A/N: Ditto. Wow 100 views already, that was fast. Shoutout to Meerhawk and Old Ancestor for following and favoriting!
Today's battle on Dustbowl was rather…interesting for both sides. But to put it in simple terms, today's attack/defend match was a complete turn around for RED, and the BLU's were the ones that were humiliated.
Here are some snippets from the battle:
When the gates opened BLU Heavy and Medic took to the front of the pack in order to push for the first point, other BLU members such as BLU Soldier and Demo followed closely behind. As BLU Heavy got halfway towards the first control point, something flew in from the sky and landed feet first on BLU Medic's head, knocking the German to the ground and crushing his skull under the figure's feet.
"DOCTOR!" shouted BLU Heavy as he revved up his gun to kill the assassin, but before he could get a shot off, the figure let a hail of bullet engulf the Russian with the two machineguns it was holding. BLU Heavy let off a death scream as he fell to the ground riddled with bullets.
"Oh this is not good," said Demo.
"ATTACK!" yelled Soldier as he shot a rocket at the figure. The figure rolled to its right, dodging the rocket before shooting off two rockets at the BLU Demo and Soldier from its machineguns. The rockets pierced both men through the chest. BLU Soldier gave a groan before the rockets blew up, only leaving the bottom half of both men's bodies intact. The figure smirked before turning its attention to a BLU Pyro who was fighting Demo.
Sniper was wounded and bleeding. He barely survived a one on one fight against the BLU Scout and was trying to hobble to the nearest health pack. With his hand gripping the wound on his torso, and another balancing himself on the cave wall, he slowly made his way to the medium health kit. Before he could take it though, he heard the sound of a shotgun being cocked behind him. He turned to find a BLU Engineer aiming his Frontier Justice at him he was also critically wounded.
"Bloody hell…" Sniper muttered. He didn't have the strength to quickly whip out his kukri, or his SMG.
"Nobody likes a squatter," BLU Engi said as he raised his shotgun. Sniper closed his eyes waiting for the inevitable. But as soon as he did, he heard the Engi groan. He opened his eyes to find Debbie standing in front of him next to the dead Engi, a noticeable hole in the side of his head. In one hand held a pistol with a silencer attached.
"I look away for one second and then I find someone on Death's door," she said with a sigh. Her backpack opened up and a smaller, modified version of the Medi-Gun attached to a robotic arm extended from it, and started to heal Sniper. When it finished healing the Australian, a notification appeared on her Pip-Boy, "Gotta go, Soldier needs some heals," she said before taking off towards the first area.
BLU Spy was confused. When the battle started, he noticed that the REDs were constantly pushing his entire team back. It was the total opposite of yesterday. He didn't know what was causing them to turn the tides, but he was determined to find out. As usual, he snuck towards RED's backlines, hoping to gain some insight. The first thing what he found was most unusual: there were no buildings whatsoever. Sure his team could've destroyed them, but how were they getting to the front so fast if there were no Teleporters, how was it they were so well stocked with ammo and heal without a Dispenser, and why couldn't they capture the first point even through there wasn't a Sentry guarding it?
Could it be that the RED Engineer was able to create an even more powerful version of his buildings? BLU Spy shook away that thought. He believed that was impossible for the Texan, after all he did outsmart him a lot yesterday. He took another look around the area to make sure, but when he looked at spawn once more, he saw something strange.
A young woman was standing outside of RED spawn.
BLU Spy's mind clouded itself with millions of questions. Who was this woman? Why is she here? Did RED decided to recruit more mercs?
The woman had the cowgirl look to her. Bandana, the boots, and two revolvers on holsters attached to her belt. She didn't look like she was in a hurry, and idly was listening to something on her headphones with her arms crossed.
BLU Spy disguised himself as he uncloaked but he still stood from a distance to understand the meaning behind this.
He watched as the RED Medic exited the spawn and approached the girl. The two exchange words before the girl grabbed hold of Medic's shoulder and disappeared.
Wait. Disappear.
"What the hell…" BLU Spy whispered. He could've seen more, unless he saw the double barrel shotgun pointed at his head behind him.
Later on
The entire RED team was in full party mode when they got back to their HQ. Not only they were able to defend Dustbowl without giving up a capture, but they also humiliated the BLUs as well. But for BLU team, it was a different story. The BLUs were trying to figure out what caused the to do so well today.
"What the hell happened today?" said BLU Scout as he banged his head on the table. "A team couldn't just bounce back like that in a day, that's just crazy,"
"RED babies did not hit like babies today," added BLU Heavy.
"I think I may have the reason why the REDs did exceptionally well today," said BLU Spy.
"THEN TELL US FRENCHIE!" shouted BLU Soldier.
"It appears the REDs have some assistance from some "outside" source or sources," he said. "I saw a woman outside RED's spawn disappear with the RED Medic,"
"Now that you said that," said BLU Sniper. "When the match started I saw another sheila completely decimate our main attacking force, especially when she smashed Medic's skull in,"
BLU Medic rolled his eyes. "She was just lucky," he said. "And weren't you blown to bits by another woman?"
BLU Sniper spit on the floor as he remembered turning around to find a shotgun in his face, even though no one was there a second ago when he last checked it.
"So what are we going to do?" asked BLU Scout. "I don't want to die…"
"YOU PATHETIC MAGGOTS ARE AFRAID OF SOME WOMEN," shouted BLU Soldier. "YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES!"
