Cristalina: Read and find out about what happens with the evil team. Oh and yes you must finish T.H.E before I finish this or the kids will get to end of the book and find some pages missing and then ask you why they aren't there. Yup they are rather like those things from the 70's, and no matter how many times you tell me to UPDATE SOON! It will not happen any faster, so there :P.
Zeo the OTHER One:Oh has it really been a year? A good deal more? Damn… okay I really need to finish this. Especially because this has more reviews then any other thing I've written.
Fan Fiction Enjoyer: I wrote two chapters, one to focus on the matches the next to focus on everything else (except the final of the tournament
A/N: Two new things this chapter. Firstly, since Crista had to point out the use of 70's what happens next questions, I will use 70's like flashbacks to match. Secondly, my conversational methods in stories have bothered me for a long time now and I know other authors do this but I am MUCH more satisfied with this style as it tells the story slightly better, although it will not show much in this chapter. On with the show... finally...
In the last exciting episode of Perfect Dark Kids.
Terrance, Cassandra and Trent succeeded in their plan in getting even with the world and getting Boris into deep trouble in the process, however now the Perfect Light competition is on and the teams have formed so who will come out on top? Meanwhile the Perfect Light play is looming and has anybody been practicing, will it be a total disaster or an absolute catastrophe?
The two teams were sitting ready for combat, up for NJS was Natasha and Jonathan. The corporate alliance had Cassandra and Trent. The settings were chosen, 5 minutes, random level, random weapons.
The two guys a nerd and a lady team had taken there place for this round as they had the bye, it was quiet until Grimshaw had to ask the inevitable question "So who's got dibs on Jonathan winning this thing?"
Daniel thought about this for a moment and gave his answer "I'm not sure Jonathan will win, at least he won't win convincingly, Jo's improved since last time they met"
"I think neither of them, we will win this thing" Suzan declared perhaps naively
Jonathan had already got to work killing Trent with a hand held bomb after luring him into the lower corridors on the Credar level. Natasha was also chasing Cassandra with a TK84 who was unarmed and trying to find a weapon, however it would be to no good as Natasha zoomed in on her fleeing victim and let fly several bullets causing Kalassandra la Virus to drop to the ground dead to respawn 5 seconds later. Natasha and Jonathan were already in control and it was only the first 30 seconds of the game. They found each other and travelled around the level together trying to find their targets.
Cassandra picked up a shuttle launcher and headed down to the central part of the level trying to get Trent to regroup with her, however he had already been killed again without picking up a weapon. She spotted the pair of them and took her shot, Jonathan retreated however Natasha wasn't watching Cassandra's screen and didn't see it coming resulting in her temporary death as an explosion covered her body, however Jonathan was quick to avenge her as Cassandra was only able to let fly a rather inaccurate shot before dying because Jonathan was almost in her face as soon as Natasha had snuffed it. In 3 minutes NJS were already 4 to 1 to the better, Natasha went to find Jonathan again while picking up a Pigeon 2 (extra noisy).
Trent meanwhile was closing from behind Jonathan although Jonathan was looking on Trent's screen and knew exactly where he was, he took cover behind a pillar and waited for Trent to come, however Trent too knew what Jonathan was up to and waited for Cassandra to join the party to try overwhelm Jonathan however he didn't see Natasha closing in from behind firing her Pigeon 2 at Trent, although it is not a strong weapon it is not a bad weapon either and when Trent reacted to Natasha behind him, Jonathan came out and opened fire with his TK84 however Trent was already dead before then. There was no way Trent and Cass could make up a 4 kill difference with only 1 minute remaining, especially when Natasha and Jonathan simply went into hiding to stall out for time giving them the first win.
Now it was the Russian alliance against Dark Heroes. The Russian Alliance chose Xenia and Natalya while Dark Heroes went with Jo and Velvet. The level was shrine (Temple), Joanna had started by immediately picked up a Bokmin 9.
A/N: How do I come up with these stupid weapon names? All are explained at the end of the chapter, if anybody cares, some are just stupid though.
