Hey guys, GameQ here. This is a rewritten version of Time Error, hopefully it'll be better than the original version. I have some things to discuss at the end of this chapter, so please go see it after you're done reading this chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Team Fortress 2 or Overwatch, If I did both games would be fucked.

Edit: 2/1/2019 fixed for lack of spacing.

Time Error

Chapter 1

"You failed!" The Administrator announced to the Red team as they failed to capture and defend the intelligence. And then goes the jeers from the Blu team as they won the 23rd mission against Red Team.

Humiliation was placed onto them as they were killed merciless by the Blu teams given crit spree, and sent to respawn. The whole Red team felt nothing but anger and frustration; however none of them could match up to how Engineer felt right there and then.

Engie was sitting on the bench in respawn gripping his head with anger, enraged as the memories of what lead to their defeat replay in his head.

He was doing his role by protecting the intel, had build a level 3 sentry in the intelligence room along with a level 3 dispenser. He had himself in full guard mode when something got his attention, a Blu Engineer peeked around the corner carefully not to trigger the sentries sensors and gave him a smirk.

Dell sneered at her, taking out his pump shotgun and aimed it towards her. "Ya ain't gettin' the intel this time Bell!" Engineer shouted.

"Yea? Prove it!" Bell shouted back before taking out her pistol and shooting two quick shots at Engineer, one bullet hitting him and the other doing little against the sentry.

After receiving the end of her bullet Engineer growled and left his sentry and dispenser alone, not knowing the consequences of what is to happen later. He pursued his nemesis down the hallway as she turned the corner, but he has seen this trick before.

Once he reached the end of the hallway he ducked just in time as an austrailum wrench went over his head, Bell failed her attempt to knock him dead.

Engineer quickly recovered and shot at her chest, a random crit was blessed to him and she was down to the floor, her blood splat on the wall behind her. She was alive but barely, already attempting to get back up but Engineer's shotgun barrel pushed her back to the floor.

"I'm done playing games with you Bell, you're tricks do not work anymore." Dell said sternly, his finger itching towards the trigger. But Bell laughed lightly, a teasing smile set on her face.

"Are you sure about that Dell?" Engineer's eyebrows furrowed wondering what she meant until his PDA alerted that his buildings were being sapped.

Alarmed, he forgot to finish off Bell and ran back to the intel room, meeting his own clone standing there with the sapper device in his hand.

"Howdy partner, why don't you just give up?" It mocked. Engineer cocked his shotgun towards the imposter, knowing who he was dealing with.

"Spy, I'm gonna lay you ou-!" Engineer felt the hard end of a wrench hit him in the back of his head, laying him out. He fell to the floor with a thud and heard laughter from the Blu Spy and Engineer, Bell.

"Dumber than dirt aren't you?" He could only grit his teeth as a bullet penetrates his skull seconds later, sending him back to respawn.

And now in the present, he sits there on the bench regretting his choice to leave his buildings unattended, if he had just stayed where he was there would have possibly been a different outcome.

"ENGINEER!" Soldier shouted out his name before marching up to him. Engie groaned, not in the mood to put up with Soldier's scolding.

"What in the hell were you doing down there!? What part of 'Defend the intelligence' do you not understand!?"

"What part of 'capture the intelligence' do you not understand!? I thought you're plan was to head into the Blu's intelligence room while creating a massacre, not being the massacre!"

The rest of the Red crew watched as the two former leaders of the group go at it, Demoman having another bottle of his favorite scrumpy as Medic pulled an arrow out his rib cage, Heavy taking bite of his sandvich, not even phased by the argument Soldier and Engineer were having.

This was something that happened nearly every after round, and if they were to try to stop the argument they would accidentally pull themselves into it. Sniper and Spy learned that from experience so they decided not to bring themselves into it, Pyro ignoring the argument by playing with a rubber ducky he had found on the battleground. Scout sighed, not acting like his usual self that day, decided to end the argument.

"Yo hard heads, cool it. I know this is hard for all of us but we shouldn't be arguing with each other, since we all know how unfreakin' fair our fight is." Scout said, speaking the truth of their situation.

