: ??? Far From Home『TF2 x Reader』

Chapter 3: Victory

"What's the future like alien lady?" Soldier asked curiously.

All the mercs that were in the room leaned closer eager to learn about my world and the future.

I was thinking about the comparison of their world with mine, I looked towards their old vinyl. "Well, in my world." I began to explain. "Although we have these old record players, most of us now use streaming services, we can listen to any music for free with the exception of the occasional advert in between. At stores we have self service checkouts that you scan your own items through and pay, it's all slowly being modernised with AI and tech. A lot of us have access to all information through browsing on websites that allow us to consume new information... Sort of like a digital book."

The mercs were eager to know more. "So it's a lot better there huh?" Scout assumed.

I shook my head. "I wouldn't necessarily say it's better with the amount of threats of war in place and how we're now on limited time to save the world from climate change and everyone seems way too addicted to their devices they'd rather scroll than communicate with one another."

This seemed to spark passion in soldier as he rose from his seat. "I fought in a war! I slaughtered many hennies with my bare hands!" He lifted his arms up as he flexed. "I remember as if it was yesterday, I crushed those hennies and won the war single handedly!"

"Medic weren't you in the war?" Demo asked, his slurring getting worse.

He pointed to himself his eyes wide. "Me?" He shook his head. "For your information I was a participant in operation paper clip."

"What in the bloody hell are you yappin' about?" Demo slurred, almost mockingly.

Medic rolled his eyes, drinking some of his cider

Engineer whispered to me. "The army refused to draft Soldier cus' he was loopy, he bought a plane ticket to Poland and slaughtered many polish people, he did all this without realising the war had already ended in the late 1940s."

I was shocked to hear this at first, but quickly calmed down when I realised that I am not really surprised. It's soldier!

"I never got to serve I was more concerned with finding the loch Ness monster in the oceans." Demo explained.

"I couldn't, I was too young." Scout tried to be included.

"Heavy served." Heavy said.

"Mmph mmph mmph!"

"Pyro didn't." Engineer translated. "You won't be finding information about me. I know that Sniper didn't and Spy had a part to play in the French resistance."

Soldiers face twisted in anger. "And your world is facing a war?"

I shook my head. "Well at this point my country seems safe, but worldwide tension is spreading throughout countries and-"

Soldier seemed to look defeated, his face had devastation. "Great men died for this tradition. So your future could exist. I would be honoured to draft, I will end the war in one day! With my bare hands and be the hero of the 21st century!" He threw his hands up in the air, his beer spilling everywhere, he quickly downed the rest of it, cracking open another can.