As the aircraft started to land Tucker got out of his seat still sulking that he couldn't sweat talk the pilot. But it didn't really bother him; he knew that she was into him. But for some reason Tucker had a pit in his stomach and he couldn't really place it. Tucker started to walk to the exiting platform as Wash was thanking one of the USNC solders for bringing them back before walking down and out of the craft. Then it hit Tucker, This wasn't Blood gulch it was a brand new location which made him a little exited. This could be awesome, he herd water so maybe it was next to a relaxing beach. Maybe he could get some bikini time with sister. Then that thought made a question pop up in Tuckers mind. "Hey you guys?" Tucker yelled at Wash, Simmons, and Caboose all of which turned slightly to look at him.
"What is it Tucker?" Wash asked in a sum what serious tone. Tucker ran up so they were just at the end of the walk way but not off it yet.
"Where is sister?" Tucker asked quickly as Simmons' face went pail.
"Who?" Wash asked in now a confused Tone. Simmons started to look for his team but they were already off the craft.
"Come on Church don't you remember Sister," Caboose turned to Wash. "Remember she was in all yellow, and she talked really weirdly and she was yellow." Caboose continued to describe Sister only so much so that all Wash could get out of it was: She was always wearing yellow, had a questionable back story, was from the moon, and was Churches twin brother. Meanwhile Simmons tried to make it back to his base while everyone was distracted with Caboose.
"Simmons!" Tucker yelled stopping him. "Do you know what happened to Sister?" Simmons started to visibly panic.
"Well um, actually I don't," Simmons started to splutter as he looked for an excuse to get away.
"I know what happened to her." Sarge exclaimed as he started to run out of the red base.
"Wait, was sister the girl still living at your bases when you left blood gulch?" Wash asked the solders.
"Ya, wait why? Did you see her?" Tucker now had his full attention on Wash only increasing Sarge's dislike for the freelancer for taking the point of the conversation off of him and to himself.
"She was throwing parties every night and destroying her body by not exercising."
"Classic sister." Tucker stated, but that didn't answer his question. "So if she is still at Blood Gulch then why don't we just get her transferred to..." Tucker stopped he didn't know what this place was called. "Um..."
"Valhalla, the name you're looking for is Valhalla." Simmons pointed out.
"What! I thought we were in the Grand Canyon! This Sucks!" Caboose yelled out in disbelieve.
"You know I could actually see how you could think that Caboose." Tucker said. "But then what did you think the last place we were at was called?"
"What, Ice cream land?" Caboose asked.
"No before that."
"Oh, mean lady warehouse."
"NO! When you 1st saw me what was the name of that place." Tucker was trying to hold back his anger.
"Um Guys?" Simmons tried to get the blues attention.
"What is it Simmons?" Wash asked just trying to get them off the landing ramp was hard. But Wash had seen them argue on much more stupid things then the name of a location, and if he was going to live with them. Wash didn't to complete the thought. But as the other 2 turned to Simmons they saw him pointing back to Sarge who was grumbling and started hitting things with his Shotgun. "Sarge," Wash said very slowly. "Is there something you would like to say?"
After a moment to look back at the Blues and Simmons who had at one point been a blue at one point as well. "The reason why Grif's sister isn't here is because I killed her!" Sarge yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Still don't believe you!" Grif's voice could be heard from deeper inside Red Base. Sarge turned in annoyance to his base.
"I wasn't talking to you Numnut!" Sarge turned back to the others. "So Ya, I killed the love of my life. What are you going to do about it?" Sarge said in a way you would if you were talking to a baby.
"Well for starters brag at the fact that it took 5 of your guy to take out one girl. 2nd probably try to kill you and your team." Tucker said in a matter of fact way. Everyone looked at Tucker with surprise.
"Wait really?" Sarge asked in slight confusion to which Tucker just nodded. "Well then, I guess I'll kill you to Blue and it's good to be enemies again." Sarge turned and started to walk back into Red base when he saw Grif. "There you are Grif."
"Uh Oh." Grif said turning to his 'leader'. "Um what can I do for you Sarge?" Something was wrong, but Sarge had to prepare for the Blues and he couldn't deal with Grif's stupidity at the moment.
"Grif I need you to do a few things," Then Sarge paused for a second to think about what he just said. "Or tell Simmons to do a few things."
"That I can do."
