A/N: Welcome back in the story! So you hit 1600 views. AWESOME! I really like to write this story for you and I say that I'm starting season 3 very soon ;). Also, from now I'm writting every POV in 1st person. Anyway here you have a thing that was on my mind for a whole week...
Atollon, Chopper base, Ezra's POV
It was a week since Scout was possessed by the Inquisitors, but it was only a matter of time when everything was back to normal. Well almost everything - now Sabine was helping us with pranks although we didn't give her what Scout called paintball gun. When I got mine, I went on a mission of eternal painting and after 10 minutes everything was covered in paint. But now we had more important things to do and that was the topic of today's meeting. We gathered around the holotable and Commander Sato started.
"I won't lie now, our situation with the weapons is critical." he said. "We have many rebels but not enough weapons. We need to find a way to get some more, otherwise we'll have to operate on a smaller scale." Suddenly the woman, Miss Pauling spoke.
"Well, MannCo has a LOT of weapons in it's factories and what I've heard from two Engineers they have found a way to make their guns have the same system of shooting as yours." she said. "We just need to take a small team back into our world, get the weapons and go back. We only need Merasmus." Immediately RED Soldier ran out yelling. "MERASMUS, GET YOUR SPECTRAL ASS HERE NOW! THAT IS AN ORDER!" After a minute, the wizard was literally kicked into the meeting by the RED patriot.
"Ow, what do you need again?" the magician asked.
"Merasmus, do you still have that spare spells that were supposed to bring us back?" Miss Pauling asked.
"Oh, yes. I even made a few more in the free time." he replied.
"That's perfect I guess," RED Scout started. "But how are we supposed to belive dat this plan is not rigged to bring us back? I wanna stay here, cuz I feel good here." I had the very same opinion. And I didn't want to loose a partner in pranking. That plan felt bad, although we desperately needed these weapons.
"Yes, can you guarrantee that they will come back and it's not rigged?" Sato asked. "The RED team proved to be a very useful asset to the rebellion."
"Well, I guess there is no guarrantee, but I discussed the plan with the BLU team and we decided that you can take some stuff from their storage of weapons." Miss Pauling replied. "It's a LOT because each one of them has their own storage."
"Their own?" I couldn't belive it. They had a collection of weapons just for themselves?
"We sometimes got a random weapon from MannCo for us to make the war games more interesting and sometimes we just bought the crates with weapons and hats." RED Scout explained. "I think I had one crate left back there with the key ready for opening it." Everyone looked at eachother.
"Well, I guess it's worth a shot, but we need to choose a team that will go there." Ahsoka said, who was silent until now. "I suggest both mercenary teams and a whole Ghost crew. I can also go with you if you want."
"Additional support is always appreciated." Kanan commented smiling.
"So it's settled." Miss Pauling finished the conversation. "We'll meet up on the landing platform." Everyone went to prepare themselves and I went with Scout who had a thoughtful look on his face.
"Hey, you seem worried about going home." I started and he looked at me. "What's wrong?"
"Y'know my BLU doppelganger may not see it but back there we are the least appreciated members of the team. Our job is to run, avoid dying, get da briefcase, and go back avoiding dying again." he repiled. "It's not the finest job ever. Here I have pals who care and are willing to risk their life to prank someone." he paused and chuckled, I did the same. "But most of all, I feel dat our whole team is finally friends to eachother. They aren't just bitching at everyone like they did back there." I nodded understanding. From what he said, it wasn't the best life ever.
"But what about Miss Pauling?" I asked. I sensed that he and she have some feelings to eachother.
"What was back then was a long time ago, pal. Now I just dunno what ta think." Scout anwsered. "I had a crush on her for a long time, but I really don't wanna go back to my old life. Even now when we are constantly in danger and there is no frickin' respawn, I feel better."
"What weapons did you have back there? I heard you had your own collection." I wanted to know more about what we're gonna recieve.
"Yeah, although the rules of the war games said that we can't carry more than 3 weapons or items." he said. "And about what I have, well I had: 3 shotguns of different types, some pistols, mad milk, some cans of BONK! Atomic Punch and Crit-o-Colas, and for the last i had some blunt weapons although I'm not plannin' on taking them."
"Wow that's a LOT of stuff." I was amazed. How did they have so many weapons? "And just curious: what is Mad Milk?"
