My AC:FF FanFic, Brutality

[Silence]

Well, here goes nothing, hope you like it, can't garuntee when it will be updated or how often, but it's worth a shot. This FanFic DOES contain some profanity. Mostly d**n's.


Writer's note: Physics my not be accurate to actual in game physics. AC designs used in the story may not be actually good designs in the game, it's all fictional, get over the realism crap.


Brutality

Chapter 1: Raze's new Lyzs

Raze looked over the statistics of the last core test with her new core, Lyz. Lyz's AI was brand new as she just got hired as the architect for the new team, Omega-Beta. Raze was a former pilot who had to retire due to a head injury sustained in a fight where a laser blade struck the thingypit nearly killing her, and the league said she was no longer allowed to fight, and that's when Omega-Beta picked her up as an architect. She didn't know much about rogramming, but could learn pretty easily, and Omega-Beta's assembly team was one of the fastest team's in the Formula Front League when it came to changing parts on an AC.

"God d**n these new f**kin AI, I could run it so much cleaner"

"Raze, calm down, it's gotten better everyday, and you know your putting it against an AC which is way over it's head-hell the next fight we have is nothing like that AC anyways. Nowe get your ass on the upcoming fight, we've only got a week to prepare."

"I know you and your team get s*** done when I need it done, but this is just a joke, Bren is the best out there, and you know that d**n well. Lyz couldn't even hit Sforzato."

"But what if someone beats Bren before you. You won't be the best, and neither will Bren."

"Shut up Gaed."

"Raze, you know we have to challenge someone in the R-league within the next week or we get kicked out."

"I know Gaed, and Bren will lose to us."

"Raze-"

"You heard me."

"We can't challenge Bren."

"Go away."

Gaed was the owner of team Omega-Beta, and Gaed was not very happy with Raze's performance as a person or an Architect. When she was in the arena she was considered the master of the laser blade, known for doing many feats deemed impossible, including using the blade to block bullets. As of late, Raze had been stressing over her first AI, refusing to change the build from the one she used when she got to pilot. The assembly team was never too happy with what they were forced to uput together, as no AI could run it like Raze could, and given the current Formula Front league, it wasn't going to go very far.

The standing's were strange, the current R-League was insane, with uneven matches, and many pilots who chose to stay at a low rank to keep the "unworthys" out. Raze's first match was against one contender known to be one of these pilots. Team FSR. No one knew what FSR stood for, that was just something about the team. The Team's AC was a tank AC with only the large quad cannon mounted on the back. The AC however was notorious for using it's incredible armor to stop even the most offensively powerful AC's from beating it and advancing, and from the looks f it, Raze wasn't even caring about the intense match to come from FSR.

The head of the assembly team, John, entered Raze's office.

"The decoy's are mounted , anything else tonight?"

"Nope, I'll be here a bit, if I want any changes I'll just leave a list of them for when you guys get in. It should be ready though, as soon as I finish the AI."

"How is the AI coming along, is it ready to fight yet? FSR is gonna be a tight match."

"Well I've been doing tests with our current assembly and it's just hard programming this stuff, mostly getting it to be me."

"Hey you remember AI from the Day's of the Silent Line incident, don't you?"

"Dear god if you ever mention that again I'll have to kill myself, those AI were the reason we lost so many ravens, they killed themselves trying to program those stupid things."

"Yeah, it's before my time though. What's up with it right now?"

"Well I'm writing my AI by hand, rather than using the chips and all the base stuff most architects use. But my main problem right now is that it won't dodge s**t."

"Can you still put chips in for operations?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well the DEF-3 ch-"

"Been there tried that, makes the AI just not attack at all."

"Maybe we should change the design-"

"Leave now dumbass"

"Yes."

Raze's E-mail window opened.

You've Got 1 New Message From Gaed!!!!

Raze opened the E-mail. they were just challenged to a match this very first week they were in the R-league. They could not deny the match, as it was their first challenge and they had none of the acceptable reason to decline. Their match was for their spot, #40, in the R-league. If they won, they got to keep their spot. If they lost they got kicked out.

"F$@^"



To be continued, if anyone likes it.