Engineer calmed down to his normal self but Soldier was still steamed, yet accepting what Scout said. They were paired up with a team they had no chance against, it was a one-sided match. And the Administrator seems to favor the Blu team more than the Red team.

Soldier settled with a growl as he leaned against the wall and shoved a cigar in his lips then lighting it up, waiting for the next announcement. After a round it would be the Administrators job to decide whether or not they should continue to fight, but fortunately for the Red team the day was over.

"Attention mercenaries, today's battle is completed, next battle starts in 10 hours. That would be all." Then the intercom went quiet, ending the announcements. The Red team sighed with relief while the Blu team groaned in defeat.

The Red mercs don't know this but they have been giving the Blu team quite a hard time, they were still able to defeat them with ease but it wasn't as easy as before. This made them think they need more training.

After the Administrators dismissal, the Red team went off to do their own business, some went their rooms, while the others head to the mess hall. As Engineer heads back to his room, he was cursing at himself for falling for one of Bell's tricks once again, he was wishing he could just rewind time to when he was still posted at his sentry.

It was then the Texan mechanic stopped in the middle of his walk, causing Scout to pump into him, Engineer wasn't moved by it since the idea was still displaying inside his mind. Scout gave him a weird look before walking onward to the mess hall.

Engineer's grin goes wider until it turns into a huge smile, which would've creep anyone out if they saw it. Engineer just had a vision of his idea, a new invention that could bring the end to the Blu team. He liked the idea so far, and decided get the items needed for it.

After having a little talk with Spy, he was able to get a watch which was needed, then walked straight to his workshop. Setting down the watch he acquired from Spy and the Pipboy which was given to him from Scout, he got straight to work.

*4 hours later*

It was 2 A.M. most of the mercenaries were snoring by then, resting up for the next battle. A few were still up though, the few being Engineer and Scout. Scout was wondering around the base looking for something to do, bored out of his mind.

He knew he should be sleeping for the next day, but he wasn't feeling sleepy at the moment and needed something to do, otherwise he'll disturb the others slumber.

But as he wondered he happened to pass by Engineer's workshop which he heard some tinkering going on in there. Curiosity sparking in his mind, he decided to investigate and knocked on the door.

Nearly startled by the sudden knocks on the door, Engineer grumbled as he pulled himself away from his work. He really hates being interrupted when he's building, especially when it comes to an occasion like this.

Grumbling some complaints as he made his way to the door, he opened it to see Scout.

"Scout? What in tarnations are you doin' here at this time of night?" Engineer asked surprise to see Scout still up.

"Hey hardhat, just wanted to see watcha were doin' in there." Scout responded.

"Why would you want to know?"

"Oh come ooon Engie this is me we're talkin' bout, I always was interested in your stuff." Engineer smudged his lips to the side, not falling for it. Seeing the look on Engineer's face, Scout knew he wasn't buying it.

"Errr…not buying it huh?"

"Nope." Engineer answered, his face gone back to a plain stare. Scout gave a defeated sigh before answering.

"Look I couldn't sleep alright? And there's no one to talk to but you, so I thought I'd hang with ya." Satisfied with an honest answer, Engineer rolled his eyes and let Scout in, after warning him to be careful not to touch anything which Scout agreed.

Engineer walked back to his work bench and continued to work on his new project, Scout looked around with some interest of the mechanics the Texan's been working on. Eventually Scout found himself a stool and sat on it, with a question in his mind.

"Ehh Engie? What are you working on?" Scout asked tilting his head to the side to see if he can get a look of the device Engineer was tinkering with.

"Just something that could help us finally beat our enemies." Engineer answered with a determined grin, finishing up the last touches of the device.

Scout got up from the stool and walked till he was beside Engie, getting a better look at the device and noticing it looked like the Pipboy he had given to Engineer. It was a popular cosmetic and he had given it to Engie as a gift for friendship.

"Hey is that the Pipboy I gave ya?"