"Well from what I've heard, it's a milk modified by a thermonuclear radiation and if ya shoot the person who has it on his skin, you'll regenerate health. Dunno how it works, MannCo is making all of this crazy stuff." We ended the conversation and after we took everything that we needed, we headed to the landing platform. Merasmus and some of the mercenaries were already there. When everyone was ready, Merasmus spoke some weird words which I couldn't understand but I could feel the energy around us. The last thing I saw before loosing conciousness.
(WHOOOOOOSH) TF2 Universe, Double Cross, RED base, Ezra's POV
I felt like my body was literally thrown on the ground. I opened my eyes and saw a bright room with some old computers in it and stairs. There were two exits: one on the left where I saw a fence with a barbed wire on top and on the left where was a hole.
"Ugh... are we there?" I asked.
"Yeah." I heard Engineer's weird accent. "Did ya guys took care of these cameras?" he asked someone.
"Affirmative!" one of the Soldiers said. I got up and saw Sabine, Hera and Zeb still lying on the floor.
"Uh, what the kriff was that?" Sabine asked. I smiled because it sounded happily disturbing said by her.
"We are there, come on." I said and gave her a hand to help her get up.
"Hey, doc!" Scout suddenly asked. "Can we make a test for respawn working on us? You'll resurrect me if it fails."
"Alright!" mad doctor replied and I saw him stabbing my friend in the stomach. He fell on the ground but suddenly vanished. Now all of us were up and RED Engineer spoke.
"Come on, we'll show you our resupply room. There should be enough stuff to store for now." he said. "BLU's went to their own room and will be back in the minute. After that, we'll go to one of the MannCo warehouses." We followed him. The resupply room wasn't too big and Scout was already there searching one of the lockers.
"Where da hell are ya?" he mumbled but after a moment he pulled out a weird gold key and a crate. "Gotcha!"
"What's that?" I asked.
"Dat crate I didn't open, I wanna see what's inside." he replied. The crate was soon opened and I saw something shiny inside. My friend had his eyes wide opened. "NO WAY!" He pulled out what looked like his normal sweatband but it sparked with electricity. "I've got an unusal!" he yelled. RED team immediately turned around and looked at him. He wore the sweatband and it actually looked pretty cool.
"Wow, it looks nice." I commented.
"Yeah, well that's what happens when you're a genious. They don't call them unusuals for no reason." Scout replied. After he recieved congratulations from his teammates, we went searching the lockers. I found a black and light brown pistol.
"Hey Scout, what's that?" I asked. He ran to me fast.
"Oh, dat baby is called Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol." he anwsered. "It allows you to screw with gravity when ya have it in your hands and when you shoot someone, you heal yourself." I looked at the pistol. This little thing could do so much.
"I'm keepin' it." I said proudly.
"What do you have there, boys?" Sabine approached us.
"Bridger found himself a pistol." Scout replied. "He's kind of a Pretty Boy." then he chuckled.
"Hey! Shut up!" I protested. "And what did you find, Sabine?" mandalorian girl (that I still have a crush on) pulled out an orange pistol and something that looked like a small rifle.
"I found these." she said.
"Da first one is my old C.A.P.P.E.R. I didn't use it for some time but it already shoots lasers and with some upgrades it should level normal blasters. The second gun is Sniper's Cleaner's Carbine. Not as rapid as his normal SMG, but it's silenced." Scout explained.
"HA! You maggots play with TOYS!" Soldier appeared out of nowhere almost giving me a heart attack. "I found REAL GUNS!" With that said, he showed us a futuristic (for these days) rocket launcher, something that looked like a big blaster pistol and something that looked like a shotgun with a big barrel on the bottom.
"Wow Solly, you found your Cow Mangler? I thought you threw it away." Scout said.
"A REAL man never throws his weapons away, even if he is not using them!" Soldier yelled. When everyone grabbed something, we went back to the room where we appeared.
"Put these weapons into that container." RED Engineer said. We obeyed although I kept that pistol I got. "Alright partners, now we head to the nearest MannCo warehouse."
'Why I have a feeling that something bad is gonna happen there?' I thought but couldn't do anything with it.
