Titanfall 2 Story Part 2: Stand By For Titanfall
Chapter 1: The Comms Tower
It all started with a blurr. People yelling on all sides of me, gunfire and explosions off in the distance. It was all lost to me for a few moments, finally being in the heat of battle… and I mean a real battle, not just some fancy simulation.
“Hey, Sunstrider! Don’t just stand there! Come on, move up!” Some guy slapped me on the back, jolting me back into reality. I started move up with the rest of everyone, catching up to Sif, my old friend and training squadmate. We moved closer to our objective, a IMC controlled comms tower blocking friendly Titan support to this area. Jack Cooper himself gave us the task of taking this thing down, one way or another. As we got closer, the windows blew open with walls of plasma gunfire. The IMC had anti personnel turrets deployed and we got pinned down pretty quickly. Me, Sif and my old training squad’s medic, Jessica crouched behind a crashed transport. I looked back and saw the rest of us, about twenty five in us all scatter for cover. Luckily those turrets suck at long range, as only about a couple of us got wounded but the medics got them patched up real quick.
“So, any ideas on how to get past the front door?” Sif shouted of the chaos. Jessica shrugged and I sat there, thinking.
“Ok… ugh… how about you two draw their fire and I’ll launch a Thunderbolt shot into the windows, the electricity should at least damage both.” I offered. The two of them nodded and on the count of three, they jumped up and sprayed at the windows. I put down my LMG and brought out my Thunderbolt. I flicked open the sights and aimed… and after what seems like forever, I pulled the trigger. The recoil made me fall on my back, but I looked up just in time to see the ball nail one turret, blowing it up. The blast radius damaged the second turret, but it was finished off by a sniper shot crackling through the air, just barely hitting it. I looked back and saw Dom, the sniper of my training squad. We all got back into cover, two turret windows left. I looked to my right and saw another heavy weapons guy blast the remaining turrets with a mag launcher. With the turrets gone, a squad of IMC grunts stormed out, spraying their guns like madmen. I picked my LMG back up and took aim, returning fire. I got a couple of them as another sniper shot rag in my ear, hitting a guy square in the eyes.
“Omega squad, move up!” One guy to my right yelled as a group of us charged. I provided cover fire as they did, and they made it to the door. The rest of us ran to join them.
“Ok guys, stack up on us. Prepare to breach in three… tw-” The guy was caught off from a grenade bouncing off his forehead. We were all confused before I realized a explosive was at our feet. I ran towards it, and kicked it back into the building like a soccer ball. Mere seconds later, a loud BANG rang inside the room followed by shouts and moans of pain. We took this moment to charge in. As we walked in, we dealt with the remaining grunts but then felt something robotic shaking the ground. Then a bunch of spector robots bursted into the room. We all scattered and among the chaos I heard screams and yelps of pain as the robots laid waste to us. I ran into a corner and reached to my belt drawing a data kinfe used to hack equipment. I charged one spector who just kicked Jessica to the ground. I jumped on his back, grabbed its head and stabbed my knife into a small slot in the back of its head. After a few seconds it started to glow blue and I jumped off. After rebalancing itself it raised its weapon and engaged the remaining spectres. After about half an hour of clearing the comms tower, we did it. We lost about three people and Jessica got wounded but for the most of us, we did it. Foxtrot squad went to hack the comms tower and I got on the radio.
“Cooper this is grunt squad Menace, reporting that the IMC comms tower has been successfully taken over and hacked. Should appear on radar now.” I reported.
“Copy that Menace, well done. Titan support is inbound, time now. You grunts are to support the Titans as they make their way towards the IMC command post in that sector, take it over and destroy it. Then you're work here will be done.” Cooper replied. And suddenly we heard the sky start to rumble.
Chapter 2: The Titan
The ground shook as the Titans deployed, slamming hard on the ground and casting dust up for miles. After everything settled, the grunts walked out and looked up see five Titans. There was a scorch, two ions, a tone and at the front of them all, a legion all staring us down. I could feel my jaw drop looking at these giant robot tanks shining in the late evening sunlight. The legion Titan kneed over and the pilot seat opened up and the pilot disembarked. This look like he has seen some battles, his armor all dented and bangeed up, even the helmet had a crack down the left side. The pilot approached me and looked at all of us, chuckling under his breath.
