I have been told throughout my life that I was a bit hardcore. Usually when when you see one of your pals chopping through other human beings, you might feel a bit sick or uncertain that it was the right thing to do. Me on the other hand, I actually felt a bit wet from the slaughter. Watching limbs being blown off of men and seeing them run for their lives made me feel super godlike. I couldn't help but laugh. Christain was walking around in his Legion Titan, Excalibur, and blasting any IMC grunt that stood in his path. I wasn't too sure what he was thinking at the moment, but from all the laughter coming from his Titan, I could only guess he was enjoying himself.

I looked back at my men and the ponies and saw them standing up. They all had expressions of joy and relief. I too was relieved that we able to push them back. A plus was that we didn't even lose a single person. I stowed my Flatline on my back and walked over to the men. As I was walking to the men, I was about to say something, then all of a sudden a loud humming sound filled the area. I looked over at Christian thinking the humming was from his mini gun, but he was way to far for the gun to be heard. I looked towards the forest while activating my thermal sight. What I saw made me turn cold. It was a IMC Titan. The outline of the chassis stood out of the forest. What was worse was that there was a huge heat source coming from its chest. I instantly knew what was coming.

I turned around and yelled at my men. "GET DOWN!" I ran and shoved the ponies to the ground since they were closest to me. I then heard a loud blast come from behind me. I looked back while holding the ponies down. The titan was walking out of the forest into the open, a dark red beam emitting from its chest. I looked at where the laser was hitting and saw it was shooting at Christian. He didn't even have time to respond. The enemy ION Titan had a clean shot at his back. I watched with dread as the laser started melting pieces of armor off of Excalibur. The beam began to melt further into his back. It became too much for him and he fell down on to one knee, dropping his mini gun next to him. Only a few more moments and the laser would hit his power core and he would detonate.

I wasn't going to take any more it. If Christian didn't move he would die. I stood up and grabbed a rocked launcher from one of my men that was laying on the ground. He didn't protest as I ripped it from his back. I ran towards the titan and stopped when I was about a few yards away. I aimed at the titan, waiting for the rocket to lock on. Before I was able to fire, the Titans laser suddenly stopped. I realized he noticed I was locking on to him since most titans come with a warning system. He quickly looked down at me. I didn't give him a chance to act as I pulled the trigger on the launcher. I felt a small kickback on my shoulder as the rocked shot from the launcher. I smiled as the rocked impacted the shoulder of the titan and made it stumble backwards. A few metal parts and armor pieces blasted off of the arm, sailing away to the other end of the ship. My smiled went away as the titan slowly looked back down at me. On the titans shoulder, a mechanical arm popped up with a laser beam attached to the end. My eyes went wide as the gun began to glow a hot red.

I dashed to the side as quick as I could with the aid of my jump-kit. I watched the laser pass by my face as it hit the ground where I used to stand. I didn't have any time to celebrate my lucky dodge as the titans fist came at me. I dashed again but this time in the opposite direction. The fist came down and smashed the ground where I stood. I was about to run away until all of a sudden a loud bang come from behind the titan.

I jumped back in shock when I saw the Titans damaged arm fly from its body. It sailed in the air for a couple second before falling to the ground next to me. I knelt to the ground and crouched behind the dismembered arm. While it was dazed, I looked behind the Titan and saw Excalibur pointing its now smoking mini-gun at the Titan it just shot. I realized he must have used a charge shot to blast the arm off. I then heard the ION Titan stand up and look at Christian. The titan focused its laser gun on Christian, completely forgetting I was right next to it. The titans laser gun glowed a bright red for only a short moment before a thick red beam shot out of it.

Christian seemed to have saw this coming 'cause as soon as the beam fired, he activated his shield and blocked the shot. The laser only managed to damage the shield a small amount, a few small cracks showing on the shield indicating how damaged it was. The ION titan took no time at all to recover and quickly pulled out its splitter rifle with its other arm. Christian countered this action with another one of his charged shots. This time he aimed for the splitter rifle and shot it out of the Titans hand. I kept crouched, watching with a bit of pride as Christian counted everything the ION titan threw at him. I , however, was not expecting the titan to make its next moved.

The Titan just did a whole "Fuck it " shrug and ran towards Christian. I would have never thought the Pilot would do something so dumb. Somehow, Christian was not prepared for the drastic change of tactics from the enemy. He tried stepping back, but the IMC titan was much faster. The titan reached Christian in no time and tackled him to the ground, breaking a few trees that were behind them.

The titan somehow managed to get the much heavier Legion titan to fall on its back. In the act of falling, the enemy titan had managed to grab the mini-gun and toss it to the side. The two titans started fighting in a contest of strength to see who could get on top. I was surprised to see that the ION titan was actually beating Christian, using its one arm to punch and arm wrestle Christian. I was on the verge of going out to help him since he seemed like he couldn't take any more of the ferocious beating, but then the sound of another loud bang from the background stopped my train of thought. I didn't have enough time to look back at the bang since I saw the titan trying to get its chest exposed so it can drill its laser into Excalibur. The titan manage to put a foot on Excalibur's right arm while holding his left arm with the titans still functioning arm. Before I knew it I head a loud war cry coming from behind me. The voice caught me off guard since I knew who's voice it belonged to. I turned around and gaped in awe as I saw Gus with his ronin sword in his hand while running towards the titan.

