Hey, how yall doing? This is round 4 of the Tao-Tourney held around three weeks earlier. The first three rounds are posted also, and if you want to check them out as well as my other BRs, go search. =]

Well, here goes.

Scene IV

(It was the next afternoon. The kids came back from school, and found the Grandpa still on the bed. A worried look crossed both kids' faces as Grandpa's coughing came abruptly. The Grandpa was still as water, except for the up-down motion from his breathing. Although worried, John's eyes sparkled. Patrick eyes grew larger for he knew what John was up to. Without words, they both headed towards the bookshelf. The dusty book lay where they had left the night before. The fingerprints of the three were clearly shown on the cover, but other parts were still opaque. They brought the book down, and opened to where they left off)

The triumphant DS began their journey from now red-stained Dire Straits to their forth match. Facing Team TP, they shifted into hyper-drive and as fast as lightening, they headed towards the battleground, Plains of Snow. The opponents were TP~Filip and TP~Mouillac, and all four commanders chose to let a roll of dice decide what race of army each will control. It ended up that TP~Filip ended up with brown zerg, TP~Mouillac with blue protoss, DS-Strife with orange terran, and DS-Ares with purple protoss. Their positions were as shown on Fig. 1, as well as the general shape of the battleground.

Plains of snow is a place where four resource nodes, both gas and minerals, are placed on each east-west side, and 5 islands in the middle of the location. One of the islands is a double island, possessing two gas nodes, as well as additional mineral patches. On the north and south ends rest another island expansion, but those expansions only contain mineral patches. As you see in Fig. 1, the DS was placed near each other. In fact, they were right next to each other, and right on top of both was TP~Filip. On the left was TP~Mouillac, but it was a further traveling distance between left-right starting positions then up and down. Therefore, the TP started with a disadvantage they must overcome in order to stop the DS from advancing further. Filip, knowing a double rush was the most common way to get eliminated, went a spawning pool first and soon got a hatchery hatchery next to his initial own. Be then got another hatchery below his mineral line, possibly trying to decrease the mineral gathering time. Strife went triple barracks and was hoping for a quick rush that had been successful to the team for last three rounds. Mouillac went pretty much basic protoss build up. He got a pylon, two gateways, two more pylons and followed up with an assimilator. Ares reinforced Strife by doing the exact build as Strife, but holding on an assimilator a little to get the zealot up first. They all knew where each others were. Strife had sent his scv right up to Filip's base in the initial minutes, Filip in turn took his overlord down and found both DS. One of Strife's marine went to get rid of the overlord, and another found Mouillac's base, but was killed by a zealot. Time of reconnaissance has passed for the party, and now came the time to attack.

Strife's 7 marines and Ares' 4 zealots were headed towards Filip's base, but TP was also on their way to attack. On route to Filip's base, one of Ares' zealots got caught off-guard by three zealots of Mouillac on their way to Strife's base. Being separated by distance, and being surprised, the zealot didn't even manage to kill one of Mouillac's. When the DS forces arrived, however, Filip only had one almost-finished sunken colony as well as less than 10 zerglings. Surely they were no match for 6 marines and two zealots, but more zerglings were to be morphed soon. The remainding zealots from Mouillac arrived to help and the sunken's subterranian spine cutting through marine's armor as blood spew in all direction, Filip survived only losing few moments of mining time, all his zerglings, and 330 Hit Points on his sunken. The survivors of the attack, three zealots and four newly spawned zerglings headed towards Strife's main for retaliation.

Instead of finding an open base, the small but fierce army found 5 marines guarding the main. Also, Ares anticipated the attack and had sent two zealots for reinforcement. But 5 marines died only killing 2 zerglings and barely grazing zealot's hit points. Ares' zealots weren't quite eager to battle and were left out of the action for a while. But when Ares realized the mistake, the threat was quelled with a help from a completed bunker. All this while, Strife finished constructing the academy and headed to get a comsat. But the luck was not in terrans favor, for the worst enemy of terran forces were being warped into Mouillac's base: Dark Templars.

The scouting overlord that was spying on Ares was fortunately spared with only 37 HP left, and none now had exclusive view of another's base. All four were in powering for a big attack. Ares had gotten a cybernetic core and researched additional range for dragoones. Mouillac went for a cybernetic core, citadel of adun, then a templar archive. Both had gotten additional gateways, but the they differed in the productions. Ares was concentrating on dragoons and zealots while Mouillac's focus was on the dark templars. When Ares had accumulated 7 zealots and 5 dragoons, they decided to attack the zerg once again. The zerg had only built one additional sunken, and was short on cash due to newly spawning hatchery at a main right above his. The protoss army met with half-dozen marines, two firebats and a medic to go ahead on the attack. The zerg was in no condition to defend, and the zerg was getting hit hard. But to the dismay to DS, four dark templars came to help the deceasing zerg base. While half of Mouillac's tiny, yet powerful forces went in aid of the zerg with a dozen zerglings Filip had been saving, the rest of the dark templars wanted some kills in the terran base.

