Chapter 11 Battle Time Part 1
Meanwhile the Gamer Pros were searching around for 1 before he hurt anyone. However it wasn't so easy as while 1 was destructive he wasn't stupid enough to leave a trail behind. 0 knew that he could be manipulative if he so desired but he just preferred to use violence more often.
"How on earth are we gonna find this guy?!" Tom asked angrily.
"I don't know but 1 had to have left something behind that could give us a clue on where he is," Amanda explained.
"He might not be the brightest but he's certainly not stupid. I should know I remember seeing him in that training room where he, 2, and 0 were in. He loves to cause mayhem and wants to destroy everything he can get his claws on, but he's smart enough to clean up the mess so no one can find him," Boris explained.
"Well there has to be some way we can find him. But how can we, is the question?" Via asked.
The group stopped and tried thinking of ways they could try and find out where 1 had run off to. They all brainstormed ideas till Jerry had a unique idea come to his mind. "Hey Via I got an idea!" Jerry exclaimed.
"What's that?" Via asked curious about what Jerry's plan was.
"Well remember how you can travel into the virtual world?" Jerry asked.
"Yeah? Why's that important to the plan though?" Via asked, intrigued by what Jerry was saying.
"Well what if you go into that world to try to get in touch with 2? If 2 is inside of 1's head then maybe we can find him thru 2," Jerry suggested.
Via thought for a moment about the whole plan. She wasn't sure if she wanted to fight against 2. That was mainly because the guy had more experience in the virtual world then she did. Even if she had gone into that world before she didn't remember anything about it at all, as her memories were still processing.
"Um I'm not sure, I don't know if I can square up to 2 in the virtual world. That and I've also been trying to see if I can go there again, but I haven't been having much luck with that factor," Via explained as she looked down to her cybernetic arm.
"Hey V, listen to me," Boris said and put his hand on her shoulder. Via looked up at Boris and saw he had a serious look on his face. "I know you can fight him, you might think you can't fight him because he has more experience than you in the virtual world and that might be true. But you have something he doesn't, and that's all of us!"
When the rest of the group heard him say that they understood what he was implying. Boris was inferring that they were all going to help her with finding 2 and fighting him in the virtual world.
"Yeah Via! There's just one of him and seven of us! He won't stand a chance against us!" Callie declared with all her heart.
"And we're all really good at video games so we can kick his botic but, and if he dares try to pull anything we'll show him what we're all made of!" Amanda stated firmly.
The others all nodded and agreed to support Via in the fight that would come. With this knowledge Via felt more confident with herself and facing up to 2 in the virtual world. "Alright let's go then! But what game should we go into where we can fight him?" Via asked.
"Oh I got one! A game full of magic and technology! It's called Enchanting Cyber Blast 3!" Callie exclaimed excitedly.
"Um, I don't remember that game," Via said.
"Well it came out while you were missing so I guess it makes sense that you wouldn't hear of it. That and combine it with your amnesia so it's understandable," Jerry explained.
"Well let's all head back to our places and get our VR headsets on! That game is a VR game so we'll have a better chance with how the headsets hook up our minds to the games," Amanda explained.
The others all nodded and made their way to their homes to get their gaming on. Callie looked at 0 and noticed that she seemed to be pretty sad, and she had a feeling on what it was.
"Hey 0 are you alright?" Callie asked.
"Not really, I'm still upset about how 1 rejected and hurt me. It's also all my fault that he's now free and he'll do who knows what to other humans and bots! And with 2 being in his head it's only a matter of time before 1 gets him a new body. With that they'll try to recapture Via and Boris! And I'll be dismantled! And! AND! AND!" 0 yelled in a panic, but she stopped when Callie put her hand on her shoulder in a calm reassuring way. 0 looked at Callie and saw she had a reassuring look on her face.
"0 it's not your fault. 1 tricked you, he's a manipulative jerk so it's not your fault, he would've found another way out without having to trick you. And besides if he doesn't see you for the kind bot you are then he doesn't deserve you!" Callie declared.
After hearing Callie say that, 0 felt a little better, but she still felt guilt and worried about everything. "Now let's go try and find 1 by fighting 2 in the virtual world!" Callie declared with excitement.
0 smiled and nodded, she then followed Via to her grandparent's place so she could plug herself into the VR headset.
