The round began, Waypoints indicating the positions of the terminals to the palyers, with HUD's differing for the various classes appearing to them.
The mercs imbecilically stumbled aimlessly in their spawn, just in front of the B terminal, as the spies talked a game plan.
"Oh yeah," Gunnut began speaking to the mercs, "Despite this being a real life situation, you guys are being artificially made as uncomfortable while playing as you would be palying the actual game. In more ways than one, this will be a bit of a bother to you mercs."
"IN WHAT GAME IS HOLDING 'A' SPRINT?", Polar demanded from the nomad, too confused in the spy spawn.
"Splinter Cell Blacklist, silly, now, mercs, I suggest that you all get a move on before the spies hack something."
The mercs, befuddled, split up, SBS and Uprising went towards A while Sam and Tom went towards C. Clemi, one of the two Disruptor mercs, layed down a proximity mine directly on the B terminal, before running to catch up with Sam and Tom.
The spies had already gotten their ducks in a row, for the most part, Dion, MaNCHA, and Ranger all took the balcony on the South side of the zone A villa into the sector, Polar and YN had headed for C. There was minor fumbling, as looking over your own shoulder and having newfound parkour abilities can be disorienting.
Dion activated his Sonar goggles as he and his duo of comrades took a knee on the balcony, his goggles the only one's with enough range to see the entire sector from his position. The goggles revealed the positions of enemies, terminals, and pipes or vents from a long range.
"dis is blu as shet", The Predator Canadian said.
"Do you see anything?", Ranger asked Dion, he, a sabotuer spy, had EMF vision, capable of seeing enemy electronics and terminals, but at a shorter range than sonar. While the Predator spy had a cloak that rendered him invisible for a short time, the sabotuer had a "overcharge" pack, which could detonate mines and drones, as well as turn off lights and cameras for a time.
Dion spotted the mercs who came this way entering A, "Yeah, two mercs."
"If we meme memely enough, we can meme their throats," MaNCHA said, wickedly spinning his character's "karambit" knife in his hand.
"Alright, we can try.", Dion prepared his stun crossbow, which could render mercs helpless against melee attacks for up to four seconds at a time., "How do we go about it?"
"I can distract them," Ranger started, "you and MaNCHA take them out, and whoever's alive afterwards can start the hack."
"Got it," MaNCHA replied, and the three got into position. Ranger positioned himself by the upper floor ledge on the East wall of the villa. Dion took to the West-side ledge of the upper floor while MaNCHA went to the South, all of this happen in about five seconds.
The pair of mercs were conversing as they looked about around the A fountain.
"I have no idea how to play this." SBS said, hunched over under the weight of his drone.
"Just shoot stuff, I suppose, and hope they die.", Up responded.
"k"
Up nodded and turned towards the front exit of just as Ranger gave the cue to his freidns, sprinting off the upper floor to the ground below, sprinting clockwise around the fountain while activating his overcharge suit, overloading SBS' gear as he looked on, stunning him. Up was slow to react waht had happened, Ranger slipped effortlessly out of the North door to A.
MaNCHA had sprinted off of the top ledge as well, as SBS came out of his stunned state. SBS began firing his shotgun at his foe, who bob and weaved in a leisurely jog. Despite hitting the mark with his shotgun three times, SBS was cut down by stab-happy MaNCHA with ease.
Up had finally turned around after hearing the commotion. Firing at MaNCHA and not missing, the barely alive spy nto able to escape while in a melee with SBS, but, if nothing else, taking the merc with him.
Dion jumped onto the ledge he had been standing on all too late to save MaNCHA, but still managed to jump down onto Up, killed him with a drop kick to the back of the head.
Ranger jogged back into A as Dion initiated the hack.
In the white limbo that was the respawn screen, SBS complained to Gunnut, "Da fuck was that bullshit? I shot him, like, 18 times!"
"Technically, you shot him three times, and used five bullets. The shotguns in thi game are really inconsistent."
"Well, can I change my loadout?"
"In the actual game, yes. Here? Nah."
"Dammit. Well, se you lat--WAT, 20 second respawn?"
"Yep."
As all of this was going on, YN and Polar were dealing with the mercs at C.
