Jack grumbled as he entered the dropship with the other legends, he tried to catch the person but they were gone the moment he left the bar, he walked around Solace for at least two hours even using his jumpkit to get on top of the rooftops but they were just gone.
He looked over to the Mirage and noticed how he was slumped against the wall, this wasn't like the Trickster to be silent. Jack walked over and leaned against the wall next to Mirage.
"You look worse for wear?" Mirage looked at him and let out a breath.
"Or how I can make things worse." Jack raised an eyebrow and asked what happened.
He listened as Mirage explained to him what happened. How he tried to get Rampart flowers and ended up insulting Wraith and pissing her off.
"And now I'm pretty sure I have a target on my back when we get to the arena." Mirage looked down again. A decoy appeared beside Jack.
"And I may have a crush on my--" Mirage swatted the decoy out of existence and groaned.
"You see my problem." Jack nodded.
"Yeah, but don't beat yourself over it, look Rampart like tinkering with things, how about getting her something less organic and more metallic." Jack suggested while Mirage pondered.
"That could work but I don't know how I will patch things up with Wraith unless I can come across a documentary about her past...unless" Jack chuckled and grabbed his shoulder.
"How about a simple'' I'm an idiot and I'm sorry." Jack suggested, Mirage eyes widened at that.
"Like alone?!" Mirage quickly hushed himself, he pulled Jack close and whispered.
"You know she has a kunai right?" Jack laughed.
"Trust me with my experience you will be surprised how many things could be fixed with 'I'm an idiot, I'm am sorry' "
"Pilot but you told me that many of your relationships never lasted longer than 973 days"
Jack stopped when he heard an all too familiar voice in his helmet and a small screen in the corner of his HUD.
"BT?"
"It is good to see you again, Pilot." Jack told Mirage he'll be back and stalked off.
Jack walked toward a corner of the room while Mirage gave him a strange look. He was hoping he wasn't just hearing things.
"Pilot, are you alright?" BT asked.
"I mean how would you act when someone you thought was gone comes back all of sudden." Jack replied.
"That would be quite impossible for me, Pilot, we are still linked and I can see your vitals, however I noticed that you have flatline once" oh Right the whole respawn thing.
"Yeah funny thin-"
"We are being watched by the people in the room" BT noted and sure enough Jack turned and saw some of them looking at him with strange looks.
"BT give me a minute." He rose and walked over to Mirage. He told him he was talking to a friend when the screens lit up showing the teams.
"Well, looks like we talk more when we land"
Kings Canyon, Duos
The floor lowered as the legends prepared the evening sun gave the island a calm atmosphere but not for long. Cooper crouched down on the platform.
"Jack, whatever is happening I will assist however I can but I will need to go through the helmets data banks" Jack remembered that helmets held recording just like Anderson.
Mirage clapped Jack's shoulder. "Hey I know a place to land! Follow me." He practically pushed Jack off the platform and guided him to Water Treatment. Jack went through the opening of the roof and grabbed a hemlock off the ground loading it.
Jack jumped down and slammed on top of someone and bashed them with the butt of the rifle, he rushed outside downing two others who were in the middle of fighting each other.
The sound of a gun cocking behind him turned his attention but the enemy dropped to reveal Mirage leaning against a doorframe with a smoking wingman in his hand.
They took the body shields that were close to being upgraded and headed to the next zone.
While they were heading to the zone, Mirage was talking about his predicament.
"I just feel like a terrible friend and the last thing I want is my friends to walk out on me." Jack could tell this was tearing Mirage up, he sighed and stopped.
"Mirage, friendship isn't something that breaks that easily, imagine being stuck in enemy territory with someone you never spoke to and need to work together to survive."
"You bond together to form a link and develop a friendship stronger than ever" Jack was spewing bs but it looked like it was working.
"Must've been some friend." Mirage commented.
"Well he was a 15ft emotionless titan so there's that." Jack jocked.
"I detected that was an insult directed at me." BT cut in which made Jack chuckle.
"Pilot I went through the recording feed and concluded that we are not in our dimension or timeline." Jack told the A.I he knew.
"It seems that the ARK 'phase shifted' you to an alternate dimension however my scans are limited due to my lost chassis and many of my systems" BT explained.
"Yeah and now I am forced to compete in a blood sport because some mysterious person got any leads?"
"No, whoever is tapping into your helmet has covered their tracks well they have managed to block any communication with me for a while. I recommend caution incase of threat." Jack processed this information.
"Hey Jack ya hear me?" Shit, he forgot about Mirage.
"Sorry I was talking to myself," Jack apologized.
"Pfft no need. I literally talk about my decoys everyday, I mean compliments given to yourself can-" They were interrupted by a shot landing on a rock next to Mirage face. They took cover each to their separate rock, he popped his head out.
"Hey! THIS is off limits!" Mirage yelled gesturing to his face before ducking again when another shot almost hit him.
"Pilot, Northeast, 360 meters from your current position" BT called out.
Jack looked and sure enough he saw someone on the roof of a building watching them.
"Thanks, BT." Jack prepped his hemlock.
