Meanwhile in Space on board the ship Homeland….
Serena (Ship AI): Target Year 2019, reached all systems go.
Jack: Kat?! You good?
Kat: Yeah I'm fine, where the heck are we? ….. Serena, identify.
Serena: Currently we are in the 21st century, 2019 to be exact if you haven't paid attention just now. Destination Earth. Welcome home pilots, but years before that…
Jack: Why in the world are we pulled into an era year before ours? Did the ship just jump drive malfunctioned?
Kat: Oh I don't know Jack, maybe your silly little stunt of using the explosion of the Draconis and jumping maybe a good idea boosting us out of the area. Looks like we just jumped too far.
Jack: That stunt worked out didn't it? We are out of the area and I just saved our sorry selves. But yeah, boosting with a jump drive was a bad idea.
Kat: And now you agree with me…. Every time….
Serena: While you two are having your little quarrel, the timeline with ours and this timeline is completely separate. As I discovered, this current era as of right now is under an outbreak.
Jack: and Why would we be concerned?
Serena: Because the whole earth is being contaminated with a virus outbreak called Green Poison.
Kat: How do you know all of this?
Serena: Social Media, it was easy enough to hack through their firewall without detection. Wow, their technology is sooooooo analogue.
Jack: Ok…. We now know what happened and that does not delay us from the fact that how are we going to get back to our normal timeline. Kat and Serena, get working on that, give me a sit-rep on how to make contact. I'll head over to the cargo to check on the titans.
Serena: Don't need to. The titans are fine. I've just ran diagnostics and detected no major or minor damage to them. And yes Jack before you say it, their cores are stable and ready to fire.
Jack: Including the Vanguard Class Titan as well?
Serena: Yes, but surprisingly it survived a slip-space, that chassis material was not expected to survive that slip-space shockwave. So I guess we are just lucky….
Jack then proceeds back to the ships' bridge.
Jack: Ok, let's see what we got ourselves up to now. Serena, deploy a scout satellite drone. Make minimum contact with anyone who is down there. I want to know what we are up against. Kat, got anything for me?
Kat: Yes, the current organisation with the highest authority is a task force called SHD, stands for Strategic Homeland Division. Another substitute would be the Joint Task Force, JTF for short. These two groups are currently working together to contain and stopping the virus outbreak. But they both have a long way to go in terms of stopping the virus to spread. I've hacked into their Shade tech network and the units are agents, similar to the IMC but less…. Advanced and killing frenzy. They also have enemies as well, there are five factions. Rioters: normal civilians but turning insane like a mad protest in the middle of a war. They wear hoodies and low-end guns. Cleaners: people who believe that exterminating the virus with fire but very delusional. They wear hazmat suits or any other sanitation uniforms with full-face gas masks. On top with DIY guns that have a flame-thrower attached underneath the gun barrel. Rikers: short and simple. Escaped inmates from Rikers island wearing bright orange and blue colours. They are equipped with stolen guns from the Police Station's armoury. LMB: stands for Last Man Battalion. your typical IMC with advanced weaponry. On par with guns and firepower as SHD. But not as advanced as ours. They also have agents from SHD but they are called rogues who disavowed the Division affiliation which is not to kill another agent out of cold blood. But luckily they have different clothing so it would be easier to separate from the good guys and the bad guys. They also have red rings around their smart watches.
Oh, forgot to mention that SHD has smart watches too, just watch out for the orange rings around them. They are the good guys.
Jack: Thanks Kat. Serena, has the recon drone returned from its mission?
Serena: Yes and it retrieved a contact IP number for us to communicate, looks like we might get a friend on the first day.
Kat: How did it managed to get a contact number from the surface?
Serena: The drone hacked the contact number in one of the safe house that was in operation down in Manhattan, New York. The drone is learning a few things from you Kat.
Kat: Shut up, so the main source of the virus outbreak is in New York?
Serena: Yes, it also contained a full map scale with points of interests that you two might be interested in future.
Jack: Thanks Serena, anything else?
Serena: There is more, the drone also mapped out the dark zone. The dark zone is located in the middle of Manhattan and it's the area where the virus originally first hit. Call it area zero. Similar to Patient Zero but you know…. Land. In addition, it houses the most dangerous people and rumoured to have rogues roaming there. But we can confirm it as a fact because thanks to the drone, we now know there is a threat to be cautious about other than just those criminals.
Jack: Fun…...
Serena: I detected a hostile firefight against the leader of the SHD. Its located near Pennsylvania Plaza, their base of operations are heavily under fire.
Kat: How many are there?
Serena: 52 hostiles in total. Shall I call in one of the titans to start the party?
Jack: No, something's not right. Serena, how many local forces are there to assist the SHD?
Serena: There's only 4 agents currently engaged in the firefight. It looks like they can handle themselves. Look at they go….
On the surface…
(Agent) Megan: Damn, I picked the wrong people today to take my steam off them.
(Agent) John: You had to pick the cleaners! How's that turret holding with that reactive targeting mod holding up?
Megan: It's holding up fine, surprised it's still alive because cleaner bastards can't shoot for shit.
(Agent) Fredric: 3 on my right!
Megan and John looked at Fredric's right and shoots at the 3 hostiles and eliminated them.
(Agent) Sarah: Damn, could you at least not make this situation any worse. You guys are making a massacre at them.
John: Big boss incoming! That thing is huge!
Megan: Yeah, big target to shoot at to make fireworks. Alright, Fredric take his left explosive tank. John and I will take the right tank. And Sarah? Take his back gas tank. Make it an overkill. Alright, ready? Go!
The four agents started firing at the Hostile Incinerator, left tank lights up, then the right and the back. Once the agents are done shooting at the tanks, the three gas tanks on the hostile Incinerator exploded and created a devastating boom and wiped out all of the hostiles nearby.
John: I love fireworks!
Sarah: Well, we are about to have a whole lot more!
Back in Homeland…
Jack: Wow, that's some impressive fighting. From 52 now down to 13 at least and dropping.
Kat: They kind of cheated because of the incinerator's explosion as a killing blow and it placed them in an advantage against them.
Serena: I have detected another wave coming from the left side of those agents. Look at them, they just keep coming. Are you sure sitting above in space and not helping is a good idea? Maybe it is time to help them to speed things through. You know, give them a boost of firepower.
Kat: Now should we go down and help them?
Jack: *sigh* Just don't make a mess out of the buildings. They are already blown up as it is. Besides, it's about time we introduce ourselves.
Serena: What is today's titan of choice? Sir?
Jack: Call in Ion, we don't want to waste any bullets because since this world is not in the right state of condition to manufacture bullets.
Kat: What about Scorch, he is designed around fire and we are fighting against the cleaners which their specialty is well….. fire.
Jack: Yeah sure, that's a good idea. Then we can hopefully find their main base of operations to manufacture ammo for the Scorch as well. Serena, prep scorch for deployment.
Serena: Scorch Titan is primed and ready to deploy. Just don't light everything on fire, because a first good impression is a valuable opportunity.
Kat: Don't make any silly moves Jack. If our backup is giving a bad vibe, we are just another target for them. Then we have no idea of getting home.
Jack: Alright fine 'Mom'…
Kat: *sigh*
Jack walks to the hangar bay and starts preparing himself for combat. Then he sits in the cockpit of Scorch. The hatch closes.
Kat: Happy Hunting, Jack!
Jack: Alright Serena, shoot me.
Serena: Stand by for Titanfall.