A/N: Here it is part 2 of chapter 1. Ditto and I've decided to do the OC thanks at the bottom, so I don't give away anything.

Have fun!

(Heather's POV)

"Jacquie? That sounds French," I said.

"I know...just call me "Jackie" with a "ck" instead of a "qu"," she said. "Now are you convinced?"

"Just because you can change clothes doesn't prove anything," Ma said.

"You do realize the irony of that right?" Jackie deadpanned.

"Oh shut up!"

Even though I had no idea what was going on, I had an inkling that Ma and Jackie has some connection, considering how persistent Jackie was in trying to convince Ma. As I watched the two bicker, I noticed the guy behind Jackie starting to regain consciousness. He reached into his pants and pulled out a knife and slowly made his way to Jackie.

Without thinking, I fired another flaming rock into his head, knocking him out, as well as, somehow bouncing off and smacking into no-shirt and knocking him out too.

"Honey, where did you get that?" Ma asked.

"Ah was hoping yah would've known, considering it "appeared" out of nowhere,"

"It's because she's a fire elemental, like you..." Jackie said. "...Ana,"

Ma froze. "...who-who told you that?"

"Oh I don't know...Arachne, TT, Jewel, WOLFSHIRE..."

"..."

"Who are these people Ma?" I asked.

"..."

"I can also put forth the time when you believed your significant other fell for a certain cowgirl..." Jackie said. Even though I couldn't see her face, I could tell she was smirking.

"I-I-I..."

"Ma, what's going on?"

"...It's a long story, Heather..." she trailed off. "It happened before you were born..."

"What do ya mean?"

"I think we should discuss this in private, rather out here," she motioned to me and started to leave. She suddenly was engulfed in flames and was back in her normal clothes. "Grab your stuff,"

I picked up my bag and was about to follow her, but then I noticed Jackie. "Ma, what about her?"

"She's a friend isn't she?" she said with a blink.

(Third-Person POV)

"Dell, we're going! It's quitting time!" a black hair mechanic yelled into the garage. "You're closing up!"

"Fine!," Dell yelled back from under a car. "See yah Frank!"

The door slammed, leaving Dell the sole person inside the repair shop. He rolled out from under the car and sat up. He never liked to rush a repair job like his coworkers, he'd rather have it done right. Sure it didn't make as much money, but he was an honest man.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he stood up and went around the car he was fixing, checking to make sure it looked perfect. As he did, he dusted off his red shirt and black pants and his maroon cap. The car belonged to Mr. Jones, an old man who was a regular to the auto shop, mainly due to the fact his car was nearly twenty years old and falling apart. Dell made sure that the car would last Mr. Jones till his deathbed, as the old man relied on the old thing to get to work everyday.

"Seems like everyday ya keep falling apart," he said to the car. "Just a little longer, partner,"

"Talking to cars again? Jeez Dell, you got to get out more,"

Dell turned and faced the speaker. From below his head, he looked like a normal person, red sweatshirt, black pants, and sneakers. But above was a different story. Instead of a normal head, he had a computer monitor in place. Two purple dots on the monitor represented his eyes.

"Like you ever get out CV," Dell retorted. "All you ever do is lie around in the office, and prank my coworkers,"

"Has it ever occurred to you how weird it would be if I went to socialize with others? Hello? I'm a freaking robot here!"

"Whatever, at least help me clean up the place," he said as he started to pick up the tools lying on the ground.

While cleaning up the shop, CV suddenly stopped in place before slowly looking up. "Uh Dell?"

"What is it?"

"I think someone is outside,"

"A customer?"

"Well, my scanners picked up a female individual outside slumped just in front of the entrance,"

"Ah'll check," he went over to his toolbox and reached inside, at the bottom was a pistol, he took it out and cocked it. Ever since he opened this auto shop, Dell had the knack for hiding various firearms around the place, just in case.

He made his way to the front where CV said the person was. He checked the magazine once more and slowed his breathing. Slowly, he reached for the door handle and opened the door. As soon as he did, someone fell through in the open doorway. He jumped back, slightly startled, but kept his cool.

The person was a girl, slightly older than his daughter. She wore an unbuttoned red flannel shirt, a black tanktop and leggings, blue sneakers, rectangular black glasses, and, strangely, silver hair. The girl was also looking worse for the wear, as she was bleeding and bruised.

Dell's eyes widened at the sight, he knew who this was and almost dropped his pistol in surprise.