GIVE ME FEEDBACK.

There will be a battle (Which will get a good action filled play-by-play) in the next update.

P.S. Lyz is said like "lies" not liz.

[Tailsnake]

Nice start, but don't make the parts stand out so much. It still has a bit of an unnatural feel though, I don't know why.

[Shark]

Lol, thingypit. Maybe it was sensored...?

At any rate, that's a pretty good start but I'd like to see the plot develop more and those other characters too.

Ending was kinda funny.

[Silence]

Yeah tell me if you see any of those, it censored it funny (and I write lots of profanity...)

I'm gonna revise the first part of chapter 1 and add the last half. I wanna re-do the talking mostly so we'll see how that goes.

Plus it's good to see I started a fanfic trend....

[Silence]

Part 2 of chapter 1

Raze looked over the challenge from the new entrant team.

"Bah another bunch of right idiots trying to make it big.

"Takes one to know one"

"Gaed I was never rich and you know what I was a dam fine raven before I ever became an architecht."

"Says the woman deemed master of the laser blade and with a record of 56 wins and 2 losses."

"Better tha nthis team's"

Raze never looked at Gaed,she just stared at the computer screen reviewing the long task ahead of her.

"Think we can beat him?"

"Her."

"What?"

"Women make better architechts and you know that, plus the architecht is the wife of the head of the team."

"Think SHE'S a threat then?"

"Do mooses f**k ducks?"

"Occasionally."

Gaed left Raze's office leaving her to her work. Raze kept muttering to herself.

"God d**n why won't this AI work? Everythign is in the right f**king order and it's supposed to do the right f**king thing...."

Raze's computer shut down and all the lights shut uff. Power outage. "yay" was the only word that could come to Raze's mind.

Raze left her office flashlight in hand. The AI was a good as it was gonna get and the new rich team shouldn't be a threat.

Chapter 2: Kicked out?!?!

There were 2 days until the fight and Raze wasn't touching the AI, her hair was falling out and she couldn't handle the stress.

The assembly team was busy painting the AC to have the team's custom paint job on it, plus they knew Raze would have a fit.


"It's....."

"I know."

"But it's a...."

"I know."

John loved what they had done. They showed Raze a picture of the newly painted AC on the monitor in the main control room of the assembly plant.

"IT'S A USED TAMPON!!!!!"

John burst out laughing, the used tampon AC was his best idea ever.

"Ok, ok- here's what it really looks like..."

He switched the monitor to show the real AC, in it's new high gloss white and yellow paint.

"Perfect, just like my old AC."

"We held our end of the bargain, now you have to start winning matches."

"I think I can do that."

Things were mild until the day of the of the match.

Raze walked into the architechts booth with the other woman. She was a mild mannered woman, in her mid thirty's. Her hair was rolled into a bun, and looked the part of rich buisness woman. She saw Raze and scowled.

"So nice of you to shower today. Maybe next tiem you could put deodorant on?"

Raze didn't fitthe lady-like personage, but she wasn't that rough, sure she didn't have long hair, and she was the epitome of early 40's tomboy, but she wore deodorant.

"So nice of you to put a stick up your ass this morning."

"If your this mythical Raze, you definitely look the part of the "has-been""

"I party when I win, now stop buying dildos wiht your rich husband's money."

"Go get drunk again sleeper."

"Already am, got started partying early for our win.
Both women looked down into the monitors. Both AC's were dropped onto the battlefield, Rus Fields.

"R-LEAGUE ENTRY MATCH # 342-6438

TEAM OMEGA-BETA VERSUS TEAM HIERARCHY!!!"

The two women could hear the crowds cheering in the viewing stadium below. Since it wasn't in an official arena, they showed video of the fight in-between matches at the Grand Arena.

"THE MATCH WILL STARt IN ONE MINUTE"

The AC across from Lyz was a reverse joint legged AC mounted with Micro missles out it's ass, oddly enough named Big Tim. Raze had Lyz do opening procedure, opened missle unit to check for jams, opened parrying blade to check for power, activated laser blade to check malfunctions.

"FIVE

FOUR

THREE

TWO

ONE...

GO!!!!!"

