Forewords
I've got a funny feeling that I did the headcount wrong in the Saxton Hale Robot boss fight, so I've tallied the number of mercenaries again.
Nine REDs and FREDs make 18. The Final Combatants' Rocket, Fatman, Sniper, Medical, Firebat and Technician increases the number to 24. Okay, turns out I was off when I counted 26 mercenaries back in that battle.
And looking back at the chapter before (Chapter 7: From China With Love), it turns out I did refer to Technician as "Mechanic". *Sigh* The side effects of using Indy Ploys when writing Fan Fictions is that you tend to forget the very things you wrote yourself.
Chapter 10: Bloody Christmas In July
Time: 1300 Hour; 3rd of July, 2015.
Location: Mann Co Marketplace.
Freak Fortress battle initiated. No Respawns! You are now fighting: Christian Brutal Sniper!
"Oh, crap." Scout could only utter two words before Christian Brutal Sniper chopped his head off with the oversized Bushwacka.
RED Scout was slain by Christian Brutal Sniper. 23 players left.
By this point, Scout having his head literally removed at the beginning of each battle is nothing to exclaim about anymore. What's worthy of an exclamation is how quickly Christian Brutal Sniper did it.
"Give him hell, boys and girls!"
Heeding Soldier's commands, all the mercenaries pointed and fired their Primary Weapons at Christian. The walking arsenal isn't as resistant to damage as Painis Cupcake or Saxton Hale Robot (because he at least flinched while the other two doesn't even bat an eye to hits), but still resistant enough that he was able to slowly march through the hail of bullets, explosives and syringes before he literally grabbed a Huntsman arrow from out of thin air and stabbed all three mercenary Snipers in the face in quick succession. "Stab, stab, stab."
RED Sniper, FRED Sniper and FC Sniper were slain by Christian Brutal Sniper. 20 players left.
"Mein gott..." Medic exclaimed. Even he's amazed at how Christian is able to kill multiple people so quickly.
Fem-Soldier gritted her teeth. "Spread out, everyone! But not too far away so we can still watch each other's back!" She called out to the other mercenaries.
"Yes, everyone! Keep our distance when we spread out!" Soldier agrees with his female counterpart, and added in.
Rocket repeated Soldier's command in Chinese so his team understands.
All the remaining mercenaries ran their way in the Mann Co Marketplace which at this point has been evacuated because of Christian's presence. Engineer and Fem-Engineer had packed up their Sentry Guns before running, while FC Technician had to leave his Turret Gun behind due to the Chinese mercenary lacking the ability to haul buildings.
"Is that all you got, mate?" Christian taunted Technician despite knowing that the Chinese mercenary doesn't speak English, before he simply kicked the Turret Gun over, which somehow causes it to fall apart instantly. "Thanks for leaving this behind, wanker!"
FC Technician's Turret Gun was slain by Christian Brutal Sniper.
...
After destroying Technician's Turret Gun, Christian Brutal Sniper picked up pieces from the wreckage, and started fiddling with it.
At the same time, Heavy and Medic were on the second floor directly above the Sniper Freak, getting ready to ambush him with their usual combat tactics.
"Little strong man plays strange music from radio somewhere..." The massive Russian pointed out as silently as possible.
Heavy was right, the classical music that was presumed to be Christian's main theme is playing from a radio from a nearby but unknown location, as opposed to Painis Cupcake's which was played from the broadcasting systems.
"Zis does not matter, for I am fully charged!" Medic tells the massive Russian.
"Then charge me, doctor!" Heavy said to the German doctor.
"Jawohl." Medic acknowledged. He was about to deploy the Ubercharge on Heavy when he got killed all of a sudden via several bullets being pumped into his face.
RED Medic was shot by Christian Brutal Sniper. 19 players left.
"Thanks for standing still, wanker!" Christian verbally taunted from the lower floor, while holding in his hand the machine gun of Technician's Turret Gun which he modified into a handheld weapon by tinkering with it.
Enraged, Heavy pointed his Natascha minigun and fired it at Christian non-stop while yelling "YAAAAAHHHH!"
A hail of bullets from any Miniguns were already enough to slow the movements of anybody who could tank the damage but not strong enough to resist the slowdown effects. With said minigun being the Natascha which was built to slow its targets a lot, the Sniper Freak actually have trouble getting close to the massive Russian.
"Bloody whackjob..." Christian complained as bullets after bullets from Heavy's Natascha pinned him to his current position. Seeing no other alternatives, the Sniper Freak whipped out a Huntsman from out of nowhere (again, literally), loaded an arrow, and then fired it at Heavy.
