A/N: Hi guys, I have a REAL Halloween chapter for you. Previous one was just to introduce Merasmus and give the start to BLU's team adventure to the rebel world (which is not ended yet). This time you get the Halloween chapter in Halloween.
Review anwsers:
MafiStory: OMG, you mentioned me! (I'm freaking out right now! XD) Thank you so much, I'm realy happy that I help you for the inspiration in this chapter!
It's no problem. Actually I encourage this this type of activity in this story. Y'know, I am still a human being (or am I?) and my inspiration can run out for some time. Don't be afraid of posting your ideas. I will be mentioning those who gave the idea for the chapter at the beggining. Anyway, thanks for the idea and I encourage you to further activity :D.
Fanfictionfan03: A nice lighthearted way to start the story off.
Thanks and I just wanna say that it's nice that you follow both of my stories (I realized that like 4 days ago XD). I just thought that the beggining of season 3 in the series was a bit sad and gloomy. I wanted to make it a bit happier and funnier. Also I used this chapter to explain the new looks of the young rebels in the series. I had a LOT of fun writing that chapter. I am really happy that you took a moment to write this 'cause every review inspires me in some way and makes me wanna write more.
Well after this introduction, we can proceed to the chapter itself.
Enjoy the spooky Halloween!
Atollon, Chopper base, Soldier's POV (yeah I didn't do that one yet)
I woke up early and went outside to do morning exercises. These rebel maggots don't know that a REAL soldier must stay in shape for any situation. I set up a training schedule of our training (by our I mean RED team) and every morning I was exercising them like an AMERICAN should do it. I went to the meeting spot and Scout was already there warming up.
'Heh, Private Twinkletoes is getting more and more disciplined.' I thought proudly.
"Yo what's up, patriot?" he asked.
"DID I SAY YOU CAN SPEAK, MAGGOT?" I needed to be strict to keep my team effective.
"Uh no, but you didn't say I can't either." the boy smirked.
"Fine, I'll leave it without comments for now. BUT the next time you WILL be punished!" I yelled. After a while, everyone was present except one. "WHERE IS THAT MAGGOT SPY!?"
"Spook said that he wants some rest after the yesterday fight." Sniper said.
"Bushman, I request one of your fresh Jarates NOW!" I had my patience limited and Frenchie passed it.
"Alright, can you say hi from me?" he asked.
"Affirmative." I walked to the barracks and stopped in front of the Spy's room door. "Let's show him why AMERICA needed to save French asses in Normandy!" then I kicked the door making them open. "FRENCHIE! YOU ARE LATE FOR A MORNING TRAINING, MAGGOT! GET UP OR MY FOOT WILL DO THAT FOR YOU!"
"Leave me alone, american fool." Spy moaned.
"Well then, meet your old yellow friend!" I pulled out Jarate and smashed the jar on the Spy's head. "NOW GET UP!" I kicked him out of the bed.
"You imbecile!" frenchie growled.
"Oh dat is gonna be perfect!" Scout's voice was heard from behind. I turned around and saw him with a camera. "Well, see ya! I'm gonna show Solly's discipline to entire base!" and ran away.
"NOOOOOOO!" Spy shouted.
"MOVE YOUR ASS MAGGOT!" I kicked him out of the room. "BESIDES, YOU DESERVED IT!" After a while we were on the meeting spot. There was only Scout missing now.
"And now the Scout went somewhere." Spy moaned. "Maybe you'll go kick him now." I thought about it, but then the boy's voice echoed from the right.
"Yo, pals! what was da date when we fought Merasmus?" he asked. I counted in my head and an american glory enlightened me.
"The same as today." I anwsered.
"Well, dat explains the package from da wizard." Scout said.
"Did the Stinky Wizard sent us a gift?" Heavy asked.
"It appears so. Come on!" the boy waved his hand.
(Sudden magical POV switch) No-one's POV
Mercs went to the crate that Scout found. It was written on it: 'From Mighty Merasmus the Wizard, the Strongest Magician existing, the One and Only' and other things saying how awesome Merasmus is, 'For the missing RED Team.'
"Wow, I never known how big dat wizard's ego is." Scout chuckled.
"It was comparable to your's when we were back there, mate." Sniper said.
