A/N: Ditto. This is where the story starts to diverge from the previous one. Take note fellas!
Scout was lying on his bed wide-awake. It was one of those nights where he just couldn't sleep. He reached under his pillow to get his baseball, but then remembered that K-9 stole it from him. He groaned as he tried to think of something else to do to pass the time. As he did, he decided to figure out what the building's personalities were like.
Stella was like the leader-type, always putting others before herself, but at the same time she had the notion of being extremely lazy and carefree outside combat. Considering sentries don't do much other then fight, Scout figured the only thing she would probably work hard on was killing others.
Debbie was the brains of the five, no doubt about that. She's the one that keeps the others in line and alive. She's also the one that would kill only as a last resort. Scout saw her face in battle, and she didn't look like she enjoyed the blood and gore, which was ironic since she hangs around and heals people with such wounds.
Tia and Tai…where should he start with these two? Obviously the fun-loving duo, he saw that the two no doubt want to be everyone's friend that is at least what Scout thought of the two. The Teleporter twins had some kind of bipolar disorder of some sorts. One second they're joking with BLU Spy and the next they're unloading on the sneaky bastard. Scout kinda hated the two, mainly because they can appear out of nowhere when you least expect it; it spooked him a little and reminded him of the Spies. Creepy.
Oh and K-9, how could he forget about him, a fricking puppy in the body of an adult dog. The mischievous type, but Scout couldn't blame him though; he was still a pup after all. Scout initially wanted to kick the pup, but quickly reconsidered after today, one wrong move and little ole doggy turns into a beast craving blood. Scout wondered what building K-9 was. He didn't really fit any of the criteria for the others. Then Scout figured it out what K-9 was. He groaned as the building he thought of appeared in his mind: the Combat Mini Sentry. No one expects the smallest building could be the most deadly if left alone.
His thought process was interrupted when he heard his door open. He got up and saw K-9 walking in his room, in his mouth was Scout's baseball. He plopped it on Scout's bed, before giving Scout a look. Scout was about to say something when K-9 turned around and ran out of the room. He stared at the door before looking at the baseball.
"Uh, thanks?" he said, hoping K-9 was listening.
"Wonder why he gave it back?" he thought as he started tossing it up and down.
Time Skip
"Stella, get your lazy ass up!" shouted Debbie as he poked at the sleeping woman. "We have to get going so we can prepare."
"Ngggh, five more minutes, Deb," Stella mumbled into the couch. "Five more minutes in dreamland…"
"Don't make me get Soldier."
Stella turned and lifted her hat so only her red eye could be seen. "You wouldn't dare…"
"Oh I will sister, and I'll make him scream his head off."
"You're a witch you know that?" Stella mumbled under her breath as she got up off the couch.
"At least I try and keep things together, like you would."
Stella rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, kill the messenger."
"If it's any consolation, we're going to 2Fort today."
Stella's eyes widened as she heard that, "Did you just say 2Fort?" she asked.
"Uh huh, and I know how much you want to get out of RED's side…" before she could say more Stella was right up in front of her. "Uh personal space…"
"You know the things I said before?" Debbie nodded. "Forget them." and with that Stella sped off to heaven knows where.
Demo just so happen to enter the room from the doorway where Stella exited and gave Debbie a confused look, "Why's the lass hyped up today?" he asked.
"We're going to 2Fort." she replied.
"And?"
"This is her first time going out of RED's side of 2Fort, she never really liked staying there all the time."
Meanwhile at BLU HQ
None of the BLU mercs were eager to battle today. After yesterday, BLU was uneasy on how today would go.
"This is bullshit!" said BLU Scout. "It's like they're taking three steps forward while we're only taking one,"
"That beast they had," said BLU Demo. "It's almost like the monsters I've seen back in Scotland."
"Beast? Oh I think it is more than a beast Herr Demo," said BLU Medic. "Nothing could penetrate an uber, and it punched through it like paper, not to mention it somehow ubered itself without the use of a Medi-Gun."
"What do you think of this spook?" asked BLU Sniper to BLU Spy who was looking out a window.
"…"
"Well?"
"Bushman," started BLU Spy. "To be honest, I have no idea…those five look like normal beings, but they seem much more than that."
