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Back underground, Sarge was continuing his rant about the Blues attacking Red base.
"Look they're invading our base!" Sarge shouted. "And we're not even there to defend it. Oh the humiliation! Men, this aggression cannot stand. We'll beat those Blues all the way back across the canyon. This is the moment we've all been training for!"
"Training? We haven't done any training," Grif said. "Wait, is sleep considered training?"
"Definitely not," Ruby said.
"Simmons," Sarge called. "As with all our battle plans, I need you to punch Grif in the back of the head. Simmons? Simmons!"
They all saw Simmons still standing in front of the computer screen.
"Uh huh, yeah I agree," Simmons said, not paying attention at all. "Everything you say is right, Red Team's great... hooray."
Suddenly, Yang punched Grif in the back of his head.
"What the hell!?" Grif shouted.
"Hey, Sarge said to do it and Simmons didn't look like he was gonna do it," Yang said, shrugging.
"Simmons, stop watching those T.V.s," Sarge shouted.
"Yeah Simmons," Donut added. "There's not gonna be any more pictures of naked girls on there."
"Shut up, you don't know that," Simmons retorted. "Stop saying that. He doesn't know what he's talking about."
"Seriously, you're being weirder than usual," Yang commented.
"Men, this won't be easy," Sarge began to say, getting the attention of the group (minus Simmons). "The Blues will be totally bunkered down. At both bases, which gives them an enormous strategic advantage! But we're the Red Team."
Out of nowhere, a red flag suddenly lowered itself behind Sarge and a song began to echo around them.
"Sure you might not be the best squad," Sarge continued. "Might not be smart... or energetic, or have any skills that qualify you for duty in any other legitimately recognized military unit. However-"
"Where did that flag come from?" Donut asked.
"It just showed up," Yang pointed out. "Just... floating back there."
"Who gives a fuck about the flag," Grif said. "How about who's singing?"
"They're both a little weird," Ruby admitted. "But you have to agree, it does help make the speech really good."
"But with precise operations, and proper communication, we will emerge victorious!" Sarge shouted triumphantly. "With a little luck, one of us in particular, will die a horrible death! Either at the hands of the Blues, or as part of a cunning distraction by yours truly."
"Why don't we just take over Blue base," Simmons suggested, turning his attention back to the group.
"Nonsense!" Sarge shouted. "At Blue Base they're much more fortified. Blue base has turrets. Blue base has a tank!"
"Blue base has no one in it," Simmons stated.
"What?" Sarge said, confused by the statement.
"Look, see?" Simons said, pointing to the screen. "They're all gone."
Yang headed to the screen and saw that the inside and outside of Blue base was empty. "He's right, no one there at all."
"Where'd they go?" Sarge asked.
"They went to Red base," Donut reminded Sarge. "That's what we've been talking about."
"But which one of these caves leads to Blue base?" Grif asked. "I'm all turned around down here."
"Yeah, we have no way of navigating down here," Ruby agreed.
"I have an idea," Donut said.
It took a little while, but the Ruby, Yang, and Red team arrived back at the location where Sarge and Ruby had fallen down and where Donut showed them the Blue soldier corpses. Corpses, which they were now all huddled around.
"See," Donut said. "These are dead Blues."
"Yes, Donut," Sarge said. "We're all very happy about the corpses. Sicko."
"Why are there dead bodies down here?" Yang asked.
"I have no idea myself," Ruby said, still grossed out by the sight.
"Don't you get it?" Donut explained. "When you and Sarge fell, you fell down here. When the Blues buried these two guys, they fell in here too."
"I thought the Blues had three dead guys," Simmons pointed out.
"So that means, we're standing right underneath Blue base," Donut concluded. "All we need to do is head up, and take 'em from behind."
"The pink guy makes sense," Yang admitted.
"Thank you," Donut said. "Also, it's light-red."
"Cavernous conundrum he's right!" Sarge exclaimed. "Let's go men, Ruby, Yang. We'll grab their base while they capture ours! On to glorious victory!"
"Technically, it's not really a victory," Ruby pointed out.
"It's more like a stalemate," Simmons added.
"On to equilibrium then?" Sarge suggested.
"Yeah, that'll work," Simmons agreed.
"Huhh, this war sucks," Grif groaned as they all tried to make their way out.
