Dawn of Champions [IC Thread]

[Skyhooked]

While the ice spike managed to narrowly missed Medic, he was alarmed as he looked over around for the assailant, having Stan in his sights as the perpetrator. In a desperate attempt he returned fire with his syringe gun, needles filled with executioner wasp venom, panicking as he did so. After Pyro and Heavy were done, the Medic's screaming put them on high alert. A couple of the shots got Medic in his right arm, causing him to yelp in pain as Heavy yelled for his "DOKTOR!", surveying the area with his minigun while Medic regenerated.

Meanwhile, as Bjorn laid on the ground, the Demoman strided over, his grenade launcher in one hand, and his sword in the other, not knowing of Seth. "Oh, once I'm done wit' you, lad, they're gonna have to call you Torbjorn of Steel, because you'll be well bloody broken." He said as he went to thrust down with his Eyelander sword.

Before he made it with a wound in shoulder, Stan also caught a few syringes, one of which hit his hat and didn't cause him any harm. Although, he felt slight weakness from poison, it would take much more to take Dixon down. Infuriated by that, he quickly threw another ice spike at medic, before completely disappearing in cover.

Meanwhile, Bjorn had almost regained his footing, when Demoman taunted and lunged at him with thrust of his sword. Bjorn easily parried his attack with his viking sword, like he did at least thousand times during his past and then tried to quickly slash his arm. He fought many belligerent drunk before. Both angried commoners and nobles, who duelled him.This is his response to taunt: -"With an attack like this, you'll only break your bones and pride, one eyed pict."

And Seth didn't sleep either. Yes, he was hit in the leg, but luckily an armor pad saved him from large part of damage, so he was able to stand, and shoot a burst at Demoman, while he was distracted by immortal viking.

[The Rapture Republic]

”Attention! Second Gaters! Blackwell has released the Swarm! You have to destroy four communication towers to end the attack by destroying these towers guarded by automated ion and anti-air turrets! Be careful or don’t!” Announced, the Chancellor from the intercom, ending with robotic hysterical laughter.


Buzzz! BEEEZZZZ! BUZZZ. Roared the Scraplets mounting in the thousands amongst thousands emerging directly behind Astre, as the gateway was devoured by these nanobots in a capable of minutes, starting to self-replicated. How they would devour an individual is that they would embed themselves deep into the living being and eat them from the inside out, while releasing an unknown substance to keep the individual alive, while they are being devoured from the inside out. The victim is only lucky enough to immediately amputate themselves if the Scraplets have entered from the arm or leg. Anywhere else means an agonizing death and escape impossible. The swarm shot at Astre at fast speeds breaking into a v formation to trap the prey from escaping them as they begin the consumption. Turrets targeted the Shadow legionnaires opening fire at full strength, as the communication towers were located at far ends of the mining station surrounded by an aqueduct of lava.

[The Chuck]

Erika took it and swung intp the saddle with a practiced ease.
"The name's Erika. You might want to put on an extra gas mask, if you have one, by the way."

Shrugging Daniel undid his bandana and spat into it. Tying the now damp bandana over his face he nudged Bonnie and they set off back towards his camp in the volcanic lands. As they rode he spoke while keeping an eye out for any other competitors,

"Pleasure to meetcha Erika, name's Daniel. So what's your story?"

Hopefully the six clowns he killed would result in some equipment to help him face down the others. He didn't say anything as he rode but the lady who introduced herself as Erika reminded him a bit like his daughter he had left behind in Orange Creek. He hoped that she was doing well but he didn't worry too much since when he disappeared she had gotten married a couple weeks before and her husband was a good man who would help take care of her and Mrs. Clay in his absence. As he rode with Erika he also hoped that she wouldn't try to back stab him since she was behind him. Although he knew that if she tried that, Bonnie would buck and send her flying. As they headed in the direction of the second gate and Daniel's camp they heard the announcement from VictorNet about the swarm. Immediately Daniel pulled back on the reins and looked at Erika.

"So... should we continue or what?"

[Cossack Khanate]

The sniper bullet hit Via in the shoulder, and she fell to the ground, luckily hidden behind a rock.

...

Kirve's vision exploded with a crash s Scout's bat smashed him straight in the face. Immediately, Kirve charged up, grabbing Scout's bat and sending an electric charge through it. Scout dropped the bat in pain, burns on his hands. In blind rage, Kirve smashed the side of Scouts face with the bat, shocking scout again. Krive dropped the bat and fired six times into Scouts chest, and then stepped over his body.

...

