Church sighed and leaned back on his couch, once again Tex and him were in another fight. He didn't even know what he did wrong this time, the two just seemed to always end up in a screaming match.
After Blood Gulch Church started to look for Tex, he ended up finding her in a place called Vallhalla, where the ship had crashed. Luckily her AI, Omega, was gone. Church guessed Omega didn't think the chances of survival after the crash was good and jumped to someone elses armor, but he didn't care as long as the AI wasn't in Tex, he was content. It had taken him two weeks to find her, he didn't even want to mention the time it took for him to find two normal bodies that weren't being used, which he needed since he couldn't return home in his spartan robot body.
Tex had ended up skinny with short red hair and a sharp featured face, it was a very fitting body for her, built to do the fighting she loved and a lot like her personality. Church was skinny and some what built, he had medium length black hair that he kept spiked up and a goatee. Even though Tex looked different she still had the same personality, Church on the other hand, who had a body similar to his original one, was starting to view his life differently.
Maybe once he was ok with all the fighting him and Tex did, but now... he just hated it. Every single day he would have to hear the same thing over and over again, all his flaws, how he did everything 'wrong' he was sick of it all. He no longer had feelings for Tex, the only thing that came up in his mind when he thought of her was frustration. After all the times she betrayed him, used him, she could at least be nice, not a full on bitch. He deserved better, they both deserved better, someone who actually understood them. Church was unhappy with his life with Tex, he no longer wanted to be with her, this had finally been the last point, he now knew that it was never going to change.
Something inside Church used to tell him it was the 'plan' to be with her but slowly he started to ignore it, he started to listen to his heart, as cheesy as it sounds. He no longer cared if it was the 'plan' for them to be together, whatever than meant, he had been chasing her his whole life and it got him no were, she treated him like shit. Back at Blood Gulch he was treated great.
Church grumbled to himself, this brought him back to a problem he kept trying to forget. Caboose. He didn't want to win the game. Church didn't know when he actually started caring about Caboose but when he went home not seeing the blonde had unearthed some 'more than friend' feelings that had been developing. He knew he shouldn't have them and he was trying to deny them, make them go away, but he didn't want to admit he could possibly have a crush on Caboose, that he could be...
Church shook off his thoughts, he shouldn't spend time worrying about this, he could deal with the 'problem' after he broke things off with Tex and got his head straight. He got up from where he was sitting and walked over to their room.
"I'm coming in." Church said as he opened the door, when he entered the room he was met by a fist that punched him in the face.
"Oww, what the hell Tex?!" Church yelled holding his eye, Tex was definitely still fuming.
"I'm not fighting with you again right now." She said angrily. Church sighed as he let go of his eye and looked at Tex.
"I don't want to fight... I just want to talk." He said, he sat on the bed and patted next to him, motioning for Tex to come sit down.
"I think we can both agree this isn't working out... We just aren't right for eachother." Church said when Tex sat next to him.
"I'm sick of the fighting, Church." She said looking over at him.
"I know, I am too, but you can't say you didn't see this coming. We fight all the time. If we stay together we're just going to rip eachother apart." Church said, Tex nodded in agreement.
"You're right. Things have changed, we aren't good for eachother anymore." She said, Church smiled at her, for once the two agreed on something. It was a little humorous that the one thing they agreed on was breaking up.
"So what are we going to do now?" Tex asked, that was the one thing neither of them had planned out.
"I don't know... We'll sell the apartment... You can use your money from the military to go travel around like you always wanted... I could always go and see some old friends-" Church was cut off when there was a knock on the front door. He shared a confused look with Tex before leaving the room to answer it, usually no one came to visit them, he had lost all connection with his 'friends' from Blood Gulch.
When Church answered the door he was met by a slender man with brown hair, of course taller than him since Church was shorter than most guys. He knew right away the man was from the military given his army fatigues.
"Hello, are you Leonard Church, leader of the blue team in Blood Gulch?" The man asked, he seemed to have a proffesional demeanor.
"Yeah, why?" Church asked suspicious.
"I'm from command, we have a problem and need the help of peole who are experienced with AI's-" The man trailed off when Tex came in the room. Church guessed from the look on both their faces they knew eachother.
"Tex, I didn't know you'd be here." Washington said a bit intimidated. Tex walked over and stood next to Church
"Washington?" She asked, Church instantly remembered this name from Tex's stories.
"Washington, you mean Agent Washington from Project Freelancer? The one who wen crazy?" Church asked, Washington adopted a slightly annoyed look on his face.
"I wasn't the one who went crazy my AI... Malfunctioned..." He said, he was definitely the typical person from command, hiding away information.
"Listen there's someone stealing AIs and I really don't have time to sit here and chat, so are you guys going to help or not?" Washington asked.
"Are you kidding me? You're asking us to help you chase multiple AIs?! We already had enough trouble with one AI! Why would we-" Church was cut off by Tex.
"I'm going." She said surprising Church.
"What?" He asked, before Tex could answer someone came running up the stairs of the apartment complex and into the hallway in front of the door. Church realized it was Caboose. He was still taller than Church, but not by that much now, Church was for some reason relieved to see he hadn't changed much, still had short blonde hair and that goofy smile on his face. Caboose's blue eyes brightened when he saw Church and he quickly ran over to hug him.
"Church!" He exclaimed as he squeezed the shorter man who blushed a little.
"Caboose..." Church said sternly, disguising his embarrassment with irritation. Caboose let go thinking Church was mad at him.
"Sorry..." He mumbled, making Church feel a little guilty. The older one sighed before holding out his arms.
"Make it quick." He said. Caboose smiled and wrapped his arms around Church.
"Are you coming with us to help Agent Washington?" Caboose asked still hugging Church. The latter of the two looked over to Washington who was staring back of him.
"Ugh...I don't have a choice now, do I?" Church asked, Caboose excitedly squeezed him harder.
"Yay, now I can finally hang out with my best friend again!" He said happily, Church guessed something like this would happen when the two had their reunion.
"Caboose... Can't breathe..." Church said running out of breath, the blonde instantly let go allowing him to breathe.
"It's only because if I left you alone with Tex she'd probably end up shooting you." Church lied when he caught his breath, there was really more to it than that, the fact he actually wanted to spend time with Caboose, that he actually cared about him, scared him. He didn't want the blonde to know about it.
"Ok, so if we got everyone-" Washington started but was cut off by Tex.
"Wait, there's one more person we have to get." Washington groaned in responce, obviously in a rush.
"Fine, but we better make this quick." He said.
