Sorry that it took a while to upload. school has been hectic lately and I haven't been able to write at all. But I promise you all that I am not giving up on this story.

BLACK FOREST, 3 MILES AWAY FROM EICHENWALDE

Jason was already a long distance from the ship thanks to stim and his skills of wallrunning. He remembered the Gauntlet and how he was in the 4th position on the leaderboard until rifleman Jack Cooper began his pilot training and made it to 1st place. He chuckled, then continued on his way to a city that was only a few more miles from here. He just got into the open when he saw through the trees, was a giant castle. "Better check it out, may have something there, like a tourist attraction. He then used another stim and was on his way.

30 MINUTES AFTER DEPARTURE,

Widowmaker knew that this was a new case. The person had hardly left any footprints on the ground at all and some looked as if he was going faster than a car going at 30 to 40 mph. Then they would stop and she would see signs that this person was almost running on vertical surfaces. "Command this is Widowmaker, has that Brazilian fool made a trip to the Black Forest?" She waited for the reply as she noticed the trails were heading towards Eichenwalde. "Negative, he hasn't been there today, what have you found?" "Well someone with wallrunning skills like him only better is heading right for Eichenwalde and he won't know what's coming," she replied with a smirk.

EICHENWALDE

Jason's POV

I wondered what this world actually was when I stepped into those streets. The entire streets were covered in what looked like robots, only heavily armored and armed with heavier weapons. The place was deserted no doubt. But I wondered why this took place to begin with. I found one of the robots, which looked mainly intact. I used my data knife to quickly remove the main brain of this automaton, before my radar picked up fast movement. I whirled around, only to see the heel of a shoe go flying down the alley before it picked up more movement to my right and left. This wasn't the time to get into a fight, so I engaged cloaking and ran for the castle. When I got there, the cloak ended, but I still drew my Hemlok burst rifle from my back as a precaution. As I walked through the halls I reached what probably was the throne room. Suddenly, Vale called through the helmet radio, "Jason, the ship is ready and we are on our way to pick you up, we will be cloaked so we won't be detected." I responded saying, "Copy, there is no one here, but this place was a war zone at some point. I did pick up movement but I don't know if I'm alone or not."

Vale sent the signal for acknowledgement and I continued through the castle. I reached the end of the hall and I saw it. There, in the throne, was the remains of some kind of knight, the body decomposed, the armor already rusted. I went up and brushed some of the dust off. There was a name that said, "General Balderich von Alder." My bio analyzer indicated that whoever he was, he was killed due to stab wounds in his midsection on either side. It analyzed the scene showing him battling a ton of the automatons that I had seen outside the palace. Then he struggled to reach his throne only to collapse in it and that was where he took his last breath. I knew that the way he was fighting that either this was a last stand or a way to buy time for someone. Then, right by his hand, lay a small object. It was like a symbol with a circle in a designed pattern. I put it in my bag for later analysis. I sighed, wondering if this world would be difficult like the war all over again, when all of hell broke loose.

Hephaestus Class Frigate Orion, Vale POV

Vale was still cycling data about this new world, this Earth when a alert popped up on her system. She looked to the table and the holographic display of the castle and the village showed Jason's transponder moving fast and at least 15 red dots appeared to be chasing him. Another looked to be moving across the rooftop. Vale immediately tried to reestablish contact with Jason, but the comms were somehow jammed. "Sarge, prep Arsenal, Jason seems to have gotten into a situation, again." Sarge came through the door, the face on his front changing from a smiley face, to a face expressing frustration. "Ma'am, it takes at least 15 to 20 minutes to prep a Titan for titanfall, and this Titan is only 75% charged, can he hold out that long?" Vale looked out the window and said, "We can only hope…"

Jason POV

I didn't like the way these people greeted me.

My attackers had me cornered in a small bar and were practically shooting through the walls at this point. I saw at least 15 to 16 foot-mobiles, but I could hear more gunfire, meaning the hostiles had backup. I also heard a different type of fire, meaning a sniper. My suspicions were confirmed as a round hit the table edge where my head just was. I cursed, then remembered that Vale gave me a emergency teleport, meaning I could attempt to get out of the village. I checked the limited data about this area that we had and saw that a city was nearby. I entered coordinates for the forest outside the castle and no more than 2 seconds later I was out. I looked around and saw nothing but trees and rock. Suddenly a sniper shot came out of nowhere and I heard fast moving footsteps. I smirked, since these people didn't know about Pilot environment and took off, into the dark woods once more.