Once they picked up Sister in the base, she along with Blake, Doc, and Junior were now in the caves, where they were to wait until they get the signal from Church. It wouldn't have been so bad... if Sister would just stop telling stories.
"So anyway," Sister continued speaking from behind them. "By the time I got home it was 4 A.M., and when my Mom asked where I was, I told her I was riding around on the train all night, which I guess is technically true... "
"Is it possible for you to please stop talking," Blake pleaded. She was very uncomfortable, and disturbed, by Sister's stories on her 'experiences'.
"Uh yeah," Doc said in agreement. "We don't have to talk about stuff any more. Let's just walk. And not talk. Ever again."
Sister stopped for a moment and turned around, calling to Junior who was lagging behind. "Come on little guy, hurry up!"
"Hnnnk!" was the only reply Junior gave.
"Oh my God," Sister said when she looked to the side of the cave. "Head."
"I though we agreed no more talking," Blake groaned as she turned around.
"Please, really," Doc added. "No more stories."
"Seriously, it's a head," Sister said. "Look." She then ran towards it.
"Huh," Doc and Blake looked to the direction that Sister was heading and saw that there was an actual severed head. What surprised Blake even more was when the head talked.
"Yo," the head said.
"Oh it's you," Doc said, unenthusiastic. He and Blake then walked towards the head.
"[Whatever,]" the head shot back. "[Some way to treat your sidekick. Gone for days and you don't even look for me.]"
"Who is this?" Blake asked. "And what's he saying?"
"Oh right," Doc said, realizing that Blake didn't know who this was. "This is Lopez. He was a robot made by Red base, until O'Malley took him and made him his sidekick or something. After that, I kinda lost track of him. He must've ended up in the caves. Oh, and he only speaks in Spanish"
"Doesn't that make things difficult?" Blake asked.
"You have no idea," Doc sighed.
"[Hey, who's the weird girl with no armor?]" Lopez asked.
"That's Blake," Sister replied.
"You speak Spanish?" Doc said in surprise.
"Uh, of course I do," Sister replied. "It's the year twenty-five hundred and I'm from America."
"Oh cool," Doc said. "Tell him O'Malley is gone."
"O'Malley no está aquí ya fue," Sister said to Lopez in Spanish.
"[Your Spanish sucks,]" Lopez replied.
"What did he say?" Blake asked.
"No idea," Sister said. "Who's O'Malley?"
"Sister, don't you remember," Blake reminded her. "O'Malley is the A.I. that wants to kill everyone here."
"I thought the Reds are the ones trying to kill us," Sister said.
Blake just sighed at Sister's lack of understanding. "Let's just keep moving."
After Tucker freed Church from the ice, they immediately headed into Red base, and easily got in, due to the fact that no one was around.
"Alright," Church said, seeing that no one was around the base. "Well, I guess let's break up in to teams and search the base."
"Got it," Tex said.
Turning away from Tex, Church, Tucker, and Weiss began looking around the open area of the base.
"It looks like the Reds aren't back yet," Tucker noted.
"Neither are Ruby and Yang," Weiss said. She was half glad that they weren't here, half worried why they weren't back yet.
"Does that mean we win?" Tucker wondered.
"I suppose so," Church guessed.
"What does that mean exactly?" Weiss asked.
"I guess it means we have two bases, in the middle of a box canyon now," Church replied.
"Whoopdie fuckin' doo," Tucker said.
"Am I right, Tex?" Church asked turning around. "What the fuck?"
Weiss and Tucker turned around as well and were surprised to see Tex pointing her gun right at Church.
"Don't move," Tex said to Church. "O'Malley."
"Oh crap," Church said.
Back underground, Sarge was instructing the Reds on a plan of attack on Blue base.
"And then" Sarge continued. "Donut will use all our grenades to bombard the base, while we move forward in an advanced cover-fire formation."
"Got it," Grif said. "And nobody hurts Sister. That's my job."
"You don't mean that," Yang said.
"Oh yes, I really do," Grif insisted.
"Why does Donut get to stay on the sidelines?" Simmons asked.
"Because, he's got a great arm," Sarge stated. "Heh, he coulda gone pro."
"It comes from years of tossing," Donut said.
"Wow, that's amazing," Ruby said.
"Well, I don't like to brag," Donut said. "But I have a lot of experience with handling balls."
"Aaand that's enough of that," Yang said, pulling Ruby away from Donut.
