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" 30 seconds till mission begins."
The Administrator announced over the microphone. RED team were pretty much ready to stop BLU from pushing their cart along. Besides there Engineer, who was successfully able to build a dispenser and a level one sentry. He needed to upgrade his weapon to level three before the time ran out. He looked around for any discarded metal lying on the dirt of Upward but failed to see any. He glanced over at his dispenser that was empty and clenched his teeth before putting his wrench down and venturing along the rail to find some metal.
Upon wandering he finally found what he was looking for. It was a small light brown metal box which would replenish at least a hundred metal. His expression brightened up as he took the treasure and opened the lid. He took out the metal inside and closed it again. An idea suddenly came to mind. He fixed the box up nicely so it looked like it hadn't been touched and carefully placed it down in a spot where a BLU was bound to get it.
He chuckled slightly before running back over to his sentry to level it up. He picked up his wrench and began whacking away at the sentry. He managed to level it up to level three and relaxed a little, knowing he couldn't let his guard down completely. He was at the second last point which was a pretty good spot since BLU seems to know the RED's strategies now. Engie decided he would crack open a beer and lean against his dispenser while waiting for some action to occur.
He walked over to his cooler and took out a nice cold beer. He cracked the lid off and smiled slightly at the lovely fizzing sound of the beverage. He trudges back over to his dispenser and leaned on the top of it which was just tall enough so he could lean his arm on it. He stayed there like that for at least five minutes and during those five minutes he had taken quite a few sips from his beer. He had also seen the RED Scout run past twice. Once to refill his ammo and the other time he had obviously died and was just coming back from respawn.
The Engineer gave a small yawn and was about to see if his sentry needed anything when a searing pain in his back made him scream. He fell down and everything went black. The next thing he knew, he was back in respawn holding his shotgun with the beeping of his machines going down coming from his construction PDA. He takes it out of his pocket and sees the alert symbol of a sapper electrifying his machines. He growls slightly, grits his teeth and runs out of respawn.
He arrives at his setup to see his sentry and dispenser with sappers clung to them. He pulls out his wrench and with a loud thud of metal against metal the sapper fell of his sentry. He does it to the dispenser and began repairing it. When he was done, he quickly looked around, his eyes darting from side to side behind those wielding goggles. He stands properly and starts whacking the air a few times with his wrench to see if that Spy was still around.
He smirked when he couldn't find anything. ' He's too much of a coward to stick around.' He thought as he looked at his dispenser and went to whack it. He was waiting for the ringing of metal on metal to fill the silence but something was blocking his wrench. It was soft yet hard in a way and instead of small sparks coming from the dispenser, there were small drops of red liquid. The Texan looked up to a see slightly visible silhouette of The Spy he was looking for. He smirks and uses his wrench to hit the BLU's leg earning a yelp.
The Spy quickly disguises as a RED Scout behind that cloak and uncloaks. He glares down at the Engineer who was grinning, revenge glistening in those covered eyes. Spy just rolls his eyes and jumps off the dispenser. " Ya'll gonna take me on like a man or ya'll too much of a coward to do that?" The RED Engie mockingly asked, earning another roll of the BLU's eyes. " Oh please, da only reason I'm not killin you right now is because you intrigue me." The Spy responded in the Scout's usual manner of speaking.
His statement made the RED very confused in which this doesn't happen often. He waited for the Spy to elaborate more on it. Spy only looked over at the level three sentry than back at The Southerner. After a moment or so the shorter man finally caught on to what The Assassin wanted. He walked over to his sentry, picked it up and moved it to the last point. He then came back over to The Spy and his dispenser. " There, its gone. Now tell me, how the hell do I intrigue ya?"
The Frenchman removed his disguise to reveal himself for who is he. He stood there in his usual pin-striped blue suit, his ski mask and the most important trait of his attire, a lit cigarette in his mouth. A small sly smirk appeared on his lips as he shrugged and met The Engineer's covered eyes. " You just do." For a moment, there was awkward silence between the two until the BLU had an idea. " I will tell you what. I will not kill you on one condition." This caught Engie's attention.
" Zee condition is zat I get to sit on your dispenser, cloaked, and have a conversation wiz you. Deal?"
The RED blinked a few times in slight shock. The Spy wanted to talk with him. Someone must of hit his head or something because the two were suppose to be enemies. Engie bit his lip gently while thinking before nodding in agreement. " Sure, I guess. But no funny business." He warned the BLU. Spy kept smirking as he cloaked.
" You have my word, pardner." The BLU teased slightly. Engie just sighs slightly and picks his dispenser. Spy gave small hints he was still around the Engineer by making quite obvious footprints and dropping ash off his cigarette.
The two arrived at the last point where Engie put his dispenser down and began to build it back up. Once done, he heard the sound of feet against the top metal of his invention. Spy was now back on top of it. Dell eyed the space where he estimated the transparent BLU was standing. " Alright, like I said. No funny business."
" Like I said, you have my word."
" Well...erm...good then..."
He walked over to his sentry before slightly gasping in realization. " I left mai cooler back at the other point. I'll be right back!" He ran back to the point and found his cooler where he left. He picked it up and attempted running with it but was slowed down. He made it back to the last point to find his machinery to be okay. The Spy was keeping his word. He opened the cooler to see at least six cold bottles of beer untouched. He went to pick one up when there was a loud bang of a gun going off and everything went black for him again.
The BLU Spy watched as a simple bulled passed through The Engineer's head causing blood and brains to splatter on the ground and his now lifeless body dropped to the dirt and mess. This caused him to snicker slightly but to also become annoyed. He looked in the direction of where the bullet had come from to see the BLU Sniper smirking and peering through his scope.
