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Unknown ship located about one hundred miles from Earth
The trench coat and fedora-wearing woman hurried down the spaceship's corridor passing blue and tan colored soldiers who paid no attention to the woman. She entered the main control room to find her superior "punishing" an officer.
"I am surrounded by IDIOTS!" she yelled as she thrusted a hunting knife into the officer's shoulder. "Not only you failed to kill those three, but you allowed your team to be captured!" The superior was about the same height as the other woman. She wore a tan vest with a red colored long sleeve shirt. She had black long pants and green combat boots. What was noticeable about this woman was her brown hair was slightly ablaze in an orange-like aura.
The officer said nothing as his shoulder bleed out when she pulled the blade out.
"You were trained by one of the best tacticians in the whole multiverse, and given the best soldiers, but you still failed! HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?"
"Ma'am," said the officer. "Those targets have more battle experience and training then we do. Going against them is almost sui-gack!"
The officer stopped talking when a knife was shoved into his neck. He then fell to the ground, and into the puddle of blood he created earlier.
"Fucking useless, soldiers," she muttered. "Can't even get a decent person to do a simple thing," she noticed every other soldier in the room was looking at her. "GET BACK TO WORK OR ELSE YOU'LL BE JOINING HIM!"
Everyone got back to work in a flash and soon forgot about the little incident.
The woman bent down to pick up her knife, as she did she noticed the fedora wearing woman was still watching her. "Sorry you had to see that Evie," she said. "These fucking soldiers need a bomb go off next to them so they do something,"
"Phoenix," said Evie as she walked over to her. "Are you really sure we should go through with this plan?" Even though she shouldn't be questioning her superior, Evie was a few people who could do this without getting killed by the hothead leader.
"Evie, when will we get another shot at this?" asked Phoenix as she wiped the blood off her knife on the dead officer's clothes. "When will there be another time that these six will be separated from the others? None, there will be no other time, we should ALWAYS strike when they are down,"
"Isn't a cornered animal the most dangerous animal?" Evie asked back. "Plus those mercs they hang out with do not look like a normal people,"
"They're MERCS Evie, we have trained SOLDIERS, what's the worse they can throw us?"
Meanwhile, in RED's training center
"NEEEW WEAPON!" shouted Heavy as he hefted a red colored minigun. The minigun had four small electrical teslas in place of the normal firing chambers, and the ammo barrel was replaced with a red colored barrel with multiple wires coming out of it. The wires snaked around the minigun and led to the teslas.
"So what is it?" asked Scout, clearly perplexed on what the spider girl built.
Scout, Heavy, BLU Soldier, BLU Sniper, and Arachne were testing some new weapons Arachne built.
"It's basically a minigun that shoots bolts of lightning rather than bullets," replied Arachne while she inspected a pistol. "Catch," she said as she tossed the pistol to Scout.
"Really?" Scout said as he looked over the gun. It looked exactly like his normal pistol. "The fatso gets a lightning rod while I get this?"
"Not really," replied Arachne. "This is a self-reloading, ammo-regenerating, .50 caliber handgun, our shield soldiers are normally equipped with his hand cannon,"
"Still not impressed, egghead,"
"Just shoot the target, string bean,"
The target in question was a bunch of concrete slabs that was found all around the area.
Scout took aim and fired a shot at a rectangular shaped slab. The shot hit the corner and sliced it off the slab.
"Wow!"
"That is nothing little man," said Heavy. "I will show you true destruction," he revved up the minigun and fired at the same slab. Though electricity is supposed to be absorbed by the concrete, somehow each bolt shredded the slab until it looked like a piece of swiss cheese. "New weapons is good," Heavy remarked. "Female Engineer is credit to team!"
"Glad you like it," said Arachne. "Now for you Soldier… ah Soldier?" She found that BLU Soldier somehow fell asleep during the demonstration and was currently snoring.
"Rocket-hopping simpleton…" muttered BLU Sniper before whacking BLU Soldier in the back of his head.