Veil noticed the flying soldier, and leaped onto the next roof just in time to avoid being blasted to bits by a rocket. soldier landed on a roof, readying up his launher again

...

[Veise]

Beyond the Second Gate
Astre took a couple steps back as the swarm emerged. Finding that they were fast, but luckily subsonic, Astre vanished, and the swarm made impact with only the floor that once held up the prince. The legendary swordsman reappeared mid-air outside of the swarm's assault, and kicked his flight gear on. It was somewhat slow to warm up, taking a second or two, but possessed mind-bending strength once it was finished. The prince let his arms dangle behind him as he, a wholly cloaked figure, careened towards the farthest turret in hopes that the closer ones would keep attacking the Legionnaires. He slingshotted himself with his grappling hooks and achieved a mighty cruising speed of one hundred miles per hour, and made his approach.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Erika shook her head. "I don't like the sound of this "Swarm." As for where I come from... You first."

[The Rapture Republic]

While Scout struck Kyle with his bat, this consequentially left him open for an attack as Patient X charged at him at supersonic speeds tackling him at his backside with his body submerged with a poisonous substance that is a combination various notable nerve gas and hit with causing flesh melting burns to occur with X forcing a dragger into his side, while trying to kept a grab on him to prevent escape and a merciful slow death.

[The Chuck]

Erika shook her head. "I don't like the sound of this "Swarm.""
She dismounted. "As for where I come from... You first."

Chuckling as she dismounted from Bonnie, Daniel responded,

"So be it lassie, my name is Daniel Clay, I was born in the town of Orange Creek, The Chuck in 1848 and lived most of my life as a cattle rancher and farmer. One day in 1897 I was herding my cattle across the prairies and encountered a queer (strange) ripple in the air. When I touched it to investigate what it was I was sucked through it and now here I am. Your turn."

Since Erika had dismounted he also slipped off of Bonnie. Although Daniel had left most of his gear back at his camp he still had some food and basic materials in the saddle bags that he had brought with them. Opening one saddle bag he pulled out a booklet of matches and gathered some wood. Striking a match he lit a small fire and opened a pack where he had some raw meat that he put on a stick and stuck into the ground over the little fire. After getting the food cooking he opened one saddle bag full of oats and attached it to the bridle on Bonnie to let her eat. As they waited for the meat to cook he also grabbed a water skin wiped down Bonnie's nose in case any toxins had started to gather. After finishing taking care of his horse he offered the water skin to Erika.

"Have some water if you want. Also, I hope you don't mind if I play some harmonica. It's a little reminder of the many nights I spent out on the range driving cattle."

With that Daniel pulled out a harmonica from his shit pocket and started playing some songs. As he played his harmonica the sound was carried across the volcanic sands to where the other contestants could hear the song wafting through the air if it was quiet near them.

[The Rapture Republic]

Beyond the Second Gate
Astre took a couple steps back as the swarm emerged. Finding that they were fast, but luckily subsonic, Astre vanished, and the swarm made impact with only the floor that once held up the prince. The legendary swordsman reappeared mid-air outside of the swarm's assault, and kicked his flight gear on. It was somewhat slow to warm up, taking a second or two, but possessed mind-bending strength once it was finished. The prince let his arms dangle behind him as he, a wholly cloaked figure, careened towards the farthest turret in hopes that the closer ones would keep attacking the Legionnaires. He slingshotted himself with his grappling hooks and achieved a mighty cruising speed of one hundred miles per hour, and made his approach.

The Swarm rushed at the ill-equipped legionaries parading around them like wolves with cattle preparing for a bloody attack. Suddenly, a splash of a second swarm emerged at supersonic from s pond of magma and that dangling arm would be caught in the swarm, slicing upwards before making sharp drive at even more incredible speeds. Caught up in this dark movement, the farthest turret activated and blasted a volley at Astre.

Slow motion awesomeness activate!

[Greater South]

While the ice spike managed to narrowly missed Medic, he was alarmed as he looked over around for the assailant, having Stan in his sights as the perpetrator. In a desperate attempt he returned fire with his syringe gun, needles filled with executioner wasp venom, panicking as he did so. After Pyro and Heavy were done, the Medic's screaming put them on high alert. A couple of the shots got Medic in his right arm, causing him to yelp in pain as Heavy yelled for his "DOKTOR!", surveying the area with his minigun while Medic regenerated.

Meanwhile, as Bjorn laid on the ground, the Demoman strided over, his grenade launcher in one hand, and his sword in the other, not knowing of Seth. "Oh, once I'm done wit' you, lad, they're gonna have to call you Torbjorn of Steel, because you'll be well bloody broken." He said as he went to thrust down with his Eyelander sword.

