Time Error 2

Chapter 23

It was 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the exact time when an event takes place, a dual session. All the mercenaries who signed up for a dual were getting ready to fight, including Scout who was warming himself up by doing side steps in a rapid pace. None of the Red team or the agents knew about the bold choice Scout made by challenging Austin until Jordan and Lex told them, and now they are waiting impatiently for the fight to start. The dual session will take place at a capture point, the fighters will have good room and breathing space for their fight, there will be no medkits or any source for healing, and no ammo boxes to pressure the fighters to make every shot count. Anyone who wishes to watch the fight will be provided a spot that is shielded with a bullet and explosive proof window, which is where the Red team and agents waited.

While Scout doesn't mind his team watching including the agents, he does mind why others were watching as well, almost all the mercenaries were watching like as if a huge fight was about to take place. The thought of all of them watching almost put him a bit off but he shook it off and continued to pick his weapon choice. He grabbed his deadly scattergun, his handy pistol, and his lethal metal bat, a standard loadout. Scout knew he was able to pick other weapons but he didn't wanna feel like a cheater, he wanted to have a fair fight with Austin to prove who was the better one, and is determined to be the better one. Since he was all geared up and ready to go, he waited in a respawn room by himself, sitting on a bench waiting for the fight to begin. But as he waited, 2 scouts came walking in, that being Jordan and Lex.

"Oh hey Jordan, sup Lex." Scout greeted. "Scout if you are having some regrets about this, THEN PLEASE CANCEL THE FIGHT!" Lex cried out, lunging on to Scout like as if this would be the last time he would see him again. "Get off Lex, you're making yourself look weird." Scout said, pushing Lex away with one hand. "Scout are you really sure bout' this? Do you even know what Austin is capable of?" Jordan asked.

"Pretty sure I got this Jordan, it may have been awhile since I last fought another scout but all those years of fighting those robots taught me a thing or two." Scout claimed. "…you sure you don't wanna cancel the fight?"Lex asked, wishing for Scout to cancel the fight so he could save his pride.

"Lex come one man this is the Scout you're talkin' to, and it's not like I'm gonna die or anything." Jordan and Lex looked at each other for a moment thinking of what Scout said. "Okay so maybe I will die, but I'll just respawn so whatever." Scout finished. Jordan and Lex were still unsure about this, but reluctantly gave up from trying to prevent Scout from fighting Austin. "Well…since ya seem so sure bout' this, I guess it'll be alright." Jordan said. "I guess we can't change your mind, but do me a favor." Lex asked. "Give that sucker hell." "Yeah taunt after you killed him for me."

Scout smiled before giving the two scouts a fist bump, "Gotcha." The two scouts exited the room, then headed for the spectating room. Scout was by himself for a moment until another figure came walking in, Tracer.

"Hello Jeremy." Tracer began, giving a small smile to him, Scout smiled back at her. "Hey Lena…" Scout greeted back, taking off his hat and scratching the back of his head. "So you're taking on another scout? And from what I heard this scout is the leader of the scouts here, the same one that flirted with me awhile back?" Tracer wondered. "Yeah, that's the one." Scout answered. "Was just going to ignore the guy, but he picked on my new buddies, it was on from there." "You're defending your friends? Awfully sweet of you." Tracer added.

"Well yeah, I may be a mercenary but there still is some humanity left in me." Scout said. "Oh believe me Jeremy, I already knew that." Tracer said, standing before him with one of her cute smiles. As Scout looked up at her, he remembered of when they first met, how they fought together in the future, and how they got along, and then there was that one moment they had together on top of that building…when they ki-

"Scout, 2 minutes left before your fight begins." Miss Pauling announced from the door. Scout was knocked out of his memory lane and turned his attention to Miss Pauling who was standing in the doorway. "What?" "Your dual session? Your fight? 2 minutes." Miss Pauling reminded. "Oh ok, I'm all ready over here." Scout said.

"Oh, well then I guess I will tell you the rules, if Tracer will be so king and leave." Miss Pauling stated, glaring at Tracer through her glasses. Tracer rolled her eyes before wishing good luck for Scout, and while passing by Miss Pauling left an insult. "four eyes." "morning hair." Miss Pauling shot back, Tracer growled before walking away. Miss Pauling huffed before walking up to Scout and saying the instructions out loud.

"For this dual session you and your opponent will have five lives, each time you die you will be respawned in a random location in the arena. As you fight, you will not use any annoying tactics such as doing hit and runs, peeking around the corner and shooting before hiding again and so forth. And whatever you do in this fight, please keep in mind that people are watching, so don't do anything disturbing. But show blood, lots of blood. And lastly, do NOT try to chicken out of the fight, you signed up for it so fight with all you got. Understood?" Miss Pauling asked, getting a nod from Scout.

"Yeah I got it." Scout said as he inspected his scattergun. A bell rang in the room, announcing the fight was about to begin. Scout got up from the bench and started jumping up and down to get himself pumped up again, but Miss Pauling interrupted him. "And Scout, those other two scouts who visited you earlier weren't kidding about Austin, I've seen him in action and even I'm impressed. He is insanely fast and clever." Miss Pauling warned, but Scout only laughed.

"That makes the two of us!" Scout piped up, giving a confident grin to Miss Pauling. "Good luck Scout, I'll be watching you." Miss Pauling added before exiting the room. After she left another exit was opened, which is what Scout assumed would lead him to the arena. He jogged through the exit and straight down a hallway that lead to the arena until he saw Soldier walking in his path.