(Time Skip) MannCo warehouse near DoubleCross, No-one's POV
The group decided to split up to two teams: In 1st one there was RED team, Kanan, Zeb and Sabine, in the 2nd was BLU team, Ezra, Ahsoka, Miss Pauling and Hera. They went to the building each team different way and now proceeded to the main storage.
"Be careful, these warehouses have a good security." Miss Pauling said. "Some of them are even guarded by Administrator herself."
"Who's Administrator?" Ezra asked.
"We'll explain you later." BLU Engineer replied. They were closing in to the reassembling point when Scout wanted to make a joke. It just appeared in his mind for no reason. He sneaked up behind the wall and when he saw BLU Soldier's shadow close, he jumped out of his hiding spot and scared the patriot with quiet but deadly "BOO!".
"AARGH?!" Soldier got scared and fired a rocket which hit the ground under the Scout.
"AAAAAAAAHHH!" runner started to scream when suddenly he hit a giant tank with a strange green liquid inside. The impact opened the hatch and Scout fell in.
"What did you do!?" Ezra started to yell at BLU Soldier.
"He surprised me and I react to surprises with violence." rocketman replied. "He deserved this!"
"Hey, he needs help!" Sabine pointed at the tank. It was true. Scout was now having convulsions and was punching the glass now trying to get out. After two seconds he stopped and his unconcious body was randomly twitching.
"Break the glass!" Ezra yelled. Immediately everyone started to shoot and soon the tank was broken and Scout's body floated from it. It was still twitching. Miss Pauling looked at it but then she saw a box full of drinks that possibly contained this liquid.
"Hang on a second..." she said silently. The note was saying: 'A BRAND NEW BONK! THE NUCLEAR BOOSTER! Now available for all classes. Make your class abilities stronger by 400%! Recommended to drink -'
"Once a week!?" she gasped in horror. Scout probably extremely overdozed this drink.
"What once a week?" Kanan asked.
"It says to not drink more than one drink a week!" she replied. Everyone's expression (except both Pyros') turned into gasp of horror.
"Well, well, well, you made it this far but I must inform you that your journey ends now." a voice echoed through the room and a screen above the door showed Administrator. "RED Scout overdosed the amount of this drink over a hundred times. There is no way-" but then Scout bounced to the air and started to look at everything.
"Da hell just happened?!" Then he looked at his hands started to run around the room. He was like 4 times faster than he should be. "I can't help it! Energy is filling me! I need to run!" he screamed.
"Nevermind." Administrator continued. "I'm afraid that you all need to be terminated now. Say goodbye to your bodies." Immediately all of the doors exploded and men dressed in black entered the room. They surrounded them within seconds.
"Oh, this is not good." Hera mumbled. Both Heavies prepared to fire.
"We fight like men." RED one said.
"Very well." his counterpart replied. Meanwhile RED Scout was still bouncing around the room. He felt like his body was injected with electricity and he needs to run.
"Kill the RED Scout first." Administrator ordered. One of the agents raised his revolver and shot the runner. He jumped in the air, grabbed the pipe that was on the ceiling did three backflips and landed on the ground again.
"Whoa! Dat was close!" he said. Everyone was dumbfounded.
"KILL HIM!" Administrator was getting irritated. Agents recovered from the shock and pointed their weapons at the runner. He just smiled and ran forward which seemed more like a blink. He kicked one of the agents in the crotch, pulled out a pistol and shot two more. Poor guy tried to take him down with a shotgun, but Scout just dodged and started to run between them. Agents tried to shoot him but it ended up on killing their own.
Meanwhile, one of them was smarter and stayed out of sight using his invis watch. He sneaked behind the dumbfounded group, pulled out Australlium frying pan and hit RED Soldier in the head.
"OW!" he screamed. Suddenly something in his head clicked. He turned his head towards the agent and his eyes were pointing completely different directions. "I AM PAINIS CUPCAKE!" agent was now horrified. "I WILL EAT YOU!" and after a second there was no agent beside the blood and flesh on the floor.
The group recovered from shock and now started to pull back providing covering fire for the two fighters.
"Get da guns and get outta here!" Scout yelled while Painis was devouring another guy. Although he had a LOT of fun from what was going on. Ezra and Kanan were protecting the group while it was taking weapons. They mostly took weapons that were already 'laser' like Cow Manglers 5000. Suddenly the wall of the warehouse blew up and dozens of armed men came in.
