Lol. I agree that you and Strop will be fighting out out in the end.
Yeah, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself and thinking of how to beat him.
Personally, I would like to write about Xzeno
I would love to see what you would write about him.
Without further ado: Conflict
As the contestants exit the mansion, the mask slips off and disappears as well as the illusion loosing their hold in their shape. Sasquatch is met with Yeti's annoyed gaze and complaining about the time, Phil is suddenly the one in the bottom of the pile of Jack and Bob. Nerg just looks at his brother, no one really missed each other. Dingsley looks at the horizon, welcoming the light of the approaching dawn. All of them the place they left, even though they exited the same door, there is no sign of any of the other contestants. As the last contestant steps out of the door, the mansion begins to flicker and fade, and screams erupts from it. High pitched, filled with fear, pain, despair. The mansion curls up, and explodes in a burst of dust. What is left is a terrifying sight. Some of the dancers, screaming, their faces distorted in pain, their bodies slowly withering. They are unable to reach, the essence of the mansion still there, separating life and death. A vixen with a white dress and flames from her back and hair crashes against the wall near the contestants, staring emptily out, her eyes almost popping out of their sockets, her skin dripping from the jaw bone. She screams, until her throat explodes against the transparent wall. Sadly this does not kill her. She claws at the wall. Phil recognizes her at one of the people he stole a key from. Actually all those melting, burning, screaming people are all victims of the contestants' hunt for keys. Males and females slowly dissolving, painfully slow. None of the contestants are able to look away.
Among the people children appear, little fluffy children, their screams louder, different than the screams of the adults. This is screams of innocents being punished for the crimes of adults. Slowly everything settle, and the essence of the walls disappear, letting the ashes fly away in the light breeze that came with dawn.
Xzeno looked back at the mansion with mild disgust. He had seen worse. Heck, he had caused worse. He felt mildly bad that they had to go in such an awful manner and manor, but the only good feline was a dead feline. Xzeno looked forward. He did not like the tower before him, but he was glad at the return of the sun. Xzeno disliked night, especially when he would be fighting felines. His thoughts were soon interrupted:
The contestants finally stand before the Tower, this bright blue, glass like building. It doesn't seem to have a door or any other place they can enter. The sun rises, its light making the surface of the Tower glitter like gold. Then something erupts at the top of the Tower, and an object begin to fall towards the ground. They watch mesmerized as the object continue its downfall, suddenly followed by a black dot, shooting towards the human looking thing. It reaches the human, merging with it all too close to the ground. An almost silent thud is heard, when the ground stops the fall.
.Good morning, children.. The voice of the Lady is heard all around them, probably coming from thousands of speakers on the various buildings. You have come this far, and now it is time for the tournament to begin. You will have to fight against these beings by your sides, and win.. A giant screen erupts from the surface of the tower, portraying Strop, Sasquatch and team, Xzeno, Dingsley, Phil and his team, Nergyl and Fallen, Charlie and Orlestat, all on a line. .Your opponent will be shown in a moment. The winner will go on to the next battle, the loser will be... My guest.. Her voice seems so sweet and yet so cold. .Have a nice day..
The lineup spreads out on the screen, showing each contestant with their opponent.
Strop and Orlestat.
Nergyl and Sasquatch.
Charlie and Xzeno.
Phil and Dingsley.
Xzeno was mildly offended by the whole deal. "Villains." he said to himself. He looked at the weird 2-D hologram and noticed that he was to fight the odd doodle creature. He decided that this creature was likely fictional, and started off to give the Lady a nice hello in the form of a grenade to the face. His plans were interrupted however, by the advent of Charlie. Xzeno saw him walking towards him, so he called to him in an effort to learn his intentions. "Hiya!" shouted Xzeno stupidly. He liked to think he did this because he wanted to hide his brilliance, but he didn't have any other plan. Charlie stopped in his tracks as he saw Xzeno. It appeared the other contestants had seen the 2D hologram showing their opponents as well. "You're the first friendly face I've seen in a long time!" shouted Xzeno, beckoning Charlie closer. The stick man fell for the ploy. "What's your name?" Charlie said at last. âFredithy P. Paddle-Waddle.â Xzeno said, extending his hand towards Charlie, "What's yours?"
