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"We have our Apex Champions"
Bangalore, Lifeline, and Wraith stand atop King's Canyon victoriously. They had just won a game and were deemed the champions. It was a tough fight, the finale battle being a mix of four different teams.
The drop ship flies over and opens up for the three winners. Once inside, they were greeted and congratulated by the other legends.
Bangalore and Lifeline join the group on the way back to base. Wraith stays in the corner, thinking.
"Hey, Renee." Wraith looks up from the floor to see Mirage approaching her. She mentally sighs, waiting for whatever nonsense he was about to spill out.
"What're ya doing over here? C'mon, you just won a game! Have some fun with the rest of us!" Mirage says.
Wraith didn't want to join the others. She would on occasion, but today, no. Something was off today. She could feel it.
Mirage's smile fades and he puts on a face of concern.
"Renee, is something, y'know, wrong?" He asks
The other legends were now looking over at the two. All of them wondering wat was going on with Wraith this time.
Wraith sighs and walk into he center of the dropship. Once she's sure all attention is on her, she speak up.
"Something doesn't feel right." She says flatly. She begins to pace back and forth in the middle of the dropship.
"What do ya mean?" Lifeline asks.
"I don't know. Somethings just off. I can feel it."
Awkward silence ensues among the legends. That was it? Seriously? Just a feeling? The majority of the legends brushed it off to be another Wraith thing. Though, non would ever say that to her face.
"Actually, you're right. Something is off." Crypto speaks up.
Now the legends were a bit worried. When Crypto says somethings off, somethings off.
"Explain." Bangalore says.
"The readings of the portal in King's Canyon have been slightly off since yesterday. Same goes for the one in Olympus." Crypto explains.
"My portals have been acting up too." Wraith says.
"Well, why didn't you say that in the first place?" Mirage asks.
"I didn't want to worry anyone. Dimensional rifts aren't exactly safe all the time." Wraith replies.
"Okay, okay. So what do we do?" Gibraltar asks as he stops the impending argument.
"All we can do is hope nothing is seriously wrong." Crypto says.
This left a nervousness in the legends. Especially Wraith. What could happen if the portals go haywire? The thing were meant to bend dimensions so it couldn't be anything good. Nonetheless, Crypto was right. All the legends could do was hope nothing was wrong and that the portals would be back to normal soon.
About halfway back to base Wraith hears a voice in her head.
"It's here."
Wraith quickly percks up and yells out. "Everyone grab onto something!"
"What?"
"Just do it!"
A portal opens up inside the dropship. It seemed to be pushing out a strong wind. The legends hold onto whatever is nailed to the ground so their not pushed into the back of the dropship.
Wraith hears another voice.
"Lookout, fire."
Suddenly a ball of fire comes out of the portal. It rushes past all the legends and slams into he back of the dropship, leaving a large burning dent.
"Tree."
A large tree branch comes out of the portal next. It also slams into the back of the dropship.
The legends watch as it all happens. Confusion filling their faces.
"What the hell is going on?" "Wraith, is that one of yours?" "What do we do?" The legends yell.
Wraith hears one last voice.
"She's coming."
In another world, far different from the outlands', a lioness runs as fast as she can through the woods. Her fur shines tan in what little light poked through the trees. Her long black claws rip up grass and dirt as she runs. Lizz is her name. She maneuvers around tress and hops over bushes, hoping to outrun the portals.
Yes, portals.
Lizz had just been taking a stroll through her backyard, aka the woods behind her house, when they first appeared. At first she didn't recognize them, but as soon as she got a closer look, she recognized them as Wraith portals from her favorite video game, Apex Legends.
Before Lizz could even comprehend how it was possible, the portal started to disappear then reappear quickly. It got closer to her each time. Once Lizz started to feel the pull of the portal trying to bring her into it, she ran.
She'd been running for five minutes now. She'd run out of stamina eventually.
Time to fly.
Lizz quickly begins her transformation.
Two small white horns poke out of her head as reddish brown spikes grow from her head and down her back. Her eyes change from brown to red and her pupils turn into slits. She sprouts a pair of large black and grey wings and quickly spreads them out. She pushes upward with her wings and takes off into the air.
Lizz turns, hoping she's lost the portal. She doesn't see it until it appears right beside her.
Lizz does a barrel roll to get away from the portal. Once out of the barrel roll she breaths in and shoots a fireball from her mouth at the portal.
The portal sucks up the fireball and disappears again. Lizz stops in mid air, listening.
The portal appears under her and Lizz dives for the woods again. She slams into a tree branch that goes flying into the portal as well.
Slamming into the tree branch threw Lizz of guard. As she was shaking her head to get the dizziness away the portal appears right beside her and forcefully pulls her into it.
What Lizz sees is exactly what you'd see in game. A purple and white version of the woods speeds past her as she's sucked deeper into he portal. She couldn't move.
The legends hold on to the dropship for dear life as the portal continues to blow out wind. Some of the lighter legends were almost lifted off the ground.
Something large comes out of the portal, it slams into the back of the dropship with a loud bang and then drops to the floor.
The portal then slowly starts to disappear. The wind dies down and the legends are back on their feet.
"Wraith, what the hell was that?" Mirage yells.
"It wasn't my portal." Wraith replies sternly.
"Uh, guys, I don't think that our problem right now." Gibraltar says. He's leaning over the thing that came out of the portal.
The other legends crowd around, looking at what just came out of the portal. It was a creature. A creature non of them had seen before. It looked like a large cat, and had wings and spikes.
"What is it?" Wattson asks.
"I know." Crypto says, pushing himself through the crowd of legends.
"She's our new legend."