The pilot: Jack Cooper (twisted around a little)

the showdown

After leaving that place, I went for find BT, which was a hard task because that fucker could be anywhere, ash could've hidden him anywhere, and I'm gonna find him, find ash and then whoop her ass. I walked around for about 10 more minutes, before BT spoke on the comms, "cooper, I have managed to break free from the arm, I am near your current location. Sending you the coordinates now." And after that he sent me the coordinates to find him, and so says that, I start making my way there, facility half exploded for some reason, "BT did you start exploding things again?" I questioned, but BT replied with a solid, "yes, I had detonated a bomb within the facility to break free, the apex predator did not like what happened." For fuck sake BT, now you're ahead of me in things blown up. I then reach where BT is, he seems to be getting harassed by some prowlers, looks like it's shooting time. "Pilot, I require assistance." Yes I know I'm on it. "You're clear, stay where you are, I'm on my way down." I embark BT and we make our way to find ash. The facility got damaged badly from the explosion. "Protocol 2: uphold the mission, rendezvous with major Anderson" BT suddenly spoken, I replied with the blank response "we've got to deal with ash first, remember?" And we both fell silent.

Surrounding us, there had been debris all over the floor, wrecked built houses, fallen IMC soldiers and for some reason a random Prowler that escaped, we ignored it and just kept moving. "BT, have you got any idea where ash is?" This time I questioned with genuine curiosity in my voice, "affirmative, ash has been located further through the facility. We are about a 5 minute walk away from her last known whereabouts." Now thats useful information, we continued to walk to find ash, came to another dome and small homestead. And there she is. Out came ash running with her little ronin titan thinking she's so smug...wait does that thing have a fucking sword AND a shotgun? Yeah okay, forget what I said. Ash came to a halt from the exit, and spoke up, "Blisk has put a high price on your head, pilot. Dead or alive. That makes you worth something to me." She then closes the cockpit of her Titan and engages, "ready for this, BT?" "The controls are all yours, pilot" and within that, let the whole ass rumble commence! She has a shotgun and a sword, I have a vanguard class titan, and I can fly. So yeah we have a chance...WAIT SHE CAN ALSO PHASE SHIFT? "Let us begin." Ash states as I analyse what the fuck is happening. "BT, try to analyse her attack pattern, she's gotta have a weakness in her defence. Ronins are a hard class titan to deal with." With this advice, BT replied to me after about a minute into our survival, "Cooper, I have analysed her weak points in her attacking sequence, attack whenever she goes to swing with her arc sword, and fly over the arc wave, it cannot reach us when we are not in its path." Smart advice, do I stick to it? Probably not, she's still gonna lose somehow.

After about a good 20 minutes of me and BT running for survival, we broke her titans shields and put her Titan into a doomed state, "Pilot, the Titan is in a doomed state. Quickly, act now to finish her off before she activates her sword core." And enough being said, I engaged her one last time, and taken out both ash and the Titan, we are victorious yet again. "Enemy Titan down." BT said this with the most badass tone I've ever heard him speak him. Almost makes me terrified of this fucker. The PA announced "Security lockdown disengaged. Surface access is authorised." Finally time to leave this place, been through hell here. We made our way through the tunnel to the exit, after taking down ash, I am even more confident with being a pilot. I'm no longer scared of any of this. I think I'm ready for everything next to come my way. After a moment of silence, BT speaks up, "I have concluded that we should take no further shortcuts" and we make our way out of the tunnel and into the ongoing forest outside.