"And as discussed," Sarge continued. "In the event that we are cornered and no other options exist, Donut will make sure to save at least six grenades, one for each of you. And two for Grif."
"Anyone have a preference of Frag or Sticky?" Donut asked. "Tell me now, I don't want complaining later on."
"Frag," Simmons said. "No wait, Sticky."
"Surprise me," Grif said.
"I'm gonna change back to Frag," Simmons said.
"Can I have a Sticky?" Yang asked.
"Yang!" Ruby said.
"What?" Yang said, shrugging. "He was offering, I kinda want one."
"You are not getting a grenade," Ruby said.
Yang just pouted and stuck her tongue out at Ruby. "You're no fun."
"Hey Sarge," Donut said. "Have you thought about calling for reinforcements? Like when we called for the ship."
"You mean the ship that crushed you while bringing more Blue soldiers?" Grif reminded everyone. "Yeah, maybe we shouldn't do that."
"It's worth a shot," Sarge said. "They owe us one now." He then got on his radio and tried calling Command. "Come in Command. Are you there? Vic, are you there? Come in! Is this thing on?"
"Does anybody hear that echo?" Simmons asked.
"Yeah," Ruby said. "I hear it too."
"Yeah, we're in a cave, guys," Donut said. "Caves echo. Duh. That's how bats navigate."
"No," Simmons said. "It seems like it's coming from back the way we came." Simmons then walked towards the echo he heard.
"I'm coming with you," Ruby said as she followed Simmons.
"Ruby, don't-" Yang started, but Ruby was already out of earshot as she chased Simmons. "Run off." Yang sighed shook her head.
"Did you say bats, what bats?" Grif asked in a panicked tone. "Were you talking about bats?"
"Oh no, not this again," Yang muttered.
"Um, just, bats in general," Donut said, weirded out by Grif's sudden questions.
"Don't bullshit me dude, I heard bats," Grif said, still panicking.
"Keep it down! I'm trying to call-" Sarge was cut short was his radio call was answered.
"Hehehey, rojo amigo. What's goin' on?" Vic's voice said on the other end.
"Vic!" Sarge explained at finally reaching him. "We need help! The Blues have executed a brilliant plan, and it looks like we've fallen for it perfectly. No doubt they're celebrating at our very own base as we speak. We're going to die if we don't get some help over here Vic."
"Uh hey dude, it's Vic Junior," Vic clarified. "We already covered that."
Sarge growled mildly at the clarification. "Vic Junior, we're going to die if we don't get some help over here."
"I think you're being a bit overdramatic," Yang said.
"Yeah, and drama is my department," Donut said. "I took the classes."
"Okay dude, calm down," Vic said. "Take a chill pill. If you don't have a chill pill take one of those chill strips, you put it on your tongue it dissolves, chill. I'll try to help, but someone's been here monkeying with my equipment. Just give me a second and I'll- oh, no oh man, I gotta go bye, try to win." There was silence soon after.
"Hello? Vic are you there?" Sarge said, not hearing anything from the other end. "I don't hear any hold music. Please don't transfer me to India. Hello?"
"Hello?" the voice came back on the other end
"Oh yes, I'm still here Vic," Sarge said. "We need help!"
"Sarge?" A female voice said, one that Sarge recognized.
"Ruby, is that you?" Sarge asked.
"And me, Simmons," Simmons added.
"Ruby?" Yang said, confused. She then pulled out her Scroll and got in the radio call. "Ruby, where are you?"
"Yeah, do you two work at Command now?" Sarge asked. "When were you promoted?"
"We don't work at Command," Ruby said. "We followed that echo and ended up here."
"It looks like this monitoring equipment is interfering with our radios," Simmons guessed. "Or something."
"Diabolical," Sarge said. "Well get yer keesters back here. Red Command is useless."
"There's a newsflash," Grif said sarcastically.
"Shut up Grif," Sarge said.
"Did that order come from Command?" Grif asked snarkily.
"In fact it did," Sarge said. "And they also ordered my foot to report up your ass on the double!" Sarge then headed towards Grif and hit him with the end of his shotgun, knocking him to the floor.
"You probably shouldn't have said anything," Yang commented.
In the monitor room that Simmons and Ruby found, they both saw Grif drop to the floor.
"Ouch," Ruby said.
"I can't believe I donated organs for this fucking war," Simmons commented.
Ruby just gave Simmons a confused look. "Wait, what?"
