A few days later...

"Yah guys are leaving?" Engi asked. The Texan walked into the garage and found Debbie packing her set of tools into a tool box. K-9 was on the ground sleeping next to her.

"Well, not exactly," Debbie said as she closed her tool box. "We're going away on a conference call with Ms. Pauling as her bodyguards."

"Bodyguards?"

"We're more like on-call mercs now. We won't be helping you guys on the battlefield anymore," she pulled out a repaired PDA and tossed it to him. "I can't give you anymore details in case someone wants to ruin this trip."

"But are yah sure you four will be ok?"

"We lived in this hellhole for more than ten years already in our building forms, I'm pretty sure we can handle whatever is out there."

Engi nodded. "Just...stay safe, ok?"

"Just worry about yourself partner," she walked up to him and planted a kiss on his cheek. "Besides it wouldn't be as fun if you're not ok."

Engi blinked as she went back to pack, speechless.

"Oh and can you watch K-9 for us? As much as he is useful, he can't come with us," she reached into a nearby backpack and pulled out a metal ball. "One last thing, if you need backup, use this." she tossed it to Engi.

"What is it?"

"Just wait till tomorrow, trust me."

The next day, the mercs were brought to everyone's favorite place where the fun never ends: Hightower. And what they mean by favorite is the most hated, besides Hydro that is.

What the mercs didn't like about Hightower was that it never ended until someone won. In other words, the rounds could last forever, especially on the last part when they have to raise the cart on the ramp.

The REDs sat in their spawn waiting for the siren to start the games. They didn't have the help of the sisters today, so they had to preform extra well today to compensate. They left K-9 back at the base with some food and water, they figured it was best they left the German Shepard there for now.

Engi looked at the metal ball Debbie given him the day before, still perplexed on what it was. She didn't tell him what it was or how to use it, so only guesses would suffice.

"Yo hardhat, what's with the ball?" Scout asked as he came over, the Sandman resting on his shoulder.

"Mah guess is good as yours," he responded. "Deb gave it to me before she left, been trying to figure out what in tarnation it is."

"You stumped? Huh, that's a first. Do you know why she would do that?"

"Nope," he pocketed the ball and picked up his Shotgun. "But, I ain't letting that distract me from kicking some BLU ass,"

(Line Break)

"Why don't yah slither on back to France?" the Texan shouted as he shot the BLU Spy in the face. He caught the Frenchman sapping his stuff and was able to pump him full of lead. The BLU Spy flopped to the ground with his suit filled with holes.

He whacked the Sappers off with his Wrench and repaired the damage that was done. Right now the teams were neck to neck, with their carts at the bottom of the large hill before the final push. Engi had set up on the high ground overlooking the cart, and so far it has been working.

However, the same thing was happening on BLU's side. RED was stalled at the bottom of their hill as well, so it was effectively a stalemate as of now.

Now that the threat wasn't as menacing now, Engi decided to check out that metal ball again. It didn't look that special, just a really shiny silver metal ball. He'd seen the Dispenser working on it through a small compartment from time to time, but he couldn't find that said compartment.

"What are yah hiding?" he muttered as he rotated the ball around.

"NOT ONE OF YAH IS GONNA SURVIVE THIS!"

He quickly turned around and was quickly blown off his feet. He looked up and saw a Demoman had blown up his Sentry with his stickies and he'd been caught in the explosion radius. He got to his feet and started shooting back with his Shotgun, only to realize something was missing.

"Where is the ball?" he frantically thought. It was blown out of his hand when the Demo blew his stickies and was nowhere to be seen. "Gotta deal with this vermin first, shouldn't be to hard."

He lucked suddenly got worse when he saw a BLU Soldier back up the Demoman. He saw a grenade coming to him and he couldn't avoid it.

"Aw hell..."

The explosion knocked him into the wall behind him. He coughed up some blood and struggled to his feet when a sword suddenly pressed against his neck.

"Go on and build more o' yer little guns. I'll shove each and every one of them up yer arse!" the Scotsman said.

"Dominated, grease monkey!" Soldier shouted as he pointed his Shotgun at him.

While this was going on, the metal ball that Engi dropped was sitting on the far end of the area, having rolled all the way there. It started to liquefy, and the ball became a puddle. Then from the puddle, the liquid slowly started to form a solid shape. When it finished, it had the form of a female figure with the silver metal as her skin and glowing red eyes.

She looked around at her surroundings before setting her eyes on the men. She slowly walked over to them, her arm turning into a blade.

Engi groaned as he was going to meet his end with a decapitation, but then some else happened. The BLU Soldier shouted in pain as his top half of his body was separated from the bottom and fell to the ground. BLU Demo turned to see what happened but he was instantly killed when a silver blade exited his mouth. His eyes rolled to the back of his head as he fell.

Engi now found himself staring at a well-proportioned silver colored female with red glowing eyes who had a large blade for an arm. The blade slowly turned back into an arm after a few moments.

The Texan cleared his throat after he found his voice. "Um, howdy?"

