Chapter 1: The Extreme Ball Match




The year is 2187.


Many inventions, from brilliant (and sometimes crazy)


Scientists have made today's life more uncomplicated, more exciting,


More adventurous and simply designed to be more liveable.


The simple house robots provide us with an example. These bring you that


Breakfast in bed, help you get dressed, etc ...


But there were also inventions that didn't serve a good cause.


New tank, fighter and cyborg technologies were only created for that purpose


designed to cause more and more damage in war.


In the 3rd World War almost 50% of the earth's population died - a good 3 billion.


But let's ignore the bad things and dedicate ourselves to the sport.


Extreme Ball is the name of the mixture of soccer, handball and rugby.


It is played in almost exactly the same way, with the difference that the field is smaller


and there are only three players per team.The dangerous thing about this one


Sport,


the ball throws electric shock if it lasts longer than 10 seconds


is not subjected to sudden movements. An Extreme Ball Match lasts 60


Minutes. But there is no break during the game - neither


Substitutions.


19-year-old Phil Stacer was also an extreme (that's what they call the people who


Extreme ball play). He played with the FZero team. Zak, a


black-haired, normal tall and slim 20-year-old, one of the


fastest extreme in the world, also played alongside a third party.


That third one was neon. He was shorter than Zak and Stacer, but that made him feel


nothing at all. What he lacked in height, he did in speed and


Stamina easily makes up for it. He was 21 had night black,


short, slightly upright hair.


Zak, Neon and Stacer were best friends.They knew each other from childhood


and started together with the Extreme Ball.


Aprpos Stacer, I haven't told you anything about him yet. He was the one


Team captain.


He was distinguished by his blond, short hair that was pointed upwards


quite different from the others. One of his blue-eyed ones, namely the right one, became


streaked with a long scar. This ran from the corner of the mouth to almost


Hairline. He got it at an extreme ball match.




>> Toooooooor !!! <<


It boomed like a bomb through the huge hall and was only heard by the


Cheers from the audience drowned out.


3: 2 for FZero.


10 minutes until the end of the game. The Black Deaths turned out to be


stubborn opponents, but in the end Stacer's team was ahead.


The all-black-clad Deaths snorted around while theirs


Opponents celebrated the 3-2 internally.

The sold-out Star Stadium in the capital Ilenvium threatened because of the


Cheers almost collapse.


The goalscorer Zak proudly held the metal, tennis ball-sized electric ball in


hand while Stacer carried him on his shoulder.


>> 10 minutes left! Nothing can go wrong now! <<, whispered Stacer Neon


and Zak, whom he was just putting down on the floor again.


Both nodded.


then the electrically charged ball was sent to the team leader of the Black Deaths


passed on.


He looked terrifying with his scarred face and dark eyes


out. His pitch black, short hair was all sweaty - but that was it


no wonder after 50 minutes of playing time.


With full power he threw the ball at his teammate. The crazy thing about that


The gamer was that he wasn't actually a gamer, but a cyborg -


reprogrammed for sport. So it was made of extremely hard metal.

In the sprint he caught the ball spinning around its own axis with ease


and ran like a madman towards Zak. But he didn't hesitate for a second and


also ran towards his opponent - that over with an insane


Speed.


The cyborg tried to ram his wired elbow into his chest,


but that didn't work.


Zak avoided the blow almost playfully, jumping over the astonished robot


away and landed behind him. then he ran madly towards his opponent,


grabbed the arm the cyborg was holding on to the ball, lifted it away, and snapped


the ball with his other hand.


Then Zak tossed the ball at Neon. This raced on the third Black Death


Player too - Cinnon, the gravedigger, like him because of him all the time


long, black leather clothes.


Cinnon stopped and got ready to intercept him.


Neon's sprint was taking too long because the ball was already giving off small pulses of electricity.

>> I have to hand over the ball, otherwise it will blow up! <<


He was just about to pass the glowing ball on to Stacer when suddenly


Cinnon appeared above him.


Neon couldn't believe it.


Cinnon pushed the ball back into his hand - so that Neon put it back into his hand


could not give up.


He was still trying to get the ball free, but it was too late.


Cinnon pulled away from Neon and landed two meters with a backflip


in front of him.


The ball glowed red and made a high pitched sound.


Then it exploded with such force that even Stacer and Zak


were thrown back. Heaps of metal splinters came out of the gray one


Cloud of dust that ensnared neon and almost hit a few extremes.


But suddenly something shot out of the cloud that wasn't like a splinter


looked like ... but like the inside of the Extreme Ball.

At insane speed it shot towards the gate - the gate of the FZero!


Stacer dived for the little golden ball, but could only touch it.


Zak wasn't any more lucky either. He caught her with his hands, but she did


Ball was so fast that it just slipped through his hands and


slammed into the goal - 3: 3!




Sequel follows...