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TFF

As we head to the door a rifleman says, "Good luck, our squad is taking a beating and need help." With that we race down the corridor as we come to the end with doors straight ahead and turn to our right. Suddenly a Stalker bursts through the doors and another came down the hall wasting no time I fired at the right since it was closer to me and us, Rosy fires on the same one as me but a little slower. She does have a lot to learn or Anderson needs to become a better teacher, yeah, the second one sounds right she seems to be a pilot longer than me but I seem to be doing better than her. Her mistake was not firing on the same enemy as me but the time it took her to react to said enemy. Under the combined fire the stalker stood no chance and fell but it's pack was glowing meaning self-dentition, jumping back while maintaining fire on the other one but notice Rosy just standing there. Grabbing the back of her suit yanked her back just in time for the stalker to explode.

Nothing but cuts from the flying debris, I turn to Rosy "What were you doing? You know we are dealing with stalkers the 'zombots' right?" She had the decency to look ashamed. "Well I never dealt with them before only humans and specters. So, want to fill me in on the secrets?" Was her reply.

"Yes, if you can shoot them in the red glowing pack that's their power source and what allows them to blow up like that. If dealing with a herd of them nick their weapons especially the L-Star." Grabbing said weapon and tossing another to her. "These will vaporize a human if hit a enough times, and will definitely do a number on machines. Energy weapons do that, anyway don't get close to them you saw what happened. Oh one more thing don't aim for the legs."

"Why?" she asked after we were finished raiding the room the stalker from and heading down the corridor the came from.

Coming closer to one without legs, I hold up a hand to tell her to stop and she does watching me closely as I got. When I finally got close enough it came back from beyond the grave, which is why they are nicknamed 'zombots'. It came at an unnerving speed making her jump as I heard a thud shooting it with my L-star it stopped I got closer to it. A piece of metal moved making a clang I jump back with my gun at it, never know with these things.

"Never mind I got my answer." She said her eyes never leaving the machine and skirting around it, as we rounded the corner another one stood there as if out of power then suddenly the pack turned red and tried going up the stairs. I pointed my gun at and slowly pointed at its back showing her the weakness. I tell her attack it but hesitates, finally she attacks and it goes. We approach it slowly and it doesn't move so we continue on meeting up with the rest of the squad. Wave after wave of stalkers attacked us, using the L-star on them on and when I ran out I slide to one and used my jump kit to get away from it.

I didn't notice the look I was getting from Rosy, veratrin pilots are harder than hell to kill but rookie pilots, all you need is some men a good plan and stalkers. And here I was a rookie pilot taking down stalkers left and right. Soon the stalker wave ended we wall ran to the other side and took out remaining hostiles but when there was only four left the doors opened. Four more stalkers appeared. Using the tactic I used on the sentry drone, grabbing a meat shield opening fire but this time instead of having holes in the meat bag he was vaporized. Two were taken down when we took cover and I saw just what we needed an arc grenade. Popping one to them caused them to dance, shooting at both of them they finally fell. The rest was easy, the men were picked off by our allies, going to the newly opened doors I wall ran on the wall and supporting concrete slabs never touching the pipes. Rosy tried doing that only to miss it and almost fell. Jumping towards her I caught her and she nodded at me in thanks.

A turret placed right as we got up and turned a corner, running to the only opening there was we came across some sludge pool telling Rosy to go to the entry on the other end I ran over the sludge. Only to come face to circuits with a stalker, hitting it in the face my knife giving no time to react I moved to its back and fired making it stop functioning. I got hit by other one making me fly towards a wall that's when Rosy come up. Aiming at it she was about to fire when I suddenly shot it only for it to glow so I jumped and grabbed Rosy and hid behind some crates. The crate jolted from the explosion looking over I saw half the crate was missing.

As we continue we find ourselves behind the turret grabbing a fist full of wires I pulled them out. We open the doors and Rosy nearly shoots the repair drones but I stopped her before she could, last thing we need is some kind of alarm going off. "Kane there are multiple vanguard class titans and one atlas class, I think it's the militia." The P.A. sounded "Of course they all vanguard class titans are militia you idiot." Was Kane's annoyed response.

We come into some room where they drain the sludge in, Rosy stops and puts a hand to her helmet "Wait… It's my titan, Ivy, she says that there not far from our location and to be careful. She's with other titans, more pilots good we'll need all the help we can get." She said.

"Uh about that those titans are mine so no more pilots around here sorry, and before you ask you need to see something for yourself to believe me so wait a little longer and trust me for now." I said and she gave me a odd look I just know it I don't need to see her face, nodding slowly was her reply.

Running on the walls and walking onto some pipes then double jumping up we got onto a ledge. Wall running then jumping onto something that was coming out of the walls we took the long way around because the short way had pipe blocking the way a pilots worst enemy is when something stops them from effectively maneuvering. That's when all BTs said, "Pilot our paths intersect just ahead."

"Great sounds good." I said and Tracer warned me, "Scans indicate multiple IMC forces ahead."

