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Attention legends, special easter challenge instructions commencing now. You will all be given an easter-egg tracker with a designated location. Drop, find the egg and bring it to the egg dispenser-area, that is also designated on your egg tracker. However, there will be multiple legends looking for the same egg. Your egg tracker will start beeping within ten meters of the egg, possibly alerting the other egg hunters to your position.
Eliminate all the other legends or be the one to dispense the egg. After dispensing the egg, you will get an object that is half a key. The other half of the key lies with another legend. You will need both parts of the key in order to enter the last area of the game. Hammond labs and Turbine.
Inside the area are hidden eggs, not marked by your tracker. Open them to get special equipment that will aid you during the game. Proceed to eliminate the rest of the legends to claim this year´s title of Apex Egg Hunter Legend. Please ready up for the drop.
This year´s easter match was sponsored by the biggest animal food company known throughout the galaxy. Each legend got a mascot, appointed by two lucky fans. The mascot would show up on the banner instead of the legend during the game, and the outfits worn would be based on the mascot. The two lucky winners will pose together with their mascots on the Apex legend’s cereal box.
"Ey, Wraith, amiga. You’re toast this time."
Octane was wearing a modest type of bunny outfit. Snow-white and complete with two floppy ears and a fluffy tail. He was pretty much a human version of Pedro, Octane´s mascot for this game.
"We'll see about that bunny-boy."
Unsurprisingly had Wraith gotten another cat-outfit. White, with two big, black-tipped cat-ears and a long slim tail, also black-tipped. Her mascot Samson had cuddled up her in lap pre-game when the owners of the mascots had gotten to mingle with the legends.
“Hahaha, you two should watch out for big Chuck. Cause lil Chuck will be cheering me on this match bruddas.”
Gibraltar managed to squeeze both the kitty and the bunny with his stark yellow grasp. Chuck was a baby chick and Gibraltar had fallen in love with the small, soft creature. He was now sporting a yellow outfit, not made by feathers because that would be rather grim. No, he had a flowy cape that bended up at the end to mimic Chuck’s tail feathers.
“Please, you stand out like a stain of mustard on a white summer dress dear Gibraltar. I will claim this victory for Madam and gift her a beautiful topaz collar that will match her beautiful eyes.”
Madam was a husky, and Loba had been absolutely delighted to get to wear a big fluffy tail and pointy dog ears. She had gone to the ladies’ room to laugh when she had seen Revenant in a penguin coat. She thought he had looked absolutely ridiculous mimicking the looks of Timmy the penguin.
Pathfinder had on the other hand squealed somehow and jumped up and down, clapping his hands in delight when seeing Revenant. Seeing that had made Bangalore splurt out her drink and cough violently. She thought the gesture had reminded her too much about Nova, the monkey that was Pathfinder´s mascot.
Pathfinder´s mascot outfit was rather unique. The designer had decided on a robot monkey version, rather that implementing a half animal, half robot design. The ears and tail could even move on Pathfinder´s command.
What about Bangalore then? Her smoke launcher had the shape of a giant sunflower seed. Her mascot Bernie had gotten very excited when he had somehow spotted it on Bangalore´s back during the mingling session. He had crawled all over Bangalore, and Anita had giggled softly. She was pleased to wear the cream-coloured ears like Bernie had.
Mirage was ready to drop, he was so ready for this. He wanted to pose on that cereal box so bad. He hoped he would not get paired up with someone that looked stupid, like the old man. Crypto’s mascot Leo on the other hand, that red-eared slider turtle that was pretty damn cute. Yeah, Elliot would be okay with him. But not Crypto, he looked really rah-re, dumb, yes dumb, in that turtle shelled backpack.
Mirage waited patiently for the right time to drop towards Orbital cannon, where he would find his egg. He stood with his arms crossed and was too lost in his thoughts of cereal boxes and good poses to try, that he did not notice the hard stare he was given by Bloodhound. They would have stared even longer if they did not have to drop just then.
Their destination was Gardens. “Fínt”, they thought whilst rushing through the air. Now there was a chance to be paired up with Mirage later in the game. They were dying to see him again in that hedgehog outfit. He had had several soft spikes on his back and rounded soft ears sticking up through his brown locks.
Before, when Mirage had held his mascot Myles, whilst wearing that hedgehog outfit, Bloodhound had barely been able to contain themselves. So adorable. They had discretely taken out their phone and snapped at picture at the scene in front of them. But they had been caught. A soft giggle erupted from Wattson, she had just come up when they snapped the picture.
“Ah, Bloodhound I see you find Elliot az cute az I do.”
One would argue that Wattson was rather cute herself walking around with a mini pig in her arms and sporting the same pink colour and matching tail and ears as Boots the pig, the cutie in her arms. The brown pig hoof prints running up her thighs were a nice detail to the outfit as well. However, Bloodhound did not point any of this out. They coughed and changed the topic to the weather instead.
Lifeline had found the egg and was now running like a fool through the Carrier. She had downed Fuse just a minute ago. He had the pink egg in his flesh hand and a p2020 in the other when she had rounded the crate he was hiding behind. They both aimed their weapons at each other and stared. A p2020 versus a mastiff.
Fuse had pulled of the look of Freddie the steed quite well. He had a long blond mane that was braided just like Freddie’s. The light brown ears made him look even more dashing. If Walter had been an animal in his past life, then this would have been quite spot on perhaps.
However, the moment of staring passed. Fuse realised the predicament he had been caught in and lowered his pistol slightly and laughed.
“Aww sheila, how did I not spot ya before at that party? Ya look absolutely adorab-“
*Bang*
Lifeline had not let Fuse end that sentence.
“I don’t have to have yuh tell me how cute I look. I know.”
Her nose had a black spot painted on it so it would look like the nose of Pascal the panda. She also had fluffy round panda ears and a matching fluffy tail. She also wore gloves that looked like bear paws, but only from the back of her hands. The front was uncovered so that she could grip the weapons as good as usual. Her eyes seemed to sparkle more than usual when the area around her eyes were painted black.
But now she was running away from Horizon. Dr Somers had heard the gunfire and then the beeping through her egg-tracker. She spotted Lifeline by a death box and fired with her hemlock, doing enough damage to break Lifeline’s blue shield. Ajay started sprinting out of the ship towards Oasis where the egg dispenser was located with Horizon hot on her trail.
The viewers later named this fight “Panda medic vs. Dr Cow”. Horizon with her fake cow bell that was silent, her black and white dotted outfit, perfected by cow ear sand a tail, would have surely won, if Lifeline hadn´t gone into a building that held a golden armour. She quickly pulled out Doc and threw a thermite at the door Horizon busted in through. Lifeline and Horizon cracked each other’s shields at the same time, but Lifeline managed to stay alive on a small tick of health thanks to Doc healing her during that moment. Horizon had been unlucky and had walked over the thermite whilst shooting.
“Sorry Doctor Somers, I really want to meet Pascal and hug him again.”
She took a shield battery from Horizon’s box and proceeded to run towards Oasis.
Oasis was divided by a huge force field. She found a box labelled egg dispenser and put her pink egg into it. Out rolled half a golden egg and at the same the force field lowered. Immediately she heard a familiar voice.
“¡Hola chica, what took you so long?”