This happens right after the last chapter and is very loosely based on the TF2 comics.
*human world*
Feeling very dizzy from that trip through the portal, it takes Twilight a moment to realize that she is hearing Spike’s voice. Opening her eyes, Twilight searches for the baby dragon, lecturing him at the same time. “You're not supposed to be–“ to then stop when a creature walking on two legs comes into her view. This creature has a messy clutch of honey-colored hair, a purple hoodie with a green shirt underneath. The green eyes do look familiar but it can't be... “W-Who are you?” She asks confused, more so when this creature replies with Spike’s voice. “It’s me, Twilight.”
Blinking, Twilight reaches her hoof out to him. “Spike?” But freezes up when she realizes she no longer have hooves, instead a limb with smaller ones gets into view. She can’t help but scream from this huge shock, she slams her hoof-none hoof over her mouth slowly removes them and wants to scream again when those small limps move weirdly around.
Spike watches Twilight doing her major freak-out calmly with his hands in his hoodie’s pockets, already gotten used to his new form as it's not much different from his drake form, the only difference that he does not have spikes, a tail, and scales. Must admit it is very weird seeing Twilight like this. He does decide to speak when she begins to hyperventilate. “Twilight, you have to get it together!” Walking over and puts his claws— except his claws are ridiculously small onto Twilight shoulders. It helps a bit on Twilight panic attack, getting onto her hooves- eh, weird claws, she asks him. “What... does the rest of me look like?”
Spike has to think hard to figure out how to say this. “Um... like you. Only not you. Your colors all wrong and.. um your muzzle's really small.”
“My colors— my muzzle?!”
Spike puts his weird none clawed claws onto her very small muzzle, asking annoyed but also worried. “Are you gonna scream again?” Twilight shakes her head and with her somewhat calm. They look around this new area they ended up in. “Where are we?” They seem to have ended in some sort of town like Dodge Junction, except being occupied by ponies, this place is filled with… whatever they have been turned into.
“I don't know.” Twilight admits, turning to the glassy memorial to this statue of a creature hiding under a horse— does that mean there does exist ponies here? She sticks her none-hoof into the glassy memorial, through it, she can see it has been turned back into a hoof. She quickly pulls it back, musing to the way calmer but just as confused Spike. “Must serve as the gateway back to Equestria.” Turning away from the portal and to the task at hoof. “We need to find my Element as soon as possible and get back there. I suggest we start searching the castle first.” Nodding to the white building that does remind her of Canterlot's castle.
Spike nods. “Works for me.” And trots after Twilight, however after a side glance, he stops Twilight there has been trotting on four legs, telling her sheepishly. “I don't think that's how the new you are supposed to–“
Twilight follows his gaze, noticing some other two-legged creature is giving her weird looks. Not wanting to embarrasses herself further, she leaps onto her hind legs, waving awkwardly at the creature there slowly walks away, all the way giving her weird looks.
Twilight tries not to cause another scene but moving on her hind leg is incredibly hard and feeling warm around her cheeks when more creatures stare at her. Feeling very embarrassing, she quickly sits down, slowly one by one, the creatures leave. Groaning, Twilight says to Spike. “Now I know how the humans felt when they came to our world…” Is that what they have become? Humans? Must be, well, that’s what she is going to call these creatures until someone corrects her.
Spike walks casually beside her, annoying Twilight that he has already got the hang on his new form. “Ugh, why does this has to be so hard~!”
“Hey, see it on the bright side, you have a whole new world to study.” Spike points out helpfully.
Twilight shoots him a small glare. “Not helping Spike...” He chuckles sheepishly. Taking a deep breath, Twilight tries to walk again, still making the humans look but this time she is determent to reach the castle. Feeling quite victorious when finishing her walk over to the castle, Twilight activates her magic to the door, but it does not open and she ends face first into it. Caressing her now hurting head, she tries again but nothing is happening and she panics once again. “My magic! It isn't working!” She cries to Spike.
He eyes her and points out calmly. “Makes sense. You don't exactly have your horn.” Quote to yet another panic attack from Twilight Spike rolls his eyes, pushes the door open. “We really need to find you a mirror.” Grabs Twilight’s small left claw and drags her inside.
Inside this castle, they find more humans, some of them makes both Spike and Twilight think about guards. Going past them, they find a bunch of trinkets protected behind glass. Twilight staggers over to them, wondering out loud. “What do you think, Spike? Other artifacts she's stolen from Equestria?” She gasps when she finally sees her new form in the reflection of the glass. She looks like the humans and Spike, except she has long dark brown hair, a blue shirt and a purple dress there has her cutie mark on. As Spike said, her muzzle is very small not to mention she no longer has her bright purple pelt, instead, she has this… pigskin like anyone else has. She turns back to Spike, must admit. “This needs some getting used to… ugh… I really wish some of our human friends were here…”
“Hey, I’m sorry sweet cheeks, if I knew it belonged to you, sure, I would’ve returned it.”
