Hey everyone. NexusLight here with the 5th chapter of The Newcomer. So last chapter saw the end of Season 1 of RvB. Now we're getting into Season 2. Also, the story is going to be more connected with the main stream Halo canon then the web-series was. So lets get started!

Disclaimer: I own only the OC. Red vs. Blue is owned by Rooster Teeth.

Episode 3: Doc's the Name

Three Months After Tex's Death

Dream

Steve's POV

Opening my eyes, I quickly closed them as a light close to my face blinded me. After blinking a few times, I saw a gloved hand grab the lamp and move it out of the way, allowing me to stared at a metallic ceiling. I tried to sit up, only for a hand to grab my face and hold me down.

"The subject is awake. Sedate him immediately." A voice said as he tried to struggle out of the person's grip. Suddenly, he felt something poke into his left arm and soon began to feel tired. The hand moved away from my face, I felt a mask being put over my face before I heard a hiss and breathing in something that increased my drowsiness.

My eyes began to slowly shut as several mechanical arms appeared above me with needles on the tips before descending towards where my arms were. I also heard a whirling sound from both sides of my head before all feeling in my body vanishes and my vision goes black.

Suddenly, my body explodes with pain.

Nighttime

Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha

"GAH!" I quickly open my eyes as I shot up from my bed, breathing heavily. After a few more breaths, I feel my to see if their wasn't a mask covering it and sighing in relief that there wasn't. I then look at my arms, seeing no signs of any needle insertions. The only thing there were little reminds of the aftermath of that nightmare.

"God damn it..." I shook my head, trying to get rid of the memories that rose up. I looked at the clock on the side shelf next to my bed and saw that it was about the usual time I got up. Letting out another sigh, I climbed off the almost solid mattress to get began to get myself ready.

Hours Later

Letting out a sigh, I nodded at the screen with Vic on it. "Right. Well, sorry for wasting your time Vic."

"Hey, no problem dude. It's our job hear a Blue Command to deliver excellent customer care." I mentally scoff at that, consider the amount of bullshit I had to listen minutes ago. "Anyways, Blue Command out."

The screen shuts off before I shake my head. "No other skilled mechanics in range of us? What the fuck is wrong with this army?" I soon got up from my chair before heading outside to the front of the base.

"Hey, Church, we have a problem." I heard Tucker speak from outside.

"I am not your mother." Church speaks. "So don't come tattling to me every time one of you does something that the other one doesn't like. That's Steve's job."

"I'm telling you, he's crazy. He keeps threatening me and talking in a scary voice." Tucker complains.

I soon walk out and see Church, who's body is now the same cobalt blue from his old armor, facing his fellow privates as Caboose looks at Tucker. "No, I didn't.

Tucker then faces Caboose. "Oh, so you're say, you didn't threatened to cut off my head and give it to Church as a birthday present?" He questioned.

I bring my right hand to my visor and shake my head. "This again?"

After Tex died and Church gained a new body, things have changed around here. First was me making Church my second-in-command , which boosted his idiotic ego. I did consider Tucker at first, but knowing that Church was taking charge here before I was assigned sergeant made him the better choice and to be honest, he does have leadership skill.

In Tucker's defense though, the aqua soldier can actually aim worth a damn.

Caboose, however, I've noticed something odd with his behavior recently. On some occasions, his voice would become deep and he'd make threats to anyone, mostly Tucker. I've been keeping an eye on him to see if something was wrong, but so far, nothing.

"You know, I think you're taking my words a little out of context." Said soldier said to Tucker.

Tucker only became baffled by what he said. "What? What context?"

"Listen guys,-" Church began as I noticed someone in purple armor heading towards us before stopping a few feet. "-this competition thing has got to stop, okay? I thought we'd established by now-"

"Excuse me." The purple man (no FNAF reference here) spoke.

I began to walk towards them as Church glanced behind him. "Hey pal, one second, okay? I'm in the middle of something here." He then turned back to Tucker and Caboose as I came into view. "I- loo- I thought we'd established by now, I don't like either of you, okay? So competing for my attention is not going to do you any good?"

"Is it Caboose again?" I asked as I finally got to them. The two turned around as Church nodded. I let out a sigh. "God damn it..."

"Excuse me?" The purple guy asked again.

All of us finally turned our attention to him. "Okay, yes, hello. Who're you?" Church asked.

Suddenly, Caboose turned to Tucker. "Don't ever be alone." He said in a deep, threatening voice.

"He's doing that thing again." Tucker tried to tell Church, only to be ignored.