Meanwhile 1, 2 and Phil were in an abandoned junk yard where Phil was rebuilding 2's new body. 1 thankfully had provided him with blueprints on how to build it so he didn't struggle too much. The junkyard did have some material needed, but 1 would need to go out and get some parts for the body. Right now Phil was using a blow torch to weld some metal parts together. He looked back to 1 who was sitting on what was left of a broken chair drinking oil out of a broken bot head. Phil wondered why 1 seemed to be so violent and hate humans as much as he did.
"Hey 1, um I was wondering, why do you hate humanity so much? And why are you so violent?" Phil asked cautiously.
"Hehe, well violence is always the answer in my opinion so that answers your second question," 1 explained.
"B-But what about my first one?" Phil asked.
"That's nonya," 1 replied.
"What's nonya?" Phil asked.
"None of your business!" 1 yelled angrily, making Phil shut up.
1 then laid down in the chair and went into his head to talk to 2. Phil meanwhile went back to rebuilding the body as he was too scared of 1 to try to run away as he was both too far away from home and he didn't want to be hunted down and killed. Meanwhile in 1's head 2 was searching through some things trying to find something.
"Hey 2 what are you looking for?" 1 asked.
"I'm trying to find Subject 783, once she enters the Virtual World we can pinpoint her location, or fight her within the world itself," 2 explained.
"Oh hehe, I like that idea! I wonder what game she'll enter? I hope I can commit lots of violence in it and destroy everything in sight!" 1 exclaimed excitedly for the destruction to come.
"I hope so as well, after all watching you cause chaos and destruction is so thrilling! Makes me remember that there are competent members on the team, unlike that useless 0!" 2 said angrily, upset with 0 for both her betrayal and helping the enemy destroy his body.
As 2 growled he heard a beeping noise coming from the locator he had set up. He took a look and saw that Subject 783 AKA Via had entered into the Virtual world. 2 looked to see where she was and found out that she was in a game called Enchanting Cyber Blast 3.
"Well, looks like she entered in a game, want to go in and greet her 1?" 2 asked.
"Why not? Let's see what she can do in the virtual world!" 1 declared. The two laughed evilly as they looked at the locator as they entered into the game to square up to Via. Meanwhile Via and her friends had all entered into the game, and she was amazed by its visuals. Everything looked both realistic and cartoon game style, the magical power ups had colored auras around them, with the color being a hint at what magic a player can get when they enter the game. While, the tech weapons and power ups were just floating there with no aura around them.
"Wow, okay I'm gonna say it, this is amazing!" Via exclaimed.
"You think that's amazing! Look at yourself!" Via heard Callie say.
She looked behind herself and saw Callie's Avatar was a fairy with a laser sword, wand, rocket boots, and more. "Wow Callie, you look great!" Via complemented.
"Thanks V! You look great yourself! Just look!" Callie exclaimed, and Via did look down at herself. Her avatar looked similar to her, including her botic limbs. Instead of a tanktop and shorts, she had blue leggings with white boots, a long sleeve shirt with the sleeves being pink and the chest purple.
"Wow okay I look good," Via said as she admired herself.
"Looks like you've got the human fighter and magic class," the two girls heard Amanda say. They looked to where her voice game was from and saw Amanda was in a red and black ninja Avatar with a laser Katana, nunchucks, stairs, and other ninja weapons.
"My girl is in the warrior ninja class, I mostly go for the ninja type classes in these types of games. After all, I got the skills and the techniques in real life to match it in the game," Amanda explained.
"Awesome, now where are the others?" Via asked.
"We're over here!'' the girls heard Jerry call out to them.
They all looked and saw the boys, and 0 all in their game Avatars standing not too far away from them. Tom was a nature class warrior elf, Jerry was an ice orc with a magic ice hammer, Boris was human cyborg class like Via, and 0 was a fairy robot and she looked super cute.
"Aww 0 You look adorable!" Callie exclaimed when she saw 0.
"Thanks! I love this avatar I got when I plugged myself into the game!" 0 exclaimed.
"Yeah and I love how the game can allow us to customize our avatars if we don't like what we get when we first enter the game," Tom explained.
"Awsome, also what else do you do in this game?" Via asked.
"Well there's a story mode for group players or those who like to go solo. But considering what we're doing we're on multiplayer where we have to collect weapons and magical abilities throughout the map. That will allow us to defend ourselves once the game goes into battle time, that's when other teams or solo players will begin attacking. Whichever team is remaining will be the winner of the round and they will receive in-game money and if they have a certain high score, depending on eliminations, and collection of magic/weapons, then you can even win some rare items!" Callie explained excitedly.
