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(Location, 6-4 Britanina, 1 year later)

“Welcome your next stage of your training Nephew, And how you finding your new armour ” The armored figure of Gate’s said, leaning against the broken Ronin sword that was jammed into a bolder, the grass she was stood on being raised above the rest of the ground on a small circular platform that hovered above the ground by a meter and was in front of a water fall. The position Gates was located being surrounded by circular walls.

“When you announced resources were short, I wasn’t expecting armour like this, its surprising how well a old set of SRS pilot armour fits” Apex responded, gesturing to the old armour he was wearing, the old SRS armour having the iconic green and Orange patterned paint scheme being replaced with a darker foliage green and the orange highlights being replaced with a dark ,close to black, blue that showed Apex’s affiliation with the 6-4 along with the 6-4 logo that was painted on the back of the helmet he was wearing..

(Basically the armour set used in the titanfall2 campaign with the stated colour scheme)

“Glad to hear, anyway once you grab a weapon were going to run you through the gauntlet” Gates announced, holding her arms out as rock pillars fell from the sky, the pillars being lined with a variety of small arms.

“Go ahead Nephew take a gander” Gates said as Apex walked up to the large display of weapons, passing the majority of them until he came across a Assault rifle with a scope on it, the weapon seeming to suit him as the weight and balance of the rifle felt correct, the HUD in Apex’s helmet connecting to the rifle and his implants displaying the total remaining ammo along with a cross hair that would allow accurate hip firing of the weapon.

“Going old school are we, well go ahead and test the R-101 out or we can get straight to the gauntlet” Gates said leading the way to the Gauntlet. The entrance to the Gauntlet being a small blocky room with a large open exit, a wall with water running up it having a set of names and times written next to them.

“As you can obviously see the leader board displays the times people have managed to achieve, try to beat Davis’s score so he can no longer brag about it, the timer will start when you cross the line” Gates said gesturing to a obvious line separating Apex from the winding walls and collection of targets that was the Gauntlet.

“Quick question, anything goes right?”

“Yes Apex, anything goes why do you ask ”

“Great, ‘Clink’ that’s all a needed to hear” Apex responded taking a running start to the start line, throwing a pair of objects just after the line.

“Your crazy you know that!” Gates voice said over Apex’s radio as he ran and dropped to his knees, sliding past the start line as the pair of grenades detonated, the force of the explosion further adding memento to Apex as he leaded up into the air, his jump pack burning brightly as he began running across the walls, his speedometer in his HUD displaying 31 MPH that he had dropped to having lost the force of the explosion, leading to Apex sighting his rifle on the first pair of targets, the holograms clearly resembling IMC Grunts through the rifles scope, until the pair of bullets fired met their mark dissolving the targets just as Apex slid beneath and pulled the pin from another grenade, that was dropped onto the floor as Apex jumped away, rolling to the feet of a trio of targets before detonating with the explosion drowning out the bursts of gunfire that originated from Apex’s airborne form as he double jumped around a corner.

After rounding the corner Apex came upon the final stretch of the gauntlet , a large open corridor like construct with two targets being on floating islands, The layout being noted down in Apex’s mid in seconds as he continued to speed forward, leaping across the floating islands and running along walls as before he leaped into the air again, his course launching towards the nearest target that was stood in front of the finishing line apart from being on an floating island. Drawing the data knife sheathed on his collar and aiming his R-101 with his other hand Apex attacked, his hand holding the rifle depressing the trigger and releasing a long torrent of the magazines contents, the bullets tearing apart the target and its surroundings that was stood away from the finishing line, the 10 remaining bullets causing the target to flash out of existence with the weapons recoil allowing Apex to rotate mid air and reach out with the Blade in his other hand, the sharpened point digging into simulated flesh for a fraction of a second before Apex fell past the floating island and landed on his upped back before bringing his legs up into a role allowing Apex to sprint the last minute distance, passing the finishing line and re-entering the starting room.

“Well ill be dammed, 20 seconds that’s a new record, so unless you want to run the Gauntlet again we can get onto the final part of your training”

“Might as well move onto the next part then “ Apex responded leading to Gates walking towards a wall that once she reached it flew back into the sky revealing a small platform that over look a meadow of grass.

“Ok Apex I’m going to need u to call in your titan” Gate said as a blue marker appeared on the grass meadow, a ball of fire falling from the sky as Gates titan fell to the ground.

