A/N: Ditto. Thanks to elliottbogosian, and Dr. equinox for following and faving!

Darkness.

Plain black darkness.

Then there was light.

Stella's eyes slowly opened and she found herself staring into the ground. She grudgingly pulled herself up into a sitting position against the wall of her cell. Her cell was visibly trashed: fist sized holes lined the walls, and many of the furniture was torn or broken. Stella herself wasn't looking too good either; her hands were covering in dried blood, she was drenched in sweat, and her face was haggard.

She couldn't recall how much times she was shocked; she had lost count after number fifty. Stella didn't mind the pain, she was used to it, but the thing that was truly hurting her was on the inside. Stella felt guilty for lashing out to Tai and the things she said about Tia. She couldn't help it, the heat of battle makes her do things before thinking about them. But what stung the most was failing to protect her sisters.

Despite her lazy attitude, Stella was no slouch in protecting what matters the most to her, and that would be family. She would take the bullet for any of them-yes even Scout.

"What am I if I can't even protect my own sisters?" she said as she started to sob. "I can't even do my primary function correctly,"

Suddenly something knocked Stella over and against the wall perpendicular to her. She groaned as she clutched her side, and looked to see what hit her.

Stella-X.

"What the fuck was that for?" Stella growled at her other self.

"For feeling sorry for yourself," the apparition said. "Do that and you'll be stuck in the fucking gutter for a long fricking time,"

"I don't want to be a fucking jerk, idiot!"

"What I mean is to keep moving forward," she snapped back. "That's what keeps people down and prevents them from getting back up," she flicked her hair. "I'm not telling you to be tough, Stella, I'm just saying to move on-pick your ass up and do something else then moping about your failures,"

"I-I'll try..."

"Don't try- do, or I'm kicking your ass even harder," and with that apparition disappeared, leaving Stella all by herself again.

"Whatever happened to compassion?" she mumbled as she stood up. She took off her flannel shirt and tied it around her waist. Just as she finished two large and armed robot guards walked up to her cell. Each were as tall as Heavy, and had one large, red colored menacing eye on their heads. Both held a large gun that Stella could only reconize as a futuristic shotgun.

"Come with us," one said as the shield disappated.

"Don't try anything funny," the second one said.

"No fucking way," her mind screamed at her.

Despite what her mind said, Stella complied and the robot escorted her away.

"DRAW!"

Target after target was shot out as the sound of a revolver echoed throughout the BLU training area.

"Time?" Tia asked as she lowered her two revolvers.

"3.42 seconds," Sniper whistled as he lowered the timer. "Not bad,"

"Thanks," she said as she emptied a cylinder and let the bullets hit the ground. Ever since the RED team arrived at BLU HQ, Tia had been working on mastering her sharpshooting and teleporting skills, as well as mastering her ninja skills with her other self.

"Tia, you've been pushing yourself a lot the past few days," the Australian said. "I know what you're trying to do, but-"

"I know Snipes," she said with a sigh. "But I feel...useless. The only thing that's useful right now is Tia-X..."

"Don't say that Sheila, you're just as important as your sisters and K-9," he said. "Just take it when you were still a building, for an example, without you Tai wouldn't work," he was going to say more when Tia suddenly clamped her hands over his mouth.

"Quiet, I think we're being watched," she whispered.

"How do you..." he mumbled out of her hands.

"Well, one, Tai and I can see through disguises and invisibility, and two, these headphones aren't just for listening to music,"

"Bloody spooks...where is he?"

Tai closed her eyes as she listened. "Try...behind those crates," she said as she opened them.

"JARATE!"

'SPLASH!'

"Is this...eewwwwwwgh!"

"Spot on!"

"You know you could've walked over to check," Tia deadpanned.

"Nah,"

"Fuck!" the BLU Spy said as he walked into view, his suit soaked with a yellow substance. "You got shit on my suit,"

Sniper laughed. "Looks like that color really works for you,"

Spy gave Sniper the finger as he walked off.

"I got more where that came from!"

Tia sighed. "I really hope he never heard you say that," she said with a hint of worry in her voice. "I really don't want BLU to know that I'm a building,"

"Don't worry, I doubt he heard that over that yellow shower,"

Time Skip

"Give me back my ball!" Scout shouted as he chased his BLU counterpart through the BLU HQ.

"You gotta catch me first, slowpoke!" BLU Scout jeered as he kept the distance between them.

