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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Tyler is (choose one):

A) Running like hell.
B) Hammering at the watch controls for the cloak.
C) Swearing vigorously.
D) All of the above while still looking like the Heavy.

Artemis has been off trying to figure out how best to use his weapon...really. It has nothing to do with the fact all the fire power that is at play on this field is way beyond what his world can produce.

Regardless, he is here now and dropping a few grenades from a level above in the hopes of drawing fire away from the ~~idiot~~ fellow RED down there who blow his cover.

"AUGH!" yells the Scout, and very soon, to quote another Demoman entirely- "Oh look! It's raining him!"

Heavy, looks like it's down to you now.

The back on that soldier was right there Artemis. What was he supposed to do?

It's not a complete charge, but Tyler's translucent, then a second later, invisible.

Not that this stops Heavy from going to town on Tyler during that second of transition. Maybe it's more the pieces of Tyler that disappear? It's hard to say.

You can practically hear the March of the Valkyries behind the Heavy as he charges forward, Sasha blaring, bullets spitting out at an ungodly rate.

It's time to make a last stand, and he's taking as many REDs as he can down.

There's still a sentry on the roof and, much closer, a Soldier that's rocket jumping straight up. He's planning on using his height advantage to rain death from above on them all.

At regular ground level, a Pyro with a Medic's crackling medigun on him (her?) is racing forward. The Uber hasn't been triggered, but that's only because the Pyro isn't quite in range.

Yet.

Not good, any of it; the Medic is all too aware of their chances right now. On the other hand, he knows what's worked in the past to keep him alive, and that's keeping larger, more imposing members of his team alive. Which is why the medigun beam latches onto the Heavy immediately. "Not much longer, mein friend," he calls. "Keep going!"

"As you say, Doktor!" the Heavy says with a laugh, and keeps spraying ammo happily.

There aren't a lot of times when the Engineers have the right idea, but any Soldier will tell you that what this sort of situation needs is more gun.

Mad laughter and rockets for everyone!

The Pyro laughs evilly through the gas mask as the Medic hits the charge. The pair charge forward, glinting metallic red and spewing flames everywhere.

No quick dashes here, no disorienting run-bys. The Pyro knows they're invulnerable and is going to use that to the maximum advantage.

"Mphaphaphapha!"

"Sorry, that's my line!" is Mia's muffled call back to the RED Pyro before she sends him flying with an air blast.

Oh, son of a-

The Pyro goes flying backwards, nearly over and past the Medic. The shotgun gets switched out and the shells start flying immediately.

Up on the roof, the sentry has sighted its new target and launches four rockets and a spray of bullets.

Under the best of circumstances, an Uber lasts eight to ten seconds. The BLU Medic has been counting.

At the four second mark he shouts "Good to go!" and rams down his thumb on the ubercharge trigger. They might not be able to hurt that Pyro just yet, but they'll outlast him- and hopefully someone else will have the sense to resume pushing the cart forward in the meantime.

You might not be able to hurt the Heavy or the damned Medic, but they aren't the only BLUs on the field right now.

Clickety—boom! Clickety—boom!

Like that Pyro, for instance.

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