(a/n): Okay, a promise is a promise and I am updating as fast as possible. I apologize, once again, for having cut off at a very interesting point but I had to do it or other wise you would have to read 16 pages or more. I didn't want to torture you guys so I decided to give you a little break. If you are still unhappy, I'm very sorry. I have done this a couple of times in my fic, like with the Once a Friend Now an Enemy chapters and the Raging Wars. If you really don't like this tell me so, and I won't be breaking the chapters up and I'll just let you read the whole thing at once. Remember, if you don't like something in the fic, tell me.

Here are quick thanks to my reviewers.

Fun: Yep, that's right. He saved her. And he is going to save her again and again. I guess you already know how much Dess really loves her. Well, keep enjoying.

COUGH: Welcome back! It's alright if you didn't review. There is no schedule or anything. Plus, I know how you feel. I had to study for a lot of things too when the school year ended. Hey, as long as the exams are finished with right? Sorry about the cliffhangers by the way. I do promise that the last chapter of the book won't have a cliffhanger. I'm not that mean. Well, keep reading.

Alex: Haha. You're welcome. I did my best. And thank you for your lovely compliments. You flatter me. But "flattery gets you nowhere". LOL. And Trinity will KICK Xan's @$$. I promise.

Slash The Ironman: Sawwy. For the cliffy. And yeah, Dess isn't such a prick after all. Haha. And watch, he'll take on Matrix with one hand strapped behind his back if needed. NOT! Lol.

Okay, I know I've been praying for my life for the past few chapters, but now I'm praying for Talon's. Don't you DARE let Fang kill Talon. Or Fang will get it…Kinda. Lol. 

Daniel Wesley Rydell: Yes, I will smash Matrix and I'll smash him good. I'll do it for ANYBODY. Haha. Anyway I can't promise you about Zack. Let's see. To kill or not to kill, that is the question. Nah, I'm just joking. But I'm not promising anything. Who knows what kind of mood I'm in when I'm writing. Well keep reading.

Okay people, continue ENJOYing this story. It's almost the end so get everything out of this story as you can. ^_^ But it's not the end, YET.

Chapter28: Vengeance For Blood Part II

            "You know, your father begged for his life in front of the Liandri soldiers." Xan's voice reached Trinity as she was reloading her minigun. "Yeah, and yet in the end they ended up dead and you faced him in a match." Xan chuckled and Trinity's heart burned. "You know your father's history too well, Tanya."

            Trinity gripped her minigun and carefully walked up to the hall that had the ceiling trashed with an opening. "Tanya is long dead, Xan. I have you to thank for that." A feeling ran through her body that he was standing there, on the other side of the hall, ready to shoot at her. He is trying to wheel her out, and she is going to show him that she is not a little girl anymore.

            She ran quietly through the portal and appeared on the other side of the shuttle. There he was, Xan, standing there in front of her facing his back to her, trying to wait her out. "The name is Trinity." Her voice boomed and so did her weapon. Xan was ripped to bloody chunks before he even saw his doom coming. "That had to hurt." She said it flawlessly as she watched his bloody, ripped opened body stumble to the floor.

            "You will regret coming here, Menace." She wanted to chuckle at how blind this idiot champion really was. "I never said I was enjoying this. But hearing you taunt makes my day." A roar filled her ears and she smiled. She is definitely going to enjoy watching him die.

            The halls shook when Matrix took Dessloch by his hair and threw him across into the wall. Blood escaped his lips as he slid to the floor, pain throbbing through his head. "Oh, how I waited for this day." Matrix's voice hissed as he picked Dessloch up by his neck.

            Matrix was planning on killing him. It seemed pretty useless to fight back but Dessloch knew he would never give up without a fight. He must fight 'till the end. He is a Reaver, he is a soldier, he is Dessloch. Dessloch swung at Matrix's face and it only moved an inch. The grasp got harder and air escaped Dessloch's lungs fast.

            Matrix swung a punch into his ribs and he screamed out from the pain, spreading slowly from his ribs to his head. Matrix tried again and Dessloch was fighting to stay conciseness as the robot wheeled him around into another wall. "Look at you." His voice hit Dessloch like lightning. "Humans are obsolete."

            There was a sweet metal cry as a large piece of pipe hit Matrix in the back of his head and made him topple over. Zack raised it in the air and slammed it down onto Matrix's back. "Zack, watch out!" Dessloch screamed as he ran into him and they both fell to the ground as a lethal beam missed Zack's face by a millimeter.