Big Tim got a lock on almost instantly and launched a massive volley of 13 micro missles at Lyz. Raze giggled. Lyz let out 3 missle decoys and watched all the missles miss. Lyz show off a single shot from from her hydra2 and dropped it and her extensions. Big Tim was focusing on the missles, which gave Lyz jsut enough time to OB in for the kill. Lyz readied her OB and shot straight at Big Tim.

"Big Tim takes massive damage!!"

The annoucer loved the fight, recently most fights have been completely un-even and unfair.

Big Tim took a shot straight to the face from Lyz's parrying blade, and a quick left handed moonlight swipe. Lyz was in for it now, Big Tim activated his EO, the mighty selena, and started backing up. Lyz went for another slash but Big Tim got off a full volley of 13 missles that went straight into Lyz.

"F**k."

Raze watched it all in amazement, none of the tests went this well, and she didn't expect this quailty from Lyz.

Then Lyz took another volley from Big Tim, but a stray decoy pod from the first volley caught most of it, and Lyz was able to get another swipe from her moonlight and a wave into Big Tim.

Both AC's were dropping AP fast. Lyz was over-heated from the missles and Big Tim just got cooled off after the intial parry blade hit. Raze looked at the corner of her monitor.

Grid1 AP: 2637
Grid2 AP: 1588

She was winning, and Lyz was in position to attack one last time for the win. Lyz activated her overboost and shot away from Big Tim. Big Tim launched a final voley at Lyz. 13 micro missles. Lyz without any knowledge of it. Raze screamed at her monitor. Lyz went to loop to get in the last parrying blade hit. Razesaw the spread of missles hit Lyz. All of themm. No misses. Big Tim got a perfect shot, and Raze didn't think Lyz had the AP for it.

Grid1 AP: 341
Grid2 AP: 1588

Lyz was over-heated, the overboost wasn't helping. Lyz turned off her overboost and got Big tim with one solid parrying blade hit, and swiped with the blade.

Grid1 AP: 0000
Grid2 AP: 0000

Raze was pale. The woman sitting next to her had a smirk on her face.

"Sober up quickly?

"F**K YOU very *friendly* person!!"

The announcer came on.

"The winner by a margin no bigger than a hair is....."

"TEAM HIERARCHY!!!!!"

Raze's head fell down into her monitor, tears streaming down her face. She couldn't believe the loss. It was the worst thing imaginable. She was off the team. She lost her final chance at working with a core. She lost everything.

"There has been a review of the match. The head administrator of this match has maken a decision after reviewing the final milliseconds of the match has changed the descision of the judges. The official winner of the match is TEAM OMEGA-BETA!!"

Raze didn't hear the announcement, and the smug woman next to her left the room in embarassment.

"WOOOHOOOO CONGRATULATIONS RAZE!!!"

"F**k off Gaed I know you wanted me off, and now I am."

"THE ANNOUNCER JUST SAID THE ADMINISTRATOR CHANGED HIS MIND!!!"

Raze fainted. Gaed picked her up and carried her into the bus with the entire crew of team Omega-Beta.

Raze has no memories of that night, but then again no one else does, alcohol is great at that.





Like this chapter a bit? How was the battle? FEEDBACK PRZ!!!

ALSO IN THE NEAR DISTANT FUTURE I WILL BE HOLDING A CONTEST FOR A SPOT IN THE FANFIC!!! CHECK FOR DETAILS SOON.

[Tailsnake]

wow long post, I'll read this tomorow and give some feedback

Edit: I just read it I really liked it, I could visualise the battle

[Shark]

Nice update, I love the battle description. Very quick paced, made me want to read on.

I also like how you've developed Raze's character a little bit, and also the ending which was quite a reversal .

Good job, I'd like to hear more.

[Silence]

Chapter 3: Simulations, and horrifications

Raze was still hung-over from the night before, not realizing she hadn't had anything to drink and that she just fainted.

Raze went out tothe plant, driving there mumbling things no one could ever, or ever should understand. As she pulled into the underground lot, Gaed was standing in her spot waiting for her.

"How many drinks did I have last night?"

"Heh, none, you fainted when I told you the good news."