Xenia too was quick to get a weapon, she got the sower and immediately confronted Joanna with the sowage function sending hundreds of green bullets everywhere. Joanna tried to retreat due to her weapon being inferior however Xenia's weapon was overwhelming as Joanna quickly died, Velvet and Natalya were also circling each other firing pistol shots at each other Velvet with a Pegasus and Natalya with a Biter. Velvet however was used to her own settings and forget to switch to go boom shells and tried to do so in the heat of combat but this was not practical as Natalya charged aggressively towards Velvet catching her off guard resulting in another kill for the all Russian team.
Xenia's relentless chase of Joanna continued even after she had just respawned, Joanna picked up an Amalthea and immediately turned the tables on Xenia after switching to max pressure shells, and although she took considerable damage she was able to bring her highly aggressive opponent down, reloaded she tried to find Velvet however Natalya had been headed to the aid of her team mate and hit Joanna in the back with a full charged Biter shot. In a surprise the Russian Alliance was up 3 to 1, Natalya's biter recharged again as Velvet picked up a killer she fired and tried to find somebody with the onboard camera, she had found somebody it was apparent they hadn't seen the rocket coming, she watched the fire fight as they each fired their Biters at each other, Velvet's rocket closed in on her target as she crashed into them.
Joanna was livid "VELVET what are you doing?"
Velvet gasped "Was that you, I thought you were Jackie"
"NO! I told you I was playing as somebody different so everybody wouldn't go for me" Joanna rolled her eyes
"Oops" Velvet covered her mouth sheepishly but in the process she was quickly moped up by Xenia's sower charge.
That was the end for Joanna's team they had no kills at all since Velvet killing her team mate set them back a point and Velvet's own death put them at 4 to 0, there was no chance for a catch up as Xenia and Natalya both had overwhelming weapons as well as a strong advantage. A shock upset as an unlikely set of allies took victory over one of the favourites.
In round 2 of the competition the teams would shift members.
Two nerds a guy and a lady against NJS
Russian alliance against the corporate alliance
Dark heroes with the bye
If the corporate alliance lost this match they would be out of the tournament, but they had to shift members, so in the first game with two nerds a guy and a lady Jonathan sat out so he could play again in the next match leaving Sean and Natasha, a rule was that in teams of 3 no member could compete three times in a row so Jonathan would sit out the next one and Trent would be out for the next match as Cassandra sat this one out. While the teams of 4 had to shuffle members completely, meaning Dimitri and Valentin were up for the Russian Alliance, but Dark heroes had a bye but next match James and Alec would step in. The exception to this rule was for the final in which any member could be used regardless.
Natasha, Sean, Daniel and Grimshaw got ready for the game.
The level was the Science lab (Facility and I refuse to call it Felicity) Natasha rushed straight to the vicinity mines and she drew them. A groan was heard from the audience, viny mines are annoying, whether you are using them OR against them however Natasha was quite confident as she placed one on some of the doors, Sean kept note of where Nat was placing them spotting a k9 villain that he would have got had he seen Grimshaw throwing a hand controlled mine and denoting it immediately killing Sean and himself, Daniel seemed to be satisfied by this as he picked up a Shuttle launcher firing it into Natasha however she sidestepped placing a mine on the entrance to the room, Daniel didn't see it and it triggered. Sean had recovered picking up a Pigeon 2 (more vision), however he remember that Nat had placed a mine on all the doors around him so all he could do was sit and wait for someone of the other team to try open that door.
However he wouldn't get such a chance, nobody respawned near him for a good two minutes and Grimshaw and Daniel were working together to make Natasha's life a little more difficult. Daniel fired a shuttle down the hall way, she fired back with a Biter while retreating however Grimshaw was waiting for her with a longbow as he fired the deadly shot into Natasha causing her to drop. To make things worse Daniel had placed a mine on the respawn point where Natasha appeared killing her again making the score 2 to 1, however finally Grimshaw came after Sean which levelled up the scores at 2 a piece with a minute remaining.
Daniel found Grimshaw and Natasha found Sean they picked up their weapons, Sean changed to K9 villain, Daniel to hand controlled mines as well as an energy deflector, Grimshaw to shuttle launcher and Natasha had her viny mines again, she threw one against the wall knowing that the one she had placed earlier would detonate where she then waited for the explosion to clear before they headed into that room where they planned to hide knowing there was another mine for them to clear, provided they remembered it was there.
They did… Daniel threw a mine which cleared the first of Natasha's, then moved into the corridor.
