//------------------------------// // Scuttle Bucket your the one, that makes bathtime lots a fun! // Story: Permission to FREAK OUT!? (sequel to Lost, on the heat of battle. a TF2 and MLP crossover.) // by heavy weapons brony //------------------------------// Scout sat on the front porch of Fluttershy’s home, he sat on the front step while leaning on a support beam. Bored, he threw his baseball in the air and catching it in the same hand. The front screen door screeched open, Scout turned to see Fluttershy had overcome her fainting spell. “Hi, we never had a chance to talk” Fluttershy said. “Yeah, none of us have, this is all happening really fast it was only a day ago i first appeared in this world” Scout returned. Flutters walked down to the steps and sat next to Scout. “What was your world like?” “Well, it wasn't all that great, Fluttershy,....do you know what War is?” “War? We haven't had a War for thousands of years,” Flutters answered. “In my world, thats all we do, but not to say it isn’t fun” “Fun? how can killing and dying be fun?” “Our employers, the ones who tell us to fight, found away to take the killing and dying out of War” “How?” “They called it a respawn machine, it brings you back from the dead when you die.” “How does it work?” “Aww, i couldn’t tell you that, Engie even says he barely understands it.” Both parties kept silent for a while. Scout felt something wet down his cheek, he quickly wiped it away, but it didn’t go unnoticed. “Hey, is something wrong?” Fluttershy asked. Now Scout was usually really masculine and hard to get to talk about his feelings, but he was still young and his mother always taught him to not to be afraid of his feelings plus being thrown into a whole new dimension and his team being turned into freaks really got him down and all he wanted was someone to talk to. Scout looked around to make sure none of his brothers were watching, “Yeah, a little, I really miss my home, Sure it was painful and violent but,.... it had it moments.” “Like when?” Flutters asked. “Well sometimes, after a hard day Heavy would break out his russian novels he use to read in college, they were some interesting stories, or Sniper would tell stories of when he helped the tribes in Australia by killing tigers that threatened their village.” “Hmm sounds like you and your team were close.” “Yeah we are, War does that to ya, also I miss my ma, I never told her where I was.” “You ran away from home?” Fluttershy asked, concern hanging from her tone. “Yea, my father left when I was young, after a while Ma fell on hard times. Me and my brothers tried to help but there wasn't a lot of career opportunities where we lived so I figured my Ma could use one less mouth to feed so I struck out on my own, after six months of living on the lamb working odd jobs and riding the rails I ended up in new mexico where I saw that a place called TF industries were hiring for mercenary work, I joined. It sounded like dangerous work but I figured they pay would be worth it.” “But weren't you afraid of dying?” “It did cross my mind, but I figured dying in war was better than starving to death. Ma taught me that death happens to everyone so why bothering being too afraid of it? its not like I had kids or a wife to miss me, its morbid, but its true.” Fluttershy pondered what Scout said, it sounded horrible but she admitted to herself that it was more true than it was false. “So anyway I joined, the first two weeks were the scariest. Its really scary the first few times to respawn, you still feel the pain of dying but it ends all at once, then everything goes black, and BOOM! you're in a white room with sliding glass doors, and the War is still going on outside.” “That does sound scary” Flutters sympathized. “But the worst of it was how I missed my Ma so much, it felt good when I sent her my first paycheck, but I didn’t leave a return address, I didn’t want her coming after me. I wrote that I was okay and I missed her and I loved her, it felt good to tell her I was still alive. But the first couple of weeks I tried to put on a brave face and a tough guy act but I found myself breaking down in the middle of battle just to cry, then my team noticed.” “Did they make fun of you?” “No, they didn’t. Which actually surprised me, they simpathized. Turns out everyone had families they were sending money to, Sniper had his parents, Engie has a wife and kid, Heavy had his three sisters and mother and even Soldier said he missed his mother he lost in the last War he was in.” “Oh thats terrible, did she Die in the War?” “No Soly just forgot where she lived, he literally “Lost” her.” “Oh” Flutters said, a bit confused. “Yeah theres something not quite right with Soly, anyway after we got to know each other it got a lot easier, then a bit fun, almost like a video game.” “Video,...Game?” Flutters asked. “Oh,..there these things we play back at my old world,...aw don’t worry about it” “Oh okay, well its good to see your story had a happy ending!’ “Pissh you think thats the only story I got!? wait until you hear what happened last halloween, and the halloween before that, and the halloween before that ya see,....” Scout was abruptly interrupted when he came eye to eye with Scuttle bucket who had popped out of nowhere. Hold on a second. “HMMMMMMMMM!!!” Fluttershy screamed from under Scuttle Bucket who had completely engulfed her entire head. “Woa! