Doce felt a heavy tension in the air as Izumi settled passively into line beside her. "Izumi, right?" she asked. It was a little surprising to see him, since he'd already died in the manga... Well, all the Gantz members were technically dead. Huh. Maybe it wasn't so strange that he be here. "Is this binary man your new Gantz, or what?"<br/><br/>He gave her an icy glare that she should have been expecting. Everybody else was chatting with their opponents. She wanted to do the same. "Just shut up and don't get in my way," he said.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Please let him not try to kill me.</span><br/><br/>The race began,and the first one to move after JD, with his ability to stop time, was Izumi. The artificial muscles in his suit bulged, and he kicked off the ground so hard that he flew past the first dozen traps before they had a chance to activate. He touched down gently half way down the first stretch, then glared at Doce like, "Try that, amateur."<br/><br/>She knew how clumsy people usually were their first time in a Gantz suit. Taking a leap like that would probably get her diced. But,<span style="font-style: italic">caution to the wind,</span>there went her competitive nature. She started a blind pursuit after the traitor.<br/><br/>------------------<br/><br/>Ditto, left behind without orders, spun anxiously in a circle. It tried to take a scoot forward, but a blade popped out of the floor in front of him and he gave a cry of fear and scooted back. "Ditto," it said helplessly.<br/><br/>Beta, who was slow to start, since he'd yet to determine the objective of this activity, scooped up the purple blob in his arms. "I am confused," he said, "because the present situation does not match any of the activities described under the definition I have of 'decathlon.' For now, we will follow the others' lead. Is this acceptable?"<br/><br/>"Ditto!" the Pokemon said excitedly.<br/><br/>Beta's internal processing systems whirred. "I will take your lack of resistance as compliance," he said, not picking up on the Ditto's tone.<br/><br/>The robot morphed his feet back into rocket boosters and took to the air.