"I see mercs," The Fellow of Yellow said, using his sonar to spot the enemies on the North side of C from the south-side building.
"what do we do," Polar asked, in as much panic as could be mustered in lowercase letters.
"TENTACLE MONSTER TIME", YN activated his cloak and jumped out of the window of the building, running ahead and taking cover on the bus that the C terminal was attached to. Sam and Tom had run into the area, the Peacemaker loadouts adrenaline shot coursing through their veins.
Tom, in the Shrek spirit o things, yelled, "IT'S ALL OGRE, BROOOOOOGRES" at the top of his lungs. The adrenaline probably was a factor in this.
Tom trailed behind Sam as the latter trotted towards the front of the bus, where YN was.
YN quickly sprinted out of cover towards Sam and cut him down with no resistance, his invisibility making him hard to beat for the Peacemaker, who can only see motion on a 2D radar. Unfortunately for YN, his cloak wore off in the middle of the melee anmation.
Jacked up on his adrenaline, Tom charged at YN. YN quickly aimed his stun-bow and hit Tom sqaure, but the effect of the bolt was cancelled out by the merc's active ability.
Stuck in a reload and visible, YN could only watch as Tom made use of the knife he and other mercs were issued.
Polarbore ahd gone around the truck's left side in an attempt to flank Tom. Just as he did this, however, Clemi had came in from the south street leading to B, seeing the spy, he opened fire, forcing Polar to take cover behind a crate of watermelons. Tom turned around hearing this ruckus.
Polar, in a panicked frenzy, activated his intel suit, created a red silohuette on the mercs near him, then peeking out of cover, shooting his SMG at Clemi. Clemi, unaware that spy guns are weak as hell, took refuge behind a dumpster in the alley. Polar didn't fire for long, however, as Tom, who he'd forgotten when seeign Clemi, ran up to the spy as he crouched behind the fruit stand, smashing his against it, tainting the watermelons, but saving his French teammate's life. The living mercs were then notified that a hack on A had started.
"Hey guys, whiel you were screwing around at C, the spies got a hack going on the terminal on the far side of the map. Good luck."
The mercs ran towards the villa, as Polar crawled towards his submachine gun, before bleeding out and fading into respawn.
At A, Dion, the hacker, had hidden himself in the back, East room of the Villa. Ranger, his only living ally, had clung to the wall jsut above the main entrance to A.
Tom outran Clemi by a decent margin, even with his adrenaline having worn off. He sprinted into A's main entrance, but was immediately dropped down onto by Ranger. Ranger quickly drew his karambit with his free hand around Tom's neck, and stabbed him in the spine.
Clemi saw this from outside and quickly fired at Ranger, knocking him back several feet, dead. Tearing up slightly at the unfortuante betrayal of the teabaguette team name, Clemi than activated his disruptor suit and ran into A.
In a few seconds, Most of those lost in the series of earlier scuffles had respawned. SBS and Uprising spawned on the main road near B, MaNCHA was brought in on his original spawn, Sam spawned in the garden, and Polar and YN spawned on the A balcony. SBS ran through the B garage into the yard near the North Entrance to A as Up ran innto the entrance to find the hacker. Meanwhile, MaNCHA sprinted into the main entrance to stir things up. He made a beeline towards the Northeast staircase by the villa's fountain. He and Up came face to face once again.
As Up fired his rifle, his own disruptor suit activated, Clemi turned around on the top floor, on the south wall, too seeing MaNCHA running about. The two mercs fired at MaNCHA, but couldn't stop him. An activation of his overcharge suit shutdown Clemi, leaving him unable to accurately fire from his positon. SBS, who had just deployed his drone outside, was caught in the overcharge radius, and his own drone's subsequent explosion, not having enough armor to survive explosions. Up continued to fire his weapon at MaNCHA, who did a baseball slide behind the merc, before simply stabbing him in the back.
"BACKSTAB MOTHERFUC--" MaNCHA began to recite a favorite saying, but, onc again low on health, was killed as Tom had respawned , and came in the West entrance to A, nearest B. Sam quickly caught up with Tom as he jacked adrenaline back into his veins, and the pair sprinted up the stairs, Tom saying numerous "ogre" puns along the way.
