A/N: Now for the first real chapter of LGPX, enjoy. BTW, XANA's the announcer as well as main judge. The event will be told by him.
Chapter 2: Team Otritzi vs. Team Delmas
Today we find Team Otritzi pitted against Team Delmas, the current first place team of the LG-9 France Division, after crushingly defeating Team Orion last week in a surprise ambush, devirtualizing Team Orion's Keeper in one attack, then dashing to the Tower and deactivating it with minimal monster interference.
Team Delmas consists of an Operator, a Keeper, and three Defenders. The Operator of Team Delmas is none other than their owner, Principle Delmas of Kadic Academy. The team's Keeper is the daughter of the Operator, Elizabeth "Sissi" Delmas, using a Slave Master Character Card. The Defenders of Team Delmas are Theo, Herb and Nicholas, Sissi's two most loyal friends from high school, if they could be called that. Theo is the Ninja of Team Delmas, Herb is the sniper of Team Delmas, and Nicholas is the knight of Team Delmas.
The favorite for this match-up is Team Delmas, simply because they have proved they work well together in the past, only failing to place first last year due to having their Keeper sniped as they were virtualizing in the last match of the year. This phenomenon has been prevented from happening in the future by a barrier that encompasses each team's virtualization zone.
Team Otritzi was formed at the end of last year and was only able to take part in two match-ups, although they have yet to lose a match, they lost their Operator in a car wreck during the off season. Their current Operator is none other than Jeremie Belpois, their old sniper and boyfriend of their old Operator. How Otritzi keeps his team together I will never know, his team seems to fight amongst themselves the whole time.
Both teams enter the stadium, each team member going to their respective places, the Keepers head toward the silver colored scanners and each defender heads into one of the gold colored scanners. The Operators take their positions and Otritzi stands beside Jeremie as they begin.
"Rules for this match are as follows, each team must defeat twelve monsters before their keeper will be able to enter the activated tower, as always when a player is devirtualized they must first be checked out by the staff medics before being virtualized again, the match will be limited to the Kadic Mountain region, and the monsters will be out in force, expect ambushes aplenty. Time for the Battle to begin, Operators ready?"
Both Jeremie and Principle Delmas nod, hands hovering over their respective keyboards and quivering in anticipation.
"Tower activation in ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, GO!"
Jeremie and Principle Delmas' fingers fly across the keyboard, virtualizing their teammates and preparing them for the task ahead. Jeremie somehow manages to virtualize a vehicle for each of his team's Defenders, two Over Boards (Emily and Odd), an Over Bike (Ulrich), and an Over Wing (Yumi), as well as give them directions to the tower from their base. Principle Delmas virtualizes his team as well as their only vehicle, an Over Bike (Sissi) but has yet to give them directions, looks like they will have to follow the pulsations.
Team Otritzi is at it again, Yumi, Odd and Emily have begun racing one another to the monster spawn site to pick up the team's twelve kills. Ulrich has Aelita riding with him as the two of them break off and head toward the tower. By the way, the monsters for this round are Kankrelets, Wasps, and Krabs.
Team Delmas has left their base and has begun following the pulsations to the tower, only to be ambushed by a squad of Krabs and Wasps as they exited their base. Sissi took four ten life point blasts to the chest and her Over Bike was struck twice, devirtualizing it before she escaped back inside of the Team Delmas Base, after grabbing and smashing two Wasps together, destoying them. Theo used his super-speed and ran out and threw several Kunai knives into the monsters, taking out four Wasps and a Krab as he was brained by a Krab laser, devirtualizing him on the spot. Herb got struck twice by the Wasp poison, draining his lifepoints in seconds, devirtualizing him before he could even pull the trigger on his rifle. Nicholas took a shot to the ankle from a hornet and deflected several shots from the Krabs with his shield, bouncing several shots back and nailing the eye of two Wasps and three Krab before being forced back inside of the base. As per regulations, both devirtualized fighters are being examined by the stadium medics before being allowed to return to the battle.