(Sudden magical POV change) Scout's POV
I felt like a frickin' wind. I could see more, hear more, run more. Generally all of my abilities were on 'more'. I just dodged a bullet from sniper rifle when I saw two knives lying on the ground.
'Oh, this is gonna be fun!' my thoughts grinned to me. I ran fast and after picking them up, I stabbed one guy in the throat then ran away. That tactic was working until most of the agents were firing at me. I thought it's time to make a change. Soon two scatterguns appeared in my hands and it seemed like they begged for someone to kill. I litteraly jumped out of my cover, ran on the ceiling and landed on a guy who's expression was 'please don't kill me!.' I shot two guys on my sides, ran towards the third one and literally blew his head off. I saw a rocket flying towards me.
'I am totally crazy now' I thought and kicked it in the mid air and it headed it back to the sender. I started to just randomly run around kicking the poor guys in the balls or taking weapons from them. Suddenly they stopped firing and a big tough guy entered what was left from the warehouse.
"Well, well. It seems that I have some off-worlders here." he said. "Let's see how much you've got." and approached us.
"Ooh yeah, you're real scary! Don't you get a close task there at the ugly cementary!" I teased. Just couldn't resist. That energy was taking control of me but it was a pleasant feeling.
"Cocky like all of the Scouts. Even cockier than your only female counterpart." the guy chuckled. That caught my attention. 'All Scouts?' and 'a female counterpart'? I didn't let get myself distracted.
"Y'know you're not scary, you're just weird!" I continued.
"Ah, I'm getting tired of this." he said. 'Painised' Soldier ran towards this guy but he just grabbed him and threw his body at the group. Then he looked at me and with an unusual speed dashed towards me. I dodged easily although his speed was unlike for his size.
"Nice aim dumbass!" all of the greatness of my mouth was now released to tease everyone. He tried to grab me but hit the wall. "Oh, you gonna cry? You gonna cry now?"
"Well you're quite agile, even for a Scout." he commented. "Although I was just getting started." then he grabbed my leg and pulled. When I was close, I used my other leg to deliver a sweet kick to his jaw. My leg was released and I rolled back. Then the others started to shoot that agent. He pulled out two SMGs and without hesitation fired back with terrifying accuracy easily pinning down my friends. I dashed forward, pulled out my bat and BONKed his head hard which made him drop the guns.
"That's ENOUGH!" the agent said and quickly grabbed me by my torso and hit to the floor. I literally felt like a few of my bones were shattered. Then he threw me to the wall.
"Argh!" I just felt like my bones were sticking out of my skin but that fortunately wasn't true.
"Agent Morgan," I heard Administrator's voice. "finish him."
"With pleasure." supposed Agent Morgan approached me from the back. I felt in the air that he was swinging and used all of my remaining strength to bounce off the floor and land behind him. His fist missed me by millimeters. Then I felt a short prick in my arm but that was the bolt from Medic's Crusader's Crossbow.
"Thanks Doc! Now GO!" I yelled. Ghost crew and both teams obeyed without hesitation.
"So now it's just you and me." the agent said. He ran towards me and was swinging rapidly trying to hit me. I was dodging but after a few swungs he landed a good hit on me. I rolled back but immediately got up.
'Dat guy really doesn't plan on dying I soon.' I guessed although I had a plan which included hitting him in the only place that can bring every man to the ground. My objective was: go for the balls. I picked up a random pipe from the ground and ran towards him. Agent tried to hit me but I dodged and jumped in the air. He tried to hit me and I bounced off his fist and landed behind him. Then I used all of my remaining strength to make a big swing to his balls. The high-pitched scream that went out of the agent's mouth was priceless. I took out my pistols, put them into his throat and emptied both mags in three seconds. His head was now burned and generally dead.
"Oh man. Dat one was good." I said to myself and grabbing all of my weapons by the way, I ran back to the Double Cross. My friends were now surrounded by agents, but I saw something strange far away: some trucks were standing there and like perfect copies of us, red and blue were exiting the vehicles. Although there was one group that made my heart stop from shock: a group of RED and BLU team, just fully female. They spotted me and I recovered from shock. I ran towards the group taking out a few agents by the way.
"Just in time, Scout!" Ezra said.
"Missed me, didn't ya?" I joked. He chuckled as well. "Merasmus get us outta here!"