"Ch-Charlie." he replied hesitantly, shaking Xzeno's hand.
"What do you reckon is going on around here?" asked Xzeno, honestly curious as to Charlie's findings.
"I have no ide-" he began, but Xzeno picked him up with telekinesis. The plan had been to lift Charlie five meters strait up an hold him facing Xzeno, but he ended up holding Charlie barely a meter off the ground by his left ankle. Telekinesis was pretty hit and miss with Xzeno. "How does this work?" asked Charlie.
"My intelligence is so vastly superior to yours that I can use it to lift things." Xzeno replied.
"That's kind of ironic, now isn't it?" said Charlie.
Xzeno thought about this. Charlie was right. He lost his concentration and dropped Charlie, who took the opportunity to make tracks. Xzeno pulled out his pistol and fired a shot at him. Charlie ran even faster now, probably looking for cover to formulate a plan. "To hell with it!" declared Xzeno, reaching for his hand-held radio. He knew no one would pick up on the other end, but he didn't need some one to hear him. He just needed to call in an air-strike, which a ranger didn't even need air support for. He rattled off a bunch of numbers and listened for the sound of phantom Federation air support. The auditory illusion of howling engines sounded from behind the tower. He had called for a small payload of high-explosives, along with a light dusting of napalm for dramatic effect. Xzeno had to give this Charlie guy some credit: He ran faster then he thought he could. It was a shame he was going to die though. And napalm was such an awful way to go. When the explosion hit, Charlie was thrown through the air by the shock wave of the blast. It would hurt, but he would live. Until the napalm hit.
Just Xzeno's luck! The napalm completely missed. Charlie escaped pretty much unscathed. Xzeno swore. âHow do you make this stuff?â shouted Charlie.
"Class secret!" responded Xzeno, formulating a new battle plan.
"I mean these explosives. They aren't like anything I've seen before!" shouted Charlie, becoming desperate.
"How do you know?" said Xzeno at length. "Can you tell what's in them?"
"Yeah, how do you make them?" asked Charlie, now more confident.
Xzeno thought for a while. "I might need to make a chart for you." he said, "Come here." Charlie warily obeyed. Xzeno set about creating a chart that covered many of the basics of high-school chemistry. He didn't know how much this creature knew of science, so he'd stay basic. Charlie then said: "Well this appears to be the elements, plus a few I have no knowledge of, but from where I stand I think I can understand the theory..."
Two hours later...
"Oh, ok, so that's the drive system system!" said Charlie after hearing Xzeno's explanation.
"Yeah, but I don't know how it works with airborne vehicles." said Xzeno.
"Who does this thing work?" asked Charlie, picking up Xzeno's beamsword. Xzeno didn't suspect a thing. "Well I was told that it-" began Xzeno, but Charlie seized the moment and struck Xzeno with the blade. Charlie underestimated Xzeno's shield however, and the blow glanced off. Xzeno used telekinesis to push Charlie back clumsily and ran back behind a rock. "Shoulda grabbed my shotgun, kid!" shouted Xzeno, selecting his grenade launcher. He fired blindly over the rock to try to find Charlie's position. He fired two more shots and whipped out his shotgun and went to check on the mess he had most likely made of Carlie. Xzeno sighed. He had to hand it to Charlie, he was resilient. Or Xzeno had just missed, which was more likely. Charlie was getting up when Xzeno pressed the three barrels against the back of his head. "Don't kill me!" Charlie whined.
"Fine." said Xzeno, and he fired a blast into the back of Charlie's left knee. Charlie screamed, of course. "Oh, suck it up! It won't kill you. Take this, in case some of those mouthers finds you!" said Xzeno, dropping his revolver in front of Charlie. With that, Xzeno turned towards the tower.
Not my best effort. I completly re-wrote it, as the first one was worse then this. I tried to incorporate Kr's character's abilities, but the end product is a little... fragmented. I just hope I'm not eliminated.
