Blaire went on her computer to research Teufort. The articles weren't promising, cursed land, gravel, rival companies in war, undead, robots, Jesus Christ this place was a wasteland of magic and death.
"Alright, let's see how many details I should tell Ion and what I can keep out." She got out her lined paper and her mechanical pencil and wrote down details. Using magic she hid her computer from any detection while she hacked into the details of the mercenaries the papers constantly mentioned.
"Scout, real name, Jeremy. Last name not given. Fastest of the team also is the youngest at 24. Grossing, bank account, here we go. Phone number copied and saved into my phone and headset. Oh nice he has a hackable headset as well." Blaire kept both details down. She continued on to the others.
"Mr. Mundy. Australian, New Zealand born. 36." She moved on after getting info.
"Jane Doe. American, Midwest region. Secretly joined a war. 47." The guy must have been blind with the helmet constantly covering his eyes.
"Mr. Ludwig. German, dove enthusiast, all his birds are stolen from the prime ministers wedding." She chuckled while writing things down.
"Tavish Finnigan Degroot. Scottish, living distillery, high level demoman." It took hours before she finished research. Half way through her dad talked to her about the potion and asked what she needed for it. Once Dante and Credo left to Hell for both the job and the ingredients Blaire put the hack code in for Scout's headset and put on her own so she could contact him.
"Yo."
"This working?" She asked through her headset.
"Who's this?"
"Not important to know. Is this the Scout of RED." She asked
"Yeah. Listen kid I have no idea how, but this is a private line. You shouldn't be on this."
"Well you also shouldn't be holding a shifter hostage so we have that going on." She snarked back.
"How da hell do you know about her!" He yelled.
"Easy. Your number contacted her boyfriend at 0937 this morning. Now into the afternoon we have tracked you down. Now, tell me your terms for getting her home and we'll see if we can handle this peacefully." She always wanted to be the scary one in a situation.
"Listen. She ain't a hostage and I'm trying to get her home. It's why I gave her my phone so she could call him." He got silent. Someone was nearby. She hacked the facilities camera system and saw him trying to hide that he was using his headset. Jane was passing by him and Madison. The one labeled only as Pyro was close behind them.
"You have a person on your tail." She informed him.
"How da- oh. I see now. Your using da damn cameras." He looked up.
"Look, she's fine. And yes Pyro is following me like a lost puppy. But everything is fine. See?" He told Madison about the camera and she took the headset.
"Calm down Blaire. These guys are chill. I'm surprised you don't recognize him." She stated then taking off his hat to reveal it really was the same Jeremy that dated her sister years ago.
"Oooh…" She always was a kid at heart. Madison gave back the headset.
"So, Blaire. Now dat I know it's you. What else are you seeing on dem cameras?"
"Just about everything. Camera 27-BL is down. Any idea what room that is?" She asked looking at the black area.
"That's the Intel Vault…. fuck!" He hung up the headset and ran with Pyro and Madison to the room with the vault. She traced them to a man in a suit with BLU colors. She used what she knew of the security system to set off the alarm and trap the Spy in. Pyro and Scout entered the room when the Spy cloaked. She turned on the headset.
"Their Spy is in the room. Used the invisibility cloak so I'm switching to infrared heat to see if I can find him. Tell Pyro to keep high guard and be ready to Spy check." She told him and he did as commanded. Pyro pulled out their flamethrower and got ready to do just that. Madison checked around for anyone else nearby and hid off to the side to change into a wolf. The BLU Spy cursed to himself seeing the Pyro and Scout of RED come around the corner.
"Alright kid. Where's the spook?" Scout asked into this headset.
"He's about 7 feet, northwest of the desk where the briefcase is kept." She responded keeping the camera on him. Madison checked around once again, now as a wolf. She stopped every once in a while to listen. It seemed that the BLU Spy was the only other enemy there, but that wasn't a guarantee.
"He's got his knife out at the moment so I'd have Pyro do a sweep left to right. You wait at the end of the line at the right." Blaire played the strategy out in her head. It was her first time actually putting a plan into order. Pyro started his sweep which caused the Spy to run off to the corner. Scout was about to pull the trigger when the Spy threw a sapper at Scout's head as a distraction. Madison ran towards Spy when she saw him. Her main goal was to knock him down at least. She leapt at him, aiming at his chest to knock him onto his back. Pyro gasped getting their axe out incase the Spy tried to attack her in mid air. She knocked him down on his back when he tried to stab her in the back.
"FUCK!" Blaire cursed looking at what she could do until she saw it. Activate Manual Defenses. Blaire activated it and aimed at Spy and shot whatever they were armed with. Madison was saved by a string of wire hitting Spy in the forehead. She got off and stood above the knocked out Scout while the Spy twitched and contorted. The Spy was fried when the wire retreated and Blaire reverted the defenses to normal. Pyro ran over to Scout to check his injury making a worried noise on the way over. Madison got out of their way and sat next to him. She kept her eyes open for either the others or any other signs of trouble.
"Madi. Can you hear me through the headset? Bark once if you can!" She barked a few seconds later. "Good, there's a first aid kit nearby go get that. The team is clearing out other areas even though the Spy was the only one who got in." Blaire stated. Madison quickly went to retrieve the first aid kit. She had remembered seeing it while she was walking around looking for others. She picked it up and made her way back. Pyro had decapitated the Spy while she was gone. Madison stared at the scene for a moment honestly not expecting it to happen with the few short minutes she was gone. Pyro asked for the med kit so they could get Scout awake, they seemed extremely worried. She set the med kit by them so they could pick it up. She went back to her spot sitting by Scout.
