The Bad Basin

[GoDM1N]

I haven't done one of these in a good while and was asked a few months ago if I was ever going to finish my other one. Sadly no because a lot of the people who were in that story don't play anymore. However I have started this one for your enjoyment. Also yes I know there are most likely a ton of grammar problems with this that I will have to clean up over the next few days, but wanted to get this out today. I also might add more to the ending and any help pointing out mistakes is welcome.

"Arms steady, legs still, head down, squeeze don't pull" were the thoughts running through Rustic's head as he ran for his life from a enemy scout. Rustic had previously setup a recon nest on the hills of the Badwater Basin before being ambushed by a scout. Scouts were not his specialty and he felt a little out matched as he ducked behind a nearby hoodoo. Peaking his head out, he saw the scout running towards him at full speed. He pulled out his kukri with a tight grip, and threw it at the scout. The scout dodged the kukri and hid behind a nearby rusted old miners cart as he let out a child like laugh. The followed this by yelling out "Is that all you got?". Rustic paid no attention to the scout as he concentrated on staying alive. The scout quickly reloaded and then started running towards Rustic full speed again. At the same time Rustic quickly peaked out him self and thought "Arms steady, legs still, head down, squeeze don't pull". "Boom, headshot" Rustic said as he squeezed the trigger, shooting the scout in the left eye. The scouts body hit the ground and skidded to Rustic's feet. Cash chuckled and he turned around and walked back to a safer location.

Meanwhile the rest of Rustic's team were preparing their bomb which they intended to use to blow up a near by fuel supply. They were already behind schedule mostly due to the demo brothers GoDM1N and Fingerman and their endless arguing. "Ey, we shouldn't waste our good explosives on our pills! We should use that on the bomb to make sure it does its job!" Fingerman yelled out as he took a swig from a empty bottle of whiskey "Nah! We should use that in our pills to make sure the bomb gets thar in th first place!" GoDM1N replied back taking Fingers bottle as he tried to take a swig himself. Argent who was standing nearby and had watched the two argue for the past hour as the rest of the team worked on the cart or stood guard, laughed as the two went at it. Looking out the buildings door he saw Rustic walking back into the base, Argent pointed at a random crate of explosives "Use this one, it doesn't matter because we're blowing up fuel" he said as he walked to meet Rustic at the door. GoDM1N let out a giant laugh as he told his demo brother "See, I told ya this was the better idea!". The two kept at it as Argent let Rustic into his office "Whats it like out there?" Argent said as he pulled up a chair for Rustic. "Well, there are a lot of scouts I can say that much" Rustic replied. He took a gulp of water and then began to tell Argent of the recon he had done on the Badwater Basin. "I found where they're keeping that fuel, and as you thought its right in the middle of the base. I also saw at least 8 sentries." Rustic stopped and took another gulp of water. "Good work" Argent said as he looked at some paper work on his desk. "There is just one more thing" Rustic said as he wiped his mouth "I think I saw Snowsickle roaming the base" "Oh?" Argent replied "Then I guess we'll have to bring in our secret weapon." The two nodded at each other as Cash left the office to get some rest before the assault the next day.

Argent stood up and walked to the book case in his office. He ran his finger along the books as he looked through them "Ah there it is" he said as he pulled out a dusty book, blowing on it before opening it to find a key. Placing the key in his top jacket pocket he walked down to the basement of the BLU base. The farther he went down the less and less the base seemed alive. Reaching the ground floor he only herd the flickering of the lights and his own foot steps. He walked to the end of the long white hallway where he found a door marked A7. The room was dark and Argent was unable to see more than 10 feet ahead of him. He turned on the lights and started walking to the middle of the room, where a chained down crate was sitting. Sliding the key into the lock unlocking it, the walls of the crate fell one by one with a loud thud kicking up dust "Its time for your revenge" Argent said. The dust slowly fell out of the air where sat something that let out a muffled sound.

Finger and GoDM1N were still going at it as Argent and the creature that made the muffled sounds walked by their work bench. They both stopped arguing and stared at what was following Argent. "I haven't seen him in years" Finger said as they kept walking. The base began to gather around Argent in the planning room, which would generally be filled with complaints and random shouting from the team, however everyone remained quiet. Argent cleared his throat before starting "This, as some of you may know is our secret weapon." the room remained silent for another few moments before Phantom, the newest member of the team spoke up "What is it?" he said in a stuttering voice. "Its a Failhorse" Argent replied "Go ahead, take a shot at him with your rocket launcher" Everyone in the room moved to the back as the Failhorse took his place on the right side, and Phantom on the left. Phantom aimed at the creature, gulped and fired. The Failhorse quickly lifted his flamethrower and air blasted the rocket into the ceiling. "This is how we are going to combat the enemy" Argent said. He then continued to explained the plan he had for taking out the RED teams fuel supply. The room nodded with him as he revealed the straight forward plan.

