Ok, I have another Fortnite story to share with all of you so buckle up.
Last night, I queue up by myself in a squad game and I'm the luckiest girl on earth because all four of us have mics. To make a long story short we land on the edge of the map and keep getting shafted by the circle. For those of you that dont know, you have to run to a smaller and smaller circle in a set amount of time because a storm will kill you if you're outside of that circle. It's the games way of forcing players towards eachother so there can only be one at the end.
Anyway, we keep getting screwed by the circle because it's always popping up in the furthest possible point from us and we keep barely surviving these gunfights with other teams as we make our way to the next circle. We end up in 3 gunfights with 3 other teams (all seperate times) and we barely survive each one. Our health sucks and we hardly have any ammo due to our prolonged gunfights. We're essentially screwed as we enter the end game with 20 players left.
As we run towards our first end game circle there's a mountain in front of us with a massive ramp leading up to it, and a small, freshly built base on top. A couple of us say something along the lines of "Well, if we're going to die here let's at least go out fighting and try and take this mountain." As all 4 of us, with no cover, low health and little ammo, run up this ramp of death, our guns are taken over by a divine power because we miraculously take this squad out with relativelt little trouble. It doesn't make any sense as they totally had position on us (which matters a lot in this game). After a very brief exchange where they're only able to down one of us (me), we take the mountain. I get picked up and we watch as the storm swallows the ramp we used to take us up there.
Now, we're sitting atop a massive mountain overlooking a relatively small circle with about 7 or 8 people below us. We're able to pick up a few bandages so our health is better but still not great, and our ammo is now a joke. I have 12 bullets in my primary. For a little perspective, it takes 4 or 5 bullets to down an enemy if you hit every shot. No one hits every shot, especially at distance.
The one thing we do have in insane numbers is building materials and seeing as that building is kind of my thing, I get right to work building a flat surface extending out from the top of the mountain towards the center of the circle. I build it as wide as possible so it's difficult to shoot us from down from below. At first, we dont attract much attention as all of the gunfire is contained below, but after 20 or 30 seconds our little base slowly starts becoming more and more intimidating. Imagine looking up at a mountain and a sheet of metal the size of a football field, starts extending out from the top. It's literally blotting out the sky from down below. Now all that contained gunfire is directed at us. Piece by piece our massive platform is getting taken out from below. At first, I tell my squad to just focus on getting kills as I patch the floor up. After about 15 seconds of pure madness, I say "I need some help! They're going to take this floor out from under us if I dont get someone else helping me!". So two of us are patching this massive platform while gunfire from all sides are tearing into us.
After a bit, the people below realize we're patching faster than they can shoot so the gunfire starts being directed towards grounded enemies. We can breath now despite the fact that the actual mountain we climbed, has now been swallowed by the storm. We're safe up here but there's no way down at this point.
"I'm out of ammo."
"Me too."
"No you're not. Are you serious?!"
Of the four of us up here, only one of us has any ammo left, and he only has a few rounds in his sniper rifle. We're screwed. There's 8 people left in the match, we can't get dowm, we have next to no ammo. We're done.
It's peaceful up here. We're perfectly safe and only hear the crackle of gunfire that now seems so distant as l it's no longer a threat.
We start congratulating eachother on a hard fought game and reminisce about the close calls in previous battles we had leading up to this moment.
"GG everyone"
"GG..."
"...uh guys?! Look up."
It's a mother ****ing supply drop!! The massive platform we built acted as a giant net. A supply drop, containing a legendary weapon, ammo, bandages, and building materials starts floating down in a balloon, landing right in our lap!! This is literally a miracle!
I pick up the building materials and my 3 squadmates share the death dealing resources. I start building our base out a little further, and our squad starts raining death from above at the ants below until...
*click click*
We start running out of ammo again. 3 of us are bone dry and our 4th only has a few AR rounds left.
It's 4 (us) vs 1 (enemy) below. All four of us stand on the edge of our platform looking down at the ground. The last remaining enemy is hiding in a small metal shed on the opposite side of what is now a very small circle. Loot is absolutely everywhere on the ground. The weapons and resources of the dead light up the ground like a tacky looking Christmas tree. It's everywhere...we just cant touch it. The game is literally going to decide who wins this depending on where the next even smaller circle pops up. We wait in amazement until the game crushes us. The next circle pops up right over our little ant buddy hiding in his shed.
All four of us are staring down at him. We see the next circle pops up over his little covering and we're speechless. Now, as the storm slowly begins to come towards us, all of a sudden our little buddy sprints out of the shed and makes a B line to the nearest loot.
"Guys look!!"
"He's out of ammo too!"
"What the heck is he doing?!"
"OMG shoot him!!"
Our man takes four or five shots at the sprinter and boom VICTORY ROYALE pops up on our screen.
To this very day, we dont know why he did what he did but we do know one thing. All four of us had erections at the exact same time, and none of us think it was weird. None of us will ever think it's weird.
****ing play this game people.