(a/n): Gwhahaha. I'm so evil, ain't I? Well, since all of you are wondering what does Dess have under his sleeve you are all going to have to wait and SEE!!! You think I'll let you go that easy?

It would have been nice to see some of you guess but I guess that I twisted the story plot so much that's its just too hard to see. Anyway, you all will be surprised what will happen but I have been planning this for decades. It will all make sense in the end if you go back in the story. BUT it's still NOT the END YET!!!! Don't think about the end. Be like Trish and think about today.

            Okay fine, think what you want but make sure you enjoy this story. But first, how can I forget to thank my reviewers???

shrtys-sk8er: And it is going to be a great fight, my friend. It's going to be soon and you probably know where it takes place. It's going to be a very hard match, after all Xan is the champion and no one ever beat him since he got onto that thrown. Well keep reading and see what will happen.

Daniel Wesley Rydell: Yay! Your back! I am SO happy you are still enjoying this story. I have worked so hard on it. Now my hard work is paying off. I'm so happy! Well, I know what you mean that you are scared for Trinity, she has worked so hard for this tournament and now the one she loves doesn't want her to fight Xan. The end is going to be—interesting. I, also, encourage you to write a UT fanfiction, you can do so much with it.

Slash The Ironman: Hahaha. Your evil characters? Whoever you are going send, don't let it be Fang. I'm terrified of him!!! LOL. Anyway, you won't be needing to send anyone because I will update. And what Dess is up to is a secret—that is about to be revealed in this chapter. ^_^

Alex: Thank you so much for such an encouraging review! I will continue and thank you. I did my best to make a good storyline so it wasn't all just about blood. Sorry about the mistakes, but they weren't really mistakes. You were absolutely right, though. You have written my sentences in English, while I wrote my sentences in American. It has different grammar but I better start converting because most books are written in English. Well thanks again and I hope you keep reading.

Fun: Thank you, Fun. That was a very good review. I don't know what to say. I will do my best to write fast and I do have another twist in the plot and this one is going to hit the gut more than the first one. It's going to be a little serious but don't worry "All if for the best in all of the best possible worlds". ^_~ Enjoy, Fun.

COUGH: Don't worry, soon will be the showdown with Xan. But you have to wait a little bit longer. There is a twist in the plot because fighting with Xan isn't so simple, especially if someone doesn't want you to. Don't worry; I'm trying to do my best. I won't disappoint you, COUGH, I promise.

Okay, people—ENJOY!!!!!!!!!

Chapter25: Raging Wars Part III

            Trinity couldn't sleep after the nightmare she just had, hunting her past few nights. She didn't know what to do and she hoped it was just a dream and nothing more. Trinity hated nights, she always had something to think about or to dream about that was tearing at her mind, pulling at her fears.

            She sits up on her bed, breathing hard, unable to control her breathing. Why does it keep happening? She thought as she wiped off the sweat from her forehead. It means nothing. She stood up and looked at herself in the mirror, hands planted on the table. It's just a dream nothing more; you're just being paranoid. Trinity tried to reassure herself but it seemed useless.

            She sighed and sat back on her bed. She can't keep sleeping like this, the last match before she fights Xan starts first thing in the morning and she just wasted three hours, trying to get a good night's sleep. No, she needed to do something to get things off her mind. She can't sleep if her mind can't shut down from all the thoughts she has.

            Maybe she needs to talk to someone, maybe not. All she knows is that it might turn out for the worst. Most of her friends are trying to stop her from making a 'suicide'—in their terms, anyways.

            Trinity did not see it as a suicide. She is seeing this as revenge or justice. She knows what she is doing is not one of the best things to do, but for her, it is the right thing to do. She must protect her name of honor. She will not allow that honor to be taken away by someone who has cheated his way to the top. It is unacceptable and she will make Xan pay.

            Trinity put on her suit and decided to walk in the lonely halls. If she couldn't sleep, might as well think things over in a calmer environment. There are so many things to do and she must be prepared. This week will be a good week. It will be a week of rebirth. Finally the Phoenix has granted its fire upon her. It will soon be time, time to start over with a new life.

            Echoing through the halls of the Blue Bunker, Dessloch made his way to the central room. There were things he had to do and fast. Trinity will be entering the match soon and he will not allow her to be killed. He knew what this tournament meant to her but Zack did say he has a way to turn this around for the better.

            Dessloch was still unable to trust Zack and had to risk many things just by entrusting him with a very important task. He knows it is for the better but how will Trinity react in the end? She might not look at this as he does and would never forgive him. Well—as long if she'll be safe, Dessloch will risk anything. Trinity means so much to him and he won't live through her death.

