Author's Note: Here you go guys. Sorry it took so long and sorry for any mistakes I had to self edit this and I'm extremely tired due to the fact that I've been working on summer assignments all month and haven't done much sleeping.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter!

"Time to get up, maggots! We've got some Blu's to kill!" Soldier's voice boomed throughout the hall. You could tell he hadn't gotten much sleep but, at the same time, he was as wide awake as ever. His heavy footsteps made loud "thumps" against the wooden floor as he marched down the hall banging on door after door.

I woke with a groan as Soldier pounded on my door.

"Pyro! Get up Soldier! The time for war is now!" Soldier ordered.

I groaned again, sitting up and rubbing my eyes. I looked at the clock, 4:25. I didn't exactly have to be up and ready for at least another good 35 minutes, yet I found that I was pulling myself out of bed and to the bathroom. I wanted to stay on Soldier's good side and in order to do that I needed to follow his orders.

"Pyro! Meet me in the living room ASAP!" Soldier yelled before I heard his footsteps walking away.

I sighed, no time for a shower this morning. I quickly undid the braid in my hair from yesterday, brushing it out before returning it to another tighter braid. I brushed my teeth and got dressed, putting on a black tank top and a pair of shorts before pulling on the thick suit and zipping it up.

After slipping on my boots and gloves I grabbed my mask, sighing. Of course the gas mask was required for me to wear no matter what, if my team knew about me or not, it was for my own health and safety. However, I hated not being able to communicate efficiently to my team.

I pulled my mask on, pushing away any feelings I might have about it and reached for my weapons. I attached my new ax and shotgun to my back, making sure I could reach them easily should I need to and picked up my flamethrower, looking it over. She looked good today; I had given her a good cleaning last night and refilled her tank up. She was ready to kill. I smiled a little at my flamethrower before finally making my way out of my room and towards the living room where Soldier ordered me to meet him.

"It's about time, maggot." Soldier spat. "I hope you're ready for revenge today, son."

I waved to Soldier as I walked in, placing my flamethrower to the side before approaching him. I nodded at the revenge comment. I would have it. Blu Spy made me look weak in front of my team and I wasn't about to let it happen again.

"Good. That's what I like to see!"

The next 15 minutes consisted of Soldier teaching me a few basic self defense techniques should I need them today. First being that should Blu Spy attack me from the front, I should immediately take my hand and use the bottom of my palm to smash into his nose, breaking it and possibly killing him on the spot. If it doesn't kill him I just use a foot to pull a leg out from under him and throw him to the ground while he's distracted with his nose.

The other being that if he grabs me from behind I should stomp on his foot, elbow his ribs, punch his nose with the back of my hand and lastly elbow him in the groin. Soldier said that it would work at least long enough for me to torch that "son of a bitch," as he put it. Soldier also said that if worse comes to worse, kick him in the kneecap which would easily bring him to the ground in pain. Not to mention he wouldn't be able to run after me in that state. So at that point all I would have to worry about is his revolver. That could be easily taken care of, however. Just blast the hand that's holding it off with my shotgun or chop it with my ax.

I smiled at the thought of using my new ax. I couldn't wait to use it. It was a beautiful weapon and just the thought of lighting up a blu with the touch of it excited me. I could barely keep still I was so excited.

"That should keep you safe today, maggot. Just remember those techniques when and if the time comes." Soldier said, turning away from me to leave the room. "But, you should probably stay close to one of us today as much as possible." He added before walking out of the room.

I watched him leave before turning to the clock hanging on the wall. 4:50am, I had 10 minutes to stuff food down my throat. I wasted no time in grabbing my flamethrower and heading towards the kitchen, where I was greeted by a lethargic Medic.

"Ah, guten morgen, herr Pyro." Words crawled from Medic's mouth as if they themselves had just woken up.

I'm going to be honest. Medic looked like crap. You could tell the man hadn't slept much if at all. I looked around the room and in the halls to see if anyone was coming before lifting my mask slightly to uncover my mouth.

