hands_of_blu | 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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From:

gorgonfondness

Aw, too bad about the Engineer, but Mia can still roast the RED Soldier that just came through the teleporter.

"How's the cart?" Mia mumbles towards the BLU Medic, hoping he heard and understood her.

From:

hands-of-blu.livejournal.com

"Almost to ze checkpoint!" exclaims the Medic, indicating the spot up ahead. "Ve haf but to put forth a little more effort und ze first stage is ours!"

From:

vance_prime

Unfortunately, that means that BLU Team is out of the shadow of the tunnel, and in Alyx's sights.

CRACK. CRACK. CRACK.

From:

crysomemore.livejournal.com

"Sniiiiiiperrrrrr!" bellows the Heavy, staying behind the cart.

From:

hands-of-blu.livejournal.com

Most of the people within range hear Heavy's bellow. The nearest BLU Engineer, however? Not so fortunate.

"Uggh!"

And there's one less Texan.

From:

vance_prime

Damn, all the BLUs are out of sight now. Hm. Maybe...

CRACK. Then, ptang! as the shot ricochets off of the fuselage of the bomb in the cart.

From:

hands-of-blu.livejournal.com

And does, alas for the sniper, absolutely nothing.

Which must be especially galling given the sudden ding! from the unseen speakers and the woman's voice announcing, "BLU has been awarded additional time."

Edited Date: 2009-04-20 04:11 am (UTC)

From:

vance_prime

Alas, BLU Team is too far away to hear the stream of invective Alyx just let out.

From:

uncloakndagger.livejournal.com

The door to the building next to the point rolls open, offering a new route. The tracks keep going straight before hanging a left around the corner.

Around the corner and down a ways most of RED waits. The Engineers have set up new sentries on the roof to the left, the track is lined with sticky bombs, and the Soliders, Heavies, and Pyros are just waiting for targets to show themselves.

They're not giving up this point without a fight.

From:

aleister_author

Tyler, like all sensible sorts, has managed to tuck himself behind one of the sentries. When things start happening?

Then is the time for cloaking and playing a round of 'pin the knife on the pyro' and hope your own side doesn't kill him with stray fire.

Sam is totally going to kill him over this.

From:

hands-of-blu.livejournal.com

"On it!" shouts a Bronx-accented voice from over the crest of the hill. The BLU Scout's completely unfazed by any RED presence up here, frankly. It'll be a miracle if the RED Sniper gets her gun around to face him in time, and in his experience, miracles tend to favor him.

That building's lookin' mighty fine right about now. He's aiming for a dead run through the ground floor to be followed by a bolt up the exterior staircase, at which point he gets to lay waste to the sentries on the roof with his bat. Of course, that all relies on him getting there alive, doesn't it?

From:

ostro_goth

Teja had been killed briefly, earlier, and now comes running from the respawn room, rocket launcher over his shoulder, eager to rejoin his team.

From:

vance_prime

Alyx's sniping experience has generally been against slow-moving targets which were incapable of knowing that they were being shot at. If she manages to hit the BLU Scout at all, it's purely by chance.

"Son of a--!"

From:

hands-of-blu.livejournal.com

Scout, we should note, is an inveterate show-off in addition to his supreme overconfidence. "Yeah, come get some, you frickin' wuss!" he shouts gleefully in the Sniper's direction. He's still running, a zigzag pattern back and forth designed to irritate anyone shooting at him into missing. "Who wants some of this!?"

From:

ostro_goth

Teja catches up with the other BLU fighters.

"Excuse my temporary death," he says. "There is somebody up there!"

He launches a rocket at the vague direction of where somebody had been shooting at his skinny comrade from.

From:

vance_prime

"Shit--!" Alyx ducks down out of sight, but she can feel the structure shake from the impact of that rocket.

She stands back up and fires at the Soldier. CRACK.

From:

ostro_goth

Teja is hit, but not mortally yet; he is trained to disregard such pain while fighting.

He shoots another rocket after the first.

From:

aleister_author

The stylishness of Tyler's borrowed tie is not immediately apparent, because he's invisible.

Also, coming up on the trigger rocket nut.

How sharp is Teja's hearing anyway? Those rockets have to do something in the way of covering noise for an approaching Spy.

From:

vance_prime

That rocket? She can't dodge.

KABOOM.

From:

ostro_goth

Are there sniper parts flying through the air? Teja peers at where his rocket hit.

It seems so. Good. One less.

He does not hear the spy, though.

From:

aleister_author

Stabity! goes the knife and Tyler takes off.

His disguise as a BLU spy reduces the number of automatic things trying to kill him.

Like that does much good.

From:

ostro_goth

Teja turns and sends a salvo from his shotgun after the fleeing spy; but then, the shot from the sniper and the stab together are too much for him, and he dies again.

All goes dark.-

From:

hands-of-blu.livejournal.com

"Ah, crap!" says the Scout, who happened to catch sight of the biggest slowpoke of the bunch slowing down. (Heavy doesn't count. The man might be a walking wall, but he can run pretty good for a fatty when he hasn't got that gun of his spun up.) "Hey! You! I'm gonna beat on your skull 'till I hit tonsils!"

There's a streak of blue and silver headed for the Spy. If it's a BLU spy for real and something went wrong, well, no harm done- the bat won't even touch him. If it's a disguise... tonsil time.

From:

aleister_author

Tyler's backpedaling, drawing his pistol and really looking for some supporting fire please.

...Damn. Lying vigorously it is.

"Zhe bastard cloaked on me! He's got to be here zomewhere!"

Oh, this is gonna to hurt.