A BLU Haired Medic
Chapter 17
The Administrator silently sat in her chair, a cigarette in her mouth. Staring at the monitors in front of her, the Administrator quickly began flipping through different areas of 2Fort as if she was simply changing the channels of a television. Sighing in boredom, the Administrator continued looking through the different areas, yawning as she ignored scenes of BLU's replacement team constantly reducing the RED mercenaries to piles of bloody chunks.
"Miss Pauling, what have I told you about hovering behind me?" The Administrator said, not bothering to turn around, Miss Pauling trembling slightly.
"You told me to…" Miss Pauling began, but the Administrator stopped flipping through screens, holding her hand up to stop Miss Pauling.
"…Always speak out the problem and not wait to be addressed." The Administrator let out a small cloud of smoke. "Well then? What's wrong? Did that bumbling Engineer fail to do his project in the allotted time frame?"
Miss Pauling shook her head, and then realized that the Administrator was still not looking back. "No, Administrator, ma'am, to be honest, he completed the project in-due time."
"Then what's the problem? Did it fail spectacularly?" The Administrator groaned, "Must I execute another Engineer to show the others that when I give orders I demand that they be fulfilled?"
"That's not the case at all, ma'am." The Administrator, raising her eyebrow, slowly glanced back, showing a glimmer of interest. "To be honest, the Zeppelin worked… wonderfully!"
"Wonderfully, you say?" The Administrator, now paying full attention to Miss Pauling, gave her assistant a piercing gaze. "So what is the problem then, my dear assistant, if the Zeppelin works spectacularly well?"
Miss Pauling began to nervously chuckle, the Administrator raising her eyebrow again. "Well… you see… the Zeppelin…"
"The Zeppelin what?" The Administrator interrupted, Miss Pauling beginning to feel sweat form on her forehead.
"Well… the Zeppelin…"
"Today, Miss Pauling, please."
"The Zeppelin… flew away."
The Administrator, soaking in the information, let out a cloud of smoke before turning back towards her control panel, leaning deeply into her chair. "I see… but if you said that the Zeppelin was in perfect working condition, I guess that means I have no reason to have that Engineer executed for insubordination…" Sighing in disappoint, the Administrator took her cigarette out of her mouth, tapping a bit of the ash off. Neither Miss Pauling nor the Administrator spoke a single word for an entire minute. "Are you still here, Miss Pauling? You seem to have grown silent."
"Yes, ma'am, I'm still here."
"Good… I have a new assignment for you." The Administrator placed her cigarette back in her mouth, inhaling and then exhaling a large cloud of smoke. "Get in contact in the CEO of Reliable Excavation and Demolition. I need to speak with him."
Miss Pauling nodded, "Yes, ma'am. Shall I contact the CEO of Builders League United as well?"
The Administrator then began to laugh. "I see you still don't fail in understanding in what I'm getting at. Yes, I would like to speak with him as well, but I must speak with RED's CEO first."
"Yes, Administrator," Miss Pauling said, before shuffling out of the Administrator's control room, the Administrator focusing her attention back at the main monitor, watching both RED and BLU mercenaries fighting over briefcases. The Administrator began to grin.
"Such easily manipulated bastards, at this rate, no one will suspect a thing…" The Administrator said to herself, before breaking out into a sinister laugh. After calming herself down, the Administrator quickly switched screens to view the intelligence rooms, just barely catching a RED Scout sneaking into the BLU intelligence room and making off with BLU's briefcase, a pre-recorded message playing for both teams.
"We have taken the enemy intelligence."
"Alert! The enemy has taken our intelligence!"
Hearing those pre-recorded messages, the Administrator continued to grin, leaning back in her chain, watching as the RED Scout zipped past BLU Soldiers, the Administrator changing screens each time the Scout moved out of the camera. After a few minutes, the Scout finally darted into the RED Intelligence room, stepping over the capture zone, the BLU Intelligence disappearing.
"Victory."
"You've failed!"
The Administrator then began to grin in glee as she watched the RED team slaughtering the now defenseless BLU Soldiers. Cackling wildly at the bloodbath, the Administrator almost didn't hear a ringing noise on her control panel, the Administrator quickly calming herself down again as she picked up the phone next to her.
"Yes?" The Administrator said, nodding, "Good, Miss Pauling, so, he's waiting on the other end right now?"
