There normally weren't times when Medic's less-used medigun, the Quick-Fix, triumphed over his more commonly used medigun, the Medigun. However, with winds stronger than two of the mercs combined, it was time to take it out. The team was to launch a full attack on Engineer (and find where Pyro had gone) aided by a good Quick-Fix Charge, that would enable them to be unaffected by forces. Scout and Spy were out of the battle, having already been defeated, and were currently lying on the couches in the rec room while wrapped up like burritos. Spy was, as the team will eventually find out, attempting to roll down the hall to his room.
The rest of the team was gathered next to the back door. They only had a fraction of their normal force: Soldier, Demoman, Heavy, Medic and Sniper, so they would have to revise their battle strategy. All of them were equipped with the sides of a large crate that would act as shields against the wind, although Medic and Heavy would no longer need it after the Quick-Fix was charged. Sniper had found out Engineer's location by going up on his perch (which was luckily out of range of the tornado) and looking through his scope.
The Texan was placed a solid two hundred feet from the back door of the base. So if they just walked in a straight line, they would eventually reach him.
The main idea of the plan was to have Soldier first approach Engineer from the front, while Demoman flanked him. While all this happened, Heavy and Medic would circle around to the back and use the Quick-Fix charge to get close and stop whatever monstrosity Engineer had created. Sniper, from the roof, would provide aerial support, such as pelting Engineer with objects or sniping whatever contraption was causing this whole mess.
"That is the plan, privates. Any complaints?" Soldier asked, looking around.
"Is good." Heavy replied, nodding thoughtfully. Medic was halfway charged and Demoman seemed to be fine with whatever. Sniper smirked.
"That's a good one." He agreed, armed with a bag of carrots. For what, the rest of the team did not know, and decided to let it go.
The team (or what was left of it) sans Sniper, exited the door and were immediately greeted with forceful gusts of wind. Luckily, they all brandished their crate shields and managed to make to the garden shed without incident.
"I see 'im." Sniper said through their earpieces. "Don't see the firebug, though."
"Heavy, let us move!" Medic commanded, almost at full charge. Demoman and Soldier nodded to each other, and split up, Soldier forging his way forward while Demoman moved to the side. Medic watched grimly as they vanished into the swirling mass of leaves, and then nodded at Heavy.
"Truckie's on uh, a sort of, giant fan?" Sniper suddenly said, sounding confused. When did Engineer find the time to do something like that? "He's got fans attached on all sides?" Sniper continued. "Of his truck? Oh… mate…" He trailed off.
"What?" Medic reached a hand to his earpiece and repositioned it, unsure of if he could hear properly.
"He's done it." Sniper simply said.
"Sniper. Explain." Heavy grunted as they continued circling around. Despite theoretically being within viewing distance of Engineer, they saw nothing.
"He's Engineer-ed his truck." Sniper clarified.
Medic gritted his teeth. Of course Engineer Engineer-ed his truck. The Schweinhund! But what else could he expect? First the toaster (which is now a walking toaster equipped with knives that sliced entire loaves, removed bread crusts and cut slices into emblem-shaped pieces), then the washing machine (which not only washed your clothes, but hung them up to dry and folded them while also shooting bullets at all who put in the wrong amount of detergent), and now this. But what could have made Engineer want to attach giant fans on all sides of his truck? Why did he want to create a tornado of leaves? Scout's garbled explanation didn't really help.
And where exactly did the leaves come from? Sure, it was autumn, but there were only so many trees near the base. Medic supposed Engineer somehow gathered leaves from the forested area not too far from the base.
"Ah, mate." Sniper spoke again. "It's not just the truck. There're fans all around. That's why we've got this tornado. They're all facing in."
Medic cursed and Heavy rolled his eyes.
"Engineer is credit to team. " He deadpanned.
Pyro was sitting next to Engineer in the truck. Engineer had bribed them with candy. Thus, there was a giant pile of candy between the front seats and several candy wrappers lost somewhere in the storm.
"I reckon Scout'll be satisfied with that." He said cheerfully. Engineer had wanted revenge on Scout after that sneak attack, but then he decided he wanted to give him the best leaf pile time of his life. Thus, giant fans. Everywhere. Scout probably was having the time of his life.
"Mmph." Pyro replied, somehow letting the candy phase through the gas mask and into their mouth (did they have a mouth?). The wrapped hard candies would enter the void and vanish. After some crunching ensued, the wrapper would pop out of the filter.
"Ain't I just great?" Engineer sighed, clearly satisfied with his work. He didn't let Scout's dreams be dreams. He let them come true, while making Pyro happy on the side (Also, he was avoiding cleaning the base). Perhaps the rest of the team would join in on the fun, too.
Soldier was pretty close to the front now, and could make out the vague shape of a massive fan. directly in front of it. Behind the fan, mounted up on something big, was the familiar shape of Engineer's truck.
It was harder to move forward now. Just holding up his crate shield was taking a lot of effort.
"Engineer!" He yelled out, angry about the casualties they had suffered. He could barely see the bright yellow construction hat inside the truck. "How dare you-" Soldier proceeded to go on a long-winded speech, and was unaware that Engineer could not hear it whatsoever.
"Srrdrr!" Pyro exclaimed. Engineer jumped and looked through the truck window. Sure enough, there was Soldier, standing directly in front of one of the giant fans and very slowly being pushed away while shaking his fist and shouting something.
"Soldier?! What the heck?!" Engineer could see that Soldier looked to be angry, and he was suddenly confused and hurt. Why did Soldier look so mad about his great deed? Suddenly a bright flash of light appeared in the sky. A couple of seconds later, a huge clap of thunder shook the air, and then the rain began.
"Rrt's rrnrng!" Pyro leaned their head out of the window to see. Then, Engie became aware of something very bad happening.
In front of Engineer's eyes, he watched as the winds that flowed in opposite directions suddenly began to wrap around each other. Soldier was unaware of this occurring behind of him. The horizontal funnel that had formed slowly got heavier on one end thanks to the rain, and touched down on the ground. Engineer's mouth fell open.
Engineer, in essence, had just created a tornado.
"What in Sam Hill?"