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No. 15862
I fucked up. I done fucked up, I admit it. I’m not sure this chapter unfucked things up or fucked things up more, but I tried. For the record, Pyro’s chapter is not part of the theme, and yes, Sniper was being irrationally jealous of the other Sniper, which is part of the theme that this chapter sort of continues, if I didn't fuck it up, anyway.
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1.6 Glitch
Sometimes after the day’s battle, the Spy would hesitate, wanting to run, to tell someone, to find help to escape this madness somehow, as if anyone would believe him or possibly defy the will of eight elite mercenaries. But only for a moment; then his body would turn to the BLU’s base of its own accord, and step after unwilling step, he trudged along in the bloody, lusty wake of his teammates.
It was this same dreaded compulsion that woke him out of a fitful doze in the night and brought him to his feet. Four of them had already seen him so far, using him badly, and he desperately needed to rest. But that must wait for the Engineer’s demand.
On weary legs, the Spy made his way through the crowded workshop, around piles of sheet metal and racks of ammunition and cases of ball bearings and spools of wire. All of the machines and inventions here waiting to be completed or repaired by their creator, while he alone was to be broken and ruined.
The Engineer never lacked for ideas for their sessions, gifted as he was with a natural creativity for destruction. Such viciousness seemed at odds with his country-sweet demeanor, yet the Spy could not recall when a night’s work had been repeated. He bore the marks temporarily; the rope burns, the shredded flesh, the bruised bones, but his entire self recalled the horror implicitly.
Apparently, the Engineer had made progress on his latest darling, a mass of welded blue steel now recognizable as a vaguely human figure propped up in a dark corner of the room. With a start, the Spy saw himself clearly in the machine, in its sparingly jointed limbs, the almost solemn cast of its inscrutable faceplate. Cautiously, he edged closer, mind reeling as he attempted to make sense of this horrific discovery.
“Still not as good as the real thing, you’re thinkin’?†drawled a deep voice by his ear.
The Spy shook his head mutely, trying to affect a mask of uncaring this close to his oppressor.
“Maybe so. Haven’t taken him for a test run yet,†the Engineer stated, giving the robot’s arm a fond pat. “And I doubt he could replace you even fully functional. The men prefer you, in the flesh. But it was a thought I had, to maybe fix what’s wrong with ya.â€
“What is wrong with me?†he asked, his own voice sounding dull and hopeless in his ears.
“Nothin’ I can’t sort out.â€
He shuddered to feel those icy steel fingers teasing at his ass, one mechanical appendage slipping into his anus to test the limits of this intrusion, then easing back out.
“Come along, I’ll take a look at ya, see what I can do.â€
The shrewd, measuring look in the Engineer’s blue eyes promised the absolute worst his genius could contrive, in essence, no different than his counterpart in RED. As the Spy was led aside, he sensed for a second the robot turning to watch its creator take him away, and sickened, he steadied his nerves for what would transpire next.
There stood a sentry of sorts, modified for the Engineer’s entertainment, which had been erected under an exposed bulb, conveniently close by the workbench. The saddle fastened to its top sported a different attachment this night, cruelly designed, and the Spy’s stomach clenched in apprehension.
Wordlessly, he mounted the sentry, using one of the looped cords dangling from the ceiling to help lower his body onto the obscene saddle. Choking back a pained gasp, the Spy felt the overly large implement slide into him inch by inch, semen and lubricant streaming down his legs in response. His thighs quaked from the exhausting effort of holding himself up over the machine, and he whimpered, helpless.
“Git yerself down, boy.†The Engineer’s voice from behind him, then rough hands at his waist, forcing his buttocks apart. Too shocked to exclaim, the Spy let himself be maneuvered the final inch onto the saddle, earning a light slap of approval on one cheek once his bottom hit the smooth cured leather.
The machine surged to life at the press of a switch, and began thrumming relentlessly beneath him, within him. He grabbed at the hanging cords frantically, breath coming out in shallow puffs as he strained to ease the pressure, but the attachment was locked inside and continued pounding away at his innards with clockwork implacability.
Somewhere he knew the Engineer was sitting down to watch him get fucked, unfastening his overalls, palming his boxers before succumbing and stroking himself in delight. Only machines could ever elicit such arousal from the man, being the only things he loved, though despite all that, he would always be sure to stop and spread the Spy over his workbench in order to finish off inside him. That was the protocol, which he made sure to never stray from.
Without warning, the machine jumped erratically and the Spy cried aloud at the sudden thrust, while the Engineer groaned in obvious pleasure. Out of the corner of his tear-blurred vision, he could see the other mercenary had tugged something rubbery over his own plump cock, which encased it completely and seemed to somehow be attuned to the sentry’s mechanism. Now, with each hard thrust into his fist, the Engineer set off a similar rocking action from the machine. The Spy had no choice but to hold on and endure the indignity silently.
After what seemed like hours, he heard the Engineer finally say, “All right, sweetheart, you’re done here.†The machine rumbled to a juddering stop, and he was being lifted off the saddle and cradled in brawny arms.
“Ain’t that better?â€
He wanted nothing more to sleep, and hoped that the Engineer would be content with just shooting his load into his open mouth and then letting him go back to his room. If only. Instead, the Engineer had repositioned him into his lap, was now impaling him onto his copiously dripping cock, forcing himself through the hole made slack and bloody by the sentry’s motions. Surrendering, the Spy laid his head on the man’s shoulder, let himself be bounced and jiggled up and down that stout length, until the Engineer grunted deeply and came inside him, filling him once again.
After the Engineer pulled out of him, he fell back gracelessly onto the table top, amidst blueprints and worksheets now darkening with his sweat. Through drooping eyelids, his brain automatically pieced together lines of printed code, respawn data, timestamps, locations, method of death. Replays of the week’s battles, for the most part, and yet something seemed off. The Spy’s eyes widened when he saw his name several times, hundreds of times, where it did not belong. Heart hammering in his chest, he reached over to bring one sheet closer.
A steel hand snatched the printout away.
“You always asked me what went wrong,†the Engineer muttered grimly. “I thought you were just playing dumb.â€
The Respawn glitches, the Spy had always suspected, but the friendly fire messing up, the teleport and dispenser malfunctions… “What is wrong?†Not with him, but with the entire system that controlled their lives. His life.
“How long were you gone, Spy? When they stole you away?â€
“I don’t understand.†Did he mean… when he respawned head separated from his body? Some years ago, when he was kept by the RED Medic, for not much longer than a couple of weeks, if he had to estimate...
“Months. We were left with a brainless meat-puppet for months while they used you for their experiments! Even after Solly and Scout brought you back, you still didn’t respawn properly. Of course not. They had you for so long.†The artificial hand flexed dangerously in the fluorescent light, yet its metal fingers caressed his cheek with surprising gentleness.
“But you aren’t with them anymore, Spy. You’re part of our team, you’re a BLU, one of us. That’s why I gotta keep fixing you. Why we gotta make you right again. Understand?â€
Meeting the Engineer’s glance, the Spy managed a brittle, blood-stained smile. Yes, he understood now. They did fix him every night, in their own particular way. He saw the reboot data with his own eyes. Every morning, he woke in a strong, regenerated body with a heart that glowed blue, ready to fight.
But in order to fix something, it had to be broken in the first place.
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