As soon as MK said let's go, I pulled my arm back, and slammed my elbow into a titan behind me. MK then pulled our gun up, and fired the XO-16 chaingun at the titan on our left, and got it off us. Then, I heard MK say.

Monarch, online. Welcome aboard Cooper." before we continued killing the titan next to us.

MK and I continue to take on the titans around us, until they all have been cleared out. Afterwards, I turn to the building that I had caught the science team running into for cover.

"MK, external speakers please."

"Of course, Cooper."

"It is all clear now, you can come out."

After that, I saw all of them come out, and stair at me with awe. I open the front, and step out and hop down from my Titan. The pony person that had been talking to Ahuizotl earlier comes up to me, pointing a gun, as does several of the civilians.

"Who are you, and how did you kill those mechs so quickly?" She says.

"I am Staff Sergeant Jack Cooper. I am with the United States Marine Corps.. May I ask who you are?" She looks at me, still pointing her gun. It looked to be a Hemlok BF-R.

"My name is Daring Doo. Archaeologist and historian of the Canterlot Archaeological Society. Now answer my second question, how did you kill those mechs so easily?" She says. I nod, and look at MK.

"My Titan. She is more advanced than those other mechs. Also, we had superior tactics, and a better understanding of each others workings. That a good enough answer?" Before Daring Doo opens her mouth to speak again, MK speaks up.

"Cooper, I detect multiple titan signatures closing in from multiple directions. I recommend the scientists try and get those two titans running, and get to cover so they don't get hurt."

I nod. "Okay Mika."

And I pause.

I just called her Mika. I shake it off.

I have to focus right now, I still have to protect these people. I start talking again.

"Miss, shes right, you need to see if you can do anything for those titans, and then get to cover. If you cant do anything, then get to cover, and try and give me fire support. I will go fight those incoming titans." I turn, and start running, and she calls out to me.

"Wait! How are you going to fight those mercs mechs without being in your own?" I stop, and pull the Stinger launcher off my back.

"With this. Hurry and patch them up, or get to cover." She nods, and rushes to one of the titans.

"Cooper, I detect twenty Titan signatures. Twelve Atlas chassis titans, and eight Ogre chassis. Weapons vary, but I detect no plasma or arc energies." I nod.

"So they only have two types of titans, and old school weapons. What do you have Mika?" I was quickly getting over using my wife's name for her. It was so easy. Mika answered.

"XO-16 Chaingun. Upgrade core with arc rounds, rearm and reload, and superior chassis. overcore, and energy thief, with a dome shield drop. I also have the vortex shield, rocket salvo, and energy siphon."

I nod. I can work with this.

"Alright then, give me a scan of the city. We need to work out a battle plan."

"Affirmative. Uploading an overview map of the surrounding city that I nabbed from one of those titans."

I pull it up in my HUD as a mini map, and look through the city.

"It looks like there is a large area up ahead thats clear of buildinvs, some plaza of some kind. Plenty of hiding spots for people to try and flank us. Stay out of the center as best you can. Stay in between buildings. That gives us choke points.use the vortex to the best of your ability, and deploy a smokescreen often. Use the energy siphon to steal shield power, and use your upgrades. When you reload, try to find some sort of cover, that way if one of them uses a 40mm cannon, they cant get a full lock on you. I will be jumping around and taking care of on foot patrols trying to find the scientists. Got all that?"

"Yes Cooper. Harvester defense tactics on an attrition gamemode."

I think for a second.

"Yeah, pretty much. But I want you to keep moving, dont just follow me. I'll be running ground, and providing support to you and them. Keeping everything I can off their backs. Hopefully they have a way out of here besides walking."

"Agreed."

And we waited for the titans to come.

I was currently trying to remember and run all the routes through buildings, jumps between, and fastest routes to get around.

Mika was walking around, her scanners marking everything that had got closer over the last minute.

It was time for battle.

"Ok Mika, time to show them how a real titan-pilot team works."

"Understood Cooper. Engaging hostile Titans."

