The streets of New York city were quiet, way too quiet for 1974. That's because everyone was hiding. Hiding from what? The group of 9 heavily armed and dangerous people standing menacingly in the middle of the city's only entrance? No, they were hiding from the Administrator. Se had just announced that unless New York surrendered, she would unleash a new army of unstoppable Mann-bots. It looked like Lady liberty was doomed, if not for those 9 men. The men were teams Red and Blu of the second generation of Team Fortress Mercenaries, but they were all wearing Red versions of their uniforms. These mercenaries warned New York about her, and did something that nobody would ever expect them to do; kill something for free. The Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Heavy, Demo, Engineer, Sniper, Medic, and Spy all stood together, weapons loaded and ready to fire, waiting for her troops to come into sight.

Scout took a few steps forward before turning around to face the mercenaries. "Alright guys, listen up. I'm gonna be real here. We may have tried to kill each other in the past, but the only reason I wasn't scared of taking you guys on was because of the respawner. But now, we're about to fight an army of robots that can do a lot of the stuff that we can do, without a respawner." The other mercenaries looked at each other with a look of worry. "You guys probably think I'm gonna say that I'm not scared, that we're gonna win 'cause I'm on the team, right? Well, that was the old scout. The scout that always ran in without thinking, the scout that hit first and asked questions later. The scout who never asked for help when he really needed it just because of his ego. This," He gestured to his entire body "This ain't that Scout. I ain't number one around here, but neither are any of you! We ain't Heavy fortress, or spy fortress," Scout pointed to pyro with his baseball bat "and let's all be thankful we ain't Pyro fortress." everyone chuckled "Naw, we're TEAM Fortress."

"Aye, lad!" "AFFIRMATIVE" "Tiny man is right." "Oui." "Ja." "Mph hmph." "Uh-huh." "Darn-tootn'!"

"We've done things that most people would call us insane for. I ain't scared of these robots, not anymore. And if you wanna know why I ain't scared of these robots that could put me down six feet under for good... Just look in the freakin' mirror! I'm fighting with the best of the goddamn best! The administrator's gonna be here any minute now with his army of glorified tin cans, So let's show 'em why we're TEAM FORTRESS 2!" the other mercenaries cheered, full of new courage from scout's speech.

Just then, they saw the Administrator's transport tanks roll over the horizon. The Crew got serious once again and readied themselves. Heavy revved Sasha, the Demo set up a line of stickybombs with his hand on the detonator. Engineer set up his sentries and dispensers. Scout opened a bottle of BONK. Spy lit a cigarette with pyro's flamethrower while the soldier and sniper got into their positions in the air.

Scout limped over to the deactivated heavy-bot ad pulled his bat out of its chest. he pressed a button on his radio-headset. "Yo, I got these punks turned ta scrap, how's your guys's end?"

"Well done scout," Replied Spy. "I have been better, but these robots were no match for me."

"Like father like son, eh spy?"

"Yes, like- WHAT?" Spy said, surprised "How did you find out?!"

"I made an investment, got a paternity test with your DNA and I guess it was a match or somethin'? Anyway, we can cry it out later, just get everyone back to the entrance fer healing. If that was just the first wave, we may not-" Suddenly, scout was interrupted by a sonic boom. "What the-?" He turned to the sky as he saw a spaceship fly out of a portal in the sky. "Either the BONK I drank is expired, or a spaceship just flew out of a frickin hole in the sky!"

Spy responded on the radio "I was about to say the same thing, but with these cigarettes."

"Woah... that's a lot of scrap." Kevin said, looking out the window "I thought you said this dimension was literally 44 years behind, Tennyson."

Rook responded "While this earth does appear to still be in the year 1974, the technology around is indeed highly sophisticated for its' time."

"So.. like diesel punk?" Asked Ben. "Cool. But it looks like there are some guys down there. I think they're the ones who wrecked them."