Before he made it with a wound in shoulder, Stan also caught a few syringes, one of which hit his hat and didn't cause him any harm. Although, he felt slight weakness from poison, it would take much more to take Dixon down. Infuriated by that, he quickly threw another ice spike at medic, before completely disappearing in cover.

Meanwhile, Bjorn had almost regained his footing, when Demoman taunted and lunged at him with thrust of his sword. Bjorn easily parried his attack with his viking sword, like he did at least thousand times during his past and then tried to quickly slash his arm. He fought many belligerent drunk before. Both angried commoners and nobles, who duelled him.This is his response to taunt: -"With an attack like this, you'll only break your bones and pride, one eyed pict."

And Seth didn't sleep either. Yes, he was hit in the leg, but luckily an armor pad saved him from large part of damage, so he was able to stand, and shoot a burst at Demoman, while he was distracted by immortal viking.

The Medic wasn't able to avoid the second icicle as it hit his upper arm, causing him once again to yelp in pain with a brief 'scweinhund' coming from his lips as they ran off looking around, Medic tailing them both.

Meanwhile, the Demo, while surprised by his willingness to duel, was not deterred as he attemped to block off the slash with his shield that was attached to his forearm before he swung it to the side and attempted to swing it downward into Bjorn's shoulder as he backed off a little, knowing he had the range advantag with the longsword. The burst shot by Seth, however, did deterr him a little, despite the bullets being stopped by his thick chest armour.

This also caught the attention of the Sniper who, in desperation, went to fire a shot or two at Seth. Scout had already been killed by Kirve, which was announced through notifiers planted inside their ears. Luckily, Scout had his respawn back in the Greater South, leaving him a bit shook, but still contempt as he laid back in the base, turning on the TV to watch the rest of the tournament while eating a bucket of chicken.

[Veise]

The Swarm rushed at the ill-equipped legionaries parading around them like wolves with cattle preparing for a bloody attack. Suddenly, a splash of a second swarm emerged at supersonic from s pond of magma and that dangling arm would be caught in the swarm, slicing upwards before making sharp drive at even more incredible speeds. Caught up in this dark movement, the farthest turret activated and blasted a volley at Astre.

Slow motion awesomeness activate!

Truthfully, the Prince's specialty was avoiding subsonic blows.
The Prince's eyes widened as he found himself snatched by the swarm. He grit his teeth as he was then forced to make a quick decision, faster than any other person could. He saw the turret activate, and spontaneously a burst of negative energy emerged from his assailed arm, blasting the swarm off of him. His arm was, needless to say, covered in minor lacerations*, and his skin gained an odd and quite literal redness. Blood poured from the wounds with a very abnormally high pressure.

His body now freed, he -- within a slow motion perspective -- took a hard rolling maneuver that brought him several meters out of the way. Noting that the turret could fire again momentarily and that the swarm could strike again, Astre shot a grappling hook out at the turret's hull, and made his move in with blinding speed to eliminate his target.

*Astre's weakness was listed as low durability, yes, but it's more like 'despite his remarkable physical strength and speed he still can't tank everything'.

[Skyhooked]

The Medic wasn't able to avoid the second icicle as it hit his upper arm, causing him once again to yelp in pain with a brief 'scweinhund' coming from his lips as they ran off looking around, Medic tailing them both.

Meanwhile, the Demo, while surprised by his willingness to duel, was not deterred as he attemped to block off the slash with his shield that was attached to his forearm before he swung it to the side and attempted to swing it downward into Bjorn's shoulder as he backed off a little, knowing he had the range advantag with the longsword. The burst shot by Seth, however, did deterr him a little, despite the bullets being stopped by his thick chest armour.

This also caught the attention of the Sniper who, in desperation, went to fire a shot or two at Seth. Scout had already been killed by Kirve, which was announced through notifiers planted inside their ears. Luckily, Scout had his respawn back in the Greater South, leaving him a bit shook, but still contempt as he laid back in the base, turning on the TV to watch the rest of the tournament while eating a bucket of chicken.

That Seth's burst despite not being lethal or particulary harmful to Demoman, did stagger him for a split second. For a warrior like Bjorn, that was more than enough to use the momentum, and after dodging the shield bash, he jumped at Demoman, and attempted to slash one of his legs and then punch him. If it fails, at least, he will shorten the distance and render Demo's longsword much less useful.

Meanwhile, after few failed attempts on medic, Stan pulled out the syringes, drank some whiskey from his other flask, and made another attempt. He was hellbent on taking down such a valuable member of hostile team and getting his valuable healing gun.

