Saxton Hale began advancing upon Medic and Stalwart, who backed against the office wall. Stalwart could feel Medic's fear beside him, but Stalwart had an idea.

"Mr Hale, do you know what the weapon's development project was creating?" asked Stalwart.

Hale stopped advancing.

"What are you doing? Kill them!" hissed the Administrator.

"Helen, shut up. I'm interested in what these hippies have to say." said Saxton in a voice that shattered the glass in the unbroken office windows.

"They were developing a new telepathic weapon..." started Stalwart.

"WHAT! I ordered Mann Co. not to develop any sort of mind weapon, including a telepathic one. I am going to pummel that man to death with my bare damn hands when I get to him."

"The scientist is dead; I killed him after he threatened both me and Medic."

"Then I'm going to pummel his dead body with my bare damn hands when I get back to Mann Co."

Saxton turned around to face the Administrator.

"And you, you chain-smoking seductress, you kept this from me!" shouted Saxton.

"To protect you." said the Administrator, feebly.

"My chest hair is indestructible, and you think I need protecting?"

"No..."

"You betrayed me—you said that you wouldn't hide things from me."

Saxton started to advance upon the Administrator, and grabbed her throat.

"Saxton, please don't do this." whispered the Administrator, hoarsely.

"You know I have to." replied Saxton.

With that, Saxton broke the Administrator's neck, and chucked the body out of one of the windows with style. Saxton then called Miss Pauling from outside. She had heard everything.

"Helen is dead, and I need a new Administrator, so you're her replacement. Return these men, note that I do not call them hippies as I do most mercenaries, to their posts, and cancel Helen's request for a new Medic and Stalwart." said Saxton.

"Danke." said Medic.

"Yeah, thanks Mr Hale." said Stalwart.

"I repay favours." replied Saxton.

With that, Saxton Hale went back to Mann Co., and, true to his word, pummelled the body of the dead scientist with his bare damn hands.


A few months later, Medic and Stalwart had been re-integrated back into RED comfortably, but Soldier kept forgetting that they were on his side when Mann Co. caused him to share his dreams with other team members.

One morning, the RED team were getting breakfast, and Medic sat down next to Soldier because there wasn't anywhere else at the table for him to sit.

"Keep away from me, traitor!" shouted Soldier.

"Yo, Soldier, we mustah told you that Medic an' Stalwart ain't traitahs about half a dozen times. The ol' Administrator was lyin' about that." said Scout.

Soldier told Scout to shut up, and that "Slendy" had also told him that Medic and Stalwart were traitors.

"Slendy?" asked Heavy.

"Slender Man, Him, The Operator, Der Ritter, Der Großmann, Bundle, The Tall Man, The Thin Man, Der Schlanker Mann, Fear Dubh, Schlankwald, Tree Man, Slendy, Slenderman, Slender, The Pale One, The White King, Master." replied Soldier.

This got a gasp from Demoman, Spy, Medic, Sniper and Stalwart, and a muffled shout of "HIM!" from Pyro, who then thumped the table. Heavy, Engineer, and Scout asked their team-mates who the Slender Man was, as they were not familiar with the name.

Spy explained that Slender Man was a tall mythical creature who took children and murdered adults, had no face and wore a business suit. Scout asked Spy if he was Slender Man, but Spy called Scout a fool, and said that Slender Man had no facial features at all – no nose, eyes, mouth, ears or hair.

"Ah, I think I may have heard him mentioned once or twice when I was back in Texas. Some fellow Texans said that they had seen him stalking them. Never did believe much of it." said Engineer.

"I also have heard of Der Schlanker Mann. There is a report that a Frau woke up one night, and saw him at the other end of her bed. She could not move or even scream as he reached out his arms and put them around the back of her head. The Frau had headaches, was sick, and could not sleep after the incident. Sometime later, she had an x-ray of her head, and they found a piece of metal lodged in the nerve cluster. Surgery vas attempted, but it could not be removed." stated Medic.

"Still, Soldier 'ere is crazy enough to believe in something like The Pale One, so it's probably just his imagination. Can't explain that Sheila having metal in the nerve cluster in her head." said Sniper.

At that moment in time, Miss Pauling said over the loud speakers that there would be no fights any more, due to a fault with Blutarch's Life Extender, and had died in his sleep. The RED team were quiet for a moment, then cheered loudly enough to be heard by the BLU team in their base.


RED had the entire day to plan what they were going to do next. Demoman planned to stay in Teufort, so Medic, Stalwart and Heavy, who had planned to stick together and go to Stuart Island, New Zealand, stayed in Teufort until April 1st. The rest of the team packed up their belongings, and left. Sniper gave Stalwart the address of his parents house, so the two men could meet up sometime, being that Sniper got on well with Stalwart in the last few months.

On April 1st, Medic and Stalwart put into action an April's Fool to play on Demoman, devised by Stalwart and based on The Titfield Thunderbolt. Medic and Stalwart entered the pub that Demoman was in, and found Demoman at the bar. Stalwart started talking.

"Hey Demo. We thought you'd be here. Medic and I want to buy the railway between here and Pinehill, but we don't have enough money."

"So?" asked Demoman.

"What do you do before this place opens?"

"I wait for the day to start."

"What if the day started at quarter to nine in the morning?"

Demoman smiled.

"If you give us your backing, we'll run bars on the Teufort-Pinehill line throughout the day." said Stalwart.

"Ja, but there vill not be a bar on Sundays." added Medic.

"You wouldn't joke a black Scottish Cyclops, Stalwart? And you wouldn't be doing something unholy, Medic?" asked Demoman.

"It vould be legal." answered Medic.

"You can write your own timetable." said Stalwart.

"You can write a your own check." replied Demoman.

"April's Fool."

"What's that?"

"A joke that's played on April 1st."

"Bloo..."

Medic and Stalwart fled the wrath of the enraged Demoman. They fled all the way to New Zealand with Heavy joining up with them on the ship there. When they arrived, they enjoyed the weather and the beaches, until Stalwart met a girl who looked vaguely familiar.

"What's you're name?" asked Stalwart.

"Don't you remember me? I'm Myrtle Hayward, Hayden, your girlfriend." replied the girl.

"Your real name is Hayden?" Medic asked Stalwart.

Stalwart didn't answer the question for quite a while, before confirming what Myrtle said.

"Vhat?" inquired Medic.

"I didn't know, okay. I forgot when I fell unconscious after sustaining serious injuries." answered Stalwart.

Heavy put his hand on Medic's shoulder.

"Doktor should not be always scientist, questioning everything. Stalwart will reveal when he feels ready."

Heavy and Medic were watched by Stalwart and Myrtle going onto the beach. Stalwart went to a nearby pub to buy Myrtle a drink, telling a summary of his time after forgetting who he was. When they exited the pub, they heard a very distinctive phrase for Heavy.

"Charge now, Doktor!"


A/N Sorry that the early part is mostly dialogue and little action, but Stalwart and Medic wouldn't want to get killed by Hale, so would try to be diplomatic in escaping it. Please review, all of those that haven't — I can tell because I get a mountain range when a new chapter gets uploaded, and this is probably the final chapter. On a final note, what happened to the woman who had the metal in her head is, possibly, real, as it is on the internet. Hope you enjoyed!