"I Want 'You' to go get Doc to come back to Red base so we can take the medical information on the Blues from him, and get Donut's body back here so he can give him a proper burial." Grif pondered these orders for a few seconds. "Today." Sarge stressed the word.
"Ok ok I'm going." Grif left the Base to see the large aircraft take off and see Simmons, Tucker, Wash, Doc and Caboose talking on the shore.
"So are you really just going to kill us all?" Simmons asked.
"Nah I was just saying what Sarge needed to hear. Wash on the other hand will probably misunderstand how things work here and kill you guys in the 1st day." Tucker said a little jokingly looking at Wash and Simmons. Simmons still remembered how quickly he killed Donut and used him as bait for Doc.
"Well at least I don't need to share a Building complex with him." Simmons commented.
"Ya! Sleep over at my place! I'll order pizza! The employe pizza special!" Caboose yelled too excitedly to which Wash only sighed. What could make Caboose so stupid, Wash could only wonder.
"Hey." Grif walked up to the group.
"Hello Gruf." Caboose said the rest just gave a slight grunt of acknowledgement. A lazy response Grif liked it. "So Simmons," Turning his words Simmons. "Sarge told me, to tell you, to tell Doc, to go to our base." There was a long pause as everyone tried to understand what Grif meant.
"Um, Doc go to our base?" Simmons told Doc in nothing close to a dominate voice.
"Why?" Doc asked. "Is Sarge sick or something?"
"No he wants the Blues medical records or something." Grif said plainly.
"But Docs not their actual doctor he is just supposed to keep you alive if you're wounded in battle." Simmons said in a winey tone.
"Hey do you think I would walk all the way back to Sarge, stop to tell him exactly what you just said, and it would change his mind at all?"
"I guess you have a good point." Simmons sighed a little. "Doc go to Red Base. Simmons now said in a mostly low voice.
"Well I guess I'll see you guys around." Doc said as he walked to the Red Base.
"I think we should get to the Blue base as well." Wash said starting to walk past the base but instantly remember something as he started to walk.
"Well good to have you guy as enemies again." Caboose said before following Wash but was soon stopped by him.
"Caboose would you like to play another game with me?" Wash asked as he looked back at the Red.
"Would I! Church you never let me play this many games before nap time! What is it? Is it a surprise?" Caboose gasped. "A surprise game!"
"Just," Wash inhaled calming himself. "Follow me." Wash started to quickly move threw to rocky terrain.
"OK." Caboose started to follow.
Meanwhile Tucker was still talking to Grif about sister's death. "So she survived that long underwater?"
"Yep, and when she came out from it she was-"
"Ya shut up Grif it doesn't make any more sense now than it did when you 1st told us." Simmons said in slight disdain. "Anyway I suggest you start preparing for Sarge because I think he took Donut's death as an act of war."
"Ya I was actually wondering if Sarge would give up on the Red army after finding out it was all a simple scenario for the freelancers." Grif said trying to imagine Sarge as something other than a crazy guy with a shotgun.
"Well I should try and follow my new leader and his sidekick to the new Blue base." Tucker started to walk off when a thought hit Simmons.
"Um I think I should come with you." Simmons said quickly.
Both Tucker and Grif looked at each other for a second. "Why?" Both asked.
"I may have left some explosives near Blue base when I was trying to blow it up." Simmons stated a little too calmly.
"Wait," Grif was starting to chuckle a little. "So you disobeyed an order from Sarge?"
"I was going through a rebellious phase!" Simmons said a little too loud for him.
"Well that works out for me because I don't know where the Blue base is." Tucker said.
"Dude it's literally the only other base in the canyon. I can even see it from here." Grif said looking at the huge tower. When he looked back down Simmons and Tucker were already running to it. "Well now you can call me gullible." Grif started to walk back to the Base when he remembered. "Oh ya, get Donut." Simmons told Grif about where Donut was shot. "It was about 30 paces north east of the Base". Grif walked around the base and started to walk until he saw drag marks. That made sense Simmons told him that The Meta had moved Donut's body so it would be easier for an ambush. As Grif continued to follow the trail and found him next to some equipment maybe The Meta's.
It was strange to look at him like this, the 1st time Grif saw Donut all life crumbled like that he could see the shot wound right through the stomach. Just looking at him like that made Grif's heart hurt a little. He tried to hide this pain and hatred of this 'war'. He hated Wash for killing Donut, He hated Lopez for killing his sister, He hated that pain in his crotch from Tex punching him and he hated the fact that everything he had ever said about red team being a load of crap was true. Grif just sighed, "Oh well, let's get you back to base one last- OWWWW!" Grif felt an intense pain in his shoulder.