And as she said that, I found the science team in one of the buildings. They looked to all be carrying a sword for a titan between all of them.

"What are you all doing? You ned to make sure that you can defend yourselves, not carrying a titans sword. Take it to that window over there, and leave it. I'll place a ping on it for my titan to grab in times of trouble.

The scientists do so, and Daring Doo comes over, along with a pony with rainbow hair. Both have guns, Daring having a Hemlok still, and rainbow having a C.A.R. smg. Daring was asking me a question.

"What is your plan? We have an airship coming to get us, but it's about twenty minutes out. The two mechs are beyond repair with what we have at hand. And we have a bunch of marcs coming in from all around. We need to figure out how we are going to fight them off till help arrives."
"Well, I want any civilian with a gun to take up position by the windows, and fire on any titan that comes close. If no titans are nearby, then shoot any infantry that comes close to the building. Have the scientists see if they can get a few guns and help out." The rainbow haired pony speaks up.

"And what will you be doing? Our flight magic, and the unicorns magic are being jammed by the airship up over there, so we're grounded. What can you do?" I shrug.

"I'll be jumping from building to building, and from alley to wall to window, and clearing out any enemy that is search in for you, or locking on to my titan." We all hear the sounds of guns firing, and I finish up. "Get ready, battles started." And run over to the window, leaping out.

The two ponies run over to the window to see me send my grapple out, and latch onto the nearest titan, before rodeoing it, and taking its battery. I hook it onto the back of my jump kit, and jump off the titan, but not before leaving a grenade in the battery port.

Jumping off, I shoot my grapple again, and make my way over to another building, and see some ponies in front of me with guns. They all seem to have R-101 carbines from Titanfall 1.

I grab my Flatline, and start firing at the mercenary soldiers, killing a few, before running forward and grabbing one to use as a shield, while using his gun to fire on the others.

After dispatching the other soldiers, I grab a magazine of the shield, kill him, and reload, before jumping out the building to the ground, and taking out a few guys on the way down.

Having used the ammo in the stolen gun, I toss it and grab another gun, a R-97 smg.

I run around the park and plaza, killing any hostile in and around the area I find.

Meanwhile, Mika is using the buildings for cover, and has grabbed one of the 40mm cannons, and just using it as a regular gun with no lock on. She is firing on one of the ogres, who has a triple threat.

It was the shotgun the ronin uses, but it shoots three mines instead. It was one of the weapons in the first Titanfall.

She shot it down, and tossed the 40 mil into an atlas, and stole the atlas weapon, a quad rocket, before slamming the rocket pods into the titan, and firing point blank.

The 35 ton machine was blown backwards through the first floor of a building.

Mika turned around, emptied the rest of the quad into some other titans, before tossing the weapon again.

Then, when three other titans came at her, she used the vortex shield.

The headlight stopped the bullets, and the magnet in the hand caught the bullets from chainguns, guns, triple threats, and rockets. After a second, Mika returned the ammo to its owners.

After that, her first upgrade was ready.

"Coop, I need an upgrade."

I look over to her, and feel the drop bag on my left leg vibrate.

I take out the little tablet that the scientist gave me, and saw it said, 'activate upgrade core', and had a button under it. Tapping the button, I saw Mika's chaingun bullets have a blue-ish energy field around them, and the titans she hit seemed to go down quicker.

Arc round upgrade, first upgrade ability.

I shoot the merc coming towards me, and continue protecting the scientists.

Mika used a smokescreen, and went between some buildings. After a minute, I saw her over with the scientists, and she reached into the building to grab the sword that the group had brought.

Bringing it out, she takes off down another alley, and I finally say something.

"Hey, coming to you. Open up and lets rock." She just blinks a green livht on my HUD, and pings a location.

Heading towards it, I find her crouched behind a partially collapsed wall, shooting at some titans a distance away.

I boost slide under her as she stands up, and she reaches down, while opening her front hatch.

I jump into her hand, and she stuffs me inside the cockpit.

And then, the neural link hits me, and my senses expand.

It is like my mind joins with Mika's AI. We are both in control. And we trust each other to get us through.

