A/N: Time for the new mercs to arrive! But who are they? And why are they here? I can't answer the second one yet, for plot reasons, but you'll find out who they are soon. I don't TF2, that would be Valve.

The next day, at 2Fort…

The next morning, all the mercs were standing on their respective side of the bridge, when a helicopter arrived. It landed on the bridge's paneling, which could be moved for this purpose, and three people stepped out. The helicopter took off after that, allowing everyone to get a good look at the people who had just arrived. One was Ms. Pauling. The other two, no one knew, though they were very clearly women. They climbed down, and she motioned for everyone to step on the bridge. Then she began. "Alright, so I know what you guys are thinking. 'Who are these people?' Well they're the new recruits. Say hello to the Rearmer and the Declassifier!" There was general confusion. "OK, that probably made no sense. The Rearmer is the one on my left, Declassifier's on my right. I'll let them explain." With that, the Rearmer began. "Hi guys! My name's Rachel, and I'm the Rearmer! My job is simple. I shoot one of you with my first pistol, then I shoot someone else with my second. Then you guys swap guns and stuff!" Heavy roared. "DO NOT TOUCH SASHA!" Rachel jumped back, before saying, "Uh, I hate to break it to you, but that's kind of my job: Give your gun to someone else. Also, Engineer, was it?" Engie nodded. "You'll keep your buildings. Same goes for you, Spy, and your invis watch. If I get killed by one of the people I swapped guns for, you get your guns back!" Everyone nodded, and some sighed knowing they would get their guns back. "By the way, I can set which one I'm swapping. For example, I could switch Soldier's rocket launcher… With Demoman's grenade launcher. But not his sticky launcher. But I could swap Demoman's sticky launcher with Heavy's Sandvich." The mercs nodded. "Oh, and when I set two people to swap, they'll instantly respawn with their new guns. Anyway, it's your turn, Dahlia." The Declassifier, now identified as Dahlia, spoke. "So, like Rachel said, my name's Dahlia, and I'm the Declassifier! What'll happen when I shoot you with my shotgun is this: You turn into a civilian!" Everyone balked at this. "It's not permanent, don't worry. Anyway, what'll happen is you lose all your weapons, and you're given an umbrella you can smack people with. It only lasts for a minute at most, and you still count for objectives! By the way, as a bit of a balancer, if you're a civilian, you count as two people when capping. Scout, you'd be three." Scout pumped his fist. "Yeah! That's cool!" Dahlia continued. "Anyway, I can declassify Rachel, too! When that happens, you'll get your guns back. And if she swaps my shotgun with one of yours… you get the idea. If I get killed or declassified, then everyone goes back to normal. Got it?" Everyone nodded. "Good. Now let's go!" Then Ms. Pauling spoke once more. "For each match, one team will get either the Rearmer or the Declassifier. The other will get the, well other one. As in, if RED got the Rearmer, BLU gets the Declassifier, and vice versa. Got all that? Good. It's a ceasefire today, so let them get settled in. For today, RED has the Rearmer, and BLU has the Declassifier. Now back to your bases!" With that, the mercs filed off to their respective bases, and the two new recruits followed close behind. However, the Medic shouted across the bridge, "Fraulein Rearmer?" Rachel stopped. "What is it, Medic?" "Meet me in zhe lab. I need to add somezhing." "Sure thing, doc! Where is it?" "Zhere are signs. Follow zhem, and you should find it in no time." Rachel nodded, before waving a quick goodbye to Dahlia, before the two ran to their bases.

In the RED base, Rachel found Scout laying on the couch, tossing his trusty baseball in the air. "Hey, Scout. Where's the room I'll be staying in?" she asked. "Down the hall that says 'Resupply' and then left at the junction. Pretty sure yours is last on the right. Oh, and by da way. Da Administrator changed our contracts a little bit ago, so we can call ourselves by name when not in a match or something. Mine's Jeremy, and you said you're Rachel, right?" She nodded, then replied, "Thanks, Jeremy! I gotta go over to BLU for a bit, though. Medic said he needed to do something." Scout perked up at that. "Oh, dat? Dat's our Uber implant. Let's us be invincible for a bit. You'll wanna take it." Rachel nodded, then sprinted off to the other side. Heavy came in then. "Malyshka was here?" Scout nodded. "She just left for dat heart thingy." Heavy nodded. "Scout." Scout looked at Heavy. "Yeah?" "Do not harass malyshka. There is also other malyshka at BLU." Scout remembered. "Oh, yeah, right! Dahlia, right? We get to meet her tomorrow. That'll be nice." Spy walked in then. "Scout, Heavy is right. Besides, do you not already have Ms. Pauling?" Scout shook his head. "She don't stop by all da time! Dese two, dey're here 24/7!" Spy facepalmed, but continued anyway. "I concede zat. But still. Remember the lessons."