"Yes, Administrator, I also hav-" Quickly hanging up, the Administrator then turned her attention back to her control panel, changing the position of a few cables and plugs before finally switching the monitor, the monitor flickering for a moment before returning to normal, the monitor now viewing a finely lit office room, with a huge desk in the center of the screen. Behind the desk a brown haired man with a brown mustache was fixing his suit and hat, completely oblivious that the Administrator was watching.
"A-hem… Mr. Mann?" The Administrator said, the man suddenly looking up, laughing a bit.
"Ah, Helen, my Military Administrator! It's good to see you once more! Tell me; tell me, what is so important about this announcement? Did those punks at Builders League United finally decide to surrender to the superior might of Reliable Excavation and Demolition?" The RED CEO, grinned widely, waiting for the Administrator's answer. The Administrator simply shook her head, the RED CEO sighing in disappointment, leaning back in his chair. "Well, then what is it then? Did we lose another base to those BLU vandals?" The Administrator shook her head again. "Then what is it? I'm not a physic. At least… I think I'm not… Quick! Tell me, are you thinking of… gravel?"
"Mr. Mann, I am here to inform of an interesting and startling development with our war against Builders League United," The Administrator then pressed a button on her control panel, the brown haired man turning to his right, seeing a blueprint being faxed to him. Taking the blueprint in hand, the RED CEO stared at it for a moment.
"I see… this is… what is this?" The RED CEO mumbled, shaking his head, "No, don't tell me! I can figure it out! A-HA! Of course, it is so simple! These are the plans to a doom sphere!" The RED CEO then pressed an intercom button on his desk. "Mr. Johnson! I want you to build me 5 doom spheres and I want them built yesterday!"
The Administrator, a bit confused, raised her hand, trying to get the CEO's attention. "Mr. Mann… Mr. Mann? Mr. Mann!"
"Huh? What? Oh yes, my Administrator. Is that all?"
"No… this is entirely different. Those plans are of a BLU doom sphere, one that is already being manufactured in a secret BLU base."
"Ah... I see..." The RED CEO slowly set the blueprints down, rubbing his chin. "So... where is this base?"
"Japan."
"Japan?"
"Tokyo, Japan to be exact."
The RED CEO became silent, setting down his hat. Looking at the blueprints, the brown haired man then pressed the button on his intercom. "Mr. Johnson, ignore what I said earlier about building those doom spheres." The RED CEO then gave a silly grin, "Instead, I want you to get ready my jet! I'm going to Japan!" Soon, the RED CEO quickly walked off the screen, the sound of a closet being opened. Afterwards, the RED CEO returned back on screen, tossing an open luggage case on top of his desk, beginning to stuff it fill with clothes.
Watching the RED CEO, the Administrator began to realize what was happening. "Mr. Mann! What are you saying? You can't be serious in actually going to Japan!" The Administrator's protests however fell on Deaf ears, the RED CEO now tossing off his red bowler hat aside, and placing a red tinted metal helmet on his head. "Please, Mr. Mann, surely you can reconsider! The Mercenaries are fully capable of handling this problem!"
The RED CEO then started to laugh, closing his luggage case, and then lifting it in his hands. "Nonsense, my Administrator! A snake cannot move without its head! And besides, once those BLU idiots see that a son of Mann is leading this fight, they'll surrender completely! And besides, I insist that you leave this to me, I leave you to lead my mercenaries too much, I think you deserve a break for once!"
"But Mr. Mann, I insist that I lead these mercenaries! If those mercenaries get you, they co-" The Administrator was cut short by the RED CEO laughing again.
"Preposterous, they can't harm me. Ah, don't worry, my administrator, I shall ensure that I shall lead RED to a glorious victory over BLU!" Laughing, the RED CEO pressed a second button on his desk, and soon, the monitor began to flicker before going blank.
The Administrator, completely in shock, leaned back into her chair, letting out a huge cloud of smoke out of her nostrils. Shaking her head, the Administrator reached for her control booth's phone, placing the receiver next to her ears, pushing in the numbers for her call. After waiting for a few seconds, Miss Pauling answered her call.
"Yes, Administrator?"
"Is the BLU CEO still on the other end?" The Administrator asked.
"Yes, he is, he was wondering whe-" The Administrator hung up on Miss Pauling, trying to calm herself down, breathing out another cloud of smoke. Recomposing herself, the Administrator pressed a few buttons on her control booth, the monitor flickering to life again before clearing up, showing a room with a desk in the middle, a man wearing a blue suit and blue bowler hat sitting down in a chair behind the desk.
