“I got it! I got it!”
Scout ran towards a small shed that was positioned between two farmhouses. The Mercenaries that fought here called it ‘Harvest’. But in reality, it was just another battlefield waiting to be claimed.
Scout reloaded his Baby Face Blaster while his agility made it easy to dodge the oncoming grenades coming from a RED Demoman. The battles that happen here tends to be intense, but today, it was tenfold of the average battle. Scout made it in the shed, but a RED Pyro had decided to shoot a flare from his Detonator, having it explode in mid-air, and engulf the Scout in flames.
“I’m on fire! Ow!” Scout screamed.
“No worries mate,” a fellow BLU Sniper threw a jar of Jarate at Scout, extinguishing the flames.
“Aw thanks pal. But next time, how about some water instead of your… well, piss.”
Suddenly, a RED Soldier appeared launching several rockets from his Black Box, killing the two team members.
“Aww crap,” Scout looked into his now dead self while awaiting his time to respawn, watching the RED Soldier do a taunt from his HUD. He never really got the idea of respawning. But then again, who was it to question the person who made all this weird technology? He could imagine how, but why? Although the other mercenaries told to not him question, he just couldn’t shake the feeling that maybe this was just for amusement between the two rivals. But then again, he had seen even more weird things than this, like Merasmus for example a couple of months back.
Alright, time to get back into the game. Scout respawned into the room, where he met a fellow Pyro, Heavy, and an Engineer. The room was small, but big enough to quickly grab things and go. Scout grabbed his Soda Popper, a couple cans of ‘Bonk!’, and his favorite, the Atomizer.
As he ran out of the room, he noticed BLU Demoman acting out of the norm. He decided to check it out, but as he did, the Demoman suddenly turned into a RED Spy and stabbed a Medic walking behind the Heavy. Scout fired a couple of shots, but missed. He decided to alert the BLU Heavy, but it was too late as he was stabbed in the back as well. Crap, might as well try and capture the point.
(……)
RED Spy didn’t want much, maybe a few backstabs here and there to get them out of the way. But all he wanted was to teach BLU Scout a lesson. Do not try to capture point while there is a Spy on the loose. More specifically, people like him for instance. Scout’s mother told him how rainbows made him cry. RED Spy mentally chuckled at that thought. That should teach Scout. I should do that next time I get him. He moved silently into a corner in the shed, waiting for his target, like a spider waiting for its next meal.
(….)
BLU Scout didn’t see where the RED Spy moved to, but it didn’t matter, there were more things to take notice of. Like that RED Sniper he just taken out with his Soda Popper. Scout moved to the shed and started to capture point. Things were quiet in here, maybe a bit too quiet. Scout was almost done capturing point when suddenly; his HUD showed that the RED Spy he had seen earlier had backstabbed him. There was also a small alarm showing, it had said that Scout being dominated by this exact same person. But the line was crossed at the next scene of events as RED Spy picked up his headset and said “Hello, this is Scout, and rainbows make me cry.”
Scout could see it now, all the other mercenaries on the team laughing at him for his fear of rainbows. Aaaand there goes my rep.
The RED team later captured the point and they had also kept it. The announcer mocked the BLU team as “You failed.” This was actually one of the times that they had actually felt badly for themselves for being a failure at this most intense battle that they ever had.
Later, as the team started to pack up for oncoming departure home, Engineer had set up teleportation pods, more advanced than the usual pads that the team would take home.
“Now, this here will take y’all home at the same time,” Engineer explained. “It can fit all of us an’ some.”
“So, vat you saying is zat we can all vit, and the same time, we can get home separately?” Medic said.
“Precisely,” Engineer smirked. “Now the only problem is that we have to share with the RED team, which is why that there seems to be enough room to fit two spawning areas.”
The whole BLU team suddenly went from what happened to be curious faces, to what looks like anger, and started to protest.
“Ye’ got to be mad!”
“Uuh, No!”
“I will crush puny skulls.”
“Hudda hmmpf hmmpf!!”
“No way in hell private!”
“Now, there’s no need to be alarmed,” Engineer hushed the protesters. “Contract says that we only battle on the field.” A few mercenaries nodded in agreement, but Scout was a stubborn one.
“Hey! What if they decided to shoot us on the spot?” Scout exclaimed.
“Then how else are they going to get home?”
There even more murmurs of agreement, although Scout didn’t believe Engineer, he decided to keep his mouth shut just so he might get a chance to say ‘I told you so’.
“Here they come!” Sniper said.
Just as he said that, there were the RED Mercenaries, walking towards them. They too, had the look of frustration at the fact they have to share the pod to get home. They slowly walked up to the BLU team and stayed silent. But the RED spy decided to have fun with Scout and gave him a teasing laugh.
“What’s so funny?” Scout asked.
“Oh it’s nothing,” RED Spy replied. “It’s just the fact that how can a confident little boy like you be scared of such petty things like rainbows?”
Suddenly, not only the BLU team looked at Scout, but also the RED team as well. Scout looked at all of them and then saw that everyone looked like they were going to burst into laughter, until RED Heavy decided to say something.
“Maybe he’s a little baby,” RED Heavy made a mocking crying face and then both teams erupted into laughter.
RED Spy patted BLU Scout’s back, who happens to be on the verge of tears. “We’re only joking around. You know that, right?”
Suddenly, Scout’s face changed into a look of determination. “Of course I did, what did you take me for?
“Oh nothing, just you being a little baby,” Spy replied. After that remark, the teams broke into laughter again. This time, it ended with the BLU Engineer telling everybody to get ready to head home. Instantly, everybody calmed down and then said farewell to each other because they had the rest of the week off.
Great, maybe this would be a perfect time to get some sleep in, Scout thought, and probably an attempt to get a girl. Scout took a look at this team, and sighed. Sometimes, I wonder what Pyro looks like underneath that. I’m pretty sure it’s a guy, but you can’t be too sure right?
There was a flash of light, and then the scene changed from a farm into a stereotypical suburban neighborhood filled with happy children and mowed grass. The children were curious on the sudden appearance of Scout, but they shrugged it off at the thought that he just came from a bus stop.
(Somewhere were quite the opposite was happening)
A lavender unicorn was powering up her horn to put a spell on a few stone orbs. Come on, work!
A dark blue alicorn laughed at her futile attempts, then she stomped her hoof on the ground, causing the stone orbs to crack and break into pebbles. “I am Nightmare Moon, and I shall rule Equestria!” Nightmare Moon laughed manically.
The unicorn turned to see her five newfound friends behind her. “Oh yea, well we don’t need the stones. I have the true Elements of Harmony here with me!”
As she explained how her five friends were the elements, Nightmare Moon was preparing a teleportation spell. But her horn was not even glowing as it would normally do, so the lavender unicorn took no notice to her plan. As the unicorn was going to use the unexpected launch of Happiness-And-Randomness-Most-Often-Not-Yearned (Or HARMONY), Nightmare Moon teleported out of the castle leaving the Elements of Harmony confused where she had went.
“Hey Twilight, where do yah think she went?” an orange Earth Pony asked.
“Who knows,” the lavender unicorn replied. “But wherever it is, we ought to find her before she does anything else.”