Edited by GameQ 4/4/2019

Lost previous intro, RIP.

I give you chapter 8, I hope you enjoy.

Time Error

Chapter 8

"Damn it Scout settle down before the others hear ya!" Engineer shouted, but his volume level was nowhere near Scout's level. Scout was screaming his head off and was going crazy after being told he was in the year 2076.

Meanwhile in Scout's mind, he was wondering if he should be excited or scared, his body was vibrating with either fear or eager. Since his mind didn't know which to choose it settled with screaming his lungs out. That is until Engineer straight up smacked Scout in the face, putting his screaming on pause.

"Scout." Engineer said gently as he set his hands on his best friend's shoulders. "Everything's going be alright. You fight wars on a daily basis, you fight enemies armed with weapons ranging from a pistol to a damn rocket launcher. You ain't scared of the future." Engineer stated.

The two mercenaries stood there as Scout began recollecting himself. Engineer removed his hands from Scout's shoulders and waited for him to reply. "Yea…yea that's right. I ain't scared of the future! Yea I'm scared of nothin'!" Scout claimed, slowly reverting to his normal cocky self. Engineer rolled his eyes, but felt relief that he finally got Scout to calm down.

"Uh but Engie?"

"Yeah Scout?"

"While being in the future an' all is pretty freakin' cool, but how da hell do we go back to our time. In case ya need a little memory, we are in the middle of a fucking war."

"I know Scout, I've been working on it ever since I got here."

"Annnnd?"

"We're gonna be stuck here for a bit."

"Umm how long do you think?" Scout asked, feeling a bit eager to go home. Engineer scratched his head as he mumbled the answer.

"Speak louder hardhat, can't hear ya."

"Weeks." Engineer responds.

"What!? Engie we don't got time for that! For the first time ever, we were finally able to stop the stupid Blu's winning streak!"

"What!? And this happened without me!?" It was Engineer's turn to be shocked, and he felt almost insulted by how the Red team managed to do this without him.

"Yeah." Scout answered a proud smile, but his smile vanished when Engineer sat on his bed and looked down to the floor with a look of…hurt?

"Huh, if y'all were able to do it without me, then does that mean I was not needed at all?" Engineer mumbled to himself while rubbing his chin, although was heard by Scout.

Scout gaze frowned upon Engineer for thinking that and a quick slap to Engineer's back was done, snapping Engie out of his sudden negative emotion.

"Uhh no. You were needed Engie, the plan that you've been waiting to use worked."

"What plan?"

"The plan Soldier said you had, ya know the one with this and that." Scout explained.

A/N: (You can imagine what the plan was, I won't judge.)

"You mean to tell me that hard headed, maggot yelling, psychotic rocket shooting soldier finally decided to go with my plan!?" Engineer said in disbelief.

"Yea!"

"Geez what in the Sam hills happened to y'all? It's like as if you've changed since I left." Engineer said, not sure how to think of this. Scout stayed silent for a bit before answering.

"Well duh, who doesn't change after they lost someone they knew?" Engineer looked back at Scout for a moment before chuckling.

"Y'all must of really thought I was dead to stop the Blu team's winning streak. And how did the Blu team take it?"

"Ha! You should've seen the look of their faces! It's like as if they saw Heavy flying around bare ass naked!" Scout laughed.

Engineer and Scout started laughing together for a little till they stopped to catch their breath.

"Ah man how I wish I was there to see that!" Engineer exclaimed as he wiped a tear away. Scout let out a little chuckle while still trying to breath, but then noticed something he should of noticed a little while ago.

"Yo Engie, what happen to your usual plain lookin' uniform, you look different." Scout looked at Engineer's new clothes with some interest.

"Looks better than the regular crap he always wears." Scout thought.

"I know, my uniform got all messed up during a fight that took place here last night."

"A fight happened here? And you're still alive?" Scout asked, Engineer glared at Scout before continuing.

"Yeah, the base here was attacked by these soldiers who were working for an organization called Talon. I helped Overwatch fight them off an in return they thanked me by giving me a room to sleep in and some clothes. They've also offered assistance to help send us back to our time."

"W-w-wait, who's Overwatch?"