"Spy, since you sometimes communicate with your RED counterpart, do you think you can get some information out of him?" asked BLU Engi.
"Maybe," said BLU Spy as he lit another cigarette. "But I highly doubt he would tell me anything about these "newcomers","
"Well try then, cause I do not want to be kicked in the ass by my female counterpart,"
"What?"
"I was about to kill the RED Sniper when she shot me in the head, I saw her in my peripheral as I was about to pull the trigger,"
BLU Scout started to laugh uncontrollably, "Hardhat got beat up by a girl!" he said in between laughs. He stopped laughing when he saw a glare from the Texan bore into his eyes.
"Luckily, the next two days are ceasefire days," said BLU Spy. "We should regroup and rethink our strategy,"
Other BLU members nodded in approval, if RED had really hired new mercs to even the odds, then BLU had to step its game up in order to counter that advantage.
Back at RED HQ
The building sisters were currently in RED garage talking over today's events. Majority of the other members returned to their rooms, with the exception of Demo, who passed out on the kitchen floor.
"Today was rather…. exhilarating," said Debbie.
"No kidding," said Tia. "And I thought what the guys did was easy,"
"And the fact that there are a lot of body parts flying around," said Tai. "Yeesh, it gives me the creeps,"
"Eh don't worry, you'll get used to it," said Stella.
"Easy for you to say," said Tia. "You see shit and gore fly around all day,"
Stella shrugged and leaned back on the chair she was sitting on. "So what's the status on repairing Engi's PDA?"
"No clue, cowboy wants to repair it on his own," said Debbie. "But I heard the parts to fix it won't come in for a while,"
"So he can't place any buildings for a while," said Tia.
"…and we have to sub in for them," Tai finished.
"Correct," said Debbie.
The four were silent until Stella said, "I think it's time for us to get some shut eye shall we?"
"Where are we going to sleep though?" asked Tai.
"If I'm right, you three could sleep in Sniper's camper van," said Stella. "I'm sure he won't mind,"
"But where are you going to sleep?" asked Debbie.
"The couch in the living room,"
And with that Stella left the three to head to the living room. She passed by Demo in the kitchen, who was mumbling about a Loch Ness Monster in his sleep, before jumping on the couch and pulling her hat over her face.
Time Skip
About three hours into the night, something else happened. In Engi's room, on his workbench, lay the singed PDA. The PDA was damaged but not to the point where it was unusable. Suddenly the PDA sparked to life and emitted the same blue light that brought the girls. It covered the entire room before disappearing. When it did, it didn't leave a human this time, but rather a German Shepard. It appeared to be a normal dog with a red bandana tied around its neck and some kind of dog armor covering its torso. But on closer examination, its pupils were colored red.
The dog looked around the room it was in, taking in the environment. It felt that it did not like it in here and decided to walk out the door and into the hallway. The dog saw how dark the place is and how quiet it was. It wandered into the living room and saw the couch. It was about to jump on it, but saw someone was already on it. The dog decided to cut its losses and lie down next to the couch instead.
It fell fast asleep.
Time Skip
Stella woke to something breathing on her hand. She wanted to ignore it and go back to sleep, but something made her want to investigate the cause of it. Pushing her hat out of her face, she rolled over so she could see what was causing the disturbance on the ground.
A German Shepard with a red bandana and body armor.
"I don't recall anyone having a dog as a pet here," she thought. "Its not a stray either since of that bandana, so who could it belong to?" She righted herself so she was now sitting on the couch and pondered about the origins of the dog. As she did Debbie walked into the living room, rubbing the sleep from her eyes with her hands.
"Sleep well?" asked Stella.
"Yeah," said Debbie with a yawn. "Twins still sleeping though,"
"Deb, you know anyone here that owns a dog?"
"No why?"
"Cause there's one right here," she said pointing to the sleeping German Shepard.
"Hmm," Debbie kneeled down to look over the dog. When she did the dog woke up and soon the two were touching noses.
The dog then started to lick Debbie's face.
"Aww isn't that cute?" said Stella.
Debbie was able to get away from the dog, and wiped the saliva from her face. "Ew,"
Scout decided to walk in the living room as well, "Morning, ladies…" he said before seeing the dog. "What's with the mutt?"
Apparently the dog didn't like being called a "mutt" and charged Scout and then tackled the Bostonian to the ground.
"OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD!" Scout shouted as he tried to prevent the dog from tearing opening his neck.
"Dumbass," said Debbie before using her fingers to let out a whistle. The dog stopped attacking Scout, but growled at him before returning to Debbie.
"I think you better watch what you say next time partner," said Stella.
Scout rolled his eyes as he got up and left to the kitchen, muttering something under his breath.
"I think we better give this dog a name or else someone else is going to get mauled," said Stella.
"Why?" asked Debbie. "We don't even know if he belongs to someone,"
"Doubt that already, he seems attached to you already," the dog was sitting next to Debbie. "And you also were able to get him off Scout without pulling him off,"
Debbie thought for a bit before saying, "How does K-9 sound?"
A/N: Two things I want to explain in this chapter:
1. The Medi-Gun Debbie uses is based off a server-mod-like weapon called the Medi- Dispenser. It heals and refills ammo at the cost of overhealing really slow. The uber gives the patient unlimited ammo and a faster firing speed.
2. The dog, K-9, is also based off a popular joke class, the K-9, that someone posted online. He's almost like that, but there will be differences between the two. He represents the Combat Mini Sentry.
Till next time,
-D.W