Chapter 1: Meet the Purple Team
After coming home from there respected lives, the four friends immediately went to their computers and laptops. Savannah, never one to wait in a situation like this, started the Skype call. As they all answered they shared a quick conversation about their day.
"… I had to stop myself from eating the cookies. They looked so good!" Stella admitted, telling the events that happened at the bakery she works at. The 19 year old was currently sitting at her laptop in her bed room. She brushed a strand of brown, blond tipped hair out of her face as her bright blue eyes watched the screen.
"I couldn't have your job; I would want to eat everything." Catie chimed in. The 14 year old was currently at her home computer, her iPad providing the Skype call. She was playing with a strand of her wavy bleach-blond hair that reached past her shoulders and down her back a few inches, baby blue eyes sparkling at the thought of so many sweets.
"OH! Guys, I found a good server! Anyone want to go to Rottenburg?" Savannah asked, ready to start a round in Team Fortress 2 on a Mann vs. Machine server. Her ever present gold-blond curly pony tail was keeping her hair out of her green-grey eyes behind the glasses she wore as she looked on at the screen. After feeding her cats the 14 year old had run upstairs, not even bothering to put her messenger bag down at the door like normal.
"YES!" Dream almost yelled exited for the match. Plus, it was everyone's favorite map. Her chocolate brown eyes glancing up at her door hopping that her parents didn't hear her yell. Hearing nothing the 16 year old turned back to her screen, her medium length jet black hair flicking back into place.
As the server loaded for all the girls, they choose their classes. Savannah went with Pyro as normal. Dream put on the Kritzkrieg and chose Medic. Stella normally would be Sniper, her best class, but she always does terribly in MvM as a Sniper, so for now she chose Engineer. Catie, meanwhile, chose Soldier.
As time passed the group continually won wave after wave, when finally, they got to the last and most difficult wave.
They had already failed 3 times by now but they refused to give up! They were getting closer and closer each time! Starting the round again, they fought the hardest they had all night they were so close, only a little more and victory would be theirs!
The robots where currently holding them at spawn, right next to the bomb hatch. Stella's sentry was working over time, continuously firing a stream of bullets and rockets toward the horde of robots. Stella was right next to it, banging it with her wrench, the Southern Hospitality, also spy-checking everything.
"Get those uber-medics!" Dream called as the robots continued to flood through. She then got her shield built up and activated it, vaporizing any robots that came close. She glanced at the corner of her screen: 87% on her uber-charge meter.
"Don't worry; I got 'em!" Savannah replied as she air blasted the giant robots away, using a crit-canteen to uber-charge herself, making the soldier-bot's rockets useless. She then used her flamethrower to ignite the medic's and then began hitting them with her ax, the 3rd Degree.
"I need help with these giant Demoknights!" Catie cried as the aforementioned robots charged at her with Eyelanders ready to decapitate her.
"I'm coming!" Dream replied, finally getting a kritz uber-charge and using it on Catie. Her rocket launcher glowed and sparked as the robots fell.
Catie ended up getting the final kill, a giant scout-bot that was about to deploy the bomb. The victory music sounded as the girls all cheered!
"Fuck yeah, finally!" Savannah cheered, fist pumping in her chair, then quieted down, hopping she didn't wake up her dad. She suddenly noticed that it was raining outside. When did that start? She thought. She then dismissed the thought; it had been really cloudy that day anyway.
"Ah! Hold on guys I got a weather alert message on my phone." Stella announced. "I may drop out of the call. It says 'Severe thunder storm warning' for my area" she continued.
"Same for me. It was on the news this morning. It started raining really hard a while ago" Dream added. She jumped a little in her seat when she heard thunder not a second later.
Thunder then sounded through the Skype call again, sounding like it was right over head for everyone, rattling their houses.
"Ummm…. Maybe we should end the call now?" Catie muttered, worried. Thunder storms in Texas could get really bad.
Savannah was about to say something when thunder BOOMED though the Skype call from her end. She could then be heard screaming, the call dropping her a second later.
"SAVANNAH!?" Catie screamed, jumping up from her chair, now incredibly worried for her best friend. Thunder sounded from her end, soon followed by her screaming, then dropping out of the call.
At this point Dream and Stella are terrified. What was happening? They tried calling Savannah and Catie back many times, but they received no answer. Still panicking they tried to make sense of all of it hoping that their friends where okay.
Thunder echoed from Dream's end of the call, making her shriek, then scream, just like the others before dropping from the call, ending it in the process.
Stella stared at her screen in utter disbelieve. She had no words, how could she? As she was trying to piece things together in her head, she heard thunder over head. Stella froze. No, not her, what is even going on!?
She had little time to think as lightning suddenly struck her house, traveling through the wirers and in to the laptop that was plugged in to charge in her lap. Her last thought was sheer terror before she blacked out.
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As Stella came to, she noticed that she was laying face first in dry dirt. She tested her arms, seeing if they would lift her up. When the test was successful, she then tested her legs and stood up, wobbling a bit. When she got her balance she looked around to find she was in a desert. The sun was setting over the horizon making the whole seen quite beautiful.
Stella had little time to appreciate the beauty when she suddenly heard groaning near her. Looking down she saw three other girls surrounding her. She suddenly recognized them to be her friends she was just playing with. She immediately went to check if they where okay.
As they all got up, picking up any belongings that may have come with them, and finding no injuries on themselves, they began to question their current situation.
