Disclaimer: Total Drama Island is copyright to Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch. Team Fortress 2 and its content is copyright the Valve corporation.
We join a standoff in progress. Owen versus Eva in a battle of teamwork. Who will triumph and claim the goal line? Watch (as it were) and find out.
"This never ends" Gwen groaned in boredom.
"Then use your ubercharge" Cody suggested as he continued to hit his turret. Gwen smiled and prepared to pull the lever that would send her and Owen into victory. Harold, who had been listening at the window for just that, ran over hugging the wall and gave his signal. DJ nodded and both Heavies were engaged in ubercharge at the same time, although they still fired. Meanwhile, Harold cloaked himself and circled to the back of DJ for defense.
"Gwen's in the far right corner from here" Harold reported. DJ nodded and shouted it back to Eva.
"Gwen's in the far right corner!" he reported.
"Good" Eva said. "The faster we can end this the sooner we can take over..." Once Eva's charge wore off, she continued to fire, but in vain. Owen's invincibility was still up.
"Oh, crap!" Eva shouted, taking the bullets once more. "Their medic must have gotten the MVP bonus last round!"
"Yeah" Harold said, trailing off a bit. "That's the other thing I wanted to tell you..." Eva kicked him, but lost her footing doing so, and fell on her gun. It stopped firing and Owen started to march down the ramp. DJ hid behind the rock and Eva crawled after him.
"this is bad" Eva said. "We can't just stay here and keep fighting a losing battle."
"Woah" Harold gasped. "I never thought you'd say that." Eva grabbed him by the throat and shook him lightly, then the bullets from Owen's gun stopped.
"Owen!" Noah called from his corner. "Get back here and restock. They won't come in again if they're smart."
"I don't know" Gwen said in a playful tone "Eva's out there. I think we should be ready for another attack."
"Yo!" Leshawna called from the roof. "They're hiding behind the rock!"
"Thanks" Noah called.
"And another thing" Leshawna started, "GET ME DOWN!"
"Fine!" Noah shouted back up. He patted on Owen's shoulder and he moved right under the opening the Leshawna was able to hop off of. She fell and landed in Owen's arms, then hopped onto the floor and brushed herself off, making sure not to touch her blood-marked shoulder.
"What happened?" Gwen said, starting up her gun on Leshawna.
"In a word" Leshawna said "Courtney. She's back and shooting to win!"
"Where?" Noah asked.
"By the tunnel entrance to base A." she reported. Noah glanced over at the wall that was in that direction.
"I hope Trent can see her..." Noah said. Up on the hill, prone in the dirt and in relatively plain sight, Trent was aiming over in that direction looking for whoever was shooting earlier.
"Come on out, sheepy" Trent taunted softly to himself. "Wolfie won't hurt you..."
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"What?" Chris exclaimed. "Is this whole match gonna be about lame-o 'Big Bag Wolf' puns!? One more and I will personally beat them all up!"
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Suddenly, Trent caught a sight of movement to his right. Tyler was climbing, very awkwardly, through the window of the tiny red shack next to the tunnel exit.
"Just go around!" Courtney ordered from inside the little shack.
"Nah" Tyler grunted. "I'm almost through!" And then a shot rang out and Tyler's body fell out of the window. Courtney caught a glance of Trent on the hill as he reloaded and she snapped down. Rather than take the shot ,she decided to nefariously outflank him.
"Katie! Sadie!" Courtney shouted. The two girls were nearby, strafing about and firing inside the window of the base. They both looked at their leader as the wood splintered just beside her. "Flank around to the back of the hill and kill Trent! He's sniping and keeping us held back!"
"What about you?" Sadie asked.
"Can't you hit him?" Katie finished.
"I'll try" she replied "but we should take the hill anyway! That way we can monitor the entire battle at our leisure." Her raw confidence was enough for the girls, and they rushed off, narrowly dodging Trent's incoming fire.
"Dang" Trent said, loading his gun again. A bullet whizzed by him, coming from the tiny shack. "You again, huh?" he said. He grabbed a few nearby boxes and fortified himself to tilt the odds of this firefight in his favor. He and Courtney exchanged fire for some time until Eva was ready again to get her gun up and move out.
"Got it, pencil-neck!?" Eva harshly directed toward Harold. "Get in there and kill someone, anyone, then leave. Their defense isn't as rock-solid as they think, and just upsetting it a little should break it down."
"Yes, ma'am" Harold said, saluting. He cloaked and dashed off while Eva roared and fired her gun. Owen was already blocking the entrance with his body with Gwen healing him from the far right corner. Harold snuck in through the back and noticed that, among the entire team within, Heather wasn't there. He chose his disguise, walked in casually, and got shot by Cody. He fell to the floor, bleeding as Heather, so Cody shot him twice more for the kill.
