I know this chapter's flippin' short, but believe me when I say I tried making it a bit longer. Also, I promise it'll get better (at least, I hope it'll get better) so please stick around.
I own nothing except maybe a character or so.
"We got 'em."
"Excellent." Grey Mann smiled, pressing his fingers together. Everything was going according to plan. Now, all he needed to do was-
"Daddy?"
The old man turned around to see his daughter standing in the doorway.
"Mr. Virgil says I have to leave," Olivia said. "Why do I have to go?"
"Do you remember Mr. Hale?" Grey Mann asked.
Olivia nodded.
"Then do you remember the men he hired to destroy my robots?"
Olivia nodded again.
"Well," Grey Mann said, "they are going to bring them back here."
Olivia frowned. "Why?"
"Because they know where the old woman is hiding," the old man replied. "Anyway, it's going to get a little messy, so I don't want you here while her mercenaries are around. It'll only take an hour, so you'll be back before you know it."
"Okay," Olivia said, a smile forming on her lips.
"Now, you follow Virgil. I need to stay here and wait for the rest of his team."
Olivia nodded, then took off, skipping down the hall, oblivious to the solemn atmosphere around her.
As his daughter's footsteps faded away, Grey Mann turned back to the window, eyes scanning the clouds of the approaching storm that smothered the sky.
Olivia was beginning to get worried. She paced around her room, thoughts swirling through her head. Something had happened to her father; she just knew it. Grey had told her that he would be done in an hour, and, according to the round white clock on the wall, an hour had already passed. She had gotten bored of her toys, and she was now left to wonder what was taking her father so long.
Turning to face the window, she gazed at the towering skyscraper off in the distance, wondering what could have possibly gone wrong. The other mercenaries shouldn't have been that much of a problem, right?
Then: an explosion. Bright orange flames reached to the sky, engulfing the skyscraper in a sea of heat and smoke. Olivia watched as the flames rose higher and higher, crawling up the sides of the building, eating away at the structure like termites eating away at a wooden structure.
The building remained standing, a towering figure looming over the rest, and for a moment, Olivia dared to hope that her father still had a chance. Then, with a crash, the building crumbled, and Olivia was alone again. Ashes began to snow down in the distance. She believed that she had no one else in the world.
Why the Polar Express and TF2? Well, I like both of those things; the Polar Express was a movie my family watch a ton when Christmas Comes to Town (er, around I mean) and Team Fortress 2 is just a fun game for me. Plus, I did a Christmas thing with TF2 last year, so I thought I'd do it again.
Side note: I know Virgil is supposed to be with the rest of the Classic Mercs, but I thought they could have sent someone ahead to tell Grey Mann. At first, I was going to use the Classic Scout, but then I remembered that he's a fu- so I used Virgil instead. I mean, seeing as how the Classic Heavy is so overbearing and was shown to at least have connections to some of his men, he'd probably find out that the Classic Scout was a f- Just getting this out of the way so no one has to screech at me about this later.