Readers note: The reason I say the city they are at Chicago is because we do have a Hospital named Mercy Hospital here in Chicago. Also mentioning's of the Red line and or otherwise also makes me think this is Chicago. Whether they are or not, doesn't matter to me.

Well at least I know where to go to when the infection happens. LOL

Anyway, enjoy the Fanfic.

It was supposed to be a vacation. Just a regular vacation to Chicago. You think after all the Reds they fought; they would be able to get some RR. Just once.

But then God likes to kick you in ass.

City was in ruins. No sounds projected from it. It was like a ghost town for real. Everything people knew about horror and suspense, it was all occurring right now.

The nine mercs for the reds moved through the alleys: Looking for a way out of the scenario they were in. They were none other than the Soldier, The Scout, The Heavy, The Pyro, The Engineer, The Demo Man, The Spy, The Sniper, and the medic. And now instead of fighting Blue guys, they were now fighting hordes of zombies.

Well at least the vacation wasn't boring.

They searched the allies, looking for something to find. They came across a couple dead infected. All of them had unusual looking bile on them. The Medic moved his finger through it and examined it for a bit.

"Yo, can I ask you what you're doing!?" The Scout asked.

"I am examining the fluid." The Medic said. "You know, see what these things are made of."

"Son, how about finding out quicker methods to kill these things?" The Soldier asked. "Knowing what these mutant heads are made of doesn't help us find out how to gib them faster!"

The medic continued to look at bile. He then got up and rubbed some of the bile on the soldier.

"Hey!" The soldier said.

"If you knew anything about biology, you've know the importance of examining something like that." The Medic said. "That ze' fluid is what has been drawing these creatures towards us. Any time the fat ones have thrown up on us, the scent released from ze bile works like honey to bee's."

Everyone began to laugh as the soldier looked angrily at the medic. The Heavy was laughing more than the rest. The soldier looked really angrily at the Heavy and rubbed some of the bile on the Heavy. The Heavy stopped to laugh to see the vomit on him.

"YOU MAKE ME MAD!" The Heavy yelled. "THAT MAKES SASHA MAD!"

"Settle down wankers." The Sniper said. "Remember the last few times we shouted!?"

"Yuck?" The Scout said looking at the strange looking Bile. "Well that's just great. It's like being back in middle school with all the under cooked food. Hell the cardboard it came with was healthier than that food itself."

"Aim for ze' fat ones." The Medic said. "We'll have less to deal with."

"Not like its difficult to miss." The Sniper said.

"SSShhhh…" The Spy said. "Listen."

Everyone seemed to calm down for a minute. When they listened carefully, they could hear a woman's moaning somewhere nearby them. They investigated the area to find that it was from inside an abandoned building in the ally.

"I think it could be a survivor." The Soldier said. "We should go inside."

All nine guys looked in by the door and listened carefully. Sure enough there was a woman crying in the door on the other side. There were no windows that would allow people to see on the other side of the room so they could only guess what might be on the other side.

"Sounds like a some gal left behind." The Engineer said.

"Scout…" Soldier said. "Go inside and check it out!"

"Ahh come on!" The Scout said. "You know just I have the amazing ability to haul ass, doesn't mean I like checking spots for danger all the time."

"You will haul ass only when I tell you!" The Soldier shouted. "That's an order soldier!"

"You know technically you're not soldier…" The Scout began.

"GET IN YA BLOODY LAZY ASS!" The Demo man said pointing his grenade launcher.

"YES SIR!" The Scout shouted, running inside the building.

The Scout and soldier ran inside the building, shot guns out and ready. The Scout looked around first. The room was empty, having a lot of boxes stored on the side. The woman's crying was much louder now. The Scout took a look around, but the darkness of the area prevented him from seeing most of it.

"Hey we need some light." The Scout said.

"All right mate; I'm coming." The Sniper said, taking a flashlight that an engineer handed him.

The Sniper turned on the flashlight and he and the Scout began to look for the source of the crying. The wailing was still going on and was indeed getting louder.

"Hey." The Scout called out. "Anyone here?"

"Fire and rescue squad is at your service." The Sniper called out.

The wailing was getting louder by the minute. The Sniper moved the flash light of his around to see if he can spot something. He was unable to find something for a few minutes, until he happened to see a couple pair of legs by some boxes.

"Hey lass are you alright?" The Sniper called.

When the Sniper was about to shine his light on the girl, a flash of lighting occurred. The girl's disfigured and mutated form was seen by everyone for those few seconds.

