Hello people of Earth, I am not dead lol.
I have been working on the 3rd chapter for a while, scraping ideas, so on
Also I did not forget about the Raffle, the winner is Havok416 and his/her character, Scott, will be introduced this chapter, congrats! Confetti for everyone!
No vulcan I haven't forgot about you, your character will not go to waste ;)
As well to make up for the lack of any chapters and the short chapter 2, Ima try to
I hope you enjoy it and reviews are always appreciated.
Ok and some shout outs, thank you Vulcan and Havok for leaving submissions, hope you keep enjoying the story.
Until next time bye
Sarah Briggs slowly walked down the corridor, people moved out of the way of the commander, seeing the look in her eyes that meant something important is going down.
Sarah walked into the Titan barracks to see 3 titans, weapons drawn, aiming at a yellow Scorch Titan, with an faded orange Phoenix painted on its hatch. The Scorch at first glance looked inactive, only its optic moved, showing that it was functional.
"Titan, what is your designation"
"…"
In this instance, a Tone, which had been aiming at the Scorch with the other 2 Titans, responded.
"The Titan has been unresponsive since its arrival approximately 23 hours 12minutes and 42 seconds ago"
Sarah Briggs looked at the Scorch again before something dawn on her, could it be…no, no there's no way, nothing survived that battle.
"Commander Briggs, Scott Evans reporting for duty."
Briggs looked up to see Scott, a holo pilot who had a weird thing for purple, his entire suit, weapons, hell even his titan, AU-7074 or Ana, was purple.
"At ease soldier."
"Commander?"
"Yes, Scott, what is it?"
"Ana ran a scan of the Scorch and what she found was…weird"
This was confirming Briggs suspicions more than ever, but she'd keep quiet for now.
"How so?"
Scott turned and looked at his Titan, which Sarah realized was the Tone that answered her question earlier.
"Tell her Ana"
"Upon scanning the Titan, I found a old set of code deep in its AI data banks."
"Go on"
"The code is unlike anything in countered before, but I can decoding some of its contents."
A video feed emitted from the Tone's data core, showing a message
Entry log :7635
Title: Override
TITAN PROTOCOLS: OVERRIDE STARTED…decoding…
I will have my revenge, I will never fail again, I will never stop.
Protocol override… complete, Titan Protocols: …1
TITAN PROTOCOLS : 1. Survive
Transmission End…
There was complete silence throughout the entire hanger as the message's meaning settled in.
Scott was the first to speak
"What the hell, there's…no way that's possible, A Titan can't just change its protocols, can it?"
"Affirmative, it is not possible to reset our protocols, as every code is built on those three protocols"
"Well how the hell do you explain this"
Scott gestured to the Scorch, but Suddenly the Scorch's optic lite up. Causing Ana to grab Scott and place him inside her chassis, and retake her stance, with her 40mm aimed at the Scorch in a spilt second.
"What the hell Ana"
"The Scorch is active"
[The story will now transfer to first person]
Checking critical systems…Undamaged
Power functionality…43%
Attempting restoring ocular systems…
Booting up Titan AI.
"Ugh… that sucked so much."
Running system check…complete
"Let's see, Yes! All systems are powering up, finally! That took too long, sigh."
Visual feed re-established
"Ok, time to see what I'm dealing with."
Warning, Titans detected
"Ah…crud"
Looking around, Phoenix wished he hadn't looked, because the first thing he saw was the barrel of a 40mm tracker cannon inches from his data core. (His "eye")
Looking up, Phoenix saw a Tone class Titan looking down at him with a look that could destroy an entire fleet.
"State the three Titan protocols, and your serial number"
Phoenix thought to himself, Well, ain't she just a barrel of fun. Deciding to play, along he answered.
"I have no such knowledge of these Titan protocols, and I have no serial number"
Now this got a reaction out of the Tone, as seen by her "eye" widening in surprise.
Now there's something I can work with. Phoenix thought to himself happily.
"Now if you kindly could remove the gun from my face that would be nice."