"So you're saying they're like gods or something?" asked BLU Scout. "What are the chances?"
"I don't really know Scout, but whatever they are…" he trailed off.
The nine mercs stood in silence until BLU Engi clapped his hands together, "I think we should ponder about this later on tonight, fellas," he said. "Right now we should focus on the battle coming up."
Everyone nodded and one by one each silently stood up and walked out of the room. BLU Spy was the last to leave. He looked out the window, "What are you?" he said.
Location: 2Fort
No one has ever seen Stella as happy as she was right now. When the siren went off, she sped to the battlements and took a huge leap over to BLU's battlements.
"Yeeeeeeehaaaw!" she shouted as she landed on BLU's battlements, machine guns drawn. Her right eye glowed as a sinister grin crept on her face.
At that moment BLU Scout, Sniper and Demo decided to turn the corner, only to be face to face with the human sentry.
"Hello boys," she said.
"Aw crap," said BLU Scout.
The sound of gunfire and Stella's laughter could be heard throughout the BLU side of 2Fort.
While this happened, the other RED mercs had barely anytime to get out of their spawn.
"She's fast," Engi said.
"That's kinda an understatement Engi," said Tai as she grabbed hold of Medic and Heavy, and teleported away.
"Why can't she be like this all the time?" Debbie said with a sigh. "K-9, stay with Engi and keep him safe ok?"
K-9 replied with a bark.
"Tia lets go and make sure Stella doesn't kill herself,"
Tia nodded and grabbed Debbie and Spy's hand, and disappeared.
Sniper, Scout, Soldier and Demo headed out, leaving only Engi, Pyro and K-9 in the spawn.
"Welp, I guess we have briefcase duty today," said Engi as he cocked his shotgun.
Back at BLU's side
Stella had quickly mowed down anyone that she came across and was right outside the room that contained the briefcase. She flattened herself against the wall, and listened in. The familiar beep of a BLU Sentry echoed in the hallway. She grinned, "So this is how attacking the briefcase room feels like," she thought.
She was about to jump out and blast whoever was in the room, but when she was about to jump she felt a sharp prick in her back. Confused,, she dropped one of her guns and felt something that was stuck back there. She pulled it out and brought it in front of her so she could see it. But what she saw surprised her.
It was a butterfly knife.
It was similar to what Spy would use to backstab people. But it's handle looked more blue than gray. She quickly turned around spotted the BLU Spy behind her with a surprised expression on his face.
She internally sighed and put a hand on his shoulder. Then she did something very unusual.
She started to laugh.
It started as slow chuckles then to a regular, hearty laugh. The BLU Spy joined in too with a forced smile. After a minute or so of laughing, Stella looked down at the knife and back up at the Spy who was still laughing.
His laughter quickly turned to screams as she plunged the knife into his skull.
Meanwhile back outside...
Debbie quietly hummed to herself as she looked over what seemed to be a baseball-sized metal ball. She pulled out a screwdriver from her pocket and was about to go to work on the ball when a bullet struck the wood behind her a few inches from her head.
The dispenser was standing right outside of the entrance to RED's side, patiently waiting for her team to clear out the BLU's from their side of the fort. She never liked being in the thick of battle, unlike her sisters, though she didn't mind jumping in every once in a while.
Debbie heard another shot ring out and moved her head slightly to the left to avoid the shot. She started to work on the ball once again when she heard a third shot. This time she ducked down. She expertly dodged every sniper round as they came her way, all while working on the metal ball.
"He's getting frustrated," she thought. "His shots are becoming more and more erratic."
After a couple minutes of this tomfoolery, Debbie pocketed her screwdriver and pulled out her pistol. She aimed for the BLU Sniper and fired off a single round at his head. Her kill was confirmed when she heard him scream in agony.
"Amateurs..." she muttered.
"Say goodbye to your kneecaps, chucklenuts!" Scout yelled as he smacked BLU Soldier in the head with his bat. The ensuing blow knocked the patriot to the ground. "I am the Scout here!"
The Bostonian run down the stairs and into the basement. He as he turned he came across BLU Spy, who appeared to be leaning against the wall. Making sure he wasn't playing some kind of trick or something, Scout nudged him with the barrel of his Scattergun. The corpse fell backward, and under the better light Scout could see that the Spy wasn't alive at all. His face was brutally torn up, heck, one of his eyeballs was sticking straight out it's socket.