"These new people you've been seeing lately. Tracer? Winston? Soldier 76? They are Overwatch, a future hero organization." Engineer explained. Scout only let out a 'oh' in response, having finally realized why Engineer told him to act like a hero.

"What? You mean Tracer didn't tell you that?" Scout shook his head.

"Nah, she only said a couple things about herself, and then she wanted to know more about me and what I did during my…" Scout bent forward and whispered. "hero time."

"Oh, well there you have it then." Engineer looked at the clock to see they've been talking for some time now, he needs to get back to working on the TTPB if he and Scout wanted to get back to their time as soon as possible. And they do.

"Alrighty Scout, I gotta get back so I can continue working on the TTPB." Engie said as he got up from the bed.

"Actually Engie about Tracer…" Scout began while rubbing the back of his head nervously. Engineer had a bad feeling about this.

"What did you do now Scout?" Engineer asked with a sigh.

"I may have uh…got myself into a little trouble ere'."

"What did you do?"

"Tracer, she uh…wants me to train her." Scout finished. Engineer looked at Scout with a plain expression before turning around and heading to the door.

"Well that's your problem, deal with it."

"Engie! Come on man!" Scout whined.

"You keep on puttin' yourself in these situations Scout! And I can't- You know what no I ain't having this conversation right now."

"Pfft some best pal you are." Scout snapped.

"Exactly! I'm your 'pal'! Not your mother! Clean up your own messes for once Scout. I gotta feeling you deserved this for bragging too much. Which I believe is why she even asked you to teach her in the first place, am I right Scout?" Engineer snapped back, Scout looked away not wanting to answer Engineer's question, but just from looking away did Engie receive his answer.

"Uh huh thought so." Engineer finished and continued his way to the door.

"At least gimme 1 thing I can teach Tracer! Just one thing!" Scout begged. Engie sighed as he placed his hand on top of the door handle, thinking of possible lessons he could throw at Scout. One lesson in his mind seemed to stand out from the rest.

"Try teaching her to stop relying on her accelerator, I have a feeling it might get her killed someday if she relies on it too much." Engineer said before leaving the room, letting Scout think alone about the lesson.

"Come to think of it, that ain't half bad. Thanks Engi-" Scout begun to thank Engineer until he realized the Hardhat was gone. "Ah whatever, least I got somethin'." Scout said before lying against his bed.

As he lay there, he couldn't help but think of how things are going back in his time. He remembers how Merasmus has appeared during their fight in High Tower, which forced both the Red and Blu team to call truce till they dealt with Merasmus.

Scout started to feel a little worried, but quickly got rid of the feeling since he knew he should have full confidence on his Red team, and Blu team, to take care of Merasmus.

"Ha, that Hoodini is probably wetting himself while beggin' for mercy." Scout laughed.

*1968*

"No wait! Please I beg of you! Spare me!" Merasmus cried he lay on his back in the dirt, separated from his staff. He was covered with bullet holes, blood stains, burn marks, needles, shrapnel, and arrows. Both the Red and Blu team surrounded him with their weapons cocked right at the mighty wizard.

After Merasmus accidentally sent Scout to the future, he was attacked by the Red and Blu team who fought in harmony. This resulted to be a long fight since Merasmus has the powers to match theirs. But alas the wizard had finally fallen after he received a market gardener hit right in his manhood.

"Let's just finish this stupid wizard off and get back to our fight." The Blu Scout suggests, still pissed off that Merasmus stole his kill, which was the Red Scout.

"Negative! I got a demand for the damn magician!" Soldier yelled before marching up to Merasmus and jumping ontop of Merasmus' stomach, resulting an 'oof' from the wizard. Soldier grabbed Merasmus' collar then yelled.

"Merasmus! Bring us back our Scout you cow herdin' Canadian barple fruit basket!" At Soldier's demand, the Red team felt surprised and began looking for the Boston runner, only to find no sign of him at all.

"Was wondering where that bloke was." Sniper muttered.

"Dummkopf, ze Scout ez ztill rezpawning." The Blu Medic claimed.

"Aye! The bloody respawn machine can sometimes take 5 minutes for you to respawn!" Blu Demoman added.

"Negative! I saw it myself! Scout is still alive! But maggot brain here sent him somewhere, and now he will bring him back. Right maggot!?" Soldier yelled again.