Scout grumbled to himself as he tried to close the distance when something appeared in the corner of his eyes. He slowed down, allowing the BLU Scout to run off, and decided to investigate. He turned down the hallway where he thought he saw something and started to look.

"Hey I saw you whoever you are," he called out as he opened a door to a bedroom. "Spy you better not be fucking with me,"

He searched the entire bedroom before coming up empty handed. "I swear I saw something duck in here," he said as he scratched his head. He had no time to ponder the mystery as something knocked him to the ground. He tried to get back up but was slammed into the ground once again.

"Do you know it's not nice to spy on a lady?" a female voice with a British accent said.

Scout couldn't tell who that was from her voice, but he knew deep down she was nothing but trouble. He found himself being lifted and slammed back first into the wall of the room.

From his sitting position he could clearly see his attacker; a woman around her late twenties-early thirties. She had some type of explorer garb on which consisted of a brown, wide brimmed archeologist hat that sat on top of her black hair, which was in a ponytail, khaki colored cargo shorts, brown boots, a red colored cape/pancho, and a bikini top?

Scout would've started to flirt with her if not a rather large revolver was placed under his chin. And that silver colored whip she had on her belt made him zip his mouth even further.

"Uh...hi?" he said after sometime. "Have we met before?"

"No," she said, her facial expression showed of someone extremely bored, but something about her eyes said otherwise. "Where is she?"

"She?" Scout suddenly realized that this woman could be working with those responsible for taking the four live buildings. He decided to play it safe and play dumb. "Whatta mean she? There isn't a single woman in this entire base, well, except for you, and maybe Mumbles and BLU Mumbles..."

'SMACK!'

Scout was pistol whipped in the face by his captor. "Awwwgh! That really hurt!"

"Don't play fucking dumb with me. I can tell you've been around her, just tell me where- hey!" she caught him trying to sneak a peek and pressed the revolver harder against his chin. "Look at me when I'm talking to you..." she growled.

Before she could say anything else, the sound of something breaking a wall interrupted her.

"I guess my partner found her, which means I won't need you anymo-" suddenly the door to the room blew open as someone in a red hoodie slid into the room.

The woman fired off two shots at the newcomer, who rolled to the side to avoid the shots. The newcomer threw a piece of the door at the woman before charging her. The woman shot apart the piece of wood, but was unable to do anything more to stop the attacker. The attacker's leg swung upward and its sneaker connected with the woman's jaw, knocking her a few inches off the ground before hitting the ground unconscious.

"Wow! That was impressive...do I know you?"

The attacker giggled, "It's me Scout,"

"Tia?" he said in disbelief as she took off her hood. She didn't look much different, but she now had a red and white baseball cap with her headphones over it. Her ponytail was sticking out the back of the cap.

"You're probably wondering what happened..."

About half an hour ago

Five minutes after BLU Spy sauntered off to clean his suit, Tia decided to meditate outside. She wanted to wandered at least a mile or so away from the base to get away, but after the recent events, she decided to cut her loses and meditate right outside the training room.

Meditating wasn't something she wanted to do at first, it was first suggested by Tia-X, but she reluctantly started to do it after X kept nagging her about it. She found mediation to be quite relaxing, and started to meditate whenever she had free time.

Tia perched herself on a large, flat and smooth rock, selected a particular soothing song, and closed her eyes. The day would've been perfect from that point on, well for about five seconds.

Tia heard something- no somethings- making their way to her. She opened her eyes to find two robots pointing some kind of futuristic assault rifle at her. She flicked her eyes between the two of them.

"Draw."

Quick as lightning she wiped out her revolvers and shot both robots in the head. She noticed more coming from the corner of her eyes; she pulled the hammers of the two guns as she got up.

"Like shooting fish in a barrel," she muttered as she pulled the triggers.

Robot after robot fell as the cowgirl kept shooting. It was pointless taking cover as each shot found its mark in a robot's head.

Soon no more robots were found making their way to her, she looked around and observed the carnage.

"Is that really it?" she thought as she reloaded.

"Hm, I guess I have to do it myself then,"

Tia froze mid-reload as she heard that voice. She quickly scanned the area to figure out where it came from, but couldn't find anyone.

Anyone she couldn't see that is.

She instinctively teleported a few feet forward as someone slammed down on the rock she was standing on, instantly destroying it. Tia spun around and aimed her revolvers at this new person.

