Bleed, Patch, And Keep Moving - An Apex Legends Story

Chapter 57 - Ambush

Octavio held onto Ajay's hand tightly as they walked up to the front of HQ. He knew that she was pretty nervous about everything transpiring from the previous night. They stopped in front of the building before entering. He stood in front of her and grabbed her other hand while he leaned in and whispered into her ear, "Che you were fucking incredible last night. No matter what happens this is the Silva and Che show." He kissed her forehead. She smiled at him before they walked in. She didn't have her badge with her because it was back at Octavio's place so she had to fill out some additional paperwork before she could go in any further.

After getting through security they were directed to a conference room that was big enough for all of the Legends. Ajay sat down next to Natalie who smiled cheerfully at her. Octavio sat down next to Ajay. Blisk marched into the room for the briefing and introduced himself, "Most of you have already met me but for those of you that haven't, I am Kuben Blisk. You can call me Blisk." Ajay was tense. Octavio knew she was tense so he grabbed her hand underneath the table. Ajay gripped his hand tightly with both of her hands. Blisk looked around at all of the Legends, "Let's get to it. There was a breech in our system last night. I am going to run the footage and you guys can tell me if you recognize this person. They go by Judge Jury Executioner." He paused for a moment as he started the video, "Honestly you guys could take a page."

Blisk played the video from last night. Ajay forced her herself to watch so she wouldn't look suspicious. The video itself was very glitchy. Everything was glitchy except for when the Legends were being killed by Judge Jury Executioner. Ajay watched herself on the screen. She looked as though she was calm and zoned, nothing interrupted her. "I wish I could fight like that as Lifeline." The video ended with Judge Jury Executioner on the screen as the winner; the picture glitched in and out. MRVN clapped as the video finished which made Makoa laugh. Anita sat back in her chair with her arms over her chest, "Obviously this person is highly trained." Renee slammed her fist on the table. Ajay nearly jumped out of her seat as the noise echoed through the conference room. Octavio rubbed Ajay's leg to calm her down. Renee stood up, "Whoever it is. They are cheating the system." Anita pulled Renee down into her seat as Blisk spoke, "Miss. Blasey, I assure you that all this will be taken care of in due time. Until then I suggest you control your temper." Ajay watched as Renee pulled her fist off the table but the anger still raged in her sky blue eyes. Ajay knew she didn't want to be on the wrong side of Renee's fist.

Anita sat up in her seat, "What's the plan sir?" Ajay had a lot of respect for Anita but she was starting lose some of it as Anita had an unwavering loyalty to authority. Blisk smiled at his loyal solider, "We are going to start moving things over to the new arena next week. I also have an intelligence specialist looking into this matter. Hyeon Kim is an expert in his field and he will be joining you guys in the arena soon." Anita raised an eyebrow, "Another Legend?" Blisk looked at her, "Is there a problem?" Anita backed down, "No sir." Blisk smiled, "Good." He walked around the room for a bit and then looked at Ajay, "You're back in this week. Viewers we not happy that you were out. Keep your focus on the game this time." Ajay could feel Octavio's hand getting tense in hers. She rubbed his hand softly, she didn't want him in the middle of all of this shit; at least what she could keep him out of. "We're done here." Blisk left the room, apparently there would be no more questions.

Everyone exited the conference room without a word. What could really be said? No one knew who Judge Jury and Executioner was; except for Ajay and Octavio and they were not saying anything. Ajay and Octavio walked back to her apartment. Ajay held tightly to his hand; she was silent the whole way back. Ajay pressed her code into the pin pad and entered. The door slammed behind her before Octavio could enter. Her back was forced against the door by a hand with long slender fingers that pressed firmly into her right shoulder. Pain shot down up her neck and down her spine as the hand applied more pressure. She could faintly hear Octavio on the other side of the door trying to get in but her body was being used to hold the door closed. Ajay placed her left hand on the arm of whoever was holding her and tried to pull them off of her but they just gripped her more tightly pushing her upwards until her feet were no longer touching the floor below her. She winced as warm tears began to sting her cheeks; she was crying unintentionally. She tried to see who it was but her apartment was dark and the pain was made her vision blurry.