"Shove it up your ass!" the runner anwsered. "Aww, come on! There are only Ghastly Gibuses here!" There were indeed these hats only in the crate.
"This headwear is not even worthy to lie on Scottish head!" Soldier commented.
"Oi!" Demoman yelled. "Ah'm gonna shove this bottle right up yer arse, Private Haircut!"
"This sucks on ice!" Scout said holding the hat and a knife. "I'm gonna make dat hat useful and change it into cloth." then he stabbed the headwear. There was an earpiercing scream and after a while, Scout was holding a Haunted Hat. "Da hell?"
"Hey, there you are! Here's a gift!" the phantom headwear said and two magic scrolls appeared out of nowhere hitting the boy in the face. The rest looked at their hats and started to beat them as well. After a while everyone had their own phantom hat.
"Alright, but what do we do with these scrolls?" Engie asked.
"I'm gonna do it first!" Scout volunteered.
"NO, I WILL GO FIRST! I'M A TRUE AMERI-" but Soldier was interrupted with both of the scrolls exploding and launching the runner's scatterguns into the air. After a while, they fell down, but now they had a hell-themed paintings on it.
"OHMYGOD!" Scout started to scream. "DESE GUNS ARE SO PRETTY!"
"Yeah!" another voice said. The mercs turned around and saw Bombinomicon levitating.
"Magic book?" Sniper asked. "Why are you alone?"
"Ah well, Merasmus is busy with the other teams now and can't do everything at once. That's why he sent me." the book replied. "Although, he only knows few simple spells and he's mostly relying on me, so I imagine hell he's going through. Figuratively and literally."
"But what's with dese scrolls?" Scout asked.
"Ah ya see, compadres. Like on every Halloween, you got special rewards for COMPLETING a challenge. But Merasmus thought that you wouldn't belive his words so here is the deal: Y'all fight what I'm gonna send on ya and if you'll not die horribly, you can keep the weapons and hats."
"But only Twinkletoes has his guns painted so far." Demoman protested.
"That's why I'm gonna wait."
"What's going on here?" Hera suddenly came. She freaked out on the sight of the book. "What...? Is...? This...?"
"Oh señorita, let me introduce myself." bomb book did a greeting gesture. "I am Bombinomicon. A book that Merasmus is usually using. I came here as a messenger and administrator of the competition that the wizard told me to organize."
"Wha-what competition?" Twi-lek pilot was confused.
"It's PERFECT." Soldier whispered holding his rocket launcher which now had a shark teeth on it's barrel and some other details. "This is what God would use to shoot someone!"
"I gave them the weapon painting scrolls which also contain a kill count device." Bombinomicon continued. "If they survive what I've prepared for them, then they can keep them. Urgh I wish I could just give you those. You are like five Hells better than this stupid magician."
"IT HAS A KILL COUNT DEVICE?" Scout screamed.
"Yeah, it can even show a level of a gun. For example now it's on 'Newbie' level." the book explained.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Hera interrupted. "You want them to fight in your stupid game which has a chance to kill them?"
"Did I hear life threatening game?" Ezra's voice echoed from unknown direction. "Because if I did, I'm defianetely in."
"Excelent!" Bombinomicon made a spin in the air. "Now let's set up everything." Immediately, the rebel base was filled with many Halloween-ish decorations and real ghosts were flying all around it.
"Hold on a sec." Hera didn't let go. "You didn't say that we must use our base."
"Uh that's just for decoration, but I think I might be able to find something for you too." magic book said.
"Alright, so get ready for SPOOKY HALLOWEEN, pals!" Scout grabbed his scatterguns and ran ran to prepare himself.
(After a while) Ezra's POV
I was getting ready for this weird Halloween thing. Sabine and Zeb decided to join the fun. That flying book (which looked like it was eating a bomb) was pretty nice. What was strange was that Merasmus himself didn't come. His book explained that he is now doing Halloween with other teams.
'So he knew that there are others...' that thought wasn't leaving my head. Maybe the book knows something as well. We gathered in the spot that Bombinomicon set as a start point.
"Ok compadres!" it started. "Y'see that crater? That's where you gonna go and I'm gonna make it interesting. Got it?"
"Well it's not like a normal Halloween, mate." Sniper started.
"I know, I have limited supply. SO to make it MORE interesting, you're gonna fight THREE of each boss." the book seemed to grin now. Everyone took positions.