"Lights off!" The soldier said, quickly knocking the flashlight out of the Sniper's hands. "It's one of those psycho bitches!"

"I knew it; I knew it; this is exactly why I didn't want to go…hey she's in her underwear." The Scout said.

"Hey you want go and ask for the ladies' number," The Sniper began. "Be my guest."

(Meanwhile outside)

The other six stayed outside. The Heavy was busy cleaning his gun. The Demo man was busy drinking away. The Engineer was doing the same, but also playing his guitar at one time. The Spy was busy on recon, using his cloak to keep him safe. The Pyro was…being the pyro. And the medic was heavily studying the bodies of the dead infected.

The Pyro looked up to see a group of people running towards them. They didn't look like people too much. In fact they didn't look like people. Matter of face they weren't people.

And they were running right towards them.

The Pyro ran over to the group and started waving his hands in the air. He attempted to communicate with the rest of the team, but everyone just looked at him. Because of the heavy mask over his head, no one could understand him.

"What?" The Demo man. "We told you to go at the last safe house! And I sure as hell ain't giving you my drink. I haven't a good drink in hours!"

"What's with you partner?" The Engineer said. "Sure were calm a few minutes ago."

The Pyro smacked his hand on his face and rubbed it down his. He then grabbed the Engineer and pulled up. The Engineer was now able to see the horde of infected running towards them.

"Shit." He said. "They're coming guys."

Everyone got from where they were doing (except the spy, who was nowhere to be found) and started grabbing their weapons. While the Heavy, went inside to get everyone.

"THEY'RE COMING!" The Heavy Shouted.

"Shit; not again!" The Scout said.

When he said that, he accidently moved his arm into the Sniper, who then accidently shined the Flashlight on the witch. The Witch got up in complete rage and started running at the four.

"Permission to haul ass sir!?" The Scout asked in fear.

"PERMISSION GRANTED!" The Soldier said running out of the building.

All of the four ran out of the building and closed the door heavily behind them.

"Heavy!" The Soldier said. "Stay in front of the door!"

"Why!?" The Heavy Shouted.

The Heavy felt a large bump on his back. The Witch was trying to go through the door, but the Heavy's body was like a weight press.

"Oh." The Heavy said. "OKAY!"

The Engineer and the Scout pulled out their shotguns and began to fire into the approaching horde that was approaching them. Infected fell as the others continued their charged. The Soldier loaded some rockets into his Rocket Launcher and fired some into the crowds. The Explosions took out infected that were hit by them, and anyone near the blast. The Pyro used his flame thrower and bellowed scorching flames into the approaching crowd. Infected burned up before him as they got close.

One of the infected popped up on top of a building. It spit a long tongue out that wrapped up the Demo man. It began to pull the black one eyed Scottish Cyclops towards it.

"Hey!" He shouted. "Get off your blooming asses and kill the smoker!"

"Hold on." The Sniper said, aiming his rifle at the Smoker.

The Sniper aimed his rifle quickly to the Smoker's head and fired a single round into its skull. A large explosion of smoke was seen popping out of its head and it fell over dead. The Medic went quickly over to the downed Demo man to see if the Smoker left any unusual cuts. Two infected attempted to approach the medic while he did his work, but the Sniper pulled out his machete and cut the two down.

"Very good!" The Heavy shouted.

The Heavy felt a large burst of pain in his back. He turned around to see that the witch had managed to claw through the door. The witch was now trying to break the door down completely.

"You want some too!?" The Heavy shouted. "OKAY!"

The Heavy grabbed his Minigun and began to fire rounds at a large rate into the door and the hole made by the witch. The witch was heard screaming in pain as the rounds busted through the door and into her.

"YOU LIKE CRYING!?" The Heavy taunted as he continued to fire into the door. "SASHA GIVE YOU REASON TO CRY!"

The Medic by now had finished up healing the Demo man with hi Heal ray.

"Ahh that's it now." The Demo man said. "You sissies just got me mad!"

The Demo man grabbed his weapon that he had dropped when the Smoker had first entangled him. He loaded up some grenades into it and lobbed about two in from his weapon into the crowd. He then pressed a button on his weapon. All the grenades started to emit a loud frequency sound. All of the infected that were falling left and right from the Mercs weapons started to run over where the glowing, shrieking grenades were. The Demo man looked at them with joy.

"KA-BOOM!" He shouted.

