A BLU Haired Medic - Chapter 14
As Ami followed the Medic out of the supply room, Ami saw their fellow Scout pass through, darting straight towards the spiral, noticing a red briefcase strapped to his back, a small trail of papers escaping from the briefcase, floating playfully in the air, one of the papers flittering in front of Ami. With a single grasp, Ami took the paper in hand, but before she could read it, the Medic called her over, Ami gently placing the piece of paper in her pocket, the young woman then catching up with the Medic, the Medic walking through an archway near the spiral, both Ami and the Medic now in a small side-room directly above the BLU Fort's main entrance, a large grate with an opening allowing for both of them to see the entrance below.
"Demoman, how have you been holding up?" Medic asked, the Demoman walking into view, holding his sticky bomb launcher.
"Aye, Doc… so, ye been showing de lassie around?" Demoman then pointed at Ami, "So lassie, how have ya been holding up?"
Before Ami could answer, the Medic raised his arm out in front of Ami. "Mein pupil has been holding up vell, Demoman." The Medic gave Ami a short glance before turning back to the Demoman. "Since I've decided zat it vould be best for Mein pupil to stay in ze Fort a bit longer, I've decided zat you should vatch over her."
"Aye, Doc… I'll dat fer you… but in return I'm asking ye a favor." The Demoman set his Sticky Gun launcher, and then pointed at his eyepatch. "No more eye experiments."
The Medic laughed a bit, shaking his head slowly. "If zat iz all zat you vant to asked, zen fine… no more eye experiments… for today…" The Medic then looked back at Ami, "Alright, Mein pupil, you stay vith ze demoman, he'll take care of you… unless of course you vant to vander off… I von't make any guarantees zat ve'll find you before ze REDs do…"
Before Ami could say a word, the Medic walked out, leaving her alone with the Demoman, the Cyclops picking up his Sticky Gun launcher and turned his gaze downward, launching a sticky bomb to the entrance way.
Ami also stared down the grate, walking closer towards the edge, seeing that the Demoman had already placed several other sticky bombs below.
"If you're thinking about being a Medic, lassie, you're doing a bad job at it…" the Demoman said, Ami almost jumping in shock.
"Gomen Nasai Demoman-san…" Ami feeling a bit awkward as the Demoman turned to face Ami, the young woman seeing the Demoman's eye staring at her.
"And none of that Japanese crap… I've already had to learn five languages, I don't want to add another one to it…" Ami nodded, looking at the Demoman's eyepatch. The Demoman noticed and sighed, turning away from Ami, the young woman unable to see his eyepatch. "So I guess you're wondering why I got this eyepatch, aye lassie?"
"Ha- I mean… yes…" Ami correcting herself quickly, the Demoman sighing again, "And my name is Ami… not 'lassie'."
The Demoman then turned back to Ami, suddenly angrily, shaking his fist at the young woman, Ami leaning back. "So ye want to know how I lost my eye, eh?! Fine! I'll tell ya! I'll ya a million times over! I lost it to Nessie, that bastard! There I was, on me family's yacht, in the middle of Loch Ness. Then, Nessie jumps out of the depths of the lake! I threw my grenade at that monster, but that monster knocked it back at me, the grenade blowing up my family yacht's, taking me second parents and one of me eyes with it! From that day, I swore to find that son of a bitch and blast it sky high out of the water!"
The Demoman then suddenly began to cry, "That bastard… he took me second parents… and me eye! That bastard Nessie turned me into a Cyclops, a monster! Look at me… LOOK AT ME!" The Demoman then put his Sticky Gun launcher down and grabbed Ami tightly, forcing her to look at his face, "DON'T I LOOK LIKE A MONSTER, AMI?!"
"No, no!" Ami said, trying her best to get the Demoman to let go of her, "You're not a monster, Demo-san! Honest!"
The Demoman, still unhappy, let Ami go, picking up his sticky gun launcher, wiping away a few tears. "Whatever… I'm sorry, Ami, I didn't mean to do that…" Ami then noticed, for a short moment, the Demoman smiling as he stared down towards the entrance.
"Ka-booooooooom!" Ami then felt the ground shake for a moment and a loud explosion, a scream being cut short as a few body parts flew out of the hole in the grate, the head of a RED Soldier landing in-between the young woman and the Scotsman.