"Argh! I don't know where he is! All I do know is that he is in a different time line!" Merasmus said. Spy walked up to Merasmus with a cigar between his two finger tips, a revolver in his other hand.

"Explain, now." Spy demanded as he looked at the wizard with a glare.

"The spell I casted upon him was not lethal! It was a spell that could send you through time, to past or future. So right now as we speak, that little weakling is wandering in a different time."

"Then wizard baby will bring back baby man, now." Heavy said, his finger itching to let loose the bullets from his minigun, Sasha.

"That's the problem however, I cannot." Merasmus says while sounding a bit nervous.

"Wut was that Sandvich? Kill wizard baby? Good idea!" Heavy said as he started to spin up his minigun.

"Wait I can explain! I cannot bring this Scout back because I do not know which time he's in! I mistakenly casted the wrong spell on him!" Merasmus explained, trying to buy himself more time to recover. Secretly he's been healing himself and so far none of the mercenaries have noticed.

"Mmphmphmmmph." Pyro said as he shook his head, somehow showing a disapproving look with the mask. The Blu pyro nodded in agreement, yet the others did not respond since they had no idea what Pyro said.

"Well you better start lookin' Merasmus! Or else I'll be giving you the most painful wedgies of all time!" Soldier threatened, causing some of the mercenaries (including the Blu Team) to cringe and wince. Soldier was not kidding when he said that. After that sentence, Merasmus had finally regain some of his strength.

"Fool! I am Merasmus! No pathetic mortal can do such thing to me!" With that Merasmus summoned his staff back to his hand and whacked Soldier off with it. After that he quickly stood up from the ground and raised his staff, catching the mercenaries off guard.

"You all may have won this time! But I will be back to slaughter you all! I leave now!" Merasmus slammed the bottom of his staff to the ground and a final explosion occurred, knocking all the mercenaries away before they could do anything.

After the explosion past, the mercenaries recovered and stood around where Merasmus once was. Some of them were injured from the blast but had no worries as the medics of both teams healed them.

"We should have finished the bugger off." Blu Sniper commented, Red Sniper agreeing with him.

"Even if we did that pathetic magician would've still came back. He always does." Soldier said.

"Hmph, damn fruit basket!" Blu Soldier exclaimed.

"What the hell's been happening here?" The blu engineer, Bell asked.

"Engineer! Where have you been!? We could have used your help dealing with that annoying wizard!" Blu Soldier said.

"Was working on the device I was talking about earlier that could help us kill the red team easily." Bell admitted.

"You Imbecile! You shouldn't be saying this in front of our enemy." Blu Spy scolded.

"Quiet Frenchie, it doesn't matter since the device failed." Bell said.

"That explains why we weren't being spawn camped by her throughout this fight." Sniper asked.

"Since we're not fighting at the moment, I figured now was the best time to ask why you're engineer has disappeared." Blu soldier inquired, feeling curious of why he hasn't seen the Red engineer in awhile.

"Our engineer has died from respawn failure some nights ago." Soldier admitted, a little sense of sadness reached the Red team for a moment. Meanwhile the Blu team looked shocked from the sudden news, respawn failure is not something new for them as their team too has experienced respawn failures. Bell stood frozen, feeling breathless.

"Dell…no…" Bell thought as she felt hurt, knowing her own counterpart and rival is gone.

"You have my condolences…" Blu Soldier muttered, already knowing how his counterpart is feeling right now. Suddenly the intercom sounded off with a disgusted tone of the Administrator.

"The truce is over! Get back to fighting!" She yelled.

None of the mercenaries attacked yet, only stood there for a moment before finally getting ready to fight."

"Elle est penible, n'est-ce pas?" The Blu Spy asked the Red Spy as he went invisible.

"Extremement." Red Spy replied, also disappearing from sight.

"Let us fight man vs man." Heavy challenged his counterpart.

"Da, we fight till the end, do not need doctor for dis." Blu Heavy replied.

Demoman cocked his grenade launcher after taking a quick drink from his bottle, the Blu Demoman mimicking his exact actions. Both Pyros fired up their flamethrowers, both Snipers aimed their rifles, the medics began to over heal their soldiers as they readied their rocket launchers.

"Don't you think we will go easy on you maggots because you lost your engineer or else you will be sorry." Blu Soldier warned.

