Alrighty been some time since I posted a chapter. Got caught up in another so I left this one alone for a while. Sorry for not updating sooner, and now onto the chapter.
Demoman's POV
It had been a week since Sniper had arrived and made his home at base. He and Ana had a sort of rivalry on who is the better sniper. They were currently having another challenge in the shooting range, this was their ninth one so far. And it swapped between Sniper and Ana every now and again. I was walking to the main center where most of our missions were held. I had gone on a few already. During one I had met an Australian maniac and his obese friend, Junkrat and Roadhog. The first used a pathetic excuse for a grenade launcher as his primary weapon and carries around a bear trap, land mine and this thing he calls a 'Rip-tire.'
I sat down at a computer and began to type in some commands. I was basically searching for whatever Mann Co. warehouse, factory or base was still known. Most of my searches came up blank, but this old drunk remembers the lay of the land for several bases like the back of my hand. Switching to a map searcher, I typed in the coordinates for the main base in Teufort. After a moment or so, Teufort came up. I got up and left to find 76, maybe there was still some stuff in there worth salvaging. I walked around for a while till I found him in the training room.
"Aye Soldier, I need to ask you something," I began just as he stopped to take a breath after destroying a combat drone.
"I'm listening," answered 76 as he sat down on a bench on the side of the side.
"I found one of the old bases I used to work at. I figured there might be something worth taking in there," I explained to the commander. 76 nodded for a moment before taking a drink of his water.
"You better take some back up just incase you run into trouble," answered 76 as he stood up to go back to training. I saluted the man while leaving and off to find Sniper. Since he was the only other one who really knew the layout of our old base. I went to the shooting range where I found Sniper, eyes locked on the scope and next to him was Ana who also has her rifle eyes on the scope. I cleared my throughly getting his attention.
"I hope I'm not bothering you two, but I could use your help Sniper with a salvage mission," I explained to him. He nodded once while slinging his rifle over his back and left with me while as a continued to practice her aim.
"She's a fine sniper, Ana," commented Sniper as he and I walked towards the hangar where a helicopter waited for us. Since I had joined Overwatch, I learned how to fly one, and learn not to try to do so while drunk.
"Do I hear some admiration from the legendary Mundy," I mused as I entered the chopper. Sniper grumbled a few things while taking his seat. I laughed while taking off and heading for Teufort. It would take us a while to get there so I set the helicopter to autopilot and took a nap while we flew.
three hours later
I woke up to at around noon and saw that we had nearly arrived at our destination. Taking the controls again, I began to descend to towards the old base, which was now a rotting wood structure. The base had seen better days, but coming back here brought some old memories back. Going in lower, I found an area large enough for the chopper. Landing it, we left to explore the old base. Getting inside was rather simple and a bit hazardous, considering much of the structure was coming apart at the seams. As we walked towards the Spawn room, where all our gear is kept, I saw a few skeletons scattered here and there. I suppose that a hundred years will do that to ya.
When Sniper and I got to the spawn room, we found that it was still semi-intact. Looking around our lockers, I found a few things worth taking: like Spy's Deadringer, Diamondback, disguise kit, and sapper. Sniper was looking around Engineer's and Medic's area to see what he could find. He picked up Engineer's Eureka Effect, Gunslinger, Building PDA, Sentry, Dispenser, Teleporter (Entrance and Exit), Free Ranger and the Rancho Relaxo.
"Well, happy Australia Day to me," said Sniper cheerfully as he found Medic's Medigun and an intact Ubercharger. I laughed at Sniper's cheerful attitude ad continued looking around. Looking in a cabinet, I found Pyro's Philantrogheist. I chuckled as I picked it up, needing to put a little extra muscle into it as it was much heavier than it looked. Once we had everything worth taking we went back to the helicopter. While we were loading the chopper, I decided to test the Disguise Kit. Swiping through the options, I selected the Soldier disguise and waited for a moment. Feeling no different, I walked over to the moat that divided RED base from the BLU base. When I looked at the water, I saw that I looked like a BLU soldier. I laughed at the sight, when I did I sounded like a soldier. 'No wonder Spy carries this thing around,' I realized and switched it off and placed it in the helicopter.
Sniper had come back with a few more things, one being one of my Half-Zatoichi and his Sydney Sleeper. She he placed them in the copter I checked to make sure everything was there, locked down and ready for take off.