"Yep, not to worry though Scout, your gift will be a part of my greatest invention yet." Engineer explained.

"Better be, took me weeks to get that thing." Scout thought.

The two mercenaries have been getting closer lately, even though it was strange for Scout to be hanging around the Engineer when he usually is hyper and such a mouth runner. You could say Engineer has a higher tolerance than most people.

Engineer will admit that he is glad to see Scout here, to witness his idea being made born into reality. "Whew, guess that'll do." Engineer wiped his forehead from the little sweat drops, feeling very proud of himself that he finished the device.

"Is it done?" Scout asked.

"Yeah, hopefully I didn't mess anything up. I'd be damned if this thing explodes. Alright I'm flipping the switch, brace yourself Scout, half of the time my buildings do explode at first activation." Engineer warned.

Scout listened and backed away, finding the corner of the room to be the safest area he could find as he crouched down to the floor, holding a metal tray in front of him shaking. Engineer breathed slowly as his finger inched towards the activation button, when he finger pressed the button he held his breath and waited for something to happen.

Nothing happened for a couple seconds making Engineer wonder if he had messed up but then a light ringtone emitted from the device, and a green light started to glow from the screen. A loading bar was formed in the screen as it began powering itself up.

Engineer let out his breath after he realized he was still holding it, the device was working. After not seeing any explosions, Scout cautiously walked to Engineer, the two mercs were watching the device as the loading bar was filled, then a time setting was placed, indicating it was ready for a drive.

"Well I'll be…it's actually working." Engineer thought happily. "Scout, I present to you the TTPB." Scout blinked at Engineer with confusion.

"What?"

"TTPB, stands for Time Traveling Pipboy. This'll give us the upper hand." Engineer claims.

"Umm Engie I don't see how time travel can help us."

"Trust me Scout the TTPB will carry us and I will explain to you how we can use after I test it out." Engineer says as he began to set a time in the TTPB, causing Scout's stomach to go to knots.

"U-umm Overalls I don't have a good feelin' bout this." Scout said nervously.

"What makes you say that?" Engineer asks at he puts the time send him 2 minutes into the future.

"I-I just don't Engie, I got this tingling sensation and it's not the good kind."

"You probably let one of your limbs fall asleep, give it time." Engineer said calmly, but Scout was still unsure about this. Engineer strapped the device onto his arm and secured it tightly.

"You're testing that thing on yourself? Hardhat have you been drinking?"

"Scout this isn't the first time I've done something like this, and it is hardly the worst thing I've ever done. Even if I die I'll just respawn so there ain't no need to be worried."

Scout remained quiet after that, deciding it was useless trying to talk Engie out of this. "Scout could you grab my camera? It's over there laying on top of the shelf."

Scout nodded took the camera, "Got it."

"Alright now I want ya to record this moment, you know how to use it right?"

"What am I to you? 5 years old? Yeah I can handle a camera!" Scout answered with an annoyed tone.

"Okay, start recording…now!" Engineer instructed, Scout aimed the camera at Engineer and started to record.

"Howdy, this is my latest invention that I call the Time Traveling Pipboy, TTPB for short. Its purpose is to grant me the ability to go through time, to go to the future or to go to the past. I will now perform my first attempt to go exactly two minutes into the future, not exactly sure what's going to happen, but if I were to disappear I should be back two minutes later." Engineer breathed in and out, suddenly feeling a little nervous.

"You good Engie?" Scout asks, seeing his buddy looking nervous, Engineer nodded before continuing.

"Test #1, starting the time travel sequence in 3...2…1…" Engineer initiated the time travel process with a click of a button.

Suddenly the lights went out in the room, Engineer and Scout were surrounded by darkness until light began emitting from the TTPB, and began to vibrate violently.

And then the room began to shake, the floor and walls began to crack as the light from the TTPB grew brighter. Engineer was then floating in midair, he has no idea what's happening and was tempted to deactivate the TTPB but wanted to see if the time travel would be successful.

