This is a weird musical thing I've been thinking of. I'm just going to connect a bunch of musical songs and connecting them to characters and events from Red vs Blue. LEt me know if you have any suggestions.
This song is "Santa Fe" from Newsies. It takes place in Season 12, after Tucker's conversation with Kimbal after the training montage.
The lake's light glow was only a little comforting, as Tucker stood by the edge of it, holding his helmet in his hands.
There was absolutely no way their team would be ready for a mission as big as rescuing Wash and the others, Tucker thought. They couldn't even handle one merc who wasn't even trying to kill them. How the Hell were they supposed to fight an entire army?
He also hated the fact that he was the leader of the team. It was true that he was the most competent soldier out of Caboose, Grif and Simmons, but the fact was, last time he lead a team, all of them died.
"Sure we got ourselves some info./Was it really worth the cost?/Teal team's dieing,/Now I'm stuck with Palomo." Tucker sang to himself, thinking of his last mission.
"Guys are fighting, bleeding, dying,/Thanks to good old Captain Tucker!/Captain Tucker just wants to go back home!" Tucker exclaimed, slamming his helmet onto the ground in rage. He took a deep breath and sighed, slumping onto ground.
When had things gotten so hard?
"Let me go./ Far away. /Somewhere they won't ever find me,/ And tomorrow won't remind me of today." He sang, his thoughts drifting to his captured friends, and the easy life he used to have.
"When we save our friends from the Feds/ And the moon as brown as mulch/We'll get on a ship that's heading for Blood Gulch." Tucker would admit that Blood Gulch wasn't great, but at least he wasn't responsible for the death of his subordinates. Hell, he didn't even have subordinates!
"And I'm gone!/And I'm done!/No more running. No more lying./No more smart ass mercs denying me my say./Just a canyon so big and boring, you can't tell the night from day./ That's the life./Yeah, that's right. In Blood Gulch." He said, thinking of how relaxed he used to be. It was really pissing him off how Kimbal-no- how EVERYONE on this planet thought they were some big heros! They didn't even do that much to take down Freelancer! They were just dragged around for most of it!
"Why do they think we're gonna fight and die here?/Where does it say we all can't catch a break?" Tucker exclaimed. He was about to continue when he began to really think about what he was saying.
Did he REALLY miss Blood Gulch?
"But why should we only take what we're given?/Why should we spend our whole lives living trapped where we aren't real soldiers/Split into different teams./Breaking your back for someone else's sake!" Tucker exclaimed. The whole reason they were in that stupid canyon was to be shot at by Freelancers! It was complete bullshit! If they had died there, nobody would have cared!
It suddenly dawned on Tucker that on Chorus, unlike Blood Gulch, people cared if he lived or died.
"If that life is now behind us, why get a change of scene?/Far from the lousy headlines and the Freelancers between." He sang, standing up and picking up his helmet
"Blood Gulch, that shithole!/I can't spend my whole life dreaming./Though I know thats all I seem inclined to do./I ain't getting any younger./And I wanna start brand new./I need space. And fresh air./Let 'em laugh in my face. I don't care./Save my place! I'll be there/"
Tucker looked out over the lake, and pulled his helmet over his head.
"The real place was really just hell/Not the image in my head./And these people need us here to save the day./I was nothing till I got out of Blood Gulch!"