"A-hem… Mr. Mann?" The Administrator said, the man behind the desk looking up, brushing aside his black hair.
"Ah, my Administrator, I was wondering what was keeping you, I had almost given up on you," The BLU CEO said, folding his hands together. "So, is there something you wish to speak to me about? You usually don't speak to me through this way of communication unless it is something important."
The Administrator nodded, taking a manila folder from her control booth and opening it up. "Mr. Mann, our mercenaries here at 2Fort has recently recovered a startling piece of information. It appears to be information detailing an attack on our foreign bases. Although I would normally consider this to be an idle idea, I do not want to take risk on this possible attack… especially due to the location of this base."
"I see…" The BLU CEO said, "Then tell me, where is the location of this base that they're planning to attack?"
"Japan."
"Japan?"
"Tokyo, Japan to be exact."
The BLU CEO slowly raised his eyebrow, looking suspiciously at the Administrator. "What would they gain for attacking our bases in Japan? To be honest, we don't even own Japan, we're merely disguised as subordinates to the bigger Japanese-owned companies there… really… what is there to be an alarm for?"
The Administrator sighed, shaking her head, "Well, I assume that the only reason is because of the fact that Japan is one of the few places that BLU is uncontested against RED. And besides… another possible reason is to get at the wealth of Japan."
The BLU CEO stared at the Administrator, "The wealth of Japan… but that's impossible, the businesses are too ingrained to bribe to be controlled by us, how does RED think about taking control of Japan?"
"Well… Japan has been recently been going through a recession…"
Upon hearing the word recession, the BLU CEO perked up, pondering his options. "I see… a recession… that could easily be a big blow against those companies… if RED were allowed to take them… then we'd lose Japan… but now that gives me an idea… if BLU were to take control of those companies… we'd no longer be a tiny influence… but a large influence… and be able to partake in the technological advancements in Japan. Yes… if we could do that… I could build even better weapons, and defeat RED once and for all and end this war! Why... I could build that doom sphere." After a brief silence, the BLU CEO lowered his hands, giving the Administrator a grin. "Alright then, we shall ensure that RED will fail in taking Japan."
The Administrator smiled, but then thought back to the RED CEO insisting that he would command the mercenaries. Although the Administrator questioned if the RED CEO could even go two steps without needing help, the thought that he could inconceivably defeat the BLU mercenaries slowly crept into her mind. The Administrator then looked at the BLU CEO again and grinned as well.
"Indeed, Mr. Mann, but I was thinking, why don't you lead the mercenaries that I am assigning the mission to?" The Administrator said, chuckling slightly.
The BLU CEO stared at the Administrator, giving her a confused stare. "Me? Lead mercenaries as some sort of general?" The black haired man shook his head, "Impossible. I hardly have any experience in leading men, and besides, you have the better experience. Why don't you lead them?"
"Of course, I could lead them, but imagine this. With you in Japan, you could not only lead the mercenaries to defeat BLU, but you would also be able to… 'Convince' the businessmen in Japan to support you. I'm certain they would better receive a great CEO such as yourself than a… 'lowly' military Administrator."
The BLU CEO thought about what the Administrator said for a moment, before looking at his intercom. The BLU CEO then pressed a button on the intercom. "Mr. Johnsen? Prepare my jet." The Administrator grinned as the BLU CEO looked back at the Administrator. "Very well, I will lead the mercenaries that you are sending to Japan. I will ensure that RED will know that they are facing a son of Mann. Good-day, my Administrator."
"Good-day to you, Mr. Mann." The Administrator then ended conversation, grinning wickedly to herself the monitor went blank. Soon, her control booth's phone began ringing again. Bringing the receiver to her ear, the Administrator hear Miss Pauling's voice again.
"Administrator, ma'am, did you speak with the BLU CEO yet?" Miss Pauling asked.
"Yes, Miss Pauling I have." The Administrator hear Miss Pauling sigh in disappoint. "Miss Pauling, I also have another job for you."
"Yes, ma'am, what do you need me to do?"
The Administrator grinned widely, letting out a small cloud of smoke. "Get… Mister Hale on the line."
Shorter than the recent Chapters, but I was thinking that this Chapter could use being a bit shorter than usual.
And here's a hint on Chapter 18!
Agent Observateur!