"Nice spy catch!" Izzy praised, still huddled in the corner waiting. Cody nodded and gave a thumb up.
"Good job" Noah said as well. "Where is Heather?"
"Man" Ezekiel moaned, tapping his turret, "this sucks, eh. I mean, sure I'm not as 'worldly' as the other guys, but I'm still an important member of the team, right. It's like, gah, no one cares about me or something."
"That's not true" Courtney said ,approaching the base Zeke so diligently guarded. He looked up at her, with her half-open eyes and seductive smile. "I care about you" she said. Zeke nearly passed out. A girl, and a mean one at that, was hitting on him! He straightened up with a dignified stand as she drew closer, her smile even more contagiously vicious than before.
"Buh" he bleated, unable to form words. She pressed up against him and swayed him slightly to the side.
"Don't be afraid, Zeky" she cooed. "I won't bite..." Zeke was at peace, a huge grin washed over his face. Then, he heard a static crackling. His turret was beeping painfully. Then his dispenser. Smoke rose up. He drew in a loud, rasp gasp just as a cold, metal knife entered his back. Heather, now decloaking, pushed him down and drove the knife even further into his back. Still, he twitched and gurgled with but a sliver of health left.
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"You know what?" Zeke said dreamily. "I died happy..."
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"Really?" Heather huffed. "I thought that would kill you." So, seeing as her target still lived, she pulled out her revolver and shot him three times. With his body unmoving and full of holes, she kicked him over and retrieved her knife. "Thanks to you, I now need an urgent shower" she said, twirling the blood off her knife. She caught the sight of Katie and Sadie jogging through to the C base and she cocked her brow accordingly.
"Almost there, Katie!" Sadie happily chimed.
"Yup!" Katie replied chirpingly. "Still, isn't it weird?"
"What?" Sadie asked.
"Well," Katie started, "base B is so much more fortified than base A is, isn't it? And it's bigger."
"So?" Sadie replied.
"It's like it was made for this!" Katie continued. "This supposedly, invincible defense' they're using! You think someone on their team has played this game before?"
"Maybe" Sadie figured. "It was probably that power-geek Cody."
"Yeah" Katie agreed, "although he is kinda cute. In a little brother kind of way."
"Well" Sadie began, "would you date someone's little brother?" Then a shot rang form behind them. A vicious shot. Heather was sprinting after them, an evil smirk on her face, shooting a them from down the hall with her powerful pistol. Katie, who was technically the closest to Heather, tried to outrun Sadie while her soldier companion shot rockets down the hall. Heather could see them coming with her cunning eyes and simply side-stepped the rockets as the went passed. Once they were gone, she quickly reloaded her gun and continued to shoot, barely missing them as they made the break outside the corridor into the light again. Heather watched them run, sure she had stirred up the hive quite enough, and cloaked.
"We're almost there!" Katie cried, reaching their destination.
"Hurray!" Sadie replied. She had no more rockets, however. She didn't trust her shotgun to shoot right either. "Hey, take out your saw" she suggested.
"Why?" Katie asked.
"It'll be more embarrassing if we kill him like this!" Sadie replied, taking out her shovel. Katie nodded fiercely as they ran. Trent's back was fully exposed and he didn't even know it. Sadie slammed him on the head, then Katie joined in and knelt down to bash and hack at him with her saw. Noah leaned out of the window just enough to watch his sniper get beaten to death by the 'twins' and sighed as he drew back in.
"What's up?" Leshawna asked, shooting grenades at the attacking heavy from the corner.
"Trent's dead" Noah said. "Katie and Sadie snuck up on him. I need someone to go out and get them back." Immediately, the action-starved girls Beth and Lindsay popped over to the corner with their hands up. Noah stared at them for a bit, then laxly pointed them over with his thumb. They both giddily started out, running into a poorly-disguised Harold along the way, and killed him.
"What should we do?" Lindsay asked?
"Take out your pistol!" Beth suggested. Lindsay nodded and crouched down to aim. Just then, Tyler returned to the battlefield and blazed along the side of the base where he tripped and tumbled over Lindsay. She would up sitting on his chest while his legs were wisted harshly around.
"Oh!" she happily exclaimed. "Hi Tyler!"
"Hey" he wheezed. Lindsay stood up and, forgetting her place in the war, helped him up. "How's it going, babe?"
"Oh, you know" she said, "just hanging out and killing people. The usual!"
"Yeah, I hear that!" Tyler agreed. "You know, I'm sure we could find a nice quiet spot back at your main base where we could-" and then Beth blew him up. Lindsay blinked and shook off the soot and black dust that was Tyler a second ago and glanced over at beth.
"What was that for!?" Lindsay demanded. "We were just talking."
