As Hugo and Roxanne spent time catching up on what they've missed, Dolphus was sitting at his desk with a deep frown. The BLU spy head he had sitting on his desk stared curiously at the doctor.
"So?"
"Zis doesn't make sense!" the medic hissed through his teeth in frusteration, "Roxanne has no mutations at all, which would mean zhat Hugo got it after she vas born, but if zhat were zhe case, zhen ve'd know about it and how it happened. But I have no memory about anyzing zhat vould cause zhe mutation."
"Perhaps it was caused in secret?" The BLU spy suggested, "and for whatever reason, the effects are only showing now?"
"Hmm. Zhat is possible..." Dolphus tapped his chin in thought, "but if zhat vere zhe case, zhen vhy now? Und for vhat reason? Perhaps I should run tests on zhe ozhers. Zhere could also be a chance ve have all been mutated, but aren't showing signs yet."
The spy would've shrugged if he had shoulders. He watched as the RED medic stood up with a tired sigh.
"I'm going to get zhe ozhers," he turned and walked out of his office.
...
"I'm pretty sure we'd all remember if we had our genes mutated," Brandon crossed his arms as he watched the doctor pacing back and forth in front of the team (excluding Hugo and Roxy of course).
"I vas thinking somzing similar, and yet, our sniper is a mutant. Who's to say ve have all been mutated somehow?"
"Even if we've all been mutated," Max butted in, "what are we gonna even do about it? We wouldn't know who to blame."
Dolphus growled if frustration, "no, but I could at least create somezing to nullify zhe effects. Ve don't want mutated versions of ourselves reeking havoc in our own base, now do ve?"
"And what if it's just Hugo?" Duer scratched his jaw, "what then, and why only him?"
"I don't know. I don't have enough information right now," Dolphus ran his gloved hands over his face, "und zere are no records of similar situations zhat I could find. It's as if I am missing a good chunk of my papers."
"Missing papers?" Sorrell raised a brow, "perhaps they were taken?"
"Impossible! I keep zem locked up! Und vhat I found strange vas zhat anyzing connected to or from zhe death of Hugo's spouce is all gone!"
Max's eyes narrowed under his goggles, "that would then mean that somethin' happened that the higher ups don't want us to know about or remember. Come on boys, what happened back then that would cause the Administrator to erase any information connected to it?"
The group was quiet and stared at the ground in deep thought. After a few minutes, even the brilliant medic and engineer were still scratching their head in thought. Until the pyro seemed to perk up with an alarmed yelp.
"What is it Pyro?" Max looked at the pyromaniac with a raised brow. The masked mercenary began to quickly wave his arms as he tried to explain what he just remembered. The engineer's eyes widened a bit.
"Hugo turned into that thing before and killed his wife?" Pyro nodded.
"Gah!" John jumped, "I remember now! He went berserk and attacked everyone! Everyone but the BLU medic!"
"BLU medic? the one that vanished, right?" Bogdan frowned, "he also killed previous spy, da?"
"He and Beth woulda respawned though," Brandon crossed his arms, "so why didn't they?"
"Either it was a malfunction, or some one went and removed their codes," Sorrell mused, "I believe it was the latter."
"But who'd do that?" the scout looked at the spy with wide eyes."
"I can think of who would be crazy and cruel enough to do that," Sorrell's eyes narrowed. The team looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to reveal who might've killed the two mercinaries, and even possibly be behind the whole thing entirely.
"It would have to be the previous BLU medic."