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

Chapter 20 - Science Is Not The Best Medicine

"What da fuck is wrong with dis boy?" Lifeline sighed and jumped from the ramp after Caustic. She knew that it wasn't very smart of him to drop in solo into duos match. She managed to catch up with him by dropping straight down and then floating a bit before landing. Caustic didn't even bother to look at her as they flew together towards the front of the Bunker. They both landed but she didn't have time to look for the other dive trails because she was too busy dealing with her teammate's poor behavior.

Lifeline looted the bins outside of Bunker. She found an RE45, a P2020, a limited amount of ammo, no syringes, no shield cells, level one body armor, a level one helmet, and no weapon attachments. She walked into Bunker and found nothing else to loot because Caustic had looted the entirety of the building. Lifeline asked Caustic for light ammo by pinging it in her inventory. Caustic said nothing to her as he set up his gas traps. She shook her head and walked into one of the side rooms at the top of the stairs. She leaned against the wall with her RE45 out and began the waiting game.

"Yuh want ta leave this place and loot elsewhere Caustic?" He remained quiet as if she wasn't there and he was ignoring her. Lifeline was getting antsy and a bit angry. She didn't really have the ammo if they got into a long, drawn out battle. Everyone knew where they were anyhow, so it was only a matter of time before one or all of the other teams came rushing in to battle them. It was a stupid move to stay in Bunker without enough ammo to defend themselves.

She carefully watched the feed and listened to the announcer. Two of the squads had been eliminated, which left their squad and one other remaining squad. The ring hadn't eliminated Bunker from the storm, so they would be having the final fight inside of here after all. She stood up and readied her RE45; she knew the automatic pistol would be her best beat in a battle. "We be lucky ta win this." She really only had enough ammo to shoot the gun once. She walked out of the side room and into the hallway.

A laugh bellowed from Caustic's gut as the countdown clock started. The sirens sounded to alert the teams of the incoming storm and the ring closure. As soon as the sirens began, the backside of the Bunker door opened with a grinding noise. One by one Caustic's traps disappeared with a single shot bullet; never once deploying any nox gas.

Lifeline watched as thermite flew in above them and fell down at their feet. Both Lifeline and Caustic started to sizzle as the flames engulfed their bodies. The fire managed to hit one of Caustic's traps that was still standing. The trap went off and spread nox gas all over the immediate area. There now was gas and fire filling the narrow hallway. 

Lifeline finally got to a place where she was away from the fire just as her body armor cracked and broke. She had nothing to replenish her shields with because she had found nothing during her one and only looting expedition. Her heads-up display (HUD) indicated that Caustic's health was beginning to rapidly drop from the termite attack after the fire had already ate away at his armor. Just one termite had almost took her teammate down.

There was still gas lingering everywhere as Lifeline pulled out D.O.C. to heal both of them, "Heal up." D.O.C. just hovered next to them but didn't heal them at all. Caustic coughed, "Inferior drone." It was first and only time that Caustic spoke to her. Another thermite came flying in and hit Caustic square in the head, knocking him to the ground and then lighting him on fire shortly afterward. 

Caustic didn't bother to hold out his knockdown shield as the fire ticked down his health at an alarmingly fast speed. Within seconds Caustic was a death box and Lifeline stood there without a teammate and without a working heal drone. She had to think fast before she died in this death trap that Caustic insisted on camping in.

She quickly grabbed Caustic's banner, burning off some of her health in the process. She could faintly hear footsteps coming from the backside of Bunker. She shot her R45 blindly through the gas and fire. She heard the sound of someone's body armor cracking, which she hoped gave her enough time to get away and respawn Caustic. She knew that she didn't have much time to escape Bunker. She had no other choice but to run and try to pull a win out of her ass.