"My god..."

He dropped down to check on her and placed a hand over her mouth to check for breathing. Once he verified she was not dead, he rushed back to the shop and started looking for something.

"CV! Where's mah PDA?" he yelled.

"Why?"

"No questions! Where did ah put it last?"

The robot tapped it's "head" before responding, "First cabinet on your right, second drawer to the bottom, under the six-inch screwdriver,"

"Got it!" he picked up the small device, quickly grabbed a large monkey wrench, and hurried out of the shop. When he returned, he found the girl lying in a scary pool of blood. Wasting no time, he flicked on the device on and pushed a few buttons.

"Dispenser going up!"

Meanwhile

"Why can't yah just take your hood off?" Heather asked in annoyance. "And why can't ah see your face,"

"First, because I'm not SUPPOSED to!" Jackie said. "And my hood prevent people from doing so,"

"But ah know what yah look like already!"

"You don't know that! My appearance can be totally different when I'm like this,"

"Then show me,"

"I CAN'T! It's considered dishonorable by my people!"

The two were inside the Conagher residence's living room. It was a small five room house that was located about a stone's throw from the outskirts of Teufort. It had a nice fence perimeter and a grass lawn, as well as a tripod mounted, red colored, heavy caliber machine gun and rocket launcher turret.

Just another average home.

"Your people? Who are your "people"?"

"Wanderers,"

"What kind of nationality is that?"

"It's not a nationality!"

"Now you two, behave," Ana came into room with glasses of lemonade.

"Sorry Ma,"

"Sorry A- um, should I call you Ana or Mrs. Conagher?"

"Either, but just Ms. is fine. We're not married yet,"

" Ok...ah...so where was I? Oh yeah, Wanderers are more of a species like human?"

"You're not human?"

"Yes and no. Wanderers are humanoid beings created from the very essence of space and time," she explained. "Because of this we are able to perform some unusual things..."

"Like surviving a blow from a hammer flying straight for your face?"

"Yes...nigh- invulnerability is one of those things, along with accelerated healing, telekinesis, teleportation, time and space manipulation, access to the hidden satchel...I can go on,"

"Hidden satchel?"

"I can pull out anything I want from behind me, no matter what,"

"Isn't that impossible?"

"I would reconsider," Jackie reached behind her and pulled out Heather's visor. "See?"

"What?" Heather felt her head for her hat but found nothing. "How did you...?"

"Maaaaaagic!" she said as she tossed her the visor. "So where was I? Oh yeah, we're pretty nomadic too, staying in the same place sometimes gets too boring,"

"So who is in your family?" Ana asked.

"Well, I have my older step brother Willis, or Wheel, and my older step sisters, Trinity and Red,"

"What happened to your biological parents?"

"Ah...I-I-I don't really know...I actually don't know much about them. I heard that they died after I was born..."

"Oh...sorry for bringing that up,"

"Don't worry, I...got over it, I still have Willis remember?"

"So, that's my side," Jackie said after a brief silence. "Now I think you should explain your side,"

Ana sighed before starting. "Heather...I wasn't always the person you think of now," she said. "Almost fifteen years ago, I was someone different,"

"Fifteen? I wasn't even born yet!"

"Right, I wasn't always a firefighter, and your father wasn't always a mechanic," she swallowed. "Our occupations were also not the norm,"

"Ok...?"

"We were part of a nine person team of hired killers," she paused to let it sink in. "We were...mercenaries,"

(Unknown POV)

"Ugh, damn that hurts,"

I struggled to clear my vision of darkness as my body rocked with pai- wait- no, I was sure I was I pain before I fell unconscious...

I slowly got up and found myself on a table with random tools lying around. After getting my bearings, I slowly got to the conclusion that I was in some kind of repair shop.

"Uh, hello? Anyone here?" I yelled.

"Ah! You're up!" I turned to find someone with a computer monitor where their head should be and wearing a red hoodie. "You're looking better when you're not bleeding to death,"

"Who are you?" I asked. "And did you heal me?"

"Name's CV and wish I could say yes, but no, Dell did that with one of his fancy contraptions,"

"Dell?" I wondered. "Why does that sound familiar?"

"So where am I?"

"You are in the town of Teufort, New Mexico. Here at The Fixer-Uper! Came up with the name myself!"

"Yeah right yah did, CV," said a man in his late thirties walked into the room.

