Author's Note: Okay, so I guess I can make it this week. I wish I couldn't feel the left side of my jaw right now but whatever. I had my first official surgury.

Disclaimer: I don't own Red vs Blue.

The Reunion

"Come on, move!" C.T. ordered as we made us the four of us run to the elephant. When we got to the elephant, guess who we saw. No seriously guess….No! It was Caboose! Surrounded by a bunch of soldiers!

"All right already!" Grif cried as they shoved us forward "We're moving! Don't boss me!"

"Hey. What's going on up here?" C.T. angrily asks. I think we all know that he knows what's going on, but we like to think he does it to make him look cooler or more intimidating or whatever.

"Blrghh? Rrhgh," the aline uh, Smith replies. Why the fuck is he names Smith?

"Sabotaging the digger, huh?" he growls "I knew it! Who sent you here? What do they know about us?" It seems like he was waiting for this to happen. Now that I think about it does a little more sense, there's no way he would have let us just leave, at least I wouldn't have.

Sarge groans "Dammit, Caboose! Why do you keep messing with the vehicles!?"

Caboose replies in his usual cheery tone " Oh! Yeah, I was just trying to find a home for Epsilon. No biggie." He then points at the memory unit next to him.

C.T. stares and cries "What? What is that thing?" At that moment the desert started to rumble. Smith starts to glance around confused and it was at the moment when we all looked and witnessed the temple door opening.

"Shit!" C.T. curses, "He's opening the temple! Dammit!" He then turns and yells "Are you with them!?"

"With who?" Grif cries.

AN: Don't know the name of the original track. So I think this one will have to do.

Play Track: MW2 Soundtrack: The Hornet's Nest

C.T. turn back to his man and angrily barks " Aw, crap! Get down there! Kill them if you have to and don't let that door close again no matter what happens!" The soldiers and aliens all rush for the temple entrance.

"We gotta move!" I barked, and we all ran in the opposite direction.

"Let's get the fuck out of here!" Grif nods in agreement. All around us rounds started to pour out around us and soon the bodies of aliens and soldiers start falling all around us.

"Shit! Smith! Turret!" C.T. screamed, and the aline climbed onto the ridge and climbed in said turret.

"Over there!" C.T. cries and runs off with his soldiers. In all the chaos Grif and I manage to climb aboard the elephant.

"Grif grab the controls!" I cry while watching the entrance.

"Hahaa, see ya, suckers! You just got yoinked!" Grif laughs mischievously. I then look around quickly taking note of all the equipment and sensors they have on board. "'the fuck do you drive this thing?" I hear Grif cry. "? Why are there only four levers if there are six directions!? Where the fuck is second gear?"

I run over and push him aside crying "Let me see." Okay, we have two levers okay, and uh….huh? "Wait, what? What is this?" I turn to Grif who is just as puzzled.

We both then hear Sarge screaming at us while he runs by "Guys! If you need to run away in the middle of battle, at least have the decency to drive faster than I can run!"

"Is the emergency brake on?" I asked aloud while looking over all the buttons, "I don't see—"

Grif grabs my shoulder and cries "Man fuck this! Let's get out of here." He then starts to run out.

"Wait I cry!" turning back around.

"What?" he asks. I raise my smg and spray the rounds into the computers and controls. I then turn to him saying "Alright let's go!" We then run out finally getting a good view of the battle we were in the middle of.

"Get down!" one of C.T.'s men screams as an explosion goes off near him.

I look over the ridge on the wall to see Smith firing the turret at something. All of a sudden his head explodes into a cloud of red mist and behind where his her head use to be, angled downward was a trail of wipe vapor that seemed to end in a small hole in the wall behind the turret..

"Nice shot," I murmur. I haven't seen accuracy like that in….well since Blood Gulch. A mongoose drives by carrying a pair of soldiers and they were firing at something to their right. They had failed to notice a grenade that had landed in front of them and when it exploded, it launched the bike into the air flipping it and killing the passenger.

"Aw fuck!" the driver cries as he gets up and regroups with the others.

They are soon pushed back to the wall and C.T. screams "Cover me!" he then runs back into the ruins and screams "Fall back!" and his men followed. It was that moment we made our getaway. As we were fleeing, Caboose stop dead in his tracks causing us to pretty much bump into him.

"Caboose!" I cry, "What is it?"

Caboose points straight ahead and cries "Tucker!" We all stop and stare as a soldier clad in aqua colored Mk. VI armor.

"Tucker?" we all ask.

We then hear his radio go off and a female voice opens up "Tucker, we have them on the run! Now's our window, we gotta move!"

Tucker then turns to us "Hey guys! Run for the temple! We'll cover you, hurry!"