The Demoman began laughing, staring at the head, crouching down. "That's what you get fer prancing aboot with you and your… your…" The Demoman began crying, "AH! I'M A MONSTER! A Black, Scottish Monsters!"
Feeling a bit ill after watching the severed head land in front of her, and thinking it would be a good idea to leave the Demoman alone, Ami slowly walked back through the archway, the Demoman's sobbing being drowned out by the Administrator's booming voice.
"Success! We have secured the intelligence."
Ami then began feeling through her pocket again, reaching to read the paper that fell out of the intelligence briefcase. However, Ami then noticed something that worried her.
'Where's my pen?' Ami began to frantically searching through her pockets, her search failing to produce her transformation pen.
"Is there a problem, Ami?" Ami turned around quickly, seeing BLU Spy behind her, noticing that the Spy was wearing what looked like a paper-cut out mask, with the image of Scout's face slapped on it.
"Oh, nothing Spy-san," Ami not wanting to tell anyone about her missing pen, "But… Spy-san, why are you wearing that weird mask?"
"Oh this?" The Spy tapped the mask, "It is a visual aide, honest. As you can see by the image on the mask, I am disguised as a Scout. Of course, to the enemy, it is more than just a simple paper mask, why, I look entirely like a Scout!"
Ami looked at the mask carefully, not entirely convinced, "But… how can such a simple mask prevent people from telling that you are a Spy?"
"Do you ask why humans need to breathe?" Ami shook her head, "Or why we have two legs?" Ami shook her head again, "Or why we have only one heart?"
"I get your point, Spy-san… but still…" Ami shook her head, sighing, "I didn't expect any of this…"
"Trust me, Ami," the Spy patted Ami on the back, "You'll get used to it eventually…"
"We have taken the enemy Intelligence." The Administrator's voice boomed again. Ami looked away from Spy for a moment.
"I don't think I want to…" Ami said to herself.
The Spy gave Ami one final pat on the back before running off, leaving the Young woman alone again. Still worried that she couldn't find her pen, Ami decided to look at the paper she picked up, taking the paper out and unfolding it quickly. Staring at the paper, it didn't take long for Ami to realize that there was nothing on the paper.
"Recruit!" Ami shuddered, hoping that she wouldn't have to hear Soldier's voice again. Slowly looking up again, Ami saw the Soldier standing in front of her, the Soldier grabbing the paper that was in Ami's hand.
"What is this, Recruit?" The Soldier took a quick glance at the paper before crumpling into a ball and throwing it away, "This is a battlefield! Not a Library! Now get that in that thick skull of yours, Recruit! Now let's go! We're one cap short of a victory for this round and we need to get that intelligence capped!"
The Soldier grabbed Ami again, the Soldier pulling her to the front entrance and back outside to the bridge, Ami seeing the Medic and Heavy, Heavy keeping the RED team on the other side. Looking at the RED battlements, Ami saw a RED Sniper, watching as the Sniper take aim and…
Go up in a burst of flame as the BLU Pyro ran through, flamethrower spewing flames. With intelligence in hand, the Pyro leaped down from the battlements, making a mad dash across the bridge. However, halfway across, the Pyro was engulfed in a large explosion, the Pyro's remains scattering on both sides of the bridge, Ami seeing the Pyro's bloodied air container land a few feet away.
"Come on, Recruit! Heal me while I grab the intelligence!" Soldier shouted, Ami fumbling to grab her Medigun, the young woman chasing after Soldier, attaching the healing beam to the Soldier as he began to run for the intelligence.
"Mein pupil?! No! Don't go, fall back, mein pupil, it iz not safe!" the Medic shouted, the Medic running after them, only to be shot down by the RED Spy's revolver, the Spy grinning as he jumped into the water below.
Ami continued following Soldier, the Soldier grabbing the intelligence, and began running back, a bullet striking through Ami's side, the young woman yelping out in pain. "Come on, Recruit, Keep u- ahhhh!" A rocket struck Soldier, exploding, launching the Soldier into Ami, and causing them both to crash into BLU Fort's wall.
Wracked in pain, Ami slowly stood back up, her ears ringing for a moment. As Ami tried to get her bearings, the young woman felt a tug on her pants, Ami looking down, seeing the Soldier's battered body holding the intelligence briefcase up to her.
