With that chilling thought settled within her mind, Starlight started to get up, before being stopped by the Medic. "Uh, is zat bandage supposed to be zhere?" He asked quizzically. She had forgotten about it, somehow.

"No, actually. Could you-" Starlight was interrupted by the flow of the Medi-Beam entering her body. It was relaxing, like bathing in a river of magic. Before she knew it, her head trauma was gone and she was whisked back into the real world. "Woah."

"Everyone has zat reaction the first time, haha. You get used to it." Medic said cheerfully, before waving Starlight off as she left. "Bye Mien Fraulein! Don't get into any more accidents!"

The grate door shut behind Starlight, leaving her alone in the base. Well, she still had her shotgun, at least. She could probably do some recon while getting a feel for the base.

Heading to her immedieate left, she once again walked out into the sunshine. Large battlements surrounded her immediate view before the walls to her left stopped, allowing her to see the area in it's entirety.

Below her lay a rickety bridge with a roof above it, notably missing several panels on both parts of it. Below that was a river, presumably leading to the sewers where she'd started off. Most interesting of all though, was the structure in front of her. It was an exact duplicate of the base she was in, just painted red and slightly more wooden-looking.

Before too long however, she felt the redness encapsulate her entire vision. In this haze of vision, she swore she saw some red and yellow that looked vaguely familiar.

All this before she was tackled to the ground, away from the sightline by a mysterious entity.

"The bloody hell are ya doin' mate? You tryin' to shed some weight off of that neck?" he yelled. Starlight blinked for a few moments, trying to get her vision back in focus before getting up, slightly dazed but otherwise uninjured.

Her mysterious savior then revealed themselves. In comparison to Medic and Solider, he looked positively ordinary, with a simple getup of a jacket (that was oddly similar to her own a few details aside), camouflage pants that were panted blue, fingerless gloves and a hat that looked like the ones she saw while in Manehatten on the police officers.

"Uh, sorry about that. I'm new around here, and I was shocked to see that the Reds have the same sorta base of operations, then there was this red glare in my eyes..."

The man's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh, I'm sorry mate! Usually people know better than to stand still on the battlements, due to their wanker of a Sniper. I'm Sniper, by the way." He held out a hand to shake Starlight's with, before continuing. "That red glare was probably the cunt's sight, dunno why he hesitated though. He's usually quite merciless when it comes to headshots."

Now it was Starlight's turn to be surprised. "Oh! Well then, I nearly died. Thanks for saving me, Sniper."

A thumbs up flashed, along with a grin. "No worries mate, now excuse me, I need to show that wanker how to snipe!" he said excitedly before running back into the line of sight and scoping in. Starlight got up and left, shotgun in tow.

Arriving back in the main hub, she considered her options. While going forward would seem like a good idea, it was probably just another way to get into the hallway she entered from. Not useful. That left the right way that she hadn't taken yet.

Passing by a small ammunition crate, she picked some shotgun shells up and placed them in her backpack (Which was miraculously still on her back.) and a small bandage to cover up the graze she got from being tackled, before realising the large steel door in front of her was closed, with a small intercom to the side. Pushing into it, a gruff, distinct voice was on the other end, slightly muffed by static.

"Who is this?" he demanded. "I'm workin' on the respawn machine for the new recruit. I gave explicit orders NOT to be disturbed!"

"Uhh, it's the new recruit, Starlight Glimmer. I just wanted to get a feel for the base, but I'll come back later-"

"Oh." the voice replied. "Sorry, I should have known that you would have wanted to come down here. Texan instinct to keep everythin' locked tight. It'll open in a sec. See ya down there, Starlight."

The voice reminded her of Applejack for some reason. And as he said, the door opened without any trouble, revealing a hallway with a left turn in it. And then another. Then another. After that, the spiral stopped to reveal a large room, with the centrepiece being the massive computer in the middle of it. It also looked far less cobbled together than the rest of the base, implying that the rest was just a front for this area. Walking past the health kit and ammunition pack, she was faced with another two hallways. Deciding to take the left one, she walked down it, noticing that there was a large room that had nobody in it to her left, along with a map of (Presumably) the world, with circles in various locations.