            Kira appeared in the end of the hallway, holding the cursed weapon in her hands, pointing it at Dessloch's bloody, tired face. "I really liked you, you know?" She said it as though she was regretting this. She came up closer as Matrix was regaining his balance. "Sorry, but it would have never worked out." Dessloch said, there was a hint in his voice that he was about to rip her to pieces.

            "Yeah, I know. But it won't work out between you and Trin, either. I activated the failsafe. She is as good as dead. She won't be respawning anymore. Sorry, guess she better work harder." Anger burned through Dessloch's bruised body. "You bitch!" Dessloch lunged for her and blue abyss welcomed him…

            "Hahahahaha!" Laughter filled what was left of the arena and Trinity guessed it wasn't good. What ever was happening, Zack screwed up. "Of all the mighty Gods!!!!!! Hahahahahaha." Trinity tightened her grip on her weapon as she prepared for the worst. Suddenly she felt all of her booster energy escape her as the Invisibility fail. "What? Why?" She quietly asked herself unaware of what is going on.

            Out of nowhere, bullets hurled her limp body out into space on the twin bridges and Trinity grabbed her ankle. The bullets felt real. But she had enough of respawns left. What's going on? Why does it feel like it's her last life? If she gets out of here alive, she's going to kill Zack, for good.

            "Run, Human. Hahahaha." Xan's voice boomed through the arena as Trinity's eyes widened at his insane laughter. "I have to think of something, and fast." Trinity looked at the bridge she was staying at the open space. She smiled. If he really is immortal than he will be floating in space forever. But the hard part is getting him out into space.

            Xan is a bastard but he is not dumb, she'll give him that. "Oh, Trinity. I have a little present for ya!" Four grenades slipped into view as they rolled her way. Trinity's eyes widened and she didn't think. She pushed herself off of the platform and floated to the next bridge.

            She landed silently and decided to sneak up on him. Gripping her rifle with effort, she took a deep breath and stepped out into the hallway, to see Xan walking up to the opposite exit.

            She raised her minigun to her eyelevel as she took the most perfect shot. The weapon ripped, bullets zipping through the thin air into Xan's skull. Tatatatatatatatatata. Smoke and dim filled in the room, the gray thick cloud prevented her from seeing if she was successful or not. The smoke started to fill in her lungs and she started to cough.

            "You can't get rid of me that easy." Xan hissed out of the gray smoke. A shadowy figure appeared to be running straight at her. Trinity raised her minigun again but before she fired it the figure rammed into her body. She screamed as her back went up against the wall in back of her and her minigun sprawled from her fingers to the floor.

            Before Trinity slid down to the floor Xan grabbed her by her neck and raised her high in the air. "Prepare to die, Trinity. Hahahahahaha." The halls filled with laughter of death as Xan brought up the rocket launcher to her face.

            "Luthor!" Zack yelled his comrade's name as he flew into the wall with a bloody hole through his left shoulder. Dessloch fell to the floor, looking lifeless from the blow.

            "I always knew he was foolish." Kira's voice rang out with a pleasurable tone. She has been waiting for this for years, Zack figured. Fury ran over him, thoughts of how to put this monster to Hell along with Matrix. Zack screamed from anguish, ignoring all of his pain from the wounds that were torn, he leaped at her.

            Kira fired and missed as Zack came from the side. He grabbed her weapon and kicked her with a spinning kick. Kira fell against Matrix as Zack held onto the weapon with his fingers. Curled tightly against the handle, his fingers sprawled over it, going through the trigger, aiming carefully at the two.

            He had them. Right there, dead in the aim. So why couldn't he shoot? Sweat pour down his eyebrow as he aimed at Kira's heart. Almost hearing her heartbeat, he had the perfect aim. Gritting his teeth, forcing to press the trigger, his hands refuse the command.

            Against the ringing of his head, the uncertainty in his mind, memories fleshing back, fire burning everywhere, Zack couldn't do it. "What are you waiting for, shoot them!" Dessloch called out in a hurt voice.

            Hurt voice, a voice of his friend's and it was trembling. Trembling from agony and who brought this pain? Zack set his eyes like he would on a prey and screamed out as he shot at her. Shot through his screams, memories fleshing by. Memories of a terrible mistake, a terrible sin he made years ago.

            Kira fell, trembling in Matrix's hands, as he grabbed her, revealing a burning hole in his robotic chest. "Kira?" His voice trembled and Zack just watched. What has he done? Zack dropped the weapon to the floor and closed his eyes. No, he won't accept it. It was not a mistake; it was the right thing to do.

            Matrix's head whipped at Zack's direction with fury engraved in his eyes. "She was my friend. MY friend." His voice sounded more deadly than the weapon Zack has dropped from disbelief.