While the dark templars were killing the helpless dragoons and scvs, Mouillac expanded to a spot above the one right on top of his. Despite being attacked by invisible templars, they managed to obliterate the zerg main, and fortunately found the emergency zerg base right on top of the original base. There was only a hatchery, few drones, a morphing spawning pool and a morphing creep colony. But Filip received additional help from his partner. Mouillac hadn't been idle and had gotten another gateway and 8 dragoons to help out. They headed straight for the zerg base and saved the pool and the colony, but the hatchery was a destroyed. With the templars destroying the comsat, the terran was in one word "dead." Ares tried to help by constructing a robotic facility and an observatory, but dts' path of wrath was to quick. Although Strife tried to build turrets secretly, they were either discovered and destroyed before being fully constructed, or be too far away to be any support at all. Therefore, Strife had come to a startling conclusion. Float all floatable buildings.

There were dragoons coming out of Mouillac's gateway by the minute, and soon he had more than 15. He sent a few of them to finish off Strife, and caught some of his buildings flying. The barrack, the ebay, and the factory all fell without reaching the ground, and the command center was the sole surviving building. Instead of attacking Ares right then, he decided to wait a little more. He managed to bring around 20 dragoons in front of Ares's base, but Ares was a little short on the minerals because he had just expanded to old zerg's main. As the blue dragoons were amassing, a few goons and zealots finished off the zerg forces. Soon,

Strife was left alone for the duration, and was able to construct four barracks and a factory. Being in an island and all, Mouillac warped in two robotic facilities, a stargate, and another expandsion above his first expo. Mouillac had the game under control. He construced another forge, addition to the one he had on his expandsion to build canons there, to get the upgrades done more faster. As Strife floated his four barracks to lower ground, he went ahead and started to amass marines. When he had around 20, the patrolling dragoons found them. Although the battle was won, it was only matter of time until the Strife fell as a tsunami of dragoons swept him off the floor. It wasn't olny the DS that was destroyed, but also the hopes of saving Private Ryan. But, in the act of faith, something incredible happened. Oh my god, Private Ryan had a chance to be saved! Because DS-Ares was somehow tranported back to his home in the middle of battle WITHOUT being eliminated, the rules had to allow team TP to go on to the next round taking the baton from team DS. The luck won't last forever, and Private Ryan won't live forever. The time was running out, and unfortunately for both team TP and Private Ryan, the next round enemies were [9]NTT and {PH}Expo. It wasn't going to be an easy battle. Both members of TP knew it, but they had to get ready soon. The hyperdrive was already slowing down to lighspeed as the ship headed to the next battleground: Rivalry.

Patrick: Ack, that is gay. Why did DS-Ares had to drop? Man, I did want Ryan to be saved, but I think it was a setup. I think someone ilegally transported Ares in order to save Ryan.

John: Yeah, I get the same feeling. I am sure the rules will be enforced and that won't happen again. Oh well, they ARE facing one of the toughest players, so I just hope they win.

Patrick: That's right. (looking over at the grandfather clock) Oh my, it's already two hours past our bed time. Man, oh man, I have a big history test tomorrow, and I haven't even started on it! Ahhh, I got to get to sleep and hope I wake up tomorrow knowing everything in ancient history.

John: Phtttt, I told you to study. Oh well, I'm all rea…NOOOO!!! God, this stupid Ryan crap made me forget the bug-collection! I was supposed to start on it yesterday, and I need to give at least three-bug sample by tomorrow!

Patrick: Haha, what did you say? "I told you so?" Well, we are both in trouble. We should have listened to Grandpa and watied for him to tell it to us.

John: Yeah, this old fashioned reading takes sooo much time than downloading it into my computer and sotring it to my brain overnight. Anyways, I'm going to sleep. Goodnight!

Patrick: (worried) yeah, good night!

Okay, round four has concluded. DS was killed off by TP, and TP is about to face NTT and EXPO in round 5. Who will take that battle? Whose cuisine REIGNS SUPREME??? =]

Cya later, and comment!

Byeya

p.s-FYI, Ryan is not even being part of the story, eh? Hehe, I won't try to use come gay rule to continue the story anymore. =]

p.p.s-Ooops, I forgot you guys need a topic to talk about.

1. Probe
2. Dark_Hawke
3. King-Lewis
4. Mark4
5. Limp_Bizkit666
6. gayness involved in the forementioned 5 players…

enjoy!