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Inside the workshop on the RED side of 2Fort, the RED Engineer has been working all day and night on the weekends to come up with new weapons which parts of the Mann Co. community have been craving for a while. He made a couple of blueprints, one of them being a modified Kritzkreg named "The Bread Baker" that can fire a short-range critical beam instead of giving a teammate crits, but at the cost of heavily reduced movement for the Medic when the Ubercharge is active, which takes a long time for it to power up and will last only five seconds. Another weapon he has in mind is a shotgun that can shoot high velocity sprinkles called "The Sprinkler." He also has some magic power ideas such as a spell known as "Eye Jack" that can mess with the person's vision by having one of their eyes aim at one direction while the other eye aims somewhere else.
He sent the blueprints to Mann Co.'s Munitions Qualification Department. In a week, his "Eye Jack" spell is sent back due to being "unnecessary", according to the processing report attached to the box. The report also says that "The Bread Baker" and "The Sprinkler" have passed QA and the weapons abilities will be tweaked prior to weapon production at a unknown date. When he picked up the box to throw it away, he notices an envelope attached to the box. "Rainbow Division of TF Industries.", the front of the red-colored envelope said, which has a picture of a muti-colored Pegasus above the company's name. The Engineer opens the envelope and reads the letter.
"Greetings from the newly founded Rainbow Division of TF Industries, we are interested in your new ideas for our upcoming line of new weaponry, along with many new additions to both RED and BLU Team. You can continue to create blueprints for us on your own time for now. However, you must continue to follow the Munitions Qualification policy to avoid any trouble. We will expand our operations if our lineup is successful. We may contact you by the end of the month for more opportunities. Sincerely, CEO of Weatherless Manufacturing, a Subsidiary of Cloudsdale Weather Corp."
The CEO's name is not mentioned. "Must've been a typo.", the Engineer thought. Dismissing the mistake, he went back to his wooden workbench, brainstorming ideas for the weapons he will design. He could make bunch of joke weapons, but it will not get him anywhere beyond the Munitions Qualification Department. One of the easy ways of getting designs through the department are reskins, which is what "The Sprinkler" is. The Engineer glances at the clock above the barn doors that led to the outside spawn area. It is 8:00 PM, two hours until light's out. He looks at the calendar pinned to the left barn door. The date is June 23, a week away from July. He has the rest of the month to spare to come up with blueprints and send them to the QA department for processing. He wonders if he can get paid for making blueprints that are well done.
In the Munitions Qualification Department of Mann Co., most of the workers were overwhelmed by blueprints from both RED and BLU Team since the Rainbow Division distributed letters to all engineers both sides, barely telling them about what they were going to do sometime in July. They can submit blueprints directly to the QA department for processing. The same thing was sent to Mann Co.'s Arsenal Community members, who have been making blueprints of items and weapons for years.
In order for blueprints to go through the QA department, four basic rules have to be followed in the policy.
1. The items cannot overpower the classes that will be using them.
2. Weapon and item reskins are allowed as long as they perform identically to its non-reskinned equivalent.
3. NO JOKE WEAPONS AND ITEMS. If any blueprint contains sexual material of any kind on it, it will be incinerated and the creator will be revoked of his right to making blueprints.
4. Modified weaponry and items are allowed as long as they do not not overpower the user, nor cause balancing issues.
To get the oncoming piles of blueprints processed by the end of June, the QA workers will have to crunch for the rest of the month, which was rare for this to happen prior to the business deal between TF Industries and Cloudsdale Weather Corp. How and why the deal happened is unknown to them, including RED and BLU.
Inside the tightly secure Respawn Vault, which is located under Mann Co. Headquarters, two BLU medics walk through into the main server farm, which digitally stores the DNA of hundreds of thousands of individuals working RED and BLU Team. One medic pushes a small cart that has a large medical container on top of it while the other held a clipboard, checking off the individuals the medics got blood samples from.
"The pink one...check. The Texan one...check.", the clipboard medic mumbled quietly. "The princess...check. The tomboyish one...check."
"Did we get everybody?", the cart medic asked.
"In a moment." The clipboard medic glances at the already checked off individuals. "Yeah, we got all of them.", he said when they arrive at the computer that will analyze the individuals' DNA and store them onto the spawn servers. "I'll take care of the rest."
As the cart medic hurries off, the clipboard medic presses a couple of keys on the keyboard, causing an empty vial rack to rise up from the table. He opens opens up the large medical container, revealing two layers of racks, holding labeled vials of blood. He proceeds to place ten vials into the computer's vial rack, replacing one of their caps with a syringe that is connected to the computer.
"Input DNA? Y/N.", the onscreen prompt asked. He presses Y. Blood from the vial slowly flows through the small tube into the computer. Onscreen, a window pops up, displaying the name and gender of the individual, but their characteristics is unknown. "Confirm DNA Sample: Twilight Sparkle? Y/N.", the prompt next to the analysis window asked. After pressing Y, both windows close and another one opens up moments later, saying that Twilight's DNA has been recorded into the respawn servers successfully. One vial of blood processed, more than twenty vials to go.
"This is going to take a while.", the medic muttered.
In the upper floors of TF Industries HQ, where access to them is highly restricted to very few individuals, the Announcer is "off on vacation" at a top secret location, leaving the control room to nobody. Because of the nature of the matches, someone had to watch the wall of CCTV screens as the action went on, along with informing RED and/or BLU Team in real-time. Not only that, someone had to carry out the Announcer's business behind closed doors such as dealing with RED and BLU's affairs, getting rid of cases that would get TF Industries unwanted attention, and so on.
Somepony toke that role, but it was not Twilight Sparkle.