The RED Scout sat on the front steps of his base, hugging his knees. He gazed into the sunset, an explosion of fiery light in the distance. Oh how he wished for something, anything to happen! Currently RED and BLU were at a gripping stalemate, no victories or failures. On top of that, his teammates were off to doing their own tasks. The sun burning into Scout's retinas was interrupted by a tap on the boy's shoulder. Scout turned around to see his team's Medic.

"Hey Doc."

"I can see you are having trouble keeping yourself entertained."

"Yeah."

Medic sat down next to him and patted him on the shoulder, "Vell, there is a favor you could do for me."

Scout immediately perked his head up, "What?"

"I need you to retrieve someving vital to me." The German said, while fishing through his pockets. After a few seconds he pulled out a crumpled and stained piece of paper. He straightened out the slip and passed it to the boy. "Zis is a map to a special object."

"What is it?"

"Shhh! It is very secret." Medic replied, with shifty eyes,

Scout raised a brow, "Uh.. Okay." Scout squinted at the old map, for some reason it looked like a pirate's treasure map, like in the movies! Scout flashed a big, cheshire-cat smile "Awesome!" The young Bostonian bounced up onto his feet and dashed off.

Scout quickly navigated himself through the dotted lines on the map with out a trouble. But what he found was much different from what he expected, no, what he wanted. Instead of rich green bills buried in the dirt, there was a different type of green.

Cactus, no, cacti. Everywhere!

"What the hell?"

Okay so cacti, what did Doc want with these? Maybe it's the wrong map. Or maybe I followed it wrong, ah hell no I'm never wrong!

Scout took a step closer, leaned down and glared at the cactus.

Well I don't see any prickles or whatever.

He slowly reached his hand out and wrapped his palms around the green-

"FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

Scout recoiled back and fell onto the floor, rolling and wincing in the dirt. After the short panic, he raised his digits to his face and squinted at them. They were swelling up and turning into a rosey pink.

Oh god oh god oh god-

He stumbled over to a nearby puddle and slammed his hands in. "Ah man, that feels gooooood." he moaned. He slapped his hands around in the water, getting out most of the stickies. He pulled them out and noticed they were back to normal, for the most part.

He returned to the great green problem, how was he supposed to deliver these to Medic? Scout would have rubbed his chin as he pondered, but he still had those pricks in his palms. He just stared into the field, transfixed to the ground.

God damn plants, it's fucking mocking me! Hmm... I know, I'll swipe up some with my backpack, I won't even have to touch it.

Damn, I'm great.

He took off his backpack and opened up. He swung his bag at the cacti, knocking some onto the ground and other bits flying through the air. Scout bent over and scooped up a portion of cacti with his bag.

"Alright."

Scout quickly took off, following the map again. As he was turning the knob of Medic's "office," he heard a voice from the other side.

"Leave ze supplies at ze door. Do not enter."

"Yeah, okay doc."

Scout then poured the contents of his bag out all over the floor and backed away.

~Later that Night~

Medic grinned ear-to-ear at the pile of cacti laying on the table before him. He delicately reached a gloved hand forward and picked up a small "specimen."

Oh yes, this is perfect. These are smaller, and much more lethal than my syringes.