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Dell woke up to the sound of an explosion. It shook the whole base. The other BLU members stepped out of their rooms, not really caring, it seemed. Just a tiny bit shaken up. They went back into their rooms a moment later.

Everyone except for Dell.

He followed the smell of smoke and...something else that he couldn't really place a name on. Eventually, he came outside, and the minute he stepped out, there was a huge green and blue and black cloud in the training space. He stepped closer, and saw a shadow. Seeing how he just woke up, he didn't have anything to defend himself with except for his own two hands. Or...perhaps...make that one hand...? Oh, forget it.

He braced himself, and waited until the shape in the cloud merged from a shadow into a...person. Alicia stumbled out, coughing a bit. She looked up at him, and the first thing he saw was a greasy mess of black hair with a few spots of green and blue in it. There were also many different coloured spots on her skin, as well. She had deep dark circles under her eyes and she had sweat on her forehead and arms. She was breathing heavily as she waddled over to him, nearly tripping a few times. She gave him a sheepish smile as the cloud dissipitated and revealed rows and rows of dark blue and light blue sentries. Though something was wrong...he was in their range...why weren't they shooting?

He looked at her, but instead of asking that question, he replaced it with another one. "Why?" he asked. She looked at him and gave a toothy, dimpled grin. She shrugged her shoulders.

"Why not? You said I had to work hard. Well, I never stopped workin'. I worked on these little marvels all night! Ain't they great? I love 'em. I even modified them a bit and everythin'. By the way, I stole yer blueprints and they ended up dissintigratin' from all the chemicals I knocked over last night." she told him. His eyes practically popped out of his head.

"WHAT?" he yelled. She giggled and waved a dissmissive hand.

"Oh, it's fine. Don't worry 'bout 'em. They were lousy, anyway. My ideas are much more fun! Much more crazy!" she said, her eyes widening with excitement. Dell pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance and gave her a subtle glare. His eyes weren't hidden by his goggles at the moment.

"Yer not suppossed to build "fun" things, dear. War ain't fun! Here we are, stuck in a doggone war based on dag-nabbin' colours, and yer too busy buildin' colourful, "fun" sentries that don't even work!" Alicia whimpered a bit at this. Dell was moving all around the training area, and even though he didn't know it, the sentries were watching his every move. Alicia had programmed a monitor in them so that if there was a presence with any sort of weaponry, the sentry was to fire. Dell wasn't holding a weapon, so he was all set. But Alicia made a "stop" sign with her hand.

"Stop! Stop moving so much, the alternate programming might activate itself without me having to do anything and I don't want you to get hurt! Please stop moving and get back over here!" she begged. Dell gave her a confused look, but sighed anyway and walked over to her.

"Darlin'...I'm sorry, but you ain't gonna make it out here." He told her. Her eyes widened in both shock and defeat and then she looked down as tears stung the corners of her eyes.

They stood in uncomfortable silence until Rhonda suddenly came out of nowhere, bat in hand, bouncing off the walls. She waved to them both as she came over.

"Heya guys! How ya doin'? 'Ey, Al, was that you makin' all the noise? Psh, I'm tellin' ya, one day, yer gonna blow 'dis place up and there's gonna be nothin' left." There was a moment of pause, then. "HAHA! Listen to me! I'm talkin' like I've been 'ere for years! I've barely been 'ere for a week! HA! Oh, 'ey, are those sentries? Did YOU make those, Al? Hot damn, those are cool. Imma see if they can catch me." Rhonda said, and before Alicia could stop her, she swung her bat around as she finally took the first few steps into the area.

"No, RHONNIE! DON-" Alicia tried to call out. But then, all the sentries fired different coloured green and blue capsule that looked and felt very similar to bullets. These capsules would be fired at their target, and then either collide with their skin, or attach to the target's skin (depending on how sweaty they are), and then they would break a small shell within and release a deadly neurotoxin. This will kill the target within minutes.

That's exactly what would've happened, had Alicia not brought Rhonda to the lab and give her the antidote to it. She used this drug several times last night while she was working. While Rhonda rested, Alicia explained to Dell the whole story and what the capsules did and how the sentries worked. And it turns out that he was very impressed.

"Pretty good, darlin'. Not bad...but, you should give that antidote to the Medic so he can use it on the battlefield, just in case you or someone else on this team is somehow shot, alright?" he told her. She nodded in response.

"By the way, how long did it take you to build each one?" He asked her. She looked at him and gave him a wink.

"Only five minutes. For the complete finished version, that is." She said. She stretched for a moment, and began to paw at the sticky chemicals on her body and hair.

"Gotta get this crap off, huh?" She told him. He nodded. She began to walk over to the shower room after grabbing a small bag of things from her room, but before going in, she turned around and looked at him.

"Oh, yeah, did I pass?" she asked him. He turned around at first with no expression, then he gave a smirk.

"I'd like to think so..."

Hope you liked it.

-Noodle12