"Maybe we died and this is some kind of purgatory" Savannah suggested, adjusting her messenger bag on her shoulder, always the one to think outside the box like that. The others gave her a look, which promptly shut Savannah up realizing that she was not helping.
"Savannah, please be realistic. This is a serious situation! We have no idea where we are, no food or water, no shelter, and a rocket is HEADING RIGHT FOR US!" Stella started to rant but quickly faded into yelling as, indeed, there was a rocket heading straight for them.
"DUCK AND COVER!" Catie yelled as all the girls ran or jumped away, the force of the blast knocking them even further away.
As they gathered there bearings they discovered the source of the rocket. And it made them completely speechless.
About 30 yard away was a fort, and not just any fort, it was Coal Town, a map that the girls played on regularly. They were at the back end, near the spawn, and had a perfect view of the robots they were just fighting about to deploy the bomb. They recognized five mercenaries that where there: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, and Spy.
All of them where doing there best to stop the robots with there weapons but where being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers coming toward them and where on the verge of defeat.
The girls stared shocked, not knowing what to do. They where IN Team Fortress 2? How!? This only made the girls even more confused on their situation.
But that is not what got them moving again it was Dream who finally realized what she was seeing.
"They need help!" she squeaked, worried for the men.
"Yeah, but what can we do?" Stella asked, "We have no training, no weapons, and no idea what's even happening to us!" She started to panic a bit not knowing if they would even be alright.
"Well, we have to do SOMETHING!" Savannah cried, scared out of her mind, thinking that if the mercs couldn't win they would be next.
Suddenly, as if to answer their pleas, there was a purple flash that filled their vision. They suddenly felt calm, like everything would work out. That is when they felt themselves change.
Catie's clothes changed into ones that bore resemblance to Soldiers, although more feminine for her body. Her shoes changed into boots similar to the Gunboats, a helmet appearing on her head. Her hair, normally down, was now in a neat bun at the base of her neck. Her hands where now covered in fingerless gloves. The Soldier patch on the shoulder remained unchanged, save for the lightning bolt striking through it. She was noticeably taller, about 5' 8", looking in her late twenties now. A shovel was holstered on her back as well as a shotgun. In her hands was a rocket launcher.
Savannah's clothes merged in to a flame retardant suit, covering her entire body. A black mask with an air filter on the front was covering her face. She was obviously taller as well, now 5' 7", though her age could not be determined. On her back was an oxygen tank, a fire ax and a shotgun, holstered on her left hip was a flare gun. A flamethrower materialized in her hands. The Pyro emblem on the shoulder had a lightning bolt through it.
Dream's jacket turned into the white coat of the Medic, bone saw holstered at one hip, syringe gun on the other, a modified Medigun in her hands. A surgical mask now was now covering her face. The Medic patch on the shoulder now had a lightning bolt through it too. She was taller, about 5'6", and noticeably older, looking in her early thirties. Her hair was in a neat bun at her neck.
Stella's clothes changed into that of the Sniper's, a slouch hat on her head. In the normally vacant pouch to her side was a small koala plush. An SMG was holstered at her hip, and kukri was on the other, a sniper rifle now in her hands. It the small backpack she now wore was a jar of yellow liquid. The Sniper patch on the shirt also had a lightning bolt through it. She looked older as well, about in her late twenties, her height only increasing an inch. Her hair, normally down, was now in a low pony tail.
There was a distinct purple coloring to their clothes, and around there necks where purple medallions that had their class emblem on it.
They said nothing, an almost unconscious message going through their minds, telling them what they could do.
The girls all nodded to each other and jumped the fence, Dream tailing the medigun-beam on Catie and Savannah, to help the mercs, and just in time too. A giant scout-bot was about to deploy the bomb when Stella shot a bullet straight through the robots head, the sound of the gun echoing loudly through the area.
"Sniper!?" Scout shouted, looking towards the source of the shot along with the others.
To the surprise of the mercenaries, instead of seeing at their Australian friend, like they expected, they saw a young woman clad in purple holding Sniper's same weapons standing next to the respawn shack.
Instead of shouting anything, Stella simply taunted the remaining robots by waving, a confident smirk on her face.
Immediately the robots began to flock to the woman, unaware that the other three girls were waiting inside the shack that Stella was standing next to. As soon as they got close enough, the gate shot up and Savannah came out of her hiding place and began to set the robots on fire. Not far behind was Catie who started to shoot rockets at the robots that were further away. Dream stayed in the shadows healing everyone when they got hurt.
Not questioning why these girls were helping, the other mercenaries simply reloaded and started killing the robots as well. It wasn't long before each robot was just a worthless pile of scrap metal.
"You know, you guys ain't bad at fighting, for a bunch of girls." Scout stated, emptying the used shells from his scattergun.
"We thank you for your help" Spy added but there was suspicion in his voice. Where did they even come from and more importantly who where they and why were they helping?
"You ladies are true soldiers!" Soldier shouted, saluting. He would never admit it, but he had been scared for his teammates, and before these women came he was about to call a retreat.
"Where did you ladies learn to fight like that?" Demo asked wanting to know where they came from as well.
But instead of getting an answer, all four girls collapsed to the ground, their bodies and clothes returning to normal. This left the other mercenaries in shock seeing what happened. They instantly took action and all lifted one of the girls, carrying them back to the main base. They defiantly would talk to them later, but right now the girls where the ones needing help and they had a favor to return.