            It was time and pretty soon the outcome will be seen. It was a matter of time of how this will turn out and Dessloch just hopes they have plenty of it. "I'm ready." Dessloch called out, his voice still and cold in the ghost's hall. "Good, because there is no more time to waste." Zack's brutal voice stung the air and they both left, hoping it would be enough to help Trinity.

            Trinity couldn't sleep for the rest of the night so she ended up wondering in the hallways of the Blue Bunker. Sun was beginning to rise, a small arc over the horizon, lightening up the walls of the corridors. She wasn't tired and she wasn't sleepy. She was worried and scared a little as she still couldn't explain the meaning of the dream that kept her awake, that same dream where Dessloch betrays her and shoots her. What can it all mean? She asked herself as the question tore at her mind, striving to find an answer.

            She convinced herself it was just a dream of her fears and past experiences and that it meant nothing at all. Trinity didn't believe in fortunetellers, oracles, or even the theory that the future is set for you already. She is not a believer and she refuses to believe in these things because then she won't have a point to live for. Trinity made a corner, coming up to the front desk room and turning to the arena floor. The match starts soon and she will get ready for it. She would want to do a good job and not lose accidentally. It was time to get very serious because the match with Xan is so near. But Trinity doesn't believe in faith or hope, so she is not hoping she will do well, she knows she will do well.

            Trinity came up to the Lift Hallway and followed the corridor where the final matches take place. Soon it will be time and she must gather her strength. Trinity went up the lift, only to find herself walking into a soulless room. It didn't bother Trinity she'll just wait for the contestants to come in.

            "Welcome, everyone, to the final match of the Final Challenge."  The announcer has started. "Today the participants will face off in the Zeto outpost. The members of the Corrupt will be facing against the Ladder Champion, Trinity. Let's all wish her luck, everyone." The crowd cheered with their cries, chanting Trinity's name and posters held up as usual.

            Trinity came up to the middle of the stadium with the members of the 'Corrupt' and waited for someone to push the damn button on the podium-like structure. She didn't want the announcer making any more speeches and certainly she didn't want to hear the crazy mob, screaming her name.

            Trinity sighed and slammed down on the button herself before the announcer began and they all disappeared into the Zeto station.

            "The match will begin in 5…4…3…2…1." Trinity appeared in an open area on a bridge-like floor, with dim walls of the metallic structure. She ran up to the flak cannon when she was pummeled with wholes of the minigun, Tensor was carrying. Taken by surprise, Trinity backpedaled as he gained on her, leaving the minigun straight in front her face.

            She fired off one shot of the hot metal from her flak cannon and dissected him to pieces. "First Blood!" The announcer has said. She breathed hard as she felt like she was bleeding everywhere. "Ugh." She groaned in pain and grabbed her stomach as she jumped down where two medkits could be seen on either side of an opening to a hall.

            Before running for the medkits she looked at her surroundings and nearly smiled. She knew this map, she had a match here once and there should be a shieldbelt behind a secret door. She saw how the bots open it and she should try it herself.

            Fire zipped past her face and Trinity ran for the switch, past the large column that supported the top bridge, holding her stomach with her left hand as she held the flak cannon in the other. She ran up to the rectangular lamp and pressed it into the wall. She turned to the sliding door, with the shieldbelt and limped towards it as she heard two mechs fire rounds at one another.

            Trinity made it and equipped the shieldbelt as she saw someone run for the room she was in. She didn't recognize the mech in the blue armor but the door has closed on her before she made it. Trinity breathed out long breath and stood up with her flak cannon as she heard one of the mechs was decimated. Trinity opened the door and watch Silicon run past her to the hallway to her right. Trinity aimed and fired, ripping her to limbs, spraying the walls with her black oil.

            The suit started to take affect as she felt her wounds knit back together, slowly, hurting her more than the minigun.

            What Trinity didn't realize was that the mech in the blue was still alive and she was shooting at someone Trinity couldn't see because of the large column. Without hesitation, Trinity crouched and started to shoot at the blue mech by the name Enigma. Enigma burned her opponent before Trinity could finish her off and now Enigma went after her.

            Trinity got to her feet and rolled to her left as a ball of plasma missed. Enigma came running into view, closer than Trinity expected, and she ripped Enigma to pieces. Her circuit's cracked as her limbs shook under pressure. Trinity went around the column and went for the lift in the far back corner, concealed by the wall.

            Before Trinity reached the lift, Silicon jumped down in front her and pointed the shock rifle at Trinity's face. Trinity pushed Silicon back and fired a large ball of metal, hitting Silicon directly and scrambling her to smithereens. Another mech in red uniform jumped down and hit her in her stomach, which made Trinity jump back a few feet.