"Oh—my—Tucker! Is that you!?" Caboose excitedly cries.

"Caboose happy to see Tucker?" Carrie chuckles "That's a first."

Tucker replies "Yeah, of course it's me! Now move!" The five of us decided to just stand there.

"So… where have you been?" Caboose asks casually as an explosion goes off somewhere behind Tucker. Are we really small talking right now?

Tucker incredulously cries "What is this, some kind of fucking reunion!? Move your asses, idiots! I'll meet you over there!" and we then finally take off.

While we were running Sarge mutters "What in Sam Hell was all that?"

Grif cries from behind me "Who cares? Just move!"

As we made our way to the temple I noticed a figure at the entrance picking off any soldiers that got too close. Judging by the green rounds coming from the figure's rifle, he was using a carbine.

"There's the entrance!" Tucker cried, "Go go go!"

As we ran through the entrance, it became clear to me that the figure was not human, it was in fact a sangheili donned in blue ascetic armor. He paid no mind to us and just continued on shooting ang soldiers or a line that would move into his sights. Grif and Caboose join the sangheili adding their fire into the mix.

"Hold them off! I'll get the door!" Tucker cries. I rush up to the entrance to see Tucker running in with another soldier in teal colored armor and a CQB helmet holding a shotgun hot on his heals. Is that woh I think it is? "There," he breaths as he door closes.

End Track

"Ahhh!" I groan as something big and blue hits me knocking me to the ground. "Wha-" I glance at the elite from earlier who at the moment has in a bone crunching embrace and appears to be….purring? "Hello?" I croaked.

"I knew we would meet again on the fields of battle Warrior Lockett," She whispered.

"MEIA?!" I cried out half surprised, half happy. She then gets off of me pulling me up

"Looks like you two are getting along well," the teal soldier laughs as she pulls off her helmet and gives Tucker a quick kiss on the side of his helmet. She then said "Welcome back."

I turn to the teal soldier and ask "Fergo?" I CQB turned to me.

She then cheerfully greets "Oh hey Lockett! I didn't know you were with these guys!" I glanced behind her and noticed something different.

"When did you get a hammer?" I asks.

"Oh this?" she asks, grabbing the handle with one hand and pulling out and shows it with the ease of a man swinging around a baseball with one hand. AU Think of it like that scene when Ruby first showed off Crescent Rose to Jaune in like the second episode of RWBY. "I picked it off of one of the first temples we visited during one of our missions."

"Yeah," laughs Tucker, "The alien monks there kept going on about how the hammer picked her and that she was the chosen one or some shit. No big quest this time though. Hers was more of a King Arthur situation."

"Tucker! Fergo!" Caboose cried wrapping the latter into the tight hug.

"Hey Caboose," Tucker waves.

"Caboose!" Fergo joyfully cried returning his embrace. "I've missed you!"

"I missed you too!" Caboose cries back.

"Hey Tucker," I casually greet.

"Oh hey man, how you doing?" he asks just as casually.

"Got my rank back!" I replied.

"Really?" he asks. "That's great."

"Oh, hey look, it's that guy," Grif lazily mutters.

"You brought these guys?" Tucker asks, somewhat surprised. "Are we killin' each other today? Or pretending to work together?"

"The second one," I reply.

"Oh, okay, cool," Tucker then swaps his sword for his gun and walks over to greet the others "Hey dudes, what's up? How'd y'all find me?"

"The UNSC sent me," I replied, I then motion at the others and say "I dragged them along when Donut came running to them with a message from you."

"What?!" cried Tucker, "The message was a distress signal, I wanted help!" Fergo was immediately at his side trying to calm him down. "I wanted less distress, not more distress!"

"Shhh, it's okay," hushed Fergo now cradling Tucker's head. "Hush now."

Tucker takes a deep breath, now calm he asks me "What took you guys so long anyway?"

"What do you mean?" we ask curiously.

"You guys forever to get here," Fergo replies. "We've been waiting for months."

"It's almost seemed as if your people had abandoned us," Media said solemnly.

"Tucker," I sigh "I only got the message a week ago, and it was from the Navy."

"The Navy?" Tucker asks, the three stare at me all sharing confused looks. "Why do they have it, I sent it to Command." *cough* We turn and stare at the others shuffling nervously.

I stiffen up a little and sternly ask "What did you guys do?"

"It's a long story," Grif replied, "We actually didn't tell Lockett about the call."

I deadpanned while in the background I could hear the sounds of the faces of the three people we can to "rescue" hit the floor with a loud crash.

Tucker, as if nothing had happened, casually asks " Ohh, I get it. So me making an emergency radio call, not a big deal. Donut telling you some dumb homo story, red alert!"

Sarge shrugs "Pretty much," and everyone nods in agreement.