"Medic, are you okay?" I asked, making sure that my concern could be heard. Medic smirked slightly.

"I'm fine, Fräulein."

"You don't look fine."

"Nein, I'm fine. Not much sleep iz all." Medic yawned, taking a final sip of his coffee. He put his cup in the sink before turning to me, offering a smile when he saw that I was chowing down on an apple.

"Ah. By ze vay. Here." He said matter-of-factly, reaching into one of his bags.

He pulled out a small headset and handed it to me.

"Put zat on. It vill help me hear you out in ze battlefield if you need me." He instructed, putting a small earpiece in his ear that was unnoticeable on the outside. "I vill be able to hear you, but I can't respond back."

"Okay, thanks Medic" I said, swallowing the rest of the apple before tossing the core in the trash. Medic stepped in front of the door, stretching while I put the headset on and pulled my mask back over my head.

"Can you hear me Medic?" I asked, hoping my mask wasn't interfering with the microphone.

"Loud und clear, Fräulein." Medic smiled.

I looked at the clock on the oven and realized we needed to be in the spawn in 2 minutes.

"We better get moving." I said. He nodded, picking up his Medi-gun. We made our way to the spawn.

*.-.-.-.-.-.-.*

Soldier gave a small yawn as he adjusted his grenades.

"The obstacle course is finished, Soldier." A tired voice yawned behind him. Soldier turned to see Engi messing with his PDA.

"Already? Good." Soldier grinned. Although he wouldn't be training anyone today it would seem. Practically everyone had to drag themselves out of bed today just to fight in the mission.

"Thanks Engi." Soldier added.

"No problem, partner." Engi said with another small yawn.

"Hang in there Engi. After today's fight you can sleep all you want."

"Looking forward ta it." Engi smiled.

After that Engi walked away to deal with what he needed too in the last few seconds. Soldier scanned the room to watch his teammates. Aside from Heavy, Spy, Scout, and Pyro, everyone looked exhausted. It was going to be a rough battle with half the team barely awake. He knew Engi had a long night, he was there with him the entire time almost. Medic seemed to be extra tired today. Demo was just experiencing a hangover, and Sniper just looked bored and half asleep.

Soldier sighed, glancing at Spy and Pyro. The two were talking about something. Hopefully a plan to save today's mission. Took looked over Pyro, it fascinated Soldier that the man had just been through that kind of experience on his first day and now wasn't showing any signs of fear. Then again, he couldn't really see the fire user's face either so he couldn't really look for many signs.

Pyro was a good mercenary though. He was trained well and knew what he was doing, so maybe he just isn't all that worried about getting hurt again because he knows what to expect now. Scared or not, however, he had a feeling that Pyro was going to put forth his all today, just like he had last time. Hell, Pyro may even save this game for them today.

Shaking the thoughts away for the time being he readied himself as the countdown began, making a mental note to watch Pyro's back during the mission, just in case.

*.-.-.-.-.-.-.*

"Ah, mon amie. Are you prepared for ze battle?" Spy greeted as he approached me. His voice almost seemed to have a hint of concern in it.

I nodded in response. Spy smirked at the nod.

"Oh and remember ze plan. Meet at their spawn right after we have ze second intelligence. I'll come for you if we decide to do it sooner in order to save ze mission." Spy explained.

I nodded to him again as the countdown began. He pulled out his knife, flipping it open and cloaked.

I glanced at Soldier as he turned away from me. I had noticed him watching me for a bit while Spy was talking. Why was he watching me? Does he think I'm going to mess up today? Wait… What if I do mess up? What if I get put face to face with Blu Spy? Will I be able to protect myself this time?

"3…, 2…, 1!" The Administrator's voice echoed in the spawn as the doors opened.

Scout was the first out of course, quickly followed by the rest of us. I shook the thoughts and worries from my head as I ran alongside Soldier, out to the bridge. 7 of us rushed out, leaving Sniper and Engi to protect the base.

"After you, Pyro!" Soldier called out.

