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// Meet The Professionals.  
// Story: Duty Calls, mates! 
// by A Typical Reader 
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Soldier heard the voice, and snapped to attention. 
"INCOMMING!!"
Demoman, Scout, Spy stumbled out of the chairs they were sitting on and grabbed their weapons. 
"Move up, Move up, MOVE UP!!"
Engineer, sitting on a bench in the respawn room, grabbed his tools, threw down blueprints for machines he was looking for, and ran down to the ground floor of the fort.
Out on the perch, Sniper aimed, as another armored changeling slowly stepped out of the forest.
"I see you, mate. Its was too easy to spot you."
The sound of a bullet getting shot echoed throughout the fort, the team gathering below in the courtyard.

Meanwhile... at the edge of the Everfree Forest

A large army of changelings hid in the Everfree's shadows, Captain Grimy ordering a nervous changeling scout to scout out the town. 
Slowly, he crawled out of the shadows, and Splat!. 
The changeling scout dropped dead on the ground, a hole in its head revealing a goopy mess.
Captain Slurge walked up to Captain Grimy.
"The rissk is to dangerous, we should find another approach."
"Sso, what do suggest?"
"Our changeling spies notified us that the intruders are alert of our presense, luckily the poniess are not aware."
Captain Grimy thought for a moment.
"Attack the town from a diffrent spot of the Everfree. Make sure to avoid those intruders' sight, since we will force them out."
"I will alert the rest of the army."
"Good. Now they're in for some slaughtering."

Back at the fort...

The entire team was at the entrance of the fort, except Spy, who decided to sneak away and learn the changeling's attack plans.
"Heavy thinks team should kill tiny stoopid babies."
"Mmph."
"Ah, that could get us overwhelmed, it ain't a place we'd hould' be."
Engineer placed a Teleporter Exit in the base, and started upgrading it while the rest of the team chatted, waiting for spy to come back.
"Gentlemen."
After 10 minutes, Spy was standing in front of the RED team.
"Zey are attacking from a point where we, would not see them."
"Where, cruton?"
Spy pointed in a direction where Sniper couldn't fire at from the perch.
Medic and Engineer thought for a moment, and then Soldier said,
"MOVE OUT!"
They headed towards that area, otherwise known as the west part of Ponyvile.
Scout decided to alert the Mane 6 about the invasion.
He arrived at the Crystal Castle, and kicked open the door.
"Yo bookworm!"
Scout shouted loudly.
A pissed-off Twilight teleported in front of Scout.
"WHAT?"
"The changeling, creepy freaks, are attacking, dumbass."
"Well, I didn't know!"
Twilight alerted the other ponies of Ponyvile, while Scout headed back to the Western Part of Ponyvile.
There, Engineer set up a Level 3 Sentry Gun and a Level 3 Dispenser with a Level 3 Teleporter at the end of the stone bridge.
Heavy revved up Sasha, Medic ready to pop his Ubercharge.
Pyro sat behind a box, playing with two rubber ducks, with his Flamethrower at his side. 
Next to Pyro, stood Sniper on a box, aiming at the direction where the changelings would come.
Demoman having laid out his sticky traps, Soldier waiting quietly next to the Dispenser, Spy no where to be seen.
They heard a rumbling, and Sniper fired his Sniper Rifle.
"Incoming!!"
A huge wave of melee, armored Changelings rushed at them, Scout jumped in front of them, firing his scattergun. 
Heavy fired, Soldier and Demoman firing explosives at the changelings. 
A storm of crossbow arrows rained down on the mercs, but with the help of the dispenser and the Medic, they weren't affected by the poison.
"I outta' got to be on a Baseball card!"
Scout whacked a Ball from his Sandman and stunned a huge Changeling brute, Sniper taking it down. 
Pyro spy-checked for any changeling that would creep up on the RED team and stab them to death.
As well as the RED team fought, the army over-numbered them, soon, they were pushed back into the town.
The changelings burned down and destroyed any buildings or possesions belonging to ponies. What they didn't expect, was the citizens to be fighting back.
Rainbow Dash teamed up with Scout, and knocked out/killed many changelings, Pinkie Pie using her party cannon to knock them back.
Other townponies threw anything they could get their hooves on. 
Soldier, firing rocket after rocket from his "Direct Hit," heard a 'Ding" come from his Buff Banner.
Soldier smirked, and blew into the trumpet.
With the Buff from Soldier, the ponies and the Mercs got Mini-crits and started demolishing the changelings. However, the changelings pulled back.
"What? The changelings are moving back? Move up!"
Soldier Cried as he rocket jumped ahead. 