"Caboose!" I warned him. He suddenly snapped his head back towards the purple armored man, but not before quietly speaking. "Dick face..."

"My name's DuFresne." The man, DuFresne, introduced himself. "Uh, are you Sergeant Walker?"

"No, I'm not Sergeant Walker. My name is Church." Church told him before looking at me. "He's Sergeant Walker."

I nod my head at him. "Hello." I then gesture to Tucker. "This is Private Tucker."

"Yo." The aqua soldier says as he makes a peace sign.

Church then looks at Caboose. "And our friend over there in regulation blue, that's Caboose. Or O'Malley, or whatever the hell he's calling himself."

Caboose then looks at Church. "Why did you introduce me second?"

Tucker then looks at Caboose in annoyance. "Because he hates you."

I shake my head at their antics as DuFresne spoke. "I received your call for a medic."

All of us look at him in disbelief. "Medic?" Caboose asks as DuFresne nodded. "That was like three months ago."

"Yeah, what'd you do, crawl all the way here?" Tucker asked in disappointment.

"I came as quickly as I could." He defend himself.

"I've been calling for someone with mechanical training for the last three months after a week of you not showing up." I told him, very disappointed by what I just heard. "Command has constantly been telling me that their isn't a single one that's close enough, and yet, they were able to find you, a medic, after a I radioed in for one and it takes three months for you to get here?"

He nods and I felt my right eye twitch. DuFresne then looked at all of us. "Where's the patient?"

"Well, she's about 50 yards behind you and six feet straight down." Church tells him, a bit of anger in his voice, as we all look over at were she and Church's body was buried.

DuFresne turned around to see the two grave stones, one a cross and the other a star. "Oh." He says with a bit of sadness in his voice before looking back at Church. "I'm sorry about your loss."

"What? Oh, yeah. Yeah, thanks, man, it was tough but, well, what're you gonna do..." Church accepted.

"We didn't like her very much." Caboose said before whispering loudly. "She was mean to other people."

"Caboose, what did I tell you about that?" I asked him, not wanting anyone talking bad about Church's now deceased girlfriend.

"Um..." He looked up, trying to remember what I told him about talking bad about Tex.

"Who's in the other grave?"

"That's uh, that's me. I'm in that grave." Church answered casually.

DuFrasne only became baffled by this. "... Uh huh... Of course."

"See, uh, he, got killed by this uh, crazy runaway tank." Caboose began.

Tucker then turned to Caboose with a deadpanned expression. "Or by the idiot driving it."

"Oh yeah, and then he became, uh, this really mean ghost, and uh, took over a Mexican robot's body, uh... oh! And then we had to uh, oyathatsright, spray paint him, ah, to make him blue, and now he is alive again, and he is a bionic man... Who... is blue..." Caboose finished.

Tucker then let out a groan. "Right, and it took us six weeks to get his Spanish setting turned off."

'Click!'

Suddenly, a click came from Church before he turned to Tucker. "No esta completamente apagado, pendejo."* The blue robot spoke. I rolled my eyes at what he said. I would have told the guys that we have translators built into our helmets, but I knew they'd forget about it in a few hours.

Tucker only sighed. "I'll go get the Spanish dictionary."

"I don't think you need to Tucker." I told him. "Because I think you know what that means."

"Wait, so, no one here is hurt?" DuFrasne asked.

'Click!'

Another click came from Church as he turned back to face the medic. "No, we're fine. In fact, I feel better than ever. See now whenever these two idiots really start to bug me or when Steve gives me any bullshit, I can always just turn my ears off. Couldn't do that before."

"You said they were shorting out." Caboose accused him.

'Click!'

"I'm sorry, what was that Caboose? I can't hear you!" The robot said, finally turning on his hearing.

"Hey Church." The cobalt soldier turns to me as I give him the middle figure. "What am I saying now?"

"Fuck you Steve." He replies as I smirked at him.

"Well then let me just check you three out, and I'll be on my way." DuFrasne says as he pulls out a-

I quickly reach to my right side and bring out my magnum and point it at the so-called medic. "Hold it!"

The guys jump away from me in surprise while DuFrasne held the Plasma pistol to his chest as he backed away a bit.

"W-Woah! Hold on Steve. What's got you so defensive all of a sudden?" Tucker asked.

I continued to glare at the purple armored man, ready to fire if he did. "He tried to point his gun at us, Tucker. That means that he's here to kill us."

"N-N-No, t-th-this isn-isn't a g-gun." The man replied, stuttering in fear.

"Bullshit." I told him. "I know a gun when I see one and can definitely tell you that's a Covenant Plasma pistol is a gun."

