Apex Legends Season 21: Upheaval launched, surprisingly, without an actual launch trailer. But just over a week after the new season went live, Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has released a new animated short featuring a device that Titanfall 2 players will certainly recognize: the Time Gauntlet, a device that makes a significant appearance in Titanfall 2's Effect and Cause chapter, which is widely regarded as the best part of the game's single-player campaign.

In Effect and Cause, the player takes the Time Gauntlet--a donut-shaped metal disc attached to a glove--and uses it to shift back and forth in time at-will. We've seen the Gauntlet appear in Apex Legends before, when an early prototype of the device appeared to power Loba's teleportation bracelet, and we also saw Horizon eyeing up the one in the Apex Museum in Season 20's launch trailer. But so far, we haven't learned much more about it.

Since joining the Apex Games, Horizon has had a singular goal: getting back to her son, Newton. Prior to joining the Games, Horizon was left for dead in a black hole by Ash, and though she managed to escape it, she got back to her home on Olympus over 80 years too late. Her son had already grown up, lived a life, and passed away. Horizon now spends every spare second looking for a way to get back to her son and seems to think the Time Gauntlet is the answer. After finally getting her hands on it, she's spent months trying to get it functional, but all her attempts thus far have failed.