“Wait hang on Nephew “ Gates stated, halting whatever action Apex was going to perform and freezing the simulation the pair were in as she tapped against her tac pad that was attached to her forearm , allowing a screen to appear inform of the pair, the face of the head mechanical engineer appeared.

“Hey Max” Apex announced to the familiar individual who was identifiable even with the safety equipment he was wearing.

“Hey kid, Captain Gates, sorry for the interruption but we may have been able to fix the fired Power Relays but to do so were going to have to shut off most of the electrical systems”

“Understood Engineering, what’s being shut off”

“Everything, the whole ship will be going dark other than life support and oxygen”

“Do what you got to do to fix this ship, once I’m out of the training Pods I’ll give the word expect me to get in contact with you in about an hour”

“Understood Captain, Engineering out” and with that the feed was cut.

“Sorry Nephew looks like training got cut short, but hey we can cover the Titan section of the training later on” Gates said, nudging Apex’s shoulder as she walked forward before flickering out of existence, the surrounding landscape following suit opening up to a black abyss with green dots littering it like sickly stars, a crack in the abyss of blackness allowing light to pour through as the crack got bigger and bigger until it consumed the abyss completely.

The room that was revealed consisting of what can only be described as a small garage, the contents being two Titans, one being a Legion that was stood still as engineer crews, the other being a Ion Titan that Gates was stood in front of, helping it be piloted to its holding rack. The sight remaining the same as Apex pulled himself out of the training pod.

“Great work today Apex, go grab something to eat” Gates said basically dismissing Apex from any further duty for the day.

“Preferably before we lose gravity as well !” Gate’s warned as Apex walked through the door that lead to one of the ships major hall ways, chuckling to himself as he walked through the doors and towards the Pilot quarters. The colour coordinated stripes on the left side of the floor leading him for a good distance till he came across the designated area he was after with the areas door opening up as it detected Apex’s access card.

The room Apex walked into consisted of nothing more than a central common room that had bench in the centre of it and a collection of rooms attached to it, most of them being closed showing the decals that the occupants of the room had placed on the doors, varying from a drawing of a bear to a mushroom cloud with ‘Last resort written beneath it’, the door Apex was approaching having the drawing of red canine wearing a army green cap that covered one if its ear’s the other poking from beneath the corner of the hat, its left forepaw being placed onto of a pilot helmet and a dog tag necklace seeming to flow to the left. The decal being moved upwards along with the rest of the door as Apex entered his room looking around before walking to the small bed that was indented into the wall and sitting down on it allowing a clear view of the rest of the room.

The room consisted of two bunks, both of them being indented into the wall with the unoccupied bed having its covers and pillows placed in a pile, with the small shelf in the corner of the bed holding a small collection of items a pair of books, a data pad , bandana and a set of battered dog tags along with a engraved hip flask. The observation only lasting a couple of seconds before Apex stood back to his feet and began removing his armour in favour for a set of cloths from the single set of draws, the loss of the armour and BDU revealing the patchwork of scars on Apex’s bare flesh before he entered the rooms shower to remove the sweat and grime from training, the shower lasting what felt like seconds until Apex was stood in front of a mirror reviling his injuries, the left side of Apex’s chest having a large burn with two notable slashes on top of the burn mark, the injury being covered when Apex wrapped the scar with some wrapping, the black cloth hugging its self to the left side of Apex chest. The pants that Apex had put on covering the collection of scars on his legs with its black jean like fabric and multiple pockets, his chest wrappings being covered by a grey t-shirt leaving the only noticeable scars being on his right upper arm, the faded angry red slash travelling from his mid bicep to his elbow being visible until Apex picked up the bandana from the shelf side and tied it on his arm and covered the slash on his left forearm with the PDA glove and sleeve. The final scars being the ones on his face that seemed to mock him as Apex looked into the room’s mirror, the pair of small but notable scars on his cheek underlining the scar across his left eye, the wound thankfully having missed his eye and instead went from just above his eyebrow and stopped just bellow his eye socket.

“Snap out of it” Apex said to himself, tearing his sight away from his injuries and to spiking his short hair, the dampness from his shower allowing his hair to be easily melded to an acceptable level until he walked back out of the room and took a seat in the common room. The rooms silence being interrupted by the sound of doors opening.

“Hey kid how you holding up” Bears voice said as he walked over and sat opposite to Apex on the commons room table, placing down two wrapped bars.

“Pretty good Bear, even better after training”

“I thought it was cut short”

“Yeah though I still managed to set the new record” The statement getting a laugh from Bear.