He saw a huge wooden shield with green shimmering on it. Soldier shot a rocket at it, crying
"Screamin' Eagles!"
However, it exploded on impact, but the shield didn't break. The rest of the team came along, taking cover from arrows being shot being the large shield. 
Meanwhile, Captain Grimy ordered the archers to hail death on the Mercs.
"Mmph!Mmph!"
Suddenly, the shield exploded into flaming pieces, as Pyro did a Kandukan taunt on the shied.
"Mmph mmph mmph, Mmph!"
Demoman launched two grenades, and the changeling archers exploded into bloody pieces.
"Ya all Bloody Dead!"
Captain Grimy ordered the changeling "tanks" to the front.
The brutes took the damage, and one faltered, while the other had a giant battle axe and swung at Scout.
"Whoop! Missed me! Try again, dumbass!" Scout came up to the brute, doged a swing and some arrows, and smack the brute in the face with his Sandman! 
"BOOM! Now that, was a head fracture!"
Sniper was quickscoping the remaining changelings like a professional.
"Ya bludgin' blokes! Ya' heads are over 12 bloody feet tall!"
Backup archers came and started shooting arrows like crazy, Heavy taking some serious damage.
"MEDDICC!"
Scout double-jumped to avoid arrows, but another hail of arrows pinned him onto a nearby house. 
"Um... little help?"
"Dumkophs!"
Medic cursed as he rushed over to Scout to heal him, but fell to the ground as 12 arrows were stuck in his legs.
"NOO!" Heavy cried, as he took cover behind a box as Sniper fell, knocked out by the posion arrows.
"Sniper is Dead!"
Engineer's second Level 3 sentry was destroyed, and took cover next to Heavy. 
"Erecting a dispenser! Go heavy!"
Heavy roared as he got up and started firing Sasha once more. With the help of the dispenser, he resisted the hailstorm of arrows.
Meanwhile, Soldier cried in pain as arrows struck everywhere on his body as he tried to fire back with his rockets, and he fell to the ground.
"Noooo! I will not tolerate failing for my team!"
He tried to shoot another rocket, but his Direct Hit was out of ammo. Soldier slumped to the ground, defeated.
Soldier heard the laughter of Captain Grimy and Captain Sludge of his defeat. Demoman was down, Scout was down, Sniper was down, Medic was down, and Pyro and Spy was no where to be seen. The towns ponies fled from the hail of arrows, Twilight summoning a magic shield to block the arrows.
"Twilight, I gotta' go help Scout!"
Rainbow Dash pleaded, 
"No, You can't! There's just too much arrows out there! You'll be killed!"
Fluttershy was hiding in a box, while Changeling Warriors rushed past, crying softly.
Rainbow Dash flew out, arrows missing her by inches, as she rushed to get Scout.
After dragging Scout to a safe place, Rainbow Dash tried to wake up Scout.
"Scout, you gotta' get up! We're depending on you!"
Scout groaned as he got back up, and looked at Rainbow Dash.
Scout raised, but then dropped his scattergun and Sandman as he slumped to the ground once more. Rainbow Dash cried in agony, and turned towards two charging changeling warriors. She picked up the Sandman, and hit the ball, like how scout did it. The ball stunned one warrior, while the other one got blown to pieces. Scout was holding the scattergun in his hand.
"Miss me? Dumbasses."
Soldier kept on the floor a bit down with only 25 Heath Points left, defeated. 
"No wait, am I dead?"
Soldier then remembered his time killing Nazi Hippies in WW2, and he rose up and ran over to the dispenser. He got more ammo, and found his Buff was full again.
"Hello, felines!"
Medic, Sniper, and Demoman were taking cover behind a box, after respawning. 
"Get your asses over here Medic and Demoman! I want you to charge me! Demoman, do a favor."
Medic started getting his ubercharge back up to full while Soldier told Demoman his plan.
"Now Move Up!"
Demoman placed one sticky on the floor and sticky-jumped into the air, firing from his grenade launcher.
Changeling Archers expolded into pieces, and left Captain Grimy wounded.
"What? I thought these 3 intruders died from the arrows!"
Captain Grimy raged.
"Back form the grave, lad!"
Was his response as he got blown to pieces. 
Captain Slurge's group of Melee  and Archer Changelings finished burning down a house when they heard Soldier's Roar.
Ubercharged, he jumped out of cover, Buff Banner activated, and emptied his Direct Hit into the group. Heavy was gunning down any running changeling warriors as they attempted to attack the trio. The rockets blew up lots of Changeling Archers, the word "Mini-Crit!" floating over their heads., leaving Captain Slimy dazed and confused.
"Lets kick your ass back to hell, you ugly scum!"
One rocket propelled Captain Slimy in the air. Rainbow Dash flew into him, delivering a good punch that sent Slimy into the ground. 
Captain Slimy fell to the ground and tried running, but Pyro was right behind him.
"Mmph Mmph, Mmph? MMph!"
'No, Please, I surrender!"
Pyro airblasted Slimy into a dark alleyway, with no way out. 
Slimy then heard someone laughing, then snorting, then laughing again, hearing someone uncloaking behind him.
"You are such, a bad, captain!"
Slimy charged at Spy, but Spy jumped onto some crates, jumped over Slimy, and trick-stabbed him.
"You got blood on my suit."
"Nice shot, Spy!"
Soldier complimenting Spy.
"Whew, that was close!"
Pyro suddenly started running towards in the direction of Sugar Cube Corner.
"Where's Pyro goin'?
"I think he notices something. Lets follow him."
The RED Team followed Pyro to Sugar Cube Corner, which was barricaded by the residents of Ponyvile, having barricaded themselves inside, except for Rainbow Dash, who was flying besides Scout.