Twilight jerks her head up, hearing a familiar voice. Staggering over to where the voice came from, she finds two humans, one thin and a bit scrawny- and seems to be male is talking to a female with red, long and curly hair. The female is for some reason very angry at the male. “Don’t call me that. Thanks to your stupidity; my chance in getting what I want has turned into a fetch quest!”
There is another male, this one looks a bit like Spike except older, and is far from being as scrawny as the one talking with the female. This younger muscular male is resting up against a nearby wall, he tenses up and so does Twilight when the scrawny male steps over to the female with a smirk neither like one bit. “Ohh, a fetch quest you say? Well, what about I help you to get your little trinket?” The younger male steps away from the wall, looking ready to fight when the other one traps the female between his arms and the nearby wall. “Gives us plenty of time get to know one another.”
Twilight can’t take it anymore, this is wrong. “Hey! Step away from her!”
The aggressive flirter turns around, at first, he looks quite angry at being interrupted, then the smirks return. “Hey, you’re a cute one, not exactly gorgeous as sweet cheek here but eh, I’m not picky.” He turns back to the redhaired female when she suddenly says with a smile as if she’s actually interested in him. “You know what, you can come along.” She says, hands crossed over her black jacket.
The male grins but it does falter slightly when she voices the condition for it. “If you break up with your new crush. Cus I don’t want—” she steps over to him, whispering into his ears only by mere chance Twilight hears the word; “competition.”
Twilight is dumbfounded at what she heard. “Huh? But I— WHAT?!” She screams out in utter disbelief, is that female human for real?! “Is this the thanks I get for trying to help you?!”
The red-haired female smirks back at her. “You clearly do not know where you are.” In that very moment, Twilight recognizes the female human’s voice. That is the unicorn who stole the Element of Magic! “You!” Twilight Sparkle cries and would’ve charged at her but forgets this isn’t her pony form and instead her face greets the floor.
Sunset Shimmer laughs at Celestia’s new student blunder. When she finally gets used to walking as a human, it will be too late. “Sorry filly, but I have places to be.” She eyes the human there might be annoying as hell, but at least he can be useful from time to time. “By the command of the Sirens: dispose of her.”
The smirks vanish for just a moment as he is forced to obey the Sirens as long he can hear their song in his mind. The sign he is fully under their command fades and the cocky smirk returns. Sunset signs to Rhys he shall follow and with a goodbye wave to the just turned pony. “Have fun with Scout.” She leaves to find her treasure.
Hearing Sunset Shimmer says that name shocks Twilight and Spike to the core. “Scout?” Twilight asks, eyeing the scrawny human walk towards her, pulling out a weird object she has never seen before. “That’s really you?” This is so different from his half-changeling form, but if looking closely, Twilight can see a few similarities.
Scout smirks and points that weird object right at her head. “The one and only.”
Spike, sensing the danger, leaps into action. “Twilight!” He jumps at Scout, making him miss Twilight’s head when the object goes off with a loud bang. Fearfully he didn’t move in time, Spike turns when Twilight cries in pain. Horrified he realizes the danger of that object when Twilight’s arm starts bleeding from whatever the object fired.
Before he can run over to her, Scout punches him behind the head, hard enough to knock him out.
“Spike!” Twilight cries, the need to protect him she ignores the pain in her arm and crawls over to the unconscious hatching. She pulls Spike close but can do little to nothing against Scout who really wants to hurt them.
“Why are you doing this?” She asks him tearfully, she thought he was a friend.
“It’s the will of the Sirens.” Scout replies simply, aiming again his weapon at her. Twilight takes notices of the name he used, something clicked in her mind but that she cannot think about until way later. Right now she has bigger problems, one of them is Scout about to kill her!
“Scout please…” She begs, but her voice goes to deaf ears, at least to this Scout. Out from seemly nowhere, another Scout appears, that one knocks the other one over and swings his baseball bat hard against the one there tried to harm her and Spike. Twilight flinches of the sound something cracking, at least it didn’t kill that Scout, only made him angry.
“You pay for that!” The now bleeding around the muzzle Scout roars, shoots his weapon at the bat-wielding Scout who leaps away and the two disappears in a deadly chase.
Feeling something grabbing her, Twilight panics but almost instantly calms down when she hears Spy’s voice. “It’s okay, Twilight.”
Looking up, Twilight is a bit surprised by not seeing a royal blue changeling with golden wings or a dark blue pegasus. Instead, she sees a male human with a mask covering most of his face, the only thing showing this is Spy is the reddish eyes and he is wearing the light blue suit Rarity gave him. She lets Spy help her up. “Spy, thank goodness you’re here.” She sighs in relief.
