One Day Later…

The city was abandoned, and through Pathfinder’s lens it was tinged purple. “Yeah this city was obviously evacuated, I can see signs of panicked citizens scrambling for the city square, and traces of airships having had landed in city square.” Bangalore said. “Thing I don’t understand though is why there are energy weapon scores on the sides of some of the cars and buildings.”

Rainbow was slumped over the D.O.C bot, not injured but just being lazy. Whenever someone would ask for her to get off she’d bite them, and Octane nearly lost a finger that way. She mumbled as she then saw a giant beacon of light appear in the middle of the city. “Thing I don’t understand is why A. There’s a big beacon of light and B. WHY IS THIS CITY IS SO FLOCKING HUGE!!!” Nobody payed attention the outburst, rather focusing on the beacon.

“We should probably find the source of that beacon.” Wraith said with determination. “and since this city is so huge it may take time to get there, so any guesses on what it may be?”

“Ooh ooh I got one I got one!!!” Rainbow growled at Pinkie for her enthusiasm, but pinkie didn’t notice or if she did pay any mind. “What if it’s a new legend that’s coming in season 2 of apex Legends of July 2nd which is the author’s birthday!”

“I liked you better when you DIDN’T speak…” Rainbow grumbled to herself. She blew her mane out of her eyes as they continued on.

As they got closer to the origins of the beacon they had to go on top of the rooftops to get closer, due to the fact that faceless humanoids now populated the streets, causing a traffic jam of living organisms. Caustic also learned they weren’t affected by his nerve gas, and saw that some were shot with a whole spitfire clip’s worth of ammunition, indicating they could take a lot of hits before falling stone dead. It even took ten direct pointblank shots from the BFG9000 to kill one of them.

As they got in view of the beacon’s origins it was the tallest tower in the city, scraping the skies with tiny floating bits of metal surrounding parts of it, giving it that futuristic feeling to it. Mirage whistled to himself as Pathfinder set up a zipline connecting the building they were on to a balcony on the skyscraper. “Quite amazing… hey Pathfinder that zipline up yet?”

Pathfinder gave a thumbs up as the zipline finished setting up. “Who’s ready to fly on a zipline? I am!” Everyone then got on the zipline and were quickly brought to the building’s balcony. Gibraltar kicked the door down and they went inside. Soon using a combination of Rarity’s magic, Pinkie’s Pinkie sense, and Bloodhound’s Eye of the Allfather they located the origins to be on the bottom floor. They all got on the elevator, which was big enough for all of them, and pressed a button labeled ‘B13’ which was the lowest button on the elevator. Soon the elevator doors opened again to a humongous generator, with a force field around it.. and a blonde female standing on a platform looking at it. On the platform were screens that showed the machine’s status and it’s power consumption, alongside a schematic of it showing each part of it, and those part’s power consumption, what percentage of health they’re at, and what it’s doing. The female turned around to see the group and was shocked, pulling out a wingman and aiming it at them.

“WHO ARE YOU?!?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!?!” She looked afraid… frightened… mirage held his hands up and everyone followed his lead. He then introduced everyone to her and learned that her name was Natalie Wattson. She looked at Rainbow and ran through the force field and held rainbow close, who promptly tried to rip Wattson apart but failed. Wattson rushed over to Lifeline’s D.O.C bot and started tinkering with it. “I need a couple items, can someone get me a self revive knockdown shield? Can someone also get me an Executor body armor a level five helmet, and a level five backpack?” After a few minutes they came back with the required items and Wattson melded them to the D.O.C bot. “Alright Lifeline, your D.O.C bot should be able to revive others, take a bunch of hits, and with a few mods, be able to heal those that are mentally broken. Let’s start with Applejack.” The bot shot a beam at Applejack and Wattson asked her a few true or false questions. Applejack was then asked to lie and when she couldn’t Wattson was cheering. “I DID IT!!! I FIXED A WARPED MIND!!!”

After Wattson tested Rarity for generosity, which she passed when she cried when Wattson told Rarity that her father died, and tested Fluttershy for kindness, which she also passed when she apologized to mirage for what happened in limbo, she was ready to help Rainbow. The D.O.C bot fixed her memories and Wattson tested for loyalty.

“Alright Rainbow, your friends are in danger of dying again, you have the choice to save them and sacrifice yourself to save them or walk away and let them die. What do you do?” Wattson has her pad ready and was beaming at the prospect of helping Rainbow. Rainbow looked at Wattson and laughed. “Good you have loyalty-“

“I let them die.” At that Wattson dropped the notepad and pencil. “They did nothing for me, and even if my mark isn’t fake, they did way too much to hurt me.” She pointed at Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie as she spoke. “I can never trust them again… so don’t waste your time trying to save me… I’m too far gone…” she flew to a balcony and lied there as Wattson wipes the tears off her face and got up.

“Not every test goes right, you messed up on your first forcefield so why is this any different Natalie?” She then went to pack up her stuff and was ready to go when a giant humanoid, with long arms and no bottom half of their body and a face with many holes in them crashed down and nearly grabbed Rainbow who flew out of the way. “Oh no… the unclean have arrived…”

“What do you mean?” Mirage yelled as an elevator full of unclean opened up and they surged towards them. One grabbed AJ who bucked her captor in the face, staggering them.

Wattson looked at the clock on the computer which then at that second ticked down to zero. As soon as it ticked down to zero, the forcefield fell and Wattson spoke “Our Times up…”

Author's Note

Yes this chapter introduces the new legend Wattson to the story, and the next one explores the secrets the dimension SCP-096 originated from has hidden beneath the surface…

HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!!! You’re SOOO LUCKY THAT APEX LEGENDS IS STARTING SEASON 2 ON YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!

JESUS PINKIE!!! You gave me a scare there. Never do that again! And yeah that’s a lucky coincidence but hey, don’t go around revealing my personal information ok?

You got it Aidan!

GOD DAMN IT PINKIE!!!