Glimmer Fortress
Chapter 5: Operation Teufort
Previous Chapter Next ChapterBLU were all gatehred in the Intel room, all regailing in the tale of Starlight being shivved in the arm by the RED Spy.
"Honestly Starlight, can't believe that Spy disguised himself as me, Musta been the lack of handsomeness that tipped you off, eh?" Scout jokingly asked, being on the opposite end of Starlight so he couldn't be punched in the stomach.
"It was the lack of a mackeral, actually. Stll though, why didn't he stab me in the back when he had the chance?" Starlight pondered.
"While normally I would chalk it up to Red's clear lack of competence, I don't it's the case for their Spy." The BLU Spy, decked out in a classic noir detective outfit, answered. "We don't know what repercussions will become of this."
"I say we strike." the largest man in the room gruffly stated. He was wearing a jacket with a fist emblem proudly upon it, and a classic buzzcut hairstyle with sunglasses. Also he had camouflage patterned pants on for some reason. "They'll be too busy planning to anticipate an assault. Plus they know of Starlight now, they could use this against us."
"Sound reasoning, Heavy." Solider replied. "Alright, here's the plan. Medic, Heavy and Demoman, you take the front entrance and cause a distraction. Scout and Starlight, you two go on ahead and report on any strange goings on. You all have your radios, correct?"
A resounding "Yes!" filled the room.
"Then we're ready. Let's go!"
"Come on Engineer, we don't have much time!" Scout said impatiently. "Those BLU idiots will attack us at any minute!"
Engineer sighed in frustration. Reverse engineering a portal based on some blood was really taking a toll. He was about to reply when it opened up.
A teenage girl stepped through, confused.
"Hey, do you know a person named Starlight Glimmer?"
Starlight watched as the Demoman, garbed in blastproof armor head to toe, fired several spiked bombs that stuck to the locked entrance of the RED base. Without saying a word, he stepped back onto the rickety old wooden bridge that connected the two bases, and detonated them, causing a large explosion that shook the landscape.
"Aight, that's my job done, time ta drink!" He slurred in his Scotish accent before pulling a bottle of whiskey out of nowhere and drinking it THROUGH his mask... somehow.
Starlight and Scout were already in the base, running down the hallway when the RED Scout popped out.
BAM! Scattergun to the leg, as he collapses in pain! CRACK! Starlight mercilessly kneeing him in the face, knocking him out cold. SLAP! As the two high-fived.
"Not bad, Starlight. But let me show you how a real man does it." he boasted, before both lanky mercernaries scaled the stairs, in the path of a strange masked man, covered in Red.
"Uhhh." Starlight stared.
"Run." Scout said timidly, all confidence being drained as they ran back out of the spawn room before a similar masked person, garbed in blue and wearing a fireman's outfit with a mask that looked like it had been taken from a fumigator showed up and blasted the red garbed psycho path with a puff of air from their flamethrower (Which had a head of a robot dangling from the bottom of it.), before shooting the pair a thumbs up and mumbling something incomprehensible. They then ran off after the other Pyro, muffled screams of pain coming from around the corner.
"Well then." Starlight stated, unsure of what to say. "That happened."
"Yeah." Solider's voice piqued their interest as they turned around. Sadly, he was the RED one and he was holding a shotgun, primed to fire it at them. "Surrender now maggots and you will be harmed!"
"Isn't it supposed to be an "not" in there?" Scout asked.
Solider shrugged. The sound of a minigun spinning up alerted the three, before Solider was filled with a hail of bullets. Below the walkways was the BLU Heavy, with the masked Medic right behind him. From the looks of things, they had been through some trouble themselves. Heavy's various bullet wounds were disappearing at a steady rate, though.
"Ah, Starlight! How's ze wound healing up?" Medic asked, as innocent as if asking how the weather was,
Starlight took a look at her left arm. There was a wound there, but it was shrinking. "Eh, alright."
Medic shot a thumbs up. "Now go! We'll hold zem off until you grab their intelligence!" Medic commanded politely, while Heavy still had his minigun spun up, ready to fire at a moment's notice.
The pair sprinted down the stairs leading to the RED basement. As they reached the hallway, Scout cupped his ear. "Huh, no sentry? Usually there's a sen-"
This line of thought was cut off, as the RED Spy stabbed him in the back, causing him to collapse to the ground in agony. "Once again, your arrogance is only matched by your stupidity." He spat venomously before turning to Starlight with a sadistic grin. "Now for you, mon chere."
He was rewarded with a fish to the back of the head, which distracted him long enough for Starlight to grab Scout's autumn patterned Scattergun and aim straight for his back, causing every single pellet to dig right into his back, making him collapse in pain and agony, just like Scout did.
With the way clear, Starlight could now see her saviour. A young woman with a similar design as her, with a long blouse adorned with a jacket, and streaky red and orange hair.
It was none other than Sunset Shimmer.
"Hi."
"Hey." Starlight meekly replied, before heading into the RED Intelligence room for real, her human friend in tow.
"So, I've been in this world for 5 minutes. Is there a reason why everyone in red clothing is a psychopath?" Sunset questioned.
Starlight gave a shrug. "Honestly, this world is weird. The guys on BLU are pretty alright though."
"Yeah, I saw this big guy and asked him where you were and he pointed to here. Didn't even ask me if I was a friend or not, since he was too busy shooting a slightly smaller guy in a helmet?" Sunset admitted. "Again, very confused."
"It's alright. Being a mercenary is fun, actually. You get to meet nice people before shooting them in the face!"
Starlight picked up the intelligence briefcase and alarms went off. "Enough chit-chat!" She reached into her backpack and tossed Sunset the pistol that had mysteriously appeared in her backpack when she first arrived. "Take this, shoot any guys dressed in red and have fun!" before taking off,
"Huh, this reminds me of the pistol I had at home." Sunset pondered for a moment. She then followed suit.
Spy respawned. He found Engineer and Medic waiting for him, again. The alarms were ringing and the screams of dying men echoed beyond the entrance to the spawn room.
"Well, I didn't expect that." He noted bitterly. Engineer just had his head in his hands.
"How was I supposed to know they were friends? As soon I gave her a gun, she turned around and shot me point blank with it."
"Honestly, maybe we should have lied about ze whole murder thing and just ask her to defend our intellegence." Medic forlornly said, thoroughly dazed after Sunset beat him to death with the shotgun when it ran out of ammunition.
"Well, this was a huge waste of my time." Spy noted, placing a cigarette in his mouth which ignited itself. "It's time for Plan G, I feel..."
Next Chapter: The Traitor's Fee Estimated time remaining: 26 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Oooh, stuff's heating up now! We got Sunset joining Starlight in her mass murder adventure, finally some battling between RED and BLU and some intrigue into why Spy did what he did in the first place. But what is Plan G? Will Starlight and Sunset be able to capture the intelligence? Will Sunset find the NSFW pictures of Trixie?
All this and more on the next episode of DRAGON BALL Z!... I mean GLIMMER FORTRESS!