"Was just about to say the same damn thing you maggot!" Soldier shouted back.

"Leeeeet's do it!" Demoman riled up.

"Attaaaack!"

"Give em hell men!"

*2076*

It was getting a little late for the day, and it was time for dinner. Right now Engineer and Scout were joining the agents to eat. Engineer had gone to Winston early to speak of the TTPB version two he plan to make, but to find out Winston already gotten a heads up from Symmetra and happily agreed to help him build the new TTPB.

As for Scout, he spent a couple hours of thinking of ways he could help Tracer improve herself after what Engie advised him. Surprisingly at the end he was able to come up with some ideas but his brain was burned from all that thinking.

Afterwards Tracer had come knocking on the door, startling Scout at first but she invited him to join for dinner. Scout, being hungry after not eating anything for most of the day, accepted the invitation with haste. And now here they were, eating with the agents while picking some conversations.

"Oh! So you…freeze them alive?" Scout asked Mei.

"Yep." Mei replied.

"Wicked! Hey big guy, watcha do when there's bad guys around?" Scout titled his head to Reinhardt, who towered over the rest of them despite the fact that he wasn't wearing his armor.

"Ha! My role is to act as me allies' shield, I cover them from damage with my Barrier field. And when the time is right, I charge right into the enemies with my Rocket Hammer in hand.

By the time I swing my hammer, it is too late for the enemies to dodge, they'll be knocked cold by the time I finish my swing!"Reinhardt boasted, Scout's 'woaaaah' could be heard before Scout thought of something.

"Engie! Make me a Rocket Bat!" Scout demand.

"Do I look like your damn engineer?" Engineer questioned with his mouth partially full from his meal.

"Uh yeah? And plus ya still owe me a bit of money ya know?" Engineer was about to retort back but paused as Scout did have a point, then settled with a grumble as he continued to munch on his food. Tracer let out giggle after seeing the little interaction with Scout and Engie.

"What bout' you girl? What's your play in this group ya got?" Scout began to ask Pharah.

"Scout! Let em' eat in peace will you? And refrain from callin' her girl, if you don't know the lady's name just say 'Miss'." Scolded the Engineer, Pharah nodded at Engie as a way to say thank you and turned back to Scout.

"My agent name is Pharah, real name is classified to you. My role here is damage, I fly in the air with my combat armor, equipped with a weapon that launches highly explosive rockets. Any enemy I've faced so far as been obliterated as I fly safely up above." Pharah educated Scout. Scout smirked slightly, secretly betting he could take her on with no problem.

Scout was about to ask Mercy what's her part in the organization, but she beat him to it. "Before you ask, I am Mercy. My role here is support, I heal the wounded and I have the ability to bring the dead back to life." Mercy whispered one last thing to the sentence which Scout didn't catch but Engie did. 'For a price..'

Engineer shivered inwardly at those last words, "She's a perfect partner for Medic." Engineer thought.

"Wait, you can bring the dead back to life?" Scout asked, feeling a bit impressed that Mercy could do that. Even though he saw Medic do more than that. Mercy nodded at Scout before continuing.

"I also can give my patient a damage boost which increases our chance for success." Mercy finished. Scout paused for a moment when he started to see a similarity here.

"Yo Engie, do these guys remind you of anyone?"

"Yes Scout I am aware of the similarities between our crew and this crew." Engie told.

"You still haven't said much about your hero organization from the past, or the heroes who works with you." Soldier 76 said. Engineer looked to Scout for help but Scout shook his head with a glance that said 'You do it.' Engie rolled his eyes with a sigh as he set down his meal, he can't ever catch break can he?

Well you already know me and Scout here, my role is Defensive, Scout's Offensive. Next is our Doc I guess, Medic. His role is Support." Mercy listened in with much interest. "Like your staff Mercy, Medic has created a device called the Medigun, capable of healing wounds very quickly. He's also capable of granting the person he's healing 8 seconds of invincibility. Other than the medigun he is equipped with a needle gun and bone saw just in case he needs to fight for himself."

"8 seconds of invincibility? How was he able to accomplish that?" Mercy wondered.

"Gonna be real with you here, I ain't sure. All I know is that it requires a little surgery and something else." Engineer said, hoping she would not ask anymore of Medic since Medic is not really a good example of a hero either. Mercy frowned a little, she really wanted to know more of this Medic.