“Alright, so you guys are our back up eh? Don’t look like much, just a bunch of shiny new toys for us to use as cannon fodder.” The polit laughed a bit, but then he must of noticed us just staring at him, not impressed. “Oh come on guys, lighten up eh? Anyway, who’s the leader of this gaggle of grunts?” He asked. We all just looked at each other.
“We really have no squad leader… like we had our separate training squads but us as a whole… we don’t know.” Jessica said, walking to the front. Then the pilot looked at me, and took a step forwards.
“Huh, you look like the commanding type, who are you, grunt? What training squad did you belong to?” The pilot asked me.
“Well… I’m Jet Sunstrider of menace squad, heavy weapons expert.” I replied nervously.
“Alright, now you're Lieutenant Sunstrider of Grunt Squad Menace, congratulations. Now, how about we get going?” The pilot turned around and embarked his Titan. The others turned around and pushed forward, walking through trees and over rocks like nothing. The rest of the grunts started to follow suite, breaking into a spring to keep up. Spme of them patted me on the back until Sif stopped next to me.
“Well, you heard the polit, keep up Lieutenant!” Sif said scarstatily. I just rolled my eyes and started to run after the Titan squad, feeling a little weird about a random field promotion but at the same time feeling proud.
About three long hours later, we caught up with the Titans who were standing on a tall cliff, overlooking a giant base partially covered by treetops.
“That the target?” I asked the legion polit, pointing to the base below.
“Yes, that is the base. We can jump down but you guys are gonna have to take the path, just over their down. Call us if you run into anything and we’ll meet ya down there in ten, got that?” The legion polit replied.
“Copy that, we’ll see ya down there.” I replied. The Titans jumped off the cliff and I heard them land on a lower cliff with a loud THUMP. I turned around to to the rest of the squad. “Well, you know what to do, let’s start making out way down the path!” I shouted as the everyone followed down the path. It was wide enough for us to go in two lines, but we still had to go slow. I could see the Titans in the distance, starting to slowly advance on the IMC command base but they held position behind a mountain, probably waiting for us. As we were halfway down, we reached a large hilltop. I used this to cheek the area with a pair of binoculars, and we still had about five clicks to go. Then I saw another Titan… another ion I think, but it was running at us and it bore IMC markings.
“I don’t think that’s friendly…” Sif remarked. Suddenly a lazer shot whizzed past us.
“Yeah… definitely not friendly. Everyone scatter and take cover! Try to hold them off as I contact our Titan support!” We all dashed to our own cover. I hid behind a tall rock near the edge of the cliff. Our first hostile Titan encounter, this is gonna be something.
Chapter 3: Fallen Comrade
The last thing I remember is being swatted aside like a fly, the IMC Titan sent me flying across our little platform and I slammed hard on the cliff wall. My vision blurred and I felt my blood crawling down my back, I looked up just in time to see a group of about five of the grunts get reduced to ash in a single lazer shot. Just that that, poof! Gone, nothing left. Next thing I know Sif ran up besides me, noticed I was still alive, barely, and took my Thunderbolt launcher.
“Sorry for taking this, but you seem a bit out of it.” Sif patted me on the back and took aim with the launcher, I hope he knows how to use that thing. The Titan looked at him and before it could react, Sif pulled the trigger. The electro-ball flew at the Titan, sparking in the early morning sunlight and nailed the Titan right in the eye scanner thing. The Titan took a step back, saving Jessica’s life and was stunned for a few minutes. After it recovered, it took another look at us and right before it shot us, one of our friendly Titanes, the scorch, soldier charged the IMC Titan. The IMC Titan stumbled back and before it could even recovered, got nailed in the face by Scorch’s thermite launcher. The pilot seat area bursted into flames and within seconds it flopped over with a load CRASH. After the dust settled, the friendly Titan opened the pilot seat.
“You guys alright?” The friendly pilot asked.
“Eh, we lost some men but for the most part we are ok.” Dom replied, walking up. Nice to see my squad survived, but one of the other squads took some casualties. It’s all part of war I guess.
