seconds and the ship will regain its power core and will leave the dock. Remember, if the Red Team will deactivate the ship, you cannot leave the harbor. Good luck."

"Everyone, defend the base." Trinity said as she activated her wristcom. Trinity appeared in the strategy room. She picked up the flak cannon sitting next to the exit of the first stairway hall. She noticed Malakai's corpse was gone. Trinity ran down to the bottom and heard there were people out on the dock. She ran to the entrance and saw Dessloch is firing at Cryss and Freylis with his minigun. Trinity decided to help him and fired with her primary fire and missed every shot because she was too far away.

Trinity smirked and aimed high into the sky and fired of the secondary fire and killed Cryss in one shot. Her blood has painted Dessloch completely in red and he stopped firing and looked at her. She ignored him for now as she fired of another shot and this time killing Freylis. "One minute remaining." The announcer has said as Dessloch ran back into the entrance. He was covered with Cryss' and Freylis' blood. He didn't look too happy about it either.

He went passed her to get cleaned up and Trinity stepped into the dock. She saw Kragoth run out from the big fishing house and fired of a rocket. Trinity ducked and fired of another ball of metal, which toasted him and his remains. Trinity smiled but then the impact from the rocket has reached her and pushed her into the water. Trinity swum to the bottom and into the diving pool and ran all the way up to the entrance corridor, picking up the minigun on her way.

Dessloch was sparring with Malakai and Cryss and has decimated them in seconds. After that no one came out into the dock. "10…9…8…7…" The time counted off slow and easy as she and Dessloch stood in the entranceway. "3…2…1. Congratulations, you are the winner." Trinity made a victory dance and screamed "Let's Rock!" 

(a/n): Sorry it took a while but I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Well please keep reviewing. You know what? I am so proud of this fic. Seriously, I am. Well bye-bye for now. ^_~