Author's Note: I'm still accepting teams, I'm also going to ask for at least two OCs to go with William, a Keeper and an Operator. William's going to be on a recurring team, please do make his partners good.
LGPX Ch. 4: The First LG-9 Race.
Welcome to LGPX, if you watched last week you saw the crushing defeat of Team Drarik at the hands of Team Otritzi. No lives were lost after that match, by the way. The teams assigned to this race are Team Cannon, comprised of probably the youngest of all the competitors here. A young boy of age ten named Edward is their Operator, his specialty is manipulating the terrain of Lyoko. He works alongside Millie, his team's Air Elementalist Keeper and Defender Tamiya, a Samurai with a double dose of the multiplication power. Both girls are only eleven, this team's got to be the youngest out there, but they make up for it with their tenacity.
You should remember Team Delmas from the Opening match of this year's season. They consist of Mr. Thomas Delmas, Principle of Kadic Academy, a local boarding school with the highest recruitment ratio of all the schools in the world, the Operator, who's specialty increases his team's Life Points by fifty points (A recent development). His team consists of his daughter Elizabeth "Sissi" Delmas, a human Slave master class Keeper, and Defenders Theo, Nicholas, and Herb. Theo is a human of the Ninja class, Herb is an elf of the Sniper class, and Nicholas is a Human of the Knight class, they made a few modifications in the two weeks since their defeat at the hands of Team Otritzi.
We have another team in this race, the newcomers Team Daredevil, comprised of their operator, Felicia King, who has yet to show a specialization; Keeper Joey Post, an Elven Mystic who starts with a staff; the Defenders for this team are all siblings, Dustin, Amy, and Melanie Princeton. Dustin Princeton is a swordsman, three swords style, he has yet to exhibit a power. Amy Princeton is an Angel, a rare race but nothing new, uses a staff and has the power to shield her partners temporarily. Last but not least we have Melanie Princeton, an Archer who has trouble dealing with the pain of devirtualization.
As well as the favorites for this match, Team Otritzi. The owner of this team is present today, although he's never one to miss a match his team is involved in. The team's new Operator is Mysti Falcon, someone who until recently was thought dead in a devirtualization accident three years ago, her specialization causes her team to move faster inside of Lyoko, but she also has access to all of the programs that Jeremie Belpois has written, including a rare Super Scan program, as well as a program that allows her to summon vehicles for her team during the virtualization process, however vehicles are disabled for this race. The Keeper of this team is Aelita Stones, an Elven Mystic with the creativity power, however she doesn't start with a weapon. The teams five defenders are Ulrich Stern, a human Samurai with Supersprint and shadow-cloning skills; Yumi Ishiyama, a Psion Ninja who uses a pair of metallic fans for her weapons; Odd Della Robbia, a Feline Archer who has the power of Precognition, but he cannot control the visions; Jeremie Belpois, one of my personal programmers and also Team Otritzi's Elven Sniper with the power of Fade, allowing him to go undetectable to all forms of scanning, even those of XANA himself; and lastly we have Emily Phoenix, the adoptive daughter of team owner Otritzi Phoenix, and the human Lancer of the group, she has the ability to sense danger around her with the only exception being sniper class attacks inside of Lyoko at a range greater than two kilometers, her equipment consists of a spear and mirrored gloves, allowing her to deflect laser fire with her hands.
With that, the rules of this race are simple. Be the first to the tower, no vehicles, no monsters, no other rules. Points will not be taken away for damage and devirtualizations and will be awarded on placement and the only bonus available is Speed Demon, which applies only to the leader, he must finish more than one second ahead of the second placer. The race starts outside of Lyoko and at the marked starting line. Teams, on your marks, get set, Tower Activated in the Kadic Forest Region!
Team Otritzi is the first into the scanners and Mysti jumps over her team's holo-projector and puts on her headset while typing with one hand to virtualize her team, a good two second head start, amazing. The next team to virtualize is Team Cannon, the two girls don't even wait til they hit the ground, linking hands in the air and taking off with Millie's Elementalist skills, taking off and gaining on Team Otritzi. The other two teams virtualize at the same time and hit the ground running, but they are so far behind the other two teams that it's almost a joke.
Team Otritzi have left the paths, an aggressive move, although considering their Operator just sent them the data on the tower's location, it's not surprising. Wait, where's Jeremie and why has Aelita stopped? Two loud bangs echo through the Forest region, apparently he attempted to shoot down Team Cannon, as Millie is looking rather surprised. A solid note echoes across Lyoko, looks like Aelita was also preparing something for the girls, cause the path they were following suddenly vanished only to reappear again a short while later thanks to their Operator's skills. The two members of Team Cannon continue along the path, Millie and Tamiya flying low on Millie's transparent wings.
