Wattson x Crypto

Ch. 1 - World's Edge

It isn't hard for Crypto to remember the night when Wattson, and all the other legends were certain Crypto was the mole. Crypto's efforts to get close or try explaining he wasn't the mole to Wattson ended in failure. Wattson didn't want to see Crpyto, she tried ignoring him all the time, as well as Caustic.

It has been a week since the late night incident, and Crypto's continous efforts were no good. Wattson had gone many nights feeling sad and sometimes crying herself to sleep, she thought her only freind was Wraith(Renee.) It was early in the morning, and all the legends were starting to wake up, today was scheduled to be another Apex match. Every time Crypto and Wattson were on a team together, Wattson denied hearing out Crypto, yet it was because Natalie knew only one of them had to be the traitor, and she didn't know who to believe. Natalie liked working with Hyeon a lot on the artifact, she wished this whole mole thing never happened. Every time she saw him she wanted to feel his warm, safe embrace again. She remembered the name Hyeon called her earlier, "A smarty pants." She giggled remembering that sweet moment with him.

Natalie was in her room, and awoke much later than the other legends, she was shocked when she found out that she woke up a bit too late. She quickly put herself together, taking a quick shower. She had to make her own breakfast this time instead of getting it from the cafeteria, and struggled to hastily put on her electrical suit.

Crypto P.O.V

- I was getting ready to board the drop ship, everyone was here except for Natalie. We all waited a few more minutes until the ship's doors would open, the teams weren't decided yet. I kept thinking where she could be.

I couldn't help myself, so I went over to Renee to ask about her for around the 11th time this morning.
"I already told you," she began, "she said she needed some space, Caus-"
"That's not what I'm talking about right now," I began, "Do you know where Natalie is? She is late, and I know she is always early to the drop ship."
"How would I know?" Wraith spat.
"Come on," I began, "you are the only person she trusts fully. If it came from you that Caustic was the mole then-"
"But we don't know that, now do we?" Wraith replied. She voided out in annoyance of Crypto. That conversation ended quickly.

Attention: All legends must now enter the drop ship.

The announcer's voice faded out and the doors were now opening. Natalie was nowhere to be seen, c-could she be in trouble?

I looked around hesitant, knowing it was unlikely for her to oversleep, or miss the doors opening of the ship.

Everyone boarded the ship, some excited to fight a match after days of working on the stupid artifact, and some others gloomy. I had my hands in my pocket and I walked into the ship, with Wraith and Revanent following me in last.

"Wraith!" I spun around and sure enough it was Wattson, I mean-Natalie, who was running towards her, and the ship. Completely ignoring that I was here.

She huffed and was sweating, and was trying to catch her breath. She looked so innocent.
"I-I muzt have overszlept, did I almost miz the ship?"
"No, you got here just in time." Wraith replied.
I stood there in silence, that's when Natalie finally noticed me, she quickly looked away embarrassed realizing that she was making a scene, trying her best to avoid the drama and the truth.

The drop ship finally closed, and the announcer announced the map: World's Edge.

During the last week I have not achieved anything or made any progress with Wattson. 젠장(Damn it), Why is it so hard to reach out to her? After the minutes dragged by and kept getting longer I could see Natalie trying her best to ignore Caustic and I, Caustic giving me looks of hatred and disgust here and then, while Natalie tried looking away from me or pretending to be distracted everytime I looked at her. It was enough with Bangalore and some of the other legends glaring at me for believing I was the mole. Despite Caustic's confession to Gibraltar, he hadn't told all of the legends yet. There was a ton of evidence pointing to me, while Caustic did a good job hiding his tracks.

An audio queue rang throughout the ship, signaling the teams randomly being generated. After a few moments of silence, the screens along the ship showed the teams.

I went over to a flat screen with me on it, and saw the other 2 I was paired up with. The icon/images and text read:

Caustic, Crypto, and Wattson.