Tucker turns to me and I reply "I know, I felt the same way when they called me."

"So where is the rest of you?" Fergo asks as she disassembles her shotgun. I glance over at the main party and watch as they all shared confused glances.

"What do you mean?" Rowe asks.

"Other warriors," Meia replied, she then chuckles "You surely didn't come here on your own did you?" Fergo and Tucker also started laughing at the ridiculous prospect.

Their smiles fade and Tucker deadpans "You didn't bring any other soldiers, did you?"

"Lockett?" Rowe asks. Suddenly, all eyes are on me.

"I was advised not to," I replied.

"Why?" Tucker asks.

"They suspected insurrectionist activity," I replied, "Had I walked in here with a squad of UNSC soldiers, we would have been shot on sight."

"Then why are you here?" Fergo asks.

"My job was simply to perform recon on this place," I explained, "Find out if you were still alive, confirm if they were rebels, and then call in support."

"Where's the support then?" Tucker asks.

I sighed, "I lost signal to command as soon as we got here, and as far as command knows, we're probably just having an equipment malfunction."

"So you basically got stranded here without any way to call for help?" Tucker asks.

"Not unless you have away past their jammer," I replied. "What is exactly going on here anyway?"

Tucker glances warily at the others " Uh, it's kind of hard to explain. They think there's some kind of artifact here-"

I cut him off saying "Yeah I know about that part, what's the current situation here?" I could do with a few less stupid questions.

"Well the reason we are here," Tucker points to himself, Fergo, and Meia, "Is because of the artifact alien bullshit here. Since the aliens are all into that shit, and I guess all the humans are too. So, me and Junior have to go around sometimes and help… negotiate stuff. You know. Smooth talk."

"How does Fergo and Meia play into this?" I ask pinching the bridge of my nose.

"Meia is his interpreter and I'm his head of security," Fergo replies.

"Wait," Grif stands up and asks "Because an aline fucked and knocked you up, said alien race made you and your mixed raced abomination ambassadors?"

"Yep," Tucker replies nonchalantly.

"I guess that's what qualifies as good enough," Rowe mutters.

Tucker laughs, "I dunno, humans and aliens just seem more comfortable with us, since we're kind of… you know, in between."

"In between aliens and humans, huh. You mean in between two alien and human? …Ladies?" Caboose asks mischievously.

"Caboose please don't," I practically begged.

Tucker retorts "Come on, dude. Seriously? You're not gonna get me to say it with that lame-ass joke. I'm not that easy." Fergo snorted and Meia watched intently as the five of us sat with a deadpan gaze, staring at Tucker just waiting for him to say it. We all know it's coming.

Tucker finally laughs "… Okay, well maybe I am that easy, bow-chicka-bow-wow. See, now that's a set-up."

We pretty much all let out a groan while caboose laughs "Ahaha. Yeah, I hope one day you will tell me what you're going to do between the two ladies."

"Caboose I'll explain the 'Birds and the Bees' later, can we please get back on topic?" she groans.

Sarge nods "Right, so are you part of the group that C.T. told us about?"

"That asshole?" laughs Fergo.

Tucker cries "He's a fucking liar. He and his team killed the guys originally sent to dig this thing up, then they tried to kill me."

"He also managed turned all of my people against yours," Meia adds.

"How'd he manage that?" Grif asks.

"I believe the phrase is 'Appeal to their wallets'?" Meia asks, when I give her a nod, she continues, "My fellow warriors were a bit….obsessed with the relics, obsessed enough that the felt it would be faster if they followed the one you call C.T."

"Why do you always work with such shitty people?" Rowe asks.

Meia sighs and hangs her head and sags her shoulders, "Question of my life."

"You're getting better at your human phrases," I mused. The complement seemed to help brighten up her day.

She then continues, "As I was saying, it would be unwise to think that C.T. would not attempt to take the relics for himself once he and his new found 'allies' have finished recovering them."

"Wait speaking of C.T.? Carrie?" her avatar appears, much to the surprise of the three occupants of the temple.

"Wait Locket?" Tucker calls out surprised, "You have a hot chick with you? In your head?"

"You're not my type Tucker," Carrie retorts casually.

"Well first that was harsh," he replies somewhat offended, "Second, I was just saying 'cause I'm already spoken for anyway."

"You better be." Fergo growls now at his side, she then wraps her arm around his and chuckles "Turned down by an A.I., I think that's a new low for you Vernius."

Well before they go about their personal talks in front of my, I turn and ask Carrie, "You said C.T. is dead earlier, what did you mean by that?"

"Wait what?" Sare asks.

"C.T.'s dead?" Grif asks equally surprised as Sarge.

"What did you find this out?" Rowe asks.