The arrow skewered Heavy's head, killing him outright and ending his rage-fuelled Natascha-firing spree.
RED Heavy was shot by Christian Brutal Sniper. 18 players left.
...
"That just ain't right!" Engineer complained as he split up with the rest of his team.
He found a place where he could set up a hard-to-destroy Sentry Nest in a corner of a wide passageway, and got to work immediately. Although he made sure to build a Sentry Gun and Dispenser at the same time as opposed to building a Dispenser first like he usually did (even during the fight against Painis Cupcake and Saxton Hale Robot). It seems that Fem-Engineer also have a Sentry Nest built not too far away from where Engineer built his.
"I just hope he doesn't lay us out first..." Fem-Engineer mouthed to Engineer.
"Well, the last Freak Fortress battle started with at least three of our people getting laid out in the first minute." Engineer mouthed back.
It didn't take long before something appeared for the Sentries to shoot at. No need to guess who the Sentries are firing upon.
"This never bloody gets old, does it?" Christian Brutal Sniper lampshades how often any Engineers would build Sentry Nests, while being fired upon by two Level 2 Sentries.
Then without saying another word, Christian whipped out a bazooka from out of nowhere, and fired from it what appears to be Ullapool Cabers in a spread pattern that proceeds to utterly annihilate both Sentry Nests, leaving only Engineer and Fem-Engineer untouched.
RED Engineer's Sentry Gun and Dispenser were blown up by Christian Brutal Sniper.
FRED Engineer's Sentry Gun and Dispenser were blown up by Christian Brutal Sniper.
"Darn..." Both Engineer and Fem-Engineer uttered in response to their Sentry Nests getting wrecked in seconds.
The Sniper Freak before the Texans fired yet another barrage of Ullapool Cabers from his abnormal bazooka, while shouting "Hold still, wanker!"
RED Engineer and FRED Engineer were blown up by Christian Brutal Sniper. 16 Players left.
"Did I just get blood on my own suit?" Christian pointed out to himself. "No guessing that my next paycheck will be spent on bloody detergents again..."
...
Pyro was unfortunate enough to have passed by Christian Brutal Sniper when the Sniper Freak utterly destroyed Engineer and Fem-Engineer. The insane mercenary shouted something unintelligible (then again, he was never intelligible due to his gas mask) before he decided to go W+M1 with the Rainblower.
"I hate these flame-throwing gas mask psychos..." Christian uttered, as he raised his oversized Bushwacka and brought it down right as Pyro approached him.
Surprisingly, Pyro actually managed to set Christian on fire and dodge his attack at the same time. Pyro immediately switches to the Axtinguisher and starts whacking Christian with it while strafing around his counterattacks.
"Hold still, wanker!" Christian shouted at Pyro as the former continuously swung his oversized Bushwacka at the latter who continuously manages to dodge it.
It took over 10 minutes of the two swinging their weapons at each other before Pyro finally gets his head chopped off by Christian Brutal Sniper's oversized Bushwacka.
RED Pyro was slain by Christian Brutal Sniper. 15 players left.
"And stay dead, you fire-starting man... woman... thing!" Christian angrily delivers a verbal taunt after killing the gas mask-wearing RED.
As if fate wanted to mock the Sniper Freak, he is immediately set aflame again, this time by Fem-Pyro and Firebat.
His current situation made Christian mumble in something incomprehensible as both Fem-Pyro and Firebat fired their Flamethrowers non-stop at the Sniper Freak.
"Will ya wankers stop with the flame-throwing thing?!" The Sniper Freak yelled out furiously, and was about to swing his oversized Bushwacka at the two pyromaniacs...
...When his theme music was suddenly replaced by the sound of a Sapper doing its job.
This made Christian stop in his tracks. "Again?! Bloody Spies..." He complained before turning around and walked away.
Fem-Pyro and Firebat did not give chase as they have already expended all their ammo strafing the Sniper Freak.
...
On the other side of Marketplace, Spy and Fem-Spy gave each other a High-Five after having each placed a Sapper on a classical radio that is playing Christian Brutal Sniper's theme music. As with all machineries, the radio ceased functioning as it is being sapped.
"No worries, mate! Ha-ha-ha-ha!" Spy attempted to add insult to injury by mimicking an Australian accent (and since Christian Brutal Sniper is a Sniper Class which is Australian, it fits quite well).
"After you." Fem-Spy said as she put on her Cloak, knowing that Christian will definitely come and check on the radio.
"Of course." Spy responded before he puts up his Cloak as well.
Even while cloaked, the two French mercenaries took the precaution of running away from the scene, which was the right thing to do as Christian Brutal Sniper have just arrived.