Clemi had moved towards the room where dion had hidden, but was attacked by the hacking spy from around a corner as he tried. Dion had slit the merc's throat, and then smacked his head against the wall. Dion then moved to take cover behind a couch as he saw Sam and Tom sprinting into his room via sonar vision.
Sam caught a glimpse of the hacker and began shooting that way. Dion came around the side of the couch Sam was not expecting, and in a stroke of luck, managed to hit him with a no-scope stun crossbow bolt. Sam did have adrenaline working for him, bu the slight stutter in his step that the stun caused was enough for Dion to slice through him like MLK Jr. sliced through segregation.
Tom had seen all of this from the adjacent room and ran, pistol in hand, towards Dion's room, but Dion, thinking quickly, ran forward and hung on a bookshelf, taking Tom off balance as he swung his pistol at the air, before being drop-kicked by Dion.
Polar and YN had been running in from the balcony while this went on. YN had posted up at the top of the staircase leading from the main entrance to the upper floor. Polar had gone to the ground level and took cover around acorner from the main entrance, hoping to ambush mercs with gunfire as they came in.
MaNCHA and Ranger soon respawned, as did the merc team in it's entirety. The spies spawned in the intial spy spawn once again.
Tom, Sam, and Uprising respawned in the Garden, Clemi and SBS spawned in B. At this point, the hack was at 64%, it wouldn't be long before it was complete.
In B, SBS asked Clemi to stay and cover him, "I don't want to get blown up again."
Clemi nodded, and SBS confidently reactivated his drone. Clemi stood by for a few seconds, but then simply put down a pair of proxy mines, one less than a foot from SBS, and went towards A.
Tom company meticulously creeping into A, Tom began to closely check the ledge above A's main entrance. Polar fired at him with his SMG, getting him down to around 2 "bars" of health. But Tom, with adrenaline, armor, and the SMGs' uselessness on his side, simply headshotted his foe.
In the respawn area, Polar was unhappy, "That was bullshit, I shot him."
Gunnut replied, "Yeah, like I said, the game's balance is all bent out of shape."
The three mercs then split up, Uprising going upstairs with Tom as Sam went down the hall where Polar was.
Clemi was promptly cut down by the invisible YellowNerd upstairs, but, going off of where his buddy's corpse layed, Tom shot him to death as well. Tom then sprinted down the hallway leading to the balcony, finding an attempt at an ambush by the two defending spies, Both attempted to use their overcharge suits to stun Tom, but Tom shot down MaNCHA with little difficulty, before swatting Ranger into a wall, dead, with an elbow to the forehead.
Sam had made a beeline towards Dion's room, but the invisible admin was unimpeded by the Peacemaker, cutting open his throat with ease.
Tom's adrenaline had just worn off as he made his way to Dion's room, this made him vulnerable as Dion charged him, confident that he'd get this hack, with it at 93%.
Another no-scope taze later, Dion ran forward and began the dirty work on the ogre, drawing his knife, keeping Tom's gun aiemd away from himself, and...
That's when SBS came in.
Having piloted his drone all arond the sector for as long as he did, SBS found Dion, the drone's auto-tagging software showing Dion in a bright red. And so, with the entire spy team dead, the mercs could sit idly by, perhaps teabagging and/or #shreking corpses in the time, knowing that the hack would reset to 0 before the spies could respawn. Somehow, they knew this, despite never playing this game before.
After their failure of a hack, the spies never recovered. The mercs fortified the sectors and left no chance to the spies. When one merc died, another quickly avenged them, and few mercs did die. At the end of the ten-minute first round , the scores were as follows:
Tom: 29 Kills - 3 Deaths
Sam: 13 - 8
Clemi: 5 - 5
SBS: 9 - 7
Uprising: 2 - 13
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MaNCHA: 17 - 6
Dion: 11 - 7
YN: 10 - 9
Ranger: 4 - 8
Polar: 3 - 14
As the round ended, Gunnut let it be known, "Alright, guys, time to switch it up. Team 1 will be mercs, and vice versa. No questions will be taken, let's just get this over with."
"Can I go to the bathroom?", A fully costumized Dildnose asked in the inter-round.
"no fapping"