Najenda pressed play and the episode starts playing immediately.
Radio noise is heard as the camera fades from black. Caboose is standing behind Tucker.
Tucker: Come in, Blue Command. This is Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha. Do you read me?
Caboose: Okay, that is the last of it. Your armor is clean now!
"So Tucker is calling their team's HQ while the other one is cleaning all the soot off of him." Tatsumi commented as he sees the first scene playing out.
"Yeah, Tucker looks weird with soot on him anyways." Lubbock added.
Tucker: Did you get all the black stuff off?
More radio noise is heard. Cut to Vic sitting at his control panel.
Vic: This is Blue Command. Come in, Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha.
Tucker: Hello, Command! We need help!
"They're going to need a lot of help from all the mess they've made recently." Mine said
"But since the series is progressing, I think they'll bring someone who's more skilled than them." Sheele added.
Vic: Roger that, Blood Gulch. What is your request?
Tucker: I don't know what the technical military term is for it, but, uh, we're pretty fucked up down here. We need men!
"How many men do they think they'll get for this problem?" Tatsumi asked.
"A dozen." Bulat replied.
"Or zero cause those guys are fucked." Lubbock snickered.
Vic: (pauses) Dude, how long have you guys been down there?
"Who the hell hired this dumbass?" Leone asked bluntly as she was referring to Vic.
"No one knows and we don't care about it." Najenda shrugs.
Tucker: No, no, no, n-not like that! We need more men to help us.
Vic: Roger that. Did you get the tank we sent?
Tucker: Yeah, that got blown up too.
Vic: Wow. Sucks to be you.
Tucker: Yeah, we know.
Everyone chuckle at the Blue Team's misery.
Vic: Okay, here's what I can do. The nearest Blue forces can be there in 16 days, or I-
"That would take forever for them to get help." Tatsumi said.
"Let's hope none of them are dimwitted and stupid like them either." Mine added.
Tucker: 16 days!? That's almost 2 weeks!
"Thanks captain obvious." Akame said blankly.
Vic: OR I can hire a nearby Freelancer and get him there within a few hours.
Everyone rose their brows when the word 'Freelancer' was heard and payed close attention.
Caboose: I like the "in an hour" one.
Tucker: Yeah, me too. Roger that, Command. We prefer the quicker solution.
Vic: 10-4, Blood Gulch. We'll contact Freelancer Tex and have them there post-haste. Command out.
"On man, whoever this Tex is, he must be a hardcore fighter." Leone said with interest.
"Indeed, and I liked to know more about him too." Bulat agreed.
Radio cuts off.
Tucker: Whoever he is, make sure he can fix a tank.
Caboose: What's a Freelancer?
Tucker: Freelancers are independent. They're not Red or Blue. They're just guns for hire who'll fight for whoever has the most money.
Caboose: Like a mercenary.
"Yeah, it does sound like a mercenary or a bounty hunter." Mine pointed out.
"I think Freelancer sounds more cooler, and all the other people out here have low skills to be mercenaries and assassins." Lubbock admitted.
"I agree of thinking Freelancers sound more cooler." Akame nodded in agreement before eating her meat.
Tucker: Right. Or like your mom when the rent's due.
Everyone glared at Tucker's rude comment and just kept watching.
Caboose: ...Oh, that's funny.
"Come on, have some backbone rookie!" Leone exclaimed.
"Give him some time and he might be helpful to support the Blues or fail trying." Sheele commented.
"I'm guessing he might fail soon." Mine replied.
Tucker: Yeah? You didn't think that was too obvious?
Caboose: No, no, not at all. It- It was good.
A semi-transparent Church fades into view between Tucker and Caboose.
Everyone were wide-eyed at seeing Church's ghost and some were sweating at seeing a ghost for the first time.
Church: (ghostly voice) Tucker... Tucker...
"What the absolute hell?!" Mine exclaimed.
"This is starting to become a bit scary." Akame admitted.