            She looked up and pointed her flak cannon as Tensor fired a ball of metal that missed her but the pieces made Trinity fall to her knees. She watched Tensor aim at her and she rolled as another sphere missed her. She stood up to her feet and released shards of metal at him, pushing him back into the wall. Trinity walked towards him as she kept firing, destroying his metallic armor as he staggered at the force. His left arm flew from his body as Trinity kicked him in the chest, up against the wall and fired one last shot, turning him to circuit trash. "Killing Spree!" The announcer rang in her ear as she watched Tensor's body fall to the ground, lifeless.

            Trinity felt better when she has killed Tensor and proceeded towards the lift, feeling the wounds still healing, making her limp from time to time. She almost reached it as she heard a rocket was fired. Trinity turned her head and saw a missile heading for her. She rolled to her side and tried to identify the shooter but the mech was nowhere to be seen. She got to her feet and ran around the large column only to be splashed with dark oil as someone was just fragged. "Next!" She heard the male's voice and Trinity's blood boiled as she thought it was Tensor again.

            Trinity ran around and found someone in a colorless armor fire a rocket at her. Trinity dodged to her left, firing a ball of metal that missed him as he rolled away. It wasn't Tensor; it was someone else, Vector. Trinity carefully started to walk around the column, keeping a wide distance from it. She didn't see him and she didn't hear him and it tagged at her mind as she asked herself, where could he be?

            Another rocket was released from behind of her and Trinity jumped and turned in the air, landing with a split as the rocket went above her head, exploding into a wall behind her. Trinity aimed and fired shards at him, before he shot another missile. He staggered back as Trinity jumped to her feet and released a ball of metal at him, turning him to potato smash. "That had to hurt." She said watching his limbs, dancing from wall to wall in the hallway.

            This is more challenging than she imagined, she can't even get out of this central hall. Trinity tried for the lift again, feeling relief from her chest as her wounds were almost done healing. She rounded to her left in the tiny hallway and went up the lift.

            She ran towards the mechanical doors and was on the top of the same room she was in previously. She watched Vector, running on the small bridge and Trinity made a running jump and landed to his right. Before he turned to shoot at her, Trinity pointed the big gun at his torso and bulletined him with her shards of metal. His torso exploded as he screamed in his inhuman voice, as he was no more than recycled garbage.

            Trinity dropped her almost empty flak cannon and picked the full flak cannon, Vector was holding. "He won't be needing it." She said to herself as ran down the hallway to her right as someone fired a ball of metal into the wall and the shards reached her armor. She tripped and fell to the bottom floor and felt frustrated how she couldn't leave this place. Trinity went for the lift as Cathode jumped down to pursue her and she ended up to be another victim to Trinity's big gun.

            Trinity wiped of the sweat from her forehead. Vector jumped down on her shoulders, by surprise and pulled her down to the floor. She screamed as her flak cannon was thrown away towards the hallway. Trinity turned to the machine and kicked him in the face, pushing him off of her. Trinity scrambled to her feet and rolled as she picked up her flak cannon. She turned on her knee and aimed at Vector and fired off a good shot at him, decimating him to oily bits as he fired at her one last shot of the shock rifle.

            The ball of plasma neutralized her shieldbelt and she felt how it took away her energy. Trinity got to her feet and decided to see if a new shieldbelt was spawned yet. It was quite some time since she equipped it, fighting off the mechs that wanted to taste her blood.

            Trinity ran out of the hallway for the lamp that acted as a switch as Trinity was swapped off her feet. Trinity turned to find Vector running out of the hallway, as well, with a big gun that was the rocket launcher. Trinity fired the flak cannon which soon became her best buddy in this arena and decimated him before he fired off another.

            Trinity felt exhausted a she heard the announcer's loud voice shatter the arena. "Rampage!" Trinity limped towards the switch as she heard Cathode jump down from the top floor, picking up the rocket launcher Vector dropped. Trinity rolled to her left, hiding behind the column as Cathode fired at her.

            Trinity crouched and checked her ammunition and she had plenty to decimate this mech in anyway possible. She heard the footsteps of the inhuman bot and Trinity rolled into view, finding Cathode standing in front of her and within a blink of an eye, Cathode was no more than splattering chunks.

            Trinity ignored the rocket launcher as she fired at the switch with her secondary fire, pushing it into the wall. The door opened and Trinity went in to equip herself with the shieldbelt. She was done within seconds as she dashed through the closing door and went into the tiny hallway and up the lift.

            A shootout was heard but Trinity wasn't about to join it, she felt she had wounds again and it hurt like agony as they were knitting back together, slowly. Trinity ran to her right, now, avoiding the bloodshed in the central room. She ran past a dark hallway with two columns holding up the ceiling and through a door. She was running through a strange hallway that was part-bridge part-corridor. It was greatly lit and the walls were illuminating with silver.

            She ran past an opening for a lift and jumped onto the mash to pick up the plasma rifle. She took it by its strap and wounded around her shoulder and jumped down between the floor and the mesh.