"Uh, what can we expect now?" I asked a bit uncertain. We fought only Merasmus last year.
"I dunno, three meters tall skeletons with big axes, giant eyes which shoot rockets, spooky skeleton army..." Scout started to count. "If da Wizard isn't here so I guess it's gonna be harder."
"That's not good I guess." Sabine added her opinion.
"Oh come on! Feel da adrenaline!" my friend said "We didn't have a real Halloween since we've got here. Merasmus doesn't count."
"Ok whatever you say." I ended the conversation.
"LADIES AND GENTELMEN!" Bombinomicon started, "I WELCOME YOU... TO THE FIRST HALLOWEEN EVENT IN THIS WORLD. IT WILL BEGIN IN 3! 2! 1!" and then we saw an army of skeletons. They were either really small, normal-sized or very big.
"IT'S TIME TO SHOW THESE BONEHEAD MAGGOTS WHERE THEY BELONG!" Soldier yelled. "TO THE GRAVE! CHAAAARGE!" and so we did. The explosive weapons were most effective since the skeletons were clustered. We were taking them out quickly and I was pushing them back with the Force when they got too close.
"It's time for... BOMB RAIN!" Bombinomicon shouted really excited. It flew to the air and dozens of bombs came out of it's mouth.
"Everyone, behind me!" Medic suddenly shouted. "Incoming!" surprisingly everyone obeyed the mad doctor's order. The bombs were getting close.
"I expect you to surprise me, Herr Doktor!" Soldier grumbled.
"Is this plan of yours gonna work?" Zeb had a worried look on his face.
"Hahaha!" Medic let out a maniac's laugh. "I have NO IDEA!"
"Huh, I have a deja-vu now." Sabine grinned. Bombs were now a few meters from us, but then a red shield came out of Medic's medi-gun and the explosives were hitting it not doing us any harm.
"I admit, you surprised me, Oktoberfest." Soldier adjusted his rocketlauncher and ran towards the remaining skeletons screaming "GOD BLESS AMERICAAAAAA!"
"Ok, you passed the first wave," Bombinomicon said. "but now it's time to welcome... THREE CLONES OF SILAS MANN AKA THE HORSELESS HEADLESS HORSEMANN!"
"I suggest ya to not use your lightsaber pal." Scout warned me. "This guy is frickin' fast even if he doesn't seem to be."
"Uh, my broke, don't you remember?" I said.
"I'm gonna stick dis sword right up yer arse, ye bloody freaks!" Demoman yelled and his eye started to glow. And there they came: three tall figures with some creepy yellow heads in a swarm of skeletons.
"Oh well, I guess it had got interesting." Zeb commented.
"Ya bet!" Scout grinned."LET'S GET 'EM!" Then he ran towards the swarm with his team right behind. The skeletons were easy to deal with. They weren't any stronger than the previous ones. But then time came for the three tough guys.
"Come here you sorry uncle of our ex-employer!" Soldier yelled again.
"Wait what?" I didn't get it, but I was pulled away from my thoughts when one of the giants charged at me. "WHOA!" I barely dodged his axe and he swung again, but was stopped by a sparking rocket hitting him in the face. "Thanks Solly." I focused on one of the giants which was already pinned down by Heavy and Medic.
"RUN COWARD!" the biggest mercenary screamed, but the Horsemann wasn't giving up.
"Medic what medi-gun do you have?" I asked
"Vell, I took Kritzkrieg for zis battle and I'm charged now!" doctor shouted back.
"Ok, I'm gonna lift that guy with the Force and you give everything you've got, alright?" my idea was good if the Horsemann wasn't immune to Force.
"Ok, on drei! Eins, zwei, drei!" Medic counted. I lifted the monster into the air, although he felt so heavy through the Force.
"Hurry doc, I can't hold him for much longer!"
"CRY SOME MOOOOREE!" Heavy yelled. I couldn't hold him like that. It felt like Force was burning my muscles.
"AAAAAMERICAAAAAA!" could be heard and Soldier appeared from above hitting Horsemann with his shovel. Monster started to shake.
"Oh, zis is not good." Medic said. "Run!" And then the corpse exploded.
"America wins again!" Soldier saluted.
"Tiny baby Soldier is stealing kills!" Heavy was irritated.
