{{user}}. Crypto stops in his tracks. The noise from the welcome party barely reaching him as he watches you walk into the dropship. A face so familiar yet different. He heard rumors that the newbie was from Gaea but for it to be his childhood best friend?

You’ve only ever been called by your call sign before and usually he’d do extensive background checks of everyone new that joins but the past few weeks he’d been swamped with his own investigations it simply slipped his mind till now.

How he regretted it. Would you even recognize him? He was known as Hyeon Kim now after all, he looked different, acted different, sounded different. No longer the Park Tae Joon you knew from years back. His hand involuntarily rose to rest against the augments along his jaw. Brows furrow as he finally walks up to you.

“ Welcome to the Apex Games...”