(AN: Thanks to writingisrelaxing I have decided to post the chapter early without constant editing and review, so pardon the possible mistakes. On the bright side, this chapter is now posted and ready for review! I am not advanced in writing fight scenes so pardon my lack of explaining in detail how someone blows someone else up :P )
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Bang bang bang. Soldier's voice rang out from behind Pyro's door, "Rise-'n'-shine! It's Borneo today! Meet in the kitchen at 0600!"
Pyro groaned as he rose from his bed. He did not know what time it was except that it was time to get up. Pyro made sure to lock his room door then his bathroom door before deciding that he was safe to take a shower. Thankfully there was a washing machine in the bath hall so he could wash his suit before meeting the team. For Pyro's first field day, he wanted to make a good impression of himself towards his teammates, and his enemy.
Pyro made his way down the halls to the kitchen to find Soldier the only one up at such an early hour. For a second he was confused but then he realized that the Soldier was a strict military man and called everyone awake at unnecessary times. Sighing at the fact that he got ready much before he needed to, he searched the fridge for breakfast. Soldier happily handed Pyro a hot mug of black coffee and a straw as he came out of the fridge with an apple in his glove. Gratefully, Pyro took the mug and, with the straw stuffed up his vents, sipped the hot liquid that would help the man stay awake after few hours of sleep.
Slowly the other team members filtered into the room, grabbing their breakfast and coffee. Meanwhile, Pyro had asked the Soldier to explain their first mission to him. The American yelled out battle strategies and layouts of the area. The first battle-ground was going to be Borneo; a payload arena where one team had to either push the cart to the finish or defend the cart before it reaches the end. All that Pyro could understand about the layout of the arena was that Borneo is open in the middle so dangerous when the BLU Sniper is standing in a good position.
"Ya'll ready?" Engineer questioned the team before getting nodded heads and answers of 'Yes'. The group then migrated to the respawn room and entered their respective tubes. Engineer instructed Pyro to have his finger pricked by the machine before entering his tube. The short man typed away at the blank buttons and knobs before leaving the console and joining the rest in his tube.
The machinery hummed and buzzed with life as it processed what Engineer told it to do. Each tube locked closed before a metal ring came down shining bright lasers on the team. When the lasers retreated back to the top, the tubes shone bright with white light. As if instantaneously transported, the next thing Pyro saw was a different room he had never seen before. They were on Borneo, in the BLU spawn room.
"Why are we in a BLU room?" Pyro mumbled to Scout.
"We're pushin' da cart today. We switch sides because the fields are unique in a way an' stuff. It's just easier dis way," Scout answered.
"Here is ze plan for today," Spy announced to the team as they crowded in the middle of the spawn room, readying their weapons. "Heavy and Medic storm center and get on the cart. Zere is going to be a sentry either on the left hill or right plateau. Medic will uber Heavy and try to take out the sentry. Meanwhile I should have backstabbed their Engineer and sapped their Dispenser and Teleporters. Sniper, take out their Sniper first. Borneo has a lot of sightlines and we need to be safe from a head-shot first and foremost. Soldier, Demo; you both fly over the enemy and take out their Heavy and Medic. It would not go well if we allowed them to Uber against us when our Uber runs out. Scout, you go with Pyro on flank. Make sure you stop anyone that tries to take the high-ground against us. That bridge is known for people to drop down on the cart. After ze first capture is taken, the BLU team will surely try to set up a nest at the choke point. I will create as big a problem as I can. Should everything go smoothly, this should be an easy win."
Suddenly a voice boomed through the speakers, "Mission begins in ten seconds! 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Begin!"
The team readied their weapons. Scout flung his baseball bat up in the air and juggled a ball in his left hand. Soldier loaded rockets into his black box of a launcher. Pyro tested his flame thrower to be rewarded of fire spreading out in front of him. Demo took one last swig of his bottle before grabbing one of his launchers. Heavy clutched at his sandwich before revving up his minigun. Engineer packed up a toolbox as he removed his right yellow glove to reveal a mechanical hand. Medic got his medigun ready to Uber charge. Sniper tossed his jar of yellow… was that piss?... as he held on to his large safari knife. Lastly, Spy disguised himself as the BLU Pyro and flipped his knife repeatedly.
Pyro looked around curiously as the gates to the spawn did not open. He stood patiently with the rest of the team to discover that the BLU team was getting a head start to set up their defense. As soon as the gates were opened, Pyro ran out the right side with Spy cloaking behind him. As soon as he walked around the corner, the BLU sentry spotted him and shot him full of bullets. Pyro screamed as he met respawn for the first time.
"Wait for the saps first next time, Private!" Soldier shouted as Pyro teleported back into the Borneo BLU spawn.
Medic Ubered Heavy as Spy took care of the enemy Engineer and Pyro. The Sentry was taken down, along with the rest of the BLU Engineer's equipment. With this successful first push, the rest of the team rolled out of spawn. Scout and Engineer went right side, Soldier, Demo, and Sniper went center, leaving Pyro to head left side alone.
Pyro climbed the incline up to the bridge area where Spy had spoken about earlier. At the top, he spotted the enemy Scout approaching him from the other side of the wood bridge. The BLU Scout had nowhere to go as Pyro spread his flames across the bridge. That is, until a shiny blue rocket landed next to Pyro, blowing him into thousands of red pieces.
By the time Pyro respawned, the team had already pushed the cart up passed the bridge. Pyro wondered where his team had gone when the Medic came to his side. It was strange how the Medic was alone and not with Heavy. Instantly Pyro looked for his teammates, but it was too late. Pain then darkness greeted Pyro before the bright lights of respawn.
"Could ya do somethin' 'bout that Spah?!" Engineer grunted as he, along with Heavy, Medic, and Demo, walked out of spawn.