Noticing that there are two Sappers placed on top of the radio playing his theme music, Christian mumbled "Bloody Spies and their Electro Sappers. Now I know why Engineers hated them so much." under his breath. He then whips out two Homewreckers which he dual-wields and smashes both Sappers with. "Much better..." Christian said as the radio continued playing his theme music after having the Sappers removed.
"Hey, you! Over here!" Someone called out to the Sniper Freak from just around the corner.
Christian turned to see who it was, and finds out it was Soldier, with a Beggar's Bazooka pointed straight at him. Also with Soldier are most of the remaining mercenaries that Christia has yet to kill...
And they all smirked while each pointing a finger at Christian's feet.
Wondering what they are pointing at, the Sniper Freak said "You're going to need more than firepower to bring me down." and looked at his feet...
...To find himself standing in an entire field of Scottish Resistance sticky-bomb, all of which are Crit-Boosted.
"Yo, heads up!" Fem-Scout was the first to act, as she threw a jar of Mad Milk at Christian before he can do anything.
Now finding himself standing in a field of Crit-Boosted Scottish Resistance sticky-bombs and being soaked in Mad Milk, Christian could only drop his jaws and said "Ah, piss..."
Made even worse for the Sniper Freak when Fem-Medic and FC Medical decided to pop their Ubercharge on their respective teammates. Its hard to tell what effects the Medical's Ubercharge grants, but Fem-Medic's doesn't need to be questioned due to her using a Kritzkrieg medigun.
"Oktoberfest!" Fem-Medic announced like a maniac as she popped her Ubercharge.
"Give him some more hell!" Soldier and Fem-Soldier shouted an order at their team before firing their Crit-Boosted weapons.
"KaiHuo!" [Fire!] Rocket ordered his team in Chinese, and proceeds to do the same, while under the effects of the Chinese equivalent of the Ubercharge.
Although deploying an Ubercharge on so many people at the same time means that the charge wouldn't last more than a second, the remaining mercenaries made up for that by all firing their Crit-Boosted weapons at the exact same time (Demoman and Fem-Demo switched to their Scottish Resistance to prepare to detonate the field of Sticky-bombs right after firing their Loose Cannon; and unlike the Engineer's Sentry Gun, the Technician's Turret Gun can be Ubercharged by having its builder receiving an Ubercharge).
"Ah, piss..." Christian Brutal Sniper uttered as he watched the wall of Crit-Rockets, Crit-Grenades and many other projectiles coming his way, with absolutely no room for him to dodge.
...
Location: The Bridge, NEW Team's Carrier Airship.
Christian Brutal Sniper was blown up by RED Soldier. Mercenaries win!
The simulated announcer's voice broadcasted the defeat of Christian Brutal Sniper all the way from the Mann Co Marketplace to the bridge of the Carrier Airship.
"Blimey... I'm guessing that Australia's answer to Jack The Ripper isn't coming back to you anytime soon." Sailor pointed out for Gray Mann, who is currently seated on the throne-like chair in the middle of the bridge.
"Of course not." Gray gave a straightforward response in his Mann Of Conspiracy tone.
"You know..." Mage decided to cut in. "The part where a minion gets executed by his boss or refuses to come back after failing a mission is kind of an overdone cliché..."
Recon nudged the British magician with his left hand. "That may be exactly why the Cupcake Freak has not returned."
Inflictor was about to speak to Gray, but then decided against it once she notices from behind the throne-like chair that the Mann Of Conspiracy's cybernetic hand is gripping onto the hand rests of the chair tightly enough that it partially crumbled, indicating that he is really angry about what had just happened. "Amigos, let us all excuse ourselves while Senor Mann releases his steam." The Spanish female mercenary suggested to her fellow NEWs. "I would compare him to a steam boiler that is about to blow..."
Taking Inflictor's suggestion into account, the NEWs swiftly evacuated themselves from the bridge, with Striker being the last to step out of the room and close the door behind him.
Afterwords
Sorry for making the Christian Brutal Sniper boss fight so anti-climatic. Not only is this chapter taking way too much time to write, my schedule for the next week or so is way too tight for me to do anything on Fanfiction Dot Net, so I have to wrap up the fight ASAP.
So all in all, let's get this chapter's Afterwords wrapped up as quickly as possible, shall we?
Christian Brutal Sniper's building a machine gun out of FC Technician's Turret Gun isn't really something I made up on the spot. Its a reference to his hobby where he would MacGyver up a weapon from random junk, which was demonstrated in many G-Mod animations that featured him.
No Shout-outs in this chapter.
That is all. "Poot Punchline here..."