The newcomer was a woman around the same age as her, in fact she looked almost the same as Tia except for two things: her clothes and the giant robotic right arm she had. She had a partial gas mask on and her brown hair was in a high ponytail. She wore what looked to be a shirt with both sleeves ripped off and light brown pants tucked into tan boots.

"I really hope that's not your actual arm," Tia said.

"No, it is sister," the woman said. "Now come quietly, I don't want to cause harm to you or your friends,"

Tia responded by turning into Tia-X.

"So you want the hard way. Fine by me," she lifted her arm and the palm of the robotic hand started to glow before firing off a medium size ball of energy at the ninja.

Tia-X dodged the barage of light balls with relevant ease before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. She reappeared behind the woman and was about to strike when the woman quickly swung around and backhanded her, knocking her into the BLU base.

The RED mercs, Medic, Soldier, Heavy, and Engi, already alerted to the battle, rushed to her aid, Medic started to check up on her while the rest of the team started to attack the woman.

"ATTACK!" Soldier shouted.

"Are you ok?" Medic asked.

"Yeah," Tia-X said as she got up. "Damn she's faster than I've expected,"

"You sure your ok?" Engi asked. "I-"

"Engi don't worry about me. I got this,"

The Texan nodded. "I'll try and rally the others- stay safe," he said before running off into the base.

Tia-X turned her attention to the woman and rushed to aid Soldier and Heavy. The two weren't doing much to her; as her arm blocked most of their shots and she could easily dodge the others. She fired a ball at Soldier, knocking him off his feet. She would've killed him if Tia-X hadn't teleported him away.

"Stay down," she said to him as she got Heavy away.

"So you survived that. Interesting, not much people could walk away from that," the woman said.

"There's a first for everything," Tia-X said as she got out her katana. "Someone's gonna need an amputation,"

"And that person is going to be you," Tia-X froze. That came from behind her. She felt a sharp pain coming from her back as she fell to the ground.

"Fuck," Tia said after she turned back to herself. Luckily the injury didn't carry over to her, but the pain still remained. She was able to turn and find what the woman hit her with.

"Weren't expecting that where you?" the robotic hand now had five very large metal claws extended from each finger. Tia wondered how the heck she could move that fast with such a large appendage. "Now that your pathetic ninja friend is down, I hope this would convince you to come quietly,"

"SOARING EAGLES!"

Out of nowhere, Soldier rocketed from the sky with his Market Gardener in his hand.

"You country did not prepare you for the level of violence you need on my-"

'SMACK!'

Soldier was instantly smacked out of the sky by the woman's robotic arm, he cratered to the ground and left a sizable hole.

"Medic..." he wheezed out.

"Idiot," Medic said as he facepalmed. "How could Soldier miss the obvious fact that she has a large arm?"

"Can we do anything to help put Tia?" Demo asked.

"Right now, no," Sniper said. "I shot that sheila in the head at least five times, but it seems that the bullets are being reflected somehow,"

"A shield," Engi muttered. "She must have a shield on her,"

"A dang powerful one, and I doubt we can get close to her without getting killed, and she could easily avoid an uber with her speed,"

"Oh no..." Heavy said.

"What is it?"

"Woman is going to kill little friend!"

The mercs watched in horror was the woman slowly made her way to Tia, who was rapidly firing at her.

Tia made a desperate last stand by firing shot after shot at the woman, no matter how hard she tried each bullet was either deflected or did no harm to the woman. Tia couldn't teleport away either, she was exhausted from being forced out of other self, and could only slowly crawl away from her.

'CLICK!'

'CLICK!'

That was the sound of her revolvers.

"Shit," Tia searched for more bullets but found none. She holstered her revolvers and slowly got onto her two feet; she put up both of her fists and got into a combat stance. She only knew the basics of hand-to-hand combat, courtesy of Soldier, and was a little shaky with it.

"You still want to fight?" the woman said. "And hand-to-hand? You really don't want to come do you?"

"I don't give up easily," Tia said. "And if I'm going down, then I'm going down with a fight,"

"Suit yourself," the woman threw a punch right towards Tia.

Time slowed down once again for Tia. She lifted her leg and spun around, hoping to parry the punch with a kick, as she did she started to glow, similar to a transformation into her other self.

The light blinded everyone and when it dissipated, the sound of metal crushing plagued everyone's ears.

"What the..." the woman brought back her arm to find a sizable dent in it. "Impossible..."

