Alright this chapter is going to be longer due to a bit more action in it. Everything is going to go down and a new poll will start up. I hope you're prepared for what is about to happen. Believe me things are going to get a little gruesome.

Near Doc's place

"Oh my god. Carolina hasn't returned. And Dr. Grey won't be here soon enough. What am I going to do if the Reds and Blues start fighting each other and we don't have enough medics." Doc was constantly saying to himself as he was pacing back and forth near the communication satellite. Then he heard and saw an alien ship fly overhead as Dr. Grey jumped out of it.

"Hey Doc how are thing going?" Grey asked after she landed on her feet but before Doc could respond they heard the only ship explode and saw the wreckage of it near blue base.

Over at Blue Base

"Look Tucker all I am saying is that it is weird that Carolina has not said a word to us after she decided to go neutral." Wash said to Tucker

"Wash I can understand your concern but I don't want to lose anyone. Besides Carolina can more than handle herself." Tucker said trying to calm Wash down a little.

"Who is this Carolina chick? She sounds hot." Sister asked drawing out the hot as she came onto the roof. The entire conversation stopped as they saw an alien speeding down towards them. The alien then went into a roll and stopped right in front of Tucker in a kneeling like position. As the alien stood up everyone could hear a crash and an explosion as they all turned towards the ship that had just crashed.

"Bow Chicka Honk Honk." Junior said right before hugging his father.

"Hey Junior nice to see you. How have things been?" Tucker asked before a long conversation ensued.

"So are we ready for the fight Tucker?" Wash asked as the rest of blue team gathered on the roof.

"Oh heck yea we're ready." Tucker said as both he and Junior drew their energy swords.

Red Base

"Alright so the backup plan to that backup plan is too.." Sarge was about to start.

"Sarge I think we get the idea." Simmons said a little annoyed at how many plans Sarge had come up with.

"Ya this seems a little excessive." Katie said with a slight lisp on the excessive.

"Permission to speak freely sir. Fuck the blues." Grif said as he walked out with the Grif shot on his back.

"Hehehe. Today is a good day for the blues to die." Sarge said as he primed his shotgun.

"Suck it Blue." Simmons said from the top of the base as loud as he could.

"Does this happen regularly?" Matthews asked as he was loading his DMR

"Al igual que no podrias creer. (Like you wouldn't believe)" Lopez said to the new members of red team.

"Lopez just said that it rarely happens." Donut said misquoting Lopez again.

"Por que insistes en traducer para mi cuando usted incluso no sable lo que estoy diciendo la mitad del tiempo (Why do you insist on translating for me when you don't even know what I am saying half the time?)" Lopez asked Donut.

"Of course it has only happened to us 2 times Lopez. What are you crazy?" Donut said as Lopez just sighed.

Middle of the canyon

"Alright we have our heavy duty medical gear set up along with the medic tent. Everything is all set provided they don't start shooting at us." Doc said to himself as he finished setting up the last of the medical equipment.

"Relax it should be fine. I doubt many of them will get hurt. When do they ever really succeed against each other?" Grey said as she finished with her end.

Outside of the medic tent

"You ready to die Blues." Sarge said as he stared down Tucker.

"Look man you can just walk away and we can go back to hating each other but not doing anything. Or you will leave this canyon in little pieces." Tucker said trying to dissuade a battle but knew it wasn't going to work so he prepared to grab his sword.

"Funny choice of last words Blue." Sarge said as he fired his shotgun and Tucker barely rolled out of the way in time.

"Donut switch to plan 42B." Grif said as he drove the warthog towards the Blues tank driven by Smith while playing the classic red team warthog music.

"Got it. Throwing grenades at the alien holes." Donut said as he started throwing grenades at Junior.

"I will never understand that guy." Simmons said as he aimed the turret at Sister, Palomo and Kimball who were firing at them from on top of Blue Base.

"Blarg." Junior growled to himself as he took out a beam rifle and aimed it at Donut and fired pretty much an entire mile too far to the right. And then got surprised by multiple grenades being lobbed at him. He quickly ran to another rock while firing shot after shot at Donut completely missing all of them and then cursing himself for not trying to pay attention to Church using the sniper rifle since he clearly would know how to use one.

In Blue Base

"Captain Caboose I am detecting hostiles." Freckles said followed by Caboose immediately turning to the right and then looking to the left actually being smart for once.

"Are you sure Freckles I don't see them?" Caboose asked while still acting smart marking a new record for him of an entire minute where he acted smart.

"Scanning again. Negative no hostiles anymore. Probably just some commotion outside." Freckles answered unaware that a few cloaked figures were sneaking up on Caboose right now.

Suddenly Caboose found himself lifted into the air and impaled by an energy sword before being kicked off of it right into the knife of X who then tossed Caboose to L who also stabbed Caboose before handing Caboose to II where he was once again stabbed before being tossed around the group of four being repeatedly stabbed before being tossed to the feet of their leader as X, L, and II went to retrieve the package in Tucker's room. As Caboose looked up somehow still conscious he heard the man utter one word.

"Unfortunate." The man said before picking Caboose up and stabbing him once more.

"Honk?" V asked.