Spy has mixed feelings about this, in one hand he is quite annoyed Twilight went to this world without him and almost got herself killed, but on the other, he is impressed she did it and relieved he and Jeremy got to her just in time. “Come, Scout can’t keep his other busy forever.” He swiftly checks the gunshot wound Twilight received, the bullet is still stuck in there but at least it is keeping her from bleeding out. “If we’re lucky, they will kill one another.”
He calls that lucky?! “We can’t let them do that!” Twilight objects horrified.
Spy stops her before she can really get started on lecturing him. “First rule in this world: I, Scout and the others turned humans will return if we get killed. The second rule: you cannot do magic.”
“I noticed.” Twilight replies sullenly.
Spy pulls her away from the scene but when she can barely walk, he lifts her up in bridle-style. She holds the unconscious kid there is probably Spike in her arms, that dragon is like a stupidly loyal puppy when it comes to Twilight. He leaves the scene before the evil Scout realizes his other is just a distraction. He puts her down into a car he finds suitable and starts it after have messed a bit with the wiring. Twilight stares at where she can hear the two Scout fighting, so he ensures her. “He will join us shortly.” and drives over to their meeting spot.
At the old fort there worked as a battlefield when RED and BLU fought one another, Spy helps Twilight inside. The now conscious Spike can, fortunately, walk on his own. “Let’s get that bullet out from you.” He says after have put Twilight down on the medical bed inside Medic’s infirmary. Finding what he needs is a bit tricky, he’s not used to playing the doctor and Medic has never let anyone but Heavy to search his infirmary for whatever the team needs.
“What was that object the evil Scout used?” Twilight asks, she has gotten very aware that object is dangerous, the wound on her arm is a clear sign of that.
Spy returns with some medical equipment, explaining. “It’s called a gun. It’s a weapon used to kill others and this world has countless of them.” He injects some anesthetic around the wound, not sure it's enough but he does not dare give her more. While waiting for it to take effect, he figures he might as well make this very clear. “Our world is not as peaceful as yours.”
Twilight was aware of that, the turned humans kept saying that when talking about the two worlds, but… “I never thought it was this dangerous.” She muses. Spy eyes her once, replying as he starts trying to get the bullet out from her. “You were very unlucky running into Scout’s worst self. Teufort is usually a dumb but peaceful place.”
“That’s not very nice.” Spike says of Spy’s choice of words towards that town.
“They allowed a plant to be a lawyer and that plant was appointed by Soldier.” Spy replies, the BLU side of him still rolls his eyes of how the mayor of that town allowed it to happen.
Twilight and Spike exchanged a look with one another, both quietly agreeing that, okay; that town is dumb.
Spy gets the bullet out, grabs a bandage and wraps it tightly around the wound, which reminds him. “I don’t want any of you getting reckless. Humans do not heal very fast, so you will be stuck with this.” Pointing at the bandaged spot. “Until we get you back or we happen to find Medic.” Twilight puts a hand on the spot, nodding slowly she understands. With that done, he tells both to stay put and heads over to the respawn area. Jeremy should be here any moment now, but in case his evil other also is coming Spy reclaims a revolver from his supply closet and ready to fire when a Scout appears.
This one proves to be the evil one for the moment Scout spots him: “Oh, so he decided to team up with you of all people?!” and charges. “This changes nothing between us!” Spy does not hesitate to put a bullet through his head, feeling the regret in doing so is a new thing, though.
About five minutes later, the good Scout appears. He scans the scene quickly, then remarks with a weak smile after having spotted his dead other. “It seems that hasn’t changed.” His father eyes him with his now reddish eyes, Scout notices the hint of pain in them, that is new but somehow quite appreciated. It is quickly gone as Spy turns away from the dead body, saying in his hash tone. “We cannot stay here.”
Scout follows him, saying mocking. “Nice to see you too.” Not sure he should've expected this cold shoulder or disappointed Spy is pretty much back to his old asshole self. Spy does stop out on the hallway, replying in a matter of fact tone. “There was a camera in there.”
Oh, well now Scout just feel stupid. “Oh um… so, happy to see me?” He asks with an awkward smile.
His father turns fully around. “Why wouldn’t I be?” Spy asks simply, and Scout can’t help but laugh at how awkward his old man is in putting a hand on his shoulder after a lot of hesitating. Appreciate the gesture though. “Man, I wish I could’ve felt your emotions there.” He chuckles.
Spy gives him a look before he leads Scout to the infirmary, in here Scout spots that same young woman sitting with that kid, the two his evil other tried to kill. “Sup.” He greets them and wonders out loud. “Why did my evil twin want to murder your lovely ass?”
“Scout, this is Twilight Sparkle and Spike.” Spy tells Scout, wanting to make him stop this needless flirting, Twilight is uncomfortable enough as it is without having to deal with him trying to score a date.