"Huh? Soldier what're you doin' here?" "Heading to the waiting room, after you I'm next in line for a fight." Soldier reported. "Wait, you signed up for a dual too?" "Hell yeah I did! I wouldn't miss a fight for the world! Instead of killing those rust buckets I can now finally kill maggots! WHOOWAH!" Soldier cheered, bumping his fist into the air. A second bell rang initiating the beginning of the dual. "Oh! Should get going, give em' hell Scout!" Soldier shouted before running to the waiting room where Scout came from.

Scout ran through the hallway and out the exit allowing him to enter into the arena, he looked around and observed his surroundings, he wanted to have good knowledge of the field as much as possible. And as he looked around his eyes landed on his opponent, Austin, who looked back at him with a smirk. "Ready to lose? I swear once I'm done with you, I'll take one of ya girls to a date tonight, whatcha think of that?" Austin taunted, to which Scout replied "They wouldn't even think about you, even if they were desperate." Scout shot back.

In the spectator room, Tracer heard Austin and let out a disgusted growl, before agreeing to Scout's response. Miss Pauling was watching from a different room and couldn't help but agree too.

Austin only chuckled in response, before taking out his australium scattergun grinned wickedly. "Time to die…" Austin said, waiting for Scout to take out his scattergun.

Scout stood there for a moment before turning his head towards the spectating room, seeing his fellow mercenaries and comrades including his own Red team and the agents. He spotted Tracer cheering him on, the same goes for the others who betted him for the win. Jordan and Lex was also there, watching nervously but were hoping for the best for Scout. His eye then landed on Engineer, his best bud, Engineer gave a smile before giving him a thumbs up.

"Teach him a lesson Scout." Engineer mouthed out before taking off his goggles and giving him a wink, giving Scout a hidden signal to which Scout smirked. "Dell? Why did you wink at Scout?" Symmetra questioned. "Hehehe, just sit back and enjoy the show Satya." Engineer said and put his arm around Symmetra, bringing her closer.

Scout looked back at Austin before taking out his scattergun. "Come get some ya freakin wuss." Austin got in a battle stance before speeding towards Scout in incredible speeds, surprising the audience watching but no surprises for Scout as he simply jogged towards Austin. In 2 seconds Austin was already in front of Jeremy. "RAHH!" Ausin yelled out his battle cry as he fired the first shot for the dual session, and making first blood. Scout was on the floor dead in an instant, surprising the agents including the other mercenaries, but the Red team were not so moved. Jordan and Lex gasped with shock, regretting their choices of letting Scout go.

"HA! What there hell was that!?" Austin shouted as Scout respawned. Scout looked at Austin with plain expression but charged at him, shooting his scattergun 5 times. Austin dodged the bullets easily before running at him again and taking another shot, Scout turned to the side as the bullets missed him by inches but was put down when Austin gave him a quick meat shot, Scout was barely alive on the floor as blood filled his lungs. Austin stood above him and laughed before finishing him off with a headshot, ending Scout's second life.

"I wasted you!" Austin taunted again, running around to search for Scout again, only to be surprised when Scout hopped onto his head before jumping somewhere else, causing Austin to fall to the floor. "What the-!? Do I look like a freakin goomba!?" Austin yelled angrily before chasing after Scout. Running backwards, Scout shot at Austin with his pistol while making sure not to trip over anything. Austin shot back with his gun but was doing minimal damage since Scout was keeping some distance from him. Scout landed a couple bullets into Austin's shoulder, causing him cry out a little until he took out his own pistol and firing. Austin's firing was more accurate as he filled Scout's chest with bullets and one bullet found its way into Scout's skull, Scout fell onto his back dead, his third life was gone.

"You're pathetic! You're more worse than the two losers you were hanging out with!" Austin said while taking out his bat. "I bet you couldn't even dodge my swings!" Austin ran towards Scout who has spawned some distances away.

In the spectators room, the agents could not believe what they were seeing. "Heesh this guy is getting wrecked, was expecting more of a fight from this Scout." commented. "I've seen this kid fight before, something's not right here it doesn't even look like he's trying." Soldier 76 added. "You got that right partner." Engineer said as he watched the fight with a smile. "Engineer, isn't Scout your best friend? You'd think you should be wondering why Scout isn't putting a fight." 76 questioned. "Well I still wonder how me and Scout became good friends, but Scout is purposefully letting Austin kill him." Engineer explained. "What? Why?" Symmetra asked. "Just keep watching, things are gonna get more interesting in just a sec."

Back in the arena, Austin just killed Scout with his bat, beating his head into a bloody mess. His fourth life was over. Laughing again, Austin put his metal bat away and took out his scattergun then started walking. "This fight was easy, once I'm done with this scunt I'm gonna go and talk to one of the ladies and see what they think of me." Austin thought in his head, an evil grin being placed on his lips. He found Scout in the open just cracking his knuckles and stretching.

"Yo noob, stop fooling around and let's end this already. Oh and before I kill you, let me give ya a message. You. Are. Terrible!" Austin yelled. But Scout only laughed in response, looking at Austin with a weird look. "You really don't know who you're in the ring with huh?" Scout inquired, Austin gave him a confused look before answering. "Uhh yes I do, a loser who thought he could beat me, when he couldn't even kill me once. And now I will finish him, and prove he is nothing but a waste of life." Austin closed as he ran in for the kill.

Scout stood his ground and waited as Austin approaches, and just when Austin was about to pull the trigger Scout disappeared from his sight. In a blink of an eye he was gone. Austin stopped running and stared at the spot where Scout once was, until he felt the end of a gun being pressed behind the back of his head. "SHI-!" Austin screamed as his head exploded with bullets coming out of it. Scout's first kill and Austin's first death. Jordan and Lex jaws were hanging loose as they watched their nemesis' body drop to the floor.