"Yeah, but it wasn't all that fun to play without you Via, and we felt bad about enjoying it without you here. So even if you can't remember us, we are glad to be sharing this experience with you," Amanda explained.
Via smiled when she heard that, pleased that her friends were happy to be sharing this experience with her. She also thought it'd be nice to experience this new game as the others she'd played before were ones she had played before getting amnesia. So having this new experience with a game that she didn't play till now was something incredible to her.
"Alright then! Let's start collecting! I wanna see what this game is made of! This mama is ready for trauma!" Via declared.
The group nodded and they all split up to different parts of the map they were on to search for weapons and magic. Via looked around and found earth magic that allowed her to control plants, a plasma fist blast, laser blade, frost freeze, telekinesis, and fire phoenix which allows her to summon a phoenix. Via just couldn't believe her luck on what she was finding in this game, it was exciting to experience. "Wow this game is so much fun! I wonder what the battles themselves are like when they start?" Via asked out loud as she continued to explore the map.
"Why don't I give you a first hand experience?" Via heard a familiar voice ask. However the voice wasn't a good kind of familiar, it was a bad familiar, one she didn't expect to have heard this soon after entering into the game world. Via turned around and to her horror 2 was standing only two feet away from her, his face covered with an evil smile. For just a moment like her memories, Via had lost her voice, unsure on what to say to the evil hunter bot in front of her.
Unfortunately 2 didn't want to stand around while trying to find his voice, as he went in to attack Via. Finding her reaction, Via leapt to her right and managed to avoid 2's oncoming attack. This was a good thing as the tree that was behind Via instantly got demolished when 2 crashed into it instead of her. Even if Via was just in a game right now she didn't want to test to see if the game would make her feel pain.
2 got up and turned back to Via with the same evil smile on his face; that smile made Via feel nervous and scared when she saw it. However she had to compose herself and fight back, otherwise this would not end well for her. So Via got her laser blade out and got into a fighting stance that Amanda had shown her while they hung out. When 2 saw this he smiled and changed his hand into a laser sword, before also getting into a fighting position.
"Hehe, this should be interesting. Let's see how well you can fight in this world, of course I'll be better in here as I've had more experience than you," 2 mocked Via, trying to get her to doubt her strength.
"Well just see about that 2. After all, that cocky attitude won't suit you well during battle! Amanda told me that her grandfather says, "never get cocky in battle, it'll come back to bite you," Via explained, not shaken up by 2's attempt.
2 growled angrily and charged at her, swinging his sword aggressively, slicing through the air till it collided with Via's sword. Sparks flew off the two laser blades as they made contact with one another. Via and 2 then separated their swords before they once again swung at each other making their weapons collide again. The two continued to do the same fighting style with their weapons, and every time their weapons collided Via backed up while keeping her eyes on 2. Amanda told her to always keep her eyes on her opponent when she was sword fighting so they wouldn't guess where she'd strike next. The next time the two clashed their swords Via used the freeze ability she got on 2's feet. 2 didn't realize that his feet were frozen to the ground till he tried to move but didn't get very far. He looked at his feet and saw that ice was crawling up his leg, a light blue glow emanating from the bottom of his feet where the ice was forming. Using cheats he was able to access in the game he traced the source and saw Via was using a freeze on him.
"Oh so you're using magic huh? Well two can play at that game 3, hehe," 2 laughed as he once again used a cheat that automatically granted him fire magic. He used the fire to melt the ice off his feet and legs. When Via saw that 2 had freed himself she jumped back in order to stay away from any possible upcoming attack.
"Hey what the heck! Since when did you get fire magic?!" Via asked, confused and surprised.
"Hehe, I guess you don't know about that yet, since we're in the virtual world, we can access cheats and glitches in the game without the automatic guard noticing and kicking us out of the game," 2 explained as he approached Via slowly.
Okay so we can do that, I should probably learn how to do that myself. But for now I gotta get to my friends if I wanna fight this guy fair and square! Via thought to herself as she turned tail and ran away from 2. 2 smiled, displaying his sharp metal teeth as he saw Via run for it. He deployed his wings and launched himself off the ground before taking chase. Via saw a shadow on the ground that judging by the shape certainly didn't belong to her or any tree in the game. She looked up in the sky and saw 2 flying over her, staring down at her like a predator to their prey.