"Less talk, more fight!" patriot replied.
"Hey, guys. We still have two more." I pointed out.
"Uh little help!?" I heard Scout and saw him running away between the rocks and another Horsemann was chasing him. He swung his axe, but mercenary jumped on the blade and soon was on his back emptying his new scatterguns' clips. The monster roared but was stopped by a shot to the face.
"Fine shot, mate!" Sniper said to Zeb who was now smiling. Suddenly I saw Spy escaping the last giant.
"I require assistance!" assassin shouted. Another idea came to my mind.
"Spy, jump left! NOW!" I yelled. "Scout brace yourself!"
"For what?" he asked, but I already used the Force to smash both giants to eachother. They were now lying on the ground half-concious.
"Dis one is mine." Heavy approached the closest victim and using his Fists of Steel started to punch it rapidly. After a while the yellow head of the monster didn't look like a head, more like a deformed rock.
"Oi! Let's see what will this bloody freak look like after blowing up!" Demoman shouted and started to shoot sticky bombs all over the half-concious Horsemann.
"Sabine, use your bombs too!" Scout joined us. "Hey Bridger could you throw this guy to the air and they will make fireworks?"
"I dunno." I said. "I feel tired. They are like a bit resistance on Force and I need to use more to do something. Although I can try."
"Let's teach that MAGGOT how to fly, ladies and gentelmen!" Soldier raised his rocket launcher.
"Ok, planting the bombs." Sabine started to put bombs on the different parts of the Horsemann who was slowly getting up. "Ok, done. It's regaining balance. Hurry up, Ezra."
"Alright. On three!" I smirked and counted. "One, two, three!" Then I threw the poor monster into the air. It's body was flying for a while and then exploded into a big mix of paint and fire.
"And that is how ye do it, lads!" Demoman cheered and now was drinking his Scrumpy.
"SUCH A SPECTACULAR ENDING!" Bombinomicon interrupted the cheers. "THIS IS BETTER THAN ANY HALLOWEEN I'VE BEEN ON! BUT NOW IT'S TIME FOR... THREE CLONES OF DEMOMAN'S LOST EYE, KNOWN AS WELL AS MONOCULOUS!" And then they appeared: three giant flying eyes on the horizon, but this time with no skeleton army.
"OI!" scottish merc yelled. "MONOCULOUS! Come back here where you belong!" one of the eyes looked at him and shot a rocket. It blew him up immediately.
"Dummkopf!" Medic groaned and revived the bomb maker.
"D
"That wasn't suppose ta' happen!" Demoman said shaking his head.
"Well crap." Sabine commented. "We're fighting three giant eyes that shoot rockets."
"Welcome to our world, sheila." Sniper grinned and aimed his rifle.
(Sudden miraculous POV change) No-one's POV
This time, the fight was a LOT harder. The giant eyes were fast and swift. Medic was busy all the time resurrecting the fallen mercs or healing them. Mercs and rebels divided themselves on three teams for each Monoculous. First team was: Medic, Heavy, Pyro and Ezra. Second team was: Soldier, Scout, Sniper and Sabine. Third team was: Engineer, Demoman, Spy and Zeb. Each team needed someone who was able to deal a lot damage.
The fight was bloody. Medic, switched to his normal medi-gun during the break between the bosses and now it was paying back, since living teammates were now priceless. Bombinomicon even included the portals to Hell that gave increased speed and damage for those who came back. The Monoculous attacked by third team went to hiding somewhere so they helped the others. First Eye was killed by Scout who jumped on it, and using his cleavers and Scatterguns, made it hit the wall killing it. The second Monoculous was smarted and stayed higher bombarding everyone from above, but couldn't withstand the fully-charged shot from Zeb's sniper rifle, that killed the creature in mid air.
"Alright, two down, but where is the last one?" Sabine asked.
"I don't know." Ezra said, but suddenly felt a rocket through the Force that heading towards mandalorian girl. "WATCH OUT!" he shouted and pushed her out of the range of explosion. The rocket knocked back everyone, Ezra recieved some shards from explosion and now was bleeding on the ground.
"Ezra!" Sabine cried out and pulled him behind cover.
