Chapter 1
The frontiers is always a scarily place to be in. A new land, area, and place where you don't know at all. Not the usual things you do every day. But that the point of settling out of your home planet, like leaving the house you're born in to a new city or town. A new place to live in, new adventure, and environment, outside of the core worlds. Life was peaceful…
That is… until the frontier wars
Ever since the battle of Demeter and the destruction of the planet Typhon. IMC cities like angel city are struggling with their lives without help from the core world, having to help themselves without the help of the inner core systems. Although most IMC are struggling, many residents continue to live their lives in main IMC cities such as angel city, while cities that were controlled by the IMC, are liberated by the militia.
Citizens on both sides were having a hard time living, with the IMC weapon testing, and different raids on their colonies.
One recent battle with the IMC and the militia was on the planet, Chorus. A planet controlled and inhabited to the IMC. Pac Union, a city located near an central IMC base, it was similar to Angel City, but it was smaller in a way. The wreckage of the battle ground outside of the city were still visual, the IMC had not scavenged any parts for scraps or anything, due to other battles with the militia, on other planets and other important task.
Like most people, some would scavenge what they can from destroyed titans for part to sell in legal stores or in black-markets areas, mainly selling titan limbs, cores, weapons, and other things the seller would give away for a good price.
As some of the titan's chassis remain un-touched though out the months, teen and kids hanging around started to mess around or vandalize the bodies of the mech.
Somewhere in a class room, a teen with dark hair, was glancing at the round clock as the small red hand rotated round. His head was on his arms as he watches the time go by
"Come on, go off already" He said quietly to himself
"David, are you paying attention?" The teacher shouted at the back of the room, as David moved his head toward his teacher. He haven't been doing well in high school, most of the teachers had their problem with David. He was barely passing any of his classes, only managing getting D's and a few C's, but often get F's in most of his classes. The only A's he is managing to get are from being in PE and technology classes.
"What do you think" He mumbled as he placed one of his hands on his cheek, looking out of the school window as a couple of his classmates started mumbling and whispering
"David Lane! Do I have to send you to the office again?!" The teacher shouted once more, frustration and annoyance in her voice
"You mean like last time" David mumbled once more
Before the teacher could say anything else, the school bell rang as the students got out of their seat and out of the room, with David following soon after, only to be stop by the teacher
"Sit down" She growled as David groan in annoyance before he sat down in of the nearby desks
Letting out a deep sigh, the teacher spoke "David, listen. You can't continue to be like this, what are you going to do when you go out of school? You can't be stuck here or because of- something!" The teacher explained
"I don't get why we're learning about these kinds of things, it dumb"
"Well, look. We know that your good with computers, we can get you a technical class or help you get a mechanics career, maybe somewhere with the IMC-" The teacher said
"But only if you start passing your classes, yeah, yeah the usual" David said as he grabbed his bag before starting for the door
"DAVID, get back here!" The teacher demanded "Don't make me call security!"
"If they can even catch me" David mumbled as he walked out the classroom
David wasn't that popular with many students, mainly because of his habit of skipping school or one of those bad boy things. His parents were too busy to do anything. His dad is an pilot for the IMC military. His mother was- well, he never met his mother, His dad said that she died giving birth to him. So pretty much his dad his self barely had any time to spend with him, or anything with him at all. The only one that took care of him was his aunt and uncle, who also, didn't spend that much time with him, but at least they did alot more then his parent
Although he wasn't that popular, he managed to make a few friends, who think he's, cool, enough to hang out with. Some think that he just another brat who will be just a jackass in the future. Others think that he just being simply dumb or just going to get himself killed.
Outside of the front school, three teenagers were hanging out around the school sign, one on his phone while the other two were on top of the school sign, playing cards while waiting for David to walk out. One of the teenager who was playing cards, looked up from his card, noticed David walking out
"Hey look who decided to come out now" One of the boys said as he set down his card before jumping down from the sign
"You could say that again, Sam" David said as he walked toward the three teenagers
"What took you forever? You usually come out a few minute ago" A girl said, placing her phone in her back pocket
"Well, the teacher stopped me for something, Alex" David said as he looked back toward the school "We should go before security come"
"To the town or the usual place we hang out at" Sam asked, crossing his arms
"Well, they are going to have cops looking for us in town… so I guess the usual place we hang out at, hoping there no vandals around" Another boy said as he gathered his cards, placing them in his backpack
"Jay got a point, seeing how you walk out on the teacher you have" Alex said as she watched Jay picked up his cards before placing them in his backpack
"We should hurry then" Sam said as they all walked out of school ground
After a few couple of minutes, they both reached a plain field with a few remains of broken building and a couple of forest around. That what not so special about his place, there were also the remains of destroyed Titan chassis around, mostly the body chassis, and a few mechanical arms lying around, rarely any titan weapons, as some were hidden around places. Some scavengers often come around here to savage any weapons laying around, just to sell or to keep, for decorations
"Ah, Gutterville- or what remain of it" Sam said as he stood on top of a Tone class titan, having no limbs beside one left arm
"Wait til that Tone grab you" Alex joked
"And what about that Stryder Titan, I bet that it's still working" Sam said, looking across from where he is, seeing a titan, with most of it part intact.