"Never mind, let's just head back," Simmons said as he turned back to the way they came.
"Got it," Ruby said as she followed him.
As they left, they both failed to see the monitor screen change to Red base, where another problem was occurring.
"Don't move," Tex repeated, her rifle still pointed at Church.
"Ooh, busted!" Tucker exclaimed. "Kill him Tex, I've got fifty-to-one odds if his next death is caused by anyone but Caboose."
"You do realize that she's going to kill your leader," Weiss said to Tucker.
"Hey, Church dies all the time," Tucker shrugged. "This time, I might as well get something from it."
"Tex, I am not O'Malley," Church insisted.
"Bullshit. It all makes sense now," Tex said, not moving her rifle away from Church. "You were the one that told Gary where we were, you were the one that wanted me to disable Sheila by moving her to the ship, and you wanted the ignition coil once I'd removed it."
"That's all coincidental," Church said. "It doesn't make me evil. Just makes me a bad leader."
"That's an understatement," Weiss muttered.
"If you're not gonna say anything helpful, please shut up!" Church shouted at Weiss.
"Why would Caboose tell me it was you?" Tex asked.
"You're getting information from Caboose," Church said, incredulous.
"Thaaat's right," Caboose said, over the radio, which was broadcasting to Weiss' Scroll as well.
"Dude, I'll tell you what," Church said. "If you get me killed again, I gotta tell ya, this time I'm gonna be a little pissed."
"Sheila told me that O'Malley might be inside Blue Leader," Caboose said.
"And that's you," Tex said to Church.
"I can't believe that you're taking the word of a tank that was malfunctioning earlier and trying to kill us," Weiss reminded them.
"Yeah, see, Weiss is right," Church said. "Sheila's crazy, remember? Besides I was never officially promoted to Blue Leader anyway. That's... Oh no."
Back in the cave, Blake had wanted them to keep moving and see what else they could do while waiting for the others, but Doc and Sister were busy listening to Lopez's story about how he got here.
"So that's how you got here Lopez?" Doc said once Lopez finished speaking. "What a strange, yet believable story."
"How can you even understand him?" Blake asked. "I thought you don't speak Spanish."
"You just gotta know what people are trying to tell you," Doc said. "Right, Lopez?"
"[Who's that guy?]" Lopez asked.
Blake had no idea what he was saying but she noticed Sister turn to look behind them. Blake followed where she was looking and saw that there were now others in the cave with them. One was a green-colored alien similar to Junior, though much bigger. The other person was wearing blue armor similar to the others.
"Who are you?" Blake asked.
"Hi there. I don't think we've met," the blue armored soldier said. "I'm Captain Butch Flowers. And this," he referred to the alien. "Is my friend."
"Hi nice to meet you!" Sister replied. "Hey, wait, wasn't I sent here to replace you?"
"What?" Blake said.
"Honnnk?"
Blake, Sister, and Doc turned to see Junior heading their way.
"Hey there little guy," Flowers said as he saw Junior. Blake noticed that Flowers' voice became slightly low and distorted. "I've been waiting a very, very long time to meet you. Muhuhuhuha, muhohohoho, muahahahahaaa."
"I guess it's kinda funny," Sister said.
"Oh no," Doc said.
"What is it?" Blake asked.
"We might be in trouble," Doc said. "The guy in blue, it's O'Malley."
Upon hearing the name, Blake pulled out her weapon and stepped in front of Sister and Doc. "Get behind me."
"Now, let's not do anything we might regret," Flowers/O'Malley said, stepping closer. "We just want the child."
"You get any closer, I'll do something I might regret," Blake said, raising her weapon.
The green alien raised its weapon and fired, shooting several needles towards Blake. Blake pulled out Gambol Shroud from its sheath and sliced the incoming needles. However, the attack caused Blake to fail to notice the other set of needles that Flowers had fired, hitting her on her leg.
"Run!" Blake yelled to Doc and Sister. However, she realized that her vision was becoming blurred.
"I warned you," Flowers said, who was now becoming blurry in Blake's vision. Her body was also starting to feel very heavy and she was struggling to keep herself steady.
"W-what did you do to me...?" Blake was able to get out, already realizing that she was fighting a losing battle in staying awake.
"Don't worry, it won't kill you," Flowers explained. "You'll just be taking a little nap for a while."
The last thing Blake remembered was Flowers' laughter as she hit the floor.