I smirked under my mask, taking the lead. Their Heavy-Medic team was my first priority, so I headed for them first. With Soldier right behind me, I jumped between the two; he began work on the Heavy while I started torching their Medic. I'm not going to lie, his screams from being burned to death amused me and I laughed.

Once the Medic was pretty well barbequed I turned to the Heavy. Already, Soldier looked pretty beat up from fighting him. We had to get that Heavy down fast or it was over for Soldier. I switched my flamethrower out for my ax.

"Herr Heavy! Watch out!" The Red Medic warned right before falling to the ground, dead. Once again I giggled at the pleasant sound of their Medic's scream right before he died.

"Huh? MEDIC!" The Red Heavy yelled as he turned to see his own Medic lying on the ground, burned to a crisp.

He glared at me, yelling the mother of all battle cries and I heard the sound of his gun a starting up. I realized I'd be dead in a matter of seconds after that thing started spraying bullets, so I jumped up and brought my ax down on him. I was aiming for his head but the big guy moved just slightly and it ended up deep in his shoulder, splitting whatever bones and muscles he had there.

I giggled again, amused by the fire that engulfed the Heavy from my ax. His screams were louder than that of his Medic. I screamed out as I felt jolts of pain all around my lower body. His gun was still going and spraying bullets by the second, he was determined to kill one of us.

The oncoming pain didn't last long though. Not long after my ax sliced his shoulder and set him ablaze, the Heavy's body exploded into pieces. I looked up at Soldier and found the biggest smile on his face that I've seen since I'd been here and the smoke from his rocket launcher told me he was the one who had just taken out the Heavy.

"Medic!" I yelled out in pain.

Soldier jumped up, looking around. He growled and took a shot at the incoming Pyro, switching his beloved rocket launcher out for his shot gun. The Pyro managed to set him on fire before a shot to the face. I dropped my ax, grabbing my flamethrower and put him out with an air blast before the flames could affect him anymore.

"Thanks!" I heard Soldier say before I felt a sharp pain in my back and my world went black.

"Damnit!" I growled blinking at the bright lights of the respawn. I was the first on the team to die and it pissed me off.

"Damn Demos!" a gruff voice growled at my side. I looked over at Soldier whose face was red with anger. He turned to me and smirked.

"C'mon Pryo, let's go get revenge on that Scottish bastard!"

*.-.-.-.-.-.-.*

Soldier stayed pretty close to me for most of the battle, which actually worked out well considering that if I could set the enemy on fire and let them burn for a bit he could finish them off with a Rocket or two. I watched his back and I assume he was watching mine. No sign of Blu Spy as of yet, which bugged me as he should have turned up at least once already, especially since we had two cases now.

As Scout captured the second case Heavy and Medic ran by Soldier and I into the Blu base. I grabbed the enemy Scout by the shoulder and blood splattered on my suit and mask as I rammed my ax into the his head.

"Pyro! Is time!" Heavy called out as he passed by.

Soldier turned to me with a questioning look.

"Time for what, maggot?"

I chuckled, ripping my ax out of the Scout's head and letting him go. His limp dead body fell to the ground with a loud "thump." I pointed to Soldier and then to the ground, telling him to stay here and ran off.

I followed Heavy and Medic up to the Blu Spawn's main door where Spy was already waiting. He slammed his knife into the Blu Sniper's back and pulled it back out, letting the Sniper's body fall to the ground.

"Bonjour." Spy smiled.

The next few minutes were consisted of me setting everybody that came out of the spawn on fire while Spy, Medic, and Heavy finished them off. The floor was quite literally a pool of blood at this point. Medic informed us long ago that he was fully charged and ready to uber. I smiled as Scout rushed by us to get the case.

When we hadn't seen the enemy Heavy or the Medic for a while I backed up towards Medic and prepared to run. Suddenly the spawn door quit opening for a few seconds. We knew what was coming. Spy cloaked right as the Heavy and the Medic came out, uber-charged and ready to kill. Medic ubered Heavy and I ran behind them using them as a shield as the 3 of us ran away. Naturally I got ahead of them as I was faster than Heavy.