"Alright! On three!" he said. I saw these copies of our teams heading towards us, but I was mostly looking at the female ones.
'This must be what dat agent was talkin' about!' I thought.
"One!" a green energy was glowing around us. Then a giant rocket flew towards us. "Two!" a whole BLU team and Miss Pauling suddenly went out of the circle and trying to stop the projectile they jumped towards it not stopping shooting. "THREE!" and everything went dark.
(WHOOOSH!) SW:Rebels Universe, Sabine's POV
We barely made it but we had the weapons we needed. Although I saw something that I don't know if anyone else noticed: an exact copies of RED and BLU team that we knew, but one was female. But when we woke up I saw Scout having a thoughtful look on his face and I knew he saw it as well.
"Wait!" I heard RED Sniper. "Where the hell are these BLU wankers and Miss Pauling?" then I noticed. They weren't here.
"I saw them..." Scout replied. "A giant rocket was flying at us and they went out of the circle to stop it." he was heavily bruised but except that he looked fine.
"What?" Merasmus asked. "These fools went out?"
"Yeah!" runner replied.
"That means they stayed where these agents were." Ezra said.
"Oh no." the wizard yelped. "That means I'm either stuck here with you or go back where this private army of Administrator is."
"Well, we've got what we came there." I pointed on the containers with weapons. The mood wasn't actually fine and I wanted to make it better. Then Commander Sato and few rebel soldiers approached us.
"I assume that your mission was succesful." he said. "Although I don't see BLU team and Miss Pauling with you."
"They stayed to save us." Sniper replied.
"There were some complications." Spy appeared a bit farther from the group and now was smoking.
"What kind of complications?" Commander asked. Everyone looked at Scout who smiled sheepishly.
"Well, BLU Solly shot me into da container with some weird liquid inside it. Dat gave out our position, but hey! I feel so bouncy and energetic. now! Although it's not that intensive like it was at the very beggining."
"What exactly do you mean by that, Scout?" Sato was now looking at him intrigued.
"Well, I guess I can show dat!" he said and jumped into the air, did 3 backflips, landed on the Ghost which was like 10 meters away and ran back with an incredible speed. All that he did in 10 seconds. "Yeah, that's what happens when you're a genious."
"I see." the commander replied. "We have the weapons and that matters. Engineer?" he turned to the shortest member of the RED team. It was kind of weird to me but he's the kindest of all members. "I'll devote all of our technicians to help you upgrade these weapons."
"Much obliged!" he replied. "Then I'll get to work immediately." Everyone went to their business and I thought to talk to Scout with Ezra. The padawan had the very same idea because after a moment he asked me the question I wanted to ask him. We went together and found Scout in the dining room of the base. He was talking to Spy.
"Are ya sure you don't know ANYTHING about other teams?" he asked.
"I admit, it is interesting although I don't know anything about what you call our 'female counterparts'." Spy replied. We decided that it's a good moment to join.
"We saw it too." I started.
"Yeah and it was kind of strange." Ezra added although he had a thoughtful look on his face as well. "I sensed their presence and their Force signatures were exactly the same as yours except the gender. The same thing was with the other teams. Scout's expression changed immediately.
"Does dat mean we're just clones?" he asked a bit scared.
"I don't know. From what Kanan told me, every clone from the Republic Army had a bit different Force signature." Ezra replied. "The only difference that I could sense was the gender." Spy was silent for a moment but then spoke.
"Well, I guess we don't have a chance to investigate it now." he said. Scout nodded and I went to my room, but I couldn't stop thinking about the RED team. They could have darker past than they even imagined.
A/N: So a bit of explanation. Some of you might have linked the Scout's boost with the certain YouTube video and yes, I was taking INSPIRATION from it. The video is called 'The Rise of the Epic Scout' by Crash Maul who's videos I recommend you to watch. Second thing: the Scout's superpowers won't last in this 'super' state forever. It's just a shock after getting out and recieving a huge amount of that drink. Also, it's not that I'm favoring Scout only (although he's my favourite character and I want to give him more attention in the series), I'm gonna give some unique traits to other mercenaries as well. I already introduced Painis Cupcake. Then after all of the (possibly) controversial things were explained (I hope), thank you guys for reading this chapter and write what do you think. Carry on!
Bonker out!