            Matrix screamed and charged towards the human with revenge. A hard blow was reinforced on the side of Matrix's head, wheeling him from Zack and into the wall. Dessloch landed on his feet and rammed Matrix into the wall again.

            Against the wall, Matrix heard Dessloch hiss, "You will be joining her shortly." Dessloch spun and kicked him into the wall, cracking it at the edges of the blow. Pain ran through Dessloch's body like nerves from his wounds, extending from his shoulder to his body and fingers.

            Before Dessloch made another hit, Matrix turned around and hit Dessloch in the head with his own. Dessloch collapsed, with pain ripping through his head, as he grabbed it with his bloody hands.

            Matrix picked him up by his hair, each root crying out and, let Dessloch see his eyes. They were burning with a fiery passion of his death. "You will die the most terrible death, Dessloch." He grabbed his injured shoulder with his other hand and Dessloch gritted his teeth, to keep himself from screaming. 

            "You won't be able to hold it for long." Matrix shoved him into the air and Dessloch hit the ceiling before he hit the floor. Blood rushed up to his mouth and Dessloch spit it out into Matrix's face when he raised his head.

            Looking like he is going to kill him, Matrix spun around—still holding onto Dessloch's hair—and rammed his head into the wall, hard. Dessloch couldn't help but to cry out from horrible pain.

            A beam burned through the air and Matrix flew through one of the walls, making another opening to Xan's office. Relief swept over Dessloch as his friend helped him up. "Come on, we've got to save Tanya. She won't be able to hold on much longer." Zack called back to Dessloch as he ran towards the exit.

            "Luthor?" Zack turned around to see Dessloch in the same place. "We don't have much time." Zack tried again but Dessloch didn't move as he said, "You, go. I will finish this." Zack's eyes traveled to the pile of filth that was left from the wall and a robotic hand busted through the debris.

            "But Luthor, he's going to kill you!" Zack sounded concerned but he felt like it won't help. "He's going to follow you, Zack. I can't let Trish die. You are her only chance. GO! Damnit!" Dessloch's cold voice rang out with a hint of pain. He was right, Zack thought. One of them would have to do this.

            "She loves you, Luthor. You better come back in one piece." Was the final thing Zack said before he ran down the hallway towards the operating system. Dessloch turned his head towards the broken wall and tightened his knuckles as Matrix approached.

            Xan threw Trinity down the ramp, towards the round hallway that is no more, and dropped his empty launcher. Lucky for her that he was out of ammo. Xan kneeled and picked up her weapon and shot towards her way. The bullets hit the bare floor and Xan screamed. She still had energy to escape. How brave of her to irritate him further.

            "Come on, Tanya-girl. Let me finish you. I promise this will be quick." Trinity gritted her teeth as she stayed behind the column, thinking of different ways to finish him off. Right now, blowing him to smithereens was the loveliest one.

            "Hiding won't help. I know where you are." His voice echoed to her ears. Trinity took a deep breath as she ran for the portal in front of here. Bullets flying past her and ramming into the wall not too far off, as Trinity dived for the portal.

            She leaped through and rolled down the hall, landing on her knees. She whipped her head around to make sure no one followed her. She only saw the portal, giving off light from the middle.

            A deep breath escaped her and she pressed forward just when she realized something was very wrong. She looked at the empty space next to the column, seeing the bare floor. The medkits where gone. Zack better fix this problem soon. She is not immortal and does not know how much longer she can hold on.

            She ran up to the new, respawned minigun and picked it up with effort. She was tired. Her legs were too tired to keep her up any longer but she had to do this, no matter what it takes.

            She didn't hear anyone teleport to this side of the shuttle, meaning Xan was trying to trick her. She has no idea of where could he be. She wants to go down one level to get her flak cannon, but she didn't know if Xan took that way, as well. There are no rooms for mistakes and she knows that but she needs an efficient weapon for close range.

            If Xan is immortal might, as well, torment him with the most deadly weapons. She was frozen as she couldn't decide what should she do. If he is down there she's dead. If he's not then she will be very lucky. Choices, choices.

            Trinity bit her lower lip and decided where she would go. She would go down, and hopefully she won't find Xan there, hopefully. She took a deep breath as she tightened her grip on her weapon and exhaled slowly. She looked down the ramp and slowly went down.

            "You're only human." Matrix stated clearly as he held Dessloch close and twisted his hand at Dessloch's back. He gritted his teeth from pain as Matrix forced him to his knees. "Look at you, you are dieing, Dessloch, and you are refusing the fact."