Team Otritzi has reached the Spawn Site and have begun their assault. Yumi pulls out her fan and throws her fans out to catch four Wasps, dead on. Odd whips around and races around a boulder and blasts five Kankrelets on her first past, square in the eye on each of them, this team's been practicing, they haven't missed yet. Emily jumps from her Over Board and lands, running her spear through the top of a Krab and launching herself forward over a pair of Kankrelets, reflecting their shots with her mirrored glove on her left hand and landing with a spin to slice another Krab's legs out from under it with the tip of her spear. Aelita and Ulrich have reached the Tower, Aelita's in. Victory, Team Otritzi.
Score calculations, Team Otritzi: 4 Wasps (75 points/kill), 7 Kankrelets (50 points/kill), 1 Krab (100 points/kill), Keeper: Aelita, 100LP (-0 points); Defenders: Ulrich, 100LP ( -0 Points); Yumi, 100LP (-0 Points); Odd, 100LP (-0 Points); Emily, 100LP (-0 Points); Immortal Bonus (+2000 Points), Impervious Bonus (+5000 Points), Perfect Aim (+500 Points), 2 Deflection Kill Bonuses (100 points/Deflection-kill), Deactivation Bonus (x2 multiplier), Over Wing Penalty (-100 Points), 2 Over Board Penalties (-125 Points each), Over Bike Penalty (-150 Points). Final Score, Team Otritzi+16300 Points, an amazing round for Team Otritzi, the victors of this battle will be receiving 81500 credits in prize money for this match.
Score calculations, Team Delmas: 8 Wasps (75 points/kill); 4 Krabs (100 Points/kill); Keeper: Sissi, 60LP (-400 points); Defenders: Theo, 0LP (-500 points); Herb, 0LP (-500 Points); Nicholas, 90LP (-50 Points); Ambush Bonus (+1500 Points), 5 Deflection Kill Bonuses (100 Points/Deflection-kill), Over Bike Penalty (-150 Points). Final Score, Team Delmas+1400 points, the losers will be receiving 7000 credits in prize money for their score, however this match does count against them in their quest to be promoted to the LG-8, Western Europe Division.
Come again for the next match of the LG-9, France Division.
:Otritzi:
I watch as both teams are materialized and they shake hands, I shake Mr. Delmas' hand and our teams head back to their locker rooms. I walk into the locker room and see Yumi and Ulrich sitting next to one another on one bench, talking, and Odd, Aelita, Emily and Jeremie sitting on the other bench. I sit down in the office chair next to the blackboard hanging on the wall. I address my team.
"Good job out there, all of you. That was an amazing Slaughter match, I feel sorry for the monsters that happened to be in your way. Well, you heard XANA, we earned 81500 credits, each of you will receive 1000 credits of it as your allowance, next week we will be participating in a War match, Aelita, your status as a Keeper won't matter for the upcoming match, we need to give you a weapon."
Aelita looks like she is deep in thought for a few seconds then she replies with a sigh.
"Using my power I could create any weapon I would need, if I had a weapon when I was virtualized I wouldn't be able use my Creativity power."
I think for a moment, her Creativity power had proven to be invaluable in our last War match, even though it wasn't official.
"Alright, but I want you to stay away from the fighting as much as possible, any life points lost in a War match cost us 10 points each, we could easily lose most of the money we earned this match."
"Understood."
Odd stands up and stretches.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm still hyper from being in Lyoko, anyone up for some training?"
Everyone in the room groans except my daughter, who stands up next to him.
"Sounds like a plan. Will we be training on Earth or in Lyoko?"
"Lyoko, I've booked the Kadic Tropic region as a training ground for the next week, cost me my allowance of the winnings, but I made the arrangements just before we were all materialized."
I'm slightly surprised by that, a sector like that for a week for a thousand credits? Who knew XANA was so generous. But before I can say anything else Odd pips up again.
"The only stipulation is that Otritzi has to go into Lyoko with us, XANA wants to meet with him, virtual face to virtual face."
I knew it, I wonder what XANA wants this time, he didn't fix that last round, Team Delmas had to follow the pulsations, a sure fire way to get ambushed, even with Odd's Precognition ability and Emily's Danger Sense ability, if my team got caught unawares by an ambush like that, we would be wiped out. Part of the reason I insisted Jeremie create a Super-scan program to locate the exact location of the tower. Last time XANA and I had a face to face we sparred and he kicked my fiery ass, as high leveled as my character is, he kicked my ass.