Scout eyes wide in surprise hearing this, staring at them for a few seconds, he gives Twilight an embarrassed smile. “Oh man, sorry about that… I didn’t recognize you there Twilight, you’re not… purple anymore. Gotta admit you do look— ”
“Please don’t try and flirt with me.” Twilight interrupts him, it’s weird and she is dealing with enough already to think about this too.
Scout does, fortunately, drop the flirting and they all head to the car Spy used to get them here. Back on the road again. Scout asks. “So… what do you think about being a human?” Where to start? Twilight has no idea, but she has now a way bigger understanding why these guys had so much trouble using their hooves. She tells that to Scout, asking while waving these strange front limp. “What are these?”
Scout chuckles. “They are called hands and these fingers; we use them to do stuff” He takes out a can, opens it with his fingers. “See, it’s easy when you get the hang of it— you want one?”
Twilight takes the offered can, letting out a small sigh for the small vacation of seeing this place has been replaced with a chase there has a time limit. “I’m not sure I’ll have the time getting the hang of having hands…” She eyes the two humans. “Somepony with the name of Sunset Shimmer stole the Element of Magic and brought it here. She was the one who made the evil Scout hurt me and Spike.”
Scout almost spit out his soda, Spy is quite happy he didn’t. The speedster eyes the turned pony, startled of what she has just told them. “Wait, one of the Elements are back here? And it is the most powerful of all of them? Holy crap! And here I thought we had enough shit to deal with.” He points out, for these six months has been hard.
Twilight leans forward in her seat, asking worriedly. “What has happened?” Spy too sends Scout a worried glance of what has been going on this side of the portal.
Taking a sip of his soda, Scout explains. “Things were fine at first when we returned. We returned back to base while Miss Pauling went back to the bi— I mean the Administrator- that's our boss.” He explains for Twilight’s sake, he starts shifting the can around in his hands. “That’s where shit started to happen. Our counterparts attacked with no warning, they didn’t care about the Intelligent or team colors. All they wanted was murder our asses. We managed to hold them off, but only because their teamwork sucked and spend just as much time killing one another as they did with us.”
“What did the Administrator say to this?” Spy asks, pondering about her reaction that part of the team was out for blood. Perhaps she would use it to her advantage? Wouldn’t surprise him, really.
“Nothing.” Scout replies, Spy gives him a quick glance at what he guesses is surprise. Man, he wishes he could sense emotions right now. Anyway, “Miss Pauling told us the Administrator is gone before she told us to disband.”
“I figure you did.” Spy remarks.
“Not at first, we stuck together even though there was no need. We only disbanded when the robots began aiding our evil others and some sort of song messed with our heads.” Scout explains, very happy that mind-bending song is out from his head. It was creepy how much it felt being in chains by just hearing a song. Made him paranoid to turn on any radio. Emptying his soda can. “I think the only thing there saved our asses from ending up as the others were because Demo and Pyro were somehow more resistance. They got the rest of us out, except Heavy, he refused to leave his boyfr— I mean Medic behind.” Checking his father, Scout realizes that he too is aware of how close Heavy and Medic truly are, figures, since he too would’ve felt the love those two gave out around one another thanks being a changeling.
It’s quite funny really; if he knew about this before Equestria, Scout would’ve flipped. Called it gross, wrong and probably bullied the two about it, but when he realized it, well he just shrugged and went with it. Must be because he found his old man dating a sentient zebra weirder than this. “Don’t know what happen to him, though.” Scout continues on the story. “I wanted to go home, but I… you saw how my other half was.” He points out to the three. “I know I am not immune against that song. So what if I hear it when around ma and my brothers?” That mere thought is terrifying enough to make him stay as far away as possible. Instead, he has been trying to beat the evil out from his other… it hasn’t helped but at least it gave him something to do.
“Your evil other said something about the Sirens.” Twilight says, something about that does ring a bell but she just can’t figure out where she read about this name. So until she returns home and read up about it, she can only guess. “I figure they are the ones controlling him.”
Scout nods. “You got that right.”
“We can’t think about the Sirens at the moment.” Spy tells them, they can deal with them when they aren’t under a time limit. “We have to focus on the Element of Magic and return it back to Equestria. To do that, we have to find this Sunset Shimmer.”
“She seemed to be working for the Sirens.” Twilight points out with Scout adding of what he and the others have learned. “And those works for the man throwing the robots at us.”
“Grey Mann.” Spy grumbles, this is going to get hard and as much as he hates it, they are going to need the resources from Mann Co and in order to get those: “We need to find Miss Pauling.” He tells the three, not really dreading her reaction finding out he is alive but that the Administrator will force him back to her control. Who knows what the evil others have revealed? It was clear Scout’s other know what he was to him which means he really needs the protection of the others; Scout more so. “She will have the information we need to find the place Grey has the Element. That and she knows where the others are located.”