Team Daredevil and Team Delmas have begun fighting while running along the path. Herb was devirtualized quickly as Team Daredevil's Swordsman sliced him in half then picked up his pace to catch up to Nicholas, who is currently racing alongside him trying to fight him. Sissi and Joey have been going at it as well, but still maintaining their pace, however none of these participants will stand a chance of making it to the winner's circle at this rate.
The current placement is Ulrich, Odd, Emily, Yumi, Jeremie, Aelita, Millie and Tamiya, all leaving behind a battle zone that appears to be trying desperately to catch up to them. Wait, Millie and Tamiya have just passed Jeremie and Aelita, the two slowest members of Team Otritzi, will these two young girls snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Millie and Tamiya dodge to the left as another bang goes off, Team Otritzi all take to the air, bounding off the trees again in an acrobatic display of agility. Jeremie holsters his gun and starts to run faster, hoping to catch up to the two girls and maybe engage in a hand to hand fight with the two smaller girls.
Team Delmas has just lost all four of their players and Team Daredevil is down to only Amy Princeton, who is trying her hardest to catch up to the other teams as they race along the paths, however she is much too far behind to even stand a chance of succeeding. Amy holsters her staff and takes off at a dive, getting perilously close to the mists of the void to gain speed and hopefully pass even Aelita, although just finishing would garner her team a few points. Yumi and Emily have stopped and jumped the two members of Team Cannon, Tamiya and Millie. Millie's hands have become encased in visible blades of wind, she punches at Emily, who dodges perfectly and stabs her spear right through where Millie was but half a second ago. Ulrich has reached the tower. Yumi and Emily both smirk and take off running towards the tower, knowing it's no longer needed for the two of them to delay Millie and Tamiya, who look very confused at this turn of events and stand up to give chase. Aelita and Jeremie catch up to the pair and run alongside them, actually talking to them, obviously these guys like the young girls, cause the members of Team Otritzi seem to be downright friendly now that the race is over.
Odd has reached the tower, a full ten seconds behind Ulrich. Ulrich is standing leaning against the deactivated tower, the only indication that it is the finish line. Another twenty seconds later Millie and Tamiya arrive, followed closely by Emily, Yumi, Jeremie and Aelita. Amy pops up at the edge of the platform just as Aelita tags the tower. Amy lands and sighs, obviously peeved to have her team lose their first match.
Ulrich extends his hand in friendship to Amy, while Odd bends down and hugs both of Team Cannon's members. Obviously Team Otritzi doesn't want to make enemies this round. The Operators devirtualize their teams and all present come to the Winner's circle. My assistant, Megan, will be delivering the trophy for the race, a disk containing upgrades for his team's weaponry. Also, points have been awarded for finishing, but most importantly, all participants receive 1000 credits for participating, finish or not, in this optional race. Next week we will be having a Coin match between Team Cannon and Team Otritzi. Until next time!
(End normal broadcast)
(After the race)
As Millie, Tamiya and Edward were leaving the stadium Jeremie, Aelita and Mysti stop them.
"Good race, you two. We think you've got some real potential...We'd like to have you come over sometime for some training."
Millie and Tamiya look at one another and then Edward who just shrugs. From behind Ulrich, Emily, and Yumi grab Team Cannon and the group leaves, taking Team Cannon with them.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Training, the three of you are a bit raw, we are going to train you into an LG-5 team, Millie, you'll be training with Otritzi, perhaps he'll train you enough for you to be an LG-0 fighter after our match, XANA gave us a rather nice piece of Lyoko to train in this week, the Kadic Mountain Region."
"Tamiya, Ulrich will be training you. He's got similar Lyoko powers and he's the same class, We doubt you'll beat us without trying your hardest in training, after all, we have the capacity to wipe out most teams of five-six players."
As the group arrives at Otritzi's place, Ulrich releases Team Cannon and fuses himself back into one person again. Ulrich takes Tamiya's wrist and pulls her towards the scanners and Holoprojector installed in the house. Otritzi takes Millie's hand and leads her over to the dojo section of the house. Jeremie and Mysti grab Edward and take him to the Holoprojector.
The week passes by in a flash, Millie becomes a confident Air Elementalist, Tamiya becomes a cunning samurai, and Edward learns how to summon vehicles and makes a superscan program under the tutelage of Aelita, Jeremie, and Mysti.