I was living in a small neighborhood on the east side of Milwaukee. Oh, by the way the names Madeline. Normally everyone calls me Maddie for short. Anyway we're getting off track. I was carrying a bag of tostitos chips with Fritos jalapeno cheddar dip while the other bag had a package of kisses and Twizzlers. I got to my home where it was cooler inside then it was outside. I opened my front door to be immediately greeted by my Great horned Owl, Pascal. "Hey Pascal." I greeted. I petted him on the head and then went into my room where my brother was starting the movie, The hobbit the unexpected journey. I reached into the plastic bag and threw him the Twizzlers he asked for. I laid down at the foot of my bed so I can see the screen and Pascal followed suit. I'll admit it it would sometimes get a little boring around my neighborhood. Some days I'd wish for something exciting to happen. When the movie ended the computer went on the fritz. "Oh great. What's wrong with this thing now?" I said in a frustrated tone. I knelt on my knees to see if there was something wrong with the internet connection. I checked to see if there were any loose plugs but everything was in ship shape. "What is going on?" I asked myself. Sparks start to fly from the computer and I gave out a small shriek. It started to beep slowly for a few seconds soon it started to grow faster and louder then Pascal started to screech.

"Maddie what the hell did you do?!" Taylor yelled over the noise so I can hear him.

"Nothing. I checked to see if the plugs and wires were loose they were fine!" I replied. Then came a bright white flash from the screen. Me and Taylor shielded our eyes from the blinding light then everything went dark.


I gained consciousness to see I was in a large base like building with tech that's more advanced than what I have back home. I looked to my left to see my brother passed out with Pascal nudging him to wake up. I shook him awake and when he came too he was as shocked as I was. "Um Taylor." I said in a scared tone.

"Yeah sis." he replied.

"I have a feeling we're not in Milwaukee anymore." We looked at each other to see that we were wearing shades of blue armor. I had on blue topaz armor with white trims while Taylor had navy blue armor with silver trims. We helped each other off the ground and Pascal was perched on my shoulder then started to walk on the base grounds. As we were walking I could hear a mans voice in the distance. It was possible that he might lead us out of here where ever here is. As soon as we found the source of the voice we found that it was a circle of people with multicolored armor and a silver coated German Shepard. 4 soldiers had different shades of blue and one wore black armor while the other wore purple armor with hot pink accents. In excitement Pascal gave out a screech and they all turned their heads towards us.

"Who are you guys?" asked the one in cobalt armor. I recognized that voice. Church I believe. I know him from me and my brothers favorite web show; Red vs Blue. I had a deficient feeling that we're not in Milwaukee anymore.

'Oh shit come up with something Madeline!' I thought. I cleared my throat and said, "We're the rookies for blue team. Names Madeline, Madeline O'Reilly and this is my brother Taylor." Taylor gave a small wave to the group. Pascal then flew off my shoulder then perched himself on the purple one.

"And who's this?" He asked petting Pascal.

"That's Pascal our owl." I answered. Then his German Shepard dog came up to me and started to sniff me and lick my hand.

"That's my dog Luna. Don't worry about her she's harmless." he said. "Names Neon, Neon Lance."

"Nice to meet you Neon." I said politely.

"Yeah its not offend we get rookies." said Tucker. He walked up to me and my brother, held out his hand and said, "Names Tucker." I reached out and started to shake his hand and repeated the process with Taylor.

"Oh my god! New friends!" bounced a really hyper Caboose. I had to admit when Caboose greeted me like that it scared the crap out of me. I gave a small screech out of being startled like that.

"Sorry about that." Church apologized "Caboose can get a little hyped when it comes to meeting new members. By the way names Church. And the girl in black armor that's Tex."

Just then someone in white armor caught my eye. She came my way and said, "Hi. The names Chi."

"It's nice to meet you all." I glanced over to Tucker and noticed that he had an energy sword in his hand. "Cool sword by the way."

"Thanks kid." he replied.

"Hey, Tucker" Church called out "I don't think it's a good idea that you're keeping that thing."

"You're just pissed because you don't have one." Tucker snorted as he ran his finger across the blade

"No, you must have me confused with Tex." Church retorted "She's been staring at you non-stop since you found that thing."

Tex was staring at the weapon like Pascal would stare at a mouse in a cage and she responded with"...That's not true."

"You haven't taken your eyes off it."

"Yes I have."

"Then why haven't you looked at me the entire time I've been talkin'?"

"I'm looking at you right now."

"Nu-hoh you're not!"

"I've already seen you. Not too impressed."

"I would have tried to save Tex, too..." Caboose thought out loud

"Well I didn't Caboose," Church snapped "I didn't try to save me, I didn't try to save Tex, and I sure as hell didn't make millions of copies of myself trying to keep the bomb from goin' off!"

"Oh. Because that was my next suggestion."

"Leave me alone, Caboose." said a really annoyed Church "I didn't wanna mess with the timeline."

"Time, line?" Caboose scoffed "Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round."

"Man, that thing is really shiny." said Tex like she was in a trance.

"Yep." said Tucker unknowingly.

"Tucker man," Church then pull Tucker aside to get away from Tex "I still think- computer told me that thing is a very important relic, for some ancient culture. I wouldn't go swinging it around like that."

"Yeah?" replied Tucker "Well I think it's just a kickass piece of bling. And who're you gonna believe, me, or some super-smart stupid talking computer?"

"I don't see how that helps your theory." I said, siding with Church.

"What!" said Tucker with a socked expression. "Your putting up with this shit kid." Just then a guy in pink armor shows up.

"Hey what's going on?" he asked.

"Nothing." I answered.

"Awwww who's this?" he asked, referring to me "Did you guy's get a rookie?"

"Yeah, I guess." shrugged Tucker.

"And we got two." Church pointed out "And an owl."

"Cool." He said from excitement "I'm Donut."

"Madeline, Madeline O'Reilly this is my brother Taylor and my owl Pascal."

"What kind of owl is he?"

"He's a Great horned owl."

"He's a pretty owl."

"Thank you."

"Donut cut the shit," said Neon "What are you doing here?"

"You don't mind if I tell you guy's a story?" he responded.

They all responded with shrugs or 'sure'. Donut just rambled on for 15 minutes about his little tall tale and finished with, "And that's the story about how I saved Christmas."

"I didn't know the north pole was in San Francisco," Caboose gasped "This changes everything!"

"Yeah," Tucker mutter unconvinced "and I don't think Santa's suit was a leather bickers outfit."

"Or that his sled was a Cadillac." I added.

"And that his reindeer were 8 Doberman pinscher." Chi included.

"Hey wait a second," Church cried out "Why are we letting this pink guy distract us."

"I'm not distracting." Donut stammered.

"Yeah you are," Church retorted "while we're sitting here jabbering the reds are over there monkeying about!"

"Okay Church," Neon stopped "First off, monkeying about? Second, this guy is a bigger moron than Caboose. And third, monkeying about? Come on man."

"It's a real phrase." He scoffed.

"Bullshit. That's what you said about horse-doodling."

"Guys." I cried as I got between them to stop the fighting.

We then made our way to the outer wall as we did I can hear Donut quietly cheer, "Yes!" But I only wondered to myself 'how were we going to get home?'