A/N: This is a revision of the previous TLoT. Chapters will be uploaded as soon as I finish polishing them up. Again, I don't own TF2.

"We failed men." Soldier said. "This is a disgrace you hear ME? THOSE BLUs JUST ROLLED THAT BOMB WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY KICKING OUR ASSES!"

RED team suffered a major loss at Badwater Basin. BLU was somehow able to roll the cart to the end in record time, even surprising the Administrator, who rarely gets surprised. Soldier was currently doing his usual tirade where he blames everyone but himself. The other mercs were half-listening on the bus ride back to RED HQ.

It was dark when the bus arrived; everyone hurried off to avoid having to hear the patriot ramble on. While the eight of the mercs left towards the main building, Engineer headed over to the RED garage instead. Though the Texan enjoyed the company of the others, even Soldier, he prefers to stay away from the others from time to time.

He flicked the light switch on and strode in the garage, tossing his hardhat on the workbench in doing so. Inside the garage were two vehicles, Sniper's camper van, and Engi's red truck. Other items included a fridge, couple of cabinets, chairs, a tool cabinet, a pile of sentry and dispenser parts, and other random things.

Engi sighed as he walked over to the fridge and grabbed a beer. He would keep his stash here so Demo wouldn't steal it. He grabbed a chair and sat down on it outside. As he drank the beer, his mind kept replaying the events of the day. It seemed that every BLU merc was gunning for him today, BLU Spy backstabbing him and sapping all his buildings, BLU Demo and Medic with a Kritzkreig, BLU Sniper, the list could go on.

He didn't mind dying; Engi knew he was the weakest member of the team, next to Sniper, as he was nothing without his buildings. But what really riled the Texan up was watching his buildings get destroyed. All the hard work of putting up and upgrading each building was for naught, as each was blown up by a radio sapper, a bomb or shredded by a barrage of bullets. It was like watching a fire grow, but is put out by a wave of water.

Engi pondered how he could improve his buildings so they wouldn't just die so easily to such a simple object. However, he threw away ideas just as fast as he created them. Engi sighed in defeat, he couldn't think of anything that would improve his buildings. He took another sip from his beer, but in doing so he felt a drop on his head.

Water.

He noticed that it was going to rain soon, which surprised him since RED and BLU were stationed in the desert. He shrugged as he walked inside with the chair as the rain started to pick up. He took out his PDA and tossed on the workbench before walking through the door that led into the base and shut the light.

Just as he did, a bolt of lightning struck the garage. The electricity traveling down a pipe and to the PDA. The PDA jumped and sparked from the overload of energy before letting off a bright blue light. When the light faded away there were four new figures in the garage, all female, passed out on the ground.

The first figure was the tallest out of all the others, and had a slight muscular build. She wore a bright white Stetson with her blond hair tied in two pigtails. She wore a brown shirt under a bulletproof vest, which was under an unbuttoned red flannel shirt. She had brown shorts and brown work boots.

The second figure was slightly shorter than the former, but had a slimmer appearance than her. She had long brown hair that was braided back and a fringe covered her eyes. She wore a red dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, brown pants and high boots. On her left wrist was a Pip-Boy, a wrist mounted computer device with a glowing green screen. On her back was a small, brown backpack with the Engineer class emblem with a wrench strapped to the back.

The last two figures almost looked identical and the shortest of the four. Both had red, acoustic headphones and looked similar in appearance. Both had brown hair tied in a ponytail. The only way you could tell them apart was the way they dressed. One had a black bandana tied around her neck, and wore a long sleeved red shirt with the sleeves rolled up, which was tucked into long brown pants and wore cowboy boots with spurs. The other only had a red tank top with a brown vest, brown shorts, and cowboy boots without spurs.

The first woman started to stir. She groaned as she pushed herself to a sitting position and yawned. Opening her eyes, she took a look around where she was. She appeared confused as she looked around. She brought a hand up to fix her hat when she stopped when she saw it. She continued to stare at it as if it was a foreign appendage. She then proceeded to look over herself as if she never saw herself before.

"What the hell...?" she whispered.

A/N: Attentive readers will see that some things have changed, such as Debbie's appearance for an example. I also plan to explain more of the part between the end of Chpt. 1 and 2, when the buildings become human to Engi finding Stella.

Till next time,

-D.W