We stand up, and shoot the atlas titan on our left, shredding through its armor in moments.

Then, we use the vortex, and catch the quad rockets coming at us from the right, before sending them at the ogre in front of us.

Using the multi target rockets, we lock them all on the quad titan, and fire them, shooting them and obliterating the titan.

Deploying a smokescreen, we move away, and down some streets, moving to get behind them.

Doing so, we pull out the sword, and move behind the closest titan, before shoving the hunk of sharp metal into the back of the titan, in the location where it would hit the cockpit.

The sword comes out the front of the metal giant, and we pull it out, then but the titan in half at its 'waist'.

The other titans that had come searching turn to see us, and we use a dash to move closer quickly, before slicing the barrel off a 40 mil, and then grabbing the gun, throwing it away, kicking the titan into another, and stabbing both of them through with the sword.

We then pull both of them off, and throw the sword at a titan. It hits it, only slicing off an arm, and smockscreen away. Running, we eventually make it to the plaza again, running out towards the center on accident.
As we turn to move back to cover, the remaining titans surround us, and we pull out our XO-16.

We had been able to get all three upgrades, but against this many titans, we wouldn't last long.

And then, I heard a voice over our com's.

"You have done well, mech driver. We can finish it from here."

And then thunder seemed to rain from the sky. Looking up, we saw an airship, the size of the one that you have to fight on in the campaign of Titanfall 2. It was raining down rockets, and destroying the rest of the enemy titans.

We saw a titan drop from the bottom of the ship, an atlas colored in different blues, and it landed nearby.

It immediately rushed another titan, and drew out a sword, slicing the entire thing in half down the middle.

And then the battle was done.

The blue titan turned to me, and opened a com channel.

"Where is the science group? We recieved a distress signal from their downed airship, and they got a message out that they were in trouble, and needed immediate pickup."

We point over to the building said group was in, as they made their way out. Daring Doo walked over near the titan, and started talking to the pilot.

"Hey Luna, thanks for the effort, but he's the one who did most of the fighting. Any way, we got two mechs over there a ways, that need to be lifted to the ship. Plus we got some equipment to get from a vault near the center of the city." The other titan had been watching Daring, and looked back at me.

"We thank thee, operator. Without you and your strange mechs help, the science team might have perished. If you would, please exit your mech, so we may talk to thee."

We shrug, and put our gun away. Then, Mika opens the cockpit, and I step out, the neural link more individual between us, instead of being one mind.

The other titan looks at me, before opening her cockpit as well. Stepping out, I see a mare that has wings and a horn. Her fur is midnight blue, and her hair is a snow white color.

Her body structure was like an elves, curves that showed a feline grace and muscles that seemed taught as wire.

She looked at me, as she pulled out a gun, a G2A4 rifle. I pull out my Flatline just in case something happens, but keep the safety on and barrel down.

Both of us hop out our respective titans, and walk up to Daring in the center. Daring looks at me, and asks.

"Hey, can you and your 'titan' as you call it, help us carry stuff out into the airship? It will help us get done faster." I nod, and answer.

"Yeah, Mika and I can help out. Hey, didnt you say that Mika was also in the vault?" Daring pauses for a moment, and then says.

"Yeah, I did. But, I remember saying that before you arrived. Howed you know?" I shrug.

"Mika played a live feed for me. She was watching the whole time, and I saw what you said to Ahuizotl through her. Thats also why I stepped in when I did. I heard what he would do." Daring nods, and then the blue Pegasus/unicorn hybrid asks me something.

"Operator, may we see your face? Also, what is thy name?" I sigh, and take of the helmet.

When the two ponies see my face, as well as the rainbow haired mare from earlier, they all gasp. I had a feeling, it was probably because I was human.

"My name is Jack Cooper. Staff Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps. And I am a human."

Author's Note

Ok, so I decides to base this Luna of the White haired Luna from I believe the artist MagnaLuna. If anyone can tell me who actually came up with this version of Luna, that would be helpful to know. Thank you.