"Then why does my head hurt so much?"

"You hit your head on your monitor, and well I'm not the best at carrying women through doorways."

"Ok, but why the hell are you waiting for me in my spot?"

"We have to challenge team FSR tomorrow at the latest. The league is starting to grow and they don't want anyone to sit at the bottom."

"Ok I'll get right on the AI to beat FSR, they're the dumbasses with the chimera and too much armor right?"

"Yes and they've changed their AC a bit."

"How so?"

"They have a prototype shield and the league says that if we want to get paid extra for testing the part, you have approve of it."

"Why is it a prototype?"

"Cause it's an energy shield that when activated covers the entire AC."

"And your point is?"

"Laser blades won't do anything to it."

"HOW THE HELL NOT?!?!"

"I don't know. But it's a good sum of money for testing the part."

"How much?"

"20,000,000 credits."

"Or 20 billion junior bacon milk by-productburgers."

"Actually is closer 19 billion with taxes, but anyways go to your office, the details are on your monitor, and remember we get that much money even if we lose."

"Good to know I can make more losing this fight than I can beating Bren."

Gaed walked off to his car, Gaed was a rich man, who bought everything he had gambling on AC fights. Gaed knew more than most any architecht, which always made Raze wonder why he picked her. Gaed drove a very sleek car, which was considered the fastest car the public could buy. Gaed was very humble about his car, and often parked far away from buildings to leave spots closer for others. Raze always pondered about Gaed. He wasn't married, and as far as she knew, never had a girlfriend.

Raze went into her office and went straight to the window where she could look into the hanger at her AC. Lyz was getting the repairs done from the last battle. Raze wasn't happy at the damage Lyz took. The AI needed improvement on dodging capabilities.

Raze went over to her computer and opened the window for her AI. She minimized the window about FSR's new part and began to tinker a bit with her AI. After a few modifications,she opened up the window with FSR's new part. She noticed that in the e-mail it included a download to put the new shields on an AC to test. She immediately started the download and brought up FSR's test simulator.

She brought up the simulation after putting the part on FSR. FSR really wasn't THAT much of a threat. He had killpower, but if and only IF Lyz would dodge it should be just dodge all of the shots and then get a few swipes in. FSR only had the quad cannon to attack with, and nothing else, not even an EO core.

Raze opened the test. It was FSR's arena to pick, and Raze wasn't surre what it was yet.

Program Loading... Please Wait...




Another update TONIGHT make sure to enter the contest TO BE IN THE FANFIC!!!

[Shark]

I like how you make the parts more mangeable to read, it'll probably be easier on anyone who gets into the fic.

And I like how this is going so far, but I'd like to see some dramatic plot twists .

Of course, it's probably just me but I think it'll enhance the story... but I wouldn't really know since it's still too early too tell. Good job, keep goin!

[Silence]

Right now it's tricky to get plot twists in since it's so early, most people would over-look it. When the contest winner gets in it is when the story will really start to unfold. (WHAOMG SUSPENSE!!!) But until then, it will be fairly straightforward.

[Tailsnake]

OMFG AC4 Trailer AC!!! Well I want to see how this match goes.

[Silence]

Not not that AC, but it did inspire me to make the FSR match interesting. (trailer looks AWSOME btw)

I want to update tonight, but jammed my thumb really really bad (coming from a guy who gets hurts a LOT (I teach karate and am a hardcore fighter lol)) So I'm not doing any big typing.

Update tomorrow though if my thumb feels better, I think I chipped/broke it... Still moves though, so I dunno.

[Silence]

Continuing:



The arena loaded and Raze saw that it was Aros Highland and she was in the Grid 1 Spot. Lyz immediately back up to get out of sight of the FSR tank and activated overboost. Lyz was doing a wide arc to get beind FSR. Lyz came around a hill just about to strike when a large blast went off.

"F**K"

FSR had customized the AI to keep constant track of Lyz and it was doing an incredible job.