The next morning everyone set off towards the Badwater Basin, using old abandoned rail roads to push their bomb. The demo brothers had started their usual arguing back up as the rest of the team pushed forward. Argent had picked Rustic as the teams sniper, as he had already seen most of the base first hand. NINJAM1N and Phantom as the teams Soldiers, NBC as the engineer who came up with the idea for the cart, Knees and Cash as the heavy weapons specialist, the two demo brothers, Guy as the team medic, Himself, and the Failhorse. A seemingly small team, but very deadly. The weakest link was Phantom who still hadn't gotten his ears wet in a real battle. "Don't worry you'll do fine!" NINJA said as she slapped Phatom on the back. The slap seems light however was enough to push Phantom to his knees. NINJA laughed as she pulled out a gift for Phantom from behind the cart. "Here, give this a try today!" She handed him a black box and continued walking. The black box was a much better weapon than Phantoms previous Rocket launcher. He thanked NINJA and took his spot back at the front right of the group.

"Hold up here" Argent said as they reached the out skirts of the Basin. The team found themselves in a old rundown building which had access to the Basins payload tracks. Cash and Knees loaded the cart onto the tracks as the rest of the team stood guard. Failhorse began to sniff the area, and flailing about, as the rest of the team gave him a puzzling looking. "MAH! MAH!" he yelled out as the team began to go onto a alert status. "He means spy!" Argent said as he looked around the building "Everyone stay together". Failhorse began to spray the building with his flame thrower. "Ey, ya dumb mumbling mutt! Yeh going to blow up the bomb with all that heat!" Finger yelled out as he shielded the bomb with his body. Fail kept flaming away until a shadowy figure caught on fire. "MAH MAH!" He yelled out as he chased down the invisible flaming figure. The enemy spy fell to the ground as Fail turned around, mumbled, and gave a thumps up. He was not cheered on however as he had lit the whole building on fire. Sirens went off as a group of REDs appeared charging at them from the Basin. "Everyone get ready!" Argent yelled as the team took their places.

Argent cloaked and ran off to flank the enemy team incoming. Rustic began to scan the RED team for medics. Guy locked his medi-gun on his love Cash. NBC started working on a supply teleporter to bring in more troops. Finger and GoDM1N laid down sticky traps in their path. The rest of the team charged up the middle firing everything they had. Spotting a medic, Rustic quickly placed a shot right between his eyes. NINJA and Phantom kept charging up into the enemy team, taking out anyone who got in their way. Any enemy who pushed into the group were taken out by the sticky traps and the team pushed into the Basin. As they found they rhythm, Phantom found himself over extending. As he tried to pull back to the group he was blown back by a rocket that landed right in-front of his face. "Doc, Phantom!" NINJA yelled as she pointed at him. Guy and Cash tried to push up to reach him but were under heavy fire themselves. Phantom was greatly out numbered and was sure to die if he didn't do something. He loaded his Black box and let off two shots, taking out a scout in the process. Using the last rocket he had loaded to jump on top of a near by building.

Upon landing he pulled out his shotgun and ducked behind a AC unit. Peking his head around the corner, another rocket blast flew by his face. Phantom muttered to himself as the rest of the team fought to reach him. "Damn" he thought as blast kept hitting the AC unit "Maybe this wasn't the best idea!" As he was reloading his weapons a enemy soldier landed on top of the AC unit he was hiding behind. Phantom looked up, still as could be, knowing this was the end. The enemy soldier who was about to take him out was wearing a pot on his head, and looked very battle hardened. He chuckled at Phantom as he aimed his rocket launcher at him. Remembering what Argent said about such a soldier in the briefing, it came to his mind that this was the Snowsickle Argent had mentioned. "Are you, Snowsickle?" Phantom asked in a stuttering voice. The enemy soldier grinned and spoke "Beepboop son, beepboop, maggot!". Phantom stood up not taking his eyes off Snowsickle. "Well are you going to kill me?" He said as he took a quick look around. Snowsickle laughed one last time before saying "Aaaaffirmative". Snow pulled the trigger on his rocket launcher, sending a rocket right into Phantoms face.

Time seemed to slow down as Phantom saw the rocket flying towards him. "Well it was a good run" he thought. Out of no where a loud woosh sound came, as Failhorse airblasted the rocket away from him and back at Snowsickle. The two dueled fearsly as Phantom got back on his feet. Failhorse mumbled for Phantom to run as he kept Snows rockets from harming Phantom more. Phantom broke off from combat and stumbled down a stair way to meet back up with the rest of the team. Meanwhile Snow and Fail were still at it. Not one being able to get close enough or land a shot on the other, it was a stalemate. Snow launched his last rocket as he pulled out his shotgun which Fail would be unable to block. He ducked behind cover as he waited for Snow to get closer, however Snow kept his distance as he knew getting too close to the flamethrower would be a bad idea. Knees, Rustic and Fingerman who had broken off to find a way to save Phantom found him bleeding in a hallway at the bottom of the stares. "Fail needs your help!" Phantom said as Rustic helped him up as the other two rushed up the stares to aid Failhorse. Knees and Fingerman arrived just in time as Snowsickle picked away at Fail. Snowsickle quickly reloaded a single rocket and jumped away as the demo and heavy shot at him. "Are ye alright." Finger said as he helped Fail up off the ground. Fail simply gave a thumps up and the group returned to the main push.

