Fandom Titanfall: IMC Rising

[Ja13n]

Vlad watched as the Kenneth brought his ogre over to him and laughed. "I need you to rip your ogre's armor plating off one of the two arms, I want to see whats underneath, I have a funny it's not going to be good." Vlad put his satchels away, if there was explosives underneath then he didn't want to risk killing Kenneth, and he didn't want to waste the life of another pilot for his own judgement call.

 

[SadisticHunter]

Kenneth, knowing that it was odd it took so long to get here, took his ogre's right arm and ripped the plateing off The left one. What Vlad and Kenneth saw may have slightly shocked Kenneth, only slightly! What Kenneth and Vlad saw were explosives packed in everyplace possible. "Vlad..... thank you for not wanting to blow something up this time....." Kenneth said in a shocked awe. "Well I have a feeling this will be our getaway" said Kenneth as he opened the cockpit and placed a charge on the arm. " Just a guess but I'm decently sure we need to get running" Kenneth said as he boosted forwards to their territory.

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad shook his head when he saw the explosives, he muttered "Well, looks like we do have a rat, maybe multiple..." hearing Kenneth's comments and watching him plant the charge Vlad shook his head. "No kid, keep yourself hidden, blow up the ogre and make it look like you died, There are befits to being 'dead', Like finding out who the rat in the hanger is, and preventing you from actually going boom." Vlad turned away and walked from the ogre, not that worried about dying, the explosives were enough to destroy the ogre, but only from within, they were old school demolitions, and didn't have quite enough kick to blow the ogre's outer armor completely apart, but if Kenneth was inside when they went off...... well he'd be a red gooey substance. "Also, I did want to blow it up, I just didn't want to be the reason another teammate was gone."

 

[SadisticHunter]

" OK Vlad how do I stay hidden? I'm open to suggestions!" Said Kenneth as he turned to look at Vlad. "How do I stay hidden and get back into our base, i don't think we exactly pass off as grunts do you?" Said Kenneth in a sarcastic tone. "Wait, I'm just curious but, could we by chance pose as dead grunts?"

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad snickered, "Oh no, but if you were to appear dead, and then bet brought back via extraction... Who's the wiser?" He laughed again and pointed to the ogre. "Just grab a piece of the ogre once it blows up and stab yourself with it, then I'll cover you with burn marks and such, you'll look pretty dead, and you'll be back to normal after just a few minutes of time in recovery pods."

 

[SadisticHunter]

"OK Vlaad make sure you come to my funeral haha" Said Kenneth as he stabbed himself. " make me look as dead as possible, even if it means breaking my bones" Kenneth explained as he layer down on the ground. " you ready for the explosion of my requiem?" Kenneth asked as pulled out the detonated..

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad cracked his knuckles "Don't blame me for the pain, Mr. 'as dead as possible', this WILL hurt a lot." he said as he grabbed the detonator from Kenneth and pressed the button. Quickly following the titan's demise he ran over and grabbed a piece of shrapnel and started damaging Kenneth's uniform, looking at it he looked really banged up, but not dead, so he stuck some shrapnel though his armor, either just above or just into Kenneth's skin, and slammed his foot into Kenneth's arm, breaking it. "You look really dead now kid, once you stop screaming I'll call in the evac ship and we can find out who sabotaged this mission."

 

[SadisticHunter]

"FUCK! " screamed Kenneth as the paaain spraang through his body." WELL I LOOK. QUITE. FUCKING DEAD NOW!" keenth yelled sarcasticly as vlad pulled his floor back. Kenneth had just enough time to realize what Vlad was doing and then he got a face full of rubber and a concussion. At this point Kenneth was unconscious.