Meanwhile...At Sugar Cube Corner...

The residents of Ponyvile was hunkered down in Sugar Cube Corner, the windows barricaded and the Mane 5(As Rainbow Dash wasn't there.) keeping a watch out for any changelings, PInkie Pie trying to entertain the scared ponies to be calm, brave, etc. Twilight Sparkle heard some boards flinging of a window upstairs, the glass breaking. Twilight readied her horn, as she cautiously trotted up the stairs. It was just Derpy Hooves, that have flown through the window. 
"I got you a letter!"
She held a mailbox with her hooves and banged it against Twilight's head, a letter falling out. 
The letter read:

Hi there.


Twilight was just confused, and Rarity came over.
"Who would write that little? Surely there is something going on."
Little did they know, a well known towns pony named Carrot Cake snuck behind them.
Twilight and Rarity heard a hissing behind them, and then Rarity cried in pain, as Carrot Cake undisguised as a changeling spy.
"Rarity!" Was all Twilight said, as she got back stabbed too. 
"Too easy."
The changeling complimented himself, as he dragged Rarity and Twilight's injured and unconscious bodies into a random closet.
He then disguised as Twilight, and went down the stairs.
Pinkie Pie was stuffing her face with cake, when she heard Twilight whispering for her to come over.
She loudly bounced over to Twilight and said:
"What?"
The door got burned to ashes, as Pyro walked in, ponies screaming in fear.

Meanwhile... Pyro vision...

Pyro saw lots of ponies running around happily in a sweet store shop.
As Pyro turned to look at PInkie Pie he saw Twilight Sparkle, crying. 
Well, Pyro decided to give Twilight some rainbow happiness with his RainBlower.
He saw all the other ponies cheering for him, as he blew happiness to Twilight, shouting in joy.

Back in reality...

The changeling spy disguised as Twilight smirked smugly, PInkie Pie looking at Pyro with a confused face.
Pyro looked around, then saw the changeling spy smirking, and started incinerating the changeling spy with his strange flamethrower, ponies and their little foals shrieking in fear, as the changeling spy screamed of pain as he burned to death. 
Pinkie Pie heard Pyro mumbling about something as Medic and Scout rushed into the building.
"Pyro says he blew happiness to that sad changeling!"
Pinkie Pie abruptly said.
Scout heard Pinkie Pie and came over.
"How do you even understands what Pyro say-"
"Help!"
Scout as heard Medic shouting for help. and ran up the stairs to find Medic dragging the unconscious bodies of the real Twilight and Rarity.
"Drag them out into the open."
Scout dragged the two ponies out of the closet as Medic started healing them.
"Done, Scout! Ve' must let them vake' up."
"That was easy."
Scout remarked.

Meanwhile... downstairs...

"Well done, men! We kicked the bug's ugly asses back to hell, protecting the civvies!"
Soldier complimated the RED team.
"There's one little problem, soldier."
Scout said.
Soldier's head made cracking noises as he quickly turned around.
"What, scout?"
"Some civvies are harmed..."
Scout said, chuckling.
"Civvies were harmed? I will find more of those spy-like bugs and kick ALL of their asses back to hell!"
The Rest of the Team Chuckled at this. Solider always overreact, for some reason most frantically near civilians.
But the RED team knew about the Civilian Incident.
The rest of the day was spent in repairs, swearing, Medic doing his "experiments" and stuff RED team would normally do.

Medic's Labortory...

Medic stared at the lab screens. 
"It seems that ze' felines are in a coma. Strange. Usually backstabs would paralyze a regular human for a nanosecond before killing the victim. Wait! Zey' are ponies!"
Medic rushed to grab the medigun , hanging on a rack.
He had a reserve ubercharge for any upcoming battles, and decided to try to ubercharge Twilight.
Right as he activated the ubercharge, Medic saw that Twilight was ubered. 
"I am succesful! A pony's heart can be ubercharged, and..."
He stopped speaking. The ubercharge color was flickering.
The color suddenly turned to Purple.