Jordan, Cecilia, Dylan, and Laura fly over to an airport, and Jordan paid for the tickets to the US because Akihiko was told to analyze the Silver Gospel and Jessica was going to be a contestant in a tournament there. The four decide that Dylan and Jordan should come under the guise of being a contestant, and, to Jordan and Cecilia's amusement, Cecilia and Laura would go acting like Jordan and Dylans girlfriends, respectively. They all decided that only Dylan and Jordan were strong enough to go into an actual battle. They were able to join, but they're not the only ones who came in with ulterior motives.
-Inside one of the hangers- "Jace, have they arrived?" A man in his dark IS says.
"Yes they have, brother. Right where we want them. 'John Reese'" Jace rolls her eyes.
"I couldn't come in with my real name, now could I? I have made a reputation for myself here already, and 'John Reese' is famous here. We have no quarrel with the people here so I have no need to break them if they find out that their mysterious champion is a world renowned criminal." The man says.
"Still, no one knows your real name, Ralem. It'll still be safe for you to use your real name here." Jace says.
"All the other people get cool nicknames! Why can't I have one?!" Ralem yells.
"I don't have one…" Jace says.
"Oh really shadow assassin?" Ralem turns his head towards Jace, glaring at her.
Jace throws his hands in the air in surrender. "Fine, obsidian archer."
"That's my IS you fricken dunce!" Ralem facepalms.
"Alright, alright, your new cool nickname is John Reese." Jace rolls her eyes. "You act so mature but you're really still just a child."
"I am not!" Ralem squeals.
"Go ahead and prove me right why don't you." Jace mumbles under her breath.
"Let's just start this tournament thing…" Ralem impatiently growls.
"Hello ladies and gentleman, welcome to the golden arena here in lovely california. Our contestants are here and are ready to be announced. I, Jacob Smith, will be the speaker for this event." The speaker yells in a stereotypical voice. "Contestants, please come out of your hangers!"
The crowd yells as IS pilots in their ISs come out of the multiple hangers.
"Here are your contestants!" Smith says and the crowd goes wild and starts chanting out one word, multiple times.
"REESE! REESE! REESE! REESE!" They all scream.
"An obvious crowd favorite! John Reese!" Jacob extends the "J" far past its limits.
Ralem does a bow and smiles.
"And, we'll be welcoming the Italian representative, Jessica Wheeler!" Smith points at her.
The crowd screams with just as much excitement. A few guys hold up some suggestive posters.
"She's taken people, don't get too excited." a few boos come from the crowd, all of them from some muscular guys.
"Now, for their tournament debut. Please welcome, THE WHEELER CLONES DYLAN AND JORDAN! IN THEIR ISs POISON HADES AND BLOODY WRATH!" The speaker holds his hand out towards the two.
One "I love you!" comes from the audience and there are some 'awws' as Jordan flies up to kiss Cecilia and comes back down. The camera zooms in on them and their kiss shows up on a big tv in front of the arena.
"Reese has returned along with his sister-in-arms Jace! Please welcome him to our arena! And joining us from texas, it's the savage Texas Chain! From the criminal-driven streets of detroit, we have Metro! Coming from great britain we have The Redcoat! From the deck of her grand, stolen, ship, the H.M.S. Barrage, we have Skull! This fine young woman here is a Russian Elite! Please welcome Sickle!" The speaker lists off the contestants remaining, coming to a total of 16.
"First line up will be!" Jacob points to the tv and the photos of the contestants move around a tournament layout. "Reese versus Jace! Jessica versus Draco! Jordan versus Serenity! Dylan versus Sickle! Redcoat versus Skull! Texas Chain versus Chuck! Metro versus Terra! Luna versus Sol! Everyone move to your respective arenas!"
Jordan goes to shake Serenities hand and sees Ralem. His calm gaze changes to a glare of hatred, but he returns to his normal face and says hello to his competitor, shaking her hand.
"Nice to meet you, like he said, I'm Jordan Wheeler." He smiles.
"My real name is Serena Grant, but you can call me Serenity. It's nice to meet you too." She smiles also.
"I think that, for a tournament, I'd rather befriend my opponent before fighting them, can we walk to the arena together?" Jordan asks.
"Alright. First things first I'm taken." She starts off.
"Ha, you saw that kiss cam right? So am I. And I'm not the kind of guy who would hurt the girl he loves, no matter how much it seems like I am a player." Jordan smiles.
"Good. So, what's your IS like?" She looks him in the eyes.
"It's similar to Blue tears, my girlfriends IS, except my drones are stronger and I have energy drain capabilities, what is yours like?" Jordan grins.
"Mine is a speedy close quarters combat IS. It has small blades on it and shield piercers on its palm. I call it Grace." Serena explains.
"So a speedy attacker versus a bulky tank. Seems like I'd be at the disadvantage, except I'm pretty fast myself. I don't think that means I'm gonna win though." Jordan holds his necklace. "What activates your IS?"