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad changed his comms to the evac's channel "This is Vlad, requesting evac now, Alana was captured and Kenneth is dead." He picked up Kenneth's 'body' and walked to a open area "Requesting the extraction point right here." Vlad stood there holding Kenneth for three minutes before the evac arrived and picked them up. "Is that the dead pilot's body? why are you bringing that with us?" "It's an honor thing, don't worry about it, just get us back to the hanger, and as soon as possible please." Vlad said as he put Kenneth on the floor and watched as the drop ship quickly entered orbit.


Upon reaching the hanger Vlad opened the door and watched hanger staff come over and examine Kenneth, most talked about how it was lucky his body managed to still be in tact after the explosion, but Vlad noted that one of them looked at the body really weirdly, and mouthed, 'shouldn't he be mush?' 'Looks like I found my first rat, and I need to get Kenneth to the recovery pods when no one is looking, and soon.' "Excuse me people, I would like to take his body to be laid to rest." he said quickly thinking of a way to get Kenneth away from prying eyes, in-case he decided to wake up at the wrong time.

 

[SadisticHunter]

Kenneth awoke and slowly opened his eyes in case it wasn't safe to do so just yet.what Kenneth saw was moving ground. From what Kenneth could tell, he was being held in one arm by Vlad who he guessed either wanted to make it seem like he was dead for sure or just didn't care to hold him any other way. In either event this continued for around 20 minutes before Vlad stopped and stated "you up newbie?" Kenneth whispered in response " is the coast clear?" Vlad laughed at this and replied" why the hell would I be talking to you if it wasn't ?!" Which Kenneth took as get the fuck up you idiot. Kenneth stood up and injected his stim." Well let's find an engineer or a guard or something I can disguise myself as because no one will be convinced I'm dead if I walk around like this." Stated Kenneth.

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad laid Kenneth down, knowing his legs still worked, he wasn't expecting him to inject stim. "Well... That saves me a lot of work, come on, the grunt gear is over here, since you seem to be quite willing to do outrageous things, how would you like meet the man who tried killing you?" Vlad said softly while walking down various halls, stopping Kenneth and checking to make sure it was clear before moving forward, and before long they arrived. "Now take off all your gear, hide your remaining stim and keep injecting yourself with it, I'm sure soon you'll be back to almost new, then meet me in the hanger, I have to go ask some questions to the man who reassembled my stryder." Vlad cracked his knuckles and his neck. "A real fun conversation."

 

[SadisticHunter]

" shit .... Vlad the pains coming back already, go find the person that rigged our titans...." Kenneth said in a sudden painful rasp." I'm gonna head to a regen tube.... wake me up in a month..."

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad turned around and grabbed Kenneth before he blacked out, and carried him to the regen pods, putting him in one. 'I wonder what I can do in about a month...' He thought before he walked away from the pod, 'Maybe I'll be able to fix the hanger rats.'

 

[Ja50n]

A month has passed things have fallen into chaos since the IMC had taken control of Demeter and rebuilt their fueling depot. Connor laid in absolute darkness his eyes closed and arms behind his head."How much longer until you think they get here?" he asked into the darkness. Connor stood up and reached for his flask grabbing it and pulling it to his mouth taking a ling drink from it. He turned the flask upside down and sighed as just a drop fell, "Looks like I'm out of whiskey." he said as he looked around for more.

 

[Scrin]

Alana laid beside Connor in bed, snuggled into his side before he stood up for a drink. She sat up, her eyes just barely making out his silhouette in the darkness. "I don't know. I'm starting to think they abandoned me completely. If not, they better have a damn good reason. You have any idea how much I could have improved Ryoko's systems with a whole month to myself?" Alana sighed, hanging her head. "Truth be told, I always knew I would miss her if I didn't have her around, but I had no idea the hole in my heart would be this big..."

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad punched the man in the face again, killing him. "Well that's the twelve rat I found...." Vlad dropped the body and spit on the ground, during the last month he had been shot, stabbed, and electrocuted all by people who were supposed to be working with him. Now at least it was finally time for Kenneth to wake up... There was something strange about Kenneth, when he went to check on him he felt a slight sense of deja-vu but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Today was really important though, once Kenneth got out and geared up they were finally going to get Alana back, Vlad winced at the thought, Alana was gone for a month, and he wasn't sure if she was an enemy now or still friendly, he would see soon enough, He walked though the halls and got to were the recovery pod was hidden and opened it up. "Good morning buttercup, time to get to work."

