Chapter 1: An Unexpected Encounter

Hello everyone this is my first fanfic so I thought I'd kick it off with some only going through character descriptions if they are new, otherwise you'll have to look them up. Sorry! Please review for both moral support and criticism so I can become a better writer. Anyways to the fanfiction!

Disclaimer: I don't own Red vs. Blue. The only thing I can do is dream!

Project Freelancer Many Years Ago…

The Director slowly walked into the briefing room, composing himself in order to get ready to debrief the squad consisting of York, North, Washington, South and Carolina. As he walked in all five of them were around a hologram projection board.

He walked in front of them clearing his throat, "Agents, today your mission is simple. You are assigned to infiltrate a base in the forest area of Chorus here." He pointed to a greenish area of the map on the screen. He paused for a second before continuing, "Whilst there you will take out several armed mercenaries who are attacking a nearby village." He stopped pausing once again.

South butted in, "Way too Easy." She finished cracking her knuckles.

"If it were that easy then why are there five of us here?" Wash asked looking quizzically at the director.

"Can it, both of you!" Carolina ordered almost yelling at both of them.

The Director continued once again, "Thank you Carolina. As I was saying, these mercenaries have been taking hostages from the nearby village. How many of them they have is still unknown to us. Your mission is to kill the mercenaries without any civilian casualties. Is that clear?" he finished raising his voice slightly to get their attention.

All five of them answered at the same time, "Yes sir!"

30 minutes later Mother of Invention Hanger…

"Hey so who's gonna be our pilot for this mission, anyways?" asked Wash.

"I am you dipshit!" replied someone from behind the five Freelancers. She was wearing a average normal pilot's suit.

Washing responded, although not that well, "Oh…um…sorry didn't see you there." They all stood there for a long awkward silence before Wash continued to talk, "So…what's your name?" he asked awkwardly.

"Wow you must be the most intelligent one of them all here, aren't you?" she said incredibly sarcastically. "Anyways, the name's 479er, but you can just call me 479er got it?!" she said pointing a finger at Wash.

"Yes ma'am." He answered in an incredibly scared tone.

"Ok, now that scaredy pants wet himself what are all of your names?"

"Carolina"

"North"

"South"

"Name's York"

"And…uh…I'm Washington."

"Well now that we're all acquainted can we get this mission started?" Carolina stated staring to get impatient.

"Well, alright little miss bossy." 479er opened the door to her Pelican, and asked York, "Is she always like this?"

"Yeah, pretty much." He said back causing both of them to laugh a little.

20 minutes later forest area of Chorus…

"Alright the weather forecast for today is heavy rain that will be messing with everyone's radar, so there will be lots of unknowing dead people today. We are presently 3 clicks away from the outpost, and 30 clicks from the village. That is all for today's news we'll be back later for the obituaries of the dead mercenaries we are about to kill." York said trying to lighten the mood, which he did successfully causing a laugh from everybody.

After everyone got out of the Pelican they made their way to the outpost. North climbed a tree, and used his infer-red sniper rifle to see how many people were in the building, "Ok…looks like we have a total of 37 people inside the building. Can't tell who's a civy and who's a merc."

"Ok thanks for the info. Are there any consoles that we could hack into?" Carolina asked as she and the rest of her team, excluding North, were hiding behind some trees on the west side of the outpost.

North panned around the compound, "Umm…yeah, there's one inside the southeastern tower, top floor." He answered.

"Alright here's the plan, North you keep an eye out for us from up there, ok?" Carolina paused before continuing.

"Copy."

"York, you and Wash will head to that console, without alerting any guards. Once inside you will use it to put a tracking beacon on all hostiles." She paused again to make sure both of them comprehended their assignment.

"Got it." They both said together.

Carolina continued again, finalizing the last part of her plan, "South and I will then take out any of the mercenaries outside with support from North. Then the four of us will meet outside the front door and take out any inside. On my mark. Sync?" she ended waiting for everyone to comply.

Everyone else responded within a second, "Sync!"

As everyone got to their assignments Wash and York had just gotten to the console, "So how long will this take?" Wash asked his partner for the mission.

York started to fiddle with the controls, "Well it depends on how hard this is…hmm…probably at least another five minutes."

Just then Carolina cut-into his radio, "York you better not take too much longer."

"Hey don't worry it'll only be another 30 seconds." Wash just looked at York in disbelief. "What? She's really scary."

"Alright I see what you mean."

"Ok got it…now. Alright people we are official able to tell which are civilians and which are mercs curtesy of yours truly." York said in a cocky tone.

"Thanks York. Ok start taking them out in 3…2…1…now." All of the Freelancers started to take out the remaining troops outside.

Once they were all dead all of them met outside the main facility's door, and just then North notice it looked like they were starting to execute civs. "Hey guys they're about to start executing the hostages. Hurry!"

"Shit! Ok, breach now!" ordered Carolina. Wash planted the breaching charge and blew it sending the door flying. Now it seemed as if everything were going in slow motion. South fired and killed three different soldiers about to fire on hostages; Carolina sprinted forward tackling their leader to the ground; Wash and York both killed two different mercs finalizing the enemy troops to zero. "Wash go and untie the hostages and set them free."