Running down the hallway as Rose seem to be in a rushed state to get to her titan. We finally reach a window I see a light green with red highlights, so this is Rosy's titan. After getting a good look we move on into the next room, wasting no time I go for the pump shut off.

"Pump shut off initiated." Said the automated voice.

Tickers started coming in, making a mad dash to an ammo crate and grabbing a R-201 I wait for them to line up and shoot causing a chain reaction.

SHUT DOWN 20%

Jumping onto the roof of the control we start shooting at any one, if tickers came to us we moved and waited for them to get close to each other and fired. More guys rappelled down killing as many as we could before they touched the ground.

SHUT DOWN 30%

An army of tickers came but didn't last long when clumped to together, "Just shoot!" Rosy yelled only to get told that's a violation of protocol 3.

SHUT DOWN 50%

More guys came in, moving around like kids on sugar made it hard for them to hit us.

SHUT DOWN 70%

A ticker got Rosy, down but not out, I ran to her to give medical aid keeping everything away from us while dragging her. I had the front she had the back, going to the doorway where there is a catwalk a little below. (talking about the area you come in at in the control room) Jumping down there with Rosy was no fun task since I had to grab under her arms and use my jump kit to slow us down since it's not just my weight that I have to take but hers as well, going to the under the steps that lead to the control room we hold off there.

SHUT DOWN COMPLETE

Seeing what was wrong with her after the titans laid down suppressing fire, all she seems to have was burnt leg which was not severe. Bandaging it I carried her back up and took us to the edge where we would need to cross the pool of sludge. Using the grappling hook, I swung us over there her titan took her and placed her in the cockpit. Jumping into Tracer my suite changed to a sleeveless jacket with cargo pants and I felt extra weight on my head, pulling whatever it was down. It was some kind of binocular set don't know what they do yet. Running down the hallway we come to a dead end on a sludge fall, only way out was up where Kane was.

We saw him rip out a pilot, "You were not invited to Kane's party! And that's why you're dead!" Kane cackles then turns to us, after throwing the pilot, with his hatch open and standing, "Well, well what do we have here? Three vanguard class titans and an atlas. Woo now we're talking!" He chuckles for a few seconds then says, "Bringing a knife to a knife fight."

"Ok everyone keep them off me and Tracer we'll handle Kane." As I said that three more titans come in.

"Are you sure?" Rosy asks and I give a thumbs up through Tracer.

With that the battle begins, firing at Kane making every shot count causing a lock on and firing tracking rockets at him as he fires an incendiary trap at me dodging out of the way I fire a sonar lock giving me a partial lock. Firing his T-203 TL (Thermite launcher) hitting us, moving out of the way of a firewall I shoot him again granting lock firing tracking rockets. Moving behind cover then out deploying particle barrier shooting a few more shots as he uses his T-203. His titan is in critical condition, getting in close we shoot off the arms and force open the cockpit.

I rip him out just like he did to the other pilot but I exited my titan and shot him with the R-201. Nicking one of the radios and tossing the other to Rosy, standard IMC procedure double radio one on helmet the backup in the titan. Decrypting… "Slone. This is Blisk IMC has almost sealed the Ark. It's time to prepare the Draconis." Blisk said unaware of the stolen radios.

"Copy. Got myself three captured militia. What shall I do with them?" Slone asked

"Ugh, just kill'em." Blisk said, "No… Don't" Three gunshots were heard.

"I'm on my way. Slone out." Slone said, more like Bitch out I thought.

Looking over at Rosy she had a hand where her mouth would be, giving her a second to collect herself then we left.

TFF

As we were exiting the building we came to the watering hole that Anderson passed by, speaking of water they better fill up starting to run low. Me and the BTs were arguing saying that we should avoid the shortcuts or not, but I remember a book someone wrote about time theories. One said theory was that if you divert to much from timeline A that aren't 'ripples in the water' you will cause a reaction in timeline B to snap and the timestream will be forced to reset and possibly have different outcomes of events that have come and gone.

Do I believe it? Starting to and I don't want to make things worse. So, shortcuts we take. Scanning the waterfall to make sure it's safe, never know about the ripples, ripple is a way of saying an event happening and causing other events to happen the butterfly effect if you will (check out quantum break to understand better). It's safe to drink this water, so we fill up on all the canteens even the ones stored in the titans. Continuing to a wide-open place with a little island with water a little over ankle deep. There is another loadout laying on the ground the same as before when we found the tone, I tried to ignore it but it was like something wouldn't let me. I had to exit Tracer and went to touch it same thing happened again.

Exiting the new titan and seeing Rosy, helmet open, smacking lips audibly somehow.

"This I can't explain so easily in way you would believe me but this is connected to what I told you when we first met. Just a little longer and I can tell you." Tuning to the new the titan she whispered, "I will burn all who stand in your way pilot." And with that she giggles manically. Okay. Was all I had. Looking at myself in the water I noticed I had a silver suit with flame designs on it with a fire skull over the helmet (A/N: volcano heat suit but the helmet is more like normal kind with just the flaps things, don't know the name, hanging off of it). There were also some packs on a belt looking through some of them I found burn cream and applying it to Rosy.