All of the grenades exploded at once, causing many pieces of the infected to fall everywhere. The streets were cleared.

"Cheers mate!" The Demo man shouted taking a swig from his beer. "Had no idea how effective that would be. Thanks Engineer for the modified grenades!"

"It's all good." The Engineer said.

"CRY SOME MORE!" The Heavy shouted, still bellowing rounds into the door where the Witch was.

The soldier and the others looked at the Heavy still shooting rounds into the door. The soldier went over to the Heavy.

"She's dead." He said.

The Heavy still had his demented smile for a few seconds before having the smile drop and shutting his gun down.

"Oh." He said.

The Soldier grabbed his shovel and then smacked the Heavy in the face.

"WE COULD HAVE USED YOUR HELP YOU KNOW MAGGOT!" He shouted.

"Hey guys look!" The Scout said pointing up in the sky.

Everyone in the party (Except the Spy who was still missing) looked up to see a Helicopter in the sky flying above the city. It was using a flashlight to look and observe things on the ground.

"Hey!" The Scout shouted running out into the street. "Over here! We're alive and…NOT ZOMBIES!"

The Scout ran through the ally, still shouting at the Helicopter, hoping to get its attention somehow, or some way. He got into the street and continued to call out at the Helicopter, but was unable to alert the pilot to his presence. The Helicopter flew away from the scene, leaving the Scout behind.

"Dammit." He said.

A few seconds later, he turned around to see an infected leap from a building straight at him.

A Hunter.

"YIKES!" The Scout said, rolling to the side, missing the Hunter's lunge.

The Scout attempted to take out the Hunter with his Shotgun, but the Hunter managed to push it out of his hands. The Scout was left with only one option:

Home run time.

He grabbed his silver baseball bat and swung it at the one spot that no man can ever stand after being hit at: The crotch.

"Boink!" He said, nailing the Hunter right in his nuts. The Hunter grabbed his balls in pain as it tried to recover from the attack.

"Bonk!" The Scout shouted, nailing the Hunter in the head. The Hunter flew back on top of a car, stunned. The Scout reached for his Shotgun that he had dropped and fired a shell into the Hunter before it could get up, killing it.

However, at the same time, setting off a car alarm.

"Shit." He said.

"You fucking retard!" The Soldier said as the car alarm wailed out in the empty city.

All around the city, silhouettes or shadows could be seen as many infected ran from all corners and all areas, approaching the single area where the nine (wait the spy's still not there…eight) survivors gathered. The Soldier fried his rockets at the fence, destroying many of the infected trying to get up and over it. The Scout used his baseball bat and shotgun to attack infected as they approached. The Heavy fired rounds into the street, usually hitting multiple targets. The Sniper used his keen eye to find the Hunters, Boomers, and Smokers, hitting each one with deadly accuracy. The Medic used his healing gun and healed any allies who were hurt from the infected or let a Hunter get on top of them. The Engineer used his pistol and shotgun as he brought down infected after infected. The Pyro burnt up almost all that showed up in his way, and the Demo man fired his grenades.

They stood there, killing infected after infected for a whole three minutes.

"You know this really ain't working out!" The Soldier said.

"What's that Sasha!?" The Heavy said. "Kill them all? Good idea!"

"Can't kill them all mate." The Sniper said. "Unless you have a nuke stored somewhere in those ammo belts of yours, I don't think we're winning this fight."

"Look over there!" The Engineer shouted.

Out in the distance, the whole party saw a massive object approaching them from behind the massive waves of infected (that mostly fell. All thanks to Sasha). It had a similar human shape, but was not human. It had looked like the muscles of it expanded far greater than that of any body builder. It's face did not appear human at all.

A Tank.

"By the great meadows of Ireland!" The Demo man shouted. "A TANK!"

"RUN!" The Soldier said.

All nine (I mean eight) survivors began to run towards the same ally they were at earlier. The Demo Man stood behind and shot several Remote mines on the walls, while the Sniper used his Uzi to gun down infected that got near him. When the Demo man had placed his eight charges, the two ran away from the area. The Demo man turned around at one point while they were running to detonate the charges. The explosions from the ally made several unidentifiable body parts rain from the sky. The two again then ran towards the other six who were busy taking out other infected.

"The Stairs!" The Medic shouted as he started climbing up.

"Let's go ladies!" The Soldier shouted.

A massive roar was heard in the background. The whole party looked to see the tank coming out of the ally and heading towards them.