He peeked out of his cover and saw, that Pyro and Heavy were watching Medic better than tourist his purse. It wasn't possible to fire a deadly shot at him, so he picked another target. It was Pyro. Not exactly the deluded arsonist himself, but his flamethrower. Stan switched to his winchester, and fired three precision shots at the gas tank, after that, he fired another ice spike, but this time at Heavy, aiming for his leg, and then hid behind the corner, and ran behind other crates, waiting for his mana to restore.

Meanwhile, Seth was hit in his leg and fell down from the pain. In revenge, he fired a long burst from his assault rifle at Sniper. As for John Walker and Casey James, they looked at the window of the building, and rushed to help Seth.

[The Rapture Republic]

The Swarm rushed at the ill-equipped legionaries parading around them like wolves with cattle preparing for a bloody attack. Suddenly, a splash of a second swarm emerged at supersonic from s pond of magma and that dangling arm would be caught in the swarm, slicing upwards before making sharp drive at even more incredible speeds. Caught up in this dark movement, the farthest turret activated and blasted a volley at Astre.

Slow motion awesomeness activate!

Truthfully, the Prince's specialty was avoiding subsonic blows.
The Prince's eyes widened as he found himself snatched by the swarm. He grit his teeth as he was then forced to make a quick decision, faster than any other person could. He saw the turret activate, and spontaneously a burst of negative energy emerged from his assailed arm, blasting the swarm off of him. His arm was, needless to say, covered in minor lacerations*, and his skin gained an odd and quite literal redness. Blood poured from the wounds with a very abnormally high pressure.

His body now freed, he -- within a slow motion perspective -- took a hard rolling maneuver that brought him several meters out of the way. Noting that the turret could fire again momentarily and that the swarm could strike again, Astre shot a grappling hook out at the turret's hull, and made his move in with blinding speed to eliminate his target.

*Astre's weakness was listed as low durability, yes, but it's more like 'despite his remarkable physical strength and speed he still can't tank everything'.

The Swarm scattered and started to regroup in daring preparation to strike once more at Astre, the nanites instantaneously went berserk and entered into spiraling state they would not lose their fleshling target again until all the communication towers were eliminated, effectively shutting them down. It would be long minute before the swarm fastily turned into four smaller collectives of itself — with the first Swarm darting at Astre as the other three would twirl around the communication tower acting as a mechanized shield.


Patient X, disappointed this was an assisted kill. He stood up from his feet back into his humanoid form and looked at Kyle with a frown.”Chancellor will soon be announcing you and your friends to return to the Lobby. This would be good decision to take a break there, before you have to face my brother alongside everyone else.” He said, turning his head and heading towards the direction of Stan Dixon. ”You’re getting weak, old man. My brother was getting stronger to face you in battle yet it seems you’ve been getting weaker. Heh. I’m starting to doubt all this bagging about defeating us was fictional.” X, mocked with grin across his cheek.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Erika nodded. "I see. Erika von Scharnhorst. Born in Pomerania in...can't remember, to a Dancerian named Aceus and my half-Irish mother. Dancerian had to leave, mother enlisted in Reichswehr, married, and after a series of complicated shennanigans, mother and adoptive pap die and uncle, now King of Prussia and Poland, takes me in. At 8 I run away and begin killing communists. One day notice weird air wrinkle, I touch it and get sucked in."
She accepted the canteen, took off her mask, and took a sip.
She waited until he was done playing, and when he was, she began to sing.

[Veise]

The Prince analyzed his enemy. The swarm was going for him. They swarm was protecting his target. He had to eliminate this target. So he would.

Predicting the swarm's attack, he narrowly dodged and dived under the turret. There was a flash of light, and the turret and its foundation found itself severed from the rest of the tower. The grey blur that was Astre dived straight down and sent a grapple into the tower and let the gas-boosted momentum of it rocket-launch him high out of the oncoming swarm. He checked within the span of an instant as to whether or not the tower was disabled and planned his next action accordingly.

[The Chuck]

Erika nodded. "I see. Erika von Scharnhorst. Born in Pomerania in...can't remember, to a Dancerian named Aceus and my half-Irish mother. Dancerian had to leave, mother enlisted in Reichswehr, married, and after a series of complicated shennanigans, mother and adoptive pap die and uncle, now King of Prussia and Poland, takes me in. At 8 I run away and begin killing communists. One day notice weird air wrinkle, I touch it and get sucked in."
She accepted the canteen, took off her mask, and took a sip.
She waited until he was done playing, and when he was, she began to sing.