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD AAAAAAA, FLUTTERS! JUST HOLD STILL!” Scout quickly took out his bat and gave Scuttle Bucket a upward thwack! Scuttle Bucket flew from Flutters head, but his teeth had already started to sink into fluttershy so as he flew from her head, he left deep upward gashes all over her face. “AHHHHHHahha,...”Fluttershy stopped screaming and fell to the ground, badly bleeding. Scout watched Scuttle Bucket hit the ground and made a break for the tree line. “Whats going on out here!?” Scout looked up to see that Rainbow Dash had flown out of the window to the room where her and Twilight had been watching Pinkie Pie. Scout pointed to Fluttershy “Help her! i’ll be back in a sec.” Scout dug through his bag and pulled out Engie’s Pomson 6000 and sprinted after Scuttle Bucket. He was hard to see through all the tall grass and bushes in the forest, but Scout was able to keep track of him through the forest, he fired several shots from the Pomson 6000 but Scuttle Bucket hid among the bushes and tall grass just enough to make them miss. Scout began to get frustrated, he elected to try to subdue Scuttle Bucket before curing him. Scout switched from the Pomson to his Force of nature. “HMMMPPPPMMM!” Scuttle Bucket called, Scout fired two shots bouncing Scuttle Bucket out of the tall grass against a tree, something bounced around and something heavy fell out of his mouth and landed on the ground with a hard thud. “AH! GOCHA!” Scout quickly reloaded, while Scuttle Bucket panicked and ran. Scuttle Bucket came upon a cliff, below it was a roaring river. Scuttle Bucket turned around to see that Scout closed the gap between them, Scuttle Bucket weighed his options. Scout took out the pomson and aimed it at Scuttle Bucket. “HMMMP-mmm-hhhp!” Scuttle Bucket begged Scout. “I don’t care,” Scouts finger tensed around the trigger. Scuttle bucket leaped off the cliff and fell to the river below. “NO!” Scout shouted and sprinted to the edge of the cliff just in time to see Scuttle Bucket splash into the water below. “Awww jeeez,” Scout hit the ground with his fist in frustration, then stood up and slowly started to walk back to Fluttershy’s cottage, after 2 steps however he tripped and fell flat on his face. “Awww come on!” Scout yelled, holding his head. Scout looked back to see what he had tripped on. It was the Homewrecker, a Pyro melee weapon. This was a lucky break due to the fact that the Homewrecker was the piece of Mann.co tech that cured Meemcopter, Scout picked it up and put it in his bag. Scout then walked back to Fluttershys cottage. When Scout broke through the tree line, he saw Rainbow Dash lying in the grass with a bonesaw through her left wing, blood was soaking her wing’s feathers and had started on her cyan coat. Twilights medical kit had been thrown all over the place, Scout quickly located so bandages. Scout removed the bonesaw, which had managed to miss any major arteries and began to bandage up the wing. Rainbow began to stir, and slowly opened her eyes. “Hey! Rainbow! what happened?” Scout asked. Rainbow weakly held out a Hoof, Scout lifted his head and looked into the direction she was pointing. Scout squinted, and barely made out the outline of Meemcopter flying in the distance, Holding something butter yellow and bubble gum pink. Scuttle bucket hated the water, he wasn't build for it. He was thrown by the river as he desperately thrashed with his stubby little arms to keep afloat, about a mile down the river he gave up the fight and started to sink to the bottom. Just before he sunk below the surface, something long and made of cold steel poked into his bucket and lifted him out of the water. Scuttle bucket coughed and sputtered through his gas mask, the water fell from his eyepieces allowing him to see his savior. “MATE!” Dic Soupcan yelled, he hoisted his long lost friend off of his Eyelander sword and gave him a big hug. “HMMMMMPPH!!” Scuttle bucket yelled, overjoyed that he found his friend. Dic Soupcan broke the hug and carried him a few yards down river, to a destroyed campsite complete with tattered tents and a small fire. Next to the fire was easily the biggest pony Scuttle bucket had ever seen and believe him, he had seen a lot of ponies today. “Now whos that?” The huge red coated Stallion asked Dic Soupcan. Dic Soupcan pointed to Scuttle bucket and shouted “Me Mate!” “So hes your friend is he? Good, we’re gonna need more help if we’re gonna find out why these varmints are back, and even more if we have to fight,” The Stallion them motioned to the ground around the campsite, Scuttle bucket observed the ground which was littered with the bodies of strange looking, black, insect like ponies. Several bodies had been beheaded, while others looked like they had been crushed under a two ton work pony and several more had been stuffed into soupcans. The Stallion gave Dic Soupcan a worried look, Dic Soupcan returned it with a smile, a large belch and an offering of Scrumpy to the large Stallion. “No thanks, after the way I saw you start this fire with the stuff after we raided this Changling army camp, i just don’t trust it.”