Old Wounds

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Old Wounds
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Comic Strip Info
Released: August 31, 2015
Number of pages: 79
Artist: makani
Writer: Jay Pinkerton & Erik Wolpaw
Colorist: Maren Marmulla
Zhanna good news! I poked Miss Pauling and her heart started again! She's alive again!
The Soldier

Old Wounds (also known as Team Fortress Comics #5) is a comic released on August 31, 2015. It is the fourth part of a seven-part comic series, picking up where Blood in the Water left off.

Synopsis

The comic starts with TFC Heavy and Gray Mann discussing about the whereabouts of the Administrator and also where the Australium has gone. Whilst Gray Mann starts to talk about his future plans, Heavy (Classic) grabs Gray and talks about taking over from Gray Mann.

Meanwhile, a bloodied, chained Soldier is under interrogation by the TFC Pyro (a lady now known as Beatrice) for information on the Administrator's location. Soldier, though reluctant to tell, accidentally reveals that Miss Pauling knows where she is. Zhanna, also tied up nearby, asks to be tortured instead of the Soldier, but Beatrice declines and continues on torturing him. Heavy (Classic) walks in with Gray in his hand and asks Beatrice to torture him, before ripping out his life extending machine, then leaving the room. Zhanna spots a glass shard on the floor and uses it to break free from her handcuffs. She then throws the drill gun out of the TFC Pyro's hand and jams an incindeary grenade into her suit, also putting her mask back on before the grenade detonates, reducing her to ashes. As she is thanked by the Soldier, she shows that she actuaally cut her hand off to free herself, which the Soilder praises her for. Zhanna thanks the Soldier for this and they start to leave the room, but Gray interupts them and begs of them to take him to Miss Pauling.

Demoman is then shown chained up, but speaking to a few of his own body organs in an hallucination. His liver leaves him, then Demo commands his heart to replace it, and his lungs to prevent his liver from coming back, since it isn't wlcome anymore.

During Demoman's dream, Pyro, Miss Pauling and Spy are shown chained up with him as well in a cell. Miss Pauling mentions about how she managed to get the team caputred. After Spy attempts to comfort her, she starts to tear. He offers her to commit suicide with him by means of a cyanide molar in the Spy's mouth. As Spy is about to spit a piece of the molar on Pauling's mouth, Heavy bursts in, saying then that that there are thousands of robots patroling the island. Heavy then offers to sacrifice himself to save Miss Pauling and the others. Pauling then discloses Heavy the coordinates where they were suposed to meet the administrator, and proceeds to unchain Spy. At this moment, Demoman (Classic) runs into the room with a ringing telephone, and Heavy starts to fade into the TFC Spy. The Spy (classic) collects the call and gets iformed about Beatrice's fate, also he communicates to the other person on the lie the coordinates where the administrator would be found. Spy (Classic) then orders the TFC Demoman to kill the rest of the surviving classes. However, as he is leaving, he is attacked by Zhanna and Soldier. Zhanna punches the Spy with her stump, which doesn't work. Soldier then steps in and snaps TFC Spy's neck with a single punch, killing him. Demoman (Classic) then grabs Miss Pauling and threatens to shoot her unless Zhanna puts the shotgun down. Zhanna complies, lowering the Shotgun, only to suddenly punch Pauling in the face, and knocking Demo to the ground, where he gets strangled by the spy with his chains. Soldier checks on Pauling, who actually died from the punch, just to soon reanimate as Soldier's poking her. Soldier then shows Gray to her, who upon dying requests them to stop the administrator, since according to him, her plans are even more grim than his. Miss Pauling defends her, giving an emotive speech mentioning how she worked for her for so long, and followed all of her demands, before Spy interupts her, informing Pauling that Gray actually perished about two minutes ago, and didn't hear her words.

The comic cuts to the Medic standing over an operating table with the Sniper's body on it. Sniper is then shown in Heaven with his adopted parents, saying that he didn't want to leave them behind. They then say that although they want him to stay, there is a lot of killing to be done. The Sniper wakes back up on the operating table, with stiches all across his torso. Medic, suprised, calls it his "crowning medical achivement" before Sniper throttles him. Medic says that he didn't kill him and states that he only smiled because he was happy to see him. Medic also said that he only joined the Classic team because their team disbanded and they needed a Medic and he was using Sniper's body for organ harvesting. Sniper then wonders if the vision he had of his adopted parents was real, which Medic says that was a hallucination before brain death. Sniper disreagards that and claims himself as the most dangerous man on the island. As Medic begins to comment on Sniper's condition, the TFC Heavy bursts in and questions the Medic on why Sniper is alive. Medic begins to explain about how he needed Sniper's body whilst Archimedes flys to the TFC Heavy. The TFC Heavy then grabs Archimedes and throws him to the ground, killing him. Whilst Medic is in the process of ressurecting Archimedes, the TFC Heavy talks about how Medic wasted the medical budget on organ parts, experimenting and bringing the Sniper back to life. Suddenly, the alarm rings, and TFC Heavy gets the call that the team has killed three TFC mercenaries. TFC heavy turns round to the Medic and says that the remaining TFC team are going to find them and Medic offers to join them. TFC Heavy declines the offer and asks Medic to kill Sniper, but unfortunately, Sniper had escaped prior. TFC Heavy then says to Medic to prepare himself and not to leave the room. Archimedes coos at Medic and Medic says that he couldn't agree more, implying that he too, wants to get rid of TFC Heavy.

As the team are making their escape from the base, the TFC Heavy speaks to them via screens scattered around the building, and talks about Gray's plan to invade Australia, but also pointing out that he couldn't understand the reason for the invasion, given that the Administrator had already taken it. He then also said that there is some Australium left in the people, and that Gray Mann made masses of robots to suck the Australium out of their bodies. The team then encounter the robots behind the corner, which grab on them and start to suck their blood out.

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Trivia

  • Where Soldier mentions to Zhanna that he "did not know that they stacked ravishing that high", it is a reference to the opening scenes of Full Metal Jacket.
  • The coordinates which Miss Pauling talks about points to a location in New Mexico called the Organ Needle.

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