Once Erika was finished with her song Daniel checked the cooking meat and handed her a skewer. Once they ate in silence he packed up everything and helped her back onto Bonnie before swinging himself up and continuing the journey to his base camp. As they approached they saw the demi-god man fighting the swarms above them while dealing with the turrets. When they were about five hundred yards from Daniel's camp he stopped Bonnie and spoke,

"If we try to get to my camp together I believe those mites might try and attack us and we won't survive. However, if you stay here I can rush in and grab my gear and get out quickly. I have some stuff I need to grab from the bags I left in my camp."

With that Daniel helped Erika down with her weapons and started riding towards his camp area near the volcanic pond. As he approached he nudged Bonnie with his spurs sending her into a fast gallop towards his camp. As he neared to within 50 yards of his camp a swarm of the scraplets split off from attacking the one man and headed for Daniel. As Bonnie galloped through his camp at full pace, Daniel swapped to a side saddle stance and put all of his weight on one stirrup as he knelt down and grabbed his saddle bags as they flew past with one hand. Righting himself he got back into a comfortable position and urged Bonnie back towards Erika. At this point the scraplets were closing in fast. As they started to descend around Daniel and Bonnie he opened one bag and pulled out a stick of dynamite. Grasping Bonnie's reins in his teeth he lit one of the sticks of dynamite and counted down before tossing it behind him. With a mighty blast the dynamite detonated and destroyed most of the scraplets chasing him. Unfortunately two managed to reach him and started to burrow in. As they burrowed, Daniel rapidly unsheathed his bowie knife and used it to cut open his skin on his arm and leg and dig them out. One of them was barely under his skin but the one on his leg managed to get a good ways in and when he removed it with his knife he knew he wouldn't be able to put much weight on it. Once he reached Erika he tried to dismount and immediately tumbled to the ground due to his leg not being able to support his weight. Groaning in pain he grabbed a flask of alcohol and poured some into the wounds to disinfect them before taking a swig.

[Polish Prussian Commonwealth]

Erika took out her medkit and began to swab the wound with medical alcohol, before tying a clean rag around it. "They really did a number on you, eh?"

[The Chuck]

Erika took out her medkit and began to swab the wound with medical alcohol, before tying a clean rag around it. "They really did a number on you, eh?"

Groaning in pain as the alcohol hit his wounds Daniel muttered,

"So much for making it out of here in one piece. Once you're done, help me back up on Bonnie, we can't keep running or VictorNet will send something worse after us. I also wonder if anyone is back at the staging area with the multiple portals. It might be good to head that direction since many of the other competitors are busy with others or the nuisances that VictorNet spawned."

Clambering up onto Bonnie he mounted himself and smiled. Although he couldn't put much weight on his legs he still had Bonnie and was able to ride decently comfortable. Once they were ready they started off towards the original staging area where they had started. Unfortunately to get there they would have either skirt around or go through the loading bay area where there was still intense fighting.

[The Legion of the Shadow]

As the swarm attacked the Legionaries, they swore and killed some, but being underequipped for fighting them they raised their shield and rushed one of the towers, fighting the Swarm and taking hits. Johamma smashed her hammer into the ground, causing a small earthquake, killing some of the swarm in the process.

[Greater South]

The Medic wasn't able to avoid the second icicle as it hit his upper arm, causing him once again to yelp in pain with a brief 'scweinhund' coming from his lips as they ran off looking around, Medic tailing them both.

Meanwhile, the Demo, while surprised by his willingness to duel, was not deterred as he attemped to block off the slash with his shield that was attached to his forearm before he swung it to the side and attempted to swing it downward into Bjorn's shoulder as he backed off a little, knowing he had the range advantag with the longsword. The burst shot by Seth, however, did deterr him a little, despite the bullets being stopped by his thick chest armour.

This also caught the attention of the Sniper who, in desperation, went to fire a shot or two at Seth. Scout had already been killed by Kirve, which was announced through notifiers planted inside their ears. Luckily, Scout had his respawn back in the Greater South, leaving him a bit shook, but still contempt as he laid back in the base, turning on the TV to watch the rest of the tournament while eating a bucket of chicken.

That Seth's burst despite not being lethal or particulary harmful to Demoman, did stagger him for a split second. For a warrior like Bjorn, that was more than enough to use the momentum, and after dodging the shield bash, he jumped at Demoman, and attempted to slash one of his legs and then punch him. If it fails, at least, he will shorten the distance and render Demo's longsword much less useful.

Meanwhile, after few failed attempts on medic, Stan pulled out the syringes, drank some whiskey from his other flask, and made another attempt. He was hellbent on taking down such a valuable member of hostile team and getting his valuable healing gun.