“Alright guys, we can mourn the fallen later, right now we still got a job to do!” I shouted as the remaining grunts made it down the rest of the cliff and soon we made it to the rest of the Titans. We were in the middle of a swap and the IMC command base was just one click out.
“Ok, we are all here? Good. The Titans will lead the attack and deal with all the major threats, you guys deal with all the IMC infantry forces.” The legion polit explained. We all nodded and started to move out. We kept our eyes and ears out of any possible ambushes, and one of the Titans ran into some sorta tripwire and before you know it, three IMC Ion Titans bursted out of the trees followed by a couple dozen IMC spector units. The grunts scattred as the Titans primed their weapons. Within minutes, one of the hostile Titans was destroyed and about half the ground troops were gone. But out of the corner of my eye, I saw Dom was getting swarmed by at least five specters.
“Dom’s in trouble, stay here, I’ll go help him.” I told Sif and Jessica as I ran towards Dom. We was trying to hold the robots back with his side arm, but they were too powerful. One of them broke Dom’s main arm, causing him to drop his weapon and scream in pain.
“NO! HOLD IN!” I screamed as I jumped on the back of one spector, ripped his head off and threw it at another one, stunning it. Dom tried punching a spector with his offhand, but the specter grabbed his fist mid punch, kicked him in the gut, grabbed his arm with both hand pulled hard on it. All I could hear was Dom’s screams echoing in my mind as the robot ripped his arm clean off his shoulder… then another robot walked up and stomped on his left eye, and yelled once again. I finished off the the spectors and stabbed the last one right in the chest, causing it to spark and flop over besides Dom. I immediately rushed to his side, we was covered in blood and the left side of his face was smashed beyond regizionation. He could barely breath, and I grabbed his good hand, confronting him as he slowly died.
“I...ugh… so…” Dom tried to speak but couldn't.
“Just, don’t speak man, the pain will be over soon, just… remember, you died a soldier's death, with a gun in your hand, alright.” Dom gave me the best smile he could as he drew his last breath, his head hitting the ground, lifeless. Jessica ran over and almost threw up at the sight of Dom’s mangled corpse.
“Jesus...christ…” Sif mumbled, running up. Soon, the whole Grunt squad surrounded us. I did my best to hold back tears, Dom was a good soldier, doing everything to the tee, he did not deserve a death like this. Not beaten up and violated this way. My sadness turned to anger as I got up and blasted the nearest Spector corpe with my entire mag. And then I kicked the wreck, and kept beating it until Sif forced me back.
“Hey, HEY! Calm down, alright? He was a good man, but like you said, we can mourn and drink this awaly later, but now we still have a war to fight, alright?” Sif comfurnted me as the Titans waited patiently, scanning the area.
“Right, you're right, sorry… let’s get moving.” I sighed and Sif game me a smile. I went back to Dom’s corpse and closed his remaining good eye, so he did not have to look at the destruction any more. I walked past the Titans.
“Everything good, Lieutenant?” The legion polit asked.
“Better than ever, let's go give em hell.” I replied through grinding teeth, ready to avenge not only Dom, but every soldier who died in my squad.
Chapter 4: Here Come The Fireworks
Fueled by blind rage, I charged the IMC command base leading the remaining grunts behind me and with the Titans support, we got to the gate within minutes. The grunts cleared the front area and we got clear so the legion would get us inside.
“Alright guys, stay back!” The legion polit shouted as he took aim with the massive chaingun. After a small charge, the chaingun fired a heavy power shot and the doors came crashing down like a deck of cards in the wind.
“Alright, you guys clear the side areas and we will proceed down the center hanger.” The Ion polit boomed. I nodded and turned to Sif.
“Ok, Sif, Jess, take half the squad down the left side area and I’ll take the rest down the right.” I ordered. They both nodded and we split up, making our way towards the other side. We past the armoury, where we resupplied. I replaced my used armor vest and replaced my low ammo spitfire with some crazy looking LMG, and I remembered it from my notes as the Devotion, a rapid fire energy LMG that ramps up its fire rate over time. We continued for a few miles down the hall until we meet with the the other half in a main power station for the whole base.
“How’d you're half fair?” I asked Sif and Jess.
“We ran into some resistance, but nothing we couldn't handle.” Sir remarked.