Scout was still recording but was losing balance from all the shaking, it felt like an earthquake was happening. And due to the entire ruckus going on, the other mercenaries were awakened. Suddenly green lightning started striking from the TTPB, loud thunders began occurring.

After a lightning that nearly struck Scout, Engineer knew it was time to deactivate it, it was becoming too destructive.

"Engie turn it off! TURN IT OFF!" Scout screamed as he began running around with the camera still in his hand, then ducked just in time to save his head from being struck by the electricity. "TURN THE DAMN THING OFF!"

"I hear ya!" Engineer shouted back as he tried to cancel the procedure, but it wasn't responding. The screen went blank for a second before displaying an error message.

"TIME ERROR! INTERRUPTION OCCURRED! ACTIVATING OVERDRIVE!" After seeing the message, Engineer gasped and feared the worst.

"What!? Oh no no no no! Deactivate damn it!"

"ENGIE!?" Scout screamed frantically, Engineer forgot that Scout was still inside the room.

"Scout! Get out of here!"

"But what about you!?"

"I can't get it off!" Engineer screamed now scared for his life, even though if he were to die he could respawn. Engineer struggled to get the TTPB off his arm, but he tightened it to his arm way too much.

Seeing how Engineer was struggling to get it off, Scout dropped the camera and ran to save him only to be knocked out of the room by a sudden explosion. The explosion shook the very foundation of the building which startled all the mercenaries taking shelter in it.

Scout lay still where he was, his ears were ringing and his body was stinging, he slowly closed his eyes losing consciousness, the last thing he could remember was seeing Engineer disappearing, followed by a bright flash.

Meanwhile, the other mercenaries came running in after hearing the explosion going off, they were surprised to see the Scout sprawled onto the floor unconscious, then seeing the mess in Engineer's room. But they couldn't find Engineer anywhere.

"Ohhh, take Scout to ze medical room stat." Medic ordered.

*2076*

"Fill her up please." Lena Oxton asked the bartender kindly as she sat at the counter table in a bar. Tracer covered up her accelerator with a jacket and wore a hat to hide her identity, she didn't feel like attracting attention at the moment and wanted to relax a bit, it was her time of break after all.

She held an empty cup out requesting a second refill, the bartender looks back at her. "You'll have to show me some colors first lil' miss.", Tracer smiles before placing some coins onto the counter.

"Right, another one coming up."

Tracer sighs as she leans herself to the counter table, awaiting for her next cup, and took the time to recap on what has happened recently. Winston has started to form up the Overwatch agents, he and Tracer had recently teamed up to take on Reaper and Widowmaker.

Much more has happened but her thoughts were interrupted as a medium size cup slid back into her hand. Tracer looked up to see the bartender giving her what she ordered, but looking at her with little annoyance.

"Oi, don't be fallin' asleep on the counter lil' miss, it don't take me that long." He finished.

"Heheh, sorry I wasn't falling asleep luv', just thinking." Tracer apologized. The bartender grunted in response before returning back to work.

Before Tracer could take a sip of her cup, a bright flash of light occurred in the bar, blinding the bartender and everyone inside. When Tracer's vision came back the next thing Tracer see's is someone sliding down the counter table at a fast rate, crashing into everyone's drinks including Tracer's before flying towards the window. The glass shattered from the impact and the figure fell through, remaining still on the floor.

"Woah what the fuck just happened!?" Stranger 1 said.

"Nearly pissed myself just now." Stranger 2 said.

"Does this mean I get a free refill? Cause something just flew through and broke me glass." Stranger 3 said.

"Blimey what was that?" Tracer thought as she stared through the broken window, she was a bit startled herself but was ready for action. "I must investigate."

The figure groaned as he slowly got up, and that figure was Engineer. He almost fell over but managed to stand straight and assess what just happened. One moment he was in a dark tunnel, next he was flying through what seems to be some kind of bar.

Engineer smelled some bit of alcohol on his uniform and confirmed it was definitely a bar. But it was then Engineer realized the different environment he was in, it was daylight and he was in a city he isn't familiar of. A car drove past him suddenly, but one he hasn't seen before.