DuFrasne suddenly became confused. "Plasma pistol? I was told that it was a medical scanner that the aliens used."

I raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "Wait, they told you they knew it was created by the Covenant?"

"Y-Yes."

"How the hell did you not consider the possibility of being a weapon used by humanity's greatest enemy?" I asked.

He looked at the pistol then to me then back to the pistol. "Well, a lot of medical officers use them in the field, so I guess I decided not to question it."

I stare at him for a moment before sighing. "Alright." I then placed the magnum back at my right side. "Let's test that then."

Everyone looked at me as I walk over to the cowering man. "You show me it can be for medical purposes and then I'll show you it can be used as a weapon. Deal?"

"D-D-Deal." He agreed as he pointed it at me before a green scan line shoots out of the energy band from between the two tips before it ran up my body. It then retracts back and from the reflection of DuFrasne's visor, I see the pad go green. "Huh... Looks like your vitals are all good."

"Mmm... Didn't learn that back during training..." I said to myself. "Alright, now let me show you that it is a weapon." I hold right hand out. DuFrasne looks at it before handing the pistol to me. "Alright." I nod.

I then turn to face the rock to our left before aiming the pistol at it. I move my thumb to the pad at the top before touching it. The screen then changes from the outline of the human body to a screen with two gauges. "Firing."

I press the trigger and immediately, the tips glow a bit brighter as the energy band flares up before a blast of green plasma shoots out towards the rock. Upon impact, the energy disperses, leaving the impact point burnt with a bit of smoke rising from it.

I nod to myself before pressing the pad again, switching off it's weapon mode. "See?" I say as I turn around to see DuFrasne staring at it in surprise.

I hand him the gun as he stares at it before looking at Tucker and Caboose. "...I'll guess I'll check you two out and be on my way."

"...Check us out? Is this gonna be one of those things where I have to turn my head and cough?" Tucker says in worry, mainly because of the demonstration.

"It'll be fine Tucker." I tell him. "I guess it can be used for medical use as well." I then pause for a few seconds. "...As long as it's in the right mode."

"Wow, talk about reassurance." The aqua soldier says sarcastically.

DuFresne shook his head as he pointed the pistol turned scanner at him. "No, I'm just gonna check your vitals."

"I bet I have better vitals than you!" Caboose boosts to Tucker. He then paused for a few seconds before looking at Church. "...What's a vital?"

"On your way? I don't think so, bud. Aren't you here to join our squad?" Church ignored Caboose and asked DuFrasne.

"No, I'm just here to help out with Tex, and then assist in the canyon as needed." The medic says as he scans Caboose before turning to Tucker.

"First of all, great job on the Tex thing. Mission accomplished." Church congratulates him mockingly. "Secondly, the way that we need you to assist, is to help us kill all the Reds."

"Church. Medical officers focus on healing the wounded brought back from battles. They don't engage the enemy unless their attacked." I told him.

DuFresne nodded as he scanned Tucker. "He has a point, but even if my orders didn't prohibit me from doing that, I still wouldn't. I joined the army as a conscientious objector."

"A conshe- who?" Tucker questioned in confusion.

"I'm a pacifist." The purple medic bluntly states.

"You're a thing that babies suck on...?" Caboose asks.

I was about to answer him until Tucker spoke. "No, dude, that's a pedophile."

...

...

...

Everyone stared at Tucker with wide eyes. He only looked confused by the stares. "What?"

"Tucker, I think he means a pacifier." Church says as he put a hand to his face.

Tucker stood their for a few seconds before realizing what he said. "...Oh yeah, right. Man, I was totally thinking about something else."

"That's real classy, Tucker."

"Lets... Lets just... forget you ever said that, okay?" I suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Well, everyone here checks out." DuFrasne said as he turned to me. "I'll come back and check on you before I leave the canyon. Can you tell me which way to the Red Base?"

Before I could speak, Tucker cut me off. "Why? You said you weren't gonna fight 'em."

DuFresne shakes his head. "I'm not. Resources are low so I'm on loan to both armies to help whichever side needs me at the time."

"Man, that is so freakin' lame." The blue-bot says in frustration.

"Everyone has to earn money somehow, Church." I told him as I placed my right hand on his left shoulder.

"I'm just gonna go to Red Base and see if they need any help." The medic says.

"Alright then." I tell him before looking towards the other end of the canyon. "Their base is just on the opposite side of canyon." I then looked at his Plasma pistol. "Hey, if you're heading to Red Base, I'd recommend putting away your Plasma pistol. If they see you walking up carrying that thing, they're more then likely gonna shoot it out of your hand." I warn him.