“That’s great pal, what time?”

“20 seconds”

“Hahaha I carnt wait to see Davis’s face when he finds out he lost the record, congratulations kid you won a ration bar” Bear said passing said ration bar to Apex who opened the wrapper and bite into the pearl white bar the flavour reminiscing of wet cardboard.

“Christ, whatever happened to MRE’s”

“Those are going to the civilians that the Churchill are carrying, we get the ration bars, never thought Id see the day I miss MRE’s ”

“Hey you two!” a voice shouted drawing the pairs attention to two figures that had walked into the room.

“Hey Davis, Droz what brings you back”

“ Captain Gates just put out the call for everyone who isn’t apart of engineering to return to there quarters, by sounds of it engineering may have fixed the power issue”

“We can only hope so brother” Droz said from his seat at the desk.

“Hey kid what you up to” Davis said dropping a hand on each of Apex’s shoulders.

“Nothing really, other than enjoying my spot on the gauntlet leader bored”

“What time”

“Five seconds faster than you scored” Apex responded.

“How’d you manage to get 20 seconds then?” Droz questioned as his brother dramatically shouted ‘no its impossible’.

“Well Droz, I used the explosive force from the hand grenades at the beginning to cut off 5 seconds “ Apex announced as the door opened up and another individual walked in dressed in a Crow flight suit.

“Right Jay” Bear said to the groups Crow pilot who sat down and placed a box on the table.

“Doing pretty good, even better that now that we can actually do something instead of sitting here and brooding” Jay said opening the box to reveal a collection of board prices and other items.

“The hells this”

“ This my friends is a game called Dungeons and dragons” Jay announced.

(time skip 60 minutes later )

“I still don’t see what to do here” Apex said looking at the collection of cards and the little character model on a bored.

“You simply roll the dice and since you’re a mage say a spell ” Jay responded.

“ Fine, Skidaddle Skidoodle your dick in now a noodle” Apex announced , leading to a collection of dice being rolled across the table only to bounce up into the air and continue to rise towards the roof.

“And Engineering has cut the power”

“So after this we should be out of here then?”

“If you mean the weird FTL warp then yes we should , Apex how long do you reckon it will take, put some of that engineering ive taught you to use”

“Well Bear the Britannia is a carrier class ship, meaning that we only need to fix this ships FTL system and then if the MSTS is functioning we can get out of this warp along with the other ships, though if the MSTS is damaged then it may take up to a mouth or year and that’s the best case scenario” Apex said, pushing himself back towards his room.

“Damn kid never though you would know that much” Jay said, having packed up the items from the board game.

“Were you going kid?”

“I’m armoring up, I want to use my jump kit in zero-G” Apex responded, manually opening the doors and quickly re equipping his pilot armour and equipment.

“Why?” Bear questioned as Davis and Droz floated about, their jump packs propelling them around.

“Because why not Bear” Apex responded, floating back into the room, fully armoured.

“Oi kid lets see how fast you are without using hand grenades” Davis said as his brother opened up the rooms door.

“You’re on Chuckle Brothers” Apex said leading to the trio running off into the ship.

“So where’s the finishing line?” Apex questioned, using the groves in the roof to pull himself along, keeping pace with the brothers who were using the walls to move along.

“How about the Bridge”

“Sure”

“You’re on Davis” Droz said, the trio scrambling through a open door that lead to a stair well and jumping up the gap between the spiralling stairs, the different floors of the Britannia quickly passing as the trio of Pilots used their jump packs to further boost their already high speed.

“You better slow down kid, you not going to beat me”

“Watch me Davis, watch me” Apex said back, reaching out and grabbing a hold of a railing allowing his memento to transfer from upwards to forwards allowing him to shoot straight past to door way, Davis and Droz, the finishing line that had been established getting closer by the second.

‘Warning, gravity fluctuation detected’

The declaration over the ship’s crew information speaker meaning that the artificial gravity had somehow activated, if only temporary, being enough the pull Apex, Droz and Davis to the floor, the trio still going and rolling and sliding across the floor with Apex barley managing to stop before slamming into the door. The same not being said for Droz, who rebounded off of the door being stopped from floating away by Apex and Davis grabbing a hold of him.

“Guess I won”

“Best two out of three” Davis responded pulling his brother back to the floor.

“Fine” Apex responded, the trio sprinting back the way they came.

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“Guess whos back” Droz announced, getting board piece throw at him by Bear, who had been asleep at the table until Droz’s entrance.