BLU Soldier jumped awake and saluted. "I WAS NOT ASLEEP, I NEVER SLEEP!" he shouted.
"Uh ok…" said Arachne as she picked up a modified stock rocket launcher. "Here's yours," she said as she tossed it to him.
The rocket launcher looked similar to Soldier's stock rocket launcher except now it had a blue colored laser sight near the front where the front sights were.
"Now I'm assuming you're wondering what that light is there for?" Arachne said as BLU Soldier looked over the rocket launcher. "Well, to place it in easier terms for you, your rockets will now follow wherever that laser dot is,"
"Ah, Soldier I don't think that's a good idea," said Scout worryingly.
"You kids today don't know what true beauty is," said BLU Soldier. By moving the laser in a circle Soldier created a ring of rockets in the area in front of them.
"Soldier," said Arachne with a sigh. "Why do I even…"
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of RED base
"Ok you got the hang of it Engi!" shouted Jewel.
"Think of it like walking, but with joysticks instead!" added Joli.
Outside Jewel and Joli were helping both Engis work their LOW-DRs, while both Pyros sat on the side watching. Despite the LOW-DRs easy to understand controls, both Texans had a rather hard time getting the mechs to walk.
Just as Joli finished Engi's loader took a step too far and faceplanted on the ground.
"How many times had they both fell over since we started?" asked Joli as she ran over and righted the mech.
"Why too many to keep track," said Jewel. "You ok, cowboy?" she asked Engi as the cockpit opened.
"Yeah," Engi said as he pulled his hardhat up from his eyes. "Gosh darn thing is harder to walk than wrangling jumping, any luck with yours partner?" he asked his BLU counterpart.
BLU Engi turned to them and opened his cockpit. He was able to move his mech very slowly without falling over, but he too had trouble. "Not really, heck, a darn turtle is moving faster than me,"
"Well I can tell what you two are doing wrong," said Jewel.
"What is it then?" asked Engi.
"Think of moving the mech like walking, if you move a leg too far you'll lose balance, right now both of you are putting your front legs too far forward. That's why you two keep falling,"
Engi sighed as he dragged a gloved hand down his face. "You told us that already, have anything else other than that?"
"Get out," said Jewel. "Guess I have to show you then,"
Time Skip
"And that is how you do it," the cowgirl said as she got out of the LOW-DR. She put an impressive demonstration with the mech, which involved smashing through the many boulders lying around and maneuvering around grenade traps Joli set up.
Both Engis stood there speechless with their mouths open, even the Pyros were impressed, though they weren't paying any attention from the beginning.
"Now get your asses back in the cockpit, we've got work to do,"
Meanwhile in RED Med-Bay
"Gah!" said Medic as he looked over Demo. "What did you do now to get this type of injury Demo?"
"Take yah down to the pain…train station-urp- oh I…" he replied.
The German doctor turned to Jaz, "Since you are not drunk like Herr Demo, can you please tell me how he got impaled by his own sword?" Demo had Eyelander right through his chest, but the Scot didn't pay much attention to it.
"Demo and I were playing around with grenades when one went off in front and him and sent him flying onto BLU Demo's sword as he was sparring with Wolfshire," she replied. "Surprised he didn't freak out like everyone else did, I guess because he's drunk,"
Medic rolled his eyes before pushing up his glasses, "Figures, now can you help me pull the sword out?" he asked as he tugged on the sword. "It seems rather stuck in Demo's torso,"
Jaz grasped the handle and yanked it out of Demo's chest. When she pulled it out, it also took out one of Demo's lungs, which was impaled on the sword. "Uh, he doesn't need that right?"
Medic opened his mouth to say something but closed it and instead took the lung from the sword and threw it into a bucket that was next to him.
"I'm taking that as a no," said Jaz as she put the blood covered sword on the ground.
Time Skip
The six met on the outskirts of RED HQ as the mercs went to sleep; all were unsure whether or not they were ready to face against the Federation.
