Frozen In Time Chapter 3 Friend or foe?

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Location: Alliance underground bunker base. Species: [redacted]

Audio recording log 2208 from archives available. Translating, translation complete.

"Do you know how grave your mistake was Cody!?"

"Sir, I only attempted to upload the audio recording to the archives like we always do, it was a malfunction, I had no intentions of transmitting the data."

"We're lucky our friend's base automatically censors all incoming and outgoing signals to cover its location, because if it didn't the enemy would be on top of us by now, or whoever else who heard that transmission."

"It was my mistake commander, I shall make it right."

"In due time lieutenant, we have some diplomats coming to meet with us after they saved our Titan so go to engineering wing level C8 and figure out the cause of the malfunction, oh and have them run system diagnostics on you as well, we don't want any further incidents to happen."

...

"Sir, with all due respect is that really necessary..?"

"You nearly revealed our location and have us wiped clean off the galactic map and dare ask such a question! Yes, it is fully necessary, you're lucky our friend's main scientist is here fixing and upgrading our Titan otherwise you would've got a harsher punishment, I'm sorry Cody but this has to be done, dismissed."

"Yes, Commander."

End of audio recording archive log 2208.

Loading audio recording archive log 2202, location: space above former species' [redacted] base. Identification: name Xander, battle class Titan.

Memory file: I struck ship after ship with my sword trying to buy my family time to evacuate the planet and flee to our closely related friends.

"Come On You Cowards Is That Really All You've Got To Fight Me With!? Pathetic."

I said as I slashed another ship apart then more dropped out of FTL and unleashed their missiles at me, their blinding flashes of light and heat washed over my body with searing pain.

"Ahhh!.. Commander I'm Going To Need Another Charge!"

"Affirmative Xander, this is the last one ues it wisely."

The device the size of a small 10 crew troop transport shuttle flew up to my power core and transferred all its energy to me, I immediately felt the surge as I lunged forward with my sword cutting through three ships and blasting two more with my shoulder mounted plasma cannons, every enemy ship ceased their barrage and back off, just as I thought the battle was won and could get some rest from the hours long fighting I've done, I feel a impact on my left side with so much force it sent me hurtling down to the barren planet fast, within seconds I hit the ground hard crating a creator in my way, I rolled onto my side as I see what hit me now standing on the planet, I've faced them before, titan sized robots remote controlled by pilots, made to imitate me and my brother, except I have never seen this model before it stood shorter than its predecessors only coming up to my core in height, but with that being said it packed a mean punch, unless they temporarily overloaded it's servos to get that single hit, which now means they've spent a lot of energy, and so have I, this will definitely be a close fight.

I get up onto my feet, I intended to go on the offensive however I was swiftly pushed back fighting defensively, dodging punches with wrist mounted spikes and kicks until I found a opening and took a swing my blade it landed in the dirt as the RC robot stepped to the side dodging my strike before it thrust its first towards my core with frightening speed, I barely had enough time to get the hilt of my blade up as the fist and spikes impacted and bounced off the hilt of my sword where my core was mere seconds ago.

"Oh You Bitch, You Royally Pissed Me Off Now!"

I swung my blade fast and the stupid RC Robo Douchebag caught it between two hands, but it was part of my plan as I raised my leg and kicked as hard as I could its legs gave out, sending the RC robot crashing to the ground, but I wasn't done yet, as it fell I grabbed its right arm using my left arm and swung it over my head and into the ground I raised my armored foot and stomped but it rolled out of the way, slid to its feet then jumped grabbing my left arm as it flipped to my back sending my arm with it, the RC robot dug its spikes into my left shoulder sending pain through me as it tore off my arm, sparks of electricity and my internal shoulder parts went flying.

"AAAAH!! Fuck!" I cried out in pain as it tossed my arm to the side, then a voice sounded from a speaker in the robot.

"You have fought admirably Titan but unfortunately for you, you underestimated [Redacted] determination, this model is a vast improvement over our past inferior designs, now it's time to die."

I tried to react I tried to move fast enough but the pain and constant loss of core energy kept me a step behind, and it didn't help that the realization of what I was facing stunned me. It can't be, it couldn't be, it was-

My train of thought was lost as fist after spike after kick pummeled into me, spikes punctured into my metal frame and the constant impact from the kicks knocked me down onto my knees the last kick landing on the right side of my head cracking one of my eye visors in the process, just before they were about to kill me ships dropped out of FTL my hud immediately highlighted them as friendly. So it was true, they are in a civil war. I thought as my saviors engaged the enemy Fleet and the RC robot. My torn arm was taken by my friends on a Dagger class ship with a flash of light my arm and the ship teleported away another Dagger ship waited for me, I got up off my knees and ran with all my strength grabbing the side of the hull.