"Is that a new car design?" Engineer thought. But his eyes widened when he saw that the car did not have wheels, it was floating above ground! "W-what…where in tarnations am I!?"

He frantically looked left and right, letting his surrounding overwhelm him with awe. The flying vehicles, the new architecture, he was almost blown away when he saw a walking robot, how it looked so human like stunned him.

"The technology here is highly advance! Where am I!?" Engineer screamed in his mind, but then another question replaced the thought. "When am I?..." Engineer checked to see his TTPB only to see a bunch of error codes covering the screen, he'll have to fix that up pronto.

"Hey!" Engineer heard a voice of a woman trying to get his attention, he turned to the source and saw a woman walking towards him. She had a wild looking hairstyle, wore eye protectors, yellow tight pants, and a brown leather jacket with a glowing device on her chest.

"Hold up right there, I want to have a word with you." She asks as she got closer to Engineer, but he notices the pair of pistols she had on her waists.

Engineer didn't like this, if she was with the authorities this could end up bad. He doesn't know if he's still in 1968 or if he's in a different year, so he must avoid authorities at all costs. He simply starts walking away at first.

"Hey stop!" Now he starts walking a bit faster, begins to jog.

"I said STOP!" He hears the women say with command, and that's when he begins to book it, Tracer gives chase. Engineer ran through the crowds, catching awkward glances from the people he runs past.

Desperate to lose the woman chasing him, he makes a quick turn into a dark alleyway and hides behind a trashcan. He takes a peek around to see if the woman was still following, breathing heavily from the run. After a couple of seconds of not seeing her he begins to relax, let out a huge sigh of relief. "Whew…lost her."

"Lost who?" A cherry voice whispered into his ear, causing Engineer jump out of his hiding spot to see the woman who has been chasing him. She smirked at him as he was startled by her.

"If you think you can lose me just by running through an alley way, then you may as well give up." She said as she put her hands to her hips. Engineer gritted his teeth, not willing to give up he quickly made a dash for the nearest exit, only to be stopped by the woman in a quick bright flash.

She now stood in front of him blocking his way out, tilting her head to the side she questioned him. "Not giving up are ya?"

Engineer was bewildered, 'How in the world did she get here so fast!? She was just right behind me!' He thought wildly.

After seeing the reaction from Engineer's face, she couldn't help but giggle. Seeing he has no other choice, he pulled out his Widowmaker from his back and aimed it at her.

"Now listen here little lady, I ain't playin' around, you leave me be and I won't hurt you alright?" Engineer spoke with aggressiveness. But in a bright blue flash she was gone from his sight, shocking him again. And before he could move he felt two ends of a gun being place at the back of his head.

"Not such a smart move you made luv'. Now drop your gun and put your hands in the air!" Engineer was now speechless, she was very fast, almost as fast as Scout, maybe even faster. Regretfully he dropped his weapons and held both his hands in the air.

"What…What are you?" Engineer asks, now curious of who this woman was.

"Ah ah ah, no questions till we go somewhere more appropriate. Till then I think I'm going to subdue you."

"Wha-" Quickly Tracer knocked him out using the handle of her gun. Engineer fell to the floor with a groan barely unconscious as he heard her speaking through her radio.

"Hey Winston, I caught someone who is responsible for a very strange event, I'm bringing him in for questioning." Engie's consciousness fades and he goes under.

*1968*

Scout wakes up in the infirmary, in bed all healed up. He groans as he sat himself up and after seeing him sitting up, the Medic and the other mercs approached him.

"Scout, how are you feeling? You vwere covered vwith burn marks and vwas unconscious vwhen vwe found you. But ze doctor vwas able to heal you." Medic stated proudly.

"My head is sorta spinning a little, but I think I'm ok. Ya mind tellin' me what happened though?" Scout asked.

"Ahh we were actually gonna ask you the same thing, especially about what happened in Engie's room." Sniper said. Scout gave him a confused look, not sure what he was talking about.

"Wait what do you mean? What happened to Hardhat's room?" Scout asked confusingly.