"OI!" Demoman yelled. "Yer not killin' me friends! I'm gonna kill ye instead!" Monoculous launched a volley of rockets, but the Scottis merc, used his shield that broke, but sent him into the air unharmed. He pulled out his sword and stabbed the eye in the dead center of the eyeball. There was an earpiercing shriek and the last Monoculous was dead. "GUTS AND GLORY, LADS!"
"Medic! Help!" Sabine shouted. She was still with Ezra behind cover. The padawan was bleeding out very fast.
"Jawohl!" doctor ran towards them and activated his medi-gun on Ezra. The boy's wounds started to disappear in the matter of seconds and after a while, Ezra was good as new.
"Thanks Medic!" he said.
"Anozher succesful procedure!" mad doctor shouted.
"Hey guys! You did it!" Bombinomicon appeared above them. Then he looked at Ezra and seemed to frown. "Hey compadre. The last time we met, you had a laser sword, eh?"
"Uh yeah, but it was destroyed last year. The crystal is the only thing that survived." padawan explained.
"Heh, I think that I might help you here." the book seemed to smile and after a second, the crystal appeared and started to float in the air. Then some parts of lightsaber started to connect to it, creating a grip for the weapon. It wasn't even fifteen seconds and Ezra had a brand new lightsaber in his hand.
"Whoa!" the boy gasped. "You... made me a new one?"
"Heh, you're all treating me better than that stupid wizard, but I can't break out." Bombinomicon said.
"Oh, ya mentioned dat Merasmus is doin' Halloween for other teams." Scout joined the conversation. "So he knew dat there are other teams."
"Yeah so what?" the book asked. "Miss Pauling also knew for some time, but something happened." Then every member of the RED team froze.
"She knew... and didn't tell us?" Sniper was first to recover. "Then who are we? Who are others? Are we just clones?"
"I don't know much about it, my friend. Merasmus usually keeps me inside the desk or in his stinky dress." Bombinomicon replied. "Although I assume that they did some strange things to make more teams. It wasn't normal cloning for sure."
"Heavy wants to know what's going on." the biggest member of RED team glared at the book.
"The only thing that I know for sure is that the BLU team that you know and Miss Pauling are still alive. There is also some strange thing going on this Halloween and it applies to your ex employer and his brother." it anwsered. " Something big is comin'. I'm sorry that I can't help you more. You can keep the weapon paintings and Halloween decorations of the base. See ya!" and then it vanished.
"This all feels wrong." Scout said.
"Yeah." Soldier agreed.
"But they said that BLU team and Miss Pauling are alive and something is wrong with two bosses of the companies." Sabine pointed out.
"I never liked our employer." Sniper said.
"Well, there must be a reason why they are still alive and this has something to do with what's going on with Redmond and Blutarch." Scout concluded.
"Even if we find out what's wrong, we can't go there. Merasmus went back to your world." mandalorian girld said.
"I suggest that we should just stop thinking about it and go back." Engie cut the chat. The group went back to the base which was now full of floating skulls and ghosts.
"Can you explain what's going on here?" Commander Sato asked.
"Uh, Bombinomicon thought that if he's gonna make us Halloween, then the atmosphere must be good." Scout explained. "No need ta worry, commander. It will disappear tomorrow."
"Alright then. Did you get anything worth mentioning?" Sato asked.
"Magic book made a NEW weapon for tiny baby jedi." Heavy said. "NEW weapon is always good."
"Well then, it's good to see you operational again, lieutenant Bridger." Commander smiled.
"Wait! Lieutenant?" Ezra was dumbfounded.
"With Hera Syndulla, we decided that you proved yourself as a very good leader and giving you a rank would increase your effectiveness." Sato explained.
"OHOHO!" Demoman laughed. "Ye got yerself a promotion, eh boyo?"
"Nice job dere, Bridger." Scout agreed. Everyone started to congratulate him and after a minute of compliments and hugs (mostly from Pyro), everyone went back to their rooms.
'This was quite a Halloween' the common thought filled the heads of RED team and rebels before falling asleep.
A/N: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I am really proud of this chapter. This is the second one where I explain certain things that are in the series like: Ezra's new lightsaber and his rank (that he will loose soon :D). I also encourage to giving your own ideas like MafiStory did. It help you, me and generally makes story better. Anyway, write what do you think about this in the reviews. Carry on!
Bonker out!
PS: I finally decided to move my ass and made myself a profile pic. Let me know what do you think. :D