I couldn't believe how this chase was going. I couldn't get eyes on the sniper, who was able to get minor hits while running, and my luck went down even more as I exited the forest, straight into an open field. In the distance, there was a city, but I wasn't sure if I would survive out in the open. A sudden thud brought me back into reality as I turned to see the sniper. I ran, firing my Hemlok as I went, but not before getting my eyes on the shooter. It was a female, with blue skin and wearing a purple, skin tight, jumpsuit, with a opening in the front and back. She had some kind of visor on her head and her hair was back into a long ponytail. She also had some type of wrist device, which I recognized as some kind of grappling hook. Her rifle, I saw as bullets flew by me, had two modes somehow, as it was an assault rifle and would switch to a sniper rifle when the scope popped up. The situation wasn't any better, when a dark aircraft appeared and she grappled into it. I stimmed myself as the aircraft opened fire on me as I closed in on the city.

I had only just managed to reach the city, which of course it was the rundown section of the city, which meant there was hardly any life at all in this sector. I had just reached the rooftop of an old office building when another sniper shot hit near me and another hit my shoulder pad. I took cover behind a vent shaft. I looked at my hud and noticed that my Hemlok had only 3 clips left. I cursed, switching to my B3 Wingman Elite. I had just looked over my cover only to hear from behind, "Watcha doing love?" I spun around only to see what I could describe as the weirdest duo I had ever seen.

It was a woman and what appeared to be a man or a robot. The woman was wearing a bomber jacket and tight orange pants. On her chest was some kind of glowing device while on her wrists were some type of wrist gauntlets. The man/robot looked like something out of a anime or something. He wore white armor which was glowing green, with a short and longsword attached to his back, and had three sharp objects coming out of his right hands.

I couldn't be exposed to the public eye yet, and I didn't know what they wanted. So I calmly, but still with my pistol raised, said, "Who are you two?" The woman said, "I'm afraid we can't say yet love, but we do wish to know who you are. We were investigating a disturbance in this area and heard reports of a strange armored man running on walls through the old city." The first part worried me, since these people found the disturbance our warp drive had caused when we arrived in the first place. I was about to tell them something when the sniper dove down and opened fire. I fired multiple shots, but the man rushed forward, throwing shurikens from his hand. The sniper fled and the man followed in pursuit and I took that opportunity to stim and began to run across the rooftops. In front of me, out of nowhere, the woman appeared running along side me, keeping pace. I frowned, then continued the stim and grappled to the next building, ran up the glass windows, and onto the roof, but the woman blinked right then and there. "Try to keep pace!" she said, giggling. "Shit!" I yelled as I stumbled off the side and fell of the extremely tall building. I grappled and saw the woman peering over the edge. I also noticed a bright light in the sky and I realized that I had ran for a long time in combat, that Vale put Arsenal into a Titanfall. Arsenal appeared in my head, saying, "Pilot, I detect 0 enemy combatants, but I see you may require assistance." I sent an acknowledgement symbol, and released the grapple, I fell only to land right into my Titans cockpit, then leaning out to sit up on his shoulder. "Thanks buddy, but we need to go to an exfil point now. People in the city were bound to see you fall out of the sky and come investigate." "Acknowledged Pilot, recommend you board immediately." I was about to reenter the cockpit, when I noticed a glowing object on the ground. "You go on ahead pal, I got to do something." As my Titan retreated from the city, I bent over to look at the object. It was a black box, with a strange engraving on it. It seemed to have some sort of plugin function, so I figured I'd see what it was when I got back to the ship. I then staggered, falling backwards, realising that my knee pad was cracked. "You ok love? That was quite a tumble." I turned to see the woman kneeling over me, still smiling, but worried, I could tell since the way her brow furrowed and her eyes were. I suddenly had a memory flash, remembering the day the IMC used The Ark, and I almost went down that hole again, but stood up and turned away, brushing her hand gently away. "I'm fine," I said as I began to walk away.

"Let us help you, and let us know who you are" the woman stated as she blinked in front of me. I knew she would just follow me so I popped an electrified smoke grenade for cover and activated my camo. She gasped as the smoke appeared and that gave me a chance to make a few blocks away before the camo went out, and as I hid in the shadows, waiting for it to recharge, I saw her look around confused before blinking away. I still couldn't trust these people, even if they weren't shooting at me. I sighed, then cloaked and headed for the extraction, where my crew was waiting.

Tracer was still thinking about the stranger, as she waited for Genji to return and for their dropship to pick them up. Genji appeared behind her and his voice brought her out of her thoughts. "I have returned, only to say the sniper got away, but it seems her actions were to prevent me from finding something as I was drawn away from something. What of the strange?"

He's gone, but he fell from a building and was still standing, so I don't know what to think of it."

As they both boarded and returned to the watchpoint, Tracer recieved a call from Winston, his questioning voice filling the comm, "What happened, did you find anything?" he asked. "Winston, do we know anyone who has advanced weaponry, cloaking technology, and can survive a leap from a 50 story leap?" "No why?" She smiled, then said, "We may have found someone who is playing hero."