I paused as it slowly dawned on me who saved me.

"Engi?"

"Glad to see yah back here Arachne!" the Texan said as he gave me a hug. "Long time to see, partner!"

"Long time no see as well cowboy!" I said as I returned the hug. "Where's everyone else?"

Engi's smile faded. "Well, you see...RED kinda disbanded and left,"

"What!"

"Not everyone, Pyro and I are still here, but mostly everyone left after we were dismissed from our jobs,"

"Why?"

"BLU died, for good,"

Flashback

It was just another day in the gravel pits, RED and BLU were fighting yet another battle without a reasonable cause. Today they were fighting at one of the oldest battle sites, 2Fort.

The battle started as usual, both Scouts made their way to the bridge that separated both bases in an effort to capture their respective briefcases before the Engineers could set up their defenses, while the power classes made their way to the bridge to duke it out. The Snipers took their usual positions in the battlements, and the Spies took the sewer route.

The only difference in this battle was the weapons the mercs were using. Ever since the "Rift Incident" that happened fifteen years ago, the mercs acquired some "interesting" weaponry that made for some equally interesting situations.

For example, during a battle at Hightower. Heavy shot BLU Scout at close range with a minigun that shoots small rockets, dubbed "The Rocker". The explosion sent the Russian high into the air. Everyone momentarily stopped fighting as they watched him soar through the air.

"What the..." Spy said.

"Heavy is flying!"

It looked almost beautiful, until he crashed landed on top of BLU Spy.

But what was the most different in this battle was the RED Pyro and her new "abilities". Initially, she wasn't allowed to participate due to the fact that she can burn to death anyone in the BLU team in an instant, but the Administrator reversed this decision with some adjustments.

Pyro wasn't allowed to use her abilities unless it's absolutely needed, and her Respawn timer was significantly increased.

Since the "Rift Incident", Pyro grew her hair to around shoulder length and now wore a partial gas mask (M17 gas mask for those wondering) that only covered her face. And wore a slightly less baggy fireproof suit. It was still baggy, but it was tight enough to tell that the wearer was female.

Now we return to the battle, right now RED just rolled the BLU team by killing all of them and Scout had no problem capping the intel.

"Yeah! Too easy!" Scout said as he dropped the briefcase onto the table.

"Nice job," Engi said as he leveled up his sentry to level three. "Just get two more and we're done for the day!"

"Yah, gotcha!" but before Scout could run off an explosion rocked the entire base. Both men fell to the ground.

"What the hell? Engi what was that?"

"Ah don't know Scout," Engi said as he got up.

Just then an alarm went off, red lights lit up the room.

"ALERT! Stop fighting! Ceasefire is in effect!" the Administrator shouted through the intercoms. "I repeat, ceasefire is in effect!"

Engi hurried to a callbox and grabbed the phone. The callbox was only used if the mercs needed to contact the Administrator directly and was used in extreme emergencies. "Helen, what's going on?" he asked as she picked up. The Engineers and Ms. Pauling were the only people that could call the Administrator by her first name.

"Mr. Conagher," she said. "Something happened in BLU's Respawn, I don't know what caused it but you must hurry, since your team wiped BLU..."

"My god," Engi slammed the phone back on the receiver and quickly packed up the dispenser. "C'mon Scout! We gotta go!"

"What's going on hardhat?"

"Ah'll tell you on our way there, if we don't hurry BLU's going to die...forever,"

The explosion was also heard and felt by the other members of the RED team.

"Oi! What just happened?" Demo asked as he helped Pyro up. The two were camping with Heavy and Medic in front of BLU's main spawn.

"I don't know Tavish, but that doesn't sound good," Pyro's voice was still muffled, but it wasn't to the point you couldn't understand her at all.

"I think something's wrong down there," Soldier said as he emerged from the spiral ramp on fire.

"You're on fire you know that right?" Pyro said as the others stared in disbelief.

"I am?" he looked down. "Oh...fire! Fire! FIRE!" he said as he started to panic.

Pyro waved a hand and the fire disappeared, putting out the flaming Soldier. Earlier on, she discovered that not only she can create fires, but also control them as well, which makes putting things that are not supposed to be on fire out.

"Incoming! Gotta move that gear up!" the group looked to find Engi followed by Scout and Sniper approach them. Engi put down the dispenser he was carrying.

"What's going on laborer?" Spy asked as he uncloaked.

