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It was a match like any other, as the teams fought for control points in Foundry. The match was fierce, but RED was in the lead. the BLUs began to get desperate, but their leader, engineer Azus, tried to keep the team focused so they could have a chance to turn things around.
this is the BLU team!
The most nervous among BLU was the team's scout, Matthew. He yelled at the team what they should do, ignoring the engineer's orders, he hated following orders and was completely undisciplined. The more nervous and angry he got, the easier of a target he became.
Every time he died, someone on his team was ready to make fun of him or give him a lecture:
“LISTEN TO ME AND YOU WON’T DIE!” Engineer shouted at him, But scout ignored.
“What’s up, you died again? When are you going to learn not to be so egotistical?” Sniper said, scout flipped him off
“Learn to be a real soldier and maybe you’ll win something! Hahah!” Soldier joked, and scout cursed him.
Scout was at his limit. He couldn’t stand his stupid team anymore, making fun of him all the time, he seemed to have forgotten how to be a scout and how to fight properly, and most importantly, he was getting killed all the time by... the RED Scout, Jeremy.
It was too much. They liked each other, they made fun of each other and kept annoying each other in battle, but Scout felt he was going too far. This and more were taking him to a point of no return, to a breakdown that he would surely regret later, it seemed like all it needed was one little thing for him to snap, after suffering for so long in that shitty match, until...
He was dominated by RED Scout, with the sound effect of being dominated playing for everyone to hear.
“THAT’S IT, HE’S GONE TOO FAR, THE ONLY PERSON I TRUSTED NOW HAS THE AUDACITY TO DOMINATE ME?!” he shouts from the respawn.
“wait, what do you mean you trust someone from the REDs?” Medic asks, who was also in the respawn.
Scout slowly turns to face Medic. Medic had a strange and scary aura, but it seems that Scout’s anger managed to overcome this aura and make him even scarier than Medic himself:
“One more word and I swear to God I will rip out all your guts, and I will watch you die slowly, you shitty Medic.”
Scout marches out of the respawn, with hatred emanating from him, and scout's only friend, Pyro, watched everything from behind, now traumatized. Medic turns to Pyro, both of them scared:
“I think your friend has snapped, Pyro.”
All the hatred accumulated over the years of being a mercenary, having to put up with his team 24/7, having to juggle his personal with his professional life in a game of risking being fired if he was caught doing things considered forbidden, the anxiety, rage attacks, everything seemed to culminate in this moment, in which he would take out everything he felt and what he felt he had a duty to do on a single person. Scout didn't have a weapon in his hand, and he ran-marched through the battlefield, until he found his so-called... "friend" if we can say so. He pulls the RED Scout by the bag, scaring him, and speaking with hatred, says:
“We need to have a little talk.”
RED Scout doesn’t notice his “friend’s” anger at first, and immediately assumes something else:
“Ahh yes... a little talk, right? Do you think I deserve a “reward” for dominating you? Well, okay, you're fighting like shit today, but I’m glad you recognize it and came to flatter me for it! But it’s not in-character for you... but who cares?”
Scout was silent, didn’t say a word anymore, only a strange energy emanating from him.
“Uhh... man, you’re kind of weird. Did the cat bite your tongue?” He finally realizes that Scout was angry.
“Follow me.”
RED Scout was a little suspicious, but decided to go with the thought that BLU was there to please him. He knew he had striked a nerve in his “friend” (who was more like a boyfriend at this point) after he had dominated him, so he would do... things, to call himself “the best scout” still, that were not related to violence, impressively. He liked that thought. oh, how wrong he was.
They arrived in a more secluded area of Foundry. there was a small. hidden room in the BLU area. Scout told his counterpart to go in, which he did. It was very dark, he could barely see anything.
“Hey, man, where’s the light?” RED Scout asked.
With no answer, he turned around, but in a flash, he was knocked out by BLU’s baseball bat. And he passed out.
“Now things are going to get interesting, funny guy,” BLU said.
Some time went by. How much? He couldn’t tell, he only knew that when he woke up, and the small room was now lit, and he was tied to a chair in the middle of the room with ropes, his arms and legs tied down. He had a handkerchief around his mouth. Little by little he began to see what was in the small room: a crate, with a drill, a kukri and a broken bottle of scrumpy on top of it. The small room was lit by 2 lamps. The door suddenly opened and RED was startled: it was BLU returning.
“Well well, it seems that you woke up...” BLU said, with a lighter in his hand.
RED was scared. What was BLU planning? What was he going to do to him?! Pleasing him was definitely not going to happen.
“There’s still one thing missing, stay quiet while I get it, you don’t want things to get worse for you.” BLU said as he left the room.
“What do you mean, get worse?!” RED thought. Oh no, would BLU do what he was thinking? It wasn’t possible, they were friends, practically dating, he couldn’t think of anything he did that could have made BLU so angry. Despair began to take over his heart and his breathing became faster, and he couldn’t even breathe properly with the handkerchief in his mouth.