            She was at the bottom floor where the lift rested and ammunition for her flak cannon. She loaded up and ran through the sliding doors and through hallways. She rounded to her right and found Tensor, running away from a shootout with a rocket launcher in hand. Trinity ran at him as she aimed and boiled him with her flak cannon and his limbs were toasted against the oval windows, showing the snow outside.

            Pain ripped through Trinity's body and she fell to the ground, grabbing her abdomen with both of her hands as the suit was healing her. Trinity didn't feel like she was being cured, she felt like she was being killed. The pain let go of her and Trinity breathed heavily as the suit has done its job. Trinity made a sound of distress as she stood up with force and picked up her flak cannon. A little more and she will be finished with the match.

            She needed rest, that's all, nothing more. She should have let her suit be recharged instead of walking with it in the hallways. She has learned her lesson and now it's time to continue.

            Trinity ran out into the hallway as she saw bullets ram into the wall next to her leaving the wall sizzling. Trinity looked further down and noticed the room in front of her is the central room, once more. Trinity took a deep breath in as she ran forward and a body of a mech rammed into the wall in front of her. It was Tensor and his armor was gone in a replacement of his circuits dancing around.

            Trinity gripped her flak cannon harder as she went into the large room with the column and Silicon pummeled her with shards from her own flak cannon. Trinity backpedaled as the aggressive mech ran for her, firing with the secondary fire. Trinity returned fire with the metal but Silicon was too quick.

            Finally, Silicon was very close to Trinity and before Silicon fired off another shot, Trinity met her with the bits of metal into her torso. Silicon dropped to the floor and was finally dead, leaving behind a black painted wall of oil. Trinity ran through the pools of the remains of everyone who has died here and was about to escape until she heard someone fire at her.

            Trinity turned around and saw nothing but the black painted wall. She knew someone shot at her but she wouldn't just walk away like that. She loved facing her opponents face to face. There she was, Cathode jumping from the second floor again and Trinity finished her off before she reached the ground. "Boom!" Trinity echoed through the hall and watched the mechanical pieces quit at their own ballet.

            Instead of going up the lift again, Trinity decided to go up the ramp. She rounded to her left past the ammunition for the ripper and onto the top bridge of the large hall. She ignored the cries of the weapons as another shootout formed. It was always like this in this hall and she won't be coming here often if she will ever face in this map in the Last Man Standing.

            Trinity passed the flak cannon stock and into the hallway to meet Vector with a ripper. She smiled as she ran at him as he backpedaled. She reached him in seconds and fired one good aim and every piece of metal went straight through him, chopping him to pieces. "Congratulations! You are the winner." The announcer said as she heard the echo of the word Dominating. Trinity raised her hands in the air with her best friend, the flak cannon, and screamed, "Let's Rock!"

            The crowd was wild when they all appeared in the stadium. "Trinity, Trinity, Trinity!" The crowd chanted her name and she finally smiled at the big crowd. Not that anyone knew but she felt that this was it.

            "That was amazing! Trinity will be facing off with Xan next morning and the final showdown will begin. Congratulations Trinity!" Trinity bowed at the crowd as she spotted one of the posters say her favorite saying, "Let's Rock."

            Trinity was walking down the hall of the Blue Bunker. She didn't know what to think. She did it; she has finally reached the top. The match with Xan was nearer than she thought. Her heart was filled with joy as she felt that she has won already. She forgot how hard the match was, she was too happy, too content to even complain about the pain. She has done it! She is the winner of the Ladder and soon of the Tournament.

            She rounded a corner and walked up to the door leading to her team's dorm. She grabbed the knob to turn it as she was interrupted.

            "Congratulations, Trish." Trinity turns around at Dessloch's voice, feeling like telling him everything about the match. She had so many things to tell him and finally she would. But she didn't tell him because when she turned around she found herself feeling downcast and confused. "Dess? What are you doing?" She asked, her voice breaking in fear as she noted the gun, Dessloch held, pointed at her heart. She looked at the men behind him in a strange uniform she only saw once.

            "I'm so sorry, Trinity." Dessloch said it with pity as his face was disappointed. "Although, you were right about one thing." Dessloch singled the men to get Trinity as her heart hit the floor. "I am a spy. But how you figured that out before I did is beyond me." The men grabbed Trinity, as she didn't fight back. She was too shocked to fight back. "But you were wrong about the other thing." Dessloch pointed his gun to the floor and sounding very brutal. "I never worked for Xan." The League towed her away into what Trinity called 'Hell.'

(a/n): Oooh. A cliffy! Don't you love cliffhangers!?? Okay I know you don't but I have EVIL plans. Well tell me what you think. I bet none of you saw this coming. Will be updated soon.