"Looks like they're about to pass out. They don't stand a chance against the next wave." Kevin pointed to a giant transport vehicle in the distance.

"Don't worry," Ben activated the omnitrix "Hazmat can heal them up in a heartbeat." He slammed down as he turned into... not hazmat, but a new alien. He was short humanoid that was covered in speakers, and the omnitrix was on his chest. He looked like a white ultimate echo echo (UAF version) with a pair of headphones and color-changing neon stripes running along his body.

"Whaaaaaaaaat?" Asked Ben. His voice dounded like JT Music, but it was auto-tuned and had more melody. "Come on, Omnitrix, What's goin' on? For once I chose right, Now you made it all wrong!" Ben stopped as he realized that he had sung that. "Well that's, just, great, I can only sing. How is this guy capable of any-thing?"

"Dude, remember the trip? You're a Melodian." Said Kevin "You can affect people with music."

"Ben," said rook from the pilot's seat "if you intend to do anything to help those people, I would suggest you get down there now."

Ben smirked as he pressed a button that opened the hatch "I'll fight with rhythm. Keeping in time. Those bots are goin' back to the assembly line. Call me boom box, the king of the crowd! Crank the bass up to 20 cause I like it LOUD!"

Saxton Hale and Deadpool walk in front of a white background with their hands behind their backs and face you, the reader.

Deadpool clears his throat. "The scene that follows this involves Ben's new alien,'Boom box', singing JT music's Team Fortress 2-inspired rap; Meet the crew"

Saxton continues "The summary of the events that transpired are simple; Boom Box plays music that heals up the Mercs instantly and makes them sing their respective verses while taking down an entire wave of robots single handed, tag-team style, While Boom Box sings the chorus."

"However! The author would like to apologize for not having the time or descriptive writing skill necessary to fluidly describe the actions, and therefore would like to leave the scene up to your, yes, your imagination!"

"The link is ( watch?v=VpJE714_ltc). Happy imagining!"

"We now return to our regularly scheduled fanfic! (Already in progress)" Deadpool shoots the camera.

The Mercs cheered as they took in what just happened. "WOAH-HO-HO! I dunno how you made us do that, but it was WICKED!" said the scout. "Who are you?"

Boom Box pressed the omnitrix and turned back into Ben. "They call me Ben 10. I turn into aliens with the omnitrix on my wrist. I'll explain later. Right now, I need some background. What's going on here?"

a few moments later...

"Cool." Ben gave the mercs a thumbs-up. "Looks like the bots are about to start the next wave. We'd better get ready."

Suddenly, Pyro noticed the transport that had carried the last wave, and looked around to see that there were no hunks of scrap metal or robot parts anywhere. He thought for a few moments before tapping Engineer on the shoulder. "Mph! Mph-hph-hph-mph!" She explained.

"Huh, that is weird." Engineer took off his helmet and scratched his head. "Hey. Ben, was it? Is there anyone else in that spaceship up there?"

"Yeah, my partner Rook and my friend Kevin. Why?"

"Ya reckon you could ask them to tell us where those transports are come'n from? Pyro has an idea."

"Sure thing." Ben pressed a button on his omnitrix "Rook, Kevin, can you follow those transports back to the source?"

"We will tell you as soon as we find the source of there robots." Responded Rook from the other end. The proto-truk turned to the direction the vehicles were coming from and flew off.

Ben turned to the other mercenaries "And now we wait."

"It is not possible!"

"Oh, but I assure you it is entirely possible."

"Australium is an element you idiot! Elements such as these cannot be created in a lab!"

"Helen, I have resurrected an entire species from a single sample of impure DNA. I have reverse engineered highly sophisticated mutating Nano-machines smaller than a human cell from mere specks of metal. Synthesizing something as 'complex' as Australium is child's play. All I need is a sample. 1 gram will do very nicely. Heeheeheeheehee."