"Okay let's go," I said and fired up the chopper as soon as Sniper had taken his seat. Lifting off, I steered the chopper towards base and took off as fast as possible. While in the air, I set the controls to auto and decided to take another nap. Might as well since we're gonna be in here for a while.
four hours later
Waking up, I yawned and saw the base coming up just ahead. Sniper had kept himself busy by reading or whatever he could do while in the chopper. Switching the controls to manual, I begun our descent towards the base where I saw a few agents walking around. I saw one of the agents waiting by the landing pad. When we got closer, I saw that it was the Symmetra lass. While I did not really talk to her, she was polite and a bit formal for my taste. Once we were close enough I landed the chopper and shut it off. Getting out I had begun to unload the aircraft, Sniper also unloading it as well.
"So how was your salvage mission to one of your old bases," asked Symmetra as she walked over to take a look at some of the weapons or tools we had found. There was a cart where we could place some of the weapons we had come across. Placing them inside, I put the more fragile things like the plans to the medi-gun and Enginner's buildings on top to keep them from getting crushed.
"Found a lot of tools that could help out in Overwatch," I told her as Sniper placed the last of it in the cart, "You'd be surprised on how much can slip through the cracks of society."
"Yeah," agreed Sniper as he pulled out his old rifle. I now had time to take a better look at it. It had a very worn look to it, but was still functional. Pushing the cart towards the base, I saw that there are a few more agents than there once had been. Walking passed a few, Sniper, Symmetra and I walked to a lab where a few agents had gathered for the presentation of the tools we salvaged.
Walking with the cart, I pushed it right up to the front where a table was located. Stopping the cart, Sniper and I had begun to unload all the weapons, tools and etc. we had salvaged. We placed them on the table and kept them in a somewhat organized fashion.
"This is all you could find," said 76 in his usual gruff voice.
"Everything worth taking," said Sniper as he placed Medic's Medi-gun on the table. Most of the devices we recovered were in a worn condition, but still in a function state. The agents that are present are: 76, Angela, Ana, Torbjorn, Winston, Reinhardt, Tracer and Mei. With all the devices we found ready for presentation, we procceeded to start the evaluation.
"As you can see here, Sniper and I have scraped up everything that is worth something from one of our old bases," I began as I picked the Disguise Kit, "For instance, this here is a tool used by one of my old teammates; the Spy." I switched on the kit and used the inbuilt scanner to scan Tracer and log her appearance. Once I had a full scan, I pressed a button and a light mist came up around me. After a moment when the mist faded, I looked around to see if it had worked. And from the expressions I saw on the faces of Tracer, Angela, Mei and Winston, it was clear that it worked. I saw my reflection in a mirror that was in the room, and I looked just like Tracer.
"That is very impressive," said Winston as he admired the realistic look that was projected by the kit.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say I'm looking in a mirror," said Tracer as she walked up to me. The kit was still active and recorded her voice, and with a few moments the kit would allow me to change my voice to sound exactly like her.
"You'd be surprised on how good you can fool someone with this," I said in Tracer voice. This sent a light shock through everyone, but the shock changed to impresement. I switched off the kit and proceeded to show off he rest of the stuff we brought back. Torbjorn and Symmetra seemed really interested in Engineer's Sentry, Dispenser, and Teleporters. Mercy was also impressed with Medic's Medi-Gun and Ubercharger. The rest of the presentation went well.
Sniper and I decided to have a little fun with them and left the Deadringer for last. It may be a bit cruel to trick them like this, but the only way it works is if you get hit hard enough or shot. So I had Sniper help me out for this one.
"Okay last one," I said as I picked up the Deadringer, "Now for this I need some help. Sniper care to help a guy out."
"Yeah," said Sniper as he picked up the Diamondback. Making sure it was loaded, and that I had it turned on, Sniper pointed the gun right at my chest. When I felt a sudden sting in my chest I looked down to see a clone of my self fall to the ground. The sudden yells of the Overwatch agents confirmed that they believed that I was dead. I snuck past them and got behind them. Sniper was doing his best to keep in character as he thought I was dead as well.
"Why would you do that," shrieked Tracer as she stormed up to Sniper. I looked at the watch to see the gauge was about to run out. I waited for a few more seconds as I watched Sniper being yelled at for shooting me. When the gauge ran out, an electric sound came from me as I reappeared. Though now of them heard the noise as they were all to busy yelling at Sniper.
"Oi," I yelled getting their attention. They all turned around to see me alive and well, "If you all are done yelling at Sniper you should take the time to look at your faces." I laughed loud and well as I fooled them so well. When I started to get some control back, I noticed the angry glares I was receiving from Tracer, Angela, and Ana. "Something tells me I should start running." As soon as I finished the sentence, I took off at full speed. I ran past a few agents, yelling in fear the whole way. I probably did not think this through all the way.
And that is a wrap. Been a long ass time since I published I know, I just was caught up in several other stories I was working on. So Demoman and Sniped brining back some of Tf2 to base. Leave a comment below and I will get back to you all later.
