The Start Of Something Great

The Assault

Carver's POV: 0548 Jan. 5

The battle had begun as drop ships started to come down dropping off more soldiers to aid in the fight. Ray and I were tasked with assaulting the Command tower with Joy the pilot of the Prime Legion Titan. "Come on we need to move" I heard one of the soilders near us say as Ray and I ran for the command tower with Joy covering us. The fourth titan we had seen land was an ogre class titan and it was using a XO-16 quickly taking out the enemy infantry. We identified the infantry as IMC soilders that we guessed were sent here to guard something the IMC thought was valuable. As we were running we heard the sound of a Titanfall making us look up just in time to see a titan coming down near our location. I grabbed Ray by her collar and threw her as I used the momentum to jump out of the way as the Tone Titan landed where we were standing. The hatch then opened up to reveal the pilot as he walked onto his hatch. "Well. Well. Well look what we have here a few crunchy's to step on." He said as he sat back into his Titan closing the hatch. He had started walking towards us but was stopped by Jean as she had come running over in Atlas shooting her XO-16. It threw the Tone pilot off at first but he recovers quickly and starts firing his 40mm at Jean. " Come on we need to go!" Ray said as she helped me up. We both broke out into a dead sprint towards the Command tower as the Titans fought just a few feet behind us.

Jean's POV

"Pilot I suggest we use the Vortex Shield" as Atlas said that I could see this Tone about to use it's missle swarm. Following Atlas's advice I used the Vortex Shield grabbing the missiles. "Return to sender. You cunt!" I yelled as I sent the missiles back at the tone and it easily dodged the missle barrage. I went to shoot him with my XO-16 just to realize it was empty. Looking at the tone, aiming my own rockets at him and unleashing the barrage catching him off guard and breaking his shielding and putting a decent dent into his armor. He stumbled back giving me the time to reload and start shooting him as he brought up his 40mm and started firing back landing a few shots. I could hear the rest of the battle behind me and through the coms as Arthur and Joy were engaging more titans that had landed. "More titans are here! What do we do?" Some grunt said through the coms. "Joy what's the status on the infiltration squad?" Arthur asked as I got hit with a few more rounds as I fired more rockets at them in retaliation. "They just made it in." Joy said out of the corner of my eye I could see her fighting another titan that had come down. In that moment the Tone ran up and kicked me over and had a foot on my right arm knocking my XO-16 out of my hand. "I thought I recognized that fighting style. Long time no see Jean." Who was this guy? How did he know it was me? He then opened his hatch and dropped down on top of Atlas. "You know since Demeter I wonder what happened to you. Guess I get the honour of killing the women who left us to die." He said as I recognized the tattoo on his left arm. 42. He had the 42nd attack battalion tattoo. My old battalion.