Rapido!

Chapter 2

The wind howled in Octavio's ear, the cold breeze covering his exposed arms and neck, he tried to keep his eyes on the spot where he was supposed to land with his squadmates. He was glad he had goggles because his eyes would have most likely teared up with the cold wind flying into his eyes. He got some weird looks when he chose his outfit for the games. Most thought it was strange.

(Flashback)

"Are you sure?" asked the attendant, strongly advising Octavio to pick a different outfit for the games, "This is what you want people, fans, the whole world seeing you fight in?"

"Sí." He replied, "And you don't have to be so rude about it. I can choose what I want, huh Señorita?"

She gave him a sour look, "Fine". She then left the room in a huff, leaving him alone with his outfit. He examined it with green shorts and fingerless gloves. He loved it, it looked like him with the daredevil he was. He joined the game with a stim he invented and used to to go fast. The chemicals would move through his veins and give him a boost of adrenaline, so he could go extremely fast. He also carried a little grenade with him that on impact after pulling a pin would expand into a jump pad that he could launch off of. He looked at his outfit one more time and nodded, satisfied once more. As he was about to walk off he saw another contestant he recognized.

"Heya! What's going on Amiga?" He said this to a tall dark skinned woman with very short hair.

"Well howdy." She responded in a deeper raspy voice.

"It's nice to meet you! My name is Octav- Octane. What's your's?"

She eyed him suspiciously for a moment, then replied, "Bangalore."

"Bangalore huh? Perdón but isn't that a kinda boring name?" She started a bit at this, but allowed him to continue. "Wouldn't you want like Octbullet, or Octbomb, or even Octspeed? Ah! How bout Octchamp? Damn, I should maybe rethink my name..."

"You like Octopus huh?"

"Octa- wha-? No no, it's because... ah, you wouldn't get it."

She smirked a bit, "Try me." Octavio thought for a moment, but as he opened his mouth to speak a bell rang, signaling an emergency.

"All civilians and employees must move to the emergency lofts or bunkers, repeat, all civilians and employees must move to the emergency lofts or bunkers."

"Well, see ya around" Bangalore shook his hand and ran off, helping people get to the nearest emergency spot. Octavio wanted to do the same, but he had no idea where the rooms were, so he followed at a distance.

(End of flashback)

The ground was coming dangerously close. Octavio didn't mind, he was used to being a daredevil. Though he was a bit worried considering he failed the training for this part 58 times before he got it right once. The ground got closer, then closer, he then pulled up and his jumpkit turned on and boosted just before he hit the ground.

"Aterrizaje suave, smooth landing" he said to himself. Crypto and Pathfinder started talking over coms.

"Backpack here, size two. "

"I've got an R-301 here friends! It's good!"

Octavio felt like he was missing out, "Got an R-99 here, she's fast like me yeah?"

"I'll take that." Crypto said over coms.

Octavio picked up a Wingman revolver and EVA-8 shotgun, a level two EVO Shield, size 2 backpack, a few grenades and ammo. They left the area with some pretty decent loot.