Chapter Thirty Seven!

~OCEAN (NUMBER EIGHT)~

The Soldier and Demoman also initiated step six; kick start the boat. An excessive amount of explosives later their battered boat was moderately far out in the water.

Pyro was painfully aware of this.

"Where did the Pyro get bubbles…?" Spy, a little concerned, asked. Evidently guy-at-dock had attempted to bribe Pyro away with bubbles. Legit.

The other mercs left the traumatised Pyro to play while they worked out this whole 'sailing' deal. Much like the author, they weren't sure how to go about that.

Ultimately they just had the 'no I wanna be captain' fight again. Then came the realisation; what THE HELL direction were they going!? Chances were not the right way.

The team made Sniper climb the 'giant thingy in the middle' and have a look around. Even through his scope there was nothing to see save the town they left.

Sniper reported as such and the team facepalmed. They weren't men to panic though. Okay that's a lie, they freak out all the time; but that's irrelevant.

So as that happened below, the Sniper continued to survey the town from his 'hawk's' nest. (He refused to call it crow's nest on the grounds hawks were way cooler.) Anyhow, he didn't care for what he saw;

"BLUs incoming!" he yelled down to the team. Sure enough, BLU mercs were flooding the dock and taking aim at the RED's boat. And the REDs themselves, just to clarify.

"Don't vorry comrades! Zhey don't have enough range-" A crocket whizzed over the Medic's head. "I VAS WRONG."

Sniper was quick to take action and managed to end the offending BLU Soldier with a headshot.

The other REDs followed example. Except the Scout, Pyro, Engineer and Spy, who all blinked at their worse than useless at long range weapons. Scout and Pyro immediately ran off to see if the boat had cannons while the Engineer built a teleporter as a precaution. He went to use the Eureka effect as usual.

"Engineer!" the Spy warned, "Don't use lightning on the-" Too late, was the cry.

Prior to this, the Soldier, Demoman, Heavy and Medic had joined the battle. Though at this distance the direct hit didn't score any, the grenades consistently missed their mark, and before long the bullets and crossbow bolts were useless too.

Eventually the four of them were sniped dead. Meanwhile the RED Sniper's aim was thrown savagely off when what but lightning hit the boat. The fall killed him, actually, leaving the irresponsible Pyro and Scout to deal with the burning boat. (Spy had died by fire.)

The only good news was that they had drifted out of everything but a sniper rifle's range.

"Any ideas, mumbles?" the Scout asked, as though he really wasn't bothered.

"Mn."

"Nah, me neither." They sat in silence beside the growing fire for a spell.

After a while Scout decided he was captain and jumped overboard to 'go down with da ship'.

Pyro was sniped. Bummer.

Answer from last chapter; Scout's default bat can't do the homerun taunt :p

Thanks for reading folks :)