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

Chapter 95 - Always Have An Escape Plan

"I found him." Jamie's words rang through Loba Andrade's ears as she navigated the maze underneath King's Canyon. Jamie was her best friend and had been by her side basically since the loss of her parents. She met Jamie during one of her many looting expeditions. She didn't know why she saved his life but she did. As it turned out he was a whiz with the computers and gathering information. From that moment on she had made a friend for life. As of right now, Jamie was the only friend she had and the only friend she needed.

She really didn't know how to feel at this point as she walked through the dim corridors. The flare in her right hand was the only light on her path. It almost felt as if she wasn't even in her own body, like she was watching herself in these dark tunnels. She did feel that it was kind of strange that the monster she was hunting had been right here all of this time. Her whole life had been leading up to this point and it was finally here. It had been about 25 years since her parents were taken from her, from that fucking demon and today she was going to get her revenge on him. She was so close it made her body ache with anticipation.

Loba held the flare up to a face that looked a lot like a lifeless Revenant. She inspected it for a moment and moved on. Her heels tapped firmly against the metal lined pathway. As she got further down the pathway she stopped and threw the flare as far she could in front of her. The flare lit up the room to reveal a set of stairs that led to some kind of computer console. Behind the console there were hundreds of unfinished robots, with Revenant faces, hanging in lines from the ceiling. It was like some sort of Revenant assembly line. It might have been a scary sight to anyone else but not for her.

Imagines of her parents flashed through her head before she pulled her thoughts back to the task at hand. Loba made her way over to the computer console and began clicking away at the keyboard. Her brown eyes were focused on the screen in front of her. After she tapped in a series of codes the screen lit up with an 'Access Granted' prompt. Just beyond the computer console a small area with a door labeled with an H for Hammond Robotics parted in the center. Beyond the door was a head that look similar to Revenant's own head and face. Imagines of Loba's parents and Revenant attacking them flooded her head once more.

Anger and frustration washed over Loba's face. Her breathing was heavy as she forced her eyes open to look at the robot head again. "Demonio. Go back to hell!" She shouted as she raised her handgun and shot three bullets at the robot head. Before she realized it the bullets hit glass that protected the robot head. The glass cracked and alarms began to sound and filled the once silent air around her. The doors to the robot head closed as she shouted, "No! No!" She slammed her hands on the keyboard. A look of confusion and defeat flooded her face.

A door behind her opened and series of robots began to stand up and retrieve guns from a rack that was set out in front of them. Loba looked down at her hand gun as the robots started to leave there small area and head towards her. She shook her head as she holstered her handgun, "This won't do."  She pulled her staff from her back and threw it at the ground. The staff stood up vertically and emitted a bright white light in the shape of a diamond. 

She reached into the light and pulled out a gun. It was one of the guns from the gun rack that the robots were using. A robot that had been reaching for the gun looked down in confusion at their empty hand as it had been stolen from them. Loba began shooting the R301 at the robots that were marching down the long walkway that she had used to get to the computer console. Robots began to collapse and fall over as bullets hit them.

After she unloaded the entire clip from the R301 Loba tossed the gun to the ground and grabbed her staff. She used the staff to launch herself at the robots, twisting and turning the air. She kicked one robot off the walkway into the darkness below. She impaled another robot with her staff, causing it spark and malfunction, turning it off. She kicked another robot out of her way and hit another one with her staff. 

She rolled off the walkway as she was becoming overwhelmed with the sheer amount of robots that were continuously coming her way. As she fell through the air she found a small curved beam which her heels hit fiercely upon landing. She ran along the beam for a long as she could until the robots began firing their guns at her. She hopped down to the ground level where she found some barrels that were labeled with a corrosive symbol on the side of them.

The robots followed her down to the depths of the pit. By the time the robots made it down to the ground she had already managed to get herself back up to a beam above them with a smirk upon her red stained lips. She watched the robots look over at the barrels that they were now standing next to. 

A yellow light flashed from the barrels as a beeping noise became increasing louder. Eventually the beeping noise turned into a loud thunderous boom as the yellow flashing light turned solid and the bomb on the barrels exploded. The entire place began to crumble her. The beam that she was standing shook and cracked. Loba found herself falling into the explosion.

During her descent Loba pulled her bracelet off her wrist and tossed into the air. The jump drive teleported her out of the explosion and onto a nearby platform. She appear crouched, looking around for her next escape route. Her thoughts we abruptly ended as the platform she was on began to tilt downward and sway as gravity kicked in. A robot next to her grabbed her ankle and took Loba for a ride down the platform. Loba turned around and attempted to kick the robot off of her with her other leg. She finally got the robot's grasp off of her ankle but it was too late as they both fell off of the platform and the darkness soon engulfed them.

In a series of tossing her bracelet and teleporting to different platforms the darkness faded around her and light consumed her. Eventually the light became brighter and soon she had made it to the surface of Skull Town; or what was left of it. She appeared crouched in warm sand and sunlight. It had appeared that the land had parted from the explosion and gave her an out to escape. She looked around and noticed the Legends around her. She watched as Lifeline finished pulling Bangalore to her feet. She grabbed her bracelet and placed it back around her wrist as she dusted herself off and stood up.

"Sorry general. I meant you no harm." Loba offered Bangalore a quick smile. A woman that knew her way around artillery was a woman she wanted by her side. Her heart almost skipped a beat as she stared for entirely too long at Bangalore. The smile quickly faded as her gaze met Revenant. Her face filled with rage as her eyes focused on him. The demonio was smirking at her. Everyone was silent until Revenant broke the silence. "Here to kill me little girl?"