"Hold still Grimshaw, there's another mine" Daniel cautioned
Too late, Grimshaw had already set it off killing himself… it looked like NJS would hold out the win even if Daniel entered it was likely they would be able to kill him. However Daniel wasn't about to give up, he ran into the room and set the mine off without time to really look where his targets were, Sean fired his weapon but hit nothing because the smoke was impossible to see through from the previous mine, Natasha saw the second mine being thrown but could do little about it as Daniel denoted it killing her even before it hit the ground, Sean was in the process of reloading and was given an easy kill by Daniel… Daniel had saved his team from defeat winning 4 kills to 3, it was apparent though that Grimshaw was a bit on the weak side.
The next round was between the Russian Alliance and the corporate alliance
The two alliances was thought to be a close match… however it was quickly shown this wasn't the case, Cassandra's decision to step out of the match so she could have more control later on was the poorest one she could have possibly made, the fact that Trent was always arguing with Terry and that Trent wasn't even that great and Terry was only average himself, meant the Valentin and Dimitri massacred them after good team work both of them finding the TK84 which was by far the best weapon available compared to the blade, dart gun, beamer and the smoke generator. The result was a ridiculously easy win for the Russian Alliance, after Dimitri cut off access to the TK84 in the Pit (Ravine) and Valentin hunted down his victims giving them a 12-1 victory, even though they had two kills Terry committed suicide in frustration as Trent tried to take Dimitri's post without waiting for him for the fifth time.
Even though there loss was less then glorious Cassandra still seemed to be in a good mood "Yes well we can't always win now can we" Cassandra spoke as if it was nothing to her
"Aren't you ups…" Trent started before Terry covered his mouth
"No, not really. I know you tried but it just wasn't good enough" Cassandra walked off humming happily, Trent and Terry stared at each other wondering how long Cass's good mood will last, anything more then a day was too much to hope for.
With the corporate alliance eliminated this was the next round.
Two nerds a guy and a lady vs dark heroes
NJS vs Russian alliance
Russian alliance and two nerds a guy and a lady were both unbeaten so far, however the Russians had got two wins, the winners of this matches would play in the final.
Suzan and Foster prepared, Foster was obviously nervous, facing off James and Alec, although he didn't rate his chances as non existent. The level was the Stronghold (Fortress), Alec picked up a Gameboy gun, James started near the top and picked up the Longvision, however in a very aggressive move he was quickly disarmed by Suzan who wasted no time in using the weapon to full effect as James tried to get away but hesitated when moving near the edge of the top level (which leads to death if you fall), but standing still is the last thing you want to do against a long vision user as he took the shot and died. Alec speed up more to try avoid the shots from Suzan, but he saw Foster come up close with a blade, causing him try find a way around however by this time Suzan had picked him off.
However just as Suzan locked onto James' new position she was out of ammo, so she needed to either get a new gun or more ammo, but she wouldn't get the chance to do either as Alec's k9 villain cut her to pieces. Foster came back at him with a Tornado unleashing all 50 bullets at close range but Alec was quick to spot it so it didn't quite kill him but dealt considerable damage, Alec took the chance while Foster was reloading and fired however Foster wasn't going to stand still while reloading and side stepped the stream of bullets however a few hit him but he got his shots off at Alec which this time was enough to kill him. Foster picked up his K9 Villain and already had ammo for it, James came also with a tornado and both fired their weapons off, but Foster knew he was fighting a losing battle with less health so went and jumped off the roof safely and onto the platforms and opened the door to escape the fire fight, while Suzan was able to take advantage of James' distraction picking him off again with a long vision, this put them at 4 to 1 with only one minute and 30 seconds remaining.