The administrator had a stern look in her face as she talked to her mystery 'sponsor' on the phone. He was supplying her with the tech and resources to build and Recycle her Mann bot army. She was hesitant to make the trade; one gram of Australium was all she had left! She took the small vial out of her pocket and sighed. "Very well. How shall I-" She stopped short as she saw the vial disappear from her grasp.

"Relax," the man said "I have it right here."

The administrator quickly regained her composure as she said "I expect at least a thousand times the original amount. No less!"

The man sighed "Tisk, tisk, tisk." He said slowly. "That's the problem with people living in the past. Hmhmhm." The man chuckled "They can't. Think. Big." He hung up.

Upgrade exited the turret after destroying the last Heavy-bot "Well... that was awesome" The omnitrix beeped as he turned back into Ben and called his partner "Rook, any news?"

"It would appear that the Administrator is receiving assistance from someone with access to higher technology." Said the Revonnaghander from the other side.

"The factory's just a few dozen miles from where you are now," Added Kevin "But we can't attack it. Like, at all. Some kind of two-way energy shield. Nothing's getting in or out, 'cept for those transports."

That's when Ben had an idea "Have you perfected that on-board AI system yet?"

"Just needs a few tweaks here and there. But otherwise, she's ready to go." Said Kevin.

"I got an idea; If you, Rook, and the Proto-Bot fought the robots here, then the Mercs and I can sneak onto one of the transports headed back, and destroy the factory from the inside out!"

"I have only one thing to say to that..." said Rook

"Shoot."

"Who are you, and what have you done with Ben?"

"Ha ha. Very funny. Are you in or out?"

"We'll go back to Bellwood and get some backup. See ya in Ten, Tennyson."

Ben turned off the communicator "I'm totally pushing it, but this is a different universe. Nothing could go wrong."

"WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY THAT!?" Shouted Scout to Jury Rigg as he fired a few rounds from behind cover.

"I'M SORRY OKAY?!" Jury Rigg took apart a bunch of scouts and heavys and was now rebuilding them into a fast, six-armed fighting machine. "ENGIE! HOW'S THAT HACKING GOING ALONG!?"

"If I knew what I was doin'," said engineer from a terminal "This thing would be shut down by now!"

Suddenly, pyro ran up to the Texan "Mph mph hp?" it Mph'ed, asking if it could try shutting down the bots.

"Be mah guest. But this thing's harder to hack than a-"

"Program accepted. Constructing MANN bots model 2.1" beeped the computer

"WHAT IN TARNATION?! Pyro! What did ya do?!"

"Mph mmph ph mphm... Mph mh," Pyro took of its gas mask so she could speak clearly. She was a young looking girl with ginger hair and freckles. She spoke with a light British accent "That's better. I 3D print most of my gear and weapons with a 3D printer that I made myself, so I know a lot of programming and coding. I also dabble in music theory, I speak a few different languages, why is everybody looking at me like that?" Everyone else in the room was shocked. Nobody had ever seen pyro without it- I mean her mask on. Even the robots that were fighting the mercs stopped fighting to get a good look at her face as it grew red. "W-what's wrong?"

Scout took of his hat and walked up to her before saying "Pyro... You are freaking adorable. After this is over ya wanna get some chicken?"

"Only if you can handle the secret spice sauce Boston boy."

"You know the SSS too!?"

"Ohmigosh YES! IT'S SO FLIPPIN' GOOD!"

While the bots and mercs were stunned by the reveal of Pyro's gender, the factory was pumping out RED mann-bots that easily took out the evil robots. Ben shook his head before speaking "So, how about you two take a transport to the city and just talk it out while we..."

Pyro nodded "Oh yeah!"

"Totally!" Scout grabbed pyro like a groom carying the bride before running to the loading bay. "So, you like BONK?"

"BONK! IS LIFE!"

"I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS WOMAN!"

so this is where the chapter becomes a two-parter. TO BE CONTINUED!