“Oi watch were you throw that” Apex announced ducking under the plate bored that was thrown, bouncing around the room in the zero gravity environment until Davis caught a hold of the bored.

“So I guess were done with that god forsaken game?”

“Well Jay’s gone to bed to try and sleep through this boredom, and he was the only person who knew how to play that board game”

“ I don’t blame him, I mean zero gravity loses its appeal after a while” Apex said, floating across the room upside down.

“So was this your first time in zero-G?”

“Yes it was Droz and to be generally honest I doubt anybody will be able to sleep in this as well”

“This is Gate’s power has began to be restored, expect gravity to be returned soon and designated activities be underway by tomorrow” The announcement echoed through the room.

“So that didn’t sound good”

“How can you tell Bear”

“Ive been with the 64 since its founding , so kid how long would it take for the MSTS to be fixed?”

“I don’t know, I mean we defiantly don’t carry spare parts for it onboard so I don’t know at all” Apex responded, righting himself as the gravity slowly retuned.

“Right im off to bed, I can finally get some…. “

“Will active 64 Pilots move report to the bridge” an announcement cut of Apex causing his shoulders to sag, with Davis patting him on the shoulder as he passed by.

“Your bed will be there waiting for you when you get back kid” Bear said as the group set off to the bridge yet again.

(Upon the Britannia’s bridge)

Like the previous incursions to the bridge, the consoles and technical consoles seeming to have been freshly turned on with some of the screens still having the boot up screen displayed. With Captain Gate’s looking outward into the red abyss that the ships and trudged through for a year.

“Now you may be wondering why ive called you up to the bridge” Gates said turning around to face her squad.

“I was wondering why you were stood there like a Bond villain”

“I agree with the kid, you do kind of look like a bond villain”

“Kid, I will ground you, and Droz don’t encourage him” Gates responded, shutting the pair up instantly.

“Ok as you know we’ve been suffering some issues without FTL and MSTS which engineering has managed to fix, meaning we should be able to return to the frontier or at least out of this weird FTL warp, any questions?”

“When we going to perform the jump ?” Droz questioned.

“When we get word from engineering and ready alerts from out escorts, but it should be today” Gates responded getting nods of conformation from the group.

“Why have you called us up here ?”

“Because Droz we don’t know where we are going to be dropping out of FTL at, we could be in the core worlds for as far as we know”

“But shouldn’t the Nav computer keep track of us?”

“Well Davis it did, for the first couple of days but even then the data recorded isn’t useable” Gates said, activating the Tac projector and displaying the recorded Nav computer, the coordinates displayed jumping randomly increasing and decreasing at random intervals before it was removed from display.

“We had the members of the electrical warfare unit check over the program looking for viruses and the such but they found no signs of tampering ”

“Well that’s condemning” Bear announced even though everybody knew the implications of a Nav system acting like it had, the brooding by the squad being interrupted by an electrical chime.

“Captain, its engineering” A bridge member announced from a terminal.

“Understood Coms put them through” Gates responded, the Tac projector displaying the face of Max again, the protective helmet he was wearing having electrical burns on it.

“This is the Bridge, im hoping you have some good news for us”

“Understood Bridge, I glad to not disappoint you then, we’ve managed to rig up the MSTS but we only have a single jump in it, its automatically linked to our escort ships as well so were ready to go when you say so”

“Understood engineering tell your people to be at their jump stations because were exiting FTL I five minutes at most ”

“Understood, engineering out” Max responded, his projection going static before diapering completely.

“Captain, our MSTS is active and spooling up, and we have confirmation pings from our escorts ” a bridge officer announced.

“Understood, put out the alert to brace for jump” Gates responded, a alarm sounding shortly after, leading to everyone finding a seat or hand rail to hold onto to. As the FTL warp outside seemed to pulsate and contract before going completely black to be replaced by normal space, a lush green planet being below, the bridge erupting with announcements of information as the tactical display was re-displayed with announcements covering the bridge.

“ The Churchill is correcting for aftershock drift , both the New Dawn and Yorkshire are holding positions, no reports of damage or issues”

“Plant below shows no radio signals and doesn’t match any terrain scans we have in the ship’s system, atmosphere is highly habitable ”

“Established secure orbit, no degradation, Churchill’s aftershock drift has been corrected ”

“Understood, I want pilot’s on the ground securing a landing zone with Titan support on standby, until we can figure out where we actually are that planet down there’s going to be our home, Bear you’ll be in charge of this OP” Gates responded, managing all of the information and giving out orders.