"Right before you guys got rescued," Carrie replies, she turns back to me and continues, "It looks like you're probably right about them being insurrectionists."

"Let me guess…." this is brilliant, "C.T. was a freelancer." This cases pretty much everyone to groan, growl, show whatever frustrations they had.

"The armor matches," Carrie sighs.

"Why is it always us!" Grif cries.

"What else?" Tucker asks.

"Well," we watch as Carrie pulls up C.T.'s file, "Agent Connecticut as she was reported MIA about 2-3 years ago."

"She?" everyone asks.

"The original C.T. was a girl," I sighed, everyone turns to me, "I….may have ran into her in one of my old missions."

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Sarge asks.

"Because I don't think they're the same person," I replied, "I mean I am pretty sure the one I saw back then is not the same as the guy that greeted us when we first got here."

"Well, one's a boy and the other's a girl," Grif snorts, "Can't imagine why you didn't recognize him."

"Well, that and this one was also taller than the last," I mused.

"Why was she missing?" Tucker asks Carrie.

"That's what the file says," Carrie replies, "get this, I did some further digging and look what I found." She then pulls up a digital copy of something.

"Is that a hit order?" I asked. "Through my days in the office, I had to go through a lot of paperwork." I pointed at the hologram, "I've never actually handled one of those before, but I do recognize what it looks like."

Carrie smirks, "Connecticut was charged with treason, apparently she defected to the Insurrection and the Director sent a squad of Freelancers to assassinate her."

"Grim," I mumble, "They never found a body did they?"

"It would explain how they got the armor," Carrie muses.

"So let me get this straight," Fergo stand up, "The asshole out there is some rebel leader using freelancer tech and probably plans to use the alien tech here," points the the temple, "To probably enhance his tech and use it to wage war against all of humanity?"

"Ahh, just another day at work," laughs Sarge.

"I missed these adventures," Meia sighed.

"Yeah, it's a shame not all of us made it," Caboose sniffed.

I wrap an arm around him, "Hey kid, it's alright." Carrie appears to his right mirroring my actions.

"Yeah about that," Tucker asks "Where's Church."

"Do you want to tell him?" I ask Caboose, he nods and stands up.

"He's dead," Caboose flat out says to Tucker, Fergo, and Meia. I think he's gonna need to explain a little.

"Wait I am confused," Meia comments, "Wasn't he dead when I first met him?"

"She's right," nods Fergo, "Being 'dead' hasn't exactly stopped him in the past."

" Oh yeah," Caboose then quickly sums up our past adventure, "We also found out that he's, not a ghost, and that he's an A.I. computer program, like Sheila."

Both Meia and Fergo stared wide eyed while Tucker responds in a slightly higher pitched voice "Yeah, I knew that." fergo glances over at him weirdly.

"You did?" I smirk, yeah don't worry, I'm know he had no idea.

"Yeah, you guys didn't?" he says quickly "Ha, pay fuckin' attention, what the fuck are you guys paying attention to?"

"Oh, uh, I have my suspicions," Grif sputters.

"Of course, I just didn't want to tell anybody," Sarge lies. Let's be real, I'm probably the only one here who had some idea of what was really going on. Not going to tell them that though, something tells me they'll find out on their own.

"You guys are idiots," Rowe groans, rolling her eyes.

Caboose laughs "I still want to know what Tucker's going to do between the two ladies." I think Caboose just wanted to say something.

Tucker then gives it to us straight, "Look guys, I need your help. We either need to chase these guys off or destroy this facility. Or pick up some chicks. Old habits die hard."

"We can scratch destroying off the list," I sigh, "We don't exactly have the equipment to do so. We might have to fight."

"And if we don't succeed we'll die fighting?" asks Meia.

"Fuck that," I hear Grif mutter.

"We'll do what we have to," I reply.

"Tell you one thing," Fergo turns to tucker, "That ancient race sure built a lot of weapons."

Tucker laughs "I know right! First they built these rings that were a huge weapon, then we found this super powerful cube-shaped weapon, and I guess this is the pyramid version."

"You know it could be just an information cache," I reasoned.

"It's more than likely that," Meia adds, "Finding weapons is a lot rarer than you think."

Grif groans " Seriously? I mean did they really need to spend all their time building stuff to destroy the universe and shit? Like, how about the galaxy's biggest movie theater or, like some kind of super advanced water park? All work and no play guys, seriously."

"What makes you think they didn't?" I ask.

Author's Note: There, we are done with another chapter, and we have some returning characters, any questions you may have now I promise will get answered later on down the line. I hope this series is going well, because I plan to write as much as I can. If you got anything you think I could add to the story, you know where to find me. As all ways, thank you for reading, and remember, Big Brother is Watching.