 

[SadisticHunter]

Kenneth yawned as he awoke from his time in the pod. Vlad why did you wake me up so early it hasn't even been an hour.. Kenneth then began to turn this thought over in his head. " Hold on I haven't been out... long have I?" Kenneth pulled up his watch and saw the unbelievable, he had been out the entire mont. " OH SHIT! WE GOTTA GO SAVE ALLANA!!!"

 

[Scrin]

Alana:


Attempting to put the worry she felt about Ryoko out of her mind, Alana stood up as well. She had to count her blessings, after all, Alana could have been stuck here all alone, getting Cabin Fever and generally going insane from the waiting. Thankfully enough, Connor had proved to be quite the gracious "Host", if that word could really be applied to the man who had captured her and dragged her to an IMC base. Before long, the bickering and fighting gave way to mutual understanding, and then into.... well, the relationship they were in together. Alana had even convinced Connor over time to return to the Militia, though that gave them a new set of problems. Now they were BOTH trapped here, Alana still a prisoner, and Connor unable to take off back to the Militia with Alana without getting blasted by the IMC before they even got off the base. In a way, they still needed the rescue that Alana had hoped was coming. Hoped, but didn't know for sure would ever arrive.


Ryoko:


Ryoko sat in her launch bay, sitting at the ready to be dropped onto a battlefield that no longer needed her. Since Mother was gone, Ryoko would never be sent back into battle, since her pilot was captured. This left Ryoko quite bored a lot of the time. For the first half of the month, she spent all her time calculating every possible outcome to her mother's imprisonment, but eventually this led to quite a few morbid results, and Ryoko could not stand to envision those outcomes any longer. So, to preoccupy her time, she would occasionally reach out into the Militia network, taking information as it was passed along and attempted to gain an understanding of how the war was going for the last several weeks. Eventually this led to a technician noticing the AI's intrusions into the communications network, since Ryoko grew more bold with every successful attempt. Ryoko was then forced to withdraw from this practice, lest she be discovered. Mother had never told the Militia Commanders about Ryoko's sentience, likely because those leaders would want to copy Ryoko, if not dissect her programming to figure out how she worked, killing her in the process. Thus, Ryoko tried to keep her sentience a secret as well, trusting her mother's judgement. "Mother, I wish there was something I could do to save you..."

 

[Ja50n]

Connor dropped to the ground and began to exercise after his search for more whiskey led to no avail. "You know today might be the lucky day that they come to get you." he said between each rep. He was already started on push ups and shifted himself into the position for sit ups and began working on those. "I mean we could always give them a head start on eliminating the IMC here all I have to do is slip out and steal us some gear then activate a distress beacon on Militia wavelengths..." he thought out loud as he continued his little work out. "Hell I might even get them to drop me a Titan before I initiate friendly fire." he continued on his plan as well, "Whatcha think too much of a long shot there?" he looked at Alana as he stood up and stretched before walking to a doorway and turning around looking at Alana.

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad laughed at Kenneth's reaction, and spoke though the titan-breaker's line "Calm down kid, I already got our gear and titans ready, I killed a few rats and found out where she is, it's amazing what slowly..... Never mind that, the high command only knows the gist of my plan for today, and they okay-ed it, so get geared up and get in the first titan you can, we drop as soon as you're geared up." Cracking his back Vlad took off for his own stryder, 'Just can't put my finger on it.' Seeing it open it's cockpit he climbed into it, feeling the calm come again. Today was the day the Titan-breakers would be back in order.

