Chapter 23 - Tragedy of the Grizzly Lords (2/2)

At the start of the match on the other side of the map, the other team was also going over their own strategy.

"So it looks like we're going up against the 'Steel Wolves'" said a young man in his early 20s. "Sounds like a bad ass name, but against us 'Grizzly Lords' they will be nothing but wolf pups!"

"Sheesh Mark, why do you always boast like that, you've been the dead weight in every match so far!" said another member of the 'Grizzly Lords'.

"Shut it, I merely have been biding my time so you all may witness my true power!" said Mark, the same man earlier while trying to give his best tough look.

"Guys, shut up and get ready, let's play defensively at first. No need to rush it." said a woman in her early 30s.

"Don't worry Moira, I like to take my time, if you know what I mean." said another pilot behind Moira.

"I don't know what you mean Jeremy, you've always been the first one to finish since you come out so quickly and end up getting taken out first" replied Moira.

Moira had it tough being the leader of a squad with nothing but guys, she wouldn't have stayed in it but her little brother was part of it and she didn't want him to get bullied. She was kinda used to it at this point, getting hit on every match by her own team, male gamers were usually like this. Fortunately that's all it usually was, until today for some reason...

After 5 minutes the 'Steel Wolves' never came so they started to file out and make their way to the first barricades, Moira took point on the right side with Mark following behind her, Jeremy and Moira's little brother took the left, the fifth guy stayed behind to maintain lookout.

"It's okay baby cakes, I got your back this time" said Mark proudly as he got in position behind Moira and reached down and padded what would be the buttocks of her mech.

"NO TOUCHING!" Moira roared then without thinking aimed her gun at Mark's head and started firing the marker gun at him. Due to the gun not actually damaging the mech no explosion or damage actually accrued on Mark's mech and instead he got pissed and started firing at Moira. Jeremy opened fire on Moira hoping to take her out so she could cool off then, but Moira's little brother wanted to defend his big sister so he started firing at Jeremy as well. The last guy just stood there and sighed as 3 of the 4 drained each other's hit points. Moira, her little brother, and Mark were all dead and Jeremy only had 2 hit points left. The fifth guy finished off Jeremy just for the amusement of it. When they all died except for the fifth guy a timer began for 30 seconds to indicate the amount of time for them to respawn.

At this point the fifth guy saw the 'Steel Wolves' finally make their way to their base and sighed again as he saw the entire front of their base covered in bright paint from the chaos earlier. Instead of taking the 5 of them on alone, he held his hands up and thought to himself that he needs to find a new team.

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The enemy base looked like it had been giving a fresh coat of paint on most of the front as paint was everywhere from the infighting of the 'Grizzly Lords'. Gray and the others saw the one enemy mech with his hands up and weapon on the ground and weren't exactly sure what happened. The enemy mech opened up his loudspeaker and said "They respawn in 20 seconds, hurry up!"

Gray was concerned that this may be a trap but given the fact that they saw no other mechs around and 4 other guns were on the ground, this made it a little believable that they all had been killed.

"Did that guy team kill his 4 other teammates?" Gray thought to himself "If so, he's a monster then!"

Yurika quickly ran in and touched the flag, a virtual flag was attached to the back of her mech and a golden halo was above her mech indicating that she had the flag and suddenly her mech was visible on sensors. Gray noted that the enemy mech 30 meters from him didn't appear on his sensors so it looks like only flag carriers were visible. Yurika also noted that her mech slowed down a little when she had the flag, this was probably to try and keep it more interesting.

Yurika had just exited the base with the flag when the enemy mechs respawned. Instead of giving chase though, the 5th guy stood in their path.

"Out of the way Julius!" Moira screamed

"No, we lost this match as soon as it started, we are forfeiting and disbanding, or at the very least I am leaving." said Julius, the only one that wasn't killed on their team.

"But..." Moira started to say before Julius cut her off

"No, we are not here to play around, now accept the forfeit and let's log off for the day until we all cool off."