Lockdown Cheaters
(Reading Time: 03:34) Jamie boosted behind him and stabbed him with her flourish. He went down with an angry sigh of disgust. The announcer gleefully exclaimed, "Score! Deathsin has been defeated by Jamie using a Final Flourish!" The crowd went wild. But Jamie couldn't listen to it, because at that moment a Nameless recon had taken a potshot at her. She winced as it went through her Fallen raiment and retaliated with a flurry of Sentenza rounds. The recon cloaked, ducked under her fire, and threw her a surprise blast bomb. She couldn't dodge it in time, and was thrown against the wall in the blast. With only three pips of health left, she would have been an easy kill if the recon had been patient, but he instead rushed at her, and ran straight into her flourish charge. "Score! Lamenoob has been defeated by Jamie using a Final Flourish!"She boosted back to base, swapped out her current loadout for one with a Sudaruska and Callahan, and took the recon module. Just then, she got stabbed in the back three times and fell, defeated. "Score! Jamie has been defeated by Warmonger using a Final Flourish!" Wait, what? How did he get behind the energy barrier? The round ended, and her team headed back to base, broken and dejected at their loss.
"Dude, I didn't even see the guy boost up to me," exclaimed Joe-The-Girl. She threw down her helmet and stomped on it. "I swear, these nutjobs are cheating!!" Dimaggio had to agree. "Sumthin' ain't right about all this, it's true. Ah think they've hacked the game. Ah saw our Jamie get a whippin' behind the gate." There were sighs of amazement and disgust throughout the team. Jamie just cleaned her weapons. She said quietly, "There's nothing we can do about it besides quit, which is what they want us to do." Dimaggio objected, "But they also want us to keep playing! We are in a lose-lose situation!" Jamie grimaced. "Then we'll just have to find a way to win, won't we?" The team fell silent. She put away her flourish and began to clean her Suda. "Look, we need to work together, guys. If they keep splitting us apart, we will all be killed off one by one. Since they've undoubtedly found a way to hack through the Guardian field, our guardians will have to rely on their Venom Veilers and Gran Fausts." The next match was ready, and everyone took their places. Jamie found herself standing next to the enemy team leader, Peter-Seller. He grinned menacingly at Jamie and said, "You losers don't stand a chance." Jamie retorted, "Oh yeah? Well I happen to be standing next to some cheating cowards!" The enemy team just laughed her off. Deep down, she knew they'd lose again.
The match started off badly. Jamie had tried to deathmark Deathsin, but he somehow knew where she was and killed her with a Polaris spam. Joe tried haze bombing with her Veiler, but Dimaggio and Not-Jim-Dale abandoned her for some kills and left her to die by Lamenoob's Gran Faust. Soon, the opposing team had capped all the control points and began spawn-camping within Jamie's base, behind the barrier. The team lost the match...again.
Nobody was feeling very good. After some silence, Jamie said, "Look guys, I'm really sorry about all this. It's hard to fight cheaters. But we need to stop abandoning each other, and instead work together. They're coming at us one by one, and can't win if we all stick together and have each others' backs." Dimaggio hung his head in shame, and Joe wiped away a frustrated tear. Not-Jim-Dale said, "I'll go capping next round. Anyone object?" Nobody said anything, so he just took it that they were fine with his suggestion.
The next round was different from the others. Dimaggio and Jamie stuck by Joe's side, with Jamie deathmarking any oncoming opponents and Dimaggio boost-dancing around them with nigh-impunity, and while the enemy was distracted with this new and frustrating team, Not-Jim covertly recaptured the map's control points, immediately abandoning them when they became contested. Jamie even got the immense satisfaction of being able to Suda-smash the enemy leader.
When the match ended, the team went from upbeat to elated when they realized that they had won a bombhead mask. The announcer declared, "Blue team has won a Spiral Bombhead Mask! Congratulations!" Jamie hugged Dimaggio, who was both surprised and flattered, and returned the favor. Joe-The-Girl and Not-Jim-Dale shook hands. But the enemy team, the Red team, hung their heads, confused and saddened at their failure and loss of the bombhead for which they worked so hard to get, albeit illegally. It began to dawn on Jamie that the bombhead might be the reason they were cheating. She walked up to Peter-Seller and offered him her bombhead. She had desperately wanted it for so long, but now that she had it, it didn't matter as much to her. Peter wiped his eyes and looked up to see her generous offer, and gave her a confused look. Jamie said simply, "It doesn't matter to me. You can have it." Peter gratefully took it and forced a smile. He stuttered out, "Th-thanks" and put on the mask. He was elated that he looked so impressive in it. The rest of Jamie's team saw her generous act and, after a short period of reluctance, followed suit.
Blue team quit the game and went home, satisfied that they had won a match against the cheating team, and satisfied that they had finally learned to work together. Red team went home elated at having finally gotten a bombhead mask. Ever since, they fought in Lockdown without cheating ever again. As for Jamie's team? They went their separate ways, never coming together in Lockdown again, but remaining good friends for the rest of their days.
The End.
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