"While I am limited to your helmet, I will assist you anyway I can, there is a caged flyer below them that is giving away their position" Jack knew what BT was talking about since Market was behind that building.
"Mirage think you can distract them while I flank?" Mirage grin and out on his goggles and cracked his knuckles.
He jumped over the rock and fired a g7 scout at the sniper, a bullet hit the head of the trickster but only a decoy in his place.
"You got bamboozled, look at you!" Mirage reappeared from the exact same rock and fired three at the sniper; the crackle of shields being hit confirmed his shots.
Jack used his jumpkit to gain height over the enemy, it was Caustic that fired on them. Jack burst and fired into the scientist's back, he turned to attack but Jack eliminated him before he got a chance attack.
"No teammate." Jack said confused, wasn't Octane his partner?
Mirage came running up looking down at the death box. "looks like he dealt it and smelt it….How does Wattson do this regularly?"
"Where's Octane?" Jack looked around ready for a fight.
"Probably that death box near that cliff." Mirage pointed and sure enough there was a gray box with two jump pads next to it.
Huh
Mirage threw his arm over Jack's shoulder. "Look at us, me the veteran and you the new guy like the pupil I never had."
"Pupil?" Jack asked.
"I say this match will be a breeze, come on market usually has something for my Mirage a trois" Mirage pointed to Market and sprinted off.
"Cooper, I assume he doesn't know what that means?" BT voiced while Jack shrugged.
"What does it mean?" Jack followed Mirage but grabbed his stomach and tried to hold back his laughter when BT told him the definition.
Jack laughed, stumbling a bit. "What's so funny?"
"I can't believe you said that so calmly" BT went silent for a second.
"I speak like this as I was programmed." BT was confused why it was so funny.
"Good to have ya back BT."
Remember when Mirage said this gonna be a breeze? Well it was fucking tornado.
When they arrived at a tower called Cage, they were met with resistance from Rampart and Gibraltar who were on the top both firing lmgs rounds at them. Mirage ended up going down but Jack pulled him to the tunnels surrounding Cage.
Then in Mirage words, Rampart and Gibraltar were third partied..then the third party was fourth partied then the fourth was...you get the rest.
Cage was a shit show.
"Mirage, got any spare heavy ammo?' Jack asked with an empty hemlock in his hands seeing Crypto and Bloodhound pushing Wraith who was by herself.
"Nope I was going to ask you the same thing!" Mirage replied, picking up a havoc rifle off the ground and loading it.
"BT?" Jack whispered.
"Scanning.." from Jack 's point of view, he saw a puddle similar to a pulse blade spread out before locking on to a stack of heavy ammo around the corner.
He took the triple take off his back, he got from the market. "Come on, Mirage"
They rounded the corner to see Pathfinder picking up Lifeline off the ground. They didn't get a chance as both were finished off by the two.
Jack took Pathfinder's flatline over his hemlock and Mirage took Lifeline r-99 over his wingman.
"Up to the hill near the respawn beacon." Jack agreed it was better then still be below in case someone made it there first.
Mirage threw out a decoy when it wasn't being shot at they moved. At the top bullets hit the ground near them. Mirage took cover behind the respawn while Jack took the truck on the left.
"We can hold here!" Mirage called over the sounds of bullets and fighting.
"I advise against that the zone will close soon. you will be dealing with overwhelming numbers as I detect multiple signatures" BT stated.
"Let's head down while we have a chance" Jack yelled back.
"Oh come on we can handle this." Just he said that Bangalore missiles slammed onto the ground like a blanket coating the ground. Mirage was about to say something when a certain defender's bombardment alert sounded.
"Pull back?" Jack called.
"No, I call this a tactical withdrawal!" They slid down hill as the explosion rained chaos.
When the sliding slowed. Jack used his jump kit to launch himself in the air and turn, he took the triple take and took aim.
A shot for Bangalore running down the hill.
Another for Rampart carrying her minigun then one for Gibraltar but the defender was faster throwing down his dome shield.
BT notified Jack of Crypto and Bloodhound leaving the ring and he took them both down with his sniper. He dropped the triple take, rushing to the dome shield while Gibralter was picking Rampart.
He slid in and rolled the frag grenade inside, the explosion confirmed his kills, Mirage tossed a decoy as he was being focused by Loba and Revenant.
"Ain't falling for that, Elliot!" Loba called running past his decoy while Revenant threw silence the sounding of Elliot yelping out signaled the hit.
They approached the cover covering both sides as eight mirages came running out. They swarmed the two saying they got bamboozled.
Mirage downed Loba with the r-99, he ended losing his body shield from the simulacrum rounds. "Little help!"
He turned to return fire when Revenant shot with a mastiff downing Mirage. "Any last words?" Revenant aimed it at his head.
Elliot closed his eyes when a sound ripped through the air and a thud. He looked up and saw a death box in his face. Jack slugged the sniper over his shoulder and stuck out his hand.
"I got ya."
On a screen, Jack picked up Mirage and a decoy put him in a headlock, she watch with interest and smiled.