Joanna was very worried… they shouldn't be losing to this team, it was all Velvet's fault, had they won they would have been far better off, playing against Jonathan's team, at least if she lost it wasn't going to be embarrassing, they would go out of this tournament winless against two teams they should be running rings around, that was horrible. However they weren't going to give up yet as James had found a Great Unicorn. He switched to the grenade function and let fly in the centre as he saw Alec in another fire fight as Foster fired his gameboy gun at Alec who only had a blade and throwing them desperately, the grenades were well placed killing both Foster and Suzan who were trying to double team Alec, the crowd gasped in excitement as the scores were now 4 to 3 with seconds remaining. Both Foster and Suzan knew that would not be able to get their own Super Unicorn fast enough, however they would not need to, the alarms had started sounding seconds remaining, as Alec and James entered the same building that Foster was in, Suzan came by but found all the weapons missing, Alec changed directions to take on Suzan, James fired shots from his super unicorn, Foster was hit but looked like he would survive, however in the last seconds the flames got the better of him killing him tying the match at 4 kills a piece however as Alec hi fived James for the save, he was punched by Suzan (in the game) and because of the fight before he actually died causing them to lose 5 to 4! The audience cheered and clapped as Suzan's save to beat James' own save put them into the finals.
Daniel was obviously very pleased by this "That was great! I really thought it'd go down to a tiebreak"
Foster too was overjoyed "Yeah, that last punch was right on"
Jonathan and Sean were ready as Natalya and Xenia were up again, both were aware of Xenia's aggressive style and the plan was to use that against her provided the weapon set allowed it. The level was Block 96 (Area 51) and Jonathan immediately picked up the golden paddlepop which caused an oooo to fall over the room as he was known for his reputation for getting a quick amount of kills with it, especially if the energy deflectors were unavailable, Xenia got a Unicorn while Sean and Natalya were both trying to find weapons.
It didn't take Jonathan long to find the unarmed Natalya and pick her off and by this time Sean had found himself a Pegasus, Xenia came to him and both exchanged fire however Xenia's weapon was quicker although Sean took a decent chunk of health off her in the exchange but nonetheless it kept the scores at 1 a piece and Xenia threw down her Unicorn using the vicinity function and drew out Sean's Pegasus. Natalya had found an annihilator in the circular room with the roller door and saw Jonathan coming on the radar and fired several shots randomly into the air that she hoped would bounce off the roof and get him as he came out the door on her left however Jonathan was better then that and stopped at the door, after waiting for the explosion to wear off Jonathan exited the room and ran straight at Natalya firing his Magnum, sidestepping 3 of Jonathan's 6 shots she saw Xenia was on her way and continued to retreat and fire but Jonathan was out predicting where Natalya would try to fire, it looked as if Natalya would survive until she backed into the Unicorn placed by Xenia which killed her resetting their score to 0. It was still 1 to 0 with 2 minutes gone, with Xenia and Jonathan still yet to have their first death of this game.
One of them would be now walking away with the first death as Xenia dived behind the corridor after firing a few Pegasus shots but none of them had hit, Jonathan aggressively charged at Xenia as she popped out just as Jonathan had fired which killed her setting them at 2 to 0. Natalya had picked up the Pigeon 2 but against Sean's Unicorn she wasn't going to last long, especially in a narrow corridor however she did put up a decent fight and although she was killed Sean's health was nearly depleted.
Xenia came up behind Sean and punched him out which killed him and she took his Unicorn, and saw Jonathan coming by and ran and fired which killed him as well. It was now 3 kills to 2 with 4 minutes gone, however both Sean and Jonathan were unarmed having just been killed and Natalya drew out her own Golden paddlepop, Jonathan crawled into the passage way and picked up an annihilator, he saw Xenia coming to the same passage armed with a unicorn however she didn't notice that Jonathan had already picked up the weapon, it would be a mistake that would cost them the game because he fired and Xenia had no chance of turning back as the bomb bounced right into her body killing her giving them a 4 to 2 lead, Natalya was trying to pick off Sean with the Golden paddlepop and although Sean had a Pigeon 2 he knew it was probably better to make Natalya work for the kill and stall the win out, the siren sounded and although Natalya did finally kill Sean, Jonathan killed Xenia again for good measure giving NJS the win 5 to 3.
With that win 2 nerds a guy and a lady would face off against NJS. Suzan and Daniel were playing for 2 nerds a guy and a lady and for NJS it was Jonathan and Natasha. There would be a five minute break before the start of play.
"Wow, the finals… good luck you guys" Foster wanted Suzan to play because of her unpredictable play style, Suzan seemed to accept this and Daniel was generally good at the game although wasn't sure of how he would fare against Jonathan.
Daniel took Foster out of the room "You got our secret weapon?"