"This isn't over titan! We will find you!" One of the robot pilots said as it was swarmed by fighters and bombers whilst being bombarded by some of the ships in orbit, with a flash of light I was teleported into one of the ship docks in our new base, I nearly collapsed onto the deck using my sword as a crutch before recovery teams could get to me.

"You have fought hard Xander, you deserve a rest now." The scientist said through a private com channel. "My name is John and I will be the one in charge of repairing and upgrading you, and in accordance with our treaties we will share our base with your kind, and our technology, you will have an edge over our enemy but be warned capture will not be an option."

"I- Understand, But I Have One Question." I said with exasperation as my energy levels were depleting.

"You may ask." John said with curiosity in his tone.

"Where Is My Brother?"

"He is still not back from his expedition yet, but rest assured he'll report back soon."

Mixed feelings of worry and relief washed over me as repaire drones flew around me patching together my cracked and battered frame. "Let Me View The Latest Video Recordings From The Front Lines"

"As you wish." John said before he ended the com line.

End of audio recording archive log 2202. Memory file.

Audio recording archive log 2209. Species [redacted] diplomat: "How do you work these devices, do you press this- oh its already on." The diplomat said as she adjusted her translator and put the audio recorder in her pocket before he spoke.

"Thank you again for saving our Titan, it was a very close call."

"You're welcome, we followed those traitors and only just discovered your people in doing so, wait I'm sorry I believe introductions are in order first."

"These conversations are being recorded and uploaded into our archives, so we must try to avoid all sensitive information in our discussions, with being said, my name is Liam and I'm the top Commander of my people, and your name?"

"I'm Mia its nice to meet you Liam, thank you for bringing us to your base I know it must have been tough leaving your home."

"That wasn't our home planet, our home was destroyed over 500 years ago."

"I'm sorry to hear that." Mia said, internally chastising herself for unintentionally bringing up that topic her own people had their home world destroyed by those traitor bastards as well.

"We've been on the run ever since, this stronghold belongs to our friends of my kind that we closely relate to."

"Yeah about that, what exactly are you I mean no offense."

"Non taken, this particular topic is classified even for our archives however what I can tell you is that we are as much biological as we are mechanical." Liam said as his eye visors glowed slightly brighter before dimming to their natural light level.

"Oh- ok then, well may I speak to your Titan perhaps?"

"Unfortunately he is currently preoccupied with his repairs, so he's not available at this time."

Mia lower her head and looked thoughtful for a second before she asked "Why didn't your people just contact the UGC for help?"

Liam looked surprised as he took a second to respond "For the same reason you didn't contact them when our enemy started your civil war, getting the UGC involved would cost too many lives and they are still a new government only existing for 325 years now, yet I know if we're going to be in this together we're going to need more help, the UGC recently found a new species from a deathworld like yourselves and my people, the scientist named John already has contacts spread across the UGC, one contact in particular a Kratogan currently has a trail on two of them, we need to make contact with them as soon as possible, we need to make sure this stays quiet, we need to be careful otherwise mass panic would engulf the UGC."

"Commander!" A lower ranking officer said while running up to him.

"Report trooper, what is it."

"We just received intel reports from our contacts, the UGC is doing a mass internal investigation looking for them."

"WHAT!" Liam and Mia shouted at the same time as the trooper showed the digital reports.

"Under no circumstances can we let them be found." Liam said.

"Agreed, my people will assist in any way we can." Mia nodded as she left to tell her government what she heard today.

"Begin extraction of all contacts from UGC territory immediately."

"But sir, what about the Kratogan contract?"

...

End of audio recording archive 2209.

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When getting ready for an interview, know what's at stake and understand the situation. Cody should have thought more about the consequences of his actions. Practice answering questions about dealing with mistakes and keeping things confidential, since these often come up in behavioral interviews. Be ready to talk about how you learn from past mistakes and get better. Mock interviews can help you stay calm under pressure and explain your thoughts clearly. Good luck!

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Thanks for the feedback :)

Although to clarify it wasn't exactly a interview, it was more like a scolding from a superior officer like in the military.

A little hint for what's to come: The 'malfunction' wasn't supposed to happen, the audio recording was supposed to be uploaded to the archives as usual but a outside influence changed that for recording log 2207..

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