Ember, the new titan, had orange coloring with red flames with thick armor to protect against its own flames. Going in, the radio comes to life causing Rosy scream a little I pretend I didn't hear it "Ash this is Blisk, do you copy? Over." Blisk said

"This is Ash. Go ahead." Ash said in mechanical voice.

"Kane is not responding! I think our militia pilot is trying to be a hero. He gonna be heading your way. Kill'em" Blisk ground out, oh I feel so loved right now I thought to entertain myself.

"Understood. Ash out." Glee was in her voice.

We ran into infantry units but with Ember and her fire let them up, which she would not stop giggling at, finishing them off in a ball of fire. We move on as we do we come to the area I hate most.

A Small hallway meant mostly for humans but can fit titan… single file, meaning if blocked you'll be unable to move on. Running to get out of it as soon as possible but stopping before some trees can hit me and dashing over the conveyer, looking back to see Rosy right behind, moving to the catwalk I jumped out after clearing most enemies. Landing on the catwalk I motion to Rosy to do the same walking along the catwalk brought us to weapons crate grabbing both the EPG and Devotion. Handing said weapons to Rosy.

"Devotion, because of its steady build up in fire rate perfect for preventing unnecessary ammo loss, EPG can be used to kill humans and does some damage to titans but mostly used on reapers and seeing as we just passed some you will need it." I said giving her the guns with a short explanation.

Nodding she receives them, getting back into the titans. Seven came titans come into view when we reached open space. One fired rockets at me using fire shield to block, Rosy fired her 40mm TC (tracking canon), jumping to Empress via fold jump. Fold jump huh, that has a good ring to it, I finally named the jumping ability. Jumping out and because of the heavy armor I was a lot harder to kill getting onto the roof of a nearby building I jumped onto the enemy titan, a scorch. Taking the battery but as I did he shook and I ended in the pilot inside view, well dandy the dandelion got me, watching out of the corner of my eyes I saw him raising an arm smack me or grab me. Launching his arm at me I jumped before it hit me the guy inside was not so lucky hitting data core was the titan to slumped down losing the AI.

Wasting no time, I grabbed all the as many of the batteries I could but I couldn't get them all as he suddenly came to life. Having a battery in the spare battery holder all pilots have on their jump kit and both hands holding batteries, I ran. Throwing a battery to Tracer, Scout, and Ivy so they can replace them then ducking into some crates I cloaked. Unknown to pilot who got most of his batteries taken, and is now running on power stored into titan, I had jump onto it again to throw a grenade into a battery housing.

That took him down, looking back at the other they had taken two of their own down leaving four left. Rosy was being beaten down hard, running over I ripped out a battery but that didn't them so doing something dumb I hopped over the data core and fired at it. Data core destroyed once more by me made it fall back. I ran over to my ally to see if she was okay and she was. The enemy titan got back up this time manual mode about to attack but Empress came in with a save with a punch to the shoulder knocking him back. Hopping into the cockpit, we swept the gatling under his feet then stepped on the cockpit putting more and more force in it. Another foot joined ours it was Ivy's finally the hatch gave in crushing him.

Tracer and Scout finished off another one and Ember is having fun with melting a titan slowly that has lost its legs. The last titan is trying to escape but me, Empress, Ivy, and Rosy don't let that happen. Jumping out running towards him signal Rosy to do the same, coming out on her wounded leg which stopped enough to walk and run, we both jump onto the titan.

"Ever did a redo before?" I asked

"NO!" she screamed in terror.

"Well it's easy just watch out for the arms. Here's what you do, look for the battery. Do you see it?"

"Yes." Slightly calmer than moments ago.

"Good, twist it then pull it out. You have a battery housing on you jump kit slide it in there. Great, now jump and run!" I said doing just that, Rosy following me with battery in tow. Making it in the titans we focus fire on him and he fall into a pile of smoldering metal.

Jumping out as did Rosy but with a little dark spot between her legs, ignoring it I go over to her as she is on wobbly legs and ease her down.

"I'm guessing you never done a simulation redo either." I stated, helmet open.

Rosy also had her helmet open, "Never done a redo ever period… Thank you." She said.

"For what?" I asked in puzzlement.

"Well umm, how do I say this? To, uh, to redo. Anderson barely taught me anything but in a few hours, you taught me more than him. He was always staring at my boobs or my ass, fucking idiot. He would always tell me do this and that but not explaining what I had to do, and even it didn't need explaining he was never so I was wreck. You actually came with me walked me through it and did it like it was nothing. At least someone got redo training." She explained.

"Yeah, you did." I said with a shit eating grin.

"Huh?" Was intelligent reply.

"You see the day when I when I was supposed to have my first titan training everything went to hell. That was when we first got to Typhoon and had to use the lifeboats, so any and all titan tricks you've seen were picked up on the go." I said

Rosy was making a weird face as if god had smacked her and called it 'The surprise not funny but shocking' face. Waving a hand in front of her a couple of times nothing happened so I grabbed some black paint, must have been repainting when we got here, and put a dab on her nose then draw whiskers. She looked really cute but still no reaction so reaching a hand out and slamming the helmet shut got her snap out of it.