'BAM!'

Before he could speak, a sniper shot rang out before something hit DuFresne pistol/scanner, knocking it out of his hand.

Church then lets out a sigh. "Yeah, just like that."

'BAM!'

A streak flies in between us and DuFresne before hitting the base, leaving a bullet mark.

"Scatter!"

"Everyone, get to cover!" I yell along with Church before activating my shield and draw my magnum out. "Prepare for combat!"

The Reds

No one's POV

'BAM!'

Donut fired the sniper rifle a few feet to Sarge's left before reloading. "Nice shot, cupcake."

"Thanks, Sarge!"

'Machine gun fire'

The camera then switches to Simmons firing his Assault rifle. "Oh that's right, suck it, Blue!"

Suddenly, Grif pops up in in front of his line of sight. "Yeah, sneak attack!" He cheered with a fist pump.

"Sit down, you dumb ass, I can't see." The marron soldier told the orange idiot.

"Hike up yer knickers, fellas." Sarge orders before pumping his shotgun. "Let's go get 'em."

Firefight Outside Blue Base

Back with the Blues, Church, Tucker and DuFrasne are taking cover behind a rock while Caboose and Steve hide behind another one a few feet to their right. "Okay, Tucker, I need you to get up there, help Steve and Caboose shore up the defense, establish a suppressing fire, and hold that position until further notice or until Steve gives you new orders." Church ordered the aqua soldier.

"I didn't even know what half of that meant." Tucker told the second in command.

Church gave him an annoyed look. "Just go over to Caboose and Steve's rock, and fire your gun a bunch."

Tucker looked towards where the two were at, with Steve blocking shots with his shield before either throwing it at the Reds or firing his magnum with Caboose, and the distance between the two rocks. "That rock? Yeah, I don't think so." He rejected.

"We do not have time to discuss this." Church retorted, not in the mood to deal with this.

"Sure, no time for you to discuss it. You get to hang out here with Nancy No-Bullets shootin' the breeze." The aqua soldier gesture to the purple medic. "Meanwhile, I'm out there, running around, eating a machine gun sandwich."

"Tucker, we're gonna give you covering fire." The cobalt robot argues. "Besides, our commander has a shield."

"Covering fire? Unless that means you're gonna build a huge, bullet-proof wall between me and them or if Steve can somehow hear our conversation from over their, I think you need to come up with a new plan. Preferably one that involves me keeping the same quantity of blood that I have right now." Tucker again rejects the orders.

Church was feeling like something was about to overheat due to his anger. "No problem. Oh wait, wait, does the blood have to be in your body?" He asked.

Reds

Back with Grif and Simmons, who were unleashing a barrage of bullets at the Blues, although Grif wasn't letting of the trigger while Simmons was firing a few bursts before letting off to focus his aim.

"Sim-m-mon-ns... I-I can't-t f-fee-el my hand-d-ds." Grif shouts as his hands became numb from the constant recoil of his Assault Rifle.

"Maybe you should lay off the trigger, you dumbass." The marron soldier states the obvious thing to do for the idiot.

Suddenly, something fast slams into the left side of Grif's helmet.

'CLANG!'

"GYAH!" The fat soldier yells as he's knocked down by the sudden blow.

"Son of a bitch!" Simmons shouts in surprise as he notices a disc-shaped energy shield that was in patriotic colors fly back to one of the Blues before stopping on his left arm. Simmons couldn't help but stop firing for a few seconds in amazement and a bit of his comic-book geekiness rising up. "No way... Did that guy just..." He soon shook his head before firing again, willing to think about it later.

"Oh..." Grif moaned as he stood back up. "What the hell was that?"

Blues

Church turns to DuFrasne. "Alright you, Doc, get over there and help those two!" He ordered pointing over at Steve and Caboose.

"My name isn't Doc, it's DuFresne." He told Church.

"Yeah. I can't pronounce that, so from now on, your name is Doc."

"I'm not really comfortable with that. I'm not a doctor, I'm a medic."

"What's the difference?" Tucker asked.

"Well, a doctor cures people. A medic just makes them more comfortable.. while they die." The purple medic explained.

Tucker stared at him for a few seconds. "Mental note: don't ever get shot."

"It's settled then. Your name is now Doc." The cobalt soldier told DuFresne.

Letting out a sigh, DuFresne decided not to argue anymore. "Alright, but I don't think it'll stick."

Suddenly, the background goes grayscale and DuFresne slides further to the foreground while DOC, the letters in his color, slides across behind him, with dramatic music playing.