"Ya weren't kidding about all the sentries was ya? GoDM1N yelled out as they took heavy fire from a nest of engis. "I'll sap them then use the uber and push in on the rest" Argent said as he cloaked again. "Now!" Cash yelled out as Guy popped his uber on him. The Heavy medic combo pushed in as the rest of the team took cover behind them, taking out only two of the five sentries. The two demo brothers laughed as they pulled out their grenade launchers. "We'll show ya how its done!" they said as they peeked out again on their own, taking out 3 more of them. With only two sentries left the RED team packed up and fell back to the rest of their team. The to demo brothers laughed as they took a swig from their bottles. "That'll teach .." GoDM1N said as he was shot in the leg by sniper, blowing it off from the knee down. "Meeeddiccc!" Finger yelled dragging GoDM1N back into cover as he shot blindly with his launcher. "Bloodly hell, he blow off me leg!" GoDM1N yelled out in pain as Guy tried to stop the bleeding. Thinking on his feet, NBC grabbed a wooden rod and began to craft something out of it. "This isn't the time for no arts and crafts" GoDM1N yelled out as NBC ignored him. after a few seconds NBC was done and had crafted a wooden peg leg for GoDM1N. "Ey! Thanks lad" He said as he stood on his feet, stumbling a little as he got use to his new leg.

Now reaching the end of the tracks, Guy over healed everybody one last time before the final push. Rustic who had found himself a nice sniper perch in a building that looked over a majority of the Basin waited for the team ready up and push in. Knees, NBC, GoDM1N and NINJA went around a back way to flank as the rest of the team would uber and make their big push, leaving their own sentry setup on their flank behind them. Guy and Cash ubered as they pushed the cart with Phantom, Finger and Fail, taking out a team of scouts who weren't expecting a uber. The flanking team pushed in their selves as they took out a group of unexpecting REDs from behind. Rusting thought to himself "Arms steady, legs still, head down, squeeze don't pull" as he took out the enemy medics and snipers one by one. Argent sapped the remaining sentries as the two demo brothers took them and the helpless engis with their pills. With the cart only a few more yards away from where they planned to blow it up the team had to push harder and harder. More and more REDs came pooring out the base, and although their push was initially effective they were too few maned to keep it up.

As Guys uber ran out the rest of the team joined them at the cart all pushing with one hand and firing with their other. GoDM1N took a hit in his peg leg causing him to fall the the ground. "Go!" he yelled as he kept shooting, taking out the sniper who had shot him. Rustic couldn't keep up with all the heads he had to shoot, as he watched his team be overrun, by REDs. "Ohhh this is bad!" Knees yelled out as his mini-gun ran out of ammo, switching to a shotgun. The team began to be taken out themselves as more and more REDs appeared on the battlefield. With only Guy and Cash and Phantom still on the cart things didn't look good as the team kept pushing. The rest of the team were all too wounded to walk and Guy couldn't keep up with the amount of fire they were taking. with only 3 more yards to go, Guy took a shot himself, knocking him to the ground. Cash immediately held Guy as he tried help Guy. "Keep moving little cart" Cash yelled out as he stood up and unleashed a hail of fire on the REDs above them. With Phantom being to last one pushing the cart things didn't look good. Just as all hope was lost the reinforcement teams from NBCs tele charging in to help. The fresh troops were just want the team needed as Phantom pushed the cart into the fuel supply.

The reinforcements helped the team stand up and run as the bomb went off, blowing up half the Basin. As the team laid on the ground laughing they were greeted by heals and rest for the job they had done. Later that day as the team checked the bodies they noticed they did not find Snowsickle. "Do you think hes still alive" Phantom asked Argent as he flicked his cigarette "I don't know, and thats the problem." he replied. As the team returned to base for debriefing Phantom and Fail were awarded with the metal of bravery for their actions. The next day everyone returned to their never ending job of guarding the 2fort base. still not knowing if Snowsickle was still alive or if he was taken out by the explosion.

[GoDM1N]

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[GoDM1N]

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[Fencerboy]

this makes me happy

[medkitz]

despite the grammatical errors you stated
that was a very well written story

huddah huh!

[Knees of Justice]

Now I want to read more.

[Koopa]

Great job bro! I'd love to see more.

[Saber]

Pootis/10
Maybe I'll write a shitty story for you guys later.

[GoDM1N]

Now I want to read more.

Well theres always these until I make another one

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[Phantom]

I feel loved.
Btw great story