A/N: Ditto.
"Fuck," said Joli as she struggled to sit up. She held her head in a hand before shaking her head to clear the blurriness. "What the hell happened?" she thought before the events of what happened came back to her. "Oh right, the ambush, caught us with our pants down," she said. "Where the fuck am I now and where is everyone else?"
Joli looked around and saw she was in a cell of some sorts, with the entrance barred with an energy barrier of some sorts. When she touched it, the barrier zapped her. She also tried to punch through the walls of the cell, but her punches weren't leaving a dent in it and after multiple tries her hands became sore and started to bleed. "FUCK!" she shouted as she readied another punch.
"Not having another temper tantrum are we now?"
Joli froze at the sound of that voice. She turned to find a familiar face standing outside her cell. Her eyes turned red at the sight of the person who spoke."Evie…"
"Long time no see Joli," said Evie with a smirk. "How long has it been? A month or two I suppose?"
"AS SOON AS I GET OUT OF HERE I AM GOING TO SKIN YOU ALIVE!" Joli shouted.
Evie chuckled at the demolition expert. "Your threats are quite hollow aren't they?" she said with a twinkle in her purple colored eyes. "Isn't that how you were always are, all bark and no bite?"
"SHUT UP YOU BITCH!" Joli slammed her body against the barrier but was bounced back and hit the back wall of the cell hard. "When they come your face is going up your ass," she said between gritted teeth.
"Those mercs? Oh please, like they have a chance of rescuing you, and try not to kill yourself before we show you to the Allies, its not worth bargaining with damaged goods," and with that Evie walked away from the cell and out of Joli's sight.
Joli slumped down against the wall, her eyes turning back to normal. Even though she was there when the Federation came to rise, she still didn't know why it happened in the first place.
An X amount of years ago, a group of powerful beings decided that the multiverse needed to be looked over to ensure stability across the many dimensions. Led by a hooded figure only known as Wheel, the Allies were formed in order to preserve the peace within the multiverse. Among the first members of the Allies were ex-mercs Desperado and Jewel, sorceress Evie, technological genius Carter, demolition sisters Jaz and Joli, fire elemental Phoenix, and Wheel's younger cousin Jackie.
Things were going well for the Allies until trouble started brewing among the ranks, and a rebellion took place and split the Allies in half. Phoenix, Wheel's second in command and significant other, along with Evie and Carter rebelled with some of the Allied soldiers. They felt that the Allies should be used to take over the multiverse rather than used to protect it.
Forces still loyal to the Allies crushed the rebellion within a week and those who weren't captured or killed fled to parts unknown. Among the rebels who were still alive were the three rebellion leaders.
The Allies searched for the traitors far and wide, but had no luck in finding any of the turncoats. This worried many of the Allied leaders, as from what they know those three are extremely dangerous, even on their own.
Phoenix is a protégé in close quarters combat, and has been known for using anything as a weapon, the only person known to have defeated her in combat was only Wheel. Also being a fire elemental, she's capable of summoning flames to aid her, and can turn into a phoenix.
Evie is a sorceress who posses similar superhuman strength like Jaz and Joli. Though she has super strength, she prefers to fight from afar with her rifle and lets her stone golems do the hard hitting. She relies on deception and uses her cunningness to get the upper hand.
Carter had the thought process of super computer but was social awkward. Though not great in combat, he creates very intricate war machines to do this dirty work. He is rarely seen in battle and often hides away from the others, even to his teammates.
Years went by with no sign of the traitors, until the Allies got a distress signal from an Allied settlement. By the time reinforcements arrived the perpetrators of the attack fled the scene, survivors of the settlement told the Allies that the attackers were those same traitors, who now call themselves the Federation.
The Federation continued this guerilla tactic on many of the Allied settlements, frustrating many of the Allied leaders. They continue this tactic even to this day.
"We are so fucked," said Joli.
Meanwhile
Engi drove as fast as he could back to RED HQ. When he did he raced inside and, without thinking, ran into the first merc's room he came across. He should've watched which room he ran into, why?
He ran into Pyro's room.
The Texan only noticed this when he spotted the sleeping Pyro and immediately blushed red. Though the two had been close for sometime now, Engi was still a bit shy around the pyrotechnic, and also being a man of honor, he respected their rights.
Including privacy.
Engi gritted his teeth as he tried to force the blush away. No time to act like a kid anymore, friends are in trouble. He approached the sleeping Pyro, who was tightly hugging a large stuffed unicorn and was muttering something about cats and raining candy. He sighed as he tried to shake her awake.
"Pyro, honey, get up," he said.
"Noo, Mr. Balloonicorn…the cats can't have more lollypops. They got their share a minute ago…" she said in her sleep.
Engi tried waking the pyrotechnic, but she was a hard sleeper. He was about to give up when he got an idea. He whistled as Spy would, and as he did he found a shotgun in his face.
Pyro jerked up from her sleep when Engi whistled and in one swift motion, swung a shotgun that was hidden under her pillow and pointed it to Engi. When she found it was only Engi, she sighed and lowered the shotgun.
"What is it Engi?" she said with a yawn. "Is it morning already?"
"No Pyro, we have an emergency," Engi said, relaxing after he nearly got sent back to Respawn. "The Federation had captured Wolfshire and his friends,"
Pyro eyed him with skepticism. "You sure Engi? Cause I saw those six fight and they are no slouches,"
"I am one hundred percent positive," he said. He told Pyro of what happened in the past thirty minutes.
"Guess we have to get the others then right?" she said before giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Now can you…"
"Yup, I'm going," he said as he raced out of the room.
Getting the others up were slightly easier, but Engi still had a hard time getting the other sixteen mercs up from their sleep. All were grumpy when they grudgingly sat together in the living room.
