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// Prologue: You Ever Wonder [insert overused quote here] 
// Story: RED vs BLU: The Teufort Chronicles 
// by CyberFan479 
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Location: Teufort, New Mexicolt
Time and Date: [REDACTED]

Sun's up. Heatmaker loaded. Razorback equiped. Enemy battlements empty. Yet another monotonous day for Aria. Being the team's Sniper, she works twice as long as lookout as anyone else on the team.

Which was less looking out for enemies, more staring at anything that's more interesting that...well...looking out for enemies that were very unlikely to be coming.

But today there were nothing, no birds, no coyotes...wolves...dogs...whatever they were, no nothing.

It was quiet...too quiet...

"Hi Ari!" a pair of raspberry coloured eyes popped up right in front of Aria's scope.

"What in the name of...oh...hey Sonata..." Aria's shock went away as quickly as it came, replaced with the same bored tone she always used.

"Soooooo...What are you doing?" Sonata asked, standing on her heels. The Direct Hit strapped behind her shoulder jiggled slightly on its improvised shoulder strap, patented by Sonata herself.

Aria frowned slightly, "The exact same thing I do almost everyday..."

Then it was Sonata's turn to frown, "What?"

Aria rolled her eyes and tapped the scope of her Hitman's Heatmaker, which was just as sleek as the rest of the rifle.

It took a few seconds for Sonata to register what she meant, "Oh, right!"

"I still wonder how you managed to get enlisted..."

"Oh! They said that I was already a BLU, because I am blue!"

Aria lowered her eyelids, "Figures..."

"Soooooo...What's happening now?"

"Nothing's happening."

"How about now?"

"Nothing."

"Now?"

"Sonata, if you ask that question every other second, it's going to get old really fast!"

Sonata remained silent, for a moment, "I miss Adagio..."

Aria resisted the urge to facepalm, "Are you serious?"

Sonata was a little taken aback, "For realsies! I do miss her! Very much!"

"Sonata, she's standing right over there," Aria pointed to the enemy battlements, where a familiar girl with poofy, orange hair stood, an Iron Bomber in hand. Sitting on a wooden crate was another girl with rainbow coloured hair.

""Soooooo...What are they doing?"

"Talking."

"How about now?"

"Still talking."

"N..."

"Sonata, do we have to go through this again?" Aria said through gritted teeth, "They're just sitting there and talking, okay? That's all they ever do! That's what they were doing last week! That's what they were doing yesterday! That's what they are doing now! So the next time you ask, they'll still be sitting there and talking!"

Sonata's eyes unfocused as she stared off into the empty space of the "battlefield" as she attempted to parse Aria’s response and come up with one of her own, "Oh hey! I remember now!"

"Remember what?"

"Velly wanted me to tell you that our reinforcepeople are coming!"

"It's reinforcements, Sonata. Also, running out of taco shells is not a "code red emergency"," Aria recounted her experiences of the "Taco Shell Famine of Day 87".

"It is to me!" Sonata tried looked indignant, but her wide grin was not easy to get rid of, "Also, we get to make new friends!"

"What? Velly and Cloudy is not enough for you?" Aria said sarcastically, referring to Velvet Sky and Cloudy Kicks, the team's Engineer and Scout.

"Well, they are...but like they say! The more, the merrier!" and with that, Sonata frolicked back into the fortress.

"You're still the worst! You know that!"

"No! You are!"





"They got a sniper," Adagio commented, "and one I know pretty well."

"Shouldn't we be a little worried about that? Not that I'm scared of course," asked Rainbow Dash, inspecting the rubber bands and duct tape she'd used to hold her Force-A-Nature together, after Applejack was done with it. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a good chunk of the grip and had to make do with a can of Crit-A-Cola, her favourite drink, which led to her scattergun being nicknamed the "Soda Popper".

"Nah! Last time I met her, she couldn't hit the broadside of a barn in a town full of broadsides of barns."

"She's that bad?"

Adagio's grip on her grenade launcher tightened, "Is there anyone of us that's good?"

"Well, there's me. But I see your point."

The two girls didn't say a word after that, until Rainbow broke the silence, "Hey, girl."

"It's Adagio. Adagio Dazzle."

"Okay, whatever. So, you ever wonder why we're here?"

Adagio pondered for a while, "You mean why we're sitting out here in the middle of a desolate badlands, in a fort that's here because there's another fort several fucking metres away that's also here because this fort was here?"

"Yeah," replied Rainbow, "For a minute there, I thought you were going to talk about some cosmic coincidences or whether there's really a goddess that controls the sun and watches us."

"You want to talk about that?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"Seriously though, why are we out here?"

"Beats me," Rainbow replied, stifling a yawn, "I'm going someplace else to rest my eyes, someplace a lot less drafty and windy."

"What? But there's barely any wind out here!"

"Too late!" before Adagio could reply, Rainbow had already disappeared around the corner.

"Why did I even sign up for this?"