After the blast Lyz went back behind a hill, with the AI thinking the same tactic. A wide OB arc to get around them and then blades. Lyz activated the OB and went right behind FSR. But sure enough BANG. Lyz dropped MORE ap. Lyz now that this wasn't working, boosted away to max range dodging the chimera attcks. Lyz knew from the intial scans taht that was the only weapon. The FSR tank kept trying to take shots, but Lyz's all-defense AI proved the chimera useless. After the chimera was drained Lyz boosted striaght at the FSR tank. Lyz extended the moonlight- CLASH!

Fsr tank put up a shield which blocked the laser blade.

"HOW THE HELL?!?!?!?!"

Raze was pissed. This shield was defensively impenetrable.

Lyz went to parry it, but sure enough, the FSR tank just blocked it.

TIME OVER

TEAM FSR \ /\ / | |\ |
FSR TANK \/ \/ | | \|

Raze sat there looking at the screen. The results screen had her answer somewhere. Then she saw it.

She turned on the intercom.

"John I just e-mailed you a part, put it on Lyz. Now, we're gonna challenge the FSR tank. We'll annihilate it."

"Gaed. Get up here, I've got good news."

Gaed came running up out of breath. He'd never seen Raze like this before.

"HOLY HELL YOU'RE SMILING!"

"We're challengeing FSR with their new god-forsaken shield."

"Can we beat em?"

"Easily."


Chapter 3: Big shields and bigger guns.

Crowds we're cheering, and Lyz had a nice new gloss of paint on. Raze was up in the architechts box early, looking down at Lyz with a big grin.

A man came in behind her.

"Hello, how are you today?"

Raze was amazed at the politeness of the man.

"Hi, I'm Raze, good to be battling you guys today."

"Thanks, your AI and your AC has proved to be very efficient."

"After one battle? Nah, your AI though is incredible."

"Been working on it for 30 years."

"Silent line?!"

"Yes..... My name is Silver Fox, yours is Raze, correct?"

"Yes..."

Raze was amazed. She remembered seeing Silver Fox fight in Arena battles above her, he was so close to being an A rank, but so far away. Raze was amazed at how a polite man was part of such a beligerent team.

"FIVE

FOUR

THREE

TWO

ONE

GO!!!!"

This was Raze's first match to see live, and she hoped Lyz would prove her best. The grand arena was clean, ready for the carnage to come.

Lyz was changed a little from Raze's vision. Raze took off the back missle launcher and extensions, and put on dual nichirins. Flamethrowers. In the left hanger was a laser blade though, praying Lyz might get a hit with it.

Thbe match started out normally, with Lyz sitting back waiting for the FSR tank to drain it's chimera, then go in for the kill. 45 seconds in, FSR tank had no fighting power and only scored one hit.

"That shield is a good shield."

"Yes. But not invincible."

"You saw the weakenss?"

"Yes."

Lyz boosted straight at The FSR Tank. Got to closest distance and activated the nichirins. The FSR tank's Heat rose, but would not max out.

" The FSR Tank has good cooling, that is not the weakness."

"Wow..."

Lyz sat there flaming The FSR Tank who made no effort to move. The tank over-heated, but still had some 2000 AP more than Lyz. Lyz ran out of fuel and pulled out the left blade. She went for a swipe but the shield held true. Lyz went to go around the back, but no luck.

"What's the weakness?"

"One you cannot see yet, but you will know."

Raze forfieted the match. A pure loss, no way around it.

"Good idea, but not on any tank."

"Tell me."

"You'll know in good time."

The old man left, cane in hand with the fox head grip.

Raze sat there looking at the monitor, unsure what to think. They were stuck at spot 40 until Raze could figure this out. Even without the shield the tank was going to get modified to beat her.

"Your 20,000,000 credits richer, but have a loss on your record."

"I know."

"Did you meet te architecht of team FSR?"

"Yeah."

"Silver fox has a lot to teach, listen to him when he talks."

Raze walked outside to her car. She sat in it for a few moments beforing turning on the engine. She knew it wasn't that simple, but could it be done? Could she beat this opponent? She needed to look over the losses that FSR had, what beat their AC?

She went back to her office, at the Hanger and assembly plant. She had to figure it out.


Chapter 4: History in a bottle.

[Shark]

So Raze lost, an interesting development. I thought she really did have the weakness figured out but I guess not.

