Surprises Chapter 1: Hidden Thanks
It was a sunny day on 2Fort.
The battlefield was raging and the birds were non-existent as usual.
As Scout looked on the other side of the bridge he could see the outline of what looked to be a Heavy eating his "Sandvich".
Scout prepared himself to leap on top of the bridge and onto the other side of the fort.
He carefully looked over the wall for any snipers.
None, he thought. He quickly jumped onto the bridge and ran across when he saw a Soldier harassing his Medic.
The medic was crying for help.
Annoyed, the Scout canceled his mission for the intel and dropped behind the Soldier.
The Soldier wearing the Sergeant's Drill Hat made it easy for the Scout to bonk him in the head with his Sandman.
"BOINK!" the Scout yelled "Bark at dat chucklenuts".
The Medic thanked the Scout in German and quickly proceeded back to the base quickly looking for a new "worthy" teammate to pocket.
The Scout disliked his medic but realized a semi-useful medic was better than no medic. He quickly made a new plan for getting into the BLU base.
He quickly jumped in through the front entrance.
Unfortunately bumping into an enemy Heavy and his Medic friend easily realizing his grave mistake Scout ran out of the base as fast as he could before the Heavy could fill him full of lead. He could hear the Heavy in the background screaming "Run Coward!".
Also, He swore he could hear the medic laughing with heavy.
He grumbled to himself "Oh I'm gunna get y and I'll take your precious Shasha out for a juicy steak dinner" or so he thought that's what the heavy named his abomination of a weapon.
He jumped down into the sewers and went into the BLU's pipe looking around cautiously for spies or any pyro sharks.
He grabbed the ammo pack refilling his ammo then he noticed the sound of footsteps coming from the entrance to the BLU pipe.
Quickly, Scout hid behind the wall and readied his Scattergun for the incoming intruder.
Right before he fired he noticed a red sleeve pop through and the rest of a Pyro's figure.
He relaxed a bit as the Pyro greeted him with "Hrwwo Sct!"
Scout replied with "Hey mumbles, you ain't one of dem spies are ya?"
The Pyro nodded his head meaning no.
"OK but I'll be watchin ya"
Scout was not the best Pyro translator so he was grateful when the Pyro used his head to answer yes or no questions instead of making a complicated answer which no one but the Medic could completely understand.
Sometimes he was sure that the Pyro spoke in his own little language it sure sounded like it.
He had asked the Medic to teach him how to understand the Pyro but the medic simply shooed him away for being a nuisance.
Scout was snapped back to reality as he was knocked off his feet by a rocket.
When the blast cleared up he noticed a Soldier grinning down at him.
Due to there being a lack of space in the sewers scout couldn't outmaneuver the Soldier here and his Scattergun was nowhere in sight.
The Scout was defenseless as the soldier fired a crocket at the injured Bostonian he closed his eyes and prepared for the end.
Instead of a painful explosion he felt a gust of wind come from behind him and an explosion from where the rocket came from.
He opened his eyes and saw the remains of the soldier and his Direct Hit rolling down the stairs.
He looked behind him to see Pyro offering him a helping hand.
Scout not wanting to humble his ego too much said "Yah that was a pretty good job... Thanks mumbles" The Pyro's expressionless mask gave away nothing other than the sound of a sigh.
Grabbing the fire starter's hand he stood back up but fell back to the ground groaning in pain.
Both the Scout and the Pyro realized that Scout had broken his leg.
The Pyro grabbed Scout's arms and dragged him back to their own base where they found the Engineer trying to defend all three entrances to the base on the ground level.
Scout groaned in agony as the Pyro dropped him to help the Engineer destroy the sappers a spy had left on the Engineer's contraptions as a nice parting gift.
The Engineer quickly thanked the pyro for his help.
Abruptly, both teammates turned their gaze to the Scout groaning on the floor.
Chuckling the Engineer said "What in tarnation did you get yourself into now boy?"
The scout was about to reply but the pyro answered for him
"Hr wrs hrt br th sldr's rckt" Engineer replied
"Boy I keep tellin yah to pay attention to where you're going."
The scout replied "Yah yah I get it Engi"
As the Engineer lifted up the Scout and lay him next to his dispenser he patted him on the back and said "Ah I've got you covered Scout,
I'm no medic but I still can heal people" The Scout thanks Engi "Gee you're more help than our medic is. Where is he anyways?"
The Engineer gave a smile and shrugged.
