"Pyro!" Johnathan banged on the door of the sleeping mercenary, "wake up!"
"Shh!" Sorrell covered his mouth, "we don't want Hugo to hear us."
"Oh, right."
The spy rolled his eyes and quietly opened the door, motioning John to step in first. The pyro was silently snoring under his blanket. Sorrell walked over to the sleeping mound and shook it.
"Pyro. Wake up," the mound shifted, followed by mumbling. Sorrell sighed and shook the pyro harder.
"Wake u-"
"WAKE UP MAGGOT!"
Both the spy and the pyro jumped in surprise at John's sudden yelling.
...
WAKE UP MAGGOT!"
The spindly creature paused at the sound. It waited a few moments as it detirmined where the shout came from before it bolted down the hall.
...
"Done yet?"
"Mhm."
"Good," Sorrell and John turned away from the wall, which they were asked to look at while the pyromaniac got himself dressed.
"Hmmph hmmphmm?" The pyro's voice was muffled by his mask. Yet despite this, most of the team seemed to at least have an idea on what he was saying.
"Oh, something happened to our sniper and now he's running around as a monster!" The soldier quickly explained, "we figured you'd like to take a shot at him with your flamethrower!"
"Hmph!" The pyro jolted and shook his head. He could never hurt one of his own teammates! Sure, they would respawn, but that didn't mean he should burn any of them intentionally.
John frowned while Sorrell just sighed. He expected the pyro to react like that.
"I don't think any of us want to harm Hugo-"
"I am perfectly willing to punch him," John briefly interrupted.
"Except you," Sorrell cleared his throat, "but there is a high chance we will have to attack him. For all we know, it may be the only way to change him back, which I sincerely hope not."
The pyro's shoulders slightly sagged, but he nodded in understanding and grabbed both his flamethrower and axe that he kept in the corner of his room.
The trio turned to leave when they heard something rapidly scrambling in the hallway. The spy immediately recognized the scraping noises.
"It's Hugo," he hissed through his teeth and pulled out his Dead Ringer, "nobody make a sound."
The other two froze and stared at the door as the scraping grew louder, soon reaching the front of the door before stopping.
"What was-" The soldier was cut off as a black scythe cut into the door and immediately stabbed through his helmet, killing him instantly.
Both Pyro and Sorrell screamed as the monster slashed at the door, easily tearing it apart.
"Pyro, turn on your flamethrower!" Sorrell shouted as he lunged at Hugo. The pyromaniac seemed to hesitate for a moment before he aimed his flamethrower at both the spy and the monsterous sniper.
Sorrell shrieked as the fire burned his back and the monster sliced his stomach open. He fell over dead soon.
The monster screeched as the fire burned it as well and scrambled away from the flames. It's head perked at a loud staticky noise in front of it.
Sorrell closed the Dead Ringer and placed in int his pocket, now holding up his Ambassitor aimed right at the freak.
"Sorry Hugo. It's for your own good," the spy pulled the trigger, and the creature's head flew back. It staggered for a moment before flopping onto the ground motionless.
Sorrell looked at the shaken Pyro and motioned him to follow him back to respawn, where the others were waiting.