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(a/n): Hello everybody. I am so into this fiction that I can't take a break from it!!! I have to keep writing and writing and writing and writing and writing…. you get the idea.

Anyway in this chapter Dessloch will scream his head off at Trish for showering him with everybody's blood. Hey, it doesn't feel good at all. Also Trinity will meet Zacky-Becky in the practice session of the Last Man Standing. 

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Cough: Thank you for your compliments. I enjoyed writing that chapter myself. Well the reason Trish does not die is because she is not in the Championship yet. It also has something to do with her suit. Xan will take notice of course. Her suit is more of like Xan's suit, therefore making her completely invincible. Dessloch is also watching her back. I hope you keep reading. ^_^

Fun: I am really glad that you like this story. And no, I have to dedicate the ending to you. In one of your reviews, you wrote something that made me dedicate it to you. See if you can find it. It's five simple words you wrote in one of your reviews. If I don't dedicate it to you, it will be out of disrespect. So, enjoy my fic, Fun and I hope you like the new character! I like Zack myself. Say…do you think Xan made a mistake on imprisoning him??? Well tell me what you think.

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Chapter15: A Friend Or An Enemy.

            Trinity was sitting in her room in one of her couches, checking her nails. Dessloch was standing up and pacing the room as he acted like her father. Complaining about how careless she is and how she needs to be a little easier on her opponents. Trinity usually gets bored at this kind of conversations and she usually spaces out.

            "No matter where I go with you, I always get splattered with your opponents blood or get hit by a body part or the whole body." Trinity rolled her eyes as she listened some more. "I mean in the Capture The Flag. I slipped on Karag's blood that was spilled from your minigun. Then there was Cryss. Her arm hit my face and I personally take it seriously when someone smacks me." Dessloch sat down in the armchair opposite from her. "And let's not forget getting showered by her and Freylis' blood."

            "Maybe the dead doesn't like you." Trinity joked as she looked around the room, completely bored. "Trish, it isn't funny." "Look." She interrupted him, getting really impatient. "I didn't complain when my face got painted with Kragoth's blood." She got up and she just wanted to leave this room. "First of all, you were dieing. I think it's better to be painted with blood than die. I in fact, was not dieing and I had everything under control." Dess defended his point of view.

            This always happened. Dessloch was never happy enough at any match she'd won. Sure he became more truthful to her but his complaints were bothering her. He reminded her of her father. Her father used to say how perfect she has to be. Trinity did her best, really. She is kind of sorry about doing this Dessloch. It was pure accidents. But it's not like she would apologize. She isn't going to get all-soft on him now. Well at least not until it's over. Her father used to say "Apology is never enough."

            "Are you listening to me?" Dessloch brought her back to reality and she looked at him. "Look, Dess." She said very innocently. "I can't help it. It was an accident." But I'm not apologizing. "Stuff happens. You have to let it go." Dessloch sighed and drowned in the armchair. "It just mystifies me how I'm the one who always get into these problems." Trinity came nearer to the door. "I'm going to practice, alright Dess? Want to come along?" She asked and Dess didn't budge. "Nah, I'm tired." She nodded and opened the door and then closed it. 

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            Zack Vicklair was in the Lift Hallway of the Last Man Standing Arena. Zack wasn't alone. There were three guys including him and they were waiting to be called on by the announcer. This is a practice match and Zack decided to fill his free time with entertaining crap instead of boring crap. Zack was sitting against a far back wall next to the exit and tanned himself with black paint. He smudged the paint beneath his eyes carefully and fixed his red armor.

            Red wasn't his color. Although Kira tried to reassure him, he still knows it isn't his color. It's not like blue was his color, either. He looked good under black and dark green clothes. Yep, he did like his military clothes. At least there was something he liked about military, except for showing everyone who's in charge.

            The lift slowly hummed towards the level of the hallway. Zack turned his head and so a female approach the hallway from the lift. Zack's eyes completely stuck on her and couldn't take them off of her. She looked ABSOLUTELY gorgeous. He hasn't seen any attractive women here. Not like he was counting on that.

            The lady wore very high blue boots that went up to her hips. She seemed to wear a bathing suit of some sort and a black mask with dark sunglasses. Her long, long hair was unbraided and it went down to her waist. Zack felt his jaw literally drop and he closed it as fast as he could. It seemed electricity was running through her suit every time the light hit her suit. Is she augmented or something? Zack finally tore his eyes off her and looked at his hands as he waited to be called on.