Right as I was about to exit the base however, I was grabbed and pulled into a room. Once let go I turned to see none other than Blu Spy. As if on instinct replaced my flamethrower with my ax and swung at him. He smirked, grabbing my hand and stopping the attack.

"Someone looks mad." He taunted.

"Medic, help me…" I said hoping he'd come for me. Fear traced my voice as I spoke. I was scared. It hadn't hit me until just now and the fear was clouding my mind.

What was it Soldier told me to do if he was in front of me? I couldn't remember I was too scared to think. I could feel sweat crawling down my face as he stared into my mask, smirking at me. He knew he scared me. He knew he had me.

"Come let's go somewhere where we won't be interrupted."

*.-.-.-.-.-.-.*

Medic breathed out as he and Heavy had just made it out of the base and back to the bridge where Soldier. Demo and Sniper held the blu's off for a bit. Spy decloaked next to him as he looked around for his fiery friend.

"Where's Pyro?" Spy asked.

Medic stopped as he heard Pyro's voice in the earpiece, small and fragile, but most of all it was scared. Worry filled him as the words "help me" came through.

"In trouble." Medic frowned, looking around trying to find a clue as to where she may be. He had no such luck.

Scout ran over to the two, yelling about how he was going to "bash that frenchie's brain's out."

"Scout, vat happened?" Medic asked.

"Their freaking Spy backstabbed me!" he yelled.

Medic and Spy looked at each other and nodded.

"Heavy go with Scout. Get ze intelligence." Spy ordered.

Heavy nodded and ran with Scout back into the Blu base. Meanwhile Medic took Spy to where he found Pyro the first day and they looked around there. Medic cringed as he heard Pyro grunting. She was fighting back, however from the small whines that she made the Spy was fighting back and managing to overpower her. He could hear the frenchman's voice but he couldn't make out what he was saying.

"Ve need to hurry." Medic called to Spy.

Spy nodded. He was just as concerned as Medic was; Pyro had become one of his favorite teammates, mainly because the fire lover enjoyed torturing Scout just as much as he did but also because there was something interesting about the man that made him different from the others.

Medic stopped. He heard the Spy's laughs from a doorway. When he ran over to it he found that it was the hall that leads down into the sewers. He remembered that last time Pyro's arm was wet and infected from the sewer water and charged down. Spy, noticing Medic's frantic state, followed him.

At the bottom of the stairs they found the two mercenaries fighting on the back platform. Pyro getting a few good punches in, but Spy was returning them. They watched as the Blu Spy punched Pyro hard in the stomach and pinned her to the wall. He pulled out his knife and raised it, ready to strike her.

Medic growled as spy cloaked. Enough was enough.

*.-.-.-.-.-.-.*

Tears ran down my face as I watched the Blu Spy raise his knife. My stomach hurt, but not as bad as it did when he had cut it open the last time. I'd pray for him to kill me but I knew better. For some reason he found pleasure in torturing me. I tried to fight back and I even managed to break his nose because I remembered how Soldier taught me to do it, but I couldn't stop him. He was stronger than I was and now he had me pinned. I couldn't push him off.

It made me happier, however, knowing that he was in pain. Blood had soaked through his mask from his nose bleed and the bruise forming around his nose could be seen just under his eyes. He'd be feeling that broken nose for a while.

"I think it's time I took you back down a size." The Spy growled.

The next few seconds were a blur to me. Right as the Spy's knife was about to penetrate my chest, Medic grabbed his arm and bent it in the most inhuman way. He had broken the Spy's elbow so that his arm was bent backwards. The French man screamed out in pain as I fell to the floor, I wanted to grab my stomach and just curl up on the floor, but I pushed myself back up grabbing my ax.

Medic flung the Blu man towards a wall where another pained scream came from him before his body collapsed on the floor with a hole in his back.

"We have captured the enemy's intelligence. Victory."