Starlight waited and seethed in her makeshift hospital bed. As much as she wanted to go on a robot massacre, she knew that attempting it solo again would result in far worse things. She occupied her time by testing out her new arm and seeing how it responded to various actions. For the most part, it acted exactly like her old one, albeit a little more stiff than usual.

She was in the process of testing how strong it was when a portal opened up and two teenagers stepped out. One of which was Sunset, this time wearing an orange blouse with her cutiemark on with a skirt. The other one was someone strangely familiar to her, but off somehow.

"You see what I mean, Twilight?" Sunset asked her bespectacled companion, urging her to check out the only girl in the room with a robot arm. Taking a few cautious steps forward, the nerd carefully examined the arm for a few moments, before starting to stroke her hand across it.

"Uhhh..." Starlight stammered out, hardly able to believe what was unfolding.

"Don't worry about it Starlight," Sunset reassured. "our Twilight is one of the top scientists in the world. I'm sure she'll be able to notice anything wrong with your arm before you get back out there."

"Aside from the amputated arm?" Starlight deadpanned.

"Hey, we both know you're not going to take doctor's orders anyway, might as well make sure you're ready before we mindlessly charge into the enemy." Sunset playfully punched Starlight in her human arm.

"Yeah, it all seems very uh, competently made." the human Twilight said, walking away from the mechanical limb. "Just try not to cut off your other arm, as it seems to be learning based on what you're doing with your other arm. Highly advanced for an arm prosthetic." She then walked back into the portal without so much as a goodbye.

"Rude," Starlight snarked, before turning back to the flame haired girl. "So, now what? You have a plan?"

"It's more that we have a plan." Spy decided to uncloak, surprising Starlight, but not Sunset.

"How did you-" Starlight sputtered before being cut off.

"Cloak and Dagger, Mon Cherie," he stated simply, before lighting up a cigarette. "While the rest of BLU are covering the coal town that guards some of the Australium left behind by Blutarch, Mannhatten is undefended entirely. We'll head there and meet up with Demoman, Scout and Pyro. After that w'll discuss things further."

"But first," Sunset interjected, pulling a strange light purple rock from her pocket. "Wallflower found this near her garden. She thought it might be useful to you."

Starlight stared thoughtfully. It matched her skin tone perfectly and radiated a soft glow that almost felt like magic. Looking back up at Sunset, she grinned. "Looks like I'm not going to deck her in the face."

Sunset shot a thumbs up as the three left for Mannhatten.

Things were heating up in the abandoned coal town. The waves were getting harder to fend off, and BLUs resources were getting more scarce. The core of Solider, Medic, Heavy and Engineer were doing their best to fend off as much as they could, with Sniper calling out flankers and sniping any robot that broke past their defense.

That was until he heard an unatural clanking behind him. Expecting it to be a Spy, he paid it no mind. The shield he had on his back would fry the bot if it tried. He was instead greeted with the shield being ripped from his back, before being thrown backwards. With the sun in his eyes, the Sniper could barely make out who threw him before his attacker blocked out the sun themselves.

"S-Starlight? What the bloody fu-"

His chewing out was cut off by a boot to the neck, causing him to choke. Placing more pressure on his neck, the robotic duplicate of Starlight raised her left arm to reveal a Gatling gun attached to it. Revving it up, it gave an inhuman grin to the bushman before letting out a volley of shots, shredding though his torso and leaving him for dead.

Turning her new left arm back into an arm, she pulled out a modified Contracker and pressed some buttons. The screen crackled to life, revealing Grey Mann''s face.

"Execution of BLU commencing. No sign of subject Starlight Glimmer." it spoke robotically, in a twisted mockery of Starlight's own voice.

Grey Mann's face turned sickly. "Good. She's probably still in their base. After you take out the main targets, trash Teufort until you find her. Then bring her to me. Alive."

The mechanical Starlight raised her hand in concern. "Sir, with all due respect, I do not think it would be very likely that I would be able to spring an attack on her twice without her knowing preemptively."

Grey's face went flat. "Project GL1MM3R, do as I say or I'll downgrade your intelligence manually. You already have the upgrades required to best her in a fight again and you don't even need to slice off her arm this time."

GL1MM3R sighed mechanically, steam coming out of her beanie. "Yes, sir." before turning off the Contracker and placing it in her pocket. Leaning over the roof of the saloon, she had the perfect chance to flank, as BLU were currently taking out a very large, rocket spamming Solider robot.

Pointing her right arm towards the Medic, GL1MM3R charged her arm mounted laser cannon and fired, dramatically shooting a hole right through the Medic's chest, killing him instantly as his corpse flopped to the ground. While this didn't alert anyone, it did make taking out the rest of the group easier. Hopping down from the saloon, she grabbed a downed robot Demoman's stickybomb launcher and launched several at the sentry currently mowing down wave after wave of robots.

"Starlight?" Engineer looked on in betrayed shock. "What the hell do you think you're doi-"

The large explosion to the right of Heavy and Solider finally alerted them that there was someone behind them. Turning around, they saw GL1MM3R casually toss away the stickybomb launcher she had just used and morphed her arms into relatively normal robot arms, her cyan eyes staring deep within their souls, providing a distraction for the gigantic BLU Solider to finish them off in a spectacular explosion.

Walking up to the RED bot, GL1MM3R turned her back to the RED giant, prompting it to place the bomb on her back.

After feeling the bomb attach to her small frame, she ambled to the drop off point, before slamming the large explosive in and walking away.

The base where BLU had been collecting their upgrades and stockpiling ammunition went up in flames.

Looking at her metallic comrades, it grinned. "Now that we've taken Coal Town, how about we take back our former cargo depot?"

Author's Notes:

Oh.. fuck. GL1MM3R op much?

Nah, she just used her brain.

She? But you just used "it" throughout the entire damn chapter, you hack.

Fair point. Maybe starting from next chapter we can define GL1MM3R's gender.

And come up with a less cliche name?

Ehh, no.