"I don't know about that hatch though, are you going to duct tape it?" David said
"Go to hell" Sam laughed
As both of his friends walked around the wreckage of the battle ground, David went a little further into the battle ground. Usually they stick toward the side nearest to the nearby town. There were wreckages of IMC and militia dropship and Titans, a few still having their paint job while others were burned out, the dark charred battle scar covering parts of the vehicles and mech. There were plants and vines covering a few, since the IMC barely bother to clean up any mess around the place.
As David was walking across the battleground, something blinded his eye, something shining and blue. Looking toward the direction of the light, there was something shining in the forest, something flicking. Walking toward it, he noticed some of the tree line curving toward the light, as if they were forced to move forward into the forest. As he took a couple of steps into the hole in the forest, he could see a dark outline of a large mech, the sparks coming from the middle of the mech as the bright blue light continued to flicker
Walking toward the mech, the blue light shifted it direction toward David, who flinched at it sudden movement toward him. Quickly shaking his head, he walked toward the source of the light as the dark outline became more clear, seeing the functioning titan, but not any titan he usually see alot, it was a-
"A Vanguard class Titan" David quickly gasped under his breath, as he looked at the wreck titan in front of him.
The left arm of the titan was missing, tore away by something. The titan light- or eye was in a shape of a star as it stared right at him, flickering a few time as David walked closer. The lower half of the hatch on the titan was opened slightly, having a dull light inside.
"What are you doing out here?" David said to himself in a low tone. Walking toward the Titan hatch, which had a few large bullet marks on it. Pulling down the handle of the hatch, he opened up the cockpit of the titan. Only to back away when something fell out of the titan.
Upon getting a closer look, he soon realize that it was a person- A pilot
His armor were wore out, the color on it being green, black, and orange. The helmet was heavily damage, leaving the visor color gray.
He looked down on the person before looking back up on the titan, just in time to see the light dying away into darkness
"Dave? Where are you?" A voice called out. He knew that it was his three friends looking for him after they split up.
"Over here!" He shouted as three figures being to walk toward him
"David, where were you…" Sam sentence trailed off a he notice the large mech in front of him, his mouth wide open "No, Fucking, WAY!" he shouted, with a huge smile on his face
"Is that a-"
"Vanguard?" Jay said, moving his glasses up to his nose "Where the pilot?"
David looked at jay before looking down at the body down in front of him as both of his friend stared in shock
"Is that the-"
"The Pilot?" Jay interrupted Alex, as he crouched down next to David
David looked at two of his friends, Alex and Jason while Sam was looking at the titan. Taking a deep breath, he grabbed the pilot's helmet, lifting it up, slowly as a foul stench entered the four teenage noses
Jason and David looked away while Alex quickly stood up and walked away, gagging on the bad smell that filled the air. David looked back down, his nose covered by his shoulder as he stared down in shock and disgust at the remains of the pilot. The rotten flesh that was underneath the helmet. Part of the hair were missing as the skin were darken
"Nope- Nopenopenope, nooooooo" David gag in disgust as he walked away, dropping the helmet a few feet from the body
"What are you guy- Oh god" Sam said as he covered his nose with his shirt
"How long was he dead for?" Alex managed to say over the smell
"A few week? Maybe a month" Jay said
"Ok, at least we know that the pilot is dead. But about the titan?" Sam said, as he looked at the remain of the vanguard class titan
"Can we get the head off? Maybe Ben could do something about it" Jay said as he walked next to Sam
"Hold on" Sam looked around for something long and hard before he spotted something on the ground. Walking toward it, He picked up a small, but large flat metal beam, about two time the length of a crowbar, wedging the bar between the titan chassis and a round part as he try to push down the metal bar "Someone gimme a hand with this" Sam said as he struggle to take out the Kit out of the Titan
"Here lemme" Jay said as he walked over to Sam, helping him push down on the bar
"Almost- Almost!" Sam grunted before something felled out of the titan body, watching it roll across the ground before hitting the tip of Alex's shoes
"David, we should go to Ben place. He know a lot about this stuff better than the IMC" Alex said as she picked up the round cylinder item off the ground with both of her hands
"Yeah, he always has a thing or two about this stuff" David said
"Almost like you?" Sam said as he walked a few feet away from the group
"You could say that" David replied "Come on, let go before someone comes"
I'm not sure how this story will turn out, if it goes downhill or somewhere- but here goes nothing