The weekend had arrived and finally, it was time for the Quarterfinals in the Berkshire county tournament. Most kids were excited about the event, those who wouldn't be able to watch the match live, went online to their favourite broadcasters who would be streaming the match.

This, of course, included Tick media, who had sent out there two reporters Josh and Cindy to commentate on one of the matches happening today between Montem and Woo Woo.

But there was one kid who wasn't having the time of his life and was sitting in his room sulking. That was Alex. After finding out about how his mother had destroyed all the notes he had written on the upcoming match, Alex felt defeated.

He felt like every time he would try to escape the bubble he was in; his mother would come in his way and block him. In simple terms, he had given up. After that day, he never returned to the VSW club room again. He just wanted to do everything he could to forget about the VSW game.

Alex continued to lay still on his bed, when he heard his phone vibrate several times. He went to his phone and he had received a separate message from each of the VSW members.

"We will win this one for you, Alex."

"You're still our leader."

"I know you will be cheering us on."

"Are you coming to watch today?"

Most of the comments he had gotten from the team were positive and it made him hate the fact that he couldn't play the game even more. Alex sunk his head into a pillow and started to scream.

Then his phone vibrated once more.

"I didn't realise you were a coward." This message was from Frank.

Alex stared at the message hard, for some reason this message had really gotten to him in a different way compared to the other messages. He thought back to how Frank had even been hit by his own parents but still continued to do what he loved.

Then another message appeared.

"Ask yourself, did you really give it everything you had to play the game?"

Frank was right, Alex thought. what was stopping him right now? His mother, had he really given it everything he could to get out of the situation he was in. The simple answer was no.

Alex then opened his bedroom window and started to descend. He was going to be there for his team no matter what.

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Back at Montem, the school had organized several busses to take the students who were supporting the team to the venue the VSW club would be playing at today. Because it was a quarter-final match, the game wasn't going to be held at the schools like usual.

But instead, they were going to use one of the professional stadiums that the pros usually played at. It was a big event for Montem and they were happy to pay for a few busses for the students.

The whole team and most of the school were now on their way to the venue. While on the bus, Scarlett kept peeking her head up as if she was looking for someone.

"Hey did you see Alex on any of the other buses?" She asked.

Novis was seated next to Scarlett while Dan and Ashley sat in the seat behind them. Frank was sat to the right of them with the teacher.

"No, I guess he didn't come today," Novis replied.

"Don't worry about it Scarlett," Ashley said in a soft voice. "I bet you he's supporting us from home right now."

Just then though, a student started to yell about something on the bus.

"Hey everyone, check out Tick media's broadcast, there talking about our school!" the boy said excitedly.

Everyone then started to take out their phones and immediately went onto Tick media's stream. Josh and Cindy where being displayed in the bottom hand right corner while the main focus of the screen was inside the stadium.

It was a large Dome-shaped indoor stadium that could fit a total of 50 thousand people inside. In the centre of the arena was something similar to a football pitch and VR capsules at either end. Just above the pitch was huge displays that faced off in each direction.

"Wow, it looks amazing!" Novis said.

The stadium was able to create a holographic display of the actual game on the field to the outside viewers. This way it would feel more realistic to everyone watching. While the TV displays above would be able to highlight the important part of the games.

"Hey, they're talking about us," Ashley said.

After showing a few scenes of the stadium, the camera then focused on Josh and Cindy who each held a mike in their hand as they were doing the commentary for the game.

"We have a question from one of our viewers here." Cindy said, "They would like to know who do you think is the real danger on the Montem team. A team that seemed to have come out of nowhere and managed to make it to the quarter-finals."

Just then the chat started to be filled with people writing out the word "Monster." There were also a few trash comments here and there from the Woo Woo supporters but the spam of the word Monster became obvious.

Josh started to laugh.

"I can see that a lot of people are talking about the person known as Monster," Josh said.

Ashley's face started to turn bright red as the eyes on the bus started to look at her.

"I do indeed think she is a player to look out for, her Kendo skills she learnt outside of the game have proven to be very useful but there's also one more person, a dark horse I would say. If Woo Woo underestimates this person and this team, I think they will be in for a real shock today."

"And who would that be?" Cindy asked.

"I think the player known as Novis will be the most dangerous."

While watching the broadcast, Novis was just as confused as everyone else on the bus.

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