Chapter 4: "Friends?"
I rushed towards the library, everywhere I went, there was fire, ponies screaming, crying, and some trying to do the best that they can. I'll be honest, it hurts to not be able to do something.
I rushed pass the ruins of what looked like a giant gingerbread house. There were two ponies, crying on each other's shoulder. The tall orange one tried his best to ca;m the short stubby mare.
It was a depressing sight to see. Heck, I don't think Engie could make this any better. "This sucks," I muttered and ran towards the large intact tree. I ran through the door and saw Sparks fiddling around with the crystal we found eariler. "Aren't you suppose to be helping?" I asked with a serious look.
Sparks wrapped the crystal in a thin piece of cloth. "I would, but the Princesses told me to wait with you until they got here." She said with a sigh.
"So?" I said. She gave me confused look. "So what? Ponies are in trouble out there, they need what little help they can get!"
"But the Princess-"
"Princess nothing! People are dying out there! I ain't the type to sit around and do nothing!" I walked towards the open doorway, the door slammed shut and with Sparks' magic.
"The Princess said no!" Twilight yelled.
I laughed, really this was really funny. She was just so damn blind and loyal. "Alright Sparkle Butt, lemme ask 'ya this. If your 'Princesses' were to, I dunno, say kill your friends, would you do it?"
She hesitated. "I-the Princesses-they would never do that!" She yelled.
Yup, she was blind alright. "But that's what's happening right now. I can either stay here and sit on my ass all day, or I can maybe... I dunno save a few ponies trapped in buildings or maybe save a few kids from a falling piece of roof or something. Tell me something, is that worth it? Obeying your 'Princess' to the word?" I didn't wait for the response. I kicked down the door and sprinted outside.
"Man... I got my work cut out for me..." I saw the panicking ponies, running 'round like chickens with their heads cut off. If it wasn't for the completely sad mood, it would have looked funny... I'm a sick kid.
I wasn't much of a leader, I'd admit, hard to believe, right? I mean look at me! I got leader material written all over, I just don't wanna be in the spot light all the time, you know? Anyway, ya'll know what I'm good at, right? Running.
I was fast, really fast. Faster than I'd ever ran before. Heck, RD was rushing around trying her best to get the hurt back to hospital. I wasn't so hot myself, I'm pretty sure my injuries only got worse since the whole "Mid-air dragon fight" thing. But you know me, I'm a trooper. I ran around, transporting meds and stuff all over. Going back and forth towards the hospital for some much needed first-aid on field, felt like the times before Medic joined the team.
I shook the thought outta my head. You can think about your friends later, Scout. Right now, you got some lives to save!
Wait friends? Who said they were my friends?
I was tired... Dead tired, you know, like when you drink a dozen cans of bonk all at once, and the after effects? That kind of tired. We ran out of room at the hospital so we had to use AJ's farm and the school to help out the wounded.
I looked around the farm, seeing all kinds of ponies crying their eyes out. So were tears of joy, having their kids or parents stay alive, some... weren't as lucky...
The filly, Dash and I saved earlier was named "Scootaloo" I heard that her dad didn't make it, he got some bones stuck in his blood stream, clogged up his heart... RD was trying her best to cheer up the filly...
It wasn't working.
Everybody was getting treated, medical pros with ACTUAL medical licenses working on each patient. Sure, I know basic first-aid but a lot of these guys psyco-phyca-mental problems, and I wasn't good at that. I wasn't much of a builder either, sure I could run around giving them tools and stuff, but they needed strenght, not speed.
So I got nothing to do, and I was tired. Didn't feel like doing anything. I walked around the ruined town, noting all the used-to-be colorful buildings. I was thinking to myself that maybe I should just hit the hay. Then I saw Pinks.
Pinkie was crying her eyes out, her hair turned like straight pink seaweed or something. I walked over to her and placed my hand on her head.
"Hey, Pinks? Y'aright?" Stupid, stupid, stupid! Of course she isn't alright, you dope!
