BLU team is best team.
"Are ya ready?" Scout asks, walking into Medic's lab where L has taken up work, Pyro with him.
"Yes, I was just watching one last tape," L replies, pausing the small television in front of her. The screen displays a square-jawed man in a lab coat.
"Are ya sure you've got enough?"
"I've studied a lot of these tapes so I know exactly what your actual Medic would do in any situation," L smiles, facing him.
"No, I mean a weapon. You can't go out into a battlefield without a gun," Scout says, and Pyro nods.
"Oh, right," L sweats, putting her back to them. "I'll find something, you go on ahead."
"Alright," Scout says, then he takes off. Pyro stays in the doorway.
"Go ahead, Pyro," L looks back to smile at him. Pyro nods and motions his hands as if to say 'Hurry.' Then he leaves.
L sighs, walking around the metal examination table to the far wall. Hung up on display is every gun, medigun, and saw the old Medic had. L already has the regular medigun on her back. Fingers shaking, she grabs the syringe gun in both hands. Even though it doesn't use bullets, the thought of what this thing can do makes her feel dread deep in her soul, and she has the strong desire to throw the thing as far as she can. L takes a deep breath and clips the weapon to her belt.
"I hope I'll never have to use it," she prays.
Looking back at the wall, L reaches for the least intimidating bonesaw on display. Her fingers freeze just before they touch it. In L's mind plays the footage she watched of what the Medic would do with this.
Avoiding bullets and explosions he'd swing his arm with this blade in hand, as easily as a child would swing a bat at a piňata. The blood that splattered around and covered the Medic's blade and coat was the candy. Whatever it went through was no longer there. He usually went for his enemies' necks, and the lucky ones would be decapitated. L shivers.
"Hrrhrr!" Pyro's voice pulls her out of her trance.
"Coming," she calls.
"Thirty seconds until the mission begins," a woman's voice sounds throughout the building as L exits the office with Pyro, happy to leave the bonesaw behind.
When they arrived at the silver doors to outside, Soldier called for L, somehow managing to have hurt himself before the battle even started. She pulls out the medigun and flips the switch to start healing him. Taking a deep breath, she thinks, I don't have enough time to have the ubercharge ready before it starts.
L watches the men run around, taunting, and dancing. She tries to run around herself to share their enthusiasm, but her chest feels tight.
Why are they so relaxed about this? Is it because they know they can't die?
"Ten seconds until the mission begins," the Administrator's voice rings out. L takes more deep breaths, counting down the seconds with everyone else.
"4...3...2...1."
The doors slide open and everyone runs out. Soldier fires a rocket at his own feet, launching himself skyward, and out of L's medigun range. L looks around and sees that the only person close enough for her to overheal is Pyro, so she turns the medigun onto him. He gives her a thumbs up over his shoulder as he leads her through the wooden barricade, straight towards the raised, sun-bleached platform where fighting had already begun.
Her team, the BLU team, had made it to the point first. Heavy is standing on the metal circle, unloading his minigun on the REDs that are trying the direct route. Demo launches grenades at enemies that try to come through the side route, turning them into an explosion of limbs and blood. Engie has set up a dispenser behind the platform and is working on making a sentry near the point. The rest of the team is running around to get kills. L is so distracted by all the chaos that she almost lets Scout burn to death.
She turns the medigun on him and runs to try and keep up with the batter. He leaves her range just as Soldier calls for her, dropping out of the sky and hitting an enemy Pyro with a shovel.
L heals him, making sure to stay behind him. She glances at the Ubercharge dial and reads that it's finally at 100%. When Soldier's health is full, she heads over to Heavy.
Heavy has a surprising amount of health, but he is standing only a few feet from the dispenser.
"Heavy, I have an ubercharge ready!" she shouts over the gunfire.
"No!" the man yells back.
"But-"
"Only Doktor ubercharges me!"
L just stares at him. There's a million things that she wants to say to him, but she knows that this isn't the time.
"90 seconds left in the mission," the Administrator's voice rings out. L turns back to the enemy side of the map to see an enemy Heavy, glowing metallic red, along with the RED version of herself, emerge from behind the barricade, charging at the point and firing.
The sentry blows out from the RED Heavy's fire, and L hears the BLU Heavy cry out as he falls to the ground, the RED Spy standing behind where he was.
Before L can realize what's going on, all the gunfire is directed at her. She feels a bullet tear through her left cheek and her feet start moving. She runs back to the BLU team's side, passed the wooden barricade and into the base, covering her bullet wound with her hand.
As soon as she makes it through the doors, she collapses against a wall.
"The enemy has taken the point!" L barely hears the Administrator's voice over her panicked breathing. The other BLU's run passed her and out the doors, only to respawn a few seconds later. The sound of her heart pounding distracted her from noticing how many times they did.
"Dang flabbit! They're spawn campin'!" Engie yelled, throwing his hard hat to the ground.
"What the hell? We at least gave 'em a chance!" Scout pouted.
What did I do to deserve this? L thinks, Do you hate me, Sigma? Is that why you sent me here?
L feels a soft pat on her shoulder. She looks to her right at Pyro, who has been sitting next to her for sometime. He holds out a bandage to her. She glances at the hand covering the bullet wound she forgot about.
"Thank you," she smiles, taking the bandage from him. While trying to hide the wound from view, L puts the bandage over it. Pyro tilts his head.
Once the wound is covered, L says, "Thank you, Pyro, I'm alright now."
Pyro stands up and offers her his hand. She takes it and he helps her up. Glancing around, she sees that everyone is looking at her.
"You ready to get back out there, son?" Soldier asks.
L nods.
"What's your uber at?"
"It's ready to go."
"OK, Heavy-"
"No."
Everyone stared at the Russian, the Heavy, the man who is always the First Choice when it comes to ubercharging.
Breaking the silence, L says, "If he doesn't want to ubercharge then let's not force him. I can uber Soldier instead."
Everyone gets into position in front of the two doors, L behind Soldier with the medigun on him.
She takes a deep breath. It doesn't matter why he sent me here. All that matters is that I'm here.
"Thirty seconds until the mission ends," the Administrator's voice sounds.
Almost immediately afterwards, Soldier shouts, "Charge!"
L flips the uber switch as they run out. Her whole body starts glowing with a metallic blue light, and she is filled with a tingling sensation. She feels stronger than she has ever had. The excitement and adrenaline makes her laugh. Thank you for sending me here.
When the ubercharge wears off they have made it to the point. The BLU team quickly reclaims it and keeps close to it, making it easier for her to keep everyone healed.
As she runs around her teammates, she still feels the echoes of the strength the uber provided her. She's still thinking about it when the timer reaches zero.
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