A/N: Ditto.

Stella couldn't sleep that night. Sure she was worried about how the REDs would do tomorrow, but what troubled her even more was her transformation that happened today. While it did make her job easier, something about that Stella made her shiver. Was she really that murderous as everyone else claimed she was? She knew she was violent, but this other self took it to an entirely new level.

"I take it you don't really like me do you?"

Stella's thoughts stopped when she heard this voice. It sounded awfully familiar. She sat up on the couch and looked around for the source of the voice.

"Don't bother looking dumbass, I'm still you remember?"

"You…"

"Look I know you don't like the senseless killing, but deal with it. That's how I work,"

"How you work? We're the same person!"

"Same person? Did you say earlier we're different people?"

"Yeah, but we still share the same body!" Stella suddenly felt a hand around her neck. She struggled against the invisible force until she saw what was choking her.

Her transformed self materialized right in front of her. Her hand gripped tightly around Stella's neck.

"Look here," she said. "I'm only doing this for the benefit for the both of us, Stella. If you die, I die," she let go of her grip. "I don't like using violence as well, especially to that degree," she said as she turned around. "But I do so to ensure both of our survival, I'm sure my sisters would do the same once they awaken,"

"Wait, the others…"

"Yes, your sisters are much like you, and they harbor each of my sisters as well," she said. "But only time will tell when they're awakened,"

And with that the other Stella slowly vanished, leaving only Stella in the living room. She lied back down on the couch.

"I really hope they are not like her," she thought as she drifted into an uneasy sleep.

Time Skip

The REDs were on edge the next morning. Despite the match being a Payload race at Hightower, the REDs were unsure how they were going to do.

"Heavy and Medic will stay on the payload for as long as they can," said Engi. The REDs were planning out what to do for today.

"Soldier, Demo, and Pyro will harass the BLUs on their cart. And everyone else will provide support on our cart, is that clear?"

The mercs nodded silently.

"Good, hopefully this handicap wouldn't get those BLU's hopes up too high,"

Debbie went up to Engi and hugged the Texan,

"Stay safe…" she said.

"I will," Engi said as he returned the hug.

Time Skip

The buildings impatiently waited back at RED HQ. All were tense about the battle, but no one was more tense then Debbie. Being the medic of the buildings, she naturally was concerned about the well being of not only her sisters, but for the rest of the mercs. She was constantly on edge, and looked like she would pass out from the stress put on her.

"This. Is. Fucking. Torture," she moaned into the couch. It didn't help that her Pip-Boy constantly told her the status of each of the merc. "This is the fucking third time Scout was blown apart by a rocket already,"

"Deb, could you take a chill pill for once?" Stella asked sitting next to her sister. "Take it easy for a day,"

"Oh you make it sound so easy," Debbie moaned. "You're not the person who worries about you guys every waking hour. I could've saved fifty of the sixty lives that were lost if I was there,"

"Deb," Stella rubbed her sister's back. "Those mercs had gone through hell and back, and we know it. They've held their own before we became humans, so don't worry that much,"

"I know Stella…but I've seen them die right in front of me. I wished I could do something else then heal, at least you could attack them,"

Just then the Pip-Boy beeped once again.

"Who's it this time?" Debbie mumbled as she looked at the screen. As she did her eyes widened. "No…no, no, NO!"

"Oh dear," Stella thought. "It must be Engi,"

"I am not letting those bastard BLUs fuck you over," she said as she got up, but was pulled down by Stella.

"Debbie, Engi can handle this by himself, he never had us around when we were still buildings,"

"No he can't!" Debbie said back. "On wrong move and he's toast! He's useless without us,"

"He's not!" now at this point the two were arguing so loud that the twins and K-9 peeked in the room so see what was going on.

"I don't like where this is going," said Tia.

"Me too," said Tai as she comforted K-9, who was whimpering. "They're even scaring K-9,"

The three debated whether or not to intervene; they wanted to break up the fight, but at the same time didn't want to get caught in the crossfire.

"ENGI CAN HANDLE THESE SITUATIONS ON HIS OWN DEBBIE!" Stella shouted. "YOU JUST CAN'T BABY HIM OR ANY OF THE OTHER MERCS!"

"WELL FOR YOUR INFORMATION I KEEP EVERYONE ALIVE!" Debbie shouted back. "I HAVE SOME CONCERN FOR THE OTHERS UNLIKE YOU!"

"NO CONCERN? I KILL THOSE WHO HURT THEM FOR FUCK'S SAKE! YOU JUST SIT THERE AND HEAL, GODDAMMIT!"

"THAT'S MY POINT! I WANT TO HELP OUT, NOT JUST SIT AROUND! SO FUCK YOU, I'M GOING NO MATTER WHAT!" and with that Debbie turned and started to leave.

Stella's eye turned red as she went over to grab Debbie, but before she could touch her, a fist connected with her chest and sent Stella flying into a wall. She groaned as blood trickled out her mouth, she never knew Debbie could deliver a punch like that, but when she looked up there was someone else then Debbie standing there.

The fist that punched Stella was made of metal and not flesh, in fact, the figure's entire left arm was robotic. Her brown hair was tucked into a red and white cap, with a ponytail sticking out the back. Her eyes glowed an eerie blue and had a red bandana tied around the lower part of her face. She wore a red tank top with a harness that held a pistol holster and two pistol magazines. She wore blue shorts and black shoes, on the figure's shoes were rocket-like thrusters. The figure also had a muscular build to her, similar to Stella. In her other hand, held a rifle like gun.