"Hey! Via why you running?" Via heard Tom call out. She looked to her front and saw Tom, Jerry, and 0 all standing not too far away from her.
"GUYS 2's here! We gotta fight him!" Via explained quickly as she caught up with her friends. When she got to them she collapsed into Jerry's arms and tried to catch her breath.
"Hey V we're in the game, so you don't need to catch your breath as your avatar doesn't need actual air," Tom explained.
"Yeah well... My mind is in the game like what I did back at the pizza/arcade place! So I think the virtual sensation of being out of breath is more real for me than it is for you all," Via explained.
"That's true, as someone who's been here multiple times I can confirm that the virtual sensation you all experience in the game is more real for us," 0 explained.
"Thanks for explaining that 0," Via said as she got out of Jerry's grip once she had fully caught her breath.
2 then slammed so hard on the ground that it cracked and made a small pit. The four looked and saw 2 looking up at them and smiling evil, his acid filled tail slowly wagging around.
"So 2 you decided to show up earlier than we originally thought you would huh?" Tom asked sarcastically.
"Well I did not arrive alone, what kind of an evil bot would I be if I came alone," 2 started as he stood up straight.
"What do you mean by that? If you're talking about 0 then you're dead wrong you psycho bot! She's on our side now and she'll never work for your corrupted company again!" Jerry declared.
"You thought I meant that traitor! HA! No I didnt! I mean 1 he came along with me this time around. So we're gonna have some more fun this time round when we fight you all, and we've even got another surprise for you all," 2 explained with a smug smile on his face.
"What's that even?" Tom asked, confused.
At that moment the game announced it was battle time for all the teams. Then the Gamer Pros were all teleported together in one of the game's battle grounds.
"Wow, where are we?" Via asked after the scenery changed so suddenly.
"It's battle time!" Callie exclaimed, excited for the main event in the game.
"Yeah this is my favorite part of the game! We're going to be battling against the other teams on the map now! The last team standing is declared the winner!" Amanda explained also very excited for the battle.
"Um, one question before we start," Boris said.
"Well, hurry up and lay it on me! I don't want us to be the first one's out when our guard is down!" Amanda blurted out as she was ready to fight.
"Um, well where are the other teams? And why is it just us and THEM!?" Boris asked, as he pointed over to 1 and 2.
The Gamer Pros were all confused till they looked around and then onto the game's team counter and saw that only two remained in-game. The two being their own and the evil hunter bots, this both terrified and confused them as before they remembered many other teams were on the map. So the sudden disappearance of the other players was a shocking and scary sight to behold.
"Hehe well 1 great job, I'm impressed you were able to do that all by yourself," 2 praised.
"Wait what!? What are you talking about 2?!" Amanda asked angrily.
"Oh, well 1 here had taken out all the other teams so it could just be us here to fight," 2 explained as he smiled evilly.
"Yes! And I enjoyed tearing into them! Even if it wasn't as enjoyable as in the real world. And I still haven't been able to tear into a human's flesh yet I've been waiting way too long to do that! However, that won't mean I'll still find a way to try in the real world!" 1 exclaimed like a psycho, with a grin to match his tone.
This made all The Gamer Pros uncomfortable as they didn't like how 1 talked about wanting to kill humans.
"Um, Callie, why didn't the other teams respawn?" Via asked.
"Well when a player dies in the game they are teleported to a different map in the game where they can still do the battle. So because 1 had killed all the other teams he essentially made it so it would just be us and them," Callie explained.
"Yes and I decided that I'd like to have a rematch in this world before the one in the real world when I get my new body," 2 explained.
"Well guess what 2! We're going to find you and 1 and you two are gonna go where you belong! In the junkyard! However before you are scraped I've decided that I'm gonna just take some info out of 1's head so I can finally get answers on your company!" Via declared.
"HA! I like to see you even try to get that intel! I'm hard to find and I love to commit violence! So we'll see if you're able to win a fight against me and take what you need!" 1 exclaimed before changing his arms into fier blades.
2 also changed his arms into machine guns and got into his own fighting stance. The two hunter bots both showed their acid tails with the said acid dripping off the end. The Gamer Pros all got out their own weapons and got into a fighting stance at once. Both teams stood there glaring at each other waiting for who would make the next move.
An over voice then called out, "Ready?"
The two teams braced themselves for the battle that was about to start. The over voice then called out as loud as it was programmed to, "FIGHT!"
The two teams then let out their battle cries and charged at each other, determined to defeat the other.
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