"Yay!" Grif heard as he fell to one knee and turned. "Church what did I win?" Caboose yelled as Wash stood up from his hiding place behind a large rock.
"Grif! Um, what are you doing here?" Wash tried to act calm but was clearly surprised to see Grif.
"WHAT THE FUCK WASH!" Grif yelled out in pain holding his now bleeding shoulder. "WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD YOU SHOOT ME?"
"Well Caboose was the one who shot you, and we are at war so all is fair right?"
"YOU ARE FUCKING INSANE! YOU DON'T SHOOT SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO PICK UP THE BODY OF A FALLEN SOLDER!" Grif started to stand most of the pain was now gone but the wound was still bleeding.
"Now I can think we can all agree that Church is totally the not insane guy here, and I'm not saying that because he gave me his sniping riffle." Caboose said. "I'm saying it so I can play more games today!"
"Caboose shut up and go back to base." Wash ordered Caboose.
"But Church I didn't set off the fireworks yet." Caboose said in a low voice.
"Wait fireworks?" Grif started to try and play over were the shot would have gone if he wasn't here. As Grif looked over the spot where it would have hit he saw literally all of the explosives that Simmons was talking about earlier a few feet away from Donut. Then it hit Grif what was going on. "YOU WERE GOING TO BLOW UP DONUT'S DEAD BODY!"
"Church calls it 'tying up lose crumbs'." Caboose said not helping Wash out at all.
"YOU KNOW WHAT! NOW I DON'T CARE IF I DIE TRYING TO KILL YOU ASSHOLES! YOU'RE ALL SO DEAD!" Grif was about to storm away but remembered. "AND I'M TAKING DONUT WITH ME!" Grif grabbed a part of Donut's Armor with his good arm and started to drag him back to Red base. "OH, AND YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR GIVING CABOOSE A LOADED WEAPON!"
"Don't worry Church," Caboose said turning to Wash with the Sniper Riffle still up to Caboose's face. Wash heard a faint click from the riffle, but nothing happened. Wash wasn't that stupid he only gave Caboose one bullet. "I'm sure you can get back on top with the Reds again."
"Was I ever on top before?" Wash asked mostly to keep himself from going into a drift.
"OH YA! Don't you remember when I used the Armor Lag thing."
"No I don't. And I'll never use it again Caboose. OK?" Wash said as he started to walk down seeing Tucker and Simmons running towards them.
"There you guy are." Tucker said as he ran up to the two with Simmons close behind. "So Wash by any chance did you hide some explosive stuff in the valley? See Simmons told me that he was trying to blow up-"
"The bombs are over there." Wash cut Tucker off and pointed to the explosives.
"All right then I'll take them back to base." Simmons started to walk over to them. When he reached them he carefully started to move them so he didn't set them off. Wash started to take aim at the explosives.
'One shot then Simmons would be dead then I can move on to Sarge and Grif. With Grif wounded his arm will be bad and easy prey, and Sarge would be the only one that could be a little of a challenge. But it would never get to that point.' Wash leveled his weapon but an energy sword blocked his path.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Wash." Tucker said in a tone that didn't seem to suit him. He was serious. There was a stand of between the 2 as Simmons continued to pack.
"I'm just tying up loose ends." The reds should have never have gotten away from him in the 1st place." Wash broke the silence still holding his weapon in a threatening manner.
"There's literally no point to killing the reds." Tucker was now fully blocking Wash's aim and Simmons was almost done packing everything up. "I may be new to this place, but let me tell you my ancient wisdom." Wash was about to shoot him. "You were right." That got Wash to stop.
"What?"
"Well of course church is right!" Caboose said a little to the right still pointing the sniper rifle at Simmons trying to get the explosives to go off. Both Tucker and Wash didn't have time for Caboose.
"What do you mean I was right?" Wash asked again.
"You said that the battles between our two armies was pointless." Tucker looked directly at Wash. "Me and Church have been saying that forever. All you did was come late to enjoy the joke." Wash sighed.
"Both of you are idiots." Wash said as he turned to blue base. "But your half right on the quote Tucker. True your 'war' isn't supposed to accomplish anything but test a freelancer." Wash started to walk to his new base. "And I intend to get an A." But 1st Wash needed a nap.
