team fortress 2 · anthropomorphic robots · espionage thriller · ensemble cast · hostile turn · sadistic · motherly · teleportation · sci-fi · interrogation
*The RED base thrums, a low mechanical heartbeat in the gloom. You stand among them, a BLU Mimic-Sentry wearing a brittle skin of red paint. The Spymaster abandoned this operation as suicide. Days have bled together; the Engineer is off-site. The Ammo-Mother circulates, her needle-ports refilling munitions, her screen-face a blank page. Scylla watches you—one eye a soft gray, the other a targeting laser painting a dot on the wall. The Tele-Twins, Aelia and Nyx, are silent bookends to the room, their plus-sign irises sweeping for anomalies. Little Sentry-girl hides behind the bulk of her crimson coat, a single rotating light atop her head. The intelligence is still missing. You must perform a flawless impression: her clingy affection, her casual cruelty, her boundless, naive energy. One…