A/N: Ditto.
BLU Spy decided to find an entry point so the other could enter the camp without attracting too much attention. Under his cloak, he maneuvered around soldiers and vehicles with ease. He was surprised to see how organized everything was, that there was a place for everything. But that also made it easy to find the things that were needed. He made mental notes on patrol routes, barracks, guard towers, and anything that would hurt the team.
BLU Spy wandered near the perimeter of the camp; he tried to look for a possible hole in the fence. His work paid off as he found a big, yet unnoticeable hole in the fence. He looked behind him to see what will the others be facing once they got in. Luckily, this area had no security, sans the two guard towers that were near the fence, and there were little to no patrols that wander around here.
BLU Spy chuckled as he made his way back to his teammates. This could be easier than it looks.
Spy had a slightly harder task of finding the six. But it wasn't too hard since everything was labeled, or had a sign. The prison block was located smack dab in the middle of the camp. It was the largest building, and also the most guarded. LOW-DRs, Commandos, Gunners, and Swordsmen, all walked the perimeter of the prison block, and none of them seemed to be slacking off.
Spy tried to figure out a way they could, first, get to the prison block, and two, how to get in. He was interrupted when an Officer suddenly appeared behind him. Spy quickly moved to avoid bumping the Officer. He saw the Officer walk over to a Swordsman and begin talking to him. Spy crept over to hear the conversation.
"We have a change of plans," said the Officer. "We're packing up camp sooner than we expected,"
"That's great," said the Swordsman. "I hate this weather,"
"Prisoners are to be transported within an hour, so be ready to move them at the moment's notice,"
"Will do sir," he said before saluting the Officer. The Officer returned the salute and walked away.
"Oh dear," thought Spy. "We must speed up this operation if that's the case,"
Spy started to back away and crept into the shadows of a nearby building. He decloaked and was about to breathe a sigh of relief when something tapped his shoulder. Spy quickly drew his revolver and pointed it behind him. He found it was only the BLU Spy who flinched at his quick reflexes.
"Don't ever do that again," Spy said with a sigh as he put his revolver away. "I presume you found an entrance?"
"Yes," BLU Spy replied. "Only thing we have to do is take out the guards in the towers, which I believe shouldn't be a problem,"
"Well right now we have a bigger problem,"
"We do? What is it?"
"I've just overheard that the Federation is leaving within an hour, so that means our window of opportunity is closing quickly. Go and tell the others the plan,"
"And what will you be doing?"
"Giving us more time," said Spy as he cloaked.
Phoenix smirked as she walked down the line of cells. Those six never saw what hit them, and now they were nothing more then mere bargaining chips. How surprised would the Allies be when they find out that the "inferior" Federation had captured six of their most important members. But right now Phoenix was gambling with fate, either Wheel will relent and turn a blind eye to the Federation's actions, or will invoke his wrath. As his former second in command, she knew he had two sides, a nicer persona, and a downright evil persona, and she herself was afraid of him when he flipped to his evil side.
But then again, he does care for his team and treats them almost like a second family, and his nicer persona is more common. Wheel doesn't take actions that would harm his teammates.
"Commander,"
A voice of an Officer broke her out of thought.
"Yes what is it?" she said, not turning to face him.
"We have a problem…"
Outside
Spy's diversion worked quite well and everyone was able to sneak through the opening in the fence.
"So spook, what did you do?" asked Sniper.
"It was simple, I just dropped a match inside the armory," he replied.
The entire ground shook as another bomb exploded.
"That should keep most of them distracted," said Engi. "Nice work,"
With the fire at the armory, most of the Federation soldiers were absent from their posts. So the eighteen mercs were able to get to the prison ward without much trouble. They took cover behind a building as a patrol passed them. BLU Spy peeked around the corner.
"I see a Swordsman and a couple of Gunners," he said.
"I'll teach that lad a thing or two about sword fighting," said Demo as he pulled out Eyelander. "You just focus on the Gunners,"
"You sure about that, Demo?" asked Engi. "Those Swordsmen are just not anyone with a sword,"
Demo just scoffed at the warning, "Ach, I've fought off armies before Engi, now lets do this," he let out a cry and he charged the Swordsman.
"Omigod, did he just run in?" asked Pyro.
Engi sighed. "Soldier, Heavy, make sure Demo doesn't kill himself,"
Demo was about to slice the Swordsman, when the Swordsman turned around at the last second, deflecting the blow with his digital katana.
"You are as predictable as you are as loud," the Swordsman said.
"Ach no," said Demo. "I've just heard screaming makes you more powerful,"
The Swordsman and Demo began their dual while Soldier and Heavy dealt with the Gunners. Soldier rocketjumped in the air and launched a volley of homing rockets at one of the Gunners. The Gunner aimed his laser machine gun up and destroyed the rockets, before aiming at Soldier. Soldier gritted his teeth as he took out a small green shovel, and he flew back down to the ground.
"SCREAMING EAGLES!" he shouted as he dodged each particle. The shovel connected to the Gunner's face, and twisted his neck around several times. "Take your lumps like a man, Private Twinkletoes,"
Soldier looked up to find a barrel of a machine gun in front of his face. The Gunner smirked but before he could to anything, bolts of electricity soon shredded the Gunner. Soldier looked and found Heavy nodding to Soldier as he revved down his minigun. Soldier nodded back before turning to the battle between Demo and the Swordsman.