Scout grimaced at the dead Frenchman. He wondered who could've messed up Spy this much.
"Howdy Scout!"
Oh right.
Scout turned to find Stella exiting the intel room. She was covered in a considerable amount of blood, but it looked like she didn't care.
"Guess you've been working, huh?" Scout asked.
"Yeah, got the stupid Spy and the Engi turtling inside the intel room. I would grab the intel, but I wanna have a bit more fun," she said. "See yah!"
Scout watched as she went off in the opposite direction, humming an upbeat tune. He gulped as he went to see what destruction she caused.
The destruction inside the intel room was almost what Scout had imagined it to be. The Sentry and the Dispenser were in pieces and...oh wow. The BLU Engi was impaled to the wall by one of the barrels of his Sentry. Yikes...
Scout didn't really want to see any more of this so he grabbed BLU's intel and ran out of the room.
Back at RED's intel room, it was quite boring for Engi, Pyro, and K-9. There wasn't any threats since it was taken care of outside of the base. Engi sighed as he fixed his PDA, he looked up and saw Pyro playing with K-9 with a yellow rubber ducky. He chuckled to himself before returning to work.
"So whatcha working on?"
Debbie looked to her right and found Stella right beside her.
"None of your business." Debbie said. "Weren't you supposed to be causing havoc on BLU's side?"
"Did that already. I cleared their intel room."
"How's the Twins doing?"
"Fine...hey, can't you just look on your wrist thingy?"
"It tells me their health not their status. You could be under fire but with full health you know." Debbie put her screwdriver away and the silver ball in her bag. "So where's the intel?"
"Scout has it. If I'm correct, he should be putting it back down riiiiiiiiiiiiiight..."
Victory.
"...now."
Stella yawned. "Finally. I can't wait to get back to base so I can take a nap. I'm beat."
"I suggest you should take a shower or something first though."
"Why?"
"Cause you're covered in blood. Actually, I think we should all take a shower or something, we never took a shower for almost half a week."
"Really? I think I'm fine."
"No, you are going to take a bath. I already hang around nine sweaty men all day, and I don't want to smell you guys as well."
"Oh dirty, ain't you?" Stella said with a smirk.
Debbie's face turned red. "Shut up! That's not what I meant!" she pouted.
Stella chuckled. "I know. I'm just fucking with yah," she placed her hands on Debbie's shoulders. "You get too worked up sometimes you know that, right?"
"Well SOMEONE has to keep things in order."
Later that night...
11 P.M
While majority of the merc were asleep, Debbie was still toiling away on the metal ball in the garage. The garage had been dubbed the building's unofficial room as of now. Off to the side were the Teleporter Twins and K-9 sitting asleep on the ground, the dog curled up in their laps.
The Dispenser's hair was currently not in its usual ponytail, and her sleeves had been rolled up. Her shirt was untucked and had a few of the top buttons unbuttoned. On the work table sat her backpack and a large assortment of tools.
"You still up Deb?"
Debbie turned to find Stella standing in the doorway of the garage. The Sentry still had on her hat but her hair was down. She had on only her pants, with the legs rolled up to her knees, her bra, and a towel around her neck. She was also barefoot.
"Yes. Is that a problem?"
"Well, considering you've been working on that stupid ball ever since we got back, yes."
"It's a side project. Besides, I can't sleep." Debbie said as she turned back and continued to work. "And why are you like that?"
"I took a shower." Stella said back. "And I think we should get extra clothes soon, cause we like only have one set of clothes right now."
"I'll make note of that."
Stella cocked her head. She knew Debbie was never a talker, as noted by her very short responses and attempts to end a conversation. But something felt...off.
"You ok Deb?"
Debbie paused before responding, "I'm just a little stressed, but I'm fine." she said before going back to work.
Stella knew she was hiding something, but didn't want to press further. She silently left the garage.
The Dispenser was able to hear her sister leave and when she did, she put down her tools and rubbed her face with her hands. She sighed, "If they only knew why I have to be a workaholic," she thought.
A/N: So I decided to go away from that previous crap I've made in the first story. It's kinda weird. R&R and yeah.
Till next time,
-D.W