The high score ( Open)

[Yuki]

The place busy like it normally was the sound of chatter, laughter and some rage over lost games could be heard all over the arcade section of the game corner. A hang out for young kids, teens and adults who have nothing better to do then waste time playing games. Zander was one of the teens here, he mostly came to play the classics, like space invaders, pack man and other older games. Yeah he could most likely down load these games on his laptop or phone.. But nothing beat the feeling of having the top score and watch others try and beat it. So for no one has ever come close to beating his scores and to add to the fun no one knew who he was. So he was known as the Phantom Gamer in the arcade. He like it sounded cool and mysterious.

The game he was playing now was Time Pilot, flew a plane around trying to shoot down enemy planes. Zander was doing pretty good though he was not playing at his best. He already had the highest score so he was not trying to beat what he already had. But then sudden shouting made him lose his concentration casing him to lose his last life in the game. Zander looked up and turned to his head to see what was going on. " Hey!! I was close to beating the high score and you just ruined it by bumping into me!" Some guy yelled at another guy that was close to his age. Not really caring however Zander went on to play another game.

But it seemed the dude had a short fuse and now started to get into a fist fight with the other guy. Now that got on Zander's nerves.. But it was not his problem and the staff would most likely deal with them anyway, Though part of him could not help but watch from afar. "That guy is most likely drunk to fly off the handle like that.. Geez..." Zander mumbled to himself.

[Draken]

As Kaede entered the arcade she noticed two guys in a fist fight on the far side of the room so she made sure to steer clear of them till they were gone. As she browsed the arcade games she always noticed how the games were all either the US version meaning some content from the game was cut or edited or just plain wasn't there. After browsing for a few minutes something finally catches her eye and notices an old arcade cabinet called Time Pilot, normally she would've played something like Inital D, Street Fighter, Time Crisis, or something similar. Unfortunately most of the arcade cabinets were occupied by other people so those were out of the question."Well... it's not a bad game, but I may as well kill some time for the other games to get freed up" she says as she goes to get quarters out of a change machine and comes back but before she puts in a quarter she noticed that the top score looked like someone had played for a very long time in one sitting. "huh...I take it someone here plays this game as their day job. Heh,well too bad because I'm about to change that! I'm gonna knock their score down a peg!" She said determination as she began inserting quarters into the machine.

[Yuki]

After a while of watching the fighting the security team had come in and subdued the fighting customers and took them away. Zander gave a sigh once the show ended but then somthing caught his ear.


"huh...I take it someone here plays this game as their day job. Heh ,well too bad because I'm about to change that! I'm gonna knock their score down a peg!"

He turned his head saw a girl on the game he had just played. She was going for his high score huh? Zander then moved so he was standing behind Kaede. As watched he nodded in approval, she was doing pretty well she must game a lot to. Then from the corner of his eye he saw some guys get up from a racing game. Zander then walked away and sat down at one of the seats and put in his coins and started to get ready for a solo race.

[Draken]

As soon as Kaede hit start on the machine, she got to work on clearing stage after stage. Since she was too focused on playing Time Pilot she didn't notice Zander watching her from behind. After clearing a set amount of stages she found herself back at stage one realizing that the game just goes on until she got a game over and to add on top of that the game got harder. "OK, now it's just rinse and repeat..." she said to herself while still focused on the game while trying keep her lives intact while trying to reach the high score. She gets halfway through the 2nd loop before she notices the game gets really aggressive with all the enemies on screen and gets to a point where the lives she was collecting are staring to get wasted, she gets to the last level on the 2nd loop on her last life trying to not die. She almost clears the loop but loses her last life near the end and immediately blurts, "Rrrrrg, useless PEICE OF-...", but before she could finish what she was about to say and before she slammed her fist on the cabinet she notices she got the high score. She immediately enters her name into the high score and steps back for a moment to appreciate what she accomplished and says "Wow, completely forgot I was aiming for the high score".

[Yuki]

Zander was focused on the game so he was no longer paying attention to Kaede. He put his coins in, picking the car he wanted and started racing. It did not take long for him to get into the zone. He no longer heard the chatter and laughter of those around him as he solely focused on the game. However a set of new thugs had entered the building. They walked around till they came to the game Zander was playing at. As it happens the thug was in the mood of a racing game. " Hey... Move I wanna play." he said. Not hearing him Zander gave no response.


This agitated the thug and he reached out grabbing Zander by the collar of his shirt forcing him out of the seat.

"Wh- What the?" Zander said as he now found himself locking eyes with a rough-looking character. "Great..." Zander would think to himself.

" I said move punk... I want to play." The man growled.


Zander looked at the man and sighed as he quickly did a move to force the guy to release his hold on him. Zander really did not like to draw attention to himself but it was situations like this that make it difficult.

" Fine, take it." Zander replied.

The thug blinked in shock at how easily Zander broke out of his hold. " Heh... on second thought... I think I rather have a match with you.." The thought of having a fight was more tempting then playing a silly game.

Zander frowned. " I'd rather not.."


" Haha, funny you think you have a choice... Take him outside fellas." he said to his crew and they rushed forward trying to grab Zander.

[Draken]

As Kaede was taking the time time to admire the new high score she made she felt a few figures pass by her. she turns around to see none other than a group of thugs that were walking towards a racing game and didn't take a moment sooner to hear them barking at someone. "(Great, just what I needed. Trouble to show it's ugly face...again...)" Kaede thought as she saw what was happening. She had to think quickly as she knew that the one guy being picked on was completely outnumbered buy a few normal looking thugs and their leader and more than likely they would probably beat him until he was passed out. She took a glance around to see if anything was available, but unlike the park incident she didn't have anything but her fists this time around. "(Ugh, really? Not even a stray baseball bat from the batting cages? Let alone anything that looks like that could be an improvised weapon of some sort? *sigh* Guess my fists are doing the talking today.)" She thought as she got herself ready and prepared one of her fists. She gets behind the leader with his back turned on her, gets her fist pulled back, taps the leader on the back, waits for the moment he turns his head and then throws all of her strength into her fist as it flies towards the leader's face.