Chapter Four!

~RED BASE~

"Bored…" sighed the RED Sniper, staring blankly out the window whilst leaning on his rifle. The Engineer sat elsewhere in the room, strumming a few careless notes on his guitar.

"Go call your parents or somethin'," he mumbled wearily. The Sniper abruptly stood straight and stared more intently out the window,

"Hold the phone…" he said in a whisper, adjusting his shades. The Engineer laughed without humour;

"Clever," he smirked, setting down the guitar and leaning back. The Sniper retrieved his gun;

"Nah, really, mate," he gestured to the window, "I think someone's there." The Engineer stood and pulled out his wrench, suddenly alert. "Yeah, look," the Sniper called quietly, "BLU Pyro and Medic. Weird, thought I saw three of 'em."

"Doesn't matter; seems like they don't think anyone's home," the Engineer walked to the hall/main entrance where he'd moved his sentry and armed it, "so I'm gonna set this thing on them 'fore they see us." With that he hit the switch beside him, lifting the metal cover over the entrance. Instantly the sentry fired, and outside the BLU Medic screamed in pain, followed shortly by one of the Pyro. The RED Sniper, watching, confirmed both were dead.

Focused on other things as those two REDs were, they didn't notice a small shimmer in front of their base as a BLU Spy uncloaked. Much like the earlier antics of the RED Spy, this one chucked a sapper at the sentry, disarming it. This the Engineer did notice, and as he hurried to check on it the Spy leaped out, slashing with his knife. Fortunately (because we love Engy) the attack fell slightly short and so didn't kill him, giving the Sniper time to come to his teammates aid and stab the Spy with his kukri.

"Y'alright, Engy?" he asked, shoving the killed Spy from his blade. While the man's wound wasn't fatal, it probably hurt like Hell.

"Hurts like Hell," the Engineer groaned, "but I'm fine. Thanks." The Sniper shrugged indifferently. "Got a practical problem though- I don't have enough material here to make another gun…" The Engineer sighed. The Sniper sheathed his kukri;

"Well, I got some old metal an' stuff up in the nest," he stated, referring to his camping spot. Shutting the main door, they headed up there to take a look. The Engineer took note of several jars lying around containing yellow liquid.

"Uh… what's that?"

"That, is jarate."


Now would probably be an ideal time to mention I don't own TF2, because that's Valve's job :p

Anyway thanks for the reviews and for reading!