"Hello Mr. Conagher," the female said, despite having no mouth. "I am terribly sorry for not coming out sooner, last minute configurations took longer than expected."

"Wait...you're that..."

"Yes, that silver ball is me. But before we discuss any more, I'd say we get you healed. You took quite the beating."

Engi wasn't that hurt to the point he couldn't walk, he started to stand up to walk to his Dispenser but was immediately picked up by the robot and carried bridal style to the said machine. She gently placed him down next to it.

"What are you?" he asked.

"The name given to my was 'Delta'. I was created by Mistress Debbie to be her assistant," Delta said. "She figured she need a couple extra hands to help her out now and then."

"To the best of my knowledge, I was created using a strong liquid metal alloy created by Miss Debbie herself, though I have no clue what it is called," she continued. "Using such material allows me to conform my body into various shapes, such as what you witness back there."

"Huh, well that's fascinating..." while he was still amazed that such an advanced piece of technology was created by his own creation, he couldn't help but feel slightly creeped out that said creation was capable of creating a very sophisticated machine. "How long did she work on you?"

"I wish I could tell you the exact time, but I believe that is impossible for me to determine. My best estimate would be around fifty four hours, fifty six minutes, and twenty seven seconds, straight."

"That's some dedication right there. Ah remember how long it took me to come up with the prototypes for these things."

"How else can I be of assistance Mr. Conagher?" the robot asked.

"Ah can handle myself for now Miss Delta...you know...ah have something yah can do..."

Spy ran around the battlefield disguised as the BLU Pyro. He was about to backstab the BLU Demo, but before he could, a silver colored blur swept by the Demo, and the Scotsman fell to the ground in pieces.

Spy blinked, what in the world could have done this? He heard a yell and cloaked to investigate; heheaded towards the source of the noise.

What he saw shocked him.

A woman colored silver stood in front of a cowering BLU Medic, who was against the wall in a corner. Behind the woman was the decapitated body of the BLU Heavy. What shocked him the most was her right arm was a large blade.

Spy heard the Medic pleading for his life, but the woman ignored the pleas of mercy. She brought her sword-arm up and sliced right though Medic, ending the pleading. Spy gasped but realized his mistake too late as he found a sword blade against his neck. The woman was able to find him even when he was cloaked.

The Frenchman returned visible as his cloak wore off, he gulped as she looked at him with those ominous, glowing red eyes. After some tense seconds, the woman backed off and walked past Spy before breaking into a sprint.

He watched her disappear around a corner before breathing a sigh of relief, one wrong move and he could've died.

Scout was in a pickle. He was currently running from his counterpart; he would fight back but a sticky bomb explosion from the BLU Demoman sent his weapons flying off the cliff. Scout was far from his spawn, so he had no choice but to try and survive until a teammate arrived.

"Ooo, not so tough now are ya?" BLU Scout taunted as he shot at Scout.

"Says the guy with the gun," retorted Scout who blew a raspberry at his counterpart. "And you still can't aim with that thing,"

BLU Scout only groaned as he missed Scout once again.

"You'll never hit me. You'll never hit my tin-omph!" Scout didn't pay attention where he was going and ran smack dab into the BLU Heavy. "Awwh, who da hell…ah crap."

"Little, little, man." said the Russian.

"Prepare to lose your kneecaps, chucklenuts," said BLU Scout, who caught up.

"Ohh, dis ain't good…" Scout said as he was backed into a corner. But then something unexpected happened.

A silver colored blade suddenly appeared in BLU Heavy's chest, and proceeded to carve its way upward, cutting him partially in half. The Heavy fell down to revel a female figure; she swung her arm to the left and decapitated BLU Scout with one clean swipe. Scout expected to find a sword in her hand, but instead found out her left arm was one giant blade. He also found out that the female was one, completely colored silver, and two, naked.

Scout gulped. "I think I just soiled myself." he said as he saw the blade turn back into a metal arm.

"You're welcome." the figure said before taking off.

"Uh, thanks?" Scout said with a confused look on his face. "Maybe I should lay off the sodas..."

"Excellent job men!" Soldier shouted as he marched into the RED's spawn room. "He have successfully decimated those bastard BLUs and shoved that payload up their ass!"

"And tah think that they were better than us. Bah, I drink to that!" Demo shouted as he waved his bottle around.

The team celebrated their win while Engi looked on from the side. Delta had long since turned back into her ball form and was sitting in his pocket. He'd decided to hold off revealing Delta to the team. After all, he figured, Debbie should be the one to introduce her, she did build her after all.

"Yo hardhat!" Scout said. "Ever figure out what that ball does?"

"Nope, ah think I better ask Debbie when she come back," Engi said. "Ah think she'll be able to explain it to me."

A/N: TADA! I'm actually updating!

I should be studying instead of doing this but who the hell I care. Less than a month till winter break and finals, god college is being a dick. Thankfully things should be letting up soon with Thanksgiving and the winter break.

Shoutout to MisterDoctorSir for picking the name 'Delta' to name the said robot. (He was one of the two people that actually picked a name...not that popular back then)

Till next time,

-D.W