hands_of_blu | Map: Badwater Basin. Payload.

Map: Badwater Basin. Payload.

BLU operations in the area have met with horrific resistance from RED of late. Steps, as they say, had to be taken. When the intelligence reports last filched from under RED's nose indicated the RED team had concentrated vast quantities of infrastructure in a single location accessible by rail from an old, forgotten BLU listening post...

Well. Who are the BLU field operatives to ignore an opportunity dropped in their lap?

Time for some serious mayhem.

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Mia's gotten some briefing on effective Pyro methods. She is by no means a pro, but she is keeping some things in mind.

This includes ducking behind corners big enough to accommodate her and her annoyingly long weapon so the end doesn't stick out.

So Alyx doesn't see her. We think.

We could be wrong, and when we're wrong, there's fire.

Did Alyx see movement in the corner of her eye just now?

She whirls to face it, scattergun at the ready. For several seconds, she's perfectly still.

Then she shakes her head and keeps moving.

Tense, tense stillness.

And when Mia is sure she is safe, she slowly presses onward, towards a promising looking ledge for an ambush.

Looks like there's going to be a trek of open space, so Mia's preparing herself to run.

Forgetting how long her weapon is for the moment.

This time? Alyx notices.

She aims her scattergun at the shadows just behind the silhouetted end of the flamethrower, and fires.

The angle was off for a direct hit, but Mia did get grazed. She goes back the way she came and comes around to the other end, facing the same trek as before but with more distance between her and Alyx.

Ah, there's the RED Scout.

Mia makes a run for it, moving in to fire at Alyx.

Ohhh crap.

Alyx breaks into a dead run, turning back over her shoulder to fire in the pyro's general direction.

Crud, no sense in wasting ammunition on a retreat she can't catch up to. Didn't look like she hit, either.

But on the other hand, it looks like she's managed to avoid this shot (mostly) and make most of her trek. She goes back to her original plan of reaching the ledge in order to set up for an ambush.

Unfortunately, Alyx is heading for the next ledge over. And as soon as she gets there, she swaps the scattergun for the pistol and starts firing on the approaching pyro, taking more care in her aim this time.

Mia keeps on the move, aiming to circle around Alyx with the fire.

But Alyx is a better shot and faster...

When you're wielding a flamethrower, you don't need to be fast or accurate. As evidenced by the fact that the back of Alyx's shirt has just caught on fire.

"FUCK!" she screams, diving for the ground and rolling in hopes of smothering the flames.

If Mia were the type to laugh evilly, this would be the perfect time. But she's not and she's hit her target.

Hmm, no water, no Medics...better to jump down and finish the job.

"Sorry about this; it's honestly nothing personal," she mumbles through her mask.

Though all Alyx might here is burning.

And that's all she feels, too. Burning, spreading all over her body...

And then, suddenly, it stops.

Hesitantly, Alyx opens one eye, then the other. She's back in the locker room where she started. Her clothes are intact, and there's no sign of any burns on her body.

"...the fuck?"

She recovers quickly, however. Regardless of how, she's alive and uninjured. And once she's resupplied, that psycho with the flamethrower is going down.

Edited 2009-04-18 03:51 (UTC)

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