Outside he could hear two soldiers screaming at each other and the RED sniper proclaiming to the world he was the best sniper that ever lived to the other dead BLU sniper.
The scout chuckled to himself remembering the Sniper's #1 Sniper mug.
A few hours later he was in his room tossing a baseball up and down to himself thinking to himself wondering what was inside the intelligence briefcase he has stolen from the BLU team earlier.
Bored and in search of something to do he put his ball away and left his room.
Scout liked to keep his room clean, a habit other scouts did not have.
He felt weird but also a sense of pride for that. As he closed the door he noticed one of the lights flickering from usage.
He shrugged it off and walked down the hall to the mess hall to get some dinner.
Scout realized that Medic was assigned as cook today.
Looks like we're having fish today.
Scout didn't mind fish in fact he kinda liked it, not to mention that the Medic was always claiming that fish is good for you.
He laughed to himself in the line.
The medic makes a better cook than a medic funny.
As he looked around at his friends, well he couldn't really call them friends excluding the Engineer and maybe the Pyro.
The Pyro was nice and all but it was had to see him as a person with that mask always on.
The Engineer was a great friend to him they hung out a lot and practiced on the guitar.
There were two other scouts but the were both annoying and Scout wanted nothing to do with them.
As he was bored in line he pulled a picture of the spy from his cap and looked sadly upon it.
The spy was his best friend here they did everything together and that involved the occasional catch game or sneaking out of the base when everyone was asleep.
Unfortunately he was killed by a mentally insane medic running around with the Ubersaw everywhere. And although they did have respawn sometimes it fails and therefore the tragic end to the spy named Louis. He hated that medic and still does and seeks to avenge his fallen comrade.
However, there is a weekend ceasefire and that will have to wait for another time.
As the Scout sat down he noticed Engi and Pyro sitting next to him on both sides.
He acknowledged them with "Hey guys" the Engineer replied with a smile and a nod.
The pyro didn't say anything just stared or at least Scout assumed he was staring.
"Hey listen buddy yall need to get outside and see the stars I made another Rancho Relaxo tool box just for you.
Whaddya say?" The Scout gratefully accepted Engi's offer and went on the balcony of the fort and enjoyed sips of some beer with the Engi as they looked at the stars and the as the Engineer discussed his plans for building a probe to explore the surface of Mars and Venus.
The Scout wasn't very well educated in Science, Math, or Engineering so most of it went in one ear and out the other.
As it reached 1000 hours both the REDs decided to head back inside and call it night.
As Scout passed by Sniper's room he noticed a slip of paper on the floor being the curious little devil he was he read the paper.
Another, day of snipin' and I blew their mental deficient known as a pyro's head clean off.
I know I got that buggers attention.
Knowing Scout had found himself a part of Sniper's so called non-existent diary.
He decided to keep it as some dirt against the Sniper in case the Sniper decided to wrong him in anyway. He went back into his own room and grabbed his night clothes decided to skip his shower and go straight to bed.
Before he fell asleep he could he the demo in his room across the hallway mumbling drunken phrases and also the two scouts horsing around next door.
Eventually he dosed off.
When he woke up it was 0100 hours in the morning and he realized there was no sleep for him unless there was a shower.
So he sleepily made his way to the showers and noticed Pyro's gear lying around.
Being too tired to care he went to the stall he always took his showers in, he opened it to find a toweled pyro in HIS stall.
And to his utmost surprise the Pyro was a female not a male.
Stunned and scared the Scout ran.
Fearing that her secret was out the pyro quickly threw on some clothes and chased after the scout with her fire axe in hand.
Unfortunately the Scout tripped over some of Pyro's gear and the Pyro picked him up and shoved the Scout against the wall with her fire axe to his neck.
"You will not say anything about this do you hear me!"
The Scout fearing for his life knowing and that respawn only works during battles, promised not to say anything fearing that the tempered firestarter would silence his usually anyway speechless mouth for good if he angered her.
The Pyro relaxing released the Scout and got her stuff and went to her room.
The scout speechless, just sat on the floor mind completely blank.
After sitting there for about half an hour the scout came to his senses.
After all of this he was gonna need some Melatonin to go to sleep, and the only place you could get that was the Medic's lab.
So Scout decided to take a quick visit to the lab.
When he opened the door he found the Medic's stash of Melatonin vitamins and took two.
Within a minute he already felt the effects of drowsiness coming to claim his consciousness so he quickly made his way back to his room and back into his bed.
He once more drifted off into a deep sleep.
End of Chapter 1