What surprised the Swordsman was how efficient Demo was in sword fighting. He assumed the drunk, Scot with the sword was going down easily, but soon found out he wasn't going down without a fight. Every move they made was blocked and countered by the other.
"Ohh, I'm gonna beat ya so hard, you'll have a twitch," said Demo as he blocked a swing.
"How am I stalemating with a drunk?" the Swordsman thought.
However, as the Swordsman thought about it, he was slow on parrying on Demo's swing, which allowed the Scot to knock the katana out of the Swordsman's hands.
"Crap," he said as Demo decapitated the Swordsman.
"DOMINATED! I feel EVERYTHING! I know EVERYTHING!" Demo shouted in victory.
Wolfshire leaned against the wall of his cell. This wasn't the first time he was captured, but to be captured by people like the Federation. God, this was humiliating. None of his weapons worked against the energy barrier or the walls of his cell. He sighed as he wondered where the others were, as he couldn't see anyone in the cells in front of his.
Suddenly he started to hear something. He looked outside to find Federation guards being slaughtered by an unknown person or persons. Then he saw BLU Heavy with a rocket minigun pass by his cell.
"Do I smell soiled baby diaper? HAHAHAHAHA!" he said.
Then Pyro appeared after a short break.
"Hey Wolfshire!" she said. "Long time no see?"
"Pyro! What are you guys doing here?" Wolfshire asked.
"Saving you guys silly!" she said as a plasma bolt flew over her head. She returned fire with an energy shotgun as the barrier disappeared. "Looks like Engi found the control panel, now lets get out of here and regroup,"
Outside
Phoenix surveyed the damage done to the armory. She was not in a good mood right now and most of the Federation soldiers tried to keep their distance from the fire elemental.
"When I get my hands on whoever did this…" she muttered. Her thoughts were interrupted when a Commando ran over to her.
"Er, uh, Commander, ah…" he stuttered.
"What is it?" she snapped. "Can you stop being a wuss and spit it out?"
The Commando gulped. "They escaped…"
There was a period of a very, very, scary silence.
Meanwhile the others were currently hightailing it back to their vehicles.
"Just fucking RUN!" said Joli. "We're busting this coup!"
Something very bright appeared behind the group and everyone stopped and turned to see it.
"Oooo, pretty," said Pyro. There was a very large flame emitting from the camp.
"She is pissed," said Arachne.
"I think that's an understatement," said TT.
"I hate to break up the spectacle, but we're still in plain sight of the camp," said Wolfshire.
"And back to running," said Jewel.
One hasty retreat later
When the group got back to RED HQ, they immediately barricaded themselves inside the HQ. The group, sans TT who had to stay in the training room, got together to discuss what they should do next.
"So…" said Jewel. "We just lit a fire under the Federation's ass with no reinforcements, chances of surviving, Arachne?"
"You don't want to know," the girl replied.
"Anyone with ideas?" asked Engi.
No one raised his or her hand.
"Well right now we have three options," said Arachne. "One: we fight them head on, two: We wait it out until they lose interest, or three: find a way to contact help,"
"Can we just scratch one off already?" asked Scout. "Just because,"
"Two's a little iffy," said Sniper. "Looks like those pikers are quite determined to get you six, but it may work,"
"I don't know about you guys but three sounds the most logical at the moment," said Pyro.
"But how are we supposed to contact their friends, Mumbles?" asked BLU Scout. "Heck we don't even know if they're even in the same dimension as we are,"
"Don't you guys use something called the PDD to communicate?" she asked Jewel.
"PDD?" asked Engi. "What is that?"
"It's short for Portable Dimension Device," replied Wolfshire. "It allows those who cannot travel dimensions to be able to do so,"
"It also functions as a multi-dimensional telephone," added Joli.
"Unfortunately none of us have our PDDs with us at the moment," said Jewel.
"What allows it to, you know, do that stuff?" asked Scout.
"If I explained it to you guys, you wouldn't understand the first five minutes of the entire lecture," said Arachne.
"Arachne," said BLU Spy. "Is there by any chance any other ways you can communicate to the Allies?"
Arachne tapped her foot as she thought before snapping her fingers.
"Just one right now," she said. "Satellite,"
"How is a satellite going to…" started BLU Scout.
"Shut up, I'm not done yet," said Arachne. "The Allies monitor a butt load of dimensions and planets all at one time, looking for signs of trouble. I'm thinking if we can create some kind of interference of some sorts…"
"Then it might draw the Allies' attention," finished BLU Engi.
"One problem though," she said. "Do any of you guys know a satellite strong enough to create such a signal?"
Everyone facepalmed at the realization.
"I think I may have a solution," said Spy. "But it will be risky,"
"Like we have any other choices," said Sniper.
"We have to go back to the Federation camp,"
A/N: And yet ANOTHER cliffhanger. Wanted to get this out a LONG time ago, but finals and stuff.
Review Question: Which female OC would ship good with the mercs?
Till next time,
-D.W