BTW Gaed's comment was pretty funny .

[Tailsnake]

Captivating, I like the AC3:SL reference.

[Silence]

Update tomorrow due to to emergency room visit this weekend.

[Silence]

Continued:

Raze kept wondering how the hell that shield had a weakness. It stopped EVERY energy attack and the Shell attacks went through, but had their balls cut off by the shield. There was no way the shield had a weakness to any attack. Raze kept equipping lyz with every right arm weapon, Karasawa, bazooka, ettin, missles, rockets, linear rifles, machine guns, parrying blade, handguns, and even the rifles. Nothing went through the armor.

Raze started looking at the shield itself. There had to be a hole. Somewhere, no shield offered perfect coverage, and this shield was no different. Hell if FSR was willing to give up both arm weapon slots and the extension slots for it, it had to be powerful. Raze had a model of FSR tank up and was viewing it with a camera in teh program. She zoomed around the tanks shield just looking at it.

Hmmmm.....

She kept thinking, pondering, wondering how the hell they'd get past rank 40.

Then she realized it. Team FSR wouldn't have the shield this time!!!

She looked over the contract she agreed to to allow them to use it, and sure enough she was wrong. The contract said that since she agreed to let them use it, they could use it in battle with her whenever theey chose to.

"F**kers"

She kept at her desk with the AI program in a seperate window ready to be edited for the battle with FSR. She told her program to analyze the shield and find a weak point. Sure enough, the shield's weak point was the one Lyz had tried to break through numorous times.

As she started testing every back unit against the tank, she got bored, and decided to go for a walk around the plant. As she went to leave, her phone rang. She went to answer it, but decided against it, since the number was blocked. As she walked around the plant, she noticed it was night, and most workers had gone home.

Raze went back into her office ance started testing again. She tried a micro missle launcher, with the extensions, against the Tank. Then she saw it, a missle had gone through. That was the weakness. The shield had no protection from vertical shots.

She tuned Lyz to have more leg weight, and equipped the centaur missles with some vert missle extensions. She added a pair of hand guns, with an extra pair in the hangers, and re-programed Lyz.

She opened the test program. She started the test, and saw that the missles were hitting, then immediately closed the program.

She picked up her phone, not noticing her new voicemail, and called Gaed., who answered groggy and not too happy.

"What the f**k it's 3 a.m. why the hell aren't you sleeping."

"Challenge FSR."

"What? Why? We'll lose."

"The shield has a flaw, and I found it."

"Raze the shield had full protection all around the AC."

"But not the top."

"What?"

"Challenge FSR and you'll see."

"You d**n well better be right about it this time or your finding yourself a new f**king job."

"I know"

She hung up and sent the new assembly reports to John, and went home, the new voicemail still blinking on the answering machine.




[glow=blue,7,900]TWO!!!!![/glow] Fights in the next update.

[Shark]

Ah, this is kind of hasty. I dunno, but I think we'll see a repeat performance of the last loss for some reason...

[Tailsnake]

I still can't believe Lyz didn't think of the simplest strategy. (this came to me when I heard of the AC) She could easily make a light wieght hover AC and equip it with A Pixie2 (for ammo) and a left arm grenade launcher (for damage). Once the battle starts she'd just OB behind the tank and stay there attacking whenever there were openings. The hole in that tank's design is energy useage, if a normal sheild can eat through energy the way they do, a full body shield's energy useage would be insane, it couldn't be activated for a long time even using the Orchid or Kujaku Generators.

Anyway that's just my view on it, it's your fanfic

[Silence]

Meh, like I'D do the obvious.


The shield thing, yeah, the shield concept has flaws, but it's a fanfic, and won't make another appearance, as it's already irritated me.

[Silence]

Chapter 5: Silence of the Shield

Raze was up in the Architechts box, eagerly waiting for Silver Fox to come up. She had all the respect in the world for him, and was eager to see if he had any advice for her.

"THIS MATCH BETWEEN TEAM FSR AND TEAM OMEGA-BETA WILL START IN ONE MINUTE!!!"

Both AC's were on the field, ready for battle, but there was still a bit of debris on the field so they had an exhibition match going on the monitors.

