Jason's POV

"Jason! Wake up!"

I woke to Vales worried voice, on the cold metal floor of the ship. I groaned and asked, "How long was I out?"

"For about 3 hours boss, I just reactivated but something happened to the ship. We've crashed and I can't reach the Militia at all. What did you last remember?" I suddenly remembered how I caused the warp drive to activate, but the strange energy became more violent and then I was out. "Well we were evacuating and then that rift engulfed my vision and I blacked out."

I got up and walked over to the controls and put Vale in the ships console. I then opened the blast shutters and stared out, only to find out it was a forest. This confused me since it was only 3 hours since we activated the jump and normally, warp jumps can take 10 hours to 2 days. Vale reappeared on the holo table, her AI form starting to glow its usual pink glow, "I scanning now to determine where we are, you might want to check on Arsenal and the M.R.V.N," She said. I nodded and walked out of the cockpit and right into the deployment bay. The deployment bay didn't experience any damage at all from the crash and the supplies of food, water and weapons were secure and undamaged. However Arsenal was leaning on the right side door, his middle eye dark. I frowned, wondering why he was offline. I went over to his left side, to the battery compartment only to find out the batteries were completely drained of energy. I took them out and put them in the fabricator for recharge. As I was walking back however, I noticed a toppled pile of crates and saw one was being slightly pushed a little. I removed the boxes only to find two M.R. slowly climbing out. I saw something strange about them and saw that for some reason, these M.R. were not the normal programmed ones. One was red with white stripes and a scope emblem on the chest. The other was blue with orange camo paint and a lightning bolt emblem. "Are you guys functional?" I asked, and got an immediate response from the scoped emblem, saying in a deep gruff Irish accent voice saying, "We sure are lad, I'm online and ready for combat." The other one said with a lighter tone, " We're alright, though what happened? All my data says is we were both about to head to recharge, then the ship shook and we got hit by those boxes." I said, "We evacuated the ship due to an IMC attack, but a strange rift opened and became unstable when we did a warp jump. Right now, all who's onboard is me, my Titan Arsenal, and my A.I Vale." They both looked at each other, then the blue and orange one said, "Well I am Zen -7478 and this here Sarge -8943." I nodded and shook Zen's outstretched hand, wondering how they had these personalities, when Vale came over the speaker, "Boss, you may want to come up here," she said with a concerned tone. I said, "Alright can you guys start the fabricator and begin crafting weapons please? We may need them and my Titan if this is something bad." They both nodded and I walked back to the cockpit. Vale was standing when I got there and said, " You are not gonna believe this, but we are on Earth." I froze and began to worry since the IMC occupied Earth and there might be no chance off the planet. Vale read my mind and said, "But this is a different Earth." I looked confused as she said, " This year is 2076, a long time before the Titan Wars began. And this Earth and its inhabitants have only colonized on the moon and that failed due to animal containment breach. They are nowhere near ready for interstellar travel, but they are really advance." I was about to ask how advance when I heard Arsenal coming back online as the ship shook a little. I pulled Vale from the console and went to see how my Titan was.

Vale POV

Vale impatiently waited for the crew to gather around as they were checking on Arsenal as he was coming back online. As soon as they gathered around, she told them her plan. " Alright, so as of this moment, we will be not able to perform our duties for the Frontier, I have new assignments for you all. First," she pointed at Arsenal, Zen and Sarge," you three are going to begin working on the ship and prepare for it to move orbit. It might not be wise for the people to know about us. Second," she pointed at Jason, "I need you to run ground ops alright." Jason said, " I've been cooped up too long so I'm ready to go." She smiled, liking his eagerness and cooperativeness. " I need you to gather data about this world and help the people and be a protector if you can." His response was childish, as he said, "So instead of soldier, I'm playing hero now?" "In a way, now get to it!"

UNDISCLOSED FACILITY

"I don't understand, these reading are off the charts!" Winston exclaimed as he looked over his global surveillance. "Athena, assemble the others, we need to have a meeting, this could be something bad." As Athena called the others to the room, Winston looked and wondered what else it could be. He knew that was also an area Talon was heading to so he would have to check it out and hope it was nothing.

TALON DROPSHIP, 20 MILES FROM THE FOREST WHERE JASON CRASHED

"We are above the drop-off point, so get going." Widowmaker sighed as she loaded her rifle and put on her infrared goggles. The pilots were always so bothersome. Alas, she could not kill him unless Talon asked for any of their own to be killed. She saw that the mission brief told her to scout the area since the strange readings occured. She didn't think there would be much, but was intrigued to see what all the commotion about this was in Talon. She leapt from the craft and fell towards the dark forest below.