"Got it boss." He untied a few of civs but the last two were kids around the age of 17. Once he untie the second of the two a grenade landed right in front of him, "Grenade! Get down!" he took of the teens to the ground with him, but the older of the two took the grenade in his right hand and attempted to throw it back to its owner.

Unfortunately for him it exploded only a few inches from his arm sending him flying back. York rushed over to him making sure he was still alive, which he was, but he was losing blood fast. "479er we need immediate evac at my quadrants. Area is cleared, I repeat, the area is cleared!" he finished waiting for 479er to respond.

"Copy that. Be there in less than a minute." She responded.

Wash was now up holding the younger brother back telling him that everything was alright, but all he did was stand there and watch. York was able to stop the now armless brothers bleeding, with the help of North, but it would only be temporary. In order for him to survive they would need to get back to base, and give him further medical treatment.

As all of them got onto the Pelican Wash asked, "What about him, should we bring him along?" referring to the younger of the siblings.

"Might as well, I guess." York said trying to keep a calm atmosphere in the midst of all this chaos.

After 479er docked on The Mother of Invention a medical crew put the older brother onto a stretcher and took him to the med bay. The younger of the two started to walk after them until North stopped him, "Hey buddy, don't worry he'll be fine. They'll take good care of him. Why don't you tell us about yourself?" he finished taking off his helmet giving the obviously scared kid a reassuring smile.

"…um…ok…" he said, speaking for the first time ever.

North, now having a good look at what the kid looked like, started to key in his more distinguishing features, he was around 18, with blonde mid-length hair, and was about 6'0". As they were talking they walked into the recreation room where all the other Freelancers were, "Alright so let's start with what's you guys' names?" North asked waiting for the kid to answer him.

The kid took a big gulp before responding, "Well I'm Ryan and my brother's name is Edward. We're both from Chorus as both of you might've guessed. And…um…well before you guys arrived we were a part of a small militia that was supposed to protect the people of Chorus from pirates and stuff like that. we joined because our parents were killed by pirates who came to our village and burned the whole place to the ground…" he started crying and the least likely person came to comfort them Carolina.

She put her hand on his shoulder and said in a comforting voice, "Hey don't worry. We're here for you."

Ryan smiled a bit before continuing his story, "As I was saying we join Chorus's militia, but we got taken as hostages when we were defending a nearby village from the outpost you found us. So…um…is my brother going to be alright?"

North got up and started to walk to the door he turned to face Ryan, "I'll go check how he's doing." He said before leaving. After he left his normally friendly face turned sour. He knew that there was a pretty big chance Edward wouldn't make it.

When North reached the Med Bay Wyoming was standing right outside the door, "Why hello their North. How are we doing this fine evening?" he said stoking his handlebar mustache.

"Fine. How's our new arrival doing?"

"Oh quite the opposite, I'm afraid. Pour boy has been dis-armed!"

North just stared at the Freelancer blankly, "Wow that was terrible, just terrible."

"Really? It was that bad?"

"YES! Now tell me how he's really doing."

"Quite fine actually. Their making the new adaptions to him the Director wanted."

"Wait, what?"

"Oh yeas, did I forget to mention that the two newcomers will now be a part of Project Freelancer. The Director said that we needed two more additions, and this way we won't need to do any recruiting. Seems like a legitimate strategy to me."

"Hmm…ok, well what kind of 'adaptions' are they doing to him?"

"They are giving him a robotic arm."

"Cool."

"I know right."

"What are there code names gonna be?"

"The Director said he would announce it to us all once this fella is ok."

"Alright I'm going to go tell his brother the news."

"Jolly good."

When North got back to the Recreation Room he told everyone the news he had gotten from Wyoming. The whole time he had to stop to answer Ryan's question like 'Who is Wyoming' and 'Who's the Director', but when North finished an announcement came on the loud speaker, "All Agents and the two Chorus soldiers please report to the Meeting Room to be debriefed." It finished with a loud buzzing noise that lasted for about a second.

After everyone arrived and got seated the Director stepped forward, "Hello and welcome. Today we will be integrating three new agents into Project Freelancer. Would the newcomers please sta-" Just as he was about to finish the doors burst open to reveal Edward.

When he first got shot no one had gotten shot no one really had a good look at him. He was 6'2" with short brown hair, and his right arm was now robotic. He walked to where his brother was sitting and casually said, "Sorry for being late. Docs wouldn't let me out."

The Director stared at Edward for a bit before returning to where he was, "As I was saying, newcomers please stand so we can give you your code names." They both did as he said and then the Director continued, "Ryan from now on your code name will be Agent New Jersey, and Edward. You shall be Agent D.C. is that understood?"

Both responded at the same time, "Sir, yes sir!"

"Both of you will report to the Armory where Agent Alaska will give you your amour."

Hello everyone again! Hope you enjoyed the chapter I will update when I can, but as you can probably tell chapters will be long and school doesn't help with that. Anyways please fallow/like/favorite and review so I know how I did, and can do better next time.