"Next one is Soldier, role is Offensive, a fearless man who charges into a fight no matter how huge the odds are to him. Armed with a rocket launcher, shotgun, and shovel, and if anything else he's equipped with? A heart raging for a fight.

This forms him into a hero no enemy would want to mess with. I guess I'll add one other thing about him, he's a little crazy. Not sure how he does it but he somehow invented rocket jumping." Engineer said.

"Rocket jumping?" Soldier 76 repeated, seeming a bit confused by the name but had a feeling he knew what it meant.

"Yeah, basically he shoots a rocket at his feet and jumps at the same time, causing him to go soaring in the air." Engineer explained, making the agents wince.

"How does he live from that? The explosion alone could kill him, or at least demolish his legs! Even if he were to survive the rocket blast unharmed, he'd still have to survive the fall which could lead to serious body injuries!" Mercy exclaimed, Engineer and Scout just shrugged.

"Like I said, I have no idea how he does it." Engineer said.

"Soldier is one crazy tough guy, I don't think he even feels pain." Scout added.

"Does he at least see a medic or something afterwards?" Pharah asks, not really sure what to think of this Soldier. His fearlessness and heart to fight interested her, but after she learned how he rocket jumps makes her have second thoughts.

"Of course he does, even he knows he ain't invincible." Engineer answers. "Next we have is Heavy, role is Defensive but I believe he's good at Offense too. He's a big guy who equips himself with a minigun, a shotgun, and his bare fists.

What I can say is that he's the strongest man I ever met but that's just my opinion. Oh and he's often paired up with Medic since they make a good team."

"Ha I can tell why." Reinhardt chuckled.

"Pfft strongest man? Yeah right." Scout doubted.

"Scout he made your nose bleed with just one flick of his finger." Engie reminded, Tracer looked at Scout to see if this was true and got confirmation when his face when a little red in embarrassment.

"Shut up! My nose was already hurt that time so…whatever!" Tracer laughed up a storm much to Scout's annoyance, causing him to growl at her.

"To break someone's nose with just a flick of a finger is quite a sign of how strong you are. His fingers must be comparable to nail hammers." Soldier 76 commented.

"Ain't that true, hell I saw the man press a nail into the wooden crate like it was nothin'." Engineer claimed. Winston entered the room during their conversation.

"Agents, we have a matter to discuss, I ask that you join me into the meeting room now." Winston said, the agents looked at each other before getting up and following Winston to the meeting.

"See you boys later, it's getting late so maybe you should call it a night." Tracer suggested before leaving the room with only Engineer and Scout. Engineer sighed before he finished off the rest of his meal while Scout sat their uncharacteristically quiet, playing with what little is left on his food plate.

"Hey Engie?" Scout began.

"Yeah?"

"I don't mean to sound like a wuss, but you think our team is okay?" Scout asked.

"You seriously worrying about them? You've been here for only a day, and I've been here for two days." Engineer told.

"Hey I ain't worrin' bout no one! I'm just askin'." Scout said.

"Hell yeah I think our team is fine, actually, I know our team is fine Scout. Besides, from what I heard from you, it seems they're just gettin' better." Engie put his hand on Scout's back, giving him a reassuring smile.

"Yeah, alright." Scout said.

"Welp, I don't know about you but I'm tired as hell so I'm headin' to the room. You coming?" Engineer asked.

"Not sure why you bother askin' that, in case ya lost your memory, I can't be wanderin' round here without someone with me." Scout reminded.

"Oh right. Guess you coming with me partner."

"Yeah whatever let's go." Scout muttered.

The two mercenaries then headed off to their room, surprisingly Engineer did not get lost and manage to get them to the room. Once they got in there, Engineer was surprised to see another bed in the room, but Scout didn't seem fazed by it.

"Oh, did someone bring this here earlier Scout?"

"Yeah, umm I forgot the guys name but he's that big dude with the giant hammer, he brought it here when I was still in the room."

"Reinhardt, well that solves the problem of how are we gonna sleep. I wasn't lookin' forward to sharing a bed with you." Engineer admitted.