            "Welcome to the Last Man Standing Arena. Today four contestants are going to compete in an Arena against each other. Remember this is not a Tournament Stage. This is a practice session. We will call the contestants, as they will come onto the stage. Our first contestant is Malakai from the alien race Necris from the Black Legion. Let's welcome him."

            Zack watched a guy with pale skin, which looked completely like a corpse, walk up to the lift and onto the stadium. Zack did not here a lot of cheering for him. Zack doesn't even expect any cheering for himself. He's not that popular and he DOESN'T want to be popular. He wants to finish this quickly and go home.

            "The next contestant is Zack Vicklair from Dark Phalanx. He is new and fresh on the Championship but doesn't mean he can't make it." Zack slowly walked up to the lift and a big giant crowd from both sides welcomed him with silence. Zack walked up to the center without even looking at the crowd. He doesn't need to. All he will see are dumbfounded faces staring at him like he came from a place never existed.

            "The third contestant is Tamerlane!!! He's currently a replacement member from Thunder Crash team. Everyone let's give a round of applause." This announcer was soon giving him headaches. They scream too loud. Kira did not mention anything about buying earplugs because now he desperately needs them. A big guy with dark green armor came into view. He was big alright and made him look small but Vicklair saw worse. Just like before, after you see a Skraaj, nothing will scare you. Ever.

            "The last contestant is the Almighty Number One contestant." Zack arched an eyebrow. Who might that be?  "Please everyone, let's welcome Trinity!!!!!!" Zack stared at the lift that was ascending with that same female he saw. So she's the one he has to beat in the Championship. Trinity came out into the arena and was welcomed with roars of cheers and cries. Posters hang up everywhere such as "I Love Trinity" or like the one "Marry Me Trish". Pity. She didn't even look at the crowd as she slowly came up to the middle.

            "You all will have ten lives. Make them count. Good luck." Trinity slammed down the button and everybody stared at the screen above them. "Looks like our contenders are going to fight in the Arcane Temple!! Good Luck everyone." Zack was transported to the mysterious map.

            "The match will start in 5…4…3…2…1. The match has begun." Zack appeared in an open large room with ten thousand exits. There were second floors and sub floors. Zack was given all the weapons and he picked out the minigun. He grew close to its nice accuracy. A bullet wounded past his face and missed him by a millimeter. Zack staggered back and saw Tamerlane was standing in another room firing off his sniper. Zack stood on one knee and when he heard Tamerlane shoot the sniper, he would roll and nail him with his minigun.

            Tamerlane was an easy target but what bothered him was a blue figure on the balcony. It must have been Trish but she didn't touch him. Zack ran to his left onto a ramp that divided into two passages. He went right that led up to the balcony.

            A rocket went straight past him when he has turned and heard someone switch to a minigun. Zack turned around and saw Trinity running up with hell raining down from here. Zack backpedaled as he went past the whole entire balcony and up a small ramp. He saw a Transporting Portal but he didn't go in. Wherever he'll appear, she can follow and he didn't want her to hold his head either. He knew she was dangerous.

            He went up another ramp and jumped into a small water pool, which led to a waterfall. Zack grabbed and held by the walls of the mountains and waited to see if Trinity followed. He waited and waited but she didn't appear. Zack breathed out a long breath and eased a little. He looked down and saw that if he will fall down it's not going to hurt. The water was pretty deep. He strapped his Minigun to his back and dived, parting the water when it hit his hands. He spotted a tunnel and swum through it and into the small room.

            He equipped himself with a minigun again and went up the ramp on the left, leaving footprints behind. Zack ran through the large, open room again which now seems like the central room. He went forward towards another ramp. The ceiling was arced and it was a shape of a mouth. Zack looked high up and saw openings very high up for eyes. This was a real carving of a face. Really convincing.

            Zack stopped wondering around and went up the ramp as he heard a heavy fire exchange between a minigun and a rocket launcher. He heard a few rockets impact on the wall and suddenly Zack didn't want to go that way. But he new he couldn't be cowering or hiding. There is a timer here and he doesn't like to be pressured. Time is never on his side.