"We are so screwed," Joli screamed into her hands. "We are so not ready to fight the Federation,"
"But at least it's better than nothing," said Arachne. "At least the mercs had some type of combat experience, it's not like we're throwing civilians into battle,"
"Arachne's right," said TT. "We at least have something to throw against the Federation,"
"Yeah," said Wolfshire. "And besides, knowing the Federation, they're probably going to underestimate us,"
The six stood in silence as the wind rustled past them. Joli opened her mouth to say something but before she could say something an explosion knocked everyone away.
"AMBUSH!" shouted Jewel. Her rifle was out in less than a seconds and took off the head of a Foot Soldier.
The six fought valiantly against the overwhelming number of Federation soldiers but in the end they were overrun. All the human fighters were shot with a tranquilizer dart, while TT was restrained by a large amount of LOW-DRs. Before she fell unconscious Joli gathered enough strength and lifted Thumper, she aimed back towards the direction of RED HQ and fired a flare. She watched the flare soar high into the night sky as the world faded to black.
At the same time Engi was sitting outside of the garage. He couldn't fall asleep so he decided to have a few beers while looking at the night sky.
"You know," he thought, "If there wasn't such a war going on right now, this would actually be relaxing," he took another swig from his beer.
He then noticed a bright red light coming from his peripheral.
"What a weird looking light," he thought as he took another swig. "Wait a second," he said as the realization set in. "That's not just a light, that's a flare!"
He ran inside the garage and grabbed his energy shield and energy shotgun Arachne gave to him. He plopped his hardhat on his head and set off towards the origin of the flare. As he got closer he heard a commotion, he stopped running and started walk slowly.
"Maybe I should've got the others," he thought to himself.
He approached the area slowly; he noticed that it was getting brighter too, as if someone was setting up a camp of some sorts.
He heard the roar of an engine and instinctively jumped behind a large rock. He peeked out and saw a Roadrunner sped past him, he saw that it was colored blue and tan.
"This is getting worse and worse," he thought as he got up and started to follow the Roadrunner.
He followed the Roadrunner until it stopped near a group of Federation soldiers. He waited in the darkness until the driver and gunner got out, and then proceeded to hide behind the jeep.
"So what now?" the driver asked an officer. "We captured the six, what are we still doing here?"
"We have word that those six have interacted with the locals, we are to kill those that they have interacted with,"
Engi froze as he took all of it in. Not only their friends have been captured, but now the Federation wants to kill them as well. His grip tightened on the shotgun.
"Sounds a little extreme to do that,"
"I know, sometimes I think she's crazy,"
"Me too, anyways where's camp, I'm drained,"
"About a mile north of here, didn't y-,"
The officer never got to finish as he his chest was blown open.
The other soldiers turned to find Engi cocking the shotgun.
"And another thing, you're really ugly,"
"GET HIM!" shouted the driver as he pulled a revolver. He never got to fire it as his top right half of his body was blown off by the shotgun.
Engi ran behind a pile of rocks and took cover as the three other soldiers took aim at the Texan. Bullets pinged off rocks as a hail of bullets rained down on where Engi was hiding.
When they stopped firing to reload Engi vaulted over the rocks and sprinted towards the soldiers. He took aim and blew off the top half of a soldier. The second soldier pulled a knife and swung it at Engi, who dodged it and slammed the butt of the shotgun in the soldier's face, dazing him. He then shot the third soldier, who was finished reloading, before finishing off the second soldier.
Engi was breathing hard as the last soldier fell. He never fought this hard ever since, EVER. He had always let his sentry do most of the heavy lifting, and only fought as a last resort. He wondered what compelled him to attack, as he never made the first move when fighting. He shrugged the question off as he climbed into the Roadrunner and started it up. He knew he had to get the others and fast.
He raced back towards RED HQ in the Roadrunner, leaving a cloud of dust in his wake.
A/N: Weren't expecting that were you now? There is only a few chapters left in The Rift, BUT, there is a sequel coming out for it called Through the Rift. So all aboard the HYPE TRAIN! CHOO CHOO!
Till next time,
-D.W