AN: Just a heads up gonna take a break from this for a little while to focus on other stories and will most likely continue this near the 23 days left of season 6 or sooner.
"Jack….Jack...do you copy?"
"BT?" Jack said to utter darkness around him, he was surrounded by it.
"Pilot, do you hear me?" It sounded similar to him but more distorted and meshed.
"Pilot, something is interfering with my channel with you, do you copy?" He said again.
"BT, do hear me? You're loud and clear!" Jack called out but BT kept repeating Jack's name.
"Jack...Jack.."
"Mr.Cooper can you hear me? "
Jack jolted up and looked around noticing that he wasn't on Worlds Edge but instead on the ship inside the medbay.
A doctor seemed surprised but tried to calm the pilot down. "Easy, easy this was your first death so calm down."
Jack groaned as laid back down, his whole body hurts but he can bear through it.
"You were attacked by Revenant in which he stabbed you multiple times in the stomach and abdomen" Jack winced.
"Then you decided it was a good idea to explode two grenades at close proximity to yourself." Jack winced again.
"You are lucky that your body armor took the brunt of the first grenade that propelled your body away from the second one." The doctor sighed and showed him a picture of a device.
"The Regen systems can only repair so much so don't go pulling a Octane alright"
"Hi Cooper!" Pathfinder waved as Jack left the medbay.
"Path" Jack greeted. Pathfinder was holding a box of some sort.
"What's in the box?" Jack asked, attaching his helmet and snapping in place. Pathfinder looked at the box then a love symbol appeared on his chest.
"A gift for my girlfriend!" He exclaimed happily.
Jack stopped moving before tilting his head.
"My bad I must be suffering from something but you have a girlfriend?"
"Yes we live together now, she is very unique!" Jack wanted to ask more questions but decided against.
"What happened in the last match, who won?"
" You're team won, friend I was rooting for you even if you died." Pathfinder seemed to stand still for a moment before remembering something.
"I forgot I needed to get back to give this to her. Would you like to go with me?" Pathfinder asked in which Jack accepted for a reason to leave this ship.
They made it to a city called Solace while the Pathfinder gave the cab driver directions to their destination.
They arrive at a warehouse in which they leave the vehicle Pathfinder hurries inside and gestures to Jack to follow.
"Girlfriend, I'm home!" Pathfinder calls out and a door.
"I'm not your girlfriend" a familiar voice said from one of the rooms.
"Damn it" Jack sighed.
Ash left what seemed to be the bathroom and spoke with Pathfinder.
"Do you live with me?" She said yes.
"Are you a girl?" She said yes again.
A question mark appeared on his chest. " And you are my friend." She went quiet.
"Am I?" She approaches the two.
"You don't know anything about who I was before you found me. Maybe I was bitter. Or cruel. Even dangerous" Jack agreed with all three things.
"That not doesn't mean I won't stop being your friend like my new friend Jack!" Pathfinder practically pushed Jack in front of him.
"..." Ash stared at him.
"..." Jack stared back.
"MIRAGE TO THE RESCUE" they both turned to the sound of glass shattering and four mirages running in with Rampart head peeking through.
"Most of my friends are great here. Meet my girlfriend Ash!" Pathfinder greeted.
Wraith was in her room on the ship staring out the window, the voice has been giving her cryptic messages ever since she explored the abandoned facility in the shadow realm.
"It's watching somehow."
"It's free here and is watching"
" Pilot knows a secret, Pilot knows a secret."
She huffed and twirled the kunai in her hands, she needed to find out what it was talking about but the shadow realm was a no go but it means it's free here?
Wraith left her room and walked to the common room where in the corner was Crypto typing away on his computer.
Wraith started to approach him but he raised a hand. "You have voices warning you?" She smirked.
He pointed to the corner of the ceiling where his drone was tucked away watching the room.
"What is it, Wraith?"Crypto said eyes still on his screen.
"Do you believe Jack says who he is?" It was an out of nowhere question but the voices needed to be silenced.
"If I can get back to being alone, all I know is what I told Bangalore already if you want the same answer, ask her."
Crypto has closed his bubble again after the whole mole fiasco so he wasn't budging.
"But, I noticed something strange last match." He continued.
"My drone picked three signatures off of him. Two which emitted from his helmet." He continued to type away after Wraith thanked him and left.
"It uses a vessel"
"Hiding behind a friend." the voice spoke again.