            Zack took a breath and decided to turn left and see what is happing. A long bridge that went up welcomed him. Zack looked up and saw Malakai running down the bridge and fire out a rocket. Zack strafed and hid behind the wall as the rocket missed and ran back to return some fire.

            Malakai fired another one and Zack hid, the rocket missing completely. Zack returned and this time, finishing Malakai off. "First Blood!" The announcer has said. Zack crouched and crawled on his feet and slowly went out of the hall and examined the whole room. He heard someone teleport in the water below him as he examined the bridges that led to the second floor-like balcony and from there, a bridge led onto the third floor. A small ramp led downward towards a small pedestal above the water.

            Zack decided to go up to the balcony that contained so many columns but he wasn't expecting to find some ammo for his minigun, which he was running out off. Zack ran up the bridge that led to the third floor and heard a rocket shoot out from somewhere behind.

            Zack turned around and saw the missile hit the bridge next to him and it sent him hurling away. Zack stood up and crouched as he fired off his minigun into the far left corner of the whole balcony as Tamerlane cowered behind the column. Low ammo, Low ammo blinked on his minigun and he quickly switched to his flak cannon. Zack popped his head back up and heard Tamerlane scream and he was ripped to shreds.

            Malakai soon went up the lower bridge and started to turn and get onto his bridge to get at him. Zack started to fire off his flak cannon at him but Malakai was a Necris. These creatures were fast. He missed every shot. When finally Malakai was running in a straight line Zack shot out a ball of metal and decimated him. Malakai's leftovers and limbs flew in all direction and hit all the columns and even the ceiling as blood was splattered over the bridges. 

            Zack slowly stood up. This is going to be a long match. He didn't know what to think. He knows Trinity is a professional and what bothers him is that he hasn't met her face to face. He knew she was the one who teleported out of this area. He only knew another teleport location and it all can lead to this floor. What if she knew where is he? There are ramps leading straight to this floor! He has to get out.

            Just when he was about to make his move a barrel softly brushed through his blonde hair. Zack stood there in silence as the barrel rammed into his head harder. "Hello Vicklair."  A woman's voice purred behind him.

            Zack just stood there, mesmerized. Didn't know if he should move or stand still. He heard Trinity cock her minigun and his veteran instincts kicked in. Zack bend down so fast when he heard Trinity release fire. He wheeled around and made a high spinning kick with his right leg which send her minigun flying from her hands. Zack spun around again and tripped her. She made a soft sound when she landed on her back and Zack pinned her down with his strong body and looked into her eyes that are covered by the dark glasses.

            "I'm disappointed." Zack breathed into her face. Trish started to struggle but Zack was just too strong for her. "And there I thought you would finish me off just like that." Trinity didn't say anything only struggled. "Well, its nice meeting you." He took out a plasma gun with his free hand and pointed at her face.

            He was about to press the trigger but he didn't. He just stopped and stared at her. He had her, right there on the floor with a gun smacked in her face. What is preventing him? His mind. His mind does not allow him to do this. His career was over when he has accidentally killed a woman and child. He can't do it again, especially on purpose.

            His pride is what he still has left within him. He can't kill her. He can't even frag her. Zack powered off his weapon and stood up. "Get out of here." He told her as he waved his gun to the exit behind her. Trinity seemed to sit up and look at him. He couldn't read her face because she covered most of it so he nodded. "Go." She hesitated at first but than she equipped her flak cannon and ran towards the exit she came from.

            He doesn't know what's gotten into him but maybe the past still haunts him. He hates his past and wishes to forget but he can't. Zack sighed and sat down on the floor and he didn't know what to do.

            Zack was disqualified from the match a few minutes after his little bump in with Trinity. Of course he stayed to see the outcome and the winner happened to be Trinity. Not like he thought it would be someone else.

            When Zack went back to the Red Bunker, Kira met him with full of curses and questions. "What's gotten into you? Why didn't you shoot her? Do you want to be out of the Red Team? Are you suicidal?" Poor Zack couldn't answer one question as she rained him with more. Zack came up to his new room and turned to look at his crazy captain. "Xan will here about this." Finally she said something that is not a question. "Shoot me." Zack said as he slammed the door in her shocked face.

(a/n): Well how was this chapter? Did you like it? Did you hate it? What do you think about the Vicklair? Well tell me!! Anyway more is coming up soon. Please review.