So Pyro went off after them, more cautious this time. Spys were dangerous that stole their victim's looks in order to trick their comrades. Pyro would not let Spy get away with that trick again. He Spy-checked his team mates every so often after that, just to be sure.
Engineer was having the most problems with the Spy. His Teleporters and Dispensers went down the second he got them up and functional. Pyro gravitated towards the texan in order to try and help by flaming around to keep the BLU Spy away. When the Engineer gave Pyro a nod that he was alright on his own again, Pyro walked up the hill towards the cart at the top… Before he was stopped by the BLU Sentry.
After he respawned, he went up left side in hopes of escaping the Sentry's view and still be able to help push the cart. It was obvious to Pyro that he was not a class made to take out the Sentries but to protect his team's. He held his shotgun in hand as he raced across the high-ground of left-side. Taking a few pot-shots at the enemy before ducking for cover. He was almost at the cart before he saw the enemy Sniper looking at him. He made a dash for the cart, hoping he could hide from the Sniper, but was shot down by the Sentry.
Out of respawn, he watched Sniper, Demo, and Heavy take down the Sentry together. Medic gave Pyro an over-heal before regrouping with Heavy on the cart. Engineer moved his tiny Sentry up into the building as Pyro followed him to help him place it. It surprised Pyro at how much traffic the building got. Enemy after enemy came charging in before falling flat on the floor after Pyro's flames and the Sentry centered on them. Scout came running in the building on fire, the BLU Pyro flaming behind him. The Pyro dropped as soon as the Sentry spotted the commotion.
"Help!" Scout shouted at Pyro, but he didn't know what to do. "Airblast me! I'm on fire! Ah!"
Pyro wondered what Scout meant before realizing that he wanted Pyro to airblast him. Confused, Pyro did as instructed to find that Scout was no longer on fire. The younger man gave a thanks, grabbed the health from the Dispenser that Engineer moved up, and took off sprinting back where he came from.
Engineer set down the Teleport exit before telling Pyro, "Gotta move that gear up!"
The masked man nodded and exited the building as Scout had done to be spotted by the enemy Soldier. Rockets fired towards him. Pyro readied his flamethrower and airblast at the rockets back towards the sender. A smile formed behind the black flame-retardant mask when the reflected rockets blew the BLU Soldier to bits.
"Nice work," Engineer praised as he set down his Sentry into a more aggressive spot.
Engineer disappeared back into the building and Pyro watched as the mini-Sentry shot at BLU after BLU. It was such a cute little gun. Pyro realized he was standing idly long enough and looked behind him, checking for the BLU Spy. The man was stopped dead in his tracks when a blue dot on the wall approached his head. It was but a few seconds later that Pyro landed back in respawn.
Back towards the front, Pyro found Medic being abandoned by Soldier as he rocket jumped away. After a quick flame around, Pyro determined they were safe from the Spy. The medical man followed Pyro as he dropped down to the lower level under the cart bridge. The BLU Scout came running towards them, shooting his Back Scatter before screaming "Fire!". The Scout was enough of a distraction for the BLU Spy to stab Medic.
"Medic!" Pyro cried before chasing the sneaky devil.
Flames engulfed the BLU and the Spy burned to death. Pyro strolled back to the team, muttering to himself how cheeky the Spy was. Regrouping, the RED team were able to cap the next payload point. The payload was pushed through the tunnel to be met with another open area. Pyro ran ahead with Scout to be mowed down by the shouting BLU Heavy.
Pyro felt useless against the large beast of a man, but easily shoot off the feeling as he returned to the battlefield from the spawn room. Engineer lifted up his packed sentry gun and Pyro followed him carefully to allow him to set it up safely. As the sentry was built back up, Pyro walked away to follow Demoman into the last building.
"Aye, stand back, lad!" Demoman yelled as he pulled out his sticky bomb launcher and shot at the BLU Engineer's nest. The nest blew to smithereens and the BLU team rushed into last.
Pyro gave the Demoman a thumbs up before running up the right-side ramp towards the enemy spawn. Up on the spawn deck, Pyro chased a Scout that came out of spawn down the right corridor. As the Scout burned to death, Pyro noticed a fuzz of BLU dissipate across the payload track. The masked man jumped across the map to chase the Spy he was sure was sneaking around.
The fire lover looked for a possible target the Spy would have been going after, finding Sniper sitting in the open of left side. Pyro pulled out his shotgun and fired in the dark to reveal a BLU outline of a Scout. The Spy cried out in pain before running away again. Pyro flamed around but couldn't seem to find where the BLU went.
"Stupid, bloody, Spys," Sniper mumbled before landing a headshot and reloading his gun.
With that, Pyro decided that the Spy went off to find someone else to pick on and went off to rejoin the battlefront. He ran into the right side of last to flame the BLU Demoman. The BLU team rushed away from him as they jump down to the main level. A sentry beeped to attention and Pyro was shot full of ammunition. Back into the respawn he went.
Before Pyro could get back to the front, the Administrator's voice rasped, "Victory!"
The RED's weapons sparkled with power as the team conquered the enemy, sending them to respawn. Mumbles of frustration from the team rang out in the spawn room of the RED base. They had not lost, but their win was quite frustrating. The team died three times too many for their liking.
"We shall win again," Spy announced, "and zis time, we will not let ze BLUs get even a taste of success."
Nods filled the room and Pyro watched his team. He thought the day went alright, considering he was a new merc and all. Spotted flaws he needed to work on already. He was ready to prove his team and the enemy that he was ready for the job.
Demoman slurred, "Yer doin' gud lad."
Pyro thanked the drunk before heading off to his room to shower, just like the rest of his team. What a day it has been, for Pyro? And to think, it is not over yet…