"Do not fuck with me, Stella," the figure said pointing to her using her metal arm. "And neither you too sister," the figure then turned and left.

"Stella!" the twins said as they went over and checked on their older sister. K-9 also had a look of concern on his face as well.

"I'm ok you three," Stella said as she got up slowly and wiped the blood off her face.

"What the hell just happened?" asked Tia. "Don't tell me we're having a repeat of yesterday,"

"And why did she refer to you like two people?" added Tai.

"First off Debbie transformed like I did and two, you know my other self?" the twins nodded. "Well, that other me calls that her sister. You two are like that as well,"

"Wait, so we all have a psychotic personality?" said Tai. "I can't think if that's freaky or cool,"

"We can discuss if this is cool later on," interrupted Tia. "Right now we have to stop Debbie from…"

"Um, I'm not interrupting anything am I?" Ms. Pauling said as she walked in.

Tai slapped her hand over Tia's mouth,

"No, no you aren't. So what brings you here?"

"Well, I got good news. First the Administrator is allowing you girls to fight again. She saw that RED is capable of holding their own, considering their cart is at the lift already, and she's allowing you five to join in right now…ah, where is…"

"Already heading to there because she blew a GASKET!" said Stella. "WHY WASN'T THIS TOLD EARLIER?"

"What?"

"You know yesterday where Stella "transformed"?" said Tai. "Well that happened to Debbie like five minutes ago, so…"

Ms. Pauling sighed. "Another massacre?"

"Oh yeah,"

Meanwhile

BLU team was surprised at RED team's push today at Hightower. Each team was able to push their respective carts to the lift, RED team getting there first, but now each team had the hard task of staying on the lift so the bomb would reach the top.

"How are we going to get that bomb all the way up there?" Sniper asked Engi. "Cause every time we stand on there something blows us off and it comes crashing down,"

"Well, Soldier and Demo can take care of their counterparts," Engi said. "The only thing that's keeping us down is the other Sniper, since Heavy and Medic can push the cart to the top easily if he would stop shooting them,"

"I would take down that bloke, but he only comes out if the cart starts going, and if I move from here I'll be exposed to Soldier,"

"Where's S-" Engi stopped talking when he heard a thumping sound. He looked behind him to find three sticky bombs land near the two. "BOMBS!"

Engi jumped to avoid the explosion, but Sniper never had time to react and was blown to pieces. Engi was still hurt though; he coughed as smoke filled his lungs. He tried to stand but found out one of his legs was blown off.

"AHAHAHAHAH!" laughed the BLU Demo as he appeared from the smoke. "Stop hiding behind yer toys, lad!"

Engi reached for his shotgun to find it was broken because of the explosion, he didn't find his pistol either. He then took out the only weapon he had on hand, his wrench.

"Not so tough without yer friends huh?" said BLU Demo. "Now I'm going to make it nice an-"

WANG!

Engi had thrown the wrench at BLU Demo in an act of defiance. He used this distraction to slowly pull himself away from the drunk.

"Oh I feel…ach! Where do you think you're going?" said BLU Demo as he shook his head from the circling stars. He pulled out his bottle and slowly walked towards Engi. "Ohh, I'm gonna beat ya so hard, you'll have a twitch!"

Engi quickened his pace, but was still moving slow as the drunk slowly closed the little distance that was between the two. Engi looked back to find BLU Demo hovering right over him, the bottle smashed and ready to swing.

"Don't fret boyo, I'll be…" just then BLU Demo burst into flames. "FIRRRRRRRRE!"

Engi blinked. Did Pyro arrive in time to save him? Was it Heavy with the Huo-Long Heatmaker? Soldier and the Cow Mangler?

The answer to all three questions was no as a female figure with a robotic arm grabbed BLU Demo and threw him against a wall. She pointed the rifle she held in her other hand and pulled the trigger. The gun let loose a fireball that roasted the explosive expert.

Engi was stunned at the events that happened, and was even more stunned when the figure's robotic arm started glowing red. It shot out a beam that started healing Engi's wound, and reattached his leg.

"Debbie?" Engi asked.

Debbie nodded as she finished healing the Texan.

"B-b-but you're not supposed to be here!"

"Look, I couldn't stand watching you guys keep getting hurt. I know what I am doing is wrong, but I'd do anything to keep you and the others safe,"

"Still D-" Engi was silenced when Debbie pulled down her bandana and kissed Engi on the lips. Engi blushed slightly when she pulled away and pulled up her bandana.

"But that's the real reason," Debbie said as she got up and walked out to the battlements.

Engi watched as she launched herself towards BLU's battlements. He sat wondering what the hell just happened.

A/N: And my first attempt at creating the start of a romance. In other news, this is an example when I get new ideas, at first it was going to be all Avatar and fire bending and blah, blah, blah. Then I said "screw it" and went with this.

And to make it clear, the buildings', sans K-9, transformed selves are one group of sisters. While their regular forms are a different group of sisters.

Confused much? Yeah...the story explains it better.

Review Question: Should there be another "enemy" in this story?"

Till next time,

-D.W