"Come on… recruit…" The Soldier coughed out some blood, "Do your job! Cap the intel!"
"No! I'll help you, Soldier-san! I'll heal you and we'll-" Ami then felt the Soldier pulling her down, bring her to look directly in his face, seeing the blood that was coming out of his mouth.
"I AM ORDERING YOU. TAKE THIS INTELLIGENCE AND CAP IT IN OUR INTELLIGENCE ROOM!" Soldier shouted.
"Y-y-Yes sir!" Ami nodded, putting her medigun away and grabbing the intel briefcase, and only glancing at Soldier for a moment, began running.
Ami didn't look back, she ran as fast as her feet would take her, only focused upon fulfilling Soldier's order. The world around her began to blur out, Ami's mind now focused entirely on making her way to BLU's intelligence room. Not even the bullet wound in Ami's side could slow the young woman down, Ami darting pass fellow BLU mercenaries, not even giving them a quick glance, hurling herself down through the spiral, nearly smashing into each turn.
Finally stopping, Ami began to catch her breath, holding RED's intelligence briefcase tightly. The loud beeping of computers echoed through Ami's mind as she glanced again at the giant monitor, gazing at each of the dots that blanketed the screen.
'I vill simply tell you zis… BLU owns Half ze world. And ze other half, iz owned by RED,' Medic's words played again in her mind, still refusing to believe such nonsense. 'It can't be true at all… there's no way a single company could control so much without people knowing… it just can't be true…' Ami then gazed at the intelligence briefcase, seeing the papers that were sticking out, as if they were almost carelessly filled. 'What could be so important that someone could carelessly stuff them in a briefcase… and what was with that empty paper.'
Seeing that the briefcase was of a combination lock-type, Ami instead pulled on one of the papers that were carelessly sticking out, and bringing it close to her face, Ami saw that it too was blank.
'Blank too? Strange… if this was supposed to be important intelligence that BLU wants to steal… why would it be empty?' Ami then grabbed another paper, and then another, realizing those too was blank, completely devoid of any words. 'Blank… blank… why? Then what is the purpose? This can't be right at all…' Ami glanced back, looking towards BLU Intelligence briefcase, the briefcase innocently sitting on the desk, it too having papers carelessly sticking out. 'Could it be…?' Ami began walking towards BLU's intelligence case, holding RED's case under her arm, stepping over the line that signified the capture zone.
"Victory!"
The Briefcase that Ami was holding suddenly disappeared, along with the papers in her hands, and without warning, Ami noticed that her items began cackling a light blue aura, as if something was affecting them. Grabbing her Bonesaw, Ami was transfixed by how it seemed to cackle, as if charged by an electrical force.
The sound of footsteps quickly caught Ami's attention, Ami beginning to sweat, shifting her eyes constantly to the two hallways that connected the Intelligence room to the rest of the base. "Is somebody there?" Ami called out, the footsteps becoming louder and more frantic, the increasing pace and loudness only adding to Ami's paranoia, Ami starting to breath quickly. Then, an outline came into view, Ami's muscles going stiff.
"Ahhh!" The person said, now coming into full view, holding his red gloved hands up, his medical coat swaying behind him. The RED Medic was looking back, fleeing from some unseen opponent, the RED Medic not realizing Ami was there until he bumped into the young woman, the RED Medic quickly turning his gaze back in front of him, the sight of Ami's glowing bonesaw frightening him, causing him to slowly walk backwards, his limbs trembling in fear.
"Don't kill me, please!" The RED Medic said, backing up into a wall, the Medic holding on to the wall, Ami trying to calm herself down. Looking at the RED Medic, she realized that her RED counterpart was much younger than BLU Medic, almost around the same age at Ami, his brown hair showing no signs of aging. He also spoke with less of a German accent than BLU Medic, his English coming out more clearer and softer.
Ami slowly began walking closer to the RED Medic, the young man bringing up his hands to shield his face, looking away from Ami, whimpering excessively. "Please… don't come any closer… I don't want to die!"
"Die?" Ami repeated, confused now, "I don't want to hurt you, Mister." Ami tried to walk closer again, the young man only trying to sink deeper into the wall, screaming out now.