"Oh did I do that?" a familiar voice called out to her. The woman looked up to find someone else standing in place of Tia. The newcomer wore a red hoodie with the hood up over a baseball cap. She had on jeans with black colored sneakers. "I was merely trying to break it off, sorry,"

"Don't think a fucking costume change is going to change anything," the woman growled at her.

"Oh really?" Tia said. "Then let's dance,"

The woman fired a energy ball at her, but instead of dodging it, Tia swung her leg around and kicked it back at her. This briefly surprised the woman before coming to her senses and ducked down, avoiding the ball as it dissipated behind her.

"Not expecting that where you?" Tia said. "That was pretty fun to be honest," she walked over to a large rock and shattered it into smaller rocks with her leg. She picked up a medium sized rock. "Heads up!" she tossed it in the air and launched the rock at the woman, as it did the rock started to heat up and burst into flames.

The woman deflected most of the red hot rocks, but she couldn't deflect all of them. She gritted her teeth as one hit her shoulder.

"You are so fucking dead," she lunged at Tia, a punch ready, but only to have it countered by her leg.

"Is that really all you got?" Tia said with a smirk. She found an opening in the woman's defenses and delivered a bone shattering roundhouse kick to her ribcage. The kick sent the woman skidding back into the wall of BLU HQ. "Tides had turned don't you think?"

"Shut up," the woman showed signs of fatigue and her metal arm showed signed of damage. She was breathing heavily and struggled to stand up. She roared as she charged Tia once again.

Tia tucked into a roll and started to do a windmill on the ground. She started to go faster and faster, as she did a small cyclone started to form. It started to pick up small loose object off the ground and sucked it into the whirling mass of dust. After a minute however, the cyclone started to pull larger objects in and the women and mercs found it hard not to get sucked into the vortex.

"What in bloody blazes she doing?" Sniper yelled over the noise.

"I don't know," said Engi. "But I really hope she doesn't wreck the base,"

The woman struggled to escape the cyclone's hold, she tried firing energy balls inside it, but it seemed to have no effect. She grabbed hold of a nearby rock and held on for dear life, but as she looked up she found something that was about to collide with her.

A wooden cutout of a cow.

"Fuck,"

The woman was knocked into the swirling mass of dust and debris.

"We win?" asked Soldier.

His question was answered as the woman was flung into the side of BLU HQ, leaving a large hole in the process.

The wind started to die down as Tia stopped spinning.

"Oops, I overdid it did I?" she said sheepishly as she looked around. Pieces of trash and things that were not tied down were all around her.

"You could say that again," Sniper said.

'CLANG!'

Everyone jumped as satellite dish fell in front of the mercs.

"I'll clean this up later," Tia said with a huff as she rejoined with the mercs.

"Exceptional job there mon cherie, though you did go a little overboard with the twister," said Spy.

"But it was cool...hey where's Scout and the BLU team, Engi?"

Engi shrugged. "Couldn't find them, I kinda rushed to get as much people as I can, but I saw no signs of them,"

Tia suddenly gasped.

"What is it?"

"Scout'sintroublegottagobai!" she said as she sped off.

Present

"Wait, so you made a twister-cyclone thing with your legs?" said Scout. "That is so cool!"

"I know! But it tends to cause, you know, a mess afterwards," Tia said.

"Hey, you kinda look like someone I knew back in Boston,"

"Really? Who?"

"Brenda Patterson," he said. "Strong, quiet type-like you. Think she's was a leader of a notorious all-girl gang, but man was she quite the girl,"

Tia blushed slightly. She didn't know why she was, she knew he wasn't flirting with her.

Was he?

"Anyways, she's the single type as well," Scout went on. "I swear she beat the crap outta anyone who tried to court her,"

"Uuuugh,"

The sound of someone moaning caught the two's attention.

It was from the woman.

Tia instinctively got in front of Scout as the woman staggered to her feet.

"Where am I?" she asked.

A/N: And done! I finally got this freaking chapter done! GOD DAMN that took forever.

Tia: It would've gone faster if you weren't on Youtube all the time.

I get distracted easily ok?

Oh and one other thing: so the transformations work like Digimon transformations, with the normal and armor digievolves. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about go watch season 2 of Digimon, no really- do it, it's pretty good.

And just tell me any mistakes I have in the review or P.M me, I'm writing this way past my bedtime.

Till next time,

-D.W