The exhibition match finished, and Raze wondered where he was.

"TEN SECONDS"

She began to worry, the match was about to start and he wasn't there. She stoppedthe nearest attendant.

"Where's Silver Fox?!"

"I'm sorry I don't know..."

"FIVE

FOUR

THREE

TWO

ONE

GOOO!!!!!!!!"

Sure enough the verts worked, after draining the FSR Tank of his ammo Lyz was able to pummel it from above killing it with one missle salvo left.

Lyz went home, not caring about the win party, as the win was unfilling. She got home and tried to sleep, but even alcohol couldn't put her out. She got up and drove to the team's assembly plant and went up to her office, seeing the new message from the unknown number still blinking on her answering machine.

"Dear god no..."

She pressed the button, and the machine started to play.

"... .... Hello, this is the 4th Quadrant mortuary, and we are calling to inform you of the passing of Silver Fox, an architecht. He passed last night on September 4th, and his funeral is on September 9th. He specifically asked that you attend his reading of the will too. We'll see you then. We're sorry for your loss, you have our deepest condolences."

Raze stared at her machine, eyes tearing up, not wanting to believe what she had just heard.

"I take it you just heard about it Raze?"

"Is it true Gaed?"

"Yes. The Funeral is tomorrow, they didn't want to procede without you."

"Thank you."

Raze had her back to him the entire time, not wanting to look at him.

"Gaed."

"Hm?"

"The next match is one Lyz can win with her default set-up, get the assembly team on it and make the challenge."

"Aight, stay here if you want to, there's cots in the storage closet."

Raze went over to her computer. She opened the window of their next match, Team Speed. AC Name: Blaze.

The next day, the funeral passed, and she attended, sitting in the back, crying her eyes out the entire time. When it came time to read his will, the few who were in it were asked into a back room to be in private.

The lawyer read:

"If you are reading this, then I have passed. I have never been one to have many close friends, or many material possestions, but the few who are in here are those who are close to my heart, or people I find very potential should they choose to be.

I leave Raze, the one Architecht I have met, with a fervor such as mine to be the top, my records of every fight I have ever been in, and every fight that has taken place.

I leave my family to divide the rest of my possesions, as you all were near to me, and I hope that you all would do as I hoped you would."

Raze was handed a case of disks on her way out.

"5 Million Fights. And it auto-updates with each new one."

The case had roughly 400 CD's of arena fights. Video, audio, end round statistics, EVERYTHING about the fight. Raze was in complete shock at this gift. She knew now, that she had to get to the top spot not just for her, but for silver fox.

Now to face Team Speed's Blaze, the fastest AC in the Arena.

Chapter 6: Blur's and Blasts





A more slow paced update, hope it touches your heart, I know the FSR fight sucked, but I was sick of that shield idea I had, no more fights will be like that, I promise.

Sorry I didn't get to the Blaze fight, I'm out of time in my Website class, I'll do it tonight.

[Shark]

Aw, poor Silver Fox, we knew so little of him.

But, now Raze has more motivation to get to the top. An interesting character development.

[Silence]

Chapter 6: Blur's and Blasts

Raze drank a cup of coffee as she looked at Team Speed's AC. Blaze. Amazed by it's lack of weaponry, she put Gaed on the intercom.

"Gaed?"

"Hm?"

"Challenge speed, I'm eager for this one."

"Why's that?"

"It's one of two AC's faster than Lyz and I need a mobility challenge."

"But you know speed is involved in another league right? They don't care about R-league."

"Then I'll piss em off so they want me to lose."

"But you will."

Raze sent a pair of e-mails out. One to the assembly team to put Lyz in her normal armor, with her normal weapons. And another e-mail to Team Speed. Speed was known in another league of AC's considered to be the best in the world, AC's that if your AI isn't perfect, you can't beat. She said some.... Not nice things, along with some not nice words, and sure enough she got a reply that she was to die. Raze smiled.

"Perfect."

Raze opened another window with Silver Fox's records of team speed.

