After the end of the Robot Wars, which ended in victory for Gray Mann, both of the former RED and BLU teams had been sent to two isolated prisons: one for RED, one for BLU. Gray's objective was to kill each of the mercenaries off, one each day, and cultivated the fear that the men had. In the RED prison, he started with Spy, and the rest followed. Soldier and Engineer were the last two RED mercenaries alive.
Spy was killed by fire, Heavy stabbed, Medic poisoned, Pyro and Sniper were shot, Scout was beaten, and Demoman was decapitated. Gray oversaw the killing personally, savouring each cry of pain they made, and relished them keeling over. Soldier and Engineer, deep inside their prison, became depressed, submitting to the fact that they would probably die. Both of them were fed the bare minimum, causing them to lose their strength. Even Soldier, who wouldn't dare breath it, was scared. Not witless, but still slightly scared that he would be killed before Engineer and how defenceless they both were.
And on the day that Soldier was supposed to be executed, Gray didn't arrive. By the end of the following day, the guards had rapidly dwindled, so the American took his chance. Soldier's door had been bashed down from the inside, and the American kicked down Engineer's, before the two men raided the prison armoury, which was stocked with Mann Co. weaponry and hats.
Soldier, wearing a bandanna, griped the Original, while Engineer wore the Hotrod, which was up to give him a better field of vision. Engineer's Gunslinger has been destroyed, being that Gray was smart enough to realise its potential, and left the Texan to use the Widowmaker with his left hand.
This late at night, the few remaining human guards would be sleeping, but the two former RED mercenaries were unsure what the prison's aggressors would be doing. Creeping down one of the innermost corridors, they stopped occasionally when they heard something or something coming, or passed the open door to a room full of guards. Following the green flickering emergency exit signs, they passed rows of empty prison cells.
Engineer felt a strong sense of despair and sorrow for his team-mates, and the fact that their lives could not be saved, and so had to stop for a moment. Soldier noticed this, putting it down to hunger, and also stopped, but didn't say a word. He started picking his nose, which had become irritated by a large boogie that was quickly removed. He too felt that a sense of despair and sorrow of the deaths of his team-mates, but he was more focused on escaping their forsaken prison and getting revenge.
Engineer recovered, and the pair proceeded. Engineer considered the irony of their situation – the danger was on the outside of the prison, and not the inside. This provoked the thought chain regarding what the danger was.
They turned around a corner, went down a flight of stairs, and continued following the flickering fire exit one of the guardrooms, some of the guards were having a conversation. Not saying a word, they eavesdropped on the end of the conversation. One of the guards said that the danger was growing stronger, and the prison would fall very shortly. This caused a welling of fear in Engineer, and Soldier sensed the urgency of their situation, who followed the best cause of action, which happened to be continuing towards the exit.
After a few minutes, they could see how bad the attacks on the prison have been, which became more obvious the closer they got to being free. The walls were crumbling, the ceilings and floors deteriorating, and the lights barely functioning, with only battery powered emergency lights emitting a flashing red light over the corridors and cells.
Engineer began to fear what the danger on the outside was, but Soldier, along with the desire to be free, forced him onwards. Eventually, they found and opened the fire door. Looking outside, the two men wished they hadn't – the prison was the last remaining structure in a barren wasteland, and, upon the horizon, were a horde of mutated zombies. The obvious thought that the zombies had been attacking the prison. But this was not the case.
Feeling a tingling on his face, like rain was hitting his cheeks, and having a strange metallic taste in his mouth, Engineer concluded that a nuclear weapon had exploded nearby, presumably from a war. This explained the dwindling of the guards, as Gray would reinforce his headquarters and vital outposts, and also Gray's absence, as he would have gone to his headquarters. Because of the radiation, the Hotrod was pulled down quickly.
Engineer turned to Soldier.
"We should make a break for civilisation, son. A nuclear weapon has exploded nearby, and we need to go." stated the Texan.
"Surely you can't be serious." back-channelled Soldier.
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." replied Engineer.
They readied their weapons, before they looked at each other.
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!" screamed Soldier.
A/N I might continue this, depending on the overall response from reviews, favouriting, subscribing, etc. Please rate and review.