"S-Scout?" Pinks jumped up and tackled me in a tight hug, crying on my shoulder the entire time.
"Hey, hey, stop crying..."
Like I said, I wasn't good with all that emotional drama, but I tried my best.
"They're... they're dead!" I dunno, she just cried. I usually don't care about stuff like this. People die, I knew that much... Maybe.... Maybe it was 'cause it felt like the time... Dad died... Old wounds hurt, new wounds hurt just as much. I tighten my grip around Pinks. I think I had some dust in my eye or something.
I just sat there. Holding her in my arms... This town needed a massive pick-me-up, problem is, I got no idea how to do that.
Pinks sort of cheered up. She wasn't crying anymore, but I think she just ran outta tears. We decided to go see Twilight and her "Precious Princess".
I walked towards the big library tree. I glared at Sparks and two other ponies, one looked like a normal horse with a big white coat, the other was a small filly, both of 'em had a horn and a pair of wings.
I could smell trouble.
The big white one, eyed me causiously. Her big moving hair, looked like some sort of hologram or something rather than actual hair.
"Twilight, is this the creature you were talking about?"
"Yes, Princess."
The little filly spoke up. "You! You should bow down! Thou art in the presents of royalty! Monster!" She spoke like some sorta weird Role-playing dudes back in my world. I didn't like her attitude.
"Can it, pipsqueak. The adults are talking." I said with a cocky grin.
Sparks and Pinks basically had the same expression, shocked, wide-eyed, and the like. The little filly looked like she was gonna explode.
"Thou shalt not talk to the Princess of the Night like that! Knave!" She was adorable and annoying at the same time.
"Someone throwing a little tanturm? I said can it, small fry."
"Luna," The big white Pegacorn thing said. "Enough."
I felt my pistol on my back, I tensed up. I really didn't trust the white one. I clucthed my hand into a fist, and eyed the one called "Luna".
"My name is Princess Celestia, and this is my sister, Luna." Celestia said, with an elegant nod. I didn't care for formality, but my Ma taught me that I should at least respect someone on the first meeting.
"My name's Scout." I said with a curt nod. I won't bow to just anyone, even a princess. "Now, what the hell do you want?"
I don't always listen to my Ma.
Luna was furious, she turned red, and I swear her mane started to spark. Celly stopped her before she could have made a fool of herself in front of me.
"I heard about what you did. Ignoring my direct order, insulting my prize pupil, fighting the captain of the Royal Guard, and most of all..." I grabbed the pistol on my back, getting ready to pull it out in a second. "... You saved my little ponies from a rampaging dragon. For that, I give my respect." She bowed down.
My ego needed a boasting. "Yeah, I am pretty awesome." I said, holding my head up high. "But... I didn't save all of them..." Great... I brought my own ego down.
"Hey!" I turned around and saw RD flying at me at full speed. "SCOUT! Scootaloo's missing!"
"What!?" I ran up to RD and grabbed her. "What? Where is she?"
"If I would have know I wouldn't have come looking for you!" She wiggled out of my grip and hovered above the ground. "Come on, you gotta help me look for her!"
"Way ahead of you." I jumped up and started running. I'm gonna cover this town faster than a sonic jet! All that tireness just flew away as I ran, all I thought was what the hell that kid would do, I knew what I did....
Flashback
"How many times did tiny baby Scout die?" Heavy asked, behind the cover of the battlements on Tuefort. Bullets and rockets bounced off Heavy's giant russian body.
"Aghh... To many times to count." Medic said with a sigh, healing the Heavy as he did. Heavy revved up his minigun, and fired wildly at the advancing RED Soldier, making the crazy officer try to find some cover.
"Most of 'em suicides... I'm really worried about the kid." Sniper said and took aim. He fired off a single shot and the RED Soldier cried out in pain.
"MAH PAINIS!" RED Soldier cried as a bullet passed through his pelvis.
