While Ben and his four teammates were on high alert.
The Digital Letters Squad, now switching from defense to offense, seemed much more relaxed.
"Got it!" Heartbeat, who had been the unlucky one in the first match, was grinning widely now.
Especially after the last round, where his remote bomb had blown away three people, even though one was his own teammate.
"But this game's map is really twisty. I couldn't even find the bomb spots."
"It should be on the first or second floor. I checked the basement and nothing."
Sledge and Ash from the team spoke up.
"Don't say, this game is actually pretty fun."
"Save the bragging for later. Hurry up and finish. I'm starving for dinner."
Blackbeard and Buck in the squad also chimed in.
This round, they were playing pretty casually. Of course, learning from Ben's painful lesson, no one picked shields or anything like that.
The only operator from the previous defense round was Heartbeat, who chose the same FUZE as the opponent from last time.
"The enemies should be on the third floor. Look, that panel's been swapped out!" Heartbeat, now as FUZE, spotted the difference with sharp eyes and warned the team.
"Let's go inside slowly and creep up. You use the rope to break the window. We'll hit them from inside and out, show them what a real counter-terror team looks like!" As the team leader and the one who turned things around last time, Shock Bro was playing Sledge this round and said to everyone.
With clear roles, four of them had Sledge breach doors and lead the way, carefully moving toward the second floor, watching for anyone hiding around.
They advanced steadily to the second floor. As for the little cart thing, they clearly forgot about it.
This is something that often happens to new players coming from other games to Rainbow Six: Siege—they don't pay much attention to using the cart.
But if you say newbies don't focus on gathering info, well, when defending, everyone checks the cameras like crazy no matter who they are.
They just drop to the ground and pull out the phone to watch the cams.
Joey in the nursery also gave a heads-up.
"They're heading to the second floor!"
"Get ready! Joey, keep watching. Don't spook them! The house stands, we stand. If the house falls, we fall! We'll live or die with this mansion!" Ben said in a low voice.
Everyone's guns were aimed at the main door.
Meanwhile, FUZE, acting alone, was having a blast. The three-armor, one-speed FUZE ran a bit slow, and the noise was huge, but he didn't care if they heard him. In fact, it could draw attention away from the others.
He shot his grappling hook to the ceiling, and FUZE started climbing up slowly.
Soon he reached the second floor. Right now, he was figuring out his operator's skill.
First time playing this operator, he had no idea how it worked.
By this time, the others had also arrived at the second floor. Even though a bomb was right in the next room's studio, separated by just a wall, they had no clue since the map was new to them.
Everyone's focus was pulled to the kids' bedroom in front of them.
Inside the room, Joey stopped checking the cams because he knew they were all at the door.
Outside, the letters crew had their sights ready, waiting tensely.
"Once I smash the door with Sledge, get Buck's flashbangs ready. Whether we survive their blind fire sweep depends on our luck. Don't stop moving—even if we die, die inside the room!" Sledge laid out the next assault plan.
"Also, FUZE, you might have it rough. You'll need to shoot first to draw fire! The moment you shoot and pull their attention, you might get taken out, but we'll rush in and clean up." Sledge added.
"No problem!" FUZE hadn't figured out his skill yet, but hearing the plan, he firmly agreed to follow through.
"Get set. I'm starting!" FUZE outside took a deep breath, but instead of just shooting, he decided to try something fancy.
"This should be the skill, right?" Looking at the disc in his hand, he wasn't totally sure, but he didn't overthink it. After all, he was just cannon fodder.
"Get set. I'm starting!" He wedged the device onto the hatchery panel, feet on the wall, FUZE looking excited.
In the VR version's breaching drop setup, Lucas had tweaked it from his past life—it didn't need breaching charges anymore.
You could just fly-kick drop straight in. The hatchery panel wouldn't break from a kick, but it would react, and that's what FUZE did now.
"Shoot to signal! We're waiting on you!" Sledge outside was ready.
"Here we go!! Ura!!!!" Since FUZE is Russian, at this moment the player got into it and shouted the classic line with feeling.
He shot in the air while grabbing the remote.
But the expected explosion didn't happen. Instead, there was a 'thud thud thud thud thud thud...'
It caught him off guard.
Inside, Zack heard the thuds and suddenly panicked.
This damn sound—he'd played FUZE in the first round. It was way too familiar.
"Run! Bomb's coming!" Zack yelled in alarm, making his character stand from crouch.
At that moment, Sledge outside smashed the door, and the four big guys burst in.
Influenced by the "Ura," the Sledge player got into character during the breach.
"FBI! Open the door!"
With those pumped-up words, the four rushed inside.
'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!'
[123 triggered teammate damage]
[123 killed by self]
[123 killed abc]
[123 killed qwe]
...
[Detected player 123's bad behavior in match. Kicked from game and banned for 30 minutes as warning. Please treat new players kindly, keep the game friendly, and value your account.]
[Draw]
Compared to the old system's draw where both sides got 1 point, Lucas chose no points for a draw—just keep things as they were, like the round never happened.
But right now, no one cared about the rare draw. Everyone was totally stunned.
FUZE with nine kills?
Wait, ten kills!
Everyone was slack-jawed.
Outside the net cafe, everyone saw this and burst out laughing like crazy.
In the game, with one teammate gone, the other side's four went quiet for a bit, then all quit.
In five-player premade mode, no randoms fill in.
Without enemies, Ben's team got the win and moved to the final results screen.
But at this point, Ben and the others weren't thinking about winning or losing. Their minds were still replaying that scene.
(End of The Chapter)
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