"Oh, trust us, it'll stick." Tucker denied Doc's theory.

Church nodded in agreement. "Now get over to Steve and Caboose, and help them hold that position."

"I don't have a gun, I'm a pacifist." Doc argued.

"Yes you do. Steve showed us that thing is an alien pistol." Church remined him.

"Even if it is, I won't fight. I'm a 'pacifist.'" Doc retorted.

Church groaned at the medic's stubbornness. "Well then just get over there and yell 'bang-bang-bang'."

Doc didn't like that idea either. "Eh, I don't know. Even that sounds pretty aggressive."

Tucker then threw his arms in the air in disbelief. "Oh, come on."

"Besides, I'm not supposed to get involved unless someone gets hurt." The medic explained.

Looking over at Steve and Caboose, Church suddenly got an idea. "Huh. I see." The cobalt bot raised his pistol at Caboose before pulling the trigger.

'BAM!'

"Ahow! My foot..." Caboose yelled as he fell down and grabbed his left foot.

"Caboose, what the-" He then looked over towards where Church was. "CHURCH!"

Freezing a bit from his sergeant's yell, Church then turned to Doc. "Well, looks like Caboose has hurt himself. Maybe you should get over there and help him, Doc."

"You know, you could have just asked nicely." He told Church in disbelief that he did that.

Reds

Simmons releases the empty clip from his gun before reaching for more, only to find nothing. "Ah crap, I'm out." He then held his left hand out to Grif, who was using his magnum. "Give me some ammunition, Grif."

Grif only looked at the marron soldier in confusion. "Me? I don't have any extra. I'm down to one bullet."

"Wha- How can that be? You're the one who carries all the extra rounds in to battle."

"Wait, since when?" The lazy man asked.

"Since the last staff meeting." Simmons told him.

Grif only became more baffled. "We actually talk about stuff in those things? I just fall asleep inside my helmet."

Groaning, Simmons glares at the orange soldier. "Well, you missed your job assignment, and now we have no ammo."

"What's your job?" Grif asked, wanting to try and change the problem.

"Me? I'm the Social Chairman." He reveals proudly.

Just then, Sarge and Donut came running towards the two. "Grif. Me and Treasurer Donut are empty. We need some clips." He orders as he holds out his hand.

Simmons then noticed Grif's magnum. "Hey Grif, you remember that one bullet you have left? I thought of the perfect way you can use it." He suggested mockingly.

Near Blue Base

Steve's POV

I hear the gun fire stop as I tightened some cloth around Caboose's left knee to keep blood from reaching the blue private's foot and exiting the wound. Just then, footsteps approach from behind and I look over my shoulder to see DuFresne comes running up. "I'm here Caboose, where're you hit?"

"Ah, ow, ow, ow, my foot, my foot!" He shouts as he grabs his left foot in pain.

"The left foot?" The medic asked.

"No, the other left foot. Of course his left foot! It's the only one bleeding!" I shout at the purple medic. Upon seeing the medic back away a bit, I calmed myself down a bit. "Sorry, but I'm just pissed that Church did that."

"Yeah." Caboose agrees before gritting his teeth in pain. "Aeh. I can't believe Church shot me."

"Oh don't even start, Caboose!" Said piece of shit yelled over from the other rock.

"Anything else?" DuFresne asked Caboose.

Caboose only looked confused by the question. "Uh, well wha?"

"You have a bullet wound in the foot. Is anything else wrong?" The medic asked.

"Uh... Oh, I got one. Uh, well, sometimes when I fall asleep at night I think about my parents having sex, and I get really, really mad for some reason." He said, causing me and DuFresne to look at him for a few seconds in confusion.

"...Okay I'm just gonna start with the foot." The medic says.

"DuFresne. Use the Plasma pistol's energy band to seal the wound and until it's sealed, keep pressure on his artery." I ordered. Doc nodded before getting to work. Looking over at Church, I glared at him before popping my knuckles.

No one's POV

Back with Blue-bot and Aqua-man, they hid behind the rock, confused by the sudden quietness.

"Hey dude, why aren't the Reds firing?" Tucker asked.

Church only shrugged. "I don't know, maybe they're outta ammo."

"Hey, Blues!" Suddenly, Sarge's voice rang out, causing the two to look over their protection. "We are giving you a chance to surrender!"

"Surrender?" Church asked in confusion.

Chapter 5, done. Now we have the purple medic, Doc, in the story. So, get ready for what's to come.

1: "It's not completely off, asshole."

With that, NexusLight out!

Update: 5/11/2019 - Edited.