(A/N): Hello, hello! Hope you enjoy my first Cryptage AND Apex Legends fanfic! After watching season 3's trailer, I had to make this fanfic happen, so enjoy!

"Hope you know how to count, kid." Mirage teased me with a grin against his lips.

It was amusing. After nearly breaking his arm without a second thought, he was really encouraged to mess with me again. I would have assumed with him being so self-centered, he would have made sure his already beaten face doesn't receive another punch to the face. I've even heard he ate a whole metal foot last season, but geugeon nae sa-eob-i aniya. (…that isn't any of my business.)

"Try to keep up, old man." I retorted back, glaring at him.

A frown instantly appeared on his face.

"Old man?!"

"Coming through, boys!" I heard Lifeline shouted between us, pushing us off the platform of the drop ship and down towards the arena. I stuffed my hands into my jacket pockets and enjoyed the skydive.

"I'm not an old man, kid! I can do whatever you can…but better!" Mirage shouted in my earpiece.

I almost forgot we had them. I rolled my eyes and sighed, watching my breath zip past my face.

"Focus! We need to figure out where we goin'! Pick a place!" Lifeline responded. "Hey, you're name's Crypto, right? Where you wanna' go, Crypto?"

"What about that frozen…tower…thing?" Mirage added.

"I don't care where we are landing," I answered.

"Frozen tower it is! Let's see how many kills you can get down there, kid!" He continued before I saw him diving towards the tower. Lifeline had passed by me and waved before doing the same thing as Mirage.

I didn't follow them close to the tower, I dived towards a cave nearby them with a few supply crates scattered near the entrance.

"Remember to watch ya map, boys. Don't need ya' asses kissing the outa' ring, ya hear?" Lifeline said in the mic as I pulled out my drone, tossed it into the air, and directed it near the rest of my team. Lifeline was near the respawn beacon, deciding to take either a Scout or a Wingman. I saw Mirage in a small building, turning on his Epic armor. He heard my drone and made eye contact with me without knowing; he winks at the camera.

"I'm flattered, kid, but I'm not going to undress for you." He said in the mic.

I shut my camera closed while calling back my drone, stuffing my remote back into my pocket. I heard Mirage laugh into the mic as I felt my face flushed.

"Don't make me break your jaw," I muttered into my mic as I began looting the supply crates.

"Boys, focus!" Lifeline yelled into the mic.

The mic was then quiet. So, I continued looting the rest of the crates before heading into the cave to loot more. Mirage had pissed me off.

Suddenly, I heard a gunshot in my mic.

"Shit, we got company!" I heard Mirage yell into the mic before hearing a few more bullets.

I pulled out my drone and remote another time and rushed my drone into the fight overhead. I had found Lifeline hiding in front of an open supply crate near the respawn beacon while Mirage hid behind a frozen rock, reloading his gun.

I noticed more movement further ahead of my team, seeing Bloodhound using a hill as their cover with their Longbow propped against it. They were aiming towards Lifeline, ready to shoot.

"I see Bloodhound. Two o'clock. On the hill. I wouldn't show my head if I were you." I told my team as I moved my drone closer to the sniper, but I saw more enemies at the bottom-left of my camera. It was Wraith.

"Damn it," I muttered, allowing her to run out of my field of view.

"Damn it? Damn it?! What does that mean?" Mirage asked.

Wraith was my weakness. She had the ability to know what was about to happen next. She could read me like a book. If I aimed my drone on her, she'll know exactly where it was, know exactly where I was. I needed to to be near my team and not –

I get shot in the arm, making me drop my remote and hit the ground. I looked where the bullet came from and found Wraith aiming her Wingman at me.

"Your surveillance can work on everyone else…just not on me. You're lucky you had level one shield on." She says with a smirk on her face.

I don't respond, quickly getting up from the ground and took off running, hearing her pull her trigger, and missed her shot.

"Crypto? What's goin' on? I hear bullets on your end!" I heard Lifeline ask in my earpiece.

"Don't worry about me! Just focus on Bloodhound. I'm revealing them now!" I answered, hearing more bullets flying behind me until it suddenly got awkwardly quiet.

I didn't stop running. I knew Wraith had used one of her portals and she was right, her abilities were amazing. Someone with my skills was not capable to fight her…unless I continued running.

"Where's their last teammate?" Mirage asked the team.

"Maybe they came for the respawn beacon and saw someone had looted here." Lifeline answered.

"Rush Bloodhound," I told them.

"Wait, what? No, no, no. I'm not letting that kid tell me what to do!" Mirage responded.

"Just do it! I dropped my remote for my drone, so you're blind until I can get it. If you get them, run to the cave where I'm at if I haven't made it to you."

"Come on, Elliott!" Lifeline added.

"I can't believe this!" Mirage said, making me nearly grin again.

I was still running, hoping to find another direction that would lead me back to my remote, but I was still going a straight line. I guess I needed to get out of the cave and go back around, but Wraith was nowhere to be found. I was beginning to get nervous. I was thinking of the day I was framed, thinking about my family. With all this running, it felt like I was in the moment of losing my happy life all over again. I skidded to a stop and look back; still no Wraith. So, I ran back for my remote.

It wasn't long before someone kicked me in the waist, making me hit the ground with a thud.

"Gotcha." I heard Wraith mocked behind me.

I looked behind myself to see she was right behind me and swept my feet under her legs. Wraith hits the ground as I stood back up. She instantly kicked up her foot towards my face, but I had grabbed it. Wraith twisted her body around to release herself from my grip and got back onto her feet. I take a swing at her, but she ducks and punched me in my stomach. I grunted as she kicked me in the face. I heard a gun get pulled out, so I shook my head and quickly looked for it. As Wraith aimed and pulled the trigger on me, I had already grabbed the gun and pushed it away from my face.

"Kid?!" Mirage yelled.

"I'm fine!" I yelled back, getting frustrated.

Wraith smiled at me from behind her Wingman.

"Are you sure?" She says before kicking me in the groin. I grabbed hold of myself as she punched me in the face.

Wraith was playing with me. So, I headbutted her. She stumbles back and I quickly swing at her. My fist made contact with her nose and she hits the ground, dropping the gun. I picked it up and pulled the trigger on her chest, seeing the purple appearing and breaking. I glanced at her silver eyes that actually seemed to be nervous. Then, Wraith instantly dropped a portal under herself and fell in. I pulled the trigger again and missed her, watching the portal close. I slid the gun into my pocket while pulling out my Mozambique and dropping it on the ground.

"Did you two get Bloodhound?" I asked my team.

"Yep. That's one, kid." Mirage answered.

"We're comin' over to you." Lifeline said.

"Don't worry. Wraith got away."

"You fought Wraith…on your own? Ajay and I can handle her…at some points, but someone who's playing Apex for his first time should not have survived. I'm not saying that I lost to her when I first played, but -"

"Elliot!" Lifeline yelled, interrupting Mirage.

"Warning: Ring movement in progress." Said the announcer, echoing over the arena.

I checked the map.

"The edge of the Ring leads us to Fuel Depot. We need to go now before a team attacks us from behind." I explained to my team while finding my remote for my drone and headed out the cave. "Though, we need to decide. We can either go around Capital City or go straight through. Your choice."

"I'm down for the Capital if everyone else is. Just give me a sec' to loot these death boxes." Lifeline responded.

"Hey, don't take everything!" Mirage shouted.

"Well, you betta' hurry up then."

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