A/N: We're gonna skip ahead to the next day, so if you're confused, that's why. But it's mostly because I just wanted to get intros over with. Anyway, I don't own TF2, that's Valve, for the record.
The next morning, the mercs lined up at the bridge, at which point copies of whoever was missing from one side appeared. Rachel and Dahlia found it rather weird. "So, how does this work?" Dahlia asked. Engie explained. "Respawn creates a copy of us for the day until the Administrator calls it quits, and they've got all the strategic knowledge. Anything outside of battle? Ask the original, since the copies don't know." Dahlia nodded, before explaining it to Rachel. With that, the teams split up to head to their respective spawns. Rachel decided to start at the smaller spawn, as did Sniper, Spy, and Scout. Everyone else chose the large spawn. Then the Administrator boomed through the speaker:
"Mission begins in 60 seconds."
Scout poked Rachel to get her attention. "Don't really pay to much attention to dat. It don't matter all dat much. Not for dis, anyway." Rachel responded, "What is 'this?'" Scout replied, "Capture the Flag. Or in this case, the intel briefcase. It's all the way down at the back of the base, and we gotta grab it and bring it back to our intel." She nodded. "OK. What other things do you do?" Scout replied, "Both RED and BLU trying to cap each other's control points, RED stopping BLU from capping their points or pushing a cart, both RED and BLU pushing a cart, and king of the hill: One point, you gotta cap it and hold it for a set amount of time." She nodded once more. "I see. What's a control point?" Scout replied, "Big, metal disk with a light in the middle. Some are red, some are blue, in certain places the middle point is grey. Oh, and before you ask: Payload cart's a big bomb with a dispenser attached to it inside an old mine cart. Most are blue, some are red." She nodded one final time, and the Administrator boomed again:
"Mission begins in 10 seconds."
"5… 4… 3… 2… 1…"
"START FIGHTING NOW!"
With that, everyone bolted out of the spawn room, and Rachel set to work. The first person she saw when she bolted out of the gate was the BLU Scout, and she quickly switched her revolvers to the third slot. The BLU Scout was focused on dodging RED's Sniper, so she had an easy time marking him for a switch. Then she jumped down, and fired at the BLU Demo, who had gone Demoknight (for reasons) The shot connected, and suddenly, the giant sword he was carrying turned into the Scout's aluminum bat. Meanwhile, said BLU Scout was slowly racking up heads as he swung the massive sword around, though he was rather clumsy with it. "Score!" Rachel said to herself, as she ran into the BLU base. There she bumped into the BLU Spy, and she shot him, after switching to secondaries. As she ran past, she saw Dahlia, who she shot. Dahlia cycled through her weapons to find she had gotten Spy's sapper, while Spy realized he now had a pistol. But before Dahlia could turn Rachel into a civilian, she ran up the stairs, leaving the Declassifier in the dust. Dahlia herself was on her way out when she ran into the RED Scout, who she blasted immediately, leaving him utterly defenseless. He panicked, obviously, and ran. "Haha, first switch!" Then she ran outside, and shot the RED Soldier just as he was about to rocket jump. When he noticed he hadn't gone flying into the air, he screamed, before being chewed up by the BLU Heavy. But Dahlia made the mistake of standing still in the middle of 2Fort. Before she knew it, a bullet found its way into her skull, and everything went black.
In the resupply, Dahlia woke up a few seconds later, her head still reeling, and she found Engie. "How'd you die?" Dahlia barely choked out, "Headshot…" before vomiting in the middle of the resupply. "Ooh… Yeah, that can happen. The best way to stop that is keep moving when you're in the line of sight. Anyway what's going on now is 'respawn sickness.' All new recruits get it, and it ain't pretty. But there's a treatment for it." With that, he opened up the cabinet, and grabbed a bottle of pills. "Here, take one of these." She did so, and, miraculously, in moments she recovered. "What's in those?" Engie replied, "Solid medigun juice. There's a residue that pools in the medigun that the doc collects, and freezes. He puts it inside a pill like this one, and those go into the health packs. Anyway, you ready to go?" Dahlia replied, "Absolutely! C'mon!" With that, she ran back out, and the first person she shot when she had the chance was the RED Sniper, followed by the RED Medic. At the second one, she said, "That's gonna suck. There's no health packs anywhere!" This left BLU a massive opportunity to charge into the base, having had their weapons restored (Rachel had made the mistake of walking into the intel room without checking for sentries first) That is, until she respawned. They were all storming up the stairs, and the first thing she did was swap the Spy's sapper for the Medic's medigun, then the Engie's shotgun for the Heavy's minigun, and the Declassifier's umbrella for the Scout's bat. She then proceeded to cackle maniacally, and with a coy, "See ya later, boys~! She ran off, before shouting, "C'mon guys! Their base is wide open!" With that, the RED team quickly got its first capture of the day, but just as they were about to grab the intel the second time…
A/N: CLIFFHANGER! DUN DUN DUN! You guys probably think I'm evil, don't you. But I am the author, and whatever I write, goes! So there!