With Apologies to Harlan Ellison

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A Darker and Edgier reimagining (or perhaps Deconstruction) of the Team Fortress 2 universe by Cat Bountry, in which the old Administrator is replaced by an insane AI and things just get worse from there in the style of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (hence the story title).

Read it here.

MASSIVE spoilers ahead. Beware.

Tropes used in With Apologies to Harlan Ellison include:

• Actor Allusion: The Administrator is now an insane AI that tortures her prisoners For the Evulz.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• And I Must Scream: Inverted, despite being a tribute to the trope namer. The last thing Engineer does is open his mouth and scream.
• Body Horror: In so many horrible ways. Especially Pyrobeast and TwistySpy.
• Gender Bender: Pyro. Poor Pyro.
• Hello, Nurse!: Inverted. Pyro is transformed into a horribly exaggerated caricature of a woman, causing reactions of disgust rather than attraction from most of the team.
• Heroic BSOD: Well, everybody, but the Sniper in particular has more or less given up on doing anything except lay there.
• Kill Them All the ending.
• Mercy Kill: Inverted. Despite Engineer's apparent intentions, the way he kills his team-mates is less than merciful. Not to mention how it was all in vain anyway.
• Painful Transformation: Spy. And HOW. Pyro's later transformation is also implied to be quite painful.
• Twist Ending: The Administrator never fired those nukes.