"Secret weapon?" Foster seemed confused
"The cookies"
"Ooo right" Foster drew out a plastic bag of cookies "Got 'em right here"
Daniel nodded "Excellent, before the match make sure they get THOSE ones. With any luck it will throw them off"
Foster looked puzzled "What you mean they all aren't the same?"
"Of course not, only those 2 are the ones Suzan made yesterday" Daniel pointed onto the two cookies that while not discoloured Daniel made sure he could tell the difference "Her mother made the other ones, but odd I thought there were 3 from Suzan, oh well"
"Ooo, that's why they tasted right" Foster clicked his fingers
"You actually ate one? Lucky it wasn't the wrong kind then"
Foster shrugged "I was only testing them, but anyway good luck out there"
Foster and Daniel came back into the main hall with their cookie surprise still hidden in Foster's bag
Dr. Caroll would be informing them of a rule change in the final "Yes well played all of you, even if you didn't make it to the final we saw some spectacular play. However for this final, instead of playing the usual rules this time its Prince of the mountain for 5 minutes and kills do not score so concentrate on keeping in the area and keeping the other team out" A few murmurs filled the crowd "Oh and one more thing, there will be a random rule put on that you will have to figure out for yourself" Dr. Caroll asked Velvet to do something with the n64 and got everybody to look away.
Jonathan didn't seem too bothered by this and neither was Natasha, they usually stuck together anyway, however Daniel was slightly concerned because his team play relationship with Suzan was certainly nowhere near as sound as Jon and Nat's.
"Foster, maybe you should play" Daniel sighed as he came to this conclusion
"I'm afraid he can't, you've chosen to play, you can't change it now because that would defeat the point of the surprise" Dr. Caroll eyes beamed upwards in an annoying 'I'm right and your wrong fashion'
"Hey don't worry, you'll do okay it's only for fun anyway" Foster patted Daniel's shoulder reassuringly
Daniel wasn't so sure, he knew how fanatical, moody and downright unpredictable Suzan could be which was the reason they used her, but now with the team play element brought in much more he thought that he would certainly be at a disadvantage.
So who will win the Perfect Dark competition? Will Jonathan and Natasha fall for the cookie trap? Will Suzan be as unpredictable and reckless as Daniel is predicting? How many chapters are left? Hey I can answer that 2 maybe 3 not counting this one.
Weapon name explanations
Some of these are lame but the entire idea is supposed to be somewhat stupid and illogical. Any that are lame/obvious do not have an explanation. I also know some of these HAVE been named differently in the past and have changed again however I think there are only 2, virtual cookies if you can pick them.
Hand held bomb/Grenade: Nothing to be said here…
AR34/TK84: Nothing special, just letter and number changes.
Magsec4/Bokmin9: Magazines and Books are readable, and sec is short for second while min is short for minute.
Phoenix/Pegasus: Both are mythological flying things
Reaper/Sower: The saying you reap what you sow came to mind here.
Callisto/Amalthea: Callisto is one of the moons of Jupiter, Amalthea is another and I thought calling it the Ocarina of Time would be funny but dumb.
Slayer/Killer:
Vicinity mines/proximity mines:
Hand controlled mines/remote mines:
K7 Avenger/K9 Villain: Not the first time I've used this, another chance for some virtual cookies if anybody picks where I've used this before.
Rocket launcher/Shuttle launcher: Both are put into space yay.
Knife/blade:
Tranquilizer/Dart gun:
Laser/Beamer: Yeah these are getting bad aren't they
N-bomb/Smoke generator:
Laptop gun/Gameboy gun: First it was computer gun but that wasn't much different, I tried to think of something compact yet still electronic.
Farsight/Longvision:
Cyclone/Tornado:
Dragon/Unicorn Super Dragon/Great Unicorn: Although both are very different creatures, they both have magical links and I didn't fancy using the Chimera. Aside from the fact that calling a powerful weapon a unicorn is amusing. Maybe Crista came to mind when I thought of this one, she's apparently a unicorn on this test which she's very pleased about because it says they are good at doing everything (eye roll) but okay she admits its not true. If you are curious I'm a bee… fits I say.
Shield/Energy deflector:
Devastator/annihilator :
King of the hill/Prince of the mountain:
CX246 Paddlepop: All the letters and numbers are minus one, Magnum is a type of ice cream and the paddlepop is another kind, Magnum's are considerably more expensive.