BLU soon came back and locked the door to the room. He put a cigarette and a kind of medal in the crate with the other things, and turned towards RED:
“We're going to have a lot of fun, me, you and my instruments”
RED made a confused-desperate face:
“My torture instruments, idiot” with BLU pointing at the objects on the crate.
RED was visibly scared, confirming his theory, but still confused as to why BLU would do this to him.
“I've suffered for too long, I've been treated like your doormat, you think you're a better scout than me and you do everything to rub it in my face. You say you like me, that I'm “the love of your life right after Pauling”, well, it doesn't seem like it! And here I am like an idiot, head over heels for you, letting you do anything to me, even when I complain! I really am an imbecile, and this ends here”
RED felt the atmosphere get heavy as BLU said that.
“So... besides you paying the price for this, you're also going to pay for my teammates. No one likes me on that team except the engineer and the pyro, and sometimes I wonder why, right? It must be because I'm trash, who only knows how to complain about things and while useless! Since I can't hurt them, then YOU're going to have to pay for them!”
RED tries to free himself, shaking in his chair, but to no avail.
“Poor thing, are you trying to escape from me? You’re the perfect target and you’re not going anywhere today, or do you want me to do worse?!” BLU says, grabbing the kukri and putting it to RED’s throat, who desperately shakes his head signing "no"
“ok... So, how about we start?”
BLU grabs the lighter and lights the cigarette. RED is confused - BLU doesn't smoke - at least he's never seen him smoking until now. BLU takes a deep smoke and takes the cigarette out of his mouth. He grabs RED's face and takes off the handkerchief. He opens his mouth forcibly, exposing his tongue. BLU then puts the cigarette butt on RED's tongue, burning it. He groans in pain.
"Hey, who said I let you say something? Shut up!" BLU says angrily.
RED finally manages to speak after all this time:
"sick bastard, what did I do to you?" he says angrily.
"Shut up! Didn't you hear me? And I've already said all that you did to me!" BLU reinforces.
He takes another smoke and sticks the butt back in RED's tongue. This repeats a few more times, until RED's tongue is burned to the point where he can no longer speak properly, with BLU achieving his goal of shutting RED up, since he's a big mouth and didn't stop talking until the end...
BLU ties the handkerchief back over RED's mouth, with RED visibly furious at what was happening to him, this was unfair! BLU was acting like a sadist!
BLU throws the cigarette away and picks up the kukri now.
“What can I do with this knife...?” he says, while circling RED.
“Should I cut your throat?” he puts the kukri on RED’s neck “Or maybe I have a better idea.”
He stands in front of RED and lifts his shirt, there, he starts making a not-so-deep cut on his belly. RED reacts, making BLU excited. He proceeds to write “BLU” in large letters on his belly.
“I want them to see that you are my property, let it be very explicit.”
RED felt the blood running down his belly, it was scary, it wasn’t like the other times in battle where he enjoyed watching blood run down himself, indicating a good fight, here it was sadistic, something done to make him suffer as much as possible before he succumbed, it wasn’t good, it was terrifying.
BLU lifts his shirt up and starts writing on RED’s back:
“MATT’S PROPERTY”
“Matt’s property. I liked it. It made it very clear that you are mine and that there is no way to escape. My name, because it indicates that it is not just any BLU who owns you, but that it is me.”
RED repeated in his head: “bastard, insane, crazy, sick” and all kinds of adjectives that indicated the madness that BLU was doing. He made more cuts here and there. On his leg, on his arm, on his face... with each one, it got deeper...
RED eventually managed to take the handkerchief off his mouth and managed to speak again, shouting with all the strength he had, but still barely understandable because of the burns on his tongue:
“STOP IT, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” Tears began to roll down his face. BLU wondered how he dared to do that, so he took RED's dog tags and started to strangle him with them, putting the kukri to his throat:
“TRY AND DOMINATE ME AGAIN NOW, BITCH, I DARE YOU AND FACE THE CONSEQUENCES! I've barely started and you're already crying...”
“As you talked, I’ll keep my promise: I’ll do worse.”
BLU took off his coat and long gloves, exposing the way he looked: full of cuts all over his arm. He also took off his pants, showing that he also cut his legs.
“I live like this, every day of my life, because I deserve it, because I’m crazy and insane, but it’s just me... I want someone else like this, I don’t deserve to have only myself all cut up from head to toe.”
RED shakes his head indicating no. That he didn’t want him to do this to him. He knew Matt cut himself and he didn’t want him to continue doing it, he cared too much about him, but instead of him stopping, he was going to take it out on him too?! This is fucking insane??!
BLU partially took off RED’s pants and started making cuts on his thigh like he did to himself. They were deep and slow cuts, just to make RED feel as much pain as possible.
Then he moved on to his arms. each cut was more excruciating than the last, it was painful, unfair, and blood and more blood rolled down RED's arms and legs.
BLU, wanting more, untied RED's right arm and grabbed it with all the strength he had, and cut off a finger, making RED scream in pain. He put his arm in the clamp and stuck the kukri in his hand, tying him to the chair once more. RED couldn't stop crying, he was at his most vunerable point.