She looked at their record. Over 150 wins, and 20 losses. No draws. She was amazed at first, but came to accept the circumstances. The wins were mostly in bottom leagues, and all losses came from R-league, and the uprising, overwhelmingly elite, Z-league. She watched some matches, most were the same, Blaze would boost somewhere, and take mount, shoot, then move before it's opponent could catch it. Amazing AI, truely amazing concept, and flawless AC build. She smiled. This was a design Raze admired in Z-;eague, and now she got to beat it, or so she hoped.

The match was in a arena that was highly supported by the Z-league, Fawlen Town.

Lyz stood across from Blaze, a blue and green AC with paper-thin armor, and under 7000 AP, and a single weapon mounted on it. The LX cannon. Designed to have the fastest possible OB, and the longest accurate shot with the LX.

Raze watched on her monitor. The architecht of Speed was a 23 year old guy, with a white T-shirt and jeans on. Laid back type of guy with a bald head, and a bunch of chinese writing over his back, which showed through his shirt a little.

Raze liked him, he didn't see the e-mail, he was bright and quite humble, he brought Raze a bottle of water when he came in, both of them knowing there was no food or drink allowed in the architecht box. He looked into his monitor with a gleam in his eye, he was one of the few who was passionate about his AC and couldn't care less about who he fought, he just liked tinkering with it to make it better.

"FIVE

FOUR

THREE

TWO

ONE

GOOOOO!!!!!!"

Blaze activated OB and went into a group of buildings. Lyz went stright up and looked down into the buildings. Lyz wasn't able to track Blaze with radar, since it was moving entirely too fast to be able to get detected. Then a blip went onto the radar. Lyz was struckt by a blast of energy knocking it off course and sent Lyz to the ground.

"Nice AI, how the hell does it not run out of energy?"

"Anceint Chinese secret."

Blaze was again into oblivion within the city. Lyz tried to pull it into visibility.

Lyz got hit by something, not an energy blast, not a weapon. Blaze was mocking Lyz. It ran into Lyz and knocked it off balance. Then an energy blast came from behind. Lyz was already on course and was lucky that it hit a building. Then Blaze made it's critical error. It flew on top of a building, and took mount for the LX. Lyz saw it and took the opportunity to OB. It launched straight at blaze dodging -barely- the LX blast headed for it. Lyz smashed her parry blade into it. Blaze was devastated. It over heated critically, and took almost 3000 AP in damage from it.

"Good match."

The young architecht left the box, leaving a small business card on his seat. Raze was stunned by his actions. She picked up the card and looked at it.

"Grant Dawin
Z-League Administrator
770-851-365-7745"

She turned it over. There was a note scribbled on the back.

"You're in."

She looked back up at the monitor. Blaze was able to avoid the moonlight swipe that was to follow the parry blade strike, but it was not able to handle the heat. It was incredibly overheated, and with no hope of getting to a stable temperature. It managed to hit Lyz with one more LX blast, but to no avail, as Lyz had just enough AP to survive one more blast.

Raze smiled. The team speed was a satisfying victory, but incomplete. There was something strange about Grant. She had seen him somewhere before, but didn't know exactly where. She had her fun att he party's and went home to find a note taped to her door.

"Don't stay in R-league. Murder will come to more than those who know."

She felt uneasy about the note and went inside. She felt safe in there. She pulled a 9mm out of her "purse" (it was more like a man-bag) and turned off the safety. She looked around her house checking for people, when her doorbell rang. 9mm in hand, she answered it, and sure enough it was a mailman.

"Package."

She signed, took it and closed her door. It was a small box and she opened it to find a small decorated box.

She took the small box, that looked as if it was painted by a child, and opened it to find a note.

"They cannot know. They do not know aboout this note. The most you need to know is that you should no go anywhere abnormal - only your home and your assembly plant are safe. If you go anywhere they will find you."

Raze was disturbed by all of this, and spent the whole night up, 9mm on her nightstand, waiting for something.

Chapter 7: Murder-Death-Kill



Update sometime this weekend. I need to get better about sticking to my deadlines.

FEEDBACKIFY ME.

[Silence]

Been a long time, but expect an update in the next week, swamped w/ school but I need to update this....

[Tailsnake]

I wanted to update mne this week but Homework is killing me, I need to finish my article for the school paper too