I used to play in the LG-3 until my team was disbanded after getting almost annihilated in a Core Region match against XANA himself. My team had seven people, our Operator, the owner of the team; Mysti, our Keeper and an Elven Mystic; and five defenders, myself, a close range flame Elementalist; an Elven Samurai; a feline Ninja; a human archer; and a canine sniper. Core Region Matches aren't available to anyone below the LG-5 ranking, they are always against XANA himself and the team that you are attempting to earn a program from. To complete a Core Region match you start in the center of the Core Region and you have to find and activate the key within a time limit, protect your Keeper from the Scyphozoa, and make it to the data terminal to retrieve the data file from XANA's program banks for use by your team for use in the LGPX, the Core Region matches are often unofficial.
My team failed that mission. All four of my friends were devirtualized and I lost the Keeper to the Scyphozoa when it grabbed me and threw me into the void, then took our Keeper as his personal pet, she's still under his control and still in the Core Region, I suppose if I get lucky today I'll be able to rescue her, but how much of her spirit is left I do not know. I do have a feeling that this training session will involve the Scyphozoa, time to warn my team members.
"Guys, you've heard of the Scyphozoa, right?"
They all nod to the affirmative.
"If it shows up I want all of you materialized. That particular monster is dangerous to your real life well being, it can trap you in Lyoko and do various other damages, if one shows up during our training I want you to promise me you will run the other way and not look back until you are materialized."
They all nod again. The whole group of us go to my house, on foot of course, the buses aren't running today, something about giving the drivers the day off so they could watch the first match of the Lyoko season. Oh well, not that it really matters, we walk to the stadium before our matches anyway, it's not far from our main base and Kadic High. Which explains why so many of the students there are involved in the LG-9 France Division.
People come from all over France to join in the event, many of them send their kids to Kadic in hopes that they will be scouted for an LGPX team, like Jeremie, Aelita, Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Maggie were. Jeremie and Maggie were so close to one another, even before I came along and formed Team Otritzi. I'm sure the two of them would have graduated high school and gotten married if she hadn't died. I'm also sure that Odd and Aelita would never have met Jeremie and the others had I not scouted the two of them out as members of my team. Ulrich had insisted that I take Yumi on the team when I scouted him, and I don't regret listening to him about it. All in all, my team is good, but we don't appear to work together, always competing with one another and one of our members tends to take more risks than he should when dealing with the other teams and XANA's monsters, but they usually pay off, so I don't get on his case too often.
We arrive at my house and we all head straight to my basement, Jeremie taking up his position on the holo-projector that I won from XANA during one of my solo Core Region missions when I was with my last team. I step into one of the gold colored scanners lining the room and nod to Jeremie, he activates the virtualization protocols and scans me into Kadic's Island Region, where XANA had agreed to let my team train if I met him again. An orb adorned with a XANA eye floats down from above me and picks me up, whisking me away to the Core Region, XANA's home base, and the place I've come to know all too well.
Arriving in the Core Region I am met with XANA's humanoid form, a male lancer with a black flame for a head and the XANA symbol glowing on his chest. I scoff at the sight.
"Alright, I'm here. You better not try and attack my team with a Scyphozoa."
XANA's voice echoes inside the chamber.
"I have no reason to attack them. I wanted you here so you could help me defend the Core Region. I've got another team headed here for a Core Region Mission, I don't want them to succeed again, they're going for Jeremie's Super-scan program now, I think you want to protect that."
"Fine, I'll help. Just let me talk to Mysti afterward."
"You've got a deal. You know, I didn't take her memory like your Op thought I did. I only took her DNA code so I could create my own human body. She's still here, but that's only because she can't find the exit of the room she's in right now."
"Thank you for that."
XANA opens the wall and the two of us walk down the hall toward the room. I hear another transporter arrive as the wall closes behind us. I start running toward the room, I've only got a few seconds to make this look right. I come to a halt and turn around, lighting my hands on fire and crouching into my fighting stance, placing a snarl on my face and growling when the team enters the room. It's Team Zune, a rival team in the LG-3, I guess they haven't changed much, which is probably why they won't ever advance in the ranks to LG-2. They never did do very well in the LG-3, always falling prey to ambushes and losing at least one character to them. I suppose the Super-scan program would do them good, but I'm not about to let them take it from Jeremie like they want to.