            Matrix lowered Dessloch to the floor. "It's a real shame of how human's mind works, you know. You all refuse everything you don't like. Why is that? Is it because you're afraid?" Dessloch didn't answer back as he tried to his best to fight back but Matrix had him right there. He better do something fast if he doesn't want to die at Matrix's hands.

            Dessloch leaned towards the floor closer and rolled, bringing Matrix below him. Dessloch swung back a hit with his right elbow into the side of Matrix's head. He felt the grip on his arm lighten and he pulled back his throbbing arm and shoulder.

            He got up, with Matrix following him. Dessloch kicked him in his ripped chest from the beam and Matrix backed up a little. He knew, Matrix doesn't feel any pain. Too bad Zack only had one plastic explosive. He would have loved to shove another one down Matrix's throat.

            "You have interfered far too long." Matrix's voice was smooth as he ran at Dessloch with unbelievable speed. He was about to turn, turn and run for his life, but it was already too late. Matrix rammed into Dessloch, forcing him to the floor, Matrix crushing him with his weight.

            "You're good, I'll give you that. But tonight is your last day, Dessloch." Matrix grabbed him by his hair, forcing him to look into his inhuman eyes. Laughter filled Dessloch's ears and he did not hesitate. He took the Plasma Rifle through the filth of the debris from the wall and pointed it at Matrix. "Suck on this, loser." Dessloch fired the plasmatic rifle, melting away Matrix's disordered face to ash. Matrix stumbled to his knees, hands trying to grab his head that isn't there. Suddenly his hands dropped to his side and he fell to the floor, face down.

            Dessloch dropped the rifle and rolled onto his back and took a deep breath. Dessloch felt complete, felt like this is almost over. All that is left is to help Trinity at all costs.

            Dessloch got up and looked around the burning hallway. It has been turned into a battlefield. Flames swallowing up the office and he sees how the lights crackling in Xan's office through the hole that Matrix made. Finally, his eyes traveled to his dead nemesis, his armor chewed up from the plastic explosive, a big sizzling hole in his chest, and a melted away head.

            A terrible death to die, Dessloch figured, but nonetheless Matrix deserved. If it weren't Matrix that would have died it would have been him instead. And like Zack said before, Trinity loves him and he must come back to her in one piece. She must comeback in one piece, as well.

            He took one last look at the corpses in the hallway and took his leave. He isn't going to dwell on the two soldiers' death. They were both trying to kill him, both trying to kill Zack, and the one that hurt the most they tried killing Trinity. Trinity, the woman he loved. He won't allow anyone to hurt her even if it means his life. Better her be safe than him.

            He shook away the thoughts and decided to catch up to Zack. He'll see if he can give him some backup. The Liandri Troops won't fall easily. Time is at hand, and there was not enough of it.

            Trinity hugged against the wall, weapon powered up and ready. She slowly walked towards the hallway and the edge, taking a deep breath when she got near the corner. Carefully, she looked out into the long hallway, seeing nothing strange. The lights were out from the shoot out, dimming the hallway to almost darkness. Light was only coming from the second floor; she could just make out the debris that fell from the ceiling before.

            Moving slowly as if part of the shapeless shadows, moving closely to the walls, making no sound. She didn't want to alarm Xan of her presence; there is still a chance that he is here waiting for her to make his move.

            Her heart beat against her chest, thumping louder than the low hum of the engines. Her breath was short and shallow, heart beating faster by each beat, as she made her way towards to the other side of hall. Sneaking in the darkness, only seeing the light's curtain on the floor not too far away but the way she moved, it seemed as if its miles away.

            Finally seeing the outside space through an opening that is on the opposite side from the light source. There should be a Flak Cannon, sitting on the floor, with the light from the top floor she should be able to spot it. But there was nothing. Emptiness. She saw no Flak Cannon, just the dark floor with the opening to space.

            This could only mean two things, either Xan took it, or it didn't respawn yet, both choices do not seem great to the situation she's in. She's a sitting duck out here. Xan could come in any minute, she shouldn't be waiting for the weapon to just appear. She'll need to leave this place before Xan—

            —something moved in back of her. Trinity wheeled around as a fist connected with her face. She flew against the wall near the opening, light shining into her direction from her left. She looked up and saw a large, yellow weapon in her face.

            "Zack!" Dessloch yelled out his friend's name as he gave a good punch to one of the Liandri Troopers, letting him fall to the floor. This proved to be a challenge. He needed to find Zack quickly but there were just too many soldiers in this particular area. He doesn't doubt one bit that they are protecting this place because of the Main Frame Computer, the computer that runs the whole Unreal Tournament.

