Oh... Poor RED Spy. Also: Unless I'm misreading the situation, the RED Spy/BLU Sniper are dead for real. Unless it were for technical reasons (which would make sense), I'm having trouble understanding why they would send out mercs to track them down if they would be at risk for dying permanently - even if those mercs were so highly skilled at tracking and killing, it just doesn't seem logical that they would risk losing both Spies and both Snipers instead of two. Granted, from what we know of RED and BLU, pettiness often takes priority over logic... Even so, it also seems odd that the pair seems to know that they won't respawn, when you would think they would assume otherwise. Unless I'm reading it wrong, and they were just killing them long enough to escape and hide deeper. I love this, though, and I'm so glad you're back writing again.