"What a crybaby, my God! It's just a little blood, what are you complaining so much about?"
RED was head down and legs spread, unable to bear the pain of so many injuries at once, completely desperate and starting to get weak from the loss of blood.
BLU grabbed RED's head and lifted it towards him.
"My God, are you dying already? There's still more to come, heh"
RED is scared, what was his next plan?
BLU grabs the drill and turns it on
RED's eyes widen at the sound. An "oh no" echoes in his mind.
"shall we?"
RED cries out in desperation. BLU starts drilling RED's belly. He screams, screams of pure pain and terror. In total, about 5 holes are made and RED can't take this crap anymore.
BLU looks back, still with the drill in his hands, he had the lighter and the BLU medallion to be used, in addition to the bottle of scrumpy.
RED cried in horror from the pain in the background, while BLU heated the medallion with the lighter he took from Pyro. And when RED least expected it, BLU sticks the medallion in his back, leaving a burn of at least 2nd degree there, even skin stuck to the medallion...
RED Scout's loudest scream was there, at that moment, nothing until then compared to this pain. When he was set on fire by BLU Pyro, at least he died quickly, but not here, he would have to live with this pain until BLU Scout let him die and respawn.
BLU laughs like a maniac, loving to see RED's pain. "Ah, this is entertainment, THIS, THIS IS REVENGE! THIS IS WHAT I CALL FUN! If I could, I would do this to everyone who made me suffer, even those who don't have respawn available, it would be the sweetest and cruelest revenge ever!"
RED wanted to curse him to death, he didn't know about this completely sadistic side of BLU Scout, he didn't show any kind of remorse! BLU's rage attack went too far! It was absurd, he would never forgive him for this, he would cut ties forever and would be an enemy again, just like in the old days! he thought at the moment, completely desperate
BLU breaks the bottle of rum he took from the demoman, and shoves each shard of glass into RED's wounds, deepening the cuts even more. BLU no longer had any trace of lucidity at that point, and RED was dizzy with pain, was there any blood left in his body at this point? BLU took a step back to observe RED's state. He was exhausted, completely turned inside out, drenched in blood. His pants were still down, handkerchief and dog tags still around his neck, and his shirt still up, with shards all over his wounds.
BLU was... proud, a great feeling ran through his body. It seemed like everything he had suffered had now been let out, taken out on one person only, unfortunately, in his eyes.
He was so excited that he decided to sit on RED's lap, even with the shards piercing him too, he didn't care.
"Thank you for making my revenge real, sweetheart" he says, his eyes still blinded by rage, lifting RED's head towards his. He proceeds to give him a long, sweet kiss, just for him of course, since RED was still completely traumatized and hating BLU, BUT even more confused and disgusted now.
BLU stops kissing him and starts to study RED's face with his hands, running his hands over each wound, opening his eyes, red from so much crying, his face wet with blood and tears, his nose and forehead bleeding from the hit BLU had given him with the baseball bat. His hair, already short, but somehow all disheveled, and in general, he looked tired, terrified, but with hate in his eyes.
BLU starts to get his feet back on the ground, lucid, with the rage that blinded him finally going away, allowing him to see. He finally saw his love's face properly, he saw the pain in RED's face, and began to question himself... What had he done? He had turned into a monster! He was violent, but... he wasn't sadistic, what had happened to him?!
“No, no, NO! W-what have I done? RED? Jeremy? Are you still here? My god, I'm the biggest sinner who ever walked the earth! I tortured the only person who cares about me, you-you will NEVER forgive me! I'm irredeemable! I'm not like that! What have I become?” Tears began to run down his eyes, finally the anger that blinded him was completely gone, and now he would have to face the consequences of what he had done.
“... finally” RED whispered, with the little strength he still had left. “May you burn in hell, Matthew”
Despair and regret took over BLU once and for all, he stood up and grabbed the first gun he saw in his bag, which was lying on the floor of the small room and shot RED in the head, to end his misery and so he could respawn brand new.
No amount of cuts on his body now could redeem him for what he had done, he saw RED's body completely destroyed, and who did this? Him. He could feel the shards of glass still in his leg from when he sat on RED's lap. He wouldn't take them off any time soon. The "revenge" sound played, indicating that he had taken out RED's domination over him. RED's body disappeared in red stars, indicating the respawn.
He felt desolate. He knew he had gone too far. Would RED hate him forever after this? Would he be left without anyone in the world again? He was dependent on him, he wasn't sure if he could handle being without him...
RED came into the small room with everything, now completely reinvigorated.
"Nothing you do will redeem yourself. You tortured me for nothing." He looked furiously into BLU's eyes, but his face was hidden by a shadow
"I know."
RED shot BLU in the head with a pistol, killing him instantly. Moments later, his body disappeared into blue stars. He took a step forward, revealing his face full of tears, but still angry. He picked up BLU Scout's hat and looked at it.
"Why did you have to do this? I love you, at least I thought I did, until I found out that you do the worst even to those who care about you."