Honestly, she had no idea what this was. Shrugging, she hit a room with a large B in it. This B was the logo of...

"Builders League United... That spells BLU?"

"Yup little miss." The voice from before spoke, startling her. Turning to her right, she saw a relatively stout man, with a hat that screamed "crazy hobo", a beard suspiciously similar to the one Solider had and a cross-stitched shirt that looked like something someone in their late 50s would wear. Despite this very odd and scary combination of items, the vibe she got from him was still at the very least, relatively friendly.

"Howdy."

"Howdy pard'ner!" Starlight greeted, doing a terrible impression of the man's accent.

"I'm the Engineer. Or Engi, I don't mind either. I assume you're the new meat, then?" Engineer asked, ignoring the offensive accent Starlight had attempted to portray and continuing to tinker with a strange device.

"Yeah. I kinda got bored of wandering and nearly got shot by a sniper, so I thought I'd come down here and see what you're doing."

"Well," Engineer stood back, letting Starlight look at the device. "I'm just makin' some adjustments to the Deoxyribonucleic Incubation and Cloning Kontainer." He said with a flourish. Honestly, it looked the same as the other stuff outside of the room, but technology all looked the same to Starlight. "I still need to do a few adjustments, but feel free to stay down here."

Starlight nodded before looking at the desk across the room. A blue briefcase was sat there, waiting...

"Hey Engi, do you know what's in that briefcase?"

"We're just paid to protect it, Starlight. None of us has ever bothered to open it up. I think it'd break contract." Engi replied, half-distracted by his work.

"Hey guys!" Scout appeared seemingly out of nowhere, scaring the pair.

"Scout, never do that again." Starlight said. "Otherwise I'd have to shoot you in the face."

Scout laughed, but it seemed off somehow. Starlight glanced over Scout. Everything seemed to be in order. The helmet, jacket and pants, the baseball bat, the customized scattergun...

"Hey Scout... I thought you used a mackeral." Starlight noted suspiciously.

"Oh please lady, you'd think I'd use some smelly old fish?" Scout replied, eyes darting around. Engineer was still distracted, tinkering away. Starlight cocked her shotgun.

"Who are you?" Starlight demanded.

Her question was answered by a knife to her left arm, revealing the Scout to be a RED Spy. Wincing in pain, Starlight's adreniline allowed her to shoot the Spy in the knee, imobilizing him.

"Now listen here, you RED piece of garbage." Starlight started to rant, pulling the knife out of her arm using her free hand. "You may have tricked me this time, but next time I see you sneaking around, I won't hesitate to destroy you."

The Spy laughed. "Oh yes, I'm so scared of a high school girl. What are you going to do, send me mean messages on social media?"

Starlight replied by shooting him in the face, causing his head to explode spectacularly, and his limp body to fall over backwards.

"Starlight, you alright?" Engineer asked, heading to an intercom similar to the one she found upstairs. "Medic, we need you ASAP! Starlight was stabbed by an enemy Spy, and I don't have the D.I.C.K. ready for her!"

Even though her arm was bleeding everywhere and she was in a lot of pain, Starlight struggled to contain her laughter. "I can't believe you named it that."

Engineer shrugged. "Well, it was Mr Hale's idea..."

Spy respawned. The plan went as well as expected. Get the new blood's attention, stab her in order to get some blood on his knife, then die. Taking the knife out of his pocket, he examined the blood stain. It was still fresh.

Walking out of spawn, the RED Engineer and Medic were wating for him.

"So? How'd it go?" Engineer asked.

Flashing his knife, Spy smiled. "Flawlessly. Now we'll see where this Starlight Glimmer came from and see if we can... Even the odds a little." Before the free laughed darkly.

Author's Notes:

Sorry this took a while, but I was getting tired of writing a description of each merc. I think I'll slow down on the introductions and kick off the actual story.

Also, RED team have their default look from the game. Mostly because they're just the enemy. That and I'm already having a hell of a time describing the BLUs.

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Engineer