Head Hunter spent most of the day in the royal court yard, doing target practice. Eventually, he felt he had done enough for one day, so he started to wonder the Palace. He stumbled upon Engineer's item dispenser, and he started to mess with it.
Eventually, Head Hunter realized that, due to lack of Mann Co enforcement, load outs where a little more... Flexible. Mann Co restricted the number of weapons someone would hold, didn't allow anyone to use other class weapons. Scout had already shown Head Hunter that speed was no longer limited, so he was kind of eager to find out what else that he could change.
Head Hunter had a little bit of experience with computers, he did work at a Best Buy for a while. He was able to add, remove, and rearrange slots, put all items in a place in which they could be accessed.
He also noticed the Ironic Pyro had finished his haggling, and had set the misc Head Hunter wanted to him. Now that he had it in his hand, Head Hunter could see the it was a small metal creature with the wings and beak of a bird, but also thick arms and legs. He summed up that it was somewhere between an Angel and a Griffon.
Speaking of Griffons, Head Hunter talked to the local librarian, whom he believed was the smartest pony in town, and she revealed that Griffons are real here, in this land. However, that have their own country, and usually don't stray from it. Therefore it was unusual that he saw a flock in the Crystal Empire.
He learned a good deal about his allies, the Harmonic Warriors, from the towns people. What the Crystal Ponies know was composed mostly of hearsay, until you get to the recent battles. However, there was only one before Head Hunter arrived, but it was not every interesting to be told of. He also learned a bit about the royals, most that the unicorn Twilight was the sister of Shining Armor, and that the princes, Candence, was an entirely different variant of pony. The librarian had much to say, though much of it doesn't look good to write down, as she used many hand-er-hoof gestures, and pointed to many pictures. Soon, it was nighttime.
Head Hunter walked back to palace, and when he arrived, he found that his allies were just about to tap into a barrel of Alcoholic cider.
Head Hunter stayed away from Alcohol as its, but he had a bad guy feeling about the Pony Alcohol. He told everyone that he would not be drinking, and he left. A guard stopped him after he exited the room, and, oddly enough, he started to make a case FOR the cider.
"The Apple family works very hard to make sure the best apples turn into the best cider! They-" Head Hunter cut the guard off.
"Did you just say Apple family? What is up with you people and names!" With that, Head Hunter stormed off.
To calm himself, he went back into his room, and again, disassembled his weapons, cleaned and inspected them, and reassembled them. He is kind of a creature of habit that way, as you might have guessed.
He had just finished his rifle, and was about to move onto his sub-machine gun, when we heard a commotion outside. He ran to his window, clipped himself to a rappelling rope that he hooked up on his window, and slid down. At the bottom, he was net with Medic, who was also running in the same direction, albeit a little wobbly. On the way, Head Hunter asked a stream of questions, and was met with interesting answers.
The rest of the warriors had their share of alcohol, but Medic and Scout had a drinking contest. They stopped at a stale mate when medic realized they both had extremely high blood alcohol levels. So Scout went for a 'walk,' which would be called a 'jog,' or even a 'run' by normal people.
Suddenly, they found Scout half heartedly wrestling with a changeling disguised as the late Rainbow Dash. Head Hunter could see that the shapeshifter was stealing Scout's energy, but Scout did nothing about it. Steve was looking on, unsure of what to do.
Medic ran over to the miner. "Whatz's going on here?!"
"I don't know, it's a changeling again, but it fooled Scout." Said Steve. he had just decided to kill the beast, but Head Hunter placed a hand on his shoulder to stop him.
"No, let him fight it, he has to realize that she is gone! He must be thinking that it was a bad dream that he killed her because he is now seeing her, and he is also drunk! That is one reason I don't drink!" Said Head Hunter. Poor drunk doesn't even have a clue! But he needs to fight! "Scout! It is not Rainbow Dash! It is a changeling!"
Unfocused eyes looked over at him "No! You're lying! Right Rainbow?"
But suddenly the changeling jumped on Scout again and started sucking the energy again.
Steve was about to go into the fray again, but Head Hunter stopped him again. The sniper shook his head solemnly.
Scout, in his stupor, final shoved the changelings off himself, and started swinging at the bat at the shapeshifter. He somehow managed to hit it at he kept hitting it as it went down. Finally, he readied his scattergun to strike the death blow, but he stopped, and started weeping. Head Hunter was watching with anticipation, but when his friend started crying, he honestly facepalmed. Not a comic, mocking facepalm, but a full on, full palm facepalm.
Taking this advantage, the Changeling knocked Scout off, and began sucking his energy again. Finally, Steve could take it no longer, and he pushed past Head Hunter, ran up to the Changeling, at stabbed it in the side. It twisted and contorted, then changed from it's Rainbow Dash's colors into it's natural black and greens. It fell onto Scout, who fell onto the ground, unconscious. Head Hunter and Medic walked up to him. Steve pick up the body of the changeling, and threw it aside.
"He still hasn't accepted that she is really dead. I think he thinks that his love could bring her back, but to can't. He could've died..." Head Hunter whispered solemnly to his Medical friend.
"Zer must be somzing ve can do!" Whispered Medic back.
The marksman shook his head. "There is nothing we can do until he accepts her death. The best thing for use to do is to keep him focused." If we don't... This will happen again. And without Scout here, I will have to stay to take his place... And THAT puts a wrench in my plans!
"Ve should still bring him back to hiz room zo, right mine fiend?" Asked Medic hopefully.
Head Hunter nodded, and they carried an unconscious Scout back to his room in the Chrystal Palace...
Why do I even try to understand this place anymore? It is settled, tomorrow, I AM leaving. South. What is south of here? A pony version of the ancient Roman Empire? Pony USA? Even Pony Poland of Pony World War 2 would be preferable, as that would mean I have a job...
Alright! We are nearing the time to part from Darkmarbles story, and go on Head Hunter's own path through the lands! Don't worry, their will be plenty of actual ponies in this MLP and TF2 crossover in the coming chapters!
Darkmarbles has been bothering me about my take on his story for a few chapters now!
On a last note, I will need lots of OCs soon! There are few OCs I can't use for the coming chapters! Please send me members for the... (Dramatic pause) The IoK Rebellion! What does IoK stand for? Come back to find out!