"Yeah me neither, I don't swing that way." Scout added in, both mercenaries had a little chuckle before continuing. Scout immediately leaped to his bed and landed roughly on it, causing the bed to creak but soon settled quietly. He then took off his shoes, hat, and shirt then decided to keep his pants and sock on.

"Alright Engie I'm going under, later." Scout bid Engineer the night and flipped onto his side facing the wall. But before he could even try to go to sleep, Engineer stopped him.

"You're not gonna take a shower before going to bed?" Engineer asked.

"Hold up, there's a shower here?" Scout asked while sitting up.

"Yeah in the bathroom right there." Engineer pointed out the only bathroom in the room they were in.

"Ok, now I know for sure we're in the future." Scout said in shock.

"The hell Scout after all you've seen you still had doubt that you were in the future?" Engineer laughed.

"Come on Engie! Back at our place we all had to share the same freakin' bathroom that was outside our rooms!" Scout yelled.

"Yeah yeah quiet down before they hear us." At that Scout walked into the bathroom and began looking around.

"Gee sure is nice. Too bad we didn't pack my clothes and underwear for this trip ey Hardhat?" Scout asked sarcastically resulting another laugh from Engie.

"Actually, the agents or heroes here were kind enough to hand me some spare clothes so I wouldn't be needin' to wear my dirty uniform all the time, this includes boxers and such." Engineer said as he took out a duffle bag from beside the drawers and set it in front of Scout. Scout started looking into the bag to see of any clothes that may at least fit on him.

"Pfft talk about no taste in clothin'." Scout said as he inspected the designs of the clothes given.

"Yeah most of them are uniforms for this place but they're very comfortable." Engineer claimed, since he was wearing said uniform still.

"As long as I got something to wear for tonight after I wash myself. But what bout' you?" Scout asked.

"Already took a shower this morning, I'll take a shower tomorrow sunrise." Engineer said as he began taking of his clothes, while Scout began selecting what to wear. Once Scout had chosen what to wear, he caught sight of Engineer only in his shorts and his gunslinger.

With the gunslinger in sight, along with Engineer's decently built body, he looked like a total badass. Scout smirked when a certain girl Engineer has been hanging around with lately popped into his mind.

"Well well, I wonder how that symmetry lady would react to seeing you right now." Scout wondered aloud.

"It's Symmetra, Scout. And she has seen me like this already." Engie informed. Scout screamed.

"Damn Engie! You go man!" Scout cheered while laughing his ass off, he did not expect Engie of all people to do something like that.

"It wasn't like that you dumbass!" Engie shouted after catching onto what Scout meant.

"It was by accident, and it was all because of Tracer's silly tactic to get me out of bed fast. I ran out of this room with only my boxers and shoes on, thinking we were getting attacked, only to be laughed at by Tracer. Symmetra just happened to be there." Engie explained.

"Oh yeah? And how did she take it?" Scout asked, eager to know the lady's reaction.

To this question Engineer remained silent for a moment, he recalled her acting weird with her face growing a little red. For some reasons she wasn't looking at him directly and also took some steps away from him. He honestly had no idea what was her problem.

"She acted weird and got all nervous, it's like as if her confident self was taken away from her for a quick moment." Engineer said.

"Ha, bet it was because you were right up in her face." Scout said.

"Doubt it, I mean come on now, it's not like she hasn't seen a man's chest before."

"True that I guess, anyway I'm hitting the shower now." Scout said before entering the bathroom and closed the door. Engineer stood there thinking about Symmetra before dismissing the thought and continued to put on his sleeping clothes.

By the time Scout finished his shower, Engineer was already in bed. Scout wore shorts similar to the ones Engineer wore at the moment, but Scout decided to have no shirt for the night. And with that, Scout took another leap onto the bed, another creak noise was resulted before Scout settled down.

"Hey Engie?"

"Hmm?" Engie hummed tiredly, his eyes were still closed.

"You think we might be able to explore the future a little? Like look around the city and see what's up?"

"Hmm…maybe…Symmetra did say she might take me out somewhere so we could have a drink or something. Maybe you could come along." Engineer yawned.

"Awesome." Scout replied before yawning as well. "G'night Hardhat, and don't be freakin' snoring in ya sleep."

"Same to you." Engineer mumbled before allowing sleepiness to consume him, the same for Scout.

To be continued…

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