"You mean to tell me you don't remember what happened!?" Soldier yells aloud.

"This just confirms my suspicions! Some of the members from the enemy team snuck over here while we were all sleeping and assaulted Scout and Engineer! Hitting Scout's head hard so he couldn't remember! Then blowing Engie's room into smithereens! Then mercsnapping our Engineer!" Soldier theorized, while Scout sat on the medical bed trying to remember the last thing he saw before being knocked out.

"And the only one I know that is capable of such thing is the Blu Soldier! My worst nemesis! He decided to have a midnight snack while we were all sleeping! I will tolerate this! My team is not a buffet! I'M GOING AFTER HIM!" Soldier shouted as he started for the respawn room where he can gear himself up, but was stopped by Spy.

"Soldier, you go after him he'll make a midnight snack out of you too." Spy said, breathing in his cigar before exhaling smoke from his mouth.

"But it wasn't him either way, I have just watched the surveillance cameras. The explosion that happened in Engineer's room wasn't caused by any intruders, it happened by itself. And Scout flew out of the room when the explosion occurred which explains his injuries. However it does not explain Engineer's disappearance." Spy stated. That is when Scout started to remember everything, the device Engineer made, the TTPB, and the testing process.

"I remember now!" Scout screamed, his eyes widened from his regained memory.

"Well? What happened to Engineer? What caused explosion?" Heavy asked, wanting to know the answer.

"It was one of Engie's new machine things! H-he built something called the TTPB and said it was supposed to grant him the ability to travel through time!"

"What the hell?" Spy said out loud.

"Amen Frenchy." Soldier said.

"Vhy vould our Engineer build a device zat could time travel?" Medic wondered.

"He said something about it giving us the upper hand, still ain't sure how though." Scout answered. Suddenly Scout finally remembered one last little thing, did Engineer return?

"Wait guys! Did you say Engineer is gone?"

"Mph" Pyro nodded.

"But he should have returned by now, he said if he were to disappear he would be back in two minutes!"

"Errr Scout, you vere unconscious for 4 hours. Engie has not returned." Medic said, causing Scout's eyes to widen.

"What?...but that means he…maybe he is going through respawn!"

"Ze longest respawn is 50 seconds, he should have already been back." Medic stated. Scout remained silent after this, fearing the worst.

"So, did we have another respawn failure?" Demoman asked, causing everyone's mind to stop.

"Because our orange hat lad…he hasn't respawned…" Demoman finished.

"Another respawn failure? Dear God." Soldier said as he took his helmet off for one of the fewest times. Scout's heart began to shiver as he assumed the worst has happened. Engineer has died from respawn failure.

"Engie…" Scout thought sadly.

"Fucking hell mate this was supposed to stop happening!" Sniper yelled angrily, slamming his fist into the wall, feeling so frustrated. Unfortunately for the Red team, this wasn't the first time they had a respawn failure, it has been awhile since it happened but they were hoping it would be the last.

The Red crew had their head bowed, remembering the times they had with their fellow mechanic. Even Spy seemed to be trying to remember the last time he and Engineer talked. Heavy too was sad but remained strong.

"So…what happens now?"

To be continued…

Hey guys, GameQ again. First off, i'd like to apologize for leaving the fanfiction website, the Time Error series, and you guys. (This apology only goes to those who followed my original Time Error series, if your new to this fanfic then this is awkward.) The reason why i deleted Time Error series was because i was beginning to see some huge errors in the writing.

Next thing i knew, i couldn't imagine an ending for Time Error 2. Plus the pressure was on in my school so i couldn't handle it. That was when i decided to delete my story, along with some other fanfics i have made in the past. But after having some private conversations in Steam Chat, some PM's from this website, i realized i made a mistake. And after recieving some encouraging words from my friends including some of my readers, I decided to do a rewrite of Time Error.

But for the time being, i let Rockgod96, a good friend of mine, republish the original Time Error series as i create the new version. And now, here we are. But I have a question, what did you not like about Time Error? That is all for now. Talk to you later readers.