"Yes we will now reveal ourselves." The man said as he and V dragged Caboose with them outside to the battle as the other three took a metal crate and moved it to a cloaked ship outside.

Outside the base

Everything was in complete chaos all the vehicles turned upside down and Grif using the blade on the end of the Grif shot somehow being able to go toe to toe with the energy sword wielding Junior while Donut was tossing grenades behind his flipped ghost .

"Guys?" Everybody heard Caboose say weakly as they all turned to him they saw him in the worst shape possible. His armor has multiple stab marks and was covered in blood. His visor was badly cracked even gone in some places showing the pale skin that was due to blood loss. He then fell forward and everyone saw the human and alien in entirely black armor that were standing behind Caboose.

"Who the fuck are you?" Tucker said as everyone stood behind him and aimed their weapons at the pair while Washington was trying to remember where he had seen this man before as there was something familiar about how he stood. Something that radiated strength.

"You are a monster doing all of this to an innocent little kid pretty much." Doc said angrily as he and Grey had dragged Caboose away from the pair of assailants.

"No. I'm not a monster. I'm a soldier." The man who still had his helmet concealed said.

"Really Locus you're back to doing that." Kimbal said as she had heard that Locus had changed. Soon after a sniper shot rang out and everybody turned to look at the source and the source was Locus.

"No. I no longer do that. I realize fully that I am a monster but even I would never do this." Locus said as he gestured towards Caboose.

"Really Locus you no longer using your soldier title to cope. That is a good one. So why don't you tell me and V the truth. I doubt you would stop using your title of soldier even if you went to see a shrienk. And Washington I would have expected you to recognize me. But I guess your memory isn't too good." The mysterious man said.

"Then please enlighten me." Washington asked as he too raised his gun.

"You seriously don't remember me Wash. Well I guess there is no use moving around it. I can't believe you don't remember me. Agent Illinois. Possibly one of the greatest freelancers." The man now revealed to be Illinois said to Wash and while you couldn't see it you could definitely tell that Wash was getting angry.

"You, you, YOU!" Wash shouted as he charged straight at Illinois but right as he got up to Illinois he was stabbed by the same person he was charging at.

"That is the last time you try to attack me. Agent Washington." Illinois said before pushing Wash off of his blade and leaving with his squad but not before Donut was able to throw a tacking chip onto their ship which had to decloak before it fired on the Reds and Blues.

"Dammit. God fucking dammit. We finally get back to where we belong and it gets fucked up almost immediately. We are going to find them and then we are going to make them pay." Grif said as he reloaded the Grif shot and prepared to do anything to get back at the people who had wronged them.

"Grif even if we knew where they were heading how would we get there we have no ship." Simmons said trying to make a point.

"Actually … You could use my ship." Locus said as he walked up to the group.

"We still don't know where they will be heading." Tucker said.

"Actually I stuck a tracking device onto them when their ship decloaked." Donut said as he brought up the tracker.

"Ok no we just need to put together a plan." Carolina said as she had woken up from being attacked by Illinois earlier.

Some uncharted region of space. Staff of Charon.

The ship Illinois and his squad used to leave and arrive at Blood Gulch landed in the hangar and once they disembarked they started walking towards the science wing with the package as everyone on the ship began giving them salutes.

Science Wing

A man wearing a lab coat and what looked like a crown made out of bones started spinning in his chair and checking his instruments to see if all was going as planned.

"Mad King status report." Illinois said as the scientist was startled by his voice.

"Yes sir. The patient is starting to recover nicely. No signs of K.I.A. syndrome as of yet. We were able to patch up the lung and remove the excess water from the patient's system and get them back up to a reasonable heat. They are currently in their recuperative tank sleeping. Is what is in the crate what I think it is?" The scientist now known as the Mad King said and then asked getting a little excited.

"Boys open up the crate." Illinois told X and L. Then soon did as they were told and removed the armor that was in the crate.

"Yes the armor of the Meta. It will finally be worn by a proper user once again. And with multiple upgrades and A.I. fragments. This is a dream come true." The Mad King said excitedly glad that the few months' work would not be in vain.

"We still need to recover more A.I. fragments though. It might take us a while but in the mean time you can get back to your other project." Illinois said as he started walking to the room where the patient was.

"Yes, yes, yes. Finally I can return my focus to Project E.D.G.A.R. I will finally be reunited with my beloved." The Mad King said as the rest of the squad left the remove.

In the patient's room.

"The galaxy will once again tremble in fear at the work freelancer. Not the joke that Wash and Carolina let it become. The one that you and Tex helped make. I am glad that we could find you again Maine." Illinois said before leaving the room as Maine was floating in a tank with a liquid in it designed to help heal many of the wounds he had sustained over the years.

Alright so that chapter is done. Alright so I am known for having there be mystery and I like to keep it that way but. I will tell you that Wash recovers soon enough to help the Reds and Blues fight Illinois. So for the new pole it is who will die. The choices are as follows, Washington in combat against Illinois or Caboose due to the blood loss he sustained. Please cast your votes and now I need at least 2 reviews giving an answer to the poll before I move on to the next chapter. So I will see you all in the next chapter. See ya.