"Are you BLOODY KIDDING ME!?" The Demo man shouted. "That didn't kill it!?"

"You really thought it would?" The Sniper asked, killing another Boomer with his rifle.

"Good point!" The Demo man said, running up the stairs.

The Sniper attempted to follow, but the tank attacked the stairs, damaging the supports. The stairway began to collapse as the Sniper fell. All of the survivors were at a safe distance, except for the Sniper who was busy reaching for his Machete.

The Sniper took a direct blow to his stomach, being knocked into a wall. The Sniper was barely able to defend himself as the tank continued to attack him.

Suddenly the tank stopped moving and fell to the ground. The Sniper looked to see a Butterfly Knife in its back. The tank was still alive for it was twitching and breathing still. The Sniper used his only working hand at the moment and fired at the Tank's face. The face of the Tank exploded in a shower of blood as the thing collapsed into the ground and stopped moving.

"Thanks for standing still mate." The Sniper said.

"Are you alright?" The Spy said as he decloaked.

"Little woozy." The Sniper said.

"Let's go." The Spy said helping the Sniper to his legs.

Infected still continued to press towards the Spy and Sniper. The others above provided as much cover as they could, killing many of the infected nearby the two. After the Sniper was brought back on his feet, the two climbed up the ladder. The Infected tried climbing up the ladder as well; causing the weight it was carrying to give out. The Ladder began to collapse, but not before the Sniper managed to get to the roof.

"Spy!" The Heavy shouted. "Give me your hand!"

The Spy leaped from where was to the Heavy's hand. The entire stairwell collapsed under him, but he was okay. For the Heavy was so strong, the Spy was in good hands. The Heavy pulled the Spy back up to where the others were.

"Thank you my friend." The Spy said as he walked over by the rest of the people.

"Shit never ends." The Soldier said. "Spy, where were you back there?"

"I was doing recon per your instructed." The Spy said.

"Oh yeah; recon." The Scout said sarcastically. "More like making us left for dead. You know what I mean?"

"Oh really?" The Spy said. "Well what do you say to this?"

The Spy took out from his pocket a small handheld radio. It was not his so it must have been taken from a different house. The spy turned on the radio and moved it to AM 965.

"To anyone who can hear this." A man's voice said on the radio. "Proceed to Mercy Hospital for Evacuation. I repeat, proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation."

"They little dandies leaving the city eh?" The Demo man said.

"The government has been evacuating people for the past few days now." The Spy said. "But due to lack of Helicopters or other vehicles, they have been using local sources to provide additional support to the government. This Helicopter just picked a few survivors here yesterday. I guess they still believe people could be alive out here."

"So; we going to Mercy Hospital." The Heavy asked.

"Quite so." The Spy said, lighting a cigarette from his pack. "It's not too far from here…well normally it wouldn't. But there is so much obstruction from the infection and accidents that result from it. We'll have to take an alternative route. Light anyone?"

Some of the people like the Soldier and Heavy took a cigarette from the Spy.

"Light me." The Soldier said.

The Pyro pointed his flame thrower at the Soldier.

"NOT YOU!" He shouted. "I WANT TO LIVE, THANK YOU!"

"I say we take a break." The Scout said.

"Agreed." The Engineer said, finishing up an ammo dispenser. The Machine crackled to life seconds later.

"All right friends." The Engineer said. "You better take as much ammo as you can. We're not going to be able to build one of these puppies for awhile now; possibly ever. Take as much ammo as you need; especially you Heavy. I doubt Chicago has civilianized minigun rounds lying around.

"Yeah yeah." The Heavy said. He went over and put Sasha by the Dispenser. He then pulled out a Sandvich from his bag and began to enjoy a snack while he waited for his gun's ammo to fill up. Everyone now began to kick back as they waited for their guns to fill up with ammo.

"Hey old chap." The Sniper said as the medic continued to use his healing gun on him. "How'd you bring that Tank down it one hit?"

"The monstrosities that we face right now were once human, no?" The Spy said as continued to smoke.

"Yeah." The Sniper said.

"Yes. They were once human." The Spy continued. "And last time I saw, a human being required the spinal cord. These foes that we face may be overwhelming or possess unnatural or unethical strength. But they are still human. And without a spinal cord, a human is nothing."

The Sniper made a confirming sign as the healing rays went into his body.

"Don't get cocky my friend." The Spy said looking out on the street. "We still have a long way to go."