            A soldier came running out the hallway in front of him, and Dessloch killed him before he reached for his weapon. "Zack!" Dessloch screamed again as he ran through the silver hallways. "Zack, dammit, where are you?!"

            "He's over there!" Dessloch turned towards the voice and shot his weapon at the owner of it, making him stumble to the floor with a melting hole in his stomach. Dessloch turned to the direction he was running, trying to find his friend, Zack.

            He stumbled in front of the large, electronic, heavy doors. Behind these doors is where the Main Frame Computer is with Zack in there, as well.

            "Bioweapon online." Dessloch whipped his head towards his left at the robotic voice and saw an electronic door swing up smoothly with a soft hum noise. From it came out a patrol security bot with light artillery on top. To his right, another door swung up and a second security bot came out.

            He was trapped. The Liandri troops were gaining on him, the doors in front of him were closed, and now the bioweapons were online. Basically to sum it all up, he was screwed. "Target located." Dessloch eyes widened as the two robots started to shoot at him with its light artillery. Tatatatatatatatatata. Dessloch leaped backwards away from the doors, making the bots hit each other.

            It wasn't long when they stopped the fire, before he got a chance to get away, the two started to turn to his direction. Dessloch got to his feet and turned to run down the hallway but it was already to late. The Liandri has caught up with him and they pointed their weapons straight at his face.

            "Don't move!" Came a reply from on of the soldiers. Dessloch didn't know what to do. He looked at the patrol bots and they were ready to shoot him for good. He couldn't just give up he must not give up. Trinity needs him and he must fight to the end.

            Dessloch backed up and the soldiers cocked their weapons, red laser dots appearing on his chest and in his eyes. He took a deep breath and backed up a step and bumped into the heavy doors. There had to be something, something he could use, but he couldn't use squat in this situation.

            "Drop your weapon!" Came the voice again as the Liandri watched him with their steady eyes. Dessloch pressed his lips from nervousness as he slowly crouched to put the weapon on the floor. He put down the weapon, slowly, and got to his feet.

            Just when the soldier was about to give anymore commands, there was a heavy door lock sound and the doors behind him opened in opposite directions, sliding into opposite walls.

            "Shoot him!" Was the last thing Dessloch heard when he was pulled through the opening and against the wall as the doors closed, leaving the soldiers and the bots behind. Breath escaped him fast as his eyes fell upon Zack.

            "Thanks. But you could have done that a little sooner, I was about to die from a heart attack." Dessloch's voice sounded rasp as he breathed shallow and fast. "Sorry, I can't hear anything from here. I just saw you on one of the cameras." Zack sounded sincere as he put his hand on Dessloch's good shoulder.

            "How you holding up?" Dess asked him, looking into his face with blood spilled on his left temple. "I'll be okay." Zack let go of him and went up to the computer with million of screens. The screens showed everything; from the match Trinity is fighting to the hallways in the Liandri building. One of the images grasped his heart and his attention as he is scanned the whole wall.

            "Hey." Dessloch said, pointing at one of the screens. "Isn't that Trinity?" Zack looked at the screen and his eyes widened. "Shit! It's amazing he didn't shoot her." Zack started to type. "Hurry up man, he isn't going to be holding her forever." Dessloch said as he looked how Xan held Trinity by her throat with a Flak Cannon in her face. He seemed to be talking to her and it didn't seem like a friendly talk either.

            Dessloch looked down at Zack and saw him typing fast. The screen flickered and showed a long list of commands that are used in the tournament and at the very bottom of the list it stated clearly that Zack needed a password to disable the commands that were imputed earlier.

            "Shit, I don't know the code." He heard Zack curse quietly.

            "Well can't you hack it? I mean aren't you good at this?" Dessloch's voice faltered.

            "Yes but it will take time, she doesn't has that time." Zack's voice was strained.

            "Well than hurry up. She's running out of it." Dessloch clenched his teeth as he watched her being held by Xan. "Hurry up." Dessloch quietly repeated his words.

(a/n): Okay guys, I'm going to cut it off here. It turns out longer than I would ever expect. Don't go killing me. Look on the bright side. The story isn't finished yet. Sorry if you all expected this to be the end but I have the story all planned out in fragments.

            I already have all the ideas but I just didn't know it would be this long. I hope you enjoyed reading it. The third part will be up soon, hopefully faster than this chapter. Sorry if it took long but I took a lot of time writing this chapter to its limits.  I apologize for the cliffhanger, too. Well this is it. Hope you enjoyed it.