"Please! You're like the other BLUs, out to kill me! Like they killed my Heavy when we suddenly loss usage of our weapons!" The Medic continued shielding his face, "I don't want to die… I just wanted to be a Doctor… I didn't expect any of this!"
Ami, realizing that any further conversation would prove futile as long as the Medic assumed that she had intent to kill, decided to put away her bonesaw, placing it back in the side holster on her belt, then holding out a hand. "See… I don't mean to hurt you… so please, don't be afraid…"
The Medic, glancing back to Ami, saw that she had put away the bonesaw, now extending out a hand, seeing that the young woman had a small, comforting smile on her face. Slowly lowering his hands, the Medic then carefully grabbed Ami's hand, the young woman helping the Medic to walk away from the wall, the Medic no longer trembling in fear.
"Ah… ah… so you don't mean to kill me then?" The Medic said, a hint of confusion in his voice.
"Hai, Medic-san," Ami replied, Ami's smile becoming a little bigger.
The Medic, breathing heavily, began looking around before looking back at Ami, "You're not like the others… you're… very different… but Danke, Miss, I didn't know what came over me… I thought you were going to kill me even though you had no intent to begin with…" The Medic then let go of Ami's hand, the young man letting out a sigh of relief.
"So what happened, Medic-san? You said you suddenly couldn't use your weapons?" Ami asked, the Young Man nodding.
"Yes, Miss… what was your name?" The Medic asked.
"It's Ami, Ami Mizuno."
"I see… Miss Mizuno, it was suddenly so strange, one moment I was healing my fellow Heavy, then the Announcer yelled out in anger, saying we loss, and then all of a sudden, our weapons disappear… Your fellow Mercenaries… they then went crazy… as if overcome by some sudden insane bloodlust, their weapons cackling as if charged with electricity! The wounds they caused, they became more painful than before, and they slaughtered my fellow Mercenary, literally tearing him to shreds with their assortment of deranged ways… I was so lucky to escape from them…"
"That happened? Something strange happened to me as well… I was holding your companies intelligence briefcase and when I went to grab BLU's intelligence, RED's briefcase suddenly disappeared, the announce suddenly shouting 'Victory' and making my weapons suddenly glow."
The Medic then suddenly stepped back from Ami, a little terrified, "You're the one who captured the intelligence?!" The Medic then pointed his finger at her, trembling again, "You're the one who made us lose the round and caused the other team to go out and slaughter all of us! This is your fault, Miss Mizuno!"
Ami, trying to calm the Medic down, tried to walk closer, the Medic only walking back, this time moving away towards the hallway, "Please! I didn't realize that would happen! I'm sorry for what happened, Medic-san! I didn't mean to at all!"
"No… you're just like them after all! Please, stay away from m-" The Medic's hand suddenly went limp, the young man's face beginning to contort in pain, the young man gasping, looking down and seeing the tip of an übersaw extending out of his chest, blood slowly dripping down.
"Auf Wiedersehen, Schweinhund!" BLU Medic yelled, ripping his übersaw out of his RED counterpart, the RED Medic screaming out in agony, falling slowly forward.
"Medic-san!" Ami cried out, catching RED Medic's body, lying his head down on her lap, applying pressure to the RED Medic's injury, the RED Medic's blood slowly staining her blue coat a brilliant red. "Please! Don't die! Don't die!" Tears began welling in Ami's eyes as the RED Medic stared back at her, his face contorted in pain.
"You… you… tricked me… you… tricked me…" The RED Medic coughed out, before exhaling a last time, his body becoming limp. Ami continued to cry, the Medic's eyes still gazing at her, the young woman slowly closing them, before staring at the BLU Medic, who was grinning widely, wiping off the fresh coat of blood from his übersaw.
"Medic-sensei… Why!" Ami shouted, her voice mixed with sadness, hurt, and anger, talking through a seemingly endless stream of tears, "He was surrendering! He was a Medic! He didn't want to die!"
The Medic only snorted, and began to cackle, "Vhy, Mein pupil?" The Medic replied, gazing at his übersaw for a moment before looking back at Ami, "Because… he vas a RED… and he deserves… to die…"
Cackling loudly again, Ami could no longer look at her teacher, letting herself cry on the RED Medic's body, her tears mixing with his blood.
I'm going to need to give this a refreshing change of pace...