Tucker: Who the hell are you!?
Church: I am the ghost of Church, and I've come back with a warning!
"What kind of warning?" Tatsumi asked.
"Probably something important about the Freelancer perhaps." Bulat answered.
Caboose: You're not Church! Church is blue. You're white!
Church: (normal voice) Rookie, shut up, man! I'm a freakin' ghost! Have you ever seen a blue ghost before?
Tucker: Yeah, that's definitely him.
"Yeah he has that air of an asshole around him." Lubbock commented.
"Well and he was tired of being around Tucker to be like that anyways." Leone added.
Church: Now I gotta start over again. (clears throat, resumes ghostly voice) Tucker... Tucker...! I've come back with a warning!
"Is it really necessary for him to repeat the beginning?" Mine asked.
"Yeah, he needs to start again without any interruptions." Najenda replied.
Tucker: Is it really necessary to do the voice?
Caboose: Yeah, it's kinda annoying.
Church: (normal voice) Fine. Okay, here's the deal: I've come back from the dead to give you a warning about Tex. Don't let-
Caboose: (interrupting) What's the warning?
Church: Shut up for one second and I'll tell you!
Caboose: Oh, sorry.
Church: Seriously, man. I mean, I'm coming back from the great beyond here. Do you think this is easy? It's not. It's not like, just, you know, pop in and out whenever I feel like it, it takes a lot of concentration.
"That must be tough for ghosts to do that to warn others of an upcoming threat." Akame admitted.
"Yeah and it would suck even more if we end up like Church's current position." Leone added.
Tatsumi couldn't help but gulp at the thought of Sayo and Ieyasu doing the same thing as Church before he shrugged it off and kept watching.
Caboose: Sorry.
Church: I mean, it's bad enough that you killed me to begin with but now I come back and I can't get a word in edgewise, man. (takes a deep breath) Okay, here's the deal-
Caboose: (interrupting) Is this the warning?
Church: Alright, that's it. I swear to god, Caboose, your ass is haunted. When we're done here, I'm gonna haunt you.
They couldn't help but shiver at the thought of a ghost haunting them for life and made mental notes of not getting into a ghost's bad side.
Tucker: Yeah, you're even starting to bug me.
Church: Okay, Tucker. You remember that I told you that I was stationed on Sidewinder before they transferred me here to Blood Gulch, right?
"Sidewinder?" Sheele repeated in confusion.
"Probably another battlefield like Blood Gulch." Bulat guessed.
Tucker: No.
Caboose: Sidewinder? Isn't that the ice planet?
"So now they fought in different planets now, huh?" Najenda hummed.
"Yeah and I hope nothing exotic gets caught up in their wacky shenanigans." Mine said.
"I'm sure anything that lives in an ice planet is fine." Leone assured to the pink assassin.
Church: Yes.
Caboose: Cool! What was that like?
Church: Um... it was cold.
Caboose: That's it? Just cold?
Church: What do you want from me? A poem? It's a planet made entirely out of ice. It's really... fuckin'... cold.
"It's pretty obvious and the northern parts of the Empire are cold as well." Akame reminded.
"And some people try to thrive and prosper despite the freezing temperature too." Bulat added.
Tucker: Will you just let him talk?
Church: Alright, well...
Fade to Sidewinder.
The group were awed at looking at Sidewinder and wondered if there are other worlds that looked as beautiful as others.
Church: One day, when I was there, everything was just like normal. I remember... I was out on patrol with my partner, Jimmy. That Jimmy was a real good kid. Everybody liked him.
Tucker: D'ya think I was a good kid, Church?
Church: Tucker, don't get jealous, man. Just listen to the story, okay? Like I said, the guys were hanging around, waiting for some action, bitching about the cold...
Sidewinder Blue #1: Man, it's fucking cold.
Sidewinder Blue #2: I hope we get some action.
"Oh great, more idiots." Mine groaned.
