(A/N): It's here! Sorry for the long wait...again. Enjoy!
"You know, this might actually work," Mirage said within Epic Center's tower. Ajay and I were watching the doors, making sure the Gibraltar, Wattson, and Pathfinder weren't deciding on killing us now. They knew they had us and could just leave us trapped in the outer Ring. Though, they didn't know we finally had a plan to survive another Ring.
Ajay had the idea for me to use my EMP to allow Mirage to run out the door using his cloak. It should give him enough time to scout the area as well as possibly downing an enemy in the process. It was pretty smart of her; even I wouldn't have thought of that.
We had a minute before the Ring closes and for the train to get to us. We needed to do this right. We had a few more seconds before Mirage's cloak was ready to activate, so we were making sure we had enough loot to last this fight and make it to the next Ring. I noticed Mirage had glanced at me another time as he covered his mouth with his scarf again. He seemed nervous. I couldn't complain, I was nervous as well. If either of us messes this plan up, we'll experience a gruesome death.
"You know what you're doing, Crypto?" Mirage asked me.
"Yeah. If I were you, I would focus on myself." I answered. "I hope you can handle a little sting from my E-M-P."
"If I can handle Nox gas, I can handle your shock grenade."
I smirked.
"We need to start this up, Boys." Ajay interrupted, as she pulled out her Scout. "The train's almost here."
I pulled out my drone and stared at both my teammates with my hands in my coat pockets.
"I have a few more seconds…" Mirage said, watching his cloak charge up. "It's ready!"
Ajay looks at me.
"You ready?" She asked.
I nodded and everyone got into their places. Mirage stood by another door opposite from Ajay and I. I hovered my drone above us and activated the EMP. We all heard it begin to charge up, feeling the tension for knowing it was going to be painful.
"Elliot, if you down someone, we're going for the rest of the team. If you can't, scout the area for us to get onto the train, ya' hear me?" Ajay re-explained.
"Yep!" Mirage shouted back.
Then, a few seconds later, my EMP went off. I remembered to clench my teeth before it did and the pain swelled up through my body. After experiencing my EMP plenty of times, I was used to the shock. As for the rest of my teammates, they were yelling their asses off.
I was right. Wattson's fences broke the moment the EMP had gone off, so the moment my EMP stopped, I heard Mirage use his cloak. I grabbed Ajay by the hand and yanked her out the building before the enemy team had the chance to catch up to us since our body shields were broken in half.
I checked the map while I ran, seeing we had about thirty seconds before we missed the train.
"Elliot?" Ajay called.
"I'm not seeing anyone? You think they already left?" Mirage asked.
"They wouldn't," I answered as Ajay and I found a hiding spot to shield up.
"We have to go for the train. I don't want to take any chances." Ajay added.
"Going!" Mirage responded.
We all headed for the train, a few seconds away from us. All we needed to do was get on just in time. We will be near Overlook, heading into Refinery, but we will have to jump off before we make it to the next train station.
Suddenly, a Charge Rifle had gone off and I heard Ajay grunt. I realized we were in open ground, enough for a sniper to claim a kill and they were focused on Ajay and I. I checked her health, it was already halfway through her health. Already broke the body shield!
"Ajay!" I called, trying to reach for her hand again, but another bullet hit her. It had pushed her body hard enough to pushed me forward, making me roll down a snowy hill towards the train tracks.
"Shit! Can you get to her?" Mirage asked, yelling into the mic. I could hear the train.
"Attention: The Ring is now closing." Said the Announcer.
"Crypto! Go! They're chasing –" Ajay had said before her mic was cut.
Ajay's health bar turned green, notifying us she was killed.
"Ajay!" Mirage yelled into the mic.
"Get on the train! I'm coming!" I told him, running on the tracks towards the train.
"I'm already on it!"
I heard the train before it came around the corner. Mirage was at the front of it, holding out his hand for me to grab it. I quickly do and he pulled me up, throwing me onto the train floor.
"Shit, what happened?" He asked, huffing and puffing.
"Charge Rifle," I answered him, getting onto my feet. I realized my drone was still at Epic Center, so I quickly called it in before we were at Refinery.
The train was going pretty fast, so the Ring was not going to touch us. I noticed the train wasn't looted, so I began my search and Mirage did the same. My hands were shaking from adrenaline, constantly thinking about Ajay. All that work and we still lost a teammate. I know she was watching us from the waiting room after being killed, but that doesn't mean that kill didn't hurt me. It felt so real. I exhaled, letting all my nervousness out when I heard extra feet walking on the train.
"Mirage, do you hear that?" I said into my mic.
"Yeah," He responded. "I'm heading for the roof of the train."
Mirage was still at the front of the train while I was in the back. We were surrounding this team, but there were only two of us. I quietly walked towards the middle of the train, seeing another Wraith and a Pathfinder looting a supply crate. There was no sign of a third enemy; I had the upper-hand. I noticed Mirage still running on the train's roof, but I was already there before him. I smirked at him before I took off for the enemies.
I had run fast enough to quickly grab one of them, but too fast for them to hear me coming during the last moment. I had Pathfinder in a chokehold, shooting my bullet through his eye. Then, I ducked when Wraith pulled her R-99 on me. I shot both her knees, making her hit the ground. Apparently, she had a gold knockdown shield. I wickedly grinned at her, picking her up by the collar, making sure there was no third member before grabbing my drone the exact moment it flew to me and smacked her in the face with it. I turned to Pathfinder and quickly shot him again in the head. There was a third teammate somewhere on the train since Pathfinder was still down.
"Hey!" I heard Mirage yell to me.
I glanced up at him and noticed Caustic sneaking up behind him.
"Those were mine!" Mirage continued as I quickly picked up Pathfinder's Charge Rifle and aimed it towards him, charging it up.
I saw Mirage's eyes widen.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, kid, it's me! It's the Old Man!" He continued yelling.
I winked at him before firing the sniper, hoping this idiot will move out the way. Mirage did and the bullet instantly killed the Caustic behind him. I dropped the sniper on the ground, smirking at my teammate, but I suddenly heard something land beside me:
One of Bangalore's missiles.
I instantly took off running towards Mirage without a second thought.
"I thought you were gonna kill me." I heard him say when I was closer to him.
I grabbed him by his arm and pushed him towards the front of the train as the missiles exploded.
"Don't be an idiot!" I said to him.
The explosions were too fast, knocking us off the train
"I'm not an idiot!" Mirage yelled mid-flight before we crashed landed into the snow below.
I woke up in the snow with some of my body shield taken off. I couldn't believe we had survived. I looked around for Mirage, seeing him nowhere near me.
"Mirage?" I called out.
No answer; I clench my teeth.
"Elliot?" I called again.
"So, you're the real Crypto?" I heard Mirage say in front of me. "I fought a few before you, but they ran just like you."
I looked ahead and saw another Mirage. I knew it wasn't my teammate as someone punched me in the face from the right of me, knocking me back down in the snow. The way I was punched allowed me to see my teammate getting killed by Octane, repeatedly kicking Mirage in the face. I looked back at the enemy Mirage, but I was staring at the head of a charged Peacekeeper.
"Good fight." He said before ending my life and my first match.
(A/N): Fun Fact: The plan that Ajay made, I actually did with my real teammates. Though, we didn't hurt ourselves with the EMP, we hurt a team with the EMP while my teammate ran into the building with a ark star on his person in his cloak, so...somewhat like her plan, lol. Comment & Review! Also, check out my Wattpad: ashlin_port