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Bars of yellow and black flashed insistently around your sights with an urgent red glow above your head, and a deathly scream of a siren piereced your eardrums.


Everything was heavy, thumping of 5 tonne metal feet sent shocks through your body as the mech chassis around you groaned under dangerous pressure.


EJECT EJECT EJECT


Rattles of gunfire ricocheting off metal urged you to trudge forward, your Titan barely able to continue down the chaotic jungle ahead while your pursuers were gaining on you at alarming speed.


CRITICAL DAMAGE - CORE EXPOSED - EJECT


The artificial voice of the emergency feature went ignored as you forced yourself ahead, dashing onwards at every available opportunity and trying to ignore the black and yellow bar in front of you - which grew shorter with every movement. The chassis groaned, sparks flying onto your helmet visor as your desperate attempt to escape with your Titan intact only led to its failure.


'Warning. Nuclear Reaction Imminent. Pilot, please eject.'


Your Titan's voice cut through the alarms, but you weren't going to try and negotiate. Nuclear Ejection would result in catastrophy within a 1 Mile radius, including the complete evaporation of your Titan.


Your partner.


Your best friend.


You couldn't let that happen.


A particularly heavy hit on your side sent a searing pain through your arm, your Titan tumbling as a Legion-class Titan had torn his right arm off with it's Predator Cannon. Your sights flickered an angry red static as you reeled in the cockpit, pain from the Neural Link sending a brief agonising burn through your limb.


'Protocol 3'


Your head shot up as your Titan righted himself with his announcement, the sights of the encroaching enemies flickering into darkness as a small message appeared in front of you.


'Protect the Pilot'


"NO!"


'Stay Safe'


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