“Well, one of us did get wounded, but she’s fine.” Jessica rolled her eyes.
“Good, my half went pretty well, ending up running into a pretty decent IMC squad, but we managed to resupply at their armory.” I replied.
“That’s good to hear, but as you can see, we are in the power station…” Sif started to explain but I was way ahead of him, taking out a bag of satchel charges. One other heavy assault grunts did the same and within the hour, we had the whole place rigged to blow. Perfect timing as the Titans game clanking up, but one was missing.
“Ran into some problems?” I asked the legion polit.
“Yeah, we got ambushed halfway through and one of the Ion’s got messed up. But that’s wartime life for ya, I guess.” The legion polit sounded a little regretful, but it faded quickly.
“That sucks, anyway we got the power grid rigged to blow with satchel charges. Now all we gotta do is get outta here and put on a show!” I laughed.
“Thats… interesting. Let’s get outta here and see what happens.” The legion polit replied and we made our way outside to a safe distance. We made it a few miles out and I was standing there, holding the detonator.
“Well, don’t stand there like a log! Hit it already!” The scorch polit shouted. I shrugged, and hit the detonator twice in rapid session, safety to avoid accidental explosion I guess. Mere seconds later the center of the command base went up, debris flying everywhere and the roof sank in on itself, barely leaving the walls standing. That probably took a lot of time to build, and we just took it down, all in the press of a button. Soon after all the victory cheering died down, the legion pilot contacted Cooper.
“Cooper, this is Shockstrike. Reporting that the IMC command base in sector 11-5050 had been successfully destroyed. Mission complete, sir.” The legion polit, Shockstrike reported.
“Copy that Shockstrike, evac inbound. Well done, all of you, drinks are on me tonight.” Cooper replied and before long, we saw a massive Militia transport cruiser flying overhead.
Chapter 5: Welcome to Polit School
Smaller transports took us up to the cruiser and the Titans went into some sorta storage bay as Cooper came down to the hangar bay to debrief us. As he approached, we all sulted.
“At ease, grunts. You all did well down there and I understand what it must feel like to lose you're friends after so long long together, more so with you Lutentuinet. I heard of your comrades… brutal end. But worry not, as you all will get your shot at revenge but for now I have already planned three of you to come with me to polit school. It was originally four, but his life was cut short. The three that are coming with me however are Jessica, Jet, and Sif. The rest of you will receive spec ops training and become elite soldiers.” Cooper explained. Excited whispering filled the air as myself, Sif, and Jessica exchanged looks.
“It’s an honor to serve, sir.” I replied.
“I’m sure it is, but enough of that. I want the three of you down here same time tomorrow for transport.” Cooper finished and my friends went down to the sleeping quarters for some rest.
“Can you believe it? We are gonna become pilots!” Jessica almost jumped.
“Yeah, it’s a shame Dom couldn't be here… I can almost hear him telling us to remain focused.” Sif chuckled halfheartedly.
“He was always that by the book, get the job done right kinda guy. Both military and civilian wise.” I added. We finally made it to the sleeping quarters and found some random empty bunks, we all instantly fell asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillows.
The next day, I was woken up by Sif shaking my shoulder. I got up and without a word, we joined Jessica who was waiting just outside the sleeping quarters. When we made it to the hanger bay, we saw Cooper waiting next to a transport shit.
“Alright, you guys ready to enter polit school? We just warped to Harmony where a new training facility was built just two months ago.” Cooper asked, we all nodded. Cooper led us into the ship and one blink later we were approaching the training facility. He dropped us off at the landing pad and told up to head to the administrator's desk. As we approached the desk, the person their perked up.
“Are you new new polit recruits? Cooper told us about you. I just need your names real quick and I can show you to the stage one classroom.” The administrator greeted us.
“I’m Jet Sunstrider, this is Sif Frostfire and that is Jessica Granger.” I replied, pointing everyone out. The Administer nodded as she typed something on her computer.
“Ok, got you all up on screen now… looks like the three of you are going to room 205, floor two on the right side. Good luck, and congratulations!” She gave us a smile as we started making our way to the room. I still can’t believe we are finally here, it felt like only yesterday I was still daydreaming becoming a polit.