"Uh..." Beth said, not sure what to say, "he was on the enemy team...?"
"Oh" Lindsay realized. "Well, okay then." And so, she shrugged off the event as normal under war-time circumstances and went back to shooting at the girls up on the hill.
Meanwhile, of course, a full force was uniting behind the rock cluster against Owen and his super healer. Now, however, the tables were even more drastically turned, as Noah had repositioned his dispenser behind Owen and ordered Izzy to guard the other entrance.
"This isn't working!" Eva shouted. Geoff and Bridgette had joined the fray as well, with Bridgette healing Eva and Geoff firing occasional rounds over the rocks at the ceiling of the base. It was more of an annoyance than a serious threat, but he kept it up anyway.
"Dudes!" Geoff shouted, "where's Harold!?"
"I'm here!" Harold shouted, coming in from the other side of the rock wall. "And good news, I killed Izzy!"
"How does that help us!?" Eva shouted, accidentally getting shot in the mouth once. The medi-guns took away the damage and pain quickly, however, but she was running out of ammo.
"Because now" he said menacingly, "we can have someone sneak in around back where she was guarding. We can totally take them by surprise."
"I'll go!" Geoff offered.
"Cool" Harold said. "Follow me. I'll go with you." The boys ran off and disappeared from their main team's field of vision. After not too long, only Harold returned in time to see Eva and company duck behind the rock to reload from the reserved ammo packs they all carried.
"What's up?" Bridgette asked the obviously flustered Harold.
"Beth, Justin and Leshawna all blew Geoff up!" He reported, wheezing with panic. "I barely escaped! It was terrifying!"
"Poor guy" Bridgette comforted. "Are you alright?" she asked. Harold nodded and leaned back while Eva reloaded. Of course, not everything was alright. Harold leaped out and stabbed Bridgette when she wasn't looking. She died. DJ jumped up, but before the smoke completely dissipated from her body, Heather delivered a round-house to his face and spun him around, then lunged forward and stabbed him too.
Eva was ready to fire again, this time on Heather in front of her, but the nimble trickster was too quickly for her gun's recoiled. That's when Eva made a mistake: she took the high ground behind her and got shot down by Owen. She hit the ground, alive but injured, on her knees, which made her very easy prey for Heather. With all three offenders dead and the clock just about out, Heather cockily twirled her knife in her fingers with a smile on her face. She stepped out and flashed a thumb to her team in the base.
"Way to go, girl!" Leshawna cheered, unaware of the danger still present.
"Hooray for rampant deceit!" Izzy shouted, jumping up and down. Heather righteously started her strut back into the base when a shot rang out. Courtney was still alive, still active, and finally got a good shot off. She ducked immediately back into her tiny shack and reloaded.
"I wish this gun aimed better" she complained. "I could have kill her before half my team died." Heather's dead body was a stern reminder to the defending team that the round was not yet over. That and Noah.
"Don't forget people" he warned "we're not done here yet!" Then, Lindsay came running in with frazzled hair and a broken arm.
"They got Beth!" she shouted.
"Did you get any of them?" Noah asked while Gwen healed her.
"Yeah, the not-skinny one" Lindsay reported hesitantly.
"Good" Noah said. Everyone took a quick glance over to Leshawna, whom they all expected to be flipping out for some reason, and she picked up on it.
"What?" Leshawna asked. "Owen's fat, but that girl ain't skinny either. Chill."
"So then, what are you?" Izzy foolishly asked. Her answer was a gun barrel to the face. She slammed, dazed, to the floor, which Duncan heard. He crept under the elevated foundation of the building, duct-taping his grenades to the bottom of the base. He had enough charges in reserve and on the wood to level the entire structure, but mild startling was all he was looking for at the moment.
"Just a few more seconds" he said to himself "and boom goes the farmhouse."
"Attention!" Chris announced over the field. "One minute left!" The Red team members that heard it, which was nearly all of them, became desperate and horrified.
"Wow" Noah said. "That went by quickly..."
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"This game" Noah confessed "is actually a bit more fun than it is alone...I just wish we had some kind of open channel. Communicating at close range is too hard for all these tactics."
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"We're winning" Courtney adamantly said in the confession. "We are winning no matter what!"
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Zeke just sat and sighed once.
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"I wonder if I can to make Molotov cocktails" Izzy thought with a black eye.
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"I hope there's food soon" Owen lamented, looking down at the floor. There was a silence for a bit, then the screen shut off.
Next week! Will the reds pull out a lucky capture with Duncan's crazy scheme, or will this round be unsuccessful? Either way, how will the Blues begin their assault on offense? What new surprises will await? Does Izzy have a concussion!?
FIND OUT NEXT WEEK!!!