He peeked out of his cover and saw, that Pyro and Heavy were watching Medic better than tourist his purse. It wasn't possible to fire a deadly shot at him, so he picked another target. It was Pyro. Not exactly the deluded arsonist himself, but his flamethrower. Stan switched to his winchester, and fired three precision shots at the gas tank, after that, he fired another ice spike, but this time at Heavy, aiming for his leg, and then hid behind the corner, and ran behind other crates, waiting for his mana to restore.

Meanwhile, Seth was hit in his leg and fell down from the pain. In revenge, he fired a long burst from his assault rifle at Sniper. As for John Walker and Casey James, they looked at the window of the building, and rushed to help Seth.

As Bjorn slashed at Demoman's leg, he only managed to make a painful yet modestly bearable cut on Demoman's thigh, causing him to shout out in pain as he staggered back, catching Bjorn's punch in his hand as he then dropped his sword and instead raised Bjorn's sword-wielding hand as he took his glass bottle of whiskey out and attempted to smash it on Bjorn's head.

Seth's shots managed to put one dent in Pyro's tank, but punctured through and caused flammable, pressurised substance to spray in random directions. Medic went to rush over with some duct tape to patch up the tank as it sprayed everywhere, leaving him exposed for a moment, while the icicle fired by Stan had cripped Heavy for the moment, the big Russian yanking it out and crushing it in one of his hands as he laid on the ground, disabled and waiting for Medic. This would've been an oppurtune time for Stan, if it weren't for the fact that, unbeknownst to him, Spy was waiting behind his cover, ready to uncloak and dispatch him with his knife and use his revolver for any backup that might ensue, once Stan was distracted with his back facing away from him.

Meanwhile, as Demoman and Bjorn fought hand-to-hand, Sniper was preoccupied with Seth, as shots from his assault rifle had grazed his arm one or so, the Sniper hissing in pain before nodding to Engineer as he moved his mobile sentry forward, the automaton locking onto Seth as it fired

[Skyhooked]

Seth's painful wound in leg slowed him down during his rush towards the crates, where he can find cover and watch Stan Dixon, so he ended up exposed to Engineer's sentry fire and caught three bullets. Two of them didn't cause much damage, as they hit thicker parts of armor, but the third one caused him moderate pain and slight bleeding in his other leg, slowing him even further. He still can try to run though, and he does... towards Heavy's screams, looking for Stan Dixon. He attempts to get to Stan at a half of his speed, with no one watching his back. A tempting target... especially for a neaby creepy knife wielding french. (Pyro's tank was shot by Stan, not Seth)

Meanwhile, Stan didn't even suspect the spy's plot, which may or may not be his doom, and proceeded with his plan. But instead of taking down Heavy, Medic and Pyro with careful shots from winchester, he decided to go all cowboy and strike for sure, while the enemies are weakened, so he took our his revolver, and rushed towards Medic. As soon as he reaches the optima distance, he dashes and quickly, right from the hip, shoots two bullets at Medic, two and Heavy and two at Pyro. From pretty close distance. Then he turns around and uses his remaining mana to fire a jet of ice from his hand, just to make sure, that the targets won't fire back.

As for Bjorn, he took the hit to his head, which staggered him but didn't knock him out. During his life, many bottles were rushed on his head... especially in earlier periods. But at least, he swiftly released his right hand from the grip, and tried to stab Demo's torso, hoping, that thick armor is a little bit weaker on it's sides, than on back and front. Bjorn's sword is not exactly a short sword like gladuis, but it's short enough to let him do so.

As for Casey and John Walkler AI, they still had to make it to Seth, Bjorn and Stan. Despite rusing as fast as they can, they had a pretty long way to go. Until they arrive, they are pretty useless in this situation. Hopefully, they can arrive faster than Patient X.

[Greater South]

Seth's painful wound in leg slowed him down during his rush towards the crates, where he can find cover and watch Stan Dixon, so he ended up exposed to Engineer's sentry fire and caught three bullets. Two of them didn't cause much damage, as they hit thicker parts of armor, but the third one caused him moderate pain and slight bleeding in his other leg, slowing him even further. He still can try to run though, and he does... towards Heavy's screams, looking for Stan Dixon. He attempts to get to Stan at a half of his speed, with no one watching his back. A tempting target...