 

[Scrin]

"It could be worth a shot, but it's an all or nothing chance. If we activate that beacon and the Militia doesn't bother to show up, we're rather fucked. I don't have a titan until I get back to the Militia, so I'm unarmored as all hell." Alana watched Connor exercise, in the dark for some reason, as she leaned against the wall and thought the plan through. Might as well try it, since death is a lot better than sitting here for all eternity.

 

[SadisticHunter]

Kenneth shocked at the sudden information somehow knew he had to quickly jump into action , so Kenneth threw on his gear and Ran to the bay. As Kenneth was running to the bay he saw a bottle of whiskey. Thinking only of the hate he had for Connor grabbed the bottle and thought " I'll use this later..." and continued on to meet Vlad at the bay. Once there he ran to his ogre when, Alana's Titan stopped him. The Titan said " Hello I m Ryoko a sentient program made. By my mother Alana, I. Wish for you to drop with me.." Kenneth could see no harm in this because when he got down he could switch with Alana." Okay "Ryoko" let's get going " Kenneth said as he climbed in Ryoko's open cockpit. "Alright Vlad let's do this shit."

 

[Ja13n]

Vlad activated the drop sequence once he heard Kenneth was ready, "If you have any regrets, they'll have to wait." Feeling his Titan start preparing for titan fall he laughed, "Oh yea, try not to mess up your fall, it has a small chance to kill you." adjusting his settings he dropped, feeling the Fall was always grand, and feeling all the gs, it was the best roller-coaster ride in the galaxy. 'three..... two..... one.....' Vlad felt his titan slam into the ground. "Seems they didn't notice that small cruiser was ours," grabbing the rail-gun that dropped next to him he looked at his tactical map and saw that the base Alana was being held at was only a kilo-meter away or so. "Alright Kenneth, lets get our engineer and get out, we don't know what types of tricks the IMC has up their sleeves."

 

[Ja50n]

Connor smiled and turned on the light before running out the room and into a loadout bay stashing a spare set of gear in his locker for Alana he walked out onto the base and into the training grounds, "Give me my Titan I want to inspect it." he ordered into his Tac-Pad. The Titan dropped onto the ground before him and opened up he smiled and climbed inside, when the hatch closed he pulled open a screen on his HUD and launched an encrypted distress signal on the Militia frequency. With this he turned and picked up his 40 mm Cannon and unloaded on the troops around him, he then ran to where Alana was being held and slammed his fist through the wall creating an exit for her. "Come on Alana!" he yelled

 

[Scrin]

Alana:


Grabbing her Eva-8, RE-45, and Sidewinder, Alana held back in her room, waiting for Connor's signal. Suddenly, a large titan fist busted through the wall, and Alana assumed this was the signal she was waiting for, rushing out of the room and rodeoing Connor's Atlas. Knowing her primary and sidearm were all but useless in this situation, she pulled her Sidewinder and began blasting away at the base and everyone in it. Without warning, Alana's Tac-pad lit up with the words: "Titanfall Activated". Alana excitedly looked up, hoping to see Ryoko careening towards them, but there was no titan dropping. "Where the hell IS Ryoko dropping, if not to me?" She said aloud, though speaking only to herself.


Ryoko:


Kenneth crawled inside her cockpit and Ryoko activated the strap system, securing Kenneth in the seat. As they dropped towards the planet, Ryoko calmly spoke to Kenneth, trying to brush off the unsettling feeling of someone other than Mother in her cockpit. "I appreciate you using me as your titan temporarily, allowing me to drop and help evac my mother, I could not have authorized my own drop without you. However, I am afraid I cannot allow you to take the controls. You are not trained to handle the complexity of my systems, and will only get us both killed. I apologize if you are insulted by this, but I must insist." Ryoko hit the ground with a resounding slam, then looked around. A Militia distress signal activated, and Ryoko wheeled towards it and took off at a full-on sprint. "Just a little while longer, Mother, I'm coming to get you, and I brought your comrades..." Ryoko thought to herself.