"Are we being attacked by space invaders again?" Soldier added. "I'll beat the everlasting crap out of them once again!"

"No, something's wrong with BLU's Respawn, and by the looks of it, if we don't hurry..."

"...they'll die," Spy finished. Despite having a general disgust for each other, after the incident RED and BLU had gotten closer as friends, and only acted like enemies on the battlefield.

"The entrance to the Respawn machine is located in the intel room, we gotta hurry!" Engi said.

"But how are we going to get down there, the entire basement here is on fi- oh wait, never mind," Scout remembered that one of his teammates could control fire on a whim.

The RED team hurried their way down to BLU's Respawn room, but by the time they arrived it was too late.

End of Flashback

"And after that, there was no need for us, and we were promptly dismissed by the Administrator herself," he concluded.

"How long ago was this?" I asked.

"About thirteen years ago," he replied. "Luckily we got ourselves some jobs, I set up a repair shop while Pyro works at the local fire department,"

"Huh, interesting...who's the robot?" I motioned over to CV.

"Oh him, I tried my hand at some advanced robotics and built him in about two years using some of your tools you left with me. Originally, he's supposed to be like a sentry, but someone infected him with some kind of virus and now he's...this now,"

"I'd take that as a compliment," the robot said.

"A virus did that to him? Well, at least it didn't turn him into some kind of rampaging robot or something,"

"Yeah, most of the others didn't like him either, especially Soldier, even though he's...not very violent,"

"So? Anything else new?"

"Yup! We have a daughter,"

I gasped. "You do? How old is she?"

"Fifteen, we had her towards the end of the year. Her name's Heather,"

"That's adorable! I assume she looks like Pyro doesn't she?"

"Hell yeah she does," CV started. "Same black hair, red eyes, HUGE b-!"

"CV! Ah don't think we need to go there,"

"Red eyes? Doesn't Pyro have one green and one brown eye?"

"Yeah baffled me too, but then again norm hasn't been on our side lately anyways," he paused. "What bring you here, and in such bad shape?"

"An attack...and we lost, badly," I said as my tone darkened. "I'm lucky I'm not dead, though it can't be said for some of the others..."

Engi noticed this and decided not to push it any further.

"Ah, we got a house on the outskirts, if yah want we can take you there and bunk with us until tomorrow,"

"Ok..."

"Just have to clean up the place first, and fix this clunker,"

"I can help," I offered. "Consider it retribution for not letting me bleed out,"

"Ah shoot, you don't nee-" I held up my hand.

"Too bad you're getting it," I snapped my fingers and three German Shepard sized robotic spiders appeared beside me.

"Whoa, that's cool," CV said. "And how did you do that?"

"Magic," I said as I gave him a toothy grin, exposing one of my fangs. "Trevor, Keller, Nate, will you three help Engi and CV clean up this place?"

Trevor nodded and hissed to the other two.

"Now, give me that wrench," I said to Engi. "In an hour, I'll fix this hunk of junk back to what it used to look like,"

"...and that is how we met the Allies," Ana concluded. "And also how I can control fire,"

"..."

"She's taking it well so far," Jackie said. The female Wanderer was back in her civilian clothes. "At least for a fifteen year old,"

"...b-b-b-but why?" Heather finally said. "Why keep this from me? Did CV know this too?"

"CV?"

"A robot Dell built sometime after you guys left us," Ana answered. "And yes he did know,"

"So why?"

"''sigh' To keep you safe,"

"Safe? Why keep me safe? I'm almost an adult and I can hold my own,"

"Heather, we faced some nasty stuff over the years, ranging from the paranormal to the extraterrestrials. And the only reason why we were able to stand up to these things was because of the Respawn,"

"What's that?"

"It's a machine that revives you after you've died, and it's what caused BLU to die,"

"How?"

"Malfunction,"

"..."

The three's silence was soon broken by the front door opening followed by, "Honey, I'm home and I brought some company!"

"Dad's home!" Heather shouted. She ran out to meet him only to run into a shorter girl with silver hair. "Uh, who are you?"

"I assume you're Heather, right?" the girl responded. "I'm Arachne, a friend of your Dad and Mom,"

A/N: And I'm ending chapter 1 there. I would go longer but it's just getting prolonged and I really want to start with the other mercs.

OCs mentioned: CV by Subject Blank formally known as False Blank and Corrupted Virus

Next chapter is: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Till next time,

-D.W