Meanwhile, Stan didn't even suspect the spy's plot, which may or may not be his doom, and proceeded with his plan. But instead of taking down Heavy, Medic and Pyro with careful shots from winchester, he decided to go all cowboy and strike for sure, while the enemies are weakened, so he took our his revolver, and rushed towards Medic. As soon as he reaches the optima distance, he dashes and quickly, right from the hip, shoots two bullets at Medic, two and Heavy and two at Pyro. From pretty close distance. Then he turns around and uses his remaining mana to fire a jet of ice from his hand, just to make sure, that the targets won't fire back.

As for Bjorn, he took the hit to his head, which staggered him but didn't knock him out. During his life, many bottles were rushed on his head... especially in earlier periods.

As the Soldier was done chasing after Veil, knewing he had full coverage from the Engineer, he looked for another man to pick; the wounded Seth. Seeing him through his cover of crates, he decided to pull out his rocket launcher as he ran up and rocket jumped across sections of crates, before landing and rolling himself near Seth as he pulled out his shotgun and started firing at him while advancing.

Meanwhile, Stan managed to make the distance as the Spy followed suit, the cowboy managing to get 2 of his shots on the Pyro into his torso, and one on the Medic that went through his arm. Before he could fire away any more though, the Spy uncloaked as he grabbed Seth from behind and held his arm around his neck as he attempted to plunge his knife into his back, turning him away from the crew for the moment. Pyro was left bleeding on the ground alongside Medic, and as Heavy looked away from Medic and saw the struggle, he decided to rejuvenate himself for a moment as he pulled out his precious Sandvich, taking a bite out of it as it filled him with adredalin, the Russian man starting to stride forward as Pyro moaned on the ground, the Medic comforting him as he hoped Pyro would live for long enough for the doctor to heal himself slowly so that he could reach his Medigun with his disabled arm.

And as for the battle against Bjorn, The Demoman decided for the moment, as the Nord staggered, to finally engage him eye-to-eye, as he attempted to grab him by the neck and strangle him. "Oh, I'm gonna fry chips with all that blubber on ye once I'm done, ya good fer' nothin' Swede!"

[Skyhooked]

It could have been an end to Bjorn's epic saga of battles and feasts, if he hadn't decide to use his head in this tough, pinchy situation. Exactly, in the last moment, ne managed to headbutt the drunken scott. He has yet to see the reactoin of scotsman on "Glasgow kiss" Norse style. -"I know pictish tricks too, so don't get cocky. Either way, you'll have good time in Valhalla halls. And don't forget your bagpipes, for skalds don't usually play them."-Bjorn says, as he prepared to finally stab him with a sword.

And looks like not only Bjorn has problems. Spy almost stabbed him like a cornish game hen, which is a pretty humiliating death, but at least less humiliating than getting ass kicked with a fish. But instead of falling down from stabbing, Stan managed to release himself and get his bowie knife, which he tried to plunge into Spy's soft belly.

Bullets, fired earlier, had penetrated Seth's armor many times, but Soldier's buckshot couldn't do that, and so Seth fired back a few long bursts at advancing soldier, still keeping a few bullets in his mag just in case. Then he made his way to Stan's position, while keeping an eye on Soldier, who could be very much alive.

Meanwhile, Casey and John Walker still couldn't reach the destination, but at least made it to the point, where they got clear visual on the situation. John Walker detected Stan, strugling with the Spy, as other enemy crew members slowly regained their footing. From the pretty long distance, John Walker AI tried his best, his advanced targeting software can let, and fired a short burst at spy from afar. As he determied, the range was too far from optimal, but still there is a chance, that bullets might hit their target.

Casey James in his turn, lamented SMG's short targeting distance, but he had another trick in his arsenal. Thanks to the diplomatic visit to other world, he learned how to cast spells, and used this skill to throw a good fireball, that will explode upon impact at location of Heavy, Pyro and Medic. This spell used up all his mana, so he won't be able to throw such a stunt again, until it resotres.

[The Rapture Republic]

A Poison bubble formed around Hellion as he paced closer to Stan, emerging with a thousand headed hydra steaming out a mustard gas, with a hydrogen base instead of a sulfur base, which would cause a gasmask to deconstruct and incinerate into it’s primitive compounds leaving the contestant exposed to the posion slowly forming a toxic cloud by pockets on the bubble-shaped area, where X is protected and located. Giggling, a hydran Head rushed directly spitting its acidic poison from it’s mouth followed with thee Hundred spraying the poison from there mouths as they independent came at the Spy engaging Stan Dixon.