"This better be good hardhat," said Scout.
"Ja, for once I agree with Scout," said Medic. "Even though I don't sleep much, I'd like to enjoy the few hours of sleep that I do get,"
"Better start then huh?" said Engi. "Our friends…had been captured by the Federation,"
"THAT IS A LOAD OF BULLSHIT!" shouted BLU Soldier. "THESE COMPATRIOTS ARE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF FIGHTING OFF A BUNCH OF SISSIES, ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE NOT MISTAKEN GREASE MONKEY?"
"Yes I am also skeptical about what you said Engineer," said Spy. "Our new friends are stronger than all of us combined, and didn't they say they defeated the Federation all the time?"
"For once I'm agreeing with the spook," said BLU Sniper. "You sure about that Engi?"
Engi nodded. "I'm telling you the whole truth guys, heck, I've even HEARD a Federation soldier say that," he proceeded to retell his story about the events leading up to this. "If you still don't believe me," he continued after finishing. "Think about this, when did I ever tell a lie?"
The others nodded. The Engis were the only people on both teams who were ever truly honest, but in doing so they could also be very blunt as well.
"So what are going to do?" asked Demo before he chugged his bottle. "Cause those soldiers are not like anything we fought against before,"
"Demo's right," said Medic. "The Federation are not like robots, and much less than anyone else we fought before,"
"Well there is a first for everything isn't there?" asked Pyro with a slight grin.
"Da," said Heavy. "We crush little men who take our friends,"
Slowly each merc reluctantly agreed with the rescue mission. Engi dismissed everyone to get ready and to meet back here to discuss the battle plan.
Time Skip
Everyone arrived back at the living room in his or her respective uniforms.
"So what's the plan Engi?" asked Sniper.
"There's no plan," Engi replied.
"WHAT!" everyone shouted.
"No plan, really?" said Scout. "Gah fucking hardhat…"
Engi sighed. "The reason we don't have a plan is, one, I have no idea what the base is like, two, even if we did know what the base was like, it's literally suicide either way, plan or no plan,"
"Respawn?" asked BLU Engi.
"Not far enough," said Engi. "From what I've pinpointed, the Respawn's range ends about half a mile from the camp, so if we die, we stay dead,"
"I think I may have a solution to our Respawn problem," said Medic as he dropped a device on the table. It looked similar to the Ghostbuster's Muon trap. "This is an Reanimator, it activates upon your death and produces a hologram of your body, I then can manually heal you from the Reanimator through my Medi-Gun and bring you back to life,"
"You know that could've been useful in so many situations, doc," said Scout.
"Well since we now have a method of reviving ourselves outside Respawn's range, what other things we have to consider?" asked BLU Sniper.
"Ammo isn't going to be a problem," said Engi. "Arachne had modified all of our new weapons to have regenerating ammo,"
"WHAT ARE WE JUST STANDING AROUND THEN?" shouted Soldier. "LETS MOVE OUT!" and proceeded to march out of the room.
"Oh yeah," said Engi before everyone started to leave. "Don't forget your shields as well, never hurts to have lots of armor,"
When everyone was ready, the eighteen mercs piled into the three available vehicles, Engi's truck, Sniper's campervan, and the Roadrunner, and headed off to the supposed location of the Federation camp. The ride was unusually quiet for the mercs even the Soldiers were quiet. A haze of uncertainty descended on each vehicle and its occupants.
Time Skip
Engi had everyone stop around a half a mile from the campsite. He wanted to be sneaky as possible and wanted to draw as little attention to their group. The mercs slowly crept towards the supposed campsite all were tense and each held a tight grip on their respective weapons.
"Ok, the campsite should be over this hill," Engi said. "Get ready,"
The group slowly made their way up the hill and what they saw surprised them.
"Holy crap," said Scout.
The Federation campsite was almost as large as a small town. It had multiple silver colored buildings in place and a large chain-link fence snaked around the perimeter of the camp. Along the fence were multiple wooden guard towers with multiple spotlights, and guards with sniper rifles with laser sights.
"Um how did we not see this?" asked BLU Engi. "I mean they must've made some noise when putting this up,"
"We're dealing with people from another world, Truckee," said Sniper.
"So we're here, now what?" asked Scout.
"Well before we go in there, we might as well get some knowledge of the place," said Engi. "Spies you two are up,"
"Of course, laborer," said Spy as he cloaked. BLU Spy did the same as well.
The two Spies made their way to the campsite. With their newly upgraded cloaking devices, they could stay invisible forever and not worry about it running out of cloak. They were able to sneak around the guard booth that guarded an entrance, and were able to hide behind a building in the shadows before uncloaking.
"So where do we start looking first?" asked BLU Spy.
"I'd say we locate our friends first, then we should look for areas of weakness so the others can infiltrate without causing too much commotion," Spy said.
"Split up?"
"We should so we cover more ground, but be careful, we have no one to fall back on if we are discov-" Spy didn't finished as his BLU counterpart clamped a hand over his mouth, and flattened themselves against the wall. Before he could ask why he did that, a LOW-DR suddenly passed by them with a squad of Foot Soldiers following behind it.
"Thank you," Spy said. "We are wasting time, lets go," he said before cloaking.
A/N: We are coming to the final confrontation between the mercs and the Federation. This is going to be EPIC!
Review Question: Which of the six OCs do you want to be your friend in real life?
Pootis the III: Ok I'll try and be more specific on those topics in the up and coming chapters (Main reason why I am not specific is I usually forget to be more detailed and I want to publish the new chapter XP), and the reason why I want to start a sequel and end this so soon is because I am literally running out of ideas for the story. In the sequel I have more ideas for it than in The Rift. (What happens is a surprise so I can't say more)
Till next time,
-D.W