Moving quickly I dash forward, they don't even see me until I ram my burning left hand into one of their chests, devirtualizing the poor fool instantly, using my Flaming Combo technique I launch from my first kill, their sniper, to their Samurai and grab him by the head with my searing right hand and crush his virtual skull in my grip, then I hop back and summon my wings. Leaving their Keeper and two other Defenders at my mercy as I lift into the air outside of their range. I summon a pair of fireballs into my hands and dive at them. The two Defenders stand in front of their Keeper, brandishing their weapons at me as I fly in and force my fireballs into their stomachs, causing their life points to drop to almost zero in a second as I flip over and plant my heel into their Keeper's head in a downward motion, slicing him perfectly in half with my flaming heel. I turn around and snap my fingers, detonating the fireballs inside of the two remaining Team Zune members, Flawless Victory.
XANA drops in from above, utterly amazed by how quickly I vanquished them. The two of us walk back into the arrival room as the walls slowly close behind us. He nods his fiery head and speaks to me.
"I get the feeling you were holding back in our last fight, I couldn't do that alone even if I tried."
I smirk, knowing I'm better at something that XANA feels good. I decide to remind him of our deal.
"I stopped them, now let me see Mysti."
"Follow me, I'll take you to her."
XANA starts walking to the opposite side of where I slaughtered Team Zune, probably earning myself a nice paycheck in the process, lets see, a five man team, one of which was a level three Keeper, that alone is worth 3000 points and the other four were all level four, that adds up to 2000 points a kill, 11000 points total, at LG-3 standards that equals 550000 credits and that's without the bonuses I incurred, Immortal, Impervious, Combo king, 5 on 1, and a victory bonus, I made over two million dollars for wiping them, the gang's going to love me for that, as well as maybe bringing us a new Operator so we can get Jeremie back into the field, I'm too high leveled to participate in the LG-9 tier and I made it to the LG-5 at level one, leveling up for the first time after my first Core Region Mission, yeah, fun times. Too bad they are in the past.
:Jeremie:
XANA let me watch Otritzi's fight through his eyes, it was amazing, Otritzi moved so fast I could barely follow him. He used two attacks then fluidly switched from melee to ranged and then back to melee, so fast that his opponents didn't have time to react before they were all painfully devirtualized. I can see why Otritzi was a LG-3 Defender, that was insane. I also heard him talking about somebody named Mysti, perhaps she was the Keeper of his old team that was captured by the Scyphozoa and permanently virtualized. XANA also said something about letting her go, as he has no more use for her, but doesn't want to kill her. I hope Otritzi can bring her to our private Lyoko System. I tabulated the bonuses that Otritzi earned in that little 5 on 1, Thirty-seven million credits at LG-3 pay, we could live off that for a long time, but I don't know if XANA was planning on paying him or not.
Getting back to watching my teammates as their training session rolls onward, they've annihilated well over four hundred monsters total, and no sign of a Scyphozoa. The gang had been going nuts, even the normally docile Aelita had created herself a saber and was slicing up the monsters, practicing her deflections and everything else, too bad this is a training session, cause they've racked up enough kills to make us all rich, and only Odd has been hit, and only once.
:Otritzi:
I continue walking beside XANA as he leads me through the ever-changing Core Region to where Mysti is currently located. XANA said he was studying her, but she had stopped doing anything and was just sitting there, crying. He decided that he had gone far enough, and was going to release the poor girl to me.
We arrive in the room where Mysti was sitting. Upon seeing me she jumps to her feet and wraps her arms around my neck, nuzzling into it and she's still crying. I look at XANA and his normally black flame is now burning a soft gray, I guess that's his smile cause his voice came across amused as he activated the transport to take the two of us to the Kadic Tropic region to rejoin my team in their training session.
:Ulrich:
I watch as the infamous Core Region transporter lands beside me, the monsters all recede back and wait off the plateau, giving us a berth to catch our virtual breaths, even though we could all have gone on for another four hours, Otritzi's training on Earth was harder than this walk in the park. Otritzi shows up with a beautiful young girl in his arms as the transporter flies off. The girl looks up from nuzzling her face into Otritzi's neck to look at the rest of us, she then looks at Otritzi again and whispers a quiet question to him. He responds with a smile and he introduces us to his young lady friend.
Jeremie's voice echoes down from above, in true Operator fashion.