[Greater South]

It could have been an end to Bjorn's epic saga of battles and feasts, if he hadn't decide to use his head in this tough, pinchy situation. Exactly, in the last moment, ne managed to headbutt the drunken scott. He has yet to see the reactoin of scotsman on "Glasgow kiss" Norse style. -"I know pictish tricks too, so don't get cocky. Either way, you'll have good time in Valhalla halls. And don't forget your bagpipes, for skalds don't usually play them."-Bjorn says, as he prepared to finally stab him with a sword.

And looks like not only Bjorn has problems. Spy almost stabbed him like a cornish game hen, which is a pretty humiliating death, but at least less humiliating than getting ass kicked with a fish. But instead of falling down from stabbing, Stan managed to release himself and get his bowie knife, which he tried to plunge into Spy's soft belly.

Bullets, fired earlier, had penetrated Seth's armor many times, but Soldier's buckshot couldn't do that, and so Seth fired back a few long bursts at advancing soldier, still keeping a few bullets in his mag just in case. Then he made his way to Stan's position, while keeping an eye on Soldier, who could be very much alive.

Meanwhile, Casey and John Walker still couldn't reach the destination, but at least made it to the point, where they got clear visual on the situation. John Walker detected Stan, strugling with the Spy, as other enemy crew members slowly regained their footing. From the pretty long distance, John Walker AI tried his best, his advanced targeting software can let, and fired a short burst at spy from afar. As he determied, the range was too far from optimal, but still there is a chance, that bullets might hit their target.

Casey James in his turn, lamented SMG's short targeting distance, but he had another trick in his arsenal. Thanks to the diplomatic visit to other world, he learned how to cast spells, and used this skill to throw a good fireball, that will explode upon impact at location of Heavy, Pyro and Medic. This spell used up all his mana, so he won't be able to throw such a stunt again, until it resotres.

As Demoman staggered back, he yelped in pain, waiting to face him once more. With no weapon by his side, he figured he'd turn to face him with his fists up, ready to duke it out, but the sword already went through Demoman's chest as he screamed his dying breath, collapsing to the ground.

Luckily, Spy, as he was being released, had managed sidestep Stan's thrust with the Bowie knife and turn his arm away, leaving him with a mere shallow cut to his side as he employed a karate chop onto his back, near where he'd stabbed him. Spy then took a few steps back, cackling as he turned back invisible and ran off from the scene, leaving Stan with a very angry Heavy to deal with. The Russian screamed as he then attempted to grab Stan by his chest and pin him into a nearby beam, reeling his fist back as he did so.

Meanwhile, the long bursts had put several bullet holes in Soldier's torso, wounding him a little and slowing him down as he did. Knowing his shotgun was useless, he pulled out his rocket launcher as he jumped upwards, flailing around as he landed onto a crate nearby where the rest of his team were, groaning in pain as he landed, rocket launcher still in hand and looking around the area.

Medic had finally regained enough strength to grab one of his 12 healing crossbow bolts, grabbing Pyro as he jabbed it into his back, the masked psycho slowly getting back up and picking up his flamethrower. Looking around the corner and seeing Seth make his way, he then grabbed his flare gun and fired a shot at Seth before he limped his way accross the cover of a crate.

As Casey and Walker got themselves on the visual, Sniper was surveying their area to find any other enemies. In his sights, he did manage to find Casey as he was summoning up a fireball, aiming at him as he pulled the trigger. The fireball had managed to release by then, and, whilst Pyro was looking around, he managed to notice the light of the fireball coming up. He pulled out his flamethrower and prepared to airblast it, hoping such projectiles could be deflected. If not, then Pyro would be sent back flying along with Medic. Since Pyro is fireproof, then really, he'd only be sent flying, but Medic's coat would've caught fire.

A Poison bubble formed around Hellion as he paced closer to Stan, emerging with a thousand headed hydra steaming out a mustard gas, with a hydrogen base instead of a sulfur base, which would cause a gasmask to deconstruct and incinerate into it’s primitive compounds leaving the contestant exposed to the posion slowly forming a toxic cloud by pockets on the bubble-shaped area, where X is protected and located. Giggling, a hydran Head rushed directly spitting its acidic poison from it’s mouth followed with thee Hundred spraying the poison from there mouths as they independent came at the Spy engaging Stan Dixon.

Spy had turned around as he attempted to cover his mouth, coughing intensely as he cloaked to invisibility, continuing for 20 more seconds and giving away his position to anyone perceptive enough. The Heavy had been caught in the poison by accident, though, and let go of Stan as he attempted to run away while firing at Hellion with his shotgun. Pyro and Medic, in the meantime, would also attempt to collect their weaponry as Heavy went to pick Sasha back up. The Doctor smiled, as his Medigun was ready to drop Ubercharge, the Heavy smiling as he reeled up Sasha.