At BLU base, Dahlia caught up with Rachel as she ran in. "Hey there! How's it going?" she asked. Rachel replied, "Good, mostly. They seem nice." Dahlia laughed. "Wait'll you meet these guys. Engie's amazing, though Soldier's a bit off the deep end." Rachel nodded. "I'll be the judge of that. I'm over here tomorrow, remember?" Dahlia nodded in understanding. "Alright, come on! We've got to get Medic!" And so the two ran towards the lab, and sure enough, Medic was waiting at the operating table. "Ah, frauleins. How good to see you. Vhich of you wants to go first?" Rachel jumped at the opportunity. "Me!" Medic chuckled. "Ah, such enthusiasm! Now, come on, then! Get on!" And so it was that for the next hour or so, Rachel, and then Dahlia, had their torsos opened wide and vital organs removed, until finally, at the very end, the two were free to leave. When they stepped outside, Rachel said, "That was weird. I don't want to go back in there…" Dahlia sighed. "You'll have to, I think. Physicals and whatever. Don't worry, I'll go with you when the time comes. Now get back over to your side!" Rachel laughed. "I'm going!" With that, she sprinted out, and across the bridge to the RED side.

When she got there, she found the false wall near the smaller resupply's drop down, and entered the main base. "Hi guys! I'm back!" Scout jumped up to greet her. "How'd it go?" She shrugged. "It was… strange." "Yeah, it is that. Anyway, you wanna know everyone's names?" Scout asked, and she nodded. "Alright, so I'm Jeremy, Soldier's Jane, but just call him Mr. Doe, Pyro, no one knows, Demo's Tavish, Heavy's Misha, short for Mikhail, Engie is Dell, Medic's Mr. Ludwig but no one calls him dat, Sniper is Lawrence, but we just call him Mr. Mundy, and Spy, no one knows because he's Spy." He bowed, and she thanked him, before noticing a set of signs on the wall. She pointed at the first one. It had 'Armory' printed on it. "Hey, what's the armory for?" She asked, only moderately confused. Scout explained, "Oh, we don't use da same guns all da time. That's for when we ain't using 'em." Then she pointed at the next one, which was displaying 'Cosmetics.' "What's that one for?" She was now very confused. Scout replied, "Oh, dat? Dat's for extra clothes or whatever. We got our usual set, but if ya wanna spice things up, dere's stuff for you to wear. Ms. Pauling tell you about the Mann Co. catalog?" Rachel shook her head. "Well, every month everyone gets a copy, and ya order whatever with it. But it comes outta our paychecks." She nodded. "Thanks for explaining that, Jeremy." Scott tipped his cap. "Anytime." With that, she ran down the hall, per the instructions earlier, and found her room. Her symbol was two curved arrows, pointing to each other, forming a circle. She opened the door, and made her way in.

At BLU base, Dahlia hadn't bothered finding her room yet. She had been more interested in getting acquainted with everyone else. She decided, however, that she would have to eventually, so she went to find Engie. He said, "Down the hall, left at the junction. Yours is last on the left." "Thanks, Dell!" she responded, before sprinting down the hallway. She found her room, easily identified by her symbol, which was the classic 'no' symbol (circle with a diagonal line) she opened the door, to find her weapons in a locker. Her loadout was similar to Engie's, with a shotgun, a pistol (though it only had 3 reserve clips) and, wouldn't you know it? An umbrella. She laughed at the last one. "Well, that's actually kinda funny. I wonder what Rachel has. She's got those dualies, definitely. But what else?" Then she looked at her outfit: It was a color-coded (in this case, blue) polo shirt with her emblem on each arm, and a pair of cargo shorts, with another color-coded stripe down each leg. Her shoes were brownish-black work boots, and she had black socks to go with them. She also had a bowler hat (probably to go with the umbrella that was her melee weapon) After putting it on, she looked at herself in the mirror and said, "I can work with this!" Then, putting her stuff away, she went back outside to show everyone her new uniform.

At RED base, Rachel found her weapons stored in a similar locker. There were her signature dual revolvers, with two small monitors each: One on top, which displayed the classes targeted, and one in the middle, which displayed the slot she was switching (1-3) Her secondary turned out to be a set of around 10 grenades. They weren't as powerful as Demo's, sure, but they were definitely annoying. Her melee was a knife. Her outfit was a color-coded (in this case, red) t-shirt with her emblem on each arm, and a pair of sweatpants that were a dark grey. She rolled them up, seeing as it was New Mexico. Her shoes were white tennis shoes, with her emblem on the outside of the shoe. She had grey socks as well. She had a baseball cap, and special glasses. When she put them on, she saw that her guns' monitors were relaying the data onto them. "Cool…" She found a mirror, and looking at herself, said, "This is actually pretty neat!" With that, she set her stuff down in a corner, and jogged back out to show off her new uniform.

A/N: Well, what will happen now? Find out in the next chapter, because I'm not telling!