"I feel like something bad is about to happen soon." Tatsumi commented.
Church: Anyway, Jimmy was in the middle of telling me all about this girlfriend he had back home.
Jimmy: (in a highland southern accent) Yep, as soon as I get back, I'm gonna get down on one knee and ask her to marry me.
Church: And that's when Tex showed up.
Everyone tensed as they listen to Church explaining the details.
A soldier in active camouflage [invisibility] moves in front of Jimmy and Church.
Church: Private Mickey was the first to go. He was halfway across the base when all of sudden he started screaming bloody murder...
Private Mickey: (spinning around and shooting) Bloody murder! Bloody murder!
Everyone either chuckle or laugh at Mickey's paranoid actions.
A Blue firing an Assault Rifle is hit from behind by a camouflaged Tex.
Everyone slightly winced since the hit seemed to kill the Blue despite wearing an armored helmet.
Church: The whole thing was over before it even started.
Tex kills another Blue. Switch to Jimmy and Church firing their guns.
"Tex must be having some kind of invisibility device to quickly blow through their group somehow." Lubbock stated.
"And he must be really skilled to take them out in an instant too." Leone added.
"I'm curious on how they made devices that uses Incursio's invisibility." Bulat responded.
Church: Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head, and beat him to death with it.
Some of them were shocked while others spit-take at the physically impossible feat that Tex has done.
Cut to Tucker at Blood Gulch.
Tucker: Wait a second... how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible.
"Yeah, there's no way that could happen!" Mine exclaimed.
"I guess logic and physics are pretty broken in their world." Bulat said.
"Pretty much." Najenda agreed.
Church: That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.
Cut to Tex hitting Jimmy with his skull.
Everyone cringed at poor Jimmy being beaten to death by his own skull, while Leone was starting to think about trying it out soon.
Jimmy: This doesn't seem physically possible! (he collapses) Hurk! Bleh...
Cut to Blood Gulch.
Church: Bottom line is, these Freelancers, they're bad news, and Tex is one of the worst.
Caboose: If he's such a badass, why didn't he kill you?
Cut to Church standing alone in Sidewinder with blood all over the ground. The camera zooms out, revealing all the Sidewinder Blues are dead.
Everyone were really impressed and kinda scared of this Tex guy killing all of the Blues in Sidewinder and leaving Church alive to tell the tale. Najenda, Leone and Bulat were impressed by his skills and wanted to recruit Tex into Night Raid if he existed, Tatsumi and Lubbock made sure to stay away from him unless they get beaten down with their own skulls. And Akame, Sheele and Mine were kinda alright with him but still kept a close eye on him.
Church: To tell ya, I don't know why I'm not dead. Coulda killed me at any point. ...But maybe it's because Tex and I have run into each other once before.
"The two knew each other before?" Tatsumi commented.
"Yes and this is giving us some interesting questions about him and Tex." Bulat added.
Tucker: Where?
Church: You, uh... you remember that girl I told you about, back home? Well, let's just say that Tex is the real reason why we never got married. Guys, I'm fading fast, and I don't know when I'll be back. Just listen to my warning. Don't let Tex get involved here.
Tucker: Okay.
Church: I mean it, Tucker. No fighting, no scouting, nothing. You'll regret it...
Church fades away.
Tucker: So..! Tex and Church were after the same girl.
"That's a serious love triangle, and Church would be screwed if he got into a fight with Tex." Lubbock said.
"Still, the story of two people fighting for love is quite interesting to read." Sheele sighed.
Caboose: I told you his girlfriend was a slut.
Akame, Sheele and Mine just glared at Caboose for saying that.
The camera pans, revealing Tex standing behind Tucker and Caboose.
(End episode)
"Looks like Tex has finally showed up now." Leone grinned.
"I feel less sorry for Sarge and the Reds for going up against him." Mine admitted.
"Well let's start the next episode to find out." Akame suggested.
Najenda pressed play for the next episode.