"In its resting form it's my ring." Grant holds out her hand.
"Mine is this necklace. I can activate it in origin form with this blood droplet accessory, warrior form with this shield, and into Ball form with this little spike ball accessory right here." Jordan shows her his necklace.
"So, I thought only girls could pilot ISs, what's your story?" She turns to Jordan.
"Like the speaker said, I am a clone of my mother and father. I have mostly my moms genes, including the IS gene." Jordan explains.
"Interesting. You're an interesting guy Jordan." She bumps into him.
"Hey, don't you go and fall for me, got it?" he says, but he's smiling.
"Alright." She smiles back at him.
"So, you know anything about the other contestants?" Jordan asks.
"I know John Reese is a legend here. He debuted here, and he won on his debut tournament. For a champion he is fairly mysterious, he is rarely ever around, but sometimes he stays over here but usually secludes himself. He is not known for being outspoken, if you catch my drift. He seems to be more of a shadow that we never really see. Jace was an infantry woman who worked alongside him. They know each other fairly well, and treat each other as family. Ralem is more of a mid-long range attacker, but is also pretty good in CQC, and Jace is more of a Short-mid range fighter with low long range capabilities. Metro is an all out attacker but her defenses are fairly weak watch out for her really bad backlash." Serena breaths then continues. "Terra is a very interesting pilot. Her IS has no flight capabilities but, instead, can dig into the ground. She sends down drilling drones to surprise attack her enemies. Red Coat is very strategic, and is more of a mid ranged character. Skull is more of a short ranged person with a classic pistol and a flaming sword and portable cannon on its hilt. Texas chain is a maniacal mid range fighter, he has no real strategy and is seriously unpredictable. Chuck is a close quarters combat intimidator. It's actually all robot, so it makes no mistakes, and it does its best to scare its opponent with maniacal laughter, and just scary remarks. Luna is a kind, shy girl. She uses smokescreens to put her enemy in the dark and, due to her infrared scanners she can see her enemy, and she, then, attacks with a scythe. Finally, Sol, her twin sister, is able to temporarily blind her enemies, and uses lasers that uses the energy of the sun."
"Ah, and you know all of this how?" Jordan says.
"Well, I'm a hacker. My mentor was abducted by an infamous group, and I'm very suspicious of Obsidian archer." She explains.
"Would your mentor happen to be Logan Lincoln?" He looks ahead with wide eyes.
"Yes, are you a student of his too?" Grant stops and looks at him.
"No, but we have the same goal. My father was saved by Logans Biotechnology genius. So, our family owes him. We're going to go save his life, would you like to join us? We know the coordinates of the place he is being held at, would you like to help us?" Jordan asks.
"Yes! I'd love to!" Serena says.
"Will your boyfriend be coming also? The more the merrier. We could have him hack into security, if he knows how to hack, that is." Jordan asks as they reach the point where they should split to get to their hangers.
"Umm... " She looks out at someone, smiles, and continues. "I was lying about that. I don't have a boyfriend."
"Okay…" Jordan looks at her and she hugs him out of nowhere. "Whoa, taken, remember?"
"So?" Grant winks at Jordan.
-in the hangers- "Who was she?" Cecilia says, jealous.
"No one you should be worried about." Jordan says and kisses cecilia, just to kiss her, but also because he needs to reassure himself of who was the girl he picked.
"O-okay…" Cecilia smiles.
"Good. Now, I already know her fighting style, and all the others as well. We talked on the way here, as you noticed." Jordan grins.
"Yeah, I noticed." Cecilia rolls her eyes.
"Cecilia, listen, I chose to be with you for a reason." Jordan put his hands on her cheek and looked into her eyes. "If my feelings were that frail, I would never have asked you out."
"Really?" Cecilia looks up at him.
"Yes, really. Cecilia, I love you, never think that someone could replace you, that's not how I work. The word substitution isn't in that dictionary." Jordan pulls Cecilia into an embrace.
"Good, now you stay that way, got it?" Cecilia kisses him.
"I promise." Jordan uses his pointer finger to make a cross over his heart.
"Contestants! Prepare for the first round! The first battle will be between John Reese and his sister-in-arms Jace!" Jacob says over the loudspeaker.
Hey guys! Welcome back to another one of my stories! It's orionrage29 here, and I hope that you guys will enjoy this new story. It is a continuation of rise of the red moon. We will be going more into the members of Phantom Task that are the original characters. That means Jace, Ralem Agni, and another, who will make up the special operations task force of Phantom task, known as War Machines. We will also be going into the slightly less explained Lincoln family. I still have only gotten one vote, and I know this is getting annoying, but please, vote for which story, including the spinoffs of ROTRM stated before. The vote is for the story where Jordan ends up with Charlotte instead, so if you'd rather have me doing something else, then you may vote, and I shall take the first 50 or so. I will wait until I get 50, or 6 months, whichever comes first. Please, vote, that's all I ask of you.