The enemy titan didn't even have enough time to react as Joseph took his sword and stabbed it right through the titans back. I cringed as I saw sparks and bits of metal flying from the chest and back. I could only imagine that the sword pierced through the cockpit and into the pilot. The sword had made its way through the whole titan. Christian managed to get the IONs arm and leg off of him and he kicked the titan off, making it stumble back. Joseph took no time in finishing the titan. With one quick motion, he pulled the sword up, cutting the titan clean in half. The top half of the titan now had two dangling halves on each side. Joseph apparently didn't think it was enough and thought it was a good it idea to cut the whole titan in half. He brought the sword down and cut the rest of the titan in half, making the two parts fall down with a loud 'thud'.

I stared in awe as stood there with his sword in his hand like some badass that finished a cool stunt. In a way, he did. I stood up from behind the destroyed arm, looking back at the ponies and my men to make sure they were alright. I sighed in relief as I saw them stepping out of the drop ship's wreckage. I frowned slightly as I saw one of my men helping a injured soldier from underneath a wing. That must have be the injured soldier Christian was helping, I thought. I heard a loud thumping coming from behind me and I turned around. I saw Excalibur and Gus walking towards where we were stranding, but I noticed something in Gus's hand. I waited until he got closer so I could see it better. From what I could tell, it looked like that he was carrying a IMC grunt.

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I stood there waiting for the grunt to speak. It had been ten minutes since Gus had found him hiding under a tree log during the titan battle. When Joseph dropped him in front of me, my first thought was to execute him for murdering my crew in the dropship. But I knew better. I needed answers. So far, he has been keeping his mouth shut. He just sat there with his cuffed hands behind his back. I knew I need to break him to get what I needed, but it would take too long and I know we've been here longer than necessary. I looked back at one of my grunts.

"Order in a evac. We're done here. Notify them we have a prisoner." The grunt nodded and touched his com piece, telling the dropship to come back.

I knelt down in front of the IMC grunt. I took notice of his facial features. He had a long face, a few shaven hairs on his cheeks and chin. I could tell he was bald from how he barely any sideburns. What stood out to me were his bright blue eyes. It was almost creepy how his eyes blended with his white skin perfectly. He seemed scared with how he was sweating bullets, but his hard gaze proved he wasn't going to be easy to break. I got in closer to his face, his breath misting up my lens slightly.

"I'm going to have fun breaking you." I said in a almost seductive voice. I knew how to get under most men's skin. Me being a women only made it easier. What I wasn't expecting from him was a response.

"I won't talk. There is no way in hell i'm going to spill to some slutty bitch like you!" he growled. He then took my moment of shock and spit in my face. I stared at him, ignoring the piece if spit trailing its way down my visor. My eyes still on him, I wiped the spit off my visor with a thumb. I couldn't help but chuckle at his determination. I stood up and looked down at him.

"We'll see." I sighed. I then heard a loud zap come from above and I looked up. I saw that the dropships had warped in. I looked back at my men and the ponies. "Alright, load up and lets get out of here. You four, teleport he titans back to the castle. I don't want to be here any longer than we have to." I said as I pointed to the ponies and the titans. I was making my to the ship before I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked back and saw it was Christian.

"Cap, there is something you need to know." he said in urgency. I frowned slightly, worried he may have bad news.

"What is it?" I asked. He reached behind him and pulled out a small chip from one of his many pockets. He handed me the chip and I looked it over. It wan't that amazing. The chip was no bigger than a small candy bar. A few small wires were dangling it from it and a few other components that I didn't know were on it. To me, it seemed like a regular chip.

"This," he pointed at it, "is a guardian chip". I looked down at the chip with a bit more interest. I've never seen a actual Guardian chip itself. I've just been on the other end of one. I looked back up at him.

"And your point?" I asked, raising my voice slightly in irritation.

"There are only a few titans that have those chips. The one we fought was one of them. Look on the back behind the black seal." I did as he said and flipped the chip over. As he said, there was a black seal covering a tiny edge of the chip. It looked to be made of some type of tape. I took the edge of the seal and tore it off. My eyes widened at what was underneath. I wasn't sure what he was talking about, but now seeing that symbol, I just realized what we had just fought. The symbol was a small white P engraved into the green chip.

The titan we had fought, was a ION Prime.

Author's Note

Here it is. Another chapter. Lately I've been having trouble to write from all the school work I've been doing. I though I could do some more this spring break, but I guess not. Oh well.

I have had few ideas how to shake up the story a bit. You should see something I've made up in the next couple of chapters. Also on a completely unrelated note, why drink a glass of water with ice? I don't get it. It's just adding more water to it. I don't care if it makes it cold. I don't need ice in anything. Especially not my soda, the ice waters it down.