The Frenchman jumped off the dispenser and carefully stepped so he didn't get his expensive shoes stained with his enemy's brains. Still cloaked, he made his way to where his teammate was standing and tapped him on the shoulder. The Sniper turned around to face the now uncloaked Spy. " What?"
" Leave zat Engineer alone. I intend to attack him." Sniper rose a brow and shrugged.
" Go ahead mate. I just assumed since yer weren't doin nothin to him."
" Zat is part of zee plan."
The Sniper left his spot to go back to the other BLU members while Spy cloaked again and resumed his position on the dispenser. " Darn it! That damn Sniper!" Engie exclaimed as he came back over to his setup. The Spy gave a small smirk at The RED's reaction to being head shot " Don't worry, I convinced him to leave you be." He informed Engie. Engie looked into the space where he guessed The BLU was and blinked a few times in confusion before speaking again.
" Well, thanks mister!"
"It was nozing."
As time went on, the cloaked Spy and The Engineer talked while he waited for the cart to get to the last point so he could defend. A few times while the two were chatting away, RED Scout would look over at the Engie as if he were crazy. But The Texan gave a slightly eerie smile and a thumbs up causing The Scout to ignore him and run along. Spy remained cloak until The RED Pyro approached the setup of machinery. He walked over to the dispenser and waited for his ammo to refill.
The BLU Spy kept very still and watched the masked RED very carefully knowing if he made one wrong move he would become toast. He hated Pyros for that sole reason. He especially hated this one. The Pyro started humming a muffled tune and cocked his head in the direction of The Spy. The BLU remained calm and didn't move a muscle. Engie also kept a close eye on his teammate. " Hey Py, I think they need ya back in the front lines." Pyro nodded, made a happy sound and wandered off.
Engie smirked slightly and looked at the still cloaked Frenchman. " I just saved ya tail."
" Indeed you did. You have my appreciation."
" Y'know what I don't get."
" Mm?"
" What do ya speak so fancy like?"
" I just do."
Dell just rolled his eyes behind his goggles and picked up a beer. He walked over to the transparent Spy and handed it to him. " Take it." Spy raised a brow slightly at the cold beverage.
" No zank you. I do not drink beer." Engie rose a brow at this and cracked it open to drink it himself.
" Then what do ya drink?"
" Wine. I will have to invite you have some wiz me sometime."
" I don't really drink wine but if I try it you have to try beer."
" Its a deal zen."
The Spy smirked and sat down on the dispenser since his legs began to ache from standing for so long. He observed the Engineer as he casually gulped down the drink in his hand and whacked his sentry with his wrench in the other hand. The sounds of guns firing, rockets blasting and shouting were becoming clearer and closer. Spy had something to ask the Engineer before the battle comes closer.
" Engineer?"
" Yeah?"
" Would you like to do zee wine and beer zing tonight?"
" Yeah, sure. Got nothin' else goin on."
" Zen its settled. Meet outside zee bases around 9:30 tonight. I know a place where our colleagues won't disturb us."
The Texan nods as The Frenchman jumps off the dispenser. He disguises behind his cloak before uncloaking. He was now running around as The RED Spy. He managed to sneak his way behind his team while they furiously pushed their cart along. Engie's turret began firing away its bullets and rockets. Those were enough to keep the BLU team back but it wasn't enough to stop the BLU Demoman from firing sticky bombs around his setup.
The RED gasped and looked around for Pyro who was busy lighting his foes on fire. " Pyro! I need ya help!" Pyro looked over at his distressed teammate and ran over. The Engineer pointed at the ground around his sentry and dispenser. There were at least three stickies around the inventions. Pyro hit the oxygen blast on his flamethrower and accidentally blew the sticky bombs onto The RED Scout. They detonated at that moment. The RED Scout was now nothing but gibs, blood and guts.
Pyro muffled an apology before running back to his job. The Engineer just chuckled slightly and began refilling his turret with ammo. " 10 seconds till mission ends." The administrator informed the two teams through the microphone. RED were sure to win this.
" 9"
BLU tried to make progress but it was no use with Engie's sentry guarding the last point.
" 8"
The Engineer chuckled at this fact and kept whacking his sentry with his wrench since it was using so much ammo.
" 7"
BLU Spy stood behind his team not being of any use to them. BLU Scout angrily approached him and got up in his face.
" Go sap dat thing!"
"6"
" I believe we are running out of time. So my skills would be wasted."
" 5"
" We're gonna lose because of you, Frenchie!"
" 4"
" I don't think it would be because of me, halfwit."
" 3"
" Yeah, it would be! You had so much time to sap his freakin' sentry!"
"2"
" Zee zing is Scout. I was backstabbing the surrounding RED members. I didn't have time."
" 1. You failed."
" And we failed! Thanks a lot you good for nothin Spy!" Scout trudged back to the BLU base so he wasn't killed. Spy smirked and cloaked. He then snaked his way across the battle field to the base.
~ An hour afterwards~
The RED Engineer was in his workshop lying down on his rancho relaxo relaxing with another beer in his hand. The last part of the mission really was something. A knock at the door of his workshop snapped him out of his relaxing thoughts. He sits up to see the RED Scout standing there. " Hey there, Scout. What can I do for ya?" The boy stepped inside and approached his teammate.
" I was just wonderin who you were talkin to out dere..."
" Oh I was talkin to...mahself...Crazy ain't it?" A small broke on Scouts face as he nods.
" Catch ya later den, egghead." He leaves the Engie to be in peace and quiet once again.