"He'd be fine... Kid's tough." Engineer said and fixed his sentry. "Spah, sappin' my teleporter! Excuse me, commin' through." He yelled and ran out of the battlements, and into the sewer water down below..
"Outta the way, Lard fat." Scout said and shoved the Heavy away. The others saw that he had several straps of Demoman's explosives on him as he jumped off the battlements.
Demoman came rushing out, he was completly void of any explosives. "Oi! You bloody git! Get back 'ere!" Demoman sighed and rubbed his one good eye. "Ah give up, you handle 'em, lads." The Scottsman gave out an annoyed sigh and walked back into the respawn to get his other gear.
The others stared dumbly at the running Scout. They could hear the RED Engineer cry out. "SENTRY DOWN." And on all of their displays, they had a skull and a pair of crossbones next to Scout's name on the top right corner of their vision.
"Da, but Scout has most kills." Heavy said to Medic.
"Ja..."
I shook off the memory and ran faster, my lungs burned trying to get more air into them.
RD came rushing aside me. "I'll go check on the west side of town. You go check on the east side!" With that, she zoomed off. I saw an old clock tower. Really old. Like something half a centuary ago, I was surprised that it didn't collapse during the dragon attack.
I stopped and looked at the top, a small speck was falling down. I squinted my eyes to get a closer look. Scoots?
"Aw crap!" I ran, I ran fast. But she was falling faster. I needed to get to her, before she hit the ground. Come on. Come on! I jumped up and tried to catch her.
Tried...
BLU Sniper did an excenllent job at holding down the point on Nucleus. He flexed his arms a bit and adjusted his aim, the crosshairs scanned the battlefield.
There was a lull in the battle, Engineer took the opertunity to quickly build a sentry near the point as a choke-point.
Engie looked up, admiring his work. He looked around and noticed that the RED Sniper had him in his sights. BLU Engie's head flew clean off, and into the pit of Nucleus.
The fight had started again. RED Heavy ran out of their Respawn room, followed by RED Medic, his loud heavy footsteps echoed through the room. Sniper could hear the distinct sound of RED Heavy's minigun revving up.
"I am fully charged!" RED Medic yelled out.
Sniper scowled as he saw RED Heavy blocking RED Medic. A single headshot couldn't kill a fully overhealed Heavy, he learned that the hard way.
A gunshot from behind him rang out. Sniper quickly turned around, his SMG was already equiped. He saw the limp body of a RED Spy, and his BLU counterpart.
"My friend, What is za problem?" BLU Spy said. He quickly reloaded his revolver and holstered it for his butterfly knife.
Sniper nodded in thanks. "That RED butterball blocking off his Medic, I can't get a shot. If he Ubers then we'll be squashed. Get to it, Spy!"
"Yes. I'll take care of i-" Before Spy could finish his sentence, a loud blast from RED Scout's scattergun blasted Spy's head to kingdom come.
Sniper reached for his kukri but found himself at the end of RED Scout's gun.
"Yeah, I'm awesome. Suck to be you, Aussie." RED Scout fired his gun.
Medic sighed and quickly chopped off RED Scout's head, earning himself a domination. "Nein.... Zis vill not do. I hope ze Pyro is doing better zen us."
"... And that's how I learned how to breath fire, and make fireballs." Pyro finished as the little girl listened attentively at Pyro.
"Wow! That's so cool!"
Pyro checked her watched and stood up from her chair. "Sorry, but I have to go. Goodbye, little Cassidy Conagher." She patted the little girl on the head and left.
Pyro walked for a little while. She felt her phone in her pocket vibrate. "Hello?" She answered.
"Boss..." Noa said from the other line. "One of the guys has got some pretty weird info here. I think you might want to see. We're sending it to BLU base." There was a loud crash and several people yelling. "THAT'S HALE! RUN! RUN!"
"Noa? NOA! Shit..." Pyro closed her phone, she didn't want to hear their screams. She silently wiped a tear and started walking again, this time to the battlefield.