"I've been working on recreating your friend's lost DNA code, XANA provided me with most of it, I had to put together a few strands and recode everything so it fits together, it's all tested and it works, I should be able to Materialize Mysti now."
Otritzi smiles the first sincere smile I've seen him smile since he formed our team last winter. Usually after a victory he'll flash a confident smirk here and there but he rarely smiles, he also cracks the most evil looking grins sometimes, but he's a good guy. I think he said that it would be possible to have her as our Operator and get Jeremie back into Lyoko...that'll be a good thing, we need a sniper in here for the upcoming War mission against Team Drarik. I'm good with deflections and so is Emily, but we can't deflect Sniper fire and they've got two snipers. Dodging sniper fire is an impossibility at our level. Otritzi might be able to, but we can't. I hear a constant clicking over the microphone and then Mysti's virtual body shatters away.
:Mysti:
I can feel my fingers again, cold, heat, all of it. Oh, how I've missed this. I hug myself as I lay in the bottom of the scanner. I'm greeted by a young blonde boy wearing a blue turtleneck sweater and a pair of light tan jeans. He extends his hand to me offering to help me up. I reach up and take his hand, he pulls me to my feet, it feels wonderful to experience warmth again, I guess the saying is true, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
He lets go of my hand and walks back over to the holo-projector and materializes everyone in his team and Otritzi as well. The whole team walks over to me and surrounds me, I don't know what's going on so I lower my head a little and pout in Otritzi's direction. He reaches forward and wraps his arms around me, pulling me into a big hug.
:Otritzi:
I can't believe it, Mysti's back in the real world, I missed her something fierce while she was trapped in Lyoko for the past two years. I couldn't believe it when XANA told me that he had kept her alive, I thought he was just a heartless machine...I guess I was wrong, he only needed to use her DNA code to create his own body so he could leave Lyoko if he wanted to. I only hope I can get Mysti back to the sweet girl she used to be before he did that. She hasn't really aged a day since she was stuck inside of Lyoko.
XANA purified the digital void in Lyoko when he revealed himself to the public as a virtual god of a virtual combat arena that spanned the entire globe, it won't permanently virtualize you anymore, just devirtualize you. I would have to say that I've forgiven him for capturing Mysti, he did give her back to me at least. I just can't bring me to hate the guy anymore, he returned that which I had lost, my adopted sister, Mysti...I can't hate him now, I feel indebted to him.
Jeremie brings up our account balance for Team Otritzi and turns in his chair to look at us. His face lights up with a huge smile.
"XANA paid us for your latest solo mission, Otritzi. Our account is now thirty seven million credits fatter, I take it you need me to train Mysti as an Operator, I've already prepared notes for her to look through, including my Super-scan, vehicle materialization, and virtualization programs. Oh, as an afterthought, I created a way to materialize the Lyoko vehicles to Earth, I ran the theoretics by XANA and he's given the go ahead, I should have the program for the Over Board done by tomorrow, I've already completed the Over Bike and the Over Wing will be done by the end of the week."
I quirk an eyebrow at Jeremie.
"Padding your personal account again, Jeremie?"
Jeremie looks at me in all seriousness.
"You know, I volunteered to do this stuff and XANA insists on paying me for something I would do for free."
I just chuckle.
"I was kidding, Einstein. You need to learn to lighten up."
Jeremie turns back around to the computer screen and brings up the Over Bike materialization program and activates it.
"Anyone up for a ride on an Over Bike here on Earth?"
Ulrich takes a step forward and volunteers himself. One of the scanners behind us closes and reopens with an Over Bike sitting squarely in the middle of it, full size too. Ulrich walks over to it and grabs the handlebars, wheeling it out of the scanner and out into my back yard.
A/N: I'm accepting entrants. Check my profile for the character creation specs. Also, the Operator will almost all of the time be human. The only time they won't be human is when they were a defender in a previous time. Elementalists are rare, I'm only limiting the number of them to one on a team. Elementalist is both race and class, they get no weapons and no powers, except their elemental combo. In Otritzi's case, Flaming Combo, it acts like super sprint but only works as long as he has targets in range. Elementalists also get a modification to their bodies, like Otritzi's fiery wings and tail-feathers.
In response to Castaway567, I'm going to use your team next chapter.