Guardians Saga: Guardians of Teufort

Master Heroes Outpost...

Vinyl trotted up to a table and set down her sound-based minigun, which she called the V-Repeater. "My name is Vinyl Scratch, and I'm a member of the new team in the Badlands- Hold up right there," she said with a frown. Zip lowered the camera.

"What's wrong, Vinyl?" he asked. The two of them were filming an interview; Zap and Darkfire had decided to show the inhabitants of the Badlands that the new group wasn't filled with bloodthirsty killers. Vinyl was chosen to be interviewed first, due to her charisma.

Vinyl shook her head. "It's the script! I don't talk like that at all, y'know? Do you really expect me to say this in my first public video? I wanna make a good impression on my fans!" she complained.

Zip sighed as he set down the camera. "Alright, fine. Give me a bit, and I'll rewrite the script and we'll retry this in a few hours."

Vinyl sighed, tapping her card and causing her costume to disappear as she returned her V-Repeater to her personal Hammerspace. According to Hi-Tek, certain items each of the newcomers (and Zip) had with them had bugged the card system, causing their weapons to replace parts of their class' arsenal, and their class uniforms to work around their accessories. Hers happened to be her shades, her V-Repeater, and her V-Blaster(a sound-based shotgun). She grinned at that small, comforting thought as she remembered their first true battle with the BLU Team the day before.

Dustbowl, One Day Ago…

Vinyl panted as she ducked into cover alongside Will and Darkfire, narrowly dodging a rocket. They had been partaking in a training match at Dustbowl with clones created by the 'Copyspawn' system, created by Hi-Tek in order to allow the team to face something resembling the RED and BLU teams, as well as to create alternately-colored clones of the nine of them to assist in battle. Then the BLU team showed up and disabled the Copyspawn, then pushed the nine of them to the last point. If the BLUs were at all shocked at the six ponies in the team they were facing, they shrugged it off pretty quickly.

"Alright, I have a plan," Darkfire stated as a grenade flew over their heads. Before he could continue, however, a bullet drilled a hole clean through his head. Or at least it would have, if he hadn't disappeared in a small flash of light.

When the Doctor had inquired as to why this was, Zap explained that their Respawn system was different from the ones RED and BLU used. While the ones the mercenaries used completely recreated them upon their death, the ones the ponies used would, once their cards registered enough damage taken, bring them to a 'Limbo room' where the same energy the Medigun emits would heal all wounds they had received. This was because Zap wasn't wanting to get their original bodies completely destroyed.

Will watched as Neon ran up to the very Sniper that killed Darkfire and beat him to submission with his V-Basher, a club made of solidified sound in the same manner as Synch's V-Blade.

"Vinyl, when I give you the signal, step out of cover and unload on them," the psychic told his teammate.

She nodded, readying her weapon in her magic. Will pulled out a Medigun that he, Hi-Tek, and the Doctor had modified after a mishap during an earlier training session, and casted its healing energy on her. "Now!" He shouted, and she swung out of cover, firing her heavy weaponry and screaming her head off.

With the help of Synch and Derpy, Vinyl and Will gradually pushed back the BLU team, blasting through the enemy forces.

Vinyl walked up to the table for a second time. "Hey, wassup? You may or may not know me as Vinyl Scratch, master of wubs and bass! I'm here to announce that I'm gonna be working as the Heavy Weapons Filly of the new team that's gonna be fightin' those RED and BLU jerks!" she exclaimed cockily.

She laid a hoof on the weapon in front of her. "This is my own creation, the V-Repeater. I'm not gonna go into specifics; all you need to know is that it turns sound into a deadly weapon."

On the other side of the camera, Zip nodded. "What about you is different from your RED and BLU counterparts?" He asked.

Vinyl grinned. "Well, I might not be as strong as they are, but I'm faster and definitely smarter than those two overweight motherbuckers," she gloated. “Plus, I’m a bit of a musician myself.” At that, wubstep music began playing, and Vinyl nodded, a smirk plastered to her muzzle.

"Cut!" Zip shouted, turning off the camera. "Great work, Scratch!"

She laughed in response. "Thanks, buddy," she replied, storing away her V-Repeater and deactivating the card that allowed her to be the Heavy Weapons Filly.

Zip turned around, looking at a wall of televisions, all playing footage from the first battle. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to decide what battle scenes will be cut into the interview..."

The six ponies and three humans had pushed the BLUs back to the first point, where the BLU Sniper, Spy, Engineer, and Demoman were keeping a tight defense.  Vinyl, Will, and Derpy were watching as the Spy stealthily uncloaked behind Zip and quickly backstabbed him.

"Will, you know how you fixed the Medigun?" Derpy asked. During a training match, they had learned that the Ubercharge would not work on them, being absolutely fatal when used on a clone of one of them, and 'sending away' any of the originals. Thus, the team geniuses took it upon themselves to give it a new secondary usage. Will's 'Modified Medigun' would give mini-crits to his target and an impenetrable shield in front and behind them, though not above or to the sides.

"Yeah," Will replied. "Why?"

Derpy grinned. "Now looks like a good time to use it."

Will grinned ferally. "Wonderful idea, Derpy!" He turned to Vinyl. "You ready?" he asked.

She nodded, and they charged. Derpy reflected a stray rocket with her airblast, somehow directly striking the Spy, who was about to backstab Will. "Oops, my bad!" she called out as the trio ran into the barn housing the Control Point.

 Will flipped a switch on his healing machine, and the shield popped into existence blocking fire from the Sentry Gun as Vinyl tore it and its creator to pieces. The Demoman and Sniper followed shortly after, the former to Derpy’s Mail Launcher and the latter to Vinyl’s V-Repeater.

Within a few seconds, the barn was captured, and the BLU Respawn device was disabled. The remaining seven mercenaries were quickly found and killed, and the heroes were finally able to relax.