More questions than answers as always for her.
Jack had to give it to Mirage for timing or else he had to talk with the simulacrum who used him as her guinea pig. Right now it seems Rampart had gotten her attention, giving him a chance to move to the other side of the room.
He looked out the window at the street below as Mirage pulled Pathfinder to the side for a bro talk. Jack was still caught up over that 'dream' he missed BT as he was probably the only one who'll actually help him get back.
"Someone is watching you outside"
He saw the message but it came from an unknown sender, he slightly turned his head enough to scan the streets.
Nothing...nothing...bingo.
There was a silhouette staring directly at the window right at him before taking out a cell phone and walking away.
"Hey guys, I need to go--"
Ash screamed suddenly as electricity spark around her flew over Jack 's helmet and caused the hud to glitch out like crazy.
"You-z will-- not..Pilot trying to-- take bac--"
Jack pushed Rampart out the way as Ash fell to the ground face first. Pathfinder pulled Mirage away so he wouldn't be hurt before approaching Ash.
"Girlfriend are you alright?!" Pathfinder tried to help her up but she pushed him away.
"I'm fine, I just need some alone time," Path ushered everyone out into the hall while saying goodbye.
"Well that was rude." Mirage said while Rampart rolled her eyes.
"Well whatever I need to set up shop before tomorrow since I won." Rampart grinned while Mirage argued with the modifier out of the warehouse.
While leaving Jack noticed the same shadowy presence creeping in the corner of the street, he was gonna approach when he got a message.
: Don't follow.
He didn't know if it was AB or BT if he was even alive or if it was just a figment of his imagination.
But either way, he listened and backed off.
They were back at the bar with Jack, he watched as Wraith chewed Mirage about being forgetful and telling him to be prepared for their match tomorrow.
He watched Rampart put up a sign while talking with Mirage. After that was finished. They soon started talking about her shop with Mirage saying she owed him a mod.
Jack left for the bar. He grabbed a drink from one of the decoys and sat near a window and his helmet opened so he could take a drink.
The calmness was interrupted when four shady people entered. They took a seat at a table in the far corner and waited, Jack knew something was up as they talked in hushed whispers.
But not quiet enough that his helmet couldn't pick up on the words.
"This the place for sure?""I'm bloody sure this where I saw her come in""But isn't this place that apex legend owns?""Who cares if he stops up we'll burn this place to the ground"
That was all Jack needed to hear. He walked toward the group who took notice of his approach and quickly went quiet.
"Hey what ya want?" One of them barked.
"Just wanted to see how you fine gentlemen were coming along and not causing any trouble" Jack replied his hands on the table.
"What's it to you?!" The thug barked again trying to intimidate Jack who only scoffed at the man. He noticed that one of them was moving their arm ever so slightly as if reaching for something.
The thug slammed his palm on the table and stared at Cooper. "If ya don't get your as out of my face we--AAH!" The man cried out as Jack slammed his data knife into his hand still on the table before silencing him by slamming his head on the table.
The one sitting on got up but Jack crashed the bottle he had into his face before pushing him onto the other guy who tried to reach for their firearm.
One manages to grab their wingman and aim. Jack grabbed their wrist and with a twist took the hand cannon out of their hand before hitting their face with the handle before they crumpled.
The last man managed to get the unconscious thug off of him and took his weapon to see a wingman already aimed at him.
"Feeling lucky punk….heh always wanted to say that" Jack chuckled while thug dropped his gun and put his hands in the sky in surrender.
Mirage came running with….a trophy of himself? And Rampart with a P2020.
"Who is trying to pillage--plunge-...Destroy my bar!" One of the decoys pointed at bodies writhing in pain and Jack holstering his newly acquired wingman and pulling his data out of the unconscious man hand.
"Don't look at me like these guys are trouble, they're looking at someone" Jack explained.
"You just came and you already are causing problems" he looked at Rampart.
"What!? These blokes could be after anyone!" She argued.
"They were looking for her," Jack commented, Mirage gave Rampart a look. She shrugged.
Jack looked out the window and noticed someone outside watching from a distance. They were too blended to get a good view but Jack noticed a mask attached to their face.
Jack walked out while Mirage and Rampart were talking.
"Your welcome by the way!" Mirage called after Jack who left after the person.
Rampart snorted. "But you didn't do anything"
"...It's dupes o' clock!"