“You heard Gates” Bear announced.

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The inside of a Crow drop ship was cramped even without the tem of Pilots being within the troop hold in fact Apex was wedged between Droz and Davis as the drop ship began entering through the planet’s atmosphere. The five pilots being sat in the center of the ship, with the deployment bay being empty as the ship moved through the atmosphere, the fire from the re entry being visible through the windows of the ship.

“They certainly didn’t build this thing with comfort in mind” Droz spoke, breaking the silence over the Com channel that the group were using, his ID appearing in the corner of Apex’s HUD.

“Hey brother at least you not as lanky as Apex here” Davis responded, nudging Apex’s arm.

“Huh original” Apex spoke back over the Com’s as he powered up the H-COG sight on his R-101 carbine.

“Speaking of being Lanky, here Apex” Droz said passing Apex a grappling hook kit that he attached to his left forearm.

“How come your giving me this, I already have a cloak ability?”

“I know Apex but in the 6-4 we use more than just one Pilot ability” Bear announced, standing up and moving into the deployment bay which was a short little stand area at the back of the Crow drop ship, a Mastiff shotgun in his hands. Bear position at the end of the shuttle leading to both of the Brothers and Apex to stand up and falling in behind.

“Ok Apex when we jump I want you to stick with me, the brothers will stick together, we are to find and establish a suitable landing site and area for a colony, the area we will be landing is on top of a large flat area of a mountain, the brothers will take to south to west area the rest is to us understood”

“You can count on us two Bear”

“Sure thing” Apex responded, the Crow drop ship shacking as it slowed down and leveled out, a light above the door flashing red as the back door to the drop ship lowered , the light switching green as it locked in place creating a running ramp out of the air craft.

“GO ,GO, GO “ a voice shouted as the four ran out of the aircraft, dropping 10 feet until they fell through the tree tops, the jump pack on Apex’s back bursting to life allowing Apex to land safely onto the ground in a crouch the long grass he landed in reaching to his waist once Apex stood to his full 6 foot five height. The surrounding area being swept by his R-101C carbine, the weapons targeting reticule hovering over the strangely shaped birds that took flight in fear of the drop ships engines that powered up as in went back into orbit.

“Kid on me” Bear announced , gaining Apex’s attention towards Bear who had already began moving into the tree line leading to Apex running to catch up with him. The trees passing quickly as the pair ran towards their objective, the objective being the edge of the flat tree covered plane that dropped into a steep drop, the area the brothers having to cover being the point in which it flat plane attached to the rest of the mountain range.

“Well I guess this is the edge” Apex muttered at the drop off, the ground coming to a 20 foot steep drop the ground below being on a 30 degree slope to a larger collection of forest’s.

“I Guess it is Apex, you know why this area was chosen?”

“ Steep mountain range to our back, only possible assault approach being this point which is easy to defend with the right static defenses, yeas Bear I reckon I know why”

“Fair enough kid, were going to head down the top of the ridge to the other edge of it and if everything goes well we can settle here, in fact why don’t you test out that grapple kit ” Bear said pointing his hand towards a tree on a island of ground just off the edge of the plane leaning over the drop.

“See if you can go around that kid, I will meet you at the other side” Bear said, running off as Apex clenched his left hand before running up to the edge and firing the grapple, his jump pack pushing him around the outside of the tree allowing Apex to detach the grapple and fly towards the ground again, landing in front of Bear.

“Well at least you can use that grappling hook, the Brothers have already ran their section”

“Already?”

“Yeah, the area they had was a lot smaller apparently, were going to meet them at that water fall there “ Bear said pointing to a crescent indentation that had a water fall in the center, the two armoured forms of Davis and Droz being visible stood there waiting, the pair throwing debris over the edge.

“Oi you two hurry up and get over here !” Davis said over the Com’s leading to both Bear and Apex speeding up on their approach, with Apex making use of his Grapple ability again, the hook colliding with another tree and being used to catapult him forward.

“So we contacting gates then?”

“What else we going to do, hope you’re ready to dirty your titans at least those who have one”

“Oi up yours pal” Apex responded to the laughing Davis.

“Gate’s this Is Bear, area clear for construction crews to make land fall”

“Understood Bear, your Titans will be deployed to assist in the construction efforts, Stand by for titanfall” Gates stated as balls of fire fell from the sky, smaller trails of flame following behind as the drop ships began their descent.