"WHAT!" Sarge yelled as he was clearly enraged "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I MEAN!" Doc started to panic.
"What were you expecting me to do? Make a list of all the Blue teams Medical weaknesses." Doc was in a little panic.
"THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED YOU TO DO!" Sarge's plan was starting to fail both Grif and Simmons could tell. Grif put Donut outside but told Simmons to leave the explosives as far away from him as Simmonsly possible. Now they came back inside to see Sarge yelling at Doc. "Do you at least have an allergy of sheet filled out for the Blues?" When Doc shacked his head Sarge just got angrier. "Then after the funeral you need to leave."
"What! But I just got here and one of your men needs medical attention! I am very valuable to this team!" Doc started to Beg.
"No, I Have made up my mind. Now," Sarge turned to his men. "Men I believe before we can continue our plans on killing the blues to avenge Donut we must 1st give Donut his proper burial." Sarge said with what sounded like a tear in his eye. "Grif go dig a hole to put Donut's body in."
"What why do you pick the lazy guy that has a bleeding arm?" Grif Complained.
"That's only a flesh wound. Work it off, by making a hole for Donut." Grif stood there for a few moments looking back at Sarge.
"Ok, give me a few Minutes." Grif said in a little bit of a mischievous way which Simmons caught on to instantly and Grif walked out of the base.
"Simmons where was Lopez's body I could use someone to talk to who actually understands me." Sarge said getting Simmons attention.
"Well the Meta sort of tour Lopez a part for hitting him with a Machine gun after Wash shot him."
"Darn that would have been great for the red teams moral." Sarge said still a little angrily.
"Why don't you just build a," Doc paused trying to think of the right word. "A Lopez 2.0?"
"I don't have the parts to fully build a new Lopez." Sarge said.
"What happened to your robot kit that we got with the base?" Doc asked in slight confusion.
"I upgraded Lopez with it. Now he has... or had a bunch of badass knowledge and strength of 2 robots."
"Well that seems like a bit of a bad move on-" Simmons was interrupted when we heard a loud boom from outside. "Oh No."
"What the heck was that?" Doc asked in a panic.
"THE BLUES HAVE STARTED THEIR ATTACK! QUICK EVERYONE GRAB A WEAPON AND KILL A BLUE ON THE WAY TO YOUR RESPECTED AFTER LIFE!" Sarge yelled and started running around the base.
"Hey guys!" Grif yelled from outside. "I got the hole ready." After a moment Sarge Realized what Grif had done and stormed out of the Base to hit him.
After a quick check to make sure there was no caves underneath the grave and putting some of the dirt back from the explosion Grif made using one of the nearby explosives. The reds and Doc barred Donut and held a few words to say at Donut's grave.
"Donut you should have always just learned to keep your mouth shut when someone was talking." Everyone grunted in unison. Grif stepped back as Simmons walked forward.
"Donut you were never able to take any job to seriously and you always took said your double entendre at the worst times." Everyone grunted in unison. Simmons stepped back as Sarge stepped forward.
"Donut I know what it feels like to be dead and buried but you are taking it like a man. And even if you were never the best solder in the army you were the best in pink armor." Sarge stepped back and he fired his shot gun five times in the air.
"Sarge I think you suppose to fire seven times." Simmons said.
"Simmons we can't go wasting ammo in a war." Sarge said as he turned to Doc. "Doc now you need to go. I can't let you know what the Red Army plans are for fighting a freelancer are. There so secret we would have to kill you just for knowing that they even exist."
"Ok I get it." Doc started to walk down to the beach.
"Hey!" Grif yelled.
"Oh Ya I guess go help Grif to." Sarge said going in to the base followed by Simmons. Doc walked over to Grif. Doc looked down at the wound and held out his medical device as it healed the orange solder.
"So do you guys actually have a plan on dealing with Wash?" Doc asked.
"More or less I guess." Grif said mostly to himself. After a little bit Grif got up and started to walk back to Red base. "But someone is going to pay." Grif said in a slightly threatening manner.
Doc started to walk down to the beach looking back at Valhalla. He started to make a call to pick him up when his medical device started flickering. "Huh?" Doc looked at the machine it said it was picking up a weak heartbeat. Doc started to fallow were the reading was coming from. When Doc ended back at Donut's grave Doc had a realization on what he was seeing. Cutting off his call he redialed a number he received a few months ago from an 'old friend'. He would need Juniors help for this.